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Table of Contents: Club News Coming Events Meeting Pictures 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!      At the club meeting on November 5, the club re-elected officers and new board members. The Annual Christmas banquet is set for December 2. Meat, bread and drinks will be provided. Each member is encouraged to bring a side dish, salad, dessert or other specialty they wish to show off. We will also hold our annual Christmas carving exchange. Bring a wrapped carved ornament or other small carving and receive one from another member. Wyatt Sample Art Council Event: back to table of contents Members of the Club participated with The Arts Council of St. Charles County in the Lions Club's Oktoberfest at Frontier Park on the St. Charles Riverfront. This year's event was held on September 26 and 27. Club members John Bouchillon, Bill Kuhn, Wyatt Sample and Charlie Sapp all demonstrated their pumpkin carving skills. Club President, Rich Weitzman came out Sunday afternoon to provide moral support. Saturday was cool and interrupted by some heavy rain but Sunday was a perfect day. Frontier Park was teeming with visitors. The Arts Council sent the club a letter expressing their gratitude for our participation. They also sold enough of the pumpkins that were carved to make the Club a member in good standing for another year. As a member the Club is advertised in their newsletter/flyers, is promoted thru submitted articles, members are contacted to display at multiple art exhibits at the center in Wing Haven, and club members can participate in their art events at reduced fee or sometimes even for no charge (e.g. the recent art happening at Klondike park). Lana Bouchillon came out to support John Bouchillon, who is sitting back taking a much needed break. Bill Kuhn and Rich Weitzman look at some pictures of their work. Here are some close-ups of some of the carved pumpkins done in relief style. Meeting Pictures: back to table of contents Dee and Don Kley are engaged in their carving. Char Hoffman works on a John Engler relief carving. Bob Heinrich takes a moment to pose for camera. Paul Medling studies some carving notes. Mike McGinley does some chip carving as Mary McGinley watches other carvers. Pat Bauman carves away. John Bouchillon watches Wilbert's ear carving demonstration before working on his Santa candle. Bill Kuhn and Wilbert Brewton give Martha Byron advice on carving an ear. Glenda Taber is working on a relief carving. Bob Craven enjoys posing for the camera. Bob Berg has his work light on and tools laid out ready to work. Show and Tell: back to table of contents The first two pictures are Wyatt Sample's Country Preacher and Hillbilly. Wyatt Sample carved these three 6 inch tall Santa ornaments. Below is Paul Medlin's Barn, which he burned in the Jen Kreyling class. Also shown is Bob Berg's special Denny made V-tool. 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. Gene Messar is a Flat Plane carver living on the Texas/Louisiana border. He has done a number of videos on youtube demonstrating the carving of santas, snowmen, Rufus and Sadie, hillbilly, wizard, hobo, halloween ghost, a scene with a dog treeing a raccoon in a tree and others. The following is a picture of some of his carvings. Each carving is demonstrated in a series of short videos. If you have high speed internet these videos are free and helpful. It is a great resource, check it out at Whittler0507 Dues: back to table of contents There are no dues at club meetings, but be sure to pay your annual dues.   Check with President Rich Weitzman if you are unsure if you are paid up to date.   -- Club dues are $15.00 per year and include the website and electronic newsletter. Seminars: back to table of contents Corky Breece, Seminar Chairman We held a Bob Bierman Santa seminar in January and a painting seminar in February. In October we had a Jen Kreyling woodburning seminar. Corky has a John Engler seminar scheduled for May 14-16, 2010. If you have any suggestions for future seminars, just get in touch with Corky and he will look into it and if we can get enough interest he will get it scheduled.     For seminars - the doors generally open in the morning at 8:30am and end in the evening at 5:00pm.  Ask your instructor for exact times.   The club held a woodburning seminar with Jen Kreyling on October 17-18. Members learned a lot and enjoyed themselves. We burned a feather for practice and then did a barn scene and then a woodburning of a mouse with some leaves and acorns. 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! 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