September 2025

BRUCE RAYMOND ERICKSON

BRUCE RAYMOND ERICKSON  Bruce Raymond Erickson was born on July 4, 1947, at Lindsborg Community Hospital in Lindsborg, Kansas, to Eugene D. Erickson and Ruth Erickson.  He attended Lindsborg public…

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Swedes draw from Texas

Players from Texas, the nation’s second most populous state, make almost a third of the 111-man roster for Bethany College’s 2025 football team. The 35 players from the Lone Star state plus 26 from Kansas together make up more than half of the squad.

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CHURCH TIMES

Unless otherwise noted, these gatherings are on Sunday and in Lindsborg. Bethany Home Pastor Ethan Feistner 321 N.

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Trump is proving no friend to labor

During the 2024 election campaign, the Republican Party’s historically fraught relationship with organized labor appeared to be changing. Several influential Republicans reached out to unions, seeking to cement the loyalties of the growing ranks of working-class Americans who have been backing Donald Trump’s presidential runs and voting for other members of his party.

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Forgive from the heart

One summer in the early 1970s, a young college student volunteered to serve in a summer youth program in the ghetto of a large city in Ohio. Needless to say, coming from a small town he had a lot to learn – don’t go out alone after dark, even to walk one block! The heat and humidity were brutal, but he survived and had many stories to tell.

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Walk or ride

It's hard to see a yellow school bus and not think about all the hours of my childhood spent sitting on one of those hard seats with a stiff back. I hope the modern versions have a little more comfort than the utilitarian transportation I had to ride uphill both ways.From the outside, they don't look much different now that the calendar has turned to September and the wheels on the buses are going around and around every day.As one of the last stops on the bus route, I don't remember much about the ride to school.

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