^ A highway-related segment from last week’s RVTV.
It’s obvious that Traer is never going to be a pass-through town on the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa because of its lack of county road access. But there is another almost-institution where the town might stand a chance.
For years now, before the Iowa-Iowa State game, WHO-TV has gone on the road with RVTV. The crew stops in a town that goes all-out to promote the big game.
Tama County is on the fringe of the WHO broadcast area. Traer would make a good Thursday stop on the way to Iowa City in an even-numbered year.
Let’s get Keith Murphy under the Dennis Field arch talking about the smallest public school playing 11-man football, a decade after a state championship. Scott Siepker can stand at the top of the Winding Stairs talking about Tama Jim Wilson or look at the salt shaker gallery (although there’s already been a story on that). Locals will challenge John Sears and Andy Fales to a kolache-eating contest.
An RVTV stop is basically a one-day town festival, so doing it a month after the Winding Stairs Festival could be exhausting. I’m just the ideas person here. But … what if?