Kenyon Street Tag Sale

When	Who	What
Dec	Coordinator	ID West End Tags coordinator for the year if at least 5 on block are interested. (responsibilities below)
Dec, Week 2	Coordinator	Email WECA newsletter contacts for WE Feb-March Newsletter: Mention the date. Invite other blocks with at least three participants to contact our coordinator by April 30. 2007 newsletter contacts: Jill Donan and Chris McCarron at wecanews@yahoo.com
Feb -Mar	Coordinator	Calendar-setting dessert party: Volunteer coordinator announces date, asks who definitely wants to participate, and who might participate from our block (keep the list of names). Should be 5 committed to participate in order to make it a block event. Distribute schedule deadlines. Coordinator: Notifies other West End blocks of event, keeps list for WECA notice. (Possibly for shared costs for ad, flyers, balloons, signs at some point in future years. Sharing costs with other blocks would be a lot of work). Notifies Kenyon distribution, keeps list of participants along with item descriptions from participants. Emails notices to WECA newsletter, FABD newsletter, WTIC Sunday Tag Sale site and Craig's List. Emails list to Kenyon Street website for page: http://kenyonstreethartford.org/tag_sale.html#AnnualTagSale Asks WECA if Brenda (& Tonia) can include Tag Sale notice in WECA email distribution. brendaweca@sbcglobal.net , tonialoconte@msn.com Checks with volunteers to make sure we’re set. Get volunteers for: Ads person Places ad in Courant. Collects shared fee from participants. Flyers person Updates and prints flyers and puts them in local shop windows. Signs person Makes signs for street corners (highway exit ), posts and removes them. (Phil may have sandwich board signs) Balloons person Buys and distributes balloons to each participating house.
		Feb-Mar - Invitation for other blocks to participate appears in WECA newsletter (so flyers can list all blocks).
May 1	Coordinator	Email 1st Reminder to Kenyon Block. Ask who is planning to participate.
May, Week 2	Coordinator	Place Notice or Box Ad in WECA newsletter, listing all participating blocks, days, (hours).
		June-July Notice in WECA Newsletter, listing all participating blocks, days, (hours).
June 1	Coordinator	Email notice to FABD newsletter: Lee Whittemore nutshellpress@yahoo.com Place notice on WTIC Sunday tag sale site. Contact:
June 1	Coordinator	Email 2nd Reminder to Kenyon Block. Ask who else is participating, and to send items. Coordinator starts sending list of items to Kenyon Street website at u12311@snet.net.
June, week 1	Flyers person	Post flyers in local shop windows, grocery and drug stores.
June 15	Coordinator	Email 3rd Reminder to Kenyon Block w/ deadline for Courant Ad and final list of items. Ask all to e-mail the notice/flyer to interested friends. Email list to Kenyon website u12311@snet.net.
Monday before:	Signs person	Make signs. Place signs on poles at strategic corners, at highway exit. (Phil may have sandwich signs)
Wed-Fri before	Coordinator	Post on Craig's list each day. http://hartford.craigslist.org/ Email Craig's List link to Kenyon Street. Mention rain policy if probable. Rain policy: Light rain, sale from porches. If thunderstorm day, no sales. Email mentions where to give away stuff that doesn't sell: freecycle.org freecycle West Hfd donate list Dress for Success Also : bulky waste pick-up: 543-8750 2007: hs hazardous waste: 9/10/07, 8-1 pm, MDC electronics recycling: 11/10/07, 9-1 pm, 211 Murphy Rd.
Wed or Thurs by 5 pm	Ads person	Courant classified deadline for print and on-line tag sales. Place ad to run on: Fri., Sat., and Sunday. Courant Classified: Place an ad Sample Ad $41 (2007). Pay for Ad. Collect fees from each participant to cover total costs.
Fri	Balloon person	Check on final list of participants. Buy, Distribute Mylar helium balloons.
After Tag Sale	Signs person	Remove signs.
After Tag Sale	Coordinator	Congratulations and Thanks to all!