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-176- Open House This can function as a kick-offto Cities Week or as your city's only event, · Serve refreshments; have city staffand officials mingle with citizens. · Let visitors tour city hall and public service departments or buildings; highlight the planning, engineering and public works departments and explain to visitors how they affeC, residents and businesses every day, · Display the latest police and fire technology. · Invite community groups (the scouts, lions club, etc.) to participate. · Display fire trucks, police cars, snow plows; take photos of visiting kids. · Offer door prizes to dtizens at~ending events: coupons for free city services like admission to a public recreation facility, City Fair Celebrate with a day or evening fair in your community's gathering place. Hold a baking contest. Advertise in your local paper; ask the paper to run the winning recipes or finalists. Get the schools involved. Celebrate your city's history. How did your name get Chosen? Who founded your community and when? What else was happening in the state, country that time? Hold a contest (advertise in your local paper) to see who knows their hometown best. Use the Fair to highlight significant events, honor long-time community members, quiz school children, etc. Host a fall festival. Feature hay rides and tour your city. Have the tour guide point out and explain the city services along the way. Exhibit school art in city hall. Have schools submit paintings and drawings that define the students' perceptions of their role in city government. City Nig..ht This event is a great wrap-up to the end of Cities Week. · "Light the Night" -- hold a bon-fire and tell stories about your city, your city's history, important people in your neighborhood, feature local entertainment or school groups. · City Get-together -- serve ice cream, juice, cookies, or sell boxed meals and give the proceeds to a local charity. Again, feature school or other community group entertainment.