Nov 2013

Troy, Ohio

Vol. XXXVIII Issue 11

From The Prez While Janie and I were visiting friends in Pennsylvania last month, we took a side trip to the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary. Located on a 2,600 acre mountaintop near Reading, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary was founded in 1934 and is the worlds first refuge for birds of prey. There are (8) miles of hiking trails with many scenic overlooks. The day we were there we saw mostly vultures, but did manage to view a few hawks and eventually a Bald Eagle. The visitor center was very nice and even had a display of (16) species of wood carved raptors hanging from the ceiling. The realistic birds were carved from tupelo by a local artist and were completed over a (2) year period. If any of you nature lovers or bird carvers are ever in the Reading, PA area, I highly recommend that you visit Hawk Mountain. Butch Nov Program Our speaker this month will be Rob Schmidt talking about the Miami County Park Districts Maple Syrup program. Another tasty program! Think he will have samples? Cookies Cookie volunteers for November are JoAnn Moran and Charlie Cooke.

Club Competition No club competition this month, but still bring in your Show-and-Tell items. Remember, bringing as item to show gets you a ticket in the drawing. Rich Richmond won the drawing last month. Misc John Guillozet won the 50/50 Oct drawing, pocketing $18. Coming Events 9-10 Nov: 32nd Artistry in Wood Show: http://daytoncarvers.com/artistryinwood.html 12 Nov: Next monthly club meeting, 7 PM at the Brukner Center. 10 Dec: Clubs annual Christmas dinner. Not too early to be working on your ornament for the exchange. Remember, you have to bring one to get one. Classes Bruce Nicholas will be hosting a chip-carving class the first weekend in Dec featuring renowned carver Wayne Burton. Contact Bruce (bjnicholas@earthlink.net) for details. And in January, Don Worley will be teaching a no-seeem class at Woodcraft in Centerville. Check out the webpage for details (http://www.woodcraft.com/stores/storeclasses.aspx?id= 513&page=classes).

Artistry In Wood
The club will have a table this year at AIW. We will be looking for material to show on the table as well as some help in setting up on Friday I have a date with my granddaughter to meet her at school for a grandparents breakfast so I plan to be at the hall around 10 AM. Remember, if you want to put something on the table to show and/or sell, bring it by then. Ive already gotten one volunteer Thanks Pat!

Wrap Up

Thats all for this month, see you at the meeting, Tuesday, 12 Nov at 7:00 PM. The Officers For everyones reference, here are the Club officers and their contact info for this next year. President: Butch Clark, Butch0547@embarqmail.com, 937-447-7037 Vice-President: Mark Johnson, Marlint7@att.net, 937773-0154 Treasurer: John Guillozet, jagtlc@yahoo.com, 937-2148853 Secretary: Rich Richmond, 937-322-7650 Secretary@bruknernaturecarver.com, https://www.facebook.com/BruknerCarvingClub http://www.bruknernaturecarvers.com/. Rich Richmond