Sedalia Downtown Development Inc. is just a few thousand dollars short of restoring the Scott Joplin mural at Second Street and Ohio Avenue after receiving a grant from the Sedalia Area Tourism Commission.
“It’s been close to 20 years since the mural was completed and it’s starting to show its age,” said SDDi Administrator Meg Liston. “We’ve done a little patch work and had the border repainted about four years ago but it’s badly faded and needs to be restored.”
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