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Town Celebrations Committee
<br /> Minutes of Meeting
<br /> November 8, 2017
<br /> Parker Room, Town Office Building
<br /> Members Present
<br /> Lorain Marquis, Chair; June Baer, Linda Dixon, Julie Miller, Bill Mix, Sue Stering, Cerise Jalelian,
<br /> Mary Hutton, Sandy Podgorski,
<br /> Members Not Present
<br /> Glen Bassett, Dick Crogan, Paul Jenkins, Sondra Lucente, Gina Rada, Dave Taylor, Bob Tracey, Sam
<br /> Zales, Kim Coburn, Suzanne Caton, Carol Flynn, Karen Gaughan, Geetha Padaki, Wayne Miller,
<br /> Henry Murphy.
<br /> Business
<br /> • The minutes of November 01, 2017 were approved.
<br /> • The next meeting will be on November 29, 2017 in the Parker Room.
<br /> • The list of other future meetings is as follows: 01/10/18, 01/24/18, 02/07/18, 02/21/07,
<br /> 03/07/18, 03/14/18, 03/21/18, 03/28/18, 04/04/18, 04/11/17, 04/25/18, 05/02/18, 05/16/18,
<br /> 05/23/18, 06/06/18.
<br /> • The annual Christmas Party will be held on December 6, 2017 at Linda Dixon's home.
<br /> Breakfast, Saturday,November 4, 2017 In Review
<br /> • Everyone present was in agreement that the Breakfast was a great success except for three
<br /> unfortunate mishaps.
<br /> o The first mentioned was that there was not enough coffee. It was decided to order twice
<br /> as much for the beginning of the breakfast next year.
<br /> o The second was that the slide show was not set up so the audience could see it properly.
<br /> TCC members were not aware of the problem until they tried to present it at the
<br /> breakfast. Now that we are aware of what can go wrong, we need to guard against the
<br /> same mistake next year.
<br /> o The third mishap was that the principal speaker was unavoidably prevented from
<br /> coming until the end of the breakfast when everyone was leaving. There was nothing
<br /> we could not have done to avoid this. What to consider for the future is that being
<br /> aware of this potential mishap, we might want to have some kind of Plan B in our
<br /> pocket.
<br /> • Because parking became a problem this year, the idea or having a parking space reserved for
<br /> the speaker and perhaps also the photographer was discussed.
<br /> • Attendance was good. There were about 175 in attendance, or whom it is estimated that 90
<br /> were veterans. In addition, 14 Minutemen, five Selectmen, the Town Manager, nine
<br /> representatives from Hanscom Air Force Base and four members of the State House were there.
<br /> Also 17 members of the Town Celebrations Committee attended. $195 was collected at the
<br /> door. Michelson's Shoe Store gave out 90 tickets and the Community Center gave out 50.
<br /> • Servers had been asked to watch the amount served, as last year there was not enough food at
<br /> the end. This year one serving was considered to be one sausage, one slice of bacon, one
<br /> pancake, one scoop of eggs and one scoop of potatoes. There was plenty of food left over.
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