Tracey, As of now there is only 4 of us on the blog. Barbara, Maria, myself and you. I have sent and email and an "Author" invites to 24 more stores in the village. I have to get 4 emails that I do not have to finish. The invites were sent out this afternoon. I am hoping that a majority of them join us soon. As for your Idea, Barbara and I like it. Events always bring lots of people in.
Love this idea! Great way to communicate! Is it too late to do an event for Halloween- I like the pumpkin/scarecrow contest and what about having a local farmer do hayrides or a maze with bales of hay? Maybe the farmer could also set up a stand and sell mums, apples, corn stalks, etc.- Debbie
Tracey, I like all of the events mentioned (wouldn't early November be great for a Wine & Cheese tasting event, give people ideas for the Holidays!) and Debbie's ideas for October. Just let me know what we can do to help. I am very new to blogging so hope I can get the hang of this. At this point it seems like a big maze of links & pages!
As a business in the village that only runs classes and has no retail space, it is difficult to make judgement calls about what events to hold but I have noticed that the cultural events usually do really well (Celtic Festivals, Greek Festivals, Polish Festivals etc...). Other than the Sept. 12th IAANJ Feis at the fairgrounds, for example, I know of no other celtic fest very local to the area and the only Greek festival is in Rockaway early in the summer. Wouldn't it be neat to see a bunch of pipers marching around the village or see a bunch of greek dancers and bands out and about?
Ok, so far for Halloween the ideas seem to be a hay ride, a hay bale maze, a carved pumpkin and scarecrow contest, the Village usually has trick or treating the Saturday before (we will have to check into this) and farmers selling mums, apples, pumpkins etc...Anyone want to add anything else?
Also, has anyone seen Peddlers Village Website lately? Check out thier events. Just copy and paste the link below into your web browser. http://peddlersvillage.com/special_events/annual%20events.html
Hi- I was away for a couple of days. Unfortunately, I will not be able to make Friday's meeting. Carol has the phone numbers for several of the local farmers - I tryed to get something going last year and the problem I ran into is that even tho the farmers liked the idea, it's such a busy time of year for them that they don't have the personnel to work at the Village and sell pumpkins, etc. Please let me know what you come up with at Friday's meeting and let me know if there's any way I can help.
I am very concerned about the Christmas Lights. Has there been any progress? You will probably need to order these GFI's because the panels are older, which could take 6 to 8 weeks. We are only 10 weeks away from turning the lights on. We need action now!!!
I spoke to Una Lee yesterday and she has spoken to Carol about a place for the movie night and Carol give her Marty's Shoes old building because the Village Hall will be used for the 5K run that day. Una Lee will be handling everything for the movie night. Thank you, Una Lee!!! Tell us what you need to help you out.
Scarecrow Contest;
Joy from Lafayette House had Joanne call me yesterday about the Scarecrow Contest. After discussing it with her, I called Anna Rose at Town Hall for her suggustions to help with ideas. I left a message for Anna and have not heard back from her.
This is the three ideas:
Ask the school children to do the Scarecrows maybe as a community project having the older grades work with the young ones.
Ask the local Boy and Girls Scouts to do them as a community project.
Send home Flyers with School Children to have Families do them.
Once we figure out what we are going to do, we have to discuss prizes.
I think we should exhaust as many avenues as possible - maybe we should use all three ideas! I have been calling local farms to see if they'll do the hay rides - most of them are saying no because of their busy time of year, however, I am waiting to hear back from a small farm here in the area - fingers crossed :-)
p.s. I also emailed Carol and Kevin Goodman about the Christmas lights. I think we should ALL email Kevin since he is the owner - the more emails he gets, maybe the more attention he'll pay to it. Kevin's email address is: keving@lafayettevillageshops.com
Just heard back from Laurie Walker at Rainbow's End Farm and they agreed to do a hay ride in October. They can't commit to every weekend, but she said she'll let us know what dates they can do for us!
Has anyone heard what's going on with the Xmas light situation?
Also, I've been trying to think up ways to get the shoppers to come to OLV instead of going to the mall to do their Xmas shopping. I'm not one to do much print ad but the Valpack rep was in today and if a bunch of us went in on it together the cost would be minimal. What do you guys think?
I don't know what you guys think about having a TV commercial but we could probably get plenty of air time on a channel like channel 12 for around $300 total each for the the next 3 months, figuring in on 10 of us. That number can be adjusted by how many people who are interested. Hey, we might even be able to get the Village to pay for half if we say that we will take it off the rent.
If all the stores could put up their own scarecrow by Sept 30th. If you need forms for your scarecrow ask Carol for help.
The Village will start advertising for the Public Scarecrow Contest in their email blast and in the Herald. The Public will call the Village Office to register and Carol will figure out how many Scarecrows the Village can handle.
We will have a Scarecrow Building Day on October 9th, (rain date Oct 10th) that day the register families will build or bring in their scarecrows to display. The village will provide the forms and hay if needed.
On the 9th would be a great day to have the kids doing face painting.
On Friday the 29th:
• We will have the parade from 2pm to 5pm. • The Movie will open at 6:00pm and run all weekend. • At 7:00pm we will have the Craved Pumpkin Contest
We should ask local figures to judge the Pumpkin Contest. We had to do the Pumpkin contest on Friday because it does not get dark until 5:50. The Village is buying the glow sticks to light up the pumpkins. They are also going to try to get a DJ for that day.
On Saturday the 30th
We will judge the Scarecrow Contest at 3:30. This one we should let the public and local figures judge. I also think that this would be a great day to do the face painting and have a DJ. Let’s make this a family day in the village. Maybe an apple eating contest for kids under 10. Any other ideas??
On the 31st we have the walk.
We need to discuss prizes for the contests.
Marty and I will be away from the 18th to the 27th. You will be able to reach us by email and we will be checking the blog. We will be putting up our scarecrow upon our return.
Tracey is working on Hay Rides. Perhaps we could get them to come on Oct 9th and Oct 30th.
And Una Lee and I were talking about a Treasure Hunt. Maybe we could do this on the 30th of Oct.
For the Treasure Hunt we could limit it to under 12, have them find something in our Scarecrows. That would keep them moving around the Village.
So the way it would work is that we could give them a sheet of clues, once they have fill out the sheet bring it to the Village Hall and they would get a pumpkin to paint in the hall. We could buy a crate of pumpkins from a local farmer. If we find out how many pumpkins are in a crate, we could limit it to the first 50, 75 or 100 kids get a prize.
I will ask the village if they can buy the pumpkins and paints. We supply the kids to oversee it.
We could do this 11:00 to 2:00. Then at 2:00 do face painting. Have the Scarecrow Contest at 3:30. With the Hay Ride going on all day.
Rainbow's End Farm have agreed to do the hay rides on October 9th and October 30th from 12 - 4pm! I will email Carol and get her to include this in the advertising. As for the other events - wow! - GREAT JOB BARBARA!!! Do you want me to ask one of my girls if they want to do the face painting?
Maria, I would be very interested in doing the T.V. commercial. If we could all do it collectively it would be great! I think it would have more impact on the viewer with such a variety of stores to shop at.
I left some info on the advertising page about emailing the community, as soon as we have a flyer and all the scheduled things planned are finalized, I will email Natalia all the events for October so that she can forward it to the locals.
This commercial thing has to be addressed immediately. I will try and get out tommorrow and see if anyone else is interested. As far as I can tell there are three of us who are interested so far.
When I go around the Village, I will let all the retailers know about the the shop scarecrows and that they need to have them up by Sept 30th.
Yeah, hay rides, good work Tracey!
I love the treasure hunt idea! Not sure about the apple eating contest. Apples are one of the top 5 things that kids choke on.
Please post Event ideas here.
ReplyDeleteIt would be great to have more events (without the rain). Here are a few event ideas we could think about:
ReplyDeleteWine Festival or Wine & Cheese Festival
Irish Festival
Italian Festival
Polish Festival
What's everyone think?
Tracey, As of now there is only 4 of us on the blog. Barbara, Maria, myself and you. I have sent and email and an "Author" invites to 24 more stores in the village. I have to get 4 emails that I do not have to finish. The invites were sent out this afternoon. I am hoping that a majority of them join us soon. As for your Idea, Barbara and I like it. Events always bring lots of people in.
ReplyDeleteLove this idea! Great way to communicate! Is it too late to do an event for Halloween- I like the pumpkin/scarecrow contest and what about having a local farmer do hayrides or a maze with bales of hay? Maybe the farmer could also set up a stand and sell mums, apples, corn stalks, etc.- Debbie
ReplyDeleteTracey, I like all of the events mentioned (wouldn't early November be great for a Wine & Cheese tasting event, give people ideas for the Holidays!) and Debbie's ideas for October. Just let me know what we can do to help. I am very new to blogging so hope I can get the hang of this. At this point it seems like a big maze of links & pages!
ReplyDeleteLove, love, love the hayride idea - i think that would be a big hit! We should definately incorporate this!
ReplyDeleteAs a business in the village that only runs classes and has no retail space, it is difficult to make judgement calls about what events to hold but I have noticed that the cultural events usually do really well (Celtic Festivals, Greek Festivals, Polish Festivals etc...). Other than the Sept. 12th IAANJ Feis at the fairgrounds, for example, I know of no other celtic fest very local to the area and the only Greek festival is in Rockaway early in the summer. Wouldn't it be neat to see a bunch of pipers marching around the village or see a bunch of greek dancers and bands out and about?
ReplyDeleteOk, so far for Halloween the ideas seem to be a hay ride, a hay bale maze, a carved pumpkin and scarecrow contest, the Village usually has trick or treating the Saturday before (we will have to check into this) and farmers selling mums, apples, pumpkins etc...Anyone want to add anything else?
ReplyDeleteAlso, has anyone seen Peddlers Village Website lately? Check out thier events. Just copy and paste the link below into your web browser.
http://peddlersvillage.com/special_events/annual%20events.html
I sent an email to Carol to find out when is the Halloween Parade and if any other events are scheduled for October.
ReplyDeleteI checked out the Peddlers Village Web Site and I think that we can do a few of these type of events here on a smaller scale.
I think that we need to get moving of the October event ASAP, so soon as Carol tells us whatelse in scheduled.
Ok, let's get everyone together for a meeting. How about 9am Friday morning at my place?
ReplyDeleteI can make Friday work.
ReplyDeleteHow will we get the word out to everyone else?
ReplyDeleteHi- I was away for a couple of days. Unfortunately, I will not be able to make Friday's meeting. Carol has the phone numbers for several of the local farmers - I tryed to get something going last year and the problem I ran into is that even tho the farmers liked the idea, it's such a busy time of year for them that they don't have the personnel to work at the Village and sell pumpkins, etc.
ReplyDeletePlease let me know what you come up with at Friday's meeting and let me know if there's any way I can help.
Friday morning at 9am works for me too!
ReplyDeleteChristmas Lights:
ReplyDeleteBelow is the email I sent to Carol;
I am very concerned about the Christmas Lights. Has there been any progress? You will probably need to order these GFI's because the panels are older, which could take 6 to 8 weeks. We are only 10 weeks away from turning the lights on. We need action now!!!
Halloween:
ReplyDeleteMovie Night;
I spoke to Una Lee yesterday and she has spoken to Carol about a place for the movie night and Carol give her Marty's Shoes old building because the Village Hall will be used for the 5K run that day. Una Lee will be handling everything for the movie night. Thank you, Una Lee!!! Tell us what you need to help you out.
Scarecrow Contest;
Joy from Lafayette House had Joanne call me yesterday about the Scarecrow Contest. After discussing it with her, I called Anna Rose at Town Hall for her suggustions to help with ideas. I left a message for Anna and have not heard back from her.
This is the three ideas:
Ask the school children to do the Scarecrows maybe as a community project having the older grades work with the young ones.
Ask the local Boy and Girls Scouts to do them as a community project.
Send home Flyers with School Children to have Families do them.
Once we figure out what we are going to do, we have to discuss prizes.
What do you think about the ideas??
I think we should exhaust as many avenues as possible - maybe we should use all three ideas! I have been calling local farms to see if they'll do the hay rides - most of them are saying no because of their busy time of year, however, I am waiting to hear back from a small farm here in the area - fingers crossed :-)
ReplyDeletep.s. I also emailed Carol and Kevin Goodman about the Christmas lights. I think we should ALL email Kevin since he is the owner - the more emails he gets, maybe the more attention he'll pay to it.
ReplyDeleteKevin's email address is:
keving@lafayettevillageshops.com
I have just emailed Carol and Kevin too.
ReplyDeleteJust heard back from Laurie Walker at Rainbow's End Farm and they agreed to do a hay ride in October. They can't commit to every weekend, but she said she'll let us know what dates they can do for us!
ReplyDeleteThat's great Tracey!
ReplyDeleteHas anyone heard what's going on with the Xmas light situation?
Also, I've been trying to think up ways to get the shoppers to come to OLV instead of going to the mall to do their Xmas shopping. I'm not one to do much print ad but the Valpack rep was in today and if a bunch of us went in on it together the cost would be minimal. What do you guys think?
I don't know what you guys think about having a TV commercial but we could probably get plenty of air time on a channel like channel 12 for around $300 total each for the the next 3 months, figuring in on 10 of us. That number can be adjusted by how many people who are interested. Hey, we might even be able to get the Village to pay for half if we say that we will take it off the rent.
We have made these plans so far with the Village.
ReplyDeleteIf all the stores could put up their own scarecrow by Sept 30th. If you need forms for your scarecrow ask Carol for help.
The Village will start advertising for the Public Scarecrow Contest in their email blast and in the Herald. The Public will call the Village Office to register and Carol will figure out how many Scarecrows the Village can handle.
We will have a Scarecrow Building Day on October 9th, (rain date Oct 10th) that day the register families will build or bring in their scarecrows to display. The village will provide the forms and hay if needed.
On the 9th would be a great day to have the kids doing face painting.
On Friday the 29th:
• We will have the parade from 2pm to 5pm.
• The Movie will open at 6:00pm and run all weekend.
• At 7:00pm we will have the Craved Pumpkin Contest
We should ask local figures to judge the Pumpkin Contest. We had to do the Pumpkin contest on Friday because it does not get dark until 5:50. The Village is buying the glow sticks to light up the pumpkins. They are also going to try to get a DJ for that day.
On Saturday the 30th
We will judge the Scarecrow Contest at 3:30. This one we should let the public and local figures judge. I also think that this would be a great day to do the face painting and have a DJ. Let’s make this a family day in the village. Maybe an apple eating contest for kids under 10. Any other ideas??
On the 31st we have the walk.
We need to discuss prizes for the contests.
Marty and I will be away from the 18th to the 27th. You will be able to reach us by email and we will be checking the blog. We will be putting up our scarecrow upon our return.
We need to start thinking of things to do in November
ReplyDeleteSorry I forgot:
ReplyDeleteTracey is working on Hay Rides. Perhaps we could get them to come on Oct 9th and Oct 30th.
And Una Lee and I were talking about a Treasure Hunt. Maybe we could do this on the 30th of Oct.
For the Treasure Hunt we could limit it to under 12, have them find something in our Scarecrows. That would keep them moving around the Village.
So the way it would work is that we could give them a sheet of clues, once they have fill out the sheet bring it to the Village Hall and they would get a pumpkin to paint in the hall. We could buy a crate of pumpkins from a local farmer. If we find out how many pumpkins are in a crate, we could limit it to the first 50, 75 or 100 kids get a prize.
I will ask the village if they can buy the pumpkins and paints. We supply the kids to oversee it.
We could do this 11:00 to 2:00. Then at 2:00 do face painting. Have the Scarecrow Contest at 3:30. With the Hay Ride going on all day.
What are you thoughts???
Please excuse all my spelling and grammer mistakes, I blog very early in the morning or very late at nite and have no spell check on this thing.
ReplyDeleteRainbow's End Farm have agreed to do the hay rides on October 9th and October 30th from 12 - 4pm! I will email Carol and get her to include this in the advertising.
ReplyDeleteAs for the other events - wow! - GREAT JOB BARBARA!!!
Do you want me to ask one of my girls if they want to do the face painting?
Maria, I would be very interested in doing the T.V. commercial. If we could all do it collectively it would be great! I think it would have more impact on the viewer with such a variety of stores to shop at.
ReplyDeleteI left some info on the advertising page about emailing the community, as soon as we have a flyer and all the scheduled things planned are finalized, I will email Natalia all the events for October so that she can forward it to the locals.
ReplyDeleteThis commercial thing has to be addressed immediately. I will try and get out tommorrow and see if anyone else is interested. As far as I can tell there are three of us who are interested so far.
When I go around the Village, I will let all the retailers know about the the shop scarecrows
and that they need to have them up by Sept 30th.
Yeah, hay rides, good work Tracey!
I love the treasure hunt idea! Not sure about the apple eating contest. Apples are one of the top 5 things that kids choke on.
Great work Barbara! Thank you! Have a safe trip!