Take a look back. LINC celebrates a full year of Caring Communities, with great appreciation for so many partners and volunteers who all came together to help strengthen children, families and neighborhoods.
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The Caring Communities mission to carry on the life’s work of the late Calvin Wainright has gotten a boost from the NBA’s Phoenix Suns.
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It’s not a simple operation, bagging up 200 toys for every LINC Caring Communities site. But the U.S. Marine Corps and LINC managed it again, packing the big red sacks of toys into an assortment of LINC staff’s pickups, vans, SUVs and one fully loaded U-Haul to cap off another Toys for Tots mission.
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Three thousand and four, to be exact. LINC made sure children and their Caring Communities families had new books to take home for the holidays, continuing a collaboration with the non-profit First Book to help inspire a lifetime of reading.
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Razors hummed. Boys winced. Hairstylists volunteering their time eyeballed precise trims as they made their holiday haircuts perfect. Parents loved the scene at LINC at King Elementary School on the Friday before the holiday break.
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To get some idea of the demands on the Hickman Mills School District’s night English classes, consider this: When the district celebrated a multi-cultural night in November, the families that came represented 36 different nations.
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UPDATED: Video of award from the 15 and the Mahomies Foundation, and Patrick Mahomes. Kayla McClellan, who describes herself as “the ultimate hype woman” for her students, can now call herself a 2023 Missouri Regional Teacher of the Year.
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The Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners has named three finalists to be the city’s next chief of police, and is hosting a public forum to meet the candidates Saturday, Dec. 10, at 10 a.m. at the Robert J. Mohart Multipurpose Center, 3200 Wayne Ave.
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LINC’s area chess tournament returns to North Kansas City High School Dec. 3, and the deadline to register online for all age groups is Nov. 30 at noon. Register now at kclinc.org/chess.
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‘Get your energy up!’ See what goes on as the LINC Morning Star Caring Communities team helps hundreds of neighboring families and individuals get ready for the Thanksgiving holiday. Check out the video and photo gallery.
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Teens who grew up in trauma, who drifted from foster home to foster home or came under the state’s care, reach that doorstep to adulthood aching over the same needs as other teens.
These are the spaces where LINC’s team of youth advocates do their work, bringing state resources to bear, acting with great care and creativity to give courageous youth like these hope and confidence — the chance they deserve.
Read some of their stories here.
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They never age. The images, freshly hung on the walls of Kansas City’s Black Archives of Mid-America, 1722 E 17th Terrace, promise to make the sacrifices of the 1960s real to a new generation that still struggles with civil rights.
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The Marketplace health plans — commonly known as Obamacare — are now open for enrollment for 2023. Open enrollment runs from Nov. 1 to Jan. 15, but you need to enroll by Dec. 15 to have coverage starting Jan. 1. Here’s how to get help signing up.
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Fort Osage Superintendent Jason Snodgrass was named superintendent of the year by the Missouri Association of School Administrators, but the seventh-year leader sees the award as an honor for the entire district. “This recognition is truly a reflection of all of the good work taking place in our classrooms,” he said.
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The morning’s cold rain turned into a sprinkle and vanished altogether as crisp sunlight broke out over the 2022 Fall Girls on the Run 5K just as hundreds of girls, parents, siblings and coaches crowded to the starting line Saturday. Check out our video and photo gallery.
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His shoulders were as broad as a bear, radiating strength through his hands and legs — and yet Calvin Wainright stood even taller in the breach of the resilient Kansas City communities he served. The lives he touched, like the pictures of players, teams and coaches he taped to the walls of his LINC office, spanned beyond the visible horizon like a glassy sea.
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Our annual Lights On Afterschool celebrations got off to a world-traveling start at Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy, painting and chili-eating at J.A. Rogers Elementary, rocket-fuel explosions at Warford, a fashion show at Faxon . . . and there is so much more throughout LINC’s Caring Communities. Check out our video and photo gallery.
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A new report released this week documents the impact of COVID-19 on student performance in Missouri, with test scores for math and reading dropping from pre-pandemic levels.
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In phase four of the Kansas City Public Schools’ Blueprint 2030 plan for the future of the district this month, the district announced recommendations to close two high schools and eight elementary schools. Now comes the community’s chance to talk about it.
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There’s a reason, when President Bill Clinton spoke in Kansas City Sept. 10, 1996, that FEC Director Clyde McQueen sat at the President’s right and LINC President Gayle Hobbs sat at his left. “These people in Kansas City know what they are doing,” the President said. “It’s miraculous what they are doing.”
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