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Table of Contents: Club News Coming Events Show and Tell Recommended Resources Dues Reminder Seminars Meeting Location Member Web Page Update

Club News: The club meets twice a month - the first and third Wednesdays at 7pm!      Be sure to check out the July-August edition of Chip Chats magazine. Thanks to Charles Sapp there are two excellent articles about our club in the magazine. On page 60 you'll find, "Something fishy going on here..."and on page 98 you'll find, "Youngsters carve soap in Missouri." The website Whittled Whimseys also recognized our club for teaching youngsters to carve soap at the Arts Happening event in St. Peters. The website is Whittled Whimseys. Some of our members have been active in shows that were reported in the Chip Chats magazine. On page 31, you will see that Bill Kuhn, Jack Combs and Jim Liefield were all winners at the Sangamon Valley Carvers' 17th Show in Springfield, Illinois in September 2007. John Bouchillon's Santa candle is pictured on page 22, with other entries at the Chip-O-Tex Club show in Harlingen, Texas on February 8-9, 2008. At the September 3, 2008 meeting member, John Bouchillon, gave a painting demonstration using boiled linseed oil and acrylics. Corky Breece showed a Moose Antler that he carved, unfortunately, no picture is available for the newsletter. Wyatt Sample Coming Events:back to table of contents Charles Sapp has volunteered to lead a class in carving a Santa ornament. Plan on attending the last meeting in November for his class. November 19th.. The Arts Council of St. Charles County is participating in the Lions Club's Oktoberfest at Frontier Park on the St. Charles Riverfront on September 26, 27 and 28. There will be a pumpkin and gourd sculpture contest and displays of painted pumpkins. The St. Charles Area Woodcarvers will be participating by carving pumpkins and/or wood during the festival on September 27th. Please Plan to attend. For more information check out the website stcharlesart.org Show and Tell:back to table of contents   Bob Craven's Wolf head slide for his grand son's cub scout neckerchief. Jim Liefield's carving of a man caving himself from a log. Al Westfall's entwined hearts.     John Bouchillon's Santa bottle stopper. Sal Bax's relief carving. Recommended Resources:back to table of contents The following two links are to sources of carving woods. Heineke comes to the Belleville woodcarving show each year and to other shows and provides excellent wood. Slim also comes to the Belleville show and has also attended our woodcarving shows. Heinecke Wood Slim's Woodshed Lynn Doughty is a western carver living in Oklahoma. He does a blog which provides tutorial on how he carves his characters with detailed instruction. There is no cost to the blog. It is a great resource, check it out at Out West Woodcarving. The following pictures are examples of some of the carvings that he gives specific instruction on. Dues:back to table of contents The "rent fee" has of $1/meeting has been eliminated.   It is time to pay your dues for 2008 Club dues are $15.00 per year and include the website and electronic newsletter.  Contact the Membership Chairman, Charles Sapp, or Treasurer Bob Craven. Seminars:back to table of contents          Corky Breece, Seminar Chairman Corky is working on the schedule for 2008.  If you have any suggestions, please get in touch with him.    For seminars - the doors open in the morning at 8:30am and in the evening at 5:00pm.  Typically classes during the day will be conducted from 9am to 5pm and in the evening from 5:00pm to 9pm.   Ask your instructor for exact times.   Corky has Bob Bierman scheduled in the fall for a relief carving class.  Bob will be offering a Santa Claus or a newsboy pattern.  Contact Corky for more details. Meeting Time and Location:back to table of contents Meetings are held at 7:00 p.m. on the first and third Wednesday of each month. The meetings include a brief business meeting followed by a carving session. The meeting location has changed. Meetings are now held at the Weldon Spring Site Remedial Action Project at 7295 Highway 94 South St. Charles, Missouri 63304. Visitors are always welcome! Saturday carving is being held on the Saturday prior to the third Wednesday of each month. Saturday carving is also held at the Weldon Spring Site. Visitors are always welcome! Weldon Spring Department of Energy site.  From highway 40/61 or I-70 exit highway 94 and continue south toward Defiance.  It is just past the Francis Howell High School.  When you see a Quonset hut on the right hand side it is the next driveway / facility.       Member Web Pages-Update: back to table of contents New members - be sure to get with Wyatt Sample and provide him with some pictures of your work and a background write up for the website.  All Members, please feel free to update the information for your page on the website any time. Just send an email to the webmaster, Wyatt Sample,(link at bottom of page) with any new information about yourself. Please provide some information about any new carving you want displayed and either send in a digital picture or bring in a picture of your carving to be scanned. You can look through the other member pages to see what type of information others have provided. Contact us for more information on the club or activities.  For questions regarding this Web Site, contact Webmaster: Wyatt Sample