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Two weeks ago, some health leaders in Douglas County were disappointed by a local health center’s decision not to transfer its COVID-19 vaccine doses to Lawrence's hospital for distribution.
Now that organization, Heartland Community Health Center, has completed its distribution of 1,000 doses of the vaccine. Meanwhile, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, which intended ...
Students who study abroad are often faced with adjusting to a new culture, learning a language and coping with being far from home. Now imagine all that — plus a global pandemic.
That’s what Hanae Matsuda, Rena Nakamura and 10 of their classmates from Kansai University in Osaka, Japan, experienced for the past nine months during their exchange program through the University of Kansas. When the Japanese ...
Knowing Christmas would be quieter than usual this year at their homes, Betty Ruhlen and Kathleen Weber spent their morning and afternoon volunteering for the first time at Lawrence's annual Community Christmas Dinner.
“It was just going to be a quiet Christmas at home with nobody, and I just thought that it would be nice to come down here and help people out,” Weber said.
When people started streaming in ...
Chris Appodaca received her first Christmas decoration at the age of 3. Now, 64 years later, she has too many to count.
There’s the line of vintage cookie tins above the kitchen cabinets and the cookie jars above the kitchen windows. There’s the case of Santa milk jugs and mugs in the dining room and the handmade quilts on the walls. On her grandmother’s old stove rests hundreds of Santa ...
Despite no indoor dining option due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Lawrence's annual Community Christmas Dinner will still take place this Friday with to-go, delivery and outdoor seating options.
On Christmas from noon to 2 p.m., community members will be able to pick up free meals at First United Methodist Church, 946 Vermont St. Those wishing to eat there can sit on the sidewalk outside the church, where, weather ...
