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Shops compromise, remain uncertain
Some though not all downtown Lindsborg shop owners feel the effects of the Trump administration’s international trade policy and have raised prices, but they still talked as much about messy uncertainty as about the new charges affecting business health. An item that had cost $28 now is $33 at Connected, the fair-trade store that sells crafts from small producers in developing countries, owner Amy Kay Pavlovich said.
Kiwanis will crown park entry with arch
The Lindsborg City Council agreed Sept. 2 to let the Kiwanis Club span sandstone posts at the south end of Swensson Park with a steel arch bearing the names of park and city.
What comes to mind and medium
When Rodger Gerberding was a young artist, he aimed for photo-realism. He studied the magazine Favorite Monsters of Filmland and made detailed portraits of horror actors including Bela Lugosi and Lon Cheney Jr.
'I cannot run idle'
Vaughn Davis grew up farming, and after marriage to Robert Melander she helped raise food for another 58 years before his failing eyesight brought them to live in Lindsborg. A woman who had walked five to six miles a day to get her work done – and had never learned to drive a car – now looked for in-town occupation.
Sunny, misty
The sun warmed Lindsborg to near 100 degrees Saturday and in early evening brilliantly backlit spray from firetruck hoses and dozens of water rifles -- pistols are passé -- at Swensson Park. Not everyone behaved their age.
When bumpers were chrome
As a boy, Shawn Pyle regularly saw a Dodge Charger in his neighbor’s driveway. As a man in his 50s, Pyle spent years searching for that car.
5 news shows at Sandzén
Five exhibitions open at the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery on Sunday and continue through Oct. 19: “Practical In Her Art: Women Artists of the 1930s”; paintings by Karen Matheis of Lawrence, prints by Juana Estrada Hernandez of Providence, R.I.; mixed media works by Harley Elliott of Salina; and Swedish art from the Sandzén’s permanent collection.
Pie amore
About two dozen pies were donated and consumed at the Red Barn Studio Museum’s annual pie and ice cream fund raiser Friday night. The creations filled two long tables, which also carried little black towers with floppy white blades slowly spinning to deter flies.