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"A
community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the
helm."
Hometown Competivness Training Seminar Early Notice! Hometown
Competitiveness Training Hometown Competitiveness is an intensive three-day professional development opportunity teaching specific rural development skills to teams of rural leaders. Developed and offered by the RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship, the Nebraska Community Foundation and the Heartland Center for Leadership Development - the training concepts have been field-tested over a period of time and most recently produced solid results in Valley County, Nebraska and its county seat of Ord.
For
more information call Bob Cole or Kelly Pearl at 785-456-9776.
Biking Across Kansas a Huge Success St.
Marys was an overnight stop on June 10, 2004, for the Biking Across
Kansas (BAK) tour, that celebrated its 30th Anniversary ride June 4,
2004 - June 12, 2004. Over 800 cyclists and support personnel
camped in the St. Marys High School and Grade School gymnasiums. Many
also pitched tents on the grounds of the schools. Independence Day in Wamego a "blast" Crowds packed Lincoln Ave.
for the 132nd Independence Day parade in Wamego. Local officials estimated
that 12,500 people attended the parade and approx. 30,000 people viewed
the fireworks display from city park and surrounding areas that evening.
Other events at the celebration included: a watermelon feed, classic
car show, two fundraiser dinners, a variety of music and Ottaway Amusements. Community Development Projects that are Underway
Cool
Springs Golf Course, Onaga
Cool Springs Golf Course located just north of Onaga is a beautiful course, offering 9 challenging holes in the rolling hills of Pottawatomie County. Cool Springs, new in 2001, is open to the public and features a clubhouse. The course also offers a pitching green, a putting green, a driving range, and a fleet of 25 golf carts. Chris and Vicki Flattery are the owners
of Cool Springs Golf Course. For more information about Cool
Springs, please contact: 785-889-7128. Farmers
State Bank, Westmoreland
Farmers State Bank of Westmoreland is a full-service bank with over 100 years of community banking service. Farmers State Bank continually supports its community by being active with the Chamber of Commerce, being involved in community projects and helping support community projects financially. Farmers State Bank provides customers
with convenient banking by offering ATM service, online banking
and the recent addition of a Manhattan branch.For more information
about Farmers State Bank, please visit: http://www.fsbwesty.com
Group Tour Hospitality Workshop Pottawatomie
County Economic Development Corporation is hosting a group
tour training workshop Wednesday, July 21, 2004, from 3:00
- 5:00 p.m. at the Wamego Telecommunications Office (1009
Lincoln Ave.). There is no charge for the workshop. The presenter of the workshop is Olivia Reynolds. Reynolds is the Vice-President of the Wichita Convention and Visitors Bureau and is also the President of the Travel Industry Association of Kansas. Bleeding
Kansas National Heritage Area
The "Bleeding Kansas and the Enduring Struggle for Freedom" grassroots
working group is preparing an application to Congress to
designate certain historic and heritage sites, in the eastern
third of Kansas, as a National Heritage Area.
Participation is strictly voluntary. Whether Pottawatomie
County decides to formally participate will be determined
by the private property rights protections included in the
final legislation that creates this National Heritage
Area. Individual attractions may decide to participate
on their own. Any participating organization may decide
to be removed from the Heritage Area at any time, once it
is established.
The "Bleeding Kansas and the Enduring Struggle for Freedom"
National Heritage Area will almost surely be created by
Congress in the next year. Protection of private property
rights has been raised as a concern by many people. Consequently,
the draft legislation contains provisions that provide serious
protections for property owners, voluntary participation
by any party or organization, and an "opt-out" provision.
Our interest in this has been prompted by evidence that
National Heritage Areas are powerful attractions for tourism,
with business increasing for participating attractions,
as well as related retail and service businesses serving
tourists and visitors. Individual attractions and towns
in Pottawatomie County have submitted information and provided
financial support for the development of the application,
along with representatives from 20+ other counties, many
towns and many more historical attractions throughout
eastern Kansas.
A National Heritage Area is a place where natural, cultural,
historic, and scenic resources combine to form a cohesive,
nationally distinctive landscape arising from patterns of
human activity shaped by geography. Unique areas are acknowledged
by Congress for their capacity to describe nationally important
stories about the evolution of our nation. Our stories include
early exploration, early settlement, the conflict in Kansas
over slavery and the resulting Civil War. They also
include the histories of the various tribes which inhabited
our area, the history of our trails, the missionaries who
worked here, the struggles to develop a modern economy,
and other developments that led to the creation of Pottawatomie
County as it exists today.
The proposed Bleeding Kansas and the Enduring Struggle
for Freedom National Heritage Area has developed partnerships
with heritage representatives within Kansas and across the
border in western Missouri. When designated, the Heritage
Area will receive a congressional appropriation with
which to develop and implement a marketing program plan
for the area.
Mark
your calendars for these events
EcoDevo
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years ago - The Origins of the Oregon Trail: William
L. Sublette accompanied this expedition, which (it seems established)
traveled "Sublette's Trace" (pioneered in February by the eastbound
Sublette and his companion "Black" Harris - the pathway that led
up the Kansas valley, turned northward beyond the Red Vermillion's
crossing (in present Pottawatomie county) toward the Little Blue,
and the near the head of that river, crossed to the Platte - the
route of the future Oregon Trail . (However, this year, and
in 1829?, the turning-north point may have been farther up the Kansas
valley - near the Big Blue's mouth. By 1830 the shorter "cut-off"
route was in use.) (The
foregoing descriptions taken from The Beginning of the West, Annals
of the Kansas Gateway to the American West, 1540-1854, by Louise Barry,
Kansas State Historical Society, 1972) |
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