Sister Cities

Idaho Falls Sister Cities Youth Meeting April 5, 2017 Attendees: Jenna Bauer Jackie Corbridge Elly Finnigan Jacobi Retallic Karen Bauer Tate Corbridge Ian Finnigan Brooke Simpson Misty Benjamin Brennan Corbridge Fawn Molyneux Whitney St. Michel Max Benjamin Mario Estrada Gabe Padron Ian St. Michel Melinda Cebull Victoria Estrada Kendra Peck Anna St.Michel Peter Cebull Mario Estrada 2 Nathan Peck Rebecca Smith Nicholas Cebull Dave Eaton Dallin Peck Stephanie Van Ausdeln Rachel Cebull Katie Eaton Laurie Retallic Nell Villasenor Business Section of the Meeting Minutes: The minutes from the March 13th meeting were provided to the group by email. Kendra motioned to approve the minutes and Whitney seconded her motion. Treasurer’s Report: Peter provided the treasurer’s report. Balance: $5,250.36 Income: $150 JACL bento box donation, $25 membership fees Expenditures: $12.92 purchase checks, $27.97 raffle supplies Dividends: $ 0.58 Japanese Visit: Whitney told the group the Japanese students will visit from July 27th to August 2nd. Whitney sent a sheet around for people to let her know if they are able to host students this summer. If you were not at the meeting and want to host, please let Whitney know. City Funds: Dave told the group he had received an email from the city stating they plan to give us the $3500 we requested to help with hosting students. Melinda mentioned last year we were asked to send the city an invoice as part of our funding request, and she suggested we send one for their records. Peter will provide an invoice to Dave, and Dave will send it to the city. Snow Eagle Dinner/Raffle Fundraiser:  Whitney sent around a sign-up list for people to volunteer to help with decorations and ticket sales during the fundraiser.  Rebecca passed around raffle tickets for pre-sales.  Whitney has received a few more donations. She will email a list with the new donations out to the group. Mario will place pictures of the new raffle items on the website.  Melinda will call Jerry at Snow Eagle to see if we can setup raffle tables and decorations a little earlier since it will be difficult to get it done by 11:30 am if we start at 11. Friendship Garden: Kendra volunteered to coordinate work days at the Friendship Garden. Student Section of the Meeting Mario number lesson 1-ichi 2-ni 3-san 4-shi/yon 5-go 6-roku 7-shichi/nana 8-hachi 9-kyuu/ku 10-juu Mario wrote these numbers on the board and then he split the group into two groups. One person from each group went to the board with a marker. Mario would then say a number in Japanese, and the people with the markers would have to write the number in English. The team to do it first was the winner. Next game was by Nicholas This game was Jeopardy. There were five categories that had 4 different levels of questions. This was played just like any other game of jeopardy accept that there was the questions being asked not the answers being given. The five categories are phrases, Christmas, New Years, valentines/white day, other. Motion to adjourn was made by Mario Estrada and seconded by Kendra Peck.