Month: July 2010

GIRARD — Expansion and remodeling of Girard Medical Center was a better fit than building a new hospital, Kenny Boyd, chief executive officer, told Allen Countians Wednesday afternoon.Hospital Facility Commission members Mary Ann Arnott, Barbara…

Savannah Heard, LaHarpe, and Levi Flory, Manhattan, are planning an Oct. 9 wedding at Rosie’s Cabin in Uniontown.The bride-elect is the daughter of John Heard, LaHarpe, and the late Corinna Heard. She is a 2003…

United Methodist Church in Humboldt was the 3 p.m. June 19 setting for the wedding of Stephanie Carey and Anthony “Tony” Foster. The Rev. Debbie Dick performed the ceremony.The bride is the daughter of Frank…

John Joseph Lenski, formerly of Iola, died June 20, 2010, in Prescott, Ariz. He was born July 26, 1934, in Iola, to Francis and Mary (O’Grady) Lenski.He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean…

Elizabeth “Betty” Joan Johnson, 88, of Humboldt died Wednesday, June 30, 2010, at Pinecrest Nursing Home in Humboldt.She was born March 9, 1922, in Humboldt, to Frank W. and Fannie (Cramer) Sinclair. She graduated from…

A proposed bill to open Cuba to farm exports from the United States cleared the House Agricultural Committee Thursday with Kansas Rep. Jerry Moran in full support.Rep. Moran has been fighting for years to modify…

If you have been experiencing withdrawl sym-ptoms from lack of basketball, Iola has a great weekend on tap July 9-10.For the second year, the Iola High Booster Club is hosting the Iola Summer Shootout, a…

Iola American Legion Post 15 just couldn’t get the hits it needed in a doubleheader here Thursday night.The Iola Indians lost 4-2 to visiting Garnett in the opener. They had scored two runs in the…

Sunday will mark two milestones for the Rev. Bill Nelson — he will assume the duties of pastor at Trinity United Methodist Church, 228 S. Kentucky, and he will also be entering his seventh year…

A variety of activities are being offered in July at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center for budding young artists and musicians.Stephen Gilpin, noted children’s book illustrator, and Becky Gill, writing instructor, are offering a Comics…