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Minutes Town Celebrations Committee March 23, 2016 Cafe, 201 Bedford Street Members present Lorain Marquis, Rich McDonough, co-chairs; Suzanne Caton, Kim Coburn, Linda Dixon, Carol Flynn, Karen Gaughan, Cerise Jalelian, Paul Jenkins, Linda Levitt, Melanie Lin, Sondra Lucente, Julie Miller, Wayne Miller, Henry Murphy, Bill Mix, Geetha Padaki, Sandy Podgorski, Bob Tracey Members not present Diana Bishop; Dave Taylor, Sam Zales Business The Chair declared that a quorum was present. The minutes of March16, 2016 were approved. Brief Committee Assignment Reports Paul Jenkins: MEMA radios will be available for the parade. He asked for 14 but it will depend on what’s available on the day. It is still not known if Dave Taylor will be available to help on Patriots’ Day. Bill Mix: Mentioned that the Coast Guard will be bringing an extra vehicle. He will follow up on the details. He also mentioned that an elderly former Minuteman is planning to attend the re- enactment this year, which means that 4 tickets will be needed for the morning reviewing stand for him and his party. Also, a golf cart may be needed to move the party around. Bob Tracey: He plans to ask for 20 cases of water. Cerise: She has all the tickets for the events and the parking tags. Cerise mentioned that she has 3 sets of tickets, one set for the morning bleachers, one set for the reviewing stand for the re-enactment, one set for the parade reviewing stand. Tickets will not be distributed until closer to the date. Sondra: Susan O’Keefe will be the announcer for the afternoon parade. Lorain will give the media forms received from parade units to Sondra to give to Susan O’Keefe. Parade float judges are all set. Sandy: Mentioned that the Colonial Times magazine did a great job of putting the Patriots’ Day weekend calendar into the latest edition. Melanie: Dropped off a set of programs at the Community Center. The Chinese dragon may be available for next year’s parade. She reached out to sponsors of the Chinese New Year celebrations to be sponsors for parade units. Julie: Will call Barry Cunha to clarify his ticket requests for Cerise. Suzanne: Will send email to sponsors saying thank you for their contributions and to let them know that the process of assigning sponsors to marching units is ongoing. We will let them know who they are assigned to sponsor when it is decided. She mentioned that Bedford Car