Community advocacy organizations in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma are teaming up to host free public screenings of the award-winning documentary, “To Use a Mountain,” in order to highlight the growing push for nuclear energy throughout the Tri-State region. The documentary will be screened at 7:30pm on Saturday, July 11 at the Municipal Theater, 112 S. 17th St. in Parsons, Kan. and at 7pm on Sunday, July 12 at the Stray Cat Film Center, 1662 Broadway Blvd. in Kansas City,

These are our people now; their relatives may live next door to you. The woodland tribes who reside in Ottawa County: the Eastern Shawnee, the Shawnee, the Ottawa, the Peoria, the Miami, the Seneca, the Wyandotte.

A beaver is yes, a rodent but they are also ecosystem engineers who can shape wetlands and create biodiversity.