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Re: Library Event December 1 - Some thoughts
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Sun, 9 Sep 2001 15:58:08 GMT
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Rich
In lugnet.org.us.richlug, Richard Schoonover writes:
> Hi Tim
>
> I think all of these are great things to have going on. I think we should
> do all of them and then some.
>
> I think our next display should have a city focus. I like the idea of
> Richmond Landmarks being there, but also any other crazy thing we want. I
> also think we should have a live train operation going on. Trains bordering
> the city and giving it movement are great, and drive people towards the
> displays to come even. Trains are part of what got me out of my dark days
> and back into the light. I would be willing to commit resources to modern
> trains and track. I think if we do things similar to the way we did the
> display in July it would work very well..ie. Break up the area and
> designate areas of responsibility for the display. Allow one person to be
> responsible for a section of the layout. Once we layout a general trackplan
> and city layout then we can break it up and have people take responsibilty
> for there section. That doesn't mean that it has to be just your stuff in
> that area, but you get to decide the direction of that area a little.
> Everyone has a say on how the layout will look. This also gives a finite
> area of preperation so that we can define how much needs to be conceived or
> built or bought before we put it all together. We have a couple of months
> to present sections or do mock setups for this so we should be pretty
> prepared by the end of November.
>
> shwoooooo....
>
> I had a lot to say there. Thought about this a lot recently.
>
> Second, the kids play area. This is a must. If we can find some donations
> from the library or TRU for this that would be great. We could also
> contribute a some of the tubs that are out there as LUG property from
> ourselves to build up this area. I wouldn't mind donating a set or a Tub of
> Lego. There are several different kinds of tubs and of different price
> range depending on how much you can afford to contribute. We could combine
> these and make them LUG property and appoint a keeper of the brick or
> something like that. I am not saying this is must. I guess i am just
> saying that I would be willing to contribute.
>
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> Third, the kids club days. Would be a good public relations thing with us
> and a great contribution in itself to the community and to the preservation
> of our hobby. We could do alot with these days, and could take turns doing
> them, or we could all do them. I plan on being at as many lug events as I
> can. I don't want to do every kid event, but would willing to be there to
> help out if I wasn't heading one up. Might be a good way to find some
> private contributers to our cause as well. These kid events could be on the
> same day or different days as out normal LUG meetings. It doesn't matter to me.
>
> I think all this would be a great start on developing our calender for next
> year, and finding a direction for our LUG to go in. Not that we have been
> lost. I just think we have been on a pretty cool ride and it is just
> getting cooler.
>
> On a side not we need to take some time to hammer out a calender of events
> we would like to do next year and move towards them. I agree that we don't
> want to miss ot on any events that have an opportunity for us to do a
> display and show of our stuff.
>
> Thanks for listening and taking the time to read this long post.
>
> Rich
>
>
> In lugnet.org.us.richlug, Timothy D. Freshly writes:
> > First of all, even though the meeting was shortened because of the Labor Day
> > weekend, I had a blast. Rich, your father in law is a great guy and I
> > definitely look forward to seeing him some more. He will LOVE Brickfest
> > next year! Greg, the BBQ was both hilarious and a masterpiece. You are the
> > DUPLO king. I'm looking forward to the "Chick'n Shak". Bert, keep up the
> > great work on the lakeside house.
> >
> > Next, I wanted to get some discussion going about the idea of a December 1
> > "live" event. The librarian said that she would need to know sometime this
> > month so they could begin to advertise (the earlier the better). From our
> > random chit-chat, here are some of the impressions I got:
> >
> > (1) Great Idea. Displays could be multidimensional - a big Town/Train
> > display; a Space display; a ??? display.
> >
> > (2) Kids' play/build area. Library is willing to work with potential local
> > sponsors (TRU, etc.) to see if they would help out.
> >
> > (3) The library is still getting lots of questions about us and is really
> > interested in doing fairly regular events with us. They suggested having a
> > regular "kids club" meeting and Sal suggested building workshops.
> >
> > Thanks for listening.
> >
> > Tim
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