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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015 • 30 PAGES • 3 SECTIONS • 1 INSERT • 75 CENTS
© 2015 • A MEMBER OF THE TAYLOR NEWSPAPER FAMILY
Details
about
shootout
revealed
IN THIS ISSUE
SPORTS
Independence High School
to host Caney Valley in
non-league showdown;
Cherryvale improves to
3-0; ’Nado still on the hunt
for victory.
Page C1-C7
Judge finds sufficient evidence to
have Alejandro Garcia bound for trial
for May shootout, kidnapping,
carjacking, burglary
CANEY
New city administrator
gives grim assessment of
city’s sewer fund.
Page B5
BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org
COUNTY
Commissioner hints at
withholding county funds
for Four County Mental
Health Center.
Page A5
Pinwheels for Peace
INDEPENDENCE
IHS senior Eleni McCaffery
earns recognition through
National Merit competition
Page B1
COFFEYVILLE
City of Coffeyville receives
KDOT funds for various
road improvements.
Page A9
CHERRYVALE
Tri-City Airport to hold free
fly-in on Saturday; rides
to be offered in vintage
airplanes
Page A8
Lilly Rutherford and Brooke Rippe, students at Coffeyville’s Community Elementary School, closely examine one of the
blades to a pinwheel during a tour of the Pinwheels for Peace project on the school lawn Monday. All Community Elementary School students — more than 1,000 in all — designed colorful pinwheels, which were placed on the school lawn in
the shape of a peace symbol. Kirsten Stotts, Community Elementary art teacher, said local students joined millions of other
school students across the world on Monday in a display of pinwheels that were designed and displayed to promote global
peace and harmony. (Photo by Andy Taylor)
Cherryvale man to face 7 years in prison
Judge sends Daniel
Hosier to federal prison
following conviction of
child pornography possession, distribution
BY ANDY TAYLOR
WICHITA — A Cherryvale
man will spend seven years
in federal prison following his
sentencing in a child pornography case that concluded Monday in federal court.
Daniel Hosier, age 35, of
Cherryvale was convicted on
CHERRYVALE
Spanish teacher enjoying
American experience at
Cherryvale High School.
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Obituaries.............................A2
Public notices...................... C9
Sports.............................. C1-C7
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Labette Health
to open express
care services
at Indy clinic
INDEPENDENCE — Labette
Health is opening its second
express care center in Independence next Monday. It will
join the Labette Health Independence Family Medicine
Clinic at 209 E. Laurel in Independence. The clinic will be
staffed by area providers who
are prepared to provide quality medical care for the most
common minor illnesses and
injuries including:
• Colds, coughs and flu,
• Sore throats,
• Earaches,
• Sinus infections and allergies,
• Fevers,
• Nausea and vomiting,
• Minor burns and rashes,
• Cuts and bites and
• Sprains and strains.
By offering this additional
service at their current family
medicine clinic, Labette Health
is able to provide convenient
and immediate health care to
the people who live and work
• see Labette Health, page A2
one count of possession of child
pornography and one count of
distribution of child pornography during a jury trial in April.
During that federal trial, prosecutors presented evidence
that on March 28, 2013, Hosier emailed images of child
pornography on Yahoo. They
also presented evidence that
on July 13, 2013, he possessed
child pornography on laptop
computers and on a smartphone.
U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom
initially asked federal Judge J.
Thomas Marten for the maximum sentence possible in a
child pornography case, which
is 240 months, or 20 years, in
federal prison. Grissom argued
in court documents that the
content of the actual video images that Hosier possessed and
distributed contained images
of sexual abuse, rape and sodomy of a prepubescent child.
One of the victims in a video
was a 4-year-old child, Grissom wrote.
One factor that is used in
determining punishment in
criminal cases is the previous
criminal record of a convicted individual. While it is true
• see Hosier, page A2
Danny Hosier . . .
Cherryvale man in
photograph taken
while a volunteer
member of the
Cherryvale FireEMS Department
INDEPENDENCE — David Henderson did
not want to die in his pickup truck.
With a bullet wound in his neck, his arms
largely paralyzed, and the remainder of his
body paralyzed with fear, the Coffeyville man
could do little except yell for help.
Help would not arrive for a matter of minutes.
“I was determined not to die in that truck,”
said Henderson, recalling the gunshot wound
he received while being an innocent victim
in a shootout between Mexican national Alejandro Garcia and a member of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s
Department outside a rural Liberty home on May
28, 2015. “So, I put my
foot on the brake pedal,
which allowed me to push
my body up in my seat. I
then used my left arm to
pull my right arm over
the gear shift. But, it took
several tries for that arm
to finally go over the gear
shift. Plus, I looked down
at my shirt and could see Alejandro Garcia
. . . to stand
blood streaming down
trial for attempted
from my neck.”
capital murder,
Henderson
testified
in a preliminary hearing burglary, kidnapFriday in the case of Aleping
jandro Garcia, who has
been charged with attempted capital murder,
burglary, kidnapping and interference with a
law enforcement officer. Garcia was charged
with those crimes after he led law enforcement in Oklahoma on a high-speed chase from
Talala, Okla., on the afternoon of May 28.
That chase — which led to the wounding of an
Oologah police officer, who ultimately crashed
his vehicle in that chase — ended at the Kansas-Oklahoma line when Garcia and two occupants in his vehicle fled their SUV vehicle
after it was disabled when it drove over a set
of tire spikes south of Coffeyville near the state
border.
The two occupants of the SUV, Cesar Rios
• see Preliminary hearing, page A3
CCC’s recruiting vehicle gets a new paint job
BY ANDY TAYLOR
COFFEYVILLE — Coffeyville Community College’s recruiting efforts got a slick
upgrade with something that looks like it
fell off the cover page of a hot rod magazine.
A 1998 Ford Crown Victoria — known
within the campus as Ol’ Blue because of
its powder-blue color — has now been
transformed into a a real eye-catcher.
Not only is the blue color gone but the vehicle now sports official school colors of
red and white . . . with red flames on the
hood to boot.
The vehicle is used for college recruiters and CCC administrators.
“Now I’m going to be the envy of everyone else when I pull up to a college planning conference or to high schools across
Kansas,” said CCC recruiter Chris Cameron in a display of the red-and-white
vehicle at Monday’s CCC trustee meeting.
“I’m pretty stoked to get it out in full view.
It will be a good recruiting tool.”
Cameron said he got the idea of painting the blue Crown Victoria when he took
prospective students on a tour of the college’s auto collision department. While at
the department, he learned that the auto
collision department was able to provide
automotive detail and paint jobs. That got
Cameron wondering if the blue Crown
Victoria could be transformed into some-
Coffeyville Community College trustee president Becky Medley (right) and other CCC administrators and trustees examine the 1998 Crown Victoria, which formerly was known
around the CCC campus as “Ol’ Blue,” that recently went through an exterior transformation. (Photo by Andy Taylor)
thing that turns heads and catches attention.
“No sooner did I get back to my office
than I was in (CCC president) Linda Moley’s office,” said Cameron. “She thought
it was a great idea. So, that’s how far
we’ve come.”
Students and instructors in the col-
lege’s automotive collision and repair department took the project and idea under
their wings and gave the vehicle’s exterior a complete overhaul.
No detail went unnoticed, including
the CCC license plate and the Raven logo
painted on the emblem that adorns the
engine grill.
Page A2
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Montgomery County Chronicle
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Cara Sutherland
CHERRYVALE — Cara Sutherland, age 95, of
Cherryvale died Sunday, Sept. 13, 2015 at the
Cherryvale Nursing & Rehab Center.
Celebration of Life Services were held
Wednesday, Sept. 23, at the Mount Hope Cemetery in Independence under the direction of the
Potts Chapel.
The family has suggested memorials to the
Wounded Warrior Project. Contributions may
be left at the Potts Chapel in Independence.
Cara was born March 17, 1920 in Goodwin,
Ark., to G.W. and Susie (Byrd) Jones. She grew
up in Arkansas before moving to California.
Cara graduated from high school in California.
Cara served in the United States Navy. She also
graduated from Pittsburg State University with
a degree in social work.
On June 27, 1946 Cara married Forrest C.
Sutherland in Dallas, Texas. The couple made
their home in Stillwater, Okla. They moved to
Cherryvale in 1950, later moving five miles
north of Cherryvale until 1971, when they
moved to Independence.
Cara worked in bookkeeping at Montgomery
Ward, was secretary to the
superintendent of schools in
Cherryvale, and worked for
Social Services in Independence.
She was a member of the
Cherryvale First Presbyterian Church where she taught
Sunday School and served
as a deacon. Cara later attended Crystalbrook Church
in Independence. She was
the first woman to be elected to the Cherryvale
school board.
She was a Happy Hustlers 4-H sewing leader.
Survivors include one daughter, Patricia L.
Fink and husband Chuck; two sons, Sammy
G. Sutherland of Manhattan, Kan., and Kent
Sutherland and wife Cindy of Cherryvale; five
grandchildren, Charles Jeffrey Fink/wife Rebecca, Kristen A. Helt/husband Chris, Whitney
K. Chism/husband Benjamin, Jessica A.Swain/
husband Thurman, Forrest D. Sutherland; 12
great-grandchildren, Coyle Fink, Carson Fink,
Kain Sewell, Sadie Sewell, Lillias Helt, Autumn
Chism, Lauryn Chism, Laney Chism, Dawson
Chism, Ivan Connelly, Oscar Adamson, Ruby
Swain.
She was preceded in death by her parents
and brothers and sisters Brewster Jones, Betty
Mae Jones, Richard Jones, Joyce Jones, Morris Jones, Elsie Delfonte, Lewis Jones, Gertrude
Jones and Clara Christine Worrell (Cara’s twin).
Gregory L. Carriker
COFFEYVILLE — Gregory L Carriker, age
68, of Coffeyville died Friday, Sept. 18, 2015 at
Medicalodges of Coffeyville.
Gregory was born May 31, 1947 in Coffeyville, the son of Floyd and Georgia (Phillips)
Carriker.
As a young man Greg was an active member
of the United States Army where he served a
year in Germany as an Army transportation officer, after proudly serving four years he later
returned home where he began to start a family.
Greg enjoyed fishing with his parents, the
outdoors, his family and friends. Greg enjoyed a
simple life and was strong in his faith. Greg was
a veteran of the United States and was proud to
share that with his father Floyd, brother Steve,
son Sam, grandchildren Elizabeth, Bobby III,
nephews Monte, Garrett and Joe.
Left to honor his memory are daughters
DeeAnn Tesh, Philo Tregellas of Altoona, Kan.,
Laurie Horner and her husband Andy of Belleville, Kan., Jade Whitman
and her husband Christopher of Snowflake, Ariz., a,
daughter Jesi Carriker of
Tucson, Ariz., Tina Carriker
and Penny Carriker. Also
surviving are sons Bobby
Romines his wife Cindy of
Oronogo, Mo., Sam Jones of
Bryan, Texas; 19 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; a sister, Linda Knisley of Coffeyville; a brother,
Steve Carriker of Coffeyville; and several nieces, nephews and cousins. He was preceeded in
death by his parents Floyd and Georgia Carriker, a brother Phil Carriker, a sister Glenda Carriker and a brother-in-law Gary Knisley. Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m.,
Thursday, Sept. 24, at Fairview Cemetery Veterans Memorial Patio in Coffeyville. Private interment will be at Restlawn Cemetery.
The family has suggested memorials be
made payable to the Wounded Warriors Project
and may be left with Ford-Wulf-Bruns Chapel
in Coffeyville.
To leave the family a message of condolence
please visit www.fordwulfbrunschapel.com.
Carla Jean White
SALLISAW, Okla. – Carla Jean White of Sallisaw, Okla., passed away Tuesday, Sept. 15,
2015, in Tulsa at the age 61.
Carla was born in Coffeyville on March 25,
1954, to Roland and Lois (Cramer) Cain. She
graduated from high school at Sedan in 1972
and attended Coffeyville Community College.
She married Dr. Gary
White on Dec. 31, 1986.
Carla was a bookkeeper and
photographer. Her great
passions
were
growing
beautiful flowers and her
grandson, River.
Carla was preceded in
death by her sister, Valerie
Hallowell.
She is survived by her
husband, Dr. Gary White of
Sallisaw; one daughter, Tonya Moreland and
husband Bo of Kansas City; a stepson, Jesse
White of Austin, Texas; grandson, River Ian
Moreland of Kansas City; a sister, Lyn Zehner
and husband Mike of Alexandria, Va.; her parents, Roland and Lois Cain of Sedan; and many
nieces, nephews and friends.
Carla was cremated under the direction of
Add’Vantage Funeral Home of Tulsa.
A memorial service was held at Epiphany
Episcopal Church in Sedan on Monday, Sept.
21, at 2 p.m. The family visited with friends at
the reception in the Parish Hall following the
service.
Honorary pallbearers were Mike Zehner,
Matthew Zehner, Jessie White, Alan White,
Terry Sanders Jr., Jerry Ben Robertson, Butch
Scheisel, Ron Lockhart and Paul White.
Donations may be made to The Alzheimer’s
Association, 2448 E. 81st St., Suite 3000, Tulsa,
OK 74137 (act.alz.org).
An article in the Sept. 10 issue of the Montgomery County Chronicle concerning a book
signing for Dale Lewis, author of “Footprints
in the Dew,” contained inaccurate information.
The story indicated the book signing would be
Labette Health to expand Indy clinic
Patsy Sanders
CANEY — Patsy Sanders of
Caney died Monday, Sept. 21,
2015 at Coffeyville Regional
Medical Center.
Arrangements are pending with Potts Chapel Funeral
Home of Caney.
Alice L. Foust
INDEPENDENCE — Alice L.
Foust, age 66, of Independence
died at the Medicalodge Independence on Thursday, Sept.
17, 2015. A funeral service was held
Monday, Sept. 21, at the Potts
Chapel Independence. Burial
followed the service at the
Mount Hope Cemetery under
the direction of the Potts Chapel. The family has suggested
memorials to the American
Cancer Association and contributions may be left at the Potts
Chapel.
Ellen Kay Newcomb
CANEY— Ellen Newcomb,
age 73, of Caney died Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015 at the Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa,
Okla.
Graveside celebration of
life services were held Tuesday, Sept. 22, at the Sunnyside
Cemetery, Caney, under the direction of the Potts Chapel Fu-
neral Home, Caney. Friends may leave online
condolences at www.pottsfuneralhome.com.
The family has requested
donations to the Baby Mathias fund, www.gofundme.com/
yu2r9s, designated in memory
of Ellen Newcomb.
(make checks payable to USD
506 Foundation, on memo line
put Johnnie Henry Memorial),
or the Alzheimer’s Association;
contributions may be left with
the funeral home or mailed
c/o David W. Barnes Funeral
Home, 306 N. Cline Road, Coffeyville, KS 67337.
Dale L. Johnston
Katherine Kistler
COFFEYVILLE — Dale L.
Johnston, age 78, a lifelong
farmer and machinist, of rural
Coffeyville died Sunday, Sept.
20, 2015 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. His death
was unexpected. Funeral services will be held
at 10 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 24,
at the Bath-Forbes-Hoffman
Funeral Home in Altamont.
Burial will follow at the Lake
Creek Cemetery near Bartlett.
Memorial contributions are
suggested to The 506 Foundation, Inc. These may be left at
or mailed to the Bath-ForbesHoffman Funeral Home, P.O.
Box 325, Altamont, KS 67330. Online condolences may be left
at www.forbeshoffman.com.
Johnnie E. Henry
LIBERTY — Johnnie Eugene Henry, age 65, of rural
Liberty died Wednesday, Sept.
16, 2015, at St. John Medical
Center in Tulsa, Okla.
Graveside services were
held Monday, Sept. 21, at the
Liberty Cemetery under the
care of the David W. Barnes
Funeral Home in Coffeyville.
The family suggests memorials to the Labette County High School FFA Chapter
COFFEYVILLE — Coffeyville
resident Katherine M. Kistler,
age 99, died in Coffeyville on
Sunday, Sept. 13, 2015.
A Rosary Vigil Service followed by Mass of Christian
Burial was held Monday Sept.
21, at Holy Name Catholic
Church, Coffeyville. Burial followed in Calvary Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials to Holy
Name Catholic Church. Contributions may be left with the funeral home or mailed to David
W. Barnes Funeral Home, 306
N. Cline Road, Coffeyville, KS
67337.
Stanley Klos
DEWEY, Okla. – Former Coffeyville resident Stanley Sebastian Klos, age 68, of Dewey,
Okla., died Wednesday, Sept.
16, 2015 at Jane Phillips Medical Center.
Funeral services were held
Monday, Sept. 21 at the Ford
Wulf Bruns Chapel with internment, with military honors, at
Robbins Cemetery.
To leave a message with
the family, visit www.fordwulfbrunschapel.com.
munity’s support these past
three and a half months. I’m
excited for the opportunity
to continue serving this great
community,” said McCaffery,
herself an Independence resident. Joining Dawn in providing family medicine care is
Chelsea Bradfield, APRN, NPC.
Additional services available at the clinic include general surgery, internal medicine
and pediatric care provided by
board-certified physicians. “The services provided at
the clinic will help patients
• continued from front page
in the Independence area
while ensuring proper treatment for patients affected by
non-life threatening illnesses
or injuries.
“Our goal is to keep quality
healthcare local,” said Brian
Williams, president and chief
exsecutive officer.
Labette Health’s Independence Clinic opened June 1,
with Dawn McCaffery, APRNC, as the family medicine provider.
“I truly appreciate the com-
avoid extensive travel time
to out-of-area hospitals and
needless long waits in emergency rooms,” said Williams.
As an additional convenience, the Independence
Family Medicine and Express
Care clinic will be open Monday-Saturday from 8 a.m. to 8
p.m.
For more information regarding all services available
at the Labette Health Independence Family Medicine and
Express Care clinic, call (620)
577-4310.
Hosier given 7-year prison sentence
Kurt P. Kerns, stressed the
need of leniency, noting that
Hosier had never been arrested and led an exemplary family and work life. Kerns asked
Marten to sentence Hosier to
60 months custody, followed
by 10 years of supervised release, with the condition that
he register as a sex offender
and undergo any further treatment deemed necessary by a
probation officer.
Kerns also presented more
than one dozen letters of support for Hosier’s character,
primarily written by members
of the Hosier family and past
and present co-workers.
“In short, Daniel Hosier’s
long marriage, strong family support, education, gainful
employment, community support as demonstrated by the
multiple letters provided to the
Court, and successful completion of pre-trial release . . . going so far as turning himself in
after the trial . . . all strongly
support the conclusion that
that Hosier had no previous
convictions, Hosier deserves
prison time due to the severity
and seriousness of the graphic
nature in those videos that
he possessed and distributed,
Grissom argued.
Grissom also said in his
memorandum that Hosier,
who was a volunteer member
of the Cherryvale Fire-EMS
Department at the time of his
arrest, had been in contact
with a known pornographer
who produced the sexual images on video.
“His work as a volunteer
firefighter and parent pale
in comparison to his activities with an active abuser of a
four-year-old child,” Grissom
wrote. “He did not rush to the
child’s rescue. More telling is
the fact that he did not tell law
enforcement about this child
at the time of the search warrant.”
However, Hosier’s attorney,
he is most unlikely to commit
a crime in the future,” Kerns
wrote in his court brief. “While
a small minority of defendants
convicted of possessing child
pornography may again view
child pornography and an
even smaller minority may
molest children, Mr. Hosier is
not one of them.”
Marten deviated from both
counsels’ arguments and sentenced Hosier to seven years
in prison. In an examination
of previous child pornography
and sexual exploitation of minors convictions in the Wichita
division of the federal courts
since 2000, it was noted that
the longest prison sentence issued was 90 months, or seven
and a half years.
Following Monday’s sentencing
hearing,
Grissom
commended the Montgomery
County Sheriff’s Office, the
Federal Bureau of Investigation and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Hart for their work
on the case.
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Preliminary hearing held in case against Alejandro Garcia
and Roxanne Mendoza, were
arrested shortly after fleeing
the vehicle.
However,
Garcia’s
fate
would continue for another
18 hours. It included a pair of
carjackings, a gunshot wound
to Henderson’s neck, and a
fiery shootout with a sheriff’s
deputy . . . and ended with
Garcia barricading himself in
a rural Liberty home for 12
hours. He was arrested by law
enforcement officers and Kansas Bureau of Investigation
tactical team members on the
morning of May 29.
Among the items in his
pockets was an unfired Perfecta bullet from a .40-caliber
semi-automatic pistol — the
same caliber of weapon that
was fired at Deputy Michael
Grimes of the Montgomery
County Sheriff’s Department.
The bullet that struck Henderson’s neck as he nervously
sat in the driver’s seat of his
vehicle?
To this day, Henderson does
not know who fired that shot.
However, Henderson didn’t
care who pulled the trigger
when that bullet struck him.
He just knew he wanted to
get out of the way.
“I could see Garcia run up
the driveway and toward the
east where the home was,”
Henderson testified. “The
sheriff’s deputy was behind
my truck firing his weapon,
too. I really don’t know when
I get hit by that bullet. There
was just a lot going on.”
All parties who heard Henderson’s testimony can affirm
that Henderson was an innocent bystander; he was merely at the wrong place at the
wrong time on the afternoon
of May 28. He was traveling
Sunflower Road, or county
road 5100, north of the Coffeyville Resources refinery
when he was flagged down
by Garcia, who, unbeknownst
to Henderson, was carrying a
loaded .40-caliber handgun.
Garcia pulled the weapon
on Henderson and ordered
him to drive north on Sunflower Road.
First encounter
Garcia was on Sunflower
Road after he took another
Coffeyville man on a frightening ride at gunpoint. Stanley
Shafer Jr., who lives on Eldridge Street west of Walnut
Street, testified that he was in
the driveway of his home on
Eldridge on the afternoon of
May 28 when Garcia walked
up to the house and asked
Shafer for water. Another person in the house was fetching
a glass of water when Garcia
asked for a ride. Shafer said
he instinctively agreed to offer
the ride to a local convenience
store. However, when Shafer
was driving toward a convenience station on 11th Street,
Garcia pulled the gun and, in
broken English, told him to
drive on U.S. 169.
Shafer said he initially
thought the gun was a pellet
gun. Only when Garcia appeared agitated did Shafer realize that he was looking at a
real gun.
“He told me he wanted to
go to a specific town, I can’t
remember the name, en route
to Kansas City,” he said. “So, I
drove on U.S. 169.”
Shafer said Garcia sat in the
passenger seat with gun pointed at him as he drove on U.S.
169 in Coffeyville. He turned
on Sunflower Road, or county road 5100, and traveled
northward when he thought of
a way to turn Garcia’s attention away from him . . . or, at
least, escape from the vehicle.
“When we drove on Sunflower Road, I noticed a friend
of mine, Anthony Sweaney,
was fishing off of a bridge. So,
I rolled my window down and
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. . . because I didn’t
know what was going
to happen next.”
— STANLEY SHAFER JR.,
recalling telephone call to
fiance after being held at gunpoint
by Alejandro Garcia
asked him how the fishing was
going. That’s when I jumped
out of the vehicle and ran toward the back of the truck,
grabbed my cell phone and
called my dad,” Shafer testified in the preliminary hearing.
Shafer said he told his
dad where he was and that
he needed a police officer or
sheriff’s deputy because Garcia had a gun. Shafer’s father
ultimately called 911 and gave
the dispatcher the location of
Shafer and Garcia.
Shafer also said he called
his fiance.
“I told her I loved her . . .
because I didn’t know what
was going to happen next,”
Shafer said.
At that point, Henderson
was traveling on Sunflower
Road near Shafer’s truck when
Garcia flagged down Henderson and ordered him — at
gunpoint — to drive north.
Shafer and his fishing friend
were able to get Henderson’s
license tag number and vehicle description, which was
relayed to a 911 dispatcher.
Deputy locates Garcia
Michael Grimes, a deputy
with the Montgomery County
Sheriff’s Department, testified
he was traveling south on Sunflower Road when he passed
the northbound pickup truck
driven by Henderson and Garcia in the passenger seat. He
sent a message to the sheriff’s
dispatcher, who confirmed
that it was the vehicle carrying Garcia.
Grimes then turned his patrol vehicle around and began
a pursuit. Grimes, who was off
duty that day, was called back
to work after receiving word
that the high-speed chase in
Oklahoma ended south of Coffeyville and that one of the
assailants had fled the scene.
He said he was aware that an
Oklahoma law enforcement
officer had been wounded in
that chase.
Grimes was dressed in tactical gear that was worn by
members of the Montgomery
County SERT (Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team). The
tactical gear did not include a
A shirtless Alejandro Garcia stands between two armed law enforcement officers following his apprehension in a rural Liberty home on May 29. (File photo)
body camera. Grimes’ patrol
car was a substitute vehicle
because his regular patrol vehicle was in a repair shop. The
substitute vehicle did not have
an operable dashboard camera.
Grimes said the pursuit
took him through Liberty
where it appeared at one point
that the Henderson vehicle
was attempting to pull over
to the side of the road in front
of Jack’s Place, a Liberty bar
and grill. The Henderson truck
then sped away eastward on
county road 3420. Grimes
was in close pursuit when the
Henderson truck crossed U.S.
169 highway and stopped at
the driveway of a private residence.
Grimes testified that he
pulled his patrol car over
some 50 yards away from the
Henderson truck. By this time,
Garcia had exited the passenger door and was in a position
where the truck bed met the
truck cab. Grimes said Garcia
looked squarely at him, put
both hands on his semi-automatic pistol and pointed it at
Grimes. Three shots rang out
from the Garcia gun, which
prompted Grimes to return
gunfire with his .223-caliber
semi-automatic rifle.
Grimes walked backward
while returning the gunfire
in order to shield himself in
his vehicle. However, he fell
backward on the road, which
forced him to spray suppression fire, or cover fire, toward
Garcia.
Because of the angle of the
pickup truck, Grimes’ patrol
vehicle, and a row of trees that
lined each side of the driveway, Grimes was unable to see
Garcia run toward the private
residence.
Compounding the problem
was that Grimes did not have
a second key for his substitute
patrol vehicle, meaning the
only key was the one in the ignition.
The patrol car had automatic door locks.
Grimes now had to think
quickly in order to get back in
his car.
“I initially used the butt of
my rifle to try to break the
driver’s side window,” he testified. “That did not work. So, I
fired one round from my gun
into the window. That allowed
me to unlock the door.”
Grimes got on his radio to
seek back-up support from
other law enforcement. At the
same time, he was unaware if
Henderson was a friend or foe.
He ordered Henderson to exit
the truck and walk backward
toward the patrol car. However, it took several minutes,
which was confirmed by Henderson, for the wounded Henderson to free himself from his
seat belt and remove his body
from the truck.
Grimes said he recalled
seeing Henderson, upon the
deputy’s orders, walking backward to the patrol car with his
hands in the air.
“Once I was able to pull
Henderson behind the door
to my vehicle, I could see that
he was bleeding,” Grimes
testified. “That’s when I began pulling off his shirt to see
where the gunshot wound was
located. I then began to administer first aid.”
As more law enforcement
arrived, Henderson was able
to seek medical attention from
an ambulance crew. He was
taken to an area hospital for
treatment.
“I was never so glad as to
see that ambulance,” Henderson said.
Meanwhile, Grimes and
other law enforcement had
to seek Garcia’s whereabouts,
using information from Henderson, who was the lone witness.
Garcia enters house
Law enforcement officers
set up a perimeter around
the house that was occupied
by Brian and Lori Leedy and
owned by Kenny Allen. Law
enforcement saw, with confirmation from the Leedy family, that a garage window had
been disturbed. House lights
that had been left on by the
Leedy family when they left
the house earlier in the evening before the shootout began in their driveway were
seen as being out — giving law
enforcement further assurance that Garcia was inside
the house.
then began a lengthy attempt
to flush out Garcia.
KBI agents testified that
they made repeated attempts
to convince Garcia to surrender. They used a loud speaker
and sent messages in English
and Spanish.
After Garcia refused to
leave the residence, law enforcement authorities agreed
to fire CS gas cartridges, also
known as tear gas, into the
house.
At 7 a.m., the next morning,
the KBI High Risk Warrant
Team entered the house, with
search warrant in hand, in an
attempt to apprehend Garcia.
KBI agents testified they found
Garcia hiding behind a plastic storage box in a bedroom
closet. He was immediately arrested without a struggle.
KBI agents said Garcia was
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not wearing a shirt when he
was arrested. And, it’s believed he was wearing a pair
of pants that belonged to a
male member of the Leedy
family.
Several days later, Garcia
was interviewed by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. A
KBI agent, through a Spanish
translator, questioned Garcia
about the series of events on
May 28-29. Steve Rosebrough,
KBI special agent in Pittsburg,
testified that he conducted
the interview, during which
time Garcia told about the
high speed chase that began
in Talala, Okla. Garcia also
told Rosebrough that Rios was
the man who fired the weapon
from the SUV vehicle and into
an Oologah police officer’s vehicle.
Rosebrough also said Garcia admitted that he ran into
the Leedy house after he got
into a shootout with Deputy
Michael Grimes.
After hearing the testimony
in Friday’s preliminary hearing, Judge Jeffrey Gossard
ruled that there was sufficient
probable cause to have Garcia
bound for trial. A preliminary
hearing’s purpose is to find
the extent of probable cause
against a defendant. It does
not address the guilt or innocent of a defendant. That will
come in a jury trial.
Toward the end of Friday’s
preliminary hearing, Garcia’s
court-appointed
attorney,
Jeff Wicks, asked Gossard to
dismiss the charges because
Garcia did not show any premeditation in firing a weapon
at Grimes or Henderson.
However, Steve Karrer, an
attorney with the Kansas Attorney General’s Office, said
the fact that Garcia purposely
pointed a gun at Grimes as
soon as Grimes exited the his
patrol car was proof enough
as to Garcia’s intent.
Gossard agreed with Karrer’s argument.
Security was heavy for Friday’s preliminary hearing. All
spectators in the courtroom
had to remove all personal
belongings from their pockets and have security guards
check their persons for any
metal objects. Meanwhile, inside the courtroom, multiple
members of the Montgomery
County Sheriff’s Department
were present at all exists, as
was a courtroom bailiff and
the director of the Montgomery County Corrections Department.
Garcia, wearing a black and
white inmate jump suit, sat
quietly in a chair while the testimonies were relayed to him
through a Spanish translator.
During the hearing, Wicks
asked Gossard if Garcia,
whose hands were shackled to
a waist chain, could have his
arms freed in order to write
messages to him through his
translator. Gossard denied the
request.
“Then I would like the record to indicate that my client
is sitting here with his hands
shackeled to a belly chain,” he
said.
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OPINIONS
Learning to drive in a
real, live ‘Mater’ truck
There’s a place at the south edge of my
hometown where old car shells are lined up on
a vacant lot.
I’m told that classic car enthusiasts often
visit the lot, knock on the fenders and check
out the motors. In most cases, there are no
tires to kick.
Recently, as I drove past the place, I
slammed on my brakes and backed up. There,
in all its glory, was a 1934 International truck,
At first, I
thought it
was a ’34
Ford truck
just like
RUDY TAYLOR
the one
Off the Cuff
my older
brother (10
years my senior) owned
when I was in the third grade, but it was only
a look-alike.
He parked it at our farm for several weeks
after buying it in Parsons, and I spent every
waking moment sitting behind the steering
wheel playing like I was driving it.
It had no battery, so nobody was worried
that I would get hurt.
My dad explained the h-pattern gear shift,
cautioning me not to shift it too much because
it might damage the gears.
I ignored the advice and drove the ’34 truck
around the world at least twice.
I actually never heard it run, so the
barrrood’n sound came from my mouth.
At age 11, I was still very much a bicycle
man, but that old truck became a second
friend to me.
As I recall, my brother paid $35 for the
truck, figuring he would flip it and double
his money. He apparently did because I came
The ‘Mater’ came with memories
home from school one day to see the truck was
gone.
That was a half century before the Disney
movie “Cars,” but I think that old truck may
have been the original ‘Mater.’
Over the years, I’ve gone to dozens of classic
car shows with mouth-watering passion, mostly favoring Chevys from the 1950s era. There’s
never a need to think about that clunky old
’34 Ford truck because it wasn’t even sharp
in 1954 when I wore out the gear shift with
dreams of racing it along Route 66.
Oh, I have no interest in buying the rusty
old truck that looks amazingly like Mater in
“Cars.” They tell me the old clunker has a
handsome price tag anyway.
But I do enjoy walking around it and thinking about those days of play-driving and slamming that stick-on-the-floor from 1st, 2nd and
finally into 3rd gear.
I also hope nobody noticed last Sunday
afternoon when I sheepishly opened the door
of the truck, sat in the dirty seat and drove to
sunny Catalina and back.
I guess it’s like riding a bike — you never
forget how to do it.
Barrrrooooood’n.
Of movie theater popcorn and summer roses
. . . the beauty of big roundshaped mum plants decorating home gardens in the fall .
. . the aroma of popcorn wafting through a movie theater . .
. after “stubbing” your toe, the
relief from the pain you experience in about five minutes . .
. attending the grand opening
of a new business . . . eating
KATHY TAYLOR
Life’s Little Lifesavers
carameled apples. . . puppies
wagging their tails . . . handy
MONTGOMERY
COUNTY
post-it notes . . . the last rose
of summer displaying its beauty . . . being courageous when
you thought you could not . .
. having a good gut laugh to
cure your ills . . . “If we were
supposed to talk more than
we listen, we would have two
mouths and one ear.” -- Mark
Twain
Chronicle
Volume 130, No. 38 • September 24, 2015
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OUR THOUGHTS
A touch of common sense
Attorney General urges wisdom, caution, patience in judicial dispute
A wise Kansas Attorney General Derek
Schmidt has urged justices serving on the
Kansas Supreme Court to recuse themselves from deciding a hotly contested decision on how local district administrative
judges are selected.
Schmidt also stepped aside with his own
involvement in a related case where three
district court judges sued the State of Kansas, challenging the Legislature’s authority
to link judicial branch funding to the political selection of chief judges.
While this definitely is an inside-baseball
issue, hardly piquing the interest of the average Kansan, it is just another notch on
the gunstock of high ranking Republicans
in Topeka.
They want to stifle anything different
than their own thinking and partisan traditions. Still mad over being forced by the
courts to add funding to the state’s education system, GOP lawmakers and Gov. Sam
Brownback have actually threatened to defund the state judiciary — including local
district courts — if they don’t get their way
on who appoints administrative judges at
the local level.
While Attorney Gen. Schmidt cannot get
involved in partisan bickering, he does see
the political battle as unproductive, thus
his advice to Supreme Court justices to
stand aside and let the lawsuit play out.
We can only hope that Kansas voters are
aware of who is muddying the water and
costing our state huge amounts of money,
all in the name of game-playing.
Kansas has much greater problems to
solve, and this power struggle should stop.
Derek Schmidt is doing his part in trying to
get us there.
— Rudy Taylor
Pope Francis
Pontiff brings a welcome message of hope, mercy to North America
Americans experienced a breath of fresh
air on Tuesday when an airliner landed at
Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, D.C., and a man wearing white slowly
walked down the steps, waving at hundreds
of well-wishers and dignitaries.
Pope Francis is making his first trip to this
country and his countenance is much needed in the midst of our political frays, debates
and personal put-downs.
He is bringing a message of grace, redemption and hope.
We need that sermon, and those in America’s leadership need to see his example.
He spent the day at the White House and
disappeared behind closed doors for a while
with President Barack Obama, no doubt giving him a blessing, but also crinkling his
brow on subjects where they disagree: abortion, same-sex marriage and war.
Today, he was scheduled to address a joint
session of Congress, and again, everyone
hopes he will look their way and that papal
wisdom will land on their polarized noggins.
Of course, he may also gig them with his
well-known criticism of Wall Street and this
nation’s adherence to capitalism.
In truth, he is bringing those lessons from
a well-known example found in the founder
of Christendom: Jesus Christ. So, heads will
nod, blessings will flow and lawmakers will
take home some much-needed inspiration.
Pope Francis should feel at home in our
nation’s political preference for outsiders.
After all, he is quite an upstream swimmer
himself.
All of us who are believers surely welcome
to our shores such a gentle shepherd of the
faith that unites Christians worldwide.
That’s quite different from what we’ve
experienced recently in the circus we call
American politics.
— Rudy Taylor
Just do it
Smaller clinics showing who’s boss in Independence medical scene
The condition of the Independence medical community is muddled this week, thanks
to rumors of Mercy Health system’s discussions with several area medical providers.
It’s unknown what those discussions concern . . . or even who the parties are.
Combine the lack of information with the
recent decision that Coffeyville Regional
Medical Center and Mercy Hospital ceased
their affiliation discussions (thereby prompting Mercy to announce its wholesale departure from Independence), and you have a
perfect recipe for discontent.
And, with the City of Independence sticking its nose in the fray by interjecting $3 million in bonds that were never approved by
city voters, you have a legitimate reason to
raise questions . . . even though the answers
are few and far this week.
That’s why it was reassuring on Tuesday
to hear the news of Labette Health’s clinic
expansion in Independence. The clinic already has an established nurse practitioner,
Independence resident Dawn McCaffrey, as
its leader. Beginning next week, that clinic,
located at 206 E. Laurel, will expand to include an express care center to treat a myriad of minor illnesses from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.,
Monday through Saturday. That express
care center is similar to the “urgent care”
clinics that many other hospitals now use as
a front-line alternative to emergency room
visits.
Labette Health did not receive the blessing of the City of Independence to expand
its clinic. Nor did it have to negotiate with
Mercy Health . . . or anyone else.
They simply did it. Period.
Such a proactive move is a sign of aggressiveness that is welcome in a community that
is struggling to find answers and leaders
when it comes to medical care.
So, too, are the personnel at the Wilson
Medical Center’s Independence Family Medicine clinic at 209 N. Sixth in Independence.
Their clinic is growing in size, thanks to a
local face, nurse practitioner Johnathan Rodriquez, serving as its leader. Wilson Medical Center, much like Labette Health, could
have asked the City of Independence for a
share of that $3 million pie that seems to be
dangling in front of other medical providers
who are afraid to push the button. However,
they chose not to seek that money . . . and to
invest in a community that is ripe for medical coverage.
It’s obvious that Independence’s medical future is going to be a tapestry of multiple medical providers; a single logo will
not hang from the city’s skyline. However,
those medical providers who are gaining a
foothold in the community are the ones who
know their place, their condition, and their
future. And, they certainly are not afraid to
make bold steps — free from the silence and
confusion that seems to permeate a certain
medical system that is closing its doors very
soon and absent the city government that is
throwing conditions into the medical game.
Let this be a lesson learned.
— Andy Taylor
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OPINIONS
COUNTY COMMISSION
They’re just little boots . . . right? York hints at reducing mental health
funds in wake of group home issue
You would think in a house of boys, we
wouldn’t spend much of our budget on shoes.
I certainly have my own pile in the closet but
I’m the cheap shoe queen. If they haven’t
been discounted several times and smell like
cheap, hard plastic, they probably aren’t for
me.
The bulk of our shoe budget goes to boys
with big feet. My husband hauls around size
14 boats and our 10-year-old son is following
him closely.
We are constantly buying
new shoes to
JENNY
fit the oldest
DIVELEY
son’s feet as
Pick A Little,
they grow so
Talk A Little
rapidly during
these changing years.
So when our youngest son showed signs of
normal feet growth and gladly accepted handme-downs from a fun, older cousin, I was
beyond excited.
Two birthday celebrations have passed
since his aunt and uncle purchased him a
brand new pair of green and tan John Deere
cowboy boots. My sister-in-law and I had
discussed the boots before that birthday and
decided to “size up” to give him room to grow.
The night he got them, he didn’t want to take
them off to go to bed and wore his Spongebob
pajamas with his John Deere boots until I
finally pulled them off just as he fell asleep.
He has since worn them to play in the snow,
stomp in the rain, and go to church. Most of
the time they are worn with socks but once
in a while his stinky, sweaty, bare foot will
emerge after a rushed moment to get out the
door. And without fail, when the little boots
adorn his feet we hear comments, mostly from
people his grandparents age, who call him
“buddy” and ask about his recent hard work in
the boots.
So this week when it was “cowboy day” at
preschool and I pulled out the trusty boots, it
broke my heart to help him put his boots on,
only to find that he has finally outgrown them.
His little socked foot just wouldn’t quite push
Because commission
holds some of Four
County Mental Health
Center’s purse strings,
York hints at fund
reduction
BY ANDY TAYLOR
down that last bump in the ankle that gives
you that familiar boot fit. We quickly made an
adjustment to his cowboy attire and hauled
him off to school for a day of fun.
But when I returned later to a quiet house,
those little boots were perched on his toy box
and were telling me so much more than just
it’s time to buy new boots. I could almost hear,
“Slow down and take your time to watch your
boys grow.” Then, “Listen to their stories,
even when they’re boring, because one day
you’ll long to hear their voices.” And, “Hang
on to the memories of little boots, Spongebob
pjs, and impromptu snuggles.”
For now, the John Deere boots are tucked
away in the back of his closet. Usually the
clothes we outgrow are given to someone who
needs them, and that is probably where the
boots will go at some point. Right now this
Mama is having a hard time letting them go.
But I know that these boys’ hearts and
minds grow, right along with their feet. New
boots, new tennis shoes, and new socks will
just be in constant cycle at our house. And
I couldn’t be happier to see their growth
because I have seen the boot prints of their
daddy, their grandpas, and the many men they
encounter who have influenced their lives, and
the growth only means they are on their way
to leaving their own big boot prints.
PUBLIC FORUM
Caney students’ respect brings tears to eyes
Editor:
I was in Caney this week to
attend the funeral of my precious sister-in-law, Ellen Newcomb.
I am so proud that the
Caney school system still has
their kids on the school playground turn around in respect
for the funeral procession as
it goes past the grade school
toward Sunnyside Cemetery.
When I saw that, it is all it
took for me to start crying.
Thank you, Caney Valley
school system, for what you
are still teaching your kids
about respect. I pray that you
continue this practice.
Linda Williamson
Collinsville, Okla.
Nightmare on
Kansas Street
INDEPENDENCE — A Montgomery County commissioner
hinted Monday that funds devoted to Four County Mental
Health Center could be reduced
if the center continues plans to
establish a group home in the
Quail Run neighborhood near
Independence Community College.
Commissioner Ryan York expressed concerns about Four
County’s plans to establish a
group home in an eight-room
home that previously served as
the Sisters of Mercy nun convent. The group home would
be used for persons who are
diagnosed with depression
and require a societal network
of living rather than living by
themselves, said Greg Hennen,
Four County’s executive director.
However, the prospect of
a group home coming to the
neighborhood, which is located
outside the Independence city
limits but within the zoning jurisdiction of the Montgomery
County Planning Commission,
bothered York. He was especially peeved when learning
that a state law forbids local
governments, including county
commissions, from using their
zoning laws to bar the establishment of group homes in
neighborhoods where singlefamily residences are established, much like the Quail Run
area.
During a commission meeting Monday, York indicated the
county has no other recourse in
the matter except to affect Four
County’s purse strings.
“They currently receive
$151,000 from the county taxpayers, and I understand that
amount can be reduced to
about $19,000, which we can
do today,” he said.
Commissioners took no action on York’s argument but
indicated they were behind the
neighbors who opposed the
group home.
“We’re behind your efforts,”
commission chairman Fred
Brown told the neighbors at
Monday’s meeting.
Commissioner Larry McManus, whose private residence
is next door to the proposed
group home, asked questions
regarding the policing and security of the group home.
At a commission meeting
on Sept. 14, commissioners
learned of Four County’s plans
via concerns raised by Quail
Run neighbors. They presented
a petition asking the county to
stop the establishment of the
group home.
It was at that Sept. 14 meeting, and affirmed at Monday’s
commission
meeting,
that
Montgomery County could do
nothing to stop the group home.
The licensing of a group
home is required through the
Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services. If
there are any problems with
the group home residents, then
then neighbors have the right
to contact that department to
lodge a complaint, York said.
The state law that forbids local governments from barring
group homes in single-family
residential neighborhoods also
stipulates the conditions for
group home placement. A person assigned to a group home
must not be on parole from a
Digital repeaters OKd; discussion begins
on possible changes to medical insurance
In other business transacted at Monday’s Montgomery County
Commission meeting, commissioners:
• agreed to seek bids for the purchase and placement of eight
digital repeaters for the Montgomery County Rural Fire Department. Those repeaters would be able to transmit messages both
in analog and digital format. The repeaters, once erected, would
also help local law enforcement and emergency personnel in
their communications where such transmissions typically fall
due to “dead spots” in frequency transmissions.
The placement of the digital repeaters and upgrades in radio
communication is a federal mandate, said Darren Felts of the
Montgomery County Rural Fire Department. The rural fire department has been rejected for a state grant valued at $250,000
for not having the appropriate plans in place to convert to digital
transmissions, he said.
“A previous grant application was rejected due to lack of digital infrastructure,” he said.
The actual towers and digital equipment would be owned and
maintained by Action Communication, he said.
• held a lengthy discussion with Micah Boulanger, representing Encompass HR Solutions and BMI, the county’s insurance
provider, and Bart Houlihan of Medtrex, which is the county’s
prescription insurance provider, concerning possible changes to
the county’s health insurance plan. Commissioners are seeking a
way to streamline costs under a new self-funded insurance program. Boulanger and Houlihan gave several suggestions, specially about the prescription insurance that is provided to county
employees. Several of those suggested changes could save the
county as much as $100,000 in annual insurance costs.
No action was taken after the discussion. However, commissioners learned that some changes would have to be made in
order to reduce health insurance costs.
Commissioner Ryan York said he favored making changes,
provided the changes are explained in a simple format to county
employees.
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felony crime, be assigned to a
community corrections program, have no existing drug or
alcohol addictions, and undergo a screening and evaluation
by a licensed physician. Firearms also would be prohibited
within the group home.
The planned group home
would be home to eight people,
Hennen told the Montgomery
County Chronicle.
At the Sept. 14 meeting, York
urged the 10 residents from the
Quail Run neighborhood to contact Hennen directly to express
their opinions. As of the Sept.
21 meeting, only three of those
residents made an attempt to
contact Hennen, York learned.
“Why didn’t you call him,”
York asked the residents. “If
you think your county government is going to do something
for you, it’s not going to happen. It’s got to start with people
going directly to the source.”
Commissioners said they
hoped the residents would
speak with Hennen to express
concerns and hear more information about the group home
concept.
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CHERRYVALE
Council tables ordinance
lowering local speed limits
BY DONNA CELAYA
cherryvale@taylornews.org
The Cherryvale City Council on Monday tabled a vote
on a proposed ordinance
that would make 25 miles
per hour the standard speed
limit on all streets. Exempted
from the proposed 25 mile
per hour speed zone will be
school zones and wider hightraffic streets, including Liberty Street and Olive Street.
Those streets would remain at
30 mph if the council later approves the ordinance.
Police chief Perry Lambert
said he recently had spent a
week at training that focused
on the impact of speed limits
on the wellbeing of communi-
ties. He said he learned that
a vehicle striking a child at
25 miles per hour is likely to
do great harm or be fatal 20
percent of the time, whereas
vehicles traveling at 45 mph
cause serious injury or death
80 percent of the time.
He said he rarely issues
speeding tickets to drivers
moving up to five miles over
the speed limit, but he does if
they are in a school zone or under other circumstances when
there is heavy pedestrian traffic, such as when events with
large crowds are occurring at
Logan Park along South Liberty.
The current speed limit on
Main Street is 20 miles per
hour — from Catherine Street
to Olive Street. From Catherine Street to U.S. 169 highway, the speed limit zone is 30
miles per hour.
In other business Monday, the council rejected the
$134,000 bid for extending sewer lines west on West
Main to U.S. 169 and on Maple
Street from First to Martin
streets.
City administrator Travis
Goedken said it is not unusual for municipalities to save
money on public works and
infrastructure projects by buying the materials and hiring
a sub-contractor to do the installation work. The council
agreed.
Councilors move forward on
land sale to private owner
BY DONNA CELAYA
CHS cheerleaders for 2015-16
Leading the spirit for the 2015-16 school year at Cherryvale High School are the CHS cheerleaders.
They include (front row, left to right) Lexi Latta, Jazze Reister, (second row, left to right) Kayla Hightower, Allyson McGlothin, Riley Holt-Kessler, Emily Lattin, Kylee Housel, (back row, left to right) Tiffany
Meloy, Miranda Gastineau, Emilee Reed, Jeté Littell and Carleigh Hughes. (Photo by Andy Taylor)
Friends of Library to host
community game night
Get ready for games, treats, a potluck dinner,
and election of officers. The Friends of the Cherryvale Public Library
will host a community game night for all ages
from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 28, in the
library’s lower-level community room at 329 E.
Main. Games nights have been well attended
and continue to draw enthusiastic participants.
Families are strongly encouraged to attend together, but children, grandparents, friends and
other individuals also are more than welcome.
Admission is free, and each youngster takes
home a free age-appropriate book. In addition to the games already on hand,
the Friends have added some board games for
adults, including one called “Senior Moments,”
to test competitors’ memories of days gone by,
and a Friends officer has donated a new Candyland™ game and a new Precious Moments
70-piece puzzle. Library director April Read said the library’s
edition of the children’s game Chutes-n-Ladders™ also has seen better days and needs to
be replaced. Anyone who wants to donate a
game of any kind should call the library at (620)
336-3460 and ask for Tammie or April, or bring
the games to the library. Friends members are
asked to each bring a dozen or two dozen cookies to game night to serve as refreshments.
Potluck dinner, elections
The Friends will meet next at 5:30 p.m. on
Thursday, Oct. 1, for the annual potluck dinner
and elections. All members are encouraged to
attend. Each of the existing officers has agreed to
continue in their current positions, unless others show an interest in holding office. Logan is
the president, Cathy Clay is the treasurer, Dana
Peugh is the vice president and Donna Celaya
is secretary. Elections will be for the president
and treasurer seats. Nominations will be accepted at the annual meeting, and then those
present will vote. Terms of office are for two
years.
Call the library at (620) 336-3460 and ask for
Tammie Logan for more information about the
Friends of the Library.
Goedken advises advisory board
to not sweat the small stuff
BY DONNA CELAYA
Focus on the big things, and
don’t get bogged down in the
small details.
That was the advice Cherryvale city administrator Travis Goedken gave the Cherrvale
Community
Center
Advisory Board on Sept. 17.
He said it is his responsibility and that of city clerk Hillary Lawrence to take care of
little details at the center, such
as how often the bathrooms
are cleaned. It’s the advisory
board’s job to tackle big projects, such as determining the
best floor covering for the future walking track, and what
public programs and events to
bring to the facility.
“Part of my job is handling
details and making sure there’s
follow-through on your suggestions,” Lawrence said. “For
example, the idea of changing
the rental fees for the center
is something you can suggest
and the council would decide.”
The board is considering
asking the city council to pay
for as much as $15,000 for
wall-to-wall rubberized flooring for the gymnasium, which
would include a walking track.
Discussions are aimed at turning the large southernmost
room into a game room for
all ages. The initial goal had
been a weight and workout
room, but the center does not
need to try to compete with
24HR Fitness, a gym in the
downtown commercial district, board members agreed.
• see Advisory board, page A7
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of living space. The downstairs
bathroom would be fortified as
a storm shelter, an outbuilding would serve double duty
as a shed for vehicles and the
owner’s two horses, and the
prospective purchaser plans
to fence the entire property.
The proposal also makes
the buyer responsible for cost
of boring under Catherine
Street to gain access to city
utilities located on the other
side. The proposed buyer estimates the land would gain tremendously in value to about
$150,000 with the planned
improvements.
The council directed Goedken to work with the hopeful
buyer to iron out a contract
that would represent the best
solution for both the city and
the prospective buyer. Sale of
the land also would be contingent on getting the parcel rezoned, they said.
Library to recognize Nat’l Banned Book Week
BY DONNA CELAYA
The First amendment to
the Constitution of the United
States of America guarantees
freedom of speech and expression to every United States citizen. That includes an implied
prohibition against banning
and burning books, a practice that crops up sporadically
across the nation.
Cherryvale Public Library
draws attention to the importance of National Banned
Books Week, which runs from
Sept. 27 through Oct. 3, with
a discussion of the futuristic
novel “Fahrenheit 451,” by renowned science fiction writer
Ray Bradbury.
That discussion takes place
at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 22,
during the Cherryvale Chapter
Chat book discussion group
meeting. Tammie Logan, Cherryvale Public Library assistant
librarian leads the group.
“It’s important for people
to acknowledge Banned Book
Week, so we don’t forget that
we have the right to freedom
of speech, and there are people who don’t respect and who
threaten that right,” Logan
said. “People who don’t learn
and who don’t remember history will repeat it.”
“Fahrenheit 451” deals with
the topic of banning books
with a tale of a man who protects books from being taken
and burned by the “firemen”
whose job it is to do just that.
Bradbury said Fahrenheit 451
is the temperature at which
paper auto-ignites.
Published in 1953, the book
is considered one of Bradbury’s best works. The novel
won numerous awards, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award
in Literature, and the Com-
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As the old saying goes, a
bird in the hand is worth two
in the bush. In this case, the
City of Cherryvale is prepared
to take a loss on potential future sales taxes in exchange
for its share of property taxes
that would come from the sale
of city-owned, tax-exempt
land.
The Cheryvale City Council
on Monday discussed a proposal from a private citizen
who wants to pay $7,500 for
five acres of unused, unimproved, city-owned land on
the west side of Catherine
Street between Front and First
streets. The land now is zoned
for industry and commercial
use. If the proposed buyer,
whose name was not revealed
at the meeting, has his way, it
will be rezoned for agricultural use. The Cherryvale Planning and Zoning Commission
will have to come to a conclusion and bring its suggestion
to the council for a final decision on the rezoning request.
In discussing the proposal,
councilors said $7,500 is lower
than the land is worth, but on
the other hand, allowing it to
set unused and unimproved is
not helping the city or its citizens.
Shirley Ann Hogben, a local
business owner and member
of the Cherryvale Chamber of
Commerce board of directors,
pointed out that agricultural
land will not provide nearly
the amount of revenue to the
city that an industrial venture
would at the same location.
“Municipalities make a lot
more from sales tax than they
do on property taxes,” city administrator Travis Goedken
agreed.
The proposed buyer plans
to erect a two-bedroom, twobath home on a concrete slab,
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For more information about
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CHERRYVALE
C’vale Pizza Hut
works to help
feed the world
BY DONNA CELAYA
Pizza Hut is offering the
public a chance to win more
than a dozen prizes, and at
the same time help a good
cause.
Pizza Hut restaurants all
over Montgomery County are
banding together in an effort
to raise funds to help feed hungry people around the world.
Toby Cook, manager of the
Cherryvale Pizza Hut, said Pizza Hut solicits the public’s help
every fall to raise money for
the World Hunger Relief Program, and his store has taken
the effort one step further.
“The Cherryvale Pizza Hut
is the only one I know of that,
in addition to accepting cash
donations, is accepting prizes
that we can raffle off to increase the amount of money
we raise for the hunger relief
effort,” Cook said. “The goal
is for each Pizza Hut to raise
at least $1,000, and that’s not
easy for a small-town restaurant like ours. We need the
public’s help to get that done.”
He said other businesses in
Cherryvale and Independence
are contributing to the cause.
The raffle prizes they have donated so far include:
• from Cherryvale businesses - a $75 gift certificate
from Misfit Motors, $50 gift
certificate from Coffee Cafe, a
$50 gift certificate from G&W
Foods, a tote full of Cherryvale
Charger fan items from Newton’s True Value Hardware, a
socket tool set from Bumper to
Bumper, a cooler full of barbecue accessories from Community National Bank and Trust,
a size small woman’s T-shirt
from Sunflower Farms, a Matrix Color Protection kit from
Diane’s Petite Boutique, and a
Casey’s General Store $25 gift
card.
• from Independence businesses - a patio umbrella emblazoned with the Lipton Tea
logo from Pepsi, a neon Budweiser clock from Best Beverage, and a three-and-a-halffoot-tall Lucky Dog stuffed
animal from Aaron’s.
“Every penny we raise for
this goes to the World Hunger
Relief Program,” Cook said.
Raffle tickets are $1 each, five
tickets for $3, eight tickets for
$5, or 15 tickets for $10, and
there is no limit to the number
of tickets an individual or family can buy.
“We also have giveaways
like hats and T-shirts for people who donate but don’t want
to buy raffle tickets for whatever reason,” he said.
Pizza Hut customers, local
businesses and the general
public can aid in the hungerrelief effort by donating cash
or prizes, and by buying raffle tickets. The benefit starts
on Sunday, Sept. 27 and runs
through Saturday, Nov. 14,
when prize winners will be announced. Call the Cherryvale
Pizza Hut at (620) 336-2661
for more details, to purchase
raffle tickets or to donate to
the cause.
Spanish teacher, son embrace Cherryvale
BY DONNA CELAYA
Immersion in a foreign
culture and language is beginning to take hold when the
student finally starts thinking
in the new language.
Paloma Perez Spreafico
has reached that point. In her
homeland, she teaches English at the elementary level.
As Cherryvale High School’s
new Spanish teacher, she now
is becoming accustomed to
teaching her native tongue to
English-speaking high school
students, who call her Mrs.
Perez. Spreafico, she said, is
too hard for most people to
pronounce easily.
Despite having a quiet
social life in Cherryvale to this
point, she said she feels very
welcome in Cherryvale.
“Everyone has been so nice
here,” Perez said. “It seems
that people in smaller places
are kinder than people in
bigger cities. Here, everyone
has made us feel welcome.
The kids here are nice. I don’t
know if I would have wanted
to bring my son, Ivan, to a
big city so far from home. But
here, he is doing very well and
making friends.
“He really wanted to come
here with me to live and go
to school,” she said. “He was
very excited. I worried about
him making friends and
having a social life, but he is
doing even better than I am at
adjusting. I don’t have a social
life yet, but I know it will
come with time. For me, this
is a good experience. For him,
it is an even better experience.”
The transition has been
so easy that neither she nor
Ivan have suffered any spells
Hablando español
Spanish teacher exchange instructor Paloma Perez Spreafico, third from right, (her students call her “Mrs. Perez” because it’s easier to
pronounce) poses here with students from one of her afternoon Spanish classes at Cherryvale Middle-High School. With her, left to
right, are Brendan Menzer, Jenna Hugo, Hannah Wilson, Perez, Breah Collins and Quentin Austin. (Photo by Donna Celaya)
of homesickness. “We talk to
our family members all the
time on Skype, and that helps
a lot,” she said. “But we also
are so busy, we haven’t had
time to be homesick.” And
they hope to return to Spain
to see their family members
either at Christmas or over
summer vacation.
It helps, too, that she and
her twin sister both were
foreign exchange students in
high school. She lived with
a family near Minneapolis,
Minn., and her sister was with
a family in Aspen, Colo. “It
was harder then because we
didn’t know any English at all
when we arrived here. I knew
only Spanish and French.
But after being here for the
entire school year, we learned
English very quickly and did
pretty well, I think.”
Perez said she was born in
the South African country of
Sierra Leone to missionary
parents whom she describes
as adventurous. Her father
was a doctor, and her mother
was a nurse.
Private property allowed access to
city water without sewer charge
BY DONNA CELAYA
There are exceptions to some rules, if reasons support the change. Cherryvale City Council on Monday evening decided one resident’s
request for an exception to the rule was valid.
Scott Bennett, owner of the home-based pest
extermination business Bug Busters, asked the
city to allow him to run city water to one of his
properties without requiring him to hook up to
city sewer and without charge for sewer and
trash disposal. He said he has a building on the
property, and access to city sewer already exists if he desires in the future to make use of it.
But for now, he said he does not plan to install
plumbing or a bathroom in the building. He just
wants access to water for a private water hydrant.
After some discussion, the council agreed to
the water hookup without sewer or trash service and the accompanying fees, and the council directed city administrator Travis Goedken
to draft an ordinance to allow such variances to
others with valid requests in the future.
That spirit of adventure
rubbed off on Perez, who said
she has lived in several different European countries as she
moved around from university
to university and job to job
with her studies. Her goal as
an adult, she said, was to live
for an extended period of time
in a foreign country and to
bring along her 15-year-old
son, Ivan, now a sophomore
at CHS.
“I wanted this chance to
open his mind and give him
opportunities that he might
not have otherwise. I wanted
him to see things from a new
perspective,” she said.
While life outside the
school room is quiet for her
for the time being, even including time to go fishing with
some new friends, the hours
at school are longer and more
intense than what she is accustomed to in Spain.
“People here in the United
States are very conscious of
time. In Spain, we are much
more relaxed. Any time you
work and live in a different culture, you have to be
flexible and patient. Ivan and
I both have learned to be
respectful and tolerant. Natu-
rally, there are things that I
don’t like, just as there would
be for someone from Cherryvale going to live in Spain
for a year, but it’s important
to allow people to be who they
are.
“At home, we attend
school from 9 a.m. until 2
p.m., and I’m home by 3,”
she said. “Here the days are
much longer and much more
regimented. I am at school
here from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
and for the first three days,
I didn’t think I would make
it. I stand and move around
and talk almost all day long. I
almost never get a chance to
sit down. It was exhausting. I
had to learn that I needed to
take time to eat, too, and now
I have adjusted and I’m doing
fine.”
Her students also are
learning that she is serious
about them learning a new
language. “I insist that when
they speak, they use the language in a meaningful way,
not just memorize words,” she
said. “They have a very good
attitude and they seem to really want to learn.”
Advisory board makes plans for more community services, programs
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Goedken encouraged
the board to work toward getting a walking track installed.
He said southeast Kansas is
notorious for being among the
very lowest in health statistics
in the state, and a walking
track could help improve residents’ health and boost those
ratings. “There’s some truth to
the saying, ‘If you build it, they
will come,’” he said.
The advisory board at its
last meeting discussed the
rental fees, and stated the
opinion that they are too high,
based on the cost to rent similar facilities in nearby communities. Goedken reminded
the board that the rental fees
were set high to ensure community center members and
residents of Cherryvale would
have access to the community
center, as opposed to having it
privately rented and too often
denying access to the people it
is supposed to serve.
Use of the center during its
open hours of 5-9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and on
Saturday costs just $1 a person, per visit. Rental fees are
higher because they restrict
use of the facility to just those
renting it, he said.
Goedken also said he was
interested in the programs the
group discussed with the K
State Extension representative
who attended the public input
meeting. The board agreed to
ask the Extension to bring one
class per month to the center,
starting in November. Those
classes will be announced
ahead of time and publicized
in the Montgomery County
Chronicle.
Goedken said the only cost
for classes and programs
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the class, whether the classes
are offered by K State Extension or another party. K State
instructors already are paid
with taxpayer’s money, he
said.
The classes that occur at
the center that require students or participants to pay
for more than materials also
require the instructors to pay
a percentage of their fees to
the city, Goedken said.
Advisory board member
Sylvia Shaffer suggested the
board also check with Independence Community College
to see what free programs
they might be able to provide.
She also said the board might
want to consider a fireman’s
chili competition or barbecue
cook-off with entry fees and
spectator fees to cover the cost
of prizes and utilities at the
community center.
In related business, advisory board chair Carol Staton
said it might be possible to get
some of the local businesses
to sponsor movie nights at the
center so the city can offer the
movies free to families and
individuals in the community.
One money maker might be
selling popcorn and concessions.
The board agreed to try to
get a movie in time for Halloween in October, and voted
unanimously to have Swank
Motion Pictures supply the
movies at a cost of $85 per
title on alternating months for
the next year.
The board also:
• Agreed to look for an affordable commercial popcorn machine.
• Unanimously agreed to look
for a new ping-pong table. The old
pool table is being replaced with
a bumper pool table that was donated.
• Heard from Shaffer that she
has spoken to some teachers who
are in favor of an after-school program at the center.
• Discussed giving free month
memberships to volunteers who
set up and clean up afterwards at
events.
• heard from Lawrence that
she would create a Google sharing
document that would be available
to advisory board members so
they can answer correctly when
members of the community ask
them about specific dates and
events at the center.
Ministerial Alliance plans community
worship service, lunch at Logan Park
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Cherryvale Ministerial Alliance is sponsoring an ecumenical
church service called “Church In The Park Sunday” at 10 a.m.
on Sunday, Sept. 27 at Logan Park in Cherryvale.
Seven local churches are working bring people together to
worship in music and scripture. Those attending should bring
lawn chairs.
Lunch will be served at noon, and there will be free games
for children. The lunch menu includes hamburgers and hotdogs
with iced tea and water. Local churches will provide the side
dishes.
The Cherryvale Ministerial Alliance invites and welcomes everyone to attend the worship service and lunch.
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CHERRYVALE
SEPTEMBER 28 IS DEADLINE TO REGISTER
City-wide rummage sales set for Oct. 3
Cherryvale Chamber of Commerce will
sponsor its annual autumn city-wide rummage sale day on Saturday, Oct. 3. To have a sale listed on a comprehensive map of Cherryvale and in advertising in
the Montgomery County Chronicle, provide
the name of the person or persons hosting
the sale, a complete address and a contact
phone number, along with $10 payable at either at either Community National Bank or
People’s State Bank in Cherryvale by the 4
p.m. deadline on Monday, Sept. 28. The maps with directions to the sales will
be available free of charge on Friday evening, Oct. 2, and on the Saturday of the sale,
Oct. 3, at all of the convenience stores in
Cherryvale, both banks, Newtons True Value
Hardware, Cherryvale City Hall, Sunflower
Farms, and G&W Foods.
Ride the skies at Tri-City
Airport’s free fly-in Saturday
BY DONNA CELAYA
Lawn of the Month
The City of Cherryvale has singled out Darrel and Jane Trollope at 724 Independence Ave. as Lawn
of the Month honor recipients for August. Their well-tended lawn is shown here. Lawns receiving
honorable mention were Leon Dixon, 614 N. Neosho; Kevin and Stephanie Crain, 825 E. Third, Chuck
and Carlene Smith, 1115 E. Fifth.; and Mary and Gary Brooks, 725 W. Main. (Photo by Donna Celaya)
Airplanes from personal craft to vintage
World War II models will take to the air for the
Parsons Tri-City airport’s sixth-annual free flyin for the public starting at 8 a.m. and running
until 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 26. The airport
four miles northeast of Cherryvale.
Public admission is free, and local pilots will
treat school-age children to free flights.
Other attractions include:
• Biscuits and gravy breakfast, and pulledpork sandwiches for lunch will be for sale by
the Knights of Columbus from Parsons.
• A commemorative group from Wichita will
sell tickets to fly in their vintage WWII PT23
open-cockpit training plane. You may purchase
a ride on both of these planes while they are at
Parsons Tri-City Airport. The Wichita branch of
the Civilian Air Force uses the fees raised by
selling rides to restore and maintain WW II aircraft.
• Wide variety of planes flying in and out all
day, and displayed for the public to see up close.
Pilots will be on hand to answer questions.
• The ever-popular computer flight simulators will be on hand.
• Children’s pedal airplane rides are free.
• Craft and information table spaces are free
of charge for businesses and local organizations and individuals. Call Marlene Carson at
(620) 423-9879 to reserve a space.
Call airport manager Lee Mattix at (620)
336-3440 for more details.
Cherryvale FFA chapter begins
2015-16 competition season Local cops, firefighters plan benefit
The Cherryvale High School
FFA Chapter opened the 201516 competition year at the
Southeast District Nursery/
Landscape and Entomology
contests at Fort Scott on Sept.
16.
The nursery/landscape contest consisted of an information test, practicum, and plant
identification. The entomology
contest was made up of an
information test, and insect
identification.
Both nursery teams from
Cherryvale brought home the
hardware. The A team had
a second place team finish,
while Hannah Chrisman finished as second place individual scorer. Other members of
the team included Allison Bryant, Jordan Carinder, Micah
King, Branden Roberts, Tyler
Sale, Trenton Smedley, Zack
Steed, and Zach Wood.
The B team also fared well
as they finished fourth as a
team. Kolton Hall finished
among the top 10 individual
scores as 10th place. Members
of the B team included Cade
Addis, Abbie Adkison, Brent
Blaes, Colben Dodson, Jaida
Essig, Kylee Lang and Jessica
Wood.
The entomology teams also
fared well. The three-member A team finished as sixth
place overall, and members
included Alexa Maulsby, Jake
Wagner and Kim Meeks. The B
team also had a strong showing as they finished as seventh
place as a team. Members of
the team included Jonathen
Atwood, Dalton Harbors, Maddie Moore, Kassie Vining, and
Jacqui Wilson.
The chapter has many activities coming up including
the annual Greenhand conference in Iola, and the local SAE
tour where many members
will be sharing their own supervised agricultural experience (SAE).
Jordan Carinder, reporter
FFA social set for Sunday afternoon
The Cherryvale High School FFA Chapter will hold its annual FFA Parent/Member/Alumni Social on Sunday, Sept.
27, at 2 p.m. at the Cherryvale High School. Ice cream and
desserts will be served at 3 p.m. Kansas State FFA Officers
will be on hand to meet local FFA members and their famlies.
Members of the Cherryvale FFA Alumni will furnish the
ice cream. All persons attending are asked to bring a dessert. The chapter will provide the drinks.
Big Hill Lake’s playground
improvement day is Saturday
Volunteers are encouraged
to join U.S. Corps of Engineers
employees in a playground
improvement day at Big Hill
Lake’s
Cherryvale
campground children’s playground
from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Sept. 26, National Public
Lands Day.
Mike Lupino of the U.S.
Corps of Engineers said the
Cherryvale
campground’s
playground
crawl-through
tunnels are in for a new coat
of primer and colorful paint,
and the playground sand will
be removed and replaced with
rubber mulch that will discourage bugs and spiders, and
will be less abrasive on little
hands and knees.
Everyone who wants to help
is welcome, including private
individuals, scouts, 4-H clubs
or church groups. Lupino said
to dress for the weather, and
those who have tools should
bring their own gloves, buckets, shovels and rakes. The
park will supply some of those
items, and will make sure the
volunteers have plenty of water to stay hydrated.
Call the park at (620) 3362741 for more details or to
sign up to volunteer.
for former Cherryvale police officer
BY DONNA CELAYA
A former Cherryvale public servant who has dedicated
most of his adult career to
fighting to protect the lives of
others now is waging a battle
for his own health.
Robert Allen, who formerly
worked for Cherryvale Police
Department and then as a
Montgomery County Sheriff’s
Department deputy, still works
as a dispatcher for the county, making sure emergency
messages end up in the right
hands.
Allen was diagnosed with
multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease without a
known cause, that can cause
problems with vision, bowel
and bladder, fatigue, balance
and walking, memory, pain,
muscle stiffness, weakness or
spasms, and depression.
Trent King of Cherryvale
Fire-Rescue said the Cherryvale fire and police departments will host a benefit dinner to raise funds to help Allen
defray some of his medical
expenses. The dinner starts at
6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 26
at the Cherryvale Community
Center. Everyone is encouraged to come out to show love
and support for Allen, who
served the Cherryvale community and residents with pride,
and who continues to protect
the public through his work at
the dispatch center.
Nathaniel Day of Cherryvale
Fire-Rescue Department said
the benefit organizers are asking for a $5 suggested donation per plate, which will consist of barbecued pulled pork
sandwiches with various side
dishes, dessert and beverage.
Donations for the benefit
dinner will accepted at the
door, and tickets for a chance
to win either a two-man Water Scamp or a three-and-ahalf-ton floor jack also will be
available at the event.
UPCOMING EVENTS
City Council to meet
Oct. 5 at City Hall
Cherryvale City council will
meet in regular session at 7
p.m. on Monday, Oct. 5, in
the council chambers at City
Hall, 123 W. Main. The public
is welcome at all city council
meetings. Call City Hall at 3362776 for more information.
Agendas are posted on the
city’s website at cherryvaleusa.com.
Seniors and friends
invited to bingo
Senior citizens bingo is at
1 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 6 and
20, at the Senior Center recreation building, 207 E. Main in
Cherryvale. Anyone can play,
and bring a friend.
Bingo meetings are at 1
p.m. on the first and third
Tuesdays of each month. Cost
is $1 for bingo, refreshments,
prizes and enjoying time spent
with friends.
Call Mary Lumley at 3362685 for more information.
Come and Dine meal
set for Saturday
The Assembly of God
church at 305 E. Main, Cherryvale, invites the community
to the monthly Come and Dine
free meal at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 26.
Pastor Jeff Owen said the
free meal on the fourth Saturday of each month is simply
a time of enjoying a meal and
good company, open to anyone who wants to come. Unless they plan to bring a large
group, guests do not need to
RSVP or contact the church
ahead of time. They don’t need
to attend or be members of the
church, and there are no income requirements or guidelines.
Call the pastor at (620) 7026090 for more information.
LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS
St. Francis Xavier Altar
Society schedules fall
picnic, bake sale
Christmas tree and covering
for the bingo board, and heard
a report about church board
activities.
The St. Francis Xavier Altar
Society met on Sept. 9. Carol
Staton opened the meeting
with prayer intentions and an
Our Father.
The group heard and discussed the minutes, treasurer’s report and communications. New business included
planning coffee and donuts
on the first Sunday in October,
and the fall picnic at noon on
Oct. 18 at the hall with a “Fall
Festival” theme. Hamburgers
and hot dogs will be provided,
and parishioners will bring
side dishes.
A bake sale also is planned
for November during bingo
and after Sunday mass.
Candles will be ordered for
the church, and Carol Staton
and Jenny Lou Blaes received
thank yous for cleaning the
back of the church.
The group discussed projects, including cleaning the
crosses at the church, a new
The meeting adjourned.
The next meeting will be the
second Wednesday in October.
All ladies from the church are
invited to attend.
Zeta Gamma Sorority
members bowl into
the new fiscal year
Zeta Gamma Sorority began its 2015-2016 year with
a bowling party at the Cherry
Bowl Lanes and Grill. Tanya
Smedley had the lowest score,
and Amy Strickland had the
high game.
After bowling, everyone
had hamburgers and fries in
the party room, exchanged Secret Sister gifts and caught up
on their summer activities.
The first regular meeting was in the FCLA room at
Cherryvale High School. Marla Sterling was hostess and
Penny Lumbley was co-host-
ess. Committees met before
the business began. Marla
called the meeting to order
and passed out the books with
schedules for hostesses and
co-hostesses for the year. Refreshments were followed by
committee reports and discussion of upcoming activities.
The second meeting for
September was a social and
craft night at Carol Staton’s
house. Dinner was taco salad
and chips. Those in attendance had three craft choices,
and Carol provided the materials for wooden pumpkins, a
deco-podge block display and
a fall candle in a mason jar.
Most of the members made all
three projects.
Stella Blanchard served
brownies with ice cream topping, and Carol demonstrated
how to make a fall wreath.
Debbie Reilly won it as a door
prize.
the next meeting will be
at the high school. Misty Humaciu will be the hostess, and
Micah DeWeese will be cohostess.
Trail Writers to host
fundraiser in October
Trail Writers writing group
in Cherryvale has set Oct. 3 as
the date for their next fundraiser, a combination bake sale
and rummage sale.
The sale will run from 8
a.m. to noon on Saturday, Oct.
3, at the open-air gazebo in
Logan Park, and will be in conjunction with the Cherryvale
Chamber of Commerce-sponsored city-wide rummage sale
day.
Items for sale will include
freshly baked goods, Christmas
and other holiday decorations,
clothing and shoes, bedding
and linens, decorative items,
glassware, like-new stuffed
animals, toys, puzzles and
board games, and more. Trail
Writers published authors also
will have their books for sale,
and some of the authors might
be available to autograph their
books.
Proceeds of the rummage
sale and bake sale will go
toward
assisting
Kansas
Authors Club District 3, of
which Trail Writers is a chapter,
when District 3 hosts the KAC
annual state convention in
Coffeyville in 2017.
Anyone with items they
would like to donate for the
Oct. 3 rummage sale or those
wanting to know more about
the Trail Writers or KAC can
call president Joyce Long at
(620) 515-4039.
Spooky tales: The
Trail
Writers met on Sept. 1 at the
Cherryvale Public Library for
their monthly get-together.
They agreed to a Halloween
or mystery theme for the suggested Oct. 6 writing assignment. Members create original
poems or prose around a suggested theme each month, or
they can bring excerpts from
other projects they have in
progress.
Christmas stories: The
members also agreed to postpone publication of the Christmas book that Trail Writers of
Cherryvale and Night Writers
of Coffeyville are joining efforts to compile. The book’s
theme will by centered around
Christmas and winter-related
stories and poems. Submissions will be accepted any time for publication
next year, with a new target
deadline of the Trail Writers
meeting date on Tuesday, Sept.
5, 2016. Fall publication will
allow the books to be sold as
Christmas gifts next year. Proceeds from that book sale also
will be used to host the October 2017 state convention.
Membership: The District
3 Trail Writers and Night
Writers members are middleschool students through senior
citizens, and anyone with a
love of the written word is
welcome to join or to form their
own KAC D3 writers’ group in
their hometown. Membership
in the chapters and attending
the meetings are free. KAC
annual membership costs $25
a person, and is optional for
chapter members.
Trail Writers meets at 6
p.m. on the first Tuesday of
each month in the lowerlevel community room at the
Cherryvale Public Library, 329
E. Main. The next meeting is
set for Oct. 6.
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City of Coffeyville to receive
$1.3 million in KDOT funds
The City of Coffeyville has
been awarded $1.3 million
in funding from the Kansas
Department of Transportation (KDOT) for two projects.
KDOT is committing $300,000
to Coffeyville for a 2017 City
Connecting
Link
(KLINK)
street resurfacing project from
Overlook west to the city limits
and $1 million for a 2018 geometric improvement project at
11th and Willow streets.
“The KLINK project will
complete
our
resurfacing
project on Highway 166 from
the east city limits to the west
city limits,” said Mayor Chris
Williams. “We are pleased to
be awarded both this project
and the geometric improvement project at 11th and Willow streets.” The City match
on the KLINK project will be
$151,062.
The intersection of 11th
and Willow was selected for a
geometric improvement project to add left turning lanes
and to widen the turning radi-
uses. The City’s portion of this
project is $187,100 making
the total project estimated cost
$1,187,100. Kansas Transportation Secretary Mike King announced
the awards on Thursday. “The competition is stiff for
these projects. KDOT received
37 applications for $26 million
in geometric funding this year,
and we selected nine projects
for $6.6 million,” said King.
Plans announced for annual
Dalton Defenders Days
Coffeyville’s most famous
day in history will come to life
on Oct. 1-4 when Dalton Defenders Days are celebrated.
Dalton
Defenders
Days
recognized that fateful day of
Oct. 5, 1892 when the Dalton
outlaws was defeated in Coffeyville by local citizens. The
Dalton gang attempted to rob
two banks in Coffeyville simultaneously. However, they met
a bloody and fatal fate by citizens who defended the community.
Four members of the outlaw gang — Bill Power, Dick
Broadwell, Bob Dalton and
Gratton Dalton — were killed.
One member, Emmet Dalton,
survived.
Four local citizens —
George Cubine, Lucius Baldwin, Charles T. Connelley, and
Charles Brown — were killed.
Four others were wounded.
Dalton Defenders Days will
include several re-enactments
of the Dalton raid and citizen
defense. The Dalton Defenders’ Museum also will be open
with exhibits and displays of
not only the Dalton raid but
also other events from Coffeyville’s past.
Shown below is a tentative
schedule of events.
Thursday, Oct. 1
• 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.: Defender
Inn Hotel Holdup
• 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.: Retracing
Dalton Footsteps (Downtown)
• 8:15 to 9:30 p.m.: Investigating History Dalton Gang
Raid Movie (Museum)
Friday, Oct. 2
• 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.:Defender
Inn Hotel Holdup
• 4 p.m.: Food Vendors and
Craft Booths open
• 6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.: Dalton
Defender’s re-enactment
• 6:30 to 7:15 p.m.: Christian Karate Academy demonstration
• 6:30 to 7 p.m.: Root Beer
Float Sales
• 7:15 to 7:30 p.m.: Cake
Walk
• 7 p.m.: Cowboy Trade
Days (Walter Johnson Park)
• 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.: Backroads Band
Saturday, Oct. 3
• 9 a.m.:Dalton Defenders
General Store opens
• 9 a.m.: Craft Booths and
Food vendors open
• 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m.: OK Car
Club Car Show
• 9:30-10:30 a.m.: Dalton
Defenders Flyer Train Ride
• 10 a.m.-4 p.m.: Kids
Games open
• 10-10:30 a.m.: Barrels
and Poles for kids
• 10-10:45 a.m.: Ole Time
Pickers and Grinners
• 10:45 to 11 a.m.:Cake
Walk
• 11-11:30 a.m.: Dalton Defender’s Re-enactment
• 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.:
Dalton Defenders Flyer Train
Ride
• 11:30 to 12:15 p.m.: Sue
Ellen’s Band
• 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.: Barbara Fairchild
• 1:30 to 1:45 p.m.: Cake
Walk
• 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.: Dalton
Defenders Flyer Train Ride
• 1:45 to 3 p.m.: Mitch Gray
and the Shade Band
• 1:30 to 1:45 p.m.: Hot dog
eating contest
• 1:45 to 2 p.m.: Corn on
the Cob eating contest
• 2:00 to 2:15 p.m.: Jello
eating contest
• 2:15 to 2:30 p.m.: Pie eating contest
• 2:35 to 3 p.m.: Turtle
Races and games for kids and
adults
• 2 p.m.: Barrel Racing
Jackpot (Walter Johnson Park)
• 2-3 p.m.: Chili cookoff
• 3-3:30 p.m.: Dalton Defenders Re-enactment
• 3:30-3:45 p.m.: Chili cookoff and Salsa competition
awards
• 3:30-4 p.m.: Car show
awards
• 4-4:25 p.m.: Shot Gun
Wedding
• 4:25-4:30 p.m.: Lil Miss
and Mr. Defender Crowning
and Lost Loot Winner announced
• 4:30-4:50 p.m.: Cake Walk
• 5-5:30 p.m.: Dalton Defender’s Re-enactment
• 5:30-7:30: U-Turn Band
Sunday, Oct. 4
at Walter Johnson Park
• 10 a.m.: Cowboy Church
Service
• Noon: Team Roping
Blood drive to be held next week
September is National Preparedness Month, and the
American Red Cross asks eligible donors to help prepare for
emergencies by giving blood.
It’s important to have a stable blood supply at all times to
help ensure we are prepared
to meet patient needs in every
emergency. Blood can take up
to three days to be tested, processed and made available for
patients. It’s the blood on the
shelves when disaster strikes
that can save the day.
The stability of our nation’s
blood supply is in the hands of
healthy volunteer donors who
give generously for others in
need. Appointments to donate
and help the Red Cross prepare for patient needs across
the country can be made at
redcrossblood.org.
The American Red Cross
blood drive will be held from
11:45 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday,
Sept. 28 and from 8:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.., Tuesday, Sept. 29, at
the First Baptist Church, 304
W. Ninth.
Call 1-800-RED CROSS (1800-733-2767) or visit redcrossblood.org to make an
appointment or for more information. All blood types are
Dalton Defenders Days
Coffeyville, Kansas
October 1-4, 2015
needed to ensure a reliable
supply for patients. A blood
donor card or driver’s license
or two other forms of identification are required at checkin. Individuals who are 17
years of age (16 with parental
consent in some states), weigh
at least 110 pounds and are
in generally good health may
be eligible to donate blood.
High school students and
other donors 18 years of age
and younger also have to meet
certain height and weight requirements.
Scott Hammer, CCC welding instructor, prepares one of the frames that will be used to hold a
Cessna diesel engine bound for France. CCC has been contracted to build 21 engine frames for
the Cessna engine shipment. (Photo by Andy Taylor)
Welding instructors build frames
for Cessna engine shipment
BY ANDY TAYLOR
Welding instructors at Coffeyville Community College have found themselves in a
unique situation in the past several weeks:
designing and preparing frames for large
containers that will hold Cessna Aircraft diesel engines bound for France.
Cessna is using CCC’s welding services to
prepare the steel frames that will hold the
high-dollar and highly-sensitive diesel engines. Those engines will soon leave Cessna’s
Independence aircraft assembly plant and
make the long trek to Europe via ocean liner.
However, welding instructors had to design their own frames after the initial frames
used in previous shipping crates were discarded.
“It’s an incredibly unique framing structure,” said Scott Hammer, CCC welding instructor. “The actual engine is bolted onto
the frame. However, the frame has to conform to the size and dimensions of the engine. It’s certainly not a square peg.”
CRMC Foundation to hold pasta fundraiser
Coffeyville Regional Medical Center’s Foundation has
a fund called Care ‘N’ Share
for patients who are receiving treatment at CRMC. This
fund will help those patients
receive assistance such as a
gas card to get to treatment,
money to pay for their electrical bill or boost nutritional
supplement to have during
treatment etc. The fund has
been set up, but isn’t able to
implement help to the patients until there is $10,000 in
the fund.
To make that fund come to
reality, Care ‘N’ Share is host-
Call 620-251-3197 with any ?’s
ing a pasta fundraiser starting
Oct. 1. All proceeds of the
pasta sale will go to the Care
‘N’ Share Fund.
The fundraiser is through
Pasta Shoppe, and CRMC will
offer pasta salads, soups,
chilis, gift sets, fun shaped
pasta such as collegiate
shaped pasta, breast cancer
ribbon-shaped pasta, gluten
free pasta, and much more.
How do you order the pasta?
Each department in the hospital will have a catalog and an
order form. If you can’t make
it by the hospital and want to
participate in the fundraiser
you can visit our fundraising
link on the web. https://www.
funpastafundraising.com/
shop/coffeyville-regional-medcenter-foundation
The pricing ranges from
$3.99 to $10.00 and all the
pasta comes pre-packaged
and serves around six to eight
people. This is a great gift for
anyone wanting some unique
gift that anyone can use, especially during a cold, fall day.
For more information,
contact Alice McGuire in the
Radiation Oncology department at (620) 252-1563.
CCC invites students to Manufacturing Day on Oct. 2
The Coffeyville Community
College Technical Campus
along with several other entities and businesses will host
Manufacturing Day on Oct. 2
for area high school students.
This national event “is a celebration of modern manufacturing meant to inspire the next
generation of manufacturers”
according to the mfgday.com
website. The event at the CCC
FLU SHOTS
at Coffeyville Family
Practice Clinic, P.A.
Allen D. Gillis, D.O. – James L. Christensen, D.O.
Kraig E. Bertram II, D.O.
Brenda L. Pursley, RPA-C – Stacey L. Weil, APRN-C
Oct. 5th thru Oct. 9th, 2015
9am - 12pm (noon)
Get a full schedule of events on www.coffeyvillechamber.org
Each piece of angle iron had to be cut to
precise angles to hold the complex engine.
“These are extremely expensive engines,”
said Hammer. “You certainly want each and
every angle to be precise.”
CCC is making 21 frames; the shipping
crates are manufactured elsewhere. All the
shipping and assembly parts are taken to Independence where the engines are precariously placed in the CCC-made frames and
then snuggly comforted inside the crates.
The crates themselves are made of a special wood that is resistant to bugs and mold.
Because of the complexity of the project, only the CCC instructors are creating
the frames. Students are learning about the
project; however, the master teachers are
the ones who are doing the measuring, cutting and welding.
“It’s a new experience for our welding
program,” said Hammer. “It’s nice to see the
partnership between CCC and local industries.”
Coverage of the vaccine is available at no
charge to Medicare patients. Medicare and all other
Insurance plans will be billed by our office.
209 W. 7th Street, Coffeyville, KS
Technical Campus will begin
at 8 a.m. and end at 2 p.m.
Lunch will be provided. Those attending activities
at the CCC Technical Campus
on Oct. 2 will learn the truth
about manufacturing and careers, explore a new generation of manufacturers, connect
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COFFEYVILLE
Commission discusses upkeep
of cemeteries, other properties
BY ANDY TAYLOR
’Nado athletes of the week
The FKHS Booster Club Athletes of the Week for Sept. 14 were (front row, left to right) Bri Rutherford,
cross country; Abby Smith, volleyball, (back row, left to right) Nick Porter, soccer; Bailey Naden, dance;
and Hunter Mason, football. (Photo by Angie Naden)
City continues to flush local lines
The City of Coffeyville is
continuing the annual flushing
project on the water distribution system. Phase two of the project is
underway as the addition of
ammonia has been temporarily stopped.
“This allows the chlorine to
more effectively disinfect the
lines,” said Shane George, superintendent of water/wastewater. “The purpose of the
flushing project is to remove
any naturally occurring bacterial growth and build-up in
the water distribution lines
which helps the water system
maintain the KDHE required
chlorine levels throughout the
system,” said George.
The water lines are then
flushed by opening fire hydrants in various locations
throughout the city. This
moves the chlorinated water
into those areas for disinfection purposes and flushes any
build up out of the lines. “Citizens have probably noticed the open fire hydrants,”
said George. This is the process
for moving the chlorinated water through the lines.” When the ammonia is removed, there may be a stronger chlorine odor as well as a
sulfur odor. Flushing the lines
can affect the taste and appearance of the water, howev-
er, it will continue to meet all
KDHE requirements and will
be safe. Customers may temporarily notice low water pressure in areas where a hydrant
is being flushed, slightly murky
or discolored water and poor
taste and/or odor.
Coffeyville city commissioners on Tuesday
approved a proposal that would equalize the
burial fees and related expenses at each of the
City of Coffeyville’s three cemeteries.
Creating a uniform fee schedule was needed
after the City of Coffeyville acquired Restlawn
Cemetery earlier this year. The City of Coffeyville also owns Fairview Cemetery and Elmwood Cemetery.
The fee structure would mean an increase to
most Fairview an Elmwood fees but a decrease
in Restlawn fees. Commissioner Craig Powell
questioned the need to make the changes to the
fee schedule.
Jim Bradshaw, deputy director of public
works, said the proposed fee schedule would
equalize all services for local cemeteries. Prior
to the City acquiring Restlawn Cemetery, Restlawn’s owners implemented a full-service cemetery, thereby requiring more revenue than
what cities typically need to operate municipal
cemeteries, he said. The City’s does not have a
full-service, or perpetual care, plans for its local cemeteries, Bradshaw emphasized.
Discussion then focused on the upkeep and
care of the local cemeteries. Bradshaw admitted that the public works department was overwhelmed by the volume of mowing throughout
2015 due to the acquisition of Restlawn Cemetery combined with the intense growth conditions of grass and weeds.
He also said city crews were pulled from
other local projects in order to mow cemeteries
and parks whenever citizens complained of tall
grass.
As a remedy, city commissioners adopted a
2016 budget plan that created more personnel
for the public works department. Those personnel will be used to mow not just cemeteries
but also city parks, right of ways and other cityowned properties, Bradshaw said.
In other business transacted at Tuesday’s
meeting, city commissioners:
• learned that the Midland Theatre Foundation will host a clean-up day at the former
theatre site on Saturday, Oct. 10 beginning at 8
a.m. Volunteers are needed to remove discardable items from the theatre.
The theatre building is located in the 200
block of West Eighth.
• heard a concern from Coffeyville resident
Linda Collins to have her road in the 900 block
of Trumbo Street to be maintained.
• approve for adoption an amendment to the
high grass ordinance.
• approved an ordinance to adopt the 2015
Standard Traffic Ordinances and the Uniform
Public Offense Codes.
• agreed to purchase flood insurance for
city-owned properties.
• considered a suggestion from Earlene Shafer, vice president of the Senior Citizens Activity
Center Advisory Board to have the six-member
board limited to five members.
• heard an appeal from John Hufferd of the
Coffeyville Flags of Honor campaign to have local residents contribute money toward the flag
project. Various flags were recently damaged
or destroyed in a recent thunderstorm. Hufferd
said the cost to replace those flags will be $20
through a special order. However, the cost will
increase after the order is made.
More details about the $20 flag orders will be
available at the City of Coffeyville website.
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Elk City State Park to have
free admission Saturday
TOPEKA – If it’s been a
while since you’ve visited a
Kansas state park, consider
this you’re formal invitation
to come on back! The Kansas
Department of Wildlife, Parks
and Tourism has teamed up
with Blue Cross and Blue
Shield of Kansas (BCBSKS) to
offer Healthy Fun at the State
Parks Day, Sept. 26; a day
when admission to all Kansas
state parks will be free. Free
admission will take place at
Elk City State Park.
“We are pleased to once
again partner with the Kansas
Department of Wildlife, Parks
and Tourism and sponsor
Healthy Fun at the State Parks
Day, Sept. 26. As a homegrown
and
Kansas-based
company, Blue Cross and Blue
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members – and all Kansans
– to lead longer, happier lives
by engaging in outdoor activity, like these you can find at
our state parks,” said Andrew
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CEO. “From one corner of the
state to the next, Kansas offers
a vast array of landscapes in
our parks where we can bike,
hike, run, play, horseback
ride, hunt, swim, and fish or
simply take a relaxing walk in
the fresh air of Kansas.”
At Elk City State Park, several events are planned, including a scavenger hunt at
10 a.m., a fishing clinic at 10
a.m., archery clinic at 10 a.m.,
horseshoe competition at 1
p.m., and a 5K fun run at 2
p.m.
In recognition of the special
day, BCBSKS has produced
a coloring book featuring illustrations that highlight outdoor activities in eight of the
Kansas state parks and a map
of all 26 state park locations.
Information about the parks
and educational tips are also
included. Coloring books will
be available across the state
at state park locations, rest
stops, tourism offices and the
Kansas State Fair.
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J’s Corner Store to hold grand opening Floral business opens
Business relocates
to rural Caney ranch;
special events planned
for Saturday’s grand
opening
CANEY — A business that is
expanding its services and also
has a new location will hold
a grand opening this Saturday, Sept. 26, from 11 a.m. to
7 p.m. “The Ranch at J’s Corner Store” (formerly J’s Corner Store at Tyro) has moved
to the Jim and Jana Nunneley
ranch located at 2322 CR
1425, Caney. Jana Nunneley,
owner, said Saturday’s event
will showcase the new business lines which includes various themes, venues and accessories associated with special
occasions such as weddings,
birthday parties, family events,
business meetings and other
social activities.
The Nunneleys have built
a new store which features
booths containing gift items
in rustic, country, weathered,
Christian and cowboy themes.
The new business lines will
provide photography, florists,
cakes,
deejays,
ministers,
singers, games, photo booth,
designers and other vendors
who provide for special occasions. Saturday’s activities will
include these vendors, and the
public is encouraged to attend
and see the lines of products
being offered.
At 2 p.m. an actual outdoor
wedding will take place at
The Ranch, and the wedding
couple is inviting all attending
the grand opening to be a part
of the event. Nunneley said
in addition to being a part of
the wedding, the public will be
able to see the services offered
at The Ranch for such an occasion.
Also during the day pony
rides, a s’mores table, photo
booth, campout area, and food
will be on hand with some
free of charge and some with
a charge of no more than $5.
At dusk a family-themed movie
will be shown.
The Ranch at J’s Corner
Store welcomes the public to
attend the grand opening at its
new location, said Nunneley.
“This is a great time to bring
the family, see what’s new at
The Ranch at J’s Corner, enjoy
some food, fun, attend a wedding and a movie,” Nunneley
said.
For questions or information, contact Nunneley at 620515-9502 or see their Facebook page at The Ranch at J’s
Corner Store.
doors in Havana
HAVANA — A new floral business, Fancy Flower Shop, is
now open in Havana, said owner SaVanna Dixon. The shop,
located at 504 E. Mary St., features fresh flower arrangements for all occasions, plus a variety of handmade fall
items, candy bouquets, rental hard goods for weddings and
special events and flower specials on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Fancy Flower Shop is open Monday through Friday, 10
a.m. to 3 p.m., and also has a Facebook page. Dixon said
she delivers to Caney, Independence and Coffeyville, with
delivery rates varying in price. She has received training in
florals through classes and has also attended a number of
shows.
SaVanna, her husband Barry, and three children reside
in Havana. She encourages the public to stop by the shop
and browse, or call the shop at 620-673-4444.
Medical providers unite to seek Medicaid expansion ServSafe manager certification
The decision by Mercy Hospital to close its Independence
facilities has started a ripple
effect across the health landscape.
On Wednesday, Via Christi
Health in Wichita announced
it was implementing a host of
cost-cutting measures that the
organization’s leaders hope
will offset reduced reimbursements.
Chief executive officerJeff
Korsmo said Via Christi is facing increased financial pressure due to cuts in Medicare,
Medicaid and private insurance reimbursements.
In reaction to the cuts, Via
Christi and other health care
organizations formed a coalition to urge Gov. Sam Brownback and the Legislature to
expand Medicaid next year.
The coalition includes Wesley
Medical Center, the University
of Kansas Hospital, St. Luke’s
Health System, the Kansas
Health Foundation and the
Kansas Hospital Association.
The coalition will hold an
educational meeting Nov. 3 for
state politicians. in Kansas.
So far this fiscal year, which
started July 1, Via Christi said
it’s behind budget by $3.3 million, reaching $2.8 million of
its $6.1 million target.
FARM BUREAU INSIGHT
Does technology really make life better? Don’t bet on it
BY JOHN SCHLAGECK
Kansas Farm Bureau
Communication and the written word
isn’t what it used to be. Neither is the
King’s English, grammar, punctuation or
just about any integral part of listening,
speaking and writing.
Why should we learn the basics of
communicating in a world where today’s
smart phone technology can and will do
everything for us?
We’re busier than any time in our history trying to keep up with the latest technology of talking to one another. It’s about
brevity and moving forward swiftly.
Don’t believe me, just ask the masses
who today worship at the altar of these
hand-held icons. You can talk, text, Tweet,
Facebook, photograph, play music and
games, wake up, go to sleep, find a place
to eat, check on the weather – do almost
anything you wish except maybe think for
yourself with these wonderful rascals.
We can all rely on the latest technology
to think, act and accomplish all the tasks
we once learned to do. You know, carrying on a conversation, telling a story, writing a letter, communicating a message –
actually making contact with another
human being.
People I know are dying for human
interaction. They just don’t know how
to make the connection anymore. That’s
why we need to return to the basics of
communication.
It’s all about the destination or the
journey’s end.
Answer the following question. If you
were to drive from Salina to Kansas City,
how would this trip be different from
1950?
You might respond the highways are
much wider and smoother. Others would
say today we have the Interstate system
and toll roads. Someone else might respond that we have many more places to
buy fuel and food – and these businesses
stay open 24-hours
each day.
All good answers, but what if I were to
ask, what hasn’t changed?
The answer is the journey’s end and
that remains Kansas City.
Today the latest and greatest technology is just around the corner waiting to be
purchased. There will always be the next
generation tablet, smart phone or laptop
for those with the money or desire to possess them. We have been conditioned, or
conditioned ourselves, to believe we must
have these tools with us at all times and
all places.
How can we live without them?
My question is how can we truly live
with them?
That is the real challenge. We have become slaves to each new wave of technology; we replace our obsolete models with
the latest, greatest version. At the same
time, we trick ourselves into believing
each new change will result in quicker
communication.
Quicker?
Possibly.
Better?
Don’t bet on it.
Regardless of the technology we use,
the journey’s end remains the same. Good
letters, text messages, stories and communication that informs, reveals and motivates other human beings to action not
consternation and confusion.
Remember, it is not the communication
tool that is necessary, it is the thought we
hope to convey to others. After thinking
about what we wish to communicate or
the story we hope to convey, we write it,
edit it, review the piece again and rewrite
the final draft. Strive to do your best.
All around us are examples of great
speeches, letters and broadcasts – the
Gettysburg Address, the radio broadcast
of the Hindenburg crash, FDR’s fire side
chat, “The only thing we have to fear, is
fear itself…,” President Kennedy’s quest
to land on the moon, “We choose to go
to the moon in this decade… not because they are easy, but because they are
hard….”
These carefully chosen and crafted
words had power and meaning. They described scenes, situations and events with
riveting anticipation and spontaneity.
The main reason for their greatness
and longevity is that no matter how plain
and primitive the tools used to convey
them, those who uttered these words never lost sight of the destination.
As we work with the latest technology,
never forget this. After all, what good is
the message if the recipient cannot understand and is not moved to action?
• John Schlageck is a leading commentator on agriculture and rural Kansas. Born and
raised on a diversified farm in northwestern
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PARSONS — Interested
persons are invited to participate in an eight-hour ServSafe
Manager Certification Training being offered on Wednesday, Oct. 28, from 8:30 a.m. to
5:30 p.m.
The training is being offered by K-State Research and
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Bldg. D, 1902 S. Highway 59,
Parsons.
The registration fee is $105
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K-State Research
and Extension offers ServSafe
Training in partnership with
the Kansas Restaurant and
Hospitality Association.
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that each
year roughly one in six Americans (or 48 million people) gets
sick, 128,000 are hospitalized,
and 3,000 die of foodborne
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ServSafe is a national certification program designed
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and others who handle and
serve food to the public. The
course content includes: food
safety hazards, how to provide
safe food, the safe food handler, HACCP, keeping food safe
from purchasing and receiving
through preparation and service, and maintaining sanitary
facilities and equipment.
CVR Energy enters agreement for
gathering crude oil in Okla. fields
TULSA, Okla. — A refinery
and a midstream company
have signed a letter of intent
to build a crude oil gathering
and transportation system for
CVR Energy, the parent company of Coffeyville Resources.
Velocity Midstream Partners LLC and CVR Energy
Inc. said the system would enhance CVR’s access to the oil
and gas-rich shale formations
in Oklahoma, especially in the
SCOOP and STACK plays in
Oklahoma.
The new pipeline would allow producers in the SCOOP
to segregate their heavier
crude barrels produced from
the Springer and Woodford
oil formation from the lighter, condensate barrels being
produced from the Woodford
condensate window, the companies said. Velocity recently
constructed a 100,000-barrelper-day condensate pipeline
through the core of the SCOOP
play for Continental Resources
Inc. That system has been in
operation since June of this
year. Velocity’s new crude oil
project allows it to leverage its
existing footprint, multi-line
rights of way, and its existing
construction and operations
teams to quickly and cost-effectively construct the second
pipeline and terminal facilities.
CVR owns and operates
significant crude oil trucking operations throughout
the SCOOP and STACK plays.
The construction of this new
crude pipeline allows CVR to
optimize those logistical resources. Further, the pipeline
will add flow assurance in inclement weather, reduce traffic, and provide other benefits
to producers.
SCOOP, which is the SouthCentral Oklahoma Oil Province, targets the Springer and
Woodford shale across parts
of a multiple-county area located south and southwest
of Oklahoma City. STACK,
which stands for Sooner Trend
Anadarko Canadian and Kingfisher, includes a multiplecounty area in northern Oklahoma with oil and gas-rich
shale formations, such as the
Meramac and Woodford shale.
“As a part of our continued
focus on expanding our logistics business, we are pleased
to partner with Velocity on this
project,” said Jack Lipinski,
chief executive officer of CVR
Energy. “Velocity has a proven
track record of developing and
constructing midstream assets
and gathering systems.”
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INDEPENDENCE
ELENI McCAFFERY HOPES TO ATTEND YALE UNIVERSITY
IHS senior bestowed
high academic honor
BY ANDY TAYLOR
An Independence High School senior has
earned one of the most prestigious academic
recognitions in the United States.
On Wednesday, IHS senior Eleni McCaffery
learned she was placed on the Commended
level in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship
Program. A letter of commendation from
school principal Mario Sherrell was presented
to McCaffery on behalf of the National Merit
Scholarship Corporation, which conducts the
program.
Earning the Commended level in the National Merit Scholarship Program puts McCaffery in rare territory. She is among 34,000
Commended students throughout the nation
— representing the top five percent of the
more than 1.5 million students who entered
the 2016 competition by taking the 2014 Pre-
liminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) as juniors.
Sherrell said he believed McCaffery’s honor
marked the first time in a bout 10 years that
an IHS senior had earned recognition in the
National Merit Scholarship Program.
“It’s a huge honor — among the most prestigious honors for all high school seniors in the
nation,” said Sherrell.
McCaffery said she currently is applying for
acceptance to Yale University where she plans
to study evolutionary biology sciences. Longterm plans include attending medical school.
Her choices of biology and medicine as
fields of study come naturally. Her mother,
Dawn McCaffery, is a nurse practitioner at
Labette Health’s clinic in Independence. Her
father, Isaias McCaffery, is a history instructor
at Independence Community College.
Eleni McCaffery with the Certificate Commendation presented by IHS principal Mario Sherrell on
behalf of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. (Photo by Andy Taylor)
Missouri-based laundry firm sues ICC for breach of contract
KeeWes Service Co.,
alleges ICC broke its
contract earlier this year,
seeks $149,000 in lost
income
BY ANDY TAYLOR
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A
Missouri-based laundry service is suing Independence
Community College for about
$149,000, plus the inclusion
of various legal fees, after the
service claimed ICC breached
its contract earlier this year.
KeeWes Service Co., Inc.,
based in Springfield, Mo., filed
a complaint in U.S. district
court on Sept. 10 claiming that
ICC breached its laundry service contract by severing its
agreement in June.
According to the court complaint, KeeWes entered an
agreement with ICC on July
21, 2010, to provide laundry
services on the ICC campus.
The agreement provides for an
initial period of 10 years, beginning on Aug. 1, 2010, and
gives KeeWes the unconditional option to renew for two successive periods of seven years
each, with these options being
automatically exercised at the
end of the preceding period.
Therefore, KeeWes claims,
the agreement has a remaining term of 227 months (September 2015 through July
2034).
According to the verbiage in
the contract between KeeWes
and ICC, KeeWes is owed liquidated damages in the event
of “constructive eviction or
breach of this lease.” Those
damages would be equal to the
number of months remaining
in the lease multiplied by 75
percent of the average gross
receipts.
KeeWes claims in its court
documents that the average gross receipts from coinoperated laundry machines
on campus were $873.64 per
month (from August 2010
through July 2015).
Wendy Isle, ICC chief business officer, informed KeeWes in a letter dated June 24,
2015, that ICC has chosen to
terminate its agreement with
KeeWes effective Aug. 31,
2015. In that letter to KeeWes,
Isle claims the initial contract
that was signed between ICC
and KeeWes in 2010 did not
include an official signature
from a KeeWes officer, therefore making the contract null.
That agreement has been
entered as an exhibit in the
lawsuit. The agreement does
show a signature of an ICC
representative but not a signature from a KeeWes Service
Company representative.
KeeWes indicated ICC has
allowed another entity to
place laundry services on the
campus, presumably through
private developer Bluffstone
LLC., which now operates and
manages the dormitories on Representing KeeWes is
the ICC campus.
Kathryn G. Lee of the Overland
According to the court dock- Park, Kan.-based legal firm of
et, the ICC Board of Trustees Spencer Fane LLP. Representhas been issued a summons in ing ICC in the lawsuit is Henry
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Production staff announced for Neewollah musical ‘Damn Yankees’
Neewollah Generalissimo John
Hamlin has announced the production staff for the 2015 musical “Damn
Yankees.”
“Damn Yankees” will be presented
on the stage at Memorial Hall on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 23 and 24 at
7:30 p.m., and on Sunday, Oct. 25 at
2 p.m. Tickets will go on sale Saturday, Oct. 3.
For more information, go to www.
neewollah.com.
Leading the helm this year will be
Bruce Peterson as director, Deborah
Sandoval as assistant director, and
Keith Confer and Drew Demo as coproducers.
Peterson moved to Independence
during Neewollah 2002 – in fact,
he remembers arriving in town the
opening night of “Brigadoon.” In
2003 he performed in his first Neewollah production, “Little Shop of
Horrors.”
He enjoys being involved in local
arts; he has performed in several
Neewollah shows, the Montgomery
County Community Theater and Independence Community College Theater. He is particularly proud to be
a founding trustee of the Independence Children’s Summer Theater,
because he believes performing arts
should be available to all. Bruce is a
California native and lived in London,
New Jersey, Philadelphia and South
Korea before landing in Kansas. He
is currently a grant writer for Independence Community College.
Sandoval has been involved in
community theater for over 25 years.
Bruce Peterson . . .
musical director
Drew Demo and Keith Confer . . . co-producers
She has appeared on stage in several
college and community productions,
as well as working backstage in various capacities. She has served as a
volunteer for Neewollah and the Inge
Festival. She is a board member of
the Independence Children’s Summer
Theater. She received her certification in playwriting from the William
Inge Center for the Arts. She has
since written numerous plays. Her
most famous play is “Extra Ketchup,
Hot Flashes and Rum,” which she
self-produced. Sandoval, a retired
educator, is a member of the Dramatist’s Guild of America, The Playwriting Center and Kansas Author’s
Messenger, Oakes to lead
Queen Neelah Pop Party
Queen Neelah 2015 co-directors Lisa Hugo and Melissa
Small have announced the cochairs for this year’s Pop Party: Gina Messenger and Shannon Oakes.
Messenger was raised and
currently resides in Independence. She co-chaired the
Queen’s Tea in 2013 and the
Queen’s Brunch in 2014. She
has been employed by Dart for
the last eight years. Gina and her husband,
Mark, have two children: Mason, age 9, and Ethan, age 6.
She enjoys spending time with
friends and family, reading,
relaxing by the pool, and playing Bunco with old and new
friends. Oakes is also from Independence. Her past Queen Neelah
Messenger
Oakes
involvement includes Pre-Parade Breakfast, Queen’s Tea,
and Queen’s Brunch. She is
employed by FirstOak Bank. Shannon is married to Tyson Oakes and has two children, Bryson and Brynlon.
She enjoys being outdoors and
spending time with her family.
The Queen Neelah 2015 Pop
Party will be held on Sunday,
Oct. 4 at ICC West.
ICC library director earns
scholarship to conference
Drew Beisswenger, director library services at Independence Community College,
was recently awarded a scholarship from Southeast Kansas
Library System to attend the
Kansas Library Association
(KLA) Annual Conference.
The joint conference with
the Missouri Library Association (MLA) will be held at
the KC Convention Center in
downtown Kansas City, Mo.,
from Sept. 30 to Oct. 5. Using
the theme “Libraries without
Borders,” this is the first joint
library conference between
KLA and MLA in 50 years.
Over 100 sessions, eight preconferences, and special onetime-only events are included
in the conference.
Southeast Kansas Library
System, headquartered in Iola,
Kan., is one of seven regional
library systems in the state,
providing financial, technological, and professional support
to libraries and library users
around the state.
The Independence Stadium
Campaign Committee has announced plans to honor donors
who have already made significant financial contributions to
the ongoing fundraising effort
to renovate and revitalize historic Shulthis Stadium in Riverside Park.
Individuals, businesses and
organizations who have committed to donating between
$5,000 and $250,000 to Phase
I and/or Phase II of the project will be recognized during a community “campaign
kick-off” ceremony scheduled
at halftime of Friday night’s
homecoming football game at
Shulthis Stadium.
The IIHS Bulldogs will
square off against the Caney
Valley Bullpups in a non-
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sports history, and the distinguished story of those individuals and teams will be showcased and honored in Phase II
improvements.
Phase II will feature a recreated stadium entrance with
1930s reproduction lighting,
a new concessions plaza and
fully-equipped home locker
room facilities. ADA-compliant restrooms will be added to
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The $2 million Phase I improvements were completed in
2014 and featured upgrades to
the home grandstand and visitor seating areas, new locker
rooms for visiting teams and
game officials, plus a new
all-weather track, press box,
scoreboard, sound system and
upgraded stadium lighting. A
low-maintenance
AstroTurf
GameDay Grass surface and
drainage system were also
installed on historic Kayo Emmot Field during Phase I.
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league contest at 7 p.m. Homecoming coronation festivities
will begin at 6:35 p.m.
In addition to honoring lead
donors to the project, the campaign fundraising committee
will provide Phase II informational flyers offering the public an opportunity to purchase
engraved 4 x 8-inch bricks or
8 x 8-inch pavers. The commemorative bricks and pavers
will be installed in the Phase
II walkways and concessions
plaza area.
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many Neewollah musicals beginning with “The Wizard of Oz,” “Little Shop of Horrors,” “Thoroughly
Modern Millie,” “The Music Man,”
“Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” and “Honk.” Special Neewollah committees include past Neewollah Board member, Generalissimo in
2007, King of the Doo Dah parade
in 2012. Demo has been responsible
for all Budweiser Clydesdale visits to
Neewollah from 1977 to date
Stage veterans Rick Huguenin and
Terry Barbera will be assisting the
production staff and stage managers.
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Confer has assisted with the
Queen’s Coronation set and staging
committee numerous times. Besides
being a Neewollah board member
and serving on the national and local
Inge Festival Steering Committees,
he sits on the SEK Lutherans Board.
He is a member of the Zion Lutheran
Church where he has served as the
financial secretary, elder, and president of the congregation. He has
served as president of Independence
National Education Association, and
was board of directors member for
the Independence Concert Association.
Demo has been involved with
Stadium project donors to be recognized
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Club. In addition to writing she enjoys directing. She has directed several productions for the Montgomery
County Theater Group. She had a
small role in Blake Robbins’s movie,
“The Sublime and Beautiful.”
Confer, a veteran of Neewollah
musicals, has directed “Rodgers
and Hart: A Musical Celebration,”
“Camelot,” “The Unsinkable Molly
Brown,” “Damn Yankees,” “The Pajama Game” and “Meet Me in St.
Louis.” He was assistant director for
“Anything Goes” and “Oklahoma,”
and served as stage manager for
“The Sound of Music.” He also coproduced “Grease.”
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St. Andrew students celebrate Pope’s U.S. visit
Students at St. Andrew Catholic School in Independence were surprised Wednesday morning to receive free T-shirts commemorating this
week’s visit by Pope Francis to the United States. All students and staff members donned the commemorative T-shirts in a photograph. The
T-shirts (right photo) modeled by students Anna Renfro and Bella Jones, both third grade students, show the caraciature of the Pontiff, as
well as the Pope’s schedule of visits to the United States. (Photos by Andy Taylor)
Local director elated to see relaunch of state Main Street program
Kansas Main Street Inc.,
being established with
funding from USDA
The director of the Independence Main Street expressed
overwhelming support by the
re-launch of Kansas Main
Street Inc. (KMSI) this week.
Liz Moore, Independence
Main Street director, said Kansas has been without a central
Main Street program since
2012. However, the organization will relaunch its statewide
present on Friday with a ceremony in Emporia.
The re-establishment of the
organization is made possible
with funds from the United
State Department of Agricul-
ture (USDA) through its Rural
Development Grant Program.
“I’m happy with this development of a new statewide
program,” said Moore. “While
Main Street communities are
all autonomous, the common threads of a statewide
level of organization make us
stronger and more consistent
in our work and standards. It
also means there will be an
effort to develop and support
Main Street cities, and that is
great news for all rural Kansas communities. We all need
such help in this state, in these
times.”
The State of Kansas defunded the Kansas Main Street program on Sept. 20, 2012. Funding of local affiliaties was not
impacted because the services
and support were not directly
financial, but in kind.
“However, immediately lost
was the great support of an
excellent statewide network,”
said Moore. “Executive directors and boards of directors
lost training and professional
development
opportunities,
technical resources amassed
over 27 years of a statewide
program, and the no-interest
loan program known as Incentives Without Walls.”
Following the dissolution
of the statewide program in
2012, KMSI implemented a
new, statewide initiative to establish a public-private partnership to guide and stimulate
the economic growth of down-
towns throughout the state. economy through sustainable Main Street State CoordinaThe mission of KMSI is to en- grass roots efforts, and this is tor position. This person will
gage necessary leadership to a fantastic step in that direc- be in charge of initiating, codefine and address downtown tion.”
ordinating, and supervising a
and community needs and op- Kansas Main Street com- statewide downtown revitalportunities in Kansas. This munities have a proven histo- ization program that utilizes
exciting economic and com- ry of successful rural econom- historic preservation as an
munity development program ic development. During the integral foundation for downwill create an environment 25- year period of the Kansas town economic development.
where business and commu- Main Street program, Main The State Coordinator will be
nity leaders can collaborate Street communities through- responsible for the developwith local, state and federal out Kansas engineered over ment, conduct, execution, and
officials to develop and imple- $600 million in redevelop- documentation of the statement dynamic, new programs ment, including the opening wide Main Street program.
that will enable them to take and expanding of over 3,800 For more information or
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HOP Wellness Fair
to be held at Civic
Center on Friday
A look into the past
Independence resident and military veteran Gerald Sullivan talks to Kathy Shepard of the RSVP Four County program during “The
Things They Carried Home” gathering on Sunday afternoon at the Independence Historical Museum and Art Center. The event unveiled
the numerous photographs, newspaper clippings and other items that had been collected from veterans of the U.S. Army Reserves’
1011th Quartermaster Company based in Independence during its various tours of duty since the Vietnam War. Sullivan, a member
of the Independence unit during its tour of South Vietnam in 1968 and 1969, donated numerous photographs for the project. Those
photographs were enlarged for public display. Shepard said all items that were p
FedEx project seeks supplies for AWOL shelter
The Independence Community College Veterinary Technology Program will join forces with AWOL (Animals With
Our Love) and FedEx racing
in sponsoring a display of the
FedEx NASCAR vehicle in Independence.
The FedEx #11 NASCAR vehicle will make an appearance
at ICC West, 2615 W. Main,
from noon to 6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 8. Persons who wish
to see the vehicle (and be photographed next to it) should
also bring supplies to benefit
the AWOL shelter. This would
include cat food, cat treats,
cat litter, dog food, dog treats,
Pine Sol, bleach, paper towels,
trash bags (13 gallon size), old
towels, and old blankets.
Purple tote bags will be
available for people to pro-
vide their donated supplies.
FedEx Ground will enter the
annual “FedEx Cares Purple
Tote” contest for a chance to
win up to a $5,000 grant for
the AWOL Humane Society of
Independence.
Ramirez, Walters are ICC’s students of the month for August
Independence
Community College students Niena
Ramirez and Curtis Walters
have been chosen as ICC’s August Students of the Month.
Niena Ramirez is a sophomore at ICC, hailing from Emporia. Although busy with her
volleyball
schedule, Niena has excelled in the
classroom as
she pursues
her degree
in elementary education
while
specializing Niena Ramirez
in
Special
Needs Children.
She is a member of the college’s Phi Theta Kappa honor
society, she serves as a residence assistant in the dormitories, and she is a math
and English tutor on campus.
Despite her busy schedule,
Niena’s proudest accomplishment thus far “was getting a
scholarship to play collegiate
volleyball at ICC, then returning as a team captain for my
sophomore year.”
She is held in such high
esteem, Niena was also nominated by ICC faculty to receive
the Lesta McConnel Endowed
Scholarship from the ICC
Foundation. Curtis Walters is a sophomore at ICC after taking a few
years off to pursue other aspirations. Although he is proudest of becoming a father and
re-entering higher education,
Curtis has been a force of optimism around the college. He
is the president of the college’s
Innovation Club, the Community Project Chair of Phi Theta
Kappa, and he works at the
college’s FabLab.
Tim Haynes, the assistant
manager of the FabLab, provided the following recommendation on Curtis’ behalf:
“Curtis is committed to working hard at his studies and his
work study position. In class,
he brings a fresh perspective
to discussion, and he submits
thoughtful homework assignments that demonstrate his capacity for academic rigor
and productive struggle.
At work, he
brings
enthusiasm,
c r e a t i v i t y,
and a positive, willing
Curtis Walters attitude. His
personal investment in ICC to create a
stronger community is exemplary among his colleagues,
and he should be recognized
and honored for his achievements.”
The Student of the Month
Award was established by ICC
faculty to recognize full-time
students who have exhibited
qualities of excellence both in
the classroom and in the community. Students nominated
are dedicated to representing
COLLEGES
Health Department for $25.
Free screenings will be available for blood pressure, body
mass index, blood sugar, and
bone density.
This event is presented by
the Southeast Kansas Senior
Safety and Wellness Coalition and is sponsored by Asbury Village, Assisted Living
at Windsor Place, Coffeyville
Regional Medical Center, Four
County Mental Health Center,
Mercy Hospital, Montgomery
County Wellness Coalition,
Windsor Place and Windsor
Place At-Home Care. The coalition provides wellness initiatives, which help adults remain
healthy and independent, and
brings increasing awareness to
prevention and elder abuse in
Southeast Kansas.
Members of the Southeast
Kansas Senior Safety & Wellness Coalition include organizations, caregivers, or individuals that work with the senior
population or have an interest
in seniors. Quarterly informational luncheons are held
the second Wednesday of October, January, April and July
and rotate locations between
Independence and Coffeyville
and welcome the community
to attend. The next luncheon
will be held Oct. 14 in Independence at Four County Mental Health Center’s Patterson
Board Room.
IHS homecoming royalty
to be crowned Friday
One Independence High
School senior girl and one
IHS senior boy will be named
IHS fall homecoming queen
and king during coronation
ceremonies that will be held
prior to Friday’s football game
between Independence and
Caney Valley at Shulthis Stadium.
Queen candidates include
Anna Miller, Brooke Drumeller,
Taylor
Chapman,
Hadleigh Palmer and Hope
Renfro. King candidates are
Dalson Hamlin, Kyler Sanders,
Maxmillian Jones, Branden
Bales and Mcormick Smith.
The coronation will begin
shortly after 6:30 p.m.
Here is what
people are saying
about “Images
of America:
Independence” . . .
(Comments taken from reader
reviews at Amazon.com)
“Very pleased with this book purchase. Arrived quickly and I love all the
old pictures. Only thing wrong with it is I’d like more.”
Award-winning K-State band has several area students
For two Montgomery County natives who perform in
the Kansas State Univeristy
Marching Band, earning the
Sudler Trophy is like winning
the Heisman Trophy.
The K-State band, known as
the Pride of Wildcat Land, was
honored with a presentation of
the prestigious Sudler Trophy
on Sept. 19 at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.
The award, presented by
the John Phillips Sousa Foundation, is presented every two
years to a college or university
marching band that has demonstrated the highest of musical standards and innovative
marching routines and ideas,
and that has made important
contributions to the advancement of the performance
standards of college marching bands over a number of
years. “There are literally thousands of students, staff, directors and administrators
who share in this honor,” said
the college by being diligent in
their studies, being involved on
campus, and by acting as role
models.
HOP (Health On Purpose)
Wellness Fair is set for 7 a.m.
to 1 p.m., Friday, Sept. 25 at
the Independence Civic Center,
410 N. Penn.
Area citizens are encouraged to take advantage of the
screenings, gather helpful information at display booths,
and enjoy the demonstrations
and interactive activities provided during the HOP (Health
on Purpose) Wellness Fair
Agencies and businesses are
encouraged to participate and
provide information regarding wellness services that they
provide.
The HOP Wellness Fair is
an annual event and allows
anyone to obtain their needed
blood work at a reduced cost.
Mercy Hospital will be conducting the blood draws from 7
a.m. to 11 a.m., including CBC,
CMP, Lipid and Hemoglobin
A1C for an inclusive price of
$25. In addition other testing
can be included with TSH - $6,
Hemoglobin A1C - $6; cancer
screenings, PSA for men - $6
and CA 125 for women - $6.
Discounted mammograms
are by appointment or walkin from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and
are sponsored through Mercy
Hospital. To schedule an appointment contact the Mercy
Marketing department at (620)
332-3248.
Flu shots will be available
from the Montgomery County
Frank Tracz, director of bands
at Kansas State University.
“This is simply recognition
and validation for the ‘K-State
Way,’ and I could not be any
more proud of these kids and
what they stand for.” Under direction of Tracz
and Don Linn, assistant director of bands, Kansas State
University’s 400-plus member
marching band includes musicians, twirlers, color guard
and Classy Cats dance squad.
The band performs at home
football games, at bowl games,
pep rallies and at special
events throughout the fall, including the university’s annual
Homecoming Parade, Week
of Welcome Pep Rally and
more. The band includes Aubri
Zogg of Coffeyville, tenor saxophone, and Rebecca Bradford, trombone, and Joel Rice,
trumpet, both from Independence.
CUSTODIAN WANTED
USD 447 is accepting applications for a full-time
custodian in Cherryvale schools. Apply at the
USD 447 Board of Education Office, 618 E. 4th,
Cherryvale, KS 67335, or call (620) 336-8130.
“I received this as a Christmas gift from a long-time Independence
friend. Having grown up in Indy (although I haven’t lived there for 50
years), I found it extremely interesting and well-done! Many memories
were refreshed! My appreciation to those who made it possible. And I
highly recommend it to anyone who has an interest in Indy...especially
if they have children or grandchildren. A great piece of work!”
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Girl Scout creates preschool playground project
A giant 8-by-8-foot checkerboard game will be housed on
the kindergarten through third grade playground at Lincoln
Memorial Elementary School when a local junior high Girl
Scout accomplishes her dream.
Brooke Ray, an 8th grade student at Caney Valley Jr.-Sr.
High School, is on her way to achieving the goal of earning
the Silver Award in Girl Scouts, the highest award given in
Girl Scout Cadettes. To earn the award, the scout must look
around her community or school and identify an issue that
she cares about and one that can be sustained beyond her
involvement. Brooke chose the checkerboard game so it can
help teach children patience, working together and problem
solving. She said hopefully the game will teach kids these
skills at an early age that will help them throughout their
lives.
Brooke submitted her idea to the USD 436 Board of Education at its Sept. 14 meeting and received their unanimous
approval to proceed with the project.
The checkerboard will be made of red and white concrete
pavers with large red and blue wood checkers with a painted
Bullpup insignia and the word “Bullpups” on each piece. She
has until next May to complete the project but plans to have
it finished before December. Her mother, Tonya, said Brooke
still has several wooden checkers to complete before the
game is installed at the playground.
After visiting with Brooke, Ken Eckelberry, Lincoln principal, said he would like to work with her and not only have
checkers but also a large chess set so elementary students
could learn to play that game, also.
Brooke has been in the Caney scouting program since
third grade and has already achieved the Bronze Award
which is awarded to girls between their third and fifth
grades. For that project she painted the pavilion and picnic
tables at the Caney Park.
The final project by Brooke will be when she achieves the
Gold Award, the highest award given in scouting for girls 9th
through 12th grades.
Brooke is being aided in the project by her parents, Tonya
and Clarence Ray and her troop leader, Connie Henry.
Once the project is completed, Brooke would like to have a
ribbon-cutting at the playground.
The novice team of Eric
Floyd and Michael Walker won
first place among all first-year
debaters with a perfect 5-0 record and 17 speaker points.
In the open, or experienced,
BY RUDY TAYLOR
rudy@taylornews.org
Brooke Ray . . . local Girl Scout creates playground project for
preschool children. (Photo by Andy Taylor)
The 13-year-old Girl Scout said she is grateful to the local
board of education for giving her permission to do the checkerboard project.
division, the team of Ryan
Nelson and Bryce Sanders
posted a 3-2 record. The team
of Nathan Wells and Montana
Sterns finished the meet with
a 1-4 record.
CVHS debaters will return
to the speaking circuit on Saturday at a tournament hosted
by Independence High School.
Former Caney residents welcome Pope to White House
Susan and Rex Barrett, former residents of Caney, are in
Washington, D.C. this week
after receiving an invitation
to help welcome Pope Francis
upon his arrival at the White
House.
Susan is a retired CEO of
Mercy Hospital Northwest
Arkansas, and formerly was
CEO of Mercy facilities in Independence and Fort Scott, also
serving many years as administrator of the Caney Municipal
Hospital.
She now heads the Susan
Gress concerned
about future of
city’s sewer fund
City administrator also
says communications
from state agencies indicate troubling history
of city response time
CVHS novice debate duo wins season opener
A first-year debate team
from Caney Valley High School
came away with first-place
trophies at a season-opening
debate tournament in Coffeyville on Saturday.
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Barrett Women with a Mission
Society which works alongside
hospital professionals to improve health care in northwest
Arkansas.
They were honored to be a
part of the White House Arrival Ceremony on Wednesday
Booster Club to raffle
signed CVHS football
The Caney Valley Booster
Club will sponsor a football
raffle with an autographed
football donated by Simply
Unique Imaging.
The drawing will be held
Oct. 23. Ticktes are $1 each or
$5 for six tickets. Tickets are
available at the Booster Club’s
spirit wear booth at any home
football game.
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up until the time the auction
starts.
For pick up of items, call
Roy Shafer at (620) 688-1727.
Terry Brown is donating his
auctioneering services for the
event.
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when Pope Francis arrived.
The Barretts were recently
in Caney to attend the funeral
of Dr. Robert F. Moore.
Caney
city
administrator Fred Gress, on the job for
only two weeks, led Caney City
Council members through a
stack of work during Monday
night’s regular meeting.
Gress gave reports on every
aspect of city business including finances, infrastructure,
water quality issues and worrisome issues at the sewer
treatment plant located west
of town.
Gress brought with him
a stack of communications
which he said had been delayed in handling in the past,
and he is in the process of
changing that.
Included were several letters dating back to April 2015
from various state agencies,
most having to do with requirements in operation of
both the water and sewer
treatment facilities.
As much as anything, Gress
was clear in his assessment of
finances related to the sewer
fund.
Looking back, Gress said
the city has been using cash
reserves to pay operating expenses, and that will lead to
sewer fund insolvency.
“We can’t have that,” said
Gress. “We must make sure
to have reasonable unencumbered cash at the end of each
budget year, and that’s not
happening now.”
He also has sent information to the auditor, noting that
the City of Caney did not undergo an audit for 2014, as it
should have done.
He went through several
projects being handled by the
public works crews, and has
asked an asphalt materials
company to give him ideas on
how best to treat the streets
currently needing repairs.
He alluded to several communications from the Kansas
Department of Health and Environment, one of which could
result in fines for non-compliance.
“I have already been in contact with these agencies, and
I’m hopeful that we can comply with the list of items they
have cited against the City of
Caney,” said Gress.
He complimented City Supt.
Craig Evans and the city crew
for tackling many of the these
problems and getting some of
them resolved.
A major problem with the
operation of the sewer treatment plant is with the three
influent pumps. “There are
times when we’re operating
with only one pump and that’s
not acceptable,” Gress said.
Unfortunately, fixing the
problems associated with city
operations will be expensive
and Gress will make future
recommendations about how
to proceed.
Regarding the town’s water
quality, Gress said KDHE officials have indicated they will
do two years of testing and
then give the City of Caney
specific orders on how to proceed.
“They gave us 17 points for
us to consider,” he said.
Changing out residential
and business water meters
should be a high priority, Gress
also said, adding that the city
should never keep meters in
service more than 10 years.
He said state officials wanted more flushing of fire hydrants and clarifying procedures.
But overall, his greatest
concern after touring facilities, going through communications and talking with employees is the sewer treatment
plant. “I do not feel comfortable with the solvency of our
sewer fund,” he said.
Gress
referred
several
times to “unfunded mandates”
that state agencies send to local municipalities, noting that
they cannot be overlooked.
“We must look at the operating side of our city operation
and make sure we are solvent, and that we are planning
properly,” he said.
In other business at Monday’s meeting:
• Mike Jones was hired as a
part-time dog catcher.
• The council approved City
Clerk Debbie Morrison to attend city clerk’s training for
the second consecutive year.
Gress recommended it highly,
saying he had take the training
himself and it will be highly
productive for her to attend.
The cost will be around
$500 plus hotel room.
• Gress will meet with Montgomery County officials about
a pictometry project which will
provide new, high-resolution
aerial photographs for the entire county. If the city wants to
be involved, it will cost $793
for three consecutive years,
and he hopes the images can
be overlaid with Caney’s sewer
and water base lines.
• A resolution was passed
rescinding a past resolution
which disallowed out-of-town
water customers to be reconnected if once they moved
from their residence and no
application for water was
made within 30 days.
The council’s action removes the 30-day stipulation,
allowing those water customers to apply for reconnection
regardless of how long the service has been shut off.
****
The Caney City Council will
meet at 7 p.m., Monday, Sept.
28 at City Hall to consider final adoption of the City’s 2016
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CANEY
Preschool students learn about crosswalk safety
Preschool students from Caney’s Lincoln Memorial Elementary School recently learned about crosswalk safety from a good source: crosswalk guard and City of Caney employee John Morris. The students learned about what to do (and what not to do) when crossing the ever-busy U.S. 75 highway.
Following a few safety lessons and a trial run at crossing the street (left photo), the preschool students gathered for a photograph. (Photos by Vicky Deal)
Citywide clean-up Zombie Walk effort to include flash mob
to be held Oct. 3-10
It’s that time of year when
Caney residents are urged to
clean out their houses, garages, out buildings and yards
and get rid, free of charge, of
any unwanted items.
The Caney Fall CleanUp Week will be held Oct. 3
through Oct. 10 at the old
landfill west of town from 8
a.m. to 7 p.m. each day. The
landfill will be closed on Sunday, Oct. 4.
Caney residents may dispose of unwanted items;
however regular charges will
apply for the use of the construction debris landfill for
large amounts of construction
items and no torn down houses will be accepted. Residents
who use the landfill during the
week should show a recent
Caney City water bill to the
gate attendant to verify they
are a Caney resident.
Items to be accepted at the
landfill include appliances,
furniture, household junk,
brush, scrap metal, tree limbs,
grass and leaves. Household
or business hazardous waste
will be not be accepted at the
landfill.
The Caney Citywide CleanUp Week is offered twice a
year, spring and fall, and it is
hoped that many residents will
clean up their outside properties as well to get rid of unsightly junk.
If you have questions about
the clean-up week, call Caney
City Hall at 879-2772.
USD 436 EVENTS
Scheduled
activities
at
Caney Valley Jr.-Sr. High
School for Thursday, Sept. 24,
through Saturday, Oct. 3, follow.
• Thursday, Sept. 24: Jr. high
volleyball and football at Cherryvale, 4:30 and 6 p.m. respectively; volleyball with Oswego,
Sedan and Marmaton Valley
at Caney, 4 p.m.; girls’ golf at
Fredonia, 3 p.m.; parent-teacher
conferences, 4 to 8 p.m.; sophomore class ring orders are due
today.
• Friday, Sept. 25: No school
due to parent-teacher conferences held earlier in the week;
varsity football, Caney at Independence.
• Saturday, Sept. 26: Varsity
volleyball tournament at Burden; cross country at Rim Rock
Farm; CVHS debaters at Independence tournament.
• Monday, Sept. 28: JV football game, Caney vs. Independence at Caney, 6 p.m.; girls’ golf
at Uniontown, 1 p.m.
• Tuesday, Sept. 29: Varsity
volleyball with Eureka and Burlington at Burlington, 4 p.m.;
girls’ golf at Pittsburg, 1 p.m.
• Thursday, Oct. 1: Jr. high
volleyball and football at Eureka, 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m., respectively; cross country at Four
Oaks Country Club, Pittsburg;
girls’ golf at Columbus, 3 p.m.
• Friday, Oct. 2: Varsity football, Caney vs. Erie at Caney
(homecoming), 7 p.m.
• Saturday, Oct. 3: JV volleyball tournament at Caney; CVHS
debaters at Chanute tournament.
*****
Planned events at Lincoln
Memorial Elementary School for
Thursday and Friday, Sept. 2425.
• Thursday, Sept. 24: Parent/
teacher conferences.
due to parent/teacher conferences this week.
USD 436 MENUS
USD
436-Caney
Valley
breakfast and lunch menus
for Friday, Sept. 25, through
Friday, Oct. 2, follow. These
menus are for Lincoln Memorial Grade School and Caney
Valley Jr.-Sr. High School.
Menus are subject to change.
Salad bar and milk and fruit
choices are offered daily.
*****
due to parent/teacher conferences held earlier in the week.
• Monday, Sept. 28: (breakfast) oatmeal breakfast round/
yogurt or whole grain cereal,
applesauce, juice, milk; (lunch)
Italian pasta bake, green pepper
strips, fresh baby carrots, whole
wheat roll/jelly, whole grain
chips (9-12), pears, milk or obj,
choice of fruits and vegetables,
tomato wedges.
• Tuesday, Sept. 29: (breakfast) cream cheese filled bagel
or whole grain cereal, assorted
fruits, juice, milk; (lunch) pepperoni pizza, tossed salad/romaine,
breadstick/marinara,
graham snacks (9-12), peaches,
milk, or pbj, choice of fruits and
vegetables, tomato wedges.
• Wednesday, Sept. 30:
(breakfast) French toast/syrup
or whole grain cereal, banana,
juice, milk; (lunch) taco burger
on a bun, romaine/tomato, refried beans, whole grain chips/
salsa, orange wedges, milk, or
pbj, choice of fruits and vegetables.
• Thursday, Oct. 1: (breakfast) cherry frudel or whole
grain cereal, pears, juice, milk;
(lunch) ham and cheese on a
bun, potato wedges, fresh broccoli, chocolate chip cookies (612), apple halves, milk, or pbj,
choice of fruits and vegetables.
• Friday, Oct. 2: (breakfast)
breakfast pizza or whole grain
cereal, assorted fruits, juice,
milk; (lunch) breaded chicken
patty, mashed potatoes/gravy,
seasoned green beans, whole
wheat roll/honey (6-12), fruit
cocktail, milk, or pbj, choice of
fruits and vegetables.
Get ready to strap on your dancing
shoes and...stagger! The Caney Zombie
Walk organizers, with the assistance of
local choreographer Wendy Price, have
announced a flash mob will be forming at
the Caney Zombie Walk on Saturday, Oct.
17 and at the halftime of the Caney junior
varsity football game on Monday, Oct. 12
at the football stadium. Everyone is invited to participate, zombies and survivors
alike.
Practices will be held in the high school
cafeteria on Sept. 17, 18, Sept. 24, 25,
Oct. 1 and 2, and Oct. 8, 9, from 5 p.m.
until 6 p.m. Practices are flexible. You
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can come and learn the dance for a few
minutes or stay for the entire session. The
zombie flash-mobbers will meet again on
Saturday, Oct. 17, at 1 p.m. to perform
again before the Caney Zombie Walk officially begins.
Those interested in learning the dance
directly from Wendy Price with the routine
posted on the Caney Zombie Walk Facebook page and Twitter. Wendy will also
be on hand at the Caney Zombie Walk to
teach last minute participants and those
wishing to brush up before their moment
in the spotlight. If you feel you are not much of a danc-
er, just get out there with the zombie
hoard and stagger with the rest of them,
said Jennifer Ritter, one of the Zombie
Walk organizers.
The Caney Zombie Walk is a charitable
event that raises funds and awareness for
local community causes. This year, the
Caney Zombie Walk will be benefitting the
Caney Historical Society and Lincoln Elementary School.
Look for more exciting news about the
Caney Zombie Walk and its sponsors on
their Facebook page at www.facebook.
com/CaneyZombieWalk, on Instagram
and Twitter.
Chronicle
Church Directory
WAYSIDE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: Jerry D. Davidson,
minister. (620) 778-6575. Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
Church, 11 a.m. Mailing address for the church: Wayside Christian Church, 508 S. Spring, Caney, KS 67333.
NEW HOPE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: 908 E. Fourth,
Cherryvale, Kan. (620) 330-0121. Come and worship
with us at New Hope Christian Church, 908 E. 4th.
Sunday School for adults and youths starts 9:30 a.m.,
with coffee and donuts served. Sunday worship service
begins at 10:30 a.m. Guest speakers will include professors, teachers and students from Ozark Christian College. Find Hope in Christ Jesus at New Hope Christian
Church. Colossians 1:27.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CHERRYVALE:
Fourth and Montgomery streets, Cherryvale, KS. John
Chastain, pastor. (620) 336-2440. Sunday School-All
Ages, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday Worship, 10:30 a.m.; 2nd
Sunday, Cookie Sunday; 4th Sunday, Fellowship Dinner. Wed. - Family Night - 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm - Free
dinner, 6:30 Youth Group and Ladies Bible Study, Monday - Men’s Bible Study - 6:00 pm.
CHERRYVALE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: Eric Lang, minister. 319 E. Main, Cherryvale, Kan. (620) 336-2533.
Free coffee and doughnuts on Sunday mornings, 10:15
a.m.; Worship Service, 10:45 a.m. Wednesday evening
6:30 p.m. Student Service. Love God, Love People,
Serve the World. Go to www.cheryyvalechristian.org.
COFFEYVILLE FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH DISCIPLES OF CHRIST: Gordon Willhite, pastor. 906
Elm Street, Coffeyville, KS. (620) 251-1710. Sunday
Church at Study, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday Church at Worship,
10:30 a.m.; Church mission: Community-wide
breakfast last Saturday of every month, 8 a.m. to 11
a.m.; Game Day on Mondays, 1 p.m.
FIRST SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH OF
CHERRYVALE: 717 E. 6th, Cherryvale, Kan. (620)
336-3504. David Bennett, pastor. Website: www.
fsbccherryvaleks.com. Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.;
Sunday Worship, 11 a.m.; Sunday Evening Service, 6
p.m.; Wed. Night Bible Study & Youth, 6 p.m.
NEW LIFE PRAISE & WORSHIP: David and Renea
Cavaness. 308 N. Liberty, Cherryvale, Kan. (620) 3368027. Sunday School begins at 9:15 a.m.; Morning
Worship Service is at 10:30 a.m. Sunday Youth Meeting
starts at 5:30 p.m., followed by Sunday evening worship at 7 p.m. Wednesday Prayer Meeting and Bible
Study will be held at 7 p.m. For more information, go to
www.nlpw.org or send an e-mail to newlife@nlpw.org.
TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: 108 N. Bradley, Caney,
KS. (620) 879-5604, church number; Rev. Jonathan
Schultz, pastor, (918) 520-9829 (pastor’s cell number);
Sunday School, 9 a.m.; Church, 10 a.m.
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF CANEY: 100 E.
Fourth, P.O. Box 141, Caney, Bill Wright, pastor. Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday Worship Service, 10:30
a.m.; Wednesday Adult Bible Study, 6 p.m.
9-17-15
TYRO CHRISTIAN CHURCH: David Bycroft, evangelist. Box 307, Tyro, KS. (620) 289-4433. Traditional
Worship Service, 8:30 a.m.; Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
Contemporary Praise/Worship, 11 a.m.; Sunday Eve.
Worship & Youth Classes, 6 p.m.; Wednesday Youth
Classes, 7 p.m.
CHERRYVALE ASSEMBLY OF GOD: Pastor Jeffrey L.
Owen, 305 E. Main. Sunday school 9:30 a.m.; Sunday
morning worship 10:30 a.m. Call (620) 217-9665 for
other service times. “Come & Dine” free community
meal 5 p.m. on the fourth Saturday of each month, unless otherwise noted.
SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH: Fr. Sixtus Ye
Myint, priest. 303 N. Hooker, Caney, KS. Sunday Mass,
11 a.m.; Weekday Masses on Monday, 8 a.m.; Confessions are before Mass; CCD/PSR Classes on Sunday at
9:30 a.m.; Altar Society, Wednesday, 7 p.m.
CORNERSTONE CHURCH OF CANEY: Brad Sanders,
pastor. 900 S. Ridgeway, Caney, KS. (620) 879-5220.
Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday Morning Worship,
10:40 a.m.; Sunday Night Service (during summer),
6:30 p.m.
ST. FRANCIS XAVIER CATHOLIC CHURCH: Fr. Andrew Heiman, pastor. 202 S. Liberty, Cherryvale, KS.
Parish Hall: (620) 336-2599. All mail and calls to St.
Andrew Parish in Independence, KS: (620) 331-1789.
Sunday Mass, 8 a.m.
CANEY ORTHODOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: 2nd
and Vine streets. Worship led by Rev. Tim Black. Adult
& children’s Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship at 11
a.m. Wednesday Kids’ Quest/Prayer Meeting at 6:30
p.m. For more info call (918) 331-6334. Visit caneyopc.
org for more information.
CHERRYVALE CHURCH OF CHRIST: Stan Bryan, minister. North Hwy. 169, Cherryvale, KS. (620) 336-3948.
Sunday Bible Study, 10 a.m.; Preaching, 11 a.m.;
Wednesday Bible Study, 7 p.m.
CROSS POINT BAPTIST CHURCH OF CANEY: Joshua
Eaton, pastor. South 75 Highway, Caney, KS (620) 8792839. Sunday Morning Worship, 10:30 a.m. Website:
crosspointcaney.com.
COFFEYVILLE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: 300 W. 9th
Street (corner of 9th & Willow), Coffeyville, KS; Dr. J.
Dean McNamara, pastor; Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.;
Sunday Services, 10:45 a.m. & 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday,
Adult Bible Study, Office “Ivy Room”, 6:30 p.m.; Youth,
“R.C.” Kids, Main Church Social Hall, 6:30 p.m. Phone:
(620) 251-3980; www.coffeyvillefbc.com.
FIRST SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH OF INDEPENDENCE: Ryan Carpenter, pastor. 918 W. Chestnut,
Independence, KS. (620) 331-3810. www.fsbindependence.com. SERVICES: Sunday Morning Bible Study
for all ages, 9:30-10:30 a.m.; Worship Service, 10:45
a.m.; Sunday Evening Service, 6 p.m.; Wednesday
Night Bible Study/Prayer & Youth, 6:30 p.m.
CROSSROADS COMMUNITY OF CHRIST: three
miles north of Dearing, Kan., at the corner of county
roads 3900 and 2600. Pastors are Melissa McIntosh.
Leslie Brooks, and Johnna Hugo. Church school 10
a.m., Worship service 11 a.m. Crossroads is a welcoming congregation to all races, genders and orientations. Phone 620-331-9294.
LIBERTY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: Bill Booe,
pastor. Sunday morning service, 9 -10 a.m. (nursery
available). Sunday school for youth and adults, 10:1510:45 a.m. Other events include Kids Club and Food,
Fun & Fellowship at 6:30 p.m. on 1st, 3rd Wednesday
of each month; Bible Study on 2nd Wednesday of
each month; Family Night on 5th Wednesday of each
month. Youth Group meetings at 5 p.m., on 2nd and
4th Sundays of each month. P.O. Box 175, Liberty, KS
67351. Call (620) 330-3432.
CHRIST’S CHURCH AT CHERRYVALE: 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday night Bible study at 1000 E. 4th St., Cherryvale. We welcome new friends and returning brothers and sisters back after Pastor Louie Celaya’s period
of recovery. Sunday morning services considered at a
later date. Watch this listing for updates, or call (620)
702-6024 for more information.
CANEY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE: Keven
Grigg, pastor, 407 N. Spring, Caney, KS. 620-8792101. Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.; Sunday Worship,
10:30 a.m.; Youth Group, Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.;
Divorce Care, starting 9/13/15, 2-4 p.m., www.divorcecare.org. For events see our Facebook page..
CHERRYVALE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: 305
W. Third, Cherryvale, Kan. (620) 336-2375. Pastor Carl
Ellis. Worship 11:00 a.m., Sunday School for all ages,
9:45 a.m. Preschool is open from September to April.
Nursery is available every Sunday.
FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD OF CANEY: Mike Morris,
minister. 301 N. McGee, Caney, KS. (620) 879-5255.
Morning Worship, Sunday, 10 a.m.; Evening Worship,
Sun., 6 p.m.; Sunday Youth Meeting, 6 p.m.; Wednesday Service, 6:30 p.m.; Children’s Church, 1st, 2nd,
3rd & 5th Sundays of the Month.
CANEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: Will Kenyon, pastor. 114 N. High, Caney, KS. (620) 879-2648.
Caney United Methodist Church: where God, tradition
and community intersect. Pastor Will Kenyon leads us
in worship at 10:45am which follows Sunday school
at 9:30am. Community meal open to all on the 2nd
and 4th Wednesdays of the month. Come be a part
of living out God’s mission. Reach out and transform
lives by sharing Christ’s love. You matter to God, and
you matter to us.
The cost to have your church listed in
this advertisement is $10 per month. To
have your church listed on this Church
Directory, call Emalee Mikel, ad director
for the Montgomery County Chronicle,
at 1-800-592-7606.
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DATEBOOK
THURSDAYSEPT.24
• USD 436 parent/teacher
conferences will be held at
Lincoln Memorial Elementary School, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.,
and Caney Valley Jr.-Sr. High
School, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. See
detailed story found elsewhere
in this issue.
• The Caney City Library is
open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• The Caney City Rec Center
will be open to the public from
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. to
8 p.m.
• The Caney Valley Historical Museum is open to the
public 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Caney Zombie Walk flashmob dance practice at the
Caney Valley High School Cafeteria, 5-6 p.m. See detailed
story found elsewhere in this
issue.
• Independence City Commission will meet at 5:30 p.m.,
at the Veterans Room of Memorial Hall.
FRIDAYSEPT.25
• USD 436 classes will not
be held today due to the parent/teacher conferences held
earlier in the week. Classes
will resume regular schedule
on Monday, Sept. 28.
• Coronation of the Independence High School homecoming queen and king will be
held shortly after 6:30 p.m., at
Shulthis Stadium in Independence.
open from 12 noon to 6 p.m.
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
issue.
• The Independence High
School Booster Club will hold
a cookout for IHS and Caney
Valley football fans from 5 p.m.
to 6:30 p.m., outside Shulthis
Stadium. All donations will go
to the IHS Booster Club.
SATURDAYSEPT.26
• The Independence free
movie “Cinderella” will be
shown in downtown Independence, 121 N. Penn., in the
CNB parking lot, 8 p.m.
• The Valeda Reunion will
be held with a potluck sup-
per. Doors open at 5 p.m. and
dinner begins at 5. Those attending should bring a potluck
dish. Table service, plates and
drinks will be furnished.
• The Caney City Library
is open from 8 a.m. to 2
p.m.
• Volunteers are encouraged to join U.S. Corps of Engineers employees in a playground improvement day at
Big Hill Lake’s Cherryvale
campground children’s playground from 9 a.m. to noon
for National Public Lands Day.
Call the park at (620) 3362741 for more details or to
sign up to volunteer.
• The Assembly of God
church at 305 E. Main, Cherryvale, invites the community
to the monthly Come and Dine
free meal at 5 p.m. Call the
pastor at (620) 702-6090 for
more information.
• Airplanes from personal
craft to vintage World War II
models will take to the air for
the airport’s sixth-annual free
fly-in for the public starting
at 8 a.m. and running until 2
p.m. at Tri-City Airport four
miles northeast of Cherryvale. Public admission is free, and
local pilots will treat schoolage children to free flights.Call
airport manager Lee Mattix at
9620) 336-3440 for more details.
• Kansas Department of
Wildlife, Parks and Tourism
has teamed up with Blue Cross
and Blue Shield of Kansas
(BCBSKS) to offer Healthy Fun
at the State Parks Day, Sept.
26; a day when admission to
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MONDAYSEPT.28
is open to the public 9 a.m. to
3 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
• The Caney Valley Historical Museum is open to the public 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
•
• The Friends of the
Cherryvale Public Library will
host a family game night from
5 to 6:30 p.m. on Monday,
Sept. 28, with refreshments
for kids and their families, as
well as individuals from the
community. Admission is free
and everyone is invited. Each
kid gets a free age-appropriate
book to take home.
• Caney City Council will
meet at 7 p.m., at City Hall,
100 W. 4th, to consider adoption of the City’s 2016 budget.
The meeting is open to the
public.
• Montgomery County Commission will meet at 9 a.m., in
the lower level of the Montgomery County Judicial Center
in Independence.
THURSDAYSEPT.29
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 8
p.m.
p.m.
• SEK Leo Love group will
sponsor the release of blue
balloons at noon at Eagle Estates, 1354 Taylor Road, Independence, to show love and
support for local law enforcement. Everyone is invited.
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hold an auction at 2 p.m. at the
American Legion parking lot.
The scouts are accepting donations of auction items up until the time the auction starts.
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• MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) will meet at the
Tyro Christian Church from 9
to11:30 a.m. for a time of fellowship, devotions, refreshments and special speakers.
All mothers of children, birth
through kindergarten age children, are invited to attend.
• Friends of the Cherryvale
Public Library will host their
annual membership appreciation potluck dinner at 6 p.m,
followed by a brief business
meeting and election of officers. All members are urged
to come, and new members
always are welcome. Bring a
dish to pass. The Friends supply table service and beverage.
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY
Area 4-H youths compete at Kansas State Fair
HUTCHINSON,
Kan.
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Montgomery
County
4-H
youths showcased their talents
and labors during the Kansas
State Fair in Hutchinson, Kan.,
on Sept. 11-19.
Among those 4-H youths
who competed in various contests at the state fair (and their
finish in those contests included:
• Brenden Anderson: fourth
place overall, swine; second
place, swine showmanship, age
9-13; first place, class 10, Yorkshire market hog.
• Justin Messner: second
place, class 2, Yorkshire market
hog; first place, class 17, breeding gilt.
• Rhett Newby: fourth place,
class 12, Dark AOB market hog;
eighth place, class 3, Duroc
breeding gilt.
• Jackson Newby: second
place, class 6, market lamb; color photography, 8 years or more,
blue; fifth place, class 7, commercial ewe lambs.
• Dalton Flatt: 10th place,
class 19, Chianina breeding heifer.
• Tyler Sale: first place, class
37, Maintainer breeding heifer.
• Zach Wood: second place,
class 37, Maintainer breeding
heifer; seventh place, class 64,
Commercial breeding heifer.
• Ryan Atherton: first place,
class 16, crossbred market hog;
first place, class 3, breeding gilt.
• Alivia Kaiser: constructed
clothing garment for age 9-11,
purple; food product, age 9-11,
blue; black and white photography, blue.
• Sydnee Clubine: constructed
red; fiber arts, red.
• Lillie Taylor: constructed
purple; entomology, intermediate division, purple; demonstration and illustrated talk, purple.
• Browyn O’Malley: constructed clothing garment for age 1214, purple; food product, age 1214, red; color photography, 4-7
years in project, blue.
• Hannah Kaiser: constructed
purple; food product, age 1214, red; color photography, 4-7
years in project, blue.
• Emily Lattin: constructed
red.
• Damon Higbie: food product,
age 12-14, red; demonstration or
illustration talk, blue.
• Cord Dodson: food product,
age 12-14, blue.
• Colben Dodson: food prod-
uct, age 12-14, blue.
• Lex Ward: food product, age
12-14, red.
• Richelle Reichenberger:
food product, age 12-14, white.
• Andrew Metcalf: food preservation, sweet spreads/syrup,
purple; food preservation, dried
foods, purple; senior photography judging, participant ribbon;
black and white photo, blue.
• Mason Metcalf: food preservation, sweet spreads/syrup,
foods, blue; black and white photo, blue.
• Jared Metcalf: food preservation, tomato products/salsa,
foods, red.
• Erin Ritter: food preservation, pickles, relishes, chutney,
blue; home environment, red;
visual arts and crafts, chosen for
Rock Springs Selection.
• Evan Ritter: food preservation, tomato products/salsa, red;
visual arts and crafts, chosen for
Rock Springs Selection.
• Danielle Rathbun: senior
photography judging, participant
ribbon.
• Justin Ward: senior photography judging, participant ribbon; senior crops identification,
4th.
• Trey Newby: second place,
class 1, meat goat; third place,
class 4, meat goat.
• Lex Ward: senior photography judging, participant ribbon;
black and white photo, blue;
shooting sports, educational display, purple; horticulture, purple.
• Berea Dill: horticulture
(vegetable), blue; horticulture
(culinary herbs), blue; dog show,
junior showmanship, blue.
• Senior photography judging
team: 17th place.
• Intermediate photography
judging team: 15th place.
• Ashley Chandler: intermediate photography judging, participant ribbon; color photography,
4-7 years in project, blue.
• Richelle Reichenberger: in-
termediate photography judging,
participant ribbon; color photography, 4-7 years in project, blue.
• Rylie Reichenberger: intermediate photography judging,
participant ribbon.
• Mason Metcalf: intermediate
photography judging, participant
ribbon.
• Jared Metcalf: intermediate
photography judging, 13th place.
• Cara DeTar: intermediate
photography judging, 16th place;
black and white photo, red; seventh place, class 20, market
lamb.
• Logan Rathbun: black and
white photo, blue.
• Jacob Rathbun: black and
white photo, red.
• Trenton Rathbun: black and
white photo, blue.
• Zach James: black and white
photo, blue.
• Brady White: black and
white photo, blue.
• Dexter Small: crops, purple;
third place, class 40, Maintainer
breeding heifer; 13th place, class
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• Cheyenne Higbie: first place,
class 53, Simmental breeding
heifer.
• Crops identification team:
first place.
• Intermediate crops identification contest: second place.
• Brady White: barrel racing
for 9-13 years, participant; flag
race, participant.
• Taiylor Blanck: barrel rac-
ing for 14-18 years, sixth place;
pole bending, fifth place; hunter
hack over fences for age 14-18
years, third place.
• MacKenzie White: barrel
racing for 14-18 years, participant; pole bending, eighth place;
flag race, participant.
• Allison Bryant: senior crops
identification
contest,
third
place.
Democrats open meeting to all voters
INDEPENDENCE — The Montgomery County Democratic Party is hosting a barbecue lunch and meeting at 11:30 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 26 in the cafeteria of Jefferson School, 2101 N. 13th
Street, in Independence.
All Democrats are invited as well as Republicans and independent voters who are concerned about the direction the State
of Kansas is heading under the current administration. Barbecue pork will be provided. Attendees are asked to bring a side
dish for five people. Speakers will address health care and the inequitable income
tax plan. There will be time for group discussion on concerns
about what is happening in Kansas. For more information call
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Pool still perfect in
SEK League meets
BY BRIAN THOMAS
sports@taylornews.org
CHANUTE — Field Kindley
High School’s Anna Pool continues to show how she is one
of the top golfers in the state of
Kansas.
Pool won her 16th consecutive regular-season title on
Monday as she took first place
at the Chanute Invitational.
The senior shot a round of 76
to win the individual championship by five strokes over Labette County’s Erica Gartner.
“I thought Anna played
great, but she was a bit disappointed,” said FKHS girls
golf coach Kevin Pool. “She
could never take advantage
of the many scoring opportunities she had. It’s fun when
she doesn’t have her best and
still can shoot 76. Her expectations are so much higher than
they were a year or two ago,
and she has set the bar much
higher for herself.”
En route to her championship on Monday, Pool shot a 37
on the front side and 39 on the
back for her total of 76 on the
day.
Pool has not lost a regularseason tournament since midway through her sophomore
campaign. She won her last
four events during that season
and won all eight tournaments
she played in as a junior. This
year, she is perfect through
her first four tourneys.
Monday’s performance gave
Pool a 24-stroke lead in the
Southeast Kansas heading into
the next SEK meet on Sept. 29
at Crestwood Country Club in
Pittsburg.
In addition to Pool, Lady
‘Nado golfer Kendall Blaich
finished 13th place overall
with a round of 106.
Pittsburg went on to capture
the tournament title in Chanute with a score of 394. That
was just one stroke ahead of
host Chanute at 395. Rounding out the team standings
were Labette County in third
at 412, Frontenac in fourth at
427, Girard in fifth at 456 and
Fredonia in sixth at 504.
CHANUTE INVITATIONAL
TEAM SCORES — 1. Pittsburg 394, 2.
SPORTS
Chanute 395, 3. Labette County 412, 4.
Frontenac 427, 5. Girard 456, 6. Fredonia
504.
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS — 1. Anna Pool,
Field Kindley, 76; 2. Erica Gartner, Labette
County, 81; 3. Abbe Funk, Chanute, 83; 4.
Maggie Moody, Frontenac, 88; 5. Renae
White, Labette County, 88; 6. Gracie Lopez, Pittsburg, 89; 7. Abby Walker, Chanute, 94; 8. Logan Lord, Pittsburg, 97; 9.
Brittney Palet, Chanute, 98; 10. Jamie VanWyck, Pittsburg, 98.
TEAM RESULTS — Field Kindley: 1.
Anna Pool 37-39—76, 13. Kendall Blaich
53-53—106.
PARSONS INVITATIONAL
PARSONS — Despite windy
conditions, Pool continued her
dominant ways on Sept. 14
with a first-place finish at the
Parsons Invitational.
The senior shot a 40 in the
nine-hole tournament, ending
two strokes ahead of Maggie
Moody of Frontenac at 42.
“It was a rough day for everyone,” Kevin Pool said. “The
wind and small greens were
big factors that don’t mix well
together. Anna again started
off slow but knew that on the
last two holes she probably
needed par or better and did
just what she had to do to win.
She barely missed birdie putts
on both holes 8 and 9. She was
in a very slow group, so it’s
hard to get into any rhythm.”
Blaich tied for 19th place
in the tournament to help the
Lady ‘Nado in the tournament.
Frontenac won the team
championship with a score of
209, just ahead of Pittsburg at
210 Labette County came in
third at 214, followed by Chanute at 224, Caney Valley 249,
Uniontown 250, Girard 259,
Columbus 261 and Fredonia
301.
TEAM SCORES — 1. Frontenac 209,
2. Pittsburg 210, 3. Labette County 214,
4. Chanute 224, 5. Caney Valley 249, 6.
Uniontown 250, 7. Girard 259, 8. Columbus 261, 9. Fredonia 301.
Field Kindley, 40; 2. Maggie Moody, Frontenac, 42; 3. Erica Gartner, Labette County,
44; 4. Renae White, Labette County, 46; 5.
Abbe Funk, Chanute, 46; 6. Katie Johnson,
Frontenac, 50; 7. Jamie VanWyck, Pittsburg, 51; 8. Gracie Lopez, Pittsburg, 51;
9. Jessica Brooks, Labette County, 51; 10.
Logan Lord, Pittsburg, 52.
TEAM RESULTS — Field Kindley: 1.
Anna Pool 40, T-19. Kendall Blaich 57.
Independence’s Will Schabel (#25) looks to outpace a Parsons tackler during action in Monday’s varsity game at Parsons. The game
was postponed until Monday night after a thunderstorm stalled Friday’s game in the first quarter. (Photo by Sean Frye/Parsons Sun)
Bullpups vs. Bulldogs
Independence seeks homecoming victory against Caney
BY BRIAN THOMAS
INDEPENDENCE — As any coach will
tell you, it’s better to win ugly than lose
pretty.
Independence High School football
coach Carl Boldra would be one of those
coaches, especially after his team escaped
with a 21-16 victory over Parsons in the
completion of a suspended game on Monday.
The Bulldogs now must take that win
and have a short week to prepare for
Montgomery County foe Caney Valley,
which will invade Emmot Field Friday for
a 7 p.m. contest.
“Just getting a W was all I cared about,”
said Boldra of his team’s performance
against Parsons. “We were on their end
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of the field most of the game, and we just
didn’t punch it in. We couldn’t get that
one block that we need. We made a lot of
mistakes up front. We’re going to correct
those. If we weren’t making mistakes up
front, we were running the wrong plays.
It was just a lot of little things that weren’t
clicking. It’s my fault that we weren’t real
focused, and I’ll definitely take the blame
for that.”
The Parsons game actually started
on Friday with a bang. The Vikings got
an 89-yard kickoff return from Dakolby
Johnson to begin things, and the Bulldogs
took their first play from scrimmage and
scored on a 64-yard run by Zach Shaffer.
That made two touchdowns and 14 total
points in the span of just 27 seconds.
PHS seemed to jump back on the score-
board a few minutes later, but a 65-yard
touchdown pass from Keenan Dodd to
Dannerick Yates was negated by a penalty.
Things settled down from there until officials noticed lightning in the area,
which forced both teams off the field. After a brief delay of less than 20 minutes,
administrators from both schools elected
to suspend the game and resume play on
Monday in place of the usual junior varsity contest.
After the wild start of things on Friday,
Independence actually dominated a lot of
Monday’s action except where it counted
the most … the scoreboard.
Offensively, IHS ran 34 of its first 36
plays in Parsons territory. In fact, of the
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CANEY — It had been seven
years since the Caney Valley
High School football team had
dropped a game in Tri-Valley
League action. Since then,
the Bullpups have dominated
league competition en route
to six straight TVL championships.
Caney Valley watched its
league winning streak end at
41 games last week as it suffered a heartbreaking 22-
20 loss to Humboldt. The
Bullpups will now step away
from TVL competition this
week as it makes a trip to face
Montgomery County foe Independence Friday night.
“I have a group of guys that
hate to lose,” said Caney Valley football coach Criss Davis.
“I wouldn’t expect anything
less. It bothered them to lose.
It just shows that we’re competitors. It’s not over with yet.
There’s still a lot of football left
to be played. That’s what I told
them after the game. We just
made too many mistakes to
win this one.”
The Bullpups had not
dropped a TVL contest since
Oct. 3, 2008, when it suffered
a 24-8 loss at, coincidentally,
Humboldt. CVHS had a chance
to extend its winning streak
even more on Friday, but three
turnovers and a breakdown in
special teams proved to be a
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touchdown,” Davis said. “Then
we get the ball back and go
right back down the field before we fumbled it. They went
down and scored right after
that. It was just a combination
of several different things that
hurt us.”
Caney
Valley
jumped
ahead 7-0 early in the contest on a Cole Griffin 38-yard
touchdown run. Humboldt
answered with consecutive
scores, including a 13-yard
scamper by Bryce Isaac and a
two-yard run by Rhett Smith.
The Bullpups trailed 14-7
at the intermission but came
out strong in the second half.
Austin Waltrip ran into the
end zone from 20 yards out as
CVHS tied the score at 14-all a
little over two minutes into the
third quarter.
Unfortunately, the ensuing
kickoff would be the difference. Isaac took the kick at the
18-yard line and scampered
82 yards for the touchdown.
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SPORTS
Now 3-0, Chargers brace for undefeated Fredonia
BY BRIAN THOMAS
CHERRYVALE — A 3-0 start
to the season definitely has a
buzz around Cherryvale for
its high school football team.
Couple that with Caney Valley’s loss at Humboldt last
week, and the Chargers find
themselves in the thick of the
Tri-Valley League race.
CHS maintained its unbeaten mark last week with a convincing 32-7 win at Burlington. It was the Chargers’ first
road test of the season, but
they will remain on the road
Friday as they travel to undefeated Fredonia for a key TVL
tilt with the Yellowjackets.
“This is definitely a big
week for us against Fredonia,”
said Cherryvale football coach
Harry Hester.
Although the season is still
just a third of the way through,
the Chargers seem to be getting in a groove after three
league wins to start the season. CHS has outscored the opposition 120-33 so far as it has
jumped to the top of the league
standings.
Cherryvale leads the TVL
with a 3-0 mark — a half
game ahead of both Fredonia
and Neodesha at 2-0 in league
play. Meanwhile, Caney Valley
— which has won the last six
Tri-Valley titles, stands at 2-1.
Amazingly, the schedule
lines up for the Chargers. After Friday’s game with Fredonia, they will travel to Neodesha on Oct. 2 before hosting
Caney Valley on Oct. 9. That
means the next three weeks
of football will likely decide
the championship fate of Cherryvale.
The Chargers moved to the
top of the standings by way of
last week’s impressive win at
Burlington.
In that contest, CHS jumped
ahead 14-0 in the first quarter
on a 47-yard touchdown pass
from Lane Raida to Brendan
Menzer, followed by a threeyard run by Raida. The Chargers extended their advantage
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to 20-0 in the second period on
a 17-yard run by Zach Steed.
Burlington ended the shutout just before halftime on
an eight-yard run by Jayden
Payne. But that’s all the offense the Wildcats could muster against a Charger defense
that held them to 186 total
yards while forcing four turnovers.
Cherryvale put the game
away in the second half. Raida
scored on a four-yard run in
the third quarter, and Kortland Verge capped things off
in the final period with a fiveyard run into the end zone.
Cherryvale finished the contest with 331 offensive yards,
including 267 on the ground
from 49 carries.
“The defense played very
well,” Hester said. “Our defen-
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week for us against
Fredonia.”
— HARRY HESTER,
Cherryvale head coach
sive line played very well. We
held them to under two yards
per carry. Our offense also
looked very good early.”
The Chargers are in a familiar position as last year when
they entered the Fredonia
game at 3-0. They hope that
history doesn’t repeat itself,
though, as the Yellowjackets
ended their perfect run with a
32-27 decision in Cherryvale.
This year’s matchup is a
battle of 3-0 teams. The Yellowjackets have rolled through
their first three games by surrendering a total of just six
points. That includes back-toback shutout wins over Jayhawk-Linn (32-0) and Yates
Center (41-0) over the past
two weeks.
Last year’s loss to Fredonia
snapped the Chargers’ sevengame winning streak over the
Yellowjackets. Before that,
Cherryvale had not dropped
a game to Fredonia since a
42-14 decision in 2006. During the seven-game streak, the
Chargers dominated the Yellowjackets on both sides, outscoring them 237-39 with four
straight shutouts from 200912.
CHERRYVALE 32, BURLINGTON 7
CHS
BHS
First Downs
17
8
Rushes-Yards 49-26729-41
Passing Yards
64
145
Com-Att-Int 3-6-28-21-2
Total Yards
331
186
Punts-Avg.
2-33.03-34.0
Fumbles-Lost2-2 3-2
Penalties-Yards7-70 13-110
CHERRYVALE
14 6 6 6 — 32
BURLINGTON 0
7 0 0 — 7
SCORING PLAYS
CHS — Menzer 47 pass from L. Raida
(Madl kick)
CHS — L. Raida 3 run (Madl kick)
CHS — Steed 17 run (Kick failed)
BHS — Payne 8 run (Nordstedt kick)
CHS — L. Raida 4 run (Run failed)
CHS — Verge 5 run (Run failed)
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing — CHS: Menzer 12-83, Steed
13-82, Pearson 5-46, L. Raida 12-41, Addis 3-6, King 1-5, Verge 3-4; BHS: Williams
3-18, Johnson 6-15, Payne 3-9, Jeffers 1-8,
Jasper 1-2, Swank 15-(-11).
Passing — CHS: L. Raida 3-6-2 64; BHS:
Swank 8-21-2 145.
Receiving — CHS: Menzer 1-47,
Wright 1-15, Main 1-2; BHS: VanderLinden
2-54, Fiedler 2-43, Jasper 2-38, Glasgow
1-8, Johnson 1-2.
TRI-VALLEY LEAGUE
LEAGUEOVERALL
Cherryvale 3-03-0
Fredonia 2-03-0
Neodesha 2-03-0
Caney Valley
2-1
2-1
Humboldt 1-12-1
Burlington 1-21-2
Erie
0-21-2
Eureka
0-20-3
Yates Center
0-3
0-3
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS
Humboldt 22, Caney Valley 20
Cherryvale 32, Burlington 7
Neodesha 38, Erie 16
Fredonia 41, Yates Center 0
Olpe 40, Eureka 6
FRIDAY’S GAMES
Cherryvale at Fredonia
Caney Valley at Independence
Burlington at Erie
Neodesha at Humboldt
Eureka at Yates Center
Fredonia at Yates Center
Caney Valley golfers find success at Eureka
BY BRIAN THOMAS
EUREKA — Postseason time
is quickly approaching for the
Caney Valley High School girls’
golf team. With that, the Lady
Bullpups are trying to hit their
stride in the final weeks of the
regular season.
Caney Valley had a team
score of 180 to capture the
championship of the Eureka
Invitational on Sept. 16. The
‘Pups edged Tri-Valley League
foe Eureka by four strokes as
the Tornadoes finished the day
at 184.
“All of the girls continue to
work hard, and we are steadily
improving,” said Lady Bullpup
golf coach Wendy Oyler. “We
need to lower our scores as
we approach what we see
as a very competitive 3-2-1A
regional and state tournament.
Last year’s runner-up Eureka
is playing very well, and we
felt really good about beating
them at their course. We will
face off with them again at
Fredonia this Thursday. Our
JV girls are doing exceptionally well at the rookie and varsity tournaments both winning
and placing individually.”
Caney Valley’s Kelsey Wyant
tied Eureka’s Reagan Boone
for first place in the tournament with a score of 41. Lady
Bullpups Courtney Gardner
and Jayd Bentley tied for third
place five strokes back at 46.
Overall, CVHS had five of the
top nine scores in the tournament — with Ashlyn Hefley
earning a tie for fifth at 47
and Kendra Gardner tying for
ninth at 49.
Also, Paige Price finished in
a tie for 13th place at 51.
Following Caney Valley and
Eureka in the team stand-
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ings was Anderson County in
third place at 201, followed by
Augusta at 208 and Fredonia
250.
Up next, Caney Valley will
travel to the Fredonia Invitational on Thursday. Next
week, the Lady Bullpups
will travel to the Uniontown
Invitational on Sept. 28 and
Pittsburg Invitational on Sept.
29.
EUREKA INVITATIONAL
TEAM SCORES — 1. Caney Valley 180,
2. Eureka 184, 3. Anderson County 201, 4.
Augusta 208, 5. Fredonia 250.
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS — T-1. Kelsey
Wyant, Caney Valley/Raegan Boone, Eureka, 41; T-3. Courtney Gardner, Caney
Valley/Jayd Bentley, Caney Valley, 46; T-5.
Ashlyn Hefley, Caney Valley/Chandler
Birkholz, Eureka/Jennifer Torrey, Eureka/
Ashley Roby, Augusta, 47; T-9. Kendra
Gardner, Caney Valley/Miranda Akes, Anderson County/Jessica Moffat, Eureka, 49.
TEAM RESULTS — Caney Valley: T-1.
Kelsey Wyant 41, T-3. Courtney Gardner
46, T-3. Jayd Bentley 46, T-5. Ashlyn Hefley 47, T-9. Kendra Gardner 49, T-13. Paige
Price 51.
FRONTENAC ROOKIE
TOURNAMENT
FRONTENAC — Lizzie
Rogers claimed the championship of the Frontenac Rookie
Tournament on Sept. 16 as
she scored a 37 in the ninehole tournament.
Rogers edged Lady Bullpup
teammate Hannah Hedges
by three strokes as Hedges
finished as runner-up with a
40.
Overall, Caney Valley had
three of the top four golfers
in the tournament, including Lyndon Nunneley with a
fourth-place score of 46.
As a team, the Lady
Bullpups won the tournament
with a score of 181, dominating second-place finisher
Uniontown by 44 strokes.
Uniontown had a score of 225
and was followed by Baxter
Springs at 233, Girard 260,
Baxter Springs 266 and Fort
Scott 273.
Also competing for CVHS
was Lauren Culver, who
finished in a tie for 11th place
with a score of 58.
FRONTENAC ROOKIE TOURNAMENT
TEAM SCORES — 1. Caney Valley 181, 2.
Uniontown 225, 3. Baxter Springs 233, 4. Girard 260, 5. Baxter Springs 266, 6. Fort Scott
273.
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS — 1. Lizzie Rogers, Caney Valley, 37; 2. Hannah Hedges,
Caney Valley, 40; 3. Megan Smith, Uniontown, 41; 4. Lyndon Nunneley, Caney
Valley, 46; 5. Sydney Crapson, Girard, 48;
6. Sami Wartsteler, Baxter Springs, 53; 7.
Abby Johnston, Baxter Springs, 54; 8. Lauren Newton, Baxter Springs, 55; 9. Draven
George, Uniontown, 57; 10. Kaitlynn Sampson, Uniontown, 57.
TEAM RESULTS — Caney Valley: 1. Lizzie
Rogers 37, 2. Hannah Hedges 40, 4. Lyndon
Nunneley 46, T-11. Lauren Culver 58.
PARSONS — Caney Valley
captured fifth place at the
Parsons Invitational on Sept.
14.
The Lady Bullpups finished
the day with a score of 249,
Bullpups see 41-game
league win streak end
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The Cubs also added the twopoint conversion to take an
eight-point lead.
Caney Valley wasn’t finished just yet. Short scored on
a two-yard run with 8:30 left
in the fourth quarter to get
back within two. The Bullpups
failed on the conversion run,
though, which proved to be the
difference by game’s end.
“The kickoff return was
a big one that hurt us right
there,” Davis said. “I thought
we settled in and started playing pretty good defense. We
gave up the one on the kickoff
return. We just shot ourselves
in the foot all night long.”
The Bullpups had a 301-206
advantage in total yardage for
the game. CVHS had two players surpass the century mark
on the ground, including Griffin with 17 carries for 133
yards and Short with 30 attempts for 123.
After watching their long
TVL winning streak, the ‘Pups
now look ahead as they try to
avoid a second straight loss.
Friday’s contest will be a
rare one between county foes
Caney Valley and Independence. Last year, the Bulldogs
captured a 35-21 win in Caney,
but that was the first head-tohead meeting in football between the two schools since
1950. It also proved to be the
only regular-season loss for
the Bullpups.
“I’ve always say you play
tougher competition to get
better,” Davis said. “I don’t expect anything less out of Independence. They’ll be another
quality team. That’s what we
need to see. We need to see
teams that are going to play
tough to prepare us for our
games down the stretch.”
The Class 4A-Division I
Bulldogs head into Friday’s
contest with a 2-1 overall record. Independence is coming
off a 21-16 road win at Parsons — a game that started
and was suspended Friday but
was completed on Monday due
to stormy weather.
The Bulldogs will prove
to be a challenge for the
Bullpups. Independence was
picked to finish sixth in the
Southeast Kansas League but
has already beaten two SEK
opponents so far. Its lone loss
came in week two in a 46-0
setback at Class 5A power
Pittsburg.
HUMBOLDT 22, CANEY VALLEY 20
CVHS
HHS
First Downs
14
8
Passing Yards
0
49
Com-Att-Int 0-5-27-16-2
Total Yards
301
206
Punts-Avg.
3-45.33-23.3
Fumbles-Lost1-1 2-1
CANEY VALLEY 7
0 7 6 — 20
HUMBOLDT
8
6 8 0 — 22
SCORING PLAYS
CVHS — Griffin 38 run (Melchiori kick)
HHS — Isaac 13 run (Haviland run)
HHS — Smith 2 run (Run failed)
CVHS — Waltrip 20 run (Melchiori kick)
HHS — Isaac 82 kickoff return (Haviland
pass from Doran)
CVHS — Short 2 run (Run failed)
Rushing — CVHS: Griffin 17-133, Short
30-123, Waltrip 4-30, Melchiori 4-14,
Thornton 1-0; HHS: Smith 11-57, Haviland
2-52, Isaac 8-26, Whitcomb 3-12, Doran
6-10.
Passing — CVHS: Thornton 0-3-2 0,
Short 0-1-0 0, Melchiori 0-1-0; HHS: Doran
7-16-2 49.
Receiving — CVHS: None; HHS: Haviland 3-28, Whitcomb 1-11, Smith 2-6,
Korte 1-4.
which was 40 strokes behind
champion Frontenac at 209.
Pittsburg came in second
at 210, followed by Labette
County at 214 and Chanute
224. Uniontown (250), Girard
(259), Columbus (261) and
Fredonia (301) rounded out
the tournament field.
The top CVHS performer
was Hedges, who tied for 11th
place with a score of 52. Also
competing in the tournament
were Rogers, tied for 26th
with a 60; Culver, tied for 34th
at 68; and Nunneley, tied for
36th at 69.
Anna Pool of Field Kindley
won the individual championship with a score of 40.
TEAM SCORES — 1. Frontenac 209,
2. Pittsburg 210, 3. Labette County 214,
4. Chanute 224, 5. Caney Valley 249, 6.
Uniontown 250, 7. Girard 259, 8. Columbus 261, 9. Fredonia 301.
Field Kindley, 40; 2. Maggie Moody, Frontenac, 42; 3. Erica Gartner, Labette County,
44; 4. Renae White, Labette County, 46; 5.
Abbe Funk, Chanute, 46; 6. Katie Johnson,
Frontenac, 50; 7. Jamie VanWyck, Pittsburg, 51; 8. Gracie Lopez, Pittsburg, 51;
9. Jessica Brooks, Labette County, 51; 10.
Logan Lord, Pittsburg, 52.
TEAM RESULTS — Caney Valley: T-11.
Hannah Hedges 52, T-26. Lizzie Rogers 60,
T-34. Lauren Culver 68, T-36. Lyndon Nunneley 69.
GALENA ROOKIE
TOURNAMENT
GALENA — Caney Valley
had four of the top five golfers
at the Galena Rookie Tournament.
Rogers won the title with
a 57, while Hedges came in
second at 62 and Nunneley
finished third at 66. Culver
also took fifth place with a 69.
As a team, the Lady
Bullpups won the tournament
title with a 254, ahead of
runner-up Fort Scott at 328.
GALENA ROOKIE TOURNAMENT
TEAM SCORES — 1. Caney Valley 254,
2. Fort Scott 328.
TEAM RESULTS — Caney Valley: 1.
Lizzie Rogers 57, 2. Hannah Hedges 62, 3.
Lyndon Nunneley 66, 5. Lauren Culver 69.
Bulldogs survive Vikes,
brace for Caney team
• continued from page C1
nine Bulldog possessions during the first half, five of them
started on the Viking side of
the field. Independence also
ran 15 plays inside the red
zone. The result of all this was
just 13 total points before the
break, which included a nineyard touchdown run by Will
Schabel early in the second
quarter.
“I’m concerned because
we’re not getting it,” Boldra
said. “We’re not getting that
block when we need that
block. We’re not finding a way
to get there. We’re not seeing
the opening and busting it in
there. Those are things we’ve
got to keep getting better at.
We have to keep working at
it.”
The Bulldogs led just 1310 at the intermission after a
22-yard field goal by Parsons’
Cody Stephens just before the
break. The second half continued an ugly trend for both
teams of turnovers and penalties. In all, the teams combined
for 22 penalties for a net loss
of 148 yards and seven turnovers — five from Parsons.
Independence had a chance
to open things up in the second
half. Schabel scored his second touchdown on an eightyard run midway through the
second half. But the Bulldogs
hurt themselves as they used a
fake punt on their next possession inside their own territory.
That gave Parsons the ball at
the IHS 31, and on the next
play, the Vikings took advantage on a 31-yard TD strike
from Dodd to Johnson.
The Bulldog defense was
up for the challenge most of
the night, limiting the Vikings
to just 137 total yards. It also
came up with a big play early in the fourth quarter as a
crowd of Bulldogs took down
Dodd in the end zone for a
safety.
Despite leading by five, the
outcome was up for grabs until the end. The Bulldogs were
held on downs at the Parsons
38 with 39.9 seconds left. The
Vikings marched down the
field and got to the IHS 36,
spiking the ball with 11.1 ticks
to go. But Dodd missed on his
next two passes, including one
that sailed out of bounds on
fourth down as time expired.
The Bulldogs now head
home this week for their annual homecoming game. Caney
Valley will come into the contest at 2-1 overall after a 2220 road loss at Humboldt on
Friday. That setback ended the
Bullpups’ 41-game winning
streak in Tri-Valley League action. CVHS has won the last six
TVL championships.
“They’re a very good team,”
Boldra said. “Coach (Criss) Davis does a great job. We’ve seen
them on film. They were down
to Burlington early and battled
back to get that win. I’ve got
to figure that they’re going
to do some things. They’re a
tough team. We’ve just got to
be ready to go.”
Independence won last
year’s meeting between the
two Montgomery County teams
35-21 in Caney. That was the
first time the two schools had
met in football since 1950.
INDEPENDENCE 21, PARSONS 16
IHS
PHS
First Downs
9
4
Passing Yards
42
109
Com-Att-Int 5-19-110-29-2
Total Yards
231
137
Punts-Avg.
3-32.76-26.3
Fumbles-Lost2-1 5-3
INDY
7
6 6
2 — 21
PARSONS
7
3 6
0 — 16
SCORING PLAYS
PHS — Johnson 89 kickoff return (Stephens kick)
IHS — Shaffer 64 run (Janasek kick)
IHS — Schabel 9 run (Kick failed)
PHS — Stephens 22 field goal
IHS — Schabel 8 run (Pass failed)
PHS — Johnson 31 pass from Dodd (Kick
failed)
IHS — Safety
Rushing — IHS: Schabel 37-116, Shaffer 3-64, Jones 10-23, Hamlin 10-(-2), Medlock 1-(-12); PHS: Gress 6-27, McPherson
3-8, Dodd 10-(-1), Johnson 1-(-6).
Passing — IHS: Hamlin 4-18-1 32,
Snodgrass 1-1-0 10; PHS: Dodd 10-28-2
109, Johnson 0-1-0 0.
Receiving — IHS: Kemp 1-25, Shaffer
1-10, Kleiber 2-7, Jones 1-0; PHS: Johnson
6-72, Mayhue 1-24, Gress 2-12, McPherson
1-1.
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SPORTS
Schabel wins first at Fort Scott tourney
BY BRIAN THOMAS
Clapp finished in second place in division.
FORT SCOTT — Lyssa Schabel captured first place at No. 1 singles to lift the
Independence High School girls’ tennis
team to a second-place finish at Tuesday’s
Fort Scott Invitational.
The Lady Bulldogs, who played shorthanded with just five available players,
had six points on the day to tie Labette
County for tournament runner-up. Fort
Scott won the tournament with 10 points.
Columbus came in fourth as it failed to
score a team point.
“It was another good day for the Lady
Bulldog tennis team,” said IHS tennis
coach Matt Ysusi. “I was really proud of
how the girls competed and was even
more proud that we were able to tie for
second even though we had an open division, due to extenuating circumstances.”
Schabel was the Lady Bulldogs’ top
performer on the day. She went a perfect
3-0, including wins over Fort Scott’s Alex
King, Columbus’ Abbey Peterson and Labette County’s Paige Burleigh by identical
8-0 scores.
“Lyssa had a great day on the courts
and did not surrender a game all day,”
Ysusi said. “She continues to improve and
impress. I am excited to see how many
more levels she can raise her game this
year.”
In doubles, Emma Stoner and Alexis
Clapp took second place in the No. 2 division, while Chelsea Cushing and Amanda
Trout finished third in No. 1.
Stoner and Clapp opened the day with
a loss but bounced back for two wins,
including an 8-5 decision over Labette
County. Cushing and Trout salvaged a victory in their final match of the day as they
beat Fort Scott 8-3.
The Lady Bulldog tennis team will be
back in action today at the Parsons Invitational. On Saturday, IHS will have a split
squad at both the Collegiate and Neodesha tournaments.
FORT SCOTT INVITATIONAL
TEAM SCORES: 1. Fort Scott 10, T-2. Independence/
Labette County 6, 4. Columbus 0.
INDEPENDENCE RESULTS
No. 1 Singles — Lyssa Schabel def. Alex King, Fort
Scott, 8-0; def. Abbey Peterson, Columbus, 8-0; def. Paige
Burleigh, Labette County, 8-0. Schabel finished in first
place in division.
No. 2 Singles — Independence Open
No. 1 Doubles — Chelsea Cushing/Amanda Trout
lost to Harrison/Hutchinson, Fort Scott, 0-8; lost to Page/
Baughman, Labette County, 6-8; def. Cunningham/Sweyko, Fort Scott, 8-3. Cushing/Trout finished in third place
in division.
No. 2 Doubles — Emma Stoner/Alexis Clapp lost to
Adams/Norris, Fort Scott, 4-8; def. Blackburn/Albertson,
Labette County, 8-5; def. Columbus by default. Stoner/
PARSONS JV INVITATIONAL
PARSONS — The Lady Bulldogs finished in a tie for fourth place at Monday’s
Parsons Junior Varsity Invitational.
IHS scored 18 points to match the total of
Fort Scott. Chanute came in first with 23,
followed by Pittsburg with 21 and Parsons
19.
Independence was led in the tournament by Cushing, who went 3-0 on the
day to claim the No. 2 singles championship. Trout finished 2-1 to earn second
place at No. 1 singles.
In doubles, the No. 1 team of Clare
Bindley and Emma Stoner went 1-2 to finish in fourth place. Meanwhile, the No. 2
team of Grace Slaton and Danesa Ramos
earned sixth place in their division after
going winless in their two matches.
PARSONS JV INVITATIONAL
TEAM SCORES: 1. Chanute 23, 2. Pittsburg 21, 3. Parsons 19, T-4. Independence/Fort Scott 18, 6. Labette
County 11, 7. Field Kindley 2, 8. Iola 1.
No. 1 Singles — Amanda Trout def. R. Sweykol, Fort
Scott, 6-2; def. J. Greer, Chanute, 6-3; lost to Nichole Konopelko, Pittsburg, 4-6. Trout finished in second place in
division.
No. 2 Singles — Chelsea Cushing def. J. Branstetter,
Iola, 6-1; def. S. Babb, Parsons, 6-5 (7-4); def. S. Bogle, Chanute, 6-1. Cushing finished in first place in division.
No. 1 Doubles — Clare Bindley/Emma Stoner def.
Moore/A. Saye, Labette County, 6-1; lost to Benavides/
Seely, Chanute, 0-6; lost to Wommack/Gatewood, Parsons, 2-6. Bindley/Stoner finished in fourth place in division.
No. 2 Doubles — Grace Slaton/Danesa Ramos lost to
Neville/Mathew, Pittsburg, 0-6; lost to Hernandez/K. Saye,
Labette County, 2-6. Slaton/Ramos finished in sixth place
in division.
ARKANSAS CITY INVITATIONAL
ARKANSAS CITY — Facing some of its
toughest competition of the season, IHS
had a strong showing at the Arkansas City
Invitational on Sept. 17.
“Overall, it was a pretty good day for
the Bulldogs,” Ysusi said. “We faced the
toughest competition that we have seen
to this point. I bet there ends up being
somewhere between 40-50 players that
will be state qualifiers when you combine
the singles and doubles brackets, which is
just incredible.”
Schabel led the way for the Lady Bulldogs as she took sixth place in singles
with a 3-2 overall mark. Also competing
in singles were Qwynn Marquez, who
went 3-2 for 21st place; and Sagan Shire,
who went 2-3 for 28th place.
In the doubles bracket, Alex Keller and
Anna Miller led the way with a 12th-place
finish, capping off the day with a 2-3 record. Also competing in the bracket were
Trout and Bindley, who lost their three
matches.
“Alex and Anna I thought struggled a
little bit,” Ysusi said. “They did a good job
of playing smart doubles most of the day
but seemed to miss that finishing touch.
I also think a lot of it had to do with the
tough competition. They are improving
every day and once it clicks, then I think
we are going to have an awesome team
on our hands. It takes days like this to get
us ready for the postseason, and I know
they got better.”
ARKANSAS CITY INVITATIONAL
TEAM SCORES
Final team results not available as of presstime.
Singles — Lyssa Schabel def. Gary, Goddard, 9-3; def.
Calvert, Andover Central, 9-7; lost to Lee, Andover, 1-9;
def. Fugit, Andover Central, 9-5; lost to Steven, Bishop
Carroll, 5-9. Schabel finished in sixth place in division.
Qwynn Marquez went 3-2 on the day (results not available). Marquez finished in 21st place in division. Sagan
Shire went 2-3 on the day (results not available). Shire
finished in 28th place in division.
Doubles — Alex Keller/Anna Miller def. Hoag/Teufel,
Arkansas City, 9-2; lost to House/Baldwin, Kapaun Mount
Carmel, 2-9; def. Zavala/Williams, Campus, 9-2; lost to
Mindt/Boleski, Kapaun Mount Carmel, 5-9; lost to Benton/Klassen, Arkansas City, 6-9. Keller/Miller finished in
12th place in division. Amanda Trout/Clare Bindley went
0-3 for the day (results not available).
BALDWIN INVITATIONAL
BALDWIN — Addison Julian went 4-1 on
the day to take third place in the No. 1
singles division at the Baldwin Invitational on Sept. 16.
Julian earned wins over De Soto, Parsons, Topeka-Hayden and Perry-Lecompton to lead the way for the Lady Bulldogs.
Also competing for Independence were
Meredith Campbell, 2-2 at No. 2 singles;
Kaylee Bryant and Cushing, 1-3 at No. 1
doubles; and Clapp and Stoner, 0-4 at No.
2 doubles.
BALDWIN INVITATIONAL
TEAM SCORES: Final team results not available as of
presstime.
No. 1 Singles — Addison Julian def. Jamie Kieffer, De Soto, 8-2; def. Kelsey Smith, Parsons, 8-3; lost to
Sammi Ford, Parsons, 1-8; def. Caroline Gatschet, TopekaHayden, 8-0; def. Robertson, Perry-Lecompton, 8-7 (7-3).
Julian finished in third place in division.
No. 2 Singles — Meredith Campbell lost to Parr, De
Soto, 6-8; def. Ramsdell, De Soto, 8-7 (7-1); lost to Abbi
Ford, Parsons, 4-8; def. Katelyn Tryon, Topeka-Hayden,
8-6.
No. 1 Doubles — Kaylee Bryant/Chelsea Cushing lost
to Hansen/Young, De Soto, 5-8; def. Gatewood/ Polk, Parsons, 8-7 (7-5); lost to Beardmore/Rogers, Parsons, 2-8;
lost to Meier/Kramer, Topeka-Hayden, 5-8.
No. 2 Doubles — Alexis Clapp/Emma Stoner lost to
Euler/Ramsdell, De Soto, 1-8; lost to Heer/Armstrong, De
Soto, 4-8; lost to Farris/Wright, Parsons, 0-8; lost to Estes/
Comstock, Topeka-Hayden, 0-8.
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Bullpup spikers
close loss streak,
capture victories
BY BRIAN THOMAS
COPAN, Okla. — It took
nearly two years for the Caney
Valley High School volleyball team to get back into the
win column. Now the Lady
Bullpups may be building
some confidence as they prepare for the upcoming league
season.
Three days after snapping a
49-match losing streak, CVHS
came back on Tuesday to take
down Copan (Okla.) in a hardfought five-set contest. The
Lady Bullpups earned a 2523, 23-25, 19-25, 25-18, 15-6
road victory over the Hornets.
“We played pretty solid, but
the games were entirely too
close,” said Lady Bullpup volleyball coach Jennifer Rigdon.
“Our passing and hitting were
much improved. Our serving
was a bit sketchy.”
Caney Valley earned its third
win in the last five matches to
improve to 3-9 overall on the
season.
The Lady Bullpups were
coming off a successful weekend at the Oswego Invitational,
where they went 2-2 on the
court. CVHS opened Saturday’s
action with a 19-25, 14-25
loss to Baxter Springs before
sweeping past Chetopa 25-10,
25-20. That win was the first
for Caney Valley on the volleyball court since a Tri-Valley
League victory over Eureka on
Oct. 1, 2013, in Caney — snapping a streak of 49 consecutive
losses overall.
CVHS closed out that 2013
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season with 13 straight losses
before going winless at 0-28
a year ago. The loss to Baxter Springs to open the Oswego tourney was the eighth
straight loss for the ‘Pups in
the 2015 season, setting up
the emotional victory against
Chetopa.
Caney Valley quickly turned
that win into consecutive victories as it took down West
Elk in three sets, 13-25, 2522, 25-23. Although the Lady
Bullpups went on to fall to
Northeast-Arma, 22-25, 1925, it was still a successful day
as the team went 2-2 on the
court.
“We finally got the monkey
off our back,” Rigdon said. “It
was a nice feeling to get some
wins under our belt going into
this week of possible successes. The players truly stepped
up and worked together.”
Caney Valley is scheduled
to host a quad with Marmaton
Valley, Oswego and Sedan on
Thursday.
After
that,
the
Lady
Bullpups will travel to Burden
for the Central Invitational
on Saturday. CVHS has been
placed into Pool A and will
face Sedan, Argonia and Flinthills. Pool B consists of Central-Burden, Oxford, Caldwell
and Udall.
Following the tournament,
Caney Valley will open up TriValley League action on Sept.
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Field Kindley volleyball team gains confidence with wins
BY BRIAN THOMAS
RIE — For the first time
in nearly a decade, the Field
Kindley High School volleyball
team went perfect in pool play
at a tournament.
On Saturday, the Lady ‘Nado
captured three pool wins before settling for fourth place
overall at the Erie Invitational.
“The girls played great,”
said FKHS volleyball coach Megan Abbott. “The fact that our
girls won their pool and made
it to the winner’s bracket is a
first for a long time. Our par-
ents could count back to 2008,
but it’s likely well before that.
All our pool play matches went
to three, so we still need to
work on playing consistent, but
they are definitely playing.”
Field Kindley went 3-0 in
pool play, starting with a 2522, 23-25, 25-21 win over host
Erie. The Lady ‘Nado followed
that up with a 13-25, 25-20,
25-20 victory over Wichita
West before taking down Parsons 21-25, 25-18, 25-21.
That allowed FKHS to
reach bracket play as it took
on Neodesha in the semifi-
nal round. Unfortunately, the
team’s perfect run ended with
a 21-25, 19-25 setback to the
Lady Bluestreaks. Field Kindley dropped into the thirdplace match and eventually fell
to Erie, 12-25, 16-25.
“We need to work on our
conditioning,” Abbott said. “By
the time we hit the winner’s
bracket, our girls were out of
gas and didn’t give the effort
we needed to play our level of
ball.”
Prior to the tournament, the
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25-20 win over Parsons before
being swept by Labette County,
16-25, 21-25.
Field
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stands at 7-4 overall and is just
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host Fort Scott.
On Saturday, FKHS will travel to Cherryvale to compete in
the Sharon Wadman Charger
Classic. The Lady ‘Nado have
been placed in Pool A and will
take on Southeast-Cherokee
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Mary’s Colgan at 11:30 a.m.
and Yates Center at 1:30 p.m.
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West Elk and Neodesha.
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pools will advance to bracket
play, which will include semifinal action at 3:30 p.m. The
championship and third-place
match will follow at 4:30 p.m.
ICC spikers return after long delay
BY BRIAN THOMAS
OTTAWA — Due to some quirks in the schedule, the Independence Community College volleyball team had two weeks between matches.
ICC was originally scheduled to play matches
at the Oklahoma Wesleyan University junior
varsity on Sept. 14 and at the Ottawa JV on Sept.
17. But according to Lady Pirate coach Daniela
Pena, both matches were canceled, leaving the
team with an extended break.
“Both universities canceled games on us because of not having enough players on their JV
teams,” Pena said.
Prior to Wednesday’s home match against
Montgomery County rival Coffeyville, the Lady
Pirates had not been on the floor in two weeks.
ICC’s last match was at Fort Scott on Sept. 9 as
it dropped a three-set match to the Greyhounds,
15-25, 18-25, 5-25. That loss dropped Independence to 1-7 overall and 0-3 in conference play.
In that match, the Lady Pirates finished the
night with 19 kills overall. Hali Littrell had a
team-high six kills, followed by Kyonda Thomas with five. Littrell also led the team in digs
with 12, with Felicia Ruaro adding 10. Niena
Ramirez was tops in assists with 15.
Details from Wednesday’s conference match
against Coffeyville will appear in next week’s
Chronicle.
The Lady Pirates will hit the road for a pair
of Jayhawk Conference-Division II matches next
week — at Labette on Sept. 28 and at Neosho
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Chargers pick up needed victory at Oswego tourney
BY BRIAN THOMAS
OSWEGO — For the second
time this season, the Cherryvale High School volleyball
team came out on the winning
side of things.
The Lady Chargers salvaged their final match of the
Oswego Invitational on Saturday with a 25-23, 25-19 victory over Chetopa.
“I’m glad we finished the
day with a win,” said Lady
Charger
volleyball
coach
Amanda Whittley. “I hope we
can build on it.”
Overall, the Lady Chargers
went 1-3 on the day. That included losses to NortheastArma (17-25, 18-25), Riverton
(13-25, 20-25) and Columbus
(24-26, 18-25).
Cherryvale — now 2-13
overall on the season — will
be host to the Sharon Wadman
Charger Classic on Saturday.
The Lady Chargers have been
Charger Classic tournament pairings announced
CHERRYVALE — The 2015 Sharon
Wadman Charger Classic Volleyball Tournament is set for Saturday, Sept. 26 at
Cherryvale.
Games will be held at Cherryvale Middle-High School and Lincoln-Central Elementary School.
Pool A teams will include Wichita Defenders, Field Kindley, Southeast-Cherokee, Yates Center and Pittsburg-Colgan.
Pool B team will include Independence,
Uniontown, Cherryvale, West Elk, and
Neodesha.
The schedule of contests will be:
Lincoln-Central Gym
• 8:30 a.m.: Southeast-Cherokee vs.
Field Kindley
• 9:30 a.m.: West Elk vs. Uniontown
• 10:30 a.m.: Southeast-Cherokee vs.
Yates Center
• 11:30 a.m.: Uniontown vs. Neodesha
• 12:30 p.m.: Independence vs. Uniontown
• 1:30 p.m.: Southeast-Cherokee vs.
Wichita Defenders
Cherryvale Middle-High Gym
North Court
• 8:30 a.m.: Cherryvale vs. Neoesha
• 9:30 a.m.: Independence vs. Neodesha
• 10:30 a.m.: Wichita Defenders vs.
Field Kindley
• 11:30 a.m.: Pittsburg-Colgan vs. Field
Kindley
• 12:30 p.m.: Pittsburg-Colgan vs.
Southeast-Cherokee
• 1:30 p.m.: West Elk vs. Neodesha
• 2:30 p.m.: Independence vs. West Elk
• 3:30 p.m.: 1st team pool B vs. 2nd
team pool A
• 4:30 p.m.: 3rd place match
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• 8:30 a.m.: Pittsburg-Colgan vs. Yates
Center
• 9:30 p.m.: Pittsburg-Colgan vs. Wichita Defenders
• 10:30 p.m.: Cherryvale vs. Independence
• 11:30 p.m.: Cherryvale vs. West Elk
• 12:30 p.m.: Wichita Defenders vs.
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• 1:30 p.m.; Coffeyville vs. Yates Center
• 2:30 p.m: Cherryvale vs. Uniontown
• 3:30 p.m.: 1st team pool A vs. 2nd
team pool B
• 4:30 p.m.: Championship match.
designated for Pool B and will
take on Neodesha at 8:30 a.m.,
Independence at 10:30 a.m.,
West Elk at 11:30 a.m. and
Uniontown at 2:30 p.m. Pool
A will include Wichita Defenders, Field Kindley, SoutheastCherokee, Yates Center and
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SPORTS
Cross country runners brave Big Hill Lake terrain
BY BRIAN THOMAS
CHERRYVALE — With four
runners in the top 20, the Independence High School cross
country team captured second
place in the girls division of
the Parsons Invitational last
Thursday at Big Hill Lake.
Independence finished the
day with 59 points, taking the
runner-up spot on the girls
side behind Fort Scott with 51.
Chanute came in third with 78,
followed by Anderson County
with 79 and Frontenac 82.
The top 15 runners in both
varsity races earned medals in
the meet.
Rindy Marquez was the lone
medalist for the IHS girls as
she took 13th place in a time of
25:00. Also placing in the top
20 were Jillian Stafford, 16th
in 25:07; Abby Dunham, 19th
in 25:38; and Callie Weaver,
20th in 20:39.
Rounding out the Lady Bulldog competitors were Addie
Mattes, 21st in 25:43; Dara
Mendoza, 28th in 26:40; and
Hope Renfro, 40th in 30:34.
“Rindy ran a very strong
race,”
said
Independence
cross country coach Max
Bradbury. “She has overcome
minor injuries to her leg but
has found a way to run a really
strong race. She is becoming a
focused and driven young lady.
Just like Rindy, Jillian, Addie,
Callie, Abby, Dara and Hope
ran with a lot of heart.
All the Lady Bulldogs ran
a strong race for the second
week in a row. I feel the Lady
Bulldogs are become a great
team, and they are learning
how to push each other in the
race to get as close as possible
to pace run. These young ladies will give everything and
more to achieve better time
from week to week. The varsity girls had a great race from
start to finish.”
On the boys side, Independence’s Branden Bales earned
a medal by taking 13th place
in 20:03.65.
IHS took sixth place in
the team standings with 135
points.
Six other Bulldogs competed in the varsity boys race
— Jacob Smith, 29th place in
21:34.69; Nathan Hogge, 32nd
in 21:55.56; Carson Huffed,
38th in 22:30.28; Lane Ewing,
48th in 23:23.06; Adam Hayse,
51st in 23:41.09; and Landon
Ewing, 59th in 24:13.88.
“Branden gives everything
he has when he runs,” Bradbury said. “Just like Branden,
Nathan, Jacob, Carson, Landon, Lane and Adam gave everything they had in their body
to achieve their best times at
a very hard course. The boys
ran a hard race and passed
a lot of runners, and they are
getting better with each race.
I was very pleased with the
effort and drive from each
runner. The whole team is improving, not just a little but a
lot. The kids are taking pride
in their running.”
Caney Valley, which came
in ninth in the team standings
with 189 points, was led by
Brycen Gulick in 22nd place
in a time of 21:07.97. Also
competing for the Bullpups
were Dayton Wade, 31st in
21:40.62; Brandon Nielson,
46th in 23:08.84; Justin Ward,
49th in 23:29.47; Zach Denton,
82nd in 26:52.81; and Kannon
Young, 84th in 30:47.31.
“It wasn’t our strongest performance,” said Caney Valley
coach Hannah Beuke. “I know
these runners are capable of
much better times. There were
several factors that might have
contributed to their slower
times, but we’ve been working hard since last week to
make improvements. My goal
is to get them ready for the
postseason, and I look at every
meet as a learning experience.
I’ve seen the determination
that these runners have, and
I hope their strong mindset,
combined with hard work, will
take them far this season.”
Iola won the boys team
championship with 54 points,
followed by Yates Center with
82 and Chanute 86.
Field Kindley did not com-
BY BRIAN THOMAS
Rindy Marquez of Independence separates herself from a pack of runners toward the final stretch
of last Thursday’s cross country meet at Big Hill Lake. Marquez placed 13th in the varsity girls’ race.
(Photo by Andy Taylor)
pete in the varsity competition
but did have several runners
participate at the junior varsity level.
The boys team captured
first place with 28 points and
were led by Cameron Riley
with a second-place finish in
22:28.69. Caleb Riley took
fourth place in 22:59.15, while
Dakota Ehmke was ninth in
23:33.44.
Independence
claimed
eighth place in the JV boys division with 164 points.
As for the junior varsity
girls, Field Kindley was led by
Krissy Isle with a fourth-place
finish in 20:55.28. Brianna
Rutherford came in fifth at
21:16.44, while Ally Meek was
eighth in 21:46.06.
VARSITY BOYS
TEAM SCORES — 1. Iola 54, 2. Yates Center 82, 3. Chanute 86, 4. Anderson County
107, 5. Humboldt 128, 6. Independence 135,
7. Labette County 160, 8. Frontenac 179, 9.
Caney Valley 189, 10. Galena 249.
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS — 1. Devin Brooks,
Fort Scott, 18:39.47; 2. Hadley Spletcher,
Yates Center, 18:51.69; 3. Reno Lemon, Chanute, 19:09.66; 4. Colin Bedell, Yates Center,
19:26.31; 5. Jesse Quinn, Neodesha, 19:29.09;
6. Joe Kline, Humboldt, 19:32.06; 7. Brett Holloway, Yates Center, 19:34.09; 8. Braden Plumlee, Iola, 19:36.18; 9. Brandon Moser, Frontenac, 19:37.02; 10. Kendall Jay, Iola, 19:44.75.
TEAM RESULTS — Caney Valley: 22.
Brycen Gulick, 21:07.97; 31. Dayton Wade,
21:40.62; 46. Brandon Nielson, 23:08.84;
49. Justin Ward, 23:29.47; 82. Zach Denton,
26:52.81; 84. Kannon Young, 30:47.31. Field
Kindley: No Runners. Independence: 13.
Branden Bales, 20:03.65; 29. Jacob Smith,
21:34.69; 32. Nathan Hogge, 21:55.56; 38.
Carson Hufferd, 22:30.28; 48. Lane Ewing,
23:23.06; 51. Adam Hayse, 23:41.09; 59. Landon Ewing, 24:13.88.
VARSITY GIRLS
TEAM SCORES — 1. Fort Scott 51, 2. Independence 59, 3. Chanute 78, 4. Anderson
County 79, 5. Frontenac 82.
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS — 1. Cassidy
Westhoff, Fort Scott; 2. Averi Wilson, Anderson County; 3. Jordan Smith, Fredonia; 4.
Talia Ramsey, Chanute; 5. Mackenzie Tabares,
Chanute; 6. Rileigh Vail, Oswego; 7. Jessica
Petterson, Frontenac; 8. Megan Klubek, Iola;
9. Megan Hyatt, Labette County; 10. Bailey
Burgess, Fredonia.
TEAM RESULTS — Caney Valley: None.
Field Kindley: None. Independence: 13. Rindy
Marquez, 25:00; 16. Jillian Stafford, 25:07;
19. Abby Dunham, 25:38; 20. Callie Weaver,
20:39; 21. Addie Mattes, 25:43; 28. Dara Mendoza, 26:40; 40. Hope Renfro, 30:34.
JUNIOR VARSITY BOYS
TEAM SCORES — 1. Field Kindley 28,
2. Chanute 44, 3. Anderson County 105, 4.
Southeast-Cherokee 121, 5 Galena 122, 6.
Northeast-Arma 136, 7. Baxter Springs 150, 8.
Independence 164.
TEAM RESULTS — Caney Valley: No
Runners. Field Kindley: 2. Cameron Riley,
22:28.69; 4. Caleb Riley, 22:59.15; 9. Dakota Ehmke, 23:33.44; 11. Skyler Desmarais,
24:09.91; 14. Will Hoy, 24:19.25; 39. Jacob
Mund, 27:31.22; 44. Jacob Reiner, 28:07.50;
53. Nate Carter, 29:05.65. Independence: 23.
Cameron Goodrich, 25:54.43; 47. Liam Jarrell, 28:32.62; 60. Aiden Charter, 29:53.25;
62. Whitney Rutland, 29:56.91; 65. Nate Morrison, 30:19.00; 74. Jacob Mitchell, 33:24.31;
76. Tyler McDow, 33:28.40; 77. Jack Edwards,
33:47.41.
JUNIOR VARSITY GIRLS
TEAM SCORES — 1. Anderson County 31,
2. Fort Scott 52, 3. Marmaton Valley 63, 4. Girard 79,
TEAM RESULTS — Caney Valley: No Runners. Field Kindley: 4. Krissy Isle, 20:55.28; 5.
Brianna Rutherford, 21:16.44; 8. Ally Meek,
21:46.06; 17. Emma Viets, 23:08.41. Independence: 44. Marissa Florio, 27:28.84.
Field Kindley soccer team falls to Purple Dragons, 6-2
COFFEYVILLE — Coming
off an emotional win at rival
Independence, the Field Kindley High School soccer team
had put itself in contention
near the top of the Southeast
Kansas League. Yet after a
6-2 home loss to Pittsburg last
Thursday, the Golden Tornado
still have some work to do.
That setback dropped the
‘Nado to 3-3 overall and 2-1 in
the SEK. FKHS played host to
Wichita-Life Prep on Tuesday,
but no score or details were
IHS soccer teams blanks Riverton, 10-0
BY BRIAN THOMAS
INDEPENDENCE — After back-to-back losses, the Independence High School soccer team
got back on track Tuesday evening as it rolled
over Riverton 10-0 in a non-league match at
Emmot Field.
With that victory, the Bulldogs improved to
6-2 overall. IHS — 1-1 in Southeast Kansas
League action — returns to SEK play today as
it entertains Fort Scott. After that, the team will
hit the road to Pittsburg on Sept. 29 for a pivotal showdown against league leader Pittsburg
(6-1, 3-0).
“The team is getting back on track,” said Independence soccer coach Michael Villarreal.
“Conagher had a great game. We tried a new
formation to compensate for some of our weak
points on both offense and defense. I’m very
satisfied with the way we were able to execute
to precision with our overlaps, passes and
crosses. Fort Scott will get a taste on Thursday,
and we’ll be ready for the SEK showdown with
Pittsburg on Tuesday.”
In Tuesday’s contest, the Bulldogs had con-
trol of things from start to finish. IHS struck for
nine goals in the first half and then got another
score from senior Conagher Welch early in the
second half to close out the mercy-rule win.
Welch finished the contest with five goals.
Drew Pasternak added two, while Jalynn Lawrie, Zack Schroeder and Jose Ayala recorded
one each. Pasternak led the team in assists for
the game with three, with A.J. Charter, Ayala
and Sam Hilger picking up one each.
The Bulldogs finished with 12 shots on goal
and were led by Welch with seven.
Sophomore Kelvin Heckman had five saves
in goal.
Following a 5-0 start to the season, IHS had
dropped back-to-back games, including a 4-0
home loss to Wichita Independent last Thursday.
The Bulldogs trailed 2-0 at halftime of that
game and watched the visitors strike for two
more goals in the second half.
IHS struggled on the offensive end all game
long. Schroeder had a team-high three shots on
goal.
Heckman recorded two saves in goal.
available from that match as
of presstime.
Field Kindley captured a
2-0 win at Independence on
3 colwas
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Sept. 15 and
hoping to
carry that momentum into
its contest with Pittsburg. Instead, the Golden Tornado fell
behind by three goals in the
first half and never could recover in falling to the Purple
Dragons.
PHS scored in the 11th minute on a goal by Jose Ayala and
followed that up four minutes
later with a score from Frander Marroquin. His brother, Ja-
zon Marroquin, recorded the
Dragons next goal in the 21st
minute as the visitors jumped
ahead 3-0.
That proved to be enough
offense for the Purple Dragons. Pittsburg did score three
more goals in the second half
to open up a 6-0 edge. Field
Kindley ended the shutout late
in the match with two goals
but did not have enough for a
comeback.
In junior varsity action,
Field Kindley and Pittsburg
battled to a 2-2 draw.
Victory still eludes Tyro volleyball team
two then turn around and lose
by 15 points.”
In its previous match on
Sept. 10, the Eagles opened
the home portion of their
schedule with a four-set loss to
Bartlesville Wesleyan, 25-15,
32-34, 17-25, 19-25.
A week earlier, TCCS competed in the Chetopa Triangular and dropped a pair of
matches to Altoona-Midway
and Chetopa.
Against AMHS, the Eagles
put up a fight but came up on
the short end of a 24-26, 2125 setback. They took the host
Hornets to three sets before
dropping a 25-19, 19-25, 1425 decision.
The Eagles will be back
in action this Saturday as
they travel to Wichita for the
WAHAA Quad. According to
Byrd, the team will play four
matches against teams from
the Kansas Christian Athletic
Association.
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CHANUTE — Field Kindley
High School’s Sayaka Smith
remained perfect on the season as she took first place in
No. 1 singles at the recent
Chanute Tennis Invitational.
Smith went 3-0 on the day,
surrendering a total of just
two games along the way. She
beat Emma Reeves of Fort
Scott (8-1) and Bobbi Sinclair
of Iola (8-1) in pool play. She
capped off the day by beating
Chania Stewart of Pittsburg —
the winner of the other pool —
8-0 in the title match.
The junior is still perfect so
far on the season after going
32-0 en route to the Class 4A
singles championship a year
ago.
“Sayaka continued her undefeated season with another
first-place finish,” said Lady
‘Nado tennis coach Aaron
Clark. “Our doubles played
fourth and our other doubles
team placed last. Our other
singles player had to retire because of the heat.”
Also earning a spot in
bracket play were Jane Vargas and Kayla Maulsby at No.
1 doubles. The duo lost their
first match to Fort Scott but
bounced back to beat Jennifer Tidd and Shane Beddry of
Iola 8-3. That gave the pair the
No. 2 spot out of their pool and
moved them into the thirdplace match. Unfortunately,
they finished in fourth place
after a loss to Laura Benavides
and Taryn Seely of Chanute.
Also competing for FKHS in
the tournament were Bailey
Jackson, who went 0-2 in No.
2 singles; and Carley Brashler
and Victoria Frolich, who were
0-2 in No. 2 doubles.
The Field Kindley tennis
team was scheduled to travel
to the Parsons Invitational today. After that, the Lady ‘Nado
will compete in the Chanute
Junior Varsity Invitational on
Monday before hosting their
own Field Kindley Invitational
Tuesday.
CHANUTE INVITATIONAL
TEAM SCORES
No team standings available as of presstime.
FIELD KINDLEY RESULTS
No. 1 Singles — Sayaka Smith def.
Emma Reeves, Fort Scott, 8-1; def. Bobbi
Sinclair, Iola, 8-1; def. Chania Stewart,
Pittsburg, 8-0. Smith finished in first place
in division.
No. 2 Singles — Bailey Jackson lost to
Alex King, Fort Scott, 1-8; lost by default to
Cheyanne Vaughn, Iola.
No. 1 Doubles — Jane Vargas/Kayla
Maulsby lost to Fort Scott, 2-8; def. Jennifer Tidd/Shane Beddry, Iola, 8-3; lost to
Laura Benavides/Taryn Seely, Chanute.
Finished in fourth place in division.
No. 2 Doubles — Carley Brashler/Victoria Frolich lost to Emily Adam/Madi Larson, Fort Scott, 2-8; lost to Iola by default.
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SPORTS
Ravens continue domination of ICC-CCC series
BY BRIAN THOMAS
COFFEYVILLE — It’s hard
to imagine another way possible for the Coffeyville Community College football team
to put points on the board. In
last week’s 79-21 thumping of
rival Independence, the Red
Ravens not only did it with
their explosive offensive, but
they also scored by way of special teams and the defense.
For coach Aaron Flores,
it was a pleasant sign for his
team as it had a rare easy win
to improve to 4-0 overall and
2-0 in Jayhawk Conference
play. The Red Ravens will hit
the road this weekend as they
take on Iowa Central in a nonconference matchup. The contest has changed venues as it
was moved from Iowa Central’s home turf in Fort Dodge
to the Manson Fairground
Park in Manson, Iowa. Kickoff
is set for noon on Saturday.
“I feel like we cleaned up our
game in the second half,” said
Flores, whose squad remained
at No. 3 in this week’s NJCAA
poll behind Copiah-Lincoln
and Nassau. “We found a way
to put points on the board seven different ways. It is always
great when you can score on
defense and special teams.”
Statistically, Coffeyville and
Independence were not that
far off from each by game’s
end. The Red Ravens racked
up 468 total yards, compared
to 393 by the Pirates.
That’s why those kind of
numbers don’t always tell
the story of a game. The difference in this one was turnovers — six by the Pirates that
proved even more costly as the
game went on.
CCC ran the opening kickoff
back as Terry Wright scampered 85 yards for the score.
That gave the Red Ravens a
lead they would never relinquish throughout the game.
Coffeyville jumped ahead
14-0 early, but Independence
made a game of it with two
long touchdown passes to cut
the Red Raven advantage to
20-14 after one quarter.
CCC got its first defensive
score on a 26-yard fumble
return by Stanley Barnwell in
that first quarter. By halftime,
the Red Ravens had bumped
the lead up to 41-21.
The Red Ravens’ ability to
force turnovers quickly turned
the game into a rout in the second half. Eldridge Thompson
scored consecutive defensive
touchdowns in a 36-second
span during the third quarter
— the first on a 16-yard interception return and the second
on a 31-yard fumble return.
Coffeyville led 62-21 at the
end of three quarters and put
the finishing touch on the win
with 17 fourth-quarter points,
including a 41-yard interception return for six by Devin
Bultmann.
Iowa Central takes a 1-2
record into this weekend’s
game against Coffeyville. All
three of its games so far have
been against Jayhawk Confer-
JAYHAWK CONFERENCE
LEAGUEOVERALL
Butler
3-04-0
Coffeyville 2-04-0
Dodge City
2-0
3-1
Hutchinson 1-13-1
Garden City
1-1
1-3
Highland 0-11-2
Fort Scott
0-3
1-3
Independence0-3 0-4
Coffeyville 79, Independence 21
Butler 70, Fort Scott 20
Iowa Western 42, Dodge City 35
Hutchinson 40, Iowa Central 8
Highland 55, Ellsworth 52
Air Force Prep 25, Garden City 22
SATURDAY’S GAMES
Coffeyville at Iowa Central, noon
Garden City at Independence, 7 p.m.
Highland at Fort Scott, 7 p.m.
Dodge City at Hutchinson, 7 p.m.
Air Force Prep at Butler, 7 p.m.
Coffeyville’s Juwann Winfree outpaces Independence tackler KeJuan Daniels during action in Saturday’s game between Montgomery County’s two community college teams. (Photo by Coffeyville Community College)
ence opposition, with its lone
win coming in a five-overtime
thriller at Independence in
week two 37-34. The Tritons
have lost both of their home
games this season, including
21-10 to Fort Scott in week
one and 40-8 to Hutchinson
over the weekend.
In that contest against the
Blue Dragons, ICCC managed
just eight first downs and 126
total yards of offense.
“We have to approach this
business trip with a good
week of practice,” Flores said.
“Hopefully, we are learning
that we are going to get everyone we plays best shot. Iowa
Central likes to control the ball
with their running game. That
sets up the play-action pass
down field. They are very active on the defensive side. We
have to continue to protect
the ball and force turnovers.
We still have a lot to improve
on. We need to find a way to
be consistent for all four quarters.”
This will be just the third
meeting all-time between Coffeyville and Iowa Central in
football. The Red Ravens have
a 2-0 mark against the Tritons, including last year’s 38-7
victory at Veterans Memorial Stadium. The only other
meeting came in 1978 when
CCC earned a 35-6 win at the
Coca Cola Bowl in Cedar Falls,
Iowa.
GARDEN CITY AT
INDEPENDENCE
INDEPENDENCE — After
suffering a blowout loss to
county rival Coffeyville, the In-
dependence Pirates will continue searching for that elusive victory as they entertain
Garden City in a Jayhawk Conference matchup this weekend. Kickoff is slated for 7 p.m.
Saturday at Emmot Field.
ICC is off to another rough
start this season. The Pirates
are currently 0-4 overall and
0-3 in the KJCCC following the
loss. Independence has now
lost 21 straight games overall dating back to early in the
2013 season.
The Pirates have shown
signs of being a competitive
team, including a five-overtime loss to Iowa Central in
week two and leading nationally-ranked Dodge City in the
second half.
Last week’s performance
came down to ICC’s own mistakes. The Pirates turned
the ball over six times in the
contest, including four that
resulted in Red Raven touchdowns — two by fumble and
two interception. Couple that
with Coffeyville’s return of the
opening kickoff for a score,
and it made for a long night
for Independence.
The 79 points on Saturday
were the third-most points
ever surrendered by a Pirate
team, just behind 86 by Coffeyville in 2004 and 84 by Butler in 2012.
Saturday’s opponent, Garden City, heads into the contest with a 1-3 overall record
following three straight home
losses. The Broncbusters, who
are 1-1 in Jayhawk Conference action, have had a few
extra days to prepare for the
game after falling at home
to Air Force Prep 25-22 last
Thursday.
This will be the 71st meeting all-time between Independence and Garden City in football. The Broncobusters have
a 48-21-1 edge in a series that
dates back to 1952.
Last season, the Pirates
dropped a 41-14 decision in
Garden City. One year earlier, ICC lost at Garden City
but later picked up a win by
forfeit after the Broncbusters
had used an ineligible player.
Independence’s last win on
the field against Garden City
came in 2010 when the Pirates
earned a 10-6 win at Emmot
Field.
COFFEYVILLE 79, INDEPENDENCE 21
ICC
CCC
First Downs
24
17
Rushes-Yards51-166 25-161
Passing Yards
228
308
Com-Att-Int 15-30-217-25-0
Total Yards
394
469
Punts-Avg. 6-31.55-42.2
Fumbles-Lost5-4 1-0
INDEPENDENCE 14 7 0
0 — 21
COFFEYVILLE
20 21 21 17 — 79
SCORING PLAYS
CCC — Wright 85 kickoff return (Kick failed)
CCC — Winfree 56 pass from Ferguson
(Pursley kick)
ICC — Holsey 58 pass from Gemmel
(Brown kick)
CCC — Barnwell 26 fumble return (Pursley
kick)
ICC — Holsey 38 pass from Gemmel
(Brown kick)
CCC — Wilson 32 pass from Ferguson
(Pursley kick)
CCC — Winfree 80 pass from Ferguson
(Pursley kick)
ICC — Gemmel 4 run (Brown kick)
CCC — L. Johnson 22 run (Pursley kick)
CCC — Thompson 16 interception return
(Pursley kick)
CCC — Thompson 31 fumble return (Pursley kick)
CCC — Veal 24 run (Pursley kick)
CCC — Pursley 30 field goal
CCC — Bultmann 41 interception return
(Pursley kick)
CCC — Williams 8 pass from Jones (Pursley
kick)
Rushing — ICC: Thomas 22-106, Cookson 10-38, J. Johnson 6-21, Gemmel 11-15,
Perkins 1-1, Team 1-(-15); CCC: L. Johnson
5-89, Veal 5-60, Ferguson 4-13, Williams
2-10, McCullough 3-3, Bulock 3-2, McCray
1-2, Jones 2-(-18).
Passing — ICC: Gemmel 15-29-1 228,
Perkins 0-1-1 0; CCC: Ferguson 14-23-0 291,
Jones 2-3-0 17.
Receiving — ICC: Holsey 3-103, Ambler
6-52, B. Smith 2-32, D. Smith 2-18, McDonald 1-0; CCC: Winfree 4-144, Onunwor 3-64,
Wilson 2-49, Williams 2-17, Veal 1-12, Neloms 1-11, Stanley 2-6, Bulock 1-5.
Lady Ravens bruised by Butler’s top kickers
BY BRIAN THOMAS
COFFEYVILLE — Surrendering four goals in the first
half, the Coffeyville Community College women’s soccer
team went on to suffer an 8-1
loss to 10th-ranked Butler in
a Jayhawk Conference match
Sunday at Veterans Memorial
Stadium.
CCC — now 4-5 overall and
1-2 in the conference — found
itself in a hole early on. The
Lady Grizzlies struck for their
first goal in the 11th minute
from Paige Achey. They added
goals by Amy Strath in the
17th minute, Lauren Allan in
the 42nd and Lexi Clark in the
43rd for a 4-0 halftime lead.
The Lady Ravens found a
bright spot early in the second
half when Palisa Chipendo recorded an unassisted goal in
the 47th minute of play. Butler
followed, though, with three
more goals, capped off with
Achey’s second score in the
90th minute for the final margin.
BCC had a decisive 26-2
edge in shots for the contest.
Rebekah Shaffar recorded 11
saves in goal for the Lady Ra-
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vens.
CCC will next hit the road
to Garden City on Saturday for
another Jayhawk Conference
match.
Butler 8, Coffeyville 1
BUTLER
4 4 — 8
COFFEYVILLE
0 1 — 1
Goals: BCC (Achey assisted by Means, 11th
minute); BCC (Strath assisted by Molina,
17th minute); BCC (Allan assisted by Imperial, 42nd minute); BCC (Clark assisted by
Imperial, 43rd minute); CCC (Chipendo unassisted, 47th minute); BCC (Theis assisted by
Clark, 51st minute); BCC (Zimmer assisted by
Achey, 68th minute); BCC (Means assisted by
Achey, 71st minute); BCC (Achey assisted by
Means, 90th minute). Shots: BCC 26 (Means
5); CCC 2 (Stuerman 1, Chipendo 1). Saves:
BCC 0 (Reichenberger); CCC 11 (Shaffar).
COWLEY 3, COFFEYVILLE 2
COFFEYVILLE — The Lady
Ravens suffered their first
conference loss on Sept. 15 as
they dropped a 3-2 decision to
Cowley at Veterans Memorial
Stadium.
CCC had an advantage early
in the match when Mia Her
took a pass from Chipendo and
put it in the goal during the
12th minute. Cowley evened
things up in the 18th minute
as the teams went into the intermission tied at 1-1.
That’s where things stood
until the 60th minute when
Chipendo put in an unassisted
goal to give the Lady Ravens
a 2-1 edge. But CCC could
not hold on down the stretch.
Cowley scored a minute later
to tie the score again and then
took the lead for good with a
goal in the 69th minute.
The Lady Tigers had a 1210 edge in shots for the game.
Shaffar recorded six saves for
the Lady Ravens.
Cowley 3, Coffeyville 2
COWLEY
1 2 — 3
COFFEYVILLE
1 1 — 2
Goals: CCC (Her assisted by Chipendo,
12th minute); CC (Mehler Carvalho unassisted, 16th minute); CCC (Chipendo
unassisted, 60th minute); CC (Leite dos
Santos assisted by Mehler Carvalho, 61st
minute); CC (Johnson assisted by Crispin,
69th minute). Shots: CC 12 (Mehler Carvalho 5); CCC 10 (Chipendo 2, Humphrey
2). Saves: CC 5 (Urrutia); CCC 6 (Shaffar).
COFFEYVILLE 2, PRATT 0
PRATT — It was a solid
start to conference play for the
Coffeyville women as they shut
out Pratt 2-0 on Sept. 12.
After a scoreless first half,
the Lady Ravens got on the
board in the 59th minute of
play on a goal from Samantha
Schroer. CCC held on to that
margin until it finally added
a key goal in the 72nd minute
from Shelby Clay. Her recorded assists on both Coffeyville
goals.
Defense led the way for
CCC as it held Pratt to just two
shots on goal. Meanwhile, the
Lady Ravens had 11 shots.
Coffeyville 2, Pratt 0
COFFEYVILLE
0 2 — 2
PRATT
0 0 — 0
Goals: CCC (Schroer assisted by Her, 59th
minute); CCC (Clay assisted by Her, 72nd
minute). Shots: CCC 11 (Clay 1, Stuerman 1, Chipendo 2); PCC 2 (Contraries).
Saves: CCC 1 (Shaffar); PCC 3 (Duarte).
’Nado still winless
but coach sees hope
in focused efforts
BY BRIAN THOMAS
COFFEYVILLE — After a
two-week stretch of blowout
losses at home, the Field Kindley High School football team
tried to use its week three contest at Chanute as a chance to
get away from things.
Despite trailing by three
touchdowns early in the second half, the Golden Tornado
put up a fight and rallied within striking distance at the end.
By game’s end, though, FKHS
had dropped another contest
to fall to 0-3 on the season.
“I am really proud of our
kids,” said ‘Nado football
coach Murray Zogg, whose
squad will return home on
Friday to entertain Fort Scott
in another Southeast Kansas
League matchup. “We were
missing some starters. We had
to suspend our quarterback.
I finally have hope. They are
showing some sign of life. It’s
another loss, but you can take
some positive out of this one.
“Last week when we got
down like that, we just gave up
and got blown out. We showed
signs that we were wanting
to give up. I really gave a life
lesson to our kids at halftime.
They responded and played
their hearts out in the second half. You can really build
off that. I can actually see a
light at the end of the tunnel.
There’s a good future for us. I
still think we can sneak away
with a couple of wins by the
end of the year if we continue
to work hard.”
In a matchup of 0-2 teams,
Chanute got the upperhand
early in Friday’s contest. The
Blue Comets got on the scoreboard late in the first quarter
on a three-yard touchdown
run by quarterback Kenton
Richards. The score stood at
6-0 when play was halted 9:32
left in the second quarter due
to lightning in the area.
After nearly an hour, the
teams resumed play, and Chanute quickly took control. Jarren Lewis scored on a six-yard
run a little more than a minute
later. The Blue Comets then
extended their lead to 21-0
on a 20-yard touchdown pass
from Richards to Lewis.
Down by three touchdowns,
the Golden Tornado could have
easily crumbled. Instead, the
team battled back and nearly
pulled off the win.
Field Kindley cut into the
margin before halftime on a
66-yard pass play from Dillon
Humble to Kamaren Wilson to
narrow the gap. Chanute appeared ready to respond just
before the break, but Matt
Devoe fumbled the ball at the
goal line, resulting in a touchback and a 21-6 score at the
intermission.
The combination of Humble
to Wilson was valuable for the
‘Nado in the second half. The
duo had two more scoring
strikes after the break. The
first came on a 37-yard pass
play early in the second half.
The two hooked up yet again
for their third score of the
night on a 20-yard pass with
7:15 left in the fourth.
What proved costly was
Field Kindley’s inability to
score on their conversions after scores. The Golden Tornado were 0-for-3 in those situations as runs came up short of
the goal line on each attempt.
A bright spot was FKHS
holding Chanute out of the end
zone in the second half. The
Let’s enjoy this walk of life!
SEK LEAGUE
LEAGUEOVERALL
Pittsburg 3-03-0
Chanute 1-01-2
Independence2-1 2-1
Fort Scott
1-1
2-1
Parsons
1-21-2
Labette County 0-1
0-3
Field Kindley
0-3
0-3
Independence 21, Parsons 16 (Suspended and resumed Monday)
Chanute 21, Field Kindley 18
Pittsburg 37, Fort Scott 0
Iola 48, Labette County 33 (Postponed and rescheduled Saturday)
FRIDAY’S GAMES
Caney Valley at Independence
Fort Scott at Field Kindley
Chanute at Pittsburg
Parsons at Labette County
Blue Comets still had a 395268 edge in total yardage for
the contest. Field Kindley did
most of its damage through
the air as Humble completed
10-of-19 passes for 199 yards,
connecting with Wilson for five
catches and 138 yards.
Despite coming up short,
Zogg was still encouraged by
what he saw out of his squad.
“We still have some tough
games ahead of us,” Zogg
said. “We’ll be outmanned in a
few games, but at least I saw
some fight from this group.
Our sideline finally came alive.
I let them have it at halftime.
I just basically told them they
had two choices to either completely crumble or stand up
and fight. They stood up and
fought. If we eliminate mistakes, we come home with a
win. We’ve just got to build on
what we did positive.”
The Golden Tornado will
play their third home game
in four weeks on Friday when
they welcome Fort Scott to Veterans Memorial Stadium. The
Tigers — picked second in the
SEK — head into the contest
at 2-1 overall and 1-1 in the
league following a 37-0 home
loss to Pittsburg last week.
“This is a huge game for
us,” Zogg said. “Hopefully we
can build off our last game
and keep working hard. We as
coaches need to keep coaching hard. Fort Scott is a good
team, but I don’t think they’re
a great team. I’ve seen them
on film when they played Parsons. They couldn’t score on
Pittsburg, and we scored twice
on them. That’s a positive that
we can build on, and we need
to use that to our advantage to
make our kids believe that we
can get this done.”
CHANUTE 21, FIELD KINDLEY 18
FKHS
CHS
First Downs
11
19
Passing Yards
199
97
Com-Att-Int
10-19-08-17-0
Total Yards
268
395
Punts-Avg.
4-44.04-36.5
Fumbles-Lost3-3 4-2
FIELD KINDLEY
0 6
6 6 — 18
CHANUTE
6 15 0 0 — 21
SCORING PLAYS
CHS — Richards 3 run (Run failed)
CHS — Lewis 6 run (Richards run)
CHS — Lewis 20 pass from Richards
(Melton kick)
FKHS — Wilson 66 pass from Humble (Run
failed)
failed)
failed)
Rushing — FKHS: Mayfield 13-34,
Humble 10-34, Jackson 3-1; CHS: Richards
24-148, Lewis 18-76, Devoe 15-58, McMillen 2-16.
Passing — FKHS: Humble 10-19-0 199;
CHS: Richards 8-17-0 97.
Receiving — FKHS: Wilson 5-138, Jackson 2-40, Mason 2-17, Smith 1-4; CHS:
Lewis 5-62, McMillen 2-25, Bailey 1-10.
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ext. 4 or send resume to 501 Merchant
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PUBLIC WORKS: The City of Oswego has a
job opening in the Public Works Department.
Main duties will be maintaining the parks,
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duties include operating and maintaining
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MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL: Labette
Center for Mental Health Services has
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of a new position. Through this grant the
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behavioral health services. Medical and
behavioral health problems often occur at
the same time. Simultaneously providing
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to yield the best results and are welcomed
by patients.” Labette Center is looking to
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will be looking for a person that is highly
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PSYCHOSOCIAL AIDE: Labette Center for
Mental Health Services, Inc. in Parsons,
Kansas, is seeking to add a Psychosocial
Aide to our staff. The primary function of the
position is to provide support for children
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Kansas, 67357, or email to Natasha@lcmhs.
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U.S.D. No. 504 is accepting applications for
the following position:
Neosho Heights 1st & 2nd Grade
Classroom Para Professional
Any interested person should submit an
application to:
Douglas Beisel, Supt.
U.S.D. NO. 504
719 4th St.
Oswego, KS 67356
Application forms and Job Description are
available at the Central Office located at 719
4th St., Oswego, KS. Phone 620-795-2126.
U.S.D. No. 504 is an equal opportunity
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CNA/CMA: Oswego Health and Rehab is
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differential and sign on bonus available.
Benefits available. Please apply at Oswego
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PUBLIC NOTICES
(Published in the Montgomery County
Chronicle on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015)
NOTICE OF INTENT TO
REQUEST RELEASE OF
FUNDS
Date of Publication: 9/24/15
Expires: 10/1/15
Grantee Name: City of Cherryvale
Address: 123 W. Main, Cherryvale,
KS 67335
Telephone Number: 620-336-2776
On or after 10/2/15 will submit a
request to the State of Kansas for the
release of Federal Funds from the Community Development Block Grant program under Title 1 of the Housing and
Community Development Act of 1974,
as amended (PL 93-383) to undertake
the following project:
Project Number: 15-PF-039
Project Name: Sidewalk Improvement Grant
Project Type: Replacement and new
installation of ADA compliant sidewalks,
access ramps, road crossings and
crosswalk striping and signage.
Project Location: Along Carson
Street from Main Street to 7th Street;
along 6th Street from Carson Street to
Liberty.
Estimated
HUD/CDBG
Funds:
$350,000
Estimated Total Project Cost:
$400,000
The activities proposed are categorically excluded under HUD regulations at
24 CFR Part 58 from National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements.
An Environmental Review Record
(ERR) that documents the environmental determinations for this project is on
file at City of Cherryvale and may be examined or copied 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
PUBLIC COMMENTS
Any individual, group, or agency may
submit written comments on the ERR to
the City of Cherryvale. All comments received by 10/1/15 will be considered by
the City of Cherryvale prior to authorizing submission of a request for release
of funds.
RELEASE OF FUNDS
The City of Cherryvale certifies to
the State of Kansas that John M. Wright
capacity as Mayor consents to accept
the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts if
an action is brought to enforce responsibilities in relation to the environmental
review process and that these responsibilities have been satisfied. The State
of Kansas’s approval of the certification
satisfies its responsibilities under NEPA
and related laws and authorities and allows the City of Cherryvale to use HUD/
CDBG program funds.
OBJECTIONS TO RELEASE OF
FUNDS
The State of Kansas will accept objections to its release of funds and the
grantee’s certification for a period of
15 days following the anticipated submission date or its actual receipt of the
request (whichever is later) only if they
are on one of the following bases: (a)
the certification was not executed by the
Certifying Officer of the grantee; (b) the
grantee has omitted a step or failed to
make a decision or finding required by
HUD regulations at 24 CFR Part 58; (c)
the grant recipient or other participants
in the development process have committed funds, incurred costs or undertaken activities not authorized by 24 CFR
Part 58 before approval of a release of
funds by the State of Kansas; or (d) another Federal agency acting pursuant of
40 CFR Part 1504 has submitted a written finding that the project is unsatisfactory from the standpoint of environmental quality. Objections must be prepared
and submitted in accordance with the
required procedures (24 CFR Part 58,
Sec. 58.76) and shall be addressed to
the Kansas Department of Commerce,
CDBG Program, 1000 S.W. Jackson St.,
Suite 100, Topeka, KS 66612. Potential
objectors should contact Commerce to
verify the actual last day of the objection
period.
John M. Wright, Mayor
Name and Title of Certifying Officer
City of Cherryvale,
123 W. Main, Cherryvale, KS 67335
Name and Address of Grantee
____________________________
Chronicle on Thursday, Sept. 24,. Oct.
1 and 8, 2015)
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, KAN., SITTING
AT COFFEYVILLE
In the Matter of the Estate of
Don A. Armitage, Deceased
Case No. 2015 PR 25 C
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You and each of you will take notice
that on September 15, 2015, pursuant
to a Petition for Probate of Will and Issuance of Letters Testamentary filed in
this court on the 15th day of September,
2015 by Jerald D. Armitage, the Last
Will and Testament of Don A. Armitage, deceased, was admitted to probate
and Jeffrey D. Armitage and Jerald D.
Armitage were appointed Co-Executors
of said will and duly qualified as such
and Letters Testamentary were issued
to them on September 15, 2015, by the
District Court of Montgomery County,
Kansas. All creditors are notified to
exhibit their demands against the said
estate within four (4) months from the
date of the first publication of this notice
as provided by law, and if their demands
are not thus exhibited they shall be forever barred.
Jeffrey D. Armitage and Jerald D.
Armitage, Co-Executors of the Will
of Don A. Armitage, deceased
JOHN R. HORST, P.A.
207 West Fourth Ave.
P.O. Box 560
Caney, KS 67333
(620) 879-2146
Attorney for Co-Executors
File No. 2730.1
____________________________
Chronicle on Thursday, Sept. 10, 17
and 24, 2015)
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, KAN., SITTING AT
COFFEYVILLE
In the Matter of the Estate of NEVA
O. ACUFF, a/k/a NEVA ACUFF,
Deceased
Case No. 2015 PR 23 C
NOTICE OF HEARING ON
PETITION FOR PROBATE
OF WILL AND NOTICE
TO CREDITORS
PERSONS CONCERNED:
You are hereby notified that on the
1st day of September, 2015, a petition
was filed in said court by Stephen Leo
Acuff, heir-at-law, legatee, and devisee of Neva O. Acuff, a/k/a Neva Acuff,
deceased, praying for the admission
to probate of the will of Neva O. Acuff
a/k/a Neva Acuff dated March 7, 2002,
which is filed with said petition, and for
the appointment of Carol K. Vandervort
as Executrix of said will, pursuant to the
Kansas Simplified Estates Act, without
bond.
You are further advised that the
petitioner in this matter has requested
administration pursuant to the Kansas Simplified Estates Act and if such
request is granted the court need not
supervise administration of the estate
and no further notice of any action of
the Executrix or other proceedings in
the administration will be given except
for notice of final settlement of the decedent’s estate. Should written objections
to simplified administration be filed with
the court, the court may order supervised administration to ensue.
You are hereby required to file your
written defenses thereto on or before
the 6th day of October, 2015, at 9:00
o’clock a.m. of said day, in said court,
in the city of Coffeyville, in Montgomery County, Kansas, at which time and
place said cause will be heard. Should
you fail therein, judgment and decree
will be entered in due course on said
petition.
All creditors are notified to exhibit
their demands against the said estate
within four months from the date of the
first publication of this notice as provided by law and if their demands are
not thus exhibited they shall be forever
barred.
Stephen Leo Acuff, Petitioner
JOHN R. HORST, P.A.
207 West Fourth Ave.
P. O. Box 560
Caney, KS 67333
(620) 879-2146
Attorney for Petitioner
File No. 2737
S.Ct. #09412
____________________________
Chronicle, Thursday, Sept. 17, 24, and
Oct. 1, 2015)
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, KANSAS
SITTING AT COFFEYVILLE
In the Matter of the Estate of: NELLIE
LEE HARRIET BRIGGANS
Case No. 15 PR 24 C
Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 59
ORDER AND NOTICE
FOR HEARING
Now on this 8th day of September
2015, IT IS ORDERED that the Petition for Determination of Descent of
the property of Nellie Lee Harriet Briggans, deceased, filed by Donovan Briggans, Petitioner, be heard on October 6,
2015, at 9:00 a.m., by this court, at the
courthouse in Coffeyville, Montgomery
County, Kansas; and that notice of the
time and place of the hearing be given
pursuant to K.S.A. 59-2209 (K.S.A. 592008).
Judge David Casement
Submitted by:
Southeast Kansas Legal Associates, P.A.
714 Walnut
Coffeyville, Kansas 67337
(620) 251-9000/251-5955-Fax
Grady Young, SC #9000
____________________________
Chronicle, Thursday, Sept. 17, 24, and
Oct. 1, 2015)
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, KANSAS
SITTING AT COFFEYVILLE
In the Matter of Adoption of: TYLER
DENISE MOORE, a Minor Child. 15
AD 8 C.
NOTICE OF HEARING
PERSONS CONCERNED:
You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed in said Court by Petitioner, Dallas Edward Merritt, praying for
the adoption of Tyler Denise Moore, a
minor child, and to terminate the parental rights of Matthew Tyler Moore; you
are hereby required to file your written
defenses thereto on or before the 6th
day of October, 2015, at 9:00 a.m. of
said day in said Court at which time and
place said cause will be heard. Should
you fail therein, judgement and decree
will be entered in due course upon said
Petition.
Prepared and Submitted by:
Grady Young SC#9000
714 Walnut
Coffeyville, Kansas 67337
(620) 251-9000/251-5955-Fax
____________________________
and Oct. 1, 2015)
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, KAN., CIVIL
DEPARTMENT
U.S. Bank
(Plaintiff)
National
Association
vs.
Unknown Heirs and Devisees of Eric
B. Shire, Deceased, et al. (Defendants)
Case No. 15CV85I
Court Number:
NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of an Order of
Sale issued to me by the Clerk of the
Kansas, the undersigned Sheriff of
Montgomery County, Kansas, will offer
for sale at public auction and sell to the
highest bidder for cash in hand, at the
South door of the Judicial Center of the
Courthouse at Independence, Montgomery County, Kansas, on October 8,
2015, at 2:00 PM, the following real estate:
A tract of land located in a portion of
the Northwest Quarter of Section 3,
Township 32 South, Range 16 East of
the 6th Principal Meridian, Montgom-
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ery County, Kansas, more particularly
described as follows: Beginning at the
Northwest corner of said Section 3;
thence N 89º46’00” E (assumed bearing) along the North line of said Section
3 a distance of 421.81 feet; thence
S 01º06’40” E a distance of 1187.22
feet; thence S 73º04’28” E a distance
of 47.57 feet; thence S 00º05’01” W
a distance of 131.72 feet; thence S
87º17’35” W a distance of 47.13 feet;
thence N 78º08’50” W a distance of
72.51 feet; thence S 88º00’20” W a distance of 74.80 feet; thence N 00º47’36”
W a distance of 24.63 feet; thence
S 88º06’10” W a distance of 284.67
feet to the West line of the Northwest
Quarter of said Section 3; thence N
00º32’54” W along said West line a
distance of 1305.65 feet to the point of
beginning
ALSO DESCRIBED AS:
A tract of land located in a portion of
the Northwest Quarter of Section 3,
Township 32 South, Range 16 East of
the 6th Principal Meridian, Montgomery County, Kansas, more particularly
described as follows: Beginning at
the Northwest corner of said Section
3; thence N 89 degrees 46 minutes
00 seconds East (assumed bearing)
along the North line of said Section 3 a
distance of 421.81 feet; thence South
01 degrees 06 minutes 40 seconds
East a distance of 1187.22 feet; thence
South 73 degrees 04 minutes 28
seconds East a distance of 47.57 feet;
thence South 00 degrees 05 minutes
01 seconds West a distance of 131.72
feet; thence South 87 degrees 17
minutes 35 seconds West a distance of
47.13 feet; thence North 78 degrees 08
72.51 feet; thence South 88 degrees 00
74.80 feet; thence North 00 degrees 47
24.63 feet; thence South 88 degrees 06
minutes 10 seconds West a distance
of 284.67 feet to the West line of the
Northwest Quarter of said Section 3;
thence North 00 degrees 32 minutes
54 seconds West along said West line
a distance of 1305.65 feet to the point
of beginning, except any part thereof
in street, road or highway, commonly
known as 5278 CR 4500, Independence, KS 67301 (the “Property”)
to satisfy the judgment in the aboveentitled case. The sale is to be made
without appraisement and subject to the
redemption period as provided by law,
and further subject to the approval of the
Court. For more information, visit www.
Southlaw.com.
Robert Dierks, Sheriff
Montgomery County, Kansas
Prepared By:
SouthLaw, P.C.
Blair T. Gisi (KS #24096)
245 N. Waco, Suite 410
Wichita, KS 67202
(316) 684-7733 / (316) 684-7766 (Fax)
Attorneys for Plaintiff
(179684)
____________________________
Chronicle on Thursday, Sept. 24, Oct. 1
and 8, 2015)
DEPARTMENT
JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association (Plaintiff)
vs.
Manissa Pearson, et al. (Defendants)
Case No. 15CV9I
Court Number:
NOTICE OF SALE
Lot 5, Block 3, Queen City First Addition to the City of Coffeyville, commonly
known and numbered as 1009 west
5th St.
ALSO DESCRIBED AS:
Lot 5, Block 3, Queen City First Addition to the City of Coffeyville, Montgomery County, Kansas, commonly known
as 1009 West 5th Street, Coffeyville,
KS 67337 (the “Property”)
southlaw.com.
Robert Dierks, sheriff
Prepared By:
SouthLaw, P.C.
Blair T. Gisi (KS #24096)
Wichita, KS 67202
(Published in the Montgomery County Chronicle
on Sept. 24, Oct. 1 and 8, 2015)
BID NOTICE
The City of Caney will accept
sealed bids for the sale of the
City Crematory Building located
at 101 B Street, Caney, KS. Bids
must be submitted by noon,
Friday, Oct. 16, 2015 and should
be in a sealed envelope marked
“Crematory”. The City reserves
the right to refuse any or all bids.
Mail bids to:
City of Caney
P.O. Box 129
Caney, Ks 67333
Chad Bradford, Mayor
(316) 684-7733 / (316) 684-7766 (Fax)
(176013)
____________________________
and 24, 2015)
DEPARTMENT
Bank of America, N.A. (Plaintiff)
vs.
Sherry L. Songer, et al. (Defendants)
Case No. 15CV119I
Court Number:
NOTICE OF SALE
Lot 22, Block 1, Queen City Second
Addition to the City of Coffeyville, Montgomery County, Kansas, according to
the recorded plat thereof, commonly
known as 1202 West 4th Street, Coffeyville, KS 67337 (the “Property”)
Southlaw.com.
Robert Dierks, sheriff
Prepared By:
SouthLaw, P.C.
Mark Mellor (KS #10255)
Wichita, KS 67202
(316) 684-7733
(316) 684-7766 (Fax)
(165127)
____________________________
and Oct. 1, 2015)
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, KAN., SITTING AT
COFFEYVILLE
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF MARGARET M. ANDREWS,
deceased
Case No. 15 PR- 22 C
NOTICE OF HEARING AND
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
PERSONS CONCERNED:
You are hereby notified that on the
1st day of September, 2015, a Petition
was filed in this Court by Windsor Place,
L.L.C., a creditor in this estate, praying
for the appointment of an Administrator.
You are required to file your written
defenses thereto on or before the 13th
day of October, 2015, at 9:00 A.M., of
said day, in the District Court, sitting at
City Hall, 7th and Walnut, in the City of
Coffeyville, Montgomery County, Kansas, at which time and place said cause
will be heard. Should you fail therein,
judgment and decree will be entered in
due course upon the Petition.
All creditors are notified to exhibit
their demands against the estate within
four (4) months from the date of first
publication of this notice, as provided by
law, and if their demands are not thus
exhibited, they shall be forever barred.
Windsor Place, L.L.C., Petitioner
HALL LEVY DeVORE BELL OTT & KRITZ
815 Union, P. O. Box 9
Coffeyville, KS 67337
(620) 251-1300
Attorneys for Petitioner
Page C10
Appellate court affirms decision in Coffeyville custody case
BY ANDY TAYLOR
A Kansas Court of Appeals
ruling in a child custody case
from Coffeyville affirms a previous district court ruling that
a parent’s inability to properly
care for his or her child or
children will lead that state to
remove the children from the
parent’s custody.
The names of the litigants
in the case were not revealed
in court documents because
of the age of the two children
who were at the center of the
case. The two unnamed children are now ages 7 and 4.
In an earlier district court
case, the court ruled the
father was unable to care for
his children in a sound home
environment after the mother
of the children went through
a nervous breakdown in
January 2011 and became a
patient at a behavior center in
Topeka.
testified that they had previous contact with the parents,
including a domestic dispute between the father and
mother in January 2010.
The father also was arrested in August 2012 when a law
enforcement officer noticed
one of the two children was
not properly restrained in a
vehicle seat and was standing
in the back seat of the vehicle.
When the officer pulled the
vehicle over, the father was
unable to provide a driver’s
license because it had been
revoked. The father also had
been drinking alcohol, as evident by the open car of beer
under the passenger seat.
Drug paraphernalia also was
founded in the child’s diaper
bag.
The children in the household were placed in state
custody while the father’s
criminal case went to the
district court. The court later
determined that the children’s
return to the home would
be contrary to their welfare
because of the unsafe environment in which they were
exposed. The court then held
a hearing to terminate the
parental rights of the two
children.
The father argued to the
appellate court that District
Judge William Cullins had a
personal bias against the father because Cullins originally
presided over a criminal case
against the father. The father
argued that having Cullins
preside in a termination hearing when he (Cullins) originally handled a criminal case
dealing with the same person
was unfair.
The father filed an affidavit
seeking a change of judge.
The case was heard by District Judge Gary House, who
ruled the affidavit was legally
insufficient to question the
impartiality of Judge Cullins.
The appellate court affirmed the lower court’s ruling.
“Father’s general complaints stem from previous
adverse rulings such as not
accepting father’s adoption plan, which was agreed
upon before the termination
hearing, and Judge Cullins’ involvement in father’s
criminal case,” the appellate
court wrote. “Nothing in the
record indicates Judge Cullins
demonstrated a personal bias
or prejudice against father.”
The father also argued that
the district court erred by
finding the father unfit, which
ultimately led to the termination of the parental rights.
The appellate court wrote
that the evidence offered to
the district court as to the
father’s condition gave the
court sufficient leverage in
securing the termination of
parental rights. That evidence
included,
• the father failed to adjust
his circumstances following
his arrest,
• the father failed to maintain a safe home, as required
by state law,
• the father failed to
maintain regular visitation or
contact with the children; he
exercised only three visitations and was incarcerated
451 days during the pendency
of the case,
• the father failed to carry
out a reasonable plan for
reintegration and attended
three out of nine case plan
meetings, and
• the father failed to provide a reasonable portion of
the cost of substitute care of
his children, as required by
state law.
“The trial court held
that father was not likely
to change his conduct or
condition in the foreseeable
future; father was unwilling
or unable to change his circumstances, and he demonstrated this by failing to work
any case plans or maintain
regular contact or communication with his children,” the
appellate court wrote. “The
trial court determined by
clear and convincing evidence
that father could not meet the
physical, emotional, or mental
needs of the children. The
trial court determined that
reintegration with father was
no longer a viable alternative
and it was in the best interests of the children to terminate father’s parental rights.
The trial court’s decision to
rule father unfit was supported by clear and convincing
evidence, and the trial court
did not abuse its discretion
by terminating his parental
rights.”
The father was represented
by Philip J. Bernhart of Coffeyville while the two children
were represented by Daniel
M. Reynolds of Emert, Chubb
& Gettler, LLC, and Daylene
Walls, assistant county attorney.
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