Showing posts with label What's up Wichita. Show all posts
Showing posts with label What's up Wichita. Show all posts

Oct 1, 2014

American Sewing Guild Wichita Featuring Jacket a la King and Shirt Tail Expert Linda Lee

Thank you to the Wichita Branch of the America Sewing Guild for your very friendly hospitality yesterday on your 5th Tuesday all day sew-a-thon.  I really wanted to find a group to sew with as I always love the inspirations and tips.  Gosh--there were so many expert sewers there at that meeting and they were so willing to chat and share their sewing expertise......not to mention the delicious oatmeal cookies.

Can't wait for Jacket a la King at your regular monthly meeting and your field trip to see Linda Lee in Topeka--Linda Lee--my favorite shirt tail hem girl.

See you soon...........Sherry/chloe louise/the ronnie republic:  What's Up Wichita and The Sewing Herald Tribune--Bringing the world together with food and fabric.


here is a link to their facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/ASGWichita

Seriously, if you want to know the best way to make a shirt tail hem--it's do-able and easy to understand and it comes out looking great.......Linda Lee shows us how as she was a guest on Sewing With Nancy........Nancy Zieman and her vids are easy to find with a quick google search.





Jul 9, 2014

from What's Up Wichita: Hey, There's Not Any Place to Buy Groceries

Seriously, after recently moving to Wichita without a car I realized I was in a grocery no-man's land..........finally walking to the Dollar store where nothing was a dollar......frustration set in.
Actually, if one lives over by WSU there is no where in the world to walk and get food.....how do the poor people, like me, do it.
At the end of the day...the closest food is McDonalds.....while everyone enjoys their dollar menu it is not nutritious for everyday fare.
In the place where inexpensive groceries are needed with easy access--walking--it just does not exist.
Right, I couldn't believe it.....why.
Shall we ask Mike Pompeo......since he is against healthcare for Wichita citizens is he against quality food at a fair price, too.......will he address these issues.....does he care......does his mom care.....
Neighbors concerned about effects of Wichita Dillons closings

  • Published Tuesday, July 8, 2014, at 9:58 p.m.
  • Updated Tuesday, July 8, 2014, at 11:30 p.m.

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Growing up across the street from the angular green-and-brick Dillons store at Harry and Broadway, Amber and Ashlee Kimminau would walk to the store almost daily, for anything from fruit to a quick soda.
The location, along with the Dillons at 13th and Woodlawn, is set to close after 61 years of operation, because it has not performed up to expectations and its location is not conducive to renovations or expansion.
“The assembled fact is there are houses all around here, and they need a Dillons,” Amber Kimminau said. “It’s an oldie, but it’s a good one.”
Neighborhood residents worry that when the stores close July 19, they will become part of a “food desert,” a term for low-income areas more than a mile from the nearest full-service grocery store.
Wichita already has 44 square miles of food desert, according to a survey last year by the Health and Welfare Coalition, a partnership of the Wichita YMCA, city and county government, the Kansas Health Foundation, the Metro Chamber of Commerce and a host of local businesses with an interest in community health.
“One-fourth of our Wichita population lives in a food desert,” said Becky Tuttle, a staff member with the coalition.
She said it’s uncertain whether the closing of the two Dillons stores will expand the food desert or, if it does, by how much.
But it is highly likely that the loss of the two stores will make it more difficult for some in core areas to get access to fruits, vegetables, grain products and lean proteins, the four staple groups that improve individual and community health, she said.
Tuttle said the closures will mean that at least some residents, particularly those who rely on public transportation, will have to go farther to get their groceries and could choose to supplement their diets more often with convenience-store food.
The coalition study found that while nearly half of convenience stores offer fresh fruit – such as apples, bananas and oranges – fewer than 1 in 10 offer fresh vegetables.
Dillons, a division of the grocery giant Kroger Co., did take that into consideration when choosing to close the stores, but it was a business decision that had to be made, said company spokeswoman Sheila Lowrie.
“In all honesty, we have to look at the operations from a business perspective, just as any other retailer would,” she said. “If we have a location that has deteriorating sales and has been underperforming for some time, we have to absorb the costs of that business, of that store, in all areas of our company.”
Dillons won’t provide specifics on just how underperforming the stores were, but the clear trend was that business was moving away from smaller stores toward the bigger supermarkets with wider variety, discounts on gasoline and other amenities.
“With our customers, what we’re seeing from their shopping habits is they’re choosing to shop with us at some of our larger, newly renovated store locations where they can find everything like fresh produce, natural foods and maybe some of the additional amenities like Starbucks or sushi,” Lowrie said.
The Kansas Health Institute recently analyzed community food access as part of a larger study into the city bus system and found many residents struggle to bring home enough healthy food.
“It was particularly true for low-income neighborhoods, because they don’t have alternative modes of transportation to get to the other stores,” said Tatiana Lin, senior analyst and strategy team leader for the institute. “They don’t have additional discretionary funds to pay for gas. It increases their likelihood to rely on convenience stores or Dollar General in the area.”
The loss of the Dillons stores, both of which were on bus routes, could be a further obstacle for people to get the kind of food they need, said Sheena Smith, an analyst who worked with Lin on the study.
Dillons closed four urban stores in Wichita in 2008: 13th and Waco, Central and Oliver, Douglas and Meridian and Lincoln and Hydraulic.
The company kept its store at Douglas and Hillside and built a new and larger store at Harry and Edgemoor that took up some of the slack. The rest of the company’s stores form a more or less ringlike suburban constellation around the urban core.
Longtime south Wichita resident David Bonfiglio said he’s worried his neighborhood Dillons will become another “shuttered store front on neglected South Broadway.”
“This is going to be a huge blow to the neighborhood,” Bonfiglio said.
“It’s one of the most vulnerable areas of Wichita. Many customers here walk to the store, ride their bicycles to the store – now they have miles and miles left to go.”
While there is a Wal-Mart relatively close to the neighborhood – at Pawnee and Broadway, a mile south of the Dillons – the Kimminaus said they fear the corner will go the way of 13th and Waco. Dillons closed its store there in 2008, which “killed everything” in the neighborhood, Ashlee Kimminau said.
“So what if it’s not a super-Dillons?” she said of the Broadway store. “I think it’s just perfect for people around the neighborhood. It feels like they’re taking from the poor.”
Bob Goudy, 79, said he has been going to the Dillons at 13th and Woodlawn for “someteen years.”
Now, he said, he will make arrangements to go to the nearby Walmart Neighborhood Market at 13th and Oliver or the Dillons Marketplace at Central and Rock Road.
“I can see a pattern in the area,” Goudy said. “It was nice to be able to walk here when the weather was nice enough, but it won’t affect me too much.”
Bonfiglio said he hopes the company will reconsider its decision to close the locations.
“I hope Dillons will look at the numbers again and decide that they’re better off serving this community,” he said.
Reach Dion Lefler at 316-268-6527 or dlefler@wichitaeagle.com.


copied from the wichita eagle.com or kansas.com


from the ronnie republic and what's up wichita........


Hey, what do you think is going on in Wichita........


the Dillons is closing....I can't walk for groceries in Wichita...what about you:



Talking about the high prices at the "Dollar" Stores.......




Talking about Mike Pompeo--is he right about ObamaCare...


Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2014/07/08/3544892/residents-concerned-about-effects.html#storylink=cpy

Mar 28, 2014

what's up with the Dollar Stores in Wichita?


Walked in...where are the readers.... right over there......


 Seriously, right out of San Diego where the "Dollar" stores are actually a dollar......



Searching for a new pair of readers I strolled down 13th Street where two different brands of dollars stores were seen from my descent off the freeway.


In shock the signs read six, eight and ten dollars.

I was informed by the clerk, who had also offered the previous customer tips on child rearing, .......we have quality brands, such a s Foster Grant, that's why they are more than a dollar.

Really, because all of the dollar stores in San Diego have items for a dollar unless they are a "99 cent" store then the items are 0.99 cents.

All of those very same glasses in San Diego dollar stores are actually one dollar....everything in the store is one dollar......yes, even the Foster Grants.

A nice man walking by me to the next dollar store said maybe the "Dollar Tree" has items for only one dollar.

What's going on here because I was told the Dollar Tree was not actually even near this part of town.  It seemed like I was not in the high dollar neighborhood......wouldn't it be more practical to have the lower priced store in the areas that needed it the most.

To me, it seems like the owners of these stores may be taking advantage.........what do you think.

What is  your take on this outrageous dollar store situation in the fine city of Wichita, Kansas?

Love to hear from you and all comments, agree or disagree are appreciated.


And, for goodness sake, why are they calling it a dollar store?

In San Diego this would be a cause for a public outcry--to list a business as a dollar store and have items in there for more than a dollar--it would be an outrage and it certainly would be on the news.

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Mike Pompeo--misleading the citizens on Obama Health Care:

click on the links below for the stories.......

http://theronnierepublic.blogspot.com/2014/06/tell-me-mike-pompeo-how-will-obamacare.html


http://theronnierepublic.blogspot.com/2014/06/asking-mike-pompeo-about-aca.html