BRADFORD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER COMMITTEE MEETING
June 10, 2009
PRESENT: Ellen Brownson, John Bruss, Kate Dobrowski, Director, Fred Hubley, Margaret Raymond, Ona Ruchti, Dawn Rich, Bob Stewart , Mary Ann Wright.
John Bruss, Chair, opened the meeting at 4:30 pm
Minutes of the May 13th meeting were approved.
DIRECTOR’S REPORT: Report given by Kate, our director, was given out at the meeting to board members and will be published in full on website, Bradford NH.org, with the minutes.
BUILDING MAINTENANCE: The acceptance of the dishwasher gift from Bradford Women’s Club was approved by the selectmen. Dishwasher has been ordered by the Lumber Barn and will be installed by Dave Pickman with no charge. Barry Wheeler will be contacted about the offer to look at the parking lot water problem on the next property
SENIOR REPRESENTATIVE: Ona spoke about the quilt that will be raffled off. Placemats will also be included. They are doing well with the sale of shopping bags and are busy making more to sell. 120 persons including students attended the Eleanor Roosevelt program held at the Warner Town Hall. CAP of Bradford and Warner were co-sponsors of this program. Both groups have been entertained by a very talented 11 year old violin player from Warner that enjoys playing her violin at any occasion.
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Ellen spoke about the clinics available. We have at our center blood pressure and foot care clinics. We are now looking into glucose and cholesterol clinics. More details about clinics liability will be forthcoming. Posters about the Bradford July 4th Blood Drive are posted in the local towns. Bob spoke to PSNH about the hanging of the Red Cross banner across Main Street. With their concerns understood by the board, we will hang the banner from one PS pole to the tree on our property.
KAP REPRESENTATIVE: Mary Ann spoke about the school year coming to any end. There is no interest in a summer program. They are now interviewing applicants for new teachers and they may have a new part-time administrator.
PARKS AND RECREATION: Margaret asked for volunteers to supply desserts for the Beef Roast. Bob reported that he spoke to Chief Valiquet about the cow flop bingo and it will be held. Now we need a lawn for it.
CHAIR’S REPORT: We are working on our ads for the Lettvin Concert Series. Deadline is July 1st to Tandy Hartford. CAP AND KAP leases have been signed by the selectmen.
OLD BUSINESS: none
NEW BUSINESS: none
Meeting adjourned at 6:00pm. Next meeting 7/8/09 at 4:30 pm
Respectfully submitted,
Kate Dobrowski, Dawn Rich (minutes unapproved)
BRADFORD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER and PARKS AND RECREATION
DIRECTOR’S REPORTS
June 10, 2009
Kearsarge Regional High School Student Council
Thank you to the many high school students who volunteered their time to paint picnic table, fence, put together raised beds and fill them up and clean up the leaf piles at French’s Park. The students were fantastic, had a great time and did a lot of work in a short period of time.
Leases
The CAP lease was received and signed by the Selectmen.
Maintenance
A kitchen door magnet was repaired by Bruce Edwards. Bruce is also working on getting all the floors done thru the summer months.
Special software for the AED has been ordered and apparently is on backorder. A letter was received (attached) from Zoll describing a correction which may result in a recall of the device. Apparently the batteries do not deliver enough of a charge and the battery indicator of the unit is questionable . This was the only letter I received from Zoll. The letter was dated March 31st but I received it in the mail – the end of May.
Lawn -Landscaper / billing issues
Art Series
On hold – no change.
Entry way art project- on hold until summer
New Games and Movie Night
Volunteers Bianca Pelkey and Eric Edwards have stepped up to host a new Movie and game night at the BACC. July 10 from 4 -6:30 will be the first movie . July 23rd will be the first game night from 4 -7:30. All ages are encouraged to attend.
Social Media Class -was cancelled due to lack of participation.
Farmers Market
The Farmers Market opened on June 4th . We had 6 vendors and fair turnout. Al (Doc) Rogers played songs for the audience
Walk NH
The Walk NH event had 8 participants and 2 stoller riders. Bill Hallahan won the visor, Dawn Rich and Bonnie Warren took took home the T-shirts. Other prizes were distributed among participants. Thanks goes to Ellen Brownson and Debbie Flinkstom who helped out with registrations. Jesse of Cobble Pond Convenience store donated a case of water to the participants.
Nature’s Circle Summer Day Camp
The registrations for Nature’s Circle are 48 out of 60 available slots. The Friends of The BACC have agreed to subsidize scholarships of $1500. The staff is in place and paperwork being filled out. We are still in need of transportation to French’s Park each day.
4-H
Marie Hasey contacted me about setting up a 4-H program at the BACC. Marie discussed her conversation with Karen Hambleton concerning the use of the preschool room / insurance for supervised meetings with the younger Cloverbud 4-H children. Karen let me know yesterday that she would take Marie’s request to the KAP board.
Old Business
Roof flashing leak in kitchen . – John will check on this as time permits.
Yoga- Fran Vanais
Fran gave us a payment as scheduled and signed the letter that was sent to her regarding her payment plan. The
next payment is scheduled for the week of June 22.
Parks and Recreation – Meeting Thursday at 4
Winterfest meeting – Status?
Archery Program Archery Program will continue at Funday and in the fall. In general the attendance was variable and was probably influenced by baseball season.
Swimming Lessons
A new instructor for the swimming lessons has been found. Chelsea Barrett from NE College is a certified and experienced WSI /lifeguard She will teach the classes the last 2 weeks of July from 1:30 to 5:30.Posters go up this week!
Bloodmobile
We have the posters. Ellen Browson is assisting with this endeavor. Ona Ruchti has agreed to help in the AM .
NEW SIGNS FOR FRENCH”S PARK
NE Barricade delivered the signs . Steve Lucier said he will help to install them on posts.
Baton
The twirlers will sell popcorn at the Independence Day event at Brown Shattuck to raise money for new outfits for next year . The popcorn will be picked up Thursday .
French’s Park Clean-Up -happened on Saturday May 23rd. Volunteers came from NFI – they were great. Mr McCloud, Kevin, Ben Dobrowski, Margaret Raymond, Marissa Pickman, Shanna and Sabien Braden, all worked up an appetite for munchkins, donuts and bagels . KRHS student council finished the job the next day .
Hiring for French’s Park person – later –
Beef Roast –
Need the Beef
Who will make things ?
Signs –
Tables
Make the tickets
Sell the tickets
Kareoke Machine
Cow Flop Bingo will be helped by “Friends”
Contact Steve Patton
No cows yet
Henniker Farm
Make the grid
Make the tickets
Sell the tickets
Proceeds
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