Attendees: Erika, Mary, Kate, Mina
DogFest
Publicity
- Shoreline Currents Summer 2012 published with DogFest info.
- Mary working with Sonya & City Parks Dept to get signs designed and printed (and some laminated) by the 20th.
- Kate & Mary postering on the west side on July 21/22.
- Erika will poster at the parks.
- Maggie, Mina, Ben & Dawn live on east side. Mary will provide list of places... Still need to coordinate.
- Big banner at Shoreview to alert patrons to change in venue
- Need more sandwich sign boards- can we borrow or make more? Ask Maggie.
- Kate will update website and send email (announce event, and solicit for volunteers). One email today, one email one week in advance.
Site Layout
- Site map: Two baseball fields fenced in.
- Driveway bollards moved temporarily to allow vendor setup & tear down. Need a volunteer to monitor.
- Evaluation of parking adjacent to event- will leave closest spaces available to event attendees.
- Vendors and staff should park in faraway lot.
- Parks should arrange the overflow parking.
- Will arrange vendor layout beforehand. Will ask Parks what they use to delineate stalls. Arrange along outside arc.
- ShoreDog & food booths outside fenced area- monitor entrance & count attendees.
- Another ShoreDog booth inside will have money and game signup
- Aussie PetMobile will be allowed to drive in and park on the grass. Mary will check with Dick.
Day-of supplies
- Parks to order garbage cans, poop bags.
- Parks will drop off tents for ShoreDog.
- PA system reserved. Remind them to charge ahead of time.
- Kate will get tripod whiteboard. Erika will get office whiteboard.
- Fencing for ShoreDog games... should we buy some like the stuff like FlyDogs have?
- T-shirts: can Rotary sell them for us?
- Rotary to acquire kiddie pool for dogs to splash in. Can be printed with logo and raffled off afterwards.
Food
- Mina & Bruce donating food & food handling essentials. Kate to write acknowledgement letter for taxes.
- Erika will bring grill.
- Erika will give Kate two coolers, and Kate will pick up ice. Donations
- Mary asking for vendor gift donations.
- Rotary: bandanas with ShoreDog logo for dogs participating in games
Volunteer tasks
- Adequate water- need volunteer to monitor & refill
- Monitor vendor access through bollards
- Announcer/MC
- ShoreDog booth up front
- ShoreDog booth inside
- Kate: photos, donations paperwork & tax receipts, misc
- Erika: solver of miscellaneous issues
Getting additional volunteers
- Mina will ask her friend at KPLU about announcer
- Erika will ask her sister for teenagers who need volunteer hours
- Kate to ask Robyn & Neil, among other DP friends
- Kate will ask DP friends
Games
- Pie-eating contest (Dorothy)
- Doggie dash
- Lookalike
- Prettiest eyes
- Fashion show (Dee Marie)
- Shedding
- Best trick
Vendors
- SplashDog
- Mud bay
- Trainer: Joyce's Dogs. Erika will talk to her about topics of training.
- Fly dogs
- Carter Subaru might support
- Can rotary raffle stuff on our behalf?
Non-DogFest
- Update on progress of east-side park.
- MLT Dog gets Arbor Barber to dump chips outside the fenced off-leash area. No entrance to park is required. Kate will contact. Need to identify an appropriate area...perhaps behind the newly installed gate?
- Ideas for storage shed at Shoreview... MLTDog as example. Was an Eagle Scout project.
- MTL Dog: Volunteers sign up with City and are given code-access to the shed. They can do volunteer work (poop pickup, bag refills) as needed and fill out volunteer hours for City tracking.
