The Brown County Commission has pledged $5,000 toward the costs of hosting the Big Kansas Road Trip in May 2020.
Linda Duesing and Connie Werner, co-chairwomen of the BKRT Brown County committee, approached the commission earlier this month and asked for funding of $8,350 to cover marketing and other expenses related to bringing the Road Trip to town next May.
In its third year, the BKRT will encompass Nemaha, Brown and Doniphan counties May 7-10, 2020. The announcement was made during this year’s Big Kansas Road Trip (BKRT) that took place May 2-5 in the northwest Kansas counties of Cheyenne, Sherman and Wallace. The inaugural BKRT was held the year prior in Barber, Comanche and Kowa counties.
(Read more: Hiawatha World Online)