A step back into the 80s kept a lot of the youngsters distracted from the usual rides at the Goddard Fall Festival. “With the retirement of one carnival they kinda consolidated into one so there’s only one carnival servicing Kansas but that leaves opportunity for festivals like ours to kinda branch out and bring in new opportunities,” said Angie Duntz, the President & CEO of the Goddard Chamber of Commerce. This was the reason there were no rides at this year’s festival and a couple of visitors were not happy about this. “Definitely miss the rides it adds the fun and enjoyment to everything so it gives you something to take up more time and it brings a lot of excitement for a lot of people,” said Wichita resident Emallie Somers.  Duntz said festivals are a means of tourism and economic development.  She adds they had to get innovative which is just what they did.
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If you feel like you’ve seen more coyotes and foxes in the city lately, you’re not alone. The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks says there’s been a big increase in reported sightings this year, so much so that it put a study in place to learn how to keep them safe as they continue to migrate to urban areas. It’s a story KAKE’s Eli Higgins learned about from personal experience. “Several months ago, a strange sound kept waking me up in the middle of the night, but all you could ever see were some weird eyeballs way back in the field across from my house,” Eli said. One morning, he finally found the culprit, and it wasn’t something you’d expect to see in the middle of the city – a family of three red foxes. Jon Beckman with the KDWP says he’s not the only one. “We wanted to get a handle on what was going on with those populations,” said Beckman. This year, Beckman says there have been so many reports of red foxes and coyotes in the city that the department started what’s called the Wichita Urban Coyote and Fox Project, and he needs our help.
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