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Town Celebrations Committee Minutes of Meeting March 20, 2019 Lexington Community Center Members Present Lorain Marquis, Chair; June Baer, Suzanne Caton, Linda Dixon, Karen Gaughan, Cerise Jalelian, Paul Jenkins, Julie Miller, Sandy Podgorski, Wei Ding, Mary Hutton Members Not Present Glen Bassett, Carol Flynn, Rita Pandey, Dave Taylor, Bob Tracey, Sam Zales, Geetha Padaki, Kim Coburn, Sue Stering, Wayne Miller, Bill Mix, Sondra Lucente, Gresh Lattimore. Business: • The chair reported that a quorum was present and the meeting was called to order at 7:09 pm. • Minutes from the meeting of March 13, 2019 were approved. • Linda Dixon reported that she and Lorain met with the Lexington Superintendent of Schools, Julie Hackett. Ms. Hackett offered to send a cover letter with her newsletter that will encourage students and their parents to attend the parade. In her old town, she said the elementary schools would all create a float for the parade and would compete for which school had the best team sprit in creating its float. She will suggest that there are four ways to get involved in the parade: 1. Any children who want to can march in the morning parade. 2. Children can decorate their bikes and ride in either morning or afternoon parades. 3. Children can march in the afternoon parade as "parade ambassadors," carrying a banner. 4. Elementary School float contest. Sandy will be the point person for the morning parade. Linda will be the point person for the parade ambassadors and Lorain will be the point person for the afternoon parade. Linda further reported that representatives of TCC would be invited by the superintendent to attend a monthly meeting of the PTOs. • Looking ahead to future years, Lorain said she would like the committee to consider having an essay contest for Patriot's Day—maybe by the elementary school students. • The next TCC meeting will be on March 27, 2019. Patriots' Day, April 15, 2019: • Lorain asked Paul, Wayne and Dave Taylor (who plans to be in town for the week of the parade)to be in charge of assigning space to all the units for lining up at the beginning of the parade. • Lorain reported that Norwich is planning to participate in the parade, as is Hanscom Honor Guard. Lorain further informed the meeting that we had received an application from the US Naval Sea Cadets. • Suzanne reported that we had about 23, 24 sponsors. We currently have $7,850 in new sponsorship donations and $7,500 in credits from last year. Oasis Systems is our newest Gold Level Sponsor. There was some discussion of making Rancatore's a sponsor, due to its contribution of 50 $5.00 gift certificates. • Julie Miller volunteered to contact civic groups in the town such as the Elks, the Rotary, the Masons, Chamber of Commerce, etc. to see if they would like to have a unit march in the . parade.