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Fort Crook Historical Society
Board Meeting
October 7, 2008
The meeting of the Fort Crook
Historical Society was called to order
at 7:00 P.M. by President Robert Ingram.
All stood for the flag salute.
Those present were board members Robert
Ingram, John Fenn, Charles Thomason, Tim
Glaze, Billie Albaugh, Betty Stoltenberg,
Jeannette Ciriello, Milly Lakey and
Glorianne Weigand. Also present were Past
President Chuck McCulley, Curator Dorothy
Mason and guest Ramiro Guridi.
The minutes were read and Jeannette’s name
was omitted from the last meeting as being
present so it was added. John made the
motion and Betty seconded it to accept the
minutes as corrected. Motion passed.
The treasurer’s report was given
and we have $29,024.43 in the general fund
and $51,169. 45 in the Round Barn fund.
We made $1800.00 profit on our meals at the
Rendezvous and $511.85 profit on the Golden
Anniversary Fair dinner. Milly made the
motion to accept the Treasurers report and
Charles seconded it. Motion passed.
OLD BUSINESS:
John Fenn chairman of the IT Committee
introduced Ramiro Guridi who is the web
master for our new web site. Our email is
fortcrook@frontiernet.net
and our web site is
www.fortcrook.com.
With the Go Daddy web it will cost us
$175.00 for three years for the domain name
and web hosting. Ramiro explained the
process and that he has several other
accounts in the valley which one is the Fall
River Chamber and he will put our link into
their site. John will be the contact for all
of the business with Ramiro other than the
minutes will be sent directly to him from
the secretary.
The Shelly Creek Rendezvous was a
great success for the museum in the meals
that we served. We served 58 dinners of
pork loin, corn and slaw Friday night and 94
Dutch oven beef, potatoes, carrots and green
salad dinners Saturday night. For breakfast
we served ham, eggs and hotcakes to 53 on
Saturday morning and ham, eggs, biscuits &
gravy on Sunday morning to 58 at $7.00 for
breakfast and $8.00 for dinner with a profit
of $1800.00. Shirley French donated his
$120.00 for the water truck back.
Robert and Chuck will go to the Pit River
Pioneer Dinner at Sam’s Pizza on October 14
to treat them to Pizza. Jeannette made the
motion to pay for the Pizza and Charles
seconded it. Motion passed.
Round Barn update, Wayne Norris has
logs in and he is waiting for Billy Cessna
to get some boards sawn. Tim is researching
roofing. We had a meeting earlier with
Wilderness Construction to discuss roofing.
We are still looking into options. Billy
Albaugh has trees and he has someone to cut
them down so hopes to get that done soon.
Jan Lopez President and CEO of the
Cottonwood Creek Watershed Group met with
the board members at a special meeting and
discussed Grant writing. She gave us a list
of items that need to be included for her to
proceed with the process. Jeannette, Betty
and Glorianne will meet on the 15th
to get the information together.
The Harvest Dinner will be October
19th at the Veterans Hall. We
will serve meat loaf and scallop potatoes,
potluck salads and cookies and ice cream.
We have the decorations and will decorate on
Saturday the 18th.
The Kimball Piano that is housed at
the Glenburn Church has been repaired and
returned. Lyn Read gave a generous donation
of $3,000 for the repairs and since it was
more than expected the Glenburn Church paid
$400.00 and the museum paid $300.00.
The Piano Recital will be at the Glenburn
Church on Saturday November 1 at 2:00 P.M.
Tim has contacted eight pianists that will
play.
The watering trough that belonged to Minar
Nicholson has been brought to the Museum.
It needs major repairs but Tim has found
enough lumber in the Pony Barn to repair
it.
Tim also reported that the material for
the Fort Crook Flag has been purchased and
Peggy Hansen will make it for us.
Tim has also made a new sign for the
Museum with the open hours and dates on it.
Good job Tim.
The Saturation mailing has been tabled at
this time.
The museum roof repair needs to be
done and Charles purchased the shingles.
Robert will check on a man lift. We have
scheduled a November 8 work day at 9:00 A.M.
to close the museum up for the winter.
John made a motion that we do the lunch
for the Santa’s workshop again.
Glorianne seconded it. Motion passed. Milly
will notify them.
Charles will work on the Five Year plan
again. Glorianne will help him. We have
accomplished many of our projects from the
last plan in three years. It needs to be
updated for the grant applications.
Chuck will take Museum flyers to Burney
Falls Heritage days this Sunday.
Blacksmith work shops will start on
November 2, and will be the 1st &
3rd Sundays through March.
The Millville Museum has offered us some
showcases. Glorianne will contact them and
pick them up.
The Big Valley School will have a
field day October 17 at the museum.
There being no further business the
meeting was adjourned at 9:00 P.M.
Respectively Submitted, Glorianne Weigand,
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