We will be meeting tonight at 6:45PM.
**Highlighted Future Events** Remember to check and to send events to
calendar@InfoAge.org to have them posted on the planning calendar.
* June 19th Classic Car Show & Yard Sale
* Aug 15th V-J Day + 65 = WWII Seminar and radar laboratory victory
celebration.
*Sept 25th Wall of Honor 2010
Our board of trustees has expanded by five new members, possibly a
sixth. The new members are Thomas Gagliano, John Cervini, Jim Allen,
Barb McMorrow and Robert Palazzo. The June Board meeting will be held
on a Wednesday so our meetings will overlap. Our membership has
elected our BOT representative, but as I have not told Mike G. he is it
and he has not yet accepted or taken the oath of office
The Eagles - things are calmer but, it still has potential for more
issues. As a review. A third of the parking lot is closed off. Do not
enter the closed off area. Note the new signs. The persons who watch
the eagles are reporting our activities to the state fish and wildlife
people. They have called in a number of issues. Please do not approach
or tell these persons anything. We are not to make noise during our
events. If you use the parking lot you must go immediately and
directly into a building. We can not hold the car-show in the parking
lot. We are working on a new layout for that event. Do not walk along
Marconi road or drive near cottage 9001. We can not mow or do any
property maintenance along Marconi road. The state will be posting
signs in our parking lot shortly. We will discuss this at the meeting.
This is not a joke. I have been threatened with a federal summons, if
there are any problems with the eagle chick.. Luckily, the eagles are
doing well in the location they chose. The hundreds of cars, trucks and
motorcycles passing by them on Marconi road do not bother them.
According to the state, just we do. Remember we are being watched and
these people are reporting on our activities to the state on a daily
basis.
Thanks to Bill M. Cablevision has a great segment on our TIROS
celebration on his Neighborhood Journal. We played a taped copy for
our meeting attendees outside the Cablevision viewing area. Another
great piece by Bill. Thanks to Dan J. for getting the player ready.
We have been invited to have a classroom size exhibit at the The *New
Jersey Science and Engineering Festival* * * www.njsciencefestival.org
arranging a bus trip for attendees to visit InfoAge duing the
festival. The festival will be taking place at the Clifton High School
Complex (the largest single campus high school in New Jersey, with
100,000 sq. ft. of indoor and outdoor exhibition space) and Essex County
(Caldwell) Airport on the weekend of October 23 and 24, 2010. It is a
satellite event of the *USA Science and Engineering Festival*, which
will be taking place on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Here is
the link to the USA Festival www.usasciencefestival.org
We are making progress on our Community Block Grant thanks to Larry
Tormey and John Truhan. This will repair many of the broken curbs and
sidewalks around the hotel, 9032 and the center entrance to 9010.
The 22 international exchange students (AFS) enjoyed their visit to
InfoAge and Camp Evans. Thank you to Pete R. Joe G., Mike G., John T.,
Steve G. for all the help.
Saturday 3:30PM we will meeting for planning details on the Junt 19th
Flea Market and Car Show. Thank you to Jeff Foster and the Marconi Park
Committee for the support.
Thanks to Pete R., Matt and Dan G. They opened the expanded Military
Technology Museum vehicle display in 9011. It looks great. They had
it ready for the veterans visit and the anniversary of V-E day
Thanks to Randy G. and the Monmouth County Historical Commission's
Weekend in Olde Monmouth we have lots of visitors on May 1st & 2nd.
Commissioner Barbara Kolarsick-Harrigan visited our site. Another great
event hosted by the Commission.
>>>>Recent events and progress: Please email things I miss to fill in
the gaps.
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1) Reports form Ray Chase and the Wednesday group:
Present were: Vince L., Al K., Harry K. and Ray C. Work continued on
the planned WWII Communications room in 9032 C, window and other
painting, door scrapping and installing door trim. 9032 rest rooms were
cleaned, supplies replaced and repair work done on stall doors. Major
cleaning and rearrangement of storage and radio repair supplies in RTM
museum rooms.
Ray
Thank you Ray and company
2) An update from Ron and OMARC:
OMARC member Holger, K2HES, has installed a new intrusion alarm system
for building 9116. It is NOT alarmed at the present time. All those who
have access to the building will need a 4 digit code to enter. At our next
business meeting we will be assigning codes and instructions on how to
arm and
disarm the system. Thanks to Holger for doing a great job.
***Thank you Ron
***As a reminder to all - I have asked Ron to make sure the required
permits were filed with the town for this work.
3) In preparation for the AFS visit Karin C. visited the cottage. Below
is John T's. activity report/
1 I moped the kitchen floor of the cottage
2 Bleached the kitchen Sink
3 Scrubbed the kitchen stove
4 cleaned the toilet sink and bathtub and mopped the floor in the bathroom
5 vacuumed all the rooms in the cottage
6 emptied all the waste baskets in the hotel bath room and restocked the
paper towels
7 cleaned the showers in the hotel
8 Steve and I took the cots over to the hotel
9 I spent 5 hours cataloging building prints
10 The first day I got here I joined Harry Al and Dave in scraping paint
of doors in 9032c
***Thank you John
4) Dan L. and the contractor Kerry are have the repairs in firehouse
9031, and the WWII guard hdqs 9029 done. They are working on 9034.
This will be the quickest completion of a grant from the Monmouth County
Historical Commission we have done. Our next challenge is the siding
repairs and to improve the rain water drainage.
5) Thank you to Terry L., and the members of the membership committee.
Now nearly 60 members have renewed their membership resulting in nearly
$3000 in new funds.
6) Mel Nussbaum's dioramas look great. His radio and first computer
dioramas are a big hit with the family visitors. Nice work Mel.
7) Will Somers and the wave science guys are working to join InfoAge to
help get their museum started. We have a spot for them.
8) We planted 200+ more hosta plants on the south side of the hotel and
the 9032 courtyard to improve the look and reduce the hill mowing work
for Pete and Nels.
9) Thank you to John B. for all the recent website improvements. We now
have a hit counter on every page. We also have a new frontpage graphic
10) Thank you to Dave Sica for continuing to post information to the
InfoAge blog and also thanks to Michele for creating the InfoAge
facebook page. Cori is setting up a Twitter account for us.
***This report would be more accurate and have better spelling, even
better grammar if I had reports from Nels and Pete (who do so much I can
not keep up), Mike G. who is a one man wonder, and others. You guys do
great work - we should record it to show what we have do and to
challenge others to do as well.
***Ok, time to get to work... Sorry for the items I have not gotten to
list. Please email me things you have done I have missed***
*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
**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.
Thank you,
Fred
732 299-0894
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