Parent report cards vs direct communication in Ottawa schools
Editorial argues a parent generated teacher rating may aid dialogue but risks an us-versus-them mindset. It favors proactive direct contact via emails, calls, in-person meetings, and timely updates over formalized reports to improve student learning.
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Ottawa
Ottawa Board of Education
Jeff Michaelsen
Kansas National Education Association
Little Johnny
Susie
Ottawa blood drive invites community to donate
Reader Forum promotes donating blood via a bloodmobile with Community Blood Center on Monday December 18 from noon to 6 p.m. at Ransom Memorial Hospital in the Conference Room. Contact Ms. Linda Reed at 785 229 8323 to sign up. Donors 17 or older, 110 pounds+, in good health.
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Ottawa
Community Blood Center
Ransom Memorial Hospital
S. Main
Linda Reed
Keep Christ in Christmas by Eien Greenfield Ottawa
The note argues to keep Christ in Christmas and recalls the birth and life of Jesus Christ. It emphasizes his sacrifice, resurrection, and the season’s remembrance as central to faith.
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God
Jesus
Christ
Eien Greenfield
Ottawa
Reader Forum submissions seek signed letters to Ottawa Herald
Readers invited to send opinions to Reader Forum at The Ottawa Herald 104 Cedar Ottawa KS 66067 or via letters ottawaherald com Submissions must include author address and telephone number be under 500 words and may be edited for space
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Ottawa Herald
Ottawa
Ottawaherald
Beef, lunch, and the fight over safe meat bans
Salina Journal columnist George B. Pyle attends a Kansas Cattlemen's Association luncheon with rancher Mike Callicrate and Lyle Updike to discuss hormone free beef, rinse and chill processing, and alleged industry overreach. The piece argues industrial processing hides safety risks and urges caution over antibiotics and genetic modifications.
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Mike Callicrate
Kansas Cattlemen’s Association
St. Francis
KCA
Zonker Harris
George
Spinal Tap
Great Bend
Ranch Foods
Lyle Updike
Kearney
Updike
Callicrate
New Zealand
Salina
Roosevelt on Scouting Enduring Civic Lessons
The article quotes Theodore Roosevelt's 1911 Boy Scouts letter emphasizing efficiency and patriotism, urging boys to live by the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule, cultivate courage, self-control, kindness, and knowledge, and to train mind and body for crisis. It notes the letter appears in the first Boy Scout handbook and contrasts Roosevelt's tough guidance with modern politics and debates over the Scouts' religious and moral stance.
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Roosevelt
Dakotas
New York City
Panama Canal
Applewood Books
Bedford
Mass
Bill Clinton
Boy Scouts
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