Dear Editor,
I am glad to share with our concerned residents of Brown County that Conventions and Visitor Bureau is hosting a Roundtable Community Discussion on Thursday Oct. 3, for both morning at 8:30 a.m. and evening session at 7 p.m. at The Seasons Event Center. The detailed info may change so please watch out for CVB website for any updates. Around 150 people attended CVB’s first forum on Sept. 4 at the playhouse, and this roundtable discussion will deal with more in-depth issues including CVB contracting issue with CVC, and detailed analysis of the results from the surveys taken on Sept. 4.
If you have to miss this CVB Roundtable session, then you can also attend CVC (Conventions and Visitors Commission) meeting on the second Thursday, 8:30 a.m., at Seasons Conference Room, to directly bring your opinions. So, it will be Tuesday Oct. 10 at 8:30 a.m. Also, CVB meets on third Tuesday, 8:30 a.m. at Cornerstone Conference Room, and it will be on Tuesday Oct. 15 at 8:30 a.m. for the next meeting. If you want me to bring your opinion or any of your suggestions, please feel free to contact me (312) 310-3617 or email:[email protected], to have your voice heard. I will be happy to deliver your message.
I believe It’s time for each of our Brown Count residents to claim the role of a “stakeholder” and stand up for your vision and valuable opinions. Tourism in Brown County is our lifeline, and we all can and should make an impact on our community by actively involving with this most important agenda-Brown County tourism as the powerful platform that embraces our schools, nonprofit and business sectors.
I also believe it’s time for us to begin our dreams, if you have not, to make our beautiful county the most amazing travel designation in the nation and in the world. Everything comes from envisioning.
Envisioning not by a few but all of you. This envisioning is nothing but expanding process, constantly challenging our comfort zones, and boldly moving out of our small size of thinking box.
The true role of leadership is to funnel this creative energy of the community into a collective synergy of implementation. This upcoming Oct. 2 roundtable discussion will be another benchmark for our Brown County tourism. And it is my personal and sincere hope that CVB will take this chance to reaffirm its own values and restore its identity as the tourism hub and viable engine of revenue production that our county needs desperately, and continue to contribute to our better and brighter future. Hello, folks, please listen carefully. Leadership never comes with a position, but your determination and dedication to solve the problems, regardless where you are, or what you are. So please bring yourself out to this 360-degree leadership, which this world needs the most, to make the change and be the change.
Clara Stanley
Brown County resident
