City of Hoopeston Historic Preservation Commission met Sept. 3.
Here is the minutes provided by the commission:
The meeting was called to order at 6:02pm with 6 people present: Mayor Crusinberry, Sesquicentennial Chair Brad Hardcastle, Lourdine Florek, Jeanette Andre’, Ellen Scharlach & Marta Pierce. Opening statement given by Mayor Bill Crusinberry with a goal to set a commission but with so few attending no appointments were made.
Brad Hardcastle also made an opening statement. Setting fundraising as a priority along with logo contest. Logo will be used on all advertising. Dates set for a week-long celebration with kick off date of Sunday, June 27, 2021 with finale to coincide with fireworks on Saturday, July 3rd, 2021.
Open discussion among attendees for possible ideas for the celebration: Community church service, community picnic, musical entertainment, which it was noted that music acts would need to be booked by the end of the year at least but earlier is better. Several fundraising ideas were mentioned such as raffles, talent show or history tour. Marta Pierce will start a list of events ideas that were mentioned to be handed out at next meeting. Lourdine Florek volunteered to sponsor the Logo contest. Jeanette Andre’ will check library for information on the 1971 Centennial.
In closing, the Mayor would like to see each of us personally invite at least 2 people to attend next meeting. We need to get enough volunteers to have a chair for each event. He also suggested if we do not get more volunteers, we will need to think about a scaled down version of the celebration for July 3rd, 2021 only.
Meeting adjourned at 6:45pm
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