DiscoverJMSTJamestown (CSi) Jamestown Tourism Director, Searle Swedlund said Monday he received a “great reaction” from community members about having Jamestown Tourism pursue the idea of a community calendar. The concept was discussed Monday evening with about 40 community members on hand.

He says the calendar could be a “source,” of all community events.

Items discussed at the meeting included access to posting events, along with usage, and the ability for groups to plan ahead for events.

Under the concept Jamestown Tourism would fund the project with volunteers for a committee that would determine all the functions and features of the community calendar.

Marketing firms, KKBOLD, of Bismarck, and Redplum Media, of Jamestown, were asked by Swedlund to come up with conceptual designs for a community calendar.

Roy Sheppard of CSi Cable, which has its own community calendar, “The Big Calendar,” and Tanae Clocksene, a Jamestown Tourism Board member and general manager of Ingstad Family Media, said their companies would not be getting rid of their own community calendars.  Clocksene mentioned they post events for a 15 county area,  but welcomed the idea of Jamestown Tourism looking at a community calendar that all organizations could access.

Audience members who coordinate publicity for different community groups or events said they weren’t sure if having another community calendar to send information to would be a good thing.