MarksBrothers meeting minutes, Jan 12th

Meal provided by TMM Family Services

Speaker: Renee Villani

The tour of TMM Family services went very well. We had five member present, (those not present missed a great tour and meal)..

TMM Family services has a number of foster care home located on the campus visited. A house parent resides in each with four to six children in each. We were allowed to tour several of the houses (with permission of the house parent), and meet several of the children. The children are fed meals in there houses except for dinners each day.

We were fed a meal after the children ate. The food was wonderful, much better you would expect of an institution. In the discussion, it was expressed that the key difference between a religious based institution such as TMM, an secular institutions is dramatic. Even though the staff avoids imposing there religious beliefs, the staff’s beliefs, positively effect the children’s treatment.

The normal contributions for the MaarksBrothers meal were collected and donated to TMM. TMM had no requirement that we pay for the meal as it was part of the tour, but everyone agreed that the donation should be made.

Business Meeting: no business meeting held.

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Agenda for Feb 9th Meeting:

We will be taking our wives or significant other to the Metropolitain Grill to celibrate Valentines day. It is not necessary that we come as couples however and I would encourage singles to come also.

We have space for 24 seats at Metropolitan Grill (Magee and N. Oracle near Trader Joe's) on Thursday, Feb 9 at 6:30 PM.  This is for our

traditional Valentine's dinner.  wives, girlfriends, and significant

others are invited.

We will be able to order from the regular menu, however, they will be

adding an 18% tip on the bill (not a problem as the service there is

usually pretty good).

If you are interested, please let Paul Simpson know my Tuesday. Feb 7 as he has to give them a final count.

A pancake breakfast is planned for Feb. 4^th. There will be no other meeting prior to the breakfast, so we will need to get organized without additional meetings. Any suggestions would be helpful. This intended to be a dry run for a March breakfast. Bob Ross has asked me to call him if things are not set by the prior Wednesday so we can get the food bought.. We are planning to buy for 50, since we have know idea who will come. If no one shows up, March will have pancakes as the meal.