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Dallas-based Valkyrie Brewing Company – together with other groups and businesses in the village – will “Roll Out (several) Barrels” for the annual Dallas Oktoberfest Celebration on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017.

The whole town will be buzzing, flipping, dancing, singing, tossing, grooming and booming, according to Valkyrie Brewing’s Ann Lee.

The day starts you with the Dallas-Sioux Creek Fire Department’s all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast. Flapjacks will be flipped from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the new fire hall.

Prices are $6 for adults and $4 for ages 6-11 (kids 5-under eat for free). Proceeds are for firefighting equipment upgrades.

After breakfast, head to the village park for the Farmers’ Market and Arts Crafts Fair, on from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Vendors will offer farmers’ produce, local artisans’ arts and crafts, and Boy Scout Troop 102’s Oktoberfest T-shirts and Sweatshirts.

There is still room for more vendors,

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Promoting air and space technology in order to encourage Topeka children to become more involved in science is the main goal of the eighth annual Ad Astra Space Celebration.

This year’s festival, coordinated by the Ad Astra Kansas Foundation and the Washburn University Department of Physics and Astronomy, will be from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Oct. 14 — rain or shine — in Stoffer Science Hall at Washburn University, 1700 S.W. College Ave., said Jodi Spindler, Ad Astra Kansas Foundation public relations manager.

The free event, which is open to all ages, will feature presenters during indoor activities from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. and outdoor activities from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The Crane Observatory will be open from 8 to 9 p.m., weather permitting.

The Ad Astra Space Celebration is in cooperation with the Topeka Science and Tech Festival, which will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. that day in the 700 block of S. Kansas Ave. Both events have received funding from the Science Festival Alliance through a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Q: How did you get involved with the Ad Astra Kansas Foundation?

Spindler: I started in May as the part-time public relations manager for the foundation after I saw an ad in the newspaper. I am married to an architectural engineer, and I have a son who is interested in engineering at K-State. He is a freshman and is thinking of going into nuclear engineering. I looked at

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Tim Kelly is 84 and lives out in the remote northwestern part of Mason County, where the water is blue as a warm summer sky, beaches are littered with clams and oysters and quiet is interrupted only by the sounds of the occasional boat on Hood Canal and the wings of graceful birds soaring.

Here in Dewatto, Kelly has been hiding in peaceful solitude for 27 years since retiring from Otis Elevator. But he can’t hide his association with boat racing as the grandfather of J. Michael Kelly, one of the top H1 Unlimited hydroplane drivers in America.

Kelly was home in Dewatto on Sept. 17 when his grandson, who is a carpenter in the off-season and lives in Bonney Lake, took second in the Graham Trucking boat at the San Diego Bayfair HI Unlimited hydroplane race on Misson Bay. Andrew Tate in the Jones Racing boat edged Kelly.

Tate finished second and Kelly third, behind Jimmy Shane in the Miss Madison, in the national points race decided over five races – Columbia Cup in Tri-Cities, the Albert Lee Appliance Cup at Seafair in Seattle, two races in Detroit ‑ President’s Cup and the Gold Cup ‑ and the season finale in San Diego. Kelly won in Tri-Cities and finished second at Seafair and in San Diego.

J. Michael Kelly, 38, started racing unlimited in 2004 and was named the rookie of the year. It’s

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Promoting air and space technology in order to encourage Topeka children to become more involved in science is the main goal of the Eighth Annual Ad Astra Space Celebration.

This year’s festival, coordinated by the Ad Astra Kansas Foundation and the Washburn University Department of Physics and Astronomy, will be from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Oct. 14 — rain or shine — in Stoffer Science Hall at Washburn University, 1700 S.W. College Ave., said Jodi Spindler, Ad Astra Kansas Foundation public relations manager.

The free event, which is open to all ages, will feature presenters during indoor activities from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. and outdoor activities from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The Crane Observatory will be open from 8 to 9 p.m., weather permitting.

The Ad Astra Space Celebration is in cooperation with the Topeka Science and Tech Festival, which will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. that day in the 700 block of S. Kansas Ave. Both events have received funding from the Science Festival Alliance through a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Q: How did you get involved with the Ad Astra Kansas
Foundation?

Spindler: I started in May as the part-time public relations manager for the foundation after I saw an ad in the newspaper. I am married to an architectural engineer, and I have a son who is interested in engineering at K-State. He is a freshman and is thinking of going into nuclear engineering. I looked at

Article source: http://cjonline.com/local/arts-entertainment/life/2017-10-03/cj-extra-ad-astra-celebrates-space-technology