Pottawatomie Creek Watershed District advances flood control progress
The Pottawatomie Creek Watershed District No. 90 plans its 16th annual meeting on March 26 at Garnett Public Library to elect two directors and review finances. District manager Lynn Webker cites state funding covering about 70 percent of dam costs, with landowners paying 10 percent, and notes 35.7 percent of the district’s area will be runoff controlled once all 118 detention dams are complete.
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Diane Yeamans Lane
Joe Alexander
Archer
Garnett Public Library
W. 4Th
Lynn Webker
State Conservation Commission
Soil Conservation Service
Coffey County
Pottawatomie Creek
Marais Des Cygnes
Sac Creek
Pottawatomie
Webker
Garnett
Tom Benton
Art Jackman
Dale Fooshee
Carl Sobba
Farm Bureau leader promotes ag issues in Washington visit
Joyce Wasmund of Franklin County Farm Bureau and 140 peers lobbied March 9 to 12 in D C on Farm Credit System reform and international trade. She met aides from 18 congressional offices and Kansas lawmakers while backing a 0.92 program for wheat deficiency payments and urging federal backing for Farm Credit System reforms. The trip highlighted Aggie Mae Farm Mac as a secondary mortgage option and praised GATT talks advancing agricultural trade with Uruguay.
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Diane Yeamans
Joyce Wasmund
Franklin County Farm Bureau
Leroy
Washington, D.C
Farm Bureau
Wasmund
Kansas
Dole, Kassebaum
Whittaker
Roberts
KFB
Doyle Rahies
Agriculture
Richard Lyng
Frank Naylor
Farm Credit
Naylor
FCS
Aggie Mae
Farmer Mac
U.S
Uruguay
United States
4-H Essay Contest Eyes Arabian Gelding Prize
Kansas 4-H youth ages 7 to 18 may enter a 100 word essay for a chance to win an Arabian gelding at the Kansas State Fair. Essays must cover why they want the horse plans for keeping and training and what 4-H means to them with a leader recommendation and past projects list. Contested in three ages groups 7-10 11-14 and 15-18. Twenty finalists invited to Kansas Arabian Horse Show May 21-24 at the Kansas Coliseum Wichita.
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Kansas
Kansas Arabian and
Half Arabian Horse Clubs
Kansas Coliseum
Wichita
Farm Bureau Leaders from Franklin County Attend Hutchinson Conference
Manhattan residents Mark and Kitti Weigand and Joe and Brenda Stinson represented Franklin County at the Kansas Farm Bureau Young Farmers and Ranchers Leaders Conference in Hutchinson. About 200 young farmers attended the three day event focusing on international agriculture, the 1985 Food Security Act, marketing, finance, safety and alternative incomes.
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Manhattan
Mark
Kitti Weigand
Joe
Brenda Stinson
Franklin County
Kansas Farm Bureau Young Farmers and Ranchers Leaders
Hutchinson
Local photographers attend Heart of America Convention in Omaha
Photographers Bill and Carol Wright of 401 S Main and Ron and Linda Clevenger of Ron's Studio 2248 Maple attended a four day four state Heart of America Convention for photography in Omaha Nebraska. Clevenger earned two honorable mentions among 800 prints in a competition. The Wrights also joined a March 3 photography seminar in Kansas City where Charles J Lewis spoke on creativity high tech posing and lighting.
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Heart of America
Omaha
Neb
Bill
Carol Wright
Ron
Linda Clevenger
Clevenger
Wrights
Kansas City
Charles J. Lewis
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