The Liberal community could have a new event to mark on the calendar in October after a presentation to the Liberal City Commission during its most recent meeting Tuesday night.
Kris Musgrave and Greg Standard came before the commission Tuesday night to propose a new event to help engage the downtown area.
“Our Masonic Lodge, when I came back, was very small, but it’s been growing exponentially,” Musgrave said. “We’ve acquired about eight new members in the past two years and our lodge is one of the faster-growing ones in Kansas right now. We’re working on putting together more things for the community and we give out special awards to teachers and students in USD 480 every year. So we’re working on expanding our presence in the community and one of the things we’re especially working on is a downtown rejuvenation project. And many of us in the lodge and in the community have German descent, so we thought it would be fun to have our version of Oktoberfest. When this idea was initially born, I contacted Alicia [Hidalgo] with the City about it and she suggested I talk to Cal [Burke] about it. So I talked to Cal and he said ‘This is great, it’s what our downtown needs and it will get a lot of people involved!’ and then he told me to come talk to the commission about it. So here I am.”
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