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ELLY GRIMM

   • Leader & Times

Liberal’s city logo could see an upgrade after the Liberal City Commission’s 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.

One of the last items of new business on the commission’s agenda will be the adoption of a new city logo, which has been in the works for a while.

ROBERT PIERCE

   • Leader & Times

The Five State Fair is just days away, and soon after that, the Seward County PRCA Rodeo will get under way.

Workers at the Seward County Fairgrounds are always busy keeping up with repairs and maintenance to buildings and land at the facilities, and Activity Center Director Linda Johnson said much of the work in the past year has been in the form of painting.

“We finally got our shop painted,” she said. “We had it sandblasted. We scraped and scraped until we could finally get it to where we could get some paint on it. We built the blocks first, and then we painted over that.”

ELLY GRIMM

   • Leader & Times

This year’s Five State Fair is bringing some things back for this year’s festivities, including the popular Gospel Songfest.

This year’s Gospel Songfest will be headlined by Jason Waller and the CrossPoint Worship group, and Waller said he is excited for the opportunity to visit Southwest Kansas.

ELLY GRIMM

   • Leader & Times

Housing in rural areas can be hard to come by and recently, some legislation was introduced that could help with that.

Thursday, U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) introduced bipartisan legislation to streamline rural housing regulations between the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) by requiring the two agencies to enter into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to align housing standards.