December 2022

Kansas City, Kan. – The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks is proud to announce that one of its own has been inducted into the prestigious NextGen Under 30 award program. Tanna (Fanshier) Wagner, who serves as KDWP’s Recruitment, Retention and Reactivation coordinator in the Department’s Education Section, was recently named a 2022 NextGen Under 30 award recipient in the category of “Sports and Outdoors.” Wagner was hired on at KDWP in 2018, following her graduation from Kansas State University.

TOPEKA, Kan. — The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) has announced that nine high school coaches from Kansas have been named National Coaches Association Sectional Coaches of the Year for the 2021-22 school seasons.

On December 5, Pratt City Commissioners presented annual employee service awards to reaching notable milestones. Lola Shumway and Anthony Conn were present to receive their awards. Jeff Ward and Larry Eisenhaur could not appear in person. Eisenhauer has worked for the city for 10 years. Ward has actually served the city for 18 years, the recognition on Monday was for his 15 of service, which was accidentally overlooked at the time. Shumway has served the city for 20 years. Conn has served for 25 years.

(NAPSI)—The real estate market is cooling down: Home inventory rose 9.6% between May and June. Interest rates are up and inflation is still a problem. Consequently, potential buyers are delaying their searches and home sellers are facing some daunting challenges. But the good news is that these challenges are not insurmountable. Amanda Zachman, founder and executive director of MV Realty in Delray Beach, Florida, offers four guidelines to help you sell your home quickly— in any market.

The Kiowa County Board of Education met for a regular meeting November 14 at the school district office, 710 S. Main Street in Greensburg. The meeting was called to order by President Ki Gamble at 8:02 p.m.

Kiowa County Senior Center participants Max and Joleen SeaCat have lived up the place a bit with their old Ranger gear collection. Before there were Kiowa County High School Mavericks, there were Greensburg Rangers. Max taught school in Greensburg for many, many years, an so on the fourth Friday of each month (which has always been our “Birthdays, Burgers, and Bingo” time) and we recently added to that that they wear their Ranger Gear.

The City of Haviland has recently been able to purchase a garden tiller for the Haviland Community Garden Crew because of a grant from South Central Community Foundation (SCCF) along with other contributions from people in the Haviland area. Charles Smith, one of the leaders in overseeing the Haviland Garden Crew recently began using the tiller to prepare the soil for next year’s garden.

For the week ending November 27, 2022, there were 6.3 days suitable for fieldwork, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Topsoil moisture supplies rated 48% very short, 25% short, 26% adequate, and 1% surplus. Subsoil moisture supplies rated 54% very short, 28% short, 18% adequate, and 0% surplus.

Changes in the new farm bill will mostly be about money. That was the message Joe Outlaw, Ph.D., Agricultural and Food Policy Center at Texas A&M University co-director in the Department of Agricultural Economics of the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Bryan-College Station, delivered recently during the annual Amarillo Farm and Ranch Show.