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Miss Kansas 2022 Ayan- na Hensley is a Dodge City resident with Greensburg connections, a Rudd Scholar and 2022 Fort Hays State University graduate with a major in biology and a minor in creative writing. The Miss Kiowa County candidate is an accomplished athlete, student and a person of deep faith. But she didn’t come from a typical family background with a predestined penchant for success. She had to fight her way through childhood abuse, trauma and poverty. It’s something she is not ashamed to talk about, and something she feels has prepared her to be in the best position now, as Miss Kansas 2022, to reach out to others and lift them up through difficulties to be the best they can be.

South Central Community Foundation (SCCF) is excited to announce their schedule for the 2022 Summer Listening Tours. Hoping to gain insight into the counties they serve, these meetings will start with a quick overview of the Foundation before moving into discussion with the attendees about their community’s successes and difficulties.

South Central Community Foundation (SCCF) is excited to announce their schedule for the 2022 Summer Listening Tours. Hoping to gain insight into the counties they serve, these meetings will start with a quick overview of the Foundation before moving into discussion with the attendees about their community’s successes and difficulties.

The Kiowa County Senior Center will host Kansas Quilt Speaker: Deborah Divine — President at the Quilters Hall of Fame in Marion, Indiana, Friday, July 1 at 1 p.m. at the center in Greensburg.

The Sandyland Shepherd’s Center is co-hosting a Lunch & Learn with Ida Long Goodman Memorial Library. We will meet at noon on Friday, June 24 in the library community room.

The Peoples Bank celebrated 135 years of service on Friday with a special outdoor picnic lunch for the community at the corner of Third and Main streets last Friday in Pratt. Colorful canopies filled the blocked-off street providing shade for those who stopped by for a free lunch and visiting with bank employees, as well as neighbors and friends.

Trevor Tanner, St John was listed on the Garden City Community College Spring 2022 Honor Roll. He was one of 584 students to make three lists: President’s Honor Roll, Vice President’s-Deans’ Honor Roll, and Honorable Mention.

For the first time since May of 2019, the Kansas FFA (Future Farmers of America) State Convention was held in person at Manhattan, Kansas. This was also the PHS FFA team’s first opportunity to attend the convention, where they performed well in several events.

The Kansas Hospital Association’s foundation Healthworks and the Kansas Office of Primary Care and Rural Health at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment partnered to produce the Rural Community Perspectives on Transportation and Health, an issue brief summarizing how lack of transportation adversely affects individual and community health.