BELOIT – The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a Hazardous Weather Outlook for Phillips, Smith, Jewell, Rooks, Osborne, and Mitchell counties in north central Kansas and for portions of south central Nebraska.
When the West Beloit 4-H Club did their annual Westside Park cleanup last Fall, members noticed that there weren’t any benches around the new playground equipment. At the next meeting the club decided that they were going to make a difference in the community by raising money to purchase benches, and replace a couple of the outdated tables. The benches and tables are made of recycled tires. Youth from the club split into committees and communicated with city staff and the City Council (Communication Committee), wrote a grant to Mitchell County Communities That Care (Grant-Writing Committee), and held two fundraisers for the project (Fundraising Committee). The club raised over $2,800 and presented the money to the City of Beloit for the purchase of tables and benches. The project was a great way for the club to give back to the Beloit community and learn valuable skills as well. Participating members shown are from left to right, front row: Miles Weston, Elliot Weston, Breckyn LeSage, Isabella Ludwig, Kate Ludwig, Scarlett Ludwig, Reagan Cheney. Back row: Morgan Weston, Sierra Kopsa, Ella Manning, Emmery Manning, Heather Weston (4-H Leader). Sharon Sahlfeld photo
A room of around 45 attended Monday nights Kansans Can Success Tour at the Beloit Jr/Sr High School to listen to results of a follow-up to the Kansas Children. Kansas' Future tour that took place in 2015. The reason behind the present tour is to listen to peoples feedback on educational issues and to update information to see how Kansas is progressing in offering opportunities to every child in the school systems for a Redesign Project.
BELOIT – According to a press release from the Mitchell County Health Department, throughout the pandemic, multiple variants have been identified, and continue to be expected as long as transmission of COVID-19 continues. The most recent variant of concern, the Delta variant, once accounted for less than 1 percent of cases in May, now accounts for more than 80 perent of cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC has also stated Delta has been demonstrated to be more contagious, spreading about twice as easily from one person to another than previously identified strains, resulting in changes to the recommendations of masks.
The commissioners and David Dohe discussed the Emergency Management trailer during Monday mornings Mitchell County Commissioners meeting. This trailer would be loaded with virtually every emergency tool needed for use in the field. It was discovered that when the trailer was fully loaded, the gross weight would be more then the pickup assigned to that duty would be able to pull. One possible fix to this situation would be to acquire a used pickup truck that has the muscle power to pull the trailer successfully. Dohe was given the task of locating a used pickup with enough power to pull the trailer.
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