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Barton Foundation honors Rob and Trisha Dove with Distinguished Service Award

Rob and Trisha Dove pose with Foundation Executive Director Coleen Cape.

June 17, 2021
Story by Brandon Steinert & Coleen Cape
Photo by Brandon Steinert

Rob and Trisha Dove have devoted nearly two decades of service to the Barton Community College Foundation and were honored for their dedication on June 2 at the Foundation Board of Directors’ annual banquet with the Distinguished Service Award (DSA).

Ag Instructor Vic Martin: What’s In a Kernel of Wheat?

June 13, 2021

Pathways to Redemption: ECF Inmate Alfred Obiero earns welding certificate and high school equivalency credential from Barton Community College

Alfred Obiero poses at Ellsworth Correctional Facility.

June 10, 2021
Story and portrait by Brandon Steinert

This is the second of four stories about how Barton's educational programs in correctional facilities aim to help inmates lead productive lives upon release.

Alfred Obiero felt trapped long before he was incarcerated. He said he was on the streets in Tulsa, Okla., working a dead-end entry-level job at a bus shop. He was denied entry into a welding program because he did not have a high school diploma and was feeling hopeless.

Ag Instructor Vic Martin: Pale Green and Purple Plants

Great Bend Tribune
Published June 6, 2021

Barton Emergency Management and HAZ MAT graduate finds rewarding career

emergency management worker janet charbonneau

June 2, 2021
Story by Joe Vinduska
Photo by Brandy Swartz

There is a special brand of heroes living in our communities. They stand ready to respond to natural or man-made disasters and allow us to take safety for granted. They are people like Janet Charbonneau, the Assistant Emergency Manager for Des Moines County, Iowa, who pursued such a career out of an altruistic desire to serve her neighbors.

Pathways to Redemption: ECF Inmate James Floyd earns certificates from Barton Community College, looks to a brighter future with his family after 12 years behind bars

James Floyd poses with his certificate at Ellsworth Correctional Facility.

May 25, 2021
Story and portrait by Brandon Steinert

This is the first of four stories about how Barton's educational programs in correctional facilities aim to help inmates lead productive lives upon release.

James Floyd has missed 10 years of his children’s lives serving a 12-year sentence after his conviction in 2011. His oldest is now 20; his youngest, 16.

Barton offering vocal and instrumental lessons this summer

May 24, 2021
Story by Joe Vinduska
Courtesy photo

The Barton Community College Department of music will offer instrumental and vocal music lessons to the community this summer from now through the end of July.

Community members are invited to take lessons to learn a new instrument or enhance their abilities on an instrument they already play. Students will also have the option to perform. Lessons will be offered both in-person and virtually and instruments can be provided. A wide array of instruments is available.