Whitney Waara to chief operating officer, and vice president of marketing
Jennifer Case to chief marketing officer. Waara joined Traverse City Tourism in October 2019 after serving as the executive director of the Traverse City Area Chamber of Commerce. Case has been with the organization for more than 20 years and her promotion comes after earning her Certified Destination Management Executive designation earlier this summer. According to a release, the designation is âthe tourism industryâs highest individual educational achievement.â Several other Traverse City Tourism employees also received promotions.
Heather Schell is now design manager;
Mike Wagner member & visitor services specialist;
Emma Schmitz destination specialist; and
Grand Traverse Band seeks its day in court for theft of reservation lands record-eagle.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from record-eagle.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Dec 20, 2020
Dec 20, 2020
Theft is the only accurate word to describe the land grab that ripped tens of thousands of acres from the hands of Indigenous families in the Grand Traverse region.
And using the correct word is the first step toward correcting 140-year-old wrongs committed against members of our own community. The second step is supporting the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indiansâ effort to sue the U.S. government for compensation for the theft.
Our own history, viewed through the clarity of hindsight, shows land taken from Indigenous families in Leelanau and Antrim counties was stolen through mechanisms created by land speculators, crooked politicians and a government that was incompetent, corrupt or both.