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ShowerUP Solved Its BIG Problem — A Problem You Too May Have

Bloomerang

He’d sorted out how to scale their services into Nashville, TN, Wichita, KS, Huntsville, AL, Chicago, IL, Chattanooga, TN, and Tampa Bay, FL. All of ShowerUP’s 1,449 volunteers are now well-organized in one place, despite being in six cities. Big problem Paul had a BIG problem, though; but not the problem you would think.

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Remembering Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Connection Cafe

As a collegiate baseball player in Wichita, KS, I volunteered at a local event and became hooked. Don’t be afraid to take a hands-on approach to giving and making a difference in the world around you - you (one person) are capable of making the world a better place. You will be long remembered – God Bless.

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Why America is falling in love with romance bookstores

Fast Company Tech

There are now 30 romance bookstores around the country, including A Novel Romance in Louisville, Kentucky, and Blush Bookstore in Wichita, Kansas. For many people, romance bookstores have become a place to escape from current politics, which have increasingly restricted women’s rights as well as the LGBTQ+ community.

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El Paso, Texas, just broke ground on the first U.S. facility to turn wastewater directly into drinking water

Fast Company Tech

[Image: Paul Horn/Inside Climate News] The good thing is that our multiple-barrier approach to remove viruses, pathogens, and any of these emerging constituents of concern is in place, Trejo said. Wichita Falls, Texas, also operated a temporary direct potable reuse facility from 2014 to 2015. Its a very robust system.

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Smithsonian caught in the crosshairs of Trump’s history wars

Fast Company Tech

I fondly remember trips to the Fellow-Reeves Museum in Wichita, Kansas, and the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Smithsonian in the crosshairs Precursors to the Trump administrations efforts to reshape the Smithsonian took place in the 1990s. I share that view. The Conversation U.S.

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