The National...By Celia Llopis-Jepsen - Kansas News Service
“I give my cell phone to the students and their parents, and of course I stay in touch with all of our constituents on social media. Garden City, KS, is where Cecil Obrate lives today. He called it the Kansas Legislative Handbook, a compilation of just about every facet of government, and how the various pieces fit together. Of course, he never had any intention of doing it; it was fun for him.” Despite the challenges of development—zoning, financing, recruiting tenants, tracking construc-tion—Fred Merrill Jr. is having his own brand of fun. WICHITA, Kansas — Kansas teachers that don’t feel safe going back to crowded hallways as schools reopen could take...By Frank Morris - Kansas News Service
Laura Kelly, Commerce Secretary David Toland, the Finney County Economic Development Corporation and county and local officials.Between March 2019 and February 2020, GC Investments submitted $6.6 million in disbursement requests to the City of Garden City. But the more we get into it, and the more we connect with people recognized in previous years, the more we are amazed at the depth of people who, in ways large and small, are changing the face and the fabric of their communities.Some of those communities are downright tiny— this year’s class includes people from places like Alma, Sharon, Sedan and Lenora—as well as the more cosmopolitan burgs with billion-dollar corporations and thousands.Look at what people from all parts of the state are doing—to grow their businesses, to improve the quality of life for the people around them, to build stronger, better cities and towns—and you can’t help but be impressed at how a state so lacking in numbers can generate so many gems.We hope you’ll find their stories as entertaining, and as illuminating, as we have in bringing them to you. Browne’s career started with Ernst & Young, “but pretty quickly I realized that I wanted to be a partner in a firm that serviced more of a niche market,” he said.
Although I don’t love it when someone has a problem, I do love being able to help them solve it.” That’s the kind of rolled-sleeves attitude that made the fit in Independence the right one when he came from Alfred State College five years ago. “It’s an incredible opportunity to teach them what it’s all about, in a positive environment, and teach positive work skills,” he said. “I learned hard core sales, contract negotiation and basic survival in that field very quickly.” That served her well when her stepfather fell ill and she returned to Kansas City to assist with the limousine-services company he and her mother started—at her urging—back in high school. It didn’t hurt that the prospective finance major would be paying the same price for tuition there he would have paid to attend Mizzou. A growing global middle class with changing dietary demands and income to finance them, Griffin says, should bode well for companies like MGP and others in the agricultural sector. She’s served on the school board, the Geary Community Hospital board, and the Geary County United Way board, co-chairs the local Martin Luther King Jr. celebration events, and has graduated from various leadership programs, including Leadership Kansas. “One person can’t do everything, but everyone can do something,” she says. It drew Gov. Life might have been dif-ferent had she heeded Dad’s guidance—“He knew just how hard starting and grow-ing your own business really was,” she says—but after becoming a certified public accountant, her start-up DNA asserted itself. Founded in 1990 by Rev. Mike Hayden to consider her. Soon, in addition to expansions into other parts of the area, the church will open an impressive new sanctuary. “Buildings don’t complain about looking fat in photos,” he jokes. Every farmer knows what it means to be self-reliant, but in O’Brate’s case, the source of his entrepreneurship was a little different. Karen Humphreys was the hammer. He’s not a set-hours kind of photographer, either. “I bought a really big desk at an auction and decided I needed a career to match it,” he wisecracks. “Wish they’d all graduated,” he cracks, but turns serious when he says he has enjoyed “the opportunity to make a difference at a school that I love, working with faculty and staff and students who really have an interest in keeping KSU and Manhattan a special place.” Now, Bosco says, with the new National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility being built next to campus and KSU’s own new bioscience research labs going up nearby, “our significant contribution to basic research will continue to grow.”,“I was born an ent-repreneur,” says Wichita native Trish Brasted, just like her father and grandfather. Cecil & Frances O'Brate Cecil O’Brate was born and raised on a farm in Enid, Oklahoma during the Great Depression. “As a young adult, I swore I’d never run for public office in my life,” she muses. Because even at No.
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