[OMS_MANAGERS] Downtown Holiday events during COVID

[Downtown Bend, OR]

Elaine,

Thank you SO much for your response.  You've got some great ideas here.  I
really love the holiday music idea, I'm going to look into what it would
take to create that here.

Thanks,again.
Mindy Aisling
Executive Director
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*Downtown Bend Business Association*
Talk or Text - 541-788-3628    www.downtownbend.org
916 NW Wall Street in Downtown Bend Oregon

*We are a nonprofit committed to increasing the vitality of Downtown Bend.*





On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 4:24 PM Elaina Turpin <eturpin at aumsville.us> wrote:

> As far as tree lighting events- we did some brainstorming last week but
> haven’t followed through with concrete plans yet.
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>    - There’s a local guy who does sound for car shows, he’s got speakers
>    on a trailer he can haul around town. We’ve considered asking him to drive
>    around playing holiday music, following Santa in a fire truck, or police
>    car, or horse drawn carriage.
>    - We’ve got a local theatre group who does radio plays, they’re
>    looking at broadcasting a special holiday play.
>    - Also, our Chief of Police usually reads The Night Before Christmas
>    at our tree lighting. We’re going to do something virtual with that.
>    - Maybe a lighting contest or map of houses/businesses in town with
>    light displays.
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> Small Biz Saturday- I’d considered the receipt idea prior to COVID because
> you know people have spent money locally and you can quantify the impact of
> the $ spent. We just did a QR Code Scavenger Hunt for our Corn Festival and
> it went better than I expected with a dozen or so entries. That would be
> easy to do at local businesses, even if they aren’t open for foot traffic.
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> Elaina Turpin
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> City of Aumsville
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> 595 Main St.
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> 503-749-2030
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> *From:* OMS_MANAGERS <oms_managers-bounces at omls.oregon.gov> *On Behalf Of
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> Greetings,
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> I wanted to reach out today and share with you some of our thoughts and
> ideas for the upcoming holiday season, and request your thoughts, feedback,
> and ideas.  Thanks!
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> *Halloween/Trick-or-Treating*
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> We are canceling our in-person event.  Instead, we are hosting an online
> costume contest (with awards) and a month-long Downtown Halloween scavenger
> hunt (with awards).  Plus, we'll be promoting anything that our businesses
> are doing something special (ie-giving out 'treats' with any online or
> in-person purchase).
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> *Ladies Night*
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> We always host a Ladies' Night in November, and it's a huge success.
> Normally, participating businesses would have food, drinks, and discounts
> from 5-7 on a Thursday night.   This year, we're considering hosting an
> online-only event. We'd ask bars and breweries to pre-package cocktails and
> growlers to sell the two days before the event, and restaurants to make
> special discounted to-go desserts (that people can enjoy at home), then on
> the evening of the event, all discounts and free gifts would be offered for
> any online, phone, text, or email purchases made during the event hours.
> We're event considering hosting a Zoom 'party' where ladies can drink
> together and share stories about their purchases.  Thoughts?  Ideas?
> Feedback?
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> *Shop Small Saturday*
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> Normally, as an AMEX Neighborhood Champian, we host a booth in Downtown
> Bend where we hand out passports and we usually have over 60 businesses
> that participate in stamping the passports.  We gather donations from all
> of the participating businesses, arrange them into prize packages and award
> them to random winners that participated in the Shop Small passport event.
> This year, we are (again) considering moving this event online due to the
> COVID restrictions.  We'd give out all of the AMEX swag to businesses to
> give to their customers, and we'd still collect donations from
> participating shops to create prize baskets - but this year we'd have our
> community participate by submitting their receipts - each receipt (for
> online or in-person shopping) would be an entry to the prize raffle.
> Thoughts?  Feedback?
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> *Community Tree Lighting*
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> Normally, this is a big event with Santa, the mayor, local celebrities,
> and a couple of thousand people who could down to the lighting of the
> community tree.  This year, we're trying to get a local station to live
> stream the event, and we'd encourage everyone to count down to the tree
> lighting from their own living rooms.  We'd like to make it more
> interactive than that, but we don't have any ideas to do so (yet!).
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> *Santa Visits*
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> - Canceled
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> Please let our team know if you have any thoughts or ideas that we can
> use. Thanks so much for 2cents!
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> I hope that all of you are hanging in there during these strange times. Be
> well,
>
> Mindy Aisling
>
> Executive Director
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> *Downtown Bend Business Association*
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> Talk or Text - 541-788-3628    www.downtownbend.org
> 916 NW Wall Street in Downtown Bend Oregon
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