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By Debbi Elmore As a young man, Swapan Kumar Chaudhuri dreamed of coming to the United States. “I was envious of Americans and all the opportunities here,” he said. Chaudhuri realized his ambition in his late 30s. Since his arrival from Canada in 1996, he has earned a master’s degree from Wichita State University, landed a job in information technology in McPherson and met and married his wife. The couple live in Newton, dividing the distance between her job in Wichita and his further north. Chaudhuri’s adopted land has lived up to his expectations. “It’s the greatest country in the world,” he said. “There is so much economic
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Play it safe outdoors this summer Members of the Greater Wichita YMCA enjoy a water fitness class. By Monica Cissell Outdoor activity is good for the body and soul, but too much sun and heat can be dangerous. That’s especially true for older people, people with underlying medical conditions and people taking certain medications. Follow these tips to reap the benefits of fresh air and vitamin D without overdoing it: • Consider a conversation with a
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physician if exercising outdoors is a new endeavor. • Exercising with a buddy or keep a cell phone close in case of emergencies. • Exercise in the morning when temperatures are cooler. • Drink plenty of water throughout the day. Thirst is not a good indicator of hydration; if you are thirsty, dehydration may already
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By Joe Stumpe The number of older residents served by the Kansas Food Bank is on the rise. A few years ago, about 7 percent of the people served by the food bank were seniors. Today, that figure is about twice as large. “We have many seniors who are living on limited incomes that can’t make ends meet,” said Debi Kreutzman, community relations manager for the food bank, which serves 85 Kansas counties. “They may receive a 1.3 percent increase in Social Security but the cost of living has gone up triple that. And food prices right now. That kind of makes a perfect storm to where our seniors truly need that additional help.” Kreutzman was honored for her work on senior hunger last month, receiving the 15th annual Irene Hart See Hunger, page 8
Wichita's medical school marks 50th year
By Bonnie Bing Ask someone to name institutions of higher learning in Wichita and they’ll quickly come up with Wichita State University, Friends University and Kansas Newman University. There’s another four-year school with a shorter history but no lack of impact on the area and state: KU School of Medicine Wichita. The medical school is 50 years old this year. One measure of its importance is that by 2008, half of the physicians practicing in Sedgwick County were graduates of the school or one of its residency programs. Wherever they ended up, the school’s graduates say the communitybased, hands-on approach taken by the
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Feathery friends make fourth appearance
The Active Age ANDOVER — Some temporary residents of the Andover Court assisted living facility have proven extremely flighty, but other residents like them anyway. For the fourth year in a row this spring, a mallard duck flew into the facility’s inner courtyard, laid her eggs and hatched them. “We think it’s the same one, we don’t know for sure,” said Beth Grainger, who moved into Andover Court with her husband, Jim, in time for the feathery family’s third and fourth appearances. Fourteen ducklings hatched on April 17. Beth said this year’s visit couldn’t have come at a better time. “Oh yes. We just came out of lockdown, from March to March, and so here come these little baby ducks. Everybody was interested in those ducks. They’d ask me how they’re doing. A lot of the residents have
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Yellow duck-themed shirts and a farewell card celebrated some itinerant ducks at Andover Court. windows (looking onto the courtyard). animal lover said. “I had to get the of food to lead the ducks out of the This one man told me, ‘Oh, I watch hose out.” courtyard, down a hallway and out of those ducks all the time.’ It was a She researched ducks online and the facility. From there, their mother wonderful outlet for people here.” found that ducks would be ready for led them to a nearby pond. Beth inherited the job of looking the outside world at the age of six to The Graingers retired in 2010, after the ducks, which meant buying eight weeks. Before that could happen, after second careers as part-time bus food and a small swimming pool and on May 27, one was apparently drivers for Andover schools. doing little clean-up duty now and snatched away by a winged predator. “I didn’t know much about ducks,” then. “That just broke my heart,” Grainger Beth said. “I got pretty attached to the “Of course, they’re messy, that’s said. little things, I tell you.” the bad thing about it,” the longtime On June 1, Grainger used a trail
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Teenage girls were crazy for cars, too By Diana Breit Wolfe Recently I sent a couple of cards to my two great-grand nieces for their 14th birthdays. I kidded them about learning to drive, which made me think about my own experiences when I was 14 and so anxious to get a “learner’s permit.” It was1957 and the family car was a pink ’57 Chevy automatic. On Sunday afternoons my dad took me on country roads to practice. I loved it. My dad had more confidence in my ability than he should have when he allowed me to drive into town going north on Hydraulic approaching Kellogg. Back then there was no overpass and George Washington Boulevard ended at that corner coming from the southeast. The five lanes of busy traffic came together in a very convoluted way, which resulted in me bursting into
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tears and my dad and me switching seats. That never deterred me from driving, just made me more determined. I e-mailed some of my Diana Breit former high Wolfe school chums (all girls) who were part of my 1961 graduating class to ask about their driving experiences. Joann learned in her boyfriend’s car, in town, with traffic and him as her teacher. What could go wrong? Soon they heard a siren and got pulled over. After hearing an explanation, the cop told the boyfriend to take her out to the country for the lessons. Kathy worked hard and saved
Dear Reader her money to buy her first car, a red VW bug from Import Motors on West Douglas. With the paperwork all signed, she got in to drive it home with her stepdad in the passenger seat and discovered one big problem. She had learned to drive an automatic, so she had no idea how to shift gears or what to do with a clutch. She got some quick lessons from stepdad, made many false starts before finally jerking her way out of the parking lot and home. Her stepdad never drove with her again. Elaine learned how to shift when she was five years old. Her dad had a ’37 Dodge Coupe and she sat next to him, shifting gears with the floor shift.
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She wasn’t tall enough to see out the window but says she could “shift that roadster like a demon.” Diane’s first car was a very ugly brown used Edsel she bought from her dad for $250. She got rear-ended in it but her heavy tank of a car barely budged and (before seat belts) she was not injured. My mother and older sister never learned to drive until they were adults. I agree with Elaine that we are lucky to be among the first generation of women for whom it was normal to drive and own their own cars. I think we’re lucky to have The Active Age newspaper mailed to us every month, too. If you enjoy it, please consider a donation to keep us going— kinda like those cars did back in 1957! Diana Breit Wolfe is treasurer of The Active Age’s volunteer board of directors. She can be reached at dcwolfe2000@ yahoo.com.
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opportunity here and the people are very friendly. If you are smart, you can get ahead. And I love all the sunshine.” He’s not alone. Despite the controversy that often swirls around the subject, the United States has more immigrants than any other country in the world — nearly 45 million foreign-born residents representing almost 14 percent of the population as of 2018. Three-quarters are in the country legally and 45 percent are naturalized U.S. citizens, according to the respected Pew Research Center. Chaudhuri became one of the latter last month in a ceremony at Wichita State University where about 125 people took the Oath of Allegiance, the final step in the naturalization process. In the most recent federal fiscal year, 1,297 people became citizens in Kansas. While most are younger, it’s not unusual for immigrants in their 60s, 70s and up to obtain citizenship, said Debbie Cannon, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Wichita lawyer Bach Hang, on the other hand, took the naturalization test as soon as he could, at age 18. Hang was born to parents who had fled to Vietnam from China. “My family left in 1978 and went to America because mom and dad wanted my two brothers and me to have more opportunities and there was public education,” he recalled. “We got on a boat and it landed in the Bidong Island in Malaysia. We
Sedi Babaei, right, and Shahrokh Amirsamimi immigrated from Iran to the United States after retiring. "It's like paradise to us," Babaei said. your parents didn’t take it. I did it for spent a year in a refugee camp there,” college application and scholarship he continued. “Deplorable conditions, purposes.” my mother told me. She thought dad After college, Hang established was going to die there; he was a pretty a career as an attorney practicing in sickly guy. Wichita. “As an attorney practicing “We got to the U.S. on August 2, criminal law for over 18 years now, I 1980,” he said. “We were sponsored get to help people, usually indigent by a Unitarian Church in Phoenix. ones, resolve conflict,” he explained. I Dad worked in a factory making also get to delve into constitutional windchimes. Mom worked as a issues that had everything to do housekeeper at Camel Back Inn. It’s with coming over to America. As easy to learn English when you’re an attorney, it’s our responsibility to about five years old. I learned it educate people about our court system, watching sitcoms like “Gilligan’s Island” and “Happy Days” and reading rule of law, the basis for how laws are made. I do that, in some form or street signs.” fashion, during my everyday work. Bach’s father died in 1987. “I obviously enjoy freedoms that “We moved to St. Louis in 1988 we have that most countries do not. because mom had two brothers there. Unlike my birthplace, I don’t have In 1993, I took the naturalization test to worry about my daughter Lillie and passed. I had to wait until then quitting school and starting work at because you had to be 18 to take it if
Here’s a two-pronged headscratcher: Why do Kansans have a hard time spelling “multiplication,” and why are
we trying to in the first place? Researchers affiliated with AT&T looked into what words residents
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the age of 12 because there is public education. I like that I get to make fun of government, get to criticize, and not feel like I’m going to go to prison for it. I don’t like how freedom of this or that is some entitlement to do what we want. There is a responsibility to our freedoms.” For Sedi Babaei, coming to America was a goal that took many years to accomplish. As a teenager in Iran, she was taught by instructors from America, who helped her become proficient in English and launched her dream of immigrating. Babaei and her husband, Shahrokh Amirsamimi, raised three children. After they retired, they again began to pursue their joint dream of coming to the United States. Her brother, who lived in Arlington, Va., agreed to serve as their sponsor, so they applied to immigrate. Once approved, they arrived in United States visiting several states before choosing to settle in Wichita, where their adopted godson was enrolled in the program for the visually impaired at Envision. They applied for a green card, waited the required five years, and then requested citizenship, working with Carmen Velazquez, a case worker at Catholic Charities. Today they are proud to say they have been citizens for two years. As citizens, they enjoy making new friends and attending local churches. “We love the U.S.,” Babaei enthused. “It’s like paradise to us.” Contact Debbi Elmore at Debbi. Elmore2017@gmail.com
Research on Kansas spelling doesn’t quite add up
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across the United States have been asking Google for help spelling. (No, they’re not spying on your laptop or phone. A website called Google Trends allows anybody to conduct such research). This research covered the period from March 24, 2020 to March 24. 2021. Not surprisingly, “quarantine” was the word that people needed help with most across the country, leading queries in 12 states. But in Kansas, “multiplication” was tops. Unfortunately, the research didn’t
reveal why people searched for certain words. Is it because we whiled away the pandemic revisiting our old mathematics textbooks? Started raising rabbits as a hobby? Needed a five-syllable rhyme for “misinformation”? If it’s any consolation, our spelling bugaboo wasn’t the oddest on the list. That honor goes to Floridians, who for some reason wanted to know how to spell “pharaoh.” — Joe Stumpe
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From Page 1 Wichita campus prepared them well. “The faculty was really engaged in teaching,” said Dr. Kim Hartwell, who graduated from the Wichita campus along with her husband, Rick, in the early 1980s. “And while the students at KU in Kansas City were reading about pediatrics, we were seeing real kids. What we were experiencing was as different as night and day. We were so glad to be here.” Both Hartwells went on to practice in Wichita. The school began as a two-year institution where some students who had spent their first two years at KU School of Medicine in Kansas City could finish their last two years in a clinical training-based approach. Dr. Cramer Reed was the first dean and the first group of students arrived from Kansas City in 1974. In 1977, the school took over the former E.B. Allen Hospital on North Kansas, a 100-bed county hospital which had served low-income patients since 1953. The facility, which was in poor condition, was supposed to be a
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John Chatelain and Kathleen Grandison, left, were part of the first KUSM-Wichita class. Grandison, also pictured above, went on to practice in Massachusetts. Dr. Cramer Reed, top right, was the school's first dean. temporary location. But later that year, the Board of Regents decided it should be the school’s permanent home. Three years later, the Kansas Legislature approved $4.5 million for renovations, to be done in three phases. A west wing was added in 1995 and a second story in 2010 to accommodate first- and second-year medical students, who began attending KU Wichita the next year. “One of the dreams that Cramer Reed had was for it to be a four-year medical school,” said Lorene Valentine, one of the school’s first employees. “They have accomplished that and it
was a real milestone." In addition to benefiting the Wichita area, one of the school’s main focuses has been turning out physicians for rural Kansas, with several programs and financial incentives developed for that purpose. Dr. Rick Kellerman, chair of the Department of Family & Community Medicine, says a 2013 study ranked KUSM-Wichita first in the country in producing numbers who choose to practice in a rural area. Of course, not all stayed in Kansas. Dr. Kathleen Grandison, a member of the first class to graduate from Wichita, worked for 28 years
at a family medicine clinic in rural Massachusetts. “Some people drove 40 minutes to see me from the more rural areas. I also worked in rural New York for seven years. These moments provided me with many rich memories,” she said. The seventh and current dean of the school, Dr. Garold Minns, was in the second graduating class of KUSM-Wichita, so he’s seen the school’s history unfold from more than perspective. According to Minns, the school today has nearly 100 full-time faculty, more than 80 part-time faculty and more than 1,000 volunteer faculty. Over the past half century, KUSM-Wichita has educated 2,300 students. It was the site of a medical first when the world’s first injection of biosynthetic human insulin was given by Dr. Richard Guthrie, founding chairman of the school. While it’s interesting to look back, Minns is looking toward the future. “We’re far from done,” he told the school magazine, Embark, for its golden anniversary issue. “We are going to sustain and continue building upon our visionary foundation.”
More KUSM-Wichita milestones
1974 — Psychiatry Residency program is accredited. 1975 — First class of 14 students graduate from KUSM-Wichita Pediatric Residency program is accredited. 1977 — Dr. Richard Walsh becomes the second dean. 1980 — Dr. William Reals becomes the third dean. 1982 — Dr. Donna Sweet begins her practice on the Wichita campus serving HIV-positive individuals. 1986 — An informal clinical trials group begins at the school and what is now the Robert J. Dole VA. 1988 — The trials group is named the Psychiatric Research Institute under the auspices of what is now Ascension Via Christi. Dr. Sheldon Preskorn is founding president and director. Surgery residency program is accredited. 1990 — Rural Health Education & Services Department is established. 1991 — Kansas Bridging Plan, a loan-forgiveness program to encourage primary care physicians and psychiatrists to practice in Kansas, is introduced. Joseph Meek, M.D., becomes fourth dean. 1993 — Department of Preventive Medicine, now known as Population Health, is established. 1995 — Groundbreaking for the first new construction on campus, the Daniel K. Roberts Center for Research and Kansas Health Foundation Center for Primary Care. 1996 — The master’s program in public health begins, directed by Dr. Craig Molgaard. 1997 — Family Medicine Residency program is accredited. 2002 — Dr. S. Edwards Dismuke becomes the fifth dean. 2006 — Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program is accredited. 2008 — Dr. Frederic Chang serves as interim dean. Gov. Kathleen Sebelius signs a bill authorizing funds for the expansion of KU School of Pharmacy, including a satellite school on the Wichita campus. Total number of graduates from KUSM-Wichita exceeds 1,500. KU Wichita General Pediatrics Clinic opens in Carriage Parkway. 2009 — Dr. H. David Wilson becomes sixth dean. 2010 — KUSM-Wichita's center for Breast Cancer Survivorship, Endocrinology and Adult Medicine open at Cypress Medical Park. Construction of a 26,000 square-foot expansion for KU School of Pharmacy-Wichita is completed. KU Wichita Subspecialty Pediatrics Clinic opens near Wesley Medical Center. 2015 — First class of four-year students graduate. A simulation center is added to the campus.
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Award from the Central Plains Area Agency on Aging. Among other things, Kreutzman developed the “Bob Box,” containers of shelf-stable foods that are distributed to older rural residents from locations other than traditional food pantries, which some people are reluctant to visit. They were named for and endorsed by former longtime U.S. Sen. Bob Dole. Kreutzman, a native of Marion, Kan., started working in the social services field 21 years ago as an employee of Positive Directions, a Wichita nonprofit focused on preventing sexually transmitted diseases that also operated its own food pantry. She moved to the Kansas Food Bank 12 year ago. She soon realized that some older people who needed help the most were not asking for it. “Seniors say, ‘Oh no, give it to somebody who needs it more than me.’”
Debi Kreutzman Rather than ask for more food, they would often cut their meals in half, Kreutzman said. They also try to stretch their food budget by buying foods such as noodles, beans and rice that may fill them up but not provide all the nutrients they need. “When you look at the food pyramid — five servings of fruits and
By Tom Shine KMUW A massive highway project has the potential to transform much of west Wichita. The Northwest Bypass would extend K-96 from near 45th and Maize Road to Kellogg, just east of Goddard. The question is: Will it ever be built? The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) has been buying property for the project since 2006 but only has acquired a third of the needed right-of-way. The problem so far? It’s pretty obvious. “The biggest thing right now is funding,” said Sedgwick County Commissioner David Dennis, who
represents west Wichita and west Sedgwick County. Buying the needed property for the 12-mile stretch of road is expected to cost about $50 million. Sedgwick County and KDOT have each agreed to contribute up to $1 million annually for the next five years. Earlier this month, the cities of Goddard and Maize agreed to continue contributing $5,000 a year. After the property is acquired comes the challenge of finding money for the construction phase, which will cost upward of half a billion dollars. There’s no question what the economic impact would be from a highway that connects west and east Wichita. One KDOT projection estimated it at nearly $900 million. “I am very excited with this
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veggies a day — they just don’t have the resources to be able to put healthy meals on their table.” Partly as a result, the food bank has committed to distributing more fresh produce. In 2018, it distributed 11,769 pounds of fresh produce. Last year, that number was 15,566 pounds. It adds a layer of difficulty, Kreutzman notes. “It’s so perishable. You’ve got to really watch the timing on it and make sure the partner agency has the ability to get the product refrigerated.” Kreutzman’s job often takes her around the state to work with those local food pantries and other organizations that distribute food from the Kansas Food Bank, which serves all but the northeast part of the state. It was while returning from Colby one day that she came up with the idea of the “Bob Box.” “I kept hearing about how we had seniors who wouldn’t come to the pantry. Especially in our smaller communities, (where) everybody knows everybody. ‘June won’t go to the pantry because Mable runs it and she’s worried that somebody might see her
there.’” Then she thought of Dole — “a Kansas hero, somebody the older generation trusts and believes in. I thought, ‘What if we did a box named and endorsed by him?’” When Kreutzman telephoned Dole and a woman answered, she was in for a surprise. “She said ‘Oh honey, this is Elizabeth (Dole). Just call him at his office.’ At that point, I just about fell out of my chair.” Dole not only endorsed the project, he donated $50,000 to kick it off in 2012. The boxes contain foods such as cereal, tuna, meal kits and cans of low-sodium vegetables and no-sugaradded fruit. They’re usually distributed by county health departments. “Nurses tend to know who needs help,” Kreutzman said. Kreutzman was just as shocked to receive the Hart award, named for a former longtime executive director of CPAAA. “This is something that’s for our whole team. It takes all of us to make this happen.”
project because if you look at what happened with the Northeast Expressway on K-96 … where every major interchange is now a commercial development, everything in between the major interchanges is now churches, schools and homes,” Dennis said. “We’re going to see the same exact growth on the west side. We just need to build this.” Proponents of the project cite the economic benefits the expansion of K-96 brought to east Wichita. But the project there, which was completed in 316.990.7039 the early 1990s, had a big advantage: the landartbuschwichita.com for the highway was donated artbusch@plazare.com by Charles Koch and developer George
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Writer never had a sporting chance By Ted Blankenship In more than 60 years of writing for newspapers and magazines, I have never been a sports writer. One reason is that I never participated in sports. I ran really hard but never got far. That’s because I was kind of fat. In the interest of truthfulness, I was really fat. Worse, I was short, even by childhood standards. That more or less left out basketball even though the ball didn’t have far to travel to constitute a dribble. Besides, if I got as good at it as I dreamed of becoming, hanging my jersey in the rafters would have been a problem—it would have covered all the other jerseys. It hadn’t occurred to me that my weight could be a sports asset, but it didn’t escape the grade school coach. He thought I should be an offensive tackle on the football team. He may have thought that if I just sat down at
the line of scrimmage, I would keep at least two opposing players away from the quarterback. I declined. So, I was a sports watcher rather than a player. That is, until my second year of college. I was a sophomore at what was then Emporia State Teachers College. I had managed a year at Baker University without taking physical education because the gymnasium had burned down. Unfortunately for me, the gym at Emporia was in good shape. I had the brilliant idea that if I just didn’t sign up, I might evade the dreaded physical education class which included unsavory tasks like climbing ropes with your bare hands. I didn’t
want to climb any ropes, even with gloves on. I got through the first semester and part way into the second before the coach caught up with me. He called me into his office and said, “I see you aren’t signed up for phys ed. Why is that?” I said it must have slipped my mind and that maybe we could do something next semester. I could have said the gym had burned down, but that would have been at a different college. He said: “You’re going to do something THIS semester. The only thing open is tennis, and I have already signed you up for it. You can report to Mr. LeMond tomorrow morning.” Mr. LeMond was Jean LeMond,
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By Nancy Wheeler Imagine you are plopped down in an unfamiliar Kansas town and shown only one or two of its features. Can you identify it? Use the clues below to identify 13 different towns across the state. The answers appear on page 17. 1. You pass the Holly Frontier Oil Refinery on your way to the Coutts Museum of Art. 2. You see water towers labeled “Hot” and “Cold” while attending the Miss Kansas Pageant. 3. You see the largest ball of sisal twine built by a community while attending the “Twine-a-thon” held
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each August. 4. You eat in the historic Hays House restaurant and view the Judd family’s prized collection of crystal. 5. You see the “fish-within-a-fish” in the Sternberg Museum of Natural History. 6. You see the beautiful St. Benedict’s Abbey as well as the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum. 7. You see the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site on your way to the Evel Knievel Museum. 8. From quite a distance, you see the twin 141-feet-tall towers of The Basilica of St. Fidelis, the first basilica in Kansas. • When planning activities outside decide how much protection is needed from UV rays by visiting Environmental Protection Agency’s UV index at https://www.epa.gov/ sunsafety/uv-index-1. Monica Cissell is director of information and community services for the Central Plains Area Agency on Aging. To connect with him or to find out more about CPAAA’s programs for adults 60+, call 855-200-2372 or visit www.cpaaa.org.
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about 25 years old then and an accomplished tennis player from France. He had been playing the game since he was a little boy, and his motto was that if you were going to play tennis, you should work at it diligently until you were as good as you could be. I thought I was already as good as I could be. I had lost a good deal of weight by then, but my attitude hadn’t changed much. Jean smashed sizzling serves at me and I had to swat at them to protect myself. Eventually, I began to like tennis a little and now and then played it with a friend or two. I usually lost, but I was actually running around a tennis court swatting at those little green balls and at a mosquito or two at night under the lights. I never attained much tennis expertise but the effort changed my life. I have finally written a sports story. Contact Ted Blankenship at tblankenship@cox.net.
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Dan Glickman, Orin Friesen pen new books By Joe Stumpe “Laughing at Myself: My Education in Congress, on the Farm, and at the Movies” by Dan Glickman (University of Kansas Press, $34.95) Dan Glickman believes the lack of humor in the current political environment is no laughing matter. “I do think there’s a toxic partisanship — an excessively partisan atmosphere in politics at the federal level,” the former Democratic congressman from Kansas’ 4th District said. “Even at the state level, people are too wedded to their political party. There are not enough independents, not enough people who are willing to work with people on the other side of the aisle and that’s created a lot of ill will and it’s created a system where we can’t seem to solve many problems. " Glickman discusses how a sense of humor helped him succeed in politics and much more in a new book, “Laughing at Myself: My Education in Congress, on the Farm, and at the Movies.” He isn’t suggesting that politicians need to be stand-up comedians but says the ability to share a smile or tell a self-deprecating story can sometimes bridge the gap between political opponents. Glickman was the 4th District’s congressman for 18 years. He served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1995 to 2001, then headed the Motion Picture Association of America (which represents major studios and assigns ratings to films) from 2004 to 2010.
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Tell us what’s on your reading list this summer and you could win a new book by former Congressman Dan Glickman or radio personality/musician Orin Friesen. To enter, send us the name of a book you have read or plan to read this summer and a sentence or two about why. We’ll hold a drawing and choose two winners to receive books. We will publish a summer book list in our next issue. Send your entries to The Active Age, 125 S. West St., Suite 105, Wichita, KS, 67213; or email joe@theactiveage.com (please put “summer book contest” in the subject line). He’s now part of a Washington thinktank. Glickman, who covers his upbringing in Wichita in the book, said in an interview that his parents were the dominant influences in his life. “My father was kind of a bon vivant around town. He wore his long white hair in a pony tail and drove a red Jaguar around town. He and my mother were in the oil and scrap iron business. Both had this tremendous sense of humor. People knew them as being very funny, warm, hospitable people.” The fact that they were part of the city’s fairly small Jewish population never hindered him politically, Glickman said. “I actually found it to be an asset. (Voters) liked the fact that I spent a fair amount of time talking about it.” Asked who in politics exemplified the sense of humor he admires, Glickman appropriately enough reached across the aisle. “Certainly, Kansas had Bob Dole and Pat Roberts. They were both funny in their own way.” Glickman said had been thinking about writing a book for many years before getting some free time to do that last year.
After saying he doesn’t get back to Wichita as much as he’d like, Glickman remembered the time he flew in after there had been an accident at the Titan nuclear missile site in Sedgwick County. The commander of McConnell Air Force base used a napkin to quickly diagram the situation for Glickman. The commander later panicked when the napkin disappeared. “I still remember our national security secrets were on a napkin,” Glickman said. “I don’t think the Russians got it.” Glickman remains active in several food and nutrition-focused organizations, an interest dating to his days as agriculture secretary. “I’ve been very involved in the last few years in trying to get good nutrition in the health care discussion." Glickman, 76, said he’s tried to eat healthier as he ages, not always successfully. “At times I have varied from the truth. I’m an addict for chocolate and sweets.” “Honky-Tonkers and Western Swingers: Stories of Country Music in Wichita, Kansas” by Orin Friesen (Mennonite Press, $19.95) Orin Friesen was attending a release party for a book about the history of rock and roll in Wichita when the idea for his second book hit. “The place was just packed with people,” he said. “Every time I walked around somebody would say ‘Hey Orin, you need to do this for country music.’” Four years later, Friesen has produced “Honky-Tonkers and Western Swingers: Stories of Country Music in Wichita, Kansas.” Friesen, a radio personality and musician,
also wrote “Goat Glands to Ranch Hands — The KFDI Story,” published in 2013. In his new book, Friesen writes about country music makers who were either born here or had some other significant connection to the place, as well as the venues where they performed. The stories date from the 1920s to the ‘90s, and Friesen said researching and writing about early performers was probably his favorite part of the work. The first character he introduces is Billy Burkes, a Wichita native who played guitar on recordings by Jimmie Rogers, widely considered the father of country music. There’s fascinating history about “radio bands” — popular pre-television groups who were hired to promote and perform on radio stations — including the Ark Valley Boys, the KFDI Ranch Boys and Corky’s Corral Gang. Gage Brewer, the Wichita bandleader credited with introducing the modern electric guitar, gets a section. There are also chapters on bluegrass, western swing and gospel music. Friesen recounts how Roy Clark, Charlie Daniels and Shoji Tabuchi — the Japanese-American fiddler known as the “King of Branson” — all spent significant time performing in Wichita before achieving stardom. Daniels, fronting a band called the Jaguars, had a regular gig at the Hi-Ho Club at 47th and Broadway. Thanks to Friesen’s long career in radio, he’s personally acquainted with many of the performers he chronicles, including Martina McBride, who got her start singing at the old Fireside Club. Friesen’s own background as a musician — he’s performed in the Prairie Rose Wranglers and other bands since moving here in 1966 — undoubtedly helped. “It’s great to be able to be involved and count some of these people as my closest friends,” he said.
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Work ethic stuck early in East Mt. Vernon neighborhood Article and photos by Pat O’Connor The East Mt. Vernon neighborhood runs from Harry to Pawnee and Oliver to Woodlawn. Many of its homes were built for working and middle-class families in the post-World War II housing boom. The natural setting at the edge of these neighborhoods colored the adventures.
Karen Dobbin “I lived on Bunting Drive, which is off of Mt. Vernon, kind of by Cessna (Park). My mom was one of the original Rosie the Riveters. She worked at Beech — she really riveted — when my dad was gone to the War. "She said it was hot and that it was hard work. She had good friends there and she liked the company back then. Mr. and Mrs. Beech were good to their employees. She worked first shift, and when we moved into that house after my dad came back, my dad worked second shift. He would pick me up for lunch from school every day. I went to Booth Elementary which no longer exists. Dad would take me to Spears Restaurant. We ate pretty fast. It was very nice for me. When I got home from school, my mom would be there.
Wichita Old Neighborhood Project That went on for a lot of years and then he went to first shift. “I remember the kids across the street. Sometimes we would play with them and sometimes we would be throwing rocks at each other. It was a typical growing-up neighborhood. I rode my bike. When we first moved in, there were just fields east of Woodlawn. I remember my cat used to bring home big rats from the fields. “One of the only things that was east of us was Morley’s. That was a Dairy Queen. We went to Moo-toYou, a little drive-in, and Pizza Hut over on Kellogg. When they first came out with pizza, that’s all everyone loved. “I took dance lessons with my best friend, Sharon. Our mothers made costumes for us and they were exotic. The studio was on East Douglas, and you had to walk up a long, dark flight of stairs. I remember after practice, we would all go out to get hamburgers. I never felt in need of anything. We had two incomes. It was unusual at that time for mothers to work. Good income, good pension; I think my dad got laid off once but not anything like they do now. “I started working when I was 15 at W. T. Grant at Eastgate Shopping Center. I was babysitting for the accounts manager and she asked me if I would like to go to work there. It was a good opportunity to work with her in the accounting area — gave me money, gave me experience. She was kind. I drove to work. Back then, you could
get a learner’s permit at 15 and drive to work or school. My dad bought me a car. I think it was a ‘56 Ford. It leaked transmission fluid a lot. I worked after school and on weekends all day. It was like a department store. Eastgate had the latest fashion stores.”
Kenny Potter “My dad farmed at Rose Hill, Thunder Road and Tawakoni. We moved to Wichita in the spring of ’50. They had a terrible drought ’48, ‘49 and ’50, and that pretty much wiped them out. He bought a house on South Pinecrest for $11,500. When we moved in, they only had half of the street poured. “I was an indifferent student at Allen Elementary. I read a lot. The bookmobile was one of the most important things that ever happened. When I was five or six years old walking two blocks up and getting two or three books for the weekend … I was one of the few that went. I liked Western stuff, Wichita and Kansas history, where I learned where
everything started — Kit Carson and the Santa Fe Trail. “My father was a master carpenter and a cabinet maker and the best painter in the world. My mother started working when I was six or seven years old as a secretary. She worked for Duane Wallace at Cessna and she worked for Dan Carney as his secretary. We had a woman named Dolores who kind of took care of us kids until my mom got home. She was with us for five years. She was a black lady as tough as nails. “We spent most of our time roaming around out by our house before the Turnpike was built in ‘53 or ’54. They opened McConnell (Air Force Base) about that same time. We got to watch the B-47s take off over our house. You could see the pilot sitting in the cockpit. We would go to McConnell to the swimming pool and the bowling alley. “My first job, I worked at Park Lane Plaza for a $1.25 an hour, putting stock out in the back room. Later on, just out of high school, I worked at Beech in the mailroom and eventually worked up to being Mrs. Beech’s driver. She picked her driver from kids who worked in the mailroom. I had been there six or eight months. She called me into her office and said she wanted to get a new driver. She interviewed me and, on the way out, she said ‘By the way, quit biting your fingernails.’ I never did it again.” These interviews were conducted for the Old Neighborhood Project. Previous articles can be found at theactiveage.com. Contact Pat O’Connor at wichlitsoc@ gmail.com or 316-832-0309.
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The life and death(s) of 'Charley' Cordeiro By Jay Price Early Wichita was full of colorful characters, few more so than Malachai R. “Charley” Cordeiro. A scout for the U.S. Army who opened a saloon in Wichita in 1869, Cordeiro became the defendant in one of the town’s first murder trials. When an intoxicated customer named O. H. Whitman demanded that Cordeiro open up his saloon for more alcohol, Cordeiro refused. Whitman became belligerent and Cordeiro shot and killed him, claiming self-defense. The Weekly News-Democrat from Emporia mentioned “M.R. Cordeiro, a Mexican, was lodged in jail...on the charge of murder in the first degree.” There was debate over whether Whitman was an actual threat. In the end, the case was dismissed and Cordeiro continued to operate saloons in Wichita. In 1871, Cordeiro operated the Arbor Restaurant at Fourth and Main. Later, he owned the Texas Hotel/ Saloon/Restaurant closer to Douglas and Main. Cordeiro, who was known for dressing in vibrant, Mexican-style outfits, advertised these establishments regularly in the local papers. He seemed to be settling down, marrying Celeste or Celestia Clark in June of 1872. By 1874, however, his former Texas Saloon had been sold in a sheriff ’s sale. Gold rush In 1875, Cordeiro decided to reinvent himself by leading a party of about 30 people up to the Black Hills searching for gold. A year later, the June 29, 1876 edition of the Wichita Eagle delivered news of his death, reporting that word had “reached this city that John Bragg and Charlie Cordeiro and family were among the large number killed while en route to the Black Hills.” Cordeiro passed into local lore. Given that so many Mexican drovers came to early Wichita, many people presumed
he was a particularly distinctive member of Wichita’s early Mexican heritage. Not long after I came to Wichita, I talked with folks who asked about Charley Cordeiro, wondering if he deserved more recognition as Wichita’s first prominent Mexican American resident. The more I looked into things, though, something about these stories never seemed quite right. I knew his first name was really Malachi, not “Charley,” a nickname. Some secondary accounts put his last name as Cadaro, Cordero or another related spelling. However, advertising and other documents consistently spelled the name Cordeiro, a Portuguese spelling that would be pronounced something between Cor-DAY-roo and CorDAI-roo. A quick Google search for Cordeiro genealogy brought up links to Brazil and the Azores, not Mexico. Following the trail A search in the 1870 census revealed that Cordeiro turned out to be — like the salsa in the famous TV commercial — from New York City. There were people from Latin America in mid-nineteenth century New York, but they tended to be Cuban or Brazilian. Possible explanations proved intriguing. Perhaps Cordeiro was an AngloAmerican frontiersman who concocted a fake Mexican persona. Maybe he claimed New York to hide his immigrant origins. Earlier this year, my parents gave me a subscription to Ancestry.com to research our own family history. While trying to make sense of family ties in my background, I decided to see how the system worked for someone entirely unrelated: Charley Cordeiro. Immediately, the story of Wichita’s Mexican saloonkeeper who died in the Black Hills became more ... complicated. For example, a Malachi Cordeiro and family, including wife Celeste and daughter Mary, born in Kansas, showed up on the 1880 U.S. census in the Dakotas. With them was a son, “Nugget.” In this census, Cordeiro is listed as being from New York
City, with mother and father from Peru. Remember, though, that M.R. “Charley” Cordeiro of Wichita was supposed to have died some four years earlier. I wondered whether this was Wichita’s Cordeiro or just an odd coincidence. By 1900, this same Malachi Cordeiro and family had relocated to Lewiston, Montana, and showed up in Montana records. They appeared again in the 1910 census. Malachi was listed, as usual, as being from New York. There were some differences, though. In the 1900 census, Malachi’s father was listed as being from Portugal and his mother from Peru. By 1910 though, his parents were listed as hailing from Brazil. The sources did not agree on his ancestry but they did agree that Mexico wasn’t part of it. In the early 1900s, M.R. Cordeiro ran advertising in the Lewistown paper offering transportation services in the area. Cordeiro seems to have been a noted tour guide. In 1911, The Custer Weekly Chronicle published an account of a gold-searching party in the 1870s. In one incident, Cordeiro and the leader of the party got into a fight that included Cordeiro taking out his revolver. One of the party remembered Cordeiro being from Wichita, Kansas, noting that “Charley” had no problems using firearms to settle things. Malachi’s death on March 27, 1915 does not seem to have produced much of an obituary. Montana death records do list his passing but getting those documents, unlike those of his relatives, is difficult, perhaps because of a change in how those events were recorded in the 1910s. Therefore, access to his specific death record will require more effort. That document would list a birthplace. Of course, given the paper trail so far, I am not sure even that document would be definitive. Back in Wichita A search in other records takes the story in an even more curious turn. In 1917, Nugget Cordeiro shows up in Wichita in a 1917 city directory living on Pattie Street. More searching uncovered the 2016 obituary of a Bess Cordeiro Kennedy that mentions her being born in Wichita, Kansas, to Nugget and Gertrude Cordeiro
(Gertrude Shull) in 1917 and that she grew up in Montana. The obituary states: “Bess was also very in touch with her family roots and could relate details of her Portuguese grandfather, Malachi Cordeiro who sailed around Cape Horn from New York to Eureka, California. He enlisted in the Union Army as a California Volunteer to fight in the Civil War. He later for many years was a scout for Captain Benteen under General Custer. Malachi then moved his family to the territory of South Dakota where Nugget Cordeiro was born as the first non-native American child in the territory. Nugget was named in honor of the Gold Rush and the Nugget Saloon in Deadwood.” So, it seems that Malachi R. “Charley” Cordeiro of Wichita’s early days was not Mexican and was not killed in the Black Hills in the 1870s. It is hard to tell whether that account was just a story that got reprinted without fact checking or whether Cordeiro intentionally wanted Wichitans to think he was dead, perhaps to evade unresolved legal issues. In either case, Cordeiro started a new life for himself. The term “Latino” refers to someone from Latin America, a term that usually includes Brazil. This is one area where the terms Latino and Hispanic differ. While not Mexican and therefore, probably not Hispanic (unless the Peruvian connection turns out to be the case), Cordiero was Latino and at the same time, was a migrant from the East Coast who cultivated or at least did not challenge a Mexican identity. More digging into records is needed. Cordeiro’s story reminds us that local lore may not turn out to be the whole story. Having died more than 100 years ago, Cordeiro still seems to take pleasure in being hard to pin down. Jay Price is chair of the department of history at Wichita State University, where he also directs the public history program. He can be contacted at jay.price@wichita.edu.
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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
Butler County Senior Centers ANDOVER 410 Lioba Dr, 733-4441 www.andoverks.com AUGUSTA 640 Osage, 775-1189
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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.
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White Chapel, Garden of Gethsemane, 3 adjoining lots, Value $4500, Sell $2500, Buyer pays $299 transfer fee, Call or text 316-655-3678.
White Chapel Memorial Gardens Two adjacent plots. Section 4, Lot 90, Spaces #3. Valued at $2,595 per plot Will sell together for $4,000 OBO Call Jack Miller at (541) 844-6794 or email at jmiller@arnoldgallagher.com
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Kechi Cemetery 2 adjacent plots, $700 each or $1,400 both. Call 917-623-7439 or email Jane.e.sheffield@gmail.com
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Lakeview Gardens. Selling 2 plots 9-10. Section Apostles. Selling both for $5,500. Buyer pays closing fees. No Checks. Email awesomeauntiegranados@gmail.com
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Resthaven Garden of Gospels double lawn crypt with bronze marker. Value $10000 sell $6000. Seller pays transfer fees. Call 316 293 9442
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2 plots 32 C-1 and 32 C-3 in Resthaven Garden of the Cross. Value at $4,495 each. Selling for $2,000 each OBO. Seller pays transfer fees. 704-957-3645 Please leave a message. 5 plots at Old Mission Cemetery in Garden of the Last supper. Sell as group or individual. Call 316-250-2011 for details. Resthaven. 4 plots in Garden Sermon on the mount. Lot 149-D spaces 1,2,3&4. $6,500 for all 4. Jsbp7983@gmail.com or 813-486-1952 Plot in White Chapel. It has a vault already paid for. Asking $500 and buyer pays $500 transfer fee. 903-744-2335. Lakeview Gardens, Garden of Meditation. 4 plots together. Will sell pairs or all 4 for $2,000 per plot. Buyer pays transfer fees. Call 620-456-3336. Resthaven, Christ with the Children. Lots 40 D1&D2 include bronze markers with granite base and opening & closing of the grave. Value $20,900. Sell $12,000. Lot 40 D3 also available. 720-840-9734.
Drive transport wheelchair. Like new used 3 months. Black. Non-Smoker/Non-pet home. 20in wide by 40in tall. BONUS: Removable seat pad. Asking $75. Call 316-788-2022.
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White Chapel cemetery. 2 spaces, 2 Vaults Good Shepherd lot 6-B spaces 1&2. $2,000. Buyer pays $425 transfer fee. 316-239-6600.
4 lots at Resthaven Sermon on the Mount. $2,000 per lot. $8,000 for ALL. Seller will pay transfer fee. Call 501-864-7180.
F FOR SALE-MEDICAL EQUIPMENTF Acorn straight stairlift chair. Very little usage. Easy to install and operate. Asking $1,750. 316-686-6122, Leave message.
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F HIRINGF ATTENTION JOB SEEKERS AGE 55 & BETTER – The Senior Employment Program can assist you in your job search. We offer referrals, job lists and other valuable services. We advocate for the older worker, helping hundreds of people find work each year! For more information call 316-267-1771 or email – cheriew@seniorservicesofwichita.org. Front Door/Garage Attendant Part-Time Job Opening Valet vehicles for residents and other assigned duties; Current driver’s license required, flexible hours Contact Building Manager parklanetowers@sbcglobal.net; 684-7247 Security Officers Part-time. Nights. Weekends. Call 316-942-7872 between 10am-6pm for appointments.
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July Theatre By Diana Morton Forum Theatre at the Wilke Center, 1st United Methodist Church, 330 N. Broadway. Sh-Boom! Life Could be a Dream. A doo wop trip down memory lane, written and created by Roger Bean. At Springfield High, the Crooning Crabcakes prepare to enter the Big Whopper Radio contest. Trouble comes in the form of Lois who arrives to put some polish on the boys, including lovestruck Wally, nervous Eugene and handsome heartthrob Skip. 8 pm Thu-Sat, 2 pm Sun, July 29-Aug 15. Tickets $23-$25. 316-6180444 Kechi Playhouse, 100 E. Kechi Road, Office Party. A comedy that may make you cherish your work environment. 8 pm Fri–Sat, 2:30 pm Sun, July 2- Aug 1. Tickets $13-$15. 316-744-2152
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Mosley Street Melodrama, 234 N. Mosley. Suburban Cowboy by Carol Hughes followed by The Roy Pickett Country Music Hour Musical Comedy Revue. Dinner 6:15 pm, show begins 7:50 pm. Tickets $24-$34; Show only, $24. Now-July 10. 316-263-0222 Petey’s Playhouse by Carol Hughes with a new Musical Comedy Revue. Dinner 6:15 pm, show begins 7:50 pm. Tickets $24-$34; Show only, $24. July 23-Sept 4. 316-263-0222 Music Theatre Wichita at Capitol Federal Amphitheater in Andover. Red, White, and Broadway: A Star-Studded Tribute to America! Local performers, many with Broadway credits, singing a mix of Broadway and patriotic songs. July 2-4. Tickets starting at $28. 316265-3107 Roxy’s Downtown, 412 E. Douglas, cabaret-style theatre. Driving
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Miss Daisy. The Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winning play/movie is the story of an elderly Southern Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur. Starring Gina Austin and Huron Breaux. Directed by Debra Campbell. 8 pm Th-Sat; 2 pm Sun. July 8-25. Tickets $20-$30. 316-2654400 Signature Theatre, performance at the Crown Uptown, 3207 E. Douglas, 1776, music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards; book by Peter Stone: Our founding fathers (and mothers) give us dramatic insight into our nation’s formal beginnings. July 1-3, 8 pm. Tickets $21-30, student tickets $10. 316-612-7696 Wichita Community Theatre, 258 N. Fountain. The Wild Women of Winedale by Jessie Jones, Nichola Hope, Jamie Wooten and directed by Leroy Clark. This comedy focuses on three sisters at crossroads in their lives and their frustratingly quirky sisterin-law. 8 pm Wed-Sat. 7 pm Sun, July 29-Aug 8. Tickets $15 or $13 for military/seniors/students. $12 opening night only. 316-686-1282 Contact Diana Morton at dianamorton12@sbcglobal.net
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Passageways to serve female vets Passageways, Inc. has announced plans to open a group home for homeless female veterans on Wichita’s west side, where it already operates a home for male veterans. The nonprofit recently received donations of $50,000 from Cargill and $20,000 from the Goebel Family Star Lumber Charitable Foundation for that purpose. “We’re looking for individuals that might be selling a home or wanting to gift a home,” said Jennifer Garrison, who started the organization seven years ago with her mother, Susan Moellinger. Passageways is seeking a home with three to four bedrooms and two bathrooms. “The reason we’d like to keep it out west is, one, it’s such a great area,” Garrison said. “And it’s away from the temptation of downtown and gives them that private place where they can focus on themselves and not worry about their safety.” In addition to temporary housing, Passageways helps veteran qualify for VA, Social Security and other benefits, find jobs , get their driver’s license and find more permanent housing. To learn more, visit passagewaysltd.org.
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Recipe for You or Two: Tuna-Corn Chip Bake
Kathy Kramer is the winner of a $25 gift certificate donated by The Spice Merchant for this month’s winning Recipe for You or Two, a variation of the tuna casserole we all grew up with.
Kramer said she and her husband like just about any recipe with tuna in it. This one goes well with French bread and wine.
Kathy Kramer
To enter your Recipe for You or Two, mail to The Active Age, 125 S. West St., Suite 105, Wichita, KS, 67213, or email joe@theactiveage. com. Put “recipe contest” in the subject line.
Tuna-Corn Chip Bake
1 can (10¾ oz.) condensed cream of mushroom soup 1 large can (9¼ oz.) tuna, drained and flaked 1 can (8 oz.) tomato sauce 2 cups coarsely crumbled corn chips 1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese (about 4 oz.) Directions: Heat oven to 350 degrees. Mix soup, tuna, tomato sauce, half of the shredded cheese and half of the crumbled corn chips. Pour into a greased 1½ quart casserole. Sprinkle with the remaining corn chips and the remaining cheese. Bake uncovered until bubbly, about 30 minutes. Let set about 10 minutes before serving.
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Heartland Games run it back After a year off, the Heartland Games track and field meet returned to Friends University on June 5. More than 50 athletes competed in events, including the shot put, discus throw, javelin and several foot races. The Heartland Games originated as a series of fundraising competitions to help support operations at all four senior centers and to spotlight the strength and abilities of older adults. “It’s amazing how fit and strong these athletes are, many of them are past the age of 65,” said Karen Dao, director of programs for Senior Services, Inc. “They prove that age is
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Afternoon Delight: Wednesday, June 2 @ 3:00 pm Thursday, June 3 & Friday, June 4 @ 8:00 pm The Inside SCOOP @ 7:15 pm
CONCERT 2 : THE AMAZING STRING QUARTET
Afternoon Delight: Wednesday, June 16 @ 3:00 pm Thursday, June 17 & Friday, June 18 @ 8:00 pm The Inside SCOOP @ 7:15 pm with Sirius XM Symphony Hall host, John Clare
CONCERT 3 : BERTA ROJAS CLASSICAL GUITARIST Afternoon Delight: Wednesday, June 23 @ 3:00 pm Thursday, June 24 & Friday, June 25 @ 8:00 pm
CONCERT 4 : ALASDAIR FRASER & NATALIE HAAS Afternoon Delight: Wednesday, July 14 @ 3:00 pm Thursday, July 15 & Friday, July 16 @ 8:00 pm
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CONCERT 5 : GERMAN & SPANISH ROMANTICS Afternoon Delight: Wednesday, July 28 @ 3:00 pm Thursday, July 29 & Friday, July 30 @ 8:00 pm The Inside SCOOP @ 7:15 pm
NEW THIS YEAR! FAMILY CONCERT EXTRAVAGANZA Special Event Saturday, June 19 @ 10:30 am Join Host “Inspector Treble” in a musical exploration of Ferdinand The Bull with a string quartet playing music from Bizet’s Carmen. Spectacular photos of Kansas will accompany Vivaldi’s concerto ‘Summer’. The Family Concert will also include the world premiere of an original animation created especially for this concert by Daniela Diaz-Sustaita and Jalen Cooper with a collaboration from WSU’s Shocker Studios. The music of Tamar Diesendruck’s String Quartet No. 1 movement entitled From The Imaginary One-Act Micro Opera: The Pit Band From Outer Space will be played live! Before and after the 45-minute concert, there will be miniature train rides and an instrument petting zoo.
Tickets can be purchased online at cmatb.org or by phone at 316.721.7666 www.theactiveage.com
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