Garden Club hoping to interest new members

"How did you become interested in gardening and flowers?" This question was asked by Nancy Swafford to kick start a rush of memories by the 14 members of Great Bend Garden Club during their November meeting. From requirements to weed the family garden patch before being allowed to go swimming as a child, to making hollyhock ladies, to watching a mother grow whole new plants from just a leaf from an existing African violet or a branch from an existing bushy plant, to resurrecting geraniums which had hung and dried over the winter in a garage, to having a father ...

Correction: Thread Benders now meet at Heartland Community Church

The location for the Central Kansas Thread Benders meetings was incorrect in Sunday's club calendar. The group now meets at the Heartland Community Church in the Village Mall at 4907 10th St. This week members will make pot holders for Heartland Community Church at 9 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 17. There will be a business meeting and presentation on the Golden Plains Quilts of Valor at 1 p.m.

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Sunday

Election officer to speak at LWV

League of Women Voters of Great Bend will meet at noon on Tuesday at Classic Inn.

Pilot International celebrates Care and Kindness Week

Pilot International and local Pilot Clubs around the globe and right like here in Great Bend, recognize the second week in November as International Care & Kindness Week, an awareness campaign meant to bring awareness to how simple acts can change a day, a life or the world by simply showing someone you care.

Progress Club meeting

The Progress Club met on Nov. 6. Darcy Leech spoke on her experience of surviving and thriving in a family with genetic disease.

Gifts from Godmothers continue

The Prairie Godmothers, a group of "women helping women" in Barton County, wanted to give an extra blessing to the women that have already been helped this past year. The board met Nov. 7 at the Golden Belt Community Foundation office and agreed to further help those women this holiday season with gift cards to Ellinwood Packing Plant. Women can treat themselves and their families to a variety of meats, cheeses, pies, and sweets.

Prairie Godmothers offer 'Sparkles & Spirits'

Current and prospective Prairie Godmothers are invited to a holiday cocktail party to benefit The Prairie Godmother Funds in celebration of #GivingTuesday. "Sparkles & Spirits" will be held from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14, at Renue Salon & Spa, 1405 Main Street, Great Bend. Drop off a monetary donation and stay if you can for complimentary hors-d'oeuvres, festive desserts and holiday spirits. No reservation necessary.

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Monday

Habben will speak at API Kansas

API Kansas will meet on Wednesday at StoneRidge Country Club. Social hour will begin at 6 p.m. followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. Troy Habben of Wellhead Systems from Edmond, Okla., will speak at 7 p.m.

Dictionaries for students

Preceptor Pi gives to Birthright and Dolly Parton Imagination Library

Preceptor Pi Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi chose Birthright as one of its October service projects. Members brought diapers to the October meetings to be donated to Birthright.

Odd Fellows lodge celebrates 145th anniversary

Valley Lodge No. 95 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows celebrated its 145th anniversary Thursday night, Oct. 19, with a special dinner and meeting. The members of the Great Bend lodge were joined by brothers from St. John Lodge No. 539 and Jr. Past Grand Master Richard McDiffett from Pratt Lodge No. 248. During the meeting, the minutes from their very first meeting on July 31, 1872, were read, acknowledging that they received a dispensation from the Grand Lodge of Kansas to form a lodge. The first officers of Valley Lodge No. 95 were Noble Grand Emery Barris, Vice ...

Gift to Makinna Ann Hope Foundation

Young Eagle Day offers kids free airplane rides

ELLSWORTH - Smoky Hill EAA Chapter No. 1127 will host a Young Eagle Day on Saturday Nov. 4, at the Ellsworth airport. Young people age 8 to 17 are welcome to experience a demonstration flight in an airplane. The flights are provided free of charge to any youth wishing to participate.

Autism workshop was a success

Pilot Club of Great Bend hosted an Autism Spectrum Disorders Workshop Saturday, April 7. It was a successful event which was well attended and Pilots ...

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Monday

Alpha Kappa Master meeting

LARNED - Members of the Alpha Kappa Master chapter met at 2 p.m. April 9 at the home of Alice Clapsaddle for high tea.