Susan Thacker “Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing.” That quote is attributed to UCLA Bruins football coach Henry Russell “Red” Sanders and I always thought it was the mind-set of all winning coaches. But it turns out winning is not always the only thing, even when it means everything. ...
Susan Thacker There’s a new form of “hide and seek” going around: people paint rocks and let others in the community find them. They’ve shown up at various places around Great Bend this fall, including the courthouse square and on a window ledge in front of the Great Bend Tribune ...
Susan Thacker When Paul Berscheidt from the Central Kansas Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired told me that white canes are intended to help sighted people as much as they help people who are blind or have vision impairment, I knew exactly what he was talking about. From time ...
Susan Thacker Mary Bender retired 10 years ago, but there was one task that she continued to perform for Landmark Bank — until this summer. Mary, a Great Bend resident, conducted her final bus trip for the bank on Aug. 12. A chartered bus took a group of season ticket ...
Susan Thacker What’s in a word? A while back, administrators at the Kansas Highway Patrol asked reporters to stop calling car crashes “accidents.” Crashes are preventable, but the word “accident” implies no one is at fault, it just happened, and nothing could have been done to prevent the outcome. In ...
Susan Thacker School got underway this week in Great Bend and on Monday all of the employees returned ahead of the students for their Back to School Bash at Great Bend High School. When Khris Thexton stepped on stage in the GBHS Auditorium he was given a standing ovation — ...
Susan Thacker Can we wipe out poverty in Great Bend? A new group, Circles of Central Kansas, wants to teach people new skills for pulling themselves out of poverty. “Several citizens of this area have been increasingly concerned about issues in our community,” said Becky Gillette, a member of the ...
Susan Thacker 530News – Susan Thacker Remember the fads of elementary school? There were small, inexpensive items that every fifth-grader had to have. A few weeks ago, fidget spinners found their way to Great Bend schools. A fidget spinner is a hand toy that you spin. It has two or ...
Susan Thacker Did you hear? There was a rumor going around that there was a rumor going around … There was some concern t hat last Saturday’s Cinco de Mayo celebration in Jack Kilby Square might not have much of a turnout. Talk on the street … well, to be ...
Future leaders often find their passion early Susan Thacker Where will the next generation of artists, professional athletes, scientists and doctors come from? They are with us now, along with the next generation of farmers, electricians, mechanics and computer programers. I suppose the next generation of bad apples is here, ...
