Seaway Trail Foundation Board Adds St. Lawrence County Planner
PRESS RELEASE: October 20, 2009
Contact: Teresa Mitchell, 315-646-1000; John F. Tenbusch, 315-379-2292
Sackets Harbor, NY – The Seaway Trail Foundation has appointed John F. Tenbusch of the St. Lawrence County Planning Office to its nonprofit board. The Foundation, headquartered at the Great Lakes Seaway Trail Discovery Center in Sackets Harbor, promotes travel and tourism-related learning along the 518-mile freshwater shoreline of New York and Pennsylvania.
In announcing Tenbusch’s appointment to the Seaway Trail Foundation board, Foundation chairman Pope Vickers said, “John Tenbusch brings his professional skills as a planner plus his enthusiasm for volunteering to make our communities stronger through education and tourism.”
Tenbusch has worked for the St. Lawrence County Planning Office since 1998. He is a 1999 graduate of the St. Lawrence Leadership Institute and served on the Institute’s board from 1999 to 2002. Tenbusch volunteered 10 years with the Waddington Homecoming Committee and is currently a member of the Waddington Community Development Plan Implementation Committee.
Before joining the St. Lawrence County Planning Office, Tenbusch worked as projects facilitator at the Merwin Rural Services Institute at SUNY Potsdam for five years. Before coming to Northern New York, Tenbusch worked for five years with Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc. of Cleveland Ohio, then ran a housing preservation office for two years in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. He holds a BA degree in Urban Affairs from Cleveland State University.
The Seaway Trail Foundation oversees the operation of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail Discovery Center in Sackets Harbor. Nine rooms of exhibits showcase the natural, scenic, cultural, recreational, historic, maritime and architectural resources of the freshwater byway. A special cultural exhibit of World War II-era quilts and the 2009 Great Lakes Seaway Trail Speakers Series helped drive a seven percent increase in attendance in 2009 over 2008 at the three-story historic limestone building. The former Union Hotel (1817) is owned by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.