Nancy Finken Interviews; Drug Testing in Workplace, Arts Development in Rural Kansas, Dealing with Drugs in Wichiat, Trees for Life Non-Profit

drone testing in the workplace is becoming more common not only at certain federally mandated businesses but in other companies as well for those companies using drug testing either by federal order or by choice certain laws and regulations come into play that delay mannion consult with the employee assistance program at st joseph medical center in wichita it doesn't argue the fact that many people still think drug testing is an infringement of rights but he says there are other factors to kids so there that's one side of the issue the other side of the issues is the tremendous cost you know in terms of human lives and in terms of your performance an especially dangerous situations on the job a legal situations with illegal drug trafficking on the job for example yeah i'm sure it probably won't happen in portland ore many incidents going to take some court action to decide

really where the stops and those are in terms of drug testing a federal mandate they are wanting to work art and basically what that means is they're going to have to demonstrate to the federal government that they have the mechanics and procedures in place for carrying on they are doing and they are doing and and the idea there is is that the employee assistance program is the place to which some would be referred to the year she shows up and he

did now these are for certain companies that require drug testing in a tiny about every day companies that that the public transportation for example would be cutting lines and under the faa any would be commercial airlines when the businesses who don't fall under a federal mandate but who choose to our require drug testing for their employees and many are but i mean companies that have that are not undertaken and they aren't then we can go ahead and set up their drug testing program and that employee assistance program i think we're going to see more and more that is i think i think that that there are many companies that were testing hired to these federal regulations and i'm sure that'll be an increased the number of companies that that drug testing programs

an employee assistance programs i'm sure there's a fine line as to what's legal and how the drug testing can be done and what's overstepping and again we really don't know what the point line in the court and i think what we owe will begin he thought anybody who were armed in a workplace dr grandin says the employee assistance programs are not mandated unless you're under federal order of many companies in a more private sector are choosing these employee assistance programs to turn a problem police into productive employees rich using employee assistance programs are companies to smaller companies says oftentimes it saves the company money to try to rehabilitate an employee i'm going

to have an employee assistance program and indicated that for every dollar that the company invested in the epeat back for ten dollars depending on on the company's commitment to the ap and they're going to be dr larry mangan is a consultant with the employee assistance program at st joseph's medical center in wichita in hutchinson i'm nancy finken arts development in rural areas of kansas is one new project for the kansas arts commission this year with over eighty thousand dollars appropriated by the state legislature from economic development funds through the state lottery many rural towns are receiving grants to develop quarter of programs

mary kennedy mccain is the assistant director of the case see primarily a community and what we have and to develop a program that will provide long term political animation live in rural community there's no other program in the united states and this weekend since this is the state's first year for the real arts initiative program the kansas arts commission hired an arts consulting firm from california to help assess the needs for arts development and smaller towns are being bombarded is one of the consultants she and her partner don adams are the facilitator's for this week's conference in mcpherson adams and gold bart along with two members of the kc spent time this summer involving over

twenty counties in kansas to determine how the kansas arts commission could help bring more cultural animation to rule towns well i don't know they weren't able to do i'm not an anomaly and i'm a lot of things that i found that a parent ever proven one of them and i'm

you're welcome and a lot of one another on anyone can edit and you're going for the people but the problem for them that they needed medical board and i think that would be very efficient in terms of what kind of time and we rely heavily on voluntary support rather than needing to accumulate a lot of cash to make something because you going to have encounters have another baby combine said they've also expressed concern about how to build audience participation program

i mean you think of and we're doing it that i think people could that canal and kind of what i want to offer during your complaining i know elena kagan or more but there have been a lot of work for people who

need to be aware that we have two people at the top of the candidate who have a lot of experience in omaha i'm creating thank you who was going to be a well become a founding member of the group called the tibetan white bird kentucky kentucky coal mining country and quite economically depressed region of the country and a good amount of federal money that came into canterbury and

economic development and why help young people without economic development aid money going to meet her attention and broadened out into the camps and they have a record come to know him while they have to come into the production and have been trying to call but today we're all arts conference this friday and saturday in mcpherson is called learning from each other if you'd like more information or would like to register to attend it's not too late to call area code nine one three to nine six three three three five that's the

number for the kansas arts commission in hutchinson i'm nancy finken they basically started about a month ago and it was the result of observation command people at the police department and some neighborhood community complaint regards to open the street marketing of crack cocaine in certain portions of the city as i read all of the information that we had verifying that indeed we have a problem of that nature in any number of locations we demanded a man came to me and you know form a marked police cars that were signed with the responsibility of dealing with the street dealing crack cocaine and other drug in one city it talking about or for material was

were the area on twenty first report between about minneapolis create and grow and then as it seems this week we read about the three have weakened their employers significant improvement in a leafy the overt activity that the kind of activity that would be driving or walking down the street we made a number of arrests and mailer contact there are any given heavy traffic hours crafting our narrative and as a result more of a vision of our effort there are we have recently changed our target to another area he might agree how many men and women in the police force are involved in operation calm down well we'll have to get in the past to be about specific numbers that have been assigned to vet details simply on the basis of the fact that we're trying to keep the ballpark tactical maneuvers and our emphasis and unknown juries away from the people who were trying

to deal with what we like to keep as much of our operation secret as possible so that this program and the amount of resources and that's been the key to it is not something that can be easily identified by drug dealers we like to make them think that we approach we get and seventy five people or so about this thing what we don't have that many but we're not giving out specifics in terms of the resources that we've given to this particular problem what's been the most difficult part about enforcing this operation crack down of course the b hole the whole kind of practical approach to crack cocaine dealing is complicated by the fact that crack dealers are very mobile transactions take a very short period of time the places that crack is built may be used for a couple of hours one day and i'm not exist the next day so i think probably the most significant problem

and a long fork and dealing with crack a crack knowing is the mobility of the dealers you mentioned earlier that time the citizens in the area maybe had some kind of a role in bringing the police department's concentrated effort to their neighborhoods whatever ok be more specific and they played now in operation crack down and it had a hotline simon still going we have a number to succeed for one one one that program has received probably in excess of a hundred phone calls from private citizen you have given us confidential information in regard to the observation that they have made about the crack cocaine and other drug dealing drugs at that citizens have been very helpful in terms of having some neighborhood meetings in regard to the kind of efforts they can make his community groups to clean up the area to become more cohesive than they were of unity and complaining about the situation is that breed crack cocaine dealing and in general their work well with public authorities in a

separate from the beginning so what's been happening when you see i'm some overt dealing going on on the streets then i have a lot of people get arrested yes we've made a significant number of arrests i would say probably at this point in terms of the body that aaron rock and and bob would probably have to be upwards of fifty arrests now you've moved to a different part of wichita how the same the same kinds of things going on that you did when you first started this operation crack down in a different neighborhood the area that we have targeted now probably at an at large in terms of their geographic amount of area that we have to import however the problem is color in nature do the peeling chemistry that particular any number of local businesses that are frequented by crack dealers and people who would purchase it so that the scope of the hair ever get in that particular area is a little

bit different but the overall problem initially you think he'll law enforcement we really don't have any kind of an indication as to how long this ever witnessed there were prepared to carry on as long as we continue to identify certain areas and found it or that kind of a political and a long as we continue to generate the kind of information that we are getting drawn on right now so that was the high number one more time or one one one and estimates anonymous colonel paul gowan is the deputy chief of operations for the wichita police department in hutchinson i'm nancy finken trees for life is a nonprofit organization headquartered in wichita the group has members from all over the country about five years ago baba

amr two were decided to take on the task of planting more trees in the world in all the world and i realize that we're building big enough for them pile of world but on the very ground that is empire being built this structure being built between color novack well one third of the latvian the creed and getting downgraded tremendous rate the point because we got to recruit being planted by the creek to mean cut down and where the ideal and so what was the purpose of trees for life the problem of trees to encourage people to be the catalyst in helping plan or road and cold beer increase in developing countries and not only the one hundred and forty

eight mr imam and a combine status symbol it's a reminder to people that we need to plant more creed and we need to regenerate the first part bob baer and his wife started the project by themselves and it has grown to have over fifteen thousand members this my wife and i we started with a commitment to plant work for cleveland our earth and fusty have applied to college while palm trees that here for five years already planted one million trees in india and they are on edge can't allow where we would be planting approximately five million from korea three years in these countries and each one of those crucial months by webcam

college and palm for food and feel that purported intimate and the impact that we created and he said that in the nineties a massive implanted in india what might be like why is aimed at two countries one in united state and we won in indiana go about it i'm gonna hear more than one hundred thousand elementary which children were planted cleveland clinic program called growing tree he'd grow and learn about nature and learn about our interdependence and learn about the fact that we can make a difference and similarly we care experimental program going on in india will be

applied to these will include and hopeful point five million trees in the new future every year the one hundred thousand students in the united states is growing trees it will get to keep those they are not going to india the idea is that they will nurture the ceilings over the summer months and they have one hundred thousand healthy tree saplings to transplant out of doors in the fall when torres says he believes it's important to show children significance of planting trees became a generation had not been aware of the con if these young children now become aware of what an hour in line to get that we live in a unified world we all on them as they grow up they can be a tremendous amount of difference at a very important what children to know and understand and why

montoya says over one hundred schools in kansas are participating in the program and the students in the united states who participate in the grow a tree program get to keep those trees in their own backyards in hutchinson i'm nancy finken latoya reminds us that it's not just children who need to get involved it takes each and every one of us i would recommend that anyone who's in the program we've planted a tree right here played by one pre recorded our auction in omar jamal point everything depends on it every week we've been planted you're cutting down a tree right now complete plan to create community help meaning media report quote now mr torre is the president and the founder of trees for life in hutchinson i'm nancy finken

that kansas causes fear in space center in hutchinson will be hosting to soviet cosmonauts this weekend the cosmonauts will be donating as soviets space suit to the museum for a permanent loan they visit is the first time for the soviet union and the united states to exchange space artifacts puzzles for executive director max ary explains how it all came about we did find out that the crisis the smithsonian has tried for literally twenty years to try to get some the quote biden had never been successful we also a hard to rumer that's are all other american museums have attempted it and hedges not been successful and so we really have not presented but still had a great curiosity why the soviets would not want to do this because of their intense interest in making the western world aware of their space program and the successes of there having won and i have had an extraordinarily successful space proven something we

should be very proud and so on we always had at the back a reminder of why they didn't do it and if we are at the opportunity we've pursued about eight months ago a good friend of mine from a museum on long island in new york was about to travel to this soviet union he made a visit out here to the cosmos here and we were just talking about it and he had written a book about a children's book that the soviets wanted to reprint in the soviet union and it was about a year and the children's trip by a group the soviet school kids to the planet mars you know some real futuristic book and i would regret it and so he was about to go over to the soviet union and it turned out that the cars were not the reason to be a cosmonaut georgia christian rich girl who was going to be one that translated the english version of the book and saw it and so you start by your knees way and we talked and i said you know i told him about our thoughts that

one then along as about opening up communications with a story about the exchange of hard work is that while i'm over there are all bring the subject up and yeah we didn't think much about it but jaczko name's joshua starr can just call me when he got back and so unions are you ready for this visit i just mentioned it of what the culture was wanting to do and they were state level in hutchinson this weekend at the kansas where the senate's plan to donate for permanent display a soviet space suit that has actually been flown in space will be the first time in the western world are flown soviet space suit has been placed on display little more prominent display here are your intentions the balls and the soviets it will be here gresh girl who is a cosmonaut into specialty is the end with a call out for a living dynamics were living in space a second so it does name is geese severino who is the head of their entire space and development program and so you know in many

ways he is he is even a higher level and then the kind of monotonous and when we go down to a course here in hutcheson they're quite interesting because we have the largest basic option in the world right here in hutchinson and they're going to find a great interest looking at many of the old spacesuits of the evolution of the spacesuit technology and so when we get down to the johnson space center we are set up now a meeting and had approved a bust at bargain always through nasa headquarters for them to meet with the head of all our american space program and so an interesting meeting because that is one of the most touchy areas of technology technological of ownership is privileged races but we're getting the two top guys together and what was interesting about it is that was arranged from a group of patients in washington and i think that's kind of the intriguing fact or we're getting people together correlating all that out of this town and i think it's amazing people in

washington and then in houston because i have wanted to do that for years and years and had never pulled it off with a school group open hutchinson has done it berry believes hutchinson because of its proximity was less threatening to the soviets then the smithsonian what a band because it's located in washington dc sometime in the near future area plans to donate an apollo suit to the soviet union in hutchinson i'm nancy finken operation crackdown is the what are the police department's effort to curb the trafficking of crack cocaine in certain parts of the city colonel paul coward says several two man team units have been working the streets well there you were the area on twenty first report about minneapolis street and grow and then it was it seems to yes week we read about the three and half week mayor and your significant improvement in or leave me a whole season would

see you driving or walking down the street we made a number of arrests and mental a compact there are in heavy traffic are cracking hours and as a result more of a vision of our effort there we have recently changed our target to another area and he's my street the men and women in the police force are involved in operation going down well we did it in the best numbers that have been assigned in that detail that were crying keep the ballpark tactical service and our emphasis and search people who were trying to deal with what we like to keep as much of our operation a secret as possible so that this goal graham and the amount of resources that they get to it is not something that can be easily identified by drug dealers

guards as the most is getting on the drug dealers well of course the the whole the whole kind of practical approach to crack cocaine dealing it's complicated by the fact the correct you are very mobile transactions take a very short period of time the places that crack is build may be used for a couple of hours one day and i'm not exist the next day so i think probably the most significant problem and a long porch when dealing with crack a crack doing is the mobility of the dealers garrett says some credit for the success of operation crackdown has to go to the citizens themselves the citizens asked for improved efforts at cracking down on crack and cocaine in the area and they've also been influential in picking up the hotline number and call in with their own reports we have a number to dictate for one one one the program

has received probably in excess of phone calls from private citizen you have given us confidential information in regard to the observation that they have made about the crack cocaine and other drug dealing drugs to the citizens of them very helpful in terms of having some neighborhood meetings in regard to the kind of efforts they can make his community groups to clean up the area to become more cohesive than they were of unity and complaining about the situation is that breed crack cocaine dealing and in general their work well with public authorities in this severed from the beginning so what's been happening when you see i'm some overt dealing going on on the streets then i have a lot of people get arrested yes we've made a significant number of restaurant i would say probably at this point in terms of the bodies of armed robbery and embargo probably had to be aborted fifty arrests now you've moved to a different part of wichita how be seen the same kinds of things going on that you did when you first

started this operation crack down in a different neighborhood the area that we have targeted now i'll probably isn't as large and turns a geographic amount of area that we have to enforce however the problem is similar in nature do the killings on the street that particular any number of local businesses that are frequented by crack dealers and people with the purchase and so that the scope of the effort it in that particular area is a little bit different but the overall problem is colonel bob allard is with the wichita police department he says at this point operation crackdown is continuing indefinitely in hutchinson i'm nancy finken you mentioned that you and i had talked earlier about the number of gay people in the woods tied community can even reiterate what you're feeling isn't as to the

population in the daily spillage that is well again that the the idea of being gay or the idea of possibly being gay or being a parent what to call it and only individual of bell my headphones now

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to be a long ago i had the opportunity to address the time and had a really dry and have a bet and now to an album i think what will drop or that was the last time on the house line leader on i am and what did we see it again lessons learned and they i

did thank you wideman says after the federal nineteen ninety census is completed that's will be used in the future to re drawn district lines in hutchinson i'm nancy finken over the year have known that the levee in drinking water contributed to a number of ill health effects for young children and it currently young children have a lower tolerance for it the epa proposed the new regulations which will mandate that the lead to free drinking water only become the norm here in the next couple of years they've

identified a number of drinking water fountains that have led to heart and they have prepared a booklet that will indicate an adult daycare center in another organization might be affected by the regulation how they go about making their one apply and then determining a period where there were going to be found and what might have led parker so it's drinking fountains that are more susceptible to this well the women are drinking that water supply and can have any impact from let cool connection that have been planted with lead in the letter you are

right michigan's attorney anton one thousand am the possibility that some of those where there were lead lined banks will lead without water meddling in that big that it would leak out and then drink it this is all kind of a new awareness that control activists of nineteen eighty a delegate lead contamination listen to margo and the lead in money twenty what we hear the fog dominant there have been no major production and anyone are not going there won't be any human error and not have an eleven men how much work does lead system

and in it and young children more because they are more critical of behavioral effects of lead occurring at lower leg that would have lead poisoning have no intent in others may have been a headache obama gave your ability lincoln oh they're a state and we concluded with them usually we've made available to other half and educational organization allied to the laboratory and current world when all the water

that they want they are far to the right procedures are followed and labels will be an accurate reflection of water supply within the year on that one that they would contact a private lab war they could contact one of our guys recover the people who didn't get to how they want to lead in getting their water crawford says lead contamination in private homes is also possible especially where lead pipes or lead soldering has been used the advice from health department if you have lead pipes or lead soldering is to let your water run for a few seconds to filter out the possibly contaminated water before you actually drink it or use it for other purposes in hutchinson i'm nancy finken ending the bible plotted

out a little bit and then any new water that would be coming in that will obviously be a lead contaminated with live at that they will lead leaching into the water and i know it's not something that you and what are you going to have that lead to contamination is the information director and the support of health and environment there is an obligation to read by the epa it's called lead in school's drinking water it's available at a cost of three dollars and twenty five cents by writing the epa office of drinking water washington dc to oh four six o for more information you can contact our own kansas department of health and environment in topeka in hutchinson i'm nancy finken it is almost twenty months old she's looking she's talking she's curious and she's happy if i hadn't been told i will never suspected mary had a tough beginning i'd watch it was born

prematurely at wesley medical center in wichita her parents conch and peter had been working with your daughter and the kinds of special beginnings of the early education center in hutchinson mary was born march twenty third nineteen eighty eight she was born at wessel it because she was born aunt thirty two weeks which is about two months premature so the doctors here felt that would be the best place for their better facilities over there and what have the neonatal center it's just a bear about a week and then it was transferred and hospital and she stayed there another two weeks so certainly sometimes years of war until the time she got home for weeks got to have her home with first kansas says mary weighed only a little over four pounds anytime an infant his parents live in the reno county has circumstances placing them at risk for normal development the office of special beginnings as contacted special beginnings as a support service funded by local

state and federal departments development specialist mary solti the early education centers third the population out of birth through three year old children who are developmentally delayed in one or more areas so i would say the last minute had a specific year but at least the last twelve years so this really is is looked upon as an agent or an expansion of that program so that we can get started just as early as possible and a lot of times you have to wait until there is a developmental delay or something has been identified a syndrome or something has been substantiated but this enables us to be able to get with those kids were high risk are very premature and with medical technology advances the way it has in the last decade alone there are more medically fragile babies that are being saved and then being sent back home for parents to have to work with special beginnings defines at risk children as those born prematurely eight or more weeks early

those children born to young mothers those children with severe jaundice and those children with high risk for neurological disorders the idea is for a member or members of the special beginnings team to intervene at the earliest possible time to help families help their babies catch up on some of those areas they may be lacking shelter he says a special beginning services are free and our of the parents' choice i think this has to be done very carefully early on to go into a canteen and say your child whispered about the problems can be very abrupt to hear they've already been through some sort of prof circumstance rather be at roughly burglary a premature birth something that was anticipated something that didn't go just right for them so we go in and explain to them that we have this program and how and why their child qualifies but also that i had good percentage of our children that come from programs do very well developmentally on

hopefully by intervening early on and what work supporting him and activities that we can help them with work within their child within the home some of these problems can be avoided through that manner so we we go in as as a support service that offered for them free of charge in their community and that they can take advantage jacques soltys says some parents get involved with special beginnings immediately others choose to take advantage of the support services after a few months she says in general parents are excited and enthusiastic not to mention a little relieved to have some help with their children and i speak as a parent i felt that that most parents are pretty excited to have somebody that wants to talk to them about their child look at their child special needs those very good things that their child is teresa most parents are very excited about having someplace plus they have had a lot of apprehension apprehensions i've got this very premature baby that may have been on all types

of machinery and support systems and i have to take this baby home you know what i need somebody to help me somebody to call a lot of times you're hesitant to call your pediatrician to a three times a week about small little quiz that you may have weathered it is that pediatricians are not as character look at development may be magically things are going fine but this will help parents know the developmentally things are going on in sweetheart very favorable responses from our parents but it because it is still positive that done on a very positive approach and very family centric parents make the decisions depending on the child's needs it could be a visit as often as two times a week or once a month or every six months the team consists of a coordinator social worker community health nurse a nutritionist a physical therapist and language development specialist and developmental specialist and a pediatrician duarte's are other once every three months schedule now conjure says marriott was their

first child and adding to that was her slow start did were premature birth conscious says she and peter we're sure quite what to expect and special beginnings as help them down some rough roads they say they suggested for her to get her her get her index finger of the morphine too little means there's something real small into carnage in and have her have to reach the amount that is there which would isolate these two fingers we do that we should be a writer or washes dishes at the way he says he's doing is it maybe give her and giving her a new job as a small opening and haver try things and they're so we would do some of that well it's sue's first i believe and the world record time when they opposed how we should act as graham and her ladies and

hold onto your legs uncommon twist know we can get on the rolls over so we started working with the end of asia's economy just isn't alone in your room one of the people responsible for helping the duarte says developmental specialist marshall corey when and what teams are in for a visit part of the time spent talking to cory and part of the time spent with the nutritionist or a physical therapist or a nurse for complete follow up on mary's progress and then there's a chance for cory and mary to interact comedian extraordinary true so well mary russo daddy corey says there is progress has been great morning we're checking developmental skills and in all areas we checked them and gross motor skills or how she's living your whole body it's based in and around things over things are houses

right now she's picking up a pretty heavy object enabling handle that balance at the same time what she hung on to god you can say oh and it takes a lot of skill she has to have a good feeling of balance with their body and closer fine motor skills or how is there here is what is in and the tiny things with their fingers and you know things with your fingers and because i'm just trying to get a good job at that is now over eighty kids each year just like mary who were born prematurely or who because of other reasons are at risk for developmental delays are being helped through special beginnings of the early education center in hutchinson the special beginnings funding comes from the federal grants through the kansas department of health and environment this is the last year for guaranteed federal money the hope is that other sources of revenue will be found to continue funding the program either with state education many private

donations or other sources the idea is that money spent to intervene early will keep a lot of kids out of special education classes by the time they integrate school because special education for several years would cost more than funding prevention programs like special beginnings in hutchinson i'm nancy finken up until the supreme court's decision in favor of brown the separate but equal role as the law of the land prior to brown versus the board the challenging cases had dealt with the equal in separate but equal so many institutions were not equal but rather just separate the wrong case managed to address what became the meat of civil rights cases the issue of separate facilities mile duncan is a law professor at washburn a round the country post world war

drama called the graduate and unknowable a and p had taken on and then and higher education in which lee and helen began wearing why the road mm hmm we're

done that one where we're revisiting even the people that are going to allow any candidate that particularly bitterly and i think a lot of people that background dealing with the public well no he was

right even though the highest court in the land ruled in favor of desegregation duncan says school districts were very creative in avoiding the court order thank you well duncan as a law professor at washburn university in topeka in

hutchinson i'm nancy finken