PRESS RELEASE 
 

The public is encouraged to attend and participate in an open candidate forum to be held on Thursday, July 24^th at 7:00pm in the auditorium of the Shears Technology Center on the HCC campus. 

All candidates running in the August 5^th primary are invited to participate in the event. To start off the evening each office seeker will have ninety seconds to introduce themselves. After the introductions the forum moderators will pose questions to the candidates that have been supplied by the audience. Answers will be limited to sixty seconds. 

Any candidate wishing to take part in the forum is asked to contact Darrell Pope at 620/66-97207 or Mark Rassette at 620/662-1280, hrah@cox.net. 

This event is sponsored by the Hutchinson chapter of the NAACP, the Prairie Independent Living Resource center and the Hutchinson/Reno Arts and Humanities Council in partnership with the Hutchinson Community College Social Science Department and the Young Professionals of Reno County.