Open House Preparation
Monday, January 9 – Friday, January 20, 2006
Pam has done a great job getting contributions to our open house. Her mother is going to cook chicken and sausage gumbo and all the food has been donated. She also got a Zydeco band to play from Noon to 2:00. It should be a great time.
Erica has done a great job with the preparation, which is largely marketing. We have distributed thousands of flyers and put up a couple of hundred yard signs. Her real coup was getting the three major supermarkets in the parish to have their baggers place flyers in customer’s grocery bags. The Storefront Grand Opening and the upcoming Open House was the lead story of both the local weekly newspapers complete with a color photo.
All week supplies have been arriving from Baton Rouge. Terry has been tracking everything and coordinating with Erica to make sure we have everything we need. He also got a couple of tents from the National Guard to put up next to the building. And Garrick arrange for some of the “trustees” (inmates) and the prison to come and put up the tents.
Everyone was assigned a section of the parish and spent most of a day putting up posters and yard signs and delivering flyers to stores, post offices, libraries, beauty salons, etc.
And I finished my rounds of meeting all of the Mayors, the Parish President and the Sheriff.
Tonight, we basically cleared out the office, and start setting up. Ingenuity reigns. In one of the “rooms” near the bathroom door, there is a water heater. Not the professional looking site we are trying to achieve. With two Aluminum folding tables standing on end and a bit of duck-tape, the water heater disappears behind a reasonably attractive divider. We continue to set up all we can before the cleaning lady kicked us out so she could wax the floors.
Pam has done a great job getting contributions to our open house. Her mother is going to cook chicken and sausage gumbo and all the food has been donated. She also got a Zydeco band to play from Noon to 2:00. It should be a great time.
Erica has done a great job with the preparation, which is largely marketing. We have distributed thousands of flyers and put up a couple of hundred yard signs. Her real coup was getting the three major supermarkets in the parish to have their baggers place flyers in customer’s grocery bags. The Storefront Grand Opening and the upcoming Open House was the lead story of both the local weekly newspapers complete with a color photo.
All week supplies have been arriving from Baton Rouge. Terry has been tracking everything and coordinating with Erica to make sure we have everything we need. He also got a couple of tents from the National Guard to put up next to the building. And Garrick arrange for some of the “trustees” (inmates) and the prison to come and put up the tents.
Everyone was assigned a section of the parish and spent most of a day putting up posters and yard signs and delivering flyers to stores, post offices, libraries, beauty salons, etc.
And I finished my rounds of meeting all of the Mayors, the Parish President and the Sheriff.
Tonight, we basically cleared out the office, and start setting up. Ingenuity reigns. In one of the “rooms” near the bathroom door, there is a water heater. Not the professional looking site we are trying to achieve. With two Aluminum folding tables standing on end and a bit of duck-tape, the water heater disappears behind a reasonably attractive divider. We continue to set up all we can before the cleaning lady kicked us out so she could wax the floors.
posted by J Corlss at 8:17 PM
1 Comments:
Sounds like an exciting, invigorating initiative to be part of. And your praise of staff is noteworthy. Good for you for appreciating the work of others and enjoying the group effort.
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