RIVER VALLEY CHURCH IN STOCKTON recently installed a new marquee on the front of their church. The marquee has the new name of the church at the top, and has an area where church times and upcoming events will be displayed.

As part of Dollar General’s DG Kindness campaign, the Company is honoring the store team at 205 Northwest 3rd Street in Plainville, Kansas for their commitment to serving others through a $1,000 donation to Lakeview Christian Camp, just south of Webster Reservoir west of Stockton. The donation is in memory of local customer, Carole, who the store team released 80 balloons for at her memorial service.

“Price is what you pay, value is what you get,” Warren Buffet is fond of saying. That line was running through my head recently as my wife and I were preparing to have some flooring replaced in our kitchen and living room.

THE WONDERFUL BLESSING OF A CLOUD COVER turned a warm Saturday into a very nice evening to visit with friends at the RoCo Arts Council’s ice cream sundae fundraiser for the mural project. Jerri and Dick Nyp, Wamego, were in town and enjoyed some ice cream as they sat and visited with Clarene and Loren Goodheart.

Present for the regular weekly meeting held on Tuesday, July 26th, were commissioners Greg Balthazor and John Ruder. Commissioner Tim Berland was absent from the meeting.

JAYNE PROCKISH visits with Matt Miller, the artist commissioned to paint the “Postcard Mural,” as they view a banner depicting the design of the mural at the ice cream social/fundraiser held Saturday evening, July 30. RoCo Arts Council is appreciative of those who came out to support the project. If you weren’t able to attend the event, the group continues to accept donations. See Clarene Goodheart, Michelle Wieden or Nancy Becker to donate and get more information about how you can become involved in this exciting project!

MATT MILLER (AT LEFT), THE ARTIST FROM HAYS who will paint the mural, visited with Jayne Prockish and Alton Hazen at the ice cream fundraising event on Saturday evening..

We are moving into the weeks before school starts, and that means practices for sports are getting scheduled by coaches, and guidelines need to be in place and clear with regard to how to follow up on injuries. A topic which is always of interest to us is the impact of screen time on our lives. The latest study is focused on recovery from concussion. We have known the importance of allowing our bodies to rest after concussion, to avoid any further injuries related to the concussion. But in the 48 hours following concussion, we are now to limit screen time to all but the briefest moments, a few times a day. In a new randomized trial of 125 adolescents and young adults with acute head trauma who were diagnosed with a concussion during an emergency department evaluation, individuals permitted to have screen time as tolerated had a longer time to recovery, compared with those assigned to abstain from screen time for 48 hours after injury. The unrestricted screen time patients had a mean usage of 10.2 hours in two days following injury, and the people who were restricted had a mean usage of two hours in the same two days. Cognitive function bounced back much faster in those who were in the "low screen usage" group, versus the unlimited screen users. There were also more persistent symptoms for those who were unrestricted in their screen usage.These findings support medical suggestions for reasonable cognitive rest with avoidance of mental activities that worsen symptoms after a concussion. We can’t fully rest our brains unless we unplug from our screens. And doing so will have a benefit in the long run. Headache, nausea, sleep disturbances and dizziness can persist for up to a couple of months following concussion, so treating concussions with the appropriate period of rest may be the most important thing we can do to help people recover fully.

MACKENZIE NEWBILL, granddaughter of Vicki and Rob Ukleya, takes her turn on the slide, enjoying her time at the Stockton swimming pool on Monday, August 1st..

NOTHING BETTER THAN COOLING OFF in the splash zone at the Stockton swimming pool on a hot summer day! Having fun in the sun were Merrick and Mia Oller and Trent Look..