Mini Train Now Owned By Frontier Village

Jamestown (CSi) – The Frontier Village is now the legal owner of the miniature parade train.

At Friday’s (nov 15, 2013) meeting of the Buffalo City Tourism Foundation’s Grant and Executive Advisory Board, at Historic Franklin School, the board received documentation from United Transportation Union representative Randy Walker, giving total ownership of the train to the Frontier Village.

The train will be utilized at the Village, and likely a part of parades.

A storage location is still to be determined.

The Grant Committee then voted unanimously to approve a $5,000 grant for improvements to the train, being spear-headed by Shawn Syverson of Jamestown.

The Board also granted $8,000 toward the $9,000 cost of the fireworks display to be held July 5, 2014, at the Stutsman County Fairgrounds, in conjunction with the Jamestown Speedway races to be held that day. The speedway will underwrite $1,000 toward the cost of the payment to the fireworks contractor, noting one dollar per head of those attending the races.

The Tourism Marketing Committee is drafting a tourism questionaire in cooperation with Red Plum Marketing of Jamestown, to be distributed to “stakeholders” in the community, those affected by tourism.

The questionaires will be hand delivered in December this year, and received back for review by the BCTF, in January.

The Chamber’s Young Professional of Jamestown group will be asked to review the questionaire for suggestions for any changes before the questionaire is distributed to a pre-determined list of partcipants.