Old Home Days Committee

Meeting notes 2/27/2010

 

Present:

From last year's committee: Nancy Daniels, Donna Geer,

This year's committee: Monica Laskey-Rigrod, Megan Dodge, Paul Frehner

 

Two more members have stated willingness to join for 2010: Debra Shumway and Angie Ramston. We hope they will join us at the next meeting.

 

We thank last year's committee for all their help and support and we are happy to have Megan Dodge continue with us for her second year!

 

• Monica Laskey-Rigrod will be Chair
• Megan Dodge will be Treasurer
• Paul Frehner will be Secretary
• Still needed: Secretary at large for advertisement and other paperwork
• OHD will take place Friday 20^th, Saturday 21^st and Sunday 22^nd of August 2010
• We have agreed on the following guiding ideas for OHD 2010

1)     Engage all ages

2)     Active involvement of the community

3)     Stay within budget

• We have agreed on the following theme for 2010

HANCOCK HAS CHARACTER(s)

'Celebrating 150 years of the Hancock Town Library'

• We realized that certain tasks need to be done quickly. This includes organizing certain activities that will need to be organized early because of availability. This includes the music, other artists and the climbing wall
• The following ideas were brought up

1)     Use high school or middle school kids for community service activities during the day

2)     No band on Friday night (schedule seems to be too full)

3)     Organizing a soap box car race for families/kids to participate

4)     Continue the library theme- possibly a book (connect with Cindy Amidon from the historical society

5)     Include a charity focused element to raise money for a group in need in Hancock

6)     Sell beach towels, T-shirts or hats

7)     Organize one or a few street musicians

8)     Ask Cindy Amidon re the possibility of a publication with the theme of 'Hancock Characters' to be published for 2010

The following tasks were handed out to be completed until next meeting:

 

Monica:    -   Contact Ken Sheldon for children's music
                -       will talk to Kin Schilling re graphics
                -        will talk to Amy Marcus re Red Wagon theatre troupe

 

Megan:     -    will organize the Temple band for 2010
                -        will talk to Jane Richards Jones to elicit some support from the
                   friends of the library group

                -        will contact Martha Ritter to obtain last year's CD

 

Paul:         -   will contact JT Lawrence re; his band

                -        will contact Vertical Dreams re; climbing wall
                -        will connect with Cindy Amidon from the Historical Society re old
                     OHD books and the possibility of a book for 2010

 

2/27/2010

Paul Frehner, Secretary