How about we go to a garden store? Or, what if the garden store could come to you? Today we’ll meet an innovative young rural-preneur who has created a mobile system to bring vegetables, herbs, ornamentals and plant care information to the public. Renata Goossen is the founder of Renata’s Garden in her hometown of Potwin.
It’s easy to forget today that agriculture is the foundation of civilization. It’s the process that ended our ceaseless following of food and allowed us to settle into cities. What followed, over the past several millennia is the world we inhabit today. In short, farming and ranching are the essential drivers of the manufacturing- or service-based economy we all enjoy.
The Kansas Water Office’s (KWO) Great Bend Prairie Regional Advisory Committee will host a meeting to discuss current water issues affecting the region as well as the state. This region includes the counties of Pratt, Kiowa and Stafford, as well as several counties north and west of this location.
Pratt, Kan. – On Monday, Ryan Anderson, head coach of the softball program at Pratt Community College (PCC), submitted his resignation to the school after serving at the helm since July of 2021. Anderson took a position as Athletic Director in the Pretty Prairie school district.
Whether you’re a toddler, teen, or adult, there is a summer recreation activity for you! The Pratt Recreation, ran by Larry Eisenhauer, puts on a variety of events for people of all ages. First, the rec offers a summer youth program to kids Pre-K (5 by May 30th) – 5th grade (grade completed in 2021-22 school year).
The season for travel fun has arrived and millions of Americans will be enjoying vacation rentals – except the ones that experience vacation rip-offs instead. A Better Business Bureau (BBB) study in 2019 found that 43% of those who searched online encountered fake property listings. More than 5 million people lost money to such scams. It is reasonable to assume that with the easing of the pandemic, as so many feel freer to travel, vacation rentals will be highly sought after. Here is BBB’s advice for those who want to keep their getaways safe from bad actors and their vacation rental schemes. Easy to fake
Burkes Outlet continues to celebrate the opening of a new store at 1801 East 1st Street in Pratt with special games along with shopping deals and prize wheels. The Pratt Area Chamber of Commerce welcomed the business to Pratt with a ribbon-cutting ceremony last Thursday morning, along with staff members and local customers.
Owing at least partly to the fact that he was once homeless, Luke Einsel is a scrappy businessman, with a high tolerance for risk and a nose for a profitable niche. Over the last decade, he built an Overland Park smoothie stand into Smart Beverage, a 15-employee company that supplies schools, hospitals and other large institutions with healthy drinks. Along the way, Smart Beverage acquired several competitors, purchased every single 7-Eleven slushie machine in Mexico, and raised several million dollars from investors. In 2019, Kansas City officials lured Einsel’s Kansas-based company across the state line with tax incentives, paving the way for it to move into an 18,000-square-foot warehouse at the former Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base. All that promise and optimism seems like a distant memory these days. Einsel is winding the company down, he told The Star, his eyes sunken and his hair and beard grown long one afternoon earlier this spring.
Ashlin Oberle and Brooke Oberle, both of Greensburg, Kansas were recently named to Emporia State University’s spring honor roll. The university congratulates more than 750 undergraduates who received this honor this semester after earning a minimum 3.80 semester grade point average in at least 12 graded hours.
Kiowa County High School student Caleb Fulton signed a letter of intent earlier this year to be a percussionist at Garden City Community College. Fulton will join a group called the GC3 Buster Sound, whose goal is to share music with their community.