Business representative seeks approval for private grand opening with cultivation vendors, live music and raffles

A business representative (name not provided), speaking for a private business, described plans for a grand opening event to the Mount Carmel City Council that would feature cultivation vendors, local musicians, food trucks, raffles and a wristbanded, 21-and-over private session bus.

The organizer told the council the event would include multiple musical acts — an opening blues band featuring Tommy Stillwell, Jongefell and Fred Bassett, plus acoustic performers Bobby Gross and Jake Martin — and at least two food trucks. “We wanna have our cultivation vendors. We’re wanting to have, some artists, some local merchants, and, some food trucks,” the representative said.

The organizer said proceeds from a dunking booth were intended for the sheriff’s department, pending approval from deputies who were on vacation at the…