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    Plenty Of Heritage As Burlingame Saddle Club Plans 42nd Annual Santa Fe Trail Rodeo
    Frank Buchman Lots of saddles clubs and rodeos have come and gone. For more than four decades, the Burlingame Saddle Club has been going strong, hosting a rodeo every year, and activity continues with enthusiasm like day one. “It’ll be the 42nd annual Santa Fe Trail Rodeo this weekend, Friday and Saturday evenings, at our original grounds on the west edge of Burlingame,”...
    by at May 14th, 2012 at 04:05 pm
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    Intervene in Prayer – Jewels from the Word
    Lavon Hightower Lewis Mother’s Day cards show up on store shelves April 1st through Mother’s Day, describing the most wonderful mothers of the world, but what about those mothers who don’t live up to the rosy sentiments on greeting cards? How can we reconcile those? Isn’t a mother’s love the closest there is to God’s love? Isn’t a mother supposed to put...
    by at May 14th, 2012 at 02:05 pm
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    Hard red. The View from Route 8.
    Jim Suber A lot has changed in agriculture in Kansas and everywhere else in the last 50 to 75 years. Here in the Wheat State, corn and soybeans have made inroads into wheat acreage. Minimum tillage, better plant varieties more suitable to Kansas and more scientific farming in general have contributed to the national trends of fewer farmers and higher yields, even as the...
    by at May 14th, 2012 at 02:05 pm
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    Charge Must Have Power For Control – A Cowboy’s Faith
    Frank Buchman That hotwire doesn’t always work. Yet, whenever we accidently touch it, there always seems to be a charge. Still, our experience with electric fence to control livestock has not been all that positive; no pun intended. Many stockmen, our son and his partners included, use hotwires to manage cattle on grassland, when permanent fencing is inadequate. Though...
    by at May 14th, 2012 at 02:05 pm
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    Kansas Celebration – Roger’s View from the Hills
    Last weekend I attended a grand celebration of Kansas and Kansans in Liberal.  The Kansas Sampler Festival is a unique happening in Kansas.  No other state has anything like it.  It is a grand showcase of the towns, communities, sites, talent, produce, and people. Without the final count I estimate that 5,000 or more people went thru the two days in Light Park.  The...
    by at May 14th, 2012 at 08:05 am
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    The Circus Came to Town – Intermittent Irony
    Lisa Meitner Anyone who reads my weekly column quickly knows that I “wax poetic” about my childhood and how wonderful it was to grow up on an island.  The location afforded me amazing memories of watching America’s Cup boat races, listening to many of the greats at the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals and everything that growing up in a tourist filled historic place...
    by at May 14th, 2012 at 08:05 am
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    Gut feeling
    Looking at Kansas wheat across the state during the first few days of May members of the Wheat Quality Council (WQC) labeled the crop in “pretty good shape.” While the wheat in the western third to half of the state needs a drink, the 100 participants of the 55th annual tour agreed the crop is two to three weeks ahead of schedule and combines will begin rolling into...
    by at May 14th, 2012 at 07:05 am
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    Kansas Profile – Now That’s Rural Rick McNary – Numana, Inc.
    “Manna from heaven.” That term comes from the Old Testament description of a time when the Israelites were lost and hungry in the wilderness, and bread miraculously appeared overnight. Today we’ll learn about a modern day form of manna which also feeds the hungry. Sharing this food may derive from heavenly inspiration, but it comes by way of rural Kansas. Rick McNary...
    by at May 13th, 2012 at 10:05 pm
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    Invisible Pain
    We made the journey from Hawaii to Colorado because my husband felt his bones calling him home. We built a log home on the river, 6 acres of alfalfa, magpies and eagles and blue herons follow the river home. I followed his bones, knowing we had to leave, the doctors in the Islands are 3rd rate, full of shrugging shoulders and glazed eyes. One of his neurologists gave him...
    by at May 13th, 2012 at 09:05 pm
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    Chronicles of a Farm Woman
    Boys come to the farm in summer as sure as the wheat stubble is turned under after harvest.  Children and the land belong together. No man-made toys are needed to entertain a child on the farm in summer.  All outdoors beckons to him.  The trees, birds, bugs, the water hole in the creek, the pond, and most of all, the freedom to roam at will. Another boy cares little...
    by at May 13th, 2012 at 09:05 pm
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