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Ellsworth County’s Josh Svaty will be the speaker at Sunday’s 2 p.m. annual meeting of the Ellsworth County Historical Society at the Senior Center.

Courtesy Photo These four students from Ellsworth Junior/Senior High School were pages with Rep. Steven Johnson Thursday, Feb. 6. Shown are, from left: Isabelle Lindsley, Rebekah Vague, Lt. Gov. Lynn W. Rogers, Rep. Johnson, Zoe Wimmer and Peyton Coonrod.

Editor’s Note — The first installment of 2019 — The Year in Review appeared January. This second installment will be followed in a future edition with more stories from this past year.

WILSON — Six-year-old Jonathan Soukup of Wilson helped his parents, Justin and Jocelyn, raise 12 chickens from the time they were chicks in hopes of someday entering them in the Ellsworth County Fair. Unfortunately, those hopes have been dashed.

Kansas is unmatched in its tracking of ex-convicts, resulting in more than 21,000 people convicted of sex, drug or violent crimes being registered on a public database. One of them is Marc Schultz, who was convicted of manslaughter for hitting and killing a cyclist while driving drunk in 2010.

Although there was no school for Ellsworth-Kanopolis-Geneseo USD 327 due to President’s Day, 60 Ellsworth Elementary School second through fourth graders spent Monday at the school learning leadership and having fun at the Bearcat Youth Leadership Academy.

Patrick Hoffman envisions an Ellsworth County that offers a good quality of life for his parents and grandparents — and also opportunities for his three young children to settle in their hometown as adults.

New Ellsworth resident Don McKnight brought something special with him in August when he moved from Colorado. McKnight is a master falconer who shares his home with six falcons. The beauty and grace of the birds were apparent on a training run during a recent Saturday morning in February.

Can you believe it is February 2020? I’m afraid to blink — time is going so fast. People, enjoy your lives, be the best you can be now, don’t put off what you enjoy till tomorrow because tomorrow will be gone and in the past and it will be too late!

The County Liners 4-H club met Jan. 20 at the Geneseo United Methodist Church. President Noah Goss called the meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. Colton Habiger and Britta Goss led the Pledge of Allegiance and 4-H pledge.