Aipperspach, Snyder campaign for mayor of Ronan
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Incumbent Kim Aipperspach, 55, is a service station manager who has lived in the area for 42 years. He has a wife and four children. Aipperspach has been interested in public service since high school, and worked with many local groups before becoming a city councilman in 1989. He has served 2.5 terms as mayor.
Aipperspach has many goals for Ronan. He believes the imminent need in the community is “to help with the restructuring of our police department to bring it to a level of service that the taxpayers deserve.” Creating a fair system to allow more affordable water for mowing lawns in the summer is another one of his priorities, as is town beautification and short term and long-term street repair. The Highway 93 expansion is something Aipperspach has been involved in since 1981.
“I feel like it is my job to get the best highway for Ronan, not the highway department,” Aipperspach said. “After all they will only be here for 2 or 3 years, (while) most of us will be her forever.”
Aipperspach said the state issue that matters most to him is “to keep state government from thinking like big government and imposing unreasonable things on small towns.”
In 10 years he hopes to see the Highway 93 expansion completed in a way that makes vehicular, foot, and bike traffic flow more smoothly. Aipperspach said he would like to see growth and a rebirth of Main Street. His vision is for Ronan to be “hopefully a little more modern town with our original hometown values.”
Aipperspach said people in the community have various priorities and often work together to achieve goals. He said he wants to keep the lines of communication open with the people.
Kim Eldon Snyder, 60, is a lifelong Ronan resident who has worked as a machine operator at Jore Corporation for 14 years. He has two daughters.
He completed high school and one year of mechanical engineering education. He served three years in the military. He has previously worked as a self-contractor.
The most important local issues, according to Snyder, are the local police force and roads.
“We need to employ a working police force, then make our streets drivable,” Snyder said.
In 10 years, he would “like to see our town prosper and be enjoyable like it once was — a place where people will want to live.” elected, Snyder said “all I need from the community is their support to put this town back on the map.”
