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ELLY GRIMM

   • Leader & Times

T-Mobile is giving schools a chance for some money to help their schools, and Southwestern Heights High School is among those that could be getting some.

Southwestern Heights High School is among the schools entered in the T-Mobile 5G Friday Night Lights contest and as SWH Principal Ryan Kisner tells it, the contest is very exciting.

ROBERT PIERCE

   • Leader & Times

U.S. Senator Jerry Moran was in Liberal last week to visit with leaders at Southwest Medical Center and Seward County Community College and to hear local concerns about health care and higher education.

Moran said his visit to SWMC, as well as other hospitals in Western Kansas, had to do with the challenge of keeping the doors open to those facilities, keeping pharmacists on the state’s Main Streets and maintaining overall access to health care in the Sunflower State.

ROBERT PIERCE

   • Leader & Times

Nearly two and a half decades have past since two planes flew into the World Trade Center in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001, and for many, the images of the day are still fresh in their minds.

Since 2003, Liberal’s Cottonwood Elementary School has honored those who died that fateful day, as well as first responders and military with its annual Patriot Day program, and music teacher Aspen Jaramillo-Martinez’s students have spent the early part of this school year learning patriotic songs for this year’s event scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 11 in the school’s north parking lot.

At the time 9/11 happened, Jaramillo-Martinez was 2 years old, and she said planning for Patriot Day means more with each passing year.

ROBERT PIERCE

   • Leader & Times

Schools are filled with students, and while the calendar still says summer, cooler weather has arrived on the High Plains.

Monday is Labor Day, and for nearly 20 years, the Saturday after Labor Day has been marked with a car show for one town in the Oklahoma Panhandle.

This year’s Hooker Car Show is scheduled to take place Saturday, Sept. 6, along Glaydas Street in the town’s downtown area. Organizer Linda Martin said this year’s show will likewise  have some of Hooker High School’s former students taking part with a school reunion happening the same day.