Kansas Pregame, Volume 9
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Consider a trip to Cloud County Imagine performing on stage as you get a behind the scenes look at the historic performing arts theatre, the Brown Grand Theatre. Decorated in French renaissance style, you’ll soon understand why the Brown Grand is called an “Exquisite Gem on the Kansas Prairie”. Discover how one in 25 Americans is connected to an Orphan Train Rider at the National Orphan Train Museum. You’ll hear the amazing story of how an estimated 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children from New York found new homes with families across America. Walk the grounds and tour buildings of the largest German POW camp in Kansas where over 4,000 German POWs were held during WWII. Additional artifacts can be seen at the
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CLOUD COUNTY: Music Is My Second Language BY TAMMY BRITT
After receiving his master’s degree in music from Bethany College in Lindsborg, Braden Bruntzel came back home to Concordia to help others make beautiful music. Braden who has loved music from a young age, can play and teach a wide range of instruments, but his true love is the French horn. Playing in a band is much like participating in sports, “it teachers patience and teamwork” says Bruntzel. “Music has so many benefits from changing attitudes to aiding in learning, especially languages”. “Music is a second language”, then laughingly adds, at least it’s mine”. During his years playing on the Concordia High School band, Braden has collected a number of fun memories. His fondest are of traveling to San Diego to perform and playing at the Shrine Bowl a couple of times. While at Bethany College, Braden had the opportunity to study sound engineering and traveled with the Bethany Jazz Band as the “sound guy”. In 2013, Braden was offered a full-time position as an instrument repair technician for B & J Repair, located at Tom’s Music House in Concordia, where he had worked parttime the past six summers. “Concordia is the perfect place to live as it’s in the middle” says Braden, who is a sound technician for a band in Nebraska, and plays every chance he gets in the Salina Orchestra.
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CLOUD COUNTY: Concordia’s power team on and off the court!
BY TAMMY BRITT With three boys all under the age of five, Garrett and Amber Farha laughingly admit the teamwork, time management and patience they learned playing high school sports is invaluable. The Concordia couple remember their high school and college days fondly and hope to pass on their love of sports and the values of hard work, determination and teamwork to their children. Garrett was a popular Concordia High School Panther, lettering in cross country, track and basketball. He continued as a point guard for Cloud County Community College where a pretty blonde on the women’s team, Amber Hein, caught his eye. Two years later Garrett and Amber both went on to play basketball for Saint Francis University. At SFU Garrett led the NEC in 3-point shooting percentage and assists, finishing 9th in the nation in assists his junior year. Amber knows how to handle a ball, having played volleyball, basketball, and soccer at Buhler High School before signing with the Cloud County Community College women’s basketball team. At Cloud County, Amber and Garrett were both honored as national Academic All-Americans their freshman and sophomore years. While playing for SFU, Amber led the NEC in 3-point shooting percentage her junior year and was an integral part of the 2005 NEC championship team that went on to lay in the NCAA tournament. In 2007, when a career opportunity became available in the small north central Kansas town he was raised in, Garrett jumped at the chance. Amber followed in 2009 when she accepted the position of Finance Director for the City of Concordia. As Special Projects Manager at F & A Food Sales, Garrett is happy to be involved in his family’s business. In his spare time Garrett volunteers as an assistant coach for the Cloud County Community College men’s basketball team. When not chasing around their boys, Amber and Garrett remain active by running and competing on City league basketball teams.
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