{"id":22840,"date":"2016-07-21T18:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T23:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=22840"},"modified":"2016-07-21T16:28:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T21:28:13","slug":"cvb-announces-new-board-leadership-for-2016-17-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2016\/07\/21\/cvb-announces-new-board-leadership-for-2016-17-year\/","title":{"rendered":"CVB Announces New Board Leadership for 2016-17 Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"VisitClarksville, TN <\/strong> \u2013 The Clarksville-Montgomery County Convention and Visitors Bureau announces that Louisa Cooke has been named chairman of the board of directors for the 2016-17 year beginning July 1st.<\/p>\n

Cooke previously served as chairman of the board in 2006-07, 2001-02 and 1997-98, and has served on the board of directors for a total of nine years since 1996.<\/p>\n

\"Louisa<\/a>

Louisa Cooke named chairman of the CVB board of directors for the 2016-17<\/p><\/div>\n

Cooke and husband, Ed, own Beachaven Vineyards & Winery, where they celebrated the business\u2019 30-year anniversary in June. She has previously served as president of the Tennessee Farm Winegrowers Alliance and on the Governor\u2019s Viticulture Advisory Board.<\/p>\n

Montgomery County Parks Directory and County Commissioner Jerry Allbert was named vice-chairman. Allbert has served on the board since 2007 and as chairman in 2009-10. He has also served as tournament director for the AAU Girls Basketball National Championship games hosted in Clarksville since 1998.<\/p>\n

About the Convention and Visitors Bureau<\/h3>\n

The Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) was established by the State of Tennessee in 1979 to positively influences tourism in the Clarksville-Montgomery County area by promoting tourist attractions, hosting conventions, group tours and engaging in large-scale marketing efforts.<\/p>\n

The CVB is governed by nine board of director members who are selected jointly by the City of Clarksville and Montgomery County Mayors. The CVB is funded by a portion of the local hotel-motel tax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN \u2013 The Clarksville-Montgomery County Convention and Visitors Bureau announces that Louisa Cooke has been named chairman of the board of directors for the 2016-17 year beginning July 1st. Cooke previously served as chairman of the board in 2006-07, 2001-02 and 1997-98, and has served on the board of directors for a total of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[21512,2172,825,15606,28693,25068,7522,7117,28694],"class_list":["post-22840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-beachaven-vineyards-and-winery","tag-clarksville-montgomery-county-convention-and-visitors-bureau","tag-clarksville-tn","tag-cvb","tag-ed-cooke","tag-jerry-albert","tag-louisa-cooke","tag-montgomery-county-parks-and-recreation-department","tag-tennessee-farm-winegrowers-alliance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-5Wo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22841,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22840\/revisions\/22841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}