Sister Cities

Idaho Falls Sister Cities Youth Meeting June 19, 2017 Attendees: Cameron Archer Elliot Boring Maureen Miaullis Don Rueff Jenna Bauer Wendy Boring Fawn Molyneux Janet Rueff Karen Bauer Melinda Cebull Brenda Padron Brooke Simpson Max Benjamin Peter Cebull Gabe Padron Rebecca Smith Misty Benjamin Nicholas Cebull Kendra Peck Whitney St. Michel Cindi Berlier Rachel Cebull Nathan Peck Ian St. Michel Nathan Berlier Dave Eaton Dallin Peck Anna St.Michel Natalie Berlier Kylie Eaton Laurie Retallic Stephanie Van Ausdeln Maggie Boring Victoria Estrada Jacobi Retallic Ness Vilasenor Business Section of the Meeting Minutes: The June 6th meeting minutes were provided to the group by email. Victoria motioned to approve the minutes and Fawn seconded her motion. Fundraisers:  4th of July Parade: Victoria passed around a sign-up sheet for people to help with the parade. If you would like to help paint lines, judge floats, or carry banners and did not sign up at the meeting, contact Victoria <da_estradas@msn.com>  Team INL Donation: Misty Benjamin said the information was submitted for the team INL funds and she is waiting to hear back. Friendship Garden: Please review the points for the 6/14 work day to make sure you were given credit if you attended. Language Lessons: Rachel Cebull will be giving Japanese language lessons to any interested students. More students can attend during the day. The meetings will be held from noon to 1:30 at the library. Points will be given for attending the lessons. Contact Rachel (rcebull@gmail.com) if you have questions. Hosting Preparations: T-shirts: The group will buy t-shirts for the visiting Japanese students and our students to wear during group activities at the visit. Vannessa provide a design the group liked for the t-shirts. A sign-up sheet was passed around for people to order shirts. The shirt price was estimated to be ~$10. If you would like a t-shirt, but did not order one at the meeting, please contact Whitney. Speeches: Rachel still needs speeches from Whitney and Mario. Hosting Assignments: A few additional families have asked to host students. Whitney is revising the hosting list to include the new families. Melinda is working on finding people to host the chaperones. Hosting Activity Updates: 7/27 Japanese Students Arrive in IF  Pick-up students at the airport  Bring students to the Friendship Garden.  Wendy and Victoria are planning to have appetizers and drinks for the students. There will be a short talk about the Friendship Garden, introductions of host families, pictures, and time to look around the Friendship Garden.  Whitney and Wendy will get items for a welcome bag. 7/28 City Day – Dave Eaton will organize  9:45 Meet for pictures with the mayor  10:00 Mayor will talk with students – Japanese student speech  Police department visit  Lunch at Freeman Park – Kendra is planning a potato bar, birthday cake for Japanese student  Fire Department tour 7/28 Family Time 7/28 Welcome Party ~6pm at Tautphaus Park Shelter 3  Adult group will bring main dish or provide money for the main dish  Whitney has the shelter reserved for set-up at 4pm 7/29-7/30 Family Days 7/31 Yellowstone trip – Victoria will plan the route  Meet at 6:30 am – Last year we met at IF High School but it could change this year  Meals & Snacks - Karen & Jackie o Breakfast – yogurt, granola, apples, bananas, rice crispy treats, juice o Snacks – beef sticks, carrots, cheese o Lunch – Fried Chicken and sides  Dinner – Katie Eaton – Contacted High Altitude Catering in West Yellowstone 8/1 Idaho Falls Museum Day – Karen & Laurie  9 am – Meet at Museum of Idaho. There is a space exhibit with a ride. Laurie is looking into prices. Possibly $10 a ticket and $1 for the ride.  ~11 am – Art Museum – Western Theme  Lunch at the park near the Art Museum  Artitorium visit - $3 per person 8/1 Family Time – Laurie mentioned there is a community concert at the river. (Not Brothers) 8/2 Lagoon – Victoria is going to call  Plan is to get a shelter for the day  If we can have a shelter for the whole day and it has electrical, Melinda will do a taco bar for lunch. Otherwise she will plan something different.  Lagoon will provide the dinner of hamburgers and hotdogs. Price will be included in the group ticket price. 8/3 Family Day until ~ 3pm 8/3 Zoo & Rodeo   Laurie is looking into zoo prices. Melinda mentioned there is a scavenger hunt with clues in English and Japanese that can be used if wanted.  Peter an Erik will provide a Dutch oven dinner at the Tautphaus park shelter  Fawn is checking in to rodeo prices. She is meeting with the rodeo committee on 6/20. They agreed to at least meet the group prices from last time or do better. They will give us a behind the scene tour and provide a group seating area. 8/4 Rafting at Mack’s Inn  Kendra will plan the float trip.  She will have a list of who should go on each raft planned in advanced.  We cannot reserve rafts in advance, but we could have someone go early.  We may want to have lunch near Big Springs and roast hot dogs and have s’mores. 8/4 Family Day Afternoon 8/4 Chaperone Party at Carole Walter’s house. 8/5 Family Day 8/6 Family Day until the Farewell Party at 4 pm  We will celebrate Easter, Christmas, Halloween, and Thanksgiving with the Japanese students.  Erik and Nathan will organize the Thanksgiving dinner.  Misty is going to get the gift for the Sister City house.  Students will plan the holiday activities. Student Section of the Meeting Nicholas passed around a sheet with possible questions host families could ask the Japanese students they will host. There was not enough time to complete the student activities. Kendra will be having the students at her house at 5 pm on 6/21. The students will be learning songs in Japanese and completing the activities planned for this meeting. They will also have pizza. Kendra’s address is 961 Pescadaro. Motion to adjourn was made by Rebecca and seconded by Maureen.