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Minutes Town Celebrations Committee October 21, 2015 Cafe, 201 Bedford Street Members present Lorain Marquis and Rich McDonough, Co-Chairs; Diana Bishop, Suzanne Caton, Kim Coburn, Linda Dixon, Carol Flynn, Karen Gaughan, Cerise Jalelian, Julie Miller, Wayne Miller, Bill Mix, Henry Murphy, Sandy Podgorski, Bob Tracey Members not present Paul Jenkins, Melanie Lin, Linda Levitt, Sondra Lucente, Geetha Padaki, Dave Taylor, Sam Zales. Business Declaring that a quorum was present, Lorain introduced new member Diana Bishop, recently retired  from a career as a consultant in health care analytics. Gina Rada, Veterans Services Director for Lexington/Bedford, and Glen Bassett, retired Marine and  prospective committee member, attended as guests. The minutes of October 7, 2015 were approved with minor corrections.  Discussion of Expanded Program for Wreath-Laying at Memorials Sandy and Linda have prepared a script to describe the memorial trees and plaques on the Battle Green  honoring 8 Lexingtonians who perished in World War I. To help locate these memorials, the committee will place a flag at each tree. After the wreath laying ceremony at the Obelisk, the Narrator will read the script about the WWI memorials. There will be no wreath laying, but there will be the standard volley and Taps and Echo. Gina will obtain the flags and coordinate their placement with Sandy. The Korean and Vietnam wars will now be commemorated in two separate ceremonies, even though  they are memorialized on the same stone. Each ceremony will consist of a description by the Narrator; a wreath laying; a volley by the Minutemen; and Taps and Echo. Veterans’ Breakfast, Saturday, October 31, 2015, Keilty Hall Dick Crogan will handle the arrangements for an appropriate POW/MIA setup.  Ticket sales: Gina Rada reported sales of 106 tickets as follows: Community Center, 50; Bedford COA,  20; Michelson’s, 20, Lexington Minutemen, 16. Committee members and invited guests will total another 30. A feature story about the breakfast in tomorrow’s edition (October 22) of the Minuteman should help to sell a few more. Lorain must give Neillio’s a head count by Tuesday, October 27. Dick Crogan will bring a boom box for the playing of service songs.   Gina will send Cerise all names gathered so far from ticket purchases and Cerise will update the database she prepared from last year’s attendance.  Door prizes : Sandy reported that there are now 25 door prizes in hand.  Table decorations : Bob Tracey has met with Wagon Wheel and they have agreed to supply, on a loan basis, pumpkin-themed centerpieces for the tables. There will be no charge as long as we return the materials promptly after the breakfast.  Table setup : Julie will find out whether the tables will be already set up on Friday October 30 when we arrive for setup, and whether we can leave the tables in place at the conclusion of the breakfast.