Alva Review-Courier -

If you want a $5 discount on your utility bill, submit the survey the City of Kiowa mailed to you in the last months of 2016. Ultimately the submission of your survey will help obtain funding for City of Kiowa big projects that are vital to it's future.

For example, a new main water line from the water wells near Sharon, Kansas, to Kiowa is necessary to correct an old line that is literally crumbling in places. That project is estimated at $1 million.

The city's electrical outage most of Christmas Day, due to a wind/rain storm, was a painful eye-opener that the city's one generator is not enou...