9/22/2009
TIM UNRUH
CONCORDIA — Those who helped plan, organize and carry out the carved-brick mural project in downtown Concordia are seeing some return for their investment of time, effort and money.
The Whole Wall Mural is luring folks off the streets and highway to peer at the 140-foot depiction of Cloud County history, said Aline Luecke, museum volunteer and secretary of the Cloud County Historical Society board.
“They think it’s wonderful,” she said of the carved east wall of the Museum Annex building at Sixth and Lincoln (U.S. Highway 81). The building also houses the county’s travel & tourism office.
The mural, which is up to 20 feet tall, depicts people, places and history of the Cloud County area. It will be dedicated at 11:15 a.m. Saturday, immediately following Concordia’s Fallfest parade.
The dedication celebration will feature patriotic music by Cloud Thunder, a brass octet directed by Cloud County Community College instructor Patrick Sieben, and a choral group from Southern Cloud School District.
The Concordia American Legion Color Guard will present the colors. Rev. Larry Letourneau, a Catholic priest from Clyde, will bless the wall, and there will be prayer from Warren Freeborn of the Concordia Baptist Church.


For more on this story, see Wednesday's Salina Journal.