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6:17 am
Wed March 6, 2013

Spring Break Lunch Program Expands

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"Filling in the Gap - Lunches for Kids" will serve almost twice as many lunches over spring break this year.
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Partners for Wichita and the Kansas Food Bank are teaming again this year to provide meals on weekdays between March 14 and the 22 in their “Filling the Gap – Lunches for Kids” program.

Volunteers expect to serve about 3,500 meals at 14 locations during spring break for public schools in Wichita. That’s roughly double the number served last year.

“We’re aware that about 24 percent of the children in our area are at risk of hunger," says Pastor Sally Fahrenthold, who helped coordinate the program.

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5:54 am
Tue March 5, 2013

Workshop Teaches Digital Skills For Sharing African-American Culture

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A two-day workshop in Wichita will offer skills on how to email, text, tweet and post on Facebook. The workshop is designed to build intergenerational bonds around African-American culture and technology.

The Digital Elder Project is a traveling, leadership and professional development retreat that teaches digital techniques. Shani Byard, founder and director of the Los Angeles-based, Message Media Ed - School of Black Leadership in the Digital Age, will facilitate the workshop. 

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6:28 am
Mon February 18, 2013

Kansans Set Guinness Record For Food Packing

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At a food-packing event Saturday, groups develop a rhythm to pack as many bags of food as they can in an attempt to break a world record.
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All the volunteers raise their hands before the start of the event to make sure everyone starts at the same time.
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Kara Sewell from KWCH cheers the volunteers on as they attempt to break the Gunness World Record.
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Several businesses and volunteer organizations work as teams, including this group from FFA.
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A volunteer carries a precarious stack of empty boxes to a packing table where they will be backed with food for children of Haiti.
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As boxes are filled with food, they get stacked and wrapped on pallets. This is how they'll make their journey to Haiti.
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Two-thousand volunteers  packed 479,000 meals in less than one hour Saturday to feed children in Haiti, while setting a Guinness World Record. The previous record was just more than 315,000.

The event was sponsored by Numana Inc., Volunteer Kansas and The Downtown Rotary Club of Wichita. 

“We’re going to keep going until they tell us to stop,” said Lena Young, a volunteer, as she assembled the meals.

Guinness sent an adviser to Wichita to verify the process and witness the record being set.

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9:40 am
Fri February 15, 2013

What You Won't Be Doing On Presidents' Day

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Monday is Presidents Day and several City of Wichita facilities will be closed.

Closed:

  • Neighborhood City Halls
  • Wichita Public Library locations
  • Park and Recreation centers
  • Watson Park
  • Great Plains Nature Center
  • CityArts
  • Old Cowtown Museum
  • Mid-America All-Indian Center
  • Century II administrative offices
  • Wichita Art Museum
  • Botanica
  • Wichita Transit bus service and administration offices

Open:

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