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April! It’s April. As I write this I am thinking about April Fools’ Day. As kids growing up we were always playing jokes on one another, but April Fools’ Day was the best. Trying to top stunts you pulled last year.

Brownie Girl Scout Troop 30088 performs Community Service quite often by making Tray favors for Hospital patients. They participated in the Seatbelt Safety Check this month as well. This year the girls also voted to make a donation to Marshall Elementary and Hamilton Elementary with some of the proceeds they earned selling Girl Scout cookies. Their donation will be used toward student accounts.

Community members were able to celebrate the Easter holiday together with various events.

Eureka City Administrator Joel Laws provided his first report during the Monday, March 26 meeting of the city council, after having officially stepped into the position March 12. Laws notified council members that application to the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) Cost Share Grant had been completed. The proposed project, selected by JEO, targets 1st Street from Sycamore to Main and Sycamore Street, from 1st to Highway 54/River Street. Laws explained that this section of roads had been selected by JEO based on its likelihood of winning the grant award. As a map of the area was reviewed, concerns were expressed in regards to work stopping short of two blocks that also need redone.

As Greenwood County Commissioners were nearing the end of their regular meeting on Monday, April 1, Road and Bridge Supervisor Allen Greenwood called in (after leaving the meeting soon after his regular report) and reported that the deck of the bridge located on CC50 Road had failed.

A Eureka Junior/Senior High School student was critically injured last Friday, March 29.

At the age of 17, Nolan Denton developed ARES, a natural caffeine gummy. Denton, who is currently in the spring semester of his senior year at West Elk High School, developed the caffeine gummies to boost energy and focus. “Whether you are a student, a professional, a tired parent, a gamer, an entrepreneur, or an athlete, ARES can help you face the challenges and opportunities that life presents you with,” read a release composed by the company. Denton, who started the business as a sophomore, began the business to “support my family and make my parents proud.” Although he didn’t always want to be an entrepreneur, Denton realized a couple of years ago that he wanted to be his own boss, thus allowing him to know his “efforts were going to a good cause.”

Although the Eureka Recreation Commission (ERC) monthly meeting was relatively short last Wednesday, March 27, the commission approved several items, including hiring a pool director, donating basketball goals and possible changes to the upcoming baseball/softball season.

This Thursday-Saturday, April 4-6, several community members will be hosting garage sales, in conjunction with the bi-annual city-wide garage sale event.