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Work Day: 29 October 2011

We didn't have anyone show up this morning except for Jerry & Virginia and Fred & Raylene, but we did get quite a bit accomplished. We're ready to order in some drywall. Come by next Saturday and join in. We need tons of help to make this work! This is a Community museum so come be a part of the project.

Work Day - April 30

It was a good day, although not many showed up! Virginia and I (Raylene) have blisters on our hands from working so hard. . . and we won't even talk about poor Fred's and Jerry's backs. The four of us concluded we are too old for this! Sure would welcome some help next Saturday..... Thank you Jen for the sandwiches!

I SEE WE HAVE HAD A LOT OF FOLKS LOOKING AT THE CAR SHOW FLYER!!! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE COME JOIN IN THE FUN! WE'D LOVE TO HAVE YOU BRING YOUR CAR AND SHARE OUR ACTIVITIES. WE'RE WORKING HARD!

Work Day April 9

CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS!!!! April 9 we will be piling trash on a trailer, and cleaning! We need all of the help we can get. The electrician will be coming in after this phase and we have to complete the wiring before we can begin the drywall phase. Please, PLEASE, P-U-L-E-E-E-Z schedule in some time, even for a few hours on Saturday to stop by, sweep a little, load a little, or just give a GREAT BIG cheer to the volunteers!

Fund Raiser Meeting - April 1

We are scheduling a meeting on Friday, April 1, to actively kick off fund raising efforts in a serious way. Anyone interested in attending this meeting, we will be at the Museum (by the Post Office) at 10:00 a.m. to get started. Come on in and join us!

Business Expo - 2011

We had a great day at the Expo March 26! The booth space was terrific - in the hall area as people walked into the main room! Dorothy and Virginia were both there by 8:00 a.m. getting set up for the public! Virginia brought along information about the Powell Bridge (you can check out their blog from our links page) while Dorothy prepared the Society's portion. How great it is to have such hard workers for the Society! A couple of memberships were collected, some folks were able to pick up their 2011 calendars, and a lot of publicity was obtained about the Secession event scheduled for May 21! Dorothy was excited to recite all of the facts she has compiled about the Secession while Carol canvassed the public for volunteers to protect our Territory!! Bill Lant was available at the County's booth and I overheard him talking to a few folks about the funder on the May 21 event as well. Our Fund Raiser to save the Old Courthouse is shaping up to be a great success and how exciting to have so much fun celebrating our 50 year anniversary of being the ONLY COUNTY IN THE NATION to ever seceed from their home state! That would be McDonald County. What moxie!

Heating and Air Estimates

Well, we have good news and bad news.... The good news is that Mike's Heating and Air has told us the project to install central heat/air is doable! We were concerned because of the heavy brick walls and our desire to leave the rooms as original as possible. The bad news is the cost. It will run us somewhere in the area of $15 to $20 thousand..... Boy, do we need some donations!

Work Day - May 12 - Asbestos Checked!

Looks like I slipped again! Didn't get a message sent to announce the work day. Sure glad you all are getting used to us working every Saturday! We had a great turn out! Jenny sent pizza for all the volunteers. We had 10 folks work the entire day and 4 pop in for a few hours! Whew, what a great day! - Also, for all of those concerned folks who have called me, please rest assured we have no asbestos! Bob Hamilton is AHERA Certified. He showed up and ruled out any asbestos. Of course, we already knew we were safe, but it's a great idea to have that label behind the name just to cover the bases. So now everyone can rest easy and come on over to see the progress! We are moving right along with the tear off phase. It's amazing how much bigger the rooms appear without dark paneling on them. By the way, was anyone around in 1900 to tell us how folks got to the second floor of the courthouse? We thought we might uncover some stairs or something, but no such luck.