Annual Meeting, The Mantua Restoration Society, Inc.
The annual meeting of The Mantua Restoration Society, Inc., is Saturday, April 28, at the Mantua Center School building, 11741 Mantua Center Road.
Time: Gather at noon for light refreshments.
The meeting will begin at 1:00 to hear a summary of the past year and elect officers for 2018.
Terrie Vechery has agreed to be the speaker. This looked like a good time to discuss how we got here, where we are, and where we are planning/hoping to go. "We" actually applies to the school building. Terrie is the person with the continuity of experience to give that overview.
After the meeting and the speaker, members can re-join, new members can get on board, and additional donations from those who are so moved will be enthusiastically welcomed.
As always, we will share potluck and fellowship after the regular meeting. It may be possible to take a peek at the elevator installation to date, but that will depend on what safety regulations permit.
Everyone is welcome. The school belongs to the township--meaning it belongs to all of us, and we are finally approaching being able to begin using it as was envisioned when the trustees purchased it in 2004.
It has been a long haul, but a lot has been accomplished, and you--member of the restoration society or not--have contributed to that by attending restoration society events, being members, or donating to the cause..
Come and celebrate--and maybe it will be spring by then.
Township Cleanup Day
Saturday, May 5, is the annual Township Cleanup Day. It will run from 7:30 a.m. til 3:00 or when the dumpsters are full, whatever comes first.
Place: Just across the road from the Township Garage on Mantua Center Road.
Tires can be dropped off at --I think-- no charge. In the past, if there was a charge, it was $2.00 per tire.
Some guidelines: No kitchen trash--meaning no garbage.
Come prepared to help unload your vehicle or trailer. There has been some joking about advising people load a trailer with all kinds of heavy stuff and then sending the oldest, feeblest member of the family to bring it to the site to be unloaded by others.
I believe that traffic will be one way from the Pioneer Trail intersection and routed north on Center Road for the safety of the people working around the dumpsters. There will be equipment working as well as people on foot. Everyone is concentrating on the trash and the dumpsters, not on some self-centered jerk bulling south on Center Road because s/he is angry that for one day a year traffic is one way for part of the day.
That last snarky comment is based on the experience of working at the Diagonal Road/Center Road intersection to keep people from heading south. You would have thought we were asking them to give blood or sacrifice a child, or something. Sheesh!
About This Blog
The purpose of this blog is to give an accurate account of what is said during Public Comment at Mantua Township Trustees meetings.
Trustees' decisions are in the official minutes, available on request from the Mantua Township Fiscal Officer, Jodi Thompson, at 330-274-8443. The Township charges 10 cents per page. FAX, 330-274-8447. E-mail, fiscalofficer@mantuatownshipohio.gov. The minutes are also posted on the website after they have been approved. That means that there is usually a two-week lag between a given meeting and the minutes being available to read on the website.
Since meetings are the first and third Thursdays of the month, there is a three-week wait during months with five Thursdays.
Other items of interest or the writer's opinions will be included from time to time, clearly identified.
This is not a forum or chat room, but a source of information, so it is closed to outside input.
During the time I have been doing the blog, the posts have expanded to become very detailed accounts of the meetings. Doing that is time consuming, to say the least, and I am going to try to return to the public comment focus, with background and perspective (and the occasional pointed editorial comment). Such additions are usually enclosed in brackets. However, since some extended accounts of the meetings reveal significant things--and character--better than I could by commenting, there will probably still be a fair amount of semi-transcript. (Sigh.)
My thanks to the readers who have found the blog, and to the ones who from time to time tell me that they value it. You have encouraged me when the tedious work of keyboarding has made me wonder why I am doing this. Then you have reminded me, and I am grateful.
Trustees' decisions are in the official minutes, available on request from the Mantua Township Fiscal Officer, Jodi Thompson, at 330-274-8443. The Township charges 10 cents per page. FAX, 330-274-8447. E-mail, fiscalofficer@mantuatownshipohio.gov. The minutes are also posted on the website after they have been approved. That means that there is usually a two-week lag between a given meeting and the minutes being available to read on the website.
Since meetings are the first and third Thursdays of the month, there is a three-week wait during months with five Thursdays.
Other items of interest or the writer's opinions will be included from time to time, clearly identified.
This is not a forum or chat room, but a source of information, so it is closed to outside input.
During the time I have been doing the blog, the posts have expanded to become very detailed accounts of the meetings. Doing that is time consuming, to say the least, and I am going to try to return to the public comment focus, with background and perspective (and the occasional pointed editorial comment). Such additions are usually enclosed in brackets. However, since some extended accounts of the meetings reveal significant things--and character--better than I could by commenting, there will probably still be a fair amount of semi-transcript. (Sigh.)
My thanks to the readers who have found the blog, and to the ones who from time to time tell me that they value it. You have encouraged me when the tedious work of keyboarding has made me wonder why I am doing this. Then you have reminded me, and I am grateful.
Principles
Two ideas guide and support me:
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
______Attributed to Edmund Burke
GOOD PREVAILS.
Those ideas are also the reason I have been doing the blog since late February 2011.
I have discovered that a transcript is almost impossible to do and that verbatim accounts are usually not absolutely necessary. When in doubt, I check against a recording.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
______Attributed to Edmund Burke
GOOD PREVAILS.
Those ideas are also the reason I have been doing the blog since late February 2011.
I have discovered that a transcript is almost impossible to do and that verbatim accounts are usually not absolutely necessary. When in doubt, I check against a recording.
