[Winona Online Democracy]
Greetings,
To save the Wilkie is not a difficult issue.
The problem is with the City fathers that
don't get tourism.
They don't want to understand something
so simple because it is easier to let the
developers design the city, pay permit
fees and have their way.
Easier to do that than grow a backbone and
realize tourism is the saving grace.
Tourism can provide the city with more jobs,
more tax money and more status than
any Wal-mart ever could.
But it takes a real "vision" And real leadership.
Not a arch on Huff street and Hwy 61 or restaurant
row. Or whatever the latest tax payer study shows
The Wilkie connects the city to what made the city.
Its history and its future is with the river. Not some
eroding bluff.
But to run the Wilkie and all it stands for, it needs the
backing of a city that knows how to market the city
as a tourist location, not a developers location.
It needs a city that takes tourism and the tourist dollar
seriously, not for granted.
The big jobs are not coming back.
The big industrial plants are not coming back.
Tourism brings jobs, money and prestige
all without filling in some swamp or
building some ugly strip mall.
Tourism can do what the city needs.
If Taken Seriously!!
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