Today is our travel day home. I am on the NEOEA chartered bus with 24 of our fabulous delegates. We just finished watching the movie  Patriots Day. What a sad day for our country and a testimonial on the  strength of Boston residents. It was fun to see a movie with many shots of the places we have just experienced – lots of “we saw that” and “we ate there” from the bus riders throughout the movie. President Wensing’s nephew, Patrick Wensing, had a cameo appearance in the movie as an MIT student. Gavel down last night was 8:09 pm. It

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It is gorgeous today in Boston – no humidity, sunny and warm, about 80 degrees of perfection – absolutely beautiful. Most of the delegates have enjoyed a piece of this heaven because of an amazing public park  attached to the convention center. There are adirondack chairs, adult swings, picnic tables, cornhole boards and bocce. The holiday weekend saw bands playing and food carts set-up. Every convention center should consider this addition to their property. It allows the delegates a place to re-energize and re-focus. The work we do here can be grueling — highly important — nonetheless it takes a

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Happy Fourth of July! Yes, your elected delegates are in the Convention Center and working on our behalf today. The annual meeting always takes place over the holiday week in order to have an actual “day off” for summer school workers or yearly employees to use for attendance. This is a sacrifice – for the 8,000 delegates who give up their family and friends for holiday celebrations. You have to love the work! The delegates face 159 New Business Items to vote on between today and tomorrow. That is more than I have ever seen – record number. In order

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