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A pair of oversized, brightly-painted Adirondack chairs are the latest tool in the Luverne Chamber’s efforts to make visitors feel welcome in the community.
They were officially unveiled in the community Monday afternoon at the downtown “mini plaza” near the history center and at the beach near The Lake.
They were funded in part by a $2,000 grant from the Lyon County Riverboat Foundation with support by the LIFT Plaza Committee and Nick Mead with Luverne Building Center.
“The chairs look amazing,” said Chamber Director Jane Wildung Lanphere. “It truly takes a ‘village’ to make a project like this possible.”
She said Mead used a pattern to build the heavy wooden chairs, that measure roughly 4 feet wide by 9 feet tall.
Volunteers Corrine Bonnema, Brian Sterling, LaDonna and Darrel Van Aartsen and Faye Bremer painted them, and Quality Printing provided the graphics.
Lanphere also thanked city of Luverne Public Works employees for storing and moving the chairs — first to Luverne High School for prom photos and then to their final display locations downtown and at The Lake.
The Main Street Adirondack chair is painted solid red with Luverne’s logo, “Love the Life” across the top of the chair.
The lake chair is painted with festive “beach ball” basic colors and also has the Luverne logo on the top front of the back rest.