- Five questions: Thirsty plants
- June 11, 2013
- Rains of the last two months give hope that the drought of the previous two summers has ended.
- Five questions: Pet patrol
- June 5, 2013
- Crystal Swann Blackdeer of the Leavenworth County Humane Society offers tips if you lose — or find — a pet.
- Five questions: Read this summer
- May 28, 2013
- Soon it will be summertime and library summer reading programs are already in full swing. Barbara Brand, youth services manager at the Johnson County Library, talks about the importance of summer reading.
- Five Questions: Road construction safety
- May 14, 2013
- With warm weather comes road construction, and work sites are popping up everywhere. Kansas Department of Transportation officials encourage all drivers to be alert and drive safely.
- Five Questions: Grilling safety
- May 10, 2013
- As springtime blooms, it’s time to fire up the outdoor grill for tasty barbecue favorites. Douglas County Kansas State Extension Ramily and Consumer Science Agent Susan Johnson offers the following tips to keep food-borne bacterial from ruining the fun.
- Five questions: Composting 101
- April 11, 2013
- Spring is a good time to start a compost bin in your yard for a natural way of fertilizing soil.
- 5 questions: Made for monarchs
- April 2, 2013
- Candy Dials is a Leavenworth County master gardener and has been butterfly gardening for five years. She shares tips on how to attract butterflies and provide much-needed habitats.
- Five questions: Sale suggestions
- March 19, 2013
- Cynthia Ewer, editor of organizedhome.com, offers tips in the article “Garage sale tips: Clear clutter with a yard sale.” Here are some of those pointers.
- Five questions: It’s gardening time
- March 15, 2013
- In Kansas, as well as Ireland, planting potatoes on St. Patrick’s Day is a tradition. The plants don’t know it’s March 17, of course. But Dennis Patton, horticulture agent at the Kansas State University Research and Extension office in Olathe, said the holiday is a good time to start, or at least start thinking about, planting. And according to Patton, increasing numbers are doing just that.
- Five questions: Storms still on?
- March 7, 2013
- That’s definitely a possibility, say officials with the National Weather Service. Kim Qualls, public affairs manager with the Kansas Department of Transportation, addresses the recent snowstorms and what we can expect from the rest of winter.
- Five Questions: Putting a fork in it
- February 26, 2013
- This week’s Five Questions takes a closer look at the history of restaurants. Andrea Broomfield, English professor at Johnson County Community College, offers a precede on her upcoming presentation, “Soldier of the Fork: How Nathaniel Newham-Davis Democraticized Restaurant Dining in Fin de Siecle London.”
- Five questions: Tonganoxie Phil
- February 5, 2013
- Longtime Leavenworth County physician Dr. Phil Stevens also is known as Tonganoxie Phil. Stevens explains how he got the name, which he’s known for each February with Groundhog Day.
- Five questions: Pet adoptions
- January 29, 2013
- Staff at Great Plains SPCA, which operates one of the region’s busiest pet adoption centers in Merriam, answered five questions about the four-legged friends they take in and adopt out.
- Five questions: Winter blues?
- 03:32 p.m., January 22, 2013 Updated 12:00 a.m.
- Mental health professionals say feeling down during the winter months may be more than just a case of winter blues.
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