Last Update - November 2006
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KIRKLAND HERITAGE SOCIETY MINUTES Date:
September 29, 2006 PRESENT: Robert Burke, Vic
Newhard, David Cantrill, Lynette Friberg, Tom Hitzroth, Dale Hawkinson,
Loita Hawkinson. BUSINESS ITEMS: 1.
KHS has received $5,000 from the City and that has been deposited
in the building fund account. Once
we approve the building settlement agreement we will receive another
$10,000. 2.
The City will pay for the cork flooring and also help with some
of the physical work of moving furniture. 3.
The City will redo the gutter system on Heritage Hall.
Page and Beard have done the plans.
The building will have a larger drain but not larger gutters. 4.
For things to move along faster, Bob Burke needed authorization
to buy the cork flooring and we will get a refund from the City.
David moved and we approved the funds to buy the cork flooring.
November 1st is the target date to start installing
the flooring. 5.
Lynette Friberg, Barbara Loomis and Tom Hitzroth are being
considered for the Kirkland Landmark Commission.
Will be decided at the Oct. 3, 2006 City Council meeting.
(Follow up. Barbara
received the position. Council
was very impressed that KHS has 3 qualified members ). 6.
We are thinking on have a 5 Year Plan Board Meeting in November.
There will be no membership meeting in November because of
Thanksgiving. 7.
The life size Captain Gilbert statue is planned to be placed by
the Marina Beach Park. 8. The new Heathman Hotel (on the site of the Old Kirkland Hospital) has asked for historic names to be used for the hotel’s meeting rooms and suites. Bob has suggested using the names of “the firsts in Kirkland”. Dr. Davis started the first Kirkland Hospital and the Heathman Hotel is on that site, Ms. Carrie Shumway was the first woman City Council member, Louis Marsh, etc. They will be wanting pictures and history for each person chosen. Our commercial fee for local educational use is $15.00 per image. The Heathman Hotel has three places for interpretive markers as well. 9.
Merrily Dicks is retiring from the Kirkland Arts Council.
The Arts Council has asked for our membership list to do a mailing
to honor Merrily. Was
approved. 10.
The bunting on Heritage Hall needs to come down.
(Follow-up. The City
did it for us). 11.
Lynette will try to go to AKCHO meetings.
Loita will also try if not working. 12.
July minutes were approved. 13.
Our archivist, David Cantrill, met with Megan Carlisle who is the
archivist for Eastside Heritage. They
traded several photos so that each society will now have more photos for
research. The rights were not
traded and we can only display the photos with credit to ESH.
They will only display our photos with credit to KHS. 14.
Sandy Ekins has the True Value Hardware sign and will donate it to
KHS. 15.
Lynette and Sue Carter are working on a phone call tree.
Hopefully more members will volunteer so that each just has to do
10 or so. 16.
The At Large board position is still open and we will appoint
someone at the November meeting. 17.
Frank Rosin loaned KHS several items to be displayed for the
Centennial. He has asked for
them back and has not received them yet.
He attended the board meeting to state that he still wanted his
items returned. Submitted by Loita Hawkinson, Secretary KIRKLAND HERITAGE SOCIETY MINUTES Date: July
26, 2006 PRESENT: Robert Burke, Vic
Newhard, Barbara Loomis, Lynette Friberg, David Cantrill, Lynette Friberg,
Dale Hawkinson, Loita Hawkinson. Five Year Plan BUSINESS ITEMS: 1.
June minutes were approved. 2.
1999-2000 was our first Five Year Plan.
The building became available and that derailed much of our first
Five Year Plan. Acquiring a
building and doing a Building Inventory were are this first Five Year Plan
and thankfully, both of those did get done. 3.
There have been a lot of changes in technology since our first Five
Year Plan. We are not too
sorry that more could not be done before because so much more can be done
now. Getting a permanent space
and getting an up to date building inventory were our two top goals. 4.
We will be receiving $12,000 from King County for sustained
support. 5.
We will be receiving $2,000 from the City. 6.
AKCHO has their meetings the last Tuesday of each month.
We would like a member to attend the AKCHO meetings and report back
to the board. Loita and Vic
will attempt to do this. 7.
At this time, we still can not use our space because of the water
damage to the floor. We will
apply more pressure on the City. 8.
We will try to organize the space so that the Archives are clear,
the new printer working, and a few desks available.
This will happen if nothing quickly happens about the water runoff.
We can not put the floor down again until we are sure the water
problem has been solved. Again,
we have had two floods in 4 months and each was from a different problem.
KHS is not responsible for any of the damage.
KHS is just the victim and members have put in many volunteer hours
helping with cleanup. 9.
Dale will provide damage and run off photos for the City Council.
He will get with Bob to find out which ones are needed. 10.
Our charge machine is at Park Place books so they can sell Bob
Neir’s books for us. But
that leaves us without a charge machine.
We will to get a second one. Submitted by Loita Hawkinson, Secretary KIRKLAND HERITAGE SOCIETY MINUTES Date: June
28, 2006 PRESENT: Robert Burke, Vic
Newhard, Barbara Loomis, David Cantrill, Lynette Friberg, Tom Hitzroth,
Sue Carter, Dale Hawkinson, Loita Hawkinson. BUSINESS ITEMS: 1.
Vic and Dale put up the bunting on Heritage Hall. 2.
Our two floods are from different problems.
The first flood was from a landscaping problem and the second flood
was from a drain malfunction. 3.
We need a work party to clean the cork and sort into sizes and
condition and paint the lower walls. 4.
Re: Five Year Plan. We
will have a board meeting in July because we will not be having a Member
Meeting in July. We will
submit our committee budgets. Each
committee will have a projected budget. 5.
Re: The 4th of July.
The city does not have a barge for the fireworks.
They are short of funds and are asking for help.
The Centennial funds left over will be given to Kirkland Heritage
Society. This will be about
$4,500 less about $1,000 in additional Centennial expenses.
Bob recommended that we give $2,000 of these funds to the help the
city. If the city does not get
these additional funds, Kirkland will not have fireworks.
David moved that we give the $2,000 and Vic seconded.
Was approved. 6.
The Kirkland Library will have a community spelling bee.
The Library asked that KHS move our meeting time so it will not
conflict with the spelling bee. We
will not do this because we have an arranged meeting schedule.
Lynette was interested in representing KHS if the conflict can be
worked out. 7.
Cathy Smith is on the Kirkland Landmarks Commission and she can not
run again because there is a limit of two terms.
Barb expressed interest in representing KHS.
Tom and Lynette are also interested so Barb and Tom and Lynette
will apply. Bios for each will
be due after the 4th of July. 8.
May meeting minutes were approved. 9. We will give a CD of the old antique newspaper images to Redmond. There are Kirkland Redmond papers, Kirkland papers, etc from the early 1900's. Redmond is mentioned in many of the society pages. 10.
Tom as Treasurer will ask for a voucher for any expenses submitted.
Tom would like verification that KHS will be receiving the Centennial
funds. The compilation will be
done and Bob will use that for grant requests.
Barb suggested a voucher and receipt process that can be emailed. 11.
The man that planned the Kirkland tourism website has been working on
Gig Harbor so Kirkland’s has not been done.
He still plans to do Kirkland’s and will focus on history.
He plans to call on David in August. 12.
Eastside History Archives rep met with David.
They have 200 Arline Ely photos.
We will share our photo collections with them and they will share
with us. If used, the owning
archive will receive credit. They
will be available for research. 13.
David went to the Kirk family reunion.
He found more Kirk graves and had pictures.
Panacea is not called The Kirk House. 14.
Barb will be doing BP. Barb
purchased Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 for home and KHS.
She would like PageMaker as well. 15.
David sold $350 in photos. We
made of profit of about $200. 16.
David and Debbie will have a table at the 4th of July
Parade and sell books and Sarsaparilla. 17.
Anita Maxwell is Frank Gilbert’s grand niece
The statue of Frank Gilbert has been donated.
Anita would like to see it in Kirkland.
Tom Hitzroth and Anita have been working on the bio to present.
The Cultural Council is responsible for placement.
It I 350 pounds and is bronze. Anita’s
family will donate a bronze ferry schedule for his hand. 18.
Loita asked for $150.00 for oral history tapes.
Was approved. 19.
Re: Elections. Lynette
has agreed to be VP to replace Alan Stein who is moving to Seattle. Submitted by Loita Hawkinson, Secretary
KIRKLAND HERITAGE SOCIETY MINUTES Date: May 31,
2006 PRESENT:
Robert Burke, Vic Newhard, Barbara Loomis, David Cantrill, Shannon Harris,
Sue Carter, Lynette Friberg, Dale
Hawkinson, Loita Hawkinson. BUSINESS
ITEMS: 1.
Regarding the wet floor and insurance: The landscaper was working on
the drainage and the City knew there were problems, this absolves the
insurance company from liability. 2.
We maybe able to save much of the cork flooring and it can be
reinstalled. About 20% to 25% is
still down and will not be removed. 3.
David mentioned a moisture alarm incase we have water on the floor
ever again. 4.
Board Members and Committee Chairs have submitted budgets.
We will need a special board meeting after the floor is repaired and
see where we are financially. 5.
There will be an open house at the Old Cannery on June 1.
Ideas will be resented on how the building might be used. 6.
We need a new flag by July 4th.
Bob will get it for us. Money
was approved. 7.
April minutes were approved. 8.
Debbie and David Cantrill will attend the Kirk Family Reunion in the
San Juan Islands. Ferry and gas
expenses will be reimbursed. 9.
Barbara Loomis may do Blackberry Preserves if she can get her
computer running and get a copy of Photoshop donated.
Barb will need help with the mailing. 10.
Nominations for the elections will be delayed.
The floor damaged has taken up much of our time.
And now Alan will be stepping down from the board. 11.
Barbara purchased the Maypole photo at the Chamber Auction and will
donate it to KHS. It will be
hung in the Resource Center. 12.
Shannon reported that we still need a program idea for the June
Meeting. 13.
We approved the fee for the 4th of July Parade. Submitted by Loita Hawkinson, Secretary
KIRKLAND HERITAGE SOCIETY MINUTES Date: April 26, 2006 PRESENT: Robert Burke, Vic
Newhard, Alan Stein, David Cantrill, Tom Hitzroth, Sue Carter, Dale
Hawkinson, Loita Hawkinson. BUSINESS ITEMS: 1.
We need to arrange a paint work party to repair walls in Resource
Center. Should not take too much
time because it is just the lower walls near the floor. 2.
June 1, 2006, the City will have an open house at the Kirkland
Cannery. The City is conducting
a feasibility study to see how the city can save and use the cannery. 3.
Alan Stein received an award for the Olympic Hotel book. 4.
Alan is planning to step down from the board.
He has been serving as Vice President.
His Kirkland apartment is going Condo and Alan is planning to move to
Seattle where he will be closer to work.
He plans on keeping in touch and will still be an active member. 5.
Minutes were approved. 6.
We still need to put together a budget and chairs need to submit a
wish list. 7.
We have the original Warranty Deed for the Deed of Sale of the
Waverly home of Peter and Cora Kirk. 8.
Peter Kirk’s gun shells have been made safe and inactive. 9.
David Cantrill and Lisa Capron were at the AKCHO Award to receive the
AKCHO award for the single impact event which was the Kirk Family Reunion in
2005. 10.
We need nominations for Treasurer, Vice President and one At Large
position. 11.
$150.00 was approved to send Bob and Barbara to the Kirkland Chamber
auction. Submitted by Loita Hawkinson, Secretary
KIRKLAND HERITAGE SOCIETY MINUTES Date: March 29, 2006 PRESENT:
Robert Burke, Vic Newhard, Barbara Loomis, Alan Stein,
David Cantrill, Lynette Friberg, Shannon Harris, Sue Carter, Frank
Rosin, Dale Hawkinson, Loita
Hawkinson. BUSINESS
ITEMS: 1.
KHS received $4,000 of sustained support from King County 4 Cultural.
We have received $3,000 in the past. 2.
Both the City and our insurance have denied our claim for the water
damage in the Resource Center. They
claim it is the contractor’s responsibility.
The City may assume responsibility of repair to plaster board. 3.
The Wall Doctor is in charge of repair of our walls.
President Bob Burke is having reports documented to show KHS has been
environmentally correct. 4.
We will replace the baseboards with real wood.
It will cost $2,300 to remove damaged wall board and insulation and
replace same. 5.
We have a grant to look at the front columns of Heritage Hall.
There were cracks before and there are new cracks.
Plus the iron railing was hit and bent at the bottom of the steps.
This moved the one column back towards the front doors by over an
inch. This must be repaired.
The City is aware of the damage and it was probably the crew removing
the holiday lights that hit the rail. 6.
Frosty’s gave us the map of Juanita that hung in the restaurant. They
had also given us a current menu and an old original menu.
Dale and Loita also purchased two menus and two stainless ladles.
We can use these for our Blackberries.
Frosty’s then gave Dale and Loita a box of “go” plastic bags
and we said we would use those at the summer booth to bag items we sell.
We let them know that we though people would enjoy a small piece of
nostalgia. 7.
Because of the floor damage and work this has caused, we will
postpone Heritage Days. 8.
We will discuss the price of the photos at a future meeting.
We will check Eastside Heritage to see what they charge. 9. Minutes for February meeting were approved. 10.
Our old copier went to a non-profit in Moses Lake.
They came all the way from Spokane to get it.
We used Craigslist to give it away. 11.
David is keeping track of the humidity and temperature in the archive. 12.
David thinks it will cost $100 to preserve the oldest newspapers we
have. They are not on microfilm.
Dale has requested that he be present when they are out of the archive
so that he can take digital pictures of each page so that we have the papers
for research. 13.
Frank Rosin has offered to do BP. But
he will need a lot of help and cooperation.
(Follow up. Frank is too
busy at the moment). 14.
Lynette gave membership at 67 members with 11 supporting.
Lynette suggested a Business Night meeting to honor old times and
invite current business owners.
Lynette has been thinking of ideas and handed out a sheet of ideas to
discuss at our next meeting. 15.
We approved loaning our recorder kits on a weekly basis so that members
can do their own family histories. We
will ask that they provide their own tapes and batteries. 16.
We will provide a photo to the Chamber auction. 17.
Dale reported that all oral history tapes has been backed up on Reel to
Reel tapes to be stored in the archives. Submitted by Loita Hawkinson, Secretary
KIRKLAND HERITAGE SOCIETY MINUTES Date: February
22, 2006 PRESENT:
Robert Burke, Alan Stein,
David Cantrill, Lynette Friberg, Tom Hitzroth, Dale Hawkinson, Loita
Hawkinson. BUSINESS
ITEMS: 1.
Bob recommended leasing space to store display items.
The storage unit will be in Kirkland and the cost would be about $50.00
a month. Was approved by board. 2. Heritage Hall needs to be completely cleared for about two weeks so that the floor can be removed, the area completely dried, and a new floor installed. We are aiming at the end of March to have the work done. There will be several work parties to move the display pieces to a storage unit and then move the rest upstairs and into the archives. Dale will break the computers down and store. 4.
We got one order for a Bob Neir book from the Sunday newspaper article. 5.
We hope to sell the rest of the pavers by the end of this year.
The money from these sales will give us a reserve. 6.
Heritage Week is in May and we need to work on a promotion. 7.
We would like to give the black and white copier to a non profit.
It needs to be out of the building before the floor is replaced. 8.
Minutes for January were approved. 9.
Tom purchased an endorsement stamp to make banking easier. 10.
Dale and Loita requested that new recorders be purchased for the Oral
History program. Ten recorders are
desired so volunteers can have a recorder assigned to them for as long as they
are working on doing interviews. 11.
$204.00 was approved for the purchase of 10 new recorders. 12.
David is looking into doing restoration of a small group of early
newspapers. He will get back to
the group on cost. Dale will take
digital pictures and hopefully run OCR on them. 13.
David is doing to the San Juan Islands for the Kirk reunion and will
stay in the Kirk house. This will
be the June 24th weekend. Submitted by Loita Hawkinson, Secretary KIRKLAND
HERITAGE SOCIETY BOARD
MEETING MINUTES
DATE: J PRESENT:
David Cantrill, Alan Stine, Nancy Stephens, Tom Hitzroth, Lynette
Friberg-Weber. Bob Burke,
President, absent due to illness, but prepared agenda and directed David
Cantrill to fulfill his duties for the evening. BUSINESS
ITEMS: PRESIDENT’S
REPORT: 1.
Nancy Stephens submitted her
resignation as Treasurer due to moving to 3.
Nancy Stephens transferred her
access to new Treasurer, Tom Hitzroth.
a.
Action:
The Board authorized the President to submit damage claim to city.
The Board authorized Treasurer to pay for drying out the facility
approx. $1900, from the Building Fund. 5.
Founder’s Week / PK Birthday
– Proclamation is written and will be presented at the City Council February
Meeting Feb 7th. 6.
KHS Stationary & Envelopes
a.
Action:
Board authorized ordering of updated letterhead / envelopes – new
address. 7.
Board Organization:
Due to
a.
Action:
Board appointed Lynette Friberg Weber to fill the “At-Large”
position previously held by Tom Hitzroth.
Lynette is also Chair of the Membership Committee. 8.
9.
5 Year Plan – in draft form.
Not yet completed. 10.
Antique Toys Exhibit – on
display at Kirkland Library until January 31. 11.
Cannery Feasibility Study –
Bob Burke sat on panel that recommended hiring Koppe/Wagoner 12.
Juanita Beach Master Plan /
Forbes House : Bob Burke will be
meeting w/Julie Koler next week. Tom
Hitzroth plans to attend. 13.
Neir Books – sold over 450
copies so far. 14.
Pavers Installed:
Need to sell over 200 more, plus have 3 large pavers available for
sale. VI
VICE-PRESIDENT’S REPORT: 1.
AKCHO Awards – There is a
Single Impact Event Award for which it has been suggested that we apply in
reference to the Peter Kirk Family Reunion organized by KHS. 2.
AKCHO:
Announcement that the historic Bucklin-Tomkins House is for sale and
endangered. More info to be
gathered before the next meeting. TR
TREASURER: 1.
COMPILATION Status –
Financial data to be handed off to CPA firm before
January 31 by Nancy Stephens. 2.
Financial Files have all been
moved to KHS location. SE
SECRETARY: 1.
No report. AR
ARCHIVIST Report: 2.
New City Hall Exhibit in place
with a Peter Kirk Month theme. 3.
LIVING IN KIRKLAND Project is
still in development and they still have our photographs. 4.
Karen Klett of Eastside
Heritage group still has one of our pictures for use in their Eastside History
Book. ED
EDUCATION/PROGRAMS 1.
Frank Rosin has volunteered to
do a program on Vintage Radio. He
has also volunteered that the Vintage Radio Club has CD duplicating equipment
that could be used by KHS for duplication of up to 50 copies of CD’s as
needed for promotions, etc. KHS
would need to supply their own blank CD’s. ME
MEMBERSHIP: Dues/renewal
notices mailed to the membership last week. OR
ORAL HISTORY: No
Report PL
PLANNING & HISTORIC SITES: Green’s
Funeral Home Status – Clearing to begin in March ’06.
Some oil/fuel pollution has occurred on the Eastern portion of the
property and is being currently dealt with.
The Nettleton home is to be moved to lower corner of the property.
The Chapel has been offered to the church across the street if they can
move it. Property will
have 30 homes developed on it. RE
REQUEST:
Frank Rosin has requested the return of his original ferry schedules, and
tickets. Also, Gary Lanksbury is
requesting the return of his “war coupons”.
Items were borrowed from Frank and Gary for use in a COURIER newspaper
article and are past due for return. Mi
minutes respectfully submitted by, Na
Nancy Stephens SeSecretary, Loita Hawkinson, was unable to attend the meeting. |