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Bulk Item Pickup: 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

2 Housing News & Updates

3 Maintenance Messages

4 Events & Activities 5 Village Mayors 6 Calendar

HAPPENING THIS MONTH

2/5 Football Contest Winners Announced

2/12 Be Our Valentine Delivery

2/13 KC Mission Curbside Donation ~ Set Items out prior to 10 a.m.

2/15 Presidents’ Day FLFHC Offices Closed Normal Bulk Pick-up & Weekly Trash Schedule

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THE MICHAELS ORGANIZATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP It is with great pleasure that we are sharing that The Michaels Educational Foundation, a non-profit affiliate of The Michaels Organization, will be accepting scholarship grant applications for the 2021/2022 school year beginning on February 3rd!

Please don't miss out on this opportunity—Last year alone, 22 residents here at Frontier Heritage Communities received scholarship grants through the Foundation to help make their education dreams come true. Just think, this year it could be you or a family member who is awarded a scholarship grant!

All high school seniors and graduates residing in communities managed by the companies of The Michaels Organization, including Frontier Heritage Communities, are invited and encouraged to apply for scholarship grants. The Foundation, in its thirtieth-first year, is issuing this invitation to distinguished residents who are pursuing some form of higher education, in college, trade/professional school, or institute. Additional information will be sent out via email, Active Building and on Face Book on February 3rd!

To assist you with your planning, please note that all FLFHC Offices to include the Self Help Store and TDY Concierge Office will be closed on Monday, February 15th in observance of Presidents’ Day. Offices will reopen at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, February 16th. Bulk item pick up as well as trash collection will run according to normal schedule.

Should you experience a Maintenance emergency, please call our 24-hour Maintenance Line at (913) 651-3838

www.ftleavenworthfamilyhousing.com Heritage Community Connection Page 3 Maintenance Messages WHAT NOT TO FLUSH • Razors and blades: Put these into a rigid container before placing in the bin. Protect Your Environment & Avoid Drain Pain • Medicines: Any unwanted or unused Sewers are designed to take away wastewater from medicines should be returned to your local sinks and baths, as well as toilet paper and human pharmacy for safe disposal. Do not dispose waste flushed down the toilet. Many items cause of medicines with other household waste, blockages in sewers or damage to the environment and remember to keep all medicines out of by putting trash down the toilet. Just because an item reach of children. is labeled disposable doesn’t mean it is safe to flush. • Syringes and needles: Disposing of these Instead, you should bag it and put it in the garbage. down the toilet or in your household Don’t flush it! garbage is dangerous and could cause Sewers are not designed to cope with modern injury to a member of the sewage team or disposable products, and as a result these items can refuse collector. To dispose of these safely, cause blockages. The drains connecting your home contact your local hospital or health to the main sewer are only big enough to carry authority who will be able to advise you on water, toilet paper, and human waste. They are often the availability of local “needle banks.” no wider than four inches. Around 75 percent of blockages involve disposable items. To avoid drain pain and a drain on your finances, remember to bag it and put in the garbage. Don’t flush it! Bag & Throw Your Disposables in the Garbage

Disposable products, such as cotton balls, condoms and plastics can find their way into the environment if they are flushed down the drain. To prevent damage to the environment, the following items should be disposed of in the ways recommended.

• Cotton balls, ladies’ products, bandages, plastics Recycling Services and dental floss: Dispose in the garbage along The recycling collection point is located at with other household trash. 740 W Warehouse Rd (adjacent to the DB Sales Store). There are containers for • Personal hygiene items: Wrap well and dispose of paper (shredded and whole), glass, in the trash. Use the special bags for sanitary cardboard, plastics and aluminum cans. protection available from pharmacies. There are also 35 yellow dumpsters • Disposable napkins and Handy Wipe: Flush any scattered throughout post that accept paper, plastics and cans. Please feel free human waste down the toilet but not the Handy to drop off your recycling at any of these Wipe. The wipe should be well wrapped and locations. disposed of in the bin.

Work Order Desk: (913) 651-3838 E-Mail: [email protected] | Address: 800 W. Warehouse Road Bldg. 269

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Congrats to the Hernandez family of Ottawa Village and the Joyce family of New Pawnee Village!! They are the two random drawing winners of our 2021 Wellness Baskets!

The next KC Mission pick-up will be Saturday, February 13th! If you have anything to donate, simply place it curbside before 10 a.m. on the 2nd Saturday of each month.

For each donation, the mission will give you a voucher for tax credit that you can write off your taxes this coming tax season. The mission accepts clothing, furniture and other household items but not mattresses. Try to separate any bulk trash from donations and place clothing and shoes inside a plastic bag and, if possible, mark the bag mission donation. Anything left on the curb Monday will be collected as bulk trash and not a donation. Thank you for your generosity!!

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, on December 10, 1783, Fort Leavenworth studied law at Delhi, New York, and History was admitted to the New York state bar in 1804. But, as war with Great Britain approached in early 1812, Leavenworth embarked upon a military career. He was made captain of the volunteer company he helped raise for the Twenty-fifth Infantry. Soon he was promoted to , and in 1815 he was breveted lieutenant colonel and then colonel for gallant service under fire in 1814. In February 1818 Leavenworth became a lieutenant colonel in the Fifth Infantry. He established near the juncture of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers in August 1819, and during the early 1820s, with the Sixth Infantry, Leavenworth commanded the garrison at in present Nebraska. In the summer of 1824 he was breveted a brigadier general and by the end of the year held the regular rank of colonel, commanding the Third Infantry at Green Bay, Wisconsin. Colonel Leavenworth transferred to Jefferson Barracks near St. Louis, Missouri, in the summer of 1826, and in less than a year, on the west bank of the , he established the military post that still bears his name. He planted his flagpole and established Cantonment Leavenworth on May 8, 1827; it was designated Fort Leavenworth on February 8, 1832. Two and a half years later, on July 21, 1834, while commanding the newly formed First on an expedition out of , Leavenworth fell ill and died at Camp Smith on the Washita River. The colonel’s body was returned to Delhi, New York, for burial, but in 1902 his remains were reinterred at Fort Leavenworth, , where the Third Infantry erected a monument in his honor.

SOURCE: Hughes, J. Patrick. Fort Leavenworth Gateway to the West. Newton, Mennonite Press, Inc., 2008.

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VILLAGE MAYORS

Village Position Name Mayor e-mail

Cheyenne Mayor Staci Bell [email protected] Temporary: Infantry Barracks Mayor Jessica Powers [email protected]

Iowa Mayor Heather Price [email protected] Beth Rossbach Kickapoo Mayor Emily Dean [email protected]

Lower Kansa Mayor [email protected]

Main Post/Wint Mayor Jessica Powers [email protected]

Nez Perce Mayor Melissa Hanley [email protected]

Normandy Mayor Shelby Lippold [email protected]

Oregon Mayor Danielle Gibson [email protected]

Osage Mayor [email protected]

Marylace Stanphill Ottawa Mayor Sarah Hernandez

Pawnee Mayor Valerie Poggio [email protected]

Allison Hermanson Pottawatomie Mayor Christi King [email protected] Katie Henke Santa Fe Mayor Sarah Peachey

Maria Neidig Shawnee Mayor Amanda O’Donnell [email protected]

Upper Kansa Mayor [email protected]

www.ftleavenworthfamilyhousing.com February 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 Bulk Pick Up

Football Contest Winners Announced!

7 Bulk Pick Up 8 9 10 11 12 13

Be Our Valentine Home Deliveries! KC MISSION curbside donations prior to 10am

14 Bulk Pick Up 15 16 17 18 19 20

FLFHC Offices Closed Presidents’ Day

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Coming Up in March:

 3/14 Daylight Saving Time Begins  3/17 St. Patrick’s Day—Pot of Gold Candy Drawing  3/20 First Day of Spring

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