The Farmerettes will meet at 2 p.m., Monday, Jan. 10., at the home of Nellie Jost.
The featured speaker will be Juana Prichard.
Roll call will be "A Snowy Day Activity."
Ebenfeld MB Church
program Jan. 9
The Ebenfeld Mennonite Brethren Church Christian Endeavor Program will be held at 7 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 9, at the church, located at 1498 Kanza Road, two miles east and four miles south of Hillsboro.
The Christmas Rebuilders will share about their recent trip to Mexico. The program will also include a Bible verse memory demonstration and musical numbers.
The public is invited.
Tampa association
to meet Jan. 11
The Tampa Community Association will meet at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 11, at the Tampa Senior Center.
The agenda will include a discussion of the year's activities.
HMS C Team tourney
Jan. 8 at Hesston
The Hillsboro Middle School
C Team basketball tournament will be held Saturday, Jan. 8, at Hesston High School.
The first game starts at 10 a.m. for both the boys' and girls' teams.
Please note: this is a change of location for the tournament.
'College Sunday' at
Goessel Church
"College Sunday" at Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church will feature Peter Wiebe, interim president of Hesston College, and the college Bel Canto Singers on Sunday morning, Jan. 16, at the church located near Goessel.
Wiebe will present a Hesston College update during the 9:30 a.m. Sunday school hour. He will offer the morning message during the 10:30 a.m. worship service.
The Bel Canto Singers, comprised of 21 students, will minister through music as part of the worship service. The majority of their repertoire is from the four-part a capella tradition and includes hymns and spirituals.
The singers are directed by Jacob Rittenhouse and accompanied by Albena Akers, both music faculty at Hesston College.
Arboretum lecture
set for Jan. 13
Dyck Arboretum of the Plains offers a winter-lecture series to be presented at 7 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 13, at the visitor and education center, 177 W. Hickory, in Hesston.
"When Bugs Ruled the Skies" will be presented by Roy Beckemeyer, who will offer a lecture and photos about extinct fossil insects that flew in Kansas and Oklahoma during the Permian Era a quarter-billion years ago.
Insect fossil beds are found from Dickinson Country south through Marion, Harvey, Sedgwick and Sumner counties in Kansas and on through Noble and Kay counties in Oklahoma. But most residents don't know about them, according to Beckemeyer.
A retired aeronautical engineer. Beckemeyer's avocation is studying insects from the present and the past. He works as a research associate with Johnston Geology Museum at Emporia State University and has recently described several new species of fossil insects from beds in the two states.
Free-will donations will be accepted, and the public is invited.
