MARQUETTE — With recent executive orders from the governor’s office, various businesses, institutions and facilities across the state are reopening, including senior centers. Though the reopening has been a long time coming, local senior centers are setting guidelines and resuming ...
LINCOLN, Neb. — They met in the stately brick building in the North Bottoms, long after its elementary school students had gone elsewhere and Hayward Elementary had become a school for middle and high school students with special needs. Bill Kechely landed there in 1975 (the same time he started as a volunteer coach with the Lincoln East High School football program) and Jean Manning came two years later, both young adults fresh out of college and ready to start their teaching careers. He’d gotten the job a year after teaching adapted P.E. at a residential facility for children ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — From his office chair in the back-right corner, Jimmy Kimble leaned back and peered through the window into the spacious Republic Services welding complex in South Memphis. The tool-covered warehouse has been his kingdom for most of his life — 55 years to be exact. Friday ...
YORK, Pa. — One of the great survivors stood proudly at his door, which was decorated with American flags. He looked out onto another day, the sun breaking through the clouds. His face lit up through all its years. “I’ve got the handiest apartment around,” Dale Chapman said. Just a few feet away are the main office and entrance to his complex in Lebanon. He takes walks along the railed hallways six and seven times a day. He loves to sit on the outdoor bench to greet everyone who passes by. His eyes are not good, so he spends his time praying, fixing simple meals and ...
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Glenn Gass thinks it’s time to step aside. There was a point, long ago, when he had to prove teaching a class about rock ‘n’ roll was worthwhile. Some of the old guard at what was then just the Indiana University School of Music turned up their noses at the idea. Fortunately for Gass, the school’s administrators gave him the green light. Over the next 38 years, more than 60,000 students signed up to take his courses. Gass became one of the university’s most popular professors, earning the nickname Doctor Rock. But something else happened. Students ...
MARQUETTE — Michigan State University Extension will be offering a program to help seniors, adults and teens limit stress through mindfulness concepts and practices to reduce stress and related symptoms.The five-class series titled “Online Stressless With Mindfulness” begins at 3:30 p.m. ...
