CTTC July Meeting – July 30, 2025
July 1, 2025
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The July CTTC Meeting will be Wednesday, June 30, at 7:00 PM.
Doors open around 6:45 PM.
ZOOM:
Club Business (7:00 – 7:40)
Show and Tell Pt 1 (7:40 – 8:20)
Show and Tell Pt 2 (8:30 – 9:00)
Announcements
- Show and Tell presentations should be 5–7 minutes in length
- Please take side conversations away from the train table as a courtesy to others.
- Feel free to help fold chairs at the end of the meeting.
- Volunteer Opportunities at Bosse Toy Train Museum
- We’re looking for volunteer docents.
Open the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Saturdays each month, 10:00–1:00
(You don’t have to work every weekend!)
Talk to Kal if you’re interested.
- We’re looking for volunteer docents.
- High School Service Hours
- Volunteer hours at the museum can count toward high school service requirements.
We’re currently looking for:
- Volunteer hours at the museum can count toward high school service requirements.
- High School Service Hours
Docents
Ticket agents
Summer help to write summaries of train sets for the self-guided tour (Research can be done remotely)
- Talk to Kal if you or someone you know might be interested.
OLD BUSINESS
- Food Bank Fund Drive
- Conner sent out a nice letter encouraging everyone to participate in the Food Bank of Santa Barbara Food Drive.
- Members have 2 options for this:
- Personal Checks or online donations to receive the tax benefits.
- If you do this, please let us know so we can count the number of people.
- You do not need to tell us the amount!
- Cash
- If you want to do this, please give the cash to Art Bossé
- Art will write a check to the Food Bank with the total.
- Personal Checks or online donations to receive the tax benefits.
- At the June meeting, we collected $XXX in cash contributions.
- July 4th at Fred’s Dinner
- Fred and Cyndy Duerner will be hosting a dinner at the Glenn Annie Ranch on Friday July 4th, 6:00pm
- Bring your own main dish
- Bring a shared side dish
- Stay to watch the Drone Show
- Fred and Cyndy Duerner will be hosting a dinner at the Glenn Annie Ranch on Friday July 4th, 6:00pm
- Dave Halbeisen’s 35th Annual Festival of Toy Trains
- Donna Peterson has reached out the Santa Barbara Public Library
- The Library is willing to wave the usage fee for the non-profit organizations
- There is need to discuss the logistics for
- Loading / Unloading
- Security of the layout and trains
- After hour access
- Final touches of the layout have been done after hours in the past
New Business
- To Be Announced