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Zion is the Place to Bee

 Please Visit And See All The Zion Bees   http://www.cityofzion.com/bees.htm

  Zion is the Place to Bee

 

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 Please Visit And See All The Zion Bees   http://www.cityofzion.com/bees.htm

Best of Hive Contest Winners

1st Runner up Suite Bee #50
Winner Ru-Bee the Red Hatter

1st Runner up Suite Bee #50
 

2nd Runner up Bee Hive #22
 

Suite Bee #50

Runner up: Bee-Rod #79
 

Have you heard the Buzz?
 http://cityofzion.com/buzz.htm

Original List of Bees:
 http://www.cityofzion.com/bees_original_list.htm

Bees for Sale:
 http://www.cityofzion.com/bees2.htm

Bumble Bee Ball Announcement:
 http://www.cityofzion.com/citypage/041306.htm

Beenapping:
 http://www.cityofzion.com/beenapping_found.htm

BeePrentice Announcement
 http://www.cityofzion.com/bee_prentice.htm

BeePrentice Candidates and Program
 http://www.cityofzion.com/beeprentice/candidates.htm

"This whole bee thing is the best dumb idea we've ever had."
 

 

Bees Will Be Buzzin' Around City This Summer

Council buys 20: Will decorate downtown

By A.J. Goldsmith

SPECIAL TO THE NEWS SUN

02/03/05

 

Zion isn't exactly the Big Rock Candy Mountain, but this summer there could be as many as 20 large bees buzzing around the city's downtown.

 

Each bee will stand 32 inches tall and will be enhanced with 10-inch antennae.

 

Admittedly taking a page from Chicago's successful cow promotion several summers ago, Zion officials Tuesday night enthusiastically allocated $10,000 from the city's cable television fund for the purchase of an original and 19 castings of the Zion Bee.

 

Z-B is a derivation of the logo for the Zion-Benton High School's Zee-Bees mascot for the school's athletic teams.

 

Local businesses and other organizations will be asked to pay $100 to adopt a Zion Bee, painting and dressing it to their liking.

 

Students from the high school have already volunteered to aid in the decoration of the Zion Bees.

 

City Clerk Judy Mackey and Commissioner Frank Flammini presented the Zion Bees concept to the city's 2005 Jubilee Days Committee. The committee made the theme for this year's Labor Day weekend parade "JuliBEE Days."

 

The bees are to be purchased by the city from Icon Poly of Gibbon, Neb., and are expected to be hatched and delivered next month.

The adoption period is April through June. It is anticipated the bees will be unveiled during Nostalgia Days June 23-25, and be a special part of the Fourth of July weekend and decorate the city through Labor Day.

 

The bees will be auctioned off after the summer with proceeds going to various local charities.

 

Giant bees invading Zion

Fiberglass statues: City orders 74 'Zee-Bees'

By Long Hwa-shu

STAFF WRITER

 

ZION — The city's downtown will soon be abuzz with bees — giant bees that stand 3 1/2 feet tall.

To give the city a honey of an identity and to promote business, Zion has purchased 74 bees,

called Zee-Bees, for adoption by store owners and public entities. Made of fiberglass, they can be used to

decorate a store front or dress up a display window.

"All 74 have been spoken for even before they were delivered to us Saturday," said Judy Mackey, city clerk.

The first bee was entrusted to officials from Zion-Benton High on Saturday.

In addition to stores, those adopting include schools and park districts, she said.

The adoption fee is $100 per Zee-Bee. But the potential to make the bees buzz for promotional purposes is unlimited.

The bees, about three feet wide and weighing 17 pounds each, come sort of naked, so that they can be painted

 or decorated according to the whim of the owners. They can even be christened.

"It's a project of the city, the Zion Business Development and the students at Zion-Benton High School," said Mackey.

Why bees?

"Well, because the high school's mascot is the Zee-Bee," she explained. "Remember, years ago Chicago

had its cows downtown. Now Zion has its Zee-Bees."

 

The giant bees are a derivation of the high school's mascot for practical reasons.

"We have to make it into a statue so that it can stand," Mackey again explained.

The Zee-Bees are made by Icon Poly of Gibbon, Neb., on a model provided by the city. For the project,

the city allocated $10,000 from its cable television fund. Depending on the interest in the Zee-Bees, Mackey

said the city may order more of them.

 

Now that downtown will be swarmed with Zee-Bees, it is only natural that the city has planned a beehive of events.

They include:

Nostalgia Days, June 23-25, when Zee-Bees will be officially unveiled at downtown storefronts.

Best of Hive Contest, where the public will vote for the best-decorated Zee-Bee. The event will be held

before the Labor Day weekend.

JuliBee Days Parade on Labor Day weekend will be theme of the annual end-of-summer celebration normally

known as Jubilee Days.

Festival of Lights with Zee-Bee displays around Christmas.

Topping them all will be the Bumble Bee Ball on April 22, 2006, at Illinois Beach Resort & Conference

Center near Zion, with proceeds for a scholarship fund at Zion-Benton High School.

04/11/05

 

Subject: Second Hatching

Dateline: Zion (April 2005)

A swarm of large insects invaded a local bookstore today. When asked by a store employee if there was anything in particular that they were looking for, their leader offered only a grin. He knew that Zion was the place to bee.