Wednesday 16th July 2025
Pack the Backpack, presented by Central Office Supply, a division of Minuteman and Kix 101.1! Each month during the school year, we will be awarding $101 to a Kix Country classroom to help out with supplies. We will award the prize on the last Wednesday of the month. You can listen to each new winner at 8:30a on the Morning Kix Start.
Our latest winner is Miss Off – 4th grade teacher at Rock Run Elementary School. Nominated by Summer Steelman
SUMMER’S LETTER:
She’s kind, loving, caring and makes learning fun but still teaching us very well. If you need help with anything she will be there in an instant unless she is helping another student. She tore her ACL playing basketball with her students and over the summer she had surgery. School started, she has not taken a day off even though she is physically in pain and she will not let that stop the education of her students. That shows what limits she takes to show her students that she cares.
She has a store with cool stuff and fake money that we earn. Everything that is in that store she bought with her own money. So basically, her idea with the store is so that kids know how to save and how to spend money in the real world. She has stuff that kids actually want to buy encouraging students to earn cash. Every Friday she opens the store and kids shop with their money. There is lots of ways you can earn money – like if you read 20 minutes a night you earn a dollar. So, in my opinion, I think she needs more stuff for her shop.
Nominate your Kix Country class at Kixweb.com.
Welcome to The List,
The new Superman movie isn’t just saving the box office—it’s apparently saving people's mental health too. Fans say it’s helping them overcome depression and anxiety. Why? Because it’s full of hope, kindness, and James Gunn-level optimism. They’re calling it hopecore! Which sounds like a therapy genre for superheroes.
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Brad Pitt is 61 and somehow still looks like a Calvin Klein ad. People say it's not just his skincare line keeping him young. A Turkish plastic surgeon claims Brad might’ve had a facelift—thanks to a little scar behind his ear seen in his new movie. So maybe it’s not just eye cream and kale smoothies, huh?
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Darius Rucker was on stage in Atlantic City when his voice said, “Nope.” A few songs in, he apologized to the crowd and had to call it quits. Total pro move though, he gave everyone a full refund. I’ve heard concerts where the singer should’ve done that and didn’t.
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Lainey Wilson is bringing the bling! She’s launching her own western-themed jewelry collection with rings, necklaces, earrings you name it. So now you can cry in your cowboy hat and your rhinestones. On-brand and bedazzled!
You can catch The List, weekday afternoons at 4:20 with Jonathan Knight. Only on Iowa’s BEST Country KIX 101.1
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