NEWS

It’s Spring on the Rez

MAYETTA:  Spring is finally here and some employees and volunteers were photographed recently sprucing things up. Also included are some shots of nature.

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Volunteers from the Firekeepers Elder Center put on a new coat of paint on the ball park bleachers located near housing cluster #3.  The elders have been holding fund raisers so that they can do community projects like the one above as a way to say thank you to the PBPN community.

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A new building sign went up in front of the Government Center last week that drew a crowd while it was being installed.  Crews from Road & Bridge and Construction/Maintenance did the work.  Holding the sign on the right is Jake Rodewald and kneeling, left, is B.J. Jones.

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The sign as it now appears.

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Workers on the Firekeeper Golf Course are staying busy.

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A new bison calf scampers across the pasture as taken from 150 Road today.  Several calves have been born this spring.

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Alan “Boney” Pahmahmie displays some of the Morrell mushrooms he found. Morrell mushroom hunting is a favorite rite of passage each spring in northeast Kansas.

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Prairie Peoples Park a couple of weeks ago.

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The Apple Orchard off of K Road when it was in full bloom.

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Monarch butterfly in the orchard.

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Close up of the trees that were in bloom last week in front of the Government Center.