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any marketing. She has checked into the Pardee House to see what will go where for the event.
Barbara asked about gift shop sales last year at Cowboy Festival. Cathy reported that we made
about $900. We have a larger space this year.

Fund Raiser:
Dam Tour - Filled an entire bus with 54 people including Frank Some of the folks from the San
Fernando Valley Historical Society came on the tour and suggested we should mention that
hiking was involved. They did like the tour. They asked that we promote their events as they
have done ours.

Tea- Invitation a;re set out already 25 people have called in for a reservation.

Cowboy Festival- Sold about 50 tickets so far for the chuck wagon. Alan has put out publicity.
Duane has bought the wine for the event just needs beer and soda.

Programs:
James Dean was IlOt the financial success that they hoped Alan paid for the hotel. It was
logistically challenging but it was a success with front page coverage in The Signal. Many
technical issues have been overcome. Jeff gave a run down of what the challengers were and
how they were solved. It was very long and people left after the panel discussion. Consequently
not many stayed for the movie so the revenue was not achieved.

April 4th is the Beatles Hard Days Night and the April 5th is the Newhall Incident there is an
interesting tie in to the recent Oakland Shooting of four officers. Alan discussed the event of April
5th. Alan is getting a plaque made for Gary ·

Other shows History of the San Fernando Mission June 27 co-sponsor with COC the last weekend
in Sept. is Chuck Wilkey.

School Tours:
Questers have been here for every tour Barbara discussed a teacher who wrote a grant for her 1 st
grade class who were all dressed in clothing from late 1800 and discussed the train station,
toured the school house etc. Barbara shared some thank you notes from schools children she
had received. She has four more schools and a Girl Scout tour and one for the city. Nancy asked
for dates of the tours. There are fewer tours this year mostly related to bus issues or lack of
funding for buses.

Restoration:
Pat reported for Sue a community service worker came with lots of plans to work here but said
he had another job and could not stay long. However, he fixed the roof on the Mitchell School
house and Cathy's cart.

Old Business:
Historical Preservation. Pat is waiting for the consultants to come back with their assessment of
the 49 so nothing yet. Pat has been working on cleaning up her office, but she will get back to the
Historical Preservation project soon. Nancy asked about the train bridge by Nancy's pumpkin
patch.

5-Year Plan-needs another meeting.