We Will Not Forget Departments,” Said Kim Peck, Senior Executive Director of Community Blood Center
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THE SABETHA SINCE 1876 WEEKLY RECIPE STATE TRACK Seven Bluejays qualify WEDNESDAY AC Village Tiramisu for State Tournament MAY FUN&GAMES 8B SPORTS&RECREATION 2B 26 2021 SABETHA BLOOD DRIVE Drive slated for June 8 HERALD REPORT It’s time to roll up your sleeves again and donate blood during Sabetha’s next blood drive. The drive – organized by Community Blood Center (CBC) – is scheduled for 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, June 8, at Sabetha City Hall MEMORIAL DAY located at 805 Main Street. Donors are encouraged to make an appointment by visiting www.savealifenow.org/group and using Group Code: TPK7. For additional details, contact Lyla Edel- man at 785-284-2477 or at [email protected], 2021 or contact Guy Niederhauser at 816-210-6801. CBC is the primary provider of blood and blood com- ponents to 70 plus hospitals and medical centers in the Greater Kansas City region. “When individuals normally think of essential com- munity services, they often think about fire and police We will not forget departments,” said Kim Peck, Senior Executive Director of Community Blood Center. “Community Blood Center of a major update. Drainage issues are and its donors are very similar to police officers and fire HERALD REPORT being worked on and then dirt work will REVEREND MICHAEL DUNAWAY fighters. We make up a life-saving team that is here to begin. Finally, new grass will be planted. meet the needs of local patients. Our volunteer donors Weekend events and Memorial Day roll up their sleeves and do so without hesitation.” activities highlight the service of those FAIRVIEW In the Greater Kansas City area, one in three people who are “gone but not forgotten.” The annual Memorial Day service will need blood at some point in their life and nearly one Throughout history, those who served will be held at the Memorial Walk at the in seven hospital admissions requires a blood transfusion. and defended, those who have faced the Fairview Community Center at 9 a.m. This means, nearly 600 donations are needed every day to greatest dangers and won the greatest bat- Monday, May 31. In case of inclement meet hospital demand, and with a limited shelf life, sup- tles, and those who died for their country weather, the Fairview service will move plies must be continually replenished. In just 60 minutes, received the highest honors. to the Fairview Community Center. you can donate one pint of blood and Save a Life, Right On Memorial Day, we pay tribute to The public is invited to join the mem- Here, Right Now in your own community. those heroic patriots who made the ulti- bers of Sabetha Memorial Post 7285 of the Fore more information regarding our donor centers and mate sacrifice, who bravely rose up and Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Fairview- mobile blood drives, or how to set up your own drive, visit fought for something greater than them- Morrill Post 322 and Sabetha John L. www.savealifenow.org or call 1-877-468-6844. selves, protecting a home to which they Palmer Post 126 of the American Legion, never returned. as we remember and honor the legacy of We honor their service, mourn their our fallen heroes on Memorial Day. loss and remember the families they left behind. As we honor our fallen, we also WOODLAWN embrace a feeling of honor, patriotism The annual Memorial Day service at SUMMER and pride. We remember and honor all Woodlawn Cemetery will be held at 11 those who died while on active duty, both a.m. Monday, May 31. In case of inclem- Retired Marine Reverend Michael J. Dunaway overseas and in our homeland. ent weather, the Woodlawn service will will be this year’s speaker at the Memorial Day Multiple honor and remembrance cer- move to the Woodlawn Baptist Church. services at Sabetha, Fairview and Woodlawn. Splash into emonies will be offered on Memorial Day The public is invited to join the mem- A retired Marine, Reverend Michael J. Dun- – Monday, May 31. The public is invited bers of Sabetha Memorial Post 7285 of the away is the Senior Pastor of the Northeast Kansas to all services to participate in honoring Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Fairview- Lutheran Church Partnership, which comprises those who served and gave all. Morrill Post 322 and Sabetha John L. of First Lutheran in Sabetha, St. Paul Lutheran in summer Due to COVID-19, the wearing of Palmer Post 126 of the American Legion, Fairview, Immanuel Lutheran in rural Fairview masks and practicing social distancing as we remember and honor the legacy of and Zion Lutheran in Hiawatha. HERALD REPORT are encouraged. The public is invited to our fallen heroes on Memorial Day. He’s also the Circuit Visitor for Circuit One greet participating veterans and our dis- Upon returning from Woodlawn, at of the Kansas District of the Lutheran Church- School ended last week and children are celebrating the tinguished speaker prior to the services. about noon, the veteran detail – from Missouri Synod. He has served the Lord and start of summer. The Sabetha Aquatic Center opened Mon- The speaker at the Sabetha, Fairview the Sabetha, Fairview and Woodlawn His people in northeast Kansas for more than day, May 24, and the Sabetha Kiwanis Family Splash Park and Woodlawn services will be Pastor services – will provide military honors 14 years. was turned on this past weekend. Michael Dunaway, a pastor with the at Albany Cemetery. This will include the Before entering the ministry, Dunaway served Northeast Kansas Lutheran Church gun salute, Taps and raising the American 21 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, from Septem- AQUATIC CENTER Partnership. Flag to the top. There will not be a speaker ber 1971 until July 1992. Aquatic Center hours are: weekdays, 1 to 5 p.m. and 6 to or formal program at Albany Cemetery. Upon his graduation from recruit training in 8 p.m.; and weekends and holidays, 1 to 8 p.m. Pool admis- SABETHA San Diego, Calif., he was assigned to the newly sion is $5 for adults 18 and up, $3 for ages 4 to 17, and free The annual Memorial Day service at BERN formed Security and Law Enforcement Branch for children ages 3 and under. Sabetha Cemetery will be held at 10 a.m. Memorial Day services in Bern will of Headquarters Marine Corps, MOS 5800. A single season pass is $75, while a family season pass is Monday, May 31. In case of inclement include the Bern Memorial Parade. At Dunaway worked in law enforcement through- $150. Punch cards also are available at $40 for adults and weather, the Sabetha service will move 10:30 a.m., the public is invited to gather out his military career. Following prescribed $25 for children. Lap swimming and aerobics also will be to The Main Event. at the park to pick up flowers. Then at 11 training, he served as a Military Policeman, a held, and it is $2 per visit or with a season pass for $55. The public is invited to join the mem- a.m., the parade will go from the park to Crime Prevention Specialist, a Criminal Inves- Loretta Buser will again manage the Aquatic Center with bers of Sabetha Memorial Post 7285 of the Bern City Cemetery. A short program tigator and as a Chief Investigator. Skylar McAfee as the assistant manager. Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Fairview- and bugle playing will occur. Gunny Sergeant Dunaway also served two Morrill Post 322 and Sabetha John L. The Bern area fallen veteran list also years as both a Drill Instructor and Senior Drill SPLASH PARK Palmer Post 126 of the American Legion, will be read. Those veterans include Lee Instructor at Parris Island, S.C., and while in The Splash Park is open until dark every day throughout as we remember and honor the legacy of Beyreis, Donald Ehrsam, John Allen Okinawa, Japan, he was assigned independent the summer and is free to the public. our fallen heroes on Memorial Day. Fankhauser, Fred Leuthold, Harlan Frey duty as a Special Agent with what is now called The Sabetha Cemetery is in the middle Jr., Ray Murdock and Robert Reist. the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). SABETHA CITY COMMISSION AVENUE OF FLAGS Seventy-three flags have been chosen to fly at the Sabetha and Albany cemeteries. Flags numbered one Cemetery Board through 48 will fly at Sabetha, and 49 through 73 will fly at Albany. 1. Wilbur J. Grimm 20. Marvin P. Aberle 39. Leo Cain 57. Eddie Rooney 2. John H. Lucas 21. Leonard Matthes 40. Charles K. Hailey 58. Clemens R. Edelman asks for help with 3. Victor C. Arick 22. Norman H. Fike 41. Glen Strahm 59. Lowell Wells 4. Donald Davis 23. Walter Painter 42. Charles Meisner 60. Robert Aberle improvements 5. Leroy E. Leuze 24. John F. Banks 43. Rankin Grussing 61. Max E. Gutknecht 6. Guy P. Wikle 25. Robert Evans 44. Paul Lukert 62. Frederick J. Edelman 7. Henry A. Plattner 26. John Troxell 45. Kent M. Bestwick 63. Victor Bailey HEATHER STEWART 8. Frederick Phillips 27. Wilmer Utter 46. Paul Wurzbacher 64. Neil F. Shell 9. Ralph I. Cole 28. Ralph E. “Mac” McCord 47. Gerald Rison 65. Avis Boring The Sabetha City Commission met at 6 p.m. Monday, May 24, at Sabetha City Hall. Present for the meeting were 10. Wells E. Combs 29. Donald Close 48. Betty J. Petry 66. Herman Stones Mayor Doug Clark, Commissioners Norm Schmitt, Nick 11. Jim Strahm 30. Gary Tyler 49. August Shump 67.