Time:  6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

GUIDELINES:

1. Please arrive at the Parish Hall between 5:30 and 6:00 p.m. to prepare for dinner.  The IHN van arrives at approximately 6:30 p.m. Please advise the Evening Activity Host where the key is.
2. When you arrive:  sign in the IHN binder (located in the kitchen).  This is where you record any situations that you feel the IHN Day Center staff should know about.  The binder also lists phone numbers and procedures you should follow in emergencies.
3. Please plan your meal for 15-20 people.  Please note:  we do not always know in advance exactly how many people will be present for dinner.  Please be prepared for food to be leftover.
4. Please keep meals simple, and to your taste.  Leftovers may be taken home, or offered to the guests for their lunches for the following day.  Any food left after take-down on Sunday will be thrown out.
5. Please prepare dinners at home, and use the kitchen for re-heating only.  It takes at least one half-hour for the ovens to preheat!
6. A brief grace before the meal, offered by hosts or guests, is appropriate.
7. Dinner can be served buffet style in the kitchen and then eaten at the tables in the Parish Hall, or served and eaten at the tables in the Parish Hall, whichever feels most appropriate for you.
8. Please help the IHN guests to prepare the next day’s lunches immediately after dinner, and place in the IHN refrigerator.  Lunch foods and condiments are available in the refrigerator and/or freezer.
9. Please clean up the kitchen (guests are usually more than happy to help with this chore), and make sure the dishwasher(s) are run that night.

NOTES;

1. The IHN refrigerator and cupboards contain staples, such as condiments, butter, milk, juice, etc. which can be used at the dinner hour.
2. Napkins, placemats, etc. are kept in the designated IHN cabinets.  Please do not use paper products from the general church supplies.
3. Paper sacks, plastic wrap, foil, etc. are available in the IHN supply cabinets.
4. We make every effort to keep adequate supplies on hand.  If supplies are needed please contact Mary Burns (578-9277).  If we run out of groceries for lunch or breakfast call Jan Jensen (592-7484).
5. There may be an instance where a guest will arrive late.  We will have given you that information in advance, and ask you to save a plate of dinner for the guest.  If a guest arrives late and you have NOT been notified in advance, that information must be written in the binder, and call Mary Burns (703-1631) the following day and let her know.  That is a serious infraction of IHN rules.
6. Downstairs?:  no one should be going downstairs (guests or hosts) for any reason.  If guests would like to use the playground after dinner, use the outside gate, and be sure there is an adult supervising at all times.  The key that opens the parish hall is the same one that opens the gate.
7. Medicine:  the medicine box has a key (attached – to keep it safe from children).  The guests will ask for their medicine when they need it, and will administer it themselves.
8. Tents are for the use of the guests only.  Hosts (and their children) should not enter any tents unless requested by the guest to adjust or replace a bed.