Wine Club Shipment

Last week, I helped one of my coworkers, Ryan, begin to get things organized for the upcoming wine shipment that occurs during the second week of May. We have to get everything in order and email the club members to let them know that we'll be charging their cards and that their wine will either be shipped or available for pick up starting on a selected day. We also organized the remaining pick ups that haven't been claimed yet and set up for the actual packaging which will occur tomorrow. There is a newsletter included with each shipment that informs the member about the included wines and often includes a paragraph at the bottom of the page that talks a little about the history of the wines or upcoming events. This adds a personal touch to the shipment and makes our members feel valued and important.

I'll also be doing more work for Lunabean by finding a person and their contact information at each winery in the DHWA who is in charge of the marketing and social media so Lunabean can contact them with questions or advice. I'll be putting all the information in an Excel spreadsheet so it will be well organized and easy to use. This will greatly reduce the communication barrier between the wineries and Lunabean so the marketing will be more cohesive and successful in gaining more customers. I am more than happy to assist in getting people to learn about the wonderful Willamette wine country, and I know the experience I gain from doing this will help me at jobs in the future.

Breakthrough!

I have good news on the "history of the Eyrie building" front! I had a very productive meeting with Margaret Legard, the woman who has been working on getting Buchanan Cellars on the National Register of Historic Places. She was able to give me several tips on how to continue my search for the origins of the winery building. She even went down to the County Clerk's office to show me how to use the "technology." I use that term loosely as it involved a lot of manual indexes, microfilm readers and trial and error searches. Quite a bit different from just doing a quick key-term search and finding everything at my fingertips. However, I do feel that I can now take on the world of public records more effectively, and for that I am very grateful!

So I was able to track the owners of the property (plot 1, block 18, Oak Park Development to be exact) back to 1913. I must say I find that to be extremely cool! My next step will be to stop into the Planning Department's office and take a look at the historic maps that are available. I am hoping to determine when a structure first appeared on that sight, and that should give me a much better idea of the era in which the building was constructed. Wish me luck!

**The photo above was taken at the County Clerk's office. The machine reads film strips which contain copies of old bills of sale. Figuring out which film I needed and deciphering the legal code used in those sales transactions made me feel like a real detective!**

Maintain, Maintain, Maintain

By Katie Paysinger
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Another week gone! I can hardly believe it.

This week has been a lot of maintaining existing projects. While the YCAP website is built and live and wonderful, it constantly needs maintained. Once fundraising events are finished, someone needs to delete them from the calendar and that someone is me. Constant Capital Campaign progress needs to be announcements on the Facebook page, posts need to be put on the blog, etc.

I am getting ready to hand over admin of the YCAP website and Facebook to the YCAP staff. Krista wants me to be a part of the training, so that should be interesting. I am getting quite techy, which I am very proud of.

In other news, Sotto has been working on the McMinnville Kiwanis Law Enforcement Career Camp marketing and the website looks totally awesome (I can't take credit but I was sitting across from Krista as it developed!) and the brochures/applications came in today, which we delivered to Sheriff Crabtree. It has been great sitting in on the planning meetings for that because it seems like the whole camp went from an idea to something that is legit and basically a big deal.

I am starting work on another YCAP fundraising project, so more on that soon. It has been really exciting to realize that Krista no longer has to go through each step of the process with me because I now know how to do (most of) the steps to completely projects!

Happy Friday-

Katie

Passport Tour Weekend

So this past weekend was the Passport Tour, and all the members of the Dundee Hills Wine Association participated. It was a success, and we were busy both days. The Passport Tour works like this: people buy the passport for $15, then go to all the wineries and other members to get stamped and try their wines at deeply discounted prices and special deals. For instance, at Vista Hills, we offered 7 wines for only $5, when it's usually $10 for 5 wines. Two of those wines were not usually available, so it was a special treat. We also offered 20% off all wine purchases, so it was more of an incentive for people to buy our wines.

It was interesting, however, because on Saturday we had more groups coming in strictly to taste, and not so much to purchase bottles or cases, and we were slammed all day. On Sunday, it was the exact opposite. We were still busy, but people were more interested in purchasing quantities of wine. We sold several cases and got more people to join our membership as well.

It was a good weekend overall, and I learned a lot more about our wines and how to effectively cater to each customer's needs.

If the wine is the finished product then I'm loading the grapes into the truck

Hello everyone!

This week has been pretty interesting. I finally have managed to find my way into the newspaper articles and such from the early years of the IPNC and they are very interesting and I think will add something to the exhibit that I am really looking forward to. So because the end of sorting is drawing near the digitizing process is drawing nearer and it is encroaching fast. There are countless wonderful photos to sort through still and convert from slides to photographs for printing. The process of scanning will be interesting as we are bringing on two other students to help sort through and upload all the data. Currently we are working on documentation for the borrowed artifacts and photographs as well as forms granting permission for using the items in the exhibit for the IPNC.


As you can probably tell it’s a bit of a slow process, but is now really starting to pick up and I am so ready for this to happen. I will get really excited when I get to do a walkthrough of the possible venues and finally decide how all the wonderful history will be displayed.


I have spent a lot of time looking at the IPNC website and I encourage you all to check it out so that you have something to look forward to going to one day when we have $1000+ to drop for what I am sure is an absolutely fabulous weekend. (I will let you know since I get to work at the event in and around the exhibit and get thrown the occasional scrap of smoked salmon). Anyway that’s it for now. As usual I will keep you posted as this already interesting venture gets more energetic!
(Affectionately "Mr. Snooty Nose")

Sláinte!

The things I forgot in yesterday's meeting

So another aspect of my job as the liaison between Lunabean and the DHWA is to see which members have Facebook and Twitter accounts, and how many people they have on each. After this upcoming weekend with the Passport tour, I have to go back to all of the sites to see if their following has increased, and by how much for each member. This is a way to measure the effects of social marketing and to see if it's actually being successful. I'm interested to see if there is much of an increase, and which wineries increase the most over the course of a few weeks. The results should tell us what we need to change to make it more effective, and what is being done correctly as well.

Roses and Thorns

Have you ever heard about the sharing exercise that the Obamas do when they sit down at the dinner table each night? According to Mrs. Obama, each member of the family shares the "rose" and the "thorn" of their day. Well, I think that's kind of a cool idea, so I'm going to share my roses and thorns of the last ten days with you all. Hopefully it will help me reflect on my progress and appreciate the small victories of my project thus far.

Rose: The woman at the Yamhill County Assessor's office and the woman at the County Clerk's office were both very friendly and helpful when I came to them looking for assistance.

Thorn: The documents available to me at those offices did not provide me with any new and wonderful information. I thus far have only been able to track the building back to its purchase by the Letts.

Rose: Another business in the McMinnville downtown area, Buchanan Cellars, is also working to get their building on the National Register of Historic Places. I am hoping to get in contact with the woman in charge of that project to pick her brain on how she has gone about completeing all the paperwork and documenting the history.

Thorn: I haven't been able to get a hold of her yet.

Rose: McMinnville has its own "inventory" or list of historically significant places. I've drafted a request for the Eyrie building to be included on that list, and hopefully that will be a step in the right direction to achieving recognition for this important building.

Thorn: I've yet to get Jason's approval on it before I send it in to the committee.

All in all, I am making slow but steady progress. I wish I could say I was farther along, but I am committed to completeing as much of this process as possible for Jason, so I'm going to keep chugging along. I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...

Lights, camera, ACTION!

-Nic Miles-

It final feels like our IPNC project is beginning to take form! After a relaxing spring break in Palm Beach, I returned to Linfield with the news that Dr. Huntsberger had received the new camera that we'll be using for the documentary project. Now that we have the camera in our hands, I can begin working with it to become familiar and comfortable, as I'll be spending the next four months with it!

Dr. Huntsberger and I have discussed several styles of shots that we would like to use in the film, so it is important that I get a good feel for the equipment. I will be putting the documentary together using Final Cut Pro 7, which is a Mac product that is used by most professionals. The other half of my homework right now is experimenting with more of the software features. I have used Final Cut to produce a number of projects, but there are still many aspects of the program that I would like to utilize in this project.

-Nic

re:cap, law camps, and island banter

By Katie Paysinger
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The April issue of re:cap is out! Check out the pdf HERE. (Please note the text at the bottom of the mailing panel- Thanks for the shout-out, Pantry!)

Getting that newsletter together was definitely the biggest project I have worked on so far. Finding content, getting people to write content, writing content myself, coordinating with the designer, emailing (lots and lots of emailing), arranging pictures, etc. It is nice to see it completed. The other projects with YCAP are more ongoing, such as maintaining content on the website, so I don't get to see a final 'end' to them just yet.

In other news, besides working on YCAP, I am being brought in on work with a different client, First Federal. I am excited to see how a corporate client works in comparison to a non-profit. More on that to come I am sure.

This week I will also be attending a meeting at the Sheriff's office. The Kiwanis Law Camp is revamping its system and Sotto/Pantry has been brought on for the marketing. Krista will be presenting updated materials to them on Friday.

I will be taking pictures at the office later today, so I am sure those will get posted here eventually.

I'll leave you with your favorite segment:

Conversations on the Island

(Just shared the news with Krista that I saw the flyer I made for YCAP on the wall in my orthodontist's office. She said I should post the picture I snapped with my phone to the YCAP Facebook page.)

Katie- How do we spell Orthodontist? 

Krista- O-R-T-H-O....(looks at my screen) That looks right.

Katie- Word doesn't recognize it. I'll Google it....(reading the Google results)...Wait, is is OrthodonTICs or OrthodonTISTs? 

Krista- Well, Orthodontists is person and Orthodontics is the practice. I think. 

Katie- I accept. O-R-T-H-O-D-O-N-T-I-S-T. 

Toodles!
-K

Gatherings and Conferences and Calls - All Day, E'eryday

I seem to be on the phone, emailing, or on Google Docs about 24/7. The NICE is busy planning our first conference, as well as planning a training week at the beginning of June to prepare for our summer programs. Our summer programs are a chance to really ramp up the neighborhood programs, we send out applications to nation-wide networks of youth environmental organizers, and they apply to join our programs for the summer. We're in the middle of preparing for these as well as figuring out what our first conference is going to be like. We're having a gathering this weekend in Portland, where we're going to spend some solid time planning the conference. It's super exciting! We spend so much time on conference calls and emails that we tend to forget how much fun - and how much more we get done - when we all come together and work for a weekend. It will be refreshing after so many calls. I'll take pictures and fill ya'll in on how that turns out next week!

~Sarah

Capstone Project Beginnings

On Friday of last week, I met with a member of Lunabean and members of the DHWA (Dundee Hills Wine Association) to discuss what my job will be for my capstone project. We determined that I'll help the DHWA members communicate and send content to Lunabean so they can help increase awareness of the association and members to followers on Twitter and Facebook. That way, more people will come out and do wine tastings, which equals bigger profits. Before I met with everyone, I stopped by Stoller and DePonte Cellars to get to know the employees and to taste their wines. It was an interesting experience, and I enjoyed meeting the people I'll be working with in the future. I started off the project by going on Facebook and Twitter and making up a list of the members who had accounts, and how many 'likes' or 'followings' they had. After the Passport Tour in 2 weeks, I'll go back and recount to see if the advertising worked and more people like the wineries in their social media lives. I also worked in the tasting room on Saturday, which I hadn't done since Valentine's Day weekend. It was a very busy day, with several groups coming through. I enjoyed communicating with the customers, and many who had never been there before were surprised at the quality of the wines and the impressive view seen from the building of the valley. I even got three people to sign up to be club members, which elicited a great feeling of satisfaction for me. I'll be working next Sunday, April 10th, when we'll be releasing our newest Pinot called Chemeketa after the community college.

Sifting and Sorting and Shifting the System

Hello All,

So basically the last week has been spent getting back into the swing of things with school and handing in paper parts for my MWI course. Unfortunately I did not get into my internship office due to a lack of time, availability and a trip to NYC. This week I am looking forward to getting through one of the two last big boxes that is filled to the breaking point with articles from the early years of the IPNC. I don't know if they are going to all fit in my organization system right now, I may have to give them their own little home of organizing. I am looking forward to it though since most of what I have been going through before the break has been mostly administrative and taxation forms and such-you know the stuff the public really wants to read about in an exhibit.

This week I will be tackling those boxes and will have them finished and organized by NEXT WEEK! I will do this. I will do this. I will do this!!! I want to get it done ASAP because I then need to go through all the articles with Whitney and decide what is important to her to the exhibit and what will just be scanned into the online repository for future wine inquirers. Which brings me to my next reason for wanting it to get done-scanning. I have been told that I could have some spiffy helpers to scan all these documents and pictures and such into the computer to be put up online for printing and research. This will make it easier when it comes time to make copies or digitally install documents onto text panels in the exhibit.

I am really looking forward to going through all the pictures. I like pictures and I feel that they really tell a story so much better in an exhibit than text-and if you are one of the seldom few who likes to read excessively at museums then I am sorry. There is, though, an entertainment factor to museum exhibits that is absolutely necessary and the IPNC has so many pictures so I cant wait to include them to tell the story and make it more engaging. Along those lines I have also been playing with my design idea and am eagerly anticipating my own end result since I have never done anything like what I am planning and am eager to see how it works out (fingers crossed).

Finally there is a meeting on Thursday to discuss the video work that is going to be done. It is kind of like a two video project wherein Linfield is doing one with interviews of IPNC founders and then there is a really artsy documentary being done by some California pros (at least this is how I understand it). It seems like all kinds of pros are getting in on this video project. This either means that they really liked my solo video recording and editing work and were inspired by it or they thought that it was really bad and had to do something better. Either way I am sorry to those who saw my stuff and applaud anything you all can do. I can't wait to see that end result. Things are definitely winding down quickly.

Cheers!

oh and feel to check out www.ipnc.org its an awesome site!