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Local members of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 11234 and Daughters of the Revolutionary War Chapter Where the Trail Divides held a flag retirement ceremony at Veterans Park Saturday, June 25. The small event began with the pledge of allegiance.

Mayor Todd Winters presented the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award for the City of Gardner’s Annual Budget and a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting for the City’s Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the 2020 fiscal year from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada to the City of Gardner’s Finance Team at the June 21 council meeting. Staff photo by Lynne Hermansen

Over 500 snow cones were served to local residents who came out to support the Gardner Police Department Thursday June 9 at the Dollar General on Moonlight Road. The family friendly event welcomed everyone with a patrol car to see and touch, a drone and patrol bicycle.

Lynne Hermansen The Gardner Historical Museum shared coffee, pastries and trail history on June 1st with new Gardner Chamber CEO, Jason Lieb, and business members of the community. The event was in anticipation for the new exhibit “Looking Back at Gardner Lake”, on the history of Gardner Lake that opened Friday, June 17.

Residents of unincorporated southwest Johnson County and southeast Douglas County met for a public hearing on the possible formation of the City of Clearfield. Those that addressed the Douglas County commissioners Wednesday, June 15 in a three and a half hour public hearing were mostly from Douglas County and were opposed to losing their rural, farm lifestyle in Douglas County outside Eudora, Vinland and Baldwin City.

Over 200 people attended the second annual Gardner Kansas Pride Parade and family friendly festivities on Saturday, June 18. The parade went down Main Street to Daylight Donuts and back to the Johnson County Fairgrounds at 10 a.m.