SRS has released the 2009 Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) information in English and Spanish.

The Clay County Child Care Center's Head Start Program in Ottawa County is beginning its second year in a facility made available through the generosity of a family in Minneapolis, where the Ottawa County Head Start program is located.  Cliff and Pat Johns, realtors in that community, had first been contacted by staff to help find a replacement for the very small facility then being used for the Head Start program.  When no suitable prospects could be found, they decided to take matters into their own hands, saying it would be a way to pay back the community for theirlong-lived and successful business there.   They purchased and renovated a flower shop, transforming it into an attractive, bright red "country school".

The Konza Prairie Community Dental Center held its grand opening for their satellite office on August 5th in Manhattan.  Located in the Riley County Health Department, the new clinic will serve young children and pregnant women who don't have a regular dentist as well as other underserved residents of the community and surrounding area.  The clinic is a partnership among Kansas Cavity-Free Kids, sponsored by KHSA, Manhattan Head Start, Riley County-Manhattan Health Department and Konza Prairie Community Health and Dental Center, based in Junction City.