Continued Dedicated Service to Our Community As we ease into the final quarter of 2026, we pause to recognize today as National Homemade Cookie Day. I hope each of you get your fix for the day (tomorrow’s never too late), and I thank our kitchen for serving up a delicious Choco Chip variety as today’s desert. We have also had our ease back into a football season, where some of our teams have had their bubbles already burst…but at least our Chiefs seem to have rediscovered their mojo. And...

Continued Dedicated Service to Our Community Not to tell you anything you don’t already know, but this year is flying by…nearly ¾’s over. Ya wake up and it’s Monday morning, ugh, but before you know it, here it is Friday’s cheer again. It’s not like “nothing is happening in between” …I think actually it is mental drain due to data bombardment that desensitizes us from tracking time, so it just moves briskly along despite us. Maybe times are no different at all, but it seems harder today to...

Continued Dedicated Service to Our Community As we embark on Labor Day Weekend 2026, a time for a last summer hoorah, including BBQ, sweet corn, beer, and football with family and friends, I thought I would pause and give a real shout out to the reason this holiday was created back in 1894. The reasons for its formation weren’t necessarily pretty, as American workers in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution were not treated with much respect and equity in many of the “sweat shops” of...