The Best Times extends deep thanks to the following readers who responded to our request for support for 2012. You shared what you could in terms of dollars, and many of you shared something equally valuable to us: your words of gratitude and praise for the paper's worth in your daily life.

Our sincere thanks!

Florence A. Allie, Overland Park
B.A. Amundson, Lenexa

Arnold and Wilma Bachman, Olathe
Ronald and Phyllis Barnes, Overland Park
Barbara Bartocci, Overland Park
Henry and Betty Bauer, Overland Park
Dennis and Mary Beaman, Spring Hill
Byron and Helen Beck, Lenexa
Rex and Stelle Boone, Olathe
Don and Harriet Boresow, Overland Park
Kenneth and Marie Britt, Olathe
Joyce Brown, Leawood
Esther Buell, Overland Park
Larry and Carla Burger, Shawnee Mission

Clay and Joan Calvert, Leawood
Alice Carroll, Shawnee Mission
L.J. Catalano, Overland Park
Eugene and Karen Caylor, Shawnee
Margaret M. Church, Overland Park
Norman and Mary Coakley, Overland Park
Karen Conklin, Shawnee
Barbara M. Cooper, Fairway
J.D. Cooper, Lenexa
Carol A. Cox, Overland Park
E. and B.H. Cummings, Fairway
Mary Cunningham, Overland Park

Buford and Ophelia Daffron, Overland Park
Gertrud Dale, Overland Park
Harold and Marian Davis, Shawnee Mission
Neva Doyle, Mission
Louanne M. Drone, Overland Park

Mary and Robert Ellis, Leawood
Richard and Donna Emerson, Stilwell
Harold and Judy Esrig, Leawood
Janet R. Ewing, Shawnee

David and June Farson, Shawnee Mission
Joanne and Bob Faulkner, Prairie Village
Marilyn and Bill Fenton, Shawnee
Helen and Clark Fisher, Prairie Village
Rosemary and Jerome Fladung, Overland Park
Chris and Mary Grace Foret, Shawnee Mission
Albert and Linda Frisby, Merriam

Patricia A. Garber, Overland Park
John and Patricia Gibbons, Stilwell
Anita M. Gish, Overland Park
Ruth Glatt, Overland Park
Mary Jo Gorman, Overland Park
Russell and Phyllis Graff, Overland Park
Ada G. Gray, Shawnee
Doris "Dee" Griffith
Marjorie Griffith, Overland Park

Julianne Haller, Olathe
Donald and Shirley Hamburg, Overland Park
Richard and Lorraine Hansen, Overland Park
Joanna Harbison, Overland Park
Evelyn J. Harbourne, Overland Park
Michael and Patricia Hart, Shawnee Mission
Norman Hauser, Overland Park
Michael Herrmann, Shawnee
P.N. Hilger, Overland Park
Patricia Hockett, Overland Park
Catherine Hodges, Overland Park
Francis and Claire Hogarty, Mission
Linn Holtwick, Wellsville, Kan.
Pamela Hopp, Overland Park
Dorothy S. Housh, Merriam
Carol M. Howe, Shawnee
Gladys Hudson, Lenexa

James and Peggy Izzard, Overland Park

Lucille M. James, Shawnee
Edward and Betty Johnson, Leawood
Kay and A.W. Jones, Overland Park

Shirley Kanter, Mission Hills
Shirley and Phillip Kelso, Olathe
Rachelle King, Overland Park
Kenneth, Virena, and William Kissee, Shawnee
Jack Knuth, Leawood
Lyman and Geneva Krieg, Overland Park

Lynn and Louise Lackey, Olathe
Robert and Patricia LaPorte, Prairie Village
William LaRue, Shawnee Mission
James and Joyce Lasseter, Spring Hill
Shirley Lathan, Shawnee
Lonnie and Brenda Lawton, Lenexa
Martha Lewis, Overland Park
Gary and Marietta Linnenkamp, Shawnee
Mary Locke and Kay Hopkins, Prairie Village
Don Love and Judy Pascarella, Overland Park
Eleanor A. Lowe, Shawnee Mission
Marjorie Lundy, Prairie Village

Rebekah Mani, Mission
Eugene Marti, Overland Park
Sharon R. Martini, Overland Park
Helen McClelland, Prairie Village
Vicki and Alan McGrew, Leawood
Linda S. Mealman, Lenexa
R.R. Mellott, Mission
Robert and Andree Millbern, Olathe
Jack and Anna Mueller, Shawnee Mission
Jean Murray and Jill Draper, Overland Park

Thomas Nelson, Shawnee
Barbara B. Neufeld, Shawnee Mission
Richard and Margaret Nichols, Olathe

William and Barbara Oakley, Lenexa
Dorothy and Thomas Olson, Overland Park

Sally P.J. Payne, Fairway
Eric and Ella Peterson, Mission
John Picardy and Orpha Tobin, Leawood
Loren and Mary Pinnick, Overland Park
Charles and Ardyce Plumlee, Lenexa
Francis and Darleen Porch, Overland Park

Donald and Patricia Quinn, Overland Park

Loralee and David Rapue, Olathe
Frances and Charles Reuland, Rock Hill, S.C.
Ruth Ridgway, Overland Park
Warren Robinson, Fairway
Mary Runyon, Leawood
Howard and Corrinne Russell, Overland Park

Ralph and Jane Scherman, Shawnee
Irving and Gloria Schlossenberg, Overland Park
R.H. Schroeder, Spring Hill
Dorothy and Carl Schulz
New Richmond, Ohio
Helen Shick, Overland Park
Lebert Shultz, Prairie Village
Catherine A. Sitzmann, Lenexa
William and Virginia Slusher, Overland Park
Carol J. Smith, Olathe
Mary V. Smith, Overland Park
Raymond and Carol Smith, Prairie Village
Sammy and Linda Smith, Lenexa
William and Martha Sprague, Overland Park
Nellie and Victoria Stampfel, Overland Park
Charles and Gloria Staubus, Shawnee Mission
Hugh and Judith Swink, Lenexa

Charles B. Taylor, Overland Park
Truth on Tape, Overland Park
Yvonne and David Thompson, Overland Park

Ming R. Wang, Overland Park
Bernard and Mary Weimholt, Shawnee
Carol Weinrich, Shawnee Mission
Donna Wilson, Prairie Village
Howard Woosley, Mission Hills

Terry and Susan Young, Olathe

Lavern Zeigler and Carla Fredrickson, Shawnee