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See Lancaster Reports
By: Nancy B. Howell
November 2006
See Lancaster Representatives Attend
Olde English District Annual Meeting
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As a part of See Lancaster's role
involving tourism for Lancaster County, members of the See Lancaster
board and staff attended the recent Olde English District annual awards
luncheon. It was held Friday, October 27 at the War Memorial Building in
Great Falls. Walter Craig, a board member of both See Lancaster and the
Olde English District Commission (OEDC) had worked hard to secure a
number of silent auction items for the event. As guests entered, items
were on display from all seven counties of the Olde English District:
Lancaster, Chester, Chesterfield, Fairfield, Kershaw, Union and York.
Guest placed their bids through out the luncheon before winning bidders
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( L to R) Jayne
Scarborough, Executive Director of OEDC, Frank Keel, Director of See
Lancaster, Walter Craig, board member of See Lancaster and OEDC, Amy
Duffy, Chief of Staff for PRT.
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the prizes were announced. Some of the most competitive
items were from Lancaster, such as the Dinner on the L&C Henderson.
The Olde English District, one of the state's tourism regions,
is a tourism promotions and marketing organization seeking to increase
tourism and visitation in its seven counties. See Lancaster has been
working with the Olde English District and the state Parks, Recreation and
Tourism (PRT) agencies over the past year in developing one of many
alliances in tourism and visitation for Lancaster County.
Dan Rogers, with the South Carolina Film Commission was the
featured speaker. He discussed how the Film Commission works and how to
increase the opportunities for getting involved with the group. He told how
having a film company in the community could be a positive experience and
one of the goals is always to leave the area better off from an economic
stand point. Having such an opportunity can increase income for the local
area on a short term and long term basis.
Rogers listed some of the more well known movies made in South Carolina,
such as The Patriot, and gave interesting facts about how the film
companies work in the community, giving dollar figures for employment and
permanent improvements. Questions involved how the local counties could
make such contacts and how to encourage the industry to look at their
county.
After the
program, the annual awards were announced and local and out of town guests
were recognized. Amy Duffy, Chief of Staff from the state PRT office, Jayne
Scarborough, executive director of the OEDC and Cathy W. Mobley, Visitor
Information Specialist for OEDC were among those the See Lancaster staff
met with and discussed future issues and plans for Lancaster County.
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