PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE, OCTOBER, 2011

Happy October. Thank you for being a member and for your active attendance. Welcome back if you have just returned. We are always happy to see you.

Weekly carving workshops are from 8:30 to 11:00 AM every Tuesday in the Seminole Recreation Center, second floor. Business meetings are the second Tuesday of each month between September and May at 7 PM in the same location.

Our Tampa affiliate meets on Monday evenings from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at the Carrollwood Cultural Center.

ADDRESSES:

Seminole Recreation Center

9100 - 113th St. North

Seminole, FL. 33772

Carrollwood Cultural Center

4537 Lowell Road

Tampa, FL. 33618

BOTH LOCATIONS ARE CLOSED ON HOLIDAYS AND THEREFORE THERE ARE NO MEETINGS.

Our Club Website has been updated and in many ways corrected. You can check it out at www.Suncoastwoodcarvers.com. Comments

and corrections can be addressed to webmaster Richard Samay in writing, please.

I would like to thank Maverick for the wonderful demonstration of the “King Arthur Tools” at the Tuesday morning workshop on October 11th.

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The Florida Woodcarvers Roundup will be at the Long Center in Clearwater from Tuesday, March 20 – Friday, March 23, 2012. Check their website for more details and updates. http://webspace.webring.com/people/qj/jeodea/
Course registration will begin in December.

Alan Anderson

SUNCOAST WOODCARVERS MEETING MINUTES

October 11, 2011

Seminole Recreation Center

The meeting was gaveled to order by President Alan Anderson at 7:05 PM. Bill Briggs moved that the minutes of the previous meeting be accepted as published. Seconded by Jack Stewart. Accepted.

There was no treasurer’s report.

OLD BUSINESS

There was no old business on the floor.

The Club’s lockable display case in the lobby of the Seminole Rec. Center has been filled with members’ carvings.

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NEW BUSINESS

It was suggested by Mark Daley that the Club hold a covered dish dinner or possibly reserve a block of tables at Golden Corral during the Christmas Season. The suggestion is under consideration.

PRESIDENT’S CHALLENGE

The October challenge by President Alan Anderson was to create a Christmas tree ornament.

SHOW AND TELL

Jack Stewart displayed a Santa head on a green felt background in a barn wood frame and a Santa resting on the moon.

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Jervy Paluta showed an excellent stylized duck carved from sumac.

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Karl Allison presented a running rabbit carved in cotton wood bark based on a pattern by Desiree Hajny.

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Bill Briggs passed around the September challenge for the members to see. Blanks were provided in the form of a heart, star, or cross shaped pin. They were then painted with elements of the American or Canadian flag.

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Alan Anderson distributed flyers for next spring’s Florida Woodcarvers Roundup.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:25 PM.

John Roush

Acting Secretary

UPCOMING EVENTS

The 33^rd Annual Heritage Village Fall Jubilee will be held on Saturday, October 22, 2011 from 9AM – 4PM. Several Club members will be on-hand to do carving demonstrations. For more information on the event, go to: http://www.pinellascounty.org/heritage/events_

fall_jubilee.htm or call 727-582-2123.

NOTES

Thanks to Richard Samay and Alan Anderson for the photos included in this edition of CHIPS and to John Roush for taking notes and writing up the minutes of this month’s business meeting in my absence.

If you have any changes in your contact information (street address, email address, or phone number), please call me at 727-595-7542 or send updates by email to:

suncoast_woodcarvers@comcast.net

2012 Annual Club Membership Dues ($15) are now being collected by Bill Dewald. You may pay by cash or check made out to Suncoast Woodcarvers. Those who don’t attend meetings or workshops can send their check to his home address, 9555 Commodore Dr., Seminole, FL 33776. Please don’t send cash through the mail.

The next Business Meeting will be at 7 PM on November 8, 2011 in the Seminole Rec. Center. We hope to see you there.

Bill Dewald, Secretary