Previous meetings

February 25, 2008 19 members attending

During Spring break the teen members will be going bowling March 26th from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. Pizza will be provided, but teens must buy their own drinks. Permission slips are due back March 10th, during the next meeting. Each month the library hangs different decorations for upstairs, and members will help put up the decorations. Dye cuts, lamination and other supplies will be at your disposal. We will also be hanging up the Solar System that was built last year. We will have new "Theme Lock-ins," some ideas are already surfacing such as Hawaiian, toga, lego and 60s themes. No sand unfortunately… Video game tournaments are still open, and can be brought up at any time that is convenient. All upcoming tournaments will be "invite only." The meetings have been short, sometimes as little as ten minutes before everyone leaves, so suggestions were brought up for games that we can play after the meetings are over. Teens are URGED to write more reviews, excluding the saints who have already provided us with their excellent opinions. Next meeting will be on the 10th of March.

October 22, 2007  22 members attending 1 new council member

The haunted library will be operating the 30th and 31st. The Teen Council members are going to have a book salel this January, let Bill or Kim know if you would like to participate. The Teen Council suggested a lock-in at the library during Winter break. Spider projects, spray-painting and other projects were undertaken today. Members are encouraged to bring in things on off-days if the want, to spruce up the Haunted Library. One of the members has undergone a project to create a "virtual tour" for the library. Next meeting will be on the 29th, the day before the haunted library opens. Minutes by Matthew Myers

August 20, 2007. 16 members. Members email adresses were updated. The council is making a giant paper machee snake. The solar system is nearly complete and will be placed in the children's section upstairs. DOBs were taken from the members to update the birthday list. Grades were also taken. Sep 14th, members are encouraged to vonlunteer there time to help serve refreshments and hand out pencils. We will be serving hot beverages for this years pumpkin show again, and members are needed to help serve, seeing as what a success this was last year. The haunted library was discussed, and the problem of volunteers being pestered by some of the children in the haunted house was addressed, and actions were taken to prevent this. There are sign up sheets for both the Jim Tyson birthday celebration, and the Pumpkin Show stand and members should sign if they are available.

May 14, 2007. The council has suggested a solar system foe the upstairs decorations. The Euchre Tournament date has been moved to the 25th of May. A date has still not been set for the beginning of Haunted Library projects, but will probably begin some time after school is out. Many of the headphones at the Tyson Library have been returned damaged or broken, so the library will be selling earphones for patrons who wish to use them. Student council members are reminded that it is their responsibility to get to the meetings on time. They are also reminded that it’s not a crime to take the minutes if the usual note-taker happens to be absent. The date for the next meeting has been set to June 4th at 3:00. Minutes by Matthew Myers

April 16, 2007. The meeting began with a proposal to change the meeting time to 3:15 a vote was taken, after the idea and was thoroughly shot down, and there will be no change. The council discussed an early start on decorations for the next Haunted Library, which will start soon and be drawn out over the summer. Members are encouraged to participate in decorating the children's section of the library. Three future tournaments were discussed. A card game, Risk, and Age II tournament were brought to attention. The Card tournament will be the next event to occur, and preparations for the next two tournaments are underway. A Dry spell in recent reviews has been addressed and members are reminded that reviews are not limited to books. Movie, music, and even game reviews are also acceptable, and highly encouraged. Next meeting 4/30 at 4:30

October 9 meeting: 14 members at today's meeting.  Thanked everyone for their work at the Pumpkin Show pre-parade concession sales. Group took in about $100.00. Discussed plans for Haunted Library. Passed around sign-up sheet for working the nights of Oct. 30 and 31. Monday (10/9, 16, 23) we'll work on Haunted Library between 4:00 and 6:00pm .  Sat. 10/28 will be the final set up for the haunted library. Next meeting, 10/23.

September 25th meeting: 12 members at today's meeting.  Discussed final plans for selling coffee and hot chocolate at the Sept.30th Pumpkin Show parade set up area in front of the library.  We will set up around 6:00am and continue selling till 10:00 or we run out of supplies.  Discussed additional plans for the Haunted Library, including the time (6:30 - 8:30pm) on the 30th and 31st.  Charge for visitors was discussed - a free-will offering will be accepted and they will receive a treat bag of candy.  In addition we set aside every Monday (10/2, 9, 16, 23) at 4:00 to 6:00pm to work on the haunted library.  Sat. 10/28 will be the final set up for the haunted library.

September 11th meeting: 11 members at today's meeting. Requested volunteers to help with the James Tyson Community Meeting on September 14th. Help is needed to setup for the meeting on the afternoon before and to act as hosts the evening of the meeting. Briefly discussed the plans for the September 30th "Pumpkin Show" parade concession. Sign-up for times to work that morning was passed around and will be available at the next meeting. Discussed the "Haunted Library" event and plans to start working on the project. Following the meeting a coffin was constructed and a sample grave stone was painted to see how it looked. The next meeting will take place Monday, Sept. 25, at 4:30pm.

August 28th meeting: 12 members at today's meeting. Discussed the plans for the September 30th "Pumpkin Show" parade concession. Sign-up for times to work that morning was passed around and will be available at the next meeting. Discussed the "Haunted Library" event and plans to start working on the project. Saturday, Sept. 9th, will be a work session day to build some items. The next meeting will take place Monday, Sept. 11, at 4:30pm.

June 12th meeting: 14 members at today's meeting. Announced that volunteers are welcome to help wth the library's summer program for toddlers through 6th grade. Reservations for Kings Island trip must be made by July 1. $27.99 per person. Council memebers will get a free food voucher. Parking ticket $7.00. Everyone must arrange for their own ride to and from the KI. More details were planned for the haunted library. Made a list of items that had to be built, bought or borrowed. Next meeting we can start bringing things in. We will also have a layout on the floor so we can start taking measurements. The next meeting will take place June, 22nd.

May 23rd meeting: 14 members at today's meeting. 2 new members attended today's meeting along with one spectator. We started the meeting off by discussing out trip to Kings Island. Members will have to pay for their ticket 2 weeks in advance to secure the group discount. Also each member must have a ride to the library. The haunted library will be worked on this summer, so we are going to separate into groups to get things done. We need to figure out what to build, and get that started, then what we need to buy, then start finding it. If any of the members wishes to help with the summer reading program contact Bill, Kim, or Becky at the library. Age II: Age of Kings is now running on 2 or 3 of the library's computers, upstairs. The next meeting will take place June, 12th. Minutes by Matthew Myers

April 3: 12 members discussed upcoming events including a special showing of Chronicles of Narnia and King Kong, both recently released on DVD.  The movies will be shown back to back on Saturday, April 15, starting at 11:00am. We will sell concessions as a fund raiser. The library's book sale is April 5-8. Anyone who want to volunteer to help during the sale is welcome.

February 27: 10 members- Movie marathon was a flop. Why did it go wrong? We narrowed it down to 1) The weather, 2) Old movies, and 3) We need to focus on a bigger fan base. We are going to try and show Harry Potter, King Kong, and Chronicles of Narnia a few days after their DVDs come out. Harry Potter might show on March 11th if things go as planned. King Kong will be delayed, because it comes out during spring break. We will show it along with The Chronicle of Narnia. We are still planning on selling hot chocolate and coffee before the parade because they park the floats right next to the library (we'll make a killing!!!), and most of us plan to be there. We were thinking about a float, but a lot of kids have other things to do for the parade, ex. band members have to march. We spent the rest of the meeting talking about the "Haunted Library" and coming up with ideas. If they actually work then we're going to have one heck of a haunted house. Minutes by Matthew Myers

February 6: There were nine members present. We discussed plans for Feb.18th Jim Carrey movie marathon. Selected "The Mask", "Truman Show" and "Ace Ventura Pet Detective" as the movies. Shows will start at 11:00am and run until 4:00pm. Members agreed to be here that day to sell concessions. Admission to the movies is free but we'll charge for soft-drinks, popcorn and candy. Next meeting will start talking about haunted library for halloween.

January 16th: There were nine members present. We discussed future activities including Pumpkin Show, Halloween and movie marathon. Some of these could be fund raisers for the teen council, such as charging for refreshments at movie marathons... we cannot legally charge for admission. T-shirts will be handed out at next meeting.

January 2nd: There were only 4 members at this meeting. Like where were the rest of you? All we did at this meeting was finish painting the snowman. Matthew doesn't have perfect attendance anymore and I think I do, ha ha! On the 28th we did teen bowling which was fun; afterwards a few of us went to the library to paint "Frosty". On the 30th we had movie time when we watched National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Then we listened to music, ate, and played Harry Potter Scene It. Minutes by Katie Guenther.

December 19th: 8 people were at today's meeting. Today we had a very short meeting. Kim was not here due illness in the family. We came to a decision on what we were going to have on the back of our TNTeens shirts. I will have the word floccinaucinihilipilification on the back, Joe will have the word antidisestablishmentarianism, and Carter will have the word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. In other news Bill found a PG13 version of Christmas Vacation for our Christmas lock-in. He will also see about getting a Harry Potter version of SceneIt game. We will be notified about the time during Christmas break to finish up the "snowman". We are going to have a new member joining us soon. Next meeting will be January 2nd. Minutes by Matthew Myers

December 5, 2005: 11members at today's meeting. (editorial note: Most were on time.)* We have 2 new members at today's meeting, and this is our largest meeting to date. We started off the meeting with a discussion of the next Lock-in we are going to have on the 30th. Kim told us that there are going to be three movies airing on the 27th, but if you want to see them you have to sign up ahead of time. We talked about the lock-in and decided we were going to play games that allowed for competition Ex> racing games or board games. The snowman we are making is almost done, but we can't finish it today, because Bill is having a meeting. Bill showed us the new concept art for our Teen Council T-shirts, and we debated the color (I never knew how difficult it was going to be to make some shirts!!!). This will be known as "The Great Shirt Debate 2005!" Honestly can't we just choose a color and stick with it!
Minutes by Matthew Myers

*I was fetched from the computer by my sister with a warning that if I was late for the meeting while I was in the building they would kick me off the computers, which is an injustice of the worst kind! I was late because I didn't know the starting time of the meeting. Injustice! How could it be considered fair for them to revoke my computer privileges because of a miner mishap! SHAME on you!!! ... (Oh, boo hoo!)

Nov. 21, 2005: Group discussed future activities. Agreed upon a lock-in on December 30th, Friday, from 6 to 10pm. We are looking into a bowling party during the Christmas school break. Date and time to be announced. By next meeting we should have t-shirt design and colors. Following the meeting work was begun on "Frosty" the snowman - a paper-machete snowman to be on display in the library this winter.

October 10, 2005: 4th recorded meeting- 8 members. I was late for today's meeting, but the only thing I missed was the tie-breaker for the movie we we're going to watch at the lock-in. We decided on Van Helsing. Now that we have regular people showing up we are going to start having new people show up, so Kim showed us the new application form for new members. Then we discussed what games we are bringing to the lock-in, we've got quite a selection now. It's a little early, but we suggested a few Christmas decorations(You can never be too ready for the holidays). -snack break- Then there was talk of maybe taking a trip to the movies(more on this later). We talked a little more about the lock-in; we're all excited. Then gave a few book suggestions, (I gave a few book suggestions) and Kim asked us for more book reviews. Just a reminder- Get those book reviews in! Next I'll have a report and pictures from lock-in. We are going to skip a meeting thanks to the lock-in, so our next meeting is Nov 7 at 4:00. -Minutes by Matthew Myers

September 26, 2005: 3rd recorded meeting- 9 members at today's meeting. Today's meeting started with the serving of pizza. The websites mission statement was updated today by Bill (The old one was lacking… how do I put this… Pizzazz). We discussed what decorations we wanted for the entrance to the library, and any member that wants to help should show up Oct 3rd at any time. The Teen Council is going to have its very first lock-in with movies, games, and more!!! The lock-in is going to be October 21st from 6:00-10:00p.m. We have a new member once again. Carter is now a TNTeen. Happy birthday to Aleisha and myself!!! Our birthday was Saturday, September 24. Next meeting will be October 10th 4:00-5:30. -Minutes by Matthew Myers

September 26th meeting

September 12, 2005: 2nd recorded meeting - Council name now official (with much dispute on my authority to make it official), we're the Tyson Library TNTeens. The showing of the webpage, which was a good effort on Bill's and my part. New member!!! Everyone say hello to Joe! That's the good news the bad news is we only had 6 members this meeting. WHERE ARE THE REST OF YOU! Shirts are still in the works. We've come up with a design though. -Minutes by Matthew Myers

ps. (editorial comment by Webmaster Bill) As it turns out several members did not know about the meeting date and time or forgot. For future meetings we will send e-mail or postcard reminders.