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This November, Gathering in the Grove returns to downtown Council Grove, re-imagined to spotlight the craftsmanship, creativity, and community of Western women makers of the Flint Hills.

Council Grove Jr/Sr High School had the opportunity to host a special guest, Amado Espinoza. He is a Bolivian musician who specializes in the indigenous music of North and South America. Amado composes music, builds, and invents high quality instruments. He’s known by some as El hombre de los cien instrumentos - the man of one hundred instruments. Amado’s presentation focused on the instruments from his home, the Andean mountains. All instruments used are built using animals and plants provided by the natural world in the Andes Mountains. Some instruments are meant to replicate the sounds of nature such as various species of birds and even the sound of wind passing through a cave. Mr. Meals met Amado 6 years ago through an ambitious international collaboration project that brought together musicians from North and South America and Russia.

by Jan Sciacca The Council Grove Republican is aware of a recently reported legal matter involving Council Grove Police Chief Shawn Wangerin and a local family that has been the subject of news coverage elsewhere. We have known of this case and deliberately chose not to publish details of this case for two key reasons.