In Brief
Walk & Roll Harvey will meet at 9 a.m. March 20 at the Harvey County Health Department, 215 S.
tschram
Bethel lecturer to focus on social work and climate-change disaster response
Tonya Cross Hansel [Courtesy photo] Tonya Cross Hansel is interested in how populations are affected by trauma – whether medical, technological or climate-induced – and how social workers can help people recover. Hansel will give the third Ada Schmidt-Tieszen Social Work Lecture at Bethel College March 20 at 11 a.m.
Happy St. Patty’s Day
On a day without school, what to do with school age children can be a question. Enter “Clubhouse” at the Newton Recreation Commission - what was once Latchkey in Newton.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Now the Silicon Valley Bank has failed. As in 2008, we are warned other banks are “stressed.” Gee, who’d have thought? Interest rates were held near zero by the Fed for years, playing politics, driving money out of savings into the stock market.
Wildcat softball team looks to seniors for success
MOUNDRIDGE — The Moundridge High School softball team lost some key graduates from last season, but with seven returning senior starters, the prospects for this season are appealing. Lynn Eichelberger begins his second season as the Wildcats’ softball coach.
FRIDAY BEST BETS
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle 7 p.m. on FX More than 20 years after the adventure comedy- fantasy “Jumanji” blew the roof off the box office, this 2017 sequel follows some teenagers who find themselves whisked into the world of what is now a video game, where they play as their chosen grown-up avatars, trying to overcome the game’s magical power and win their release to return home.
Hendrickson claims two wins at NCAA
TULSA, Okla. — Newton High School grad Wyatt Hendrickson, a junior wrestler for the Air Force Academy, claimed a pair of wins Thursday at the NCAA Division I National Championships at the BOK Center in Tulsa.
Newton High JAG-K student serves as a Legislative Page at Statehouse
Recently more than 400 Jobs for America’s Graduates-Kansas students from across the state visited the Kansas Capitol building, meeting with legislators and learning about state government. Last week, Tristan Gormley, a sophomore from Newton High School served as a page for Sen.
Cacophany, Not Harmony: US Foreign Policy’s Terrible Tune
On March 14, a Russian SU-27 fighter brought down a US MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Black Sea. The exact details of where and how remain a mystery even after the release of drone video showing what appears to be a dump of jet fuel onto the drone, but those details don’t matter much. The incident mainly serves as an excuse for more ratcheting up of US-Russian tensions around the war in Ukraine.
Legislature swimming in the wrong lake
The Kansas Legislature has been wading into areas where the waters are too deep for them, and they do not belong. Today, we’ll take a look at just one of those areas - and our stance on a bill will, initially, appear hypocritical.