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By Mike Genet mike.genet@examiner.net
A slew of red decorations will be going up along some Independence streets soon, and they actually won’t be for the Chiefs in the Super Bowl.
For eight years now, some residents and business owners around the Englewood Station Arts District have attached customized wooden hearts, about 2 feet wide, to the light poles in Englewood, eventually stretching to the Square, as the Independence Square Association later joined in the effort. They’ll stay up through February.
They call the collective artwork the HeART to HeART Connection. Tammy Parsons, owner of B-Vogue Salon and co-founder of the non-profit WestiND Connection, said this is the first time the hearts will stretch from the Square west to the intersection of Truman and Winner roads, the west end of the Englewood neighborhood where Van Horn High School is.