Marysville Chamber & Main Street’s LOVE Marysville event drew a crowd to the Lee Dam Center for Fine Art Saturday to celebrate local business and hear ideas on rural development. Speaker Ron Wilson, director of the Huck Boyd National Institute on Rural Development, told a crowd of about 80 people about his organization’s effort to boost small-town businesses across the state. “The mission of the Huck Boyd Institute is to help rural people help themselves. So it’s a rural development office at Kansas State University with an interest in supporting rural Kansas, not top down but grassroots up. How can we help rural people help themselves in their community?”
Source: The Marysville Advocate
