Warren and KFC team up to fix potholes

WARREN — The city has tapped an unusual source of funding to get $3,000 to help repair streets.

Mayor Michael O’Brien noticed an offer on the Internet from the Kentucky Fried Chicken chain that only required him to describe the condition of the city’s streets.

O’Brien applied, along with 13 other cities, and then Warren was selected along with three other cities — Chattanooga, Tenn., Petaluma, Calif.; and Topeka, Kan. — in a random drawing.

With the money, the city will buy 15 truck loads — roughly 40 tons — of hot patch to use on the city’s streets, O’Brien said.

The one requirement from KFC is that the city will stencil the words “Re-Freshed by KFC” on two of the repaired pot holes.