Balloonâs 500-mile journey finds Louisiana man who fulfills twinsâ Christmas lists, puppy included
Girl s balloon with Christmas wishes travels from Kansas to Grand Cane By Curtis Heyen | January 4, 2021 at 12:08 AM CST - Updated April 27 at 1:00 PM
(KSLA) â It started as an arts-and-crafts project to help cope with pandemic life and ended a made-for-tv Christmas tale.
Itâs the story of a red star balloonâs month-long journey over 530 miles.
Two days before Christmas, Shreveport resident Alvin Bamburg says he found a deflated balloon while hunting in Grand Cane and posted a photo of it to his Facebook page. Tied to it was a note. A little girl in Kansas had written to Santa that she had been a good girl and requested a few gifts.
areas of heavy rain that unfortunately produced flash flooding. heavy rain forecast over the next couple of days as well. head onstage. over to you. thank you very much, maria. no rain today kicking offer the summer concert series. ladies and gentlemen, give a round of applause for our first act this year jerrod niemann. good to be here g. to have a kansas point. you are from liberal kansas which if you are not familiar with pancake day, liberal kansas is the epicenter of where people run through the streets with a pancake the day before ash wednesday. absolutely. did you do that? it s usually the girl doss it, and what they do is they race a small town in england. you ulny england. call each other. who was faster? sometimes we win, sometimes we lose. you were born there. in 2000 go to nashville. writing songs since you were 8 years old. when did you feel you were breaking out? i had the great opportunity of meeting the man, mr. garth
dan maes read it in, because law enforcement sources are telling the denver post this week that frankly, they have no idea what dan maes is talking about. confronted, he confessed, recanted, sort of, and blamed people for taking him seriously in the first place. he told the post quote, some people are probably taking that a little too literally. those comments might have been incorrect comments. by those comments, he means his own campaign website and the mailer from his wife saying he was a secret agent in kansas. should also be noted that in the three weeks since he won the state s republican primary, mr. maes has not hired a campaign manager, has had to pay more than $17,000 in campaign finance violation fines and there was this weird thing about slipping the check into slipping a check into someone s purse. at a campaign event on monday, the denver post reports that dan maes slipped an unsigned check for $300 into the purse of the
to gather information inside a book-making ring that was also allegedly selling drugs. i got too close to some significant people in the community who were involved in these activities and abruptly was dismissed from my position. dan maes essentially says he was tapped by the state version of the fbi in kansas to go undercover and that undercover assignment, busting a drug dealing book-making ring, got him too close to official corruption and so he, upstanding undercover dan maes was fired. very dramatic, right? tell me more. the maes campaign did say more. they sent out a fund-raising letter last week from dan maes wife. quote, i know dan to have stood up to corruption as a young police officer. this stance of integrity cost him his job. it s a great campaign line, right? brave man going undercover, fired for his stance against corruption, a made for politics storybook tale that now has to go back to whatever storybook
trying to kick him out of the race and he s refusing to go. and nobody knows what s going to happen next. here s the situation with dan maes. he first made national news by voicing his suspicion that a pro bicycling program in denver could be a secret conspiracy to have the united nations take over colorado. black helicopters, cheerfully painted bicycles, what s the difference, people? since then, dan maes has made a name for himself for a totally different thing. he has been forced to admit to lying on his resume. specifically, he appears to have made up a back story about himself as a secret agent. a secret agent in kansas. on his campaign website, mr. maes wrote that when he worked as a police officer 25 years ago in the town of liberal, kansas, he went undercover on what turned out to be a dangerous assignment. there s a lot of typos here but it s follow-able. he says quote, at one point in my two years at the local police department in liberal, kansas, i