OCR Text |
Show WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2012 FOR SALE METAL ROOF/WALL you! Unbeatable career opportunities. *Trainee *Company driver *Lease operator earn up to $51k *Lease trainers earn up to $80k 877-369-7092 www. centraldrivingjobs.net (ucan) Panels, Pre-engineered Metal Buildings. Mill prices for sheeting coil are at a 4 year low. You get the savings. 17 Colors prime DRIVER- START OUT material, cut to your the year with Daily Pay and exact length. CO Building Weekly Home Time! Single Systems 1-800-COBLDGS source dispatch. Van and (ucan) refrigerated. CDL-A, 3 months recent experience required. 800-414-9569 HELP WANTED www.driveknight.com (ucan) DRIVERS/CDL TRAINING-Career AIRLINES ARE HIRING Central. No money down. -train for hands-on CDL Training. Work for Aviation Career. FAA us or let us work for approved program. Classifieds 9 THE SIGNPOST Financial aid if qualified - Job placement assistance. CALL Aviation Institute of Maintenance. 888-886-7318 (ucan) SERVICES ALLIED HEALTH present time? If the patch THE ADVERTISER. THE required removal due to SIGNPOST HEREBY complications, you may be DISCLAIMS ALL entitled to compensation. LIABILITY FOR ANY Call Johnson Law and DAMAGE SUFFERED speak with female staff AS THE RESULT OF members 1-800-535-5727. ANY ADVERTISEMENT (ucan) IN THIS NEWSPAPER. CAREER training - Attend college 100% online. Job placement assistance. Computer available. Business owners - if Financial Aid if qualified. SIGNPOST POLICY you need someone fast, SCHEV certified. Call place your classified 800-481-9409 www. THE SIGNPOST ad in all 49 of Utah's CenturaOnline.com DOES NOT ENDORSE, newspapers. The person (ucan) PROMOTE OR you are looking for could ENCOURAGE THE be from out of town. The PELVIC / cost is only $163. For a 25 TRANSVAGINAL MESH? PURCHASE OR SALE word ad and it reaches up Did you undergo OF ANY PRODUCT OR to 340,000 households. transvaginal placement SERVICE ADVERTISED All you do is call the of mesh for pelvic IN THIS NEWSPAPER. Utah Press Association at organ prolapse or stress ADVERTISEMENTS (801) 308-0268 for all the urinary incontinence ARE THE SOLE OF details. (Mention UCAN) between 2005 and the RESPONSIBILITY BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES THE SIGNPOST IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY CLAIMS OR REPRESENTATIONS MADE IN ADVERTISEMENTS IN THIS NEWSPAPER. THE SIGNPOST HAS THE SOLE AUTHORITYTO EDIT AND LOCATE ANY CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENT AS DEEMED APPROPRIATE. THE SIGNPOST RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REFUSE ANY ADVERTISING. Talk of marketing tornado ravaged Joplin to tourists sparks anger that survived the twister. So when a local television report raised the posJOPLIN, Mo. (AP) - Eight months after a tor- sibility that tourist buses nado laid waste to much of could be allowed to crawl this city, Joplin is wrestling through neighborhoods with an emotional ques- leveled by one of the deadtion: Should the commu- liest tornados in American nity market its devastated history, people swiftly reneighborhoods to tourists? sponded with angry calls When the convention and emails. "As a family member and visitors bureau rewho lost a loved one to this cently discussed offering guided bus tours and even disaster, I find the whole a smartphone app, storm subject insulting," said victims bristled, imagining Candyce Patterson, whose that their shattered homes fiancé's grandmother - could be put on display for the woman who raised him legions of curious sightse- - died in the tornado. "It is appalling to us that the ers. But the bureau director CVB would even consider says he wants to promote this." Bureau Director Patrick Joplin's recovery to outsiders, insisting that the effort Tuttle said the proposal for is "not about busted-up disaster tours was only an homes or destroyed cars or idea, and it was rejected. It was merely a response to body parts." Signs of revival are slow- information requests from ly emerging from the ruins travelers, particularly those left by the May 22 tornado, who passed through on Inwhich killed 161 people. terstate 44 and stopped at Debris has been cleared, a Missouri welcome center. Instead, the city printed and Home Depot and other stores have rebuilt. Hun- a map showing the tordreds of construction per- nado's path and including mits have been issued, too. a history of Joplin, a list of Yet the new houses and tornado-related facts and a stores are vastly outnum- welcome message. "Enough outsiders want bered by empty lots and to know. You have to give the concrete foundations that in many areas were all them something," Tuttle By Alan Scher Zagier writer I Associated Press said. "This is about recovery, about what we've done to get this city back." Still, the backlash highlights the challenges faced by many communities that have endured major disasters: They cannot ignore interest in the events, but calling too much attention to the scarred landscape and human suffering could be seen as exploitative, insensitive or cruel. It's a debate that resonates from New Orleans, where tour companies continue to offer Hurricane Katrina bus tours, to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which is expected to attract visitors from the many soccer fans attending the Euro 2012 tournament later this year in Ukraine. In Joplin's handout, City Manager Mark Rohr encourages tourists not merely to look at the damage but to help out - and spend money. 'Although we realize there is interest in what Joplin has been through, the real story is how we responded to the adversity we faced," he wrote. "We invite you to learn more about our experiences" and eat at a restaurant, vis- it some downtown shops or book a night at a hotel. "These simple actions support jobs and provide stability for our residents and business owners," Rohr said. The single-sheet guide lists the locations of some "iconic" images of May 22, including Joplin High School and St. John's Regional Medical Center, which were both destroyed. Local photographer Aaron DuRall created the Facebook page "Joplin Citizens Against Tornado Tours." "We must speak out against tasteless ventures such as these," he wrote. "Not only do they cast Joplin in a bad light, but they cheapen what each of us experienced. ... What is left of people's former lives is not something to marvel at, nor is it something to profit from." Even before tornado, the city had been planning to update its tourism campaign. Then the storm became one of the new themes. During a recent visit to the state capital, a delegation of business leaders unveiled a similar message aimed at trade as- sociations. "Revisit Joplin. Join the recovery. Be a part of the miracle of the human spirit," one poster reads, noting the support the city received from more than 117,000 volunteers. "Our hotels, attractions and meeting facilities are open and ready to host your next meeting." When Tuttle presented his preferred marketing firm to the Joplin City Council for approval, he emphasized the company's experience in disaster tourism in Louisiana. But the campaign will stick mostly to local history such as Joplin's legacy as a center of lead and zinc mining and its location on the famous Route 66. "Our emphasis is on attractions and annual events," said Kevin McInerney, vice president of sales for Kansas City-based Propaganda Communications, the city's newly hired marketing firm. "The tornado happened. Everybody in the country knows that." Still, Joplin could also use the opportunity to market itself to youth sports tournaments, church groups, civic clubs and other organizations looking to combine their events with volunteer projects. "It may be that some people came to help with the immediate tragedy. We'd like to encourage them to revisit and to come back to see some of the successes, and to potentially lend a helping hand to continue to rebuild," said Katie Steel Danner, director of the Missouri Division of Tourism. "People now know the location of Joplin. Before, they may not have even been aware." Solutions 3 5 6 8 1 7 2 4 9 7 8 2 4 5 9 6 3 1 1 4 9 2 3 6 8 5 7 4 9 7 6 8 2 5 8 3 5 9 4 2 9 5 6 7 2 1 4 3 5 1 7 7 6 9 1 3 8 4 7 4 3 1 1 6 9 2 8 3 2 8 5 6 6 1 8 3 2 5 9 7 4 JOB SLAT LETHAL A NY PITH STRI PE B EEMOV I E UNIT ES SURTAX AVERS ODENSE TSP ECCE BOMBE BEAARTHUR E PIC BARNEY YET I LL DAN EON SIMEON SLAY BV I TAM I NS AWOKE LICE PER EGOIST ARENT ROSTER STASIS BEHONEST TUXEDO EGAL BOA SEEDED SAND BUB |