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Minutes Town Celebrations Committee November 18, 2010 Ellen Stone Room, Cary Hall Members present Suzie Barry, Linda Dixon, Jo-Anne Granger, Julie Miller, Wayne Miller, Sandy Podgorski, Dave Taylor and Bob Tracey Members not present Dick Crogan, Mary Gillespie, Paul Jenkins, Sondra Lucente, Bill Mix, Henry Murphy, Charlie Price, John Rossi and Jim Shaw Business  Suzie Barry called the meeting to order at 7:30 pm.  Approval of the November 4, 2010 minutes was tabled. Veterans’ Day, Thursday, November 11, 2010 Feedback  Additional No Parking signs need to be posted in the vicinity of the Massachusetts Avenue, Bedford Street and Harrington Road area.  We need to do a better job of escorting event participants to the podium.  Assign someone to help raise and lower the microphone for the speakers.  Ask if Wilson Farm would be willing to donate an additional dozen flowers (totaling five dozen), due to the increasing number of veterans attending the ceremony.  Suzie mentioned that in years past, at the conclusion of the ceremony, the parade marched back to the step off point followed by a small reception. She will look into doing this again. Patriots’ Day, Monday, April 18, 2011  Applications are still coming in.  Linda will ask if the Tufts ROTC group would like to participate in the afternoon parade.  Linda is looking for a contact at the National Guard.  Jeanne Krieger will be chief marshal of the afternoon parade.