With a backdrop of excited elementary school students looking on, members of the Unified School District 408 Board of Education broke ground Thursday morning for the new gymnasium and indoor swimming it will construct as part of a larger, $8 million building program. Hutton Construction of Wichita is the general contractor. Pictured from left are Jan Helmer, Kathy Meierhoff, Keith Collett, Chris Sprowls and Lyle Leppke. Plans call for the facility to be completed within a year. In February, the district broke ground for a new auditorium. Don Ratzlaff / Free Press
Considering an unseasonable snowstorm on Friday evening, the 39th annual Kansas Mennonite Relief Sale at the Kansas State Fairgrounds in Hutchinson this weekend ended with $388,000 raised to benefit the worldwide relief work of Mennonite Central Committee.
Last Tuesday’s local election proved to be challenging for incumbents in two key area races.
In the Marion mayor’s race, challenger Mary Olson handily defeated incumbent Martin Tice, 348-172.
In
Hillsboro, challenger Shane Marler defeated incumbent Matt Hiebert,
110-83, in the race for an East Ward seat on the Hillsboro City Council.
In
uncontested races, Hillsboro Mayor Delores Dalke was elected to a 13th
term while Robert Watson was elected to the West Ward city council seat
vacated by Len Coryea.
In the USD 410 school board elections,
uncontested incumbents Debra Geis, Dale Klassen, Mark Rooker and Rod
Koons were reelected to another term in their respective positions.
With opening day less than two months away, members of the Hillsboro City Council expressed concern at their April 3 meeting about the tasks that still need to be accomplished in and around the new family aquatic center.<p>In his last meeting as a council member, Len Coryea expressed his disappointment that several maintenance issues were never addressed during the off season.
