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want to find out if businesses are willing to contribute to this cost.
Member Charlie Tompkins said, "You can't get the merchants to contribute to Colonial Christmas. Why would they contribute to this? I don't think we're in the Chamber of Commerce business."
"It seems like a maintenance nightmare," he continued. "Who puts up the 4th of July schedule and takes it off? It seems like a needless headache to me."
Ray Gooch disagreed saying he did not know enough about maintaining Internet sites to have an opinion, but "I wouldn't want the reason we decide not to do this to be because it isn't the business of council to be a Chamber of Commerce. It is. A visitor's center is one of the primary goals of this council. This is what we live on. We ought to be promoting the town and what we've got here."
Peter Skowronski said the Futures Committee should be looking into the issue. More promotion of tourism could mean "losing more of the residential character. I'd like to invite people to
See Council, Page A-6
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