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Publishers <strong>Free</strong> <strong>Press</strong><br />
<strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong>, Ks<br />
& Manhattan, Ks<br />
<strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong><br />
<strong>Free</strong> <strong>Press</strong><br />
Vol. 3 Number 33 Thursday, Februay 16, 2012<br />
Employees of DMD in Waterville show off some of the products lines at DMD.<br />
Pictured left to right are: Eruviel Montes, Sam Dummermuth, manager, and Dianne Kenworthy<br />
DMD Expands Waterville Site<br />
Within the last months’<br />
time the Waterville business,<br />
DMD Designs and Graphics,<br />
doubled in size by buying the<br />
next door building.<br />
Owner Dawna Dummermuth<br />
saw the opportunity for<br />
growth when the old grocery<br />
store went up for sale.<br />
Dummermuth said that it was<br />
time to expand and “get a little<br />
elbow room,” as well as<br />
have more space for merchandise.<br />
She envisioned a<br />
bigger work space and a new,<br />
bigger, inviting area for local<br />
customers to shop.<br />
Think back and maybe you<br />
can remember walking<br />
through Harding’s Grocery<br />
store. Well, where you used<br />
to find bananas, you can now<br />
find a variety of clothing and<br />
apparel!<br />
Remember needing a cake<br />
mix or frosting? Well go in<br />
now and you’ll find something<br />
just as sweet in their<br />
new selection of jewelry! At<br />
DMD you can find socks,<br />
signs, and anything in<br />
between.<br />
When you do stop by,<br />
make sure you meet all of<br />
DMD’s team! You can catch<br />
owner Dawna Dummermuth<br />
during the first week of every<br />
month, or stop by anytime to<br />
meet the other three full time<br />
employees. Sam<br />
Dummermuth, manager;<br />
Dianne Kenworthy, and<br />
Eruviel Montes would love to<br />
help you Monday through<br />
Friday from nine to five.<br />
Kourtney Fry and Kim<br />
Heideman also work part<br />
time.<br />
Dianne Kenworthy works with embroidering machine.<br />
Eruviel Montes works with the heat press machine.<br />
BR Library Plans<br />
New Addition<br />
The <strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong> library<br />
board was present At last<br />
weeks <strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong> City<br />
Council meeting to update the<br />
council on their future plans,<br />
their need for more operating<br />
capital and some history on the<br />
library.<br />
An increase in the library<br />
mil levy will be considered at<br />
budget time. The cost of the<br />
conversion to meet VERSO<br />
requirements is $2675 plus<br />
$750 per year.<br />
Council voted to approve<br />
the library board hiring an<br />
architect to draw some plans<br />
for an expansion.<br />
(Editor’s Note: The board<br />
told the Council they has a<br />
gift from the Marge Lawless<br />
estate to build onto the north<br />
of the building. As the oldest<br />
Library west of the<br />
Mississippi the Library in on<br />
the National List of<br />
Historical Places and the<br />
front of the new addition<br />
must look like the old building.)<br />
1. Clyde Adams from Victor<br />
L. Phillips presented information<br />
on a demo 2011 Case<br />
580SN backhoe/loader to the<br />
council for consideration. No<br />
action was taken. Minihan will<br />
research other dealers and a<br />
special meeting will be called<br />
to approve purchase of a backhoe/loader.<br />
(Editor’s Note: The<br />
Council has another bid and<br />
will meet tonight (Thursday)<br />
in a Special Meeting to consider<br />
the two offers.)<br />
2. The council considered<br />
two bids from United<br />
Insurance Services for the<br />
city’s business insurance package.<br />
EMC submitted a bid for<br />
$12,164 and Berkshire<br />
Hathaway submitted a bid for<br />
$11,373. Council accepted the<br />
bid from EMC.<br />
(Editor’s Note: The<br />
Berkshire bid had conditions<br />
that could raise the cost of<br />
the insurance. The City has<br />
the insurance with EMC now<br />
and the know the price will<br />
stay the same.)<br />
3. The council decided to<br />
contract with Denton Designs<br />
at a cost of $400 to create a<br />
city website.<br />
(Editor’s Note: This is<br />
something the Council has<br />
been considering and would<br />
give citizens access to the<br />
minutes, budgets, financial<br />
records and many other City<br />
documents.)<br />
4. Council performed the<br />
annual review of the personnel<br />
policy and the Wellhead<br />
Protection Plan and voted to<br />
install signs at the three<br />
entrances to the city that say<br />
“Call 911 in the event of a<br />
spill”.<br />
5. Council approved having<br />
Waterville work on our water<br />
main valves at a cost of $40 per<br />
hour for no more than 40 hours<br />
and that work can cease prior<br />
to the 40 hours if the process is<br />
not successful.<br />
(Editor’s Note: The City of<br />
Waterville has a machine<br />
that moves a rusted valve up<br />
and down a little at a time<br />
until it is working properly.<br />
The City needs to have 8 to<br />
10 valves worked on. If they<br />
need to be replaced they will<br />
cost $1,000.00 each.)<br />
6. The council approved the<br />
purchase of Christmas decorations<br />
from Wayne<br />
Manufacturing Company for a<br />
total of $1828.<br />
7. By consensus the council<br />
gave permission to the <strong>Blue</strong><br />
<strong>Rapids</strong> Historical Society to<br />
photograph city employees at<br />
work as part of a grant through<br />
the Smithsonian Institute.<br />
8. President Roepke reappointed<br />
Phil Osborne to a 3year<br />
term on the planning commission.<br />
9. A $5000 budget transfer<br />
from the Water/Sewer/Refuse<br />
bank account to the Utility<br />
Reserve bank account was<br />
approved.<br />
10. A records destruction<br />
certificate destroying non-current<br />
city records as authorized<br />
by K.S.A. 45-211 was<br />
approved.<br />
11. Registrations for Jim<br />
Flower to attend the Kansas<br />
Rural Water Association spring<br />
conference in Wichita and for<br />
Susan Hass to attend the CCM-<br />
FOA spring conference in<br />
Wichita were approved.<br />
12. A transfer of $2000 in<br />
local match funds for Housing<br />
Grant 11-HR-030 from the<br />
general operating bank account<br />
to the housing grant bank<br />
account was approved<br />
13. There was a request<br />
from Don Kotapish for the city<br />
to help pay for the costs to get<br />
electricity from the old Hanna<br />
Plant to his property in the<br />
city’s industrial park. The subject<br />
died for lack of motion.<br />
14. The following contractors<br />
are licensed in the city of<br />
<strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong>: Geisler Roofing,<br />
Inc.; Four Seasons, Inc.<br />
The minutes of the January<br />
8, 2012 regular meeting were<br />
approved as amended. Pay<br />
Ordinance 2235 was presented<br />
for approval by Minihan, seconded<br />
by Brake. Pope and<br />
Brake abstained from voting<br />
on the <strong>Free</strong> <strong>Press</strong> payment and<br />
the Pope Disposal payment.<br />
Motion carried.<br />
Council members present<br />
were: Amy Bishop, Jon<br />
Brake, Mike Minihan, Jerry<br />
Pope and Bob Roepke. Mayor<br />
Nowak was absent. Bob<br />
Roepke, Council President,<br />
presided<br />
25 Great Truths & Possibly The 5 Best Sentences<br />
GREAT TRUTHS<br />
1. In my many years I have<br />
come to a conclusion that one<br />
useless man is a shame, two is<br />
a law firm and three or more is<br />
a congress. — John Adams<br />
2. If you don’t read the<br />
newspaper you are uninformed,<br />
if you do read the<br />
newspaper you are misinformed.<br />
— Mark Twain<br />
3. Suppose you were an<br />
idiot. And suppose you were a<br />
member of Congress. But then<br />
I repeat myself. — Mark Twain<br />
4. I contend that for a nation<br />
to try to tax itself into prosperity<br />
is like a man standing in a<br />
bucket and trying to lift himself<br />
up by the handle. —<br />
Winston Churchill<br />
5. A government which robs<br />
Peter to pay Paul can always<br />
depend on the support of Paul.<br />
— George Bernard Shaw<br />
6. A liberal is someone who<br />
feels a great debt to his fellow<br />
man, which debt he proposes<br />
to pay off with your money. —<br />
G. Gordon Liddy<br />
7. Democracy must be<br />
something more than two<br />
wolves and a sheep voting on<br />
what to have for dinner. —<br />
James Bovard, Civil<br />
Libertarian (1994)<br />
8. Foreign aid might be<br />
defined as a transfer of money<br />
from poor people in rich countries<br />
to rich people in poor<br />
countries. —Douglas Casey,<br />
Classmate of Bill Clinton at<br />
Georgetown University<br />
9. Giving money and power<br />
to government is like giving<br />
whiskey and car keys to<br />
teenage boys. — P.J.<br />
O’Rourke, Civil Libertarian<br />
10. Government is the great<br />
fiction, through which everybody<br />
endeavors to live at the<br />
expense of everybody else. —<br />
Frederic Bastiat, French economist(1801-1850)<br />
11. Government’s view of<br />
the economy could be summed<br />
up in a few short phrases:<br />
If it moves, tax it. If it keeps<br />
moving, regulate it. And if it<br />
stops moving, subsidize it. —<br />
Ronald Reagan (1986)<br />
12. I don’t make jokes. I<br />
just watch the government and<br />
report the facts. — Will Rogers<br />
13. If you think health care<br />
is expensive now, wait until<br />
you see what it costs when it’s<br />
free! — P.J. O’Rourke<br />
14. In general, the art of<br />
government consists of taking<br />
as much money as possible<br />
from one party of the citizens<br />
to give to the other. — Voltaire<br />
(1764)<br />
15. Just because you do not<br />
take an interest in politics<br />
doesn’t mean politics won’t<br />
take an interest in you! —<br />
Pericles(430 B.C.)<br />
16. No man’s life, liberty, or<br />
property is safe while the legislature<br />
is in session. — Mark<br />
Twain (1866)<br />
17. Talk is cheap...except<br />
when Congress does it. —<br />
Anonymous<br />
18. The government is like a<br />
baby’s alimentary canal, with a<br />
happy appetite at one end and<br />
no responsibility at the other.<br />
—Ronald Reagan<br />
19. The inherent vice of<br />
capitalism is the unequal sharing<br />
of the blessings. The inherent<br />
blessing of socialism is the<br />
equal sharing of misery. —<br />
Winston Churchill<br />
20. The only difference<br />
between a tax man and a taxidermist<br />
is that the taxidermist<br />
leaves the skin. —Mark Twain<br />
21. The ultimate result of<br />
shielding men from the effects<br />
of folly is to fill the world with<br />
fools. — Herbert Spencer,<br />
English Philosopher (1820-<br />
1903)<br />
22. There is no distinctly<br />
Native American criminal<br />
class...save Congress. — Mark<br />
Twain<br />
23. What this country needs<br />
are more unemployed politicians.<br />
—Edward Langley,<br />
Artist (1928-1995)<br />
24. A government big<br />
enough to give you everything<br />
you want, is strong enough to<br />
take everything you have. —<br />
Thomas Jefferson<br />
25. We hang the petty<br />
thieves and appoint the great<br />
ones to public office. — Aesop
Obituaries <strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong> <strong>Free</strong> <strong>Press</strong> - Thursday, February 16, 2012<br />
Obituaries<br />
Barbara Allene DeWalt McGahey<br />
Jerry A. Heuer<br />
Jerry A. Heuer, 64, of<br />
Hanover, Kansas, died<br />
Wednesday, February 8, 2012,<br />
at his home in Hanover.<br />
A funeral service was held at<br />
10:30 a.m., Monday, February<br />
Marilyn Burt<br />
Marilyn Burt, 82, of<br />
Washington, KS, died<br />
Wednesday, February 8, 2012<br />
at the Homestead Nursing<br />
Home in Washington.<br />
Visitation was Sunday from<br />
2 until 7 p.m. at Ward Funeral<br />
Richard Samland, Sr.<br />
Richard Samland, Sr., 76, of<br />
Washington, KS, died Tuesday,<br />
February 7, 2012 at the<br />
Washington County Hospital.<br />
A funeral service was held at<br />
Francis Kramer<br />
Francis H. Kramer, 77 of<br />
Frankfort, Kansas, died<br />
Thursday, February 9, 2012 in<br />
southern Brown County.<br />
Francis was born on June 10,<br />
Barbara Allene DeWalt<br />
McGahey, 61, passed away on<br />
February 10, 2012 in Tulsa<br />
Oklahoma surrounded by family.<br />
She was born February 4,<br />
1951 in <strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong>, Kansas to<br />
William Arthur DeWalt Sr. and<br />
Bernece Geneva Wilkinson.<br />
Barbara was an avid reader<br />
of True Crime, there probably<br />
wasn't a book she hadn't read<br />
on the subject. Barbara also<br />
enjoyed collecting cobalt blue<br />
glassware, jewelry, going to<br />
thrift stores and attending<br />
Bingo. She had a passion for<br />
13, at the Zion Lutheran<br />
Church in Hanover.<br />
Jerry was born on July 4,<br />
1947 at Odell, Nebraska, the<br />
son of Walter and Elnora<br />
(Kruse) Heuer. He attended<br />
Trinity Lutheran School and<br />
graduated from Hanover High<br />
School. After high school, Jerry<br />
went to Concordia Teachers<br />
College in Seward, Nebraska,<br />
and Lincoln School of<br />
Commerce in Lincoln,<br />
Nebraska. He was employed<br />
doing computer aided drafting.<br />
On October 7, 1972, he was<br />
united in marriage to Nancy<br />
Oswald at Zion Lutheran<br />
Church in Hanover.<br />
Jerry was a member of Zion<br />
Home in Washington. The family<br />
will receive friends from 4<br />
to 7 p.m. at the funeral home.<br />
A funeral service was held at<br />
11:00 a.m., Monday, February<br />
13 at the United Methodist<br />
Church in Washington.<br />
Marilyn was born at Haddam<br />
on May 15, 1929, to Clark and<br />
Marie (Dewitt) Burton. She<br />
attended school at Haddam,<br />
graduating from Haddam High<br />
School in 1946. On July 20,<br />
1946, she was united in marriage<br />
to Edwin Burt at<br />
Belleville, KS. They lived at<br />
Haddam until moving to<br />
Washington in 1961.<br />
She and Edwin owned and<br />
operated the Washington Sale<br />
Barn until 1976, when they<br />
11:00 a.m., Saturday, February<br />
11, at the First Baptist Church<br />
in Washington.<br />
Private burial will be in the<br />
Hollenberg Cemetery.<br />
Richard was born July 18,<br />
1935, to Charles and Edith<br />
(Jorgensen) Samland at<br />
Omaha, NE. He was married at<br />
a young age to Ruth Herman<br />
and they were blessed with five<br />
children. They later divorced.<br />
In November of 1982, he was<br />
united in marriage to Ann<br />
Sorce at Harbine, NE. After<br />
their marriage they moved to<br />
Rockland, Wisconsin where<br />
they lived for 24 years before<br />
moving to Washington, KS in<br />
1934 at Onaga, Kansas, the son<br />
of August and Theroda (Haug)<br />
Kramer. He worked for<br />
Goodyear Tire Company.<br />
Francis is survived by his<br />
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animals especially cats and<br />
dogs. Barbara worked for the<br />
Warehouse Market of Tulsa<br />
until her illness<br />
Barbara had lived in Tulsa<br />
for the last 30 years<br />
Survivors include her husband<br />
Michael McGahey of<br />
Tulsa, Oklahoma, a daughter<br />
and son-in-law (Gina and Pat<br />
Phillips) of Tulsa, and a son<br />
William Stroh of Lincoln,<br />
Nebraska. 6 grandchildren<br />
(Krystina, Justin, Ricky,<br />
Charlie, Austin, Jenny). 4 great<br />
grandchildren (Kristopher,<br />
Lutheran Church, where he<br />
served as church treasurer and<br />
was on the church council.<br />
Jerry was also a minister to the<br />
long term care patients and<br />
shutins, by visiting them and<br />
providing communion to them.<br />
He was on the Highland Haven<br />
Board, Hanover Cemetery<br />
Board, volunteer on the<br />
Hanover Fire Department, former<br />
President of Hollenberg<br />
Friends, and was a member of<br />
the Moose Lodge.<br />
Survivors include his wife,<br />
Nancy Heuer, Hanover; four<br />
children, Debra (Luke)<br />
McLemore, Rochester, MN,<br />
Craig Heuer, Hanover, Sheryl<br />
(Dave) Fugate, Warsaw, IN,<br />
retired. Marilyn was the bookkeeper<br />
for the business. After<br />
retirement, they traveled<br />
throughout the United States.<br />
Marilyn was a member of the<br />
United Methodist Church,<br />
VFW Ladies Auxiliary and the<br />
Red Hat Society. She was a<br />
loving mother and grandmother<br />
and always attended the grandchildren’s<br />
events.<br />
Preceding her in death were<br />
her parents; her husband,<br />
Edwin; a brother, Clayton<br />
Burton; and a grandson, Tyler<br />
Burt.<br />
She is survived by her children,<br />
Joan (Jim) Brabec of<br />
Greenleaf, Beth (Greg) Knedlik<br />
of Paola, KS, Todd (Laurie)<br />
Burt of Washington; sisters-in-<br />
2007.<br />
Richard was a farmer, then<br />
self employed at S & S Truck<br />
Sales in Jansen, NE, worked as<br />
a diesel mechanic for Wehrs<br />
Chevrolet, in Bangor WI where<br />
he retired.<br />
His favorite pastimes were<br />
hunting and fishing.<br />
Survivors include his wife,<br />
Ann, Washington, KS; children,<br />
Richard (Jane) Samland,<br />
Hollenberg, KS, Carol (Rick)<br />
Strunk, Jansen, NE, Sharon<br />
(Harvey) Rosenthal,<br />
Jansen,NE, Debra (Rick)<br />
Santee, Springfield, NE,<br />
Charles Samland, Bennet, NE;<br />
step daughters, Deb (Rod)<br />
sister, Olivia La Blanc of<br />
Albany, Georgia.<br />
No services are planned at<br />
this time.<br />
Padden Funeral Chapel of<br />
Kenneth L. Sells, Agent<br />
Morgan, Timothy, Marcus).<br />
Two sisters (Theola Health) of<br />
<strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong>, Ks. and (Myrna<br />
Johansen) of Tulsa. Two<br />
Brothers (William DeWalt and<br />
Mark DeWalt) both of <strong>Blue</strong><br />
<strong>Rapids</strong>, Ks. and numerous<br />
nieces and nephews. Barbara<br />
was preceded in death by her<br />
parents, one daughter (Jennifer<br />
Lynn Stroh), three sisters (Lynn<br />
Stegeman, Karen Merrill,<br />
Jeannie Loree DeWalt).<br />
Services will be held<br />
Thursday February 16th, 2012<br />
at the Methodist Church in<br />
and Darrell (Della)<br />
Schweitzberger, Salina, KS;<br />
two sisters, Kathy (Harlen)<br />
Kruse, Herkimer, KS, and<br />
Lynette (Wilbur) Horman,<br />
Hanover; two uncles, Victor<br />
Heuer and Edwin Leseberg;<br />
aunt, Lorina Leseberg; six<br />
grandchildren; nine step-grandchildren;<br />
thirteen step-greatgrandchildren;<br />
several nieces,<br />
nephews, cousins and friends.<br />
He was preceded in death by<br />
his parents; an infant brother,<br />
Charles Heuer; stepson, Steve<br />
Schweitzberger; and stepgrandson,<br />
Shane<br />
Schweitzberger.<br />
law, Betty Zenger of Haddam,<br />
Doris Ford of Manhattan;<br />
grandchildren, Rachel (Cam)<br />
McVean, Kim (Jerry) Grasso,<br />
J.C. (Pam) Brabec, Heather<br />
(Dave) Meyer, Amy Knedlik,<br />
Clint Knedlik, Amanda (Jay)<br />
Craig, Trevor (Amanda)<br />
Dickson; and great-grandchildren,<br />
Garett, Nathan and<br />
Hannah Edgar, Demetrius and<br />
Maya Grasso, Nora Mae<br />
Brabec, Olivia, Sophia and<br />
Chase Meyer, Lilliana and<br />
Cecelia Craig and James<br />
Dickson.<br />
A memorial fund has been<br />
established in her name and<br />
will be designated by the family.<br />
Contributions may be sent in<br />
care of the funeral home.<br />
Klaus, Crete, NE, Maggie<br />
Brace, Milwaukee, WI; sisters,<br />
Jackie Vincent, Slater, MO,<br />
Loretta Beall, Chandler, TX;<br />
brother, Ron Samland,<br />
Weeping Water, NE; fifteen<br />
grandchildren; two step grandchildren;<br />
and eleven greatgrandchildren.<br />
Preceded in death by his parents,<br />
one brother, Joe Samland,<br />
one sister, Joan VanDorien, and<br />
two grandchildren.<br />
A memorial fund has been<br />
established and will be designated<br />
at a later date.<br />
Contributions may be sent in<br />
care of Ward Funeral Home.<br />
Frankfort was in charge of<br />
arrangements.<br />
Obituaries Continued<br />
on Page 3A<br />
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<strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong>, Ks. at 2 p.m. with<br />
a gravesite vigil with the family.<br />
Burial will be at Prospect<br />
Dr. Douglas Stigge<br />
Optometrist<br />
2A<br />
Hill Cemetary, <strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong>,<br />
Ks.<br />
Spain Law Office, P.A.<br />
Phone (785) 363-2723<br />
Darrell E. Spain<br />
Attorney at Law<br />
107 S. Kansas Ave.<br />
Waterville, KS 66548<br />
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bids for mowing Fairmont<br />
Cemetery April 1 - October 31,<br />
2012. Return bids in envelope<br />
marked “Cemetery Bid” by 4:30<br />
p.m. Mar. 12 to City Clerk, 04<br />
Public Sq., <strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong>, KS 66411.<br />
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News<br />
8 Wonders Of Kansas Guidebook Wins Award<br />
The Kansas Sampler<br />
Foundation was recently notified<br />
that their "8 Wonders of<br />
All Your Ag Needs<br />
Kansas Guidebook" won first<br />
place in the North American<br />
Travel Journalists Association<br />
(NATJA) category for travel<br />
book or guide.<br />
Awards went to publications,<br />
travel writers, and photographers<br />
whose work was represented<br />
in print and electronic<br />
media. The competition, now in<br />
its 20th year, honors the "best<br />
of the best" of travel writing,<br />
photography and promotion<br />
that cover all aspects of the<br />
travel industry worldwide.<br />
The "8 Wonders of Kansas<br />
Guidebook" debuted in April of<br />
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2011. The 272-page book features<br />
the 216 finalists that were<br />
showcased in the 8 Wonders of<br />
Kansas contests that featured<br />
the 24 most significant things<br />
to see and do in the categories<br />
of architecture, art, commerce,<br />
cuisine, customs, geography,<br />
history and people.<br />
Published by the Kansas<br />
Sampler Foundation,the 6x9"<br />
coffee table/guidebook features<br />
more than 800 photos taken by<br />
photographer Harland<br />
Schuster, Morrill. The book<br />
was written by Foundation<br />
director Marci Penner and<br />
designed by her sister, Liz<br />
(Penner) King. Mennonite<br />
<strong>Press</strong>, Newton, printed the<br />
book.<br />
Penner said, "The award is<br />
indicative of the first-class job<br />
by our team but it is also a tribute<br />
to the content. It's nice to<br />
see Kansas get recognition for<br />
it's story and for what we have<br />
to see and do."<br />
More than 8,500 books have<br />
been sold. For more information<br />
about the book, go to<br />
www.8wonders.org or call<br />
620.585.2374.<br />
Valley Heights All Stars Announces Summer Musical<br />
For the fifth year in a row,<br />
the Valley Heights All Stars<br />
Youth Theater will once again<br />
be performing a musical this<br />
summer, entitled “Cool Suit” a<br />
spoof of the Emperor’s New<br />
Clothes. This musical has parts<br />
Kenneth L. Livingston, Sr.,<br />
age 80, of Greenleaf, passed<br />
away on Sunday, February 12,<br />
2012 at <strong>Blue</strong> Valley Senior<br />
Living.<br />
Kenneth was born August<br />
11, 1931 at Frederick,<br />
Oklahoma to Arthur C. and<br />
for 15-18 young people<br />
between grades of…entering<br />
2nd grade next fall and exiting<br />
12th grade this spring.<br />
Rehearsals will be all summer<br />
and commence with the tradition<br />
of performing the first<br />
Annie I. (Wright) Livingston,<br />
Sr. While still young his family<br />
moved to the Los Angeles,<br />
California area, where he graduated<br />
from Huntington Park<br />
High School. He joined the US<br />
Navy in 1951 and served in the<br />
Korean Conflict. He was one<br />
of the Atomic Veterans due to<br />
his ship being involved in<br />
nuclear testing.<br />
After the war he returned to<br />
California where he worked as<br />
a fork lift operator and later in<br />
building maintenance for Toro<br />
Corporation. He married<br />
Christine M (Pearson) Lloyd<br />
on September 9, 1978 at<br />
Phelan, California. They<br />
moved to Greenleaf from<br />
Riverside, California in 1994.<br />
He was a member of Trinity<br />
Lutheran Church, Greenleaf,<br />
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401 East 5th Street (US 77) <strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong>, Kansas 66411<br />
785-363-7900 Mon-Sat 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.<br />
weekend in August; August 3, 4<br />
and 5th. There will be a parent’s<br />
meeting May 21 at 7pm at<br />
the Waterville Elementary<br />
school. Auditions for Cool Suit<br />
will be Friday June 1st, preceded<br />
by an Actor’s Workshop<br />
VFW Post 2699 in Marysville<br />
and American Legion Post 273<br />
in Greenleaf.<br />
Survivors include his wife<br />
Christine, a son Kenneth L.<br />
Livingston, Jr. and wife Becky<br />
of Greenleaf, three stepsons;<br />
John E. Lloyd and wife Kristan<br />
of Wildomar, California, Frank<br />
D. Lloyd of Lincoln, Nebraska,<br />
Bill R. Lloyd of Beatrice,<br />
Nebraska, a stepdaughter, Mary<br />
S. Huddleston of Topeka, two<br />
grandchildren, five step-grandchildren<br />
and five step-greatgrandchildren,<br />
a sister, Alma R.<br />
Harrod of Downey, California,<br />
two brothers; Arthur C.<br />
Livingston, Jr. and wife<br />
Marilyn of Downey, California<br />
and Sidney E. Livingston of<br />
Mira Loma, California.<br />
He was preceded in death by<br />
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Recycling At <strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong> Feb. 18th<br />
The Valley Heights recycling<br />
day is Saturday, February 18th<br />
from 9:30 am to 11:00 am. The<br />
collection trailer will be in <strong>Blue</strong><br />
<strong>Rapids</strong> by the horse barn at the<br />
north side of the fair grounds.<br />
All typical recycled items<br />
will be collected including<br />
paper, cardboard, cans, junk<br />
mail, glass etc. Plastics are<br />
limited to numbers one (1) and<br />
two (2). Please rinse food containers<br />
to reduce odors. Presorting<br />
material allows the line<br />
to move smoothly for everyone.<br />
We thank all our community<br />
volunteers for their dedication<br />
to this effort benefiting the<br />
Valley Heights community.<br />
For more information call Tony<br />
Yungeberg at Valley Heights<br />
Community Education at 363-<br />
2211, Stacy Vermetten at 363-<br />
2030 or Phil Osborne at 363-<br />
7949.<br />
Obituaries______________Continued From Page 2A<br />
Kenneth L. Livingston, Sr.<br />
four brothers; Ralph<br />
Livingston, Richard Livingston<br />
and John Livingston, Howard<br />
Livingston, and a step grandson<br />
Brandon J. Lloyd.<br />
Inurnment Services are<br />
planned for 10:00 am, Friday,<br />
February 17, 2012 at the<br />
Committal Shelter in the<br />
Kansas Veterans Cemetery,<br />
Manhattan, with Military<br />
Honors by the US Navy.<br />
Friends are planning a time of<br />
food and fellowship for 1:00<br />
pm at the Community Building<br />
in Greenleaf.<br />
Memorials are suggested to<br />
the American Heart<br />
Association and may be sent in<br />
care of Terry-Christie Funeral<br />
Home at PO Box 61,<br />
Waterville, Kansas 66548.<br />
Birth Announcement: Raylan Aaron Winslow<br />
Raylan Aaron Winslow was<br />
born at Mercy Hospital in<br />
Manhattan, Ks on February<br />
14, 2012 at 1:57 p.m. weighing<br />
7 lbs 12 oz and 19 ¾ inches<br />
long.<br />
Raylan was born to parents<br />
K’Lynn and Nicholas<br />
Winslow.<br />
Grandparents are Dana<br />
Bishop, Edwin Winslow and<br />
Dennis and Patricia Tilley.<br />
Great grandparents are Bob<br />
and Shirley Bishop, Martha<br />
Winslow, Ken Tilley and the<br />
late Faye Tilley.<br />
Great-great grandparents<br />
are Mona Anderson and<br />
Edwin Holly.<br />
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Family Benefit<br />
Feb. 17th 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.<br />
Valley Heights High School<br />
“Sloppy Joe Dinner”<br />
Sponsored by: New Hope<br />
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Frankfort Community Care Home Takes Resident to WWE Raw<br />
If you would visit the<br />
Frankfort Community Care<br />
Home on Monday evenings,<br />
chances are that you would find<br />
eighty-four year old resident,<br />
Esther Ferris, sitting in her<br />
favorite chair in the lobby<br />
watching All Star Wrestling on<br />
TV. Esther’s passion for<br />
wrestling is no secret to the<br />
staff members at the care home<br />
and when it was announced<br />
that WWE “Raw” was coming<br />
to the Expocenter in Topeka,<br />
employees started making<br />
plans to get Esther to Topeka to<br />
see some of her favorite<br />
wrestlers in person. On<br />
February 3rd Abby Kirk, Lora<br />
Koch and their sons, Sebastian<br />
and Anthony, accompanied<br />
Esther to Topeka to see the first<br />
live performance of wrestling<br />
that any of them had ever seen.<br />
When Abby was asked about<br />
her favorite part of the evening,<br />
she said, “I just enjoyed watching<br />
Esther. Her eyes lit up”.<br />
Esther never dreamed that she<br />
would ever actually be able to<br />
see wrestling in real life and<br />
she was able to see some of her<br />
Two hundred Kansans<br />
attended the Big Rural<br />
Brainstorm at the Meridian<br />
Center in Newton on February<br />
3-4. With an atmosphere of<br />
hope, energy and opportunity,<br />
the goal was to think outside<br />
the box and come up with ideas<br />
that are achievable at the grassroots<br />
level for rural communities.<br />
Those in attendance included<br />
a range of people from small<br />
towns like Woodbine, Olsburg,<br />
Tribune and Goessel to larger<br />
cities like Chanute, Garnett,<br />
Concordia and Oakley to representatives<br />
from small business<br />
favorites, including John Cena,<br />
CM Punk and Kane.<br />
Highlights of the evening<br />
included the women wrestlers<br />
and a tag team match with The<br />
Miz and Kane VS John Cena<br />
and The Truth. Esther was con-<br />
cerned when one of the referees<br />
got thrown over the ropes and<br />
landed hard on the floor. She<br />
said that she couldn’t wait to<br />
watch wrestling the next<br />
Monday night and see if the<br />
same referee was ok and able to<br />
appear on TV. It was an exciting<br />
night for all, with the boys<br />
really getting into all the<br />
yelling and screaming and<br />
everything that goes with being<br />
in an audience at All Star<br />
Wrestling. Esther was happy to<br />
Big Rural Brainstorm Generates Action<br />
Media Release - 02102012 –<br />
1330 Hrs<br />
It is with deep regret the<br />
Marshall County Sheriffs<br />
Offices announces that Francis<br />
H. Kramer, 77 of Frankfort has<br />
been found deceased in south-<br />
By: Tyler Taphorn<br />
Senior Reporter<br />
The Wide Awake 4-H Club<br />
hosted an Appreciation Dinner<br />
on February 5 at the<br />
Achievement Building in <strong>Blue</strong><br />
<strong>Rapids</strong>.<br />
Twenty-six members, three<br />
leaders and numerous guests<br />
attended.<br />
The dinner was hosted in<br />
Marshall County Sheriff’s<br />
Department<br />
Jail Activity Sheet<br />
Week of: February 6, 2012 to<br />
February 12, 2012<br />
Name: Shanek, Robert<br />
Address: Waterville, Kansas<br />
come home with a momento of<br />
the event, a Tshirt with John<br />
Cena’s picture on the front. It<br />
ended up being a fun and late<br />
night for all. The boys fell<br />
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asleep on the way home, but<br />
Esther outlasted them all, staying<br />
awake until she arrived<br />
safely back at the nursing<br />
home.<br />
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Sebastian, Esther and Anthony had a great time seeing their favorite wrestlers.<br />
(Photo courtesy of the Frankfort Community Care Home)<br />
development, state agencies,<br />
housing programs, and the<br />
Board of Education.<br />
During introductions, a<br />
dozen people came forward to<br />
say why they loved their community.<br />
They were followed<br />
by forty PowerUps (21-39 year<br />
olds who are rural by choice)<br />
who introduced themselves<br />
briefly.<br />
Facilitated by Marci Penner,<br />
director of the Kansas Sampler<br />
Foundation based out of Inman,<br />
the format consisted of diverse<br />
breakout sessions, StandUp<br />
reviews, appointments, and<br />
group discussions. There were<br />
no keynote speakers. The group<br />
also experimented with a We<br />
Kan Bank, an inventory of<br />
community needs and those<br />
who could offer service.<br />
On Saturday morning, forty<br />
people came forward to declare<br />
action steps they would take<br />
when they got home. A sampling<br />
of those actions include<br />
starting a community garden<br />
and community foundation,<br />
developing a rural entertainment<br />
network and internship<br />
programs for businesses, and<br />
doing an inventory of<br />
PowerUps.<br />
Penner said, "With these 200<br />
committed Kansans offering<br />
support and ideas to each other,<br />
it is clear that rural Kansas took<br />
a positive step forward with<br />
this event. By the end, there<br />
was no doubt that we are all<br />
together in this challenging yet<br />
exciting work of sustaining<br />
communities."<br />
Those who would like to be<br />
on an e-blast list to help sustain<br />
rural communities should contact<br />
the Kansas Sampler<br />
Foundation at marci@kansassampler.org.<br />
Marshall County Sheriff’s Office Release<br />
ern Brown County. Mr. Kramer<br />
has been missing from his<br />
Frankfort residence since the<br />
3rd Of February 2012. The<br />
Sheriff’s Office was notified by<br />
the Brown County Sheriff’s<br />
Office at approx. 1130 this<br />
honor of the many family<br />
members and friends who help<br />
Wide Awake 4-H members<br />
throughout the year. Club<br />
members baked homemade<br />
rolls that were served during<br />
the potluck dinner. The arts &<br />
crafts members made snowmen<br />
for the centerpieces, which<br />
were also used as door prizes.<br />
Following the dinner, mem-<br />
Date of Birth: 11-08-1958<br />
Charge: 48 Hours<br />
Date of Arrival: 02-10-2012<br />
Date of Release: 02-12-2012<br />
Reason: Time Served<br />
Name: Maez, Jason<br />
Address: Marysville, Kansas<br />
morning [02102012].<br />
According to Brown County<br />
Sheriff’s Office, a farmer near<br />
the 105 St Exit, off Hwy 75,<br />
stated that he found the vehicle<br />
with Mr. Kramer inside. It<br />
appears at this time that the<br />
bers in the County 4-H Days<br />
skit performed followed by the<br />
club chorus that sang “Yankee<br />
Doodle Dandy” and “Home on<br />
the Range.”<br />
During the meeting Ryan<br />
Latta and Robbie Stryker were<br />
installed as new members. The<br />
club also had it’s purple seal<br />
ceremony for 2010-11 club<br />
year.<br />
Date of Birth: 12-28-1976<br />
Charge: 9 Hours<br />
Date of Arrival: 02-11-2012<br />
Date of Release: 02-11-2012<br />
Reason: Time Served<br />
Name: Full, Richard<br />
Address: Moline, Kansas<br />
vehicle was stuck in the mud.<br />
Cause of death was undetermined<br />
at this time, an autopsy<br />
was ordered by the Marshall<br />
County Sheriff’s Office.<br />
Sheriff Dan Hargrave –<br />
Marshall County Sheriff<br />
Wide Awake 4-H Club Hosts Appreciation Dinner<br />
During the program, Wesley<br />
Denton gave a project talk on<br />
“How to Speak Like a<br />
Cattleman” and Addie<br />
Wassenberg demonstrated how<br />
to make simple crafty<br />
Valentines.<br />
The next meeting will be<br />
March 5.<br />
Marshall County Sheriff Jail Report<br />
Date of Birth: 07-24-1989<br />
Charge: DWS<br />
Date of Arrival: 02-12-2012<br />
Date of Release: 01-12-2012<br />
Reason: $365 Cash Bond<br />
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Happy 100th Birthday!!!<br />
By Gene Meyer<br />
Kansas Reporter<br />
TOPEKA — City officials in<br />
Atchison and Lenexa say they<br />
want out of the state’s government<br />
employee pension plan, if<br />
traditional pensions are converted<br />
into worker-managed<br />
retirement plans.<br />
The cities' leaders formally<br />
asked lawmakers to allow them<br />
to offer their workers citysponsored<br />
retirement plans<br />
instead of the proposed Kansas<br />
Public Employees Retirement<br />
System, or KPERS, plan, if<br />
legislators pass House Bill<br />
2545. The measure closes traditional<br />
Kansas pensions to<br />
new teachers and workers<br />
hired beginning in 2014, and<br />
shifts them to worker-managed<br />
plans.<br />
“Traditional pensions are a<br />
big incentive, when you are<br />
trying to recruit people for<br />
municipal service,” said Trey<br />
Cocking, Atchison’s city manager.<br />
“If the state goes to the new,<br />
defined-contribution plan, we<br />
no longer have much incentive<br />
to remain in the plan."<br />
Ironically, Atchison could<br />
switch to some kind of 401(k)style<br />
plan, if it left KPERS, he<br />
said. With 106 employees on<br />
the payroll, the city is not large<br />
enough to support a traditional<br />
pension.<br />
Lenexa's government, which<br />
is four-times larger, also could<br />
switch to a defined-contribution<br />
plan if it left KPERS, said<br />
Leslie Fonseca, assistant city<br />
administrator. That’s because<br />
Lenox has such a plan, which it<br />
offers to its 430 employees as a<br />
supplement to KPERS pensions.<br />
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“Our plan is more competitive<br />
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Lenexa contributes 4 percent<br />
of workers’ salaries to the plan,<br />
and the contribution amount<br />
increases as workers increase<br />
their own contributions.<br />
Kansas’ plan, as outlined in<br />
legislation being studied now,<br />
requires a 6 percent employee<br />
contribution; employers,<br />
whose contributions come<br />
from general fund tax revenue,<br />
pay 1 percent initially, which<br />
increases to 5 percent in eight<br />
years.<br />
But any move to a definedcontribution<br />
plan from a traditional<br />
pension would be<br />
wrenching, said Salina fire<br />
chief Larry Milliken.<br />
“You don’t get rich going<br />
into public service, but you<br />
make a living, and you get a<br />
good retirement,” Milliken<br />
said. “Standing up in front of<br />
people now and saying,<br />
‘You’ve got some great memories<br />
and a career you can be<br />
proud of, but not the retirement'<br />
is going to be quite a<br />
change.”<br />
State legislators in 2011<br />
passed a plan to fix the underfunded<br />
KIPPERS by requiring<br />
taxpayers, beginning Jan.1,<br />
2013, to start accelerating their<br />
contributions, which are used<br />
to pay the employers' shares<br />
that states, cities, counties,<br />
schools and other government<br />
units offer workers.<br />
The plan, in legislation<br />
known as House Bill 2194,<br />
also requires teachers and other<br />
workers to increase their contributions,<br />
so the combined<br />
increases will, by 2033, plug<br />
an $8.3 billion gap that KPERS<br />
calculates would otherwise<br />
exist between its promised<br />
pensions and the projected<br />
assets available to pay those<br />
pensions.<br />
H B 2194 included a third<br />
requirement, which is the one<br />
causing the problems now.<br />
That requirement called for<br />
the creation of a 13-member<br />
KPERS Study Commission<br />
last summer. Members were<br />
told to come up with a more<br />
detailed plan for addressing the<br />
pension plan under funding,<br />
then present that plan to the<br />
2012 Legislature for approval.<br />
Commission members,<br />
headed by co-chairman and<br />
state Sen.Jeff King , R-<br />
Independence, came up with a<br />
plan that, beginning Jan. 1,<br />
2014, would convert the state's<br />
traditional lifetime pension<br />
benefits to retirement savings<br />
accounts that would provide<br />
retirement benefits only as<br />
long as each members' individual<br />
savings lasted.<br />
King and the plan’s supporters<br />
say the changes are needed<br />
to contain the potential risk to<br />
taxpayers associated with<br />
Kansas’ unchecked pension<br />
liabilities, which could crowd<br />
out education, public safety<br />
and other programs, or force<br />
huge tax increases.<br />
A study published in<br />
December by University of<br />
Kansas economist Art Hall<br />
projects that, on its present<br />
course, KPERS spending could<br />
swell the state budget deficits<br />
$225 million to $580 million<br />
by 2023, depending on where<br />
the pension fund sets targets<br />
for investment returns, now 8<br />
percent.<br />
Critics say that design flaws<br />
in King's proposal would cost<br />
$10.9 billion more between<br />
now and 2033 than the original<br />
HB 2194 and that retirement<br />
benefits would be reduced, too.<br />
"That being the case, why<br />
should a more expensive plan<br />
even be given consideration?"<br />
asked Ernie Claudel, a retired<br />
Olathe school administrator,<br />
who often visits the Capitol to<br />
watch pension fund deliberations<br />
and blogs to other retirees<br />
Cutting future retirees' benefits<br />
amounts to short-sighted<br />
economics, Claudel said; the<br />
benefits checks KPERS sends<br />
to 68,000 retirees now represent<br />
more than $77.1 million<br />
going into the Kansas economy.<br />
Kansas legislators need to<br />
consider the Study<br />
Commission's more expensive<br />
plan for either alternative to<br />
survive, said state Rep. Ron<br />
Worley, R-Lenexa a member<br />
of the House Pensions and<br />
Benefits Committee, which<br />
held hearings on the plan<br />
Monday.<br />
It's the law, Worley said.<br />
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Marshall County Minutes<br />
February 6, 2012<br />
The Board of Marshall<br />
County Commissioners met in<br />
regular session with Thomas K.<br />
Holle Chairman; Charles R.<br />
Loiseau and Robert S. Connell<br />
members; and Sonya L. Stohs,<br />
County Clerk present.<br />
The meeting was called to<br />
order at 9:00 a.m.<br />
The Board opened the meeting<br />
with the flag salute.<br />
The minutes and agenda<br />
were approved as presented<br />
upon a motion by Charles R.<br />
Loiseau moved, seconded by<br />
Robert S. Connell.<br />
Unanimous.<br />
Custodian Lou Wassenberg<br />
met with the Board to let the<br />
Board know that her part-time<br />
help Beth Kohake gave her resignation<br />
effective February 15,<br />
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2012.<br />
Agency on Aging Director<br />
Heather Ruhkamp met with the<br />
Board. Charles R. Loiseau<br />
moved, seconded Robert S.<br />
Connell to go into executive<br />
session for twenty minutes at<br />
9:03 a.m., at the request of<br />
Agency on Aging Director<br />
Heather Ruhkamp, to discuss<br />
matters of non-elected personnel<br />
with Agency on Aging<br />
Director Heather Ruhkamp<br />
present. Unanimous.<br />
Robert S. Connell moved,<br />
seconded by Thomas K. Holle<br />
to approve the Home City<br />
Sewer bills and pay them from<br />
the appropriate funds available.<br />
Unanimous.<br />
Charles R. Loiseau moved,<br />
seconded by Thomas K. Holle<br />
to approve the following 2011<br />
abatements with a value of<br />
4,811 and a total tax of<br />
$835.49. Unanimous.<br />
Robert S. Connell moved,<br />
seconded by Thomas K. Holle<br />
to approve the Neighborhood<br />
Revitalization application for<br />
Precision Truss, Marysville,<br />
KS with the preconstruction<br />
pictures that were provided by<br />
the applicant. Unanimous.<br />
Public Works Administrator<br />
Mike Craig and Public Works<br />
Coordinating Supervisor Larry<br />
Polson met with the Board.<br />
Charles R. Loiseau moved,<br />
seconded by Robert S. Connell<br />
to approve the following purchase<br />
orders. Unanimous.<br />
Murphy Tractor and<br />
Equipment, Topeka, KS for<br />
repairs to loader $992.45-Road<br />
& Bridge fund-P.O. # 107593<br />
Charles R. Loiseau moved,<br />
seconded by Robert S. Connell<br />
to approve signing 2011<br />
Annual Noxious Weed<br />
Eradication Progress Report.<br />
Unanimous.<br />
Thomas K. Holle moved,<br />
seconded by Robert S. Connell<br />
to approve the 2012 Marshall<br />
County Annual Noxious Weed<br />
Management Plan.<br />
Unanimous.<br />
Wells Township Trustee<br />
Mike Bailey met with the<br />
Board to discuss vacating ¾ of<br />
a mile of road located between<br />
Sections 16 and 21 of Wells<br />
Township on Utah Road and<br />
asked about making some<br />
roads in the Township minimum<br />
maintenance.<br />
Thomas K. Holle moved,<br />
seconded by Robert S. Connell<br />
to go into executive session for<br />
ten minutes at 10:20 a.m. to<br />
discuss matters of non-elected<br />
personnel with Public Works<br />
Administrator Mike Craig and<br />
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Unanimous.<br />
Lloyd Shubkagel met with<br />
the Board to discuss a cemetery<br />
in Waterville Township.<br />
Robert S. Connell moved,<br />
seconded by Charles R.<br />
Loiseau to go into executive<br />
session for ten minutes at 10:50<br />
a.m. to discuss non-elected personnel<br />
with County Clerk<br />
Sonya L. Stohs present.<br />
Unanimous.<br />
Charles R. Loiseau moved,<br />
seconded by Robert S. Connell<br />
to approve the following purchase<br />
orders. Unanimous.<br />
Merck, Carol Stream, IL for<br />
private vaccine $669.21-Health<br />
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Kansas Correctional<br />
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Marbil Enterprises, Inc.,<br />
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Economic Development<br />
Director George McCune and<br />
Community Development<br />
Coordinator Juanita McCune<br />
met with the Board to give<br />
them a weekly update.<br />
The Board asked that<br />
Economic Development<br />
Director George McCune be<br />
the representative for Marshall<br />
County on the North Central<br />
Regional Planning<br />
Commission Board.<br />
Robert S. Connell moved,<br />
seconded by Charles R.<br />
Loiseau to adjourn at 12:10<br />
p.m. Unanimous. The next<br />
scheduled meeting will be<br />
Monday, February 13, 2012<br />
starting at 9:00 a.m.<br />
It’s About Time To Start Garden Plants From Seed<br />
By Michael Vogt<br />
Marshall County Extension<br />
Agent<br />
The last couple of year’s we<br />
have been starting our garden<br />
plants from seed. We have<br />
started our seed in our basement<br />
with a grow light. We<br />
have had success in the past.<br />
However, last year we struggled<br />
to have plants in good<br />
enough condition to plant and<br />
lost many. So, we moved our<br />
flats upstairs and put them in<br />
the warmest, lightest location<br />
in our house to grow plants<br />
from seed, the dining room.<br />
We did not eat at our dining<br />
room table for two months!<br />
Fortunately, starting plants<br />
from seed is not expensive to<br />
do and you can keep trying if<br />
you fail.<br />
So, this week I want to talk<br />
about what needs to be thought<br />
about before you start raising<br />
vegetables and flowers from<br />
seed.<br />
Growing plants from seed is<br />
by far the cheapest way to buy<br />
annual garden vegetables and<br />
flowers. Starting those seeds<br />
indoors extends the plants’<br />
growing season.<br />
Indoor seeding requires a<br />
kind of reverse thinking,<br />
though. It also requires certain<br />
types of information – starting<br />
with what’s on the seed packet.<br />
For example, a Kansas gardener<br />
wanting to plant leaf lettuce<br />
or a cole crop (e.g., broccoli,<br />
cabbage, cauliflower)<br />
needs to know the local average<br />
date for putting those vegetables’<br />
container-grown transplants<br />
in the garden.<br />
The vegetables are cool-season<br />
fans. According to K-State<br />
Research and Extension, their<br />
average transplant date is April<br />
7 -- although a week later can<br />
be prime time for our area.<br />
Starting with that transplant<br />
date, the gardener can then<br />
count back by the number of<br />
weeks those varieties need to<br />
reach transplant size. Once<br />
seeds sprout, that time period<br />
can vary widely. But, for many<br />
vegetables and annual flowers,<br />
it’s six to eight weeks. The<br />
indoor planting date for leaf<br />
lettuce and cole crops is around<br />
Feb. 11.<br />
In most years, however,<br />
Kansans can still transplant<br />
those crops until mid to late<br />
April – which allows time for<br />
successive plantings. So,<br />
indoor seeding from Feb. 12<br />
into early March can yield<br />
good results, too.<br />
In contrast, many warmthloving<br />
transplants typically<br />
enter the garden during mid-<br />
May. Counting backwards puts<br />
the average indoor seeding date<br />
at about March 24 for peppers<br />
and March 31 for tomatoes.<br />
I mentioned before, we had a<br />
terrible time last year starting<br />
plants from seed. This year, we<br />
built a grow light stand for our<br />
transplants and we have grown<br />
two flats of plants (one flat of a<br />
cool-season crop mix and one<br />
flat of tomatoes and peppers).<br />
We planted earlier than what I<br />
discussed, so my daughter,<br />
Jennifer, would have something<br />
to show as she demonstrates<br />
how to make and use a<br />
grow light during the Marshall<br />
County 4-H Club Day last<br />
week. We had plants up within<br />
five days. Maybe in the near<br />
future, I will write about how to<br />
make and manage a grow light.<br />
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Senior Of The Week: Aaron Long<br />
By Jessica Vines<br />
VHHS Journalism<br />
Senior Aaron Long wants to<br />
be in the music industry, but his<br />
job of choice is to become an<br />
athletic team manager or director<br />
because he wants to make<br />
an impact on children’s lives.<br />
Long plans to attend college at<br />
Emporia State University<br />
because, “I know a few more<br />
people there, and I’ve been<br />
there a lot.”<br />
Long is the Son of Misty and<br />
David Long and has three sisters;<br />
Carrie, Kristin, and<br />
Amanda, and one brother,<br />
Jason. “My sister Kristin has<br />
really helped me stay focused<br />
as well as my parents.” states<br />
Long.<br />
One thing that Long has<br />
done that most people haven’t<br />
is served as manager at the<br />
Shrine Bowl. The Shrine Bowl<br />
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sixty-eight school teams in the<br />
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Home Notes<br />
By Susan A. Latta - CEA<br />
Marshall County Extension<br />
Agent<br />
Some men are not good<br />
fathers. So are children any better<br />
off without them in their<br />
lives? The research shows that<br />
Yes they are. Sadly, there are<br />
consequences of the separation<br />
that cannot be completely<br />
avoided.<br />
Single mothers can show<br />
tremendous courage in working<br />
alone to raise their children.<br />
Unfortunately, their heroism<br />
typically goes unrecognized.<br />
Adoptive parents can literally<br />
save the lives of the children<br />
they bring in to their lives.<br />
Stepfathers can make tremendous<br />
sacrifices on behalf of<br />
their stepchildren. However,<br />
these men, no matter how well<br />
intentioned can’t replace the<br />
birth fathers.<br />
Children who are separated<br />
from those who brought them<br />
into the world have a gap in<br />
their hearts that cannot be completely<br />
filled by a remaining<br />
parent, a stepparent, or adoptive<br />
parent. A child’s life is in<br />
three parts: child, father, and<br />
mother. When one is gone, a<br />
part of the child’s life is missing,<br />
and the consequences for<br />
both parent and child can be<br />
harmful.<br />
Young men who are or could<br />
be sexually active should<br />
understand the lifetime impact<br />
on the children who could be<br />
brought into the world. For too<br />
long professionals have sold<br />
the idea to our culture that biological<br />
fathers are unnecessary,<br />
that any loving man (or<br />
woman), would do. As difficult<br />
as it might be for some to<br />
accept, the research shows that<br />
this is not true.<br />
Biology does matter. We<br />
know the impact of father<br />
absence and presence on both<br />
girls and boys. Understanding<br />
why this is true is difficult to<br />
explain because our science is<br />
The Marshall County Arts<br />
Cooperative is opening the doors to<br />
the Lee Dam Center for Fine Art for<br />
a special showing of the exhibit,<br />
“Unmasking Mental Illness.” As an<br />
added incentive, the cooperative is<br />
inviting guests to have lunch while<br />
viewing the display.<br />
“Lunch with the Arts,” the first in<br />
a series of monthly luncheons<br />
scheduled for the center, will be<br />
Friday, February 17, from 11:00<br />
a.m. until 2:00 p.m.<br />
“We want to attract as many people<br />
to the art center as possible,”<br />
said Renee Hoffman, the chairper-<br />
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Long has been the Football<br />
manager for four years, basketball<br />
manager for three years<br />
and track three years. Long has<br />
also been in: FFA one year,<br />
KAYs one year Library<br />
Assistant one year, Band four<br />
years, Vocal/Show Choir three<br />
years, VH Club four years, and<br />
FCA one year.<br />
Long uses a quote that is<br />
from the Bible, which gets him<br />
through the day, “My Belief is<br />
that it’s greater to lose my life<br />
for the sake of the gospel of<br />
Christ than to keep it.” This<br />
quote inspires Long because,<br />
“No matter what the Lord has<br />
in store for my life, He should<br />
get the glory. God could’ve<br />
called me to heaven when I was<br />
born. However, he has a purpose<br />
for me on earth,” says<br />
Long.<br />
Long collects the Left<br />
Behind series of novels, which<br />
are Christian based books<br />
about the end of time. “They<br />
show the earth’s last days<br />
through four kids and adults’<br />
views.”<br />
Long wants to be remembered<br />
as the person who never<br />
wasted his time. “We have a<br />
very short time here on earth.<br />
No one knows where or when<br />
God will take their breath<br />
inadequate.<br />
Being a father is more than<br />
biology though. The word<br />
“father” has to be a verb, not<br />
just a noun. Fathers have to<br />
prove their worth. Children<br />
want their fathers to become<br />
their heroes. Courage is doing<br />
the right thing even if you are<br />
afraid; heroism is putting that<br />
courage to work for a noble<br />
purpose. What could be a more<br />
noble purpose than being a parent<br />
who takes an active role by<br />
nurturing and guiding a young<br />
life?<br />
What does becoming a heroic<br />
father for children mean?<br />
Fathers have to achieve four<br />
outcomes to be seen as a hero<br />
in their children’s eyes. Each<br />
outcome can be summarized by<br />
one word: stability, devotion,<br />
respect, and integrity. Each outcome<br />
is a test that challenges<br />
fathers, especially when they<br />
are separated from their children.<br />
First, stability means having<br />
a respectful relationship with<br />
the child’s mother. When both<br />
parents care about each other,<br />
making that love evident to<br />
their children contributes to<br />
that stability. Even though the<br />
love between parents can sadly<br />
disappear, the love for their<br />
children can endure.<br />
When parents are divorced,<br />
conflict with each other is very<br />
stressful for children. Children<br />
do not want to be used as<br />
pawns in a game or revenge<br />
between parents. Moreover,<br />
they will lose respect for a parent<br />
who demeans the other. A<br />
father who treats the child’s<br />
mother fairly and says only<br />
what is positive about her to<br />
their children takes the high<br />
road that wins the child’s admiration.<br />
Second, devotion means putting<br />
our child’s well being<br />
before our own. This requires a<br />
sacrifice of time to be a part of<br />
a child’s life. It means giving<br />
son for the cooperative’s committee<br />
that oversees the center. “We<br />
thought if we served lunch that<br />
would attract people to view the<br />
exhibit during their lunch period.<br />
It’s a great atmosphere to have a<br />
casual lunch while viewing some<br />
really interesting art pieces.”<br />
The exhibit is presented in collaboration<br />
with Pawnee Mental<br />
Health Services, and it includes a<br />
display of art from Pawnee’s<br />
clients, families, and friends that<br />
reside in ten counties. The exhibit<br />
features more than sixty pieces of<br />
work ranging from paintings to pot-<br />
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to use the time we have to bring<br />
glory to God,” said Long. Long<br />
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which makes him different<br />
from other people. “I’m not<br />
tender and nurturing hugs, listening<br />
to a child, and sharing<br />
our feeling in words that children<br />
can understand. By sharing<br />
how we feel, we can give<br />
our children an opportunity for<br />
kindness. Sharing such experiences<br />
shows that we have the<br />
strength to be open, to be a<br />
window not a wall. Devotion<br />
means proving we care.<br />
Third, respect means standing<br />
for something worth teaching.<br />
If you have a child (or can<br />
imagine having one), imagine<br />
the child growing older...then<br />
older, until he or she is late<br />
middle aged. A friend<br />
approaches your adult child<br />
and asks, “When you were<br />
growing up what did you learn<br />
from your father? What did<br />
your father stand for? (The<br />
same could be said for mothers<br />
as well). How would you want<br />
your adult child to respond?<br />
Children who answer the<br />
question positively with an<br />
expression of gratitude reveal<br />
the extent of their respect for<br />
their fathers. We teach the<br />
important things by making<br />
important limits “Treat people<br />
gently!” is a better teaching<br />
limit than “No hitting!” We use<br />
our authority to convey principles<br />
that can last a lifetime.<br />
This means setting fair and<br />
clear limits for children and<br />
enforcing them when necessary.<br />
We accept the burden of<br />
authority that is an important<br />
element in our relationships<br />
with our children. Mothers and<br />
fathers should be friendly to<br />
their children but understand<br />
that having authority means<br />
that they cannot really be their<br />
children’s friends. Real friendship<br />
has to wait until their children<br />
are old enough to be free<br />
of parental authority.<br />
Fourth, integrity means making<br />
our words matter. We have<br />
to think before we speak<br />
because we will be challenged<br />
to be faithful to what we say.<br />
Arts Cooperative to Host Luncheon<br />
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St. Mark¹s Episcopal<br />
Church, <strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong>, will have<br />
its annual Shrove<br />
Tuesday pancake supper<br />
from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21 at<br />
the church.<br />
A free-will offering will be<br />
taken.<br />
The menu will be pancakes,<br />
sausage, orange juice and coffee.<br />
A portion of the proceeds<br />
will go toward food programs<br />
in the community.<br />
St. Mark¹s Episcopal is at<br />
Sixth and Lincoln streets.<br />
tery, and it brings attention to the<br />
fact that mental disorders are common<br />
in the United States.<br />
“This is a really unique exhibit<br />
that features a variety of pieces,”<br />
Hoffman said. “We’re exploring<br />
various times to have the art center<br />
open to attract a crowd. We thought<br />
over the lunch hour might be a way<br />
to attract some new clients.”<br />
While viewing the exhibit guests<br />
can enjoy a casual lunch that features<br />
sandwiches, salads, potato<br />
chips, desserts, and drinks. The cost<br />
of the lunch is $5.00.<br />
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afraid to stand up for what is<br />
right,” says Long. “If something<br />
is there that I think is<br />
wrong, I’m going to make it<br />
known.”<br />
Therefore, if we say we will go<br />
see a child’s performance at a<br />
school play we have to be there<br />
no matter how inconvenient it<br />
might be. Excuses do not work<br />
with children because they<br />
view our making commitments<br />
as promises.<br />
The same is true for setting<br />
consequences for misbehavior.<br />
Telling a toddler, “If you throw<br />
your spaghetti on the floor one<br />
more time, we are not going to<br />
grandma’s house this weekend!”<br />
The child throws the<br />
spaghetti on the floor. Now<br />
what? Will we do what we said<br />
we would? We could respond,<br />
“What I just said was a mistake.<br />
Now you have to leave<br />
the table and help me clean up<br />
the mess.” Mistakes are human.<br />
Saying that we made a mistake<br />
or telling children, “I am sorry”<br />
too often though, diminishes<br />
our integrity and the respect<br />
they have for us. Better to<br />
choose our words wisely at the<br />
outset.<br />
Stability, devotion, respect,<br />
and integrity are four outcomes<br />
that are important achievements<br />
for both parents.<br />
Mothers and fathers are likely<br />
to follow different paths in a<br />
common journey to become<br />
heroes in their children’s memories.<br />
Just being a father,<br />
though, does not deserve the<br />
mantle of being a hero. We<br />
have to earn that position in a<br />
child’s mind by making sacrifices,<br />
being there whenever<br />
possible, and showing our love<br />
in many different ways. For<br />
some men that journey is a<br />
rocky road. If so, its difficulty<br />
also provides greater opportunities<br />
for nobility for over coming<br />
fear and earning our child’s<br />
respect and admiration. When<br />
we do, we have passed the test<br />
for becoming a hero in our children’s<br />
eyes.<br />
month,” Hoffman said. “Right<br />
now, we’re in the process of setting<br />
up exhibits for the coming months.<br />
We think this has a lot of potential.”<br />
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<strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong> Historical Society To Make Community Cookbook<br />
Food plays a very important<br />
part in our history. From the<br />
jerky carried in saddlebags and<br />
the stews cooked over campfires<br />
to microwave dinners.<br />
Memories are strongly influ-<br />
By Gene Meyer<br />
Kansas Reporter<br />
TOPEKA — Kansas road<br />
builders are upset over a proposal<br />
in the state House to<br />
withhold $351 million from<br />
state highway projectsin order<br />
to helpcut state income-tax<br />
rates for families and small<br />
businesses.<br />
“There has got to be a better<br />
way to reduce personal and<br />
corporate income taxes than<br />
taking it out of highway construction,”<br />
said Brian Hansen,<br />
of Dustrol Inc., a major state<br />
highway contractor in<br />
Towanda.<br />
“Kansas legislators in the<br />
last 20 years of highway pro-<br />
A benefit dinner will be held<br />
for the Medina family at the<br />
Valley Heights High School on<br />
February 17th from 5 p.m. to 7<br />
p.m. serving Sloppy-Joes,<br />
baked beans, chips, relishes<br />
enced by food. We remember<br />
the potato soup our mothers<br />
made on cold winter days and<br />
the hand cranked ice cream in<br />
the summer. Generations of<br />
families have come together at<br />
grams already have ‘borrowed’<br />
more than $1.5 billion, which<br />
they’ve never paid back,”<br />
Hansen said. “This would decimate<br />
our business.”<br />
State Rep. Richard Carlson,<br />
R-St. Mary’s, this week introduced<br />
a proposed state tax<br />
overhaul plan he and other<br />
House leaders say addresses<br />
problems with a competing<br />
plan proposed by Gov. Sam<br />
Brownback in January. Carlson<br />
is chairman of the House<br />
Taxation Committee.<br />
Both plans propose to reduce<br />
the income tax rates that most<br />
Kansans pay — by as much as<br />
24 percent in some cases —<br />
and to hold Kansas government<br />
and dessert. A free will donation<br />
will be given to the Medina<br />
family. The dinner is sponsored<br />
by the New Hope<br />
Presbyterian Youth Group and<br />
friends of the Medina family.<br />
mealtime to share the details of<br />
their day and celebrate the<br />
important milestones in their<br />
lives. The <strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong><br />
Historical Society is compiling<br />
a cookbook to celebrate the his-<br />
spending growth to no more<br />
than 2 percent annually to<br />
allow further cuts that will<br />
abolish state income taxes<br />
eventually.<br />
Brownback’s plan would<br />
make permanent a temporary<br />
state sales tax increase due to<br />
expire this year and wipe out<br />
home mortgage and other popular<br />
deductions and tax credits<br />
to make state tax codes, in his<br />
words, simpler, flatter and fairer.<br />
Carlson’s plan keeps the<br />
deductions and credits, which<br />
cut taxes for lower-income taxpayers<br />
instead of raising them<br />
slightly as Brownback's plan,<br />
and allows the sales tax<br />
increase to expire on schedule.<br />
The reduced sales tax is at<br />
the root of the road builders'<br />
anger.<br />
The reduction of what originally<br />
was a 1 percentage point<br />
sales tax increase — to 6.3 percent<br />
— passed in 2010, is<br />
tory and heritage of the <strong>Blue</strong><br />
<strong>Rapids</strong> area. If you have any<br />
special recipes, with stories or<br />
pictures, we would love to<br />
include them in this cookbook.<br />
Old recipes handed down,<br />
scheduled July 1 to drop to 5.7<br />
percent. The remaining 0.4 percent,<br />
or about $160 million<br />
annually, would be dedicated<br />
permanently to the Kansas<br />
Department of Transportation,<br />
or KDOT.<br />
But Carlson’s plan calls for<br />
Kansas to keep the first two<br />
years of that money, or about<br />
$351 million, to pay the costs<br />
of tax reduction. KDOT would<br />
get the sales tax money after<br />
that, along with an additional<br />
$50 million yearly until the<br />
$351 million from the first two<br />
years is repaid.<br />
“They get regular funding as<br />
time goes on,” Carlson said<br />
Friday before the plan was<br />
introduced in his committee.<br />
“I’m sure they would prefer it<br />
not be done.”<br />
That is an understatement,<br />
said Kip Spray, president of<br />
Venture Corp., a 40-year-old,<br />
family-owned road building<br />
contractor in Great Bend.<br />
newer tried and true favorites<br />
and those reflecting the different<br />
cultural background of our<br />
community would be greatly<br />
appreciated. Contact Betty<br />
Ball at 785-268-0186 Mary<br />
The <strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong> Museum Hosts Valentine’s Breakfast<br />
The <strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong> Muesum had a good turn out of their Valentine’s Breakfast.<br />
Betty Feldhausen<br />
Turns 90 On Feb. 25<br />
Betty (Mrs. Clifford)<br />
Feldhausen, formery Betty<br />
McRae of <strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong>, will be<br />
celebrating her 90th birthday<br />
on February 25th. For anyone<br />
who would like to send birthday<br />
wishes, her address is:<br />
1655 S. Georgetown, Apt.<br />
#224, Wichita, Kansas 67218.<br />
The Valley Heights<br />
National Honor Society<br />
Will be holding a Carnival<br />
on Sat. Feb. 18th from 7<br />
p.m. - 8:30 p.m. in the<br />
<strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong> Gym<br />
Photos by Deb Barrington.<br />
Judy Hiatt of Mommas Treasures & Memories was making jewlery<br />
during the <strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong> Museum Breakfast.<br />
$50 Mill Mortgage Deal Won't Bring Quick Relief<br />
By Gene Meyer<br />
Kansas Reporter<br />
TOPEKA — Kansas' $50million<br />
slice of a record national<br />
settlement of mortgageabuse<br />
claims won't offer quick<br />
relief for beleaguered homeowners,<br />
credit experts say.<br />
Even the attorneys general<br />
who helped put the national<br />
$25-billion package together<br />
say it will take a month or more<br />
to determine distribution plans<br />
for the money. It may take as<br />
long as three years to distribute<br />
the promised help, according to<br />
information on a national attorneys<br />
general website,<br />
www.nationalforeclosuresettlement.com.<br />
Five of the nation's largest<br />
home-mortgage companies<br />
agreed to pay the money to settle<br />
allegations of loan-processing<br />
abuses. The money will<br />
help, said Justin Robinson,<br />
education director of the<br />
Consumer Credit Counseling<br />
Service Inc. chapter in Wichita.<br />
"People had good jobs and<br />
were making their mortgage<br />
payments, then they lost their<br />
jobs," Robinson said. "What<br />
we're seeing in Wichita is that<br />
even if they find another job<br />
right away, many don't get the<br />
same pay as before, and it gets<br />
difficult to keep up with the<br />
mortgage."<br />
Homeowners should not<br />
expect immediate relief, and<br />
strict application rules could<br />
slow the process even further.<br />
It may take a long time to<br />
deliver the promised relief if<br />
the process is too rigid, said<br />
Rick Sippel, a Consumer Credit<br />
Counseling Service Inc. counselor<br />
in Salina, who already<br />
works daily to help clients out<br />
of mortgage jams.<br />
Mortgage reduction is timeconsuming<br />
work, and the<br />
lenders' agents he works with<br />
are each handling as many as<br />
100 cases a month, Sippel said.<br />
“It’s impossible to deal with<br />
that many cases now,” Sippel<br />
said.<br />
“I know it would be more<br />
costly, but I would like to see<br />
the lenders spend more money<br />
up front training the people<br />
who are manning the phones<br />
and doing the paperwork to<br />
think on their feet instead of<br />
reading a script on a computer<br />
screen,” he said.<br />
Any help is welcome, said<br />
Kevin Andrews, a mortgage<br />
counseling executive at the<br />
Urban League of Wichita,<br />
where 694 Wichita-area homeowners<br />
last year sought help in<br />
trying to make their mortgages<br />
more affordable.<br />
“When you are upside down<br />
in your home and are unemployed<br />
or under employed, this<br />
helps,” Andrews said.<br />
Realtor John Brocker said<br />
he fears that fully restoring the<br />
financial health of housing<br />
markets may take even longer<br />
than the three years outlined in<br />
the settlement timetable.<br />
“It’s a lot like the crisis in<br />
farmland values we had back in<br />
the 1970s and '80s,” said<br />
Brocker, president of Allen<br />
County Real Estate in Iola and<br />
the Kansas Association of<br />
Realtors.<br />
“Farmland prices didn’t turn<br />
around and start coming back<br />
up until all the farm foreclo-<br />
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sures we had back then cleared<br />
the market, and that took<br />
years,” Brocker said. “We’re<br />
still deep in the woods, even<br />
though we’re starting to walk<br />
out."<br />
Realtytrac, the Irvine Calif.,<br />
firm that has become the U.S.’<br />
most widely recognized collector<br />
of home foreclosure market<br />
statistics, estimates 996 homes<br />
in Kansas, or one in 1,239, are<br />
in some stage of foreclosure<br />
proceedings and predicts the<br />
number will rise in 2012.<br />
That’s on top of nearly 15,300<br />
homes on the Kansas market<br />
now, which the Kansas<br />
Association of Realtors calculates<br />
is a seven-month supply at<br />
the current pace of sales.<br />
More than 88,000 Kansans<br />
were unemployed last month,<br />
according to the Kansas<br />
Department of Labor, said<br />
Angela Berland, a deputy<br />
director of the Kansas department's<br />
Labor Market<br />
Information Services Division.<br />
Other federal Labor<br />
Department statistics indicate<br />
that almost that many more are<br />
Road Builders Blast a KS House Tax-Cut Plan<br />
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The <strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong><br />
Chamber Of Commerce<br />
Meets on the 4th Tuesday of Every<br />
Month At The <strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong><br />
Community Center At 7 p.m.<br />
The Public Is Invited To Attend<br />
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News <strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong> <strong>Free</strong> <strong>Press</strong> - Thursday, February 16, 2012 9A<br />
VH Junior High Boys Finish 3rd in BVL Tournament<br />
By Coach Gary Bargdill<br />
Valley Heights Junior High<br />
Boys were seated #4 this year<br />
in the <strong>Blue</strong> Valley League<br />
Tournament. They started the<br />
tournament against #5 seated<br />
Linn Bulldogs on Monday winning<br />
42-26 in Clyde. The<br />
Junior Mustangs were led in<br />
scoring by Logan Woodyard<br />
who had 17 points. Micah<br />
Kenworthy added 10, Anthony<br />
Edwards 6, Jarrett Whitson 5,<br />
and Keaton DeWalt 4.<br />
In the semi-finals on<br />
Thursday the VHJH Mustangs<br />
met the #1 seed Washington<br />
Tigers in Clifton. In a hard<br />
fought battle with several lead<br />
changes throughout the game,<br />
the Mustangs came up short<br />
losing a tough defensive battle<br />
32-29.<br />
In the consolation game on<br />
Saturday, the Mustangs met the<br />
#3 Luckey Cardinals. After<br />
building an 11 point half time<br />
lead of 28-17, the Junior<br />
Mustangs held off a 4th quarter<br />
run by Luckey to win 45-39.<br />
The Junior Mustangs were led<br />
in scoring by Micah<br />
Kenworthy and Logan<br />
Woodyard both with 15 points.<br />
Keton DeWalt had 6, Anthony<br />
Edwards 4, Layton Hartloff 3,<br />
and Jarrett Whitson finished<br />
with 2. Congratulatins to the<br />
boys on their 3rd place finish<br />
and an another exciting season<br />
Anthony Edwards (10) jumps high to take a shot.<br />
Madison Hargrave (23) takes a shot as<br />
the Hanover defense closes in.<br />
Sydney Cartier (22) and Shelby Vermetten (30) work together to keep Hanover’s<br />
Paige Doebele (20) from moving closer to the net.<br />
By Coach Noel<br />
aggressive play, downing the ished with a record of 11-5, with<br />
The JH Lady Mustangs didn't locals by a score of 28-35. their losses coming to Luckey<br />
finish the season the way they In the 3rd place game, the (2), Hanover (2), and<br />
had hoped, struggling to score ladies again found their team Washington (1). Washington<br />
points in the semifinals and drop- trailing to Luckey late, but used a won the BVL Girls title, with<br />
ping an overtime game in the surge of energy in the last 90 sec- Hanover placing 2nd and Luckey<br />
consolation bracket at Clifton. onds to push the game into over- earning 3rd.<br />
Against Hanover in the semitime. Sara Mann hit 2 big The B team finished with a 3-<br />
finals, the girls could only put 28 freethrows to make that possible, 9 record and finished 4th in the B<br />
points on the board, well below but the ladies were unable to fin- tournament hosted by<br />
their season average, and ish the game off, taking 4th by a Washington at mid-season.<br />
Hanover was able to capitalize score of 42-40.<br />
The C team finished with a 2-<br />
on some late freethrows and On the season, the A team fin-<br />
Photos by Deb Barrington.<br />
3 record.<br />
Back Row (Left to Right): Coach Schreiner, Will Yungeberg, Adrian Pishny, Layton Hartloff, Anthony Edwards,<br />
Micah Kenworthy, Garrett Link, Jarrett Whitson and Assistant Coach Bargdill.<br />
Front Row (Left to Right): Manager Jared Oatney, Tanner Chartier, Harrison Blaske, Bryan Yungeberg,<br />
Logan Woodyard, Keaton DeWalt and Manager Quentin Blaske. (Photo courtesy of Ryan Woodyard)<br />
Jarrett Whitson (23) holds on tight to keep control of<br />
the ball.<br />
Kayla Smith (45) takes a shot over the<br />
heads of the Hanover defense.<br />
Keaton DeWalt (32) takes a shot while surrounded by<br />
the Washington County defense.<br />
Jr. High Lady Mustangs Take 4th In BVL Tournament<br />
Brandi Roepke (55) passes the ball to Kayla Smith (45) while surrounded by the<br />
Hanover defense.
Sports <strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Rapids</strong> <strong>Free</strong> <strong>Press</strong> - Thursday, February 16, 2012<br />
Max Blaske (5) focuses on the net as he gets ready to<br />
take a shot while the Onaga defense closes in.<br />
Drew Mann (35) looks for an opening and scored 16<br />
points for Valley Heights.<br />
Kelsey Potter (24) moves in towards the net as she<br />
scored 11 points for the Lady Mustangs.<br />
Photos by Deb Barrington.<br />
Dylan Parker (35) went up in the 1st quarter for a layup<br />
and also had the winning basket at the end of the game!<br />
10A 10<br />
Mustangs Out Run Onaga Buffaloes, 46 - 44<br />
Charles Musil (24) and Dylan Parker (35) work together to try and keep Onaga’s<br />
Riley Falk (15) from getting the rebound<br />
Lady Mustangs<br />
Win Over Onaga<br />
Buffaloes, 58 - 41<br />
Tanner Trimble (10) and Gage Woodyard (00) try to keep Onaga’s Riley Falk (15)<br />
from taking a shot.<br />
Sheldon Kenworthy (30) shoves his was past Buffaloes’<br />
Mitchell Duer (3) on hiw way to the net.