Help wanted
As The Gazette compiles its Top 10 news and sports stories of the year, we’d like your help. Go online to www.emporiagazette.com and help us rank the stories. Then, watch for the end-of-the-year wrapup in Wednesday’s Gazette.
Shutterbugs
We know you’ll have your cameras handy during New Years festivities, and we’d like to see your pictures. Drop off snapshots in The Gazette newsroom, 517 Merchant St., Emporia; or e-mail digital photos to newsroom@emporiagazette.com. Make sure you identify who is in the photos and where they were taken.
Don’t forget, we’ll be closed Thursday for New Year’s Day, but you can drop them off starting at 7:30 a.m. Friday.
Sisters moving
PAOLA (AP) — A Roman Catholic women’s order that has been in eastern Kansas for 113 years is leaving next year.
The Ursuline sisters plan to sell their grand convent in Paola and move to Kentucky to merge with another Ursuline order.
The move is part of a national trend of religious groups combining or closing altogether as their numbers dwindle and aren’t replaced by younger faithful. Only 23 Ursuline sisters are left in Paola.
They leave behind a large number of Catholic schools and other educational centers that they have established, including a senior center and Lakemary Center, a nationally renowned facility for the developmentally disabled.