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1 right time for the City to have a float in the Aquatennial parade 2 since the City already has an Aquatennial Queen candidate and this 3 year's Queen of the Snows was also Miss Apache. 4 The last time anybody could recall that St. Anthony had a float had 5 been 1949 when it received an award. Ms. Olsonoski indicated the 6 Aquatennial Committee was pressuring Apache management to get 7 together with the N.E. Minneapolis park boards and City officials to 8 provide the float. She said she recognized a lot of expertise would 9 be necessary to get a professional looking float and said she would be 10 willing to attend the planning seminar the Aquatennial Committee had 11 instituted to help float sponsors get that expertise. 12 Besides some financial help, the float proponent indicated a garage 13 would be needed somewhere in the City to construct and store the 14 float. In return, Ms. Olsonoski perceived the Village and School 15 District would get some really good exposure, not only through the 16 Aquatennial parade, but in other communities where the float would 17 also be competing. 18 Mr. Childs explained that the Chamber had been willing to give 19 financial support to the float but would not be able to do the whole 20 project themselves. Chamber members had thought maybe the City 21 Council could get a notice out to the community through the newspapers 22 that a float committee was being formed for which volunteers were 23 needed to spearhead the project and to approach the various other 24 civic and municipal organizations for donations and help in getting a 25 float built. The Manager said the thought that the St. Anthony 26 School District might have space available to construct and store the 27 float this summer. He agreed that if the project were well done, it 28 could be a real asset to St. Anthony and said he would expect the 29 project to get support from local organizations like the Lions Club, 30 Kiwanis, Knights of Columbus, etc. Ms. Olsonoski indicated the 31 Apache management were willing to help fund and work on the endeavor. 32 She agreed that what was needed first was a committee to come up with 33 some creative ideas and to coordinate the construction and float 34 scheduling. 35 Councilmember Enrooth recalled that it had been 20 years since the St. 36 Anthony Kiwanis had sponsored Mary Williams, who had gone on to 37 become Miss Minnesota that year. He agreed it was time for St. 38 Anthony to have another community event like the fall funfests the 39 City used to have and he said he perceived from what the survey had 40 told the Council, that there were a lot more younger families living 41 in St. Anthony that the Council had ever suspected, so it should not 42 be too hard to get volunteers with different perspectives from that 43 group to work on the float. 44 Larry Jones indicated he would write an article on the float project 45 in the Bulletin. Z