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May 2022

Farris signs with South Dakota

Wearing her Lansing volleyball state championship ring, Kamryn Farris made official where she will make her next mark, signing with the University of South Dakota. Farris said she had just returned from a visit to the University of Houston when she received a surprise text message from South Dakota coach Leanne Williamson.
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Local growers want people to visit their farms to see the crops and animals

really believe that Leavenworth County is the ideal location for growing a large part of the food needed in the Kansas City metro region and that it should be enhanced with incentives for doing that. I would be agreeable to a zoning that would provide an incentive to those who want to grow crops for local consumption. I suggest a significant tax break at the least and possibly an incentive I of other sorts in the future. That would not include commodity crops for export, of course.
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DINOSAUR WATCH

Summer and Orion Nowak enjoy the dinosaur models on a recent trip to the Topeka Zoo. Matt Nowak .
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ORNAMENTAL TREE

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Sister Rita Smith

Sister Rita Smith, Sister Rita Smith, 81, a Sister of Charity of Leavenworth (SCL) for 63 years, died on May 15, 2022, at Ross Hall in Leavenworth, Kan. Sister entered the religious community on Aug. 24, 1958, and was a long-time educator and administrator. To read her complete obituary, please visit the SCL website at https://www.scls.org/ sisterritasmith/.
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Richard D. Wisneski

Richard D. Wisneski, 80, of Leavenworth, Kan, died Sunday, May 22, 2022, at KU Hospital. Richard was born on August 12, 1941, in Norwich, Conn., the youngest son of Blanche (Poreda) and Joseph Wisneski. He graduated from Norwich Free Academy. Richard married Kathleen Schlink on September 3, 1966, who survives of the home. Richard is survived by his brothers Leonard Wisneski and Joseph (Evelyn) Wisneski, children Michele (Ron) Frankl, Jeanne (Travis) Gray, Stephen Wisneski and Jessica Wisneski, and grandchildren Taylor and Jackson. He was preceded in death by his parents, and his sister Barbara Keech.
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Major League Baseball criticizes teams over facilities for female employees

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball told its clubs that some are failing to provide acceptable work accommodations for female employees, calling them “embarrassingly below” standard. The May 20 memorandum from Michael Hill, the MLB senior vice president for onfield operations, asks teams to provide documentation by June 3 of the facilities for home and visiting female coaches and staff.
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Abrams-Kemp slugfest promises to be pricey, long and ugly

Georgia voters didn’t get much of a break from election talk on the day after the Tuesday primary in which Republican Gov. Brian Kemp demolished GOP challenger David Perdue and Democrat Stacey Abrams finally clinched a nomination waiting for her after no other members of her party jumped in.
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GOP is lost to extremists of the far right

To the editor: Seasoned Republicans are leaving the party in droves because, like Miles Taylor, they believe the party is lost to extremists of the far right, and it can “no longer be reformed from within,” so must be “countered from without.” Taylor, who was Trump’s chief of staff for Homeland Security, admits that, when Trump became president, he believed this bigoted man was a glitch, not the future of the party, but recent events of the open targeting and murders of people of color finally made him take a hard look at what had been his beloved party. Taylor still believes in the millions of Americans are who are truly centrist or, dare he say, liberal Republicans, but he is afraid that too many are too loyal to the idea that Republicans are live-or-die party supporters to hope for these same people to become aware of the racist, sexist rhetoric and movement they have helped spawn to change the party’s trajectory toward autocracy.
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