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Vol 41 • No. 5
Coronavirus shakes region By Joe Stumpe As a resident in a small memory care home in Wichita, 83-year-old Patricia “Pat” Shibley could count on daily visits from one or more of her four children. That ended March 16, when the coronavirus pandemic caused it to be closed to virtually all visitors. “Family will not be allowed in unless this is a medical emergency,” Shibley’s daughter-in-law, Timirie Shibley, said the next day. “We’re not sure she really grasps the magnitude of it. Patrick (Pat’s son and Timirie’s husband) said she doesn’t want to think about.” Timirie Shibley worried the lockdown on her mother-in-law’s memory care home will adversely affect her already precarious health. “Patrick’s pretty convinced that all the visits and support and love she’ s getting has kept her going. Now (there
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New Stadium ready for Triple A baseball's return to Wichita
The view from home plate at the new Riverfront Stadium. Workers toiled overtime to get it ready for the scheduled April 14th opening date, which has been delayed because of the coronavirus threat. By Bob Rives Riverfront Stadium? Pearls on the modern tints of gray with bursts of When Wichita’s first real baseball gates? A celestial choir singing a Bach color here and there. Its brightly lightstadium opened in 1905, it cost $1,500 arrangement of “Take Me Out to the ed left field scoreboard, as big as a gym and was painted green, like most of Ball Game,” with golden harps in the floor, can be easily read from Kellogg. its kind. In fact, reverent fans spoke background? The stadium will seat 10,000 fans lovingly of their ballparks as “green Built as the home for Wichita’s for a ballgame in comfort. “We could cathedrals.” new AAA Pacific Coast League team, have put in 400 more seats,” managing But if the old green structures the Wind Surge, Riverfront Stadium general partner Lou Schwechheimer were cathedrals, what would those fans is impressive on several levels. It’s See Baseball, page 6 expect from Wichita’s new $75 million mostly brick, some red and much in
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Hesston musician keeps swinging in ninth decade By Joe Stumpe Jazz formed the soundtrack of Bob Scheid’s childhood in pre-World War II south Chicago, a swinging big-band beat that some think has never been equaled. It was powered by famous drummers such as Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa, and it found its way into Scheid’s heart and hands before he could even form complete sentences. “My dad told me I’d be sitting on the kitchen floor pounding the pots and pans while my mother was singing,” Scheid says. “And he would tell my mother, ‘Bob’s got it.’”
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