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Topeka EDITION includes Lawrence, Manhattan, Emporia & Holton free! ne! the area’s most complete event Guide Ke o ta Page 21 Senior LivingGuide PAGE 18 GOSPEL CRUSADERS paGe 13 CELEBRATING FAITH, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS facebook/metrovoicenews Now in our 8th Year! VISIT US AT or metrovoicenews.com VOLUME 8 • NUMBER 10 June 2014 TO ADVERTISE, CONTRIBUTE, SUBSCRIBE OR RECEIVE BULK COPIES, CALL 785-235-3340 OR EMAIL [email protected] NEW RESIDENT Juneteenth church guide East Side Baptist Church events to celebrate Khfarirssae Forete d| Moetrom Voice On January 1, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln signed the See inside Emancipation Proclamation which aimed to end slavery once and for all. back cover! Yet, slaves weren’t actually set free until Miss Kansas Pageant two and a half years later upon the end of the Civil War. Announces Kansas’ What is Juneteenth? Choice Award Major General Gordon Granger is the officer credited for delivering the PUBLIC WILL BE good news on June 19, 1865. ALLOWED TO VOTE ONLINE FOR THE FIRST TIME At the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic Staycations: Not what you think City this past September, the public select - ed Theresa Vail - Miss Kansas 2013, as America’s Choice – a first for the State and ADVENTURE AWAITS THE ENTIRE FAMILY The stories and urban myths con - immediately casting national attention Most of these fun and imagination-filled destinations are Paxico offers a historic opportunity to explore Victorian- cerning the reason for the delay of free - upon Kansas and the outstanding young era storefronts while discovering old treasures. A number within an hour or two of Topeka. While some might deserve dom vary and include everything from of antique stores within walking distance from one anoth - an over night stay with family, friends or a hotel where the the murder of a messenger to slave er are nestled within this small Kansas town. Paxico First kids can cool off, others are close to home and you’ll be back owners waiting to reap one more cot - Fridays offer extended hours for downtown merchants as in time for supper! Pick a few from this list, then add a few ton harvest. well as outdoor entertainment. The annual Meatloaf Fest of your own from the articles and ads that follow! Nevertheless, when the news was is another great opportunity to visit and explore the finally delivered, reactions of shock, dis - town. This year’s festival tak es place on Saturday, June PAXICO may, jubilee and sheer excitement were Located west on I-70 between Topeka and Manhattan, n Please see ADVENTURE page 10 n Please see JUNETEENTH page 12 TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION TRM schedules Open House BOn Ua typIicaLl daDy, theI MNissioGn’s sh e“l - HtheiOr owPn unEiqu e FstorOy to Rtell b uTt all OMOEveRry evReningO, theW old ne”on On June 6th, Topeka Rescue ters are booming with guests and lots can say the same thing: I am homeless cross is lit up atop the Main Mission Mission will formally announce expansion endeavors to create new of activity. Each person residing has for tonight and need someone to help. building communicating “Jesus Saves” Theresa Vail, Miss Kansas 2013, was selected shelter space as well as educational by the public as America’s Choice this past and pointing the way for people to find programming for adults and chil - September at the Miss America Pageant. help. On a given night there have been dren. In concert with NOTO’s First as many as 316 souls who have found Friday, the Mission will host an open women who are represented through the their way to the Mission to find the house at the Great Overland Station Miss Kansas Organization. safety and refuge the cross conveys. (701 N Kansas Ave) June 6th, 4:00- In response, the 2014 Miss Kansas While the Mission has been operating 7:00PM and announce their “Hope Pageant will offer the public an opportu - under a variance from the City for for Tomorrow” building campaign nity to determine which state contestant nearly five years which has permitted with a brief press conference begin - automatically advances to the Miss Kansas the use of cots in common areas for ning at 5:00PM. Architectural draw - 2014 finals, to be conducted on June 7, sleeping, there have been days when ings will be presented and Executive 2014, through online voting. they have been within three cots of Director Barry Feaker and other key All contestant photos, names and titles being at maximum capacity according Mission staff will be available for to the temporary code variance. These questions. Refreshments will be served and the public is invited. n Please see MISS KANSAS page 2 n CONTINUED ON PAGE 23 2 • June 2014 ________________ ________ MetroVoiceNews.com __________________________ Facebook/MetroVoiceNews _________________________ Topeka Metro Voice Kansas’ Obamacare opposition saves tax dollars WHEN GOD SPEAKS THROUGH A CHILD by Jessica S. Hosman done for days, Kansas’ opposition to Obamacare Congressional Research Service. ence. While states operating their own Zechariah and I were driving into weeks or even has actually saved taxpayers money. From there, it was just simple math. exchanges poured millions of dollars town as usual one morning, but on this years. While we A breakdown of raw enrollment There is, of course, some variability. into promotional initiatives, that didn’t particular day I was struggling internal - might genuinely numbers and spending has revealed California’s state-based exchange was necessarily result in more participation ly and highly agitated within. Rather forgive them for that, from a fiscal perspective, Kansas the only one to post a per-person relative to the population size. Here’s a than letting go of the little nuisance that an action, it’s not was probably right to reject a more enrollment cost of less than $1,000. breakdown of that spending, and its had taken place earlier, I was holding on as easy to forget than $31 million federal grant to set up However, while Florida’s federal resulting enrollment, for a handful of - and harboring resentment as a result. about what they Jessica Hosman its own insurance exchange. exchange participation amounted to a states analyzed in a report issued by the My son was aware of none of this but have done. Thankfully, we were created The federal government spent about miniscule $76-per-person figure, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation instead sang happily as we drove. in God’s image – He wasn’t created in $1,331 for each of the roughly 57,000 North Dakota’s and the Urban Institute in March: Meanwhile, I continued to fester more ours. Kansans who enrolled in Obamacare average came to • New York: 370,451 enrolled (1.94% and more with each mile that passed. While I might waste a morning stew - through the online insurance exchange $7,089 for each of its of population), $40 million for out - Suddenly, the destructive thought pat - ing in a way that grieves His heart, the at HealthCare.gov, according to lawyer nearly 10,600 reach terns raging in my mind were inter - moment I confess and repent is the Jay Angoff with the Washington, D.C., enrollees. • Oregon: 68,308 enrolled (1.75% of rupted by the stern yet innocent voice moment I believe His heart indeed does law firm Mehri & Skalet. Still, Hawaii’s cost population), $10 million for outreach of a three-year old. “Mommy, you need become happy and He chooses to for - The figure stands in stark contrast to absolutely takes the • Maryland: 67,757 enrolled (1.15% to tell Jesus you’re sorry!” Startled and get. He’s not waiting for me to mess up state-run exchanges like Connecticut’s, cake, and has of population), $2.5 million for out - unable to believe my ears I slowly asked again, He’s forgiven and it’s forgotten. which spent more than $2,077 for each Angoff sparked calls to shut reach in solemn disbelief, “What did you It’s my responsibility to receive His for - giveness and grace, then do my part to of its enrollees. Other per-person rates down the state-run insurance • Minnesota: 48,495 enrolled (.90% say?” He firmly repeated himself then not willingly allow myself to fall back for state-based exchanges include exchange. of population), $9 million for outreach added, “You’re making Jesus sad… you into the same trap again. It’s also my Kentucky at $3,060, Oregon at $4,436 Linda Sheppard, the Kansas For comparison, here’s a breakdown need to tell Him you’re sorry.” responsibility to forgive as He forgave and Hawaii at a jaw-dropping $23,899. Insurance Department’s second-in- of several states that opted to rely on Though the sky was cloudy, I quickly and extend the same grace towards oth - “The big takeaway is that the federal command on ACA-related issues, said the federal exchange, using federal dol - reached for my sunglasses to hide the tears which immediately began to fall. I ers that He has so lovingly extended to exchange is much more efficient,” the state agency doesn’t have a stance lars for promotions: told Zechariah “okay,” and attempted to me. Angoff told Kansas Watchdog. “It costs on Angoff’s figures. Sheppard did say • Michigan: 272,539 enrolled (2.75% collect myself. “No,” he said, unsatisfied I have the great privilege a state much less to opt into the federal she felt the biggest hindrance to of population), $2.5 million for out - with my response. “You need to tell every day of seeing the purity of my exchange than to establish its own increasing Kansas’ enrollment num - reach Him right now.” I took a deep breath son’s heart.