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Volume 31 • Issue 6 April 2016

ON THE COVER WestSider writes family’s history | 16

A book by Paul V. Dugan, Sr., looks at city’s Irish pioneers.

Sam Jack/WestSide Story photo

Brett Means leads Goddard High to the pinnacle of Kansas wrestling | 4

Features From the Publisher’s Files...................................................5 Movie Review................................7 Wichita Homes.............................8

W e s t S i d e S t o r y

Performing Arts Calendar.........9

Experts predict more earthquakes | 11

Dateline........................................10 Focus On Business....................12 Cinema Scene............................18

Northwest athletes ‘Swim To A Wish’ | 20

Pet Smarts...................................27 People and Places....................28 Cook’s Library............................30

We all need a ‘reset’ button Just like the devices that both enhance and intrude upon our lives, sometimes we need to reboot.

I had a chance to do that a couple weeks ago with a visit to see my brother in California.

The first two days were busy and fun and not really restful at all, which was fine. I got to see several friends, especially during a marathon St. Patrick’s celebration, and much fun was had.

On Saturday, we made the short drive from San Mateo on the Peninsula to Half Moon Bay on the California coast.

That involved a beautiful drive over the northern ridge of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Before grabbing dinner, we went to the beach to watch the sunset.

As I stood on the edge of the continent, there were more clouds than sunshine. The ocean waves crashed in as warm shades of orange and pink fought to find gaps in the cool purple clouds and bluish-gray fog.

After snapping a couple dozen pictures, I put away my phone and began to simply exist. As I watched the scene in front of me, I began to exist in the moment. There were no thoughts of work or home, what we had done earlier in the day or what was to come next.

I felt myself being emotionally and spiritually rebooted. Different people

Travis Mounts | Managing Editor

find these moments in different places – a prairie sunrise or sunset, a church service, camping in the woods, or at a concert. As a Kansas kid growing up on the Plains, I had no real exposure to the ocean, save for a trip to Atlantic City that I was too young to remember and a cold, smelly stop somewhere on the Oregon coast more than 35 years ago.

The ocean is very different from my experiences as a youth. I think that’s why my visits as an adult are so impactful and long-lasting.

Soon enough, my stomach growled and my thoughts turned away from the endless ocean and toward the steak that awaited me.

But as I sat at my desk on my first day back to the office, I still felt the freshness and renewal from hitting my reset button.

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Publisher Paul Rhodes Managing Editor Travis Mounts Graphics Abbygail Wells Reporters/Contributors Sam Jack, Jim Erickson, Dr. Jason Albertson, Patsy Terrell, Philip Holmes

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Fortunate son

Means leads GHS to pinnacle of Kansas wrestling Story by Michael Buhler Brett Means is quick to defer credit away from himself as the leader of one of the best high school wrestling programs in Kansas.

“I have been fortunate and blessed,” Means said. “Without everyone involved, we would not have been successful. I was just the lucky one that has been allowed to oversee and manage the process. So many people have had their hands in this process the last 15 years.”

Over those 15 years, Goddard High School has become one of the – if not the – best prep wrestling program in the state of Kansas. The Lions have won six State championships dating back to 2006, five of those since Means took the reins as head coach beginning with the 2006-07 season.

Those State titles – 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015 and 2016 – have come even though Goddard has split into two high schools (Goddard High and Eisenhower High) and dropped from Class 6A to 5A. Still, Means is quick to credit others for the Lions’ success.

“Our success at Goddard is attributable to the great support we receive from the administration, booster club, parents and Kansas Young Guns youth wrestling program,” Means said. “Everyone works together to give these young men the opportunity to be successful. The coaching these kids receive as youngsters along with the commitment of their parents prepares these athletes to be successful immediately at the high school level and beyond.

“Any high school coach will tell you it is hard to be successful without gifted and talented athletes – and at Goddard we have been blessed with some of the best,” he added. “It then becomes my job not to mess it up.”

Means’ journey to the helm of GHS wrestling began in 1973, when Means and his family made the move from Oklahoma City to Goddard.

Going from Oklahoma City Southeast to Goddard was a shock for Means.

See MEANS, Page 6

Goddard wrestling head coach Brett Means congratulates one of his wrestlers during the recent State tournament. The Lions have won five of their six State championships under the guidance of Means, a GHS graduate. Staff photo/Travis Mounts

From the Publisher’s Files

Paul Rhodes | Publisher

to bleed a little purple.

Like most high school friends who head off to college together, we assumed we would somehow magically see each other throughout our college days and maintain that bond of friendship. Yes, we certainly remained friends, but we rarely got to see each other as our college careers unfolded.

Steve pursued engineering at KSU, and I soon settled in with the journalism department on campus. Today, 40 years later, each of us is still pursuing those same career aspirations. That’s pretty remarkable.

Steve got a tour of my newspaper operation that afternoon, and a rundown of the photos that cover the walls and tabletops in my office. We caught up on our kids and other family members, shared more than just a few laughs, and marveled at how quickly our lives had unfolded since we had last seen each other.

Even though Steve and I had not seen each other in years, we had actually kept up on each other through our parents. Whenever I was back in Gaylord, I would stop by and see Steve’s parents, and he noted that he had done the same with my parents when they were still alive.

That afternoon, sitting and visiting in my office, it seemed as though time had not escaped us at all. But of course, it had.

As Steve got ready to leave, we exchanged business cards and personal contact information. His parting shot was simple – “Let’s have lunch sometime.”

And that, I’m sure, will happen. After all, Steve’s an old friend…and a man of his word.

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Unexpected visitors are a common phenomenon at our newspaper office.

Folks pop in regularly to take care of transactions with our business office, either to pay a bill or take care of a subscription to one of our papers.

They also stop by to share news stories, which are equally appreciated visits.

Sometimes, of course, folks stop by with less cordial intentions, riled by something we’ve done or said in print.

Even those can be interesting visits.

So late last week, when a gentleman could be heard out in the entryway asking for Paul Rhodes, I braced myself when I heard him say, “I just need to toss a grenade in that office,” pointing to my open door. Here we go, I thought.

The immediate sight of my grinning visitor took away any concerns.

Although it had been years, I quickly recognized my surprise guest as Steve Caspers, a friend of mine dating back to elementary school.

Wow. Steve, who lives in Topeka and works as an engineer and water pretreatment specialist for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, was in the area to see a client who is building a new industrial facility and needed KDHE’s blessings.

To be totally up front, I was only half surprised by Steve’s visit. Around the holidays he had sent me a letter saying that he might be in the area working with a client, and that he would stop by for a visit if that proved to be the case.

So, my grenade attacker as I was finishing up lunch at my desk wasn’t a total shock. Steve always was a man of his word, and he had come through again.

Steve and I became close friends in elementary school, back in Gaylord, Kan., when his family moved to town for his father’s work and to be closer to other relatives. They lived just down the street from us, and Steve and I were part of a group of kids who shared many an adventure together.

We stayed tight-knit through high school, and several of us in that group committed to attend Kansas State University after high school. Steve and I were among those who were destined

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Old friend’s visit was a welcome surprise

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Means Continued from Page 4

“It was one of the larger high schools in Oklahoma City, so moving to smalltown Goddard High was culture shock,” Means said. “Wrestling helped ease the transition.”

Means reached the State-championship match all three years at Goddard, including winning a State title in 1975 as a junior. After graduating from Goddard, Means wrestled at Labette Community College in Parsons before finishing his college career at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. He was an All-American at both schools.

After college, Means became an accountant in Wichita and was away from the sport for several years. However, Means’ son became involved in youth wrestling in Goddard and got Means back involved with the sport.

“Even though my son didn’t take to wrestling, I continued to stay involved and leaped on the opportunity to coach at Goddard High,” Means said.

That opportunity came in 2001, when Ryan Jilka assumed the reins of the program and asked Means to join his coaching staff. Jilka strengthened the schedule and built the program until the Lions won their second State title in 2006. Jilka stepped into an administrative role

The Goddard Lions celebrate their 5A State wrestling championship. The Lions have won five State titles in either Class 5A or 6A with Means as head coach. Staff photo/Travis Mounts

after that season and Means took over the program.

“I was fortunate to be hired as the wrestling coach following Coach Jilka’s tenure,” Means said. “The administration took a risk hiring a Rule 10 coach to run their program and I was grateful for the opportunity. In addition, I was allowed to choose my own coaching staff, which included Tim Fisher. He helped

create the culture and high-expectations environment which continues to this day.”

Means led the Lions to three straight Class 6A State titles from 2008 to 2010 and the team has added two more the past two seasons.

One of Means’ favorite aspects of leading the Lions has been how many alumni have returned to help with the

program.

“Over the years, our coaching staff has enjoyed the participation of many of our former wrestlers as assistants – which we are particularly proud of because they are now giving back,” Means said. “In fact, this year we had Mitchell Means, Brian Means, Brent Fisher and Christian Frame See COACH, Page 24

Movie Review

Jim Erickson

totally human and totally God, but He was born sinless, which nobody but Adam and Eve were, before. A newborn child can hardly be blamed for being selfish when he/she does not yet even know that other people are not parts of him/her; one of the first enormous lessons a baby has to learn is that his mother exists when she is not with him. Would this be a problem with a divinity? How much supervision would be necessary with a divine child? Perhaps the biggest problem a child faces is simple ignorance (calling it “innocence” does not erase the original problem: how much divine wisdom would Jesus have been born with?) Neither Rice nor the movie deals with questions and problems like these, though there are suggestions of sibling problems, at least in the novel, with sibling rivalry involving favoritism with cousin Salome and older brother (by a previous marriage) James, who in the novel seems jealous of some of Jesus’ peculiar powers, like raising people from the dead (which he has been taught not to do).

The movie is not much benefitted by casting as seven-year old Jesus a child so femininely pretty that twice in my early notes I wondered why He had been represented by a little girl. Considering the circumstances, it is probably unfair to suggest that the child star shows no acting ability whatsoever; but he avoids Shirley Temple cuteness. We have learned to expect real action by juveniles – the child in “Room” is even younger than seven and the subtlety of See REVIEW, Page 19

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“Young Messiah” is a peculiar faithbased movie. The one-sheet poster offers a chance to “discover the savior when he was a child” and the picture supposedly covers his seventh year, but cites as its source only Anne Rice’s novel “Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt,” and the credits in the movie itself mention no source whatsoever, not even the Bible, which remarkably includes nothing about Jesus’ childhood before his visit to the Temple at 12. So I read about 160 pages of Rice’s novel, including the two author’s notes, and found Rice claiming years of exhaustive study of an incredible (but uncountable) number of texts, modern and ancient. Links to individual episodes are not included and references to “early legends” (p. 349) are general.

Reading just the first few pages of Rice would reveal some of the problems in the movie. The narrator is the adult Christ, if not the resurrected one, who is limiting Himself to the point of view of Himself at age seven (p. 44); but He is able to identify His mother and His brother James and His father of a sort, Joseph (p.

4), and explain the ambiguity about Joseph. The movie lacks narration, and a lot of the resulting unclarity involves more than identifications.

In fact (beware of spoilers from here on), His birth story, which for some reason has never been told to Him, and the telling of which to Him is the closing of the movie (p. 57).

He is puzzled by what little hints he has been able to pick up (why for example, he is not supposed to call Joseph “father,” and what those mentions of an angel in Nazareth are all about), but He is too obedient to ask questions.

Such thorny topics as toilet training and puberty of a character who is essentially a god, and specially the Christian God (you can easily imagine solutions to such problems with Greek gods, who are not much more than superpowered humans) are avoided by the culture’s restriction on age. But so are more fundamental questions. Jesus was supposedly both

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The generally accepted definition of Baby Boomer describes those individuals born during the demographic post–World War II, between the years 1946 and 1964.

This includes people who are between 51 and 70 years old this year.

A 1998 report stated that, as a generation, baby boomers tend to avoid discussions about long-term planning and their older years. Recently however, more attention has been given to how Boomers will or should to manage their affairs as they age. This could be due to the undeniable fact that this generation is getting older and theses issues are no longer avoidable.

Front and center to this topic is how to stay as independent as possible given the restrictions that age imposes.

Mitzi Beach, ASID and Wichita-based interior designer, was inspired to create a resource-based endeavor that she calls BoomerSmarts.

“My goal is to highlight the denial of the aging needs of Boomers because they tend to be of the mind set that they will never age and will never need any adjustments to our current lifestyle,” she explains. One of the recurring themes in her work is that there are decisions the Boomer crowd can make now regarding their living spaces. Making smart choices before they become elderly should make the living spaces much safer and more comfortable. It comes down to being prepared for that phase of life.

Although she covers these topics in great detail in her presentations, today she offers four major topics of importance for Baby Boomers (and anyone else who plans on growing older). Some of these items are now requirements in commercial settings. While not mandated by law, their application in residential settings makes good sense. Mitzi recommends that all Boomers get familiar with these areas.

Accessibility: Also known as barrier-free or universal design. These concepts are in place for commercial settings due to the Americans with Disabilities Act. These are really common sense ideas given the point of view of a disabled person. If you are building

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or remodeling, you would do well to consider these features.

Visitability: This concept is related to accessibility and encompasses three primary objectives directed at accessibility in the home. First, a home should have at least one entrance with no steps.

Second, all interior doors should have at least a 32-inch clearance. And finally, it is recommended that there be at least a half bathroom on the main level.

Aging in place: Not only do we want to make our homes comfortable for family and friends with disabilities, but also for ourselves when the time comes.

The Center for Disease Control defines aging in place as “The ability to live in one’s home and community safely, comfortably, and independently, regardless of age, ability, or income.” For this discussion, this could mean the ability to stay in one’s current home longer.

Ageless designing: This is the proactive part. Research has proven the impact of our home design to our emotional and physical wellbeing.

“BoomerSmarts goal is defining and incorporating products and designs that meet the appropriate lifestage needs in ergonomics, function, and beauty,” Beach said.

She is clearly an advocate thinking ahead and planning living spaces accordingly for future enjoyment.

Mitzi is one who practices what she preaches. She and her husband Bob completely renovated their current residence, which also serves as her design studio and classroom. It is a textbook example for the design concepts men See HOMES, Page 19

April 6-7 – “The Three Little Pigs,” Wichita Children’s Theatre and Dance Center, 201 Lulu. Shows at noon April 6-7, 10 a.m., noon and 6:30 p.m. April 8, and noon April 9. Each show is a pizza show (except the early show April 7). Tickets $6 for show, $7.50 for pizza and show. Evening performances are pajama performances. Call 316-2622282.

April 9-10 – “Curtain Up!” a tribute to Broadway by the Heart Of America Men’s Chorus. Shows at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 9, and 4:30 p.m. Sunday, April 10. Tickets are $15 for the public and $5 for students and are available at the door. Featured pieces range from highlights of “The Pirates of Penzance” to a medley from “Jersey Boys.” The Heart Of American Men’s Chorus is a nonprofit organization. For more information call 316-708-4837.

April 9-10 – Wichita Symphony Orchestra along with the Friends University Singing Quakers and internationally-known bass Samuel Ramey present Giuseppe Verdi’s “Requiem.”

Shows at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 9, and 3 p.m. Sunday, April 10. Tickets start at $25. Call 316-267-7658 or buy online at www.wichitasymphony.org. The show will include 84 musicians, 224 chorus members and four operatic soloists, including Ramey.

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April 22-May 21 – “Party of 1,” Roxy’s Downtown, 412-1/2 E. Douglas. An original musical revue about being single, the show is mostly humorous but at times touching and poignant.

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— founder of Hangar 6 Ministries, for single women who are flying solo • Everything I learned about “flying solo,” I learned at the airport • An honest take on loving yourself, imperfections and all

April 23 – “Romeo and Juliet,” Wichita Grand Opera, 7 p.m. at Century II Concert Hall. Featuring the Russian National Ballet Theatre. Tickets $37$85. Visit www.wichitagrandopera.org.

For tickets call 316-265-4400.

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April 21-30 – “Hands on a Hard Body,” present by The Forum Theatre Company. Tickets $25 for Friday and Saturday evenings, $23 for Thursday evenings and Saturday matinees. Shows 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday plus 2 p.m. Saturday, Wichita Scottish Rite Center, 332 E. First. For tickets call 316-618-0444 or visit online www.forumwichita.com.

April 30 – “Matters of the Heart,” dinner theater presented by A Voice of One Production, 4-7 p.m. at Venue 3130, 3130 W. Central. Written and directed by Cherrie Dennis-Cottner.

Tickets are $30 and include “Mama’s Soul Food Dinner” buffet and dessert bar. Tickets available through April 23 at Tabernacle Bible Church, 1817 N. Volutsia or Jackson Mortuary, 1125 E. 13, or online at www.eventbrite.com/e/ matters-of-the-heart-dinner-theatertickets-22475493807. The play tells the

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April 10-16 – Wichita Jazz Festival.

Jazz brunch, 11 a.m. April 10, Muse Café at Wichita Art Museum. Film screening, “The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith,” 2 p.m. April 10, WAM. WSU Jazz Combos concert, 7:30 p.m. April 13 and 7:30 p.m. April 14, Miller Concert Hall at WSU. WSU Jazz Invitational, all day April 15, Miller Concert Hall, WSU. Joe Lovano Classic Quartet, 8 p.m. April 16, Roxy’s Downtown. For more information, visit www. wichitajazzfestival.com.

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April 1-2 – “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” Wichita Children’s Theatre and Dance Center, performed at the Wichita Center for the Arts, 9112 E. Central. Shows at 7 p.m.

Friday, April 1, and 2 p.m. Saturday, April 2. Tickets $6 per person, reservations requested. The show is recommended for children 5 and older. Call 316-262-2282.

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At the WestSide Story, we’re already working on feature stories for upcoming editions. If you know of someone whose face (and story) should appear on these pages, please let us know!

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April 1-16 – Eighth annual Young Artists’ Exhibit, Wichita Public Library.

Starting April 1, the library will display artwork created by hundreds of local preschool students. The exhibit coincides with Week of the Young Child, April 10-16, a national celebration of early learning, young children, their teachers and families. The show will feature artwork based on books. Art is on display at the central library and five library branches: Maya Angelou Northeast, Lionel D. Alford, Evergreen, Ford Rockwell and Westlink. More information, including details on receptions at each location, can be found online at www.wichitalibrary.org.

American Red Cross blood donation opportunities: • April 1, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Sam’s Club, 6200 W. Kellogg.

• April 1, 2:30-6:30 p.m., St. Francis of Assisi, 861 N. Socora.

• April 2, 8 a.m. - 3 p.m., Bel Aire City Hall, 7651 E. Central Park Ave. • April 7, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m., Newman University’s O’Shaughnessy Hall, 3100 McCormick.

• April 8, 7:30-11:30 a.m., Lee Aerospace, 9323 E. 34th Street N. • April 10, 8 a.m. – 1 p.m., St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, 1321 Stratford Lane.

• April 11, 2:30-6:30 p.m., St. Jude

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story of a group of women who lost touch after high school. The death of one of the neighborhood mothers brings them home for a reunion to support her only daughter.

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• April 13, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Wichita State University Rhatigan Student Center, 1845 Fairmount • April 14, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Wichita State University Shocker Hall, 1845 Fairmount.

• April 15, 9:30 a.m. – 1:45 p.m., BlueLine Rental, 7422 W. 21st Street N. The Wichita Blood Donation Center at 707 N. Main is open Monday through Saturday.

To donate, download the American Red Cross Blood Donor app, visit www. redcrossblood.org, or call 1-800-REDCROSS (1-800-733-2767).

Submissions for the Dateline community calendar may be emailed to ewn@eastwichitanews.com.

Submissions should be sent by the 15th of the month for the following month’s edition. Commercial events will not be accepted.

Gals, or Those Are Some Twin Peaks,” written by Tom Frye, at Mosley Street Melodrama, 234 N. Mosley. Tickets $30 for dinner and show, $20 for show only.

For tickets call 316-263-0222.

Submissions for the Performing Arts Calendar community calendar may be emailed to news@tsnews. com. Submissions should be sent by the 15th of the month for the following month’s edition.

The United States Geological Survey has put out its earthquake forecast for 2016, and more quakes are expected on the east side of the Rocky Mountains than the west side.

The earthquakes are expected to be capable of causing damage but shouldn’t be deadly, and USGS seismologists say much of the shaking is

manmade – a byproduct of drilling for oil and natural gas.

North-central Oklahoma and a small part of Kansas are now as earthquake prone as northern California centered around the San Francisco Bay. According to a USGS report, the area that has seen earthquakes increase due to the disposal of wastewater from

drilling includes parts of Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Kansas and Arkansas. Oklahoma City sits inside the area of highest increase; Wichita sits just outside of the area expected to see an increase in tremors.

They also noted an increased risk of natural earthquakes around the New Madrid fault in Missouri, Ten-

nessee, Kentucky, Arkansas and Illinois.

Most of the earthquakes in the Great Plains are not massive quakes that can kill hundreds or thousands, the report said. Instead, the area sees smaller quakes more frequently. Buildings can be damaged but aren’t expected to fall down.

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A kitchen renovation that was worth the wait It took 31 years for this east Wichita couple to get their dream kitchen, and they say it was worth the wait.

The renovation project that produced this dream kitchen was completed by the Wichita Kitchen Tune-Up team, which has remodeled hundreds of kitchens since the company was started in 2005. The company’s services range from One-Day “Tune-Up” of cabinets or any interior wood surfaces, to cabinet refacing projects, to complete custom kitchens and bathrooms.

A new custom kitchen was just what was in store for this ecstatic Wichita couple.

With their kids grown and gone, Liz and Rich were finally ready BEFORE recently to

tackle the ultimate renovation project for their rambling ranch home. For three decades, they had gotten by with a cramped, closed-off kitchen space, which they had spruced up with new cabinets at one point.

Initially, Rich said, that was the plan for this second kitchen renovation. But Rich, who does a lot of the family’s cooking, knew he really wanted more from the project.

“It was so claustrophobic,” said Rich.

The answer, once the couple started visiting with Kitchen Tune-Up designer Rachel Phillips, was to remove the wall that had separated the kitchen from the

dining room for three decades. That initial step not only opened up those See KITCHEN, Page 15

AFTER Removal of a wall and renovation of the kitchen and dining room spaces provided a dramatic transformation for these Wichita homeowners.

Wichita Grand Opera Opens the 2016 Season with Two Grand Ballets in a Single Night and is considered by critics all over the world to be a highly-entertaining and passionate retelling of the opera. Don José, a corporal in the military, falls in love with an enchanting, beautiful, and seductive young Gypsy girl named Carmen, a cigarette vendor in Seville, Spain. Carmen later abandons Don José for the toreador Escamillo, leaving José in tortured agony. This tale of love and passion is sure to leave your heart raptured in the Romantic ecstasy of unrequited love. The length of the evening is two hours, including intermission.

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B y J. B r a d l e y B a k e r For fifteen years, Wichita Grand Opera has been known for bringing international performing superstars to Wichita, and 2016 is no exception. On Saturday, April 23, at 7 p.m. in the Concert Hall of Century II Performing Arts Center, the WGO will open its 2016 Season in grandiose style with a rare double-bill performance of two classic Russian Ballets in a single, spectacular evening. Tchaikovsky’s romantic “Romeo & Juliet” and Bizet’s seductive “Carmen”—as reimagined by Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin—will leave the audience longing for more.

The passionate doubleheader will be performed by the fifty-member Russian National Ballet Theatre, direct from Moscow, which the Washington Post hails as “the real thing; … a cut above many of its rivals.”

Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet” is the timeless story of young love pulled apart by a bitter feud. The longstanding hatred between the Montague and Capulet families disrupts the city of Verona and forces Romeo and Juliet, each from one of the feuding families, to marry in secret. Intolerance on both sides quickly leads to a tragic end. The star-crossed lovers can be found everywhere in modern culture, including theatrical adaptations, musical theatre, paintings, countless films, music, and dance. Tchaikovsky’s orchestral fantasy on “Romeo & Juliet,” with its long, sweeping melodies and lush Russian orchestration, has become romance’s unofficial soundtrack, appearing in television shows, movies, and even video games.

The Russian National Ballet Theatre brings the unbridled romance of “Romeo & Juliet” to life in a mesmerizing display of effortless virtuosity like none other.

Rodion Shchedrin created his adaptation of Bizet’s “Carmen” at the request of legendary Russian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, who wished to portray in ballet form the character of Carmen, the passionate, highly-strung star of Bizet’s well-loved opera. It has become one of the most popular of works in the ballet repertoire

Tickets for this evening of love, loss, and palpable passion are on sale now, with prices ranging from $37 to $85; senior, student, group, and corporate discounts are available. For students and dance studios, the WGO offers the Day at the Opera program. To purchase your tickets, call the Wichita Grand Opera Box Office at (316) 262-8054, or go online to SelectASeat.com. For more information on the season or tickets, visit WichitaGrandOpera.org.

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Bizet’s “Carmen” with the Russian National Ballet Theatre.

Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo & Juliet” with the Russian National Ballet Theatre.

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Join the Riverfest 2016 Button Launch!

Staff Report The buzz for Riverfest 2016 is building, and now you can get in early on that excitement.

Hundreds of people already have ordered their Wichita Riverfest buttons online, and on April 11, you can be one of the first Riverfest supporters to physically lay claim to one of this year’s buttons, and at a discounted price.

Early-bird button sales begin that day, and a Riverfest 2016 Button Launch has been scheduled for 11 a.m. that Monday, according to officials with Wichita Festivals, Inc. The launch party is designed as a media event but is open to the public, and everyone is encouraged to attend.

“It will be the public’s first chance to lay their hands on this year’s Riverfest buttons and their eyes on the festival guide packed with events,” said Teri Mott, director of marketing and communications for Wichita Festivals, Inc. “This is a great opportunity to get your Riverfest buttons at the discounted price of just $7 for adults and $3 for kids 6-12.”

The early-bird button sales will run April 11 through May 5, at limited locations in and around Wichita. Wichita locations include Cox Solutions Stores in Wichita, Derby, Newton and El Dorado; the Wichita Festivals, Inc. office; and the Intrust Bank Arena box office. Online sales also will continue at www.selectaseat.com.

Beginning May 6, buttons will be $10 for adults and $3 for kids 6-12. Button locations from May 6 on include Dillons stores and QuikTrip locations, as well as many local businesses.

Those who want to join in on the Button Launch should gather at 11 a.m. April 11 at the West Wichita Cox Solutions Store, 446 S. Ridge Road.

“With the help of Mayor Jeff Longwell and Admiral Windwagon Smith XLIII Steve Dillard, we’ll get early-bird button sales started with a bang that morning,” said Mott. “You’ll get a glimpse into what you can expect at this year’s festival and be one of the first to buy this year’s Wichita flag-inspired button.”

Wichita Riverfest 2016 runs June 3-11 and will include hundreds of events over nine days in and around downtown Wichita. A Riverfest button is required for entry.

Last year, 97,500 buttons were purchased. Nearly 30,000 of those were early-bird buttons.

“People come from all over Kansas and the nation to enjoy Riverfest,” said Mott. “They come for the nostalgia, but increasingly they also come for our terrific concert line-up and fun new events.”

The Riverfest Button Launch Party will be at 11 a.m. April 11 at the west Wichita Cox Solutions Store, 446 S. Ridge Road.

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Starting April 1, the Wichita Public Library will be conducting an online survey to collect information about how people in the community use and benefit from public technology resources and services.

This information will help the library evaluate its current services to enable better outcomes and to determine the value of public access technology and services. The impact survey collects data across the following domains: general use of library and online resources, education, employment, entrepreneurship, health and wellness, e-government, civic engagement, e-commerce and social inclusion.

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With the limited amount of space that was available, “roll-out trays and pullouts were essential for this kitchen,” said Rachel. Liz agreed.

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spaces, but also made the kitchen feel connected with the rest of the house.

“Rachel is fantastic,” said Rich. “We wanted to work with someone who knew what to do, and that’s just what we got.”

The new, open kitchen space now features classic cherrywood cabinets that help provide a transitional style for the rest of the kitchen’s new elements.

A Bordeaux granite was selected for the countertops and helps tie in all the new earth tones used in the kitchen.

Accenting the new countertop, which runs the length of the kitchen and dining room space combined, is a travertine backsplash with a strip of classic glass tiles. A new tile floor also was installed, as well as a new microwave, hardware and sink components.

“Under cabinet lighting really helps with the work areas in the kitchen,” said Rachel. “And the new cabinets run all the way to the ceiling, providing Rich and Liz with lots more storage for seasonal items.”

Customers will access the online survey through computer workstations at the Library as well as at the Library’s website www.wichitalibrary.org. The survey takes 10-15 minutes to complete, is completely anonymous, and is available in English and Spanish.

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WestSider writes family’s history Book by Paul V. Dugan, Sr., tells of city’s Irish pioneers

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Retired attorney Paul V. Dugan, Sr., lives with wife Rosemary on what used to be West Wichita farmland, near the bank of the Cowskin Creek. The land has been in his family for generations – part of a legacy that began when his great-grandfather, Henry L. Dugan, moved from New Jersey to Kansas and claimed a homestead in 1872.

Nearly 150 years later, what was once an undisturbed, rural landscape is now a settled, suburban one, with housing subdivisions neatly filling in surveyors’ original section lines. But for Dugan, the frontier past of West Wichita is still visible, superimposed on the present-day landscape. In his new book “The Dugans: The Story of Irish Pioneers in Wichita,” he sets out to make that vision available to others.

The project of creating a family chronicle landed in Dugan’s lap, he said, because his role as a lawyer put him in proximity with family records and stories.

“Relatives would give me a lot of records and photos. I’d get them out of estates when great-aunts and great-uncles, grandparents and everybody died,” said Dugan.

“And then it’s a hell of a problem: What do you do with all these old photographs and records? What happens to them? Well, if someone like me doesn’t take them and preserve them, they just disappear.

“I have boxes and file cabinets full of stuff, and that kind of sparked my interest,” Dugan continued. “In 1972, the hundredth anniversary of our family in Wichita, I started interviewing some uncles.

And then, 40 years later, retired, I had the time and the inkling to try my hand at writing. I think it’s important that people know about their background and their heritage.”

Dugan did not take a standard genealogical approach to the project.

He did not want to create a dry, “who begat whom” record; he wanted to tell stories about “real people with all their heroic traits, faults and weaknesses.”

Through stories, he hoped to illuminate his family’s character as well as the character of the times through which his family lived.

Paul V. Dugan, Sr., was inspired by boxes and cabinets full of records and photos from numerous relatives. The result is “The Dugans: The Story of Irish Pioneers in Wichita.”

Dugan traced his family back to roots on a nine-acre rented farm in County Clare, Ireland – a site that Rosemary Dugan depicted in a painting featured on the book’s cover.

In 1842, during the early days of the Irish potato famine, Henry L. Dugan’s father died. His mother probably received funds from her landlord to vacate the farm and travel to America in 1842. Henry grew up in New Jersey, served briefly in the Union Army during the Civil War, and married Ellen Redmond in 1863.

In the spring of 1872, with three young children in tow (including the author’s

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grandfather) and another on the way, Henry and Ellen made the cross-country train trip out west, seeking opportunity.

They arrived in Wichita on May 16, passengers on the very first train to arrive after the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe line was extended down from Newton.

Henry’s next task was to find a site for his homestead, so he hired a horse and guide at a livery stable on the present-day site of the Broadview Hotel.

“You kind of had to have a guide, to find which farms were still available for homesteading,” said Dugan. “The land office was in Augusta, because Wichita didn’t exist, and it was so wild and wooly that government people didn’t want to live in Wichita. The guide took him out southwesterly, to what is now 151st Street and Pawnee, two miles south of Kellogg. So he homesteaded that.”

The process of establishing firm title to a homestead claim was laborious.

“There was a real strict requirement of what you had to do in the first two years,” said Dugan. “You had to build a dwelling and break out 40 acres of prairie, plant so many yards of trees. He did that, lived on the land for five years, and at the end of that period, he paid $2.50 an acre and got title to the farm.”

The dream that drew millions of immigrants to America’s shores came true for Henry in Kansas, Paul Dugan said.

Where Henry’s father scraped out a living on a few acres, paying onerous rent to an absentee landlord, Henry owned several much larger spreads, which he and his family worked themselves. In Kansas, the hard work was what earned neighbors’ respect, and religion or ethnicity just didn’t matter as much.

“It was a free, progressive state,” said Paul Dugan. “That’s why those Irishmen liked to come to Kansas. That was the way it was, clear up through my boyhood.”

But hardship went hand in hand with prosperity. Tuberculosis blighted the Dugan family during the 19th century.

“Of Henry and Ellen’s seven sons, only one lived to marry and have a family,” said Dugan. “They all died with TB, mostly in their 20s. One lived into his 30s. Hard to think of burying six of your seven sons.”

Despite so much loss, the couple has between 300 and 400 direct descendants living today, Dugan estimated, with many living in the Wichita area. “The Dugans” shares the family stories of many of them, concluding with an account of the family during the years of Prohibition.

“There was a lot of bootlegging in this neighborhood

This painting shows the land where Paul V. Dugan’s great-grandfather was born in Feakle Parish, County Clare in Ireland. The painting is by his wife, Rosemary.

in the ‘30s and ‘40s,” said Dugan. “We were the longest dry state in the nation. We went dry in the 1880s, and we were dry until 1949. So there was a lot of bootlegging that went on along the Cowskin Creek. They’d have shacks, back in the woods, where they could hide out.

“My family never got into the bootlegging, but some of my relatives were,” Dugan continued.

“They were moral, religious people, but they didn’t really consider whiskey or alcohol as evil. It was against the law, but it wasn’t considered a heinous

crime.”

Dugan relates that after World War II, a serious whiskey bootlegger named Earl Blake set up “the most extensive bootleg operation in the Wichita area” across Maize Road from the Dugan farm.

The colorful, somewhat criminal world of bootleggers had already become history across much of the country when national Prohibition ended, but the author got a first-hand look at it during his See DUGAN, Page 23

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The way American movies depict military service is changing. More and more frequently, sympathetic characters and protagonists are depicted as being degraded or damaged as a result of ordinary military service.

This is not entirely new, but the level of emphasis seems to be. I have been going to the movies steadily for 76 years, and I can’t think of more than a dozen or so examples of this trope from decades past.

The ultimate example of old-style characters who serve in the military is probably Gary Cooper’s Sergeant York, a genuinely pious, fundamentalist, Bible-believing pacifist who comes to realize that by killing a few he can rescue a great many and who becomes the great hero of World War I. A fairly typical example of the new concept of the veteran may be Tina Fey in “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot,” or the protagonists of “The Hurt Locker” or “American Sniper.”

The usual military hero/protagonist in American movies was John Wayne.

But George C. Scott in “Patton” presented a character with a peculiar orientation to violence that made him unsuited to civilian life. Patton confesses to a love of battlefield slaughter (“How I love it! God forgive me, I do love it” are the words I remember, spoken to nobody and clearly sincere), almost unique among American military heroes.

This unattractive trait had occasionally appeared before in such pictures as “War Hunt” with John Saxon and “The War Lover” with Steve McQueen, both in 1962, but it was rare and never the primary concern.

For millennia, the main theme of war literature and drama was the glory of the victor. Passages in long works concerned the miseries of defeat, and Euripides’ “The Trojan Women” was entirely about that. But as long as only the ruling class could reward art, war remained glorious. Then came the American Civil War and the draft army, along with middle-class literacy and popular

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influence on literature and drama, and Stephen Crane’s “The Red Badge of Courage,” with its at-least-momentary cowardice of the hero.

World War I brough disillusionment with the whole military and ruling classes, leading to “All Quiet on the Western Front,” with its emphasis on the miseries of the defeated side, though before final defeat.

It was World War II, especially after its conclusion, that translated the tradition of emphasis on the victor to soldiers who were less glorious heroes than mere survivors. Hemingway’s emasculated Jake Barns in “The Sun Also Rises” might serve as a precursor of the defeated men of the Depression and songs like “Remember My Forgotten Man.” And World War II brought no euphoria about lasting peace. There are those who claim that 1948 was the only year of real peace before the Cold War brought its threats of worldwide catastrophe.

But Scott’s Patton had not been ruined by war. He had been elevated by it, like warriors of old. What could have been done with such a character in a time of peace? Saxon and McQueen, in “War Lover” and “War Hunt,” were not products of war, but victims of their own unfortunate psychological quirks, akin to Patton in this respect. The entire infantry squad in Carl Foreman’s “The Victors” the next year, 1963, ended the movie by shooting a friendly dog – hardly a heroic or endearing act – and the theme of the movie was the gradual See CINEMA, Page 19

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his performance is hard to believe.

Whether even he could have done much for “Young Messiah” is hard to say. But mere physical beauty is not enough.

Rice says she “wanted to write the life of Jesus Christ” (p. 327), and volume two of what promises to be a considerable series, “Christ the Lord; Road to Cana” has already appeared. Maybe the movies will follow suit.

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represent a kind of man absolutely valuable in war but uncomfortable and inconvenient in peace – by no means a villain but patterned to kill and extremely good at it. And neither one is suggested to have been damaged by the experience.

It would be a hell of a stretch to put Tina Fey in a class with them. But she shifts slightly in their direction when her assignment to the present-day Afghanistan war develops into a desire for actual combat. Margot Robbie’s character in “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” shows another woman correspondent who has already become attuned to the world of war, and there must be significance in the fact that she is promoted over Fey – perhaps because she does not seize her opportunity to grab a machine gun and join the violent action.

I wonder if Fey’s character is on the way to “The Hurt Locker” and “American Sniper” and Robbie is intended to represent normality.

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hardening of soldiers’ hearts under wartime conditions.

There was still a lot of emphasis on incorruptible goodness: Montgomery Clift in “From Here to Eternity” (which took place in the peacetime American army) and “The Young Lions” (in which Marlon Brando’s German soldier was not the Nazi Irwin Shaw’s novel had portrayed). But the military was drifting toward Jack Nicholson in 1992’s “A Few Good Men.” And in “The Hurt Locker” and “American Sniper,” we have protagonists who might seem perfectly normal like you and me, but who find actual combat so suitable to them that they may not even want to adapt to civilian peacetime life. Like Patton, they

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There is no effort at ethnic casting. If asked, I would guess the child playing Christ to be Scandinavian or German. His fair skin would certainly suffer in a sunny land. And there is no real effort to individualize characters beyond what physical appearance can do: the Christ child is simply an old-fashioned Good Boy of the Freddie Bartholomew type, with none of the Mickey Rooney mischievousness about him, if also not, mercifully, any Shirley Temple cuteness.

There is a subplot about a Roman soldier looking for the Christ child that is so predictable you could write it yourself.

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Northwest athletes ‘Swim To A Wish’

The Wichita Northwest High School boys swim team made a difference for a local family by participating in “Swim To A Wish,” a marathon swim event that benefited the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The boys teamed up to swim a total of 100 miles, beginning at 3:45 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26 and continuing to swim until Sunday morning. Swim to a Wish started at Haysville’s Campus High School five years ago and included Campus, Great Bend Newton, Salina South, Salina Central and Northwest this year.

ABOVE: Kevin East switches to breaststroke during a leg of the Northwest team’s 100-mile relay.

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hard times of the Great Depression had ended with World War II, the rains had begun again and prosperity returned.”

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Kansas boyhood. “(Blake) always had a four- to five-day beard over his coarse, dark complexion,” Dugan wrote. “He wore a black or grey felt hat, and he never smiled. He was a serious man.

He asked no questions, and he didn’t want to be asked any questions.”

Blake’s bootlegging complex included a bar, a gambling hall and a lodging place called the “Yellow Cabins.” It also included a network of interior roads that the Dugan family referred to as “liquor joint roads,” meant to help smugglers elude the lawmen. Whiskey smugglers would frequently throw five-gallon cans of whiskey into the Dugan farmyard when they feared being caught with them, and Paul Dugan recalled that a smuggler once gave him $5 after coming back to recover whiskey cans that he had stashed in a pile of manure.

Prohibition in Kansas finally ended, and times kept changing.

“I remember the first time my father bought liquor in a liquor store, in early 1950,” Dugan wrote. “My father got out of the car and went towards the back of the building, as though he was ‘sneaking’ around the building.

“My mother shouted at him, ‘John, what are you doing?’

My father replied, ‘Rose, I’ve been sneaking around all my

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Asbury Church – Administrative Offices - 2810 W. 15th St., Wichita (one block north of 13th on St. Paul) (316) 9421491. Two locations across the Wichita Metro Area. Sunday Services: Central Campus – 15th & St. Paul. Traditional Service at 8 a.m., a Praise Service at 9:15 a.m. and a Blended Service at 10:45 a.m. West Campus – 119th & Pawnee. An Upbeat Praise Service suited for the whole family at 10:45 a.m. Visit www.asburychurch.org to learn more about Asbury’s many familycentered ministries. Asbury Counseling Center information can be found at www.

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Sunday Service; Sunday School at 9:25 a.m.

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

Goddard United Methodist Church – 300 N. Cedar, Goddard; (316) 7942207 • 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Worship • Children’s church during both services • Nursery Available • 10 a.m. Sunday School • Steve Morgan, Pastor • Haley Bieter, Youth Pastor • Children’s Pastor, Nicole Rbya Good Shepherd Episcopal Church – 8021 W. 21st St. N., Wichita; (316) 721-8096; Saturday 5:30 p.m.

Spoken Worship; Sunday 8:45 a.m.

Contemporary Worship; 11 a.m.

Traditional Choral Worship; Church School - Children 9:50 a.m., Adults 10 a.m.; Children’s Chapel 8:45 & 11 a.m.

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

Heritage Baptist Church – Corner of 135th St. & 13th St. N., Wichita; (316) 729-2700; Sunday School 9:45 a.m.; Morning Worship 10:45 a.m.; Evening Worship 6 p.m.; Wednesday Adult Bible

Study/Prayer Time 7 p.m.; Wiseguys 3 yrs.–6th grade 7 p.m.; Nursery provided at all services. “Your neighborhood church just around the corner.” Email: swede132@sbcglobal.net; Website: heritage4u.net.

Hope Christian Church – Meeting 10:30 a.m. Sunday mornings, NEW LOCATION - 1330 E. Douglas.

Worship is casual and encouraging.

Online at www.hope4wichita.org and on Facebook. Pastor Mark McMahon. markm@hope4wichita.org.

316-6480495.

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

Pathway Church – Westlink Campus, Saturday at 5pm, Sunday at 9:30 & 11am • Café Campus, Sunday at 11am • 2001 N Maize Rd (21st & Maize), Wichita • 316-722-8020 • Goddard Campus, Sunday at 9:30 & 11am • 18800 W Kellogg, Goddard • 316 550 6099 • www. pathwaychurch.com • Following Jesus/ In Community/For Others.

Trinity Reformed Church (RPCNA) – Come glorify and enjoy God with us. 3340 W. Douglas Ave., Wichita, KS 67203 • Sunday worship 9:30 a.m.

• Sunday School 11 a.m. • Evening services 5 p.m. • Pastor Adam King • www.trinityrpcna.org • 316-721-2722 Westlink Church of Christ – 10025 W. Central, Wichita; (316) 722-1111; Sunday 9:30 a.m. Bible Classes, 10:30 a.m. Worship, 6 p.m. Devotional; Wednesday 6 p.m. Meal (during school year), 7 p.m. Bible Classes; Gary Richardson, Minister; Nick Miller, Youth Minister; Website: www.westlinkchurch. org.

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

Rolling Hills Community Church (Church of God, Cleveland, TN) – 8605 W. Maple, Wichita; (316) 722-1251; Sunday Christian Education Classes 9:30 a.m.; Sunday Worship Service 10:30 a.m.; Wednesday Recharge Service 7:00 p.m. Pastor Mark Ingram; www.rhcc.church and Facebook. ‘We love God, love people, and help people love God.’ Come join us.

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This empty seat…

This image shows the farmstead of Henry Dugan, the great-grandfather of Paul V. Dugan, Sr. Henry Dugan was the first family member to settle in the area. His home was located in Delano Township at what is now the intersection of Maple and West streets.

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life to buy liquor. How the hell can I just walk in and buy it in broad daylight where I can be seen?’ With that, Prohibition was over, and the

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all helping this team achieve their goals like the many before them. Our program has been blessed with other great coaches over the many years and no program is successful without a good coaching staff.”

Means identified his favorite aspects of coaching: competition and the camaraderie with the wrestlers.

“It is also very rewarding to see kids reach and achieve success,” Means said.

“For some it is being an individual State champ, for some being a State placer, for some being a State qualifier, and for some just making varsity. The most rewarding thing about coaching is getting calls, texts or letters from former wrestlers and knowing that Goddard wrestling somehow had an impact on their life.”

Means also enjoys the rewards and the hard work of mixing different personalities and attitudes to work together as a team instead of as individuals.

“My goal is for these young men to put the team first and do what is best

for the team – even though it might not be the best for them as an individual,” Means said. “I feel as though we have been successful at that, as evidenced by sacrifices made by individuals each year to make the team stronger. The parents, athletes and coaches have all bought into this philosophy, which makes it easier.

“My goal has always been to make these athletes want to be a part of something bigger than just themselves,” he continued. “The success of the Kansas Young Guns and Goddard High School wrestling is attributable to parents, athletes and coaches accepting and buying into the process.”

Even after leading the Lions to five State titles and seeing several more individual titles, winning never gets old to Means.

“Winning a State championship is always memorable and never gets old,” Means said. “Each team is different and special, but some of the best memories come from guys that never wrestle varsity – but show up every day with a great attitude and work hard to get better and be a part of the Goddard wrestling family. We want to create an environment that people want to be involved with, regardless of their wrestling ability, and feel important.”

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The Sedgwick County Fair’s fourth annual Fair’s Got Talent will be held Thursday, July 7, and Saturday, July 9, at the fairgrounds in Cheney. Each evening’s show begins at 7:30 p.m.

All types of talent are welcome – the bigger the variety, the better show. Applicants will be required to submit an audition via YouTube. The winner will be decided by a panel of judges.

There will also be a $50 cash prize each night for the “People’s Choice Award.”

All selected performers will be on stage Thursday; only the finalists will advance to Saturday’s competition. For the finals, entrants have the option of performing the same act/number that they did in the preliminaries, or they may do a different one.

Acts must be no longer than four minutes. Performers will be responsible for their own accompaniment. A sound system and operator will be available.

The winner will receive $500 in a combination of cash and prizes. Second place will receive $400 in cash and prizes, third place will earn $300 in cash and prizes, and fourth place will earn $200 in cash and prizes.

For more information, visit ourcountyfair.com or email fairsgottalent@gmail.com. Complete and return an entry form by June 2.

All entrants will be notified via e-mail by June 9 of the winning entries.

WestSider Maya MiKity performs during the 2015 Sedgwick County Fair’s Got Talent contest.

Auditions for this year’s event at the Sedgwick County Fair in Cheney are underway.

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Annual poker run to benefit CF The VFW Riders will hold their annual CF Poker Run Saturday, April 23. The event is hosted by VFW Post 3115 and benefits the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The poker run will take place 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine.

Registration information can be found online at www.jackshabit.com. There will be a silent auction, and a pulled pork dinner will be available.

For more information contact Vada Carpenter at 316-942-0666 or vadacarpenter@ att.net.

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The Kansas Press Association has released the results of its annual Awards of Excellence contest, where Kansas newspapers compete in numerous news, photography, design and advertising categories. The Times-Sentinel and its sister publications, the Haysville Sun-Times and the Conway Springs Star & Argonia Argosy, won a total of 19 awards. The Times-Sentinel competes in non-daily division II for mid-size circulation weekly newspapers, and the Sun-Times and Star-Argosy compete in non-daily division I for small-circulation papers.

The three papers are sister publications to the WestSide Story and East Wichita News. As monthly publications, WestSide Story and East Wichita News are not eligible for most of the competition categories.

The Times-Sentinel won 14 awards. That total includes four first-place awards: best front page, best sports pages and best editorial pages. Managing editor Travis Mounts won first place in column writing for “Random Thoughts,” which appears in all three weeklies.

The paper garnered five second-place awards: government/political story by Sam Jack and Travis Mounts, best feature photo by Aaron Mounts, best special section for the annual Salute to Agriculture section, best use of photos and best newspaper website.

The Times-Sentinel won five third-place awards: best series for Sam Jack’s stories on heart transplant recipient Josh Oakley, best government/political story, best healthcare ad for designer Abbygail Wells, news and writing excellence, and design and layout excellence.

The Haysville Sun-Times won three awards. Two of the awards were for the 2015 Sedgwick County Fair Guide, which was named best special section for both editorial content and for advertising. The paper won second place for best front page. The Star-Argosy won two awards: first place in sports story for coverage of Argonia’s State championship game, written by Travis Mounts and Michael Buhler, and third place in news series for Sam Jack’s series on water projects in Sumner County.

“We’re honored to have done so well in this year’s contest,” said Mounts. “The depth and breadth of the awards shows the talent of our entire staff. We’re thankful that our peers looked so kindly on our work.”

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Your domestic cat was not designed to live indoors. A life of “captivity” can be hazardous if certain environmental needs as not met.

Here are five ways to enrich your indoor cat’s environment.

1. Enhance basic resources. These include food, fresh water, a clean toileting area, a scratching post and toys.

Instead of free-choice feeding, encourage natural feeding behaviors than mimic stalking, playing with and killing prey. Feed at short, regular interval and provide food-dispensing toys (Google search “food puzzles”).

2. Provide ample physical space. A cat is designed to live in the out-of-doors.

To provide enough satisfying space for resting and sleeping, hiding and playing, vertical perches are needed. Safe areas prevent conflict with other pets.

3. Outlets for normal cat behavior.

Most indoor cats lead a static, monotonous life with no outlets for expressing innate behaviors. The behaviors include eating and drinking, eliminating, exploring and chewing, hunting, resting, scratching and sleeping.

Cats need clean litter boxes, scratching posts, cat grass to chew, toys to simulate hunting behavior and spaces to perch, rest, and survey their landscape.

4. Respect social interaction limits. It

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is important to socialize young kittens with people and other animals early as theses early experiences shape longterm social behavior and what forms of social interaction the cat will later tolerate from people. Respect your cat’s personal preferences as the lack of recognition of these can lead to stress-related illnesses, inappropriate elimination or aggression.

5. Facilitate sensory stimulation. Cats use their vision, hearing and sense of smell to hunt and avoid enemies. Allow visual access to the outside if possible.

Videos of birds, fish or insects can provide stimulation. Catnip and synthetic pheromones can provide olfactory stimulation.

Contact your veterinarian to get advice on enriching your cat’s environment.

7th Annual Spring Fling Craft Fair

Sunday, April 24 10-4 p.m.

Jewelry, children’s accessories, purses, wreaths, candles & warmers, homemade cookies, cinnamon rolls, pies, fudge, caramel corn, peanut brittle, breads, jellies & jams, salsa, toys & books, custom signs, home décor, crocheted items, pot holders, wash cloths, towels, jeans, scarves, baby items, pottery, baskets, paper art, recipe books, lockets, button & bead jewelry, religious items, wine & stemware, cosmetic & beauty items, body wraps, dietary supplements, gourmet food mixes, cleaning cloths, cookware, photography, scrapbooking supplies and so much more!

Clonmel Community Hall 10 Minutes West of Wichita on K-42

Concessions will be served! {Lunch, Snacks, Drinks} Bishop Carroll senior Jack Leyden signed a letter of intent to play baseball with Independence Community College. He will be majoring in education.

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• Newman University officials announced that Brett K. Andrews, MBA, Ph.D., has been named dean of the university’s new School of Business effective May 1. In August 2015, Newman revealed plans to create a new business school that focuses on ethics, entrepreneurship and socially conscious practices as well traditional business knowledge. The school will officially launch in the fall 2016 semester. Andrews comes to Newman after serving since 2013 as executive vice president of Tabor College Wichita and dean of the School of Adult and Graduate Studies, where he helped develop multiple academic programs in business and forge community partnerships. He is also a professor of management at Tabor. Andrews earned his Ph.D. in management from Walden University. He received his MBA from Oral Roberts University and has a marketing undergraduate degree from Northeastern State University.

• Special Olympics Kansas (SOKS) has announced Making a Difference Regional Awards for 2015. Local winners include: Outstanding Family of Region, Jason Shirley Family, Wichita; Business of Region, Comfort Homes, Maize; and Event Volunteer of Region, Jennifer Hughes, Wichita. The regional winners will now be eligible for the state award. The Outstanding Family recognizes a family, with a Special Olympics athlete that has made unique and lasting contributions not only to benefit their athlete, but also to every aspect of the Special Olympics’ spirit. Outstanding Business recognizes a club, business or organization whose efforts have significantly improved the Special Olympics athletes’ experiences either locally, regionally or statewide. Event Volunteer recognizes an individual who has made a difference in special-event fundraising or marketing efforts or has significantly impacted other initiatives. The state award winners will be officially recognized at the opening ceremony of Summer Games at 7 p.m. June 3 in Wichita at Cessna Stadium on the Wichita State University campus.

• WestSider and Azusa Pacific University student Kellie Platek made the academic deans’ list at APU. Platek, a business-accounting major, was honored for a fall semester 2015 academic standing of a 3.5 or better grade-point average. Platek is joined by 2,230 other students receiving the same honor.

• Washburn University has released the names of students who were named to the fall semester president’s honor roll. To be named to the list, a student must be enrolled in at least 12 graded semester credit hours and attain a semester grade point average of 4.0.

WestSiders on the president’s honor roll include Isabella Fenton, Thalia Fenton and Clayton White. The university also released the names of students who were named to the fall semester dean’s honor roll. To be named to the list, a student must be enrolled in at least 12 graded semester credit hours and attain a semester grade point average between 3.4 and 3.99. WestSiders on the list include Paige Durbin, Spencer Elkinton, Madeline Heyen, Tanner Johnson and Braden Larkey.

• Alex Johnson, a native of West Wichita, has been named to the University of Iowa’s Dean’s List for the 2015 fall semester.

• Dustin Lentz recently received the Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor (CRPC) designation from the College for Financial Planning. Individuals who hold the CRPC designation have completed a course of study encompassing principles and strategies, risk and return, employer-sponsored retirement savings plans, health care options, other sources of income streams, tax strategies and estate planning.

Lentz is an associate financial advisor and operations manager at Stoutheart Financial Group, a private wealth advisory practice.

• Cloud County Community College held its spring 2016 induction ceremony for Phi Theta Kappa, an international honor society for two-year colleges.

The ceremony was held Thursday, Feb. 18, at the college’s Geary County campus in Junction City. Alex Martin, from West Wichita, was inducted as a new member of the CCCC, Concordia campus Upsilon Tau chapter of Phi Theta Kappa. Phi Theta Kappa, founded in 1918, recognizes and encourages academic achievement. Students who have completed at least 12 hours of transferrable credit while maintaining a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.5 are invited to join.

• U.S. Air Force Airman Zachary C. Wiseman and U.S. Air Force Airman Ryan N. Gavina 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.

Wiseman is the son of Joseph and Christina Wiseman, grandson of Juanita Wiseman, and son-in-law of Elizabeth Wiseman, all of Wichita. He is also the brother of Andrew Duerr and Michael Wiseman. The airman graduated in 2015 from Maize South High School.

Gavina earned distinction as an honor graduate. Gavina is the son of

Esselyn Moore and stepson of David E. Moore, and the grandson of Fern and David R. Moore, all of Wichita. He is a 2014 graduate of Maize South High School.

• WestSider Jacob Maddox was named to the dean’s list for the fall 2015 semester at Washington University in St. Louis. Maddox is enrolled in the university’s College of Arts and Sciences. To qualify for the dean’s list in the College of Arts and Sciences, students must earn a semester grade-point average of 3.6 or above and be enrolled in at least 14 graded units.

• The Wichita Center for the Arts, along with Elizabeth B. Koch and the K.T. Wiedemann Foundation, honored promising student artists on March 6 at the Easter Kansas Scholastic Arts Awards ceremony. The Scholastic Art Awards Exhibition showcases artwork created by middle school and high school students from 70 Kansas counties. Nearly 2,400 entries were submitted and 595 were selected for exhibition as Gold Key, Silver Key or Honorable Mention. From 124 Gold Key works, five for nominated for the Eastern Kansas American Visions Medal, which will be selected later this year.

The nominees include two WestSiders, Morgan Massey of Wichita Northwest High School and Emily Rozar of Maize South High School.

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WestSider part of Young Stockmen’s Academy

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A group of 20 young ranchers from across the state met in Topeka recently for the first installment of the 2016 KLA Young Stockmen’s Academy (YSA). Merck Animal Health is partnering with the association to host these members for an indepth look into KLA and the beef industry. A series of four seminars will be held throughout the year in various locations in Kansas.

As part of an interactive training session led by KLA staff, White City rancher and beef advocate Debbie Lyons-Blythe and WIBW-Topeka farm broadcasters Kelly Lenz and Greg Akagi, the group was given an overview of various media outlets available to help tell the beef production story. Lyons-Blythe shared how she has implemented advocacy into her daily routine through the use of her blog, “Kids, Cows and Grass.” For hands-on training, they participated in a social media activity and mock radio talk show. In addition, YSA members attended a Senate Natural Resources Committee meeting at the Capitol and participated in a financial planning seminar conducted by KCOE ISOM. The 2016 YSA class included Kassie Curran of West Wichita.

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How many makes a collection, and do cookbooks count?

My first collection was probably rocks. Like so many collections, it wasn’t planned, it just happened.

Even as a very young child, I loved rocks, especially when they were wet from the rain. My mom had already raised two children by the time I came along late in life, so she was pretty casual about child-rearing and saw no reason I Cook’s Library couldn’t play in the rain as long as it was warm enough.

As a result, my collection of rocks grew quickly.

Patsy Terrell Arrowheads regularly popped up on the farm, so you can see how rocks began to accumulate. I confess I still pick up a pretty rock here or there. My front porch hosts a collection, and the flower bed has some scattered around, too.

I’m not sure what the official definition of a collection is, but I’ve heard it’s three or more. However, the circumstances under which I heard this were questionable, so I’m not fully convinced. I first heard it a few years ago when a boyfriend was helping me move a desk up the stairs. He jokingly made a comment about my “desk collection.” I insisted there was no such thing. He mentioned this concept of “three” and I just let it drop because, well, why make a fuss? I do have more than three desks. I’m a writer. I need desks, plural.

Cookbooks didn’t become a collection until a trip to Minnesota in my early 20s. I was attracted to the books that talked about the history of the area and offered heritage recipes. Once I started seeing them as little history books, they were irresistible. And, once I had noticed them, I realized they were found everywhere. They started coming home with me from various spots. Before you knew it, I needed a room to hold cookbooks.

At some point, I started making photocopies of recipes I used regularly and putting them into notebooks so they were easily located again. It also allowed me to make notes about changes. They became my own history as I noted the particular event I had first made the recipe for, or who especially liked it.

Today I’m sharing one of those recipes that has been around for a long time – at least in my world. I first made it for a dear friend, Miss Joy, who loves a little something sweet in the morning. It’s a coffee cake with an extraordinarily delicious topping, which I doubled in this recipe as written below. Because, well, it’s delicious!

Patsy Terrell and her rocks, cookbooks and desks make their home in central Kansas. Other collections fill the nooks and crannies of the house. See more photos and sign up for her newsletter at cookslibrarywithpatsy.com.

Coffee Cake for Miss Joy 6 cups all-purpose flour 2 tablespoons baking powder 1 1/2 cups white sugar Salt to taste 1 1/3 cups shortening 2 cups milk 4 eggs 1/2 cup butter, melted Topping 2 cups brown sugar 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon Pecans to taste (optional)

Instructions: Mix flour, baking powder, sugar and salt together. Cut in shortening and set aside.

Pour into greased and floured 9 by 12 pan. Drizzle top with melted butter.

In a separate bowl, beat egg with fork, add milk and stir.

Add liquid mixture to dry mixture and stir until just blended.

It’s okay for it to have some lumps.

In separate bowl, mix topping ingredients and sprinkle on of batter.

Bake at 425 degrees for 15-20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Patsy Terrell is a collector of many things, including the rocks pictured at left and cookbooks, which inspired this recipe for coffee cake (above). Terrell said the several desks she owns do not count as a collection.

The Sedgwick County Treasurer’s Office went live with QLess’ “Virtual Waiting Line” in March.

This system permits customers to “get in line” from a cell phone with texting capabilities, a personal computer, or by coming into a tag office and pulling a number.

The treasurer’s page of the Sedgwick County website now includes links to each of the four tag offices. By clicking on a location, the customer will be asked to provide last name, first name and phone number. The customer will receive notification as to how long his or her estimated wait time is and will continue to receive updates every 30 minutes.

To secure a place in line via text, the customer simply sends the assigned location message to 316-395-2940. The message lines are as follows: “SGBRITTANYTAG” for the Brittany Office located at 2120 N. Woodlawn “SGMURDOCKTAG” for the main office located at 200 W. Murdock “SGCHADSWORTHTAG” for the Chadsworth Tag Office located at 2330 N. Maize “SGDERBYTAG” for the Derby Tag Office located at 212 W. Greenway, Derby If customers don’t have access to a cell phone or PC, they may come into their preferred tag office and use the QLess kiosk, where a number will be drawn using a touch-screen monitor. Their place in line will be displayed on big-screen monitors on the wall. Once selected, they will be advised by voice prompts to an assigned station. Customers may be familiar with this system since it is used by local DMVs.

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