Community Event - Knecht Home Center - Spearfish 10-23-2018

Attendees:
Lon and Vicky, Ken and Carol, Darwin and Laurie, Bob and Kathie, Rick W, Jerry H, Jerry N, Danny and Mary, Carl, and Grant.

On Saturday Oct 13, 2018, members of the RCWA, accompanied Rick Weisbeck to the Knecht Home Center in Spearfish, SD to help celebrate the grand re-opening of the brand new store!  The store had food demonstrations on the Green Egg, plus hot dogs and fresh cookies baked in their full operational kitchen displays.  Kids also had the chance to paint pumpkins in a section near our setup.

We brought wood vans for kids to color, add wheels and race!  We set up at 9:30 am and entertained kids until 3 pm.  Over 80 vans were colored and fitted with wheels, and most were tested on our 8 foot 3 lane race track.  It snowed all day (outside) while we were warm and dry inside.  So at 3 pm, we tore down our booth, and drove home thru the snow.

Wood Crate Design Review

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October 2018 RCWA General Meeting 10-8-2018

SHOW AND TELL     10-8-2018

Julian Wigen's Projects

Plywood / Walnut Jewelry Box

  

Jewelry Boxes - walnut

Zebra Wood Candles

 Knitting Aid

Rick's Halloween Project

Ed Pike's projects:

Scrollsawn Vase

Remote Home

Recipe Holder

 Rick Weisbeck's '51 Studebaker from Puzzle Cutouts

 Bob Buchanan's Sewing Room Cabinets

Toy Program Expansion Project

Toy Making Projects by Grant's students for the SD Capitol Building 1987

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TWS 10-6-2018 (TWS2018-17)

Toy Workshop Marathon Summary to Date

Toy Workshops (TWS2018-14 thru TWS2018-17)

1. Toy Workshop #14 - Sept 15th, 2018 from 9 to noon at CFB

2. Toy Workshop #15 - Sept 22th, 2018 from 9 to noon at CFB

3. Toy Workshop #16 - Sept 29th, 2018 from 9 to noon at CFB

4. Toy Workshop #17 - Oct 6th, 2018 from 9 to noon at CFB

Prior to Sept 8th, 2018, we had completed 1,043 toys and placed them in inventory in preparation for our Dec 1st packing and delivery day.  Since Sept 8th, we have completed an additional 1,342 toys and placed them in inventory.  We currently have 2,385 toys in inventory.  We have received requests for approximately 2,800 toys.  We have an additional 450 toys in the final production operations, and we expect to complete those soon.

Toy Workshop #17 - Oct 6th, 2018 from 9 to noon at CFB

Attendees (21): Danny, Paul, Jerry N, Patsy and Jerry, Gloria, Mary Jo, Julian, Harley, Ralph, Rick, Lon, Ken, Ed, Brian, Grant, Richard, Bob and Kathie, Gary G, and Rollie.

Activities:  Installing wheels, final wet/dry sanding of tugboats, sanding love bugs, milling parts for basketball games, gluing hoops to backboards, then attaching hoops with screws, attaching launchers to baseball game bases, building rocking chairs, and doing inventory counts and movement to storage.  Additionally we built a kit to take to the community event on Oct 13th at the Knecht Home Center grand re-opening in Spearfish, SD.

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TWS 9-29-2018 (TWS 2018-16)

Attendees:
Patsy and Jerry, Gloria, Al, Bob and Kathie, Harley, Ken, Rollie, Ralph, Bel, Richard, Gary G, Rick, W, Jerry N, Lon, Ed, Brian, Darwin and Lauree,

Activities:
Sanding -Patsy, Gloria, Al, Kathie, Harley
Basketball Games - Ken, Jerry H, Rollie
Installing wheels - Ralph, Bel, Harley, Richard, Gary G
Tugboats - Rick W, Jerry H, Jerry N
Helos - Lon
Turtle Banks - Ed, Brian, Darwin
Strings in Balls - Lauree, Ralph, Rollie, Jerry
Inventory - Lauree, Bob

Status:
Installed wheels on 131 toys
Finished building tugboats
Helo - added rotors and wheels
Basketball games - drilled counter-sunk holes in backboards
Strings on balls - 150 ready for basketball games, and cup and ball games
Strings on rings - 50 ready for ring toss game

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Volunteer Recognition Banquet 9-24-2018 at Club for Boys

The Club for Boys invited all members of the RCWA to attend their annual volunteer recognition banquet on Sept 24, 2018 at 5:30 pm at the Club for Boys gym.

Representing the Club for Boys were Bob and Kathie Buchanan, Patsy and Jerry Hood, and Frank DiCesare.

A meal was served complete with dessert and was followed by a thank you speech and by the awards ceremony.  This years theme was Star Wars.


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TWS 9-22-2018 (TWS2018-15)

Attendees (19): Danny and Mary, Paul, Julian, Harley, Ralph, Rick, Lon, Lauree and Darwin, Ken, Frank, Don Roberts, Ed, Brian, Grant, Bob and Kathie, and Rollie.

Activities:  Installing wheels, sanding tugboats parts, routering tugboat parts, installing 2" wheels on whales, building tugboats.

To Do Next WeeK:
Bring wheels to Rick to spray for next week
Estimate wheel needed to complete
Tugboats - spray with lacquer finish
Four boxes of toys - spray with lacquer finishSeal one box of pickups
Spray tips of whale axles
Bases - need 20 more - cut to size 3" x 10"
Hoops - sand, router

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Preparation for next toy workshop

9-17-2018
Drilled holes in 1" dowels for tugboat tugboats stacks ( 72).
Cut backboards (55) from beech cutoffs.
Routered a 1/16" deep grove in backboards ( 45) to help position hoop on backboard.
Sent emails to toy recipients requesting updates.
9-18-2018
Sprayed lacquer on 119 toys + 120 wheels (2" ) for whales.
Put turtle banks (16) in car to take to Rick for SS SIG on Thursday at 7 pm.
Put backboards (55) in car for Ken M. on Thursday at SS SIG.

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