August 2022

Pratt native, retired Army Major General Vic Braden was a featured speaker at Ellen Hair’s 40th Work Anniversary at the Pratt Public Library last week. Braden, a graduate of Pratt High and Pratt Community College before going on to earn a J.D. at Washburn University and receiving a National Security Fellowship from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, currently serves as leader of the Kansas Attorney General’s Criminal Litigation Division.

By PCC Communications/ CherryRoad Media staff Special to the Tribune Pratt Community College President Dr. Michael Calvert and Barton CC President Dr.

By Brandon Case Pratt blogger/columnist Special to the Tribune Upon a recent visit to my mother’s home, I came across the memory album from my Grandfather Vondracek’s funeral. You’ve probably seen something like it: a compilation of signatures of those attending the funeral, obituary notices, and cards from persons that gave flowers.

Isaac Werner lived before the automobile, so his equivalent love affairs were with his horses, particularly with Dolly Vardin, the little gray mare he bought for $115 and named after a Charles Dickens character. In order to pay for her and borrow enough to buy other things he would need, now having a horse, he recorded in his journal: “I took loan at $350 at 10 percent and straight on my homestead for 5 years, interest due every six months.” Recently my husband Larry saw an article about a young woman, Gail Wise, who bought the first Mustang automobile sold in America.

of his honor waiting on the tarmac. He has not called for the National Guard for that. The first bus that Texas sent them had only 40 migrants disembark for their new lives in the Big Apple.The second bus was supposed to have 40 but only 14 got off. The Mayor complained that he was expecting 40.