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By Joe Stumpe Dale Bing hadn’t run on a regular basis since junior high school when his 11-year-old son asked him to jog alongside him in the 1998 5K River Run.

“I thought it was pretty easy,” Bing remembers. “I discovered I liked running. And I’m pretty good at it.”

Even so, he adds: “I thought people who did the 10K were just insane.

It was so far.”

Two decades later, the 66-year-old Bing is getting ready for an endurance test that almost everybody thinks is insane: the 2019 Ironman World Championship, held each year in Hawaii and consisting of a 2.4-mile open

water swim in Kailua-Kona Bay, a 112-bike ride across the Hawaiian lava desert, and a full 26.2-mile marathon.

About 2,500 athletes from around the world will compete.

See Ironman, page 8

Wichita shows new face to world in 2019

Artist GLeo, left, may be camera shy, but there’s nothing quiet about the mural she’s painted on the east side of the Beachner Grain Elevator. The mural can be seen from 1-135 and E. 21st Street.

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Cities are always evolving, but lately changes in Wichita seem to be happening at an accelerated pace.

New riverfront housing and entertainment venues. New corporate headquarters and a technologically-laden Advanced Learning Library.

The active age asked veteran photojournalist Fernando Salazar to capture some of what’s going on. At left is his look at one of the biggest murals in the world, painted on a grain elevator in north Wichita by GLeo, a Brazilian street artist (left front, with a helper).

For more of Salazar’s portraits of a city continuing to reinvent itself, see pages 2 and 3.

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David Kenagy uses one of many computers available to public in Wichita’s new Advanced Learning Library, 711 W. 2nd St. Photos by Fernando Salazar

Wave, an indoor-outdoor entertainment and food venue at 650 E. 2nd, opened to big crowds last fall. At right, the 202-unit River Vista at 150 N. McLean offers the first new housing on the Arkansas River in decades.

The project includes a lighted dock used by the Wichita State University rowing team and will offer bike and boat rentals.

Rightsizing tips for 2019 Now is the perfect time to start fulfilling some of your downsizing goals (or as we like to call it…Rightsizing goals).

1. Carve out a few hours to go through your holiday decor.

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2. Evaluate what decor you used and didn’t use this past season.

3. Ask yourself these questions as your culling through or putting back your items: • Did the decor you used this past year bring you joy and fill your heart with happiness?

• Is the decor you used in good repair and you feel proud to display it?

• Are there precious, sentimental items you’ve kept that your kids might enjoy having now?

Ask yourself why you’re holding onto items that you no longer use or that don’t put a smile on your face!

Now what?

1. Think about how much happiness these items have given to you and how they can be passed along to someone else that will love and cherish them.

2. Make a nice display and take a “memory” picture before you pass them along.

3. Ask the kids, family or friends if they would enjoy items you no longer desire.

4. If no takers, donate to a local charity of your choosing.

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Cargill celebrated the opening of new headquarters for its protein business in December.

The four-story, 188,000-square-foot building across Douglas Avenue from Old Town cost $60 million to build and will accommodate up to 950 employees.

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By Joe Stumpe Thank you.

There’s no place else to begin after reader donations to the active age exceeded our 2018 goal of $85,000.

Although I’ve only been editor since Aug. 1, it’s amazing and humbling to lead a nonprofit organization with that kind of support from the people it serves. Because you deserve to know that we are using our resources as responsibly as possible, I’d like to offer this snapshot of our financial condition.

First of all, it is better than it has been in the past due to donors, advertisers, the work of my predecessor, our volunteer board and small staff. The board and staff have scrimped and cajoled, patched and improvised because they believe in the active age’s mission.

And nothing about that has changed.

But we still need your help. With the exception of a special computer fund, the donations are not used for one-time expenses. Instead, they help us cover regular operating costs each month.

Our biggest expenses by far are having the active age printed and mailed to about 58,000 households in Sedgwick, Butler and Harvey counties.

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Advertising is our largest revenue source, followed by donations. We receive a grant from Central Plains Area Agency on Aging that covers about three months of the cost of printing.

Our expenses will not go down in 2019. In fact, because the five-year lease on our West Street office expires at the end of January, that portion is going up slightly. The fluctuating price of paper is a constant concern.

We exceeded our donation target last year partly because of a single, very generous bequest of $10,000. Our fundraising goal for 2019 is the same as last year -- $85,000. We appreciate anything you can do to help us get there.

And please stay in touch. The active age is your newspaper. We appreciate all suggestions and feedback and encourage you to pass it on to anyone you think might benefit from it.

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Readers weigh in on Earl, election I was reminded about my father by the article “Looking for Earl in a haystack.”

My father (Earl David Kirk, Sr.) was born Dec. 3, 1899 and died Dec. 28, 1986. His father died when my father was 11 years old. My father quit grade school to help support them. My father became self-educated and eventually a sales manager for a communications company.

My father had a half-sister who he visited. We believed he traveled by train. My father was a very generous person. He was a traveling salesman and drove many miles. At that time flat tires were a very common problem on the highways. My father would always stop and provide a ride to whoever needed it.

I remember the only time in my memory my father and mother had an argument. My father was painting our house and an African-American man stopped at the house and asked dad if he could talk with him. Dad climbed down the ladder and the man asked if he could paint the house for twenty-five dollars. My father agreed.

My mother was upset and told my father that was all the money we had.

His reply was that the man had several children, and “I thought he needed the money more than ourselves.”

I remember my father also said: “I will sell some equipment and make up for it.”

--Earl David Kirk, Jr., MD The December issue had an article entitled "Election May Boost Seniors"

To the Editor that leaves me scratching my head.

Most of your readers are 65-plus, on fixed incomes and paying a substantial amount in various taxes. So how are the things touted in the article good for us?

Medicaid expansion won’t affect seniors other than raising our taxes down the road.

Legalized marijuana? Doubt you’ve got a whole lot of weed smokers out there. The suggestion that legalized weed proceeds will benefit senior programs is pure fantasy. BTW how is that legalized weed working out for Colorado and California?

School funding? My property taxes went up nearly $800 over last year to fund tornado shelters for schools. Why don’t we raise property taxes another $800 on seniors to buy life rafts for the next hurricane?

Okay I get it. The active age, like all media, has a decided liberal bent. But for you to suggest that Laura Kelly is in anyway good for seniors is pure bull.

She will expand already unaffordable social programs and raise taxes to do it.

What would be good for readers is a governor and legislature that sought to keep taxes down.

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By Amy Geiszler-Jones A seminar about downsizing and senior living options was just the “incentive” that Joe and June Miller needed.

With information gleaned from that seminar, the Millers felt more confident about making the decisions to sell their home of 29 years, getting rid of some of their possessions and moving to a senior living community.

“I’d been talking about downsizing but he was against it and I was for it,” Jane Miller, 79, said on a recent morning as space planners measured furniture in the couple’s westside home in preparation for their upcoming move.

Joe Miller, 82, said the seminar helped him realize there are resources and experts in the community to help people like him and his wife make decisions. “A lot of people our age or

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They need to know to they can make the best decisions available,” said Miller, a retired military veteran.

Katherine Ambrose, who hosted that seminar, is now starting a series of free monthly seminars to help seniors learn about living healthier lives, decluttering, downsizing, avoiding scams, making retirement living decisions and communicating one’s wishes with adult children. Each seminar will include three to four local experts on the topics.

Ambrose is calling it the Empowered Senior Series because she wants the 90-minute seminars to be more informed rather than overwhelmed, she said. “I want to inspire people to take positive actions to benefit their life.” She has been a licensed Realtor for more than 20 years.

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The sessions will be held from 10-11:30 a.m. the second Thursday of the month (except for May 16 and Dec. 3) at Botanica. The seminars are open to not only senior citizens, but also to those who have an interest in planning ahead or are helping advise a loved one. Attendees will also receive complimentary admission to visit Botanica’s gardens after the seminar.

Stephanie Warren, community relations coordinator with the Kansas Masonic Home and a scheduled panelist for one of the seminars, likes the diversity of the series Ambrose is putting together. While several senior communities, including the KMH, host seminars about senior living options, sometimes folks are reluctant to sign up because they think it will be

a sales pitch, she said.

That’s one thing that won’t happen at the Empowered Senior series, said Ambrose. While some of the presenters and experts may have businesses or services for the mature market, the seminars aren’t about making sales pitches, she said.

Warren suggests taking free, no-obligation tours of senior living communities to get an idea of services and costs, and moving when you have more choices and not when you absolutely need to. “You might have to move in to the only available space at the time and it might not be what you like.”

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Who's in? 2019 Silver Haired Legislature election set for March

By Monica Cissell Are you interested in being an advocate for older adults and older adult issues? If so, the Kansas Silver Haired Legislature (KSHL) may be right for you.

The 2019 KSHL elections are scheduled to be held in March, at sites across Kansas. Any Kansan aged 60 and over who is a registered voter may file for candidacy. The term of office is two years and members may be reelected continuously.

The deadline for filing as a candidate will be Thursday, Feb. 8 and the final elections for candidates being contested is scheduled for March 8. These elections will be held in the candidate’s district to make the election easily accessible to eligible

voters.

The KSHL is a unicameral legislature composed of 125 representatives from across Kansas. All delegates are over 60 and are elected from their county residence. Central Plains Area Agency on Aging (CPAAA) represents Sedgwick, Harvey and Butler Counties and will accept filing applications from all three counties. Butler County has one delegate, Harvey County has one delegate and Sedgwick County has six delegates (one is designated at-large).

The KSHL provides an educational experience in the political process and provides an opportunity to identify priority concerns of Kansas’ older adults. The KSHL develops

bills and resolutions which are presented to the Kansas Legislature and the Governor as recommendations for state policy.

In the past years KSHL has written bills or resolutions that have impacted the lives of seniors in Kansas.

Please consider becoming an advocate for seniors in your community and think about running for Silver Haired Legislature. You can find more information about the KSHL on the Central Plains Area Agency on Aging’s web site at www.cpaaa.org.

You may also contact Monica Cissell at CPAAA at mcissell@cpaaa.org or 316-660-5229 for information on how to become an KSHL candidate in

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By Marc Bennett If you wonder why you keep getting scam calls and emails, the simple answer is that the scammers are having too much success to quit.

The Federal Trade Commission recently published the number of reported scams nationwide during one 12-month period. Nearly 350,000 scams were reported, with “imposter” scams comprising the largest percentage.

Nearly 1 in 5 people who reported an imposter scam lost money – $328 million lost to someone pretending to be a loved one in trouble, a government official, tech support, or someone else who’s not who they say they are, but who want your money.

Tens of thousands of people reported identity theft, with credit card fraud at the top of that list. Another 63,000 people reported tax fraud, and others suffered losses related to travel, vacation and timeshare offers.

Most folks reported that scammers contacted them by phone, and they lost money mostly by wire transfer.

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Based on reports per 100,000 population, the top states for fraud reports were Florida, Georgia and Nevada. For identity theft, Michigan, Florida and California were at the top of the list.

Remember, never provide your personal information – such as your Social Security, bank account or credit card numbers – over the phone or computer. No one from any government agency is going to demand that you wire money or make a credit card payment to them. For anything.

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From Page 1 To be invited, Bing had to place in one of 40 qualifying Ironman contests.

He did better than that, winning his age bracket in a Chattanooga, Tenn., Ironman last September.

Bing discovered a talent and passion in mid-life that’s become an obsession in his 60s. He grew up in Indian Hills (his sister is Bonnie Bing Honeyman, the well-known Wichita Eagle columnist). He ran track in junior high school but gave it up at North High to “chase girls and race cars.” He’s still a car guy, with a ’65 El Camino parked in his garage, though it has taken a back seat to training.

Bing says he’s always been competitive, but the trait came out more in his professional life. He retired as president of Fidelity Insurance Agency in 2014.

In 2007, he ran his first 10K -- the distance that once seemed so daunting – and placed in his age group. He completed a half-marathon not long after “and told my wife I’m never going to run this far again.”

But when he heard about a full marathon coming up in Oklahoma City, Bing decided he had to try one.

The problem was, he didn’t know how to train for it. As he ran laps around his neighborhood one day, a fit-looking man shouted to him, asking him what

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Dale Bing drinks water on the run during the 2016 Mudwater Triathlon at Lake Afton

he was doing. “I yelled out ‘Oklahoma City,’” Bing recalls. The man was Alan Ferrington, a member of the Kansas River Valley Tri Club.

Bing finished the OKC marathon in 4 hours – he was shooting for 3 ½ -- and started training with local triathletes at Sedgwick County Park.

“I was, like, humbled,” he said. Most of his friend are now triathletes and he works part-time at First Gear Running Company in Old Town.

Ten years ago, Bing completed his first triathlon, a “sprint” version in McPherson calling for a 200-meter swim, 7-mile bike ride and 2-mile run. He’s now finished 22 triathlons of varying lengths, plus assorted marathons and other races. Olympic-length triathlons consist of a .93-mile swim, 24.8-mile bike and 6.2-mile swim.

Ironman competitions more than quadruple that total distance. Bing finished his first one in Louisville in

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2013, placing fourth in his age group.

To get to that level, Bing says, “Your life revolves around your training. It really does.”

Bing and other triathletes “go by hours more than we do miles.” Training hits a peak of 20 hours a week of biking, swimming and running in the months leading up to a race, interrupted by a week of “only” 7 to 10 hours of work. “The idea is to keep your fitness but get your body rested.”

That’s not always possible. Bing has suffered calf and hamstring injuries and a torn rotator cuff. He was in so much pain that he barely he finished his second Boston Marathon.

Outweighing that, Bing says, the good feeling he gets from a workout “now is part of my life. If I don’t (exercise), I get cranky. I’m in a much better mood post-run than pre-run.”

Bing thinks coming to running and triathlons late in life gives him an advantage over many people who started earlier, since wear and tear on joints is an unavoidable side affect. Bing was slender even before he started running.

It’s likely he found just the right sport for his body type.

However, he’s the first to admit that when it comes to triathlons, he has one significant weakness: swimming. In triathlons, swimming takes on added difficulty because several hundred competitors jump in at once, creating choppy water and the posSee next page

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From previous page sibility of contact in addition to the waves already present in big bodies of water. Bing says he’ll probably take swimming lessons and practice in the roughest water he can find to get ready for Hawaii.

Until now, he’s relied on his strength – running – to compete. Bing

holds several state running records for his age group. After losing time in the swimming portion of a triathlon, Bing says, “I run them down – that’s what I do.”

Bing hopes to finish the Ironman World Championship in 12 ½ hours.

“You have to go mental,” Bing says of keeping going for so long. “You just have to go to another place.”

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Doctor: Some excerise is better than none

By Dr. Barbara Coats Reading of Dale Bing doing triathlons at age 66 is impressive. He is not only enjoying it, but he is doing great things for his health as well. A small study at Ball State University this fall evaluated seniors who had exercised regularly for decades. Their hearts and muscles were like those of people decades younger.

What about you? Do you have to run triathlons to benefit your health?

The answer is a resounding no. How much activity is recommended? 30 minutes a day, 5 days per week.

What kind of exercise is suggested? It can be walking – the simplest and easiest form of exercise. But it can also be swimming, or water aerobics, or dancing, or cycling, or pickle ball, or tennis, or whatever you enjoy.

Do you use a walker or cane?

That’s Okay – just get out there and do what you can. What if you can’t walk for 30 minutes at one time? That’s also Okay – walk for 10 minutes, 3 times a day. Do what you can.

Being physically active is a “game changer” for your health. Being active can lower your blood pressure, help prevent heart disease and diabetes, and increase your bone density and decrease your risk of fractures. That can help you remain independent, which is so important for seniors. Exercise also improves your mood and protects against depression.

Take charge of your health. You can do it!

Dr. Barbara Coats is a retired Wichita physician and supporter of Bike Walk Wichita.

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5,000-foot gain during the bike ride, he expects the Hawaii challenge to be the most brutal he’s faced. He’ll rely on a mental trick in which he cuts up the race into pieces – the next buoy on the swim, the next energy bar on the bike ride, the next water station on the run.

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Cookies go from nice to spicy

By Helen Shubert One day long ago I started out to make the old-fashioned cookies that everyone loves, the wonderful sweet, sugary Snickerdoodles.

I was standing at my orange kitchen counter, facing a sunshiny window, most of the ingredients lined up in front of me. On both sides of me, tucked right up under my elbows, grandchildren Shawn and Sara stood on stools so they could “help” me. We had such a good time taking turns dipping and pouring and stirring, all three of us laughing and enjoying one another and life in general.

I had forgotten the cinnamon, so I went back to the cupboard and to find the spice. Shawn measured the sugar into the bowl and Sara added the spice, and I shaped the cookie dough and rolled it in the bowl. Beautiful cookies all ready to bake, then I realized what I had done – the bowl contained not cinnamon and sugar, but chili powder and sugar! Beautiful cookies ready to bake, and definitely spicy!

We put the cookie sheets into the oven and waited for the required 10 minutes, then sampled the new cookies. And they were delicious! We renamed the Snickerdoodles, which now

Helen Shubert is a resident of The Oxford Grand, where her Chilidoodles are enjoyed by residents and staff alike. became our new favorite, Chilidoodles.

I smile every time I remember that afternoon. Shawn and Sara both grew up and made Chilidoodles for their children, and we all remember with great fondness how we invented a new recipe.

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Note: To make Snickedoodles into Chilidoodles, substitute chile powder for half the cinnamon used in the traditional recipe Ingredients: 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon salt 1 cup butter, softened 2 cups white sugar, divided use 2 eggs 2 teaspoons cinnamon (or 1 teaspoon cinnamon and 1 teaspoon chili powder) Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; set aside. In another bowl, cream together butter and 1 1/2 cups sugar until pale yellow, about 2-3 minutes. Mix in eggs until well combined.

Add the flour mixture to butter mixture, 1/2 cup at a time, until the dough comes together. In a separate small bowl, combine 1/2 cup sugar and cinnamon. Shape dough into about 1 3/4 inch balls and roll the balls in the bowl of cinnamon sugar.

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Sweet! State’s best pies star in new cookbook from KPTS Beth Bower hit the highway to map Kansas’ pie ways. Bower, a food writer and freelance editor, hosted “The Pie Way…Kansas Style,” a documentary which debuted on KPTS-Channel last month, and also wrote the companion cookbook featuring pie recipes from restaurants across Kansas, plus winners and runners-up in the station’s pie contest.

“This project was so much fun,” Bowers said, adding that not only did

she discover great places to sample pie in Kansas, she picked up “tips and techniques to make my own pies better.” Carriage Crossing Restaurant & Bakery in Yoder, Arbuckle Mountain Fried Pies in Park City and Bradley’s Corner Café in Topeka are a few of the pie makers featured.

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Filling: 2 large baked sweet potatoes, mashed 1 stick of butter, melted ½ can evaporated milk 2 eggs 1 ½ cups sugar 1 tablespoon cinnamon 1 tablespoon nutmeg 1 tablespoon vanilla For crust: in a large bowl combine flour, sugar and salt. Using two forks or two knives, work the butter and shortening into the flour mixture until it looks like cornmeal with a few pea-size chunks in it and some chunks of dough are starting to hold together. Quickly stir in water or vodka until a dough forms (you may need to add another tablespoon of water or vodka if the air is very dry). Keep stirring the mixture until a ball of dough forms. Once there is a ball of dough with some bits of cornmeal-looking bits on the bottom, knead the dough lightly in the bowl to bring together. Flatten into disc and wrap in plastic wrap and chill for 30 minutes. Remove from the refrigerator and cut dough in half. Roll out each piece to fit a 9-inch pie pan. Line pan with dough and pleat edges. Poke holes in bottom and sides of crust.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, combine all filling ingredients together and whip until smooth. Pour into uncooked pie shells. Cover pie with foil to prevent burning of crust while pie is cooking. Bake for 20-30 minutes and remove foil once pie filling is solid and bake until edges are brown. Cool and eat!

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A chair is all you need for this workout One of the most important aspects of physical fitness as we age is maintaining our balance and range of motion. They are key to performing the tasks of daily living that keep us independent.

If you have a chair, you can do these simple exercises. Modify as needed for your fitness or stability level. If you feel you need assistance, including your family members in your workout is a fun way to spend family time.

Using your kitchen chair for a stability or balance: Sit to Stand and Walk: Practice sitting, standing up and walking about 10 feet. This is a common test physical rehabilitation professionals use to determine the risk for falls. Modification: Use a walking device, such as a cane or walker if needed. Variation: Sit and stand to a rhythm if sit to stand and walk is too easy.

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Side leg raises: Standing behind the chair, rest your hands on the chair back and lift your leg to the side. Repeat with the other leg. Modification: If you do not have good balance, hold onto the chair back for stability.

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The White Sack Editor’s note: Reader Rita Hephner came across this story of Depression Era Wichita while going through some family papers. It was written by her mother, Lela Eitel, and presented to Lela’s siblings at Christmas in 2000 – with a white sack full of candy, naturally.

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By Lela Eitel This little story is about a white sack and its significance to five children who lived on South Water Street in Wichita, Kan. John and Lela Bush had moved their family to this address in 1935. The children were Alice Julia, called Julia, who was the oldest; Rose Marie, who was next oldest and the frail one; Lela Mae, the middle child; Edna Carolyn, called Eddie; and John Russel, Jr., who was called Johnny.

They were good little kids – or so their mother told them in later years, after she’d had time to think about it.

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White Sack From previous page

“for only 50 cents a yard,” as she’d say, her facing beaming with pride over the bargain.

The children didn’t mean to break the rules, and they didn’t plan to begin a fight. But somehow, sooner or later, it would happen. Sometimes Julia would practice her baton twirling in the front yard if the weather was nice.

The little ones sitting on the old porch steps watching would get bonged on the head a few times, and the fight was on, complete with screaming, hollering and chases around the front yard. Julia had a technique of swinging a broom in front of her to and fro to keep the others at a distance.

Some inner instinct always told the kids when it was time to watch for the bus and Mama’s return (as none of them wore or had ever owned a watch at that time).

“I hear the bus coming!” one would say. “Is she on it?” another would ask.

And when Mama was spotted came the most important question of all: “Does she have the white sack?”

If the answer was yes, then all

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The Bush siblings stand beside their family car in their Sunday best in this photograph taken during the 1930s. From left to right are Johnny, Lela Mae, Rosie, Alice Julia and Edna.

fighting stopped immediately and there was no tattling. Like I said, they weren’t dumb kids. They knew the sack contained candy, and that Mama was perfectly capable of withholding it or even administering further punishment if she suspected misbehavior. Usually, however, each child received one choc-

olate covered crème drop before Mama put the white sack on the highest shelf in the kitchen cupboard.

The Thursday after one particular Dollar Day, when Mama was away from home for a short time, little Johnny asked Lela Mae to get the white sack down for him. “No,” she said. But she couldn’t stand his begging, so she got a chair and managed reach up to the top shelf to retrieve the sack. Johnny and Lela Mae each ate one or two chocolate covered crème drops, positive

they wouldn’t be missed.

And indeed, the sack wasn’t checked until sometime during that night, after Johnny began howling with pain. He was having severe cramping in his legs.

Mama soon appeared at Lela Mae’s beside asked if she’d gotten into the candy. “No,” Lela Mae lied. With a stern face and pursed lips, her mother said, “I know better!”

Their punishment turned out to be even more drastic than feared. Neither Lela Mae nor Johnny was allowed dessert for two weeks. Not even during a trip to Grandma Triboulet’s for a fried chicken dinner, which always ended with a mouth-watering lemon meringue pie. No amount of begging could reverse their mother’s decision.

Eventually, they were allowed Dollar Day treats from the white sack again, and all the Bush kids spent many a Wednesday watching for it and their mother to return on the bus.

Even decades later, with children and grandchildren of their own, I imagine they feel a bit of excitement and get a little nostalgic at the sight of a white sack. I know I do.

Editor’s note: Hephner says she isn’t sure of the connection in the story between the stolen candy and Johnny’s leg cramps.

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Toilet paper more than a little good bathroom reading

By Ted Blankenship When you penalize your friends, they ought to be able to retaliate, and they often do. Consider Canada, Australia and Mexico. Our President slapped tariffs on the import of some of their metals and they fought back with similar tariffs.

They should have just quit buying toilet paper from us. Don’t snicker.

Combined, the three countries import toilet paper worth more than $45 million annually.

That may seem like a lot, but consider this: People use about 100 rolls of toilet paper per person every year. It takes more than 380 trees to make enough paper to last a person a lifetime.

Scientists say that two mature trees can produce enough oxygen for a family of four, so if you were to quit using

I know you’re dying to know who invented toilet paper, so here it is: it dates back to China in the 6th century AD. It was popular in the Ming Dytoilet paper, you would make it possible nasty and in 1393, 720,000 sheets were for 47.5 people to breathe for 365 days. produced for the imperial court. These perfumed sheets were two by three feet Just think how much useful inforin size. The French could have printmation you would miss if you didn’t ed Le Monde on them and still have read this column. For example, the room for a calendar. second and third most popular colors I’m sure you’re wondering what for toilet paper in the United Kingdom people used before toilet paper. Well, are pink and peach. the Romans used sponges and salt waNaturally, the French aren’t satter, but nearly everyone else improvised isfied with simply adding color. They with the material available, including make designer rolls. grass, leaves, clay and rocks. I imagine They call their paper Petit Lutin. thatdownsizing using a rockyour would make you hope Thinking about home It has little images and writings on someone would hurry French culture, current affairstoand move intothat a senior community in up and invent toilet paper. geography printed on every perforated 2019? Not sure where to start? Our Even after it was invented, it wasn’t sheet. So the French don’t have to take guest speakers will In provide with perfect. fact, ityou wasn’t until 1935 a magazine into the bathroom—they to makewas thisable year’s that a company to guarantee can read their toilet paper. tips and resources

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When I was in high school a favorite pastime was “papering” someone’s house or even better, the school building itself. This consisted of tossing rolls of toilet paper over trees and porch swings etc. Lots of work for someone the next day taking it all down.

Who knows how much breathing that took away from someone?

To close this fascinating dissertation I have to tell you that the proper way to hang a roll of toilet paper in its holder is from the inside near the wall.

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Retirement benefits of a Health Savings Account seen Dear Savvy Senior, What can you tell me about health savings accounts? I’ve been reading that they are a great investment that can help with growing health care costs when I retire.

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The money can be used for out-of-pocket medical expenses, including deductibles, co-payments, Medicare premiums, prescription drugs, vision and dental care and other expenses (see IRS.gov/pub/ irs-pdf/p502.pdf, page 5, for a complete list) either now or when you retire for yourself and your spouse as well as your tax dependents.

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Rather, HSA funds roll over year to year and continue to grow tax-free in your HSA account for later use. In fact, you’ll get a bigger tax benefit if you use other cash for current medical expenses and keep the HSA money growing for the long term. Be sure to hold on to your receipts for medical expenses after you open your HSA, even if you pay those bills with cash, so you can claim the expenses later. There’s no time limit for withdrawing the money tax-free for eligible medical expenses you incurred anytime after you opened the account.

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Calendar of Events Sedgwick County Senior Centers

BEL AIRE 7651 E Central Park Ave 744-2451, ext 121 www.belaireks.org

Mon-Fri: 8-9 am Bel Aire Walkers, Rec Center.

Mon 9:30-11:30 am Pickleball Tue: 1 pm Bridge, Rec Center.

Wed: 9 am Low impact aerobics, Rec Center.

Fri: 1 pm Line dancing, Comm Rm. 1st Thu: 1 pm Game Day, Rec Center.

2nd & 4th Wed: 2 pm Coloring & Conversation, Sr Center.

3rd Wed: 1:30 pm Book Club, Sr Center.

4th Mon: 6 pm Covered Dish & Program, Rec Center.

BENTLEY/EAGLE 504 W Sterling, 796-0027

Open Mon-Fri: 8-11 am Coffee, cookies, exercise.

Sat: 8-9 am Breakfast 1st & 3rd Tue: 1 pm Game Day. 2nd Tue: 1 pm Senior Lunch Out. 3rd Fri: noon XYZ potluck, program.

CHENEY 516 Main, 542-3721

Mon-Fri: 11:30 am Hot meal, reservations required, games.

Every other Thu: 1 pm Bingo.

1st Tue: 6 pm Potluck dinner.

CLEARWATER 921 E Janet, 584-2332

Mon: 10 am-noon Blood pressure check; 1pm Painting, beginning to advanced.

Wed: 9 am Morning coffee.

Thu: 10 am Bible study.

Tue, Fri: 8:45 am Tai Chi; 10 am Exercise class.

2nd Tue: noon Carry-in lunch & program.

Every other Thu: 1 pm Bingo.

1st, 3rd & 4th Thu: 9 am Help with technologybring your device.

DERBY 611 N Mulberry Rd, 788-0223 www.derbyweb.com

Regular activities: Exercise programs at low cost, foot care, book club, friendship club.

Jan 10: 6 pm Can We Talk -- Senior Employment.

Tips for mature workers seeking employment.

Jan 15: 7 pm Community dance with music

by Moody. Light refreshments provided. $3.

Jan 29: 7 pm Community dance with music by the Honky Tonk Band. $3.

DOWNTOWN 200 S Walnut, 267-0197 www.seniorservicesofwichita.org

Regular activities: Exercise classes, computer classes, foot care by appt.

Jan 4, 11, 18 and 25: 9:30 am Painting class.

Learn basics of oil painting. $20 fee covers supplies to complete two canvasses.

Pre-registration required, call 267-0197.

Jan 11: 1 pm Vision Board basics. Learn what a Vision Board is and why you need to use it.

Jan 15: 1 pm No Co-Pay Preventive Services. Learn about of the services you can get without co-pays.

Jan 15-16: 12:30 pm AARP 2-day Safe Driver Course. Potentially save money on car insurance. $15 for AARP members, $20 for nonmembers. Pre-register by calling 267-0197.

Jan 24: 1 pm Talking With Your Doctor.

Jan 29: 11 am Balance & Cardio Dance Class.

Mon: 9:30 am Wanda's exercise; 1 pm Bridge.

Wed: 9 am Spanish (adv); 1am Well rep excercise.

EDGEMOOR 5815 E 9th, 688-9392

Mon-Fri: 11:30 am Hot lunch,

reservation required; 10-11 am Pool, cards, bingo, dominoes, puzzles.

Tue, Sat: 1-3 pm Pickleball. $2.

pm Lunch; 1-4 pm Cards.

Tue, Wed, Fri: 9 am Exercise class.

Tue, Wed: 10 am-3 pm Crafts, quilting.

Thu: 9:30-10:30 am Line dancing.

1st Fri: Noon Senior Citizens’ lunch.

GARDEN PLAIN 1006 N Main, 535-1155

MULVANE 632 E Mulvane, 777-4813

Mon-Fri: 8 am Coffee.

Wed: 1-3 pm RSVP work.

Fri: 1 pm Cards.

1st Fri: noon Potluck, cards.

3rd Fri: 1 pm Birthday/anniversary celebration.

GODDARD 120 N Main, 794-2441

Mon, Wed, Fri: 9-9:30 am Exercise.

1st & 4th Tue: 9:30 am-noon Cards.

2nd & 4th Thu: 10 am-4 pm Covered dish, cards, dominoes.

HAYSVILLE 160 E Karla, 529-5903

Regular activities: Cards, crafts, hot lunch, exercise.

Mon-Fri: noon Cards.

Tue: 12:30 pm; Fri 9 am TX Hold’em.

Mon & Wed: 9 am Walking club 1st & 3rd Wed: 12:30 pm Bingo.

Tue & Thu: 10 am STEPS exercise Last Tue: 6-9 pm Game Night.

2nd Fri: 5:30 pm Birthday Dinner, Covered Dish. $3 4th Sat: 8:30 am Friends & Family Senior Breakfast. RSVP: 529-5903. $4

KECHI Kechi City Building, 744-0217, 744-1271

Daily: Walk in the gym, coffee; hot lunch; computers, dominoes, puzzles, pool, book loan.

Mon, Wed, Fri: 9:30 am Yoga.

Mon, Wed, Fri: 9 am Zumba.

2nd Tue: 7:30-9:30 am Breakfast, $3.

2nd Wed: 11:30 am Blood pressure checks.

3rd Wed: Noon-1 pm Blood pressure checks.

2nd Thur: 11:45 am KFC potluck. Free.

Last Fri: 11:45 Birthday Celebrations.

NORTHEAST 2121 E 21st, 269-4444

www.seniorservicesofwichita.org Daily: Dominoes, cards, Wii, pool, hot lunch. library, exercise room, computer lab.

Jan 25: 2-4 pm VIP Party, recognizing volunteers who help run center. Free for members, $2 for non-members.

1st Wed: Foot care. 946-0722 (leave msessage).

Mon, Wed, Fri: 9:30 am WSU exercise.

Mon: 12:30 pm Taking Off Pounds Sensibly.

Thu: 10:30 am Jewelry class.

Fri: 1 pm Bridge.

OAKLAWN 2937 Oaklawn Dr, 524-7545

Daily: 8:30 am-5 pm Computers, pool table; 11:30 pm Friendship meals.

3rd Thu: 6:30-7:30 pm Meeting.

LA FAMILIA 841 W 21st, 267-1700

Mon-Fri: Dance, exercise, pool, dominoes.

11:30 am-12:15 pm Hot lunch.

Mon, Wed, Fri: 10 am Exercise/Ejercicio.

Tue, Thu: 1 pm Exercise/Ejercicio.

Mon: 10 am English Class/Clase de Ingles; 1 pm Line dancing.

Tue: 10 am Nutrition class/Clase de nutricion.

Thu: 10 am Bingo/loteria.

Last Fri: 10 am Music/musica; monthly birthdays.

LINWOOD 1901 S Kansas, 263-3703 www.seniorservicesofwichita.org

Regular activities: One-on-one computer training, cards, exercise programs, hot lunch.

Jan 4: 11 am Goal Setting in 2019.

Jan 11; 11 am How to Deal with Difficult People.

Jan 25: 11 am Get Your Financial House In Order In 2019.

Jan 29: 11 am Pickleball Players Potluck, after play from 9-11 am.

Tue: 9 am Brain games; 9:30 am Fit & balance; 2:30 pm Belly Dancing for Women.

Tue & Thu: 9-11 am Pickleball.

3rd Wed: 10:30 am Birthday Party.

MCADAMS GOLDEN AGE 1329 E 16th, 337-9222

Regular activities: Open gym, walking, hot lunches, dominoes, cards, pool.

Sun: 1-3 pm Quilting.

Fri: noon-1:30 pm Sewing.

Sat: noon-4:30 pm Classes: sewing, jewelry making.

2nd & 4th Tue: 10 am-noon Blood pressure checks.

MT HOPE 105 S Ohio, 667-8956

Andover Senior Dance, 410 Lioba Dr. 7-10 pm 3rd Mon. 733-4441

Derby Sr Center, 611 Mulberry. Commuity dance. 7-9:30 pm: 1st Tue, Honky Tonk Time Band ; 3rd Tue, Moody. $3 donation, refreshments.

El Dorado Jam & Dance, Senior Center, 210 E 2nd. Oldtime fiddlers, pickers, singers. Doors open 12:30 pm, music 1:30, 1st Suns. Bring covered dish. $3 donation. Back to Country dance 6 pm Thus. Singles/couples welcome Goldenrod Golden Age, 1340 S Pattie.

7-9:30 pm Weds: Take 3. $3, refreshments.

Linwood Golden Age, 1901 S Kansas.

7-9:30 pm Sats. Live music. $3.

Minisa Golden Age, 704 W 13th. 7-10 pm Thus: Honky Tonk Time. $3. Info 617-2560.

Oaklawn Activity Center cafeteria, 4904 S Clifton. Barn & contra dance, usually 1st Sat. Lesson 6:30 pm, dance 7-9. $5. Info: iamgary48@yahoo.com.

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ORCHARD PARK 4808 W 9th, 942-2293 seniorservicesofwichita.org

Regular activities: Exercise programs, cards, pool, hot lunch, Wii bowling, dominoes, crafts.

Jan 11: 11:15 am Exploring the Levels of Rehab.

Jan 28: 11:15 m No Co-Pay Preventive Services.

Mon 9-11 am, Thu 1-3 pm: Pickleball Tue: Noon Duplicate bridge.

Wed: 10:30 am-noon Computer lab.

Fri: Noon Open pool tables; 12:30 pm Painting

PARK CITY 6100 N Hydraulic, 744-1199

Regular activities: Cards, exercise, pool, hot lunch. Call for details.

Mon: 6 pm Pitch.

Tue: 1 pm Pool.

Fri: 9:15 am Exercise; 1:30 pm Dance aerobics Tue & Thu: 8:30 am Wii Bowling; 10 am WellRep exercise.

VALLEY CENTER VC Community Center 314 E Clay, 755-7350

Mon: 12:30 pm Troopons; 1:30 Line Dancing.

Tue: 10 am Donuts & cards; 6:30 pm Pitch.

Tue, Thu: 10 am WellREP exercise class.

Tue, Thu: noon, lunch. $5.

3rd Wed: noon Classic movie.

4th Thu: 11 am Bingo.

2nd Fri: noon Bunko.

TBA Pickleball, VC Intermediate.

Dances

Augusta Sr Center, 640 Osage. Country Jam & Dance, 7-10 pm every other Wed. Donation. Bring covered dish/ snack to share. Info: 755-1060

Mon: 7-10 am Coffee, donuts; 11:30 am-12:30

Mon: 9 am-noon Dominoes.

Wed: 8:30 am Sweets & coffee/Panera Bread.

Fri: 12:30 pm Cards.

1st & 3rd Weds: 7 pm OID board meeting.

1st Thu, Fri: 8 am-5pm Commodities.

1st Sat: 8-10am Breakfast fundraiser. $4.

Orchard Park Golden Age, 4808 W 9th. 7-9:30 pm Fris, Live music. $3, refreshments.

Park City Sr Center, 6100 N Hydraulic.

7-10 pm 1st, 3rd, Sats. $4, bring covered dish or snack. Info: 755-1060 Prairie Wind Dancers: Learn circle, line & folk dances. 2 pm Mons: Plymouth Congregational Church, 202 N Clifton. Joyce, 683-1122.

Oaklawn Activity Center, Village Steppers Square Dance, 4904 S Clifton. 7:30-10:30 pm 2nd, 4th Sats. Info: Nick, 529-2792, or Mike, 650-2469.

Community barn & contra dance, 1st Sat most months; lesson 6:30 pm, dance 7. $5, wichitacontra.org.

Westside Steppers Square Dance, Clare Hall, 861 N Socora (one block east of Central & Tyler). 7-9:30 pm 1st, 3rd Suns. Info: David, 9927820; email: westsidesteppers@hotmail.com Wichita Solos Square Dance, Dawson UMC, 2741 S Laura. 7:30-10 pm 1st, 3rd, 5th Fris.

Couples/singles welcome. Info: Curtis, wichitasolos@yahoo.com.

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Butler County Senior Centers

ANDOVER 410 Lioba Dr, 733-4441 www.andoverks.com Regular activities: Exercise, bingo, bridge, quilt club, dominoes, pool.

Daily:11:30 am-noon Lunch (reservation preferred) 316-733-4441, $3.

Mon, Wed, Fri: 10 am Exercise.

Tue: noon Music at lunch.

Mon: 12:30 pm Movie Monday.

Tue: 10 am Blood pressure check; 11 am-2 pm Memory Café; 12:30 Pinochle; 1 pm Pool.

Thu: 12:30 pm Pinochle; 1 pm Quilt Club; 7-9 Pitch; Fri: 11:30 Lunch & program; 12:45 pm Prize bingo; 1:45 Pinochle.

4th Sat: 7-10 am Monthly breakfast.

Pickleball: Mon-Wed 10 am-3 pm; Tue 6-8 pm; Thu 5-7 pm; Fri 9-11:30 am. Andover Community Center,1008 E 13th.

AUGUSTA 640 Osage, 775-1189 Regular activities: Exercise, cards, dominoes, pool, line dancing, lunch daily at 11:30 am.

Mon: 6:30 pm 10-point pitch.

Fri: 9:30 am Prize bingo.

Every other Wed: 7 pm Live Jam Session.

2nd Sat: 7-10 am Breakfast. $4 donation.

4th Mon: 5 pm Evening meal. $6 suggested donation, reservations requested.

BENTON Lion’s Community Bldg, S Main St 2nd & 4th Tue: 9 am-4 pm Cards, games, occasional program. Covered dish.

CASSODAY Cassoday Senior Center 133 S. Washington, 620-735-4538 Tue: 10:30 am Round Table.

Tue, Thu: 9:30 am Exercise with WSU. 1st Mon: 2 pm Game Day. 3rd Mon: 6:30 pm Carry-in dinner, BP checks.

4th Fri: 2 pm Movie Matinee.

DOUGLASS 124 W 4th, 746-3227 Regular activities: Exercise, quilting, cards, lunch, reservation required. $5.

1st Mon: 6 pm Finger foods & cards.

3rd Mon: 6 pm Birthday/anniversary covereddish supper, bring own service. Cards.

3rd Sat: 7-9:30 am Breakfast. $4.

EL DORADO 210 E 2nd, 321-0142 Regular activities: Exercise, cards, bingo, hot lunch $3, support groups.

Mon: 12:30 pm Mexican Train dominoes.

Mon, Fri: 10 am Aerobics.

Tue: 9 am Coffee; 12:30 pm Bingo; 2 Line dance; 6 Prairie Port Seniors.

Tue, Thu: 8:30 am Men's coffee.

Wed: 10 am Back in Balance; 1 pm Pinochle.

Sat: 6 pm Cards and games.

3rd Tue: 12:30 am Blood pressure checks.

LEON 112 S Main, 745-9200 or 742-9905 Regular activities: Lunch served Mon - Fri. Reservations required by 9 am.

Wed: 10 am Exercise class; 1 pm Pinochle.

2nd & 4th Tue: 1 pm Bridge club.

3rd Sun: 11am-1 pm Lunch; Drinks included. $8 donation; adults/$4 children.

ROSE HILL 207 E Silknitter, 776-0170 Regular activities: Wii, pool table, shuffleboard, home-cooked lunch (reservation required).

Mon & Wed: 9 am Strong Women Stay Young exercise.

Mon: 7 pm Pitch, games.

Wed: 1 pm Bridge.

Fri: 7 pm Card game.

1st Fri: 11 am Meeting, covered dish.

3rd Fri: Noon Covered dish.

1st Sat: 7-10 am Breakfast.

TOWANDA 317 Main, 776-8999 Open 10:30 am-5 pm Mon, Wed, Fri Thu: 7 am Breakfast/coffee at Stearman Bar & Grill, Benton.

WHITEWATER Legion Hall, 108 E Topeka 2nd Tue: noon Potluck, program.

4th Tue: noon Potluck, movie.

Harvey County Centers

BURRTON 124 N Burrton, 620-463-3225

Mon-Fri: 7-8:30 am Early bird coffee.

Mon: 7-8 pm Educational film.

Tue: 9 am Bible study.

Fri: 7-8:30 am Breakfast.

3rd Thu: 7 pm Movie.

4th Thu: 6 pm Potluck supper.

1st Sat: 7-9 am Community breakfast.

HALSTEAD 523 Poplar, 835-2283

Mon & Wed: 9 am Yoga; 1 pm Dominoes Tue & Fri: 9 am Exercise followed by social hour Thu: 12:30 pm Bridge Fri: 1 pm Pitch 1st Sat: 7-10 am Community breakfast 2nd Thu: 6 pm Dine out 3rd Tue: 1:30 pm Movie 3rd Thu: noon Potluck and short program

HESSTON Randall & Main, 620-327-5099 www.hesstonseniorcenter.com

Mon, Wed, Fri: 8 am Stretch bands.

Mon & Tue: 1:30 pm Pitch.

Tue: 8:30 am Coffee hour; 9 am Film; 1:30 pm Pinochle.

Wed: 6:30 am Men’s Bible Study; 1 pm Bridge.

1st & 3rd Tue: 6 pm Singin’ Seniors.

3rd Wed: 11:30 am Healthy luncheon; noon, program. Reservations by previous Fri. 1st Thu: 7 pm Bridge.

2nd Thu: 7 pm Movie night.

1st & 3rd Fri: 1 pm Mexican Train dominoes.

1st Sat: 7:30-9:30 am Community breakfast.

4th Mon: 5:30 pm Gathering; 6 pm Potluck dinner, program follows.

GRAND CENTRAL 122 E 6th, Newton, 283-2222 www.newtonseniorcenter.org

Mon: 10-11 am Blood pressure check.

Tue: 1 pm Crafts: handwork.

Wed: 1 pm Pinochle/pitch/dominoes.

Thu: 1 pm Wii bowling; 5:15 pm Tai Chi.

Mon: 1 pm Games, bingo, Wii. Tue: 7-8:30 am Breakfast; 1 pm Line dancing.

Wed: 9 am Quilting.

Mon, Wed, Fri: 9 am Exercise.

Fri: 3 pm Bible study 1st Thu: 1 pm Paint with Sue. 2nd Thu: noon Potluck luncheon & biz mtg.

3rd Thu: 5 pm Dinner Night Out. 1st Fri: 7 pm Birthday party.

Transportation Sedgwick County

Sedgwick Co Transportation, 660-5150 or 1-800-367-7298. Information: 8 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri; closed most holidays. www. sedgwickcounty.org/aging.

Butler County Transit

Weekday transportation in El Dorado, Augusta and Andover. Rides to Wichita on Wed, Thu. Information: Augusta, 775-0500; El Dorado, 322-4321; toll free, 1-800-2793655. 48-hr notice required.

Senior Wednesdays

Harvey County

www.seniorwednesday.org Jan. 9 10 am Sedgwick County Zoo. Animal Builder. Explore the different ways that animals construct homes to meet their needs.

1:30 pm Advanced Learning Library. Twain for Twainiacs. Historical performer Ken Church presents a program on Mark Twain.

Jan. 16 10 am Ulrich Museum of Art. Ulrich director Leslie Brothers dives deep into the history of video art. truct homes to meet their needs.

1:30 pm Kansas African American Museum. United We Stand.

Remembering the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

SEDGWICK 107 W. Fifth, 772-0393

Jan. 23 10 am Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum. Celebrate Kansas Statehood. A calvacade of musical guests perform.

1:30 pm Exploration Place. Celebrate Kansas. Local historian Jim Mason remembers Ackerman Island and the historic Island Park baseball stadium.

Jan. 30 10 am Great Plains Nature Center.

Acquatic Ecology. How a small prairie stream fish community responds to drought in the Flint Hills.

1:30 pm Old Cowtown Museum.

Innovation in Victorian America.

Looking back at a period when it seemed everyone tinkered.

Transportation reservations or information: 316-284-6802 or 1-866-6806802. Round-trip: $8 Newton (wheelchair only), $12 Harvey County, $20 outside Harvey County. AVI to Newton: Tue, 8 am4:30 pm from Burrton, Sedgwick, Halstead, Hesston, Walton.

Support Groups, Organizations

Find Support groups at supportgroupsinkansas.org. To add or correct a listing, call 316-9783566 or 1-800-445-0016. Clubs and Organizations are at www.theactiveage. com, Resources category. For changes call 316-942-5345 or email fran@theactiveage.com.

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Friendship Meals Menus for January were not available but will posted on theactiveage.com when ready.

Tips for maintaining independence Living alone in our older years can be a challenge and a risk. Consider these tips from the Harvard Medical School: Safety first One of the most important tools when living alone is a safety alert button, a waterproof device you wear as a pendant or on your wrist that alerts 911 at the touch of a button. This device must stay on your body 24 hours a day. It won't do any good on your nightstand if you've fallen in the shower. Prices range from $25 to $50 per month, depending on the system.

Social connection Being in contact with others is as vital and important as your health care. It doesn't have to be a formal date or event. It can be going to the mailroom, picking up mail, and chatting with a neighbor for five minutes. You must talk to someone at least daily, and get out of your house at least once a week.

Services When you're no longer able to drive or manage once-routine activities such as housecleaning or shopping, it's time to turn to convenience services. Take advantage of grocery stores, pharmacies, and restaurants that deliver to your neighborhood. Ask a senior center, church, or even local bus service about free or affordable rides to take you to the store or the doctor.

You can also hire errand services. And when the activities of daily living—such as bathing, dressing, taking medication, and cooking—become too difficult, you can hire private-duty care. This usually comes in two forms: a companion or a health aide. Both are able to offer homemaker services, such as light housework, cooking, shopping, overseeing medication routines, and transportation.

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Briefs North High quartet to rock Orpheum A quartet of North High students may help settle the age-old debate: Beatles or Rolling Stones?

The students, members of the school’s string quartet, will perform on stage with members of a touring show called Beatles v. Stones on Jan. 22 at The Orpheum. Making up the cast are a Beatles tribute band called Abbey Road and a Stones counterpart, Satisfaction.

Wichita High North sophomores Jaylene Deleon, Elizabeth Treto and freshmen Emily Truong and Lyly Le will join the bands for the songs “Eleanor Rigby,” “Yesterday,” “A Day in the Life,” “Hello Goodbye,” “Hey Jude,” “Gimme Shelter,” and “Ruby Tuesday.”

Quartet members play in several prestigious area ensembles, including the All-City Honors Orchestra and Wichita Youth Symphony The show’s producers say they approached North High School Director of Bands and Orchestra Stephanie Byers looking for an ensemble “that could hold their own with a rock band in front of an audience.” The show commonly hires a local quartet to augment the production while on tour.

Tickets are $28.50 - $68.50 and may be purchased online at www. wichitaorpheum.com, by phone at 855-755-7328.

2019, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:50 p.m. at the Extension Center at 7001 W 21st Street North (21st & Ridge Rd) in Wichita. Registration fee is $15 per person prior to January 25 and $25 per person after that. Boxed lunches may be purchased in advance for an additional $10.

For additional information and to register, please visit http://sedgwick. ksu.edu Downsizing workshop Tips and resources for downsizing your life will be presented at Via Christi Village McLean, 777 N. McLean, at 1 p.m. Jan. 15. Presenters include a moving professional, estate sale specialists and realtor. The event is free but seating is limiting. To reserve a spot, call 316-942-7000, ext. 102.

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North High string quartet Jaylene Deleon, Lyly Le, Emily Truong and Elizabeth Treto.

Design & Grow Gardening Workshop Early registrants will save $10 at the Sedgwick County Extension Education Center’s daylong Design & Grow Workshop.

Tips and ideas from professional gardeners, ideas for new plants and much will be offered, including sessions on irrigation, composting,

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Play it again, Doris: Pianist has dazzled Wichita since the ‘40s

By Ted Blankenship Drop in for a nightcap at the Wichita Country Club and if you’re lucky, you’ll hear the sweet sound of traditional jazz coming from a grand piano. Delicately touching those 88 keys will be a smiling gray-haired lady in a sequined jacket Doris Buss, 90 years old this month.

She’s been playing in Wichita and all over the country for more than 75 years and doesn’t plan to stop any time soon.

“Music is part of my life,” Doris said. “It keeps me going. I’d like to play more than the once-a-month gig at the Wichita Country Club, but I just can’t do five hours at a time like I used to.”

The country club job isn’t all she does, though. She works when it doesn’t interfere with her bridge playing, and when transportation is available. She has found it easier to stop driving than to stop playing the piano.

“If there’s no piano around,” she said, “I play songs in my head.”

Doris can see well enough, but finds it more difficult to read music than it once was. It doesn’t cramp her playing style, though. Over the years, she has learned thousands of songs and can play them from memory – and in any key, which makes it great for singers she accompanies.

She memorizes the sheet music, then uses that as the basis for the improvisation that makes it jazz.

Though she makes it look easy, her mastery of the piano is the result of many years of effort. She started taking lessons at the age of seven and was closely monitored by her mother who insisted that she practice faithfully.

She began on the accordion and quickly moved to the piano. She lived with her mother on the second floor of the June Frisby Academy, where

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“You should never stop doing what you love to do,” Doris Buss says.

lessons on several instruments were available. She studied marimba, steel guitar and ukulele in addition to the accordian.

Doris attended high school at Cathedral High and at age 14, was hired by the Ark Valley Boys at Wichita’s radio KFH, in those days when radio stations featured live entertainment. She would get up early in the morning and play piano on the radio, then go to class. Cathedral High (now gone) excused her from classes when she had to take several days off to play the Kansas State Fair with the band.

Doris married a musician, Leonard Buss, a bass player who became part of the Doris Buss trio. They had been married for 60 years when he died in 2008. Leonard’s day job was manager of Bulger Cadillac.

Doris continued to play Wichita clubs. She also taught piano and at one time had more than 75 students.

At one point in 2018 Doris

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thought her playing days might be curtailed. She had quadruple bypass, open surgery and later a slight stroke that affected her left hand.

“It’s the hand that mostly plays chords,” she said, “and it’s okay. I just have to think more when I’m playing.

Luckily, it didn’t affect my right hand, the one I use to play the runs and the more difficult stuff.”

She played for the Ice Capades in the 1940s, played a duet with Henry Mancini when he was in town, she did the Gridiron shows in the 1960s, was an original member of the board of the Wichita Jazz Festival, toured with Norman Lee who took over the Eddie Howard band and toured with Smiley Burnette, Gene Autry’s sidekick.

“I went to California for the Armed Forces Broadcasts and was invited to Smiley’s home,” Doris said.

“He did all the cooking and was really easy to talk to.”

Doris also played for Bing’s brother, Bob Crosby, when he hired the Norman Lee band and fronted it for a time. The Lee band also backed the Mills Brothers when Doris was at the piano.

She has an uncanny ability to carry on a conversation while never missing a beat at the piano.

“I guess I taught myself to do that,” she said. “But every now and then a politician will try to shake my hand while I’m playing. I haven’t figured that one out yet.”

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Telling stories

Writers Group helps members publish their work

By Leslie Chaffin When Sharon Brown read to her grandchildren, she often found herself “thinking that I could write a better story.”

Today she’s the author of three children’s books and is at work on a fourth. Although her stories about animals are told by one – Brownlee the Storytelling Lizard – they sometimes have a foot in real life.

Petie the Parrot’s Amazing Adventures, for instance, is based on a real parrot who found himself being moved from home to home,” said Brown, who’s a reading coach at Roosevelt Elementary School in Wichita. “They live a long time you know, and Petie finally found a home where he could stay.”

Brown was encouraged to create Brownlee and Petie while participating in the Writers Group, which gathers on the first Tuesday of each month at the Linwood Senior Center and first Thursday at the Downtown Senior Center. Whether the story they want to tell is true or made up, it’s a chance for members to share ideas, receive feedback or simply get motivated.

Photo by Leslie Chaffin

Members of the Writers Group have self-published books in genres ranging from non-fiction to children’s books and poetry. Shown are titles by Starla Criser, Sharon Brown, Gerald McCoy. Write On is a compilation of works from the writers in the group published last year.

“This is one of the best things in my life,” said Sharon Revell, who has created illustrations for books by those in the group. “I had always been an amateur artist, but never an illustrator.

Finding this when I turned 80 has been a huge blessing.”

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The Writers Group began about five years ago thanks to a suggestion by Senior Services volunteer Starla Criser, an author of several books.

“I have a degree in gerontology, so I know that memoirs are important,” Criser said. “We started out with a few people and it has grown to about 30 authors, men and women, who write in

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different genres.”

Each meeting features a writing exercise. It might be using a seemingly disparate list of words together, such as “sunny, orange, excited, mulberry, tooth,” or describing an experience like “sit outside and write down the sounds you hear.” The group’s calendar is handed out at the first meeting of the year and includes the exercises. Members may prepare ahead of time or jot down their contribution as the meeting is in progress.

One member, Leigh Earley writes science fiction under the pen name E.L. Morrow. His first published book, The Doorkeeper’s Secret, takes the reader into the year 2094.

Other participants are working on memoirs to preserve family stories, which they may or may not intend for the general public. Bonnie Krenning wants her grandchildren to know about the generations that preceded them, including her brother, Murrel Lacey, who became known around the world for his expertise as a horse trainer.

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Whether they are just getting started or have been writing for years, From previous page participants agree that the group helps with topics such as preparing a manuto her career in nursing. script for publication, designing a book Several participants focus on pocover and determining how they want etry, including Connie Holt, who has to publish their book. published Grandma’s Haiku for Chil“Starla has been instrumental in dren, and is now working on a book of helping many of the books get pubpoetry for adults. lished,” Revel said. “She pulls everyGerald McCoy told the story of thing together and her daughter, Ana talented young African-American gela, helps digitize and layout the book pitcher in the 1940s whose life took a for publication at no charge to us.” wrong turn to prison in Fireball! The Brown’s books went international Tragedy and Triumph of Isaiah Jackson this year when Kristy Bruns, a friend (featured in the active age last Septemof Revell’s, visited a sanctuary for abused women and their children in Nepal called Her Farm.

Bruns took Brown’s books to Nepal, staying a few days at Her Farm to read to the children.

“We went there as guests, but we worked in the fields each day along with the women who Courtesy photo were there for help Sharon Revell had never illustrated a book before and then read to the joining the group. Now, at age 80, she is in demand children before dinto assist writers in the group in bringing their ner,” said Bruns, who books to life. visited Nepal in May with her daughter.

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Kristy Bruns and her daughter visited Her Farm in Nepal in May of 2018 to deliver cases of children’s books authored by Sharon Brown. While there, they took the time to read to the kids.

“The kids loved the books.”

Authors can also get information about marketing their books. Often, books are donated to libraries. Many books by members are available on Amazon.com, and several of the authors have Facebook pages.

In 2017, Criser put together a book of writing from the group titled Write On, which was the first time many of the contributors saw their work in print. In July, she published another edition, called Write Again.

Attendance at the meetings varies,” Criser said. “Not everyone comes every month, and some prefer one Senior Center over the other. Anyone who is interested in writing is welcome to join in.”

For information about the Writers Group, contact Starla Criser at starlacriser@gmail.com.

Contact Leslie Chaffin at lrchaffin20@ gmail.com

There are many forms that you can find online or in stores. I am needing power of attorney form for health care and finances.

Are the online forms legal? Will they work?

I agree that online forms are convenient and inexpensive and I have seen many of these come across my desk. The biggest problem is that they may not meet the requirements of the state the person signing the document (called the principal) and they are usually the a “one size fits all” form. Each state has very specific rules about what must be in a power of attorney form and what may be in the form. For instance, if you want it to be effective after you become incapacitated, it must be “durable” and contain specific language that keeps it in force after you are deemed incapacitated. As for what

you “may” provide: do you want your agent to be able to change beneficiaries on accounts or insurance, or be able to gift your property, or be able to amend your trust? Always use caution when purchasing pre-packaged legal forms, they do not always take into account you specific situation. Remember that because there is no attorney involved, you are not getting any advice about whether that particular document is appropriate for your situation. If you have decided to use one, talk to your estates attorney to be sure that these documents accurately reflect your wishes.

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