The White County Tourism approved lots of money this morning to go to many entities in the county to bring more visitors to White County. They approved $1,000 to the Monon Festival on June 1 and $800 to the Buffalo Daze on June 8. They also approved $1,000 for the Spirit of Monticello Festival on the last weekend of June this year. Then they approved $1,000 for the Wolcott Festival on July 4th. They also approved $1,500 to Ken Prieboy for three car shows in the county this summer. Then they approved. They also approved $1,000 to the Rotary Club of Monticello for their new event called the Cardboard Boat Regada on the last Saturday in July. They approved all of them with one vote. Then they approved $2,085 to Burnettsville for their playground. They also approved $32,533.90 for construction of the new fields in northwest Monticello being constructed by Brad Smock. Then they gave away $3,082 to Jim Calhoun of the Monticello Softball Association for nets for safety reasons. Finally, they approved $750 to Mike Triplett of the Lighthouse Lodge B&B to spend on Google adwords to promote White County to tourists. They also will allow the Monticello Kiwanis to staff the Welcome building near Indiana Beach for tourists to visit. They decided to allow Dave Jordan to get their White County festival brochure printed in Vietnam for a cheaper price (6 cents) that what it could be printed here for ($1), according to secretary Joe Crivello. Jordan has some things made in Vietnam.