TRANSITION NELSON Minutes of Events Committee Meeting Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009  Attendees:  Marty, Erica, Andre, Bill, Jane Absent:  Catherine, Matty  DISCUSSION/DECISIONS: Imagine:  COMUNICATIONS: -          Erica & Andre to take over Paula’s pieces except poster -          Small Imagine Blurb can go to Express this week for an article geared to getting Contributors and then press release can go next week -          NDN interested in publishing some [...]

Present:  Tara, Simon, Nathan and Grant Location: Jam Factory Lane, 4PM Grant informed the group about the November 26th meeting with the Events committee.  All communication action required to date from the meeting has been complete. The group discussed the last IG meeting and Paula’s idea of moving towards a Project-based framework.  This will be discussed more fully [...]

At the Participants Meeting on October 27th, we posed two questions to the group of 40 attendees.  What follows are the ideas that were generated.  For those of you interested in attending the next Transition Nelson Participants gathering, it will be held on December 10th, 7 – 9 pm, at the Senior’s Centre (717 Vernon St.).  This [...]

Attending Tara Williams Nathan Zigler Simon de la Salle Key Initiatives: Rack Card We need a concise, eyegrabbing marketing piece to include with the mail-out, that will draw visitors with a variety of awareness around the topic (i.e contemplative, precontemplative). This marketing piece will drive users to the website with the incentive of downloading a FREE multimedia CD with the following [...]

Present: Paula, Julia, Grant, Cathrine, Bill, Bradley, Tara, Andre, Dale, Simon, Nathan It was decided to run Imagine Nelson through the amoeba as an example of process.  Bill began explaining how the idea came about.  Imagine includes:  a song writing contest and a musical composition contest, a film/video contest, a writing contest, a creative writing contest [...]

Ryley Room Usage Information Transition Towns Group Meetings – Long Term Agreement 1.     Meetings will be held bi-weekly on Tuesday evenings from 7 – 9pm in the Ryley Room on the dates listed below; should the times or dates change or should the space be required for any additional meetings or events, the Fire Chief must [...]

Present:  Tara, Andre, Sean, Marty, Dale, Simon, Nathan, Bill, Cathrine, Russell, Paula, Julia   Minutes:  Cathrine  Check-in Two truths and a fib. Got some good laughs to get the ball rolling… Agenda approval   Committee Updates: Logistics – Dale – our society documents were unclear and rejected.  Dale read his revised version (which was great, thank you Dale) and it was fully accepted by [...]

Agreements for Communication

Nov 9 2009, 4pm Jam Factory Lane Office Attendees: Simon, Nathan and Tara Topics Discussed Aim of the Communications Committee is to: increase TN visibility by establishing a local, editorial-style brand that directly pertains to our community lifestyle to create messages for all stages of viewer – pre-contemplative, contemplative, preparation, action and maintenence to focus on pre-contemplative and contemplative with more “educational” [...]

On October 28th we mailed our application to incorporate Transition Nelson as a society. We’re expecting confirmation within 10 business days from that date.