HomeMy WebLinkAbout2008-10-30-TOUR2-Antony-min Tourism Committee Meeting
Antony Working Grown
October 30, 2008,4PM
Town Office Building,Room 111
Present:Dawn McKenna, John Patrick.
Absent: Susan Bennett, Mary Jo Bohart,Kerry Brandin,Bebe Fallick,Paul O'Shaughnessy, John
Ott,Lou Sidens 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 10th 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
LASCA@tourlexinaton.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