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With the Memorial Day weekend approaching this weekend, area communities will be remembering those fallen with ceremonies at cemeteries on Monday.
Area Memorial Day celebrations scheduled:
Garden City: Valley View Cemetery at 10 a.m. Eddie Labrier, Valley View Cemetery supervisor, said as far as he knows the celebration will be held as normal and should last roughly two hours.
Scott City: Scott County Cemetery at approximately 11 a.m.
Lakin and Deerfield: Lakin Cemetery at 9 a.m. with a celebration at Deerfield Cemetery to immediately follow.
Syracuse: Syracuse Cemetery at 10 a.m. Veterans will be recognized and a Quilt of Valor presentation for eight veterans will be held at the end of the celebration.
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.
First United Presbyterian Church turns 135
The church had 27 members.
Now, it s 135 with 90 members.
Church member Audrey Law said it s wonderful to see the church reach such a milestone. It just shows the continuity I think with our congregation and it shows that we are industrious so to speak, in keeping ourselves going, she said.
The congregation is small, but it doesn t seem to have made any difference in the larger picture of now and when they had a greater number of members, Law said. We still seem to have all the same activities pretty much, I think, and we just seem to do a pretty good job of staying alive, she said.
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for the musical â
Once On This Island Jr.â. Auditions are open to any current Garden City Public Schools students that are in 5
th through 12
th grades.
Students do not need to prepare anything for the audition. They just bring a positive attitude and excitement to the try out. Students that would like to practice ahead of the audition can go to https://www.mtishows.com/once-on-this-island-jr and check out the cast information and audition central. There are practice scripts and music to help prepare for this audition.
The performances will held on June 5
th at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. at Florence Wilson Elementary School. The performance will be staged outside. If there is poor weather the event will be presented at Garden City High School.