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Planning Meeting Tuesday, April 10, 6:30 PM Lakefront Room, 2nd Floor Whitewater Municipal Building DRAFT AGENDA 2007 Home-Coming goals: · Civic pride, community involvement (the process), greater knowledge of local history, fun · Visitors to festival (both local and tourists) · Visitors/contributors to the storysite · Home-Comers: in 1907 this was over 2,000 · Other: number of events, key speaker(s), donations, additional fireworks
  1. Updates
    • City funding: dollar for dollar match of private funds up to $20,000
    • Initial private donation of $2,500 in hand
    • Governor letter
    • 4th of July Committee: need for more bands, parade entries; petting zoo or other children’s activity
    • Ecumenical church service (July 1)
    • Storysite
    • Antique car show update
    • Voicemail phone number: 262-473-8639

  1. Committee updates
    • Make-It-Happen Committee (Geoff Hale)
      • Budget review
      • Donations/fundraising
      • Logistics

    • Community Committee (Jan Bilgen)
      • Press releases; radio spots
      • Save-the-date invitations, commemorative invitations
      • Addresses
      • Posters, flyers
      • Stamp/cachet contest

    • Fun Committee (Russ Walton)
      • Baseball
      • Balloon release
      • Decorations (bunting, banners, etc.)
      • Firefighter tug-of-war, bucket brigade
      • Games
      • Middle School dance at armory
      • Community scavenger hunt (including downtown businesses)
      • Geocaching
      • Fun Run/Walk
      • “Dive-In” movie at the Aquatic Center
      • Clowns/Cousin Otto

    • Unity Committee (Ellen Penwell)
      • Crossman Gallery show
      • Storysite outposts
      • Summer School musical (The Music Man) partnership
      • “What Whitewater Means to Me” contest in Whitewater schools

  1. Other activities
    • Soldiers, veterans
    • Latino/Hispanic presence

  1. Upcoming meeting, events
    • April 10 (Tuesday) Fun Committee at Aquatic Center; 10:00 AM
    • April 10 (Tuesday) Home-Coming Planning meeting; 6:30 PM
    • April 16 (Monday) Unity Committee at Greenhouse Café/Sugar Bay; 6:30 PM
    • April 18 (Wednesday) Home-Coming presentation to Florence Bassett Club
    • April 23 (Monday) Community Committee at Double Dip Deli; 6:30 PM
    • April 24 (Tuesday), Home-Coming Planning meeting, Whitewater Municipal Building; 6:30 PM
    • May 3 (Thursday), July 4th Committee, Randy’s; 7:00 PM
    • May 8 (Tuesday), Home-Coming Planning meeting, Whitewater Municipal Building; 6:30 PM

  1. Next meeting date: April 24, 2007, at 6:30 PM
Orphan ideas:
  • Commemorative objects: coins, medals, mugs, etc.
  • “War room”
  • Countdown clocks
  • Banners on poles downtown
  • Log cabin rededication
  • Reenactments



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