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Open house set for Elma Klein’s 85th
Elma Klein of Hillsboro will celebrate her 85th birthday with an open house from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, July 20, in the fellowship hall at Durham Baptist Church.
She was born July 18, 1918, in rural Hillsboro.
The open house will be hosted by her three children, Carol Ollenburger and husband Wayne of Hillsboro, Don Klein and wife Sharon of rural Tampa, and Darold Klein and wife Beverly of Fort Collins, Colo. Also hosting will be eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Friends and relatives are invited, and the family requests no gifts.
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Goessel youth group plans swim party
The Goessel-Area Junior High youth group will hold a swim party from 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Sunday, July 13, in Hillsboro.
Those who need to car pool should meet at Goessel Church at 8 p.m.
The cost is $2 per person, and the annual-attendance prize drawing will take place at the gathering. This will be the final event of the year.
A special invitation is extended to staff members from this year’s Camp WaShunGa retreat.
The first event of the 2003-04 season for youth entering seventh and eighth grades is planned for early September.
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Retirement party set for Pete Sommerfeld
The children of Pete Sommerfeld of Durham will host a retirement party from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, July 13, at the community building in Durham.
On July 1, Sommerfeld retired from land maintenance and ranch work with Scully Estates after 39 years with the company.
The family requests no gifts, and the community is invited.
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Farmerettes to meet Monday, July 14
The Farmerettes will meet at 2 p.m., Monday, July 14, at the home of Irma Koop.
Cathy Fish will give a book review.
Roll call will be “An Interesting Book I Have Read.”
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Goessel book club to hold car wash
The Goessel Public Library Tween Book Club will hold a car wash from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., Saturday, July 12, across from the Mid Kansas Coop Association on Main Street.
Free-will donations will be accepted.
The book-club members are participating in the library’s Laugh Out Loud summer-reading program.
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Quilt guild plans tour on July 12
Members of the Country Stitchers Quilt Guild and guests will travel to Bennington and tour Lynne Hagmeier’s Kansas Troubles Quilters Studio on Saturday, July 12.
Hagmeier is “an outstanding Kansas fabric and quilt-pattern designer,” organizers said.
Members going on the tour are asked to meet at 9:20 a.m. in the parking lot of the Hillsboro United Methodist Church.
The group is scheduled to drive to Bennington, tour the studio, have lunch and stop at the Quilting Bee in Salina on the return trip.
Visitors are invited to join the quilt group.
For more information, call 947-3302 or 620-273-8165.
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Warkentin families hold July reunion
The descendants of the Gerhard and Helena Warkentin family held a potluck lunch and family reunion, July 6, at Parkview Mennonite Brethren Church in Hillsboro.
Special recognition was given to the oldest living descendants, Adeline Dixon of Goessel, Ike and Helen Thiessen of Lehigh, and Ruth Wenger, Mary Thiessen and Elma Warkentin, all of Hillsboro.
Hillsboro relatives attending were Jim and Joyce Thiessen; Arlene Schale, Steve and Shelly Schale and children; Bill and Janet Hein; Ron Warkentin; Gerald and Joyce Kessler; and Linden and Dorie Thiessen and family.
Family attending from out of town were Paul, Darlene, Emery and Donna Wiens of Topeka; Loren and Jeanenne Koslowsky of Mesa, Ariz.; Cecil Wenger of Herington; J.D. and Nancy Unruh and Paul and Ellamae Thiessen, all of Wichita; Diane Litwiller and Tim of Glendale, Ariz.; Renee Hein and children of Lincoln, Neb.; Kerry and Becky Vogt and children of Hesston; Jerry and Enid Cady of Marion; Bob, Coleen, Luke and Rebecca Warkentin of Salina; Vern and Janice Winter of McPherson; Joan Schmidt of Buhler; and Karen and Bryce York of Shawnee Mission.
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County schedules pasture/range tour
The Marion County Range and Grassland Tour and meeting will be held at 9 a.m., Wednesday, July 16, at the Tampa Community Building.
Registration begins at 8:45 a.m., and lunch will be provided.
The event is sponsored by the Marion County Farm Bureau, Marion County Conservation District, Marion County Natural Resource and Conservation Agency, Marion County Farm and Service Agency, and the Marion County Extension Council.
The morning schedule will include three tour stops. Two stops will be to view alternative-grass forages and the third will view a spring-development and paddock-grazing system.
The featured speaker in the afternoon will be Jerry Jost of the Kansas Rural Center. Jost will discuss “Alternative Forages.” A farm-bill update will be given to provide details on cost-share assistance through the Environmental Quality Incentive Program and other grass programs.
Reservations must be made with the Marion County Extension Office by July 11.
For reservations or more information, call the Marion County Extension Office at 620-382-2325.