Lifestyle

Dear Doctors: I started running a year ago to deal with stress and to get in better shape. Instead of a set distance, I do 15 minutes of mixed fast and slow running twice a day. But a friend says unless you’re always trying to go farther and faster, it’s not really helpful. Is that actually true?

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All generations will appreciate the message of kindness and friendship that grows in this year’s Theatre for Young Audiences production, “Tomato Plant Girl,” showing at 2 p.m. April 29 and 30 at the Hesston College Black Box Theater in Keim Center Presented by Hesston College Theatre, “Tomato Plant Girl” is a powerful exploration of friendship between Little Girl, Bossy Best Friend and the messy Tomato Plant Girl who springs from the earth.

Hello, dear readers, and welcome to a bonus letters column. We have had a sharp increase in letters these last few months, and we will continue do our best to keep up with your questions, comments and requests.

hard-boiled duck eggs, followed by our newest favorite veggie- avocados. Julia cut them in half and passed them out.

Spring is finally here in the Northern Plains and summer feels just around the corner. As all we Northerners know, as soon as the temperatures hit even a mild degree on the thermometer most of us shed the jackets and long pants, and our skin is front-and-center.

Roxie Yonkey, a best-selling author, will discuss her newest book Secret Kansas: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. April 28 at the Warkentin House, 211 E. First Street “Bernhard Warkentin Jr. turned Kansas into the Wheat State, and this event is in his and his wife Wilhelmina’s home, now a museum,” Yonkey said. “I have devoted an article within my book to this captivating story.” The song “Home on the Range” is 150 years old this year, so the presentation begins with its story. After sharing the Warkentin story, Yonkey will highlight: Captain (Chaplain) Emil J. Kapaun, a life of hope and mercy; and “Mentholatum: the little nurse for little ills,” and how a former Kansas salesman turned Japanese citizen contributed to ending World War II. Kapaun received the Congressional Medal of Honor in 2013 and is in the process of being canonized by the Catholic church.

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