President’s Message

Iam thrilled to welcome two new members to the Board of
Directors. Janet Smith is an avid collector of ceramics and
has taken on the role of Treasurer. Our second new member
is Pat Preston, a supporter of the arts and a communications
specialist. Both Pat and Janet bring a wealth of experience and
fresh new ideas to the board table. Thanks for volunteering
your time and energy.

Another Board change is that Amber Kennedy has
switched gears and 1s now our newsletter editor. A loss for
the Board, but a good move from every other
aspect. You can read about that and other
changes elsewhere in the newsletter.

Thank you Markian Kyba and your
group of volunteers for again running a
successful Raku-U demonstration on July
1* on Granville Island. It was so successful
that we are now down to just two boxes of
bisqueware for our next event, which will be
held at the Pottery Market at the Lougheed
Mall tin October! So I am asking everyone out
there, as you settle down to build up your stock for Christmas
sales, please set aside a few pieces for this community
outreach and guild fundraiser. Bring or send them to the
gallery—we can take lots. Contact me or Donna Partridge if

you would like to help out at this event. a
Jinny Whitehead

10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 LAUNCH...

The new website redesign is complete and we have a successful
liftoff. Go have a peek, and click around on our new website.
The address is still the same: www..bcpotters.com.

Thanks to Jasna and Mireille of Sideworks for their efforts.
It’s not easy dealing with a committee and part-time folks to
make them all happy.

We were looking for a fresher and cleaner site that will give
it alift and help keep things organized. The new website does
that very well as tt extrudes (pun intended) a look and feel
that’s inviting. We’re still updating the content and that will
continue as new things keep happening. The old discussion
board and events calendar were of some interest, but too
complicated and lacked active participation. For our needs,
we'll do well to keep things simpler and focus on what
provides the most value.

We'd love to hear from you... about what you think. Send
your thoughts to webmaster@bcpotters.com. If you'd like
to assist in any way, like updating content, events, images or
ideas, just click the webmaster@bcpotters.com link, type your

thoughts and hit send. lie Don Jung

The Only
Constant is
Change

PGBC Newsletter

Goes Fully Electronic

The newsletter 1s going to an all electronic
format im 2007!No more mailed paper
newsletters. No more paper cuts stuffing
envelopes. No more stamps and addresses.
Starting in February 2007, we will phase out
the paper and the newsletter will be available
via email or as a download from the website.

This will give folks some time
to get used to an emailed
version of the newsletter.
Itll be tm full color, and
if needed, have more or
bigger pictures, articles and
a closer tie in with content
on the website. For those
of you without a computer
and internet access, this 1s
a gentle push and excuse
for you to join us in the
information age. The cost of computers has
really come down and the programs are very
intuitive and easy to learn. If you don’t have
or don’t like your email address, we can even
give you one through the guild domain so
you'd get yourname@bcpotters.com as your
email address. Pretty cool, eh!

Some of you will take this easily and
wonder why we haven't done this sooner.
And then there’s some of you who are cursing
technology (hopefully, not us) and lamenting
the loss of the age-old paper and ink. Jinny
has a soft spot for these members and folks
that truly have difficulty with email, you can
call Jinny Whitehead, our guild president, to
plead your case. (Note that I didn’t tell you
to email her!)

All others, please send = your
questions, requests and concerns to
webmaster@bcpotters.com. I'll share them
with the Communications Committee and

Jinny Whitehead (PGBC President) so we

can address everyone’s response.

Don Jung,
for the Communications Committee

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