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Town Celebrations Committee <br /> Meeting Minutes <br /> January 29, 2020 <br /> Lexington Community Center <br /> Members Present <br /> Lorain Marquis, Chair; June Baer, Vice Chair; Glen Bassett, Suzanne Caton, Linda Dixon, Karen <br /> Gaughan, Mary Hutton, Paul Jenkins, Sondra Lucente, Geetha Padaki, Sandy Podgorski <br /> Members Not Present <br /> Kim Coburn, Wei Ding, Cerise Jalelian, Gresh Lattimore, Julie Miller, Wayne Miller, Bill Mix, <br /> Ashley Rooney, Rita Pandey, Sue Stering, Dave Taylor, Bob Tracey, Sam Zales <br /> Guests: Steve Cole, Dabby Harter <br /> Business: <br /> • The minutes of November 20, 2019 were approved as amended. <br /> • Dabby Harter was introduced to the committee. She will help Julie Miller with <br /> communications with the Town concerning Patriots Day. <br /> • Lorain announced that Jill Hai is assisting the committee to find storage space for Patriots <br /> Day banners, and other equipment needed by the committee. <br /> Patriots' Day 2020 (April 18 —20): <br /> • Lorain announced that the stakeholders meeting is scheduled for Thursday, February 13, <br /> at 10 am at the Town Offices. She encouraged committee members to attend. Lorain also <br /> asked for additional suggestions about who to invite. The committee suggested inviting <br /> representatives of the Minuteman Cane Award committee and the Youth Commission. <br /> • Linda Dixon suggested asking Peter and Beverly Kelley to the Grand Marshalls for this <br /> year's parade. The committee agreed with her suggestion and either Linda or Lorain will <br /> follow up with the Kelleys. <br /> • Lorain announced that all the permission requests for Patriots Day activities have been <br /> approved by the Select Board and Town management. <br /> • Lorain asked committee members to confirm whether or not they will be available on <br /> Patriots Day to assist with the parade. <br /> • Sondra reported that the Shriners have offered to provide all their marching units for this <br /> year's parade at the same price as last year. Lorain will send them an application <br /> package. <br /> • Lorain noted that Cerise will be ordering the various tickets for Patriots Day activities <br /> soon. Lorain asked if the committee thought that we should eliminate tickets for the <br /> bleacher seats next to the reviewing stand. Committee consensus was to eliminate those <br /> tickets. <br /> • The committee discussed ongoing issues with the reviewing stand, in particular the fact <br /> that the VIPs invited to sit on the reviewing stand have declined to do so in recent years. <br /> Steve Cole suggested that the committee invite special community groups to sit on the <br />