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• Pumpkin Giveaway: Cindy Koonce at American National Bank has sponsored a pumpkin <br /> giveaway the past several years. Unfortunately, Cindy has moved out of the area. Several <br /> downtown businesses have been approached but none have been interested in taking on the task. <br /> The Elk River Rec department has their own Halloween celebration the weekend of Halloween <br /> and won't be available to help us downtown. They would help with a pumpkin collection after <br /> Halloween. <br /> Many individuals remembered when they were children, how much they enjoyed coming <br /> downtown before Halloween and picking pumpkins out of the Jackson Square Pumpkin Patch <br /> (when it was a park not a parking lot). If you have any desire to continue this tradition, please <br /> talk to Tony Mikols and he can give you some backround or you can start a new tradition. <br /> Holiday shopping events: last year we talked about having a few days in early December where <br /> we would offer food (samples from downtown restaurants?) at the lunch hour in the stores <br /> downtown to encourage people to come downtown over their lunch hours and shop. Last year we <br /> also talked about inviting the Elk River High School Choir downtown to carol on a night that the <br /> businesses stay open. We have also coordinated Senior Shopping events and offered free gifts, <br /> cookies and discounts for our Senior Citizens. PLEASE LET ME KNOW what you think of <br /> these ideas and if you would like to see them happen this year. <br /> The meeting was adjourned <br /> • The next Rivers Edge Downtown Business Association Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday <br /> October 13, 2004 at 8AM at The Elk River Chamber of Commerce Meeting Room. <br /> • <br />