[Choir] past, present, and future

[Lani Seifert]

Re: the gift certificates.
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.

Lani

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 1:41 PM Nan Prince via Choir <
choir at unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org> wrote:

> 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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