Navajo Taco Dinner Supports Local Nonprofits at Church Benefit
First Christian Church hosts 13th annual Navajo taco dinner to raise funds for local agencies including Russell Child Development Center Girl Scout and Boy Scout units Family Crisis Services and Miles of Smiles Therapeutic Riding Program. Tickets 5 in advance 6 at door with silent auction featuring quilts. Proceeds from last year reached about 11000 with church matching to 22000. Funds targeted to community organizations and mission.
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Schurle
Russell Child Development Center
Girl Scout
Family Crisis Services
Miles of Smiles
Gayle Frank
First Christian Church
D.J. Richmeier
Nolan
Joe Gosch
Lakin
Arizona
Utah
New Mexico
Scientists report egg producing stem cells in human ovaries
Tilly and partners publish findings in Nature Medicine suggesting human ovaries harbor egg producing stem cells. Independent experts urge verification by other labs, warn the work is preliminary, and note years of further research before clinical use. The study uses green signaling in cells to track potential egg formation.
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Tilly
Teresa Woodruff
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
David Albertini
University of Kansas’ Center For Reproductive Sciences
Mass General
China
U.S
Nature Medicine
Japan
Saitama Medical University
Albertini
Kyle Orwig
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Orwig
Northwestern
Woodruff
National Institutes of Health
OvaScience Inc
Brownback presses ahead on school finance overhaul
Education policy champion Sam Brownback defends a finance plan aimed at preserving funding and boosting flexibility for districts. Senate leaders voice caution about timing and review. The coalition Schools for Fair Funding sues the state over 2005 court mandated funding, while Brownback seeks to expand technical education and publish teacher evaluations online to inform parents.
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Brownback
Senate
John Wratil
Leawood
Anthony Hensley
Kansas Supreme Court
Escape from Saigon to Scott City Story of Lam's family
Neighbors recount Lam a Scott City woman who escaped Vietnam before the April 30 1975 fall of Saigon. Her uncle fled with Lam while her mother refused. the family hid as North Vietnamese forces advanced and endured prison camps and risky attempts to leave. The Orderly Departure Program enabled their emigration to Los Angeles before eventually settling in Scott City. Lam later opened a nail salon, met her husband Don Crawford in 2006, and moved to Scott City in 2008 with her children Peter and Natasha. Her parents remain in Los Angeles and she praises the American aid that allowed a new life away from Communist rule.
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Saigon
Lam
Hoa Nguyen
Sam
South Vietnam
Duong van Minh
United States
U.S
Bangkok
Thailand
Los Angeles
America
Peter
Natasha
Scott City
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Brad Nading
Fellowship Hall
Seventh Street
Hensley
Topeka
Schools For Fair Funding
Vietnam
Los
Jacob Breeden
Texas Panhandle
Paarl Ks Ley
Garden City Community College
Eta
RSCL
Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building
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