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Senior’ plan New Year’s Eve activities

Please join us on New Year’s Eve at the center for a carry-in dinner at 6:30. The senior center will provide the meat and tea/coffee, so everyone else please bring a side dish. We are having a PARTY and dressing up in the 60’s, 70’s, or 80’s!! Also bring any board game of your choice if there is something you want to play, there will be some games provided as well. Anyone in the community is welcome to join us!

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Several holiday events taking place at Witts Community Center in St. John

Witts Community Center (skating rink and Sunflower Senior Center) was a buzz with Christmas Celebration, Dinner and BINGO on December 14, 2022. A group of 54 brought pot luck dishes to add to the Ham Provided by Sunflower Senior Center for a delicious and abundant dinner gathering. Each participant received a Christmas “Door prize” Gift as they arrived.

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Greensburg a recipient of Kansas Housing award for rural housing development

Five Kansas communities will receive a combined total of $2.4 million to develop affordable housing for moderate-income families in rural areas of the state. The funding, made possible through the state of Kansas’ Moderate Income Housing (MIH) program, provides grants or loans to develop housing and support homeownership programs in cities or counties with populations of less than 60,000.

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A farewell letter from Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt

Serving as your attorney general these past 12 years – the second longest tenure in Kansas history – has been a privilege. Most of the quiet good our professional team accomplished made few headlines: We recovered $1.1 billion for Kansas consumers and taxpayers, far more than any prior administration, while spending less than $300 million running the office – a nearly four-to-one return on investment.

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What does a mother know?

Special to the Signal When I became a mother I had no clue how it would change my life, or what extraordinary things that my kids would do. Sure I had babysat for 7 years quite regularly before becoming a mother.

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Stop and listen especially at Christmas

Amid all the hustle and bustle of Christmas the world looks away at the reason that we celebrate. Politicians can scheme, elitists make plans for your future, manipulation of money occupies the few who control it and those who take it away. Churches are planning special services, news people find it loath to feature good stories that detract them from spreading fear. Kids from one to 21 are dreaming about how much is given to them as the retailers fill the shelves with things that are not needed. Mom’s, grandma’s, and aunts are busy making a feast to put before people that they only see three times a year. People confined to nursing homes and hospitals hope that someone comes to visit. Schools and factories are looking forward to some time off.

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The Book of Mormon and the meaning of life

Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Pratt, Kansas Special to the Tribune Before they were led out of the degenerate Jerusalem of 600BC, the prophet Lehi had sweeping dreams and visions of the impending Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem, and of God, and of the condition of mankind. In his vision of the tree of life he beheld a tree whose fruit ”was desirable above all other fruit”(1). He partook and was filled with joy, and in his vision he then beheld a rod of iron leading to the tree along a straight and narrow path, with “numberless concourses of people, many of whom were pressing forward that they might obtain the path which led to the tree”(2). “And it came to pass” Lehi said, “that there arose a mist of darkness… insomuch that they who had commenced in the path did lose their way, and wandered off and were lost”(2). He beheld a river of water, and on the other side of the water was a great and spacious building filled with people “in the attitude of mocking and pointing their fingers towards those who had come at and were partaking of the fruit”(2).

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