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Obituary

The Assaria City Council meeting for June 11 was held at the City Building at 7:00 p.m.

The meeting was called to or-der by AJ Boyer, Mayor.

NEW BUSINESSMembers present: AJ Boyer

Mayor, Rick Tanner, Bill Mondt, Jon Alexander and Kelli Witte. Scott VanAmburg was absent.

Visitors present: Mike Smith, Darren Trimble, Stuart Porter, Nicole Mcdaniel, & Bryan Eit-tel.

NEW BUSINESS:A motion was made by Rick

Tanner and seconded by Jon Al-exander to proceed with CDBG grant process for half of the pro-jected $867,669.00 total for this water line project, and also pur-sue KDHE revolving loan fund for the other half. Motion carried 4-0.

After some discussion with council they agreed to meet with city attorney Greg Bengtson and Bryan Eittel for a study session to draft a water and sewer con-tract for sales outside the City of Assaria city limits.

Home communications has presented the Assaria City Council with a draft ordinance to update the franchise fee and contract. Council tabled this un-til next month!

A motion was made by Rick Tanner and seconded by Bill Mondt to approve the cereal malt beverage-retail license renewal for Keith Blake at Assaria Oil and Hardware starts July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019 expiring. Motion

carried 4-0. REPORTS AND OLD BUSI-

NESS:1. Fire Department Chief Keith

Blake was absent. 2. Public Works Superinten-

dent Paul Zeller was absent. 3. City Maintenance Paul was

absent.4. Police Chief Mike Smith

reported on the 4 remainder properties with inop. vehicles. Council requested a final letter be sent to these 4 issuing last 10 day notice and if not moved then advising them to plan on being in court July 16th.

Also Prosecuting attorney Jennifer Wyatt is reviewing in-formation on dog issue and will advise city on the direction of this.

NEW BUSINESS1. A motion was made by Kel-

li Witte and seconded by Rick Tanner to pay bills as presented and anything due before the next regular meeting. Motion carried 4-0.

2. A motion was made by Bill Mondt and seconded by Jon Al-exander to adjourn the meeting. Motion carried 4-0.

City Clerk, Kristie Trimble

Assaria City Council notes for June 11th meeting

Birthdays and anniversaries through August 11th.

Temple Church August 5th Jim and Meri Park-

er; 6th Merle and Pam Hartman; 8th Brian Eddings, Sharon Mull-

ins, Andrea Mullins; 10th Maddy Jo Mullins, Meri Parker, Amy Howard.

United Methodist Church August 7th Noel and Billy Jo

Stephenson.

St. Patrick’s Catholic Church August 10th Kevin and Carol

Craver. First Baptist Church August 5th Herb Allender; 8th

Isaac Neal.

Gypsum Fall Fest committee met at the Gypsum Community Room on July 24th at 7 p.m. to discuss further plans for Gypsum

Fall Festival to be held October 20th, 2018. The next meeting will be August 21st at 7 p.m. I was happy to see more young

people wanting to do something for the Gypsum community and be involved in the Fall Festival!

Rudy L. ReddenGYPSUM - Rudy L. Redden,

85, passed away Wednesday, July 18, 2018. He was born July 13, 1933, to Hubert and Laurina (Peterson) Redden on the fam-ily farm southwest of Gypsum. He married Marie Helmle Dec. 28, 1958, in Garden City. Their son, Michael Hubert Redden, was born April 19, 1960, and Elizabeth Marie joined the fam-ily May 11, 1962.

Rudy was a farmer-rancher and lived his entire life in south-east Saline County near Gypsum. He served as a corporal in Okina-wa during 1954-55, discharged duties as unit clerk, and was a member of the Army band. He immersed himself in farm work, music, youth work and carpen-try.

He loved his fellow man and was never happier than when he

was swapping stories with friends and family. Rudy began the mu-sical youth group, King’s Kids, at Gypsum First Baptist, and together with his faithful wife, Marie, taught kids ages 8–18 for over 20 years. He arranged doz-ens of songs for he and his father and brothers to play in their sax-ophone quintet over the years.

Rudy was known for his abil-ity to connect with people, for he never met a stranger and appreci-ated the value of every person he met. For the past 20 years, Rudy was an active member of the Gideons and helped to distrib-ute Bibles and New Testaments in hotels and schools throughout the area.

Rudy is survived by his wife of 59 years, Marie; son, Michael, of Gypsum; daughter, Elizabeth Frank (Paul), of Rush, Colo.; grandchildren, Greg Frank

(Erica), of Colorado Springs, Jenna Henry (Caleb), of Mon-trose, Colo., Rebecca Weiland (Joel), of Louisville, Ky., and Eric Frank, of Colorado Springs; great-grandchild, Lillian Marie Weiland; brothers, Errol (Loret-ta) and Galen (Patsy); and sister-in-law, Vivian, all of Gypsum.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and beloved brother, Warren.

Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. Sunday, July 22, with fami-ly present from 5-7 p.m., at Ryan Mortuary, Salina.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday, July 23, at Gypsum First Baptist Church, with burial to follow in Gypsum City Cem-etery.

Memorials to: Gideons, or Gypsum First Baptist Church, in care of Ryan Mortuary, Salina.

Gypsum Advocate, August 2, 2018

George and Linda Ash celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at the Gypsum Catholic Church Fel-lowship Hall on Saturday, July 14th with an open house and those that wanted to stay and continue their fellowship with a spaghetti dinner celebrating Georgia & Linda’s many years together.

SALINA - Gaye L. Benfer, acting Kansas State Conserva-tionist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announced today that NRCS is offering technical and financial assistance to producers in Kansas suffering from ongo-ing drought conditions. Drought recovery funding assistance is available through the Environ-mental Quality Incentives Pro-gram (EQIP) Drought Initiative.

The State of Kansas declared a Drought Emergency for the following counties: Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clark, Clay, Coffey, Comanche, Cow-ley, Dickinson, Edwards, Ells-worth, Finney, Ford, Geary,

Grant, Gray, Greenwood, Ham-ilton, Harper, Harvey, Haskell, Hodgeman, Kearney, Kingman, Kiowa, Lincoln, Lyon, Marion, McPherson, Meade, Morris, Morton, Osage, Ottawa, Paw-nee, Pottawatomie, Pratt, Reno, Rice, Riley, Saline, Sedgwick, Seward, Shawnee, Stafford, Stanton, Stevens, Sumner, and Wabaunsee.

“Through this initiative, eli-gible landowners and producers in declared drought emergency counties will be eligible to ad-dress livestock water shortages in their operations,” said Benfer.

Applications for assistance under the EQIP Drought Initia-tive are currently being accept-ed. The application evaluation

cut-off period will be August 24, 2018 with contract funding to occur shortly after. Due to immediate need, applicants may apply for waivers to initiate nec-essary practices before contracts are funded.

Information AvailableAdditional information about

NRCS programs is located on the Kansas NRCS website at www.ks.nrcs.usda.gov or stop by your local USDA Service Center. To find a service center near you, check your telephone book under “United States Gov-ernment” or on the Internet at offices.usda.gov. Follow us on Twitter @NRCS_Kansas.

USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.

Kansas NRCS provides assistance to producers in drought areas

Thought for the Day - ”Prej-udice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.” - E.B. White

July has slid away and it’s Au-gust already! I can’t believe the summer has gone so fast! It will soon be time to think about back to school plans. Can you imag-ine?! Planting of spring crops has wrapped up and filling silo’s have begun. Always something to be done!

Everyone that attended the Assaria Summer Youth’s Se-nior Citizen Appreciation Day on Tuesday, July 24 held at the City Building from 10:30 - 11.30 a.m. had a wonderful time and appreciated the youth doing this as their annual community ser-vice project this year. Everyone, the youth and guest’s, enjoyed playing bingo together and then they served a variety of delicious cookies and lemonade, ice tea, or coffee for everyone’s enjoyment. The workers expressed their ap-preciation for the community’s support and the guests respond-ed in kind for this special day!

Seven ladies met to tie quilts at the church at 9 a.m. on Tues-day, July 24. They stopped long enough to attend the Summer Youth Senior Citizen Appre-ciation Day. They returned and completed tying four quilts by

noon. XYZ will meet on the first

Monday, August 6 at noon at the church. Come and bring a cov-ered dish and a guest and join in for a delicious meal and good company!

There will be NO WELCA meeting in August. It will re-sume on first Thursday, Sep-tember 6, 2018.at 2 p.m. at the church.

SES enrollment is Thursday, August. 2 at the school at 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The first day of classes for grades 1 - 12 is Thursday, August 16 and kindergarten will start on Friday, August 17.

The SES Meet the Elementary Teachers Night and Ice Cream Social will be Tuesday, August 14 at 5 p.m. Elementary class lists will be posted on the front doors at 3 p.m. that afternoon.

USD 306 will provide free lifetime passes for Senior Citi-zens aged 60 & older who would enjoy supporting our student athletes. You will be admit-ted FREE to all regular season sporting events held at SES. Contact Stephanie Ingmire for more information at (785) 536-4286.

Friendly Valley 4-H Club met at the City Building on Monday, July 16 at 7 p.m.

Mark your calendars now for the Assaria Fall Festival to be held on Saturday, September 29,

2018. Watch for more informa-tion.

Don’t forget to vote in the Tuesday, August 7 Primary!

Ryan & Melody Archer, Riley and Reagan visited Barbara Ar-cher Saturday afternoon.

Please remember the follow-ing in your prayers this week: Luise Collins, Sara Crum, Hen-ry Diehl, Bob Dye, Rex Echer, Jean Erickson, Jim Heglund, The Heimer Family, Mary Hill, Easton Isaacson, Max & Lois James, Carolyn Johnson, Chuck & Monette Johnson, The Jore Family, Jamie Blackwell-Kemp-ke, Bill Leander, Charles Mer-rick, Harvey Morrical, George & Alice Potts, Lois Rundquist, Karen Smith, Eric Trickey, and Jacob Walmsley.

It’s Fair time! The Tri-Rivers Fair will begin on Wednesday, August 8 through Sunday, Au-gust 12! The Parade is on Tues-day, August 7 at 7 p.m. on 7th St. from Elm to South St. I hope everyone will plan on exhibiting something at the Fair and I hope you all will attend some of the activities that are available!

Please join us in celebrating our 60th Wedding Anniversary at an Open House, August 11, 2018, from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m., at the Presbyterian Manor, lower level. for Romaine & Elsie Swanson. The event is hosted by their fam-ily.

Gypsum Happenings

George and Linda Ash celebrated 50 years together!

1968 2018

Scenes from the 2018 Ice Cream Social

(Continued from page 1)“Approximately 75 percent of

forage growth on native grass for the given year has occurred. Even if we receive rain now, the forage will only grow another 25 percent,” he concluded.

Monitor Current Drought Conditions Online

With the current climate con-ditions, two beneficial websites for producers to track current drought conditions and status of forage growth include:

U.S. Drought Monitor—This tool is updated every Thursday. http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/currentmap/statedroughtmonitor.aspx?ks

Kansas State University Mont-ly Precipitation Maps—Gives precipitation data for each coun-ty. This is a good resource for producers to use as a “visual” of their current fields compared to the normal precipitation amounts in their county. http://climate.k-state.edu/precip/county/

Information AvailableFor more information about

grazing management and contin-gency plans, or other programs offered by NRCS, please contact your local USDA Service Center or go to the website www.ks.nrcs.usda.gov. To find a service cen-ter near you, check your tele-phone book under “United States Government” or on the Internet at offices.usda.gov. Follow us on Twitter @NRCS_Kansas.

USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.

Kansas NRCS encourages producers to use contingency plans during drought

Residents of Bethany Home joined with the usu-al large crowd of participants at the annual Assaria Churchmen Ice Cream Social on Sunday evening, July 29. Cooler temperatures helped to bring out community and area people.

The evening kicked off the ‘Ice Cream Social Season’ and featured music from the Salina Mu-nicipal Band to go along with the fantastic home-made ice cream and cake. Proceeds go to Bethany College scholarships and other needs.