Community & Chamber Events Calendar

October 2025
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28	29	30	1 Unlock Your Chamber Benefits Alzheimer’s Association Caregiver Support Group VFW Post 3111: Cornhole	2 BCC Blood Drive Chamber Coffee: NexTech Wireless Ribbon Cutting: Great Bend Floral Noon Lions Club Spaghetti Feed After Hours Event: Ellinwood Hospital & Clinic Bingo Night!	3 Streaming Panther Games at The VFW Post 3111	4 Long Pumpkin Patch 21st annual Rosewood Rodeo BCC Men’s Soccer BCC Women’s Soccer
5 Long Pumpkin Patch FUEL Barton County Fall Fest 2025	6 Banned Book Buttons SAL Hamburger Feed City Council Meeting	7 Barton County Commission Meeting The Leader's Lunchroom IP for the Creative Arts IP for the Creative Arts 2025 Candidate Forum - Great Bend Bingo Night! Autumn Arts Concert and Hall of Fame Induction	8 Central Kansas Nonprofit Network Meeting BCC Women’s Soccer BCC Volleyball VFW Post 3111: Cornhole	9 Chamber Coffee - Family Crisis Center Bingo Night! Echoes From the Past: The Mexican Brass	10 GBHS Homecoming American Legion Argonne Post 180: Chicken Fried Steak Shafer Art Gallery “McKown Masquerade Ball” Streaming Panther Games at The VFW Post 3111 VFW Post 3111: Karaoke Night!	11 VFW Post 3111: Karaoke Night! Long Pumpkin Patch 2nd Annual Pawnee Rock Car/ Truck/ Motorcycle Show BCC Volleyball
12 Sunday Brunch - American Legion Post 180 Beer & BBQ with United Way of Central Kansas Long Pumpkin Patch Unmasking the Doctrine of Discovery	13	14 Barton County Commission Meeting A conversation about USPTO resources: Q&A & Resources Bingo Night!	15 Final day to submit OBJ content! BCC Men’s Soccer BCC Women’s Soccer Smashburgers and Home Cut Fries Night! VFW Post 3111: Cornhole	16 Chamber Coffee - Cox Communications 2025 Candidate Forum - Hoisington Bingo Night! BCC Theater presents "Time Stands Still"	17 Fridays on Forest Spaghetti Night Streaming Panther Games at The VFW Post 3111	18 City Wide Cleanup Long Pumpkin Patch Family Crisis Center Fall Festival 3rd Annual Family Crisis Center Fall Festival Legion Steak Night
19 City Wide Cleanup VFW Post 3111 Brunch 2025 WALK TO END ALZHEIMER’S Long Pumpkin Patch	20 City Wide Cleanup City Council Meeting	21 Barton County Commission Meeting City Wide Cleanup Chamber After Hours - Barton Community College Bingo Night!	22 City Wide Cleanup BCC Volleyball VFW Post 3111: Cornhole	23 Chamber Coffee and Ribbon Cutting - Walnut Bowl City Wide Cleanup Bingo Night!	24 City Wide Cleanup Chicken Noodles and Mashed Potato Night! Military and First Responders Night Out Streaming Panther Games at The VFW Post 3111	25 City Wide Cleanup Long Pumpkin Patch Downtown Halloween Boo Event Downtown Halloween Boo 5th Annual Haunting on the Hill
26 City Wide Cleanup Long Pumpkin Patch BCC Men’s Soccer	27	28 Barton County Commission Meeting Bingo Night!	29 Farmers Bank and Trust Fraud Prevention Luncheon VFW Post 3111: Cornhole	30 Chamber Coffee - Fuller Industries - Manufacturing Day Coffee Bingo Night!	31 Fried Chicken Friday!	1

Community & Chamber Events Calendar

October 2025