The Greentown Grapevine – 1995-11, 02:11

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Approximately 25 Greentown
area residents were present for
a meeting at the Greentown
Public Library on October 10 to
learn more about a " Main Street"
program. Due to recent heart
surgery, Jim Brannon, President
of the Kokomo/ Howard County
Development Corp. and the
Ko komo/ HowardCount y Chamber
of Commerce was not able to
make the planned presentation.
Vice- president of the above
organizations, Todd Moser,
introduced Jane Howey, a Main
Street Manager at Noblesville
and formerly-& Warsaw.
Ms. Howey stated that 134
Remember to communities in Indiana have VOTE
II Main Street programs. The
Subway, to Open
November 1
A new eatery will soon open in couple of years as a potential
Greentown. A Subway store will store site. They say, " Greentown
be open for business Nov. 1 at is a nice, growing community.
101 W. Main St. The store will be " They want people to know that
open seven days a week, they selected Howard County
initially 10 a. m. - midnight construction businesses to do
Monday through Saturday and the renovation of the building.
11 a. m. - midnight on Sunday. The Hartses left the tin ceilings
The Subway menu includes in plape but felt they had no
sandwiches, salads, soft drinks, choice but to put in a lowered
and cookies. .. ceiling.
The business is owned by
father, mother, and son, Don, HISTORY OF THE BUILDING
Karen and Craig Harts of Miami
County, " just 10 miles north of Until its recent occupancy by
Greentown" they emphasize. The The Incarnate Word church,
Hartses own other stores, this building had served m
including the ones in Kokomo. department 85d clothing stores.
Craig purchased the _ buildins, Bonnie Bonebrake reports that
which incliides the space it was built by. Ross and Lon
recently occupied by P& L Kemper about 1900, who owned
R e r u n s an d a p a r t m e n t s Kemper Brothers store. This was
upstairs, from Forest " Juggy" THE place to shop for wedding
Swisher. and shower gift items, as it
The imminent opening has carried dishes, linens, jewelry,
cr- kated excitement among high etc. As Lois Bogue says,
school s t u d e n t s seeking " Kemper Brothers had just
employment. The store expects to about anything you could
employ 8- 10 persons and offers need."
flexible scheduling. Don and The next owner was Bob Ball,
Karen state that they believe followed by Kenny Seagrave,
school and extra- curricular who owned Kenny's Family
activities should not be Store. Basil's Clothing was
sacrificed for work. owned and operated by Basil
Asked why they chose to McCMn. Tom Hollingsworth and
locate a store in Greentown, Don then Dale Brown were the final
and Karen said they had been merchants before the church
looking at Greentown for a group rented it.
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Mee , ded
p r o g r a m , when f u l l y
iniplemented, involves a 4 point
approach of Design, Economic
Restructuring, Downtown
Promotion, and Organization.
Design includes signs, window
display, storefronts, and public
improvements s u c h as
sidewalks, street lights and
green spaces. She said projects
usually start with public
improvements because funds
are available to accomplish
these features. Economic
restructuring involves such
things as finding creative uses
for empty or undekutilized
space. Downtown promotion
includes events, banners, and
walking tours. Local, regional
ting
and state government, clubs and
a s s o c i a t i o n s , l e n d i n g
institutions, building owners
and tenants and the media are
involved in some aspect of
Organization, the fourth point.
Ms Howey explained that
monetary and advisory
assistance is available from the
state program, but it is the
peopleof the community who put
in the work.
The next step will be to
incorporate a M a h Street
Association, which will apply for
a grant to develop a plan for
some public improvements. Town
Council P r e s i d e n t Bob
Armstrong invited anyone who
wants to be on the Main Street
Board, to contact him soon.
" Hunter- Gatherer"
This Story
Did Not Have to Dig Up
Lyn Sullivan displays some sweet potatoes of impressive size. The
two potatoes on his left weighed 5 pounds each. The cluster held in
his right hand weighed 14 pounds. The potatoes were grown by
Freeman Otto and brought to the attention of the Grapevine by
Lyn.
Oversize vegetables sometimes suffer in quality for their size,
becoming " stringy" or tough. Hunter- Gatherer is very fond of
potatoes of any kind, and volunteered to taste- test one of the
specimens. She can testify that it lived up to its nanie and was so
sweet that no further sweetening was needed. It was also as smooth
textured as could be desired.
Thanks Freeman and Lyn.