Prayer service set for Thursday National Day of Prayer
A National Day of Prayer service will begin at 3 30 p m Thursday at the Chapel at the Village Garden Valley Retirement Village 1505 E Spruce St The Rev Terry Major of Pierceville Federated Church will deliver a message Fielding Hands of First United Methodist Church will provide special music Sarah Dumler will be the pianist and Doris Johansen the organist The nationwide event is observed on the first Thursday in May For more information call 275 5036
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Garden Valley Retirement Village
Spruce St
Terry Major
Pierceville
Kansas House panel nears finish on 14B budget plan
TOPEKA AP A Kansas House Appropriations Committee will resume Tuesday to finish a 14 billion dollar fiscal year budget. The panel reaffirmed rejecting Gov Brownback’s proposal to fund schools from general revenues, insisting on highway fund use. They also discussed added public safety spending including trooper overtime. The Senate plans a midweek debate on its budget bill.
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Topeka
Kansas House
House Appropriations Committee
Sam Brownback
House
Kansas Highway Patrol
Senate
Air Force plans to expand training area in Midwest
The Air Force proposes expanding a flight training region across eastern Colorado and western Kansas with a draft environmental assessment issued. Public comment begins Tuesday and runs 30 days. The existing area covers about 2,500 square miles including Cheyenne Kiowa Kit Carson in Colorado and Greeley Logan Scott Wallace Wichita in Kansas used by F-16s from Buckley AFB and tankers from Forbes Field.
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Denver
Air Force
Colorado
Kansas
Cheyenne
Kiowa
Kit Carson
Greeley
Logan
Scott
Wallace
Wichita
Learjet breaks ground on west Wichita expansion
Bombardier Learjet officials, government leaders, and executives gathered Monday to kickoff a $52.7 million expansion at the west Wichita plant. The project aims to create at least 450 new jobs and will add a Flight Test Center, Engineering and IT centers, paint and production test facilities, and a new delivery center for the Learjet 85.
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Learjet
Wichita
West
Bombardier Learjet
Bombardier
Kansas center preserves stories of local farm life
Southeast Kansas farmers share memories from the New Deal era in an oral history project at the Southeast Kansas Farm History Center. Pam Cress spent two years collecting interviews, photos, and transcripts, highlighting Rural Electrification Administration gains and CCC, WPA programs, and one room school experiences.
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Kansas Center
Parsons
Kansas
Southeast Kansas Farm History Center
The
Joplin Globe
Pam Cress
Franklin Roosevelt
Kansas Humanities Council
Axe Library
Pittsburg State University
Randy Roberts
Civilian Conservation Corps
Roberts
Dighton Woman Keeps 70 Year Pen Pal Bond Alive
In Dighton Kansas Elsie Stephens and Ali Brouwer-Ruis shared seven decades of letters begun in 1942 when a 17 year old from Paola High School wrote to a Dutch student. Their long distance friendship endured wars, marriages, children, and life changes as they exchanged joys and worries across oceans.
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Elsie
Ali Brouwer- Russ
Stephens
Netherlands
Paola
Elsie Weaver
Europe
Utrecht
Dighton
High Plains
Kansas
Ruis
Wells
Lane County
Russ
Piet Brouwer
Netherlands’ Transportation System
Ali Brouwer-Ruis
Brouwer-Ruis
Henk
Derk
Martha
Ineke
Steve
Jeff
Cindy
Gerald Stephens
Stephenses
California
Brouwer-Russ
Cindy Wells
Ali
Elsie Stephens
Brouwer- Russ
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Kansas House Panel
Garden City
Stephanie Bogner
Amt
E. Mary St
Bill Scott Jr
Labette County
Brad Nading
Telea
Christy Lopez
Zoo
Lee Richardson Zoo
Mariette
Brouwer- Ruis
Gerald
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