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The KC Wood Working Show will be the weekend of February 19-21, 2010 at the Overland Park International Trade Center,
6800 W. 115th Street
Overland Park, KS 66211

Should be some interesting deals for model ship builders.

If anyone is interested in going as a group – contact me.

It is with heavy heart that I relate the passing of Jerry Connell on October 19, 2008.  Jerry had recently moved after his wife’s death in June and was backing off from ship modeling, but despite this he still made time to come to the last meeting and even offered many of his tools to club members.  I sat next to him at that meeting and am glad that I had the chance to talk to him.  He used to send my son and I Air Force and Navy related emails.  We’ll miss that.  A fair wind and full sails to you Jerry.

Jerry’s Obituary

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Received the following from Don Bjuland today:

There is a new hardwood store in Independence and they have quite a selection of woods but do not know if it is any that you are interested in.

It is called Metro Hardwoods, Inc. and is located at 4452 South Noland in Independence. It is directly south of Harbor Freight across the parking lot. Their telephone number is 816-373-1710. They had 5 aisle ways with shelves on each side to walk up and down in. some of the wood I had not hear of before. By the way did see ebony and Ivory woods along with a lot of others including bass wood. Others are can’t even spell out for you.

He had finishes and filler supplies as well as some wood working equipment in the store also. Quite a supply of pen turning blanks which Paul was going to tell his brother about as he does a lot of that type of wood working. Told the people is was with a model ship club so the gave me a bunch of business cards to hand out.

Told Paul about it and he thought I said across the street so he spend some time looking for it on the east side of Noland. So again that is south of Harbor Freight across the parking lot.

At the January meeting Dan Rogers presented the book:

Rounding The Horn: Being the Story of Williwaws and Windjammers, Drake, Darwin, Murdered Missionaries and Naked Natives – A Deck’s Eye View of Cape Horn by Dallas Murphy

• ISBN-10: 0465047602
• ISBN-13: 978-0465047604

You can pick it up at Amazon.com but you might be able to find it cheaper if you look around at campusi.com

If there is anything else that you would like mentioned from the January meeting, please let me know as I couldn’t attend.

Here’s the latest:

Hello square Rigger’s Club members, On Nov. 3rd the Bank of Prairie Village, 3515 W.75TH ST. will be open at 9:00 A.M. for us to deliver our ship models for display. Dan Bolen, the bank president will be there to show us areas of the bank available to place the models. Dan will also send out an invitation to club members for the opening of the display the evening of Nov. 14th starting at 5:30 P.M. All wives and friends are welcome as well. Please come to the opening even though you do not have a model on display. If you have questions please e-mail me. John F.Zaiger

Setup date is Nov 3 at 9:00 AM.

Address is:

Bank of Prairie Village

3515 West 75th St.

Prairie Villiage, KS 66208

I received the following from Ted Wiedeman today:

Dan Bolen just called and he said that he will be out of town on November 3 and that he would prefer to be here to make sure everything went well. He said that either the Saturday before or after would be OK. I suggested the 10th which he put down.

We are now scheduled to set up on Nov 10th after 9:00 AM and the open house will be the evening of Nov 14.

An updated (as of today) membership roster can be downloaded from the Membership page.

At the last meeting Jerry Connell gave me a few disks with some logos for the KC Square Riggers that had been developed a few years ago, other members expressed some interest in having copies of these also. Unfortunately one of disks was/is corrupt and I have been unable to retrieve anything from it. The logo I did find is below:

To save a copy of this to your computer, just right click the image and choose “save image as…”

A larger version of the logo is available here, but a little bit of the left side of the image is cut off.

I also have a number of MS Publisher and Avery format files that were on the disks, let me know privately if you would like copies of those too.

Jeff Wall

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