East Wichita News May 2015 by Travis Mounts

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Volume 32 • Issue 5 May 2015

ON THE COVER Painting a new life | 12A Following an accident that paralyzed an Eastside woman and claimed the life of her daughter, Jeanne Gordon turned to her faith and to art to help sustain her.

10 questions with former Wichita Mayor and EastSider Carl Brewer | 20A

Features Cinema Scene .......................7A Movie Review........................8A Dateline...................................9A People and Places ............11A Focus On Business............17A

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When spring arrives in full force... Spring has sprung. Actually, it’s been springing out all over the Great Plains for a while, but there always seems to be a point where it quickly kicks into high gear. That moment, for me, came in the middle of April. I had gone out of town for a little more than 48 hours to attend the Kansas Press Association’s annual convention. When I left, most of the green in my yard came from the weeds on the ground. My poor yard is now about 85 percent weeds, so I have to count on them to make it look passable. The perrenials were just beginning to poke up through the ground. I left midday on a Thursday and got home well after dark on a Saturday. So when I emerged from my house on Sunday morning, it seemed as if somebody had gone to the giant “spring” switch in the Mother Nature control center and flipped it to the “on” position. My trees – especially the grand old elm – were full of bright green leaves. All the brown that had still been hanging on in my grass/weeds had been replaced by various shades of green along with colorful little flowers on the clovers and other such stuff. The shrubs were suddenly in high gear, and the flowers were now in full bloom. In addition, the blues in the sky had intensified significantly, and the sun was more vibrant than the winter version of itself that I had left two days before. Before the trip, spring was just in preseason form. You could see signs of what was to come, but the hues of winter still put a pale touch on the landscape. But that Sunday morning, it felt like spring was here in full force and would not be going away. Of course, this being Kansas, it only took about two days before it began to feel like summer was creeping in. And then it got cooler. And warmer. And wetter. And then warmer, stormy, cold, stormy, sunny and warmer, and then at least one day with all of that. This is Kansas, after all. Consistency is the one thing we don’t expect – or

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get – in our weather. ••••• Spring weather means spring activities and the chance to spend much more time outside. Wichita State baseball is well into the season, but as the weather continues to warm, we’ll be able to leave the parkas behind when we go to the ball park. The Wichita Wingnuts will open soon, and the Wichita River Festival – the city’s biggest part of the year – is now just a few weeks away. It’s a great time to be in Wichita. ••••• One of the rites of late spring and early summer used to be taking your grade card to Joyland for free rides. For myself and thousands of others from Wichita and the surrounding area, a trip to Joyland was a milestone event each year, a reward for a long nine months of school. It’s been a lot of years since that excitement built up through the youth of Wichita. My two boys are 18 and 14, and they do have some memories of Joyland. I’m surprised that my youngest son does because of how many years it has been since Joyland was open. The demolition efforts that began last month at the old amusement park were sad – necessary and overdue, but sad. It was more than a piece of my childhood. It was a shared memory between myself and my kids. It was a piece of Wichita history. Joyland stopped being Joyland a long time ago, but the news of the demolition was still sad. It was the ﬁnal step in the long passing of an old friend.

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in a short amount of time,” Knapp said. Knapp, who described himself as a Christian, said he didn’t believe that people chose to be gay. He acknowledged that the Bible condemned homosexuality, but he said the Scriptures condemned other common practices – everything from divorce to eating shellfish. “The Bible says if you sin with your right hand you’re supposed to cut it off,” Knapp remarked. However, he was quick to commend Wright and express affection for the pastor, who is now associate pastor at Summit Church in East Wichita. “I couldn’t do it without him,” Knapp said. “I love Pastor Wright – I still love him. He’s a man of integrity and he walks the walk.” Knapp wants as many people as possible to see his documentary. He hopes to show it at film festivals and make it available on Netflix. His goal is to finish it by late summer, but he won’t release it until he is satisfied. “I think with the exception of raising two kids,” Knapp said, “it’s the most important thing I’ve ever done in my life.”

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Documentary explores the relationship between homosexuality and Christianity Story Adam Knapp has a diverse communications background. He has held jobs in print and online media, at a TV station, in marketing and as a college English instructor. Perhaps it was fate that he added one more title to his impressive resume: filmmaker. Knapp, a Towanda resident, is making a documentary titled “Out Here in Kansas.” It features Burt Humburg, a football player and homecoming king at Andover High School who graduated in 1994. Knapp, who worked for The Wichita Eagle for 11 years, wrote about Humburg in 1997. Humburg’s house was destroyed in the Andover tornado in 1991, and his father died a year later. Knapp described Humburg as a “chubby, nonathletic bookworm” who became a stellar offensive lineman. “He kind of turned himself into a studly lineman and got a football scholarship,” Knapp said. Although Knapp moved on to cover other stories, he never forgot Humburg.

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“He never left my mind just because of his intelligence and openness,” Knapp said. “He just wasn’t your typical jock.” Knapp later learned that Humburg was gay. After Knapp started the Andover American – an online publication – in 2009, he wrote another story about Humburg. “It was fascinating to me because he was so religious when he was young,” Knapp said. “It was such a large part of his childhood.” Humburg’s family attended Central Christian Church in East Wichita, and Rev. Joe Wright was their pastor. Knapp and his children also attended the church. Wright supported an amendment to the Kansas Constitution that banned same-sex marriage. Wright remarked to Knapp that he would like to visit with Humburg, now a physician in Iowa. Humburg told Knapp he would welcome the opportunity. That’s when the idea of a documentary took

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root. Knapp said his goal was to tell Humburg’s story. He remarked that when someone is a Christian and the family includes a gay relative, it often isn’t discussed. Knapp added that he thought homosexuals were reluctant to go to

church because of fear they would not be accepted. “I don’t have all the answers,” he continued. “I’m just trying to start a discussion.” Knapp, Humburg and Wright recently ate lunch together and then sat down

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Frederico Fellini had with “La Dolce Vita” in 1960, except that it is questionable what thematic unity Griffith could claim – military conquests by great powers and inadequate police investigations of apparent solutions to crimes don’t seem to have much in common, either. The part of “Intolerance” that I’d wager nobody who has ever seen it forgets is the scene in Babylon, especially in Belshazzar’s court – still one of the most impossibly huge sets ever constructed, stills of which are still among the most commonly reproduced in film history. There is a great deal more in Griffith than I care to try to cover here. The book is such a standard that it must be available at least in libraries. But a thought just came to me while typing that may explain why I wanted to write about “Intolerance” (which is surely still available, too): a movie that may or may not make coherent sense when all its parts are considered together, but which was popular with its niche audience (see Schickel on the myth of its failure, which in some ways parallels that of “Citizen Kane”) and had enormous influence because of its special effects (in the days before CGI and other cheats), with heroic visuals that swamped everything else and kept the audiences thrilled. Where else have I heard complaints like these? But I digress. “Intolerance” lacks a single central story or even a central character for an audience to identify with and live See CINEMA, Page 10A

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“True Story” is a pretty good movie that may be suffering at the box ofﬁce because of some of its virtues. It’s basically a psychological mystery about a mand played by James Franco, whose actions and motives in the past are mysterious and, for quite legitimate reasons, inconsistently revealed – if they are ever really revealed at all. Jonah Hill plays the narrator character, who is initially fascinated by the fact Franco, accused of mass murder of a family, has claimed Hill’s identity when the two have never even crossed paths. Hill is trying to get the truth with only Franco as a source of information, and Franco may or may not even know what he did. There are suggestions of amnesia, total or partial, or maybe schizophrenia – if indeed he did anything that he is accused of. His motives may well be as unclear to himself as they are to Hill and us, which is not uncommon in cases like this in real life, and “True Story” claims to be a true story. I am waiting for the next printing of the book written by the character Hill plays, though I doubt that it will clear everything up. There are even hints of the paranormal between the two characters, who are suggested to understand each other better than the known facts can explain. It’s all intriguingly puzzling in ways that do not seem unintended. This kind of mystery calls for either eerie or practically documentary realism, and writer-director Rupert Goold has chosen the documentary approach. There are the occasional, almost-required (these days) ﬂashback, memory and internal-action shots, which never seem to tell us anything we wouldn’t have thought of without them. But they’re about the only artsy touches in a movie that depends almost entirely on the facts themselves. In some ways it reminded me of “Dragnet” in its interview and its “only the facts, ma’am,” style. Be alert to what is being said (more said than shown). The biggest jolt to

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me came from Felicity Jones’ sudden bursting out of the background with an interpretation that had not occupied me much, but the cop and the judge also have their interpretive moments. I had just ﬁnished reading a biography of Charles Manson, which also left important aspects of the story foggy, even when the basic facts are clear. That is something I ﬁnd more and more pervasive in current movies. Compare motivation in “The Hurt Locker” or “American Sniper” to motivation in old standards like “Sergeant York.” How much can you realistically expect to understand a character like the one Franco plays? There are touches of consideration of journalistic ethics and how much anybody’s “truth” is a matter of that individual’s psychology. But the basic material, “true” or not, is a little to far-out to make such considerations effective. Still, it’s worthwhile to keep the opening prologue in Africa in mind. It includes some of the same major themes as the main story, including perhaps the Hill character’s desperate need for a strong story to revive his journalistic career. And remember that his character wrote the book “True Story” is based on. Are the movie producers calling into question their own production? This is probably making too much of what is basically an interesting variation on a mystery story with Gothic elements and a touch of social comment. But I can’t help thinking there is more to this movie than we might suspect.

May 1 – “Miss Representation,” a documentary film by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, exposes how mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America. “Miss Representation” includes stories from teenage girls and interviews with politicians, journalists, entertainers and academics including Condoleezza Rice, Katie Couric, Jean Kilbourne and Gloria Steinem. The film offers facts and statistics to arm audiences with a new perspective. Following the film will be a discussion among the audience. The film will be shown at the Murdock Theater, 536 N. Broadway, Wichita. This is the third 2015 film by the First Friday Alternative Film Series, which aims not only toward activists but also to mainstream folks who will learn more about the topic. The June 5 film will be about immigration, “Who is Dayani Crystal?” The suggested donation is $8.

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going on in the parking lot. May 8-9 – The Wichita Center for the Arts will hold its ﬁrst-ever student-faculty art fair from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on May 8 and 9 at the Center, 9112 E. Central. The event is free and open to the public. This fair will feature original, custom gifts perfect for Mother’s Day. Students and faculty members have created a variety of ﬁne art including painting, drawing, printmaking, jewelry, sculpture, metal and ceramics that will be for sale. There will be items in a variety of price ranges. Food trucks will be onsite for the art fair. On Friday, May 8, Let’m Eat Brats will be serving traditional German dishes from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., and from 5 to 7 p.m. that evening BS Sandwich Press will offer its specialties. From 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 9, Funky Monkey Munchies will offer a variety of street food and Kona Ice will offer a variety of refreshing options. For more information on food truck offerings during the art fair, contact Diane Tinker Hurst at dianetinkerhurst@gmail.com. Enjoy a classic car show from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 9. Attendees will be able to enjoy this three-dimensional art and vote for the best in show. If you are interested in showing your car, call Lauren at 316-634-2787. May 16 – Victory in the Valley’s 24th annual East Meets West Walk/Run at Exploration Place. Each year the East and West sides of Wichita and the surrounding areas meet together at Exploration Place to support and encourage cancer patients/Survivors and their families. Race registration began this week at Victory House, 3755 E. Douglas, at First Gear and online at www. victoryinthevalley.org. Pre-registration is $25 or $22 for team members. AnySee DATELINE, Page 14A

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May 2 – The 20th annual Herb Day will be held from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 2, at the Sedgwick County Extension Education Center, 21st Street and Ridge Road in Wichita. Those who attend will learn about selecting, planting, maintaining and cooking with herbs. The national herb of the year is savory, which will be featured in the demonstrations and seminars. Chef Susie Hanna, executive sous chef at Reﬂection Ridge Resort Lifestyle Community, will be a guest speaker on cooking with herbs, including savory. In addition, seminars by members of the Herb Society and Extension Master Gardeners will cover topics relating to growing and cooking with herbs. Plant vendors from around the region will have herbs and other plants for sale. Herb Day events will include seminars in the Sunﬂower Room and Demonstration Garden, Master Gardener plant sale, Herb Society box lunch sale, children’s activity, vendors selling herbs and other gardening items, and door prizes. Kansas Grown Farmer’s Market will be

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May 1 – The Ad Astra Singers from Wichita State University will be at the Kansas Aviation Museum for a free concert in the atrium. The 16-voice a capella group will make the most of the acoustics in the museum’s atrium. The concert runs 7-9 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

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Big changes come to art and book fair Every Mother’s Day weekend for the last 55 years, the Friends of the Wichita Art Museum have held the Art and Book Fair as a fundraiser for the Wichita Art Museum. A bold new take on the event brings the fair home to the Wichita Art Museum. In future years, the fair will be able to take advantage of the Museum’s newly renovated grounds, but until that transformation takes place, When: Saturday, the event will May 9 from 10 a.m. be held inside to 5 p.m. and Sunthe Museum day, May 10 from itself. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The 2015 theme, “Art Where: Wichita of the Book,” Art Museum, 1400 will focus on West Museum Boulevard authors, illustrators, and Cost: Admission is book sales. free both days Hundreds of books in every conceivable genre will be available in the S. Jim and Darla Farha Great Hall. And in the Living Room section of the museum some of the region’s best artists will offer their creations for sale in the “Small Works Market.” In keeping with tradition, “Art of the Book” will remain on Mother’s Day weekend, Saturday and Sunday, May 9-10. “We’re excited to bring the Fair back home to the Wichita Art Museum,” said Jill D. Miller, 2015 Art and Book Fair Chair of this Friends event. “This year’s event will be much different with lots of fun surprises to celebrate the art of the book.” For area patrons and longtime fair-

goers, the Friends of the Wichita Art Museum expect “Art of the Book” to bring new growth to this annual fundraiser as the organization evolves and continues serving the mission of the Wichita Art Museum and Wichita’s creative community. In May 2016, the Friends intend to connect “Art of the Book” back to the traditional Art and Book Fair by remaining at the Wichita Art Museum and issuing a call for entries to regional and national artists to exhibit on the newly landscaped grounds of the Museum.

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movies and some based on comic books.) A lot of the ﬁrst quarter of “Intolerance” depends so much in intertitles to tell the story that it’s almost more like an illustrated book than a real movie with the story acted out. As the movie goes along, the Christ and the French stories tend to disappear and the dramatic segments get longer, but the damage is done by then. Well, so much for the century-old question of “Intolerance.” There is nothing new here, after all. The controversy will go on.

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vicariously through, and it interrupts each story with the frequency of television commercials, so any emotional involvement it inspires is strictly temporary. Eventually, the audience tires. Try to think of short-story-anthology movies that have been successful, except maybe some that were inspired by television shows. (I give you some Edgar Allen Poe

Small Works Market – An opportunity to purchase smaller works from amazing regional artists. Art and Photography Booth – Linnebur and Miller will create a one-ofa-kind image of you as a work of art. $20 Tallgrass Film Festival showng of “Big Fish” – For the first time, the Fair is partnering with the Tallgrass Film Festival. The classic film “Big Fish” will be shown on Saturday at 2 p.m. and on Sunday at 11 a.m. in the museum’s Howard E. Wooden Lecture Hall. Admission is free. Storyrtelling – On Saturday morning from 10 a.m. to noon in the museum’s Howard E. Wooden Lecture Hall, featuring Arts Partners performers from “The Griots: Keepers of Stories” troupe; Amy Woolf, storyteller and puppeteer; and Chris Gulick, artist and performer. Authors and Illustrators – Jon Pirtle, illustrator, will give a presentation.

Interim Wichita Police Chief Nelson Mosley promoted nine members of the department last month. The promotions became effective April 11. Ronald E. Hunt was promoted from sergeant to lieutenant. Promoted from detective to sergeant were Chad A. Cooper, Matthew W. Lang, Roderick A. Miller and Patrick M. Phipps. Promoted from ofﬁcer to detective were Andrew Q. Do, Jerry J. Manuel, Jeremy A. Miller and Maurice A. Mitchell. The Concordia Brass Ensemble and Concordia Concert Band performed a joint concert on Tuesday, April 14, at St. John Lutheran Church in Seward, Neb. Janelle Adams, a freshman from Andover, played ﬂute in the University Concert Band, which performed the “Gallant Men March” by John Cacavas, an arrangement of “Cotton-Eyed Joe” by Chris Sharp and “Blue Ridge Reel” by Brian Balmages, among other pieces. The Concert Band includes Concordia students and faculty, as well as residents

from the Seward community performing concert band music drawn from sacred and traditional band repertoire. Sullivan Higdon & Sink (SHS), one of the area’s largest advertising and communications ﬁrms, announces that its managing partners have restructured its leadership team with the promotion of its two senior vice presidents, John January and Ali Mahaffy, to agency coCEOs, effective immediately. January and Mahaffy will be charged with oversight of the agency’s growth and day-to-day operations of all SHS ofﬁces (Kansas City, Mo.; Wichita, Kan.; and Washington, D.C.). The two former senior vice presidents each have a long tenure with SHS and have worked together closely at the agency for 14 years. January most recently served as SVP and executive creative director at SHS and executive-on-loan at SHS spin-off Volcanic. He rejoined SHS in 1999 after serving as associate creative director at Kansas City independent Barkley. Ali

Mahaffy, previously in the position of senior vice president and director of brand management, has been with SHS for 14 years. Prior to SHS, Mahaffy worked in marketing for H&R Block after starting her career at various Kansas City agencies. Jessica Hauschild of Andover was among seven Kansas Wesleyan University scholars to attend the Alpha Chi National Convention in Chicago March 18-22. At the convention, Hauschild presented her original mathematics research “On the Levi Graph of Point-Line Conﬁguration,” with proofs. She won the Joseph E. and Bessie Mae Pryor Prize in Mathematics award for best mathematics paper presented at the national convention. Hauschild also was named as one of 10 recipients nationally to receive Alpha Chi’s $2,500 Sledge/Benedict Graduate Fellowship, which will help with expenses as she begins graduate school in the fall at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her goal is to complete a Ph.D. in statistics. There

were 64 nominations for the Sledge/ Benedict Fellowships, with two students receiving the Robert W. Sledge Fellowship and Hauschild among 10 receiving the H. Y. Benedict Fellowship.

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Painting a new life

Faith, art sustained Jeanne Gordon after spinal cord injury In 2006, Jeanne Gordon marked half a century of life. She decided that instead of throwing a party for one day, she would make the whole year special, doing the things she loved – gardening, bicycling, spending time with her husband and six children. “Our oldest daughter, Gabriele, and I would ride bicycles. We’d do that every morning, and we’d leave early to avoid traffic. But on a Saturday morning, a truck came up behind us. Gabriele

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passed away, and that’s when I became a quadriplegic,” said Gordon. Gabrielle was 27 when she died. Gordon was and is an active member of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, a short distance from her home in College Hill. Her faith in a plan from God, both for her and for her children, saw her through the dual traumas of

Gabriele’s death and her own loss of mobility. “I always asked God that, if he were to call one of my children at an earlier age, that it’d be at the best time of their lives, that they could spend eternity with Him,” said Gordon. “Sometimes Gabriele and I would pray, sometimes we’d talk, sometimes we’d sing or be quiet together. There was one particular day that I asked, ‘God, what do you want me to do for you now?’ It was a

week later that the accident happened. “So when I woke up, from all of the traumas and neck surgery, I realized Gabriele was gone and realized that she had been living her life beautifully. I had a peace about that. And the other thing was, I’d say I’d do what it was God wanted me to do – so I knew that being a quadriplegic was what He had in mind,” said Gordon. “My faith has been so important. It’s the passion that drives me and sustains me.” Before the accident, Gordon was a committed gardener, spending hours every day watering, weeding and planting in her house’s extra-large yard. While she was rehabilitating at Craig Hospital in Denver, friends, family and church members teamed up to keep things growing. “I still love to garden – and I’m great at directing,” Gordon said with a smile. She later helped lay out a path through

ABOVE: Quadriplegic artist Jeanne Gordon poses for a photo with her grandson, Ignatius Gordon, who is one of the youngest members of a large and close-knit family. LEFT: Gordon paints an image in her East Wichita home.

painting surfaced again. I think God graced me with that creative outlet of painting.” Gordon has now painted hundreds of images, on a variety of subjects. A table at one end of her room, which used to be her house’s living room, displays paintings of animals, plants, landscapes and people. “I think, over time, my painting has just gotten better,” said Gordon. “Probably because I’m pretty prolific. I’ve painted over 200 images by now, and I’m always trying to challenge myself. I just recently did probably the hardest one ever, and that was a commission for the 50-year reunion of the Wichita State players that went to the Final Four.” The challenge of that commission was to summon the precision necessary to execute a logo, complete with lettering. “I used to do calligraphy and that served me well for this project, but lettering, you want to get it even and exact, so we had to start over times on end,” said Gordon. “I got to present the finished article to the athletic department and Coach Marshall. I’m definitely a Shocker basketball fan and See PAINTER, Page 15A

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her yard that makes it wheelchair accessible without disrupting its aesthetic. While at Craig, Gordon was exposed to many new channels for the energy she had formerly poured into her garden, her “mom life” and her church and community involvements. “They had a recreation room where there was always projects going, or field trips,” said Gordon. “Anything that you wanted to know how to do, they could tell you about. They showed us how you could even go bowling or fishing. “I asked the girls there if I could figure out something to draw with. They rigged up a pretty barbaric looking thing – a pencil taped to a dowel rod, with a plastic mouthpiece, which proved to be havoc on my TMJ.” In collaboration with a dentist, Gordon devised an alternative that allowed her to hold any brush level with her lower teeth, without having to clamp down on it or block her ability to speak. By the time she returned home to Wichita, after about four months at Craig, she had embarked on her new vocation as a painter. “Before, I had lots of different types of art that I did, but I had never had time to paint because of having a busy mom’s life with six kids. When I became stilled, then that interest in

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Inspired by a great aunt who always painted artwork to give as wedding presents, mouthstick artist Jeanne Gordon frequently paints images of the Madonna and child. Since an accident rendered her quadriplegic nearly 10 years ago, Gordon has executed hundreds of paintings.

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City, county seeking feedback on community plan Wichita Mayor Jeff Longwell and other public ofﬁcials are urging residents to attend one of the upcoming open-house meetings seeking public feedback on the draft Community Investments Plan, 2015-2035 for Wichita and Sedgwick County. The draft plan guides Wichita’s longterm growth and sets priorities for future investments in municipal buildings and infrastructure such as streets, bridges, water supply, sanitary and storm sewer, parks, libraries, and ﬁre and police facilities. Three of four meetings remain; one was held in April. The remaining openhouse meetings are scheduled from 4 to 7 p.m. at the following dates and locations:

• May 4, CityArts, 334 N. Mead St. • May 11, WSU Metroplex, Room 138, 5015 E. 29th Street North. • May 18, Sedgwick County Extension Ofﬁce, Sunﬂower Room, 7001 W. 21st Street. The meetings are the last in a series of community engagement efforts that have occurred during the past two years. Residents are now being asked to view the draft plan and provide comment regarding its overall direction and content. The draft plan can be viewed at www. communityinvestmentsplan.org. If a group or organization wants to receive a presentation on the draft plan before June 12, contact Dave Barber at 316268-4490 or dbarber@wichita.gov.

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a KU fan as well. I’ve probably painted seven or eight Jayhawks, and just recently I ﬁnished a Willie the Wildcat because people were asking me where that was.” On April 22, Gordon’s work in progress was a seascape, based on a work by American artist Winslow Homer; a fat book on Homer sat on a side table, and another large art book, on Francisco Goya, was providing some additional elevation to a television set. “I start with another artist’s work and then as I go along, inevitably things change,” said Gordon. “For original compositions, of ﬂowers or animals or landscapes, I tend to use a photo for reference, just to keep things more stable and reliable.” Gordon’s easel clips easily onto her wheelchair. An assistant helps Gordon change brushes, select colors for her palate and reposition the canvas. She hopes to publish free plans and sketches so that others can duplicate her setup, and a few months ago, she met with Dustin Gower, a Cheney High School student who is just getting started with mouthstick art. “I was so excited to see his love of painting and to share how my mouth-

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stick was made, so that they could get someone on board to do one for him. He was darling, and he also had that passion for painting,” said Gordon. One thing Gordon has not yet painted is a self-portrait. But if she did paint one, it, like herself, would be transformed, though not lessened, by her disability. “Probably the hardest thing for me to let go of was that I was no longer the person doing for people, but had to be the person or vessel that others did good by,” said Gordon. “But I don’t feel like it’s a negative thing at all. I got to experience what my life was like in a more normal way, but now this has become my normal, and I feel almost privileged to be able to feel all these different aspects of the body – even the nerve pain and stuff like that. It just puts me in awe of how great God is, and this impossibly intricate design.” Gordon’s work is available on greeting cards at several stores around Wichita, including The Plaid Giraffe, Trio’s, Dandurand Drugs, Watermark Books & Cafe, Maxine’s and the Wichita Art Museum gift shop. They were also sold at her family’s clothing store, Brick’s, until it closed last year after nearly 100 years in business. Gordon’s website, www.mouthstickart.com, includes a gallery of her work, a link to her Etsy store and contact information for commission requests.

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The Newman University 13th annual Hispanic Scholars Program (NHSP) and 11th annual Native American Scholar Program (NNASP) closed with a ceremony and banquet April 8 at the Dugan–Gorges Conference Center. This year the two programs combined to provide 23 local high school students an overall exposure to STEM education and an introduction to career opportunities in math and science fields. The programs focus on helping at-risk student populations that nationally experience higher secondary education dropout rates, compared to other racial or ethnic groups. The NHSP and NNASP sessions are designed to help motivate students and prepare them for a successful path toward higher education and rewarding careers. Eastsider Kahli Stewart, a student at Southeast High School, was among the participants.

The Wichita Center for the Arts has announced its 2015 officers and board of trustees following the annual meeting on March 27. The officers are: Karla Fazio, president; Janice Van Sickle, vice president; William Tinker, treasurer; Shoko Sevart, secretary; Becky S. Turner, past president and board advisor; Chris Brunner, buildings and grounds cochair; Linda Peressin, designing women executive chair; Brandon Baker, marketing chair; Dr. Vincent Farha and Priscilla O’Shaugnessy, membership and development co-chairs; Terry Richards, nominating chair; Traci Pickert, program chair; Polly Gentry, special events chair; and Shannan Devlin and Kathy Galichia, volunteer co-chairs. The at-large trustees are Helen Galloway, Kathy Knorr, Annie Koch, Marianne Misko, Mary O’Brien, Dr. Courtney Ruthven, Dot Shannon, Paula Varner and Carol Wilson. Elizabeth B. Koch is honorary trustee. Eastsider Anne Elizabeth Rimmington is among more than 1,800 University of Nebraska-Lincoln students who were honored during the All-University Honors Convocation April 12 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Rimmington, a senior in the College of Fine and Performing Arts, was named a superior scholar. Superior scholars are seniors who are in the top 3 percent of their college’s senior class or who have been recognized at the honors convocation each year of their enrollment. Angela Webster was awarded the TFI Family employee of the year by Mike Patrick, president & CEO. Webster is a recruitment specialist and has been with the organization since July 2011. She recruits foster homes, resources and support services for the agency. “Angi has worked with churches to provide toy drives for the holidays and has secured multiple donations for the Wichita retreat reducing the overall cost of the event to the agency,” said Pam Richardson, director of southeast Kansas foster care. Each year, TFI Family Services, Inc., awards an employee of the year based on a demonstration of

A local student was among 19 new senators elected to the Student Government Association at Fort Hays State University in elections April 8-9: 11 in the College of Arts and Sciences, five in the College of Business and Entrepreneurship, and three in the College of Health and Life Sciences. Eastsider Aiyana Smith is a freshman majoring in political science. Air Force Airman Pierce A. Halverstadt graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas. The airman 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. Halverstadt earned distinction as an honor graduate. He is the son of Roger A. Halverstadt and brother of Clair M. Halverstadt, both of Wichita. The airman is a 2010 graduate of Winfield High School. Abbi Timmermeyer of Andover and a student at Emporia State University, was a member of the company that

presented “As You Like It,” Shakespeare’s beloved comedy about love and mistaken identity. Timmermeyer, a freshman theatre major, was on the set and props shift crew. Augustana College announced 856 students were named to the dean’s L=list for the 2014-2015 winter term. Students who have earned this academic honor have maintained a grade-point average of 3.5 or higher on a fourpoint scale for courses taken during the term. Isaac Schmied of East Wichita was among the students named to the winter term dean’s =list. Schmied is a senior majoring in pre-medicine and biochemistry. In addition, Schmied was elected to represent the senior class in the 2015-2016 Augustana Honor Council. The Honor Council carries out the college’s mission of “offering a challenging education that develops mind, spirit and body,” concluding that “the Honor Code holds each individual accountable to the community of Augustana College.” The Wichita East Senior High School boys basketball team has finished ninth nationally for the 2014-15 season. The announcement was made by MaxPreps, the online high school sports leader and a CBSSports.com site. MaxPreps ranks more than 20,000 high school boys varsity basketball teams. Wichita East (241) applied the finishing touches to an outstanding season with a 58-43 victory over Lawrence on March 14 to capture its ninth Kansas 6A State championship and its first since 2005. The Aces also trumped Lawrence during the regular season, 83-72. Wesley Medical Center has promoted Cheryl Donelan to market director of cardiovascular services. She will oversee all cardiovascular services, cath labs and electrophysiology labs at all campuses, including Wesley’s Heart Valve Clinic and structural heart program. Donelan began her career in health care in 1980 working as a staff nurse at Harper Hospital in Harper, Kansas. Since then, she has served in a variety of roles from a clinical instructor to directing a cardiology service line. She most recently served as Galichia’s manager of quality and infection prevention.

Air Force Airman Regis L. Williams graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills. Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force. Williams is the son of Debra A. Williams and Reginald M. Williams, both of Wichita. He is a 2013 graduate of Southeast High School. The new Honors College at Fort Hays State University will begin its first year in the fall with a class of 31 students, 17 of them incoming freshmen plus one transfer student and a current student joining the honors program. They will join 12 students converting from the Distinguished Scholars Program, which the Honors College replaces. The idea in both is to provide a challenging curriculum across the range of programs for academically gifted and ambitious students. Eighteen of the students qualified for three scholarships created especially for the Honors College. The students include Eastsider Lauren Wiebe, a senior majoring in social work. She is a 2012 graduate of Wichita East High School. Wiebe qualified for a $10,000 FHSU Honors College Scholarship. William Short of East Wichita was recently initiated into the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Short is pursuing a degree in computer science at the University of Mississippi. Short is among approximately 32,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year. Membership is by invitation and requires nomination and approval by a chapter. Only the top 10 percent of seniors and 7.5 percent of juniors, having at least 72 semester hours, are eligible for membership. Graduate students in the top 10 percent of the number of candidates for graduate degrees may also qualify, as do faculty, professional staff, and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction.

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Sailing group seeks former members The Ninnescah Sailing Association observes its 50th anniversary this year, and the group is looking for former members to join in the festivities. Several special events are scheduled for this season, including two occasions organizers hope will be attended by many alumni. On Saturday, June 20, the association will conduct the annual “Blessing of the Fleet” at Cheney Lake. The traditional blessing ceremony will be conducted at 1 p.m. at the Afterdeck Activity Center, and an on-water procession will follow. There will be opportunities for sailing excursions for the remainder of the

afternoon and, later, a wine tasting, light hors d’oeuvres, introductions and photos. On Saturday, July 25, afternoon sailing excursions with on-water photography can be arranged, followed by evening cocktails and a catered dinner at the Afterdeck. Archival ﬁlms and photographs will be on display. Follow signs from the south entrance of Cheney State Park to reach the Afterdeck. Let organizers know that you can attend one or both of these events by sending an email to 50thanniversary@ ninnescah.org.

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Wichita’s biggest party, the Wichita River Festival, will be held May 29 to June 6. The party starts on May 29, and highlights of the first day include the Safelite AutoGlass Sundown Parade beginning at 6:30 p.m., a concert by local alt-bluegrass band Split Lip Rayfield 8-10 p.m. at the RedGuard Stage, and the Koch Industries Twilight Pops Concert featuring the Wichita Symphony Orchestra at 8:30 p.m. at the Kennedy Plaza Stage. The Pops Concert will be followed by the opening night fireworks along the banks of the Arkansas River. Musical acts this year include the Red Dirt Concert with Kyle Park on Saturday, May 30; the Coleman Country Concert with Easton Corbin on Sunday, May 31; a gospel concert featuring Grammy Award-winner Erica Campbell on June 1; the Wet ‘n’ Wild Dance Party featuring Village People and the Cowboy Concert featuring Riders in the Sky, both on June 3; the Big Easy Concert with Charles Bradley on June 4; the Indie Showcase featuring Flogging Molly on June 5; and the Fiesta Del Rio Concert featuring Grupo Mojado on June 6. Other Riverfest highlights include: • The Admiral’s Brakfast, 7:30-9 am. May 29 at Abode Venue, 1330 E. Douglass. Past Admirals Windwagon Smith host the traditional breakfast to celebrate Admiral Windwagon Smith XLII Mike Greene. Tables for 10 are $130. • An attempt to set the world record for the longest line of bicycles, noon on May 30. Last year’s attempt came close.

Pedal down to the WaterWalk Pavillion and be one of the 1,200 bike riders needed to break the current record of 1,148. • Wet Your Pallet Raft Races. The raft races are back but with a twist – teams must build a raft with recyclable materials. Races start at 2 p.m. May 30. See wichitariverfest.com for details. • McGavock Jet Ski Racing. See the IJSBA Mid-America Watercross Championships, 3-9 p.m. May 30, and 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. May 31. • Cardboard Regatta, May 31, 1:30 p.m. Build a river-worthy vessel in 90 minutes or less with cardboard, duct tape, pool noodles and a box cutter. One team member must ride in the vessel. Enter at wichitariverfest.com. • Goodwill Cajun Food Fest, 5-8:30 p.m. June 4 at Kennedy Plaza. Enjoy traditional Bayou dishes including chicken etoufee, red beans and sausage, shrimp gumbo with rice and bread pudding. • Hot air balloon launch, 6 p.m. June 4, south of the RedGuard Stage. • Rose the Riveter Look-Alike Contest, June 5. Register at 5 p.m., judging at 7 p.m., Kennedy Plaza Stage. • Riverfest Wing Eating Contest, 7-8 p.m. June 5, Sparkling Ice Food Court Stage. • Kansas Health Foundation River Run, 7-11:30 a.m. June 6. • Admiral’s Pancake Feed, 8:30-11 a.m. June 6, RedGuard Stage. • CapFed Fantastic Fireworks Finale, 10:30 p.m. June 6, Arkansas River.

Erica Johnson was crowned as the 2015 “Miss Unstoppable” at this year’s Miss Unstoppable Pageant, Saturday, March 28, at South High School in Wichita. This was the second annual Miss Unstoppable Pageant, hosted by The Arc of Sedgwick County. The pageant is catered to girls with intellectual or developmental disabilities, providing them with an opportunity that they might not otherwise have. This year’s pageant featured 31 girls ranging from age 11 to 61 years old. Age divisions were split into ﬁve categories: Little Miss, Teen, Young Miss, Miss and Shooting Star. The competition was full of poise, talent, personality and beauty. The girls competed in an interview, evening gown and talent portion. The high level of competition made judging difﬁcult, but it was Johnson who won the judges over in the end. Johnson wore her contagious smile throughout the entire competition, as well as at the reception, where she expressed her excitement and thoughtfulness after being crowned. “It’s just so amazing, it’s a huge blessing to be here,” Johnson said. “I wish my grandma was here to see this, but I know she’s up in Heaven watching me.” Johnson’s parents were thrilled for their daughter. Janet Johnson, Erica’s mother, explained how proud they were. “I never thought Erica would be able to compete in a pageant,” she said. “I’m so happy for her and all the other girls that got to participate. We are just absolutely thrilled.” Erica Johnson lives in West Wichita. Her parents live in East Wichita. The Miss Unstoppable crown was passed on by last year’s winner, Koren Shaffer. Like Shaffer, Johnson will be a big part of The Arc’s events throughout the year during her tenure as “Miss Unstoppable.” Additional awards presented were: Talent, Rebecca Oare; Interview, Erica Johnson; Evening Gown, Erica Johnson; People’s Choice, Samantha Colle; Miss Congeniality, Janet Swesh; Little Miss, Justice Baker; Teen, Rebecca Oare; Young Miss, Alicia Anaya; Miss, Kim Fry; Shooting Star, Shelly Lorie.

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Carl Brewer, an Eastsider and lifelong Wichitan, became mayor of Wichita in 2007. After two terms, his service ended in April. Brewer, 58, and his wife, Cathy, have four children, 13 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. In his spare time, Brewer likes to hunt, fish and make his own barbecue sauce. 1. What would you say was your greatest achievement as mayor? Your biggest disappointment?

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The greatest achievement was downtown development and getting more people to come downtown – more development, more businesses going into the downtown area. We seem to have gotten away from it, or it got to the point where we were just kind of ignoring the downtown area. We started giving citizens ownership of the city, bringing everyone to the table from all walks of life – different backgrounds – and they started giving their input of what they wanted in the city. When they started doing that, the city really didn’t continue that effort. They took that effort and started moving forward. So now we have a healthy, thriving downtown that is certainly progressive and moving forward. You always wish that everything would take off like you thought it would, so I would say probably the WaterWalk project. It was a good plan and it was moving forward, but the recession created some problems. Plans changed. It was going to be something similar to San Antonio; I liked the concept. I still like the concept, but it just wasn’t feasible. Now today, looking at it and looking back, if you look at what’s been happening with water and things of that nature, it was going to have to be manmade, so that meant we had to put water in it so who’s going to pay for the water? Then you had to clean it every few months. The costs would have been just really unbearable, so sometimes there are things that happen for a reason. In this particular case, maybe it was better that it didn’t happen, but I think it would have been a beautiful addition to downtown Wichita. 2. What’s next for you? I’m the senior manager for public relations for Spirit AeroSystems. Right now I’m refamiliarizing myself with the company itself and moving forward from there. 3. If you weren’t term-limited, would you have run again for mayor? No, I wouldn’t run again. I believe that term limits are good, and the reason I say that is for a couple reasons.

One, when you’re elected, you know you have four years to establish goals and to accomplish goals and to do the right thing. Then, if you’re fortunate and you’re blessed enough by the citizens to give you an additional four years, you know you have another four years, so there’s an ending point there that allows you to finish up what I didn’t get completed in the first four years. And I can move on to the next four years and get that completed and put some other things in the pipeline. I think timelines are good. You have to beat an incumbent, so you can be a horrible leader but still get elected. Well, after four years – after two terms – change is forced on the people and they get a new opportunity. If you don’t have term limits, we see it all the time – people just kick the can down the road, kick the can down the road, kick the can down the road. They keep getting re-elected and re-elected and re-elected. So by doing it this way, it forces change, and I believe that change is always good. 4. Could you see yourself running for a different elected office sometime in the future? I don’t even know what’s going to happen next week, except I’m going to be working at Spirit. That’s primarily where my focus has been. Right now I’m trying to just re-adjust to the private sector. Just doing that, and of course dealing with grandchildren spending the night and their different projects, and whatever else my wife comes up with. I like being out there, I like being hands on, I like talking to the proverbial Mr. and Mrs. Jones and finding out what their concerns are. Finding out from them, as opposed to getting it thirdhand from some staff person, I want to be the one to talk to them. Sometimes getting it second- or thirdhand, you can’t understand the urgency or you can’t feel the pain or you can’t feel the excitement, so you miss out on a lot of things. So I choose to be hands on and not miss out on those important moments.

Former Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer 6. What are some of the perks of being mayor that you’ll miss? You can influence the budget far greater than you can if you’re an average citizen. It gives you a voice. You meet some really nice and fascinating people, but if done correctly, I can still do that in my everyday life. The only real perk you have is a chance to vote. I don’t have a chance to vote on every item that comes before me.

5. What should Mayor Longwell and the council prioritize in the next couple of years?

7. What question, or request for a favor, did you get asked the most?

Figuring out how we’re going to address water issues and jobs is a huge priority. A lot of things we produce are exported to other countries, so how do we increase those revenues? The things we’re doing with the Innovation Campus at Wichita State will be important. Maintaining inclusiveness, that everyone in the community, no matter where they come from, whether rich or poor, those are going to need to be brought to the table. That’s going to require reaching out to everyone.

With children, “Are you a millionaire and do you live in a mansion?” They never fail – they always ask that question. “What’s it like to be the mayor?” That’s a question you hear from all walks of life and all ages. It’s an honor and a privilege. I’m no different from anyone in the community. I’m a person. It’s no different from the person who does the janitorial work or the person who does the budget. As mayor, you represent everybody. People measure the city and look at you, how you conduct yourself, and think that’s how Wichita is.

Certainly my family was extremely proud of me, but certainly there were challenging moments for them too. Some of them were very cautious, very protective. They have strong opinions, but they kept them to themselves. Even at the youngest level, they learned to stay away from certain conversations. But the younger ones in elementary school, they’ll volunteer me: “My grandpa can come to the school! What day do you want?” When you do it, you don’t do it by yourself. Your family’s making a sacrifice and they’re giving up some things.

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8. What was it like for your family to have you in the spotlight? Are they glad you’re becoming a private citizen again?

They’ve never said anything. The only one who’s said anything is my wife. Now that I’m out, I’ve noticed she’s been giving her opinion more. My wife has an opinion about everything. I get up in the morning, she’s already read the newspaper. She’s quite the writer. She’ll send a letter at the drop of a hat. 9. What is the most important thing you learned as mayor?

The most important thing I learned was patience and respect. There are always people that want to meet with you or talk with you about certain things. I’ve seen politicians who, as soon as they hit the door, they know the answer or solution to your problem, and they haven’t even heard what your problem is yet. Taking the time to listen, and respect individuals and their opinion, I think that says a lot about who you are as a leader – respecting individuals and treating everyone as an equal. Listen to them and see what you can do to address any of their issues. Don’t cut them off because they may not be wealthy or they may not be educated. Ninety percent of the time, when they’re talking to you, they’ll answer their own question or solve their own problem. But it requires patience. 10. When people across the country hear the name Wichita, what do you want them to think of? I want them to think of the air capital of the world, a major metropolitan city, the 48th largest city in the United States – but a city that, no matter what your walk of life is, if you want to be successful, you can come to the city of Wichita and pursue any of those dreams that you have. We kind of have this hometown environment. It’s got some small-town atmosphere but a very progressive community. That’s what I see.

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Dehlia Burdan, equestrian trainer and board member of the Kansas Hunter Jumper Association, has partnered with Aces High Acres in Wichita to create the state’s ﬁrst Interscholastic Equestrian Association (IEA) team for high school and middle school riders. The mission of the IEA is to introduce students in private and public middle and secondary schools to equestrian sports and to promote and improve the quality of equestrian competition and instruction. There is no need for any rider to own a horse because competition horses are provided at each venue to the contestant. The IEA has over 8,000 members in 32 states across North America. The team is recruiting new riders for the upcoming season. The Kansas IEA team practices will be held at Aces High Acres and conducted by Burdan. “This is an exciting time for young riders in the Wichita metro area. At Aces High, we are dedicated to the safety and welfare of all of our riders and horses while teaching young people how to ride as a member of a team,” said Quinn Warren, owner of Aces High Acres. “Dehlia brings a level of training expertise to the hunter/jumper training arena found nowhere else in this area.” Burdan was a member of the Kansas State Equestrian Team (2001-2005) while riding for KSU she qualiﬁed for the IHSA Nationals in 2004 and 2005, Zone and Regional Championships in 2002-2005, NCAA Championships 2002-2005, and was named the English Team Captain in 2005. Burdan is now an active board member for the Kansas Hunter Jumper Association and the Kansas Horse Council, as well a member of the United States Equestrian Federation and the United States Eventing Association.

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This year, Wichita Grand Opera will celebrate the 15th anniversary of its founding with a Season of Royalty. The season officially opened on April 25 at Century II with Prokofiev’s immortal vision of Cinderella. Through the year, every production this season will revolve around a royal figure, from the Swan Queen and Cinderella’s Prince, to the icy Princess Turandot, the saucy Grand Duchess, or King Philip and his femme fatale, Princess Elisabeth. It all started as a dream, to bring opera to one of two states in the U.S. without a professional opera company. Wichita Grand Opera became a reality in November 2000, created by American soprano and stage director Margaret Ann Pent. Starting with a board of directors of five, and operating out of two converted storage rooms in the Century II Concert Hall, WGO quickly rose to prominence around the nation. The late and great Luciano Pavarotti became WGO’s inaugural artist in 2002, starring in the Pavarotti Gala Concert and Opera Ball with the newly formed WGO Orchestra; more than 200 newspapers covered the event. Later that same year, WGO launched its second major production and another major coup for Wichita: Plácido Domingo starred in the Domingo Gala Concert and Opera Ball. This production marked the debut of the WGO Chorus. Following the successes of bringing two great artists, Domingo and Pavarotti, to Wichita in the same year, WGO also set its sights on creating a brand-new opera experience in the Midwest. With the aid of seven construction companies, a battalion of construction workers and even some additional manpower from the inmates of the Sedgwick County Department of Corrections, Wichita Grand Opera mounted the largest flash mob seen to date in Wichita with 2003’s outdoor “Carmen on the Lake” at Bradley Fair – a performance with an impact felt across the nation and beyond, being

reviewed as far away as Japan. Fifteen years later, Wichita Grand Opera still operates out of those same converted storage rooms in the Century II Concert Hall, now with personnel and cast numbering as many as 100, producing grand opera and ballet. The WGO has produced more than 60 operas and ballets, including the only U.S. production of Rossini’s notoriously difficult “William Tell” in 2014. Numerous opera educational programs have been introduced as well, including the Young & Resident Artist Programs; a Children’s Coloring Book Competition that distributed 5,000 opera-themed coloring books to students across Wichita; and the Day at the Opera program, which allows students from Wichita and the surrounding areas to attend productions for $15, thanks to a generous 3-to-1 matching grant by several WGO donors. WGO has also performed in historic theaters throughout the state of Kansas. “I am gratified to have been able to help bring great performances of Opera to Wichita and Kansas,” said Italian soprano Annalisa Raspagliosi. “WGO has brought the highest art form of Western culture to Wichita, and the Wichita Grand Opera has had the opportunity to bring an array of international artists to Wichita throughout its 15 years. Luciano Pavarotti, myself, Plácido Domingo, Maestro Eugene Kohn, Samuel Ramey, Joyce DiDonato, Marcello Giordani, Veronica Villaroel, Evgeny Akimov, Michael Spyres, Maestro Steven Mercurio, Maestro Leone Magiera and many others have come together to bring the world to Wichita.” Raspagliosi starred alongside Pavarotti in the Inaugural Pavarotti Gala Concert in 2002. WGO’s 2015 season marks one of its most extensive seasons to date, with five full productions at Century II: “Cinderella,” which was performed April 25; “Swan Lake,” May 3; “Turandot,” Aug. 28; “Don Carlo,” Sept. 25 and 27; and See WGO, Page 24A

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my own work in the annual contest, I still encourage our staff members to be involved with the process. No, press association awards can’t be used to pay down on business loans – which is my standard of success these days. But those awards do speak to the level of service we are providing our readers, and to the craftsmanship our staff members are bringing to the workplace each day. A ﬁnal boost of positive energy from the convention happened as I had the opportunity to sit in on workshops hosted by a community newspaper group in the suburban Chicago area. Much of what that newspaper group is doing resembles what we are trying to accomplish with Times-Sentinel Newspapers, only on a much larger scale. No, we don’t aspire to grow to that size, but the business models that are being successfully deployed by that operation are worthy of study. Travis and I had some really good conversations with that group’s management representatives, both in and out of the workshops, and we were invited to travel to Chicago sometime soon to examine their operation in detail. And we might just do that – if we can ﬁnd a little time between our own self-imposed production deadlines for a business trip to Chicago. Getting the next newspaper off to press still is – and probably always will be – our most pressing concern. It’s just nice when we can slow down enough to do that job well.

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I took part in something this past month that I hadn’t done in a long while – I attended the annual convention of my state press association. The Kansas Press Association convention was a three-day event in Junction City this year, but I only made an appearance through the day Saturday. It was plenty of time to take in the workshops I wanted to attend and visit with old friends in the industry. Years ago, I was a ﬁxture at KPA conventions. I served many years on the association’s board of directors but stepped down from that kind of public involvement several years ago. At that point, my attendance at statewide KPA events dropped off dramatically. Almost immediately after that transition, I was able to take great pride in the fact that our managing editor, Travis Mounts, was named to the KPA board of directors, and this year he was elected by the organization to serve another tour of duty as a board member. I think it says something about our organization here in south-central Kansas to have an ongoing relationship with the press association’s state structure. Our assumption, of course, is that we’re getting as much out of that relationship as we give to it, but in the end it is yet another level of community service we gladly give. It’s the rent we pay, if you will, for the privilege of doing business on our main streets. In addition to Travis being re-elected to the board of directors (he serves as a non-daily director, meaning he focuses his efforts on weekly newspapers across the state), he also was able to collect several awards for our newspaper group during the convention. We garnered about a dozen awards and the top two were ﬁrst-place honors for editorial writing (Travis Mounts) and advertising design (East Wichita News graphic artist Abbygail Wells). While I long ago stopped entering

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Honoring the present, looking to the future

May 2015 - 24A Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake by the Russian National Ballet will be performed in May. Photo courtesy Columbia Artists Management

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“The Grand Duchess,” Oct. 16 and 18. The season also includes WGO’s annual Opera on the Lake production at Bradley Fair and the annual Chairmen’s Opera Ball, this year featuring a “Casino Royale” theme. In addition to the productions in Wichita, WGO also will have two productions at the restored McPherson Opera House, and productions at Salina’s Stiefel Theatre, and new this year, at Overland Park’s Carlsen Center.Another ambitious addition to the season during the 15th anniversary is the formation of the Opera Academy of the Midwest, sponsored in part by the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, City of McPherson, Ross & Marianna Beach Foundation, Charlotte Brickler Trust, Naftzger Fund for Fine Arts, McPherson Opera House in cooperation with Central Christian College, and Newman University. The academy will become a training ground for young opera singers from Kansas, the region and beyond. All academy singers receive private voice lessons, coaching sessions, master classes, stage movement and interpretation, foreign language diction, choral preparation, dance choreography, and

performance opportunities. The faculty includes artists such as internationally renowned bass-baritone Alan Held; William Powers, a star of opera houses around the world for more than 30 years; Brian Frutiger, a frequent guest at the Metropolitan Opera with a repertoire of more than 100 roles; WGO’s founder, stage director and soprano Margaret Ann Pent; Nyle Matsuoka, an opera coach also on staff at both Arizona Opera and Wolf Trap Opera, and more international and regional voice teachers, coaches, conductors, directors and choreographers. Some academy students will sing at WGO’s annual operatic spectacular Opera on the Lake, set against a backdrop of stars in the Kansas sky and the picturesque setting of the lake at Bradley Fair, while some will sing at special gala performances in McPherson and Salina. Meanwhile, technical apprentices will gain valuable on-the-job experience at Newman University under the supervision of WGO’s experienced technical department heads and renowned European scenic artist Stefan Pavlov, as they help create the magnificent productions you see on the WGO stage. For complete season and ticket information, visit www.wichitagrandopera. org. To purchase tickets for the WGO season the Opera Ball or Opera on the Lake, call the Wichita Grand Opera Box Office at 316-262-8054, or go online at www.selectaseat.com.

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May 1-3 – “Oliver!” Music Theatre for Young People, at Century II’s Mary Jane Teall Theater. Tickets $12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 for students. Shows at 7:30 p.m. May 1-2, 2:30 p.m. May 3. Call 316-303-8100 or visit www. wichitaTIX.com. May 2 – Cirque Musica, presented by Wichita Symphony, 8 p.m. Century II. Tickets $25-$80. 316-303-8100 or www. wichitaTIX.com. May 3 – Wichita Grand Opera presents Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake,” performed by the Russian National Ballet Theatre. Swan Lake tells the famous story of a Swan Queen put under a spell by an evil sorcerer, and the Prince whose love for her breaks the curse. Tickets $40-$95, $20 student tickets available, www.selectaseat.com. May 6-10 – “Motherhood Out Loud,” Wichita Community Theatre. Various authors, directed by Jeannine Russell. A comedy of one acts. Anyone who is or has a mother, a stepmother, a foster mother, or anything in between will be able to relate to and enjoy this insightful piece. $14 adults, $12 students/military/seniors over 60. Call 316-686-1282. Show times are at 8 p.m., 7 p.m. on Sunday.

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May 9 – Symphony Al Fresco, Wichita Symphony Orchestra fundraiser at Prairie Pines. Guests will be treated to musical ensembles, made up of musicians of the Wichita Symphony and friends, performing in four venues around the Prairie Pines farm while enjoying heavy hors d’oeurves from local restaurants and wine and beer. Tickets $100 for adults, $25 for children. Call 316-267-7658. May 16 – Grumpy Old Men present Chris Botti at The Orpheum, 8 p.m. Since the release of his 2004 critically-acclaimed CD “When I Fall In Love, Botti has become the largest-selling American instrumental artist. Tickets $49.50-$69.50, www.wichitaorpheum. com. Through May 23 – “The Big Bang, AKA Free Food and Frontal Nudity,” Roxy’s Downtown Cabaret. Starring John Bates and Kyle Vespestad. Tickets $40 for show and dinner, $25 show only. There is no connection to the TV show. www.roxysdowntown.com. Through May 23 – “Beauty School Melodrama” by Carol Hughes followed by “Fractured Fairytales” musical comedy revue, Mosley Street Melodrama. Staring Steve Hitchcock, Jenny Mithcell, Megan Parsley and more. Tickets $28, $18 show only; 316-263-0222.

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May 8-16 – “Blues In The Night,” with a preview performance at 8 p.m. May 7, staged by the Forum Theatre Company at the Wichita Scottish Rite Center, 332 E. First. Tony-nominated musical review that tells the story of three sweet, sexy and sorrowful women and the lying, cheating snake of a man who does them wrong. Tickets: $25 for Friday and Saturday evening shows, $23 for Thursday evening shows and Saturday matinees. Preview show is $11.50. Ticket prices do not include handling fees. Purchase tickets by calling 316-618-0444, online at www.forumwichita.com or email kathy@forumwichita.com.

Performing Arts Calendar

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April 30-May 3 – “Into the Woods” by Sondheim and Lapine, 7:30 p.m. April 30-May 2, 2 p.m. May 3, Wilner Auditorium at Wichita State University. Tickets $16 general public, $14 faculty/ staff/senior citizens/military, $6 nonWSU students. Current WSU students admitted free.

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