The work of Lawrence artist Nancy Marshall is now on display at the Lumberyard Arts Center.

Some of Baker University’s brightest students will be spending less time in Baldwin City. Baker and Washburn University in Topeka entered into an agreement Wednesday that will allow some Baker students early entry into Washburn Law School. Signing the Law Early Admission Program agreement Wednesday on Baker’s Baldwin City campus were Lynne Murray, Baker’s president; and Thomas J. Romig, the dean of the Washburn Law School; and Juliann Mazacheck, Washburn interim vice president for academic affairs.

The agreement allows highly motivated students to enter the law school after they complete three or three and a half years of course work at Baker. Martha Harris, interim dean of the Baker School of Arts and Sciences, said the credits the students earn in their first year of classes in the three-year Washburn Law School program will transfer back to Baker, allowing them to earn the undergraduate degree from the Baldwin City school.

The program will allow students to shave as much as a year from the seven years it would normally require to earn a bachelor’s degree from Baker and a law degree from Washburn. Harris said that would save the students money and allow them to enter their profession earlier. It also gives students more flexibility to study abroad or take advantage of practicums or other opportunities, she said.

The program is similar to those Baker established with the University of Kansas, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of Missouri Kansas City engineering degrees.

Aydin Seyedi has taken an unusual career path to his partnership with his father, Matthew Seyedi, at Eudora Wine and Spirits. The younger Seyedi grew up in the Kansas City metro, attended KU, where he received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, moved on to earn a master’s degree in electrical engineering in California, worked as an engineer in the corporate world in California before moving back to Kansas after his father bought Eudora Wine and Spirits two months ago.

“I missed Kansas so much,” he said. “I figured after four years in the corporate world if I was going to take orders from someone else, it might as well be Daddy.”

On Sept. 1, the Seyedis moved the store from a smaller storefront in the strip mall in the 200 block of East 20th Street to what was the home of Cutter’s Smokehouse at 218 E. 20th St. on the other side of the strip mall. Seyedi said the larger store has allowed them to display products in aisles devoted to specific liquors and add to inventory.

“I don’t add what I want, but what the customers tell me they want,” he said.

Also new with the new location is a walk-in cooler stocked with cases of popular beers, Seyedi said.

The Baldwin City Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Commission are teaming to offer a fundraiser for Midland Railway and the Kansas Belle Dinner Train. The railway and dinner train will offer a special excursion ride from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Sept. 22 from the Santa Fe Depot, 1515 High St., to Norwood. A $60 ticket will be good for the ride, two drinks, appetizers, entertainment from live music and a barbecue dinner catered by Moose’s Backwoods BBQ. Twenty-four ticket sponsorships are available for $1,200.

Bruce Eveland, owner of the Kansas Belle, said his business would benefit from an additional excursion trip. The Kansas Belle needs all the trips it can schedule after “very extensive and expensive” repairs this summer to an air conditioner and refrigeration unit on one of its cars, he said.

Midland will apply the money it receives from the fundraiser to restore air conditioning to one of its mid 20th century passenger cars.

“It’s a problem in this day and age because people expect air conditioning,” Eveland said. “Midland’s numbers really drop off in the summer.”

The Parents of the Eudora Public Library will have a fundraiser from 4 to 10 p.m. Saturday at the Twin Oaks Golf Course, 1326 East 1900 Road. Entry is $5 per person. The lineup of activities include a cash bar, JB’s Taco Truck, miniature golf and live music from Listen Mister. The Kansas Highway 10 interchange to East 1900 Road is closed, but the golf course can be accessed by driving south of Eudora on East 2200 Road, turning west on North 1000 and turning north on East 1900 Road.

A show of the work of Lawrence artist Nancy Marshall opened Friday in the gallery of the Lumberyard Arts Center, 718 High St. The show will run through Oct. 29. There will be a reception for the artist from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Sept. 16.

The show includes the watercolor, mixed media work “Whispers,” which depicts Eighth Street storefronts in color with transparent black-and-white images of Baldwin City’s past and present. Marshall is making the painting and prints of work available for sale.