Meeting Minutes – July 8, 2023

Meeting Location: Rural Life Museum, 4560 Essen Ln, Baton Rouge

• Fellowship before meeting
• Collection of dues (Rick Albrecht) and selling of shirts and caps (Richard Robles)

Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance – Harold Choate

Welcome and Introduction of Guests– 3 Guests

Officer Reports:

• Vice-President – George Campagna- Thanks to Jackie Parker for filling in at the last minute for Brian Stauss. Brian had a family event to attend. The next meeting will be at PMC. It will be a joint meeting with St. Tammany Woodworkers. Our speaker is Todd Shupe. His presentation is Wood Identification. The September meeting is at West Baton Rouge Museum. Our speaker is Seth Ausley He will talk about Rosin Casting. October is the Swampfest. The November meeting will be at Terry Landry’s shop in Clinton. The last meeting will be at Jim Landry’s shop in Prairieville.
• Secretary – Harold Choate- 18 people attended the June meeting which was at Warren Dufrene’s shop in the woods. We’ve had 18 people at the last 3 month’s meetings. Please send me emails with pictures to post on our Facebook page. We have over 500 people following us so we’ve got a nice audience.
• Treasurer – Rick Albrecht- Contact Rick for details. Please cash any checks you are holding. We need to order new checks and can’t do that till all the outstanding ones are cashed.
• Webmaster – Open
• Community Service – Report by Jack Carmena. We have 2 projects. Brian Stauss is building a swing for Love Moves First, Ponchatoula. We’re building 3 tables for Anchor House on Government St. in Baton Rouge. Richard Robles and George Lewis are making one. Ken Brown and Lee Owens another and Keith Bryan and Lee Owens the other one. We have no new projects in the pipeline. We have the birdhouses for Swampfest coming up. We need to talk about getting wood donations and teams to build the birdhouses.
• Education Outreach – Open

New and Ongoing Club Business

• Mentors- we’ve had inquiries from both the Website and Facebook page about teaching woodworking. Richard Robles asked Harold Choate to make some comments about this. At least once a month we have a request so I thought it would be a good idea to get a group together and put some basic information together that we could give to these people. There are a lot of possibilities from a collection of instructions to how we individually go involved in woodworking. Discussion on this continued without a definite conclusion
• Lumber donations for bird houses. Prior sources, Blanchard Lumber, Holmes Building Materials and other sources like cypress sawmills will be contacted by Art Miller or Richard Robles.

Members Questions/Concerns

Safety Topic

Skill Topic: Pen Turning – Jackie Parker

Show-and-Tell

Adjourn

Please bring the following items to the meeting:

There Will Be an Executive Meeting After the Main Meeting