What about a 'Magrath Alberta Canada' Day?

[Roger]

It seems to me it would be neat to celebrate a day to show just how much we do love our little town. Here's one idea .. but first, a short story. Last fall I was invited to travel down to Bigfork, Montana to participate in 'Elves Day' (by my new son-in-law whose parents live nearby). It turned out that they have an annual tradition to decorate the entire town with pine bows and Christmas lights. It was well organized and the 250+ volunteers brought or got free Santa hats (and donuts and hot chocolate) and signed up to help decorate the various town establishments. We chose to help on their Playhouse Theatre. They provided all the materials and had ladders and hardware and assigned a team leader at each location. A little golf cart vehicle roamed the street with additional supplies. It was a nice event - starting at 6:30am and finishing shortly after the noon hour. We had our pictures taken to prove we helped. End of story.

So, my giant brain said to myself. Self, why can't we do something like that up in M-A-C? Shortly after I woke up, I wrote down some of the ideas. Such as:

? Call it 'We love Magrath, Alberta, Canada Day' and maybe observe it on 'Canada Day' in July (e.g. Mon Jul 2, 2007 this year) .. oops can't do it that day - can't rain on Raymond's parade.
? Organize a town clean up or decoration (a pre-Town of Magrath Celebration i.e. 24th of July)
? Organize a 'We Love Magrath' coloring contest.
? Create and sell a 'We Love Magrath' bumper sticker or T-Shirt logo
? Collect 'We Love Magrath' donations. Provide window sticker for local businesses who donate.

What are your ideas? RDD
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[Sherry Kerns Barber]

What about having people grow some flowers in some planters (several months before) the celebrations and then they can be entered into a contest for biggest, prettiest, etc. And then they can be put (or hung ) on display throughout main street. You should talk to the Nursery and see if they would be willing to donate seeds or bulbs. I don't know the first thing about growing flowers but I bet there would be a lot of proud people who would want to show off their green thumbs there in the Garden City. Anyways- just an idea.

[Roger]

I note that the Magrath Elementary will be participating in a clean up day on Fri Apr 27 as part of Pitch-In Canada, see news item listed in magrath-ab.net/news. Maybe we should use this date next year as part of the welovemagrath.com cleanup day?