The Liberal Police Department in collaboration with Kansas Highway Patrol will be hosting the LPD Cadet Program beginning July 9. This program will meet bi-weekly for the duration of five weeks.
The Cadet Program is geared toward members of the community between the ages of 14 and 20 who are interested in learning more about law enforcement. This program is beneficial to the community because it helps bridge the gap between local youth and local law enforcement agencies. This helps the LPD better understand youth within the community and for them to obtain a better understanding of the function of a department.
On any given day in the course of a year, cowboys can be seen working cattle on ranches across America.
Once a year for the last three years, Crossroads Therapeutic Riding Center, a local non-profit agency that provides riding lessons for people with disabilities of all ages, has been bringing cowboys to the rodeo arena at the Seward County Fairgrounds to exhibit some of their talents.
This Saturday, Crossroads will host its fourth annual ranch rodeo, and volunteer Natalie Adame said money from the rodeo, the agency’s biggest fundraiser, is used for therapy horses, hay, grain, vet bills and all the things that come with having horses.
The Liberal community will soon find itself under a new spell thanks to Eisenhower Middle School.
The Eisenhower Middle School music students will be presenting the junior version of the Stephen Sondheim musical ‘Into the Woods’ at Eisenhower Middle School Monday, May 6, with the doors opening at 6 p.m. and the show starting at 6:30 p.m. The show combines several Brothers Grimm fairy tales and explores the consequences of the characters’ wishes and quests The musical is tied together by a story involving a childless baker and his wife and their quest to begin a family, their interaction with a witch who has placed a curse on them, and their interaction with other storybook characters during their journey, which include the main characters from ‘Little Red Riding Hood,’ ‘Jack and the Beanstalk,’ ‘Rapunzel,’ and ‘Cinderella,’ among several others. Director Timothy Smith said he is very excited for the production.
Few community college students have the opportunity to explore careers in the United States Intelligence service community — but a unique partnership between Seward County Community College, the University of Kansas, and ICCAE — Intelligence Community Centers for Academic Excellence — will do just that with a free, one-day bootcamp this summer.
“This is a great opportunity for students who study Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Criminal Justice, Biotechnology or Health Sciences,” said SCCC Vice President of Academic Affairs Luke Dowell. Students from SCCC and peer institutions in Garden City and Dodge City will take part in in hands-on activities that replicate a typical Intelligence problem or situation.
Many groups and entities work hard in the community to help local citizens and recently, another local group stepped up to help in a big way.
Liberal’s LEAD class recently took on a big project and as class member Jaqueline Nieblas tells it, there was a massive amount of work done.
“At the beginning of the LEAD class, the presenters always talk about how part of the class involves doing a big give, which is a big project that's required by each LEAD class. During class, we start off with $1,000 and then depending on what we decide to have as our big give project, we can raise funds, we can make a donation ourselves, whatever it takes to get that big project accomplished,” Nieblas said. “There were all sorts of ideas thrown out, including splash pads, a kitchen for Stepping Stone Shelter, and a drive for the Liberal Animal Shelter, among many others, but we just weren't 100 percent sure what we wanted our project to be or how much we wanted to raise or really any of the more logistical details. Ultimately, we decided we should do something for Stepping Stone Shelter because we just really wanted to be there for them and help. Initially, the idea was to help with some interior work and some necessary work with the kitchen, but once our team went in there, we realized there were a lot of setbacks that would happen if we helped them, and they also already had some help that was about to come their way, and we didn't want to mix in with that help and potentially cause some issues.”
