Hi! My family is really interested in moving to Howard, Moline, or Severy, KS

[Buddyboy]

Nope just one at a time. One from 8th to Sophomore and one from Senior yr to a year after.

[Tobina+1]

(I have a confession to make; I've never eaten at Toot's yet!  I got some coffee from there once when my coffee maker was broke, but I've not ever eaten there!  Guess maybe that's what I should do for lunch today?)   

[Diane Amberg]

If you do get a Fudge Monkey, be sure to follow Flo's advice.  I wish I'd known!

[Tobina+1]

Unfortunately, Diane, that advice never seems to work for me!   

OK... to re-thread this topic...
We talked about schools, churches, and houses... Heather touched on the pool a little, so let's talk about recreation! 
The Howard City Pool is, of course, in Howard.  And I think it's the only pool in the county?
There a multiple lakes around, too, but I don't know much about them.  Anyone can fill in the blanks about swimming, boating, fishing in the local lakes? 
What about activities out at Flint Oak?  Parks in each of the towns?  I know Moline has tennis courts that look nice and a sand VB court.  And the park there is just wonderful!  It was brimming with kids last weekend at Crazy Days!  (This is a fun learning experinence for me, too... my recreation lately has been mowing and picking weeds!)

[Judy Harder]

Tobina,

There are also the hay fields and the cowboys that work around here.....
all are usually looking for helping hands..LOL

We do have a park here in Longton..........it has several nice playground equipment for the kids.
What I like about it is there is lots of shade down there.
I can stop and sit on bench and just watch the kids play when I am walking about town.

Oh, it is totally safe to walk the roads of this town. We (I think the other towns do to) have a leash law.......and most of the time
the only critter you need to watch out for are the ones that are friendly.

There is always someone picking up a softball game. Use to be a coed slow pitch...but I think they grew up and got to busy.
Most of our summer activity is the Fair that Howard and Longton take turns in hosting the 4-H fair and ours is the first weekend of August and we will have a free bean feed and  kids contests and the yearly rodeo.

I know Howards fair is coming up later this month and I will let some one from Howard tell about that.

Now, our school year does revolve around our school kids.  If something is going on at school......all have an interest whether we have kids there or not.

On a lighter note. A building here (old hotel) had to be knocked down because of being condemned and a very large amount of us were in attendence.
Some students were allowed out of class to come watch the action.
It doesn't take much to intertain us...........we take lawn chairs to fires (when it is a practice drill for firemen). 

Who is Next to talk about their area of county?

[DanCookson]

I am going to chime in here on something that doesn't get near the recognition it deserves and that is the service community.

We have an excellent Sheriff's Department, Ambulance, and Fire.  All of the local fire departments are made up of volunteers, but are all well trained and well equipped. 
There is always someone on duty from the Sheriff's dept. and we have little to no crime.  All of the people from the Sheriff to the deputies are all friendly and very helpful to anyone in need. 
The ambulance department is an awesome group who have some of the most caring and knowledgeable people that get there fast and know what to do when they get there!!!

All of these departments do a fine job of serving the communities and don't get enough recognition for a job well done!   

[Tobina+1]

Dan... so modest... he forgot to toot his own siren...

The firefighter volunteers are just as friendly and just as responsive as the other 2 departments!  Unfortunately, we've had some structure fires in town in the last year or so, and these guys have been amazing with how quick they've got there and how long they've stayed... until the last flame is out.  Even in the rural areas when helping with grass fires, all the neighbors keep their fire trucks filled up and ready to help each other out, and when the fire dept is called in, they bring their big tanker truck and will refill up the local's trucks, not just the fire trucks.

That's a great point to bring up, Dan!  It does say something about our community and volunteerism that exists.

[heather_tyler_2014]

i agree 2 or 3 years ago when we had those really bad grass fires out in the country i think  i saw more trucks so go by my house all day or maybe week.... everybody can tell when their is fire because if they are volenteer  firemen there zooming down the road to the station in about 3sec. everybody is thier and yah I know because i live so far away from the station (not neccisarily) i can't tell that anyways or for instance when thier is a need for a ambulance im sure you'll probly see ken mitchell a runnning to the ambulance barn or like last night i saw the rescue truck ambulance and doug zooming down the road so fast it was almost like you didn't see em'

so no matter what you know if something goes wrong you can count on somebody to make sure your safe whether it's a fire a wreck or anything bad that happens you know somebody will be there to make sure your safe yep so samantha you will be safe here in elk county

[sixdogsmom]

And the scenery! The drive to Sedan yesterday was sublime with all the green green grass across the hills. And the bails of hay being put up across the fields! Gorgeous!

[Mom70x7]

You're right about the scenery!

That drive to Sedan is one of my favorite - no matter the time of year.