Tourism and Business in the Village

From Roberta Bouchard

Train - if we are going to spend money keeping it going, then there should be a far more concerted effort to develop tourism in wkfld with the train, ie. rentals of boats and bikes at turn table, proper swimming beach and picnic area in same place, coupons with business', etc.

There needs to be a huge co-operation btw the municipality and the wkfld business' - listing in their websites, maps, announcements, travel packages (ie stay at the mill and go dog sledding) - ideally there should be a co-ordinator working full time for C and paid for by the mun., who can develop the tourism we would like to see in the area - which also leads to the continued support, encouragement and growth of things like Wakefield players, wakefest, Piggyback, etc (arts, nature, sports, spa based tourism)

Parking - the municipality could take over the maintenance of some of the larger lots in the village - making them public parking (ie Vorlage, James Sistie bldg, ) then we could stop the parking wars and actually make our guests feel welcome in our village instead of afraid of parking (and staying!) in the village