Jamestown (CSi)  The year 2019 holds in store projects with Jamestown Tourism, The National Buffalo Museum, Fort Seward, along with Hockey Day in Jamestown, and the Alfred Dickey Public Library Centennial Initiative, including the Louis L’Amour Exhibit.

On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Jamestown Tourism Director, Searle Swedlund said, Tourism continues to enhance the Jamestown visitors experience, including seeking grant funding for campgrounds and trails.

He pointed out that while the restaurant and lodging taxes were off three percent in 2018, it did better than the projected eight percent decline.

In 2018 tourism funded several projects to enhance tourism, and noted the Fort Seward video as part of the improvements to the interpretive center.

He noted the National Buffalo Museum’s addition of a kid’s room which will include an interactive buffalo experience to instruct children on the history of the bison.

Also in 2018 the Tourism website added the 360 degree tour of various businesses and amping-up Tourism’s digital marketing and calendar.

Coming up in 2019 the Alfred Dickey Public Library’s Centennial Initiative in February including the Alfred Dickey Public Library’s Louis L’Amour exhibit, with a kiosk to be installed, plus the, Edna LaMoore Waldo East Room exhibit in order to highlight the entire family’s  history with roots in Jamestown.

(Edna was the elder sister of Louis L’Amour, Edna LaMoore (Louis L’Amour, changed the spelling of his last name later in life.)

The University of Jamestown hosts, Hockey Day, North Dakota, January  18-20 with outdoor hockey at the UJ Campus.  It features youth, high school and college hockey games, and a public skate with the UJ Hockey teams.