[Accrs] Good Guys and the Fair

[Alameda County Central Railroad Society]

That's what I suggested for next week in my e-mail.  Next week is not 
the business meeting but we need to do set up and clean up if the 
Goodguys show is a go.  They haven't said anything about the business 
meeting week at this point.

Gary

On 5/24/2019 11:11 AM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society wrote:
> Message From: Andrew Herrera  czephyr1949 at gmail.com
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> A suggestion:
> Why can't we have a business meeting during a week day if the fair is
> keeping us off the grounds on Fridays so close to the fair?
> We need to give the members a chance to sign up for the fair as
> there are so many time slots to fill.  And, we do need to give the fair
> an account of number of passes we will need.
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> Andy
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> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 9:08 PM Alameda County Central Railroad 
> Society <accrs at mail.accrs.org <mailto:accrs at mail.accrs.org>> wrote:
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>     Message From: Gary Lewis glgslewis at comcast.net
>     <mailto:glgslewis at comcast.net>
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>     All,
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>     I received a couple e-mails from Candice at the Fair office
>     today.  The subjects were the Good Guys show and Fair passes.
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>     _First the Good Guys show the weekend after next._ She is pretty
>     sure we will be able to open, but wants to confirm that visitors
>     will be able to exit the back door and turn left.  Also, to quote
>     her,
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>>     Concerns have been expressed with having folks on grounds the
>>     Friday before the event.  Vendors are setting up and there are a
>>     lot of items out on grounds.  Many of the participants do not
>>     want anyone on grounds after the vendors have started set up. 
>>     Can you reschedule or skip your regularly scheduled Friday night
>>     meetings on the Friday before GG shows to help alleviate these
>>     concerns? 
>     After telling her that is when we do our final clean up and set
>     up, I suggested we might be able to do that on Thursday night. 
>     That should work for most of us.  If not, there's always
>     Wednesday.  She hasn't answered the question of how we get into
>     the show. Hopefully that will come with her confirmation that we
>     can be open.  In the meantime, we should get the sign up sheets
>     posted this Friday.
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>     _On the subject of badges vs passes for the Fair, I quote her:_
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>>     I have been asked to obtain a schedule for the Train Club.  We
>>     need to know how many members will be working and how many days
>>     each of those members will be working.  That info is needed to
>>     make the badge vs. ticket decision.
>     She later added that it could be a combination of badges and
>     passes with those working 10 or more shifts getting the badges. 
>     So, the scales need to get their sign up sheets posted and
>     membership needs to sign up as early as possible.  We really need
>     everyone to do their part.  The fair left this to the last minute,
>     which makes this difficult.  The Fair starts on Friday the 14th. 
>     It would be good to pass out the badges/passes on the previous
>     Friday, the 7th.  To do that, we will need our numbers by the
>     previous Friday, May 31.  There has been a lot of effort expended
>     by folks to improve our "act" this year.  Let's not drop the ball
>     at fair time.  Thanks.
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>     Gary
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