[Choir] past, present, and future

[Donia Prince]

Re: Montpelier businesses----I just talked with a woman who now works for
us who used to work for the city, and who called the head of Montpelier
Alive to see if they might be able to be such a clearing house for
donations/gift certificates.  The logistics of them doing it would be too
much for them.  However, sounds like there are many businesses, ours
included, who are actively trying to figure out how to allow people to buy
gift cards online.   Stay tuned--I would say by next week many Montpelier
businesses and organizations will have the capacity to do that online.
Thanks for the thought!
Sad news--Sarducci's just closed (temporarily).  45 employees and one of
Montpelier's mainstays.
Donia

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 1:49 PM Lani Seifert via Choir <
choir at unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org> wrote:

> 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
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