The Monthly Pot Luck Supper for Sunflower Senior Center was held May 2 in St. John. Fifteen seniors enjoyed the program by Sister Paulynn Instenes, who shared “Lessons I Learned from my Students” while teaching in locations including Wisconsin, Guam, Mississippi, and Zimbabwe, Africa. Every month we enjoy the delicious food each person in attendance brings to share. There are many excellent cooks in the group.
Scooter’s Coffee of Pratt is ready to help customers dive into delicious with craveable specialty drinks, scrumptious bakery offerings and stylish new summer tumblers at their location on the corner of First and Main Streets.
At its May 2 regular meeting, Pratt City commissioners heard an update from the Hope Center. The report was brought by Pastor Scott Powell, who is the President of the Hope Center. He was accompanied by Pam Ford, who is its full-time director.
Troy Fisher has been the owner of Fisher Service Center for two years; however, he has been working there for the last 17 years. Fisher Service Center, St. John, Kansas, was established in 1988 by Troy’s father, Larry Fisher. Troy is a life-long St. John resident. He is the one employee in the building that answers calls, schedules appointments, orders and replaces parts, and takes payments. Troy’s wife, Alisa, does the bookkeeping.
Possible future mitigation of various blackbirds and other nuisance bird species was discussed at last Monday’s Finney County Commission meeting. Blackbirds and other species include European starlings, common grackles, great-tailed grackle, red-winged blackbirds, American crown, Eurasian collared dove and pigeons are causing problems and people are fed up with it in Garden City and across the county.
The Stafford County Board of County Commissioners met in regular session on Wednesday, May 4th, 2022, in the Commission Room in the Annex. Chairman Wycoff called the meeting to order at 8:30 a.m. Present: Todd Wycoff, Bryce Garner and Clayton Grimmett. Others present Nita Keenan.
Aerial photography of tornado damage suffered in Andover will be made available, the result of a number of flyovers of the area the morning after an F3 torndado ripped through the city. “We are providing that to state and local authorities for their emergency response and diaster planning.
LAWRENCE — Business has changed since 1833. One would be hardpressed to find businesses operating with the same model that was in place when Andrew Jackson was in the White House. But in the case of newspapers, many are still operating with the same business model established when Benjamin Day opened the first penny press nearly 200 years ago. A University of Kansas professor of journalism is leading a project to test a new model based on research with publishers and readers to help rural newspapers adapt, survive and thrive.
Pilot Club Express Train at Six Street Park May 14, 21 - The Pilot Express will run on Saturdays in May except Memorial Weekend from 2-4. This will be a fundraiser for Pilot Club’s next ambitious project at 6th Street Park in Pratt to compliment the Friendship Playground.