The Emergency Food Assistance Program Commodities Distribution was held at Witt Community Center October 26, 2021. Sunflower Senior Center Volunteers promote this program. There were 40 households represented with 8 volunteers handing out the commodities.
The Stafford County Board of County Commissioners met in regular session on Wednesday, November 17th, 2021, in the Commission Room in the Annex. Chairman Grimmett called the meeting to order at 8:30 a.m. Present: Clayton Grimmett, Todd Wycoff and Bryce Garner.
Kansas Reads to Preschoolers is an annual event celebrated each November to promote reading, with a focus on the 2-5 years old age group. This year, the Kansas State Library encouraged parents, librarians & caregivers statewide to read the book: Grumpy Bird, by Jeremy Tankard.
Medallions for Vietnam veterans, special gifts for the oldest military branch representatives present, songs of God and country and heartfelt words from speakers brought honor and recognition to a large contingent of Pratt area veterans on November 16 at the Pratt Elks Lodge.
April Hemphill, Director of Pratt Area Humane Society is feeling thankful these days. Not only is a new HVAC system coming soon that will keep the air fresh and smelling good in the facility at 10233 Bluestem Blvd, Pratt, but donations and grants have been pouring in to help provided support for dogs and cats in need of care in the area.
The November 8, 2021 Board of Education meeting included many personnel changes that were presented and approved by the board. Notable changes included the retirement of LMS ELA teacher Sandy Foster, and the retirement of SW 4th Grade Teacher Meleah Schrepel. Both are set to retire in June of 2022. LMS track also gained two new assistant coaches: Jill Nech, LMS teacher, and Bryce Stegman, PHS teacher.
People came from near and far to celebrate the beginning of the Christmas season at the annual Christmas in the Park on Saturday in Pratt’s Lemon Park. Band music, Christmas chorales and even jazzy drumming provided a celebratory background to this annual community event that culminates in the lighting of more than 80 Christmas memorials and decorations in the park.
Members of the Pratt High School band gather at the entrance of Lemon Park in preparation of their holiday musical march into Christmas at the Park on Saturday in Pratt. PHOTOS BY JENNIFER STULTZ Members of the Skyline High School band provided holiday music.
Early in our years of ministering, and moving from place to place, my husband and I got a phone call from my aunt. We were in the middle of making plans to move to DeSoto, Kansas. My aunt called to tell me that she had a friend who had given up twins for adoption years ago and, because the state of Kansas adoption records were now open, did I want the contact info, to get mine. You see, when I was 16 years old, engaged to be married, and the only father I had known all my life was in a hospital 800 miles from our home preparing for open heart surgery the next day, I found out I was adopted.
In my last article I introduced Step four: “Do not judge/ Strip away labels and stereotypes. The example was the type cast that Colonel Buckner, an authority, had regarding abolitionists as law breakers. Mrs. Haviland was considered suspicious for delivering a trunk of blankets, warm clothes, and other monetary assistance and aid for Calvin Fairbanks in a Kentucky jail because he was an abolitionist who broke the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and attempted to assist a slave to freedom. Laura’s wise countenance and responses never gave the jailer, Buckner, credence to pursue an arrest of her. On the opposite spectrum, Buckner was labeled an upright, religious leader for teaching Sunday School at his Methodist Church, yet when quibbling with Laura, he was speechless when she quoted the Scriptures in the defense of God’s good creation of all human beings, regardless of race or creed, as equal and worthy of redemption through Christ’s sacrifice. Stereotypes and labels can certainly be misleading and fool us.