The Jolly Workers 4-H Club held its monthly meeting on March 5, 2022, at the St. John-Hudson USD 350 School auditorium at Stafford County Club Days. The club used their monthly meeting as a model meeting performance at Club Days.
The Pratt County Research and Extension Office and Pratt Public Library have again joined forces to offer a special reading and walking opportunity at Pratt’s Lemon Park. “From March through the end of April you can follow the 1-mile walking trail on the sidewalks at Lemon Park and read a fun story as you go,” said Pratt County Extension Agent Jodi Drake.
We are looking for a volunteer to deliver Meals On Wheels to Haviland on Monday’s at 11 a.m. This is a weekly commitment, and of course understand there will be times one is unavailable. Meals take about one hour to deliver. Please call Kari at 620-723-2288 if you are interested in this rewarding opportunity to serve your community.
The Pratt High Scholarship Recognition Committee will honor Pratt High School students for their academic achievements at the 48th Annual Scholarship Banquet. It will be held at the Municipal Building on Monday, April 18,2022 at 6:30 p.m. where families and students will celebrate the academic achievements of each class.
Have you ever stepped into the water on the first fishing trip of the spring only to find your waders leaked? Or lost a nice fish because the line on your reel was old and snapped? Or even found while trying to make the first cast of the year that your reel wouldn’t work at all? All of the above are scenarios that can easily be avoided with a little prior planning. So here are a few tips to help make you ready for action when your buddy calls and screams into the phone “The fish are bitin’!”
If you planted cole crops such as cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower earlier this spring and made it through our earlier cold snaps, they will need a little fertilizer boost. These plants need to mature before summer heat arrives, so they must grow quickly while the weather is cool. A sidedressing of fertilizer about 3 weeks after transplanting helps plants continue to grow rapidly.
Washington, March 31, 2022 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service is announcing that internal guidance on how future e-bike use is managed on national forests and grasslands has been finalized. The updated guidance clarifies existing policy and provides guidelines to local Forest Service employees that may be considering expanding e-bike access at site-specific locations.
My last couple of columns have been about practice and routine. The more you do something repetitively, the more it becomes a habit. We are creatures of habit. For example, I sit on the back pew of the church, monitoring the temperature. If someone is fanning themselves, I will turn the heat down or crank up the AC. If they keep sweating, the preacher must be doing a good job.
Have any of you readers seen the quote on the capstone of the Washington Monument? If you have not, it says Laus Deo in Latin. In English this is translated, Praise be to God! This was so thoughtful of the planners to use this quote. For as the sun rises in the very east of our United States and orbits to the west, we have this knowledge proclaiming that God’s glory and protection is moving across our great land from east to west at the rising of our God’s sun every day. What a proclamation of God’s glory over America. The aluminum capstone was placed on top of the monument on the breezy December day in 1884. It made the monument the tallest building in the world at that time.
It took almost two hours to get out of Pratt County last Saturday. On a fat tire bicycle and into a stiff south wind, that is.