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🌾 Winter Wonderland

🌾 Winter Wonderland

and a lot of reschedules

Landon Huslig
January 23, 2026

TOGETHER WITH

Good morning, Wichita!

If the potential snow is getting you down (or maybe just the cold temps), just remember that the sunsets at 5:42pm tonight and essentially 1-2 minutes later per day moving forward.

Let’s get to it!

- Landon

NEWS

Wichita Winter Wonderland

Hallmark Movie in Wichita? Reddit: r/bubba_bumble

According to recent weather reports, we should expect between a trace and 25 feet of snow. If you’ve been following along with the news, you know that it is already too late to go get groceries, don’t even bother.

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, here are a few of the local news stories with respect to the potential storm:

A few of the best sledding spots - do you have any you recommend?
Will schools close? Be sure to check the USD259 home page
Many events postponed or rescheduled such as (but not limited to): Snow Glow, Kansas Day Event, St. Paul’s United Methodist Church Chicken Noodle Dinner, City Crew, & More
Second Light Shelter stepping up to help by stock up on warm supplies
Wichita pets can stay with owners in Emergency Shelters this weekend
Track our funny named snow blowers here

Together with Advanced Orthopaedic Associates

Advanced Orthopedic Associates (AOA NOW) has a brand new west side location at 14700 W St Teresa Suite 130.

Open roles include:

Medical Assistant
Billing Specialists
Front Desk Reception
X-Ray Technologist
MRI Technologist

These roles support a growing, patient-focused orthopaedic practice across Wichita.

LOCAL BUSINESS

Opening

The Gallery at Wichita Furniture Showroom - Now Open
Crispy Donuts - 2110 N Maize Rd - Now Open
Vivre Espresso + Bubbles - 3221 N Ridge Rd - Now Open
Donut Palace (same owners as Augusta) - 229 N Andover Rd - Opening Soon
Quilted Rabbit Fabric Shop - near K-96 & Ridge - Opening in early February
Mexican Burritos (formerly Los Mexican Burritos)- 616 S Tyler - Re-Opening Soon
Cheesecake Factory Update - Bradley Fair - Aiming for Fall 2026 Opening
Mammoth Clubhouse (New Golf Entertainment Concept) - former All Star Adventures East Spot - Opening this Summer

Best in Class

Congrats to Jordan and Jason Rickard of FioRito Ristorante on being named semifinalists in the Best Chef: Midwest category of essentially the Oscars of food - the James Beard Awards!

STARTUP

NXTUS Annual report

NXTUS is one of the best entrepreneur organizations in Wichita and they just realesed their 2025 Annual Report detailing the $950k in capital + so much more.

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CIVIL

Common Consumption

If you’ve ever wanted to to walk, like really walk, not just walk to your car or hover so close to a bar patio boundary you’re essentially doing mental math of “does this brick technically count as inside” the streets of Delano with drink in hand, but realize it is only Tuesday, not a Friday, not a Saturday, not even a holiday-adjacent Thursday,
the kind of Tuesday that still expects you to answer emails, remember passwords, and pretend tomorrow isn’t Wednesday, a Tuesday that carries with it rules, expectations, and an unspoken understanding that fun should be scheduled in advance,
a Tuesday where optimism is cautiously rationed and beverages are expected to remain stationary and that’s not allowed… well, you’re in luck.

The City Council just passed a vote to expand the common consumption area in Delano to 7 days a week rather than just Friday and Saturdays.

Zoning

If you’re into owning Airbnbs, you might check out the new zoning code that will allow short-term rentals like Airbnb in Sedgwick County for the first time.

LOCAL

Wind Surge