Northwest Kansas author honored by Huck Boyd Institute

Ok-State Analysis and Extension information service 

MANHATTAN — “Ruralpreneurs” in enterprise, tourism, know-how and agriculture together with neighborhood volunteers are amongst these to be honored by Ok-State’s Huck Boyd Nationwide Institute for Rural Improvement as Leaders of the Yr for 2022. 

This 12 months’s award classes and winners are: 

1. Entrepreneurship — Cassidy Cage and Halle Schindler, C&H Designs, Manhattan/Paola. 
2. Expertise — Daniel Friesen, IdeaTek, Buhler. 
3. Inventive Arts — Roxie Yonkey, author of “100 Things to Do in Kansas Before You Die”, Goodland. 
4. Neighborhood Service — Danny Scott, Caney Community Betterment Group Foundation/PRIDE, Caney. 
5. Entrepreneurial Improvement — Christina Lengthy, Steve Radley – NetWorked for Change, Wichita. 
6. Agriculture — Landon Oldham, Heartland Soil Companies, Cunningham. 

The winners will likely be honored by means of a hybrid Zoom/in-person awards presentation on Wednesday, Jan. 11, on the Ok-State Pupil Union in Manhattan. 

“Congratulations to those people and organizations for his or her creativity and dedication to rural communities,” mentioned Shawna Moyer, chair of the Board of Administrators of the Huck Boyd Nationwide Institute for Rural Improvement. 

Roxie Yonkey 

Roxie Yonkey serves as her group’s CEO – on this case, Chief Exploration Officer. After designing journey guides and selling tourism from her house in Goodland, she grew to become a journey author and blogger. Roxie has printed the e-book “100 Issues to Do in Kansas Earlier than You Die.” For extra info, see roxieontheroad.com. 

Cassidy Cage and Halle Schindler 

When sorority sisters and roommates Cassidy Cage and Halle Schindler had been visiting the Schindler household farm close to Paola, they talked a few challenge they might do collectively. That led to the creation of C&H Designs, a startup enterprise utilizing a Cricut machine to create customizable vinyl designs for shirts and different objects. Their merchandise have now been marketed throughout Kansas and past. For extra info, seek for C&H Designs on Instagram. 

Daniel Friesen 

Daniel Friesen was a tech-savvy child in Buhler who began a pc restore enterprise referred to as IdeaTek whereas in highschool. He went on to review info methods at Hutchinson Neighborhood Faculty and Wichita State earlier than pursuing his enterprise full-time in Buhler. IdeaTek is now an Web service supplier with an emphasis on fiber optics. The corporate employs greater than 120 individuals from Robust Metropolis to Liberal. For extra info, see www.IdeaTek.com. 

Danny Scott 

Danny Scott was a banker in Caney who was involved in regards to the route of the neighborhood.  The grocery retailer had closed and downtown companies had been boarded up. Danny and his spouse Norma joined with others and the native county extension agent to type the Caney Neighborhood Betterment Group Basis which joined the Kansas PRIDE program. 

Now a municipal-owned grocery retailer has opened, new companies have moved downtown, and constructive momentum is going on. For extra info, seek for Caney Neighborhood Betterment Group Basis on Fb. 

Steve Radley 

Steve Radley, CEO of NetWork Kansas, needed to create a strategy to encourage cross-sector collaboration, useful resource growth and implementation for daring financial and neighborhood growth enhancements throughout Kansas. With the help of NetWork Kansas’ Strategic Inclusive Communications Director and advertising and marketing skilled, Christina Lengthy, a planning workforce was assembled and the NetWorked Partnership for Neighborhood Funding was created. 

NetWorked expanded from statewide digital convenings to a statewide in-person convention referred to as NetWorked for Change, that includes sources for rural and concrete communities with main assist from Blue Cross and Blue Defend of Kansas and the Kansas Well being Basis. For extra info, see www.networkedforchange.com. 

Landon Oldham 

Landon Oldham based Heartland Soil Companies in Cunningham when he recognized a necessity for extra information to help farmers with precision agriculture. At present, Heartland Soil Companies focuses on soil sampling, yield mapping, imagery, irrigation administration instruments, variable charge seeding and fertilizer prescriptions, and end-of-season information evaluation. Such information helps farmers apply their inputs in a extra environment friendly, efficient and environmentally-friendly approach. For extra info, see www.heartlandsoilservices.com. 

The 2022 Huck Boyd Leaders of the Yr winners had been chosen by entrepreneurship college students in Ok-State’s Faculty of Enterprise and by agricultural communications college students in Ok-State’s Faculty of Agriculture. Annually the Huck Boyd Institute selects its leaders of the 12 months from amongst these featured beforehand on its weekly Kansas Profile radio program and column. 

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