November 2022

The 11th hour has become synonymous with Veterans Day, originally called Armistice day, in recognition of the document signed at the 11th hour, or the 11th day, of the 11th month. In reality, the Armistice ending the war to end all wars was signed around 5 am on November 11th. Over the course of the next 6 hours, nearly 3,000 men would lose their lives in the final hours of a war that had already claimed the lives of 20 million military personnel. The final death of WW1 came at 10:59 am one minute before the guns of war would fall silent.

Election night provided a win locally, one that is not a win for a singular person but for an entire community. Voters in Newton USD 373 approved an $8.4 million bond to repair Santa Fe 5/6 Center and Lindley Hall.

Routine audit? It’s been announced by Harvey County that the County Treasurers Office will be closed for four days for a “Routine Audit”. If this is a “Routine Audit”, then was it done the last two times that the County Treasurer Leadership has changed? If it wasn’t done, why not? If it was done, then how could there have been any of the allegations thrown around about discrepancies? It seems to me that if a “Routine Audit” was done every time the Treasurer Office Leadership changed, then any competent Auditor should have been able to either lay allegations to rest, or prove that they were true.