WEDNESDAY, JULY 5 Stay & Play at 10:30am (No storytime this week!) THURSDAY, JULY 6 Tesselation Art at 4:30 - 6pm FRIDAY, JULY 7 Puzzling Puzzles at 10am - 4pm MONDAY, JULY 10 Weekly Challenge sheets available for children and adults Salad & Series at 6pm “Sunflower Journeys” TUESDAY, JULY 11 No Children’s Programs during Wheat Festival WEDNESDAY, JULY 12 Wheat Festival Picnic in the Park! Wheat Festival Art Exhibit at the Library .
On Saturday, Wellington’s own musically gifted Abigail “Abby” Gill departed to attend Interlochen Arts Camp as part of the World Youth Wind Symphony at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlochen, MI. Over the next six weeks, she will be working with a number of highly acclaimed instructors and conductors as well as playing together with some of the most talented wind and percussion students in the world.
The Sumner County Sheriff ’s Office is located in Wellington and serves an area of 1,188 square miles. The office employs 26 sheriff deputies, 20 detention deputies, and 6 civilian employees. The Office provides general law enforcement, detention and court services for the people of Sumner County as well as security for the Sumner County Court.
A-Shift FF/Paramedic Clayton Steele recently conducted a CPR/choking class along with “Stop the Bleed” training for Wellington City employees in the conference room at the Public Safety Building. As a free service to the community, Wellington Fire/EMS frequently offers this same training to the public.
WELLINGTON FIRE/EMS The Wellington Fire/EMS Department provides both fire services and emergency medical services. The Department consists of the Fire/EMS Chief, shift personnel and an Administrative/EMS Clerk.
The Kansas VFW, 5th District, recently named Wellington Fire/EMS paramedic, Bradley Robinson, “Paramedic of the Year”. Commander Casimiro Campa, VFW Post 881 and Aaron Grundon, Post 6957 presented the award during the June 6th Wellington City Council meeting.
Wellington Fire/EMS was recently awarded over $38,000 as part of the annual distribution to local Firefighter Relief Associations (FRAs). The program was established in 1895, by the Kansas Legislature to help fund fire departments.
The Wellington Police Fire/EMS complex houses a special piece of steel in the front lobby. It’s a piece of I-beam recovered from the Twin Tower wreckage site just a few months after the 9/11 tragedy.
