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Minutes Town Celebrations Committee September 18, 2013 Training Room, 201 Bedford Street Members present Suzie Barry, Chair;Dick Crogan, co -Vice Chair;Linda Dixon, Paul Jenkins, Julie Miller, Bill Mix, Henry Murphy, Sandy Podgorski, Charlie Price. Members not present Bob Tracey, Co -Vice Chair; Mary Gillespie, Sondra Lucente, Barbara Manfredi, Wayne Miller, Dave Taylor. Business • The chair declared that a quorum was present. • A group photo was taken for inclusion in the FY14 annual Town report. • The committee approved the minutes of September 4, 2013 with minor corrections. • The October 2, 2013 meeting will be canceled. • All members are invited to the memorial dedication at the Town Pool for Dinesh RajBhandary, Lexington High School Class of 1982, who was killed in Operation Desert Storm • All members who have received notification of required ethics training are urged to complete this on -line course as soon as possible and submit a completion certificate to the Town Clerk. Veterans Day 2013 Veteran's Breakfast • Mailing of post cards: 250 post cards and 500 flyers have been printed. Suzie will prepare mailing labels from the 2012 mailing list and Sandy will bring labels and cards to Town Hall to be run through the town mailing machine. • Distribution of flyers and ticket sales: Veterans Services Officer Ryan Lennon is in charge of printing tickets and setting up the sales process with ticket vendors. We will wait until this process is complete before distributing flyers or mailing post cards. • Door prizes: Dick and Sandy presented an updated chart and reported on progress to date on soliciting door prizes. Response has been quite positive. • Speaker: Linda will invite one of the ROTC training officers who work with students at MIT, Harvard, Tufts, Boston University and several other institutions to talk about the importance of ROTC in today's military. • Wayne and Bob will be asked to contact Joe Dooley, Chief of Volunteer Services at the Bedford VA Hospital, to send a general invitation and distribute information about the breakfast. Veteran's Day Parade and Ceremony • Grand Marshal and Speaker: U.S. Army Colonel Robert McLaughlin, a Lexington native, has accepted the Committee's invitation to serve as Parade Grand Marshal and to deliver the Veterans' Day Address. • Clergy: Rev Paul Shupe of Hancock Church will be the clergy representative. The Lexington Interfaith Council has pre - selected the clergy for all three major observances for 2014. • Promotional Article: Caitlyn Kelleher, editor of the Lexington Minuteman, is very receptive to the concept of a series of profiles of Lexington veterans that will run in the Minutemanin late October.