October 2014

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By Elvira Crocker Election Day – Nov. 4 – is just around the corner. Kansans will go to the polls to elect a governor, state and county officials, members to the U.S. Congress as well as decide some local issues.

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ed in Kansas in 2012, it’s an opportunity to make your voice heard.

If you aren’t happy about the performance of the U.S. Congress – and only 14 percent of the American public approves – this is your opportunity to take a stand.

You’ve probably heard friends and neighbors complain about their elected officials, but then they turn around and send those same people back into office.

As the younger generation would say: “What’s up with that?”

Sharon Ailslieger, co-president of the Wichita Metro League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political orga-

nization, says she believes voters do that because of “name recognition.” If people aren’t tuned into “political stuff, the known is better than the unknown,” she said.

That’s why incumbents have the advantage.

“Some folks are also one-issue voters,” she said. It doesn’t make any difference what the totality of a candidate’s record looks like – even if that record is against the voter’s best interests – they’ll still cast a vote based on that one issue.

This is why the league encourages “informed and active participation of citizens.” It helps to educate voters on the candidates and their positions through forums and educational literature.

If you have an opportunity to meet with candidates, Ailslieger suggested that you ask tough questions on key issues in order to understand how they would go about solving today’s problems.

And if you are thinking of not voting, perish that thought around her. When individuals don’t vote, she said with force,

I wouldn’t have been so scared, but I was afraid they would stagger and accidentally shoot us. We backed away and ran like mad. There would be no Halloween candy from that house.

The weirdest treat we received that night came from a house that obviously wasn’t expecting trick-or-treaters. When we said “trickor-treat,” the woman said, “Wait a minute.”

She returned with two pieces of apple pie and dumped them in our sacks. We wasted lots of time that night picking pie from our candy.

The last stop was the greatest. I remember it as if it was yesterday. We went to this older woman’s house. I didn’t know she had problems; she seemed OK to us.

She invited us in and gave us each $5. At that time $5 was equal to about a billion dollars to me. I saw a pearl-handle derringer lying on the table. When I

admired her gun she asked me to open my trick-or-treat bag and dropped the gun in it. How wonderful.

I could hardly wait to tell Mom and my brother about my good fortune. When I did, I couldn’t believe Mom’s reaction. She made me take the beautiful pistol and money right back to the lady, and said I was not to take any more guns from anyone.

She was so upset I skipped telling her about the drunken shotgun affair we encountered earlier that evening.

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Tricks aplenty on this Halloween

By Barbara Combs Lewellen Can you name a better holiday than Halloween? The fall air is crisp, there is free candy and you get a break from the usual grind at school. You also scare other kids. What could be better?

Each Halloween my best friend and I would go to every house in town. You could never tell who would have the best treats. People you think might give out big treats gave out small treats. Someone who you wouldn’t dream in a million years would spring for a really big candy bar did.

Word would get around about that house very quickly, and the next year it is first on everyone’s candy stop.

One Halloween my friend and I stopped at a house on my paper route.

When we knocked on the door someone said, “You kids step back.” We looked up and on the roof of the porch was the owner of the house with another guy. They had shotguns, and they were pointed at us.

“Get out, or we’ll shoot you,” the owner said. If they hadn’t been so drunk

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Health care compact key issue for seniors

By Elvira Crocker If there is one issue that sends seniors to the polls, it’s the matter of their health insurance and how it’s handled.

Voters this year have a clear choice on an issue close to their hearts— Medicare.

In April Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law a bill to make it possible for Kansas to join a compact of states that want the power to run Medicare and Medicaid within their borders. When he signed it he said “The Health Care Compact will allow states to restore and protect Medicare for generations to come.”

The compact will require approval

by Congress, something considered

unlikely as long as Democrats control the Senate. Republicans hold the House majority, but a shift in those power bases could make a difference in how this issue will fare.

The law was cited as “one of the most frivolous and dangerous legislative measures” approved by the Kansas Legislature. “It puts seniors, Kansans with disabilities, veterans and children at risk,” Kansas AARP declared at the time.

It was an issue so volatile that an editorial in The Wichita Eagle advised seniors to “rise up and demand that Gov. Sam Brownback veto the bill that could put the state in charge of Medicare.” It also said that voters should “hold lawmakers accountable for sup-

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porting such a radical reform.”

Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma, Indiana, Utah, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Kansas have joined in the compact. Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger pointed out that those are the same states that turned their backs on Medicaid expansion, as did Kansas.

The compact may be an idea with no senior following. Praeger noted that in talks with retirees they’re saying if the compact happens they’re “out of here.” She had urged the governor not to sign HB2553, labeling it frivolous and misguided. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Paul Davis voted against the bill.

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a Harris poll said that 88 percent of those surveyed supported Medicare.

Over the years it has been improved – one of the most recent was closing the doughnut hole for prescriptions. More than 448,000 Kansans are Medicare beneficiaries.

Because there are so many unknowns about how a compact would work, voters are skittish about the idea.

Health insurance experts have more questions than answers on the matter.

As one expert indicated, “We need to understand how this would play out.”

U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp has co-sponsored a compact bill in the House. Among those supporting the idea are Americans for Prosperity, a political action group tied to the Koch brothers that has spent millions of dollars fighting Obamacare, and the Libertarian Party.

Voters who want to further research this issue, should use the various search engines on their computers under the candidates’ names, as well as Health Care Compact and the AARP website.

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Aging agency article stirs brouhaha

Editor’s note: In mid-September the Johnson County Commission on Aging wrote an article for the October issue of The Best Times critical of Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposed Health Care Compact. When some conservative legislators learned about the article they asked the board not to publish it. Portions of the following article discuss that meeting.To read the entire KHI article go www.khi. org/news. To read the Times article go to www.thebesttimes.org.

By Andy Marso KHI News Service Tension built as legislators who

supported a health care compact bill that would free Kansas from federal health care regulations made a last ditch-effort to sway a Johnson County advisory board against publishing an article critical of the compact in a county newsletter.

After Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook, a Shawnee Republican, expressed concerns at a legislative breakfast about the coming article, the Johnson County Commission on Aging invited her to have a follow-up meeting on that specific issue. Pilcher-Cook returned on Sept. 15 flanked by 10 other Re-

I’d like to ask you to please read about the proposed one-cent sales tax and what it means to our future before you vote because a Yes vote means lower water rates. Most of it will pay for additional water for a drought with a penny sales tax instead of with water rates. If we pay for the new water for drought with our water rates, we will pay more than twice what it will cost if the community pays for it with a sales tax. Plus tourists and visitors to Wichita will pay for about a third of it.

Those of us in our generation learned early that it’s better to pay for things for the next generation up-

front. This is what we’re doing – paying now for water for the next generation just like others did in the past for our water. Plus we’ll finally have a serious effort to diversify our economy with new jobs for our children and grandchildren with oversight from a citizen committee.

Learn more at www.VoteYesWichita.com and encourage your friends and neighbors to know what’s at stake with water and our water bills, and please vote Yes on November 4.

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publican lawmakers, including House Speaker Ray Merrick of Stilwell.

The legislators present called the article scheduled for publication in Johnson County’s The Best Times magazine “reckless,” “dishonest,” “irresponsible,” “partisan” and “misleading.”

“I think you have taken a huge jump, a reckless jump, with the article you intend to publish…,” PilcherCook said.

All the legislators who attended the follow-up meeting are conservative Republicans who support House Bill 2553 as a repudiation of federal health care changes spearheaded by President Barack Obama.

They said the proposed article unfairly portends changes to Medicare as a result of the bill in a blatant attempt

to scare seniors.

Members of the commission on aging defended their work, saying they understood the compact well and remain concerned about its potential effect on Medicare, the federal program that provides health coverage to the elderly and some disabled citizens, including about 450,000 Kansans.

Proponents said it would liberate Kansas from the mandates of the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare. Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger and the retirees group AARP testified against the bill, saying it posed a threat to Medicare.

The commission on aging’s article focuses opposition on the compact’s potential to turn Medicare over to the state.

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“they are letting others make decisions for them.” Sometimes local elections are decided by small margins, “so every vote does count.”

If that doesn’t convince you, she added, remember the difficult struggle for women to get the right to vote, and that people in other parts of the world are fighting to achieve that right we so often take for granted.

AARP Kansas, the nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization for those 50 plus, won’t tell you how to vote but it does help define issues that should motivate seniors to get to the polls.

Mary Tritsch, AARP Kansas assistant communications director, encourages seniors to ask candidates their positions on such issues as: – Medicaid Expansion. “What is your plan to provide affordable health coverage for uninsured Kansans who earn up to $15,000 a year?”

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AARP supports measures to help Kansans access affordable and quality health coverage. Millions of workers – including those 50-64 – lost their health coverage when they lost their jobs during the Great Recession. In 2014, many of those workers were eligible for coverage under the new Medicaid option for individuals who earn up to $15,000 a year. More than half the states have adopted this new option. AARP urges Kansas policymakers to extend this critical health coverage to its citizens.

– Family Caregiving. Caregivers help seniors live independently at home, as opposed to nursing homes often paid by the state through Medicaid. They provide that care with little or no support or training. Often, this care is provided on a 24/7 basis while caregivers hold down full-time jobs. “What would you do to help them safely care for their loved ones at home, and would you support laws that call for hospitals to recognize and train family caregivers when their

loved ones are hospitalized?”

AARP urges policymakers to adopt the Caregiver Advise, Record and Enable (CARE) act to provide caregivers the support and training they need. It also supports respite services, workplace flexibility, and protections and other supports to help caregivers safely care for their loved ones at home.

– Sensible Budget and Tax Reforms. “If budget cuts or tax reforms are initiated in the state, how will you ensure that changes avoid hurting low- and moderate-income populations while safeguarding the financial security of the 50 plus population?

Will you oppose tax and expenditure limit initiatives?”

The organization supports progressive state tax reforms to safeguard the financial security of the 50 plus population. In raising sufficient revenue, state and local tax systems should follow the general guiding principles of equity, neutrality, administrative efficiency and consistency with broader social goals. Budget-balancing should avoid cuts in programs that serve low and moderate income populations.

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– Financial security. “With fewer jobs offering pensions, some public pension systems facing underfunding and more than 70 million workers without access to a retirement account at work, what will you do to help Kansans save so they can have a secure financial future?

AARP supports enactment of a Work and Save plan as a way for people to save on the job even if they change jobs. The organization fights to protect retirees from cuts to promised pension benefits and cost of living adjustments, and to preserve defined benefit plans.

Check www.aarp.org/yourvote for one-stop information on how and where to vote in Kansas as well as to check the candidates’ positions on the issues or the Wichita Metro League of Women Voters, www.wvwichita. org, for helpful information on the League’s positions on issues and other voter information.

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SHICK counselers for Medicare Open Enrollment Each year Medicare beneficiaries may make changes to their Medicare Advantage or Medicare prescription drug coverage for the next year. Beneficiaries can compare plans and make sure they have the right health and prescription drug coverage. Medicare open enrollment is Oct. 15 thru Dec. 7.

The Sedgwick County Extension Center is taking appointments with Senior Health Insurance Counseling for Kansas (SHICK) trained counselors to help compare plans for 2015.

Outreach events are also scheduled at the following locations: Oct. 29: Butler County Department on Aging, 2101 Dearborn, Augusta.

Nov. 5: El Dorado Senior Center, 210 E. 2nd.

Nov. 6, 13 & 20: Eastminster Presbyterian Church, 1958 N. Webb, Wichita.

Nov. 21: Walk-in Day, Sedgwick County Extension Center, 21st and Ridge, Wichita, 9 a.m. until 3 p.m., Sunflower Room, Sedgwick County Extension Center, 21st and Ridge, Wichita.

What you need to know for 2015

The average Medicare prescription drug plan premium will increase by about $1 in 2015; to about $32 per month, according to the Medicare Rights Center, a consumer group.

However, premiums for specific plans and regions vary from year to year and it is important to examine the information from your current plan to determine if your costs and benefits are changing.

Before you start looking at plans: • Make a list of the medicines you take and how much you currently pay for them.

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• Does the plan require that I get special permission before it will cover the medication I need (such as prior authorization or step-therapy)?

• How much will I pay at the pharmacy (copayments or coinsurance) for each drug I need? (Certain drugs may have high coinsurance.)

• If a drug I take has a very high coinsurance, is there a drug I can take that will cost me less? (Ask your doctor.)

• How much will I pay in monthly premiums and annual deductible?

• Can I fill my prescriptions at the pharmacies I use regularly?

• Can I fill my prescriptions when I travel?

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Pros & Cons on 1-cent sales tax

By Elma Broadfoot Wichitans will say Yes or No to a one-cent sales tax on Nov. 4. The tax, which will sunset in five years, will generate $400 million dollars with funds distributed as follows: 63 percent to a new water source, 20 percent to jobs, 10 percent to public transportation and 7 percent to streets.

In April 2013, the City of Wichita conducted a mail survey of 25,000 randomly selected voters. More than 4,000 surveys were returned with 14 priorities identified, including new water sources, transportation, economic development and residential street improvements.

From September 2013 through January 2014, the City held 102 citizen meetings, attended by more than 2,000 people. The top priorities were a new water source, jobs and economic development, neighborhood streets and public transit. Sixty-two percent of the participants recommended a one-cent sales tax to fund the priorities.

Once the majority of the plan was finalized, 17 information sessions were held throughout the city. Special task forces, three studies with city staff and outside experts, neighborhood associations, civic groups, and non-profits were among those who fleshed out and

finalized the plan.

Once the one-cent sales tax and plan were formalized, two factions arose – YesWichita, supporting the tax, and Coalition for a Better Wichita, opposing the tax. Both groups are broad-based, passionate about their stance and care about Wichita.

Water is the most important piece of this plan, according to Jennifer Baysinger, spokesperson for the Coalition. “We don’t want the City to scare people into a decision…we do not need to rush into a decision.”

There was a public outcry when Cheney Reservoir was depleted and Wichitans faced a drought Jennifer and possible $1,000 Baysinger fines, says Jon Rolph, spokesperson for YesWichita. People asked “how could the City not have planned for this?”

“The City began a two-year detailed process that included 17 options and three studies to determine the best new water source plan,” he continues.

The water plan has an estimated cost of $200 million. “If we do not do the sales tax, the only other ways to pay

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Baysinger counters, “There may be other alternatives like the state’s 50year water vision.”

Rolph responds, “A preliminary report (on the state’s vision) has already been released and Wichita is hardly mentioned…western Kansas takes priority.” In 2009, according to Rolph, Wichita was awarded a one million dollar state grant for water use, and that grant has been cut in half every year.

We could continue with counters to each piece of the plan but the bottom line is how this affects us as senior citizens.

“I have talked to Jon Rolph an overwhelming number of senior citizens, and they’re saying ‘we’ve paid enough’ or ‘we’ve been paying taxes for many years,’ ” says Baysinger.

“No matter our age, we live in a community and we should do what we can to make it the best community it can be and that means not just what will happen in the next one to two

years but what happens on down the line,” says Kathy Dittmer, 70, a community activist and 17year Wichita resident.

“The way I look at it is that someone paid taxes to make life better for me and for them, and supporting the one-cent sales tax is my way of paying it Kathy Dittmer forward,” she adds.

Other facts with voting Yes or No: • Solving Wichita’s water problem with a one-cent sale tax that is also paid for by visitors and tourists and ends in five years, or seeing a $50 monthly water bill go up to $75 or doubling to $100 during drought years.

• Bus routes cut by 25 percent or four of 16 routes, or night bus service added and routes expanded.

• Resurface 111 miles of neighborhood streets, or more potholes.

• Invest in worker training and infrastructure to diversify economy and attract new jobs, or don’t invest and hope jobs come back and economy diversifies in time.

Contact Elma Broadfoot at ebroadfoot@aol.com

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Briefs Step Out raises diabetes funds Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes, to raise awareness and funds for diabetes research and education, is Saturday, Oct. 4, at the Robert D. Love Downtown YMCA. Registration opens at 9 a.m.; the walk begins at 10:30.

The nearly 2-mile walk follows a route from the downtown YMCA to the Arkansas River. After the walk, participants can enjoy food, live music and participate in a health and wellness fair.

“Our goal is to have 100 teams, 1,016 walkers and raise $115,000,” says Stacy Mayou of the American Diabetes Association. “Step Out is all about camaraderie, community and taking a stand to Stop Diabetes.

For more information or to register go to www.diabetes.org/stepoutwichita.

Autumn Stroll and Senior 5K Enjoy a fall evening at Botanica with Wesley Friends Autumn Stroll and Senior 5K on Thursday, Oct. 7. The stroll through the gardens of Botanica starts at 4:30 p.m.; the Senior

Active aging 5K through Sim Park starts at 5:30, with awards at 6:30.

The certified Senior 5K course goes through Sim Park and along the Arkansas River, beginning and ending at Botanica.

Awards will be presented to the top three male and female finishers in each age group. Age groups are by four-year increments from age 40 to 80 years.

Special awards will be presented to the oldest male and female finishers. Entry fee for the Senior 5K is $30.

The fun doesn’t end at the finish line. Enjoy live music, food and good company at the after-run party. Registration for the Stroll or social is $10.

Online registration is available at www.gorunyourrace.com, or call Wesley Friends at 316-962-8400.

Genealogy workshop Genealogy lecturer John Philip Colletta is keynote speaker for the Wichita Genealogical Society Annual Conference, Saturday, Oct. 11, at the Eugene M. Hughes Metropolitan Complex, 5015 E 29th St. N. Colletta, of Washington, D.C., lectures nationally and conducts programs for the Smithsonian Institution’s Resident Associate Program. He is a faculty member of the Institute of

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Genealogy and Historical Research at Samford University (Birmingham, Ala.), the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy and Boston University’s Certificate in Family History program.

Michelle Enke, local history librarian at the Wichita Public Library, will also speak.

Cost for the one-day workshop is $50 for WGS members; $55 for non-members.

Registration forms available at www.wichitagensoc.org or contact Mary Hurley by e-mail at wgsregistrar@hotmail.com.

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The Alzheimer’s Association Blondes vs. Brunettes Powder Puff flag football fundraiser kickoffs on Saturday, Oct. 18, at The Wichita Collegiate High School football stadium. Tailgate starts at 3 p. m. and kick-off at 4.

Funds raised will benefit the care, support, advocacy and research efforts of the Alzheimer’s Association. General admission tickets are $10, VIP tickets $25.

Tax help program seeks volunteers The AARP Tax-Aide program will host an orientation meeting for volunteers for the 2015 tax season at 10 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 21, at the Atwater Neighborhood Center, 2755 E 19th St. In the 2014 tax season, about 40 Tax-Aide volunteers helped more than 2,500 seniors and low-to-moderate income families file basic income tax returns, receiving $1.4 million in refunds.

Tax-Aide is a cooperative effort of AARP and the Internal Revenue Service. The program seeks to train 60 volunteers for the 2015 tax season, says Elena Ingle, an area coordinator.

“There is a real need for volunteers. It’s a worthwhile activity, and our clients appreciate our volunteers.”

Volunteers will attend training in January. In addition to training on a computer program with step-by-step instructions to file tax returns, volunteers will review and learn changes in the tax code.

During tax season – Feb. 1 through April 15 – volunteers are asked to staff a Tax-Aide location in the Wichita area for at least four hours a week. For information, call Ingle at 687-2136.

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Artists to create on nature trail Art and nature come together in Wichita’s Chisholm Creek Park with Art on the Trail 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 11, featuring professional artists painting fall colors.

Artists will paint “en plein aire” with easels set up along a half-mile loop of paved, wheelchair accessible trail through the park. Using light and nature as inspiration, artists will work in a variety of media including watercolors, pastels and acrylics. A People’s Choice Award will be announced at the end of the day. The winning artist’s work

will become part of the Great Plains Nature Center annual postcard series.

Free seasonal refreshments and nature-related crafts for children will be available inside the Great Plains Nature Center building. The Great Plains Nature Center is at 6232 E 29th St. N., near 29th and Woodlawn.

‘Phantom of the Opera’

The 1925 silent film classic, Phantom of the Opera, accompanied by a live music score performed by Brett Valliant on the Wichita Wurlitzer Pipe Organ, will be screened at 8 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 18 in Century II exhibition hall.

Presented by Wichita Theatre Organ, Inc., tickets are $10 and can be

purchased in advance through WichitaTIX.com or call the box office at 316-303-8100. Tickets will also be available at the door.

Classic silent film ‘The Tramp’ At WAM Enjoy the comic genius of Charlie Chaplin as The Tramp on Friday, Oct. 24 as the Wichita Art Museum (WAM) screens three silent films as part of the American Moderns 1910-1960 exhibit.

A cash bar reception starts at 6 p.m., with the program at 7 p.m.

The Tramp, Chaplin’s trouble-prone prankster with nimble ballet moves and slapstick humor, turns 100 in 2014. Originally a British vaudevillian, Chaplin first appeared on film in early 1914 and weeks later crafted the cos-

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Three films will be screened in October: Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914), The Tramp (1915) and The Champion (1915). Mike Wood, filmmaker and film historian, will emcee the program and offer introductory insights.

WAM will award best costume prizes to anyone who attends as a Tramp look-alike. Don your bowler and mustachio and polish the cane!

Admission is free; seating is available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

The exhibit, American Moderns, 1910-1960: From Georgia O’Keefe to Norman Rockwell, features 57 works from the Brooklyn Museum. The exhibit continues through Jan. 4

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Mammograms, self-exams important at any age

By Amy Geiszler-Jones At 87 years old, Carrie B. Ferguson isn’t your typical breast cancer patient.

Women older than 75 account for less than 6 percent of all new breast cancer patients, based on National Cancer Institute data from 2002-2011.

The highest number of new cases are

diagnosed in women ages 55 to 64, with the median age being 61.

Medicare, the federal government’s insurance plan, generally doesn’t pay for mammograms for women older than 75. It bases that cutoff on the recommendation of another government agency, the U.S. Preventative Task

Early detection is key Women of any age who find a lump in their breasts should see a doctor immediately, said board-certified breast surgeon Therese Cusick of Breast Care Specialists in Wichita.

Women should also do monthly self-exams, no matter their age, advised Melissa Hague, an obstetrician and gynecologist with Heartland Women’s Group. They also should visit with their doctor about regular preventative screenings, such as mammograms.

The U.S. Preventative Task Force, the government’s panel of health care experts that makes recommendation on screenings, issued very conservative guidelines on mammograms and self-exams a few years ago, but many doctors have not followed that, Hague noted. For example, the task force said annual mammograms aren’t required

on women older than 75.

That recommendation, Hague said, is based on a life expectancy of 85 years, but many women are living longer, healthier lives and can benefit from continued screening.

Resources are available to help women receive mammograms if Medicare won’t cover it or if they are uninsured, noted Hague.

Organizations that can provide or refer women for free screening include county health departments, the Early Detection Works program offered by the Kansas Department of Health and Education for low income, medically under-served women up to age 64, and the Komen Foundation, a breast cancer education and support group.

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“I’m the oldest person working there,” she noted.

Ferguson has always been diligent about her health care, she said. “Its important for me to stay healthy.”

As she’s aged, she goes in for regular six-month check-ups with her primary care doctor and has continued to get annual mammograms. But it was her diligence on doing monthly self-exams that helped catch the slow-growing cancer that wasn’t showing up on the mammograms.

“It was a shock,” said Ferguson, about getting her diagnosis in early August.

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However groups such as the American Cancer Society and the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists don’t follow that recommendation. Many doctors base their recommendation on a woman’s individual medical condition, said Melissa Hague, an ob/gyn doctor with Heartland Women’s Group.

“I have some 75-year-old women who are in better shape and more active than some 55-year-old women,” Hague said. “If a woman will benefit from a mammogram screening, no matter what the age, I’ll recommend it.”

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Get the most from your memory As you’ve gotten older, have you noticed that you often find yourself marching around the house in a huff, searching for misplaced car keys or

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eyeglasses, or that you cannot remember the name of that new neighbor you met? It’s frustrating, to be sure, but not inevitable — and there are things from coming back or occurring in the opposite breast.

“We’re very confident that they got it,” said Ferguson, a few hours after visiting her oncologist. “Now they need to keep me well until I’m a hundred.

That’s my goal.”

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New phone scam: calls from your own number

By Marc Bennett One of the most useful advances in technology in recent years is caller ID. Now, rather than answering all calls out of fear we might miss an important message, a simple check of the caller ID allows us to avoid telemarketers, solicitations and anyone else we would rather talk to.

Lately, those who rely on phone calls to drive their operations—telemarketers as well as scammers—know this and have come up with an interesting trick or two to throw you off.

Locally, we have seen reports that mirror national reports where the number on the caller ID matches the number being called. In other words, you look at the caller ID and your own number appears to be calling you.

Would you pick up the phone if the number on the caller ID was your own? Curiosity alone might drive any of us to pick up the phone if only to ask “who is this?” or “how in the world did you do that?”

Similarly, some scammers will alter a single digit on the caller ID. If the number on the caller ID is just one digit different than your home number, again many of us might be inclined to pick up simply out of curiosity. Just as likely, we might not look close enough and assume the number is actually our own.

Either way, we will find ourselves on the phone with someone looking to sell us something we don’t need or obtain information we should not share.

Folks who have taken the step of requesting they be added to the “no call” list may have grown accustomed to receiving fewer unsolicited calls.

How many people though, would have added their own home number to the no call /blacklist?

The bottom line is that people bent

on taking advantage of others will nearly always find some way to circumvent efforts to stop their criminal behavior.

The lesson for citizens is to pay particular attention to whom they are speaking, to never share information over the phone and to look carefully at their caller ID before answering.

If you are not sure if the calling party is legitimate, ask for a name and number so you can call them back.

Any legitimate transaction can wait.

Be wary of anyone who pressures for an immediate answer or commitment.

Katherine Hutt, spokeswoman for the Better Business Bureau told Today Money, “the best way to foil phone scammers is not to answer the phone if you don’t recognize the name of the caller, if the caller ID says the number is blocked, or if it’s an odd situation” such as your own number showing up

on your caller ID. To see the entire article, go to: http://www.today.com/money/ id-scam-usesyour-own-number-against-you1D79933382.

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Marc Bennett, marc.bennett@sedgwick.gov, is the Sedgwick County District Attorney. If you have been the victim of a consumer fraud violation or know about a possible fraudulent scheme, call the Consumer Protection Division, 660-3600, or email consumer@sedgwick.gov.

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a 17-foot sailboat provided misadventures

By Ted Blankenship I’m a born Kansan and until I was about 23 I had not seen the ocean.

When I first saw a large body of salt water it wasn’t really the open ocean but the Gulf of Mexico. So I never gave sailing much thought.

You have to have a reasonably large body of water and a sailboat to sail.

The farm ponds of Greenwood County where I grew up were hardly big enough for a rowboat.

Despite this lack of experience and knowledge, I bought a sailboat when our kids were young. Having read two or three books on sailing, I was pretty much an expert. I had never sailed a boat. Actually, I had never been on one.

So with the confidence of an old tar (whatever that is) I bought a 17-foot Venture. That’s a boat large enough to have sleeping quarters. I don’t know how anyone could sleep on one because it’s difficult to doze off when you are terrified.

They say that ignorance is bliss, and I was pretty blissful the first time we

took the boat out. We did not take it to Cheney or El Dorado where there is plenty of water and the banks are far apart.

We launched it at Santa Fe Lake, a body of water not much wider than the boat.

The wind was blowing at about 35 miles an hour. I should have calculated in knots, which would have been just a little more than 30. It would have sounded slower.

The Venture is a sloop, meaning it has one mast and usually two sails, a mainsail and a headsail, the smaller one in front. The sails are what get the novice sailor in trouble. They make the boat go, and boats don’t have brakes.

The different ways of sailing a boat have names. I had read about them but when I had loaded the family in and the wind caught a sail I had no idea which was which I had forgotten

how to use them because I was frantically trying to stop the boat before it crashed into the opposite shore, or worse, another boat or boat dock.

The kids were screaming, the boom was dipping into the water and my wife was huddled in a corner of the cabin. We were approaching the north shoreline very rapidly. I was turning the rudder this way and that but the boat was determined to crash into a rock or tree stump.

Fortunately, I remembered a sentence in the book that said if you wanted to stop, you should let all the sails loose. Theoretically, that would make your boat dead in the water. I quickly hauled the sails in and not as neatly as a good sailor should. We paddled the boat back to the dock hoping no one would see us.

A few months later, after we had learned a few things, we took the Venture to Lake Wilson. This is a lake that can produce waves high enough to strike terror in the hearts of veteran sailors. You can imagine what happens to us non veterans.

The second day we were there a storm blew in, and we decided we had better get our boat out before it was too late.

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back the trailer into the water. Dorothy is not good at backing things attached to the back of a vehicle. In fact, Dorothy is not good at backing the car up without something attached to it.

She grabbed the first startled fisherman she could find who was ready to back his trailer in and told him he could back our car and trailer in or he might be waiting for a while to get access to the ramp.

He backed our trailer in as I tried to get the boat aimed at the ramp. The wind kept blowing the boat away from our trailer, so I had some of the kids jump out and stand on the side of the ramp. We would throw them a line (that’s a rope if you’re not a sailor).

Our oldest daughter Ann was going with a guy who had been in the Navy so I thought he would be the best person to throw out the line.

He grabbed a line and threw it as hard as he could and it landed in the hands of one of the kids. I’m thinking, “nice job” when I realize that the other end of the line is not attached to the boat. Someone waded into the water and pushed the bow onto the trailer and the fisherman drove it out.

On the way home I was wondering how much I could get for a 17-foot Venture. I’d throw in some life jackets, too. Or maybe I’d throw away the plug you take out to drain the bilge water.

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Celebrations A card shower is requested for Lorena Bunck Schaechtele, who celebrated her 100th birthday in September.

Born and raised in Garden Plain, Lorena attended Garden Plain Schools. After graduating from Marymount College in Salina, she taught school for one year in Reno County.

She then taught Lorena Schaechtele in Wichita at

South Riverside and Wells Elementary schools.

She married Ed Schaechtele in 1963. In 1967, they moved to California, where she continued her teaching career. They returned to Garden Plain in 1979, where Lorena remained until moving to Maple Gardens Retirement Community in Wichita. She recently moved to the Kansas City area, to be near her nieces and their families.

She was an active member of St. Anthony Catholic Church in Garden Plain and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church in Wichita.

Send birthday greetings to Lorena at 5901 W 107th St., Apt 228, Overland Park, KS 66207. ***

A card shower is requested for Eddis Roundtree of Wichita as she celebrates her 80th birthday on Oct. 2.

Born and raised in Louisiana, Eddis and husband Reuben have made their home in Wichita for nearly 60 years.

The couple have been married 64 years.

A retired nurse, Eddis worked at the VA hospital.

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Eddis has seven children, 25 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.

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Grandmother’s ‘pinch, hit and dash’ inspired baker

By Joe Stumpe Greg Cole traces his love of the kitchen to his grandmother, a great and somewhat mysterious cook.

“I used to ask her what she was putting in food, and she’d always just say ‘a pinch, a hit and a dash.’ She’d never tell me measurements. As I got older, I knew that’s what I wanted to do.”

First, though, the Baltimore, Md., native spent 25 years in the U.S. Army. His last assignment brought him to Wichita, where he headed up local recruitment efforts.

Since retiring from that job in 1999, Cole has kept plenty busy, working in training for several restaurant chains and running a catering company.

In 2011, he started the Good Life Company, which makes Little Bits Gourmet Cookie Bites. Cole spent years perfecting the recipe, which he describes as a softer, spicier version of a German Peppernut cookie. It’s sold in 22 locations, including The Fresh Market and Green Acres outlets in several states.

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Cole also teaches courses in baking, kitchen math and sanitation in the Butler Community College culinary program. Baking is his favorite subject, he says, for “the smile on people’s faces when they taste your product.”

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To make the sauce: Combine butter, sugar and brandy or rum in a small saucepan over medium low heat. When all the ingredients are combined, quickly whisk in egg and remove from heat. Poke holes in top of bread pudding and pour sauce over pudding.

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Test pilot to join Hall of Fame

By Debbi Elmore Dale Felix knew he wanted to be a pilot from the time he was old enough to say “airplane.”

He began building and flying model airplanes in the late 1930s. The 100 combat airplanes he built were used in aircraft-spotter training classes.

As a teenager, he moved on to the real thing. On May 1, 1945, when he was 17, he soloed. His high school sweetheart and future bride, Mary, was there as his enthusiastic cheerleader World War II ended before he was 18.

He enlisted in the Army hoping to get in the Air Corps, but the Army was discharging pilots as fast as possible. Dale and Mary married while he was in the Amy. After his service ended Dale enrolled in Purdue University. He got his bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering and took a job as an engineer in flight control systems with Douglas Aircraft in California. “Every time I got in the cockpit to check a measurement, I said this is where I need to be,” he recalls.

With the onset of the Korean War, he was accepted for active duty for pilot training. After getting his wings as a multi-engine pilot and completing B-26 training at

Vance Air Force Base, he was scheduled to go to Korea. The truce ending the conflict was signed just as he finished his training.

He was assigned to the Air Research and Development Command at Holloman AFB in New Mexico, flying test support missions and maintenance test flights.

After completing his service, he opened Felix Flying Service, training other pilots and flying charter flights. He had plenty of students but not enough charters to make ends meet, so he closed the business 18 months later.

When he heard Boeing was looking for a test pilot, he interviewed and was hired in 1957. That career lasted 21 years, during which he was Chief of Flight Operations for two years and then Chief of Flight Test for 12 years. He was responsible for flight and ground operations; electronics, hydraulic and structures labs; instrumentation and data processing; and remaining current as a test pilot in the B-52, F-100 and the 707 airplanes.

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Boeing sponsored Dale at the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School. He graduated on Feb. 17, 1961, the only civilian in the class.

At one time Boeing placed red phones in his office and his home. It was a direct line to a Strategic Air Command Post with a relay to any SAC B-52 crew with an emergency.

He received a number of calls during the Vietnam War. While at Boeing, he also helped form the Central Section of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots.

He became a Fellow in 1985, the first in this section and one of five in the world to receive that honor that year.

When the B-52 flight test program appeared to be ending, he went to Learjet and spent seven years flying experimental and certification flights.

He ended his career with the Federal Aviation Administration as an aircraft certification test pilot. He retired in 1991.

With five married children, 13 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren, all but one within 30 miles of Wichita, he and Mary enjoy spending time with their family. Dale also enjoys

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Dale will be inducted into the Kansas Aviation Hall of Fame on Oct. 28. Honored with him will be the late William Reals, a leading authority on human factors that contribute to aircraft crashes, and Wichita aviation photographer Paul Bowen.

Dale says he was very fortunate to be able to earn a living doing what he loved to do.

“Whether it was a small single engine Cub or a giant eight-engine B-52, I liked flying it,” he says smiling. “…I enjoyed seeing the curvature of the earth while flying above 50,000 feet.

I was proud to be known as the most calm, laid back pilot. I just felt that I was born to be in the cockpit, whether it was to do a complicated engineering test or to just fly for fun.

“Sometimes I would be flying along and I thought, ‘Wow, to think I get paid for this, I would do this for nothing,’ and there were other times when I earned my whole year’s salary in a few minutes!”

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It’s all beer in second career

By Debbi Elmore For Hank Sanford, it is all about the beer.

He has collected beer signs for years, some dating back to the 1800s.

During his 22 years in sales and marketing, he crisscrossed the entire country, dining in a different brew pub at each destination. All the while, he dreamed of someday having his own brewery.

“I had a traveling sales job, and at 62 I was wearing out,” Hank says. His company was making organizational changes, and he held out hope his traveling days would be numbered. It turned out otherwise.

Once he found his new job would require more travel, he told his company he would be retiring in a year.

He, his wife Jane and their son Steve began searching for blished in Active aging the right building to house their brewery. vember 2014 They found what they wanted in an historic 1897 building on Main Street in Cheney.

They refinished the interior, put up decorations, installed the bar and the brewing Photo by Jim Elmore equipment, and were Hank Sanford is owner and brewmaster of Hank is ready to go.

Wiser Brewery in downtown Cheney.

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1, 2005, I retired,” he says. “We opened here at 3 p.m. the same day.”

Hank is Wiser Brewery was born.

The brewery is open on Thursdays from 5:30 to 10 p.m. and Fridays and Saturdays from 5:30 to midnight.

On Fridays and Saturdays they serve barbecue and cater to a packed house.

The first Tuesday of every month, they host Cheney Beer Club, with an average attendance of 85 devoted fans who come to sample the latest creations.

Hank and Steve are the brewers and bartenders and Jane waits tables, making it a family affair.

“We are starting to get a reputation for our smoked ribs,” Hank says, noting many diners come from Wichita, drawn by the combination of the brewery and its food.

Hank’s wit shines through on the beer names and bottle designs they create.

“Our India Pale Ales are named

after animals that hop,” he says. Thus, the brewery offers Krippled Kangaroo, Bruised Bunny and Wounded Wabbit.

Imperial beer goes by names such as Macho Man and Mocha Man. One of his favorites is the Wedlock Pale Ale, a descendent of Hank and Vicki’s Marital Ale. Other originals include Honey Nut and Oats, Black and Tanner, Hank’s Oktoberfest, Wiseman Wheat and Porter Potty, to name just a few.

Steve shares his father’s passion for beer, and enjoys experimenting with new recipes and tastes. He also smokes the meat they serve.

“Most of our first recipes were from some of my father’s modified homebrew recipes,” he says. “Most of them now are a little bit of this and a little bit of that. It’s kinda like a chef knowing what tastes and spices go together.

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even ready. But like a great chef there’s a lot of trial and error, some home runs

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“I do my best to try as many new beers as I can get my hands on, and if I happen to find one that really wows me I try and research it to determine the ingredients used, and identify

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whether it’s the malts, hop profile or the yeast that I loved in that certain beer. I then incorporate it into a beer of my own with my own twist on it.

There are other times where I come up with a name for a beer (like our Hop Scotch Ale) and create a recipe to suit the name. It happened to turn out to be a Scottish ale that was dryhopped with extra hops on the fermenter.”

Hank says he is living his dream.

“I didn’t retire, I just switched careers,” he says. “I was lucky to have a son to do this with me. This was started as a hobby, but it’s become more. I

am having fun.”

Hank offers a tidbit of advice to others: “If you’re physically Hank’s brewing system and financially able, follow your dream.

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Midwest Beerfest features craft beers Craft beers from across Kansas and around the world are center stage at the Midwest Beerfest, Oct. 17 and 18 at Century II Expo Hall.

Beer Lovers Dinners, a Grand Tasting and Midwest Wingfest are highlights of the event sponsored by the Wichita chapter of the American

Add some local flavor to your beer at a homegrown brewery You can enjoy locally brewed beers and ales at a variety of brewpubs and microbreweries in the Wichita area.

Hank is Wiser Brewery, 213 N. Main, Cheney 316-542-0113. Brewpub. www.hankiswiserbrewery.com River City Brewing Co., 150 N. Mosley, 316-263-2739. Brewpub. rivercitybrewingco.com Walnut River Brewing Company, 111 W. Locust Ave, El Dorado, 316-3518086. Microbrewery. www.walnutriverbrewing.com Wichita Brewing Co. & Pizzeria, 8815 W. 13th, 316-210-1641. Brewpub. www.wichitabrew.com Central Standard Brewing, 156 S. Greenwood. Brewpub.

Hopping Gnome, 1710 E. Douglas. Microbrewery (opening in November).

Two national chains with local outlets: BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse, 7960 E. Kellogg, 316-687-0250. Brewpub. www.bjsrestaurants.com Granite City Food & Brewery, 2661 N. Maize, 316- 721-8500 and 2244 N. Webb Rd., 316-636-5050. Brewpub. www.gcfb.net.

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Beer and Food Lovers Beer Dinners on Thursday, Oct. 16, and Friday, Oct. 17, allow participants to choose from three venues to enjoy American beers paired with food selected to celebrate and enhance the flavors of the featured beers. Seatings are limited; advance tickets are required.

Doors open for the Grand Tasting at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, with more than 350 products – beers, non-beer adult beverages, non-alcoholic drinks and food – to sample. Sample chicken wings prepared by local restaurants and foodies at Midwest Wingfest.

Admission is $6, and all proceeds go to Make-A-Wish Kansas.

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Mental illness awareness week A candlelight ceremony and program kicks off Mental Illness Awareness Week Sunday, Oct. 5, at the Dugan-Gorges Conference Center at Newman University, 3100 McCormick Ave. A reception and exhibits open at 6 pm., with the ceremony and guest speaker at 7.

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Scooter supplies boomer’s need for speed

By Jerry King The baby boomers who are now settling into their rocking chairs were raised in a time when there was street

racing, fast food stands with car-side service, outdoor theaters and muscle cars. Roads were being modernized, and tires soon became more than a 2-ply layer of nylon between them and the road.

Our generation was built on the desire to get somewhere fast and direct. The fortunate boomers probably haven’t slowed down much.

Even some of the less fortunate who have fallen prey to a disability still have that desire and “need for speed.” We don’t want power chairs and scooters with only a two to three Courtesy photo mile per hour sidewalk speed.

Jerry King found a scooter to fulfill his “need for speed.”

Scooter and power chair manufacturers are answering our call. Some have placed higher speed-ratio electric motors and gearboxes in their past offerings; other innovative suppliers have completely retooled their old designs.

Some manufacturers surveyed customers and learned that users were getting tired of the slower scooters and power chairs. In response they are creating movers with top speeds of eight to 12 mph so drivers can get to the store and back in record time.

I now own one of the fast fourwheel scooters. After putting on about 1,000 miles in 12.5 months of trouble-free ownership, I can attest that some manufacturers have gotten our need for speed built correctly and reliably.

My scooter arrived last July via a common freight carrier with free-of charge delivery. It was in a large box, and the only assembly required was to install the seat on the frame and install and tighten two rear-view mirrors.

I charged the batteries, and off I

went. The eight-mile round trip to the grocery store or area building centers take me only about an hour now, much faster than on my old three-wheel, five mph scooter. Many people have noticed me zipping along on the west Wichita sidewalks, and most people in the stores acknowledge the modern design my new ride features.

This need for speed also comes with the need for brakes and the ability to stop fast. Modern scooters have degenerative braking which means the brakes are applied whenever the forward or reverse throttle control is neutralized.

My need-for-speed ride also features an electronic information display that keeps me informed with a speedometer, odometer, outdoor temperature, battery charge indicator, turn signal indicators, driving lights, hi-low speed range indicator and, if ever needed, emergency flashers.

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Care Comes Home: An evening for caregivers

By Annette Graham CPAAA Executive Director More than 65 million people – 29 percent of the U.S. population or three in 10 households – provide care for a chronically ill, disabled or older family member or friend.

Regardless of the type of assistance caregivers provide, they need support and current information. Options often overlooked include local resources, online support and in-home care that can make caregiving less stressful.

Scooter From previous page

available to the rider. If I keep my scooter in low-range (zero-eight mph), I get between 25 or 30 miles out of one battery charge.

When the going is good (i.e. smooth sidewalks) and I keep the pedal to the metal (10-12 mph), I can still get between 12 and 18 miles before the charging meter says I’m near empty.

And that’s a long enough ride on a scooter for almost anyone.

Believe it or not, I also take pho-

November is National Family Caregiver Month. Central Plains Area Agency on Aging (CPAAA) is holding a caregiver event – Care Comes Home – at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, at the Alford Branch Library, 3447 S. Meridian.

In addition to a panel discussion on the challenges faced by caregivers, there also will be information on where to find help for services and support from CPAAA and others in the community. Doors open at 6 for booths

tos of west-side sidewalks in need of repair and report them to the City of Wichita street officials. Usually within a couple days, the City has verified the spot of sidewalk needing repair and has painted an “X’ on it, placing it on their list for repairs when a crew is working in the area.

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According to the National Alliance for Caregiving, seven out of 10 are caring for someone age 50 or older. The caregivers can be neighbors, relatives, friends or from one’s faith community. Their support ranges from grocery shopping, snow removal or a friendly visit to more direct help such as providing meals, bathing, housekeeping and 24-hour care.

Caregivers face many challenges balancing work and family, maintaining a safe environment and managing emotional and physical stress. The stress and challenges on a daily basis can be vast. Boomers are now the largest number of caregivers.

“A loved one’s care does not always take place in hospitals, nursing homes, doctor offices or medical clinics,” says Conni Mansaw, CPAAA Caregiver Care Manager. “Most care actually occurs in the home, and that’s a good thing.”

People tend to stay healthier and have increased quality of life in their own home, and the cost of in-home care is lower than nursing home care, she added. “But caregiving at home can

take its toll, and it certainly takes a lot of planning and support.”

The good news is a network of professional service providers available to help caregivers, including home health agencies, non-profit organizations and Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) across the nation.

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Oct 16: 10:15 am Tanglewood Elementary 4th graders program about visiting grandma’s when all the electronics don’t work. Meet at Tanglewood. 1:30 pm Birthday/Anniversary bingo, $2.

Oct 20: 11 am Just Lunch. Only the driver knows the destination. $3 plus lunch, depart from library. Reservations.

Oct 22: 9 am Flu shot clinic. Register by Oct. 15.

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

Regular activities: Exercise classes, Pickleball, computer classes; foot care.

Oct 8: 2-3 pm Medicare Open Enrollment overview.

Oct 9: 1-4 pm Flu shot clinic by Walgreens.

Oct 15: 10 am Fall Prevention workshop.

Oct 25: 9 am Hike at Pawnee Prairie Park, meet in parking lot off Tyler Rd south of Pawnee.

Oct 28: 1 pm Drug and Food Interactions.

Every Mon: 1 pm Beading Buddies.

Every Thu: 9:30-11 am Drawing class.

Every Tues & Thu: 10 am Tai Chi; 1 pm Pool tournament.

Every Wed: 9 am Spanish class; 10 am Madison’s Dance.

1st Fri: 1 pm Seniors Exploring the Cultural Arts.

EDGEMOOR 5815 E 9th, 688-9392

Mon-Fri: 11:30 am GNNP lunch, reservation required; 10-11 am Pool, cards, bingo, dominoes, puzzles.

GARDEN PLAIN 1006 N Main, 535-1155

Tue, Thu: 9:30 am Exercise.

Fri: 1 pm Cards.

Let’s Go

Ghost stories of Historic Delano, tours departing Lawrence Dumont Stadium, 6 pm-9 pm, Thu, Oct. 2. Tour the stadium, pick up a brochure listing other stops and board a trolley or do a self-guided tour of the neighborhood.

Fall Bazaar/Bake Sale, Mt. Vernon United Methodist, 5701 E. Mt. Vernon.

9 am-7 pm, Sat, Oct. 11. Chicken & noodle dinner, 5-7 pm. Info, 684-6141.

EcoFest 2014, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 7202 E. 21st., 10 am – 4 pm, Sat, Oct. 11. Fun, food, shopping, games, music, demonstrations designed to inspire empower people to live green.

Kansas Author’s Club, annual conference, Ramada Inn, Hutchinson.

Oct 10-12. Keynote speaker, Roger Cornish of KWCH. Registration info at www.kansasauthors.org.

Women’s Health from A to Z: Hereditary Breast Cancer, Corporate

Caterers, 29th and Rock. 2-3 pm, Wed, Oct. 22. Surgeon Dr. Christina Nichols and a patient talk about hereditary breast cancer and genetic testing for the BRCA mutation. $4, RSVP to Wesley Friends, 962-8400.

Tuesday Topics: Election Issues 2014, Wichita Public Library Central Branch, 223 S. Main. Noon-1 pm, Tue, Oct. 28. (Room opens at 11:30 am.) Get answers to your questions about issues Wichitans will be deciding in November. Co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters. Bring a brown bag lunch, drinks provided.

Orchid Show and Sale, Botanica, 701 Amidon, 10 am-5 pm. Sat, Nov 1; 10 am-4 pm Sunday, Nov. 2. Kansas Orchard Society show with floral displays competiting for national points; vendors with supplies and all varieties of orchids. Info at www. kansasorchidsociety.com.

1st Fri: noon Potluck, cards.

3rd Fri: noon Birthday/anniversary.

GODDARD 120 N Main, 794-2441

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

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

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

HAYSVILLE 160 E Karla, 529-5903

Regular activities: Cards, crafts, GNNP lunch.

Mon, Wed, Fri: 10 am Silver Foxes exercise.

Tue, Thu: 10 am STEP exercise.

1st & 3rd Wed: 11 am Blood pressure checks.

2nd & 4th Wed: 12:30 pm Crafts.

3rd Wed: 12:30 pm Bingo.

2nd Fri: 5:30 pm Birthday dinner, covered dish, bingo.

KECHI Kechi City Building, 744-017, 744-1271

Fri: 9 am Breakfast at Braum’s.

LA FAMILIA 841 W 21st, 267-1700

Mon-Fri: Dance, exercise, pool, dominoes, 11:30 am-12:15 pm Hot lunch.

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

Tue, Thu: 1 pm Exercise/Ejercicio.

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

Thu: 10 am Bingo/loteria.

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

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

Regular activities: Cards and games, exercise programs, GNNP lunch.

Oct 10: 10:15 am Are you an apple or a pear: How body shape predicts your health.

Oct 15: 1-3 pm Flu shot clinic by Walgreens.

Oct 29: 1:30 pm Birds of Kansas, Jim Mason of Great Plains Nature Center.

Oct 31: 10:15 am Quilt display and discussion; 12:30-2 pm Costume Party. Music, games, prizes.

Mon: 9 am TOPS; 10:15 am Tai Chi; 1-1:45 pm Beginning & intermediate crochet class.

Mon & Fri: 9 am Dynabands; 9:30 am Strength training.

Tue: 9 am Brain games; 9:30 am Fitness & balance; 10:30 am Bingo.

Tue & Thu: 9 am Pickleball; 12:15 pm WSU Well-Rep combo exercise program.

Wed: 9 am Arthritis exercise; Noon Movie & popcorn.

MCADAMS GOLDEN AGE 1329 E 16th, 990-8921

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

Sun: 1-3 pm Quilting.

Tue: 10:30-11:30 am Gospel Sing.

Sat: noon-6 pm Classes: flower arrangement, sewing, jewelry making.

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

MT HOPE 105 S Ohio, 667-8956

Mon: 7-10 am Coffee, donuts; 11:30 am-12:30 pm Lunch; 1-4 pm Cards.

Tue, Wed, Fri: 9 am Exercise class.

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

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

1st Fri: Noon Sr Citizens’ lunch.

MULVANE 632 E Mulvane, 777-4813

Daily: 7:30-9 am Walk-in gym, coffee; GNNP

lunch; computers, dominoes, puzzles, pool, book loan.

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

Tue & Thu: 9:30 am Zumba.

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

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

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

NORTHEAST 2121 E 21st, 269-4444 www.seniorservicesofwichita.org

Daily: Dominoes, cards, Wii, pool, GNNP lunch.

Library, exercise room, computer lab.

Oct 14: 1 pm Healthy Eating on a Budget.

Oct 22: 9-11 am Flu shot clinic, appt. needed.

Oct 31: 2-4 pm Motown Madness Fall Festival Mon, Wed, Fri: 9:30 am WSU exercise; Mon: 1:30 pm Sing-a-Long.

Tue: 10 am Beginner’s crochet Thu: 10:30 am Jewelry class.

Tue, Thu: 1 pm Spanish class.

Fri: 10 am Crochet class.

1 pm Bridge.

1st Tues: 11 am Blood pressure check.

OAKLAWN 2937 Oaklawn Dr, 524-7545

Oct 4: 8-10 am. Breakfast fundraiser: biscuits & gravy, $3.50 Oct 23: 12:30 pm Community Bingo Every Tue: 7 pm Bible study.

Every Wed: 8:30 am Sweets & coffee, Panera Bread.

Every Thu: 9:30 am-4 pm Simple sewing.

Every Fri: 12:30-4 pm Cards; 5 pm Potluck & cards.

ORCHARD PARK 4808 W 9th, 942-2293

Regular activities: Exercise programs, cards, pool, GNNP lunch. www.seniorservicesofwichita. org.

Oct 14: 11:30 am Lunch Out, Spear’s.

Oct 27: 8:30-10:30 am Flu shot clinic by Walgreens.

Oct 24: 10 am & 2 pm Medicare workshop with LT Care Solutions.

Oct 28: 8:30 am Breakfast Out: Neighbor’s Oct 31: 11:30 am Halloween Party. Bring favorite trick or treat, wear your Halloween shirt.

Every Wed: 10:30 am-noon Computer Lab Every Fri: 7-9 pm Golden Age Club Dance.

First Fri: 2:15 pm Book discussion group.

PARK CITY 6100 N Hydraulic, 744-1199

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

Oct 6, 20 & 27: 3-5 pm A Matter of Balance.

Oct 7 & 21: 11 am Blood pressure checks, diet & exercise program.

Oct 9 & 16 11:30 am CarFit. Oct 21: 8 am Breakfast Out: Auntie C’s.

Mon: 1 pm Crochet/Art group; 7 pm Pitch.

Wed: 1 pm Walking; 2:30 pm Line Dance.

Mon, Wed, Fri: 9:15 am Exercise.

Tue & Thu: 8:30 am Wii Bowling; 10 am Chair exercise.

1st Wed: 10:30 am Chisholm Trail Seniors catered lunch, meeting, program.

3rd Thu: 1 pm Bingo; 5:30 pm Finger food.

3rd Fri: 6 pm Fun, food, games.

VALLEY CENTER 316 E. Clay, 755-7335

Regular activities: Home-cooked meals, monthly outings including casino trip, exercise programs.

Mon: Donuts, coffee. Cards Tue: 10 am Brunch, $4, movie & cards; 6:30 pm Pitch, bring snack to share.

Wed: 9 am Meet at Methodist Church.

Thu: noon Lunch, $5. Games.

Fri: noon Lunch, $4.

3rd Thu: Birthday celebration.

October 2014

ANDOVER 410 Lioba Dr, 733-4441 www.andoverks.com

Active aging

Butler County Senior Centers

Regular activities: Exercise classes, bridge, Pinochle, pool table, dominoes. Lunch 11:30 am-12:30 pm (reservation required), $3.

Tue & Thu: 9:30 am Walk A Mile; 10 am Blood pressure check.

Wed: 12:30-3:30 pm Stitch & Chat.

Thu: 7-9 pm Pitch.

Fri: 9 am Balance class; 3 pm Wii time.

1st Mon & 4th Thu: 6:30 pm Quilt Guild.

4th Tue: 6:30 pm Alzheimer’s support group.

3rd Thu: 1 pm Baking.

1st, 2nd & 4th Fri: 12:45 pm Bingo.

3rd Fri: 11 am Covered dish, meeting & program.

AUGUSTA 640 Osage, 775-1189

Regular activities: Line dance, exercise classes, cards, games, lunch (reservation required).

1st Wed: 9:30-11 am Blood pressure checks.

2nd Sat: 7-10 am Biscuits/gravy, $3.

3rd Tue: 7:30 am Casino trip.

1st, 3rd, 5th Wed: 7-10 pm Jam Session.

BENTON Lion’s Community Bldg, S Main St

2nd & 4th Tue: 9 am-4 pm, Cards, games, occasional program. Covered dish.

CASSODAY Cassoday Community Center

Tue: 10:30 am Round Table.

Tue & Thu: 10 am Strong Women Stay Young Exercise & Wii Fit. 1st Mon: 7 pm Game night.

3rd Mon: 6:30 pm Potluck & program; blood pressure checks.

Last Fri: 7 pm Bingo.

DOUGLASS 124 W 4th, 746-3227

Regular activities: Exercise, quilting, cards, homecooked lunch, $4 (reservation required).

1st Mon: 6 pm Finger foods & cards.

3rdMon: 6 pm Birthday/anniversary covered dish

Harvey County Senior Centers BURRTON 124 N Burrton, 620-463-3225

Tue, Fri: 9:30 am Exercises.

Fri: 1 pm Table games.

1st Mon: 6 pm Bunko.

2nd Thu: Noon Meal, table games.

4th Thu: 6 pm Dinner, program.

HALSTEAD 523 Poplar, 835-2283

Mon & Wed: Games after lunch.

Tue & Fri: 9 am Exercise.

2nd Thu: 7 pm Dine out/activity.

3rd Thu: 6 pm Potluck, meeting.

3rd Fri: 12:30 pm Movie in.

3rd Sun: 1:30 pm Movie out.

4th Thu: 7 pm Penny Bingo.

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

Mon, Wed, Fri: 8 am Stretch bands.

Mon & Tue: 1:30 pm Pitch.

Tue: 8 am Coffee Hour; 9 am Films; 1:30 pm Pinochle.

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

1st & 3rd Tue: 6 pm Singin’ Seniors.

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

1st & 3rd Thu: 7 pm Pitch.

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

1st Sat: 7:30-9 am Breakfast; 8:30 am Hearing aid check; 9 am Blood glucose check.

4th Mon: 5:30 pm gathering, 6 pm Potluck dinner.

Program follows.

4th Tue: 8:30 am Blood pressure check.

NEWTON 122 E 6th, 283-2222 www.newtonseniorcenter.org

Oct 2: 7:30-9 am Breakfast: Sausage gravy and biscuits, scrambled eggs, fruit, oatmeal, coffee, 8:30 am Community chat: Skip Cowan, Health Dept., on Crisis/Disaster Preparedness.

Oct 14: 6 pm Potluck, bring dish to share, table service. Program on fire safety and prevention

by Newton Fire Dept.

Oct 15: 11:30 am Day trip to El Dorado, lunch at Deli Dilly, tour Coutt’s Memorial Museum of Arts and Sculpture Alley.

Oct 21: 10:30 am Aging Well: “Meet the Dementia Family and Its Imposters,” Barrick Wilson.

Oct 23: 10:30 am Driving capacity evaluations.

Mon: 9:15 am Get Lighter, Feel Better. 10-11 am Blood pressure check; 7-9:30 pm Square Dance.

Tue: 10:30am Computer class; 1 pm Crafts; 7 pm Round Dance.

Wed: 1 pm Pinochle/cards; 4:15 pm Line Dance.

Thu: 1 pm Wii bowling.

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

2nd & 4th Thu: 10:30 am Bingo.

1st & 3rd Fri: 6 pm Game night.

SEDGWICK 107 W. Fifth, 772-0393

Mon: 1 pm games.

Tue: 7-8:30 am Breakfast.

Wed: 9-11 am Quilting.

Mon, Wed, Fri: 9 am Exercise.

1st Fri: 7 pm Birthday party.

2nd Thu: noon Carry-in dinner, mtg.

3rd Thu: 5 pm Dinner Night Out. 2nd Fri: 7 pm Pitch party.

Last Thu: 7 pm Movie.

supper, bring own service. Cards.

3rd Sat: 7:30-9:30 am Biscuits/gravy, scrambled eggs, $3.

EL DORADO 210 E 2nd, 321-0142

Regular activities: Exercise, cards, home-cooked lunch, $2. RSVP 24 hrs in advance.

Mon, Fri: 10 am Aerobics.

Tue: 12:30-2 pm Bingo. 6:30 pm Prairie Port Singles.

Wed: 10 am Back in Balance.

2nd Thu: 11 am Blood pressure check; 6:30 pm Crazy Quilters.

LEON 112 S Main, 745-9200 or 742-9905

Regular activities: Exercise, cards, home-cooked lunch (reservation required).

Mon: 10:30 am Bible study.

Tue & Thu: 1 pm Bridge.

Wed: 1 pm Pinochle.

3rd Sun: 11am-1:30 pm, Home-cooked lunch, $7 adults, $3.50 children. 745-9200.

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ROSE HILL 207 E Silknitter, 776-0170

Regular activities: Wii, pool table, shuffleboard, home-cooked lunch (reservation required).

Mon & Wed: 9 am Strong Women Stay Young E xercise.

Mon: 7 pm Pitch games.

Wed: 1 pm Bridge.

Fri: 7 pm Card game.

1st Fri: 11 am Meeting, covered dish.

3rd Fri: Noon Covered dish.

1st Sat: 7-10 am Scrambled eggs, biscuits/gravy.

TOWANDA 317 Main, 536-8999

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

Whitewater Legion Hall,Whitewater

2nd & 4th Tue: noon Potluck, program.

Senior Wednesdays Every Wed – Free or nomimal admission. www.seniorwednesday.org.

Oct 1– Wichita Art Museum, 10 am, Self Portraits at Every Age. Courtney Spoutsa, curator of education, highlights the art of portraiture. Water Center, 1:30 pm, 101 E Pawnee, World Wide Water Issues.

Don Kirkland on the issues and problems with water all around the globe.

Oct 8 – Sedgwick County Zoo, 10 am, Hoo Knew? Learn about local owls and other birds of prey. $4. Wichita Public Library, Central Branch, 1:30 pm, The Fascinating World of Colored Gemstones. Gemologist Kathy Delker on determining the value of gemstones and scientific tools used for identification.

Oct 15 – Ulrich Museum of Art, 10 am, Conscious Clay Art Making: Ceramic Bowls Part 2. Jennifer Hanson Gard will talk about her activist approach to hunger awareness with “Project NOLA.” Kansas African American Museum,

1:30 pm Profile of Vincent J. Harding, “the most important civil rights activist you have never heard of.”

Oct 22 - Wichita-Sedgwick Co Historical Museum, 10 am, Truman Capote and the Meanings of Kansas by Dave Tell.

Truman Capote’s book In Cold Blood rattled the state of Kansas. Through exploration of editorial and newspaper columns, this talk reveals the reasons people cared about Capote varied by region. Exploration Place, 1:30 pm.

Protect Yourself: Wichita Bugs In You and On You. Protect yourself from local parasites that call your body home, with Deborah B. Fromer, epidemiologist, Sedgwick Co. Health Dept., $4+tax.

Oct 29 – Great Plains Nature Center, 10 am; Dark Shadows! – Creatures associated with Halloween get a bum rap! Learn about bats, spiders and owls.

Old Cowtown Museum, 1 pm Victorian Courtship and Marriage.

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Clubs and Organizations AARP 2614, Country Cafe, 2804 S. Seneca, 3rd Wed: 11 am, mtg/ program, 440-6931.

African Violet Study Club, Botanica, 3rd Fri: 1 pm. Visitors welcome.

After 5 Christian Women, Rolling Hills Country Club, 223 Westlink. 4th Thu: 6:30-8 pm, $15.

RSVP, 529-3472 Air Capital Active People, Grace Presbyterian Church, 5002 E Douglas, 3rd Sat: 11 am-1 pm.

Program/mtg/lunch, 943-6123.

Air Capital Chorus, Scottish Rite Temple, 332 E First, every Tue: 7 pm, Singers welcome, 776-2121.

American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Immanuel Lutheran Church, 909 S Market. Research Library, 1:30 pm 2nd Fri. Info 634-0353. Chapter meeting: Oct. 5: 1:30 pm potluck; 2:30 program, Genealogy 101: Jumpstart your family research.

American Sewing Guild, Extension Center, 21st & Ridge, 1st Tue: 1:30 or 7 pm.

Beech/Raytheon/Hawker Retirees, Golden Corral, 11006 E Kellogg, 2nd Fri:11:30 am Lunch.

942-7435. Breakfast Groups: last Wed: 7:30 am, True Lies Ranch Hand Cafe, 607 N Oil Hill Rd, El Dorado. 320-1367.

Boeing Retirees, The Learning Center, 150 Stewart, Haysville. 1st Tue:10 am, $7.25. RSVP by previous Mon, 524-5549.

Calvary Fellowship, 2525 N Rock Rd, 1st Thu: noon, covered dish/program, 683-3913.

China Painting, Flying saucers, 1st Thu: 9:30 am; Kracked Kup Klub, 3rd Thu: 9:30 am; Sunflower Club, 3rd Fri: 9:30 am. June 943-2878 or Lou 722-3047.

Church Women United, Inter-Faith Ministries, 829 N Market, 1st Fri – 1pm. Guests welcome.

Colwich Srs, 310 S 2nd. 1st, 2nd, 3rd Thu:1:30 pm social; Mon, Tue, Wed:1 pm cards.

Cowtown Social Club, Hotel at Old Cowtown Museum, 1865 Museum Blvd. Last Mon: 9:30 am. Info 264-6687.

Daughters of Union Veteran’s of the Civil War, 3rd Mon, 1 pm, Grace Methodist Church, 944 S Topeka. Pat, 636-9454.

East Wichita Christian Women, Wichita Country Club, 8501 E 13th St. 4th Thu–11:30 am. $14, RSVP 682-1495 Fleet Reserve Assoc & Ladies Aux, Good Shepherd Lutheran, 1451 E 47th S, 2nd Thu: 6 pm, 788-4549.

Friendship Club, 1900 McCormick, 2nd Fri:10:30 am-noon. Covered dish/program, 264-8133.

Friendship Force of Kansas, Gloria Dei Lutheran, 1101 N River Blvd. Meets quarterly. Susan Harrington, 775-3072; Jan Blick, 620-6650-6506.

Golden Age Clubs, Wichita Parks & Recreation program: Goldenrod, 1340 S Pattie, every Wed: 10 am, 337-9244; Evergreen, 2700 N Woodland, Every Mon: 10:30 am-noon, 3038036; Linwood, 1901 S Kansas, Every Tue: 9 am-3 pm, 337-9191; McAdams, 1329 E 16th, Every Tue: 12:30-2 pm, 337-9222; Minisa, 704 W 13th, Every Thur: 9 am-1 pm, 303-8036; Orchard, 4808 W 9th, Every Thu: 9 am-12:30 pm, 337-9244; Osage, meets at Linwood, every Mon: 9 am-3:30 pm, 337-9191.

Grace Presbyterian-Best Years, 5002 E Douglas, 1st Thu: 10 am Fellowship, festivities; 11 am program; noon, lunch, $7. Reservations by previous Mon, Linda, 684-5215.

Haysville Genealogy Group, Community Library, lower level, 2nd Sat: 2 pm meeting. Bev Miller, 529-4285.

IAM District Lodge 70 Retirees, 3830 S Meridian.

Last Thu: noon lunch; 1 pm program, 522-1591.

Inventors Association of South-Central Kansas, NCAT/WATC, 4004 N Webb Rd. 4th Mon: 6:30 pm. John, 393-5553.

J.O.Y. (Just Older Youth), 2151 W Dora, 50 & older, every Thu:10 am-1pm companionship, special programs, bingo, covered dish 50¢ & flower donations; 4th Thu: birthdays/anniversaries. 264-0571.

Kansas Art Guild, Wichita Center for the Arts, 9112 E Central, 1st Tue: 1 pm Demonstration or lecture. 943-4747.

Kansas Authors Club, District 5, program, meeting, 2nd Sat, nine months a year. Location varies. Susan 688-0905 or www.kansasauthors.org Kansas Knife Collectors, 3219 W Central, 1st Thu: 7 pm. Bill Davis, 838-0540.

Kansas Gas Service Retirees, Spears, 4323 W Maple, Last Fri: Noon, Meeting, 944-8773.

Keenagers, Pleasantview Baptist Church, 1335 N Buckner, Derby, 3rd Thu: noon, covered dish, meat furnished and entertainment.

Keystone High Twelve, Kansas Masonic Home, 402 E Martinson, every Mon:11:30 am, fellowship, lunch, program. Jim Pipkin, 721-5568.

Knife & Fork Club, Bank of America Bldg, 100 N Broadway, 9th Floor. One Mon per month, dinner, speaker, 832-0517.

Korean Veterans, American Legion Post 401, 101 E 31st S, 2nd Wed: 11 am. Howard Runft, 265-3414.

Marine Corps League, American Legion Post 401, 101 E 31st S, 3rd Tue: 6:30 pm social; 7 pm mtg. Former Marines & FMF Corpsmen welcome. Tom Huxtable, 721-0307.

Melodears, rehearsal every Thu:10-11:30 am, St Paul UMC, 13th & Broadway. Edna, 945-9146.

Midwest Historical & Genealogical Society Library, 1203 N Main, 264-3611, open Tue & Sat, 9 am-4 pm.

Military Officers Association of America, one Sun a month at Rolling Hills CC. 11:30 am lunch, meeting, program. Info LeRoy, 788-4366 or Terry, 686-6174.

Military Order of the Purple Heart, American Legion Post 256, 4301 W. Pawnee, 1st Sat, 9 am.

Tom, 316-650-1328 or 316-558-8059.

Motivator Singles Group, Central Community Church, K-Chapel, 6100 W Maple, lunch or refreshments, monthly meeting, 1 pm. Cletus, 755-2003 or Nora, 943-9766.

NARFE (National Active & Retired Federal Employees), 3rd Wed odd-numbered months, 11 am-2 pm, Golden Corral West, 616 S. Ridge.

Sylvia, 239-1270.

Needle Arts Guild of Wichita, College Hill UMC, 2930 E 1st, Every Thu: 10 am-3 pm. 207-2643.

Northeast Sr Citizen Club, 2121 E 21st, 1st & 3rd Wed 10:30 am, programs, trips, fellowship.

269-4444.

North Wichita Optimists, Spears, 4323 Maple, Every Wed: 7 am, breakfast, speaker.

Old Time Fiddlers, Pickers & Singers, 210 E 2nd, El Dorado Senior Center, 1st Sun: doors open at noon, music starts 1:30 pm. Meat, potatoes, veggies provided; bring salad or dessert to share, $3. 755-1060 Phyllis Wheatley Sr Fellowship, 1005 N Mathewson, 1st & 3rd Thu: 11:30 am-2 pm.

612-0944.

Postal Retirees & Former Postal Employees, Even months, 1st Wed: 9:30 am, Village Inn, 1685 S Rock Rd. Jan Cragun, 682-9674 or Jan Pickering, 683-0160.

Prairie Quilt Guild, Downtown Sr Center, 200 S Walnut, 2nd Tue: 1 & 7 pm.

Retired Teamsters Local #795, last Sun of month, 1pm, lunch/mtg. Location varies: Bill, 620-545-7451.

River City Decorative Artists, 3rd Tue: 6:30-9 pm.

Society of Decorative Painters, 393 N McLean Blvd. Dee 265-7644.

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River City Ladies, 4th Tue: time, location varies.

Cards, outings, spring luncheon. Karen Holden, 264-3615.

Scandinavian Society of Wichita, 2nd Fri: 6:30 pm. www.scandinaviansocietywichita.org.

SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives), SBA office, 220 W. Douglas, Ste 450. 1st Thu: 11:30 am, program, meeting, lunch. Visitors welcome, call for reservation, 316-269-6273.

Sierra Club, Great Plains Nature Ctr, 6232 E 29th N, 2nd Fri: 6:30 pm, pizza, salad (bring service); program 7:30 pm. davidkirkbride@knea.org Silver Streak, 2110 W 45th, 2nd Tue: 10 am-2 pm, Mtg/dinner/entertainment, RSVP Velma Compton 201-6071.

Singles Dinner Night, Every Wed: 6:30 pm, location varies. Also other events. 942-5117 or www.wichitaareaevents.blogspot.com Single Seniors, Downtown Sr Ctr. Every Tue:10:30 am-noon, 2nd Tue: Eat Out. 3rd Tue: Games.

Arlene, 524-8726.

Society of Military Widows, 1st Sat: 11:30 am, location varies. Marilyn, 990-7320.

Sons of Confederate Veterans, Ford Rockwell Branch Library, 5939 E 9th. 2nd Thu: 5:30 p.m..

Kevin, 620-276-9275.

Sons of Union Veteran’s of the Civil War, Last Thu, 7 pm, DAV Clubhouse, 3011 S Geo Washington Blvd. Bill, 722-9387 Sr. Tennis League, year-round schedule. Ron 838-7833 or Andy 689-0522.

Sunflower Horseshoe, 922 N Santa Fe, League play, Tue: 6:30-9 pm; Thu:12:30-3 pm Monthly tourney, inside courts. Bill 683-9428 or James 264-2663.

Telephone Pioneers, Location varies, 2nd Thu: 11:30 am. Arnetta 265-7542.

TROW (The Retired Officers Wives) 3rd Fri. Location varies. Wives of all services. 788-8830.

Twentieth Century Club, 536 N Broadway. Every Tue: Luncheon, noon; program, 1:15 am. Lunch, $9. RSVP, Marjorie Parsons, 316-722-1057.

Tyler Roadrunners, 571 S Tyler, 3rd Thu: noon.

Covered dish, 722-4511.

University Club, Bank of America Bldg, 9th floor, 100 N Broadway, one Thu a month: 6 pm dinner, speaker, 832-0517.

VFW Post 971, Newton, 3rd Mon: 7:30 pm, 1610 SE 3rd St. 316-283-1717.

West Heights UMC Adults Plus, 745 N Westlink, 3rd Tue:10:45 am-1 pm, program/covered dish.

RSVP 722-3805.

West Side Christian Senior Fellowship, 1819 W Douglas, 3rd Wed, lunch/fellowship, RSVP by previous Mon. 263-5269.

West Side UMC Golden Agers, 1313 W Lydia, 1st Fri: noon. Fellowship, covered dish, bring service. 264-6605.

West Wichita Christian Women, Rolling Hills CC, 223 Westlink, 4th Fri: 9:15-11:30 am, Cost $11. RSVP 524-5967.

Wichita Amateur Radio (WARC), Salvation Army, 350 N Market. 7:30 pm meeting. See website for dates. www.warc1.org.

Wichita Association of Retired School Personnel, 2nd Fri of Feb, April, June, Aug, Oct & Dec. at Gloria Dei Lutheran, 1101 N River Blvd.

Luncheon, program. Reservations, 721-3125.

Wichita Audubon Society, 3rd Tue: 7 pm, Great Plains Nature Ctr, 6232 E 29th. www.wichitaaudubon.com.

Wichita Coin Club, Downtown Sr Center, 200 E Walnut, 2nd Thu: 7 pm. camon@sbcglobal. net or 943-1832.

Wichita Genealogical Society, Alford Branch Library, 3447 S. Meridian. 3rd Sat: 1 pm. www. wichitagensoc.org Wichita Musical Club, Senseney Music Store, lower level, 2300 E Lincoln. 3rd Thu: 1:30 pm.

Wichita Postcard Club, Alford Branch Library, 3447 S Meridian, 1st Sat: 2-4 pm. Kathy, 8320811.

Wichita PrimeTimers, social organization for mature gay and bi-sexual males; 10-12 social activities monthly. Email ictprimetimers@aol. com or visit primetimersww.org/wichita.

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Area Agency on Aging

Butler Co Advisory Council, For date, location, 775-0500 or 1-800-279-3655.

Central Plains Area Agency on Aging Advisory Council, 3rd Wed—1:30 pm. For location, 660-7298.

Harvey Co Advisory Council, 2nd Thu—9 am. For location, 284-6880 or 1-800-7507993.

Sedgwick Co Dept on Aging Advisory Council, 2nd Wed—2 pm. For location, info 660-7298.

AARP Driver Safety Classes

Eight hours of instruction. Certificate on completion for insurance discount. Class size limited; call for reservations. $15 for AARP members; $20 for non-members.

Orchard Park Sr Ctr., 4808 W 9th, 12:30-4:30 pm, Oct 7 & 8. 942-2293.

Wesley Friends, Cessna Conference Center, Wesley Med Center, 550 N Hillside. 8 am 5 pm (one hr lunch), Oct. 18. 962-8400.

Newton Sr Ctr, 122 E 6th. 8 am-5 pm (one hour lunch), Oct. 18. 316-283-2222.

Linwood Sr Ctr, 1901 S. Kansas, 12:30-4:30 pm, Oct 21 & 22. 263-3703.

Downtown Sr Ctr, 200 S. Walnut, 12:30-4:30 pm Oct 21 & 22. 267-0197.

Via Christi Rehab Hospital, 1151 N. Rock Rd. 9 am-1 pm, Oct. 18 & 25. 689-5700.

Transportation Sedgwick County

American Red Cross, 219-4040. Free rides for 60+ for medical and dialysis appointments.

24-hour notice. Ambulatory. Donations accepted.

Sedgwick Co Transportation, 660-5150, long distance 1-800-367-7298, transportation or services info. 8 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri; closed most holidays. www.sedgwick-

county.org/aging.

Butler County Transit

Weekday transportation in El Dorado, Augusta and Andover. Rides to Wichita on Wed, Thu. Call for information; 48-hr notice required: Augusta, 775-0500; El Dorado, 322-4321; toll free, 1-800-279-3655. $10 pass for 25 rides available. Wheelchair accessible; escorts ride free.

Harvey County Interurban Transportation for medical appointments, shopping and recreational activities. Reservations or information: 316-284-6802 or 1-866-680-6802.

Applications for reduced fares for those 60+ or disabled who meet income guidelines.

Personal appointments including medical trips: Mon-Fri, 8 am-5 pm. Reservations, first call-first served, must be made 24 hours in advance. Vans are wheelchair accessible.

Round-trip fares: $8 in Newton (wheelchair only), $12 in Harvey County, $20 outside Harvey County. Wheelchair escorts ride free.

AVI Route: Tue, 8 am-4:30 pm. Transportation to Newton for Burrton, Sedgwick, Halstead, Hesston, Walton residents. $6.

Halstead: In-town transportation Mon-Fri, 9 am-3:30 pm. $1.

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Support Groups ALZHEIMER’S: Wichita – Downtown: Early Stage Support Group, 3rd Wed 2 pm, chapter office,1820 E. Douglas, 267-7333; Young Onset (under 65), 3rd Thu 6 pm, chapter office, 1820 E Douglas, 267-7333. Northeast: 1st Mon 10:30 am, Catholic Care Memory Care, 6550 E 45th N, 744-4120; 3rd Wed 3:30 pm Cypress Springs, 1859 N Webb Rd, 558-5775; 4th Thu 2 pm, Grace Presbyterian, 5002 E. Douglas, 630-6138.

1st Fri 10:30 am, Larksfield Place Assisted Living, 2727 N Rock Rd, 858-3975; Northwest: 2nd Thu 3 pm Pathway Church, 2001 N Maize Rd, 722-7414; 2nd Tue 6:30 pm, Park West Plaza, 505 N Maize Rd, 729-4114; 3rd Fri 10 am, Regent Park, 10600 E 13th; 4th Thu 7 pm, St. Francis of Assisi Ministry House, 866 N Socora, 722-3773; 4th Thu 11 am, Oxford Grand, 3051 N Parkdale Cir, 252-0030. 3rd Tue 1 pm, West Heights UMC, 745 N Westlink, 721-0323.

Andover: 4th Tue 6 pm, Senior Center, 410 Lioba Dr, 706-7930; Clearwater: 2nd Wed 5 pm, Clearwater Nursing & Rehab, 620 Wood, 620-584-2271; Derby: 6:30 pm 4th Tue, Derby Sr Center, 621 N. Derby, 788-0223. El Dorado: 3rd Mon 5 pm, Senior Center, 210 E 2nd, 316321-0339; 1st, 2nd, 4th Mon, Spangles, 2005 W Central, 321-0339; Hesston: 3rd Tue 3 pm, Schowalter Villa, 620-327-3414; Kechi: 1st Mon 7 pm, UMC, 4533 E 61st, 260-8882; Newton: 1st Thu 7 pm, Presbyterian Manor Library, 1200 E 7th, 283-5400.

ADDICTIONS: Alcoholics Anonymous, Wichita and So Central Kan. Personally answered 24-hour hotline, 316-684-3661. Meeting and AA info at aawichita.org. Recovery Outreach, 12-step program for subtance abuse/addictions, Pathway Church, 722-8020, ext 116.

ARTHRITIS, LUPUS & FIBROMYALGIA: 3rd Mon 2-3:30 pm, Independent Living Resource Center, 3033 W 2nd, Nate Moser, 942-6300 ext 234.

BRAIN INJURY: West: 3rd Tue 4-6 pm, Wesley Rehab Hospital, 8338 W 13th; East: 1st Thu 4-6 pm, Via Christi Rehab, 1151 N Rock Rd, Bonnie Stephens, 729-1099.

CANCER: Victory in The Valley, 3755 E Douglas: Breast CSG, 1st & 3rd Tue 7 pm, 682-7400; CRA (Colon, Rectal, Anal CSG), 2nd Thu 1 pm; Central Plains Kidney CSG 1st Sat 1-3 pm; Encouragers CSG, 1st & 3rd Wed 10 am; Headstrong (Brain Tumor CSG) 2nd Wed 7 pm. Young Women’s Breast CSG, Last Sat 2-4 pm; Off site: East Side CSG, St. Stephens, 7404 E Killarney, 2nd Wed 1 pm; Footprints CSG, St. James, 3750 E Douglas, Every Wed 5:30 pm, 928-4950; Glenn Park CSG, Glenn Park Christian Fireside Room, 2750 S Glenn, 2nd Tue 7 pm; McConnell AFB CSG, Dental Clinic Conference Room, 4th Wed 1:30 pm; Sharing Hope, Covenant Presbyterian, 1750 N. Tyler, 1st Thu 7 pm; West Wichita CSG, Pathway Church, 2001 N Maize Rd, Rm B100, 2nd Thu 7 pm. Area Meetings: Derby Area CSG, Woodlawn UMC, 2nd Thu 7 pm; Newton Area CSG, Shalom Mennonite Church, 800 E 1st, 4th

Dances

Augusta Sr Center, 640 Osage St. Country Jam & Dance, 7-10 pm. Every other Wed. Donation.

Bring covered dish, dessert or snack to share. 755-1060 Derby Sr Center, 611 Mulberry.

7-9:30 pm 1st & 3rd Tue: 1st Tue Honky Tonk Time Band; 3rd Tue Country Heartbeats. $3 donation, refreshments.

El Dorado Sr Center, 210 E 2nd.

6-10 pm every Thu: Dinner 6:30, CD Dance 7. $2 suggested donation, bring covered dish/ snack to share.

For groups not listed The Center for Community Support and Research maintains a list of self-help groups. Call 978-5496, 1-800-445-0116 or go to www.SupportGroupsinKansas.org.

Thu 7 pm. Head & Neck, Cancer Resource Ctr, 817 N Emporia, CAREGIVERS: West Wichita, 3rd Tue 3-4:30 pm, Prairie View at Reflection Ridge, 7570 W 21st, Suite 1026-D. 316-729-6555 or 800-992-6292.

Newton, 2nd Thu 3-4:30 pm, Prairie View; East Wichita, 1st Tue 3-4:30 pm, Prairie View, 9333 E 21st, 284-6400 or 800-362-0180; 3rd Wed 3:30 pm pm, Cypress Springs, 1859 N Webb Rd, Glenda Jacobs, 558-5775.

CELIAC: Quarterly meetings/speakers, dining, for celiac disease /gluten sensitivity.wichitacsa. blogspot.com, Ramona 316-524-8837 or Gayle 316-788-2531.

CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH: 3rd Thu 7-9 pm, Independent Living Resource Ctr, 3033 W 2nd, Karen Smith, 841-8852.

CLUTTER CLEANERS: 3rd Wed–2:30-4 pm, West River Plaza Bistro, 2622 W Central, Krista, 660-5144.

DIABETES: 2nd Mon 7 pm, American Diabetes Assoc, 837 S Hillside, 942-0908; 2nd Tue 1:30 pm, West Heights UMC, 745 N Westlink, 7220634 or 773-3616; 4th Mon 7 pm, 1st UMC, 330 N Broadway, 942-0908; 1st Tue 6:30 pm, African-American group, St. Mark UMC, 1525 N Lorraine, 681-2545, RSVP by previous Fri.; Valley Center, 1st Thu 7 pm, Christian Church, 1801 E 5th, 755-1101 or 744-8384; Butler County – 3rd Tue 7 pm: odd months, El Dorado, SB Allen Hospital; even months, Lakepoint of Augusta, 322-7848 or 320-1972.

DIVORCE: Sun 9:10-10:20 am Pathway Church, B006, 2001 N Maize.

DISABLED: Every Thu 1 pm, peer support, Independent Living Resource Ctr, 3033 W 2nd, 942-6300.

EA-EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS, cancelled, Jo, 210-5550.

GRIEF: Good Grief of Kansas, www. goodgriefofkansas.org or 316-612-0700. Every Mon: 7-8:30 pm Grace Baptist Church, 1414 W Pawnee or Calvary UMC, 2525 N. Rock Rd, Rm A-3. Every Tue: 10-11:30 am RiverWalk Church of Christ, 225 N Waco, Fireside Room (south office door) or 7-8:30 pm West Towne Baptist, 2000 N. Maize Rd or in Derby at Woodlawn UMC, Rm 15E, Woodlawn & Kay. Every Wed: 7-8 pm RiverWalk Church of Christ, 225 N. Waco, Fireside Room (use SW door) special group for ages 20s thru 50s. 1st Mon: 7-9 pm Clearwater Church of Christ, 13900 N Diagonal Rd (use west door).

1st & 3rd Wed: 11 am-noon Resort Lifestyle Communities, 2300 N.Tyler Rd, 1st floor Conv Rm-north. Survivors of Suicide: Every Mon: 7-8

Linwood Golden Age, 1901 S Kansas.

7-9:30 pm every Sat: Live music. $3.

Goldenrod Golden Age, 1340 S Pattie. 7-9:30 pm every Wed: Take 3 or Wildwood Band. $3, refreshments.

Minisa Golden Age, 704 W 13th.

7-10 pm every Thu: $3, info 7215552.

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

Park City Sr Center, 6100 N Hydraulic. 7-10 pm 1st Sat, Yesterday’s Playboys; 3rd Sat, Wildwood Band; 5th Sat, The Wildwood Band. $4, bring covered dish or snack. Info 755-1060.

pm, River Walk Church of Christ, 225 N Waco, Rm 106 (use SW door). SOCIALS: Lunch/Brunch every Thu: 10 am, Spears, 4823 W Maple or Country Breakfast Café, 2804 S Seneca; Breakfast every Sat: 10 am, Spears, 4823 W Maple. Dinner, 2nd Thu of each month: 6 pm, Copper Oven Café, 2409 W 13th. Griefshare, Pathway Church, 2001 N. Maize Rd, Mon 6-7:30 pm. Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice, 313 N Market, 4th Mon 6 pm; Adult Grief (under 60), last Thu 6-7:30 pm, 219-1761; Companions in Grief, 3rd Thu 10-11:30 am, 219-1774 or 800-767-4965; 4th Sat, 8-9 am Newton Med Ctr, 316-283-1103.

Griefshare, Pathway Church, 2001 N Maize, Mon 6-7:30 pm, Rm B012. Hospice Care of Kansas, 2622 W Central, 1st & 3rd Wed 6-7:30 pm, Laura, 559-2049. Home Healthcare Connection Bereavement, 8415 E 32nd N, 2nd Tue 4-5 pm, 267-4663. Good Shepherd Hospice, Catholic Care Center, 6550 E 45th N, 2nd & 4th Thu 10-11 am; Asbury Park Assisted Living, 200 SW 14th, Newton, 1st & 3rd Tue 3-4 pm, Sharlene, 316-616-2277. Children, Pathway Church, 2001 N Maize, Rm B012, 1st Tue 7 pm.

LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA: Patients, 2nd Mon 7-8 pm, Via Christi Cancer Resource Center, 817 N Emporia; Caregivers, 2nd Tue 10-11 am.

Christy, 687-2222.

LUPUS: 2nd Sat 1 pm, Foundation of America, Kansas Chapter, Via Christi-St Joseph, Conference room B, 262-6180.

LYME DISEASE: 3rd Tue 7-8:30 pm, St. Elizabeth Catholic Church, 645 N 119th, 773-9173.

MENTAL ILLNESS: NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) 3rd Tue 7 pm 1st Presbyterian Church, 525 N Broadway, 686-1373.

MYOSITIS: (Dermatomyositis, polymyositis & Inclusion Body Myositis), Mid-America Myositis KIT (Keep-In-Touch), meets quarterly, Civitan Community Center, 901 Porter, call Jerry, 207-6230.

PARKINSON’S: 4th Tue 1-2 pm , Reflection Ridge Retirement Community, 2300 N Tyler, Shana, 390-0772.

POST POLIO: 1st Sat 10 am-noon, College Hill UMC, 2030 E 1st, 651-5685.

PROSTATE CANCER: Us Too!, 2nd Mon 7:30 pm, Via Christi St. Joseph, McNamara Center, 3rd floor, 993-6997.

RECOVERY (Mental Health): Every Mon 7 pm, Downtown Sr Center, 200 S Walnut, 942-2364.

SPECIAL NEEDS FAMILIES, Pathway Church, 2001 N. Maize Rd. Helping special need children and their families. 2nd Sunday, 4-6 pm, 722-8020 STROKE: 1st Tue 3 pm, Via Christi Rehab Hospital, 1151 N Rock Rd, 689-5700; 3rd Thu 3 pm, Wesley Rehab, 8338 W 13th, 729-1146.

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly): www.tops.org, Donna Shaffer, 540-6222 or Monty Bednasek, 755-1055.

VISION: 2nd Tue, 10 am-noon, Envision, 610 N Main, light brunch. Transportation, Bonnie Cochran, 682-4646.

Prairie Wind Dancers: Learn circle, line & folk dances. 2 pm every Mon: Plymouth Congregational Church, 202 N Clifton. To register: Joyce, 683-1122.

Village Steppers Square Dance, Oaklawn Activity Center, 4904 S Clifton. 7:30-10:30 pm 2nd & 4th Sat. Terry 219-0100/Gordon 721-6718.

Westside Steppers Square Dance, Clare Hall, 861 N Socora (one block east of Central & Tyler). 2:30 pm 1st & 3rd Sun: Chuck, 670-0098; email westsidesteppers@juno.com.

Wichita Solos Square Dance, Southwest Presbyterian Church, 1511 W 27th St S. 7:30-10 pm 1st, 3rd & 5th Fri: Couples/ singles welcome. Ruth Ann, 943-6306.

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Food Share

Prairie Land Food: Package of meats, fresh fruit and vegetables, $28. Other variety options available, usually at 50% discount. Accepts Vision cards. Sites in Sedgwick, Harvey and Butler Counties. Info: June at 800-998-9436 or at www.prairielandfood.com-+

GNNP Menu

The American Red Cross Good Neighbor Nutrition Program (GNNP) serves a hot, nutritious meal weekdays for persons 60 and older at locations in Sedgwick, Harvey and Butler county communities. Reservations are necessary. For the closest location and reservations, call 316-219-4020.

WEEK OF OCT 1 Wed: Chicken breast cacciatore, garden rice pilaf, spinach salad, fresh apple, wheat bread.

Thu: Turkey and cavatappi, Brussels sprouts, cinnamon applesauce, strawberry-apple gelatin, wheat bread.

Fri: Roast beef w/gravy, mashed potatoes, garden vegetable salad, harvest fruit mix, wheat dinner roll.

WEEK OF OCT 6 Mon: Beefy mac & cheese, California vegetables, cinnamon applesauce, potato roll.

Tue: Scalloped potatoes and ham, green peas, fruit slaw, dinner roll.

Wed: BBQ baked chicken, herb potatoes, mixed green salad, Mandarin orange gelatin, wheat bread.

Thu: Soft taco, Spanish rice, bananas & strawberries.

Fri: Pork patty w/cream gravy, mashed potatoes, loose leaf salad, harvest fruit mix, dinner roll.

WEEK OF OCT 13 Mon: Chicken & noodles, Capri vegetables, fruit medley, chocolate chip cookies, wheat bread.

Tue: Chicken primavera, Mediterranean vegetables, quick fruit cup, French bread.

Wed: Taco salad, calico corn, fresh orange.

Thu: Cranberry meatballs, baked sweet potato, pea-lettuce salad, apricot mix, potato roll.

Fri: Cheeseburger on bun, calico baked beans, coleslaw, fruited gelatin.

WEEK OF OCT 20 Mon: Beef gumbo soup, macaroni salad w/carrots, Mandarin oranges, sugar cookies, crackers.

Tue: Sloppy joe on bun, corn cobbette, rosy applesauce, chocolate pudding.

Wed: Liver & onions, parslied potatoes, pickled beets, berry fruit mix, wheat bread.

Thu: Deli turkey & cheddar on bun, creamy augratin potatoes, turnip greens, fruit mix with strawberries.

Fri: Ham loaf with cream gravy, mashed potatoes, mixed green salad, peaches, pears and grapes, potato roll.

WEEK OF OCT 27 Mon: Southwest turkey pasta, cooked carrots, fresh banana, strawberry-apple gelatin, wheat bread.

Tue: Beef patty w/onion gravy, mashed potatoes, broccoli salad, jelled strawberry-pear salad, dinner roll.

Wed: Whole grain spaghetti w/meat sauce, romaine salad, citrus fruit mix, breadsticks.

Thu: Chicken salad sandwich on wheat, Italian pasta salad, fresh banana, chocolate pudding.

Fri: Italian chicken casserole, green beans, fresh orange, wheat bread, spice cake w/raisins.

Calendar Deadlines

Submit calendar items by the 15th of the month prior to publication. Mail or bring to Active aging, 125 S. West St., Suite 105, Wichita, KS 67213 or email: bfunke@activeagingonline.com.

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Resthaven, Garden of Gospels, lawn crypt space for two, includes vaults. Value $10,000. Sell $5,000. 316-706-9662.

A Better Deal Estate Maximize the value of your estate/moving sale.

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Resthaven, Garden of Cross, two adjoining spaces. Value $3,600 each. Sell $1,500 each.

714-970-7090.

AFFILIATED ESTATE SALES We have the solution for every situation.

Complete estate sales service. Free consultation.

Over 25 years experience.

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Hair On Wheels Experienced, licensed, caring beautician in your home for shampoo, cuts and styling. Call Carol 316-992-1744

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. Prescreened, reliable help available.

Double depth lawn crypt in Resthaven Cemetery. Bruce Newton Garden, Lot 195-A-1, includes double depth vault and companion bronze marker on granite. Current value $6,000. Asking $3,500. Seller pays fees. 425210-3117.

Resthaven, Garden of Gospels, space for two, includes vaults, bronze marker on granite, Lot 104-A2. Value $10,000+. Sell $8,000/OBO. 316347-0218.

White Chapel, Masonic Garden, Lot 128A, one space, $400 plus transfer fee. 316-305-9975.

White Chapel, three adjoining spaces in Sermon on the Mount. Value $900 each. Sell all for $600.

316-524-3757 or 316-371-2501.

Resthaven, Garden of Good Shepherd. Spaces 6B, Lots 3 and 4. Value $7,200. Sell $3,000. 316721-6462 or 316-253-3980.

Old Mission, Garden of Love, lawn crypt, space for two. Value $4,500. Sell for $2,500. Call 316214-6515.

Resthaven, beautiful Garden of Christus, lot 58C2, lawn crypt, two spaces, includes vaults and marker. Value $8,999. Sell $5,000/OBO. 316-619-0866.

Resthaven, Garden of Freedom, eight spaces, most adjoining. Value $3,700 each. Will sell at good discount, make offer! 316-644-0844.

White Chapel, two spaces together, one vault, one opening/closing. Asking $3,370. 316-3052210.

Resthaven, Freedom, space for two, 3-C4, with vaults, marker, two openings/closings. Value $13,000. Sell $6,500. 316-721-6462, 316-2533980.

Resthaven, Christus, Lot 9, D4, spaces for two with vaults. Value $8,995. Sell $3,995. 316-7216462 or 316-253-3980.

ESTATE SALE SERVICES 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 & MOVING SERVICES Experienced to fulfill all your needs from partial to complete sales. Organize and sell your items for top dollar. Know your options.

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Competitive rates. www.salebygayle.com, 316-838-3521 or 316-206-3676

FOR SALE Not sleeping? 12 incredible new memory foam mattresses from $179. View online at www. sandmandiscountbeds.com or in Wichita. Free delivery. 316-347-0282. 10 p.m.

1959 Oldsmobile, 16,000 miles, always garaged, extremely good condition, $2,500. 316-927-3560 evenings.

1920s Carnival Glass. Reasonably priced. 316684-2007.

Lane lift recliner, medium green upholstery, used one week, excellent condition with warranty on motor. 316-652-9449.

Two reclining lift chairs, one Lazy Boy in light tan, other is deep blue, both excellent condition, $175 each. 620-504-1053.

Electric, twin size adjustable bed, good condition, $499. 316-305-3931.

Antique 72-inch oak executive roll-top C-roll desk with orginal brass hardware. 1920-1930 Leopold Desk Co, Burlington, IA. $499. 620327-4619.

Solid wood, lighted china cabinent and matching corner cabinet. Medium oak finish. $225.

316-943-8408.

Hoveround power chair, controls can be on right or left, like new condition, new batteries, includes manual, $1,200. 316-371-7931.

Walker w/wheels, $40. Leg brace, medium, $10.

Three Mr. Peanut jars w/lids, 8-1/2 inch high – dated, $30. Seven piece glass elephants 1-inch X 1 -1/2 inch, $10. Cat throw, robe size 6 w/cat applique, teapot and cup, $40. River Festival buttons 1983 to 2007 (1985 and 2004 missing), make offer. 316-838-8073.

DAV Thrift Stores of Wichita 25% Off Senior Days Sales!

Mon, 4623 W Central, 316-945-8001 Tue, 3015 George Washington, 316-682-9368 Wed, 5455 E Central, 316-684-7496 Thu, 1202 W Douglas, 316-262-4440 Friday, 4720 S Seneca, 316-529-2037 For donation information call 316-262-7440 Donate gently used medical equipment.

Local nonprofit needs adaptive bath equipment of all kinds, wheelchairs and walkers. We loan it at no charge to people in need. Call ILRC, 316-942-6300 Sam’s Fudge, 45 flavors. Call 316-775-5957 for flavor and price list. Cash, check or credit card.

Porch lift, electric. Good condition. Sell $1,300.

316-682-1023.

Watkins Care Products Over 375 Quality Food • Health Home and Personal Products

Call or text today for your free catalog!

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Shirkmere stylist is back in the salon and inhome styling. Call for pricing or to schedule day or evening appointment. Ask for Mike 316-263-8794

HELP WANTED Mastectomy business neeeds a person willing to work 10-25 hours per week answering phones and waiting on customers. Call 316-945-4722.

Riverside Hair Parlour 2521 W 13th

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HOME CARE SERVICES Private duty nursing, am/pm care, medication assistance, light housekeeping, meal preperation, doctor visits, grocery shopping and other traveling. Serving Wichita since 1999. Sarah, 316-390-6041.

CNA to help with personal care, appointments, errands, shopping, light housekeeping. Experienced, easy to get along with. Reasonable rates.

Patti 316-282-5808 or Angie 316-727-6095.

CNA/CMA provides compassionate honest dependable care. Light housekeeping, laundry, meal preparation, medication assistance, errands and appointments. Days. Eight years experience. Linda 316-633-8008.

Go 2 Team. In-home care services. Personal care assistance, meal prep, light housekeeping, transportation, companionship and more. Prescreened reliable help available. 316-282-7002 or 316-708-5985.

Help with your daily activities, bathing, dressing, light housekeeping, laundry, cooking, shopping, doctor appointments. All shifts, including 24 hour. 316-371-3496.

HOUSKEEPING SERVICES Sunshine Cleaning Residential or commercial. Windows, laundry, yard work, errands, shopping. Friendly and professional. Free estimates. Senior discount.

Wichita and surrounding areas. 316-409-0298.

Housecleaning. Discount rates for seniors and veterans. Two hour minimum. Mornings preferred in northwest area. Call Susan, 316-461-4155.

MM Cleaning Good old-fashioned cleaning done the right way when you need it. Residential and commercial. Senior discount. 316-214-5753; moore8862@gmail.com.

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

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Foot Care in home. Home visit $40. Select Senior Centers, $25. Call Brenda Ingram RN, BSN @ 316-946-0722 Foot care in your home Diabetic, thick toe nails, fungus, corn and callus removal. In-home $40. Sedgwick and Butler counties. Senior centers, $25: Andover, El Dorado, Cassoday, Cheryl Rosine ICMT, RN 316-312-2025

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Cowboy Construction Remodeling, siding, decks, fences, windows, doors and more. 20 years locally owned. Free estimates. Senior discounts.

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Frontier fort marks anniversary as national park

By Bob Rives With the south wind blowing 30 miles an hour, the re-enactors were almost overwhelmed trying to lower the big garrison flag. At more than 700 square feet and weighing more than 300 pounds it would carpet a small house. But the Army had wanted a big flag. It was the beacon on the prairie for people on the Santa Fe Trail a century and a half ago and it needed to be seen.

But this time it was 4:30 p.m. in early September, reveille time as Fort Larned celebrated its 50th birthday as part of the National Park Service. The flag – and the day – was saved only when a band of determined children

How to Get There From Wichita take K-96 northwest to Elmer then go west on U.S. 50 to K-19, turning north into Larned. An alternate route is to go west on U.S. 54 to Pratt. There turn north on U.S. 281 to U.S. 50 and west to K-19. From Newton, just go west on U.S. 50 to K-19.

ran to help the re-enactors hold the wildly flapping 40-star flag. It was like trying to close an open parachute in a wind tunnel.

Maybe that wind was appropriate.

Fort Larned was built on the Pawnee River in the plains of west central Kansas where the tallest vegetation was buffalo grass. The two seasons of the year were Too Hot or Too Cold, and the wind was constant.

In 1964, Larned became the first national park in Kansas when President Lyndon Johnson signed the bill that made it official. The pen he used is among items now on display in the old fort’s museum. In early September the fort celebrated its time in the Park Service with ceremonies designed to recall its days as one of the main guardians of the all-important Santa Fe Trail.

Today for most readers of Active aging it’s a day trip. Located about 135 miles west of Wichita, it is a bit over a two-hour drive for most. The reward is a close look at life in a frontier military post and a chance to see almost entirely original buildings, not reconstructions, making it unique among restored forts.

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The one rebuilt building is the blockhouse.

Constructed late in the Civil War, the two-story building stored ammunition and explosives and was guardhouse for misbehaving troops. It also was a last ditch defensive installation, a stone fort with two levels of firing slits for riflemen and an escape route

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Photo by Bob Rives

Still used in post ceremonies, this Civil War era cannon once helped defend Fort Larned. The building in the background is a quartermaster warehouse.

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Ft. Larned From previous page

through a tunnel. But even though today’s version was reconstructed, most of the stones are from the original building.

Otherwise the fort, which sits within mere feet of the Santa Fe Trail, is original. Arranged in a square around a parade ground with the flag as centerpiece are nine buildings.

Among them are officers’ quarters, barracks, hospital, shops, commissaries and quartermaster storehouses, most furnished as they were when it was an active post. Just to the east is the cemetery, minus most of the bodies which have been moved to Fort Leavenworth.

A visitors’ center and museum are inside what once was a barracks building where a 10-minute film tells the story of the post.

Like most frontier forts, Larned – named for the Army’s paymaster general – had no walls. Unlike others, its buildings are all sandstone, quarried about four miles from the fort. Its first buildings, constructed in 1860, were dugouts and later adobe. But stone proved best in an area where trees were, and still are, few.

Wood used for doors, windows and

floors was cut in the east and shipped west by steamboat to Westport, Mo., then carried in wagons across the trail to the fort.

Serving at the fort were both infantry and cavalry units including the famed Buffalo Soldiers, all black cavalry units. Except for occasional fights with Indians, it was a boring assignment. Days were long, weather was harsh, food was at best boring.

Pay? Slight. A private received $13 a month minus some of his expenses including a retirement fund and $2 if he wanted an Army blanket. Losing a rifle cartridge was also deductible. At $1 a bullet, leaving a month’s pay behind in the grass was entirely possible. ($13 a month wasn’t quite as bad as it sounds. That’s equal to about $216 today.)

On the other hand, the Army did provide a bed. Soldiers slept two to a bunk, one with his feet toward the top, the other with his head there. That helped keep disease from spreading.

The mattress came with the bed. It was thin, filled once a month with clean straw.

Their main job was guarding the Santa Fe Trail, which from 1821 to 1880 was the main trade route to the southwest. It started in Franklin Mo.,

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and headed southwest to Santa Fe, covering some 500 miles. It later also led gold miners to Colorado, adding to the trade wagon traffic.

But because it went through part of Comancheria – homeland of the Comanche as well as the Plains Indian hunting grounds – tribesmen attacked what they saw as interlopers. Larned and Forts Mann, Atkinson, Union, Dodge, Zarah, Wise – later called Fort Lyon – Aubrey and Bents were built to protect travelers and to offer safe places to rest.

For seven years during and just after the Civil War, the fort also was an Indian agency. Plains Indian tribes reported each fall, pitching their tents for what amounted to an intertribal homecoming.

But their most important reason for being there was to get provisions

from the U.S. government. These included meat, flour, coffee, sugar and even tobacco. They also received tools, blankets, beads and cooking utensils, all provided in an effort to pacify the tribes and turn them from nomadic hunters into settled farmers. Unfortunately, even though the plan was intended to reduce fighting, battles continued through much of the rest of the 19th century.

But it was military posts like Fort Larned, today five miles west of town, that helped form modern Kansas.

Seeing how soldiers and their families lived during its lifetime from 1850 through 1878 brings better understanding of the tough determination it took to make modern Kansas a reality.

Contact Bob Rives at bprives@gmail.com

More to see in Larned While the fort alone is worth the drive, Larned has other attractions.

Probably the most important is the Santa Fe Trail Center just west of town.

Open Tuesday-Saturday it tells the story of the trail as well as recounting local history. It boasts some 35,000 artifacts.

West of Fort Larned are still visible ruts from the trail itself. A map showing how to reach them is available at the fort’s visitors’ center. Bonus: a large prairie dog town is in the area.

In Larned is the campground for the 1825 Sibley Expedition. Located against a stone bluff at 502 W. 2nd St., the site was briefly home to the survey party that was laying out the Santa Fe Trail.

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Grandfamilies sought for communications study

By Amy Geiszler-Jones Two Wichita State University assistant professors are looking for members of grandfamilies – in which grandparents are the primary caregivers for grandchildren – to participate in a new study related to communications.

Grandfamilies are a growing trend in America. According to the latest U.S. Census Bureau statistics on grandfamilies, 2.7 million grandparents are the primary responsible parties for one or more grandchildren under the age of 18 who are living with them.

Jessica Bertapelle, one of the two Elliott School of Communication professors conducting the study, knows what it’s like to be raised by a grand-

parent. At age 15, she went to live with her maternal grandmother who was in her her 80s, in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Her half-brother went to live with his paternal grandparent at the same time.

Bertapelle’s grandmother died shortly after Bertapelle started teaching at WSU, Jessica Bertapelle but she still has a presence in Bertapelle’s life: Her grandmother’s beloved Betty Boop statue and a photo of the two women together are on the shelves of Berta-

By Amy Geiszler-Jones Via Christi is offering free, monthly grandparenting classes through December for grandparents and other family members who may be called into duty as primary care providers for infants and toddlers.

Since more and more grandparents are becoming either full- or part-time babysitters for grandchildren or even raising grandchildren, it’s important that grandparents understand current safety practices and other guidelines, said instructor Toni Howard, childbirth education coordinator and certified lactation counselor.

“There’s so much out there,” said Howard about things that have changed in a generation — from never putting babies to sleep on their tum-

mies to lower the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome to how to properly install a car seat to even new information about infants and food. “If you’re not aware, you could be the cause of a problem,” she said.

The free grandparenting class will meet 7-9 p.m. Thursdays, Oct. 23, Nov. 20 and Dec. 18, at Via Christi Hospital St. Joseph, 3600 E. Harry in Wichita.

Starting in January, the monthly class will cost $15 per couple. To sign up, call 689-5700.

Wesley Medical Center has a similar class, called Grandparent to Be, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 14, at the BirthCare Center, 3222 E. Murdock St. Cost is $15 per couple. For more information or to register, call 962-6000.

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pelle’s Elliott Hall office on the WSU campus.

“I feel like there’s a part of me that wants to help people who went through what I went through,” Bertapelle said.

“One of the things my grandma taught me was to use my mind, and I feel like I’m doing this research in honor of her.”

She often tells her students that when looking for research topics, “the best research questions come from within.”

The study will look at interpersonal communication among grandfamilies, such as how and what is communicated amongst one another and what topics are harder or easier to broach. Jennifer Tiernan is the co-reCourtesy photo searcher.

Wichita State professor Jessica Bertapelle, right, is The two researchers pictured with her “Mammaw,” Shirley Roberts, who know there are many took her in at age 15, at Bertapelle’s 2006 graduation factors that can affect from the University of Texas at Arlington. grandfamilies, from a large generation or age gap to the trau- The study is not limited to Kansas matic circumstances that often lead to residents. grandparents taking responsibility for If you are interested in participatthe raising of their grandchildren. ing, know someone who is in a grandThe professors started recruiting family and may like to participate or participants for the study earlier this have questions or comments, contact year, but are still looking for members Bertapelle by email, jessica.bertapelle@ of grandfamilies, both present and past, wichita.edu, or call 978-6129. to contribute to the study. They are willing to conduct interviews in-perContact Amy Geiszler-Jones at son or by phone, depending on each Algj64@sbcglobal.net participant’s location and preference.

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