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Good Connections

DAVID EULITT/The Kansas City Sta | DAVID EULITT | The Kansas City Star

Last week the Johnson County Giving Circle presented its first gift: $20,000 to the Health Partnership Clinic of Johnson County. On Friday, Glenn Hodges, a physician at the clinic, listened to Pamela Stone’s heartbeat while examining the Overland Park woman.

New giving circle responds to the unspoken needs in Johnson County

10:08 PM CST

A group of people has come together this year to help people who have fallen on hard times, and it is focusing on one area: Johnson County. “There are a lot of people who think Johnson County doesn’t have need, but there really is,” said Linda Peterson, who in January founded this new giving circle with Marilee Benage.