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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 10:44 AM Tourism adds new staff as it expands By Laura Keeter | Times Staff Writer For the first time, Wilson County Tourism Development Authority has a second staff member. The board has hired Rosemary Mallory as executive assistant to Sandra Homes, executive director of the Wilson Visitors Bureau. Mallory will be based in the downtown office in the Wilson Arts Center building on Nash Street. Homes, meanwhile, will staff the new satellite office at the interchange of U.S. 264 and I-95 that is planned to open Sept. 1. Mallory, 23, is a Wilson native with a degree in commercial recreation and tourism and a minor in hospitality from East Carolina University. As part of her degree requirements, Mallory has worked as a full-time intern with no pay for the Wilson Visitors Bureau since January. She graduated in May and is now a full-time employee, effective July 1. Her salary is $24,756 plus benefits. Homes, who has been with the Visitors Bureau for 12 years, earns $50,787. According to the lease, Tourism's new satellite office has 1,080 square feet. The lease is $1,500 a month for three years. At the Arts Center, the Visitors Bureau has a loft office. At the satellite office at Shoppes at Southern Village, according to the floor plan, the site will have an office, bathrooms, and a large lobby area. This lobby will have a counter with computer and local phone for tourists who want to look up local hotels and make reservations, Homes said. It will also contain some chairs and a kiosk with Wilson County brochures and state maps and traveling guides. The site will be furnished with antiques to reflect Wilson as "the city of antiques," she said. Tourism board members also welcomed Mary Powell, one of the owners of Whitehead Inn, the local bed and breakfast, as its newest board member. Powell was appointed by Wilson County for a three-year term on the board for the seat last held by Jerry Patel. Patel's term ended in June, and he didn't reapply, Homes said. In other business, Tourism has applied for $160,425 in grant funding from the Golden LEAF Foundation to fund Project Whirligig, which is a planned artisan's center off I-95. This is the second time that the group has pursued Golden LEAF funding for the project. keeter@wilsontimes.com | 265-7817 |
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