Fort Crook Historical Society

Board Meeting - May 5, 2009

The meeting of the Fort Crook Historical Society was called to order by President Robert Ingram at 7:00 P.M.  All stood for the flag salute.

  Those present were board members Robert Ingram, Jeannette Ciriello, John Fenn, Billie Albaugh, Tim Glaze, Charles Thomason, Milly Lakey, Betty Stoltenberg and Glorianne Weigand.  Also present were curator Dorothy Mason, guests Wayne Norris, Margo Norris and Dan Macmillan

  The minutes were read and the correction it was the Road Gypsies that had talked about having a get to gather at the Museum not the Mountain Cruisers. John made the motion to accept the minutes as corrected and Jeannette seconded it.  Motion passed.

  The treasurer’s report was given.  We have $29,585.93 in the General Fund and $21,581.96 in the Round Barn Fund. 

  Milly made the motion to accept the treasurer’s report and Jeannette seconded it.  Motion passed.

OLD BUSINESS:  Round Barn report; we had three bids for the roofing of the barn.  Harbert Roofing $58,000 for material and labor and Benson Roofing was $45,000 for labor only, United Shinglers bid was $80,000 labor and material.  Redding Roofing has quoted $25,000 for shingles only. 

  HiMont Motel has offered free lodging for roofers which will be a great help.  We do not have enough funding to buy the shingles.  Robert will follow up on bids and would like for the roofers to look at the barn again now that most of the sheeting is on.

  Wayne said his job would be done in about three days.

  The Round Barn Dinner Auction was a huge success and we fed over 400 people and ran out of food for the last 30 people.  More table and chairs had to be set up.  We had about 130 auction items and the auction alone brought in $10,150.00.  The 50/50 raffle made $1000.00 with half being for the Round Barn.  Donations were generous and the entire evening made $24,059.00.  Thank you letters are to be sent for all the donations and to auction donators and buyers.

  The Historical Societies Meeting will be held May 9 at 11 A.M. for signups at the museum then go to the Vets Hall for spaghetti lunch that John has planned.  90 people from twelve museums have responded.

  Pioneer day so far has eleven craft booths and two food booths plus our food booth that have responded.  There will also be the Dutch Oven Cook Off that Jim Geiger is in charge of.   Some of the men will put the Pioneer Day sandwich boards up on Saturday.

  Our raffle this year will be $250.00 of beef from Henry and Pam Giacomini, Wild Rice Gift Basket from Fall River Wild Rice, gift basket from Corner Post and a Granny Doll.

Tickets will be sent out to all members.

  The Quilt show was a success and they fed about 85 people and it made $694.00.  Thank you Jeannette and Sharon for another great event.

  Tim reported that the Library book cases are finished and the doors are on.  Merri has done a great job with the library and new flooring will soon be added to make it a complete enjoyable addition to the museum.

  The mural has been put up behind the canoe and artificial trees and plants added to make it a more complete display.  We would like to have some lighting put up behind the canoe.

  Ramiro has been ill so he may not be able to keep up with our web site so John said he would try to update and service the website.

  The Fort Crook Cabin is complete and open.  There are pictures of logging on the wall from Tom Glunt in the second room.  This will make a nice addition to the museum.

  Our Yard Sale is the 23^rd from 9-4 and we only have a few booths that people have rented but we will all gather items to sell for the museum table.  We have some furniture donated by Don and Linda Smith that we have already picked up.

  The Antique Truck Show is June 27^th and we will get some information out for that.

NEW BUSINESS:  The McConnell foundation Grant Site Review is Tuesday May 19^th around 11:30 A.M. and we all need to be present to support the Round Barn Project. 

  Robert talked about doing a restoration of the mail stage, but no action was taken.

 The Youth employment program that was discussed and it does not fit into our criteria.

Tim talked about a proposed Museum Archway but has to check out more permits first.

  David Baker will make more show cases if we need them.  He is the one that did the doors for the library book cases and he did a wonderful job.

  The annual meeting will be May 17^th at 2:00 P.M.  Election of officers will take place at that time.

  There being no further business the meeting was adjourned at 9:45.

Respectively Submitted,

Glorianne Weigand, Secretary