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Couple who own 16 shops bringing back Independence Square
By RICK MONTGOMERY
The Kansas City Star
On the once-dreary Independence Square, Cindy McClain seldom stops.
That’s her against the old-brick backdrop, clutching a white iPhone and moving from place to place. From the dining rooms of Ophelia’s to the Uptown Boutique and south to Gilbert, Whitney & Co., with its gleaming kitchenware and “specialty groceries,” if not many people.
From the chic furniture store, B Here Now, east past a quiet art gallery, another restaurant and around the corner to the Main Street Coffee House.
These businesses all belong to Cindy and husband Ken McClain. So does the square’s refurbished bowling alley. Plus the movie house, inn, yoga studio and Clinton’s Soda Fountain. The phone she carries alerts her to the sundry crises that arise with just one small business, much less 16.
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Kansas City Star, May 2010
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Truman Courthouse Wall Breaking Ceremony with Ken McClain
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Cindy McClain: Perpetual Motion on The Square
In the spring of 1976, 17-year-old Cindy Carpenter traveled to Independence and attended the RLDS World Conference. One afternoon, she walked the Lower Auditorium and saw an attractive young man working in the bookstore.
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The Examiner, July 2009
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