They work together all the time, often in very dangerous situations.  Sunday afternoon the Hays Police and Fire Departments came together again, with absolutely no intention of cooperating.

The reason–a couple of exhibition softball games to raise funds for the fight against breast cancer.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month.

Both departments are also selling pink t-shirts at their respective offices, at Friday’s Oktoberfest and during Saturday’s Fort Hays State University homecoming parade in front of the fire department.

Officers are also wearing pink t-shirts this month, and have tied pink ribbons on department vehicles.

See more from Sunday’s games tonight on Street Beat Eagle Community TV Channel 14.

It’s a dream of most kids, growing up to be a fireman, or a fire girl, which is the desire of five-year-old Karlie Demel.

The young students at Sandy Henningson’s Learning Lanes Pre-School in Hays got to meet real firefighters Friday afternoon when they visited  the fire station in downtown Hays.

Firefighter Justin Choitz was their tour guide.  The kids checked out all the gear a fireman wears when battling a blaze and heard the loud noise of air flowing from the airpack into his facemask.

The big red fire engines were also impressive.

Most of the youngsters agreed the best part was watching the firemen slide down the pole in their living quarters  to the lower floor when a fire call comes in.

Four-year old Noah Schaeffer describes the move as “fast as a race car.”

See more tonight on Street Beat Eagle Community TV Channel 14.

This is World Space Week, and some local rocket enthusiasts started celebrating early.

Saturday afternoon Fort Hays State University hosted a community-wide rocket launch at the west side of the Ellis County Fairgrounds.

An exhibit of NASA posters from the 1970s and ‘80s is on display this week at the FHSU Forsyth Library.  Visitors can also check out some space shuttle tiles,  as well as space food.

World Space Week was declared by the United Nations General Assembly in 1999 “to celebrate each year at the international level the contributions of space science and technology to the betterment of the human condition.”

See more tonight on Street Beat Eagle Community TV Channel 14.

The Hays location is one of the first 15 Edward Jones offices connected by a telegraph wire stretching from Colorado to Saint Louis in the early days of the financial investment firm.  Ted Jones, the firm’s second managing partner, had the vision for serving clients in rural communities.

To commemorate Jones, who died of cancer more than 20 years ago, the firm inaugurated “Tour de Ted,” a multi-state bicycle ride tracing the path of that original telegraph line.

Along the way, the participants are raising money to help fight cancer.

At a luncheon Wednesday before the group took off again, oversize checks were presented to represent donations of $10,000 to both the Kansas State University Johnson Cancer Research Center and to the University of Kansas Cancer Center.

Darrel Seibel was also recognized for his 50 years with Edward Jones.  The Hays office was the second Edward Jones location in Kansas.

Find out more tonight on Street Beat Eagle Community TV Channel 14.

Most of learn about and remember something more easily if we see it, and especially if we can touch it.

That’s the theory behind the one-day educational program at Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays Tuesday.

“It always sticks with kids a lot better when they get to see real animals and not just pictures on TV,” believes museum director Reese Barrick.  ” They can take what they learned back home to parents and spread the message about what is happening to some our wildlife.”

And that’s exactly what Barrick hopes the students did.

The program focused on Threatened and Endangered American Animal Icons.   Participants got to see a peregrine falcon and a golden eagle, a very small American alligator and even a gray wolf.

Some threatened species are now repopulating and the elementary school students from throughout Ellis County also learned about conservation efforts.

The program was free for participating schools.  About 1,100  students attended.

See more tonight on Street Beat Eagle Community TV Channel 14.