Circles of Hope Pratt County, hosted another Big View community conversation Oct 25 on the topic of childcare. Childcare, was one of the top 3 issues of importance, and ranked the highest, in the recent Health Assessment by the Pratt Regional Medical Center. It's not an issue unique to Pratt but is pretty universal across the state, whether rural or urban.
Have you heard that there is trouble with our supply chain? I hear it's the truck driver's fault or the lack of trucks. There happens to be more to this problem than many of you may know.
Daylight saving time ends on Sunday, November 7 at 2 a.m. Wouldn’t it be great if it never ended? In fact, for several years now, there has been a movement afoot in our country to make daylight savings the permanent time across these United States.
As a girl, I dreamed of a future family and farm life in somewhat vague terms. However, one aspect was clear: I would not want to marry a dairy farmer because they never go on vacation.
Do we expect our elected officials to be paragons of virtue? No. That’s not possible.
In the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, people throughout the world participated in nightly celebrations of health care workers. Standing on their front steps, porches and balconies, they clapped, cheered and banged pots and pans.
Not long ago, school board elections were low-key races, required by state law to be nonpartisan. Candidates were retired school personnel, parents or others recruited to run because they were actively involved in local schools or the community.
Water Plants Before Winter Watering now is important if soils are dry to help alleviate moisture stress. A good, deep watering with moisture reaching at least a foot down into the soil is much better than several light sprinklings that just wet the top portions of the soil.
Well, it’s trick-or-treat time again, in fact, by the time you’re reading this, it will be over. In my day, living in the country, harmless pranks were just expected, like putting live pigeons into neighbor’s mailboxes and the annual toilet paper blanketing of someone’s front lawn in the middle of the night (which today might just get you arrested for blatant waste of valuable property or something.)
Jeff and I had been back in Iola, Kansas for about three years, after being asked to leave our last church. While we were healing and restoring, lots of things happened there. We had our youngest child. I learned to play the piano. Relationships were restored that had been broken when we left the church in Iola. We even served as an interim pastor at a church in a nearby town. All while we waited and healed.