OTMP – September Meeting 9-16-20 (In person)

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Club Update: 
As the months keep rolling on and the need for normalcy in life charges forward, we as a club have hit a crossroads. Our club (for the time being) is now homeless. Like an abandoned greyhound after a bad race we are now left to fend for ourselves. 

The official stance from SPE is as quoted:

At this time, we will not be able to host OTMP meetings at the brewery.   Ryan and I are making this decision for a couple reasons.   One is the obvious COVID 19 restrictions that we have in place.   We are only allowing up to 6 people at a table inside.  Furthermore, our inside capacity is limited to 50% so any seats we are filling we need people buying beer.  Unfortunately, the OTMP do not tend to buy many beers when they meet at the brewery.  Furthermore, since March when we could only offer take out and even when we opened up again, we have seen very few of OTMP's coming to the brewery to support us and make sure we stayed open so there is a place to meet.     I am sure you can understand why we would not want to offer our space if the support is not mutually beneficial.

It also seems that this will likely be the stance from any other brewpub/brewery/restaurant we approach. As they have many restrictions placed on them, we likely don't fit their needs as typical customers or as fitting inside their models of making a profit and remaining open. 

Gordon and I spoke at length regarding this issue we face (Thanks for the beers Gordon!). We have arrived at a few facts:
  • The club must find its own answers to this problem, in house. 
  • This problem cannot be solved by one person or a few people.
  • We need to do what we can to maintain being an active club with good membership.
  • We need to support SPE when we can, if we want to maintain this relationship on the other side of things. 
I feel that these bullet points are a good opening for the next meeting, maybe prior to sampling. For myself, this club is one of the few extracurricular activities that I am involved in and I want to maintain an active club. We just need more heads in on these decisions to find our path. 

We need to identify locations for the next 5 months (10/21,11/18,12/16,1/20, 2/17), cold months are the hardest to address. We have had a few members offer to host, we just need to nail down the who's who. If we can nail down the next 5 months we can ensure a path forward.

I have faith we will discover solutions, we just need to find them.
-Evan Sherlock 
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Meeting Info:

Where: Evans Backyard – Come through the gate by the boat on 65th Ave, the lights in the backyard will be on.

Location: 6525 Independence St.  (Northwest corner of 65th and Independence)

Date:

9/16/20

Time: 7:00pm


Meeting Information (please read):

This is a no guarantee of social distancing type meeting. Please, if you feel ill, have symptoms, have a fever, been in contact with vagabonds, loose women, stray dogs or had ebola recently please dont attend. Also, please keep in mind I have a family and a bedtime myself.


Remember to bring a glass to taste out of; beers if you have them. I have seating for 14 at tables, plus a few other places that you might be able to slightly distance yourself from the 'rona. If you plan on making the meeting please RSVP to this email prior to Wednesday so we have a count.


Hope to see you then, I look forward to some good times!

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