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Kensington Community News
August 23, 2010
Fried Chicken Dinner at Legion Sunday
Back by popular demand after it was
served on Fathers' Day, a fried chicken
dinner (with roast beef for those who
don't like chicken) will be served this
Sunday, August 29, at the American
Legion in Kensington from 11:00 a.me. to
1:00 p.m. Also on the menu will be
mashed potatoes, corn, roll, salad and
dessert. This is being sponsored by the
SALs and Legion Auxiliary
The free will donations will be applied
to Veterans Day activities,
Scholarships, and to the Sapphire
Dancers and Cheerleaders who helped on
Bingo nights. You could call this the
end of summer dinner as school will be
starting on Thursday, Sept. 2
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USD-110 School Activities at Kensington
Monday, August 30--Teacher Work Day
ICAN Classes Start
Steering Committee Mtg., 6 p.m.
Tuesday, August 21--Teacher Work Day
HS Volleyball Triangular @ Western
Plains (Ransom), 4 p.m.(W.P., N. Valley)
Thursday, Sept. 2--First Day of Classes
Middle School VB/FB @ Northern Valley
(Long Island), VB, 4 p.m.; FB, 6 p.m.
HS VB Triangular @ Kensington (Palco/Plainville),
4 p.m.
Cross Country @ Concordia, 4:15 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 3--HS Football vs Hill
City @ Kensington, 7 p.m.
Menus at Kensington
Thursday, Sept. 2--Super nachos, corn,
potato patty, cheesecake/fruit
Friday, Sept.3--Fish sandwich, oven
fries, veg. choice, fruit salad
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Update of Kensington Lions Club
It's great to have Lion J. S. Wagner
again providing an update of the
Kensington Lions Club for the coming
year. He writes:
The Kensington Lions Club began their
2010-2011 year with the annual serving
of hamburgers at their stand at the Old
Fashioned Saturday Night activities. It
was the first duties of four new
members, James Jirak, Bruce Hardacre,
Galen Larson, and Chris Barnes. They and
their families are now welcomed into the
Club. The hamburger stand reported an
excellent response as they sold all of
the sandwiches. The profits from this
and other projects are used for
community benefits. This past year a
sizeable gift was given for the
automatic door opener at the Kensington
Senior/Community Center.
New officer installed at the June
meeting were Becky Saddler, president;
Mike Isom, 1st v. president; Galen
Larson, 2nd v. president; Bruce Hardacre,
3rd v. president; Bob Bearley,
secretary; Dale Detwiler, treasurer;
Gary Hainke, 2011 director; Don Wiens,
2012 director; Max Kuhlmann, Lion tamer;
Ken Ratliff, tail twister; Sam Rice,
immediate past president; Darold
Grauerholz, membership; Otto Levin,
safety officer.
The next meeting will be Monday, August
30 at 7 p.m. at the Kensington Community
Center. Lions Darold Grauerholz and Ken
Ratliff will be in charge of the annual
steak fry dinner. The program will be
the summer recreational program, and
these coaches and sponsors will be the
guests of the Club.
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Community Center Menus
Monday, August 30--Cook's choice entree,
corn, mandarin oranges, bread, yogurt
Tuesday, August 31--Turkey, hash brown
casserole, cottage cheese, bread,
peaches,
Wednesday, Sept. 1--Ham & scalloped
potato casserole, peas, bread, apricots
Thursday, Sept. 2--Swiss steak
w/tomatoes, cook's choice vegs, gelatin
with bananas & strawberries, bar cookie,
bread
Friday, Sept. 3--Beef & noodles, green
beans, carrot raisin salad, roll, citrus
slices
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Kates
to View Fossils
Members of the K-town Kates will be
going to Smith Center Saturday, August
28, to view Bob Levin's fossil
collection. Meet at the St. John
Lutheran parking lot (north) at 9:30
a.m. to carpool to Smith Center. Bonnie
Youngquist is planning the event.
Grauerholz Reunion on Sept. 5 (Labor Day
Weekend)
The descendants of the late Henry and
Anna Grauerholz will be having their
annual family reunion Sunday, Sept. 5.
There will be a potluck dinner held at
the St. John Lutheran Parish Hall in
Kensington around noon. The family of
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Goll (third child of
the family) will be hosting the event
this year. Table service will be
provided.
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Smith Reunion at Athol
The annual Smith reunion will be held at
the Athol Community Hall Sunday, Sept. 5
at noon. All relatives and friends are
invited to the potluck dinner.
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Stenseng Family Gathering
Martin and Florence Stenseng were
thrilled to have their three children
and nine grandchildren together at a
reunion hosted by Brad and Margaret
Stenseng Johnson. One son, Jim, is
deceased.
Present were their children, Margaret
Stenseng and husband Brad Johnson,
Carolyn Haresnape, and Gordon Stenseng.
Grandchildren attending were Corbin,
Sage, Jonathan, Kathryn and Arianna
Haresnape; Sean and Keely Johnson
Stenseng; and Kiefer and Evelyn Stenseng.
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Death
Loren Attebury, 88, of Topeka passed
away August 14, 2010. Loren and his
wife, Emma Jean, operated a farm and
ranch north of Kensington until moving
to Topeka in 1988. Their three daughters
graduated from Kensington High School.
Survivors are his wife, Emma Jean; three
daughters, Dr. Jean E. Attebury and
Loretta and husband Daniel Ortiz of
Topeka; and Ruth and husband Kent
Williams of Peabody; two grandchildren,
Blair and Blaid Williams; two
step-granddaughters, Arienne and Ashley
Ortiz; two brothers, Lloyd (Pauline) and
Lyle (Doris) Attebury; and a sister,
Marian (Walter) John.
Memorial services were held Friday,
August 20, at the First Christian Church
in Topeka.
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Around
the Community
Tim Miller had an emergency gall bladder
surgery last week at the Smith County
Hospital. He returned home the following
day.
Estherbelle Baumann spent several days
in the hospital in Smith Center for
treatment of pneumonia.
Cecilia Grauerholz, former Kensingtonite
now living in Phillipsburg, is in the
Phillips County Hospital for observation
and treatment.
Ten Red Hatters from Kensington gathered
at Old Mexico in Republican City, Neb.,
for dinner last Monday evening. They
were happy to have former member, Judy
Graf of Bassett, Neb., joining them.
Cindy Rahjes visited their son Clint and
daughter-in-law Shannon in Vero Beach,
Florida, for a week. The three traveled
by car to Atlanta, Georgia, for the
wedding of Cindy's niece, Brandi Guy to
Sean Doublestem. On the way they stopped
by the University at Gainesville,
Florida, to visit the Butterfly Expo.
George and Sandy Powell enjoyed at
overnight mystery tour sponsored by the
Salina Recreational Commission. They
visited Dodge, Fort Larned, and
Greensburg. It was an informative tour.
Weekend guests of Ruth Bienhoff were
Edward and Catherine Bienhoff of La
Prairie, Ill. Esther Norden joined them
for dinner Saturday noon . They attended
the Bienhoff family reunion at Old
Mexico in Republican City, Neb., Sunday
noon.
Eulonda Hagman, Mildred Dettmer, and
Alice Rietzke drove to Concordia
Saturday to visit Melvin and Lavona
Gruber. Alice went on to Salina to visit
Eldon and Dorine Rietzke and found Eldon
not doing well. In the evening the women
went to Franklin to attend the welcome
home party for Kim (Smith) Sykes who had
returned from a year with the U.S. Army
in Iraq held at the home of Kim's
parents, Tracy and Lauri Smith. Kim has
a very excited small daughter, Madison,
and husband who are glad to have her
home; however, Kim's husband will be
leaving in November for his tour in
Iraq.
Diane Mills of the Denver area is
visiting her sister, Pastor Patsy
Koeneke, this week.
Dianna Rice of Athol and Sally Hayes, a
graduate of Smith Center High School,
attended the Smurthwaite Hall reunion at
KSU in Manhattan recently and had a
great time visiting and reminiscing
about their college days. Sally has been
in Indiana for 22 years where she
co-owns a consulting business and they
have clients from all over the world.
Their clients offer antimicrobial
products ("kills germs"). They assist
with designing studies to support their
claims and work with EPA and FDA to get
them to market. Their company has grown
nicely with six full time employees and
two part time. Sally states that because
of her friends in college she has gotten
to know many from the Kensington area
and enjoys reading the Kensington news
on internet. She doesn't know everybody
but likes to keep up with those she
does.
It's been another hot weekend, but a
cold front is scheduled to arrive this
(Monday) evening with a chance of rain.
Farmers state that a rain is badly
needed to keep the fall crops going.
Thought for the week--"Form good
habits--they are just as hard to break
as bad ones."
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Prairie Haven Highlights
The usual events begin each day with
one/one sessions held. Manicures and
current events were Monday's activities.
Bingo was played Tuesday and Friday
afternoons. Special conversations were
held about What year is it?, vacations,
Cracker Jacks (remember the small toy),
and Words. The United Church had the
Thursday morning Bible study. The
Pioneer news was read Friday morning.
The United Church had the Sunday
afternoon worship service.
Visitors signing the register were
Dianna Rice with Dorine Kuhlmann, Lola
Peters, and Lois Roller; Maria Seemann
with friends; Dee Ann Showalter and Dawn
Veh with Pearl Ratliff and Wauneta
Abbott; Mildred Hadley with Doris
Kuhlmann; Rice family with Lola Peters
for Sunday morning coffee and rolls;
Lois Runion with Georgia Endsley; Ann
Abbott with Doris Berland; Mike Wangerin
and JoAnn Brooks with Marie Wangerin;
Alfred Durcharm with Aleta Durcharm;
Teri Rose with Ruth Smith; Greg Kuhlmann
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