June 2022

Kansas Action for Children focuses on early education, food security and health insurance

TOPEKA — Kansas Action for Children’s Adrienne Olejnik knows the look of kids enduring without a sustainable food source, quality early childhood education and benefit of routine medical care. Her job required she look squarely in the eye politicians of the 2022 Kansas Legislature making decisions that didn’t always place those needy children high on the agenda despite the state’s extraordinary financial surplus.

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Tree top turkey

With the 2022 Kansas spring turkey season ending, I sat here at my computer recalling spring turkey hunts from the past, and one particular hunt years ago keeps rambling through my mind. Now, everyone knows wild turkeys MUST be hunted from the ground. Sitting on the ground or on a five-gallon bucket until your butt and both legs are numb is just part of the turkey hunting experience, and NOT to do so would certainly be as un-American as eating pizza without potato chips, or owning a corvette with an automatic transmission. Yet there I stood, gazing longingly up the ladder of the landowner’s tree stand thinking what a perfect spot it would be to call-in the gobbler that roamed this wood lot. But I must persevere and not break turkey hunting protocol!

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Rhubarb Coffee Cake

1/2 cup shortening 1 1/4 cup + 1/3 cup brown sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 egg 1/2 cup sour milk 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon salt 2 cups flour 2 1/2 cups rhubarb 2 teaspoons cinnamon Cream shortening, 1 1/4 cup brown sugar, vanilla, and egg; add milk. Add soda, salt, and flour, stirring until all flour is moistened.

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