Agenda for Women to Women for Peace visit October 2007

Monday Oct 22-Friday Oct 26

Our guests will be arriving after a very busy week of sightseeing in DC and visiting various public offices. What we would like to offer is an opportunity for our guests to meet our small community, and also engage with peace-minded people in the Rural Midwest. Another important aspect of our program will be the importance of alternative energy and sustainable living in regards to peace.

• Monday Oct 22: transport guests from airport (Appleton? Milwaukee?)

Host homes: guests assigned to host homes: depending on time of flight, guests go to host homes and settle in. spend time with hosts. Hosts to provide breakfast on Monday and Tuesday.

Dinner: potluck at host home: maybe Sandy’s house? Or Marci’s.

?Winchester Academy? Kate Saunders will check to see if we could possibly have the program that evening. Guests will have already done some public speaking/discussion. If we were to do the Winchester Academy, maybe the potluck could be at the Holly Center.

• Tuesday Oct 23: visit MREA: Marci will contact Tehri Parker to see what kind of program they could offer.

Lunch depends on schedule of events for the day.

High School: will contact various teachers. Pat Phair, Mark Polobitski, Neil Young, Lee

Schultz. Arrange for a speaking engagement at the High School.

Dinner: community dinner/reception at Chez Marche Café, with music: peace café! Our guests will be invited to speak. Marci to arrange musicians. May have chance to have guests provide some music as well.

Discussion about inviting various entities to this event including Jean Faraca from Public Radio; Someone from Jimmy Carter’s staff; Russ Feingold, Steve Kagen, and other public officials including the Governor, Barbara Lawton, local officials like the mayor and Kevin Peterson; Dan Naylor.

• Wednesday/Thursday Oct 24: attend Rotary breakfast meeting 7am Wed. Sandy has influence here, and other supporters would be Mike Mertes, Dick Bidwell, John Gusmer, Terry Martin. Rotary may even want an evening reception. Ask Sandy to investigate their involvement.

After that, go back to host family and pack up stuff to get ready for travel to Artha.

Travel to Artha farm for workshop; meet people from other peace groups: Marci has had some contact with Judy Miner at WNPJ about inviting people from state peace groups to join us. We could have a nominal fee for them to participate, to cover costs of food and accommodation. Lodging to include the yoga studio, camping, nearby homes: Pease and Reckrey? Inne Choi?

Marci will check with WNPJ to find out if they have a Facilitator who could lead the workshop. Ideas include conflict resolution, combined with the overall theme of the trip which is “sharing our stories” Workshop needs to be very laid out, ie: an hourly schedule with people responsible for every aspect, including assigning rooms/accommodation, making of meals. (Bonni to help here!!!)

All agree that we need to include some personal development/feel good/ downtime activities like yoga, massage, a craft to share, or a recipe to share. (There is a kitchen in the Artha retreat house.) cross-cultural, walking in woods.

Afternoon teas Wed and Thursday are a must for our British guests.

Bonfire, hayride, Native American activity. Bonni will contact some people she knows, Dorothy Davids…

• Friday Oct 26: travel back day…

It should be noted that members of our group have been invited to attend the events in Maryland either before the week here in Wisconsin. Please contact Marci if you are interested. The week before will be filled with DC sites, a workshop on team building to take place at a conference center, visits to Capital Hill, and meeting with groups such as Women in Black, Code Pink, etc.

January meeting minutes

MEETING MINUTES PEOPLE FOR PEACE

THURSDAY JANUARY 18, 2007

PRESENT: Kate Saunders, Larry Craig, Bonni Miller, Trish Henneman, PD Hill, Marci Reynolds, Steve G., Austin Gauer, and Adam (Trish’s son)

1. Treasurer’s report: Pat not here. Kate reports that there is $790.14 in the account. We authorized her to write a check to WNPJ for $50 to renew our membership.
2. Details to pull off Rummage Sale at Sandy’s house this spring:
1. need date. Sandy will let us know what works for her. Most like the date May 17-18. Will see if this works for Sandy.
2. We voted and majority think the sale should be 2 days.
3. PD Hill will start plants early so that it can be a super plant sale.
4. Will do bake sale and have lemonade as well
5. We need really good stuff!!! No stained clothing or junk. Use this as an opportunity to lighten your load, minimize!
6. Need list of who will work
7. When can we bring things to Sandy’s house?

We will work on this again at next meeting.

3. Upcoming Scholarship: Marci talked to Pat Reckrey who could not be here tonight. She is willing to send the letter out to the schools again, by March this year. We will also need a letter in the paper, Pat usually does this as well.
4. Peace Recruitment at High School: Larry will contact the school about dates that we can set up table again. Will hand out peace sh\cholarship info again and maybe cookies. Will try to be set up on days army is there.
5. Presentation from Sexual Assault Victim Services (CAP services) rep: She left early due to snow, but will come back to our next meeting. Marci shared some literature that she left. They are looking for volunteers.
6. MREA Pancake Breakfast: Discussed doing this again this summer. We did make a few hundred dollars last year selling t-shirts, CD’s and buttons. Bonni will be in charge of the food and we will again need volunteers. It will be Sunday morning, June 17. (yes that is fathers’ day) Bonni will ask WNPJ if we can have a percentage of the profit this year since we are all working at the event.
7. Upcoming Women to Women for Peace visit in October 2007: See separate notes on discussion about agenda for the trip. We also discussed fundraising for this event. Currently we have enough $ for our scholarship, and will need to raise about $2000-3000 to cover the expenses of the event. Upcoming fundraising events include:
1. rummage sale……….$800?
2. Strawberryfest………$120
3. MREA breakfast……$300
4. Barn Dance………….$500-800 (more, ie $400 if we do silent auction!!!)
5. Another peace café, in April? Tentative….$??
6. We will need to do a funds appeal. Marci volunteered to write up an official description of our group and send it to the Waupaca Foundation so that they can receive funds for us. This way we do not need to register as a 501c3 organization. She has checked with Jack Rhodes on this. Will need to list officers. Marci volunteered to be listed as president, Pat as Treasurer and Bonni as Secretary. All agreed. Doing this will allow us to write a grant or do other public appeals for $$$ for the event in October.