Re: details, details

[Kathie Brosemer <kathie@cleannorth.org>]

Tim talked to McKevitt Trucking, who will be sending the truck, and they 
will throw in 20 pallets.  So that's all set now.

k

--On Tuesday, April 16, 2002 6:27 PM -0400 Jim Dew <jdew@yggdrasil.ca> 
wrote:

> 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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> If you ask me, you can't get more thorough then a dose of ultima, thats 10
> gallons of ass kickin' in a 5 gallon jug
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