Events Committee Meeting

Tuesday, February 8, 2021

Attendees

Francesca de Freitas, Marisol Santos, Leryn , Emily Kennedy, Liam, Brianne

On FB: not on FB today

Decisions

• Draw for monthly co-op star award vouchers
  https://avcoop.igloodigitalworkplace.ca/resources/resources_wiki/star_awards
  Winners: Caitlin  (star) Brianne (nominator)

 Discussions

• Reviewed and reported on action items from the previous meeting

• Thank you’s for events in the last month

  • Claire for another craft sessions, Peter for hosting, and Liam and Eoin for organizing and  delivering craft supplies (14 kids joined)

  • Kids book club

  • Eve for organizing the Adult book club

  • Helen for organizing the Lego club

  • Quiz show (24 people attended), cost $262.50 ($11/person)

    • Will look into making this an ongoing event

    • Maybe have an anonymous tip jar to help with the cost

    • Maybe schedule one in March or April

  • April posted on Facebook about VPL crafting event 

  • Francesca purchased pieces of art from Marlene to send to Claire as a thank you for the crafting event

• Weekly challenge draw (write something positive that has happened during lockdown): Nels

• March Events

  • Weekly challenge - Pi Day

  • Weekly challenge - figure out something for St. Patrick’s Day

• Easter Events

  • Egg hunt and egg drop are put on hold until provincial health orders

  • We could potentially create a photo scavenger hunt around the village

  • Emily may look into collecting candy to put into Easter bag for the kids

• Could we do a singalong in the breezeway as we did for the Christmas carols?

• Francesca attended AGM and provided numbers and information to members

• Start putting a calendar in the elevator with quarantine challenge 

  Action Items:

• Francesca to talk to Kristie about photo composite of the coop

• Francesca and Brianne will work together to use Kahoot for a possible monthly quiz show

• Liam to talk to kids book club to see if they want to stop using themes

• Francesca to look into getting the mural updated

• Francesca to look into getting a quiz show organized mid-April

• Lerin to look not online tip jar to cover quiz night costs

• Liam to create posters for the quiz night in April

• Francesca to talk to Shane about doing a Zoom/virtual egg drop or just watch on the breezeway (during Spring Break)

• Francesca to put a call out for a volunteer for a co-op video game session

• Francesca will look into creating a poster in the elevator and above the mailbox which includes STAR Awards, weekly challenges and events calendar