In Greensburg

Despite being under a storm watch, we decided to have a picnic in the park across from where we’re staying on the Barclay College campus.
It’s almost 8 Tuesday evening, and we’re finishing stories we worked on today. Several students are returning to jobs in Wichita tomorrow, so they’re the most frantic among the group. Some [...]

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Any time you go out with Les Anderson, you know it is going to be interesting.
This morning, we got up early and drove over to Mullinville to check out the morning coffee crowd. As any good small-town journalist knows, this is where you get the good stories.
The crowd was small, so Les struck up [...]

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WSU grad Deb Wyrick is grain accountant for the Southern Plains Co-op in Greensburg.

On the way back from breakfast in Mullinville, Cort Anderson and I stopped at the Southern Plains Co-op in Greensburg. Cort, technology director for the state press association and a photographer, has been trying to get permission to document progress in Greensburg [...]

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The Country Cafe at the south edge of town on U.S. 54 is the only place in Mullinville to eat. That’s why it seems to be busy, especially around meal time. The back of the T-shirt the waitress was wearing confirms that it’s “The best little cafe in Kansas,” 10 miles west of Greensburg.
The Country [...]

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Chris and Sheryl Christenson work on the new deck on their home.
While waiting on a student interviewing a Greensburg resident this evening, I stopped to talk to Chris and Sheryl Christenson, who were rebuilding a deck on their home. The Christensons consider themselves lucky. Their home at 710 W. Grant didn’t get blown away in [...]

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We’re back at work. Most of us returned to Haviland Sunday evening.
We’re staying at Jackson Hall, a two-level building with four classrooms on the Barclay College campus. We’re occupying two of the classrooms, one upstairs and one downstairs.
There’s no stairway connecting the floors, so the women, who are staying downstairs, have to come around [...]

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Home for the weekend, but we’re heading back to Haviland and Greensburg shortly this afternoon. Greensburg — and what we saw, heard and learned last week — has been in my thoughts most of the weekend. I’m sure it affected the students, too. I’m anxious to hear their thoughts when they return for another week [...]

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