Membership dues are due by the end of January. If you are not paid up then you are ineligible to buy raffle tickets or acquire a name tag raffle chance.

Members in good standing are the ones who may participate in Guild activities.

Currently we have 60 paid members, 5 of those are officers or committee chairs who paid with a free dues coupon. The amount collected covers our rental and operating expenses-approx. $1,476.00 annually. Administrative expenses(i.e.copies, stamps, raffle tickets, misc. certificate printing) might cost about $200.00 annually.

All educational expenses are paid directly out of our educational fund.

Name badge gift certificates are $240.00 annually.

Due to lack of participation and interest the annual picnic will be suspended this year. This can be changed by member demand and new vote.

Participation awards will be presented in December and will continue. We might consider donations of shop made projects or monetary awards-all yet to be decided. Your participation will help us decide and your enthusiasm will make the vote. Bring show and tell and sign up for community activities.

The 2 X  4 challenge will continue with new rules and a new look, award certificates will be presented for bragging rights. Again participation will decide whether this practice continues. Apathy and non participation will not cost anything, but will it enrich your woodworking experience-it is up to you.

Check out the website periodically for notices of good wood buying opportunities, member equipment sales, project ideas, new product evaluations, project work opportunities, mentoring ops and who knows what else. Read and heed. Drive some nails, cut some lumber and tell your story at show n tell.

IS anyone interested in hearing the story of other woodworkers projects, interests, life experiences. Let me know and we can start a bio record. I met a very interesting member who has more collections and projects and stories than I have ever heard. I would love to share his story with all of you. He lives right here amongst us.

Any questions, ideas-no matter how quirky you think they are, projects, or bragging  welcome. Send me an email.

Thanks for letting me bend your ear.

Anne

President of EWWG

Fluted Beams LLC produces bendable hardwood and bentwood products and fabrications using a proprietary Extreme Wood Bending™ process that produces the worlds most dramatic and ambitions bentwood parts from thick, solid hardwoods.
Fluted Beams LLC is owned and managed by Chris Mroz (BS, MSc, MBA) in Gig Harbor, Washington, USA. Mroz is Canadian, but has

been a permanent resident of the USA since 1994. With a background in Arts, Sciences and Business, Mroz invented the Fluted Beam while developing a lightweight and strong curved rail for a boat building project. The idea was scaled up to architectural sized projects including prototype projects for Frank Gehry and Martha Schwartz. Other Extreme Bent Wood products are being utilized for grid shell buildings, interior landscape designs, trellis, canopies, curved walls, curved surfaces, and other large scale architectural fabrications.

Mroz also consults with academics, engineers, architects and designers regarding his specialized field of architectural extreme bent wood fabrication, and guest lectures on the subject at colleges and universities. Recently, Mroz has spoken at the annual meeting of the American Furniture Society, the American Timber framers Guild, and at the Wood Construction Center in Seattle.

7:00 Open meeting

Installation of incoming president, Michael Rocke

Recognize visitors

Weekend workshops-George Knutson

Re

port on August swap meet and symposia

Picnic in August—Need sign-ups

Program—Dan Haavisto

Membership-Gene Warning

Safety-Mike Poirier

Ask the experts

Show & Tell

Monthly Raffle—Dave & Joyce Lamberson

Program: Bill Betts and Don Avery, special woods

Visit their site UCRWood

Clean up and close up.

We have the following presenters/programs scheduled for 2009:

• January 12 — Jim Tolpin – Working with Hand Tools
• February 9 – Ken Richards – How to be More Effective at Design
• March 9 – John Maki – Miniature Classic Woodworking Tools (reschedule from July 2008)
• April 13 – Gordon Patnude – 2×4 Challenge
• May 11 – Ron Schroder – Turning Pens Without Power
• June 8 — Brian Spindor – Demonstrate Google Sketch