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The Pledge of Allegiance was recited before the Johnson City Rotary Club came to order. Front row, left to right, Dave Black, Stanton County attorney, Brent Campbell and Bill Haney.

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During lunch at the Johnson City Rotary Club where he was speaking, Jerry Moran answered a question asked by Bill Seyb at the next table. Farmer Earl Arnold is seated left, and city Mayor Cortland Wartman is at the right.

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Something new in normally dry Johnson City: rain. Jerry Moran jumped the six-foot-wide stream of water that was running down Johnson City's main street in order to get to his car. Garden City Telegram reporter Scott Aldis-Wilson watches the congressman in action.

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Water from heavy rains of nearly four inches rolled through this cornfield. The corn, near Gorham, four miles west of Russell, was already stunted by lack of moisture,

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Kimberly Martin, 11 decides the current is too swift for her bicycle in a concrete ditch in Russell and turns back. Several inches of rain turned the dusty ditches into speedy waterways during a rain in early July. Behind her is her brother Dustin, 7, left, and neighbor Robey Southard, 13.

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After an early morning live interview on Russell radio station KRSL-AM a women called in to say hello. "There's someone out there ... now I know."

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Two Kansas University graduates, Dean Banker, class of 1950, and Marla Mooney, Pharmacy School class of 2000, discuss their alma mater at the Gregwire Pharmacy, where Mooney works.

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These three Russell residents found comfortable seating in the Gregwire Pharmacy during a roaming coffee klatch.

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Heather Fletcher, wife of the Russell County sheriff, talks with Jerry Moran about the amount of hours involved with a new law regulating sentencing guidelines for drug abusers, Kansas Senate Bill 123. Moran was visiting the Russell County Courthouse.

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Brian Grubb, center, and Steve Mangan, right, were looking for some answers when they spoke with Jerry Moran in Tribune. Grubb asked why custom wheat cutters from Canada could work in the United States when U.S. cutters couldn't work in Canada. Mangan asked why the Department of Agriculture announced possible mad cow disease discoveries before evidence proved it, driving cattle prices down.

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Dr. Bob Moser, center, and Jerry Moran, listen as Chrysanne Grund, project director for Greeley County Health Services, explains her grant writing project.

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Dr. Bob Moser, left, chief of medical staff at Greeley County Health Services, showed Jerry Moran around the facility in Tribune. It gets high marks for being sucessful in the small health-care market.

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Edith Schmidt, foreground, is in the resident care unit of the Greeley County Health Services. She asked unit visitor Jerry Moran about the high cost of her drugs. "I don't know how they expect people to pay such high prices," she said. In the background Moran talks to some Tribune area farmers.

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Greeley County Health Services doctors Bob Moser, center, and Wendel Ellis explain their operation to visitor Jerry Moran.

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The Stanton County Hospital was one of the health-care facilities that Jerry Moran visited on his recent tour of western Kansas. Here he talks with, left to right: Peggy Carrithers, Vicky Acre and hospital administrator Steve Veach.

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Frances Ankrom, 85, got a hug from Jerry Moran after the two talked about her Social Security problem. Ankrom still works as a clerk in a Burdett insurance office. She still drives an occasional 24 miles to visit an old neighbor Burl Delph, 99, in a nursing home in Larned.

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Jerry Moran answering questions before the beginning of the Burdett seniors' program.

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Cecil Coddington, a proud Democrat, far right under the microphone, had the best seat in the Burdett Senior Center to hear Republican Rep. Jerry Moran speaking. Coddington's wife Floy is ito the left of the podium.

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Rep. Jerry Moran turned to address the "overflow" crowd sitting behind the podium during his visit to the Burdett Senior Center.

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The overflow crowd at the Burdett Community Senior Center included the Pawnee County Sheriff Leon Shearrer, right, and his undersheriff Mark Schloemer. Chatting with them were Karen Schadel, left, and sheriff's office detective Amy Schartz-Mellor.

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Jerry Moran presented the Burdett group with an American Flag that had flown over the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

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Serious quesions about Medicare benefits, the war in Iraq, Social Security benefits and prescription drug discount cards got serious answers at the Burdett Senior Center from visiting Rep. Jerry Moran. Many non-seniors attended the covered dish luncheon.

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The meeting at Burdette's Senior Center ended with everyone singing "God Bless America". Many held their hands over their hearts during the song.

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Lee Frickey, right, built his first wheelchair in his garage in Oberlin. Today he is the CEO of "Wheelchairs of Kansas," a multimillion dollar operation in Ellis. Jerry Moran toured their plant along with marketing director Michele Eberele, center.

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Bob Goodrow, of Hays, left, sat in the Sport Haven Bait and Tackle shop near the Cedar Bluff Reservoir while Jerry Moran talked with the store's manager Jeff Woodworth. Moran stopped for bottled water.

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Rep. Jerry Moran stopped his car on higher ground in order for his cellular phone to make a connection near Cedar Bluff Reservior on Kansas Highway 147, about 25 miles southeast of Wakeeney. He was heading for a meeting with an Ellis businessman.

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This has been a wetter than usual July in western Kansas, a month when clouds like these rolled low across the prairie.

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Jerry Moran, left, and Kansas state Sen. Larry Salmans talked with residents of Jetmore's Health Center.

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Some of the long-term residents of the Hodgeman County Health Center waited in line to greet Jerry Moran during his latest swing through western Kansas.

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Dodge City television newscaster Audrey Martin waits outside a Jetmore hospital meeting room to interview Rep. Jerry Moran, who was talking to employees and board members of the Hodgeman County Health Center.

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Audrey Martin, newscaster with Dodge City's KBSD, interviews Jerry Moran in Jetmore's hospital.

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Jerry Moran, far right, heads for his car after touring the Hodgeman County Health Center in Jetmore.

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After a quick stop at the Reno Pharmacy in Jetmore, Jerry Moran and State Sen. Larry Salmans head for their cars.

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Jerry Moran on the air with Jeff Ogden in Dodge City on station KGNO-AM.

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The first stop on a Wednesday morning for Jerry Moran was in a strip mall in Dodge City where he was interviewed live by Jeff Ogden on station KGNO-AM. Moran's next stop was to the western edge of Kansas, Johnson City on Kansas Highway 27.

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A map hanging in Jerry Moran's Congressional office in Hays has a push pin for every working visit he made across Kansas last year. Kansas City is at the far right, Elkhart is in the lower left hand corner and St Francis is upper left.

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Robba Moran, top left, is the wife of Rep. Jerry Moran. A graduate of Duke Law School, Robba stopped practicing and teaching law to be a homemaker. The Moran's two daughters are Kelsey, 16, foreground, and Alex, 13.

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Robba Moran, wife of Rep. Jerry Moran, in their home with daughters Kelsey, 16, left, and Alex, 13. Robba is a graduate of the Duke Law School and gave up practicing and teaching law for motherhood and home making. She is involved in many activities in Hays and is the chairman of the Kansas State Fair Board.

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A combine sits in a half cut field of oats Thursday near Plainville, 24 miles north of Hays. Heavy rainfall over the past two days over most of western Kansas, unusual for this drought-plagued area, put a temporary halt to the nearly harvested wheat crop and caused some flooding. Many farmers only harvested about 10 percent of their wheat crop due to a late freeze last winter.

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The drive on Interstate 70 through western Kansas gets a lot of knocks, but when the temperature is under 90 and rain-inspiring clouds are on the horizon it can be an beautiful ride. The western part of the state has received much more rain than usual this summer, but it was too late to help most of the wheat crop.