Berks County Parrot Head Club Meeting Minutes

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Third & Spruce

 

Phounding Phather and President “Denny Lorah” welcomed all members to the meeting. 

The president asked if all members had received a copy of February’s minutes; Tina Schreib, whose email is

luv2spikenbike@comcast.net, needs to be added.

 

The president asked for a motion from the floor to approve the minutes. A motion was made by Duane Cahill to accept

the minutes of our last meeting and a second by Shawn Guevin; a vote was taken and the minutes were approved.

 

The Treasurer’s report was given by Rick Gromis. Rick said we had lots of expenses in February, including $1,300 for

the newsletter and $930 in our annual club insurance, and income of just over $1000. We still have about $17,000 in our

checking and savings, even after checks to CrimeAlert ($11,027 from the Caribbean Christmas show) and Safe Haven

$13,700 from the Cabin Fever Festival).

 

A motion was made by Jodi Blatt to accept the treasurer's report and a second was made by Cheri Guevin. A vote was taken

and the treasurer's report was approved. 

 

 OLD BUSINESS:

 

Website Update – no big changes since last month.

Cookbooks are still available, for $10 each.

The parade committee will have 2009 dates available in the next few months, when the Baertschys return from Mexico.

We saluted Barbara and Barrie Pease, who just started a scholarship fund at Penn State.

 

Denny presented a check to Animal Rescue League for $500, in memory of Tom Boyer, to Barbara and Barrie Pease. Tom

was a great member of the club who always volunteered at the Highway Cleanup. Barrie talked about the amazing work Tom

did with his dogs.

 

Barrie also said that the Pet Expo is coming up and he has $2.00 off coupons that benefit the ARL. Also, the “Dress-up Dog”

contest is happening at the expo.

 

Denny seconded Barrie’s kind words about Tom, then mentioned that Tom was the first male club member we’ve lost.

Shirley Hess, who passed away a few years ago, was also a member of the club.

 

Summer Parrot Daze is July 11th. The evening band will be Jimmy and the Parrots. Also, Jim and Jimmy will play together

in the afternoon.

 

Tuesday, August 26th is the Buffett night at the Reading Phillies. We’ll need to decide at some point soon how many tickets

we want. Ticket cost will be about $30 each.

 

Kris talked about summer concert tickets for Camden and Atlantic City. There are still tickets available – call Kris for details

(phone number 610-914-1649).

 

Update on  mini-groups with-in the club – Jimmy Budda is handling the bowling segment, so look for emails from him. Kris

also heard requests for some activities to get the ‘keets together, a dinner group, and a networking group.

 

Denny announced that Rich Leiby has volunteered to be our new Club Archivist. He’ll keep track of all club history and records.

 

The next general meeting will be Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 at 7 PM at Third & Spruce.

 

NEW BUSINESS:

 

PARROT SCOOP:

Happy birthday to Tim Kraft on March 7th.

Shawn Guevin will be 29 (again) on March 25th.

 

Talk to Ted Kohl if you want to see Key West pictures!

 

There will be bowling at Berks Lanes in Sinking Spring on Monday nights at 7pm. Call or email Eileen Davies for info in advance,

if interested (emcd7156@aol.com or 610-678-6577).

 

The next Happy Hour will be March 12 at the Pike from 7-10pm.

 

Eileen offered some “totally useless trivia”, which was fun for the crowd.

 

Jan Kraft collected t-shirts for the victims of the Australia wildfires.

 

 

COMMITTEE REPORTS:

 

Newsletter Committee Meeting Minutes

Chairperson: Dot Imbody

Duane Cahill gave the report and explained that we’re changing the newsletter format, so that we increase the frequency and decrease

the costs involved with producing and mailing it.

 

Membership Committee Meeting Minutes

Chairperson:  Cheryl Bean

Shawn Guevin gave the membership update in Cheryl’s place. There were several new members in the crowd.

 

Charity Committee Meeting Minutes

Chairperson:  Gary Kraft

Gary introduced Michele from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund. She explained the disease, which affects children and babies.

About 40 children are diagnosed with this disease each day. A 21-year-old from Exeter died just last weekend from the disease,

so the need for a cure is very serious. Our funds will be used for outreach in the community, to help children and families dealing

with Type 1 Diabetes.

 

Gary said that annual golf tournament will be May 8th and will benefit the Family Guidance Center. There were registration forms

on every table. Gary asked for help from the membership to publicize the event and recruit golfers!

 

Volunteer Committee Meeting Minutes

Chairperson: Duane Cahill

We had 40 volunteers who contributed over 70 hours of time at the Cabin Fever Festival.

 

In 2008, our club provided more than 970 total hours of volunteer time.

 

There is a sign-in sheet for the meeting by the door and a signup sheet for those who want to volunteer at the next Highway

Clean-up event.

 

Going forward, the goal is to have 3 months of signup sheets at each meeting, plus an email signup opportunity before each

event (for those who can’t make meetings).

 

Points info may be online soon. Duane encouraged everyone to check their points periodically to make sure there aren’t any

errors.

 

 

Merchandise Committee Meeting Minutes

Chairperson:  Tina Shenk

Tina thanked all the members of her committee for all their hard work related to the last event, since many of them were on

vacation at the last meeting.

 

Tina brought a selection of merchandise to the meeting. Going forward, she’ll continue that, but also give away a piece of

merchandise at each meeting, via a free raffle!!

 

Next meeting is March 9th at Denny and Tina’s!

 

Email Tina at tinashenk@aol.com if you’d like to join the committee.

 

Events Committee Meeting Minutes

Chairperson:  Jodi Blatt

Jodi also talked about our Cabin Fever event. We sold out last year, this year we sold 362 out of 400. Thanks to all who

helped to sell tickets!!

 

The next Happy Hour is March 12th at the Pike Café, from 7-10pm. Jimmy Budda will play and LandShark will sponsor

the event.

 

The next Highway Cleanup will be in April 26th2009.

 

The Sauce Boss is playing in York. Jodi said that we’ll run a bus if there is enough interest.

 

Tickets will be available at the next meeting for the summer party. Please start talking up the event to all your friends!

 

 

Sponsorship Committee Meeting Minutes

Guest Chairperson:  Sherrie Hallowell

Sherrie said her committee is working hard to raise money for JDRF.

 

Special thank you to our major sponsor, United Document and Destruction!

 

Thanks also to Land Displays, who are donating billboards throughout the county to advertise the event – this donation

is worth $5-7k! Randy Reeser at RSR Graphics will also be a sponsor.

 

Sherrie thanked her committee for working so hard and noted that committee meetings will be at Sherrie and Dave’s

house going forward.

 

Other Info for Good of Club: 

 

Denny recognized all the amazing work that the committee heads do and talked about all the great people we have involved!!

 

Janice Kraft thanked everyone for donating to cover the cost of postage – we raised $110 tonight!! Denny thanked Jan for

bringing up the idea, then running with it!

 

The Catonville High School Steel Drum band will be playing on Tuesday, March 31 at the Miller Center. Get your tickets

soon – it’s going to be a great show!

 

The President asked for a motion for the meeting to adjourn. A motion was made by Ted Kohl to adjourn the meeting and

a second by Gary Kraft; a vote was taken and the meeting was adjourned.