Words from the wizard
Louie ShanomSpecial to the Globe Vinyl records and cassette tapes, once relegated to the dusty recesses of thrift stores and garage sales, are making a comeback and no, is not…
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Community builders earn Silver Award
With nary an idle hand among them, Girl Scout Troop 60538 achieved a major milestone this year when they earned the organization’s Silver Award.Nora Nolan, Emilea Klenke and Eliza Ortega each clocked more than 50 hours of service to this community via several projects and partnerships to raise awareness of avian and insect issues as well as to meet the needs of others.In addition to their traditional cookie sales in the rain, sleet and sun, the middle school students stepped out from behind the fundraising table to• aid Dodge City Community College with a major insect pollinator garden• donate American flags to bolster the patriotism already planted in the 14th Avenue Dodge City Women’s Chamber of Commerce rose garden• lead a birdhouse building workshop at Dodge City Public Library• build a website of educational resources to help reach even more people• assemble and donate bird-watching kits to the DC3 library for the public to check out• hand craft and sell jewelry, jars and greeting cardsVisit their website for complete birdhouse building instructions, educational links and photos of their achievements: gstroop60538.wixsite.com/polinator-project
How seed planted at the state fair can help nourish Kansans
In my first two years as poet laureate of Kansas, I have worked to unite the state’s agricultural roots and the literary arts.I created video poems of work by Kansas poets that featured food and fall.
Quilted for a cause
VFW Post #1714 is currently selling raffle tickets for this quilt made by Desert Storm Veteran Sarah Lauppe.
Kansas launches campaign to catch ‘boomerang’ residents to match job opportunities
Tim Carpenter Kansas Reflector MANHATTAN — Melissa McCoy grew up in southwest Kansas, graduated from Kansas State University and spent nearly a decade as a educator in Mexico City. In…
‘Flint Hills Fiddler’ celebrates the sounds of Kansas founders
Whitney HodginDodge City Globe Perhaps Kansas musicians of yore are less well known because folks in this state don’t like to toot their own horn, surmised historian and fiddler Derrick…
Weekend volunteers needed for “Wait Until Dark”
Dee SpitlerDon Steele Theater Marketing We still have need of some volunteers for this weekend and next weekend’s performances of Wait Until Dark at the Don Steele Theater June 14,…
‘If you woke up in America, you can’t complain’
Whitney HodginDodge City Globe Those were the words Air Force veteran and widow Amanda Pittman shared with the Dodge City Globe at the completion of the Memorial Day ceremony at…