In This Issue >>> Featured carver- Ron Taylor Up Coming Shows Past Shows Thank You to Our Sponsors Winter 2016 Issue 136 Carve-It Important Dates Carving Last Monday for 2016 is December12 th @ 1pm Last Thursday for 2016 is December 15 th @ 7pm Carving resumes Monday Jan9 th @1pm Thursday Jan 12 th @7pm Monday Carving 1:00 pm 4:00 pm Thursday Carving @ 7:00pm 9:00pm Carving is located at Holy Trinity Church 516 Victoria Ave Belleville, ON RON TAYLOR FEATURED CARVER Executive Meetings: Second Thursday of every month (Sept. Apr.) at 5:30pm prior to regular carving at Holy Trinity General Meetings: will be held at the Holy Trinity Church on the Fourth Thursday of February at 7 pm It is with a heavy heart to announce that Ron Taylor passed away this past June. Ron was a past president of our club and a member of our club since 2010 He competed at many competitions including the worlds Quinte Wood Carvers Annual Page 1
Upcoming Shows & events The Canadian National Wildfowl Carving Championship / Wood Art in the Cities The 2017 Show will be held March 17, 18, 19 at RIM Park in Waterloo March 2017 in Whitby Ontario Brooklyn wood carving show Niagara Carving Show The next show will be in early April, 2017. Quinte wood carving show Belleville sports and wellness center April 8 2017 Upcoming carving course The club is sponsoring a carving course to be held on May 15 to May 19 2017 Location: At Serge Moisan's home near tweed. The instructor is: Glen McMurdo The subject is a Killdeer. We will paint and carve this bird during the week. We have 12 openings available and would like to fill this course. The cost is $265.00 and includes: A casting of the Killdeer, which we will paint. A CD of the course subject A wood blank prepared by Glen McMurdo All instructional materials. Glen has been a keen supporter of our club and has conducted many courses. Please contact Bob Trottier at robertandmarebeth@gmail.com Page 4
2016 summer BBQ We had another fun BBQ this year. We would like to thank Bob and Carol Derry (Earl s parents) for allowing us to hold it at their place this year. Also we would like to thank Earl Rita and Stu for organizing it and Serge for bringing some lawn games that everyone enjoyed especially the dogs. There was a fun round of golf on their small course and a lot of fun talking to each other Bobcaygeon show Quinte Woodcarvers were well represented at this year s Kawartha Carving Competition in Bobcaygeon, with seven entries and 3 ribbons won. Both Ken Hicks and Dave Hatton received 2 nd place ribbons and Serge Moissan received an honourable mention. Big thanks goes out to Serge Moissan, Ken Naunton (with his wife and son) and myself (Lisa Thompson) for representing our club at the Quinte Woodcarvers table. We must remember to support other clubs as they support ours. This was my first time at this organized competition which I look forward to going to again. It really is nice to go to other shows and completion to make new friends and touch base with old ones. We Would like to Welcome All Our New Member to the Club Craig Alderson, Gail Alexander, Jade Babcock, Bill Downham, Andrew Doxtator, Mark Feller, Maura Hoye, Kiki Rousseau, Raymond Saunders, Carol and Noelle Wiwczaruk. Page3
OWCA Show Congratulation to all the competitors at the 2016 Ontario Wood Carving Association show. Ken Hicks With His Hooded Merganser, Serge Moisan Second Place finish with his Merganser drake,lisa Thompson Second place wither Her Cardinal, Tony Bartolo honorable Mention with Burnie the court jester and David Hatton third place finish with his Kestrel and competing with his Blue heron Quinte Wood Carving Show The 2017 quinte wood carving show is fast approaching. We will Be needing Volunteers for multiple things Bob Trottier Will be asking for volunteers to sell Door prize tickets at the mall. This year carvers will not need to bring any of their carving to the ticket sale. We will be needing volunteers for Friday April 7 to help set up and registration and volunteers for Sat April 8 for multiple things at the show. David Hatton will be coming around in late Feb. early March looking for volunteers if there is a job you want let him know. We will be needing items for our silent auction table we will have donation letters ready in January It Is also our 30 th show if any one has any ideas to help celebrate this milestone please let one of the executive know Page 4
LEE VALLEY SPLIT SECOND PRINTING NAPA AUTO PARTS BOB DANAHY MADOC TIMBER MART LISA THOMPSON MCKENZIE EVENT PHOTOGRAPHY XPOSURE SIGNS & GRAPHICS DANFORDS CONSTRUCTION DERRY S DIPSTICKS AND DRIVESHAFTS GLENN A. MCMURDO LARRY GRANGER ARNOLD KOCH RAIMO REPO DAVID HATTON CHIPPING AWAY IRVING INDUSTRIES RAZERTIP INDUSTRIES INC. MADOC HOME HARDWARE TRU COUNTRY GARDEN - COUNTY FARM CENTRE LTD CARVE IT UP OLD RAILWAY STATION ROGAN KITCHEN MFG. LARRY FELL OCC TOOLS FOXBORO FASTENERS AND SO MANY MORE We need people to sit at our club table at other club shows. The next show we need Volunteers for is the Brooklyn show in Whitby in March. We already have a Table booked for this show. Lets get out there and support other shows Page 5
Contact Information President Serge Moisan sergeovertheedge@gmail.com Vice President Earl Derry earl.derry@gmail.com Treasurer Lisa Thompson pldthompson@sympatico.ca Secretary Allen Kuja sanda.kuja@bell.net Membership Don Hargest dhargest@cogeco.ca Carve-it Web Master Advertising David Hatton Brian Hodgins davidjameshatton1234@yahoo.com Show Chair David Hatton Davidjameshatton1234@yahoo.com Past President Ron Taylor Social Committee Rita Joyce rita-mariej@hotmail.com Directors Ken Naunton kennaunton@bell.net Bob Trottier Ken Hicks Bob Danahy robertandmarebeth@gmail.com khicks000@sympatico.ca bd.danahy@gmail.com Email: quintewoodcarvers@yahoo.ca Website: www.quintewoodcarvers.ca 2017 Purchase Awards For 2017 The Quinte Wood Carvers Association has decided on a Ring-Necked Drake Working Decoy Life Size and a Caricature of a Wood Carver for the purchase awards. If anyone has any questions, feel free to contact the Executives. Page 6