New Activities Guide for Webster City
Every year the Chamber partners up with the Daily Freeman Journal and releases the Activities Guide. It’s a lot of fun for us because we get to find out about everything that is going on around the community. Now, you can see it right here online!
Sunday Update: Wellness Journey
It’s been a busy week and it started with a trip to the emergency room for my mom. She’s got Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Congestive Heart Failure. We’ve been told there will be visits like this — a week or two in the hospital balancing out her heart, lungs and kidneys and the home…
Culinary Tourism: Best Practices
A best practice is a method or technique that has consistently shown results superior to those achieved with other means, and that is used as a benchmark. Wikipedia We’re listing a few best practices in this post and encourage you to work together to flush them out and see where you can go with them. Anything you…
Enhancing the Visitor Experience
Many thanks to Rebecca LeHeup from OntarioCulinary.com for getting the conversation started! Why not think about having culinary tourism where you live? Welcome the visitor: Have a welcoming retail space. Is it clean? Is the doorway clear? Are you greeting customers? Post hours and adhere to them. Don’t leave early because it’s raining. Don’t change…
Culinary Tourism
Every tourist has one thing in common … they eat. Rebecca LeHeup of Culinary Ontario presented at Central Iowa Tourism and shared why and how to have culinary tourism. Culinary tourism is defined by www.culinaryontario.com as the pursuit of unique and memorable eating and drinking experiences. By combining travel with these edible experiences, culinary tourism offers both locals…
Sunday Update: Warm Weather
This week I worked with Randy twice, took pictures and am waiting on him to send me my results (we still have to measure). Weight is holding it’s own – that means, I’ve lost inches but not pounds. At first, that’s disconcerting. All this work and the weight insists on not moving (notice how I…
World Book Night April 23
April 23 is World Book Night. Here’s how www.worldbooknight.org describes what they do: Each year, 30- 35 books are chosen by an independent panel of librarians and booksellers. The authors of the books waive their royalties and the publishers agree to pay the costs of producing the specially-printed World Book Night U.S. editions. Bookstores and…
Ag Day is Today
As you eat your breakfast, think about where that food came from. Then thank a farmer.
Sunday update: Walking. Water. Work.
How’s that walking going? Better! The Walkabout group sends me emails with good tips. Here’s one: I’ve also been doing more stretching and drinking water. Both very important to the body. Let’s talk about giving up. You work and work…
Thank you June
Sometimes we are gifted with the treasure of friendship. Not often, it comes via social media. It’s been my pleasure to have a friendship with Michael Libbie. We met through the 140 Character Conference, have stayed in touch online and over the years have worked on projects together. He always answers my calls and emails.…