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6:28 am
Mon February 18, 2013

Kansans Set Guinness Record For Food Packing

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Credit Milt Radford / KMUW
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.
Credit Milt Radford / KMUW
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.
Credit Milt Radford / KMUW
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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Community
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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Community
6:06 am
Thu February 14, 2013

Lecture Covers The History Of Black Newspapers In Kansas

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Historian Aleen Ratzlaff holds up The Community Voice while speaking at the Wichita Public Library.
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Dozens took part in a lecture Wednesday on African-American newspapers and communities in Kansas at the Wichita Public Library downtown.

Historian Aleen Ratzlaff, professor of communications at Tabor College in Hillsboro, says Kansas has a rich history of newspapers that were owned and published by African-Americans and targeted to black readers.

"The emphasis has been on mainstream newspapers, but there were vital publications that were part of the African-American community as well as other ethic communities," he says.

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Community
12:49 pm
Thu February 7, 2013

Fred Phelps' Granddaughters Leave Westboro Baptist Church, Apologize For Hurting Others

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Megan Phelps-Roper and her sister, Grace Phelps-Roper--granddaughters of Fred Phelps--have left the Westboro Baptist Church and are apologizing for their past behavior. 

Megan Phelps-Roper and her sister, Grace Phelps-Roper, left the controversial Topeka church back in November.  Westboro Baptist Church has gained national attention for, among other things, picketing the funerals of gay people and of soldiers. 

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