President’s Message

I just returned from the Wood Fire Conference in Flagstaff, Arizona—
Iam so inspired! We were immersed 1n every aspect of wood firing from
8 a.m. to 9 p.m. for three days. Well, maybe three days was a bit long to
be sitting inside when it was sunny outside—but there was so much to
learn from the presentations, the slides, the discussion panels, and just
the chatting with other people! As Mark Lancet, author of the recently
published Wood Fire Book said: “We are all searching for an external
expression of an inner vision, and endeavouring to make creations that
will endure the passage of time.” There was a great feeling of shared
friendships and experiences as we journeyed down the same path.

I highly recommend attending a conference or symposium to get your
creative juices running and inspire you to incorporate some new element in
your work. And you don’t have to go too far afield or wait too long, as we
have the next Clay Symposium in March, 2007, at the Shadbolt Centre in
Burnaby. I hope to see lots of you there!

Jinny Whitehead

Techno Tip:

PDFs and Your PGBC Newsletter

As we get closer to December, we’re getting nearer to having the
newsletter sent only via email. If for any reason you’re not able to
recetve the email copy or you’re simply not at home, you can view
a downloadable copy from the website from any Internet connected
PC. Just go to www.bcpotters.com and navigate to the members only
page or click on this link www.bcpotters.com/membersonly/Guild_
Membersonly.htm. The User ID and Password is member and pottery.
It'll be updated next year to be more user specific.

For those of you that have not been receiving the guild newsletter
by email in the last few months, please let us know as soon as possible
and we'll see if we need to make some adjustments to ensure that you
do recetve the emailed versions.

The emailed newsletter is sent as a PDF attachment. PDF stands
for portable document format and is a standard for exchanging and
viewing documents over the internet. These PDF documents can be
viewed with a program called Adobe Acrobat Reader. This is freely
available on the Internet. If you don’t have it, please download and
install it from www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. It’s
actual quite a bloated program at 20MB but it’s worth downloading the
latest version. You don’t need the toolbar or photo album so uncheck
those items unless you want them. The PDF reader will help display
the newsletter articles and images as intended on practically any PC.
It also assures a level of security for both the author and for those

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important Notice:

Only One More

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in 2007, the paper version will be phased out.

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y

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Jay MacLennan

Jay MacLennan