Defending American ideals, security
Each month I want to provide you with regular updates about what’s going on in our nation’s capital and throughout the 4th District of Kansas.
July 2024
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Mission on the Move: The Bible is still true today
When our youngest was about three-years-old.
Growing local food businesses in the Midwest is at the heart of a new grant program
Partners and collaborators will provide mentorship and technical assistance to local food producers and farmers in six states with an eye to tackling food scarcity.Kneeling in the loamy Nebraska soil, Maya women from the Q’anjob’al community plant rows of corn.
Another View: The Book of Mormon and patriotism
It was around 72 B.C., and the Nephites(1) were beleaguered.
Peaceful Prairies Poetry: The gentle summer breeze
The gentle summer breeze…Blowing thru the grass and trees…Sends wafting through the air…Smells and memories lingering near!Of the fresh new fallen rain….And the harvesting of grain…The fresh smell of new mown hay…A peaceful surrender at close of day!As a boy I’d often find my bed…And that place to lay my head…..Where the summer breeze’s blow…With stars above with a gentle glow!So lest I forget that serenity…And all the joy it brought to me….I step outside beneath the trees…And feel again that gentle breeze!Let me lie again upon the ground….And feel the peace and quiet sound…While resting in Gods loving care…That He sends with the summer air!.dbs.
Master Gardener addresses bitter cucumbers and cracking tomatoes
Bitter CucumbersA bitter taste in cucumbers from the home garden is the result of stress that can be caused by a number of factors, including heredity, moisture, temperature, soil characteristics, and disease.
Ain’t My 1st Rodeo finds a business niche’ in Pratt
What’s a city girl to do when her youngest son decides to “go rodeo”?
Art museum celebrates 10 years with special painting unveiled
“As above, sow below,” a specially-commissioned painting to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the Vernon Filley Art Museum, was unveiled by artist Laura Krusemark last Saturday at the museum on Jackson Street in Pratt.Krusemark expertly painted blue skies, ripe wheat, white clouds, star flowers, distant trees, a halo of golden sun - elements of southcentral Kansas beauty and combined these with a Native American girl to create the embodiment of connection between above and below.
Fort Hays State, technical colleges unite, with the future of rural Kansas at stake
If reviving rural Kansas were a simple task, someone would have done it already.Sadly, rural areas throughout our nation have struggled for decades, as cities and suburbs grew and attracted talent.