Allen Community College freshman Lindsey Temaat is a Riley County native majoring in communications. Temaat is the managing editor of The Allen Flame, an intern at Thrive Allen County, participates in the school plays and choir, and attends every single student life activity she can.
Keeping her days filled with various school and work activities, Temaat still finds a way to spend time with her friends.
During her first semester, Temaat participated in work-study, helping out with the plays and filing for the music department. She made sure to be part of as many plays as possible but could not be part of Dracula during the second semester.
Unfortunately I wasnt able to participate in this play because of scheduling conflicts but I usually participate in all theatre productions, said Temaat. Im glad that I went to support my fellow cast members in this show, which turned out amazing.
Temaat soon transitioned from work studies to an internship at Thrive Allen County.
Thrive is a nationally recognized, non-profit organization that is dedicated to making Allen County one of the healthiest rural counties in Kansas, said Temaat. We do outreach and advocacy, economic development, and so much more.
Lisse Regehr is the Director of Outreach and Advocacy and is Temaats supervisor, but Temaat works with all of the Thrive Staff. Regehr and Temaat have gone on multiple trips together along with other Thrive staff members.
Some of the coolest trips that I have gone on so far were to Topeka, for a rally to expand KanCare where our CEO, David Toland spoke. We also went to a three-day Kansas Health Foundation conference in Salina, with some staff members and Damaris Kunkler, the Community Engagement Director at Thrive, to learn more about one of the grants were working on to help solve injustices in LaHarpe, said Temaat.
At Thrive, some of Temaats duties are to manage the Allen County Economic Development Facebook page, the Downtown Iola Facebook page, perform Facebook Live videos (#LiveWithLindsey), and to make flyers for various events that Thrive hosts.
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Aside from Thrive, Temaat focuses on the school newspaper where she is the managing editor.
While in high school, Temaat was on her schools newspaper staff for three years, and was the editor during her junior and senior years. She also wrote for her local newspaper, the Riley Countian, during the summers.
As the managing editor of the newspaper, I help Bruce (Symes, newspaper sponsor) edit stories after theyve been peer edited by staff members and then post them on the website, and I help post on social media, Temaat said. I love being managing editor, its a team atmosphere and Im blessed to be part of it. Also, Bruce is a saint.
Even though Temaat makes sure that her schedule is full most days, she takes a break for about an hour every day to call her parents to update them on her day and to hear about what is going on in their lives.
After her two years here at Allen, Temaat wants to transfer to a university to major in communications studies or public relations/ marketing.
