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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Tuesday, February 18, 2020 Page 2 OPEN PORTION — For Public Comment (5 -minute limit imposed by Chair) Joan Gottschlina - President, Mayfield Township Historical Society I am here as representative of Mayfield Township's Historical Society. For a start, I just wanted to tell you, that in 1819, a few people that were brave from Willoughby came down the Chagrin River and settled in the Original Mayfield Township as farmers. And as all of the communities grew, in the 1920's they broke off, Highland Heights, Mayfield, Mayfield Heights and Gates Mills. The Historical Society represents all four of those communities in case you didn't know. I would like to say hello to Council, the Mayor and our two new members. I am here tonight to thank you for your continued support of the Historical Society with the grant that you give us every year. It really helps us to finance not only our house tours that the Mayfield City School kids come to every year, the third graders, but it also helps us with some maintenance and our programming. Last year, we had over 150 students come through the house. This year, we got St. Paschal's and St. Francis to come also. We are trying to get Corpus Christi to come also because they are also a part of the Original Township. Every second Wednesday of the month we have a program with a speaker at 7:00 p.m. at the Community Room. We have historical people. We had someone talk about Clare Booth Luce, and Eleanor Roosevelt. We are going to talk about the Cleveland Rams before they were the Cleveland Browns. Our meetings are at 7:00. We have some homemade cookies and refreshments afterwards. Everyone is always invited to come. Without your continued support, it would be very hard for us to do what we are doing. We also had a booth up last year at the Grove for the first time. We had old before and after pictures of various locations around Mayfield Village. It was a real big hit with people because they said, oh, I remember - that kind of thing. It was very encouraging. We also have some of the oldest homes, pictures from the 1870's that we have and today what they look like. We have a lot of positive comments. We also played some 1890's games with the children that came up. That was kind of fun. They seemed to have a good time. We hope to be at the Grove again this year with a table with some information about our association. We hope that as Council members as you get out to the community and start talking to your constituents, you might find that retired person looking for something to do, maybe has an hour to spare or a month or a week. Send them our way. We can always use the help. We have docents. They give tours to the kids or anybody who comes to the house. We have quilters that quilt every Monday. We have a librarian and a couple of assistants that use the library for research. People call in and say, is my grandfather buried in the Union Cemetery? The librarian does the research. It's kind of fun. We have a lot of people with talents out there in the Village that we, could use. If you know someone looking for an extra volunteer job, just give us a call. We also publish all of our information in the Voice of the Village. So, I want to thank you for supporting us again this year