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  • Dollar-A-Day donors give Good Sam Fund a big boost

    By Becky Fitzgerald on January 27, 2016

    The new year has started off with a significant increase to our Good Samaritan Fund as a result of a successful Dollar-A-Day campaign. In early December, letters and donation cards were sent to...

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  • Outdoor Encounters

    By Nathan Bolls on January 27, 2016

    Last summer I had the opportunity to ask Kermit, the Muppet frog, about what frogs and toads do as winter approaches. He wasn’t much help. For the four species of toads that may be found in NE Kansas...

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  • Kansas Celebrated

    By Polly Ferrell on January 27, 2016

    Our 7th Annual Kansas Day Celebration was a grand success with ninety persons attending to honor 155 years of Kansas as a state. Music from The Haymakers welcomed everyone with a few toe tappin’,...

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  • Outdoor Encounters

    By Nathan Bolls on January 20, 2016

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  • Letter to the Messenger

    January 20, 2016

    On the Mystery of the Disappeared Meat Stew Submitted by Helen Roser  Meat, during World War II, was consumed mostly by our troops, with smaller proportion for civilians. Thus it was that the most...

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  • Ask Sarah

    By Sarah Duggan on January 20, 2016

    Welcome, new “residents” There are some new residents at Meadowlark Hills! For the fourth year in a row an anthropology class from Kansas State University will be living at Meadowlark Hills and...

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  • Outdoor Encounters

    By Nathan Bolls on January 13, 2016

    Outdoor Encounters Submitted by Nathan Bolls An old Irish proverb says “The most beautiful music of all is the music of what happens.” Those words remind me of wild non-hibernating homeothermic...

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  • Outdoor Encounters

    By Nathan Bolls on January 7, 2016

    Now, even in the-dead-of-winter, the great blue heron frequently is seen standing and stalking its prey for long periods of time in shallow water along the edges of lakes, streams and ponds, even...

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  • Ask Sarah

    By Sarah Duggan on January 7, 2016

    Third Annual Culture Story Contest Happy New Year! Meadowlark Hills kicked off 2016 with the annual Culture Story Contest beginning on Jan. 4. The purpose of this contest is to gather resident,...

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  • Parkinson's Program & Memory Program

    January 7, 2016

    Submitted by Michelle Haub   Happy New Year! For some this greeting is cliché, others heartfelt and yet, for those living with memory challenges, Parkinson's disease or another degenerative disease...

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