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Regular Council Meeting 12-16-02 Page 8 shuttle and we're trying to get into see some places that have been closed to the public since the high security measures, including a zero gravity chamber and a wind tunnel. On January 2nd, we are going to spend the day at Kent State University; both at the Liquid Crystal Institute (which is a marvelous International Facility that's based on Campus) and we'll also spend the other half of . the day in the Physics Department where they do things like show you how you can lay on a bed of nails and drop concrete on you and not hurt yourself and all kinds of interesting demonstrations. And on January 3rd we will betaking kind of a multi-media expedition through midtown-through University Circle and midtown corridor. We'll be stopping at the new Weatherhead Building, the Peter B. Lewis Building at Case Western Reserve to see the structure, the architecture, that was built. And we're working right now on their head of Information Technologies will be taking us back behind the scenes to look at those technologies that were employed; that is astate-of--the-art building. We will leave from there and go down to the new Center for Arts and Technology in Midtown Corridor (which is a fabulous new museum at 5000 Prospect where you can see 3-D animated art from computer graphics and all kinds of interesting things there); lunch in Midtown Corridor (kind of a mystery lunch) and then we're trying to get into Athersys we're still waiting to hear (which has been in the news lately; they just struck some international deals and they're also in Midtown Corridor as is Applied Technology. So, we've got a lot on the agenda as far as road trips and we've got kids ready to go into the facility. By the way, we've spent almost no money so far; people have been very generous with providing us with equipment and we bought a minimal amount of supplies and we have a lot of people in the Village like carpeting coming in for parts of the facility and we've made a-Bill Thomas and I made a presentation to the Mayfield Alliance-Business Education Alliance and everybody is very excited about the program there and wants to get involved in any way they can. So, that's Pi Society. Mr. Marrie said the Men's 18 and Over Basketball League is starting up. We only have 18 for the league. The 40 and Over Men's League is going to be changed to 35 and Over; that will start in January. And there will be a Womens' Basketball League also starting in January with an anticipated six teams. The Christmas Party was discussed which is December 21St for the children between 1:30 and 3:30. The outdoor ice rink has been installed. A few adjustments are needed but it's going to be available as soon as weather permits it. The colors of the pour-it- in-place surface for the childrens' and kiddie pool was decided on. That was discussed one earlier meeting where for safety reasons they wanted to change the coloring so in case there was a child there in the pool that it didn't blend with the child that was under the water (which has happened at another pool in another city.) The Bicentennial was discussed and will be discussed at future meetings. We've also done something different this year-for the first time they took a couple excursions on the Cuyahoga Valley Train; 41 people went on it. There were 2 different ones; one was where they take the train and they go down and they cut their Christmas trees and bring them back and the other one is strictly a Santa train where they take them down and the lights in the train are cut off and when the kids come into Peninsula, it's like the Santa Workshop; they've got the Santa's elf helpers-the little people are there; so it went over very, very well, obviously, with the smaller children. This was on behalf of Bill and also Chief Mohr: the Rotary Club donated a defibrillator to Mayfield Village which will be used at the Parkview Pool during the summertime and it will be up here in the Village Community Room during the off season. For what it's worth, that was a $3,000 donation that they made to Mayfield Village