To my Allen County friends and neighbors.
Imagine after great thought and consideration you have decided to build yourself a new home. You and your family have outgrown your current home and for your family to function at its best, areas needed to be upgraded and more space was necessary.
You looked down the road for a place with everything you were wanting, but staying in our community is important to you and your family, to their future.
You could convert the garage, but you did that several years ago. You could move the kids in together, but that’s already being done, too. So building is the best way to go.
Now imagine this: everyone who visits your home is pitching in to pay the expense of building. That’s right, everyone who stops by your home kicks in a little — family, friends, the mail carrier, the kid who delivers your newspaper, the UPS guy, the trash collecting crew, pizza delivery gal, someone in the neighborhood asking directions to a garage sale.
Would that be a great deal? Of course it would be; and that’s how the building of our new Allen County Hospital will be.
A strong case has been made for the building of a new hospital. We all had opportunity to be a part of the advisory committee, to look into the needs of our current hospital.
Those who took on that challenge for us, along with a trained consulting group, have given us the facts. For the future of our community we need to build a new hospital.
A sales tax fits well for this purpose because the pool of financial support is enormous. Everyone who comes to Iola to shop kicks in a little. Everyone who come to Iola for a sports competition, a special event such as Farm-City Days or the Allen County Fair, a feature at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center — and buys anything — makes a contribution to the fund. Everyone who stops by our community — our home — will pitch in a little to pay the expense.
On Nov. 2, go to the polls and vote YES. Vote YES to support the sales tax. Vote YES for the future of our community. Vote YES for the future of Allen County health care.
Sincerely,
Becky Nilges
Iola, Kan.
