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The Flint Hills Community Band will give a concert in Cottonwood Falls Swope Park in conjunction with a flag retirement ceremony at 8 p.m., on Sunday, June 14. If anyone has a flag that needs to be retired, please bring it with you to the concert.

We are thinking of our nearby neighbors in Herington and Woodbine who were pelted by Wednesday night’s tornadic storm. - One of two Washunga buttons in the Washunga Button hunts has been located. Congratulations to Shawna Davis and Nicole Shepard for finding the first button.

Flint Hills Rural Electric Cooperative has been awarded funding for a pole and line replacement project as part of a statewide infrastructure investment announced by Gov. Laura Kelly.

Cooper Blackledge did not set out at first to become a tattoo artist, but several parts of his life now seem to point in that direction. Blackledge, a 2020 graduate of Council Grove High School, has opened Graveyard Ink Tattoos at 206 W.

Pastor Reichart is happily married and the father of two adult children. He received a Master of Divinity at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, IN and has served in the ministry for 23 years, all in Kansas.

1976 Patty Cunningham is awarded Trembly scholarship for Emporia State College…Susan Buchman, Burdick, places on spring semester honor roll at Fort Hays State College… Chris Bowen strikes out 10 when Pee Wee Blues defeat Dwight. 1986 Jeff Houck, Bushong, places second in boys’ cutting horse competition at Kansas High School Rodeo Association and qualifies for National High School Rodeo in Rapid City, SD…Lyn Scott, a former Morris County 4-H member, to spend nine months in China through IFYE program.

The incorrect Fellowship Menus for next week were provided for Wednesday’s edition. The correct ones are: Monday – Polish dog on bun with kraut, tater tots, peaches, cookie.

Flag Day is a celebration of the American flag that occurs each year on June 14, the anniversary of the flag’s official adoption. What we know fondly as the “Stars and Stripes” was adopted by the Continental Congress as the official American flag on June 14, 1777, during the Revolutionary War.

Area students named to the Emporia State University honor roll are: Mija Carlson and Ella Kirk, Council Grove; Jessica Mascareno, Avery Monnnington and Kelcy Welsh, Herington; and Alyssa Wilmore, White City.

Deb Andres, Family & Consumer Sciences agent, is offering food preservation classes later this summer where people can learn the newest processes and about programmable technology with home food preservation.