Report:    Blair: Reminisce! -- "Young's Cafe"  a.k.a. IOOF, Bee Hive
                 Guests: Teri & Scott Lashier (current owners),  John Young, &  Shirley Gutschow
                 Moderator: Jon Stewart
                 Thursday, March 20, 7:00 p.m.
                 Blair Public Library Meeting Room

Publicity
News releases:  Ann George wrote the news release and made arrangement with the Blair Enterprise to have the news release published.  A 3" double-column article with photo and cut line appeared in the Friday, March 14th edition of the Blair Enterprise,  page 7-- "To Do" section.
Emails: Preliminary emails were sent to the core membership as soon as the date was finalized. An email that included information from the news release was sent to all email addresses on our "Mailing List," on ____________
Printing:  Not mailing or posters were used to publicity the event

Venue
Nathan reserved the library meeting room for a program and meeting. We setup 38 chairs and one 8' banquet tables on the south side for the panel.   Members of the Alliance and some of of the guests placed the room back into order.

Refreshments
There were no refreshments planed or service.

Information and Handouts
A handout with a building timeline, photo and general announcements was available to attendees. A number of membership sign-up sheets were hand out to attendees after the program which resulted in several new memberships.

Notes of the Program
Video 
segment out the the 1950's video "This is our Town."

Program Outline
28 people were counted
St. Patrick's Day Dinner for the Young Family

Need to develop a history of the building and continue research

Research Page

This report was prepared by Nathan Krämer.  5/8/2003