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College study is open to all
Dear Editor, When the idea was introduced by the Great Bend Jaycees to bring a college to Barton County more than 50 years ago, business leaders quickly got behind that idea. In fact, the Great Bend Jaycees were comprised of young business leaders. The two steering committees that followed in order to study the college concept in the 1960s were mostly comprised of area business leaders. As community members, they were deeply committed to bringing ...
Many helped with program
Dear Editor, I would like to thank the citizens of Great Bend for the nice turn out for our Disabled American Veterans Memorial Day program. I would especially like to give thanks to everyone who helped. Your contributions were excellent. I also want to give a thumbs up to the Great Bend cemetery staff and city officials for having bleachers set up for our seniors. They were a great addition and well received by the ...
Poppy sales were a success
Dear Editor, On behalf of the American Legion, Legion Auxiliary, American Legion Riders and the SAL, we would like to thank the whole Great Bend community for their tremendous support of the American Legion Auxiliary Poppy Program. We had teams of volunteers out on Saturday of Memorial Day weekend at four locations: Orcheln's, Dillons, Walmart and True Value. Thanks to your Friday article which informed the public that we had only received 1,000 poppies, many ...
Time to honor Kansas veterans
Dear Editor, Monday marks the state's 143th annual Memorial Day celebration, a time to recognize those Kansans who lost their lives while serving our country and to celebrate the bravery of those men and women currently in uniform. As I write this note, I am attending an Army medical conference, where a number of warriors have recently returned home after fighting to save lives from the ravage of war. It's a privilege to hear their ...
It's great to be back in the heartland
Dear Editor, May 22 was undoubtedly a wonderful day for the Great Bend High School Class of 2011. It was also an amazing day for our family. Not only did we get to watch our daughter, Sophia, graduate amongst her friends, we also witnessed something that reminded us why we love our little town of Great Bend and its people so much. Tim Friess, principal of Great Bend High School, gave an incredible speech to ...
Who are you going to believe?
Dear Editor, Did you hear? It has been on TV and in several of the largest newspapers and magazines. Stephen Hawking, the famed, wheelchair-bound, British theoretical physicist, who suffers the physically debilitating motor neurone disease, has pronounced his verdict on an afterlife: it is a "fairy story for people afraid of death." When death comes, that's it; nothing more. Well now, that should settle the matter once and for all. For many it does. After ...
Doing good isn't all there is
Dear Editor, Just because someone is working for good doesn't mean his intentions are right. Glenn Beck has revealed his religious hand and has been found to be holding a full-house built upon an antichrist spirit. Glenn believes that he is doing a good work joining together leaders from many different religions in a "Black Robe Brigade" to bring about peace and a religious America. What he is doing, in an attempt to unite people ...
Now we rush to do nothing
Dear Editor, Isn't it truly amazing that the city could stall of on doing anything at all at Broadway and Harrison - for years! - and then decide to tear up the intersection, interrupt local traffic, just one week before school gets out for the year? And since they are too cheap to put up stop lights, why can't they at least put put up four-way stop signs? I have yet to hear a good ...
Get us off imported oil
Dear Editor, While running for office, President Obama promised that if elected, he would get us off OPEC oil within 10 years. Two years are gone and we still don't have a plan. In fact, there is some evidence that we're going in the wrong direction. In July, 2010, we imported 388 million barrels of oil. That's the single largest import month since President Obama was inaugurated. The NAT GAS Act will create jobs, clean ...
Public art is worth all the tax dollars
Dear Editor, To Gov: Brownback: As a former director of the Kansas Arts Commission, I'm writing to urge you to join with the legislature in supporting the mission and budget of that effective public agency. I served governors Docking and Bennett, a Democrat and a Republican, in the 1970s. The mission of the KAC, to provide opportunities for the people of Kansas to experience, celebrate and value the arts throughout their lives, has always received ...
Tax breaks don't add to employment
Dear Editor, To Edward Cross, president of Kansas Independent Oil & Gas Association, Topeka: Thanks for the morning laugh (in reference to last Tuesday's Public Forum.) With Republicans holding the future of America hostage by threatening to not raising the debt ceiling, I needed one. However, I trust an educated person such as yourself learned the following at whatever institution of higher learning you attended (hopefully not a for-profit, but that would explain everything): Businesses ...
Blood drive is Monday
Dear Editor, Thank you all for all the support this year and all who have donated so far to the American Red Cross and our life-saving mission of collecting blood. With your help, we are able to spread the word about the need for blood and help give patients another chance at life. Your support has made a significant impact on the community and the blood supply. We cannot thank you enough for helping patients ...
Thanks for giving to Lenten project
Dear Editor, Our sincere thanks go out to everybody in the community who participated in the annual Lenten congregational fund raiser for Barton County Emergency Aid: The Widow's Mite. Through your generous contributions and efforts within your congregations, this year's fund raiser has brought in over $5,500 and counting! As you know, Emergency Aid works to help residents of the Barton County communities who are experiencing financial crises, as well as providing assistance in passage ...
Legion ride planned for Friday
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Word spread quickly about a Los Angeles gas station selling premium unleaded for $1.10-a-gallon, but it wasn't a promotion. The owner says the too-good-to-be-true price was a computer glitch that cost him $21,000.
Energy policy is hurting America
Dear Editor, Congress and the White House are scrutinizing the oil and gas industry as gasoline prices rise. Caught in the middle of these misguided attacks are the small independent oil and gas producers. The American public expects progress in a number of different areas requiring Republican and Democrats to work together to create policies that are in the best interest of the American people. One area where Republicans and Democrats are expected to work ...
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Keep city safe, humane place for citizens and dogs
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