Rural Oklahoma town finds fun way to get residents involved, by painting downtown utility poles

One of many designs in Waynoka

A small town in Oklahoma got the community involved in a project to ingest some color into the downtown area. Waynoka, a town of just over 900 in Woods County and home to Little Sahara State Park, is a working-class town with a history as a railroad community. Its downtown utility poles were badly in need of paint, so city officials allowed local residents to paint the poles, giving them a chance to be creative, and spark some life into downtown.

"Something like this won’t draw any new visitors for you, but it could be a neat way to inject some life into what your visitors see when they do come downtown," reports the Pagosa Daily Post, of Pagosa Springs, Colo., which serves the Four Corners area where Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado meet; Woods County is one county away from the Oklahoma Panhandle, which borders southeastern Colorado. The Woods County Enterprise is not online. (Read more)