Sometimes small communities need a little bit of a swift kick of a shaking up, and love her or hate her, absolutely everybody around here knows Francesca Dobbyn.

The whole world also knows what she could do with a three year post as the Tourism and Promotion Co-ordinator, a position she transformed out of her HRDC-sponsored work as Festival Co-ordinator for the February Groundhog Festival, and which has just been transformed again:

The creation of the Municipal position was a direct result of being able to prove the tourism value and the additional tourism work that came with the Wiarton Willie icon.

This position has been altered and the municipality has decided to focus on hiring and Economic Development Officer and to take the municipality in a different direction.

As it happens, this new direction doesn't include Francesca. So what are her plans? A bit of writing for the Osprey Cottage Times, a bit of editing and tourism copy, and, well, she's open to offers ...

[ Source: Francesca - Welcome ]