Opinion

MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron

Last week we began a series on the life and teachings of Jesus, focused on evidence about Him from a historical perspective. I'd like to again put on a historian hat to address the upcoming election and recent events. There's anxiety on both sides, changes are announced every day, and many have concerns about who will win and what'll happen if "the other candidate" is in office.

THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon

I told my husband, Peter, when he first announced the idea, that I thought it was dumb.

I probably didn’t say “dumb,” because I try to be nicer than that. But I let him know that I thought his idea of getting exercise by climbing stairs in the stairwell was, well, kind of dumb.

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

I visited with a poll worker who told me that some voters are clueless.

According to this worker, some voters have no idea who is on the ballot and yet they still make a selection based on either a familiar-looking name or some other obscure reason for casting a vote.

SAINTS PERSPECTIVE, SCCC President Brad Bennett

The buildings at Seward County Community College echoed with unusual sounds last week: children’s laughter, feet racings down the carpeted hallways, and, Thursday afternoon, splashes and shrieks in the Wellness Center swimming pool. We hosted around 100 children at Kids College this week, and it gave our campus staff a much-needed jolt of happiness and energy as we near the end of a long, hot, summer.

For more than 20 years, the Business & Industry division at SCCC has offered children a chance to come to campus for fun and valuable classes for one action-packed week in the summer. Kids College is open to children entering first through eighth grades. Classes range from the everyday to the exotic: cooking basics, how to care for a lawnmower, how to swim on the one hand, or archery, intro to blacksmithing and more advanced art methods on the other.