What if saving a life was as easy and fun as spending an hour with a friend? For Laurie Ziegler and Linda Kucza, that’s exactly what blood donation has become — a life-saving tradition wrapped in laughter, friendship and a little friendly competition. How it started Ziegler, a reading and ...
Wichita — The children in Susie Kelley’s class at Harry Street Elementary School were kindergartners when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools and sent students home for remote learning. Now they’re finishing fifth grade and preparing for middle school. And though it’s been years ...
NEW YORK — Marian Rivman is pushing 80. Harriet Luria is a proud 83. In this trio, Carol Leister is the baby at 62. Together, they have decades of experience with yoga. Only now, it involves a chair. Chair yoga adapts traditional yoga poses for older people and others with physical ...
Douglas County Commissioner Gene Dorsey is concerned that a crisis is “imminent” at Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, and he thinks the county ought to provide some immediate financial assistance. Dorsey made that request to fellow county commissioners at Wednesday evening’s ...
Sometimes it only takes hope and a vision. When Dr. Gordy Klatt began his first lap around a track in Tacoma, Washington in May 1985 to raise money to help the American Cancer Society save lives, he began Relay For Life, a global movement. Forty years later, Relay For Life has grown to become ...
New Mexico announced two new measles cases Thursday and North Dakota added one. The U.S. surpassed 1,000 measles cases Friday. Texas still accounts for the vast majority of cases in an outbreak that also spread measles to New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas. Two unvaccinated elementary school-aged ...