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Editor Jenny Diveley announced this week a month long contest to celebrate the one year anniversary of the Prairie Star.  The contest is called “Celebrating One Year 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 Prairie Star.

“This is our way of telling our readers thank you for a fun first year.  We want reading our newspaper to bring a smile to faces every week,” said Diveley. Read more

Donita Cupit of Sedan was randomly selected as the winner out of all of the entrants in the Prairie Star Fruit Salad Drawing.  She entered the drawing with her Frozen Fruit Salad entry.

On Monday she was awarded with a chef’s basket containing a sunflower cutting board, kitchen towels, wooden spoons, and a Paula Deen cookbook.  Her recipe follows and the rest of the entrants can be found in Margie’s Food for Thought column in this week’s printed edition of the Prairie Star.

The staff of the Prairie Star would like to announce a new “Summer Fruit Salad Contest” that will be held now through June 26. The winner will be announced on Wednesday, July 1. Read more

Kortney Everett, Sedan Elementary fifth grader, was the winner of the Prairie Star Mother’s Day Poetry Drawing.  She wrote a poem to her “Nana”, Verna Everett.  Verna and Kortney’s grandfather, Billy live in Broken Bow, Okla.

She received a basket full of items to give as a gift to a special woman to honor on Mother’s Day.  The basket included herbal tea, a teacup, jewelry, chocolate, and more.  The staff at Prairie Star sponsored the drawing.

Kortney is the daughter of Lana and Kelly Everett of Sedan. She is also is the granddaughter of Howard and Ellen Hawkins of Grenola. Her great-grandmother, Phyllis Hawkins, lives in Grenola as well.