Reflections is a Medicare funded program which has been designed to meet the unique mental health needs of senior adults with mental, emotional, and behavioral health disorders. The overall goal of the program is to help the senior adult develop the skills and resources necessary to decrease mental health symptoms, improve their health and level of functioning, and prevent exacerbation of symptoms in the least restrictive environment possible.
Reflections provides a broad spectrum of services, which range in intensity from 3 to 11 hours of therapy per week, to senior adults with mental health disorders. The services may include comprehensive assessment, individualized treatment planning, physician services, psychotherapy, skills training, family education, linkage with community and social support systems. Although group therapy is the primary treatment modality, individual and family therapy may also be provided if clinically indicated.
Patients of Reflections may be referred by a variety of sources, including self-referral, nursing facility, inpatient program, and primary care physician. Patients will be admitted and monitored by the Psychiatrist privileged by Oswego Medical Center, but will be encouraged to maintain ongoing treatment with primary physicians. The patients may also elect to maintain an ongoing relationship with their primary psychiatrist if they are under psychiatric care prior to admission. In this case the program psychiatrist will manage the admission and discharge of the patient while every effort will be made to support the treatment being provided by the primary psychiatrist. The program admits and treats patients without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, or handicap.

Labette County Commissioner Brian Kinzie stood on the stage of an auditorium in Fayetteville, Ark., last Thursday afternoon, preparing for a Cross Canadian Ragweed concert.
Kinzie’s son, Brian, is the production manager for the well-known band and Kinzie’s assistant, Joel Schoepf, was engaged in conversation with them when Schoepf’s cell phone rang.
He stepped off stage to talk with his wife who was calling from New York. Joel immediately motioned for the father-and-son Kinzies to come over where he was standing.
“That was my wife, Robin,” said Schoepf. “She was in an airplane crash in New York and was just rescued from the Hudson River.”
Commissioner Kinzie said he rushed to the bus to tell band members but they already were watching live coverage of the crash on television.
“Joel was pretty shaken up,” said Kinzie. “He had just talked to her on the phone a little earlier and she told him she was taking a flight out of Newark for San Antonio.”
Kinzie said Robin Schoepf was not talking much about the crash, but obviously everyone in the Randy Rogers Band, Cross Canadian Ragweed and the 36D Management Company were thrilled that Robin and all other passengers made it off the flight alive.
Robin Schoepf is manager of the Randy Rogers Band which had appeared on the David Letterman Show the previous night.

The City of Parsons received notification that it received its first half of a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) entitlement for $154,224.
According to Representative Lynn Jenkins office in Washington, D.C., the FAA began notifying funding recipients yesterday regarding the first half of funding for 2009.
“Each year, the City of Parsons receives entitlement dollars from the FAA,” said Martha Wilkerson, Planning and Zoning Administrator. “We have elected to pool our funds from the past few years in order to go ahead with Phase III of our airport project.”
That project includes reconstruction of the north portion of the terminal apron at Tri-City Airport. The City of Parsons recently submitted a grant request for Phase III of the project, which will reconstruct the remaining portion of the terminal apron using discretionary funds from the FAA.
The City of Parsons has $360,000 of discretionary funding banked with the FAA. A grant application has been filed with the FAA for an additional $559,000 toward the Phase III reconstruction project. Phase III is reliant on discretionary funds from the FAA.
The FAA entitlement grant is a 95 percent federally funded program with the City of Parsons match being only five percent. The City of Parsons utilizes the grant funds such as this to maintain the Tri-City Airport.

The City of Edna received a letter on Jan. 14 that it had received a CDBG Improvement Grant from the Kansas Department of Commerce (KDOC) in the amount of $392,440 for a sewer project. The improvements, however, will amount to $784,880 after a 50/50 match from the Edna community.
This had been the City of Edna’s third application. According to City Clerk, Joyce Rossom, the citizens as well as the governing body are pleased to receive this award. These items would be too costly for the community to handle alone.
Three pump stations will be upgraded. The grant will replace a forced main to increase capacity. The 8″ sewer lines will be cleaned, televised and inspected. Some will be replaced and repaired and approximately 66 manholes will need rehabilitation due to age. The rock rip rap will be installed on the interior walls of three sewer lagoon cells to prevent further erosion.
KDOC has had an effective history of helping small rural communities complete infrastructure projects that are too costly for the communities.

Floyd Cavitt Jr. gets misty eyed when he talks about the events of the past few days.
First was the Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in Oswego which, once again, Cavitt headed.
“We had a good turnout,” said Cavitt. “Everyone talked about Dr. King’s dream which lives on today.”
Guest speakers included Phil Blair, Juanita Armstrong, Georgella Caldwell, Elaine Washington, Martha Gatewood and Tony Cavitt.
Providing music were Floyd Cavitt Jr., Paulette Horn and Fannie Bassett, along with the St. Paul United Methodist Church, Labette Correctional Camp Choir, Hamilton Chapel Choir, Southeast Kansas Men’s Choir and the Joplin Choir.
Lunch was prepared by Floyd and Carol Cavitt and desserts were prepared by the St. Paul United Methodist Church.
The keynote speaker and winner of the King Humanitarian Award was Coffeyville Mayor Virgil O. Horn.
Pastor Mary Alice Knewtson closed the meeting with prayer.
This was the 16th year for the annual MLK celebration in Oswego.
“People in this country are finally coming together,” said Cavitt, referring to Barack Obama’s inauguration which was held Tuesday.
“I remember being in the hospital on election day back in November, so I didn’t even know the outcome until the next day. I cried.”
He added, “President Obama is a very smart man. I think all the people coming together will last.”
“Dr. King is smiling, I’m sure of that,” he said.