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The Volunteer Center of Reno County, a United Way Agency, is a central clearinghouse for volunteer opportunities in Reno County. Area non-profit and governmental organizations have submitted the following requests for help. To pursue one of these or other volunteer opportunities listed with THE VOLUNTEER CENTER, call 6...
The YMCA needs several volunteer timers for the Saturday and Sunday swim meet. Volunteers will time each race on a stopwatch and record the time. Volunteers must be able to stand for several hours, pay close attention and be able to work in a busy atmosphere. Call 665-4960 for more information.
The FRIENDS IN ACTION program needs volunteers to provide services to the frail or isolated elderly people in our community. Volunteers will be matched with an elderly person and could be asked to provide weekly friendly visiting, grocery shopping or assist with errands. Volunteers must successfully complete the applic...
Volunteers are needed to assist low and moderate-income persons with the completion of their basic tax returns through the VOLUNTEER INCOME TAX ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (VITA). The Internal Revenue Service provides training and all necessary materials. Volunteers will be asked to work on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays eac...
The BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS organization is in need of volunteers to spend 30 to 90 minutes each week with a child in a school setting in any school district in Reno County. Each volunteer is matched with a child to provide encouragement which can occur in a number of ways including having lunch together, working on a...
FOOD BANK OF RENO COUNTY is seeking volunteers to stock shelves and sort donations in the Food Bank on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday mornings. Volunteers will retrieve food from the warehouse, stock the food bank shelves, unload sacks and boxes of groceries, and assist with putting away food donations. Volunteers must b...
THE KANSAS COSMOSPHERE is seeking volunteers to assist the collections manager with inventory. Volunteers will photograph and measure items, log the details and attach barcodes to each item. The ability to follow instructions and pay attention to details is required.
The HUTCHINSON CORRECTIONAL FACILITY is seeking volunteers to work with the risk reduction and re-entry programs. Volunteers are needed to assist offenders in developing resumes, conducting online job searches and locating community resources available upon release. Positions are also available helping with employment,...
The News lists needs of local agencies on a weekly basis.
The CHRISTIAN SOUP MINISTRY INC., 301 E. Third Ave., needs paper towels, toilet tissue and dishwashing liquid. Call Stanley Murdock at 662-6468.
The AMERICAN RED CROSS, 111 N. Walnut, needs new pillows, bottled water and items for comfort kits: toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo and conditioner in travel size. Please bring to the office.
CROCHET ANGELS OF HUTCHINSON needs donated yarn and batting for the projects it gives away throughout the year. Members can use partial and full skeins of any yarn. Drop off at the Elmdale 50+ Center, 400 E. Ave. E, or call 663-2811 for more information.
THE CREATIVE CARD CLASS at Elmdale 50+ Center would like donations of old greeting cards (Christmas, birthday, etc.) The group recycles greeting cards into new and improved greeting cards. Please drop cards off at Elmdale 50+ Center, 400 E. Ave. E.
FAIR PRICE CLOTHING STORE, 818 W. Fourth Ave., operated by all United Methodist churches of Hutchinson, needs towels and any size sheets. It is open 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays and 9 a.m. to noon Saturdays. There is a drop-off box. Call 669-9663.
NEW BEGINNINGS, 100 E. Second Ave., needs toilet paper and cleaning supplies - everything from glass cleaner to trash bags. Ask for Vernon at 966-0274, ext. 101.
FIRST CALL FOR HELP, 400 W. Second Ave., needs diapers of all sizes, especially sizes 4, 5 and 6; toilet paper; bar soap; and disposable razors. Call Susie Christopher at 669-0159.
The RENO COUNTY FOOD BANK, inside The Salvation Army at 700 N. Walnut, needs canned meat, canned vegetables, cereal, soup, peanut butter, crackers, juice and fruit. Call 665-4076.
If your local nonprofit social agency needs help with donations, please send a list of your needs to khanks@hutchnews.com.
Councilman Eric Garcetti has edged into a narrow fundraising lead over his top rival, Controller Wendy Greuel, in the race for L.A. mayor.
The two candidates have been neck-and-neck all year. But in reports disclosed this afternoon, Garcetti announced that he had brought in $664,000 over the last three months, to Greuel's $593,000.
That puts Garcetti very narrowly ahead for the campaign, with $2,874,000 to Greuel's $2,802,000.
Bill Carrick, Garcetti's consultant, said that his fundraising was impressive in light of the fact that he took two weeks off for Navy Reserve training in August.
"We're gonna have the resources to build a strong campaign," Carrick said.
Other contenders trailed significantly behind the two frontrunners. Councilwoman Jan Perry raised $157,000 last quarter, bringing her total for the campaign to $1.3 million. Emanuel Pleitez, who recently entered the race, posted his first tally of $110,000. Trailing the top four was ex-radio host Kevin James, who broug...
Rick Caruso is the sole remaining wild card in the race. The mall developer has not opened a campaign committee or raised any money, but he has worked behind the scenes to assemble a campaign team should he decide to run. He has until Nov. 10 to make his intentions known.
In the race for L.A. city attorney, incumbent Carmen Trutanich outraised opponent Mike Feuer last quarter, $223,000 to $147,000. However, Feuer has been raising money for the race since last year and has raised $802,000 overall.
And finally, some weird news. L.A. Dragnet noted yesterday that most of the 1,000 or so people who are "talking about" Trutanich's campaign on Facebook happen to live in Tanzania. Today, they've migrated to Dhaka, Bangladesh.
We've reached out to the Trutanich campaign for an explanation and haven't heard back. We can guess that he's purchasing Facebook likes, just as his D.A. campaign purchased YouTube views, But we'd also kind of like to think that there's a huge groundswell of support for his campaign in Bangladesh.
Radamel Falcao scored a pair of penalties as Thierry Henry’s Monaco won 2-0 at fellow strugglers Amiens to climb out of the bottom three in Ligue 1 on Tuesday.
The Colombian had missed twice from the spot this season but calmly converted on 43 minutes at the Stade de la Licorne after Emil Krafth upended Benoit Badiashile.
Amiens defender Bakaye Dibassy was sent off for catching the Monaco captain with a raised boot in the 90th minute, and Falcao wrapped up a second victory in three games with another penalty deep into stoppage time.
The result provisionally bumped Henry’s side up to 17th place above Dijon and Amiens on goal difference, confirming their recent upturn under the former France star in recent weeks.
Nice extended their unbeaten run under Patrick Vieira to six games with a 0-0 draw at home to Angers, who saw goalkeeper Ludovic Butelle dismissed in the closing stages.
Second-place Montpellier host Lille, in fourth, later on Tuesday as both sides attempt to cut into Paris Saint-Germain’s 14-point lead at the top of the table.
PSG will be without Neymar as they look to continue their undefeated record in Ligue 1 this season on Wednesday’s trip to Strasbourg.
The world’s most expensive player came off early in the second half in Sunday’s 2-2 draw at Bordeaux after hurting the same groin he injured playing for Brazil against Cameroon last month.
On the one-year anniversary of the Giffords shooting, Paul Barrett discusses his new book, “Glock,” about the origins and star power of the gun used.
A year ago, on Jan. 8, 2011, a man armed with a Glock 19 semiautomatic pistol killed six people and wounded 13 others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in a suburban shopping mall in Tucson, Ariz. The Glock, perhaps Austria’s most distinctive export in modern times, has turned up in a number of the worst mass shootin...
In Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun, Paul M. Barrett tells the unlikely tale of the Glock’s invention in 1982 by an obscure Vienna curtain-rod maker and its rise to prominence in the richest gun market in the world: the United States. First adopted widely by American police departments that saw themselves as “outgunned...
The Glock is a relatively new gun, compared with Smith & Wesson and Colt. What set it apart?
Gaston Glock, who manufactured window fittings in a garage workshop outside Vienna, initially designed the pistol for the Austrian Army, which wanted a light, reliable, large-capacity weapon to replace its World War II–era Walther P-38. His innovative design, making heavy use of injection-molded plastic, fit all the cr...
How did Glock make the leap to the larger civilian marketplace?
Many gun owners like to use what their local cops are using. Plus, the Glock became an overnight star in the movies and television—tons of free advertising.
How did Glock score in Hollywood?
Not through paying for product placement, as many assume. Hollywood prop masters began casting the Glock as early as 1990 in Diehard 2 because of the gun’s darkly glamorous profile and futuristic look. Bruce Willis’s character in that movie had a famous soliloquy about the “Glock 7.” He called it “a porcelain gun made ...
Meanwhile, there were multiple attempts to ban or restrict the Glock?
Some jurisdictions outlawed the Glock on the theory that it was just too dangerous. The 1994 assault weapons ban prohibited the Glock’s supersize magazines. None of it worked. The bans either had loopholes that Glock exploited, or gun-control proponents ultimately gave up because their claims were exaggerated. Being ta...
In early 1986, the New York Police Department imposed a brand-specific ban on the Austrian gun, based on fears that had been fanned by muckraking journalist Jack Anderson that Glock would become a favorite of hijackers and other terrorists. This did not deter Glock’s tireless marketing chief Karl Walter, however.
In May 1986, a contingent of New York police trainers invited him to make an unofficial presentation at the department’s range at Rodman’s Neck. To Walter’s surprise, twenty firearm instructors showed up; he had brought only a handful of sample pistols. Not to worry, his hosts told him. Several had privately obtained G...
Walter took this as a promising sign: Some of New York’s top in-house firearm trainers were curious enough about what he was selling to spend their own money on the gun, and in the process violate the ban on possessing a Glock within city limits. That summer, with the prohibition still in place, the Emergency Services ...
Overhead photo shows sinkhole that developed in yard of a West Whiteland home Sunday afternoon near the Mariner East pipeline.
WEST CHESTER — Pipeline companies continue to attempt to further their influence in Harrisburg, spending millions of dollars on lobbying, state Sen. Andy Dinniman, D-19, warned on Tuesday.
The Pennsylvania pipeline lobby has spent more than $37.7 million in total on lobbying from the third quarter of 2012 to the second quarter of last year, according to a news report from Greenpeace.
The report was compiled from lobbying expenditures disclosed to the Pennsylvania Department of State by the companies and organizations with financial interest in the Mariner East, PennEast, and Atlantic Sunrise pipeline projects.
Of those funds, the most by far – a whopping $11.59 million – was spent since August 2012 on lobbying by companies with a significant interest in the controversial Mariner East pipeline project, according to the report.
“While we continue to build a strong and growing bipartisan movement to pass real and lasting pipeline safety reform in Pennsylvania, we cannot overlook the vast sums of money that big players in the natural gas industry are throwing around to try to retain their grip on the legislature,” Dinniman said.
Dinniman, who recently introduced a comprehensive package of pipeline safety legislation, said that while expensive lobbying efforts by pipeline companies and industry groups represent a challenge, he would continue to work for and stand for public safety.
“This is a matter of community safety – the very health and well-being of our children, families, and neighborhoods. No amount of money or spin can change that,” he said.
“I appreciate Senator Dinniman's efforts to clean up oil and gas legislation, knowing that lobbying has such a massive impact on the passing of legislation about lobbying,” activist and filmmaker Christina Digiulio said. “Just this past weekend I was at a two-day event hosted by the Better Path Coalition involving chil...
Ginny Kerslake is a Democratic candidate for county commissioner.
"Our voices are being silenced by this money. We are tired of our elected officials putting companies like Sunoco and Energy Transfer Partners ahead of their constituents" Kerslake, a West Whiteland resident, said. "Residents' health, safety, economic welfare and the environment must come first."
The most lobbying funds were expended by ETP/Sunoco ($1.2 million), Range ($5.8 million), and EQT ($2.7 million), according to the report.
In addition, Pennsylvania oil and gas trade groups that represent companies with significant financial stakes in the Mariner East, Atlantic Sunrise and PennEast pipelines spent a combined $22.37 million on lobbying expenses during roughly the same time period, according to the report.
The bulk of those lobbying funds were spent by the Marcellus Shale Coalition ($13.9 million) and the American Petroleum Institute ($7 million), but also included the America’s Natural Gas Alliance, the Pennsylvania Petroleum Association, the Pennsylvania Independent Gas Association, and the American Fuel and Petrochemi...
All lobbying expenditures were obtained via Pennsylvania State Department database, which must be searched manually.
A native of Maryland and a journalist of the world.
It appears that Bennett Murray is a chip off the old block.
“The hardest thing I encounter is when people think I have the power to help them,” Murray said.
He spoke of how some people see him as a “foreign white guy,” dressed well, carrying a laptop, and they think that he can help them with the country’s issues.
“They’ll say: ‘tell the UN this,’ or ‘tell Obama that,’” he explained, mentioning that they don’t realize that he has no power to do so.
Murray’s contract with the agency ends in January, at which point he says he might try to work in Myanmar. This talented young man, who writes from Vietnam in English, is a graduate of Earlham College in Indiana.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s speech in the southeastern province of Siirt took me back to years ago.
It took me back to the years when he had been imprisoned for a poem he had read in Siirt. His party won the Nov. 3, 2002 elections, but he himself was not able to run for elections.
Later, he was elected as a deputy from Siirt, leaving his mark on Turkey for the last 16 years.
When he was the prime minister, Erdoğan wanted to visit Turkish actor Nejat Uygur in the Gülhane Military Medical Academy (GATA) with his wife Emine Erdoğan. However, Emine Erdoğan had not been allowed in the hospital because of her headscarf. Today, Turkey has been freed of such shame as the headscarf ban.
Former President Süleyman Demirel once said, “Yesterday’s sun cannot dry today’s clothes.” It is true. Those years are now in the past, but they have left their mark. Erdoğan had not been trying to look back on the past during his speech in Siirt. On the contrary, he had plans and objectives for the future.
Erdoğan views the 2019 elections as crucial. That’s why he keeps a close watch on it, by meeting with Russian President Putin on the one hand, and rushing to the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) conventions on the other hand.
In the meantime, he has taken one of the most important steps by forming an election alliance with the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). Now, there are two stages left in the election of the cadre that will take the AK Party to the 2019 elections: 1- A new Central Decision Making and Executive Council (MKYK) will be el...
Important changes are expected in the cabinet and party administration. Erdoğan, who has made changes in the AK Party and has secured an alliance with the MHP, is now setting up a new game for the 2019 elections.
He is trying to be elected president with 60 percent of the votes in the first round. This is why he only targets Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu as his main opposition. Have you ever noticed him mention İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener? That is because he does not want to mention Akşener...
Erdoğan has built his 2019 strategy on Kılıçdaroğlu. Kılıçdaroğlu becomes tougher as Erdoğan pushes him, and Kılıçdaroğlu becoming tougher is to Erdoğan’s benefit. This is how he pushes the CHP leader to make a gaffe.
Economy is in the second phase of the 2019 plan. As one may notice, Erdoğan’s speeches have placed more weight on the economy. He knows the way to win the election is by improving the economic situation. That is why he declared 2018 as the year of performance, growth and employment.
Recently, we have started to see developments regarding the economy speed up. Super incentives prepared by Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekçi will be announced in a program Erdoğan will attend at the Presidential Palace.
Meanwhile, efforts to improve the investment climate and reduce the interest burden of the public sector have come to an end. Touching on what Erdoğan recently said, “I am clearly stating that you cannot invest with an interest rate of 20 percent”—do not expect a single economic package. There will be regulations to me...
Meanwhile, the opposition is considering an alliance for the second round of the presidential election. If Erdoğan is qualified for the second round, the opposition is said to focus on the other candidate. I think the opposition should reconsider its strategy because Erdoğan had already shown them a clean pair of heels...
(Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] said on Tuesday it signed an agreement with U.S. space agency NASA to explore concepts and technologies needed for passenger and cargo air transportation within an urban area.
This is Uber’s second agreement with the space agency. As part of the pact, the ride-hailing company will share data related to its efforts to build flying taxis in 2020 for the development of NASA’s urban air mobility (UAM) program.
“Using data from Uber, NASA will use its research facility at the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) airport to simulate a small passenger carrying aircraft as it flies through DFW airspace during peak scheduled air traffic, and analyze if these operations would trigger traffic collision advisories,” Uber said in a statement.
Uber on Tuesday also released a new prototype for flying taxies at its annual Elevate Summit.
In November, the company said it was working with NASA to develop a software which could be used to manage flying taxi routes and would work like ride-hailing services that Uber has popularized on the ground.
It only happens when the sun, moon, and Earth align just right.
This coming Sunday night, as January 20 becomes the early morning of the 21, the moon will become completely engulfed in Earth’s shadow. In North America, we are well positioned to view the total lunar eclipse in its entirety, as are the people in South America, Europe, and Africa.
This time around, the partial, or penumbral, phase begins at 9:36 p.m. Eastern time on January 20. The full eclipse will begin at 11:41 p.m. and last for just over an hour, until 12:43 a.m. This will be the best viewing time, when the moon is in the umbra, or the full shadow the Earth.
The last total lunar eclipse, on July 27, 2018, was the longest of this century, clocking in at one hour, 42 minutes, and 57 seconds. But this year’s is special for another reason: The moon will be near to the closest point in its orbit to Earth, which will make it bigger and brighter—also called a supermoon. Of the 12...
Why isn't there an eclipse every night?
The reason every full moon isn’t an eclipse (and why there's not a lunar eclipse every night) is because the moon’s orbit is tilted about five degrees off Earth’s orbit. More often than not, Earth’s shadow misses the moon altogether. During a partial eclipse, the Earth, sun, and moon are aligned such that the Earth's s...
In fact, we're lucky we get to see eclipses at all. It's a coincidence that Earth and the moon are just the right size and distance from each other to make it happen.
Ever since the moon formed about 4.5 billion years ago, it has been moving away from Earth at a rate of about an inch per year. We are fortunate to be living at a time when the moon is at just the right distance for the Earth’s shadow to cover it completely, but not too much. In another few billion years, the arrangeme...
Don’t be surprised if the moon looks like a rusty old penny in the sky when the whole thing is going down. During a total eclipse, the only light reflected back to us from the moon has been refracted, or bent, around the curvature of the Earth and through the atmosphere. The green-to-violet portion of the light spectru...
Is that why it's called a "blood moon"?

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