Republican Steve Helm is the first Seward County Commissioner to be re-elected of the five current commissioners.
Two years ago, Republican Scott Carr defeated incumbent Randy Malin, Republican Tammy Sutherland-Abbott defeated incumbent Nathan McCaffrey, and Republican Presephoni Fuller earned the seat previously held by Ada Linenbroker who did not seek re-election.
Republican Todd Stanton defeated 32-year incumbent CJ Wettstein, leaving Helm as the only successful incumbent.
The Kansas Department of Revenue (KDOR) is excited to announce voting for the next Kansas personalized license plate design is now open. Starting today, Kansans can visit ksplates.kansas.gov to select their favorite design. Voting will end at 5 p.m. this coming Friday, and the winning design will be announced Monday, Aug. 12.
One option for new mothers when it comes to feeding their babies is breastfeeding, and Seward County’s Women, Infants and Children (WIC) staff has been working for many years to share that information in the community, particularly this past week.
“Every year, the week of Aug. 1 through 7 is World Breastfeeding Week, and that week is meant to raise awareness of breastfeeding and its benefits and help normalize it. This year's theme for World Breastfeeding Week is 'Breastfeeding Support For All,' and that goes into making sure all women are supported when it comes to breastfeeding and letting them know there are places that are breastfeeding-friendly, such as the Seward County Health Department and our WIC office,” Seward County WIC nurse Tammie Thompson said. “All of that correlates to a woman's autonomy and her right to feed her child. There are some other organizations that help make policies for working moms, such as taking breaks to pump. At WIC, we celebrated the week by having all of our pregnant mothers and new mothers and breastfeeding mothers come in and enter into our drawing for some free gift baskets that have some pretty neat goodies such as blankets, educational materials, breastfeeding bags, and chillers, among other stuff. All mothers who come into WIC during the month of August will also get a water bottle, and all mothers who are breastfeeding will receive a bag of milk storage bags. We're really excited to see our breastfeeding numbers are improving, we're happy to see more mothers wanting to breastfeed. We actually just learned last week how the CDC released the different rankings of the states when it comes to breastfeeding – last year, Kansas was around the bottom, and this year, we've made a huge improvement and we're in the top five, which we're really excited about.”
According to the Kansas Department of Transportation, traffic changes are anticipated to start Monday along U.S. Highway 83 from the U.S. Highway 50/83/U.S. Highway 400 intersection north to the south city limits of Scott City.
U.S.-83 traffic will be reduced to one lane in sections as they work to resurface this 31.55-mile-long project area. Motorists should expect delays of up to 15 minutes as flaggers and a pilot car direct one-lane traffic through the work zone.
The Seward County Commission made quick work out of a short agenda Monday with only two action items on the docket.
The first action item concerned a temporary cereal malt beverage license for the upcoming Seward County PRCA Rodeo scheduled for Aug. 16 and 17.
“The purpose of this agenda item is to review and approve the temporary special event application for the Seward County PRCA Rodeo event,” Administrator April Warden said. “The Seward County PRCA Rodeo has submitted an application for a temporary license to sell cereal malt beverages for consumption on county property.”
