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'very Edge een~ ~n~.es Wednesday, ~nu~ry 3, ~1 <br />Present: Fred (McCoys PuU), Tanna (1St Financial), Stephanie(Park and Rec), Rod <br />(Sweet P's), Sylvia (Arts Alliance), Britney (Acuity Capital Group), Tony (Dare's <br />Funeral Home), Sandi (Edward Jones), Jim (The Bank of ~llc River), Donna (Uniquely <br />Yours), Sara (Acuity), Amlie (City of Ellc River), Wendy (Kemper Drug), Marlys (Ells <br />River Star News). <br />Meeting was called to order at 3PM at Edward Jones Conference Room. <br />Treasurer's Report: $3,170.63 <br />Secretary's Repol"t: Milautes were approved as wri~tel~ <br />City Update: Rebecca Haug, Energy City Ad111i11istrator, came to the nleetillg a11d tallied <br />about the Enel"gy Expo wllicll wi11 be 11e1d t111s yeal" Old. Satlll"day, Febl'llaly 27ti' from 11 -3 <br />at Ells River High School. I~eynote speaker will be will Steger at 11AM. There 11as been <br />a lot of interest iI1 this years Expo. Slle also spore about recycling initiatives for <br />businesses. Let 11e1" k11ow if you t11i11k that t11eI"e al"e items that the city could help <br />businesses do a better job of I"ecycling. Rivers Edge could have a table with illformatiola <br />about downtown alld space for 11a11dollts if we would life. Discussion was to 11ave a large <br />map 0f doWlltoWll WItl1 a llst111g Of dowlltoWll bllslnesses a11d RIVerS Edge Brocllllres. <br />T11e group decided. to participate i11 the evert. Donna Indicated that she would be able to <br />set llp at 10AM. weedy and Fred will worl~ on getting the maps o11 the salldwicll boards. <br />Stepllarlle I~11llZing, In Co11~l1netI011 W1t11 LOVe Elk Rlver, Wlll 1au11C11 a n1o11t11 long <br />campaign on Feb, 1 called "1,000 Acts of Ralldoln I~iI1dlless." Her idea is to Dave 1,000 <br />acts of 1~i11d11ess co111n1itted and recorded by the end February. It's also her hope to have <br />some type of kindness tl1er111on1eter erected in River's Edge Commons Parr ill downtown <br />Ells River to gauge progress toward t11e goal, Sl1e's ope11 to suggestions for that, or better <br />yet a willing carpe~ate~". Mayor Klrnzing's 1~indl~ess campaign is not a city Initiative. S11e's <br />partnering with the Star News so t11e acts of ki11dl1ess call be pllt ill writing a11d put ollt <br />there for all to see on the world wide web at ww~v.e~"s~:~lrnews.con~. <br />A11111e provided 111for111at1o11 fI"o111 the Downtown Idea Exchazage regaz°di11g partllez~i~lg <br />with other a~"eas iI~ tl~e con~nl~l~lity to strengtl~e~a al~d promote downtown, High School <br />stlldelats such as those from Spectrum are often looping for com111lll1ity sexvice projects <br />and could be enlisted to 11e1p. <br />Santa Dowlltowll: Huge thanks to Parr alad Rec, Annie, Donlla and Stepl1a11ie for all their <br />1aa1"d worl~ to mare this a successful event. Stephanie said that tlae 3 50 bags were all giver <br />out and slle thought that there could have been 500 cllildl"e11 who visited with Santa. Sa11ta <br />did agreat j ob -11e llad worked with the kids a11d called many by name wllicll was a big <br />thrill for t11e111. Do1111a said that Don's Bakery used over 400 cups to provide free coffee <br />to adults dowlltowll. Tl1e Cr1ftS A11011y111ol1s bllcl~et Was filled lip tWlce. Next year we <br />could collect food also. Tl1e a11i111a1s were cute and added interest to the wait to see Santa. <br />Many families tools their own pictures of t11eil" children i11 the sleigh by the kiosl~. Tony <br />Mikols took video of the activities. There was so111e colacern about parents clad children <br />