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Lexington Youth Commission
Minutes of Meeting Held on Thursday, November 14th, 2024
A Meeting of the Lexington Youth Commission was held on Thursday, November 14th,
2024. The meeting began at 7:00pm at the LPD Community Room.
Absent: Sophie Glavine, Eliza Babson, Arden Carey, Samantha Quattlebaum, Amanda
Quattlebaum, Sadie Maloney, Bariza Quader, Nethra Ramaiah, Eva Benet, Raghav
Shrivastava, Gabriella Costello, Lucy Applegate, John Kefalas, Margot Byers, Sophie Glavin,
Tom Romano, and Doug Lucente
Present: Sarah Kochi, Meera Krishnan, Sofia Saleeby, Jack Gehring, Vivian Lou, Sonal Setty,
Brett Robinson, Jay Krishnan, Sarah Beutell, Ava Kieval, Deb Hankins, Kristina Hankins,
Victoria Wu, Sophie Read, Carys Roberts, Sarah Chen, Keya Doshi, Shannon DeGugielmo,
Emma Kain, Andrew Najarian, Owen Rosenthal, Rohan Banerji, Henry Kamich, Carys
Roberts, Brooke Pan, Blake St. Louis, Kimly Nguyen, Alice Ma, Emily Hoefkens, Aaron Yu,
Rohan Singh, Bart Byers
Halloween Balloon Hanging
- The event went well but some people had to stay later than anticipated and there
wasn't enough pizza for the group. During our discussion, it was determined there was
enough pizza for each person to take 2 pieces. Not sure why one group had to stay an
additional half-hour to 1:30, Deb will work on this for next year with the merchants.
2000 Pound Food Pantry Event
- We are meeting this Saturday (Nov 16th) at 12:00 at C&W, 240 Bedford Street, to
collect food for the food pantry
- All bags should be collected by this time, if you can not attend, please give your bags to
someone who will be able to bring them. You can also just drop your bags off at C&W
at any point before Saturday.
- This year we will not be bringing the bags to the food pantry, and we will instead just
load the food into milk crates on the bus
Turkey Dinner Deliveries - Wednesday, November 27th, 2:30 at C & W.
- Drivers are - Jack Gehring, Isabella Barbesino, Sophie Glavin, Gabriella Costello, and
Arden? We will meet at C&W at 2:30 on Wednesday, November 27 to hand out
Thanksgiving dinners to families in need.
- This service project we are working with the Rotary Club and Wagon Wheel. Shannon
is our liaison organizes the deliveries/locations assignments so that it's easy for us to
drop it off.
- This event is completely confidential. Under no circumstances can you share
information about the people receiving dinners and there will not be any pictures taken
at this event.
Who can attend as delivery helpers: Sofia Saleeby, Meera, Jack, Ava, Sarah, Brett,
Jay, Andrew, Rohan, Bart, Carys, Sonal, Brooke, Emma, Kimly, Sophie, Vivian, Emily,
Kahyal, Aaron, Henry, Sarah, Margot, Amanda, Nethra, and Sadie.
Depot Square Tree Lighting, Friday, November 29th, 5:00 pm, we are done by 7:00 a the
latest.
- Meet at William Raveis in the center at 5:00 on Friday, Nov 29
- People will put on costumes or the can be helpers, and we will go into Depot Square
where we will hand out candy canes and bells to people
- We can expect a couple of hundred people at the Depot, we hand out the bells to
adults and children, our hope is to make sure everyone has a bell to ring.
- We also mingle in the crowd, taking pictures with the kids and adults, (each costume
should have 2 other people with them at the maximum). Once we have handed out the
bells we will join in with the holiday carols. See pics from last year.
- Who can attend the Tree Lighting: Sofia, Meera, Jack, Sarah, Owen, Brett, Rohan,
Jay, Andrew, Bart, Carys, Alice, Victoria, Sonal, Sarah Chen, Keya, Emily, Sophie,
Kahyal, Gabriella, Sophie G, Margot, Amanda, Sadie Maloney, and Nethra
Bell and ribbon tying in Room 214, Monday, Nov 18th, after school.
People who can attend: Sofia, Meera, Jack, Owen, Rohan, Andrew, Rohan, Henry, Kahyal,
Sophie, Brooke, Keya, Sarah Chen, Vivian
250 Calendar Flipping, Monday, December 2nd at 10:00 am.
- We are meeting at 10:00 am in front of Town Hall to take a picture flipping the
calendar - There is no school that day!
- Who can attend: Sofia, Meera, Jack, Ava, Sarah Chen, Brett, Owen, Jay, Rohan,
Henry, Rohan, Bart, Carys, Alice, Victoria, Sonal, Sarah, Keya, Emma, Brooke, Sophie,
Vivian, Sarah Kochi, Emily, Gabriella, Margot, Amanda, and Sadie
Toys for Tots, Saturday, December 7th from 12:00 - 4:00.
- Meet outside CVS on Saturday, Dec 7 at 12:00. The event will go until 4:00, but you are
not obligated to stay the whole time.
- We dress up in costumes outside CVS and we play holiday music
- People will stop by and drop off gifts for kids. Some people go into CVS and buy toys if
they didn't bring anything.
- Last year we collected the most toys out of all the towns in the area (see attached pics)
- Who can attend: Sofia, Meera, Jack, Sarah, Brett, Jay, Andrew, Henry, Blake, Rohan,
Bart, Carys, Victoria, Keya, Emma, Sophie, Kimly, Vivian, Kahyal, Sarah Kochi, Sophie
G, Gabriella, Sadie, Amanda, and Nethra.
Patriot's Day Parade
- The parade will be Saturday, April 19th
- Instead of building a float, we are going to act as a hype squad for the parade
- We are going to go down the route before the parade in golf carts, and we will hand out
flags to people before the parade starts and get everyone excited for the parade with
some fun music and enthusiasm!
- We will also have reserved seating at the end of the route so that we can watch the
parade ourselves
Tom's Time
- Tom wanted to give a shoutout to anyone who volunteered at the haunted house at the
community center. The event ran very well.
Our next Meeting is Thursday, December 12th at 7:00 pm at the Lexington Police
Department Community Room. As always attendance is necessary!
Respectively Submitted,
Sarah Kochi