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4/27/2018 – library Board cocktail party

Thursday

Miranda Barry organized this party at Club Helsinki for HAL Board members current and past.

Kimberly Irwin, new Board member met up with Sharon Getty, past member. Teary reunion. Sharon was Kimberly’s grade school teacher.

Theresa Parsons looks on as Sharon Getty and Kimberly Irwin get reconnected.

Theresa Parsons and David Murphy

Brenda Shufelt, Anna Rachminov, Ginger Benedict

Janet Schnitzer, Ken Kraus

Tessy Keller, Gwen Gould, Lisa Dolan

Ginger Benedict, Emily Chameides, Anna Rachminov, Brenda Shufelt

Carol Pledger, MMO, Brigid Dorsey

Friday – 10/9/2015

Breakfast at Bob’s – very bad shopping experience at Price Chopper. They have moved everything around and then we used self-checkout machines. Voices speaking before and after every transaction…….

Matt Almeida at 11:45am

HAL Program Committee mtg at library at 12:30. Extremely competent thoughtful group. Plans for outreach meetings to community individuals, then organizations. Gwen Gould, Ann Rosenthal, Miranda Barry, Emily Chaimeides.

 

Worked on taxes and then office in barn.

Thursday – 10/8/2015

Got up at 7am.

Worked on hanging new DOG show until 9. Spoke with Gwen Gould about business planning on phone.

HAL Fundraising Thermometer

Went to library for 10am ceremony.

Before

Before

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After - $1.2 million

After – $1.2 million

 

The line up. Sarah Sterling, rep from Barrett's office, Emily Chameides, MMO, Betsy Hamilton, Theresa Parsons

The line up. Sarah Sterling, rep from Barrett’s office, Emily Chameides, MMO, Betsy Hamilton, Gwen Gould, Theresa Parsons

Back home by 11am

Hung up rest of DOG show. Looked for tax materials – worked on taxes – spreadsheets of transactions. Office project from 3:30 to 7pm.

Picked up roast chicken and rib dinners at Shiloh Baptist Church. reminiscent of CCC.

Friday – 10/2/2015

No Heat

Vent pipe completely stuffed with debree

Vent pipe completely stuffed with debris

Turns out that the guys who rebuilt the chimney last week knocked debris down the flue completely occluding it. The four year old boiler has a sensor that prevents it from firing when there is no draft up the flue.

As soon as the plumber saw this he said, “Call the mason.” he wouldn’t take a swing at fixing it.

So I called Preston Schrader. He immediately offered to come Saturday morning to fix things.

HAL

Met with Marie, Gwen, and Anna Rachminov to discuss next year’s budget.

Thursday – 3/12/15

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6:05 PM

Went early to go to Apple Store to pick up new iPad Air2. Then to UAlbany. Led discussion because Jan was attending an executive event at the Business School.

Left promptly at 1:30 to return to meet with Miranda Barry who is interested in the library. Gwen Gould also attended. Met at Cafe le Perche. Miranda is very dynamic, experienced educational media person. Long time with Sesame Street.Now with a new venture StarWalk Kids Media. She is very interested in participating in program development.

Sunday – 2/22/2015

imageSnowed a couple of inches over night. Just enough to require shoveling the sidewalk. Warmer start to the day. But weather forecasts are for return to cold temperatures tomorrow and over the following days into March.

Went to gym, though abbreviated because Karen needed to cook before a gathering at Gwen Gould’s house.

Mavis Staples at Helsinki. Started half an hour late, clearly suffering from a cold, voice not good. Old tunes, still fun.IMG_9119

Tuesday – 2/10/15

FullSizeRender 18Shoveled garage doorway out so that I could drive car to UTM. In the end, though the storm carried on for almost 24 hrs. it only left 8 inches of snow here.

Meeting at UTM with Seth, Eliel and Jan to discuss development costs. David stuck his head in but did not attend. After almost a year we are still in a situation where there is no plan or none that anyone is adhering too.

Left UTM meeting to come home for a meeting of the HAL Nominating Committee. I scheduled this on Tuesday because David had cancelled the regular weekly UTM meetings on Tuesdays. Because of the repeated snow storms, this committee meeting has been rescheduled twice. Today, out of six members, only Marie Rasner and Gwen Gould showed up. Still a good productive meeting. Talked a somewhat reluctant Gwen into serving as Treasurer for one year. Brian Stickles who I bumped into at KASH just this morning has committed to being Treasurer next year after he finishes his MBA.

Karen decided not to go to Boston tomorrow because the snow storms – 77″ of snow in 17 days – have paralyzed the place.