MCPHERSON – May 25 the Kansas Mennonite Relief Sale held its Annual Meeting at First Mennonite Church of McPherson. This year’s theme was “Walking with Jesus…. spreading the love of God around the World”. The highlight of the evening was the presentation of $610,000 to the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Central States Office.
n a 655-to-29 vote Wednesday night, the Great Plains conference of the United Methodist Church ratified legislation to allow a total of 156 member churches in Kansas and Nebraska to split from the main church.
Norma Hunt, the second wife of the late Kansas City Chiefs founder Lamar Hunt and the only woman to attend every Super Bowl, has died. She was 85.
KINGMAN — Because of the weather, the participation of the Newton Sluggin’ Rebels in the Jayhawk League Pre-Season Jamboree was limited to a single game against the Derby Twins Saturday at Riverside Park in Kingman. Newton won a pitcher’s duel 2-0.
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The Cassoday bike run is a motorcycle rally that occurs the first Sunday of every month March through October in Cassoday, 38 miles east of Newton on First Street. This month the run was June 3. Cassody is at the intersection of the Kansas Turnpike and U.S. 177 in the Flint Hills. It was started by some bikers, stopping at a small cafe in town one day back in 1991. All photos by Michele Clark, Newton Kansan. For a full gallery, visit thekansan.com
TOPEKA — U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran found sufficient merit in the negotiated debt-ceiling bill to join the bipartisan majority voting in favor, while U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall voted against the deal because it didn’t include funding to enhance security at the border with Mexico.
SYLVAN GROVE — Kansas is “the wheat state,” the officially adopted moniker that embraces its place as the country’s breadbasket. Tall white grain elevators, some decorated with wheat murals, loom over tiny farm towns.
They held hands by two and three; the two oldest each wore a backpack. I pulled a roller suitcase with a handbag on top and carried Joshua with my free hand. I looked to the right, then to the left. This adventure was happening to us at long last! We made our way into the Indianapolis airport by the Southwest entrance. Walking on into the large entry doors, I blinked over the tears pushing at my eyelids-no, Daddy was not here as we had always thought he would be on this trip.
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