Press Releases from Tallgrass Creek (13 total)
Retired FBI Special Agent Who Led the Investigation of the Kennedy Assassination …
OVERLAND PARK, KS (November 15, 2011) – Jim Graham, the retired FBI special agent who led the investigation of the Kennedy assassination 48 years ago, lives today at Tallgrass Creek in Overland Park, KS, and is still convinced Oswald acted alone.
Graham, who was in the FBI's office in Kansas City, Missouri, vividly remembers the day President Kennedy was killed November 22, 1963. “I was a street agent at…
Tallgrass Creek Retirement Community Resident Bunny Brown and Her Husband, Lynn, …
OVERLAND PARK, KS (October 28, 2011) -- Some couples spend quality time together playing golf or travelling, while others connect over a shared interest in art, film, or music. Tallgrass Creek retirement community resident Bunny Brown and her husband, Lynn, bond by volunteering together. They are long-time Meals on Wheel volunteers in Overland Park and they are part of a group that bakes 1,000 cookies a month to help feed…
Overland Park, KS, Retirees at Tallgrass Creek to ‘Punt, Pass and Kick’ Thei …
WHAT:
A Friday, October 21, Pep Rally, Tailgate Party and ‘Punt, Pass and Kick’ Contest by the nearly 300 residents of Tallgrass Creek retirement community in Overland Park, Kansas. Residents will throw footballs for distance, kick an onside kick and dance in the end zone. They will do this to celebrate their collective health and fitness and to cheer their beloved Kansas City Chiefs, Kansas University and Kansas State football teams…
Tallgrass Creek Retirement Community in Overland Park, KS, This Month Marks 4th …
OVERLAND PARK, KS (October 3, 2011) -- Tallgrass Creek retirement community in Overland Park, KS, this month celebrates its 4th anniversary. In doing so it is fast approaching a record 300-resident milestone.
Men and women have moved to Tallgrass Creek from all parts of Kansas and Missouri, and also from other geographic areas. A brief sampling follows:
In Kansas: Lawrence, Shawnee, Olathe, Kansas City, Emporia, Manhattan, Topeka, Independence, Prairie Village, and Wichita.…
Tallgrass Creek Retirement Community Residents in Overland Park, KS, Use Interne …
OVERLAND PARK, KS (September 7, 2011) – About 50 residents of Tallgrass Creek retirement community in Overland Park, Kansas, head to their campus clubhouse each Sunday morning, but they are not going there to attend art classes, the spa or the fitness center. Instead, they are going to church via a simulcast from the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas.
The idea for their live-streamed worship experience…
Resident-Run TV Production Crew at Tallgrass Creek Retirement Community in Overl …
OVERLAND PARK, KS (August 9, 2011) – Four men who retired from the electrical engineering, pharmacy, financial services, and psychology professions today are – literally – the eyes and ears of Tallgrass Creek retirement community in Overland Park, Kansas.
They are known as the Television Production Committee and their daily volunteer duties involve the development of comprehensive closed circuit TV programming for the nearly 300 residents of Tallgrass Creek.…
Retired Award-Winning Journalist Elaine Bessier is Still on Deadline at Tallgras …
OVERLAND PARK, KS (August 1, 2011) – It seems as if everyone these days has a story to tell. Tallgrass Creek retirement community resident Elaine Bessier – perhaps more than anyone – knows of what she speaks.
Bessier worked as an award-winning journalist for many years prior to her retirement. She has been involved with hundreds of eyewitness accounts of news events and human interest stories during her…
Tallgrass Creek Residents in Overland Park, KS, Knit 106 Squares from Leftiver Y …
OVERLAND PARK, KS (May 20, 2011) – Twelve Residents of Tallgrass Creek retirement community have knitted 106 squares from leftover yarn that will soon be fashioned into afghans for South African AIDS orphans. The residents also knitted 30 hats to keep these children warm.
The residents worked for the past two months to knit the 8-inch squares, which range from pale pastels and bright colors to earth tones. When the…
Tallgrass Creek Retirement Community's Resident "Grandfriends" Will Have a Picni …
OVERLAND PARK, KS (May 11, 2011) – Fifteen Tallgrass Creek retirement community resident “Grandfriends” will offer stories, encouragement and hugs to Blue River Elementary School students when they have a picnic on Monday, May 16, with the students. The residents will travel to the school as part of a year-round Grandfriends Program in which they and second and third graders share learning experiences and work together on various community…
Tallgrass Creek Retirement Community Residents in Overland Park, KS, Now Sewing …
OVERLAND PARK, KS (May 4, 2011) – More than 50 dresses now being sewed by Tallgrass Creek residents will be shipped this month to Haiti to be worn by children in orphanages and by other children in need. The dresses will be shipped in partnership with Advent Lutheran Church.
The dresses are brightly colored cotton or cotton/polyester. Ten residents have been sewing them for the past month and have made about…
Resident Life Staffers are the 'Heart and Soul' of Tallgrass Creelk Retirement C …
OVERLAND PARK, KS (April 27, 2011) Ask any of the more than 200 people living at Tallgrass Creek retirement community in Overland Pak, KS, what makes life there so easy and enjoyable and chances are they will mention one of the members of the Resident Life team.
Jill Cline, Cara Freed, and Michael Hernandez work together to support all aspects of residents’ well-being—from the physical and intellectual to the spiritual and…
200 Tallgrass Creek Retirement Community Residents to Celebrate Their Healthy Li …
WHAT:
An Outdoor Games celebration of ihealthy living and ndividual fitness by 200 residents of Tallgrass Creek retirement community in Overland Park, Kansas. Residents will play Bocce, golf, ladder ball, washers, Frisbee toss, and bean bag toss. The games will kick-off with a Pep Rally-style vocal performance by the Tallgrass Creek Chorale. The games are being organized by a resident-run Wellness Committee that formed a Walking Club that walks the…
Tallgrass Creek Resident Elna Ponto Helps to Preserve America's Prairies in Over …
OVERLAND PARK, KS (April 13, 2011) – Tallgrass Creek resident Elna Ponto has been interested and actively involved in preserving nature and protecting the environment for many years. She is a member of the National Audubon Society and The Nature Conservancy. Ponto previously lived in Minnesota, where she developed an interest in prairie preservation, a project that she says really ignited her passion for protecting nature.
“There is something different about…
