{"id":12649,"date":"2021-10-23T14:09:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T19:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=12649"},"modified":"2021-10-23T14:09:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T19:09:10","slug":"chamber-meeting-review-of-the-walnut-festival-and-parade-date-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/business\/chamber-meeting-review-of-the-walnut-festival-and-parade-date-set-20211023","title":{"rendered":"Chamber Meeting- Review Of The Walnut Festival And Parade Date Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alton, Mo. \u2013 <\/strong>The Alton Chamber of Commerce met on Thursday, October 21, 2021, at noon at the Burger Palace. They reviewed the Walnut Festival and briefly talked about the Christmas parade.<\/p>\n<h2>Review<\/h2>\n<p>The Chamber of Commerce got twenty-seven new business members and eight individual memberships.<\/p>\n<h3>Contests<\/h3>\n<p>In the pumpkin carving contest, the Chamber had ninety pumpkins and all of them were used up. The baking contest also had several entries. The woodworking, though, only had one entry.<\/p>\n<h3>Next Year<\/h3>\n<p>The Chamber talked about maybe having a photo booth next year. They also talked about having a find-the-rock challenge around the square again.<\/p>\n<h3>Run The Town<\/h3>\n<p>Members of the chamber discussed the Run The Town For Gold. They agreed that the school is not a good place to have the run. They had people driving their cars on the run route. Next year it will be on the square again.<\/p>\n<h2>Christmas Parade<\/h2>\n<p>Very briefly, the chamber mentioned the Christmas parade. It is set for Saturday, December 4, 2021, in the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alton Chamber of Commerce met on October 21, 2021, at the Burger Palace. They reviewed the Walnut Festival and talked about the Christmas parade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[229,201,264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12659,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649\/revisions\/12659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}