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Art event deemed a success

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Written by Patty Decker Tuesday, 18 September 2012 14:40

Carissa Shields of Lincolnville (foreground), Kristin Vinduska of Pilsen (middle) and Katie Marler of Ramona liked the jewelry at one of the 120 booths during Marion’s Art in the Park. The annual event, sponsored by the Marion Chamber of Commerce, drew between 5,000 and 10,000 people. Between 5,000 and 10,000 people attended the 34rd annual Art in the Park and Craft Show Saturday in downtown Marion.

“I know the numbers were in the thousands,” said Judy Christiansen, chairman.

About 120 vendors from Kansas, Oklahoma, California, Missouri, Texas and Colorado came to sell anything from limestone and metal art to soaps, candles, jewelry, clothing, furniture and photography.

“The vendors told me the crowds stayed good all day long,” she said, “and the rain didn’t seem to bother most of them.”

With temperatures in the high 60s to low 70s, many visitors said they would rather have it cooler than too hot.

Christiansen said another thing she likes to do each year is visit the vendors to find out how they...

Tampa’s community-owned grocery plans Saturday opening

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Written by Patty Decker Tuesday, 18 September 2012 14:38

Monica Svoboda, store manager, checks the shelves at the Trail Stop community-owned grocery store. The new store, staffed entirely by volunteers, will be open for business Saturday. After two years of planning, Trail Stop Inc., a 1,500 square-foot community-owned grocery store, is having a “soft” opening Saturday in Tampa.

“This has been in the process for quite awhile,” said David Mueller, one of the eight volunteer committee members who worked to bring in the store.

Monica Svoboda, store manager, said Trail Stop will offer competitive prices and many of the same products as other grocery stores in the area.

“We are going to have everything or just about everything you can have—bread, milk, meat, cheese, canned goods, dry goods, condiments, beverages, paper products, tobacco and (3.2 percent) beer,” Svoboda said.

The committee is still working on its cigarette permit.

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Marion vets contribute to two FFA chapters

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Written by Hillsboro Free Press Tuesday, 04 September 2012 14:01

The Animal Health Center of Marion and Spur Ridge Vet Hospital, also of Marion, recently presented a total of S1,282 to the FFA chapters as USD 408 Marion-Florence and USD 397 Centre FFA through their participation in a Pfizer Animal Health’s “Performance Pays” program this spring. As part of the program, Pfizer agreed to donate 1 percent of purchases made by the vet clinics to local FFA chapters. In the top photo, veterinarian Jessica Laurin from Animal Health Center of Marion County presented a check for $521 from Pfizer Animal Health representatives from Centre’s chapter: (from left) Steph Jensen, Sarah Smith, (Laurin), Chad Mueller, Carrie Carlson, Tom Oborny, Bryanna Svoboda and Justin Deines. In the bottom photo...

Eagle rep talks about broadband possibilities for Hillsboro

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Written by Patty Decker Tuesday, 28 August 2012 13:14

Dave Baker (left) of Baker Bros. Printing Co. in Hillsboro chats about the future of Internet access in Hillsboro with Dennis Weese of Eagle Communications during the public meeting Friday. Hillsboro residents will begin seeing improvements in their broadband service, according to information presented Friday by Dennis Weese, Eagle Communications community relations and product development director.

About 30 people attended the meeting at Hillsboro City Hall to hear the latest updates in technology related to Internet service, telephone and cable television through the Hays-based company.

The discussion about broadband concerns initially started with Clint Seibel, executive director of the Hillsboro Development Corp. and Joel Klaassen publisher of the Hillsboro Free Press.

“I met Clint about a year ago when we both signed in at a (Kansas) Rural Opportunity Conference,” Weese said. “Clint was there to learn...

High-definition eye scanner helps doctors, patients identify issues

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Written by Don Ratzlaff Tuesday, 28 August 2012 13:13

Zach Unruh of Mid Kansas Eye Care said the new HD-OCT scanner in their Hillsboro and Hesston offices helps patients and sometimes the optometrist visually identify what’s happening within the eye. Optometrist Zach Unruh is excited about the optical coherence tomography (OCT) unit recently made available for patients at Mid Kansas Eye Care in Hillsboro.

The state-of-the-art machine uses lasers to create a three-dimensional image of the back of the optic nerve and a cross section of the retina.

The high-definition image enables Unruh to examine the condition of the optic nerve as well as each of the 10 layers of the retina separately.

“The two biggest eye diseases that most people think of are glaucoma and macular degeneration,” Unruh said. “This actually has scans for each of those things, so it kind of combines the two.”

With the new machine, Unruh can isolate different layers of the retina to see what the pathology...