Country club plays host to benefit auction

A silent auction at the Lawrence Country Club will raise funds for a child diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder.

The girl, Jazmen Fowler, 8, will be going to the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., with her mother, Rhonda Smith, of Lawrence. Smith works at the country club.

Jazmen, a student at Kennedy School, is now confined to a wheelchair and although she was once a top student in her class, she now is struggling to learn.

Items to be sold in the silent auction are:

l A catered dinner for 10 people at your home by Terry Schmidt between July 15 and Nov. 14. A $125 minimum bid will cover the cost of the food.

l A golf package for four people at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, N.Y., between Sept. 1 and Nov. 1. Starting bid is $200.

A drawing also will be held for a two-day golf package for four people in Springfield, Mo.

Auction sheets are located by the lower lounge bar at the country club, 400 Country Club Terrace. Donations and bids should be made by Saturday. Winners will be determined at 5 p.m. that day.

Osage County

Town to celebrate clinic’s grand opening

Overbrook – The town of Overbrook on Saturday will celebrate the grand opening of the new Overbrook Family Health Clinic as well as other new businesses and growing economic activity.

The celebration is to take place from 10 a.m. to midnight and will include a craft show, car cruise-in and plenty of food. There will be free access to the Overbrook pool from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. and a street dance from 8 p.m. to midnight.

Open houses will be held at various new businesses, including the health clinic.

The clinic, once operated by Kansas Medical Clinic of Topeka, closed two years ago and residents had been trying to find another clinic operator. The clinic is now owned and operated by Kim Davis, an Overbrook resident and advanced registered nurse practitioner specializing in family medicine.