We love chess. Now LINC’s beginner chess lesson has been captured on video. The virtual class is ideal for a parent who wants to learn how to help their child start their chess journey — or to get started themselves. See how LINC teaches the game.
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For more than a decade, researchers with the Kansas City Public Library and the Black Archives of Mid-America have been working with LINC to tell the deep and influential history of Kansas City Black women and men. Now it’s time that Wikipedia got up to speed.
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This is how ideas can wiggle into children’s heads and take shape as they grow. “We’re talking about not only allowing them to dream,” says LINC’s Keith Brown, “but really imagining that these realities can happen.”
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Missouri announced the LIHEAP energy assistance program will now be available year round. The benefit, which helps Missourians with heating and cooling bills, has also been doubled for those who are eligible.
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LINC, Morning Star and the Kansas City Fire Department accepted awards for the fast-acting teamwork that helped deliver thousands of Covid-19 vaccinations for communities hardest-hit by the pandemic, including hundreds of Mattie Rhodes households.
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With holidays coming and the promise of family gatherings and parties, Covid-19 vaccinations are now approved to help protect children ages 5 to 11 and their families from getting and spreading the virus. Here’s where to get them.
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Winter is on the way, and a LINC volunteer knitted stocking hats for children that were richly colored and soft as plush teddy bears.
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The free, state-funded training aims “to level the playing field” in preparing all children for kindergarten, said Lauren Walls, the director of LINC’s team. Preschool teachers learn the power and magic of relationship-based care.
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Talk about your perfect days. Girls on the Run and the Let Me Run boys program set out in gorgeous fall weather for their big 5K runs Saturday, and we’ve got photos.
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With grace and hard-won joy, the annual Lights On Afterschool events returned with their resilient communities in celebration of the power of community schools .
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If our Lights On Afterschool festivities were Times Square on New Year’s Eve, the ball has dropped. The cats are out of the bag. The book tour has finished to rave reviews. It’s been quite a show.
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In just a sampling of the shows going on in LINC’s Caring Communities (there’s more to come), we’ve seen Mad Science, pizza parties, dancing grandmas and other creative costumes, raucous fitness fun as well as some joy of reading.
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LINC prepares again to give away high-quality, inclusive children’s books as part of the annual Lights On Afterschool celebrations. “I love new books,” says LINC’s Edina von Hofman. “They give you a sense of feeling special.”
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Technological and bureaucratic knots have jammed access to billions of dollars of federal aid for rent and utility bill assistance. But hundreds of Kansas City renters got a tip that changed everything: Go to Morning Star.
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Pizza parties, Mad Science, bountiful home-grown meals, give-away books, cupcakes and some whip and nae-nae fitness dancing . . . LINC’s Lights On Afterschool is under way with many more community events to come during the week of Oct. 25–30.
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Anita B. Gorman, one of LINC’s founding commissioners and a champion for beautiful cities, community service and nature conservation is the 2021 recipient of the Alexander W. Doniphan Community Service Award.
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Kansas City Public Schools Superintendent Mark Bedell is calling on everyone with a stake in the city’s future to join in a week of public forums to help answering the over-arching question: “How do we come out on the right side of history?”
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Look out, because one of the purposeful effects of ArtsTech’s Youth Health Ambassador’s training in Kansas City is the fire it’s lighting in its graduates like Ruskin High School students Jayleona Mayfield and Shymerra Butler.
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Families with children who qualified for free or reduced-price school meals in the last school year can also receive a one-time $375 benefit per child through the summer Pandemic-EBT card program. The deadline for making application is Oct. 10.
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A 12-year project of gathering the stories of influential Black men and women in Kansas City’s history has won a state wide award for excellence.
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