WITH SPRING BREAK COMING UP NEXT WEEK MANY PEOPLE WILL BE HEADING OUT OF KANSAS. HOWEVER, ONE ORGANIZATION IS TRYING TO PROMOTE TOURISM TO KANSAS. THE KANSAS SAMPLER FOUNDATION IS TAKING NOMINATIONS FOR ITS EIGHT WONDERS OF KANSAS CONTEST. THIS CONTEST IS MADE TO EDUCATE PEOPLE ABOUT THE STATE ALONG WITH ENCOURAGE THEM TO VISIT. PREVOUSLY THIS CONTEST HAS SHOWCASED ARCHITECTURE, ART, COMMERCE, CUISINE, CUSTOMS, AND GEOGRAPHY.
KANSAS’S STATE PARKS HAVE HAD AN UPSWING IN VISITORS THIS LAST YEAR. THE KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF WILDIFE AND PARKS SAY MORE THAN 7.2 MILLION PEOPLE VISITED THE PARKS OVER THE 6.5 MILLION LAST YEAR. THE PARKS SECRETARY SAYS ONE REASON FOR THE EXTRA VISITORS IS MORE EVENTS ARE BEING HELD AT THE PARKS. HE ALSO SAYS THEY ADDED CABINS THAT ARE AVAILABLE FOR OVERNIGHT STAYS. RIGHT NOW THERE ARE 75 CABINS WITH 23 MORE THAT ARE PLANNED TO OPEN THIS YEAR.
ONE MAD IS DEAD AFTER A FIRE IN WINFIELD. A MAN IN HIS MID 50’S, WHO’S NAME HASN’T BEEN RELEASED, DIED AT AN APARTMENT LATE SATURDAY. WINDFIELD DEPUTY CHIEF FIRE MARSHALL SAYS HE PROBABLY DIED OF SMOKE INHALATION. THE APARTMENT HAD NO WORKING SMOKE DETECTORS AND DAMAGES WERE ESTIMATED BETWEEN EIGHT AND TEN THOUSDAND DOLLARS. THE FIRE IS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION.
17 MILES OF I-70 ARE CLOSED AFTER A ROCK SLIDE PUT GAPING HOLES IN A BRIDGE AND LEFT BOULDERS ON THE HIGHWAY. THE SLIDE HAPPENED AROUND MIDNIGHT NEAR THE HANGING LAKE TUNNEL IN GLENWOOD CANYON, ABOUT 110 MILES WEST OF DENVER. REPORTS ARE SHOWING THE HOLES IN THE BRIDGE ARE THE ABOUT 10 FEET BY 20 FEET AND SOME OF THE BOULDERS ARE THE SIZE OF TRACTOR TRAILER RIGS.
MILLIONS OF LETTERS WERE WRITTEN TO PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY’S WIDOW AFTER HIS ASSASINATION. MOST OF THEM WERE DESTROYED BUT AROUND 200,000 OF THEM WERE HIDDEN IN THE ARCHIVES OF HIS PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY IN BOSTON. NOW MORE THAN 200 OF THEM HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN THE BOOK “LETTERS TO JACKIE: CONDOLENCES FROM A GRIEVING NATION.” AUTHOR ELLEN FITZPATRICK SPENT MONTHS READING LETTERS AND THEN CONTACTED WRITERS AND THEIR HEIRS TO GET PERMISSION TO PUBLISH THEM. THE BOOK INCLUDES A VIVID RECOLLECTION OF THE DAY KENNEDY WAS SHOT…LETTERS THAT EXPRESS VIEWS ON SOCIETY, POLITICS, AND THE PRESIDENCY, AND PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF GRIED AND LOSS.
ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE HAS STUCK THE WORLD. THIS TIME TURKEY WAS THE VICTIM WITH OFFICIALS SAYING IT HAD A PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE OF 6. THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN MORE THAN 30 AFTERSHOCKS WITH THE STRONGEST BEING A 4.1. OFFICIALS SAY THE EPICENTER IS TOTALLY FLATTENED WITH DOZENS SAID TO BE DEAD.
LAST NIGHT’S 82ND ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS WAS A STAR STUDDED EVENT THAT WRAPS UP AWARDS SEASON. KATHRYN BIGELOW TOOK HOME BEST DIRECTOR FOR HURT LOCKER BEING THE FIRST WOMAN TO WIN THIS AWARD. BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS WENT TO MO’NIQUE FOR PRECIOUS AND SUPPORTING ACTOR WENT TO CHRISTOPH WALTZ FOR INGLORIUS BASTERDS. SANDRA BULLOCK TOOK HOME HER FIRST ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS FOR HER ROLE IN THE BLIND SIDE AND JEFF BRIDGES GOT BEST ACTOR. AND THE BIGGEST AWARD OF THE NIGHT BEST MOTION PICTURE WENT TO THE HURT LOCKER. THIS YEAR TEN FILMS WERE UP FOR BEST MOTION PICTURE INSTEAD OF THE FIVE THERE HAD BEEN IN THE PAST.
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