Allen Reed was elected to theboard of directors for Kansas Manufactured Housing Assn., a trade organization. Reed is co-owner of Reed Brothers Inc., which owns and operates Kaw Valley Homes LLC in Lawrence and Kansas Custom Home Builders in Topeka. Reed has been in the manufactured housing industry for the past 19 years.

¢ Heartsong Wellness, a sustainable life skill practice, announces the association of Steve Guinn, wellness practitioner. Guinn has more than 32 years of experience in health care, including the past nine in holistic health care.

Guinn is a graduate of the Heartwood Institute, where he studied whole foods education, cranial sacral and polarity energy therapies. He has a special interest with children, ages 3-12, who may be having attention, anxiety or other difficulties. Guinn conducts small- and large-group presentations on such subjects such as stress in children, causes, symptoms disease process and non-pharmaceutical interventions.

Steve can be reached for appointments and presentations by telephone at 840-5830 or by e-mail at steve@heartsongwellness.com.

¢ Jerry Cordill, senior vice president and information technology director for Capitol Federal Savings in Topeka, retired Friday with 35 years of service to the bank and its customers.

Bob Roth, first vice president, was promoted to information technology director. Roth, a Baker University graduate, has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in business and is working on a master’s degree at Washburn University. He is responsible for establishing and directing the strategic long-term goals, policies and procedures for the information technology department. He also is responsible for determining the bank’s long-term systems needs and provides for hardware and software acquisitions. Roth brought 20 years of IT experience to the bank when he joined in September 2002 as its IT technical services manager.

Capitol Federal has several banking locations in Lawrence.

¢ First State Bank and Trust has promoted Kristy Hackworth, Lawrence, to personal banker at its bank branch at 3901 W. Sixth St. in Lawrence.

Hackworth assists customers with new accounts, consumer lending and other retail banking needs. She most recently was a customer service representative. Hackworth, who joined the bank in 2002, is a student in the School of Business at Baker University.

¢ Hannes Combest, managing director of member programs for Lawrence-based Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, was elected president of the Kansas City Society of Association Executives for 2005-06. She also received the society’s Professional Excellence Award.

A certified association executive, Combest has been in association management for 10 years. At GCSAA, Combest oversees all professional development programs, including continuing education, career services, certification, and the association’s annual education conference. She also oversees the association’s environmental programs, government relations and public policy departments, and membership and chapter services.

¢ Health Care Access Clinic announces its board of directors and officers for 2005-06.

The officers are Donna Osness, Lawrence Memorial Hospital trustee, president; Neil Salkind, Studio B Productions, Kansas University, vice president; David Sostarich, Lawrence Memorial Hospital, secretary; Kay Henry, retired from the Kansas University Alumni Association, treasurer; state Rep. Paul Davis, D-Lawrence, and a lawyer for Meyer & Davis LLC in Lawrence, member-at-large; and Dr. Brad Phipps, medical director.

New board members are Dr. Kimberly McLain, Lawrence Memorial Hospital emergency department; Lori Kloepper, University National Bank; and Toni Dudley, Diamond Everly Roofing.

Other board members are Jane Faubion, Kansas University Medical Center; Jim Henry, retired, Kansas University, former mayor and city commissioner; Laura Hines, KU School of Law; Nancy Jorn, Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department; Wayne Osness, retired, KU; and Dr. Galen VanBlaricum, a Lawrence dentist.

Health Care Access is a non-profit, medical clinic serving the uninsured and low-income of Douglas County.

¢ Jennifer Haile, Lawrence, has been promoted to director at MarketSphere Consulting, which serves the Kansas City area. Haile is responsible for staffing client relationships, strategic planning and execution of client assignments.

As an original member of MarketSphere, Haile was responsible for establishing the firm’s human resource programs and procedures. She temporarily left the client service side of the business to serve as human resource manager for the first years of MarketSphere’s growth and expansion.

¢ Topeka-based Home Instead Senior Care, serving Shawnee and Douglas counties, has opened. The goal of the company is to help seniors live independently and at home for as long as possible.

The business, started by Donovan Taylor, hires caregivers to assist older adults by providing nonmedical services such as meal preparation, cleaning, companionship, laundry, medication reminders, errands and shopping. The company is located at 2900 S.W. Wanamaker Drive, Suite 103, in Topeka.

For more information, call (785) 272-6101 or visit the company’s Web site at www.homeinstead.com.

Honors and awards

Lawrence’s Newstalk 1320 KLWN Radio and (KLZR) Lazer 105.9FM personalities will be recognized during the Kansas Association of Broadcasters awards banquet Oct. 17 in Wichita.

Kim Murphree, morning newswatch producer, host and co-anchor; John Flood, co-anchor and AM program director; and Rees Graves, contributing newswriter and news director, won the association’s first place award for Best Complete Newscast.

Murphree also won first place in the Best Single Topic Event News Coverage category for “The Wounded Warrior Project.” Graves won first place in the Best In-Depth News Reporting in a Series category for coverage of the Thomas Murray trial.

Sportscaster Jud Easterday won first place for Best Complete Sportscast. Dale Kovar, creative services director, earned first place for best 60-second commercial, while KLZR’s Victoria Kotch and Matt Stooks took third place honors in the category.

Chris Merrill, Lazer 105.9FM’s morning show host, and Murphree will be recognized with a third place award for Best DJ Personality Air Check.

¢ Dale Glenn, senior principal with GLPM Architects Inc., received the Henry W. Schirmer Distinguished Service Award at the Kansas American Institute of Architects conference Sept. 23 in Overland Park. The award recognizes service to the institute.

Glenn originally came to Lawrence as an assistant professor of architecture and joined the firm he now leads as a project designer while still teaching. Although the firm name has changed five times during his 30-year tenure at GLPM Architects, Glenn has maintained an active leadership role.

Some of the projects under his direction include Lawrence City Hall, Haworth and Malott Hall additions, Budig Hall/Hoch Auditorium on the Kansas University campus, the Biomedical Research Facility at KU Medical Center, Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, Free State High School and the Lawrence Arts Center.

Coming events

The Lawrence Apple User’s Group 2.0 will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Signs of Life bookstore’s community room, 722 Mass. The topic will be “Mac Repair and Maintenance.”

Representatives of MacResQ, www.MacResQ.com, will talk about upgrading and repairing MacIntosh computers. For more information, contact Dave GreenBaum by e-mail at dsg@mac.com.

¢ Chris Anderson will be the speaker at the Kansas International Breakfast, which will be at 7:30 a.m. Oct. 21 at the Alvamar Country Club, 1809 Crossgate Drive.

The topic will be “Concepts and Tools for Currency Risk Management.” Anderson will discuss the basic principles behind foreign exchange rates and how current events are affecting these rates. Anderson will include some managerial implications of dealing with fluctuations in the value of the dollar.

Anderson is an associate professor in the finance, economics, and decision sciences area at the Kansas University School of Business. He recently was named a Harper Faculty Fellow in Business. He received his doctorate in financial economics from the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. Before coming to KU, he worked as a financial analyst in Brazil and then taught at Penn State and the University of Missouri.

Cost for the breakfast seminar is $10 for students and $15 for adults. To place your reservation, call 865-4426 or e-mail Christina Biagioli at cbiagioli@lawrencechamber.com.

¢ The Franklin County 2005 Farm Tour will be from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday.

The free, self-guided tour of 10 farm sites highlights the importance of agriculture and agricultural products to this area.

Activities include hay wagon rides, a hay bale maze and gift shop at Peckham’s Pumpkin Patch; barn tours to see several types of horses, and a team harnessed for rides at Dunn’s Landing; antique farm equipment demonstrations at the Power of the Past Assn.; baby alpacas, tours and shopping for alpaca-fiber products at Kansas Alpaca Co.; horse-drawn wagon rides to pick apples or pumpkins, fresh apple cider, children’s games and food vendors at Pome on the Range Orchards and Winery; demonstrations of state-of-the-art milking processes at the Sundstrom Farms and Newhouse Dairy; wagon tours, a gift shop where buffalo meat and jerky are sold, information about the history of the buffalo and a $3 barbecue buffalo lunch plate at Shadeland Stock Farm Buffalo Ranch; and demonstrations of reining and team roping with Circle K Performance Horses.

To obtain a tour map, call the Franklin County Convention and Visitors Bureau’s Visitor Information Center at (785) 242-1411, or e-mail director@visitottawakansas.com.