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It doesn't matter how well — or not — you and your child managed Covid’s hard time. A common message is brewing. Children, however much they struggled with online learning, will be advanced with their peers into the next grade. Everyone will recover together. Schools’ plea: Just come back.
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For the fully vaccinated, the summer has opened wide to nearly all the activities we enjoyed before Covid-19. But for the many people in our Kansas City communities who remain unvaccinated, the Covid’s Delta variant brings an intensified threat that is putting Missouri at the top of the list for the rate of Covid deaths and hospitalizations.
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The Kansas City Public Schools took a stand against historical injustice and the school-to-prison pipeline when its board voted to end discretionary suspensions of elementary school children Wednesday night.
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Just like the entire vaccination mission itself, the send-off party for the Missouri National Guard was overwhelming. More than 100 people gathered on the Guard’s last day, June 15, to celebrate the work they did with a host of community partners to deliver more than 30,000 Covid-19 vaccines — most of them with LINC at the Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church’s community center, serving underserved and vulnerable neighborhoods of east Kansas City.
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There’s a serious side to summer after-school programs now. There’s increased attention to academic skills coming out of the pandemic. And an awareness of children’s social and emotional well-being after so much separation and so many families still hurting. But this is still summer. And LINC’s not going to let kids down now.
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Terrell was tall and strong, a football player at Ruskin High School. He played basketball for LINC’s team at Symington, and was a drummer on LINC’s raucous drum line at Smith-Hale. “It’s disheartening, all this potential,” his LINC site coordinator said. “He touched so many people. We all were rooting for him.”
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This wasn’t like some of their past service in the Missouri National Guard, plucking flood-marooned families from their rooftops, or supporting police forces during civil unrest, or medical support on military convoys in Iraq. “Task Force Freedom” was a fight against Covid-19 right here, at home, and it was unforgettable.
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Startled squeals turned into laughter. Children looked delightedly into the faces of all their friends in a spontaneous glow. Everyone together. Finally. No more classroom splits by A days and B days.
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May is National Foster Care Month, and LINC joins the community of advocates and supporters who help the dedicated foster parents and who help children and youth achieve full and meaningful lives.
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“Carry these memories and treasure this mission,” says the top command of the Missouri Air National Guard while visiting the Morning Star vaccination clinic. “You have given lives back — lives back.”
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Just as Gov. Mike Parson came to see the “model” in Missouri’s fight against Covid, the vaccination crusade at Morning Star’s Kansas City clinic announced its latest appeal: Now you can walk in and you can choose from any of the three available vaccines. “We know the vaccine works,” Parson said. “So we’ve got to make sure we get everybody to understand how important it is to get that vaccine to get back to somewhat of a normal life.”
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U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt looked across the room in a community center at 27th and Prospect, watching Covid-19 vaccinations in progress, seeing confidence and hope where there might not have been so much before. “People are changing their minds,” the senator said about vaccinations. And Morning Star and LINC are leading the way.
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Levi Harrington lived his life in a Black man's world laced with the unfathomable fear of lynching. He died 139 years ago last week, roped at the neck and slung over a beam on the Bluff Street Bridge by a white mob in Kansas City's West Bottoms — murdered at the age of 23.
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They were restaurant workers, community organizers, neighbors. . . . They came to get their Covid-19 vaccination — certainly because they wanted to protect themselves and others — but also with a sense of obligation to put their faces out front against fear and doubt.
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The Morning Star–LINC vaccine and food distribution only continues to grow, the Rev. John Modest Miles told Rep. Emanuel Cleaver. “There is no ending in sight as long as the people keep coming. And as you can see now, the people are coming.”
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It’s a small crew, embarked on this first voyage across the wide open sea of North Kansas City Schools’ new Early Education Center. But the thrill of first adventures fills these warm learning spaces, with the promise of so many more to come in the hundreds of children who will follow them here in the years to come.
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Their districts’ neighborhoods are hard-hit by Covid, but “here we have an opportunity to do something about it,” said KCPS Superintendent Mark Bedell as he was vaccinated. “I’m doing my part to keep everyone safe,” said Center Superintendent Yolanda Cargile.
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Just drive. Keep picking up taxi fares. Drive sick. Drive while tortured by an infected tooth. Drive exhausted. Otherwise, Center School District parent Josh McConnaughey feared, he’d lose the last grip he had on a “home” for his three teenaged sons — the weekly-rate hotel room looking out on wheel-roaring Interstate 435.
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The Hickman Mills Family Summit went virtual with success. And the best part: It’s still there, online, ready to serve any family looking for help or ideas from dozens of community resources, and job opportunities, and school pages.
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The letter in June that told Lazanay Wandick the government was cutting off her pandemic unemployment benefits was not even the worst of the news. Far from it. See how the “Justice in the Schools” program aided her and other Hickman Mills families.
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