2018-11-28 Meeting

Board meeting at the Glitter Bean, 2:00pm

Present: Lynn, Anita, Allison, Barend, Mike, Dan (notes, chair), Richard.

Youth Project

• Agreed that We don't need to beat up the YP
• No really great ideas for "how can we help"
• Q: If they continue to own the house, is there a room on the ground floor that might be suitable for an Elderberries HQ? A: No - probably not. And, there was a lot of talk about getting an accessible house.
• If you have any ideas about how we can help, forward to Dan.

Event Name Change to "Salon"

• What are the differences between the old format and the new format? ** Name change to Second Sunday Salon
  • Ramps down the importance of food
• ALLISON will forward the refreshed text to Dan & Barend

Speaker's Bureau

• Refresh list by asking people if they're still available? Yes. "Please write back one way or another if you're interested in being a speaker."
• ALLISON will organize a meeting of the Speaker's Bureau
• LYNN will contact Carolyn Gesner to see if she'd like to be a speaker
• We should contact some schools that we talked to in the past and ask when they'll have us back.

Pride

• Dan is on the Pride Elders Committee right now
• Dan would like others to be on it too.
• Lead is Patrick who also is doing Health & Wellness.

December Salon

• Theme: Christmas Social
• Tea, Light Refreshments
• Dan will bring powered speakers
• ANITA will ask Patricia to read the half of A Child's Christmas in Wales (full thing is 20 minutes which is too long for our members.)
• White Elephant Gift Exchange. Regifting made fun! Bring something you have around the house that you don't want. We'll give out the rules at the event.

... meeting was adjourned due to fire and firemen (which turned out to be just steam.)