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Next month is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month and National Caregiver Month. God bless both groups. I like this relatively new hymn at the end of this message, sung appropriately, to the tune of “Be Still My Soul.”
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Patti Booher, center with grandson Matthew Guggisberg, is shown Friday during a retirement party at the Ellsworth Municipal Golf Course 900 Room. Booher served for 22 years as Ellsworth city clerk. Also pictured are, from left, son-in-law Grant Guggisberg, daughter Krystin Guggisberg and grandson Benjamin Guggisberg, and daughter Tahnee Matuszewicz with granddaughter Anne Guggisberg.LINDA MOWERY-DENNING/Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter
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Anyone who has been out and about lately probably recognizes the sign at the bottom of this editorial. The signs can be found at the J.H. Robbins Memorial Library. At the splash pad in Preisker Park. And in front of dozens of other places — not just here but across Ellsworth County. It’s all thanks to the Smoky Hills Charitable
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Hillary Clinton had her deplorables and they may well have cost her the presidency in 2016, because of the disrespect she showed them. If that is in fact true, then Donald Trump should lose in a landslide.
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In the late 1700s French trader Pierre Chouteau encouraged a large portion of the Osage people to move into today’s Oklahoma valleys of the Arkansas, Verdigris, and Neosho Rivers.
Read moreThe Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter and Ellsworth County Economic Development sponsor a candidate forum at 2 p.m. in the second floor council chamber at Ellsworth City Hall.
Read moreVesper Community Center will have bingo. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., bingo starts at 7 p.m. Play for as little as $6. Grilled hamburgers and sundaes. M
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