Meeting Minutes


Blue Water Parrot Head Club
Meeting Minutes 3/9/10
Military Street Music Cafe

Mary Kay opened the meeting promptly at 7p.m.and led us in our traditional cheer.

Welcome to the Military Street Music Cafe

Remember - Save the pull tabs (101 pounds this month) from your favorite canned beverage they are used for children's kidney dialysis through Ronald McDonald house. Our quarterly charity is Mid City Nutrition.

The Key West Rendezvous is scheduled for Saturday April 3rd.at Hollister'z in Port Huron. The raffle tickets are 3 for $10 or $5 a piece. The door tickets are $10 each for advanced sales and $15.00 dollars at the door. We do have our raffle license and an update has been sent to the Michigan Lottery Charitable Gaming Division to change the date to April 3rd. We are allowing one more week, until March 16th, for ticket sales; if a "ton" of tickets are not sold before then the KWR will be cancelled. We'll continue to sell the raffle tickets and conduct the raffle drawing that night either as a full raffle or a fifty/fifty as stated on the tickets.

We have approached Vinomondo to conduct a wine tasting fund raising event. The cost would be about $1000 for wine, have opened initial discussions. We are waiting for the final quote on the cost and will forward via email to allow you to prepare for final discussion. We intend to prepare the hors d'oeuvres at the hall, which will keep the cost down. We will check on food preparation and any health department concerns. Mary Kay did indicate that food preparation will not be a problem as the hall allows that (MK is the hall manager).

The 2010 St. Patrick Day Parade will take place in downtown Port Huron on Saturday March 13th it starts at noon near Pine Grove park. Thanks to everyone that helped on Monday to prepare the surfing leprechaun for his ride through the streets of Port Huron. Additional information will be sent via email once we have the application with the exact time and location of the parade assembly area.

Jim Racz proposed that we have the April last supper social at the Junction Bouy, there will be an evite sent.

Donna read a thank you letter from the Thomas Edison Inn for the Last Supper Social in February.

The dates for this year's road clean up have been set; April 11, July 18 and September 26.

Jim Racz presented an idea for a possible bar bus tour ending at Cheese Burger in Paradise in May or June he will have additional information at a later date.

Sean Gray president of the Sarnia Club talked about the 2010 "Flock to the Dock". If reports from members who have attended previous years are to be believed it is quite the weekend. See the Sarnia Club site for details www.sarniaphc.ca/Welcome.html

The Sarnia Club has their meetings the last Tuesday of the month we can car pool if anyone is interested. Please don't forget that you need either the MI enhanced driver's license or a passport to travel to Canada.

The club has requested 14 tickets to the June 22nd Buffett concert, they must be paid in time to send one check to the ticket coordinator. There will be an email in the next few days to those who requested tickets with the details.

Donna brought up the gentleman who fell from his roof and severely injured himself, they have no insurance. We will contact the family and Donna will chair whatever we can do to assist the family.

Jane provided an emotional update on her latest trip to Haiti. They work on a very remote island providing dental care to the residents. After the earthquake 3700 refugees came to the island that didn't have the resources to care for themselves much less the additional load of individual seeking refuge from the problems. Who of all people but the "Conch Republic Navy" on a 42 foot sailboat delivering supplies captained by Dan Weber. See the WISH web site.haitiwish.org for additional information.

We are going to try for another White Parrothead raffle next month. Please take a look at what items you might want to donate to help raise funds for the club.

Mary Kay read the open letter to the board concerning several issues. We addressed the issues; we each have responsibilities (members and board) and will strive as a group to fulfill the mission of the club. It was a very constructive meeting.

Please try and use the board member individual email addresses, next to the pictures on the "Loyal Crew" tab on the club site. We are hoping that using the individual email address will speed up the response.

Tonight's 50/50 raffle raised $48 dollars for Mid-City Nutrition.

Our March birthday members (Jim, Emily, and Tom) closed the meeting with our traditional cheer at 8:20.



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