Gregory Roberts is not a Dodge City Community College recruiter, but he certainly is a valuable resource for the college and the community. He spoke at a recent meeting of the Dodge City Rotary Club on the merits of the college’s TRIO programs, which aims to send local students to college wherever their heart desires, as long as they stay in school.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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]
Here is a look at the current point standings after the June 27th events To contact the writer, email ssportsreporting@gmail.com. .