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Downtown Celebration May 15, 2008

Baldwin City celebrated the completion of the Downtown Streetscape Project Wednesday evening with free food, live band, balloon animals and Art Walk. The crowd numbers exceeded expecations.

Lucas Hopper, 5, watches the Baker University Fountain Wednesday evening. Hopper was downtown with his mother Sarah Hopper.

Photo by Jimmy Gillispie

Customers wait in line inside Hickory Creek Barbecue for free food Wednesday evening. The line eventually stretched outside and down the sidewalk.

Photo by Jeff Myrick

The well-known Kansas City band, Lee McBee and the Confessors, played at the corner of Eighth and High streets to help celebrate the finishing of the Downtown Streetscape Project.

Photo by Jimmy Gillispie

Baldwin City residents and Baker University students wait patiently in line for free food from Wheat State Pizza.

Photo by Jimmy Gillispie

Miles Morford, 3, enjoys his balloon animal while walking around downtown Baldwin City Wednesday with his parents Casey and Beth Morford.

Photo by Jimmy Gillispie

The Baldwin Community Arts Council held its inaugural Art Walk of the season on Wednesday evening in conjunction with the downtown celebration.

Photo by Jimmy Gillispie