[lace] meeting places

2012-01-03 Thread Jane O'Connor
Lynn, I tried to reply to you and get approved but it did not go through so
resorting to answering on Arachne.

My Lace Guild meets at a library and we
pay by the hour for the room. This is a 
central location for most of our
members as they come from a very large area - 
some driving over an hour to
get to the meeting. We used to meet in a church - 
yes, paying a fee.

Try
asking local banks if they have a meeting room. If a member of the bank, you
might get it for free. Some village halls have meeting rooms for rent. Local
restaurants sometimes will allow groups to hold meetings in  a separate room
as 
long as you pay or order food.
Jane O'Connor 
jjo...@sbcglobal.net 
New
Lenox, IL USA 


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Re: [lace] meeting places

2012-01-03 Thread lynrbailey
Dear Jane et al, thanks for your ideas, especially the restaurant idea, which I 
hadn't thought of before.  There are a number of family style restaurants in 
the area that might be willing. I have responded privately to all emails 
concerning this topic, and I especially liked the store idea, which was a new 
one.  In Lancaster that would probably mean a quilting store, as this is quilt 
country, but who knows.  The idea of schools put me in mind of our local 
'university' (state teacher's college) that might be willing.  Schools here are 
not overly community minded, although clearly they are in Britain.  I have a 
very fond memory of going to a Lace Day in March 2006 at a public school 
somewhere in The Weald, an hour train ride south of London.  I doubt there 
would be such a thing here in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 

For anyone interested, if you get some mumbo jumbo when you're trying to email 
me, just ignore it.  I deal with the Arachne posts on my 'suspect' email, hence 
the automated response, but I read all my Arachne mail there, or responses from 
a thread that's going on, right after I read my regular email, so unless you're 
expecting a response and don't get it for a day or two, don't bother to do 
whatever has to be done to contact me, because I'm checking that list as well.  

Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, where we're having a cold snap down to the 
usual temperatures for this time of year.  27F -5.5C, sunny and windy.  But 
I've broken TWO threads this morning, and I'm not happy.  

Jane O'Connor wrote:

Lynn, I tried to reply to you and get approved but it did not go through so
resorting to answering on Arachne.

My Lace Guild meets at a library and we
pay by the hour for the room. This is a 
central location for most of our
members as they come from a very large area - 
some driving over an hour to
get to the meeting. We used to meet in a church - 
yes, paying a fee.

Try
asking local banks if they have a meeting room. If a member of the bank, you
might get it for free. Some village halls have meeting rooms for rent. Local
restaurants sometimes will allow groups to hold meetings in  a separate room
as 
long as you pay or order food.
Jane O'Connor 
jjo...@sbcglobal.net 
New
Lenox, IL USA 



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Re: [lace] meeting places

2012-01-03 Thread J D Hammett

Hi Arachnids,

One of my classes meets at a meeting room at the Local Council offices, 
another in a room above a coffee shop. The latter is their overflow room for 
when they are very busy in the summer holidays (we do not meet during the 
summer holidays. The council room is relatively reasonably priced for local 
clubs and organisations, while the coffee shop initially offered to let the 
room (again reasonably priced) when we had to move out of the previous 
premises very suddenly - that was 5 years ago. A couple of small groups -up 
to 8 people- meet in my front room. Two other lace groups -and one I used to 
frequent- meet in church meeting rooms which are more expensive;  others I 
know meet in community centres, a sports centre, a school and a W.I. meeting 
room. Where rent has to be paid that comes out of the subscriptions. 
Scout/guide huts might be another possibility -could even win some young 
lace makers- :-). Working men's clubs, British legion rooms, and that kind 
of place might be able to help .


Good luck in finding a place.

Joepie, East Sussex, UK

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