The big rock

Posted on by Ian C.

Margaret wanted to plant a Buddleia in the garden, but found a rock below the soil surface … she worked to dig around it, find it’s edges, and planned to pull it out – but the rock kept getting bigger! Margaret got me to come and help, and many more hours were spent – we had to remove a “smaller” rock to get at this one; that smaller one took us 3/4 hour to remove, and was almost impossible to lift! This bigger rock might have been as big as a car for all we could tell … it’s still there now!

After these pictures, we re-buried the rock; we put that “smaller” one on top as a feature, and planted the Buddleia behind! Hope it likes it there 🙂

Open Door Annual Board Meeting 2010

Posted on by Ian C.

Another year on the board of the Open Door (previously Cape Ann Food Pantry), and time for another annual board meeting. Back in 2006, my first experience was a board meeting where it was realized that instead of buying an expensive building to relocate to, we should focus on our mission of addressing hunger in Cape Ann.
Interestingly, four years later we now have purchased a building! But sensibly we were able to purchase the building where we were already located (becoming a landlord instead of renter); we’ve also updated our mission statement to a more concise “The mission of the Open Door is to alleviate the impact of hunger in our community. We use practical strategies to connect people to good food, advocate for those In need, and engage others in the work of building food security.” (see the 2009 board meeting for more on the development of this new mission statement).

So this year’s board meeting needed to find a new focus … of course I didn’t need to find a new task, as I still take pictures!