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CONCORDIA
VOL. CXI NO. 59 (USPS 127-880)
CONCORDIA, KANSAS 66901
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
County goes back to work on budget
Concerns raised about proposed 11.5 mill increase
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Concordia Forecast
Tonight, mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows around 70. South winds 5 to
15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the
evening.
Wednesday, mostly cloudy with a 50
percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast
winds up to 15 mph.
Wednesday night, mostly cloudy with a
50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday, mostly cloudy with slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 5
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cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
upper 50s. Highs in the upper 70s.
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percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
Saturday, partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s.
Saturday night, mostly cloudy with
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s.
Across Kansas
Kansas flood victims
evaluate damage
MULVANE, Kan. (AP) — Southern
Kansas flooding victims are cleaning up
the mess torrential rains left behind.
The Wichita Eagle reports that Mulvane
city administrator Kent Hixson says 44
homes and five businesses inside the city
limits saw some sort of flooding damage
from Friday’s deluge. The National Weather Service says between 6 and 7 inches of
rain fell in about two hours.
As of Monday, damage estimates in
Mulvane had already reached about $1
million. And they could rise as homeowners, insurance companies and inspectors
get a closer look at the losses.
Hixson says the heavy rains “just overwhelmed our drainage systems” and sewer
system.
Nadine Sanchez says she “wouldn’t
wish this on anybody.” Her losses included letters she exchanged with her husband
while he was away on military duty in Germany.
The Cloud County board of
commissioners will go back to
work on the 2017 budget after
failing to take action following
the budget hearing Monday
morning.
With a number of Cloud
County residents attending, the
budget hearing was moved from
the commission room to the
courtroom.
Commissioners heard a
number of comments on the
proposed budget that calls for
an increase of 11.532 mills over
the 2016 budget.
The budget, that was published last week, calls for an
estimated tax rate of 83.632
mills compared to 72.1 mills in
2016.
“I don’t think the budget as
published is acceptable,” Jeff
Koch, owner of Koch CPA Chartered in Concordia, told the
commissioners.
The budget hearing was
scheduled for 30 minutes, but
following nearly three hours of
discussion the commission
took no action.
A budget work session is
scheduled for 8:30 a.m.
Wednesday.
“My first experience with
budgeting was July 2015 and
we spent eight and a half hours
with the auditor. This year we
spent more time with the
department heads,” commissioner Bill Czapanskiy said.
Czapanskiy said that the
increase in the mill levy this
year indicates where the county
would have to be to provide
what the county taxpayer is
accustomed to.
“I don’t like it,” Czapanskiy
said.
Czapanskiy said that he had
asked Koch to take a look at the
budget.
Koch told those in attendance that the county valuation
had increased to about $97 million from $92 million, and that
is an increase of $1.32 million.
He said the actual expenditures
for the county in 2015 was
$10.6 million and that the proposed 2017 budget is calling for
$13,550,000. That is a 27 percent increase over the past two
years.
“I don’t think that is sustainable,” Koch said.
The county increased the tax
rate by 4.79 mills from 2015 to
2016.
Czapanskiy said that the
increase in 2016 was the result
of issuing a no fund warrant for
$259,000 to cover the first payment on the new Cloud County
Law Enforcement Center and to
alleviate a negative cash situation which the county had been
in for the past two years.
Koch offered suggestions to
the commission on ways to cut
the budget.
Included was doing away
with $350,000 for a general
fund cash basis adjustment.
“That is three and a half mills
I would propose you eliminate,”
Koch said.
Koch also suggested not
increasing the budget for the
Sheriff’s Department and the
Law Enforcement Center and
not budgeting more for com-
missioner salaries.
The increase for commissioner salaries is based on the
possibility of going from three
to five commissioners. The voters in the county will make that
decision in the November election.
The 2017 budget also calls
for an increase of $250,000 in
employee benefits based on the
possibility of a 15 percent
increase in cost.
“Maybe it is time to talk
about increasing deductibles
and other things,” Koch said.
Also discussed was the possibility of using revenue generated at the jail from housing out
of county prisoners to cover the
operating costs.
Czapanskiy said that he was
originally led to believe that the
revenue generated at the jail
could only used to make bond
payments and not to cover
operational costs.
The jail is currently generating about $600,000 in revenue
per year. The annual bond payment is $368,550.
Koch said that using the
additional funds to cover operating costs could help reduce
the mill levy.
Czapanskiy said that it is a
30-year note on the bond and
that using the excess funds to
cover operating costs would
exhaust the ability to prepay on
it.
The county can’t begin prepaying on the bond until 2022.
“I just want you to know
there are some options. In my
opinion, I just think 11.5 mills
Body found on bank
of Missouri river
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities
have identified a man whose body was
found on the bank of the Missouri River
behind a water treatment facility in Kansas
City, Kansas.
Police said in a news release Tuesday
that the victim was 41-year-old Shannon
Porter, who may have been stabbed. The
release said Kansas City, Missouri, police
found the body Saturday near a makeshift
house and notified Kansas City, Kansas,
police.
Police are urging anyone with information to come forward. No other information
was immediately released.
Halstead official,
ex-police chief arrested
HALSTEAD, Kan. (AP) — Authorities
say an investigation of the 2,100-resident
southern Kansas town of Halstead has
resulted in the arrests of the city administrator and former police chief.
City administrator James Hatfield is
charged with one count of felony perjury.
Former police chief Steven Lewis is
charged with a felony count of misuse of
public funds and two misdemeanor theft
counts.
Authorities say the arrests resulted
from investigations by Harvey County’s
prosecutor and the Kansas Bureau of
Investigation.
No additional details were immediately
available.
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Traffic fatalities continue to
surge in first half of 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) — Traffic fatalities
were up 9 percent in the first six months of
this year compared with the same period
last year, continuing a surge in deaths that
began two years ago as the economy
improved and travel picked up, according
to preliminary estimates released Tuesday
by the National Safety Council.
An estimated 19,100 people were killed
on U.S. roads from January through June,
said the council, a congressionally chartered nonprofit that gets its data from state
authorities. That’s 18 percent more than
two years ago at the six-month mark. About
2.2 million people also were seriously
injured in the first half of this year.
The council estimates the cost of these
deaths and injuries at about $205 billion.
At that rate, annual deaths could exceed
40,000 fatalities this year for the first time
in nine years, the council said. More than
35,000 people were killed on U.S. roads last
year, making it the deadliest driving year
since 2008, when more than 37,000 were
killed.
“Our complacency is killing us,” said
Deborah A.P. Hersman, the safety council’s
president and CEO. “Americans should
demand change to prioritize safety actions
and protect ourselves from one of the leading causes of preventable death.”
U.S. drivers have also put in a record
1.58 trillion miles on the road in the first
half of this year, a 3.3 percent increase over
the same period in 2015, the Federal Highway Administration said this week.
States with the biggest increases since
the upward trend began in late 2014
include Vermont, up 82 percent; Oregon,
70 percent; New Hampshire, 61 percent;
Idaho, 46 percent; Florida, 43 percent;
Iowa, 37 percent; Georgia, 34 percent; Indiana, 33 percent; California, 31 percent and
Wisconsin, 29 percent.
is not an option,” Koch said.
Lance Lagasse told the commission that he thought they
had a good game plan in place
for a three mill increase.
“Where do you go from
here?” Lagasse asked the commission.
“We go back and tear the
budget back apart and see what
we can do to rectify this problem” Czapanskiy said.
The meeting in the courtroom concluded at 10:05 a.m.
and moved back to the commission room.
Sheriff Brian Marks and jail
administrator Amber Lindberg
met with the commission.
Marks and Lindberg left the
meeting and returned later with
some proposed adjustments to
the Courthouse General Capital
Outlay and Sheriff’s Department budget including the
elimination of purchasing two
new vehicles, one for the jail
and one for the Sheriff’s
Department.
Other reductions included
training and travel expenses,
uniform costs, routine services
and legal fees.
Also suggested was reducing
$113,000 in payroll if the county would consider implementing a comp time policy.
The new proposed budgets
for the Law Enforcement Cent
er and Sheriff’s Department
totaled $1,505,735.
costs
reduction
Vehicle
would result in less dollars
needed in the Courthouse General Capital Outlay.
(see Budget on page 6)
Court hears
arguments in
voter ID fight
DENVER (AP) — Kansas is asking a federal appeals court to keep thousands of
people who haven’t yet provided the documents to prove they are U.S. citizens from
voting in November’s election.
Judges from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals in Denver are set to hear arguments Tuesday in the legal fight over how
the state enforces its proof-of-citizenship
requirement for voters who register at
motor vehicle offices.
Since 1993, states must allow people to
register to vote when they apply for or
renew their driver’s licenses. The so-called
motor-voter law says that people can only
be asked for “minimal information” when
registering to vote, allowing them to simply
affirm they are citizens.
A federal judge in May temporarily
blocked Kansas from disenfranchising
about 18,000 who registered to vote at
motor vehicle offices without providing citizenship paperwork such as birth certificates or naturalization papers. U.S. District
Judge Julie Robinson ordered the state to
register them for federal elections until the
case, one of at least four the state is facing
over its law, is decided at trial. The state
has said that ruling could affect as many as
50,000 potential voters by the November
elections.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach
wants the appeals court to overturn her
preliminary order.
In the appeal, Kobach, a national leader
in Republican voting requirement efforts,
argued that the motor voter law doesn’t bar
states from asking for proof of citizenship
and that it doesn’t make sense to hold people who register to vote elsewhere in the
state to a higher standard than those who
apply to register at motor vehicle offices.
The American Civil Liberties Union sued
on behalf of the League of Women Voters
and people whose registrations were held
up because the state said they were incomplete.
Kobach has championed the documentation requirement as a way to prevent
non-citizens from voting, particularly
immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally.
Critics contend the requirement suppresses turnout.
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OPINION
DOONESBURY® by G.B. Trudeau
Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars
By Jacqueline Bigar
A baby born today has a
Sun in Virgo and a Moon in
Taurus.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for
Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016:
This year you put a great
deal of emphasis on your
dreams and desires. You are
likely to get what you want,
as long as you don’t become
too distracted. Focus and
endurance count. Try not
to put too many irons in the
fire; otherwise, you could
feel overwhelmed. If you are
single, you are likely to meet
a dreamy suitor through a
friend. Don’t expect to find
any similarities between
your friend and this person;
they are likely to be very different people. If you are attached, the two of you work
together to manifest a longterm dream. TAURUS knows
how to express his or her affection in a meaningful way.
The Stars Show the Kind
of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult
ARIES (March 21-April
19)
**** Curb your assertive side. Your intuitive self
emerges when dealing with
others. You know when
someone is not on the upand-up. A boss seems to
believe that he or she is on
top of a problem, but you
might not feel the same way.
Tonight: Watch your budget
closely.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20)
***** You refuse to back
down, and others count on
that trait. The Moon is in
your sign, bringing opportunities with it. Be responsive
and return calls. Someone
at a distance might let you
know that he or she has had
a change of heart, which will
be a relief. Tonight: Confirm
plans.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
*** Take your time. How
you see someone else’s vision
could be quite different from
how the majority of people
see it. You might choose to
keep your opinion to yourself
for now. Your perception of a
work-related matter seems
to be transforming. Tonight:
Kick back and relax.
CANCER (June 21-July
22)
***** Zero in on what you
want, and don’t sell yourself
short. Others will respond
to your efforts. Get to the
bottom of a situation, and
you will see all the different pieces fall into place. Be
imaginative in how you solve
a hassle that emerges. Tonight: Get some extra R and
R.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
***** Allow others to give
you their opinions. Revise
your schedule to incorporate
these conversations. People
observe what you are doing
and saying. Before you know
it, you could have even more
support for a project than
you had imagined. Tonight:
A force to be dealt with.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
**** Reach out to a loved
one at a distance. You’ll see
how much this person cares,
and will hear what he or she
has to offer. Your ability to
stay grounded is likely to
be emphasized. Others note
this stability and often flock
toward you. Tonight: Consider taking a trip for Labor
Day!
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
**** Examine what you
need and expect from someone you care about. Open
up a talk with knowledge of
what is happening. You will
want to discuss what interests you. Be ready for a
conversation that might be
contentious but noteworthy.
Tonight: Visit with a favorite
person.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.
21)
**** You might not be ready
for what is coming down the
pike, but your imagination
and ingenuity will step right
in. Your ability to adjust has
increased, and you will demonstrate this skill once more.
Tonight: Agreement might
feel like support. Play devil’s
advocate.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21)
**** You will need to pace
yourself in order to accomplish what you want. Do
not push a family member
too far. Listen to news. You
might be ecstatic about information that comes forward, but take what you
hear with a grain of salt. Are
you being realistic? Tonight:
Out late.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19)
***** Allow your creativity
to emerge when you sense
that something is off. Follow
through on your priorities,
but feel free to revise your
thinking, if need be. You
seem to say the right words
at the right time. Tonight:
Seek out a friend or associate for dinner and some
company.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18)
**** Remember that the
basics count. If you’re feeling
out of sorts, or if you think
that something is running
amok, confirm what you
are sensing. You could stop
a problem from arising by
following through on your
intuitive hunches. Tonight:
Happily head home.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20)
***** You might feel as if
you are in a haze and not
exactly sure of what is going
on. A discussion with a friend
will make your contentment soar. Someone around
you could be two-faced. Be
aware of this tendency, and
keep your distance. Tonight:
Where the crowds are.
BORN TODAY
Basketball player Kobe
Bryant (1978), King Louis
XVI of France (1754), musician Rick Springfield
(1949)
***
Jacqueline Bigar is on
the Internet at www.jacquelinebigar.com.
Mycophobia is the fear of mushrooms, while lachanophobia is the fear of vegetables.
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Today in History
50 Years ago
Aug. 23, 1966—Camp
Fire girls of Group 11 won
the Junior High team trophy
at the second annual Camp
Fire swim meet at Concordia
Municipal Pool. Team members were Ladonna Payton,
Beth Carlgren, Patty Day,
Carol Doyen, Becky Bramwell, Carla Cory, Debbie
Slater and Janet Wilson.
Leaders were Mrs. Wilson
Carlgren and Mrs. Lee Doyen . . . Debra Ann Hanson
and Barry Don Hiett announced their Aug. 21 wedding, which took place at the
First Presbyterian Church
in Concordia. Soloist Doug
Johnson sang “One Hand,
One Heart” and “Wedding
Prayer.” Cynthia Perry was
organist.
25 years ago
Aug. 23, 1991—The top
three finishers in the boys’
25-42 months division of
the Cloud County Fair baby
show were Cote Hower, first;
Michael Pounds, second;
and Ethan Cory, third . . .
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
played to a packed house
at both shows when it performed at the Cloud County
Fair.
10 years ago
Aug.
23,
2006—Ten
members of LMPY (Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian Youth) of Concordia
SUDOKU
Sudoku is a number-placing
puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with
several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9
in the empty squares so that each
row, each column and each 3x3
box contain the same number
only once. The difficulty level of
the Conceptis Sudoku increases
from Monday to Friday.
and their sponsors, Pastors
Anita and David Strommen,
attended a gathering in San
Antonio. Making the trip
were Erin Reedy, Danielle
Moore, Katie Martin, Jodie
Bachand, Devin Lowell, Jeremy Thoman, Ben Swenson,
Greg Winter, Ryan LaBarge,
Brice Berk . . . “Cher Vrolet”
(Mike Lamm) embodied the
spirit of Cher as he prepared
for the Men in Tights Under
the Lights program at the
Brown Grand Theatre.
5 years ago
Aug. 23, 2011—Local
markets showed wheat at
$8.13, milo at $7.15, corn
at $7.20, beans at $13.42
and oats at $3.35 . . . “Hotel
Rwanda” was the first Year
of Peace movie being shown
at Cloud County Community College.
1 year ago
Aug. 23, 2015—Former
principal of Concordia Junior High School, was named
Kansas High School Principal of the Year . . . Garden
City and Great Bend had
been selected as the finalists
for development of the transload shipping centers to be
constructed in Kansas. Concordia was among a group of
seven cites whose representatives made formal presentations before the Transload
Facility Site Analysis Selection Committee.
PEOPLE
Blade-Empire, Tuesday, August 23, 2016 3
DEAR
ANNIE
by Annie Lane
Mommy Doesn't Know Best
Dear Annie: I am currently unemployed and living with my parents. Because I have a disability,
I am unable to do many of
the jobs available locally.
Besides my family, I am currently working with several
people at the local Department of Labor to find a job
related to my degrees — one
that will help me start a career. My family wants me to
get any job.
One of the local nursing
homes has several openings
for certified nursing assistants. With the exception of
my parents, no one sees this
as a good fit for me. After all,
my mother is on the nursing
home's board. As a result,
I'm sure that I would hear
about every mistake I made
during dinner if I got the job.
My mother is so obsessed
with my applying. She asks
me several times every day
whether I have completed
the forms. I'm losing it. I
don't know how long it will
be before I crack. What
should I do? — Going Nuts
Dear Going Nuts: I gather Mom is a wee bit on the
overbearing side. Your circumstances might mean
you have to live with her,
but that doesn't mean you
have to live for her. Stand
up to her and find your own
career. The time out of the
house, building your own
life, will be invaluable to
your sanity.
Dear Annie: My wife and
I divorced in 2007 after 33
years of marriage; after the
kids moved out, she realized
she didn't love me anymore.
I'm writing because I have
a crush on a woman with
whom I've been friends for
40 years.
Her late husband was
a very good friend of mine.
My now-ex-wife and I used
to socialize with them as
couples. He and I hunted
and fished and talked about
everything in that special
way you can when you're on
a boat, no one else listening. Our wives did their own
things together.
They were married for 25
years, until he passed away
in 2013. At his funeral, we
said our goodbyes, and she
insisted on walking me to
my vehicle, which was a
block away. We hugged,
and she said, "Don't be a
stranger. Maybe we could go
out to dinner." So I waited
six months or so and asked
her out to dinner. She accepted, and since 2014 we
have been going out twice a
month and spending Christmas, New Year's Eve and
both our birthdays together.
I always pay, except on my
birthday; then she insists
on buying.
I haven't been in a rush,
but lately I find myself attracted more and more.
When our evenings are over
and I take her home, we exchange a handshake or a
peck on the cheek, and I respect her too much to push
more of an advance than
that.
She is 60, and I am 65.
She works full time, and I'm
semi-retired. I haven't dated
since I was very young. Do I
stay the course? — Unfamiliar Waters
Dear Unfamiliar: Stay
the course, sailor. The conditions look perfect. You two
could offer each other companionship as you glide into
your golden years.
Birthdays, holidays and
biweekly dinners together?
You two must be best friends.
That is a wonderful foundation for a relationship, and it
sounds as if you're already
going through many of the
motions of dating. Make
your intentions known by
asking whether she would
like to go on a date. One of
the upsides of dating at 65
versus 16 is maturity and
understanding. If you ask
her out and she's not interested, you can stay friends.
No awkwardly dodging each
other in homeroom.
Send your questions for
Annie Lane to dearannie@
creators.com. To find out
more about Annie Lane and
read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists
and cartoonists, visit the
Creators Syndicate website
at www.creators.com.
Checking the staircase
Mark Budreau (left) checks on the progress to remove the old
front steps at the Nazareth Motherhouse, as Jason Simmons
operates the jackhammer and Kip Budreau, second from right,
and Steve Chartier stand ready to haul away the chunks of
concrete.
MR. and MRS. AUSTIN WHITELEY
(Kayla Brown)
Couple wed in Brantford
Brown-Whiteley
Kayla Brown and Austin
Whiteley, Clifton, were married August 22, 2015, at the
Brantford Covenant Church,
near Clyde. The bride’s parents are Lonnie and Leigh
Brown. The groom’s parents
are Jewel and Steve Whiteley. The bride’s grandparents
are Phyllis and Carl Yost and
Nancy and Dean Boone.
The groom’s grandparents
are Leroy and Yvonne Hall,
Wayne and Evelyn Whiteley,
Laverne Elfee and Alice Tolle.
Maid
of
honor
was
Leighann Brown. Bridesmaids were Amanda Crosson, Elizabeth Anne Amos,
Monique Sims and Joanna
Lagerquist.
Best man was Johnathan
Whiteley. Groomsmen were
Keenan Toll, Shad Clark,
Dalton Wurtz and Michael
Brown.
The couple stayed at Snow
Goose Lodge near Jamestown after their wedding
and later took a honeymoon
cruise in the western Carribbean. They are making their
home in Clifton.
From the
Kitchen
Homemade Salsa!
4 to 5 medium tomatoes
1 medium onion
1 medium green pepper
As much garlic as you
want
1/2 cup fresh cilantro
2 jalapeno peppers
1/2 tsp salt
Sprinkle with lemon juice
Chop it all up and mix it
together. Chill.
Serve with tortilla or corn
chips.
*can add 1 tsp. cumin
powder
Clarice Pruitt
Open house will mark
Pruitt’s 90th birthday
Clarice (Sis) Pruitt will
celebrate her 90th birthday
at a 2-5 p.m. open house,
Saturday, Sept. 3, at the
Miltonvale Christian Church
Annex, 314 West 3rd St.
The honoree requests no
gifts please.
Nazareth Motherhouse steps
return to wraparound design
By Sarah Jenkins
for the Sisters of St. Joseph
When the Nazareth Motherhouse was completed in 1903,
its majestic main entrance featured a two-tiered staircase
that swept from the ground up to wooden double doors below a statue of St. Joseph.
At some point in the following decades, the “sweep” of
the lower stairs was abruptly abbreviated; the first time the
stairs needed to be replaced, the ends of the bottom six
steps were removed, leaving a pillar on each side bare of its
original stairs.
Earlier this month, a crew from Budreau Construction
Co. began a project to return the staircase to its original
sweeping majesty, while also returning its architectural integrity. First, workers removed the first six-step concrete
tier and are now replacing it with stairs that wrap around
like the original design.
No one remembers when or or why the original steps
were replaced, but Greg Gallagher, facilities administrator
for the Motherhouse, said they, like the current steps were
probably cracking and deteriorating. He believes they might
not have had sufficient footing to keep them from sinking
slightly into the ground.
That will not be the case with the new concrete steps,
Gallagher said. As part of its work, Budreau sunk support
braces to ensure a solid foundation, he explained.
The pillars on each side of the steps will also be repaired
to return them to their original appearance, he said.
One part of the renovation project that’s equally important but less visible is repairing and refacing the original
limestone blocks that make up the walls on each side of the
main staircase. Kip Budreau said 114 years of weather and
water have damaged much of the original mortar and made
the stones more porous and susceptible to further erosion.
So he is removing old, broken and cracked mortar, and
replacing it with new filler color-matched to the original,
while also repairing and resealing the limestone surfaces as
much as possible.
The project is expected to take about a month.
Even when returned to their original design, the staircase will not return to its original function. The steps are
steep and lack required handrails, so they can be dangerous at any time. And, since the main entrance faces north,
the steps can be treacherous in winter. So a new main entrance on the west side of the brick-and-limestone building
was added a couple of decades ago, and the staircase and
grand entrance are no longer used.
They still need to be preserved, Gallagher said, as part of
caring for the historic landmark. “This is just part of maintaining this building, and returning it to its original beauty
wherever we can,” he said.
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Receives Amtryke
Alex Gallardo is pictured on the Amtryke he received last Friday from AMBUCS. Also pictured
are (l-r) Jodi McManus, resource teacher; Vickie Tangeman, AMBUCS representative; Nikki
Goertzen, occupational therapist; Christy Gallardo, Alex’s mother; Taryn Johnson, para.
Wednesday, Aug. 24—
Baked catfish, au gratin potatoes, broccoli, fruit; alt.:
hamburger patty; 10 a.m.—
Exercise; 1 p.m.—Boosters.
Thursday,
Aug.
25—
Chicken salad on whole
wheat bun, pasta salad,
beets, fruit and cookies.
Friday, Aug. 26—Smothered steak, mashed potatoes, corn, pudding; 10
a.m.—Exercise; progressive
cards.
Milk, bread and butter
served with meals
Cinnamon rolls and fresh
coffee daily, 8-11 a.m.
Call Teddy Lineberry at
243-1872 for questions or to
make reservations.
Original staircase
This photo from 1904 shows the Motherhouse as it was orginally designed.
Gallardo receives Amtryke
Alex Gallardo, student
at Concordia Elementary
School, received an Amtryke
from AMBUCS Salina, Friday, Aug. 19.
AMBUCS began life as
American Business Clubs,
a membership organization
dedicated to helping people
with disabilities.
In
BUCS
giving
cycles
the mid-1990s AMstarted making and
away therapeutic trias a national project.
A klazomaniac is someone who feels a compulsive need
to shout.
4 Blade-Empire, Tuesday, August 23, 2016
MUTTS® by Patrick McDonnell
ZITS® by Scott and Borgman
BABY BLUE® by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott
BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH® by John Rose
HAGAR THE HORRIBLE® by Chris Browne
For the
Record
Police Dept. Report
Arrest—Officers arrested
Jarrett A. Riley, 32, Concordia, at approximately 8:20
p.m., Aug. 22, in the 400
block of West 6th St. Riley
was transported to Cloud
County Law Enforcement
Center and charged with Harassment by Telephone and
Criminal Damage to Property During a Domestic Disturbance.
Officers arrested Kurtis J.
Ninemire, 20, Concordia, at
11 p.m., Aug. 22, in the 100
block of State Street charging him with Domestic Battery. Ninemire was transported to Cloud County Law
Enforcement Center.
Sales Calendar
•Saturday, August 27,
2016 – Public Auction at
9:00 a.m. located at the Kearn Auction House, 220
West 5th Street, Concordia,
Kansas. Misc., Antiques and
Tools. Danny Kearn Auction.
•Saturday, August 27,
2016– Public Auction at
10:00 a.m. located at 200
Lewis Street in Cuba, Kansas. Tractor, Machinery,
4-Wheeler, Trailer, Tools,
Household, Antiques, Boat,
Guns, Hunting and Fishing
Equipment. The Late Donald Baxa, (JoAnne Baxa
Owner) Seller. Novak Bros.
& Gieber Auction.
• Wednesday, September
13, 2016– Land Auction at
Munden Community Hall,
Munden, Ks. 160 acres in
Republic County. Roger Novak Real Estate.
•Wednesday,
September 14, 2016– Land Auction at 7:00 p.m. located
at the Munden Community
Hall in Munden, Kansas.
160 Acres Republic County
Land. Leona Shulda Revocable Trust, (Thais J. Fahy
Successor Trustee) Seller.
Roger Novak Auction.
Looking Back
Today in History
Today is Tuesday, Aug. 23, the 236th day of 2016.
There are 130 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Aug. 23, 1926, legendary silent film star Rudolph
Valentino died in New York at age 31.
On this date:
In 1305, Scottish rebel leader Sir William Wallace was
executed by the English for treason.
• In 1775, Britain’s King George III proclaimed the American colonies to be in a state of “open and avowed rebellion.”
In 1858, “Ten Nights in a Bar-room,” a play by Timothy Shay Arthur about the perils of alcohol, opened in New
York.
• In 1913, Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid statue, inspired
by the Hans Christian Andersen story, was unveiled in the
harbor of the Danish capital.
In 1914, Japan declared war against Germany in World
War I.
vIn 1927, amid protests, Italian-born anarchists Nicola
Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for
the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery.
• In 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agreed
to a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, in
Moscow.
• In 1944, Romanian Prime Minister Ion Antonescu was
dismissed by King Michael, paving the way for Romania to
abandon the Axis in favor of the Allies.
• In 1960, Broadway librettist Oscar Hammerstein (HAM’ur-STYN’) II, 65, died in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
• In 1973, a bank robbery-turned-hostage-taking began
in Stockholm, Sweden; the four hostages ended up empathizing with their captors, a psychological condition now
referred to as “Stockholm Syndrome.”
• In 1982, Lebanon’s parliament elected Christian militia
leader Bashir Gemayel president. (However, Gemayel was
assassinated some three weeks later.)
• In 1989, in a case that inflamed racial tensions in New
York, Yusuf Hawkins, a 16-year-old black teen, was shot
dead after he and his friends were confronted by a group
of white youths in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn.
(Gunman Joey Fama was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison; he will be eligible for
parole in 2022.)
Ten years ago: A previously unknown militant group
released the first video of two Fox News journalists who’d
been kidnapped in Gaza. (Reporter Steve Centanni and
cameraman Olaf Wiig were later freed.) The Citadel released
the results of a survey in which almost 20 percent of female
cadets reported being sexually assaulted since enrolling at
the South Carolina military college. Jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson died in Ventura, California, at age 78.
Five years ago: A pair of judges in New York put an
end to the sensational sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, setting him free after prosecutors
questioned the credibility of the hotel housekeeper who’d
accused the French diplomat. A magnitude 5.8 earthquake
centered near Mineral, Virginia, the strongest on the East
Coast since 1944, caused cracks in the Washington Monument and damaged Washington National Cathedral.
One year ago: Islamic State militants destroyed a temple at ancient ruins of Palmyra in Syria, realizing the worst
fears of archaeologists had for the fate of the 2,000-year-old
Roman-era city after the extremists seized it and beheaded
a local scholar. The United Arab Emirates said its military
had freed a British hostage, Robert Douglas Semple, who
was kidnapped 18 months earlier ago by al-Qaida in Yemen. Ohio State became the first unanimous preseason No.
1 in The Associated Press college football poll. Roger Federer
remained perfect in Cincinnati finals, winning an unprecedented seventh championship, 7-6 (1), 6-3, while denying
Novak Djokovic the one title that had always eluded him.
Today’s Birthdays: Actress Vera Miles is 86. Actress
Barbara Eden is 85. Political satirist Mark Russell is 84.
Pro Football Hall of Famer Sonny Jurgensen is 82. Actor
Richard Sanders is 76. Ballet dancer Patricia McBride is 74.
Former Surgeon General Antonia Novello is 72. Pro Football Hall of Famer Rayfield Wright is 71. Country singer
Rex Allen Jr. is 69. Actor David Robb is 69. Singer Linda
Thompson is 69. Actress Shelley Long is 67. Actor-singer
Rick Springfield is 67. Country singer-musician Woody
Paul (Riders in the Sky) is 67. Queen Noor of Jordan is 65.
Actor-producer Mark Hudson is 65. Actor Skipp Sudduth
is 60. Retired MLB All-Star pitcher Mike Boddicker is 59.
Rock musician Dean DeLeo (Army of Anyone; Stone Temple
Pilots) is 55. Country musician Ira Dean (Trick Pony) is 47.
Actor Jay Mohr is 46. Actor Ray Park is 42. Actor Scott
Caan is 40. Country singer Shelly Fairchild is 39. Figure
skater Nicole Bobek is 39. Rock singer Julian Casablancas (The Strokes) is 38. Retired NBA player Kobe Bryant is
38. Actress Joanne Froggatt is 36. Neo-soul musician Andy
Wild is 35. Actress Annie Ilonzeh is 33. Dance musician
Sky Blu is 30. Actress Kimberly Matula is 28. NBA player
Jeremy Lin is 28.
Thought for Today: “A wise man without a book is
like a workman with no tools.” – Moroccan proverb.
More Highlights in History
• In 1921, Adolf Hitler became the leader (“fuehrer”) of
the National Socialist German Workers Party.
• In 1948, Britain’s King George VI opened the Olympic
Games in London.
Ten years ago: The U.S. command announced it was
sending 3,700 troops to Baghdad to try to quell sectarian
violence sweeping the Iraqi capital. Actor-director Mel Gibson issued a lengthy statement apologizing for his drunken-driving arrest and for what he called his “despicable”
statements toward the deputies who’d arrested him in Malibu, California.
• On Aug. 22, 1485, England’s King Richard III was killed
in the Battle of Bosworth Field, effectively ending the War
of the Roses.
• In 1787, inventor John Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
• In 1846, Gen. Stephen W. Kearny proclaimed all of New
Mexico a territory of the United States.
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Sports
T-Birds topple
Price pitches Red Sox past Rays
McCook in opener
McCOOK, Neb. — The
Cloud County Community
College volleyball team
opened its season by defeating McCook Community
College in four sets on Monday.
Cloud County won the
opening set in the match,
25-21.
McCook made it 1-1 with
a 25-18 victory in the second set.
Cloud County took the
third set 25-20 to go up 2-1.
The Thunderbirds finished off the Indians by
winning the fourth set, 25-
23.
Elizabeth Nobert, a freshman from Clifton-Clyde
High School, led the way for
Cloud County with 11 kills.
Irem Bat finished with
eight kills, and Kylie McKinney added seven.
Christen Greving had 28
assists for the T-Birds.
Brooke Baird had 14 digs
and Katelyn Ruth had four
blocks.
Cloud County opens Jayhawk Conference Western
Division play at Barton
Community College on
Wednesday.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)
— The Chiefs took pass
rusher Tamba Hali off the
physically unable to perform list Monday, though
the team said he will practice on a limited basis.
Hali had surgery in the
offseason on his balky
knees, which forced him to
miss nearly every practice
late last season. He was
still able to play in games
but hardly looked 100 per-
cent.
Hali has spent training
camp working out with
trainers, but his removal
from the PUP list means he
can begin working out with
the rest of the team. Still, it
is unlikely he will play in
the Chiefs’ remaining preseason
games
against
Chicago and Green Bay.
The 32-year -old Hali
played in 15 games and had
6 1/2 sacks last season.
Hali taken off PUP,
begins practicing
Sports in Brief
The Associated Press
OLYMPICS
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — None of Venezuela’s 87
Olympic athletes won gold this year, but they’re getting
another prize — new homes from the government.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced that all
the country’s participants in the Olympics will get free housing upon their return from Rio de Janeiro. The apartments
are part of the government housing program that is a cornerstone of the country’s socialist revolution.
Maduro says this way the athletes will feel the love of their
country.
Venezuela won three medals at the Rio Olympics: silver in
the triple jump, bronze in boxing and bronze in BMX cycling.
MMA
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Conor McGregor has received a medical suspension of up to six months following his five-round
victory over Nate Diaz at UFC 202.
McGregor outpointed Diaz in a bloody, tiring slugfest Saturday and came out with issues in his foot and ankle, including a possible fracture, and also said after the fight that his
shin was sore from landing so many kicks. He hobbled into
his post-fight press conference on crutches and needed assistance walking out.
The medical suspensions aren’t uncommon. McGregor
can have his waived if he is cleared by an orthopedic doctor.
Otherwise, he’s unable to train with contact until Oct. 5 and
is suspended from fighting until Oct. 20, when he can be reevaluated.
Diaz came out of the fight with his face bloodied and
swollen but was only issued a 30-day suspension.
McGregor and Diaz both called for a third match between
the pair, though UFC has insisted that McGregor first drop
down to defend his featherweight title.
BASEBALL
NEW YORK (AP) — Dwight Gooden has denied Darryl
Strawberry’s accusation that he is “a complete junkieaddict,” saying his former teammate is just taking it personally that Gooden couldn’t make a scheduled public
appearance with Strawberry last week.
Strawberry told the New York Daily News that Gooden
skipped an event organized by radio station WFAN and he
worried Gooden has been using cocaine. Strawberry told the
newspaper that Gooden’s son called him to beg him to help
his father before he dies, adding that “the condition Doc is in,
it’s bad.”
Gooden says in a statement that he hasn’t done cocaine in
years. He apologized for Strawberry’s “inability to show more
character and strength,” saying “he obviously was never there
for me.” Gooden claims he has always supported Strawberry,
“during his best and worst days.”
Gooden and Strawberry won back-to-back Rookie of the
Year awards for the New York Mets in 1983 and ‘84. Drug
abuse cut short both of their careers.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Athletics fined Billy Butler
and Danny Valencia after they were involved in a clubhouse
fight last week that led to Butler being placed on the sevenday concussion list.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Butler and
Valencia began fighting over comments Butler made to an
equipment representative prior to a game Friday at the Chicago White Sox. During the exchange, Valencia hit Butler in the
temple before teammates stepped in to end the altercation.
Butler sat out the series in Chicago with headaches and
nausea.
A’s general manager David Forst said Oakland ‚Äî among
the worst teams in the American League — would not suspend the players.
FOOTBALL
IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Former USC and Los Angeles Raiders
quarterback Todd Marinovich has been arrested after being
found naked with marijuana and possibly methamphetamine
in a stranger’s backyard in Southern California.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.
(AP) — David Price limited
his old team to two hits in
eight scoreless innings,
helping the Boston Red Sox
beat the Tampa Bay Rays
6-2 on Monday night to
move into a tie for first
place in the AL East.
Price (12-8) walked two,
struck out eight and didn’t
allow a runner past first
base
while
extending
Tampa
Bay’s
scoring
drought against Boston to
25 innings dating to a
series at Fenway Park
before the All-Star break.
Evan Longoria stopped the
streak with a two-run
homer off Matt Barnes in
the ninth.
Blake Snell (4-6) allowed
two runs and needed 94
pitches to get through 3
2/3 innings.
The victory was the
ninth in 11 games for the
Red Sox and lifted them
into a tie with Toronto,
which was idle Monday.
Orioles 4,
Nationals 3
BALTIMORE (AP) —
Mark Trumbo hit his major
league-leading 38th home
run, Jonathan Schoop also
went deep and Baltimore
won a matchup between
neighboring contenders.
Rookie Dylan Bundy (74) pitched six innings of
three-hit ball for the Orioles, who had lost five of
their previous six games —
all at home. The victory lifted Baltimore within two
games of first-place Toronto and Boston in the AL
East.
Zach Britton worked a
perfect ninth for his 38th
save. The left-hander has
not allowed an earned run
in 43 games since May 5.
The Orioles did all their
scoring against A.J. Cole
(0-1) in his season debut.
Cole was recalled from
Triple-A
Syracuse
to
replace scheduled starter
Stephen Strasburg, who
was placed on the 15-day
disabled.
Dodgers 18,
Reds 9
CINCINNATI (AP) —
Adrian Gonzalez hit three
of the Dodgers’ seven
homers — driving in a
career-high eight runs —
and rookie Corey Seager
had a noteworthy homer as
well.
The NL West leaders
enjoyed their biggest home
run splurge in 10 years.
They’ve won 10 of their last
12 games against Cincinnati.
Gonzalez started it with
a three-run shot in the first
inning off Homer Bailey (22), who had his worst
showing since returning
from Tommy John surgery.
The first baseman also had
a solo shot in the fifth,
when the Dodgers connected four times overall.
Gonzalez’s
three-run
shot in the seventh tied his
career high for homers.
Joey Votto singled home
a run off reliever Jesse
Chavez (1-0), one of his
four RBIs.
Indians 1,
Athletics 0
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) —
Carlos
Carrasco
and
Andrew Miller combined on
a four-hitter, Carlos Santana homered in the eighth
inning and Cleveland beat
Oakland.
Carrasco (9-6) was masterful while limiting the A’s
to four hits over eight
innings. The right-hander
had nine strikeouts, retired
the side in order five times
and allowed only one runner to reach second base.
Miller struck out the
side in the ninth for his
11th save.
Neither team did much
offensively until Santana’s
one-out home run off
reliever Ryan Dull (5-4), his
27th of the season.
Cubs 5,
Padres 1
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Kris
Bryant, Addison Russell
and Jason Heyward all
homered to back Jon
Lester’s strong outing for
Chicago.
Bryant’s solo shot in the
fifth inning was his 32nd of
the year, tying him with
Colorado’s Nolan Arenado
for the National League
lead.
Lester (14-4) limited the
Padres to a run and five
hits in six innings. He
struck out eight and
walked two in winning for
the 10th time in his last 11
decisions.
Edwin Jackson (3-4)
gave up five runs and seven
hits in five innings.
Mariners 7,
Yankees 5
SEATTLE (AP) — Mike
Zunino and Kyle Seager
each hit a three-run homer
and Nelson Cruz added a
solo shot as Seattle rallied
to beat New York.
The Yankees got two
homers apiece from rookie
catcher Gary Sanchez and
Starlin Castro, but three of
them were solo shots.
Zunino, recalled from
Triple-A Tacoma on July
20, answered in the bottom
half with his ninth home
run — off Anthony Swarzak
(1-2) — to put Seattle
ahead 6-5.
(3-3)
Nick
Vincent
retired all three batters he
faced, and rookie Edwin
Diaz survived a shaky
ninth for his 10th save in
10 chances.
Astros 3,
Pirates 1
PITTSBURGH (AP) —
Doug Fister pitched seven
scoreless innings of threehit ball, Teoscar Hernandez hit a two-run homer
and Houston beat Pittsburgh.
Hernandez connected off
fellow rookie Jameson Taillon (3-3) in the fifth inning
after A.J. Reed’s leadoff
walk.
Alex Bregman, another
Astros rookie, hit his
fourth homer in the ninth
inning off Neftali Feliz.
Fister struck out six,
walked one and retired 11
of the first 12 batters.
Ken Giles got his fourth
save despite allowing David
Freese’s RBI single in the
ninth.
Diamondbacks 9,
Braves 8
PHOENIX (AP) — Paul
Goldschmidt hit a solo
homer in the ninth inning
to lift Arizona over Atlanta.
Goldschmidt hit his
19th homer off John Gant
(1-3) deep into the left-field
seats to lead off the inning,
helping Arizona overcome a
five-run deficit and a twohomer night from Freddie
Freeman.
Freeman hit a solo
homer off Enrique Burgos
(1-1) to tie it in the ninth.
Brewers 4,
Rockies 2
MILWAUKEE (AP) —
Chris Carter homered and
Jimmy Nelson won for the
first time in seven starts.
Nelson (7-13) gave up
two runs and seven hits in
six innings.
Carter’s solo homer to
left in the third, his 30th of
the season, off Chad Bettis
(10-7) extended Milwaukee’s lead to 4-1.
Sponsors drop Lochte after Rio incident
Less than 24 hours after
the close of the Rio
Olympics, Ryan Lochte took
a major financial hit Monday for a drunken incident
he initially tried to pass off
as an armed robbery.
In quick succession, four
sponsors announced they
were dumping the swimmer, who has since apologized and conceded that he
embellished what happened
during a now-infamous stop
at a Rio gas station.
Swimsuit
company
Speedo USA, clothing giant
Ralph Lauren and skin-care
firm
Syneron-Candela
issued statements less than
three hours apart, all with
the same message: Lochte is
out. Before the day was
done, Japanese mattress
maker airweave followed
suit, essentially wiping out
Lochte’s income away from
the pool.
In addition, Speedo USA
said $50,000 that would’ve
gone to the 12-time Olympic
medalist was being donated
to Save The Children to benefit needy youngsters in
Brazil.
“While we have enjoyed a
winning relationship with
Ryan for over a decade and
he has been an important
member of the Speedo
team, we cannot condone
behavior that is counter to
the values this brand has
long stood for,” the prominent swimsuit company
said. “We appreciate his
many achievements and
hope he moves forward and
learns from this experience.”
Ralph Lauren, which
provided the Polo-branded
attire worn by the U.S. team
at the opening and closing
ceremonies, said it would
not be renewing the con-
tract that provided Lochte
with financial support leading up to Rio. The statement
from airweave said it had a
similar arrangement with
the swimmer. Both stressed
they would continue their
support of the U.S. Olympic
and Paralympic teams.
Syneron-Candela offers a
line of skin-treatment products that deal with issues
such as wrinkle reduction.
“We hold our employees
to high standards, and we
expect the same of our business partners,” the company said.
Lochte issued a statement through his public
relations firm thanking
Speedo USA for its long
support. He did not immediately address the other
companies dropping their
endorsements.
“I respect Speedo’s decision and am grateful for the
opportunities that our partnership has afforded me
over the years,” Lochte said.
Initially, Lochte said he
and three teammates —
Jack Conger, Gunnar Bentz
and Jimmy Feigen — were
robbed after their taxi was
pulled over by armed men
posing as police just hours
after the swimming competition ended in Rio de
Janeiro.
That version quickly
unraveled when police said
the swimmers, who had
attended a late-night party,
never reported the incident
to authorities and there was
scant evidence of a robbery.
Video surveillance emerged
showing the athletes getting
into a confrontation with
armed security guards over
alleged vandalism at the gas
station when their taxi
pulled over to let them use
the restroom.
GENEVA (AP) — Russia is
banned from the Paralympic
Games as punishment for a
state-backed doping program, after losing an appeal
at sport’s highest court.
The Court of Arbitration
for Sport announced its
urgent verdict Tuesday to
dismiss the Russian Paralympic Committee’s appeal
against exclusion from the
Sept. 7-18 games in Rio de
Janeiro. A hearing was held
in Rio on Monday.
The court said its judges
ruled that the International
Paralympic Committee “did
not violate any procedural
rule” in banning the Russian team two weeks ago.
“(The) decision to ban the
(Russian team) was made in
accordance with the IPC
Rules and was proportionate in the circumstances,”
the court said in a statement.
An appeal by Russia’s
Paralympic committee to
Switzerland’s federal court
is possible though unlikely
before the games open,
Alexei Karpenko, an attorney representing the Russian
athletes,
said
in
televised remarks.
The Swiss supreme court
could intervene if the legal
process was abused but not
judge the merits of the evidence — which the CAS
panel was satisfied had
proven that Russian authorities organized cheating.
The Russian appeal “did
not file any evidence contradicting the facts on which
the IPC decision was based,”
the CAS panel said.
The world Paralympic
body used evidence from a
World Anti-Doping Agency
inquiry into a Russian stateorchestrated program of
doping and cover-ups which
ran from 2011 to 2015.
Russian authorities also
corrupted results at the
2014 Sochi Winter Games
and Winter Paralympics by
swapping tainted doping
samples for clean ones at
the official WADA-accredited laboratory, the inquiry
said.
The IPC said in Rio two
weeks ago it had evidence of
manipulated doping tests
relating to 44 Russian athletes, including 27 from
competitors in eight sports
that are part of the Paralympic program.
Then, IPC President
Philip Craven said of Russia
that: “Their medals over
morals mentality disgusts
me.”
On Tuesday, Craven said
the ruling from a court
based in the Olympic home
city of Lausanne, Switzerland, was a “sad day for the
Paralympic Movement, but
we hope also a new beginning.”
“Today’s decision underlines our strong belief that
doping has absolutely no
place in Paralympic sport,
and further improves our
ability to ensure fair competition and a level playing
field for all Para athletes
around the world,” Craven
said in a statement.
Still, it was “not a day for
celebration and we have
enormous sympathy for the
Russian athletes who will
now miss out on the Rio
2016 Paralympic Games,”
the British official said.
Russia banned from Paralympic Games
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Obituaries
WILLIAM JAMES MORRISSEY
William James Morrissey,
76, died Aug. 20, 2016, at
Belleville Health Care Center. He was born Aug. 17,
1940, in Chicago to Michael
Francis and Frances (Cain)
Morrissey. He was a truck
driver. He married Neomia
Hussey, Nov. 29, 1962 in
Beaumont, Calif. She survives. Other survivors: son,
James M. (Tanya), Shell-
Budget
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In other business Diana
Gering, Health Department
administrator, presented the
board with an estimated cost
to repair the mower at the
Health Department. Commissioners
recommended
Gering seek a second estimate.
Gering also reported that
the
Health
Department
would be charging mileage
to Cloud County Community
College for delivery to Topeka and it will not be providing medical services to the
Jail beginning July 19 because of liability. The board
approved signing a cancellation of lease agreement with
Early Head Start effective
Oct. 17, at its request.
Commissioner Bill Czapanskiy reported that work
on the insulation portion of
the Law Enforcement Center was scheduled to begin
Aug. 22. Commissioner Gary
Caspers moved to authorize
man, Ga.; daughters, Kathy
Jarvey (Mark), Chino, Calif., Karen Snapp (Jon), Belleville; siblings: Dan, John,
Michael and Susan Smith;
nine grandchildren. seven
great-grandchildren.
Preceded by parents. No visitation or services. Nutter
Mortuary in charge of arrangements. nuttermortuary@yahoo.com
a vote to change the Cloud
County Commission districts from three to five. The
motion died for a lack of a
second.
The board approved the
following expenses totaling
$112,935.65:
General
Fund,
$32,567.25; Special Bridge,
$2,471.53; Community Corrections, $498.13; County
Health, $1,526.84; Election,
$5,960.59; Court Services,
$18.00; Employee Benefits,
$246.62; Road and Bridge,
$33,023.86; Juvenile Justice, $3,942.81; Appraisal,
$2,631.06; Noxious Weed,
$4,299.89; Solid Waste,
$19,431.02; Co. Tourism
and Conv., $6,318.05.
Commissioner Czapanskiy reported he attended
the Cloud County Resource
meeting Aug. 18. Commissioner Gail Engle reported
he attended the Juvenile
Detention Committee meeting Aug. 17.
Voting rights restored
for felons in Virginia
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – A
defiant Virginia Gov. Terry
McAuliffe announced Monday that he again restored
the voting rights of about
13,000 felons who served
their time after his previous
attempt was thwarted by
Republican lawmakers and
the state Supreme Court.
Virginia’s highest court
ruled in July that governors
cannot restore rights en
masse, but must consider
each offender on a caseby-case basis. That ruling invalidated a sweeping
executive order issued by
McAuliffe in April that had
given back the voting rights
of more than 200,000 felons
who completed their sentences.
McAuliffe blasted the
court Monday for ignoring
the “the clear text of the
Constitution” and accused
Republicans of trying to
suppress voters’ voices. But
he pledged to move forward,
saying he won’t let the felon
disenfranchisement
“destroy lives and families, and
destabilize communities.”
“These individuals are
gainfully employed. They
send their children and
their grandchildren to our
schools. They shop in our
grocery stores and they pay
taxes. And I am not content
to condemn them for eternity as inferior second-class
citizens,” McAuliffe said
during an event at the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial.
Rights-restoration letters
were mailed Friday to the
roughly 13,000 people who
had registered to vote before
their rights were taken away
by the court, McAuliffe said.
His administration processed each felon’s paperwork individually to comply
with the ruling, he said.
Moving forward, McAuliffe will individually restore
the rights of other felons
who meet the requirements,
giving priority to those who
request it, he said. The orders also allow the felons
to serve on a jury, run for
public office and become a
notary public.
A voter-registration application will be included
in each of the rights-resto-
ration letters sent to felons,
McAuliffe said. The deadline
to register to vote in Virginia
for November’s election is
Oct. 17.
The Virginia Supreme
Court’s 4-3 decision striking down his executive order was a significant blow to
McAuliffe, who called felon
disenfranchisement a vestige of the state’s Jim Crow
past because it disproportionately impacts AfricanAmericans.
Republicans have accused McAuliffe of trying
to add more Democrats to
the voter rolls to aid presidential candidate Hillary
Clinton in November, but
McAuliffe maintains his motivations weren’t political.
The administration recently
released the names and addresses of the 13,000 who
had registered, and most
of them live in urban areas
that typically vote Democratic.
GOP
House
Speaker
William Howell, who sued
McAuliffe over the order,
said lawmakers will carefully review the process
McAuliffe laid out Monday
to ensure it meets the requirements set by the court.
“From the beginning, we
have done nothing more
than hold the governor accountable to the constitution and the rule of law. The
Supreme Court’s decision
vindicated our efforts and
we will continue to fulfill our
role as a check on the excesses of executive power,”
Howell said in a statement.
Kenneth Williams, whose
voter registration was canceled after the court ruling, said he looks forward
to getting his letter saying
his rights have once again
been restored. The 67-yearold, who served 10 years on
a robbery charge and now
runs a prisoner re-entry
program, said he’s eager
to not only vote himself,
but help to register others whose rights were once
stripped away.
“I made a promise to myself that I’m going to assist
everyone I can to register to
vote ... so they can have a
voice,” he said.
Brain injuries seen Weather
in domestic assaults
CHICAGO (AP) – There are
no bomb blasts or collisions
with burly linemen in Susan
Contreras’ past. Her headaches, memory loss and
bouts of confused thinking
were a mystery until doctors
suggested a probable cause:
domestic violence.
A former partner repeatedly beat her, she says.
“He would hit me mainly
in the head so that nobody
would see the injuries.
He’d hit me in the back of
the head so the bruises
wouldn’t show,” the Phoenix
woman said.
The abuse from her expartner took a heavy emotional toll, Contreras says.
But even though he sometimes knocked her out, she
hadn’t considered that her
brain might have been as
damaged as her psyche.
“Honestly,
there’s
so
many holes in my memory,
thinking problems,” she
said. “My memory is really
gone.”
Brain trauma in domestic
violence survivors has been
overshadowed by concerns
about injuries in Iraq and
Afghanistan war vets, and
by effects of repeated head
blows in football players.
Experts believe many cases
go undetected and untreated in abused women, making them vulnerable to problems with thinking, mood
and behavior.
Advocates say the injuries leave some survivors
so impaired that they can’t
manage their jobs and lives.
Some even end up homeless.
About one-quarter of U.S.
women and 14 percent of
men have experienced severe physical assaults by
a partner in their lifetime,
including hitting, punching, being slammed against
something hard or pushed
down stairs, according to
the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
. Head and neck injuries are
among the most common,
and data suggest that domestic assaults may cause
traumatic brain injuries in
at least 60 percent of survivors, according to a research review published this
year in the journal Family &
Community Health.
Traumatic brain injuries can result from even a
single sudden blow to the
head. The symptoms may
be short-term or long-lasting, and repeated assaults
increase chances for permanent neurological damage.
Whether that damage can
cause the downward spiral
that domestic violence survivors sometimes get caught
in is unproven, but studies have found these brain
injuries are more common
in homeless people than in
the general population. And
there’s no dispute that they
can cause life-changing disabilities.
“This population is not
unlike that of our athletes,”
said Dr. Javier Cardenas,
director of a brain injury
program at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix.
He’s a trauma consultant
for the National Football
League and also treats domestic violence survivors.
Cardenas cited Baltimore Ravens’ running back
Ray Rice’s 2014 attack on
his then-fiancee, caught on
an elevator video camera.
Much of the public discussion about the incident was
about whether brain injuries in football players may
be linked to violent behavior
off the field. It overlooked a
far more obvious injury.
“When Janay Rice was
knocked out cold in the elevator, attention was all
about how Ray Rice had
previous concussions. Nobody mentioned that the
woman in the elevator suffered a brain injury right in
front of everybody’s eyes,”
Cardenas said.
Traumatic brain injuries
include concussions and
don’t always cause loss of
consciousness or damage
that can be detected on imaging scans. Symptoms may
not occur immediately but
can develop over time, making it difficult sometimes
to link them with previous
abuse.
The brain isn’t a hard,
fixed organ. It’s more like jello, surrounded by cerebrospinal fluid that works like
a shock absorber when the
head is hit. A violent blow
– from colliding with a linebacker’s helmet, from blast
pressure after an explosion,
or from a partner’s angry
fist – can damage brain cells
at the point of impact and
slam the brain against the
skull, sometimes bruising
tissue, tearing nerve fibers,
or causing bleeding.
Repeated blows have been
linked with a degenerative
brain disease called chronic
traumatic encephalopathy.
CTE first made headlines
several years ago when it
was found in the brains of
retired NFL players who had
killed themselves. Research
linking domestic violence
with suicide is sparse, although several small studies have suggested that
suicide attempts are much
more common among battered women than among
those who have not experienced partner abuse.
CTE is linked with memory loss, confusion, mood
changes including depression and eventually dementia. Some scientists think
domestic violence survivors
might be at risk.
“I have no doubt that
there are many women who
have been abused enough
that some of them probably
have CTE,” said Dr. Robert
Cantu, a leading expert on
football-related brain injuries and co-director of Boston University’s Center for
the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy.
He said medical literature contains just one published case about probable
CTE linked with domestic
violence – a 1990 Lancet report about an autopsy on an
abused 76-year-old British
woman who had developed
dementia. Her brain showed
abnormalities
resembling
those seen in the brains of
“punch-drunk” boxers.
Today’s weather artwork by
Korin McDaniel,
a 4th grader in
Mr. Brown’s class
Markets
NEW YORK (AP) – Markets
rose in the U.S. and Europe
on Tuesday following a report
that business was expanding
in the 19 countries that use
the euro. U.S. homebuilders rose following a big jump
in sales of new homes last
month. Best Buy soared after the electronics retailer
reported a surge in profit as
online sales increased.
KEEPING SCORE: The
Dow Jones industrial average
rose 25 points, or 0.1 percent, to 18,554 as of 12:30
p.m. Eastern. The Standard
& Poor’s 500 index rose 6
points, or 0.3 percent, to
2,189 and the Nasdaq composite climbed 18 points, or
0.4 percent, to 5,263.
EUROPE: A survey across
the 19-country eurozone
found that business expanded in August at a modest
but steady pace, a sign that
companies were not overly
worried about Britain’s decision to leave the European
Union. The IHS Markit survey of purchasing managers
reached a seven-month high.
“This morning’s (data)
might provide some comfort
to investors, as the Brexit
impact on the European
economy seems to have thus
far been minimal,” said John
Briggs, head of fixed income
strategy for the Americas at
RBS, in an email to investors
Tuesday morning.
Germany’s DAX closed up
0.9 percent, France’s CAC-
40 rose 0.7 percent and the
U.K.’s FTSE 100 rose 0.6
percent.
WELCOME HOME: Stocks
benefited from news that
Americans stepped up their
purchases of new homes in
July at the fastest pace in
nearly nine years. Luxury
homebuilder Toll Brothers
rose 7 percent, while PulteGroup and Lennar rose
roughly 3 percent each.
POWER ON: Best Buy
jumped $6.18, or 19 percent,
to $38.99 after the retailer
reported results that beat
analysts’ estimates. Notably
Best Buy said sales in stores
open at least a year rose in
the latest quarter, a sign that
the company’s turnaround
strategy is working in the
face of strong competition
from Amazon and other online retailers.
LOCAL MARKETS -EAST
Wheat ...........................$3.08
Milo ......(per bushel) ....$2.45
Corn .............................$2.80
Soybeans .....................$9.52
CONCORDIA TERMINAL
LOADING FACILITY
LOCAL MARKETS - WEST
Wheat ..........................$3.08
Milo .....(per bushel) .....$2.45
JAMESTOWN MARKETS
Wheat ...........................$2.98
Milo ...(per bushel) ........$2.40
Soybeans .....................$9.42
Nusun .........................$14.75
Published in the Blade-Empire on Tuesday, August 23, 2016