Blood drive May 19 at Lindsborg Covenant
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City Council begins long-term capital spending plan
Lindsborg’s City Council members and staff members began the months-long process of budgeting for next year and planning how to make capital improvements over the next five years, which included the possibilities of a $7 million recreation center, a $500,000 golf course clubhouse, $400,000 to replace the Sundstrom Conference Center’s heating and air conditioning, and $100,000 to make the front desk at City Hall easier for use by people with disabilities and protect employees from angry visitors. The numbers presented by staff at a four-hour meeting April 28 at the Sundstrom are estimates for projects that might be years in the making, and not all of which can be funded.
Feelings about gun scare and City Hall
After city Finance Director David Hay proposed barriers between City Hall staff and potentially angry visitors, Councilor Corey Peterson said, “Do you really feel unsafe?” Hay expressed “100 percent” concerned for city employees at the front desk and said, “A lot of city halls have this.” Peterson said, “I’m sad, I guess, that we have to do this in Lindsborg, Kansas.” Before the meeting officially began April 28, Councilor Kirsten Bruce had related her experience from that morning, when Salina’s South High School, where she is a social worker, was locked down while three police agencies sought a gunman. The scare turned out to be over the posting of a photo of a student with a gun and report of the sound of a gun being “racked” when a plastic bottle was crushed – there was no gun on campus.
$11,001 approved for sealing street cracks
The Lindsborg City Council on Monday night approved $11,001 to rent equipment and buy material for sealing cracks in the street. The money will go to Crafco Inc., based in Chandler, Ariz.
April was warm and relatively dry
April was mostly warm in Kansas, with Salina 4.1 degrees above average, the National Weather Service in Wichita said. A reporting station three miles east of Lindsborg recorded 1.15 inches of rain for the month, 1.65 inches below the average of 2.8 inches.
IN BRIEF
Performances include music from Paraguay The Kansas Federaton of Music Clubs is holding its annual convention in Lindsborg and will offer two concerts, both at Bethany Lutheran Church, 320 N. Main.
Three thoughts for a career and for living
One hundred and four students in gowns and sometimes decorated mortarboard caps graduated from Bethany College on Saturday. Twenty-one years ago, Kelli Krase was in their shoes, excited about possibilities, fearful about uncertainties.
Builders face uncertain prices over on tariffs
TOPEKA — Building a new house in today’s market doesn’t yet mean extra dollars for lumber or manufactured wood products, but Kansas building supply managers warn that tariffs have driven up other construction costs. While on-again, off-again tariffs on Canadian timber are currently off, Kansans should prepare to pay more for just about everything else in the house, they said.
Correction
The May 1 about the cycling club should have spelled the name Cykelklubb.