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Jeannie: And you are reporting

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Judy Purrington: And we're recording. So that's good.

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Sheryl Hawes: Thank you.

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Judy Purrington: We can catch the visual side, the visual side, if there's some, you know, because so the recording only gives you the

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Judy Purrington: the words

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Sheryl Hawes: So we have a quorum, and we have a great amount of people today. Thank you. Everybody for coming. This is our second Lodge meeting

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Sheryl Hawes: of this year. Our 1st one was a brief meeting, January 12.th

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Sheryl Hawes: After the officer installation

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Rich Pierson: Hmm.

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Sheryl Hawes: I just thought, if there's I'm hoping Christine can come in anytime now but the next item was just to review today's agenda, and then we'll jump right into the main feature for today, which is our annual stockholders meeting for Nordell Hall.

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Sheryl Hawes: We, as members of Nordell Lodge, Nordell, Greg Lodge.

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Sheryl Hawes: We are stockholders, and this asset

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Sheryl Hawes: that we do own with no mortgage. So we're very lucky to have it. And

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Sheryl Hawes: Dave provides an annual report every year for the last 7 years he's been president for a little over 7 years, and we thank him so much for his service.

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Sheryl Hawes: But anyway, so before we jump into Dave's report. We're going to have approval of the minutes from January.

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Sheryl Hawes: We're going to have abbreviated reports from the officers that are here.

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Sheryl Hawes: Then we're going to feature a snippet, an overview of our upcoming events.

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Sheryl Hawes: This year, as well as looking to 2026,

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Sheryl Hawes: we have 4 events we'll discuss.

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Sheryl Hawes: and I'm excited about them all.

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Sheryl Hawes: Next. We'll have some new business.

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Sheryl Hawes: any identify any unfinished business announcements, and we'll conclude

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Sheryl Hawes: so with that I'll turn it over to Dave Milius.

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Sheryl Hawes: From what I know, he was President from 2,017, through the 1st quarter of 2, 25, and we want to thank you, Dave, for your many years of service.

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Sheryl Hawes: It's been tough with the pandemic, too, because of the

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Sheryl Hawes: the difficulty running a hall with no income, so I'll turn it over to Dave. I think you're gonna pardon me.

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Dave Melius: Sorry I couldn't make you have virtual audio lately.

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Sheryl Hawes: You're really breaking up, Dave.

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Dave Melius: Oh!

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Sheryl Hawes: Alright!

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Dave Melius: Still

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Dave Melius: is that hopefully, that

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Rich Pierson: No, it didn't

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Dave Melius: And I don't have a phone. So

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Dave Melius: I don't know what I'm gonna do. At this point

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Sheryl Hawes: Well, why don't you put up your report and share it?

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Sheryl Hawes: And one of us can read it for you, cause we all have seen at least a draft. Is that gonna be okay?

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Sheryl Hawes: Do does anyone see it yet?

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david: Not yet

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Jeannie: Night oh, here.

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Sheryl Hawes: I have a

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Rich Pierson: There it is!

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Sheryl Hawes: Great. So Dave, one of us can read it.

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Sheryl Hawes: Okay.

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Dave Melius: We'll do best.

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Dave Melius: Okay.

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Dave Melius: I'm just kind of logged off at this point because I have no way to contribute to this.

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Dave Melius: No, I'll just. I'll just hang out back. I guess there's no point

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Sheryl Hawes: Okay.

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Dave Melius: Sorry.

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Sheryl Hawes: It's okay. Okay. Well, I can start rich. Maybe you could.

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Sheryl Hawes: We can

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Rich Pierson: Sure. Well, I think you know, Dave mentioned coming in on the phone for audio. So you can go ahead and that try that, Dave, and we'll go ahead and get started. If you'd like me to start, I'd be happy to. And Cheryl, by all means jump in if you think something needs to be accented or expanded upon

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Judy Purrington: Is there a way? We can see the whole page, or I'm only seeing a portion

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david: Or you just scroll down

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Rich Pierson: So I think Dave will scroll down when it's when it's time

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Judy Purrington: Yeah, okay, that's good.

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Dave Melius: Okay. So sent it out last night

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Rich Pierson: Can't hear, can't understand it. Dave

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Sheryl Hawes: We? We can read the report, Dave, it's okay.

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Rich Pierson: So we'll call this meeting to order for Nordal Hall the membership meeting to present our annual report.

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Rich Pierson: so initial. So here we go. The following individuals served on the board of directors in 2024,

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Rich Pierson: Claire Smith, and myself through 2024, Fred Hymans and Vicki and Dave Melius had a

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Rich Pierson: 2022 to 2025 terms, so they'll continue through this year.

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Rich Pierson: and then the 2024 to 2026 term Dwayne Adams Jim Sturdivant and Bruce Fee. So that's our

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Rich Pierson: members of the Board of Directors.

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Rich Pierson: Also joining us for meetings, was the lodge president, Kathy Whitesell for last year.

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Rich Pierson: and the Lodge Vice President Cheryl Hawes

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Rich Pierson: officers were President David Melius, treasurer, rich Pearson, Secretary, Dwayne Adams.

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Rich Pierson: So this year. What we have is, the terms are expiring for the 2021 to 2024 time period.

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Rich Pierson: and although we'd done temporary extensions during the pandemic, we're back to just the normal

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Rich Pierson: elections and getting people into those terms. So the new terms, 2025 to 2027.

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Rich Pierson: Claire and myself have agreed to serve for another term

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Judy Purrington: Bruce has resigned from the board, and we definitely thank him for all his contributions. He's

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Rich Pierson: Done amazing things for the the hall, and continues to do a lot of our web work, and he does amazing things for

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Rich Pierson: for the lodge as well, and Bruce's last name is pronounced fee sorry.

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Rich Pierson: There are 2 openings on the board, one in the 2024 to 2026 term and one in the 2025 to 2027 term.

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Rich Pierson: And obviously we encourage anyone who's got interest in the hall to volunteer and to work with us on that

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Rich Pierson: Janie Kelly, operating through her business. Viking property management.

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Rich Pierson: has been our rental manager since

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Rich Pierson: March of 2011. So a long term with us

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Rich Pierson: this past year 2024. The total income from rentals was 50 rentals and

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Rich Pierson: bar and donations, and everything was 54,630,

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Rich Pierson: and total expenses for 2024 were 52,868, and so

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Rich Pierson: taking expenses out of income or

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Rich Pierson: total is $1,944. Can you scroll up, Dave?

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Rich Pierson: It's at the bottom of the screen for me.

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Rich Pierson: Perfect. Thank you.

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Rich Pierson: So, looking at those numbers, the

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Rich Pierson: income and expenses that Viking property management

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Rich Pierson: takes care of. So Janie pays a lot of the utilities and other things that come up.

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Rich Pierson: So the income it just looking at her books was actually a negative number.

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Rich Pierson: and it was really important for us to get the $6,000 from the Nordel Greed Lodge

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Rich Pierson: to cover expenses through the end of the year, so

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Rich Pierson: Otherwise we would have been negative

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Rich Pierson: overall for 2024. So

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Rich Pierson: we are looking at looking at ways that we can increase the desirability of the hall for renters.

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Rich Pierson: There was a time when our Kinsonara and other event planner. That brings in a lot of our business.

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Rich Pierson: Rented our hall for 90% of his events.

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Rich Pierson: and now he rents it only to 20% of his clients.

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Rich Pierson: because there's another hall in San Jose which is a little more

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Rich Pierson: elegant, a little more suited for those kind of parties.

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Rich Pierson: So the hall board is looking at what we can do to make our hall more desirable for fancy parties.

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Rich Pierson: We obviously want to keep the look and feel as much as possible. Scandinavian.

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Rich Pierson: but we do realize that, you know, we have to be able to break even, and we don't always want to rely on a donation from the lodge in order to do that.

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Rich Pierson: One of the things that helps us immensely. During the year is the donations from

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Rich Pierson: the members of our lodge that go into the love your lodge fund.

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Rich Pierson: and some also just came into the hall board directly, and so we use those for specific improvements. As you know, we come to the board of the the lodge board and ask for

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Rich Pierson: monies to pay for certain improvements that are more capital related, which are covered by the love your lodge fund.

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Rich Pierson: and so we use those for improvements, and that helps our our finances quite a bit.

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Rich Pierson: And then,

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Rich Pierson: The effects of covid, I think, are still with us. People are not partying as much.

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Rich Pierson: Our rental person said that a lot of people are just using their own backyards. He'll still do the event all the planning.

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Rich Pierson: But sometimes people just use their own backyard instead of renting the hall. So there's still some feeling that the economy for at least

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Rich Pierson: some of the people that use. Our hall has not recovered to a point where they can feel they can afford to to rent a hall.

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Rich Pierson: We have increased our marketing efforts, and you've probably seen something. If you came to Lutifix dinner and heard Cheryl talk about it, or Fred Hyman's talk about it.

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Rich Pierson: that we want people to invite their friends and coworkers, or, you know, acquaintances to to use the hall if they need a special event.

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Rich Pierson: We've also

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Rich Pierson: looked at getting the a grant from the Sons of Norway Foundation to help us with improvements in the hall.

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Rich Pierson: and I think we're supposed to hear

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Rich Pierson: back on that in March, so we should hear fairly soon if we're gonna get some money to help with some of our improvements.

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Rich Pierson: All right.

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Rich Pierson: So in in terms of marketing marketing efforts Cheryl Hawes

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Rich Pierson: initiated a redesign of our Nordal Hall website, and we had wonderful expert assistance from Bruce Fee and Laura Holberg, and we have a much more modern updated website with nice pictures and good information for potential renters.

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Rich Pierson: Fred Hyman's found some round tables, large round tables that can be used by the renters.

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Rich Pierson: and it's more of a banquet feel instead of just a

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Rich Pierson: the long tables that we have.

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Rich Pierson: Cheryl also led an effort to improve our yelp and Google ratings for Nordahl Hall. Most of the ratings that were there were years old, and some of them had some pretty negative comments.

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Rich Pierson: and so, you know, we followed up on them, responded to them.

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Rich Pierson: and then invited our clients to also

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Rich Pierson: put in some some ratings on Yelp and Google, and that has improved our number dramatically.

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Rich Pierson: Dwayne Adams developed an attractive and up-to-date rent, the Hall marketing flyer for distribution at every event, and by any lodge member

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Rich Pierson: we even added 4 free Lutefis tickets in case somebody wanted to get somebody to rent the hall. So so we've we've tried a number of things.

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Rich Pierson: Let's see.

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Rich Pierson: And there's another rent, the Hall promotional flyer. Oh, that was that was the one where we wanted people to

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Rich Pierson: talk to their friends and such.

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Rich Pierson: Okay, so that was by Cheryl. And Fred Hymans put that together. And

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Rich Pierson: I thought both of those looked very well done. So thank you. To all those folks.

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Rich Pierson: Hall repairs and improvements. We've continued to make changes at the Hall to improve it

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Rich Pierson: definitely thank everyone for their time. What they've money they've donated, and any other efforts they've put into

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Rich Pierson: help the hall survive in these little more difficult times now

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Rich Pierson: we had a a work day where we shampooed all of the chairs and cleaned out the storage areas of the lodge and got rid of stuff that was old enough to not be needed anymore.

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Rich Pierson: And then we had a number of projects as well. This past year

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Rich Pierson: I had done extensive maintenance on the roof.

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Rich Pierson: continuing the work from last year, and believe that that is prolonging the life of our existing roof.

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Rich Pierson: I donated and installed a new Bun coffee maker in the kitchen.

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Rich Pierson: Jim Sturdivant installed new surveillance cameras, automated thermostats, and a roku streaming service box for the bar. TV so those are all wonderful additions.

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Rich Pierson: And he also negotiated our Internet service with Comcast removed some services that we really didn't need, and got us a savings of almost $200 a month, so

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Rich Pierson: that that helps us a lot.

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Rich Pierson: During just the last

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Rich Pierson: workday, Jim Sturdivant and Dave Melius installed new led lighting in place of the

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Rich Pierson: fluorescence in the kitchen. It's much brighter, much better feel in the kitchen, and they installed a

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Rich Pierson: solar battery backup kind of light at the front sign. So our our sign is lighted at night. For publicity or for visibility for us.

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Rich Pierson: Dave Melius researched and found and installed a new Ice Maker in the bar.

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Rich Pierson: Our old one broke and was not able to get it fixed wasn't worth fixing.

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Rich Pierson: so we have a good Ice Maker again.

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Rich Pierson: and while that may not seem that it's that big a deal, but when we have clients they want fresh ice, they want ice in a machine like that. So when they have their bar open, they definitely use that machine.

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Rich Pierson: Gym, start event arranged for a new gardener and new Internet controlled sprinkler system to monitor sprinkling and water usage

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Rich Pierson: and Cheryl Hawes twisted Joe Horner's arm

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Rich Pierson: for some expert assistance or leading

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Rich Pierson: us in paving and getting the asphalt in the parking lot.

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Rich Pierson: Up are fixed. There were lots of places where it really wasn't as safe as it should be

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Rich Pierson: so. We have an improvement plan that'll go in 2 phases phase. One of the plan

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Rich Pierson: was approved, and funding from love your lodge and the

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Rich Pierson: cutting of the parking lot has been done, and we're ready to schedule the removal of the old asphalt and putting in new asphalt to patch all of the bad areas.

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Rich Pierson: and then phase 2 would be

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Rich Pierson: the resealing of the parking lot. Once all the patching is done and we don't have that scheduled yet.

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Rich Pierson: Okay, so a lot going on

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Rich Pierson: and anything more, Dave. Scroll down anything, nothing else.

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Dave Melius: Actually, can you hear me now?

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Rich Pierson: Yes, I can.

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Sheryl Hawes: Yay!

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Dave Melius: Oh, go ahead and take over

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Rich Pierson: Sure.

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Dave Melius: All right. Thanks for taking over rich. I apologize to everybody

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Dave Melius: for that technical difficulty. This is the only for some reason. Talking to large people is the only time when in Zoom decides. It doesn't like me. I think it's Swedish.

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Dave Melius: Okay, our future expenses coming up the taxes are due in April, and our liquor license is due in August. ABC. Is alcoholic beverage control, and I've looked into doing other solutions for it. But if we want to have booze at the Hall. We, if and do it right, we need that license. That's about 16, $1,700.

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Dave Melius: The Hall Beautification Initiative is underway

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Dave Melius: with planned internal painting and ready redecoration, a planned asphalt repairs targeted for May, and the repaving of the next phase of the Parking Lot Improvement. Project. As part of this the front garden area will be redesigned. This is a big thing, and we've been trying to do a lot of these things for quite some time.

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Dave Melius: What? Partly we need to increase the marketability of our hall if we're going to survive.

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Dave Melius: and if it weren't for the gift and the generosity of the lodge members, we would have been in really really deep trouble again last year.

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Dave Melius: So give generously, give often and hopefully

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Dave Melius: help us to make the the beautification go off

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Dave Melius: area. Both areas under the sink in both restaurants need to be retilled after there have been many plumbing repairs. The survey room.

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Dave Melius: apparently ceiling needs to be repainted, though.

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Dave Melius: Rich did a really good job of touching it up. But let's just do it again, and have it consistent

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Dave Melius: the plant dollar, the plant dollar. Excuse me.

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Dave Melius: the drought tolerant plants need to be planted in the front garden this spring. However, we're also going to be doing some pavers. Anybody who wants to get in on these things. I highly suggest you let us know, because we really could use all the volunteers we could need we could get. We're going to be adding cabinets to the cloakroom. Possibly we also have to better store the round tables that we purchased because they're kind of precarious in there.

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Dave Melius: The parking lot fences need repainting. That'll be currently we're talking about. Maybe doing that in April

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Dave Melius: the rear double doors need repair or replacement. They are very difficult to open and close, and sometimes, when people can't get them closed, they leave them unlocked, which is a bad situation.

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Dave Melius: We, as part of the parking lot we have, we. We should replace the water bind that runs from the front door to the back door that

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Dave Melius: leaked a few years ago. We patched it, but we have to monitor it, and having a few extra $1,000 to do. That might be a good idea in the future.

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Dave Melius: As always, the Hall gratefully accepts any and all additional donations.

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Dave Melius: and that is our report to this to an extent. Now we've mentioned that there's a little bit more detail on how things were spent.

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Dave Melius: and that's down here.

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Dave Melius: Again. Our annual income was $54,630,

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Dave Melius: and our expenses were $52,868, leaving us well, it looks like a profit of 1944. But if you look at our income you'll notice that there was a Nordel Grigg. Checking account was a gift

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Dave Melius: that was a grant we got from you guys. If it weren't for that we'd be in trouble.

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Dave Melius: all of these things, as you can see, are pretty much things we have to do. We have to maintain the fire department. We have to make the fire department happy and make certain that the

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Dave Melius: extinguishers are are working. We have to pay our utilities, though, and saving the 9, the

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Dave Melius: the money from Comcast has definitely helped out with that

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Dave Melius: supplies round tables, a lot of Home Depot. We have new plumbing in this year as part of 2025. We've already replaced the plumbing that was starting to leak again in the bar. It's all got new pipes and plumbing, and hopefully that'll be the end of the leaks for a while.

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Dave Melius: The lighting we've already purchased and installed some of it. But we need to go on and finish some of the lighting that

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Dave Melius: change over to Leds from the fluorescence.

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Dave Melius: that's what's coming up to. We are businesses licenses. If we want to do things right, we have to do it. The ABC license, as I said, is 1,665 for the alcohol, and in order to serve alcohol in order in order to serve it to people who aren't your direct members, and to have people cater. We have to pay it for catering license for $1,185

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Dave Melius: The other stuff is pretty self explanatory.

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Dave Melius: and if we can, if we can update and beautify the hall, it will be make it a lot more rentable, and we can get a lot more renting and renting renters in over the year.

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Dave Melius: So 0 anything that I've left out, or any questions on what's been, what's been what you've heard tonight

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Sheryl Hawes: Well, just a footnote. We are having a work day on April 5, th Saturday, April 5, th

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Sheryl Hawes: and we'll be focusing on the garden and several items. So anyone

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Dave Melius: Yeah.

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Sheryl Hawes: Okay.

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Dave Melius: And I believe the last point of business is that we are having a little bit. The officers of the board are changing a little bit after 7 years. I'm stepping down as President, and

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Dave Melius: so, and riches would love to have someone to come in and replace him as treasurer. He's stepping down. He's willing to work for a while, but give the man a break. He really pulled our books together after a long time.

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Dave Melius: So that's up. We Dwayne has volunteered to take over as President from now on, and that will be great. I'll be happy to help out when I can

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Dave Melius: If anyone would care to take over treasurer, secretary.

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Dave Melius: we would love to hear from you.

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Dave Melius: I suppose we can hold the vote right now, at this instant on the slate to get Dwayne in as President, unless somebody wants to take over as wants to volunteer for treasurer or secretary

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Rich Pierson: So, Dave, I'm I'm willing to do treasure for another year.

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Dave Melius: Well, bless you, rich, that's a that's a good. We really do need a good treasure, and rich has been excellent, and

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Dave Melius: it's pulled together what was left after a less for a couple of years, and surviving the pandemic. After that we were essentially, you know, we talked about going bankrupt. We were down to nothing.

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Dave Melius: and it was only through the grace, the generosity of the Hall that we survived at all.

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Dave Melius: and we'd like to get away from that living hanging on by the skin of our teeth, and the Finance Committee, which Rich has been rich and Cheryl, both in running, has been very, very useful

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Dave Melius: and and geared towards finding out how much we have to spend.

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Dave Melius: So rich is president of Rich? Is Treasurer Duane is President? Do I hear? A secretary.

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Dave Melius: Well, you can always call us up later.

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Dave Melius: so I suppose I should ask for a motion

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Judy Purrington: How about questions?

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Dave Melius: Yes.

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Dave Melius: Hello.

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Sheryl Hawes: Did you have a question, Judy?

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Judy Purrington: I did have. I did have one question about the financial report. I thought I was still on mute, but I can't see anything down there, because this was all covering it.

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Judy Purrington: so hope they didn't make too many terrible noises while I was I was wondering, you know, throughout the

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Judy Purrington: the year. We, you know, we always see in the newsletter that of the the love by love, my love, our lodge donations.

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Judy Purrington: But how does how? How does that show in here? Because, doesn't some of that money? Doesn't that money ultimately go to the

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Judy Purrington: go to the Hall for for use for different uses?

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Rich Pierson: Yes, it does.

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Judy Purrington: Cause. I'm not

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Rich Pierson: When the hall board

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Rich Pierson: When the hall board has a project that we want funded through love. Your lodge

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Rich Pierson: Once we have decided on the project and approved it as a hall board. Then I make a request to the lodge

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Rich Pierson: and they will review it and approve money from the love your lodge fund, and then that money is

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Rich Pierson: transferred to the hall accounts, and then is used to pay for those projects.

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Rich Pierson: If you would like to see more detail on that, I'm happy to do that. If you want to stop sharing, Dave.

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Rich Pierson: I will go ahead and share that

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Sheryl Hawes: It is noted in the comment at the bottom of the financial report, that

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Sheryl Hawes: we have $8,100 now

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Sheryl Hawes: from love, your lodge fund earmarked

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Sheryl Hawes: to pay for the parking lot, asphalt repairs and

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Sheryl Hawes: and garden, and a couple other things that need to be done. So it's a it's a footnote on that report at the bottom, as well

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Judy Purrington: Oh, okay, but but it does, but it but

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Rich Pierson: I thought Judy's question was related to what is the process, and how do we track that? So

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Rich Pierson: So I told you the process is any questions on the process part

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Judy Purrington: No, no! But I guess I would still have to wonder if that if that if

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Judy Purrington: if all of those you know wonderful donors disappear in. In.

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Judy Purrington: In that process they just they just be

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Judy Purrington: improvement. And on a listing right

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Rich Pierson: That's correct. Yeah. We don't know who donated that money since it. The money goes to the lodge into account. The account there

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Judy Purrington: So.

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Rich Pierson: When I track it. We've made a request, and we have specific projects that we've requested money for.

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Rich Pierson: And so when I get a a

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Rich Pierson: Check from the lodge. Then I note what the project was. You can see them here. How much we we requested, and that's the total

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Rich Pierson: how much we spent and how much is still available, and then the status of the project, if it's done

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Rich Pierson: still in progress or not started yet.

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Rich Pierson: so you can see each of the areas that we requested and what money was used and what money is available

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Rich Pierson: and then total available front funds at the end of the year.

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Rich Pierson: and up from these restricted funds was this much money? So so there's a full accounting of that.

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Rich Pierson: I don't know that there is a way for us to do what you were suggesting that we would know which person donated, and how much money from their donation went to each of the projects it, it gets lost.

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Judy Purrington: Okay, I wasn't.

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Judy Purrington: No, I I under. I understand that. But is there is there ever any record in the hall

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Judy Purrington: is known what people donate. It doesn't. Yeah, I don't think you have to, necessarily

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Judy Purrington: but you know, maybe you could consider showing on the report. You know, donors that have donated in the in that in that last year, or whatever for the

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Rich Pierson: For love your lodge. I think the the lodge treasure does that. I thought that

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Bruce Fihe: Yes, a lot

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Rich Pierson: Article.

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Bruce Fihe: Those funds are held by the lodge until they're requested by oh, they're real quick.

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Bruce Fihe: and and the the lodge keeps track of who those donors are.

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Bruce Fihe: And in fact, it's even published in Latinda

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Rich Pierson: So that's that's done, Judy.

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Judy Purrington: Oh, okay.

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Sheryl Hawes: Okay, thank you. Ultimately.

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Rich Pierson: Dave was looking for a vote on officers for the year

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Dave Melius: Indeed.

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Judy Purrington: Partner.

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Bruce Fihe: Was never made, so I'll I'll make the motion to elect the officers, as signified by Dave

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Rich Pierson: I'll second that

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Judy Purrington: You know, since we don't have a secretary, we should probably write those down

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Sheryl Hawes: I'm I'm writing it down

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Bruce Fihe: We're also recording this

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Judy Purrington: Yeah, but you don't have always have a visual, and on that, and if somebody has to listen to that couple of times to get it. It would be helpful

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Sheryl Hawes: And rich you were this. I'm sorry. Who seconded it

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Rich Pierson: I did.

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Sheryl Hawes: Okay. Thanks. Rich.

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Sheryl Hawes: Okay.

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Dave Melius: Is there any discussion on that?

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Dave Melius: All in favor? Say, aye.

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Dave Melius: Aye, all opposed.

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Dave Melius: and whoever's taking whoever is taking role. Please note that Claire Smyth joined the meeting a little late, just about time for the vote, because she had another meeting to attend.

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Dave Melius: It seems sounds like the motion passed

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Sheryl Hawes: Okay.

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Dave Melius: One thing I maybe I was a little bit of trying to dig around when I was trying to get my audio working again. I really wanted to thank Bruce for all the help he's been while he's been a board member, and also when he was acting as our treasurer.

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Dave Melius: and as an emergency, at the same time acting for the fall. The guy's a very, very nice guy, and we want to encourage him to be, thank you, Bruce.

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Rich Pierson: Thank you. Bruce.

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Sheryl Hawes: Shit

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Dave Melius: Having that. Thank you very much for letting me be President for this time, and I'm very more than happy that Duane is going to take over. I'm sure she's going to be good at driving these next generation of projects

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Jeannie: I have a question

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Jeannie: When I was leaving the lodge the last time I was looking at the sign, and it was really nice to see the lights on everything, but I don't know that there's

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Jeannie: a sign that says the hall is for rent. Is that something that we can do? You know someone by, and they see a hall if it said available for rental, or something like that. Is that possible? Have that painted on the sign, or add it to the sign

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Rich Pierson: That's a great suggestion.

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Rich Pierson: I think we should look at that. There is one in the window of the solvay room. But that's way back away, and somebody's driving by is not gonna see it. So I think that's a great idea

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Jeannie: It. It looked like there was a space that would be suitable for adding that

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Rich Pierson: Okay, we'll take a look at that. Thank you.

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Sheryl Hawes: Okay, okay, Dave, are we concluded with our fair owners meeting

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Dave Melius: I don't have anything more on my agenda. Is there a motion to adjourn and return back to the Hall meeting or the board meeting

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Rich Pierson: Don't! Moved.

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Dave Melius: Lodge meeting. Excuse me, I'll get it right eventually.

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Sheryl Hawes: Thank you, Dave. That was a great report, and rich. Thank you.

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Dave Melius: Thank you. In that case, let's turn it back

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Sheryl Hawes: Alright!

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Dave Melius: All board annual meetings adjourned.

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Sheryl Hawes: Okay. So now, lodge meeting. So we've we're at about 7 45.

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Sheryl Hawes: Let's shoot for if we can get through these and say, 35, 40 min. So we're all here. Can go enjoy our homes at a reasonable hour.

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Sheryl Hawes: The approval of the minutes from January. What I'll do with that. I I believe I sent a copy to this group on this call and if there's any concerns from those after you read them, just let me know, but otherwise they're very straightforward. It's very brief meeting. The the major thing we did that day was elect a co-secretary Meg.

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Sheryl Hawes: She went ahead and offered to do that, so we elected her, and we made some announcements about some of our events coming up the Viking world tour and other things, so we won't take time for now. Just take a look if there's any issues, please let me know.

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Sheryl Hawes: Let's go to reports.

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Sheryl Hawes: my report. I would like to say that I just published to this

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Sheryl Hawes: group of officers. The 2024 schedule of lodge meetings, and there are 2 with the program associated with it, and we'll hear more about those later. So I want to thank everyone for their patience, and Kristen will be publishing those in the team in the April team.

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Sheryl Hawes: What we're trying to do this year is most of our meetings will be by zoom.

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Sheryl Hawes: but we were hoping to have 2 or 3 combine a lodge meeting, an abbreviated lodge meeting with a nice program and some food to draw our our members back to our lodge.

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Sheryl Hawes: So that's what we're doing.

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Sheryl Hawes: We don't have a secretary today, so we'll skip that

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Sheryl Hawes: the next report is financial. Secretary Bruce

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Bruce Fihe: I'll be real quick. For January we had income of $645.

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Bruce Fihe: For February. We had income of $2,148 and 22 cents. Most of that was, of course, the anniversary. The anniversary dinner

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Sheryl Hawes: Okay, okay, thank you.

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Sheryl Hawes: So we've done a preliminary review of the expenses

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Sheryl Hawes: and the income from the anniversary dinner. And we pretty much broke even on that which is the intent. That's the intent.

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Sheryl Hawes: The next is treasure. Jim is on a family outing in New York.

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Sheryl Hawes: and he and Mike Block worked most of this week to finish up the d. 17, which is an internal sons of Norway report

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Sheryl Hawes: to give the financial health of our organization and being it was

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Sheryl Hawes: Jim's 1st time. He's got substantial assistance from Mike. So I'm going to be sending a nice email to Mike Block.

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Sheryl Hawes: thanking him for helping us. So that

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Sheryl Hawes: is completed, I believe, as of today or tomorrow.

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Sheryl Hawes: Next, do we have any report from the Social Director, Kathy? Anything

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Kathryn Whitesel: Let's see. Well, 1st of all, I'm having really bad coughing spells, so I'll try to keep it brief

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Kathryn Whitesel: and second. Well, you know, I really don't want to steal the thunder of the people who are planning these events, because I know there's so much that they want to tell you guys themselves.

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Kathryn Whitesel: yeah, yeah, but I know that there's something about wearing Viking stuff to an upcoming event. And so to that effect, I will try to bring along

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Kathryn Whitesel: the hats with the braids and the other things that I have to the workday on the 5, th

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Kathryn Whitesel: if people want to do a little shopping in advance.

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Kathryn Whitesel: because I understand that that there's also something called the Viking Flea market.

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Kathryn Whitesel: So yeah, I will. I will let people who are more in the know.

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Kathryn Whitesel: Talk about that while I go cough my lungs out. Thank you.

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Kathryn Whitesel: See what I mean.

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Sheryl Hawes: Okay. Next is cultural director duty.

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Judy Purrington: Okay, all right. Thank you.

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Judy Purrington: I have been. Haven't scheduled dates yet, but I have a format planned for a couple of cultural

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Judy Purrington: hopefully for lodge members and something. I want to also outreach to other lodges that are perhaps close enough by that they that they might be interested in. The format comes from some thoughts that Bruce had a few years ago of bringing people together in an event where people can work together on a on a project, and

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Judy Purrington: and I thought it was a great idea, and I brought my project, and Bruce did, and we were it

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Judy Purrington: I still think that this is a great idea, and I've I've added a couple of things to it that I hope will maybe be able to invite, get a few more people excited to get them into the door. And the it's going to be they're going to be Sunday afternoon events and the

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Judy Purrington: one of and they're going to have a similar format. There's going to be a demonstration

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Judy Purrington: And right now one of the one of them, one of the demonstrations, will be totally a demonstration, and on the second one it'll be participant

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Sheryl Hawes: Participant, again

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Judy Purrington: There. Yeah.

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Sheryl Hawes: One of those things

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Judy Purrington: Twisters, and and then, after after the presentation.

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Judy Purrington: then people will have a chance to either work on their own project, and I'm also planning to have a couple of small projects there that people can work on and

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Judy Purrington: actually do something something very, something very small, either something on a on on, maybe a key fob, or a or a coaster of some kind of with a crafting, so

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Judy Purrington: hopefully, we can entice some folks to come and and and enjoy doing that, and

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Judy Purrington: I'm planning to to do as much outreach possible possible for that

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Sheryl Hawes: Thank you, Judy.

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Judy Purrington: That's pretty much it. Thank you.

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Sheryl Hawes: Anything from Barbara Sunshine Committee

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Kathryn Whitesel: Okay, go ahead, Barb, can you hear me?

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Sheryl Hawes: Yep.

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Kathryn Whitesel: I don't have anything I have. There are a few people that have pending surgeries coming up.

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Kathryn Whitesel: and I haven't heard anything about anybody else so.

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Kathryn Whitesel: But then Barbara has a very good excuse for not having heard anything

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Sheryl Hawes: Yes.

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Kathryn Whitesel: Yes, she has quite a tale to tell you. But that will have to wait until the next, social yeah.

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Sheryl Hawes: we have. We have one role here. I didn't include right before we talk reach out to Jane, Jeannie. But duane Adams is the

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Sheryl Hawes: and raised $350 for the foundation last year, and I'm sure she has something like that in mind for this year as well.

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Sheryl Hawes: Next is Jeannie. Is our multi Lodge outreach director.

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Sheryl Hawes: Anything to report? Jeannie

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Jeannie: Well, I'm definitely

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Jeannie: contacting various people, you know. Of course, I have good contact with my daughters in Norway and at our next meeting. I'm going to have people sign up if they're coming to the Viking World Tour, because just to kind of give us an idea of how many people might be coming.

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Jeannie: But I've reached out to Snore Lodge, Bjornson, and also the Redwood City Lodge, and I know these are going out through District 6, and that kind of thing. But I think it's good to contact different people.

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Jeannie: So they're hearing it in various ways. And I've sent out the flyer. So they get that as well. And so some people are, you know, responding that it's on their calendar. They're hoping to come, and I'm definitely trying to encourage people to bring children and grandchildren because we are going to have. We're trying to build that up and have some events that the kids would really like.

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Jeannie: So that's that'll probably be a little bit part of the Viking World tour work, too.

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Sheryl Hawes: Thank you, Jeannie.

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Sheryl Hawes: So let's step into the next section. The events status. So the 1st one coming up is in May

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Sheryl Hawes: May 17, th and that's the Viking World tour.

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Jeannie: Well, I, Cheryl and I are the Co. Leads on that, and I don't know about Cheryl, but I'm just amazed at how much work it is

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Sheryl Hawes: It's a lot of work

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Jeannie: And I get an appreciation for what Judy and the committee has had done in the last couple of years for a taste of Norway. There's just a lot of details, but I think that it's going along pretty well. We have all the countries adopted except for Spain.

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Jeannie: and I'm hoping it's going to go out in the next newsletter to just request that. But if anyone here hasn't adopted a country, and we'd be interested in Spain, we'd love to have you do that.

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Jeannie: We are going to do the Viking flea market, the flyer, the reminder, went out on that to accept it at our workshop that we're having coming up, and we're going to have a little passport for people. We have some prizes, and we're going to have a area where we can have photos taken with Vikings. And so I think it's coming along pretty well.

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Jeannie: Cheryl. The things that you would like to add to that

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Sheryl Hawes: Well, I think this, this is really focusing on the Viking era.

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Sheryl Hawes: And

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Sheryl Hawes: if you noticed on the schedule in the last team of the day, and the schedule will be published again in the next 2 teadents.

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Sheryl Hawes: We're asking our Viking reenactors to

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Sheryl Hawes: be in their Viking persona the whole time and speak to their their backgrounds. Each of the Viking presenters actually have a background they've made up about themselves

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Sheryl Hawes: and use their Viking names. And we're having a special presentation about women Viking Vikings called her story.

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Sheryl Hawes: So I think that's gonna be fun to listen to something different. And also, we're going to have

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Sheryl Hawes: Kathy Whitesell and Lucky Leaf and the longship presentation back with all the characters that she's made.

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Sheryl Hawes: So it's a day of programs

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Sheryl Hawes: and food from all the countries.

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Sheryl Hawes: artifacts and treasures from all the countries. So I think it's gonna be different. It's different than what we've done before.

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Jeannie: Yes, and also it's all indoor event. So we're hoping that that works out and that we don't. Last year we had wind, and sometimes it's very warm outside. So it's it's interesting to me that it's the same biking group. But we're just utilizing them differently. And so I think it's going to be a really fun fun event. So hopefully, everyone will be there

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Sheryl Hawes: We also have a craft area that one of the Viking

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Sheryl Hawes: ladies will be doing, and Bruce will be demonstrating crafts. And again, this is indoors. So it's

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Sheryl Hawes: right there for people. And

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Sheryl Hawes: anyway, so I think I think that's I think it's gonna be a great day. Thank you, Jeannie.

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Sheryl Hawes: You're welcome. Bye, next we have ice cream social. Now

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Sheryl Hawes: I I'm i i think we have a kind of a team working on that. We have Lavinia. I think Meg's gonna help, and I Kathy's gonna make some ice cream

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Sheryl Hawes: but what I know about it so far I don't wanna take Lavinia or anyone step in is Kathy's going to make some homemade ice cream that

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Sheryl Hawes: tastes like Norwegian lemon sorbet, or something like

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Kathryn Whitesel: Last time I made it and brought it to a lodge event which was probably a long, long, long time ago. Vicki Everly no less said it tasted like something she had in Norway that she called Citroen Fromage

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Sheryl Hawes: Fromage.

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Kathryn Whitesel: It's kind of a lemon vanilla.

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Kathryn Whitesel: anyway. Yeah, I have 2 of those of those hand. Yeah, which means lemon cheese. I don't know if I want to eat lemon cheese. But anyway, I have 2 of those ice cream freezers. One is the off grid model, and the other is the electric model. So they're available for anyone who wants to add their own

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Kathryn Whitesel: ice cream. Yeah.

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Kathryn Whitesel: Might be fun if we made it there, and everyone could crank it. But you know, if that's a possibility, it's an option. Yeah.

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Sheryl Hawes: Anything else.

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LaVinnia Pierson, She/her: Pink I'll probably come up with more ideas once I get toward June

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Sheryl Hawes: That's fair.

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LaVinnia Pierson, She/her: You know. I don't want to plant ice cream, too. Really, I'm still wearing fleece jackets. So my Norwegian sweater but you know, last year I made a topping with Bruno's, and I may do something similar. I will look for some sort of Scandinavian related. Treat that we can have. And so it's not yet. It's evolving in my mind, and it will be a fun time

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Sheryl Hawes: Good like 45 people there last time. It was a great show

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LaVinnia Pierson, She/her: Yeah, it was a great turnout. People enjoyed it. And lots of delicious ice cream

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Kathryn Whitesel: Okay, Lavinia, if you need anything that could be picked up from Ikea, I know that at some point I will have to return to get a big filling worked on, and my dentist is across the freeway from Ikea, if you need like Cloudberry something, or Lingonberry vat, or whatever let me know

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Kathryn Whitesel: I was like

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LaVinnia Pierson, She/her: That in mind.

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Kathryn Whitesel: I did not get to make my pilgrimage there for my hygiene. I had to get home so

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LaVinnia Pierson, She/her: Okay. Well, I'll keep that in mind. So ice cream will be delicious.

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Sheryl Hawes: Yes, thank you. The next program is one going to be put on by Duane October 18, th

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Sheryl Hawes: and she's talked about this a few months. John Nordstrom, the Co. The founder of Nordstrom stores, is a Swedish immigrant, but that's not we, you know. That's Scandinavian. That's close enough from a farm from a farm that came over with nothing and built it up. So that's gonna be a great story. And she wants to do a dinner thing where 5 o'clock, social hour.

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Sheryl Hawes: 6, 15 dinner, we provide dinner and then a program.

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Sheryl Hawes: So that's a Saturday night

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Sheryl Hawes: and the next program again, we're combining these with very, very brief lodge meetings, would be one that Slovenia is working on

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LaVinnia Pierson, She/her: Yes, so there was interest in doing something on the and the Restoration shift.

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LaVinnia Pierson, She/her: and I actually have a rich, and I have a friend from college who is the tour director at Westerheim, and he is leading a tour in Norway, at the point where the Restoration Restoration. I don't know how you say restoration ship left from.

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LaVinnia Pierson, She/her: and and that is in July, and he's doing a follow up tour in November when they get to New York City, so he will then combine information about both of those trips as well as the

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LaVinnia Pierson, She/her: the 1st

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LaVinnia Pierson, She/her: ship that came over 200 years ago, and he will be able to do an in-person

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LaVinnia Pierson, She/her: program for us. But not until next January, when I called him, and I explained what I thought we wanted to do, he said. I think it would be best if we wait until after he's done both phases of his tour. He can combine all of that information into a program, and he comes to the Bay Area to see family in January every year. So that's where we left it.

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Sheryl Hawes: Sounds.

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LaVinnia Pierson, She/her: So I I know it sounds like a long ways out. But it should be a wonderful presentation. He's a great guy, and like, I said. He's the tour director at Westerheim.

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Sheryl Hawes: We couldn't get anybody more close to the issues. Could we close to the activities than that guy

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LaVinnia Pierson, She/her: Right.

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Sheryl Hawes: Thank you.

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LaVinnia Pierson, She/her: Yep.

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Sheryl Hawes: So let's go to new business.

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Sheryl Hawes: So our our past Lunafis dinner lead. Jamie Kelly is.

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Sheryl Hawes: has retired for a few years, and that role is open. And I did put a ask Kristen to put a blurb in the teen about that. But I did want to mention to everyone who might be talking to people about this

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Sheryl Hawes: that we already have

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Sheryl Hawes: behind the scenes. We've been putting together a lot of people that would really help the lead and the co-lead instead of them doing so much, and 1 1 area that I'm really excited about

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Sheryl Hawes: Christine Goldberg, my cousin is going to be a volunteer coordinator. So she will document

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Sheryl Hawes: by using past history and talking to people how many volunteers we need for each station, if you will

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Sheryl Hawes: and

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Sheryl Hawes: list who has volunteered for that in the past. So we have kind of a ready list of potential people. And also, if there's gaps in the volunteer support filling that area which which we did have to do a little bit of that last year with the servers. We were short servers.

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Sheryl Hawes: So

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Sheryl Hawes: Christine was called in on this, and she volunteered, I think this is going to be a big help

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Sheryl Hawes: to make, you know, in addition to us, requesting volunteers to the general membership as well as talking to people. This will be another strategy to have

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Sheryl Hawes: enough stations filled in a timely manner, and not worry about it towards the end.

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Sheryl Hawes: The other thing is, my other cousin, Karen Rubio

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Sheryl Hawes: and commercial publication work, and has offered to take our Lutephus dinner flyer if you will. That's in the Teed, and it's getting a little bit

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Sheryl Hawes: wordy and long kind of redesign it. Make it a little easier to work with.

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Sheryl Hawes: She's offered to do that, and then we have

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Sheryl Hawes: A person who's offered to do some purchasing

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Judy Purrington: And there's all kinds of stuff to purchase, as you know.

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Sheryl Hawes: And of course the left, the lead, meatball lead and cookie leads.

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Sheryl Hawes: We'll continue doing that. So we are starting to build a support team if you will.

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Sheryl Hawes: to take some of the load off the lead the the main event lead. So I hope if you talk to people about this

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Sheryl Hawes: potentially, you can let them know there's there's a lot of support, and it's getting started now.

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Sheryl Hawes: The next one is we have.

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Sheryl Hawes: I'd like to have an election, and we have a volunteer to be Vice President.

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Sheryl Hawes: and he has attended this call. I think he

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Kathryn Whitesel: Yay!

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Sheryl Hawes: Yay, is it, David? David? You're still here? There you are!

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Kathryn Whitesel: Hello!

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david: Sorry about the dog barking.

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Sheryl Hawes: Oh, I my dog, was barking until I put her in the bedroom and shut the door. Anyway.

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Sheryl Hawes: David has been a member before for many years, and has rejoined the Lodge the last few months.

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Sheryl Hawes: and we got acquainted a little bit at the anniversary at the anniversary dinner as great to meet you because we've been corresponding on email for several months.

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Sheryl Hawes: So David has offered to give it a try and step into that role and see what it's like.

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david: Well, I understand it's it's recruiting new members

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Sheryl Hawes: Yes, membership, mem, membership and outreach for membership. Yes.

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david: Sure.

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Sheryl Hawes: That doesn't require you have to move up, or it. It'd be nice, but it doesn't require that. So I guess we should ask for a nomination. I nominate David Doll for our Vice President for 2025,

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Kathryn Whitesel: I will second that

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Sheryl Hawes: Okay, all in favor.

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Sheryl Hawes: I

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david: Hi, welcome, David, thank you.

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david: Do.

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david: Okay.

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david: Looking forward to getting to get to know you all

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Rich Pierson: Great David.

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Sheryl Hawes: Yes.

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Rich Pierson: From a board

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david: Thank you.

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Sheryl Hawes: Okay, all right.

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Sheryl Hawes: I'm just making a note on that. Thank you.

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david: I'm looking into an idea that that I've been circulating. One of our daughters teaches art at the University of Oregon. She's got a friend

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david: who does in Seattle, who does

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david: silver brooch work as as an art form.

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david: And and I'm thinking that

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david: I'm going to ask Sonya. That's our daughter and and her friend, if if she might be interested in doing a marketing trip to the Bay Area

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david: post something like that. Her her, you know these silver brooches and pins that you see

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Sheryl Hawes: Yes.

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david: They're gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous, and that's all she does

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Sheryl Hawes: Oh, wow!

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david: Yeah.

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Sheryl Hawes: Be gorgeous to see see them

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david: Yeah, there might be some interest in in that. And so I'm gonna look into it and see if see if she's willing to willing to do that, and and if so, then we'll find some way of making it happen

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Sheryl Hawes: Great. Thank you.

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Sheryl Hawes: The next topic, a large achievement afford form Duane filled that out which basically is a questionnaire by sons of Norway, asking about how many meetings we've had, how much

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Sheryl Hawes: we engage with members, how much different milestones for our lodge

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Sheryl Hawes: to work towards outreach and fraternal and cultural issues.

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Sheryl Hawes: and she submitted it by March 15, th which was last week, and because of her doing that over the last several years we've won. We last convention we won a

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Sheryl Hawes: recognition as being a of I think we got 1st place for being

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Sheryl Hawes: that, you know, meeting the criteria of of a strong lodge.

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Sheryl Hawes: So thank you, Dwayne, for doing that.

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Sheryl Hawes: The next announcement, I think I already mentioned it was

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Sheryl Hawes: the schedule of our large meetings and programs have this been distributed, and that will be in the team next month.

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Sheryl Hawes: and the last item of new business is we covered some of this on the hall report, but

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Sheryl Hawes: we've had so many members contribute to the Hall, and it's just been really

547
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Sheryl Hawes: wonderful. And what wasn't mentioned is

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Sheryl Hawes: is baseboard that was recently replaced by Rich Jim and Dave all the most of the damaged baseboard in the bar and repainted. It looks really sharp, plus. They took the wax off the floor to be able to get in there. Well.

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Sheryl Hawes: and then we had Joe and Jamie Horner spend most of an afternoon

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Sheryl Hawes: with this huge piece of equipment, you know, digging.

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Sheryl Hawes: creating saw cuts for the damaged area. So we we just had some tremendous

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Sheryl Hawes: work done by our members. Thank you.

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Sheryl Hawes: Next is unfinished business. We

554
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Sheryl Hawes: we know we need our bylaws to be updated, plus, there's new international standards.

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Sheryl Hawes: And Scott ansock had one time indicated he would be a lead, but he hasn't mentioned it since. So

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Sheryl Hawes: I I think I'll just reach out to him to see if he's still interested in doing that, because we do need to get that going

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Judy Purrington: Yeah, because I was wondering why we hadn't heard anything. I had

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Sheryl Hawes: I haven't heard a thing. Yeah.

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Judy Purrington: Yeah, it takes a long time to do bylaws. You gotta kinda at least I know

560
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Sheryl Hawes: Gotta get started, and then you look at it several times, and then we gotta vote on it and stuff like that. So

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Sheryl Hawes: I would like to get to our announcements so that we can have a

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Sheryl Hawes: people can enjoy their evenings. Are okay. So announcements any announcements or remarks for the good of our our lodge. Yes, Judy.

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Judy Purrington: Somehow I didn't notice until we were like halfway through that. Somehow Solvig Club report kind of got left off. So.

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Judy Purrington: Oh, I thought, this

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Judy Purrington: be a good time, and I just kind of want to want to be quick. There is because there's another event that that I'm working on with the Solvay Club

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Judy Purrington: and it would be

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Judy Purrington: Well, there's an event that the Soviet Club you used to have, and and hasn't had for a little while is a a soup and salad and dessert luncheon.

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Judy Purrington: and like like to bring that back

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Judy Purrington: sometime this year to have it and and see how that goes.

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Judy Purrington: And

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Judy Purrington: haven't haven't, haven't chose chosen a date yet, but it's it's hopefully during this year, and and hopefully decided the time decided. And one of the things that I would like to do at that event, because

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Judy Purrington: it seems just having an event always isn't quite enough. And I was, I was thinking last year,

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Judy Purrington: when our well, when I was

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Judy Purrington: district cultural director, one of the one of the Westerheim programs that I was able to bring in, for the district was on the Restoration.

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Judy Purrington: and I was, I was thinking, that might be a good one to show. It's just under an hour.

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Judy Purrington: and the presenter is fantastic, and

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Judy Purrington: one of the the great features of it was that he actually

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Judy Purrington: had had family members that were on that on that 1st voyage. So

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Judy Purrington: and I know Cheryl mentioned about Lavinia's program coming up later. Maybe this would be kind of a nice little introduction, and as far as I recall, there were not, were not a huge number of Nordel Greek members that that did

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Judy Purrington: We're on that on that Westerheim program. So I think. And and

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Judy Purrington: I was like keeping track of the

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Judy Purrington: questions and all that stuff. So I didn't. I know that I didn't really get the get the whole experience of it, and I'd like to see it, too. So it would be a Sunday afternoon event, probably beginning at around one o'clock

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Sheryl Hawes: Okay.

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Judy Purrington: And so and and so it's

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Judy Purrington: that's pretty much. That's 1 of the

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Judy Purrington: the things we're looking planning, we are.

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Judy Purrington: We did. We were very happy to have the boutique at the at the anniversary dinner, and

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Judy Purrington: so right now, and we're also getting ready to plan every June. Our organization has an event for ourselves.

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Judy Purrington: We either go out and have a nice lunch or go to a go somewhere and see

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Judy Purrington: see something like we went to one of the we went to a firehouse last year in Saratoga. That's part of the whole

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Judy Purrington: county efforts, and and we had a great time there and then had a lunch. So we're planning to do that, too, because we like to get together with one another and and not just talk about

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Judy Purrington: the work with a chance to actually spend a little time getting to know one another and and that sort of thing. So

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Judy Purrington: that's all I have. Thank you.

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Sheryl Hawes: Okay, thank you.

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Sheryl Hawes: Any other announcements

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Jeannie: I just have a question for Judy about during the Viking World tour. How extensive will the Sovik

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Jeannie: boutique beam

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Judy Purrington: Well, it'll be in the Solvague Club room, so it'll be as

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Judy Purrington: It is a big, you know it it is. It is a big setup kind of thing.

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Judy Purrington: and also it depends on how many people we have available to to handle sales

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Judy Purrington: Because that's always always the struggle when we have an event. The Lodge has an event.

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Judy Purrington: and our members tend to be.

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Judy Purrington: Almost everybody is, is pretty involved in the lodge. In addition to our club.

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Jeannie: And yeah, and we really thank you for that

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Judy Purrington: And so sometimes we have some. You know. We're fortunate sometimes that we have some family members of members that come in and help us out at those times, which is a really big deal. So we would like to have a really good

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Judy Purrington: boutique, so

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Judy Purrington: so that, you know people can see some of the things they do is it's there there really aren't. When you live in our area here, there's not a whole lot of places to go shop for Scandinavian items, and

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Jeannie: So similar to last year at the taste in Norway.

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Judy Purrington: Yeah.

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Jeannie: Okay, that sounds great.

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Judy Purrington: Yeah? Or, let's see, did we have that? Yeah, yeah, cause we have that in the room too,

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Judy Purrington: so

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Sheryl Hawes: Thank you, Judy.

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Judy Purrington: Yeah, I'll add that to the next agenda. It it was, yeah.

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Sheryl Hawes: Alright. Well, if there's no other announcements. Oh, yes, Bruce, sorry, Bruce

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Bruce Fihe: I think we all owe Dave Milius a deep gratitude and thanks for all his years, as all president. Thank you, Dave.

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Rich Pierson: Thank you, Dave.

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Sheryl Hawes: Hopefully he heard, yes, we do. Thank you, Bruce. Any any other announcements

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Kathryn Whitesel: Oh, Barbara, yes, I have

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Kathryn Whitesel: finally gotten a working cell phone. I will

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Kathryn Whitesel: be texting you with this phone number. yeah. Everybody that I

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Kathryn Whitesel: find their number for on the list you know the last. Let's say, member.

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Kathryn Whitesel: are you comfortable? Giving it to us now?

624
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Kathryn Whitesel: Sure!

625
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Kathryn Whitesel: Hold on. I don't think you like, okay, that's right. I need to.

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Kathryn Whitesel: Nice. There we go.

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Kathryn Whitesel: Hey?

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Kathryn Whitesel: My number is (669) 832-6638,

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Sheryl Hawes: Okay, I just got it today.

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Sheryl Hawes: Yeah. Yay, okay.

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Sheryl Hawes: Great good job.

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Sheryl Hawes: Any other announcements.

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Sheryl Hawes: Okay.

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Sheryl Hawes: thank you. Everybody. While we just mark your calendars. Our next meeting is April 24, th 7 Pm. It'll be a zoom.

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Sheryl Hawes: and thank you everyone for showing up and coming.

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Sheryl Hawes: I see a hand in the

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Judy Purrington: Yeah.

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Kathryn Whitesel: Now that the lights came on out here. Yeah.

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Sheryl Hawes: Yeah, you guys are sitting in the dark

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Kathryn Whitesel: I just want to thank everybody for making my client Mark welcome at the anniversary dinner.

641
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Kathryn Whitesel: He was just so overjoyed to feel like he belonged somewhere, and you know what else. He told me.

642
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Kathryn Whitesel: He said he wanted to do so many chores for the sons of Norway that they would give him a trophy.

643
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Kathryn Whitesel: Tell us those were Don Salama's bowling trophies in the bar

644
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Kathryn Whitesel: trophies, but you know I'm I'm I don't know much about him.

645
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Kathryn Whitesel: I don't think I'm I have

646
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Kathryn Whitesel: clearance level high enough to know what his diagnosis is. Barbara and I have our suspicions, but until then, and I don't really know much about his life other than that he was raised by a single mother, and what I'm trying to figure out is if she belonged to any fraternal organizations and maybe took him along. And that's why it feels so good to him.

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Kathryn Whitesel: Yeah, I mean, he even just likes being in the hall

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Sheryl Hawes: That's great. Yeah, yeah.

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Kathryn Whitesel: So I'll see. You know, I'm gonna always ask ahead of time if it's something that I can include him in, just because he loved it so much, and it seemed to be a good motivator for him

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Sheryl Hawes: Good.

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Kathryn Whitesel: Yeah, I can

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Judy Purrington: Yeah.

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Kathryn Whitesel: You're welcome.

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Sheryl Hawes: I'm glad he felt

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Judy Purrington: Are there any

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Kathryn Whitesel: Yeah.

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Judy Purrington: Are there any birthday people here? I know it was Dwayne's birthday, but she's not here. Her birthday was this month.

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Judy Purrington: It's always nice to know who guess nobody had one

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Sheryl Hawes: Nobody's birthday.

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Judy Purrington: Oh, yeah, it's too bad. When Gwayne wasn't here we could have sang for her

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Sheryl Hawes: Well, if there's nothing else we'll adjourn this meeting. Thanks again. Everyone for your participation, and thank you, Dave, for your report.

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Kathryn Whitesel: So.

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david: Thank you.

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Sheryl Hawes: And thank you, Bruce, for setting this up

665
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Judy Purrington: Thanks for Vice President, my gosh

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Sheryl Hawes: Yes, David, thank you for joining us

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Kathryn Whitesel: Yay!

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Sheryl Hawes: There it is!

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david: Oh no!

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Judy Purrington: Sure.

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Kathryn Whitesel: Hey?

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Kathryn Whitesel: Pretty tough.

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Dave Melius: Bye, bye, everybody! Goodbye.

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david: Bye, bye.

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Kathryn Whitesel: For ice cream. See you later.

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Kathryn Whitesel: Alright!