Harry Strunk and the RVCA

Monday, October 5, 2009

Each summer the Great Lakes in Southwest Nebraska and Northwest Kansas become the playground for countless numbers of fishermen, boating enthusiasts, and picnickers. This is to say nothing of the primary beneficiaries of the lakes -- the area irrigators, and citizens who are protected from the ravages of floods from the region's rivers and streams. All of these people owe a debt of gratitude to four stubborn, far-seeing businessmen, living in Republican River Valley towns in 1940. These men, Wade Martin, Stratton, Carl Swanson, Culbertson, A.B. Wood, Bartley, and Harry Strunk, McCook, were members of the Resolutions Committee of the newly formed Republican Valley Conservation Association. They were responsible for changing the entire Republican River Valley, and bettering the lives of all of us who have lived here during the last 60 plus years.

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