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<br />Town Celebrations Committee
<br />Meeting Minutes
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<br />January 13, 2021
<br />Virtual Meeting
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<br />Members Present
<br />June Baer, Chair; Glen Bassett, Steve Cole, Linda Dixon, Cerise Jalelian, Sondra Lucente,
<br />Lorain Marquis, Geetha Padaki, Sandy Podgorski, Sue Stering, Mary Hutton, Gresh Lattimore,
<br />Bill Mix, Rita Pandey
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<br />Members Not Present
<br />Karen Gaughan, Julie Miller, Wayne Miller, Ashley Rooney, Suzanne Caton, Wei Ding, Sam
<br />Zales
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<br />Also Present
<br />Jill Hai
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<br />Business:
<br /> June convened the meeting at 7:05 pm and read the Town notice regarding the conduct of
<br />public virtual meetings.
<br /> The committee approved the minutes of November 18, 2020.
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<br />Patriots Day, April 19, 2021
<br /> Patriots Day will be totally virtual, per Lexington Select Board meeting Jan 11. Some
<br />consideration given to postponing, or canceling, the event, but decided to cancel and hold
<br />it all virtually in April 2021. Select Board asked TCC to hold meetings with each Patriots
<br />Day stakeholder to determine any virtual content or events planned.
<br /> Select Board (Doug Lucente) would like a “virtual Patriots Day” on April 19, consisting
<br />of a schedule of virtual events
<br /> Lexington Minute Men (LMM) will be doing virtual reenactment, but Steve Cole will
<br />bring to the LMM whatever the TCC is requesting they do. LMM have a lot of recorded
<br />events from past Patriots Day, plus they’d like to do some live/recorded reenactment and
<br />ceremony events (e.g., fire volley at cemetery). June/Mary/Sue have met with LMM to
<br />start understanding what virtual events might be possible. June’s understanding that
<br />LMM would do some sort of video reenactment with vignettes that include experience of
<br />MM families, etc. Also, Parker’s Revenge (in the Park, per Steve Cole) to recognize the
<br />MM who kept fighting even in the afternoon. Steve Cole suggests we include the DAR
<br />along with LMM as they will want to be part of Patriots Day.
<br /> Select Board asked that Awards Program be included. So, White Tricorn Hat award,
<br />Youth Commission presentations, and other awards are to be encouraged, but will have to
<br />be virtual
<br /> Discussion of stakeholders and participants (distinction between stakeholders and those
<br />who only participate). Lorain to provide list of Stakeholders. Include Lexington
<br />Historical Society, Hancock Church, Scouts, Girl Scouts, DAR, 10th LMM, William
<br />Diamond Junior Fife & Drum, Lions Club (White Tricorn, USS Lexington, virtual road
<br />race), 1st Parish Church for Dan Fenn memorial (or reach out to Tom Fenn), Paul Revere
<br />group.
<br /> Don’t need DPW, Police or others normally included to support live events.
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