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The Five State Fair is rapidly approaching, and the fair festivities will include multiple concerts, including from “The Voice” contestant Savanna Chestnut.
As Chestnut tells it, music has always been a major part of her life.
With cuts being made to the federal budget, many government agencies are seeing their funding being cut as well at state and local levels.
Those reductions include the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Women Infants and Children (WIC) program, and as is the case with many other counties, Seward County’s WIC program is feeling the pinch of these decreases.
Seward County Health Department Administrator Brie Greeson reported Monday, WIC will not get its fourth quarter funding from the feds.
August is nearly here, and soon, children and teens will be heading back to classrooms to start a new school year, and no matter the age, all students will need supplies for those classes.
While many families will be able to purchase their own school supplies, other families are not so fortunate, and Seward County United Way is helping those people out with two school supply drives in early August.
The first drive will happen Aug. 1, 2 and 3 with SCUW’s Stuff the Bus event. United Way will have buses parked at Walmart and Dillon’s from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. those days, and customers at those stores can buy and donate school supplies to help stuff those buses.
The Chamber of Commerce will be hosting its annual New Educators Breakfast from 6:45 to 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6 at Seward County Community College. This year, the Chamber is expecting around 95 new educators from USD 480, Fellowship Baptist Church, and Seward County Community College.
This event is an opportunity to exhibit Liberal’s welcoming spirit by providing breakfast and a special goodie bag to greet the new educators. To make this possible, Chamber businesses are asked to donate items to fill the bags.
Recent numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the average price for ground beef hit $5.98 per pound in May, marking a 16.2 percent increase year-over-year.
That means beef products such as sirloin, chuck, and other cuts are also at historic highs, driven by multiple factors that continue to ripple across the industry, according to Andrew Coppin, a cattle expert and CEO of Ranchbot.
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