Members of the community are working together yet again to beautify Iola’s downtown area.
Community Involvement Task Force (CITF) members, along with Allen Community College’s theater students, have been remodeling and repainting the exterior of a building at 115 W. Madison (formerly Sanford’s Book Nook).
CITF member Donna Houser said Jim Smith and ACC Theater Director Tony Piazza rebuilt window sashes and rotted areas around the window sills. Piazza, along with theater assistant Cliff Harris, were in charge of organizing the painting project. Paint was provided by building owner Roberta Johnson. CITF provided funding for the window work.
ACC students who assisted were Emmaline Durand, Sarah Price, Elvira Avdeyeva, Hannah Horton, Jordan Fountain and Nick Thomsen (a recent ACC graduate).
CITF at it again in downtown
