This may be a weird idea, but here goes: What about "living statues?" Other fundraisers, including corporations, have used real people as "statues" for various events, which would employ local actors/artists/volunteers to put on a costume and stand in a public place at a much lower cost.
Therefore, instead of copying St. Paul, we could one-up our rival city by suiting up as all the "minor" characters from Peanuts--Franklin, Shortstop, Rerun, The Red Baron, Marcia, Faron (the cat), and Miss Othmar (the art teacher who quits teaching and gets married because Linus continually forgets to bring the egg shells to school). Someone could even dress up as the School Principal and speak through a voice distorter: "Mwah-mwah mwah, mwah mwah!" It could raise money for charity. It would definitely be a publicity event--and it would be a lark and much more fun, I think, to lampoon the years-long commercial taking place in St. Paul that has made Snoopy and Lucy into something even more gooey and fluffy than those Dolly Madison cakes. I would be willing to do it. Kristine Harley Sheridan _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:mpls@;mnforum.org Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
