Auctioneer adds zest to Chocolate Auction
Lester Edgecomb leads a double life as a rural mail carrier by day and a popular auctioneer for Lumber Yard Arts Center's Chocolate Auction on Sunday. He and his family run up to 30 yearly auctions and his playful style boosts fundraising, with longtime board member Sandy Cardens noting the increased proceeds since he began.
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Lester Edgecomb
Edgecomb
Baldwin City
Carolyn
Mark Edgecomb
Wendell Taul
Douglas County
John Deere
Lumberyard Arts Center
Tve
Sandy Cardens
Cardens
Bobby Nightengale
Journal-World File
Becki Dick
Lumberyard
Arts Center
Chocolate Auction returns to Baldwin City arts center
The annual Chocolate Auction returns Sunday at Baldwin City’s Lumberyard Arts Center with silent and children’s auctions starting at 12:30 p.m. and a live auction of art and sweets at 2 p.m. Proceeds fund a Baldwin High School senior scholarship and ongoing Lumberyard programming, with donations accepted 9 a.m.–2 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.–noon Sunday.
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Elwyn Jones
Journal-World File
Emma Bailey
Baldwin City
Lumberyard
Lumberyard Arts Center
Connie Deel
High St
Deel
Arts Center Board
Sandy Cardens
Walt Bailey
Baker University
Cardens
The
Arts Center
Baldwin
County reporter contact line details
County reporter Elwyn Jones can be reached at 832-7166 and ejones Ijworld.com.
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Elwyn Jones
Ejones
Ijworld.com
Scouts Build Cardboard Planetarium For Lawrence Library
Local Boy Scout troops crafted a cardboard planetarium with binder clips for Lawrence Public Library atrium as part of the Read Across Lawrence teen series. The exhibit accommodates up to six adults and draws astronomy enthusiasts of all ages, with visitors spending varying amounts of time inside the small space.
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Lawrence Public Library
Lawrence
Miriam Wallen
Wallen
Mike Yoder
Journal-World Photo
Icarus Planetarium
Vermont St
Boy Scouts of America
Icarus Dome Becomes Library Atrium Fixture
The geodesic dome created from 40 cardboard triangles by Boy Scout troops No 55 and No 61 now sits in the library atrium, nicknamed Icarus after the teen novel These Broken Stars. It will stay through month’s end depending on how many people interact with it.
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Boy Scouts Troops No. 55
No. 61
Lawrence
Wiederholt 50th Anniversary Celebrated in Kansas
Cletus and Maureen Wiederholt of rural Bald winmark celebrate 50 years of marriage. Married February 5 1966 at St John’s Catholic Church in Lawrence KS they met at a Darryl Starbird car show in Kansas City. Cletus retired from Frito Lay in 1999 and works with USD348 and as a cattle farmer. Maureen a nurse for 35 years now a nursing instructor at Brown Mackie College. They have four children Bill Jim Mike and Laura with spouses, thirteen grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. They will celebrate with a family dinner.
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Claude Myers
Kansas City
Baldwin City
State Fairgrounds
Hutchinson
Topeka
Cletus
Maureen Wiederholt
Baldwin
St. Johns Catholic Church
Lawrence
Frito Lay
Brown Mackie College
Bill Wiederholt
Jim
Lisa) Wiederholt
Mike
Angie) Wiederholt
Edgerton
Laura
William) Crowe
Eudora
Birthday Card Shower for Mary Ann Womack's 96th Birthday
The family of Mary Ann Womack requests card greetings for her 96th birthday on February 18. Send greetings to Mary Ann Womack Pioneer Ridge Assisted Living 121 4851 Harvard Lawrence Kansas 66049.
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Mary Ann Womack
Pioneer Ridge
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