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Senior Activities

Tuesday

Senior Menu

The following well-balanced and nutritious Friendship Meals will be served for lunch at the Great Bend Senior Center, 2005 Kansas Ave. Meals are served with milk; donations for coffee and tea are accepted.

Special Needs Calendar

Tuesday

Jordyn Buntain to receive nursing degree

Jordyn Buntain, Great Bend, is a candidate to receive a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree at Washburn University commencement exercises at 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 13 in Lee Arena, Petro Allied Health Center. Graduates will also be honored during a recognition and pinning ceremony at 3:30 p.m. the same day at White Concert Hall.

Dec. 6 concert at FHSU will feature wind instruments

Christmas, lamentation, October air and memory will express themselves musically at Fort Hays State University's first concert in December.

BMI Philanthropy Committee donation

Different distribution system

The image of Mom with her nose buried in the front page, Dad reading the sports page and the kids chuckling their way through the comics, harkens back to long ago days when news exposure in the home was a family affair. Sections of the daily paper were shared just like the space around the glow of the round radio dial and later the television set.

Thanksgiving and Taking

Oprah, Take Off Those Black-and-White Glasses

Come on, Oprah.

The Fifties Ended on November 22, 1963

We humans like to divide time into neat little boxes based on dates, but the case can be made that the styles, policies, manners and mores of one ten-year period usually spill over into the next.

Soil pH

With the growing season over, it's time to put your feet up and relax, right? There are no weeds to pull, or watering to be done. The harvest is in, and now it's time to enjoy a little down time. Well, maybe not just yet. There is still some time to treat your soils and do a little preparation for next spring. In Barton County, we have a pretty high Ph. We can't be sure what your soil Ph is without a soil test. The range for most of this area is from 7.1 all the ...

Study shows health care impact

A good local health care system may itself be part of the prescription for maintaining a healthy rural economy.

Pilot Club presents certificate

Kansas Wheat Commissioners Travel to Peru for Conference

Marketing Kansas-grown wheat to world buyers includes not only a quality and consistent crop, but strong relationships with those who buy it. For these reasons and more, sales of hard red winter wheat to Latin America have increased significantly in marketing year 2013/2014 with year to date sales to Central and South America at 5.33 MMT.

All about dance: WinterDance 2013 Dec. 5-7 at Mark A. Chapman Theatre

Kansas State University's WinterDance 2013 will feature ballet, modern, jazz, tap, a new West African social dance and more.