{"id":154590,"date":"2018-10-02T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=154590"},"modified":"2018-10-02T10:01:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T15:01:35","slug":"jamestown-adding-new-events-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=154590","title":{"rendered":"Jamestown adding new events, activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-120742\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/searle1-1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/searle1-1-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/searle1-1-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/searle1-1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Jamestown Tourism Director, Searle Swedlund says, a number of new events are going to Jamestown over the next few months, that will boost tourists and tourism dollars.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday\u2019s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, he said those events include the first ever NAIA National Women\u2019s Wrestling Tournament, along with Hockey Day, the University of Jamestown Basketball Shootout, and indoor tennis tournament at TRAC.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out the facilities in Jamestown at UJ and TRAC, along with expanded hotel rooms are supporting Jamestown\u2019s ability to attract participants and tourists.<\/p>\n<p>He said at this month\u2019s tourism Executive\/Grant Committee meeting, requests will be considered under the Capital Construction fund.<\/p>\n<p>Those include requests from Frontier Village, the National Buffalo Museum, Jamestown Parks and Recreation for Jack Brown Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Other monthly grant requests are scheduled on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Searle also said a new Tourism Office Manager has been hired.<\/p>\n<p>He said Allison Limke has been hired, adding that Allison is originally from Casselton, ND and recently joined her husband who recently moved to Jamestown for a job at UTC.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that Allison brings a wealth of knowledge from her previous role with the Pella Historical Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Jamestown Tourism Director, Searle Swedlund says, a number of new events are going to Jamestown over the next few months, that will boost tourists and tourism dollars. On Tuesday\u2019s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, he said those events include the first ever NAIA National Women\u2019s Wrestling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":127053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154591,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154590\/revisions\/154591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}