Tampa: Game night is set for Sunday at senior center
Contributing writer
March 9-15
Sunday evening will be game night at the senior center beginning at 7 o'clock. Everyone is invited to attend. Bring a snack to share. You also may bring cards or board games if you wish.
Tom and Dee Duggan are expecting to attend the March 18 memorial service for her nephew, Richard Mead of Augusta. The Duggans and their family have the sympathy of the Tampa community.
Irene Beames of Ramona and Anna Mae Stika enjoyed dinner Wednesday at the cafe.
Darrel Boulware of Logan, N.M., visited Tuesday afternoon with Reuben and Lucille Kerbs.
Michael, Christopher, Joseph, and Timothy Rziha of Atchison are spending this week with Jerry and Jeanne Rziha and Julie, while their parents, John and Jeanne Rziha are in Washington, D.C., where John defended his doctoral dissertation. He called his parents to report he had passed, so he now is officially a Ph.D. Diane Herron, Andrew, Peter, and Maria of Solomon visited the Rzihas Tuesday so the children could play with their cousins.
Phyllis Mueller, Edna Backhus, and Jane Vajnar were among those attending the Food for Thought program Tuesday evening sponsored by Prairie View at Tabor College. Patty Wootin, who is a registered nurse and a graduate of clown school, presented the program, "Putting Fun to Work."
Sunflower Senior Citizens met Tuesday at the senior center for a potluck dinner, business meeting, and session of card bingo. The hostesses, Bonnie Crandall and Carole Spohn, decorated with a spring and St. Patrick's Day theme. Others present were Edna Mueller, Martha Melcher, Tillie Hein, Tom and Dee Duggan, Gary Spohn, Margaret Jirak, Adeline Bernhardt, Leona Kleiber, Ruby Vinduska, and Helen Costello.
Jim and Mary Clemmer and Jane Vajnar were among those attending the Learning in Retirement program Monday morning at Tabor College at Hillsboro. Lawrence Ressler spoke about his experiences working with the victims of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City in 2001.
Jesse and Ashton Smith of Salina and Russ and Julie Kerbs and Rustyn were after-church visitors Sunday of Reuben and Lucille Kerbs.
Tom and Lori Moldenhauer and Nikki, Ronnie and Lisa Hanschu, James and Anna, and Tiera Turner were Sunday dinner guests of Frank and Anna Mae Stika.
Joyce Cox of Abilene, Rhea Kolling of Herington, and Dee Duggan were among more than 300 members of the Red Hat Society from around the state who gathered Friday at Topeka for Red Hat Day at the Capitol. All were given guided tours of the capitol building. The women from this area found their guide especially talented as he described the history of the state as depicted by the murals on the walls of the capitol building and supplemented his presentation with songs from the various periods of Kansas history.
Governor Kathleen Sibelius welcomed the Red Hatters at 1 p.m., followed by a group photo. Kolling rose to the challenge of climbing the 296 steps to the top of the capitol dome. The women's husbands, Joe Cox, Everett Kolling, and Tom Duggan wore red drivers' hats, which created a lot of attention in spite of being outnumbered 100-to-one by the women's chapeaus. After leaving the capitol, the Coxes, Kollings, and Duggans enjoyed a tour of WIBW's broadcasting facility led by the Kollings' son, Tim Kolling.
Nikki Stenzel and Julie Rziha were among the Centre students participating Saturday in a forensics meet at Herington.
Reuben and Lucille Kerbs were among those attending the funeral Friday for Clinton Hanschu at Ramona. After the service they went on to Salina and enjoyed an afternoon visit with their son, Tim Kerbs.
Tom and Dee Duggan spent March 7-9 with Darla Hall and Adam of Lee's Summit, Mo. They attended a quiz contest Tuesday in which Adam participated at his school. They also watched his swimming practice Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
