The Fall 2021 Basic Woodworking Techniques workshop is scheduled for 2:00 p.m., Thursday, October 7.

The workshop is designed to give both new members and more experienced members an opportunity to present their ideas, prospective plans, or desired project to the club  for mentors to help them accomplish the project. This way they can learn and practice new skills, learn new techniques, and enhance existing skills and knowledge. Members, both new and tenured, are encouraged to attend. Members may bring their project wish list to the workshop or choose from one or more basic training projects. This is only a meeting - no woodworking will be done at this time.

Instructor/Coordinator Rich Einsiedel will review project plans/ideas with each attendee and will pair each attendee with an experienced Woodchips Mentor. Please join Rich in the shop on Thursday, October 7, at 2:00 p.m.

Preregister online on the Woodchips calendar or arrive early and enroll prior to the workshop. Walk-ins are also welcome.

Questions? Please contact Rich Einsiedel HERE, and include "Woodchips" in the subject line of your e-mail. 

All Members--

This year’s Fall Potluck is scheduled for Friday October 15 at 5:00p in the Morris-Nelson-Penn Rooms in Independence Center. This event is open to ALL MEMBERS and one guest.

Unlike our past potluck events, this year’s event will be a "hybrid potluck." The Board has arranged for barbecue entrees from Big B’s Texas BBQ. In traditional potluck fashion, every attending member should bring a dish to share with other members-- an entree (not everyone will want to be restricted to a BBQ entree), a salad/side dish, or a desert (your Board members are partial to brownies!). As with previous potlucks, Woodchips will provide beer, wine, soda, and water, and of course, plates and utensils.

PLEASE NOTE: If the ingredients in the dish you bring are not obvious, please prepare a note to accompany your dish describing the ingredients. Some members are allergic to certain foods (e.g. peanuts, dairy, gluten and such). We don’t want anyone getting sick at this event!

So that we have an approximate attendee count, members should register on the Woodchips website. Shortcut link to registration HERE. Registration is open now.

So that we may manage food/dishes, please send an e-mail to me [ president@scawoodchips.org ] with Member name, guest name, the dish you will bring to share (entrée, salad/side dish, or desert). Alternatively, you may put a legible note with the information in the Woodchips mailbox at our Shop Monitor’s desk.

All SCA-directed COVID procedures regarding face masks must be followed. If further restrictive mandates or directives are issued, this event may be cancelled.

Questions? Please contact me . . .

Ned Fouste
2021 Woodchips President
president@scawoodchips.org 

All Members--

Excerpt from SCA eBlast, Thursday, 9/2/2021 . . . 

"SCA management continues to receive reports that clubs are not following the indoor mask mandate. If this continues, we will be left with no other choice but to cancel large group activities or shut buildings down. Additionally, the City of Henderson inspectors periodically perform surprise inspections, and if they witness our failure to follow COVID prevention protocols, they will not only shut down the offending club, but they could also shut down all the centers for non-compliance." 

I am pleased to report that most Woodchips members are being diligent and complying with current mandates; however, there are occasional slip-ups. If you see anyone in the shop not wearing a mask that covers both their mouth and their nose, please simply remind them to cover up. SCA will close our shop to everyone if we do not all comply at all times with the mask mandate. And, if you have any suspect symptoms or feel unwell for any reason, please do not come to the shop until you know you are COVID-free.

Thanks everyone for staying safe and for doing your part to keep the shop open!

Ned Fouste
2021 Woodchips President

Until further notice, consistent with the State and SCA mandates issued Tuesday, 7/27/2021, face masks covering the nose and mouth shall again be required for all persons while in the Woodchips shop. 

Ned Fouste
2021 Woodchips President