Arlington Community Media, Inc.

Arlington Community Media, Inc.
2010 Annual Report

Arlington Community Media, Inc.
2010 Annual Report
From the President 2
From the Executive Director 3
Membership 4
The 2010 ACMIs 5
Community Outreach 6-7
Learning Opportunities 8-11
Workshops 8-9
Volunteering at ACMI 9
Youth Programs 10
Internship Program 11
Programming
This Year’s New Productions 12
Log of New Programming 13
P.E.G. Programming 14
Public Access
Education Access
Government Access
Current Programs 15-17
ACMI Staff-Produced Programs 15
Locally Produced Series Programming 16
Locally Produced Program Specials 16
Non-Member Produced Programs 17
Equipment 18
Organizational Use of ACMI’s Community Bulletin Board 19
Our Board of Directors 20-21
Our Staff 22
Our Members 23
Financial Statements 24
vignettes
The Steve Katsos Show 6
Arlington Town Day 7
Rising Stars 12-13
Multiculturalism 17

From the President
The Board of Directors of Arlington Community Media Inc., (ACMI) and I, John D. Leone,
President, present to you ACMI’s fourth Annual Report. This year marks the completion
of ACMI’s fourth full year of operation as Arlington’s cable access provider. During
the past year we signed our second operating contract with the Town granting us an
additional three years of service to the community. ACMI is a fully functioning 501(c)
(3) nonprofit corporation. In compliance with IRS regulations we have had a full independent
audit of our financial books and records. The summarized results of that audit
are presented in this report. The Board is very pleased to report that ACMI once again
passed the audit with flying colors and is in sound financial health, having demonstrated
excellent financial controls and oversight.
Last year marked ACMI’s first full year of focusing its attention on creating more and
higher quality homegrown programming. We expanded our outreach efforts and our
workshop offerings, as well as devoting more staff time to assisting our new memberproducers
in learning the video arts. We increased our coverage of official town and
committee meetings, perfecting sound and image quality with new equipment. Town
Meeting utilized robotic cameras for the first time, resulting in excellent production
values for the folks watching at home.
The upgrades and improvements to our studio facility, the former Dallin Library, continue.
Our new and improved ACMI website, www.ACMI.tv, now features simultaneous
video streaming of our cablecasts. Now anyone anywhere can tune into or go online
for any of our programming via the internet.
Over the past year our staff has devoted countless hours to the community with many
successes. Chief among them this year were the Producers’ Meeting in early April and
the ACMI Awards banquet in late June. The Awards banquet showcased the potential
power and magic of citizen-produced television to many who had little knowledge of
ACMI’s existence and mission.
We are very proud of our accomplishments over the past year and we will continue
to provide to the entire Arlington community and our growing membership a great
media resource. We are also gratified by the steady increase of the town’s agencies,
organizations, and residents that are aware of the scope and power of ACMI’s contribution
to town life.
The Board and I thank you for your trust in us, we encourage you to view our community
programming, to look for our equipment and crews around Town and to join in
and become a member, volunteer or producer at ACMI, Arlington’s television station.
John D. Leone
President
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From the Executive Director
“Life is change”, it has been said….and at ACMI this past year this has certainly been
the case. We have experienced changes in our programming, our policies, our building,
and our staffing–all in a growth pattern that is exciting to see.
It is gratifying to see all of the new faces passing my office door on their way to the
studio for a workshop or to create or participate in a production. Our active membership
has grown considerably and so there are many more volunteers who we can call
on to crew a show. As a result we have covered this year many more Town and
committee meetings.
Outreach this past year was extended to the Arlington Public Schools through presentations
made to the Superintendent’s Cabinet and the School Committee in order to
develop a more collaborative relationship. Even more exciting is the growth in ability
that some of our younger members have achieved at ACMI over the course of the year.
Many of our students are now producing shows of their own with minimal staff
supervision. As a result of his experience at ACMI, one student is now a college freshman
majoring in television production.
We felt it was time to raise the bar on our production standards and requirements and
so we convened a Producer’s Meeting in April. A packet of information was distributed
that contained policies and technical information that we felt would standardize our
procedures and improve the quality of programming produced at ACMI. This information
is now part of a New Members’ Packet.
Also new is our Media/Programming Coordinator, Sean Snyder, who
has created a new ACMI website with a fresh look. He also has begun to
include social media components such as Facebook and Twitter to get
the word out about ACMI.
The studio has been freshly painted and the edit lab, which was completed
last summer, has been a huge success. Due to its new configuration,
members who work in the editing lab area have easily been able to get
to know and assist each other. This is the essence of access television…
people helping people.
We ended the year with an Awards Dinner that was a spectacular event
for all and was truly a night to remember. It was an opportunity for ACMI to thank the
entire membership and to acknowledge those who have contributed their time and
efforts in producing new programming and in making ACMI what it is today.
And so “life is change” indeed …and at ACMI it takes place through the efforts of all of
our members and volunteers. We can’t wait to see what changes are in store for us all
next year as we continue to grow.
Norman J. McLeod
Executive Director
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Membership
Arlington Community Media Inc. (ACMI) is a member-based, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit
organization incorporated in April 2003 and contracted by the Town of Arlington in
September 2006. ACMI’s active members numbered 318 as of June 30, 2010 – a
72% increase over the previous year’s membership of 185.
Membership is open to all who live in our town. A nominal annual membership fee,
due at the beginning of each ACMI fiscal year (July 1st), provides access to all the
features and benefits ACMI has to offer. These include: high-quality digital video
production equipment; the training to operate it effectively; the ability to borrow and
use it away from the studio; the use of all equipment, studio, and editing facilities; air
time on our Public, Education, and Government channels carried by RCN, Comcast,
and Verizon to all Arlington cable subscribers; a quarterly newsletter; and invitations to
ACMI special events and meetings.
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The 2010 ACMIs
As ACMI president John Leone mentions in his message on page two, this past year
was the year we focused on training new members in television production so as to
increase the percentage of local programming on our channels. At the end of the fiscal
year, on June 25th, we were pleased to unveil the fruits of our labors by showcasing
78 member-producers as nominees at our very first awards ceremony on June 25th at
Town Hall. It was ACMI’s first chance in its four-year history to publicly acknowledge
the creative and technical achievements of its members. It was a fabulous evening, as
the images below will attest.
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Community Outreach
Goodwill
Community outreach, in the end, is mostly accomplished by favorable word-of-mouth
buzz and the perception by the public of a general sense of organizational goodwill.
With that in mind, we are offering, for the second consecutive year, free production of
Public Service Announcements to our Town’s nonprofit organizations. Last summer
15 of them received free one-minute PSAs that would likely have cost them more
than a thousand dollars to produce at a commercial production house. Considerable
goodwill flowed from that gesture and it will likely be generated again by this year’s
free PSA productions at ACMI for a dozen new nonprofits.
Claiming a regional audience
While continuing our usual public presence among Arlington’s people and organizations,
we have begun to generate some buzz beyond our town’s borders. This is
mostly a result of streaming our programs on our website as they are being cablecast
on our channels via the Comcast, RCN, and Verizon networks. This makes it possible for
anyone on the planet with access to a computer and the internet to see our particular
brand of programming.
More specifically, our growing regional presence is mostly due to the success of a
weekly show produced at our studio—for more than 67 weeks now—every Tuesday
evening. Now appearing on broadcast television as well as on cable access TV, the
Steve Katsos Show (SKS) has established itself in New England as a popular showcase
The The Steve Katsos Show (SKS)
The phenomenon that arose in the ACMI studio and control room near the end of ACMI’s fiscal
year is one that has now surpassed all other productions in ACMI history. The Steve Katsos
Show, a weekly talent showcase series, has made the best and most intensive use of ACMI’s
television production resources and facilities to date. It has, in turn, provided ACMI members
the best possible learning and training environment ever.
The show has enjoyed unparalleled success in community access TV in New England (and now
beyond) , boasting a viewership of more than FOUR
MILLION homes. The show was recently picked up by
MY TV New England, a broadcast (not cable) network.
Katsos himself still has national ambitions and has
begun preliminary talks with the Comedy Central Network,
whose programming is viewable nationwide.
At the June 25th ACMI Awards, the Steve Katsos
Show’s First Anniversary Special won the ACMI Award
for Best Overall Production. The show’s second season
promises to be a record breaker as well and ACMI is
proud to be the show’s production home. Steve is
generous in giving ACMI credit for making the show
possible and, given the show’s increasing regional
popularity, that’s a good thing for ACMI’s image as a
first class studio.
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of New England’s creative talent. Musicians, authors, actors, comedians, and others
appear on Steve’s weekly entertainment/talk show to be seen and heard throughout
this region and beyond. The Katsos series is the closest ACMI has yet come to ”going
viral” and we have been pleased to serve as the launch pad for Steve’s creative efforts.
The venture has been mutually beneficial. The SKS phenomenon has provided more
than a few of our members the opportunity to learn professional television production
skills by crewing for the series. ACMI is increasingly a spawning ground for producers
and technicians and provides a jumpstart on the way to advanced training and
entrance into the media workplace.
Name recognition
Our continuing weekly presence in the Arlington Advocate and online at YourArlington.com
and on our own website has produced a growing public awareness in
Arlington of ACMI’s existence and mission. We continue to place ads and articles in
the Advocate to promote our workshops and our coverage of special events, such as
Town Day, Town Meeting, elections, Thanksgiving Day football, the American Cancer
Society’s Relay for Life event at the Arlington High School, and the public notice of our
annual meetings. We also continue to place ads in local event publications such as
the Town Calendar, the Town Planner, the Philharmonic Society of Arlington’s concert
playbills, the Arlington League of Women Voters’ newsletter, the Arlington High School
graduation program bulletin, and the AHS annual spring musical playbill.
Arlington Town Day
Every September, the Town of Arlington holds its annual block party. The townspeople flock to
a five-block section of its main artery in Arlington Center, which is already clogged by colorful
booths of Arlington organizations and vendors. They surge among the booths and the throng
of visitors, being sure to stop by the Main Stage on the steps of Town Hall. There they see performances
by school cheerleaders, school bands, orchestras, choruses, and madrigal singers. Adult
bands play too, and Town Day 2009 featured a sketch artist who rendered huge portraits and
scenes on giant canvases while music played.
All of this grandeur, along with
interviews with town folk and VIPs
alike, is captured on digital video
cameras and sent LIVE to Arlington’s
cable-viewing public courtesy of the
ACMI TV staff and 30 ACMI-member
volunteers. It is a sight to behold,
and the decade of Town Days
archived on tape makes for a time
capsule library of great moments in
the life of our community.
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Learning Opportunities
Workshops
ACMI has become known in the Greater Boston area as a well equipped community
TV access station. It is true that we are blessed with very high quality modern digital TV production gear and recording
facilities at 85 Park Avenue in Arlington Heights. What is more important, however, is our obligation to make it
accessible to our membership—both physically and cognitively. Therefore, we offer several basic workshops in the
operation and artistic use of our equipment and studio facilities.
Workshops at ACMI provide an opportunity to learn basic video and television production skills from the ACMI staff.
Next fiscal year workshops will be offered to ACMI members for $20, and to non-members for $40. Below are workshops
currently being offered.
Orientation Workshop:
Everything one needs to know to get started at ACMI – from becoming a member, to
taking training workshops, using our equipment, producing TV shows, or helping others
produce theirs. All while learning a marketable skill in the process.
Field Camera Workshop:
Gives ACMI members a basic understanding of how to set up and operate our Sony Z1U
and C9 portable cameras. This workshop also teaches the basics of shot composition and
audio recording. (Prerequisite: Orientation)
Adobe Premiere Basic Digital Editing:
Introduction to the Adobe Premiere digital video editing software, widely considered the
industry standard in video editing on the PC platform. Participants learn to capture video
to a computer’s hard drive for editing, and then to finalize it on a DVD. (Prerequisite:
Orientation and Field Camera)
Final Cut Pro Basic Digital Editing (two 3-hour sessions):
Guides participants through the basic and intermediate operations of Apple’s Final Cut
Pro, including video capture and logging, editing, trimming and fine tuning, adding transitions
and effects, audio editing, and basic graphics creation. Final Cut Pro is the industry
standard for creating and editing media on the Macintosh OS platform. (Prerequisite:
Orientation and Field Camera)
Studio Operations (one 3-hour session):
Designed to give a beginner’s overview of the in-studio process for LIVE and live-to-tape
TV productions. Participants learn the required tasks for each of the crew positions,
including: camera operator, floor manager, audio board operator, graphics operator,
teleprompter operator, technical director, and director. Pre- and post-production set-up
of the studio, set design and placement, microphone set-up, and studio lighting are also
covered.
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Member Certification
The following is a listing of the number of members who have been certified in television
production through ACMI workshops. The number under each month and class
represents the number of ACMI members that have taken and completed a course in
that general area of production and that have been approved to use ACMI equipment
to produce programming for ACMI channels.
Orientation
Field
Camera
Adobe Premiere
editing
Final Cut
editing
Studio Ops.
training
July 09 0 5 1 0 0
Aug. 09 0 6 4 3 10
Sep. 09 0 11 3 2 4
Oct. 09 0 8 3 3 2
Nov. 09 1 0 0 0 3
Dec. 09 2 6 5 3 3
Jan. 10 5 7 4 3 7
Feb. 10 4 6 0 0 7
Mar. 10 3 6 3 5 3
Apr. 10 7 7 6 2 0
May 10 1 2 2 4 6
Jun. 10 7 6 1 0 0
TOTALS 30 70 32 25 45
Volunteering at ACMI
ACMI volunteers, along with ACMI staff, make a big commitment each year to cover
public events. This year, once again, the volunteers helped us produce our coverage of
the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, The League of Women Voters’ Candidates
Debate, Arlington’s annual Town Meeting, The Arlington Redevelopment Board meetings
and other official meetings. And volunteers were an essential and much appreciated
part of the 2010 ACMI Awards evening at Town Hall just a week before the end of
the fiscal year.
ACMI member-producers depend on member-volunteers of diverse backgrounds to
collaborate with them in creating our growing schedule of community programming.
The interaction of diverse age groups also has been rewarding, and the Steve Katsos
Show has been a magnet for ambitious volunteers looking to increase their experience
in working on a successful ongoing production. Many of our in-studio and field productions
would not have been possible without this energetic and collaborative effort
by our volunteers and producers.
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Learning Opportunities
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Youth Programs
AHS Focus Media:
AHS Focus Media is the production company that ACMI has created for
students at Arlington High School to provide them training by the ACMI staff in all
aspects of video production. The Focus Media group is currently producing AHS sports
programming and “Gamer’s Edge”, a video game review and demonstration program.
Most recently the group assisted with the production of the AHS 2010 graduation in
June. Members also took the lead in producing an all-night production of the American
Cancer Society’s Relay for Life event at the high school’s Pierce Field. AHS Focus
Media, a diverse group of students with lots of great ideas, has a bright future and is
generating a lot of buzz among AHS students with an interest in video and television
production. We can’t wait to see what they do during the 2010-11 academic year.
ACDC (Arlington Catholic Drama Club):
This tribe of talent, under the direction of Jackie Billings, participated in a series of
in-studio workshops with ACMI Studio Manager, Jeff Munro. Subsequently, student
Maggie Kearnan produced three “making-of” videos about school musicals Once Upon
a Mattress, Grease, and Nonecents.
AMP (Arlington Middleschool Producers):
The 2009–10 academic year was the second year for Arlington Middle-school Producers
(AMP). During the year the group produced 18 original programs and assisted
in various other productions at ACMI. AMP members, under the leadership of ACMI
staffer, J.R. Curtis and member-volunteer Kimberley Harding, took part in learning
activities that included multi-camera studio productions. Participants explored studio
production formats such as news and talk shows, and developed original scripts for
those shows. They also learned directing, technical directing, audio for television, teleprompter,
camera work, floor directing, and talent skills in front of the camera. The new
season for middle-school-aged producers starts in early October 2010.
Fidelity House
Youth programming from Fidelity House, an Arlington’s nonprofit after-school program
included on-site ACMI workshops with the participating youngsters, as well as
the taping and cablecasting of the organization’s unique gymnastics program.
A.C.E. SummerFun Workshop:
ACMI partnered with Arlington Community Education (ACE) again this year in presenting
a workshop for 7th, 8th, and 9th graders during the final week of July 2009. 15
students were trained on studio and remote cameras. They also learned hosting skills,
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audio, directing, technical directing, teleprompter, and floor
directing. The students worked in groups to create small segments
that were compiled into one program at the end of the
weeklong workshop. It was a great week for everyone involved,
including the member-volunteers Brendan Crewe, Dave Vishniac,
Andrea Pizzi, Jared Bessette-Kirton, and Lucas Gradwohl
who assisted the ACMI staff. A couple of the SummerFun
workshop participants subsequently joined the middle-schoolproducers
or the high school group and have become active
ACMI members. The July 2010 workshop was fully registered
many months in advance and will be featured in the 2011 ACMI Annual Report.
High School Faculty Liaisons
New student-produced programming has become a reality through the cooperation
of the following AHS faculty:
Mr. DiTomaso – Music Technology, Arlington High School
Miss Kostanakis – Race in Society, Arlington High School
Mr. Pasquale Tassone – The Menotomy Music Series, Arlington Schools
Ms. Jackie Billings – AC Drama Club, Arlington Catholic High School
ACMI looks forward to deepening its connection to and support of high school curricula
next year.
Internship Program
ACMI has been granted by the Town of Arlington the wherewithal to produce Arlington
television programs by and for Arlington residents, organization, and agencies. We
are now the repository of high-end digital TV production equipment and the collective
knowledge and expertise of our board, staff, and members. It is our obligation
and our honor to empower our members by transferring access to that equipment,
knowledge, and expertise to them. One of the ways we do this is to welcome a small
handful of motivated young people into the ACMI Internship Program each year from
area schools.
This past year we focused on two high school seniors, Jared Bessette-Kirton, an Arlington
High School senior, and Brianna Dee, a Trinity High School senior. They both completed
the requisite hours of training, production tasks, and project wrap-ups. Jared
is now a college freshman majoring in television production, and Brianna a freshman
majoring in vocal music performance.
ACMI will continue the program for FY- 2010-11 and is currently considering applicants
from various area high schools and colleges, including Tufts University, the New England
Institute of Art, Lesley University, Minuteman High School, and Arlington High School.
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Programming
This Year’s New Productions
This past year (July 01, 2009 – June 30, 2010) was the first full year that the ACMI staff
was able to focus mostly on expanding its program offerings, as opposed to its building
and grounds upgrade and new equipment purchase and installation. In order to
offer more programming, we needed first to offer more workshops for our growing
membership and assist new members in producing their first programs for airing on
our channels.
New programs produced this fiscal year include: coverage of Town Budget & Revenue
Task Force and Arlington Redevelopment Board meetings; a Special Town Meeting
with Governor Deval Patrick; A Healer in Every Home, about holistic health; Multicultural
Music Magazine; Natural Living, about alternative health and ecology; Never After, a new
locally-produced play; Tea With the Dallins, an historical piece from the Dallin Museum;
Mill Ponds, from the Arlington Historical Society; Wayne Schwamb Remembers, about
the Old Schwamb Mill; Stress Less, about strategies and techniques for stress reduction;
and The Making of Once Upon A Mattress, a behind-the-scenes look at an Arlington
Catholic High School Drama Club musical theatre production.
Due to our continually expanding outreach efforts, we expect a corresponding rise
in new programs during our 2010-11 fiscal year. For a complete listing of this year’s
programs, please see pages 15-17 of this report.
Rising Stars - Youth
The Ottoson Middle School TV production program (formerly ONN, then AMP), now under the
auspices of the Arlington Enrichment Collaborative, is meeting once per week at the ACMI studio
to produce regular programming under the direction of Diana Weisner and David Vishniac and
promises to be an excellent training ground for those who wish to continue producing video
and television projects with the Arlington high school group, Focus Media.
As the 2009-10 year came to an end, the Focus Media group
was experiencing a burst of creative energy and an influx of
interested producers. The production umbrella for the AHS
news show, Arlington Update, Focus Media began during the
summer to plan and produce a new program, Wicked Green, to
spark public awareness of pressing ecological issues. Incoming
sophomore, Amy Currul is the producer, with an able crew of
Focus Media veterans. Junior, Sam Mintz began his new show
on the local music scene, Arlingtones, and classmate, Lucas
Gradwohl, a longtime and active ACMI member, began plans
for his own new show about what is going on at Arlington
Community Media. Lucas will feature ACMI news and events,
behind-the-scenes video and staff interviews that will also be
available via the ACMI website.
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Log of New Programming
The following is a log of new programming hours aired monthly on the three ACMI
channels. The listing is produced from ACMI’s Telvue-Princeton Video Server system.
This list excludes programs we downlink from satellite TV (e.g. Classic Arts Showcase,
Democracy Now, NASA TV, and Pentagon TV).
Definitions
Public-Local:
Any program airing primarily on our
Public channel and produced locally
within Arlington
Education-Local:
Any program on our Education channel
that is produced locally within
Arlington.
Government-Local:
Any Town government meeting or
forum originating inside Arlington.
First-Run Programming (in number of hours)
Public-
Local
Edu-
Local
Gov’t-
Local
July 09 27:48 17:31 04:15
August 09 19:18 04:02 04:03
Sept. 09 30:52 06:54 06:28
Oct. 09 32:48 13:45 10:33
Nov. 09 24:21 12:08 04:52
Dec. 09 23:28 06:16 06:19
Jan. 10 32:51 10:14 15:30
Feb. 10 42:31 17:20 15:49
March 10 45:11 22:05 26:42
April 10 45:00 14:22 37:11
May 10 44:39 01:32 42:28
June 10 34:26 03:00 34:26
Totals 403 hrs 129 hrs 204 hrs
Rising Stars - Adult
Aside from The Steve Katsos Show, whose stunning success is featured elsewhere in this report,
the rising stars among ACMI’s non-student members, are Begabati Lennihan who produces A
Healer in Every Home, and Tracy Miller and Wu So Fai who produce and edit Natural Living. Both
of these programs continue to produce new episodes on a regular basis and offer information
and insight into the increasingly popular domains of holistic health and organic living.
Add to these, Stress Less produced by Bob Kuhn and hosted by Mark Censky, and Multicultural
Music Magazine by Dr. Nish Sonwalkar and a growing pantheon of stars emerges to populate the
ACMI program sky. Showing practical and musical ways to find calm within the buzzing universe
of feverish activity and increasing anxiety, these programs offer a balance and serenity to our
programming schedule.
Of course, we cannot fail to mention the still-rising star that is Dave Sammarco. Chef Dave is still
pumping out new episodes of his award-winning Just Cook It! show and still catering to the taste
of Italian food and southern BBQ fans. He still shines on the Arlington Town Day main stage
with his Dave Sammarco Band, and these days he and his fashion designer wife Nicole (who is
from Haiti), are working overtime on fundraisers for the Haitian people who struggle to recover
from the devastating effects of the recent earthquake there.
All of us here at ACMI salute these creative and reliable member-producers who consistently
bring thought provoking and entertaining program content to our channels and viewers.
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Programming
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P.E.G. Programming
P.E.G. programming is unique to community access television, as no other broadcast or
cable television network is organized around the public’s universal access to uncensored
local community programming designed specifically for these three areas of
public interest.
Public
Our Public channel features programming by our member-producers, often produced
using ACMI equipment and studio facilities. We also air programs from other public
access channels and independent producers, including a few distributed via satellite,
such as Classic Arts Showcase and Democracy Now!.
Education
Our Education channel features educational programs, shows produced by local students,
and programs made about them by community producers.
Government
Our Government channel features programming by and
information about town governmental bodies, agencies,
and committees, including the Board of Selectmen,
the School Committee, the Redevelopment Board, the
Budget Revenue Task Force, and the Town Reorganization
Committee.
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Current Programs
The following is a breakdown of ACMI programming during FY-2010
(Programs in bold were aired for the first time during this fiscal year.)
ACMI Staff-Produced Programs
The following is a listing of programs produced by ACMI Staff. These are programs
which may include ACMI members, but were coordinated and managed on site by
ACMI staff.
ACMI & Arlington Advocate present School Committee Candidates Debate 2010
AEEF Brain Bee 2010
Arlington & Nagaokakyo Sister Cities 25th Anniversary – Parts 1 & 2
Arlington Board of Selectmen Season 2009-2010
Arlington Board of Selectmen Candidate’s Debate of 03/24/10
Arlington High School Graduation Ceremony (June 2010)
Arlington High School Basketball Season 2009-2010
Arlington Middleschool Producers series – Producer JR Curtis and Students
Arlington School Committee Debates of 03/11/10
Arlington School Committee Season 2009-20010
Arlington Redevelopment Board Meetings
Arlington Town Day 2009
Arlington Town Meeting 2010
LWV Candidates Forum
LWV Candidates Night 2010 - Senate election
Mass Ave Corridor Meetings
Memorial Day Parade 2010
Patriots Day Parade 2010
PSA DAY / June 2009 for 15 Arlington nonprofits
(not including the 3 below)
PSA for Arlington Fire Department
PSA for COA transportation meeting
PSA for Food Pantry Food Drive
Shop Arlington First 2009
Thanksgiving Day Football Game 2009
Town Budget & Revenue Task Force meetings 2009-10
Town Meeting with Governor Deval Patrick
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Programming
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Locally Produced Series Programming
The following is a listing of series programming produced by ACMI members. These
programs were produced by ACMI members after receiving training at ACMI, and were
aired on ACMI’s Public channel.
A Healer in Every Home - Producer Begabati Lennihan
AHS Football Season 2009 - Jared Bessette-Kirton with J.R. Curtis
AHS Boys Hockey Season 2009/2010 - Producer Walter Scott
AHS Girls Hockey Season 2009/2010 - Producer Walter Scott
Arlington Historical Society Presents - Producer Sara Alfaro Franco
Golden Opportunities - Producer Bea Barber
Just Cook It! - Producer David Sammarco
Multicultural Music Magazine – Producer, Nish Sonwalkar
Natural Living – Producer Tracy Miller with Wu So Fai
Retired Men’s Club - Producer Lee Gera
Saint Agnes Catholic School – Producer Patrice Green with ACMI staff
The Public Square - Producer Jeff Thielman
The Steve Katsos Show - Producer Steve Katsos
Locally Produced Program Specials
The following is a listing of program specials produced by ACMI members after receiving
training at ACMI and were aired on ACMI’s Public channel. These programs are not
part of a series.
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Arlington Belmont Chamber Chorus – Producer Julia Vail
Arlington Historical Society Presents: Arlington Photographers – Producer Sara
Alfaro-Franco
Arlington Historical Society Presents: Mill Ponds – Producer Sara Alfaro-Franco
Arlington SummerFun Workshop 2009 – Producers: Workshop Participants
Cyrus Dallin Presents: Paul Revere’s Ride – Producer James McGough
Guns & Hoses: Police / Fire Department Hockey Game - Producer Michael Marroquin
Justice For Women (interview with Gladys Monterroso) – Producer Sara Alfaro-Franco
MLK Jr. Birthday Observation 2010 at Town Hall – Producer Bill Hamilton
Minuteman HS: A Vital Part of the Community – Producers Sean Keane & Clark Jackson
Namaste: The Light in Me Sees the Light in You – Producer Anandhi Rajamarichamy
NEFFA 2009 Offenbach Ensemble – Producer Julia Vail
Never After, Presented by Theatre at First – Producer Jo Guthrie
Schwamb Mill Preservation Trust Presents: Wayne Schwamb - Producer Sara Alfaro-
Franco
Shall We Dance? (Middlesex Concert Band) – Producer Stacie Boucouvalas-Gianourakos
Stress Less – Producer Mark Censky
Tea with the Dallins – Producer James McGough
The Making of Once Upon A Mattress 2009 - Producer Maggie Kearnan of Arlington
Catholic Drama Club
The Making of Grease 2010 - Producer Maggie Kearnan of Arlington Catholic
Drama Club

The Making of Nonecents 2010 - Producer Maggie Kearnan of Arlington Catholic
Drama Club
Voice of the People: The Representative Town Meeting - Producer John Leone,
Mass Moderators Association
Non-member Produced Programs
The following is a listing of non-member produced programs
Care Globally, Prepare Locally – Producer, American Red Cross
Census 2010 Job Fair –U.S. Census Bureau
Eating Local in Somerville – Producer, Wendy Blom, SCAT TV
Electricity 101 (Competitive Retail Energy Markets)
Herb Reed of the Platters (interview) – Producer, Angela Richardson
Hit & Run History – Producer, Andrew Ciles Buckley
Off the Shelf Books on Tour (Crack in the Foundation) – Producer, Erica
Ferencik
Public Health Issues: Smoking & How to Stop – Producer, James Henry
and Dr. Daniel Seidman
Seymour Ziskend Show – Producer, Seymour Ziskend, BATV
Stretch Energy Code, Warrant 14 – Producer, Mark Breslow
Talent Quest by Debra Crosby – Producer, Lex Media
Tales from 56 Years of Practicing – Producer, Bob Carey, MD
The Expert Series – Producer, Ernie Sarro
The Promise of Africom (Security in E. Africa) – Producer, Gail McCabe
US Department of Education: Student Voices – Producer, US Department of Education
White Cane Awareness PSA – Perkins School for the Blind – Producer, Marilyn Rea Beyer
Multiculturalism at ACMI
ACMI’s membership roster and its programming schedule has been enriched by its multicultural
diversity. Several current programs highlight this international flavor.
ACMI’s coverage of Arlington’s Sister City Project with Nagaokakyo Japan during
the Town Meeting opening ceremonies is one example. The Sister City celebration
coverage continued in collaboration with ACMI’s Middle School Producers
and coordinators of the Cherry Blossom Festival. One observer commented: “I
loved watching the dancing, the concert choir, and even the Town Moderator
and the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen speaking Japanese. What a show!”
The Sudanese Education Center Special offers another example. It presented the
stories of Sudanese Women in collaboration with Village Help for South Sudan.
ACMI member-volunteer, Malong Malual, coordinated the effort and did his own
on-camera interview as part of the show.
Other examples include: The Indian Kitchen with Rukmini Srinivas; Namaste: The Light in Me Sees
the Light in You, produced by Anandhi Rajamarichamy; Justice for Women, an interview with tortured
Guatemalan, Gladys Monterroso, Produced by Sara Alfaro-Franco; and Multicultural Music
Magazine, produced by Dr. Nish Sonwalkar.
ACMI 2010 Annual Report 17

Equipment
ACMI expanded its Master Control programming server from 1TB to 6TB to provide
greater program storage capacity and added a Waveform/Vector and control room
monitor for better testing and control functionality. The Edit Lab gained a MacPro
computer for faster image processing. A portable Green Screen kit, with lights and
stands, was purchased for use in studio effects. New audio booth equipment for
sports was acquired. Two additional robotic cameras were purchased to assist in the
coverage of ACMI programs like Town Meetings, the Patriots Day parade, sports, election
coverage, and Town Day.
Equipment Use
The following is a list of days during which ACMI equipment was reserved and used
by ACMI members during FY-2009-10.
HD Field
Camera Kits
(# of days)
TV Studio Rental
(# of reservations)
Adobe Premiere
Pro Edit Suite
(# of reservations)
Final Cut Pro
Edit Suite
(# of reservations)
July 2009 63 12 22 13
Aug. 2009 63 9 24 10
Sept. 2009 105 11 21 16
Oct. 2009 112 17 19 43
Nov. 2009 122 17 17 6
Dec. 2009 94 18 32 21
Jan. 2010 120 18 28 30
Feb. 2010 106 15 29 37
March 2010 97 20 28 38
April 2010 206 13 46 19
May 2010 89 19 37 28
June 2010 107 10 30 21
ACMI equipment was provided free of charge to ACMI members as a membership
benefit. Below is a table showing how much this free service would cost at most area
production houses. This gives a sense of what ACMI has given back to its members
during FY-2009-10.
Average rental fee at
most production houses
Number of days
equipment was
reserved at ACMI
HD Field
Camera Kits
$250
per day
1,427 days
TV Studio
Use
$200
per hour
162 studio
reservations
(3-hour average)
Adobe
Premiere
Edit Suite
$200
per reservation
333 edit
reservations
Final Cut
Edit Suite
$200
per eservation
282 edit
reservations
Estimated market value $356,750 $97,200 $66,600 $56,400
Total estimated market value of ACMI resources in FY09-10 returned to the town of
Arlington: $576,950
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Organizational Use of ACMI’s
Community Bulletin Board
The following organizations have made use of ACMI’s
free, televised Community Bulletin Board.
A Healer in Every Home TV series
(Lydian Center for Innovative Medicine)
Arlington Astronomy Nights at Robbins Farm Park
Arlington Belmont Chamber of Commerce
Arlington-Belmont Chorale
Arlington Boys & Girls Club
Arlington Children’s Theatre
Arlington Council on Aging
Arlington Explorer Post 911
Arlington Family Connection
Arlington Feast of the East
Arlington Garden Club
Arlington High School Choral Society
Arlington Historical Society
Arlington Police Department
Arlington Republican Town Committee
Arlington Rotary Club
Arlington School Committee
Arlington Selectmen’s Office
Arlington Seniors Association, Inc.
Arlington Special Education
Parents’ Advisory Committee
Arlington Stand Against Racism
Arlington United for Justice with Peace
Arlington Youth Health and Safety Coalition
American Cancer Society Relay For Life
Belmont Chorale
BostonSEO.org
Can’t Stop the Beat
Center for Cancer Support and Education
Community Youth Orchestras of Boston
Cyrus E. Dallin Art Museum
Dallin Parent-Teacher Organization
Dallin School K-1
Federation of Hellenic American Societies
of New England
Fidelity House
First Scrabble Tournament
Food Addicts Anonymous
Friends of Robbins Library
Friends of Spy Pond Park
Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts
Griffin Museum
Guns and Hoses – Arlington Police/Fire Hockey Game
Housing Corporation of Arlington
Janelle Moore
Kidney Transplant and Dialysis Association
Martin Luther King Birthday Observance Committee
Metropolitan Wind Symphony
Metropolitan Wind Symphony
Menotomy Weatherization Project
Metropolitan Wind Symphony
Multicultural Music Magazine
Needle Arts Guild of the Lexington Arts and
Crafts Society
Old Schwamb Mill
Operation A.B.L.E. of Greater Boston
Ottoson Middle School Musicals
Park Avenue Congregational Church
PATHS
Peirce School Parent-Teacher Organization
Philharmonic Society of Arlington
Philoptochos 2009 Taste of Greece
Photographic Historical Society of New England
Reading Community Singers
Rep. William Brownsberger
Retired Men’s Club of Arlington
Rising Star Quilters
St. Agnes Catholic School
St. John’s Episcopal Church of Arlington
Stone Zoo
Stress Less TV series
The Children’s Room
The New England Model Engineering Society
The Mountain House
Thompson Elementary School - International Fair
Tufts University Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
U.S. Census 2010
Visiting Nurse and Community Health
Young Adult Vocational Program
Young Opera Company of New England
Youth Health and Safety Coalition
ACMI 2010 Annual Report 19

Board of Directors
John D. Leone, Esq.,
President
John@ACMI.tv
John, born and
raised in the Town
of Arlington, holds a
J.D. degree from New
England School of Law
and an undergraduate
B.B.A. degree from
the School of Business
Administration at the
University of Massachusetts,
Amherst. He
is admitted to practice
law before the US
Supreme Court and
in the states of Massachusetts
and New
York. He consults and
advises clients who are
starting new businesses
or continuing the
operation of existing
ones. He has been a
Town Meeting member
since 1994, and
is the current Town
Meeting Moderator.
He also serves on the
Board of Directors of
the Touchdown Club.
Kathleen Colwell,
Treasurer
Kathy@ACMI.tv
A resident of Arlington
since 1981, Kathy
has been an active
resident serving as: a
Town Meeting member;
a past president,
board member, and
treasurer for Arlington
Cable Access Inc.
(ACA); founding member
and first president
of the Arlington Educational
Enrichment
Fund (AEEF); founding
member and current
treasurer of Arlington
Community Media Inc.
(ACMI). Kathy runs her
own computer consulting
business and
is, during tax season, a
tax accountant.
James Clements,
Director
An associate professor
of digital media
and communications
at the New England
Institute of Art in
Brookline, MA, Jim is a
20-year professional in
the television production
industry, having
served six years as
access coordinator for
Continental Cablevision,
MediaOne, and
AT&T Broadband
in Arlington and
Cambridge, MA. An
Arlington resident for
25 years, Jim is a longstanding
volunteer for
Arlington cable television
as well as past
president of Arlington
Cable Access, Inc.
(ACA). Video production
credits include
a Hometown USA
Award for producing
of a video presentation
of Stravinsky’s
Firebird, by the
Underground Railway
Theater.
Kathleen Darcy,
Director
Kathleen is the vice
president of business
and community
development at
Leader Bank, the only
bank headquartered
in Arlington. She
has assisted many of
Arlington’s businesses
with their banking. In
addition to her board
position at ACMI,
Kathleen is also an active
participant in the
Arlington community.
She is a board member
for the Arlington
Chamber for Commerce,
co-chair for Arlington
Town Day, and
a founding member of
the Arlington Women’s
Network. Kathleen
volunteers, through
Leader Bank, at events
for many organizations
in Arlington including
Visiting Nurse
& Community Health
(VNCH) and Friends of
the Arlington Council
on Aging.
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Michael T. Healy,
Clerk
Julie Kuhn,
Director
David W. Padrusch,
Director
Charlotte Pierce,
Director
Martin Thrope,
Director
Mike, who holds a
a bachelor’s degree
in education from
Providence College,
and a master’s degree
in school administration
from Rhode Island
College, also has a
graduate certificate
in dispute resolution
from the University
of Massachusetts,
Boston. He is a retired
teacher from the Cambridge
Public School
system, and previously
served as a member of
the Arlington School
Committee. Mike
currently serves as an
Arlington Town Meeting
member.
In 2000 Julie helped
establish the new
Arlington Cable Access
studio, directing and
coproducing a variety
of programs including
The Front Page, a political
talk show, a yoga
show, a music show
entitled Insomnia, and
a real-time cooking
show, Quick and
Healthy Cooking. She
was Assistant Director
for Sara Alfaro-Franco’s
movie short, Hear.
David has written,
produced, directed,
and/or edited more
than 35 documentary
television programs
for The History Channel,
Discovery Channel,
Discovery Health
Channel, and NOVA,
including the Emmy
nominated Mysteries of
the Sea. Other credits
include Bible Battles,
Aftershock: Beyond the
Civil War, 300: The Last
Stand, and 10,000 B.C.
In 2003 he created
Limulus Productions
to produce quality
television programs
and films and continues
to pursue that
goal as president of his
new company, Mad
Rush Pictures, Inc.
Charlotte became
involved with ACMI in
2004 as producer of
the Spanish educational
program Hola
Arlington! She later
produced programs
for the Sustainable
Arlington series, and
helped start the Ottoson
News Network.
She is a founder
and president of the
locally-based World
Language Network,
and owns Day Tripper
Books (Pierce Press).
Charlotte currently
produces Face the
Book, an ACMI show
about independent
publishing and
bookselling in New
England. She has a
bachelor’s degree
from the University
of Washington and
a master’s from Harvard’s
Kennedy School
of Government.
A former member of
the Arlington School
Committee and Arlington
Town Meeting,
Marty has also served
as board member and
president of The Children’s
Room Center
for Grieving Children
& Teenagers, Inc. in
Arlington. Marty’s professional
experience
includes contributing
to the initial implementation
of what
became the Internet,
as well as responsibility
for development
and operation of
computer based systems
for the retail and
financial industries. He
has Bachelor and MBA
degrees from Harvard
University.
ACMI 2010 Annual Report 21

Our Staff
There are a lot of steps that must be taken between having a good idea about new
programs to produce, new workshops to offer, and new technology to integrate into
our operation as your community television station and the actual materialization
of that idea. It is the ACMI staff that actualizes new ideas and proposals or teaches
its members to do so. Each staff member has been selected for his or her skills in the
process of making programming ideas a reality.
This year we welcomed a new member to our staff with the goal of expanding the
expanded functionality of our website, giving it more streaming video, easier access to
our programming schedules, more social media connections, and laying the groundwork
for video-on-demand (VOD). Sean Snyder, our Media/Programming Coordinator
is succeeding brilliantly in this endeavor.
Sean Snyder
Media/Programming
Coordinator
Sean@ACMI.tv
At the end of FY-2010, ACMI said goodbye to Govt. & Education Access Coordinator,
J.R. Curtis. J.R. was perhaps most visible in his work teaching TV production skills to
ACMI’s middle-school and high school members, and as director of Town Meeting
sessions and School Committee meetings. We thank J.R. for his three years of service in
widening ACMI’s coverage of government and school committee meetings as well as
school sports and other local activities.
Norman J. McLeod,
Executive Director
Norm@ACMI.tv
Walter Locke,
Outreach Coordinator
Walter@ACMI.tv
Lakis Koulouris,
Public Access Coordinator
Lakis@ACMI.tv
J.R. Curtis,
Education and Government
Access Coordinator
JR@ACMI.tv
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Cheryl Brusgulis,
Administrative Assistant
Cheryl@ACMI.tv
Jeff Munro,
Studio Manager
Jeff@ACMI.tv

Our Members
James W. Akimchuk III
Sara Alfaro-Franco
Suzanne Alston
Jesse Andrews
George Arena
Nancy Arena
Michael Armanious
Matthew Aronstein
Matt Axler
James Barnes
Bea Barber
Nathan Barr
Jimmy Barvick
Kate Barvick
Nancy Barvick
Jimmy Barvick
Miguel Barry
Ian Bason
Marjori Bean
Steve Beck
Rachel Bernoff
Isaac Bernoff
Jared Z Bessette-Kirton
Jan Bialach
Robert Bongiarno
Mike Borthwick
Stacie Boucouvalas-
Gianourakos
James Bronstein
Diane Bronstein
Annette Brubaker
Cheryl Brusgulis
Alice Bouvrie
Barton F. Bruce
Jeremy Phillips Burkhardt
Charlotte Bruno
John Budzyna
John Bulens
Maria Cristina Caballero
Tim Cahill
Winona Campbell
Matthew Carella
Mark Censky
Tony Champa
Emily Chan
Cathi Chandler
Alan Chen
Shannon Chapman
Jim Clements
Carolyn Colovos
Kathleen Colwell
David Andrew Concepcion
Barbara Costa
Joellyn Craig
Mary Lynn Cramer
Brendan Patrick Crewe
Oscar Cruz
Patricia A. Cura
Amy Currul
Joseph Curran
Sandra N Daitch
Lucas Dangelo
Kathleen Darcy
Stephanie Darcy
Eric Dawson
Karen L. Dawson
Brianna Dee
John Dee
Don DeNaples
Charles DeVirgin
Judith Dortz
Hannah Doyan
Stanley Ducrepin
Adam Dusenberry
Jeffrey Echmalian
Walter Eduardo
Sarah Joy Erskine
Sarah Evans
Doug Fagan
Brian Fiore
Thomas Flynn
Clyde Ford
Noel Forte
Heather Fowles
Patricia Freeman
Frank Ganat
Billie Garrison
Yoftahe Gebru
Frances V. Gedzium
Lee Gera
Frederick B. Gerard
Joshua Thomas Ghofroni
Donna Marie Giardina
Peter Girard
Dennis Godfrey
Douglas Goff
Ted Goodman
Yuma Goodman
Peter Gordon
Adam Gotsens
Lucas Gradwohl
Patrice Green
Donald J. Griffin
Sara Griffin
Irwin Grossman
Melissa Gryan
Jo Guthrie
Christopher Hanna
Kimberly Harding
Jennifer Harmon
Harper
Shady Hartshorne
Michael Healy
Lucas Heckly
Deborah Heffernan
Sabrina Adena Heijey
Joel Higginson
James Hillis
John W. Hurd
Clark Jackson
Christine Jansen
Barbara Johnson
John F Jope
Jacki Katzman
Elias Katsos
Steven Katsos
Randeep Kaur
Sean Keane
Ed Keith
Joseph Kleber
Lydia Knutson
Eve Kodiak
Glenn Koenig
Shannon Koenig
Savaka Koga
Eve Kodiak
Richard M Koolish
Julie Kuhn
Olivia Rose Kostigen
Robert Kuhn
Jo Jo Kwan
Rachel Labo
Forrest Lacy
Ken Lager
Daniel Lance
Richard Lavale
Cynthia Lategan
Rich Lavale
William Lawler, Jr.
Jeanne Leary
Al Leblanc
Jeannette LeBlanc
Todd Leetham
Linda Lue Leiserson
Michelle Lemp
Begabati Lenihan
David Leone
John Leone
Laura Leone
Ellen Leostakos
Meryl A. Levin
Kathryn Lewkowicz
Josh Lobel
Walter Locke
Maura Lynch
Griffin MacCarn
Ian Curtis MacCarn
Dan MacDonald
Ellie Malick
Malong Ring Malual
Samuel A. Manion
Stephanie Marlin-Curiel
Ariane Marquant
Michael Marroquin
Dushawnna Martin
Tomoki Maruya
Julie McDaniel
John McElligott
James P. McGough
Nom McLeod
Michele Meagher
Brian Melillo
Bruce Meyer
Tracy Miller
Sam Mintz
Patrick Mongeau
Gregg Montesi
Piper Montesi
Joanne Moralles
Todd Morse
Julie Moscatel
Denise Mousession
Emily Mousession
Joseph Murphy
Oakarie Murrell
Ramesh Nallavolu
Arthur John Niakaros
Christopher Lawrence Opie
Hope Orfanos
Akila Padmanabhan
David Padrusch
Ashwini Umesh Page
Laurie Panico
Louis Panico
Carolyn Parsons
Charlotte Pierce
Charlotte R. Pierce
Andrea Marie Pizzi
Jo Anne Preston
Anandhi Rajamarichamy
Stephen Ranieri
Dawn Reger
Jay Ricco
Adam Rich
Annie Kate Richmond
Pauline Rockwell
Will B. Rogan
Graham Rogers
Yicheng Rong
Solomon Rubin
Ben Rudnick
Nancy Salzer
Kassandra Marie Sanchez
Lisa Santoro
Brandon Sao
Rorn (Tim) Sao
Carol Sardo
Lynette Laveau Saxe
Kathy Scribner
Walter Scott
Pam Shanley
Linda Shoemaker
Ben Singer
Anita Slayton
Donna Smith
Lisa Deeley Smith
Rachel Smith
Robert R. Smith
Tricia Smith
Wu So Fai
Nishakant Sonwalker
Todd Speros
Yvonne Stapp
Doreen Stevens
Thomas James Sulahian
Maria Sullivan
Theo Swartz
Sarah Takagi
Ali Wagner Tammaro
Hank Teixeira
Jeffrey P. Thielman
Ray Thomas
Taylor Ann Travers
Maria S. Tsihlis
Julia Vail
Andrew Valenti
Terri Vandercook
Alexandre Van Thong
Dorothee Van Thong
Nicole Veneto
David Vishniac
Martin C. von Tersch
Paul West
Aidan Wilcox
David Wilcox
Gareth V. Williams
Ted Zalewski
Adam Zand
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Credits:
Graphic design: Anita Wolf
In addition to photos by ACMI members and staff, the
following photographers have enhanced this report:
Rick Macomber (ACMI Awards photos & staff photos)
John McElligott (Arlington Town Day)
Maureen Cotton (board of directors portraits)
Sergei Pyuro (equipment photos)

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