RCWA Meeting Minutes

Date: October
24, 2024                                Meeting
Start: 7:00                         Meeting
Finish: 8:40

Attendees:
Bob Arnio, Bob
Buchanan, Kathy Buchanan, Jim Burk, Grant Coffin, Lon Gose, Vicky
Gose, Jerry Hood, Patsy Hood, Stu Kellogg, Al Oines, Harly
Schmaddeke, Nick Spano, Rick Weisbeck

Introductions/
New Members:

No
new introductions this month.

Treasurer’s
Report:

Tony is out of town. There is
no treasury report for this month.

New
Web Site

Joseph
Allen has been working with Bob on a new website: Rcwasd.org

If
you get lost, hit the truck at the bottom of the page.

Shop
Tours

Nothing to report this month.

Special
Interest Groups

Next Scroll Saw SIG is
scheduled for October 16 at Rick Weisbeck’s home (6704 Kimberly
Drive, Blackhawk) from 1:00-3:00 p.m.

Turning SIG is scheduled for
October 30 1:00-3:00 will be held West Hills, 1116 West Blvd. Ken
Ketel, Michael Howard, and Julian will demonstrate ornaments. There
is a planned demonstration for turning threads.

General
Meeting

Next general meeting will be
November 11, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. Rick Weisbeck will bring
refreshments.

Wood
Show

Suggested
Theme – Patriotic – Military, past, present, future

Other Topics

Hats with the new website url
are available for purchase for $15.

Christmas Potluck – the
decision was to cancel the summer picnic. The next social gathering
will be the Christmas potluck, Dec. 14 at Nemo Fire Hall. We will
plan to eat at 11:30. Sign-up sheet is being passed around.

Harley has some tools to
donate to the club. We will plan to move items from his shop October
19^th
after the Toy workshop.

Michael Slider has some tools
and wood for sale. If interested call 605-390-0819

Wood
Recovery

               Darwin
obtained a whole pallet of wood obtained from Forest Products. We
plan to plane/sand     some of it to see if the wood is usable for the
toy program.

Toy
program

Next Toy Workshop will be
Saturday, October 19, 2024. We will meet every Saturday until toys
are completed.

Toy distribution is 7 Dec.

We will create a mouse sanding
table downstairs to do some final sanding. The station should be
ready by the next Toy Workshop, October 19.

We traced 3,285 toys. Of
these, 2,362 have been completed.

Jerry is working on heart
boxes.

Rick is finishing 25 cradles.

Bob is assembling 100
basketball hoops.

We have 4 boxes of blocks
which need routing and sanding – about half have been finished.

Chalk boards are nearly done –
about 60

We will put love bugs on hold
until we finish the other toys.

Tug Boats are nearly done.

Boys Club, Youth and Family
Services, Catholic Indian School in Chamberlain and most of the club
requests have been taken care of and will be honored.

Show
and Tell

Stu
Kellogg brought in a threading jig with two threading samples – a
canister with 16 threads per inch and a lidded vase with 12 threads
per inch. Jig is set up for a banjo that will receive a 5/8 inch
post and is available to club members who might like to try it.

Rick
brought in a couple of samples of scroll saw work. He brought in 4
lamp posts and a multi-layered nature scene (picture not available).

Minutes
taken by Stu Kellogg