Chuck's Chat-Welcome to May!
Looks like May is starting off the way April used to – with some needed moisture. It’s certainly welcomed here along the Northern Sycamore Urban Boundary as I’m sure it is most places. Hopefully we’ll continue to receive the needed moisture throughout the year to avoid the dreaded and somewhat predicted drought conditions our friends not too far to the west are enduring.
I see that the first week of May is designated as Teacher Appreciation Week. Just my opinion, but they really should be celebrated for more than one week. In fact, they really should be appreciated and supported all year round. If you can read this, you have a teacher to thank. Oh sure, I know of many who learned to read before attending any formal form of structured higher education, but it was a teacher that refined the skill. Many teachers to be exact. Thank you to the many teachers who gave their best to see that I advanced a grade level (mostly because they didn’t want to put up with me any longer). And a special thank you to the many English, Grammar, Speech, and Composition teachers who went and done their best to learn me so good.
As do many months, May has some significant designated days of interest. Here are just a few:
May 4 is National Star Wars Day. May the fourth be with you.
May 5 is Cinco de Mayo. Stay thirsty my friends.
May 6 is National Nurses Day. Another one to celebrate year-round. Thank you, nurses.
May 8 is Mother’s Day and National Coconut Cream Pie Day. Hhmm, there’s an idea….
May 18 is National No Dirty Dishes Day. Better make your reservations early.
May 21 is National Talk Like Yoda Day. Your best you must try.
May 30 is Memorial Day. Remember the fallen who helped ensure our continued freedoms.
May 31 is National Speak in Sentences Day. Huh?
I can hardly wait for National Reduced Fuel Price day.
Congratulations to this year’s Montgomery County Farm Bureau scholarship recipients: Cara DeTar, Coffeyville, Colben Dodson, Liberty, Sara Schwatken, Sycamore, Dexter Small, Neodesha, and Jaden Trimble, Coffeyville.
The Kansas Farm Bureau “Century Farm” program will recognize family farms whose current owner/operator is related to the owner/operator of the farm in 1922 or before. The applicant must be a Kansas Farm Bureau member and have ownership within the same family for 100 years or more by Dec. 31, 2022, with at least 80 acres of the original Kansas farmland. Montgomery County Farm Bureau qualified members should contact Kathy O’Brien at 620-331-0826. Applications are due May 15. Since the year 2000, Kansas Farm Bureau has recognized more than 3,000 family farms.
Until next time,
Buy American
God Bless America
Chuck Voelker