August 8, 2012 Membership Meeting

August Guild ‘corn feed’ meeting again to be staged at Pate’s near Stanton

This will be the fourth time Dan and LuAnn have hosted the August meeting. This makes them some sort of hero team.
Starting time: Potluck dinner at 6:30.  Set up starting before noon. The Program Committee will set up a couple of forges with the goal to have question and demo availability at the meeting to encourage new members to bring projects, questions, and needs.
Features:  Dan Pate does auto development and restoration. Dan has a unique collection of ways to form metal sheets into almost anything you desire. He can demonstrate all of these and offers to take requests.

Dan’s equipment mix has changed again, so do not think that you have already seen it all.  He can demonstrate shrinking and stretching of anything through 10-gage steel. Perhaps Gene Olson will demonstrate on the PullMax. Dan often allows members to experiment with a machine. (Your liability, you learn to handle a machine that shrinks 10-gage into a bowl very carefully.)

This meeting features a corn feed. Dick Carlson has put his heart into this for years. Some of us have humbly joined in the effort to make it some sort of feast.

Cliff Larson will do something magic. Herb will roast a hog. He promises to cut back a little on the garlic this year. A few chickens will be prepared for those who avoid pork. Recognize chickens will be prepared by smoking and secondary roasting in the cavity of the hog.

When planning your contribution to the potluck, please know that we will be a bit long on sweet corn and meat, so think salads and desserts and or whatever you think is special. Myron likes oatmeal cookies with raisins.

This will be a very family-friendly and social meeting.