BootCampers – Kera Nuckolls, Virginia Tweedy, Debra Dillon, Stacie Wenzl, Erik Willer, and Dustin Cheney attended Jon Schallert’s Destination BootCamp. Also pictured, Jon Schallert. Not pictured Setul Parikh.

Six local businesses returned last week from a business improvement “Destination BootCamp” held in Longmont, Colorado, where they leaned hundreds of new methods to bring more customers and tourists to Phillips County.

Among the group to attend include: Stacie Wenzl – Wenzl Drug, Erik Willer – Willer’s Casual Dining, Ginger Tweedy – Area Insight, Setul Parikh – Mark V Motel, Debra Dillon – Logan area business, Dustin Cheney – Phillipsburg Chiropractic Center, and Kera Nuckolls – Discover Phillipsburg Main Street as the Community Coordinator.

Phillips County Economic Development committed to fund the registration fee for six Phillips County businesses and one Community Coordinator to attend per year for four years. This is the third group to attend the two and one-half day, 20-hour workshop that also included approximately twenty-five other business representatives from across North America.

Destination Business BootCamp was created by marketing consultant Jon Schallert, who teaches independent business owners on how to reposition their businesses as “consumer destinations”.

According to Schallert, a business using his Destination Business strategies can compete effectively with stores like Wal-Mart and Home Depot and significantly impact a local community.

Schallert notes that it is not uncommon for destination businesses to create change in an entire city, by drawing consumers, from miles around, outside the immediate marketplaces of the community.

“The Destination Business BootCamp is a must do for any small business owner who wants to set themselves apart from, ahead of, or to excel faster than the competition,” says Phillipsburg chiropractor, Dr. Dustin Cheney. “Your competition is not your competitor down the street. Your competition is the world. In today’s society, almost anything is a click away. With the tools I learned at the Destination BootCamp taught by Jon Schallert, I know that I can beat the click and continue to offer our community the highest quality chiropractic and natural health care services in the region. 

Schallert’s Destination Busness BootCamp is held in Colorado three times annually. Schallert has worked with independent business owners since 1983, speaks to thousands every year, and is the President of The Schallert Group, Inc., Longmont Colorado. One newspaper called Schallert “the marketing guru rooting for the retail underdogs”. Business owners interested in attending may contact Phillips County Economic Development at 785-543-5809 for more information, or one can visit Schallert’s website at www.DestinationBootCamp.com.

State of Kansas Historical Mural: The State of Kansas Historical Mural, by Dennis Schiel, consists of a total of 10 three foot by four foot panels with the state’s history painted over a background map of the State of Kansas.

Maxwell Berry’s Wildflowers: Dr. Maxwell Berry’s hobby was Photography and he was fascinated with the beauty of the Kansas prairie flower. Using a single lens Reflex 35 mm camera and a 50 mm macro-lens, Berry photographed wildflowers in Greenwood County, where he was born, Wilson and Woodson counties in Kansas.

Dr. Berry found great enjoyment in the time spent outdoors. He pursued wildflowers in full bloom. “Timing is critical,” Berry said, “since wild flowers bloom for only a few days and then say good-bye for another year.” Wanting a good home for his wildflowers, Berry donated the entire collection the Hansen Museum in the mid-seventies.

The Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum takes great pride in bringing Ms. Schaffner to Logan for her 10^th year in a row. This dynamic four-day workshop will guide intermediate and advanced artists in a step by step process to complete two paintings. Students will be encouraged to stretch and challenge themselves as they strive for individuality. Each lesson will include discussion of composition, color theory, and technique.

Emphasis will be on drawing, sensitivity, and beautiful use of color. Time will also be set aside for critique. Please bring your own photos to use as a reference.

Barbara Schaffner Teaches Four-Day Watercolor Workshop
Dates: April 11, 12, 13 & 14 2012 (Wed., Thurs., Fri., & Sat.)
Time: 9am – noon & 1pm – 4pm
Hansen Community Room 110 W. Main Logan, KS 67646
Cost:
$140 – Non-member
$119 – Patron Membership
$105 – Sustaining Membership

As part of her involvement, Boeve has written a new chapter series to run in the following newspapers from January 24 thru March 15: Hays Daily News, The Salina Journal, The Hutchinson News, The Garden City Telegram, and The Ottawa Herald.

Boeve’s time travel story, Wishing You Home, is set in 1945 during the last months of WWII and is about Bobby, a ten-year-old boy who lives in the fictional town of Elmwood, Kansas with his mother and little sister.

Bobby knows his father is in the midst of the fighting in Germany and he lives with the fear that he will not come home, especially after his best friend’s father is killed.

Boeve’s publishing credits include four middle grade historical fiction novels, and adult western and its sequel, titled Crossed Trails, to be released by Whiskey Creek Press in June, several articles, children’s short stories, and the two serial stories listed above.

Salina artist, Michelle Mead is the illustrator for the series. She also illustrated last year’s story. WWII veterans Keith Whitney and Rosco Matteson were helpful in the writing this story.

A teacher’s guide is available for use in the classroom.

-Taken from the Phillips County Review – January 25, 2012

The spot has also been added into the ad rotation on K-Statesports.com’s main page, in the “K-StateHD.TV” section. We have additional web ad presence on the www.KStatesports.com/bowlgame page, directing visitors to KansasCommerce.com/rural for more program details.

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We all know that building a business and community is just like climbing a mountain, you get stuck and you need people to help pull you up. Phillips County Business Owners and Community Leaders are all too familiar with this mountain and decided to take matters into their own hands. The opportunity to attend this prodigious conference would have not been possible had it not been for dollars granted by the Dane G. Hansen Foundation as well as help from the Phillips County Economic Development.  Sixty attendees from all across North America attended this Small Business Conference, of which eleven came from Phillips County.  It was announced, leading up to the Conference, that the community to bring the most people to this event would win the opportunity to have Jon Schallert come to their town for a  day and host a workshop worth up to $8,000. It is with upmost honor to announce that Jon Schallert will be making his way to Phillips County in 2012 as our County had the most people attend from across the nation! 

The event, which began Wednesday October 12, 2011 and ended Friday October 14, is sponsored by the Department’s Kansas Main Street program and provides community developers and business leaders a chance to network, attend workshops and discuss downtown development in Kansas. The annual event typically draws nearly 200 business and community leaders interested in downtown development, including city and county officials, entrepreneurs and small-business owners, as well as Main Street directors, board members and volunteers.

The Kansas Main Street program helps community volunteers revitalize their city’s historic business district. The program tackles complex issues of revitalization, capitalizing on downtown’s history and identifying the resources of the community itself. The Kansas program started in 1985 and provides management training, consultation visits, program evaluation, design assistance, business enhancement strategies, incentive dollars and training for board and committee members and program directors. Kansas Main Street is a self-help program. Staff provides technical assistance but the responsibility and credit for success rests with the community leaders who offer time, expertise and enthusiasm to revitalizing downtown.

Discover Phillipsburg Main Street is happy to congratulate Erik and Nicolina Coulimore for receiving the Excellence in Architectural Design award for Couli Kaffee and First National Bank for receiving the Community award. Discover Phillipsburg Main Street took home the Excellence in Fundraising award for our historic playing cards.  For more information, please contact Kera Nuckolls at the Discover Phillipsburg Main Street office, (785) 540-4284.

Couli Kaffee

First National Bank

Discover Phillipsburg Main Street

A re-cap of stats and feedback from Treasure Hunt 2011

The Phillipsburg Antique Road Show with Dr. Combs had a good turn out with 102 people who participated. On Friday, 55 people participated and 47 participated on Saturday. Nex-Tech filmed for four hours on Friday and it will air on Nex-Tech on Demand and Channel 100 after Wednesday. Participants brought in a wide variety of items for appraisal: Royal Doulton China, 22K gold perfume itemizers, Gargoyle headed ink-well, Madame Alexandra dolls, Revolutionary and Civil War sabers, and tiny silver spoons over 200 years old. There was a lot of art work, primitive art ceramic pieces and exquisite china pieces. These are just a few of the items that were brought in to be appraised by Dr. Combs. The sponsors were pleased with the turn-out for the Phillipsburg Antique Road Show and would like to have it again in 2012.

The courthouse food vendors were happy as well! 4-H Speed Skyliners Club and PHS Tennis Club met their fundraiser goals. E178 Redemption Fundraiser exceeded and sold out Saturday by 2pm. The Italian man, Raybo’s, and Grandma’s BBQ will be back in 2012! There were lots of compliments on the variety of food being offered!

A raffle drawing was held at 1:30pm Sunday with Eunice Boeve, Sally Jones and Kathi Waggoner present. Carol Legleiter & Tonya Merrill, both from Hays won the Quilt and the Afghan. Congratulations to these two winners!

West entrance to Phillips County:

Wanda Schemper reported that while the weather wasn’t the best people came!

Stuttgart:

Sandy Pruess reported lots of attendance, sold food, and met their sales goals!

East Entrance-Agra:

Roberta Gooder and Dave Otis estimated 400-500 people came to Agra. Roberta said there were spurts with 25-40 at one time!

The US Hwy 36 Treasure Hunt Committee sends a THANK YOU to the Phillipsburg City staff, Manager-Scott Robertson, and Clerk-Brenda Chance for their annual support by putting up banners, providing picnic tables, sand buckets and managing trash. Knowing they were available if the committee needed help, made it possible for the committee to focus on our traveling public!

The guest registry captured signatures from: Florida, Minnesota, New Mexico, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Iowa, Indiana, Oklahoma, Colorado, and of course Nebraska. Within the state of Kansas places included: Wichita, Topeka, Russell, Ulysses, Ness City, St. Johns, Osborne, Stockton, Plainville, Hays, Manhattan and many more!

The committee sends a Thank You to Tad Felts and KKAN/KQMA for the five weeks of the Tad-Pole show air time, the live remote and great ad spots leading up to the event!

We could not have had Dr. Combs, without the support of our six insurance agencies that joined equally in helping to sponsor him and the Phillipsburg’s Antique Road Show. It was a great turn-out with 102 participants!

The committee is very appreciative of the support given from PCED and Discover Phillips County. Since 2008, board members of PCED have provided support to help offset advertising expenses. These funds have annually spent back into our businesses community.

It’s a Team Effort – Marty Roberts, Darlene Merrill (Curly Willows II), Dianne Conn (Kustom Kreations), Criquet’s Professional Services, Kim Cole, Karen Runyon, and our special volunteers at the Courthouse Square Gazebo – Pamela Garrison, Kera Nuckolls, Andrea Lowry, Phillips Reeves, Connie Price, Dan Smith, Bruce Caldwell and Jim Cole.

US Highway 36 Association Fall Newsletter

Phillips County Community Foundation/ E-Center Joins Foundation Center’s National Network

Phillipsburg, KS. 9-25-2011 –  Nonprofit organizations and other grantseekers in North Central/Northwestern Kansas and South Central Nebraska looking for funding sources now have access to a valuable new collection of resources at Phillips County Community Foundation/Entrepreneurial Center in Phillipsburg, Ks. which has become a Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center of New York.

Cooperating Collections provide under-resourced and underserved populations in need of vital information and training with tools they can use to become successful grantseekers. At locations throughout the country, Cooperating Collections offer access free of charge to the Center’s detailed information on grantmakers and how to apply for grants. The Foundation Center’s core collection includes The Foundation Directory Online, profiling more than 100,000 U.S. grantmakers, Foundation Grants to Individuals Online, Philanthropy In/Sight, print directories, and proposal writing guides. Cooperating Collections also hold training sessions on how to effectively use these resources and identify potential funders.

Established in 1956, the Foundation Center is the nation’s leading authority on organized philanthropy, serving grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public. Thousands of people visit the Center’s web site each day and are served in its five regional learning centers and its national network of Cooperating Collections.

For more information about the Cooperating Collection, contact Bridgit Smith director at 785-540-4110, email ecenter@ruraltel.net or 205 F Street ,Suite 145, Phillipsburg, KS 67661.