July Meeting Minutes 2009

Minutes submitted by Megan Karth

People for Peace Meeting, 7/9/09, at the Chez

Present: Sandy Testin, Jane Haasch, Megan Karth, Marci Reynolds, Steve Gajewski, Bonni Miller, (who did I miss?).

(Please read to the bottom as the potluck idea sounds really good and I don’t want anyone to miss it)!

Peace Day: The lower shelter was reserved and Tom Pease committed BUT, not enough help and energy. It was decided to cancel Peace Day again. Hopefully next year it can be coordinated with the Japanese exchange program and we plan farther ahead to try to get more folks involved. This year the Japanese students are not coming to the US. We also discussed maybe having a Peace Day Homecoming, inviting as many scholarship winners as we could locate. Anyone who has enjoyed Peace Day in the past may want to volunteer early to make sure we can pull it off next year. We also discussed having our scholarship winner show up each year at Peace Day to receive their check.

Art on the Square: August 15

PFP will have a booth. We will sell Palestinian olive oil and dry pancake mix (left from the Peace breakfast at MREA). We will put out any tee shirts and other items we have around. We need volunteers for 2 hr shifts. So far Megan will take 8-10 am, Sandy will take 2-4 in afternoon. We need someone 10-12 and 12-2. Please call Jane if you can help. Marci will order olive oil, Sandy will store it. Sandy will provide change box, Jane will make sure there is change.

Friday night concerts at the Waupaca band shell. (Music and Memories).

We are not sure if PFP is signed up for any more nights. The city is having different groups have booths on the square. Cham Nusz. Are we committed to having a booth any more Friday nights? Let us know.

Peace Studies potluck

We talked about wanting to spend more time brainstorming and talking about what we are about in PFP. We have done a lot of activities over the years. Some of the most satisfying were sending kids to Peace Camp and holding high\ school peace studies groups and sending kids to the UN and Washington DC after they did lots of study about an issue. We are intriqued by a teacher from Eagle River who is teaching Peace Studies in a very conservative HS. We would like to invite her to a potluck to talk to us about how she is managing to do what she does, what does it take, etc. Cham and Megan got to hear her earlier this year at the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice annual meeting. Megan will contact Cham about getting in touch with this teacher and will report back to the group.

Peace Vigils

We were holding small peace vigils on the 3^rd Friday of each month at 5 pm to coincide with Iraq Moratorium day. We have not met this summer, partly not to conflict with Strawberry Fest and now with the Music and Memories. There are many communities in the state holding vigils monthly or more often. Anyone interested? This is not a partisan activity but one to make folks think, including ourselves. Anyone interested, talk to Megan.

Meeting dates have changed!

Please note that we're now meeting on the 2nd Thursday of each month. Meeting this month is February 12th, at 7 pm, at the Chez Marche Cafe, 108 S. Main, Waupaca. Call 715-256-2672 with questions.

November meeting minutes

People for peace meeting

November 13, 2008

Present: marci, jane, pat reckrey, sandy, steve, bonni, mary brandt.

I. treasurer’s report: pat reports that we have $957.84, with $648 being earned at the mrea/wnpj/p4p pancakes for peace breakfast last june…bonni said that we need to add $427 from oil sales, so our total is actually $1384.84. At this point, we have sold enough oil and cous cous to break even, (earned $364.50 at arts festival in august) and from this point on any sales are pure profit. More on this later…

all agreed to renew membership to wnpj. Pat to send check.

II. oil and cous cous sales plans: arts center, chocolate sale at Jensen center; Christmas presents for our relatives??? At this point, the plans for oil sales include:

a. sale at the Jensen Center: their chocolate festival: the opil nad cous cous will be sold at the artha table. Louise will pick it up here at the chez and take care of all the details.

b. any leftover will be sold at the Waupaca Community Arts Center sale on December 6. Marci will attend to this from 12-4pm. We will also sell fair trade coffee and get $1 per bag, Bonni will order it, thanks Bonni…it is called “peace on earth coffee,” and is from the same company that her fair trade coffee comes from that she is currently selling. Good stuff.

c. and finally the oil and cous cous will continue to be sold at the chez.

d. We debated whether or not we should order more, but decided to wait and see. All agreed that the best thing is to sell it all. Will do the sale again next spring/summer.

e. If anyone wants to buy oil for gifts they better hurry up before it is all gone!!!

III. vigil news? This is happening the 3^rd Friday of every month and has been attended. Gather at 5pm on the square.

IV. Holiday peace recital dec 13: Sandy has taken care of the arrangements, with help from Kari:

a. kari is organizing string players who will do a singalong carol thing

b. the date is December 13, from 2-3:00, and from 3:30-4:30. this is to encourage the first batch of people to leave so there is enough room to hold this popular event.

c. Mr./ Biba has an entire lineup of students

d. Bonni is making cookies.

e. Sandy is creating programs and a few fliers to post

f. Marci will put a little blurb in the paper, we don’t want to advertise too much cuz we don’t have room for too many more people than the families and usual crowd!!! Article will state that this is an open house atmosphere, and that we request a $5 donation.

g. Marci will emcee

h. Proceeds will be split between the food pantry and the bread basket meal.

V. Report on the youth that were to go to the nonviolence conference this weekend? In the end, the youth that were set up to go by betty manion could not go. However we received a letter from a woman in Stevens Point who requested the tuition grant and all voted to give it to her.

VI. Rummage sale storage??? Folks that absolutely need storage of items for the rummage sale can call Jane Haasch for information. We discussed donating the stuff leftover from the sale this year to the Japanese exchange program group who'll also be having a fundraising rummage in '09. Their sale is in June. If anyone has stuff that they need to store out of their house, contact Jane.

VII. Peace day: sandy will get the park reserved Jan 2 so we don’t miss out this year! She will also call tom pease about playing again. She will choose the date that does not conflict with the arts festival. We will not know about the Japanese kids til late spring, so pointless to try and coincide the dates. However, if they are not here for peace day, they will likely be here for the festival. Sandy also would like to see if we can get the fire spinners that were at the festival in 2007. (adam burgestede) the tentative date for peace day would be the Sunday before the festival: august 9, 2009.

VIII. All agreed that we should skip the December meeting, and make a point of reviewing the causes we support at our January meeting. We have a very stable sum of money now, with our regular events and fundraising,m and it is nice to be able to choose certain orgs and events etc…that promote peace in the world and locally. It has been suggested that we offer some sort of family conflict resolution class in conjunction with the county…we will look in to this. ***we need to determine if we should change our meeting to the 1^st, second or 4^th Thursday, marci has a conflict with the 3^rd…

IX. Marci suggested that we create a p4p brochure that states our mission, meeting dates, regular events and causes we support to be distributed around town. She will work on this. Jane suggested that we set aside money for a future speaker and sited as an example arun ghandi. !!!

X. Marci listed p4 events that occur annually, and all remarked at how nice it is that we do have this cyclical schedule of public events:

Spring: rummage sale

Mrea pancakes for peace breakfast (june)

Annual scholarship (may)

The fair trade sale at the arts festival in august

Peace day (august)

The holiday concert in December at the chez

The oil sales

The road cleanup (2x per year)

The monthly vigils for peace

And the peace café, which we propose we hold in jan or feb 2009.

May meeting minutes

Submitted by Pat Reckrey

MINUTES OF THE PEOPLE FOR PEACE MTG. --– May 15, 2008

We have $1088.73 and have just netted an additional $1531.86 from the rummage sale at Sandy’s –which was a big success.Thanks, Sandy.... We decided to offer two peace scholarships this year for $750 each as we had advertised the rummage sale as for the Peace Scholarships. Pat will present them to two students from Waupaca who were chosen through votes by members at the May 29^th Awards Presentation. She will also contact Bob Cloud about publishing one of the essays.

Much discussion on the Midwest Renewable Energy Fair and the pancake breakfast that we are sponsoring Friday, June 20^th on the grounds

Any interested helpers are still urged to sign up with Camomille Nucz. We’ll meet on June 17^th tat 2:00 p.m. at the Chez to mix up try ingredients to be used for the batter. Ingredients are not being donated to us this year, so if you have any contacts for donations, contact Cam.

Cam explained health recommendations to be followed during the prep and serving of food. She will oversee the operations so they are met.

PEACE VIGILS again were brought to the table by Megan. We decided to try to gather May 23 ( 4^th FRIDAY) from 5:30-6:00 at the Square. It’s hard to find convenient times/dates, but we hope that 4^th FRIDAY time will work. Try to join us Square.

We agreed to have PEACE DAY on a weekday in early August when the Japanese kids and chaperones are here . (The weekend dates were already filled at South Park) Sandy will check on dates. We hope Tom Pease will join us.

It looks like we’ll have a 4^th of July "event" at the Parade. Red, white and blue hybrid cars in formation with the Louise/Marcie majorette combo. Maybe a sign that says PEACE THROUGH CONSERVING ENERGY. Jane, Cam, and Megan driving....

There will be a booth at the Arts Festival selling olive oil, t-shirts, and other PFP stuff. Tricia was interested in doing that.

We thought a meeting yearly to discuss causes we might like to support would be a good idea. There are so many places where our few dollars might go to help people working for peace (ie. Bustan, Palestinian causes....)

NO MEETING ON JUNE 19^TH Because of MREA involvement.

April Meeting Minutes

Submitted by Sandy Testin

People for Peace: Notes from the April 17 Meeting:

1. Rummage Sale - last year we raised over $1000 with this fairly painless fundraiser!

We will hold our sale on Thursday thru Sat AM, May 8 - 10

8 AM to 4 PM on Thurs and Fri

8 AM til noon on Sat

218 E Lake Street (Sandy Testin and Charlie Rathjen's home)

Set up - time to deliver your stuff and help price - will be Wed, May 7 from 3 til 6 PM

No Bake sale this year

We will have a plant sale - Pat will again share from her gardens.

If you have plants you can share please bring - these were a huge hit last year!

Tables: If you have long tables, let Sandy know.

Pat (long), Kate (long), Marci (card size)

Advertising: Marci will do an article for the May 2nd paper, the funds will go towards our scholarships.

***We are hoping that each of us could call one neighbor or friend and ask if they have goodies to offer for the garage sale and then pick them up and bring them on Wed afternoon during set up.

Pat will bring signs,

We need workers - if you can share 2 to 4 hours, please call Sandy (258-7510)

So Far we have:

Thurs: Pat and Kate 7:30 - 12

Fri: Marci

Need someone with a big van or truck on Sat at 12:30 to take anything left to Goodwill.

2. HWY E Garbage pickup- was last Sunday - hope some of you were able to make it!

3. Scholarship update: notices have gone out to area schools and newspapers.

Applications are due May 1st.

We will read essays and make choices during Rummage sale so drop by to read and place your vote when you can.

We decided this year to offer 2 $500 scholarships

Pat or Kate will announce winners

4. MREA pancake breakfast: Friday June 20

A sign-up list went around.

Marci will send an email to all the students who signed up at our People for Peace table at the HS and offer them a free day pass to energy fair in return for helping out in the AM

We are in need of a coordinator for this event: call Sandy (258-7510) or Marci (258-0709) if you can help with this.

5. Report from High School Visit:

Steve and Larry went to the HS to share information about PFP and our scholarship.

They gave out 20 essay forms!

Also gave out some t-shirts

Felt students were very receptive

6. Arts Festival: We will be setting up a fair trade table with olive oil and coffee at the Arts Fair in August.

Tricia has volunteered to staff this.

Marci will order the oil - Larry wants a whole case.

7. Peace Banner

Needs mending: Sandy will mend.

8. Peace Vigils - Sandy will call Mary Naylor and see if/when they are happening right now.

November meeting minutes

People for Peace
Notes from November 15, 2007 Meeting

Attendance: Jane Haasch, Jeff, Larry Craig, Kate Saunders, Carole Elvery, Pat Reckrey, and Sandy Testin

Treasurer’s Report: $900
Pat will do a more detailed report about the Peace delegation and costs and income for next meeting

Women to Women Peace week:
Kate led a review of the week –
Jane Haasch will send a thank you to Mike Kirk and the Historical Society and a $25 donation
Pat read a commendation letter from Kagen’s office. Kate will see if it could be changed slightly to make it appropriate for the newspaper.
Kate will send a thank you note to the High School
Kate shared some evals from Maryland

School Military Recruitment – we discussed the best way to deal with the issue of recruiters wandering freely through the High School
Larry will see if he can find the anti recruitment info he got at Bob Fest
Pat may write a letter asking about recruiters and current policy – maybe this is something we need to deal with as a Peace Group

Name Change ?? – We discussed how important the issue of justice is for peace. We discussed the possibility of changing our name to Waupaca Area People for Peace and Justice. Interesting thoughts on what justice means and the connotations it has for different people.

Announcements:
Living Waters Fair Trade Sale We will have our buttons, tshirts, CD’s and Olive Oil for sale at the Fair Trade Sale on Saturday 11/17 at the Chez. Sandy will make up a price list. Pat volunteered to take stuff to Living Waters on Sunday and sell.

Christmas Open House Recital: Saturday, December 15 at 2 PM at the Chez
Sandy is trying to recruit musicians. Mr. Biba has a number of students who will be playing. Sandy will put up a flyer at the Chez.. Donations will go to the Etta Projects (like last year) and to Jen Potts home Rotary project for AIDs victims- many of which are orphaned children. Be sure to come and support the musicians!


Next Meeting: Thursday, Dec 20??? - More on date later

September meeting minutes

hi all. here are the notes from our meeting...hope i got it all right!

FILMING/DOCUMENTARY MAKING BY TODD MALLASCH AND CHRIS JOHNSON

Monday:

1. film at airport ok.

2. Holly Center in Waupaca ok.

Tuesday:

1. film at the MREA in Custer ok.

2. film at evening event at Library ok.

Wednesday:

1. Unsure about Rotary...will need to check on this.

2. unsure about school. Kate Saunders felt the school would not go for filming unless there were students involved. Kate is meeting with the principal tomorrow am, and will ask about it. Marci will ask Chris to get 1 or 2 students who normally film the council meetings to be involved in any way. ( I feel that this part of the trip should be documented, and some students interviewed about their views after the presentation, so if we can portray it as "a student experience of filming a documentary" i bet they will let us do it... )

3. Peace Cafe ok. they felt that it would be ok to do some interviews at 5pm prior to the peace cafe at the chez. (we will be eating dinner at 5pm)

Thursday:

1. dinner and bonfire ok

Friday:

1. departure ok.

Also, we will not be meeting again as a group prior to the 22nd, but felt that if they wanted to interview host families, it would be ok to call them prior to the week. some questions related to "what do you expect to learn form this experience?" etc would be appropriate.

Our next big people for peace meeting will take place next thursday the 17th at the chez at 7pm. there will be other p4p members that they could interview then as well.

REVIEW OF WEEK ITINERARY

we went through the week events. Monday Pat and Marci will pick guests up in Appleton and bring them to Waupaca to the Holly Center. Jane Haasch will arrange for the speaker and tea. Host families will not be required to attend this. They can meet up with the guests at Sandy's house at the potluck.

All other events were discussed and there are no problems with any of them.

key things that we added:

1. Pat will prepare the reception food for the library event. Marci will provide cider.

2. cham will be responsible for a banner that retreat participants can write on and sew little things as remembrances to.

3. marci will provide paper and envelopes for the stationary project, louise will provide stampers.

4. marci and jane will be glazing mugs at dianne veeser's house probably this sunday. she will let louise and kate know what time so they can help.

5. pat shared tha registration list, and we have probably got about 26 people. marci will send one more reminder out especially to specific people not on the current registration list...in case any more people want to register.

6. we will sell olive oil and mugs at every public event.

COSTS

we discussed the costs of the various things that will take place:

1. lunch at Weasel's: p4p will pay for the guests and their hosts. Marci confirmed this with Harris and lunch will be buffet plus a drink and tip. estimate about $100 for this.

2. Mr. Pecore will get $100.

3. lunch at school: Kate thinks that this will be paid by the school.

4. dinner at chez: we will pay for just the guests, everyone else is on their own. plan for $100 to cover guests. everyone reminded to get their menu choices in to bonni!

5. possible honorarium for speaker is $100

6. bonnie block's fee is $300

7. catering for lunch and dinner at the retreat estimated at about $600-700. We will not have breakfast catered, Cham will take care of a simple cereal and milk and toast breakfast at the b&b.

8. dancers: we agreed to offer them $350.

9. we agreed to give Artha at least $200 plus a gift.

this totals nearly $2000, which is leaving us enough money for unforeseen things and our spring scholarship!

OTHER

1. publicity: Kate will have library advertise the tuesday night event seperate from the article that angie landsverk will be writing.

2. Hala's status still unknown, but does not look hopeful. there may be another woman who is a palestinian refugee in washington available but it is unknown if she will come to wisconsin or not. marci has invited her. ???will we be able to get our money back for hala's flight??? marci will inquire...

am i forgetting anything???

august meeting minutes

People for peace

Meeting minutes

August 23, 2007

Present: larry craig, steve g., bonni, marci, pd hill, louise pease, kate saunders, jane haasch, and true colors members annie, and larry la ven.

1. treasurer's report: we do not have the actual checkbook but pat r. did e-mail that the total balance is about $4000, with the outliers and incoming money. Will have a more complete report at the next meeting.

2. post peace day: debrief and suggestions? Main suggestion was to try and coordinate the next year’s event with the Japanese exchange visit. Problem is that they choose their date so late in the year. Decided that we should reserve the shelter for 2 Sundays in august for now, the 3^rd and the 10^th of 2008, and communicate with that group in the meantime.

3. post-trash pick-up 7 people went and it went well. 1 ½ hours.

4. olive oil sales report, further fundraising larry craig strongly encouraged members present to buy the olive oil that we are selling. 8 bottles sold as a result. (good work larry!!!) a long discussion was held about whether or not we should order more oil to sell. Arts festival sold 1 ½ cases. Rain was prohibitive, as well as some people were apparently put off by the nature of the oil being to benefit Palestinians! Good awareness raising opportunities… Decided that if we do order it again, we need a venue at which to sell it. Jane called someone from one of the churches who has done a fair trade sale in the fall in the past, and found out that this event will happen this year again, they will get back to us with particulars. If this event is a go, (November) we will try to link up with it. Hopefully Caanan fair trade will have other items to sell by then too. Right now we have just 4 bottles left! (call marci if you are interested. $22 a bottle, we net $7 per bottle.) As for the wreaths, we agreed to do this again if they are available, since it brought in $1000 last year. Marci will contact the group in Oshkosh.

5. w2w trip update: set date(s) for planning: we discussed some details and why we need to do planning even though we have a pretty good schedule laid out already:

a. since judy miner from wnpj posted the flier from the east coast group to all members, marci has had many inquiries as to whether or not others can attend…organizations interested include: Madison Rafa sister city project; Madison Friends of a Jewish voice for peace, and WILPF, all from Madison; a woman from Fond du lac, Judy Miner from wnpj and someone from the office of global justice and peace near Milwaukee.

b. we need to work out our budget and make sure we can cover all expenses, and what those expenses are

c. the retreat may be well attended and we need to anticipate all needs: housing, food, activities…registration, and what we should charge. We may need to find a larger place to hold this…

Annie would be interested in attending the post retreat in Maryland and would need funding for airfare. She has been integral in the past few years in the planning of the yearly peace vigil on 9/11, and also the earth day litter pick up. She is interested in becoming more involved in the peace movement and would value training that would be offered at the retreat in Maryland. (More on Annie and True Colors at the end of these minutes.)

Marci has contacted the mrea about doing a program and waits to hear back from them.

Bonni has 3 native American contacts. The visiting women have all requested that they be able to meet and talk with Native American people if possible, due to the similarities in issues with the Palestinians.

a. Dorothy Davidson, an elder from the Stockbridge Munsie tribe

b. Gail Sweet, Wi current poet laureate, an Oneida

c. Mr. Pekore, an elder who is already on board and will be available for any time during the stay.

Marci suggested that we try to get Gail to do some of her poetry at the peace café on wed night, and Dorothy and mr. pekore to come to the retreat. All agreed that being able to meet and talk informally would be a great addition to our program for the visitors. We should offer them all a speaker’s fee.

A meeting of those interested in the detail planning for the event is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept 5 at the chez at 7pm.

6. between fences update: Kate reported that the movie Iron Wall will be shown as part of the exhibit. Date chosen is a date that we meet so she will find alternative date and get back to us. We should promote the film as we are cosponsoring its viewing.

7. other??? True Colors: the young people who have been doing a peace vigil on 9/11 ever since the tragedy have adopted the name True Colors for their group, carrying it over from the recent Arts on the Square event. Annie and Larry have been core members of this group and came tonight to discuss promoting their upcoming annual event. Their group is also responsible for doing a litter pick up by the river every earth day.

Every year at their vigil, which is an event involving gathering, candles and acoustic music jam on the square, they raise donations and then they give the money to a charitable cause. Last year they chose Katrina. This year they would like to choose people for peace! This money could be used towards Annie’s airfare to the post w2w retreat.

This year their 9/11 event will include music, chalking memorial squares and placing a candle on each square for $1. Also they may do some sort of dew rag activity. All p4p members are invited to attend the event. It will start at 7pm, on 9/11, of course…

July Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes

People for peace

July 19, 2007 at the Chez

Present: Austin, Maggie, Larry, Pat, Sandy, Trisha, Pat Hill, Marci, Jane, Kate

1. treasurer's report: we made $500 at the barn dance. Made $510 so far on the mailing. Total in account is $3250.

2. follow up on barn dance: see above. We split proceeds this year with the Petersons, who need a new roof on their barn. Thanks Peterson’s for allowing us to raise funds every year!!!

3. peace day planning:

a. lantern supplies and setup: Jane and Kate will get from Megan’s basement and bring to park and
set up.

b. peace doves: Cham has them. Marci will check to see if they can be at the park.

c. tom pease: sound...songs...program...any ideas for kids groups? Larry suggested having John Gusmer present a small speech about international exchange. We should honor John and Rotary because of their involvement with exchange, this is a gandhian principal in peacemaking. Larry and or Sandy will pursue this. Also Jane has invited the FVTC Carribean and Central American students. Larry will invite the mayor again to introduce John Gusmer. Sandy will invite Tom Link, who is the scholarship recipient. Maggie Laven will read a poem, and so will Pat Reckrey. Music by Tom, Marci will help. We will also have a moment of silence for the soldiers who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years, including the recent death of the Manawa person, and also a moment of silence for the Iraqis killed.

d. article in paper: Pat Reckrey will do and submit.

e. banners???No word yet from Megan, but will follow up

f. to eat or not to eat? picnic? treats? All agreed that who ever wants to can picnic before activities start.

g. membership table and sales of t-shirts etc... Steve agreed to man this table

h. possibility of drumming with bill kehl (remote)...$? Bill can’t do it this year.

i. peace biker t-shirts??? Unclear information…needs follow-up.

j. other??? Fliers: Larry will do again. Needs info, so we will get him the information needed. Larry suggested an ad in the paper and Pat will look into the pricing.

4. women to women trip planning

a. facilitator for retreat and plans for retreat: Marci presented info on Bonnie
Block, former admin of WNPJ who does workshops and also has an interest and expertise in the middle east and is affiliated with some groups in Madison that are working on pro-palestinian and peace issues. All agreed that we should hire her for the 200-400 dollars she charges. We wil intersperse ideas throughout the retreat like sharing recipes, a craft, walks in woods, yoga…

b. coordinating host families: the following have expressed an interest in hosting: Craigs, Marci and Fran, Kate, and Pease’s.

c. update on fences schedule and coordinating that with the guests: Kate reported that things are getting very organized. Info on the W2W trip is posted on the library website. The women will speak at the library Oct 23 at a public forum and at the hs wed at 1pm oct 24. She needs a title for their program which will go in the library ads. Marci will get this to her.

d. committee to do further planning and report back to group in august??? Those interested include Marci, Sandy, Pat R, Pat Hill, Jane, Trisha, and kate.

5. further fundraising opportunities: peace wreaths and olive oil??? Pat Reckrey agreed to help Marci with the wreath sales in terms of keeping the money straight and all agreed we should do this fundraiser, we made over $1000 last year. Also Marci brought info on sales of olive oil from Palestine as a fundraiser/awareness campaign that would also support the Palestinians in that some of the money goes to help them plant new olive groves. Larry volunteered to buy 10 bottles himself. Trisha offered to sell it at a table at the arts fest August 18. Marci will see if we can get a shipment by then. A case is $180 for 12 1000ml bottles. We can mark them up a bit. All agreed we will order 5 cases to start.

6. nonprofit status: Cham not here.

7. kevin's movie viewing this fall: "the iron wall" Kate needs to view this before it can be part of the Fences program. Marci will remind Kevin.

8. status on membership letter: any responses yet??? Good response. All reminded to send their own in too! Many checks written out tonight!

9. other Rotary also needs the name of the program for October, Marci will get this to Sandy.

Peace vigil this Saturday am at 10:00.

Chez booked for peace café in October during the W2W trip.

June Meeting Minutes

People for Peace
Notes from June 21st Meeting

Attendance: Jane Haasch, Cam Nusz, Pat Reckrey, John Skyrms, and Sandy Testin

Treasurer’s Report: $2345

Pancake Breakfast Update: Big success!!! $913 profit. Grill worked great – made a huge difference. Cam thinks we fed about 350 people. Health Department inspection had suggestions for us which were incorporated as possible. Cam has made notes about improvements for next year. A few other comments: more big aluminum bowls; Change recipe: ½ gal + 1 cup of milk per double batch.

Nonprofit Status: Cam has not had time to work on this yet.

People for Peace HS Scholarship: This year’s winner is Tom Link. Tom hopes to go into architecture and work on green building.

Membership Letter: Sandy wrote up letter. We used Louise’s mailing list with advice from Louise about who to send it to. Letters were folded, stuffed, and sealed. Pat will mail out.

Peace Day: Peace Day is Sunday August 5th – coming up quickly!!!
Park is reserved
Sandy will let beach people know we are coming
Tom Pease is available and will do beach front music
Timing: Same as last year – 7 PM Lantern-making, 8PM Beach front
Banner – Megan working on this???
Advertising – Pat will write an article for the newspaper
Steve – maybe work on a poster???
Participants: Japanese guests will not be here yet – they arrive on Monday this year
Jane will invite the CAS students from Appleton
Anyway to get more kids involved???
Lanterns – Megan???
Drums?? Marci as Bill??
Doves – Cam will give to Louise
Boats – Kuehl’s???
Pat will invite Tom Link (Scholarship recipient)
We want to invite local churches

Barn Dance: Saturday July 14th at the Peterson Barn

Next Meeting: Thursday, July 19th 7 PM at Chez Marche
We definitely need some help to make Peace Day work. Please come to the next meeting if you are able or contact Marci to let her know if you can help in someway!

MREA PANCAKE BREAKFAST JOBS LIST IS BELOW. SCROLL DOWN TO SEE JOBS LIST.

WAUPACA PEOPLE FOR PEACE

MEETING MINUTES

MAY 17, 2007

Present: Marci, Kate, Megan, Sandy, Pat Hill, Larry, Tricia, Maggie LaVen, Julia Conley (new) Sarah VanderVelden (new) Kevin and Cathy Kuehl, Bonni at the end…I hope I did not miss anyone!

i. TREASURER’S REPORT: Pat Reckrey not here, but Marci has check book and reports balance of $1912.04, which included the deposit from the rummage sale. ($1146.90) Larry Craig added $20 to the pot as due from plant sales.

ii. RUMMAGE SALE UPDATE: see above. Netted a lot of money! Discussed making this an annual event. Sandy said that many people told her that they would have contributed lots of stuff if they had known about it. Notes for next year:

a. Thursday is a must!!! And we should have it for 3 days again.

b. Plants were a huge hit. Thanks so much to Pat Hill!

c. The timing was good, should have again in May.

d. Ads and news were discussed. We are not sure if sales would have been the same if it was obviously a people for peace event, or maybe they would have been better…signs should be better so that people know to what they are contributing.

e. Larry needs to work the Saturday am. Great salesman!!

f. Larry said that we should offer to pick stuff up from people in order to get more stuff…

Thanks so much to Sandy for donating so much energy and her space for the sale!!!

iii. NON-PROFIT STATUS: Cham not here, so this was deferred.

iv. PANCAKES AT MREA: TO DO:

A. PANCAKE COOKER: Todd has arranged for us to get the cooker.

B. VOLUNTEERS AT FAIR: list not here, so we will need to follow up per e-mail.

C. MIXING UP INGREDIENTS: date remains same. Volunteers for this on list.

Addendum: Marci and Bonni followed up with Cham who is in charge of this event. She stated that everything is all set and that she will send out the list of volunteers to everyone in a separate e-mail. Everyone please show up to your assigned time!!!

v. PEACE SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS: The winner is from Waupaca High School. The awards ceremony will be May 31 at 8:15 at Waupaca High School. All agreed that Larry should present the award. It would be nice if Maggie also attended as a past recipient. The check will be made out to the recipient. Pat Reckrey will be back in time to help with this. Maggie and Sarah suggested including the alternative high school kids next year when recruiting for the scholarship.

Addenum: Larry can not present the award, so we need someone to step forward and volunteer to do this!

vi. HIGHWAY CLEANUP: Will be this coming Saturday after the peace vigil. Assemble on the square around 11am. Thanks Kevin!

vii. PEACE VIGILS: every 3^rd Saturday at 10 am on the square. Sidewalk art encouraged for these vigils.

viii. MEMBERSHIP LETTER: Sandy has finished the letter and will send out to Louise Pease’s mailing list, which is quite large. Much discussion about the cost of this mailing…Sandy will print ?500? and we will stuff envelopes at the next meeting. We will also distribute them to the co-op in Stevens Point. Thanks Sandy!!!

ix. PEACE DAY BANNER: Megan will proceed with this, can get reasonable banners at the liquidator. Discussed having a peace day banner (date is August 5 this year, park is reserved and Tom Pease is available) down at the town entrance near the recycling center.

x. BETWEEN FENCES UPDATE: Kate has scheduled the women to Women guests to speak on Tuesday evening at the library. Also they are scheduled to speak at the High School for an all school assembly on Wednesday at 1pm. They will also probably be requested to stay after and meet with some smaller classes, as well as speak at Weyauwega and Iola. Pat to continue to arrange these dates. See below for more information.

xi. WOMEN TO WOMEN VISIT THIS FALL:

A. UPDATE ON INFO: The British women have their tickets. The east coast women are sending the invitational letters in a couple of weeks to the middle eastern ladies. Marci read a letter from one woman who may come named Hala. East coasters are planning trip to DC, State department, sights.

B. PROGRAM PLANNING: discussed our general program. Megan read the goals that the east coasters have established and these were appreciated by all. Megan suggested that we write to the women and ask what they would like to see included in the program for the week. We will need to do a planning session for more detail on the Wisconsin leg of their journey, but at this time, the general outline of the way things look is as follows:

a. Monday: Women arrive in Appleton. (time unknown yet) Will take them to Waupaca, where they will meet their host families, go to the homes and settle in. Pot luck that evening with People for Peace, location to be determined, possibly Sandy’s home. Low key so that they can rest a little and we can all get to know each other a bit.

b. Tuesday: plans for this day include some time at the MREA for a presentation on local sustainable living; possible trip to La Clinica, Migrant health services; Evening will be the speaking engagement at the Library with the Between the Fences exhibit, open to the public. Social to follow.

c. Wednesday: am speak at Rotary. Rest of the day reserved for speaking at the schools. Evening Peace Café at the Chez Marche with music and festivities, also open to the public.

d. Thursday: leave for Artha. Retreat planning needed. Some ideas include sharing dance, culture and cooking; walking in woods with tree and native plant identification, and canoing; Native American stories, with an elder (Bonni has a couple of contacts, and will start working on this. This was a request form one of the British ladies. We may also do a bonfire or a pipe ceremony in the wigwam at Artha. Marci will talk to Bob.) Drumming; yoga; other activities with the focus on growing friendships and peace. Several P4P members interested in establishing friendships with the women in order to remain pen pals and potentially visit the middle east in the future. All of these aspects will be worked into the retreat. Also we would like to open the retreat to other peace group members in the state through WNPJ. Other important planning points will include meals, sleeping arrangements (Artha will donate the retreat house, thanks Bob and Marguerite!!!)

e. Friday: they need to leave!

C. FUNDRAISING NEEDED: we are doing well. (we have $1400 towards the trip so far. Estimate that we can raise $3000 by the fall. Upcoming fundraisers include:

a. MREA pancake breakfast ($600)

b. Barn dance and basket auction ($800)

c. Membership letters ($500)

d. Wreaths ($600)

e. Peace day donations ($200)

D. WHO WANTS TO GO TO MARYLAND??? This was discussed and Kate Saunders does want to go, as well as Marci. We discussed whether or not p4p will help fund this, and it was decided that we need to first see how much we will need for the women who will be coming here. Also, it was suggested that some of our newer young women members go, with P4P helping with their expenses. Larry and Sandy both offered to contribute $100 each towards the young womens’ trips.

xii. OTHER: Kate will start working on a bibliography for us to start studying on Middle east affairs. Marci will ask the East coasters and our guests for suggested reading. Kevin has gotten the movie “Iron Wall” and this will be available and also shown publicly during the Between the Fences period.

xiii. Next meeting June 21.

Peace Breakfast at the Energy Fair 2007
Friday June 15th
6:30 to 11:30am

Job List

Shift #1 6:30 to 7:30am

Set Up

Tables and Chairs 1. Chamomile
2. Judy Miner

3._________________________________

Grills and Stoves 1. Benjamin Nusz

2._________________________________

$ and Shirt Table 1. Maggie LaVen

Condiments 1. Marc Becker

Prep Work

Pancakes 1. Marguerite Ramlow
2. Marci Reynolds

Eggs 1. Sandy Testin

2. ________________________________

Coffee 1. Pat Reckrey
2. Jane Haasch

Juice 1. Char Thompson

Fruit 1. Kathy Dakter

2. Ron Dakter

Dishes 1. Steve Burns


Shift #2 7:30 to 9:00am

Cooks
Eggs 1. Larry Craig
Lynn Craig

3.___________________________________

Pancakes 1. Sandy Testin
Mary Naylor
3. Marci Reynolds
Prep
Fruit Servers 1. Jane Haasch

Fruit Cutters 1. Maggie LaVen

Pancakes 1. Kathy Dakter

2.____________________________________

Pancakes Runner/Help 1. Chamomile Nusz

Eggs 1. Ron Dakter

Eggs Runner/Help 1. ____________________________________

Juice 1. Char Thompson

Coffee 1. Pat Reckrey

Coffee Runner/Help 1._____________________________________

Condiments 1. Marc Becker

Dishes
Washers 1. John Peck

2._____________________________________

Collector 1._____________________________________

Table
$ for Food 1. Judy Miner

Shirts and Stuff 1._____________________________________


Shift #3 9:00 to 10:30am

Cooks
Eggs 1. Bonni Miller
Larry Craig

____________________________________

Pancakes 1. Chamomile Nusz
Kelly Kolberg
Lynn Craig

Prep
Fruit Server 1. Sandy Testin

Cutter 1. Kathy Dakter

Pancakes 1. Jane Haasch
2. Rick Guerard

Pancake Runner/Help 1. Judy Miner

Eggs 1. Todd Mallasch

Eggs Runner/Help 1. Ron Dakter

Juice 1. Mary Beth Schlagheck

Coffee 1. John Marhoefer

Coffee Runner/Help 1. Maggie LaVen

Condiments 1. Marc Becker

Dishes
Washers 1. Kevin Kuehl

2. Cathy Kuehl

Dish Collector 1. Fred Brancel
2. Terry Tinkle

Table
$ for Food 1. Janet Parker

Shirts and Stuff 1. Marci Reynolds


Shift #4 – 10:30 to 11:30 (or finished)

Take Down

Tables and Chairs 1. Chamomile Nusz

2. Judy Miner

Grills and Stoves 1. Todd Mallasch

2.__________________________________________

$ and Shirt Table 1. Lynn and Larry Craig

Food 1. Bonni Miller

2. Austin Gaoer (maybe)

Dishes 1. Sandy Testin

2. Janet Parker

3. Marc Becker

4. Kathy and Ron Dakter