• 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.
