Meeting minutes

For those of you who were unable to make it to last night's meeting, here are some items that were discussed....

The mission of Columbia State Historic Park's Diggins program is to provide visitors and school children with an enjoyable, educational, and historical interpretation of a California Gold Rush tent town circa 1852.

--All forms are due by April 15th. The forms have been updated and are now on the blog. Check out the link to the left of this post.

--If you are a venue head and you have not met with Danielle, please make an appointment with her ASAP. All supplies needs for your venue must be submitted by March 1st.

--Construction update: the next work crew dates are February 27th - 28th;
March 13th - 14th; March 28th. It is now required by the State that if you are a docent/volunteer and you work with hand tools, you must be signed off on all the tools that you may use. Tool training will be held February 28th.

--The Coffee Saloon and Reading Room will have a small space in their venue for someone to set up a small business. If you are interested, please contact John and Mel Horton.

--The Brown's Store is looking for a wholesaler to interact with them.

--After long discussion, we feel that we should raise the cost of Diggins. It has not been raised in several years. We are now proposing to raise the adult price to $4.

--We began brainstorming new scenario ideas to add to Diggins this year. These are some of your ideas: conflict on the street- closure of a building; political discussion in the Coffee Saloon spilling out into the street; foreign miner's tax; water company protest; speeches in the street (people running for office); characters walking around continuously trying to sell items; using the public as messengers; women's rights; auctions/raffle for miner's goods

--In the near future, we will post a copy of a donation letter for you to print out and take with you to any businesses that you think might donate to our event. Any amount will be helpful. More details to follow.

--Our next meeting will be on Saturday, March 13th at 11:00 AM