Sunday-
9:30 am Sunday School classes for all ages
10:40 am Worship Service (nursery available for ages 4 and below)
5:30 pm Choir Practice (Fellowship Hall)
7:00 pm Armouraires Gospel Quartet (Sanctuary; adult and youth groups will not meet)
Flint Hills Gobblers to host 14th Annual Spring Turkey Hunting
Event open to first 250 who register
EMPORIA – The Flint Hills Gobblers Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation will hold the 14th Annual Spring Turkey Hunting Clinic and Internet-Assisted Hunter Education Class on Saturday, March 28. The event will take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Dry Creek Sporting Clays, south of Emporia and is open to anyone interested in learning how to become a better turkey hunter.
Participants 17 years old and younger will receive commemorative t-shirts and JAKES (Juniors Acquiring Knowledge, Ethics and Sportsmanship) memberships. Prizes will also be drawn for youth at the end of the clinic. Lunch will be provided. There is no fee to participate; however, preregistration is required.
Participants will go through several education stations covering various aspects of turkey hunting, including:
Turkey biology and management • turkey hunting equipment and safety • turkey calling and locator calling • scouting and roosting • bowhunting for turkeys • shotgun hunting and safety • trap shooting • and target shooting.
An Internet-Assisted Hunter Education Class will also be taught during the clinic; however it will be limited to 24 students.
For more information or to register for the clinic or Internet-Assisted Hunter Education Class, contact Gib Rhodes at (620) 437-2012.
Lettuce sandy
The first AAS winning lettuce since 1985, Sandy is an attractive oakleaf type lettuce with a multitude of sweet tasting frilly dark green leaves. Not just pretty and tasty, Sandy has exceptional disease resistance, especially to powdery mildew and is slow to bolt. Use Sandy as cut and come again baby leaf, or grow to full maturity for loose salad heads. The uniformly mounded loose heads are well adapted to both raised beds and containers. When planted with cool season flowers, Sandy will add an abundance of interesting texture to patio containers. Sandy is the second AAS Winner that is available as organic seed.
Can be planted in patio containers with cool season edible flowers to enjoy. Typically not bitter when heat-stressed. Sandy has exceptional bolt resistance and is especially resistant to Powdery Mildew disease. Can be used for baby leaf cut and come again or grown to full maturity for loose salad heads.
Bird feeding
Severe winter weather is not only hard on people but can be a life
and death struggle for birds. Though birds also require water and
shelter, food is often the resource most lacking during cold weather.
Many different bird food mixes are available because various species often prefer different grains. However, there is one seed that has more universal appeal than any other: black oil sunflower. If you are new to the bird-feeding game, make sure there is a high percentage of this seed in your mix. White proso millet is second in popularity and is the favorite of dark-eyed juncos and other sparrows as well as the red-winged blackbird.
As you become more interested in bird feeding, you may want to use more than one feeder to attract specific species of birds. Following is a list of bird species with the grains they prefer.
– Cardinal, evening grosbeak and most finch species – sunflower seeds, all types.
– Rufous-sided towhee – white proso millet
– Dark-eyed junco – white and red proso millet, canary seed, fine cracked corn.
– Many sparrow species – white and red proso millet.
– Bluejay – peanut kernels and sunflower seeds of all types.
– Chickadee and tufted titmouse – peanut kernels, oil (black) and black-striped sunflower seeds.
– Red-breasted nuthatch – oil (black) and black-striped sunflower seeds.
– Brown thrasher – hulled and black-striped sunflower seeds.
– Red-winged blackbird – white and red proso millet plus German
(golden) millet
– Mourning dove – oil (black) sunflower seeds, white and red proso plus German (golden) millet.
Extended cold periods can also make water unavailable. A heated birdbath can be a tremendous draw for birds during times when all other water is frozen. Energy use is usually less than what most people expect IF the heater has a built-in thermostat.
If you would like more information, Chuck Otte, Agriculture Extension Agent for Geary County has a series of backyard birding guides at http://gearycountyextension.
