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05/08/2003 Archived Entry: "FOUR NOTEBOOKS, Jesse Orozco, Don Panzer, Barb Holm, Marci Penner, Jan Essick, Pat Bender and Dennis Katzenmeier."

FOUR NOTEBOOKS, JESSE OROZCO, DON PANZER, BARB HOLM, MARCI PENNER, JAN ESSICK, PAT BENDER AND DENNIS KATZENMEIER

This feels like college again...toting notebooks around. I have four that keep me organized for four committees that I'm on. That's down from six, so that's a good thing. I think four are enough to manage for now. I'm heading to Great Bend with one of them this afternoon....and missing a grandson's try at beating the school record in the high jump. That's the downside to community service.

Lunch at Orozco's is always good. Today it seemed better than ever as I was exceptionally hungry. I particularly like their flour tostadas loaded with extra hot, hot sauce. Good vegetarian food. I finally remembered to use my discount card. 10% is 10%.

My car needs scrubbing. I was going to head to Panzer’s car wash, since I love the way he gets the road kill off my windshield, but it looks too much like rain. Waiting might be a good option.

Barb Holm is now syndicating her cartoon to other newspapers. She has the best newspaper cartoon in the state and it is featured every week in the INDY. It has gained a lot of attention state wide and rightfully so. She’s right on target with its timeliness and cleverness. Congratulations Barb. That goes right along with the INDY that is used as a professional standard for weekly newspapers statewide. We are very fortunate to have such an outstanding newspaper representing Ellsworth County.

The Kansas Sampler Festival was a huge success once again. The attendance wasn’t quite at high a last year, but they had good traffic and the vendors were very happy. Marci gave the storm warning alert at 3:00 on Sunday to get everything packed up and put away. The cooperation was phenomenal and everything went like clockwork. Dennis Katzenmeier got a huge boost in the help department from Jan Essick and Pat Bender as they ran the Ellsworth booth. Next year the festival will be in Newton and we need a team of people to broadcast the word about Ellsworth. How about the initiative coming from the Ambassadors? They would look very spiffy in their red jackets walking up and down the midway passing out literature about Ellsworth.

Dennis Katzenmeier won the very prestigious We Kan! Award at the Sampler Festival. I’ll get all the particulars to you later…but this is an award that is given only once a year to the most deserving person in the State. Congratulations, Dennis! You're outstanding!

And congratulations to Marci Penner for staging another very successful Kansas Sampler Festival. It's for Kansans and about Kansas. It's the best reason in the world that I know of for each and every person in Kansas to join the Kansas Explorers Club. It's only $18.61 and the information in the newsletters will make you a better Kansan. It's the right thing to do...call me and I'll handle it for you. 472.3844.