Re: details, details

[Jim Dew <jdew@yggdrasil.ca>]

You could try Sault Star for the pallets, i know they used to just throw 
them into a pile out back and cart them off every so often

--On Tuesday, April 16, 2002 14:22:23 -0400 "Brosemer, Kathleen" 
<kbroseme@nrcan.gc.ca> wrote:

> 1.  The technical area at the BiWay is all set up, except for a few last
> minute signs.  I have a key to the BiWay which I will keep until after our
> event, so any access needed up until then we can do (as in, taking the CN
> stuff down there).  The meeting went very smoothly, and this is the best
> location yet - it's enormous, clean, powered, and we have access to the
> breaker box.  The mall staff have set up dividers for us and brought us
> tables.  We are being well and truly spoiled here.  Gee I hope the mall
> has a really big empty store again in October!
>
> 2.  I got a call from the recycling broker and our truck is all lined up.
> I will sleep better tonight.  It will appear at 5:30 Friday and be taken
> away at 10 am Monday.  Unfortunately, they are not using TransProvincial.
> So we need to get our hands on about 12-15 pallets.  Ideas?
>
> 3.  Penfold Cartage has been phoned and they will have all our skid boxes
> ready for Friday.
>
> 4.  I have one pallet jack with neoprene wheels on loan from my employer.
> I also have a large wagon (kid's toy) with pneumatic tires for moving
> loads of small boxes.  Tim will bring these on Friday between 4 and 6 pm.
>
> 5.  I am making up three clipboards:  1 for Peter to keep track of skids
> (#1 is monitors, tally, #2 is cases, tally, etc.).  1 for Debbie to keep
> track of volunteers, 1 for wishlists to be hung on the pegboard above the
> wishlist table.
>
> 6.  Chris will bring all the office basement stuff upstairs to pile it in
> Imag. and make it easier to load.  Whoever loads that and brings it to the
> mall, check the basement, too, just in case he's missed anything.  The
> entire contents of the front window will be coming, too.
>
> 7.  We're trying a cashier system this time.  Suzanne's idea, and I think
> it's a great one.  The doorway to our store can be opened from either end,
> so we can have an entrance/exit, and put our admissions people at
> entrance, and our cashier at exit.  The sales team can rotate through the
> cashier position so they have a chance to sit down.  The freebies table
> will be immediately adjacent to the admission in order to make it easier
> to drop stuff.  I still need to get a few more extension cords - two long
> ones which I am sure we have at the office, and two shorter ones to add
> to the equipment box.
>
> 8.  Eavan O'Connor is arriving at 2 pm Saturday, bringing party food for
> the 4 pm party, and she and Debbie Clark will confer at 2 about types and
> amounts, then Debbie will go shopping to supplement what Eavan has
> brought.
>
> 9.  Jay and I are making laminated name tags for the regulars, and sticky
> name tags for the first-years.  A few people are being designated as
> "decision-makers" - six or seven technical types who have worked these
> events many times before and are also planners (red nametag), plus about
> eight of us longtime Clean Northers (green nametag).  Don't fret if we
> haven't given you a red or green nametag, that just means you're off the
> hook and no one will bug you to make any snap decisions.  You're just as
> valuable and valued as the rest of the planning team, just not going to be
> harassed.
>
> 10.  I will do volunteer check in on Friday night, and Debbie will do
> volunteer check in on Saturday.  See one of us when you arrive, and get
> your nametag and Clean North button if you don't already have one.
>
> 11.  I have assigned tasks to all the volunteers who came to the meeting
> last night, and we're looking good. We still can use a few movers at all
> times, so Don will supplement our people with some other volunteers.  All
> the key positions and all the technical jobs are filled!  Tim Lynham will
> do triage on Friday of all the stuff dropped off by
> business/institutions, and Bill Tomkins will do triage Saturday.
>
> 12.  Still need work on a display for the rainbarrel, anything else we
> want to do (Join Clean North?).  Ideas and volunteers welcome.  If
> nothing else, we just put the rainbarrel on the cashier table with a big
> hand-drawn sign and a clipboard sign up.  Markers and big paper are
> already at the mall.
>
> details, details...  this will be the best one yet!  :)
> kathie
>
> --
> Kathleen M. Brosemer
> Forest Autecologist
> Canadian Forest Service
> Great Lakes Forestry Centre
> 1219 Queen Street East
> Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
> Canada   P6A 2E5
> 705-759-5740 x 2535



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