Today
- Get out and root for your favorite business team when Corporate Challenge 2007 features a canoe race on Hopkins Lake at 6 p.m.
- “Some of My Best Friends Are Worms,” a program offered at 7 tonight at the Lyon County Extension office, 618 Commercial St., will explain the environmental value of garbage-eating worms and will teach the audience how to build a worm composting system to save water, energy, landfill space and soil. The fee is $6.
Tuesday
- Citizens have another opportunity to talk about proposed 2008 budgets with city and county commissioners. The meeting will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the sanctuary of the First Christian Church, 202 E. 12th Ave. For more information call 343-4251.
- Four-member teams will make a shotgun start in an 18-hole tournament in this round of Corporate Challenge 2007. The event begins at 6 p.m. at the Emporia Family Fun Center, 1004 East 12th Ave.
Wednesday
- Corporate Challenge 2007’s fourth round will be a timed walk-run “Adventure Race” of two-person teams at Peter Pan Park. The fun sector of the contest will begin at 6 p.m. and the competitive sector at 7 p.m. Written clues will help contestants work through obstacles and problems on their way to the finish line.
- The city commission will meet in an action session at 7 p.m. in the Municipal Courtroom, 518 Mechanic St.
- A Flint Hills tourism workshop, “Packaging Agritourism Events: You can do it! We can help!” will be held from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Wednesday at Cremer Hall 204, Roe Cross Conference Room, at Emporia State University. $10 fee. For more information call Bill Smith at 341-5345 or e-mail wsmith@emporia.edu.
Thursday
- Five-member co-ed teams will meet at the ERC gymnasium for the Corporate Challenge basketball shoot-out. The competitive teams are scheduled at 6 p.m. and fun teams will be at 7 p.m. Teams will be given a 10-minute time limit to complete a series of shots.
- The county commission will meet at 8:30 a.m. in the commission meeting room in the Lyon County Courthouse.
Friday
- The Eighth Annual Beef Fest Blues and Barbeque will kick off with a live radio broadcast from 6 to 7 a.m. at the Lyon County Fairgrounds. Breakfast will be served at 7:30 a.m. and a seminar on agricultural issues begins at 8:30 a.m. A ranch feed will be served at 6 p.m. and a ranch rodeo is planned for 7 p.m. The band “Random Tuesday” will begin playing at approximately 8 p.m. Tickets are available at Emporia Veterinary Hospital, 710 Anderson St., Jim’s Cowboy Shop, 312 Commercial St. and Frontier Farm Credit, 1221 E. 12th Ave. For more information call Cathy Lieber, Beef Fest secretary, 344-3849, or e-mail catlpat@hotmail.com.
- Cast members of “Gilligan’s Island” will revive the show for performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday in Bruder Theater in King Hall at Emporia State University.
- The Corporate Challenge teams will meet at 6 p.m. at the Lyon County Fairgrounds for a single-elimination tournament of “washers.” Team members are sure to want supporters, not agitators, watching the games.
Saturday
- Pony wagon rides from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. will be available at the Beef Fest at the fairgrounds. A ranch horse competition starts at 10 a.m. and a kids’ tractor pull begins at 11 a.m.
Free hamburgers and Cokes will be served, as long as they last, from about 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Barbecue judging begins about noon and will be followed by a cow-chip toss and catch at 1 p.m. Ventriloquist Phil Hughes will provide entertainment at the steak dinner and awards presentations, which begin at 6 p.m. A dance is planned from 9:30 p.m. until midnight.
Sunday
- Beef Fest activities will end with a tournament at the Emporia Municipal Golf Course at 8:30 a.m. and a team roping at 10 a.m. at the fairgrounds.