Minutes of the Extraordinary Meeting of the Lyme Regis Branch held on 27th August 2015 at The Nag’s Head, Lyme Regis, commencing 19:00
VJ Commemoration Weekend Update and Support
Present:
Mr D Manners, Mr M Jones, Mrs A Driver, Mrs A
Manners, Mrs S Marler, Mr. A. Smith, Mrs Jacqui Ward.
- Exhortation:
- Chairman’s Opening Remarks:
David welcomed those present and expressed his concern that
tickets for the VJ dance were not going well in spite of broad publicity and
encouraged everyone, even if they were unable to be there on the night, to try
to get the seats filled. More posters were distributed to enable this.
Jacqui was going to urge also County to send bunting etc to
the Chairman’s address for use in the hall.
The drummer for the parade was organised.
A Risk Assessment needed to be done a.s.a.p. Martin agreed
to speak to the Parade Marshall.
The County chairman had agreed to attend and give the
Exhortation.
The slide show loop of vintage photos of VJ day was
completed.
Sadly, no news from the Mayor or Commodore Miller RN
regarding a ship visit.
The TIC was well briefed as to the Saturday Dance.
Everyone was encouraged to provide more raffle prizes for
the night.
The Town crier would be asked to publicise both events.
David.
A further meeting with LRTC is to take place on Tuesday
010915.
David had still not seen the order of service of hymn sheet
being provided by the Rev. Skinner. He will pursue this.
David concluded by thanking everyone for their time in
helping to organise these events and wished those away for family or holiday
reasons a good weekend themselves.
