🌱 Remembering Arlene Scronce’s lifetime of nursing and community service

Good day Pratt! We're here again with what you need to know today. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

• Remembering Arlene Scronce’s lifetime of nursing and community service
• Remembering the deadly November 1915 tornado outbreak near Pratt

Also on today's calendar: LEPC Meeting and 8 more events.

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Sunny, nice and warm, with a high of 72 and low of 40 degrees.
• Thursday: Sunny and comfortable, temps: high: 65, low: 35.
• Friday: Cooler with plenty of sun, with a high of 56 and low of 34 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Arlene Lucille Scronce (eurekaherald.com) — Arlene Lucille Scronce, a longtime nurse and former Pratt Pilot Club president, died November 6 at age 87. She worked at Kiowa County Memorial Hospital for 45 years and served on the Pratt Humane Society board. A celebration of her life is scheduled for 11 a.m. November 11 at Cornerstone Fellowship’s North Campus in Greensburg.
   

• Kansas-Oklahoma Tornado Tragedy: 111 Years Since Deadly November Outbreak (newsbreak.com) — Tornadoes passed south and east of Pratt during the deadly November 10, 1915, outbreak now being revisited through National Weather Service historical research. The nighttime storms killed 11 people around Great Bend and four in Zyba, underscoring the destructive potential of tornadoes well beyond the usual spring season.
   

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📸 Around Pratt

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Pratt

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★ Featured events ★

Monday November 16

• Regular Commission Meeting →
  Pratt
  5:00 pm

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Other local events

Thursday November 12

• SW 3rd Grade Music Program
  Liberty Middle School
  7:00 pm

Saturday November 14

• Choir: PHS Broadway Dinner Theatre (PHS Singers)
  Pratt High School Rooms Commons
  6:00 pm

Sunday November 15

• Football Banquet
  Pratt High School Rooms Commons
  4:00 pm

Thursday November 19

• LEPC Meeting →
  City of Pratt Fire Station, 201 S. Jackson, Pratt
  11:00 am
• SW Family Literacy Night
  Southwest Elementary School
  6:30 pm

Saturday November 21

• Band: Christmas in the Park (Marching)
  Lemon Park
  9:00 am

Tuesday November 24

• Girls Basketball: Girls Basketball Jamboree (Varsity)
  Hugoton High School West Gym
  5:00 pm
• Boys Basketball: Boys Basketball Jamboree (Varsity)
  Dodge City High School Fieldhouse
  5:00 pm
• Girls Basketball: (Junior Varsity)
  Hugoton High School West Gym
  5:00 pm
• Boys Basketball: (Junior Varsity)
  Dodge City High School Auxiliary Gym
  5:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday November 12

• MS BB w/South Barber
  Skyline Schools USD 438 Pratt, KS 67124
  4:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Mission Health Communities posted a job opening for Housekeeping in Pratt. Apply here.
• Reliant Management Group, LLC posted a job opening for Occupational Therapy Assistant in Pratt. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Pratt here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Great Bend

• CHANGE OF LOCATION: The Center offers Veterans Day event and resource fair (gbtribune.com)
• Charles Richard 'Charlie' Duvall (seguintoday.com)
• UKHS St. Francis Campus announces new CEO (wibw.com)

Hutchinson

• 🐱 Sweet Hutchinson Cats Ready to Join Your Family (newsbreak.com)
• Mike Strong: A Medic's Way of Doing Business (rtohq.org)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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