Name: Myles Abdul-Bari
Observation Date: October 14th, 2018 2:00pm
Observation Location: Eckstrom-Columbus Library
Going into the meeting I was hoping to understand the reason for this community and what they try to accomplish for each other. The meeting was held in the Eckstrom-Columbus Library in a meeting room. Everyone signed an attendance sheet and members got a small piece of paper with their name on it. The president of the group began speaking, while behind a podium, about the big support the local fish stores give the community. The community and the local fish stores have a great relationship with each other. The stores provide discounts on products for the community to use during meetings and the community supports the local shops with their purchases. The president of the group then had the now comers introduce themselves (me and one other person). We gave our name and the fish we keep then picked a small piece of paper out of a bowl for a raffle. The raffle was for members only and the winners got gift certificates for the local fish stores. These gift certificates were purchased by the president with the money that was raised from auctions from fish, plants, and supplies provided by the members. After the raffle the president said they normally have a presentation from a volunteer about an aquarium topic. This time there wasn’t a presentation so they instead had a bowl contest. Some of the members brought fish that they wanted to compete and everyone voted on two fish they thought looked the best. After everyone voted on the most attractive fish, the owners of the fish described their fish and interesting fact about them. The two winners with the most votes won another gift certificate for the local fish stores. After the contest, the president held the auction and a member helped hand out the purchases. The items auctioned off were provided by the members and all of the proceeds go towards gift cards for the next month’s meeting and supplies for the group. Everyone was really nice about the auctions and let some people win that wanted the item more but keep the prices low. The auctions ended the 2 hour meeting, the buyers paid for their purchases, and everyone helped clean up. What I noticed when the president was going over the gift card options, there was one store that was left out, Tropical Kingdom. I wonder why this store wasn’t even mentioned.
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