A photo circulating online has drawn the ire of people on social media and around the Lamar County community after someone from the Paris diner McKee’s Family Restaurant posted a
Jamie Biesiada
Putting together a group trip during the pandemic is not just possible, it s something agents are working on today. Here are the stories of three advisors who have successfully gotten future travel on the books.
All three employed what Gifted Travel Network (GTN) co-founder and chief sales officer Vanessa McGovern has dubbed the come with me strategy: Advisors are leading the trips themselves, and advertising them as such, giving consumers the confidence to pull the trigger and book. As McGovern acknowledged, the strategy isn t a new one in the industry, but it is new for GTN. The host previously encouraged advisors to use the pied-piper strategy, wherein the advisor finds a group leader and does not travel with the group themselves.
Sergeants, sons, nurses, mothers: Stories of the 10,000 Alabama lives lost to COVID
Updated on Mar 03, 2021;
Published on Dec 16, 2020
Senior center director Vanessa McKinney speaks at a memorial service for the late Mayor Billy Joe Driver in Clanton, Ala., on Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. Driver s death of COVID-19 shocked the central Alabama community, where residents say many people thought the illness caused by the new coronavirus was a big-city problem until he succumbed. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves) AP
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Those lives are more than numbers.
They were war heroes. Police officers and prison inmates. Politicians and pastors. Medical workers and musicians. They were educators. They were couples who spent decades together only to die days, or even minutes, apart.