Cleaning up Kimball's downtown
Member Center:
The look of any city's downtown could affect tourism to that town so the Kimball Chamber Director is working to clean up downtown.
Kimball-Banner County Chamber Director, Rod Horton, sent out letters in the first part of August to downtown businesses that needed work on their buildings.
The letters asked the businesses to clean up the front of their buildings and that the Chamber would be willing to help the business clean up.
Horton is relatively new to Kimball and he believes that the Kimball residents may not notice the things in their community that need work.
Horton said, "when you grow up in a town and things look the way they do for a really long period of time good, bad, or indifferent, you don't really notice it and it takes maybe somebody new in town to figure out that they do need to look better, they don't look so great right now and by getting them fixed up it benefits everybody".
Horton says that if the businesses that received letters would accept help from the Chamber then it would benefit the entire community.
Kimball Economic Development Director, J.P. Komorny, said, "here in Kimball it's important for us to move forward in that direction if we want to sustain life in a small town, in a rural community, enhancing or beautifying the faces of our buildings will only entice others to come to the city of Kimball".
Horton says he has been contacted by two out of the six businesses that received letters and he hopes more will follow.
