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KIRKLAND HERITAGE SOCIETY MINUTES

Date: November 30, 2005

PRESENT: Robert Burke, Alan Stein, David Cantrill, Lynette Friberg, Nancy Stephens, Vic Newhard, Don Dicks, Merrily Dicks, Shannon Harris, Barbara Loomis, Dale Hawkinson, Loita Hawkinson.

BUSINESS ITEMS:

1. One of our five year plan ideas was to have the years operation expenses on account each January. We will start January 1, 2006 with the annual operation fund.

2. We will still need to sell pavers to add to our cash reserve.

3. Utilities, phone and insurance are our main expenses.

4. We have over $6000.00 in reserve for building repair.

5. We are in the building but we are not yet organized. We want our space open on a regular basis.

6. We would like to double our membership and have more members attend our meetings. Parking is an issue.

7. We would like to be on the City website.

8. We would like a tour of homes in the historic area.

9. We would like to have an annual Heritage Day.

10. We would like to be in the “What’s Happening” section of the paper each month.

11. December 10^th is our annual cookie exchange

12. Lynette will contact new businesses each month with a letter and paver form.

Submitted by Loita Hawkinson, Secretary

KIRKLAND HERITAGE SOCIETY MINUTES

Date: October 26^th, 2005

PRESENT: Robert Burke, Vic Newhard, Barbara Loomis, Nancy Stephens, David Cantrill, Lynette Friberg, Tom Hitzroth, Dale Hawkinson, Loita Hawkinson.

BUSINESS ITEMS:

1. David would like to make the centennial display panels permanent. Bob recommended we wait because people have added information and there have been corrections.

2. We will not have a general meeting in November because of Thanksgiving. We will have a longer board meeting on the meeting date...November 30^th at 6:00. We will discuss our 5 year plan. Tom suggested having an annual meeting calendar. David would like to have a longer board meeting every 3 months.

3. The King County Sustained Grant application is due and submitted. This grant gives us $3,000 support per year. We approved submitting the grant application. We will have to put their new King County Logo on our web site. \

4. Park Place Book is having a book signing of Bob Neir’s book on December 2. David suggested that Kirkland Performing Arts might help sell the books. We have about 500 left.

5. Nancy gave a treasurer’s report. KHS needs to submit an invoice to the Centennial Committee.

6. We need to do a two year financial compilation because of the Centennial and because Nancy is leaving her position as KHS treasurer. We approved having Bob hire the same company that has provided the service in the past. The Centennial Committee will pay half. This compilation needs to be done for any future grant applications. Was approved by board.

7. LIVE IN KIRKLAND website now has about 50 Kirkland photos. They wanted Christmas photos but we don’t have many in our archive or collection.

8. Lynette has removed all non paying members from the mailing list.

9. Membership dues will remain the same for next year.

10. City of Kirkland has paid $10,000 to have an architect look at the Cannery. We will be following that. The Cannery was a WPA project for the depression.

11. Dale and Loita will co-chair the oral history program.

Submitted by Loita Hawkinson, Secretary

KIRKLAND HERITAGE SOCIETY MINUTES

Date: September 31, 2005

PRESENT: Robert Burke, Vic Newhard, Barbara Loomis, Alan Stein, Nancy Stephens, David Cantrill, Lynette Friberg, Dale Hawkinson, Loita Hawkinson.

BUSINESS ITEMS:

1. Nancy will be moving and will have to resign as KHS Treasurer. Tom Hitzroth has indicated that he would be interested in taking over the position. Tom has experience as treasurer for other non profits. KHS Bylaws allow the board to appoint office and board positions when there is a vacancy. Lynette Friberg will then fill out the board in an at large position.

2. Kirk Family Reunion was very well received and KHS has received many thank you notes from the Kirk families.

3. The City did a video with Kirk history and interviews. KHS will be getting the edited and unedited video for our archives and use.

4. Alan moved that we appoint Tom Hitzroth as Treasurer once Nancy steps down. David seconded the motion. Was approved. And yes, this was done later in the meeting after more thought and discussion.

5. Bob and Dale were at the Norkirk picnic and sold 4 Kirkland books and 2 poem books.

6. We will sell Screen Savers of the move of the KJH arch. Dale and Loita took many photos of the move and Dale made a Screen Saver. They will sell for a $5.00 donation. The arch was moved from the north end of the park to the south end.

7. KHS will again receive a grant from the City in the amount of $3,000. Robert Burke is authorized to sign for it.

8. The end of the Centennial Celebration is October 12, 2005. This is a Wednesday and also the last Wednesday Market for the year. Officials and Sponsors will be recognized at the Performance Center. There will be a stage at the Lee Johnson Field and at 6:30 or after the Market closes, there will be live performances. The Marilyns will sing Happy Birthday to Kirkland. Fireworks are planned. There will be a tent set up at the Teen Center where all attending can have Cake and receive a CD of the Moments of History. KHS will have the Kirk display up at the Senior Center.

9. The Shumway is being sold and it is planned to have the property subdivided for 8 to 10 units. The Shumway Mansion will be a private residence.

10. Michael Cogle, Kirkland Parks Manager, will be at our next meeting to talk about the Centennial Gardens. The WPA path has been located and cleaned up.

11. Tonight is our annual Blackberry Ice Cream Social.

Submitted by Loita Hawkinson, Secretary

KIRKLAND HERITAGE SOCIETY MINUTES

Date: June 27, 2005

PRESENT: Robert Burke, Vic Newhard, Alan Stein, Nancy Stephens, David Cantrill, Lynette Friberg, Tom Hitzroth, Dale Hawkinson, Loita Hawkinson.

BUSINESS ITEMS:

1. For the 4^th of July parade, we will have a table in front of Heritage Hall and promote Bob Neir’s book.

2. There will be 5 vintage cars available for the parade. Kirk and founding families will be in the parade and riding in these cars. (It turned out that we had 7 cars in the parade so Barbara and Robert road with Frank Rosen).

3. The Centennial Committee will be taking pictures and have asked for a back drop...possibly some of our historic photos. (They actually did a Juanita beach scene with 3 holes for faces....like the old time novelty photos).

4. Bob will try to do a July/August Blackberry Preserves.

5. At this time 19 or 20 Kirk family will be at the Kirk reunion August 12, 13, 14. The Heritage Hall has been reserved and the displays will be back up for the event. The City of Kirkland will give the Kirk family a bus tour of the historic sites. We will try to do some Kirk oral histories and get a good group photo. The reception will be at the Peter Kirk building with dinner at the Crab Cracker. This dinner is planned for the Kirks, our board members and committee chairs. On Sunday, we hope people will come back for more photos and history gathering.

6. We will place a $15.00 bid for a Flame Restaurant menu that is for sale on eBay. Loita will place the bid this evening. (We purchased the menu for $2.75 plus shipping/handling for a total of $6.50).

7. Our meeting was held at the Kirkland Cemetery. Alan Stein is to give a historic tour that covers the early Kirkland settlers and Kirkland events.

Submitted by Loita Hawkinson, Secretary

KIRKLAND HERITAGE SOCIETY MINUTES

Date: April 27, 2005

PRESENT: Vic Newhard, Robert Burke, Alan Stein, David Cantrill, Lynette Friberg, Nancy Stephens, Dale Hawkinson, Loita Hawkinson.

BUSINESS ITEMS:

1. Bob Neir’s book will be delivered tomorrow, April 28^th, 2005. We will need help putting them away.

2. Bob Neir will do a book signing at Park Place Books on May 6^th, 2005, from 7-9 p.m. And then again at the Kirkland Library on May 14^th, 2005.

3. We agreed to provide up to $250.00 for refreshments at the Park Place Books signing on May 6. Bob Burke moved and the amount was approved.

4. The Kirkland Centennial calendars are now 70% off.

5. Lynette, our new Membership Chair, has made many phone calls and people are confused about the mid year dues. We agreed that we need to change the membership year to make it from January to December. We will give new members the option to pay ½ year or 1 ½ year until we are all caught up. We had originally thought the mid year dues would be easier for people. But since that time we have received our non profit status and now people can take their membership as a tax deduction. There was also talk about people then giving a membership as a gift for the holidays.

6. We are donating two framed photos to the Kirkland Chamber auction. David has several photos he thinks would be nice for the auction once we have two frames and mats.

7. The next City Hall display will be on the Ship Yards.

8. Heritage Hall will be open the end of August 2005 to the first of September 2005 for a total of three weeks. We may have the exhibit up.

9. The Seattle Times will have an August 2005 pullout section on the Kirkland Centennial.

10. We are going to pay Matt McCauley for three months of Blackberry Preserves. Matt had paid for these three issues in 2003 with his personal credit card not realizing that Kirkland Heritage has an account at Kinkos. We needed receipts to make payment to Matt. Matt no longer had the receipts once he realized there was a problem with the payment. It has been well over a year now and we still owe Matt for those three months. We resolved the issue by having Kinkos give us a figure that would be the total for the three issues. We have copies of these issues so we know the number of pages and we have the mailing list. The board agreed to pay Matt that amount, hoping it covers all his Blackberry Preserve expenses. Nancy will pay Matt as soon as she has the exact figure.

Submitted by Loita Hawkinson, Secretary

KIRKLAND HERITAGE SOCIETY MINUTES

Date: March 30, 2005

PRESENT: Vic Newhard, Robert Burke, Barbara Loomis, Alan Stein, David Cantrill, Lynette Friberg, Tom Hitzroth, Dale Hawkinson, Loita Hawkinson.

BUSINESS ITEMS:

1. It has come to our attention that we have not paid our ACHO Dues. Dues are $35.00 a year and we approved their payment.

2. Registration for the Kirkland Centennial 100 Weddings will in the Resource Center. We will have enough KHS members on hand to be sure our area is secure and to be sure everyone feels welcome and is comfortable.

3. April 8, 2005 is the deadline for new park names for the Waverly Site and for the Houghton Site.

4. Barbara Loomis has agreed to chair the nominating committee. David agreed to help. Vic, Loita and Shannon’s terms are ending.

5. Lynette, our new Membership Chair, gave a report. She attended the Redmond Historical Society Meeting. They have a larger attendance and she is trying to learn the reasons why. They do have Saturday meetings for members and an evening board meeting. Kenmore has evening meetings. They both use name tags at all meetings and attendance is noted in their newsletter. Bob Burke suggested a phone tree to remind people to attend our meetings. Sue Carter’s name came up as a possible person to start a phone tree. Sue knows everyone and is good with people.

6. We had over 500 visitors at the February exhibit at Heritage Hall.

7. Greene Funeral Home has been on the market for sometime and the potential buyer is committed to keep the building and grounds historic.

8. Shumway has asked that the historic overlay apply to the Shumway Mansion only. This issue will be brought before the council soon.

9. There are plans for a Kirk Family Reunion in August. Lisa Capron will help. Chuck Morgan will help. August 12, 2005 has been reserved for the HH. It was suggested that we put the exhibit back for the occasion.

10. Bob Neir, former mayor of Kirkland from 1974-79, has completed the book, the printing is done and it is at the binder now. It is hoped the book will be done by April 10,2005. We will then plna a book signing at Park Place Books, once we have the books in hand.

11. The Kirkland Library has invited Bob Neir to talk May 14, 2005 at 1:00 p.m.

Submitted by Loita Hawkinson, Secretary

KIRKLAND HERITAGE SOCIETY MINUTES

Date: January 27, 2005

PRESENT: Vic Newhard, Alan Stein, David Cantrill, Lynette Friberg, Nancy Stephens, Shannon Harris, Tom Hitzroth, Dale Hawkinson, Loita Hawkinson.

BUSINESS ITEMS:

1. Bob Neir is writing a book about Kirkland’s political history. Bob Neir plans on giving some proceeds of the book to KHS. We will run our commitment by an attorney. We are not clear about whether Bob Neir is planning on recovering all his expenses before KHS will receive proceeds.

2. David has the first exhibit up at Kirkland City Hall celebrating the Kirkland Centennial.

3. We approved to have census records printed at Costco. Kirkland census records are available on line. (We never did do this. We printed them on our home computer.

4. Nancy says she will schedule a meeting for Oral History

5.. Was a short meeting.

Submitted by Loita Hawkinson, Secretary