...Ricky Gease has been hired as the new executive director of the Kenai Convention and Visitors Bureau. Gease replaces Kathy Tarr, who resigned the position to go to school in Pennsylvania. Gease will run the Kenai Visitors and Cultural Center and...

...see our community becoming the cultural and education center of the state." Visitors and Convention Bureau Director Kathy Tarr agreed. "We are an oil center, no doubt about that, but swirling around that is a large arts and cultural community...

...annual wave of summer visitors also holds great potential for the arts community, and therefore the whole economy. Kathy Tarr, director of the Kenai Visitors and Cultural Center, said her organization almost constantly is working to promote...

...and show the impact conventions can have." Kenai is the third most visited community on the peninsula. According to Kathy Tarr, executive director of the Kenai Visitors and Convention Bureau, between May and September 1999, the visitor center...