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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY JULY 7, 1889 News By Laurali Notemnn 24 oundl Bare faces sfiEsy si'iiuaitoins In a slip of political etiquette, Bart Anderson, outdoor enthusiast and columnist for the Spectrum, was stood up. Anderson had made tentative arrangements with Greg Aikenhead, Tourist Information Center lowing with a letter, dissolving the contract with ASIA. Board members felt the contract should be maintained, as mandated originally, giving ASIA a full tourist season trial period to sell and display their wares. The Board will evaluate ASIAS presence at the end of the tourist season and determine whether or not to renew the contract. A letter of apology will be written to the organization explaining the merchants concerns and the action the board has decided to manager, to meet at the Information Center on Saturday, June 5. Anderson and 100 interested individuals from southern Utah showed up expecting Aikenhead to present a history lesson andor tell of hiking trails within the eounty. What the take. Board members unanimously group found was a locked door without an explanation or felt that incidents such as these posted note to be found. create a negative image and deAikenhead felt there had been ter other communities and entia lack of communication on both ties from cooperating with Kane parts. Board member Rosa Lie County. Coleman met with Anderson Shauna Cox, representing and tried smoothing the under- the Chamber of Commerce, upstandably ruffled feathers. dated TC members of a recent Aikenhead is expected to write phone conversation with Sheila a letter of apology to Anderson Dutton of the musical Dutton and his group. family. The ultimate goal of Last year the Kane County the Duttons is to build a theTravel Council board entered ater with a seating capacity of into a contract with the Arizona approximately 1000, with a tendate of 2001, Strip Interpretive Association tative start-u- p (ASIA), to keep the Information and a six night a week schedCenter stocked with retail prod- ule. Cox offered, Branson has ucts which promote the Strip 60-8- 0 shows. Kanab will need Country, as they do in the St. at least four shows to become George and other Interpretive an entertainment center. Centers. A local merchant felt There has also been an intersome of the stocked items were est shown by other performing in direct competition with local Branson groups to include businesses and against the di- Kanab in their scheduled cirrectives of the Travel Council cuit. Moneywise, the Duttons (TC). Aikenhead removed the will ask for a total of $7000 materials from the shelves fol from several entities within the Should discus- Aikenhead, studies show 13.7 community. sions set for August 27 fare of all visitors to a visitor center well, the musical icons will be- facility would spend 1.8 days gin promoting Kanab and longer in the area because of Branson on their PBS show as information received. It is estimated each visitor represents well as in their brochures. The Travel Council intern pro- approximately two people each, gram is up and running. Senior of which an average of $70 a day According to Interpretive Intern is Ron Glover is spent. (Jr.), Joy Tait is the Clerical Aikenheads calculations, this Interpretive Intern, and Jesse facility may have a $58,000 Arborgast an Interpretive In- monthly impact on the area. Casebolt reported the need to tern. All interns have been Kane in Utah and trained purchase an additional 15,000 County history, the movie era brochures to fulfill mail requests. and movies as yvell as hiking She commented, The state intrails and events within the formation center at Collville, county. Both Donna Casebolt, Utah is one of our biggest fans, Kane County Travel Council along with a tour operator in Director, and Aikenhead Florida. Casebolt is working on setcomplimented the interns for their efforts. The intern pro- ting up Howard Kochs films, gram will assist in extending which will tentatively be shown the Information Centers hours during Western Legends this for this season. The new hours coming September. Kanab Theare Monday through Friday 9 ater will be airing the movies a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. during Legends weekend. through 5 p.m. and Sunday & Casebolt is checking on any exa.m. through noon. isting royalty payments that In a report drafted by may be in place. 7TTT m rice ' s' uij i i Barnstormer Productions is getting ready to air a 26 minute piece on Kane County for PBS. The film crew was in the area for six days. Casebolt accompanied the crew one day and Aikenhead escorted them the remaining time. Casebolt offered her thanks with, Several businesses assisted us by comping meals and discounting lodging. Casebolt added, This is a phe- nomenal boost for Kanab and eastern Kane County. Jeffrey (Barnstormer producer) is finding more stories which will justify a return for additional fea- tures. Magazine markets promoting our area are quite impressive. Articles on the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument were presented in National Geographic and the Smithsonian . Toroweap made an appearance in Country Living. The Traveler an article on Lake Powell and Utah Business expounded on Zions and the Ponderosa The first half of 1999 marketing overview listed California, New York, Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio as the top five domestic markets for telephone and mail inquiries. In the interpro-duce- d national markets Canada, ' France, UK, Germany and Netherlands made the top five list. Casebolt commented, Many calls come in for Duck Creek, information that most likely are from Nevada. We will begin tracking Duck Creek calls. I ' cd UHP J Continued from Page 2 tainer, and no insurance. Like golf, sometimes driving can be a i ,? It 1 I t Just buy a DIRECTV System and subscribe y, to Total Choice programming. Use the $100 worth of certificates towards your favorite DIRECTV Pay Per View programming! I game of inches. And Trooper Nordfelt has the best excuse for the week. 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They saw the second jet coming and decided to increase their speed a great deal so that they could get a rough idea of how fast the plane was going. Nice try, but it still got them a ticket. |