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 ...
JOHN MALLON, member of the Emporia Granada Alliance, for finding and restoring a 1948 Chevy Stylemaster Town Sedan that was originally raffled at the theater in 1948. The car, on display at John North Ford, will be
raffled again next year, with proceeds to benefit the Granada Theatre.
• James Loewen, author and sociologist, for his presentation Wednesday night of “Sundown Towns: Hidden Racism Across America” for Emporia State University’s Bonner and Bonner Diversity Lecture Series. The presentation drew a crowd of about 700 people to Webb Lecture Hall.
• Emporia High School seniors Carissa Schmitz, Kayla Baker and the EHS gymnastics squad, for a record-setting competition at their last home showing Monday night.
• Tracy Davies, Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner, who is the latest addition to the staff of the Mental Health Center of East Central Kansas. Davies, who will becoming from Horton, will start in December. Her hiring completes the expansion of the Med Clinic team at the mental health center.
• Renee Flott, owner of Pet Sitting Pals, a business that allows owners to keep their pets at home instead of boarding them when they are away. In March, Flott will receive an award at the Kansas Small Business of the Year recognition in Topeka. She has been in business since 2004.
• Matt Zimmerman, city manager, Bill Persinger, executive director of the Mental Health Center of East Central Kansas, Cruz Jasso, assistant principal at Emporia High School, Nick Heiman, Lyon County assistant county attorney, Scott Hayes, broadcaster with Emporia’s Radio Stations, and Dean Hollenbeck, president of Flint Hills Technical College, all of whom will be taking part in the third annual “Haught Guys ‘N Gowns” pageant on Nov. 1. The pageant is a fundraiser to help finance educational activities for Emporians for Drug Awareness.
• Emporia High School Spartans football team, for Friday’s 47-0 win over Topeka West.
• The First United Methodist Church and Campus Ministries, for helping distressed citizens of the Darfur region of Sudan through the “Tents of Hope” organization, which provides tents to be used as classrooms, meeting rooms, or housing for those displaced by the fighting.
• Emporia State University, USD 253 and the city of Emporia, for coming together to offer the ResearchChannel, available on CableOne’s Channel 8. The channel offers information, presentations and events from ESU and USD 253, and offers commercial-free programming covering topics such as technology, science, arts, humanities health, medicine and more.
Russ Morgan
Reporter