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Tufte celebrates 100th

Heart of America Medical Center’s long-term care unit helped one of their residents celebrate a very special birthday recently. Fern Tufte turned 100 Oct. 12. Staff helped her to celebrate her special day. Due to restrictions placed on visitation to combat COVID-19, family and friends ...

Let’s Cook: The Best of Both

Their residence was in large drawer in a chest of drawers that had been painted various colors, including bright red and navy blue, to once suit my fancy. The five-drawer chest eventually succumbed to feature two shades of beige that went very nicely in the extra bedroom of my parents’ home. ...

Let’s Cook: Back to School with Bananas

This is the time of year when I think back on attending school and all the traditions associated with that time period. Recently, I witnessed a woman cleaning her outside windows and it immediately reminded me of how this fall task was done in our home. It often happened when one could feel ...

Let’s Cook: Veggies bring you Beauty, Health and Flavor

Whether you live in a mansion or a purple cottage by the road, your home is the background for your personality. I was blessed to have a mother who taught me this. It was the reason that she purchased an antique drum table with pedestal mount and claw feet and placed it in our living room. ...

Prairie Village Museum sees ‘large turnout’ for rainy Village Fair

Rumbles of thunder and occasional downpours provided a backdrop for the annual Prairie Village Museum Village Fair Sunday, Aug. 22. The event began at 9 a.m. with a pancake breakfast, blacksmithing demonstrations and hymns sung in the original Zion Lutheran Church building. Food vendors ...

Let’s Cook: A Perfectly Understood Reunion

You haven’t changed a bit – or have you? This was the question I asked not only of myself but of the Ray Auditorium recently during Grain Palace Days and the All School Reunion. Isn’t it fun to ask ourselves a question and even more fun to ask a great big room? I was not alone in the ...

Let’s Cook: Parables of Pie Crust and Rhubarb

Upon entering the kitchen at First Lutheran Church, I heard the clinking of tin pie plates as they are taken from a stack. Next comes the rhythm of the rolling pins as they clap with the counter while flattening pugs of ivory dough into circles. Occasionally a pug becomes a heart, a perfect ...

Let’s Cook: Charmed by Johanna

A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to view some spectacular vintage clothing. You know me, I take to vintage like the race car’s rubber tires take to the road. Seeing the first, beautiful and pristine two-piece suit stopped me in my tracks. Seeing the right fabric, perfect pattern style ...