Stine® Seed Company is pleased to announce that Woodston, Kansas native Darren Rubottom has been selected as one of 41 independent sales representatives to achieve StinePRO status. Stine—a leading privately owned, family operated seed company—has more than 250 independent sales representatives throughout the country who represent the best salespeople in the industry.

For this week's article, we decided to do one dedicated to Thanksgiving because it’s just around the corner. We asked pre-K to fourth-grade students questions like “Where are you going?” and “What's your favorite meal?”

Theodore Clark Co. A, 73rd Ohio Infantry Regiment Theodore Clark, 1840- 1922, died in Rooks County, but he only lived here during the final year of his life.

Week of November 15 Breakfast Monday—Pancakes, fruit, juice, milk. Tuesday—Pop-Tart, fruit, juice, milk.

THE SCOUT HOUSE was demolished on Thursday, November 4th to make way for the new Solomon Valley Manor facility. This is one of the first steps for the new Manor project with the dirt work to begin soon. Through the years the building was used for Scout and Brownie meetings, dances, storage and recently housed the Stockton Food Pantry.

FARMER DECLAN HAHN thought Goblin’s Glory would be the perfect time to try to sell his calves (his twin sisters, Estes and Elise). As cute as they all three were, there were plenty of buyers!.

A LARGE CROWD enjoyed the soup supper at this year’s Goblin’s Glory, and waited around in anticipation of the parade of costumes, games, auction and crowning of the king and queen..

PETER PAN, aka Carson Riener, was all smiles as he scurried up the swinging ladder during Goblin’s Glory fun on October 30. The event was sponsored by Stockton’s FFA organization..

“Until death do us part.” This is a short phrase from what is normally used by couples proclaiming their wedding vows. It is easier to say than it is to do based on statistics in our country that show divorce at an ever-increasing rate. What is the enemy of love that leads to divorce?

WHAT MAKES GRACE SO AMAZING? The old hymn is among the best known. In fact, many can sing the first verse from memory—"Amazing grace! how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found; was blind, but now I see." But it's one thing to sing the song. It's a totally different thing to have a Biblical understanding as to WHY God's grace is so amazing! (1) God's grace is amazing because it is gained totally apart from the law. In other words, it has nothing to do with our working for it. We know this because God "saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy" (Titus 3:5). We know that "no one will ever be made right with God by obeying the law” (Gal. 2:16). And we know that eternal life is "by grace" because it's "the gift of God" and therefore "not a result of works, so that no one may boast." (Eph. 2:8-9). The world says, "Good things come to those who work hard." God says, "Good things (His saving grace) will never come to those who work, no matter how hard." (2) God's grace is also amazing because He gives saving grace regardless of merit. No matter what you've done in life, no matter how deep into sin you have sunk, no matter how vomitous your life has been, no one is beyond the reach of God's amazing grace. God tells us, "where sin abounded, (His) grace superabounded" (Rom. 5:20). As huge and widespread as the flood of sin might be in a life, God's amazing and loving grace totally and eternally abates that flood. No sin has ever or could ever be committed that God's grace cannot forgive—except the sin of rejecting His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus truly is the "Rock of Ages" whose dying grace can make even the foulest clean, if they humbly plead, "Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling; Naked, come to Thee for dress; Helpless, look to Thee for grace; Foul, I to the fountain fly; Wash me, Savior, or I die."