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Decoy Carvers Guild Christmas Party - 12/16/08 at 6:30 PM

We hope you will attend the December Decoy Carvers Guild Christmas party on Tuesday, December 16 at 6:30 pm at the "H. Curt Salter" Guild Building on Harkers Island Road.  This is the regular meeting date but the time is one hour earlier than the normal meeting time of 7:30 pm.  There will be many prizes, drawings and gifts so PLEASE join us for food, fun and fellowship.  All members, their families, Festival volunteers, friends, visitors, guests...EVERYONE...is invited.

Please bring a plate of something good to eat (finger food) with you when you come. 

2008 Decoy Festival -- Another Great Show!

The Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild would like to thank all the many members, volunteers, competitors, sponsors and patrons who made the 2008 Decoy Festival such a tremendous success.  We were blessed again this year with beautiful weather and it was a wonderful event. 

Special thanks also go to April Lilley, Principal of the Harkers Island Elementary School, and all the teachers, staff, students and parents who helped us make this year's Decoy Festival a success.  The school's enthusiastic cooperation is so important to the Decoy Festival and we want them to know how much we appreciate it. 

Please see our THANK YOU page -- click here

2008 Decoy Festival Poster Contest -- And the Winner is...

Kelley Nelson! Congratulations to Kelley, the winner of the 2008 Core Sound Decoy Festival Poster Contest for his drawing of a Cinnamon Teal. This year will be the 21st Annual Core Sound Decoy Festival! The Decoy Festival Poster Contest, now in it’s eighth year, is sponsored by the Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild, and gives local artists the opportunity to submit artwork that, if chosen as the winning entry, will be used on Decoy Festival posters, advertising flyers, and apparel. The featured Carver for 2008 is Houston Lewis, and the featured decoy is the Cinnamon Teal.  As is the custom, a cash prize of $250.00 was awarded to the winning artist. A very special thank you to Sue Fulcher for all of her hard work every year with this contest! Sue is our Decoy Festival Poster competition Chairperson and she certainly does an outstanding job! As a reminder, Sue has decided that this is her last year organizing the poster contest, so we need someone to take over this contest. Our Board members are not able to take on this task as it would be a conflict of interest during voting. If anyone is interested, please contact Raymond Earp at (252)728-3070.

Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild
P.O. Box 89 • Harkers Island, NC 28531
phone (252) 838-8818