It’s Fathers Day this weekend. If you haven’t signed up for the great prizes at participating businesses you still have time. Get out there and shop and while you are doing that sign up your favorite Father for the 2023 Super Dad Sweepstakes!!

Yardmaster Garden and Gifts has a wide variety of wonderful items dad can pick from with the $25 gift certificate they will be awarding.

Dad can just go anywhere to pick out something he may want with his $25 gift card from Equity Bank. Hugoton Drug has a specially filled gift basket for their lucky dad or grandfather.

Dad can take himself, and maybe you too, out for a wonderful meal at Bonnie and Clyde’s with his $30 gift certificate. Citizens State Bank is offering their lucky winner $20 in Gas Capital Dollars. Flatlanders has a lot of items to pick from with their offered $25 gift card.

You will not believe the items dad or granddad can pick from at Main Revelation, LLC if they draw his name and give him a $25 gift card.

Does Dad want to get into shape? Sign him up at the Stevens County Fitness Center and he could get a free month of membership if his name is drawn.

Sign up Dad for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate at Napa Auto and Truck Parts. He could be picked as their lucky winner.

Bultman Tire Center will give their lucky winner a $50 gift certificate and a chance at being the 2023 Super Dad winner.

Dad will be so happy you registered him at Los Agaves if his name is drawn there and he is given a $25 gift certificate to enjoy anytime.

The lucky winner at Twisted H Liquor can receive a $25 gift certificate to spend however they wish and a chance to be picked as this year’s Super Dad.

That lucky dad, husband or granddad can enjoy spending his $15 gift card at Slim Pickins in Moscow if they draw his name. Dream First Bank will help fund dad or grandpa’s dreams with the $25 gift certificate they will award the winner in their facility.

All kinds of treasured items can be purchased with a $25 gift certificate if his name is drawn at The Little Gift Shop on the Corner in the Stevens County Hospital.

The Jet Drive-In will be the place to be if your dad or grandpa’s name is drawn, as they will be presenting him with two dinners and drinks.

The deadline to enter your favorite fella is Saturday, June 17. Drawing for Super Dad 2023 will take place Monday, June 19. Winners at each business will be notified by the merchant. Super Dad will need to have his picture taken and be featured in The Hugoton Hermes. The Hugoton Chamber will also give Super Dad $50 in Chamber Bucks.

So don’t forget your dad, grandfather or husband, get out and do your shopping from all these great suggested local places and sign that special gentleman up for the title of Super Dad 2023!!

Saturday, June 10, 2023, the Dust Bowl Riders will host the Brian Lamberson Memorial Motorcycle Run at Bullwackerz Saloon at 109 E. Sixth Street in Hugoton. This will be their twenty-seventh annual rally.

The riders will begin to gather at noon Saturday to register for the run. The motorcycle parade starts from Bullwackerz Saloon in Hugoton beginning at 2:00 p.m. and the bikes will parade down Main Street. There will be a freewill lunch provided. Pork is provided by Seaboard Foods.

The winning poker hand wins $1,000, second place is $500 and third place is $250. There will be a 50/50 pot, door prizes, live auction and music with DJ CLA Hammer all day. All money raised at this rally will go toward scholarships and charities.

The club members are looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones. They want to ‘party down’ with DJ – CLA Hammer and enjoy another year! All bikes are welcome.

Moscow Christian Fellowship Church invites all to Worship Service Sunday, May 28 at 11 a.m. Pastor Dane Hernandez will be bringing us The Good News of the Gospel!  He has served as youth pastor, associate pastor, senior pastor and church planter in churches across Kansas and Missouri. He currently serves as Minister to Young Adults at First Baptist Church of Garland, TX. Pastor Dane says he is honored and looks forward to the opportunity to share God’s Word in his hometown of Moscow. Please join us!

Memorial Day is Monday, May 29. The annual Memorial Day Remembrance Services will take place at the Moscow and Hugoton Cemeteries.

Moscow services will start at 9:00 a.m. with Patty Lahey from Christian Fellowship Church in Moscow presiding. There will be a dedication for the new Columbarium. After the ceremony coffee and donuts will be offered at the maintenance building of Moscow. All are invited.

Hugoton services are planned for promptly at 10:00 a.m. Tim Singer of Assembly of God Church of Hugoton will officiate these services. Hugoton Masonic Lodge will also present a ceremony. Notice to All Veterans! You are invited and urged to join together in a “Walk to the Flag” ceremony. This is to honor all Veterans – from Veterans. Veterans lease plan to gather at the north gate to the Hugoton Cemetery 30 minutes (9:30) before the services which start at 10:00 a.m.

Mothers and grandmothers rejoice!! Mother’s Day is upon us and again we actually get to celebrate and be together this year!! Some amazing gifts may be found right here in Stevens County! While your loved ones do all the errands for you, while you rest and relax, remind them to sign you up for the 2023 Super Mom Sweepstakes!!

Sons and daughters – if you haven’t picked up gifts for your precious mother or grandmother – and husbands for your special wife – help is right around the corner – literally! Stop into one of the following local businesses for any number of great gifts, sign her up for a chance to be Super Mom 2023 and she might win some of these special gifts!!

Janet’s Bridal and Boutique will be giving a $25 gift certificate to their lucky mom. Yardmaster Garden and Gifts has a wide variety of wonderful items mom can pick from with the $25 gift certificate they will be awarding.

Mom can just go anywhere to pick out something she may want with her $25 gift card from Equity Bank. Hugoton Drug has a specially filled gift basket for their lucky mom or grandmother.

Mom can take herself, and maybe you too, out for a wonderful meal at Bonnie and Clyde’s with her $30 gift certificate. Citizens State Bank is offering their lucky mom $20 in Gas Capital Dollars.

If your mom is the lucky name drawn at China she will receive a $25 gift certificate. Flatlanders has a lot of items to pick from with their offered $25 gift card.

A delicious meal can be enjoyed by mom or grandmother with her $30 gift certificate if her name is drawn at Acosta’s & Nieto’s. You will not believe the items mom or grandmother can pick from at Main Revelation, LLC if they draw her name and give her a $25 gift card.

Mom will be so happy you registered her at Los Agaves if her name is drawn there and she is given a $25 gift certificate to enjoy anytime. Tan’alon is fixing up a wonderful gift basket for mom if she is their lucky winner.

That lucky mom, wife or grandmother can enjoy a lovely lunch and drink at Slim Pickins in Moscow if they draw her name. Dream First Bank will help fund mom or grandma’s dreams with the $25 gift certificate they will award the winner in their facility.

All kinds of treasured jewelry can be found and picked from for your mom or grandma if her name is drawn at The Little Gift Shop on the Corner in the Stevens County Hospital. The Stevens County Retail Pharmacy will award their lucky winner with a $30 gift card.

The Jet Drive-In will be the place to be if your mom or grandmother’s name is drawn, as they will be presenting her with two dinners and drinks. Enter that special mother or grandmother at Rebellious Boutique for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate that she will be able to put to good use in Kendra’s little shop.

The deadline to enter your favorite lady is Saturday, May 13. Drawing for Super Mom 2023 will take place Monday, May 15. Winners at each business will be notified by the merchant. Super Mom will need to have her picture taken and be featured in The Hugoton Hermes. The Hugoton Chamber will also give Super Mom $50 in Chamber Bucks.

So don’t forget your mom, grandmother or wife, get out and do your shopping from all these great suggested local places and sign that special lady up for the title of Super Mom 2023!!

Aneta Morris, Hugoton eighth grade art student, has won the prestigious national level Scholastic Gold Medal Award for 2023. Aneta is the daughter of Josh and Keri Morris of Hugoton. Her art teacher is Mr. Terrill at Hugoton Middle School.

The Scholastic Gold Medal is the national honor presented to winning artworks for students in the National Scholastic Art Com- petition level in New York City.

Hugoton has had five such national winners in this competition in the last 23 years, the last three of these winners in the last five years. Aneta was one of just three Gold Medal students from the state of Kansas who achieved this award this year.

Aneta’s winning lifecast found object sculpture entitled “A New Chapter.”  A visual of Aneta’s work will be on display in New York at the Scholastic Headquarters gallery and at the cooperating galleries in the Manhattan Island Times Square regional area in June.   Her work will then travel about the United States for the next two years as well as appear in Scholastic magazines, publications and national art news outlets.