I'm usually lurking in the Turners' forum, but I thought I'd post this link for you carvers to an article that came out this past Sunday in the Houston Chronicle, highlighting something quite positive that has come out of the devastation that resulted from Hurricane Ike. The loss of ~ 40,000 trees is horrible. Some of us turners have gotten wood from Galveston -- the GCWA club has been making regular runs down there to pick up wood by the pickup truck load. This, however, is a different twist on what can happen when governments exercise a little common sense!

Any carvers out there want to volunteer their services for this effort????

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...s/6912212.html