The show was held over Friday 12th May andSaturday 13th May. The venue for the show was againthe Cooroora Woodworkers clubhouse in theLowermill Precinct in Cooroy. While final figures werenot available it is already apparent that the show was asuccess. The quality of the competition entries wasvery good, the numbers of visitors was higher than lastyear and raffle ticket sales exceeded all expectations.

The show was officially opened by Noosa DeputyMayor Frank Wilkie. He reiterated his remarks of lastyear in praising the very high quality of the entries inthe various competitions. Club president DennisDonnelly thanked Frank and presented him with aturned bowl as a memento.

The meeting took place in the clubhouse where Ian Robertson the retiring chairman thanked thecommittee members for their dedicated work which made the show such a great success. Hementioned particularly Aline Briggs for her sterling work selling raffle tickets. Charlie Cobb forrunning the IGA and Cooroy Outdoor raffles. John Gygar for organising the show cafe as well and asales tent of items made by members and donated to the club ­ both ventures were successful. Thetimber milling team for the milling display and sales. Alex Findlay, Alan Warner, John Kennedy andJohn Gygar for making the raffle prizes. Maureen Bowden, Bob Chaplin, Peter Bradford and DennisDonnelly for their demonstrations of woodwork. Richard Roe, Peter Bradford, John Kennedy andAilene McPhee for their immenseefforts in running the competitions.Dennis Donnelly for arranging thejudging. ­continued on page 2

COOROORA WOODWORKERS CLUB

Newsletter Issue 238, June 2017

he 2017 Annual General Meeting of the Cooroora Woodworkers Club Inc. will be held at theClubhouse, 8 Lower Mill Road , Cooroy on Saturday 10 June 2017 immediately following the JuneGeneral Meeting commencing at 9:00 a.m. All members are encouraged to attend.

At the AGM “all members of the Management Committee for the time being shall retire fromoffice, but shall be eligible upon nomination for re­election”.

Any financial member may nominate for any Management Committee position. Nominationforms are available near the ‘ Sign ­In Register ‘ [ next to entrance to the clubhouse] or from theSecretary .

Completed forms should be lodged with the Secretary before the meeting, either handed directlyto the Secretary or placed in the Secretary‘s file drawer slot, just inside the Clubhouse Office. Ifinsufficient candidates are nominated beforehand, nominations may be taken from the floor of themeeting.

AGM Agenda

John Sargaison for getting our show message into the internet social sites as well as arranging aradio station interview. Jim Pound for the show brochure and the editorials in local newspapers.

Members such as John Sturtz who took on so many jobs ­ too many to list. Plus all the membersand their wives who put out the signs, erected the marquees, raised the banners, helped out in the cafe,

on the stalls, helped to sell raffle tickets and manned the box office and then onSaturday afternoon took it all down and put everything away until next year.

Ian recorded a number of suggestions to pass onto the next show committee.The committee applauded Ian for his fine work as chairman.

Aline Briggs whoworked extremely hardto sell an enormous

number of raffle tickets and show bags had thesatisfaction of drawing the prize winning tickets.Her sales effort took her to 12 sites around Noosashire over a period of nearly three months. Thewinner of the Victorian Wooden Rocking Horsewas Chris Baines of Noosa. Chris and herhusband Jack were so happy to win the horse thatthey made adonation to ourclub. They intendto take the horse toBrisbane wherethey see itproviding manyyears of enjoymentto theirgrandchildren.

Turning 1st Cooroora W.W.Club Segmented Bowl2nd Bayside Woodcrafters Mango Hat3rd Bribie Woodcrafters Vase from Mango

Woodworking 1st Ipswich Woodcrafters Guitar2nd Bribie Woodcrafters Rolltop Desk3rd Bayside Woodcrafters Inlaid Hall Table

Carving 1st Cooroora W.W.Club Elephants2nd Bribie Woodcrafters Freeform3rd Bayside Woodcrafters Horse Head

Pyrography 1st Bribie Woodcrafters Polar Bears2nd Bayside Woodcrafters Harvest Time3rd Cooroora W.W.Club Wolf

Intarzia/Fretwork 1st Ipswich Woodcrafters Fret box2nd Bayside Woodcrafters Basket3rd Bribie Woodcrafters Rose & Butterflies

Toys 1st Cooroora W.W.Club Castle2nd Ipswich Woodcrafters Vintage Utility3rd Bayside Woodcrafters Prime Mover

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Monday: Cabinet Making with Bob Chaplin 12noon to 4pm. You will need to contactBob 5476 2837 to book into this class as placesare restricted.

Tuesday: Carving informal group usually from9am to noon

Wednesday: Turning informal group but checkwith Dennis Donnelly for tuition classes

Saturday: Spindle Turning with Alan Warner1st, 3rd, & 5th Saturdays

The club has introduced a scheme of dailyworkshop duty officers (WDO) with the aim ofimproving safety and reducing damage tomachinery. No one should use the workshopunless a WDO is present. And there must alwaysbe two members present including the WDO.

Normal hours areTuesday ­ Saturday 9am to 12 noon(Monday morning has been reserved formaintenance and machine accreditation.Monday afternoon is reserved for the cabinetryschool run by Bob Chaplin)