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INSIDEI Volume 32 Issue 7July 2015

Paint of peopleslives | 12A

Recycled paint plays a key role in the work of East Wichita artist Eric

Carbrey, whose gallery show is going on now at CityArts.

ON THE COVER

East Wichita NewsEditorialPublisher Paul RhodesManaging Editor Travis MountsProduction Abbygail WellsReporters/Contributors Sam Jack, Amy Houston, Jim Erickson, Philip Holmes

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Features

Dateline ...................................3A

From the Publishers Files ...........................................6A

People and Places ...............8A

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

Focus On Business ............20A

Cinema Scene ....................22A

Movie Review .....................23A

Performing Arts Calendar ...............................25A

On the hunt for the best book | 4A

We had just come off the presses last month the ink was barely dry when news broke that Tanya Tandoc had died in a horrific, surprising and criminal way. A public memorial service at The Orpheum drew thousands.

The front of her namesake restau-rant, Tandoc, became a shrine to the woman whose food, energy and good nature seemed to have touched nearly every Wichitan.

I dont think Ive ever had the chance to meet her face-to-face. Im sure at some point she was there when I visited Tanyas Soup Kitchen, either at its cur-rent location or down by the old Union Station when I worked there for Mul-timedia Cablevision and her restaurant was just a few steps away.

But it quickly became apparent that many people I know did know Tan-ya personally. If you follow the Six Degrees of Separation idea where everyone on the planet is no more than six acquaintenances apart it appears that the entire city was was no more than two degrees separated from Tanya.

Part of what stunned so many people is that Tanya was so full of life.

Beyond food, her passions included music and dance. So many people said that when they talked with her, they felt like the most important person in Tan-yas life. Thats a rare and special gift.

But food is what shell most be re-membered for. Tanya fed a city, directly and indirectly.

Of course, there is still her restaurant, which will continue to serve thanks to

her loyal employees who helped make her dream come alive not once, but twice.

She taught many other people to cook, professionals as well as amateurs, through various cooking classes. She continued to teach us with regular ap-pearances on KMUW radio.

And she helped feed all of Wichita through her support of other chefs and restaurants, whether it was offering advice or just helping spread the word. Where some people might have seen competitors, she saw a community.

Our friend, photojournalist extraordi-naire Larry Hatteberg, featured her on a piece that first aired in June 2011. Some of the things she said in that piece now seem haunting. You can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JXpBO3ezMIY.

I feel that Ive missed out by not having the chance to meet Tanya. I will continue to eat at Tanyas Soup Kitchen when I can, and I will look for oppor-tunities to feel her presence through the people who did know and love her and were touched by her.

Travis Mounts | Managing Editor

Tandocs passing stuns the city

Tanyas Soup Kitchen reopened on June 7, a few days after the restau-

rants namesake, Tanya Tandoc, was murdered by an acquaintance. Employees opened the restaurant after taking a few days to mourn.

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

July 18 The inaugural Wichita Mini Maker Faire will be held at Explora-tion Place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This event is presented in partnership with MakeICT. Any groups or individuals interested in presenting their project, activity, or performance in this event should complete the simple applica-tion at http://makerfairewichita.com by Monday, July 6. Maker Faire is a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and is a place where people show what they are making and share what they are learn-ing. Makers range from tech enthusiasts to crafters to homesteaders to scientists to garage tinkerers. They are of all ages and backgrounds. The aim of Maker Faire is to entertain, inform, connect and grow this community.

To see a Maker Faire in action, watch a video at http://makerfaire.com/mak-erfairehistory.

The original Maker Faire event was held in San Mateo, Calif. and in 2015 celebrated its 10th annual show, with some 1,100 makers and 135,000 people in attendance. Wichita Mini Maker Faire is included in general museum admis-sion, free for members.

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

July 21 Using Music to Improve Quality of Life, West Wichita Care-giver Group, 3 to 4:30 p.m., confer-ence room at Prairie Views Reflection Ridge office, 7570 W. 21st St. N., Suite 1026-D, Wichita, Kansas. Admission is free and open to the public. Leading the discussion will be Jennifer Hecht. A licensed clinical professional coun-selor and clinical addictions counselor, she works in the west Wichita Prairie View office and provides services for teens, adults and older adults. The West Wichita Caregiver Group meets the third Tuesday of each month at Prairie Views Reflection Ridge office. It is open to caregivers for older adults and offers education, mutual support and problem solving with others who are dealing with similar caregiving situa-tions. This includes caregivers whose care receiver has any illness, including dementia. For information, phone 316-729-6555 or 800-992-6292. For more information about Prairie Views services for older adults and all ages, see prairieview.org.

Aug. 1 Youthvilles fourth annual Chalk Fest, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Old Town Square. The event is free and open to the public. This family-friendly event will include live music, face painting, water fountains, arts and crafts, and frozen treats. There will be plenty of free chalk available for kids and fami-lies to create their own artwork on the sidewalk alongside more than 40 local artists. The festival aims to provide a fun event for people of all ages to experience art and community in an outdoor setting while supporting local and regional artists. Chalk Fest is an an-nual event held to raise awareness and support for Youthville, and all proceeds from the event will go to support the Kansas Kids Fund.

Dateline

Upcoming events in and around Wichita

July 2015

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Watermark Books & Cafe owner Sarah Bagby is a longtime presence on East Wichitas literary and cultural scene, and she has a lot of experience recom-mending books, both to patrons of her store and to Wichita Public Radio listeners.

She learned earlier this year that she would have the opportunity to help make a much higher-pro le recommendation, to a much larger audience. Along with three authors and a literature professor, she will choose the winner of the 2015 National Book Award for ction.

The National Book Award is one of the most important in American literature, comparable in terms of prestige to the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN Literary Awards. Past judges have included Dinaw Mengestu and Marjorie Garber; past winners include Ralph Ellisons Invisible Man and Cormac McCarthys All the Pretty Horses.

The task of making such a closely watched choice could be intimidating, but Bagby has some practice: She was on the inaugural panel for the $50,000 Kirkus Prize last year. She also helped select the winner of the Indie Next award, and chose books to feature through Indies Introduce, an initiative to discover and promote new authors in their stores by indepen-dent booksellers.

When youre reading for pleasure, youre reading for pleasure, said Bagby. When youre reading to sell, its to resonate with what you know about your customers. But when you read for a prize, you really have to come from an altitude of 30,000 feet. You have to be looking at everything in the context of everything else. Youre comparing thrillers, straight

narratives, experimental ction. It can be anything; the only common denominator is that it has to be by an American author.

Piles of nominated books began arriving in the homes and of ces of the ve judges this summer. More than 400 titles were submitted in the ction section.

The books are pretty much all over my house, said Bagby. Im reading all the time. I have my schedule worked to get in as much as possible, starting at 5:30 a.m., when I get up and ride on an elliptical trainer and read while Im on that.

The judges decided amongst themselves on a meth-od for dividing up the reading so that every submis-sion gets a fair shake. By mid-September, 400 nomi-nated books must be narrowed down to a longlist of 10. A month later, 10 longlisted books become ve nalists, and shortly before the Nov. 18 awards cere-

On the hunt for the best

Bookseller named to National Book Award ction panelS T O R Y A N D P H O T O S

B Y S A M J A C K

Watermark Books & Cafe owner Sarah Bagby stands inside her East Wichita store. Bagby has been named to the panel respon-

sible for awarding the 2015 National Book Award for ction.

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mony and bene t dinner, the panel will settle on a winner.

Reading so much ction, as a judge, bookseller and pleasure reader, has given Bagby an appreciation of both its variety and its commonality.

Therere several story tropes that repeat. John Gardner said that there are only two plots in literature: Either a stranger comes to town, or someone goes on a journey. Theres something to that, said Bagby. One of those two, most novels will t into those situations. But the beautiful thing about ction is that every person brings something, some different experience, to those storylines, and can create a whole new story based on their own experience and their own emotional landscape.

Its something that I just nd so fascinating and so powerful, so nur-turing and restorative for my own life, that you can pick up a novel thats well written and emotionally astute, and be completely restored.

Bagby came to the notice of the people who choose prize juries in part because of her active involvement in bookselling trade organizations. She

was formerly president of the Midwest Booksellers Association and currently serves on the board of the American Booksellers Association.

With the rise of e-readers and other forms of portable media, the death knell for bookstores has sounded frequently in recent years, but book-stores, particularly independent stores, are proving the doubters wrong, Bagby said.

Last year, the growth of indepen-dent stores was higher, percentage-wise, than any other channel (for book distri-bution). E-books were kind of at, so that whole idea that the e-book was just going to escalate and escalate until there were no more physical books that just didnt happen.

Weve always been true to physical books, always believed in them. It was a scary period for a while there, and stores did close, but we were still selling books and becoming better business people when everybody thought we were dead, said Bagby. That said, every independent bookstore that sur-vives is very involved in its community,

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Sarah Bagby and her fellow panelists will consider more than 400 books as part of the process of choosing the winner of the 2015 National Book Award for ction. Many days, she starts reading at 5:30 a.m. while on the treadmill.

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This months column is a blatant plug for three things: Family reunions, Tang-anyika Wildlife Park, and Facebook.

Yes, Ill pull it all together in the next few paragraphs.

Ive been blessed with a really great extended family, and a few years ago we made a commitment to start having an-nual family reunions. A big part of the credit goes out to my Aunt Erma, the last matriarch of the Kimle family, out of which my mothers family tree grew.

Last year in June as we closed out the 2014 reunion, my Aunt Erma pulled me in for a hug, and then told me shed love to see the next family reunion happen at Tanganyika Wildlife Park in Goddard. She grinned when she said it, but I knew she was serious.

And I also knew she was suggesting I take the torch and run with it.

Im here to happily report that this past month with some help from my cousin Denise in nearby Hutchinson we held an awesome Kimle Family Reunion at Tanganyika Wildlife Park. Guests rolled in from across Kansas, as well as Nebraska and Missouri, and a great time was had by all.

I started preparations a few months ago with my cousins help. Shes Aunt Ermas youngest child, and had the best access to her moms good, old-fash-ioned address book.

Yep. We used snail mail.Invitations and a cover letter went

out, plans were detailed, and reserva-tions were requested. In the meantime, I worked with the awesome staff at

Tanganyika to plan our event.Many of our family members had

never been to Tanganyika. After a wonderful potluck lunch in one of the facilitys meeting rooms, we were able to unfold a truly unique reunion experi-ence for our family.

And what about Facebook, you ask? As our day came to an end, many of us were checking to see who was on Face-book and who wasnt, since some of us were already talking about posting pic-tures and spreading some techno love.

Since then, my Facebook friends list has expanded with family members, and it will be great to stay connected with them. Best of all, my brother and his wife went home, set up a Facebook page and sent me a friend request.

It means a lot that my family has made a commitment to stay connected through family reunions, and this one was extra-special thanks to Tanganyika Wildlife Park. And thanks to Facebook something I never thought Id say many of us will stay even more con-nected until next years get-together.

Family, fun and connection

and the community realizes the value and places their dollars there. On this corner of Douglas and Oliver, its all locally-owned businesses, and if any of us went away, not only would this his-toric neighborhood suffer, but the value of the houses would go down.

East Wichitas independent bookstore scene is strong, Bagby noted, with Wa-termark, Bookaholic and Eighth Day Books all in business within blocks of each other. Bookaholic sells a mix of

used and new books, while Eighth Day focuses on Christianity and philosophy.

We are supportive of each other, and its pretty cool. And we each have our own feel and our own sort of per-sonality, said Bagby.

Watermark has a full schedule of events planned for the month of July, including Camp Watermark for children ages 8 to 12, a July 10 reading by The Oregon Trail author Rinker Buck and a poetry reading featuring four poets on July 24. The store also supports more than a dozen book clubs focused on various genres and interests. For more information, visit watermark-books.com. For more on the National Book Awards, visit nationalbook.org.

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Frank Lloyd Wrights Allen House in Wichita has joined the network of Frank Lloyd Wright properties that have con rmed historic site agreements through the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundations Licensing Program. The Allen House joins other legendary Frank Lloyd Wright properties such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York City), Fallingwater, Edgar J. Kaufmann House (Bear Run, Penn.), and Marin County Civic Center (San Rafael, Calif.). The Allen House is the only site in Kansas to receive this designation.

The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Licensing Program offers historic site agreements in an effort to help owners of buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright promote tourism, education and vacation rental. Through the agreement, the Foundation seeks to recognize and assist building owners with their mission to preserve the architectural structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. All sites under the historic sites agreement are permitted to use the red square logo Frank Lloyd Wright used as his mark of authenticity. The Foundation also works with owners who hold historic site agreements to develop licensed products using the decorative design elements from the buildings.

Frank Lloyd Wright spent more than 70 years creating designs that revolution-ized the art and architecture of the twentieth century. Many innovations in to-days buildings are products of his imagination. In total, he designed 1,141 works, including houses, of ces, churches, schools, libraries, bridges, museums and many other building types. Of that total, 532 designs were completed, and 409 of them still stand.

Allen House is open for tour by appointment. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 316-687-1027 or 316-706-9286. More information can be found at lwallenhouse.org.

In 1915, prominent journalist (and later governor of Kansas) Henry J. Allen and his wife Elsie J. Nuzman Allen commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to build their family a prairie style home in Wichita. The house is considered the last of Wrights prairie houses. Stylistic exterior features include a horizontal grey Carthage mar-ble water table as a transition design element between the prairie oor and the house, white raked horizontal brick joints and ush ocher head joints, a red clay tile roof with emphasis on horizontal lines and a unique ridge, hip ridge and lower starting course with a Japanese avor. Interior features include the continuity of the exterior brick, which is a blend of ocher and tan colors with all horizontal joints gilded gold. For more information, visit lwallenhouse.org.

The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation is dedicated to the preservation and stew-ardship of Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisc.; Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Ariz.; and the Taliesin Collections, to shaping architecture and design at the highest level, and to transforming peoples lives through the living experience of Frank Lloyd Wrights body of work. For more information visit franklloydwright.org.

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A East Wichita News People and PlacesTwelve outstanding high school

seniors have been awarded the pres-tigious Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarship to pursue their undergrad-uate studies at Duke University. The Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarship covers the full cost of tuition, room, board and mandatory fees for four years of undergraduate education. In addition, the scholarship funds six weeks of summer study at the Univer-sity of Oxford and offers $5,000 to each scholar to facilitate independent research and educational enrichment. Based on estimated tuition rates over a four-year period, the scholarship is worth over $250,000. The scholarships aim to foster intellectual leadership and are awarded to students who show outstanding promise. The awards stem from the Angier B. Duke Memorial Inc., which Duke University co-found-er Benjamin Newton Duke established in 1925 in memory of his son, Angier Buchanan Duke.

The Angier B. Duke Scholarships alumni include 18 Rhodes Scholars and 13 Marshall Scholars, including renowned author and former Duke English professor Reynolds Price; Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Ann Tyler; NASA project scientist Hal Weaver; and Dr. Lynt Johnson, chief of transplant surgery at Georgetown University Medical Center. One of the recipients, Sanjidah Ahmed, is from East Wichita. Ahmed is a graduate of Wichita Collegiate School and daugh-ter of Mahfuza H. Ahmed and Selim S. Ahmed.

Wheaton College (Ill.) student Kyle Burris of East Wichita was recently inducted into the Wheaton College Scholastic Honor Society. The honor was announced at Wheaton Colleges Honors Convocation. Each year, the Wheaton College faculty selects a limited number of students for mem-bership in the Scholastic Honor Society. Selection is made on the basis of high scholarship, Christian maturity, and general promise. Burris, a member of the class of 2015, was recognized for excellence in the study of mathematics and economics.

Daniel Bateman has been named as the new executive director at the Kansas Aviation Museum. He most recently served as executive directory at Spaceport Sheboygan in Michigan. He is an authority on Space Shuttle and International Space Station history and operations.

Air Force Airmen Ryan R. Whitely, Michael A. Nofsinger and Marie M. Baldessari graduated from basic mil-itary training at Joint Base San Anto-nio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas. The airmen 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.

Whitely is the son of Randy R. Whit-ley of Andover and Rebecca D. Whitely of Towanda. He is a 2014 graduate of Circle High School.

Nofsinger is the son of Robert B. Nofsinger of Wichita and Cindi M. Nofsinger-Davis of Mulvane. The airman graduated in 2014 from Wichita Southeast High School.

Baldessari is the daughter of Donna and John Baldessari of Wichita. She is a 2014 graduate of Kapaun-Mt. Carmel High School.

The City of Bel Aire is one out of 241 communities being honored with a 2015 Playful City USA designation for the third consecutive year. There are only five communities in Kansas to receive this recognition. The national recognition program honors cities and towns across the country for making their cities more playable. Hopscotch sidewalks, structured recreation pro-grams, and city-wide play days are all ways in which these communities are appealing to residents, and attracting and retaining residents. To learn more about these cities, see the full list of the 241 communities named 2015 Playful City USA honorees, or to gather more information on the Playful City USA program, visit www.playfulcityusa.org.

David McIntire, a teacher at The Independent School in Wichita, has been awarded a competitive Buchwald Summer Fellowship by the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University in Ohio. The center is a highly regarded non-profit provider of educational programs for U.S. history and government teach-ers, as well as high school and college students. Middle- and high-school teachers chosen as Buchwald Summer Fellows receive the full cost of tuition, room, board and books to participate in a rigorous week-long summer graduate course offered through Ashbrooks Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program, the nations only MA degree program developed specifically for history and government teachers. Participants in the course earn two graduate credit hours from Ashland University.

The P.E.O. STAR Scholarship for the 2015-16 academic year was presented to Caroline Go, a senior at Wichita Col-legiate. The scholarship was pre-sented by a local chapter representa-tive. Go is the daughter of Janice and Tim Go, and was commended for the scholarship by Chapter HN of Wichita. Go has been accepted into the honors program at the University of Texas at Austin, where she plans to study ad-vanced human development and family sciences. The P.E.O. STAR Scholar-ship is a $2,500 scholarship based on excellence in leadership, extracurricular activities, community service, academics and potential for future success.

Brianna Lowden of Wichita quali-fied for the spring 2105 deans list at Belmont University. Eligibility is based on a minimum course load of 12 hours and a quality grade point average of 3.5 with no grade below a C. Approx-imately 30 percent of Belmonts 7,300 students qualified for the spring 2015 deans list.

Jessica Hauschild of Andover, who graduated May 9, 2015, from Kansas Wesleyan University with a B.A. in accounting, Summa Cum Laude, has been accepted as a Ph.D. student in statistics at the University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln. Hauschild was among seven Kansas Wesleyan students to attend the Alpha Chi National Con-vention in Chicago in March. There she was named as one of 10 recipients from across the nation to receive Al-pha Chis $2,500 H.Y. Benedict Fel-lowship, which will help with graduate school expenses. At that gathering, she also presented her original mathe-matics research, On the Levi Graph of Point-Line Configuration, with proofs, winning the Joseph E. and Bessie Mae Pryor Prize in Mathemat-ics award for best mathematics paper presented at the national convention. This past February at Kansas Wesley-an, Hauschild presented an overview of this paper at The Best of KWU, winning first place.

The paper is based on results of mathematical research she conducted during an eight-week REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) at California State University, Fresno (Fresno State) last summer. The REU program is funded by the National Science Foundation (NFS). Hauschild was one of three students out of 200 applicants accepted to this particular REU opportunity. In January, she and her summer re-search partner, Jazmin Ortiz from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif., met in San Antonio to present a poster display on their research at The Joint Mathematics Meetings of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). During KWU Honors and Awards Convocation on May 8, Hauschild was presented with the Outstanding Math Grad-uate Award. At commencement, she fittingly introduced the keynote speaker, alumnus David L. Fancher, Ph.D., 64, who double majored in math and physics and later joined the KWU faculty to teach those subjects. Hauschild also was named to the spring 2015 presidents honor roll.

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

One hundred and fty-six Kansas Wesleyan University students were named to the deans honor roll for the spring 2015 semester. Full-time stu-dents with a semester grade point av-erage of 3.25-3.74 and no incompletes are listed on the deans honor roll at the end of each semester. East Wichita students named to the deans honor roll include Tyler Clark, Jayden Dennis and Marquil Jones-Walker.

Quentin Miller of Andover com-pleted requirements for an associates degree in business from Cloud County Community College this spring. Com-mencement ceremonies were held in Arley Bryant Gymnasium at the Con-cordia campus on May 15.

Emily Vayda has been named to the deans list for the spring 2015 semester at the University of Vermont. Vayda, from East Wichita, is a senior biochem-istry major. To be named to the deans list, students must have a grade-point average of 3.0 or better and rank in the top 20 percent of their class in their respective college or school.

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

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

Nearly 300 students graduated from Benedictine College in Atchison on May 16, during its annual Commencement Exercises. Those in attendance saw Day-ton Moore, vice president of baseball operations and general manager of the American League Champion Kansas City Royals, deliver the commencement address. Eastsiders who graduated were Cabrini Ferraro, who earned a bachelor of science in nursing, and Stephanie Smith, who obtained a bachelor of arts in mass communications.

Anna Raab, a freshman creative writing major from East Wichita, was among approximately 480 Bob Jones University students named to the spring 2015 presidents list. The presidents list recognizes students who earn a 3.75 or higher GPA.

Aaron Cox was one of 35 nominees for the Dwight and Ida Curry Newberg Outstanding Senior award. Cox, of Eu-reka, is majoring in social sciences ed-ucation. Newberg Outstanding Senior nominations are solicited from across the Emporia State University campus, and nominees must have a 3.5 grade point average and be graduating in spring, summer or fall of 2015. During the awards dinner, Nakita Elwood was named Outstanding Senior, and Abigail Black was named the Distinguished Senior.

Amy Elizabeth Williams of Wichita graduated May 8 from Clemson Univer-sity. Williams graduated with a bachelor of science in accounting. Williams was among 3,000 students who received degrees in commencement ceremonies in Littlejohn Coliseum.

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Tyler Franssen was among 72 Empo-ria State University students from The Teachers College who received special recognition at the 31st annual Teach-ers College Honors Banquet held the evening of May 8. Twenty-six received outstanding student awards and 50 students were honored for achievement of a 3.8 grade point average or higher. Undergraduate and graduate students were honored for excellence in their respective departments. Nine students received outstanding undergraduate student awards and 17 students received outstanding graduate student awards. Franssen, of Andover, was an honored student.

Top scholars at Southwestern Col-lege in Win eld and at Southwestern College Professional Studies have been announced with the release of the deans honor roll for the spring 2015 semester. Full-time students who earned grade-point averages of at least 3.70 (4.0 equals an A) were eligible for the honor. Wichita students on the list are Khalid Al Molahi, Mohammed Alamer, Kerry Burns, Ginnie Copeland, Catherine Cranmer, Edward Fahne-stock, Henna Goscha, Daniel Reffner, Gregory Reffner and Abigail Warnke. Andover students are Nicole Kirkhart and Zachary Meeker.

Benedictine College has recognized those students named to the presidents list and the deans for the spring 2015 semester. To achieve the presidents list, students must carry a minimum of 12 credit hours and have a perfect 4.0 grade-point average. Of the 1,854 students on campus for the 2014-2015 academic year, only 101 made the presidents list for this semester. To be named to the deans list, a student must carry a minimum of 12 credit hours and a grade-point average of 3.5 or above for the semester. In the spring semester, 504 made the deans list. East Wichita residents who were named to the presidents list are Katherine Dillard and Kathleen Wells. Named to the deans list were Kristen Baun, Cabrini

Ferraro, Gabriella Ferraro, Anne Hick-erson, Rebecca Koehn, Emily Linde-man, Natalie Malone, Logan McCully, Stephanie Smith, Molly Sullentrop, Luke Vanderpool and Elizabeth Weber, all of Wichita; and Bel Aire residents Kristine Pfeifer, Lauren Pfeifer and Gordon Schmitz.

The Tran of East Wichita was among 206 graduates of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy Class of 2015. Tran is a graduate of Southeast High School.

Emporia State University named nearly 700 students to the honor roll for spring 2015. Students from this area are Robert Little, Tyler Frans-sen, Chandler Payne, Kelly Rethorst, Abigail Rinkenbaugh, Nataly Silva, Johnny Yelverton, Kerri Glover, Jared Germann and Abigail Timmermeyer. To qualify for the semester honor roll, students must earn a minimum 3.80 semester grade point average in at least 12 graded hours.

Amani Alshaikhi of East Wichita graduated from Lewis University with a masters degree in information security.

Tracy Hsiao-Fang-Yen of Wichita has earned a master of science in histo-ry and sociology of technology and science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Hsiao-Fang-Yen was among approximately 2,700 under-graduate and graduate students who received degrees during Georgia Techs 249th commencement exercises on May 1 and 2 at the McCamish Pavilion.

May Le of East Wichita has been named to the deans list for the Spring 2015 semester at St. Louis College of Pharmacy. To make the deans list, students must earn a 3.5 GPA in the semester. Le is a graduate of Wichita High School East. She is the daughter of Bich Luu and Thanh Le.

Emporia State University has named 500 students to its deans lists for spring 2015. The Eastsiders honored include Jared Germann, Wichita; Abigail Tim-mermeyer, Andover; Tyler Franssen, Andover; Kerri Glover, Wichita; Chan-dler Payne, Andover; Kelly Rethorst, Wichita; Abigail Rinkenbaugh, Wich-ita; Nataly Silva, Wichita; and Johnny Yelverton, Andover.

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Summer is upon us, and its time to enhance the outside living spaces of your home. Perhaps that means ne tuning your current outdoor furniture selections or even starting fresh with a new vision for your deck. Just like furniture inside your home, outdoor furnishings set the mood for your porch or deck. Selecting the right outdoor furniture is just as important as indoor furniture, because it too should last for many years. There are many choices that can compliment most any decor style.

The type of outdoor furniture you select will be determined mainly by your decor style and budget. There are many different types of materials and levels of sophistication available in the marketplace. Outdoor furniture has come a long way in terms of both de-sign and engineering. There will always be the disposable looking outdoor furniture, but the trend is towards outdoor furniture that could easily translate into indoor furniture. If you plan to really take advantage of your outdoor space, it is probably worth the investment into furniture that will look good and feel good for many years.

At the lower end is plastic and plas-tic resin products. They tend to be the least expensive and may be dif cult to keep new looking. On the other hand, they tend to be the most weather resistant.

In all fairness, some plastic resin fur-niture is better than others. Some all weather wicker furniture looks pretty good. It can withstand the elements better than real wicker in some cases. It is also woven around an aluminum frame for added durability.

Polywood is a trade name for outdoor furniture that looks like painted wood (typically white), but is not. Adirondack tables and chairs and similar style tables are the most popular applications.On the other side of the spectrum is wrought iron. It is very durable but also very heavy. It is designed to be station-ary and is not practical for those who like to move the furniture around the yard a lot. Wrought iron furniture is subject to rust and must be maintained by painting unless it is powder coated. Powder coating is thicker than paint which makes it weather better and

makes it more scratch resistant. There is a wide range of prices for wrought iron, depending on its origin and level of craftsmanship.

Aluminum outdoor furniture can be classi ed into two distinct categories: Aluminum tubing and cast aluminum. Both types are rust resistant, especially when powder coated. Aluminum tube furniture is relatively lightweight and fairly durable, with little mainte-nance. Its main drawback is that it looks like aluminum tube furniture.

One of the most popular materials in outdoor furniture is cast aluminum. Cast aluminum furniture is creat-ed by aluminum being poured into molds. Through this process, more intricate designs can be achieved. Cast aluminum is lightweight (compared to comparable looking wrought iron), durable, and more sophisticated in its design details. It is also more expensive than tube aluminum furniture.

Wood outdoor furniture is available in many species. Cedar is a nice option for a deck as well as the furniture on top of it. Cedar resists insects, de-cay and weather. Mahogany is a tight grained wood that is both elegant and durable. Teak is a wood of choice for long term beauty. It is a very durable wood that can be treated with teak oil to maintain a honey color or left to age gracefully and become a silvery-gray color. Wood outdoor furniture may re-quire a little more maintenance than the plastics or metals but evokes a warm earthy feel in an outdoor setting.There are many options for outdoor furniture. Sometimes these materials are combined to give you the best of both worlds as well as providing additional interest in your furniture arrangement.

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Eric Carbreys first exposure to art was when he was duped by his brother.

My first memory of kind of getting into art was my older brother came up to me with this drawing of his, and it was a drawing of Super Mario Brothers, Carbrey said.

He was astounded by his brothers talent, he recalled, and began trying to draw as well.

It turns out that he traced an image, Carbrey said. Thats kind of my first real memory of be-ing involved in art. I guess it progressed.

Carbrey, who grew up in East Wichita, graduat-ed from Wichita State University with a degree in studio arts. He is a painter whose artwork will be displayed through July 25 at CityArts.

The space is amazing, Carbrey said. To have the opportunity to show there is quite an honor, for sure.

Although his work has been displayed before at CityArts, this is the first time it has appeared in the main gallery. Carbreys art is also for sale in galleries in Oklahoma City, Dallas, New Orleans and New Jersey.

Carbrey began painting geometric art after no-ticing the popularity of the Jackson Pollock style.

I was trying to rebel against that quite a bit and kind of really, really nail down something that was crisp and sharp, Carbrey said, and something that I wasnt seeing around me.

He uses recycled latex paint that people have discarded from residential and commercial projects. His brother, who worked at a recycling facility in the Kansas City area, started providing the paint.

Carbrey described his materials as the paint of peoples lives.

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rooms are the colors Im using, he remarked.

While other artists might mix shades of blue and green to make their own color, Carbrey continued, Im really just kind of managing the colors rather than developing the colors. His favor-ite color is a deep, rich shade of teal.

Sometimes the paint cans he receives are labeled Garage or Kids room. Carbrey recently has used blue paint from a can with the name Maddy written on it. He gured it was used to paint a bedroom for someone named Maddy.

I dont even refer to it as blue. I think of it as Maddy, he said. Its on quite a few of my paintings. It is be-coming one of my favorite colors. That person will never know the same color thats on their wall is also in a gallery.

Carbreys favorite artists include Paul Cezanne and M.C. Escher. The show at CityArts features 121 paintings that Carbrey has created since January plus six older paintings.

I limited myself to using 53 colors for the 121 paintings, he said.

Carbrey likes to create rules for each series of artwork that he tackles.

Its kind of funny to hear an artist say that, Carbrey admitted. Most of the time artists are like, I want to break all the rules. This is the opposite of that.

Once he establishes the rules, he

explained, he has the idea down and begins to work off that.

Since I already have the premise, Carbrey said, I can kind of go quicker, and go deeper, and go further and fur-ther down the rabbit hole, so to speak, to kind of develop this and see where its going.

Carbrey described his work as having a ne-arts feel with a street-arts quality, almost like street art meant for a mu-seum, he said. Its 3D, but it features at shapes and colors.

Its kind of the bold, simple shades, he added.

Carbrey has a full-time job and a family, but he devotes considerable time to his art.

I come home from work and I hang out with my wife and my son for a few hours, and he goes to bed at 8:30, Car-brey said. And from 8:30 to midnight Im in the studio every day.

He also spends about eight hours in his art studio during the weekends.

Carbrey offered advice to aspiring artists: Its not just about the art.

Its all about the hustle. Youve got to be dedicated, he said. Theres really no easy path or shortcuts. You have to not only be able to make art but be able to talk to people, make connections, kind of promote yourself things of that nature. Its not just, Oh, I can paint pretty pictures.

His website is at www.exit27b.com.

Eric Carbreys geometric paintings contrast with the style Jackson Pollock.

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The Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission (KCAIC) has announced that it has awarded 36 grants totaling nearly $340,000. Several Wichita institu-tions were among the award winners.

The grants were awarded through the Strategic Investment and Arts Integration programs, as well as the Creative Economy Project Support Program. Grantees were selected based on applications submitted through the November and February grant periods. Successful applications from the June grant period will be announced later.

The Arts Integration Program (AIP) grants support the role the arts play in all levels of education, community service and workforce development. This program provides funding for ed-ucational institutions, arts organizations and community service non-pro ts to use the arts to increase student success, foster creative thinking, develop critical job skills and enhance community development.

The Strategic Investment Program (SIP) recognizes the important role individual artists and creative organi-zations play in building and sustaining cultural and economic vibrancy in Kan-sas. By funding a variety of professional and organizational development oppor-tunities that impact cultural program-ming, these grants support initiatives that use the arts to enhance community vitality, revitalize neighborhoods, gen-erate local business, create and preserve job opportunities and impact tourism.

The Creative Economy Project Support program encourages dynamic partnerships among cultural, business and public sectors to help communities address cultural and economic devel-opment goals through a wide variety of creative placemaking initiatives. This highly competitive program leverages the creative assets intrinsic in Kansas com-munities to stimulate the local economy, strengthen the role of arts and culture, promote regional identity and enhance the quality of life for its citizens.

Award winners include: Chamber Music at the Barn, Maize,

$5,000. Chamber Music at the Barn is hosting a four day residency with com-poser and music commentator Robert Kapilow that will include three public performances; daily performances for

60 string students attending a 60-day summer program for low-income Afri-can American youth and for 80 Bows at The Barn youth studying strings; and two performances for at-risk youth in conjunction with the Wichita Public Library summer program.

Opera Kansas, Wichita, $2,000, Opera Kansas will purchase profes-sional sound and audio equipment to enhance its ability to stage outdoor productions.

Orpheum Performing Arts Cen-ter, Wichita, $5,000. The Orpheum Performing Arts Center will create and produce stock video footage to inform and educate community arts groups, senior citizen groups, schools, professional organizations and other non-pro t organizations about the Theatres history, programs, service offerings and vision for the future, as well as to increase usage of the venue by underserved communities and make stock video footage available to other organizations for program marketing and development.

Tallgrass Film Association, Wichita, $5,000. Tallgrass Film Association will expand and enhance its educational programming, including a summer lm school lecture series, Indies at the Or-pheum and Cinema Salon community and post-screening discussion groups, Sack Lunch Cinema educational screen-ing, and increased interaction between visiting and Kansas lmmakers.

Wichita Festivals, Wichita, $5,000. Wichita Festivals collaborated with several Wichita-area non-pro t organi-zations to bring acclaimed puppeteer and artist Wayne White to Wichita for a 10-day residency, during which he pre-sented lectures, provided a permanent exhibition of his work and conducted workshops with local artists, students and community members to build pup-pets for the Riverfest Sundown Parade.

Wichita Arts Council, Inc., Wichita, $60,000. Partners: City of Wichita, Wichita Downtown Development, Fisch Bowl, Inc., El Dorado Architects, Finn Lofts, Fiber Studio, Diver Studio. This project will enliven and invigorate Commerce Street by developing interactive and artistic placemak-ing culminating in the creation of three to ve durable art installations incorporating light as a primary element of design.

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RiverFestFun

We found lots of people enjoying the Wichita River Festival in early June.TOP: Sisters Devan Gramly, left, and Adrian Sanders enjoy a kayak ride on the Arkan-

sas River. The girls were visiting Wichita from Hays during RiverFest.FAR LEFT: Kendall Young of Lyndon, Kan., shows off her air pack made of balloons.

LEFT: An unknown contestant digs in during the funnel cake eating contest.BOTTOM LEFT: Eastsiders Hallee Thompson, left, a student at Wichita Heights,

Hannah Tobias, a student at Wichita East, and Alexandra Stamps, a student at Trinity Academy, take in the carnage that is the funnel cake eating contest. The girls were

among the Prairie Schooner Mates, who assist Admiral Windwagon Smith.BELOW: Mike Greene also known this year as Admiral Windwagon Smith poses

with East Wichita News publisher Paul Rhodes outside of Century II.Travis Mounts/East Wichita News

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Annual concert draws thousandsThe annual Symphony in the Flint Hills drew several thousand people to the Tall-

grass Prairie National Preserve just outside of Strong City on June 13. The annual concert has been held in several locations, including last year in But-

ler County and in 2013 at Fort Riley. The Kansas City Symphony performs each year, and this years concert the 10th annual edition also featured the music of Lyle Lovett, a Grammy Award-winning country music singer-songwriter and actor. Lovett also performed at the fifth Symphony in the Flint Hills.

The event featured informational sessions on tallgrass prairies around the world and other environmental topics, rides in covered wagons similar to those used to settle this area in the mid- to late-1800s, an instrument petting zoo that let chil-dren and adults sample musical instruments, and lots of music.

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TOP: A cowboy rides through the prairie grass near Strong City, helping guide cov-ered wagon rides. ABOVE: Makenzie Schiedel, left, Lori Schiedel, Carley Schiedel and Ida Koehler, all of Andover, pose for a family portrait at Symphony in the Flint Hills.

RIGHT: Lyle Lovett headlined this years concert.

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Wichita Childrens Theatre and Dance Center will present the musical Into the Woods, July 23-26 in the Heather Muller Black Box Theatre on the centers second oor. WCTDC is located at 201 Lulu.

The show is recommend for youth ages 10 and up.Into the Woods is a Stephen Sondheim masterpiece that takes a deeper look

into the world of fairy tales.Performances will be at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, July 23-24; at 8 p.m. Satur-

day, July 25 (after the annual silent auction); and at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday, July 26.

Admission is $8.50 for regular seating and $12.50 for premium seating. Pricing is different on July 25 due to the fundraiser. Seating is limited.

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Wichita State will host three Missouri Valley Conference championship events in 2015-16, the league announced in June.

The MVC Mens and Womens Tennis Team Championships are slated for April 29-May 1, 2016, at WSUs Sheldon Coleman Tennis Complex. The MVC Mens Golf Championship will take place at Hutchinsons Prairie Dunes Country Club, April 25-26.

WSU has been a frequent tennis host. This will be the third stop in seven years for the mens and womens tourneys. In the most recent go-around (2013), the Shockers swept both titles to earn the MVCs automatic bids to the NCAA Tournament. The WSU women have won seven-straight MVC Tournament crowns, and the men have

appeared in the nals in each of the last six years.

Home to the WSU tennis program since September 1993, the Sheldon Coleman Tennis Complex features eight lighted tennis courts with spec-tator seating and a 2,500-square-foot-clubhouse.

Prairie Dunes is consistently ranked among the best golf courses in the United States. The 6,759-yard course has played host to a variety of national caliber events, including the 2002 U.S. Womens Open, the 2006 U.S. Senior Open and the 2014 NCAA Division I Mens Golf Cham-pionships.

WSU won mens golf team titles in 2006, 2010 and 2012 in the MVC Tour-naments three previous stops there.

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Sailing in Kansas windNinnescah Sailing Association marks 50 years

Ninnescah Sailing Association members gather for an event in 1976,13 years after the formation of the NSA. Contributed photo

East Wichita resident Patrick Coulter stands on his boat at Cheney Reservoir. Coulter is former com-modore of the Ninnescah Sailing Association and is the NSAs historian. East Wichita News/Sam Jack

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Sailing is a human activity of long standing. The forms of sailing vessels and the behaviors of those who sail them have been shaped by wind, water, tide and storm. Insofar as those forces are basically the same anywhere, sailing is the same.

So it shouldnt have felt surprising to round a corner in Cheney State Park and come upon a forest of masts that would not have looked out of place in the island tropics, or anywhere water and wind meet.

East Wichitan Patrick Coulter, NSA historian and former commodore of Cheney Lakes Ninnescah Sailing Association, teamed up with current commodore Gregg Greenwood to show me around the groups impressive lakeshore facility.

This being Kansas, NSA almost always has wind in abun-dance. Everything else, including even the lake itself, has been dredged, bulldozed, hammered and poured into place over the course of the groups history, the pair told me. The water was impounded for the rst time in 1964, and on June 14, 1965, 41 people met to form the NSA. In the years since, the group has

grown to 180 members.Historical pictures from the groups early

days show the lakes origins as a massive-ly arti cial Bureau of Reclamation project much more clearly. Hardly any trees dot the shore, and its easy to imagine how the drown farmed elds would have once looked. It was quite a task to get from there to where the association is now.

(The founding members) wanted slips they could pull up to, and they were willing to put up money for those, right off the bat. It kind of surprised me that they were so willing to do that, but they were pretty committed to building this

place up, said Coulter. It wasnt always easy, but it ended up being a really good thing.

Before becoming an NSA member, Coulter had done some daytime sailing in small boats, even racing as a guest in NSA regattas, but a nighttime sail with member Frank Hopper was what sold him and wife Heather Coulter on joining.

He took us on his boat for a night sail, and we joined the yacht club that night, which was one of the nest decisions we made, said Patrick Coulter. It was beautiful. I mean,

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Several East Wichita residents are Class of 2015 inductees into the Wichita Bid-dy Basketball Hall of Fame. Induction is a result of an individuals Biddy Basket-ball career and his or her accomplishments after Biddy Basketball.

Founded in 1980, the Wichita Biddy Basketball Hall of Fame includes past in-ductees such as, Antoine Carr, Darnell Valentine, Jamie Thompson, Greg Drieling, Aubrey Sherrod, Maurice Evans, Karema Williams, Mark Standiford, Lafayette Norwood, Joanna McFarland, Cleo Littleton, Darren and Todd Dreifort, Barry Sanders and many other outstanding athletes, coaches and pillars of the Wichita community.

To see a complete list of Wichita Biddy Basketball Hall of Fame inductees, go to www.WichitaHOF.com.

Following is the list of 2015 inductees.Matt Boswell Boswell was a 1990s Biddy Basketball All-American and went on

to a great All-City basketball career playing at Kapaun-Mt. Carmel H.S. and All-MIAA honors at Emporia State University.

Henry Carr Carr followed his two brothers, Antoine and James, into Biddy Basketball in the early 1970s and became a four-time Biddy All-Star. He later be-came a starter for the Wichita State Shockers. His two older brothers, Antoine and James are also Wichita Biddy Basketball Hall of Famers.

Megan Davison Davison began playing Biddy Basketball in the late 1980s, won the 1996 World Biddy Basketball Championship and was named 1996 Miss World Biddy. After Biddy, Davison played basketball and softball at Derby High School and played college softball at Emporia State.

Mike Kennedy Kennedy played Biddy Basketball in the early 1960s for coach Charlie Strong, and several of his teammates went on to play at higher levels of basketball. Kennedy went on to a successful radio career as the voice of Wichita Aeros, the NBC and the WSU Shockers.

Nate Robertson Robertson played Biddy Basketball from 1986 to 1990. His 1989 team was Biddy Champions. In 1986, Nate won the Merit Award and he was a Biddy All-Star in 1987, 1988 and 1989. Robertson went on to pitch in Major League Baseball for the Marlins, Phillies and Tigers, winning 57 games.

Carl Taylor Coach Taylor was the Southeast High School head basketball coach from 1992 to 2011. At one point, he became the leader for the all-time City League number of wins, with 315, and won three Kansas state championships. Taylor will be inducted as a benefactor for his contributions to helping young athletes become better men.

Inductions were done on an individual basis in May and June on The Pressbox radio show on KGSO 1410 AM.

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Phyllis Lowen is a dedicated educator with a power-ful mission.

That mission is being ful lled every day at New Song Academy, the Christian school that Lowen built from the ground up starting in 1987. The school, located in east Wichita, is dedicated to parents who want a non-denominational Christian setting for their infants and young children.

Its wonderful that parents want that for their children, and Im thrilled that Ive been able to carry out that mission for all these years, said Lowen. She brings a passion and dedication to her calling, but credits the families that New Song Academy serves with always helping her to move forward.

Lowens mission, as she refers to it, began with a church-based education program that transformed into New Song Academy at 6868 E. 32nd Street. A new facility was constructed on the site, and three years later, in 1990, a second building was added to the grounds.

When we started, our focus was preschool and childcare services, said Lowen. New Song expanded to include children from 12 months old to kindergar-ten, and then continued to grow in both directions.

The community was asking for that growth, said Lowen, who met that need with elementary school and then middle school education programs. The

Embracing child development in a Christian school setting

school developed its own Bible curriculum, and also added services for infants.

With support and encouragement from her son Bart, a second school was launched in west Wichita in 2001. Several years later, that school was sold to an employee who had come up through the ranks under Lowens tutelage.

I stayed over here (east Wichita) and focused on

this facility and its programs, said Lowen. In recent years, that focus has been concentrated on infants through third graders, and encompasses what were really good at.

Today, New Song Academy has a staff of 40 teach-ers and support personnel, and Lowen said she has been blessed with two key assistants Pat Minson, who has been with her since 1983, and Raya Boykins, who has been on board since 2007. Both assistant administrators have classroom experience, which has been crucial to the schools success.

Their backgrounds make them more aware of what our teachers need, said Lowen. Were a family here, and that shows. I love this work, and our staff members do, too.

In addition to the skilled classroom staff at every age level, the school also has specialized teachers for music and physical education. And every day, Lowen can be found making her rounds through the school, talking and interacting with the children.

After all, its her mission.New Song Academy is now gearing up for fall

enrollment, and also has ongoing summer programs available for children of all ages.

For more information, visit www.newsongacademy-inc.com, or call the school at 316-688-1911 to sched-ule a visit and see Lowens mission at work.

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

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The childhood sequence of Citizen Kane looks like one of the simplest sequences of all, but every frame of it is carefully calculated. Whatever one makes of the revelation that Rosebud was Kanes sled, it has to emphasize the importance of his childhood, and this is the only scene we see of that. We may not have noticed the snow globe with a tiny house that was smashed when Kane lost hold of it at the moment of his death, in the prologue before the newsreel even began. We may not notice much later in the movie when it turns up in the nursery-like apartment of the second Mrs. Kane, whom Kane encoun-tered while on the way to visit his dead mothers old property, on the way to the warehouse in search of my youth.But the picture of Kane and his mother and signi cantly, no father reappears among the rubbish in the overview of the jumble in Xanadus basement after Kanes death, and Kanes best friend suggests that he did love his mother in his own way. It is worth recalling that Kane tried to make an opera singer of his second wife because her mother had wanted her to be one. And one might notice that the white mountains of Kanes childhood are grimly suggested by the white mountain palace he made for himself and died in, after all the innocence and purity of the real moun-tains had been lost.It is signi cant that the Thatcher Library that morphs into the white mountain is a huge mausoleum akin to Xanadu. There is a repeated leitmotif of high-ceilinged, cold rooms (Kanes loss of journalistic power occurs in a room so lofty that when Kane, for no particular reason, walks to the back wall, we see that the bottom sill of the window is over his head, comparable to the top of the replace Kane walks into in Xanadu) representing the Big World of power and wealth, compared to the low-ceilinged rooms like Susans bed-room and work places like the Inquir-er newspaper, and Kanes childhood home.The screen is blank white, with a little dot of a boy playing with his sled. The camera pulls back, through a window (not as easy as it looks with 1941s big cameras), and we are looking out at the boy from a building, as if we were spy-ing from cover. Suddenly, an ominous

black silhouette appears on the left side of the window, looming over the gure of the boy. Another black shadow short-ly appears on the right. Film noir and old melodramas tell us how to interpret these villains and menaces, surely. But in fact, the left gure is the boys mother and the right one is his guardian, over to whom his mother is turning him for a better life than she can offer. One must not judge too quickly.But our rst impression was, ironical-ly, right. These two will turn out to be the destroyers of Kane, according to one very plausible interpretation of the movie. At the least, they are the ones who take him away from Rosebud and deprive him of any chance for a happy childhood. The fact that the mother loves him and is doing the best she can presages Kanes relationship with his second wife, the childlike bride who is reduced to a screeching harridan when Kane, who may love her, is clearly trying to carry out her mothers dream for her.The boy is playing Civil War, shouting The Union forever! Jefferson and Jackson! as the unity of his childhood is being destroyed. He throws a snow-ball at the words Mrs. Kanes Boarding House, emphasizing the Mrs. as if to stress the absence of a father from here on, not that what little we see of Kanes father suggests he was worth much. But he at least made an effort to adapt his speech and manner to a childs world, which neither the mother nor the guardian could ever think of doing.The camera cuts to an angle from outside, and we see the mother and the guardian with their proper and fashion-able formal clothes and the mothers hair xed in a seamless bun, the guard-ian almost reduced to an abstract form with his buttoned overcoat and

On and on with Citizen Kane, Part 2Cinema Scene

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A review from the San Francisco Chronicle, printed in the Wichita Eagle, gave Dope 3-1/2 stars, and Enter-tainment Weekly graded it B, so I was a little gratified to hear at the theater that word of mouth was not favorable, at least in Wichita, because I didnt find it living up to its notices at all.

The Chronicle felt that everything about it feels real, but before it ended, I found myself puzzled over what was supposed to be really happening and what things were going on in the heros mind, either in terms of what he wanted or what he feared. Parts seemed to represent things that could very well happen, or that might have happened in the past.

All this confusion seemed an odd development in a movie that started out with a narrator who supposedly knew, at least, how things turned out.

It seemed odd and unrealistic that the narrator shortly disappeared and never returned. I am not going to speculate about endings, because your guess will be as good as mine, especially because I hope you will be able to understand the dialogue better than I could. It consists largely of unfamiliar slang and is too often murmured confidentially, if not actually whispered.

The situation is clear enough, and highly promising. A young black man in Inglewood, a section of L.A., discovers a cache of heroin in his backpack after a police raid on a restaurant. He doesnt know where it came from, so he cant give it back, though it soon becomes evident that more than one drug dealer wants to get it from him.

Under the circumstances, you would think that the last thing he would do is sell it himself, but circumstances soon make it clear that he cant give it to anybody without putting his life on the line. So he sets out to learn the drug trade enough to get ride of his stash.

He is up on the drug world enough to find somebody who can help him do that. And from that point on, as Entertainment Weekly complains, the wheels start to buckle as (writer/direc-tor Ricky Famuyiwa) tries to pile on too many ridiculous detours and preposter-ous characters.

I suspect the problem is an effort to cover too many facets of the drug scene. We are given highly incomplete

instructions on how to prepare heroin for the market, and we see the hero and his two close buddies working their product up as a science project in the high school lab, a point at which I began to suspect that we were not being limited to what really happened. You have a variety of possible out-comes from there on, though the real conclusion seems fairly clear to me, and satisfactory, if you take all this to be a parody of a Horatio Alger rags-to-rich-es story with a comic moral ending.

There are a number of problems with the reviews I read that make me won-der whether the reviewers understood Dope any better than I did. The Chronicle seemed to take the whole thing pretty seriously (although both re-viewers found it funnier than I did, and so did the audience I saw it with). But the sense of urgency and anxiety and possible danger it emphasized seemed to me to peter out about midway, as things skewed in the direction of farce. The episodes of someone vomiting in somebodys face, and later urinating in the street and tripping and falling in her own puddle, may be intended to ward off complaints about prettifying the drug trade, and after the hilarity of Bridesmaids, we have to suppose that these things are funny, though the au-dience around me did not find them so. But both reviews sensed a shift in tone between the first part of Dope and the last, and neither made any comment on the ending at all.

Still, its hard to resist Dope com-pletely. It certainly has some hilarious scenes, and if all the party/dance sequences seem too much alike, they certainly have verve and sparkle. One would like to go to parties like that.

Characters are vivid and original,

Dope is an overated experience

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we see that Mrs. Kanes boarding house is not such as we would have expected in Colorados gold-mining country. Every-thing is spic-and-span and in perfect order. Even the book is lying in perfect parallel with the edge of the table. And the piano is a baby grand, though the little room could better accommodate an upright.The camera switches back to behind the mother as she turns, and moves back in front of her as she moves back to the desk, followed by the guardian. We see the father, almost ridiculously sloppy, like a movie alcoholic, as he protests the loss of his son, though not from the noblest of motives. The mother and guardian seat themselves at the desk, and as the father gives up his protest, the camera shifts slightly and he disappears from the screen entirely.This is all getting ridiculously long, but its necessary to show how carefully everything in Citizen Kane is used to emphasize the theme. I am leaving out a lot of details. You wouldnt believe how long it took my movie apprecia-tion classes to get this far.To be continued, I fear almost inde -nitely.

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when there is opportunity for characteri-zation, though these actors are suf ciently unknown to me that I dont know whether this is a matter of talent or personal charis-ma. Inglewood has an unexpectedly pros-perous look, with nobody in worn clothes, and even the streets looking freshly swept. Ill take it for granted that Inglewood looks like that. At one point, our hero seems to be parodying the idea that ghettos are dark and dirty, so the peculiarity may have a point.As for the considerable praise Dope gets for portraying ghetto residents as sharing the same Harvard Business School ambitions as more fortunate youths, Ill give it that, but didnt real-ize that it was particularly unusual.

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Through July 18 Cougar: The Mu-sical, at Roxys Downtown A Cabaret. Tickets $40 for dinner and show, $28 for show only. Call 316-265-4400 to reserve your tickets.

Through July 18 Anchorman of Steel, at Mosley Street Melodrama. Written by Carol Hughes and direct-ed by Cindy Summers. Also featuring Totally Rad musical comedy revue. Starring: Craig Green, Dylan Lewis, Bri-ley Meek, Jenny Mitchell, Megan Parsley and Kyle Vespestad. Tickets $28, $18 for show only. Call 316-263-0222.

July 2 Arts AMaize community concert at New Market Square. The last of four performance-based mini-fes-tivals designed to activate the commu-nity along and near its Maize corridor, Maize Road. Featuring an Ameri-can-Sousa band on July 2. Concert is free, bring blankets or chairs. Event will feature interactive artist installations by Mike Miller, Marc Durfee and Linenbur & Miller. Event runs 7:30-9:15 p.m. Arts AMaize is sponsored in part by the Kansas Creative Arts Industries and the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership, with New Market Square, Chamber Music at the Barn and the city of Maize.

July 8-12 Billy Elliott The Mu-sical, Music Theatre of Wichita. An accidental visit to a ballet class sets in motion a life-changing experience for a small boy in a British mining town. Winner of 10 Tony Awards. Tickets $26-$64. Visit www.mtwichita.org.

July 9 Ulrich Museums Art For Your Ears summer concert, featuring Nikki Moddelmog and Shane Marler with Dennis Hardin. Moddelmog is a locally-grown singer and songwriter.

She takes the stage with Marler and Hardin to perform soulful melodies and their unique blend of jazz-infused folk songs. Other concerts in the series include Doug MacLeo on Aug. 6 and The Calamity Cubes! on Sept. 1.

July 9-11 Chamber Music at the Barn, Concert Two featuring The Julian Lange Trio, an improvising ensemble featuring electric guitar, acoustic bass and drums. Tickets $12-$47. Visit www.cmatb.org.

July 16-18 Chamber Music at the Barn, Concert Three featuring Rob Kapilow from National Public Radios What Makes it Great? Kapilow will explore and share insight into the bril-liance of the String Quartet in F Major by Antonin Dvorak. The show features An

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