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Monday Great Bend Optimist - noon at the Highland Hotel Heritage Room Great Bend Rotary - noon at the Highland Hotel South Heritage Room Order of Eastern Star Great Bend #226 - 7:30 p.m. at the Masonic Lodge in Hoisington Barton County Cancer Initiative, Inc. - noon at CPI Annex Tuesday Pilot Club - noon at The Club at Stoneridge. Program meeting Noon Lions Club - noon at the Highland Hotel Wednesday Kiwanis - noon ...
Great Bend Junior Rotarians
Great Bend Rotary recognized this year's Junior Rotarians at a luncheon on Monday. Two students are selected each month during the school year from Great Bend High School Seniors. These students are given the opportunity to attend weekly meetings with Rotary to learn about the organization as well as the community through a variety of special presenters. Rotary also presented Louis Burley with a $500 Junior Rotarian scholarship.
Benefit the land, secure your future
May is American Wetlands Month and was created in 1991 by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its federal, state, tribal, local, non-profit, and private sector partners to celebrate the vital importance of wetlands to the Nation's ecological, economic, and social health and to educate Americans about the value of wetlands as a natural resource.
Local student named Governor’s Scholar
At the invitation of Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, Katelyn Zink of Quivira Heights High School, Bushton, was selected to attend the 28th Annual Governor's Scholars Awards Program on May 1, in Topeka.
Lenora Margaret Hutton (Budig) 80th
Lenora Margaret Hutton (Budig), will celebrate her 80th birthday from 1 to 4 p.m. on May 22 with a surprise "Come and Go" reception at 608 E. Lakeview Drive in Barton Hills.
Viegra 25th
Tim and Sonya Viegra will celebrate their 25th anniversary at 5 p.m. on May 15 with a reception at the Community Christian Church, 253 NE 30 Road, just east of the college. The couple requests no gifts.
Preceptor Pi meeting
Preceptor Pi Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi met May 10 at the home of Judy Krebaum, who also served as co-hostess. President Brenda Black led the meeting.
More than 2,800 students eligible for graduation from K-State
More than 2,800 students are set to graduate from Kansas State University in ceremonies this spring.
Silver Circle Honor
Janis Link, member of Preceptor Pi Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi, was honored by her chapter with the Silver Circle Ceremony in April, recognizing her for 25 years of membership in Beta Sigma Phi. She will serve as president of her chapter for 2011-12.
Roto-Mix new president
Current President Rod Neier today named Mike Hilderbrand as the new incoming President for Roto-Mix, LLC. Neier will now assume the position of CEO and will continue to be a vital presence within the organization. "After conducting an extensive search, we were pleased to find the right team member to help lead us to the next level." commented Neier.
Forty-one students join Mortar Board chapter
Forty-one students were inducted as members of the Ichabod Chapter of the National Senior Honor Society of Mortar Board at Washburn University. Also inducted as honorary members were William Beteta, executive director, Heartland VIsioning, and Rick Ellis, director, Center for Community Service and professor, School of Applied Studies.
Dr. Victor Martin
This week's article returns to reducing tillage and crop rotations, specifically what broadleaf crops can we rotate with our traditional dryland crops of wheat, grain sorghum and corn. And what will it take for a crop to be successful in our area. While choices may seem limited, over the next decade options should expand to include choices suited to the climate of the area. What is driving the process is the increasing role of agriculture ...
University of Kansas School of Pharmacy Grads
Fifth-year students at the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy made the transition from student to pharmacist on April 26, when they officially donned their white coats.
The National Society of Collegiate Scholars welcomes Micca Schneider as a new member
Micca Schneider of Great Bend, has accepted membership in The National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS). Micca will be honored during an Induction Convocation this fall on the campus of The University of Kansas.
The commencement address you’ll never hear
Matt Keenan commentary As high school seniors across the county look forward to graduation, The Star brings you a reader favorite column from last spring. This is the time of year where 18-year-olds sit through long lectures delivered by school board presidents and the like. Officially, it's "high school graduation." Unofficially, it's "death by boredom." The speeches go like this: "Today you start off on a new journey, where you spread your wings, can be ...
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Obama and the Media: Biting the Hand that Feeds Him
Since the Obama administration has confessed to spying on journalists at the Associated Press and Fox News, have you noticed there are more stories about the Obama scandals in the news?
What Is a Journalist?
As amateur news hounds gain power and influence through social media, the definition of "journalist" has ripened for philosophical debate. But now it's becoming a legal issue – one that could hamper efforts to protect the news profession at the very time federal lawmakers are awakening to the need to do so.
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