(Nicole Reis/meadowlakeNOW Staff)

By Nicole Reis

Council Event Calendar

Local organizers urged to use electronic resources to promote Meadow Lake events and entertainment

Feb 28, 2020 | 1:38 PM

“There’s nothing going on in Meadow Lake…ever.”

Those are some of the social media comments Mayor Merlin Seymour made reference to in city council this week while discussing a lack of public awareness when it comes to local events.

Coun. Richard Levesque suggested an alternative use of the city’s event calendar to promote local initiatives more aggressively.

“On the city’s event calendar, there seems to show only council meetings and the odd regular meeting,” he said. “There’s nothing really promoting Telemiracle or Winter festival.”

Levesque asked council about possibilities to improve the use of the city’s event calendar so people visiting the website would have events organized in one space as opposed to the community’s use of Facebook to promote their respective cause.

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Deputy Mayor Conrad Read noted there is a process for organizers to promote their event on the city’s website, but no one is using it.

City Clerk Jessica Walters at one time, handled the city’s event website.

“We used to enter information that we knew for sure from the booking facilities, otherwise, we rely on organizers to submit information about their events and we would post that,” she said.

While the city does continue the practice of utilizing organizer information, the website itself has fallen to the bottom of the priority list due to staffing vacancies.

“We do rely on people to submit their event and organizers don’t always specify what facility rentals are for,” Walters said.

Council included the purchase of recreation booking software in the 2020 capital budget and has advised the consideration of tieing the booking software to the city’s event website.

The mayor stressed the city will work with organizers who contact the city for additional event promotion.

Council agreed to address improving facility booking software at the next council meeting on March 9.

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