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<p class="MsoNormal">Good morning, everyone! Congrats to all the finalists!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Next up are invitations. We are working on mailing them to you this week. You will receive the invites and envelopes for you to address to your invitee list. The following are suggestions for potential invitees:
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</span></span></span><![endif]>Award nominees from your community<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Fully designated programs will receive 20 invitations, Associate level programs will receive 10 and Network level programs will receive five. If you need more than that, please let the Oklahoma Main Street Center know as soon as possible.
An electronic version will be along later in the week. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:9.0pt">Please be sure to invite your legislators and work with any other programs that share your legislators to ensure you are not paying for them twice. If something happens at the last minute, and they cannot make
the banquet, you may bring someone else in their place. We are often asked whether you are responsible for paying for their spouse (and/or children) and that is your decision.
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you have any questions, please reach out. Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">kel<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> MainstreetManagers <mainstreetmanagers-bounces@lists.onenet.net>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Buffy Hughes<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 3, 2023 1:14 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> MainstreetManagers@lists.onenet.net<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Samantha Extance (sextance@incog.org) <sextance@incog.org>; Josh Kunkel <josh@method.group><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] [MainstreetManagers] Top Three Press Release<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Good Afternoon Main Street,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Attached is the press release we sent to our marketing department for distribution regarding the top three awards winners in each competitive awards category.
<b>CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!!</b> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There will be a separate press release regarding community and director of the year soon.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please let me know if you have any questions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Have a great weekend,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Buffy<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Buffy Hughes | State Main Street Director</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Oklahoma Main Street Center | Oklahoma Department of Commerce<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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