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Heritage Preservation Commission Meeting <br />Elk River City Hall <br />January 16, 2020 <br />these to provide PR pieces and keep the viability of the group going and noted this <br />would be a good opportunity for subcommittee members to help. <br /> <br />5.7 Kids Activity Booklet <br /> <br />Chair Mortensen discussed her kids walking tour brochure and activity booklet for <br />ages 5+ including various history-type workbook activities. She discussed ways for <br />the kids to complete activities to earn a badge and stated she has some information <br />on a home computer but it’s not connected to the internet. <br /> <br />It was the consensus of the HPC to have Chair Mortensen put together a draft <br />outline of the language for the kids activity booklet and sending it the following <br />Tuesday so it could be distributed to the rest of the commission and they could <br />begin reviewing it prior to the March meeting. The graphics portion of the booklet <br />would also need to be created. <br /> <br />5.8 Cemetery Tours <br /> <br />Chair Mortensen discussed scheduling the cemetery tours during the second and <br />third weekend before Halloween for both kids and adults to participate. She <br />explained having 5 people dressed up at each cemetery rotating cemeteries each <br />weekend to portray some notable person buried there and speech about their life. <br />She stated if it gets very popular, they could charge for the tour and then pay <br />something to the interpreters. She also suggested a hayride and providing juice and <br />cookies after the tour to talk and socialize. She felt this would be a draw for people <br />not living in Elk River and could bring people in to shop and spend time in Elk <br />River. <br /> <br />Mr. Carlton asked if this would be a good opportunity to form a subcommittee. <br /> <br />Chair Mortensen stated she felt this would be a good opportunity for forming a <br />subcommittee as they would need members to plan these tours, find volunteers, <br />research the buried, provide historically correct scripts, and find or create costumes. <br />Chair Mortensen stated she needed to check with each cemetery to see if a tour <br />could take place. <br /> <br />Commissioner Fox offered suggestions for the researcher and script writers, noting <br />the difficulties of drafting scripts for actors to use as first-person interpretation is <br />difficult to do without coming across as authentic. He suggested the actors use <br />scripts that discuss events and the ways people did things during a certain time <br />period. He felt this would make it easier to phase in the cemetery tour as it would <br />take a lot of research for actors to memorize to put on an accurate show. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />