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G. OF W. ® February 16, 2011 Minutes
Oro- Medonte History Association
Attendance: Geoffrey Booth, Chair; Bruce Wiggins,. Vice - chair; Jadeen Henderson; Allan
Howard; Sheila Kirkland, secretary
Invited: Justin Hodgkinson, Oro- Medonte staff and Don Campbell
Corrections for previous minutes: correct spelling of Mnjikaning given for first paragraph
and under New Business point 3 it should read lose not loose.
Moved by Bruce and seconded by Jadeen that the minutes be approved as amended.
PASSED
Old Business
1. Bruce emailed regarding McMillan and roof repair —no reply to date. Shawn
Binns will look after protecting the log home and Jadeen has some pictures back
from when we toured it.
2. Email from Tim Crawford received and will be discussed at our next meeting in
context with the Ontario Heritage Act, which covers most of what he proposes.
Jadeen did make note that there are factual errors in the email regarding events
from past episodes in our history.
3. Storage of data /items donated to OMHA this generated much heated discussion
with the following recommendations.
• Justin was informed of the importance of finding the file for ascension
documents and in future he will file electronically.
• A suggestion was made to have someone on staff be assigned to take care of
OMHA issues.
• We require dedicated archive space that has temperature and humidity control
with enough room for all articles —I suggested the Old Town Hall.
• Justin will check and see if the History Association articles have been moved
from the storage container at the side of the Guthrie Arena.
• Our files need to be catalogued "again" and kept secure.
4. No wikipedia information on the Township just a picture of the African Church.
Justin suggests making our own wikipedia site for the accurate information or just
ignoring it, as it is a public domain and anyone can change the information.
New Business
1. King Edward Choir is performing March 6 and would like a display of African
Church history. Geoff will go with a display and some of our books to sell.
2. Bruce spoke with a Miss Eileen Murdock re: area churches and she is willing at
some future date to share her information with the idea of making a display for
use at area events. He will follow up.
3. Bruce suggests having a display at the local fairs to get more information on local
matters, events, pictures, etc.
4. Don Campbell presented his idea of making a presentation board showing early
one -room schools (up to 1955) and the areas that they served. He needs a map of
the old Oro Township, which he will need, enlarged for the project. He will let us
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know if he needs anything further. We support this history project and asked Don
to submit his bills to us for consideration. The display once complete will be set
up at the Oro Fair.
Correspondence
• Email from Trudy Paterson, King Edward Choir
• Email requesting information about the Moore family — Sheila answered it
already.
• Email from Joanna McEwan regarding the Rail Trail funding. The County of
Simcoe approved a grant of $5,000 for this project. Congratulations to Paul and
Joanna.
• Email from Geoff letting us know that flowers for Loreen Rice -Lucas were sent to
the funeral home.
• Email from Joanna McEwen regarding the Hawkestone photo book that we
located for her.
Next meeting is March 16, 2011 at 6pm at the Northway Restaurant.
Adjourned at 7:30 pm.
Respectfully submitted
Sheila Kirkland, secretary
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