Ellis County

So, uh, we expected this dip, always expected it to come.

Now the, the, I think the exciting thing is we also shared information on, uh, some, some live births in Ellis County over the last, uh, I think we had a graph of nine years.

And, uh, what we're seeing is we're gonna see a pretty, uh, good rebound in terms of some of the highest numbers that we've ever seen, um, uh, in for quite a while.

And so we anticipate we'll bounce back.

[upbeat music] A healthy lifestyle can be made easier if you're participating with other people.

I'm Becky Kiser, Hays Post Eagle Radio News, and I'm talking with Karissa Frazier, community health worker with the Cottonwood Extension District in Ellis County.

Karissa will tell us about the Arthritis Foundation's Walk With Ease program starting November 2nd.

It's indoors at Big Creek Crossing.

That is truly the best part of the day.

And, and then, and we're fortunate in Hays, we have so many fifth graders in Ellis County, that there's fifth graders there pretty much all day.

So, so people could stop in, um, and see the fifth graders in actions.

But they get Give Bucks, which are in $5 increments, and then every participant has a little ballot box on their table, um, sort of set up like a trade show or like a trade, you know, like a fair, where they are there to, to tell visitors about what they do.

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... very hard as well, and that one did very well.

Um, and then both of our fire funds, both Ellis County Company 4 and Company 5 have funds with us, and they both did really well.

So it just depends on who's going hard and who's-

No, absolutely.

I mean, from a Grow Hayes stance for economic development, we want to bring people to Ellis County and Western Kansas, but we also want to keep people here.

We want them to see that there is a good reason to stay.

And if you just look at the manufacturers category alone, we have 25, 30 manufacturers easily that you can build your trade, you can go there, they make good pay, it gives them a future, and it continues to grow our community because they're staying here and they're given a reason for why we can do these things.

You know, we're on a good track.

We've really changed the course of where we've been in the past.

Agility, staying in Ellis County and expanding and then adding more workforce is a huge piece to showing that we have a good story to tell for our community.

We have Hayes Med.

Then the people who benefit have every reason to pay for it.

The hotels and restaurants in Hays, it's in Ellis County, Kansas.

The alumni, what about them? Or the foundations that love a building with their name on it.

Supporters are already trying.

Black Sox scandal players were indicted on September 28, 1920, for conspiring to fix the 1919 World Series between the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds.

On September 27, 1869, Ellis County Sheriff Wild Bill Hickok shot and killed a rowdy teamster named Samuel Strahan at a bar in Hays City, Kansas.

Samuel Adams was a key American founding father, political philosopher, and revolutionary organizer who masterminded the opposition to British taxation and helped plan the Boston Tea Party, was born on this day in 1722.

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