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Toss cancer — Hate cancer? Love Bosom Buddies? Just a reminder to sign up for Bosom Buddies' first-ever cornhole tournament. It gets underway with warm-up at 10:30 a.m. July 24 at the Ute Indian Museum. Your entry fee ($35/person, and you need a team of two) helps the local breast cancer support organization help the women (and men) who are diagnosed with breast cancer.
Although it's not breast cancer, cancer is personal for me. Cancer (pancreatic) took my father 11 years ago. He would be turning 83 tomorrow. Katharhynn from the newsroom, giving you a peek at the week — and a kind reminder to help cancer charities when and how you can. Register for the cornhole tournament at http://www.bosombuddiesswc.org
Not-so-lazy summer days in Olathe - it's sweet corn harvest time! Workers took to the fields of John Harold and other Olathe farmers to harvest the signature crop; picking, sorting; packing. (The photo is from Joseph Harold.) Thank you, field workers and farmers!
Way back when ... On July 19, 1799, the key to Egyptian hieroglyphics was found. From The History Channel: "A French soldier discovers a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta, about 35 miles east of Alexandria. The irregularly shaped stone contained fragments of passages written in three different scripts: Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics and Egyptian demotic. The ancient Greek on the Rosetta Stone told archaeologists that it was inscribed by priests honoring the king of Egypt, Ptolemy V, in the second century B.C. More startlingly, the Greek passage announced that the three scripts were all of identical meaning. The artifact thus held the key to solving the riddle of hieroglyphics, a written language that had been "dead" for nearly 2,000 years."
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