75 Years Ago—1950
Mrs. Iris Everitt was the new librarian in the charge of the juvenile department at the Concordia public library… two hundred ten Concordia youngsters registered on the first day of summer playground… attending the Intermediate session of camp at Camp Webster in Salina were members of the E.U.B. Church in Concordia: Doris Edwards, Nola Taylor, Shirley McDaniel, Gary Lapo, J. V. Cunningham, Carolyn Campbell, Sue Campbell, Gertrude Gile, Lloyd Cunningham, Marshall Martin and Sharon Meier… wind and hail damage from a storm was heaviest north of Concordia and wind damage took the heaviest toll: a large chicken house was entirely destroyed at the Stanley Ganstrom house, and a horse barn was demolished at the Elmer Sjogren home… Miss Margaret Nelson left for Long Scraggy Mountain Ranch for girls where she would be a counselor for eight weeks… Gloria Jones, Nancy LaBarge, Gene Logan and Junior Widen spent Sunday at the State lake at Bennington… Camera Club met at city hall and the discussion topic was “Night Photography.” Slides were shown… the Hill and Dale 4-H Club made its annual tour, ate a picnic dinner at the Fred Koester home and at the end of the tour they played ball at the Ernest Lagasse place… Miss Joan Herbin, Jamestown, made the Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome with other Catholic college students of the United States… James B. Scott opened a watch repair shop at 615 Washington Street in the building with the Reeves Typewriter Co. … Ralph Kendig and his son-in-law Dudley Hale bought Louie’s Recreation, which was operated by Louis Persing… Mr. and Mrs. Dean Gagna gave a birthday party for their two-year-old daughter, Betty Ann…
60 Years Ago—1965
The wheat harvest in Cloud County was officially opened on June 17 when James Neel and son, Wayne Neel opened two fields of Danne variety and combined about 100 bushels and brought it to the Farmers Elevator in Concordia where it tested 15 percent moisture… Lt. Michael L. Wentz of Concordia had completed a nine weeks ordnance officer basic course at Army Ordnance Center and school, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. … the first of a series of billboards promoting Cloud County Community College had been erected, as well as the air marker painted on the roof of the Concordia Drug and Housewares building, directing air traffic to the Concordia airport… Miss Janet Kay Herbin of Jamestown won the title of Miss North Central Kansas… Mrs. Dorothy Lawyer of Concordia was elected District Chaplain of the Department of Kansas VFW Auxiliary at the annual convention… Carman Amalia Vasquez Palomino of Piura, Peru, would be the foreign student in Concordia Public high school during the 1965-66 term… Phil King of Sunny 4-H club, Cindy Barba of Hill and Dale club, Donnie Lambert of Hill and Dale and Annetta Nordquist of Republican Valley club attended the final session of Co-op camp at Liberty, Mo. … Allan Elstrom of Concordia was graduated from Kansas State university and would teach vocational agriculture in Courtland high school in fall…
50 Years Ago—1975
A $45,000 item had been eliminated from the projected restoration budget of the Brown Grand Opera House with the unexpected windfall gift of opera seats from Presser Hall at Bethany College in Lindsborg. Boogaart Supply Company volunteered the use of one of its trucks for transportation of the seats and the Volunteer Action Corps at Cloud County Community College agreed to take on the problem of loading and unloading the seats… Sharon Trost Jennings, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Trost of Concordia, graduated from the St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing in Wichita… Concordia Chapter 1278 Women of the Moose elected officers for 1975-76: Sandra Hanson, recorder; Arlene Brumfield, chaplain; Alma Nelson, junior graduate regent; Verena Mason, senior regent; Barbara Maple, junior regent; and Edith McDaniel, treasurer… Miss Shelley Corry had been selected as the new Cloud County Extension Home Economist to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Mrs. Trella Currie… Max Pruitt, Miltonvale, represented Cloud County Farm Bureau at the 8th annual Farm Bureau Youth Safety Seminar for high school sophomores and juniors at Camp Wa-Shun-Ga area of Rock Springs Ranch… Dannie Kearn and Charles Hansen, members of the Concordia high school Future Farmers of America chapter, attended the national FFA conference in Washington, D.C. … Mrs. Shirley McLoughlin, chairperson of the business department of CCCC, had been selected as an Outstanding Educator of America for 1975… Jo Lynne Koehn, co-valedictorian of the 1975 Concordia high school graduating class, had been named one of three original recipients of a scholarship by the Women’s Western Golf Foundation… Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Brunell, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Letourneau and Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Blackwell, all of Aurora, spent a weekend camping at the lake in Wakefield…
25 Years Ago—2000
Work had begun to widen 11th Street east of Lincoln Street in Concordia… Melanie Thoman, Concordia, was one of 52 undergraduate college students from across the state of Kansas chosen to participate in the 2000 Primary Care Summer Mentor Program sponsored by the University of Kansas School of Medicine, and would work with Ramon Quijano, MD, a primary care physician in Concordia… Blair Bergeson, Concordia, was crowned Miss Kansas Pinto Princess 2000 and would represent Kansas at the Pinto World Show in Tulsa, Okla. …Jim and Marilyn Douglass were honored at a 40th wedding anniversary reception… the Scottsville Sparks placed second in the 9th-10th grade girls division of the Riley County Mid-America Youth Basketball Tournament, and members of the team included Rachel Holmes, Tessa Fall, Jennifer Funk and Audrey Smith, all of Concordia… Brian and Angie Burchfiel, Concordia, announced the birth of their son, Jakob Austyn…
10 Years Ago—2015
A Concordia Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting marked the opening of the Lester’s Sweet Shop exhibit at the Cloud County Historical Society Museum… Miranda Mansfield, 2015 graduate of Concordia High School, participated in the 58th Distinguished Young Women National Finals in Mobile, Alabama… the Frank Carlson Library offered “Duct Tape Ducktivities,” a chance for teens to make crafts using duct tape… Lisa Marie Burchett and Dustin Brown, Concordia, announced the birth of their son, Jonathyn Orion Brown… girls competing for North Central Kansas Saddle Club Rodeo Queen were Carlie Barleen, Briana Kennedy and Casey Walters…
5 Years Ago—2020
John Forshee, director of the River Valley Extension District, announced his retirement effective June 30,.. David Garnas, administrator of Cloud County Health Center, announced that an application for a loan through the United States Department of Agriculture to finance the construction of the new hospital had been approved… children had the opportunity to participate in a water gun fight at Broadway Plaza…
