Firm to plan Savoy celebration<\/strong><\/a>
\nMon, 02\/14\/2005 – 3:00pm | Tim Mitchell<\/p>\nSAVOY \u2013 The Savoy Village Board plans to hire a consulting firm to help make plans for the community’s 50th anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n
The village board recommended at a study session last week to hire Quasar, a Champaign-based company formerly known as Leo Media, to plan and coordinate a festival commemorating the community’s first half-century. Quasar has an office in Savoy.<\/p>\n
The board is scheduled to vote on the $14,000 contract at its next regular meeting at 7 p.m. March 2 at the Savoy Municipal Building, 611 N. Dunlap Ave.<\/p>\n
Savoy Village Manager Dick Helton said a specific date hasn’t yet been set for the celebration, which will take place in 2006.<\/p>\n
“Quasar will set the date, coordinate the activities, engage vendors to work at the event and work with local groups,” Helton said.<\/p>\n
While other communities, such as Rantoul, have organized anniversary celebrations without the aid of consultants, Helton said Savoy needed professional assistance because the village’s staff doesn’t have the expertise.<\/p>\n
“We’re not event organizers or planners,” Helton said. “We don’t have the staff that is able to give to that kind of activity,” Helton said.<\/p>\n
Helton noted that the village’s first attempt at a community celebration, the Enjoy Savoy festival held in the early 1990s, fizzled and died after two years, after being organized entirely by volunteers.<\/p>\n
“One of the things we hope to do is to make this an annual event, and we obviously want the first one to be a very good festival,” Helton said. “We need professional help and guidance to make sure this is a success.”<\/p>\n
Mayor Bob McCleary appointed James Sinclair and Garry Herzog of the Savoy Economic Development Committee and village staff member Kim Leese to assist Quasar with the development of the festival.<\/p>\n
Helton said the village board chose Quasar after receiving proposals from three different consultants.<\/p>\n
You can reach News-Gazette staff writer Tim Mitchell at (217) 351-5366 or via e-mail at tmitchel@news-gazette.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In 2005, while working for Quasar Strategies and serving on the Board of Directors for the Village of Savoy’s Economic Development Corporation, I led the planning for the Village of Savoy’s 50 anniversary celebration. This took a year of event planning, developing marketing materials, managing food and carnival vendors, and more. (Secretly, I think my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sherryumlah.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sherryumlah.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sherryumlah.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sherryumlah.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sherryumlah.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sherryumlah.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"http:\/\/sherryumlah.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sherryumlah.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sherryumlah.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sherryumlah.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}