NEWS FROM ERIN AND SUSAN!

Erin Kennedy is the new Regional Director of Sales for Intermountain Management. She describes it more candidly as General Problem Solver. She gets to live in Billings (though her cat, Sirius Black, would argue with that), while her schedule is roughly designed to put her on the road three weeks and home one. She spoke to me from Seattle, where she’s been already three weeks (and expects at least one more). Then she is scheduled to be home for a few days before she is off to Arkansas (last minute change, make that …) Tulsa for a month. She did smugly tell me the sun was shining in Seattle today (a moment in passing, in my opinion). The bottom line … she loves her new job! Intermountain Management is headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, and currently manages over 300 hotels across the U.S. with several new properties in the planning and building process.

Susan Murphy is the Director of Sales at the 320 Ranch in Gallatin Gateway. She sends us all this message: “Gosh, thanks for thinking of me!  All I can say is that I am so blessed to have the life that I enjoy!  Hope that all is great with all of you as well!”

SOCIAL MEDIA LEADERS IN
TESTER WORKSHOP – MAY 17

Senator Joh Tester will gather the biggest names in social media – Yelp, Bing, Facebook, and Google – for “Touring the Treasure State through Technology.” Workshop will be held May 17 in the Strand Union Building’s Ballroom at MSU Bozeman. If you want to attend please RSVP

YCLA MAY MEMBERS' MEETING

YCLA Meeting – May 22, 2013, 12:30pm at the Northern Hotel. The cost of lunch is $16.50.

• Guest Speakers:
• Mary Ann – American Cancer Society
• Click here to confirm attendance. 
• Click here for meeting documents

• Your TBID Stakeholders’ newsletter – Click here
  
  

EVENTS TO PLAN ON

MetraPark – Great events likely to bring out-of-town guests to Billings
• FSA Food Show – May 15
• Special Olympics Summer Games Opening Ceremonies – May 15
• Three Horse Series – May 18
• Three Horse Series – May 18
• Magic City Rollers – May 18
• All-Breed Open Arabian Horse Show – May 25-26
• Senior High Graduation – May 26, 10am
• West High Graduation – May 26, 2pm
• Skyview High Graduation – May 26, 6pm
• Red Neck Summer Nationals – June 1
• Carson & Barnes Circus – June 4
• Watchtower Convention – June 7-9
• Three Horse Series – June 8
• Jewel of the Big Sky Appaloosa Show – June 15 & 16
• YVKC Dog Show – June 18-20
• Magic City Rollers – June 22
• Magic City Rollers, DOUBLE HEADER – July 13
• The Dirty Dash, Billings 5K – July 27
• MontanaFair – Aug 9-17
• Yellowstone River Roundup Rodeo – Aug 15-17
• Burn the Point Car Show – Aug 31
• Magic City Rollers – Sep 21

Great Job CVB/TBID! - Scheduled
• ASTSWMO: 600 room nights, 7/2013
• NOWCAP- Black Lung and Resp. Disease: 1,000 room nights, 9/2013

From CVB/TBID – Pending
• Nat’l Assoc. of Extradition Officials: 400 room nights for July 2014.
• International Assoc. of Work Force Professionals: 950 room nights for 2016.

BAKKEN BUSINESS

Bakken Oil Field now includes The Three Forks Formation - Redefines the Keystone XL pipeline in  Montana

May 1, 2013   E&E Publishing, LLC

A new assessment of oil and gas reserves by the U.S. Geological Survey concludes that industry could have access to almost double the amount of hydrocarbons previously calculated in parts of North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana. That rapid increase in the reserve estimate comes mainly from a first-time assessment of the Bakken Shale's sister geologic zone underlying it, the Three Forks Formation.

The northern route [of the Keystone XL line] passes right through the Bakken and Three Forks oil fields, in eastern Montana. Jeff Share, editor of Pipeline & Gas Journal, said that this routing was strategic.  Read more