Community Happenings

A Muffin & Mimosa Morning

_______________ With Halloween behind us, we turn our thoughts toward Thanksgiving. To express our gratitude, the National Depression Glass Association (NDGA) Museum is honoring our volunteers and inviting new recruits to join us for a Muffin & Mimosa Morning this Saturday, November 4th, from 9 - 11am.

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Mattresses, Couches, Pools and More!

Trucks were lining up before volunteers arrived at 7am to start unloading them as the community took advantage of the free “Wellington Fall Clean Up” day at Sellers Park last Saturday. Over 11 tons of debris from the homes and yards of local residents were collected and hauled to the Wellington Landfill.

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Buzz From the Beehive

The Hive has been buzzing with a retreat group of 19 women that spent a full week quilting projects they brought in to work on as well as making quilts using Villa Rosa Designs “Newsflash” pattern. “I’ve been doing ‘Rita’s Quilt Retreat’ for 10 years,” said organizer Rita Figg.

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Stories from Caldwell’s Main Street

Last Monday, the Sumner County Historical and Genealogical Society hosted the authors of “These Old Bones: the Stories of Caldwell, Kansas’s Main Street” at the Wellington Memorial Auditorium. Sisters Michelle Schiltz Lou Ann Jamison wrote the tabletop book in an effort to document and preserve the history of the buildings in the community.

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