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Tourism Committee Meeting <br />Antony Working Grq, p <br />October 30, 2008, 4P1VI <br />Town Office Building, Room 111 <br />Present: Dawn McKenna, John Patrick. <br />Absent: Susan Bennett, Maiy Jo Bohai t, Kerry Brandin, Bebe Fallick, Paul O'Shaughnessy, John <br />Ott, Lou Sideris Staff: Masha Traber. Selectmen Liaison Peter Kelley <br />Guests: Tony Galaitsis, Barbara Hutsizer, Bud & Shirley Frawley, Elsa Sullivan <br />The Selectmen have authorized the Tourism Committee to plan for a 10 year reunion with our <br />Sister City of Antony, France. Previous participants that could be identified were invited to <br />attend an initial planning meeting. <br />There is interest from our colleagues in Antony for this reunion as well. <br />The previous exchange committee was never dissolved. Cerise Jalelian has leftover funds from <br />the previous exchange and will turn them over to the Town for placement in a Selectmen's Sister <br />City gift account. The group had no objection to the Town holding the funds for the Sister City <br />activities. <br />It was agreed that if the Minutemen are interested in participating, we should have a reunion. The <br />Frawleys will put a letter in the paper asking for interest. Dawn will contact the Minuteman to <br />see if there is sufficient interest. <br />It was suggested that we follow the request of Antony officials and plan our visit there for <br />September of 2009 (during 9/11 -9/13 festival), and then ask them what time of year they would <br />prefer to come to Lexington, October 2009, April 2010, or May 2010. <br />The group concurred that as part of the time in Lexington we should surprise the Antony <br />delegation by naming something after Antony. We all need to work to figure out an appropriate <br />location for this honor. <br />Jolm Patrick agreed to be part of a small 2 -3 person delegation from Lexington on behalf of the <br />Tourism Committee to go to Antony and plan the trip in the next 1 -3 months. <br />The Antony website needs to be updated. Dawn will look into setting up an email for <br />LASCAQtourlexin ton.us and ask Kerry if we can create an LASCA Antony page on the <br />website. <br />We will schedule another meeting when we have more information. <br />Respectfully submitted by Dawn McKenna <br />