There is a lot happening in Great Bend this month. “There is something for everyone this month,” Community Coordinator Christina Hayes said. “Come experience something different.”
She’s right. It hasn’t been dubbed Melting Pot Month for nothing.
Two Saturdays ago was the Mad About Monarchs butterfly tagging event at the Kansas Wetlands Education Center that drew 150 folks, half of them being children and half adults. This Saturday was the city’s Party in the Park at Veterans Memorial Park, and the Sunflower Rod and Custom Association Summit Points at the Great Bend Expo Complex dragstrip
Next weekend features the Benefit Bull Ride at the Expo Complex in Building III, the Big Bend Bike Rally with motorcross and the Great Bend Renaissance Faire at the Great Bend Brit Spaugh Zoo.
At the Great Bend Chamber of Commerce Coffee Thursday morning, Hayes outlined all that was going on and had to stop an take a breathe before she could finish.
Sadly, there is a nay-saying contingent of the local population that doesn’t want anything to succeed. They see the negative side of everything, and, in fact, run down efforts to make the community a better place.
Hayes, the City of Great Bend and all the entities that are involved in Melting Pot Month have worked really hard to make these events happen. They are all to be commended for their efforts.
Perhaps if those who sit back on their couches and take pot shots at progress got off their duffs and took part, they might see things differently.
Sure, our community has its challenges. But at least those responsible these special activities are making an effort to make things better.
Dale Hogg