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ON THE COVER

INSIDEI Volume 30 Issue 8

WestSide StoryEditorialPublisher Paul RhodesManaging Editor Travis MountsGraphics Abbygail WellsReporters/Contributors Sam Jack, Michael Buhler, Dr. Ron Helten, Jim Erickson, Philip Holmes, Paul Rhodes

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Features

Performing Arts Calendar ........7

Wichita Homes ............................8

Movie Review ............................14

Cinema Scene ...........................15

Focus On Business ...................16

People and Places ...................17

From the Publishers Files ...............................................18

Pet Smarts ..................................21

Dateline .......................................23

Arts AMaize draws good crowds | 4

Addressing the impact of drunk driving | 3

Bishop Carroll Catholic High School not only won the Class

5A State softball title, two different national organizations

named them the countrys top team this season.

We had just come off the presses last month the ink was barely dry when news broke that Tanya Tandoc had died in a horrific, surprising and criminal way. A public memorial service at The Orpheum drew thousands.

The front of her namesake restau-rant, Tandoc, became a shrine to the woman whose food, energy and good nature seemed to have touched nearly every Wichitan.

I dont think Ive ever had the chance to meet her face-to-face. Im sure at some point she was there when I visited Tanyas Soup Kitchen, either at its cur-rent location or down by the old Union Station when I worked there for Mul-timedia Cablevision and her restaurant was just a few steps away.

But it quickly became apparent that many people I know did know Tan-ya personally. If you follow the Six Degrees of Separation idea where everyone on the planet is no more than six acquaintenances apart it appears that the entire city was was no more than two degrees separated from Tanya.

Part of what stunned so many people is that Tanya was so full of life.

Beyond food, her passions included music and dance. So many people said that when they talked with her, they felt like the most important person in Tan-yas life. Thats a rare and special gift.

But food is what shell most be re-membered for. Tanya fed a city, directly and indirectly.

Of course, there is still her restaurant, which will continue to serve thanks to

her loyal employees who helped make her dream come alive not once, but twice.

She taught many other people to cook, professionals as well as amateurs, through various cooking classes. She continued to teach us with regular ap-pearances on KMUW radio.

And she helped feed all of Wichita through her support of other chefs and restaurants, whether it was offering advice or just helping spread the word. Where some people might have seen competitors, she saw a community.

Our friend, photojournalist extraordi-naire Larry Hatteberg, featured her on a piece that first aired in June 2011. Some of the things she said in that piece now seem haunting. You can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JXpBO3ezMIY.

I feel that Ive missed out by not having the chance to meet Tanya. I will continue to eat at Tanyas Soup Kitchen when I can, and I will look for oppor-tunities to feel her presence through the people who did know and love her and were touched by her.

Travis Mounts | Managing Editor

Tandocs passing stuns the city

Tanyas Soup Kitchen reopened on June 7, a few days after the restau-

rants namesake, Tanya Tandoc, was murdered by an acquaintance. Employees opened the restaurant after taking a few days to mourn.

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WestSider Andrie Krahl, executive director of the Kansas DUI Impact Center, does not have a personal story to explain why she became interested in addressing the impact of drunk and impaired driving. But she does have some striking statistics.

I honestly didnt know that DUI crime is as common as it is, said Krahl. I wouldnt have known two-and-a-half years ago that ve people would be arrested in this county ever day for impaired driving.

Factor in research showing that people drive impaired an average of 80 times before being caught for the rst time, and it seems that the number of drunk drivers on the roadways at any one time must be very high.

Now that Ive become aware of the issue through my work here, its become very close to my heart, said Krahl.

The Kansas DUI Impact Center was known as the DUI Victim Center of Kansas until shortly after Krahl took over as director two-and-a-half years ago, and service to the victims of DUI remains core to its mission. Two members of the staff, Porsha Foster and Trent Frantz, serve as victim advocates, providing support and advice to those injured by DUI crashes, and to the families of those injured or killed.

Were there for families and victims, to support them from the time of an accident all the way through a court proceeding, said Krahl.

Addressing the impact of drunk driving

See KRAHL, Page 11

Andrie Krahl stands in front of a memorial wall featuring pictures of victims of drunk driving accidents. Krahl said making an emotional connection is the most e ective ways to change peoples

attitudes about driving under the in uence of alcohol and drugs.

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The Jake Schepps Quintet, a string band/classical fusion group, played a concert at New Market Square June 11, the second of four Twilight Thursdays concerts sponsored by ArtsAMaize. Twilight Thursdays will conclude July 2 with an American band playing Sousa marches from 7:30 to 9:15 p.m. Sponsored by Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission and National Endowment for the Arts grants, ArtsAMaize is a joint project of Chamber Music at the Barn, the city of Maize, New Market Square and other sponsors. Visit cmatb.org/page2.html for more information.

TOP: From left, Ryan Drickey, Jake Schepps, Eric Thorin, Ross Mar-tin and Matt Flinner make up the membership of the Jake Schepps Quintet. The quintet used traditional string band instrumentation but played newly commissioned, through-composed classical scores, to interesting effect.

RIGHT: Wichita artist duo Linnebur & Miller work on their string art installation. The pair dressed as spiders and wove a web around dis-carded furniture, which they painted black.

P h o t o s b y s a m J a c k

LEFT: From left, Gary McGee, Viva McGee, Terry Ward and Shari Boehlke prepared to enjoy the Jake Schepps Quintet in concert at New Market Square.

MIDDLE: Anne and Lin Medlin enjoyed a picnic during the ArtsAMaize concert.

RIGHT: Local artist Mike Miller installs one of his wind-driven dynamic sculptures.

The Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission (KCAIC) has announced that it has awarded 36 grants totaling nearly $340,000. Several Wichita institu-tions were among the award winners.

The grants were awarded through the Strategic Investment and Arts Integration programs, as well as the Creative Economy Project Support Program. Grantees were selected based on applications submitted through the November and February grant periods. Successful applications from the June grant period will be announced later.

KCAIC programs are designed to promote partnerships, enhance com-munity and economic development, encourage risk and innovation, maxi-mize statewide impact and highlight the role the arts play in all areas of com-munity life. Grantees are selected by the KCAIC through an application and review process.

The Arts Integration Program (AIP) grants support the role the arts play in all levels of education, community service and workforce development.

This program provides funding for ed-ucational institutions, arts organizations and community service non-profits to use the arts to increase student success, foster creative thinking, develop critical job skills and enhance community development.

The Strategic Investment Program (SIP) recognizes the important role individual artists and creative organiza-tions play in building and sustaining cul-tural and economic vibrancy in Kansas. By funding a variety of professional and organizational development opportuni-ties that impact cultural programming, these grants support initiatives that use the arts to enhance community vitali-ty, revitalize neighborhoods, generate local business, create and preserve job opportunities and impact tourism.

The Creative Economy Project Support program encourages dynamic partnerships among cultural, business and public sectors to help communities address cultural and economic devel-opment goals through a wide variety of creative placemaking initiatives. This

highly competitive program leverages the creative assets intrinsic in Kansas communities to stimulate the local economy, strengthen the role of arts and culture, promote regional identity and enhance the quality of life for its citizens.

Award winners include: Chamber Music at the Barn, Maize,

$5,000. Chamber Music at the Barn is hosting a four day residency with com-poser and music commentator Robert Kapilow that will include three public performances; daily performances for 60 string students attending a 60-day summer program for low-income Afri-can American youth and for 80 Bows at The Barn youth studying strings; and two performances for at-risk youth in conjunction with the Wichita Public Library summer program.

Opera Kansas, Wichita, $2,000, Opera Kansas will purchase profes-sional sound and audio equipment to enhance its ability to stage outdoor productions.

Orpheum Performing Arts Cen-

ter, Wichita, $5,000. The Orpheum Performing Arts Center will create and produce stock video footage to inform and educate community arts groups, senior citizen groups, schools, professional organizations and other non-profit organizations about the Theatres history, programs, service offerings and vision for the future, as well as to increase usage of the venue by underserved communities and make stock video footage available to other organizations for program marketing and development.

Tallgrass Film Association, Wichita, $5,000. Tallgrass Film Association will expand and enhance its educational programming, including a summer film school lecture series, Indies at the Or-pheum and Cinema Salon community and post-screening discussion groups, Sack Lunch Cinema educational screen-ing, and increased interaction between visiting and Kansas filmmakers.

Wichita Festivals, Wichita, $5,000.

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We found plenty of WestSiders enjoying the Wichita River Festival in early June.TOP: Natasha Todd and her son Ethan, 7, and daughter Addison, 4, enjoy a kayak ride

on the Arkansas River on the last day of the 2015 Wichita River Festival.FAR LEFT: Mick Wilson starts chowing down during the funnel cake eating contest. It

didnt take long for him to decide he had bitten off more than he could chew.LEFT: WestSider Katy Aycock, a student at Bishop Carroll High School, was one of this

years Prairie Schoonermates, who assisted Admiral Windwagon Smith.BOTTOM LEFT: Ethan Hall tries to gain his balance inside one of the giant platic balls

that were floating in wading pools.BELOW: WestSider Mike Greene also known this year as Admiral WIndwagon Smith

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Through July 18 Courgar: The Musical, at Roxys Downtown A Cab-eret. Tickets $40 for dinner and show, $28 for show only. Call 316-265-4400 to reserve your tickets.

Through July 18 Anchorman of Steel, at Mosley Street Melodrama. Written by Carol Hughes and direct-ed by Cindy Summers. Also featuring Totally Rad musical comedy revue. Starring: Craig Green, Dylan Lewis, Bri-ley Meek, Jenny Mitchell, Megan Parsley and Kyle Vespestad. Tickets $28, $18 for show only. Call 316-263-0222.

July 2 Arts AMaize community concert at New Market Square. The last of four performance-based mini-fes-tivals designed to activate the commu-nity along and near its Maize corridor, Maize Road. Featuring an Ameri-can-Sousa band on July 2. Concert is free, bring blankets or chairs. Event will feature interactive artist installations by Mike Miller, Marc Durfee and Linenn-bur & Miller. Event runs 7:30-9:15 p.m. Arts AMaize is sponsored in part by the Kansas Creative Arts Industries and the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with New Market Square, Chamber Music at the Barn and the city of Maize.

July 8-12 Billy Elliott The Mu-sical, Music Theatre of Wichita. An accidental visit to a ballet class sets in motion a life-changing experience for a small boy in a British mining town. Winner of 10 Tony Awards. Tickets $26-$64. Visit www.mtwichita.org.

July 9 Ulrich Museums Art For Your Ears out summer concert fea-turing Nikki Moddelmog and Shane Marler with Dennis Hardin. Moddelm-og is a locally-grown singer and song-writer. She takes the stage with Marler and Hardin to perform soulful melodies and their unique blend of jazz-infused folk songs. Other concerts in the series include Doug MacLeo on Aug. 6 and The Calamity Cubes! on Sept. 1.

July 9-11 Chamber Music at the Barn, Concert Two featuring The Julian Lange Trio, an improvising ensemble featuring electric guitar, acoustic bass and drums. Tickets $12-$47. Visit www.cmatb.org.

July 16-18 Chamber Music at the Barn, Concert Three featuring Rob Kapilow from National Public Radios What Makes it Great? Kapilow will explore and share insight into the bril-liance of the String Quarter in F Major by Antonin Dvorak. The show features Annie Chalex Boyle on violin, Evgeny Zonnikov on violin, Catherin Consiglio on viola and Emmanuel Lopez on cello. Tickets $12-$47. Visit www.cmatb.org.

July 18 Wichita Grand Operas Opera on the Lake, 8 p.m. at Brad-ley Fair. This years production is A Midsummer Night in the South Pa-ci c. Bring a blanket or a lawn chair,

Performing Arts Calendar

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Summer is upon us, and its time to enhance the outside living spaces of your home. Perhaps that means ne tuning your current outdoor furniture selections or even starting fresh with a new vision for your deck. Just like furniture inside your home, outdoor furnishings set the mood for your porch or deck. Selecting the right outdoor furniture is just as important as indoor furniture, because it too should last for many years. There are many choices that can compliment most any decor style.

The type of outdoor furniture you select will be determined mainly by your decor style and budget. There are many different types of materials and levels of sophistication available in the marketplace. Outdoor furniture has come a long way in terms of both de-sign and engineering. There will always be the disposable looking outdoor furniture, but the trend is towards outdoor furniture that could easily translate into indoor furniture. If you plan to really take advantage of your outdoor space, it is probably worth the investment into furniture that will look good and feel good for many years.

At the lower end is plastic and plas-tic resin products. They tend to be the least expensive and may be dif cult to keep new looking. On the other hand, they tend to be the most weather resistant.

In all fairness, some plastic resin fur-niture is better than others. Some all weather wicker furniture looks pretty good. It can withstand the elements better than real wicker in some cases. It is also woven around an aluminum frame for added durability.

Polywood is a trade name for outdoor furniture that looks like painted wood (typically white), but is not. Adirondack tables and chairs and similar style tables are the most popular applications.On the other side of the spectrum is wrought iron. It is very durable but also very heavy. It is designed to be station-ary and is not practical for those who like to move the furniture around the yard a lot. Wrought iron furniture is subject to rust and must be maintained by painting unless it is powder coated. Powder coating is thicker than paint which makes it weather better and

makes it more scratch resistant. There is a wide range of prices for wrought iron, depending on its origin and level of craftsmanship.

Aluminum outdoor furniture can be classi ed into two distinct categories: Aluminum tubing and cast aluminum. Both types are rust resistant, especially when powder coated. Aluminum tube furniture is relatively lightweight and fairly durable, with little mainte-nance. Its main drawback is that it looks like aluminum tube furniture.

One of the most popular materials in outdoor furniture is cast aluminum. Cast aluminum furniture is creat-ed by aluminum being poured into molds. Through this process, more intricate designs can be achieved. Cast aluminum is lightweight (compared to comparable looking wrought iron), durable, and more sophisticated in its design details. It is also more expensive than tube aluminum furniture.

Wood outdoor furniture is available in many species. Cedar is a nice option for a deck as well as the furniture on top of it. Cedar resists insects, de-cay and weather. Mahogany is a tight grained wood that is both elegant and durable. Teak is a wood of choice for long term beauty. It is a very durable wood that can be treated with teak oil to maintain a honey color or left to age gracefully and become a silvery-gray color. Wood outdoor furniture may re-quire a little more maintenance than the plastics or metals but evokes a warm earthy feel in an outdoor setting.There are many options for outdoor furniture. Sometimes these materials are combined to give you the best of both worlds as well as providing additional interest in your furniture arrangement.

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Annual concert draws thousandsThe annual Symphony in the Flint Hills drew several thousand people to the Tall-

grass Prairie National Preserve just outside of Strong City on June 13. The annual concert has been held in several locations, including last year in But-

ler County and in 2013 at Fort Riley. The Kansas City Symphony performs each year, and this years concert the 10th annual edition also featured the music of Lyle Lovett, a Grammy Award-winning country music singer-songwriter and actor. Lovett also performed at the fifth Symphony in the Flint Hills.

The event featured informational sessions on tallgrass prairies around the world and other environmental topics, rides in covered wagons similar to those used to settle this area in the mid- to late-1800s, an instrument petting zoo that let chil-dren and adults sample musical instruments, and lots of music.

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TOP: A cowboy rides through the prairie grass near Strong City, helping guide cov-ered wagon rides. ABOVE: Dignitaries on hand included retired Sen. Nancy Landon

Kassebaum Baker, a long-time WestSider who started her career on the Maize School Board. RIGHT: Lyle Lovett headlined this years concert.

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nd a seat around the lake at Bradley Fair, and take in the show, followed by a reworks display. General admission to Opera on the Lake is free.

The program includes arias and scenes from WGOs three productions this season: Puccinis Turandot, Verdis Don Carlo and The Grand Duchess by Jacques Offenbach. Metropolitan Opera star William Powers will lead the performance, along with audience favor-ites baritone Michael Nansel and tenor Dustin Peterson. Reserved seats includ-ing a treat from Cocoa Dolce are $50. A VIP dinner including a three-course meal by Newport Grill, is available for

$150. VIP tables with eight seats are $1,000. To make reservations, call the WGO box of ce at 316-262-8054 or visit www.SelectASeat.com.

July 22-26 Big Fish, Music Theatre of Wichita. Edward Bloom has spun many colorful tales about his astonishing escapades. But are any of them true? Tickets $26-$64. Visit www.mtwichita.org.

July 23-Sept. 12 Mom and Pops Cockroach Casino or Quick, Run, Its a Raid, Mosley Street Melodrama. Written by Tom Frye. Tickets $28, $18 for show only. Call 316-263-0222.

July 31-Sept. 12 Pageant, at Roxys Downtown A Cabaret. Tickets $40 for dinner and show, $28 for show only. Call 316-265-4400 to reserve your tickets.

ArtsContinued from Page 7

Whatever furniture you have, you will want to dress it up with fabrics. This will also provide additional comfort and a wow factor to your outdoor living space. Cushion and pillow outdoor fab-rics are available in almost any pattern and color you can imagine.

Sunbrella is the most widely recog-nized name in outdoor fabric, but there are also many others. They are easy to care for and make a big fashion state-ment on your back porch.

Outdoor rugs are not just the at, woven, y-away-in-the-wind varieties. Many rugs are now available in hand tufted and hand hooked fabrics that add interest with color, texture and design. They are marketed as indoor/outdoor rugs, most made with a polyacrylic pile. They are UV stabi-lized to retard fading, mildew resistant and easy to clean just like the outdoor fabrics for cushions.

And dont forget the accessories; Outdoor lighting, a re pit and dec-orative planters will add life to your outdoor furniture and provide for an overall outdoor decor statement. As an added bonus, you will probably spend more time outside enjoying it!

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The Sedgwick County Zoological So-ciety has announced completion of its $10.6 million capital campaign for the construction of the new Elephants of the Zambezi River Valley exhibit.

This is an historic day for our com-munity, said Scott Ochs, president of the Sedgwick County Zoological Society. This community came together and said they were for elephants and they wanted to see elephants remain at our Zoo. The passion and commitment of our friends and donors is truly humbling.

The announcement was made in early June.

Nearly 700 donors contributed to

Elephants of the Zambezi River Valley, with gifts ranging from a single dollar up to $1 million.

Elephants of the Zambezi River Valley is the largest construction proj-ect that the zoo has taken on. When completed, it will be the third-largest elephant habitat in the country. The new home for elephants will encompass a sprawling ve acres of outdoor space, plus an 18,000 square foot indoor hold-ing facility to provide room and care for the elephants.

The Elephants of the Zambezi River Valley is planned to open on Memorial Day weekend of 2016.

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The trauma experienced by DUI vic-tims does not end with the conclusion of court proceedings, so the center also offers support groups and opportuni-ties for offenders and victims to meet.

When people are convicted through the courts for DUI, we have an edu-cation program that they are referred to, said Krahl. Its a component of their consequences. Its a one-on-one interaction between offenders and victims, where they have an opportunity to understand how DUI crime affects victims and the community overall. We try to change their attitudes and ideas about impaired driving, to prevent them from driving impaired again.

Creating literal face-to-face encoun-ters is an important part of the centers approach to offender education. Several walls are covered with photos of the faces of victims, including a large wall in the room used for classes and sup-port groups. When I visited, a portrait of John Blaufuss had been removed from the wall and placed on the dais at the front of the room, left out after a presentation the previous day.

His daughter, Janell Blaufuss, is a board member, and she tells the story of how her dad was killed by an im-paired driver while jogging one morn-ing before work, said Krahl. She cries when she tells the story of her dad, but she tells the story to hopefully make sure no one else has to know what that feels like.

About 3,500 offenders attend pro-grams at the DUI Impact Center each year, Krahl said, mostly as the result of court orders. Reducing that number, and with it the number of DUI victims, is the goal of the centers communi-ty outreach efforts, including poster competitions, school presentations and other events.

I speak to lots of kids, and kids unanimously tell me that they drink to t in, said Krahl. They drink because they want to be accepted. Everyone else is doing it, and they want to be accept-ed and cool. Adults do it from conve-nience; theyve done it a lot of times, so they think theyre okay.

Statistics tell us that adults drive

under the in uence and make it home safely a lot. Its only when theres that fatality or serious injury or crash when it comes to the forefront, when people say, Wow, that could have been me. We try to bring that to the forefront of peoples minds, let them know that just because it hasnt happened to you doesnt mean that you wont be next.

Changing the hearts and minds of potential DUI offenders, while import-ant, is not enough, according to Krahl. Alcohol impairs judgment and reduces inhibition, meaning that intoxicated peo-ple are less likely to resist an impulse to grab their keys. Sober or less intoxicated people need to be prepared to enforce a social norm of not driving drunk.

Something like 81 percent of adults have been with someone who left an event under the in uence, and did nothing to stop it, said Krahl. Only 19 percent did something about it. We as a society have to make it a taboo. Fifty years ago, smoking wasnt a taboo, and now, to a greater extent, it is. Be-fore, it was cool, and now it isnt. That has to happen with drinking. Everyone has to look around and say, Youre not leaving like this. When people start to do that, people will stop driving under the in uence.

Krahl emphasized that the Kansas DUI Impact Center is not an anti-al-cohol agency. They are against illegal and dangerous behavior, not the legal leisure activities of adults. She does not want anyone to tune out the agencys message based on a mistaken impres-sion.

For social, party-going kinds of drinking people, their rst thought is, Oh no, that agency is not for me. We try to break the ice there by informing the general public that were not prohi-bitionist. Were simply trying to edu-cate the community that they should celebrate responsibly and have a plan in advance of their celebration. Once we get past that misconception, people are very open to planning ahead and nd-ing ways to drive sober, said Krahl.

Consistent with a pro-responsibility approach, the center recently began its Sober Drivers Program, providing safe rides home to attendees of corporate events.

For more information on the Kansas DUI Impact Center and its services, visit duivictimcenter.com or call 316-262-1673.

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The Bishop Carroll Lady Eagles softball team has racked up a huge list of honors over the last few years.

Dating back to 2011, the Lady Eagles have won five straight State softball championships in Kansas, are currently on a 57-game winning streak that dates back to the spring of 2013 and have sent several players on to the colle-giate softball ranks.

However, Bishop Carroll recently received what might be its biggest honor of all. Max-Preps named the Lady Eagles as national champions in softball following a 25-0 season that featured 19 wins by the 10-run rule.

USA Today also had Bishop Carroll in the top slot of its final softball poll.

It still is a very strange feeling to be recog-nized as national champions, Bishop Carroll coach Steve Harshberger said. You always want something like this to happen but when it does, its Wow, we really won this! Its won-derful for BC and its such an honor for our program. We had some camps the past couple of weeks and got to use it as motivation in a few moments.

Lady Eagles catcher Lauren Buchanan, who is headed to Colorado State and the Division I Mountain West Conference next season, is excited about the national title.

I really think that this past season was just awesome, Buchanan said. It was great to have a senior year that was this successful. It was great to have this kind of team chemistry. I think the national championship is a culmi-

nation of the last five years. The last few years, weve got notoriety because we were successful but this year, they realized this team from Kansas was the real deal.

As Buchanan said, the Lady Eagles have dominated Kansas high school softball over the last five seasons. Their last loss came in the spring of 2013, just before the regional tour-nament. And the last time that the Lady Eagles did failed to win a State title was 2010.

I think the biggest part of the success is we have softball players, Harshberger said. They may go out for other sports, but softball is their passion and they play it on competitive teams in the summer. This is what they want to do in college and they work hard at it.

Harshberger credits a steady focus for his teams successes over the last five seasons.

They are the champions

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Our goal was to improve and play our game every time out, Harshberger said. We dont talk about our streak or ranking, or even winning State again. My assistants Crissy Peppard and Ka-tie Traffas and I try to keep everyone working on doing things right and then get better doing it. We keep them ac-countable and they respond with great effort.

Harshberger also credits a strong team chemistry for the teams successes.

The players want to play well and are on the same wavelength on im-proving all the time, Harshberger said. They dont look at us like, Youve got to be kidding? They see what they could do and work to get there. The

wins by such a large margin are because we stress execution on what we do. We dont go through the motions, or they get called on it.

Last but not least, the successes of the softball team including the national championship re ect well on Bishop Carroll Catholic High School as a whole.

Honestly, the best decision of my life was going to Bishop Carroll, and not just because of softball I also think its a great place to go to high school in general, Buchanan said. I think us getting the national champi-onship shows that we have not just a great softball program, but also a great school in general.

The Bishop Carroll Golden Eagles pose with their Class 5A State championship trophy, won on the WestSide at Twin Rivers Youth Club. Contributed photos

The Golden Eagles celebrate their State championship. Two di erent national organizations named them the best team in the country.

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A review from the San Francisco Chronicle, printed in the Wichita Eagle, gave Dope 3-1/2 stars, and Enter-tainment Weekly graded it B, so I was a little grati ed to hear at the theater that word of mouth was not favorable, at least in Wichita, because I didnt nd it living up to its notices at all.

The Chronicle felt that everything about it feels real, but before it ended, I found myself puzzled over what was supposed to be really happening and what things were going on in the heros mind, either in terms of what he wanted or what he feared. Parts seemed to represent things that could very well happen, or that might have happened in the past.

All this confusion seemed an odd development in a movie that started out with a narrator who supposedly knew, at least, how things turned out.

It seemed odd and unrealistic that the narrator shortly disappeared and never returned. I am not going to speculate about endings, because your guess will be as good as mine, especially because I hope you will be able to understand the dialogue better than I could. It consists largely of unfamiliar slang and is too often murmured con dentially, if not actually whispered.

The situation is clear enough, and highly promising. A young black man in Inglewood, a section of L.A., discovers a cache of heroin in his backpack after a police raid on a restaurant. He doesnt know where it came from, so he cant give it back, though it soon becomes evident that more than one drug dealer wants to get it from him.

Under the circumstances, you would think that the last thing he would do is sell it himself, but circumstances soon make it clear that he cant give it to anybody without putting his life on the line. So he sets out to learn the drug trade enough to get ride of his stash.

He is up on the drug world enough to nd somebody who can help him do that. And from that point on, as Entertainment Weekly complains, the wheels start to buckle as (writer/direc-tor Ricky Famuyiwa) tries to pile on too many ridiculous detours and preposter-ous characters.

I suspect the problem is an effort to cover too many facets of the drug scene. We are given highly incomplete

instructions on how to prepare heroin for the market, and we see the hero and his two close buddies working their product up as a science project in the high school lab, a point at which I began to suspect that we were not being limited to what really happened. You have a variety of possible out-comes from there on, though the real conclusion seems fairly clear to me, and satisfactory, if you take all this to be a parody of a Horatio Alger rags-to-rich-es story with a comic moral ending.

There are a number of problems with the reviews I read that make me won-der whether the reviewers understood Dope any better than I did. The Chronicle seemed to take the whole thing pretty seriously (although both re-viewers found it funnier than I did, and so did the audience I saw it with). But the sense of urgency and anxiety and possible danger it emphasized seemed to me to peter out about midway, as things skewed in the direction of farce. The episodes of someone vomiting in somebodys face, and later urinating in the street and tripping and falling in her own puddle, may be intended to ward off complaints about prettifying the drug trade, and after the hilarity of Bridesmaids, we have to suppose that these things are funny, though the au-dience around me did not nd them so. But both reviews sensed a shift in tone between the rst part of Dope and the last, and neither made any comment on the ending at all.

Still, its hard to resist Dope com-pletely. It certainly has some hilarious scenes, and if all the party/dance sequences seem too much alike, they certainly have verve and sparkle. One would like to go to parties like that.

Characters are vivid and original,

Dope is an overated experienceMovie Review

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The childhood sequence of Citizen Kane looks like one of the simplest sequences of all, but every frame of it is carefully calculated. Whatever one makes of the revelation that Rosebud was Kanes sled, it has to emphasize the importance of his childhood, and this is the only scene we see of that. We may not have noticed the snow globe with a tiny house that was smashed when Kane lost hold of it at the moment of his death, in the prologue before the newsreel even began. We may not notice much later in the movie when it turns up in the nursery-like apartment of the second Mrs. Kane, whom Kane encoun-tered while on the way to visit his dead mothers old property, on the way to the warehouse in search of my youth.

But the picture of Kane and his mother and signi cantly, no father reappears among the rubbish in the overview of the jumble in Xanadus basement after Kanes death, and Kanes best friend suggests that he did love his mother in his own way. It is worth re-calling that Kane tried to make an opera singer of his second wife because her mother had wanted her to be one. And one might notice that the white moun-tains of Kanes childhood are grimly suggested by the white mountain palace he made for himself and died in, after all the innocence and purity of the real mountains had been lost.

It is signi cant that the Thatcher Library that morphs into the white mountain is a huge mausoleum akin to Xanadu. There is a repeated leitmotif of high-ceilinged, cold rooms (Kanes loss of journalistic power occurs in a room so lofty that when Kane, for no particular reason, walks to the back wall, we see that the bottom sill of the window is over his head, comparable to the top of the replace Kane walks into in Xanadu) representing the Big World of power and wealth, compared to the low-ceilinged rooms like Susans bed-room and work places like the Inquir-er newspaper, and Kanes childhood home.

The screen is blank white, with a little dot of a boy playing with his sled. The camera pulls back, through a window (not as easy as it looks with 1941s big cameras), and we are looking out at the boy from a building, as if we were spy-ing from cover. Suddenly, an ominous

black silhouette appears on the left side of the window, looming over the gure of the boy. Another black shadow short-ly appears on the right. Film noir and old melodramas tell us how to interpret these villains and menaces, surely. But in fact, the left gure is the boys mother and the right one is his guardian, over to whom his mother is turning him for a better life than she can offer. One must not judge too quickly.

But our rst impression was, ironical-ly, right. These two will turn out to be the destroyers of Kane, according to one very plausible interpretation of the movie. At the least, they are the ones who take him away from Rosebud and deprive him of any chance for a happy childhood. The fact that the mother loves him and is doing the best she can presages Kanes relationship with his second wife, the childlike bride who is reduced to a screeching harridan when Kane, who may love her, is clearly trying to carry out her mothers dream for her.

The boy is playing Civil War, shout-ing The Union forever! Jefferson and Jackson! as the unity of his childhood is being destroyed. He throws a snow-ball at the words Mrs. Kanes Boarding House, emphasizing the Mrs. as if to stress the absence of a father from here on, not that what little we see of Kanes father suggests he was worth much. But he at least made an effort to adapt his speech and manner to a childs world, which neither the mother nor the guardian could ever think of doing.

The camera cuts to an angle from outside, and we see the mother and the guardian with their proper and fash-ionable formal clothes and the moth-ers hair xed in a seamless bun, the guardian almost reduced to an abstract form with his buttoned overcoat and

On and on with Citizen Kane, Part 2Cinema Scene

Jim Erickson

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For years, the homeowners had lived with a small kitchen space that was made even more awkward by a peninsula that jutted into the room and a set of upper cabinets that cut off the kitchen from the small adjacent dining room.

It was a very cramped kitchen for 26 years, the homeowners said with a laugh. We loved our home, but we didnt get to design anything.

The resulting kitchen, while still small, has a much larger feel to it. Now, the kitchen area with all new

cabinets (including the pantry that the homeowners wanted) flows directly into the dining room space. New dining room furniture completed the transfor-mation, and copper accents tie everything together.

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WestSide Story People and PlacesThree WestSiders will take to the

field on July 25 to participate in the 42nd annual Kansas Shrine Bowl Game. The game, to be played at Fort Hays State University, features two all-star teams of Kansas high school graduates. Colton Howell of Bishop Carroll, Brendan Johnson of Wichita Northwest and Evan Pierce of Maize South will play for the West squad. The Kansas Shrine Bowl is a non-prof-it charity raising funds for the Shriners Hospitals for Children. This months event feature two days of activities, including a parade. Other high school youth will take part in a cross country race and participate in cheerleading and the Kansas Masonic Band. Those participants have not been announced yet.

Students under the direction of Karrie Simpson Voth, professor of art and design at Fort Hays State University, completed a successful month by earning scholarships from the prestigious Leo Burnett Company, Chicago. Representatives from Leo Burnett visited campus recently to re-view portfolios from 35 graphic design students. Leo Burnett awarded $5,000 in scholarships for FHSU students, with a matching amount going to the graphic design program. Fort Hays State is one of only three universities or colleges in the country that is part of the Leo Burnett scholarship pro-gram.

Two WestSiders were scholarship winners. Jill Herbert and Ryan Hop-kins, both juniors, each won a Leo Burnett Award for Outstanding Project, worth $150.

WestSider Lamont Anderson was recently selected for inclusion in the Wichita Business Journals 40 Under 40 Class of 2015. Anderson works in business development for Capps Man-ufacturing, ALA Enterprises. He is a board member with the nonprofit Com-munity Operations Recovery Empow-erment, Inc., and earned degrees from Friends University in 2012 and 2014.

More than 450 young men from across the State of Kansas, all of

whom will enter their senior year of high school this fall, participated in the 2015 session of the American Legion Boys State of Kansas Leadership Academy. The event, in its 78th year, was held May 31 through June 6 at Kansas State University in Manhat-tan. Following are the WestSiders who attended, along with their school and position at Boys State: Jacob Schlittenhardt of Maize, Home School, Secretary; Charley Edgar, Wichita, East High, Department of Health and Environment; Jordan Humphrey, Wichita, Goddard High, Attorney General; Colin McCue, Wichita, Eisen-hower High, MacArthur County State Representative; Will Mercer, Wichita, Maize High, Marshall County State Senator; Nick Springer, Wichita, Maize High, City of Crum city official; Derek Thurson, Wichita, Northwest High, Pershing County State Represen-tative; Sage Williams, Wichita, East High, King County district court judge; Collin Dwornicki, Wichita, Eisenhower High; Highway Patrol; Aaron Kamke, Wichita, Eisenhower High, Depart-ment of Transportation; Nathan Lip-inski, Wichita, Bishop Carroll, Heritage Foundation Political Action Committee; Joshua Nichols, Wichita, home school, Supreme Court justice; and Nate Obr, Wichita, Eisenhower High, Powell County state representative.

Raphael Aragon of Wichita, a grad-uate of Goddard High School majoring in instrumental music performance, has been named to the deans list for the fall semester 2014 at Baldwin Wal-lace University. Students who receive at least a 3.6 GPA for seven or more graded hours in a single semester are named to the deans list. Aragon was added to the Deans List announced in January after a records review.

Top scholars at Southwestern Col-lege in Winfield and at Southwestern College Professional Studies have been announced with the release of the deans honor roll for the spring 2015 semester. Full-time students who earned grade point averages of at least 3.70 (4.0 equals an A) were el-igible for the honor. WestSiders on the

deans honor roll include Logan Bevis, Kayla Demel, Lindsey Graber, Jordyn Miller, Sydney Shields and Isa Whitley.

Concordia University, Nebraska named 230 students to its honors list for the spring 2015 semester. The list of students includes Molly Goltl, a sophomore from West Wichita. The top 25 percent of all undergraduate students who complete at least 12 credit hours qualify for the honors list.

The following students are among approximately 830 Bob Jones Univer-sity students named to the Deans List for academic achievement during the Spring 2015 semester. To qualify for the Deans List, students must earn a 3.00-3.74 GPA. WestSiders earning honors include Olivia Goertz, a junior piano pedagogy major, and Marcus Heffernan, a senior bible major.

Air Force Airman Nicholas J. Horn-back graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Anto-nio-Lackland, San Antonio. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills. Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force. Hornback is the son of Jane and John Hornback and grandson of Terry Hornback of Wichita, Kan. He is also the brother of Andrew Hornback and Josh Hornback. The airman graduated in 2013 from Bishop Carroll Catholic High School.

WestSider McKenna Poynter earned a spot on Drury Universitys deans list. Students must earn a grade point average of 3.6 or great while carrying 12 or more semester hours. Poynter, of Maize, was named to the spring 2015 deans list.

Jonathan Michael Trilli graduated from Midwestern State University in May 2015. Midwestern State Uni-versity had 610 undergraduate and

graduate students who were awarded degrees in May 2015. Trilli earned a master of education degree.

Peder Bremer Simon was named to the Deans List at William Jewell College for the 2015 spring semester. Simon was a junior music theory and composition major during the spring semester at the college located in Liberty, Mo. To qualify for the Deans List, a student must earn at least a 3.5 grade point average while carrying 14 or more semester hours.

Rockhurst University awarded approximately 660 degrees at its 95th annual commencement cere-mony Saturday, May 16, at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo. Two WestSiders earned degrees: Emily Anne Fasbender of Goddard, bachelor of science in exercise and sports sci-ence, and Audrey Aileen Hall, bach-elor of science in business adminis-tration. Rockhurst University is one of 28 Catholic, Jesuit universities in the United States.

Benedictine College has named two WestSiders to the presidents list for the spring 2015 semester. To achieve the presidents list, students must car-ry a minimum of 12 credit hours and have a perfect 4.0 grade point aver-age. Of the 1,854 students on campus for the 2014-2015 academic year, only 101 made the Presidents List for this semester. The students are Evan Bradfield and Melanie Tidball, both of Wichita.

Jessica Sturm of West Wichita is a recent graduate of Northern Illinois University. Sturm graduated with a bachelor of arts degree.

More than 7,560 Iowa State Uni-versity undergraduates have been recognized for outstanding academic achievement by being named to the 2015 spring semester deans list. Stu-dents named to the deans list must have earned a grade-point average of at least 3.50 on a 4.00 scale while

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we see that Mrs. Kanes boarding house is not such as we would have expected in Colorados gold-mining country. Ev-erything is spic-and-span and in perfect order. Even the book is lying in perfect parallel with the edge of the table. And the piano is a baby grand, though the little room could better accommodate an upright.

The camera switches back to behind the mother as she turns, and moves back in front of her as she moves back

to the desk, followed by the guardian. We see the father, almost ridiculously sloppy, like a movie alcoholic, as he protests the loss of his son, though not from the noblest of motives. The mother and guardian seat themselves at the desk, and as the father gives up his protest, the camera shifts slightly and he disappears from the screen entirely.

This is all getting ridiculously long, but its necessary to show how carefully everything in Citizen Kane is used to emphasize the theme. I am leaving out a lot of details. You wouldnt believe how long it took my movie appreciation classes to get this far.

To be continued, I fear almost indef-initely.

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This months column is a blatant plug for three things: Family reunions, Tang-anyika Wildlife Park, and Facebook.

Yes, Ill pull it all together in the next few paragraphs.

Ive been blessed with a really great extended family, and a few years ago we made a commitment to start having an-nual family reunions. A big part of the credit goes out to my Aunt Erma, the last matriarch of the Kimle family, out of which my mothers family tree grew.

Last year in June as we closed out the 2014 reunion, my Aunt Erma pulled me in for a hug, and then told me shed love to see the next family reunion happen at Tanganyika Wildlife Park in Goddard. She grinned when she said it, but I knew she was serious.

And I also knew she was suggesting I take the torch and run with it.

Im here to happily report that this past month with some help from my cousin Denise in nearby Hutchinson we held an awesome Kimle Family Reunion at Tanganyika Wildlife Park. Guests rolled in from across Kansas, as well as Nebraska and Missouri, and a great time was had by all.

I started preparations a few months ago with my cousins help. Shes Aunt Ermas youngest child, and had the best access to her moms good, old-fash-ioned address book.

Yep. We used snail mail.Invitations and a cover letter went

out, plans were detailed, and reserva-tions were requested. In the meantime, I worked with the awesome staff at

Tanganyika to plan our event.Many of our family members had

never been to Tanganyika. After a wonderful potluck lunch in one of the facilitys meeting rooms, we were able to unfold a truly unique reunion experi-ence for our family.

And what about Facebook, you ask? As our day came to an end, many of us were checking to see who was on Face-book and who wasnt, since some of us were already talking about posting pic-tures and spreading some techno love.

Since then, my Facebook friends list has expanded with family members, and it will be great to stay connected with them. Best of all, my brother and his wife went home, set up a Facebook page and sent me a friend request.

It means a lot that my family has made a commitment to stay connected through family reunions, and this one was extra-special thanks to Tanganyika Wildlife Park. And thanks to Facebook something I never thought Id say many of us will stay even more con-nected until next years get-together.

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The route of ultramarathon bicycle event Race Across America went through the WestSide June 19. Professional cyclist Christoph Strasser, pictured making the turn north at 21st Street North and 167th Street West, won the coast-to-coast race the past two years, breaking records both times. In 2014, he crossed the country in 7

days, 15 hours and 56 minutes. This year, Strosser abandoned the race 1,680 miles in, ailing due to a lung infection. Elite women followed the male leaders through the

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Wichita Festivals collaborated with several Wichita-area non-pro t organi-zations to bring acclaimed puppeteer and artist Wayne White to Wichita for a 10-day residency, during which he pre-sented lectures, provided a permanent exhibition of his work and conducted workshops with local artists, students and community members to build pup-pets for the Riverfest Sundown Parade.

Wichita Arts Council, Inc., Wichita,

$60,000. Partners: City of Wichita, Wichita Downtown Development, Fisch Bowl, Inc., El Dorado Architects, Finn Lofts, Fiber Studio, Diver Studio. This project will enliven and invigorate Commerce Street by developing interactive and artistic placemak-ing culminating in the creation of three to ve durable art installations incorporating light as a primary element of design.

The new installations and the open studio space will welcome visitors to explore this unique arts district. The proj-ect partners will strengthen their of cial collaboration to rmly solidify Commerce Street, a mixed-use warehouse area just south of downtown, as Commerce Street Arts District.

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Aldersgate United Methodist Church - 7901 W. 21st St. N. (west of Ridge Rd.), (316) 722-8504, www.aldersgatechurch.org. Sunday morning services at 8:15 a.m. (traditional), 9:30 a.m. (blended), and 11 a.m. (traditional). Wednesday night activities. Nursery available for all services. Sunday school each week at 8:15 a.m. for adults and at 9:30 a.m. for all age groups. Youth group and youth worship on Sunday evenings. Bible studies, childrens activities, and different fellowship events available throughout the year.

Asbury Church Administrative Offices - 2810 W. 15th St., Wichita (one block north of 13th on St. Paul) (316) 942-1491. Two locations across the Wichita Metro Area. Sunday Services: Central Campus 15th & St. Paul. Traditional Service at 8 a.m., a Praise Service at 9:15 a.m. and a Blended Service at 10:45 a.m. West Campus 119th & Pawnee. An Upbeat Praise Service suited for the whole family at 10:45 a.m. Visit www.asburychurch.org to learn more about Asburys many family-centered ministries. Asbury Counseling Center information can be found at www.AsburyCounselingCenter.com

Beacon Community Church - 810 N. Casado, Goddard; 794-2424; 10:45 a.m. Sunday Service; Sunday School at 9:25 a.m.

For HIS Glory Church 2901 W. Taft St., Wichita (316) 794-1170 Worship Sunday 11:00 a.m. ChurchForHISGlory@gmail.com Family integrated full Gospel church where all ages worship and study Gods word.

Goddard United Methodist Church 300 N. Cedar, Goddard; (316) 794-2207 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Worship Childrens church during both services Nursery Available 10 a.m. Sunday School Steve Morgan, Pastor Eric Wilson, Youth Pastor Childrens Pastor, Kassie Taylor

Good Shepherd Episcopal Church 8021 W. 21st St. N., Wichita; (316) 721-8096; Saturday 5:30 p.m. Spoken Worship; Sunday 8:45 a.m. Contemporary Worship; 11 a.m. Traditional Choral Worship; Church School - Children 9:50 a.m., Adults 10 a.m.; Childrens Chapel 8:45 & 11 a.m.

Harvest Community Church Worship at 8340 W. 21st in Wichita Sunday at 10:30 a.m.; Senior pastor Rev. Dr. Dave Henion; www.wichitaharvest.com.

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Heritage Baptist Church Corner of 135th St. & 13th St. N., Wichita; (316) 729-2700; Sunday School 9:45 a.m.; Morning Worship 10:45 a.m.; Evening Worship 6 p.m.; Wednesday Adult Bible Study/Prayer Time 7 p.m.; Wiseguys 3 yrs.6th grade 7 p.m.; Nursery provided at all services. Your neighborhood church just around the corner. Email: swede132@sbcglobal.net; Website: heritage4u.net.

Hope Christian Church Meeting 10:30 a.m. Sunday mornings, NEW LOCATION - 1330 E. Douglas. Worship is casual and encouraging. Online at www.hope4wichita.org and on Facebook. Pastor Mark McMahon. markm@hope4wichita.org. 316-648-0495.

West Heights UMC 745 N. Westlink Ave. (Just north of Central on Westlink); (316) 722-3805, Email: westheights@westheightsumc.org. Sunday services 8:15 and 10:30 a.m. (Traditional/Blended); Sunday school 9:15 a.m.; Wednesday meal (during school year) 5:30 p.m. fun classes and study for all ages; nondenominational preschool, host to the Shepherds Center of West Wichita providing dynamic activity for the Classic Generation, full childrens programming, and an active youth program challenging todays generation, website: www.westheightsumc.org.

Pathway Church Westlink Campus, Saturday at 5pm, Sunday at 9:30 & 11am Caf Campus, Sunday at 11am 2001 N Maize Rd (21st & Maize), Wichita 316-722-8020 Goddard Campus, Sunday at 9:30 & 11am 18800 W Kellogg, Goddard 316 550 6099 www.pathwaychurch.com Following Jesus/In Community/For Others. Trinity Reformed Church (RPCNA) Come glorify and enjoy God with us. 3340 W. Douglas Ave., Wichita, KS 67203 Sunday worship 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 11 a.m. Evening services 5 p.m. Pastor Adam King www.trinityrpcna.org 316-721-2722

Westlink Church of Christ 10025 W. Central, Wichita; (316) 722-1111; Sunday 9:30 a.m. Bible Classes, 10:30 a.m. Worship, 6 p.m. Devotional; Wednesday 6 p.m. Meal (during school year), 7 p.m. Bible Classes; Gary Richardson, Minister; Nick Miller, Youth Minister; Website: www.westlinkchurch.org.

Westwood Presbyterian Church 8007 W. Maple, Wichita; (316) 722-3753; Simply making disciples who walk with Jesus, grow to become like Jesus, and live for Jesus by loving others. Worship Sunday 9 a.m. with Praise Team, 10:30 a.m. with Choir; Fellowship and coffee between worship services; Sunday school for all ages 9 a.m. Nursery open 8:45-11:45 a.m.; www.westwoodpc.org.

carrying a minimum of 12 credit hours of graded course work. WestSider Kel-sy Reynaga, senior, was among the students honored. She is majoring in child, adult and family service.

The Wichita Symphony Society has announced that Dr. Mark Lay-cock has been appointed Conductor of the Wichita Youth Symphony, the advanced ensemble in the Wichita Symphony Youth Orchestras (WSYO) program. He succeeds Steve Luttrell, who retired from the position after over 30 years of service following the spring 2015 Youth Symphony perfor-mance. Dr. Laycock will begin his new role in August, 2015 when WSYO re-hearsals resume for the fall semester.

WestSider Anna Bohr was named to the spring 2015 deans list at Mount Mercy University. Students with a se-

mester grade point average of 3.60 or better, and who are graded for six or more semester hours, are eligible for inclusion on the Deans List.

Wichita Federal Credit Union award-ed a total of $8,000 in scholarships to local students. Eight students includ-ing two West Wichita students were awarded $1,000 each for post-second-ary education on Wednesday, June 17. Recipients are awarded based on grade point averages, extracurricular activities, community service, career goals, and a written essay. The West-Siders who earned scholarships are Saige Baalman, daughter of Gregory and Lisa Baalman, a 2015 graduate of Maize High School; and Megan Gerken, daughter of Troy and Jodi Gerken, a 2015 graduate of Bishop Carroll Catholic High School.

Lauren Amelia Hadley of Wichita has been named to the deans list at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for the spring semester of the 2014-15 academic year. Hadley, a sophomore art major, was named to the deans list

for the Hixon-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts.

Dayton Lillian Yarrow was among more than 3,100 Baylor University students who were named to the deans academic honor roll for the 2015 spring semester. To be named to the deans list, a student must be an undergraduate with a minimum grade-point average of 3.7, while enrolled in a minimum of 12 semester hours.

Nearly 700 students at Emporia State University were named to the honor roll for spring 2015. WestSide students on the honor roll include Tiffany Khounsombath, Victoria Har-mon, Taner Thurman, Mikala Sharlow, Michelle Berg, Megan Chamberlain, Nicole Evans, Kaitlynn Grube, Joseph Hamer, Madelyn Kohlman, Gabrielle Logan, Riann Mermis, Paula Vazquez, Samantha Beck, Sarah Johnson, Sta-ci Ens, Blake Pontius, Lauren Hunter and Regan Wright. To qualify for the semester honor roll, students must earn a minimum 3.80 semester grade point average in at least 12 graded hours.

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The Fourth of July and summer storms with thunder make this time of year frightening for some of our pets. Using medication can be helpful to calm pets, but other techniques may also be successful.

For years, I have used tranquilizers to calm frightened pets. Within 30 minutes after taking a pill most pets are calm, but new, safer drugs are now available. Drugs such as valium and some anti-anxiety medications can also be effec-tive to calm nervous pets.

A Thundershirt is a tight tting shirt that will calm some pets. It acts as a security blanket and relaxes 50 percent of the pets that wear it.

Playing loud, calming music may mask the sound of thunder or re-works and is worth a try, but pets can hear far better than we can, so this may not help.

A nal technique that can be tried to desensitize them to certain sounds is to play the sound of a thunderstorm or

reworks on a low volume level. You can purchase CDs that play those sounds on them and play it at a very low level, a long way off from the pet and give treats or do fun things. In time the sound of thunder is less scary. This technique is much like a train going by our house if we move near a railroad track. In time, we dont notice the sound as much.

Try some of these techniques. If theyre not successful, call your veter-inarian. He or she will be able to help with your medication.

Thunder and reworks can create phobia in pets

Pet Smarts

Dr. Ron Helten | Veterinarian

when there is opportunity for char-acterization, though these actors are suf ciently unknown to me that I dont know whether this is a matter of talent or personal charisma. Inglewood has an unexpectedly prosperous look, with nobody in worn clothes, and even the

streets looking freshly swept. Ill take it for granted that Inglewood looks like that. At one point, our hero seems to be parodying the idea that ghettos are dark and dirty, so the peculiarity may have a point.

As for the considerable praise Dope gets for portraying ghetto residents as sharing the same Harvard Business School ambitions as more fortunate youths, Ill give it that, but didnt realize that it was particularly unusual.

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July 18 The inaugural Wichita Mini Maker Faire will be held at Exploration Place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This event is presented in partnership with MakeICT. Any groups or individuals interested in presenting their proj-ect, activity, or performance in this event should com-plete the simple application at http://makerfairewichita.com by Monday, July 6. Maker Faire is a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and is a place where people show what they are making and share what they are learning. Makers range from tech enthusiasts to crafters to homesteaders to scientists to garage tinkerers. They are of all ages and backgrounds. The aim of Maker Faire is to entertain, inform, connect and grow this community.

To see a Maker Faire in action, watch a video at http://makerfaire.com/makerfairehistory.

The original Maker Faire event was held in San Mateo, Calif. and in 2015 celebrated its 10th annual show, with some 1,100 makers and 135,000 people in attendance. Wichita Mini Maker Faire is included in general museum admission, free for members.

July 18 Wichita Genealogical Society monthly meeting, 1 p.m. at the Lionel Alford Library, 3447 S.

Meridian. This months topic is Starting Points to Re-search French Ancestors. Learn some basic French terms and consider doing research on your own, hiring an assistant or planning a trip to France.

July 21 Using Music to Improve Quality of Life, West Wichita Caregiver Group, 3 to 4:30 p.m., confer-ence room at Prairie Views Re ection Ridge of ce, 7570 W. 21st St. N., Suite 1026-D, Wichita, Kansas. Admission is free and open to the public. Leading the discussion will be Jennifer Hecht. A licensed clinical professional counselor and clinical addictions counselor, she works in the west Wichita Prairie View of ce and provides services for teens, adults and older adults. The West Wichita Caregiver Group meets the third Tuesday of each month at Prairie Views Re- ection Ridge of ce. It is open to caregivers for older adults and offers education, mutual support and prob-lem solving with others who are dealing with similar caregiving situations. This includes caregivers whose care receiver has any illness, including dementia. For information, phone 316-729-6555 or 800-992-6292. For more information about Prairie Views services for older adults and all ages, see prairieview.org.

Aug. 1 Youthvilles fourth annual Chalk Fest, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Old Town Square. The event is free and open to the public. This family-friendly event will include live music, face painting, water fountains, arts and crafts, and frozen treats. There will be plenty of free chalk available for kids and families to create their own artwork on the sidewalk alongside more than 40 local artists. The festival aims to provide a fun event for people of all ages to experience art and commu-nity in an outdoor setting while supporting local and regional artists. Chalk Fest is an annual event held to raise awareness and support for Youthville, and all proceeds from the event will go to support the Kansas Kids Fund.

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Sedgwick County FairCarnival Discount Night!

Times-Sentinel Newspapers Night at the Carnival!

Wednesday, July 8 Nocouponsneeded!

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