How can I help?

Any and all can help on the wharf building. We will need carpenters, helpers, cooks, babysitters, gophers, you name it! Please commit for a morning and/or afternoon on either Saturday or Sunday.


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Wharf Building!!

Our wharfs are almost ready for assembly, we are looking forward to seeing everyone out at the Granthams Hall Saturday and Sunday, May 21st and the 22nd to help put it together. Please contact Bjorn or Jeannie for details.

Location:Granthams

Want to be more involved?

Saturday April 30th we will be having our next wharf board meeting at 3-4 at Bjorns or Claytons. Please let us know if you would like to attend.

Taxes...

If you have not received a receipt for your charitable donation to the Grantham's Wharf Association
please contact Signy or Michele right away and theywill arrange to have a copy made and delivered to you right away.

Wharf Building!

The new eco-float kits are set to arrive in mid-May!!!  We are
organizing a 2 day work party May 21 and May 22nd to construct the floats at
the Grantham's Hall park.  We would like to encourage anyone with carpentry
skills and/or a strong back who would like to help build the floats to
volunteer for a fun, productive weekend of wharf building!

Our new neighbors Andrew and Leslie, who have moved into the old post office
are graciously providing food for the weekend from their bakery,
Wheatberries.

So please contact Bjorn if you would like to volunteer May 21-May 22 as we put
together a community work party and together build the new floats.

The numbers are in!!

Fundraiser planned to help revitalize wharf | Local News | Coast Reporter, Sunshine Coast, BC

Fundraiser planned to help revitalize wharf | Local News | Coast Reporter, Sunshine Coast, BC

Jeff Barringer - "Viewport" Donation

Jeff Barringer has donated this stunning 18" by 36" painting to the Silent Auction. Valued at $550 we are super happy to have his support and be able to bid on this piece.

Rock Water Resort Gift Certificate

$100 towards Spa services. Make your wife happy! Like they say, "Happy wife, happy life."

Al Fike Pottery

Al Fike is incredible. This massive bowl was made for the silent auction. It is value at $250 and it is gorgeous. The copper rim is exquisite and the green glaze stunning. Amazing work, thanks Al. "To Live is to Eat"

Todd Clark - Painting! for Silent Auction

"Long Way Down" by Todd Clark. Wow! This is fantastic, thanks Todd. It is conservatively valued at $500. Visit his website at http://www.toddclarkstudio.com/

Here is a little blurb about Todd from his website:

I've always had a deep connection to the land within which I have lived, whether it be the open plains of Alberta and Manitoba or the vertical, sky-scraping forests of coastal British Columbia. My work calls attention to the beauty of these areas and their habitats.

My interest in art was piqued in childhood by the paintings of revered contemporary artists, such as Gordon Smith, Lawren Harris, Jack Shadbolt , and Takoe Tanabe, to name a few, whose work I grew to appreciate whilst studying at local galleries and museums. Later, as a elementary teacher, I also grew to love the art of children. Lawless and bold, their sense of expression inspired me to explore the canvas with almost reckless abandon.

My approach to painting is related more to abstraction than to conventional landscape. I take cues from nature, but rarely work from it directly. My sources are usually siphoned from memory or imagined. I enjoy challenging the established notions of landscape painting and at times my work is deliberately enigmatic. While painting, I find myself deconstructing and reinventing aspects of nature which are governed by an ecology of form and colour.

Mellon Glass - Silent Auction Donation

The glass wizardry of Wayne Harjula has been donated to the silent auction. This amazing jelly fish is valued at $180. Come and bid on one of the Sunshine Coasts most amazing glass artists works. Many thanks to Mellon Glass, Wayne and Miyuki for their big hearts and generousity.

You are invited to a Blackfish Pub Fundraiser Party

You are invited to a Blackfish Pub Fundraiser Party


NOVEMBER 10, 2010   BLACKFISH PUB, GIBSONS  5:30 pm to 8:30pm

featuring:  Beer and Burger for $15 ($5 goes the GWA), Silent Auction, Live Music, Wharf presentation (past, present and future)

The GRANTHAMS WHARF ASSOCIATION (GWA) is having a fundraiser party.  The pride of our community (the Wharf) is showing it's age and needs to have parts: replaced, restored and re-invigorated.  To do so we need to raise money and interest and we would like to ask for your participation.  Our 2 year goal is to raise $20,000 in donations and in kind support.  To start this fundraising effort we are having a party at the Blackfish Pub.

The Blackfish Pub Fundraiser Party goals are:

1) to raise $ to rebuild the aging floats in the spring
2) to show the community our vision for the Wharf
3) to get support with materials and skills for our building efforts
4) use the wharf as a focus to build on the vibrant, awesome community we live in.

We would like to encourage you to:

1) Come to the Fundraiser
2) Buy a bunch of Beer and Burger tickets

4) Support the SIlent Auction
5) Check out our Vision for the Wharf
6) Have a great time and support us GWA volunteers as we rebuild the wharf which has anchored our community since 1909!


Check out granthamslanding.blogspot.com for updates on the above

Thank you

THe GWA Board and everyone who uses the wharf!

Some more donations to the Silent Auction

Todd Clark - acclaimed painter has donated a painting. Can't wait to see it!



Jim's Mowing (Gibsons-Robert Creek) has donated $100 worth of yard work







Harbour Air has donated 2 round trip airfares from Sechelt to Vancouver.









Scott Bleakley from Folkstone Designs has donate 3 - 1 hour Mac consultations. Each one is worth $80.00







MyYoga Studios has donated two Drop In Yoga classes







Gibsons Florists has donated a special Orchid

Mark in Action!

Mark Giltrow in Action! Not only has he been keeping the wharf together all summer he has also been cleaning up the sea floor underneath the wharf with his home made diving rig. A few of his historic treasures from when the steamships recycling was to toss used bottles and plates overboard.

Silent Auction Donation

Martin Ouellette of Imagine Woodworking, and a resident of Elphinstone Ave. has been very generous and has made a great bench that he has donated to the upcoming GWA Silent Auction to be held at the Blackfish Pub on Nov. 1oth. It has a retail value of $800.

We will bring the bench to the GWA Beer and Burger fundraiser for all to see and bid on if interested!

SUCCESS!!

We have a donation from Harbour Air for 2 round trip airtickets to Vancouver from their Sechelt Base!

Work To Date

Well to start the summer me and Bjorn re-harnessed the bridle holding the docks to the wharf:

Then the ramp came unhinged so we rebuilt the base to keep it on track:

then recently the rod holding the last dock was lost to the deep so I put some chains through the brackets to keep our dock attached:

but one of the pieces seems to have disappeared last night so perhaps has joined the pin in Davy Jones Locker.

Will take a dive Thursday to see if they are resting on the bottom.

mark.

Granthams Wharf Association

In order to start the fundraising necessary to purchase materials to build 2 new floats for next summer we are having a Blackfish Pub Fundraiser Party.  The tentative date is November 11th between 5:30 pm and 8:30 pm.  We are hoping to raise $2000 through a silent auction, and the sale of Beer and Burger tickets for $15, which we get 50% of and the Blackfish gets the rest.  

The current 4 floats on the Wharf are falling apart and the replacement costs are estimated to be upwards of $20,000 if we were to buy the floats ready made.  The GWA is dedicated to making the wharf a focal point of the community and we figure we can rally around this cause and as a community build our own floats for substantially cheaper.  

The Blackfish Pub Fundraiser Party goals are: .  1) to raise $ to rebuild the aging floats  2) to show the community our vision for the Wharf   3) to get support with materials and skills for our building efforts  4) use the wharf as a focus to build on the vibrant, awesome community we live in.

We would like to encourage you to 1) Come to the Fundraiser 2) Buy a bunch of Beer and Burger tickets  3) Support the Silent Auction  4) Check out our Vision for the Wharf  5) Have a great time and support us GWA volunteers as we rebuild the wharf which has anchored our community since 1909!

To pre-buy Beer and Burger tickets call Bjørn at 604 886 1589  (Radical Films).

Cheers

Bjørn