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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 2012
Page
1
Scott City’s Kid's Korner, run by Robert Phillips and his family from Oakley, has sold handcrafted toys like teepees and foam PVC bow arrows for 25 years at the Whimmydiddle Arts and Crafts Festival. The family plans to retire and travel, saying the business funded college and their vacations.
Lawrence AP reports KU researchers find the Great Recession worsened educational opportunities for lower income families. The study shows assets influence long term educational achievement as downturn drains finances, while middle and upper income groups largely preserve college access. William Elliott III notes the educational path is weakened.
Kansas House Education Chairman Steve Huebert considers legislation to require holdbacks for unprepared third graders unless parents opt out, with funding for reading interventions. The move follows a national trend in Republican states aiming to end social promotion, drawn in part from Florida reforms and GEDs by the Foundation for Excellence in Education.
John Hogg, 55, a Santa Fe Trail Council Boy Scouts of America executive, pursued climbing the highest points in all 56 states for nine years. By 2014 he planned a team to summit Mount McKinley, 20,328 feet, and he had become the first Kansas resident to complete the highest points quest, as a weekly feature noted.
The article traces Hogg's healing journey as he pursues climbing the highest U S peaks to honor his 17 year old son Ezra who died in a December 2001 car accident on his way to school. Ezra was an Eagle Scout and his loss profoundly affected Hogg.
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