| Project by Milton Toal | posted 02-13-2013 05:32 AM | 1401 views | 0 times favorited | 6 comments |  |
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One of my grand-daughters wanted to go on a humanitarian trip to a poor village in Borneo to assist the villagers in a number of ways. Tashi worked 2 part-time jobs all year while doing year 10 at school but was falling short on money and by September looked like not making it. Cost $6,000 and if you don’t reach the $6,000 you forfeit what you have paid to date.
I designed and made a batch of the trivets on the (then a new addition to the workshop) scroll saw for her and family and friends to sell and she consequently raised a lot of money at very little cost other than time, since much of the timber was red pine from a building job years ago and when that ran out I used radiata pine which is cheap. Sold most before Christmas as gifts for overseas friends and she had a very successful trip.
-- Milton Toal, Doncaster, Melbourne Australia.
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degoose
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#1 posted 02-13-2013 07:20 AM
Very sweet way to help out…
-- Be safe.
Monte Pittman
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#2 posted 02-13-2013 09:47 AM
You have not only shown us that you are an awesome woodworker, you are an awesome person.
Great job
-- Nature created it, I just assemble it.
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#3 posted 02-13-2013 11:40 AM
Way to go Granddad. That was great!
-- Perform A Random Act Of Kindness Today ... Pay It Forward
Sheila Landry (scrollgirl)
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#4 posted 02-13-2013 12:10 PM
Awesome! :)
Sheila
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#5 posted 02-13-2013 04:01 PM
Really well done to help like that Milton, and as we all know, everybody likes Australia, so success on both counts!
-- Mike, an American living in Norway.
GrandpaLen
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#6 posted 02-13-2013 08:11 PM
A truely blessed Granddaughter with a heart of Gold.
...that Apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
“Paying it Forward” with a Labor of Love.
Best Regards to you Grandpa.
Work Safely and have Fun. – Grandpa Len.
-- Mother Nature should be proud of what you've done with her tree. - Len ...just north of a stone's throw from the oHIo, river that is, in So. Indiana.
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