Step-children offer humiliation as their gift
Dear Amy: My husband and I have been married for 10 years. We each have two grown children from previous marriages.
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Holland files legislation mandating protections for children
Holland files legislation mandating protections for children Sen. Tom Holland, D-Baldwin City, has introduced Senate Bill 87 to require ordained ministers and clergy to report suspected harms against children as a result of physical, mental or emotional abuse, neglect or sexual abuse.
Open house planned for crisis stabilization center
The Guidance Center will host an open house next week for its new Guiding Lights Crisis Stabilization Center. The center is located at the former Saint Luke’s Cushing Hospital building, 711 Marshal St.
Safeguarding documents should be a priority
To the editor: These imbeciles we elect to positions of responsibility do not regard documents marked as sensitive enough to safeguard them. These people have the power to order war but cannot even control the documents that can make a situation life or death. Excuses, excuses, and yet they do not see the results of their disregard for the information that they lose, lose track of and/or allow someone who is not authorized to see them. The results could be blood on their hands.
KATHLEEN “KATHY” ANN HOFFMAN
Kathleen “Kathy” Ann Hoffman, 70, of Leavenworth passed away on January 18, 2023, in her home. Memorial Services will be held at Davis Funeral Chapel on Friday, February 3, 2023, from 4-6 p.m.
Leavenworth boy bowls 300
Peyton Yurisich entered Monday’s meet at Crown Lanes bowling JV. But after making seven straight strikes, Yurisich began to feel a crowd gather.
ROBERTA B. EAGLE
1939 - 2023 Roberta B. Eagle, 83, Atchison, Kansas, went to be with her Savior, Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at Atchison Medicalodge.
Pandemic, culture wars revive ‘school choice’ policy push
Nichole Mason first became concerned when she learned administrators at her children’s public school were allowing transgender students to use girls’ bathrooms. Her frustrations mounted when she felt her children’s next school went too far with how they enforced COVID regulations during the pandemic.
Last of the pack of childhood fishing buddies
Throughout junior high and high school, three of my buddies and I went trout fishing every evening after school. We lived by a lake where they stocked trout and not many of the residents fished. The trout were ours for the taking and many good meals were the result, a welcome help to feeding our families.
SISTER MARY CLARE GAPPA, SCL
SISTER MARY CLARE GAPPA, SCL... Sister Mary Clare Gappa, 84, a Sister of Charity of Leavenworth for 66 years, died on Jan. 22, 2023, at Ross Hall in Leavenworth, Kan. She entered the religious Community on Aug. 19, 1956. After she entered, Sister Mary Clare taught for 24 years in schools in the Midwest and West. She was a skilled educator with unmatched creativity and compassion for all. Later, and after much discernment, Sister Mary Clare began her ministry as a pastoral associate at Coronation of Our Lady Parish in Grandview, Mo. One of her many responsibilities was teaching RCIA classes. For the next three decades, she would walk with adults on their conversion journey, sharing her passion and knowledge of the Catholic Church. Sister Mary Clare humbly embraced her service to others, the Catholic faith, and her SCL Community.