July 2022

06/16/2022 Shannon Bauer hit a deer on NE 80th Ave. 3.5 miles north of US HWY 50.

Want to cool off with a cherry sno-cone? Stop by DAB Oil In Macksville. Gentri Bright and Hadley Bright are spending their third summer on Highway 50 selling snocones.

St. John and the surrounding area was the destination of many former slaves in the late 1800s, and though there are few who remember these families and individuals who forged their way through the rugged Midwest to settle in Stafford County, recent celebrations have highlighted their existence.

The skies were beautifully illuminated with red white and blue fireworks on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th of July. The Monday holiday extended the celebration in this little town. There were three firework stands open on July 1. The St.John cheerleading squad raised money for their cheer program. The St.John Fireworks Tent, run by Wald and Company wholesale fireworks, has been family-owned and operated for 30 years. The downtown firework store was run by Scott Claussen and Ami Claussen; they came back from Florida to sell fireworks in their annual shop.

Grace and Ava Chadd of Pratt are just about like any other teenage girls who like to hang out with friends, participate in sports, and have fun, but an extra passion burns inside the heart of each of these sisters and it has propelled them to number 1 rankings in Kansas junior rodeo status, and even into the top ten of national acclaim.

As if it wasn’t enough to lose just about everything they owned in a Father’s Day fire last month, Pratt residents Reggie and Cherylan Mendenhall, their son, Dakota, and grandson Malachi, lost other personal items that had been in storage in another house fire last Tuesday at the corner of Cleveland and N. Pearl in Pratt.