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mums to Handke Stadium where she is nurturing a permanent garden). The initial goal of pot placement was to put them in locations where businesses would agree to maintain the pots -pick the garbage out of them and keep them watered. There are more businesses willing to take care of pots then we have pots, and it would look nicer if there were more flower pots downtown. Donna asked City Staff about getting additional pots downtown and was told that there was a price break for getting more pots. Annie said that she would track down the information on the Flower Pots and get back to us. After we figure out prices and how many pots we need, we will submit a request to the city to partner with us on getting more pots downtown. Tony told us that the Rotary three year plan has a walkway from the Parrish Bridge to Babcock Park. He suggested that it would be nice if we could have flowers and/or banners by the path entrance by the Parrish Bridge also. We also need to talk to the city about where the old wreaths and bows that were on the light posts in olden days went and if they would partner with the downtown in putting up wreaths or bows this holiday season. New Business: Sidewalk Sale August 21 to 23rd. The White Side Walls are performing at the Rivers Edge Commons Park on August 21St. We will have a back to the SOs night - with a sidewalk sale and food for sale outside prior to the concert. Fred will talk to Jeff about his connections to get some classic cars Downtown that night. Dave R said the cars could use the lower bank lot. We talked about bringing food vendors in that night. Fred has served food outside for 1 of the other concerts, and suggested it would be better to offer downtown restaurants the opportunity to serve people before the concert. The Sidewalk sale will continue to the 23rd Kemper Drug is celebrating their 60th Anniversary from August 18th to August 23rd. They will be having special events every day that week. Wendy will work on advertising the sidewalk sale and back to SOs night. Kemper Drug is also hosting an unneeded medication take back on Saturday August 23rd from LOAM to 2PM which will allow anyone in the community to bring in unneeded or expired prescription or over the counter medication in the original containers regardless of where they were purchased (no needless or radioactive material). The Elk River Police and Sherburne County are working with Kemper to keep the medications out of the landfill and water and out of the wrong hands. This has the potential to bring a lot of people downtown on the 23rd Halloween: We will once again be having trick or treating downtown on Friday October 31St from LOAM to 6PM. Last years was very successful. Many people ran out of candy early and had to get more. Annie will be in charge of judging the screaming contest in the park. We need to contact the Elk River Star News and see about a Halloween coloring contest and post the pictures downtown. Uniquely Yours will again be Halloween Central. If you want to be on a committee to organize the event, or have ideas on how to make this a great way to get people downtown, please talk to Donna.