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Ladies Auxiliary assists Memorial Day observances
Helen Sailor joined a number of her friends on May 26 at the Wayne G. Austin American Legion Newton Post 2 to help prepare for Memorial Day. She’s spent nearly every Friday morning before Memorial Day since 1971 at the post, helping make poppy sprays for the graves of veterans in Greenwood Cemetery.
Denials of health insurance claims are rising — and getting weirder
Millions of Americans in the past few years have run into this experience: filing a health care insurance claim that once might have been paid immediately but instead is just as quickly denied. If the experience and the insurer’s explanation often seem arbitrary and absurd, that might be because companies appear increasingly likely to employ computer algorithms or people with little relevant experience to issue rapid-fire denials of claims — sometimes bundles at a time — without reviewing the patient’s medical chart. A job title at one company was “denial nurse.”
Grillin’ and Chillin’? Remember food safety, says K-State expert
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State University food scientist Karen Blakeslee says food safety needs to be part of summer parties, especially when those get-togethers involve grilling food outdoors.
Prairie Doc Perspective: Big pharma has gone fishing
You are probably familiar with drug commercials. There are all sorts of them showing people being active and smiling as they attend a birthday party, go biking, go surfing, or shopping at a flower shop. At some point they start listing some of the side effects and precautions, including some obvious and some scary statements.
UNDERGROUND CHICKEN BREAST CASSEROLE
2 1/2 pound chicken breast, grilled or pan fried ‘ 1/4 cup butter 4 tablespoons white flour 1 quart water 1 /2 teaspoon seasoning salt 2 teaspoons salt 1 /2 package brown gravy mix 1 cup Velveeta cheese Cook chicken and then cut into small pieces, set aside. For a gravy, melt and brown butter.
Amish Cook: The busy ‘day before’
Editor’s Note: The Amish Cook is being written this week by Dorcas Raber, Gloria’s mom. Gloria will return next week! It was “the day before“, the day before the wedding of my niece Rhoda.
‘Everyone’s scared’: Transgender Kansans brace for sweeping new law to take effect
WICHITA — Thea Howard worried that coming out as a transgender woman would cost her the job she’s held for six-plus years. “That was my fear — that I would be fired when I came out,” she said.
Healthy Harvey Coalition marks World No Tobacco Day
The Healthy Harvey Coalition and Harvey County Health Department will join hundreds of organizations around the world to mark World No Tobacco Day on May 31. The annual initiative highlights the health risks associated with tobacco use, and the effective policies that reduce tobacco consumption.
Primary unlikely in Newton city, school elections
There’s a mathematical equation that reads a little like algebra that grabs the attention of the county clerks’ office during this period of an election cycle: (Number of position openings)x3+1=primary Barring a rash of filings before the June 1 deadline in the upcoming city/ school elections, the formula dictates there will not be a primary needed for the 2023 election in most races.