Compliments of Prairie Canada Carvers’ Association...

Instructors

Wildlife and Traditional Wood Carving Rick Brereton (Lac du bonnet) 345-6020 rebrereton@gmail.com Bark Carving-Wood Spirits Robert Leclair (Winnipeg) 254-3720 rleclair@atrium.ca Whimsical Houses (found wood) Shawn Nicol (Winnipeg) 282-8793

Waterfowl & Songbirds Bill Palmer (Winnipeg) 488-7619 wingbang@mts.net Tom Park (Winnipeg) 269-4290 tpark@mts.net Don Young (Winnipeg) 489-0149 bdyoung@escape.ca Waterfowl Decoys/Wildlife Ron Jackson (Beausejour) 268-2212 aspenacr@mts.net Carving Competitions Prairie Canada Carving Championship March 27-28, 2010 Canad Inn Polo Park Winnipeg. Workshops: Del Herbert airbrush paint a life-sized ruddy turnstone-March 24 to 26; Carole Peters wood burning workshops -March 29 to 31; Jean Minaudier brush painting a white– throated sparrow March 29 to 30. Ted Muir 237-1385 tedmuir@shaw.ca www.prairiecanadacarvers.com Wheat City Carvers Show and Competition April 10 & 11, 2010 Royal Oak Inn, Brandon Fred Warburton 204-727-8054 fhnotrubraw@westman.wave.ca Oak Hammock Marsh Waterfowl Decoy Carving Competition early June Cathy Wasserman 467-3300

Manitoba Carving

Competitions venues &

Clubs

Compliments of Prairie Canada

Carvers’ Association Inc

November 2009/10

2009 Dremel Tools Purchase Award Prairie Canada Carving Championship

Timber wolf family by Desiree Hajny of Blue Hill, Nebraska

Carving Course Venues Canadian Woodworker: year round classes 1054 Portage Avenue Winnipeg 786-3196 www.canadianwoodworker.com

Lee Valley Tools: year round classes 100-1395 Ellice Avenue Winnipeg www.leevalley.com Jill at 779-7467 Oak Hammock Marsh Interpretive Centre: Decoy carving workshops throughout winter months Cathy Wasserman 467-3300 c_wasserman@ducks.ca Winnipeg Woodcarvers Weekend; May 7-9, 2010 Rick/Cathie Brereton 345-6020 rebrereton@gmail.com Box 2153 Lac du Bonnet MB R0E 1A0 Many school divisions, community clubs and art associations offer evening or weekend carving classes. Check out the leisure guides in your local newspaper. Age and Opportunity offers classes for seniors at Windsor Com-munity Centre Monday afternoons (956-5734) and Glenlawn Collegiate Tuesday evenings (956-5734).

Clubs-Winnipeg Adanac Carvers Association: Tuesday evenings at St. James Collegiate Wednesday evenings at Acadia Junior High School Keith Gordon 256-5627 km_gordon@shaw.ca Assiniboia Wood Carvers Association: Friday after-noons Age & Opportunity Centre 185 Smith St. Jack Motyer 257-1274

East Kildonan Church Carvers: Saturday mornings Holy Redeemer Parish 669-0501 Bill Klassen 668-8559

Good Neighbours Senior Centre Carving Club: E. Kildonan Wednesday mornings Emil Mathae 339-3400 mathae@shaw.ca Les Gens De Bois Woodcarving Club: Tuesday eve-nings Bernie Wolfe School John Cruickshank 669-7717 john.cruickshank@shaw.ca Seven Oakes Wood Carvers: West Kildonan Collegiate Thursday evenings Ron Roccola 339-0514 ronglo@mts.net

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Woodturners Association of Manitoba: Nelson McIn-trye Collegiate Winnipeg Fourth Thursday evening of each month Herman DeVries 269-7541 herm@hdv.net

Clubs-Manitoba Cape Coppermine Carving Club: Lac du Bonnet area Rick Brereton 345-6020 rebrereton@gmail.com Clearwater Carvers: Val Pogson 873-2051 dvpogson@explornet.com Flin Flon Carvers: Ida Kozar 687-5442 ikozar@mts.ca

Killarney Woodcarvers Club: Monday evenings Killarney Community Centre Norm Lewis 523-4272 twlewis@mts.net La Broquerie Carvers: Wednesday evenings Bob Mireault 424-5378 bjmiro@mts.net

MacGregor Carvers: Thursday evenings Luc Gamache 685-2574, lucgam@mts.net Oak Bank Carvers: Monday evenings Oak Bank Middle School Ida Mackenzie 444-3903, clydo41@hotmail.com Oak Hammock Marsh Carving Guild: OHM Interpretive Centre Saturdays Cathy Wasserman 467-3300 c_wasserman@ducks.ca Seine River Carvers Association: Monday evenings Ste. Anne Collegiate Yvonne Boulianne 371-0424 Selkirk Catfish Carvers Club: Tuesday afternoons Gordon Howard Centre 785-2092 Steinbach Carvers: 55+ Centre Monday evenings Bill Bergen 326-9252 blber@mts,net Treherne Woodcarvers: Scott Smart 723-2163 ssmart@mts.net Wheat City Carvers– Brandon: Tuesday evenings Westridge Community Club Stan Farquhar, 727-6688