The Juniors and Seniors of St. John High School (USD 350 St. John-Hudson) will present their annual spring play in the High School Auditorium, 505 North Broadway, St. John, on Saturday evening, April 23, at 7:00 p,m. , and Sunday afternoon, April 24, at 2:30 p.m.
Sponsors and supporters of the Twilight Theatre and Community Auditorium came through in a big way last week, raising more than $30,000 for the maintenance and programming at this Greensburg facility.
Andrea Stitt, former public school art teacher, loves teaching the enjoyment of art to others. For almost a year now, she has offered classes in ceramics, painting and other crafts to all ages at her location along U.S. Hwy. 54/400 (1115 U.S. Hwy. 54) at ZabelJanes Gallery in Pratt. But lack of adult participation in up to five monthly class offerings has led her to question how to keep the business going.
WICHITA, Kansas — A new study suggests feeding cattle industrial hemp — a horticultural cousin of marijuana — reduces their stress levels and makes them lie down more. That could prove beneficial to ranchers because relaxed steers tend to be healthier.
Many Kansas Republicans likely guffawed in disbelief when Governor Laura Kelly recently insisted she was “a major local-control advocate.” The image of Democrats as favoring big government programs, with Republicans fighting to keep government small and local, is deeply entrenched. The language of the state GOP, presenting Kelly’s emergency orders during the pandemic as examples of “one-size-fits-all” overreach, employs this stereotype expertly.
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Wondering what to do with Easter lilies after the holiday? K-State Research and Extension horticulture expert Ward Upham suggests planting them outside.
One November evening in 1978, Dan White, a supervisor for San Francisco, climbed through a basement window at City Hall and murdered Mayor George Moscone and peer Supervisor Harvey Milk by gunshot. White, a former fireman, and a police officer, was later found guilty by a jury of his peers for voluntary manslaughter; rather than premeditated first-degree murder, which would have allowed the death penalty. White served only five of a seven-year prison term due to an early release for good behavior (Solnick). The announcement of White receiving the lightest possible sentence set the city in an uproar and sparked several nights of riots, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in property damages and injuring over 140 law enforcement officers and civilians (Twinkie).
It isn’t as if we no longer stop for a bag of ice at the convenience store. We still do. It is just less frequently that we stop to get enough to keep our cooler cold for a long afternoon at a picnic, with enough extra to keep the huge container of ice tea cold too. Air conditioning seems to have practically eliminated the wonderful picnics I remember from my youth.
It took almost two hours to get out of Pratt County last Saturday. On a fat tire bicycle and into a stiff south wind, that is.
Have any of you readers seen the quote on the capstone of the Washington Monument? If you have not, it says Laus Deo in Latin. In English this is translated, Praise be to God! This was so thoughtful of the planners to use this quote. For as the sun rises in the very east of our United States and orbits to the west, we have this knowledge proclaiming that God’s glory and protection is moving across our great land from east to west at the rising of our God’s sun every day. What a proclamation of God’s glory over America. The aluminum capstone was placed on top of the monument on the breezy December day in 1884. It made the monument the tallest building in the world at that time.