The menus for the week beginning Monday, Dec. 28, are as follows: Monday—Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes and gravy, peas and carrots, bread, plums. Tuesday—Chili, orange pineapple salad, crackers, cinnamon roll. Wednesday—Meatloaf, green beans, bread, pineapple. Thursday—Roast turkey in gravy, mashed potatoes, asparagus, bread, emerald pears. Friday—No menu available.

Please join us in celebrating Larry & Linda Stamper of Plainville on their 50th Wedding Anniversary. They met while attending Kansas State University and were married on December 20th, 1970, at the First Baptist Church in Manhattan, Kansas. After a free 3-day honeymoon attending a timeshare pitch in Bella Vista, Arkansas, they returned to Manhattan, graduated from Kansas State the following year, and settled on the Stamper family farm northeast of Plainville. For the past 50 years, they have enjoyed building a life together, with a focus on family and farming.

The family of Ron and Diane Keirns request a Card Shower to honor them on their upcoming 50th Wedding Anniverary. Ron Keirns and Diane Iman were married on December 26, 1970 at the United Methodist Church in Stockton.

Tenants and landlords experiencing financial hardship as a result of the COVID pandemic may receive up to $5000 in rental assistance per tenant household, thanks to a new statewide relief initiative. The Kansas Eviction Prevention Program (KEPP), funded through the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, authorized by Governor Kelly’s Strengthening People and Revitalizing Kansas (SPARK) Taskforce, and administered by Kansas Housing Resources Corporation (KHRC), serves tenants and landlords who have missed paying or collecting at least one rent payment since April 1, 2020, due to the COVID pandemic.

IMPOSSIBLE??? Has God ever brought you face to face with what seems like an impossibility? How will I pay my bills? How can I go forward after my loss? Life at times can be difficult and might even seem impossible. That's when we need grace to believe God. It was no different when two close relatives found out they would give birth to sons? Elizabeth faced such an "impossibility" when both she and her husband (Zacharias) were well past the age of child-bearing. Mary faced the "impossibility" when she was a virgin who would bear a son having never known the man (Joseph) to whom she was betrothed. Both couples were staring at a similar "impossibility." But their responses were quite different. Elizabeth's husband, Zacharias, was a priest. When the angel Gabriel revealed to him that they would have a son (John the Baptist), he was standing only a few feet from the ark of God's Presence which was just past the thick curtain in front of him. Zacharias had just brought flaming coals into the Holy Place from the altar of burnt offering when Gabriel told him of John's coming birth. Boiling his response down to one word, Zacharias - the priest, the one standing just feet from God's Presence - answered, "Impossible!" Six months later, having received Mary into her home, Elizabeth, "filled with the Holy Spirit" (1:41) tells Mary, "Blessed is she who believed" (1:45). Implied is that Elizabeth had also responded, "Impossible!" Not Mary. She told Gabriel, "Let it be to me according to your word" (1:38). Zacharias and Elizabeth were "both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments" (Luke 1:60) and yet failed to believe. But Mary believed Gabriel's promise that "with God nothing will be impossible!" (1:37). Are you facing an "impossibility"? If so, it hasn't taken God by surprise. May He give you grace to trust Him and His will as well as believe, as did Mary, that with God absolutely nothing is IMPOSSIBLE!

The argument can be made that 2020 is a year that most people would just as soon forget. But, that depends on your perspective. For some, 2020 has provided opportunities that were unforeseen in previous years. Different situation, different perspective.

Rosemary Jones: “It’s a wonder my dad, Bill Gouldman, didn’t have his own column. His name sure pops up frequently in the 56 Years Ago.” Greg Balthazor: “The Christmas in Alton Light Displays are worth the drive to see!” Mary Miller: “Did you see our daughter-in-law, Rachel’s team (Phillipsburg Lady Panthers) defeated Central Plains the other night, snapping their 138-game winning streak?”.

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COME IN AND CHECK US OUT!!!! NEW BOOKS FOR ADULTS ARE: • “Dark Tides” by Philippa Gregory (Large Print) • “Piece of My Heart” by Mary Higgins Clark (Large Print) • “The Awakening” by Nora Roberts (Large Print) • “The Secrets of the Bastide Blanche” by M.L Longworth (LargePrint) • “The Sicilian Method” by Andrea Camilleri Your library staff, Chris Sander, Crystal Dunlap& Beth Hazen.

Keller Motors of Palco recently recognized two employees, Jeff Keller and Pam Rudman, who have each worked 20 years for the business. Jeff Keller Young, confident and not yet knowing his full potential, Jeff had no idea what the automotive field had in store for him.