Support for Youth Camp

[love...@bellsouth.net]

Guys,

Just in case anyone missed last week's email explaining what I'm
talking about, I've included it at the bottom of this one.

I have a design for the lighted sign for the Youth Camp, and have
coordinated that with Dave Snyder. We are planning an assembly/
painting session this Saturday, May 30th, in the back parking lot of
the church from 1-4 PM. I'll have the parts cut, drilled, and
otherwise ready to assemble and paint at that time. The tasks will be
screwing together the main framework (combination of pocket screws and
regular screws), nailing and glueing the legs of the sign, cutting out
the letters of the sign from a 4x8 sheet of 1/8" hardboard (the youth
are going to layout the lettering, I hope), and painting everything
black. There will be some additional work to do the following weekend
once the paint is dry, more on that later.

The plan is to have 6-8 of the youth available to do most of the
assembly work and painting. If any of you would be available for
adult supervision and assistance, please join us.

For any of you who wish to contribute, any help will be appreciated.
I already have a lot of the stuff needed. You can either purchase or
provide from your stash the following items.

Six 8-foot 2x4s
One sheet, 4' x 8', hardboard 1/8" thick
One sheet, 4' x 8', white tileboard 1/8" thick
One 1lb box, 10d cc-coated sinkers (nails)
3/4" plywood scraps, 2'x2' or larger
One gallon flat black latex paint (the $15 stuff, nothing fancy)
Set of disposable foam paint brushes
Small pack (8 or 10) pair disposable gloves for painting


If you are able to provide any of these materials, I will need to get
it from you by this Friday evening so I can have the parts prepared
for Saturday afternoon. If you don't have time to purchase anything,
but would like to contribute funding, that will also be greatly
appreciated and I'll get the materials myself.

If there are any questions, please call me at home 770-514-1717, or my
cell 770-853-0489. Leave a message if I don't answer (likely!) and
I'll call you back. You can respond to this email if you plan to
purchase something so the rest of the group will know who's buying
what.



Thanks,

Mark Hall


Note: The white tileboard is available at either Home Depot or Lowes.
It is 1/8 hardboard with a high-gloss white surface on one side. It
will be used as the back side of the lighted sign, behind the lights
to reflect light back to the front. (It also makes an excellent
backing for kitchen and utility cabinets, if you ever make any of
those)

PS. Dave has a contact at Sprint who might be able to provide him with
the kiosk setup, so we aren't doing anything for that, yet...

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[MSWWC] Support for Kid's CampTuesday, May 19, 2009 9:05 PM
From: "loves2ski" <love...@bellsouth.net>Add sender to ContactsTo:
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Guys,

For those of you who missed last Tuesday's meeting, we were asked by
Dave Snyder, Youth Minister at Summit, to help create a lighted sign
and possibly a kiosk for their youth camp this summer.

For the sign, Dave wanted to have some kind of lighted sign for the
message "Can You Hear Me Now?". In the meeting, we had discussed
building a large shadow-box type unit and making the letters by using
lite-brite pegs with some light fixtures behind them. Having kicked
that idea around with my extremely crafty wife, who then talked with
Dave this past Sunday morning at church, I don't think the lite-brite
idea is feasible for the size sign we are talking about (approx 4' x
8'). Instead, my wife suggested cutting out the letters from a sheet
of plywood and using colored cellophane (think heavy duty Saran Wrap
in color) in those cutouts. WIth a few flourescent fixtures behind
it, it should give a pretty good amount of light. And there are a lot
of very bright cellophane options out there.

Anyway, the camp is the week of June 14th, so there isn't much time.
I know this coming weekend is a holiday and a lot of folks will be out
of town. I'm asking if anyone would be available this weekend (Sunday
afternoon?? other times?) to meet at the church and work on the design
(no real work just yet) of the lighted sign box and a stand for it.
I'll put together an initial design so we have something to get
started throwing rocks at. It needs to break down into transportable
pieces that can be reassembled by non-woodworking folks.

If we can get a good design together this coming weekend, I'll suggest
the following weekend as a get-together time for some actual wood
cutting and assembly work. That will leave one more weekend before
camp for the youth to do the painting and possibly final assembly.

I'll also be asking for donations of materials. Mostly 2x4s, a few
sheets of plywood (one of which is 1/4 or 1/8 and light weight and
stiff for the front cut-out), nails, screws, etc. We'll also need a
couple (3 or 4) flourescent fixtures for the box, although we might
just go purchase those for consistency of light and ease of assembly.
After the design gets solidified, I'll put out a materials list for
folks to see what they have to donate or would be willing to purchase
for this project.

I'll talk with Dave Snyder later this week. He had also mentioned
wanting some type of kiosk, but was going to search some of the
cellular stores to see if an old promotional item would be available.
If not, he'll need our help for that one as well.

Feedback and ideas are welcomed!

Thanks,

Mark Hall

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