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Outdoor Encounters

By Nathan Bolls on December 5, 2024

Earlier this year, I attended the celebration-of-life service for an old friend. Hazel had died at age 103, but I first met her in 1943 when she was a young married woman and I was a 12-year-old...

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Outdoor Encounters

By Nathan Bolls on November 14, 2024

There once was a time when the order of my day included playing with my buddies, fighting with my sister (13 months younger), wishing mightily that this fourth year of grade school were over, doing a...

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Halloween Confessions

By Nancy Kopp on October 24, 2024

I have a confession to make. I don’t like Halloween, and I never have. Even as a kid in the Chicago suburbs, it was not a big deal for me. It was a day to get through. Oh, I participated in the...

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SUNsational CATCHERS: Meadowlark Parkinson's Program Member Creates Shimmering Beauties with Repurposed Items

By Becky Fitzgerald on October 10, 2024

Kelley Boland’s beaded designs are doing more than catching sunlight. They are catching much attention wherever they are displayed. Such was the case at August’s Empowered LIVE!, an annual event to...

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Outdoor Encounters

By Nathan Bolls on October 3, 2024

A recent late September hike along Meadowlark trails quickly confirmed the obvious: our campus biology is sliding full bore into fall—a wonderful time to be out, moving slowly, or sitting quietly,...

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Year 11 for HOG Heaven: Annual Celebration Benefits Good Samaritan Fund

By Becky Fitzgerald on October 3, 2024

Oink! Now that the calendar has flipped to October, temperatures are cooling, but activities to benefit Meadowlark Foundation are heating up. It’s HOGTOBERFEST season, and here are a few squeal-...

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Striving Toward New Goals: Celebrating the 16th Annual Speedy PD Race for Parkinson's Disease

By Katie Sigman on September 12, 2024

The music has faded, and the confetti swept away, as we close out the sweet 16th Annual Speedy PD Race for Parkinson’s Disease. We kicked off the party on Friday evening at the Holiday Inn at the...

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Outdoor Encounters

By Nathan Bolls on September 5, 2024

If you grew up in a family that camped or liked to sit around a patio firepit, an open fire was perhaps one of the first memorable outdoor mysteries you encountered. What young mind wouldn’t be...

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Johnny Kaw Speaks to a Child

By Nancy Kopp on August 29, 2024

Our family moved to Manhattan from the northwestern part of Illinois in 1975 when my husband accepted a job at a local bank. Ken and I were excited about the move, our 3-year-old daughter wasn’t...

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To Make the Best Better: Riley County Fair 2024

By Sarah Duggan on August 8, 2024

As a veteran 4-Her (Franklin County, Kan. Rambling Ranchers!), I am thoroughly enjoying watching the skills, fun, and magic develop for my own children. Fair week is a highlight of the 4-H year - one...

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