Down Through The Years By Shirley Erickson 100 Years Ago Bill Dunaway and Joe Johnson started hunting Monday afternoon. Mind you, started. They took a rig from Chamberlain’s barn and drove out west. Just after they crossed the railroad tracks, Bill dropped the reins, to tell Joe why Hodges wasn’t elected, or something like that, [...]
By Jeremy Gulley We didn’t want him to go with us. Not because we don’t like him, but the idea of taking a three year old, who has zero experience hiking and can be . . . um . . . difficult, on a rocky, hilly, sometimes dangerous hike didn’t seem like a good idea. [...]
By Jeff Gulley LuElla Weems, the evening charge nurse at Vintage Park of Osawatomie, was recently honored by the Kansas Centers for Assisted Living (KCAL) with the Nurse of the Year award. “I was quite surprised when Shonna (Looney) told me about the award and quite pleased,” she said. The award was presented earlier this [...]
By Beth Gulley With only a few weeks to go in the semester, we are entering the time of year when I wish Madeline L’Engle’s idea of the tesseract would apply to time in our space. For those of you who have not read A Wrinkle in Time, L’Engle uses the idea of the tesseract [...]
Kevin Gray It was a nice Thanksgiving as always. This year, we drove to Atchison on Wednesday to bring Diane’s parents back to Paola for the night and to eat turkey and the fixings at our place the next day. The drive up and back also gave me a chance to say hi to my [...]
By Jeff Gulley Makayla Pope scored eight points in the first quarter and Mariah Guilfoyle added six as the Osawatomie Middle School eighth-grade girls’ basketball team pulled away early and beat Central Heights 37-10 Thursday night. The Trojans outs cored Central Heights 17-2 in the first quarter and the Vikings could not muster a comeback. [...]
By Jeff Gulley Two residents of Life Care Center of Osawatomie are celebrating milestones in November. Nellie McCoy turned 100 years old on Nov. 17 and David Sweazer will turn 100 on Nov. 27. McCoy grew up in Miami County and has lived most of her life in Paola. She remembered attending a one-room school [...]
By Jeremy Gulley We should be thankful for the good things in our lives every day, not just on Thanksgiving. Though a special day to remember what is most important to us can be wonderful, thankfulness should last all year. Often, however, finding something to be thankful for is difficult. That is the lesson that [...]
