[Choir] past, present, and future

[Nan Prince]

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.

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.

    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.

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?

Thanks for reading.
Nan


On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 11:26 AM Richard Riley via Choir <
choir at unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> 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!)
>
> 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.
>
> I thank you for your voices - both for your beautiful singing voices and
> for those voices that express love and care for others.
>
> 'Til we meet again,
> Dick
> Unitarian Church of Montpelier
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>
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