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Overland Park, Kan. (KCTV) - The Jewish Community Center in Overland Park hosted the 11th Jewish Culture Fest on Sunday. The event highlights the best of Jewish culture, but also featured a special service on Sunday evening in light of the situation in Israel.
“Quite simply, being together is everything,” said Rabbi David Glickman of Congregation Beth Shalom. “Feeling loved by one another and giving love to one another is everything right now.”
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Three Kansas City-area Congress members have introduced legislation to make the Quindaro Townsite a national historic landmark.
Located in Kansas City, Kansas, Quindaro was once a thriving town and a key stop on the Underground Railroad.
The bicameral Indigenous Peoples’ Day Act to replace Columbus Day as a federal holiday and designate the second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day has been reintroduced in Congress.
The legislation was reintroduced by Representatives Sharice Davids (KS-03), Norma J. Torres (CA-35), Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), and Suzan DelBene (WA-01), along with Senators Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Ben Ray Luján (D-NM).
The Indigenous Peoples’ Day Act has garnered 56 cosponsors in the House of Representatives.
The Kansas City Women’s Business Center and others across the U.S. could soon see more money and support coming into the national female entrepreneurship network.
Earlier this month, U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids of Johnson County resubmitted the Women’s Business Center Improvement Act, which seeks to increase the program’s funding and impact for the first time in 35 years.
TOPEKA — U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids’ agriculture tour in her eastern Kansas district included a Miami County no-till crop farm, a poultry and livestock operation in Anderson County, the Johnson County organic vegetable business, a Franklin County cooperative and a community educational farm in Wyandotte County.
It was a stop at the Garnett dairy owned by Christi Ratliff that put into better focus the detrimental economic forces that come into play if Congress didn’t thoughtfully, promptly renew the nation’s five-year farm bill this year.
PAOLA — The Miami County Historical Museum in Paola had some special guests Monday, Sept. 18, including a member of the Peruvian Embassy.
It’s all part of the museum’s effort to repatriate 38 pre-Columbian artifacts, including pottery and other figurines, that were donated to the museum several years ago by a private collector.
The artifacts come from Mexico, Ecuador, Guatemala and Peru, and museum volunteers recently decided they should be returned to their home countries.
TOPEKA (KSNT) – A grant has been awarded to a Kansas legal aid organization to help expand pro bono legal services to low-income individuals.
On Sept. 20, Legal Services Corporation (LSC), the largest non-profit funder of civil legal aid for low-income Americans, awarded a $334,000 grant to Kansas Legal Services (KLS), according to a press release from LSC.
Recently, Rep. Sharice Davids (KS-03), a tribal citizen of the Ho-Chunk Nation, along with Rep. Nydia Velazquez (NY-07), introduced the Women’s Business Centers Improvement Act, which would increase access to resources and opportunities for women entrepreneurs in Kansas and across the country. Davids’ bill passed the U.S.
An additional $1.7 million was secured to develop 100 multi-family rental units at a four-story apartment building in downtown Bonner Springs, U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids announced.
A building at 120 Oak St., the site of an old Thriftway grocery store, was demolished a few months ago with plans for the $17 million development.
BONNER SPRINGS, Kan. — Bonner Springs, Kansas is hoping to build a new apartment complex at the site of a former eyesore in downtown.
The city plans to build a 100-unit, 4-story residential apartment complex with 31 studios, 46 one-bedroom and 23 two-bedroom units. It would be located at 120 Oak Street, at the site of the former Bonner Springs Thriftway and Dollar General that was demolished back in May.