Music flows through Brian J. Nelson’s daily life; it's on his mind all the time. Where other people hear just noise passing a construction site, Nelson says he hears rhythms. “If I’m actively working on a piece it’s always there, and I’m running through the solutions,” said Nelson, the director of sacred liturgy and music at St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center. Nelson, was on a mission Friday ...
Each year, the Journal-World reaches out to the Academic All-Stars from 10 years ago to see what they've been up to since high school. Here's what the members of the 2009 class told us via email: Jacob Rhodes When Jacob Rhodes graduated from Oskaloosa High School in 2009, he hadn't yet decided on a college, but was interested in working with computers. He planned to study business and later go to graduate ...
Several survivors of domestic violence are moving into Restoration House, the first transitional housing for The Willow Domestic Violence Center. What began as a casual discussion five months ago, quickly morphed into a partnership with the nonprofit Lawrence Community Housing Trust and KU Endowment, which had property willing to rent, into transitional housing for survivors of domestic violence and human ...
Story updated at 2:46 p.m. Monday A local architecture firm will be giving artists an unusual challenge this fall: creating a temporary installation that fits in a downtown parking space. Anyone in the Lawrence community who might want to create something in a 9-foot-by-18-foot parking space is welcome to submit a proposal for Lawrence’s first Park(ing) Day event, which is being organized by Hoke Ley ...
Bargain hunters might find some good deals north of the river when the North Lawrence neighborhood garage sale returns Friday and Saturday. More than 100 North Lawrence residents plan to have items for sale, said Ted Boyle, president of the North Lawrence Improvement Association. “The bigger day will be Saturday,” Boyle said. “We have everything from woodworking tools, lawnmowers, clothes, just ...
Four people in the local business community were named as the 2019 Lawrence Business Hall of Fame laureates Wednesday morning during an event at the Lawrence school district office. The new inductees are Dee Bisel, of Minuteman Press; Steve Edmonds, of Edmonds Duncan Registered Investment Advisors; Sandy Praeger, former Kansas insurance commissioner; and the late Al Hack Jr., of The University Shop and the ...