We often hear stories about the negative effects of COVID-19 in many industries, but real estate doesn’t seem to be one of them. The housing market in Wichita is booming, and houses are selling faster than ever. Sam and Chris Frail decided it was time to sell their Wichita home and move to the country. They said it wasn’t hard to find a buyer. “You can’t be home. It’s every night after work. It’s lined up. Like tonight, we had five people that wanted to come look at our house,” said Chris.
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With issues of food insecurity growing in Wichita during the coronavirus pandemic, a new group is trying a grassroots idea to help. The concept is called a community fridge. How it works is a local business or organization acts as a host site. Then members of the community stock the fridge with fresh produce, other food and supplies for anyone to take. ICT Community Fridge project started earlier this month and has already placed their first fridge at Dead Center Vintage in downtown.
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With school just around the corner, there’s a big piece of the puzzle that’s still missing for the Wichita Public Schools Board of Education. What will its gating criteria be? The BOE is expected to discuss and vote on this during its 6 p.m. meeting Thursday. Gating is simply a set of metrics that districts put in place and use to determine when and how schools will operate, depending on how bad COVID-19 is in the area. “We went through three different matrices, which was through the KNEA, the Kansas Department of Education, and then Sedgwick County. And so we use those as guidance to basically create our own gating criteria,” said Ron Rosales, Wichita BOE District 6.
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