East wichita news july 2015 by Travis Mounts

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Volume 32 • Issue 7 July 2015

ON THE COVER Paint of people’s lives | 12A

Recycled paint plays a key role in the work of East Wichita artist Eric Carbrey, whose gallery show is going on now at CityArts.

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On the hunt for the best book | 4A Sailing group marks 50 years | 18A

Features Dateline....................................3A From the Publisher’s Files............................................6A People and Places................8A

Win tickets to Tanganyika Wildlife Park! See Page 24A

Eastside Homes..................11A

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Publisher Paul Rhodes Managing Editor Travis Mounts Production Abbygail Wells Reporters/Contributors Sam Jack, Amy Houston, Jim Erickson, Philip Holmes

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Tandoc’s passing stuns the city 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 restaurant, Tandoc, became a shrine to the woman whose food, energy and good nature seemed to have touched nearly every Wichitan. I don’t think I’ve ever had the chance to meet her face-to-face. I’m sure at some point she was there when I visited Tanya’s Soup Kitchen, either at its current location or down by the old Union Station when I worked there for Multimedia Cablevision and her restaurant was just a few steps away. But it quickly became apparent that many people I know did know Tanya 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 Tanya’s life. That’s a rare and special gift. But food is what she’ll most be remembered for. Tanya fed a city, directly and indirectly. Of course, there is still her restaurant, which will continue to serve thanks to

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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 appearances 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 extraordinaire 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 I’ve missed out by not having the chance to meet Tanya. I will continue to eat at Tanya’s Soup Kitchen when I can, and I will look for opportunities to feel her presence through the people who did know and love her and were touched by her.

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Tanya’s Soup Kitchen reopened on June 7, a few days after the restaurant’s namesake, Tanya Tandoc, was murdered by an acquaintance. Employees opened the restaurant after taking a few days to mourn. Facebook photo

July 6 – Local author Marguerite Reed will be reading from her debut novel, “Archangel,” at 6 p.m. at Watermark Books. “Archangel” was released by the new independent publisher Resurrection House. Written in tough but intimate prose, “Archangel” offers a strong appeal to fans of ecological thrillers like Paola Bacigalupi’s “The Windup Girl” and Margaret Atwood’s “Oryx and Crake.” Readers drawn to adventurer-scientists will find in Vashti Loren a brilliant protagonist coping with the oft-ignored emotional challenges of exploration while navigating the hard science of life on an unconquered planet. Reed’s short stories have appeared in “Clean Sheets, “Strange Horizons” and “Lone Star Stories.”

July 18 – Wichita Genealogical Society monthly meeting, 1 p.m. at the Lionel Alford Library, 3447 S. Meridian. This month’s topic is “Starting Points to Research French Ancestors.” Learn some basic French terms and consider doing research on your own, hiring an assistant or planning a trip to France.

Upcoming events in and around Wichita

July 21 – “Using Music to Improve Quality of Life,” West Wichita Caregiver Group, 3 to 4:30 p.m., conference room at Prairie View’s Reflection Ridge office, 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 office and provides services for teens, adults and older adults. The West Wichita Caregiver Group meets the third Tuesday of each month at Prairie View’s Reflection Ridge office. It is open to caregivers for older adults and offers education, mutual support and problem 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 View’s services for older adults and all ages, see prairieview.org. Aug. 1 – Youthville’s 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 community 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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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 project, activity, or performance in this event should complete 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.

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On the hunt for the best

Watermark Books & Cafe owner Sarah Bagby stands inside her East Wichita store. Bagby has been named to the panel responsible for awarding the 2015 National Book Award for fiction.

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Bookseller named to National Book Award fiction panel Watermark Books & Cafe owner Sarah Bagby is a longtime presence on East Wichita’s literary and cultural scene, and she has a lot of experience recommending books, both to patrons of her store and to Wichita Public Radio listeners. She learned earlier this year that she would have the opportunity to help make a much higher-profile recommendation, to a much larger audience. Along with three authors and a literature professor, she will choose the winner of the 2015 National Book Award for fiction. The National Book Award is one of the most important in American literature, comparable in terms of prestige to the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN Literary Awards. Past judges have included Dinaw Mengestu and Marjorie Garber; past winners include Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” and Cormac McCarthy’s “All the Pretty Horses.”

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The task of making such a closely watched choice could be intimidating, but Bagby has some practice: She was on the inaugural panel for the $50,000 Kirkus Prize last year. She also helped select the winner of the “Indie Next” award, and chose books to feature through “Indies Introduce,” an initiative to discover and promote new authors in their stores by independent booksellers. “When you’re reading for pleasure, you’re reading for pleasure,” said Bagby. “When you’re reading to sell, it’s to resonate with what you know about your customers. But when you read for a prize, you really have to come from an altitude of 30,000 feet. You have to be looking at everything in the context of everything else. You’re comparing thrillers, straight

narratives, experimental fiction. It can be anything; the only common denominator is that it has to be by an American author.” Piles of nominated books began arriving in the homes and offices of the five judges this summer. More than 400 titles were submitted in the fiction section. “The books are pretty much all over my house,” said Bagby. “I’m reading all the time. I have my schedule worked to get in as much as possible, starting at 5:30 a.m., when I get up and ride on an elliptical trainer and read while I’m on that.” The judges decided amongst themselves on a method for dividing up the reading so that every submission gets a fair shake. By mid-September, 400 nominated books must be narrowed down to a longlist of 10. A month later, 10 longlisted books become five finalists, and shortly before the Nov. 18 awards cere-

was formerly president of the Midwest Booksellers Association and currently serves on the board of the American Booksellers Association. With the rise of e-readers and other forms of portable media, the death knell for bookstores has sounded frequently in recent years, but bookstores, particularly independent stores, are proving the doubters wrong, Bagby said. “Last year, the growth of independent stores was higher, percentage-wise, than any other channel (for book distribution). E-books were kind of ﬂat, so that whole idea that the e-book was just going to escalate and escalate until there were no more physical books – that just didn’t happen. “We’ve always been true to physical books, always believed in them. It was a scary period for a while there, and stores did close, but we were still selling books and becoming better business people when everybody thought we were dead,” said Bagby. “That said, every independent bookstore that survives is very involved in its community,

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mony and benefit dinner, the panel will settle on a winner. Reading so much fiction, as a judge, bookseller and pleasure reader, has given Bagby an appreciation of both its variety and its commonality. “There’re several story tropes that repeat. John Gardner said that there are only two plots in literature: Either a stranger comes to town, or someone goes on a journey. There’s something to that,” said Bagby. “One of those two, most novels will fit into those situations. But the beautiful thing about fiction is that every person brings something, some different experience, to those storylines, and can create a whole new story based on their own experience and their own emotional landscape. “It’s something that I just find so fascinating and so powerful, so nurturing and restorative for my own life, that you can pick up a novel that’s well written and emotionally astute, and be completely restored.” Bagby came to the notice of the people who choose prize juries in part because of her active involvement in bookselling trade organizations. She

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This month’s column is a blatant plug for three things: Family reunions, Tanganyika Wildlife Park, and Facebook. Yes, I’ll pull it all together in the next few paragraphs. I’ve been blessed with a really great extended family, and a few years ago we made a commitment to start having annual 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 mother’s 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 she’d 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. I’m 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 cousin’s help. She’s Aunt Erma’s youngest child, and had the best access to her mom’s good, old-fashioned address book. Yep. We used snail mail. Invitations and a cover letter went out, plans were detailed, and reservations were requested. In the meantime, I worked with the awesome staff at

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and the community realizes the value and places their dollars there. On this corner of Douglas and Oliver, it’s all locally-owned businesses, and if any of us went away, not only would this historic neighborhood suffer, but the value of the houses would go down.” East Wichita’s independent bookstore scene is strong, Bagby noted, with Watermark, Bookaholic and Eighth Day Books all in business within blocks of each other. Bookaholic sells a mix of

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Tanganyika to plan our event. Many of our family members had never been to Tanganyika. After a wonderful potluck lunch in one of the facility’s meeting rooms, we were able to unfold a truly unique reunion experience 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 Facebook and who wasn’t, since some of us were already talking about posting pictures 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 I’d say – many of us will stay even more connected until next year’s get-together. used and new books, while Eighth Day focuses on Christianity and philosophy. “We are supportive of each other, and it’s pretty cool. And we each have our own feel and our own sort of personality,” said Bagby. Watermark has a full schedule of events planned for the month of July, including “Camp Watermark” for children ages 8 to 12, a July 10 reading by “The Oregon Trail” author Rinker Buck and a poetry reading featuring four poets on July 24. The store also supports more than a dozen book clubs focused on various genres and interests. For more information, visit watermarkbooks.com. For more on the National Book Awards, visit nationalbook.org.

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Allen House in Wichita has joined the network of Frank Lloyd Wright properties that have confirmed historic site agreements through the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation’s Licensing Program. The Allen House joins other legendary Frank Lloyd Wright properties such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York City), “Fallingwater,” Edgar J. Kaufmann House (Bear Run, Penn.), and Marin County Civic Center (San Rafael, Calif.). The Allen House is the only site in Kansas to receive this designation. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Licensing Program offers historic site agreements in an effort to help owners of buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright promote tourism, education and vacation rental. Through the agreement, the Foundation seeks to recognize and assist building owners with their mission to preserve the architectural structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. All sites under the historic sites agreement are permitted to use the red square logo Frank Lloyd Wright used as his mark of authenticity. The Foundation also works with owners who hold historic site agreements to develop licensed products using the decorative design elements from the buildings. Frank Lloyd Wright spent more than 70 years creating designs that revolutionized the art and architecture of the twentieth century. Many innovations in today’s buildings are products of his imagination. In total, he designed 1,141 works, including houses, offices, churches, schools, libraries, bridges, museums and many other building types. Of that total, 532 designs were completed, and 409 of them still stand. Allen House is open for tour by appointment. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 316-687-1027 or 316-706-9286. More information can be found at fllwallenhouse.org. In 1915, prominent journalist (and later governor of Kansas) Henry J. Allen and his wife Elsie J. Nuzman Allen commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to build their family a prairie style home in Wichita. The house is considered the last of Wright’s prairie houses. Stylistic exterior features include a horizontal grey Carthage marble “water table” as a transition design element between the prairie floor and the house, white raked horizontal brick joints and flush ocher head joints, a red clay tile roof with emphasis on horizontal lines and a unique ridge, hip ridge and lower starting course with a Japanese flavor. Interior features include the continuity of the exterior brick, which is a blend of ocher and tan colors with all horizontal joints gilded gold. For more information, visit fllwallenhouse.org. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation is dedicated to the preservation and stewardship of Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisc.; Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Ariz.; and the Taliesin Collections, to shaping architecture and design at the highest level, and to transforming people’s lives through the living experience of Frank Lloyd Wright’s body of work. For more information visit franklloydwright.org.

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East Wichita News People and Places Twelve outstanding high school seniors have been awarded the prestigious Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarship to pursue their undergraduate studies at Duke University. The Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarship covers the full cost of tuition, room, board and mandatory fees for four years of undergraduate education. In addition, the scholarship funds six weeks of summer study at the University of Oxford and offers $5,000 to each scholar to facilitate independent research and educational enrichment. Based on estimated tuition rates over a four-year period, the scholarship is worth over $250,000. The scholarships aim to foster intellectual leadership and are awarded to students who show outstanding promise. The awards stem from the Angier B. Duke Memorial Inc., which Duke University co-founder Benjamin Newton Duke established in 1925 in memory of his son, Angier Buchanan Duke. The Angier B. Duke Scholarship’s alumni include 18 Rhodes Scholars and 13 Marshall Scholars, including renowned author and former Duke English professor Reynolds Price; Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Ann Tyler; NASA project scientist Hal Weaver; and Dr. Lynt Johnson, chief of transplant surgery at Georgetown University Medical Center. One of the recipients, Sanjidah Ahmed, is from East Wichita. Ahmed is a graduate of Wichita Collegiate School and daughter of Mahfuza H. Ahmed and Selim S. Ahmed. Wheaton College (Ill.) student Kyle Burris of East Wichita was recently inducted into the Wheaton College Scholastic Honor Society. The honor was announced at Wheaton College’s Honors Convocation. Each year, the Wheaton College faculty selects a limited number of students for membership in the Scholastic Honor Society. Selection is made on the basis of high scholarship, Christian maturity, and general promise. Burris, a member of the class of 2015, was recognized for excellence in the study of mathematics and economics.

Daniel Bateman has been named as the new executive director at the Kansas Aviation Museum. He most recently served as executive directory at Spaceport Sheboygan in Michigan. He is an authority on Space Shuttle and International Space Station history and operations. Air Force Airmen Ryan R. Whitely, Michael A. Nofsinger and Marie M. Baldessari graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas. The airmen completed an intensive, eightweek 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. Whitely is the son of Randy R. Whitley of Andover and Rebecca D. Whitely of Towanda. He is a 2014 graduate of Circle High School. Nofsinger is the son of Robert B. Nofsinger of Wichita and Cindi M. Nofsinger-Davis of Mulvane. The airman graduated in 2014 from Wichita Southeast High School. Baldessari is the daughter of Donna and John Baldessari of Wichita. She is a 2014 graduate of Kapaun-Mt. Carmel High School. The City of Bel Aire is one out of 241 communities being honored with a 2015 Playful City USA designation for the third consecutive year. There are only five communities in Kansas to receive this recognition. The national recognition program honors cities and towns across the country for making their cities more playable. Hopscotch sidewalks, structured recreation programs, and city-wide play days are all ways in which these communities are appealing to residents, and attracting and retaining residents. To learn more about these cities, see the full list of the 241 communities named 2015 Playful City USA honorees, or to gather more information on the Playful City USA program, visit www.playfulcityusa.org.

David McIntire, a teacher at The Independent School in Wichita, has been awarded a competitive Buchwald Summer Fellowship by the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University in Ohio. The center is a highly regarded nonprofit provider of educational programs for U.S. history and government teachers, as well as high school and college students. Middle- and high-school teachers chosen as Buchwald Summer Fellows receive the full cost of tuition, room, board and books to participate in a rigorous week-long summer graduate course offered through Ashbrook’s Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program, the nation’s only MA degree program developed specifically for history and government teachers. Participants in the course earn two graduate credit hours from Ashland University. The P.E.O. STAR Scholarship for the 2015-16 academic year was presented to Caroline Go, a senior at Wichita Collegiate. The scholarship was presented by a local chapter representative. Go is the daughter of Janice and Tim Go, and was commended for the scholarship by Chapter HN of Wichita. Go has been accepted into the honors program at the University of Texas at Austin, where she plans to study advanced human development and family sciences. The P.E.O. STAR Scholarship is a $2,500 scholarship based on excellence in leadership, extracurricular activities, community service, academics and potential for future success. Brianna Lowden of Wichita qualified for the spring 2105 dean’s list at Belmont University. Eligibility is based on a minimum course load of 12 hours and a quality grade point average of 3.5 with no grade below a C. Approximately 30 percent of Belmont’s 7,300 students qualified for the spring 2015 dean’s list.

Jessica Hauschild of Andover, who graduated May 9, 2015, from Kansas Wesleyan University with a B.A. in accounting, Summa Cum Laude, has been accepted as a Ph.D. student in statistics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Hauschild was among seven Kansas Wesleyan students to attend the Alpha Chi National Convention in Chicago in March. There she was named as one of 10 recipients from across the nation to receive Alpha Chi’s $2,500 H.Y. Benedict Fellowship, which will help with graduate school expenses. At that gathering, she also presented her original mathematics research, “On the Levi Graph of Point-Line Configuration,” with proofs, winning the Joseph E. and Bessie Mae Pryor Prize in Mathematics award for best mathematics paper presented at the national convention. This past February at Kansas Wesleyan, Hauschild presented an overview of this paper at “The Best of KWU,” winning first place. The paper is based on results of mathematical research she conducted during an eight-week REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) at California State University, Fresno (Fresno State) last summer. The REU program is funded by the National Science Foundation (NFS). Hauschild was one of three students out of 200 applicants accepted to this particular REU opportunity. In January, she and her summer research partner, Jazmin Ortiz from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif., met in San Antonio to present a poster display on their research at The Joint Mathematics Meetings of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). During KWU Honors and Awards Convocation on May 8, Hauschild was presented with the Outstanding Math Graduate Award. At commencement, she fittingly introduced the keynote speaker, alumnus David L. Fancher, Ph.D., ‘64, who double majored in math and physics and later joined the KWU faculty to teach those subjects. Hauschild also was named to the spring 2015 president’s honor roll.

One hundred and ﬁfty-six Kansas Wesleyan University students were named to the dean’s honor roll for the spring 2015 semester. Full-time students with a semester grade point average of 3.25-3.74 and no incompletes are listed on the dean’s honor roll at the end of each semester. East Wichita students named to the dean’s honor roll include Tyler Clark, Jayden Dennis and Marquil Jones-Walker. Quentin Miller of Andover completed requirements for an associate’s degree in business from Cloud County Community College this spring. Commencement ceremonies were held in Arley Bryant Gymnasium at the Concordia campus on May 15. Emily Vayda has been named to the dean’s list for the spring 2015 semester at the University of Vermont. Vayda, from East Wichita, is a senior biochemistry major. To be named to the dean’s list, students must have a grade-point average of 3.0 or better and rank in the top 20 percent of their class in their respective college or school.

Nearly 300 students graduated from Benedictine College in Atchison on May 16, during its annual Commencement Exercises. Those in attendance saw Dayton Moore, vice president of baseball operations and general manager of the American League Champion Kansas City Royals, deliver the commencement address. Eastsiders who graduated were Cabrini Ferraro, who earned a bachelor of science in nursing, and Stephanie Smith, who obtained a bachelor of arts in mass communications. Anna Raab, a freshman creative writing major from East Wichita, was among approximately 480 Bob Jones University students named to the spring 2015 president’s list. The president’s list recognizes students who earn a 3.75 or higher GPA. Aaron Cox was one of 35 nominees for the Dwight and Ida Curry Newberg Outstanding Senior award. Cox, of Eureka, is majoring in social sciences education. Newberg Outstanding Senior nominations are solicited from across the Emporia State University campus, and nominees must have a 3.5 grade point average and be graduating in spring, summer or fall of 2015. During the awards dinner, Nakita Elwood was named Outstanding Senior, and Abigail Black was named the Distinguished Senior. Amy Elizabeth Williams of Wichita graduated May 8 from Clemson University. Williams graduated with a bachelor of science in accounting. Williams was among 3,000 students who received degrees in commencement ceremonies in Littlejohn Coliseum. See PEOPLE, Page 10A

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Derek Parris was on one of 17 teams that competed in the final round of the Emporia Entrepreneurship Challenge at Emporia State University. Students participated in a Community Showcase-style event for a chance to win cash prizes of $4,000 for first place, $2,000 for second and $1,000 for third. The Emporia Entrepreneur Challenge began in February with 38 student teams from Emporia State University and Flint Hills Technical College submitting business plans to the competition. Those initial entries were carved down to semifinalist teams who gave oral presentations in early April to a panel of judges. The semifinalist teams set up a booth display at the Community Showcase featuring their business concepts and answered questions from judges and event attendees. Parris, a junior business administration major from Andover, presented The Parris Tool.

Abigail Timmermeyer of Andover is among more than 80 ﬁrst-year students inducted into the Phi Eta Sigma honor society at Emporia State University. Phi Eta Sigma is the national scholastic honor society for students with an average GPA of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale. It is the greatest scholastic distinction a ﬁrst-year student can attain. Timmermeyer also was a member of the company that presented “Promland,” the 10th annual spring dance show at ESU. Timmermeyer, a freshman, was on the set crew.

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Michael Katan of Wichita graduated from the College of Arts and Sciences with a Bachelor of Science during Creighton University’s Commencement ceremonies on May 16 at CenturyLink Omaha. More than 1,700 degrees were conferred during the morning and afternoon ceremonies.

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Tyler Franssen was among 72 Emporia State University students from The Teachers College who received special recognition at the 31st annual Teachers College Honors Banquet held the evening of May 8. Twenty-six received outstanding student awards and 50 students were honored for achievement of a 3.8 grade point average or higher. Undergraduate and graduate students were honored for excellence in their respective departments. Nine students received outstanding undergraduate student awards and 17 students received outstanding graduate student awards. Franssen, of Andover, was an honored student. Top scholars at Southwestern College in Winﬁeld and at Southwestern College Professional Studies have been announced with the release of the dean’s 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 eligible for the honor. Wichita students on the list are Khalid Al Molahi, Mohammed Alamer, Kerry Burns, Ginnie Copeland, Catherine Cranmer, Edward Fahnestock, Henna Goscha, Daniel Reffner, Gregory Reffner and Abigail Warnke. Andover students are Nicole Kirkhart and Zachary Meeker. Benedictine College has recognized those students named to the president’s list and the dean’s for the spring 2015 semester. To achieve the president’s list, students must carry a minimum of 12 credit hours and have a perfect 4.0 grade-point average. Of the 1,854 students on campus for the 2014-2015 academic year, only 101 made the president’s list for this semester. To be named to the dean’s list, a student must carry a minimum of 12 credit hours and a grade-point average of 3.5 or above for the semester. In the spring semester, 504 made the dean’s list. East Wichita residents who were named to the president’s list are Katherine Dillard and Kathleen Wells. Named to the dean’s list were Kristen Baun, Cabrini

Ferraro, Gabriella Ferraro, Anne Hickerson, Rebecca Koehn, Emily Lindeman, Natalie Malone, Logan McCully, Stephanie Smith, Molly Sullentrop, Luke Vanderpool and Elizabeth Weber, all of Wichita; and Bel Aire residents Kristine Pfeifer, Lauren Pfeifer and Gordon Schmitz. The Tran of East Wichita was among 206 graduates of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy Class of 2015. Tran is a graduate of Southeast High School. Emporia State University named nearly 700 students to the honor roll for spring 2015. Students from this area are Robert Little, Tyler Franssen, Chandler Payne, Kelly Rethorst, Abigail Rinkenbaugh, Nataly Silva, Johnny Yelverton, Kerri Glover, Jared Germann and Abigail Timmermeyer. To qualify for the semester honor roll, students must earn a minimum 3.80 semester grade point average in at least 12 graded hours. Amani Alshaikhi of East Wichita graduated from Lewis University with a master’s degree in information security. Tracy Hsiao-Fang-Yen of Wichita has earned a master of science in history and sociology of technology and science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Hsiao-Fang-Yen was among approximately 2,700 undergraduate and graduate students who received degrees during Georgia Tech’s 249th commencement exercises on May 1 and 2 at the McCamish Pavilion. May Le of East Wichita has been named to the dean’s list for the Spring 2015 semester at St. Louis College of Pharmacy. To make the dean’s list, students must earn a 3.5 GPA in the semester. Le is a graduate of Wichita High School East. She is the daughter of Bich Luu and Thanh Le. Emporia State University has named 500 students to its dean’s lists for spring 2015. The Eastsiders honored include Jared Germann, Wichita; Abigail Timmermeyer, Andover; Tyler Franssen, Andover; Kerri Glover, Wichita; Chandler Payne, Andover; Kelly Rethorst, Wichita; Abigail Rinkenbaugh, Wichita; Nataly Silva, Wichita; and Johnny Yelverton, Andover.

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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 classiﬁed 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 maintenance. 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 created 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, decay 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 require 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. See HOMES, Page 26A

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Summer is upon us, and it’s time to enhance the outside living spaces of your home. Perhaps that means ﬁne 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 design 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 plastic resin products. They tend to be the least expensive and may be difﬁcult to keep new looking. On the other hand, they tend to be the most weather resistant. In all fairness, some plastic resin furniture 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 stationary 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

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Paint of people’s lives Reycled paint plays a key role in the work of East Wichita artist Eric Carbrey Story

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A recycled paint that Eric Carbrey calls “Maddy” – that’s the name that was on the can – has become one of Cabrey’s favorite colors.

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Eric Carbrey’s first exposure to art was when he was duped by his brother. “My first memory of kind of getting into art was my older brother came up to me with this drawing of his, and it was a drawing of Super Mario Brothers,” Carbrey said. He was “astounded” by his brother’s talent, he recalled, and began trying to draw as well. “It turns out that he traced an image,” Carbrey said. “That’s kind of my first real memory of being involved in art. I guess it progressed.” Carbrey, who grew up in East Wichita, graduated from Wichita State University with a degree in studio arts. He is a painter whose artwork will be displayed through July 25 at CityArts. “The space is amazing,” Carbrey said. “To have the opportunity to show there is quite an honor, for sure.” Although his work has been displayed before at CityArts, this is the first time it has appeared in the main gallery. Carbrey’s art is also for sale in galleries in Oklahoma City, Dallas, New Orleans and New Jersey. Carbrey began painting geometric art after noticing the popularity of the Jackson Pollock style. “I was trying to rebel against that quite a bit and kind of really, really nail down something that was crisp and sharp,” Carbrey said, “and something that I wasn’t seeing around me.” He uses recycled latex paint that people have discarded from residential and commercial projects. His brother, who worked at a recycling facility in the Kansas City area, started providing the paint. Carbrey described his materials as the “paint of people’s lives.” “People’s kitchens and bathrooms and living

explained, he has the idea down and begins to work off that. “Since I already have the premise,” Carbrey said, “I can kind of go quicker, and go deeper, and go further and further down the rabbit hole, so to speak, to kind of develop this and see where it’s going.” Carbrey described his work as having a ﬁne-arts feel with a street-arts quality, “almost like street art meant for a museum,” he said. It’s 3D, but it features ﬂat shapes and colors. “It’s kind of the bold, simple shades,” he added. Carbrey has a full-time job and a family, but he devotes considerable time to his art. “I come home from work and I hang out with my wife and my son for a few hours, and he goes to bed at 8:30,” Carbrey said. “And from 8:30 to midnight I’m in the studio every day.” He also spends about eight hours in his art studio during the weekends. Carbrey offered advice to aspiring artists: It’s not just about the art. “It’s all about the hustle. You’ve got to be dedicated,” he said. “There’s really no easy path or shortcuts. You have to not only be able to make art but be able to talk to people, make connections, kind of promote yourself – things of that nature. It’s not just, ‘Oh, I can paint pretty pictures.’” His website is at www.exit27b.com.

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rooms are the colors I’m using,” he remarked. While other artists might mix shades of blue and green to make their own color, Carbrey continued, “I’m really just kind of managing the colors rather than developing the colors.” His favorite color is a deep, rich shade of teal. Sometimes the paint cans he receives are labeled “Garage” or “Kids’ room.” Carbrey recently has used blue paint from a can with the name “Maddy” written on it. He ﬁgured it was used to paint a bedroom for someone named Maddy. “I don’t even refer to it as ‘blue.’ I think of it as ‘Maddy,’” he said. “It’s on quite a few of my paintings. It is becoming one of my favorite colors. That person will never know the same color that’s on their wall is also in a gallery.” Carbrey’s favorite artists include Paul Cezanne and M.C. Escher. The show at CityArts features 121 paintings that Carbrey has created since January plus six older paintings. “I limited myself to using 53 colors for the 121 paintings,” he said. Carbrey likes to create rules for each series of artwork that he tackles. “It’s kind of funny to hear an artist say that,” Carbrey admitted. “Most of the time artists are like, ‘I want to break all the rules.’ This is the opposite of that.” Once he establishes the rules, he

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Local groups earn arts awards The Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission (KCAIC) has announced that it has awarded 36 grants totaling nearly $340,000. Several Wichita institutions 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. 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 educational 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 organizations play in building and sustaining cultural and economic vibrancy in Kansas. By funding a variety of professional and organizational development opportunities that impact cultural programming, these grants support initiatives that use the arts to enhance community vitality, 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 development 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 composer 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 African 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 professional sound and audio equipment to enhance its ability to stage outdoor productions. • Orpheum Performing Arts Center, 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 Theatre’s 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 Orpheum and Cinema Salon community and post-screening discussion groups, Sack Lunch Cinema educational screening, and increased interaction between visiting and Kansas filmmakers. • Wichita Festivals, Wichita, $5,000. Wichita Festivals collaborated with several Wichita-area non-profit organizations to bring acclaimed puppeteer and artist Wayne White to Wichita for a 10-day residency, during which he presented lectures, provided a permanent exhibition of his work and conducted workshops with local artists, students and community members to build puppets 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 placemaking culminating in the creation of three to five durable art installations incorporating light as a primary element of design.

We found lots of people enjoying the Wichita River Festival in early June. TOP: Sisters Devan Gramly, left, and Adrian Sanders enjoy a kayak ride on the Arkansas River. The girls were visiting Wichita from Hays during RiverFest. FAR LEFT: Kendall Young of Lyndon, Kan., shows off her “air pack” made of balloons. LEFT: An unknown contestant digs in during the funnel cake eating contest. BOTTOM LEFT: Eastsiders Hallee Thompson, left, a student at Wichita Heights, Hannah Tobias, a student at Wichita East, and Alexandra Stamps, a student at Trinity Academy, take in the carnage that is the funnel cake eating contest. The girls were among the Prairie Schooner Mates, who assist Admiral Windwagon Smith. BELOW: Mike Greene – also known this year as Admiral Windwagon Smith – poses with East Wichita News publisher Paul Rhodes outside of Century II.

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Symphony in the Flint Hills

Annual concert draws thousands The annual Symphony in the Flint Hills drew several thousand people to the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve just outside of Strong City on June 13. The annual concert has been held in several locations, including last year in Butler County and in 2013 at Fort Riley. The Kansas City Symphony performs each year, and this year’s 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 children and adults sample musical instruments, and lots of music. Photos

TOP: A cowboy rides through the prairie grass near Strong City, helping guide covered wagon rides. ABOVE: Makenzie Schiedel, left, Lori Schiedel, Carley Schiedel and Ida Koehler, all of Andover, pose for a family portrait at Symphony in the Flint Hills. RIGHT: Lyle Lovett headlined this year’s concert.

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WCTDC heads ‘Into The Woods’ Wichita Children’s Theatre and Dance Center will present the musical “Into the Woods,” July 23-26 in the Heather Muller Black Box Theatre on the center’s second ﬂoor. WCTDC is located at 201 Lulu. The show is recommend for youth ages 10 and up. “Into the Woods “ is a Stephen Sondheim masterpiece that takes a deeper look into the world of fairy tales. Performances will be at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, July 23-24; at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 25 (after the annual silent auction); and at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday, July 26. Admission is $8.50 for regular seating and $12.50 for premium seating. Pricing is different on July 25 due to the fundraiser. Seating is limited. Call 316-262-2282 for reservations.

WSU to host MVC championships appeared in the ﬁnals in each of the last six years. Home to the WSU tennis program since September 1993, the Sheldon Coleman Tennis Complex features eight lighted tennis courts with spectator seating and a 2,500-square-footclubhouse. Prairie Dunes is consistently ranked among the best golf courses in the United States. The 6,759-yard course has played host to a variety of national caliber events, including the 2002 U.S. Women’s Open, the 2006 U.S. Senior Open and the 2014 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships. WSU won men’s golf team titles in 2006, 2010 and 2012 in the MVC Tournament’s three previous stops there.

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Wichita State will host three Missouri Valley Conference championship events in 2015-16, the league announced in June. The MVC Men’s and Women’s Tennis Team Championships are slated for April 29-May 1, 2016, at WSU’s Sheldon Coleman Tennis Complex. The MVC Men’s Golf Championship will take place at Hutchinson’s Prairie Dunes Country Club, April 25-26. WSU has been a frequent tennis host. This will be the third stop in seven years for the men’s and women’s tourneys. In the most recent go-around (2013), the Shockers swept both titles to earn the MVC’s automatic bids to the NCAA Tournament. The WSU women have won seven-straight MVC Tournament crowns, and the men have

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Sailing in Kansas wind

Ninnescah Sailing Association marks 50 years BY SAM JACK Sailing is a human activity of long standing. The forms of sailing vessels and the behaviors of those who sail them have been shaped by wind, water, tide and storm. Insofar as those forces are basically the same anywhere, sailing is the same. So it shouldn’t have felt surprising to round a corner in Cheney State Park and come upon a forest of masts that would not have looked out of place in the island tropics, or anywhere water and wind meet. East Wichitan Patrick Coulter, NSA historian and former commodore of Cheney Lake’s Ninnescah Sailing Association, teamed up with current commodore Gregg Greenwood to show me around the group’s impressive lakeshore facility. This being Kansas, NSA almost always has wind in abundance. Everything else, including even the lake itself, has been dredged, bulldozed, hammered and poured into place over the course of the group’s history, the pair told me. The water was impounded for the ﬁrst time in 1964, and on June 14, 1965, 41 people met to form the NSA. In the years since, the group has

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grown to 180 members. Historical pictures from the group’s early days show the lake’s origins as a massively artiﬁcial Bureau of Reclamation project much more clearly. Hardly any trees dot the shore, and it’s easy to imagine how the drown farmed ﬁelds would have once looked. It was quite a task to get from there to where the association is now. “(The founding members) wanted slips they could pull up to, and they were willing to put up money for those, right off the bat. It kind of surprised me that they were so willing to do that, but they were pretty committed to building this

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place up,” said Coulter. “It wasn’t always easy, but it ended up being a really good thing.” Before becoming an NSA member, Coulter had done some daytime sailing in small boats, even racing as a guest in NSA regattas, but a nighttime sail with member Frank Hopper was what sold him and wife Heather Coulter on joining. “He took us on his boat for a night sail, and we joined the yacht club that night, which was one of the ﬁnest decisions we made,” said Patrick Coulter. “It was beautiful. I mean, See SAILING, Page 27A

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Several East Wichita residents are Class of 2015 inductees into the Wichita Biddy Basketball Hall of Fame. Induction is a result of an individual’s Biddy Basketball career and his or her accomplishments after Biddy Basketball. Founded in 1980, the Wichita Biddy Basketball Hall of Fame includes past inductees such as, Antoine Carr, Darnell Valentine, Jamie Thompson, Greg Drieling, Aubrey Sherrod, Maurice Evans, Karema Williams, Mark Standiford, Lafayette Norwood, Joanna McFarland, Cleo Littleton, Darren and Todd Dreifort, Barry Sanders and many other outstanding athletes, coaches and pillars of the Wichita community. To see a complete list of Wichita Biddy Basketball Hall of Fame inductees, go to www.WichitaHOF.com. Following is the list of 2015 inductees. Matt Boswell – Boswell was a 1990s Biddy Basketball All-American and went on to a great All-City basketball career playing at Kapaun-Mt. Carmel H.S. and AllMIAA honors at Emporia State University. Henry Carr – Carr followed his two brothers, Antoine and James, into Biddy Basketball in the early 1970s and became a four-time Biddy All-Star. He later became a starter for the Wichita State Shockers. His two older brothers, Antoine and James are also Wichita Biddy Basketball Hall of Famers. Megan Davison – Davison began playing Biddy Basketball in the late 1980s, won the 1996 World Biddy Basketball Championship and was named 1996 Miss World Biddy. After Biddy, Davison played basketball and softball at Derby High School and played college softball at Emporia State. Mike Kennedy – Kennedy played Biddy Basketball in the early 1960s for coach Charlie Strong, and several of his teammates went on to play at higher levels of basketball. Kennedy went on to a successful radio career as the voice of Wichita Aeros, the NBC and the WSU Shockers. Nate Robertson – Robertson played Biddy Basketball from 1986 to 1990. His 1989 team was Biddy Champions. In 1986, Nate won the Merit Award and he was a Biddy All-Star in 1987, 1988 and 1989. Robertson went on to pitch in Major League Baseball for the Marlins, Phillies and Tigers, winning 57 games. Carl Taylor – Coach Taylor was the Southeast High School head basketball coach from 1992 to 2011. At one point, he became the leader for the all-time City League number of wins, with 315, and won three Kansas state championships. Taylor will be inducted as a benefactor for his contributions to helping young athletes become better men. Inductions were done on an individual basis in May and June on “The Pressbox” radio show on KGSO 1410 AM.

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Kitchen Tune-Up delivers dramatic results with total renovations Wichita’s Kitchen Tune-Up team started its franchise operation in 2005 with a focus on quick and effective kitchen makeovers – the Tune-Up. Today, that service – the One-Day Tune-Up – still produces smiles of satisfaction with Kitchen TuneUp’s clients. But more and more, customers are turning to Kitchen Tune-Up for complete renovation projects that can turn tired and worn-out kitchen and bath spaces into dreams come true. And those projects produce even more smiles for customers. A recent Wichita project – a complete makeover of a cramped kitchen and dining room area – produced just that kind of response from the happy homeowners. “We now have a truly transformed kitchen and we give all the thanks to Kitchen Tune-Up,” said the homeowners. 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 didn’t 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 transformation, and copper accents tie everything together. “It’s just beautiful. It’s so much more than we ever imagined,” said the happy homeowners. “It was such a smooth process! Kitchen Tune-Up presented us with ideas, and we were able to make the final decisions. And when the work was done, we walked around for a couple of days just trying to believe how everything we wanted was accomplished.” Kitchen Tune-Up has remodeled hundreds of kitchens since Jim and Arlene Phillips started the business over 10 years ago, and the company’s services range from a One-Day “Tune-Up” of cabinets or any interior wood surfaces, to cabinet refacing projects to complete custom kitchens and bathrooms. All of those refacing and new construction options are available to see at the company’s new design center at 4057 N. Woodlawn, Suite 1. For more information or to schedule a free consultation, call Kitchen Tune-Up at 316-558-8888. Visit their website, kitchentuneup.com, for more information. Be sure to check out the local company’s extensive BEFORE/AFTER portfolios on Facebook, and when you visit the Facebook page, ‘LIKE’ their page, Kitchen Tune-Up, Wichita (Jim and Arlene Phillips)!

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Val Weeks sings with children during Circle Time at New Song Academy in East Wichita.

school developed its own Bible curriculum, and also added services for infants. With support and encouragement from her son Bart, a second school was launched in west Wichita in 2001. Several years later, that school was sold to an employee who had come up through the ranks under Lowen’s tutelage. “I stayed over here (east Wichita) and focused on

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this facility and its programs,” said Lowen. In recent years, that focus has been concentrated on infants through third graders, and “encompasses what we’re really good at.” Today, New Song Academy has a staff of 40 teachers and support personnel, and Lowen said she has been blessed with two key assistants – Pat Minson, who has been with her since 1983, and Raya Boykins, who has been on board since 2007. Both assistant administrators have classroom experience, which has been crucial to the school’s success. “Their backgrounds make them more aware of what our teachers need,” said Lowen. “We’re a family here, and that shows. I love this work, and our staff members do, too.” In addition to the skilled classroom staff at every age level, the school also has specialized teachers for music and physical education. And every day, Lowen can be found making her rounds through the school, talking and interacting with the children. After all, it’s her mission. New Song Academy is now gearing up for fall enrollment, and also has ongoing summer programs available for children of all ages. For more information, visit www.newsongacademyinc.com, or call the school at 316-688-1911 to schedule a visit and see Lowen’s mission at work.

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Phyllis Lowen is a dedicated educator with a powerful mission. That mission is being fulﬁlled every day at New Song Academy, the Christian school that Lowen built from the ground up starting in 1987. The school, located in east Wichita, is dedicated to parents who want a non-denominational Christian setting for their infants and young children. “It’s wonderful that parents want that for their children, and I’m thrilled that I’ve been able to carry out that mission for all these years,” said Lowen. She brings a passion and dedication to her calling, but credits the families that New Song Academy serves with always helping her to move forward. Lowen’s “mission,” as she refers to it, began with a church-based education program that transformed into New Song Academy at 6868 E. 32nd Street. A new facility was constructed on the site, and three years later, in 1990, a second building was added to the grounds. “When we started, our focus was preschool and childcare services,” said Lowen. New Song expanded to include children from 12 months old to kindergarten, and then continued to grow – in both directions. “The community was asking for that growth,” said Lowen, who met that need with elementary school and then middle school education programs. The

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black silhouette appears on the left side of the window, looming over the figure of the boy. Another black shadow shortly appears on the right. Film noir and old melodramas tell us how to interpret these – villains and menaces, surely. But in fact, the left figure is the boy’s 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 first impression was, ironically, 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 Kane’s 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 mother’s dream for her. The boy is playing Civil War, shouting “The Union forever! Jefferson and Jackson!” as the unity of his childhood is being destroyed. He throws a snowball at the words “Mrs. Kane’s Boarding House,” emphasizing the “Mrs.” as if to stress the absence of a father from here on, not that what little we see of Kane’s father suggests he was worth much. But he at least made an effort to adapt his speech and manner to a child’s 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 fashionable formal clothes and the mother’s hair fixed in a seamless bun, the guardian almost reduced to an abstract form with his buttoned overcoat – and See KANE, Page 24A

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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 outcomes 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-riches story with a comic moral ending. There are a number of problems with the reviews I read that make me wonder whether the reviewers understood “Dope” any better than I did. The Chronicle seemed to take the whole thing pretty seriously (although both reviewers 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 somebody’s 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 audience around me did not find them so. But both reviews sensed a shift in tone between the first part of “Dope” and the last, and neither made any comment on the ending at all. Still, it’s hard to resist “Dope” completely. 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, See DOPE, Page 24A

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A review from the San Francisco Chronicle, printed in the Wichita Eagle, gave “Dope” 3-1/2 stars, and Entertainment Weekly graded it B, so I was a little gratified to hear at the theater that word of mouth was not favorable, at least in Wichita, because I didn’t find 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 hero’s 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 confidentially, 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 doesn’t know where it came from, so he can’t 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 can’t 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 find somebody who can help him do that. And from that point on, as Entertainment Weekly complains, “the wheels start to buckle as (writer/director Ricky Famuyiwa) tries to pile on too many ridiculous detours and preposterous characters.” I suspect the problem is an effort to cover too many facets of the drug scene. We are given highly incomplete

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we see that Mrs. Kane’s boarding house is not such as we would have expected in Colorado’s gold-mining country. Everything 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 it’s necessary to show how carefully everything in “Citizen Kane” is used to emphasize the theme. I am leaving out a lot of details. You wouldn’t believe how long it took my movie appreciation classes to get this far. To be continued, I fear almost indeﬁnitely.

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Through July 18 – “Anchorman of Steel,” at Mosley Street Melodrama. Written by Carol Hughes and directed by Cindy Summers. Also featuring “Totally Rad” musical comedy revue. Starring: Craig Green, Dylan Lewis, Briley 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-festivals designed to activate the community along and near its Maize corridor, Maize Road. Featuring an American-Sousa band on July 2. Concert is free, bring blankets or chairs. Event will feature interactive artist installations by Mike Miller, Marc Durfee and Linenbur & 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 Musical,” 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.

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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 project 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 five acres of outdoor space, plus an 18,000 square foot indoor holding 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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On June 20, the Ninnescah Sailing Association held its annual “Blessing of the Fleet” ceremony. Club historian Patrick Coulter described the event: “Many people have traced the Blessing of the Fleet back to Portuguese sailors. Many of them were fishermen, and they’d go to sea and often wouldn’t return. Some calamity would come up. “So the blessing is a solemn event where you ask God to reach out and protect the people that are sailing, or anyone out on the water – fishermen, jet skis, boys on the shore. “We have it every year here, and we join literally thousands of clubs and city marinas all over the United States. “I attended one on Nantucket Island with almost 450 boats registered, including Navy and Coast Guard. The Navy and Coast Guard take it very seriously; everything is polished to the hilt, and they wear dress uniforms. “Here, we start out by the shelter house, with ministers saying a few words and Boy Scouts doing the flag salute. Everyone remembers the people who have died that are important in our lives or were members of this club, and then we cast a wreath out onto the water. Then we have a boat parade, where sailboats, motor boats, whoever wants to participate goes past an anchored boat with the ministers and the commodore and get a blessing as you go by. “It’s a great tradition, and it really means a lot.”

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low, we brought him to the club in a Miata convertible. Neptune initiates and welcomes, and then there’s a skit where they pretend that they’re crossing the equator and coming to Wichita.” Crossing over the equatorial line is a historic rite of passage for sailors, Coulter said, but lacking an equator at Cheney Lake, a rope held by Heather stands in. The NSA includes sailors with a variety of interests, both recreational and competitive, Coulter said. When I visited, boat owner Tom Olsen and his competitive sailing crew were at their slip, preparing the Screaming Eagle for a weekly Wednesday evening race. “You have to have a lot of prior experience and boat preparation and crew work,” said Olsen. “As for the boat, you need good sails and a fair bottom. And you have to be familiar with the racing rules, so it’s pretty complicated.” To keep that “fair bottom,” the Screaming Eagle spends its time when not in use elevated out of the water on floats. The wind itself is a factor not so easily controlled. “You can be familiar with the wind, but it does what it wants to. You know generally what it’s going to do, but you can never totally figure it out until you get on the water. That’s the fun of sailboat racing. You have to adapt to the situation,” said Olsen. Coulter’s own approach to sailing is now a bit more sedate, though he noted that it is always a more active form of entertainment

than making a trip to the multiplex. Giving youths and adults the opportunity to sail is an important part of the association’s mission. “The junior sailing program we offer is just really top notch,” said Coulter. “I had a guy in my office who said, ‘My little boy is interested in taking sailing classes,’ so we signed him up, and he took the week off with his boy and camped out. Afterward, the father came in and said, ‘Nothing my little boy has ever done will mean as much to him as that week out there.’ It taught him to be on his own, listen and learn. I was really proud of our club for being able to have that kind of a program to change little kids’ lives.” Fifty years of the Ninnescah Sailing Association is not just a number to Coulter. It represents 50 years worth of connecting with members, sharing a passion and sharing the joy of getting out on the water. Before the creation of the reservoirs, there was not much of a sailing tradition, so NSA has created one from scratch, he said. To renew that tradition, NSA is inviting past members who have drifted away or moved out of town to join in a reunion celebration July 25. Beginning sailing classes are offered for adults as well as youths. Sailboats and other needed equipment are provided, and safety is an emphasis. Visit ninnescah.org for more information on the reunion, classes, activities, membership and Afterdeck facility rental.

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it was absolutely a starlit sky, and the winds were maybe 10 miles an hour. It was just beautiful, out there for two-and-a-half or three hours.” Coulter was named commodore for the year 1994, and though it was a successful year at the helm, the sailing was not always smooth. “We had a bad storm that year,” Coulter recalled. “Several of our years, we’ve had bad storms out there, so that was one of the major things, just getting rebuilt. One row of slips was a complete loss, and two more had severe damage. Two cabanas were blown away, and the electricity went out.” In response to the storm, the club added additional rock and rubble to the jetties that protect the NSA’s harbor area, raising them by three feet. “Before, if we had a flood like the one we had just a couple weeks ago this summer, it would put our jetties underwater, so we would lose the protection from a north wind,” said Coulter. “It was a big deal, being able to raise that jetty, and it was not an inexpensive thing. At that time, the Bureau of Reclamation required that the rock that was brought in had to be a specific gravity so that it wouldn’t wash away. We had to have 17 or 18 train cars full of rock brought in from southwest Oklahoma, because there was no rock available locally.” Coulter clearly appreciates the opportunity to preserve, record and participate in NSA traditions. The group presented its first annual fireworks show at the lake during his year as commodore, and he relished his and his wife’s role in initiating new members. “We have a member who comes across the water dressed as King Neptune,” said Coulter, describing the initiation rite. “Some years, when the water was

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