Chanute High Musicians Earn Midwestern Camp Scholarships
Two Chanute High School students win partial tuition scholarships for the Midwestern Music Camp at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Chris Conklin, a junior drummer, and Bill Merritt, a sophomore French horn player, will attend June 20 to July 17. Both are in the Stage Band Concert Band and Marching Band and seek further musical careers.
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Chanute High School
Chris Conklin
Bill Merritt
University of Kansas
Lawrence
Conklin
Robert
Karen Conklin
Merritt
Jane Merritt
Plant birth lesson through bulbs guides kids growth
Child psychologists advise using bulb gardening to teach children growth and reproduction. A Burlington Iowa couple, Carol Howe and Lynn Gorrell, married in April, illustrate family context, while parents guide children to plant, observe, and explain bulb development from planting to bloom, linking nourishment and embryo concepts.
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Carol Howe
Lynn Gorrell
West Hill Methodist Church
Burlington
Iowa
L. Robinson
Ted Gorrell
S. Western
Kansas
S. Garfield
FDA policy on diet beverages and calorie labeling
The FDA issues a general policy requiring diet beverages to carry a full ingredient list and a calorie statement per fluid ounce. Calories must be at least 50 percent lower than those of a comparable nonartificially sweetened product.
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Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Society News Schedule and Wedding Announcement Deadlines
Society notices outline deadlines for meeting summaries set at 48 hours after events and weekly calendar announcements. It specifies wedding accounts with photographs due 10 days after ceremonies and 12 days in advance of meetings for notices and society items.
Church choir presents Lightshine musical at First United Methodist
The chancel choir of the First United Methodist Church will perform Lightshine a musical interpretation of the Beattitudes at 8 30 and 10 45 a m Sunday. Six musicians including pianist Alice Robinson and 23 singers directed by Nada Dobson will be led by narrations by Russ Park.
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First United Methodist Church
Alice Robinson
Nada Dobson
Russ Park
Planning cuts vacation costs
Lois D. Carlson advises careful pretrip planning to curb vacation spending. She estimates car travel at about five dollars per hundred miles, explains lodging varies by destination, and suggests budgeting roughly twelve dollars daily for adult meals with flexible eating on the road.
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Lois D. Carlson
Neosho County
Bethesda Nursing Center Hosts Nursing Home Week Activities
Bethesda Nursing Center announces a week of events starting Sunday to celebrate National Nursing Home Week. An open house runs 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday. Activities include bingo with prizes on Monday, Royster Junior High musicians on Tuesday, May birthdays on Wednesday, church services on Thursday, Dorothy Barfoot on Friday, and a front lawn picnic Saturday.
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Bethesda Nursing Center
Bethesda
Debbie Laurent
Royster Junior High
Bill Roberts
Laurent
Dorothy Barfoot
Humboldt
Engagement vows set for Debra Wilbanks and Harold Lassman
Debra K. Wilbanks daughter of Mr and Mrs Jesse Wilbanks of 512 S West View and Harold E Lassman Jr son of Mr and Mrs Harold Lassman Humboldt plan to wed Friday at the Christian Church. The bride a Chanute High School graduate attended Neosho County Community College and works for Dr Jack Lowe. Lassman a Humboldt High School graduate now farms near Savonburg.
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Debra K. Wilbanks
Jesse Wilbanks
S. Westview
Harold E
Sonny” Lassman, Jr
Christian Church
Chanute High School
Neosho County Community Junior College
Jack Lowe
Lassman
Harold E. Lassman
Humboldt
Humboldt High School
Iola Junior College
Savonburg
Homemaker Units Receive Awards At Spring Tea
About 200 Extension Homemaker Unit members and friends gathered for the county wide Spring Tea at St. Paul. Guest speaker Mrs Walter Anthony showcased 60 bells from her 1 300 piece collection and highlighted the new county needlepoint tapestry. Gold and blue unit seals honored 1975 work. first place certificates went to Progressive Homemakers in multiple categories. art and needlework winners were Nadine Smith Theresa Smith and others.
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St. Paul
Walter Anthony
Fort Scott
Grace Kibler
Arletta Hanson
Betty Knapp
Nadine Smith
Theresa Smith
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Society News
Debra Wilbanks, Sonny Lassman
Madelyn Brune
Betty Lubbers
Dorthea Ferguson
Chanute
Weight Watchers Center
W. Elm, Chanute
W. Douglas
Wichita
Weight Watchers
Weight Watchers International, Inc
Manhassett, N.Y
Weight Watchers International
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