They say you don’t know what you had until it’s gone.
Windom car owners would probably agree. Windom has gone months without a car wash. The former Cenex car wash was torn down last winter to make way for a Kwik Trip store, causing residents to travel as much as 35 miles to get their cars washed in an automatic wash.
That changed last month when Bramer and Michelle Powers of Windom opened Crystal Clean Car Wash. The new 80×50-foot car wash, located on Highway 60, has two wash bays and an automatic touchless car wash system in operation.
For much more on this story, see the Sept. 8 edition of the Cottonwood County Citizen and Citizen eEdition.
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