DATE

November 5, 2024

TIME

7:00 PM

 

Agenda 

Item	Owner	TIME
Welcome	Ashley	10
Reminder: open meetings switching to first Mondays starting 12/2/24	Dave	0
Tree Lighting  Activities  Schedule	All	30
Bonfire  Activities  Food vendors	All	30
Summer Night Lights	All	10
Open	All	10

 

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Attendees  

Board Members – Rebecca Froncki, Jocelyn Marchand, David Pabisz, Ashley Bivens 

Community Members – Mike Trainor, Lisa Cole, Barbara McNasby, Melanie Little, Sarah Gagnon, Jenn Corsino, Aimee Velazquez (Northeast Arc, first time) 

 

Minutes 

Respectfully submitted by David Pabisz 

 

Welcome 

• Welcome any new volunteers, visitors, ..etc. 

• Aimee Velazquez with Northeast Arc joined us. 

 

Reminder: open meeting change to first Mondays starting 12/2/24 

• Same time 7-8:30pm, just moving to first Mondays. 

 

Tree Lighting 12/7/24 

• The core of the event is Santa coming in on the fire truck and lighting the big Christmas tree. 

• FalconFest adds activities, music, entertainment around that. 

• We introduced a parade last year and are continuing that this year. 

• Activities 

• • Face painting 

• • Elf toss / carnival toss game trailer 

• • Reindeer food making station 

• • • Need 2-3 6ft tables, spread out the work area 

• • • Buy more supplies than we did last year 

• • • Need adults to monitor this station to keep it from getting out of control 

• • Christmas card making station 

• • • Either send cards to veterans or elderly, we are open to suggestions. 

• • Stuff-a-falcon 

• Food trucks 

• • Noonan’s 

• • Whoopie Wagon 

• Map is still a work in progress 

• Sensory tent is in the plan 

• • This is a pop-up with sides 

• • Jenn and Aimee working on this 

• • Put a mention that Northeast Arc will be there in our Social posts 

• Entertainment 

• • Sound solution for Girl Scouts caroling 

• • • We need some microphones, speakers 

• • • Could possibly use a karaoke setup that we used at Downtown Rewind 

• • • Will borrow risers from the Town 

• • Acapella group 

• • Northshore men 

• Parade starts at 5:15 

• • Need to widen the space in the road more than we had last year 

• • Thoughts are that we need a character(s) to be at the head of the parade to lead them down the road.  Frosty blow up costume or something like that. 

 

Bonfire 1/11/25 

• Food truck ideas 

• • 2 foods and 2 desserts would be nice 

• • Noonan’s 

• • Melt 

• • Shishkaberries (Berry Sweets?) 

• • Espresso Dave 

• • Chicken and the Pig 

• • Hungry Nomads 

• Vendor ideas 

• • Holten Street Artisan 

• • Last year we had a candle vendor 

• • Art Association 

• • Knitting 

• • Seeking more local artisans 

• Rearrange the map, put the food trucks along the fence next to the field and move those activties into the circle where the food trucks were last year 

• Need to map out where a sensory tent could go 

 

Summer Night Lights 

• Band 

• • Lisa Love is not available, will be away 

• • Called 

• • • The Groove, estimate is $2500 covers sound and lighting 

• • • See if they will do a site visit to plan the sound needs 

• • • The Far, estimate was $3000, maybe could talk them down to $2500 

• Do we get a DJ to handle announcements, and the music for the fireworks? 

• Look into increasing the finale, add more fireworks 

 

Upcoming confirmed event calendar 

• Tree Lighting – 12/7/24 

• Bonfire – 1/11/25 

• Downtown Rewind – 6/24/25 

• Summer Night Lights – 8/10/25 

Next Meeting – Monday 12/02/24 at 7p at the Danvers Fire Headquarters