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Alternative drinks to ring in the new year Going beyond wine and champagne

By ANDREW GAUG St. Joseph News-Press

Champagne and wine are normally the drinks associated with ringing in the new year.

But what if either gives you a pounding headache or maybe isn’t your cup of alcohol? Local bartenders say you should think closer to home.

With their New Year’s celebration, Bridge’s Lounge owners Lori and Bridgette May are aiming to keep things feeling like home with a soul food menu and two holiday-themed drinks.

Both are spiced-based drinks.

The “Cha-Cha Slide” is a mixed drink centered around Rumchata, a drink that combines the spicy Mexican rice-based beverage Horchata with rum and Kahlua.

“Home For The Holidays,” combines eggnog with Goldschlager and Captain Morgan’s rum.

“It’s always the intent and purpose to have that relaxed, laidback atmosphere, that real homey type of atmosphere and that’s what the drinks are going towards,” Lori Mays says.

The “Cha-Cha Slide” takes advantage of the rising popularity of Rumchata, a drink similar in taste to drinking milk mixed with Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Lori says since the bar introduced it to customers a few months ago, it’s been selling like she wouldn’t believe. The reason, they say, is because it reminds people of feeling home.

“It is absolutely a holiday-type drink and you’re able to do a lot of stuff with it and have the same feel,” Lori Mays says.

Sait Serkan Gurbuz | St. Joseph News- Press

A New Year’s Resolution prepared by Joel Seelhoff of Ground Round.

Joel Seelhoff, bartender at the Ground Round Downtown, says his aim is similar — to make people feel warm and optimistic as they enter a new year.

“Usually around this time of year, it’s something that’s going to keep them warm, but also be refreshing,” he says.

Centering his drinks around perennial favorites of the holidays, fruits and chocolate, Seelhoff says it’s more of a focus on comfort than the cool feelings of summer drinks.

“It’s just more about getting people together and gathering around the table,” he says.

Two of the New Year’s favorites Seelhoff created are the fruity “The New Year’s Resolution” and the spiked hot chocolate “CapSait Serkan Gurbuz | St. Joseph News- Press tain’s Hot Chocolate,” with the Captain’s Hot Chocolate as prepared by Joel Seelhoff of Ground Round. chocolate coming after the resolution is gone and forgotten.

The Ground Round will be open this New Year’s Eve, serving up the drinks to whoever is interested in buying them.

So while some people may be uncorking a bottle from their cellar before the ball drops, Lori May suggests the focus be on something smoother. “(The drinks) are like cranberry sauce, eggnog — different things that are all centered around the holidays and the celebration of all of the holidays, as you transition from one year into the other. Just getting the year started out right on that downhome feel,” she says.

Andrew Gaug can be reached at andrew.gaug@newspressnow.com.

Follow him on Twitter: @SJNPGaug.

Cha-Cha Slide 1½ ounces Rumchata 1 ounce Kahlua A splash of Bacardi 151 Pour Kahlua and 151 in a tumbler. Fill the rest with Rumchata.

Home for the Holidays Eggnog 1 ounce Goldschlager 2 ounces Captain Morgan rum Pour Goldschlager and rum in a glass.

Fill the rest with eggnog.

New Year’s Resolution 1 ounce Malibu rum 1 ounce peach cocktail mixer 2 ounces cranberry juice 1 ounce pineapple juice Line rim of Martini glass with sugar.

Pour ingredients in the glass, mix and enjoy.

Captain’s Hot Chocolate 1 ounce Captain Morgan rum 1 ounce banana liqueur Hot chocolate Warm hot chocolate, place remaining contents in a glass and mix with hot chocolate.

Triple Chocolate Shot 1/2 ounce marshmallow vodka 1/2 ounce Godiva Chocolate liqueur 1/2 Creme de Cocoa Place contents in a mixer and shake.

Pour into a shot glass, preferably lined with crushed cookies. Drink and enjoy another year of life.

Sait Serkan Gurbuz | St. Joseph News- Press

Triple Chocolate Shot prepared by Joel Seelhoff of Ground Round.

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Sawyer Goldizen turned a year old on Dec.22. The Fillmore toddler was born with multiple health problems, but is now a thriving little boy.

Sawyer strong Area baby thrives after difficult year

By JENNIFER GORDON St. Joseph News-Press

For the first time, Santa Claus will visit Sawyer Goldizen in his home rather than the intensive care unit at the hospital.

The 1-year-old from Fillmore, Mo., was born with a host of health problems that left him hospitalized for his first two months of life. Now, the 1-year-old stands and gurgles to his parents, Megan and Jarod. He doesn’t use his feeding tube anymore and he’s been able to cut down on his seizure medication.

According to his medical team, he’s developmentally two months ahead.

His future looked much bleaker at this time last year.

On the same day Megan and Jarod learned Sawyer’s gender, they also found out he had a heart condition. Their physician referred them to a specialist at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City.

There they met with a genetic counselor who told the family they might want to consider abortion because it looked like Sawyer had a trisomy condition like Trisomy 8 or Trisomy 13, which often are fatal.

“I started crying and I was like ‘I don’t care how long he lives or what he’s like I just want him,’” Megan says.

Later that same day, they learned Sawyer’s heart trouble was a condition called transposition of the great arteries, in which his pulmonary and aorta arteries were switched. The condition causes blood to be pumped only to the lungs.

Sawyer also would have sclerosis that hooked his spine to the right, a cleft lip, hypospadias, a condition where the urethra opening is on the underside of the penis, and microtia, a congenital deformity that affected his right ear.

Despite Sawyer’s health conditions, the remainder of the pregnancy went normally, Megan says.

Even the Caesarean birth was normal.

“He was just a little blue,” Jarod says with a smile.

Sawyer spent his first two months in the hospital, which Megan documented in a scrapbook.

Santa came to see him while Sawyer was still connected to a ventilator.

His parents couldn’t hold him until just before his heart surgery at 17 days old. Even then they weren’t supposed to, Megan says, but the nurses felt sorry for them and allowed her to for brief periods of time.

After Sawyer’s heart surgery, which corrected his transposition of the great arteries, came the hardest part of his recovery.

One of his post-surgery medications made his blood pressure drop. Sawyer’s medical team performed CPR on him for an hour and a half. Then Sawyer went on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) or life support.

There’s a page in Megan’s scrapbook the documents the five days Sawyer spent on ECMO. In the center of the images, where you can see the blood leaving Sawyer’s body to be oxygenated by a machine and then reentering it to be circulated through his body, there’s a note.

“Sawyer,” it reads. “This is the scariest part of your life so far. You came through just fine because you are Sawyer strong.”

Sawyer strong became something of a catchphrase for the Goldizens; they made rubber bracelets to recognize it, because his medical issues didn’t stop once he got off

ECMO. Removed from life support, Sawyer started to have seizures. One lasted 25 minutes. He had a scan of his brain and his heart, and the family learned that he might be paralyzed on his right side because it looked like he had had a stroke.

Fortunately, that turned out not to be the case. He can move both sides of his body, and the stroke appears to not have left him with any lasting side effects.

Sawyer moves a little differently than other children his age, he scoots more than crawls, but that’s because of his sclerosis, Megan says. They’re still waiting to hear what will be done to help that, his mother says.

The scooting doesn’t slow him down any. He slides across his home’s hardwood floors without a problem.

Sawyer, who turned 1 on Dec. 22, also is being potty trained. That’s not the only thing he’s doing ahead of schedule. His parents had to keep an eye on him because he wanted to unwrap his Christmas presents, at home under the tree he didn’t get a chance to see last year, before the big day.

Jennifer Gordon can be reached at jennifer.gordon@newspressnow.com.

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Valerie Wigton recently wrote a book, ‘The Crown and the Arrow.’

A novel idea Local woman’s poem turns into more

By JENNIFER GORDON St. Joseph News-Press

Michael Wigton speaks first about the novel his wife, Valerie Wigton, wrote.

“It’s a small book, but it says a lot,” he says, as the couple sits down to discuss her debut work, “The Crown and the Arrow” in their St. Joseph home.

Mr. Wigton refers to the subject of the novel, the chance meeting between a young king with a huntsman, but the same applies for how the 68-page book came to be. The year it took Mrs. Wigton to craft “The Crown and the Arrow” held ups and downs far beyond the typical roadblocks to publishing a book, the hunt for the right distributor, the book galleys and the revisions.

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You can take home a recording of your music from The Science of Rock ‘n’ Roll exhibit at Science City.

Backstage pass The Science of Rock ‘n’ Roll exhibit at Kansas City’s Union Station shows the art and science of music

By KRISTEN HARE St. Joseph News-Press

At Union Station, The Science of Rock ‘n’ Roll isn’t a “go see” exhibit.

“This is really a ‘come do’ exhibit,” says Joy Torchia, Union Station marketing and public relations.

The exhibit, which is new and the first time it’s been shown, takes visitors through time, into the sound booth and backstage, all with one ticket.

The exhibit begins with decade pods, Ms. Torchia says, starting with music in the ‘50s and leading up to present day. Visitors can learn about the music and the musicians that set the sound and style of the time, as well as learn how technology continues to change how we record and listen to music.

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Everything you experience and create as part of the exhibit can come home with you, too, thanks to a QR code on the backstage pass you receive when you begin the exhibit. Whatever you record, you then have the ability to e-mail home to yourself.

Next, you’ll head to a mixing station to hear how songs are really mixed in the studio, breaking down the steps taken to result in what we hear today.

You also can sing in the recording booth. (Don’t worry, people can listen

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Next, you can step backstage to see what goes into creating a show, from sound, lighting and set design to the work of stylists in creating the show’s look.

The exhibit ends, fittingly, with a concert experience.

The Science of Rock ‘n’ Roll pulls back the curtain, you could say, showing people that music might not be magic, but rather a process involving a lot of people that creates something that sounds magical.

And throughout the journey, you’ll get to see a little of what the real pros can do. For instance, lighting for the exhibit was designed by the person who designs lighting for Bruce Springsteen, Ms. Torchia says.

To deepen the experience, check out resources to read ahead of time on

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The Science of Rock ‘n’ Roll runs through the end of April, possibly into early May, Ms. Torchia says.

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