Seattle-North Clinic – Next Meeting is 3/2/17

By Jeff Moorman

Important note regarding meeting arrangements. For the months of February, March, and April we will be meeting downstairs in the church Fellowship Hall, not upstairs where we have been. That space is being used to temporarily house a tax service. However, the church hosts community dinners in the Fellowship HalI on the evenings we meet. Those dinners end at 7:00, so their clean-up will overlap our set-up. Therefore, we may encounter some situations where we need to be flexible.

Next Clinic: The next Seattle-North clinic is Thursday, March 2, 2017. The plan is to explore the subject of creating layout backgrounds, plus resume another installment in our fallen flags mini-clinics.

Last Clinic: Our “surprise” video was from Bobj who also supplied occasional narration. It was mostly a series of edited cuts, that hadn’t yet been combined into a contiguous piece. It showed some of the same gorgeous western Canadian scenery and the same lovely Canadian steam as “Rocky Mountain Express”.

There were 3 topics for show and tell.

• Bob K brought a newly acquired HO Athearn Genesis Northern Pacific class Z8 4-6-6-4.
• Dennis T showed an N scale GE C44-9W in which he had just installed ditch lights.
• Bobj B had a collection of memorabilia from the time he worked tours behind the Canadian Pacific 2816.

 
 
Directions: We meet at the Ronald United Methodist Church, 17839 Aurora Avenue North, Shoreline, WA. That is on the west side of Aurora (State Route 99) between 175th and 185th Streets and more specifically, between the Cadillac dealer on the south and Deseret Industries to the north. Going southbound on Aurora, make a right-hand turn into the church driveway immediately after passing the Deseret location. The parking lot is at the rear of the church. From that lot go up the steps to the main entrance. Once inside, the room where we meet is up to your left. [Per the note above in January, February, and March you can follow these instructions, but go down the stairs once inside. Or you can enter the lower level door on the far left from the rear parking lot.]

Meetings are the first Thursday of each month, September to May. In June we often do something different, so there is no “regular” meeting. Doors open at 7:00 PM and the program will start at 7:30.

Remember the next regular evening meeting is March 2, 2017. The next clinic after that will be April 6. Hope to see you there or at least sometime on down the line.