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September 24, 2019 Meeting Minutes

23 Attendees (all execs present)

Subjects:
i. Wilderness First Aid update
ii. Change meeting date/time
iii. Organizing projects

i. Wilderness First Aid ($220/person)-- 2 day course + 50% taught outside
--> Advance Wilderness First Aid-- 4 days (two weekends) $probably more money$
--> Contact Krista N. for questions

ii. Majority of attending members agree to change meeting date to Wednesdays after class (2:30pm-3:30pm)-- In effect starting October 2nd
--> Additional polling on facebook

iii. Create Google Doc to organize projects and easy collaboration
a. Fall Forest Monitoring-- Niagara area with Kate Driver
b. Allison W. @ Brock University for bio-remediation projects
c. SER organized Bruce Tail Hike for other NOTL students
d. Host a buy-in trivia night-- money back into SER or pool prize
e. SER/NC graphic swag-- stickers, patches
--> more creative designs to be sold to public-- SAR pins, native plant stickers, etc.
(fundraising)
--> Anyone can pitch design idea-- the artistically-inclined will draw
f. Pre-cut pumpkin sale & carving contest (fundraising)
--> Bulk sale pumpkin rates (grocery stores, farmers, or someone secretly likes to
hoard pumpkins in their spare time)
--> Likely week before Halloween (~Oct 21st-ish)
g. Guest Lecturers-- Indigenous speakers, edible plants
h. Bringing Terra Cycle to NOTL-- Introduce drop boxes for problematic items to be recycled
i. Plant sale with Horitculture/Greenhouse group (stepping on toes?? Must get in contact)

Major Year Projects
a. Grassland burning
b. NOTL wetland observation deck-- criteria & design contest
c. SER job fair-- Sometime in January. Small and selective audience (SER, EMA students)
--> Contact potential sponsers and mid-size companies

Next meeting: (with fb poll majority) October 2nd, room TBA (2:30pm-3:30pm)

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