Ziggie's Cafe, located at 2711 N. Broadway, will open for business at 6 a.m. on Friday. The new restaurant occupies the former Bamboo Palace building.
American Red Cross will conduct a blood drive from 1 to 6:30 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday at the First Church of the Nazarene.
Theme will be “Rock and Roll Up Your Sleeves,” and donors will receive a special rocker-style T-shirt. They will also have an opportunity to win “Second Helping,” an authentic Lynyrd Skynyrd platinum album.
Girard High School class of 1960 gathered June 13 at the Madison House, Girard, for its 48-year class reunion.
The evening was planned and hosted by Judy (Kennedy) Hoagland and Mary Ann (Rowe) Wilson.
Bea Martel, right, Sunflower Kiwanis Club scholarship chairman, awarded $500 scholarships to two students who will attended Pittsburg State University in the fall. Zack Fields, center, is a PSU sophomore majoring in Spanish and photojournalism. He is currently secretary of Circle K at PSU and is the club’s newsletter editor. At left is Johnna Foster, 2008 Pittsburg High School graduate, who plans to major in biology and photojournalism at PSU. Sunflower Kiwanis provided PSU scholarships for the last several years. They are financed through club service projects such as the monthly aluminum can collection and a food booth at PSU football games.
Two special programs are planned Wednesday at the Arma City Library. Both will be open free to the public.
Theme of the summer children’s reading program is “Catch the Reading Bug,” and in keeping with this, the library will host an exhibit of insects from the Sedgwick County Zoo at 10:30 a.m.
Michael Bicknell, master of Pittsburg Masonic Lodge No. 187, has announced final selection of Frontenac and Pittsburg High School musicians for the 2008 Kansas Masonic All-State High School Band.
Selection is made on the basis of musical ability, instrument needs of the proposed band, timely application and other issues.
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Retired City Employees Group held a bi-monthly meeting on June 7.
Attending were Joe Adams, Birdie Askins, Peggy Bennett, George Crawford, Pat Cronister, Mary Kiel, Helena Rhuems, Bill and Edith Scott, Georgia Stricklan and Jim and Mary Wilson.
Author Max McCoy has been notified by State Librarian Christie P. Brandau that his novel “Hellfire Canyon” has been named a 2008 Kansas Notable Book.
Formerly of Pittsburg, he is now on the faculty at Emporia State University.
Two years ago I was perusing the “New Book” shelves, not finding anything that particularly grabbed me, so I picked up “Love Walked In” which I remembered had positive reviews in several library publications. And the book grabbed me. Big time. It’s still one of my favorite all-time reads.
A benefit dinner and auction for Dale “Dirt” Westhoff will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. June 7 at the Girard American Legion.
Westhoff recently suffered a major stroke, and is in the process of recovery. Donations will help with his medical and other expenses.
Dinner, available for a free-will offering, will include pulled prok, baked beans, green beans, potato salad, slaw and desserts. Carry-out will be available.
Auction items will be displayed throughout the dinner, with the live auction beginning at 7 p.m.
The event is sponsored by friends and family, the Girard American Legion, Girard Sons of the American Legion and the Girard American Legion Auxiliary.
Donations may be brought or mailed to the Girard American Legion SAL, P.O. Box 14, Girard, Kan., 66743, or Community National Bank, 606 W. St. John, Girard, Kan., 66743.
Lawrence Hill, principal of Northeast Junior High School, has announced honor rolls for the fourth nine-week grading period and the second semester of the 2007-2008 academic year.
Students on the all A honor roll for the fourth nine-week grading period were as follows: Cole Courtney, Kasey Green, Janelle Pew, Cole Robinson and Piper Sloan, eighth grade; Tori Bastion and Brittny Neil, seventh grade; and Andrew Ashbacher, Tyler Lakey, Joseph Polhlopek and Amy Williams, sixth grade.
Four days of festivities are planned in celebration of Galena’s 131st birthday.
All programs will be free to the public. The event, sponsored by the Galena Volunteer Fire Department, will feature a performance by “Confederate Railroad” at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Saturday.
Cole Courtney and MacKenzi Tims, Northeast Junior High School eighth grade graduates, were selected by the school staff to receive American Legion Awards, sponsored by Lon Helm American Legion Post No. 182, Arma.
The annual Hallowell reunion will be held at 1 p.m. June 8 at the Cherokee County 4-H Building in Columbus. Building will open at noon.
All Hallowell residents, former residents and friends may attend. Those attending should bring a covered dish dinner and table service for their families. Tea and ice will be supplied.
Anyone needing additional information may contact Janice Zwahlen Maxton, 620-429-3678.
Senior Services Nutrition Center, 3003 N. Joplin, serves lunchtime meals which are open to any person 60 or older.
Participants are asked to make reservations for lunch one day in advance. A donation of $2 per meal is suggested.
On a day when I was wondering why no one had nominated me for a major award because I was able to get three beds stripped and cleaned and remade, a colorful and balanced supper on the table, a toddler entertained on my own from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., an entertaining column written and submitted, and a first grader taken to school with everything he needed and brought home with nothing that he didn't, I received this in my inbox.
At picnics, cookouts, tailgates, and reunions alike, it's the main dishes that typically take center stage - heck, I know a lot of male cooks that believe meat is all that's required.
But like supporting actors and actresses in major motion pictures, the side dishes play an important role in rounding out a meal. Try one of these at your next event to make it a memorable one worthy of an Oscar.
Cockerill/Foxtown-Union Schools Association will meet July 19 in the Franklin Community Center-Heritage Museum.
This event, held every two years, will be open to all individuals who attended Cockerill High School, Cockerill Elementary School or Foxtown-Union Elementary School, their relatives and guests, former staff of these schools and their relatives and guests.
With events and proclamations scheduled in cities across the nation, this week is being recognized as the 9th Annual National Women's Health Week.
Organizers say such an observance is what women need, because it empowers them to get healthy by taking action.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Due to a writer's error, the notes taken from a source were published as Monday, April 28, 2008's What Women Need. Andra Bryan Stefanoni was not the author of that story. Below is the intended story.
Among married couples, women still do 63 percent of the household work, dedicating an average of 16 hours per week to household tasks such as cleaning, according to findings last year by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
