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Part 1 (Video ID: OFYUjd3ZwOI):
- 00:00:04: Meeting Commences; Attendance and Approval of March Minutes
- 00:02:15: Funding Update: Samson Fund, Donations, and Parade Details
- 00:03:53: Fundraising: Ad Sales, House Tour Donation Letter
- 00:04:56: Merchandise: Kingston Police Patch, Proclamation Day Table
- 00:06:53: Merchandise & Planning: Art Gallery Update, Program Printing
- 00:08:33: Planning: Art Show Registration, Venue Details and Logistics
- 00:14:53: Art Show: Advertising, Networking, and Marshfield Fair System
- 00:19:27: Art Show: Signage, Transfer Station, Volunteer Coordination
- 00:23:38: Proclamation & Stone: Design, Wording, Location Dedication
- 00:28:56: Proclamation Day: Craft Show, Dignitaries, Food Trucks
- 00:30:18: Proclamation Day: Vendor Timing, Brewery, Logistics Check
- 00:33:22: Proclamation: State House Contact, Live Music, Memorial Parade
- 00:36:06: Parade: Permitting, Contacting Participants and Route Time
- 00:37:42: Parade: Kingston 300th Commemorative Patch Initiative
- 00:43:33: Parade: Floats, Old Home Day Concerns and Committments
- 00:44:26: Old Home Day: Activities, Layout, Staffing, and Parking Concerns
- 00:51:29: Old Home Day: Carnival Company, Softball, and Themed Games
- 00:55:52: Historic Tours: Dunbar, Boatyard, Arms House and Historical Garden
- 00:58:20: Marketing and Promotion: Radio, Chorus Board, Local Scene
- 00:59:54: Marketing and Promotion: Fire Dept. Alerts, Election Coverage
- 01:01:47: Marketing: Ice Cream, Vendors, Ice Cream and Business Sponsors
- 01:03:22: Marketing: Donation Signs, Signage Contacts and Turkey Trot
- 01:05:12: Concluding Remarks and Motion to Adjourn


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All right. Good evening. I call to order the Kingston Committee at 5:15. Um, we do have a couple members online, so we'll go through with the roster. Um, John Bartlett, chair here, >> Jana Morphy here, Chris Morano,

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Halibar, Emily Bruce, Tucker, >> and Mine, >> Don Alenry, Michael Anatra. >> Okay. >> Ashley Lions, Girl Scouts.

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>> Hey, welcome. >> And we also have um >> Joe Cunningham. Yep. >> I think it's Joe and Joe. >> Joe, you're muted. >> Both Joe. >> Hi, I'm here. >> Thank

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>> members here. I don't know if you have a chance. Uh we do have the uh meeting minutes from the March 18th meeting. Um, if you have a chance to look them over and see if there's anything you need to change and I'll take a motion to approve them. Please let me know if there's any misspellings too.

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>> Great to me. >> Oh, my name spelled wrong. >> Where? April fools. >> April 1st. >> You got Lilia Singalani right. And that's a hard name to spell. city is a big area name and I grew up in

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PL so >> thank you credit for that >> I'll take it >> all right I move that we approve these minutes as presented >> second >> okay um any discussion hearing none all in favor

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>> I >> any opposition >> I >> All right >> I >> thank you >> that wasn't in that was four not again face. >> Yep. >> I can say

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>> um so moving on to funding. Um so last night I went in front of the Samson fund and they ended up taking a vote to move forward on some of their proposals. We initially asked for $50,000. Um there is not enough money to fund all the

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projects. So um they asked if we would do 40,000. So they did take a vote and preliminary we have $40,000 going to town meeting for the vote. >> That's great. So, that should cover our fireworks and details. Um, so that will leave our other monies for the parade

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and stuff like that. And I'll give an update on the parade in a minute. Um, so as of yesterday in our um account, we had about $47,000. And then we also have the recent donations of $6,000 from the book club

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and then the $9,000 from the um >> the gala. Um, we also 1300 and the 1,700 from the cultural committee and then there was also a few thousand dollar in there for merchandise. Correct. >> Yeah. 500 left. >> I didn't break my folder, but everything

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you gave me, I deposited as soon as you gave me. Great. So, if you pulled that balance yesterday, it should be in there. >> Well, the 47 is just uh from the past. So, I didn't I didn't go and check. I know in the middle of doing stuff for this upcoming year. >> Perfect. That's good money.

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>> That's a good That's good money. Yeah. >> Yeah. So, um, we'll be moving forward this week with the with a lot of the parade details, but that's going to take a good chunk of change. So, >> anybody else have anything with, um, funding or fundraising?

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>> No. Um, my my fundraising uh, girl, Donna Apple, is going to be making a a deposit to Trisha and um, I don't know when. I thought she was doing it before this meeting, but I guess not. So, she's got quite a bit to give you to >> Okay. From from ads, from selling ads

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and that you asked me um John about putting something in for the house. I would like to put in the letter that states if people would like to donate $25 to be listed in the book event boarding. Is that is that okay or is that kind of funky?

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>> Say that again. You should be able to >> Yeah. You think before it's kind of like before the fact because we haven't even talked about the house tour, but I'm asking people if they want to donate $25 to be in the back page, have their name. >> We need that before the house tour

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starts with the booklet. >> We do, but we haven't really advertised the fact that there is a house yet. So, but you think it's okay to do that? >> Well, it's on all of our flyers and it's on the website. So, we have started. >> Okay. Okay. Well, we haven't really started. Okay.

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>> Okay. All right. >> Um, I have something if, um, if it wasn't brought up already. Um, Kingston police, uh, Cody Weber put together a Kingston 300th patch. Um, a police patch that was selling at the station for $10

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a piece. Um, we're we're also wearing a couple of the officers are allowed to wear them on their uniforms. So, we're going to be wearing a couple of those. So, you'll see them. It's basically the same police patch. And across the bottom, it's got a rocker panel that says Kingston 300th. Um, we're

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estimating, well, Officer Weber is estimating roughly $1,500 if they all sell. Um, anybody can buy them. They just stop by the station. It's cash or check and they're $10 a piece and they're at the front window 247 with dispatch where

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they can purchase them there. >> Um, whenever that whenever that's all sold out, they were selling like hotcakes. >> Um, I don't know how when the estimated time is that they're going to sell out, but at least before the or around the time of the parade or the old home day

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or one of the other functions, uh we should have that all uh squared away. >> Okay, cool. Thank you. And thank you to the police. Um if anyone hasn't seen those, they um we did put them up on our Facebook page. >> Great. Police and the police association as well.

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>> Donna at Apple did give you $585 >> March 14th. She's out of that. Okay, good. >> All right. Anybody have anything else on funding? >> Anything on merchandise? >> Okay.

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>> Just to say out loud, it'd be great to have a table. Obviously, we wouldn't make them pay the vendor fees for the police at the proclamation day to sell those if they're willing. >> If they still have them. >> If they still have them. Yeah, that's true. That's not June 27th to them. Sure. Or we can sell them at a merch

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table, too. But just saying that out loud, that'd be great. Yeah. >> And by we, you mean Artfest? >> No, I'm talking about Proclamation Day. >> Oh, okay. >> There's no longer a vendor fair for the art festival. It's on June 27th. >> So, I don't I I'm going to withhold who

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the US is until it gets closer, but >> I'll do it. I'll do it. >> There's a lot now happening on that day. >> 27th. That's a big day. >> It is going to be a big day. >> That's the letter. How would you like me to present it? Can you put it on for me? >> Yeah. Or can you make an announcement?

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>> Yeah. >> I'll work that out. Yeah. >> Sure. Thank you. >> Um just since we're on merchandise, um you're still good with having a merchandise table at the act show at one of the location, correct?

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>> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We can figure out what the best place is, but sure. Absolutely. >> All right. So, moving on to planning. Paula, anything to close out with the gallery? >> No, no, I'm I'm closed.

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>> Any more? >> No, I can't print on them. They're toothpick and I can't print those sets of paper. >> Working on it. >> And you know what? I mean, it's okay. Like, I can I can drop off the programs that I still have and and do it that way, too. This is no big deal.

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>> Is it? I know. Oh, it's just >> So now you're probably like 10 minutes and then it takes two hours later thing I'm like which took 10 minutes and then I'm like oh and then it just jams. >> Okay. Okay. Sorry. >> All right. Um so Emily the art show

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we're back. >> Yeah, we're back on um Yes. So we had a meeting last week. >> Yeah, last week. >> It feels like a thousand years ago. Um no, we're in we're in good shape. So the registration is out. The last time I checked, I think we had nine

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registrations. Nine artists have registered. We're hoping to get up to 75. So, we got a ways to go. But the event is live. The flyers everywhere I could have gotten it so far. Um, uh, Kingston Recre just sent it out today via email.

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>> Yeah. And if anybody needs wants a printed copy, we have a color printer. I'm happy to print them for you. Either, you know, this size or larger 11 by7 if you have a place where it could go. Um, so that's kind of out there and you know we're getting lots of questions and

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stuff via email but it's all working. Um, we are confirmed for the Adams Center, the existing libraries event. They have a then and now exhibit which will be part of the fest. We're not hanging art at the library but that's going to be part of it. The font

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school which is where the retrospective is and the Beal House. I went to see the Adam Center yesterday and met with Donald and um that's going to work out fine. They've got some display cases downstairs that we could use if if if we have like 3D pieces like ceramics or

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whatever. So, he showed me where those were. We kind of walked through the details of what's acceptable to do in there. It's all fine. It's going to work out great. Um we uh at our meeting we talked about um how we troubleshooted

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and came up with a plan for how we're going to display the art for the most part. And one of my members who who was has lived in Kingston a very very long time and remembers when there used to be an art show along Main Street uh remembered that in our basement of the Beiel House we have a couple of we had

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these big platforms like made out of pegboard and 2x4s and stuff that that you'd hang the art on. We still have a couple of them left down there. So after the meeting, uh Ken and Ed New went down there to look at them with her and we're

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going to use a chunk of our cultural council money to replicate that and create several more. Um so Ed and Ken are working on that and I know and Tom Vendetti and they're going to reach out to our Sexton who can build anything and

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have get him to help them. He's already said yes to help them build them. He did. He did. He did. Yeah. It didn't I didn't have to twist his arm much. He didn't know. He doesn't really know what he's agreed to yet, but >> we'll see how that goes. No, fine. >> He's very capable. >> Okay.

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>> But any and all they may they may need some volunteers who know how to build things. And so I may put out an all call at some point if if they ask me if they ask for it. They're kind of in charge of that. So they're going to buy the materials with the cultural council money. And um each each thing is like

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probably almost as long as this table and kind of shaped like an X on its side and you so you hang art on all the sides. Um but that felt like a more feasible way to to do it than trying to get 10,000 easels. So So that's good. Um

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uh the next big push is going to be volunteers. Mhm. >> Um, so we had a good group at the at the at the meeting and I'm going to call on some people there to ask to help me with some of the logistical things like maybe we want to create a signup chis for volunteers. Maybe I need help creating

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all the labels for the artwork and just kind of managing all of that, managing the volunteers, managing the check-in checkout system. you know, we want to make sure somebody on the committee a while ago told a story of being part of an art show where literally someone just walked in, picked up a piece of art, and

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walked out with it. >> So, we're doing very carefully making sure that everything is being locked up, everything is secured, and making sure the artists will hear that so they're not worried about it and we're not worried about it. Um, >> so sign in, people are signing in for

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volunteers or signing in to see the art. >> Signing in? No. uh artists are signing in their work. So basically we're trying we're we're trying to work out a system and I would love I would love to give this to somebody who has like a logistical brain who can own it. So when when the artist signs in so Thursday May

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7th is the when they drop all their stuff off and we're going to do that at Hope Floats because that's in their barn because it's lockable and there's an alarm system. So when they when they're when they show up, they fill out a form and they're given a number which is concealed from the public but put on the

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art and they know the number and we know the number and that's how we mark the art. So at the end on the Saturday they pick up is at by four o'clock on so the last you know an hour after no at their venue they'll know where their where their art's being displayed. They come back and there's already a volunteer

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there with a clipboard with a list of every single piece of art that's there and they correspond the numbers. they make sure they give that art to the person who owns it. >> Does that make sense? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> I don't know that much about art, but I'm learning a lot. So, so we need someone to kind of help dream up and

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manage that system. Um, and I may end up doing it, but like, you know, so, but there's a couple people who came to our meeting who offered to help with hopefully with that sort of thing. So, volunteers before the volunteers. And then we're going to need vol two volunteers per space all day long. And

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uh I think we might break that into two shifts like have someone do 11 to 1, two people do 11 to 1 and two people do 1 to 3 and then another set of volunteers or maybe the same volunteers to stay that extra hour while the Yeah. So the we're we're in logistics land. So but it's all

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it's all going to work out. >> Um and we just need to get more art. So if you know people who are interested in >> you haven't heard anything from Phil Tarantino. >> I don't think so. That name doesn't sound familiar. I heard that he's an artist. >> Do you know if he is yet? >> Yeah.

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>> I don't need I thought I would send him a fly. I sent out three, but I'm trying to rack my brain. >> That's okay. That's okay. >> Oh, yeah. But you need the >> What about the Council on Aging? Do they have like a like an art >> people that come in to do art? I mean, yeah.

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>> Yeah, they have some amazing people come in and do art. >> Yeah. All the art in my office is from >> Really? Council on Aging. So, is um >> Mrs. Val very involved at all? Who? >> Violet Bry. >> Okay. She teaches art at the CO, >> right?

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>> Yeah. She >> Yeah. I mean, it's only been a week, too. So, um, but I but I welcome, especially from this group, ideas of how to get the word out. So, like I've, you know, we have the Facebook event. Everyone who's liked the King Kingston 300th page. I've invited to this event.

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>> Um, so, but that's like, you know, that's only a fraction of the people. So, getting them up around town. We're going to do the radio thing. Doing the rec center thing I think is good. But >> that's going to generate a lot. >> I hope so. >> Does the Council on Aging have a separate email that they send out in

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their group? They don't know. >> They have a newsletter. >> A newsletter. Okay. Send that. It's too >> Yeah. Just um just throwing two things out. As far as a system for organizing, you could kind of imitate the Marshfield fair with their check-ins. like they get

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a number which that way it conceals like who it is and then the card goes next to their piece and again it doesn't show any specific unless you want it and then the check-in checkout's roughly the same thing. Obviously no judging or anything like it's just it matches like this is

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your piece here is your card and they get they have they fill it out twice so you go home with one copy meaning the artist gets one copy and then the other one's put by themselves next to their artwork. So, at the end of the day, there's no confusion because those those tickets line up.

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>> Um, which kind of helps where >> the the sheet I I do honey at the Marshall Fair. So, it's the same setup every year. And when you when there's a form that you sign in, I'd be more than willing to share. And it's like name, address, all that stuff. And it's just for you. And it allows you to make a

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list of like who's coming, who's going, who's dropping it off, etc. which might help a little bit with details because there's going to be the one person that drops it off but forgets to come back. Not saying it's gonna, but you know it does. And then >> it's gonna happen. >> I know. I know. So, you have a phone

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number. And then as far as reaching out, um, as far as Plymouth on the Green, they have a lot of Kingston artists that actually go there. So, they will have a list of their own vendors and stuff that go and some of them are from Kingston.

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Um, okay. And like any of those type events that you know we can uh I think my neighbor's part of it too. I can get the flyer from her which has the contact but needless to say like reaching out to the main person for Plymouth on the green for example say is there any

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Kingston residents or whatever on there which there's at least three that I know go and it would put the word out for artists to like >> Yeah. And we're not restricting it to people who live in Kingston. Just people that are in the area and who have been part of the life of our town. So anyone

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who lives in Plymouth, Carver, Halifax, whatever, they're more than welcome to apply. >> And it's it's big when they do it. There's a there. The last one they did, like the one that I had visited in July, there was like 35. It it was packed. >> So they have a list

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>> of everybody every time that enrolls. Sometimes it's the same people, sometimes it's different. But I would definitely reach out to them. I I I don't know who I would email to to to get that >> like my said my neighbors part of that whole group but they they should have a

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list to give to you and you can just say can you send this flyer to them and if they're interested they'll contact which again you know >> no that's a great idea thank you I was also thinking uh C Plymouth would be a good place to put it uh one of my

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congregants works for C Plymouth and then of course all the churches >> and Um, >> and isn't there a Plymouth Guild for the Arts or something? >> Center for the Arts. I was going to reach out to them, too. >> Um, there's like And maybe maybe I should just get a couple people in a stack of flyers and just wander around

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town and see if people will put up stuff, >> too. Couldn't hurt. I mean, I know a lot of, you know, like businesses and stuff. >> What about the Kingston Business Association? Are they >> They're part of >> I posted in their Facebook group because we're Kingston 300 is part of that Facebook group. Okay. I didn't do all

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the town Facebook pages, like all the groups and stuff, but um >> but yeah, I did do that one. I think I did that one and all things Kingston, but I could do all things Plymouth like >> Yeah, you know. Yeah, I don't want I'm just I'm the amount of some of the feedback that I've gotten from people in

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the group that they don't do digital anything and therefore they'll never hear about anything and they're like >> and so I'm like okay well tell me how to reach to get to those people and I'll do it because I just don't you know everything's online these days. So >> what about the uh transportation

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>> is there is >> Yeah. So I'm going to work with all the boards in town the like display boards. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. um make sure they have all the 300th information. So um >> okay, >> that'll be my next like that could go fire station, the

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>> transfer station, >> our board here. >> Um I think the board at the library is still broken. >> At least one portable. I don't know where they have that. >> Yeah, it'll find out about signage. Um and I'm

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sorry on the Girl Scouts, tell me your name again. Sorry. Ashley. >> Ashley. Okay. We've talked on the phone a couple times. Okay. >> We have. And I was gonna say if if you do the transfer station and set up a table because they've had a lot recently because we've done canning for Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. If you go

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Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday and set up a table to like those flyers. Even if you took a standard 8 by11 and had it in fours and just hand a couple out, you're going to get a ton of people Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday because that's prime

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time for canning days. So just you set up a table, you'll be all set. >> Okay. Done. I would sit there for a couple hours. >> You think so? >> Yeah. I mean, I would I would volunteer to do that. >> Oh. Oh, great. Okay. Yeah, that might be

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awesome. If you don't want to drag out a chair and table in our Boy Scout Girl Scout hut, there is chairs and a table. But if you have your own, just >> Yeah. >> Can people like walk up to the table or is it just your hand and they're driving in?

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>> Whichever you want to do. You set it up. We had a selectman there with his own table as just a couple days ago. There was a selectman. He had a table. He had flyers. He had business cards. He was handing it out. Or you can stand there. We have people walking up looking for signatures for voting and all that

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stuff. So, you choose what you want to work with. They're really easy. You just got to let them know you're coming. >> Yeah. Because I like to do it with you. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. I've never I have a dumpster on my property, so I don't go to the transport station. >> Yeah. Everyone talks about it. >> I know.

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I I'd love to see I don't even have a sticker. So, you know, we'll talk. Yeah. Okay. >> Yeah. So, um I'm probably gonna send an email around to the group that came to the last meeting maybe tomorrow or Friday. I don't know. Today's Easter. I gota I got a lot on my plate. It might be happening next week. But, um just uh

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just reminding everybody that we're here reminding people to share and asking for volunteers >> to help with volunteers. Uh but we're good. We're we're getting there. We're getting there. So, that's it. I think I'll stop. I could go on for a while, but I won't g on long enough. if for the

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next meeting if you have like >> a to-do list we can send out to everyone in advance >> we can kind of just go down that bullet list maybe. >> Yeah, that's a good idea. I do think I need to call another meeting soon because yeah, we haven't done that. Um

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so next meeting and and I'll figure out an agenda that I'll send out uh with that. >> Um but I know we have another meeting in a couple of weeks. Do you think you will need any more money than the cultural money before then? I don't know because I haven't connect. Ken and Ed are

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working on these. The only thing we need to really spend money on is this platform thing, these platform things plural. Um because I think we're going to have a digital program that we will print some copies of for people who need a printed copy. But I can just do that at the church office or if I need to run down

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to Wrint, like if I if I spent like 50 bucks at Wi Print, do I need to get approval for that beforehand? I still have a gift card for like $890. >> Oh, really? Okay. >> We have to vote it. So, but you could run the risk of it not getting voted in

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if you buy it yourself. >> Can I go ahead and Well, it's I don't even I haven't figured out I need a volunteer to to design that thing, too. I haven't even figured that out yet, but I think I that could wait till the next meeting. >> Right. Yeah. If you have anything above and beyond the cultural money, even if you're not sure, just bring it up for a

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vote now so that we can >> I don't think I will because we've got $1,300. All we should do is those platforms and whatever printing cost if I don't use that we print card. >> Okay. >> I mean, there's it's possible something else will come up. We might buy bottled water for the volunteer, you know, like things like that, but we're we're weeks

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away from needing to figure that stuff out. Okay. >> Yeah. Okay. That's it for now. >> All right. So uh moving on to the proclamation and the um dedication of the stone. Um so I did um talk with the colonial stone again. Um

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and he did recommend u doing an 8 in base. So it's still with the stone and the 8 in base and the writing on it. It will still be um around $12 to $1,500. So we're still um below what we loted

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for it. I did get some kind of ideas. People want to take a look at these. Um, if we can kind of >> take a look at what we want to put on for words on there. Um, I know it was brought up about possibly putting that

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the town it was the town green. So, some of those have something similar to that like dedicated either by the whatever group or dedicated at this location. Um, I do know also that the historical commission is thinking of doing small signs or Qout codes. So like you walk up

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to the Obero ground garage and do that and it gives information. Same thing the town green. So I don't know if we want to just wait and see if that will happen or if we do want to put the location where it's going. >> That was kind of what I was picturing when we talked about it last time.

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>> So that um this one >> I did take a picture of one of them. That's >> that that's very similar to what we're going to get. right there. Okay. >> Stones. >> I'm just going for the words. >> Oh, I see. >> I wasn't looking at the words.

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>> Oh, yeah. Sorry. Um, we were initially going to do like a stone with brass on it. Um >> Oh, kind of like this. >> They just did a Yeah, they did something with less words than that. And it was $2,000 for the brass black. So, >> brass. >> Yeah. Okay. >> It's cheaper to engrave the stone than it is.

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>> It's cheaper to get the whole stone, engrave it, and put it in than it is just to get the brass black. Really? >> We didn't see that one. You guys see these >> revolutionary war totally simple words.

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>> The great was not naming people, right? >> People of no served. This is good. Yeah. >> Yeah. So I like this people of Kingston who served in the revolutionary people feel on it maybe. Yeah.

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>> So, um that's the other thing the price does include. We could either do the town seal, but also I don't know if you've noticed the like the minute man that's holding the rifle out like that silhouette. He could put down that on the stone as well. He said >> so that's a possibility too. >> That's all would be the same price.

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>> Both on the bottom. Could you have both? >> I guess you could. Yeah. >> Possibility. Yeah. >> You know what I mean? >> There's not a lot of words. So there could be >> Yeah, I like that. I like that. That's a good idea. >> All right. >> Yeah. Cool.

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>> So, yeah, unfortunately with the people, um, we have two separate lists. One had 97 people that served from this and another one had like 122. If you look at the Civil War one, they they dedicated that 20 years after the Civil War and then many years later, they added people

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to the bottom. So, there's no way for us to even tell now who really did get that accurate. So, I think it's better to just go simple, >> generic. >> Yeah, I like that. I think that's good. >> Yeah, >> we might have some records in our office. I'll double check.

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>> I think that's what >> Yeah, he's been in my vault. >> Yeah. So, um, do we have anything specific or do you just want, um, me to like work with someone else and we'll just do a nice, uh, easy quote very similar to

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>> the one on top right? >> Very similar to that one, right? >> Yeah. >> Oh, no. The other one, >> not the bronze. >> Well, not but just the wording though. These are both very similar. Yes. Okay. >> I like that one.

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Yeah. >> Do we want to put the date on there too? Like the 1775 to 1783? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Oh, in between the two seals. >> Can we put the seals on either side? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Very good. On that. Um so,

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>> and just can we is it going to say honoring the people of Kingston, not the men? >> Uh we'll say um >> those people residents, >> but there are women women were nurse. I'm sure there were nurses and stuff like that. So, >> yeah. So, I was I was thinking people or residents, one of the two.

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>> Okay. Yeah. Either one works. Yeah. >> Or even like this one was uh in memory of soldiers and patriots of the Revolutionary War. That encompasses everybody. They weren't a soldier. They were patriots. >> Yeah, that's true. That makes sense. Yeah. >> Yeah. We'll we'll work on something with that word.

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>> Okay. Awesome. Um so now we've kind of with the art show um having a little bit of a fumble there. We kind of expanded the um proclamation now. >> We did. >> So um we >> recovered. Well, >> yes.

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>> Thank you. >> So the uh what we're thinking now is doing a um what was it? Craft like a craft show started >> make it more of a festival >> in the morning. Yeah. in the morning which will draw people there and then as

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the craft shows not winding down but almost winding down that's when people can come over to uh across the street we'll have the proclamation um so right now what we're planning is I'll do an opening we'll have um we've invited governor lieutenant governor we'll

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invite our um local representatives we'll also um planning to invite there's a said they were new correct >> secretary yeah um the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Um so we're going to invite them as well to attend. Um and

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then we'll um do a local dignitaries too once we have elections. We'll have our um see if our chairman of the board of Slack would like to speak. Um we'll do the proclamation and then we'll move over right uh to the dedication of the stone. Um after that we will um finish

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up that we'll move across the street uh again and we'll have our uh food trucks and um celebration stuff afterwards. >> So times >> so what are we thinking like 11 >> 11 to 3. So, I had a conversation with

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my congregate who was in the vendor circuit and she was the one who was going to and she's willing to help coordinate vendors for this um or at least do the outreach and then I'll help her coordinate them. But, um she said 2 to 6 is too late in the day for vendors. They just won't show up for that. They

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might be earlier in the day. So, we I said what if we did 11 to three keeping the proclamation ceremony at 1. So 11 o'clock, 11 to1 vendor fair, food trucks, whatever we're able to get, maybe some live music and then um and then we can make announcements with the sound system we have about the ceremony

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at 1:00. At 1:00, everyone ostensibly goes across the street, has the ceremony, and then there's another hour of the festival afterwards of the crafts and stuff. >> She said they like to like go earlier in the day and they like to stay as long as possible. So 11 to 3. I mean 11 to Yeah.

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11 to 3. 4 hours feels like. She's like they'd go longer. I'm like I'm not sure we want to. >> Like four hours is a long time. >> I know we planned like two to four for the food and music and stuff. >> I thought we said two to six. >> Sorry, two to six. I know. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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>> Um so um I know I think the um the brewery is planning for that and stuff. Okay. If you if we wanted to extend that, if people wanted to stay and they wanted to extend it a little longer, we could do that as well. Could we get the brewer to show up earlier? >> Um, yeah. I could talk to Ken and see. >> You think they could start at 12?

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>> Uh, 11 feels early for a beer trip. >> 5:00 under. >> Well, I mean, it's like it's a summer afternoon. It's, you know, whatever. And food trucks, too. Not just, you know. >> Yeah. We just have to check with Hope Flo because I think a lot of that was going to be on their property. So,

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>> it's not. It's going to be on the BL. >> Oh, everything's on the B lawn now. >> That's my understanding because we're right across the street, you know. Makes the most sense. >> Yeah. >> Oh, so when I was talking to Ken, he was doing everything over there. They were renting a tent. They were doing >> So, we need to check with Ken for that. >> All the food trucks and stuff like that was there.

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>> Okay. I thought we when we talked about it in the last meeting, I thought we talked about >> Okay, that's fine. >> We'll get all that worked out and we'll get the final um Okay. >> time frame for that. >> Okay. Police detail with people crossing. >> We will. Yes. Um because we're going to be going back. So, we'll we'll look into

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that as well. Yep. So, We said 11 to 3, but then when we said 2 to >> it'll be anywhere between 11 to 6 and we'll finalize that time, >> but it'll be 1:00 for the proclamation and the dedication. >> Okay. >> The Kingston library did that thing with

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the brewery and a bunch of food trucks at the Kingston library and they went they went past five. So just if if you Don could probably tell you the food trucks that they had too. Um, I got a list of uh food trucks from our

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health agent that are already permitted. >> Awesome. >> To to work in Kingston. >> Great. >> So, um, I'll get that to Ken is kind of coordinating, right, Kimra? >> Yeah. >> Um, and I reached out to my contact at the state

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house and she just gave me the email address for the press secretary. But having I also spoke with Kathleen the Linatra and she had already touched base with them. Oh, >> so I didn't want to >> Yeah, exactly. Not yet.

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>> And my cousin at the um state house said it's very much something the lieutenant governor would probably be interested in. >> Do you not want do did do you want to reach out to the veterans um for with your contract contact >> or is it your contact just through just

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Okay. Okay. Yeah. Okay. >> And I think I'll talk to Ken about the fair part of this and make sure we're get on the same page. We were also thinking about having live music. Not during the ceremony obviously, but before and after. Yes. >> Because we've got a little outdoor sound

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system like two speakers and a microphone that we can that I'm >> you know agreeing to use. So if we have like a couple artists like each do like half hour sets like local people that you know that might be make it a little more >> too much.

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>> Yeah it would be awesome. Well J Caboni mentioned that there was a song like a marching band song written specifically for Kingston >> Kingston. Yes. >> And we were going to talk to the high school band about that. >> Yeah. >> Oh >> that would be cool. >> But I don't know that we've ever done

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that who contacted the high school. Um, we're still in the process of trying to for the Memorial Day parade. There's >> Okay. >> I don't know. Um, that's on my list for tomorrow. I just spoke with the veterans agent. >> Okay. >> Our contacts with them haven't gone anywhere. So, they're supposed to be in

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this year's parade, but Memorial Day. >> So, I will find out a little bit more tomorrow. >> Okay. Um, and as far as our veterans contact, that's John. >> Oh, yeah. No, no, no. I thought you had a contact for the veteran secretary. >> No. Okay.

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Um, that's all I have. >> Uh, any other ideas for proclamation? >> I don't think so. Should be fun. >> Are you um you going to have a podium there? >> Yes. >> You going to use that same podium we had with the with the town seal. Looks so good.

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>> More than likely. Yes. >> Oh, good. Well, that's actually the we may be getting one of the fights. >> Oh, sure. Sure. >> We'll have their symbol so I rather the town symbol. Yeah. >> Yeah. Oh, it was only a sticker. It looked good. >> Was that Where did that podium come from? Did it belong to Jones River or

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>> No. >> Oh, great. Yeah. But you put this sticker on. It was beautiful. That was a good idea. >> I won't be able to center it again, though. So, >> all right. Um, so moving on to the parade. Um, so while you guys were all

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um stressing out over the art show, um, we got delayed quite a bit with the parade. Um, finally have everything in because of the blizzard. We got delayed a couple weeks with permitting. Everything is in with the state. Everything's in with the state police preliminary. Everything looks good. So, we're moving forward. Um, haven't really

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gone out and contacted anyone. We we've gotten some information. Um, Ashley, I believe you were one of them, too. I apologize. We um will be sending out information this week on the uh this week or early next week on the parade um and what it's going to entail. Um, so we

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did have a bunch of ideas, but we're going to have our meeting um, very shortly and we'll get everything going on that. So, I don't have anything new on that except the permits are all in and we're hopefully ready to go with the route >> time. What's the time on that? >> Time is 11 o'clock. >> Okay. >> Um, >> I like we're consistent with the 11 a.m.

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start time. >> Ours is 11 a.m. start time, too, right? All right. >> We didn't want to go too late in the day because it's the middle of July. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Christine Sabre, ring a bell. I gave you her name. She asked me if you

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had had any meetings or whatever. Definitely want to be on board the planning of the parade. >> I have her right now. Good. Okay, that's all I told her I would ask. >> Once our next meeting is figured out, I will send that to her. And >> thank you. She Yeah, she's very serious about >> Yeah, I have about two other people that

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are interested as well. So, that will bring us up to about seven, so that'll work. Okay. >> Good. Perfect. >> Yep. by all means. >> So, moving on now. >> What about the badges for parade? Marine, did you want to >> Oh, actually, if she's on here, we can

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talk about that. Um, actually there. >> Yeah. >> Um, so, um, instead of going back and forth with emails, um, the patches and stuff, um, we didn't have any plans for them, but that's not a bad idea. U, what were you thinking? >> Um, so I was basing it honestly because

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it's two colors of thread. I had looked at your t-shirt for the Kingston 300. Um, you also had a um, we can design it however we want, but the design alone that you did on the 300 t-shirt. Um, we could just do a simple blue circle, same thing, the white lettering, everything.

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So, it's literally a copy paste. What I thought was if you're already doing t-shirts and caps and the um blanket and the other stuff, it's like you might as well if it if you guys were interested um depending on

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what your thoughts are like we could get in in bulk which in bulk means it will be less of a price cuz as they go and what I thought is the Boy Scouts would be in on it, the Girl Scouts would be in on it. people, civilians, people probably would pay for a patch, which we

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could sell at your merchandise booth, whether it's during the art fair or the proclamation. Like, if you're already going to have these events, you might as well put up merchandise as much as you can, so you'll raise a little extra penny cash to build up for the parade. Um and between um the four Girl Scout

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troops and the several Boy Scout troops, we can get the word out on our end as well as whether it's putting out orders and seeing if people want them. Like I was going to go off of what you guys were thinking, but outreaching not a problem. Um

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but as far as the design, I can come up with a couple, but I kind of thought simple and easy what you did on the t-shirt was perfect. >> Yeah. So, as far as what we were thinking, we weren't. You are the one who brought this to our attention. We never thought about patches before. So,

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we don't even know like what size, what like what's a patch about? >> Um, so the simple the simple part of it like we're going to do the Memorial Day parade for Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. So, we wear vests and um on the front are badges and on the back are what

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called fun patches. When they participate in an event, it's not just to have and to put on. It's also a symbol of like something they participated in and they do talk about it and etc. Um, so as far as the 300th, I mean it's a once in a-lifetime

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opportunity. So having the patch in itself is something that most of them will transfer between their vests as far as Girl Scouts is concerned because we have different levels. Um, so the reason why I was bringing it up is um, we would be interested whether designing or

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whichever. Um, but yeah, it's kind of like in I guess you can compare it to like a baby book where it's like it's something that's there. It's a symbol. It has a timeline and it says this is something we did. And people do fight

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over patches. So, I mean, it it is it's popular as far as Girl and Boy Scouts. So, um, but I wanted to go off of what you guys' plans were. Um I like I said I saw what you did for your merchandise in itself and so if you're doing a merchandise booth if you want we can we

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can put together something and come up with a couple of designs based on what you had and you can say yay or nay. But if you didn't have an interest in it then we would just need your approval to be able to make one and then we can do it itself. Um, but if you did want to

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sell some as well as the merchandise, I can get some quotes and as well as some um some things from uh two of the embroiderers that we were looking at to design it. So, I guess this is where it's open for questions.

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>> We kind of have our stuff that we we've done. So, I'm open to new stuff. >> Yeah. >> Sure. If would you like to bring We have another meeting in two weeks on the 15th. Would you do you think that's enough time? Would you like to come up with some designs and some costs and bring it back to us? >> Yep, that's not a problem. I can do

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that. I can come up with quotes as well as um if I I know that the police came up with their own. I don't know if um which one they went through. So, do you remember the company you guys went through? >> We went through I believe it was Ghost Patch.

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>> Ghost Patch. Okay. We have a couple from um GSMA aka Girl Scouts and um they do stuff so I just didn't know which one you use but um I wrote them down as well and yeah I can come up with a couple quotes as well as designs I'll submit um

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John I assume I would send them to you and then you and the board can go over and kind of vote which ones you like and then >> Yeah, we can do that. Um, but as far as our end, we can definitely get the word out if like even

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bringing up the transfer station. We have no problem doing a small booth saying, "Would you like to buy a patch?" And it's like they will pay for themselves. So, I'm not worried about that. But, um, but yeah, so I've I've got plenty of ideas, but I just wanted to go off of your vision before I sail

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off. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Right. What would be a point of contact to do this? Do you want me to go straight to John or just like is there a group or email that you guys >> Well, I I have the logo that you can use so you can I can get you that artwork.

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>> That'd be fantastic. >> You want me to be the intermediary? >> Yeah, sure. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, stick with me. Um j morsy kingston.gov. >> Okay. >> Or call me. You you can call me tomorrow. >> I was going to say we'll we'll chat or

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you can just come down. Yeah. you're in the you'll probably be down there. So, I I'll just come on down and I'll get some designs and stuff tonight and >> we'll we'll chat tomorrow. >> Awesome. Great. >> Thank you, Ashel. You're welcome. >> All right, that's fun.

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>> I had patches. >> Yeah. >> Oh, trust me. Some of them were already talking at a potential float, which I saw the float was 25. So, I just want to make sure like we follow you guys' rules. I mean, we have our Girl Scout rules which are 100% very ironclad strict and I just wanted to know what

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you guys but I'm sure that's going to come in the details that he'll send out. >> Yeah, it's going to be coming up. We we don't want to restrict anyone. So, the 25 is we're just going to ask for a donation. If a group can't pay for it, they're not going to be excluded. >> So, um we're going to be welcoming floats. Yeah,

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>> it's for the town. It's it's >> Yeah, 25's not breaking the bank when we're all helping each other. So, >> yeah. Exactly. That was great. Um, so, uh, moving on the parade. Um, Mike, you have anything for old home day.

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Mike, I couldn't get the button to unmute it. Um, okay. So, I know, uh, people are a little concerned because I haven't been in a lot of meetings. I just had quite a bit going on, um, between last year and this year. Sorry, I apologize for not

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being uh being so informative and and uh missing quite a few meetings. Um I do have it all up in my head on what we're looking to do. Uh myself, Joe, and Joe Junior. Um so pretty much um I'm going to just

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run I just did a quick list in my head because uh the book that I have is at work that when I write down my ideas. Um so roughly September 19th, which is when we're doing the old home day. Sunset is at 6:45 p.m. So, we're looking to do to

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have it have the fireworks, have a good enough display, so give it a little bit of time for it to get dark. So, I'm thinking we may do the old home day between 4 and 8, like a 4 hour block. Um, that's just a thought throwing it

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out there, just suggestion wise. Um the I believe it was the agricultural fair. They uh have been nice enough to step back from not having their annual day that weekend um so that we can pretty much so there's no conflict. We were

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going to try to do it together but then we worried about space and worried about crowds and stuff. they actually graciously uh allowed us that you know to give us the day basically um so that whatever they normally do won't interfere what we're looking to do. Um

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obviously we're still looking to do the metal muffin um I'm still thinking about the whole golf ball drop um potato sack race, onelegged parent sibling race. Um looking to have a DJ there. I have

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one secured already. um to have a DJ going because that's going to coincide along with the fireworks >> because the fireworks are going to actually when they're going off, they're actually going to have a theme song that's going to go with them which is going to play over the speakers for the DJ. Um I was thinking about also having

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a band possibly to intermittently in between, but again I got to see about cost. These are all ideas that we're throwing out and that we're myself, Joe, and Joe are going to brainstorm um and come up with stuff and then once we get

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closer, we'll see what we can and can't do. Um obviously 42nd Brewery, we're going to have them there. Um we're going to have the authorized, the big word authorized food trucks there. Um looking to have maybe three to four of those there. um roughly maybe an authorized

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ice cream truck uh for the kids. Um again, another thing that we were looking to do is a home run derby. Well, I'm going to do a home run wooden bat softball derby. So, it makes it a little bit more difficult and a little bit more

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competitive for these strong youths that think they're going to knock the ball out of the park. Because when I have the softball derby over at the uh when I do my softball tournament, you would not be s you would

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be so surprised on all these mus muscle guys that can't hit it out of out of the over the fence. Um also like basically maybe see about face painting, adding that in there for the kids, you know, some I want it to be age appropriate for the young kids but also

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entertaining for, you know, some of the adults. Uh we'll figure out a layout using that whole football field. Um once we figure out what we're going to be doing, um then Joe and I are going to see recruit people to run each station,

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those people in turn are going to recruit people to help them at that station. So, I also have um when I did the when I helped out with the police citizens police academy, uh we have roughly nine people that helped us um that nine

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people that attended that. They I brought that up at a little get together that we had just recently and they are all on board on trying to uh come down and help out and whatever we need them to do. Uh Citizens Academy, I went over the

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patches. Um, I may need to obtain some caution tape and some netting and stuff, but that's min minuscule stuff that I could scrape, scrum, and beg and borrow and ste. I mean, I didn't say steel, um, borrow. Um, the netting I could use. The

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same thing that I used, the town has that orange netting that we used as a uh, distance for the uh, the derby. I'll talk to uh KYBSL to see about if I can get that uh pitching thing so that you're not we're not actually pitching a uh softball to god knows how many people

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that are going to look to get into it. Um we may do maybe a buy in for that and it'll be a 50/50 raffle. Um so 50 would go back to the to the um to the Kingston comm the uh 300 committee and then the other half would be for that person to

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actually run it that wins it. So ideally 4:00 if we started 4 to 8 sunset would be around 6:45 give or take. As it gets darker, maybe we turn the lights on for the stadium and then

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when we're ready to do the fireworks to kick uh mean for everybody to leave, we basically shut the lights off and then the fireworks start. So, it's like a little dramatic ending to it. Uh we are going to have a a fire detail around the clock for the fireworks once they come

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in from start to finish. I'm still thinking two police details, one for inside the complex, one one for outside of the complex. When they're done directing traffic out at the top of the hill, the person that's up there, they're going to come back in so that we

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have a smooth path for any fire apparatus or police apparatus that we need to get in there. Um, we also may have a couple of volunteers. We'll give them a couple of yellow vests, maybe the search team or something. We'll have them come down. um whereas they could help with direct and traffic. The only

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thing that I can think of that may be an issue and I have no idea how big this will go or go over is going to be the parking issue. That's always a parking issue. Parking issue itself. Um I may have to or may ask maybe to park at the

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town hall and have people walk down. I don't know about that. the Hilltop. I I really don't want to uh infringe on their property and what they're doing. So, depending on how many people we have and how it works out, I'll have to address that as we get a little bit

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closer. But, that's one concern that I'm just thinking about, you know, at the off the top of my head for um for that stuff. Um and then the other thing is I forgot who it was that sent it to me. They uh mentioned a uh there was a a carnival

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like a carnival company that uh goes around and does some stuff, >> right? >> Um I may look into that to see what the issue what you know cost uh insurance etc. Um for that maybe to have a couple of little things, you know, to to mix it in. I think it'll be a fun fantastic

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day. Um I'm all about having fun. I'm all about taking too much on my plate. So why not add this? >> Um So, right now I'm planning the softball tournament that's coming up in August. I'm part of National Night Out. That's

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some in August. Then >> then I'll be doing the old home day and then I go right into Santa's run and then I think I go to sleep for into in a coma for about three, four, five weeks. >> Um, and I think that is pretty much everything I have off the top of my

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head. I'm a I'm a guy that once we put it on paper and once we meet it snowballs and we pick everything up and then we throw it all on paper and then we figure out all right how much money do I have to use? What can I what can I get? What can we fill and then go from there and then you know ideas are always

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welcome as far as what that is. I just don't you know that's something that you know people can email if they have a suggestion just throw that to me rather than brainstorming it out. I would like to keep the cost to be free for most things. Maybe have a couple of prizes of

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some sort. Uh maybe some um Kingston 300th um you know swag that we have. Maybe you know from winning a couple of games here and there. Maybe at the end. Uh maybe we buy a couple of the Kingston Police Batches to give those out as you know as a as a you know a prize.

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>> Yeah. Um the like I said the home run derby when I usually do it I usually do I think I do $10 or $20 a person and it's a 50/50. Um obviously you know maybe $10 is is fine depending on how many people are going to be there and it's it's going to be for four hours

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that you're going to have the opportunity to to do that as many times as you want. Um and then obviously the metal muffin and the golf ball drop would be something that you buy in. It's like $5 a square or something along those lines. So, some

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of the money that some of the thing those are the three things that I would do something with money. The food trucks people are going to buy on their own that they spend their own money. They purchase it on their own. We have nothing to do with that. I'm just going to have maybe three or four trucks there and the ice cream truck to sell items so

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that it's available on on site for them. Uh the brewery, um that's whatever they're going to do, however they do it. um if they're going to be selling selling their beverages or whatever it may be. Um so that's the monetary and then everything else I would like to have

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free with a couple of prizes here and there, whatever they may be. I think that's the gist of it. Um I think I covered everything that I had in the top of my head unless Joe or Joe have anything to chime in on. I think that was everything that we actually

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discussed prior to to the meeting. um and that we have on board. So, in the next week or so, because I also have other stuff going on, the next week or so, we're going to get get together, sit down, >> and then once we sit down, >> yeah, >> we'll start the uh process rolling and

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then go from there. And then we'll bring back a little update every once in a while to see where we're at and if we if there's money to be used or not used, and then how we could spend it and go from there. >> Very good. Um, anybody else have anything with the old home day?

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>> Don't tank. >> I know. I love the dunk tank. >> Who said you're not You know, there's purposely things that are left out of this conversation. >> I just picture you sitting in there.

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>> No, not me. Jeez. Good God. >> Cathy to sit in there. >> Well, there's put it this way. Some things are better off not said and make it a surprise for this thing. >> Gotcha. >> Maybe just like pie in the face. You

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don't have to read it. Don't take >> Yeah, that's possible. >> Oh, I'm not saying just one thing. There's more than one thing that I got on my mind. >> These are all the things in his head he hasn't written down yet. I got you. I got you, man. >> If if anybody has been to any of the events that I've been involved in or

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things that I do, you'll know that it this will be comical at times. So, >> that's great. Love it. >> All right. Um, historic tours, anything? >> Um, we did go visit Pine Dubar, the boatyard and the Drew House, which is

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con in conjunction with the boatyard. Um, not not the best of situations, but we did that. And then we went to the Arms House, Scott and Darling Bang. Absolutely perfect. >> Oh, good. >> Perfect. Perfect. >> Historically restored in beautiful

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condition. All the wood work is original. It's lovely and it's a lovely place. So, I'm happy that we have that. Um, the only big thing that we're focusing on now is getting the director garden up and running. >> Yeah. >> And that's a huge problem. Um, so

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anyway, that's what we're focused on now. It's getting um getting people to work together. you know, >> the person who had maintained it for many years um is very um careful about

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how we do this. And I just said, "Why can't you just label?" Oh, no, no, no. We can't do that because when people are working in the garden, they take over the lab. Oh my god. So anyway, we'll work on it. It'll be fine. >> It'll be fine. >> But yeah. Yeah. So anyway, we'll see. But I I want the garden to be beautiful.

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So we'll work on it. It'll be fine. Yeah, maybe a couple. >> So, is that But do you have like a date in mind like a work party? >> That's what I worked on with her today. I with her on the boat half an hour. >> Yeah. >> And she has to get back to the

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historical society president Carol Anderson. >> I said to her, "The weather is warm now." And I said, "Once it gets into May and June, I said, "We've got clothes that we're doing for the garden club." I said, "There's a lot of other things going on. We've got plant sale. I can't." I said, "You got to get started now." So, I'm pushing. And um yeah, I

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got garden club people that are more than willing to work and do it. That's not the problem. >> All right. >> It's dealing with the people at the their historical society side of it. >> Okay. >> So anyway, we'll work >> and just like what their rules are in respect. >> Well, the fencing is all rotted. The

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posts are rotted. It's falling over and that's up to them to do. >> Right. Right. >> It'll be fine. I really I don't need to burden you with it, but I'm just It's not cake. That's all >> it. Mhm. We'll work it out. It's fine. >> All right. So, marketing and promotion.

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Um, I think we're trying to get as many avenues as we can. Um, I know like we still some of our older folks don't do much social media, so we don't have newspapers like we used to. >> I know. I know. But, you know, that's okay. We'll we'll figure it out. I'm going to email you about the the radio

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thing. >> Yep. Um, we we can um probably uh I'm sure that Mark beaten will put it on the chorus board again. >> That'd be great. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he's amazing. >> I thought that he's doing that. >> He got paid. So, >> I hope so. >> Better check that before he reached out

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to >> I thought Yeah. Yeah. >> I got mine. >> Oh, good. >> I'm sure they got >> Okay. >> Um I have Oh, I'm sorry. The local somebody from the local scene reached out about

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the arts festival, too. So, I sent her a bunch. So, I don't know what's going to happen with that necessarily, but they're they have the flyer. They have all the details. So, >> I wonder if um we can get a copy of the pre-recorded and send it to her and she can play it or something. Play it on

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>> Oh, that's a great idea. >> I don't know. I don't know if we just >> Yeah. >> Okay. We can we can certainly ask they can play it and shower. >> They might provide you to record something different. Yeah, you can go down there and record like PSAs and then I know >> Deb does a lot of

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>> record the actual event and then post it. But she might do both. >> We could do that. >> Use the same PSA. >> Yeah. Um I'll Yes, we'll let's follow up about that. >> Yeah. Um, Colleen at the

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Kingston fire is going to talk to the chief about our reverse 911 because we were thinking that would be a good way to get the word out, but we currently use >> the sheriff's n you know reverse 911 and we don't know what the par we might not it might only

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be emergencies. Okay. >> We don't own sometimes if you start doing too much. >> Yeah, exactly. So, we don't we don't really own that. So, which is kind of a bummer because we used to have our own system >> and we would have been able to do that cuz I wanted to do it for elections.

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>> We have the same problem >> elections and like town meeting that's actually a good use of that something like this. No, but a text to everybody to remind them to make a quorum. >> I'm just looking to get from them what are what are the restrictions? What what can we use it for? Or is it emergencies

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only is fine. We talked so May 2nd. Oh. And May 16th is the election. Um, let's see. I think we might have missed because we were talking about putting stuff out in the tax bills, but I think

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we missed that window for this, but maybe we could get the fall stuff in. >> You know, I'll check back with um >> 2016 >> elections. >> Um, yeah, definitely. >> I'll check with Ken again.

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>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. hand out table. But at least hand out flyers. >> Mhm. >> Yeah. At this at the town meeting on the second >> and the elections and the election. >> Well, no, the it'll our show will be over by >> Yeah. >> Oh, right. May the night. Yeah. >> All right. Never mind. On to the next

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one. No town meeting. It's like 200 people. Not It's not 2,000. >> Yeah. I know. I know. I know. the last one that a lot of people >> but that'll be a week before the art show and that would be a great way to get some >> Yeah, absolutely. >> Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. >> Okay. Yeah.

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>> Cool. >> Um we talked about doing like maybe a ice cream truck or something at the art. >> Yeah, we were going to use some of our money. Thank you. We thought we would use some of our money to pay for an ice cream truck so everybody got a free ice cream and then we could hand out a ticket or something like that. I don't

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know. We have to figure out the logistics of that. But that would be at the proclamation day. >> Okay. And the vendors are going to pay $50 a table. So, we're going to generate some income if we have like 20 or 30 vendors. >> That is by $50. >> Okay. So, we can use that to pay for it.

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>> You remember um Ken said that they are going to charge for the food trucks, too. I don't know if you >> Oh, no. I think we're charged for the food trucks, but I think the idea was have an ice cream truck and everybody gets a free ice cream like one and need a system for that, I guess. But, >> right. Um,

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>> yeah, I have friends who own a business in town that wants to donate something. I want to talk to them about maybe like sponsor something at one of the events, okay? you know, whether it's

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like the ice cream truck or >> DJ B something like, you know, to defay some of our costs if there are any >> people who want to donate money and like have their name on like sponsored by or brought whatever. >> Having a DJ at the proclamation might also be great

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>> by the type of live musicians if there's just not the bandwidth to coordinate it. >> I feel like that's Yeah, >> I'm just saying. >> Right. Right. If >> I can make a suggestion, too. >> Yeah. Mhm. >> Um what I what I usually do at the softball tournament if anybody does like a makes a donation or whatever it may

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be, I have a small sign made up and I have that line along the uh walkway. So when people come into the entrance, they basically see all the sponsors. So on old home day, anybody that maybe has sponsored for any of these functions, we can get like I think the sign is only

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like $25 or something like that, $10. have a little sign made up on on spikes and then we spike the road, the walkway. Everybody gets acknowledgement of all the people that have donated throughout this whole throughout the whole thing. And then the same thing I would do for

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uh anybody that donates for the old home day. Then just have a couple of signs made up and say, "All right, well, they gave $50." And it doesn't matter how much what the amount is. You just get a small sign with your name, your logo on it. It's printed up and then they uh and then they basically have it spiked into

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in the ground where everybody comes into the entrance. >> I like that. >> So it gives you gives you a little bit of recognition. >> Yeah. >> You see and then at the end and then at the end of you know and then at the end of it we turn around and give it back to them.

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>> Yeah. >> Right. Right. >> Oh, I'm sorry. >> You should do that for that >> for the turkey trot when we did the roadways. >> Yeah. But we would at L Knife used to make all our signs for us. >> Oh, really? >> Yeah. They have a sign shop in house.

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>> Yeah. >> I'm going to see the contact is no longer, but um >> I'll find out what we use for the golf tournament and for um what I forgot who I used for them, but they're they're not they're not expensive to use to make and

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they're easy to put together. >> Yeah. Got to be somewhere else. I didn't realize it was after 6:15. >> Yeah. You just didn't want to hear me talk anymore, right? No. >> Oh, man. Jeez. >> No offense. I'm sorry, buddy.

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>> All right. I'm All right. I'm logging out. I'm logging out now. Fine. >> All right. Um, anybody have any bills? >> No. >> All right. Uh, anyone have anything on the new business? >> No. >> All right. So hearing nothing, our next

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meeting is >> 15th 5:15. If you have anything for the agenda, would you reach out to Jana so she can get it on it? >> Um, barring that, uh, anybody have a motion to adjurnn? >> Motion to second.

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>> All in favor? I I >> Thank you very much, everybody.