InfoAge Meeting, Wednesday August 5

Hello Everyone,

**Future Events**

**Thursday Aug 6th - 7PM - Haunted Hotel (but not in the Hotel) planning
meeting. Bring ideas.... Path set. Resources

**August 7th and 21st NJNG VISION volunteer days at Camp Evans.
****HELP*** If you can help we need coordinators on Friday . We are
expecting 100 volunteers.
We will do final preparation during Wednesday's meeting. We are
expecting $2700 in new tools and supplies from Home Depot for this.

**August 19th - Wall ROTC parents meet in our dining room to discuss
this years volunteer support.
*August 20th - Monmouth University Day @ the BlueClaws* -
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****We have 50 tickets - First come -first serve. Enjoy a fun evening
and help us market InfoAge.
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***What I know of and can recall this past week***

We have discovered leaks in the 9010A roof. This is bad. It is the
last intact h-building section. The BRAC staff used it as an office so
they did not allow it to get fungus infested and kept the heat on so
they pipes did not burst. Two areas of sheet rock ceiling have fallen.
The H-section roof replacements are expensive - lots of area.

Evan Thompson has a high-end digital that can take RAW or TIFF images of
2000 x 3000 pixels. Sunday he began re-shooting photos.

BLOSSOM has begun moving into a Hotel office. Thank you Steve G. for
helping and suppling a key.

Something you will hardly notice - because it was done so well. John
B. has done a massive restructure of our website www.infoage.org. This
is an impressive feat that required script writing and testing. We have
1,500 web pages 8,500 files, documents and photos. We began our site in
1998. John removed lots of bloat code from the many html editors and
'new' web technologies over the years. Now our site is more
maintainable and we can take up the offer of help from others to add
content to our site.

Lisa of Greater Media contacted us and they have some ideas to help
us. She arranged a 30 minute interview on WJRZ with Mike Moran on his
Sunday Morning Show - 'Down the Shore'. It was fun.
Nels and Pete fixed our Torro mower for the price of the parts. It had
a clutch seize. Super Pete read the manual, removed the clutch and was
off to W.H.Potter and Sons to order the parts. Nels was in the middle
of this too. Thank you both. This saves us a ton. No towing costs to
the dealer...etc. You guys are great.

Architect Paul Moore will be visiting Stanford University soon. If we
can arrange access he will visit Green Library - Special Collections for
copies of the DDU plans they have on file. We hope they will allow
digital photography. This is excellent. Who better than Paul the check
out the plans. If they match our DDUs he will know.
We have two boy scouts working on plans to use the DDU for Boy Scout
camp outs.

We also began painting 9097, the foundry. Garden State Iron, a Butler
Buildings has estimated the roof repair will be $18,000. New plan
time. I am considering using the corrugated panels I saved when the
town made me remove by farm equipment shed.

Aggressive Mechanical is nearly done installing the new heat and A/C in
9059. The pressure test meter inspector was passed. Harry K. will
install the salvaged WW2 double doors in 9059 to enable us to move demo
equipment easily into the building for classes. Harry modified the wall
in the NBHF and it looks great.

We have fresh dumpster to fill. The BRAC well testers placed lots of
recyclables in the bin. I removed them. As you know we handle
recyclables and metals separately. We have a growing pile of metals to
recycle. A pickup truck of cardboard is recycled.

Bob P. got the first price for materials to redo the Diana site
electric. We are checking another supplier. This is based upon Rich B.
plan. We will file the permits soon.

Mark Casner has given me the papers to file the permits to repair the
restrooms in 9032B/C using Rich Grasso's plans. It is sad that Rich has
passed away. Once the restrooms are done we should have a thank you
ceremony.

Soon we have a follow up meeting for our 'Junk Bos wars". Mike G. made
the connection.

On Friday evening members of the Garden State Central met in the hotel
and the NJMT too. Thanks for policing the men's room. GSC gave us the
first donation from the soda machine proceeds.

MARCH is getting ready for the next Vintage Computer Festival. Evan K,
Joe G. and company working like crazy - they will have four rooms open.
They have lots of new history posters and more exhibits.

Amanda W. made more progress the George Goubeaud papers. Nick S. was at
work Sunday sorting our dozens of Camp Evans historic drawings.

Nick R. continues the painting of the Monmouth Bl fence.

We have another proposal back for A/C for the hotel dining room. John
Cervini is leading this project.

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 have to repair 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.

Thanks to Steve M. we had a delivery of communications equipment from
Tobyhanna Army Depot. I know Al K. found stuff he liked. We still need
to inventory the delivery.

Nels mowed the whole place. He also got the 'Camp Evans' Hill looking
good. Nels works many hours keeping the site looking good. If you
like to mow - please offer him a hand.

We began painting the laser and radar experiment shed on the 4 story
tall 9178 platform. It is looking better. We repainted 9098 as well as
the sentry post 9155 near the Brookdale gate 3 entrance.
Scout Matt Sampson will relocate the to gate 2 near where there was one
during WW2.

Scout Tim T. found even more cold-war era fallout shelter supplies for
the 'Fallout Shelter' theater in Evans Shelter #1.

There was water in the hotel basement due to a clogged rain water
drain. I mopped up all I could and cleaned the drain. One of the NJNG
projects to to improve drainage behind the hotel.

Neil N. secured a bunch of Tyvek suits for the NJNG volunteers to
further the fence painting without getting the nasty aluminum coating on
their clothes.

Duting Sunday's rain storm we painted the last office in 9032A. We
vacuumed the downstairs and washed the restrooms.

This Sunday we had a reduced number of visitors. They were cheap - $5
in the jar. On hand were: Steve G., Hary K. in the Hall of Fame, Neil
N., Evan K. Joe G., Dan & Terry L., Dan J., Don J. & nephew, JoAnne
B., Nels W., Nick S., Nick T. and others.

- Dan J. has the Computer eduction 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