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Kansas City takes on the Cleveland Indians, lineups – KSNT News

April 5, 2021 by KCReporter

CLEVELAND, Ohio (KSNT)- The Kansas City Royals hit the road to take on the Cleveland Indians for a quick two-game series.

The Kansas City Royals are coming off of a successful opening weekend where they handled the Texas Rangers, winning the series, 2-1.

The bats tallied up 28 runs in three games. The red hot offense was led by newly acquired Royal, Michael A. Taylor. Taylor had two home runs, six runs batted in, and had a couple of jaw-dropping outfield assists.

In the first two games the Royals were down in early deficits that were picked up and rallied by the offense to earn wins.

On Sunday afternoon, the Royals were unable to come back and win the ballgame.

Southpaw, Danny Duffy, makes his first start on the hill for Kansas City on Monday. The starting pitching so far in this young season has allowed a lot of hits and runs to the opposition, Duffy will look to change that on Monday afternoon.

Hunter Dozier (thumb) and Adalberto Mondesi (oblique) will not be in today’s lineup due to injuries.

Here is your lineups for Monday’s divisional matchup:

Kansas City Royals (2-1)

  • 1. Whit Merrifield (R) 2B
  • 2. Andrew Benintendi (L) LF
  • 3. Carlos Santana (S) 1B
  • 4. Salvador Perez (R) C
  • 5. Jorge Soler (R) RF
  • 6. Michael A. Taylor (R) CF
  • 7. Hanser Alberto (R) 3B
  • 8. Ryan McBroom (R) DH
  • 9. Nicky Lopez (L) SS
  • LHP Danny Duffy

Cleveland Indians (1-2)

  • 1. Jordan Luplow (R) CF
  • 2. Cesar Hernandez (S) 2B
  • 3. Jose Ramirez (S) 3B
  • 4. Eddie Rosario (L) LF
  • 5. Franmil Reyes (R) DH
  • 6. Amed Rosario (R) SS
  • 7. Josh Naylor (L) RF
  • 8. Roberto Perez (R) C
  • 9. Yu Chang (R) 1B
  • LHP Logan Allen

First pitch will be at 3:10 PM CT

You can listen to the game on KCSP 610 and you can watch the game on Bally Sports KC or on ESPN.

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Periodic table world record — see how fast this Overland Park 4-year-old can say all 118 elements in order – Shawnee Mission Post

April 5, 2021 by KCReporter

Bhavik Jain, a 4-year-old from Overland Park, got interested in the periodic table of elements after his mother, Shruti, encouraged him to drink milk.

The 4-year-old asked why milk was important, to which Shruti responded that the calcium in milk helps strengthen bones.

As 4-year-olds are wont to do, Bhavik continued to ask questions about calcium and other elements. So, his mother decided capitalized on Bhavik’s curiosity and turned learning the elements — all 118 of them — into a game with flashcards and posters.

But Bhavik shocked his parents when, after learning all the elements, he began reciting them all in order. From Hydrogen, #1 on the periodic table, all the way to #118, Oganesson.

Now, Bhavik has gone a step further, setting a world record — verified by the India-based Global Records & Research Foundation — for the fastest recitation of the periodic table of elements.

How fast?

One minute, 20 seconds. Or time for nearly two elements per second.

“We’re very proud of him,” said Kapil Jain, Bhavik’s father. “To be very honest, we were elated when we got word that it’s actually a world record, it’s very exciting.”

Practicing everyday

Kapil said Bhavik enjoys practicing, so he and Shruti would practice the elements everyday at home and in the car when she would take him to pre-K at the Barstow School in Kansas City, Mo.

After Kapil’s sister-in-law was amazed by Bhavik’s speed, Kapil said she suggested the Jains look into whether or not Bhavik qualified for a world record.

The Jains were surprised — and proud — to find out he did, Kapil said.

Kapil said Bhavik’s interest in learning continues because Shruti, his mother, turns learning into something fun, and it’s not a chore.

As Indian immigrants who found their own way to education, Kapil said he and Shruti want to encourage Bhavik to strive for more by providing him with endless opportunities.

“Our main thing is to guide him as much as possible and give him all the right tools and resources in life,” Kapil said. “He’s really smart, and we want to make sure we’re guiding him in the right direction.”

Bhavik said he thinks his world record for reciting the periodic table elements is “cool,” but he’s already on to his next challenge: setting a world record for the fastest recitation of countries and capitals.

He can currently recite nearly 200 countries and capitals.

Watch: Bhavik Jain recite the periodic table of elements

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Kansas City Ballet to celebrate essential workers with special free performance at Starlight – KMBC Kansas City

April 5, 2021 by KCReporter

KANSAS CITY, Mo. —

The Kansas City Ballet returns to the stage with three live performances at Starlight Theatre on May 21 and 22, and one of the performances will be a special event focused on celebrating Kansas City’s essential and front-line workers.

“Kansas City Ballet would like to extend a very special offer to our community in celebration of essential and frontline workers with a free performance Saturday, May 22, at 2 p.m. as our way of thanking them for all their vital work this past year,” the ballet said in a news release.

Reservations are required and can be made at www.kcstarlight.com or kcballet.org or by phone at 816-363-7827. Free parking for the matinee performance is also available.

Tickets for the other two performances – 8 p.m. May 21 and 8 p.m. May 22 – are $35 per person and can be purchased online at www.kcstarlight.com or kcballet.org or by phone at 816-363-7827.

The ballet said masks, social distancing and safety protocols will be required. There will be concessions available for purchase.

“Kansas City Ballet welcomes you to Starlight Theatre for a 70-minute performance uniquely designed to tantalize your sense of adventure,” the ballet said. “All ballets on the Kansas City Ballet at Starlight program are brand new works by extraordinarily gifted choreographers. These outdoor performances will be an exciting opportunity to experience live ballet on stage once again.”

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Movie ‘The Ravine’ premieres in Overland Park Friday – KMBC Kansas City

April 2, 2021 by KCReporter

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. —

The movie “The Ravine” premiered in Overland Park Friday night.

The film follows a seemingly happy family whose world explodes in a shocking murder-suicide.

A local couple produced and independently financed the film. They said they chose to debut it on Good Friday because it’s a story of redemption.

“It is extremely special to know KC has really stepped out and supported us and this message,” said Kelly Pascuzzi, film producer.

“To have this experience here is really meaningful, so thanks to everyone who came out tonight,” actor Kyle Lowder said.

Lowder, who is a Missouri native, starred in “Days of Our Lives.”

Other cast members include Eric Dane from “Grey’s Anatomy” and Peter Facinelli from “Twilight.”

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Kosher barbecue saves Kansas City business | News & Schmooze | stljewishlight.com – St. Louis Jewish Light

April 1, 2021 by KCReporter

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic led to a reality check for Steve and Denise Ellenberg, whose catering company is a staple of local Jewish celebrations.

The Jewish couple has run Overland Park-based Ellenberg Experience Catering for more than three decades, but the public health requirements of COVID put the kibosh on the couple’s bread-and-butter business — events like kiddush luncheons and wedding receptions. The kosher food truck business was also out of the question.

And fittingly for a company based in the Kansas City area, barbecue turned out to be their salvation. They chuckle at how well their kosher smoked meat business has taken off.

“When we started, we just called a few people that we knew from the BIAV community (Congregation Beth Israel Abraham and Voliner) to see the response,” Denise said, “and then it has just been overwhelming. The community has just really embraced this.”

The Ellenbergs apparently tapped into pent-up demand with restaurant options off the table and a limited supply of goods from Israel with COVID-related shipping shutdowns.

But demand is more than just local. Word has spread far and wide.

The company has shipped packages to Baltimore and cities in Texas and North Carolina. “I just got a text from someone in Chicago this morning,” Steve said in a March 10 interview. The next day, he reported a call from someone in San Diego who had heard about the Ellenbergs from a local rabbi.

The company has also shipped products to Canada. They shrink wrap the meat, pack it in dry ice and then FedEx the packages overnight. Their products include brisket and chicken. They added fish during the pandemic, including rainbow trout and salmon.

Prior to the pandemic, barbecue was a specialty item for Ellenberg Experience. Every so often, celebrants would want it as part of their order. They already have a barbecue order for a Bar Mitzvah a year from now.

Rabbi Yitzchak Mizrahi

Rabbi Yitzchak Mizrahi, executive director of Vaad HaKashruth of Kansas City, unlocks one of the Ellenberg Experience Catering smokers. The padlock ensures the smoker has remained kosher. (submitted)

At the outset of the pandemic, Steve was smoking about a dozen briskets and about three dozen chickens at a time. Now, he is up to about 30 briskets and as many as 100 chickens at a time.

The Ellenbergs have two industrial smokers, since kosher rules prevent preparing meat and fish together.

The couple’s 22-year-old daughter, Blaire, who is a senior advertising major at Stern College for Women in New York City, helped out when she was home for several months doing virtual school because of the pandemic. She has continued to handle online sales and public relations since returning to school in October.

Denise’s nephew, Brian Pener, is continuing in his role as Steve’s right hand man. Denise, Steve and Brian are handling the packaging and shipping, all under the supervision of a mashgiach (supervisor) who ensures adherence to kosher practices.

The Ellenbergs see the smoked meats as a product line that will continue after the pandemic. They also view the effort as a community service to kosher-observant Jews.

March 11 marked the year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a pandemic. Weeks before that, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had confirmed the first person-to-person spread of the coronavirus in the United States.

As springtime continued, it was clear that Passover 2020 was going to be a much different affair than previous years. “This Passover, the seders are virtual. The plague is real,” CNN declared in an online headline.

Fast forward a year, and even with increased availability of the COVID-19 vaccine, the pandemic is still very much with us.

So as this Passover approached, Steve had an idea. What if the company could build on its barbecue success by making its meats kosher for Passover as well? Steve posed the question to Rabbi Yitzchak Mizrahi, executive director of Vaad HaKashruth of Kansas City.

“I looked into it,” Rabbi Mizrahi said, “and really what it boiled down to was what kind of product goes into the meat in the smoker during the year.”

The meat itself was fine, so the big question was the seasoning. When the rabbi examined the ingredients for the rub, including even the component parts of each ingredient, he found nothing that was “overtly chametz.”

Thankfully for the Ellenbergs, the rub did not include bread crumbs. Had that been the case, Rabbi Mizrahi said, “I just don’t think it would have been very worthwhile for them. It would have been labor intensive for us, and it probably would not have worked out.”

Based on Rabbi Mizrahi’s conclusions, the Ellenbergs tweaked some of their ingredients.

For instance, they created their own seasoning salt when the product they used turned out to have iodized salt, which raised questions because of its processing. The Ellenbergs used natural salt.

The couple also substituted brown sugar and honey for the molasses they usually use in their barbecue sauce. Rabbi Mizrahi concluded that the molasses could have come into contact with items during processing that were not kosher for Passover.

At that point, the procedure was not unlike preparing a home oven for Passover.

Steve scoured the shelves and racks with a caustic cleaner, and rinsed it off with a power washer. Then he burned off any residue by heating the smoker to about 500 degrees.

The whole process took about three hours, aided by the unseasonably warm weather earlier this month.

Having the smoked meat option for Passover will likely be welcomed by Jews who keep kosher, Rabbi Mizrahi said. Store-bought products are limited, and that can make for a tough week. The Ellenbergs’ smoked meat, he said, is “certainly a very welcome opportunity for kosher-observant Jews in Kansas City.”

Having a small operation like Ellenberg Experience in this niche seemed unusual to Rabbi Mizrahi. A product like this would more likely be available from big companies like Meal Mart, a major provider based in Brooklyn, New York.

Being a family affair is a disadvantage when it comes to meeting customer demand.

“We’re a small company,” Denise said. “We can’t always get the meat we request.” First dibs usually go to big markets like New York and Chicago, Steve said, or places in Texas and California.

But even with that limitation, the Ellenbergs have had quite a year.

Stopping to do some quick math, they estimated they had smoked about 21,000 pounds of meat within the past 12 months. “Wow,” Denise said.

This story was reprinted with permission of the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle (www.kcjc.com)

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Kansas City, Missouri, could permanently add outdoor dining to menu

March 30, 2021 by KCReporter

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Outdoor dining has been successful for many Kansas City area restaurants and bars, and a potential ordinance could give outdoor tables a more permanent place on the menu.

“It’s really increased our capacity by a measurable percentage and that has helped us to stay afloat during these tough times,” Grant Waner, co-owner of City Barrel said of their outdoor cafe.

Right now, places like City Barrel have a permit for outdoor seating in the street, but a proposed ordinance the KCMO Planning and Development Committee will discuss on Wednesday would amend the city’s zoning and development code “to allow eating and drinking establishments to use underutilized outdoor space for dining and seating purposes.”

The ordinance would authorize parking lots and other open spaces to be used under the following conditions:

  • Seating is only allowed in parking spaces, not in “drive aisles.”
  • Driveways or entryways from a public right-of-way are not obstructed.
  • Landscaped or stormwater-management areas are not used for seating.
  • Americans with Disabilities Act parking spaces are not used for dining, but seating should be ADA accessible.
  • No obstruction of pedestrian walkways.
  • Property owners must maintain the safety and cleanliness of outdoor dining areas.
  • Areas must be “restored to their original condition” when not being used for dining.

Waner said the “large-format seating” outside was a big help for business.

“We’ve done things like add lighting, added propane heaters. We have music going on out there now,” Waner said.

People still can dine inside, but those who are nervous about doing so have the option of sitting in the street cafe.

“There are so many customers that wouldn’t want to come out if they can’t sit outside, just because of the transmission of COVID,” Waner said. “They love sitting outside, even if it’s cold we have people that ask to sit outside. It’s really increased our capacity by a measurable percentage.”

Several streets over in the Crossroads at Buffalo State Pizza Co., they too want street dining to stick around.

“It really helped, especially at a time where people could not sit inside,” Philippe Lechevin, Buffalo State Pizza owner, said.

So much, he is willing to put more money into the space.

“I think we are going to spruce it up and add some lights and shades and maybe even some music speakers and make it more enjoyable,” Lechevin said.

The committee meets at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday to discuss the ordinance, and the public can view the meeting online.

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Kansas City Musicians Feel ‘Nothing But Joy’ As They Prepare To Reunite With Live Audiences – KCUR

March 28, 2021 by KCReporter

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In June of 2020, as Kansas City’s streets erupted in pent up frustration over brutality and racism, a Kansas City band was sitting on a protest song that spoke to the moment with urgency and love.

“Rise Up” had been in the works for a while. But the band, The Freedom Affair, was still gearing up to release it as part of a full-length album, which they had previously envisioned doing with live shows and a whole lot of fanfare. As it stood, the nine band members were hunkered down at home like the rest of us, trying to find their footing as humans in a pandemic, and performers in a landscape where each and every gig had suddenly disappeared.

So although Rise Up wasn’t written with last summer’s protests in mind, the band quickly released the song as a single, available for digital consumption.

Kansas City dug it. People all over town put on headphones and heard three rousing voices sing these simple words in harmony:

“Let’s move toward a brighter day/Together we can find a better way/Rise up…”

When I heard the song alone at home, I got chills. But something was missing, and that was undoubtedly the sweaty dance floor. It was the ability to see people’s faces and connect, viscerally, through the song’s driving rhythms and inspiring words.

The entire album — Freedom Is Love — came out digitally in September 2020, and it was finally released on vinyl earlier this month.

Seyko Groves is one of the vocalists in the Freedom Affair. She only recently got to hold the physical album in her hands. After being a band without shows for so long, holding a tangible record was a powerful thing.

“I got this unexpected rush of emotion,” Groves recalls as she describes that moment, which took place at the band’s first in-person rehearsal in more than a year. “I had to sit down and just look at this record and say, ‘This is what we did. We did this. Through this hard, hard year in the trenches, this is what was happening. This is real. It wasn’t all a dream.”

Kansas City Musicians Feel ‘Nothing But Joy’ As They Prepare To Reunite With Live Audiences – KCUR

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Seyko Groves can’t contain her excitement as she gets ready to finally perform songs from The Freedom Affair’s new album, Freedom Is Love.

The band is rehearsing because it finally has plans to perform a live show at Lemonade Park, an outdoor venue born of the pandemic, now reopening for a second season.

This time without live music has been strange, not just for musicians but for listeners, too. Albums have dropped, shows have happened on Zoom. But live music — unmediated by a screen — is just different. It’s something I feel more intuitively than ever, having gone so long without live shows.

There’s also science to back up what I’m feeling.

Scientists can measure the impact music has on a person listening by studying heart rate, sweat, skin temperature, muscle tension, salivary cortisol, respiration rate, cerebral brain activity. Lo and behold, music affects all of those things.

In 2016, researchers got specific about the difference between live music and recorded music. They found that during live performance and only live performance, audience members’ heart rates speed up and slow down in tandem with the changing pace of the music.

Another study found that people at live shows tend, over the course of those shows, to start moving in unison, which also has a surprising and measurable effect. It’s part of that good feeling you get listening to music in a crowd.

“After adults move in synchrony,” reads the study, “even when unaware of their synchronized movements, they remember more about each other, express liking each other more, and show greater levels of trust and cooperation.”

In other words, music is a transformative group experience, and if you’ve been vaguely unsatisfied by all the Zoom concerts you’ve attended by yourself, science gets you. And if that good feeling’s gone missing for people who go to concerts just for fun, the loss is even more profound for musicians.

Seyko Groves describes what that’s been like for members of The Freedom Affair.

“We all came to a place where we kind of felt checked out. We didn’t have that connection with other people, and it got to the point where it would even seep into our own personal abilities. Some were like, ‘I can’t. I can’t even get on my instrument anymore,'” she says. “Making music makes us feel like humans, makes us feel like ourselves.”

With a show on the horizon April 10, and the band meeting again to get ready, that life force has returned.

“I felt electrified to be able to be in the same place with my band mates, I was jumping out of my skin. I just cannot wait,” Groves swoons.

What matters to her now, getting ready for that first show after lockdown, isn’t being perfect. What matters is connecting.

“I feel nothing but joy,” Groves tells me when I ask if she has the back-to-school jitters. “I feel nothing but excitement. I feel like even if we messed up, we’ll all be so happy to be there that it wouldn’t even matter.”

“And then I think maybe,” she adds thoughtfully, “that’s how we always should have felt.”

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The people pictured on this album cover will perform together for the first time in more than a year on April 10. They’ve mostly shared a Zoom screen until now.

So it’s a juggling act. We finally get to do some of the things we did before, which is exciting. But maybe some things we’ve let go of — like all the pressure we used to put on ourselves and each other — can stay in the past. The whole idea of re-entry into social situations is like that for a lot of us, whether we’re preparing to get on a stage or not. Even just getting ready to see family and friends face-to-face is a big deal.

Seyko Groves has some wisdom about accepting all of it.

“I don’t want to come out of all this and be the same,” she says.

Amen. I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get out and finally dance, as part of a crowd, to those songs about change.

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UPDATE 7-Canadian Pacific to buy Kansas City Southern in a $ 25 billion railroad trade bet

March 24, 2021 by KCReporter

(Updates with expert comment)

By Nandakumar D, Ann Maria Shibu and Rebecca Spalding

March 21 (Reuters) – Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd agreed on Sunday to acquire Kansas City Southern in a $ 25 billion cash and stock deal to acquire the first rail line in the United States, Mexico and Canada create that should benefit from a collection in retail.

It would be the largest combination of North American railways to date by transaction value. It does so amid a rebound in supply chains disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and follows the ratification of the US-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) agreement last year that removed the threat of trade tensions escalated under the former US President Donald were Trump.

“Think about what we’ve been through and consider the importance of near-shoring in North America. This network is uniquely a supply chain that our customers and partners can actually benefit from and this opportunity to be able to use.” Keith Creel, chief executive of Canadian Pacific, told Reuters in an interview.

The combination must be approved by the US Surface Transportation Board (STB). Companies expressed confidence that this would happen by mid-2022, as the deal would bring together the smallest of the seven so-called Class I railways in the United States, which meet in Kansas City and have no overlap in their routes. The combined railroad would still be smaller than the remaining five Class I railways.

The STB updated its merger rules in 2001 to introduce the requirement that Class I railways demonstrate that a deal is in the public interest. However, due to its small size, Kansas City Southern was tax exempt, which may limit the audit of the takeover.

“I don’t see it as some kind of consolidation to be concerned about as it is an end-to-end or vertical merger. Your networks work well together and help fill North America with real service.” he told economist Clifford Winston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who specializes in the transportation sector.

The story goes on

An STB spokesman said the regulator has not yet received any filing from the companies that would initiate their formal review process. He declined to comment further.

Still, in its negotiations with Kansas City Southern, Canadian Pacific agreed to bear the greatest risk that the deal would not go through. It will buy Kansas City Southern stock and place it in an independent voting foundation, isolating the acquisition target from its control until the STB closes the deal.

If STB refused to do so, Canadian Pacific would have to sell Kansas City Southern’s shares, and a source close to the arrangement suggested that it be sold to private equity firms or listed on the stock exchange. Kansas City Southern shareholders would keep their proceeds.

There is a $ 1 billion reverse breakup fee that the Canadian Pacific would have to pay to Kansas City Southern if the formation of the trust fails to complete, the source added.

Kansas City Southern shareholders will receive 0.489 shares in the Canadian Pacific and $ 90 in cash for each common share of Kansas City Southern held. Kansas City Southern is valued at $ 275 per share, a 23% premium over Friday’s closing price, the companies said in a joint statement. The deal is valued at $ 29 billion, including debt.

Kansas City Southern shareholders are expected to own 25% of the outstanding common stock of Canadian Pacific. Canadian Pacific said it will issue 44.5 million shares and borrow approximately $ 8.6 billion to fund the transaction.

It’s the top M&A deal announced so far in 2021. Despite being the largest ever two railroad companies, it lags behind Berkshire Hathaway’s acquisition of BNSF in 2010 for $ 26.4 billion. A fact box on the deal highlights can be found at:

Creel will continue to serve as CEO of the combined company, which will be headquartered in Calgary, the companies said in a statement.

The companies also highlighted the environmental benefits of the deal, saying the new single-line routes created by the combination would help move trucks off crowded U.S. freeways and cut emissions.

Rail is four times more economical than trucking, and one train can keep more than 300 trucks off public roads and produce 75% fewer greenhouse gas emissions, the companies said in the statement.

FAILED OFFERS

Canadian Pacific, based in Calgary, is Canada’s second largest rail operator behind Canadian National Railway Co Ltd with a market value of $ 50.6 billion.

It owns and operates a transcontinental rail freight company in Canada and the United States. Grain transportation is the company’s biggest revenue driver, accounting for around 58% of bulk sales and around 24% of total freight sales in 2020.

Kansas City Southern has national and international rail operations in North America and focuses on the north-south freight corridor that connects the commercial and industrial markets in the central United States with the industrial cities in Mexico.

Canadian Pacific’s most recent attempt to expand its U.S. business came after the company submitted a hostile offer of $ 28.4 billion for Norfolk Southern Corp. in April 2016. The merger negotiations between Canadian Pacific and CSX Corp, which owns a large network in the eastern United States, failed in 2014.

An offer by the Canadian National Railway Co, the country’s largest railroad, to purchase Burlington Northern Santa Fe owned by Warren Buffett was blocked by US antitrust authorities more than two decades ago.

A private equity consortium led by Blackstone Group Inc and Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) unsuccessfully submitted the acquisition of Kansas City Southern last year. The sources said the offer helped reinvigorate the Canadian Pacific’s interest in Kansas City.

BMO Capital Markets and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC are serving as financial advisor to Canadian Pacific, while BofA Securities and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC are serving as financial advisor to Kansas City Southern. (Reporting by Nandakumar D and Ann Maria Shibu in Bengaluru; Rebecca Spalding and Greg Roumeliotis in New York Writing by Denny Thomas; Editing by William Mallard, Pravin Char, David Goodman, Andrea Ricci and Diane Craft)

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Even if the virus slows down, hunger will remain a major problem in Nebraska

March 24, 2021 by KCReporter

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) – Vaccinations can slow the spread of COVID-19, but not the spread of hunger. Many people are still struggling with lost or reduced paychecks as the year-long pandemic drags on.

Thanks to Dick Cochran, Founder and President of Hot Meals USA, the US Department of Agriculture’s Farmers to Families nutrition program supports hungry people. The program is part of a $ 3 billion effort to distribute surplus produce, dairy and meat products to people with unsafe food.

Cars drove slowly into the Ag building on the Buffalo County Fairgrounds last week and stopped as volunteers loaded free boxes of groceries into their suitcases. People got as many boxes as they wanted.

No ID was required. No questions were asked.

The Kearney Hub reports that scenes like this have been repeated weekly since Cochran found out about the program in June last year and offered to oversee the distribution of the food here.

Cochran now puts in 40-60 unpaid hours a week, not just in Nebraska but in six other states. Much of his time is spent coordinating deliveries with the seller who the groceries came from.

“We’re talking about the location. We need to have a good flow of traffic and cover all the little details. Then we plan the semis so that it comes, ”he said.

Currently, Cochran works with the Liberty Food Company in Kansas City, but that may change. He has also worked with companies in Iowa and Kansas, and Cash-Wa in Kearney.

Deliveries are made in either a 48 foot semi with 960 crates of food and 960 gallons of milk or a 53 foot semi with 1,200 crates of food and 1,200 crates of milk.

Last week, 1,200 boxes of groceries arrived in Kearney from a supplier in Kansas City. Kyla Martin, an administrator who manages community projects for the Community Action Partnership in Mid-Nebraska, has received 300 more boxes of groceries from Cash-Wa. On Thursday, she and volunteers gave it away on the exhibition grounds.

Each box contained canned food, chicken, hot dogs, apples, Colby Jack cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, onions, and more. “And just in time for St. Paddy’s Day, red baby potatoes,” said Martin.

The efforts of Cochran and volunteers have helped deliver 625 box-laden semis to people in Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri. They helped feed more than 750,000 families with food problems during the pandemic.

“We deliver from Scottsbluff to Omaha and many places in between. Imagine 48 semis, each with 1,200 boxes of groceries and 1,200 gallons of milk. That is 57,600 families who are getting enough food for 20 meals and 57,600 gallons of milk. That’s 1,152,000 meals that won’t go to people with food problems until February, ”he said.

He worked hard getting a truck to Scottsbluff.

“They had never received food boxes from the USDA because of their location,” said Cochran. “The pantries in Nebraska are covered in Lincoln and Omaha, but after Lincoln they don’t know the rest of the state exists.”

He’s working on a plan to bring groceries to Texas shortly. Earlier this month, the federal government estimated that 56% of that state’s population had been affected by food because of the disaster, he said.

“We’ll never feed them all, but if we swing that we could feed 120,000 families a week. That’s 2,400,000 meals a week, ”he said. So far he has 1,200 volunteers ready to help through service clubs and other groups.

“Yes, I’m scared to death of it. Maybe I’m not smart enough to know that there is a reason no one has done this yet, but if we don’t try, it would be worse. So it’s in full swing, ”he said

The food is distributed every week in Kearney. So far it will last until March and last until the end of June, the first anniversary of the start of the program. The food was also delivered to Lexington.

“This program has taken on a life of its own. It was a real blessing, ”said Cochran. “With no buildings or staff, we’ve grown to become the largest food distributor in the state. It’s all done with volunteers and lots of prayers. “

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Even if the virus slows down, hunger will remain a major problem in Nebraska

March 24, 2021 by KCReporter

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) – Vaccinations can slow the spread of COVID-19, but not the spread of hunger. Many people are still struggling with lost or reduced paychecks as the year-long pandemic drags on.

Thanks to Dick Cochran, Founder and President of Hot Meals USA, the US Department of Agriculture’s Farmers to Families nutrition program supports hungry people. The program is part of a $ 3 billion effort to distribute surplus produce, dairy and meat products to people with unsafe food.

Cars drove slowly into the Ag building on the Buffalo County Fairgrounds last week and stopped as volunteers loaded free boxes of groceries into their suitcases. People got as many boxes as they wanted.

No ID was required. No questions were asked.

The Kearney Hub reports that scenes like this have been repeated weekly since Cochran found out about the program in June last year and offered to oversee the distribution of the food here.

Cochran now puts in 40-60 unpaid hours a week, not just in Nebraska but in six other states. Much of his time is spent coordinating deliveries with the seller who the groceries came from.

“We’re talking about the location. We need to have a good flow of traffic and cover all the little details. Then we plan the semis so that it comes, ”he said.

Currently, Cochran works with the Liberty Food Company in Kansas City, but that may change. He has also worked with companies in Iowa and Kansas, and Cash-Wa in Kearney.

Deliveries are made in either a 48 foot semi with 960 crates of food and 960 gallons of milk or a 53 foot semi with 1,200 crates of food and 1,200 crates of milk.

Last week, 1,200 boxes of groceries arrived in Kearney from a supplier in Kansas City. Kyla Martin, an administrator who manages community projects for the Community Action Partnership in Mid-Nebraska, has received 300 more boxes of groceries from Cash-Wa. On Thursday, she and volunteers gave it away on the exhibition grounds.

Each box contained canned food, chicken, hot dogs, apples, Colby Jack cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, onions, and more. “And just in time for St. Paddy’s Day, red baby potatoes,” said Martin.

The efforts of Cochran and volunteers have helped deliver 625 box-laden semis to people in Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri. They helped feed more than 750,000 families with food problems during the pandemic.

“We deliver from Scottsbluff to Omaha and many places in between. Imagine 48 semis, each with 1,200 boxes of groceries and 1,200 gallons of milk. That is 57,600 families who are getting enough food for 20 meals and 57,600 gallons of milk. That’s 1,152,000 meals that won’t go to people with food problems until February, ”he said.

He worked hard getting a truck to Scottsbluff.

“They had never received food boxes from the USDA because of their location,” said Cochran. “The pantries in Nebraska are covered in Lincoln and Omaha, but after Lincoln they don’t know the rest of the state exists.”

He’s working on a plan to bring groceries to Texas shortly. Earlier this month, the federal government estimated that 56% of that state’s population had been affected by food because of the disaster, he said.

“We’ll never feed them all, but if we swing that we could feed 120,000 families a week. That’s 2,400,000 meals a week, ”he said. So far he has 1,200 volunteers ready to help through service clubs and other groups.

“Yes, I’m scared to death of it. Maybe I’m not smart enough to know that there is a reason no one has done this yet, but if we don’t try, it would be worse. So it’s in full swing, ”he said

The food is distributed every week in Kearney. So far it will last until March and last until the end of June, the first anniversary of the start of the program. The food was also delivered to Lexington.

“This program has taken on a life of its own. It was a real blessing, ”said Cochran. “With no buildings or staff, we’ve grown to become the largest food distributor in the state. It’s all done with volunteers and lots of prayers. “

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