TOPEKA — Janice E. Cormier, 84, of Topeka, passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. She was born Aug. 19, 1941 in Ellinwood, Kan., the daughter of Edwin L. and Dorothy F. (Heater) Corbett. Janice graduated from Ellinwood High School... She was a member of St.
On December 2, I received a text message from Becca (Birk) Nissila that read, “My dad gave me the info about Sunday. Thought I’d let you know my husband and I plan to be there.” Becca is the granddaughter of ... .
The purpose of getting in the creek barefoot in December, you might ask, was to recreate a protest from the year 1941, when a Chico State student entered the creek to demand the rebuilding of a campus bridge that had been torn down.