Kevin Wilbeck

RIPPEY, Iowa, February 15, 2007 — Kevin Wilbeck is an Iowa State University-educated mechanical engineer, a leading salesman of fixtures and fittings used in major industrial plants, and a responsible husband and father.

Sounds pretty conventional, right?

But if you turn the 47-year-old Wilbeck loose with a sketch pad, you’ll see some ideas that just don’t occur to most of us.

You realize that he is part visionary, part artist and part pack-rat who believes that virtually everything has a second use, maybe a third use.

Fascinated by art, architecture, history and recreation, Wilbeck has come up with nine drawings that show what might be done with existing buildings that are now located on or near the Raccoon River Valley Trail – how they could be redeveloped as real amenities and attractions along the trail.

Click here to read the complete story and view Kevin’s extraordinary drawings.

— Chuck Offenburger

Article Published: 02-15-2007