Downtown Riverview Annual Meeting

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This years annual meeting will be held at the Lions Center on Coverdale Road it will take place on June 12th 2004 and begin at 5:30pm.

We will be having a very brief meeting followed by a casino event similar to our casino event last year. The evening will end with an auction for prizes from local businesses with all the money you have won at the blackjack or craps tables.

Everyone attending will receive one free drink and must purchase there own chips to start gambling with, at a cost of $5.00 for $5000 worth of chips. Please confirm your attendance as soon as possible. Come on out and win some great prizes.

Agenda

5:30 - 6:00 Arrival and drinks

6:00- 6:20 Annual Meeting

6:20-8:30 Gambling till your hearts content

8:30 - Auction

web site: www.downtownriverview.org

email: info@downtownriverview.org

Office Hours:

Monday - 8:00am-12:00pm

Thursday - 8:00am-12:00pm

Friday - 8:00am-12:00pm

Phone: 506-387-4215

Sunfest Artisans Fair

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The Downtown Riverview Business Association in conjunction with Parks & Recreation will be having an Artisans Fair this July 18th 2004 along the Riverfront in Riverview. The fair will be part of the 4 day long Sun Fest and will be drawing many people from outside of the Riverview area. The Sun Fest will include events for adults and children ranging from music to magic and arts to entertainment.

The Artisan fair will be on the last day of the Sun Fest Sunday July 18th from 10am until 5pm and will have a maximum participation of 50 displays. Our emphasis is on quality not quantity. We are aiming to have an emphasis on art to help the local talent that we have in the Riverview area promote themselves.

All of the artisans who attend must have artwork, crafts, or other items that are hand crafted by them or other local individuals. No retail items will be permitted.

The cost for the day is $40.00 per table and includes skirting for the table itself. The display and set up of artisan’s wares is up to each individual. The tables will be arranged along the Riverfront starting near the Gazebo and heading down towards the new bridge. Tables will be staggered along both sides of the trail. Given the setup of the tables people have ample space to set-up tenting or other such items without encroaching on another’s space.

Table allocation will be set up towards the middle of June and all people who have registered will receive detailed information regarding their table location and other pertinent details.

For registration and further details please contact our office or visit:
www.downtownriverview.org/fair.htm

Downtown Riverview
Phone: 506-387-4215
Cell: 506-866-7998
sunfest@downtownriverview.org

*Town Council meetings are held the 2nd and fourth Monday of the month at Town Hall and are open to the public. Start time is 7pm

*The project committee meeting will be held at the Boardroom in Coverdale Square at Noon.

*The monthly General Meeting is held at the Boardroom in Coverdale Square at Noon. It is open to all members of the business association to address issues or voice concerns. Held every second Monday of the Month.

Advanced Planning

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Mark these dates in you calendar!

Please note: the regular feature of the newsletter that was the calendar of events is now located here. This regularly updated date book allows people to view the calendar of events when they wish too and not have to wait for the newsletter to come out.

June After 5 Social June 8th 2004 - The second Networking session facilitated by Nancy Gamlin-Legere from Concept Communications.You need not have attended the first session to benefit from this second networking group. Plan ahead and bring a friend!

June 12th Annual Meeting - Held again this year at the Lions Center on Coverdale Road. This annual meeting will be very short followed by a casino event. Complete with snacks and drinks delivered to the gambling tables. The evening will be followed by an auction for prizes from local businesses. Contact the office for further details.

 

Summer Students

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The association was lucky again this year to receive 3 summer students funded by the provincial government. The students, who will be starting on June 23rd, will once again help to keep or town beautiful and act as ambassadors to tourists traveling through our region. The students duties will include gardening and cleaning of our BIA, painting and touching up many of our streetscape elements that have been abused by the winter weather and much more. If you have any suggestions as to other tasks our summer students might do, do not hesitate to contact the office.

Profiles for Web site

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With the launch of the web site and the site traffic now building up. It is clear that quite a few people are searching for businesses that do not have their profiles sent in yet. This resource can only be as good as the content it provides and nobody is better qualified to describe what they sell or offer than the owner of the business. This local business search is here for your benefit but unless you provide further information people with on see a default page indicating that there is no profile yet.

The profile need not be complicated, just a simple description of you business and perhaps a photo or other pictures of products etc. As always, you can contact the office if you have any questions.

 

Presidents Message

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I would like to thank everyone for all of the support that I have had on May 10th. I am delighted to be your new councilor for the town and will continue to work hard with DRBA to support the association and be an active past president after our annual meeting in June.

I am very proud of the accomplishments of the DRBA and could not have done any of this without the help of so many people. We now have an excellent web site put together by our Executive Director Jeff Devos. Jeff has worked hard and done a superb job and this will be a benefit to all of our businesses. There is no cost to any of the businesses for this great source of advertising. I would encourage all of you, in and outside the BIA, to prepare a profile for Jeff to add to the web site.

Our new signage is close to being completed and we now have our new image on door decals as well.

We also are pleased to say that we are going to have hanging plants that will be properly looked after this summer and the Christmas lights will be well displayed this coming Christmas.

I would like to thank our Executive Director, Jeff Devos, for all of his hard work this past year. He has been proactive and made so many great things happen for our association.

Plan to attend our Annual Meeting on June 12th at the Lions Centre and it promises to be a short meeting and a fun event with a Casino night.

Sherry Wilson – President Downtown Riverview

Web site Launch Party

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Last Tuesdays social saw the launch of the associations new web site www.downtownriverview.org, the web site was preceded by a brief video illustrating the many changes Riverview and the association has gone through since its inception over 10 years ago. For those who could not attend please peruse the site and, if you have not done so already, send in your business profile. Information for which can be found on the site.

Also while at the site please search for your own business and confirm the details of the search results. For example search your business name and make sure the phone numbers and contact person(s) are correct. In this way we can keep a up-to-date database of all member businesses.

Profit Learn Course Success

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The time management course put on by the association in conjunction with Profit learn was a grand success. Everyone who attended said that they reaped great value from the program material and that the profit learn courses are a fantastic value. If you have any suggestions for profit learn course that you would like to see put on by our association, please let us know so we can make the appropriate arrangements.

Programs offered by Profit Learn can be found here: http://www.profitlearn.com/availablecourses.htm