Text Box: Page # Text Box: OCCASIONAL CHIPS Text Box: Volume 8 Issue 2 Text Box: Some possible instructors for the future teaching sessions may be John Gorrell doing a hummingbird, Joe Rich , carving a head in foam and possibly Kelli Dague and Joan Nugent showing the basics of chip carving. We look forward to these sessions. Now that smoking is limited in Wheeling and soon to be outlawed in all of Ohio, Doctor German Ortiz is into the cigarette carving business. He has as his personal instructor Harry Sykes. Rumor has it that Harry like to take his lit cigarette into the hospitals and while a patient in bed he loves to startle the doctor in attendance by requesting an astray. Perhaps Doctor Ortiz now retired can do the same if ever he is a patient. Or is the placebo effect? Harry’s cigarettes are so realistic that a skin burning danger exists. Three members were able to visit the huge carving show in Dayton, November 11. Those who made the trek were Doctor Milt and wife Joan Nugent, and Harry Sykes. Dave Rinkes and his wife were one of the exhibitors. This is one of the large premier shows in Ohio and well worth the effort to visit. Remember the club stocks a large quantity of tools and supplies for sale to members at reasonable prices. See Dan Kerr before you order on your own and you will probably save on shipping and handling charges. Some items are Flexcut tools, glue, band-aids, plates and boxes for chip carving, sandpaper, gloves, finger guards, accelerator for instant glue, knives, carving pencils and much more. Ask Dan first, if he doesn't have it on hand he can order it. Burners and supplies of higher cost items can be special ordered. Bass and catalpa wood boards are available for sale in rough cut or planed surface in various widths and lengths. Also we have some smaller wood available for lathe work or carving in maple and cherry. Prices are $1.00 per BF for rough cut and $1.25 for planed. Ed Peyton handles the cutouts that are available for sale in the library room. Text Box: As a recap of the Oglebay Woodcarvers Guild sharing with the local communities here is a rundown of last December’s sharing. We supported 11 soup kitchens in 3 states with donations of $125.00 each. These were in communities where our members reside. We supported 12 libraries with ongoing subscriptions to CHIP CHATS in the same areas as listed above. We supported the Stifel Fine Arts Center with a Christmas tree loaded with 277 ornaments provided by 52 members for the raffle that yielded $1505.00. The total amount the guild helped the communities was $3048.00, not counting the labor to make the carvings. This proves that we as a carving group share our efforts with the public. You who helped; please pat yourselves on the back and those who didn't; make it a point to join in to attain your “atta boy” status. Member Roger Wade, Bellaire has been active in the Ohio Valley Support Group who were working with the Belmont Correctional Facility’s community service in constructing planters honoring Americas military families. It was nice to see Glenn Cashdollar and his wife attending the carving show. Glenn, a very talented carver has been absent for quite some time due to life's disruptions and is now living even farther from Wheeling. Perhaps we may again welcome him into the active group. Canada's asset to duck carving is our good friend and guild member Mike Nicholson who lives in Nova Scotia, sent a letter thanking us for our Ohio Valley hospitality while he spent last summer with us. Mike took to carving like a duck takes to water. From his letter his carving enthusiasm has not diminished and possibly keeps him in a state of less attention to his wife and the household duties. Mike, a teacher took some time off to visit his daughter here in Wheeling, then joined with us, and advanced his carving skills while just Text Box: Last April in the local newspapers an article reminiscing about radio station WWVA and its broadcasts of “Its Wheeling Steel” programs back in the 1938 to 1941 years the name of one of our carving members was listed. Harrison Frey, was a singer in the group called “Jean and her Boyfriends” which was on the air waves many years ago. The main gist of the article was about the discovery of some of the old tapes and how the present Wheeling Symphony Orchestra was going to honor some of these old broadcasts. So you see carving members come from all walks of life with varying degrees of accomplishments. This past July and August Harry Sykes and Joe Hodorowski displayed some of their wood carvings during the Stifel Fine Arts Center’s display called “Art of the Stifel”. Some of the other arts on display were paintings, pottery, photography, jewelry making, and illustrations all by some of the local talented people. Last July Linda Hull, a writer for the local Ohio side “The Times Leader” newspaper was reminiscing about her life surrounding the village of Bridgeport, OH, and her “territory”. Mention was made of the high school, football, graduates and finally to some of her relatives. She wrote about her oldest uncle on the maternal side of her family who graduated from Bridgeport High School and her youngest uncle Henry Peyton, who was a well known and talented individual who also was a graduate of the same school. She further named other members of her family which included Ed Peyton, a carver and the clubs Librarian All six of the named family members graduated from Bridgeport H.S. except Ed, the oldest member who graduated from Bellaire H. S. Since Ed didn’t go to school in Bridgeport his name cannot be included with the schools other famous graduates like Phil and Joe Niekro, John Havlicek, Bobby Douglas and . Sorry Ed that’s the way of life.