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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.

TOPEKA – Kansas has won Area Development magazine’s coveted 2022 Gold Shovel Award, marking the second year in a row the state has received this national recognition for excellence in economic development.

State Senator Dennis Pyle has announced that he has appointed a treasurer and is planning to pursue the office of Governor with an official statement forthcoming. “Due to the continual gross negligence in protecting and assisting citizens, my family and I have decided it is in the best interest of our state that I pursue running for Governor to enact solutions to stop the hardship of Kansans.

My guess is that most of the people who get this far into the paper and read the Religion columns are church people; folks who go to church on Sunday and maybe on Wednesday night as well; folks who love the Lord and serve his church faithfully, people who I am glad to call brothers and sisters in Christ.

June 12, the Sunday after Pentecost, is the day the church traditionally calls “Trinity Sunday.” It is also a day many preachers dislike; how do you write a meaningful sermon on a doctrine, especially one so difficult to fully explain. It is a problem that has been around since the early church began thinking about its beliefs.