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GBPL Activities All Month Check out all the fun Great Bend Public Library events at www.greatbendpl.info. GBRC Craft Classes and Activities All Month Feeling crafty or needing to get out of the house? Check out the Great Bend Rec Center activities at www.greatbendrec.net.

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Enter for your chance to win a gift card every Monday until the Grand Prize basket drawing on February 25th. Sign up at participating locations!

Barton County Commissioners meet at 9 a.m. Mondays, or on a Tuesday following a Monday holiday, in the County Commission Chambers located in the Barton County Courthouse, Room 106. The commissioners conduct an agenda session at 9 a.m. After the agenda meeting, the commissioners conduct study sessions. Study sessions provide an opportunity for the commissioners to discuss items that may appear in future agenda sessions. Citizens are invited and encouraged to attend both agenda and study sessions. If you would like to appear before the commissioners for an agenda item or a study session, please contact Diana Watson, Commissioners' Assistant to schedule arrangements 620-793-1800.

A time for parents to engage babies’ brains through lap reading, rhymes, music and motion. Best for babies 9 to 18 months. Tuesday’s 9:30 AM Thursday’s 6:00 PM

An Active time for little learners featuring early literacy skills, picture books, finger plays, songs, rhymes, music and movement. Tuesday’s 10:30 AM Thursday’s 6:30 PM

What a great way for your child to spend the morning with an active story and gym time to burn off some of that energy. Story time with the Great Bend Public Library Children’s Department will begin in the commons area of the Great Bend Rec Activity Center (2715 18th St.) starting at 9:30 am. Your child will love listening and interacting to these fun stories. Following Story Time, the children will head off to the gym to play with some equipment the Rec will have out or to the My BackYard Playground (weather permitting). This will be a non-supervised drop-in gym time that adults will be required to attend in order to supervise their children that will run until 11:00 am. This free program is recommended for children ages 6 and under on the following Wednesdays: January 29th, February 12th, 26th and March 25th.

A time for parents to engage babies’ brains through lap reading, rhymes, music and motion. Best for babies 9 to 18 months. Tuesday’s 9:30 AM Thursday’s 6:00 PM

An Active time for little learners featuring early literacy skills, picture books, finger plays, songs, rhymes, music and movement. Tuesday’s 10:30 AM Thursday’s 6:30 PM

Please join the Great Bend Chamber of Commerce for their weekly Chamber Coffee, hosted by First Assembly of God! Networking, coffee & refreshments are available at 9:00 AM, the program will take place at 9:30 AM.

Check out all the fun Great Bend Public Library events at www.greatbendpl.info.

Feeling crafty or needing to get out of the house? Check out the Great Bend Rec Center activities at www.greatbendrec.net.

The 15th annual Gala begins with a social hour at 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 29 at the Great Bend Events Center, 3111 10th. Participants can expect a catered meal from Ellsworth Steak House, open bar and wine at every table. Auctioneer Mike Niedens and Emcee Scott Donovan will keep the audience entertained again this year. A seat at the Gala is $100. Contact Oetken by calling 620-792-1325 for more information, to donate and/or make a reservation.