i am here because i am the event planner for life man again my seventh year producing this great event with the principal shopping district there and great team is going really fun and there's another reason why here too you have some of your family that are americans tonight yet every year i somehow have like friends family and people that just sort of fill in some of the gaps and so this year we needed my son and my daughter are both models this year excellent how many mannequins do you have and what is the theme this year this year the theme is boardgames every year we come up with a different theme the first two years we had it was just generic it was just showcasing the fall season and then the second year we had movies and that was just went then when we were getting ready some people came over to us too and thought we were maybe mannequins too but no we were just cold and not moving around i mean circuit my phone and some of those i don't get the connection with the phone ins wister and i was like these are talking about me yeah well i think what we're going to do is we're going to walk around here we're going to visit some of the mannequins and take a look we're going to be live until he did eight thirty tonight sold all a community home please feel free and thank you very much and feel this is a fantastic time thank you it's really enjoyable to have you here i'm glad that you're here and taking part in things like it's going to be the rain is going to hold off or like go away so you think certainly oh well yes of course thanks for being here thank you and i were back and now i have cathy has she is she is here with west michigan community bank in and tell us about who you are and what you do while west michigan community bank has been part of the community for a long time actually we've been down town hall and for almost ten years so we're actually a sponsor this year although i mannequins we don't sponsor like the rain but we get what we get and i think everyone's still having a great time so it's still beautiful downtown harlem so yes it is  describe a little bit about what you're mannequins out yet are mannequins are actually are we're not only sponsoring but we're also participating this year so our game is payday and that's it's basically a calendar month and all of these are  we're look at out sure i'm scared of reese and the marketing and p r manager and here district library and these people behind me are teens who frequently volunteer in the library and here eric and we're doing the exhibit plot twisting tales a display together we had some volunteers from a special needs class at helen christian who came in wrapped all the books for us and then we have a little team volunteers here and some staff members helping crowd members who want to do the spinner so they can tell the mannequins where to move i do recognize aaron over there's a mirror yes we've worked appear in the past in some kids activities things at the marketplace so was what else you guys have going on a fiber i know you're very busy we are right now in the middle of a job search and career program series for adults so we have a big speaker on monday night coming in to talk about that he's a regionally known career coach at six thirty and then we're doing resume work labs where you can come in and work on your resume get feedback on it we've got on tuesday a program on native plants in case you're wondering what to put in your yard well next year very cool and then we have number of kids in teen programs ongoing story times we have one story time in spanish that's new this year there's always something going on i think i just did the october calendar we have twenty four different events in october with all that exciting programming coming up to do you think you can make the rain go away tonight yeah i wish i could that's a bummer well i do appreciate beautiful place flowers are all still pretty good crowd great store fronts should be looks like there's a big a big group up here in front of the window so we're going to check that out real quick all this one looks really cool this game of life it looks like we've got the game of life in front of the rest haven so if we can come up if we can sneak in here we can get a good shot of the game of life with all the wonderful elders this is great we got a good shot of that fantastic i want my whole college for really good really cool looks like the kids are trying really hard at this game very  well let's go see what's next i like the music here this one here is ticket to ride i don't think i've heard that game before but it sure is a pretty looking display all knowledge i've seen the board i have seen that one before that model's doing a very good job too cold let's move along pretty pretty princess is again they're doing a very good job and they've got cake and their  in the next window we've got older princesses and there's a big smile there i see similar move in the smile a little bit and as we come up to the next window it looks like we have mother's little helper which must be an older game but it certainly does have a very appealing display i do want to say one quick shout out to all of the and coming up into the next window it looks like i spy lewis is my son's favorite game i spy all number of cool and unique things and there's even a sponge bob up there to really cool sure this next one knows everybody's favorite board game and it looks like it's monopoly go to jail railroad's nice really creative this is a really really creative one i television producer and i just like to take a quick moment and tell you that we are down town hall in live manicamp wonderful turnout even for an event that is a little wet the storefronts are fantastic the crowds are pretty good you can find city hall on television on comcast cable here in the city hall in an eighteen to universe channel ninety nine we also put a lot of our programming online we have a mail call where you'll find there's city council meetings other board meetings and a lot of the wonderful things we do this will end up being on the call my office nine at three five five fourteen ninety eight and i would be happy to talk you talk to you about any of these opportunities we are volunteers and that's how how we do we do things so i hope you're enjoying the just see what they had this year what have you seen so far that you've enjoyed the candy land it's very cute and yeah and has a great line to murder mystery we haven't gone down that far yet so we're on our way down that way a married couple excellent and you can there's three ways to vote you can vote online and live manikin night dot com by texting the text into the code six one six seven eight two two zero zero zero on the paper ballot voting stations and this next on the we're coming up to looks like a classic in literature sherlock holmes in the board game deduction wow as i look like a cool fun game to play have never played that before but i certainly would think that would be great and he has a good look looks just like sherlock holmes and now we have a new window that we're coming up to and this is porches murder mystery party a taste for wine and murder how cool and if you like this one you can text message code butch what a wonderfully about who'd on a murder mystery bush's excellent high and we're back down town city hall and we're in front of your yacht mariel's and i'm with mariel i mean how are you tonight i can you please describe what we have in front of us dominoes domino is a classic game actually i just started playing th game about two years ago and it's a lot of yes and i'm really excited because when this is over with i get the game even better more more so i'll be coming back to play dominoes in marial later on tonight well i don't think i can do it tonight ok but if i keep the game in the be starting my tent here at the end of october i started in one thousand nine but i was in sea island and then i had the opportunity to come to this great and fantastic building and i love this building right in the center of downtown as the sign says it's intimate apparel i started with prosthetics for women with breast cancer but that kind of went on the wayside but i proceeded with other things and i'm very very blessed for being here i just have got a great clientele and it's just been really a lot of fun well thank you very much for allowing us the time to talk to this evening and i hope you're enjoying the crowds and enjoying the festivities seem to me you're talking and i say i'm not part of the group i'm just saying hi thank you for coming down town  models here doing their chess moves what a fantastic display what a beautiful storefront too and what do we have here no looks like they are doing goldfish if you think goldfish is going to be a winner and i think it's a pretty neat looking one you can text or i can't see it now you can tax your message to use and oil at six one six seven eight two two zero zero zero goldfish who doesn't like goldfish oh and we've got another very very cool display it looks like  the classic game of battleship with two young boys playing battleship pretty cool and we are having a great time and now we are here in front of a street grill and it looks like they're doing checkers what a family game that anybody can play one two three four five six seven eight eight mannequins here checkers one of the elaborate display really cool and if you want to vote via text message for checkers you can put  street eight th at eighth street text that text out to number six one six seven eight two two zero zero zero really cool and we're back in front of history  and i found two interesting women here and they're going to tell us all about what they're doing here tonight my name is jill whelan and this is my friend and we're helping promote productions we're going to do a production of spitfire grill in november and you're from the city hall and here i live in zealand but i grew up in holland lived in holland pretty much my whole life have you been to live manikin way before no i haven't i have seen pictures but i had no idea it's really cool it's awesome it has been and it's over the years have been a great event the rain was a little dampening tonight but ok the spirits were still high we saw a lot of really really neat mannequins other than your checkers have you seen any of the other players yes the one next door here that  mannequins outside to look at some of these faces precious you're doing a very great job right now and i think maybe she at the hard work in the in the weather thank you very much and that has been our coverage of live mannequins tonight my name is aaron eater and i'm with the city of holland television as a television producer we braved the weather we braved the elements we came downtown and we worked in some new equipment with some volunteers i have to give a big  to jose our camera man tonight keith armed elements of night and now with us right now but out getting footage elsewhere is dan and rory so we hope to put this back together for you and have a plane back again on city hall on television or you can at comcast here in the city holland and on and again we have a we like to put most of our videos online so you can find it online at the city of holland slashed emil or are you tube page which is city hall and tube if you'd like to call in or comment or have any questions about city of on television you can call me at three five five fourteen ninety eight thank you it's been a wonderful fantastic night and i hope you made it down town