Sept.,2004 Minutes of Friends meeting

FOKS Friend of Kingston Station Minutes for 9.13.04

Attending: Frank Heppner, Jack McCabe, Rich Neff, Warren Hagist, Bernadette DeAscentis, Ev Stuart.
Meeting started at 720pm at the Kingston Station, museum room.

Everett Stuart gave the treasurers report.

Jack was asked to give the RIOL Report.
We gave one Safety & History class in July for the URI Transportation Camp kids. Jack took the history section and Everett took the safety portion on this class. We ran another class camp again in August. The presenter was Pat Corcoran (FRA Region 1 and RIOL trainer) for safety and Jack McCabe covered some brief station history.
Rich Neff reported on our emergency responder presentation plans. This was covered in our recent members newsletter to some extent. Our fire district and others in the state are requesting more training in the “electrified territory” should an emergency occur.

Dr. Frank Heppner
Spoke with Amtrak General Mgr., Michael DeCataldo. He was upbeat about our plan to organize a ribbon cutting or some such ceremony for the overpass. The exact date of completion is was still not determined. He suggested that we do the planning for this event and suggested we would have his support. Ev suggested we prepare a news release based on interviews from various persons within Amtrak. Jack suggested we invite Bob Newman and his popcorn machine. This even looks like it might take place on a Saturday at the end of Oct or the beginning of Nov.

NOTE:
Full minutes are available to members on request.
As of this fall the Friends of Kingston Station board has moved the monthly meeting to the second
Monday (rather than the first) of each month.