Sister Cities

December 4, 2019 Idaho Falls Sister City Youth Approved Meeting-Minutes Attendees: Whitney St. Michel Anna St. Michel Kylie Eaton Wendy Boring Maggie Boring Lori Kidwell Sam Hawker Max Medema Charlie Medema Heather Medema Michael Medema Nicholas Cebull Gabe Padron Abby Gallegos Jo Gallegos Aidan Gallegos Gabe Perkins Michelle Perkins Laura Kelley Izabel Kelley Stephanie Van Ausdeln Rebecca Smith Tim Thompson Carter Thompson Kendra Peck Samantha Gohl Rylee Young Nathan Peck Jorge Padron Melinda Cebull David Eaton Katie Eaton Chad Mahoney Aurora Mahoney ​Membership: ​All applications need to be updated and signed by guardian. ​Membership dues for the 2019/2020 year in the amount of $25.00 for individual membership and $35.00 for families with two or more students in IFSCY. ​ Membership will become delinquent as of January 1 if dues are not paid. (Article II Section 1 of Bylaws) Application form received for Izabel Kelley. Code of Conduct form received from Maggie Boring, Izabel Kelley, Max Medema, Aurora Mahoney, Gabe Perkins and Stephanie VanAusdeln. Membership Dues received from Aurora Mahoney check number 102. Izabel Kelley paid $30.00 cash. Approval of Minutes: ​Whitney St. Michel motioned to approve the November 18, 2019 meeting minutes. It was seconded by Kendra Peck. Voted and unanimously approved. Treasurer’s Report: ​Treasurer Report was given by Lori Kidwell. Income and current balance was given. Lori stated she will give the Treasurer’s report at the next meeting. Fundraisers: Winter Carnival -- A Reminder The date for the IFSCY Winter Carnival is December 28, 2019. Set up begins at 12:30. Doors open at 1:00. Clean up begins at 6:45. The first shift for students and adults will begin at 12:30 and ends at 3:45. The second shift for students and adults begins at 3:45 and ends at 7:00. Student Exchange Information ​Haruka gave Whitney tentative dates of July 29 through August 8 or 9th, 2020 for the Student Exchange to Japan. Whitney priced airline tickets and as of today the estimates range from $1,800 to $2,500 depending on if the group flys from Idaho Falls or flys out of Salt Lake City. There will be a total of fifteen students and three chaparones: Lori Kidwell, Jorge Padron, and Katie Eaton. Activity Reminder The Youth Group will meet on December 7 at 11:00 to 1:00 to help David Eaton organize items donated by Judy Sydel. The group will organize magazines according to the name of magazine, organize magazines month by month, take pictures of each cover, place them in boxes and write a descriptor of the contents. Invitation of Students ​The Idaho Falls Sister City Youth Executive Board will meet in January to determine the fifteen students and to send out invitations to students. Signing Christmas Cards Jorge Padron had Christmas Cards printed up so that our group could sign each card and send the card to each individual in Tokai-Muri Sister City organization. Kendra asked that each student stay after the student activity to sign cards. Reminder: January’s meeting dates for Idaho Falls Sister City Youth is scheduled for January 8 and January 20, 2020, at 7:00 pm at the Idaho Falls Public Library.  Student activity will take place on December 7th at the Idaho Falls Public Library to organize magazines and prepare them for sale on the internet. December 28 is the Winter Carnival scheduled at the Ice Skating Rink. First shift begins and 12:30. Please put the dates on your calendar. Student Activity: ​Meeting minutes for 12-04-2019 ​ ​This lesson was taught by Aurora Mahoney. This lesson is about a form of both art and acting called Kabuki. Aurora taught the history as well as the meaning of it. The idea behind the mask is very important. They are painted on a person's face and represent multiple things based on their color. A couple of things that we learned about are history and the setup was that the setup was the back was two trapdoors. There's a long walkway into the crowd. Some history that we learned was that these actors ran in families. For some time, women were not allowed, but now they are allowed to be actors. We then got to make our own masks. While we made the masks, we also wrote Christmas cards. If anyone who wanted to write Christmas cards, but couldn't, then write your letter, and give it to us at the activity on Saturday. Meeting Adjourned: Aurora Mahoney motioned to adjourn meeting. It was seconded by Max Medema.