The Sabine Parish Tourist Commission at its July meeting honored a woman who has spent 32 years working for the Tourist Commission.
Tourist Commission Director Georgia Craven presented Bonnie Fox-Miles with a plaque recognizing and thanking her for her 32 years of devoted service to the Commission.
Former director of the Tourist Commission Linda Curtis Sparks credited Ms. Fox-Miles with working hard to raise much needed funds for the Tourist Commission needed to market the Toledo Bend area nationwide.
Curtis-Sparks had this to say about her friend. “When the Tourist Commission was created in 1975, we had only $6900 for our budget. We finally got the yearly budget up to $75,000. Now the yearly budget is $600,000.00 Bonnie never missed a meeting or event. For all these 32 years Bonnie has been the backbone of fund raising for the Tourist Commission.”
Commission board member Martha Henderson, from Zwolle, commented, “I didn’t know Bonnie until I got on the board. I learned an awfully lot from her.”
A new board member asked Ms. Fox-Miles why she was giving up her seat on the board. She laughed and answered, “Don’t you think 32 years is long enough?”
Ms. Fox-Miles is from Westlake, LA. She retired and made the move to Toledo Bend Lake in 1989.
She holds a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from Southwestern University of Louisiana in Lafayette. In addition to serving on the Tourist Commission board, Ms. Fox-Miles is a member of the Toledo Bend Lake Association, the Sabine Parish Library Board, the Sabine Parish Chamber of Commerce, the Advisory Board for Sabine Medical Center, the Wildflowers Group, the First United Methodist Church in Many, the Toledo Bend Gourmet Dining Club, and many others.
However, according to the Tourist Commission Director Georgia Craven, Bonnie may be best known for her three decades of fund raising to support events to market the Toledo Bend area nationwide