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INTERNATIONAL FOREST OF FRIENDSHIP CELEBRATES SECURITY AND SOLACE THROUGH FLIGHT

The International Forest of Friendship’s annual celebration for 2024 is September 20-21 with the induction of 15 honorees into Forest’s sidewalks, all representing contributions to aviation and aerospace. This year’s theme, Security and Solace through Flight, emphasizes contributions by military aviators, organizations like Angel Flight and flying doctors, and the aerial delivery of medicines.

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HANGAR MUSEUM TO HOST A PAIR OF EVENTS

The Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum will be hosting a couple events this upcoming week starting with Amelia Earhart:TheAviatorPoet onWednesday, September 18 from 6-7:30 p.m. Traci Brimhall, Kansas Poet Laureate will be coming to Atchison to work with local high school students on crafting poetry during the day, and then will welcome the public to a discussion on Amelia’s poetry that evening.

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Library to host Book Discussion Series on Native American Identity

Atchison Public Library in will offer a three-part book discussion series September through November exploring the theme “Native American Identity from Past to Present.” Members of the community are invited to attend the free programs, which will take place at the Library at 401 Kansas Ave. The book discussion series is made possible by Humanities Kansas as part of its Talk About Literature in Kansas (TALK) program.

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SHERIFF’S REPORT

Around 7 p.m. Atchison County Sheriff ’s Office responded to the 2000 block of US73 Highway (US73 & Sherman Road) in rural Atchison County Kansas for a report of a single vehicle injury accident.

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Project Concern

The Project Concern, Inc. weekly menu is as follows for home delivered and congregate meals. Milk is served with each meal. Menus are subject to change. The Atchison United Way helps to support the Project Concern food program.

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Atchison Zonta Opens Club Year

The Atchison Zonta Club met September 9 at Paolucci’s Restaurant for the first meeting of the 2024-25 club year. The topic was Communications and Literacy, with Janelle Weishaar and Belinda Robinson as hostesses. Weishaar welcomed 11 members and 1 guest. Each member was asked to sign up for hostess duties for upcoming meetings.

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Fall Garden Checklist

As autumn creeps closer we need to start preparing our gardens for our next growing season. While it might seem like garden work is done for the season, giving your garden extra TLC now can have big impacts on its productivity next summer. Here are some steps to take to boost your next growing season: 1. Map your current garden: If you haven’t already, map out where your annuals are. When spring comes, you will want to refer back to this map to ensure you are rotating your plants to curb disease that may overwinter in the soil. Ideally, you should not put plants from the same family in the same location.

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