Location: American Cancer Society Office
Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2015; 6:00-7:00
pm
I had missed the previous meeting, which had actually been
at ‘Lou Malnati’s’ over some pizza
pot pie. This evening’s meeting was
supposed to be our last one prior to the walk and it was to discuss “logistics”, meaning we would
probably be working. We still had over
10 days to ago and in previous years this meeting had been on the week of the
walk, so it was good that we were preparing ahead of time. I arrived to see that some of the usual
suspects were there, including Le’Loni and Vikki. Kathryn and Allyson were busy, handing out
some materials to the walk-day participants in the lobby, and so the rest of us
moved to the smaller conference room.
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| The cards we had to assemble |
I was told that our task was cutting “volunteer cards” and then stuffing them in plastic lanyards,
followed by clipping to something that can be worn around the neck. I liked that, much easier to manage. Le’Loni was cutting and I was stuffing in the
plastic things and Vicki was clipping them – though she had some difficulty in
the beginning, for which we were giving her some good-natured hard time. After we had been doing it for some time, Kathryn
came and said that we shouldn’t be clipping the blue strings for volunteers
since they were for staff and volunteers were in fact wearing pink
strings. Poor Vicki now had to take
everything out and wasn’t too amused.
We continued this activity while chatting and I said it that
seemed more under control than last 2 years, where we appeared to be scrambling
at the end. Plus, we weren’t stuffing
bags, which is always tedious. Le’Loni
asked me to keep quite else they would give us that task! Kathryn came over and started asking people
where they wanted to be posted on walk day and some were on “Family Zone”, “pink hair braiding” - Vicki said that last year more adults were
involved in this rather than kids. When
Kathryn said where I would like to be on walk day, I said “California”! She asked if I
could do “Luminaria”, and I
remembered our experience from last year.
This year they have changed the walk route and it was going to go North
around “Museum Campus”. It meant that the “luminaria” would not be in the tunnels but were going to be tied
to a fence on the route. I agreed to do
that and joked that Katie had quit the committee because of that – maybe it was
the truth. However, having done the
tribute wall for “Walk and Roll”, I
knew how important and enriching this activity is.
Some of the other things that would be going on were “Scavenger Hunt”, where instead of
answering questions, people would just need to “check-in” with a volunteer.
The prize was a “$0.10 off gas”
card from ‘BP’. It was around 7 pm and we were done with the
stuffing. Some of our teammates were
collecting wrist bands for their teams - or drink coupons as I called them -
and then we left. This may be the last
time I come to this office since I may not do it next year. But I do like our team and we were already
planning a committee get-together in November, after this is all done.
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