DeWalt to match Walworth mural donations
DAVE CLARKE
The Star Courier
There was a time when if you lived in Kewanee and didn t work at Walworth, you knew someone who did. In the early 1900s, over 4,000 people worked at the sprawling plant northeast of the business district and remained one of the city s major employers for decades.
Many former employees who worked there before Walworth closed in 1978 are still alive. Anyone with a connection to Walworth, or who would just like to see it memorialized in a mural to be painted here this summer, might like to accept Mike DeWalt s personal challenge to match, dollar for dollar up to $2,500 any donation to the mural fund. DeWalt issued a similar challenge two years ago to help raise funds to make the Black Knights mural a reality.