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“The Jesus Music” film traces history Topeka/Lawrence EDITION FREE! of contemporary Christian music The Area’s Most Complete Event Guide NE! TAKE O HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS Page 13 PAGE 16 CELEBRATING FAIT H, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS facebook /metrovoicenews Celebrating 15 years! Au VISIT US AT or metrovoicenews.com VOLUME 15 • NUMBER 12 gust 2021 TO ADVERTISE, CONTRIBUTE, SUBSCRIBE OR RECEIVE BULK COPIES, CALL 785-235-3340 OR EMAIL [email protected] NEW RESIDENT Neighborhoods to church guide WWrriitttteenn iinn SSttoonnee:: gather on 2021 Heritage Baptist Church SSeeccrreettss ooff tthhee TTeemmppllee National Night Out See inside back cover! Kansas leads nationwide Safe Streets is about to embark on its 25th year of National Night Out in the campaign to Topeka/Shawnee County community! promote the SoDlomoon’cs Tuemmple weas ndestroayedr byy Tareaes lalrosu nd“ Sthee sciter aendt sha voe fw htath Sheuk roTn deiscmoverepd wlaes a” large, This annual event, which will be held Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC. 70 years unearthed some amazing discoveries, rock-cut pool with several steps. Saturday, August 7, brings neighbor - hoods together to connect with one national motto later, the Temple was rebuilt by Jewish like: According to the Gospel of John, this another and local law enforcement. The exiles returning from Babylon. Over the • An altar, dated around 2,000 BC, was the spot where Jesus healed a blind simple act of getting to know your neigh - next 400 years, the Temple would be used for animal sacrifices was found man by putting mud on his eyes. Now, bors is the best form of crime prevention. desecrated by the Greeks and Romans. just south of the Temple Mount, with a that the real Pool of Siloam was discov - In Shawnee County, neighborhoods Then, rededicated by the Maccabees. place to tie up the animals, and an olive ered, they wondered where people are encouraged to hold individual events Then around 20 BC it was dismantled press to make anointing oil. walked to get from the pool to the on August 7. It is not too late to register. and rebuilt on a grand scale by one of • For centuries, a small, murky pool Temple. That’s when they discovered an At last count, there were over 50 neigh - history’s greatest builders: Herod the was identified as the Pool of Siloam. ancient road. borhoods registered! Neighborhood’s Great. The Byzantines even built a small • Herodian/Pilgrimage Road: This activities vary – some may host an ice- Today, the Temple Mount in church to commemorate the site, but ancient road that is underground is cream social, cookout, pot luck dinner or Jerusalem is the most disputed piece of archaeologists were not convinced this almost 2,000 years old but was first dis - a pool party. Some events are smaller land on earth. The site is under Islamic was a legitimate location. In 2004, covered in 1894, by members of the with around 25 people, and others are rule and excavation is not permitted. archaeologist Eli Shukron supervised Palestine Exploration Fund. However, larger with more than 300 attending. So, archaeologists have been exploring repairs when a pipe burst nearby. Then, n Please see SECRETS page 3 n Please see NIGHT OUT page 2 Kansas is leading a nationwide campaign to promote the national Owner of new restaurant credits God’s hand in success of new venture motto of the United States, "In God clearer in September of 2019 when she We Trust." Sixty-five years ago, By Sydney Hanna | Metro Voice posted a picture of a freshly baked cheese - President Dwight D. Eisenhower SHopper’s Kitchen is a new, healthy cake on her Facebook page. Almost signed the law that stated "In God We fast food and catering business that instantly, Hopper received requests for Trust" is our National Motto, on July opened in May. The owner, Sylvia purchase. This process repeated itself 30th, 1956. Hopper, said she never planned to open a when she baked a key lime pie and a In 2006, the U.S. Senate Reaffirmed restaurant, but God had a different idea. coconut cream pie using unique recipes. "In God We Trust" as our Motto on He started making His vision for her Soon, she realized she’d sold enough culi - the 50th anniversary of its adoption. nary goods to start a business. In 2011, the U.S. House of Hopper began a catering company, Representatives voted overwhelming - which helped her exercise her cooking ly (396-9) to reaffirm "In God We and baking skills in unique ways, while Trust: as the official Motto and simultaneously satisfying the appetites of encourage its public display in all her customers. At first, she intended only public buildings, public schools, and to offer catering services rather than other government institutions. opening a restaurant. However, her plan ness in need of daily workers. She opened munity job opportunities as well as tasty State and local lawmakers have changed when she realized she could give SHopper’s Kitchen as a fast food drive- lunch options and delectable desserts. n Please see MOTTO page 2 back to the community by owning a busi - thru on May 4 so she could offer the com - n Please see GOD’S HAND page 2 2 • August 2021 _________________________ MetroVoiceNews.com _________________________ Facebook/MetroVoiceNews ________________________ Topeka Metro Voice MOTTO Most Kansas towns lost population to the cites this decade continued from page 1 Kansas saw its population grow 3% remain the state’s second-largest city. from 2010 to 2020 and the state will keep Lawrence broke into the 100,000 club been passing measures to ensure the its four U.S. House seats. The U.S. Census growing over 13% to 100,205 residents. Motto's public display. Bureau reported Monday that the state Mid-size cities, and cities in rural “The purpose of the campaign is to had 2.9 million residents, or some 84,700 Kansas, were the biggest losers. Salina, the increase awareness of these facts, and to more than after the 2010 census. state’s 10th largest city, experienced a 3.5% encourage the display of the National The vast majority of Kansas municipal - decline as it dropped from almost 48,000 Motto across the country,” said Donna ities lost population according to the latest to 46,236. Towns losing the most residents census figures. Of the state’s 500 largest include Elkhart which shrank -27%. communities, 415 lost population. That On a positive note, several small com - shocking number also included the state munities saw growth of over 50%. These capital of Topeka which saw a decrease of include Bucyrus plus Basehor, Maize, St. almost 3% since 2010. Nicknamed “Top George, Vassar, Franklin and Ada. Clay Center was one of many smaller cities to lose population City,” its population dropped from While demographers will be studying 127,914 to 124,374, and was the only city the data, it appears that small towns are Here’s the population rankings of some complete list, go to metrovoicenews.com in the top five to experience a decline. losing their populations to mid-size and of the state’s top 500 communities. For the and click on the Kansas section. Junction City was the biggest loser, large cities. Kansas does not fit the rural shedding over 16% of its total residents. image popular in the media. It now counts Wichita remained the state’s largest city almost 80% of its residents living in urban with a population of 391,352. Bucyrus, areas which is the national average. Four south of Olathe, grew the fastest over 10 years ago in 2017, just 68% of the state was Lippoldt, founder of Culture Shield years, seeing a 66.84% jump as the Kansas urban. Network, based in Wichita. Lippoldt is City Metropolitan area pushes further In another interesting factoid, the also the National Day of Prayer south into farm country. Kansas counties included in the Kansas Coordinator of Kansas. Overland Park cracked 200,000 for the City metropolitan area now represent “Since May 29th we have distributed first time, gaining 25,000 residents to almost 50% of the state’s total population. over 4,000 Posters and 1,000 Frames in Kansas,” Lippoldt said. “We have now Streets at 785.266.4606 or email Judy at received another 4,000 In God We Trust NIGHT OUT [email protected]. You don’t need posters, and we just placed an order for continued from page 1 to have a neighborhood organization another 1300 frames.” In 2019, Topeka/Shawnee County to host an event, so contact your neigh - Lippoldt and various groups, including the Capital City Christian Chamber of ranked 5th in the nation for cities of bors and Safe Streets and get involved Commerce (C5) in Topeka, are helping comparable size, for our National Night today! distribute the posters free of charge Out events. Due to COVID-19, Safe Streets, a program of Prevention around the state. National Night Out could not be held and Resiliency Services, is a local crime “No court anywhere in the United in 2020, but we are excited to get prevention and substance abuse preven - tion organization in Topeka. States has ever held that the public post - together this year. ing of ‘In God We Trust’ violates the NNO event is coordinated through Safe Streets wants neighbors to talk and get to know one another – this plays Constitution,” Lippoldt said. “Anti-faith Safe Streets in partnership with local law groups continually challenge the consti - enforcement including the Topeka Police a huge role in making our community safer. Contact Safe Streets for more infor - tutionality of the Motto, and time and Department, Shawnee County Sheriff’s again have failed.