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June 3
Kutztown Strong Chalk the Walk: on Main Street on June 3 before graduation. Use chalk to share a positive message about what your hope is for the future, or something positive. Take a picture and send it to Kutztown Strongâs Facebook Page or Instagram account for a chance to win a prize, or just lighten up someoneâs day, #Chalk The Walk Ktown. Rain date is June 4.
June 3
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Kutztown Area High School Senior Send-Off: 6 p.m. on Main Street. Kutztown Community Partnership event includes parade of graduates, closure of the 200 block of West Main 6:30 to 10 p.m. for outdoor dining for graduates and their families. Rain date is June 4.
The garden was dedicated on Tuesday to Florence Wilson, who the school was named after, and Linda Farr, the former president of the Garden City Garden Club, who died in January.
Jill Reagle, principal of Florence Wilson, said the school garden has been in the works since 2019, when the GCGC was approved for a Plant America Grant for the project, with the goal to beautify our school grounds and to teach the kids about gardening and the outdoors.
Maxine Wells, president of the Kansas Associated Garden Clubs, said the Plant America grant, sponsored by the the National Garden Club, of which the KAGC belongs, was obtained by Farr and it s in her honor that the GCGC continued the project.
“They just issued an evacuation order for Mt. Aire. Are you guys okay?” The text message inquired
. I was more confused than alarmed. Working away at home in my pandemic bubble, I was totally oblivious to the creeping threat hinted at in the text. While I was staring at a screen with a half-eaten PB&J in hand, a wildfire sparked on I-80 by a dragging truck chain was moving its way up Parley’s Canyon towards the neighborhood where I and thousands of others live.
It’s easy to feel insulated from the consequence of wildfires. To many in Utah, the blazes are something that happens in California, a cautionary tale of overzealous development with a callous disregard of causal behavior. Sure, we have a cute little Smokey Bear sign displaying today’s fire danger rating at the bottom of communities like mine in Summit Park, but the devastation of an inferno couldn’t possibly come to our doorstep. Could it?