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Town Celebrations Committee Minutes of Meeting February 13, 2019 Lexington Community Center Members Present Lorain Marquis, Chair; June Baer, Suzanne Caton, Wei Ding, Linda Dixon, Carol Flynn, Karen Gaughan, Cerise Jalelian, Paul Jenkins, Gresh Lattimore, Julie Miller, Bill Mix, Geetha Padaki, Sandy Podgorski, Sue Stering, Members Not Present Glen Bassett, Kim Coburn, Mary Hutton, Sondra Lucente, Wayne Miller, Rita Pandey, Dave Taylor, Bob Tracey, Sam Zales Business: • The chair reported that a quorum was present and the meeting was called to order at 7:05 pm. • Minutes from the meeting of January 30, 2019 were approved. • Lorain reminded the committee that the Heritage of America band concert will be on Monday, 2/25 and encouraged members to attend the concert. • Lorain requested that Geetha send PR information about the 2/25 concert to the IAL mailing list. • Lorain noted that the TCC jackets for new members will be ready soon. • The next TCC meeting will be on February 27, 2019. Patriots' Day, April 15, 2019: • Sandy Podgorski showed the committee the poster from last year and asked if any changes needed to made for this year. The committee agreed that only the dates on the poster needed to be changed. The rest of the content was still fine. • Sue Stering and June Baer volunteered to research possible parade units and bands being offered by Golden Bough Productions. • Lorain noted that the Shriners want to do their own announcing at the Parade. • Linda Dixon reported that a meeting with Dawn McKenna about increasing Parade attendance, the following recommendations were made: • The TCC should send out information on the various email lists kept by the Visitors' Center of people who want contact about Lexington events • Linda and Lorain should attend the next Tourism Committee meeting to learn more about the AAA conference occurring soon • Linda noted that she will set up a meeting with the new Superintendent of Lexington schools to discuss how the committee can disseminate information about Patriots' Day activities and the Parade to Lexington school children and their parents. • Sandy noted that some of the large military bands that we would like to invite to participate in the Parade want information on the size of the crowds that attend the Parade, in order to justify their participation. After discussion, the committee recommended that Sandy estimate the crowd size in recent years to be about 6000. • Sandy noted that she had been told to remove information about the Lexington Minute Men's re-enactment rehearsal date from the schedule. Bill Mix questioned that request and said he would resolve the issue with the appropriate Minute Men.