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GODDARD – Conner Huddleston, a senior at Goddard High School, is one of 14 Kansas high school seniors who will be attending Wichita State University as a Rudd Scholar. Each Rudd Scholar will receive a full-ride scholarship, which includes tuition, fees, on-campus housing, and considerable networking and coaching support along the way.

From June 1933 Home Town Ice Cream is the latest industry to show promise here. Henry Bicket and Howard Staley, who have been conducting a successful cream and produce buying plant, decided to go into the ice cream business and it is going over big.

140 Years Ago John Hilman and Henry Tobeck have bought the meat market of Walter and Osborn, which recently moved into the building next south of D.M. Mains.

8 Years Ago A Campus High School graduate has been named KSN's new chief meteorologist, filling the position of Dave Freeman, her high school mentor. Lisa Teachman, CHS graduate of 1998, started her meteorology career during her junior year of high school, sending KSN a letter requesting an internship.

From June 1948 Misses Lois Meridith, Patricia Engram, Gertha Lou Harper, Verna Mercer, Dorothea Miessier, and Norma Jean Martin are attending the first national convention of Future Homemakers of America at Kansas City. Mrs.

Americans gather in backyards across the United States in celebration of the nation’s independence each July. Festivities often include delicious foods cooked on the grill, music, laughter, and, if there is a pool in the yard, hours of splashing around.

The arrival of summer is a momentous day for children. Summer means school is closed and weeks of rest, recreation and fun in the sun are on the schedule.

HAYSVILLE – Ballet Wichita will give a free showing of this summer’s production, “Sleeping Beauty,” this Sunday in Haysville’s Riggs Park. The show will be at 7 p.m.

Following are next week’s menus for Friendship Meals and Meals on Wheels in both Sedgwick County and Sumner County. The recommended cost is $5 per meal, if you are able to pay.

GARDEN PLAIN – Garden Plain students, families and community members helped Garden Plain Elementary School raise $10,000 for the American Heart Association. This year’s top collector was Lincoln Hoover, a first grade student at GPE. Money collected through the Kid’s Heart Challenge goes to education and research, and helps ensure that new medical procedures are continually developed. Several students and their families learned hand-only CPR through Finn’s Mission, a program promoted by the AHA through the Kid’s Heart Challenge.