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Ican probably guess the thought going through your brain right now.“Where is the other guy? We liked him. What is with this new guy writ-ing and claiming to be the publisher?”

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One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six.Seven. Eight. Nine. 10.Imagine slowly countingpennies one by one up into

the thousands of dollars while your handsget black and green from contacting somuch money.

That’s what members of the NationalHonor Society chapter at Sedgwick HighSchool did earlier this year as theytabulated how many funds were raised bystudents for The Leukemia & LymphomaSociety’s Pennies for Patients program,which raises money for lifesaving cancerresearch.

The chapter was in charge of Sedgwickschools’ efforts. They were joined incounting money by office aide ColbyWeber and NHS adviser Beverly Lang, whois the district’s counselor.

Students throughout the district, fromkindergarten through high school seniors,enjoyed helping others and watchingstudents get excited about it.

“I think for me it was reallyencouraging to see the elementary kidsget into helping others,” said NHSmember Melissa Olson. “That just mademe want to work harder for it. It was justreally encouraging to see the little kids putso much effort into helping others — evenpeople they didn’t know.”

..................................................................................................First-grader Liam Mabry reacts as district counselor BeverlyLang tells him how much money Sedgwick schools col-lected for Pennies for Patients. The total was $2,140.22.Right: These boxes are what the younger students in theSedgwick school district took

Sedgwick school districtraises money for peoplewith cancer



Other NHS members areKami Olson, ElizabethSchrick, Claudia Giffin,Keaton Abendroth, BrylieWare, Taylor Bollinger,president Evynn McGinn,vice president Paige Griggsand treasurer LoraBebermeyer.

All grades in the Sedgwickschool district competed tosee which class could get themost money. The first-gradeclass won with more than$400 collected and wererewarded with a pizza andice cream party. They raisedso much money, thetabulation went off theclass’s chart. All classes hadfundraising charts postedoutside the cafeteria, Langsaid, and NHS membershelped serve the food duringthe party.

“I liked the pizza and giving the moneyand the fun stuff,” first-grader Ailey Williamssaid.

She and another first-grader, Liam Mabry,both said they enjoyed helping people withcancer.

“We thought we were going to losebecause fourth grade was ahead of us once,”Mabry said.

“But then we beated them,” Williamsadded.

“They were really excited that they won,”Lang said.

First-graders and other students in gradeskindergarten through sixth were sent homewith small boxes in which they could puttheir change. The boxes were provided by theLLS, as the society provides all the materialsto do the project, Lang said.

“I brought all the money I could find,”third-grader Natalie Williams said.

Some students even emptied their piggy

banks to help, although Lang said she didn’task them to do that.

To get the project rolling, Lang had chosenthe theme of “compassion” for February as aguidance lesson.

“I go into every (kindergarten throughsixth-grade) classroom every month and do aguidance lesson,” she said. “It was easy topresent this program (Pennies for Patients)along with the theme. It was easy to get themexcited because it got them to understandwhat compassion has to do with people (whohave) cancer.”

In February, Lang explained to thestudents what cancer is — especially to theyounger students. She also discussed whatLLS is and what they do for cancer research,and how they could help even just bybringing a penny or two to school. Sheexplained to them it doesn’t matter howmuch money they gave as long as they weretrying to help.

The honor society and Lang didn’t justwant this to be a high school project.

“(NHS was) doing it as a communityservice project, but we decided to get theentire district involved — not just the highschool, since NHS is a high school thing,”Lang said. “So I really have to give credit tothe NHS students who gave their time. I’mreally proud of them.”

Helping people with cancer seems tocome naturally to Lang, as her stepmom,Kandi Wolf, is the chairwoman of Relay forLife in Barton County.

“My parents eat, sleep and breathe cancer-fighting things,” Lang said.

She said her father, Dennis Wolf, also isinvolved in Relay for Life.

“That’s kinda where my inspiration camefrom in fighting cancer,” Lang said.

She said Relay for Life in Barton Countyraises money year round.

Counting the money took all day onFridays during the event, Lang said, and themoney was a heavy load.

“The change was so heavy our only maleNHS member (Brylie Ware) had trouble

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carrying it to the office,” Lang said. “He got itthere, but it was a struggle. It was funny.”

Counting the money also gave NHSmembers some surprises, they said, becausethings other than American money turned up,such as Chuck E. Cheese’s coins and pesos.There were, though, thousands of pennies.

The grade school turned in $1,895.51,while the high school raised $244.71. Langsaid she thinks the younger students raisedmore money because she was able to go intotheir classes for the guidance lessons, whileshe’s not able to do that on the high schoollevel because there’s so many classes. Thecheck already has been sent to the society, andthe first grade will be given a gold pennant.

Other classes will receive silver and bronzepennants. LLS will help defray the costs of thepizza party.

When they were done counting, NHSmembers updated the charts every Friday.Counting the money on Fridays took all day.

“And so the kids at the end of the day onFriday could see who was winning, and that’show they got really excited,” Lang said. “Inever dreamed it could be as successful as itwas.”

Lang also said she was proud of the kidswho brought in money and raised moneybecause no one seemed like they weredisappointed with the outcome. They justwanted to help people with cancer.

“I felt like it was successful on acompassionate level with the kids,” Lang said,which makes it a good reason to do it again,even though it took a lot of work.

Pennies for Patients started Feb. 18 andofficially ended March 7, but Sedgwick had toend their efforts early because of the death ofSteve Sheperd, who was a coach and taughtcomputers and business in the district.Because of that tragedy, Lang said she neededto turn her attention to dealing with students’emotional needs.

Lang said she can’t imagine how successfulthe students would be in raising money if theycould follow through for the entire threeweeks of the program.

The change was so heavy our only male NHS member(Brylie Ware) had trouble carrying it to the office. Hegot it there, but it was a struggle. It was funny.

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GREENUSGA tournament at Sand CreekStation could have $1 millionimpact on the area


An upcoming tournament at Sand Creek Station GolfCourse in Newton might be the largest competition thearea has ever hosted and could have an economicimpact of more than $1 million.

The United States Golf Association 2014 U.S. Amateur PublicLinks Championship will be July 14-19 at Sand Creek. This is thefirst USGA championship ever to come to the local course,which opened in 2006 and is managed by KemperSports.

“We’re excited,” said Brad Evenson, sales and marketingdirector at the Newton golf course. “This is a tremendousopportunity for the community of Newton and the greaterWichita area to showcase itself on a national, and even world,stage.”

Qualifying events for the championship will be June 7-25 at71 sites throughout the United States, with the closest locationto Newton being Wichita. Play will be over 36 holes. After theseevents, 156 players will comprise the tournament field, vying forthat first-place trophy in stroke play in 36 holes on the velvetygreen grass at Sand Creek. There also will be some alternateplayers, Evenson said.

Stroke play is July 14 and 15 with match play to follow for thelowest 64 scorers. In stroke play, each competitor is playingagainst every other competitor in the field, according tousga.org. Match play has two sides playing against each other,and whoever gets the lower score in each pair keeps movingforward in the championship.

Six rounds of match play determine the winner.“The field just keeps narrowing until Saturday,” Evenson said.

“Saturday will be the championship match.”The top two players will go head to head during the

Championship Final on July 19.The event is open to male amateur golfers, who, “since Jan. 1

of the current year, have been bona fide public-course playersand who hold a USGA Handicap Index not exceeding 4.4,”according to the USGA website.

For the 2013 Amateur Public Links, 3,020 entries wereaccepted. The record for accepted entries was 6,300, whichhappened in 1998. This year, entries closed May 28, but thenumber of total entries was not available at press time.

The winner will receive a variety of prizes, including a goldmedal and custody of the James D. Standish Trophy for theupcoming year; a likely invitation to the next Masters Tourna -ment; and exemptions from qualifying for the next two U.S.Amateurs, U.S. Mid-Amateurs, if age eligible, and USGA SeniorAmateurs, if age-eligible; and exemptions from local qualifyingfor the next three U.S. Opens, if his amateur status is intact.

The champion in 2013 was Jordan Niebrugge, 19, ofMequon, Wis., who was a sophomore at Oklahoma StateUniversity at the time.

“The championship had previously attracted bus drivers,bartenders, firemen, waiters, riveters, engineers and collegeprofessors,” according to a Sand Creek news release. “Not asmany participated in years past, but the opportunity for a fieldwith mixed occupations still exists.”

“So it’s really a championship for the public golfer,” Evensonsaid.

Some participants have gone on to compete in other events.The championship has been the launch pad for several whohave turned professional, such as U.S. Open champs Ed Furgol,Tommy Bolt and Ken Venturi; PGA champs Bobby Nichols andDave Marr; British Open winner Tony Lema; and Masters champGeorge Archer.

The amateur championship also produced the first African-American winner of a USGA championship with William A.Wright in 1959; he later became a golf instructor.

In addition to players, the tournament needs volunteers.Sand Creek representatives hope 19,000 Newton citizens willvolunteer as ambassadors to help the players feel welcome, saidChris Tuohey, KemperSports regional manager and Sand CreekStation Golf Course manager.

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..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Sand Creek Station Golf Course in Newton will host the 2014 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship July 14-19. Here, Zach Frey (left), SandCreek golf professional, and Brad Evenson, sales and marketing director, pose at one of the holes.


Volunteers also are needed at thechampionship site. Areas for whichpeople can volunteer include coursemaintenance, spotters, volunteers atevery hole, shuttle drivers, and food andbeverage.

“We’re still in need of about 200(volunteers) to sign up,” Tuohey said.

It does take community support torun a national championship, Evensonsaid, and they’re looking for as many as250 volunteers. Those who wish tovolunteer can visithttp://sandcreekgolfclub.com/-us-amateur-public-links.

As volunteers help the tournament,the tournament will help the areafinancially. Based on studies, pasttournaments have had about a $1million impact on the host city, Evensonsaid.“It’s a great community effort, butit’s a great way to showcase what we canaccomplish when the community workstogether,” he added.

One group has asked how it canpitch in and help, and a variety ofcompanies and organizations aredonating time and money. Also lendinga hand are the Newton Area Chamber ofCommerce, city of Newton andKemperSports.

“It’s quite a long list,” Evenson said.Everyone who contributes will be

listed in the official championshipprogram. Admission is free.

“We’d like it to be a communityevent,” Evenson said. “We’d like thecommunity to support it.”

Championship historyThe championship’s prime mover

was James D. Standish Jr. of Detroit,who convinced his colleagues on the1922 USGA Executive Committee thatthe time was right for such a grass-rootscompetition, according to the SandCreek news release. Standish pointed tothe public-course golfer, whose rankswere swelling following World War I,and to the growing number ofmunicipal and daily-fee courses inAmerica.

Eddie Held of St. Louis was the firstchampion and but was not able todefend his title in 1923 because hejoined a private club.

Sand Creek Station History

The 18-hole golf course hosts avariety of other tournaments, such asthe annual Kansas Golf Association’sRailer Championship since 2011; andthe National Junior College AthleticAssociation Men’s Division I NationalChampionship in 2012.

“We’ve been really fortunate to hostsome high-caliber tournaments andchampionships,” said Brad Evenson,sales and marketing director at SandCreek Station. He credited the work,efforts and vision of Chris Tuohey,KemperSports regional manager andSand Creek Station Golf Coursemanager.

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..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................Arvella Scott will create 17 stained-glass windows for a Newton church with center medallions telling the life of Jesus and otherbiblical stories. Here, she works on one of them in her Zimmerdale shop.

Arvella Scott is on the cutting edge ofart.That’s because she makes stained-glass windows and has tocut the glass, and sometimes, the glass

cuts her. Even with the occasional cut, she enjoys

making her creations, which can range in sizesfrom small figurines to large windows. What shelikes about it is the creativity, she said.

“I think this idea of being able to dosomething that has a lot of beauty to it is justself-fulfilling,” Scott said, sitting in her shopstudio.

The Zimmerdale resident opened her shop,Cross Roads Stained Glass and Gifts, on BlackFriday 2013. Zimmerdale is on Old High way 81between Newton and Hesston. This is the onlybusiness in Zimmerdale, she said. It’s on thenorth side of the road at 4906 N. Hesston Road,which Scott said used to be called Old 81. Soone could say it’s on Old Old Highway 81. TheScotts have lived in Zimmerdale for four years,having moved from Hutchinson.

“I started doing stained glass in ’86,” Scottsaid. “I used to go to craft shows, but I alwayswanted to open my own studio. And now Ihave. We have a place that allows me the roomto do that.”

The place in which she and her husband,Wayne, who retired from Southwestern Bell,reside and have their gift/consignment shop isan old 5,000-square-foot warehouse on thenorth side of the road with a large “open” signout front. Part of the warehouse houses theircomfy home, complete with a carpeted indoorramp their grandchildren enjoy sliding down oncookie sheets, as well as bedrooms, a kitchen,living area and bathroom.

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painted items and handmade pottery, are for sale. Scott’sstained-glass studio is in the same room, which makes it easy forher to help customers who stop by while she’s creatingsomething.

When she’s in her studio, Scott listens to calming music. Asof early March, she had almost completed the first of 17 stained-glass windows on the life of Jesus and other Bible stories forEast Side United Methodist Church in Newton. Scott anticipatesthe project will take two years. This first window features ahand-painted center medallion of Jesus. Other windows willhave similar medallions with other images.

“That’s what the church has chosen (medallions), (and) I hada really wonderful committee to work with,” Scott said.

After the windows are completed, they’ll be insulated to beenergy-efficient. The church wants to have this first windowinstalled by Easter, Scott said.

Scott has made stained-glass windows for others, including anephew for whom she’s completed two windows, and acustomer who came into the Zimmer dale shop wanting amoose-designed stained-glass piece to hang on a door.

Scott learned her craft by taking classes at Cloud CountyCommunity College and Bearden’s Stained Glass in Wichita. Shereceived one hour of college credit for taking the beginningstained-glass class at the community college. The classes she’staken at Bearden’s include advanced stained glass, lampmaking, bead making, kiln glass and stained-glass repair.

“So I know how to repair a big window…without having totake it completely apart,” Scott said.

Scott draws a lot of her own patterns; she took art in college,and that’s helped her in composing stained-glass pieces. She

graduated in 1994 with a degree in psychology with anemphasis on chemical dependency.

“I love working with people,” Scott said. “I love gettingacquainted and working with people. That’s why I chosecounseling. Now that I work in the shop, I get to work withpeople in a different capacity.”

Scott was employed by the Regional Prevention Center forfive years and found her first counseling job at the HutchinsonCorrectional Facility. She also spent five years in the privatesector.

“I really enjoyed the work in the prison because it gave hopefor the future,” Scott said. “We planted a seed and gave themtools so when they decided to change (not all of them changed),then they would have the tools to and know where to go forhelp.”

When Scott was working in Winfield as a counselor, she washurt in a car wreck. Even after she was transferred to Wichita towork, the driving back and forth proved to be too much for her.So she quit.

“This is something I’ve wanted to open for a long time,”Scott said.

Now Scott finds her own help from her surroundings.Working in the gift shop allows her to be surrounded by beautyand creativity, which helps her stay focused on being creative,she said.

Scott has a variety of tools in her shop, including a glasscutter, as well as diamond bits for drilling holes in glass, like forjewelry. She uses a soldering iron and solder, which is 60percent lead and 40 percent silver, a smoother solder than the50-50 variety, she said.

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Once the piece is soldered, after havingcut the glass, cement has to go under thelead, which makes it tight with the glass,Scott said. Then she uses a whitener on thepiece and adds a black patina to the lead.Scott has many colors of glass in her studioand hopes to sell stained-glass products inthe future.

She’s also offering classes, the first ofwhich was a stained-glass class in April thatreached the 10-student limit. She alsooffered a bead-making class April 26.Barbara Lay, a member of the SweetheartDecorative Painting Society of Kansas, willteach decorative painting classes, the firstof which was scheduled for May. Lay alsohas some items for sale in the shop.

“I want to get more consignees in withitems,” Scott said, as she’s looking forquality pieces to sell made by artisans.

Scott plans to offer more classes inJune. Upcoming stained-glass classesinclude an angel-making class and a houseor birdhouse class. Scott said a lot ofpeople are interested in the stained-glass

classes, as they want to make their ownwindows. To find out more informationabout upcoming classes, call the shop at316-712-8341.

“I’m willing to help anyone, whetherwith design, color or technique,” Scottsaid.

The basic class is a prerequisite fortaking more advanced stained-glass classesat the shop, Scott said. The advancedclasses will teach glass-over-glass and 3-Dtechniques. The beginning class will havestudents cutting the glass, selectingpatterns, grinding glass down, and foilwrapping, soldering and lead caming.Came is the metal that goes between thepieces of glass.

Eventually, the shop will expand intomore of the warehouse area, where therewill be four big work tables, at whichpeople will be able to use the grinder,soldering iron and flux. Flux is an acid basethat takes the finish off of the metal sosolder will adhere to it. Scott wants peopleto be able to go to the shop and use some

of her equipment, as it can be pricey topurchase. A grinder can cost $300 and asaw can run $500, she said.

“I want to make stained glass moreeconomical for people,” Scott said.

Even though her hands get blackenedfrom the lead, cut and sore, Scott enjoysherself.

“It’s like a therapy,” she said. “I thinkanyone who does anything creative —whether it is painting, quilting, stained-glass — it’s just good therapy. I just lovedoing anything that’s creative.”

Quilting has the same effect for her.Scott has been developing that hobby forfour years, and said she just gets lost intime when creating. So far, she’s madeseven quilts — three of which are almostking size and three are baby quilts.


Store hoursThe shop is open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays. It is closed Sundays.

...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................Arvella Scott, owner of Cross Roads Stained Glass and Gifts on Old 81 in Zimmerdale, which is between Hesston and Newton,works on a stained-glass project in March.


Tulips sprouted in the yards on a sunny April day inHalstead, as several school buses were parked near aside street, ready to take kids to school the next day.A variety of grain elevators reached out to the blue

sky, as wispy clouds floated above the town of Halsteadresidents refer to as the “Biggest Little City in Kansas.”

Blooming trees created a soft landscape against thebackdrop of historic buildings that line Main Street.

Halstead leaders are attempting to get more people tomove to their town, either by renting, building or buying, toget jobs and to enroll their children in school there throughan incentive program, called Discover Halstead, whichlaunched March 1 and will last until sunset Dec. 31.

“It’s hard for me to not get excited about it because it’ssuch a neat program,” said J.R. Hatfield, city administrator.

The incentive program for this town with a population ofabout 2,095 involves providing Chamber Bucks in a three-

tiered program. At the first level, a person can get $50 inChamber Bucks if they enroll a new student in the schooldistrict, become a new resident or get a new job in town. Toqualify for $400 in Chamber Bucks, a person needs to meettwo of the three previously mentioned qualifications. To get$1,500 in Chamber Bucks, a person needs to meet all threerequirements. In addition, if someone builds a home andmeets all three requirements, he or she can get $2,500.

“The important part of the program is while largerincentives are available to those who buy or build a home,there are incentives for everyone,” Hatfield said. “You canreceive incentives even if you move here and rent a houseand don’t work here or have children in school.”

Chamber Bucks can be used for just about anything inHalstead — from paying for utilities, to using the pool, tobuying groceries, gas, carpet and even a car. Chamber Buckscan be spent at any business that’s a member of the Chamber.

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“Halstead is a great little community tolive and raise a family,” Hatfield said. “Wehave an amazing school system that issmall enough to make sure yourchildren get the attention they needand, being a smaller school, gives achild a better opportunity to beinvolved. Halstead is a safe place to livewith many of the other amenities thatjust make Halstead home. Halstead alsooffers a location that makes it easy to goto Wichita, Newton, Hutch in son and manylarger places in just a few minutes, but youcan come home to your little city.”

The city of Halstead, the HalsteadChamber and Halstead USD 440 decided tocollaborate on the project after RedGuardpurchased the old Skyline building. Thisemployer eventually will employ 60.

“Probably the emphasis is all three ofthose entities working together,” said BillCharlsen, Chamber president.

RedGuard builds explosion-proofbusiness offices, and the company has beenin business in Wichita since 2006. It hadbeen called A Box for You, but changed thename after expanding to Halstead. RedGuardhas 30 employees and should have 60 by theend of the year. RedGuard makes steel boxesand puts offices inside them. These officesare for any areas that are hazardous or at riskof explosions. The offices can be boltedtogether and made several stories high.

“RedGuard was the one that when the taxabate ment was approved by the HalsteadCity Council got me to thinking that we

needto dosomething toencourage thosenew employees to move toHalstead,” Hatfield said. “But we also havemany other employers that should be able touse this program to not only recruit but toencourage their employees to move to

Halstead. Every Chamber member whohires new employees (is) eligible for the

incentives.”Discover Halstead representatives

have talked to reps from othertowns, and those people haven’tseen a program like this one,Hatfield said. Most incentiveprograms primarily are focusedon people building homes. Forexample, Maize gives water creditsto people who construct homes.

“But it’s an incentive programthat can be tapped into by a large

group of people” — and not justthose building residences, said Cory L.

Harrington, school board president.“We don’t want to limit this incentive to

that one group,” Hatfield said.Halstead representatives want to have

other people see how great Halstead reallyis.

Planning for Discover Halstead started inDecember, and RedGuard was the “boot thatgot us started,” Hatfield said. The groupwanted other employers to have theiremployees take advantage of the incentives.

“We wanted to have a program to havethem attract an employee, as well,”Harrington said. This could give anemployee an incentive to work there.

“So employers are using this as a hiringtool to get employees here,” Hatfield said.

Discover Halstead members have greathopes for doing well.

“I’m hoping we can show what a successit is, and we can continue it,” Hatfield said.

“The employers that embrace it will reallysee the benefits from it,” Harrington said.

Themoney to fund

the program comes fromthe three entities. As of April 16, the fundtotaled $30,000. One advantage of theprogram is it helps the rest of Halstead, asthe money will go back to local businessesand not somewhere else.

The program is having a positive effect onthe town in another way. Since its inception,the Chamber had increased its membershipby two businesses, as of April 16.

“We’ve had a great start,” Harrington said.“The last 45 days, we’ve had a great start.”

“Just in the attitude,” Charlsen added.“They’re excited about it.”

As part of the program, applicants willhave a 90-day waiting period. As of April 16,Discover Halstead had received oneapplication. Hatfield said he signed abuilding permit for people who havedecided to build a new home in Halstead,and another couple is negotiating on aproperty to build a house.

RedGuard found out about the propertyfrom Lonnie Martin of Martin Machine andWelding in Halstead. Martin welded boxesfor A Box for You and talked to them aboutthe old Skyline building, as it had beenempty for about five years. The companyapproached Mickey Fornaro-Dean, executivedirector of the Harvey County EconomicDevelopment Council. Fornaro-Dean helpedthem with the procedures to get city taxabatements. The deal was made, and theyclosed in February.

Fornaro-Dean and Tucky Allen, businessservices director with Kansas WorkforceONE,have attended Discover Halstead meetings,and have assisted with information and ideasto put the plan and incentive packagetogether, Hatfield said. They also wereinstrumental in putting together the job fair,

• See Halstead, page 18..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................OPPOSITE PAGE: Blooming trees provide an idyllic setting for the downtown Halstead area. ABOVE: Halstead was founded in 1872 andhas several grain elevators. UPPER RIGHT: During a recent Discover Halstead meeting, Tucky Allen (right) discusses the job fair that wasMay 3 in Halstead.


Two of Dan White’s hobbies have teeth. Well, at least theydid until the teeth were pulled from one of them. The70-year-old rural Newton resident cuts logs with a 52-inch round blade that has 42 large teeth in his antique

sawmill, while another of his hobbies, musical saw playing, hadteeth on his favorite saw until he cut them off.

Around 1975, White bought the sawmill from the now lateJohn Younkman. White had gone to Younk man’s rural Newtonhome on occasion because Younk man had steam engines. It tookYounkman six to eight months to convince White to buy it.

“It took me two years to put it together,” White said.“(Younkman) hauled it from Oklahoma in pieces.... It’s beenaround.”

The antique sawmill, which dates from the 1920s or ’30s,White said, was made by the Reeves Manufac turing Co., whichmade tractors and machinery. Originally, the mill was in Arkansasand then Oklahoma. White is the mill’s fourth owner.

“Sawmill is the first step in the processing of lumber,” Whitesaid, sitting at his dining room table. “It always intrigued me.”

White said he became interested in working with wood as achild, and then it developed into a larger operation.

“It started out as a hobby,” White said. “It’s still a hobby that Ilike.”

White, who’s retired, said running the mill, which is housedin an open-air shed on the property he and wife Karen own, wasa great second job when he was working. Now that he’s retired,he can saw — and quit — when he wants to.

For 17 years of his career, White ran White Construc tion,which was a concrete construction company for buildingbasements and other projects. Then, for 22 years, he worked forthe city of Hesston.

“Now (that) I’m retired, I can run (the mill) anytime I wantto,” he said.

“Instead of weekends and nights,” Karen added.Before he starts cutting logs, White uses a metal detector to

locate any metals in them, such as nails. Then he works ongetting the metal out of the log. On a wall in his “office” next tothe mill, White posted some of the metal he’s removed fromlogs. This office helps him cope with the weather — if it’s cold,he can go in there and warm up with an old heated stove, and ifit’s warm, he can get cool refreshments.

White attaches the log to a part of the mill, then one side ofthe log is run through the large blade that operates at 450 rpm.White squares up the log by turning it several times and running

it through the blade each time. From there, he cancut boards to fit customers’ wishes.

As part of the work, White sharpens theSimmons blade, which came with the sawmill; hedoesn’t know how old the whirring blade is. He canget about a half day’s cutting done with onesharpening, although he said he only uses 21 of itsteeth.

At one point in his life, White said he logged hisown logs, but now he doesn’t do that anymore.His son, Todd, helps him cut logs if they’re big orif he needs assistance, White said.

“Now we custom cut for anybody who brings’em out to me,” White said.

Recently, White cut the siding for several newhouses in the neighborhood out of rough-cut cedar. He’s also cutwood for a man who makes violins, beams for a buildingaddition, back and front porch beams for his own home andabout 300 80-feet-long high line poles.

A couple of years ago, two men called White and asked if hecould cut such poles. He and Karen thought the men maybewould make one little trip to their home. As it turned out, theybrought semi load after semi load to them for a couple of weeks.

White can cut wood that’s 18 feet maximum and 3 feetminimum.

“If it’s less than that, it’s firewood,” he said.White has cut a variety of wood, including pecan, walnut and

oak.“Most of all your hardwoods I’ve cut over the years,” he said.

“I think that some of the prettiest wood was pecan. It makes realpretty furniture too.”

Right now, walnut probably is one of the nicer woods he cuts,and it’s probably the most expensive wood now too.

Around the time of his interview in early April, White wasexpecting a semi load of wood from a farmer who wants to buildwagon boxes his horses pull.

People wishing to have White cut their lumber can call him at620-327-4156.


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...............................................................................................................................TOP LEFT: In addition to using a saw to cut wood, Dan White of rural New-ton plays a musical saw. His favorite, he said, it the cheapest one he foundat the hardware store. TOP: White sits in his "office" near his antiquesawmill on the property he and wife Karen own. He uses the stove towarm up from the cold when working with his saw mill, which is outside.ABOVE: White turns a large chunk of wood on his sawmill. He has to turnthe wood after cutting off a side to square it up. He places the wood onthe sawmill and then turns it three times.

The antique saw mill makes a melodioussound as it cuts through logs. White usesanother kind of saw, not as it was originallyintended, but rather to make another kind ofmusic — more of the traditional kind.

White became interested in playing themusical saw, which he does with a bow, when hewas in Iowa at a steam show. At the show was abarn dance. Bands performing switched everyhour, and one band had the drummer play themusical saw in one of its songs.

“I thought, ‘That is awesome. I have to trythat,’” White said.

He then purchased a saw and taught himselfhow to play.

“There weren’t too many musical sawteachers around,” White said.

His favorite saw is one he purchased at ahardware store.

“It’s the cheapest hand saw that you can buyat the hardware store,” White said. “I bought the

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cheapest one, and it was flexibleenough it worked out forplaying.”

To it, he added a palm grip onthe end and cut the teeth off. Healso owns two other saws, whichwere sold as musical saws.

White has performed. Forexample, he played “In theGarden” at a funeral at theirchurch. White enjoys playing oldhymns, 1950s and 1960s tunes,and band-era music.

Turning back to wood, White

also does woodcarving as ahobby. He calls his workWoodland Carvings, and he hasused cottonwood bark, like asaloon he made in 2004. As ofearly April, he was working on alighthouse. He’s also carved elvesand churches.

“I’ve had some kids ask me,‘How do you carve a dog or amule?’” White said, laughing. “Isaid, ‘Just carve everything awaythat doesn’t look like a dog ormule.’”

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Denny Franz doesn’t usedrawings, blueprints or kits tomake his half-scale tractors. Hejust tears apart original tractors,

measuring all the parts and making otherparts half the size of the original.

“So there’s no drawing,” Franz said. “It’sall there in front of me.”

The Newton resident has made foursuch tractors — three of which werepurchased and one he still has at home.The first tractor sold for $75,000. Themodel year of this tractor was 1927.

To make the tractor he has at home,Franz borrowed a tractor from local farmerKen Hamilton, modeling his smallerversion after the International HarvesterFarmall F-14, which is dated 1929.

“He was kind enough to let me take itall apart and put it back together,” Franzsaid.

Franz said his creations run, and all theparts are identical to the originals. He’seven created tractor tires from molds he’smade.

There’s only so far he can take makingthings half the size of the original. Franzjokingly says the paint on his shiny red half-scale tractor at home is twice the thicknessit should be. That’s because he was notable to divide in half the high-qualityautomotive paint he used. He’s also notable to divide in half the molecules he usesin the gas, he also joked.

The first tractor he sold was purchasedby a man in Wolf Point, Mont., who had aJohn Deere museum.

“He built a museum on his farm in thecountry,” Franz said.

Making these small running pieces offarm machinery is no easy or quick task. Ittakes Franz 2,000 hours to make a tractor,

the retired owner of Denny’s Heating &Cooling said.

He builds the scale-model tractors forthe challenge, he said, and “I likemechanical things.”

“And I’m not going to build another(tractor),” Franz said. “Four is enough.”

Sitting atop Franz’s tractor at home is anautomaton he named Harvey, because ofHarvey County. Harvey can wave andcontrol the tractor, which weighs about 300pounds.

“A lot heavier than it looks,” he said.Harvey is wearing Franz’s great-

grandson’s boots. Even though Franz putthe boots on Harvey’s feet, Franz likes towork with his hands.

“It’s strictly an enjoyable hobby,” hesaid. “I gotta be doing something —something mechanical.”

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Franz said he might bring his remaining scale-model tractor to afarm heritage show in California. These kinds of shows can featureantique farm equipment and things like sorghum-makingdemonstrations. Many people attend the shows, Franz said.

“A lot of people remember using (the old farm equipment),”Franz said.

Scale-model tractors are not the only things Franz has built. Onhis birthday in September 2013, he started constructing amotorcycle in the fashion of those built in the early 1900s. Thismotorcycle he built from scratch with his own design; it was thesecond one he’s built.

“It’s not a copy of any original,” he said, sitting comfortably in hisliving room.

Around that time, motorcycles were quite popular, Franz said,but as cars got cheaper, motorcycles became less popular. EvenGoessel and Sedgwick had motorcycle clubs.

In addition to building the motorcycle, Franz painted it in a rustyorange color his wife and kids picked out after seeing it on anantique (Franz assumed) Fiestaware bowl. He hired out thepinstriping, which a woman did by hand. The color orange seems tobe a theme with this motorcycle, as the handlebar grips are madefrom Osage Orange wood. The motorcycle is called the “FranzFlyer.”

“I’m not going to sell it because I like to go out in the eveningand ride it,” Franz said. “And it doesn’t take up much space.”

The first motorcycle Franz built he sold to a motorcycle museumin Bethany, Okla., which is on Route 66 in an old filling station.

In addition to putting together motorcycles, Franz built a steam-powered car and a gasoline car. In Franz’s fashion, he built the

steam car from scratch, then hauled it to Pike’s Peak to see if he coulddrive it up the mountain — which was the thing to do back then afterone made a vehicle. The vehicles were built between 1988 and 1992.

“It was a bragging thing — bragging rights,” Franz said.After that adventure, he constructed a gas-powered vehicle from

scratch.“Just started from scratch,” Franz said. “No blueprints or anything.”So, after this car was done, Franz drove it to Pike’s Peak. Both cars

were successful in making the mountainous climb.The gas car, Franz sold to a John Deere dealer in Kingsley, while the

steam car went to a museum in Wolf Point, Mont., Franz said.However, one of Franz’s daughters now owns the gas-powered car, asshe purchased it from the John Deere collector.

Franz also enjoys making clocks. He’s even constructed agrandfather clock that’s on display at home, as well as about nineothers.

“No kits — don’t believe in kits,” Franz said about how he madethe clocks, most of which he’s given away to family and friends.

“Actually, I’ve always been intrigued with clocks,” he added.At one point in his life, Franz had a couple hundred clocks, which

he sold to get enough money to start his heating and cooling business.“They were just common kitchen shelf clocks, they called them,”

Franz said.Since he’s intrigued by mechanics, Franz bought a couple of

automatons from a man at the Boyer Museum in Belleville who builtthem. Then, Franz made a whirly-gig to look like one of theautomatons, which has a woman riding a bicycle perched in front oftheir home. Franz said sometimes people stop and take photos of it.Looking to the future, Franz is thinking about making another whirly-gig or clock.

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The health museum in Halstead has abig heart — in more ways than one.One way sits in the Exhibit Hall atthe Kansas Learning Center for

Health in all its larger-than-life glory. At oneof the entrances is a roped-off model of giantheart, which came with a $35,000 price tag.

The model is about as tall as a man butmuch wider. Various parts of this organ areidentified, including the left pulmonaryartery, coronary sinus and right coronaryveins. This heart is part of the hall’spermanent exhibit that features the body’ssenses and other matters relating to thephysical side of humans.

“It pretty much covers the body systemsand nutrition and dental,” said BrendaSooter, executive director.

These include circulatory, respiratory and

immune systems, as well as eyesight andbones, Sooter said.

In addition to the heart, another largeexhibit is of the human brain. Sooter saidthey wanted the brain and heart to be exhibitfocal points because of their importance inthe body.

Many of these displays are interactive. Forexample, at the brain display, visitors canpush buttons that have functions of the bodyattached with them. When they push thebutton, for example, that’s attached to theword “speech,” a person can see which partof the brain controls speech because a lightwill glow in that part of a large depiction of abrain that’s painted on a flat surface.

The displays for the senses, such as smell,touch and hearing, were donated by amuseum that closed.

“(Health exhibits) were all remodeled lastsummer,” Sooter said.

The museum’s teaching staff painted anddesigned these displays. Curator BradWingert did the graphic design while TriciaWeber came up with the color scheme anddid the layout, as well as made a search-and-find mural. Other instructors include CindyFoster, Susan Lamb, Layla Nightingale andIvory Beins.

“Kids — they love it,” Sooter said aboutthe mural, which has a variety of images andtextured items representing Kansas and themuseum.

Another display, which seems to languishin people’s memories, is a model calledValeda, the talking woman, who istransparent so people can see her organs,arteries, veins and blood vessels. It’s as if her

.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Halstead Middle School students (from left) Moises Esparza, Kaleb Stites, Cody Noel and Lakin Farmer check out exhibits April 11 in theExhibit Hall at the Kansas Learning Center for Health in Halstead.


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skin has turned transparent. Valeda isin the auditorium, and she comes witha couple of talking programs sopeople can learn more about thebody.

“A lot of people remember Valeda,”Sooter said. “Whenever the kids come,they always see Valeda.”

Valeda was purchased in 1965 froma company in Cologne, Germany. Atthe time, 20 were shipped to theUnited States, and now there’s onlythree left operating. The other two arein Pittsburgh, Pa., and Chicago.

“So that’s kinda neat that she’sbeen operating for almost 50 years,”Sooter said.

When people visit the auditorium,Valeda presents a 15-minutes program. Kidsare told the veins and arteries in Valeda’sbody, if stretched out, would go for 6 miles,but that our real bodies have veins andarteries that would stretch to 60,000 miles,which is 2.5 times around Earth, Sooter said.

Valeda talks about various parts of herbody, and as she does, these parts, like thebrain and stomach, light up. Valeda had amakeover five years ago, when she was givena new voice, and now museum staff can clickon any of her organs. Another part of hermakeover includes Valeda saying names oforgans in Spanish.

“Now she’s more of a teaching tool for ustoo,” Sooter said.

When the organs are lit, they show up in3D on a TV screen in the room.

“They love it — not only children butadults,” Sooter said. ‘(Adults) are like, ‘Wow, Ididn’t know my stomach was so high.’ I loveadults. They’re like little kids.”

Another way in which the museum has a

big heart is the fact that staff educates a largenumber of people every year — at the actualmuseum site and through outreachprograms.

“We have a lot of giving people here,”Sooter said.

The center reaches about 25,000 peopleannually with some 8,000 visiting theHalstead location while the others arereached in schools through the outreachprogram. All but 1,000 of those are youth.

.“We also see homeschoolers here,” Sootersaid. “This year, we’ve seen a lot of homeschool groups here.”

This academic year, about 500 home-school students have come through.

Schools mostly focus on reading, writingand arithmetic, Sooter said, and the topic ofhealth can get moved to the side.

“What we try to do is help schools meetstate science standards by just providing afun, hands-on enhanced program,” Sootersaid.

The outreach programs are different forvarious grades. For example, second-gradersare presented with “Stand Tall — Don’t Fall toBullying,” while third-grade students listen toa program on the consequences of smoking.

Seventh- through 12-graders will learnabout the consequences of drug use and theeffects that lead to addiction and tolerance.Sooter said students are told about suchthings are fake marijuana and heroine, whichare growing in popularity.

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for Health offers 33 elementaryand secondary programs both atthe Center and as outreach toschools and communitycenters,” Sooter said. “Theseprograms are divided into threebasic content areas and twoeducational levels: pre-kindergarten through sixthgrade and seventh through 12thgrade.

“The General Healthcurriculum covers all basic bodysystems; digestion, circulatory,respiratory, nervous and skeletal.These classes also include

activities that teach healthy lifestyle decisions,such as good nutrition, dental health, safetyand healthy habits.”

The Growth and Develop ment coursesinclude human growth and development,puberty education, bullying, dating, geneticsand sexually transmitted infections. Thevarious Drug Education courses include useand abuse of tobacco, alcohol and drugs(legal and illegal).

“When people can actually see the visualsof what’s actually going on inside the body,they stop and think a little bit,” Sooter said.

Programs have been aligned to schoolcurriculum state standards, Sooter said. Bydoing the outreach programs, they can travelthroughout the state, reaching students whocan’t visit the center

BeginningsThe center opened in 1965 and is at 505

Main St. in Halstead. The late Dr. IreneKoeneke, wife of the late Dr. Arthur E.Hertzler, wanted to leave a living legacy forher husband, who started Halstead Hospitalin 1902, Sooter said. He also foundedHertzler Clinic in the early 1900s and wasknown as the “horse-and-buggy doctor.”

The center will be 50 years old next year.“It provides hands-on health and science

education for children and adults,” a newsrelease stated. “The Kansas Learning Centerfor Health mission is to be a premier regionalresource for quality health education.”

“It’s kind of impressive,” Sooter said.“We’re the second oldest health museum inthe nation — right here in little ol’ Halstead,Kansas.”

FundingThe Kansas Learning Center for Health

exclusively is supported through privatedonations from organizations, individuals,corporations and foundations. The centerreceives no state funding, Sooter said. Itoperates on donations, admissions, bequests,building grants for additions and memorialgifts.

“So that’s how we make it,” Sooter said.“When people give a gift, we want to use itvery frugal,” as in very professionally butconservatively.

To get schools to send students to thecenter, Sooter writes grants and asks forsponsorships, saying she does the legwork forthe schools, making it a win-win situation.

In addition, Cargill Inc. has a fund calledCargill Cares that’s supported by money fromemployees. They’ve sponsored nutrition-based programs in all 58 Wichita elementaryschools for the past three years. Also, the BlueCross/Blue Shield Foundation of Kansassupplied a grant for outreach programs insoutheast Kansas for the 2013-14 academicyear.

Some schools actually write the center’sprograms into their curriculum. For example,

the Human Growth and Developmentprogram is used by the Newton, Hutch in son,Halstead and Hesston schools.

In order to get more money, the center ishaving its first fundraising event Sept. 13called The Kansas Learning Center for HealthPresents a Kansas Country Evening. For moreinformation about the evening, call thecenter at 800-798-2124. Entertainment,because they wanted to do somethingdifferent, will be ventriloquist Greg Claassenfrom Whitewater.

“Because we know laughing is a lot offun, and it’s good for your health,” Sooter

said. “The old saying that ‘laughter is the bestmedicine’ definitely appears to be true whenit comes to protecting your heart and overallhealth.”

New annexThe grand opening of the Bailey Annex,

named after Dr. Colin Bailey of Halstead, wasJan. 31. Bailey and his wife, Joan, werehonored for their $1.2 million gift that raised$2.8 million in private support.

The annex includes a classroom,bathroom, kitchen, storage area for outreachmaterials, a boardroom, garage for the

outreach van and elevator to make thebuilding ADA compliant. The museum has abasement, and in the future, they’d like tohouse a historical museum there about thehistory of the Learning Center museum, andarchives from Halstead Hospital and theHalstead Hospital School of Nursing.

“(The Baileys’) love and passion for theKansas Learning Center for Health’s mission,‘To be a premier regional resource for qualityhealth education,’ is extremely obvious,”Sooter said.


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Helen Shifflett’sroots go allthe way backto the

Mayflower. The soon-to-be 95-year-old is adescendant of JohnAlden and PriscillaMullins, who came toAmerica on that famousship. Alden was thecooper aboard thevessel, and his job was toconstruct varying sizes of barrels.

The story goes Miles Standish, who wasshy, asked Alden to propose to Mullins forhim. Mullins turned her attention to Aldenand asked him, “Why don’t you speak foryourself, John?” And so he did. That startedtheir courtship and eventual marriage.

This is the descendant line thatqualified Shifflett to be a member of theDaughters of the American Revolution.The line runs through her mother,Hortense Clements. Any woman who canprove her lineal descent from an AmericanRevolution patriot is eligible to join,according to the DAR website.

No matter how far down or how closeto her on the family tree, family hasseemed to be important to the Asbury Parkresident. Even though she earned an

undergraduate degreeat Iowa State,majoring in householdequipment, and amaster’s at GeorgeWashington University,she raised her threechildren as a stay-at-home mom. This goesalong with herphilosophy of life,which isn’tcomplicated.

“Man does notlive by bread alone,”is written on a signin Shifflett’s room,which her son,Dana, said is herlife’s philosophy. It isfollowed by: “Hemust also havepeanut butter andjelly.”

“I wouldn’t beable to raise myfamily withoutpeanut butter andjelly,” Shifflett said,sitting in her AsburyPark roomsurrounded by

photos of her family. “I can’t imagine nothaving peanut butter.”

Dana’s siblings are Carol, Linda andStephen Shifflett.

Before she became a mom, Shifflettstarted her life’s adventure when she wasborn July 2, 1919, in the family farm homein Madison County, Iowa.

“Women didn’t go to the hospital tohave a baby then,” Shifflett said, whilesnacking on M&Ms during a warm lateMarch day.

And yes, the county in which Shifflettwas born is the one that has the coveredbridges that inspired the movie and book.Dana and his mom have seen all sevenbridges, but Dana said he’s not sure all stillare standing, as people who don’t like the

behavior of the characters in the moviehave damaged the bridges. The one closestto his parents’ old place is called Hogback.On her Asbury Park room door is a verticalpainting that has hand-painted likenessesof the bridges. Hog back now is closed totraffic.

“We used to drive over it regularly,”Dana said.

Shifflett attended WorthingtonElementary, a one-room schoolhouse.Shifflett recalled a game she played as ayouth. “Hide and Go Seek would’ve beenthe most popular, I guess,” she said.

On May 28, 1951, Shifflett married Paulin Iowa, although before that, they hadeach gone separately to Washington, D.C.,to take government jobs. They also hadgrown up in the same town and kneweach other. Paul graduated from Iowa Statein 1942 and later retired from the NavalResearch Lab, which was the only job hehad after college. He was an electronicsengineer and was involved in the nuclearprogram.

Shifflett was on staff with the SignalCorps at Arlington Hall during World WarII. Arlington Hall, which is in Arlington,Va., handled Japanese communicationsignal intercepts, Dana said.

“They broke the Japanese code,”Shifflett said. “That’s what moved thingsreal fast. They brought a lot of people toD.C. to work on the code.”

While employed there, Shifflettremembers hearing the song “Cocktails forTwo” by Spike Jones for the first time.

“(The song) goes from violins…and softatmosphere to pandemonium,” Dana said.

Dana said his mother had told him, asthe people were working at night, the songdisrupted their work, and it took a whilefor them to gather their thoughts afterhearing it.

The children were raised in Accokeek,Md., which is across the river from MountVernon, Dana said.

Looking back on his childhood, Danaremembered some of the food his motherused to cook. They’d have chili on

...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Helen Shifflett, who will turn 95 years old July 2, sits near her son, Dana, who holds a sign aabout her philosophy of life. INSET: Helen(standing) is pictured with her parents, Hortense and Roy, in the 1930s. (Courtesy photo)


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Tuesdays, fish on Fridays, hamburgers orhot dogs on Saturdays and usuallyhomemade chicken on Sundays.

“Mom was a good cook — a really goodcook,” Dana said.

His mother also made their birthdaycakes, which were two layers of white cakegraced with a white seven-minute icingand “different-colored trim,” Dana andShifflett said.

“A birthday was not a birthday withoutone of those cakes,” Dana said.

Paul and Helen Shifflett retired back toIowa in November 1986.

“They moved back to Iowa well after wewere raised,” Dana said.

Paul made 16 trips with a horse trailerback and forth when they moved fromMaryland to Worthington, which is in ruralEarlham. Shifflett moved to Asbury Parkbecause Dana lives five miles east of theoutlet mall in Newton, and he worked atAsbury Park at the time.

“Mom is here because Asbury Park ismore affordable and just as good as whatwas available in Ames, Iowa, where shelived (and brother Steve still does), andbecause Newton is halfway between Amesand Arlington, Texas, where sister Linda is,and because I’m here,” Dana said. “Ialready knew from residents (at Asbury)

that the food was good. That was a majorconsideration.”

In addition to the Mayflower, theShifflett family has ties to actor JohnWayne. Wayne’s family moved fromWinterset, Iowa, to Earlham, Iowa, whenhe was 4 years old. Wayne startedattending school in Earlham, in the samebuilding Dana’s father went to school.Wayne, who was born Marion MichaelMorrison, was a bit older than Dana’sfather. The school became a Masonic hall,and they kept the furniture. Later, thefurniture was auctioned, and Dana nowhas a chair that’s conceivable Wayne mighthave sat in, he said.

Another tie to a famous person for thefamily is that Dana’s father played baseballin high school and went to bat against BobFeller, who later pitched for the ClevelandIndians.

“And I have the bat that did not get a hitoff Bob Feller,” Dana said.

Dana’s father is what Shifflett likedabout raising children.

“They had a good father,” she said.“Otherwise, the job wouldn’t have gottendone.”

The hardest part of parenthood wasdisciplining, Shifflett said.

Dana reminded his mother of a few

activities that got him in trouble, includinggoing to an apartment building laundryroom with friends, taking clothes out ofdryers and riding in them when he wasabout 5 years old. Another time, Danachanged fuses in their home, causing hismother to burn the liver she was cooking,although he doesn’t know how.

“I shouldn’t have been playing with thefuse box,” Dana said.

Even with the usual pranks of children,Shifflett seems to have had a good, longlife, complete with attending church. Shegrew up Methodist and still is. When shelived in Maryland, she and the family weremembers of Faith Methodist Church’schoir at one point, Dana said. When theyleft that state, the choir presented themwith a vase that had the names of peoplein the choir on the vase feet.

When Shifflett moved to Asbury onMemorial Day weekend 2007, she donatedan organ and baby grand piano to thechurch she grew up in.

Although she attended churchthroughout her life, Shifflett didn’t seem toneed religion as much as others might.

“I don’t think I’ve had serious problemsthat took religion to get me through,”Shifflett said. “That’s just the way my lifewas.”


LOCAL FUND HELPS NEIGHBORSNorthridge Elementary School

third-graders mixed dog-themed sweets at their bakesale with a desire to help,

coming up with a recipe for kindness.Students in Carinda Claassen’s class

wanted to raise money for the localhumane society, so they decided to havea bake sale. Some of the treats, which allsold for 50 cents, carried a dog theme —some were sugar cookies in the shapesof bones and dogs, and there was“puppy chow.”

Right after the “school’s out” bellrang on a particular Friday, studentsraced to the sale area, purchasing thesugary treats, which sold out in minutes.

Claassen has a service dog from theNewton humane society that goes to theclass, and, because of that influence,students wanted the proceeds from thesale to go to the Caring Hands HumaneSociety in Newton. This caring forothers, whether they’re humans oranimals, at the school comes from a“kindness” curriculum set forth by JanelRogers.

“Every elementary school (in thedistrict) has a school social worker,” saidRogers, Northridge social worker. “Ipersonally chose kindness as my themeto focus lessons and activities on” thisacademic year.

Rogers took an online Kindness inthe Classroom Course through ColoradoUniversity in Boulder this past springsemester. The money for the course wasprovided by the Women’s CommunityFund. Each year, the fund gives money toa variety of charities in the Newton area.The money from the grant given toNorthridge also was used to purchasebooks that went along with work Rogershas been doing in the classroom, and thebooks had morals to them, Rogers said.This ties the books into social/emotionallearning.

Through the Random Acts ofKindness website, Rogers said shelearned about the course she took in thespring.

“Through the course, I’m developinga curriculum,” she said. “The grant

paying for that course is going to be veryhelpful for me in developing acurriculum for next year.”

Rogers also has incorporated ideasfor activities and projects from othersources, including the Random Actswebsite.

Kindness also will be Roger’s themeduring the next academic year atNorthridge. The curriculum includessolving problems, empathy and conflictresolution.

“I think our district has been verysupportive,” Rogers said. “For childrento do well in school, they need tofunction well in the classroom socially.They need to be able to get along witheach other, handle their emotions. Theyneed to be able to handle conflicts witheach other. We really promote thatsocial/emotional learning. Being a goodcitizen is part of learning — just likereading, writing and math. Hopefully,starting at the elementary level will set agood foundation for that.”

Rogers said she goes into everyclassroom at Northridge, leading lessonson a variety of kindness topics, such ashandling your emotions, friendships,

conflicts and problem solving.Rogers has had students do a variety

of projects, such as writing thank-youletters to adults who work behind thescenes at the school, like custodians andsecretaries.

“Helping the kids to see we couldn’tfunction without everybody doing theirpart,” Rogers said.

Students also were asked to takehome pink paper hearts as part of a BeeKind project. The hearts have bees onthem, and parents and teachers wereasked to write down acts of kindnessthey observed students doing, likehelping siblings or doing somethinguseful around the house without beingasked.

During the 2013-14 academic year,there also was a Kindness Club forfourth-graders, which is the oldest gradeat the school. The club met once amonth, and club members helped withthe Bee Kind project and made postersto put around the school.

“The idea was they were to be rolemodels for kindness,” Rogers said. “Theydeveloped kindness presentations toshare with the younger kids.”

.........................................................................................................................................................................................................Alyssa Hadaway, Alee Medina, Conner Adams and Tannis L'Ecuyer (from left) anticipate purchasing goods during a bakesale on a particular Friday in April at Northridge Elementary School in Newton. At right is “seller” Justin Franz. Third-graders in Carinda Claassen's class organized the bake sale to raise money for the Caring Hands Humane Society in New-ton. The school's social worker taught a kindness curriculum during the 2013-14 school year, and this was part of it.


Women’s Community FundIt started as an idea among five friends

sitting around a kitchen table in 2000. TheWomen’s Community Fund now has grownto 43 members in 2013.

“The community-minded women,including Nancy Craig, Ann Davidson, SuzieLuginbill, Katie Reese and Susan Rhoades,had read about a giving circle, which hadbecome very successful in othercommunities, and decided to use the sameconcept to benefit charities in Newton andthe surrounding area,” according to a newsrelease.

The group’s organizational committeepartnered with the Greater NewtonCommunity Foundation, now known as theCentral Kansas Community Founda tion, tomanage this charitable fund.

Since its inception, the group hasgenerated almost $220,000 for charities inthe Newton area. In addition to Northridge,2013 recipients included Agape ResourceCenter, CASA: A Voice for Children, HarveyCounty Domestic Violence/Sexual AssaultTask Force Inc., Harvey County HomelessShelter Inc., HOPE Home Repair Inc.,Newton Meals on Wheels Inc., NewtonRecreation Commission, Peace Connections,St. Matthew’s Representative Payee, TrinityHeights Respite Care Inc. andYouthville/EmberHope.

In that light, WCF seems to stick to itsmotto: “Together we can accomplish greatthings.”

The group provides philanthropyopportunities for area women, and anywoman can join. All a woman has do it iscontribute, and the group has variouscontribution levels. Junior Members cancontribute $300 while Premiere Membersgive $1,000. There also are other levels.Mem bership doesn’t carry over to the nextyear; if a woman wants to join another year,she needs to donate.

To join and for more information, call theFoundation at 316-283-5474. Donations aretax deductible.

Jennifer Vogts, one of three chairwomenof the group, said this probably is the mostrewarding experience she’s ever had becausethe Fund supports local organizations.

Members really are helping their neighbors,she said. The other chairwomen are PamelaMcCullough, D.D.S., and Diana Torline.

Vogts said she wants to contribute, in apositive way, to the community in which sheresides.

“For me, being a member of the Women’sCommunity Fund is the biggest reward —joining forces with women who are ourfriends in a charitable way feels like asisterhood.”

Until this year, the donated money wasput into an expendable fund. Last year’sadvisory committee brought up the idea tocreate an endowed fund, which will addmore permanency to the Fund. In honor of afellow sister, that fund is called the JanElizabeth Saab Women’s Community FundEndowment. Saab, who died Feb. 14, 2012,was a WCF member who demonstrated agreat deal of leadership for this circle anddeeply cared about the impact these grantswould make in her community, held everyposition in the group.

“The privilege of being an AdvisoryCommittee member is a three-year term,”Vogts said.

“(Saab) was a woman who gave of hertime and talents; giving circles like this relyon committed members of the community,and Jan was a fundamental member of thiscirclet,” said Sandra Fruit, executive directorof the Central Kansas CommunityFoundation in Newton.

“Creating this fundwill allow women’sphilanthropy inNewton forperpetuity,” a WCFbrochure stated.Interest and earningsfrom the fund willbenefit charities whilekeeping the principalin the fund intact.

Past tri-chairwoman MarilynSjogren wasinstrumental ingetting the endowedfund established, aswere current tri-

chairwomen Vogts and McCullough.Eventhough 43 was the highest membership WCFhas ever had, Fruit would like to see it reach50 or more.

“We’re going to hit it one of these days,”she said.

Applying for grantsOrganizations that get grants are

determined from year to year by a majorityvote at the WCF annual meeting. The largestgrants given in 2013 were for $3,000 each,while the smallest was $424.95.

Each summer, grant applications areaccepted from Newton-area non-profitgroups. Then, the Grants Committee looksover the requests and gives WCF membersballots of the finalists. In October, WCFmembers vote during the annual meetingregarding recipients, who are given awardsin November.

Community foundationWCF is under the umbrella of the Central

Kansas Community Foundation, and CKCFprogram director Chancy Gerbitz and officemanager Brenda Eitzen manage themembership drive with the WCF chairs andcoordinate the grant-making cycle to ensureits execution meets state and federalregulations, given its philanthropic nature.

“We couldn’t grow without their supportand expertise at all,” Vogts said.

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