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By Mary Clarkin The Active Age Some residents of a Clearwater nursing home where 11 deaths from COVID-19 were reported were not given baths for more than five weeks, its former director of nursing says. Christine Zeller, a registered nurse with a master’s degree in nursing, described the lack of bathing as part of a pattern of substandard care caused by employee turnover and a shortage of equipment and supplies at Clearwater Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. She made the allegations in written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee of the Kansas Legislature last month. “Many of the residents had gone more than five weeks without being bathed, as the facility had a shortage of appropriate accommodations,” wrote Zeller, who started working Feb. 24 at Clearwater, about two months before
the first resident tested positive for COVID-19. Zeller’s testimony came as the Legislature last month considered – and ultimately approved – giving nursing homes additional protection from lawsuits. It was a move sought by the long-term care industry and opposed by residents’ advocates. “Nursing homes are no different than hospitals or any other health care facility,” Stephen Duerst, a lobbyist for the Kansas Health Care Association, which represents over 260 long-term care providers, told lawmakers. “They were not prepared for this, there was no way they could be prepared for this.” But Mitzi McFatrich, executive director of Kansas Advocates for Better Care, which seeks quality elder care, said the COVID-19 crisis exposed the See Covid-19, page 8
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By Amee Bohrer The Active Age Emmie Barron, 12, crawls into the loft of her grandparents’ camper to admire glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling. Cousin Jett Haberly, 11, sits next to her and they dangle their feet over the ledge, laughing. “They spoil us,” Emmie said of her grandparents, Jan and Ken Haberly. “They did this for us.” The Haberlys bought a 1996 Ford Shasta camper that had been stolen from its owner and found abandoned several months later. By then, the camper reminded people of something out of two popular TV shows – See Grandcamp, page 7
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By Beccy Tanner Since Wichita State University began offering free Lifelong Learning courses to Wichita area senior citizens five years ago, the program has grown from one course with 40 students to 10 courses with more than 1,000 students. As one of the teachers, I love these classes. Students bring unique perspectives to the classes through their own life experiences. Great conversations are held and friendships formed. In my classes, which cover history, I think they realize that what they experienced in life really was the living history of Kansas. This semester, 10 Lifelong Learning classes are being offered on topics ranging from meteorology and the preservation of national treasures to
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By Amy Geiszler-Jones The Active Age When Junetta Everett became chair of the Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce’s board of directors this year, it was heralded as a historic appointment. An executive with Delta Dental of Kansas, Everett is just the sixth female and the first person of color to hold that position in the chamber’s 102 years of existence. In the months since, the appointment has taken on more significance as Wichita’s business community deals with reaction to a worldwide pandemic and America examines racial disparity and inequality issues in the wake of George Floyd’s death. For Everett, 64, meeting challenges is something she has always done — from starting the first Black Student Union at her community college to being the first black dental hygienist to graduate from Wichita State University to being appointed to help the chamber put its diversity and inclusion efforts into action, not just words, four years ago. “I’m always ready to take a challenge and I’m always determined to not let the challenge beat me,” said Everett, the vice president of professional relations with Delta Dental of Kansas. “We’ll still accomplish what we’ve set out to do.” Even before the recent protests, Everett said, her one-year term as board chair was focused on diversity and inclusion. “Wichita and all businesses have to stand in solidarity and get rid of disparities in education, disparities in economics and the disparities in health care.”
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A leader in diversity and inclusion Having Everett at the board’s helm is a matter of having the right person at the right time, said Gary Plummer, the chamber’s president and CEO. According to the chamber, its diversity and inclusion committee’s mission is to “champion the competitive advantage of having a diverse and inclusive business climate.” From the beginning, Everett “showed such leadership and knew how to develop that culture of inclusion,” Plummer said. In the past few years, the chamber’s 60-plus member board makeup has gone from including two persons of color to 11. The leaders of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Heartland Black Chamber of Commerce are now automatic members of the board. The chamber’s 19-member staff has diversified to include four persons of color, according to Plummer.
The chamber is providing training and resources to help businesses with diversity and inclusion, and it’s working on supplier diversity to help minority businesses build up and compete for contracts. “If you’re hanging your hat on meeting a goal (of hiring a few people of color), then you’re totally missing the inclusion perspective,” Everett said in a recent KMUW story. Missed Opportunity Everett said she missed an opportunity of inclusion as a young college student when she attended what is now Butler Community College in El Dorado in the mid 1970s. “There was a big racial split,” she recalled. The college had made blind assignments for dorm rooms, not paying attention to the skin color of the young women. “But after about a week of having mixed roommates, we wanted to
separate,” she said – and by choice, the residents segregated. “We weren’t comfortable with each other,” Everett said. Being uncomfortable is part of the learning process of inclusion, she noted. “If I could do it over today, I wouldn’t do that again.” Another challenge The COVID-19 pandemic created another kind of challenge for Everett’s term and the chamber. Eighty-eight percent of the chamber’s 1,700 members are small businesses that employ fewer than 100 employees, and many if not all felt effects of the pandemic. Everett said the chamber is helping all businesses, not just its members, with COVID-19 business challenges with a comprehensive resource section on its website that addresses both employer and employee issues. The chamber hasn’t been able to determine the full impact on membership numbers because of the COVID-19 economic effect. Everett said she is issuing a challenge to current members to help recruit at least one more business for the chamber. Her road to success Everett credits her grandparents for making sure she took advantage of getting an education and for seeing beyond people’s differences. Of her nine siblings — seven who share the same mother and two on her dad’s side — she was the only one to get a college education. She was also the only one raised by her grandparents. She went to live with them at age two, when her teen mom, who already had two other children, was getting divorced and needed help. The family — including Everett’s mother and siblings — moved to See next page
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Wichita when Everett was in the fifth grade. Her grandfather, the Rev. C.J. Tisdale, was a Baptist minister, and her mom lived just around the corner from her and her grandparents. “My mom finished high school, but she didn’t go to college and my grandfather wanted that for me,” Everett said. By going to summer school, she ended up graduating a year early, in her junior year, from East High and then went to BCC, earning an associate’s degree. She went to WSU and enrolled in the dental hygiene program — where a professor told her people like her weren’t in the field. Through mutual friends, she met her husband, Victor, an education major and a standout
the active age track and field athlete at WSU. She recalled her friends telling her they knew she would really like him. “And I didn’t like him,” she said, laughing. “He had a little bit of a naughty mouth and I said, ‘That’s not going to work with me.’” Married for 38 years, they have five sons and seven grandchildren with another on the way. A retired USD 259 teacher and coach, Victor is executive of business affairs at the couple’s church, St. Mark’s United Methodist. After working nine years as a dental hygienist, Everett joined Delta Dental of Kansas in 1987 and became an executive in 1995. During the interview with KMUW, Everett said she encountered some racism as she would visit the dental offices that had contracts with the insurance company, but that her CEO at the time took a stand against that.
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In addition to serving on the chamber board, Everett has also been active with several other community, WSU and nonprofit boards. With such an active professional life Everett said she relies on “five totally different groups of diverse friends and family members I call my ‘personal nourishment groups.’ These are groups of best friends — who travel together when possible – different industry friends who meet weekly to quarterly, and my family. My sons and daughters-in-law and I stay on chat conversations for hours debating different topics and perspectives virtually every week. It forces me to read, stay sharp and active. To de-stress, I listen to audiobooks or play computer games — coupled with a glass of red wine.” Contact Amy Geiszler-Jones at algj64@sbcglobal.net
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From Longhorn to Limburger, cheese has its uses By Ted Blankenship It’s time to let you know how I feel about cheese. This came to me partly because of one of my favorite comic strips, Pearls Before Swine. One of the characters is Pig, a cheese aficionado. I could have written he is a connoisseur of cheese. The difference is that one of the words is Spanish and the other is French. Generally, I’m not fond of French words because I can’t pronounce them. You have to say them through your nose, and that’s not safe with a dangerous virus going around. Anyway, Pig is so enamored of cheese that he thinks cheese angels drop the orange food from Heaven and it lands on the righteous. I don’t want to be partial to any nation, so I’ll tell you that righteous is neither French
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nor Spanish. It’s Old English. I haven’t the foggiest what the word would be in NEW English. Be that as it may (whatever that means), cheese is a swell food. If it weren’t for cheese, there would be no Mexican food—at least not in the United States. As you no doubt have noticed, cheese is great for hiding other food you might not choose to eat if you could see it. If cheese didn’t exist, pizza would fall apart in your hands, and mac and cheese would be mac and ketchup or something even more gross. Nevertheless, like Pig, I love cheese. I like the taste of it, the stringi-
ness, the color and the way you can eat it even when it’s covered with a white moldy-looking stuff. When I was a kid growing up in an oil field shack in the Flint Hills northwest of Eureka, we always had Longhorn cheese because it could be kept for a long time without refrigeration. Oil field shacks had only natural gas that came from a nearby oil well. There was no electricity and no indoor plumbing. But there was cheese. It came in a one-inch-thick round shape. It had a mild taste and was a bit stringy when heated. When you asked for cheese at the store, you got longhorn. The only other kind was cheesespread in a little glass with tulips painted on it. If you just had to have cheese that had more taste and less of a rubbery consistency, you could talk to the grocer and quietly order a package of Limburger, kind of like asking for a naughty magazine. My grandfather loved Limburger but my grandmother wouldn’t allow it
in the house, so he kept it in his workshop and ate it when no one was around. Limburger has been the butt of jokes for a century or more, probably because it smells like feet. Larry the Cable Guy tried some and spat it out, declaring it tasted like a dead possum. He didn’t say how he knew what a dead possum tasted like. He also didn’t mention how a live possum tasted. Years ago, Limburger was a favorite way for kids to get out of school. They would put a small amount of Limburger cheese on a hot radiator in the classroom and it would be uninhabitable (the classroom, not the radiator) for two or three days. Those kids probably would have agreed that an angel dropped that cheese from Heaven. Contact Ted at tblankenship@cox.net.
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fact that good infection control measures were not in place in too many long-term care facilities before the pandemic. She pointed to a federal Government Accountability Office report released to Congress in May that revealed “most nursing homes had infection control deficiencies prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.” Over the three-year span of 2017 to 2019, federal data showed 261 out of 341 Kansas nursing facilities were cited for noncompliance with basic infection control practices, McFatrich noted. “Asking residents to pay with their lives for the woefully insufficient emergency preparedness and substandard care of nursing homes, and allowing adult care homes to face no repercussions for their egregious behavior would be perverse and unjust,” McFatrich wrote in her testimony. As of June 18, 22 of Sedgwick County’s 25 COVID-19-related deaths had come from four long-term care facilities. Deaths rise Clearwater Nursing & Rehabilitation Center had 11 deaths; Chisholm Place, 1859 N. Webb Rd., seven deaths; Park West Retirement Community’s The Manor Nursing Home, 503 N. Maize Rd., three deaths; and Diversicare of Haysville, one death, according to the Sedgwick County Health Department. Across the state, 40 long-term care clusters of COVID-19 were identified as of June 17. They accounted for 134 of the state’s 247 deaths from the virus, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Not all of the homes where deadly clusters occurred have histories of poor inspection ratings, but some do. The Clearwater home has a “much below average” overall rating on medicare. gov and was fined more than $54,000 last year. Diversicare of Haysville has a “below average” overall rating on medicare.gov and “much below average” on health inspections. Zeller served as nursing director at Clearwater for less than three months. In addition to inadequate bathing
servings, she said, a shortage of personal protective equipment caused staff members to share “isolation gowns” that were left in residents’ rooms, so that “everyone who entered the room shared the same gown,” Zeller wrote. The paper gowns were designed to be worn once and then disposed of, she said. Before the first positive case was detected at Clearwater, staff did not consistently wear face masks – at management’s directives, Zeller said – and some PPE supplies were locked up and only accessible under the direction of the administrator, she said. Zeller estimated that when she started, about 65 percent of staff were affiliated with various employment agencies. “It doesn’t offer any continuity of care,” she said, because the nursing home didn’t know which worker would be supplied by the agencies on any given day. Zeller said there are “employees who are truly employees of that place that are still there because they love the residents and the people they’re caring for,” but added that overall staff morale was “zippo” when she arrived. “They didn’t have any faith in the administration and the residents were the same way,” Zeller said. She said one resident, speaking at a resident council meeting, said, “’How long will you be here? No one lasts in that position.’” The Clearwater home is owned by Willie Novotny of Manhattan, who also operates Orchard Gardens in Wichita and several other nursing homes in Kansas. In an email to The Active Age, Willie Novotny said he was aware of the written testimony given by Zeller “as it is also being circulated around the state by Plaintiff Attorneys in preparation for their future.” Owner: "in full compliance" “Clearwater Nursing and Rehab was surveyed in May by The Kansas Department on Aging surveyors for compliance with infection control and COVID emergency plan. We were found to be in full compliance. In conducting this survey our records, procedures and response plan would have been reviewed and our staff would have been interviewed. There were no issues found. Ms. Zeller’s allegations are unsubstantiated.”
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An inspection report shows residents complained about the infrequency of bathing in January. Clearwater had been given until March 29 to remedy several issues identified by the state. They included bathing, improper use of patient-lifting equipment and the facility’s grievance process, she said. However, the March follow-up inspection to see if previous violations had been corrected did not occur, according to Cara Sloan-Ramos, public information officer for the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services. The federal government directed a streamlining of inspections as the nation dealt with the pandemic. Then, the Clearwater home asked permission to revise Clearwater’s plan of correction, which was granted. There are no federal or state set timeframes for staff to provide bathing to nursing facility residents, but residents must be provided hygiene consistent with their needs and choices. Sloan-Ramos noted that residents have a right to refuse a bath. The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services advised long-term care facility personnel to wear masks while at work starting April 2. The first positive test of a resident for COVID-19 was reported on April 11, Zeller said. By April 18, a dozen Clearwater residents had tested positive and two had died. Eventually, at least 51 residents and 17 staff members tested positive for COVID-19, including Zeller. On May 12, Zeller was fired because she was not “‘a good fit,’” her testimony stated. The termination “had nothing to do with her positive COVID-19 diagnosis,” Willie Novotny said in his email to The Active Age. One of those who died was Virginia Snyder, who lived 60 of her 92 years in the town of Clearwater. She was diagnosed with the virus April 19 and died May 3. Snyder’s daughter, Deb Hirsch, of the Seattle area, told The Active Age she made calls to the Governor’s office in April, insisting that all Clearwater employees be tested for COVID-19. Hirsch said she also knew of the shortage of PPE equipment, such as gowns. The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services provided a
one-page report for the May 18 review of Clearwater that said a Targeted Infection Control Survey/COVID-19 Focused Survey found the facility to be in compliance with federally recommended practices to prepare for COVID-19. Also, allegations in five complaints “were not substantiated,” the report said, without describing the complaints in the report. “No noncompliance was found. The facility is in compliance with all regulations surveyed,” the report concluded. Diversicare of Haysville’s performance on recent health inspections was listed as among the worst in the state in a January report by Kansas Advocates for Better Care. In a statement issued after the COVID-19 cluster was confirmed in that facility, Arien Reeves, the Diversicare administrator, said: “Our goal in this situation, as in all others, is the provision of exceptional healthcare. Our Center implemented precautionary and preparedness measures early — all in accordance with CMS and CDC guidelines — including strict limitations on visitation. “Limits on visitation will continue, per guidance from the CDC, and we are working hard to make sure residents can still connect with their loved ones. We are doing everything we can to ensure we stop the spread of this within our center and our community. Our infection control procedures are in compliance with the CDC and KDHE guidance.” "Affirmative defense" The new legislation for long-term care homes became law June 9. It says an adult care facility “shall have an affirmative defense to liability in a civil action for damages, administrative fines or penalties for a COVID-19 claim” if it had to re-accept a resident who was removed for treatment of the virus, or if it treats a resident testing positive in compliance with regulation and is in substantial compliance with public health directives. “They can be sued, but as a practical matter what the Legislature has done by creating the affirmative defense has made it very difficult to See next page
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challenge,” said Overland Park attorney Tom Wagstaff, Jr. who represents residents and their families in elder abuse cases. “The elderly residents who live in the nursing homes ended up with very little protection.” The extent of that protection will likely be tested in court. On June 3, two separate lawsuits were filed in Sedgwick County District Court by relatives of people who died in the Clearwater home. This article was produced as part of the Wichita Journalism Collaborative, a partnership of seven news organizations. The effort is supported by the Solutions Journalism Network and funded by the Knight Foundation.
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“Hoarders” and “Breaking Bad.” Initially, the Haberlys thought they might clean, repair and remodel the camper for their own children. But another plan took shape. They fixed it up for “Grandcamp,” the grandkids-only getaway they’ve taken since 2013. There are now eight grandchildren. Each year gets its own theme and all participants get matching t-shirts made by Beth Barron, mother of Emmie, Alice, 9, and Julia, 11. “Our family has a t-shirt for every occasion,” Beth said. For the past two years, they’ve taken the camper to El Dorado Lake as well. “I like that we have a bathroom,” Jan said. “I’m not good at roughing it.” Making the camper safe and hospitable became a family project. For
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Saying ‘farewell,’ not goodbye, to the The Active Age By Susan Hill Eight years goes a lot faster in our seventies than when we were seven. I know because of how quickly my time on The Actice Age board has passed—I can remember why I started, all the trials and scary things when we almost went broke and when we almost quit, and yet we didn’t quit. I can remember all the intelligent, funny, talented people I have worked with over these past years. If I sound nostalgic, I am. This is a fine publication and I will continue to support it financially, of course, as well as in my heart. I am leaving the board at the end of this year, mainly to be with my family. Earlier this year my family expanded to include a husband and associated relatives, none of whom I have met except the husband part. So
“I like that we all helped fix up the camper,” grandson Jett Haberly said
some jobs, everyone donned medical grade paper safety suits, gloves and masks to deal with serious mold and a toilet that probably qualified as a biohazard. “We kept uncovering more that we wanted to do,” Ken said, from new flooring and electrical work to re-covering upholstery and sanding, scraping and painting walls. New red, white and blue curtains were installed all over. “I like that we all helped fix up the camper,” grandson Jett Haberly said. “It was pretty dirty inside. It was old!” Because of the coronavirus pandemic, it was impossible to book a weekend this summer for Grandcamp
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Susan Hill 2020. Instead, they decided to hold it over three weekdays this month. This year seems extra special, after having gone so long without seeing each other while maintaining social distancing. Alice Barron could not understand why her grandmother could not give her a hug for so long. Jan said she has a cherry theme in her kitchen and that Alice sent her a card saying, “I’m cherry mad at you.” On Mother’s Day, Jan relented and hugged her. Jan, who works at the Lord’s Diner, and Ken, who sells restaurant equipment, live in Wichita. Their children and grandchildren are split between here and Kansas City. There’s one key rule for Grandcamp: phones and other electronic devices are only allowed on the drive there. Once arrived, everyone must put them away and focus on family, Jan said. The kids happily comply. Jake Haberly, 14, says he enjoys the
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From Page 1 He felt it for decades as he established himself as a nationally known architect and fought for political and socioeconomic changes here. Keeping himself home recently because of the coronavirus pandemic, McAfee, now 86, follows events and remembers. “It’s allowed me to go back and spend a lot of time reliving some of those years,” he said, “and I keep hearing everybody say the only way we get anything done is to go the streets, and they’re basically right.” McAfee is part of earlier generations of black activists who say they support the current protests. They are optimistic or at least hopeful that the fight they’ve waged so long is making progress, despite the glaring disparities that remain. It’s easy for them to relate to young protesters because they each experienced and stood up to discrimination. “I think it’s wonderful, I think it’s long overdue, and I believe it is now affecting our whole country and the whole country is rising up,” said Sheila Kinnard, a recently retired educator whose mother, Jo Brown, was the first woman of color elected to the Wichita school board. “It’s not just a black protest, it’s a multi-cultural protest. We have young people who say it’s been too long.” Kinnard's father is Dr. Val Brown, Sr., one of two physicians who treated most black Wichitans during the 1950s. Despite his education and profession, though, the Browns weren’t welcome to eat in certain Wichita restaurants. When he took his family on vacation, he booked them in segregated hotels, consulting “The Negro Motorist Green-Book.”
“Mom didn’t even know he was using it until we found out later,” Kinnard said, adding that she “learned to go to the bathroom in a field” rather than use the facilities in white-owned restaurants when they were traveling. Over time, Dr. Brown was eventually able to see his patients in integrated hospital wards, and Kinnard was in the first class of black middle school students to attend school with white classmates. When her mother was elected to the school board she pushed for additional black teachers and more. “She wanted to have administrators and counselors of color in every school,” Kinnard said. Kinnard, who retired as drama teacher at Mayberry Middle School, said the district today “is just not filling the well with minority teachers like they did. That’s systematic. There’s no one there that’s waving the flag for that.” Kinnard said she went through “kind of a sad period” after the death of George Floyd, the black man whose killing by police in Minneapolis sparked the recent protests, but she’s become hopeful as the movement appears to be sustaining momentum. She does not favor “defunding” police everywhere, as some advocate, but wants to “reallocate some of the money that’s going to policing” into more productive channels. McAfee’s family was settled here in 1865 – before Wichita was even a city – by his great-grandfather, who was wounded while fighting for the Union during the Civil War. Nevertheless, when it came to participating in organized sports, McAfee ran into unofficial racial quotas, and when it was time to choose a college, his parents sent him to the University of Nebraska “because both KU and K-State were very segregated.” Invited to join the Nebraska basketball team by its coach, McAfee
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had his college years interrupted by serving in the Korean War. Returning to Nebraska with his wife, a graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C., McAfee discovered that some landlords would not rent to them, and he had to overcome a professor seemingly opposed to his graduating. McAfee started his own architectural firm in Wichita, winning awards and seeing his buildings dot skylines here and elsewhere. Yet for every successful bid, he encountered other situations where the white power structure in the form of the city’s banks and biggest businessmen treated him differently. When he Charles McAfee, Lavonta Williams and others tried to buy a house on objected in 2017 after the city closed the pool in the GI Bill, “the Vet- McAdams Park, which serves northeast Wicherans Administration ita. The City Council later decided to renovate turned me down bethe pool. cause it was too far east, here. almost to Hillside.” When he finally Galyn Vesey took part in the bestdid build a house in a neighborhood known civil rights action in Wichita’s considered off-limits to blacks, somehistory – 1958 the Dockum Drugstore body fired two shots into it during the sit-in that desegregated the Rexall night as his daughter lay inside. By chain’s lunch counters. At the time, he then, he’d been president of the Urban was attending what was then Wichita League and National Conference of University. Vesey had already quietly Christians and Jews and served on protested segregation practices while numerous United Fund boards. “I’m working as a dishwasher at Kress, trying to prove to this town that ‘we’re another downtown store with a lunch okay.’ It didn’t mean a damn thing.” counter. Vesey ate the free doughnuts McAfee spent “80 percent of his employees got two or three times in time” on efforts like helping black its whites-only area before his boss attorney A. Price Woodard get elected told him to cut it out. When young to the City Council and Jo Brown to members of the NAACP proposed the the school board. During those battles, Dockum sit-in, Vesey was on board. McAfee said, “I was accused of playing “There are times when you need a the ‘race card.’ So when you see people crowd, and times where an individual demonstrate in the street, it’s because needs to step up,” he said. people like me, with all the education Vesey went on to work in the we were supposed to need, and all the mayor’s office, Urban League, health talent I did have, my common sense and welfare agencies, then eventually and conversation couldn’t change one further study and teaching at Syracuse out of 10 white folks’ belief in anyUniversity and the University of Oklathing.” homa before returning to Wichita. As McAfee said it’s no coincidence he researches the city’s black history that his two daughters, who are both for a book he plans to write, Vesey architects, chose to continue the firm’s See next page work in Atlanta and Dallas rather than
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predicts current protesters “are going to make a difference, these young people, just like they did in ’58.” In almost the same breath, though, he says, “Yeah, we’ve made some progress, but there are things not dealt with.” Policing practices and housing discrimination are two areas that come to mind for him, but the real change he believes is needed goes much deeper. “When you talk about human beings, we need to get over this thing about race. There is no race. There is the human race. God knows what he was doing.” Former City Councilwoman Lavonta Williams said she wasn’t in-
the active age volved in civil right issues growing up in Wichita “but I should have been.” She remembers what happened when she applied to be a teacher in USD 259, after graduating from Emporia State University. “I was straight out of college and I had one of the hugest afros. I remember going to one of the principals to apply and the only thing I remember him asking me was ‘Do you always wear your hair that way?’” Williams spent 35 years teaching middle school. After being asked to join the advisory board for her district’s City Councilman, Carl Brewer, she was appointed to fill his seat in 2007 and then won election on her own two years later, becoming the first African American woman to serve as vice mayor. Williams often battled for her constituents on issues like recreational
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facilities and utility bills and has stayed active since being term-limited in activities such as incouraging voting and a coronavirus response coalition. She’s a fan of both the young protesters and of Wichita Police Chief Gordon Ramsay. She doesn’t condone violence that accompanied a protest at 21st and Amidon, but points to the peaceful demonstration at 13th and Oliver days later.
“There was a huge group, they basically took over that intersection, and the police allowed them to protest,” Williams said. “That’s the kind of chief we have.” Williams believes there’s an “opening of dialogue” underway. Still, she’s realistic. “This is 50 years later, we’re still fighting the same thing.”
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Color his world: Artist paints again after 44 years By Nancy Carver Singleton Warm and whimsical rural scenes. Vibrant skies with distinctive clouds overlooking barns, fences, houses, pastures, roads and windmills. And the occasional tornado. That’s the world Virgil Penner dreams —and paints. “My art is constructed art,” Penner, 82, of North Newton, said. “I create the colors, the balance and the movement so your eye moves around.” Penner’s Kansas Regionalism exhibit at Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th St. in Newton, which opened just as the coronavirus pandemic shut things down, has been extended to July 18. There is an artist reception 7 to 9 p.m. July 11. Many know Penner from his long career teaching and coaching at Bethel College. He then served as CEO of the Newton Chamber of Commerce, retiring in 2009. But art was his first passion. Penner says a couple of teachers exerted a big influence on him. One was Cora Nicodemus, his seventh and eighth grade teacher at the oneroom Candy School east of Newton. She sent students outdoors 30 to 40 minutes twice weekly to draw or write
a poem. “I think a lot of the kids who went through her program learned to be observant of the world around them.” His art teacher at Newton High School, Marie Orr, pushed her students to create movement in their works. “She told me, ‘Virgil, a straight line has no movement. Bend your lines and you create a mood and a feeling.’ She always said listen to music. ‘What does it do and and what do you see? Why can’t your image bring feeling?’ ’’ Penner planned to attend Kansas City Art Institute, but his father died during Virgil’s senior year and he was needed on the family farm. Penner went to nearby Bethel, earning a bachelor’s degree in industrial arts. He later received a master’s degree in education from Wichita State University. Penner quit painting in 1964. “I was teaching and coaching, we planned on having a family and we lived in a trailer the first four or five years of our marriage.” In the 1960s he began making architectural renderings and continues those today. A typical house rendering contains thousands of lines. His wife Kaye, who died last year, counted 375,000 lines in his drawing of New-
ton High School. The urge to paint returned in 2008 while he and Kaye visited art galleries in Santa Fe and Taos. “There are miles and miles of art galleries. It is art heaven,” Penner said. He bought $500 of acrylic paint and canvas in Santa Fe. An exhibition of Virgil Penner’s paintings will run Since 2008 through July 18 in Newton. he has created at shows, which surprises him. “There about 375 paintings and sold more is nothing warm about a tornado than 150. Most of his paintings are painting. You can have boards wrapped priced between $425 and $975 and can be found on www.virgilapennerart. around boards, things wrapped around com. Penner also has paintings for sale trees. They are fun to do.” A buyer from Moore, Okla., whose at Carriage Factory Art Gallery and house had been struck twice told Pentakes part in about a dozen art shows ner he would put his tornado painting a year. in a four-foot space by the back door. He puts tornados in some paint“He said, ‘I will see it each day and ings and these usually sell immediately remember to check the weather.’ ”
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Roasted radishes will rock your world By Joe Stumpe You think you know a vegetable, eating it in all the familiar ways, and then all of a sudden you realize you’ve never enjoyed a tenth of its potential. That’s how I feel about radishes, having now been turned on to the idea of roasting them. Sure, I’ve always liked their pep-
pery freshness when sliced raw into salads, or as a garnish for Mexican street tacos. But cooking them imparts a whole new sweetness to them, and frankly makes me want to eat a whole lot more of them. I compared several recipes online before coming up with this version, which combines radishes with another
favorite vegetable, those small rainbow potatoes now sold by the bag all over, for a dish as colorful as it is tasty. A few other ingredients – olive oil, garlic, parsley, salt and pepper – are all you need.
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1 lb. radishes, trimmed and halved (or cut into thirds if extra large) 1 lb. rainbow potatoes, skins left on and cut into halves Olive oil Salt and pepper to taste 2 cloves garlic, mined Freshly chopped parsley Directions: Preheat oven to 425 degrees. In a bowl, toss together radishes, potatoes, olive oil and salt and pepper. Pour into a sheet pan in a single layer and place in oven. Cook about 25-30 minutes, stirring occasionally, or until radishes and potatoes are easily pierced with a fork and cooked through. About 5 minutes before they’re done cooking, toss in the garlic and stir. When done, place all in a serving bowl, sprinkle with parsley and serve.
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Seventy-two Wichitans travelled to South Haven, Kan. to run, walk, play horse shoes and shuffleboard and otherwise take part in the area’s first Senior Olympics … The Bradford Memorial Library in El Dorado began delivering books to nursing homes, retirement communities and Susan B. Anthony … A columnist speculated whether Ronald Reagan was too old to be elected president at 69.
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July Briefs Get ER if needed, doc says Medical personnel are urging people not to avoid or delay seeking emergency medical care out of fear they’ll catch the COVID-19 virus. “We’ve noticed a trend where seniors are presenting to the emergency department sicker than they ought to be, or significantly worse than before the coronavirus,” said Dr. Howard Chang, medical director at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis’ emergency department. “And that results in significantly higher mortality, unfortunately.” People experiencing the symptoms of strokes, heart attacks, infections, broken bones, severe abdominal pains
and other conditions “just can’t wait on” care, Chang said. Hospitals and emergency clinics have taken steps to prevent potential exposure to the virus with separate intake and care areas, waiting room distancing and other measures, he said. Exhibit at Mark Arts Wichita Women Artists will open its 70th anniversary exhibit with a reception at Mark Arts on July 24. The show, which features works in a variety of media by 40 artists, runs through Aug. 28. The organization offers women artists an opportunity to show and sell their work while learning and receiving support from each other.
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Public TV salutes women KPTS is airing a series of shows through July highlighting influential women. Called “Trailblazers,” the the segments include pieces on women
campaigning for the vote, 7 p.m. July 6; women who work in the arts, sport and more, 8 p.m. July 6; and women who shaped American politics, 8 p.m. July 10. For more info, visit pbs.org.
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Enter our Pet Photo Contest We’ve heard stories of how much people have appreciated their pets during the coronavirus pandemic. Now’s your chance to make your pet a star. Send us his or her photo with a short story about what your pet means to you. We’ll publish as many as we can and draw a prize for one pet from the entries. To enter, email joe@theactiveage.com or mail to The Active Age, 125 S. West St., Ste 105 Wichita, KS, 67213 and if you would like to adopt a pet like Chip, at right, contact the Kansas Humane Society at 316-524-9196.
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Popular detective series brings heroine to Kansas By Ted Ayres “Dead Land” by Sara Paretsky (William Morrow, 2020, 405 pages, $29.70) Sara Paretsky was 4 years old when her father accepted a faculty position with the University of Kansas in 1951. After graduation from the University of Kansas, Paretsky moved to Chicago in the late 1960s and she has lived there ever since. She earned a PhD in history and MBA from the University of Chicago. Paretsky uses her connections to Chicago and Kansas to great effect in her new novel, “Dead Land.” It’s the 21st book in a series featuring
V.I. Warshawsky, a public defender-turned-private investigator working out of the south side of Chicago. Warshawsky is an engaging protagonist and Paretsky makes believable her expressions of cynicism, anger, desperation and the kind of fear that happens when someone is shooting at you. The story revolves around the disappearance of Lydia Zamir – a former piano prodigy who grew up in Eudora, Kan. – and two Chicago murders. Warshawsky ventures to Kansas during her investigation. Readers of The Active Age will find multiple references to Kansas, including Salina, Ellsworth, the Wichita
Here it is, that ‘70s Quiz!
By Nancy Wheeler Many of you probably remember the 1970s as a time of growth and change in Wichita. Take this quiz to see how much you recall about some local characters and places of that era. Answers appear on page 26.
1. What Wichita television personality was well known for saying,
“Romper, Stomper, Bomper, Boo”? 2. What narrow Bohemian clothing boutique featured creaky floors and jelly beans? 3. A plane carrying Wichita State University football players, coaches and boosters crashed in the Rocky Mountains, killing 31. Who was the president of the university during that difficult period?
Eagle, Lawrence, Manhattan, KU and K-State. One character tells Warshawsky: “There’s a big rivalry between K-State and the Lawrence campus, the Jayhawks –you wouldn’t wear Wildcats gear around here unless you liked getting people stirred up.” The title of this book could refer to several threads of contemporary events that run through it. Paretsky tackles corporate farming; immigration; land use and urban planning; municipal governance shenanigans (part of it is set in Chicago); and gun violence. A mass killing at an annual music festival called “Tallgrass Meet-Up” in Horsethief Canyon in the Kanopolis State Park
forms an integral part of the story. Paretsky writes with a fast-paced style that gives the book a real pulse. I enjoyed it and offer it with a positive recommendation to our readers.
4. Who ended each day’s TV show by saying “Join me next time when everything will be A-okay, and all systems will be go?” 5. What museum opened to showcase the history and culture of Native Americans? 6. What popular sandwich shop featured unusual entrees like the Lumbago Remedy, the Stimulant Supreme, the Consumption Cure, and the European Restorative?
7. The Keeper of the Plains was designed by Blackbear Bosin and installed in 1974 to commemorate what upcoming event? 8. What attraction opened in 1971 and has since become the largest outdoor tourist destination in Kansas? 9. Construction on the Canal Route portion of I-135 was begun in 1971. What creek runs through the median of the highway route?
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Area senior centers set to reopen, with significant changes the active age More senior centers across the area are planning to reopen this month, although plans for exactly what that will look like were still being finalized as The Active Age went to press. In Wichita, four centers – Downtown, Linwood Park, Orchard Park and Northeast – are scheduled to reopen July 13. A news release from Senior Services, Inc., which operates the centers, said the organization is “working hard on coming up with fun social and educational activities” while still adhering to coronavirus safety precautions. Here are some protocols the centers will follow: • If you are sick or have been around anyone sick, you are asked to stay home. • Temperature and a questionnaire
will be taken upon arrival. • Maintain physical distance of six feet or more. • Masks will be required for all activities besides exercise classes • Some sites will have sanitation stations, others will have individual pumps for hand sanitizing. • You will be required to have your membership card to sign in - if you do not have or cannot find your current one, a new one will be issued to you for free. After the first one is re-issued, a $3 fee will be charged for any additional ones • Upon your first arrival you will be required to fill out a new demographic sheet with updated phone numbers, addresses and emergency contacts to make sure your information is current. • Each activity space will be
marked for room occupancy defined by the regulations that Sedgwick County has put into place. • Calling to reserve your spot will be required for all activities to insure that required room capacity regulations are met. Staff members will wear face shields or masks when interacting with patrons. Activities and their times may change. Currently, for instance, the
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centers are not planning to allow cards, dominoes, billiards, evening activities, indoor pickleball or foot care at this time, although they will be incorporated later. The centers are not providing food and drink. Patrons can bring their own drink with lid and food, but are asked not to share it. For more information, see the calendar of events on page 21.
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Little Jerusalem Badlands State Park, left, and Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, below, are two prime spots to visit in Kansas.
In-state travel just the ticket in age of COVID-19
By Julie Doll By this time each spring, many Kansans have planned or made summer vacations, figuring out where they want to go, how to get there and what they want to do. It’s another part of life that COVID-19 has turned into a maybepossibly-we’ll-have-to-wait-and-see event. Even if big trips to mountains or oceans don’t work out this year, it looks like we will be able to enjoy in-state travel, unless too many people ignore public health recommendations and set off a serious resurgence of COVID-19. And while Kansas might not inspire the awe that the Rockies do, it does have spots worth our admiration and time. Here are some recommendations from central and western Kansas, which are intended to give an idea of what there is to see – including many in areas where keeping your distance from others is often a way of life. I’m thinking of places such as Little Jerusalem Badlands State Park in Logan County and Monument Rocks, which is nearby in Gove County. When I visited Indiana last fall to see some family and friends, I made a
stop at an artists’ cooperative in Lafayette, between Indianapolis and Chicago. The artist who was minding the store that day asked where I was from, and we started chatting. Turns out, she had driven through Kansas a few weeks earlier, and she had planned her trip from Indiana to New Mexico so that she could spend time at Monument Rocks. Specifically, she said, she wanted to paint it at sunrise. Farther east on the sight-seeing list is Fort Larned National Historic Site, in Pawnee County. You can check the National Park Service website to see whether it is fully open, but even during the shutdown, its grounds were open to the public. East of there is Cheyenne Bottoms in Barton County. Its drives through wetlands offer views of all kinds of wildlife, especially different species of birds. And the associated Kansas Wetlands Education Center, if open, is worth a stop. As museums open up, the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays has wonderful exhibits and specimens. You can call or check the website to see if it’s open. While many indoor spaces remain closed this month, places such as Qui-
Senior Wednesdays www.seniorwednesday.org
NOTE: DUE TO CONCERNS OVER CORONAVIRUS, THE SENIOR WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE FOR JULY MAY BE SUBJEC TO CHANGE. FOR MORE INFO, CHECK SENIORWEDNESDAY.ORG OR CONTACT THE HOSTING VENUES. July 1 10 am Wichita Art Museum No program for more info. 1:30 pm The Kansas African American 1:30 pm Museum of World Treasures Museum. Information unavailable. World War I - MIke Maxton talks about boys who were drafted and women who served on July 22 the draft board in Wichita, $4. Mask required. 10 am Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum Program will be July 8 held, check with musem for details. 10 am Sedgwick County Zoo. In1:30 pm Exploration Place formation unavailable. 1:30 pm Advanced Learning Library. Information unavailable.lushing pears, roll. Senior Wednesdays cancelled through end of July 29 2020. 10 am Great Plains Nature Center Information unavailable. July 15 1:30 pm Old Cowtown Museum 10 am Ulrich Museum of Art. Virtual program available, check with museum Information unavailable.
vira National Wildlife Refuge, which is about 30 miles west of Hutchinson offers great places to drive, hike and see Kansas wildlife, in animal and plant forms. If your idea of a good time around water involves boats, fishing and skiing, Kansas has plenty of lakes. Smaller state fishing lakes typically aren’t as crowded as some of the bigger lakes. Just be sure you know the rules and fees before you head out. And one spot I highly recommend isn’t in Kansas, but it’s close. Amache is about a 30-minute drive west on Highway 50 from the Kansas-Colorado border. An internment camp during World War II, Amache was “home”
to about 10,000 people of Japanese descent, many of them U.S. citizens, who were imprisoned at the site in the 1940s. Over the past several years, private and government entities have worked collaboratively to preserve and enhance the site, which is just outside Granada, Colorado. Given all the whining and screaming about government restrictions during a pandemic, an internment camp should help put into perspective what American freedom means, and what repression really looks like. A native of Garden City, Julie Doll is a former journalist who has worked at newspapers in California, Indiana and New York, as well as across Kansas.
Websites for in-state travel:
Little Jerusalem https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/places-we-protect/little-jerusalem-badlands-state-park/ Monument Rocks https://www.washburn.edu/cas/art/cyoho/archive/KStravel/bigrocks/pyramids.html Fort Larned https://www.nps.gov/fols/index.htm Cheyenne Bottoms http://wetlandscenter.fhsu.edu/ Sternberg Museum http://sternberg.fhsu.edu/ Quivira National https://www.fws.gov/refuge/quivira/ State Fishing Lakes https://ksoutdoors.com/KDWPT-Info/Locations/State-Fishing-Lakes Amache https://amache.org/ Internment camp https://www.nps.gov/places/granada-relocation-center.htm
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Calendar of Events Sedgwick County Senior Centers
Note to readers: Senior center schedules and other events normally listed on this page are expected to be affected by the coronavirus through much of July. For information, call the numbers listed below. BEL AIRE 7651 E Central Park Ave 744-2451, ext 121 www.belaireks.org BENTLEY/EAGLE 504 W Sterling, 796-0027 CHENEY 516 Main, 542-3721 CLEARWATER 921 E Janet, 584-2332 DERBY 611 N Mulberry Rd, 788-0223 www.derbyweb.com DOWNTOWN 200 S Walnut, 267-0197 www.seniorservicesofwichita.org EDGEMOOR 5815 E 9th, 688-9392
GARDEN PLAIN 1006 N Main, 535-1155 GODDARD 120 N Main, 794-2441 HAYSVILLE 160 E Karla, 529-5903 KECHI Kechi City Building, 744-0217, 744-1271 LA FAMILIA 841 W 21st, 267-1700 LINWOOD 1901 S Kansas, 263-3703 www.seniorservicesofwichita.org MCADAMS GOLDEN AGE 1329 E 16th, 337-9222 MT HOPE 105 S Ohio, 667-8956
ANDOVER 410 Lioba Dr, 733-4441 www.andoverks.com AUGUSTA 640 Osage, 775-1189
CASSODAY Cassoday Senior Center 133 S. Washington, 620-735-4538
BENTON Lion’s Community Bldg, S Main St
EL DORADO 210 E 2nd, 321-0142
MULVANE 632 E Mulvane, 777-4813 NORTHEAST 2121 E 21st, 269-4444
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OAKLAWN 2937 Oaklawn Dr, 524-7545 ORCHARD PARK 4808 W 9th, 942-2293 seniorservicesofwichita.org PARK CITY 6100 N Hydraulic, 744-1199 VALLEY CENTER VC Community Center 314 E Clay, 755-7350
Butler County Senior Centers DOUGLASS 124 W 4th, 746-3227
Harvey County Centers
BURRTON 124 N Burrton, 620-463-3225
HALSTEAD 523 Poplar, 835-2283 HESSTON Randall & Main, 620-327-5099 www.hesstonseniorcenter.com
Derby Sr Center, 611 Mulberry. El Dorado Jam & Dance, Senior Center, 210 E 2nd. Goldenrod Golden Age, 1340 S Pattie. Linwood Golden Age, 1901 S Kansas. Minisa Golden Age, 704 W 13th. Info 617-2560. Mulvane, 101 E. Main (Pix Community Center). Oaklawn Activity Center cafeteria, 4904 S Clifton. Info: iamgary48@yahoo.com. Orchard Park Golden Age, 4808 W 9th.
TOWANDA 317 Main, 776-8999 Open 10:30 am-5 pm Mon, Wed, Fri WHITEWATER Legion Hall, 108 E Topeka
GRAND CENTRAL 122 E 6th, Newton, 283-2222 www.newtonseniorcenter.org SEDGWICK 107 W. Fifth, 772-0393
Park City Sr Center, 6100 N Hydraulic. Info: 755-1060
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Prairie Wind Dancers: Plymouth Congregational Church, 202 N Clifton. Joyce, 683-1122. Oaklawn Activity Center, 4904 S Clifton. Info: Nick, 529-2792, or Mike, 650-2469. wichitacontra.org. Westside Steppers Square Dance, Clare Hall, 861 N Socora (one block east of Central & Tyler).. Info: David, 992-7820; email: westsidesteppers@hotmail.com Wichita Solos Square Dance, Dawson UMC, 2741 S Laura. Info: Curtis, wichitasolos@yahoo.com.
Reach 55,000 homes in Sedgwick, Butler and Harvey counties with your classified ad. Contact Tammara at 316-942-5385 or email her tammara@theactiveage.com Deadline for the August issue is July 15.
Transportation Sedgwick Co Transportation, 660-5150 or 1-800-367-7298. Information: 8 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri; closed most holidays. www. sedgwickcounty.org/aging.
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Augusta Sr Center, 640 Osage. . Info: 755-1060
LEON 112 S Main, 745-9200 or 742-9905 ROSE HILL 207 E Silknitter, 776-0170
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.
Harvey County
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, 12:304:30 pm from Burrton, Sedgwick, Halstead, Hesston, Walton.
AARP DriverSafety Classes Four hours of instruction; certificate on completion. Reservation required. $15 for AARP members; $20 others. NO CLASSES
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Friendship Meals Aging Projects serves a hot, nutritious meal weekdays for persons 60 and older in Sedgwick, Harvey and Butler counties. Reservations are necessary. For locations and reservations, call 620-669-8201. WEEK OF JULY 1 Wed: Chicken fajita salad, (lettuce, tomato, cheese, chips) salsa, corn relish, blueberries, rice pudding milk Thu: Hamburger on a bun, potato salad, cuke & onion salad, watermelon, milk, peanut butter cookie Fri: HOLIDAY WEEK OF JULY 6 Mon: Scalloped pot with ham casserole, broccoli, apple juice, peaches, roll, milk Tue: Glazed chicken, parslied carrots, macaroni salad, strawberries, sugar cookie. milk Wed: Taco burger, mexican rice, bean medley salad, pineapple, milk. Thu: Pork roast w/gravy, cabbage, au gratin, peas, mixed fruit, applesauce cake, roll, milk Fri: Potato stroganoff casserole, green beans, cantaloupe, gelatin, bread, milk WEEK OF JULY 13 Mon: Chicken pasta salad, tomato slices, honeydew melon, cinnamon roll, milk Tue: Pork patty sandwich, potatoes o'brien, green beans, blueberries Wed: Mexican lasagna, refried beans, combo salad, dressing, mandarin oranges, snickerdoodle cookie, milk Thu: Ham & beans, tomato & cuke salad, parslied carrots, stewed apples, cornbread, milk Fri: Meatloaf, au gratin potatoes, mixed vegetables, peaches, roll, milk WEEK OF JULY 20 Mon: Tuna patty w/tartar sauce, mac & cheese, spinach, strawberries, brownie Tue: Liver & onions OR beef cutlet, mashed potatoes, comb salad, dressing, blushing pears, roll, milk Wed: Ham & broccoli casserole, tomato slices, peaches, gelatin, wheat bread Thu: Cranberry meatballs, cauliflower rice, green beans, pineapple, roll Fri: Southwest chix bake, carrots, pinto beans, mixed melon cup, bread pudding, milk WEEK OF JULY 27 Mon: Spaghetti w/meat sauce, comb salad, dressing, peaches, garlic bread Tue: Oven baked chicken, potato salad, baked beans, pears, roll, milk Wed: Pork & noodle cass, green beans, cole slaw, applesauce, wheat bread Thu: Baked fish w/tartar sauce OR chicken breast, creamed peas, sliced tomatoes, bluberries, cornbread Fri: Hot roast beef sandwich (mashed potatoes/gravy) carrots, mediterranean salad, watermellon, milk FUNDING MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE OLDER AMERICANS ACT, KDADS AND CENTRAL PLAINS AREA AGENCY ON AGING
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Lakeview, Everlasting Life, double depth crypt with vaults and markers. Value $8,500, sell $4,000. Wanda, 316-619-8525. Garden Of The Cross, 4 Resthaven Cemetery plots together, $2,900 ea or $10,000 all, OBO. Buyer pays transfer fee. Call Brad (316)259-8948 Lakeview Gardens-Reflection Area. Stand up stones allowed. NO transfer fee. 2 plots, regular $7,500 – Asking ½ price $3,750.Call for more details 785-845-1177 or email jwdorsey4816@gmail.com 2 plots at Resthaven, side by side in Garden of Freedom. Valued $8,800 selling both for $5,000. Call 316-706-5759. Double depth crypt at Old Mission Cemetery. Crypt included. Transfer fee negotiable. Call 316-308-1658 or 316-841-9460. White chapel 6 lots close to soldier circle. Valued at $14,370. Asking $9,000. Seller will pay transfer fees. Call Lauren at 316-838-8261. Resthaven Garden of Freedom, Double depth lawn crypt, space for two. Value $7,995. Sell $6,995. Seller will pay transfer fee of $295. Call 316-832-9750 Resthaven, Christ with Children, 2 lots $2,250 each, OBO. Garden of the Cross, 4 lots $2,100 each, OBO. Dale (316) 670-4986
Resthaven, Garden of Freedom, Double-depth lawn crypt, with marker, space for two, Bronze Memorial, granite base. Value $8,900. Sell $6,800. Good location, Seller will pay transfer fee. 316-617-2088 F ESTATE SALES F KC ESTATE SALES Complete estate & moving sale services. We can do the sale at your residence or place your items with another sale. Expert pricing, selling & clean-up. Packing & moving services available. Excellent results. Free consultation. Call Carolyn Moshier. 316-634-0040 CUSTOMIZED ESTATE SALES GREATER PROFITS WITH LESS STRESS Insured with 20 years experience Free Consultations 316-806-7360 Julie IPK Enterprises Estate Sales. Know your options, you have many. Please call us for a free consultation. 316-806-3435.
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F HOME CARE F In-Home Services: Personal care assistance, meal preparation, housekeeping, handymen and more! Phone Chester at the Senior Employment Program, 316-267-1771 or 316-267-0302. Pre-screened, reliable help available. Private Duty Aide with light house keeping. Availability evenings and weekends. References upon request. Cynthia CNA/HHA 316-992-6711
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1. Be sure to deadhead perennials as their blooms fade to improve appearance and help them focus their energy on root growth rather than seed production. 2. Check your vegetable garden every day and harvest often. Green beans, cucumbers and summer squash are best when they are harvested young, and they grow very fast. Regular harvesting helps
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keep your plants producing. Tomatoes will ripen off the vine but taste best if they are fully colored when picked. Peppers can be harvested any time. 3. Mulch plants to help them retain moisture and reduce weed competition. You can use any kind of purchased mulch or grass clippings, straw, hay or any of these materials placed over a layer of weed blocking landscape material, newspaper or cardboard. 4. Cut back annuals and remove faded flowers to encourage them to keep blooming. If they begin to die back in the hot summer temperatures, replace them with heat-loving plants. Remove dead plants from your garden because they may be a shelter for pests that could spread to other plants. Be sure to cut some flowers to enjoy inside. 5. Keep watering, especially your container and hanging plants. They may need daily watering on these hot days. Try to water in the early morning or late in the day but not late evening. Try to water the ground around the plants and avoid wetting the leaves especially if you water late in the day. Be sure the leaves have time to dry before dark to avoid diseases. Water newly planted trees and shrubs regularly so they won’t suffer stress as they develop their root systems. 6. Water your grass if you want
it to stay green but don’t overwater. Grass needs 1 to 1½ inch of water per week. More than that will cause the root system to be shallow. Raise your mower blade height and let your grass be a little taller to help shade the crowns and roots in hot weather. If you want your grass to go dormant during the hot weather, reduce watering but don’t let the grass go without water for more than 4 weeks and do not fertilize or use herbicides during this time. Spot treat or remove weeds by hand. 7. Don’t allow weeds to go to seed. Removing weeds before they go to seed can greatly reduce the number of weeds in the future. A single weed can produce thousands, even millions of seeds. 8. Watch for signs of pest infestation or disease and deal with it promptly. Protect the beneficial insects in your garden and follow package directions carefully on any treatment that you decide to use. Your garden changes every day so pay attention and don’t miss a moment of this wonderful time of the year. Janice Sroufe is a Sedgwick County Master Gardener. She welcomes comments and questions. Contact her at janice.sro@gmail.com
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From Page 19 1. Miss Fran, hostess of “Romper Room.” In real life she was former Wichita schoolteacher Fran Lee. The show was syndicated across the country, using a local host wherever it ran. Lee did the show for 13 years before leaving to earn her master’s degree at Wichita State University and working in special education. 2. Cricket Alley was a store that operated in the old Wichita Mall on
Harry Street, selling women’s fashions, accessories and gifts. 3. Wichita native Clark Ahlberg, who served as president of WSU for 14 years, during which time the Ulrich Museum, Heskett Center and eight other buildings were added to campus. Ahlberg, who now has his own namesake hall on campus, stayed after retirement to teach political science. 4. Major Astro, played by Tom Leahy, Jr., was the host of a childrens’ show that featured Leahy introducing
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cartoons while wearing a space suit, on a set designed to look like a space station on another planet. Major Astros’ Space Patrol Kids Club had more than 20,000 members at one point. 5. Mid-America All-Indian Center opened along the Arkansas River in 1976, originally providing social services to Native Americans as well. Today it attracts about 40,000 visitors a year and serves as a cultural center for Native Americans in the region. 6. Dr. Redbird’s Medicinal Inn, which was owned by Richard and Marnie Vliet, who also started the
Looking Glass and Larkspur. It was known for its inventive, huge sandwiches. 7. The United States Bicentennial, celebrated in 1976. Since being raised on a promontory as part of a riverfront project in 2006, The Keeper has become perhaps the city’s most iconic symbol. 8. The Sedgwick County Zoo, which houses over 3,000 animals and 400 species and has made several lists of “best zoos” in the United States. 9. Chisholm Creek, named for Jesse Chisholm, an early trader who developed the famed Chisholm Trail.
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