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Bee Symons has filed his intent to run as a write-in candidate for the office of Seward County Commissioner, District 5.
The deadline to file the affidavit of write-in candidacy for county offices is noon Monday, Oct. 14.
The motto of the Lions Club is ‘We Serve,’ and in Liberal, the Noon Lions Club finds many ways to serve the community it calls home.
One of those ways is by providing various screenings through the annual Community Health Fair, which is scheduled this year for Oct. 5.
In years past, the Kansas Lions Club has brought its mobile screening unit to the Seward County Activity Center, and the unit provided testing for hearing, vision and blood pressure. Liberal Noon Lions Past President Steve Hecox said, however, once the COVID-19 pandemic hit, bringing the unit to Liberal became too expensive.
The Liberal City Commission will be looking to keep things short and sweet for its next meeting this evening starting at 5:30. Tonight’s meeting will be in the commission chambers in the Liberal Recreation Center at 950 S. Grant Ave.
The lone item of new business on the commission’s agenda will be discussion of Resolution No. 2420 concerning the solar project and authorizing issuance of temporary notes.
The USD 480 school board will be asked to approve multiple projects at its next meeting Monday evening beginning at 6:30. Monday’s meeting will be in Room C107 of the Liberal High School East Campus.
Before the regular meeting items, there will be a public hearing for exceeding the Revenue Neutral Rate, followed later on by some administrator reports, including from Director of Operations Chad Mease.
There have been multiple Kansas pageant contestants who have gone on to bring home a national crown, and recently, another Kansan did just that.
Last week, Ms. Wheelchair Kansas Tamara Blackwell was crowned Ms. Wheelchair America, and as she tells it, the road was a very interesting one.
“I'm originally from Kansas City, Mo., and my family and I moved to Wichita when I was in 6th grade. I'd never actually done a pageant before, the Ms. Wheelchair Kansas Pageant was my first major exposure to the pageant scene and competition,” Blackwell said. “And because I won the Kansas competition, I had to compete in the national competition, which I ended up also winning.”
