udit came in very clean. No management letter, which is really a super way for our control to Sonya Aldridge to go out. So very proud of the work that she's done for that. The health insurance rate increases came in that's something we were waiting for at the MMA conference 7.94% we had projected 8% so no big savings there unfortunately. But it's at least it's a piece of the puzzle in terms of where we are going financially. I mentioned that Amy was that he also received an award from the American water or Massachusetts Water Works Association. I meant to say it when she was in the room. That's a really big accomplishment that's something that one person gets every year. And it's not every year that they award it and she's shown her leadership statewide on this is has a real looked. Looked at as a water expert by other places in the state. And then I credit the crest department and the department who organized a grief circle today. And as many counselors were there so thank you for putting for being there and many members of the community safety social justice committee members of the public. And it was a very powerful time and on my way out the crest director said it's something he wanted to sort of continue that this was. It's a conversation that needs to be had by the town and this was a really nice starting point. A lot of people didn't know about it. We didn't do a very good job publish publicizing it so you may not have really noticed it. But we will be doing better looking forward. I think there were about 25 people there I'm guessing there's people in and out. But it's an important time for people just to sit and listen and share their stories. So credit to Earl basically and Pamela for thinking this up and thinking this is the right way to think to for the town to start to grapple with this tragedy. Dorothy. I have a second to your comments about the grief circle. I think we had some really great conversations today. But I just wanted to you mentioned the leisure or the recreation department production of little mermaid. I just want to say that it was an absolutely stupendous production. It was outrageously fabulous with costumes like you can't believe wonderful performances and more people flying through the air that I've seen on Broadway. And it was, you know, I had some family members with me who it kind of reluctantly came and they were just blown away it was. And I love the seriousness of the masking, you walk in, you're greeted by friendly volunteers who handed you your masks, the whole audience was masked. It was wonderful. So I want to thank them all all the people that were involved for the job they did. Any questions or comments from the council. Okay, seeing none we're going to go on to, we did minutes we're going down to the count council comments. The first thing is the addendum to my president's report that is in the packet. And specifically addresses the December 8 meeting with Senator Comerford and Representative Dom and the brief discussion of PFAS and turf.  Thank you Lynn and thanks for for doing that I really, I really do appreciate it. Just sort of along the lines of the president reports going forward, I wanted to make two suggestions or something for us to think about. It would be really helpful for counselors to see the notes that you create during those meetings as best as possible. So that if something doesn't make it into a president's report because of timing maybe to have it sort of stand alone, so that we can see notes from those really important meetings. One thing I was thinking about is I counselors have expressed interest in attending meetings with our legislative delegation. And so, similar to what we do for agenda setting. I'm wondering if we could counselors could sign up to attend those monthly meetings. I think there's a particular matter that a counselor is working on and the timing would make sense. Like, for example, well Anna would be there anyway but like with the special legislation for example that was proposed tonight. So that more of us can have an opportunity to be involved in those discussions and just to make those connections with our delegation. So we're considering those. Thank you. Are there any other comments. Are we just on President report right now. Yes, Alicia. Thank you I just want to take a second to vocalize my support for what Michelle just said I think that that will be a great idea if that is possible. Okay. Are there any other comments. Alicia. Yes, sorry. I'm actually just wondering. The reason why these are making it just to us now. Why what is just make that sorry the the update from the December 8 meeting. It was only requested earlier last week. But are those things not just regularly included. I do a President's report. Okay. And then I ask if there's questions and in the case of the President's report from December there have been two things that where I have been asked to do more elaboration on them. The first I did back in January and this one I did just now because it was just requested now. They don't get included without a without a request, just because they happened. I sometimes on the President's report I include things or maybe I missed something or whatever I mean it's, it's not a small task to do them. It means I go through my entire calendar. I try to include everything I can. In this case, I'm more than glad to speak more to this particular issue, but I, unless there's questions. Yes, I include them in the President's report and if it's not clear enough, or you feel I've missed something then people have asked for further clarification. And then I provide that. And that's why this one is still back on December. I think that's helpful. And I think maybe I would appreciate some more elaboration just because it's, I'm so I do appreciate and understand that the President of the Council is a an enormous responsibility. And that you take on so much, but as a counselor in order to stay up to date as to what is happening behind the scenes of like this is all council work right like it's not just personal work. It's really important for me to understand what things are being considered when they're being presented to us like is there certain things that you think of in your head when you're making the President's report like are there certain details that you include for a certain like what is your methodology methodology behind what you compile and bring to us. And the really specific reason why I'm asking is because like I just assume that everything's being handed to me is everything that there is. And so for me personally it's not often that I would ask for something more to be included because I would not know that there is more to be included if it was not just available for me to see in the first place. So if there's things or information that's happening that's really pertaining to specific things council matters or things that we're working on on the Council. I would just wonder why that wouldn't just be included initially and so I think it would be helpful for me to just know like how you how you compile these reports. I'll be more than glad to describe that. I don't want to crazy depth just briefly. I'm sorry. I don't need like super in depth just like a brief explanation. I mean I start by going through my calendar and recording when I meet have different meetings with different people like when I meet with the town manager when I meet with the bid or the chamber. The practice in general has been with the bid and chamber meetings and with Senator Comerford and and Representative Dom is to then also provide a little more detail. Since those are meetings that are, you know, they're not like for instance we all showed up to do a proclamation reading me that a proclamation reading didn't require any more detail. I provide that detail, and then on occasion that it's happened twice so far. That's people have asked for more detail. And that's what I that's how I do it. And I will also say that we only started doing presidents reports. What about three to two and a half three years ago, I think so. It's not required any place that we do it. The, and I'm more than glad to talk about my own process anytime but I don't want to bore people with, you know, how do I go through my calendar. Thank you and I think it's just, it's very helpful. The president's report in general so I'm glad that that's something that we do even if it's not required and I hope that we continue to do that. And I do think like Michelle said that it would also be helpful to have notes so that way, you know, if you're missing things, or if you don't have enough time or whatever be the issue that we have like a brief idea. And that it's not putting any extra work on you to include those things if there's just like jocks of notes that could also be very helpful. Thank you. Yes. I think this is more a clarification maybe for the public. But in my mind, the, when, okay, in my mind, when we had these discussions. There was a lot of discussion about the state, the, the task force about Joe Cumberford's bill about David Raqau, who is one of the experts at the State Task Force and so typically I would expect that Lynn would cover the conversations in much detail about PFAS. I'm just going to talk about like this, what was not covered the PFAS and what was discussed with Joe Cumberford. However, in this case, I can see why you might then might not cover that in much detail because we were already having those conversations about. And it was me specifically who brought up. What is the proposed bill, what does it include what is not include what is the state task force. David Raqau being an expert there what has he said and what is a task force included. So, I mean, I just want to clarify for the public that it wasn't like we did not know. It was like your admission to include more details kept us in the dark. Can I, I'm, I'm actually going to go ahead and make a much further detailed statement okay. Learning that Senator Cumberford plan to refile a bill relating to PFAS was not surprising to me. But what might have surprised me was if she is dropping her interest in the idea and was not going to refile her bill. The council already was aware of her involvement in the issue. In fact, just a few days earlier. Her bill filed in the 2021 22 session was referred to in a draft resolution discussed by the council on December 5. Her artificial turf would even be affected by proposed legislation was not at all clear in an email on December 6. Senator comfort comfort suggested that we add PFAS to the agenda for the meeting on December 8. At that time, the council had already voted unanimously on December 5 to adopt the amended motion to transfer funds for the athletic fields to the school committee, leaving it up to them to decide which option to or three to pursue. The council were still working on an amended resolution at that point, because we did not vote on the resolution on the fifth. And that resolution that we adopted said the state it was resolution about the safety of the athletic complex and the need to investigate the impacts of PFAS in all consumer products. The resolution was adopted on December 12, just a few days later. So what puzzles me is why. If the resolution sponsors dropped reference to Senator comforts bill for the 2021 22 session, the spot prospect of a refiled bill would be important. Since it was removed from the revised resolution did not seem to me then or now that Senator comforts ongoing interest in PFAS was notable. As we wrapped up our work on the resolution, we had already voted either option two or three. I will also say in doing a lot of research this weekend about how many bills are filed in the legislature, how many of them relate to PFAS how many relate to artificial turf, how many sender come referred has sponsored or cosponsored. How many send how many representative Dom has sponsored or cosponsored. What I also learned is the center com referred actually is a cosponsor of an omnibus bill on PFAS. And it's that omnibus bill that is now encompassing many of the individual bills 26 in number from last year that mentioned PFAS. So the ongoing debate, PFAS in the house and the Senate has increased. In fact, it's a great case study of how you take one issue. And it slowly starts rising in importance to the point that there's a study commission. And now there is an omnibus bill building on that study commission. That's all I have to say. Andy. First of all, Michelle or Dorothy have anything to pursue on the PFAS issue I would suggest letting them go before then coming back to me, Michelle. I wasn't planning to rehash this I've already spoken with you about it Lynn, but I do feel because Shawlini just brought this up and you made a statement, I would like to clarify that the discrepancy here is in the public records request that was made by a community member what came to light or some internal notes that you had taken during your meeting. In those notes, you say Joe has filed a bill to ban all PFAS products. Bill would make alternatives necessary. And so from some people's perspectives your understanding that the bill moved from only affecting consumer products to effect which is what Shawlini and Mandy and I were really talking about when we were working on the resolution to being bad enough to encompass all PFAS products and your acknowledgement that an alternative for the field may be necessary. That was really important information that didn't make it into the President's report. And while the vote had already been taken on the appropriation. I think at the time of the discussion on the resolution, it would have been really good for us to talk about that to say, Hey, there's this other bill out there and it may affect all PFAS products and we may have to go to an alternative. But sometimes I think it's easy for us to think that we all know everything, but we don't if we're not you know if we've got our lives and our kids and our work and everything else we don't always know every piece of the puzzle and so I don't think it's something that we have to be like reprimanding each other about or even just just to just to talk about like hey this piece was missed in the President's report and it could have been helpful for us to have that discussion. And it is from the public or from some of the public's point of view, particularly the notes that you do acknowledge that an alternative may be necessary and that it would ban all PFAS. But I think that is relevant information and I can see why public would feel you know concerned about not having had that information. So, thank you. Dorothy. I'm not going to talk about the President's report, because that's not what upsets me. But the discussion that we had I mean you know we can make this into you have to know this you have to know that we were basically talking about should we have PFAS and in artificial turf in fields for young people to play on. And those of us who spoke against it, who talked about the growing number of scientists who have given evidence that this was a very dangerous thing to do particularly for adolescents, terms of disrupting hormonal cycles and whatever. When we were talking about the sports people talking about injuries, we were made to feel that we were foolish, and that somehow we were standing in the way of young people having a successful sports activity. And there was body language from from people in the audience which was I would consider to be rather aggressive. And, you know, it's the issue isn't what you wrote in your notes the issue is when shall any made a statement that it was limited and it wasn't going to be whatever. She wasn't you correct other people, you correct other people say no that's not correct, even in cases where, when Jennifer was correct about saying more people were against something that were for it on a different issue, but you didn't correct shall any with information that you knew. And I have had great trust in you. And that's what I'm upset about is that I feel that the trust that I've had in you would have said that you would have said, Well, we should understand this may be a big issue statewide. And that didn't happen. So that's what I'm upset about. It's, it's not what's the President's report. It's what happened in the meeting that I'm upset about. So, thank you. And we just clarify again because Joe Comerford in the in the newspaper was cited as saying that while synthetic turf may come under a state ban if legislation is passed and signed. It's not currently addressed in proposed legislation. So my understanding is that even though it may happen in the future right now the legislation that she's proposing or is on the table does not include. And that's what I've heard from David Raqqa and the state task force which is what is informing a lot of these legislations. So to me it still feels it's not that the athletic turf field is not included in the current legislation. Andy. Yeah, the reason that I had asked to wait is because I was really not wanting to focus solely on PFAS is a single issue. And it's really may not be about PFAS at all. So I just want to make that clear that I'm not really dealing with that. But it's really, it's a different item and it's a matter of something that I want to entrust to the president, to the town manager, and to others who we put into unique leadership positions. When conversations take place with legislators and I know this because I had a lot of conversations with legislators, particularly in my days when I was director of the Western Massachusetts legal aid program. When we were talking about policy things. There were things that I knew that they were sharing with me that they did not one public that they were just venturing with their thought process might be. And there are other times when they were really stating policy, and it was very important in order to have appropriate trust. Because it's not just legislators because it was people in the administrative positions in state and federal government to that it was important to be clear about what the intent was as to whether it would be made. It was to be made public, or whether it was an attempt. Because I was in a leadership position in a national organization on legal aid to make sure that I understood what was going on. And I think that it's vital that we trust our leaders to have some discretion to recognize when there is information being shared with them. That there's an expectation that it is to help them to understand but it is not something that the person who's imparting the information wishes to be made public. And so I don't want us to set up expectations of anyone in this room who's in a leadership position that if they are, if they make that conclusion that it was not intended to be public. And it would not be good for their relationships with that individual to make it public that they shouldn't be able to do so. Michelle. Okay, now I'm really confused. I don't think that I appreciate what Andy was saying. However, I'm just not sure how it's relevant unless what you're saying Andy is that this particular information was not meant to be made public or I think that Joe was pretty clear that she wanted this information to be known. So maybe that's not what you meant, but I guess that. Let me clarify because I thought I said it was clear at the beginning. The reason I wanted to wait is because it really was not intended to be a comment about PFAS in particular that I had no basis for making a conclusion about PFAS. It's just a general observation that we need to trust our leaders to make appropriate decisions and about what is public and what is not, but it was not intended in any way to be related to the PFAS subject. Okay. Maybe this is for another discussion but I do just want to say in response to that that the leaders of our council is there to conduct the business of the council, not to have proprietary information that other counselors would not have access to. At least that's not my understanding. So when you say to trust the leaders that if they have information that's not ready to be public yet. That's not how I see what the role of the council president is. And if that is the role of the council president I would like to understand that more because it was my understanding that the role of the council president was to conduct the business of the council. Not to have proprietary information that other counselors would not have access to. And so maybe that's a separate discussion but that's very deeply concerning to me to hear that and maybe because I don't understand it all right now and I'm willing to hear more maybe it's a different agenda item at a different time. But I did want to just say to Shalini, because I do think we were grappling with the bill and, and, and when we were working on the resolution and I wanted to say that, as far as I understand it, Joe's bill would ban any artificial turf products that are soldier manufactured in the US. So unless we found an artificial turf that was PFAS free. Which we've tried to find some people have said they have found. We, that ban would prohibit those products so it's possible that we could install something that then would become illegal in the state of Massachusetts and I don't know what, but I know that the exceptions in that in the bill are very very limited. Again, the question that came before the council was whether we were going to give the regional high school money to do a track and a field. And it became a debate about PFAS. Instead of the question before the council. As much as I have wanted. I have resisted being very clear about my own position on PFAS which would probably shock all of you, because it isn't what the debate before the council is. The debate before the council was whether we're going to give money for a track and field. That was the debate. And when we came up with the amendment to say option two or three. It was to open that up and get out of saying it had to be this or it had to be that. One of the things that is troubling to me is how many times the council goes off of an issue that's not before the council. And that's where we use time that many people then complain about. So, I'm not going to make a public statement about how I really feel about PFAS, because that's not the council's business at this point. Alicia. Thank you, Lynn. So initially I was going to say a bunch of the things that Michelle already said, but really quickly, I also want to respond to that because I do understand what you're saying, Lynn, but I respectfully very strongly disagree because it's not that cut and dry and nothing we do here. No decisions we make here on the council are that cut and dry. Yes, but for a project that we essentially have to agree with the project if we're going to appropriate money for such cause. And this is this is and has been a significant portion of the project and what some people disagree with as a part of the whole project it is a part. It is a piece of a whole. I think it does not make sense for us to look at it without that one piece to the whole because it makes up the whole entire picture of the puzzle that we are all looking at together to see what works best for the people in our community. It's not just we're giving money or we're not giving money because it's the project that we're giving money to. But that was why the motion was changed essentially so that we could have there was less of a burden on the council as to which decision was being made. But the original decision was do we want to give money, appropriate money to put in to install the turf, that was the original decision. And so PFAS then became a huge part of that conversation rightfully so. I don't think it's like that cut and dry that they're that separate I think everything is really interconnected. And I think that's what makes this so very difficult. And that was not originally what I was going to say I just wanted to speak a little bit more about what Michelle said, and I just wanted to add my plug because she did say a lot of what I was already going to say. Speaking for myself personally like my experiences on this council in the last year, there has been a lot of times where I have felt excluded from information, or the knowledge necessary to know important policies or processes or make important decisions. And I felt excluded like me personally that other counselors had the information that I did not have. And that is an issue because we are one body working to make decisions together. Again, I just feel very strongly about the way that this is happening. This, this, in my opinion was very important information for us to be be able to have access to speaking for me personally because I know it was said that we did have access to this information. This is my first time working in politics, I am learning so much. This completely was over my head. I missed it. I did not know the dimensions of the bill I did not know the specifics I did not know the details it was taken out I had no reason to look into it any further. I had no reason to understand the ramifications. There was none of that for me personally. So for anyone who is going to sit up here and say the counselors knew you can exclude me from that statement. I did not know, and I would have been helpful for me to know this. And for me, this would have constituted new information. Shalini. Thanks for continuing to discuss and PFAS. I find it, and that's one of my proposals in the rules of procedures that I feel that sometimes when we do share research because I was one of the people who did a lot of research on this connecting with people in the task force. I attended it to the council that this is what the bill says, and talking about the bill again in the newspaper, Joe Comerford says the PFAS legislation has no position on turf as a concept. And she says that it may come but it's not currently addressed so I think there's still a lot of confusion right now whether it is not but my understanding is still the same. Back to the part where I talked about the Joe Comerford's bill, I talked about the task force. I talked about David Wreck how so I don't know what else I can do should I send share this information and writing maybe so that everyone feels like they heard because I feel I'm not heard, like I shared a lot and I spend a lot of time doing that research, but it's not. Clearly it wasn't heard by everyone. So that's something maybe we can discuss in the rules of procedure how to make sure that one is that the information is shared and second when it is shared that it is heard by everyone. Jennifer. Yeah, so I wasn't going to. I didn't think we need another person to wait in. And I don't think actually that it would have if the if what was it lens notes was shared I actually don't think it would have. I don't think it would have changed the vote because we but just to clarify because I think it was a December 12 you and I had a little exchange and you were clarifying for me that in Senator Comerford's bill it only spoke to PFAS and consumer products. So I think then the question became if four days before that when the President and Vice President were meeting with our state representatives and Senator Comerford said, actually I'm filing a bill that will. This is, as I understand it will include PFAS in all commercial products which would include turf would that have been a logical time to have corrected you because what you were saying is what you knew. But our President Vice President had new information from the meeting on December 8, would that have been the logical time to say that, not that it would have changed anything we'd already voted. The only information we had that was new and I frankly think I, I'm not even clear why I wrote what I wrote in those notes was that she was going to refile her bill, and that it dealt with commercial products that's it. That's all we had. And it turns out she ends up not refiling the bill because she signed on to the omnibus bill, which came out of the task force I only learned that this weekend. That's, I just wanted to clarify what yeah, the exchange was. Let me just go on and just suggest that. I have now invited because the council has asked for this, I have invited Senator Comerford and Representative dong to attend a council meeting. They have accepted. It is will be on March 6. The portion of the meeting that they will be here for will begin at 645. I would be asking counselors in advance, if there are specific issues, you would like them to address. Meantime, I have suggested that they think about the bills that they have either filed or they are aware of that would be of most interest to the town. And to the council. Okay. So, March 6. 645. That is, we would have done it earlier, but that is the earliest that the senator is available. I'd also like to remind people that, as I did earlier about the GL process, and I think we came up with a lot more discussion tonight that was relevant to that. And then we're going to go on to future agenda items and I'm going to call Michelle, who has placed a description of a retreat that she would like to propose. And I would like to hear from other counselors as to other issues they would like addressed during a retreat. So, Michelle. Thank you, Lynn. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to propose this and it sort of does build on a lot of what we were discussing tonight. In terms of the rules, there is a memo in the packet. I'll just briefly say that I respect each of you and your time. And I know that taking extra time to have a retreat can often be challenging. I also wanted to say that this proposal is born of what I need as a counselor to bring my best self forward, and I think it would also greatly benefit the entire council. As I said in my memo the council form of government is in its NC here in Amherst. And many of us have had little or no experience serving on a public body. We have limitations to ensure we comply with the open meeting law with ethics and other limitations. The question I've been asking myself is how do we make progress as individual counselors and as a governmental body to conduct the public's business in an effective orderly and efficient manner. And so I have taken some time recently to speak with folks who have significant experience working at higher levels of government. The major takeaway that I've received from those conversations is the importance of establishing strong rules of procedure to debate issues and advanced initiatives effectively and respectfully across differences. I may only speak for myself here but I have felt that we have a sort of family here in a way which is wonderful in some respects. In other respects it can feel really personal when I don't think it has to. I think what we do now as a council to cultivate and establish best practices and habits will provide a foundation for future councils, and ideally will provide a model for our community. If the council agrees to pursue this suggestion, I would love to work with other counselors to do the necessary pre work that makes retreats successful. I think we're considering it and I would be open to any questions if Lynn will allow time for that. Absolutely. Are there questions comments. Pam. I think it's a great idea I think we're working face to face and and brainstorming is always a really good way of getting to the heart of items of shared interest. I think it's a great idea. Okay. Yeah, so thank you Michelle for bringing that forward. There's a lot that I do appreciate about what you've just suggested. But I also do have some concerns or questions. In terms of like who would facilitate and I know you led with saying what you would need personally and what you need personally and and listening to comments this evening, our last couple of meetings. There's a lot of discussion newsletters that have been sent out where, you know, I think just the level of how things are taking personal here. I do have a bit of concern around that even even with saying now, like we're family, I think that it's great that we can all get along but we are here we were voted in by our constituents to take care of the broader town and to govern the town effectively. And I do think there is a call for balance because sometimes I feel that we're there's an imbalance of what's personal. We have some counselors that have just recently proclaimed themselves to be the the independence. You know, when you've had no discussion and do not know other councils personally so when you make these claims publicly you are, you know, it is it is borderline attack either I don't want to make it personal because I'm not I don't take it as such. But it's also spreading misinformation, and it's manipulative to the public that depends on our truth. You know we've heard today someone speak about the black community wants something I mean there's three counselors of color if you're not one of them, you do not speak for the community of color. And even those of us who are, you know that's just within our purview and who relates to us. I mean, so I would hope that we'd have just not only with this but we can maybe have some issues that are broader that just might help us to balance that we do have some very important issues that yes we have to spend time on, but just to take what is personal out of it in terms of a voting I mean, I think that it would be great I personally think a, you know, change of leadership is great but I'm not voting. I'm voting looking at balance I'm voting looking at integrity from my opinion of who's going to bring that and looking at individual issues. I just hope that we can also just look across the board because my concerns personally are that we are looked at maybe by the town is just an effective body of leadership, you know, and I hope that we can, you know, stretch out and balance and just to ensure that we are bringing all of the constituents views to the table, who voted I said. Thank you. I think that's an excellent idea to do this retreat. I was wondering if there's a way to bring back the, the facilitator we had in the first retreat, just because we started this work actually of how as a body we're going to go through the process of making decisions together, which incorporated our public opinion, and I did go back, you know, later on after the retreat like how are we going to incorporate what we learned I thought was very powerful what we learned in the first retreat, and how we're going to incorporate that into the processes that we use to make decisions, the processes we use to prioritize the goals, and maybe it will be a good idea to bring back the same person and, and focus on the rules of procedure that Michelle is saying, and, and the values and kind of maybe go back to seeing what we have done well and what we can improve. Okay, that's all for now. Dorothy. Well, when we talk about going over rules or procedure. I want to say that I understand the necessity for rules, but I like many other people but not all don't really like it when they're used in certain ways, and I see myself as being a member of the council but really I have one foot. You know, I don't know to in the general public. So when things get too technical, when the rules get to arcane, when I feel that games are being played. I usually ask to get things clarified, because I think of the people watching. I think of their audience. Do they know what we're doing. Do they understand what's going on, or are they saying, Oh, they're just doing hocus pocus. They're just playing these games again, because that turns them off. And our audience, our constituents, those are our future counselors, if the, the, the, if we get too precious. Okay, people don't want to be part of the group they don't want to be part of the body. They're going to say, Oh, I'm going to go there. And every time I talk it's going to be, I didn't do it the right way, or I didn't remember this rule, or they're going to use a rule against me. You know, there's some people to find that fun, but a lot of people that might be very good on the council don't find that fun. So, I understand our need for rules, but I will say, I felt about that last meeting when we had a revolt, because it was new information and then I said what's the new information, and I didn't get any new information, but there was new information, and we weren't told it. So I felt I really felt played. I felt very played. So, you know, if we're going to have rules, let them be very simple, let them be very clear, and let them be understood by everybody. That's it. Mandy Joe. So, I don't oppose the idea of a retreat. I think retreats can be very valuable. But I think with one year remaining in the council, I would prefer a retreat that deals with what we want to get accomplished in the last year. So, the commission talks about prioritizing something we had some long conversations that weren't quite on the agenda about different zoning proposals that have been made and different proposals people might want and different proposals different counselors as legislators that we were elected to do have been making and how they've been taking time on the council that maybe not all counselors have agreed with that committee time being taken up. And I think to see a retreat that at least talks about where we want to spend our committee time and maybe gets to some agreement about what our committees might be working on or where we would want them to focus in the last year. I also expressed some confusion as to counselor Miller's proposal, because it talks about the public participation and the civility portion of our rules only, and I am confused as to how that relates to the desire for people to know how to make motions and operate more efficiently on the council because I don't quite understand the connection between the public participation rule that was specifically mentioned in the memo, and how we can more efficiently as counselors make it through debate. And so I don't quite get my own understanding is to the goal, when it specifically mentions two rules that don't necessarily specifically relate to the efficiency of our process and meetings and getting through our business. Alicia. Thank you Mandy Joe I don't I don't actually necessarily disagree with what Mandy Joe just said, I think that there is value in that as well but I wanted to speak to Michelle's initiative which I also very strongly support and agree with. And I'm hoping that we can do that at some point that we can find time to have that retreat and that we might be able to look into having a BIPOC facilitator. I agree with what Mandy Joe just proposed I think that's important and I also want to actually. I think it would be nice to at some point standardized when a council is formed with sort of trainings, we can have maybe your one when we just join what sort of training, we need. And I think one thing that we could have the best rules but if you don't trust if you don't have that trust in the goodness, we can disagree, but just trust in the goodness in each other and trust our integrity. We will we can always find flaws like I made a mistake here and you could read endless number of reasons why that was made you know and that's not a mistake so all I'm saying is that I think trust building is an important issue I think having which we didn't have this time but we did last time anti racism training is important, I think, having a retreat to create a process that the town council uses to prioritize and how to get our work done. And these are important things and how do we find time so I think we, yeah, I don't know. What do other people feel who haven't yet spoken. You know, because we have two things one is just the internal processes as a council how do we make decisions and so forth and the other is, how do we actually talk about the work we need to get done. Okay, thank you, Anna. I think I appreciate counselor Michelle for bringing this forward, and I'm using my own error in that last second as a good example of how we constantly are messing up our roles right. One of the rules says we use for his names. And we we miss that a lot I think what I'm having a hard time with is that I, there are things that we are responsible for doing as counselors, reading and familiarizing ourselves with the rules of procedure with the you know parliamentary procedure. Those are things that I agree with what Shalini was saying that should be offered as training when we first start this role I see that as part of our responsibility. That's not to say it shouldn't necessarily be a topic of retreat I'm bringing this up because each of these four items could themselves be half day retreats. And so I think that these are big, these are big topics. I want to highlight a couple things and I believe these may have already been mentioned. This should not be internally facilitated this should be facilitated by an outside person. And I'd really love to see GOL develop this proposal a little bit more as especially as y'all go through the process of looking at the rules of procedure for this year, because I think that some of this. Like, it weaves in and out of what GOL does as we kind of bring forward what rules we'd like to see changed or what rules we'd like to add or take away or whatever. You know, and I think that to Dorothy's point are, our rules are a living document, you know, like the charter is stuck for a little while, but the rules are living and so if there are rules that we can't seem to follow. We shouldn't have them in our rules or we should be following them right and so I think that if they're so rigid that it feels impossible for people to engage. Great, this is our opportunity to change them so I think I'd, I'd love to see GOL dig into this a little bit and and streamline the the outcomes of a retreat because I don't want to set us up for just feeling like we had a retreat and nothing came out of it because we tried to bite off more than we could chew in a half day. But I mean, I love retreats it's like my job so I'm, I'm a big fan. Okay, are there any other comments. So I, my follow up to this would be to send something out. Ask for basically I'm hearing two ideas one is focused on priorities, one is focused on how we conduct business. And get some sense, also some sense of other councils you might like to work on that although Anna has suggested GOL and also some sense of dates when people would be available so that we're working toward a date that's near in the future rather than down the road. Michelle, thank you for putting your proposal together. It's comprehensive. It's a lot, but thank you for bringing it forward. Are there any other comments from counselors at this time. Mandy job. We're into just the counselor comment section right. Yes, we are. I want to say thank you to Jennifer moisten. I know she's probably not listening right now. I'm hoping it can be related to her. Particularly with her work with the spring festival Chinese New Year celebration. We didn't know, and she particularly didn't know how many people to expect and there were at least 200 people there. And she handled the last minute need to get more stuff and find more stuff and make food last tremendously well. I know she was very frazzled that day you could see it from anyone, but I just want to thank her for all the work that went into planning it and then all of the spontaneous work she needed to do to make it be wonderful with how many people actually showed up. I totally agree. There were about six or seven counselors there that day at different times and it was just a magnificent event and agree. Any other comments. See none. Then we are adjourned.


Day 4, PDAC 2023, and I've just met Scott McLean. How are you today? Very good. Nice to meet you. The first question he asked me is, remember your transition metals from 11th grade chemistry? And of course, no, I don't remember. Scott, what are the transition metals? Well, you're asking about the name of the company, and the name of the company is transition metals. And if you remember your grade 11 chemistry, which apparently you don't, it's a group of metals on the periodic table. And actually, it includes all the different pay metals that we actually explore for. And we came up with the name back in 2009 when we formed the company, and it's resonated. So Scott, right now there's a lot of planes on the tarmac trying to get investors' attention. Can you tell me a couple of reasons, maybe your three top reasons why transition metals should be on my research desk for tomorrow? Sure. So transition metals has a number of projects across Canada, seven different jurisdictions, 20 different projects. So we've got a good pipeline of projects to advance and look for partners for. However, we're focused on a couple of key projects. One is called Mod Lake, and it's a new nickel discovery where we've got 20-meter intersections of good magmatic sulfides. And the other one is the form you have over there, which is Pike Warden, and that's a brand new epithermal system in the Yukon. Both of these are produced, we've drilled that, we're the first people to drill that project. We've got bonanza silver grades, over 20 meters of 100-gram material on that project. So they're really two exciting projects with a good pipeline of additional projects coming in behind those. We've got some good partners. This company has been around since 2009, and it only has 57 million shares outstanding. All right. So what I'm hearing is we have a pipeline of projects, and then you've highlighted two. You've picked your two favorites. Is that it? That's correct. We're going to advance ourselves and take them to the next level, give shareholders a chance to be rewarded with a discovery, or be able to leverage up our investment and bring a partner in at a higher level. And one of your competitive reasons for looking at transition metals you mentioned was only 57 million shares outstanding. What kind of cash do you have in the bank? Right now we have about a million dollars. Our burn rate is about 50,000 a month. We have a big pot of marketable securities, however, about five million dollars in marketable securities. So that's how we often fund the company as we sell our marketable securities into the market, bring revenue into the company that way, rather than having to go out and dilute the shareholders through an equity financing. Okay. Well, that sounds very exciting. What should we as potential shareholders anticipate in this upcoming quarter? In the coming quarter, we're going to kind of focus on our two flagship projects, the Model 8 project. We plan to get our program put together for early spring, hopefully be drilling that by late spring, and be back up into the Yukon working on our Pike Warden project in early summer with a plan to hopefully get the drill started up there towards the end of the summer. That will produce a nice news flow for our investors and hopefully bring some excitement to the stock. Okay. Well, that's Scott McLean from Transition Metals. Thank you so much, Scott. Thank you for having me.


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T. F. N. N. headline news update. Good morning folks. Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of sunny Delray Beach, Florida. This year 11 am update and we've got a sea of red out there. All the US indices that we track trading the downside. Every sector is trading the downside with inside the S&P 500 as well. Dow's off 123. S&P's down 31. NASDAQ's off 180. That's one and a quarter percent. Russell's down a half percent or eight points. One and a quarter percent for the semis. That is a 42 point move. Gold is off a buck. Silver's down nine pennies and the US dollar index is down as well. It's down about 16 cents right now. Lights recruit is off 31 pennies. Natural gas is up 18 cents. It's taken out the top of a daily profile. That's encouraging and a 30 year treasury down 10 ticks. Printing out at 111. 06. What's all that mean? Jelly bean. Let's go take a look at that nine panel. Market update chart. We begin with the ES mini upper left hand side. Turns out yesterday was a bullish piercing candle that confirmed a by the D point pattern. The only way that gets negated is a close below 42 35 50. Now price is trading below the bottom of its daily profile out there. So we're going to call yesterday's signal neutral spot. Politics still well above its 50 day exponential moving average that always gives sellers the edge. The end Q also has a bottom. It's a TD nine count bottom that form back here on September 27th. That level was tested yesterday and held price right now is trading below the bottom of its profile 14771. US dollar index formed a rogment and indicator top yesterday. Price is trading lower, although it has not taken out yesterday's low. I'd say that's next key level of support 106.24 five. So far today's low 106.25 out there. Close below that would suggest at least getting back to support, which is the top of the daily profile at this point in time. 106 10. Gold has a TD nine count bottom. Silver has a wave seven bottom. Both of those are testing those bottom signals. Gold would negate its TD nine count bottom with a close below 1830 90. Hard to believe that will do that if the US dollar index is pulling back. But it's a possibility. We take a look at lights. We crude. It's trading below profile levels likely headed lower. There's a TD nine count breakout area in the daily timeframe. I don't recall what is up the top of my head. Maybe during the trader's edge. So we'll be able to figure that out. Natural gas. Yeah, excuse me. Can it close above $3 and seven cents? Can it do it for two consecutive days? If it does, we likely have some. Wow. Some kind of breakout and price targeting is most recent swing point. That's in the range between 3.284 and 3.485. Folks, they do for the trader's edge show. But if you have to start your Thursday, please have a terrific one. Thanks for joining us. And I'll look forward to speaking with you again soon. Take care now.


Hi, everybody. Yes, we're here once again. It's good to be with you Bob Lorenz and Ian Joy and ladies and gentlemen I am gonna wind Ian up right now and just let him go because we have breaking news Major League soccer is back. Give us some of the details, Ian. Okay. I'm gonna do it and my news worthy voice Are you ready? Yeah. All right breaking news coming out of major league soccer quick restart on that. Are you ready? You you do the breaking news part again breaking We need sound effects. All right breaking news out of major league soccer We have just got an announcement from major league soccer that they will be returning to action on july 8th A lot of talk, but now it is official. Let me give you some of the details, bob If I could july 8th through august 11th the tournament will be called MLS is back tournament. There will be 26 matchdays 54 matches 39 group games with 15 Knockout games. You know, that's where it matters. That's where the money is, of course Each of the group games will be counting towards The 2020 regular season standing So every game matters all the points that you earn in the group games will be then carried over To when the regular season resumes after the competition The winner and this is the golden carrot here. We'll get a birth in the concha calf champions league Which is huge. I think that's fantastic to have the winner go to that tournament It means there's something really important to play for also for the players There's going to be a 1.1 million dollar bonus for players throughout the tournament as well So once that tournament finishes, bob, the mls is back tournament Once that finishes the plan is to return to regular season action Which means and you know, i'm gonna say it MLS and nycfc looks like it's coming back to our network in august. That is so exciting It's nice to know that it continues after that. It's not just a month of soccer and then goodbye We'll see you next year that it's coming back. But I want to ask you in from a player's perspective What's this idea for you you're ramping up to play but then it's almost like let it rip Live or let die, you know, you got to win those games to stay alive because they're knockout games Well, I can tell you now that the players training has just intensified to the next level They may have been training already and getting themselves to a good standard But now they know what's at stake for this tournament down in florida. It's pretty awesome It means that there's a lot to play for so the players have got to get themselves back to almost 100% fitness There's no way they're going to be match fit. So this tournament gives them an opportunity to get match fit But also having the goal the nugget of player bonuses plus The winner going to the conca cap champions league means that everybody needs to be at their very best and try to win This tournament the games are going to be awesome The broadcast is going to be a great opportunity for major league soccer To play around with the media content and the broadcast to commentary things like that If they've had an idea major league soccer that they thought maybe they would like to implement it Into the regular season and mls playoffs now's the time to do it. And I think it's pretty awesome bob All right, if you want more information on this do a deeper dive you can go to mls soccer dot com All the details are there but eno want to ask you about first from the broadcast perspective You must be excited about that seeing some of these new things Maybe bell's whistles toys they can use camera angles they can provide that you don't want a regular season You might not try but why not right now?  I'm also excited to get back to business So yes the ideas the crazy content the media content what we can do on the social media side I mean, it's endless. This is a great opportunity for networks. It's a great opportunity for major league soccer But also for player branding. I mean all these players are going to be down in florida stuck In florida with or without families, whatever it may be I mean, it's going to be really interesting to see how it plays out But this is a moment in our lives that I think we can all get very excited about Normality is coming back. It might not be normal like we knew it. It's going to be a new normal But it's pretty cool, man. Yeah, could you get back to the studio, please? I'm get a little tired of this extreme social distancing of over 2000 miles. You know what bob? I just want to give you a hug. That's all I want to I just want to give you a hug I want to give you a high five. I want to come into the studio like we always do high five and a hug That's what I want to do. Hey, but it's not only good news for major league soccer major league baseball Draft information, please from you bob. How excited are you to drop this tonight? You know what? It's great because dreams come true right for a lot of these high school and college kids who have dreamt about being grafted Some don't get drafted a lot of the guys know They've been told by their agents and teams that you know, you're going to be going first round second round It's interesting this year because they have to do it virtually They can't do it where they hope to do it in Omaha the site of the college world series It's only going to be five rounds as well But you know, I think back to a time and you know dreams coming true A guy that plays for the Yankees now that was a walk on at the College of Charleston Didn't get drafted his junior year tore it up his senior year Yankees drafted him in the third round And when I joined yes in 2002, I did some Staten Island Yankees games play by play Their center fielder was a young kid named Brett Gardner. That's who it was He's a I don't want to say a Cinderella story because Ian we always talk about putting in that hard work and look what He's become as I call those games I never you never know what which one of those kids on the field is going to make it You saw how hard he worked in the work ethic. You say that guy had a pretty good shot. He's done tremendously Dude, I can tell you from a former athlete's perspective for me personally This is the moment where you get excited and it's unfortunate for these draftees and and people who are expected to go Really high in the draft like this is a great moment in their life. It's not going to be like it was This is going to be something completely different But guess what Bob all the eyes all the focus and the attention is now on this draft because You know major league baseball fans are desperate for some real positivity and this is it right here So if you're going in that first round all the eyes all the focus All the follows on social media are coming your way because everybody Has got their eyes on this draft right now. I want to ask you this though, Bob before we go What can Yankees fans expect from this draft in your opinion? Well, they've got three picks overall in this year's draft. Their first one is number 28 in the first round And if history tells us anything with a pick like that, it could very well be a college pitcher They like to load up on those big arms This year's draft is laden with pitching talent even at the high school level Is that your throwing arm by the way or you'll lefty? I'm a lefty buddy. I'm a lefty You know what? There's a spot in the bullpen for you still But but you know the college arms high school arms this year are very good as opposed to last year's draft There were a lot of really good position players So I would hedge my bet on saying it'll be a college pitcher probably a power pitcher However, I've read a couple draft You know scenarios where they could go after an infielder or a shortstop Which I find interesting because last year they drafted Anthony Volpe whose high school shortstop and he did very well in his first pro season But I wanted to get your take on this a lot of these kids are you know, they get that contract in their hands And they're going to be signing right away and they're getting right to work What was it like when you're able to sign that first pro contract put that pen to paper? You know what I bought on my first ever paycheck and I was 15 years old when I signed my first contract 16 when you can officially begin your professional contract And then I got my first paycheck. I went and bought a playstation and I'm not a gamer So that placions playstation sat in the box for a good two and a half three years before I gave it down to like a friend of mine But it was a great feeling. You know what? I loved more than anything no bob for getting the paycheck It was just the locker room the feeling of all the guys are in this together Getting drafted is going to be a beautiful thing for a lot of these people tonight And I'm super excited the news has been positive mean you've been doing this for a long time, bob We've been bringing that positivity to everybody who's watching in thanks to everyone for all your messages of support as well It means a lot to us But this is a great day for me and you bob given some positive news finally out the sports world We like to say that the ball keeps rolling forward and in this case It's a soccer ball and that's great news and we're looking forward to that and oh, wait a minute You're going to be in kind of transition So you're going to have to watch on the road In hotels short term. I don't even know you're going to be watching that with a couple tv's right Doesn't matter where I watch it from you know the mobile device now you can watch it anywhere you are That's right. You're if you're in the car around the plane. You got an ipad. You got your phone. You got you could do it all I'm excited. Oh bob. I'm really excited man. This has been awesome news for me this morning I'm in a positive frame of mind in case you couldn't tell but I can't wait to see you, buddy Yep, you too. All right. Thanks for joining us. We'll see you next time guys. Take care. See you


How much radiation is too much? As it turns out, just measuring the amount of radiation you're exposed to isn't that helpful. Instead, we need to know how much harm that radiation can do if it gets into your body, especially if it's ionizing radiation, the type of radiation that can rep through cells and damage DNA. This takes more than just listening to the clicks on a radiation counter though, and in fact, just knowing there's radiation around you isn't that helpful in working out how risky it is. Instead, it means understanding how different sources and types of radiation cause biological damage, and this is where seaverts come in. Seaverts are a measure of the potential biological impact of exposure to ionizing radiation, and in particular, how exposure might lead to health problems by damaging your DNA. They help us understand, for instance, how much exposure to radiation might increase the chances of developing cancer, or how it might affect any children you have after being exposed. To do this, seaverts combine three different aspects of ionizing radiation. First, there's the amount of energy that the radiation is capable of dumping into your body, and this changes with different sources and different situations.  Then there's the type of radiation. Boulder-like alpha particles, for instance, can do far more damage as they rip through your cells than x-rays or gamma rays. And finally, there's which parts of your body are being exposed. So radiation that gets into your lungs or your guts, for instance, does more harm than if it's just on your skin. By combining these together, seaverts give us a good idea of how much damage exposure might cause.  And one seavert, if delivered all at once, will make you pretty sick. But you need to be in some pretty extreme situations to get exposures like these, like being inside a nuclear reactor when there's a major leak. On the other hand, because we live on a radioactive planet, we know that our bodies are pretty good at repairing the damage from low-level exposures. For instance, you're probably exposed to somewhere between one and five thousandths of a seavert every year from the Earth's natural background radiation. A dental x-ray will expose you to something like ten millionths of a seavert. And if you live within 50 miles of a safely functioning nuclear power plant, you can expect to be exposed to a miniscule of 90 billionths of a seavert, which coincidentally is less than if you're living the same distance from a coal-fired power plant. This doesn't mean we can afford to become complacent about radiation, though. And the International Commission on Radiological Protection recommends not exceeding background radiation levels by more than one thousandth of a seavert per year. But at least seaverts help us weigh up the pros and cons of radiation exposure, and they allow us to differentiate between exposures that are probably okay and those that are not.


Today I'm going to spend some time in the harbour because I'm writing a novel and it's set in Wollongong Harbour. So that's quite important. It's like going there and just thinking about the things that brought me a lot of comfort when I first arrived in Australia, the water, the lighthouse and of course the people and all those different voices speaking different language having a good time together on the beach.  It's a new way of looking at the world. It's exciting. I grew up at the foot of an active volcano, Mount Mayone. That is in the Philippines. And I'm the eldest in a family of four children. My parents nurtured and asked the love for stories, for books. Perhaps that's why I became a writer. We didn't have much money to go around, but they made sure we had books. I came to Wollongong in 1991 to do my doctorate at the University of Wollongong because I received an Australian study grant. And when I first arrived I realized that in a way the landscape of Wollongong mirrors my original home. Wollongong is also a regional coastal city sitting between the Scarpment and the Pacific. The study grant that I received from Australia and the fact that I was already working for ten years as an academic in the Philippines facilitated my coming to Australia. Everyone was helpful. And eventually I did my three years here and when I was finishing my degree there was a teaching position open in creative writing. I applied for it, I got it. First year I could not write. I had a writer's block. I found the winter too cold. And when you're cold physically, you're lonely, it was just so hard. The way I dealt with that is to run. Every day I ran to the lighthouse. So that helped me survive. But there were moments when I just sit in my empty flat crying. So I have great sympathy for people who leave home to a strange territory. It takes a lot. Some people come to Australia, hang on to their permanent residences and then keep their citizenship from the original country. My belief is that Australia has been good to me. I believe that you have to give it some loyalty. It is also the feeling of belonging. I'm an Australian. But that doesn't make me any less of a Filipino. One has to remember this. The heart has enough space to accommodate the two languages, the two sensibilities and the idea of being transnational.  You get nurtured by the two banks but the water has its own life forms and you are able to create new stories. I went to the Iloara fly tree top walk. It's a fascinating place. You're literally walking on top of trees. It's incredible here in the tree tops. I ran into one of my students from 25 years ago in the Philippines at the University of Santo Tomas and she recognized me. Incredible, isn't it? I'd like to believe that my greatest contribution is not so much as writer but as a teacher of creative writing. As a teacher of creative writing, I nurture sensibilities of Australian students and help them tell their own stories. I have been successful in my writing and performance in Australia. I think career-wise, I have been quite blessed and I got that in Australia. I'm very grateful for that. But of course, I'd like to believe that Australia is getting something back from me and from all its migrants. We all contribute to the community.


Well, let the ramble begin greetings from the full barrel kickoff beer garden. I had some Miss Wieners Donuts and biallies and other scrumptious things some good beer kind of pouring and good company and this is the The wrap up we just had last call and hope everyone has fun tomorrow. Cheers Welcome to Barrio Come on in and get a rambleberry latte for the ramble today Well, this is the start of the ramble and this is the fifth or sixth maybe seventh annual garden tour of the old north and this is Elliott Who loves to say that in every microphone and this is Ruby? Oh, wow And we love to start off and kick off the ramble tour in our garden on front street as you can see I have done a lot of gardening over the last 10 plus years since I've lived on this street To bring all sorts of perennials and good cheer to our neighborhood. I find it to be such a great community builder Lots of people stop and talk and take in the flowers and it's just my way of giving back to my street Hey, good morning. My name is Adam. I'm here at the onions in the old north end of Burlington And I am psyched because I just had the ramble scramble their specialty plate for today Yeah, scramble eggs on a bunch of greens with black beans and red peppers and corn delicious coffee Started off the day right so we're getting ready to go out and roam the neighborhoods on the ramble and We've lived in the old north end for over 25 years and we've been ramble regulars and love the celebration of this awesome neighborhood Looking forward to the good yard sale finds today and the world market is the old north end community center I'm visiting from a little bit out of town. It's my first ramble. I'm really excited Hey everybody, my name is Dan Siegel I've been living in the old north end for About 18 years and I've done the ramble on and off over those years this year. I have a ton of pottery for sale This is my studio right behind me I've got a lot of stuff for every single price range You can imagine a huge selection of five dollar pots ten dollar pots and then stuff for you know stuff for everybody And this is my partner's work over here. She does mixed media collage and Some printmaking some alternative printmaking techniques and yeah, we love the ramble every year. It's so much fun We never know who's going to show up We always are surprised by who we see and it's it's always a great time. There's so many different activities going on and It's just a great community event. All right. Hi. I'm Karen Norwood. I'm part of preservation Burlington Every year we do tours of the old north end as part of the ramble I'm about to start a neighborhood walking tour where we're going to learn all about the history of the old north end and Yeah, it's a great time. So excited to be a part of the ramble All right, welcome to the ramble 2023 field day. My name is Tim. I'm John. We are your field day referees It's a great day out here. We've got all of these games got a great crowd Come on out ramble with us ramble with your neighbors got hula hoops Balling ball shop put sack races everything you want. Come on down So this is a little bit of a change But I kind of like the rain because it's making everyone huddle together under the tents, which is really cute But it's fun. I'm excited to see my friends play some music and Gonna go over to the big parking lot over there a little bit later today, but it's a big party Yeah What do you think of Decatur Fest this year? Oh, it's great We're at Decatur Fest and apparently this is the 19th year. I just found out And it's a really great community celebration part of the old north end ramble And there was lots of kids earlier and the theme this year is decomposition So folks are doing all sorts of stuff around mushrooms and nutrient cycles and just giving back to the earth It's awesome people are doing the weather that we're having just provide such a like lovely That's really awesome to be a part of We're at Decatur Fest and we're grilling we want to ask tell them how we were thinking about it. Oh Man, we're having so much fun Thanks to Wildeek River for grilling so many burgers and dogs What else is our favorite part the burgers the dogs and the people that make up this wonderful community We're here grilling hot dogs and burgers, but we want to ask our friend Ben here put the this this on what was our favorite part? Oh, the Rockin Worms We love the Rockin Worms. Thank you so much I take it that's a musical group the Rockin Worms playing right over here right now. Don't miss them check them out Son are really really going for a so-so So-so And do you think the hot dogs are good or bad? Yeah, good. Dad's burger is gonna be good. Well, she said no. I don't think the mic picked that up But Thank you Street, there's no cars in the street children running wild Marafoot It's amazing. I love it. Look at my porch covered with people It's the best Hi, my name is Constance Craig and we hosted an art event in my backyard for the ramble Rain or shine we had to come up with some creative solutions, but everyone's still rambling So have you done this before? Yes, I did this two years ago in our yard the weather had held a little better than but we're all much more prepared now I'm selling watercolors Which I sell on Instagram and on my online shop Hello, I'm Joanna of Pizarre. I am the founder of Vermont skate society I'm here with my sister organization joy riders. It's a BIPOC skate club We are just a local group and we like to meet and throw Pop-up roller discos and do weekly skate sessions We offer loner skates for people that want to learn and yes I will hold your hands and teach you how to do everything So we decided to collaborate and throw a pop-up today and let me just tell you The people of the Old North End are so resilient. They are out here roller skating today in the rain So I hope you'll come and join us either today or any other time you can follow us on Instagram and Catch up on some of the events that we're throwing