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Grammy and Emmy winners Mize & Bramhall coming to Back Room
Grammy and Emmy award-winning musicians Bill Mize and Beth Bramhall will be featured in The Back Room of the Barton County Arts Center at 7 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $10 and, since seating is limited, advance reservations or tickets are encouraged, said Karen Neuforth with the Arts Council. Seats may be reserved weekday afternoons at the Arts Center, 1401 Main, Great Bend, by calling 620-792-5221 or by ...
Presbyterian Women’s Rummage Sale to be held Saturday
Presbyterian Women of Great Bend will hold their annual Rummage Sale on Saturday from 8 a.m. until noon, in the church Fellowship Hall at 24th and Washington. Funds raised by the rummage sale are contributed by Presbyterian Women to local charities and service organizations in Barton County, as well as to national and worldwide missions. Sponsors said a wide variety of minimally priced useful items in good condition will be for sale.
Annual pancake feed next Thursday, March 10
The Great Bend Noon Kiwanis Club will sponsor its 53rd-annual Pancake Day from 4-7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 10, at the Expo One Building west of Great Bend on 10th Street. Pancakes, sausage and a beverage are $3. Tickets are available in advance from any Kiwanis club member or at the door. Proceeds benefit worthy area projects throughout the year, said Kiwanis member Paul Maneth. He and Dr. Terry Turner are co-chairs ...
March 3, 2011
Great Bend Police Tuesday reports: A hit-and-run vehicle struck a parked vehicle at 1212 Garfield St. Tools were stolen during a burglary at 1600 Kansas Ave. An anonymous caller had questions about marriages to illegal immigrants. A case was taken on alleged criminal use of a financial card. An X-Box gaming system was stolen during a burglary at 2615 Lakin Ave. Great Bend Fire ...
BCC Theatre presents "Too Many Sopranos"
The BCC Theatre will present "Too Many Sopranos," a one-act student-directed opera, at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, on the stage of the Barton Community College Fine Arts Auditorium. The opera will be presented in black-box style with the audience seated onstage. The audience will enter through the stage door located in the hallway leading left from the Fine Arts Office. Students will be admitted free. Admission for the general public ...
CKMC job fair well attended
Central Kansas Medical Center employees who are facing upcoming layoffs attended a job fair on Tuesday. While it is impossible to know all the ultimate success stories that result from the CKMC job fair, Delbert Randolph saw quite a number in the making. Randolph is workforce services supervisor at KansasWorks, 1025 Main, which has been collaborating with CKMC since it first announced upcoming layoffs. Approximately 130 ...
Test not only screens, it prevents cancer
There is one difference - a big difference - between a colonoscopy and most other types of cancer screenings. During a colonoscopy, a physician can find and remove the causes of colon cancer, while other tests detect cancer that is already present. "A colonoscopy not only screens for cancer, but provides a way for us to remove the polyps that often lead to the disease," said ...
Campaign encourages screening during Colon Cancer Awareness Month
TOPEKA – More than 10 percent of all newly diagnosed cancer cases in Kansas are colon cancer. StopColonCancerNow.com/Kansas and the Kansas Association of Gastroenterologists has launched a statewide public awareness campaign for colon cancer prevention and screening and is working to improve that statistic by urging anyone 50 and older to get screened during National Cancer Awareness Month in March.
Can you say 'indoctrination?' -- Elijah Friedeman
Recently I crossed the threshold from fact-based reality into a bastion of Obama-loving denial. In other words, I went to one of the local public elementary schools.
Great tapeworm sound
Fredrik Hjelmqvist, 45, owner of an audio shop in Stockholm, demonstrated his system of broadcasting music from his stomach.
JUNIOR VARSITY
HAYS - The Hays High School girls junior varsity basketball team pulled away in the each quarter to lead, but never by more than three points against Great Bend on Friday night.
Struggling Aggies turn season around
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) - Texas A&M had dropped three in a row, including two straight at home, and the Aggies saw their once-promising season slipping away.
NY Giants owner Mara joins league labor discussions
WASHINGTON (AP) - The New York Giants' John Mara joined the NFL group negotiating with the players' union Tuesday, the first team owner to participate since a federal mediator began overseeing the talks.
Jayhawks fans to say goodbye to seniors tonight
By DOUG TUCKER AP Sports Writer LAWRENCE (AP) - Without the Tyrel Reeds and the Brady Morningstars of the world, it would be nearly impossible for any college basketball team to be truly exceptional. Including No. 2 Kansas. There simply aren't enough NBA-bound superstars to go around. Lottery picks Cole Aldrich and Xavier Henry and the spectacular Morris twins have dominated headlines the past two seasons while Kansas rang up a 60-5 record. But for ...
ROUND ONE
The Barton Community College Cougars basketball team will travel to Arkansas City to play Cowley tonight, opening NJCAA Region VI play and face another team that loves to shoot the 3.
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Five students qualify to Sems at District National Qualifying Tournament
The Great Bend High School Forensics Team competed at the District National Qualifying NFL Tournament on Friday and Saturday April 19th and 20th. Twelve students competed which consisted of: Nathaniel Cheney, Kenna Dirks, Michael Gieck, Clara Kachanes, Sarah Keller, Mallorie McNett, Jordan Otten, Chase Pumford, Jesus Sandoval, Kane Schumacher, Kameko Schultz and Paige VanSteenburgh. Five students qualified to semi-finals in their events. Cheney and Schumacher placed 12th and Gieck and Schultz placed 10th in Duo ...
Syrian Swamp
Business is Booming in Perry’s Potemkin Village
You can't change the facts of an explosion. A large fertilizer factory operated next to homes, a middle school and a nursing home. The factory blew, and 14 people died. We can't change those facts, but it's up to us to decide what they mean.
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Nation
As Mother's Day approaches, the political scene makes me think of an old spiritual: "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child."
Charles A. "Jack" Wesley 1949 - 2013
Charles A. "Jack" Wesley, 63, died April 30 at Great Bend Regional Hospital.
Larned Correctional honors top quarterly employees
LARNED - The Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility has named Employees of the Quarter for the second quarter of the year 2013 - Tanner Lang, Uniformed, CSI; Miranda Schmidt, Non-Uniformed, Administrative Assistant; RuthAnn Snodgrass, Contract, LMSW-MHP.
Appreciation dinner held at Welcome Inn
LARNED - A Volunteer Appreciation Dinner was held April 25 at the Welcome Inn with about 40 in attendance.
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