Shirley Phelps-Roper, daughter of Westboro Baptist Church pastor Fred Phelps, confirmed to The Signal Friday morning that “probably 15 to 20” persons affiliated with the congregation will be in Greensburg the afternoon of May 4 to picket the appearance of President George W Bush, who’s scheduled to address the school’s graduating seniors during a 3 p.m. commencement.

   Citing the need for facilities to store recycled material from construction to begin soon on such LEED certified projects as the courthouse remodeling, the Kiowa County Commission agreed at its April 21 meeting to lease three 45-foot pods to be located with the cardboard baler at the north county landfill.

   The Greensburg City Council met in special session Wednesday morning (April 23) to transact business held over from Monday night’s meeting that was cut short due to lack of a quorum.  While councilmen Rex Butler and Bethel Thronesbery were both absent Monday, Thronesbery verbally resigned before the conclusion of Wednesday’s special meeting, again bringing City business to a halt due to less than four members being present.

   While the keynote address of Bill Snyder may have been the highlight of Monday night’s Honor Roll Banquet, the primary purpose of honoring the 42 students qualifying to attend the event was accomplished near the conclusion of the evening, students being called to the front by class and awarded individual certificates by school counselor Sue Greenleaf.

   Though much of Greensburg remains abuzz over the return of President Bush to address the community’s 18 graduating seniors as part of their May 4 commencement, nine of those seniors likely heard their graduation message two weeks in advance at the forty-ninth Honor Roll Banquet, held April 21 at the GHS practice gym.

   The May 2 groundbreaking of the business incubator, originally scheduled to kick off next weekend's Tragedy to Triumph celebration at 10 a.m., has been moved up to 7 a.m.