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Denny’s Super Slam for $5.99

Denny's build your own Grand Slam breakfast

Denny’s is serving up super savings in its bigger breakfast that’s sure to fill up any hungry bargain hunter. Due to its popularity, the iconic diner is bringing back its Super Slam with two eggs, two bacon strips, two sausage links, two buttermilk pancakes and hash browns — all for $6.99. (The entrée may be priced […]

KFC offers tenders & fries meal deal for just $5.49

KFC Meal Deal for $5.49 - chicken tenders, fries, and a drink

Did you know KFC now serves fries? The chain’s Secret Recipe Fries are seasoned with a secret blend of herbs and spices, fried to crispy perfection just like its chicken. (If you didn’t know, the fries have replaced the chain’s Potato Wedges on the menu.)  And, of course, the chain is known for its “world-famous chicken” and […]

Get free box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal via rebate

Cinnamon Toast Crunch free box rebate

Got milk? General Mills is making breakfast a little crunchier with a big, sweet giveaway. Cinnamon Toast Crunch has been a breakfast table staple for more than 35 years and become the second biggest cereal brand in the country. To thank customers for making them one of America’s favorite cereals, Cinnamon Toast Crunch is giving […]

20% off Jimmy Johns for Labor Day weekend

Jimmy Johns Labor Day weekend deal

You can pack your Labor Day weekend picnic but let Jimmy John’s make the sandwiches and get 20% off. Here’s the deal: Now through Sunday September 6, Jimmy John’s is offering a limited-time national promotion where you can save 20% off any order of $10* or more. All you need to do to get the […]

Coleman Factory Outlet Truckload Sale

coleman factory outlet labor day truckload sale

If you aren’t already camping this Labor Day weekend – and maybe even if you are – head over to the 21st and Maize area in northwest Wichita for the Coleman Factory Outlet Truckload Sale.  Coleman Factory Outlet’s Labor Day Truckload Sale will begin September 3rd thru September 7th in their store parking lot at […]

Reminder: Extra 10% off general merchandise on Wednesdays at Dillon’s

Now through Sept. 9, teachers, administrators and parents save an extra 10% on general merchandise at Dillons (and elsewhere in the Kroger Family of Stores). While we are waiting for school to start (whatever that may look like for you this year), and stocking up at the school supply sales, we can now save even […]

FREE Local Coloring Pages from Wichita Businesses, Organizations

colorful ends of colored pencils

If there’s been anything positive from 2020 (and there has been, definitely), one of the positives is that local organizations brought a lot more of their resources online for Wichita residents – and for the whole world – to enjoy and learn from.  What started to catch my attention were free printable coloring sheets that […]

National Aviation Day deals at Kansas Aviation Museum

Kansas Aviation Museum

Help the Kansas Aviation Museum (KAM) celebrate National Aviation Day with an afternoon of discounts in the gift shop, half-price admission for seniors, and touring the planes! On August 19th, come check out the beautiful building, the airplanes and all it has to offer. They’ll have the FedEx Boeing 727 and KC-135 planes open and available […]

Applejack Outdoor Market

Applejack Outdoor Market

Applejack Pumpkin Patch will be hosting an outdoor market on Saturday, August 29, 2020. Applejack Outdoor Market is a fun arts, crafts, and produce event with local vendors, artisans, and crafters. Some of the produce they’ll have includes Palisade Colorado peaches and Rocky Ford melons. Vendors consist of a variety of artisans selling hand-crafted items […]

30% off Museum of World Treasures memberships

Museum of World Treasures

As part of its Customer Appreciation Day, the Museum of World Treasures here in Wichita is offering 30% off its annual memberships! Member Benefits Members get free admission to the museum for a full year, along with invitations to special events and programs, discounts on educational programs, 15% off in the Museum Store, opportunities to […]

Outdoor Play for Preschoolers at the GPNC

outdoor play for preschoolers - free event at GPNC

There is no better space for kids to learn than the outdoors, and there is no better play resource than nature. On Thursdays in August, preschoolers will PLAY in nature, guided by the staff at the Great Plains Nature Center. Naturalists and volunteers will be your guides to model interaction with nature; preschool children will […]

Regal Cinemas begin reopening August 21 with $5 movies

Flashback Features at Regal Warren Cinemas in Wichita

Regal Cinemas announced that its theatres will begin to reopen U.S. locations on Friday, August 21 with a $5 ticket promotion. The first new release won’t happen until September 3 with the movie Tenet, but like its competitor, AMC, the Regal Warren theaters will start off with a series of much-loved older movies with discounted […]

Wichita AMC Theatre reopens August 20 with 15-cent tickets

AMC Theaters Tuesday Ticket

According to a press release issued today, AMC Theatres will be reopening at more than 100 U.S. locations on August 20, 2020. As if that isn’t enough to celebrate, they’re adding some fanfare to the reopening with a BIG deal on tickets.   “For one day only, on August 20, all tickets at AMC will be […]

Cosmic Bowling at Northrock Lanes

On weekend nights, Northrock Lanes has Cosmic Bowling for a great price.  Friday nights are Flashback Friday Bowling. From 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., Northrock Lanes will play your favorites from the 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s (how are the 2000’s throwbacks already??), and you get unlimited bowling from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. for just […]

Super Sunday wristband special at The Alley

The Alley Indoor Entertainment

Here’s another fun thing you can do on Sundays in Wichita. The Alley will have a “Super Sunday Wristband” special promotion where you can play and/or bowl for one price.  You have three choices for the wristband special:  $20 per person plus tax: 120 minutes of bowling, shoe rental included, plus a $5 arcade game card […]

Where to fish in Wichita

Lake fishing, fishing chair

Fishing is available at over 20 public lakes in the Wichita metro area. Fishing can be a fun family activity that lets everyone get outside in nice weather, requires minimal equipment, and is practically free (outside of the cost of a fishing license and worms). Plus, those Kansas sunsets over lakes and ponds are the […]

Meritrust Virtual Financial Camp for students

Virtual Financial Boot Camp for kids from Meritrust Credit Union

For more than a decade, Meritrust has offered free financial camps every summer for kids in the community that were open to the public. The goal of the camps are to help students become Financially Fearless as they grow and move into adulthood. (How important is that?!) Over the years, the camps have helped teach […]

Chicken N Pickle “316” Lunch Special

The Chicken N Pickle 316 lunch special includes a sandwich, tots or fries, and a drink for $10

Chicken N Pickle has a new lunch special that also helps a cause. Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., choose the “316” – a $10 lunch special – and they’ll donate $1 to local schools. The 316 lunch special includes your choice of: Pulled Pork Sandwich NKC Hot Chicken Sandwich Pickled Chicken […]

NuWay Root Beer Float for $1

NuWay Wichita root beer float

Rats! Missed this deal. But you can get Free funnel cake fries Friday at Delano BBQ. Or check out more Food Deals in Wichita You’ll love this NuWay deal. $1 Root Beer Floats, all thanks to National Root Beer Float day! On Thursday, August 6, you can get a NuWay root beer float for $1 […]

Camping in Kansas

For a few years now, my family and I have traded traditional vacations for camping locally. It’s been a real luxury to get away from the hustle and bustle of the “big city” of Wichita (ha ha) and get out in nature, usually near a lake. We leave our chores and burdens at home and […]

Keepers on Parade

Wichita’s 150th birthday was in 2020 and people and organizations around the city participated with special safely-distanced celebrations (here and here and here, among others) and there was even a documentary. And can we just call it what it is? A sesquicentennial!! A word as fun to pronounce as it is to spell. In July, […]

New sculpture installation at WSU (time updated)

Sculpture Twister Grande (tall) by Alice Aycock on the WSU Innovation Campus, acquired in 2020 by Ulrich Museum of Art

The Ulrich Museum of Art on the Wichita State University campus will install a new sculpture on Tuesday, August 4.  The new sculpture, Alice Aycock’s Twister Grande (tall), is the newest piece in the world-class Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection.  The installation is free and open to the public and will begin at 8 […]

Free summer meals for kids extended to August 31

Free meals for kids when school is out

  Free, nutritious meals are available to children this summer through a variety of programs in the Wichita area.  USD259 Summer Food Program Wichita Public Schools, USD 259, provides free grab-and-go meals with breakfast and lunch items for any child ages 1-18 during the Summer Food Program, which is from June 1 through July 31, […]

Free Comic Book Summer

Usually, Free Comic Book Day in Wichita (and across the country) is the first Saturday in May every year, when participating comic shops just give away free comic books. Yes, really! But this year, in 2020, it’s Free Comic Book Summer! Free Comic Book Day is a national event, which celebrates the thousands of independent comic book specialty […]