Unlike the telecom world of today, letters were the only way to stay in touch with loved ones during times of conflict. This process was made faster by the creation of V-Mail, which significantly sped up the speed, security, and shipping costs of correspondence between battlefront soldiers and their communities at home in the states.
Wellington City Councilman, Rick Roitman recently was able to share an important letter that gave a glimpse into how loved ones communicated during WWII. Roitman, a retired US Navy Commander, served for 27 years and on this occasion honored a fellow Navy man, Bob Rice, by reading a letter he had written from his ship during WWII.
Ottawa’s Hope House held a ribbon cutting for its new location at 205 W. 17th Street Friday morning with the Ottawa Chamber. Co-Director Michelle Graf spoke with Chamber members about the remodeled facility and how Hope House is expanding its services.
Newton High School student, Gracie Hendrickson, was recently crowned Miss Kansas Teen USA 2022 and will spend this next year representing the organization. Her plans for the year include appearances to promote her personal platform on mental health and preparing for Nationals later this year.
Dear Readers, On a shelf in a West On a shelf in a Western KS warehouse sits a parcel I hope will be recovered. Well I don’t know for sure that it is on a shelf or in a warehouse but after four hours, five or six “live chats,” and too many phone calls to count, the United Parcel Service (UPS) assures me this package is somewhere in Garden City.
Kansas nurses are demanding more be done to protect health workers in response to the attack Wednesday at an Oklahoma hospital and rising violence against medical staff. The shooting at Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa resulted in four deaths and left several more injured.
Prairie Paws Animal Shelter is holding its first-ever golf tournament fundraiser event on June 13 at Prairie Highland Golf Club in Olathe. The tournament starts at 10, which a lunch to follow.
Gov. Laura Kelly signed a bill hailed by Republicans and Democrats to provide funding and regulation for a statewide 24-hour, seven-day-aweek suicide prevention hotline scheduled to be operational in mid-July.
There was a basketball player at my high school who was overdramatic. Anytime an opposing player even brushed up against him he would yell in pain and grab his arm. One time someone bumped him, and he threw a hissy fit and called a time out because of his “pain.” That was our last timeout which made us lose the game because we couldn’t stop the clock.
Economic disruption in Kansas associated with COVID-19 contributed to demise of 115 family home child-care providers in the pandemic’s first year and left nearly one-fifth of the state’s counties without child care slots for infants or toddlers, a new report said.