Welcome
to the 1st BHS member newsletter!
First of all, for those who weren’t able to attend
our luncheon and Special General Meeting at the end of January – we were able
to elect a complete Board of Directors. We took names of people interested in serving
on the board as area reps/directors and they were confirmed at our first board
meeting. The Board of Directors for the balance of the current year is:
President: Les Johnson – 250-442-0706
Vice-president:
Delphine Novak – 250-444-2500
Secretary: Deb Billwiller – 250-442-1242
Treasurer: John Billwiller – 250-442-2943
Directors: Peter Kootchin – 250-442-8517
Peter Koftinoff –
250-442-8580
Colleen Salikin – 250-442-5217
Sue Adrain – 250-447-6477
Al Donnelly – 250-445-6399
Chris Stevenson – 250-528-6346
It must be
noted that, at our next AGM, we will be in need of a new President, Secretary
and Treasurer.
Brian Grey
is continuing on as our Researcher.
Other highlights
of our recent Board meeting:
We now have Director’s Liability
Insurance, as well as event insurance to cover the society during our picnic,
luncheon etc.
We currently have 50 paid members and
2 honorary members. For any who aren’t aware, our honorary members are Alice
Glanville and Dorothy Zoellner.
We expect to have a table at the
Christina Lake Welcome Centre during Christina Lake Homecoming Weekend. We’ll
be selling reports and memberships as well as answering questions.
We are collecting articles for our 16th
report. If anyone has an article they would like us to consider, they can drop
it off at the Archives, in the basement of Grand Forks City Hall or through any
member of the Board. We have put together a Publishing Committee, currently
consisting of: Sue Adrain, Peter Kootchin, Peter Koftinoff, Chris Stevenson, Al
Donnelly & Les Johnson. The Committee is also working on a coffee table
type book of post cards.
Les is recording (with permission from
the speakers) the Living Books presentations at Gallery 2 and we’re exploring
the idea of creating and selling DVDs of those recordings. The Board is also
looking into making post cards for selling and the making and selling of mugs
etc. with historic photos, through Value Drug Mart.
There was discussion around book
distribution, including how prices were decided on, where books are sold and
where our stock and archive copies are kept. We are looking into donating sets
of reports to local high school history classes and ensuring that all local
public libraries have as complete a collection as possible.
The Board has begun early discussions
on this year’s picnic and are also looking into participating with Greenwood
and Area E of the RDKB in their project of utilizing ground penetrating radar
at various gravesites and then building a database of them.
A very
productive 2 ½ hour meeting!
Our next
Board meeting is scheduled for early April, so the next newsletter should be
posted online, and an email notification sent to our members, 2 – 3 weeks later.
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