Gisborne Woodturners Club member David Mason and president Lynne Boult with some of the wig stands made by club members, and donated to Look Good Feel Better at the Cancer Society rooms. Picture by Rebecca Grunwell
Gisborne Woodturners Club member David Mason and president Lynne Boult with some of the wig stands made by club members, and donated to Look Good Feel Better at the Cancer Society rooms. Picture by Rebecca Grunwell
Gisborne Woodturners Club members are expanding their community activities by making and donating wig stands in support of Look Good Feel Better and Gisborne-East Coast Cancer Society.
“This is absolutely fabulous,” said Look Good Feel Better treasurer-coordinator Mary Gowers.
Look Good Feel Better workshops are run at the Cancer Societyrooms in Gladstone Road every couple of months with about 15 women attending. “It makes everybody realise how rife cancer is here,” Ms Gowers said.
The woodturners have long supported the nationwide Operation Pinocchio where woodturning groups make and donate wooden toys to organisations such as Barnados, Planet Sunshine (Gisborne Hospital children’s ward) and the Salvation Army. This year the Gisborne woodturners will support the Gisborne Herald Christmas tree.
Members have recently donated 100 tulips made from pine cuttings donated by Richardsons Mill to Parkinson’s New Zealand. The tulip is the international symbol for Parkinson’s.
As for the wig stand, Gisborne Woodturners Club president Lynne Boulter said a member had attended a woodturning seminar in Auckland and came back with the idea.
The club had made them about 15 years ago and members agreed to start making them again.
