Special quilt speaker coming to Greensburg
The Kiowa County Senior Center in Greensburg will host Kansas Quilt Speaker Deborah Divine on Friday, July 1 at 1 p.m. for a special presentation.
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Local student is second in 2021-2022 National School Bus Safety Poster Contest
Riley Cramer, a Southwest Elementary student from Pratt, Kansas, won second place in Division 1 of the National School Bus Safety Poster Contest last week with her entry that was awarded first in the state of Kansas earlier this spring.
It’s time for summer canning again
MANHATTAN – It’s that time of the year again when fresh produce is ready to be harvested, and many intend to set some aside to preserve for the fall and winter. Kansas State food scientist Karen Blakeslee said safety precautions are important when canning foods at home.
Kansas is geared up for a bitter, battleground abortion fight after Roe vs. Wade decision
TOPEKA, Kansas — A state already gearing up for voters to decide whether to strike abortion rights from the Kansas Constitution reacted with both glee and dismay at the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the 49-year-old Roe v. Wade precedent on Friday.
Roe is overturned. Here’s what that means for abortion in Kansas
With the federal ruling, Kansas voters will now decided whether to remove the last barrier protecting abortion rights from the state’s constitution. The U.S.
Kansas schools are poised to ditch class hours for real-world training as graduation requirements
For more than a century, Kansas students have earned credits — and, after enough of them, a high school diploma — based on how much time they spend in a classroom. The age-old “Carnegie unit” approach to education became the academic law of the land way back in 1906.
Kansas to give child care workers $53M in appreciation pay
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly on Tuesday announced a $53 million program to deliver bonuses to 22,000 child care workers at licensed facilities in Kansas.
Turn around. Choose life
A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I spent two full days enjoying Palo Duro Canyon State Park in the panhandle of Texas south of Amarillo. The park’s road runs seven miles from start to finish. The canyon is over 120 miles long. We saw enough, but not much of the canyon’s vastness.
Expand the circle of love
In our house I am called mom, not only by my kids, but their friends. Anytime my kids bring friends over, I have always had this policy that all the kids in my house our mine and any of them can call me mom. You see, I believe if anyone in my family likes you, I liked you and I mean whoever my kids brought home I tried to give them a honest chance.
The tension we hold about rainbows
June was Pride month. It was first declared by President Bill Clinton in 1999-2000, again in 2009 -2016 by President Barack Obama, and continues under the presidential decree for 2021-2022. During the month of June we have seen rainbow images appear throughout mainstream media, social networks, retail establishments, and adorn personal apparel. So what is a Christ-centered, Bible-believing American to do with Pride month? Like many of you reading this article, I believe in the Constitution of the United States of America, a governing document based on God’s higher law and the Bible, granting freedom, dignity, and equality to all. So, what should be our response when the lifestyle choices of other citizens are in direct contradiction to God’s principles and precepts and the natural order He established? Choosing actions that are considered sinful by biblical standards and proven to be detrimental to individuals and society at large? Herein lays the tension we hold.