Here s your guide to this year s Prairie Chicken Festival in Kewanee
SUSAN DEVILDER
The Star Courier
After a minimal-contact, whittled-down event last year, the Prairie Chicken Arts Festival is back, with more events than ever, said event Co-Coordinator Dianne Packee.
The art and music festival is a family-friendly event with many of the activities either free or minimal cost, Packee said. The PCAF is funded by Quarter Madness, an event co-sponsored by the PCAF committee and the Kewanee Rotary Club.
The PCAF is scheduled for Fri. July 9 and Sat. July 10, and many of the events for children will take place on Saturday between 10 am. and 2 p.m.
Donations for Walworth mural still sought
Larry Lock
For the Star Courier
Its official! The subject, the location, the time, the artists and potential fundraising for Kewanee’s 20th Walldog historical mural are set.
As previously announced, the subject will be the Walworth Manufacturing Company and its predecessors, which started very small in 1868 and reached huge proportions in the 1900s before coming to an end in Kewanee in 1978.
The location, according to Dianne Packee, the chairperson of the Walldog Mural Committee, will be the east side of the City of Kewanee’s maintenance building located in the 500 block of North Main Street. The City Council gave its approval at a recent council meeting.
DeWalt to match Walworth mural donations
DAVE CLARKE
The Star Courier
There was a time when if you lived in Kewanee and didn t work at Walworth, you knew someone who did. In the early 1900s, over 4,000 people worked at the sprawling plant northeast of the business district and remained one of the city s major employers for decades.
Many former employees who worked there before Walworth closed in 1978 are still alive. Anyone with a connection to Walworth, or who would just like to see it memorialized in a mural to be painted here this summer, might like to accept Mike DeWalt s personal challenge to match, dollar for dollar up to $2,500 any donation to the mural fund. DeWalt issued a similar challenge two years ago to help raise funds to make the Black Knights mural a reality.
Fundraising starts for Kewanee s newest mural featuring Walworth factory
Larry Lock
For the Star Courier
Its official! The subject, the location, the time, the artists and potential fundraising for Kewanee’s 20th Walldog historical mural are set.
As previously announced, the subject will be the Walworth Manufacturing Company and its predecessors, which started very small in 1868 and reached huge proportions in the 1900s before coming to an end in Kewanee in 1978.
The location, according to Dianne Packee, the Walldog Mural Committee chairwoman, will be the east side of the City of Kewanee’s maintenance building located in the 500 block of North Main Street. The City Council gave its approval at a recent council meeting.