There are many reasons I love living at Meadowlark Hills: friendly residents and staff; easy access to friends in a variety of levels of care; excellent food services; exercise classes; Meadowlark...
The Christmas Trains
December 4, 2025
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Press Release: Meadowlark Prepares for Possible Cases of COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
By Sarah Duggan on March 16, 2020
MANHATTAN, KAN. – Meadowlark, not-for-profit continuing care retirement community in Manhattan, is preparing for possible cases of COVID-19 (coronavirus). While eight cases of COVID-19 have been...
Outdoor Encounters: Mother Earth
By Nathan Bolls on February 17, 2020
Mother Earth by Nathan Bolls I recently received from a friend and was intrigued by “12 Truths I Learned from Life and Writing” by syndicated columnist, Anne Lamott. A sample follows:
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50 Years Later....
By Monte Spiller on February 17, 2020
Poem by Monte Spiller , Resident Services Leader It was a beautiful Sunday evening, in the Miami heat The Chiefs were losing, many expecting defeat Ten minutes left and ten points down There was...
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The Magical Windows of Christmas
December 16, 2019
By Nancy Julien Kopp At least once during the Christmas seasons of my 1940s childhood, my mother and I rode the elevated train from suburban Oak Park to downtown Chicago, exiting at the Marshall...
Outdoor Encounters
By Nathan Bolls on November 7, 2019
The loud, thumping trill from the woods booms against our ears. I’m reminded of James Thurber’s “things that go bump in the night.” What Phantom of the Forest with such auditory might lurks therein...
The 11th Hour, of the 11th Day, of the 11th Month - Veterans Day
November 7, 2019
by Michele Riter, Community Relations Assistant
Outdoor Encounters - Ecological Literacy
By Nathan Bolls on October 17, 2019
A big topic during our recent “National Climate Week,” was that of “ecological literacy.” The current ecological crisis suggests the necessity for a steep ecological learning curve for all of our...
2019 HOG & Kisses Competition
By Becky Fitzgerald on October 17, 2019
Voted “best of the best” by Manhattan Mercury readers, five category winners of our local newspaper’s annual Readers’ Choice awards are competing this fall to claim yet another title: 2019 Hog Kisser...
There's Nothing Like It
October 17, 2019
Written by Michele Riter, Community Relations Assistant “When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang.” I believe this quote from one of Shakespeare’s sonnets describes the season of fall...
Delightful Discoveries
By Becky Fitzgerald on June 20, 2019
Delightful Discoveries Gift Prints added to Meadowlark collection Meadowlark’s collection of Friends of Art gift prints grew recently thanks, in part, to some detective work by Alyn West,...
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