Greetings to our members and other
interested parties!!! 
With this issue of our newsletter, The Singing Wire, we are
using email for the first time in an effort
to reach more people and to cut our
printing and mailing costs. If you are a
Foundation member and received this
by mail, we don't have an email address
for you, so please provide us with it, if
you have one. You can do that by
emailing this blog.
Otherwise, we will continue to send you
mailed copies.
You can send comments to us at the
this blog s as well, and we will
address them, including those of you
who do not want to receive our email.
Our web site is woefully out of date, due
in large part to costs and the nonavailability
of service by providers in our
location. We are working on it.
If you've read the article on the Nov 28th post,
you will appreciate the delays we are
experiencing in helping to put a
streetcar system into operation. It is
frustrating to us and is hurting us
financially, as many of our members are
dropping out, not seeing much progress.
In addition, some of our most reliable
long-term volunteers are moving on to
other endeavors or have developed
health problems, leaving us with some
big holes in the management and
operation of our organization.
WE NEED TO INCREASE OUR
MEMBERSHIP AND WE NEED
VOLUNTEERS IN CRITICAL AREAS!!!
Our most urgent need is to find a Chief
Executive Officer, with experience in
fund-raising and membership
development. We are open to making
this a paid position.
The volunteer positions we are seeking
in addition include a web master (when
we can bring the management of the
website to the facility), librarian
(maintaining our library and filing
system), staff supervisor assistant (directing
various maintenance and restoration tasks -
tour guides, streetcar
restoration assistant - (will be trained in
operators,material and techniques for restoring historic
wooden cars and more modern steel cars),
advertising/public relations specialist, event
planner and grants researcher, and
membership chairman (to work with our
current one in an outreach capacity). Please
email this blog, if you have an interest.
Lastly, if you already a member of our
Foundation, please talk to a friend about a
membership. If you're not a member, please
consider joining our Foundation. The
application form is included in this newsletter.
Best wishes from all of us to you for a happy
holiday season and a prosperous 2011.
Dave Lippincott
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