February 2023

The Prairie Bronze Handbell Ensemble is planning a pair of concerts, one in Newton and one in McPherson. The concerts, titled “A Payer for Unity” will be free.

Stanion Wholesale Electric was founded in 1961 by T.J “Jud” and Bobbe Stanion in Pratt, Kans. The couple purchased an electrical repair and supply business and decided they wanted it to be a wholesale company instead.

MCPHERSON, KAN------ The McPherson County Community Foundation’s (MCCF) annual matching event enters its ninth year of helping build the endowments of local partnering non-profits. Match Week, formally known as Match Day, will take place during the week of Mar. 6-10. A total of $385,000 was raised during the event last year, a record for MCCF.

The January 12, 1888, blizzard will be the focus for Lois Preheim, author and educator, who will be the speaker at the annual meeting of the Swiss Mennonite Cultural and Historical Association. Her book, “Trailing the Schoolchildren’s Blizzard”, chronicles experiences of families living in ten locations along the storm’s route extending from Canada down through the United States and resulting in the death of five Swiss Mennonite school children in the Freeman South Dakota area.

McPherson Middle School and McPherson High School choir students performed concerts at the Kansas Educators Music Association in Wichita on Feb. 24 and Feb.

Students from Kansas Connections Academy got together for a field trip at the McPherson Museum and Arts Foundation on Feb. 24.