May 5th minutes

5 May 2011
Quinebaug Valley Greens Local
Meeting at the Joshua Hyde Library , Sturbridge, MA

Attendees: Maureen Doyle, Gus Steeves, Daphne Stevens

Time: 11:30a

--Gus read his press release , seeking comments from the other members of the local. We discussed wording and phrasing. We agreed on one and Gus will submit it. We talked about getting it translated into Spanish and will ask Nancy (from Lit volunteers or Rick Purcell)

--Setting up a GMAIL account: This will be accessible to all three of us. We decided we will try for the account name of: quingreens@gmail.com

-- a patron in the library came over to talk to us; she seemed in sync with many of our views and shared her information.  Please include on our email list and contact list.

--add Sturbridge Times to our list of places we want to list our meetings: www.sturbridgetimes.com
508-347-7077

--Southbridge Fest (june 4th): should we table there? No- it will cost us to reserve a table. Backpack? Clipboard? Yes- we could just walk around with info.

--next meeting: we walk to accommodate more people; should it be in the evening? Afternoon? We talked about a tentative date being May 19th at 11am. Gus is going to talk to Nancy S. as she expressed interest in our group.  Whenever she can make it on that day we will try to accommodate (so the 11 am time is totally flexible).

--should we pair up with the last green valley? http://www.tlgv.org, Phone: 860-774-3300
From last meeting:

GUS: share info received from Dimitri’s step mum disputing the  flicker effect
DAPHNE: research green solar field research and the Norfolk solar field project
MAUREEN: Contact Sandy, from Sturbridge. Sturbridge had a presentation about solar hot water recently
EVERYONE: work on creating our own education about these issues
MAUREEN: Contact Charlene C about speaking about the food supply.
DAPHNE: Find out the name of the person from the Worcester Food bank.
GUS: Do you have contact at the Worc. Food Bank also?
This meeting:
GUS: register on doodle.com
GUS: Please submit the press release that you wrote.
GUS: Contact Nancy S. and invite her to a meeting.