America's obesity epidemic is so deeply rooted that it will take dramatic and systemic measures to fix it, according to a recent report from the highly influential Institute of Medicine.

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June 6 MCC Longview Young Artists group show

The cast of “Annie Get Your Gun” will perform selected songs from the musical at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 9 at Downtown Days on the Depot Stage. Summit Theatre Group will perform “Annie Get Your Gun” 7:30 p.m. on July 18 and 19 and 2:30 p.m. July 21 at Lee’s Summit West High School. Synopsis: Annie Get Your Gun scored a bulls eye when it returned to Broadway in 1999, starring Bernadette Peters and sporting a revised libretto by Tony, Oscar and Emmy winner Peter Stone. As Newsday reported, Stone’s revisions “are sweetly ingenious, and the show is a dream.” Stone reshaped the 1946 book to create a Wild West show-within-a-show that frames the ageless “Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better” love story of sharpshooters Annie Oakley and Frank Butler. Stone has added a secondary romance between the younger sister of Frank’s bothersome assistant Dolly, and a boy who is (to Dolly’s horror) part Native American. “The book has been updated in ways that pass p.c. muster,” reported Time Magazine, “without losing all the fun.” Joined to the new book, of course, is that amazing Irving Berlin score, featuring hit after hit after hit. “Irving Berlin’s greatest achievement in the theater,” wrote the New York Post, Annie Get Your Gun “will always be a musical for the ages, one of the Broadway theater’s enduring triumphs.”

Passport to the Arts summer camp

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Summer is almost here and more and more of us are feeling less and less enthusiastic about our bodies and anticipate enjoying the outdoor fun less as a result.

APPLEBEE'S

Last week was National Women’s Health Week and in an article written by Catherine Al-Meten and published in examiner.com she writes, “it is a time for raising awareness and a time for asking ourselves what we could do to improve our health and well being. After doing an assessment of how you are living currently, and paying attention to where you may be out of balance or in need of support, we next look at some ways to become more proactive with your own health. What are some steps you can take?”

54TH STREET BAR & GRILL

Lee’s Summit Medical Center for a third time has earned an “A” for hospital safety.

FUNHOUSE PIZZA

It’s inevitable: As you get older, you slow down. A 40-year-old person moves more slowly than a 20-year-old. A 70-year-old can’t be expected to keep up with a 50-year-old on a bike or a hike. It’s only natural, right?

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For artist Shelia Borne-Bundy it’s all in the details. Auditor by day, and painter by early morning, she finds herself creating before work from 3-6 a.m. “I usually work on six paintings at a time,” Borne-Bundy said. Working on multiple projects gives her the chance to let each painting rest and come to life.