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Stafford County Fire Department Director Marshall Sanders is proud of the work his 60-member volunteer crews performed during 2021, and rightfully so. With more than 1, 385 training hours, and nearly the same amount of actual fire-fighting time logged on more than 94 emergency calls that included grass fires, vehicle and equipment fires, structure fires, vehicle accidents, citizen assists and EMS assists, the level of commitment from these teams is notably phenomenal.

It all started with a few butcher hogs that inspired a 4-H project five years ago. Next came successful Pratt County Fair blue-ribbon projects Goose and Mose. And now Brett Atteberry, 16, and his brother Wiley, 13, couldn’t be happier to be caring for 10 wiggling, snorting, cavorting baby pigs born in their backyard on Christmas Eve at their small farm just off 20463 S. U.S. Highway 281 in Pratt County.

Looking back, it has been a progression of faith and an answer to many prayers that led to recent updates and remodeling at Pratt’s Barron Theater on S. Main Street. An open house held Friday, January 21 revealed new carpet, new flooring in the bathrooms, new paint in the lobby area and electrical systems up to code.

It’s a first-come, first-serve kind of set up, but the list for monthly side-trips taken by seniors at Sunflower Senior Center in St. John usually contains some regulars.

NAPA Auto Parts, Triplet Automotive, is owned by Brian Brown. They are located at 627 E. 4th Avenue in St. John, Kansas. NAPA is open from 7 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday thru Friday, and Saturday 7 a.m. – 12 p.m. Brown started the business in January of 2020; however, he worked at NAPA for 16 years before buying the business. There are two employees, one full-time and one part-time.

12/22/2021 Brian Prescott hit a deer 1/5 mile north of NE 140th St. on NE 80th Ave.

KDOT - Extreme flooding, tornadoes, the COVID pandemic and other disasters have demonstrated the importance of the trucking industry to deliver life-saving and sustaining relief supplies. The state departments of transportation comprising the Mid America Association of State Transportation Officials (MAASTO) have proactively agreed to expedite the movement of emergency supplies across state lines during presidentially declared major disasters.

Hospitals in the Kansas City region are shuttling blood supplies among them daily, trying to make sure blood gets to where its needed amid a national shortage. In the last year of Katie Scott’s life, blood transfusions made all the difference.