By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
A local bus tour will give St. Joseph residents the opportunity to gain more pride for the community and learn some things they might not know about the city.
The second Show Me St. Jo Experience of the year is coming up on July 19th.
Executive Director of the St. Joseph Convention and Visitors Bureau Marci Bennett says the experience provides a bus tour around St. Joseph with a tour guide
"And we go to a number of the museums, we have lunch, the step on guide gives you all kinds of historic information, and we do this three times a year," Bennett tells KFEQ Hotline host Barry Birr.
The third bus tour will be coming on September 7th.
Registration for the bus tour is $25 per person and you can contact Gracia Pinzino at the Convention and Visitors Bureau for more information.
Bennett says originally the event was designed for frontline workers
"When a visitor comes to town and they go to the bank, or they go to Mcdonalds or something, and they say well what can I see and do and people say oh there's nothing to do, that is just absolutely the wrong answer," Bennett says.
But over time Bennett says it's become an attraction geared more towards residents
"So that as they're out there in the community, they can advocate and be cheerleaders for our community," Bennett explains.
Bennett says on the bus tour you can learn things about the city that you might have forgotten or may have never even known.
"We have people that have done these two or three times, in fact one of the people on our board Judge Ron Taylor has been through it twice and he said you know every time I learn something new, and I've lived here all my life," Bennett says.
The bus tour will run from 9am to 4pm.
Registration for the bus tour includes lunch, admission fees to attractions, transportation, and even a T-shirt. If you enroll three people, you can get a fourth spot free.