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August 2017Serving Active Seniors in the Lawrence-Topeka Area since 2001 Vol. 17, No. 2 INSIDE KEVIN GROENHAGEN PHOTO KEVIN GROENHAGEN The Summer 2017 issue of JAAA’s Amazing Aging is included in this month’s Senior Monthly. See inside. Business Card Directory ...24, 25 Calendar ..................................18 Goren on Bridge .....................36 Health & Wellness.............14, 15 Humor ......................................30 Jill on Money ...........................16 Liz Smith .................................34 Mayo Clinic .............................12 Memories Are Forever ...........33 My Answer ..............................26 My Pet World ...........................32 Puzzles and Games ................37 Rick Steves’ Europe ...............29 ENIO Wolfgang Puck’s Kitchen ........31 SprofileR Permit No. 19 No. Permit Lawrence, KS Lawrence, PAID U.S. Postage U.S. PRSRT STD PRSRT KAW VALLEY SENIOR MONTHLY August 2017 • 3 Harold Facklam Jr. donates 259 pints of blood By Kevin Groenhagen County. Harold also taught at a rural elementary school. any businesses have water “I started teaching right out of high Mcoolers in their offi ces that are school,” Harold said. “That very fi rst topped with fi ve-gallon water bottles. fall in 1947 I taught in a one-room To get an idea of how much blood school. I went to summer school at PHOTO KEVIN GROENHAGEN Harold Facklam Jr. has donated during K-State to get my teaching certifi cate. his life, imagine six of those bottles I taught for six months before I turned completely fi lled with blood and a 18. I had seven students from second seventh bottle a little more than two- to sixth grade. I drove 20 miles each fi fths full. way. I had to buy a 13-year-old auto- The American Red Cross began the mobile with tires that were bald. I’d fi rst nationwide blood program for average a fl at tire once a day.” civilians by opening its fi rst collec- Harold then went to K-State in 1948 tion center in Rochester, N.Y., in 1948. and enrolled in agriculture education. Centers soon opened in other locations “There was an opening in my home throughout the country. district,” Harold said. “It was an Alida “My father began donating blood a school with two teachers. So, I signed year or two after the Red Cross began up to teach there. I was there for two the nationwide blood program,” Harold years. I taught my sister, who was in said. “The Red Cross came only four eighth grade. I was so fortunate to be times a year and my dad would not able to teach there since all our family miss a blood drive. I decided I wanted went there. Venice and I got married Harold and Venice Facklam to do that, too. I started donating blood during my second year there. I came ters were in the primary group there, years at rural schools and then went in January 1951.” back a few years later and taught two but I didn’t teach them.” to Ft. Riley. He taught the fi fth grade Harold had just married Venice a few more years at Alida. Both of our daugh- Harold taught for a total of eight CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR months before that. The couple had a farm near Alida, Kansas, in Geary Kaw Valley SeniorMonthly Kevin L. Groenhagen Editor and Publisher Kaw Valley Senior Monthly is published monthly by Groenhagen Advertising, L.L.C., Lawrence, Kansas, and is distributed at over 160 locations throughout the Lawrence- Serving Seniors in Topeka & Topeka area. Any opinions expressed by our Surrounding Areas writers are not necessarily those of Groenhagen Advertising, L.L.C. Subscription Phone: 785-250-7838 rate is $8.50 for 12 monthly issues. Contact: Debbie Contact us: You make the appointment, then call Debbie’s Redi-Ride. 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Door to Door & So Much More. 4 • August 2017 KAW VALLEY SENIOR MONTHLY surrounding the town of Alida were After leaving their home in Alida, In 2001, the church was in the pro- either moved to other locations, razed, the Facklams bought grassland east of cess of putting in a new kitchen and an Facklam burned, or buried to make way for the Junction City and raised beef cattle. elevator from the sanctuary down to CONTINUED FROM PAGE THREE dam. “We built our own home,” Harold the basement. “Our home at Milford Lake had been said. “We did two-thirds of the work.” “I was chairing that committee and there for 21 years. a family home that went back four gen- The Facklams also began attend- Venice was also helping with that,” “I taught sixth grade at Junction erations, so it was hard to give it up,” ing services at Zion United Church of Harold said. “We went home after a City during my last three years,” Harold said. “It was such a close-knit Christ in Junction City. committee meeting and the lightning Harold said. “My grandchildren were community. The Alida community still “Quite a few people at our church in west of us was just wicked around 10 in that school, but, again, I didn’t teach meets the fi rst Sunday of November Junction City give blood,” Harold said. o’clock. We got a call from our min- them.” every year. This year will be our 54th “I don’t know whether I necessarily ister the following morning and he Harold taught for a total of 32 years. year of getting together. We still have a inspired some of them, but we would said lightning struck the church and He also farmed during all those years. turnout of at least 60 people.” talk about it at church.” CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE “He would get up and plant milo for a couple of hours, come in to eat break- fast, and then go teach school all day,” Venice said. “Then he would come home, do the chores, and go back to the fi elds until 10 o’clock. “ “I always said that Venice farmed and I helped her,” Harold said. “She did an awful lot of the baling.” Even with his busy schedule in the Is there someone special in your life who needs extra care? A Home Plus classroom and on the farm, Harold continued to donate blood as often as Adult Care Home is an alternative solution to a nursing home environment. he could. “I tried to go during the noon hour so 7EPROVIDEANINTIMATEFAMILYSETTINGANDMOREh!TTENTIVEvATTENTION I wouldn’t miss school,” Harold said. 2ESIDENTSCANCHOOSETHEIRMEALSANDHAVEFAMILYRECIPESPREPAREDFOR “The bloodmobile would usually close THEM)TSEASIERFORTHEFAMILIESTOBEINVOLVED7EPROVIDEAHOME down at four o’clock and I couldn’t SETTINGWITHGROUPANDINDIVIDUALACTIVITIESAVAILABLE leave the school before then.” Even major events in his life didn’t You can bring your own personal keep Harold from donating blood. belongings, including furniture, to make “After our daughter Karen was born in 1952, he gave blood and then it feel more like home. came in to see me at the hospital,” Venice said. “This was in November and it started snowing. He was with his folks and they got stalled on the road before they got home. 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I went from being the blood drives in the Kaw Valley Senior Monthly distribution area during August: chair of the church remodeling com- mittee to being the chair of the church DATE TIME LOCATION ADDRESS CITY rebuilding committee. We built a new Aug 9 12:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Celebration Hall 1737 S.

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