October 25, 1998 - 1:00 pm
There will be an important special meeting to plan for the Expo, from 1:00 - 4:00 pm next Sunday, November 1 at the Alternative Community School.
The next regular meeting of the whole will be held from 1:00 - 4:00 pm on Saturday, November 7 at the Alternative Community School. This meeting will be taking place one week before the Expo.
Lynne Bell, Rich BlAcK, Steve Calkins, John Coggin, Michael Corrazimo, Patricia Louise Davis, Marie Howden, Brenda Irvin-Bryant, Gene Ira Katz, Maha Joseph Labbe, Bill Lazore, Richard Lazore, Robin Messing, Todd Olson, Terry Ricklefs, Laura Marcy, Mary Richards, Susan McKeon Schaerr, Louise Shedden, Melanie Spearman, Sarah Spearman, Bob Yavits, Rai-Hana Zaman
B.Yavits passed around a schedule for the Red Cross disaster training. H. Bitzer and G. Katz encouraged people to sign up. Charge is free.
G. Katz passed around a publication from the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion. The document indicated that last week was pronounced by the federal government as Y2K action week, which hardly anyone at the meeting seemed to know about.
J. Coggin discussed a presentation in Canandaigua regarding the condition of local water supplies.
P. Davis passed around an announcement from the Dept. of Agriculture regarding their Y2K progam.
The spelling of Terrund Ricklef should be: Terry Ricklefs.
H. Bitzer moved to approve the minutes of October 4. P. Davis seconded. the motion was passed unanimously.
The Spiritual Committee met with a group of pastors. G. Katz made a presentation on Y2K. His impression was that it scared them. He has a list of folks who want to work on presentations. They will need to start after the Expo.
R. Zaman went to a Y2K preparedness meeting at Moravia. It seemed to be a Menonite group. At their November 10 meeting a man will be discussing energy and how to get off of the electric grid. These meetings take place at New Hope Bible Center in Moravia. To get there, take route 38 to Moravia. When route 38 turns to the left and another block turns to the right, go straight one block when route 38 turns to the left. Meetings take place at 7:30 pm.
S. Calkins said that the drama folks at the Alternative Community School are looking at December as a time to begin to create a production. Also the Eco-Action group at the school may do a project based upon Y2K.
http://www.lightlink.com/y2k/
M. Labbe has made this page available to people all over the country through the Homestead Y2K electronic mailing list. He made a request that people please send him feedback about the site and information to be posted on the site.
G. Katz has received several e-mails inquiring as to what we are doing.
Fox News NY may cover the Expo.
He is also getting to know about several
other Y2K groups that are similar in nature to ours.
There will be an
article about this subject in the Syracuse New Times in January.
Information for this article should go to G. Katz.
R. Zaman has a list of owners of draft horses, which may be necessary in an emergency situation. G. Katz is interested in contacting these people to let them know how they may be useful.
Previous Balance: $43.52 Donations $36.00 TOTAL: $79.52
H. Bitzer has been spending a fairly large amount of money on copying and print heads for printers. She asked for more donations. G. Katz suggested a fund raiser to be planned for some time after the Expo.
G. Katz again encouraged people to write letters to the editor of local
(and other) newspapers.
T. Ricklefs is doing a college project on this
issue, and will submit a synopsis of her results as a guest editorial in
the Ithaca Journal
T. Ricklefs will work on a flyer for the event. Work also needs to be done to help provide transportation to the event for those who will need it.
H. Bitzer listed topics which need to be covered at the Expo. The following list was generating, showing who will work on preparing information and covering a table for each topic.
The Expo. will be held at the Women's Community Building from noon - 4:00 pm on Saturday, November 14.There will be an important meeting from 1:00 - 4:00 pm next Sunday, November 1 at the Alternative Community School to plan for the Expo.
The next regular meeting of the whole will be held from 1:00 - 4:00 pm on
Saturday, November 7 at the Alternative Community School.
This meeting
will be taking place one week before the Expo.
- Respectfully submitted: Bob Yavits