As you may have already guessed: July 2020 Events are cancelled until further notice: All events planned for July 2020 for RCWA are cancelled until further notice. Updates will be announced if they occur.
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We have been given a key to the building adjacent and south of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church. This is the former location of the Black Hills Lutheran School, which closed its doors in June of 2019. We can meet there on our regularly scheduled meeting nights if we so choose.
We are discussing the subject of using the Club for Boys for our workshops with Mark Kline. The Club opened its doors to a limited number of boys on July 6, 2020. This will continue until August 13th, when the boys go back to school in whatever form it will be. After that time, we will be continuing our discussions with Mark about what changes will need to be made to be able to use the Club for Boys to do our Toy Workshops.
We are discussing the possibility of a RCWA Picnic in the end of August. We are also discussing with Knecht Managers the possibility of holding our Annual Woodworking Show and have tentatively set September 26, 2020 or October 3, 2020 as the show dates. So pull out those "Things That Fly" and get them finished up, if you haven't done so already. We will keep you posted as the date is finalized.
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Our Toy Program is continuing as members are getting out of their homes and bringing and taking toys to and from my shop. I will detail many of the activities that have taken place since June 3, 2020 in the eye chart table below.
Jerry showed
his latest projects on video.
Detailed Notes on Toy Activity
June 4, 2020
Rick talked
with Knecht’s managers and set target date of Sept 26 or Oct 3 for Woodworking
Show.
June 5, 2020
Ralph picked
up ten boxes of toys for wheels, plus a box of wheels, and ten trucks and truck
wheels. Lon picked up crayon whales to
cut. Rollie picked up box of critters to
cut. Kathie made cookies.
June 7, 2020
Bob
sorted/re-organized the physical pattern files
June 8, 2020
Paul Douglas
picked up 4 boxes to hand sand, plus pegs to spray (6000). Paul delivered 6000 other pegs to Ralph last
week.
June 9, 2020
Jerry picked
up a box of firetrucks and pegs and ladders to assemble.
June 10,
2020
Mary Jo
brought 4 boxes ready to finish. She
took two boxes home to sand.
Ralph
brought toys ready for inventory (228) and picked up two more boxes to install
wheels. Bob prepared them for movement
to Inventory at Rick’s.
June 11,
2020
Rick picked
up the toys to take to inventory (228).
Rick brought a box of sprayed wheels (800 to 900). Rick picked up SLIM toys to put on wheels
with special axles. Bob picked up four
boxes of toys hand sanded and ready to spray from Bel.
June 15,
2020
Ralph picked
up wheels (450).
June 16,
2020
Bob spray
finished 243 toys.
June 17,
2020
Bob picked
up 2 box of toys hand sanded from Mary Jo.
Rick delivered toys to WAVI, but they couldn’t accept them at this time.
June 18,
2020
Bob boxed up
sprayed toys, worked on caravans, and worked on pickup tankers (30).
June 19,
2020
June 23,
2020
Delivered
Fire Bell to Station No. 1
Danny gave
me 3 boxes of toys ready to seal. Paul
and Danny talked blocks: Paul has 120
blocks of each size ready, Danny will rough cut 180 more of each size.
June 24,
2020
Picked up
boxes of recovered toys from ICU – Gary Graves.
Dropped off a box of ICU toys.
June 25,
2020
Small SS SIG
at Rick’s – cut critters, exchanged items for inventory (62), picked up a box
of sprayed wheels (900), bought two gallons of Finish.
June 26,
2020
Ralph and Bert
brought wheel install tools by, and two boxes of toys ready to be inventoried. Ralph might be out of commission for a few
months with back issues.
June 28,
2020
Tony brought
boxes of done and some not done, as is having bandsaw blade issues. Paul brought 4 boxes of toys hand sanded and ready to spray. Bob has two boxes ready for inventory.
June 29,
2020
Kathie
sealed 167 toys. Ken brought backboards
milled and ready and bases, some for ICU.
Ken picked up 80 more back boards to mill and 80 launchers to mount on
bases.
June 30,
2020
Bob made a
wheel install kit for Paul (400 wheels + pegs +100 toys). Paul picked them up on July 1.
July 1, 2020
Bob took 3
boxes of toys to Bel for hand sanding.
Also 3 boxes of toys to Mary Jo for hand sanding. R&D:
made prototype of safari tour van.
July 2, 2020
Ken brought
finished assembled basketball game bases and extra launchers. Darwin and Lauree brought two boxes of heart
boxes with felt inserted; also, one box of helos cut and drilled. Lauree took one box of double hearts for inserting
the felt. We watched Air Force 1 fly
over the front yard.
July 7, 2020
Bob finished
Tanker Trucks (30), now ready to spray.
July 8, 2020
Rollie
brought back box of critters cut to shape.
Rollie took box of tugboat bases to cut and box of toy cars. Rick called:
WW Show still scheduled for late September of early October. Lauree brought out box of double hearts with
felt inserted.
July 11,
2020
Lon picked
up 4 boxes to work at home. Rick picked
up two boxes for Inventory. Rick brought
3 boxes of critters ready to put in bags.
Bob picked up 3 box of toys hand sanded from Bel. Alos picked up 3 boxes of toys from Mary Jo
ready to spray.
July 14,
2020
Rollie
brought back two boxes cut to shape. He
took home 3 more boxes to cut. Rick
added ten slim rabbits to inventory.
July 15,
2020
Bob stopped
at Club for Boys to retrieve some wood parts and talk to Mark Kline. Toured the new remodel. Plan to talked again after August 13, when
boys go back to school.
July 16,
2020
Held small toy
workshop for Special Toys. Completed 171
toys, packed and sent to Inventory. Lon brought
3 boxes ready to seal. Grant brought
tugboat cabins ready to install, and a router table with an improved Plexiglas
surface. Jerry brought box of completed
Firetrucks ready for inventory. Patsy brought 21 completed bags for critters.
July 18,
2020
Bob
exchanged the church key for a key to the old school building. Met with Ted Rafledt at Our Redeemer Lutheran
Church. Got a tour of the school building and
we were invited to use any room that would work for our meetings on 2nd
Monday of each month at 7 pm.
Baseball will be starting soon.
Baseball will be starting soon.
July 19,
2020
Bob milled basketball
bases and backboards and launchers.
July 20,
2020
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