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I’m a small-town girl at heart, so our emphasis on ‘love local’ this month resonates deeply for me. I grew up enjoying Saturday morning root beer floats at our Rexall Drugstore and didn’t mind that pretty much everyone knew our family; my parents were both teachers and I was the youngest of four. When we first moved to Lee’s Summit and our girls were small, I loved spending time downtown. We’d start at Whistlestop or Neighbors for coffee and treats and then head to KD Books for a marathon session of toy admiration and book selection. Lee’s Summit was exponentially larger than my little hometown even then, but I felt that same connection and relationship with the small businesses and their owners. Fast forward; my kids are grown and Lee’s Summit is thriving as a 100,000+ metropolitan suburb with dozens of new businesses slated to open this year alone, but it still retains the flavor and feel of a much smaller community. The creativity, character and commitment of the artists and small business owners featured in this issue make it easy to see why. They pursue their passion because they love their craft, and they need us as consumers to value the opportunities that can’t be experienced online; in other words, to love local. I hope our stories this month inspire you as much as they did me; they cover people and artists who are diverse in their respective pursuits but who share a common willingness to put themselves out there, and their contributions help weave the fabric that makes our city unique. If you haven’t taken time lately to slow down and explore the options that abound for shopping, dining, experiencing art and just enjoying life in Lee’s Summit, I hope you will soon.

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It’s hard to imagine anyone embodying the ‘Love Local’ theme of downtown Lee’s Summit more than the guys at Fossil Forge. There aren’t many weeks that go by that you can’t spot a member of the Fossil Forge team, including owners Dave Eames and Ben Wine, hoisted up on a truck and installing yet another cool, creative sign downtown. From public art exhibits to neon signage to metal work of all kinds for both businesses and private commissions, Fossil Forge is leading the Love Local campaign. Eames, past-president of Downtown Lee’s Summit Main Street, and Wine, a co-owner of Neighborhood Cafe and longtime downtown supporter, are constantly seeking ways to enhance downtown and all of Lee’s Summit through their visionary, innovative signage and artwork. And those pursuits go all the way back to 2002. Like so many soon-to-be-career-shifting members of the newspaper business, Eames was already plotting his next move while serving as a member of the Kansas City Star’s graphic design team. When he and wife Kelly moved to downtown Lee’s Summit in 2002, Dave transformed his ‘crazy good’ detached garage into a workshop, and the early visions of Fossil Forge were born. “I learned how to work in metal, learned how to weld, when the economy got rough in 2008 and layoffs at The Star started,” Dave recalled, adding that his own health issues and the death of his parents led him to make the break from the newspaper before his layoff number was called. From graphic design and illustration to building Little Free Libraries in his garage, the growth and progression of Fossil Forge began to take shape, culminating in the purchase of the building at 317 SE Main in 2015 and hiring Ben - an expert in signage, metal work and neon in his own right - in 2017. “I was fantasizing about owning a building because I wanted to be a bigger part of what was happening downtown. Bob Bushyhead and I were in a design meeting in 2014 and it was complete serendipity: we left that meeting, walked down the street, up the alley and looked at this space. It could not have been better,” said Eames. He joined Bob (Land3 Studio) and Christine Bushyhead (Bushyhead, LLC) in purchasing the spot, which the three companies transformed into offices and a workshop. “That was really the turning point. We were all of a sudden part of the downtown neighborhood.” The first sign out of the new shop was hung at Blue Heron Design, and their popularity with local store owners snowballed from there. CONTINUED > FEB R UARY 2 0 2 2 | C I TYL I FE STYL E . C OM/L E E S S UM M I T

Looking around downtown, you can find Fossil Forge’s handiwork at many downtown spots, including: Smoke Brewing Company, the Ice House Auction, Main Slice, Fringe, Stuey McBrew’s, Sabor Latino, The Pink Elephant, the Lee’s Summit Historical Museum, INSPO by KHL Design Studio, Ivy & Sparrow, the Cigar Shop, Country Club Bank, Arcade Alley, Third Street Social and the new Reece Nichols building. “We’ve been fortunate to be able to do a lot of signs down here, and there are a lot more on the way,” Ben said. Their biggest project that first year, however, was the creation of ‘Emergence,’ the massive City Hall public art piece made in conjunction with the city’s sesquicentennial in 2015. “That was vital for the shop in the early days,” Dave said. “We basically had occupancy in September and we had to build that sculpture in a month.” Public art exhibits became a fixture for Fossil Forge, with the collective creativity of the group commissioned to build high profile pieces like ‘Infinite Harvest’ at Summit Orchards, the iconic ‘816’ in downtown Lee’s Summit and ‘Prism’ at Pleasant Lea the Middle School.

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On top of that, the shop has produced 44 Little Free Library installments nationwide, with 18 right here in Lee’s Summit. The Love Local flare of the shop eventually spilled over into retail, as Ben and Dave opened Local Foundery on Market Street in 2019, moving to a more prominent spot at 15 SW 3rd Street in the fall of 2021. “We got our training wheels on in that first location,” Ben said. “We closed and moved in within four days.” The whole notion of the Local Foundery is to create a store that serves as a connection between the older antique shops and a newer shop that offers vintage, handmade and other maker items around Kansas City. Online at www.fossilforge.com and www.localfoundery.com.

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Facilitator of Fun EACH LONNIE MCFADDEN PERFORMANCE HAS A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING — DANCE, SINGING, TRUMPET — AND IS ROOTED IN FUN

Entertainer Lonnie McFadden doesn’t believe he’d be performing today without the influence of his father, dancer and musician Jimmy McFadden. He recalls his father and his friends telling stories while he was growing up about their experiences performing. Lonnie was hooked, even though the stories detailed struggle more often than glamour. “I don’t know if my father was just such a great storyteller or my imagination was just so vivid, but I immediately wanted to do that,” he says. “When they would start talking about, you know, getting stranded in Detroit or Chicago living off peanuts and Pepsi Cola until the next week’s gig, that sounded like, ‘Oh my god, I want to do that.’ [laughs]” Lonnie, and later his brother Ronald, began piano lessons when they were 5 years old. Their father also found opportunities to teach them beyond formal lessons. “Even at church he would be teaching us about the way music is constructed,” he says. “We would be listening to the

choir, and he’d say, ‘Now tell me where the break is.’” His father bought them tap shoes to practice with, and practicing was something that Lonnie hated. “That’s something that, you know, it’s just like your parents making you eat spinach instead of eating candy all day,” he says. “It has been one of the most nourishing things for me in my life because now that I’m an adult and I am self-employed and have been since I was 16... Had I not learned that discipline from my father and mother, making me practice every day, I wouldn’t be able to do what I do now.” He now spends a minimum of 3 hours a day, 7 days a week at his rehearsal studio completing trumpet warmup exercises, answering emails and practicing basic tap dance techniques. McFadden also studies other tap dancers and musicians. Because the internet is vast, he finds it important to see what else is out there. While he enjoys trying new styles, he does not experiment with them with an intention of mastering them. CONTINUED >

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“I’ve learned to accept what my gifts are,” he says. “I try to play trumpet as good as I can. I try to tap dance as good as I can. But as I said, I don’t think my gift is to become the greatest at anything. My gift is to bring joy.” About 15 years ago, before committing to play music full-time, he held a more traditional job selling cars. Here, he discovered his motivation to continue working in music. “I tried that for a while, and I was miserable,” he says. “So, one day I just went in there, and I quit cold turkey. I went back to trying to play music, not knowing if I would be able to pay my rent, but I knew I’d be happy. And I think that’s my biggest motivation every day.” He describes his performances as “musically all over the place,” with music from artists like Marvin Gaye, Frank Sinatra, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Ultimately, he wants the audience to enjoy themselves. “From the first song, I try to feel the crowd out to see who I’m dealing with. Is this mostly business people? I try to find the common denominator,” he says. “The one thing that is my goal is for us to have a good time. Whether I’m at a business function or at the Kauffman Center or at the Phoenix it doesn’t matter—from the time I hit the stage or the band stand, my goal is to help facilitate a fun evening.”

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DO M

B DRM S

B AT H S

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$575,000

100.00%

3/2

Winterset Park

$445,000

$427,500

96.07%

139

3/2

Winterset Park

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$520,000

96.31%

3/1

2/2

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Winterset Valley

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100.00%

Woodside Ridge

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100.00%

Woodside Ridge

$444,775

$458,137

103.00%

166

Woodside Ridge

$484,037

$479,914

99.15%

Woodside Ridge

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$489,355

102.10%

Woodside Ridge

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$495,721

108.00%

Woodside Ridge

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100.00%

Woodside Ridge

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$502,505

101.91%

169

Woodside Ridge

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$533,451

97.00%

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$538,180

104.36%

Woodside Ridge

$559,027

100.00%

Woodside Ridge

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$584,828

105.59%

Woodside Ridge

$595,000

100.00%

Woodside Ridge

$586,550

$603,848

102.95%

Woodside Ridge

$629,950

100.00%

197 238

Woodside Ridge

$656,145

100.00%

3/1

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100.00%

Woodside Ridge

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$701,345

100.20%

Woodside Ridge

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$704,249

102.67%

3/2

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105.27%

3/1

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ARTICLE BY JOHN BEAUDOIN | PHOTOGRAPHY BY JANIE JONES

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Downtown Lee’s Summit’s food, drink, retail and entertainment scene has absolutely burst to life over the past decade. Along with new restaurants, pubs and shops has come a visually stimulating component: public art. Feeding on the resurgence of downtown, the City of Lee’s Summit, Lee’s Summit Arts Council and Downtown Lee’s Summit Main Street teamed up in 2020 to launch the Downtown Sculpture Walk. That first installation - launched as the COVID-19 pandemic was shutting down performances, concerts and exhibits in the late spring of 2020 - included a raptor in front of the Lee’s Summit Fire Department headquarters on Douglas Street, a feather near the Lee’s Summit Historical Museum and what became a popular photo stop, the tri-colored popsicle at City Hall Plaza. The City of Lee’s Summit’s first-ever Cultural Arts Manager, Glenda Masters, said work began on the concept and execution of the sculpture walk a full year before it launched, with members of the arts council, downtown and Public Works staff identifying areas and corners of downtown that would lend to high traffic, visibility and display of the rotating public art pieces. “The primary reasons the city created the cultural arts division were to bring more opportunities and experiences to the community, so we wanted to explore how we could accomplish that,” Masters said. “From my experience working with other municipalities, a rotating public art program is a great way to integrate art into the community. And to encourage people to take notice of public art and the walkability of downtown as well.” Like any good downtown initiative, the arts leaders looked at other communities that had led the way in public art for best practices, timelines and work plans. Each year, the organizations hold a call-for-artists and, once selected, the artist is granted a stipend and has their piece displayed on the Sculpture Walk. Local and national artists from Remy Norton-Hood, an artist and metal worker at Fossil Forge Design to Craig Gray of Key West, Florida (Popsicles) to Des Moines-area and Belgiumborn artist Hilde DeBruyne (Metamorphosis) have been featured on the Sculpture Walk. The current 2021 selections include: “Metamorphosis” (artist Hilde DeBruyne, 4th & SE Main), “Borbor 9” (artist Will Vannerson, City Hall Plaza), “Silica Rose” (artist Jay Lockett, 3rd & Green), “Campana” (artist Joe Alred, in front of Third Street Social), “To Bee or Not to Bee” (artist Alex Mendez, Lee’s Summit Historical Museum, “Fire Dancer” (artist Jodie Bliss, Lee’s Summit Fire Station #2), “Patches” (artist Vince Houston, 4th & SE Main), “Wired” (artist Jack Bordnick, 3rd & SW Main), “Here Comes the Sunset” (artist Ben Piece, 3rd & SW Market) and “Heart of Downtown” (artist Remy Norton-Hood, 3rd & Douglas). CONTINUED >

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The Sculpture Walk has added another layer to a central business district that has seen exponentially increased traffic and attention in recent years. "The Downtown Sculpture Walk builds upon downtown as a destination for our residents and visitors that evolves and changes,” DLSMS Executive Director Donnie Rodgers said. “It gives them another activity to enjoy when they visit downtown and helps to build a stronger sense of pride and connection to the heart of our community.” Masters said the reception has been overwhelmingly optimistic. “We’ve received a lot of really positive feedback and a lot of comments from folks saying they appreciate the city and downtown putting public art into the community,” Masters said, adding that some notable artists have been juried and selected for the Sculpture Walk. DeBruyne comes from a family of accomplished artists, including her father, also a sculptor. “Metamorphosis” comes from a series of abstract pieces that represent the life-cycle of

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the monarch butterfly. And Kansas City-area artist Jay Lockett is the first African-American artist (“Silica Rose”) featured on the Sculpture Walk. The sculptures will change again in 2022, as the current callfor-artists has been made and the jury will select the new batch of public art pieces. Visitors to downtown Lee’s Summit can access the Downtown Sculpture Walk on the Otocast mobile audio guide, an app downloadable from any smartphone or device. The GPS-based service allows walkers to start the Sculpture Walk at any of the installations and listen to their stories, including recordings from the artists themselves. “We expect it to grow over time and we definitely would love the opportunity to bring more temporary and permanent public art to downtown and Lee’s Summit,” Masters said. “We’re just getting started.” For more information on the downtown Lee’s Summit Sculpture Walk, visit cityofls.net/cultural-arts/public-art.

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