What’s Been Going On

Local senior artists will be celebrated February 19 and 20 at Clay Center Presbyterian Manor, 924 Eighth Street, as the community hosts its annual Art is Ageless® exhibit and observes the 40th anniversary of the Art is Ageless® program.Art is Ageless is a trademarked program of PMMA (Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America). The program offers senior artists the opportunity to share and display their artwork and reaffirms the agelessness of human creativity.“It’s inspiring to see ...  Read More...

Clay Center Presbyterian Manor received a certificate of recognition from PMMA (Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America) for reaching goals in fiscal year 2019, July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2019, at a banquet November 13 in Wichita, Kan.The recognition came through PMMA’s Emerald Awards Program, designed to encourage its 16 locations and two hospices to achieve high levels of resident/patient and employee satisfaction, meet financial goals, build philanthropic support for the organization&rsq...  Read More...

Clay Center Presbyterian Manor has issued a call for entries for the Art is Ageless® juried exhibit to be held February 19 – 20, 2020. Entries of artistic works will be accepted from any area artist who is 65 years of age or older to exhibit and/or compete for an opportunity to be featured in the 40th anniversary Art is Ageless calendar in 2021.Artists may choose to enter the exhibit only. For the competition, works are to have been completed in the past five years (since January 2015)...  Read More...

Ask 100 people to list their top 10 favorite Christmas movies, and you’re likely to get an endless variation of answers. Christmas movies run the gamut – from timeless classics like White Christmas or Miracle on 34th Street, to comedies like Elf and Home Alone. Even some action movies – like Die Hard – make an appearance on lists of the best Christmas movies of all time.To help decide the matter, the folks at USA Today put together a list of top 20 Christmas movies of all...  Read More...

Remember the excitement and anticipation that came every year when the Sears and Roebuck Christmas Wish Book landed in the mailbox? Thanks to the internet, that catalog is a limitless number of online pages, filled with toy and gift options that strain the imagination.Still, every Christmas season there are a few children’s gifts that rise above the rest, the must-have gift of a generation, or some toy that retains a place as a timeless classic. Though the popular toys change throughout th...  Read More...