Meeting Minutes October 2010
EAT Meeting
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
12:30 – 1:50 pm
Wenatchee Valley College, Van Tassell Conference Room
In Attendence:
Sandi Bammer
Rich Colson
Jan Hanson
Leanne Larkin
Nadine Lehrer
Joan Qazi
Natalie Rumble
Antonina Shapovalova
Lihlani Skipper
Kerry Steffan
Treasurer’s Report: Current balance $845.89 (plus $2,000 from Wenatchee Valley Medical Center for calendar printing)
Updates:
EAT stickers – We have the “European-style” EAT stickers available again. They cost 80 cents each, and will be available by donation at Farmhouse Table.
Environmental Film Series – at Wenatchee Valley Museum. The 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. $5 suggested donation.
Upcoming films:
November 16 – “Food Fight” (sponsored by EAT and Community Farm Connection)
http://www.foodfightthedoc.com/
January 18 – “Dirt” (sponsored by Native Plant Society)
http://www.dirtthemovie.org/pages/about-the-film
February 15 – “River Ways” (sponsored by Trout Unlimited WA Water Project)
http://www.sawgrassproductions.com/river_ways
March 15 – “Lords of Nature” (sponsored by Conservation Northwest)
April 19 – “Eating Alaska” (sponsored by NCW Audubon Society)
At “Food Fight,” EAT will have a table set up, and we hope to have the calendars finished to sell. Lihlani and Christie are willing to volunteer. Anyone else interested in helping, please contact Joan. EAT is sponsoring this film along with CFC.
Farm-to-School
- Jan Hanson, Wenatchee H.S. Kitchen Manager, would like to have Tony Davis and Richard Kitos return to school to demonstrate cooking/ preparing fresh foods. No date has been set.
- Currently, almost 10% of produce at the H.S. comes from local farmers.
- A parents group has been working with the elementary schools on improved nutrition education. They have discussed the idea of assemblies, or incorporating nutrition education with PE classes. Also, it would be nice to put up simple educational posters (first need to contact the schools). Joan suggested that those interested in working on this could meet at another time.
- East Wenatchee School District contracts with a food service company, Sodexo. Because of this, changes might be more limited or complicated. Susie Howard is the Food Services Director, and would be the person to contact, should anyone be interested in this issue in E. Wenatchee.
- “Local Farms, Healthy Kids” Act in Washington:
http://king.wsu.edu/foodandfarms/LocalFarmsHealthyKids.html
Community Garden – Community Center has a food bank, and could harvest from plots if they weren’t being harvested. The hope is that the garden will help connect neighbors in south Wenatchee. The garden has been winterized with Austrian peas and rye.
School Gardens – the gardens have also been winterized.
AmeriCorps – “Keep It Simple Service” (KISS)
- They can propose and vote on service projects, using the entire AmeriCorps team of volunteers (about 60 people!).
- They would like to do something with the community center (setting up compost, working on garden, etc.) and/or school gardens
- It would be about 4-5 hours on the day of service.
Calendars – Sandi is doing an awesome job! The plan is to have the calendar ready to go to the printers by November 1st, so they’ll be ready to sell by Nov. 16th (at the museum).
NEXT MEETING: December 8th at 6:30pm (as a combined November/December mtg) at Wenatchee World Conference room. Holiday Potluck!