If a man is known by the company he keeps, Jules Glanzer’s personal friendship with historian and futurist Leonard Sweet puts the new Tabor College president near the cutting edge of postmodernist Christian thinking in America.
Tabor College, founded in 1908, will kick off its centennial
celebration beginning with the official inauguration of its 13th
president, Jules Glanzer, during a full weekend of activities, May 9
through 11, at the college.
In an effort to jumpstart the summer and get recreation safety fresh in everyone’s mind, Safe Kids Marion County, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, and local law enforcement and emergency response agencies have planned a fun day for the whole family during the first day of National Safe Boating Week.
County leaders were waiting for the shock Wednesday, April 30, at the Marion County Commission payday meeting. But there were still whistles across the room when a record road-and-bridge fuels bid came through at a record $51,068 for combined area and transport fuel.
The Peter Paul Loewen House is one of 24 finalists in the ‘8 Wonders of Kansas Architecture’ contest sponsored by the Kansas Sampler Foundation. To vote online for the clay-bricks structure made by Mennonites immigrants in 1876, go to www.kansassampler.org, or pick up a paper ballot at the Hillsboro Museums Vistors Center and mail it in. The voting deadline is June 15. Don Ratzlaff / Free Press
The Peter Paul Loewen House, known in past years as the Hillsboro Adobe House, has been selected as one of the 24 finalists for the the Kansas Sampler Foundation “8 Wonders of Kansas Architecture.”
The announcement was made Friday at the Kansas Sampler Center near Inman. Representatives of the finalists were in attendance.
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