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Labor Day Weekend Benefit Events:
Saturday September 2, 2006
The TAG SALE at the Firehouse Pavilion was extraordinary! Townspeople donated quality items during the summer, volunteer schleppers moved and re-moved things, pricers priced, workers worked and above all buyers came and bought. When all was said and done, we raised over $7,000, including $1,200 for the purchase of a restored secretary which had been owned and used by Edith Wilson; one particularly pleasing facet of that story is that the piece was purchased by a Monterey family, so it will stay in town.
Sunday September 3, 2006
Author GEORGE PACKER spoke at the Monterey United Church of Christ for our benefit, and the church was about full; we raised nearly $1,900.
The Fundraising campaign is off and running! Thank you everyone.
Please fill out our online survey!
It will only take a few minutes of
your time and will be so valuable to us.
Thank you.
We now have our Architect!
We held a proposal submission process this winter resulting in applications from five architects. The Building Subcommittee inteviewed three finalists, and the committee has chosen Clark & Green of Great Barrington to be our architecture firm. Senior Architect Steve McAlister will be their lead for our project, and we have already begun work on the design for the project.
We signed the lease on the Wilson McLaughlin House with the Town on December 12, 2005. Many thanks to Town Counsel Jerome Scully and to our attorney Dennis Downing for their assistance in making this legal milestone possible.
Saturday September 2, 2006
The TAG SALE at the Firehouse Pavilion was extraordinary! Townspeople donated quality items during the summer, volunteer schleppers moved and re-moved things, pricers priced, workers worked and above all buyers came and bought. When all was said and done, we raised over $7,000, including $1,200 for the purchase of a restored secretary which had been owned and used by Edith Wilson; one particularly pleasing facet of that story is that the piece was purchased by a Monterey family, so it will stay in town.
Sunday September 3, 2006
Author GEORGE PACKER spoke at the Monterey United Church of Christ for our benefit, and the church was about full; we raised nearly $1,900.
The Fundraising campaign is off and running! Thank you everyone.
Please fill out our online survey!
It will only take a few minutes of
your time and will be so valuable to us.
Thank you.
We now have our Architect!
We held a proposal submission process this winter resulting in applications from five architects. The Building Subcommittee inteviewed three finalists, and the committee has chosen Clark & Green of Great Barrington to be our architecture firm. Senior Architect Steve McAlister will be their lead for our project, and we have already begun work on the design for the project.
We signed the lease on the Wilson McLaughlin House with the Town on December 12, 2005. Many thanks to Town Counsel Jerome Scully and to our attorney Dennis Downing for their assistance in making this legal milestone possible.
The first year's rent changes hands: (l to r) Michael Storch (Select Board), Shirley Olds (FWMH Treasurer), Lew Scheffey (FWMH President), Michele Miller (Select Board Chair), Jon Sylbert (Select Board). That is one of Edith Wilson's still life paintings on the wall behind the Select Board desk.
| Many thanks to those who have helped us with donations of their time and expertise. We couldn't be doing this without you! | |
|---|---|
| Jerome Scully | attorney |
| Dennis Downing | attorney |
| Kip Beacco | graphic design and layout |
| Chris Vlcek | architect & consultant |
| Steve MacLeay | contractor |
| John Scapin | contractor |
| Ted Popoff | structural engineer |
| Jill Gellert | foundation consultant |
| Marion Simon | development consultant |
| Susan Bronson | development consultant |
| Chris Blair | designer |
| Joel Schick | graphic design and layout |
| Ray Tryon | fundraising consultant |
| Nora Hayes | SPECIAL THANKS to Nora, who led us through our first grant proposal and our first fund solicitation |
| Jane & Marty Schwartz | Hospitality par excellance |
| SOL Kitchen | caterers |
| Monterey Fire Company | Pavilion use |
| Leonard Weber | signpainter extraordinaire |
| Neil McGinnis | expert furniture restoration |
| Alice & Joel Schick | storage facility with a smile |
| Debbie & Chuck Mielke | tireless schleppage |
| Storrs Olds | tireless schleppage |
FWMH, as we call ourselves, is currently working on several fronts to see this dream of a project on its way to completion:
- working on design criteria and ideas with our architect.
- working on publicity materials and development groundwork in preparation for our fundraising drive.
- working to identify grants which would be appropriate for our application.
- seeing to necessary legal pieces such as liability insurance, tax form filings and banking arrangements.