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Note. These news stories are linked to the Topeka Capital so you can read the full story many will have photo’s along with the story.

Briefs: Dexter wins 5K
... won the overall men’s and women’s titles this past Saturday at the 32nd annual Fiesta Mexicana 5K Run/Walk at the Oakland Community Center. Dexter won the men’s running competition in a time of 16:04.28, while Messick topped all women ...

Fiesta parade begins Friday
... Fiesta Mexicana events nightly Tuesday through July 18 in the Oakland neighborhood around Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. However ... starting at 6:30 a.m. and the race start at 8 a.m. at the Oakland Community Center, N.E. Sardou and Poplar, which also is

Fiesta to start with a blaze
... School gets started Tuesday. The nightly Mexican food sales, carnival rides, live entertainment and other activities in the Oakland neighborhood around the church continue through Saturday. Scott Blair, a meteorologist for the Topeka office of the National ...

Fiesta royalty reflect
... fiesta queen, participated in the opening Mass for this year's fiesta, which begins Tuesday and runs through Saturday in the Oakland neighborhood around Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. In the four months since they began their fiesta royalty campaigns, the

Omaha brings Mexico to Topeka
... employed Mexican laborers. South Omaha, where Mariachi Luna y Sol is based, has similarities, Mora said, to Topeka’s Oakland neighborhood, where the fiesta winds down its 76th anniversary edition Saturday. Mora said the age of the 10 musicians in ...

Fiesta FAQ
... sales begin at 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and the entertainment continues each night until midnight. Where is it at? The Oakland neighborhood around Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 1008 N.E. Atchison, becomes the fiesta grounds with vendors lining streets ...

Editorial: Festival is signature event
... s edition. We’d encourage those who haven’t to take in the parade and party and visit the fiesta grounds, in the Oakland neighborhood around Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, on at least one evening during the event’s run there from Tuesday through ...

Fiesta ride once was MJ's
... Both said the Zipper, which is located at the north end of the carnival near Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in the city’s Oakland area, compared favorably in excitement production with the Kamikaze, another popular ride at the carnival. Doug Barton ...

Fiesta royalty raise $95,702

... Sunday, all three royalty will participate in the opening Mass of the fiesta, which runs Tuesday through Saturday in the Oakland neighborhood around Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. The opening Mass, which will be celebrated in both English and Spanish ...

Pastors pull double-duty
... my full-time job. I don't see any drawbacks between it and my work in the ministry." The Rev. Bob Hattle, pastor of Oakland Presbyterian Church, 2810 N.E. Thomas, is a registered nurse who worked nearly 30 years in hospital settings before entering ...

Oakland area gets recycle bins
Residents in the Oakland area will have more opportunities to recycle as the city has placed ... nearby park. Blue bins can now be found behind the ball diamonds at Oakland Park, south of the treatment plant. The City of Topeka’s Water ...

Fire hits Oakland home again
... Firefighters on Tuesday afternoon were called back out to an Oakland home that had caught fire a day earlier. Crews responded to ... shortly after Neisha Carter and her children stepped out of their Oakland home for about a half hour. When they returned just before ...

Tree strikes vehicles, garage
Jarred and Megan Annett had plans to remove a silver maple tree from their yard in the city’s Oakland neighborhood. Mother Nature beat them to the punch. The large tree fell at 9 a.m. Tuesday, striking three of their vehicles ...

Burn victim doing 'much better'
... A man who was critically burned Wednesday morning when he came into contact with a live power line while working outside an Oakland church was doing "much better" Thursday at a Kansas City, Kan., hospital, a spokesman for his Topeka employer said ...

Worker burned by live wire
... man suffered critical injuries Wednesday morning when he came into contact with a live power line while working outside an Oakland church. Steve Starnes, 56, an employee of Martinek and Flynn Siding, was taken to St. Francis Health Center by American ...

Hispanic church faces foreclosure
... Rev. Joel Martinez has led Ebenezer Evangelical Church, 437 N.E. Twiss, a small Hispanic congregation in Topeka’s Oakland community, funding it largely through his income from a full-time job. “I minister mostly to people who have just come ...

New locomotive unveiled
... rolled out the nation’s first hydrogen-powered fuel cell locomotive Monday morning at the railroad’s shops in the Oakland neighborhood. BNSF, Vehicle Projects, Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and the Department of the Army announced plans to ...

Booms on 4th, brooms on 5th
Evidence of a festive Fourth filled the streets of Oakland on Sunday morning. Brightly colored boxes and tubes, all half-charred, lined ... was the rest of her block’s. The next step for the Oakland neighbors is picking up. And though she enjoys seeing her ...

Church organist retiring
... forth as organist and choir director at Oakland Presbyterian Church, 2810 N.E. Thomas ... remained a pillar in her small church in the Oakland area of northeast Topeka. It would be ... Topeka residents have never driven past Oakland Presbyterian Church and would need a map ...
Letter: Protect children
... inside, unrestrained while she went into the BP gas station in Oakland on Wednesday morning. I did you a favor. You see, I waited ... running vehicle. Although you may think the BP parking lot in Oakland is fairly safe — and it probably is, especially in the mornings ...

Letter: Another treasure
... finalists for the 8 Wonders of Kansas Cuisine list. While I certainly agree with these choices, the La Siesta restaurant in Oakland is an often overlooked treasure that is unsurpassed in Mexican fare. This restaurant has been in business since the 1950s ...

Serving a bountiful harvest
... church, which is at 1616 N.E. Seward Ave. in the city's Oakland neighborhood. Members of the congregation and community gather ... We feel called," Hull said. "We're glad to be in Oakland. We believe this is our place." Travis Perry can be reached ...

Alcala sees burglary, gives chase
... sitting on the front porch of his home at 520 N.E. Lake in the Oakland neighborhood. “I heard some jabbering, you know, like people arguing with each other,” Alcala ... coming back into this neighborhood,” he said, adding the Oakland area is one where people keep an eye out for one ...

Authentic German food to abound at festival
... Sacred Heart-St. Joseph Parish Germanfest, which will be Saturday and Sunday. Virginia Engroff, who was born and raised in Oakland, has been involved with the event for at least 25 years. She works alongside the men and women of the parish to make authentic ...

Driver critical after crash
... Medical Response ambulance to a local hospital late Monday night after a violent crash at N.E. Sardou and Winfield in the Oakland neighborhood of northeast Topeka. Police at the scene said the driver of a red Ford pickup truck involved in the crash suffered ...

Motorcyclist dies in collision with truck
... while riding in the 800 block of N.E. Oakland, police said. Topeka police said a Chevrolet ... dirt bike about 2:45 p.m. at N.E. Oakland and Fairchild. Police said the motorcycle ... the truck, traveling south on N.E. Oakland. Officers said the motorcycle driver ...

Man in police custody after Oakland stabbing
... with the stabbing of a 32-year-old woman in the city's Oakland neighborhood, police said. Officers located the man suspected ... reported about 8 p.m. at a home in the 1000 block of N.E. Oakland. Police said the victim and the man who stabbed her were believed

Ghosts In Oakland?

Ghost in Oakland?, you got to be kidding then maybe not. When I was doing this book on Oakland I never heard stories about any ghost, but then maybe no one wanted to talk about the subject as it is a church community. I myself am a little skeptical, but then some times you just got to wonder. There are a lot old homes in Oakland, and when you drive by and look at them don’t we make a picture in minds what it might have look like in the 1800, hundreds or early 1900, hundreds in a sine we are bring up ghosts of the past, so why couldn’t there be the real thing. A few year ago I lived in a 1927, house at 745 Wabash, lived there ten years and never heard or see anything out of the ordinary.

Then one late afternoon as my wife and daughters were getting ready to go to a concert they wanted me to take a picture of the sign they had made to take to the concert. Well we took it out side and lean it against the front porch and took a few flash pictures, then forgot about them. A few weeks later we all were sitting around and looking at the pictures when suddenly one of the girls yelled out “There’s a man in our window.” Well we all had to take a look and sure enough there he was a face of a man in our window. Well we tried to figure it out, we would look at the picture then go out side and look at the window but we could never figure it out.

Now I know there are a lot of you out there that are skeptical so you’ll just have to look at the pictures and decided for your shelf’s. Now I know some of you will say it’s clouds reflecting off the window, but that wasn’t it, it was a cloudless day, then how about the flash? as you can see there is no flash on the window and the porch is in dark shadow, so there is no real explanation.


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