Wellington Middle School Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS) teacher and 2015 WHS graduate Lindy Fike has been awarded the Martha Streeter New Achievers Award by the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences, (AAFCS). Fike began her teaching career in Topeka and has been an instructor at WMS for the last three years.
Staff from the Beehive teamed up with the Cowley College Golden Tigers for a tree skirt making class. The idea was so popular we ended up having to move the class to a larger space! The tree shirt pattern we selected used a “quilt-as-yougo” technique that allows sewists to simultaneously piece and quilt a project.
As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, we would like to invite our readers to share their favorite Thanksgiving recipe along with a memory of why the recipe is special to them. It can be a traditional dish or something completely different, the point is to bring our community together through the sharing of our stories. The recipes will be printed in the newspaper the week prior to Thanksgiving so everyone can enjoy them and still have time to do a little extra grocery shopping should you decide to make something new.
Leaders from the Kansas FFA Foundation have been traveling the state for the past six months visiting with local businesses and community members about the exciting growth of the Kansas FFA organization.
Wellington Area Chamber of Commerce members and staff from Cooper & Co. CPAs, P. A. symbolically celebrated the company’s 30 years in business by tying a ribbon in front of their building at 123 West Harvey Avenue in historic downtown Wellington.
Beautiful Theo came in from a hoarding situation and was very timid at first, but after taking some time to decompress, he is doing wonderfully! Theo is currently hanging out in one of the cat colonies playing with other cats and welcoming visitors and volunteers. He loves other cats and is such a handsome guy with a sweet personality!
It seemed only fitting that our newspaper photographer, Rhonda Newberry, was able to capture this beautiful bald eagle in Wellington a few days before the community celebrated Veterans Day. The bald eagle has been a national symbol for the United States since 1782.
The Wellington American Legion held their annual Veterans Day presentation at the Wellington High School auditorium on November 11th, 2022. The auditorium was filled with students, families and veterans there to pay tribute to those that have served this country.
Recently, the Wellington Daily News shared some information on a national effort being made to write brief stories about Americans that died during WWII. The War Department list released in 1946 was incomplete, and the Stories Behind the Stars initiative hopes to identify, organize and complete the list while collecting the stories of the Americans that were lost.
As most of you know, this year marks the 100th anniversary of Memorial Auditorium. In honor of Veteran’s Day, I’m including some history of the Auditorium as well as the Veterans for whom the building was originally constructed to memorialize; the brave young men of Sumner County who fought in the Great War, World War I.