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The effort is similar to the Ellsworth County summer lunch program — only it’s mobile. Two days a week, those in charge of the Ellsworth-Kanopolis-Geneseo School District’s free Grab N Go breakfast and lunch deliver meals to Geneseo, Kanopolis and Ellsworth.

Karin Renard’s task as community coordinator of Ellsworth’s Red Cross Bloodmobiles has always been important. It has become especially so in this age of COVID-19. “They’re really desperate for blood,” Renard said this past weekend.

From the files of the July 28, 1988 edition of The Ellsworth Reporter. 142 YEARS AGO August 1, 1878 The Mill keeps up a steady puff. Spring chickens $1.50 per dozen. Saloons will close at 10:30 Saturday nights. Ice cream at the Grand Central on Sundays.

The COVID-19 crisis has caused fear of an unprecedented magnitude of our lifetime. How do you calm your fears? Psalm 23:1,4 says, “The LORD is MY shepherd. I shall not be in want! Even though I walk through the VALLEY of the shadow of DEATH, I WILL FEAR NO EVIL for YOU are with me!

Update at 5:06 p.m. -  This case is NOT in Ellsworth County; instead it is in Barton County. Please see addendum from Kerianne Ehrlich attached   A male over the age of 60 is the first confirmed Covid-19 case in Ellsworth County.

The day after Ellsworth County commissioners approved a month-long county-wide burn ban yesterday (Monday), Tuesday afternoon, commissioners reversed themselves and rescinded the ban.

For a Kansas Coronavirus Disease 2019 Case Summary, go to this link: https://public.tableau.com/profile/kdhe.epidemiology#!/vizhome/COVID-19Data_15851817634470/KSCOVID-19CaseData

While I was growing up there was a saying I remember my grandmother saying. It went life is fragile, handle with prayer. These are uncertain times that we live in, and who knows where we will be when this is printed. I sincerely hope you are safe and well.

Milo price up for the week Prices paid for grain at the Ellsworth Co-op at the end of the business day, Monday, March 30, were: Wheat, bu. — $4.52, down 3 cents from March 23. Milo, bu. — $3.16, up 7 cents. Soybeans, bu. — $7.87, down 2 cents. Corn, bu. — $3.08, down 3 cents.

A young girl receives a free carton of milk and a bag containing lunch and breakfast March 26 at Ellsworth Junior-Senior High School as part of the Ellsworth-Kanopolis-Geneseo USD 327 curbside grab and go lunch program. Pick up a copy of the April 9 edition for a full story on the effort.