Make-A-Wish grants local child a shopping spree
16 year old Caleb Larsh of Pomona, battling a second brain tumor, will receive an $1,850 Make-A-Wish shopping spree at Best Buy with about 15 family members. He plans to buy X-Box games movies music and a TV, then head to Chicago for monthly treatment and an MRI to assess tumor changes.
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Caleb Larsh
Pomona
Larsh
Make
Sara Pabst
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Pabst
Chicago
Gaylene Lane
Waverly
Make-A-Wish Foundation
Amber Nicholls
Clathe
Eric Miller
Topeka
Miller
Nicholls
Kansas
Wichita
Franklin County
Vickie Moss
Vmoss
Ottawahervald
Seaman the explorer dog dies during reenactment trip
WAVERLY MO AP Seaman a 20 month old Newfoundland who played the Lewis and Clark expedition’s canine companion died during a two year reenactment. The University of Missouri Columbia veterinary clinic was performing an autopsy to determine the cause. Seaman weighed about 140 pounds and lived as the crew’s mascot through segments from St. Charles to Fort Mandan and earlier travels from Aug. 31 to Dec. 12 last year. Mandrell the group’s Meriwether Lewis portrayed said Seaman was with them in parades and camped at the crew’s site in Waverly. He was described as America’s dog since last August and a symbol of the Corps of Discovery. The group considers placing a memorial in St. Charles.
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Waverly
Seaman
University of Missouri- Columbia
Newfoundland
Scott Mandrell
Meriwether Lewis
St. Charles
Lewis and Clark
Fort Man
Dan
N.C
Pennsylvania
Camp Dubois
America
Mandrell
Corps of Discovery
Action fuels youth interest in Kansas Boys' State
Kansas high school juniors at Kansas State University attended Boys State to learn civics through simulated city county and state government. Christian Corrigan, 18, Wichita, was elected governor and faced partisan budget fights. Oswald of Hutchinson challenged him. both sides emphasized debate and public service.
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Manhattan
Kansas State University
Christian Corrigan
Wichita
Boys’ State
Senate
Zach Oswald
Hutchinson
Corrigan
Oswald
Ence
Anthony Hensley
Topeka
Derek Schmidt
Independence
David Adkins
Leawood
Schmidt
Adkins
Thornburgh
Joe Zigtema
Overland Park
Iraq
Zigtema
Anthony Patterson
Derby
Group to search for killer asteroids with telescope
NASA funds a Topeka group of amateurs to repurpose 1929 KU telescope parts to hunt near Earth asteroids. The Northeast Kansas Amateur Astronomers League will get a 1600 pound 9 ft 3 in telescope from ScopeCraft to be housed at Farpoint Observatory near Topeka.
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Richmond
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Explorer
N.E. Kansas
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Usca Tennis and Education Foundation
Forest Park Tennis Courts
American Legion Boys
State of Kansas
Ksbstate.org
Tory
Gary Hug
Sarooy A. Bavishi, M.D
Board Certified
Olathe
Olathe Medical Center
151St St
Stone Hill
Orscheln
Michelin
Black & Decker
Town & Country Supply
Princeton Road
Ottawa
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