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Omaha non-profit Spark’s mission is to help profoundly transform disinvested neighborhoods into prosperous and thriving communities. Explore how Spark helps weave the fabric of Omaha.

The KIOS Blues Chart for September, 2023

Did you know you can get free personal tutoring through the Omaha Public Library? Discover the many resources available to students of all ages. Also, Elly Roberts book talks The Lost Journals of Sacagawea by Debra Magpie Earling.

Things get a little wild as kids demonstrate good sportsmanship while socializing and playing games together.

Author Kristine Langley Mahler is in conversation with Michael Griffin about the art of memoir and the process of putting together her new essay collection, "A Calendar is a Snakeskin."

The KIOS Blues Chart for October, 2023

The Omaha Metro Disc Golf Association (OMDGA) has been instrumental in bringing disc golf into the Omaha metro area. Learn about what they do and some of the benefits of disc golf.

Bley's pieces could be ethereally beautiful or subversively brash, but always found a grandeur without tilting into pretension.

Learn about the Nebraska Wander Freunde Trailblazers, a.k.a the Great Plains Walking Club, a.k.a the Nebraska Trailblazers. Their motto is: "Walk for Fun, Fitness and Friendship in the Omaha and Council Bluffs metro area." They are a local Omaha metro walking club that has been an outlet for people to get out and connect with culture, history, the environment, and others.

Nebraska's Natural Resources Districts (NRDs) are tasked with protecting and enhancing Nebraska's natural resources for the good of its residents. The 23 NRDs are based on river basin boundaries across the state and address flood control, erosion, irrigation run-off, groundwater issues, and recreation. We learn about some of the work occurring in the Omaha metro's NRD, the Papio-Missouri River NRD.