DECEMBER 2008

TOPCUTTER

ORGANIZED IN 1962

IFoLG MEMBER GUILD SINCE 1966

President Allan Scheiderer 937-644-9434
Vice President William (Bill) Brown 614-268-7043
Secretary Geraldene Pittenger 614-866-7857
Treasurer David Scheiderer 937-644-4460
2008 Show Chairman Mark Strain 614-582-0106
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December 6 - The BLCO Christmas Party Meeting will be at 5:00 PM at the Prairie Township Senior Citizen’s Center, 4616 West Broad Street in Lincoln Village
Plaza. It is near Harbor Freight.
The meal will be catered this year, as a “thank you” to all BLCO members and their families, friends and relatives who helped to make the recent IFoLG Show a success. You do not need to bring food. Several of our members have teen age children who helped with the Show. Please make sure they are invited. All BLCO members, and all wives and husbands of members are automatically invited. Please remember to also invite any of your friends or relatives who helped in any way to make the Show a success.
There will be a Christmas ornament contest again this year. Make whatever ornament you choose. Guests are also invited to make and bring an ornament. We hope most members and many guests will participate in this contest. The more the merrier. The only rule is that ornaments be predominately made of leather.
Remember to also bring a “white elephant.” for the “white elephant” exchange game. Look around your house and find something that is either pretty or useful, which you no longer need. It could even be a book which you have read and enjoyed, but know you would not get around to reading again. Wrap it up pretty, and bring it. If you have questions about this, please call or E-mail me or someone else who has been to the Christmas Party in recent years.
Bill Brown will play his guitar and Jeremy Medina will play the cello
 

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The BLCO Guild meeting on November 9, 2008, began with Bill Brown’s demonstration of various methods of edging leather items. He asked other members to relate some of their techniques for edging leather items..
The demonstration was followed by a session of Show and Tell. Tom Putinsky had a few bottles of extra Fiebing’s dye, which he offered to members who could use them.
Allan showed a stamped and a carved billfold. Allan says he thinks it is better to seal and slick the edges of billfolds and other items before lacing them, because it makes the lacing easier. He said he learned that from Bill Brown.
 

MINUTES OF BUSINESS MEETING HELD ON NOVEMBER 9, 2008

Tom Putinsky moved that we dispense with reading of minutes of the October meeting.. Motion carried. The Treasurer made his report, which was approved. The seed money from the IFoLG has been paid back.
OLD BUSINESS:
At the October meeting, we agreed to vote on the offices of President and Treasurer at the November meeting. George moved and Tom Putinsky seconded the motion to retain Allan Scheiderer as President and David Scheiderer as Treasurer for another two year term. Motion carried.
CHRISTMAS PARTY
Carol Martin has contacted several places to obtain prices on catered, delivered meals. It was decided to go with City Barbeque. The meal will include choice of three meats, three sides, two desserts, and a mixture of beverages. The party will be from five to 9 PM on Saturday, December 6 at the Prairie Township Senior Center at 4616 West Broad Street.
It is hoped that all members and their wives and husbands will attend. Also all others who helped either ahead of time or at the Show. I do not have names and addresses of everyone who should be invited. I am asking all members to invite their friends and family members who helped. I hesitate to start naming people for fear of leaving some- one out, but here goes: Vicki and Rod Williams, Russell Brown, John and Gloria Weese, Tom Putinsky’s granddaughter, Sandy’s three friends who helped with the hospitality room, Sandy and Vickie’s sister Cindy and Cindy’s husband and children, young people who helped distribute the door prizes, Mark’s niece, and Bobbie Medina’s children Jessica and Jeremy. Please help with inviting these people and others I failed to include.
A motion was made and seconded to invite Fred Kilburn and Dee McKean. Motion carried unanimously. They both contributed greatly to the success of the show.
 

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There will be a white elephant exchange. Remember to wrap your white elephant so it looks pretty and bring it along. Of course this is not mandatory, but it does make a cute game which is more fun to participate in than to just watch. Also make and bring a Christmas ornament if you can.
Bill will play his guitar and Jeremy will play his Cello.
Mark moved that we use money from the Show Treasury to donate $200.00 to the Church, We had a lot of extra Show meetings here.
NEW BUSINESS:
We voted to have a website again this year. Allan will talk to Johanna about it.
Since we have not heard from the Simon Kenton University of Scouting, Robin will get in touch with them to see about the Guild doing classes there on January 31. Mark said we have enough material on hand to make 14 pencil cases. We need volunteers.
We discussed whether we should rent a table there this year. It was decided not to rent a table this year, but have a place inside the classroom to display our literature with a sign outside the door inviting people to come in for literature.
Mark and Allan have each received an E-mail from Delilah Hetterscheidt who is the Assistant Director of the Family Arts & Crafts portion of the Ohio State Fair. She wants to know what our Guild is willing to do for the Ohio State Fair in 2009.. Robin moved that we make this decision after the first of the year. Motion carried.
George moved that we postpone the Treasurer’s Audit until after we close the Show account after the first of the year. David seconded the motion, which passed.
The dates for the BLCO monthly meetings for 2009 were set as follows:
January meeting January 4
February meeting February 1
March meeting March 1
April meeting April 5
May meeting May 3
June meeting June 7
July meeting July 12
 

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The Ohiio State Fair will be from July 29 through August 9.
August - September meeting August 30
October meeting October 4
November meeting November 1
December meeting December 5
Different ideas for projects for the new year were discussed. Some ideas are:
Leather Classes for kids.
Guild work projects
More demonstrations
Have a committee review the constitution
Participate in the “brown bag” lunch project
Host a “flea market” to exchange items, such as tools, kits, unfinished items, etc.
Contact the Santa Maria Project and offer to make and donate items they need.
The meeting was adjourned for a short recess, followed by a short Show meeting.
 

SHOW MEETING

Mark moved that we prepare two books regarding the Show - one for our Guild and one for the Federation. Motion carried. $50.00 has been set aside for this.
Mark will get the CDs ready soon.
We are short one Best of Category ribbon. Will see if Don Berglund can get one
We are short one certificate which we hope Ed Lucas will supply for us.
We will have one more short Show meeting after our January meeting.
The meeting was adjourned at 3:55 PM
 

Respectfully Submitted, Geraldene Pittenger

UPDATE ON SIMON KENTON UNIVERSITY OF SCOUTING

Robin was able to contact the Simon Kenton University of Scouting and I also contacted them again. We found they had lost our contact numbers and made other arrangements for the leather classes in 2009. They promised to keep our numbers for next year. They requested that we buy a table space.
 

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