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Lujan honored for longtime service to SWMC

ROBERT PIERCE

• Leader & Times

Like many people, Amy Lujan’s career path took a different direction than expected.

Lujan was born and raised in Sublette, about 30 miles north of Liberal on U.S. Highway 83, and after getting her degree in cosmetology from Garden City Community College, she moved to Liberal. She has not left since.

Lujan said her initial move to Liberal came with a job in the billing department at National Beef, and after about three years there, she came to work at Southwest Medical Center, where she now works as an admissions supervisor.

Mendoza appointed to Municipal Court Clerks Education Committee

ELLY GRIMM

• Leader & Times

Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Marla Luckert signed orders last week appointing and reappointing members to two committees, including the Municipal Court Clerks Education Committee, and one of Liberal’s own was among those appointments.

Karla Mendoza, a Liberal Municipal Court clerk, was appointed for a term that will run through June 30, 2028. Mendoza is rather new to the legal field, and she said she is honored for the appointment.

District to continue making summer improvements

ELLY GRIMM

• Leader & Times

The USD 480 school board will have a busy agenda to help continue its summer work at its next meeting Monday evening starting at 6:30. Monday’s meeting will be in Room C107 of the Liberal High School East Campus.

The board will be asked to approve the renew of Canvas learning management system used at the secondary level) for $65,240.18 and a bid from Contract Paper Group in the amount of $26,871.60 for the purchase of copy paper.

Seward Co. works to reduce traffic fatalities with SS4A plan

ROBERT PIERCE

• Leader & Times

Certifying Seward County’s commitment to end traffic fatalities and serious injuries in the county and implementing the Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Plan, county commissioners recently voted unanimously to adopt a resolution approving a Vision Zero Policy for the county.

Administrator April Warden said that move came after Seward County had joined local governments in the region, including the cities of Liberal, Oberlin, Oakley, Scott City and Garden City and the counties of Decatur, Logan, Scott, Finney and Haskell in making an application for an SS4A plan.