Tom's Memorial October 16

The memorial will be Saturday, October 16 at 1:00 at Thomas Creek Ranch outside of Forestville.  It will be a circle of sharing and a potluck of finger food and drink.  Please bring something to share if you can.  If nice weather, we can be outside.  Here is a link to the Pingg Evite:  http://www.pingg.com/fkxjyj5cjfj3zp4tn  Please go there to RSVP.  You can use this link to notify others also.  Please encourage everyone attending to reply at this link.


Please also bring pictures, mementos, anything that makes you think of Tom or that Tom would like for a "day of the dead" altar at the gathering.

To get there, take Pocket Canyon Rd out of Forestville heading west.  When you see the big gravel mine on the right, look to your left for Giovannetti Rd.  Follow that road (about a mile?) and when it makes an extreme bend to the left, go straight in through the gate of Thomas Creek Ranch (I think there is a sign).  I think we will have volunteers and/or signs to direct you from there.  Can you be one of those volunteers?

It would be great to have some committees or point people to be in charge of (or help with) the following things:
Set-up and decorating
Food and drink -planning, setting up etc.
Music, poems, key speakers for the ceremony part
Creating display tables and posters of things Tom loved, did, had, made, etc. - sort of a Day of the Dead altar.
Clean-up crew

PLEASE add comments to this post to offer what you can do.

The flow of the day will be something like this:
1:00 - arrive, schmooze, get settled
1:30 - formal part begins - I think a few key people should be designated to speak and then whoever wants to
2:30 or so - adjourn to potluck food, drink and story-telling
4:30 or 5 - clean up!!