• Parkside Homes in Hillsboro, for receiving the PEAK award from the Kansas Department on Aging.
• Daniel Suderman and Paul Suderman, for being named to the Midland National Bank aBoard of Directors.• Duane Goossen, for being named Bethel College’s Outstanding Alumnus for 2008.• Arlene Hett, for receiving Bethel College’s Nursing Alumni Association’s Outstanding Alumnus Award.• Grafco LLC, for deciding to build a new facility in Newton.• Bill Ryan and other Newtonians, for helping fund a memorial dedicated to those who lost their lives in the 2007 Greensburg tornado.• Slate Creek Elementary School physical ed teacher James Brown, for receiving a $2,500 grant from Jump Rope for Heart.• Sunset Writers Club, for having several members’ poetry published in a recent anthology.• Elizabeth Tieszen, for receiving two scholarships at Missouri State University.• Aaron Keller and Linsey Moddelmog, for for receiving awards through Pi Sigma Alpha.• Margaret Parker, Kara Weaver and Erica Yutzy, for making the dean’s list at Eastern Mennonite University.• JudeAnne Jasso-Murad, for graduating from Notre Dame.NEWTON —
