Caregiver Photo Booklet

Above left: A small decorative piece that plays music. Above Right: The “Little Blue Boy” that Margaret loves. He was made in the 1930’s and she loves to arrange him with other decorative statues. Above: The infamous chocolates she keeps out to offer to her guests. If you don’t take one, she gets very upset. Photos by Sarah Andrews.

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Kristin Barker

Left: Hailings Greenhouse was started 17 years ago by Lisa Freeman and Pat Teeter. Their husbands bought the space to start a new veternary buisness. Half of the space they bought was a flower shop/greenhouse that was going out of buisness. They only planned to run the greenhouse for a few years but it turned into a thriving summer hobby and job. Above: Lisa Freeman arranges flowers in pots for a customers potting order.

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Left: lifting up a pot she just planted, Lisa checks the price on the bottom. Below: A customer thanks Lisa for all the hard work she put into making her beautiful potting arrangments.

Above: Lisa waters every flower in the greenhouse. Right: Lisa compares colors of impatients to see what would look better in a pot for a customer. She is deticated to her customers and makes sure everything she does benefits them. Lisa even personally delivers flowers to them.

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Lauren Bleakley

Rockhurst junior Pattrick Connor goes through dialysis treatment because of his non-functioning kindey.

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Above: Rockhurst junior Pattrick Connor has his blood filtered through the Fresenius 2008K Dialyzer.

Below: Because dialysis treatments last roughly four hours, junior Maddy Weast visits Pattrick at Chilren’s Mercy Hospital to help pass the time.

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Below: Maddy Weast and Pattrick Connor look at Facebook pictures from the last weekend and talk about their plans for summer. Far Below: Weast and Connor laugh about the TV show Connor was watching as he waited for his blood to be fullling cleaned.

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Sam Bolanovich

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Left below: One of Rex’s boys shows off his rocks that he collected from a pond in a flower garden. Below: Two of the boys chase each other out of an Indian teepee at the Kanza Indian Encampment.

Retired elementary school teacher Rex Raudenbush spends spare time mentoring underpriveledged students from Kansas City, MO

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Above: Rex Raudenburg helps attach worms to the fishing pole at the pond at Deanna Rose Children’s Farmstead. He spent the several hours at the farmstead with a group of boys, ages 7-11 that he mentors in his free time. The 12-acre park had a variety of activities such as a petting zoo, old fashioned pond, and one room school house.

Left: Inside of a dairy barn, a boy admires the corn husks.

Further inside the farm house, he was able to practice milking an artificial cow. Below: The boys take a break from petting animals and fool around putting their heads in the holes of a milk advertisement.

Above: One of the boys takes the hook out of the fishes mouth and then throws the fish back into the pond. Fishing is one of the many activities offered at Deanna Rose Farmstead. The boys also spent time feeding milk to baby goats. Right: Rex and three of the boys admire the animals as they enter Deanna Rose Farmstead. Rex visits with the boys on a biweekly basis and takes them on different educational activities, hoping they gain something from the experience.

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Karen Boomer

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Ray Loya re-learns how to fold a paper crane, the symbol of hope, with the help of 10 year old Max Mulhurn.

Above Right: Loya’s wife Susan builds a crane on Loya’s hospital bed. Because Loya was on Hospice end of life care, he prefered to be at home. “The hospital was too busy and too loud. We were unable to feel comftorable.”

Loya said. Above: Loya takes a break from folding his crane to pet his cat Bubba. Loya learned how to fold cranes at Turning Point: a Center for Hope and Healing. Turning Point offers help for those with a terminal or chronic illness. Loya became involved there the first time he developed cancer. Right: After Loya completed the crane, he smiled with excitement. Because of the cancer treatment, Loya forgot how to fold a crane. With the help of 10 year old Max Mulhurn, he was able to re-learn.

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Above: Ray Loya, Max Mulhurn, Susan Loya, and Jim Brandmeyer, fold paper cranes. Mulhurn said, “At school we read a book about how cranes are the symbol of hope. I decided to help people who are sick make them for inspiration.” Right: Loya folds the crane carefully.

Dur to treatment, he has lost most of his strength.

Making the crane was hard to do because of his lost strength.

Center Left: Brandmeyer helps Loya with a difficult fold. Brandmeyer said, “Helping Ray was inspiring because he has had so much to overcome. it was great to know that such a little thing could mean so much.”

Center Right: Mulhurn helps Mrs. Loya fold her crane. She wanted to learn so she could help Loya fold them in the future.

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Emily Brandmeyer

A stray cat sits in it’s kennel while waiting to be picked up by it’s caretaker for the summer.

Technicians Mandy (Left) and Lisa examine Maggie, a terrier. Maggie was admitted for loss of apetite and vomiting after meals.

Dr. Brock Exline offers free service to the injured animals of Lakeside Nature Center. He says that being a wildlife veterinarian was his dream job, but in order to make a sustainable living he became a domestic veterinarian instead.

Below: A Lakeside Nature Center animal handler holds a red-tailed hawk as Dr. Exline examines it’s injured talon. Below Left: A squirrel who was injured by a presumably larger and hungrier animal is anesthetized by a technician. Left: Dr. Exline inserts sutures in the squirrel’s mouth to seal a split in the bottom lip.

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The leg of an anesthetized dog is bandaged by technician Mandy. Dr. Brock Exline (not picutred) had to remove a broken toenail from the dog’s foot.

Vets and technicians of Hecker Animal Clinic treat the bumps and bruises of our best friends.

Right: Blood is washed off the leg of Maggie, a terrier who ripped the IV line out of her cathater.

Above: Dr. Bryan Reed cleans the infected ears of a chocolate lab as technician Mandy holds the dog steady.

Above: Technicians Lisa and Mandy place a cone around the neck of a cat so he will not Hannah chew on his stiches after having surgery.

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Brewer

Left: Kevin Dolan sings and dances with the preschoolers during a music session at Sunday school at Village Presbyterian. Dolan moves from class to class giving a short music lesson to several children at a time. Below: Dolan plays on guitar in the Blue Moon orchestra. Blue Moon is Shawnee Mission East’s choir program’s end of the year performance. Dolan has experience playing in the pit, specifically with the Seattle Opera.

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Kevin Dolan, youth and children’s music director at Village Presbyterian Church, shares his love for music and the guitar with young people in the community.

Below: Dolan makes his Sunday school lessons interactive by adding motions to sing along with. Dolan also works with older kids as the director of the Youth Band for Village Presbyterian’s youth group. Right: Dolan plays in front of East’s Choraliers as they rehearse their medley from Scarlet Pimpernel. Dolan’s involvment in Blue Moon extended beyond just playing in the pit. Dolan worked closely with Tracy Resseguie, Shawnee Mission East’s choir director, arranging solos and the musical medleys that each choir performed.

Left: Taking requests at the end of class, Dolan tells a scary story with guitar accompaniment. The preschoolers look forward to Dolan’s music time every Sunday to have a good laugh.

Dolan’s songs teach lessons that are disguised with all the fun.

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Sally Drape

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You Never Grow Up

Mother of three gives up her days alone to find time to help other children who do not speak English.

Left: Kristin helps a boy from India, Jaspreet Singh, with a puzzle during Clip Time, where there are different centers that the children can go to to that help with their different comprehension skills. Right: Ozue Abendano jumping during the schools field day. Kristin says, “It is fun for the kids to do activities out of the classroom.”

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Left: Kristin plays with the kids at the school’s field day. She says, “It was fun to get out of the classroom and to see the kids expressions, not only because they were having fun, but also because it was their first field day. The kids are the ones that make it fun, and I am there to laugh with them.”

Right: Startig their day off the way they always do, Kristin helps the kindergarteners learn their numbers. She helps them sound it out and match the sound with the letter on the paper.

Below: While playing “snowball fight” with the children she says, “playing with the kids is great,” Kristin says, “they make it fun.” Below Right: During Field Day, Kristin tries to help the kindergarteners understand how to move the ball over and under down a line. “They didn’t understand the concept, but it was fun to watch them try,” she says.

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Ellen Frizzell

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Far above: Levota and Marquis talk about their weekend outside of the coffee shop. “He has quite the immagination. We talk about him riding his scooter and about his weekend He always tells me something that he did over the weekend that was funny.” Above: Allie and Brian skip down the hall. They always skip down the hall from their Social Skills class to the coffee shop. “We always skip going and coming from lunch. He is always is told what not to do and skipping down the halls lets him be goofy and we also sing sometimes.” Left: Marquis disciplines Levota for not wanting to go back to class.

“If he acts up I don’t put up with it. I will put him in time out because I know he will behave because he hates to be sitting by himself. Most of the time teachers discipline him.” Middle Left: Marquis and Levota work on reading and spelling.

“Usually I don’t help him with his schoolwork unless he asks me. I usually work on him with his manners and how to carry a conversation with people.” Above Left: Marquis visits Levota in the coffee shop. “I visit him Tuesday and Thursday in second hour because that’s when he works and I always go visit him because he is my little buddy.”

the meaning of Whether it is talking about eating his favorite meal of McDonald’s Filet O’ Fish or what he did with his special helper, Junior Allie Marquis and Brian Levota have a special bond. Levota and Marquis are always goofing around. Marquis is apart of the Social Skills program at Shawnee Mission East High School. Social Skills is a program that special education students learn social and communication skills. They spend their fifth hour eating lunch in the cafeteria with them and having a class period on communication skills.

Marquis and Levota give eachother high fives after spelling a word right. “We are good friends and other people are strict with him and I laugh at things that probably I shouldn’t laugh at. I sometimes encourage it but I think it’s okay for him to be goofy as long as he isn’t rude or hurting peoples feelings.” Below: Levota and Marquis talk about what he did last weekend. “He always tells me if he is in trouble. The first thing he says to me everyday is whether or not he got in trouble or if he is being good today.”

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Kathleen Woffinden works with her twelve-year old daughter, Chelsea, who has down syndrome and alopecia, to improve her speech.

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A dedicated mother spends all of her time with her daughter to assure that she gets the most out of life.

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Above: Chelsea Woffinden gets distracted looking out the window while her mom tries to help her read a list of short three letter words.

Each day Kathleen teaches spelling and reading to Chelsea. They also work on speech therapy a few times a week to help strengthen Chelsea’s mouth to improve her speech. Above Right: Chelsea ‘s mom brought home “Chelsea Sweet Tomatoes” and together they plant them outside on the deck. Right: Chelesa looks in the mirror while she washes her hands after planting tomatoes with her mom. Reminding Chelsea to wash her hands and to put the towel away is a constant chore.

Far Left: Chelsea indepedently puts her velcro shoes on so she can go outside to help her mom plant the “Chelsea” sweet tomatoes. Right: With the help of her mom, Chelsea outlines the letter “A”. Everyday Chelsea is homeschooled by her mom to assure that she gets the type of education that benefits her best.

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Mackenzie Payne

Left: Youth leader Lindsay O’Connor directs eight grader Andrew Hornung where to begin reading the passage for the day’s lesson.

Photo by Tayler Philips.

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Right: During Wednesday night “Cheer,” leader Lindsay O’Connor walks the room helping individual groups. Their assignment was to create a country which incorpated ideas from each member. The youth came up with countries like “Califootia” and “Pickledam.” Photo by T ayler Philips. Below: At Sunday school, Lindsay O’Connor uses the Bible to teach the youth what it means to be humble. The middle schoolers were asked to come up with a list that stated what they thought Jesus meant when he instructed his disciples to be humble. Through passasges, O’Connor inspires the youth to live by the word and discover what life is like with the Lord. Photo by Tayler Philips.

Above: O’Connor listens, holding back laughter, as the youth present their countried they created during Cheer. The youth came up with some pretty crreative titles and explained why the choose what they did.

O’Connor was baffled at the silliness, but held her composure. Photo by Tayler Philips.Left: Before Cheer starts, O’Connor helps the Youth Band warm up and practice the songs they plan to play later. She assists the band by playing the drums, something she enjoys. The energy she gives off pumps with the youth and gives dynamic to the band. Here, still is praticing “No One Like You,” by David Crowder Band. Photo by Tayler Philips. w

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Tayler Phillips