If you love smoked prime rib, visiting with friends, admiring art and other unique items, but most of all supporting your local health care, mark your calendar for Saturday, Oct. 7.

It's time for the 4th Annual Jeans and Gems event in Kiowa, Kansas. Friends of the Kiowa District Hospital and Manor Foundation holds this fundraiser to generate funds so they can help Kiowa District Healthcare. Foundation President Judy Schrock said the money raised will help purchase needed equipment and the ongoing effort for expansion of KDH's very busy and too small physical therapy department.

The evening beg...