We need a winter festival. We live in an area where everything fun in the community is packed into the three months we aren't wearing our long underwear and parkas. Let's celebrate our cold weather, it will give us something to look forward to in the doldrums of winter. There should be a snow sculpting contest downtown in the US Bank Square, a chili cook-off, beer tasting, a parade, a frozen 5k, a Force game outside, etc...