How many First Ladies can you identify?

I have always found it interesting how an event, an unexpected happening, etc., can trigger our memory and take us back a bit in time.

Potato beetles can do severe damage

Newly Planted StrawberriesDuring the first year, strawberries rely on adequate soil moisture for survival, root development and formation of runners and fruit buds. Provide about one-inch of water per week during the growing season and up to twoinches per week in July and August.

New theatre opens with ‘Robin Hood’

25 Years Ago May 19 - 25, 1999Heidi Beggs and Becky Myers, Columbus Unified High School juniors, were selected to attend the Sunflower Girls’ State at the University of Kansas.

Collection of believers makes church

It is referred to by many names, that collection of believers who make up the institution designated as the church (Acts 2:46-47). These are the ones who have been called out of darkness (Colossians 1:13).

New ‘East Town Booster’s Club’ formed

Extracted from Newspapers at the Genealogy Library25 Years Ago May 12 - 18, 1999State Representative Doug Gatewood presented a Kansas Flag to Debbie Messer, local Girl Scout Service Unit Leader, and Betty Schoech, Girl Scout Service Unit treasurer and building chairman for the new addition to the...

God is with us through all life’s stages

Read Deuteronomy 31:6-8It’s that time of year again. High schools, middle schools, elementary, and colleges are graduating someone to the next level. Many this month are moving from one grade to the next.Others are leaving schooling and heading for the workforce.

Healthy living can aid dementia, heart health

Avoiding early onset dementiaAccording to the Health and Retirement Survey, around half a million Americans may be contending with early-onset dementia. Now, a new study reveals that some of the risk factors that can lead to the devastating diagnosis are modifiable - and you can slash your risk.

Technology has improved healthcare

Technology has come a long way in the past 200 years. The telegraph was invented in 1837 and made rapid long-range communication possible. Messages could be sent around the world through a series of connected wires. The telegraph had medical applications in the Civil War.

Meriwethers meet President Nixon

Extracted from Newspapers at the Genealogy Library25 Years Ago May 12 - 18, 1999State Representative Doug Gatewood presented a Kansas Flag to Debbie Messer, local Girl Scout Service Unit Leader, and Betty Schoech, Girl Scout Service Unit treasurer and building chairman for the new addition to the...

Coins have interesting evolution

This week we will learn about a couple of coins made in limited quantities in the colonies during the American Revolution.The first is the New Hampshire Copper coin.