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tschram

  • Joined: August 30, 2022
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Women gather for fitness and community

Sweat Like A Mother, Leavenworth (S.L.A.M.) is a group of women who meet Monday through Friday for classes at the Riverfront Community Center in the winter and at Fort Leavenworth in the spring and summer with a focus on fitness and community.

Political credit grab instead of truth

To the editor: I’m glad to hear the new veterans home project is moving forward with the site selection complete in a good spot in Topeka, featuring a geographically central location on state-owned land allowing for maximum dollar impact when improving our nation’s hero’s quality of life. However, as a veteran and service officer, I am dumbfounded by Rep. Proctor’s continuous attempt to take full credit for this new home.

How much gets socked away?

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and the Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature are headed toward big fights over spending on special education programs, pay raises for government workers and how much the cash-flush state should sock away for worse economic times.

Chiefs top seed in AFC, but title game could be in Atlanta

Patrick Mahomes is the graybeard of the quarterbacks in the AFC playoffs even though he’s only 27 and wasn’t even born yet when Tom Brady was a freshman at the University of Michigan in 1995. With Tua Tagovailoa (concussion) out and Teddy Bridgewater, 30, also hurt, the Miami Dolphins are preparing rookie Skylar Thompson, 25, to start at Buffalo this weekend.

Lenny Eugene Oatney

Lenny Eugene Oatney, 63, of Easton, Kan. passed away on December 30, 2022, at University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kan. He was born on April 28, 1959, in Leavenworth, Kan. He is the son of Dick L. and Alice D. (Reavis) Oatney. He graduated from Leavenworth High School in 1978. He worked many different jobs throughout the years including Select Products and the LV. Water Department. He also worked for various heavy construction companies and recently retired from Frontier Heritage at Fort Leavenworth. He was a member of Union 101 Heavy Equipment Operators and Easton Lions Club. He enjoyed raising cattle, fishing, hunting, family reunions, and helping his friends. He never met a stranger with whom he couldn’t strike up a conversation, but most of all loved (being with and) raising his family. On October 16, 1999, Lenny married his wife, Rita (Wagner) Oatney. Together with his first wife Deborah (Ellingwood) and her husband, Curt Williams, they raised six children: Jeffrey (Kate) Oatney of Basehor, Jamie (Cameron) Richardson of Colorado Springs, Colo., Whitney (Jamie) Seifert of Leavenworth, Matthew Ransom (Jenny Delzeit) of Manhattan, Luke Oatney of Ft. Benning, Ga., and Holly Oatney of Easton. This was no small feat and couldn’t have been done without the help of many family and friends. He is most proud of his family and enjoyed spending time with his nine grandchildren: Kyle, Kaden, Jasper, and Sawyer Richardson, Myra, Bryce, and Ella Seifert, and Madalyn and Mason Oatney. Lenny is survived by his brother Dick (Patty) Oatney and sister Janet (Lee) Treft, both of Leavenworth, another brother Chris (Sandi) Oatney of Copperas Cove, Texas, sister-in-law Donna Oatney of Kansas City, Mo., many nieces, nephews, and greatnieces and -nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents Dick and Alice Oatney and a brother David