CTTC July Meeting – July 30, 2025

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.
    • High School Service Hours
      • Volunteer hours at the museum can count toward high school service requirements.
        We’re currently looking for:

        • 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.
    • 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
  • 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
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