09.14.06
What’s happening with the reuion???
Corey what is going on with the new date?? Sandra Fabbri(Santucci)
For Alumni of Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute in Winnipeg, Canada
Posted in General at 9:38 am by sandysantucci
Corey what is going on with the new date?? Sandra Fabbri(Santucci)
Those who attended approximately 30 years ago.
Bad Behavior has blocked 35 access attempts in the last 7 days.
Corey said,
September 14, 2006 at 6:27 pm
Well, I’m pretty frustrated. I was planning on sending an email out to everyone, but since you brought it up Sandra, I might as well respond here first. I’ll still send an email, but let’s talk about it first.) The email I’ll send will mainly be an apology, for not being able to make this happen. The fact I don’t live in the city is somewhat a factor, but more than anything, I’m just frustrated. It was hard to postpone in the first place, but harder spinning my wheels to get a new date worked out. I’ve done my best with this. Perhaps it’s time for someone with a new energy to take the reigns.
My main problem. I just haven’t had my emails/calls returned with anything concrete as far as a date. I’m willing to give it one last try, and if I can’t work something out, I’m pretty much ready to give up. The only real difficulty I’ve had is booking a date for the school. I guess it has a lot to do with red tape or whatever. Well, I don’t want to be negative, so perhaps I’ll just stop there.
This leaves us/you/me with a decision. If I can’t secure a date in the next few days, what do we do instead? Most people I’ve spoken/emailed with want to do something. The easiest thing to do on short notice is arrange a date in a pub type place. That’s my preference as this point, since I’m just about planned out.
The other option is for someone else to take this over if they want to continue on with something like I’ve been trying to make happen. Even if it ends up being next year, this might be what everyone would really prefer. I’m burnt out with it, but would be happy to provide whatever information I can to someone knew to help short cut them through their own arrangements. (Where’s Janelle? that gal had the energy of the enegizer bunny for the 10th!)
Heck, if someone had a big enough backyard, I could go for an informal bbq.
As much as I would love to do something at the school, it’s more about the people than the building. Giving up on the school makes it a whole lot easier.
So, discuss people. How do *you* want to handle this. It’s your reunion afterall. Let’s have some ideas, and then I can make a poll right on this site and let folks vote. That will give everyone an idea of what’s important to us all.
sandysantucci said,
September 14, 2006 at 9:03 pm
Well an informal night out some where like a bar setting might work. Does anyone have any other idea’s. Will you be sendind us our ticket $ back then? Sandra
sandysantucci said,
September 14, 2006 at 9:05 pm
I really was looking forward to seeing every one from school . It’s really too bad it’s not going to be on. Sandra. PS thanks for all the work you did Corey.
Corey said,
September 15, 2006 at 8:26 am
It goes without saying that in the event of an outright cancellation, anyone that has sent money will be refunded. I’ll be making one more attempt today at securing a date. If I come up dry, I’ll contact the folks who’ve purchase.
Lanarae Rogers said,
September 15, 2006 at 6:06 pm
Hey there,
Why don’t we just book a conference room at one of The Canad Inns or something like it? We don’t have to be at the school (God, didn’t we spend enough time there?) I don’t mind helping out with this kind of thing Cori just get in touch. Call me at The Waverley 489-3000 ext 222.
Lana
Karen Nelson said,
September 19, 2006 at 10:24 pm
Hey Corey!
I don’t want to see us give up on this either!! I’m concerned about doing only a “bar thing” simply because it might be hard to catch up with old friends if the music is super loud (God, I do sound old!). Why don’t we arrange to still have dinner at Sorrento’s (maybe sometime in November) and then if people want, we can follow that at a bar.
I appreciate all the work you’ve done to this point Corey, and I would love to help out so please don’t hesitate to let me know how.
Karen
Corey said,
September 21, 2006 at 8:42 am
I tend to agree with your concern about bar sound levels. I used to the word pub, which means something different to me.
I like the dinner thing, but I’m concerned that people will only get to talk with the people they are sitting near. That’s happened to me at other dinner functions. If there is a ‘mingling’ opportunity, it would work much better in my mind. Perhaps that can be worked out.
Barb (Butler) Fouquette said,
September 23, 2006 at 11:20 pm
I also agree with the bar thing (as much as I used to love going to the bar) now it would be really nice to catch up with people we haven’t seen in years without blaring music in the background and Karen, we are all getting old and it really is sad. What about booking a Community Club (large room and not as expensive as a hotel banquet room)?
I would be more than happy to help out as well, so let me know what I can do. I could call in a couple of favours with the Community Club thing - just let me know so I can make a few phone calls re cost, dates, etc.
I have noticed that the 1983 Grads list is quite short - pass the word about this website everyone, so we can all start reconnecting again. I will have to pull out some pictures from the 1983 grad and post them here as well. Stay tuned.
Sandra Fabbri(Santucci) said,
September 24, 2006 at 1:02 pm
Hello
A Community club sound good . Are we going to look into that?And What area we’re you thinking of in the city?/ Sandra
Corey said,
September 25, 2006 at 8:23 am
nice to see some ideas here. I’m going to start a new post on this topic.
Tarot bruce said,
September 25, 2006 at 3:07 pm
Okay, I have a potential place a regular social hall and whatnot, music guy who listens to resquests and is able to play old stuff from our era (”Hey Bruce, thats stuffs from before I was born!”) as well as the ’save a horse ride a cowboy’ stuff if you want it. Anyone able to lend a hand let me know care of corey.
Tammy Zajac said,
September 27, 2006 at 11:09 pm
We need to have more people long on and get on board. I am fairly new to this sight. I do not agree about the bar thing, as after 10 years, at a social it was hard to recognize some of my classmates as grey and lack of hair had already set in to alot of us. Now being over 40 memory is starting to be a problem. Just make sure everyone wears a nametag with the grad date!
Karen Nelson said,
September 28, 2006 at 10:46 am
I like Bruces idea! Why not pick a date and we can do a social type thing and shoot for late October or early November! I will take care of the food!
If Bruce can organize the hall and the music then I think we are set! We just need a date! Barb Butler and I can also handle getting name tags together (hope you don’t mind me offering your services Barb!) then we just need volunteers to sit at the door, which we can easily work out once we know a date. As the Black Eyed Peas say, “Let’s get it started!”
Barb (Butler) Fouquette said,
September 29, 2006 at 11:13 pm
A social type event great sounds great. Karen and I can totally take care of the food and name tags, etc. and late October or early November works for me too. Karen, just give me a call this weekend or it will have to be after October 15th (will be out-of-town). I’m looking forward to it. Oh yeah, to quote another song from Kool & The Gang let’s get this “Celebration” begin and from Lionel Richie “All Night Long”. You know what’s really sad about getting to our age, my husband and I were at our street’s 2nd block party a couple of Saturday’s ago a couple of CD’s of 80’s music like those above and the Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane; Foreigner - Cold As Ice; Simple Minds “Don’t You (Forget About Me) is that pathetic or what? I love all of the 80’s songs and it sure brings back some really great memories. Too bad Joe Aiello isn’t doing the music man thing anymore. Maybe we could convince him to help us out anyways - Karen, I think we both know where we can get a hold of him.
Barb (Butler) Fouquette said,
September 29, 2006 at 11:17 pm
I don’t know what happened to my message above but pieces that I wrote didn’t show up in the actual message. Oh well, the just was that at the street party 80’s music was playing all night long and so I got hooked and went out and bought a couple of CD’s and the rest of my earlier message tells the rest.
Crazy computers - anyways, can’t wait to listena and dance to more 80’s music at this reunion social.
Tarot bruce said,
October 2, 2006 at 9:03 pm
I’ll get back in touch with the place I was looking at and see how much of a lead time we have. I havent heard back from Corey so I don’t want to start booking places and so on without him knowing. Just want to be polite.
I assume a Saturday so out of towners can fly in and not be too stressed for the big party?
Corey said,
October 3, 2006 at 8:14 am
Go ahead and make plans without me. I’m not in the driver’s seat anymore! And good luck!
Tarot bruce said,
October 3, 2006 at 7:27 pm
I am looking at november 4th, which is a saturday. I still have to get back to the hall to see if that date is available but if not then i will cast the net a bit further.
Anyone interested in helping with this, (tickets, food, etc,) can contact me at
escapist_ca@yahoo.ca