MINUTES OF AUG 9, 2006

Meeting called to order by President Ed Auker at 7:00 Pm with 28 members and guests present.

The guests tonight were Cora Azpeitia and Mabel Scanlon daughters of Francis and Jane Swaby and Susan Gingery who is a cousin of Jane Swaby, Also guests present where Ron Stafford and his son Nacho. Welcome to our guests of tonight

MINUTES

President Auker called for the minutes of the July meeting. Normally these would have been printed on the internet, but being the change over of the internet being now handled by Paul Spencer and the internet password had not yet been turned over to Paul from Randy the August news letter was not on the internet it time for the meeting.

The minutes had been E-mailed to Paul by the Secretary, so Paul made hard copies of the minutes and passed them out to the members present.

After a few minor corrections. The minutes were accepted as corrected. .

Treasurers report

President Auker called on Treasurer Mick Hogg for his report which covered the period up to and including Aug 9, 2006 and we are still solvent.

Correspondence

The Correspondence this month consisted mainly of advertising.

Committee Reports

Fair Committee

John Tuttle reported that the tear down will be done on Sunday Aug 20^th

John had fair tickets for those who would be working the fair and passed them out, he said there would be two lathes available for the demonstration and that he would furnish his shop vac for clean up and asked everyone to bring their own tools for the demonstrations. He has 3/4" pads in front of the lathes which should make it comfortable to stand and turn.

He had asked about having a dust collector, but none was available.

Both lathes have 1' spindles with 8 threads per inch

A & E Committee

Red O’Connell suggested that the club give a prize for the most unique item turned from the bowling pins that were passed out to some members and display these turnings at the front of the meeting room with numbers on them and have the members present pick out the most unique item, This to be done at the November meeting.

Jane Swaby suggested that there may be a possibility of the club getting invited back to the Jail House Gallery or some other gallery and suggested that when turning keep in mind to make something that would qualify for this type of display.

The subject was brought up as to how the club was to pay for the Club awards at the fair, and it was thought that a check had already been sent to the Montana Fair to cover.

Old Business

Dave Torrence reported on the Jail House Gallery at Hardin saying that second month sales amounted to $402-50.

Some of our club members had decided to go privately with the Gallery leaving some of their turnings there for sale.

Thanks to Paul Spencer for taking over the news letter. As stated earlier, he is still working on the web site.

Paul is still short the minutes for the May meeting, which LuAnna Auker substituted as secretary and Beckman said he had a hard copy of these minutes and would type them out and forward to Paul.

Martin Robinson asked if there would be any club interest in the Summer Fair?? It was mentioned that this is more an individual demonstration, instead of club type function. Martin is to check this out and get back to the club.

Good of Order

The subject of a Christmas party, (which had been mentioned last month) was brought up but do to lack of interest, it was tabled

Ed made the comment for some reason that everyone likes LuAnna better than Ed (I wonder why)

Show & Tell

Dan Schindler had turned an item from box elder and had sanded it with 400 grit, finished with water-lox then used steel wool and buffed it .

Paul Spence made a large segmented vase, using 16 segments to the circle and using Purple heart, yellow heart, maple and black walnut.. which he planned to give to his Mother.

Dave Torrence made two items from apricot wood

John Tuttle made a bowl of Mesquite , one of apple wood, two bowls from butter nut, one black walnut bowl and a hat from red elm.

No demonstration tonight and motion made seconded and passed to adjourn and enjoy coffee and cookies compliments of the Billings Hardware.

Dwaine, W Beckman, Secretary

The Northern Rockies Woodworking Guild in Bozeman Mt. is hosting Al Stirt for a one day demonstration on Friday October 6 with hands on sessions on Saturday the 7th and Sunday the 8th.  The cost of the demonstration is $50 and $100 for the hands on session.  The hands on sessions will be held for NRWG members until Sept 11 after which it will be opened up to anybody interested.  I have attached our latest news letter with additional information or you can check out our web site at http://nrwg.org/  I am forwarding this to clubs in what I would consider to be a days drive from Bozeman so you might take advantage of this opportunity to see & meet  a world class bowl maker.  Please pass this information on to your club members.  You could contact me, Tom Robinson, at 406-556-8289 or contact our treasurer, George Stanislao, at 406-388-4353 if you have any questions.  I look forward to meeting some of you at this event.

When Dwaine picked up His items at the Montana Fair a lady by the name of Donna Sherman asked if anyone from the club would be interested in some Russian Olive. She had a couple trees that were damaged in the storm Saturday night and would be glad to have club members come out and cut some.

Her address is 2293 North Road 7  Huntley and said it was about 1 1/2 miles off of highway 312 phone number is 348-2705.

 

Dwaine W Beckman