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The NWREF blog is designed to increase communication for the Northwest Renewable Energy Festival planning committee.
Welcome to NWREF Steering Committee Members
It is with great pleasure that I welcome you all to the NWREF steering committee. There is a l0t to be accomplished in the few short months before the festival and I hope that through effective communication we can help each other achieve our goals in a timely manner.
Organizing Section
- Location and Date Ideas (3)
- Meetings (3)
- Speakers (1)
- Sponsorship (1)
- Tours (1)
- Workshops (1)
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Hi everyone,
Just remembered yesterday I was supposed to share my notes. Here they are:
Jamie has checked and the Water Center is available that weekend (along with a few other buildings) so we've decided to hold NWREF 2008 at the Water Center and cross promote other programming that weekend (Ft. Walla Walla's Harvest Festival, the Quilt Fest, Farmers' Market, etc.)
Jamie will take a look at the plans to figure out what would work best for the layout (we'll need a first aid area, an info booth - where we have greeters and a guest book so we can follow up with attendees), outdoor and indoor booths). We will probably close off the North side of the parking lot and keep the side with carpool and alter-abled parking available for cars (this should allow outdoor vendors good solar access), we will also need access to water outdoors for solar water exhibits - if interested in doing a walk-through to look at layout, contact Jamie
Jamie will also look into the rules regarding selling products and what we might need in terms of insurance
Standard booth sizes will probably be similar to what they were in the past (10x10) and exhibitors will pay to set up a booth (their fees help cover our costs), in the past it was $75/booth (we still need to determine what it will be this year), we will need to have a registration form so vendors can indicate what equipment (tables, canopies, etc.) they will need
We will be near the foot bridge so we could have a walking tour to discuss the river and hydro energy
We would like to have a food court (food will need to be okayed by WWCC catering) so Jenna, Jamie, Christina, and Susan will all contact caterers they know to see about serving fresh, local inexpensive food at the Festival (we still have to decide on a fee for vendors - perhaps % of sales). We will provide drinking water in jugs and we will rent water cups so that we don't use bottled water.
Dick Fondan of Valley Transit has a green bus that he's made available to the festival in the past so we can ask for it to be available to us this year
Christina and Nathan are interested in Marketing and contacting vendors (Christina might be able to go to the home expo in Portland and will keep us posted on what she learns!)
We've decided to make the festival 3 days with Friday focused on kids, Saturday available to the general public with exhibitors and workshops, and Sunday the day for tours (people will register and pay for tours of things like a wind turbine, Joe Patrello's house, etc. - we might be able to coordinate with Renee Brookes and the Tri-Cities Homebuilders Association since they are planning a tour of homes in Walla Walla that weekend and some of them might be Built Green; the SLC's green homes tour will probably be in the spring)
Jenna is working with Benton-Franklin PUD 2 share supplies and contacts (especially for the Kid Zone)
We will do as many of the workshops as we can at the booths and make them as hands-on as possible (we'll post the time so people know when to stop back by), we'll also try not to overlap the times of the workshops (we've had some complaints about that in the past)
The festival will need to pay for itself (we have a budget of $1200 for the whole festival)
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