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Local - May 5, 2008

Lions Community Calendar Drive: Lions Club Community Birthday Calendar orders are being taken from April 15 to May 15. Anyone not contacted by May 10 can call Becky Hart (886-3086) or Roger Lukens (886-3846) to order. The new calendars ($5 each) will include anniversaries and birthdays for all purchasers. Due to rising costs, the club requires the purchase of additional calendars if listing extended family members living in other households. This annual fundraiser supports maintaining the Lions Scout House for Cub/Boy Scout use, scholarships, and eyesight preservation projects.

CLARIFICATION: In the April 28 issue, it was stated in the headline that hospice will be taking on their first client. For clarification, hospice will not be accepting their first client until June 1.

MOVING WALL: The Vietnam Memorial Moving Wall will be available for viewing in Hoxie this summer from Thursday, June 12, to Monday, June 16. Built in 1990, the memorial known as the Moving Wall tours the country from April through November each year, visiting 15 to 20 cities. The Hoxie Chamber of Commerce and Sheridan County Economic Development have arranged jointly for the 5-day display of the 240-foot-long, 8-foot-high replica of the Vietnam Memorial that is located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The memorial features all of the more than 58,000 names of U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen, and nurses who were killed or remain missing in action in the Vietnam War. Details of location, assembly, dedication, viewing time, and group tours will appear in a later article.

AARP DRIVER SAFETY PROGRAM: Refresher course for drivers age 50 and older. May 8 and 9 at the Leisure Time Center from 10 AM to 3 PM. Cost for the course is $10.00. For more information, call 886-3466.

CANCER AWARENESS: The Barber County HEU Council would like to invite everyone to join them for several speakers on cancer awareness during their District Meeting. The event is May 6th at the United Methodist Church in Medicine Lodge. Registration and social time starts at 9:30 A.M. and the speakers start at 10:00 A.M. The morning speakers include Marcella Cousins from the KDHE´s Early Detection Program, Ann Crocket from the American Cancer Society, Debbie Winter a volunteer from the American Cancer Society, and Rosie Walker also from the American Cancer Society. These women will cover an issues including recovery and changing your make up while undergoing radiation. Lunch will be catered. Several local youth will provide lunch time entertainment. Afterwards, Madie and Nanci Marshall will share their experiences with cancer. The day will wrap up by 2:30 P.M. If you would like to attend, please call Robin Eubank, County Extension Agent, at the Extension Office (620-886-3971) to sign up. Registration is $10 which includes lunch.

Cost Share Application Deadline: Conservation practices benefit all Kansans by providing cleaner water, more productive crop and grazing lands, and improved wildlife habitat.  The Barber County Conservation District administers three voluntary cost-share programs, the Water Resources Cost-Share Program, the Non-Point Source Pollution Control Program, and the Riparian and Wetland Protection Program.  These programs provide financial assistance to eligible landowners for conservation practices that reduce soil erosion, improve water quality, and/or conserve water.

Applications for cost-share funds are now being accepted through April 30. Contact the conservation office at (620) 886-5311 for program information.

RESULTS ARE IN: The results of the Health Fair are in at the Barber County Health Department. Our hours are 8:30-12:00 and 1:00-5:00 daily, Monday through Friday. For those wanting to pick up their results in Kiowa, we are at the Kiowa Community Building, 5th & Miller, every Monday from 10:00-12:00 and 1:00-2:00. If you want another person to pick your results up, please send a signed note with them giving them permission to do so. Results will not be mailed.

Pictured with the new AED unit and First Aid cabinet are Lois Wortman with The Greater Barber County Historical Action Association, Inc, and Cindy Christian, Service Manager for Cintas Corporation. Tim Wortman Photo

GBCHAA purchases AED Defibrillator for Heritage Center

The Greater Barber County Historical Action Association, Inc. was recently awarded a grant in the amount of $1,988.00 by South Central Community Foundation. The grant money was used to purchase an AED Defibrillator for use in The Heritage Center, and was installed on April 23, 2008.

The GBCHAA, Inc. Grant Committee applied for the grant based on the fact that many community facilities around the country already had defibrillators. "We felt that if there were ever an emergency situation at The Heritage Center we should have a way to respond," said Lois Wortman, a GBCHAA member who helped write the grant proposal. "We knew that the school district was going to be purchasing defibrillators for the schools and we thought we should try to do the same. We have a lot of events in the community room and you just never know when an emergency situation will come about."

According to Cindy Christian, Service Manager for Cintas Corporation, who delivered and installed the defibrillator, there are currently eleven states in the United States that mandate the use of defibrillators in public facilities and that in airports and on airplanes, the presence and use of defibrillators is federally mandated. Christian went on to describe the importance of being prepared for emergencies, saying "You can’t put a price on someone’s life."

The defibrillator uses a 5-year lithium battery and has a power indicator light that will show when the power is low. There is a set of pads for use on adults and another set for use on children. When activated, the defibrillator will voice instructions, which are also printed on the adhesive pads, about the positioning of the pads and use of the device. Christian stressed that the defibrillator is one of the simplest on the market and one of the safest. "If the patient is not in V-fib [ventricular fibrillation] the defibrillator will not work. There’s no way to accidentally shock someone when using it."

Training on the use of the defibrillator will be conducted at a later date, and will include members of USD 254 staff as well as members of the GBCHAA. "We’d like to train as many of our members as are willing to be trained," said Wortman.

Judy Hall, RN BSN, is the Infection Control and Emergency Management Coordinator at Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital and will be conducting the training session. Hall is certified by the American Heart Association to teach CPR and also to train CPR instructors. She is currently waiting on the arrival of the defibrillator training materials and will then set a date for the training session. Hall, like many others in the health care industry, feels that all public facilities should have defibrillators and first aid measures in place. She says it’s important to be prepared for all emergency situations and this is an important step in that direction.

There was enough money left over from the SCCF grant after the purchase of the defibrillator to purchase a fully stocked first aid cabinet for The Heritage Center. The first aid cabinet contains bandages, latex gloves, antibiotic ointments, eye wash, non prescription pain relievers and other first aid care items, including a safety mask for use when delivering CPR.

The South Central Community Foundation is a regional foundation that manages charitable funds for seven counties in south-central Kansas. "It is exciting to see such great work being done in our communities through the SCCF grants," says Denise Unruh, executive director of South Central Community Foundation.

 

 

 

 

 

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Church Directory
Holy Rosary Catholic Church 
300 Curry Lane
Mass 6 p.m. Saturday.
Pastor Fr. John R. Strasser

Community Bible Fellowship
Isabel Road & Curry Lane
Worship at 9:30 a.m. Teaching at 11 a.m.
Teaching Elder - Dwain Richert  886-9805

Cross Winds
109 W. First
Medicine Lodge, KS 67104
Pastors Rick & Vickie Moore
1-620-770-0927

First Baptist Church
900 Guffey Street
Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Worship 11 a.m.
Sun. Evening Service 7: p.m.
KREJ Radio Hour - 9 a.m. Sundays
Wed. 7:00 p.m.
Pastor Matt Wilkerson

First Assembly of God
701 N. Iliff
Sunday School 9:30 a.m.
Worship 10:30 a.m.
Evening Service 7:00 p.m.
Bible Study, Wed. 7:30 p.m.
Pastor Steve Todd  886-3588

Southern Baptist Mission
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship 10:30 a.m.
Youth Group 6 p.m. & Evening Service 7 p.m. Pastor David Tanner

St. Mark Episcopal Church
Second and Walnut
Morning Worship, 9 a.m.
Karen Lemon Vicar
Wednesday night Bible Study
 7:00 p.m.

St. John's Lutheran Church
Nashville, KS
Sunday School 9:30 a.m.
Divine Service 10:30 a.m.
Pastor Dennis L. Fangmeyer
886-3397 or 246-5220

Sun City Baptist Church
Sunday School 10:00 a.m.
Worship Service 11:00 a.m.
Sunday night & Wednesday evening
Service 7:00 p.m.
Pastor: Jeff Woods
248-3219

First Christian Church
300 South Main
Sunday School 9:30 a.m.
Worship Service 10:30 a.m.
Pastor Tom Walters 886-3743

First United Presbyterian Church
201 North Walnut
Worship Service, 9 a.m.
Contact: LeAnn Colborn
620-886-3108

-Trinity Lutheran Church
-Guffey and ElDorado
Sunday School 9:30  a.m.
Worship  8:30 a.m.
Pastor, Dennis L. Fangmeyer
886-3397 or 246-5220

United Methodist Church
Second and Walnut
Worhsip Service 8:30 a.m.& 10:45 a.m.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m.
Pastor Frank DeFisher 886-3903