July 19, 2010 Minutes

Town Of Pittsfield, NH
Parks and Recreation
July 19, 2010

Members in attendance: Darrell Wages, Jesse MacGlashing, Nick Abell, Lynda Vogt, Maryellen(Minni) Plante
Visitors/perspective Members: Yvonne MacGlashing, Meredith Little

Minutes from the April and June meetings were accepted with name corrections.

Treasurer’s Report: Jesse reported that the budget was over on supplies, but that everything else was on track. Minni said that she had to buy a new rescue board, rescue tubes, and ropes for the recreation area which had not been ordered last fall from last year’s budget. The Winterfest account has two signers Jesse and Maryellen. This account will be left as is for now.

Harvest Fest: Plans were started for Harvest fest 2010. Darrell said he would check with the Soccer league to confirm that October 16 would not be a conflicting date with them. Minni will put advertising in the Suncook Sun. It was agreed that we should again do pumpkins, the hay ride, cider and doughnuts. Minni will contact Tim Riel about the hay ride. Jesse will contact BJ Hickman to see if he can do his magic show on that date. He will also take care of making a flier for advertising. Minni will get the name of the pumpkin supplier from last year from Chris at Kydstop, will contact PYW to see if they would like to get involved this year, and will contact Andi Riel to check into vendors/crafters that are part of Old Home Day. Meredith Little will look into having photographs taken on that day. Yvonne suggested having a scarecrow contest. She will look into that. Nick will contact the people about portipotties.

FB Argue Recreation Area: Minni will send Rotary a thank you for their help at the recreation area. She had put a public thank you in the paper for them and for Nicole Ward for planting the flower buckets. The area is running smoothly for the most part. An End of Summer Celebration was discussed. It is being planned for Saturday, August 28. There will be swimming from 1:00-6:00 on that day, a barbecue at 6:00, and Jesse will look into the feasibility of having a movie. Activities will be planned for the time between the barbecue and the movie. Minni will advertise in the Suncook Sun and will check with LGC about having a bounce house. Darrell will check on getting a DJ from 6:00 until dusk when the movie would start. Concessions will be sold during the movie.

Respectfully submitted,

Maryellen Plante