PRATT – Phones at the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks’ (KDWP) Pratt Operations Office have been ringing with calls from nonresident deer hunters anxious to know if they drew a permit for the 2022-2023 seasons.
I wish I could tell you how many miles that I have driven in the darkness of the night. Driving down the highway, not knowing when a creature, big or small, would dart out in front of you. The sound of your truck being torn up because the deer thought your headlights were to help them to cross the road.
There are some observances about the month of June to remember for our families and nation, D-Day June 6, Father’s Day and Flag Day, June 14. We will look at these special days.
Saron Lutheran/ Our Saviour’s of Baxter (ELCA), Montevideo, MI It seems like Pentecost should get more attention than it does -- both in the church and in the world at large. I am sure that there are faith traditions that do Pentecost more justice than Lutherans, but it isn’t exactly a household name. It probably doesn’t help that the event was beyond Luke’s descriptive powers (there is a sound like the wind and tongues as of fire), so the religious art work depicting Pentecost makes the Apostles look like a group of birthday candles. Pentecost also loses out because many who might ask why the paraments are red have already begun their summer vacation from church. Whatever the case may be, the fact remains that the Holy Spirit made a dramatic entrance into an international crowd that had gathered in Jerusalem, including some 120 followers of Jesus.
BKRT, also known as The Big Kansas Road Trip, took place the first weekend of June in Southeast Kansas. Sponsored by the Marci Penner and the Kansas Sampler Foundation, this event has become “the thing to do” for my husband and myself. The trip annually focuses on three counties in a certain part of the state. This year, southeast Kansas, the one part of the state that that we are the least familiar. Bourbon, Cherokee and Crawford counties were the three spotlighted counties.
It’s that time of the year again: be sure not to inhale at the wrong time. Cough, cough, cough … hack, hack.
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Concerns about “monkeypox” are closely tied to the eradication of smallpox. But American’s recent impression of viruses as rapidly developing variants and our immunity only lasting months do not apply to either of these members of the Poxviridae family. They are double-stranded DNA viruses while the coronaviruses are completely unrelated single-stranded RNA viruses.
Being black and walking away from a person who legally owned you became reality on June 17, 1865, when Texas became the last state to implement the Emancipation Proclamation. The day, now known as Juneteenth, has become one of celebration for black Americans.
I have never wanted to be a teacher. Mainly because I knew I had zero talent and aptitude for that very important job. Nothing brought home the accuracy of that statement like having children of my own when the act of trying to teach my son to tie his shoes left both of us crying.