BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

The outpouring of food items, clothing, personal hygiene products and money for the Cherryvale Food Pantry has been overwhelming, a food pantry volunteer reports.

Harry Cunningham, who is among four local volunteers who coordinate the food pantry distributions, said he has been impressed with the show of support form the Cherryvale community in recent weeks.
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BY JILL KOSLOSKY
Special to the Chronicle

It is the busy shopping season, but for two hours on Wednesday morning in the Coffeyville Wal-Mart, the shopping experience was truly magical.  For the second year in a row, Griffin Walker and his team from the Boys and Girls Club organized the Shop With A Cop/Fireman project.
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Caney Valley High School’s debate program attained the biggest honor of the 2009 season last Saturday when it qualified two teams to the National Forensics League’s national tournament in Kansas City, Mo., in June 2010.

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BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

Call it “Bucks for Buckles.”

The Kansas Highway Patrol teamed up with area law enforcement agencies to encourage Montgomery Count teenagers to wear their seat belts. The patrol troopers and area police officers and sheriff’s deputies visited Caney Valley, Cherryvale and Tyro Christian high schools on Monday to not only encourage the use of seat belts but to offer a cash incentive to those teens who pledge to buckle up.
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BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

(Editor’s note: This is the first installment in a series of stories that researches widely-held beliefs about taxes, the property tax system, and the services that are the beneficiaries of taxpayer dollars.)

When next Monday’s deadline arrives for Montgomery County taxpayers to pay the first half of their 2009 property taxes, wallets won’t be the only things growing thin.

So, too, will people’s patience toward the property tax system.
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