DC tourism website seeking events, business listings
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By LeAnn R. Ralph
MENOMONIE — Does your 4-H Club do a dairy promotion for June Dairy Month?
Perhaps your church holds an annual chicken dinner every fall?
Or maybe your non-profit organization puts together a garage sale?
Organizers of Dunn County’s new tourism website are looking for events, activities and business listings to add to the content.
The website needs more events outside of Menomonie that encompass broader Dunn County, said Jim Zons, county board supervisor from Colfax, and a member of the Dunn County Community Resources and Tourism committee at the committee’s March 7 meeting.
Zons, who operates his own business, EZ New Media, is overseeing the development of the tourism website.
There is already a Visit Menomonie website, and the Dunn County tourism website by all means wants events and activities in Menomonie, but the Dunn County site should list events from all areas of the county, Zons said.
The new tourism website will be using a calendar program — the same calendar program used by Visit Menomonie, he noted.
Once the website is established, people will know they can submit their activities and events, whether it’s something taking place in Ridgeland or an event in Rock Falls, Zons said.
After a while, “it will become more commonplace … but getting started will be more of the challenge,” he said.
James Anderson, county board supervisor from Menomonie and chair of the Community Resources and Tourism committee, noted that the Grain Bin north of Wheeler off state Highway 25 has been sold.
The Grain Bin is the kind of place that people should visit and that should be highlighted on the tourism website, he said.
Listing businesses will help tourism in Dunn County, and it will help the businesses, Anderson said.
“We want people to visit all of the great places in Dunn County,” he said.
A call for photographs at a recent Community Resources and Tourism committee has resulted in a “flurry” of nice, high resolution photos, Zons said, noting that among the submissions have been photos of the race track and photos of farm scenes.
Zons plans to do a presentation about the new tourism website at the Dunn County Board’s March 16 meeting.
If you have photographs, events, activities or a business you would like to submit for the Dunn County tourism website, you can contact Zons at 715-962-4660 or send him an e-mail message at jzons@co.dunn.wi.us.
