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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Dear Meetinghouse friends and supporters, </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">I hope you can join us Wednesday night, 7:30, at the Senior Center, for our third meeting of 2011. Attendence at three meetings will make you a voting member of the Friends. In the fall we will hold an election for president and treasurer of the Friends. </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">There is a lot to discuss on Wednesday.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">1. Introductions of old/new members.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">2. Approval of the minutes from our July 12 meeting (appended below). Melinda Godfrey, our clerk, will</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"> call the vote.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">3. fresentation by Michele Barker, Western Mass circuit rider for Preservation Massachusetts. Michele will Walk us through the steps to planning, funding, and construction of historic buildings, and answer questions about our project. Jean Derdarian will introduce Michele. Q & A.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">4. Discussion of the process in terms of the Wendell Meetinghouse. Jerry Eide will lead the discussion. </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">4. Update on the Double-Match Fundraiser. Nan Riebschlaeger will present the totals and review the</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"> terms of fundraiser -- guidelines for the match and purpose of the funds. </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">5. Planning for Old Home Day – bring your ideas, ice tea and munchies, and volunteer to help out at the booth. Marianne Sundell will lead this part of the meeting.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">6. Choosing a Monday night for our regular meetings in the coming year: Proposal: First or Second</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"> Monday of each month. Please check your calendars. We will need monthly meetings to keep the project rolling.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">FUNDRAISER: Generous gifts have been coming in since the fundraiser was announced on July 17. Please add your gift before next Wednesday’s meeting so that we can announce the good news.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Don’t forget, all gifts for cleaning and prep work on the Meetinghouse this fall are tax deductible and will be *Double Matched* until Old Home Day. After that, they will be matched one-for-one until October 1. Please make out your check to Friends of the Wendell Meetinghouse and send to </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Friends of the Wendell Meetinghouse</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">P.O. Box 1003</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Wendell, MA 01379</font></div>
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<div align="center" style="text-align:center;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">_____________________________________________________________</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><i><b> </b></i></font><font face="Calibri" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:14pt;color:#000000;"><i><b>FRIENDS OF THE WENDELL MEETING HOUSE: MINUTES, JULY 12, 2011</b></i></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Present:</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;"> Charles Smith, President Sally Alley Muffin Stuffin</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;"> Melinda Godfrey, Clerk Mariana Sundell</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;"> Chris Queen, Convener Jeff Bauman</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;"> Jean Derderian Karen Copeland</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;"> Jerry Eide Rosie Heidcamp</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;"> Pam Richardson Nancy Riebschlaeger</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;"> Katie Nolan Jerry Barilla</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Chris welcomed neighbors to the meeting, introducing the officers in attendance, President Charles Smith and Clerk Melinda Godfrey, and himself as unofficial convener. He explained that the bylaws of the Friends of the Wendell Meetinghouse define “friends” as voting members who have attended three meetings. </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">This is the second meeting of 2011, following the June 21 meeting. Attendance will be taken at each meeting so that we can rebuild the organization by the fall. The next meeting will be at 7:30 on Wednesday, August 10, in the Wendell Senior Center. We will meet at a regular monthly time beginning in the fall.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Chris expressed a hope to resume construction in the spring with Jerry Eide at the helm. Jean said we will need a preservation architect to do a Historic Structure Report, with drawings and cost analysis, which will require money. </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Jerry explained that historical preservation money depends on keeping the character of the old building. Too many changes are not good, but some are possible. The building has had three ceilings – wood, plaster, and tin – and all three could be made visible, for example. There could be a small addition for a kitchen and handicapped accessible bathroom, and the Town septic and water system was designed to serve the Meetinghouse in the future. Handicapped access to the building must be by the main entrance, not a side door.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Jean said that there are grants for job creation and project sustainability, requiring a Chapter 34 analysis of what permits would be needed for particular uses. A structural report will have to be ordered in order to qualify for a wide range of grants. Such a report will cost between $10,000 and $20,000 and will serve as guideline for restoration activities in the future. A special fundraiser will need to be needed pay for this report. </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Stabilizing the building before winter: Jerry said we could put Plexiglas sheets on the windows. Home Depot has been known to donate such things. The roofing needs some minor corrections. Jerry wants</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">to remove his staging from the front of the building and put it up around the steeple frame to stabilize it and work on it. He has some boards that need to be hand-planed, and he could raise money by showing people how to do it.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Ideas for using the building included:</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;"> Drum and dance classes</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-indent:36px;text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Tai Chi classes</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-indent:36px;text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Town camp-out/pajama party</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-indent:36px;text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Cottage industries that would pack up easily and create a salable product, possibly involving</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-indent:36px;text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;"> The Wendell works Committee</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-indent:36px;text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Hostel services </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-indent:36px;text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Fund-raising meals</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-indent:36px;text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Quilting bees</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-indent:36px;text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Multi-denominational spiritual activities/spiritual focus</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-indent:36px;text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Display of historic items</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-indent:36px;text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Health services such as massage or counseling</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Jean said that we can indeed charge for use of the building, rather than depend on “suggested” donations. Insurance will be needed. Would the Town want to cover it, since the Community Preservation Act is on the Open Space Committee agenda? Chris will try to see if the Selectboard is interested.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Old Home Day is August 20. Karen knows where to borrow a canopy. Marianne offered to chair a committee to prepare for Old Home Day. July 21 was chosen for the first committee meeting.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Jerry pointed out that industry is not in the mission statement, the floor is not strong enough to support too much vigorous dancing, and hostelry would become very complicated.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Marianne mentioned that her daughter Lily is studying historical archiving, and also that her mother is interested in our project.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">The Treasurer’s position: by October we will have enough voting members to hold an election. In the meantime, Jerry offered to be acting treasurer and to bring past financial materials to the next meeting, August 10, 2011.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;"> Respectfully submitted,</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Calibri" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;"> Melinda M. Godfrey, Clerk</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">I you can't make the meeting Wednesday night but want to stay involved, please let me know via email or phone: 978-544-0216.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Chris Queen,</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Convener</font></div>
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