Marketing Initiative Promoted

A marketing initiative involving the National Geographic Society is being touted to communities along the Ontario-Minnesota border.

The Heart of the Continent partnership is trying to raise $256-thousand, allowing the Society to create maps and a website for the area between Fort Frances/International Falls, Thunder Bay and Duluth.

Committee Chair Frank Jewell says the Society wants to help promote the area.

Atikokan, International Falls, Koochiching County and Thunder Bay have already agreed to commit funds to the project.