Stutzman’s Greenhouse & Garden Center will host a plant sale fundraiser from April 21-25 for the second straight year in a partnership with the Salina Rescue Mission.
Stutzman’s is open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., and 20% of the proceeds will benefit the rescue mission.
Executive director Chad Young said the two organizations have worked together for more than 20 years. Despite the restrictions from COVID-19 and other complications, last year s fundraiser did well. Last year was fantastic because everyone was buying plants because they were planning to spend more time at home, Young said. People were doing a lot more gardening at the time. We hope that people will continue to do a lot of gardening this year.
Dillons donates $15,000 for Souper Bowl of Hope campaign
Jayden Smith
Dillons executives presented a $15,000 check to members of Project Salina’s Souper Bowl of Hope initiative at the Dillons on Crawford Street Monday morning.
This is the first donation of an earmarked $100,000 Dillons plans to distribute to Kansas communities in celebration of the company’s 100th anniversary.
The Souper Bowl initiative began around the 2006 Super Bowl, with the goal of receiving 40,000 soup cans to distribute to those in need in Salina. The first event totaled 27,000.
Board member Dean Atteberry has worked with the Souper Bowl since its inception, and said the check will provide a huge boost to their efforts. It is the largest single donation the Souper Bowl has received.
CHAPMAN Though the COVID-19 pandemic halted much of the entertainment industry around the world, one company in central Kansas is bringing the family entertainment of Branson, Mo., to homes across the Midwest and around the world.
BDS Productions will premiere the show We Are Branson and We Miss You on Jan. 30. Doug Thompson owns the company with his siblings Roger Thompson and Lynda Lowry, and it is named after their mother, Barbara Doris Stensaas. Doug Thompson said the company produced a similar broadcast last year filmed at Branson Country Music Hall. We took the talent, turned it into a program and released it, Thompson said. That went out to a potential audience of over 50 million.