Jordan K. Russell, senior at Oswego High School,  drew the winning logo for this year’s Oswegofest buttons, She said it took her about two hours to design it. Russell designed the logo for last year’s Renaissance t-shirts and has won various art awards at the fair and in school. She is the daughter of Jason and Wendy Russell of Oswego. The banks will also be selling the Oswegofest buttons. These buttons cost $1.50 this year and there will be cash drawings for the lucky number.

There will be a public meeting at the new community center in Oswego on Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 7 p.m., to discuss the plan for the ball fields and the types of volunteers needed, including earth moving, storm drain laying, placing and raking infields, re-positioning of sprinklers, fencing, time keeping, providing meals for volunteers on work days, etc.

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The Oswegofest and Alumni Reunion committees are ready for Saturday, Sept 26.
Both the Commercial Bank and Labette Bank of Oswego have registration forms for all the events for Oswegofest. Some of these events are the car, truck and bike show. The 5km Run/Walk and also the Pie Baking Contest, and Oswegofest T-shirt order forms.
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Federal stimulus funds distributed across state of Kansas

USDA Rural Development State Director Patty Clark congratulated the seven Kansas recipients who may receive $25,219,500 for water and environmental projects, recently announced by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.  The Kansas water projects have been selected by USDA Rural Development to be funded by federal appropriations, provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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9/11 remembrance to be held Friday at Chetopa school

The Chetopa Memorial VFW Auxiliary #10508 will hold it’s annual Endowment Potluck and fundraiser on Saturday, Sept. 12, at 6 p.m. in the fellowship hall of the First Christian Church. The Endowment Scholarship is strictly for the children and grandchildren of Kansas VFW and Auxiliary members.
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Editor Rena Russell announced this week a month long contest to celebrate the two-year anniversary of Labette Avenue.  It was two years ago that four community newspapers were combined into one and the newspaper became larger, more colorful and expanded in content.
The contest is called “Celebrating Two Years of Smiles” and will center around a small “smiley face” that will be hidden each week during the month of September in each edition of the Labette Avenue.
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Brian Holderman, well known sports and news photographer in this area, will produce a series of photo pages for Labette Avenue, according to Rudy Taylor, publisher.
Holderman worked for many years as staff photographer for the Parsons Sun.
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