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Special
meeting to develop ideas for local economy
[JAN.
30, 2001] A
special meeting of Main Street Lincoln’s Economic Restructuring
Committee will be Wednesday, Jan. 31, at 5:30 p.m. in the Lincoln
Public Library Annex Conference Room. This open meeting
is to develop ideas to help current downtown businesses to
thrive and bring new businesses to the area. Anyone interested
in strengthening the local economy is welcome to attend.
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Looking
for Lincoln starts the year off right
[JAN.
26, 2001] The
Looking for Lincoln committee met Wednesday, Jan. 24, at the Abraham
Lincoln Tourism Bureau for their first meeting of the new year.
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Paul
Beaver, chairman of the Master Plan Committee, presented the plans
for creating a videotape concerning Looking for Lincoln in Lincoln
and Logan County. They expect to distribute this video, when
completed, to the chambers of commerce, motels, libraries, Looking
for Lincoln sites and any other sites that would be applicable. The
committee will be planning locations, costumes and props. They will
also need actors and any good help available. More complete plans
will be announced as the committee's work progresses. Beaver was
very pleased to announce that they have a script which Judge
Stringer wrote in 1911 which details places and events in Logan
County where Lincoln visited during his lifetime.
Shirley
Bartelmay reported there was a good turnout at the training for
guides at the Postville Courthouse. Thirty-seven volunteers received
training and 14 are scheduled for training with Richard Schachtsiek,
site manager at the Postville Courthouse. An additional training
session has been scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 15, and anyone
interested is invited to attend.
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Wendy
Bell, Main Street Lincoln program manager, reported that the
Illinois Highway Department will be installing Looking for Lincoln
signs along the highways this summer in order to have uniformity
across the state. Wendy stated that everyone seemed very pleased
with the courthouse tour. Good attendance made the evening very
special, and it is expected that there will be expanded attendance
next year.
Thressia
Usherwood, director of the Abraham Lincoln Tourism Bureau, mentioned
that the Festival of Trees was successful, and it appears that it
will continue to be a highlight for the next Christmas season.
Ron Keller, Lincoln
College Museum curator, announced that the college has already
requested the state of Illinois to install Lincoln College Museum
signs along old Route 66. The signs seem to have encouraged an
increase in tourists stopping at the museum.
The next Looking for
Lincoln meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m.
[Kathleen
McCullough]
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Local
cable company changes name
from MediaOne to Insight
[JAN.
16, 2001] In
the event you were listening to last weekend’s Lincoln Railer
basketball games, you may have caught the news. During the broadcast
of the games on Channel 15 and the Lincoln Daily News website,
Jim Ash stated the games were presented by Linc On TV and Insight
Communications Inc.
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Insight
Communications of New York, N.Y., has finalized an agreement and
purchased the Logan County cable system as well as other Midwest
systems in a divestiture from the purchase of MediaOne by cable
giant AT&T.
The
move, in the works for several months, brought an end to speculation
and rumor regarding the end owners of our local cable system.
Insight,
a cable operation that is the eighth largest in the United States,
is concentrated primarily in the four contiguous states of Illinois,
Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, and now has a 1.4 million subscriber
base with the new purchases in Illinois that include Springfield and
Lincoln.
According
to Kim Kelly, vice president of Insight, the addition of some
530,000 customers in this area will allow Insight Midwest to
increase services to all their clients within the next year. The
company specializes in offering bundled, state-of-the-art technology
in mid-sized communities, delivering analog and digital video, high
speed data and, in the near future, voice telephony to its
customers.
Bill
White, local cable manager, has stated that all employees and their
expertise have been retained by Insight and that nothing current
cable subscribers are comfortable with will change. The fact that
Insight is geared toward second-tier markets will in fact increase
cutting edge technology to be available to Lincoln residents sooner
rather than having to wait for a mass cable operator to employ such
technology in larger markets first.
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To
underscore Insights’ involvement in smaller markets, Kim Kelly
explained what benefits are just around the corner for Illinois
cable subscribers:
"We are pleased to announce that Insight
Digital continues to be deployed throughout various service areas,
adding a whole new element to home entertainment. This means
enhanced video and audio, electronic program guides, as well as
expanded premium and pay-per-view services. Insight also is the
first cable operator to offer DIVA’s video-on-demand service,
OnSet, as part of a digital platform. With OnSet, trips to the video
store become a thing of the past…OnSet offers hundreds of movies
by genre, actor or alphabetically by title, and the selection
appears instantly! Since OnSet stores the film digitally, viewers
even have the capability to pause, rewind and fast forward."
Insight
has stated that many of their forward-thinking ideas will be
available within the year to subscribers throughout their base.
Insight,
listed on Nasdaq under ICCI, also owns Insight Midwest, which, with
co-owner AT&T, will be the controlling company for central
Illinois. This joint venture will allow Lincoln cable subscribers to
have cutting edge technology available in home entertainment without
having to wait for other larger markets to be serviced first.
Insight is interested in communities such as Lincoln, and the chance
to be in the forefront of home entertainment technology should be
exciting for all of us.
[Mike
Fak]
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[JAN.
30, 2001] For
the week Jan 29.-Feb 4
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Monday,
Jan. 29
Chamber
Executive Council
Noon
Chamber
office
Wednesday,
Jan. 31
Economic
Development Council
8
a.m.
Mayor’s
office
Thursday,
Feb. 1
Chamber
Board of Directors
11:45
a.m.
Chamber
Conference Room
303
S. Kickapoo St., Lincoln
Friday,
Feb. 2
Chamber
of Commerce official ribbon-cutting ceremony (business relocation)
10
a.m.
Mission
Mart
819
Woodlawn Road, Lincoln
Saturday,
Feb. 3
Chamber
annual dinner
6
p.m.
The
Maple Club
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Upcoming
events:
Mayoral
forum – Feb. 21
Ag
Day breakfast – March 21
Legislative
breakfast – April 18
The
Chamber’s Technology Committee encourages businesses to
participate in a survey to identify and address the technological
needs of our local businesses. Business personnel may complete this
survey by clicking the icon on the Chamber’s home page at lincolnillinois.com
or by picking up a survey at the Chamber office.
Lincoln/Logan
County Chamber of Commerce
303
S. Kickapoo St., Lincoln
(217)
735-2385
chamber@lincolnillinois.com
[Provided
by Bobbi Abbott, executive director]
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Main
Street Corner News
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[JAN.
17, 2001] Main
Street Lincoln has
a lot planned in the next five weeks, and we want to be certain you
mark your calendars now so as not to miss a single important event.
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Happy New
Year!
• MORNINGS ON MAIN —
Tuesday, Jan. 9, 8 a.m. at Sorrento's, 521 Broadway St. Coffee,
rolls and a chance for you to share your ideas with others concerned
about downtown Lincoln. Everyone
is welcome!
• ANNUAL MEETING —
Monday, Jan. 22, 7 p.m. in City Council Chambers (second floor
of City Hall). Acknowledgement of accomplishments, voting on new
board members and officers by current Main Street partners, plans
for the new year. Come and get in on the action!
• LOOKING FOR LINCOLN
MASTER PLAN MEETING — Wednesday, Jan. 24, 7 p.m. in the second
floor conference room at Union Planters Bank, 303 S. Kickapoo. Are
you interested in economic growth through heritage tourism? This is
the group that's making it happen! Join us!
• ECONOMIC
RESTRUCTURING COMMITTEE MEETING — Wednesday, Jan. 31, 5:30
p.m. in the Lincoln Public Library Annex Conference Room. Are you
concerned about the wide-open spaces in our downtown retail
environment? Then this is the group to get involved with! We're
developing a plan of action to fill the vacancies and revitalize the
area. Creative thinkers with a positive attitude needed.
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• MAYORAL FORUM AT
MORNINGS ON MAIN - Tuesday, Feb. 13, 7:30 a.m. (note the time
change) at Sorrento's. We've invited all mayoral candidates to join
us and present their ideas and views on downtown Lincoln. In
preparation, we're asking YOU to write down and send your suggested
questions to Main Street by Feb. 1. You may mail them to 303 S.
Kickapoo, fax them to 735-9205 or e-mail them to manager@mainstreetlincoln.com.
Questions will be sorted for duplication and the most relevant
chosen. Each candidate will have the opportunity to address each
question selected. No questions will be accepted from the floor;
therefore, if you want to address a topic, you must send the
question in advance. If you think the mayor has an impact on
downtown, now is the time to find out the candidates’ views so you
can make the best decision in the voting booth.
• AS ALWAYS, Main
Street Lincoln is working with you to make downtown a great place to
work, shop and socialize. Got a suggestion? Call us at 732-2929.
[Wendy
Bell, program manager]
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