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Oakwood Cemetery OK’d for Register of Historic Kansas Places
Posted Tuesday February 6, 2024
The Kansas Historic Sites Board of Review on Saturday morning approved Oakwood Cemetery in Parsons to be on the Register of Historic Kansas Places. ...
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Reflections on Stella Wells baskets
Posted Friday February 2, 2024
Beginning in the mid-1980s, the Stella Wells Christmas Baskets program has grown by leaps and bounds and new volunteers have stepped in to help the labor-intensive program. ...
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Who was Stella Wells?
Posted Friday February 2, 2024
Stella Wells was known for her charity work during the holiday season, giving Christmas baskets to local needy families. ...
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Care Cupboard has matching opportunity
Posted Tuesday January 23, 2024
Volunteer Kansas, a sister organization of the Downing Family Foundation, has awarded Care Cupboard Hygiene Pantry with the opportunity for a matching grant. Before July 24, Care Cupboard must raise $8,000 in donations. If that happens, Volunteer Kansas will then award Care Cupboard an additional $8,000 match. ...
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Reynolds receives LCC Latzer Art Award
Posted Friday December 8, 2023
The Labette Community College (LCC) Foundation is delighted to announce Amy Elizabeth Reynolds, a nontraditional student from Oswego, as the John and Bonnie Latzer Fall 2023 Art Award recipient. Reynold’s exceptional ceramic piece, “Midnight Meadow Blossom,” was chosen by the LCC Hendershot Gallery Committee, recognizing her talent and dedication. ...
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Auction raises $63K for Stella Wells Christmas baskets
Posted Tuesday December 5, 2023
The Stella Wells Christmas Tree Auction on Friday raised $63,890 for Christmas baskets and gifts. ...
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About 200 attend tour of Oakwood Cemetery
Posted Tuesday October 17, 2023
More than 200 people attended Saturday’s 90-minute tour of Oakwood Cemetery and learned about historic structures in the cemetery and some of the people buried there. ...
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Oakwood Cemetery tour planned for Oct. 14
Posted Friday September 22, 2023
The committee raising money to improve the two Grand Army of the Republic circles at Oakwood Cemetery is planning a historic cemetery tour in mid-October. ...
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Cooley is PALS Person of the Month
Posted Tuesday August 1, 2023
August is National Immunization Awareness Month. That makes the Proud Animal Lovers Shelter’s decision to hold its annual microchip/vaccination clinic in August even more appropriate. ...
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Howard is PALS Person of the Month
Posted Wednesday July 5, 2023
Roxie Howard is a print and graphic services specialist at Labette Community College. She helps Proud Animal Lovers Shelter by printing our fl yers, brochures and anything else we may need. When asked why she is willing to do that, she replied, “I’m not good at talking about myself. I guess I would say that I’m just an animal lover in general and I love what PALS does and stands for and how much the people in charge genuinely care about the animals. ...
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Charles is PALS Person of the Month
Posted Monday June 5, 2023
June is the ASPCA’s Adopt a Shelter cat month and the Proud Animal Lovers Shelter has 16 kitties waiting to be adopted. We have kittens and adults, each with their unique personality. There are tortoiseshells, calicos and tabbys. We even have an American bobtail, who is longhaired and declawed. Our adoption fee for cats is $85, unless the cat has been at the shelter over six months. In that case, the fee is only $65. It covers the cat’s spay/ neuter, deworming and ...
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