<div><div dir="auto">Sorry- just thought of this too,.</div></div><div dir="auto">Front Porch forum is a good place to get the word out about a good idea- which the gift certificate idea is a good one.</div><div dir="auto">If someone should write a post for FPF and then share it with the rest of us, we could all post it to our local FPF.</div><div dir="auto">Also, letters to the editors of various publications can be done either online or via snail mail.</div><div dir="auto">Lani</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 1:49 PM Lani Seifert <<a href="mailto:lani.seifert@gmail.com">lani.seifert@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">Re: the gift certificates.</div></div><div dir="auto">Many if not most businesses have a web site. They will often have a link on their website for purchasing gift certificates, or at the least they would have a “contact us” link where you could let them know your intentions.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Lani</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 1:41 PM Nan Prince via Choir <<a href="mailto:choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org" target="_blank">choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I also will miss both the music and all of you people and hope this (so-far)semi-quarantine doesn't last too long. I am also concerned about the long-term effects on the Montpelier community.<div><br><div>But in the choir on Sunday someone made a suggestion that sounded very good to me, which was that we could help individual businesses, restaurants, and arts organizations stay alive and pay their rent by buying gift certificates for ourselves and others which we can use when it's more comfortable to eat out, shop, and attend events -- all those things that some of us are putting off for now. I myself want to do this, but in thinking about how to go about it, I think of a few problems.</div><div><br></div><div> Not all organizations have gift certificates on hand, and do I want to go into places and mingle with possible crowds while one employee talk to others, trying to to figure out what to do with my offering and how to write out a certificate? Should I simply mail in an offering hoping that the particular restaurant or shop has not yet closed and there is someone to understand and handle the transaction I'd like to make. And I know that my participation alone will not keep anything alive.</div><div><br></div><div>It would be great if somehow this could be arranged so that business and arts organizations and also the general public knew what was happening and how to manage it. I won't volunteer myself to make it happen, as I'm always more than a little behind with various internet techniques and not very familiar with the way the town works. I might write a letter to a newspaper or an official. But who made the suggestion on Sunday? And is anything being done about it now?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for reading.</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Nan</div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 11:26 AM Richard Riley via Choir <<a href="mailto:choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org" target="_blank">choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear All,<div><br></div><div>It was a very special experience to make music with you yesterday. The vibrancy of your singing communicated something important to listeners both near and far. (My cousin Tissy listened from Connecticut!)</div><div><br></div><div>As I think most of you now know, the service yesterday will be our last time together for a while. Future services have not yet been planned. Sadly, we will not be meeting on Thursdays to rehearse. Music Sunday will not happen on April 5.</div><div><br></div><div>I thank you for your voices - both for your beautiful singing voices and for those voices that express love and care for others.</div><div><br></div><div>'Til we meet again,</div><div>Dick</div></div>
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