Footbridge to be closed

Footbridge to be temporarily closed

The footbridge linking Schilling Elementary School and the Country Oaks Estates subdivision is being replaced, and the bridge will be closed starting Monday.

According to the city of Salina, removal of the bridge will start Monday, and the replacement bridge is scheduled to be in place by Feb. 1.

In the meantime, the Salina School District is planning to provide bus transportation to students in the subdivision beginning Jan. 5.

For information about bus transportation, call Schilling Elementary at 309-4400; for information about the bridge replacement, call the city public works department at 309-5725.

Gifts to help with Bethany renovation

LINDSBORG -- A series of gifts from a local family will aid Bethany College in its renovation plans.

Funds from the estate of Glenn Lindstrom, who died in 2007, will help pay for several different projects on the campus.

Renovations at Anderson Stadium, scheduled for this coming summer, will include renovation of the rest rooms and concession stands, with $100,000 of the Lindstrom estate going toward that project.

The renovations at Anderson Stadium also include a new artificial turf on what will be known as Clyde and Glenn Lindstrom Field, thanks to a gift to the college of $700,000 from the Lindstroms.

In addition, more than $75,000 from the estate will go to the addition of three new science labs at the Nelson Science Center.

Another $100,000 will be used to help complete the "Campus Green" project, which is transforming the college's landscaping.

Clyde and Glenn Lindstrom were brothers who farmed and ranched just southwest of Falun and died in 2007.

Dole Lecture to focus on Lincoln

LAWRENCE -- The Dole Institute of Politics in Lawrence is focusing several events next year on Abraham Lincoln.

Four of the nation's leading Abraham Lincoln experts will visit the institute at the University of Kansas in February and March.

Richard Norton Smith, the Dole Institute's first permanent director, will kick off the series Feb. 8.

Michael Burlingame will discuss his biography "Lincoln: A Life" on Feb. 17. Los Angeles-based historian Ron White, author of the newly published "A. Lincoln," will speak March 2.

KU's own assistant professor of history Jennifer Weber will conclude the series March 10, with a discussion of Lincoln's 1864 campaign.

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