Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
City employee Larry Janicek gets down and dirty while putting cedar bark down after cleaning up the planter areas.
The City of Kimball employees have been hard at it in order to get the town shaped up for the summer season.
The Street Department is "kind of the city custodians" according to Jim Shoup, Street Department Supervisor. The snow put a damper on their work but they have been busy mowing the highway right of ways, the parks and the city's empty lots.
Kimball City Employees, Mark Nelson and Larry Janicek cleaned the eight planter areas in the downtown region, then put new cedar bark in the planter areas.
During the Arbor Day program, the NRD claimed that the Kimball parks have the most diversity of trees of any parks that they have seen. Jim Shoup was pleased with this comment and he feels that John Heideman is responsible for this diversity. He was pleased that the parks were all mowed up and said John Heideman was mowing the day after the snow while it was cold and misty.
Shoup did mention how important the parks are to people but also mentioned that they have had some damage to some playground equipment in Gotte Park. Individuals used a lighter repeatedly to burned a hole in the orange circular slide. Taxpayers were forced to pay for the replacement section of the slide to the tune of $750 -- for the one section.
