Pats on the Back
By Patrick Kelley
Originally published 01:12 p.m., June 27, 2008
Updated 01:12 p.m., June 27, 2008
Each Friday, The Gazette salutes those who make Emporia and the surrounding area a better place to live and work. Give these folks a pat on the back ...
THE KANSAS Department of Health and Environment, which awarded the Flint Hills Community Health Center $345,000 for its primary care clinic, $40,000 for prescription assistance and $75,000 for its dental clinic. The KDHE announced $6.2 million in statewide grants on Tuesday.
• Former Emporian Jeremy Slater, who sold a script titled “My Spy” to CBS Films. Slater, a graduate of Olpe High Schoool, last year sold a horror script called “Pet.”
• The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office, fire personnel, state troopers and Burlington Northern Santa Fe officials for their response to Tuesday’s train derailment in Neosho Rapids. By late afternoon, the section of train sitting across Kansas Highway 130 was split to reopen the highway, and the investigation had been turned over to BNSF.
• Phil Martin, Emporia’s director of court services, who will retire in August. Martin has served as court services director since 1992 and worked for the department since 1980, when he became a probation officer.
• Hunt 4 Hunger, an organization that provides food to those in need, which has established the Beau Arndt “Love for the Outdoors” Scholarship Fund at Emporia State University. Students who are graduates of Northern Heights High School or any high school in Lyon County, and are biology or earth science majors with a GPA between 2.5 and 3.5 will be eligible for the scholarship.
Joey Berlin
Reporter