GOLDEN BELT COMMUNITY Foundation just completed its eighth Giving Tuesday campaign, wrapping up and announcing the results during a Great Bend Chamber of Commerce Coffee Thursday morning. Giving Tuesday started as a day for anyone, anywhere to give, and it has grown into the biggest giving movement in the world.
A GROUP OF PRATT COUNTY musicians brightened up the holidays for residents, staff and family members at Parkwood Village this past Sunday. Gracie Bronson, Duane Hanks, Nancy Kerr, Libby Schaffer, and Kahrie Stegman all lent their musical talents in a special Christmas concert, which was organized by Hanks.
THE CITY OF MULLINVILLE is undergoing significant community developments this year, with a new business incubator giving local entrepreneurs a place to open a business and residents a place to shop locally, and repairs being done to the old high school building.
AS COVID CASES SURGE, local hospitals are getting calls from as far away as Michigan and Texas seeking beds for patients. But Kansas City has its own crisis to deal with.
TOPEKA – The Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced December 16 the state Health and Environmental Laboratories has found the Omicron variant of the COVID- virus in one Kansas resident — an adult from Franklin County. A second Kansas resident, this one in Douglas County, was identified as infected with the Omicron varient on Friday, December 17.
LAWRENCE — A crew from the Kansas Geological Survey, based at the University of Kansas, will be in western Kansas measuring groundwater levels the first week of January 2022. Levels are measured annually as part of a joint project conducted by the KGS and the Kansas Department of Agriculture’s Division of Water Resources (DWR) to monitor the health of the state’s valuable groundwater resources.
MANHATTAN — Kansas Farm Bureau (KFB) is collaborating with the Kansas Department of Agriculture (KDA) and the Kansas Livestock Association (KLA) to coordinate resources and donations following the devastating wildfires and high winds on Dec. 15.
MANY KANSANS continue their recovery from a wind storm on December 15 that brought high winds, dust storms and numerous power outages to the Sunflower State. More than 18,000 people remained without power on Thursday, according to David Campbell, CEO of Evergy, the state’s largest electrical utility.
A Pratt person has become the first Kansan to earn the internationally-recognized “Communication Management Professional” (CMP) certification. Last month, Nadia Reimer – Chief of Public Affairs and Engagement Officer for the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks – recently sat for and passed the Global Communication Certification Council’s (GCCC) CMP exam. An initiative of the International Association of Business Communicators, the GCCC tests candidates from around the world on competencies related to: Ethics, Consistency and Strategic Implementation, Research and Analysis, Strategy and Engagement, and Measurement.
MARTHA WADE of Pratt is the lucky winner of the 2021 raffle quilt, as announced by Debi Withers and the Pratt Area Humane Society supporters last week. “We made just at $1,000 selling tickets at the craft show and at Hello Beautiful in Pratt,” Withers said on Monday.