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Town Celebrations Committee Notes of Meeting April 25, 2018 Room 242, Lexington Community Center Members Present Linda Dixon (acting chair); June Baer, Suzanne Caton, Carol Flynn, Karen Gaughan, Julie Miller, Sandy Podgorski, Sue Stering, Bob Tracey. Members Not Present Glen Bassett, Kim Coburn, Mary Hutton, Cerise Jalelian, Paul Jenkins, Sondra Lucente, Wayne Miller, Bill Mix, Henry Murphy, Geetha Padaki, Gina Rada, Dave Taylor, Sam Zal Business • The Chair reported that a quorum was not present. • The minutes of the meeting of April 4, 2018, were reviewed but not approved. • The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 at the Community Center. Feedback on Patriots Day Weekend Events • Ceremonies in Cary Hall went very well. The hall was filled. • The Old Guard performances on Saturday had very small attendance and only 1 invited VIP attended. Consensus was that the committee did not receive confirmation that the Old Guard would be performing early enough to do any publicity around it. • Tower Park battle reenactment on Saturday: Since the Williamsburg Fife and Drum Corp performed a concert before the battle and were in town and ready to march in the parade, the unanimous sense of the committee was that we should pay them their fee. • It was suggested that the Westfield High School Band should be given an honorarium. Memorial Day Planning • Linda suggested that Ed Loturco should be considered for Grand Marshal of the parade. The committee requested that Linda ask Ed if he would be interested. • Gresh and Glen have agreed to be co-narrators and MCs for the parade and ceremony. • Lorain has a contact at Hanscom AFB who might be available to speak at the ceremonies. • Bob mentioned that Hanscom has a speaker's bureau that we could contact when looking for speakers for Memorial Day and Veterans Day ceremonies. • Linda requested suggestions for a theme for this year's Memorial Day programming, which would help plan the ceremonies. She also asked the committee to propose suggestions for Memorial Day program enrichment. o Sandy suggested that we might focus on veteran women Lexington residents. o Bob suggested that we use the book produced by Brookhaven resident veterans. • Bob and Wayne will arrange for the wreaths for Memorial Day. Veterans Day Linda mentioned that planning for 2018 Veterans Day is will under way and many groups are involved in the planning since this year is the 100'h anniversary of the end of WWI. The meeting was adjourned at 7:50 pm.