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Join us Thursday December 7 for our annual Holiday Party. Read more...
Monthly updates from the WWGGA President
This is my final President’s message and I want to take a moment to assess our progress. This has been a good year and we are very encouraged for the future. Financially strong Our financial strength and reporting are excellent, and we have made good investments to improve the experience for our members. Membership growth…
Thank you all for the excellent response to the survey regarding a potential future member shop. We had a lot of interest and support from 80 respondents for this idea. This will give us great input for our planning and future work. The Board will be discussing next steps further at our November Board meeting. …
Look for a new survey coming to your mailbox soon about a member shop! This is an important question for our members so please give us a response. Over the past year, our strategy team has been developing ideas for what the future might be. One idea that has been discussed often is whether our…
As you have heard by now, our September meeting will not be in person, but will be on Zoom again as we have done for the past 14 months. And that’s OK. After much discussion, we felt that was the wise course of action at this moment in time. But we are optimistic about that…
After 17 months of being apart, the Guild had it’s first in-person gathering with the Guild picnic in July. Over 50 people joined in the festivities which included hamburgers, hot dogs, Gary’s special baked beans, some casual tool selling, a small show and tell exhibit, and mostly a good time gathering with friends again. John…
Your Guild Board is looking at several initiatives for serving the needs of our members and communities. Doing so will require the support and volunteer efforts of our Guild membership. Can you help? When you joined the Guild, most of you indicated interest areas for volunteering. Since many of you joined a long time ago,…
Yes! We are talking about meeting in person again. Isn’t that a novel concept! After over a year of being apart, we can now see an end to this pandemic driven separation we have endured. And from the initial summary of data from our survey, most of you are eager to get back together sooner…
I have learned so much watching, talking with, and working with others since I joined the Guild several years ago. That is especially true when it comes to resolving the mistakes that are inevitably going to occur. I have come to accept and embrace the idea that mistakes will be made on every project I…
We have an outstanding spring symposium lined up for Saturday March 13 and you must register to participate. Tell your friends about it. Matt Kenney will be spending the full day with us on a Zoom connection to “show and tell” us how to make all kinds of boxes. For participants, this is a good…
We just completed another great community outreach project. Our members built over 100 wooden toys that were distributed January 28th to The United Way of Atlanta. Our project was making a toy race car coordinated by Gary Fader and Terry Kelly. We had an enthusiastic group of volunteers who worked together over two days to…
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