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Plains Folk: Remembering the career of Glen Clopton

When we last left off with Glen Clopton, he was a policeman in El Dorado. His next, and last, step in law enforcement was as an officer with the Kansas Highway, which he joined on July 5, 1949. One of the last things he experienced while an El Dorado policeman was a rodeo. A bum showed up in town and the cowboys thought it would be fun to enter him in the bareback bronc riding. They loaned him some spurs, which he managed to get on his worn-out oxford shoes. They also managed to get him mounted on the meanest bronc in the bareback string.

THURSDAY BEST BETS

Walker 7 p.m. on KSCW Cordell (Jared Padalecki) and Cassie (Ashley Reyes) stop a hostage situation at a server farm, but something Trey (Jeff Pierre) discovers indicates something more sinister is at play.

NOT GETTING A FLU SHOT IS A HEALTH RISK

Dear Doctors: I’ve been reading that it’s a pretty bad flu season this year, and I’m starting to get worried about getting sick. I haven’t gotten a flu shot yet, but I think it might be too late. Is it still worthwhile to get the vaccine? Is this year’s vaccine effective?

Commission injects confusion into fireworks season

Each January the Newton city commission is thrust into the middle of a conflict, faced with a decision that not matter which way it goes there will be upset residents. The seemingly innocuous decision of when vendors can set up tents and open up buildings to sell fireworks - and when the purchaser of said noise makers can used them - is anything by trivial.

When America fixes its racism

hen we fix racism we’ll save or recoup the $16 trillion estimated to be lost in just this century, not accounting for the $2.4 billion related to health disparities. That money could go to healthcare for all or universal minimum wage or college.