Brush the Bricks brings new murals to Hays
Hays Daily News
Old West figures from Hays past, a colorful Chinese dragon and Special Olympics athletes competing will be among images highlighted on eight to 10 artworks to be created over the next two years in the city s downtown area.
The project titled Brush the Bricks, a Mural Movement is a partnership involving the Downtown Hays Development Corp., Hays Arts Council, Hays Convention & Visitors Bureau and Fort Hays State University.
The effort seeks to transform blank canvases, our buildings, into spectacular, world-class artwork that invigorates tourism and community pride, according to its Facebook page at www.facebook.com/brushthebricks
Hays Daily News
Filled with anticipation for the new semester and re-energized after taking advantage of the privilege to rest and enjoy a long winter break, I find myself thinking about some of the people I admire and/or have gotten to know better this past year because of the pandemic. Here are just a few: our Hays city commissioners, our county health administrator and a group I refer to as our city rallying team.
Our city commissioners – Michael Berges, Sandy Jacobs, Ron Mellick, Shaun Musil and Mason Ruder – have always had important, and sometimes controversial, decisions to make, but who could have prepared for 2020? Just when the emotionally-charged debates over the roundabouts began to settle, along came the pandemic, and among the many critical decisions that had to be made was the mask ordinance.