Paint It All Pink

The Mount Carmel Foundation presents...Paint It All Pink on May 11, 2018. The fight against breast cancer is not just in October. Remember the women in your life during May and as we approach Mother's Day, support cancer awareness.

Together we can:

• Celebrate breast cancer survivors

• Support breast cancer awareness

• Spread the word about the importance of mammograms and early detection.

The Foundation hosts shirt and plant sales, giveaways and more. All proceeds go to the Mount Carmel Foundation benefitting the patients of the Via Christi Cancer Center.

The Mount Carmel Foundations secures and extends financial assistance to the operation, maintenance, facilities and services of Via Christi Hospital in Pittsburg, and contributes to healthcare and maintenance of the people of southeast Kansas and the surrounding region.

To learn more about what the foundation is, what it does, and where the funds raised go, like the foundation on Facebook, here.

Friends of the Library

The Friends of the Pittsburg Public Library hosted their Annual Meeting and Program on Monday, April 2, 2018. 

Dagmar Snodgrass presented: Dagie's Story: From War Torn Germany to Freedom in America.

The audience was silent as Dagie spun her childhood in Berlin and how a piece of chocolate from an American Candy Bomber gave her hope. She spoke of her family, how she met her husband, and how she and her children came to America. It was a different German perspective of WWII that history books don't always tell.


The Friends of the Pittsburg Public Library (FoPPL) ensures that the library is able to keep the many great, public programs as well as allowing special purchases of equipment and titles for the collection by raising funds during the semi-annual book sales and membership fees. FoPPL hope to facilitate lifelong learning opportunities for Pittsburg Public Library patrons.