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street dance or other gathering. The area is 13,000 square feet and could offer 30 more parking spaces. An offer has been made on the First National Bank Building by a Church Group in Elk River. 1St stage of the Gateway Industrial Project (171St Ave by Elk River Ford and the Train Station) has been funded. Elk River Energy Commission is hosting a free event recognizing Faribault Foods for earning the Energy City Five Star Award. The event will be Thursday Feb 23 from 11:30Am to 1PM. Park and Rec: Stephanie Alban's husband passed away last weekend. Our Sympathies go out to her. We will send a memorial gift/flowers to her. Website/Facebookc Clay is spearheading the effort to make the website and facebook work in a more automated fashion and will help us figure out the best way for RiversEdge members to post information on their businesses facebook page that will be disseminated to RiversEge's facebook page and easy to update. We need to be monitoring our facebook page to make sure that general posts are appropriate. Holiday Downtown Celebration Recap: The weather was great. The line to see Santa stretched to the bakery most of the day. Probably the best turnout so far! Santa and Mrs.Claus did a great job. The animals were cute. People enjoyed watching the dancing of the nutcrackers in front of Edward Jones. Goldenman's gave us a great deal on the tree. They delivered it for $150.00. We will need to arrange help from the City Utilities department to help put the tree up and safely secure it next year. Next. year we need to get it up sooner (Weekend after Thanksgiving) and leave it up longer. At the price of artificial trees, we will continue to get a live tree. We should plan a downtown tree lighting ceremony when the tree goes up. Thank you to all who helped make arrangements for the tree and decorate it! Chamber Update: Shiver Elk River will be held on 2/25/2012. Organizations who are SOlc3 can take pledges for a member of their group to take the polar plunge. 90% of Pledge money will be given to the groups. BusinessBnergy Expo will be held on March 25, 2012. A motion was made and carried to pay the fee to have a RiversEdge Booth at this event. Downtown Retail Directory: Wendy has been updating the directory and is waiting for an updated map from Chris Leesberg from the City of Elk River. We will print out 1000 glossy color directories to have on hand to give out at the SnoCross Event. Downtown Promotions for SnoCross Race March 9th through 11th: Fred has been talking to a Bus company about having a shuttle bus loop from the Holiday Inn in Otsego (Host Hotel for the event) through downtown to the Race Track and back during the event. He will talk to Chris Carlson, participating hotels and possibly Buffalo Wild Wings to see about sharing the costs. It would take some of the parking pressure off ERX if some of the visitors could park off site. We will have a table at the host hotel to promote Downtown Businesses. Please prepare promotional items for your business -business flyers, special offers, coupons etc that can be