The Moundridge Elementary School has been working with the Invent America program, and the first-place winner from the Moundridge school will compete on the national level.

On Nov. 5, Keith and Clara DeHaven loaded up their pickup and piled the bed high with bags of new and used shoes of all sorts — 278 pounds in all — collected by the Sedgwick Senior Center to be donated to the Veteran’s Administration hospice in Wichita.

Already strapped health agencies are looking at making deeper cuts due to Medicaid cuts. Some workers’ hours have been cut, and jobs and the quality of care are on the line.