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Shoe drive for the needy to start Saturday
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Published: Oct 30, 2014, 9:03 PM

Tena Westenhaver of Great Bend is kicking off her Soles4Souls Shoe Drive from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at her home, 1801 VanBuren. This is just the first effort in her year-long campaign to collect 25,000 pairs of shoes the Soles for Souls organization can distribute to the needy and victims of disasters.
If she meets her goal, she will earn a mission trip to Haiti, she said. Even though she has times set Saturday, donors can drop off shoes at house anytime.
That leads to another issue – storage. Westenhaver is also looking for someone to donate space for her to stash contributions.
For more information, call her at 620-282-4502.
Groundbreaking Work: Streetscape, daycare among GBED projects
Innovation Center site work starts
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Excavators are doing groundwork at the site of the Great Bend Innovation Center on Farmers Plaza Lane, just off 10th and K-96 and across the street from the new Bright Beginnings daycare center. - photo by photo by Susan Thacker/Great Bend Tribune
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Published: Apr 4, 2025, 8:04 PM
With groundwork going on at the future site of the Innovation Center on Farmer’s Plaza off of 10th St., Great Bend Economic Development Executive Director Sara Arnberger updated Great Bend Chamber members on several of the organization’s projects Thursday during a Chamber Coffee.
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