[OMS_MANAGERS] Carnival Recruiting

[Business Outreach & Community Coordinator]

As a side note, our Fairgrounds has hosted 'fair food' booths (corn dogs,
curly fries, funnel cake) during various weekends over the past year, and
it has been pretty successful. It gives people the taste of the fair
without having to put on a whole event, and has been fairly easy for them
to hold with COVID-precautions!

It might be something that your Council is willing to consider in place of
a full carnival!

On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 3:25 PM Lizzy Caston <lizzy at albertamainst.org> wrote:

> my only caution is to not bet that our state/counties/cities will be
> allowing public events or that you'll be able to get permits, another risk
> is to spend a bunch of money and time only to have to suddenly cancel or
> shut down due to Covid at the County or state level.
>
> This is why Alberta Main Street is not holding our Street Fair again this
> summer. I'm not willing to spend staff time or hire an event coordinator,
> have other money go out the door to insurance, marketing, vendors,
> deposits, security, etc only to have to cancel.
>
> Not to be a Debbie Downer or anything, but we keep seeing districts here
> spending time and money and applying for events only to be denied or told
> last minute they have to cancel. Every City/town/county is different though
> so I wish you the best of luck. I love a good carnival. Mmmm...fried
> elephant ears.
>
> Lizzy
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 2:38 PM Business Outreach & Community Coordinator <
> coordinator.goldbeachmainstreet at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Good afternoon,
>>
>> I know from talking to our Event Center (Fairgrounds) manager briefly
>> that the previous carnival they used wasn't coming to the area anymore (I'm
>> not sure what the reasoning is there). She also priced out the cost of a
>> Circus-type carnival, and that was going to cost $40,000 for them
>> initially.  I can go ahead and put you in touch with her since I have
>> minimal knowledge if you are interested.
>>
>> *Lyndsey Dixon*
>> Business Outreach & Community Coordinator | Gold Beach Main Street
>> 541 247 7029 ext. 106 | goldbeachmainstreet.org
>> PO Box 1203, Gold Beach, OR 97444
>>
>> On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 2:27 PM Reedsport Mainstreet Program <
>> mainstreet at cityofreedsport.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Good afternoon,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> One of our City Councilor’s has asked me to look into getting a carnival
>>> to our town, since we have a large gravel lot that has served for a
>>> carnival in the past. I was curious if any of you have been able to do so
>>> for your programs and if you had any advice for such? Thank you in advance.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Reedsport Main Street Program | City of Reedsport
>>>
>>> 451 Winchester Ave | Reedsport, OR 97467
>>>
>>> (541) 271-3603 x1005
>>>
>>> www.reedsportmainstreet.com
>>>
>>> www.facebook.com/reedsportmainstreet/
>>>
>>> www.polarengraving.com/reedsportmainstreetprogram\
>>> <http://www.polarengraving.com/reedsportmainstreetprogram/>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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