Rio Grand Valley Woodcarvers

Newsletter

Feb 2005- Apr 2005
Greetings from the Editor
Community Project

Our carving club has a requirement that we perform a community project of some sort each year.

Since we meet in a Shriner's building, we thought a timely project would be to support their work with Crippled and Burned Children in this area as well as northern Mexico.

Several times a month, Shriners drive a van of children and their parents to the Shriner's Burn Center in Galveston, Texas, and the Crippled Children's Hospital in Houston.

We had learned of a group of men in Denver, Colorado, who make small wooden cars and donate them to charity, so we contacted the man in charge of this group and if we paid the transportation costs, we could have as many of the cars they made as we wished.

Our club leadership discussed the situation and the decision was made to ask for 500 cars. Before long, several boxes of little cars appeared in Mc Allen and in short order, they were donated to the Shriners.

The Shriners distribute them to children making the trip to the Clinics and hospitals north of here and to children hospitalized in Shriners facilities outside the Texas area.

Even Santa Go A Car

Rally

This was our 6th Rally and what a great time we had. We need to give a big Thank You to all our instructors, for so many classes and all the professional teaching. We all learned many things We had a record number of students. Many expressed the good time they had and how they enjoyed the rally.

When we work so hard to put it on and those kind of comments are greatly appreciated.

We are loosing some of our instructors and we sure hate to not have them next year. We need to say a big thank you to Stu Martin , Claudie Adkins. Le Roy Berry who has been at our Rally since it started. Also, A Thank You to Richard Withers, Mel Donaho and to Desiree Hajny for your professional carving instructions. We will Miss all of them.

We want to Welcome these new instructors for next year: Steve Schoolar, Gerard Brossoit, Gen Kreyling, Mart Lind, Don Hartt and Len Dillon. We are working to make this year the best ever.

Thank You to all who helped during the Rally and Thank You Margaret for the grand Job with all the registrations and name tags.

The weather even cooperated it was 65 -75 for the whole week

Elaine Craft