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If you have been in the shop much this year, you have probably seen the toy people hard at work. Richard Mackintosh and Tom Vandiver, under the tutelage of Al Masson, have done a fantastic job of heading up and organizing the toy program. The list of names below are the people that have helped throughout the year. If I have left anyone out, please accept my apology and let me know so we can add you to the list. Some girls from the Girl Scout troop of St. Anthony’s of Padua elementary school helped by painting several of the toys. The toy group has met every Tuesday at the shop since February, and for the last month or so has met an extra day or two a week. This is a large part of what the Guild is all about, making new friends, learning woodworking techniques, and teaching others. There are several worthy organizations that are receiving the hundreds of toys that this group has put out. I want to thank everyone that has helped out with the toys. Richard plans to get started in February on next year's toys. If you have an interest in joining the group, please let Richard, Tom, Al, or myself know. Rusty Hill - Charitable Projects List of toy Workers: Feb - Dec 2011
Recipients of Christmas Toys 2010
Country Santa (Pickens County) Project Host Soup Kitchen Shriners Children's Hospital Rauschenbusch Metro Ministries Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club Greer Police Dept - Cops for Tots as well as Sylvia Holtzclaw toy drive Pendleton Place American Legion Post 3 - downtown Greenville Frazee Dream Center Children's Hospital Hands on Greenville Center for Developmental Services Ronald McDonald House
Miracle Hills Ministries
Nigerian children enjoying Guild toys The following pictures show
some of our toys being enjoyed by kids in Nigeria. My friend, Steve Rutledge,
who has a ministry that sends Bible material to Nigeria, was given the toys by A
Childs Haven. Steve works from a building owned by Childs Haven. Our members who
made toys might be surprised that their work has spread joy all the way to
Nigeria. Steve said some of these kids had never seen a wooden toy.
Toy Build We need your help to make 2500 toys for distribution to the less fortunate children in the Greenville area this coming Christmas season. We need to start now, so starting at the July monthly meeting we will provide patterns and wood for you to make five (5) toys each month for the following five months. So if 100 guild members agree to build five toys a month for five months, we will make the 2500 toys goal. Please sign-up today and be ready to start building toys next month. Sign up by clicking here. Signed up so far (click)
September 2009
August 2009
July 2009 Since early this year, Al Masson and James Childress and their helpers, Tom Vandiver, Gary Groff, Chuck Graham, and others, have been busy crafting planes, cars, trucks, and other toys, towards their goal of making 1,000 toys by Christmas.
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