This just in from Skate Date coordinator Carol Cochran:
WFB Civic Foundation Skate Date 2010 is canceled due to slushiness. Check back for us next year, or watch for a spontaneous outbreak of Skate Date if there's a big cold spell next month...
Shazbot.
First up, the highlight of yesterday's Trustee meeting was that WFB participated in a sale of bonds. One was a re-funding of higher-rate bonds to lower, saving the Village $335k at a paltry 2.7% interest rate, near the 42-year low for rates. Amazing.
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The Civic Foundation is hosting a new event in 2010 .. the First Annual Skate Date at Cahill Ice Rink this Saturday, Jan. 23, starting at 4pm.
From 5-6pm, the First Annual WFB Broom Ball Bowl will commence. (Ok, I made that up. But there will be broom ball games at 5pm.)
The Civic Foundation will provide brooms & ball as well as hot water and hot chocolate mix. Bowls, spoons, and napkins will also be available for residents who bring their own pot of chili to eat. (Which reminds me, if you've ever wanted to make home-made "Real Chili" here's a link to a few recipes -- we've made #2 several times. It's not exactly Real Chili, but it's close enough.)
Hopefully, the ice rink will stay frozen for this new Civic Foundation event.
Here's the Facebook event link, and please join the Civic Foundation Group, if you're a Facebook fan.
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Finally, Bay Ball is going to happen this year on Friday June 4th at the new Harley Museum.
Pulling off the Bay Ball takes a load of volunteers. If you could help out with publicity, raffles, logistics, baskets, reservations .. whatever, please drop an email to one of these co-chairs:
Joe &Lori Kampschroer: lkamp@att.net
Larry & Rega Plaster: regap@sbcglobal.net
Michael Pyter & Mary Beth Jacobs: mjacobs10@wi.rr.com
Breaking news .. Get your ice skates tuned up .. the WFB ice rinks at Klode and Cahill are now open.
Just thought you'd like to know.
Hello? Is this thing on? There hasn't been much to blog about since the holidays, so this is the first blog post of 2010 .. and it's a grab-bag.
Grab Bag Story Number 1: Trick or Treat
The JS has an interesting story about Milwaukee County municipalities discussing Trick-or-Treating times, with local City Mayors and Village Presidents at their monthly meeting .. some suburbs want a unified time, so that children from other cities stay in their own city to Trick or Treat.
Marauding, candy-hoarding kids descending on the suburbs by the vanload? For trick-or-treating? Where are all the mayors and the village presidents in the face of this debauchery?I will say .. of the 500-600 kids that come to my house, the number of non-residents is 50-60% .. while I see it as a moment of charity, there's a point it gets a bit ridiculous.
They plan to tackle the problem Monday - 9 1/2 months before Halloween.
On Monday .. the Milwaukee County mayors and village presidents will discuss trick-or-treating at their monthly meeting. At their last meeting, they discussed a proposal to have it on Oct. 31 every year from 2010 through 2020. This year, Oct. 31 is a Sunday.
The part-time position will be responsible for developing marketing and advertising initiatives, communicating with various community groups to establish partnerships, providing administrative support to the BID Board, organizing and developing special events...
The base contracted salary range is $20,000 to $25,000 with additional compensation possible through performance bonuses. Additional compensation potential from the Village of Whitefish Bay in connection with retail recruitment initiative.
Please send resume, cover letter, and references to Whitefish Bay BID Director Position, attention to Matt Schuenke, at 5300 N. Marlborough Drive, Whitefish Bay, WI 53217. The deadline for submitting this information is January 27, 2010. Please direct all questions to Matt Schuenke at (414) 962-6690 or m.schuenke@wfbvillage.org.
