Annie Young is right on the mark regarding the demise of the Minneapolis Awards. My fellow nominator and I were grousing about holding it at the Convention Center rather than a park building, or at City Hall's new Council Chambers or the City Hall lobby.
Maybe the Park Board could offer its new headquarters on the river as a venue on a warm summer night. How about holding it at different city locations each year and highlight that particular community's volunteers along with the city-wide awardees? How about Marshall Fields or Honeywell or Xcel Energy or the Chamber of Commerce picking up the tab for some cookies and coffee and the mailings? Most awardees would be happy with a certificarte in a folder, eliminating the cost of a frame. There are a lot of ways to keep the thing going with a little imagination and some minimal corporate financing. As Annie said, we have already substituted the dinners at International Market Square (which participants paid for, anyway) for coffee and cookies. What's next, eliminating 24 hour snowplowing? Oh, wait a minute . . . Fran Guminga Bottineau _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
