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The free-roaming chickens secure enough to slow cars on unpaved streets to a crawl are but one of the features that give Vinland the feel of a rural village from 80 to 90 years ago.
“That’s what’s unique about the town,” said Ray Wilber. “It’s largely intact. It
didn’t have a highway running through the middle of it. It didn’t have a lot of infill. The depot is gone — that’s a big piece — but the Grange Hall, the storefronts, the library and the churches are still here.
“It’s a pretty good example of a small town of that era.”
The rural Baldwin City man owns three houses in the hamlet four miles north of Baldwin. He’s restored two and the reno-vation of a third is on his to-do list. Con-
suming his time right now is a project separate from his personal preservation efforts. He and his brother, Leon Wilber of Topeka, are helping with the second-phase renovations to the Vinland Presby-terian Church.
“It’s been here since 1879,” he said. “It’s been part of the cultural landscape here
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Baldwin High School’s spring play, “Vacancy in Paradise,” has a bit of romance and a dab of farce and 11 female roles.
It is the last feature of John Kirkpatrick’s play that appeals to BHS the-atrical instructor and play director Catherine Lewis, who usually has a large female-to-male cast ratio for theatrical productions.
“It has a lot of roles for girls,” Lewis said. “That’s a little bit hard to find. And they are fun roles, too.”
The play involves Wally Bigelow’s discovery of a run-down resort and Ellen Danby, the daughter of its offbeat owner Claire. Smitten, the suddenly inspired failed advertising man connives to make the resort a success by appeal-ing to lovelorn women.
Playing Ellen is BHS junior Sammie Weiss, a veteran of school plays and musicals but in her first lead role.
“It’s a lot of fun,” she said. “I love all the charac-ters in it. Everyone gets to do some interesting things.”
Playing opposite Weiss is junior Zach Garrett as Wally. Garrett said, like him, Wally is shy, although he becomes something of a con man in the play.
“I like the fun of doing a play and doing some-thing to amuse other people,” he said.
The play will be per-formed Friday and Sat-urday at the Performing Arts Center at Baldwin Junior High School. The doors will open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $5.
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RAY WILBER OF rural Baldwin City prepares wood on the facade of the Vinland Presby-terian Church for the installation of new siding. Wilber is a member of the Vinland Preservation LLC, which secured a Douglas County Heritage Grant to pay for the work to preserve the facade, vestibulte and steeple of the 132-year-old church.
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BALDWIN HIGH School special education teacher Laura Beaulieu works with junior Austin Quick in her studies skills class. A Mardi Gras Diversity Day at the high school Beaulieu started five years ago has been recognized on the state and national level as a character-building practice other schools should copy. Beaulieu said one of the reasons for its suc-cess is the work that volunteers like Quick contribute to the event, which students from eight other high schools in the area attend.
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Mardi Gras event felt in high school’s day-to-day culture
Austin Quick has something more than his studies to keep him busy this year at Baldwin High School.
“I directed the organizing and ordering for
Mardi Gras this year,” the high school junior said. “It’s the first year I’ve participated. I’m good at organizing for teachers.”
The event Quick is helping organize is Baldwin High School’s sixth annual Mardi Gras Diversity Day. Among other duties, Quick is filling out order forms for beads and other Mardi Gras items to make
the day properly festive for Baldwin High School students with disabilities and those who will join them from Free State, Lawrence, Eudora, De Soto, Ottawa, Spring Hill and Wellsville high schools.
The day-long celebration of diversity will be
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tradition that started 13 years ago to raise money start the seventh-grade football program will continue Friday when Da Bash welcomes the start of the Baldwin High School football season.
Da Bash will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at the corner of Second and Fremont streets near Liston Stadium.
Da Bash is a com-munity tailgate party, pep rally and fundrais-er. Purchase of a $20 ticket is not only good for a family’s entry to Da Bash with a meal of hotdogs, chips and cookies, but is gets all family members into the Baldwin Bulldog football against the Wellsville Eagles.
Providing entertain-ment at the event will be the Baldwin High School cheerleading squad and the Baldwin High School marching band. At 6 p.m., those gathering will greet the Bulldog football team as it makes its way to Liston Stadium.
BHS sports teams and organizations are selling tickets to raise money.
Da Bash T-shirts can be purchased for $10 at Santa Fe Market.
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JULY WAS a busy month for Baldwin City power plant employees, operator Jarod Franks (left) and plant manager Rob Culley as the city produced 520,436 kilowatt hours of electricity during a month of record heat. Most days, the city purchases power from the open market, a complicated process that has the city making use of experts and a partnership.
On summer mornings, Rob Culley can get a good idea about the day ahead by monitoring a computer screen at the Baldwin City power plant.
The screen, which tracks the avail-ability and demand for electrical pow-er, provides the Baldwin City power plant manager a portal into the electri-
cal power commodity market. On most days, Baldwin City purchas-
es electric power for city customers because it can buy power cheaper than it can generate it.
However, there are days, particular-ly in the heat of the summer, when de-mand sucks up the available supply of cheap power, forcing the city to crank up the two 4,400-horsepower genera-tors at the plant south of Orange Street.
The factors that go into that decision
are complex and require knowledge of the market and constant monitoring, Cul-ley said. The decision takes into account not only what power suppliers have avail-able but its cost and whether the power can reach Baldwin City, especially on days with a lot of juice flowing through and heating up multiple switches.
Another consideration is the elec-tricity Baldwin City has available in its
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