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Poems & lyrics celebrating Kansas Flint Hills land & people by Annie Wilson – the “Flint Hills Balladeer”

We survived spring break and it’s only 18 weeks until the Fair.

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Get out your calendars right now and save the date for Saturday, June 8!

Meatloaf, mashed potatoes and green beans with a double side of banana pudding. Now that sounds like one of my wife’s meals or my mother’s or maybe the Stigler Café. But it isn’t. Who knew that such a meal could be prepared in the gourmet kitchen of a gas station? I don’t recall the gas stations of my youth having more than a coke case and a Tom’s jar with peanut butter crackers.

The Harmony Sunflowers 4-H Club held their January monthly meeting on Jan. 7. The meeting was a parent led meeting. Roll call was answered by 14 members, six clover buds and two leaders. There were no communications. Annissa Boulanger gave the council report and gave the treasurer’s report.

Poems & lyrics celebrating Kansas Flint Hills land & people by Annie Wilson – the “Flint Hills Balladeer”

Restoring biodiversity in a home garden or any area can be done by incorporating native plants.