Susan Davis considers it a fluke that 30 years ago she and Deb Spencer decided to grow a lotus tuber, which turned out to be the genesis for a flourishing business with international connections. Davis and Spencer, the owners of Water's Edge, the specialty gardening shop at 847 Indiana St., are headed to Le Temple-sur-Lot, France, in August for a meeting of the International Waterlily & Water Gardening ...
Updated at 8:49 a.m. Thursday, July 25 Since May, the Kansas National Guard has delivered 1.3 million gallons of water to Lakeside Village, where the community’s water well pumps remain submerged from flooding at Perry Lake. The water hauling mission could last until the middle of September, said Jerry White, president of the Lakeside Village Improvement District in Jefferson County. Perry Lake, which is ...
For people beginning to imagine the future as a retiree, or those already embarking on that next stage of life, the Lawrence Public Library hopes to help ease the way. The Lawrence Public Library Foundation learned July 16 that it had been awarded a $25,000 Impact and Capacity Grant from the Kansas Health Foundation for a two-year series of programs known as "Retirement Bootcamp." The initiative is designed to ...
Using an X-Acto knife, Ben Ahlvers very slowly cut through the packaging tape to open the tube of photographs that arrived Monday for a new exhibit at the Lawrence Arts Center. "It’s a little like surgery,” said Ahlvers, the exhibition program director at the center. He was being extra careful not to cut through to the prints that will be part of the upcoming “Back to the Garden: Photographs of the 1969 ...
Marvin and Kathy Pine have become curators of what appears to be a living history museum. It's also their home. In a time when more people are moving toward a minimalist lifestyle, the home at 1741 East 1500 Road on the edge of North Lawrence tells the story of the Pine family through a collection of heirlooms from several generations. Like a tour guide, Marvin points to the bay window in the dining room ...
On the last day Jalisa Jordan spent with her eldest son, Jayion Harris-Jordan, he was wearing a red basketball jersey with "Called to Greatness” printed on the front. That was a perfect description for Jayion, his mother said. The charismatic 13-year-old had big dreams of being a performer, she said, and was always there for his family. "Jayion wanted to be my hero," Jordan said. "He wanted to make me ...