Our next OMAD Meeting has been changed to Saturday, October 27th at 11:30am at the American Legion.   OMAD Meeting Agenda OMAD Minutes Aug 13 - 6:00pm     We welcomed Cheryl Engl from the Civil Air Patrol and Matt Rybka.   We still are not getting a lot of people coming to the meetings. We would really like to see some of our Legion members come out and help us get the Blue Star Ceremony organized. Amvets and VFW we hope you have not forgot about us. I did receive a email from Michelle Crohn Amvets Commander and she was out of town and unable to make it. We know everyone is busy with there own clubs, but remember the OMAD event will be bringing all veteran members and non members together to one event. Your membership could benefit from OMAD.   The rest of the OMAD meetings are as scheduled below: Make sure to mark your calendars with these dates.   Sept 8 (Sat) at 11:00 am American Legion Sept 20 (Thurs) at 6:00 pm American Legion Oct 6 (Sat) at 11:00 am American Legion Oct 16 (Tues) at 6:00 pm Monroe County Fairgrounds Oct 27 (Sat) at 11:30 am American Legion Nov 3 (Sat) at 11:00 am American Legion     Vice Coordinator- Karen Gummer Monroe Co. Fair booth went over well. We got 107 names of Veterans that signed up to be invited to OMAD. This was a wonderful out come. We made approx $100.00 in donations. We were not able to cover the cost of the booth. Next OMAD event: We will be selling hot dogs in Lowes parking lot on Oct 6. We voted not to do the Fall Festival Parade, but Karen is checking to see if we they will donate a booth space to OMAD. The cost of the booth is to much money, but if we can get a booth donated we will set up a booth to get the word out about OMAD. Karen applied for a grant from Monroe Co. Foundation to help OMAD with expenses. Karen has comfirmation on a Fleet of Helicopters to fly over the day of OMAD. Jenny Tracy is going to contact Deadra about the publicity rules for Casey Mears.   OMAD Chairperson- Jenny Tracy Jim Davis is filling out the paper work to get his name on the brick to be placed in the wall at Monroe Co. Fairgrounds memorial. Mickey Hammer is sending Jenny a different email address for Peggy Welsh. Jenny is contacting Peggy Welsh about writing a welcome letter, and to see if she would be able to talk to other politicians to see if they would come and speak at OMAD.   Operations- Stephanie Ayers   We went over the timeline for August. Yard signs and Banners need made up. Jenny made a list up of printing shops to be contacted to see if they would donate signs. We hope that we can get some printing companies to make some similar yard signs to what we had last year. Mickey Hammer is checking with Best Beers to see if they will make us banners like they did last year. Coloring Contest was passed out to Monroe Co. Schools last year, but we did not get any coloring pages back from the schools. We voted to do the coloring contest the day of OMAD and set a coloring station in the 4H building so the kids can still enter in the contest. Jenny Tracy is going to be placing the order for the gifts that we will be passing out in the ceremonies. Patty Moore is getting the confirmation on Police Security for NOV 11, and hand held 2-way radios.    Schedule of events:        1:30 pm: Pastor Ray McRoberts opening prayer. Speech / Announcements      1:35 pm: Flag Folding and Flag Retirement by American Legion Post 18      2:00 pm: Warriors Walk Registration in Auditorium      2:15 pm: Warriors Walk begins Outside Auditorium                    Helicopter Fly over (time?)      2:30 pm: Carnival starts in 4H Building                    Vendors booths open in Community Building                    View items for Auction      3:00 pm: Bloomington Brass Band till 3:45 pm in Auditorium       4:00 pm: Carnival ends                    Ceremonies (Blue Star & Red,White & Blue) start in Auditorium      4:45 pm: Announcements of contest winners in Auditorium                    Bloomington North Choir (singing Patriotic songs) (time ?)      5:00 pm: Auction       5:45 pm: Closing Ceremony in Auditorium      6:00 pm: Monroe Co. Fairgrounds Memorial at Veterans Memorial by Gate 3     Salute Director-   Jenny will be placing the order for the gifts we pass out with her own money and OMAD will reimburse her. Jenny will be sending the names of Deployed Soldiers to Karin Contri to get the address labels made. Jenny has sent a email to Grantham University Blue Star Flags to see if we can get them to supply us with the Blue Star Flags for the ceremony, in return that they can set up a booth at OMAD. This could be promising. Keep are fingers crossed. Jenny is working on a list of Soldiers to invite. VIP Liaison-   Janice has dropped off a letter to the Mayor, and has not heard back from him. She will go back to the Mayor's office to check back in with him. Janice will order the Governor's proclamation.   Warriors Walk-   Stephanie is going to get a bid on t-shirts from JB at Abracadabra graphics where we had the t-shirts made last year. Karin Contri has a sample of the Warriors walk sign for this year and wasn't able to make the meeting so we will get to see that at the next meeting. Jenny had a thought of getting groups to do the Warrior Walk like IVY TECH, IU Vets Groups ect.. They can do a pledge and bring more money in for OMAD.   Treasurer- Michelle Combs  Account Balance $116.44 We made approx $100.00 at the Monroe Co. Fair booth. Michelle is working on getting COOKS to sponsor website.   Sponsorship- Jenny or Nancy would be able to email you sponsorship forms and the letter from Asthma & Allergy  if you know of someone that may want to give a donation. Jennifer Johanningsmeier is writing up a letter for us to present to business that would donate goods. Such as toys, food for food booth.   Bicycle Decorating Contest has been scratched from the schedule.   Publicity Director- Mickey will talk to HT newspaper to see if they will donate a 1/2 page for us to put the Warrior Walk Registration form and schedule of events in the paper. Volunteer Coordinator- Karen will send Shayna a list of all the vendors she knows of that will be coming to OMAD. Shayna needs to prepare a layout of  how many vendors we can fit in the Community building, so we know that we will have enough space. Silent Auction- Mickey has a 2 night stay for 2 at French Lick, Signed picture of Payton Manning and a lot of other big items coming in. Carnival Director- We will have 10 games this year and most of them will be different games than we had last year. We need donations for 2 liter bottles of pop for a ring toss game. The 4H junior leaders will be back this year to help out. Miscellaneous- Patty will get confirmation from the Monroe Co Fair Queen to be at OMAD. Patty will contact  Emergency and Security Volunteers to be at the event. JB May & Gene Moncell will be talking to Owen & Lawrence Co for there participation this year at OMAD.  Sorry the minutes are getting out so late. I had them all typed up and ready to send and the power went out and I lost everything I had typed. So it took me another week to find time to retype them.   The meeting schedule for the rest of the meetings are up above. Hope to see you all there.     OMAD Meeting Agenda July 21 OMAD Minutes   Thank You all for coming to the meeting we had some Legion members back with us and even a new comer. JB May; Jim Davis; Karin Contri; Karen Gummer; Sherry Gummer; Mickey Hammer; Terri Languell; Patty Moore; Michelle Combs; Stephanie Ayers & Jenny Tracy.   Attendance and Contact information was passed around.   Jenny talked about the participation lacking at the meetings. We only have 3 months to get everything ready, and it's causing Jenny to become very Nervous and Frustrated. Now is the time we need everyone on board getting things narrowed down for OMAD. We understand that in the summer months every one is very busy with things. If you are not going to be able to make it to the meeting please let Jenny know in a email that you will not be able to be there and let her know where you are with the items you have been tasked with. If you have material that needs passed out in the meeting please make arrangement to get it to someone coming to the meeting so they can inform the others of what's going on. It's crunch time.   Vice Coordinator Karen Gummer has organized the  Monroe Co Fair booth schedule. If you can help out by setting at the booth one night give her a call 360-3654. The fair goes from July 21 to the 28. There are openings for July 27 and all day on July 28. We have information out about OMAD and have veterans signing up to be invited to the Blue Star ceremony. In one day we received over 25 names for the ceremony. We have a lot of veterans out there that would like to be recognized at this event. So the fair booth is going well.    Allergy & Asthma wrote us a letter of the success they had from OMAD last year due to there name on the back of the t-shirts for sponsorship. This letter is a great tool for us to pass along to other sponsors this year. If you would like a copy of this letter let Karen Gummer know and she will get one to you.     OMAD Chairperson Jenny Tracy wants to Thank every one that helped out with the 4th of July Parade. They ran out of items to pass out early. So next year we will need to buy a lot more than we had this year. The idea of setting up a booth on the courthouse lawn and sell water or pass out information that way was brought up. Something to think about for next years parade.   Jenny is still in contact with Peggy Welch for the Welcome Letter, Peggy has just been very busy and not had time to write it up yet.   Operations Stephanie Ayers The Month by Month task list was talked about: JB May will be doing the Flag Folding and Flag retirement this year at 1:30pm to 2:00pm. So the times of the schedule of events will be reworked and passed out at the next meeting. Sherry Gummer and Vonnie Shepherd will have picked out items to purchase for the ceremonies by next meeting. These items will be ordered in Aug. Sherry is also going to confirm Larry Cooper to be our Clown again this year. Sherry is getting the list of names together from the FRG's in Lawrence & Owen Co. of the soldiers that are deployed so we can invite the families to the Blue Star ceremony. Patty Moore is in charge of getting security from the police dept the day of OMAD, and we are going to see if we can get 4 to 6 walky talkies to use in case of a emergency. Amanda Curl will need to put the invitation to the Ceremonies in the newspaper in Sept, with a RSVP date by Oct 13 so we can get the certificates made up. New things were added to the Month by Month task list that we are making for next year. In Sept we will pass out a new list so we know what we have left to get done.   VIP LIAISON Janice Vermillion was Absent, but Jenny will get in contact with Janice to see if the Mayor, Governor and any other politicians will be coming to OMAD this year to speak, and if the Mayor is going to do a proclamation for us again this year.   Warriors Walk- need coordinator Karin Contri will be working on the signs that are carried during the walk. The new idea for this year is making a master copy of a sign without the names on them and have them copied on card stock paper and attach paint sticks to hold them up with. The name can be put on them with a marker the day of the event.   Treasurer Michelle Combs reported the balance is the same as last month. Earning at Picnic with the Pops was $10.00 and the money from the parade will be added in for next months meeting. Nancy Hafer needs to turn in her receipts for reimbursements from the Kick off Party.    Sponsorship Nancy Hafer was Absent, but Jenny passed out sponsorship forms to who was present. If you would like or need more sponsorship forms please contact Nancy at 327-9789. Nancy is writing up a letter for businesses to donate goods for the OMAD event. Silent Auction Mickey Hammer is working on getting items donated. She has a very long list of places she has inquired for items to auction off. We hope this will be a big success this year. If you know of any business that might donate something to be auctioned off please ask them or get with Mickey and she can get with the business for you.   Ceremony Director Mike Pipher was absent. Pam Thrash is confirmed to be our Emcee. Guidelines for the Blue Star Ceremony are: The Soldier has to have been deployed within the last 4 years.  Live in Monroe, Owen or Lawrence Co.   Philanthropic Director Terri Languell was present and we talked about getting the word out. REMC newsletter, Bloomington Library and Realtors magazines ect... Stephanie will contact Gene Moncel about getting a ad in the Realtors Magazine, since he is a realtor he should be able to help us out with this.   Carnival Director Jennifer Johanningsmeier was Absent, but she has been working on new games for this years carnival. We have 2 companies in the Bloomington area that fill game machines, so when Nancy H. gets the donation letter for goods ready we are hoping to be able to get all the toys we need for this year donated. This will help out a lot.     Meeting Schedule Aug 13 at 6:00 pm. (Tuesday evening) at the American Legion Sept 8 at 10:30 am. ( We will start Bi-Monthly Meetings )   We hope to have another good turn out on Aug 13. Remember if you are not able to make it to the meeting and you have information that we need to keep us on schedule please send a email to Jenny Tracy so we can pass this along to the rest of the group.

OMAD Meeting Agenda   June 23, 2007 -- 1:30pm-3:30pm -- American Legion MINUTES FOR OMAD JUNE 23, 2007 MEETING   Not a lot of people attended I hope that we can have more of you next month at the July 21 at 9:30am American Legion. Attendance: Jenny Tracy; Karen Gummer; Stephanie Ayers; Patty Moore; Mickey Hammer; Maria Hilycord; and Amanda Curl. New Faces are Amanda Curl; she is going to be helping with Publicity Positions open: Correspondence (Kara Clemens has resigned) Warrior Walk Director (Christy Shirley has resigned) Jenny Tracy starts report with checking to see if the Bricks that were won last year were done and up on the Memorial wall. Patty Moore will be checking on that and has concluded that Tim Weaver’s brick is up.  Patty did not find Jim Davis.  We are unsure if paperwork was submitted for this.  Michelle please check to see if money came out of the account last year for Jim Davis brick- check would have been written to Monroe County  Fair.  The winners last year were Tim Weaver and Jim Davis. 4th of July Parade - We have received 15 t-shirts donated by Every Where Signs for us to wear in the Parade, and they also made us a banner that was used at the OMAD kick off party that we will carry in the Parade.   Jenny has bought packets of stamps and coloring crayons that will be passed out along with pin wheels at the Parade. We will attach a card with an OMAD message on these items to help get the OMAD name out there. We have 2) Hummers, color guard and 14 soldiers in the parade with us. Parade Paper work says Line up at 9:00am at Morton St. by City Hall, parade starts at 10:00am.   But we can all meet at 6th & Morton at Cornerstone (Jenny’s work) at 8:30am. We will pass out t-shirts there. Just to be on the safe side wear something patriotic in case we don’t have the right shirt size of you. If you would by chance have a kiddie wagon that we could pull the item to hand out in the parade that would help out a lot. OMAD Kick off Party went very well and everyone that attended or helped get this event Prepared THANK YOU SO MUCH. There were 2 articles in Herald Times about this event. 1) June 12 (By Bethany Nolan) “ Military groups hosting fundraiser at the armory Thursday night” 2) June 23 (By Larry Catt) “ Help honor our military and their families” Both were very good articles, if you would like a copy email Jenny and see will get you the articles, or you can go online and read them at www.heraldtimesonline. Monroe Co Fair is July 21-29 we would like to put a booth together for this. It was suggested that maybe Peggy Welch would let us have a spot of her table. Mickey will be sending an email to Peggy Welsh to see if this would be possible. Patty is waiting on a call back from the fair office to see if there are any booth area’s available as a back up. Flyers will be made up by Amanda and Patty will pass them out at the gate during the fair. Karen is working up the schedule for people to be at the booth during the fair. If you would like to help out with this or know of anyone that would like to give Karen a call and she can set you up with a time that works for you. Karen’s # is 360-3654. Other ideas that were brought up are: Would we be interested in having a booth at the National Night Out? This is an event that AMVETS is a part of, but I’m not sure if any of the other Veterans groups are or not. This event is in Aug so we will have more information on this in July’s meeting. AMVETS has a new motorcycle group started now and Mickey will see if they would like to participate in OMAD. We will have flyers made up to put around town focusing on several things: Sponsorship, recruiting service members to honor and volunteers for positions. Patty offered to post them, and Amanda will be making them up.   Operations - Stephanie has put a time line together that would keep us on track of what month we need to have things done by. There will be an attachment of this guideline in this email. So look it over and make sure that you have your part under control on or by the time it needs to be done so that we can keep on schedule. On the guideline you will see information in red this is how should be working on that task and/or that the task is done. There will be more things added as we go. In the meeting it was announced that the FRG members will not be able to organize OMAD next year. We have 300 soldiers going to IRAQ next year and they will be so overwhelmed with taking care of families that they cannot take on more. They are all very willing to help out any way they can and will be there the day of OMAD. The hope they have is that one of the Veterans groups will step up and keep OMAD going. So these guidelines will be set for whoever takes OMAD to follow along and help them out. If there are things that are not on the guidelines sheet that need included, please let Stephanie know and she will add them in their appropriate month.   Warriors Walk - Need Director = We have a lady that has contacted Jenny to volunteer to help with something which she maybe able to help get the signs together that we carry in the walk, but she wasn’t at last years event and would need some guidance. So we have a helper, we just need the point person. Treasurer - Account Balance is $892.61, Paid out $96.62 for parade & copies.  Earnings from OMAD Kick off Party $200.00.   Sponsorship - Nancy was absent, but if you need sponsorship forms you can contact her at nhafer@ciswired.com or contact Jenny for a phone number for Nancy. Jenny has checked on last year's records to see how much money was brought in for OMAD it was around $5,000, that means we need to double that goal this year.  WE NEED TO COLLECT $10,000 this year OR MORE.   Philanthropic Director - Terri Languell was Absent.   On the agenda Jenny has - ways to get the word out:   Now that we have Amanda as the Publicity person Terri needs to contact Amanda at acurl@ciswired.com or 812-585-7930. Silent Auction items that Mickey is working on are Fourwinds, Fairfield Inn, French Lick and more. We are looking for big items this year since we have Jimmy Dean auctioning them off. This will hopefully bring in more money than last year. Mickey will be sending her list to Karen so they can coordinate all the places they have solicited. If you know of a place that might donate please contact Mickey Hammer. Vice Coordinator - Karen Gummer The flyover has been canceled from the schedule of events. IN, IL and OH can’t do it. Patty will talk to MSG Blubaugh to see if he can arrange a hummer and the climbing wall to be at OMAD this year. Maria will talk with the recruiters that she has contact with to see if they can offer any thing to OMAD.      Vonnie is working on getting the Honor Guard and Flag Folding contacts so we can get them scheduled to be at OMAD. Meeting Schedule July 21 9:30am American Legion August 13 6:00pm American Legion September 8 9:30am American Legion We hope with the early morning meetings we can get everyone back on schedule to be able to come to the meetings. We still need your help. A special Thanks goes out to American Legion for always making room for us to have the OMAD meetings. THANK YOU STEPH FOR FILLING IN ON NOTE TAKING, WE WILL BE GLAD TO HAVE BETH BACK!

OMAD Meeting Agenda   April 28, 2007 -- 9:30am-11:30am -- American Legion     1. Welcome and Introductions     New Faces; Maria Hilycord, Terri Languell   2. Attendance and Contact Information Sheet – In Secretary’s Absence Karen Gummer will handle attendance sheet was sent out there were a total of 10 attending. (including the 2 new comers)   3. Flow Chart of Positions – Still Filling Positions                               Still Working on Job Descriptions                               Karen Gummer – Biography is Needed 4. Reports         OMAD Chairperson - Jenny Tracy -Monroe County Brick-Weaver/Davis (Patty) absents until next meeting. -Vendors with booth  Maria will get a list of the vendors that were at the Bloomington business expo. -Float at 4th July Parade? Group thought it would help get the word out about OMAD. Sid Martin will get the Parade rules to Jenny T -OMAD Kickoff Event (Committee: Sherry, Shayna, Kara, Zach, Mike, Maria, Jennifer, Patty, Nancy, Janice and JF)  JUNE 14th 6pm Bloomington Armory       Who is going to lead the project? Nancy Hafer      Timeline? 6:00 to 8:00 pm      Goal? To get the community to knew about OMAD      Who are we inviting? Newspaper ad, Veterans Groups, local business groups, ect.. There will be a a presentation at 7:00pm. Jenny will contact Peggy Welsh, Franice Hill and Military people To speack.      Committee Meeting? AT the nest OMAD meeting (May) we will be getting all the final details lined out for this event.      Armory open at 6pm for us (CAP ok with this and doing an open house in conjunction (6:45pm))   Operations – Stephanie Ayers         -Schedule of Events We may have to move things around some but as of now this is where we are with the schedule. 1:30 pm Warrior Walk Registration, Announcements 2:00 pm Warrior Walk 2:30 Fly Over; Carnival starts 2:45 Flag Retirement 3:30 Brass Band 4:00 Ceremonies start, Carnival ends 5:00 Auctioner will start Auction (in search of big items to Auction) 5:30 Closing Ceremonies 6:00 Monroe Co Fairgrounds Memorial Ceremony         -Bylaws Being Drawn Up   Treasurer – Michelle Combs  If you receive any donation you can have the check Made out to OMAD Bloomington.            -Account Balance  I will send this info in another email.     -Money Allocation - checked with American Legion Accountant -Website Donation Pot process Marie Hilycord will make us up a letter head Veterans Affairs – Jim May  Absent (tabled till next meeting)        -Flag Retirement Event Time         -Better Way to Honor Veterans?   WebSite – Sid Martin         -Donate money for work Karen Gummer has a picnic basket that the American Legion is going to raffle off so we can give Sid some money for all his hours he has put into the WEB Site. He has done a lot for us and we all feel we need to show our appreciation.   VIP Liaison – Janice Vermillion (ABSENT tabled till next time)        TO DO FOR JANICE                 Contact Mayor to set up appointment to discuss event, invite him to speak, lock in event on the city schedule, ask him to influence other politicians to attend.  Also ask if one of his admins would like to attend the meetings.  Ask if a new proclamation needs done.                   Contact Governor to set up appointment to discuss event, invite him to speak, lock in event on the state schedule, ask him to influence other politicians to attend.  Also ask if one of his admins would like to attend the meetings.  Ask for a proclamation.   Ceremony Director – Mike Pipher (Absent tabled till next meeting)                 -Speakers??                 -Emcee Pam Thrash – confirmed                 -Vision of Ceremony   Salute Directors –Sherry Gummer and Vonnie Shepherd -Invitees (who and when?) HHSB,Monroe and surrounding areas. -Orders in hand –Blue Star Quilifying for Blue Star you have a family member on Active Duty with Orders. -Gifts to present? Last year we gave out lapel pins, We are still thinking of ideas to pass out this year. Any ideas?                 Philanthropic Director – Terri Languell -Connection to Roudebush Terri and her sister are patients there -Fisher House Plan Indiana does not meet requirements for a Fisher House. -Ideas for focus of money There is a program that we can help Wounded Warrior Project which is a program at Roudebush. This program helps Wounded Vets that are coming home with food, bills ect.. OMAD would Like to support this project. We would like a presentation from This group at OMAD so the community will know where the money Is going, and hopefully they will be able to come to the kick off Party.   Publicity Director – Sherry Gummer         -Press Releases so far         -Press Kit   Sponsorship Director – Nancy Hafer         -Kit Together sponsorship form/walk-a-thon.         Karen will send last years kit to Nancy         -Ideas – 3) different donation levels: Low donation get on the flyer, med donation gets flyer and T-shirt, larger donation still think of.   Volunteer Director – Shayna Tuley -2 Kinds (1- helper/2- publicity pushers) All ready has 10 Volunteers, and South may Volunteer. -Local Groups Invovled? IVTech, IU   Essay Writing Contest Coordinator – JF Burton         -Ideas  Absent table till next meeting.   Coloring Contest Coordinator – Maria Hilycord         -Ideas J.J. needs to contact Marie Hilycord of what was done last year for this contest.   Military Liaison – Zach Baker  (Absent- tabled till next Meeting)         -Ideas to get military involved   Vice Coordinator – Karen Gummer         Special Acts                -Flyover in works –IN can’t, trying IL – still working on different State till we run out of States.                -Weather Mobile – not able to get!                -Healing Journey’s Fallen Soldier Horse - confirmed                -USA Cares Singer (Amy McCabe) – confirmed? Still not committed for sure.                       -Brass Band availability - confirmed                -Red Cross serves coffee/drinks – confirmed (for outside events)                -Jelly Bean the Clown- confirmed? Sherry Gummer will call Larry Cooper to see if he can come and be in Carvinal, Jelly Bean will be in with the Vendors                       -MSG Blubaugh to get Hummer and Army climbing wall-Patty                       -Veterans Honor Guard and Flag Folding – Vonnie Sherry                         Gummer is working on this.                -Anyone else??         Attestment Letter – Allergy & Asthma (in hand yet?) Did not have yet, but will have by next meeting.         Scouts Participation (Get with Shyana to give her information)   Warriors Walk – Christy Shirley –Absent (Tabled to Next Meeting)         Pre-registration form is done on website TO DO FOR CHRISTY Group registration- draw up a plan to get groups involved         Contact last year’s participants (Christy typing list)         5. Meeting Schedule             May 12 at 1:30pm American Legion       June 23 at 1:30pm American Legion       July 21 at 1:30pm American Legion

OMAD Meeting Agenda March 24, 2007 -- 9:30am-11:00am -- American Legion     1. Welcome and Introductions     2. Attendance and Contact Information Sheet –Secretary (Beth Crain)         (Make sure your contact information is up to date on contact sheet,          if it is not give up dated information to Beth)     3. Flow Chart of Positions – Confirm and Fill Positions           (We still need 3 more Coordinators)           Job Descriptions (Jenny is working on finishing)          Biographies Needed (Group voted to have only Coordinators do this)   4. Reports       OMAD Chairperson - Jenny Tracy          Honorary Chairperson Selected and Accepted - Peggy Welch          Publicity Person Needs Selected by no later than April 1         (Sherry Gummer volunteered to do PR and the group accepted her offer)         (Possibly have Chris Crabtree and/or Capt. Tombelson assist Sherry)         Monroe County Brick In Honor of Veterans Posted at Fair Grounds –Tim Weaver (Patty)         (Waiting on Reply)         -Things that need focused on:         -Philanthropic Cause Needs Selected         -IN National Guard Relief Fund - giving Indiana Soldiers and their families a helping hand.         The group decided to ask Erin to come and have a booth at the event.         -Fisher House - Support families whose loved ones are being treated at military and VA hospitals.         -Operation Purple - National Military Family Association (NMFA) volunteer provides         educational camps for military children.         -The Freedom Alliance - Organizes donations and contributions for our service members,         and also awards scholarships.         Roudebush VA Hospital was discussed as another option. The group voted to give donations to         Roudebush to set up Fisher House in Indiana Mike will ask Roudebush staff to come to next         meeting to discuss this possibility and answer any questions the group might have.         -Speakers Needed (Mike Pipher) (We need a Key Note Speaker!)         Becky Skillman Commitment- Kara (No Response)   Other suggestions for speakers:         Barron Hill (Confirmed)         Peggy Welch         -VIPS Needed Invited to Put on Calendar (Mike and Janice) From:          American Legion          VFW          Am Vets          Guard          Etc…          -Press Release of Event and prepare media kits (Sherry Gummer volunteered to do PR          and the group accepted her offer)          -Volunteer Correspondence Project (Shayna, Kara, Therron, Mike, Layla, Jennifer and Kay)          (Add Sherry Gummer)          Seek military participation (units in 60 mile radius)          Seek school participation          Seek firefighter, EMT, police participation          Have Chamber of Commerce, military and community meet together at event          (MAY- Armed Forces Day ish)          It was decided to have an OMAD ‘kick off” party to be held at the Bloomington Armory          on June 14th at 6pm.     Operations – Stephanie Ayers         -Schedule of Events 2006 (2:00-6:00)            2:00 Warriors Walk            2:30 Carnival Begins            2:30 Fly By/Over            2:30 Flag Retirement Begins            3:30 Flag Retirement Ends            3:30 21 Gun Salute            4:00 Ceremony            5:30 Carnival Ends     Vice Coordinator – Karen Gummer           Special Acts           -National Guard NASCAR (Will be coming but not sure if just car or car and driver)           -Flyover in works (Set to go)           -Weather Mobile (In the works)           Additionally Jelly Bean The Clown as a second clown may as a strolling clown.           Also Boston’s USA Care’s Amy McCabe           Attestment Letter – Allergy & Asthma           Scouts Participation           Healing Journey’s Fallen Soldier Horse (Set to go)   Other Possibilities:          Wonder Lab          Friday Zone          Shaw Images-- Photographer     Miscellaneous -Brass Band availability – Patty (Set to go) -Red Cross serve coffee/drinks –Patty (Set to go) -Monroe Co Fair Queen –Patty (No Response awaiting crowning of 2007 fair queen) -Availability of: Auditorium, 4 H & Community Building –Patty (Set to go) -MSG Blubaugh to get Hummer and Army climbing wall –Patty (No Response) -Veterans Honor Guard and Flag Folding – Vonnie (Stephanie will check with Vonnie)   Treasurer – Michelle Combs        -Account Balance (No change from last month)        -Money Allocation of Earnings for local guard unit, philanthropic and stay back money   Website – Sid Martin        -Costs of Work (Time consuming, Sid charges his other customers’ $60/hr.        It costs him $250/yr just to have the web sight this does not include putting any information on the sight)        -Ideas (Event Schedule, Sponsors, Bio’s of Top 6 Coordinators)        -Donations (No donations to date)        Additionally any information that is to go on the web page should not be done in word, corell, etc.        It should only be done in Note Book/Note Pad!        Currently we have 54 pictures, 66 links, 22 logos, and 158 processes on the sight.        Warriors Walk – Christy Shirley (Tabled to next meeting)        Pre-registration? (Tabled to next meeting)        Group registration? (Tabled to next meeting)        Walk free? Charge? (Tabled to next meeting)        Pledge System? (Tabled to next meeting)        Showing Participation for involvement last year? (Tabled to next meeting)        Contact last year’s participants (Kara) (Tabled to next meeting)   5. Meeting Schedule         April 28, 2007 at 9:30 am. This meeting will be held at The American Legion in the blue room.        May 12, 2007 at 1:00 pm. This meeting will be held at The American Legion in the blue room.       June 23, 2007 at 9:30 am. This meeting will be held at The American Legion in the blue room.        Additionally the group discussed weather or not to ask for a proclamation from the Governor    and it was decided that we should by a unanimous vote.

OMAD Meeting February 10, 2007 * * American Legion   Welcome and Introductions   Attendance and Contact Information Sheet filled out and updated   Discussed positions needed and who to fill them: (tentative list) OMAD Coordinator – Jenny Tracy          Vice Coordinator – Karen Gummer          Operations – Stephanie Ayers          Secretary – Beth Crain          Treasurer – Michelle Combs