Wednesday, June 1 -Raising Readers Storytime and Craft at 10:30-11:30am Thursday, June 2 -Nature Ornaments for Kids at 3pm – Make an ocean ornament for home. Friday, June 3 -Kids Draw, Color & Paint Fun at 2pm – Stretch your child’s creativity! All supplies provided.
When was the last time you visited the Wellington Public Library? We offer a whole lot more than books! The Library serves as a resource in our community, offering free WiFi and computer use to everyone. Our computers have been utilized more than 2500 times in recent years.
Just a quick reminder that burning, other than in a fire pit or chiminea, within the city limits requires a burn permit issued here at the Fire Department. Burn permits are only issued for open areas where there is enough room to safely burn. We encourage citizens to take brush, leaves and grass to the city compost site instead of burning.
Residents and visitors to Kansas can still hear primal sounds that speak to attentive humans the very essence of wildness. One is the clatter of migrating sandhill cranes, rising with the sun in their thousands from their roosting areas at Quivira National Wildlife Refuge or Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area and returning at dusk.
Dust off your saddle shoes and put on your poodle skirt! Wellington Community Theater is hosting a Sock Hop at Memorial Auditorium, 7pm - 11pm on Saturday, June 4th. Come in your favorite 50’s and 60’s attire and enjoy a walking taco bar, free popcorn, dance offs, costume contests with fun prizes, and more.
For better or worse, one of the many impacts Tesla has had on the electric car market is positioning them as luxury items. “Aren’t electric cars $80,000?” my mom asked this weekend after hearing I was driving the all-electric Nissan LEAF.
KWCH Storm Team 12 Meteorologist Jake Dunne visited the Regent Theater to teach students about the hi-tech tools he uses to predict severe weather. Satellites, weather balloons and Dopplar radar are a few of the primary sources for gathering weather data, which can be fed into a super computer and evaluated to predict and track weather patterns. An important component for keeping residents safe during severe weather.
Scholarships presented during Commencement: THE LOOFBOURROW EDUCATIONAL TRUST was established by Marvel Loofbourrow. The awards are based on moral character, scholastic achievement and economic need and are available to deserving graduating students of the accredited high schools of Sumner County.
When you mention Sumner City most people either say - what was it, where was it, or what happened to it? The first building erected in Sumner County in 1865 was the log ranch house of Degola and Caddo, which was used as a stock waystation and trading post along the Chisholm Trail. This was where Jesse Chisholm or other travelers on the trail could stop, exchange horses and get a few supplies before moving on.
Wednesday, May 25th: Sumner Cowley Electric Coop., Inc. “Flipping the Switch” celebration honoring the Cooperative’s new 891 Kw/DC Solar Array at 10:00am, located at the intersection of Seneca & 20th Avenue North Thursday, May 26th Chamber Coffee, 10am in Memorial Auditorium, with host RSVP (Retired and Senior Volunteer Program).