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- Cheri called the meeting to order at 7pm
- We went around the room and everyone introduced themselves
- Cheri announced her resignation (letter to be attached)
- Jamie made a motion to elect a new president on January 20th, seconded by Nancy, unanimously approved.
- Jamie will accept any nominations for president.
- Thames River Rally River cleanup will be in the parking lot of Long & McQuade
- Mike Small joined us and introduced himself
- New owner of the Vic
- Has a liquor license application submitted, hopes to have it open at the end of December/beginning of January
- Menu will be traditional british pub food
- Building a stage in the games room, hopes to have live music – local bands
- Will display works from local artists
- Does not want to change much, wants to restore, capitalize on the history
- Manitos hopes to open soon (Editor’s Note: Manitos is now open!)
- Posno flowers is now closed
- The legion has the top two floors for lease
- Nancy Powers gave us an update from the centre of hope
- She explained the programs that they administer
- They want to focus on getting people in homes instead of shelters – moving people into the community
- Will support moving youth out of the centre
- Crowds in front of the building will dissipate
- Will provide financial assistance for rent and utility arrears (see http://www.energy.gov.on.ca/en/ontario-electricity-support-program/ for details)
- Developing a community garden
- For the love of laundry moved into the pathways building on Horton
- Cheri introduced the students from Ivey who are helping us with our food security initiative
- They will be conducting a survey
- Some ideas they are brainstorming are a greenhouse or providing transportation to grocery stores
- The second group suggested the option of having delivery, pooling orders – possibly providing a central pickup location
- Cheri called attention to our food garden in Meredith park
- Unity church has expressed interest in helping
- Laurie proposed producing some kind of map to show people what food is where
- Jamie provided an update on the Active & Green program
- Cheri provided an update on the Western public history project
- Cheri asked if anybody was interested in participating in the SoHo Blues event – volunteers are needed
- This is a brand new event, not replacing/moving an existing event
- Workign with the great lakes blues society
- Could use this to drive creating a natural amphitheatre
- Cheri asked for input on conversion of South/Grey to two-way operation
- Laurie distributed a survey from Councillor Park on this
- Jamie made a motion at 8:24pm to adjourn the meeting, seconded by Deb. Unanimously passed. The meeting adjourned