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The 2021 ballot is now set after the candidate filing and withdrawal deadline passed at noon Tuesday.
Emporia City Commission incumbent Danny Giefer has filed for re-election.
Going for his third term in office, Giefer tells KVOE News he brings a nonpartisan viewpoint to the board.
Giefer says the city is headed in a good direction but still has a number of notable items to address, including increasing the available housing stock, adding jobs and improving infrastructure. He says the city is poised to see several important economic developments, including a possibility of new businesses at the Emporia Pavilions, a second travel plaza, Evergy’s new service center and Fanestil Meats’ move out of the Cottonwood River floodplain.
Prospective lifeguards practice deep-water saves during a certification class at Wichita Northwest High School.
Teenagers and young adults are opting for year-round work, making traditional summer jobs increasingly harder to fill.
WICHITA, Kansas During a normal year, Brian Hill doesn’t have much trouble hiring enough lifeguards to staff Wichita’s six public swimming pools.
Not in this pandemic year.
“Usually I’m about 80% staffed by February,” said Hill, Wichita’s aquatics director. “This year, I was about 10% staffed.”
Lifeguarding took a hit last summer, when the COVID-19 pandemic closed most gyms, water parks and community pools. High school and college students who would normally work as guards took the summer off or found other jobs. Training classes were cancelled. So were junior lifeguard programs for 11- to 14-year-olds.
During a normal year, Brian Hill doesn’t have much trouble hiring enough lifeguards to staff Wichita’s public swimming pools. But this isn’t a normal year.
Tuition at Kansas colleges to stay nearly the same for the next year
By the Associated Press:
Students at Kansas colleges might pay nearly the same tuition for the upcoming year as they did last year.
Tuition proposals submitted Wednesday to the Kansas Board of Regents were generally the same as the last academic year. The regents will vote on the proposals next month.
This would be the third straight year that Kansas public universities kept tuition flat. And it comes despite concerns of major budget problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
For 2021, most colleges proposed keeping existing costs. Kansas State proposed a $57 increase for in-state students, while Emporia State proposed a nearly 30% decrease in out-of-state tuition.