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The Joy of Serving By VERNE MOBLEY Lions Club President Wow! Here it is, time to have my little visit with you to talk about our Great Lions Club. This could be the last of our ads because we have not made arrangements with Tim and the club yet to see if we can continue. We did this to try to increase membership, but, so far, we have not done so! Anyway, those of us members at work still think it’s fun serving. By the time your read this, Lions Bill Rock, Gus Peterson and myself will have presented the little American flags to the Nestucca Valley Elementary School first graders. And a lot of us Lions will be out at the high school field during the Easter Egg Hunt at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 19. We are happy to report that we will be sponsoring one of the youth softball or baseball teams this year. Jeremy Strober is one of the leaders of the program. New officers of our club will be mostly the old officers: President Verne Mobley, 1st VP Kris Weiland, 2nd VP Kathryn Hedrick, 3rd VP Corrine Peratore, Secretary Sandy Hanneman, Treasurer Teresa Smith, Lion Tamer Ruby Fry-Matson, and Tail Twister Dave Gordon. The Reach the Beach bicycle classic will by May 17 and is sponsored by the American Lung Association of Oregon. Helping park bikes will be the local chamber of commerce, the high school wrestlers and, of course, us Lions. Remember, we meet every 2nd and 4th Tuesday in beautiful, deserted Cloverdale. Paid Advertisement
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NEWS&COMMUNITY
Tourism Advisory Committee selected By TIM HIRSCH of the Sun
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illamook County Commissioners unanimously approved a slate of eight community members, plus Nehalem mayor Shirley Kalkoven to serve on the Economic Development Council’s Tourism Advisory Council during their April 16 meeting held at Nestucca Rural Fire Protection District’s Hebo Station. Amongst those serving on the TAC will be two Pacific City residents. Kiwanda Hospitality president Jeremy Strober will represent South Tillamook County’s lodging interests and Nestucca Valley ComPhoto by Tim Hirsch munity Alliance president Gloria ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL board member Doug Olson and Scullin will be the “at-large” South director Dan Biggs present the list of EDC-approved Tourism Advisory Tillamook County representative. Committee members to the Tillamook County Board of Directors on Filling out the nine-member Wednesday, April 16 at Nestucca Rural Fire Protection District’s commucommittee, which will make nity room in Hebo. The commissioners approved the nine-person comrecommendations on projects mittee unanimously. funded by the Transient Lodging Tax to the EDC, with Tillamook and sharing her organizational skills with Pacific City County Commissioners having organizations. Her credits include 30 years as managthe final say, will be Mary Faith Bell (at-large, countyer of budgeting, planning and management reporting wide), Brian Williams (tourism representative, North in the finance department and director of controlling County), Justin Aufdermauer (tourism representative, and benefits in human resources at Daimler Trucks of Central County), Kay Covert (at-large, North County), North America. Jud Randall (at-large, Central County) and Kalkoven, “I applied for the position because I felt I had who was nominated by the Tillamook County Mayors some skills on the business level to help better evaluConsortium. ate how TLT money should be spent,” she said. The committee’s slate was earlier approved by the Scullin added that though NVCA is one of several EDC board at their April 15 meeting. organizations that could potentially win TLT dollars Strober, who has managed Kiwanda Hospitality, for tourism-related facilities, she will be taking a neuthe largest lodging provider in the county, for eight tral stance while serving on the committee. years, has a long history in the hospitality business In his presentation to county commissioners on dating back to 1985. He has worked in everything the list of eight community members that will now from small bed & breakfasts to neighborhood restauserve on the committee, EDC board member Doug rants to large inner-city hotels to a five-start hotel in Olson hailed the credentials of those selected, as well Amsterdam. Amongst his credits is helping to open as the additional 15 that applied. 11 hotels around the country in a variety of roles from Commissioners also unanimously approved sevsales and marketing to operations for Kimpton Hotels eral other TLT efforts by EDC at the meeting including and Restaurants. a $100,000 budget for the remainder of the current Locally, he has served as the president of the Pafiscal year, which goes through the end of June. As cific City-Nestucca Valley Chamber of Commerce and part of that, commissioners will make available the chair of the Pacific City Birding & Blues committee. remainder of that budget once the TLT money comes “I am honored and excited to have been selected in from lodging operators. Commissioners had earlier to participate on the advisory committee to the EDC for the new tourism initiative,” Strober told the Sun. “I advanced $10,000 for EDC to get the ball rolling. They also approved a draft budget for 2014-15 fiscal year, a look forward to helping our communities throughout budget of $1 million as well as giving the thumbs up the county (as we) prepare to better serve the current for the hiring of Total Destination Marketing to lead levels (of ) tourism we have and grow our services to the branding effort. better serve additional tourists. I look forward to cre“We’ve done a considerable amount of work in the ating our brand for the entire county. I hope we’ll be last 60 days,” said Olson. “There are a lot of thoughtful successful in bringing more visitors to the area.” and engaging people on the Economic Development Scullin has served as chair of the former Pacific Council . We’re not going to let this fail — period. We’re City-Woods Community Planning Advisory Commitgoing to make this work. The voters have said we want tee (now reformed as the Pacific City-Woods Citizen to see this happen, and we’re going to make this hapAdvisory Committee). The part-time Pacific City resipen.” dent had a long management career before retiring
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