The July meeting will be our annual picnic. This will be instead of a regular meeting. Byron Rosbrugh is again allowing us to have the picnic at his house. Anyone that attended the picnic last year knows what a nice place Byron and Kathy have, and how well it accommodates an event like this. The cost for this will be $25 per couple or $12.50 single. Children and Grandchildren are welcome. The event is going to be catered by "The Sawmill Restaurant" in Hampstead.
The menu will include:
• Pulled Barbecue Pork
• Southern Fried Chicken
• Baked Beans
• Potato Salad
• Cole Slaw
• Iced Tee & Water
• Deserts
We need to provide a fairly accurate number of attendees to the caterer in order to insure there is enough food available. Please call anyone of the individuals below to get your name in the pot.
Byron - (910)233-3773
John - (910)520-9601
Jeff King – (910)794-4941
We are renting chairs and tables, so there should be enough seating for everyone, but if you prefer, you can bring a lawn chair of your own.
We also plan to have a silent auction of tools that you may have that you would like to donate to the club as a fund raiser. If you would like to bring these items along with you to the picnic, they can be auctioned off. As a reminder, since we are a federally approved 501(c)(3) educational organization, any item that you donate to WAWA is tax deductable.

As most of you should already know, the “Chapter Challenge Project” that was made for the AAW National Symposium this year, won BEST IN SHOW. The project will be on display at the picnic. The project team did a fantastic job, and this will be your opportunity to congratulate them and celebrate the win.
Hope to see everyone there. I will be sending directions to the picnic by email the week before the picnic, so check for these.

John Still

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Dues for 2010

Hi folks! I haven't met all of you personally yet, but my name is Jeff King, and I find myself as the new Treasurer/Secretary of our WAWA club. I've only been a member since April of last year, but am very much enjoying our monthly meetings; watching the demonstrations; getting advice from the club mentors; and seeing the beautiful projects that you bring in for the gallery. Your projects tell me that I have a long way to go to become as good as you are.

Jeff Davies is working very hard to arrange for some outsourced demonstrators for our meetings in 2010. Our annual budget for 2010 was based on the assumption that we would have 60 registered members, with paid dues. As of today, only 36 members have paid......which means 40% are unpaid. It is impossible for Jeff D. and the club to make committments to outsourced demonstrators without knowing that the Treasury will have the funds to pay them. At present, there already are three outstanding turners scheduled for 2010. They are Betty Scarpino, Jim Duxbury and Barry Russell. Until we know how many paid memberships we will have for this year, we can't pursue other big name turners.

We think that $35 for annual dues is a true bargain. The typical monthly meeting is about 3 hours, which means it costs you about $1.00 per hour over the course of the year. Where else can you get that kind of entertainment, demonstrations, free advice, the opportunity to socialize with so many other woodturners.......all for one dollar an hour?

The point is that, if you are going to be a member this year, we'd like to have your dues check before the next meeting, so Jeff D. can conclude his program planning efforts for the year. Please, take a couple minutes right now, and mail me your $35.00 check, at 5613 Keswick Court; Wilmington, NC 28409-2653. Hopefully, we'll have all of you back again, but if you know that you won't be able to join this year, please email me back and let me know that.

I'm also sending this to members from prior years and to others who have expressed interest in joining. If you no longer wish to be on the club mailing list, please email me back to let me know.

Thanks to those of you who have already paid and also to those who are about to!

Jeff King

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Library Update

The library is now in place. Dolan Brown and Charles Gore have gotten all of the books and DVD's into our new cabinet in the VFW. This will make it possible for the library to be available to the members at all meetings whether the librarian is there or not. There have been several additions to the video collection recently.

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Meeting Location

The meetings are normaly held on the second Saturday of each month at either 10:00am or 1:00pm depending on the program, and usually run until about 4:00pm. A map to the VFW can be found below, and on this web site under the menu tab;

Leland VFW 9408

1211 Village Rd.

Leland, NC 28451

To get there from Wilmington, cross the river at either bridge and then cross the causeway going south (17/74/76), take the first exit (Belville, NC133).

Take a right at the light and continue approximately 2.7 miles. The VFW is on the left just beyond the Post Office.

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