A new resource center at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library aims to bridge a gap that exists when it comes to accessing popular business and legal information. Meredith Snepp, the library’s business and career librarian, knows not everyone in the community is able to easily look up information online about housing programs, job resources, how to access legal forms and more. “Computer access is so important for anybody who wants to do anything these days,” Snepp said. “(It’s) hard for those people who don’t have those skills, who don’t have that computer access or that time. It impacts the daily aspects of all parts of their lives.”
Source: Salina Journal.

The Shawnee County Parks and Recreation Department will ask for more money in its 2022 budget to raise seasonal staff wages, including lifeguards, as pools and aquatic centers rely on long workweeks from lifeguards. “Something needs to change,” said Seth Campbell, a lifeguard at the Blaisdell pool. “Next year the fear is that there are going to be no returning guards.” The county was 83 lifeguards short of being appropriately staffed weeks before it prepared to open its eight aquatic centers and pools on Memorial Day.
Source: CJonline.com.

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