Discover Warren General Meeting 9/6/07 9:15am at the chamber
Attendees:
Paula
Sara
Keri
Elizabeth
Pat Redford
Alan
LeeAnn Herreid
Pat Warwick
Dave
Fab
Marilyn
Fund Raiser:
we have only sold 22 tickets, which sounds like a lot but holy cow we need to sell A LOT LOT LOT more tickets we need to give final payment and count this monday the 10th. so we need to really rally and sell these tickets ASAP! we need cash pronto we need to sell minimum 100 more tickets.
Raffle Items:
we’ve got a bunch of raffle items, but less silent/live auction items. need to get things gathered by monday. not sure who’s going to be the auctioneer.
Food/wine:
finalize menu, keri needs to make a decision about wine/beer service. if we want to go with them, keri has a customer who owns a vineyard and is a distributor. the corking fee is $7. if the fee ends up being reasonable, then we may go with keri’s customer, or fab can place an order for us! yay! Food: there will be 3 or 4 stations, carving station with some sort of meat, fruit and cheese, one will be veggies, then selection of passed hot hors d’oeuvres. and maybe some desserts from pastiche. fab can also get us desserts if we get stuck.
Walkabout:
LeeAnn gave out a really awesome letter to the artists on the list with a great map to make sure everyone who wanted to be on it is on it.
The trolley map rules!
Volunteers:
music at the wharf is starting to come together from 1 - 6pm.
we’re looking for vendors to have food/beverages down there.
we always need more volunteers!
artist’s studios open 11-5? that’s an awful long time. no, here’s the latest breakdown in times:
businesses 11-5
artists 12-5
taste of warren 12 - 3
music on the wharf 1 - 7 (6?)
posters will be with the footprints and the seussian poem with the above info
postcard will be same as poster except without the poem. info on the back as well.
it would be cool if we could have footprints on the sidewalk. put them in front of your own business/studio to show participation instead of balloons. Marilyn is looking into spray chalk and footprint outlines. much better than balloons!
newspapers that we at least have press releases in? Elizabeth has a pretty comprehensive list. we should send to fall river herald as well. pat will send posters to libraries. we will discuss advertising opportunities at the october meeting. maybe that is a bit late.
perhaps we should have another meeting after the fundraiser to discuss finances and advertising opportunities.
holiday festival: if anyone has any ideas for holiday festival contact marilyn. fireworks after at the town hall.
we can’t stress enough how much we need to sell tickets to the fundraiser!
