Prayer Warrior Records and Kai’ Ministries will present the Leavenworth Community Talent Competition and Scholarship Drive at 6:30 p.m. Saturday night at the Heritage Center, 109 Delaware St. in Leavenworth.
 

Marci Penner is the executive director of the Inman, Kan., based Kansas Sampler Foundation that has organized the annual Kansas Sampler Festival each year since it started on the farm of Penner and her father. On the first weekend of May in both 2010 and 2011, the festival will be hosted by Leavenworth County. The foundation is also currently taking nominations for the Eight Wonders of Kansas History.

March marks International Women’s History Month, and students at Lansing Elementary School learned first-hand on Thursday about the strides women have made over the years.
 

A woman was in the hospital, and a man was in jail following a stabbing Thursday morning in Leavenworth.