To the Editor:
As an avid local booster and lifelong student of boosterism, I couldn’t help but notice the 24 column inches of explanation by the Creston and District Credit Union (page 8 advertisement, Feb. 2 Advance) as to why the build-it-and-they-will-come building at 14th and Canyon is not a white elephant but rather an “investment” in Creston’s future. It must be so. It obviously is not an investment in the Creston of the present day.
It is my understanding that the building’s second floor is to be given over to a fully-furnished medical clinic. Now that is a very groovy development. But there is something even groovier — it’s called a corridor, folks. Every good booster knows that the corridor is where it’s at.
Therefore, I earnestly entreat Creston’s movers and shakers to develop what our valley really needs — a Creston-Kitchener corridor, with a high-speed monorail linking the vibrant heart of beautiful downtown Creston with the vibrant heart of beautiful downtown Kitchener. Build it and they will come!
And since it is no small part of the magic of the corridor that it carries the rich promise of a future extension, there remains the exciting possibility of a high-speed monorail service right on into the vibrant heart of beautiful downtown Yahk.
Who is to finance so ambitious a project? That should be no problem for the wizards who have given us the colossus at 14th and Canyon, which, by the way, would make an admirable terminal for the monorail, thus providing a justification for an otherwise unused and quite redundant building.
Wil Hudson
Creston