VOTE - The Concordia Blade

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CONCORDIA
VOL. CX NO. 216 (USPS 127-880)
CONCORDIA, KANSAS 66901
Friday, April 1, 2016
Four candidates vying for
two seats on commission
Good Evening
Concordia Forecast
Tonight, mostly clear. Lows in the lower
30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to
25 mph in the evening.
Saturday, warmer, aunny. Highs in the
mid 60s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
Saturday night, clear. Lows in the lower
40s. South winds 5 to 15 mph.
Sunday, warmer, sunny. Highs in the
upper 70s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph
with gusts to around 30 mph.
Sunday night, mostly clear. Lows in the
mid 40s.
Monday, sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
Monday night, mostly clear. Lows in the
lower 40s.
Tuesday, breezy. Mostly sunny. Highs in
the mid 70s.
Tuesday night, mostly cloudy in the
evening then becoming partly cloudy.
Slight chance of rain showers and isolated
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 40s.
Wednesday, mostly sunny. Highs in the
upper 60s.
Wednesday night, partly cloudy. Lows
around 40.
Thursday, sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
City announcements
The Concordia City Commissoin will
call the April 6 meeting to order at 5 p.m.,
and then move to the Broadway Plaza for a
tour, before calling the regular meeting to
order at 5:30 p.m.
The City water bills were mailed on
March 17.
Anyone not receiving a bill shold call
City Hall.
Bills are due on April 5.
Delinquent accounts will be disconnected on April 19 if not paid by 8 a.m.
Across Kansas
Federal officials
fine Russell Stover
IOLA, Kan. (AP) — Federal officials are
seeking $193,600 in penalties from Russell Stover Candies after a hazardous
chemical was released at an eastern
Kansas plant.
The Occupational Safety and Health
Administration also announced Thursday
that it was placing the candy maker in its
Severe Violator Enforcement Program. The
company’s Iola plant closed for more than
two hours in September when an air-conditioning pipe broke and released about 22
pounds of anhydrous ammonia into the
air. The gas is highly irritating and can
burn the eyes, nose and throat in even
small amounts.
OSHA official Judy Freeman says failing
to properly control highly hazardous
chemicals creates the potential for an accidental release that “could result in a
tragedy.”
A Russell Stover spokesman didn’t
immediately respond to an email from The
Associated Press seeking comment.
Potential casino
clears legal hurdle
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas judge
has declined to intervene in legal efforts by
a county and development group to block
a planned state-owned casino after the
plaintiffs’ bid to build and operate it was
rejected.
The (Pittsburg) Morning Sun reports
Shawnee County District Judge Larry
Hendricks rejected the lawsuit’s claims
the decision by state gaming regulators to
award the project to Kansas Crossing
developers was arbitrary.
Thursday’s ruling is another setback for
southeast Kansas’ Cherokee County and
would be Castle Rock Casino developers
behind the lawsuit. It was not immediately clear if they planned to appeal.
Kansas Crossing developers have gotten several 90-day extensions on the project, which was to be completed this
summer.
Kansas Crossing’s $70 million proposal
was dwarfed by Castle Rock’s plans for a
$145 million development.
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Incumbents Marsha Wentz and
Christy Hasch, along with Sam Sacco
and Gary Jeardoe Jr., will be vying for
two seats on the Concordia City Commission in the upcoming local election
on Tuesday.
Wentz, first elected to the commission
in 2010, is seeking her third term.
Hasch is seeking a second term on the
commission.
Sacco is making a second bid for a
commission seat. He previously ran in
2015.
A graduate of Newton High School,
Wentz received her bachelor of science
degree in microbiology and bachelor of
science degree in medical technology
from Kansas State University.
Wentz has lived in Concordia for 48
years. She worked as a medical technologist for 45 years, 43 of those at Cloud
County Health Center. She and her husband, Michael, have two sons, Marc, a
commander in the United States Navy,
and Monte, an optometrist in Concordia.
Wentz has served on the Unified
School District 333 board of education,
the CloudCorp board, the Christmas
Lighting Committee, the Fall Fest Committee and the Downtown Beautification
Committee.
Hasch has been a school psychologist
with the Learning Cooperative of North
Central Kansas since 1985. She was an
outpatient therapist at High Plains Comprehensive Community Mental Health
Center in Hays from 1984-85 and has
worked as a Community Education
Instructor at Cloud County Community
College.
A graduate of Kearney State College
with a bachelor of science degree in psychology, Hasch received a master’s of
science degree in psychology, with an
emphasis in school psychology and clinical psychology from Fort Hays State
University.
Hasch has served on the Frank Carlson Library board, the Cloud County
Health Center board of trustees and with
the Domestic Violence Association of
North Central Kansas.
Hasch is married to Les Hemphill. She
has two daughters, Emily and Rachel
and a stepdaughter, Melina Hemphill
and grandson, Gavin.
Sacco has spent six years as the general manager of an ethanol plant in
Scandia. He received his degree in business from the University of NebraskaOmaha and has served as the chairman
of the board for the State of Kansas
Ethanol Association.
Involved with the Brown Grand Players, Sacco has directed plays including
“The Wizard of Oz”
Sacco, and his wife Mary, have a son
Jeff who is an officer on the Concordia
Police Department.
Jeardoe was born in Belleville, and
grew up in Nebraska. He moved back to
Cuba, and graduated from Hillcrest High
School.
After attending Cloud County Community College, Jeardoe transferred to
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He
joined the United States Navy, and
served as a submariner for nearly eight
years.Jeardoe worked at some local jobs
in North Central Kansas and then, five
years ago, he moved to Kansas City to
run a natural gas plant. He also worked
as an inspector for a medical device
company. He moved to Concordia last
year and has worked at Landoll Corporation. He is currently a carrier for the
U.S. Postal Service and works part-time
for Swenson and Jeardoe LLC.
The Concordia Blade-Empire presented four questions for each of the candidates to provide answers to.
1. What are some of the challenges
you believe the city of Concordia will
face in the upcoming years, and what
can be done to address those challenges?
Wentz — The infrastructure in the
downtown area needs to be replaced. I
feel if we work at replacing the infrastructure one block at a time we will be
able to accomplish the replacement.
Retention of business is also a challenge. The citizens need to understand
the importance of shopping local. The
commission should set an example by
using local businesses for purchases,
even if the cost is slightly higher.
Hasch — In the future, I expect Concordia will continue to face the challenge
of population decline. This has been an
ongoing concern for several years. We
already have put in place many of the
strategies to address this. I believe that
the greatest things we have going for us
here in Concordia are: 1. our quality of
life; 2. educational opportunities; 3. the
people.
Through the efforts of the Chamber of
Commerce and CloudCorp, we are constantly working to attract new employers
so that our citizens can have meaningful, good paying jobs. We have excellent
schools, from preschool through two
years of college, and those entities are
always looking at ways to better serve
students and the community.
New pool facilities would be nice, and
would certainly enhance quality of life
for our residents, but that is not the top
priority I see.
A major need that I see in our community is to have a new facility for our
healthcare. I was a member of the board
of trustees for the Cloud County Health
Center for nine years, and during that
time there were two different bond
issues put to a vote to help fund a new
hospital. Both of them failed. The current facility has been a landmark of our
community, and a point of pride, historically.
However, healthcare has changed
since it opened. It is not acceptable to
have the emergency room located on the
fourth floor. The building was definitely
built to last, but it would be very difficult, and expensive, to renovate it to
bring the facility up to code and to
accommodate the revolutions that we
have seen in modern medicine over the
past 40 years.
Although the hospital is actually a
private, not-for -profit business, there
would definitely be a negative impact on
every citizen in this community and
county if it were to close. It employs over
one hundred people, so the loss of jobs
alone would be staggering. But more
importantly, the ability to drive 5 to 10
minutes to see a doctor, have therapy or
get a blood test done is a HUGE quality
of life issue.
All entities, including the city, need to
do whatever is needed to enable a new
healthcare facility is built over the next
few years. This is part of what makes our
community viable to new employers and
industry. This is also part of what makes
a community attractive to prospective
residents, and keeps the current population satisfied with their quality of life.
(see Commission on page 8)
Marsha Wentz
Christy Hasch
Sam Sacco
Gary Jeardoe Jr.
Elections official uses ties to Kobach to get job
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A
Kansas county elections official
used close ties to one of the
nation’s leading advocates of
voting restrictions to help
secure the top job at a government agency entrusted with
making voting more accessible,
and then used the federal position to implement an obstacle
to voter registration in three
states.
An email provided to The
Associated Press through open
records requests offers a
glimpse into the mindset of
Brian Newby, executive director
of the U.S. Election Assistance
Commission, who decided —
without public comment or
approval from bosses — that
residents of Alabama, Kansas
and Georgia can no longer register to vote using a national
form without providing proof of
U.S. citizenship.
As a finalist for the job of
executive director, Newby said
in a June email to his benefactor, Kansas’ Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach, that
he was friends with two of the
commissioners at the federal
agency, and told Kobach: “I
think I would enter the job
empowered to lead the way I
want to.”
Voting rights advocates were
stunned by Newby’s action
once he got the job and have
sued to overturn it. Activists
say it flies in the face of the
commission’s mission to provide a simple, easy form to
encourage voter registration.
The U.S. Supreme Court has
said that states must accept
and use the federal voter registration form, and an appeals
court ruled in 2014 in a lawsuit
filed by Kobach that states
could not force the commission
to require residents to provide
proof-of-citizenship documents
on the national form.
The little-known commission
was created in 2002 to help
prevent a repeat of the disputed
2000 presidential election
between George W. Bush and Al
Gore following voting chaos in
the crucial state of Florida.
Among the commission’s duties
is oversight of the national
voter registration form. The federal body is supposed to have
two Republican and two Democratic commissioners but has
only one Democrat now
because of a vacancy.
Documents obtained by AP
show Newby’s ties to Kobach,
the architect of voter ID and
other restrictive voter registration laws around the nation
that he says are needed to prevent voter fraud. Critics say
there is very little voter fraud
and Kobach’s measures hurt
voter registration and deprive
eligible voters of the right to
vote.
Kobach
had
appointed
Newby to be a county elections
commissioner in Kansas, and
helped him get the federal job
that he took in November.
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OPINION
Prairie Letters to the Editor Op-Ed
American Politics Today
Pondering
by
Susan Martin
Easter was a wonderful day with all the family home and
a full house. Now it is how to come down from the clouds
and think of something for a column while I try to fold
sheets and remember the joy of togetherness!
AND reflect on the fact that my cookie baking does not
even resemble earlier days and recipes. For years I have
been trying to bake the perfect chocolate chip cookie. Mine
taste okay but look terrible. However, one of my wonderful Liberty neighbors always reminded me that when she
had less than perfect results with that cookie, her husband
would say, “Call Susan and ask her to let the kids come
over.” If the cookies were chocolate chip and if no limit in
number was given, everyone ate cookies blissfully including
the cook.
I am trying a different version today and I have no illusions about what the results will be, but if it sounds good
to you, let me know how yours were viewed by the family!
Even a sloppy cookie can be better than the news in magazines and papers this week!
Chipits must be a new name for perhaps smaller chocolate chips made by Hersheys? Anyhow, there are no new
and starling developments that I see.
Chipits Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies
2/3 cup melted butter
2 cups lightly packed brown sugar
2 Tbs. hot water
2 eggs
2 2/3 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1 2/3 cup milk chocolate chips
Heat oven to 375 and in large bowl beat melted butter,
eggs, brown sugar and hot water until smooth. In medium
bowl mix flour, baking powder, soda and salt. Stir into butter mixture until blended. Stir in chips and drop from small
tablespoon on ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake 8 to 10 minutes; let cool one minute; move to wire
rack. Makes 5 dozen cookies.
The picture shows a rumpled cookie and directions infer
that has nothing to do with the taste. One last hint: It has
occurred to me that I don’t bake all these desserts nearly as
often as I did when three little sweet tooths kept the cookie
jar empty. Therefore it is possible baking supplies could
lose heir strength.
Happy Easter and try to believe that we will feel safer
after the election and Trump will be a small paragraph in
history books.
***
A photograph is a secret about a secret.
The more it tells you, the less you know.
—Diane Arbus
***
Thank You for Reading the Blade-Empire
Dear Editor,
About the new enchanted kingdom, tax pit, red square.
I hear they wanted ideas to waste more money on. I think it
would be nice if they had a yellow brick road around it, so
we know we aren’t in Kansas anymore. And everyone can
go hopping down the bunny hole. For the price they should
have gold plated toilets in the johns.
At the ribbon cutting when they turn on the big screen,
it would be exciting to see the wicked witch and Hillary
laughing, a real gas.
Second showing could be 1984, thirty years late, and everyone could say it will never happen. It will be a good place
to get mandatory brain chips and cancer-causing vaccines.
Maybe someone could cook up some soylent green wafers.
They could wash it down or toast with some of Jim Jones’
red kool-aid made with Concordia toxic cancer-causing
rusty water while City Hall has its bottled water delivered
to their locked up cage. Happy April Fools’ Day Everyone.
As always,
Robert Allen Thomas
Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars
By Jacqueline Bigar
A baby born today has a
Sun in Aries and a Moon in
Capricorn if born before 9:37
p.m. (EDT). Afterward, the
Moon will be in Aquarius.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for
Friday, April 1, 2016:
This year you go from being
tense and very serious-minded to being a great friend and
party animal. At times, people could be confused about
whom they are dealing with.
Allow yourself some space
for a change in perspective.
You take your responsibilities very seriously. If you are
single, you are likely to meet
someone of interest through
your immediate circle of
friends. The second half of
the year could present some
interesting options socially.
If you are attached, the two
of you often spend a lot time
enjoying a favored pastime.
Come fall, you will enjoy each
other’s company even more.
AQUARIUS makes a great
friend for you.
The Stars Show the Kind
of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult
ARIES (March 21-April
19)
*** Try to hold back and
discipline the prankster that
lives within you. Not everyone
enjoys April Fools’ shenanigans. Maintain an aboveboard stance as you tackle
certain responsibilities. A
friend will manage to get your
attention later in the day. Tonight: Among the crowds.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
*** You have the ability
to take in the big picture. As
you do this sometime today,
you might decide to split the
scene. Whatever seems to
have been bothering you is
likely to pass. Make it OK to
start your weekend early. Tonight: Follow someone else’s
lead.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
**** Keep reaching out to
someone at a distance. Your
ability to incorporate others into your plans might be
based on the quality of your
personal interactions with
each person. You tend to
develop a great deal of confidence in those around you.
Tonight: Be willing to have
some fun.
CANCER (June 21-July
22)
**** Has it occurred to you
that people’s attitudes colors
their perceptions? One person can see a situation as
incredibly challenging, while
someone else could decide
that the same situation is an
obstacle that is there for a
reason and split. Resist having a knee-jerk reaction. Tonight: Out late.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
**** You seem insistent on
completing certain errands
quickly. Don’t react to a potential misunderstanding; a
meeting of the minds seems
to be flawed at the moment.
Maintain a kind and open
attitude with everyone you
meet today. Tonight: Happy
to be out and about.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
**** Your world could be
opening up to a different type
of excitement or more creative
ideas. Know that it is natural
to be hesitant before jumping
into a new venture. How will
you know the outcome unless you are willing to take a
risk? Tonight: Meet friends to
celebrate the weekend.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
**** All’s well that ends
well. You might have to jump
through hoops today, and
you could stumble a little.
Remain upbeat, and don’t
take momentary confusion -or mixed messages -- too seriously. Tonight: Jump right
into the weekend.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.
21)
**** You often can be very
serious. When you sense a
misunderstanding, you are
capable of copping an attitude. Be open to an error, or
know that maybe you and the
other party have different attachments to words. Make a
call later in the day. Tonight:
Meet up with a pal.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21)
**** You might be more
concerned with your finances than you are willing to let
on. Verify your own situation before you worry about
anything else. Count your
change carefully today; you
will be a lot happier if you do.
Tonight: Take a quick nap
before you head out.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19)
**** You could be focused
on completing a lot before
the end of the day. You won’t
take kindly to distractions.
You will want to get through
as much as you can. Others
might already be in weekend mode and have difficulty changing their focus.
Tonight: Out, but only if you
want to.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18)
**** Take the day for you.
You might need to get your
taxes done or get some extra
sleep. You need some personal time, not distracted by
calls, friends, etc. A friend or
loved one could get into a tizzy looking for you. Reach out
to this person when you’re
ready. Tonight: Paint the
town red.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20)
***** Zero in on priorities
for your professional life, and
complete them as early as
you can. Friends might be
knocking on your door or texting you with invitations. You
will be happy to deal with
your social life once you clear
out responsibilities. Tonight:
Where the action is.
BORN TODAY
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel
Alito (1950), actress Debbie
Reynolds (1932), TV host
Rachel Maddow (1973)
***
Jacqueline Bigar is on the
Internet at www.jacquelinebigar.com.
(c) 2016 by King Features
Syndicate Inc.
Some presidential candidates seem more focused on
getting media attention than on explaining what they
could realistically accomplish. These candidates spout
a lot of blame, but they don’t offer comprehensive/sensible approaches to our nation’s serious problems. Realistic solutions won’t be found in simple sound-bites, such
as “I’ll build a 1,000-mile wall.” Unfortunately, public
support for some candidates seems to be an emotional
reaction of “I can’t afford to buy what I want anymore,
and I’m as angry as he is.”
This week, a presidential campaign manager was
charged with battery against a female news reporter.
Last week, campaign people circulated comparison
photos of candidates’ wives and sex-scandal rumors
about one of the candidates. Two weeks earlier, citizens
watched a televised debate that turned into an argument
about the size of the candidates’ male anatomy. This
kind of behavior is associated with immature teenagers,
not individuals competing to become the leader of the
Free World.
Politics is not entertainment like a boxing match, in
which supporters of one candidate punch those who
support another. An election is about citizens deciding which candidate offers the most workable solutions
to the serious problems we face. The media and the
American public need to turn away from the distasteful
spectacles, in order to select a candidate who displays
the seriousness that our great country deserves.
Don’t you think that each of us should become familiar with the precise policy differences between the candidates, in order to make a rational decision? Shouldn’t
these candidates stop trying to distract us with theatrics, stop giving vague answers to questions about their
specific plans, and start explaining exactly how they propose to deal the most important problems of our time?
According to the State of the Union address in January, some key issues are: (1) How do we solve urgent
technological challenges, like dealing with climate
change? (2) How do we keep America safe, without getting sucked into endless wars? (3) How do we give all
of our citizens a fair shot at opportunity and economic
security?
Pat Prindaville
Kansans for Democracy
***
Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa
—Yogi Berra
***
Washington Merry-Go-Round
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The
Concordia
Year of
Peace
by Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift
WASHINGTON – Can
lightning
strike
twice?
That’s what some Republicans wonder when Rep.
Paul Ryan’s, R-Wisc., name
comes up as a possible consensus choice – a dark horse
candidate – for president at
the GOP’s July convention
in Cleveland. Ryan had to
be courted and cajoled and
even begged before accepting his party’s invitation
to become Speaker of the
House last year.
Though the job has lost
some of its luster in the partisan battles, it is second in
line to the presidency, right
after the vice president, and
commands considerable respect from the rank and file,
along with significant power
to set the legislative agenda.
Most of Ryan’s predecessors spent years working
their way up to the prestigious speakership. It was
handed to Ryan over the
course of a weekend at
home where he consulted
with his family and arrived
at a set of guidelines where
he would take the job only
if it did not conflict with his
family time.
He has three young children, and said he wouldn’t
be spending his weekends
holding fundraisers around
the country for Republican
members. The GOP leadership in the House, desperate for a high-toned speaker
to lead the party into an
election year, agreed to Ryan’s demands.
Now the party is heading
to Cleveland with the prospect of a bruising convention
that could deny frontrunner
Donald Trump the nomination if he arrives with fewer
than the required 1237 delegates. Then what happens
is anybody’s guess.
Among the potential scenarios is Ryan accepting his
party’s invitation to become
its presidential nominee.
How this would happen is a
matter of considerable conjecture, and rightly so since
Ryan did not compete in
the primaries, and has dismissed the suggestion out
of hand, and will be going
to Cleveland as chair of the
Convention.
Here’s where the lightning comes in. Could the
delegates in Cleveland embrace Ryan as their nominee just as the rank and
file embraced him as their
leader in the House?
Trump may have an inkling of what could be in the
works because he scheduled his first campaign stop
in Wisconsin this week in
Ryan’s hometown of Janesville. When he asked the
crowd what they thought
of the new speaker, he got
a chorus of boos. “Wow,”
Trump said. “I was told to
be nice to Paul Ryan.”
One man yelled out “Paul
RINO,” which stands for
“Republican in Name Only.”
If elements of the Stop
Trump movement want to
maneuver Ryan into contention as the GOP nominee, it would have to be
done without Ryan’s fingerprints anywhere near the
dastardly deed. Any hint of
his involvement, covertly or
overtly, would doom the effort.
Unifying the Republican caucus in the House
is child’s play compared
to what Ryan or any other
Republican faces in Cleveland. Their party is splintered between country club
Republicans, Wall Street
Republicans, the Tea Party
anti-government crowd, and
the evangelicals on the Religious Right.
They all have different
priorities, and Trump has
scrambled the mix by bringing into the party economic
populists who hate trade
agreements, and who think
DOONESBURY® by G.B. Trudeau
they’ve been ignored by
party elites. When Trump
says no more bad trade
deals, and promises to protect their Social Security
and keep immigrants from
coming in and driving down
wages, these newly minted
Trump voters cheer loudly.
If Trump doesn’t get the
nomination, whoever does
should take note of how
Hillary Clinton has embraced
Bernie
Sanders’
economic populism. She’s
for fair trade now, not free
trade. Changing one word
isn’t that hard, politicians
do evolve, and as for Ryan,
if he’s the party’s savior yet
again, he’s got to move to
where the Republican electorate is, and adopting a position of fair trade, not free
trade would be an important signal to those Trump
voters.
Douglas
Cohn’s
new
book, “The President's First
Year: None Were Prepared,
Some Never Learned – Why
the Only School for Presidents Is the Presidency,” is
available in book stores.
Twitter
@WMerryGoRound
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Man gets 30 years in boy’s fatal beating
HAGERSTOWN,
Md.
(AP) – A man accused of fatally beating his girlfriend’s
9-year-old son over a missing piece of birthday cake
pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Thursday and
was sentenced to 30 years
in prison by a judge who likened the boy’s treatment to
torture.
For weeks before the beating, Jack Garcia was a virtual prisoner in the Hagerstown apartment he shared
with his mother, her brother
and her fiance Robert Leroy
Wilson, a prosecutor said.
Jack was routinely deprived
of food if Wilson felt the
boy hadn’t exerted himself
enough, and he was handcuffed to a chair or beaten
with a bamboo sword if he
took food without permission, the evidence showed.
“What a bleak existence
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this little person had,” said
Washington County Circuit
Judge M. Kenneth Long.
Wilson,
31,
accepted
responsibility for Jack’s
death but didn’t acknowledge striking the blow that
caused his death from a
head injury July 5. In return, prosecutors dropped
seven other charges of child
abuse, assault, neglect and
reckless endangerment.
Wilson, a restaurant cook,
tearfully told the judge he
had been under stress from
tight finances, lack of sleep,
a strained relationship with
the mother of his own child
and “all different things going on in the apartment
about people not doing what
they were supposed to.”
Defense attorney Thomas
Tamm said Wilson had been
physically abused as child.
But Assistant State’s At-
torney Sarah Mollett-Gaumer said there was no excuse
for the major role Wilson
played in Jack’s death.
“Jack was such a problem
for stealing food? Well, maybe he was hungry,” she said.
Jack’s mother Oriana
Garcia and maternal uncle Jacob Barajas are also
charged with second-degree
murder. They’re scheduled
for trial May 17. Neither has
entered a plea.
Police have said Wilson
beat Jack unconscious after
Barajas handcuffed him to
a bicycle lock attached to a
chair as punishment for taking a piece of cake belonging to Wilson’s 2-year-old
daughter. A 10-year-old girl
visiting that day told investigators she heard Wilson
yelling, “Cough up the cake,”
in the room where Jack was
beaten while the boy cried,
“No! Stop!”
Prosecutors say Jack’s
mother allowed the abuse
and delayed treatment for
hours by sending away an
ambulance that Barajas had
called. Wilson called for another ambulance more than
five hours later.
***
If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet,
you’d best teach it to dance.
—George Bernard Shaw
***
Today in History
50 years ago
April 1, 1966—Union
Good Friday services were
being held at the Evangelical United Brethren Church,
8th and Lincoln, with Dr.
Henry Vogel giving the noon
service, the Revs. Richard Taylor, Merton Zeisset,
Duane Seitz, Pete Ratzlaff,
Harold Elis and Jerry Catt
presiding at the five remaining 25 minute services. . . .
Picnic hams were 30 cents a
pound at Paul’s Thriftway in
Concordia.
25 years ago
April 1, 1991—A resolution establishing a 2 percent transient guest tax in
Cloud Was approved by the
county board of commissioners during its weekly
meeting. . . . Freshmen listed on the All “A” 4.00 Honor Roll at Concordia High
School were Kevin Brown,
Amie Harper, Erika Johnson, Kerri Johnson, Brian
Preston and Chelsea Toll.
10 years ago
April 1, 2006—Marsha
Doyen, owner of Essentials
and Country Cousins, cut
the ribbon at a Concordia
Area Chamber of Commerce
ribbon cutting ceremony. .
. . Mallory Gilland, Tressa
Studt and Chelsea Brown
recorded first places for the
Concordia girls in the Clay
Center Invitational Junior
varsity track and field meet.
5 years ago
April 1, 2011—Kayla
Champlin and Leah Haden
were hosts for a “senior”
prom on a Sunday afternoon for anyone 50 years
old or older. Tim Halfhide
provided the entertainment.
. . . Judie Deal, Concordia,
was awarded a Certificate
of Recognition for 35 years
of service at the annual employee Awards Banquet for
OCCK.
1 year ago
April
1,
2015—Zoe
Walsh, daughter of Rob and
Tina Walsh, was the Concordia High School Student of
the Month. . . . Three members of the Cloud County
Community College board
of trustees, Ellen Anderson,
Larry Henry and Thomas
Tuggle.
Local agency works
to end domestic
violence of all types
By Tanya Paul
The Domestic Violence
Association of Central Kansas is a non-profit agency
providing free and confidential services to survivors of
domestic violence, teen dating violence, sexual assault,
stalking and elder abuse.
DVACK serves 10 counties and provides a variety
of services to individuals in
rural communities that have
been affected by some form
of violence. Available services include emotional support, crisis intervention and
counseling, safety planning,
advocacy,
information/referrals, support groups, safe
shelter, and assistance with
protection orders.
In addition to survivor
services, DVACK staff members conduct a multitude of
free informational presentations and trainings to various community organizations, agencies, businesses,
schools and individuals in
an effort to raise awareness
and educate our community
about the dynamics of violence.
Awareness is the first step
toward preventing and reducing family violence. Empowering individuals with
the information, tools and
resources they need to help
victims of abuse is a critical component of any community engagement effort.
Concordia community group
members have recognized
violence as a local issue and
have taken steps to further
increase community awareness. Last year, the Concordia Year of Peace Committee
invited Don McPherson, a
former NFL player and current social activist, to speak
on men’s violence against
women to the local schools
and the general public. Local
media, radio, and city commission members have supported DVACK’s awareness
campaigns through articles,
public service announcements, and proclamations.
DVACK is now in its third
year of implementing the
Teen Dating Violence Prevention Program in local
schools, primarily using the
Expect Respect Youth Leadership curriculum. DVACK
was fortunate to work with
the entire fifth grade at Concordia Middle School for
three weekly sessions during
fall semester 2015-16. The
students reviewed the dynamics of bullying, took part
in team building activities
Tanya Paul
and learned how to be active
bystanders. Studies have
shown bullying behaviors
often lead into abusive behaviors in future dating and
committed relationships, so
working with youth to help
eliminate bullying will help
prevent future domestic and
sexual violence.
DVACK greatly appreciates this collaboration with
Concordia Middle School
and hopes to provide Teen
Dating Violence Prevention
Services and Presentations
to any and all of the area
middle, junior and senior
high schools.
Community engagement
to end family violence is
complex work, but changing society happens in small
increments, one family and
one step at a time. In order
to reach survivors, it’s important to have strong connections with local service
providers and various agencies. DVACK is grateful for
the increase in collaborations in Concordia and has
reported an increase in interagency client referrals.
DVACK
depends
not
only on the assistance of
local agencies in supporting survivors and raising
awareness, but also our
volunteers and community
donations. Thanks to contributions from people in Concordia, we are able to give
individuals and families the
items necessary to provide
for their health, safety and
basic needs in order to move
on to a violence-free life.
For more information
on how you can help in or
around Concordia, please
call (785) 243-4349 or visit
our website at www.dvack.
org.
(Tanya Paul is a DVACK
outreach specialist in Concordia.)
Thank You for Reading the Blade-Empire
4 Blade-Empire, Friday, April 1, 2016
PEOPLE
Annie’s
Mailbox
by Kathy Mitchell and
Marcy Sugar
Dear Annie: My sisterin-law is going through dialysis. She is able to do it
in the comfort of her home
with help of a nurse, so she
can be close to her young
kids. Her husband dotes
on her. She isn't able to get
out much, but she tries to
see my in-laws for supper
or coffee whenever possible.
My husband and I make an
effort to come over to say hi
and be supportive, plus our
kids love seeing their cousins.
The problem is, whenever
I ask her how she is doing,
she says something dark
like, "I'm still alive, but why
would any of you care?" Last
week, she said she is going
to get a motorcycle because
she's going to die anyway. If
you try to steer the conversation to something lighter,
she drives it right back to
her illness. I offered to help
with her cleaning, and to
read her a book while she is
getting treatment and give
her a foot massage. She told
my mother-in-law that I was
"showing off" and stopped
speaking to me. My husband
calls her an emotional vampire.
Annie, I have suffered
from depression for years. I
go to regular meetings with
a peer group, take a good
medication and have the
full support of my husband.
When I am around my sisterin-law, my own dark feelings
go to a place that I don't like,
and I once came home from
seeing her and contemplated
suicide. I also don't want my
12-year-old, who already
shows signs of depression,
to be near my sister-in-law.
My mother-in-law won't
let me say anything to her
about it. How do I handle
this situation without breaking
my
mother-in-law's
heart? — Going Crazy
Dear Going Crazy: Your
sister-in-law is terribly depressed, as you know, and
feels so sorry for herself
that she cannot see beyond
her own unhappiness. But
you should not compromise
your health in order to be
supportive of someone else.
Make your visits brief, and
let your husband go without
you when it gets too difficult.
Don't try to cheer her up.
She only wants to vent. And
when she rebuffs your offers
of help, ignore it. She is not
capable of appreciating the
kindness of others. We also
suggest you check out the
National Kidney Foundation
(kidney.org) for additional
suggestions and insight.
Dear Annie: We have
been married 58 years, are
in our mid-80s and happy,
reasonable healthy and financially secure. On birthdays and Christmas, we always give monetary gifts to
the children, grandchildren
and great-grandchildren.
Two of the grandchildren
never acknowledge this with
a "thank you" or even a
phone call. I say, "It's time to
close the bank." My husband
says, "It doesn't matter, because we have the money,
and they can use it."
To send or not to send —
that is the question. We have
decided to abide by your advice. — The Bank of Grandpa and Grandma
Dear Bank: You are certainly justified in stopping,
but we say, give them the
chance to learn: Tell the two
reprobates directly that that
there will be no more gifts
unless they let you know, via
note, email, text or phone
call, that they were received.
Otherwise, you will assume
they do not appreciate your
generosity and you will stop.
You'll feel better knowing
that the final decision was
theirs.
Annie's Mailbox is written
by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy
Sugar, longtime editors of the
Ann Landers column. Please
email your questions to anniesmailbox@creators.com,
or write to: Annie's Mailbox,
c/o Creators Syndicate, 737
3rd Street, Hermosa Beach,
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Senior Citizens Menu
Monday, April 4—Chicken strips, French fries, green
salad, fruit; 10 a.m.—Exercise; pinochle club.
Tuesday, April 5—Beef
and noodles, mashed potatoes, green beans, Jello®
with fruit; VA representative.
Wednesday, April 6—
Baked pork chops, fried
potatoes, broccoli and cauliflower, brownies; 10 a.m.—
Exercise; BINGO.
Thursday, April 7—Spaghetti with meat sauce, garlic bread, carrots, pudding.
Friday, April 8—Pulled
pork on a bun,. baked beans,
chips, fruit; 10 a.m.—Exercise; progressive cards.
From the
Kitchen
CHEESY BAKED ASPARAGUS
(Early spring means it’s time for fresh asparagus and
following is a recipe for a delicious side dish using this vegetable.)
1 bunch of asparagus, woody ends trimmed
3 T butter, melted
1/2 tsp. my house seasoning (equal parts garlic powder,
onion powder and pepper, combine and store in an airtight
container)
1 T. grated Parmesan cheese
3/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
Italian seasoning
Line a baking sheet with tinfoil. Place the asparagus on
the baking sheet and drizzle with the melted butter. Sprinkle the house seasoning and Parmesan cheese over the top.
Place in a 400 degree oven for 15 minutes. Remove and top
with the mozzarella cheese and a little sprinkling of Italian
seasoning over the top. Return to the oven for an additional
5-7 minutes to melt the cheese and let it begin to brown.
SOCIAL CALENDAR
(Clip and Save)
SUNDAY
AA, 10 a.m., Came to Believe, 317 W. 5th, Concordia
Grupo AA de Concordia-en Espanol, 317 W. 5th, Concordia
NA, 7 p.m., CCHC cafeteria
MONDAY
AA, Belleville Crossroads Group, 24th and O Street,
Belleville
AA, Came to Believe, 6:30 p.m., 317 W. 5th, Concordia
TUESDAY
AA Concordia Gateway Group, 8 p.m., 317 West 5th
Alanon, 8 p.m., We Care, 6th and Valley, Concordia
WEDNESDAY
TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), 9 a.m., Catholic Religious Education Center, 232 East 5th
AA, 8p.m., Scandia Helping Hands group, United
Methodist Church basement
Came to Believe Group, Brown Baggers meeting at
noon, 317 W. 5th, Concordia
Agenda AA Literature Study, 8 p.m., 18 Delmar Street
Red Hat Club, Marla’s Joy Tea House
SASNAK, Phyllis Hedstrom
THURSDAY
Alcoholics Anonymous Primary Purpose Group, 7
p.m., 317 W. 5th, Concordia
Needles and Stitches charity knit/crochet group, 6:308:30 p.m., hospital lobby
American Legion Auxiliary, 7:30 p.m., post home
Scandia United Methodist Women monthly meeting, 4
p.m., church basement
FRIDAY
Came to Believe Group, noon, 317 W. 5th, Concordia
Alcoholics Anonymous, Concordia Gateway Group, 8
p.m., 317 W. 5th, Concordia
Call Cloud County Chemical Dependency Committee
(CCCDC) 24/7 hotline for assistance including area addiction group meetings. They also have a website that
lists all of its AA, NA, Al-Anon and OA meeting times and
places. Freedom Club Website is www.freedom-club.org.
Freedom Club address is 317 W. 5th Street.
DVACK Weekly Support Groups in Concordia
Tuesdays—Domestic Violence Support Group; the
dynamics of domestic violence, safety planning, healthy
relationships and boundaries; Sexual Assault/Women
Empowered Support Group; trauma, coping techniques
and self-care.
Wednesdays—Survivors with Disabilities Support
Group; navigating various systems, accessing universal
services without discrimination, individual rights and
opportunities and empowerment; Economic Support
Group, budgeting, individual assessment and reflection
of financial literacy, gaining employment and financial
goal setting.
Thursdays—Domestic Violence Parent Support Group;
cycle of abuse, identifying children’s emotions and coping behaviors, establishing solid family connections and
support; Sexual Assault Parent Support Group; child
trauma, triggers and coping techniques.
Call 785-243-4349 for times/location and to preregister for support group meetings.
Crews detonate
Civil War-era mine
HOT
SPRINGS,
Ark.
(AP) – Crews have safely
detonated a Civil War-era
land mine that prompted
the evacuation of about 20
homes in Arkansas.
Matt Bell says he was doing excavation work when
he dug up what he thought
was a cannonball Wednesday near Danville, which is
about 85 miles west of Little
Rock.
Bell tells The SentinelRecord that he put the
32-pound land mine in his
pickup’s backseat, buckled
it in with a seatbelt, and
drove 65 miles to his home
in Hot Springs.
Bell says he realized it
was a land mine after talking with a Civil War historian, so he called police
Thursday afternoon. Hot
Springs Police spokesman
Kirk Zaner says authorities
evacuated nearby homes
and contacted an Air Force
bomb squad, which later
detonated the explosive at a
local landfill.
K-State
Research and Extension
Awesome opossums?
A K-State wildlife specialist discusses this often-misunderstood creature.
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Opossums, or “possums” as they
are often called, are commonly considered a nuisance.
They are frequently called “ugly creatures” that rummage
through garbage, terrorize other small animals, and play
dead when threatened or harmed. However, research suggests these marsupials may be beneficial to the wildlife ecosystem in a variety of ways.
By the numbers
“Kansas has a large number of Virginia opossums,”
said Charlie Lee, wildlife management specialist for Kansas State University and K-State Research and Extension.
“They have a wide range throughout Central and North
America, and their range continues to expand.”
He said opossums are found all the way from Costa Rica
to the southern part of Ontario, Canada. They are typically found east of the Rocky Mountains and along the West
Coast. They are limited in northward and westward expansion by temperature and snow depth, though, as they are
not well equipped for the cold and snow.
The breeding season for opossums in Kansas begins in
early February, Lee said. The mothers will wean their first
litter of the year in May and will mate again for another
weaned litter around September.
Opossums are marsupials, and like kangaroos, they
carry their young in a small pouch until they grow and
develop. They are the only naturally occurring marsupials
found in North America.
Possum perceptions
Many people believe opossums are unpleasant to the
eye.
“People think they look too much like a dirty, scavenging
rat, rather than an interesting creature of Kansas,” he said.
“They certainly have unique characteristics that should get
people thinking of them in a positive manner.”
Many may also believe that opossums are not intelligent;
however, research has shown that they are generally smart
despite their small brain size. According to a University of
Missouri publication, opossums scored better than rats,
rabbits, cats and dogs on their ability to remember, but
they did not score better than humans. Opossums also
tend to outcompete other creatures for food.
They will kill a cockroach or even a mouse found in their
territory, although they are generally not aggressive toward
humans, Lee said. In fact, their common defenses are either fleeing or playing dead when pursued by a human.
Opossums are commonly thought of as the sanitation
workers of the ecosystem, he added. They eat carcasses,
rodents, insects, snails, slugs and beetles.
“One unique fact about opossums is that they’re a magnet for getting rid of blacklegged ticks (otherwise known as
deer ticks),” Lee said.
He referred to a study by the Cary Institute of Ecosystem
Studies that examined tick feeding on mammals. Those
tested included different species such as white-footed mice,
chipmunks, squirrels and opossums, among others.
“On opossums, only 3 percent of the ticks that were introduced were able to feed,” Lee said. “If you examine the
normal tick load of opossums in the wild, which is around
200 ticks, and they’re consuming more than 95 percent of
those ticks as part of their grooming process, they are responsible for removing about 5,500 ticks per year per opossum.”
For the most part, opossums are immune to rabies although a few cases have existed, he said. On average, a
feral dog is eight times more likely to carry rabies than an
opossum. Opossums are also resistant to some poisonous
snakes including rattlesnakes, cottonmouths and pit vipers.
Drawbacks
Lee said despite the benefits of opossums, they are
known to carry a variety of bacterial and viral diseases.
They can carry the dangerous equine protozoal myeloencephalitis, or EPM, which mostly affects horses when they
ingest feed or water contaminated with opossum feces. The
disease in horses can be prevented or reduced by proper
sanitation and biosecurity.
Problem opossums – such as those found by a landowner in buildings or destroying property – can be controlled
without a permit, he said. They are classified as fur-bearers, and they can be taken by hunting or trapping during
regular season.
More about the opossum can be found on the Kansas
Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism website.
Blade-Empire Friday, April 1, 2016 5
Sports
Concordia track teams
compete in Buff Invitational
Reaching for it
Concordia’s Connor Reynolds, playing number one singles with Devin Kymer, reaches out to
hit a volley during the triangular hosted by the Panthers on Thursday. (Blade photo by Deanna
Kymer)
Panthers sweep singles,
place second in triangular
Josh Timme and Ben
Peltier swept the singles
titles as the Concordia High
School tennis team opened
its season with a secondplace finish in the triangular
it hosted on a windy Thursday.
Timme placed first in
number one singles and
Peltier was first in number
two singles.
St. John’s Military Academy won the meet with 13
points. Concordia scored 12
points and Chapman scored
five.
“I was happy with the
boys and their efforts. We
needed to play in competition to see where we are at.
Practices have been great,
but it was good to see other
teams,” Concordia coach
Michael Wahlmeier said,
“Josh and Ben have been
hitting the ball well, and
were able to secure firstplace finishes in both number one and number two
singles.‚”
Timme shut out Ethan
Blixt, Chapman, 8-0. He got
past Carter Newby, St.
John’s, 8-6.
past
Peltier
rolled
Matthew Ballay, Chapman,
8-0. He knocked off Marco
Dunbar, St. John’s, 8-3.
Paul Frost and Elijah
Steffen placed second in
number two doubles for
Concordia. They were beaten 8-5 by Ethan Bryan and
Jacob Darsow, Chapman,
and downed Blase Whitting
and Casey Darroll, St.
John’s, 8-5.
“Paul and Eli were able to
shed the disappointment of
their first loss and secure a
win in their second match,”
Wahlmeier said.
Connor Reynolds and
Devin Kymer, playing number one singles for the Panthers, fell 8-4 to Colin
Henderson and Chris Lockwood, Chapman, and 8-3 to
Hilario Suarez and Andes
Hajj Tame, St. John’s.
“Connor
and
Devin
played the toughest division
of the day. They didn’t handle the elements very well in
the first match and came
back and played much better against a very tough doubles team from St. John’s,”
Wahlmeier said, “I was
proud of the way both doubles teams bounced back.”
Concordia plays in the
Smoky Valley Invitational on
Tuesday.
Three members of the
Concordia High School basketball team have been
selected to play in the North
Central Kansas All-Star
Game.
Seniors Cooper Holmes,
Ethan
Bechard
and
Emmanuel Mares will participate in the game scheduled
for April 10 at approximately
3:45 p.m. at Bryant Gymnasium, on the campus of
Cloud County Community
College.
Holmes, a 6-4 guard, averaged 27.1 points and 8.9
rebounds per game this past
season for Concordia.
Bechard, a 6-1 guard,
averaged 8 points and 4.9
assists.
Mares, a 5-8 guard, averaged 6.7 points.
Also playing in the game
will include:
Lucas Comfort, Sacred
Heart; Braden Deters, Centralia; Ricardo Erans, Junction City; Brock Frey,
Sabetha;
Nick
Flynn,
Ellsworth; Blake Hallacy, Silver Lake; Eric Harms, Abilene;
Luke
Holthaus,
Nemaha Centra; Kale Johnson,
Republic
County;
Calder Keehn, Sabetha;
Cooper Leach, Doniphan
West; Kyle McGatlin, Washington County; JD McHenry,
Salina Central; Easton Montgomery, Southeast of Saline;
Bryce Patrick, Wamego;
Jerod
Toogood,
Sacred
Heart; and Bailey Vetter,
Rock Creek.
The girls’ game will be
played on April 10 at 2 p.m.
Participants in the girls’
game include:
Autumn Adams, Wakefield; Belle Barbieri, Abilene;
Rachel Baumgartner, Nemaha Central; Remi Behrands,
Beloit; Katelyn Bohnenblust,
Clay Center; Alana Budke,
Beloit; Kirstin Burger, Thunder Ridge; Jordan Clouse,
Riley County; Paige Doebele,
Hanover; Cara Donley, Abilene; Sara Flewelling, Marais
des Cygnes; Alexis Gifford,
Silver Lake; Courtney Hammel, Clay Center; Brittini
Harlow, Lincoln; Courtney
Heinen, Axtell; Makinlie
Hennes, Lakeside; Teryn
Holloway, Salina South;
Courtney Moore, Washington
County;
Kelsi
Mueller,
Moscow; Melissa Pfeifer,
Thomas More Prep-Marian;
Brandi Jo Roepke, Valley
Heights; Allison Stutterheim,
Southeast of Saline; Katelyn
Swanson, Phillipsburg; Kier-
sten Talbot, Axtell; and Kalli
Valek, Republic County.The
girls teams will be coached
by Alan Sheets, Republic
County, and Kiernan Wurtz,
Clifton-Clyde.
The North Central Kansas
Volleyball All-Star Game will
be played on April 9 at 3 p.m.
in Bryant Gymnasium.
Participants in the volleyball game include:
Behrends, Hammel, Donley, Moore, Talbot, Valek,
Brooke Baird, Northern Valley; Hanna Bott, Linn; Molly
Bradbury, Salina Centra;
Claire Cudney, Marysville;
Christen Greving, Logan;
Kyla Hardwick, Frankfort;
Courtney Heinen, Axtell; Arianna Helvey, Southeast of
Saline; MaKenzie Kack,
Sacred Heart; Erica Montgomery, Southeast of Saline;
Elizabeth Nobert, CliftonClyde; Ocean Paul, Beloit;
Mady Schmidt, Bennington;
Mayda Stallbaumer, Centralia; Balie Stamps, Salina
South; Hannah Swihart,
Clay Center; Katelyn Winter,
Ell-Saline; and Morganne
Zabokrtsky, Hanover.
The teams will be coached
by Brandy Paul, Beloit, and
Samatha Coon, CliftonClyde.
Cloud County Health
Center will host a Wellness
5K Run/Walk on April 16.
Registration will begin at
8:30 a.m. in the CCHC
employee parking lot. The
run begins at 9 a.m.
The deadline for the discounted registration fee is
April 8. The fee includes a
shirt and other goodies.
Those registering after
the deadline will not be
guaranteed a shirt.
Those wishing to participate in the event can register
at
http://runsignup.come/ra
ce/ks/Concordia/CCHCWe
llness Run
For more information, or
sponsorship information,
contact Jessica Melton at
243-8447
or
jcmelton@cchc.com
or
Amanda Harrison at 2438522
or
Three Panthers to play
in NCK All-Star Game
CCHC to host 5K Wellness Run
BELLEVILLE — Competing in cool, windy conditions, the Concordia
High School track and
field teams opened their
season at the Buff Invitational hosted by Republic
County High School on
Thursday.
Scoring 49.25 points,
the Concordia girls placed
sixth in the meet.
Beloit won the meet
with 108.75 points. Smoky
Valley was second with
98.50 and Southeast of
Saline was third with
75.25.
The Panther boys finished ninth with 26 points.
Beloit scored 125.17
points to place first.
Republic County was second with 93.33 and Smoky
Valley was third with 89.
“Our kids competed
well,” Concordia coach
Austin Kingsbury said,
“We had some people with
really high expectations.
We had some people with
no expectations, so we
were just going to see
where we are at.”
Conditions were less
then ideal with temperatures in the low 50s and
wind gusting over 30 miles
per hour.
“They were not ideal for
sure, but everybody had to
run in them. That is
Kansas track in a nutshell,” Kingsbury said.
The Concordia girls got
one first-place finish by
Jessica Williams in the
pole vault. She cleared 110.
Williams also tied for
sixth place in the high
jump (4-6).
Shania Anquish placed
second for the Panthers in
the 100-meter hurdles
with a time of 17.31.
Anguish was fifth in the
300-meter hurdles (51.61)
and Cydney Bergmann
was sixth (53.22).
Emma Wahlmeier ran
1:05.69 to place second in
the 400-meter dash for
Concordia.
Hunter
Mendenhall,
Maycie Mendenhall, Mariah Blazek and Peyton
Reynolds teamed up to fin-
ish second in the 4x800
relay in 11:30.15.
Blazek,
Bergmann,
Anguish and Williams finished third in the 4x400
relay (4:27.86).
Blazek
also
placed
fourth in the 800-meter
run (2:43.79).
Alex Wilcox finished
sixth in the shot put (31-1
1/4) and the javelin (96-0).
Logan Higbee picked up
a first-place finish for the
Concordia boys in the 300meter hurdles with a time
of 43.77.
“Logan competed great.
He came out and ran a
good time in a head wind
in the 300-meter hurdles,”
BUFF INVITATIONAL
Boys
Team Scores
Beloit 125.17, Republic County
93.33, Smoky Valley 89, Minneapolis
63.50, Sacred Heart 52, Russell 39,
Southeast of Saline 36, Ellsworth 34,
Concordia 26.
Individual Results
100 — 1. Davis, E, 11.04; 2.
Rothenberger, M, 11.52; 3. Murray,
SES, 11.62.
200 — 1. Davis, E, 22.77; 2. Murray, SES, 24.04; 3. Stindt, RC, 24.67.
400 — 1. Davis, E, 51.95; 2.
Reames, B, 53.55; 3. Meier, B, 54.48.
800 — 1. Gfeller, R, 2:01.99; 2.
Wolfe, M, 2:08.26; 3. Windholz, SV,
2:11.98.
1,600 — 1. Shannon, SV, 4:49.18;
2. Wilbr, RC, 5:01.68; 3. Windholz,
SV, 5:03.22; 4. Lanoue, Co, 5:08.82.
3,200 — 1. Shannon, SV,
10:09.33; 2. Peterson, SV, 11:36.29;
3. Schmidtberger, SH, 11:38.01.
110 hurdles — 1. Gaskill, SH,
16.05; 2. H. Budke, B, 16.18; 3.
Adams, B, 17.19.
300 hurdles — 1. Higbee, Co,
43.77; 2. H. Budke, B, 44.59; 3.
Adams, B, 45.42.
4x100 — 1. Beloit, 45.68; 2. Minneapolis, 46.50; 3. Russell, 47.38; 5.
Concordia, 47.99.
4x400 — 1. Republic County,
3:37.92; 2. Beloit, 3:38.64; 3. Smoky
Valley, 3:40.90; 6. Concordia,
3:51.85.
4x800 — 1. Beloit, 8:53.27; 2.
Republic County 8:57.23; 3. Smoky
Valley, 9:08.47.
High jump — 1. Mong, B, 5-10; 2.
C. Budke, B, 5-10; 3. Bulleigh, SH, 56.
Pole vault — 1. Ruppert, SV, 11-6;
2. Dorman, Co, 11-0; 3. Strutt, RC,
10-6.
Long jump — 1. Rothenberger, M,
21-2; 2. Dyke, RC, 19-10; 3. Comfort,
SH, 19-9 1/2.
Triple jump — 1. Comfort, SH, 403 1/4; 2. Rothenberger, M, 40-1 1/4;
3. Mong, B, 39-2.
Shot put — 1. McNemar, RC, 48-7;
2. Montgomery, SES, 44-11; 3. Slagle,
SH, 42-2 1/2.
Discus — 1. Stindt, RC, 137-2; 2.
Boxberger, R, 128-1; 3. Rose, B, 1265; 6. Champlin, Co, 106-11.
Javelin — 1. Edwards, RC, 15810; 2. Yoxall, M, 157-8; 3. Thomas, M,
140-1.
Kingsbury said.
Rope Dorman cleared
11-0 to finish second in
the pole vault for the Panthers.
Phillip Lanoue placed
fourth in the 1,600-meter
run in 5:08.67.
Dorman, Lanoue, Higbee and Matt Davenport
finished fifth in the 4x100
relay in 47.99.
Higbee, Davenport, Dorman and Caspers were
sixth in the 4x400 relay in
3:51.85.
Oakley Champlin threw
106-11 to finish sixth in
the discus.
Concordia hosts its
meet next Friday.
Girls
Team Scores
Beloit 18.75, Smoky Valley 98.50,
Southeast of Saline 75.25, Russell 72,
Sacred Heart 64, Concordia 49.25, Minneapolis 45.25, Ellsworth 22, Republic
County 15.
Individual Results
100 — 1. Shupe, M, 12.74; 2.
Behanna, SV, 13.26; 3. Scott, RC,
13.37.
200 — 1. Shupe, M, 26.45; 2.
Behanna, SV, 27.90; 3. Behrends, B,
28.01.
400 — 1. Gfeller, R, 1:04.16; 2.
Wahlmeier, Co, 1:05.69; 3. Wagner, B,
1:08.65.
800 — 1. Stutterheim, SES, 2:34.06;
2. Banks, SES, 2:41.37; 3. Peterson, SV,
2:42.79; 4. Blazek, Co, 2:43.79.
1,600 — 1. Stutterheim, SES,
6:01.44; 2. Gragg, M, 6:09.61; 3. Banks,
SES, 6:11.02.
3,200 — 1. Adams, SV, 13:19.55; 2.
Gilliland, SH, 13:20.97; 3. Priddy, SV,
13:28.67.
100 hurdles — 1.Poague, SES,
16.19; 2. Anguish, Co, 17.31; 3. Roth, R,
17.72.
300 hurdles — 1. Poague, SES,
49.00; 2. Lambert, SV, 49.56; 3. Goetz,
SH, 50.36; 5. Anguish, Co, 51.61; 6.
Bergmann, Co, 53.22.
4x100 – 1. Smoky Valley, 52.96; 2.
Russell, 53.52; 3. Minneapolis, 54.37.
4x400 – 1. Smoky Valley, 4:23.56;
2. Russell, 4:25.97; 3. Concodia,
4:27.86.
4x800 — 1. Smoky Valley, 11:12.18;
2. Concordia, 11:30.15; 3. Minneapolis,
11:47.54.
High jump — 1. Ivey, SH, 5-5; 2.
Davis, E, 5-0; 3. Behrends, B, 5-0; 6. tieWilliams, Co; Wiles, SES; Post, B; Rietbrock, M, 4-6.
Pole vault — 1. Williams, Co, 11-0;
2. Paul, B, 10-0; 3. Scott, RC, 9-6.
Long jump — 1. Gfeller, R, 16-5; 2.
Diederich, SH, 15-0; 3. Winkel, B, 14-11
1/2.
Triple jump — 1. Diederich, SH, 329; 2. Gfeler, R, 32-8; 3. Behrends, B, 319.
Shot put — 1. Johnson, B, 39-3 1/2;
2. Hubert, B, 35-8 1/2; 3. Soukup, E,
34-5 1/2; 6. Wilcox, Co, 30-6 1/4.
Discus — 1. Johnson, B, 139-9; 2.
Bolden, SV, 105-9; 3. Thaxton, SES,
105-2.
Javelin — 1. Hubert, B, 136-7; 2.
Diederich, SH, 123-7; 3. Barrett, B,
113-0; 6. Wilcox, Co, 96-0.
Valentine, Self claim AP honors
HOUSTON (AP) — The
names Denzel Valentine
and Buddy Hield have
been virtually inseparable
during college basketball’s
postseason.
The national player of
the year awards have gone
to one or the other without
anybody else getting any
hardware.
Valentine was selected
Thursday as The Associated Press’ Player of the
Year, taking it in a close
vote over Hield.
Bill Self of Kansas was
chosen the AP’s Coach of
the Year with Xavier’s
Chris Mack finishing second.
“We spent time together
this summer at a basketball camp and we built a
relationship,” Valentine
said of his fellow senior.
“During the season we
would give each other
words of encouragement,”
Valentine said. “He was
first person to text me
when I got hurt and I
thought that was pretty
big time of him. He
deserves everything he’s
getting.”
Valentine, who missed
four games after having
minor
knee
surgery,
received 34 of 65 votes
from the national media
panel that selects the
weekly AP Top 25. Hield
was the only other player
to receive votes. Hield and
Valentine were the only
unanimous selections to
the AP All-America team.
The 6-foot-5 Valentine
led Michigan State (29-6)
to a second-place finish in
the Big Ten regular season
and was the conference
player of the year. He averaged 19.4 points, 7.6
rebounds and 7.6 assists
while directing the Spartans’ offense. He shot 44.7
percent from 3-point range
and 85.3 percent from the
free throw line.
The
Spartans
were
ranked No. 1 for four
weeks and finished second
in the final AP Top 25.
They lost to Middle Tennessee State in the first
round of the NCAA Tournament.
“The last two weeks
have been tough and it’s
hard to duck the tournament. It’s wherever you
go,” said Valentine, the
first Michigan State player
to win the award. “You go
into a restaurant and a
game’s on. You just can’t
duck it.”
Self was also AP Coach
of the Year in 2009,
becoming the eighth coach
to win the award more
than once. John Wooden of
UCLA won it five times and
other multiple winners
include Bob Knight, Roy
Williams, Ray Meyer and
Guy Lewis.
He received 21 votes
while Mack had 15 and
Dana Altman of Oregon
had 13.
“I would much rather be
here with my team playing,” Self said. “This is
great and there are dozens
of people worthy of this
award. But to be in that
group (of multiple winners)
is something I’ll always
respect and treasure.”
The Jayhawks spent a
total of five weeks at No. 1
this season and won the
Big 12 for the 12th consecutive season to move within one of UCLA’s record for
consecutive titles. They
were the overall No. 1 seed
in the NCAA Tournament,
losing to Villanova in the
regional final.
“It was a great season. I
don’t think you can call it
a special season unless
you get here,” Self said.
“Looking back, I don’t
think I could ever have a
team sacrifice more or be
more unselfish. It will
always be one of my most
special groups I’ve had.”
Both Valentine and Self
said they would give up
their awards to be on a
team playing at the Final
Four where they were presented their trophies.
“You want to get here,”
Valentine said. “You talk
about it all season and it’s
what every team plays for.”
Voting was done before
the NCAA Tournament.
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Open interviews will be
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Garage Sales
GARAGE SALE- 515 E.
11th, Fri. 5-7, Sat. 8-11.
Toys, electronics, furniture.
GARAGE SALE
April 2,
8-?
1121 Hillside Dr.
Lawnmowers- riders and
push, baby items, infant to
size 9mo. girls clothes. Boys
to size 4T. Adult clothes, also
household items and misc.
No Checks.
INDOOR
ESTATE/TAG
SALE
705 W. 8th, Concordia
Doors Open at 9:00am
Saturday April 2nd
Discounted! Furniture,
Antiques, Mirrors, bedroom
set, bookcase, wreaths,
garden bench, Collectables.
785-323-7700
Help Wanted
HELP WANTED
Head Cook
Available 6 hours/day,
Monday-Friday, . Benefits
are sick leave, holidays, paid
vacation. Application and job
description at the Golden Bell
Haven Senior Center, 1401
17th St., Belleville, KS.
Send resume with cover
letter to NC-FH AAA, 401
Houston, Manhattan, KS
66502. Call 1-800-432-2703
for information. EOE/AA
RESTAURANT STYLE
DINING, DIETARY SERVICES
are in search of people with table
waiting skills and short order
cooking skills. Please apply
online or in person, competitive
wages.
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620 2nd Ave., Concordia
DRIVERS: CDL-A w/Hazmat.
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Housekeeping Positions
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Multiple Nursing Positions
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We offer benefits.
Apply in person,
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Mount Joseph Senior Village
1110 W. 11th St.
Concordia, KS. EOE
785-243-1347
SUNSET HOME, INC.
Is accepting applications for
various positions
CNA or CMA Evening
Shifts, Full and Part
time: Positions would
include working every other
weekend.
All applicants should be
reliable and ready to work.
Motivation and willingness to
work as a team are a must.
Starting wages are based
on experience, with benefits
including:
* 401(k) Retirement Plan
* Paid Days Off, Sick Leave,
and Six Annual Holidays.
* Supplemental Insurance
Plans
* Sign on Bonus of $500
($250 after 3 months and
$250 after 6 months).
LAUNDRY ATTENDANT
Day Shift, Part time:
Positions would include working
Monday through Friday.
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Full or part time including
every other weekend. Shift
differential, paid holidays
after probation period.
Apply in person,
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Is hiring for a full time Class
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bonuses. Benefits available.
Home weekends and most
evenings. Apply in person
at 301 Cedar, Concordia
or call 785-243-3345. EOE.
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Sunday, April 3—Homemade chicken and noodles
and lasagna, 11:30-2 p.m.,
bazaar items available for
purchase,
First
United
Methodist Church, 740 W.
11th, Concordia.
Wednesday,
April
6,
Pawnee Indian Museum—
Kansan Audrey Kalivoda
explores stories of The Arikaree Breaks, 7 p.m.
Sunday, April 24, 2 p.m.,
Trinity United Methodist
Church in Salina—Heartland Men’s Chorus in concert.
Tuesday, April 26, 7 p.m.,
Brown Grand Theatre—
Comedy Pet Show.
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Extension Extra
Deanna Turner, DEA
River Valley Extension District
Alzheimer’s Programs in April
More Americans are living longer and being diagnosed
with Alzheimer’s disease. It is the biggest health crisis facing the world today. “Know the 10 Signs of Alzheimer’s
Disease” will be presented April 12- 14 in the River Valley
District counties.
Deanna Turner, K-State Research and Extension River Valley District Agent, will be presenting the Alzheimer’s
program on the following dates and locations:
April 12, 2 p.m., Belleville Extension Spring Tea, Library
April 13, 10 a.m., Concordia Extension Spring Tea,
Courthouse Basement Meeting Room
April 14, 10 a.m., Washington Extension Office, Basement of Courthouse
April 14, 2 p.m., Clay Center Extension Office, 322
Grant Avenue
The program will explore what is Alzheimer’s disease.
Also discussed will be the ten warning steps to be aware.
Early detection and diagnosis is important to allow a person to remain independent for a longer period of time. All
interested men and women are invited to attend.
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Concordia, Kansas on 81
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miles East to 180 Road and
1 mile South. Tractor, Combine, Equipment, Tools, Collectibles, and Misc. Bill Garrison, Seller. Larry Lagasse
Auction.
•Saturday, April 2,
2016– Public Auction at
9:00 a.m. located at the
Kearn Auction House, 220
West 5th Street, Concordia,
Kansas. Vehicle, Coins, Antiques and Misc. Dannie Kearn Auction.
•Monday, April 4, 2016–
Land Auction at 10:00 a.m.
located at the Haddam City
Hall, Haddam Kansas. 240
Acres m/l Grant Township,
Washington County, Kansas. Burt Farm & Ranch Realty, LLC, Auction.
•Monday, April 11, 2016–
Public Auction at 10:00
a.m. located at the Clinic
1 Mile South of Concordia,
Kansas on Highway 81.
Tractor, Equipment, Tools,
Veterinary
Equipment,
Antiques, Household and
other. Walker Veterinary
Clinic, Pat Walker, Seller.
Thummel Auction.
•Saturday,
April
23,
2016 – Public Auction at
10:00 a.m. located at 914 K
Street or 1 block West and
1/2 block South of Water
Tower in Belleville, Kansas.
Fork Lift, Truck, Tractor,
4 Wheeler, New Lumber,
Coragated Tin, Carpenter
Tools, Computer and Other.
Riteway Lumber & Roger
Fuller Construction, Seller. Novak Bros. & Gieber
Auction
•Monday,
April
25,
2016– Real Estate Auction
at 10:00 a.m. located at the
American Legion in Concordia, Kansas. 160+ Acres
Cloud County Tillable Cropland. Dewey and Kathy
Nelson, Sellers. Larry Lagasse Auction.
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Spring into greener lawns
Information to help your lawn look its best
MANHATTAN, Kan. – With winter’s wrath hopefully behind
us, it is time to think about spring. Could it also be time to
transform lawns from brown and sad to green and luscious?
Of course! Proper fertilization, weed control and watering
strategies are essential to make this happen.
Early spring is an important time of year to think about
grass care, especially care for cool-season grasses, said Jared
Hoyle, assistant professor in the Department of Horticulture,
Forestry and Recreation Resources at Kansas State University.
“We have had a mild winter, and it seems like we are warming up quickly,” said Hoyle, a K-State Research and Extension
turfgrass specialist. “The buds are blooming on the trees, and
when I see that, I start to think about what we can do to prepare our lawns for 2016. If we can get on top of things early,
we will be on track for the rest of the year.”
Taking care of weeds
Hoyle said weed control is somewhat different for cool-season and warm-season lawns.
“Any of the winter annual weeds like chickweed or henbit
that are lingering around can be treated with synthetic auxin
herbicides, your typical 2,4-D,” Hoyle said. “It is important
that you do not treat warm-season lawns during the transition from dormant to green. This could delay plant growth.
Don’t worry about the transitional phase with cool-season
lawns.”
Hoyle added that while fall is a more effective time to combat weeds compared to spring, it is best to attempt to exterminate broadleaf weeds before summer and prevent having to
deal with them at a later date.
“As it warms up, we look at not only broadleaf weeds but
our summer annual weeds like crabgrass and goosegrass as
well,” Hoyle said. “Typically in the state of Kansas, our crabgrass inhibitor spray time ranges from April 1 through April
15. Another good time to use the crabgrass preventer is once
the forsythias and redbuds begin to bloom.”
Dandelions should be exterminated before summertime.
The same herbicides used in the fall can be used in the spring,
Hoyle said, but it is important to use those on a day with temperatures above 50 degrees Fahrenheit, as plants need to be
growing to absorb the chemicals.
Applying fertilizer
When thinking about weed control, it is also a good time to
think about soil fertility.
“Warm-season grasses such as Bermudagrass and buffalograss should be fertilized once they turn green,” Hoyle said.
“You can use either a quick or slow release method, and typically it is about a pound per 1,000 (square feet) for the first
application. When using a slow release method, you may use
more fertilizer to last the whole summer.”
Hoyle cautioned that many popular fertilizers also contain
pre-emergent herbicides, so make sure to read the product
labels. Weed control should be done around the beginning of
April or before the warm-season grasses turn green, which
means people should use a product solely for weed control or
that contains little fertilizer. Then consider fertilizing the lawn
once the warm-season grasses have turned green and started
growing.
For cool-season grasses, Hoyle said the “weed and seed” approach can be used, because cool-season grasses start turning green earlier. He still cautioned against using too much
fertilizer at one time.
“During the spring, the soil is still cool while the ambient
air temperature is warmer,” Hoyle explained. “When we fertilize in the spring, we get a lot of shoot growth, or vice versa in
the fall when we fertilize we get a lot of good root growth. If
you have too much soil fertility in the spring with cool-season
grasses, you get more top growth and not much root growth.”
“This can be disastrous in the dry summertime, where the
plant has grown above the soil but hasn’t grown roots,” he
continued. “With cool-season grasses, it is important to have
a good, healthy root stand to survive summer droughts.”
Watering strategies
During the spring when the grass starts to grow, give it
some water, but let it stress some to prepare it for potential
summer stress, Hoyle said.
“Otherwise if we just continuously water the grass, it won’t
grow deep roots for summertime,” he said.
An easy reference point is to give the grass about an inch
of water per week, including rainfall, and don’t water daily,
Hoyle said. Consider not watering for one or two weeks, as
this stress period could be beneficial later. Proper preparation
will help the lawn survive better during a dry, hot summer.
More information on lawn care is available at local extension offices or by visiting the K-State turfgrass research,
teaching and extension website.
Teachers in Chicago take to picket lines
CHICAGO (AP) – Chicago
teachers took to picket lines
Friday morning in an unprecedented one-day strike
they say is aimed at getting
lawmakers to adequately
fund education and other
programs in the nation’s
third-largest district.
The walkout will close
schools for nearly 400,000
students, who will have the
option of spending the day
at one of the more than 250
“contingency sites” Chicago
Public Schools is opening
at churches, libraries and
school buildings.
“We’re going to win funding for our schools and we’re
going to fight until we get it,”
Vice President Jesse Sharkey said at a Friday morning
news conference outside one
school. Behind him teachers
and their supporters chanted “Fight for funding!” and
waved protest signs.
American Federation of
Teachers President Randi
Weingarten rallied too, calling cuts to funding a “reckless disregard of children.”
Friday’s
actions
also
could foreshadow a longer
strike over a new labor contract, which by law can’t occur for several weeks.
The Chicago Teachers
Union last went on strike in
2012, shutting down schools
for more than a week before
reaching an agreement with
Mayor Rahm Emanuel. That
contract expired in June,
and the two sides have been
negotiating for more than a
year over a new one.
CPS, which faces a $1.1
billion budget deficit and billions more in pension debt,
already has halted salary
increases, ordered teachers
to take three furlough days
and imposed other cuts to
schools. It reached an agreement earlier this year with
union leadership on a proposal that included salary
increases. But a larger union
bargaining team rejected it,
partly because it required
employees to contribute
more toward their pensions
and health insurance.
The union and its allies
say the only way to get a fair
contract and improve strug-
gling schools is to pressure
lawmakers such as Emanuel
and Republican Gov. Bruce
Rauner to approve new revenue, either through a tax
increase or other changes.
Illinois is about to enter
its 10th month without a
state budget, and the state’s
ongoing financial problems
have led to severe cuts to social services and education.
While Sharkey acknowledged closing the schools
could create difficulties for
parents, he said it will be
minor compared with the
hardship the state will see
“if we don’t have our public
schools.”
Schools
CEO
Forrest
Claypool, who calls the action a “wildcat strike,” said
CPS and the mayor’s office
share the union’s urgency
for elected officials to resolve
the funding issue. But he
said the walkout isn’t the
answer because it punishes
parents and takes a day of
instruction away from students.
He also called on state
lawmakers to find a solution.
“We need to make it clear
that it’s time to end the
gamesmanship,”
Claypool
said. “When adults play politics, students suffer.”
Teachers who participate
in Friday’s action won’t be
paid for the day, Claypool
said, though he said CPS
expects to take legal action
against the union. The union
says the strike is allowed.
Dozens of unions and
community groups will join
in Friday’s activities, which
include rallies at schools
and universities across the
city. The day will culminate
with a rush-hour gathering and march in downtown
Chicago, where the union
plans to close streets and
disrupt traffic.
***
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some
strangeness in the proportion.
—Francis Bacon
***
Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning,
if you have enough of them.
—James Murray
***
VOTE
Christy Hasch
I would appreciate your vote for
Concordia City Commissioner on April 5
• Resident of Concordia area since 1985
• School Psychologist for USD #333 for 31 years
•Secretary of The Foundation Cloud County Health Center
•Current Mayor of Concordia, 3 years on City Commission
I believe Concordia is a great community in which to live & raise
a family. I will be a positive influence for growth who supports
existing business, & fosters new development.
Your vote on April 5th will be appreciated!
(Paid for by Hasch for City Commissioner.)
LAND AUCTION
240 ACRES M/L GRANT TOWNSHIP,
WASHINGTON COUNTY, KANSAS
MONDAY, APRIL 4, 2016 — 10:00 AM
Haddam City Hall, HADDAM, KANSAS
PROPERTY ADDRESS: Corner of Arrowhead Rd and 16th Rd (SW
corner of property)
LEGAL DESCRIPTION: The Southwest ¼ & the West ½ of the SE
Quarter of Section 08, Township O3, Range 01 East of the 6th P.M.,
Washington County, Kansas.
MINERALS: Seller's mineral rights will pass to the buyer.
TAXES: 2015 taxes approx. $2,001.00.
POSSESSION: Immediate possession following the auction.
DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: 46 acres in production; 81 acres of
CRP; 2.6 acres of waterways; and 110 acres of pasture and wildlife
habitat. This a very diversified farm offering cropland, pasture and
hunting. There is a creek on the West side of the property with mature
hardwood trees. Deer and turkeys are plentiful. Cropland is on the
East side of the creek gently sloping up to the pasture. Many more
acres of cropland could be developed. Electricity and 2 wells are located on the S/W corner of the property.
TERMS OF SALE: 10% down day of the sale, balance due at closing. Closing
shall be on or before May 4, 2016. Seller to pay 2015 taxes and Buyer to pay
2016 and subsequent taxes. Title insurance, escrow and closing costs to be
split equally between buyer and seller. Immediate possession following the auction and upon the 10% payment. This property to be sold “as-is”. All inspections
by the buyer should be made independently by the buyer prior to date of sale.
This is a cash sale and will not be subject to financing. Burt Farm & Ranch Realty, LLC is acting as a Seller’s agent and represents the seller’s interest.
All information has been obtained from Washington County sources and is
deemed reliable but not guaranteed. The Law Office of Elizabeth Baskerville Hiltgen P.A. will act as escrow and closing
agent. Statements made day of sale will take precedence over
printed material.
BURT FARM & RANCH REALTY, LLC
123 W. 2nd, Washington, KS • 785-325-2260
TODD BURT,
Broker
(785) 541-0419
ETHAN SCHUETTE,
Agent & Auctioneer
(785) 541-1027
LAURIE BURT,
Agent
(785) 541-0519
www.tburtrealty.com marlinkid@hotmail.com
8 Blade-Empire, Friday, April 1, 2016
Looking Back
Today is Friday, April 1, the 92nd day of 2016. There
are 274 days left in the year. This is April Fool’s Day.
Today’s Highlights in History:
•On April 1, 1976, Apple Computer was founded by Steve
Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. The federally created Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail for short) began operations in the northeastern U.S. (it was taken over
in 1999 by CSX and Norfolk Southern).
On this date:
•In 1789, the U.S. House of Representatives held its first
full meeting in New York; Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania was elected the first House speaker.
•In 1891, the Wrigley Co. was founded in Chicago by William Wrigley Jr. (Although the business initially sold soap
and baking powder, it became known for its chewing gum.)
•In 1924, Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich. (Hitler
was released in December 1924; during his time behind
bars, he wrote his autobiographical screed, “Mein Kampf.”)
•In 1933, Nazi Germany staged a daylong national boycott of Jewish-owned businesses.
•In 1945, American forces launched the amphibious invasion of Okinawa during World War II. (U.S. forces succeeded in capturing the Japanese island on June 22.)
•In 1954, the United States Air Force Academy was established by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
•In 1962, the Katherine Anne Porter novel “Ship of Fools,”
an allegory about the rise of Nazism in Germany, was published by Little, Brown & Co.
•In 1970, President Richard M. Nixon signed a measure
banning cigarette advertising on radio and television, to
take effect after Jan. 1, 1971.
•In 1972, the first Major League Baseball players’ strike
began; it lasted 12 days.
•In 1984, recording star Marvin Gaye was shot to death
by his father, Marvin Gay (cq), Sr. in Los Angeles, the day
before his 45th birthday. (The elder Gay pleaded guilty to
voluntary manslaughter, and received probation.)
•In 1986, “New Kids on the Block,” the group’s debut
album, was released by Columbia Records.
•In 1992, the National Hockey League Players’ Association went on its first strike, which lasted 10 days.
Ten years ago: Former hostage Jill Carroll arrived in
Germany, where the freelance American journalist strongly
disavowed statements she had recorded during her captivity in Iraq and shortly after her release, saying she’d been repeatedly threatened. Two American pilots were killed when
their Apache helicopter was shot down near Baghdad.
Five years ago: Afghans angry over the burning of a
Quran at a small Florida church stormed a U.N. compound
in northern Afghanistan, killing seven foreigners, including
four Nepalese guards. Jimmer Fredette was named The Associated Press player of the year after leading the nation in
scoring and BYU to one of its best basketball seasons; Notre
Dame’s Mike Brey was named coach of the year.
One year ago: Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., was charged
with accepting nearly $1 million worth of gifts and travel
from a longtime friend in exchange for a stream of political
favors on the donor’s behalf; a defiant Menendez, maintaining his innocence, declared he was “not going anywhere.”
Eleven former Atlanta public school educators were convicted of racketeering for their role in a cheating scheme
to inflate students’ scores on standardized exams. California Gov. Jerry Brown ordered officials to impose statewide
mandatory water restrictions for the first time in history.
Cynthia Lennon, the first wife of John Lennon, died at her
home in Spain; she was 75.
Today’s Birthdays: Actress Jane Powell is 87. Actress
Debbie Reynolds is 84. Actor Don Hastings is 82. Baseball
Hall of Famer Phil Niekro is 77. Actress Ali MacGraw is 77.
Rhythm-and-blues singer Rudolph Isley is 77. Baseball AllStar Rusty Staub is 72. Reggae singer Jimmy Cliff is 68.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is 66. Rock musician
Billy Currie (Ultravox) is 66. Actress Annette O’Toole is 64.
Movie director Barry Sonnenfeld is 63. Singer Susan Boyle
is 55. Actor Jose Zuniga is 54. Country singer Woody Lee
is 48. Actress Jessica Collins is 45. Rapper-actor Method
Man is 45. Movie directors Allen and Albert Hughes are 44.
Political commentator Rachel Maddow is 43. Tennis player
Magdalena Maleeva is 41. Actor David Oyelowo (oh-YEL’oh-woh) is 40. Actor JJ Field is 38. Singer Bijou Phillips is
36. Actor Sam Huntington is 34. Comedian-actor Taran Killam is 34. Actor Matt Lanter is 33. Actor Josh Zuckerman
is 31. Country singer Hillary Scott (Lady Antebellum) is 30.
Actor Asa Butterfield is 19.
Thought for Today: “Don’t believe everything you
read on the Internet.” – Attributed to President Abraham Lincoln.
More Highlight in History:
•In 1974, eight Ohio National Guardsmen were indicted
on federal charges stemming from the shooting deaths of
four students at Kent State University. (The charges were
later dismissed.) Chinese farmers digging a well discovered
the Terracota Warriors, an “army” of sculpted soldiers dating from the third century B.C.
•In 1984, under cover of early morning darkness, the
Baltimore Colts football team left its home city of three decades and moved to Indianapolis.
•In 1992, Democratic presidential front-runner Bill Clinton acknowledged experimenting with marijuana “a time or
two” while attending Oxford University, adding, “I didn’t inhale and I didn’t try it again.”
Ten years ago: Hamas formally took over the Palestinian
government, with Ismail Haniyeh (IHS’-may-el hah-NEE’yuh) sworn in as the new prime minister. The U.N. Security
Council demanded that Iran suspend uranium enrichment,
the first time the body directly urged Tehran to clear up
suspicions that it was seeking nuclear weapons. Former
Liberian President Charles Taylor, accused of war crimes,
was flown to Sierra Leone after he was captured in northern Nigeria. (Taylor received a 50-year sentence in 2012
for sponsoring atrocities committed by the Revolutionary
United Front rebels in Sierra Leone in exchange for “blood
diamonds.”)
Commission
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Sacco — The city faces two big
challenges:
A. Stop the decline in its population.
Data from the State of Kansas shows
that as of 7/15/15 the population of
Concordia was 5,382 people. That is
a drop of 14 % from 2010. They are
projecting another 5 % by 2020. That
is a lot of people. Meanwhile, cities like
Beloit increase 3 % in 2015 and are
projected to increase another 37 % by
2020. It is no wonder that businesses
are closing in Concordia.
B. Personal property and land values have peaked, and are declining thus mill levees will be forced to
increase just to maintain the same
amount of money that they are creating today. Likewise taxes in the city
can only be increased so much before
more people say enough is enough
and move out. As less tax money
comes in, both directly and indirectly,
it becomes imperative that a financial
balance is created or critical aspects
of the city will not be maintained because there will be no funds. Example:
In 2011 $455,175 was spent for public works, while $518,453 was spent
on park related items. In 2015 public
works spending was increased by only
$6,125, or up 1.4 %. Meanwhile that
same year, park related items was increased by $37,729, or up 12.5 %. It is
no wonder that the streets and sewers
are in the condition that they are. We
have to get the city's financial spending back in balance.
Jeardoe — I believe that some of
the challenges facing the city of Concordia in the future will be crumbling
infrastructure, lack of jobs and the
housing vacancies that are growing.
To address these challenges we need
to set short term goals for accomplishing the work to bring the issues under
control. We then need to set long term
goals to allow for these challenges to
be maintained. All of this needs to be
accomplished with the help of the people of the city.
2. One main street business has
closed, and two others are going
out of business in the next several
months. What role do you see the
City Commission playing in attracting new businesses to Concordia?
Wentz — The commission has
CloudCorp working on economic development. The City's role is to maintain
the infrastructure and help restore the
downtown street scape so businesses
want to locate in our downtown area.
Attracting entrepreneurs to Concordia by making sure our parks, ball
diamonds and overall quality of life
is good. The overall condition of the
town is important to attracting new
growth. We have incentives in place to
help with fixing up buildings for businesses, and even tearing down ones
that are no longer safe. The city has a
revolving loan fund to help entrepreneurs just getting started in business.
Hasch — Seeing our beloved businesses close is difficult for everybody.
I believe that the City Commission
needs to provide the services needed for new and existing businesses
to thrive in our community. This includes good streets, sanitary sewer facilities and quality water. The public
works department is doing a good job
to keep things “flowing,” in my opinion! Presently, we are getting ready to
make upgrades to the sewage treatment plant, as well as upgrades to the
water and sewer lines. We also need
to be sure that the community is welcoming of new businesses, and attractive to patrons of those businesses,
guests and to our residents. Some of
the loan and grant programs that are
available through CloudCorp (with
City sponsorship) help to encourage
the development of new businesses,
and should be continued.
Sacco — It is impossible to bring
new service type businesses to Concordia unless you first stop the decline
in our population. And the only way
to stop the decline is to bring industry type jobs to Concordia. Industries
that can create a lot of real jobs. Jobs
that will create a reason for our youth
to stay instead of going somewhere
where there are real jobs.
The City Commission needs to take
a more active role than they have been
taking with CloudCorp when it comes
to seeking out industries to locate in
Concordia. You have to remember
that CloudCorp also has other priorities, while the City Commission better have just one, the city. The commission needs to not only take a more
active role with CloudCorp but work
with CloudCorp more closely with the
State of Kansas, who does have lists of
companies that are looking at Kansas.
By taking a more active role, the City
Commission will be showing the citizens that the growth, and now decline,
of the population of Concordia is their
first priority.
Jeardoe — I see the City Commission's role as the first contact for any
new business that is wanting to come
into Concordia. The City Commission
should be first in line for all discussions for new businesses. Then, they
should be the last in line to accept the
new businesses.
3. What incentives do you believe
the city should offer prospective
businesses and industries to come
to Concordia?
Wentz — I believe you cannot predict what a business will want until
that business is in discussion with the
city. Each business is unique in itself,
and incentives should be offered based
on each specific case, depending on
number of jobs created and money
generated over time in the community.
Hasch — The city has a history of
supporting new business development
through efforts of CloudCorp and the
Chamber of Commerce. Loans at a favorable interest rate, as well as grants
for development are available. Additionally, I support procurement of
goods and services through local vendors for public projects when possible.
Once businesses have been recruited,
and established, it is important to patronize them. That is true for both the
City of Concordia as well as its citizens.
Sacco — Incentives are nice , but
every city can offer them. They are
also short term. Therefore, there are
other things that CEOs of companies
view that are just as important today. Companies look for cities that
will allow them to easily attract upper management type people as well
as workers to come to the city and
work for them. They look at cities with
good schools, a hospital, good parks,
housing, maintained streets and sewers, a fair tax structure and a friendly
and safe environment. Those are the
items that sell a company, not just
short term incentives. We have good
schools, a hospital, great parks, housing potential and a friendly ans safe
environment. What we don't have are
low taxes and maintained streets and
sewers. All red flags to a company considering coming here, as right away
they start wondering just how high
will the taxes go once the short term
incentives are gone. Those red flags
are serious stoppers, and must be re-
solved before any industry will look at
us. Or at least have a game plan in
place that will show these companies
that they will be resolved.
Jeardoe — The incentives that
should be offered are tax breaks to help
them establish a good solid foundation
for their business to grow and expand.
With the tax breaks, the city should
have a set of goals that will work with
any and all prospective businesses.
But we cannot forget about the existing businesses. They are currently
the backbone of our community. We
should also work to set up some goals
and incentives for them. They are also
in serious need of help for creating
and maintaining a competitive edge
for their growth as well.
4. What do you see as the priorities for the City Commission in the
upcoming years?
Wentz — I think finishing projects
that we have started, north development, south development, the Broadway Plaza and the upgrade of the
wastewater treatment plant should be
the immediate priorities. Then replacing infrastructure in the downtown,
resurfacing streets and street scape
of Sixth Street. I believe it is time
once again to review our Comprehensive Plan that was adopted in August
2011. This is a tool for the commission
to use to understand what is important to the citizens of Concordia. We
use it in making decisions concerning
the direction the city needs to follow.
We as a commission need to think to
the future and not just what benefits
us now.
Hasch — Priorities will include:
Continue to develop the potential of
the area around the 21st Street dam
to enhance the aesthetics and functionality of the space.
Continue to upgrade water and
sewer lines in the city.
Continue with planned upgrades to
the wastewater treatment plant.
Determine what would be needed to
bring our current pool up to date and
provide the kind of recreational facility for Concordia and area residents to
enjoy.
Work with other entities to support plans and development of a new
healthcare facility.
Sacco — If elected, my first priority will be to create a City Mission
Statement, which I am told from past
commissioners that we don't have.
How can you run a business– and
despite what people think, Concordia is a business–without one is beyond me. And when you look at the
drop in population, loss of business,
not to mention the streets and sewers, it tells me you can't. When you
sit down and make a city budget, it is
imperative that you have goals (where
do you want the city to be in 2, 3,
4 and 5 years?) you can then look at
each line item and say, will that help
the city achieve one of its goals. If not,
then it must be cut. This may require
some tough decisions. It will mean at
times restructuring where money has
been spent in the past. And if tough
decisions are not made, the decline
in our population will continue and
businesses will continue to close. And
there is no screen big enough to stop
it.
Jeardoe — The priorities for the
upcoming city commissions are everchanging. They need to be flexible and
involved in knowing what the community, businesses and surrounding area
need. The City of Concordia does not
just serve its residents, but it serves
the surrounding areas as a work center and center of retail commerce.
Courthouse
District Court
LIMITED CIVIL
Dismissed:
The case of Acquisitions
V, LLC vs. Shelbi R. Hamel,
Concordia, has been dismissed without prejudice.
Settled:
Cloud County Health
Center Inc. dba Family Care
Center received a judgment
of $2,359.68 plus interest
of $253.10 and costs from
Bryce M. Hutsell, Clyde.
Cloud County Health
Center received a judgment
of $312.59 plus interest
of $25.671 and costs from
Ryan Hamilton, Salina.
Cloud County Health
Center received a judgment
of $13,910.85 plus interest
of $1,911.34 and costs from
Regina M. Smith, Concordia.
Filed:
Mike Strong Inc. dba
Mike’s Payday Loan seeks a
judgment of $500 plus $105
finance charge, refund check
check charge and 36 percent
per year interest from March
24, 2015, from Andrew W.
Evert, Belleville.
TRAFFIC
All Subtypes
March 24-30
The following people received fines for speeding:
Joshua L. Barber, $183;
Charlene A. Carrol, Cassandra M. Hatzenbuehler, Austin L. Montague, Steven D.
Morgan, Harry G. Paredes,
Keri Schuetz, $153; Jose Medina-Martinez, $195; Codi
Nelson, $318; Amy S. Rickard, $183; Silas J. Vanhorn,
$201; Jared D. Vanlandingham, $195.
Receiving $10 fines for
failure to wear seat belt were
Charlene A. Carroll, Fredrick Thomas Caroll IV, Wyatt
James Cumberland, Jenoah
Jevonte Dyke, Sabrina J.
Stolzenberg.
Receiving fines for other
violations were: Kendall L.
Kaufman, failure to yield to
emergency vehicle, $303;
Harry H. Morrison III, liability insurance coverage required, $408.
LEGAL TRANSFERS
Quit Claim Deeds:
Great Plains Annual Con-
ference of the United Methodist Church to Scott Seifert
and Dawn M. Seifert, west
60’ of lot 9, block 4, city of
Clyde, Cloud County, Kansas.
Naomi Lynn Stromberg to
James Allan Stromberg, lots
19 and 20 in block 124 in
the city of Concordia, Cloud
County, Kansas, according
to the recorded plat thereof
except a tract, see record.
Naomi
Stromberg
to
James Allan Stromberg,
all of lot 21 in block 124 in
the city of Concordia, Cloud
County Kansas according to
the recorded plat thereof.
United States of America
to Skyline Investments LLC,
north 60’ of east half of lot
26, north 60’ of lot 27, block
122, city of Concordia, Cloud
County Kansas.
Trustee’s Deed:
Richard Campbell, trustee
of the Virginia L. Faulkner
trust No. 1, Kyle A. Campbell, trustee of the Virginia
L. Faulkner trust No. 1 to
Charles H. Knapp and Lisa
B. Knapp, all of the south
half of lots 8, 9 and 10, block
32, Concordia, Cloud County
Kansas.
Warranty Deeds:
Wade L. Heinrichs and
Amber Denise Heinrichs to
Susan J. Trost and Bruce
C. Trost, north half of lots
10 and 11, block 99, city of
Concordia, Cloud County
Kansas, see record.
Swedish American State
Bank to William Strickland
and Mary Kate Scanlan
Strickland, lot 15, block 71,
original town of Concordia,
Cloud County Kansas.
EARLY HISTORY OF
CLOUD COUNTY
By H.E. Smith
The Crinkleton Mystery
Our grotesque teapot was
an article decidedly ugly,
wearing a permanent and
disagreeable grin, and with
a kind of snake arrangement for handle and spout.
The gentle associations—the
day’s labor done the drawing in round the fire, the
family circle with the cheering, and not inebriating results—seem wholly incompatible with the use of such
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an article; and the spectacle
of the amiable fluid poured
from such a vessel by gentle
hands almost a painful one.
I would not part with it
for any money; it is held in
affection like a cherished
heirloom. Ye it is damagedindeed, from the network of
lines and cracks which covers it, even an unprofessional could see that it had been
“smashed” into a hundred
pieces at least. So it has.
One day it got a fall—was
dropped—and lay on the
floor, shivered into a heap of
fragments. The restoration,
deemed impossible at first,
was undertaken for a large
sum of money, which was
paid with delight, for that fall
brought about what you are
now going to hear.
I well recollect the day
that my dear father secured
it, and when he said it was
“a unique.” We could see no
beauty in it, although we
tried hard to do so; and, as
to its uniqueness, we rather
thought that was an advantage for the world, and for
the spread of taste. He was
considered a general enthusiast, this Mr. Crinkleton,
and, as I once overheard a
brother amateur whisper
to this friend, “like a particular saucer—all cracked
and mended,” and, though
I should not say it, still the
conviction began to force itself on me of late years that,
from over-devotion to this
pursuit, he had grown a little
odd.
Not that he was one of
the reckless, wasteful amateurs, with whom collecting
is a passion as impossible to
be resisted as drinking, and
who devour and swallow everything with a reckless craving. He had the most surprising taste and judgment,
and it was admitted that the
choicest and most valuable
portion of his collection had
been gathered very cheaply,
when he was a poor man.
I can see I have been assuming a good many things
as known which there has
not been time to tell.
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Register of Deeds
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Obituaries
ZELLA I. HAMEL
Zella I. Hamel, age 96,
Concordia, left her earthly
home on Thursday, March
31, 2016, at Sunset Nursing Home, Concordia. She
was born on Oct. 2, 1919, in
Oakley, Kan., to Louis J. &
Georgiana (Benoit) Hamel.
Zella lived in Goodland,
Kan. She worked as a waitress in the Goodland area
and was a member of the
Catholic Church in Goodland. She returned to Concordia in 1995.
She is survived by several
nieces and nephews, great
nieces and great nephews.
She was preceded in death
by her parents; brothers,
Wilbert and Elmer Hamel
and sisters, Leda Ribordy
and Delena Marcotte.
Visitation will be from 1-8
p.m., Sunday, April 3, 2016,
with a Rosary at 6 p.m. Family will greet friends after the
Rosary all at Chaput-Buoy
Funeral Home.
Zella I. Hamel
Funeral services will be
10 a.m., Monday, April 4,
2016, at Chaput-Buoy Funeral Home. Burial will follow at St. Joseph Cemetery,
St. Joseph, Kan.
The family suggests memorials to Guardians of the
St. Joseph Church in care of
the funeral home.
For online condolences,
please visit www.chaputbuoy.com.
For the Record
Sheriff’s Dept. report
Arrests—At
approximately 2:15 a.m., March 27,
Cloud County deputies received a report of a fight at
1328 Rust Road. Following
an investigation, deputies arrested Matthew Ovard, Concordia, charging him with
assault. Ovard was transported to the Cloud County
Law Enforcement Center.
At approximately 8:50
p.m., March 27, Cloud
County deputies received a
report of a fight at 1843 N.
132nd Road. Following an
investigation deputies arrested Brandon Brundridge,
Concordia, charging him
with domestic battery. Brundridge was transported to
the Cloud County Law Enforcement Center.
Theft—At approximately
4 p.m., March 28, a Cloud
County deputy responded to
502 West 1st Street in Miltonvale for a theft report. The
City of Miltonvale reported
that someone connected the
residence to city water without permission. The incident
is under investigation and
charges are pending.
Accidents—At approximately 9:40 p.m. a Cloud
County deputy responded to
a non-injury accident in the
1500 section of Camp Road.
A 2003 Dodge Caravan, driven by Angela Mitchell, Miltonvale, was east bound on
Camp Road when it struck a
cow owned by Donald Hartley.
At approximately 12:45
p.m. Cloud County deputies responded to an injury
accident on K9 Highway at
Mitchell Road. A 2004 Chevy
Trail Blazer, driven by Angela Peterson, Concordia,
was west bound on K9 highway when it was struck by
a north bound 2006 Ford
F150 pickup driven by John
Hynck,
Beloit.
Peterson
was transported by Mitchell County EMS to Mitchell County Health Hospital
where she was treated for
her injuries and released.
Mitchell County sheriff’s
Office and Mitchell County
EMS assisted with the accident.
Police Dept. report
Criminal damage—Mark
Moffett, Concordia, reported
at 9:15 p.m. criminal damage which had occurred in
the 1300 block of Spruce.
Investigation continues.
Aaron Hake, Concordia,
reported at 4 p.m., March 31
criminal damage to property
belonging to the City of Concordia that had occurred in
the 1800 block of Republican. Investigation continues.
Lost and found—Items
found and turned in to the
Police Department to be
identified and claimed, date
and location found include
the following: Feb. 18, collapsed tube, high school
track; March 3, bicycle,
2000 block of West 8t Street;
March 11, cash, 1400 block
of Olive St.; March 16, two
keys, 700 block of Valley
Street; March 28, bicycle,
200 block of West 8th Street;
March 28, garage door opener, 100 block of West 7th
Street; March 29, key and
key ring, basketball court.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)
– California and New York
are poised to become the
highest-paid minimum-wage
states in the nation after governors for both reached deals
with lawmakers to raise the
lowest amount a worker can
be paid to a record-shattering $15 an hour.
Gov. Jerry Brown said
he will sign California’s new
minimum-wage bill Monday
in Los Angeles after it passed
the Legislature on Thursday.
Across the country in New
York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo
reached a tentative deal late
Thursday with his state’s
top lawmakers to also raise
his state’s minimum wage to
$15.
The actions in two of the
nation’s most labor-friendly
states come as the income
divide has become a key issue across the U.S. in this
presidential election year.
President Barack Obama,
who first proposed an increase to the federal minimum wage in 2013, applauded the states’ actions
and called on the Republican-controlled Congress to
“keep up with the rest of the
country.”
“California takes a massive leap forward today in
the fight to rebalance our
nation’s economy,” said Art
Pulaski, executive secretarytreasurer of the California
Labor Federation.
California’s current $10
an hour minimum wage is
tied with Massachusetts for
the highest among states.
Only Washington, D.C., at
$10.50 per hour is higher.
New York’s minimum wage
is $9.
Democrats who control
both legislative chambers in
California hailed the increase
as a boon to more than 2 million workers. Brown, also a
Democrat, said it proves the
nation’s largest state can get
things done and help people
get ahead.
Republicans,
however,
echoed fears from business
owners and economists that
California’s annual increases – eventually tied to inflation – will compound the
state’s image as hostile to
business.
Assemblyman Jim Patterson, R-Fresno, said the
increase would force small
business owners to make
layoffs “with tears in their
eyes,” ultimately resulting in
less employment.
The
increases
would
start with a boost from $10
to $10.50 on Jan. 1. Businesses with 25 or fewer employees would have an extra
year to comply. Increases
of $1 an hour would come
every January until 2022.
The governor could delay increases in times of budgetary or economic downturns.
The tentative deal reached
by New York officials Thursday would be phased in
regionally in the nation’s
fourth-largest state. It would
also eventually affect more
than 2 million workers.
In New York City, the
wage would increase to $15
by the end of 2018, though
businesses with fewer than
10 employees would get an
extra year. In the New York
City suburbs of Long Island
and Westchester County,
the wage would rise to $15
by the end of 2022. The increases are even more drawn
out upstate, where the wage
would hit $12.50 in 2021
and then increase to $15
based on an undetermined
schedule.
“This minimum wage increase will be of national
significance,”
Cuomo,
a
Democrat, told reporters
Thursday. “It’s raising the
minimum wage in a way
that’s responsible.”
Cuomo had initially proposed a simpler phase-in:
three years in New York City
and six years elsewhere. The
more gradual, nuanced approach was the result of negotiations with Republicans
in the state Senate who worried such a sharp increase
would devastate businesses,
particularly in the upstate
region’s more fragile economy.
Brown was previously
reluctant to raise California’s base wage. He negotiated the deal with labor
unions to head off competing labor-backed November ballot initiatives that
would have imposed swifter
increases without some of
the safeguards included in
the legislation. Brown now
says California’s fast-growing economy can absorb the
raises without the problems
predicted by opponents.
About 2.2 million Californians now earn the minimum wage. The University
of California, Berkeley, Center for Labor Research and
Education projected the increase would have a ripple
effect for those whose wages
would increase to keep pace.
Today’s weather artwork by
Mackenzie Gillenwater,
a 2nd grader in
Mrs. Moore’s class
Today’s weather artwork by
Taylor Parker,
a 2nd grader in
Mrs. Lambert’s class
Markets
NEW YORK (AP) – U.S.
stocks are edging higher in
Friday afternoon trading.
Consumer companies are rising after the government said
job growth continued at a
strong clip in March. Energy
and mining companies are
struggling as the prices of oil
and precious metals drop.
KEEPING SCORE: The
Dow Jones industrial average picked up 65 points, or
0.4 percent, to 17,750 as of
1:41 p.m. Eastern time. The
Standard & Poor’s 500 index
added seven points, or 0.3
percent, to 2,066. The Nasdaq composite index rose
29 points, or 0.6 percent, to
4,899. Stocks haven’t made
many sharp moves in recent
weeks, but have drifted gradually higher.
HIRING CONTINUES: The
U.S. government reported
that private employers added
215,000 jobs in March, a bit
more than expected. That
shows employers are confident enough to add staff
even though overall economic growth has slowed down.
More people also looked for
work and pay ticked higher.
CONSUMER POWER: Consumer companies advanced.
McDonald’s rose $1.45, or 1.2
percent, to $127.14 and Visa
picked up $1.16, or 1.5 percent, to $77.64. Home Depot
added $1.31, or 1 percent, to
$134.74.
THE QUOTE: Kate Warne,
investment strategist for Edward Jones, said the report
shows the U.S. economy is
staying on track and growth
remains steady in spite of all
the stock market turmoil this
year.
“That means more spending on everything from housing to McDonald’s,” she said.
“It’s one more confirmation
that the worries from earlier
in the year really weren’t warranted.”
OIL: Energy prices dropped
as investors grew pessimistic
about the fate of a proposed
deal for major oil-producing
nations to reduce production. Benchmark U.S. crude
fell $1.28, or 3.3 percent,
to $37.06 per barrel in New
York. Brent crude, used
to price international oils,
dropped $1.49, or 3.7 percent, to $38.84 a barrel in
London.
Chevron lost $1.01, or 1.1
percent, to $94.39 and Mara-
thon Oil retreated 65 cents, or
5.8 percent, to $10.49.
DRIVE MY CAR: Tesla
Motors gained $6.25, or 2.7
percent, to $236.02 after the
electric car company said
it received a flood of orders
for Model 3, the new, lowerpriced vehicle it announced
on Thursday.
HITTING THE BRAKES:
Automakers are falling even
though the U.S. auto industry on pace for its best month
in 10 years. While people
keep buying cars and trucks
in big numbers, discounts
are jumping, and there were
more selling days last month
than usual, which boosted
sales.
Ford lost 35 cents, or 2.6
percent, to $13.15 and General Motors declined 75 cents,
or 2.4 percent, to $30.68.
ANBANG SAYS BYE: Just
days after it offered to buy
Starwood Hotels for $15 billion, a consortium led by Anbang Insurance Group ended
its bid. Starwood had accepted a $14 billion offer from
Marriott but said Anbang’s
bid was better.
Starwood fell $4, or 4.8 percent, to $79.43 and Marriott
lost $3.91, or 5.5 percent, to
$67.27. Starwood and Marriott would become the biggest
hotel chain in the world, and
competing hotel companies
also fell. Hilton shed 49 cents,
or 2.2 percent, to $22.03.
REGENERATING:
Regeneron
Pharmaceuticals
jumped after an eczema drug
it is developing with Sanofi
met its goals in a late-stage
clinical trial. The stock gained
$48.51, or 13.5 percent, to
$408.95, leading a recovery in
drugmaking stocks. Biotechnology companies including
Amgen and Gilead Sciences
also traded higher.
LOCAL MARKETS -EAST
Wheat ...........................$4.10
Milo ......(per bushel) ....$2.77
Corn .............................$2.99
Soybeans .....................$8.40
CONCORDIA TERMINAL
LOADING FACILITY
LOCAL MARKETS - WEST
Wheat ..........................$4.10
Milo .....(per bushel) .....$2.77
JAMESTOWN MARKETS
Wheat ...........................$4.00
Milo ...(per bushel) ........$2.72
Soybeans .....................$8.30
Nusun .........................$13.80
Church Directory
4J COWBOY CHURCH
CHURCH OF CHRIST
221 West 2nd Street, Phone 275-2392
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Pastor Earl Hale
1646 N. 9th St., Salina, Kan. 67401
Sunday, 10 a.m.—Morning Worship; 6:00 p.m.– Night Worship
(785) 827-2957
Sunday, 7:30 a.m.— “Search for the Lord’s Way,” Channel 13.
DELPHOS UNITED METHODIST
Sunday, 9:30 a.m.—Worship; 10:40 a.m.—Sunday School.
CONCORDIA FIRST UNITED METHODIST
740 W. 11th Phone 243-4560
ASSEMBLIES OF GOD
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
9:30 a.m.—Sunday School; 10:30 a.m.—Worship Service and Children’s Ministry
6th & Archer, Home 243-3043
Branch President, Kenneth Hansen, 785.280.1638
R.R. 3, Concordia Phone 243-3049
Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. – Night Worship.
VICTORY FAITH ASSEMBLY OF GOD
1022 E. 11th Street
243-9773, 243-9767
Pastor Tessa Zehring
HUSCHER UNITED METHODIST
Pastor Cory Shipley
Missionaries, Elder and Sister Gordon, 479-366-2285
Pastor Joe Koechner
Sunday, 9:30 a.m.—Sunday School; 10:30 a.m.—Worship;
Sunday, 9:30 a.m.—Sacrament; 10:40 a.m.—Sunday School.
Sunday, 9:30 a.m. –Worship.
Majestic 4 Theatre, 229 W. 6th St.
JAMESTOWN UNITED METHODIST
CROSSPOINT CHURCH
6 p.m.—Evening service.
Wednesday, 6 p.m.—IMPACT Youth Ministry; 6:30 p.m.—Victory Kids Outreach.
THE BAPTIST CHURCH
10:30 a.m. – Sunday School.
Matthew Carder, Campus Pastor
2376 N. 60th Road, Jamestown
THE BAPTIST CHURCH
Andy Addis, Senior Pastor
Church, 439-6488 Lay Minister, Randy Whitley, 439-6353
333 West 7th Phone 243-3756
Sunday, 10 a.m.—Worship.
Sunday, 9:30 a.m.—Sunday School;
CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY
TRINITY UNITED METHODIST
10:45 a.m.– Worship. 6:30 p.m. – Youth Group.
117 W. 8th, P.O. Box 466, Concordia 243-2947 (O)
Lincoln at Eighth Phone 243-3049
Wednesday, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.—AWANA (during school year);
Sunday, (April 3) 10:00 a.m. – Morning Prayer.
EPISCOPAL
Interim Pastor Al Magnuson
9:15 a.m.—Sunday School;
10:15 a.m.—Coffee fellowship;
7:00 p.m.—Prayer meeting.
Handicap Accessible
10:45 a.m.—Worship.
Sunday – 11:00 a.m. Worship Service.
Pastor Stuart Johnson
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
Living Hope Foursquare Church
FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor Joe Koechner
FOURSQUARE.
PRESBYTERIAN
18th & Archer Phone 243-3230
129 W. 6th Phone 243-2289
Pastor Brian Hughes
Sunday, 10:30 a.m.—Service.
Pastor Bob Frasier
For pickup, call 243-3230
Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. – Bible Study
9:30 a.m. – Worship Service with Elder Roxie Baer, CRE Intern.
LUTHERAN
Sunday, 10 a.m.—Sunday School; 11 a.m.—Worship; 6:00 p.m.—Service.
PEACE PARISH LUTHERAN CHURCHES
Wednesday, 7 p.m.—Mid-Week Service. We love kids!
Parish Office, 785.335.2267
BETHEL CHURCH
Pastor Thomas Kamprath
233 W. 7th 243-3785
Adult and Children’s Sunday School to follow Worship Service.
Wednesday, 5:00 p.m. – Choir practice
PROVIDENCE REFORMED
FELLOWSHIP
Bethel Church
Office Hours: Tuesday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
(nondenominational)
Wednesday, 9 a.m -11 a.m.; Friday, 10a.m. to Noon.
www.providencereformedfellowship.com
7 miles east and 1 mile south of Glasco or
ADA LUTHERAN CHURCH, Rural Courtland
Sunday, 9 a.m. – Sunday School; 10 a.m. – Worship.
2 miles west of 81/24 junction and 1 mile south.
Sunday, 11 a.m. – Worship.
CATHOLIC
AMANA LUTHERAN CHURCH, Scandia, Phone 335-2265
OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP
Sunday, 9 a.m. – Worship.
CATHOLIC CHURCH
AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH, Belleville
122 West 6th (the Dance Company building)
SCOTTSVILLE COMMUNITY CHURCH
Commercial Ave. Scottsville Phone 785-534-3227
Pastor Joshua Krohse
THE WESLEYAN CHURCH
307 E. 5th Phone 243-1099
Sunday, 9 a.m. – Worship.
Father Brian Lager
OUR SAVIOR’S LUTHERAN CHURCH, Norway, 785-335-2628
Pastor David Redmond, Lead Pastor
16th and Cedar, Phone 243-4071
Priest’s residence, 420 Kansas
Sunday, 11 a.m. – Worship.
Pastor Bob Burns, Assistant Pastor/Visitation
MASS SCHEDULE:
CONCORDIA LUTHERAN CHURCH
Pastor Josh Blain, Assistant Pastor/Youth
Sunday, 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. Saturday evening, 5 p.m.
325 E. 8th, 243-2476
Sunday, 9:15 a.m.—Traditional Worship; 10:45 a.m.—Contemporary Worship;
Weekdays, 7:15 a.m
Sunday, 9:15 a.m. – Sunday School.
*Nursery is available for newborn thru 36 months during both worship services.
ST. PETER’S CHURCH
10:30 a.m. – Worship and Communion. Coffee Fellowship.
Children’s Worship is available for children ages 4 through 1st grade and meets
2:00 p.m. – Fellowship.
during the 10:45 worship service after the worship medley;
Aurora
Fr. James Soosainathan
First, Third and Fifth Saturdays, 7 p.m.—Mass.
Second and Fourth Sundays, 8:30 a.m.—Mass.
MOUNT JOSEPH CHAPEL
Sunday, 11 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 11:15 a.m.
Wednesday, 9:00 a.m. – Bible Study.
9:15 a.m.—Sunday School for all ages.
5:30 p.m.– Confirmation/ Pre-Confirmation. 6:30 p.m. – Worship.
7:00 p.m. (during the school year) – FW Friends for
CHRISTIAN
6th and Cedar Phone 243-3449
MANNA HOUSE OF PRAYER
North Central Kansas Teens for Christ
ST. PAUL’S LUTHERAN
children ages 4 yrs - 4th grade.
Glasco, Kansas
Rt. 56 for kids in 5th and 6th grades.
Phone 785-568-2762
Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. – Delta Chi for kids in Jr. and Sr. High; Adult Bible Studies.
9:00 a.m. – Worship. Coffee Fellowship following.
Nursery is available for newborn - 36 months during the school year.
MANNA HOUSE
FIRST CHRISTIAN
For more information visit www.wesleyan.org/beliefs.
Jeff Nielsen, Pastor
323 E. 5th 243-4428
Sunday, 9:30 a.m.—Bible School; 10:40 a.m.—Worship.
Betty Suther C.S.J., Contact
Hosting TFC Rallies on the 3rd Saturday of each month at the Brown Grand
CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GLASCO
Retreats, workshops, spiritual direction, bookstore and video tapes.
Theatre at 7:00 p.m. Providing Christian encouragement and programs
P.O. Box 9, Concordia, Kansas
UNITED METHODIST
Dennis McAlister, Pastor 568-2344
Sunday, 9:30 a.m.—Sunday School; 10:30 a.m.—Worship;
243-1154
Kent Otott, Director
to students and families throughout the area.
GLASCO UNITED METHODIST
5 p.m.—God and Country Rally.
David Geisler, Pastor
CONCORDIA MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION
Sunday, 9:45 a.m.—Sunday School; 11 a.m.—Worship.
President—Matthew Carder; Vice President, Robert Frasier;
Treasurer, Tessa Zehring; Secretary, Rose Koerber.
We offer tribute to these
Church Sponsors
Baumann Repair
The Citizens National Bank
Dairy Queen
The Wesleyan Church
F&A Food Sales Co.
Baumann Repair
Scott Baumann
Walmart Supercenter
and Employees
Concordia Chevrolet/Buick
and Employees
C&C Truck Lines, Inc.
Adolph and Beth Charbonneau
LeDuc Memorial Designs
Troy and Shirley LeDuc, owners
John L. Fischer DDS
and Staff
Funk Pharmacy
Robb Rosenbaum and Employees
The Jamestown State Bank
Chaput-Buoy Funeral Home
F.D.I.C. Officers and Staff
Joshua Meyer and Staff
Martin LeSage Post #588
The Citizens National Bank
Officers and Staff
Cloud County Co-op Elevator
Association
Concordia Blade-Empire
and Employees
Dairy Queen
Lowell and Employees
EcoWater of N.C.K.
Jason Martin and Employees
F&A Food Sales Co.
and Employees
Farm Management Services
310 Washington
VFW #588 Auxiliary
Richard J. Kueker O.D., P.A.
Michael E. Miller O.D.
and Staff
Newton’s Electric
Gale and Mary
Nutter Mortuary
Bruce G. Nutter, Owner
AuBurn Pharmacy
and All Employees
Rod’s Food Store
Rodney Imhoff and Employees
ServiceMaster of N.C.K.
Dennis and Nancy Smith and Employees
Tom’s Music House
and Employees
“A good name is to be more desired than great wealth,
Favor is better than silver and gold.” Proverbs 22:1
The writer of Proverbs reminds us that in all our pursuits in life, make sure you are proud of the reputation that
you are building along the way. We live in a culture where
people want public life to be under scrutiny, but one’s private life not to be. The simple fact is: who we are in private
reveals itself, eventually in public.
A word comes to mind: INTEGRITY—Webster’s us integrity, means “to be complete or solid.” Integrity is completeness or soundness. The word integrity is derived from
the word “integer,” which in math, an integer is a whole
number. So, character is being whole. To have a good
name means you have integrity.
You have integrity if you compete a job even when no
David Redmond, Pastor
one is looking.
You have integrity if you keep your commitments.
You have integrity if your word is your bond.
Integrity is the opposite of hypocrisy.
A person with integrity does not use people for gain.
A person with integrity does not believe the end justifies the means.
A person with integrity is humble and open to correction.
Integrity even invites constructive and necessary criticism because tt applauds accountability. It’s sound, It’s solid. It’s complete.
Louis Adamic once said “There is a certain blend of courage, integrity, character and principle which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called different things at different
times in different countries. Our American name for it is “guts.”
The guts to do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way regardless if anyone is watching or not. That is what makes a good name. You build a life of character, a life of integrity in
the everyday affairs of life. It’s the little decision in life that accumulate. When people shine the
light of inspection upon your life that is not the time to try and begin working on your integrity.
It is either there or it isn’t. In all of life’s pursuits seek a life of integrity for “a good name is to be
more desired than great wealth.”
“When you walk in integrity, you leave it as a legacy for your children to follow.” Proverbs
20:7
David Redmond
Concordia Wesleyan Church