Dodge City USD 443 Board of Education members Tammie West, Traci Rankin, Jaymey Lewis-Gonzales, Ryan Ausmus, Miss Kansas Ayanna Hensley, Lisa Killion, Jeff Hiers, Jerad Goertzen and Superintendent Fred Dierksen at its June 27 meeting. Miss Kansas is a 2019 DCHS graduate. “I don’t think I would have accomplished this without USD 443 and your partnership with DCCC,” Hensley said. “Keep doing what you’re doing.” [PHOTO BY Kerri Baker/USD 443]
It is time to get this column written and on its way. Although the mercury on the thermometer is already up to 79 degrees, a breeze is coming in the windows. Yesterday was different and much warmer, and there was less breeze with higher humidity.
This is day 10 of the Kansas Wheat Harvest Reports, brought to you by the Kansas Wheat Commission, Kansas Association of Wheat Growers and the Kansas Grain and Feed Association. With scattered rain showers streaking through Kansas, farmers are not only cutting wheat when they can, but also dedicating manpower to spraying wheat stubble to address weed emergence.
This is day 11 of the Kansas Wheat Harvest Reports, brought to you by the Kansas Wheat Commission, Kansas Association of Wheat Growers and the Kansas Grain and Feed Association. The Kansas wheat harvest is officially over halfway done, well ahead of the normal harvest pace, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service in the weekly Crop Progress and Condition report.
Do you like taking pictures, or maybe you are crafty, like to paint or recycle things like pallets? During the Ford County Fair, any Ford County resident can enter the open class special contests, including a photo contest with the theme “Earth, Wind and Fire,” a barn quilt block contest and recycled pallet contests.
A few years ago, while out cruising the backroads near Inman, we discovered a group of blue heron nests high in trees along the river. We stop by each spring to check on them and to marvel at the almost comical sight of great blue herons standing tall in the middle of hodge-podge collections of twigs and leaves in the top of cottonwood trees. We checked on them just recently, and they are there again this year. I’m reminded of a funny conversation I had with a nursing home resident a couple years before I retired.
Kansas attorney general candidate Tony Mattivi said Monday allowing teachers with firearm training to voluntarily carry inside school classrooms should be part of an effective defense against gunmen intent on mass murder.
Southwind at Spearville, a new option for long term care and assisted living services in a small home setting, is now accepting referrals and applications for elders seeking skilled nursing and longterm care services.
United States Senate Mike Andra – D, of Wichita Michael Soetaert – D, of Alta Vista Joan Farr – R, of Derby Robert Klingenberg – D, of Salina Mark R. Holland – D, of Kansas City Jerry Moran – R, of Manhattan Paul Buskirk – D, of Lawrence Patrick Wiesner – D, of Overland Park United State House of Representatives District 1 Tracey Mann – R, of Salina James “Jimmy” Beard – D, of Garden City Governor Laura Kelly/David Toland –D, of Topeka Richard S.
TOPEKA, Kansas — A state already gearing up for voters to decide whether to strike abortion rights from the Kansas Constitution reacted with both glee and dismay at the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the 49-year-old Roe v. Wade precedent on Friday.