Update

 Stones RiveStones River Woodworkers Club Members,

2024 was a very active year for our Club. President Sam Clark led us in a very productive year. VP Gregg Peay found great presenters to share their expertise with us. Many Club members graciously opened their shops for the tour of shops. We had several varied classes organized by our members for us to sign up for and learn more woodworking skills.

Our Executive team provided the communication needed to keep us informed and spread the word about our Club. Our Club has gained 30 members in a short period of time. A big thanks goes to the efforts of Mary Nichols and Robert Woolfolk who manage the Club’s Face book and Website. Our members who invite other woodworkers to join our ranks are recognized as well.

Dave Roesler provided Club minutes and Sheryl Meier kept us financially solid. A big thanks go to the Executive Committee and advisors, including Larry Counts and Glen Emery, who worked the extra hours to make this year successful.

We had a great Christmas Party for our Club on 14 December 2024. Everyone brought in their favorite dishes to share. All the dishes were very tasty. The Club provided the Ham, drinks, plates and utensils along with table decorations.

Several members asked for the Cabbage Casserole recipe.

The recipe comes from Pam Tyring, wife of our member Larry Tyring.

Cabbage Casserole – from the Brenda Gantt Cookbook

Main Ingredients:

1 small or ½ large cabbage

1 medium Vidalia onion

1/2 stick butter melted

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp pepper

1 10 ounce can - cream of chicken soup

1/2 cup mayonnaise

Topping Ingredients:

1 sleeve Ritz crackers crushed

1 stick butter. Melted

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

Directions:

Chop cabbage and place in casserole dish

Add chopped onion

Pour melted butter over top

Add salt and pepper

Next, mix soup and mayonnaise and spread on top of cabbage

For topping, mix melted butter and crushed crackers and cheese. Spread on top

Place in oven at 350 degrees and bake 45 minutes or until the top is browned and inside is bubbly.

Attached below are pictures from our Christmas Party (one attachment is a Word Doc. and the other is a PDF). There are pictures of the Good Shepard Home gifts made by our SRWC Members for the children residing there, a look at some of the food tables, and our Club members in attendance.

Have a Merry Christmas.

Lou Ferraro, Newsletter Editor

Woodworking and Cooking are both art forms to be appreciated. – Lou Ferraro

r Woodworkers Club Members,

The annual Stones River Woodworkers Club Christmas party will be Saturday December Stones River Woodworkers Club Members,

The annual Stones River Woodworkers Club Christmas party will be Saturday December 14^th at 5 PM at St. Mark’s Church in our regular meeting room. The Club will provide the meat and drinks, please bring a dessert or food to share. Set up will begin at 4 PM if you want to help. This is always a fun event with good food and fellowship. 

If you did not get a chance to sign the Christmas Party attendance sheet at the last meeting, please send me a quick email reply if you will attend and if you will have a family member with you. We don’t want to run out of food or drinks. Thanks.

A update note to Stones River Woodworkers Club Members. 

Each month I send out Newsletters by email to all the SRWC Members listed on our Treasurer’s membership list. To date, the Treasurer’s list has a total of 89 members listed and only 86 with email addresses. This occurs because we have several ways to become a member.  If a member signs up with a $25 Annual Fee using PayPal, there is no way to obtain a member’s email address. 

One of the benefits of our Club is to get potential discounts at local woodworking stores. This is done by sharing our member’s information with participating woodworking stores. If members do not want this benefit, they can opt out by letting me or any Club Officer know.

To make sure we have everyone’s email address and name on our official Treasurer’s roster, I would like to ask any member who does not receive the email Newsletter from me, but sees it either on the Club web site or Face Book locations, please send me an email at ferrarojr@aol.com to let me know your email address and name. Also, let me know if you want to be included on the discount list that goes to local woodworking stores.  Thank you for your help.

Lou Ferraro, SRWC Editor

“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffet 14^th at 5 PM at St. Mark’s Church in our regular meeting room. The Club will provide the meat and drinks, please bring a dessert or food to share. Set up will begin at 4 PM if you want to help. This is always a fun event with good food and fellowship. 

If you did not get a chance to sign the Christmas Party attendance sheet at the last meeting, please send me a quick email reply if you will attend and if you will have a family member with you. We don’t want to run out of food or drinks. Thanks.

A update note to Stones River Woodworkers Club Members. 

Each month I send out Newsletters by email to all the SRWC Members listed on our Treasurer’s membership list. To date, the Treasurer’s list has a total of 89 members listed and only 86 with email addresses. This occurs because we have several ways to become a member.  If a member signs up with a $25 Annual Fee using PayPal, there is no way to obtain a member’s email address. 

One of the benefits of our Club is to get potential discounts at local woodworking stores. This is done by sharing our member’s information with participating woodworking stores. If members do not want this benefit, they can opt out by letting me or any Club Officer know.

To make sure we have everyone’s email address and name on our official Treasurer’s roster, I would like to ask any member who does not receive the email Newsletter from me, but sees it either on the Club web site or Face Book locations, please send me an email at ferrarojr@aol.com to let me know your email address and name. Also, let me know if you want to be included on the discount list that goes to local woodworking stores.  Thank you for your help.

Lou Ferraro, SRWC Editor

“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffet River Woodworkers Club Members,

The annual Stones River Woodworkers Club Christmas party will be Saturday December 14^th at 5 PM at St. Mark’s Church in our regular meeting room. The Club will provide the meat and drinks, please bring a dessert or food to share. Set up will begin at 4 PM if you want to help. This is always a fun event with good food and fellowship. 

If you did not get a chance to sign the Christmas Party attendance sheet at the last meeting, please send me a quick email reply if you will attend and if you will have a family member with you. We don’t want to run out of food or drinks. Thanks.

A update note to Stones River Woodworkers Club Members. 

Each month I send out Newsletters by email to all the SRWC Members listed on our Treasurer’s membership list. To date, the Treasurer’s list has a total of 89 members listed and only 86 with email addresses. This occurs because we have several ways to become a member.  If a member signs up with a $25 Annual Fee using PayPal, there is no way to obtain a member’s email address. 

One of the benefits of our Club is to get potential discounts at local woodworking stores. This is done by sharing our member’s information with participating woodworking stores. If members do not want this benefit, they can opt out by letting me or any Club Officer know.

To make sure we have everyone’s email address and name on our official Treasurer’s roster, I would like to ask any member who does not receive the email Newsletter from me, but sees it either on the Club web site or Face Book locations, please send me an email at ferrarojr@aol.com to let me know your email address and name. Also, let me know if you want to be included on the discount list that goes to local woodworking stores.  Thank you for your help.

Lou Ferraro, SRWC Editor

“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – War

Shop tour Nov 16

This is an update on the Shop tours this Saturday, 16 Nov.

For those going on the shop tour, Jeff Harvey wanted Sam to mention that since his shop tour starts around 11am, Jeff has prepared some chili for lunch.  Um, good!

Jeff’s address is: 2910 Poplar Hill Road, Watertown, TN.

See the original message for the complete Shop tour details. Have a great tour.

Cheers,

Lou Ferraro, Editor 

October 2024 Meeting

 Stones River Woodworkers Club Members,

This is a note to remind you that our meeting is scheduled for next Tuesday, 22 October 2024. We will meet at St. Marks United Methodist Church in our usual room; 1267 N. Rutherford Blvd. Murfreesboro, TN.  The doors open at 6 PM. From 6 to 6:30 is set aside for checking out the Show & Tell projects and asking questions from our Show & Tell members on how they do some of their woodworking. The meeting’s briefing will start at 6:30 PM.

Message from President Sam Clark

Good day fellow Woodies,

We have finished our 1st three Saturdays of Shop Tours, and we were treated to shops of all types.   Large shops, small shops and various arrangements with a variety of configurations.  I would like to thank all those who volunteered their shops for the membership. 

The club has an event scheduled for every week from now until Thanksgiving.  There is a lot of activity in the club, so be sure and bring your calendar to the meeting this Tuesday night.

See you at the meeting,

Sam Clark, President

Vice President Gregg Peay:

John Bell, a member of our Stones River Woodworkers Club, will be our speaker this month. 

He is planning to talk about carving spoons.

Meeting Minutes from David Roesler,

Stones River Woodworkers Club Secretary

Stones River Woodworkers Meeting 9-24-24

President Sam Clark: Opened with Pledge of Allegiance, welcomed everyone, and made the following comments:

·        Sam announced upcoming shop tours of eight shops beginning on September 28, with following dates of October 5, October 12, and October 19. Reminders will be sent by Lou Ferraro!

·        Harvest days at Canonsburg is October 26, 8 AM set up and we will have a tent, bring your items you wish to sell. The club is asking a five-dollar donation if a member wants to sell their projects.

·        Upcoming classes for snow buddies and gnomes will start on October 31, November 1, November 2, November 7, eighth, and ninth. They were before slots for each day and a fee of $25 which covers lunch and product.

·        Facebook: we have 300 members!

·        Good Shepherd’s children home Glenn Emery is managing this and requests that your project be no more than $30, and your finished project is requested by the November meeting. Glenn will have your project engraved and then display the projects at our next Christmas party.

·        Christmas party: we need someone to be responsible to head this up and it will be on Friday, 13 December. The club will provide the meat and drinks, and it will be at St. Mark’s here where we have our meetings. Alex Marshall said he would organize the party!

·        Annual dues: reminder $25 covers your family for the year!

·        New officers for 2025-please step up and volunteer for the positions of Sec., vice president, president, treasurer, and newsletter editor. Those of you who volunteer for any of these positions can find position descriptions in our club bylaws plus the incumbents will mentor you and show you how to do the work of these positions so that you can be off to a good solid start.

·        Fellowship meeting at Hardee’s is the first Tuesday of every month, 9 AM

Announcements/comments: (1) Steve announced that he has wrenches that were made on a 3-D printer that are excellent for tightening the nut on a belt sander that he described and passed around a number of wrenches for free. He also said he will make more for the next meeting since it was such a hit. (2) Robert Wolf said he has access to fresh cut lumber and is free; let him know. (3) Jeanne has some green Hackberry pieces and coping saw for anyone who would like them free.

Visitors: We had four visitors tonight

Show and Tell: Photos of presenters and their projects have been photographed and will appeared in a separate email by newsletter editor Lou Ferraro.

Guest Speaker: Ken Hodges presented a very interesting life story about his woodworking endeavors and long history of creating guitars.

Respectfully Submitted by

David Roesler,

Stones River Woodworkers Club Secretary

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See you at the meeting.

Lou Ferraro, Newsletter Editor