InfoAge Meeting, Wednesday August 26

Hello Everyone,

We are having a Wednesday meeting. Out goals are to label the
newsletters and clean the 9032B/C restroom for the plumbers to work.
The permits are in.

*** WE NEED TO RAISE MONEY*** THE ROOF REPAIRS ARE EATING OUR FUNDS!!!!!
***LEAKS ARE THE CANCER OF A HISTORIC STRUCTURE - WE HAVE TO REPAIR THE
ROOFS!
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**Future Events**

Sept. 12 - 13th Vintage Computer Festival "VCF East 6.0" (Setup on September 11)

*Big News Items
1) Monmouth County Freeholders have awarded InfoAge $98,900 to repair
broken curbs and sidewalks for all visitor safety.
Thanks to Larry Tormey, Barb Ruane and John Truhan for all the work
preparing the application. This was a two year effort.
Larry T., Karen C., and I were at the Freeholders meeting when the grant
was approved. Larry did an excellent job of thanking all involved.

2) NJNG VISION volunteers returned on August 21st. - the 102 degree
equivalent day did not stop the progress.
Kathy and Shari had breakfast and lunch for the volunteers. Lynn L. B.
was the photographer
Larry T., Dave Sn., Al K., Kyle B., Steve G., and I were on hand to help.
The teams accomplished the following:
1. Mulched the flower beds around the Marconi Hotel (9001), and Cottages.
2. Inproved the drainage around both cottages by installing flexible
drainage pipe.
3. Painted the repaired sheet rock damage and nail pops in 9032 B/C
hallway and 9059
4. Added an Emergency Exit sign in 9059 - including going out to
purchase the sign.
5. Added 50 hostas, 25 Stella de'Oro day lilies to new new flowerbeds
along 9010.
6. Finished cutting the Monmouth Bl hedges.
7. Put mulch around the 9002 Marconi Road hedges
8. Painted 9400 - the McCarthy building
9. Painted 9029 including going out to get matching brown paint when the
supply ran out
10. Finished painting the firehouse 9031.
11. Scraped and repainted 9059 - the telephone exchange building
12. And, completely finished the entire Monmouth Bl. fence. What a
feat!! This group went wild. Wait to you see the photos of the 'tin
man' - silve from head to toe.
Thanks to NJNG, Larry Downs, Lynn L. B., Kathy O., Shari H. and Tom our
site never looked better.

3) The 9010A roof was repaired today and completely re-roofed with 30
year shingles. The water damage was worse than realized. Lots of
flashing repair and six areas needed new plywood.

News from Ray C. and the Wednesday work group...

Present were Ray C., Al K., Harry K., Dave Snellman, Steve G., Steve R.

Initially Al, Harry, Steve G., myself and Mike Golub met at 9 AM at
Bernie Martin’s storage module in Ocean to clean it out completely.
Steve G. and Mike had to go back for a second trip to finish it off.
Most of the stuff is photographic in nature and is now in a pile in the
A section of 9032. Steve G. is to do a quick sort and then get rid of
it on e-Bay.

Al and Dave continued on the task of cleaning out the “office” area in
the rear of the museum and reducing the clutter and better organizing
things.

Harry and Ray took down all the NBHF pictures and prepared them for a
trip to the framer who is in Gillete, NJ. Ray will deliver them and
coordinate with the framer.

Misc. repair and clean-up work was done.

The group toured the H building to survey the location of our Halloween
display.

Ray

An update fom Michele of Blossom Int....

A special thank you to Steve who has helped us out so many times in the past
two weeks that I've lost count. I haven't learned everyone's names yet but
many others have helped us too and it is always appreciated. The shelf that
was put together and placed in Blossom's inventory space was truly a gift,
thank you!

What We've Done at InfoAge so far:

Fashion Shop (scheduled for this upcoming Tuesday & Friday morning too) was
organized and run by Erica Rabinovitz who will be a junior this fall at
Manasquan High School and provided teens in foster care with free,
fashionable clothing and accessories.

Summer BackPack initiative assembled 70 backpacks filled with brand new
school supplies for children of all ages who will be attending school and
are currently in foster care and without the means to purchase supplies and
backpacks.

Blossom Shop had a meeting and is an initiative where youth create and sell
recycled and upcycled products to raise funds for philanthropy and community
service projects they want to take on. They are currently making Halloween
products for the upcoming Haunted Hotel & Hayride event. They have decided
that 50% of all proceeds from their sales at this event will be donated to
InfoAge and its subsidiaries. You can view some of their products at:
http://www.blossominternational.org/index/blossomshop

Upcoming Large Events for Blossom at InfoAge:

Make a Difference Day
Saturday, October 24th from 12pm to 3pm. On this day we expect to see about
300 youth and their families. They will plant trees on the InfoAge campus
as well as participate in various volunteer activities that have to do with
helping the environment. So far we will also have Project Porchlight
www.projectporchlight.com on campus to distribute free energy saving
lightbulbs. We will also be running a contest for kids (that begins next
week) to design the printed image that will appear on 250 grocery totes
which will be available at the event. Winners will get a tote bag with
their printed image that is filled with amazing green products. We'll also
be running a Capri Sun drive in partnership with TerraCycle
http://www.terracycle.net/ at this event. If you'd like to get involved in
anyway please let me know! Our first committee meeting is this upcoming
Thursday at 6:30pm at InfoAge and all interested are welcome to attend.

Family Volunteer Day
Saturday, November 21st from 2pm to 4pm. At this event we feature all of
our programs separately and introduce great ways that youth and families can
volunteer together. At this event we expect to see 200 youth volunteers and
their families. Each program will do the following: Care Pack will create
100 Care Packs, Juggling Life will provide instruction and workshops,
Children for Charity will provide various small projects for youth to
participate in and Cultural Education 4 Kids will provide a reading of
Sitti's Secrets as well as help volunteers write a letter to President
Obama. You can find out more about each of our programs and what they do
throughout the year by visiting our website.

Thanks!

Michele Rodriguez

On August 19th - Wall ROTC parents met in our dining room to discuss
this years volunteer support. They gave us a nice donation for the use
of the room.

No one wanted to go to the BlueClaws game so we gave the tickets to
Asbury Park DYFS so foster children

****What I know of and can recall this past week*** *

Vladimir was back at work keeping the vines from climbing the buildings.

John B., has made more improvements to our website.

We passed the final electrical inspection for the new heat in 9059.
NJNG will set the new meter this week.

Dave Sica delivered a van load of good tables he found on Craig's list
and transported to Camp Evans.

Al K. and Steve G. repaired the hinges on the 9010 main entrance. This
is a great security and safety improvement.

The guys, Nels, Pete, Kyle and Bob, mowed the whole place. If you
like to mow - please talk to Nels.

Architect Paul Moore has returned from Stanford University - Special
Collections. Paul has reviewed and requested copies of 14 pages of the
DDU plans they have on file. He has returned with the erection
instructions.

The permits are filed to repair the restrooms in 9032B/C using Rich
Grasso's plans. Mark C. will start this week. We also have a permit to
retire the 9059 above ground oil tank.
MARCH is getting ready for the next Vintage Computer Festival. Evan K,
Joe G. and company still at it. They have lots of new history posters
and more exhibits.

We sorted the recyclables. A pickup load of cardboard went to the
center. The plastic bottles are next.

The blank forms for membership cards arrived. I have to get the mail
merge form done.

The scratch coast on 9006 is still done. I have found the file to get
to work on the paperwork to apply for the balance of the grant.

We made a temporary repair to the fence. The Wall Little League parents
are cutting our fence to retrieve lost balls. We have spoken to the
head of the League. What an annoyance.

Scout Matt Sampson will paint the sentry post this week. The town DPW
will help him move it to gate 2 near where there was one during WW2.
Scout Tim Troppoli is nearly done with the Fallout Shelter theater.
Thank you to Dan L. and Steve G. for all the help provided to Tim.

Wall FD has offered us a 1965 Mac Fire Truck that was a Camp Evans
auxiliary engine for the Firehouse. When Nels gets back we will see if
he is interested.

This Sunday we had one visitor for an oral history.
On hand were: Steve G., Bob B., Bernie R., Arron & Dave Sn., in the Hall
of Fame, Neil N., Evan K., Dan & Terry L., Dan J., Don J. Scott. Cicsly
F., and others.

- Dan J. has the Computer education center ready open for business on
Sundays. *Dan - we need to make an announcement for the press.*
- Dan J. invites you to his morning Landscaping & exercise class. He
was there this morning

*Status:*

We are in Emergency Stabilization mode now. We are attacking worse
first. We face the challenges of keeping the momentum of our regular
activities increasing and meeting the challenges of the additional
grounds and buildings.
We are working to secure the remaining broken or missing doors. We need
more helpers on the 'H' building security. Steve G. can only get so
much done by himself.
We have to repair the three roof leaks that we suspect can be causing
structural damage in the 'H' buildings.

*** Many persons are working to help save Camp Evans and give it a
future in education and as a place to honor those who served. Thank you
to all.

*Reasons to tell persons why to donate (via check or PayPal) to our
effort NOW: *
1) Saves an incredibly historic site
2) Honors WWII Signal Corps and Honor Front veterans
3) Helps education by inspiring kids to learn science
4) Furthers the development of a NJ Shore tourist destination.
5) Will create full and part-time employment
6) Improves property values in the North Wall and Shark River area.
7) We are the White House recognized stewards of the Camp Evans Historic
District and now it is under our protection for future generations

Please email the items I forget. Do not get angry...email me!!! It is
important to report our progress.

**No Passion = No Progress. We have passion and we are progressing -
even if it is tough sometimes.**
If we do not tell kids what great things others have done to improve our
nation how can we expect them to know what they are capable of.

Fred
732 299-0894