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New alliance emphasizes social determinants of health in bid for Kansas Medicaid contract
TOPEKA — Four organizations have joined in a bid for a slice of the state’s $3.9 billion KanCare contracts. InterHab, the Children’s Alliance, the Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas and CareSource Kansas announced their alliance Wednesday, collaborating under the name of CareSource HealthAlliance.
Kansas Profile: Small town changing the narrative
It’s the same old story: Small town population is aging, the average age is creeping upward, and young people are moving out. It’s a story heard all over Kansas – except where it is not.
In Brief
BOE to tour Lindley Hall The Newton USD 373 Board of Education will convene a special meeting at 6 p.m. June 12 at the Santa Fe 5/6 center gymnasium, 130 W. Broadway, to tour the gymnasium which is under renovation.
SEAK launched this week.
SEAK stands for Summer Enrichment Activities for Kids. This year the program is at two locations - New Creation Fellowship (SE Third and Pine) Mondays through Thursdays and Immanuel Baptist Church (1515 N. Anderson) on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Coloring contest launched by county, sheriff
If you’re under 12 and color well, you could win breakfast with a first repsonder, and a ride in a first response vehicle this summer. It’s a new project launched by Harvey County Administration and the Sheriff’s Department.
Newton students speak in Washington DC
Incoming freshmen Gracie Zimmerman and Nicole Aden are able to say they have experienced speaking on one of the most famous stages in the world, and it all started at Chisholm Middle School. Last month, Chisholm social studies teacher Monty Graber took then-eighth grade students Zimmerman and Aden to Washington DC for the Ford’s Theatre national performance and retreat as part of the Ford’s National Oratory Fellows program.
SATURDAY BEST BETS
The Pioneer Woman FOOD 9 a.m. While Ladd and Alex work cattle in Kansas, Ree fills the freezer with layered chicken spinach artichoke lasagnas and copycat convenience store burritos.
MONDAY BEST BETS
Stars on Mars KSAS 7 p.m. In this new unscripted series, 12 celebrities (such as Ariel Winter and Marshawn Lynch) act as trailblazers, competing to see who would best conquer and colonize a fictional “Mars,” with only one set to win as the final, victorious space invader.
SUNDAY BEST BETS
2023 Roland-Garros Tennis KSNW 8 a.m. If you love the look of red clay on tennis whites, be sure to tune into the Men’s Final of the French Open airing live from Roland Garros Stadium in Paris.