June 27 BASFA minutes
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basfaBASFA Meeting 1352
June 27, 2016
Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, Vice President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sergeant at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
held at the Black Bear Diner
Began 8:03 - with gifts of jerky
32 people attended
we established a party jar
The minutes of meeting 1351 were accepted as '2nd Brexit'
The Treasurer reported that last week we took in $2.25 in the regular jar & $31.50 in the party jar
The Vice President had nothing fannish to report
The President had nothing fannish to report - but we said 'hi' to Craig - visiting for the first time
The Code of Conduct Committee reported back, handed out copies of the report, gave a verbal outline of results, then we convened as a committee of the whole, discussed, rose and reported back
Business - it was mentioned that a lot of BASFAns will be in Portland at Westercon, so Wilamet Bay was annexed, just in case a BASFA meeting breaks out there; it was also mentioned that there will be light attendance at next week's meeting here
Announcements:
Chris announced that Convolutions prices increase after midnite on June 30 & announced that promotions are coming up, including a BOGO-free and another that gives a random chance for a room reservation to be upgraded
Dave G announced that there are tickets for Gilroy Gardens on the table & announced that Spring's Facebook page has new offerings & announced that it is the 50th anniversary of Dark Shadows
Adrienne announced that her Ghost Hunters meetup group will go see the new 'Ghostbusters' remake & announced that John Cleese & Eric Idle will do a show on Nov 5-6 at the Center for the Performing Arts
[evil] Kevin announced that this year's MidAmericon Worldcon has an Aug 19 Star Wars day & that Masquerade will be Friday night
Ashley announced that she is celebrating hard won good health
Ken announced that the Retrodome will do a quote-a-thon at Camera 12 starting this weekend, check the retrodome.com & announced that he will be doing KFJC from 2-6 pm on July 4th as Sir Cumference
Reviews:
Alex reviewed Ancestry.com's DNA testing as pretty cool & Prometheas.com as being able to take the DNA data and give information about the medical implications therein; Ashley commented 'it's a hypochondriac's dream'
JC showed off the man-crate & its prybar
Adrienne reviewed an adventure in America's heartland at a ghost conference as interesting with creepy details & Mo had a good time and saw fireflies
Gerry reviewed LepraCon in Phoenix as a small but well-done conventions - and that DC Fontana has mad skillz
Dave C reviewed 'Haikus for Jews' by David Bader as 'why yes, it CAN be purchased from Cargo Cult books'
Carole reviewed 'Finding Dory' as worth seeing, she enjoyed the cookies and rated it as at least worth matinee & reviewed an ice cream shop in Sunnyvale, Nirvan Ahhhh' as open & crowded till 10pm with interesting flavors; Bill really enjoyed the photo-realism of the animation
Gayle reviewed 'Practical Effects in Hollywood' as marvellous & a minifest, 'Apocalypse Later' as very enjoyable
John O reviewed 'Alice through the Looking Glass' as very enjoyable and it held together
we did auctions
we adjourned at 9:41 pm
and the rumor of the week was: 'BASFA now comes with super fun bags'
June 27, 2016
Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, Vice President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sergeant at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
held at the Black Bear Diner
Began 8:03 - with gifts of jerky
32 people attended
we established a party jar
The minutes of meeting 1351 were accepted as '2nd Brexit'
The Treasurer reported that last week we took in $2.25 in the regular jar & $31.50 in the party jar
The Vice President had nothing fannish to report
The President had nothing fannish to report - but we said 'hi' to Craig - visiting for the first time
The Code of Conduct Committee reported back, handed out copies of the report, gave a verbal outline of results, then we convened as a committee of the whole, discussed, rose and reported back
Business - it was mentioned that a lot of BASFAns will be in Portland at Westercon, so Wilamet Bay was annexed, just in case a BASFA meeting breaks out there; it was also mentioned that there will be light attendance at next week's meeting here
Announcements:
Chris announced that Convolutions prices increase after midnite on June 30 & announced that promotions are coming up, including a BOGO-free and another that gives a random chance for a room reservation to be upgraded
Dave G announced that there are tickets for Gilroy Gardens on the table & announced that Spring's Facebook page has new offerings & announced that it is the 50th anniversary of Dark Shadows
Adrienne announced that her Ghost Hunters meetup group will go see the new 'Ghostbusters' remake & announced that John Cleese & Eric Idle will do a show on Nov 5-6 at the Center for the Performing Arts
[evil] Kevin announced that this year's MidAmericon Worldcon has an Aug 19 Star Wars day & that Masquerade will be Friday night
Ashley announced that she is celebrating hard won good health
Ken announced that the Retrodome will do a quote-a-thon at Camera 12 starting this weekend, check the retrodome.com & announced that he will be doing KFJC from 2-6 pm on July 4th as Sir Cumference
Reviews:
Alex reviewed Ancestry.com's DNA testing as pretty cool & Prometheas.com as being able to take the DNA data and give information about the medical implications therein; Ashley commented 'it's a hypochondriac's dream'
JC showed off the man-crate & its prybar
Adrienne reviewed an adventure in America's heartland at a ghost conference as interesting with creepy details & Mo had a good time and saw fireflies
Gerry reviewed LepraCon in Phoenix as a small but well-done conventions - and that DC Fontana has mad skillz
Dave C reviewed 'Haikus for Jews' by David Bader as 'why yes, it CAN be purchased from Cargo Cult books'
Carole reviewed 'Finding Dory' as worth seeing, she enjoyed the cookies and rated it as at least worth matinee & reviewed an ice cream shop in Sunnyvale, Nirvan Ahhhh' as open & crowded till 10pm with interesting flavors; Bill really enjoyed the photo-realism of the animation
Gayle reviewed 'Practical Effects in Hollywood' as marvellous & a minifest, 'Apocalypse Later' as very enjoyable
John O reviewed 'Alice through the Looking Glass' as very enjoyable and it held together
we did auctions
we adjourned at 9:41 pm
and the rumor of the week was: 'BASFA now comes with super fun bags'
