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Outdoor Encounters: Pebble & Pond
April 22, 2025
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Young, Up and Coming Artists featured at Verna Belle’s Café
Submitted by Jayme Minton
Every artist has to start somewhere. We are hoping that some artists may get their start at Meadowlark Hills.
Starting in March, Verna Belle’s Café will feature art from students throughout USD 383 Manhattan-Ogden School District. The art will rotate monthly and we have invited the artists and their families to visit Meadowlark Hills to see their featured pieces.
Outdoor Encounters
The world at our latitude soon will break free from the grip of cold, long nights and short days. The effects of warmth, shorter nights, and surging hormones will stimulate the exuberance of spring.
Both humans and wild things learn early on that the wind is much more than the innocent sounding dictionary definition of the horizontal movement of atmospheric gases, in natural rhythms, across the surface of our Earth.
Call the nurse!
One of the features available to independent living residents at Meadowlark Hills is access to a pull-cord system that pages an on-duty nurse in the skilled nursing area. When the pull cord is activated, the nurse will respond to the apartment, cottage or duplex to assess the resident’s urgent need.
The eight species of aquatic turtles that may be found in our region present a more complicated variety of overwintering strategies than do box turtles.
Most of them are active from mid-March (some earlier) through mid-November (some later). And most overwinter by digging into mud below water in a lake, pond, or stream, with the common snapping turtle going as much as 18 inches deep. The yellow mud turtle and slider turtle (“red ears”) may burrow into a muddy bank above water. The false map and Ouachita map turtles may choose a muskrat den.
Why the Watermelon?
Meadowlark Hills loves art. Not to say that each individual resident loves art, but the organization as a whole appreciates many types of art displayed throughout our campus. There are three unique pieces of art located outside the Community Room. If you visit that area, you will find portraits of people who have played a significant role in the history of Meadowlark Hills. One is of the Sloan family, one is of our former CEO Steve Shields and the third depicts Jim Morrison with a watermelon.
Wait…what? A watermelon?
Submitted by Jon Bechtel, Project Manager
The final voting for the third, fourth and fifth floor remodeling project has been completed. The winning selection on each floor has been posted on the wall in front of the west elevators.
We will start construction on the third floor starting Monday, Feb. 22. We plan on six weeks of construction per floor with a completion date of all floors by Sunday, May 15.
Submitted by Kenzie McAnulty
Anthropology students will be hosting a Mortified Event, a comedy show where residents, students and friends have the opportunity to share old diaries, journals and letters in front of a crowd. If you would like to provide any of these materials, please contact Monte Spiller at 323-3801. The deadline to turn these in is Friday, Feb. 26.
Please contact Kenzie McAnulty, anthropology student, by email at kenziem@ksu.edu or phone at (316) 734-8483, with any questions.
The poet Ogden Nash touches some of our perplexity concerning turtles and tortoises with the following ditty:
The turtle lives ’tween fixed plates,
which practically conceal its sex.
Me thinks it clever of the turtle,
in such a fix to be so fertile.
Love & Lo Mein
I love Valentine’s Day. Mostly because I love to send Valentine’s to my family and friends – this holiday makes for a great excuse to show the ones you love that you are thinking about them.