The Staffrd County Board of County Commissioners met in regular session on Wednesday, October 27 , 2021, in the Commission Room in the Annex. Chairman Grimmett called the meeting to order at 8:30 a.m.
The USD 382 Board of Education meeting on October 11 focused on a variety of changes in staff and in continued COVID response. The meeting was kicked off by a couple of students enrolled in the GATE (Gifted and Talented Education) program, an enrichment program provided by the district.
I read recently that the cost of nitrogen fertilizer is already the single biggest expense for agriculture and that now the cost may double because nitrogen fertilizer is made from natural gas, which has seen a spike in costs due to its use to replace coal and as the result of damage to gas plants from recent major storms.
Near dawn on Monday, two young water buffalo, a heifer and a bull, roamed far from home. They found a rip in the fence that a few deer had caused, and ran across a somewhat busy country blacktop.
When Jeanette Klamm’s sons graduated from Basehor-Linwood High School, it left her with some unexpected time on her hands. Always being active including serving as a USD 458 Board of Education member, Glenwood 4-H club leader, as well as other activities related to her children, Klamm began making plans to build a cut flower maze in her backyard. She was inspired by a gentleman in her Nebraska hometown who built a flower maze and opened it as an agritourism destination.
For those who try to live for the Lord and want to please Him, I’m sure you know what I mean when I say there are times when the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. When it comes to maintaining a redhot enthusiasm for the Christian life, we are not robots, but rather we are emotional humans that have good days along with other times that are clouded with with feelings of melancholy. It does the heart good to quietly sit alone as we search within our soul trying to figure out what is wrong. It could be a nagging sin where we should have stood strong against it but instead we gave it control. God promises that in the midst of our misery there is nothing we can do that will make Him love us any less. Or maybe our hearts are weighed down with heaviness for a world that has turned away from God. Whatever our burden, we can rest assured that He knows our thoughts and exactly what we are going through. Romans 8:39 is a wonderful reminder, “Neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
This series on Good Trouble was born out of my research on the life of Laura Haviland for my book Underground Angel. In our last article we looked at Step 1 of Good Trouble out of 7 important steps. Step 1: “Become a friend to someone totally different from yourself-in politics, race, creed, and class. Previously, I introduced Laura Haviland, the Underground Railroad heroine who assisted thousands of slaves to freedom before, during, and after the Civil War. The town of Haviland, Kansas, where I went to school and eventually taught, Barclay College, was named in her honor.
Jeff and I had been back in Iola, Kansas for about three years, after being asked to leave our last church. While we were healing and restoring, lots of things happened there. We had our youngest child. I learned to play the piano. Relationships were restored that had been broken when we left the church in Iola. We even served as an interim pastor at a church in a nearby town. All while we waited and healed.
Well, it’s trick-or-treat time again, in fact, by the time you’re reading this, it will be over. In my day, living in the country, harmless pranks were just expected, like putting live pigeons into neighbor’s mailboxes and the annual toilet paper blanketing of someone’s front lawn in the middle of the night (which today might just get you arrested for blatant waste of valuable property or something.)
Water Plants Before Winter Watering now is important if soils are dry to help alleviate moisture stress. A good, deep watering with moisture reaching at least a foot down into the soil is much better than several light sprinklings that just wet the top portions of the soil.