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Tiger Coffee offers hot lattes, iced and blended coffees available plain or made to order with caramel, vanilla, and mocha flavorings. The coffees are brewed from fresh espresso beans. Tiger Coffee is located in the St. John-Hudson High School FACS Room and operated as a schoolbased business. The cups and lids are environmentally friendly and made from 100% compostable materials. Sugar free syrups/flavorings and 1% milk are used to meet nutritional recommendations and healthy guidelines for students. Tiger Coffee coffees have been taste tested and are student approved.

The March 8, 2022, meeting of the Pratt County Commission was a short one with the only discussion of note coming from Heather Morgan, Pratt Area Economic Development Corporation. “I got a call last week from a person who is potentially going to acquire one of the newer hotels out by the college.

The Haviland City Council met in a regular session on Wednesday, March 9. Mayor Stokes called the meeting to order at 7 p.m. with the first few items of business underway; approving the January 16 Meeting Minutes, paying the monthly bills, appointing Bryce Kendall to fill the vacant Council position, and setting Steve Larsh as the Council president for 2022. City financial reports were examined and accepted without any questions or concerns raised by the body.

Any resource taken for granted is a resource at risk of being lost. That is why the Kansas Ground Water Association, The Groundwater Foundation, and the National Ground Water Association joined hundreds of organizations across the country in celebrating National Groundwater Awareness Week, March 6-12. National Groundwater Awareness Week, now in its 23rd year, has been an annual week of awareness, education, and advocacy focusing on one of the nation and state’s most precious resources.

Trent Whithed of Pratt lives, breathes, and loves hunting. Whether he is stalking a spring turkey with a bow and arrow, or waiting 10 hours in the back of a truck to take the perfect night-sky, comet picture, he is dedicated to his craft.

The pancakes were delicious, the sausage savory, the orange juice ever-flowing and background music pleasant at the City of Pratt Firefighters pancake and sausage feed Saturday at the municipal building in Pratt. But it was all for a much higher purpose than enjoyment.

Wild at Heart Bees, locally owned by Tom and Pam Turner, started their business in 2017. Tom and his family build everything from the bee boxes to the frames. Their son, Trey, builds the boxes and daughter-in-law, Amber, wires the frames for the boxes. Last winter 1,500 frames were made so that 150 hives could be put out. Most of the lumber is purchased from St. John Lumber. Tom showed a frame filled with honey and explained that a frame weighs approximately 10 pounds prior to harvesting. Wild at Heart Bees began with 10 hives in 2017 and they have grown to the 150 hives that are out at this time.

On December 10, a violent tornado moved across Western Kentucky, producing catastrophic damage in numerous towns. The EF-4 twister was 1.5 miles wide, traveled 166 miles, crossed 11 counties, and claimed the lives of 56 people (NWS). Educator Kay Unruh said that when news of the cataclysm was discussed in her second-grade class, a decision was made to collect coins to assist with the relief efforts. Soon the entire school joined in, and together, Haviland U. S. D. 474 raised $485.

(March 1, 2022)—In a sure sign that spring is not far behind, the first Purple Martins of the year have been spotted in Kansas. The birds were seen on February 25 in Wichita, Kansas by an unidentified Purple Martin enthusiast – one of many throughout the eastern and central United States who track and report on the birds’ annual migration on behalf of the Purple Martin Conservation Association.