Bright blue, deep brown and pale purple yarns string from half-finished scarves and afghan blankets to the busy fingers and needles of four women in a small room under the main stairs in Mass Media and Technology Hall. It’s 9 a.m., and building service attendants Terri Jaworski, Brenda Croslin, Sheila Barlow and Tawanna Key are taking their lunch break.

Local musician Jordan Pendley wanted to put together a show to benefit Kaleidoscope, a youth arts program that recently lost its state funding. He also wanted a show that would serve as a mixing ground for the eclectic artists in Bowling Green to interact and to play together to one crowd.

Louisville junior Erica Dumeyer keeps her national and world championship trophies on her dresser to remind her to work and train hard. “I keep looking at them and I keep thinking ‘next year – I’ve got to get that next year,’” she said. This summer, Dumeyer won both World Wakeboarding Association National and World Championships within a month of each other.

The aromas of spicy meats and sweet, doughy funnel cakes and the overlapping sounds of thudding drums and metal gongs filled the air in Circus Square Park Saturday. Bowling Green’s 19th annual International Festival drew thousands of people outside on the sunny September day.