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  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Calgary Area Meetup is set for Saturday July 12th at 10am. The signup thread is here! Arbutus has also explored interest in a Fraser Valley meetup but it seems members either missed his thread or had other plans. Let him know if you are interested in a meetup later in the year by posting here! Slowpoke is trying to pull together an Ottawa area meetup later this summer. No date has been selected yet, so let him know if you are interested here! We are not aware of any other meetups being planned this year. If you are interested in doing something in your area, let everyone know and make it happen! Meetups are a great way to make new machining friends and get hands on help in your area. Don’t be shy, sign up and come, or plan your own meetup!

Giant metal boulder sculpture (art casting with sand molds)

The annual sculpture garden celebration was a nice day. Hot and sunny and not a lot of shade but it was cool to see the sculpture in place.

Sculptor and foundry guy for scale.
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I also got to meet Roch Smith, who does lost wax casting and runs the foundry at York U. Autocorrect REALLY wants to make him Rich Smith. Deep down though, don't we all want to be Rich?

I can't imagine I'll have much more to add about this project now that it's done and out in the wild. What a blast to work on something so bizarre!

Jeff
 
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