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Jim Gryder passed away peacefully at home on Jan. 9, 2024.

Renee was born January 23, 1962, in Oklahoma City, Okla., the daughter of Earnest Ray Herring and Lanetta (Clayton) Sanderson. She graduated from Mcloud High School in Oklahoma. She had a great love of horses, which she later spent 10 years working for the Kansas Quarter Horse Racing Association at the track in Eureka with her husband Steve. Renee and Stephen Jones were married on July 7, 1983, in Alabama. They have been married for 40 beautiful years.

Gerald Joseph Hein, 61, passed away on Dec. 31, 2023 in Wichita. He was born on Nov. 21, 1962 to John and Maybelle (Clark) Hein in Wichita.

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It’s January and I have been watching the weather forecasts on television with increasing intensity. I listen, but often disagree with the forecast. So, I sit in my living room in front of the television set and talk back to the meteorologist. I don’t know when they stopped being weathermen and became meteorologist.

SNOW DAY!

According to K-State beef cattle experts with the Beef Cattle Institute, it is crucial to evaluate your management practices when it comes to cattle health in extreme cold conditions. Many were able to retreat indoors in the negative degree windchills much of our area faced just before Christmas, but for our cattle out on pasture, a warm barn is not always and option.

The Madison High School National Honor Society will be hosting a blood drive on Monday, Jan. 29, from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

The American Legion Boys State of Kansas is accepting applications for its 2024 session. The event is set to be held Sunday, June 2, through Saturday, June 8, at Kansas State University in Manhattan. This will be the program’s 32nd consecutive session at KSU and 86th overall.