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<p class="MsoNormal">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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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">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. <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">We’ve got a local theatre group who does radio plays, they’re looking at broadcasting a special holiday play.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Also, our Chief of Police usually reads The Night Before Christmas at our tree lighting. We’re going to do something virtual with that.
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Maybe a lighting contest or map of houses/businesses in town with light displays.
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<p class="MsoNormal">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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Halloween/Trick-or-Treating</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ladies Night</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Community Tree Lighting</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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!).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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