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Annual dinner meeting

?Once again, the Rawlins County Historical Society is looking forward to its annual dinner meeting to be held Saturday, March 27 at the Masonic Temple.
The featured program for this year’s meeting will be “One Picture at a Time,” presented by Julie Hafner. This program will focus on early Herndon life and times right up to the present.
Dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m., and the program will begin at 7:30 p.m. Please RSVP to the museum by noon, March 22. Jan Crouse and Ruth Holste will cater the event and the price will be $15. Historical Society memberships will be available that evening. The program will be open to the public, as always.

Engagement announcement

Patricia and Jim Leisure of Bird City and Jeff Felzien of St. Petersburg, Fla., announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Shellie, to Travis Carroll, son of Tom and Kathy Carroll of Atwood.
The bride-elect is a 2004 graduate of Cheylin High School. She is a 2009 graduate of Colby Community College with an associate’s degree in nursing. She is the case manager at the Good Samaritan Society in Atwood.
The prospective groom is a 2003 graduate of Atwood High School. He is employed as a butcher at his family’s business, Ben-Lee Processing, in Atwood.
An April 10 wedding is planned at the Historical Church in Atwood. The couple will reside in rural Atwood after the wedding.

50th anniversary

The children of Roy and Mary Draper of Atwood are honoring the couple with a card shower for their 50th wedding anniversary. Roy Draper and Mary Plymesser were married March 18, 1960. Greetings will reach them at 505 S. 7th, Atwood, KS 67730.

Event to honor Smiths on 50th

Richard “Dick” and Virginia Smith are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary.
Friends are invited to a potluck supper at 5:30 p.m., Sunday, March 14 at the Skyline Ballroom in Atwood.

Card Shower

Hattie Toth of Atwood will celebrate her 99th birthday March 18 and her family wishes to honor her with a card shower. Greetings will reach Hattie at the Oberlin Good Samaritan Center, Room 112, 108 E. Ash, Oberlin, KS 67749.

Atwood to host Singing Quakers

????The Singing Quakers choir of Friends University will present their “At Home on the Range” tour concert at 3 p.m., Sunday, March 14 at Rawlins County High School.
This concert will be sponsored by Western Plains Arts Association, with admission by season ticket or at the door, $10 for adults and $5 for students K-12.

Tumbleweed Chorus
tickets now on sale

????The Tumbleweed Chorus of Colby will hold their 2010 annual show at 3:30 and 7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 27 in the Cultural Arts Center of Colby Community College.
The Tumbleweed Chorus will present their show, “Malt Shop Barbershop,” with the help of Prairie Rose Harmony, a local ladies’ chorus singing a capella four-part harmony.
The Tumbleweed Chorus invites all to share the excitement and sound of “Malt Shop Barbershop” and Acoustix. Ticket prices are $10 in advance or $12 at the door. Tickets may be purchased from local chorus members Ted Kastens, Adam Ketterl, Steve Ottem, Floyd Trail, Jeremy Wahrman or Florence Antholz, who is a member of Prairie Rose Harmony.

Cheylin to host
1st annual e-ship fair

?The First Annual Cheylin Entrepreneurship Fair will be held Tuesday, March 23 at the Cheylin High School gymnasium.
There are 16 participants, grades 7 through 12, writing business plans and creating a project model to present to judges, classes and the public.
Students will be judged on their business plan, product knowledge, marketing ideas, product and financial feasibility, commitment to rural economy/lifestyle and verbal presentation. Participants have a chance to win awards of $500, $300 or $200.
The public is invited to attend the fair and enjoy refreshments while visiting with the students between 9:30 and 10:30 a.m., as well as visiting the tables of resource partners.
At 10:30 a.m., Val Riess, a Weskan entrepreneur, will be speaking. The morning ends with the presentation of award winners at 11 a.m
For more information, contact the Bird City Century II Development Foundation office at 785-734-2556 or email info@birdcity.com.

Death Notices

?LAURENCE ESCHER – A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated March 8 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Herndon for Laurence L. Escher, 87, who died March 4 at the Good Samaritan Center in Oberlin. Fr. Stephen Folorunso was celebrant. Interment was in St. Mary’s Cemetery.
Survivors include his children, Patricia and husband, Terry Scheve, of Hays; Rita Escher and husband, Steve Simon, of Reno, Nev., David Escher and wife, Deb, of Reno, Nev., and Jerome Escher and wife, Debbie, of McCook, Neb.; his sister, Rosemary and husband, Jerome Bates, of Aurora, Colo.; nine grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be given in his name to St. Mary’s Church in Herndon or the Good Samaritan Center in Oberlin.

N. JAY GRIFFITH – ?Funeral services were held March 6 at the United Methodist Church for Norman Jay Griffith, 88, who died at the Sheridan County Health Complex in Hoxie, Kan., March 3, 2010.
Survivors include two sons, Michael Griffith and wife, Jane, of Atwood and Charles W. Griffith of Clayton, Kan.; one sister, Joy and husband, Sam Chapman, of Liberty, Mo.; five grandchildren; other relatives and friends.
Memorials to Clayton United Methodist Church and the Clayton Cemetery have been established in his name.
Enfield Funeral Home of Norton was in charge of arrangements.

Open house to honor couple

?Robbin and Michelle Antholz are inviting friends to meet their son, Austin’s, bride, Joanie, and her son, Kyle, at an open house from 2 to 4 p.m., Friday, March 19 at the American Legion Hall in McDonald.

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