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Meeting minutes 11/8

We had a small board meeting on Sunday. Here are our notes.

“Who would have guessed?” Lawrence, KS

Last weekend, two Chords & Oilers visited the Percolator in Lawrence to see a slideshow and a spray paint demo from the Black Sheep Art Collective.

Self Reliance: Not Just a Book You Read In Highschool

This weekend I was privileged to have organized a community service project for the Shawnee County Democrats . I chose to help the artist collective Chords and Oil clean up their community garden.

Shawnee County Democrats, Chords and Oil Team Up to Serve Their Community

On Saturday, September 26, the Shawnee County Democrats teamed up with Chords and Oil and the Chesney Park Neighborhood Improvement Association for a day of community service.

Garden clean-up successful

Saturday, the Shawnee County Democrats teamed up with a few Chords & Oil members to clean up the Gourds & Soil community garden at 19th & Fillmore in Topeka, KS.

Artists ‘rethink’ image of Topeka

When Justin Marable moved from Lawrence to Topeka three years ago, he had mixed feelings about living in a city his friends called the “armpit” of Kansas. But his mind has changed since then.