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WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO EAT/DRINK DAIRY?

Consuming dairy products provides health benefits – especially building and maintaining strong bones. Foods in the Dairy Group provide nutrients that are vital for health and maintenance of your body. These nutrients include calcium, potassium, vitamin D, and protein.

CULINARY STUDENTS

Lansing High School student Francisco Verzola is shown preparing gajar halwa, an Indian carrot pudding, as part of the KCKCC culinary program at the Pioneer Career Center in Leavenworth. Photo by Kim Taylor

Taking home rule seriously in Kansas

Many Kansas Republicans likely guffawed in disbelief when Gov. Laura Kelly recently insisted she was “a major local-control advocate.” The image of Democrats as favoring big government programs, with Republicans fighting to keep government small and local, is deeply entrenched. The language of the state GOP, presenting Kelly’s emergency orders during the pandemic as examples of “one-size-fitsall” overreach, employs this stereotype expertly.

NEWS BRIEFS

Police investigate 3 deaths as possible murder-suicide Authorities are investigating the deaths of three people whose bodies were found inside a suburban Kansas City home as a possible murder-suicide. Overland Park police said in a news release that officers went to the home Thursday morning after a woman was unable to contact her family inside the home.