The KBA Treblemakers performs Saturday night during the sixth annual Bluegrass at the Lake event at Marion County Park and Lake. This was the first year for the event to be held both Friday and Saturday nights. About 100 people attended Friday, and 300 attended Saturday, according to Steve Hudson, Marion County Lake superintendent.

Now in its fourth season, Marion City Library’s Flower in the Flint Hills Garden Tour is scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, June 29, with three locations in town and one at the county lake.

Those places include 115 N. Elm St., 201 N. Coble, 412 S. Thorp and 48 Lakeshore Drive.

In addition to touring the garden spots, Janet Marler, library director, is inviting everyone to stop by the facility for refreshments and a tour.

History at 115 N. Elm St.

Hillsboro resident Noah Collins recently joined the Kansas City-based Big D Cycling Team after placing second in a criterium race June 2 during Riverfest in Wichita.

Change was one cycling race away for Hillsboro resident Noah Collins.

An avid road cyclist since high school, Collins participated in the SPECS Wichita Riverfest Criterium Race June 2—his first road race—as a way to help reach his goal of taking part in two cycling races this season.

In the end, it turned into an unexpected opportunity to race with a team.

Collins won the bonus lap and placed second in the 1.2 mile Category 5 criterium race—categories range from 5 to 1 with 5 being the lowest and 1 being semi-professional or professional, he said.

“I didn’t even know how I was going to do,” he said. “I was so nervous because when I’m training alone, you don’t really have anything relative to you, you don’t really know how good you are until you actually get out there and race.”

His accomplishment was noticed.

Adam Miller and son Owen, 5, spent time together Saturday evening on the teeter-totter and other play equipment in Hillsboro’s Memorial Park. The pair are becoming reacquainted after Adam learned that the court-mandated “no-contact order” with Owen no longer holds.

“Ecstatic—that’s the word I’ve been using,” Adam Miller said about spending an extra special Father’s Day weekend with his 5-year-old son, Owen.

“I think it’s an apt word.”

Adam and Owen were reunited Friday after four years of angst and pain that began after Owen sustained an injury that resulted in Adam being convicted of felony child abuse and an order of no-contact with his son.

Owen’s parents sat at a picnic table Saturday evening in Memorial Park to share their saga that has resulted in reuniting father and son.

“I had asked for some official paperwork that would show that there was no longer a no-contact order between Adam and Owen,” said Debbie Darrow, Adam’s former wife.

Debbie, who lives in Denver with Owen, had received a letter from the Marion County attorney Thursday.

“I opened it right away and read through it, giving the ‘thumbs up’ to my sister-in-law, saying ‘This is it—there’s no ‘no-contact’ order anymore,” she said.

“Owen, we’re going to Kansas. We’re going to see your daddy.”

With the participation of multiple partners, Hillsboro and Tabor College students are one huge step closer to having a place downtown to socialize and spend free time.

And the community as a whole will have a “new” facility for bowling.

Last month, the Hills­boro Development Corp. purchased the Trail Lanes Bowling Center from Betty Funk, concluding 52 years of family ownership.

The purchase was made possible with financial participation from three key sources, according to Clint Seibel, executive director of HDC and the city’s economic development director.

“An anonymous donor offered a significant amount of money to purchase Trail Lanes, providing it would include a youth center,” Seibel said.

A total of $130,000 was contributed to the project through the Hillsboro Community Foundation by several contributors, the majority of which came from the anonymous donor.

In addition, Hillsboro Development Corp. will fund a loan to assist in the purchase and remodel from the E-Community loan fund, according to Seibel.

Derek Klingenberg stands in front of the video green screen he mounted on the interior wall of a Morton building that also houses machinery and the farm office. One of his videos, “Ranching Awesome,” has nearly 250,000 hits on YouTube.

Today’s technology has changed the way 21st century farmers and ranchers stay informed and manage their operations.

“Anybody my age and younger probably doesn’t read newspapers or watch the news,” said Derek Klingen­berg, 34, of rural Peabody. “I get it all on Twitter.”

Klingenberg tweets about the family business, Klingen­berg Farms Inc., which also includes father Vernon and brothers Grant and Brett, who pastors a small Mennonite church in Beatrice, Neb.

Klingenberg also maintains an online presence with a farm blog as well as Facebook and YouTube homepages where he makes frequent photo and video posts.

The family homestead was first established by grandfather Willie Klingenberg, an immigrant from West Prussia, in the 1930s. Now Grant lives on the family home place while Derek and their father live nearby.

“The job of 21st century farmers is to feed the world food and knowledge,” Klingen­berg said about his chosen vocation.