HomeMy WebLinkAbout2008-10-30-TOUR2-Antony-minTourism Committee Meeting
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October 30, 2008, 4P1VI
Town Office Building, Room 111
Present: Dawn McKenna, John Patrick.
Absent: Susan Bennett, Maiy Jo Bohai t, Kerry Brandin, Bebe Fallick, Paul O'Shaughnessy, John
Ott, Lou Sideris Staff: Masha Traber. Selectmen Liaison Peter Kelley
Guests: Tony Galaitsis, Barbara Hutsizer, Bud & Shirley Frawley, Elsa Sullivan
The Selectmen have authorized the Tourism Committee to plan for a 10 year reunion with our
Sister City of Antony, France. Previous participants that could be identified were invited to
attend an initial planning meeting.
There is interest from our colleagues in Antony for this reunion as well.
The previous exchange committee was never dissolved. Cerise Jalelian has leftover funds from
the previous exchange and will turn them over to the Town for placement in a Selectmen's Sister
City gift account. The group had no objection to the Town holding the funds for the Sister City
activities.
It was agreed that if the Minutemen are interested in participating, we should have a reunion. The
Frawleys will put a letter in the paper asking for interest. Dawn will contact the Minuteman to
see if there is sufficient interest.
It was suggested that we follow the request of Antony officials and plan our visit there for
September of 2009 (during 9/11 -9/13 festival), and then ask them what time of year they would
prefer to come to Lexington, October 2009, April 2010, or May 2010.
The group concurred that as part of the time in Lexington we should surprise the Antony
delegation by naming something after Antony. We all need to work to figure out an appropriate
location for this honor.
Jolm Patrick agreed to be part of a small 2 -3 person delegation from Lexington on behalf of the
Tourism Committee to go to Antony and plan the trip in the next 1 -3 months.
The Antony website needs to be updated. Dawn will look into setting up an email for
LASCAQtourlexin ton.us and ask Kerry if we can create an LASCA Antony page on the
website.
We will schedule another meeting when we have more information.
Respectfully submitted by Dawn McKenna