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wine tasting at the Arts Alliance Gallery. Posters will be passed out to put up downtown. Maps listing artists and businesses participating will be posted online and handed out the night of the ArtCrawl. We will once again do a word find and prize for completed entry to encourage people to visit all of the locations. Powered by Nature -Energized by Art! It would be wonderful if all downtown businesses would decorate outside their buildings for Fall/Halloween to make downtown more festive for this event and Halloween Halloween Downtown Trick or Treating: Friday October 28, 2011 from l OAM to SPM. Businesses who wish to participate can put up signs in their windows that say Welcome Trick or Treaters. The park will be staffed by Park and Rec, and it will be decorated for Halloween Photos. Wendy will contact Donna Busch to see if she can share some of her decorations and help us decorate it. Park and Rec will supply hay bales. There will be face painting at the Arts Alliance. We are targeting this event to 12 and under and parents or caregivers. More information will be provided. Those who wish to give out candy for a shorter period of time can take the signs out of your windows when you are done or out of candy. Downtown Holiday Celebration Saturday December 10tH (incorrect day on agenda). We have confirmed that the animals will be available for that day (Wendy will check on cost) as will Santa. The Toy Soldiers will be back. Stephanie has gift bags that we can fill for Santa to hand out. Pick up some extra Halloween Candy, gift items or coupons and bring them to the November Rivers Edge Meeting so the bags can be filled. We will also contact Gifts Anonymous and ask them to drop off boxes for donations. Sandi would like to see a big reusable artificial tree put in the park for a back drop and also suggested that we have a tree lighting ceremony downtown. Possible locations for the tree to light are on the corner by The Bank of Elk River or in Rivers Edge Commons Park. Sandi has been pricing trees -run around $6,000 for a big one. If you will be running any special promotion this day, let Wendy know. We will be putting together a flyer and advertising what is happening downtown on Dec lOtni Rivers Edge Dues: We sent out dues requests last week along with info about RiversEdge and Agendas for the Sept meeting. It would be nice to have a full treasury as we approach this busy season for downtown. Chamber of Commerce update: Oktoberfest will be held Thursday, October 6, 2011 5:30 p.m. at Riverwood Inn, 10990 95th Street NE, Otsego $35.00 per person. The entire community is invited to this fun event. German food, music a silent auction and games will be provided. Tickets are available from the chamber of commerce http://www.elkriverchamber.org/pages/Oktoberfest/ The Chamber is partnering with community ed to offer a "Business Education over Lunch" Series. The ,first Class will be The Top Reasons Businesses Fail and Date: October 19, 2011 Time: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM. Classes are $29 for Chamber members. Remember if you are a chamber member you can put your calendar items on the chamber website calendar. If you want to get a monthly email from the chamber with a listing of whats happening for the month, sign up for the Chamber's Community Gram email which comes out once monthly. Tax Exempt Status: The check will be in the mail shortly to update Rivers Edge Tax Status.