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Charity Poker Run hosted by Kansas City Soldiers' Angels

MARK YOUR CALENDAR and START YOUR ENGINES!
Operation Aces High – Charity Poker Run and BBQ Feed
Pasadena , California—May 17, 2007 Kansas is hosting a Poker Run for the Troops on June 3rd, 2007. A joint effort of Soldiers' Angels, Kansas, and American Legion Riders 370, this Poker Run will be raising funds for the First Response Backpacks – an ongoing program of Soldiers' Angels.

Cracker Barrel celebrates 10 years in St. Joseph

The Cracker Barrel Old Country Store location in St. Joseph will celebrate its tenth anniversary on Saturday, June 9th. As part of the celebration, Cracker Barrel will thank its loyal guests and employees who have helped make this Cracker Barrel a special place in the St. Joseph community.

Mexican customs to be stationed in Kansas City

New "inland port" in heartland part of international plan that bypasses unions.

A Mexican customs office is being built in the U.S. heartland as part of a newly designed "inland port" facility that links with a Mexican seaport, an official in Kansas City confirms.

Tasha Hammes of the Kansas City Area Development Council wrote to author and WND columnist Jerome Corsi to correct some details of a column on the subject, but she affirmed that a key purpose of the Kansas City Inland Port, or SmartPort, will be to facilitate the movement of containers from the Far East through the Mexican port at Lazaro Cardenas rather that the West Coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

A MISSILE THAT CAN REACH AMERICA

North Korea appears to have completed fueling a long-range ballistic missile, American officials said Sunday, a move that greatly increases the probability that it will go ahead with its first important test launching in eight years.