One wheat seed can produce many
Wheat is an essential source of food for all people providing protein for a healthy part of one’s diet.
November 2024
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Second annual Match Day will benefit 13 local nonprofits
South Central Community Foundation is excited to announce their second Match Day on Tuesday, December 3, 2024.
Ballard qualifies for national history and spelling contests
Grayson Ballard is a somewhat typical 8th grade student at Kiowa County Junior High in Greensburg, but the Haviland native has been pursuing, and receiving, some interesting higher academic awards.The last weekend of October, Ballard competed in the International Academic Competitions Regional History Bee and Regional Geography Bee.
Veterans honored with patriotic program
What a splendid evening it was to celebrate our cherished veterans at the Pratt Elks Lodge #1451 Veteran Dinner on November 11, 2024!
Task force says Kansas schools should ban cellphones for all students
An advisory group created by Kansas education leaders is recommending that schools ban cellphones for students at every grade level.A majority of the 36-member Blue Ribbon Task Force on Student Screen Time voted to recommend that districts prohibit students from using cellphones for the entire school day, including during lunch and passing periods.They also voted to recommend that students store personal devices “in a secure location that is not accessible to them during the school day.”The group meets again this week and plans to make its final report with recommendations to the Kansas State Board of Education in November.Derby teacher Tawna Hall serves on the task force and supports “bell-to-bell” policies that ban cellphones.
Winterizing roses has several steps
Gardeners find that most shrub roses are hardy in Kansas, while other types of roses can be more tender.
Tigers and bears and dinos, oh my at Macksville City Library
On November 5, the Macksville City Library hosted its very first Stuffie Sleepover.
Living on Purpose: What is in the well comes up in the bucket
It’s a spiritual revelation to comprehend that words have tremendous power but where there is privilege there is also accountability.
Another View: The Book of Mormon and the “things” trap
The prophet Nephi(1) was “much cast down because of the wickedness of the people”(2), and was pondering it on his way back home after having so tirelessly preached righteousness to a backslid generation, when he heard a voice saying “Blessed art thou Nephi, … for I have beheld how thou hast with unwearyingness declared the word, … and thou hast not feared them, and hast not sought thine own life, but hast sought my will, and to keep my commandments.”(3)God was very pleased with Nephi’s integrity and devotion and blessed him with mighty spiritual power, by which many were helped.