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RETIREMENT RECEPTION FOR ANN LEIKER IS MAY 26 The Center for Life Experience, 103 C E. 27th St., is hosting a come-and-go retirement reception for its executive director, Ann Leiker, from 4 to 6 p.m.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) Region 7 which includes Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska, is reminding drivers about the lifesaving benefits of wearing a seat belt this spring, during the national Click It or Ticket high-visibility enforcement effort. The national seat belt campaign, which coincides with the Memorial Day holiday, runs from May 23 to June 5, 2022.

Twenty-eight students from the Kansas Academy of Mathematics & Science (KAMS) and the Academy of Mathematics & Science (AMS) were honored at the 2022 completion ceremony Saturday in Fort Hays State University’s Memorial Union. This was the 12th graduating class of the program.

Fort Hays State men's soccer student-athlete Alec Bevis has been named the recipient of this year's Torch Award, an honor given to the outstanding graduating senior from the class of 2022. Bevis has been a part of the men's soccer program for the last four years, including two seasons as team captain.

Founder & Executive Wealth Advisor at Steadfast Wealth Management You Weren’t that Good at Frogger I loved playing Frogger on my Atari 5200. Frogger was an arcade game where the player directs the frog at the bottom of the screen between opposing lanes of traffic without getting ran over.

HAYS – It’s not too late for Hays area high school students to sign up for a week-long musical theater workshop planned in early June. From June 6-10, incoming freshmen through outgoing college freshmen will create and perform an original musical production during the in-person Lovewell Institute for the Creative Arts workshop at Hays High School. In just five days, participating students will conceive, write, choreograph, compose, design, rehearse and perform an original piece of musical theater in collaboration with a staff of professional artists. Hays students had a previous opportunity to work with Lovewell staff during a song-writing workshop in March. No previous music or theater experience is required. To make the production come together, the process needs writers, actors, poets, dancers, singers, dreamers, visual artists, musicians, composers, designers, and creative students of ALL kinds. The first three days of the workshop are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The fourth day is from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and the fifth day (performance day) is from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Workshops are also being held in Hoxie, Phillipsburg, Colby, Concordia and Salina during June and July. Students are encouraged to participate in a workshop closest to them. For more information or to register, visit lovewell.org, and click on Apply, and then Kansas. This is the fifth summer the Dane G. Hansen Foundation has sponsored the program in Kansas. Each student can participate for a significantly discounted fee of $50. Scholarships are available. The Lovewell Institute is a notfor-profit organization based in Florida, but its roots are in Kansas. Lovewell’s professional artists offer workshops across the United States and internationally. Learn more at www. lovewell.org