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  • Joined: August 30, 2022
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Gladys Rita (Healy) Rivard

Gladys Rita (Healy) Rivard was born on November 12th, 1939 to Gladys Portle Healy and Arthur John Healy in Worcester, Massachusetts. With the death of her mother at childbirth, Gladys was raised by a combination of her father and her mother’s siblings. She grew up in an Irish Catholic family in Worcester and graduated from Notre Dame Academy and Anna Maria College (Paxton, Massachusetts). Following a whirl wind romance fraught with the usual family conflict when a French man courts an Irish woman in the 50’s, she joined Rodney Rivard in marriage on March 24th, 1962 at Holy Trinity church in Washington, D.C. In 1964, Rodney graduated from Dental School, joined the Air Force, and they traveled the world for 21 years. The widely held opinion is that Rod’s favorite assignment was Alaska and Gladys favored Guam. Rod and Gladys eventually settled in Leavenworth, Kansas where they lived for 30 years. Gladys always hated snow! It was in 2018 that she convinced Rod it was time to leave Kansas for the Sunshine State and they selected Sun City Center for their retirement home. As with every other move they quickly made it into something special.

Dean Brungardt

MCPHERSON - Dean Ahl Brungardt, 59, of McPherson, passed away Saturday, November 6, 2021, at his home with family by his side under hospice care. He had courageously fought his cancer for two and half years. He was born October 8, 1962 in Omaha, NE, to Al Brungardt (deceased) and Marilyn (Brungardt) Bishop. Dean moved to McPherson, Kansas in 1990 and worked as an electrical lineman for the Board of Public Utilities for 31 years. He had numerous interests including dirt track racing (most recently at 81 Speedway near Wichita), bowling, boating, motorcycle riding and golfing.

Janet Stanek to lead KDHE

Gov. Laura Kelly has appointed Janet Stanek as the new secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, less than two weeks after firing Lee Norman.

GET TO KNOW YOUR RELATIVE, THE SEA SPONGE

Did humans come from monkeys? Go around town talking about that, and some people will clap in agreement while others will be completely offended. Certainly, a species as great as humans could not have come from monkeys, right? That is correct.

Latinas overcoming challenges at the polls

LIBERAL — Janeth Vasquez’s journey is a common story in southwest Kansas. Her parents immigrated to Kansas from Mexico in the 1980s, seeking a better life for their baby daughter in the growing Hispanic community that rose up around Liberal’s meatpacking plant.

Essential Holiday TV

After a year that was long and hectic for many, the arrival of the holiday season guarantees some cheer in a very specific form: the TV shows and specials that were made to bring more spirit into our homes. Some have aired for more than 40 years, while others present a modern take on Christmas cheer. Here are 10 specials, and very special episodes, that carry the common holiday theme of togetherness with loved ones – some in unconventional ways.

BALANCING ACT

Annie Clement has a lot of feelings about attending her family’s big traditional holiday gathering. h Last year was the first time the 43-year-old did not go home for Christmas. This year, she was excited when a COVID-19 vaccine finally became available for her 10-year-old daughter, Hazel Clement-Weber, allowing her to start thinking about a visit. h Clement was less thrilled to think about being in close quarters with relatives who don’t take the virus as seriously as she does. h “It all stresses me out,” said Clement, a community college teacher in Rochester, Minnesota. h With 28 million 5- to 11-year-olds now eligible to be vaccinated, many families will face similar issues. Experts say the key to handling them lies in a combination of understanding risks and benefits, accepting that everyone has different priorities and talking openly about what matters most.