The Concordia Blade

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CONCORDIA
VOL. CX NO. 39 (USPS 127-880)
CONCORDIA, KANSAS 66901
Friday, July 24, 2015
Gunman kills
two, himself at
movie theater
Good Evening
Concordia Forecast
Tonight, mostly cloudy with a 30 percent
chance for showers and thuderstorms after
7 p.m. A low around 75. Southeast wind 510 mph.
Saturday, partly sunny with a high near
91. Southeast wind 5-10 mph.
Saturday night, mostly cloudy with a 50
percent chance for showers and thunderstorms. Low around 73. Southeast wind 10
mph.
Sunday, mostly sunny with a 20 percent
chance for showers and thunderstorms. a
high near 94. South wind around 10 mph.
Sunday night, partly cloudy with a 30
percent chance for showers and thunderstorms. A low around 73.
Monday, mostly sunny with a 20 percent
chance for showers and thunderstorms. A
high near 96.
Monday night, mostly clear. A low around
75.
Tuesday, mostly sunny with a 20 percent
chance for showers and thunderstorms. A
high near 96.
Tuesday night, mostly cloudy with a 50
percent chance for showers and thunderstorms. A low around 69.
Wednesday, partly sunny with a 30 percent chance for showers and thunderstorms. A high near 85.
Wednesday night, mostly cloudy with a
30 percent chance for showers and thunderstorms. A low around 66.
Across Kansas
Man sentenced for
shooting at police
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A man has been
sentenced to 30 years in prison for firing
shots at Wichita police officers during a
car chase.
The Wichita Eagle reports 29-year-old
Tyler Deck was sentenced last week. He
had pleaded guilty in March to two counts
of attempted second-degree murder and
one count of robbery in a separate case.
According to police, a pursuit ensued
after a dispute on Sept. 6, 2014, at a convenience store escalated and shots were
fired. Authorities say Deck fled in a vehicle
and he fired shots at police before the driver of his car lost control and crashed.
Police say Deck continued to shoot at officers as he fled on foot. No officers were
injured.
Six Kansas lakes
under algae warning
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Health officials
are warning the public about high levels of
toxic blue-green algae in six lakes in
Kansas.
The Kansas Department of Health and
Environment said in a news release Thursday that direct contact with the water such
as wading in it is strongly discouraged for
people, pets and livestock.
Those lakes now under a warning status include the Brown County State Fishing Lake in Brown County and Chisholm
Creek Park Lake in Sedgwick County. Others are Memorial Park Lake in Barton
County and Plainville Township Lake in
Rooks County. Also included on the list
are the Lovewell Reservoir in Jewell County and the Milford Reservoir in Clay, Dickinson and Geary counties.
Post office closes
after car crash
KISMET, Kan. (AP) — A southwest
Kansas post office is temporarily closed
after a car crashed into the building.
The Hutchinson News reports the crash
happened on Thursday in Kismet, a town
of fewer than 500 people 20 minutes
northeast of Liberal.
Seward County sheriff’s deputies at the
scene declined Thursday evening to
release any information about the accident without first getting permission from
the sheriff, who had gone home for the
day.
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Round and round
Nora and Chuck Lambertz go round and round on the carousel at the Cloud County Fair
Thursday night. (Blade photo by Jessica LeDuc)
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — The movie theater
gunman who stood up about 20 minutes into
the showing of “Trainwreck” and began firing
into the crowd, killing two people, was
described as a drifter from Alabama whose
escape plan was thwarted by police officers
who arrived almost immediately, authorities
said Friday. The gunman killed himself.
Nine people were wounded in the attack
Thursday night. The gunman, identified as
59-year -old John Russel Houser, fired 13
times from a handgun, police said. He had
parked his car by the theater’s exit door and
initially tried to escape by blending into the
fleeing crowd, but turned back when he saw
police heading inside from the parking lot,
authorities said. Officers tailing him back into
the theater then heard a single gunshot and
found him dead inside, police said.
“The quick law enforcement response
forced him back into the theater,” Lafayette
Police Chief Jim Craft said.
Authorities did not release a motive. They
said Houser had been in the Lafayette area
since early July, staying at a motel where they
found disguises, including glasses and wigs.
Police said the gunman was by himself and
started the rampage by shooting the two people sitting in front of him.
At least one theatergoer described the
attack, saying an older man stood up about
20 minutes into the 7:10 p.m. showing of
“Trainwreck” at the Grand 16 theater in
Lafayette and began shooting.
“We heard a loud pop we thought was a
firecracker,” Katie Domingue told The Advertiser.
Pageant makes debut
at Cloud County Fair
By Kathleen McAlister
Blade-Empire Intern
Taking its place alongside
the rodeo, the dog costume contest, and the beef show, the
Miss Cloud County Fair
Pageant made its debut Thursday night.
Also new to Concordia, Janice Stephens, pageant organizer, wanted to find a way to get
involved in the community.
“I was very involved in the
community when we lived in
Florida,” Stephens said.
With a four-year-old daughter competing in pageants,
Stephens thought organizing a
pageant for the Fair would be a
great way to get involved.
“I asked around to other parents and I talked to the Fair
board and there was enough
interest to set things up,” she
said.
In preparation for the pageant, advertising and paper-
work had to be done, prizes and
crowns had to be purchased,
and decorations set up.
Stephens’ employer, Dana
Brewer, as well as the Luxe
Leopard, Fusions, and Taco
John’s, all made donations to
keep entry fees down.
On Sunday, Stephens organized a practice and parents
meeting to give everyone an idea
of how the pageant would work.
“They had a lot of questions
because some of them hadn’t
competed in pageants before,”
Stephens said.
Sixteen girls, ranging from
one year old to 15 years old,
competed in five different age
categories – Toddler Miss, Petite
Miss, Tiny Miss, Junior Miss,
and Jr. Teen Miss.
Thursday evening was split
into two different sections,
starting with a beauty pageant
and then theme wear.
Girls were eligible to win in
Crowning achievement
Joelle Nulf receives a crown at the Miss Cloud County Fair Pageant
Thursday night. (Blade photo by Jessica LeDuc)
various categories including
most photogenic, best smile,
judges’ favorite, most creative,
and more. Every participant
walked away with a crown,
known in the pageant world as
a crown-all.
Hopefully, Stephens said,
they walk away with something
more.
“They learn stage presence,
self-confidence,
sportsmanship. It forces girls to step out of
their comfort zone,” she said.
Pounds credits predecessors for success of garden
By Sarah Jenkins
Sisters of St. Joseph
Ask anyone at the Nazareth
Motherhouse and they will tell
you the huge vegetable garden
just south of the historic building has never looked better or
been more productive.
But ask Lyle Pounds, now in
his second growing season as
the Motherhouse gardener,
and he’ll tell you the success
comes from the “footprints” of
all the gardeners who came
before him — particularly Sister Ann Vincent Glatter, who
worked the soil here for 60
years.
That humility is part of what
makes the 66-year-old Pounds
such a good fit for the Sisters of
St. Joseph. In addition, the fact
that he brings a lifetime of
working the soil, while also
teaching and learning, doesn’t
hurt a bit.
The native Concordian —
who left his hometown only for
long enough to attend Emporia
State University and start his
teaching career in Newton —
retired three years ago after 30
years teaching special educa-
In second growing season
Lyle Pounds began work in December 2013 as the gardener at the Motherhouse gardens, and is now in
the midst of his second growing season.
tion. For his last 10 years in
the Concordia School District,
he was director of the alterna-
tive high school.
In retirement, he said “I got
tired of drinking coffee — when
it felt like that was all I was
doing.”
(see Garden on page 8)
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Prairie
Pondering
by
Susan Martin
Keeping watch . . .
Off and on, for years, I
have realized that the reason we average citizens
(anyhow a lot of us) know so
little about our government
is that we don't care. If we
did, we'd read, inquire, seek
out one heck of a lot of information available to us.
A recent editorial in the
Kansas City Star (often sent
to me by a friend) tells of
activity in Congress which
might be important to us
at sometime. It involves bipartisan legislation which
would strengthen the Freedom of Information Act. It
would require agencies to
consider requests under the
Act to be under “a presumption of openness” while “still
restricting the application of
exemptions to situations in
which a speciic, identiiable
harm could occur.”
The Senate Judiciary
chairman Chuck Grassley
and his committee praise
the bill, agreeing it would
stop agencies from hiding
behind exemptions that
were made to protect their
public image. It is supported
by many groups including
the Project on Government
Oversight.
The Senate dilly-dallied
around until too late to pass
a similar bill last year.
Journalists especially
reference this FOIA, which
was signed into law back in
1966 and has been amended many times.
As citizens we should be
familiar with it. But a great
many of us are not the least
interested in keeping up
with actual work going on
in Congress. In fact, we ind
it easier to criticize it as a
whole, even when we don't
know what bills are involved
or who is for or against. We
can keep a conversation going longer by criticizing than
by knowing much about
what we are discussing.
The headline read “Help
Americans keep watch on
government.”
If we don't , who will?
***
The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he
didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.
-Helen Rowland
***
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,
This morning, as I stopped at the Veterans Wall at the
Court House, I checked to see if it still looked nice with the
red Geraniums, all the American lags.
It looked good, and then I sat down on one of the benches. Then I noticed that under and around the benches were
grass and weeds which needed to be trimmed.
Earlier that day, Janice Hamel Strait called me and
asked who she could call to take care of it. I told her who
the maintenance man was, but she could not contact him.
She called me and told me she trimmed it herself.
I am very proud of the wall and of the names of the Veterans whose names are on it. The four sets of brothers were
all friends of me and my family. We knew them and were
good friends of Otis and Buford Bonebrake.
In your busy life, as you who are concerned with the
Dam and the soon to be Broadway Plaza, remember our
Veterans who gave their lives, so we could have a Free
Country, also remember the Veterans who have served and
are now in the Military.
My husband, son, four brothers are all Veterans. Janice’s husband, father, brother are all Veterans. She has a
son currently serving in Georgia.
My thanks to Janice for all she and Patti Post, for all
their time and work to keep the Wall a beautiful Memorial
for ALL VETERANS.
Thank you,
Vicki Roberts
Past President
American Legion Auxiliary
VFW Auxiliary
Dear Editor,
I am writing to recognize all the mothers in Cloud County who choose to breastfeed their babies and the employers
who support breastfeeding at work.
August 1-7 is World Breastfeeding Week and this year's
theme is “Beastfeeding and Work–Let's Make it Work.”
Breastfeeding is a very personal decision that has a major
impact not only on the child who is breastfed, but also the
community at large. The health and nutrition beneits of
breastfeeding are enormous for both mother and child and
result in healthier communities by reducing the risk of many
common illnesses and chronic diseases. It is estimated that
insurance companies spend $3.6 billion dollars a year treating conditions that breastfeeding can prevent!
The truth is that women with children are the fastest
growing segment of the workforce today and more than 75
percent of all new mothers choose to breastfeed their babies.
When a breastfeeding mom returns to work, her employer
can support her by simply offering a private area that is not
a toilet stall or bathroom where a mother can express her
milk for a few minutes during usual breaks. The payouts for
accommodating a breastfeeding mom for the employer include fewer sick days taken by the mother because she and
her baby are healthier, lower health care costs, lower staff
turnover and a positive image as a family friendly employer.
In conjunction with World Breastfeeding Week, the Kansas Beastfeeding Coalition is wanting to recognize employers
who support breastfeeding in their Kansas communities. If
you are a breastfeeding mom who has had a positive experience with your employer OR an employer who supports
breastfeeding in your place of business, please contact me
for further information. Supporting breastfeeding truly is a
win-win for everyone!
Erika Hodgens
WIC Breastfeeding
Peer Counselor
OPINION
Concordia
has a soul
By Tom Nelson
Associate Professor of Communications
Elon University
Concordia has a soul. Some towns are just towns.
Concordia is more than a town. It’s an insight to something greater than itself.
Greatness is of course a relative term. There are
some people who think Stalin was great. I’ll pass on
that one. My own deinition of greatness is when a
person or a place or a thing becomes a fulcrum for the
common good. By that deinition then surely Concordia is great.
My prompt for this praise is the civic minded attitude of the town’s people who made contributions of
labor and money to create the new Camp Concordia
Museum which opened this month on the site of the
former POW camp.
I’ve met a lot of Concordia’s citizens over the years
working with them in various projects. I call them citizens in the ancient Roman sense of the word. To be a
citizen of old Rome was to be a part of something bigger than yourself. It was perhaps the highest duty and
therefore the highest honor.
The new camp museum really is a marvel of civic
sacriice and cooperation. I watched while the building housing the museum was skillfully acquired, camp
artifacts were reunited from their far-lung spots after
their seventy-year diaspora, and citizen workers from
all walks of life volunteered labor to hammer it into a
inal form.
Wow! One day this past June I dropped by there
while I was passing through town and a prominent
Concordia businessman from main street, a professor from the Cloud County Community College and a
skilled craftsman from the trades were all as busy as
could be doing concerted work that rose above divisions of social status. There was only one social status
that day, that of citizen.
I irst wandered into Concordia carried forward by
stories from an old German man I know (still alive at
93) who was a POW in the camp during World War
Two. Captured in 1943 and sent to Kansas soon after,
he told me his time in Concordia was the most meaningful in his long life. Stories about his time in the
POW camp sounded more like university study abroad
than wartime incarceration. The former POW on hearing a museum was to be built on the site promptly sent
the few photos he had from those days. The photos are
now part of the museum’s archives and yet another
testament to the ethos of citizen, this time a citizen not
our own.
It is not hyperbole that the new Camp Concordia
Museum is a sort of pantheon on the plains built with
old Roman virtue to say to future generations we were
here and we stood for things that mattered then, now
and always. We stood for the common good. Such is
virtue.
Nelson and J McMerty, videographer and director
of the Elon in Los Angeles program, most recently received an award for excellence during the 2015 Broadcast Education Association's Festival of Media Arts in
Las Vegas, for their documentary on the life and works
of Marion Ellet, former columnist for Concordia BladeEmpire.
Today in History
50 years ago
July 24, 1965—”Mary
Poppins” with Julie Andrews and Dick VanDyke
was the featured ilm at the
Brown Grand Theater in
Concordia. Adult admission
was $1.25 and children’s
admission was 50 cents. . .
. Darlyne Hepperly was the
third light winner of the
ladies’ golf tournament at
Concordia Country Club.
Fifty-three women were entered in the tournament.
25 years ago
July 24, 1990—Chris
Ngo singled home John
Bray with two out in the
bottom of the eighth inning
to give First Bank and Trust
a 10-9 win over Clifton in
the championship game of
K-18 Regional Tournament
played at the Concordia
Sports Complex. . . . At the
‘76 4-H Club meeting Deanna Garlow gave a demonstration on a “trile” which
she served for refreshments.
10 years ago
July 24, 2005—Concordia High School cheerleaders who attended National
Cheerleaders
Association
Camp in Manhattan were
Kayla Ramsey, Jenny De-
neault,
Chelsey
Kindel,
Corinna
Hood,
Chrissy
Feriend, Bea Johnson, Leah
Lowell, Miranda Sheely,
Stephanie Doyle and Megan Palmquist. . . . Travis
and Sara LeClair, Clyde, announced the birth of their
son, Seth Robert, born July
11.
5 years ago
July 24, 2010—Concordia High School seniors attending Boys State at Manhattan were James Remley,
Blaine Tholstrup, Creighton Leif and Ian Lewicki. .
. . Randy Hake, Concordia,
completed a clean sweep
during the fair races at Clay
Center. He won his heat,
the trophy dash and the A
feature. Members of his pit
crew were Garrett Hake,
Chloe McDaniel and Jeff
McDaniel.
1 year ago
July 24, 2014—”Jesus
is Our Super Hero” was the
theme for the Concordia
Lutheran Church and the
First Presbyterian Church
God Squad Training Camp
at the Concordia Lutheran
Church. . . . Tom Sharp retired from his job at Cloud
County Health Center.
***
A picture that is beautiful, or that comes off, or that works, looks as
if it was all made at one stroke.
-Helen Frankenthaler
***
In the
“Mean Time”
by
Bill Dunphy
The story is told of the Oriental who died and was
about to enter heaven. However, before doing so, he
asked St. Peter if he could have a look at hell. His request
was granted. In hell he saw a magniicent table with
every manner of delightful food, with people all around
the table. They all had chopsticks, but the chopsticks
were all four feet long. The food that they could grasp
they could not put into their mouths. Hell was illed with
sounds of anger, frustration and hate.
Content with what he saw, he was taken to heaven.
Much to his surprise, he saw a table of the same size,
illed with the same delicacies piled high. Those sitting
around the table all had chopsticks, and the chopsticks
were all four feet long. In heaven, however, each one at
the table was carefully picking up the choicest morsels
he could ind and feeding them to his neighbor across
the table, who in turn did the same for him. Heaven was
illed with smiles, gratitude, laughter and love.
Even as we live here on earth, the obvious difference
between a hellish existence or a heavenly existence is
sharing, thinking of the other. As one author writes, "The
love which each of us wants so badly is nothing other
than the ability to see and fulill the true needs of another person."
I resurrected this simple story from my book, "Snooper's Tale." I found it as I was looking through the chapter
titled, "Advent." What prompted my using it again was
yet another quotation. This one from Tagore, "I slept and
dreamt life was joy . . . I awoke and saw that life was
service . . . I acted and behold, service was Joy." The key
word there is ACTED.
We've all heard the saying, "It is better to give than
to receive." Two short statements from "A Course in Miracles" gives this saying a nice twist. Those statements
are, "The cost of giving is receiving" and "'Having' rests on
GIVING not on GETTING."
If one were not aware of their source, these statements might be written off as full of contradictions. But
as one ponders them for a time, some other statements
from the Man born in a barn are brought to mind. Especially the one where He says we must lose our lives in
order to save them. "The cost of giving is receiving."
So, as we rush toward that day each year where there
is much more exchanging than giving, I thought it might
be appropriate to interject some thoughts on giving. I
thought it might be good for us to review how adept we
are at using four foot chopsticks. Now is the time to practice before it's too late.
Finally, listen once again to the words of Tagore, "I
slept and dreamt life was joy . . . I awoke and found life
was service . . .I acted and behold, SERVICE WAS JOY."
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Blade-Empire, Friday, July 24, 2015 3
by Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift
WASHINGTON – This
week’s episode of Donald
Trump’s lunacy featured a
confrontation between “The
Donald” and former prisoner
of war Sen. John McCain,
R-Ariz. Trump said McCain
isn’t a hero because he got
captured and from his perch
as a businessman who never
served, Trump reserves hero
status for those who fought
and weren’t captured.
Never mind the ive years
McCain was held captive and
the multiple times he turned
down early release because
he refused to jump the line
on his fellow POWs.
It’s not surprising that
Trump says such loathsome
things. He has a history of
insulting his betters. What’s
surprising is that Trump is
still standing. He’s the Republican frontrunner, and
that says a lot of things,
among them how we regard
our different wars and the
men and women who fought
them.
After World War II, an
aspiring politician couldn’t
think about getting elected to
ofice without having served
in the war. After Vietnam,
while there were some notable exceptions like former
Senator Bob Kerrey, D-Neb.,
a Medal of Honor recipient,
military service was not as
prized and was sometimes
even seen as a negative.
Secretary of State John
Kerry, the recipient of several medals for valor in Vietnam, tossed his medals over
a fence at the U.S. Capitol
during an April 1971 protest
by Vietnam Veterans Against
the War, and that put him in
a different category.
The people who rose to
prominence in the aftermath
of Vietnam did not distinguish themselves through
military service. Bill Clinton
ducked the military; George
W. Bush hid in the National
Guard, a billet well known
at the time for allowing the
sons of the well connected
to avoid serving, and Dick
Cheney, a well-known hawk
(or what veterans refer to as
a chicken hawk), became
Secretary of Defense and
then Vice President despite
having received multiple
draft deferments during the
Vietnam era.
Trump was on the cover of
the New York Post this week
which mocked him as a toy
soldier who used ive deferments and “a foot boo-boo”
to keep him out of Vietnam.
In another time in our history, that would have been disqualifying for public service.
No one would take Trump’s
claims of courage and leadership seriously. He would
have been booed off the lec-
tern.
The contretemps with
McCain and by extension
all veterans may have cost
Trump something, but it
didn’t knock him out of the
race.
Honorable service is not
as prized as it once was. The
turning point perhaps came
when George H.W. Bush lost
reelection to Bill Clinton, a
baby boomer who did came
of age not ighting for his
country. Bush had distinguished himself for heroism
at the tender age of 19 when
his plane was shot down. He
was a member of the greatest generation and to those
closest to him, his family
and his top aides, it was unthinkable that Clinton, who
had worked diligently to stay
out of Vietnam, would defeat
him.
Vietnam is still the war
that doesn’t get much reverence. Kerry’s words as an
anti-war protestor still resonate: “How do you ask a man
to be the last man to die for a
mistake?”
The all-volunteer Army
has changed the way we
think about military service. Serving is a choice, and
we don’t denigrate people
if they choose not to serve.
Maybe that’s why Trump
can get away with not serving, actively ducking service
through a series of deferments, and then denigrating
those like McCain who did
serve.
Trump lacks class, Republican Senator Marco Rubio opined on Fox & Friends
the other morning. But then
he undermined his own
words by attaching the same
description to President
Obama: “We already have
a president now that has
no class,” Rubio said, citing President Obama’s selfie stick videos and inviting
YouTube stars to the White
House, “people who eat cereal out of a bathtub.”
This is the silly season for
politics and if we’re lucky it
will pass and the rough and
tumble of the campaign trail
will yield nominees in each
party worthy of more than
blunderbuss.
Douglas Cohn’s new book,
“The President’s First Year,”
analyzes every president’s
freshman year. It is available
for presale by Rowman & Littleield through Amazon at:
http://www.amazon.
com/The-PresidentsFirst-Year-LearnedWhy/
dp/1493011928
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Life sentence urged
in salmonella case
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) –
Federal court oficers have
recommended a sentence
of life in prison for a peanut
company
executive
convicted of selling salmonella-tainted food, a move
that attorneys on both sides
called “unprecedented” for a
food-poisoning case.
The potential life sentence
for former Peanut Corporation of America owner Stewart Parnell was disclosed by
prosecutors in a court iling
Wednesday.
Parnell, 61, is scheduled
to be sentenced Sept. 21 by
a federal judge in Albany,
Georgia. Prosecutors iled
a legal brief Wednesday in
U.S. District Court revealing that the U.S. Probation
Ofice, which prepares presentencing reports to help
guide federal judges, concluded the scope of Parnell’s
crimes “results in a life sentence Guidelines range.”
Parnell’s defense attorneys conirmed the recommendation Thursday to The
Associated Press, calling the
possible punishment “unprecedented.” Bill Marler, a
lawyer for victims sickened
by peanut butter from Parnell’s southwest Georgia
plant, used the same word.
In fact, Marler and other
experts say the trial of Parnell and two co-defendants
last year was the irst federal food-poisoning case
to be tried by an American
court. A jury convicted Parnell of 71 counts including
conspiracy, obstruction of
justice, wire fraud and other crimes related to a salmonella outbreak in 2008
and 2009. The Centers for
Disease Control linked the
outbreak to nine deaths and
714 illnesses. It prompted
one of the largest food recalls in U.S. history.
Justin Lugar, one of Parnell’s defense attorneys,
conirmed Thursday that
the recommendation before
Judge W. Louis Sands is for
life in prison, with no lesser range. Parnell’s lawyers
are trying to persuade the
judge to disregard numbers
used as aggravating factors to boost the suggested
sentence to its maximum:
an estimate that Parnell’s
customers suffered $144
million in losses as well as
health oficials’ tally that
714 people got sick.
Parnell’s attorneys say
the cost estimate was “based
on speculative, incomplete,
and untrustworthy information” compiled by investigators and that none of Parnell’s customers were asked
to testify about the losses
in court. Parnell’s lawyers
similarly questioned the reliability of the CDC’s tally of
how many people got sick,
noting that no medical doctors were called to testify
and only one victim took the
stand.
“That
recommendation
is truly absurd,” said Ken
Hodges, an attorney on Parnell’s defense team. “We
hope the judge will see that
Stewart Parnell never meant
to hurt anyone. He ate the
peanut butter himself. He
fed it to his children and to
his grandchildren.”
In their court iling, prosecutors stood by their numbers for victims injured and
inancial losses — and insisted they possibly understate the impact.
“Life in prison, especially
in a food case, it’s frankly
unprecedented,” said Marler, who has represented
victims of food-borne illnesses for two decades. “But
the case itself, on a factual
basis, is unprecedented.”
Marler said he suspects
the judge and prosecutors
will think carefully before
deciding to pursue a life
sentence for Parnell. Still, he
said, even the possibility of
such a stiff sentence sends a
message to food companies.
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By Jacqueline Bigar
A baby born today has a
Sun in Leo and a Moon in
Scorpio.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for
Friday, July 24, 2015:
This year a pay raise or
promotion is likely. You
might keep many of your feelings to yourself; there also
could be a few that you are
not even aware of yet. Your
home becomes your personal
hideaway, and you value it
as a retreat from the world.
If you are single, you could
meet someone in the next
few weeks who could be very
signiicant to your life. Curb
a tendency to be possessive.
If you are attached, the two of
you beneit from working on
your home together or entertaining more often. Emphasis will be on the quality of
your life. SCORPIO intrigues
you.
The Stars Show the Kind
of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Dificult
ARIES (March 21-April
19)
* * * * A loved one will demonstrate his or her caring in
a big way. You might want
to clear the way to do something very different, but you
also must remain sensitive to
this person. Remember to express compassion, and listen
to his or her ideas. Tonight:
In the whirlwind of life.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20)
* * * * Stay responsive to
others, as they seem to want
to be dominant right now.
Pressure builds and could
force your hand. Clearly, you
need to communicate better.
Understand what your expectations are from others.
Make sure they understand
yours as well. Tonight: Defer.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
* * * Playing catch up
might not be fun, but it will
be necessary. In your recent
jubilant mood, you’ll discover how carefree you can
be. However, be sure not to
let your responsibilities fall
to the wayside. Worry less
about your plans and more
about your to-do list. Tonight: Join friends.
CANCER (June 21-July
22)
* * * * You could be at
your wits’ end and might feel
as if you need a break. You
will ind that you are able to
low through different issues
and responsibilities. As a result, you’ll free yourself to
do whatever you want. Make
plans for the weekend if you
haven’t yet. Tonight: TGIF!
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
* * * Get back to the basics
when dealing with a personal
matter, a relative or even a
work-related issue. You know
what is best for you. Lighten
up, even if there is some tension surrounding you. This
too will pass. Tonight: Head
home early, but irst join a
friend for Happy Hour.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
* * * Your efforts to reach
out to someone will succeed.
You might get some lak, but
it won’t be enough to deter
you from your objective. Expect an unusual tale, and
you won’t be surprised when
you hear the other side of the
story. Be more forthright. Tonight: Make it easy.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
* * * * Be aware of the costs
of making certain plans, as
not everyone will agree with
your choices. You could be
worried about a personal
matter that is consuming
your thoughts. Slow down
if you can. Think before you
leap. Tonight: Make it your
treat.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.
21)
* * * * * Listen to a friend
who seems to have some
thoughts and ideas to share.
You might be a little out of
whack when trying to move
forward with a personal matter. Your spontaneity could
backire, so be careful. Communication might need some
revision. Tonight: The party
begins.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21)
* * * You might want to rethink a personal matter. You
could be uncomfortable with
the outcome if you act too
quickly. You are best off not
overthinking the issue. Try
to move in a new direction if
possible. Make sure a plan is
well-thought-out. Tonight: In
the thick of things.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19)
* * * * Focus on your goals
right now. Zero in on what
is important, and igure out
what needs to happen. A
long-term desire could possibly manifest and become
a reality. Touch base with a
child or loved one. You have
reason for celebration. Tonight: Pop a bottle of bubbly.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18)
* * * Pressure builds and
forces you to take charge.
You will have little choice, as
everyone seems to be looking to you. Demonstrate
your sensitivity with various
issues. Your empathy will
help draw others toward you.
Understand your limits. Tonight: A must appearance.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20)
* * * * The more you detach, the more likely it will
be that a wonderful meeting
of the minds is the outcome.
Don’t underestimate the
people around you. How you
view an important matter is
subject to change after some
important conversations. Tonight: Make sure music surrounds you.
BORN TODAY
Singer Jennifer Lopez
(1969), aviator Amelia Earhart (1897), actress Lynda
Carter (1951)
***
Jacqueline Bigar is on
the Internet at www.jacquelinebigar.com.
(c) 2015 by King Features
Syndicate Inc.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) –
The push for a higher minimum wage gained momentum on both sides of the
country, with New York embracing an eventual $15 an
hour for the state’s 200,000
fast-food workers and the
huge University of California system announcing the
same raise for its employees.
“How we support our
workers and their families
impacts Californians who
might never set foot on one
of our campuses,” UC President Janet Napolitano, who
oversees 10 campuses, including UCLA and Berkeley,
said of Wednesday’s action.
“It’s the right thing to do.”
The 240,000-student University of California becomes
the nation’s irst public university to commit itself to the
$15-an-hour wage that has
become the rallying cry of
many labor groups in recent
months.
So far, the cities of Los
Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley
have approved phased-in increases that eventually will
take their minimum wage
to $15 an hour, or about
$31,200 a year. On Tuesday,
Los Angeles County, the nation’s most populous county, voted to craft a law to do
the same over ive years.
In New York, the state
Wage Board Wednesday
endorsed a proposal to set
a $15 minimum wage for
workers at fast-food restaurants with 30 or more locations. The increase would be
phased in over three years in
New York City and over six
years elsewhere.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration has the inal
say, and he has signaled his
support. New York would
become the irst state to
single out a speciic industry for such an increase. The
state minimum wage is now
$8.75.
“You cannot live and support a family on $18,000 a
year in the state of New York
– period,” Cuomo said at a
New York City rally celebrating the proposal. “This is
just the beginning. We will
not stop until we reach true
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Damage—At
1:50 p.m., July 23, Chelsie
Rich, Concordia, reported
Criminal Damage which had
occurred in the 500 block
of East 17th. Investigation
continues.
Fire Dept./EMS Report
At 11:58 p.m., Thursday,
Medic-5 responded to the
500 block of East 10th for a
73-year-old male patient. No
transport was made,
economic justice.”
Restaurant
owners
warned that higher wages
could force them to raise
prices, cut employee hours
and hire fewer workers, and
they said they may challenge
the move in court.
“Singling out fast-food
restaurants while ignoring
other industries that hire
workers who are paid under
$15 is unfair and discriminatory,” said Jack Bert, who
owns seven McDonald’s restaurants in New York City.
But Rebecca Cornick,
a 60-year-old woman who
makes $9 an hour at a Wendy’s in Brooklyn, said, “If I
made $15, I could pay my
rent on time, I could put food
on the table, I could hold my
head up.”
At the University of California, the hourly wage earners include students and
full-time contract employees
who work in dining halls,
dorms and bookstores or
labor as gardeners, housekeepers and custodians.
Many start at the state minimum wage of $9 an hour.
Napolitano said she will
boost that to $13 in October
for employees who work at
least 20 hours a week and
will raise it some more in
stages to $15 by the fall of
2017.
About 3,200 UC employees and a much larger but
undetermined number of
people employed by outside
contractors at the university will receive the higher
wage, UC said. The univer-
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sity is California’s third-largest employer, with a staff of
195,000.
“I just thought it was important for a public university to plant the lag here
for low-wage workers and a
more livable wage,” said Napolitano, who was President
Barack Obama’s homeland
security secretary before she
assumed leadership of the
university nearly two years
ago.
Napolitano’s plan does
not need approval from the
university’s governing Board
of Regents.
The higher minimumwage argument has gained
traction amid concerns over
the shrinking middle class
and rising income inequality.
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Sports
Astros acquire
Kazmir from A’s
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) —
Scott Kazmir is heading to
his hometown Houston
Astros and into the thick of
a pennant race, and the
Oakland Athletics are starting their summer sell-off.
The A’s began their
expected changes leading
up to the July 31 trade
deadline, sending the lefthander to the Astros for a
pair of minor leaguers
Thursday in what could be
the first of many significant
deals across the majors in
the next week.
Oakland received soughtafter catcher Jacob Nottingham and right-handed
pitcher Daniel Mengden in
the swap with its AL West
rival — and the Astros got a
top-tier starter as they
chase a playoff berth in the
season’s second half. Houston hasn’t been to the playoffs since being swept in the
2005 World Series by the
Chicago White Sox when
the Astros were still in the
National League.
“He’s consistently performed against really good
competition,” Houston general manager Jeff Luhnow
said. “He’s been in our division, we’ve faced him. We
know how hard he is to go
up against.”
“Taking him out of the
equation as somebody on
the other side and putting
him on our team I think is
really going to help us.
We’re in a tight division battle with L.A. ... having
Kazmir in our rotation will
definitely
help
our
chances.”
Even with all the trade
talk surrounding him, the
news caught the 31-yearold Kazmir by surprise. He
was scheduled to start
Thursday against Toronto
and woke up preparing to
play at least one more game
in green and gold.
Instead, Kazmir got a
phone call from A’s general
manager Billy Beane and
manager
Bob
Melvin
informing he had been traded. He packed up his
belongings in the A’s clubhouse while getting hugs
and handshakes from teammates.
“It felt like it just hit me
at once. It’s going to take
some time to sink some
stuff in,” Kazmir said.
He’ll get to work with the
Astros immediately, starting on Friday night at
Kansas City. He went 5-5
with a 2.38 ERA in 18 starts
for Oakland.
Drew Pomeranz started
in Kazmir’s place against
Toronto,
and
Oakland
recalled
right-hander
Arnold Leon from Triple-A
Nashville to take Kazmir’s
roster spot.
Later in the day, there
was another trade involving
a contender: Pittsburgh
acquired third baseman
Aramis Ramirez from Milwaukee for a minor league
pitcher.
Nottingham and Mengden were at Class A Quad
Cities to start the season
before being promoted to
the organization’s higher A
club in Lancaster of the California League. They will
report to Class A Stockton.
While Kazmir has been
reportedly on the move for
weeks, Beane said he wasn’t
actively shopping the starting pitcher. But when the
Astros included Nottingham
in the deal, he said the trade
“came
together
pretty
quick.”
It’s the first of what could
be many moves for Oakland
before the non-waiver trade
deadline. The A’s, who made
the playoffs the past three
seasons, entered Thursday
with a 44-52 record — 11
games behind the divisionleading Los Angeles Angels.
“We have to be realistic
with where we are,” Beane
said. “The math doesn’t
necessarily work in our
favor given the level of play
we need just to get back in
it.”
Melvin said he didn’t
have a chance to address
players before the game but
didn’t feel he needed to. He
said they know roster
turnover is part of the business.
“When you’re here in
Oakland, you understand
that moves are made,
whether it’s offseason or inseason,” Melvin said.
The A’s acquired Kazmir
as a free agent in December
2013 and he was 20-14 with
a 3.12 ERA in 40 starts over
parts of two seasons,
including making the AL
All-Star team last year.
Houston (53-43) began
the day in second place in
the AL West, two games
behind the defending division champion Angels. The
Astros were hosting Boston
on Thursday night.
Sports in Brief
The Associated Press
NFL
The players’ union proposed a settlement on Tom
Brady’s four-game suspension last week that was “met
with silence” by the NFL, a person familiar with the proposal told The Associated Press.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity Thursday
because the NFL Players Association’s offer was confidential. There is no timetable on when Commissioner Roger
Goodell will rule on the New England quarterback’s appeal.
Several media reports indicated the union’s proposal
called for Brady paying a large fine, but with no suspension. The Patriots paid a record $1 million fine and were
stripped of two draft picks, including a No. 1 selection next
year. Team owner Robert Kraft accepted those punishments while stating he believed the Patriots had done nothing wrong.
Brady was suspended for his role in using underinflated
footballs in the Patriots’ victory over the Colts in the AFC
title game. A league-sanctioned independent report by
attorney Ted Wells found that Brady at the least was “generally aware” of the use of the footballs in what has become
known as “Deflategate.”
TOUR DE FRANCE
SAINT -JEAN-DE-MAURIENNE, France (AP) — Chris
Froome is halfway through the Alps, the last obstacle to his
second Tour de France victory, after comfortably maintaining his race lead on a Stage 18 won in style by Romain
Bardet on Thursday.
Bardet rode alone down the huge Glandon pass and up
the 18 hairpin bends of the Montvernier Laces, previously
unclimbed by the Tour, to take a solo victory at Saint-JeanDe-Maurienne on the second of four days in the Alps, the
last big test before the finish in Paris on Sunday. Pierre Rolland of the Europcar team made it a 1-2 French finish,
coming in 33 seconds behind the winner for AG2R La Mondiale.
Royals fall short against Cardinals
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ned
Yost pulled Chris Young
early, leaning on relievers
who threw five scoreless
innings. The Kansas City
Royals’ comeback bid fell
just short.
“You take your chance
right there, and with our
bullpen we figured we
could hold it and we did,”
Yost said after a 4-3 loss to
the St. Louis Cardinals on
Thursday night. “We just
couldn’t get that one extra
run we needed.”
John Lackey threw
seven strong innings after
a shaky beginning and
Trevor Rosenthal escaped
his own jam in the ninth
for St. Louis.
Rosenthal, pitching for
the third straight day, took
over to begin the ninth with
a 4-2 lead. Alex Rios led off
with a single and Omar
Infante followed with a
triple.
The Royals went on to
put runners on second and
third with no outs, but
Rosenthal held on for his
30th save in 32 chances.
Mike Moustakas grounded
out to end it.
Yost was surprised by
the Cardinals decision to
play the infield in and allow
two runners to take second
without a play, both calls
ruled defensive indifference.
“There’s nothing you
can do differently,” the
manager said. “We needed
to execute there, and of
course that’s easy for me to
say.
“Anytime you’re going to
let the winning run waltz to
second base ... they’ve got
a lot of confidence in their
closer.”
Randal Grichuk and
Matt Carpenter hit two-run
homers as the Cardinals
won in the makeup of a
rainout last month.
As in the originally
scheduled game, St. Louis
and Kansas City led their
league in wins and Lackey
(9-5) and Young (8-6) were
the scheduled starters.
Young gave up four runs
in three innings, his shortest outing since he allowed
five runs while getting just
two outs for Seattle last
Sept. 1 at Oakland. He
struggled with control and
had no issue with getting
pulled for pinch hitter
Kendrys Morales, who flied
out with two on to end the
fourth.
The 6-foot-10 right-hander has surrendered 14
homers, half of them on
two-strike counts.
“I understood the situation,” Young said. “I
absolutely had no problems with it. It was the
right decision.”
Paid
attendance
of
46,003 was the 24th sellout for St. Louis, which
took the season series 4-2,
but there were several
thousand no-shows for the
opener of an elongated 11game homestand. Both
teams wore throwback jerseys from the 1985 I-70
World Series won by
Kansas City in seven
games.
Salvador Perez and had
consecutive RBI singles in
the first for the Royals, but
they managed just two
more hits in Lackey’s final
six innings. The 36-yearold right-hander is 5-1
with a 1.75 ERA in his last
eight starts, working seven
or more innings in all but
one of them.
Carpenter’s 10th homer,
and just his second in two
months, put the Cardinals
ahead 4-2 in the third.
Grichuk, who also singled
and flied out to the wall in
right, has a team-leading
13 RBIs this month.
The Cardinals are 61-34
overall and 34-12 at Busch
Stadium,
both
major
league bests.
HOT BATS
Eric Hosmer had two
hits and is 13 for 25 during
a six-game hitting streak.
... Rios matched his season
high with three hits and
has 11 hits in his last six
games.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Royals: Young has been
hindered by back tightness
and is 1-3 in his last five
starts.
Cardinals: Jaime Garcia
threw five hitless innings
in his first rehab start for
Class A Peoria, the only
blemish on his line a hit
batter. ... Rookie 1B
Stephen Piscotty was a
pregame lineup scratch
with neck stiffness.
UP NEXT
Royals: Jeremy Guthrie
(7-5, 5.36) faces the Astros
to open a three-game series
at home. He’s 20-12 with a
3.68 ERA post-break the
last four seasons.
Cardinals: Rookie Tim
Cooney (0-0, 3.33) faces
the Braves, making his
sixth career start in search
of a first decision. The lefty
threw 5 2-3 scoreless
innings his last time out,
an 18-inning loss to the
Mets on Sunday.
Report: OSU’s Miller to play receiver
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) —
Braxton Miller is shifting
from quarterback to receiver,
whittling Ohio State’s QB
competition to two star
passers.
Miller told SI.com on
Thursday night that he plans
to start the season in the Hback position and also hopes
to return punts. He had surgery to repair of torn labrum
in his throwing shoulder
before the start of last season
and sat out while J.T. Barrett
and Cardale Jones led the
Buckeyes to their first
national title since 2002.
“It’s a long process to get
back totally to throwing and
throwing every day,” Miller
told SI.com. “This is the
smarter thing for right now.
God blessed me with a lot of
talent and different opportunities. I’m going to have fun
with that and still score a lot
of touchdowns and help the
team out and be dominant at
that.”
Ohio State coach Urban
Meyer told The Columbus
Dispatch that Miller was premature in talking about his
position switch.
“I haven’t made those
decisions yet,” Meyer told the
newspaper. “It’s a little bit
jumping the gun here. Braxton came to see me. He’s
been talking to me about it.
We’ve been working at it, but
I’m not ready to say exactly
how we’re going to use him
yet.”
With Miller out last season, Barrett led Ohio State to
an 11-1 record before breaking his ankle. Jones stepped
in and guided the Buckeyes
to victories in the Big Ten
title game against Wisconsin,
the
national
semifinal
against Alabama and the
championship game against
Oregon.
That left Ohio State looking at a three-man competition
for
the
starting
quarterback job, with three
players that could start on
just about any team in the
country. The competition,
however, never really got
started.
Of the three quarterbacks,
Jones was the only one
healthy enough to fully take
part in spring practice. Barrett progressed well enough
that Meyer and his staff had
no worries he would be ready
to compete come August and
preseason practice.
Miller, though, still needed to be cleared by doctors to
throw full strength. He
tweeted out that he had
received a clean bill of health
a few weeks back and re-iterated he had no intention of
transferring from Ohio State.
The 6-foot-2, 215-pound
Miller could have switched
schools and played immediately this year as a graduate
transfers, but decided to
return to Ohio State for a
fifth season. He threw 52
touchdown passes in his
first three seasons at Ohio
State, but it was as a runner
that Miller was special. He
ran for 3,054 yards and 32
scores and was the Big Ten
player of the year in 2012
and 2013.
The H-back in Ohio
State’s spread offense is a
do-it-all position that combines some receiver and running back duties. The
Buckeyes can add Miller to
talented group of playmakers that includes running
back Ezekiel Elliott, H-Backs
Jalin Marshall and Dontre
Wilson, and wide receivers
Michael Thomas and Corey
Smith.
The Buckeyes open at Virginia Tech on Sept. 7.
Kershaw tosses three-hitter to beat Mets
NEW YORK (AP) — Clayton Kershaw pitched a
three-hitter, retiring the first
18 batters in his second
shutout of the season, as
the Los Angeles Dodgers
beat the New York Mets 3-0
on Thursday night.
Kershaw (8-6) now has
thrown 29 consecutive
scoreless innings — 14 2/3
less than teammate Zack
Greinke — and 11 career
shutouts. He was perfect
until Curtis Granderson
lined a leadoff single in the
seventh inning.
The worst-hitting team in
the majors was all but helpless against the three-time
Cy Young Award winner.
Kershaw struck out 11 and
did not walk a batter. He has
fanned 38 without a walk in
his last three outings.
Jimmy Rollins hits his
ninth home run in the third
inning for first-place Los
Angeles and that was
enough for Kershaw (8-6).
He improved to 6-0 with
1.34 ERA in his career
against the Mets.
Bartolo Colon (9-9) did
his best to keep the Mets in
it, tossing eight innings and
allowing five hits and one
run.
Astros 5, Red Sox 4
HOUSTON (AP) — Jose
Altuve homered with one
out in the bottom of the
ninth, the last of his four
hits, and Houston Astros
beat Boston to extend the
Red Sox’s losing streak to a
season-high eight games.
The game was tied at 4-all
when Altuve connected off
Craig Breslow (0-1) and
homered into the seats in
left-center. The play was
reviewed and confirmed.
Marwin Gonzalez and
Colby Rasmus both went
deep for the Astros, who
lead the majors with 135
home runs.
Josh Fields pitched a
scoreless ninth for the win
(3-1).
Boston’s David Ortiz cut
the lead to 4-3 with a solo
homer off Will Harris with
no outs in the eighth. Mike
Napoli’s RBI double off closer Luke Gregerson later in
the inning tied it.
Twins 3, Angels 0
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) —
Ervin Santana pitched eight
innings of four-hit ball
against his former team,
and Minnesota snapped
both its four-game skid and
Los Angeles’ seven-game
winning streak.
Trevor Plouffe hit a threerun homer in the fourth
inning for the Twins, who
wrapped their six-game California road trip with bookend wins.
Santana (2-0) was out-
standing in his fourth start
for Minnesota after throwing
7 2-3 scoreless innings in
Oakland last week. He spent
his first eight major league
seasons with the Angels,
winning 96 games from
2005-12.
Garrett Richards (10-7)
yielded four hits over eight
innings in his second loss in
three starts. The Angels had
won 13 of 15 and 17 of 20
while climbing atop the AL
West.
Yankees 9, Orioles 3
NEW YORK (AP) — Jacoby Ellsbury finished a triple
shy of the cycle and drove in
four runs and Chase
Headley hit a three-run double in the first inning as New
York completed a threegame sweep of Baltimore to
bolster its spot atop the AL
East.
Masahiro Tanaka (7-3)
won his third straight start,
allowing three solo homers
and a double in 7 2-3
innings to help New York to
its ninth win in 11 games.
The Yankees are 12 over
.500 at 53-41 for the first
time since May 25, 2013,
their high point that season.
Ellsbury homered, had a
sacrifice fly and a two-run
double among three hits.
With a chance at the cycle,
he grounded back to the
pitcher in the eighth.
Didi Gregorius followed
Headley’s bases-clearing hit
with an RBI single off Ubaldo Jimenez as New York
increased
their
major
league-leading total of firstinning runs to 86.
Pirates 7, Nationals 3
PITTSBURGH (AP) —
Francisco Liriano allowed
three hits over six-plus
dominant innings and Pittsburgh raced by Washington.
Liriano (6-6) struck out
11 against three walks as
the Pirates returned from a
miserable post All-Star
break road trip to drop the
NL East-leading Nationals.
Andrew McCutchen, Pedro
Alvarez
and
Francisco
Cervelli homered for Pittsburgh, which ended a
seven-game losing streak to
Washington.
Starling Marte and Jung
Ho Kang added two hits
apiece for the Pirates, who
acquired third baseman
Aramis Ramirez from Milwaukee before the game to
bolster an infield dealing
with injuries to Josh Harrison and Jordy Mercer.
Doug Fister (3-6) labored
through five innings, giving
up four runs and nine hits
to drop his third straight
decision. Ian Desmond had
two of Washington’s six hits,
including a two-run homer
in the ninth.
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schedule that fits facility
needs. Duties include but not
limited to: loors, bathrooms,
windows, etc.
Call 785-243-2553
for more information
For Rent
FOR RENT- Small 2 bedroom house,
429 E. 8th. 785-275-2391.
FOR RENT- Small 1 bedroom house,
$345/mo., trash and water included.
785-275-2062.
FOR RENT- Newly renovated 1 bedroom apartments in quiet building,
most utilities, $600/mo. 785-275-2062.
FOR RENT-Storage spaces, various
sizes, reasonable, locally owned.
785-243-4105.
FOR RENT- 2 bedroom/2 bath furnished apartment in quiet building,
keyed access only, close to downtown.
$650/mo., most utilities. 785-2752062.
FOR RENT
2 bedroom, 2 bath house
with appliances, basement,
garage, separate carport,
new windows, central heat
and air.
Call 785-243-3325 Ext. 2
$IZZLIN $UMMER
$AVINGS
Relax and Enjoy our newly
remodeled 2 bedroom
E n e r g y E ff i c i e n t A p t s .
Starting at $450 per month,
some pet friendly.
Acorn Village Apartments
You’re Gonna Like It Here.
We Guarantee It.
Call 785-818-5028
or 785-614-1078
FOR RENT
1 bedroom apartment &
a studio apartment with
appliances, laundry room
and utilities included in rent.
Call 785-243-3325 Ext. 2
516 E. 16th
Ofice at 1610 Archer St.
Call for Availability,
Frequent Openings,
785-243-4464
Clean, safe, income-based
housing
1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apartments
FOR RENT
1 bedroom apartment
with stove and refrigerator, off
street parking, some utilities paid,
available Aug. 1, 2015. Call 785243-7724.
SUNSET HOME, INC.
Has the following positions
open:
Full-time CNAs for all
shifts. Positions would
include working every other
weekend.
Full-time Day and Evening
shift CMAs. Positions would
include working every other
weekend.
FOR SALE
SWEET CORN,
NEW POTATOES
& SQUASH
1143 E. 9th
8am-12noon,
Mon. - Sat.
785-614-5057
Help Wanted
THE CLOUD COUNTY
TRANSFER STATION
is taking applications for
Part-time
Equipment Operator
Approx. 25-30 hours per
month.
Apply at the Transfer
Station at 1316 Noble Rd.,
Concordia.
NOW HIRING
A Retail Merchandiser
in your area! Great pay, lexible
hours
. Call 636-534-2510.
Email kschmaltz@
premiumretail.com;
Online
http://wearepremium.com/
apply
Join our Pediatric Team
Full-Time
In Miltonvale
Weekly Pay, Full Beneits.
New Grads Welcome to apply.
ZITS® by Scott and Borgman
Contact 785-493-0340
or apply online at
www.accessiblehh.com.
EOE
WARDCRAFT HOMES
Job Openings:
Framing carpenter, Finish
C a r p e n t e r, E l e c t r i c i a n &
AutoCAD Architectural Drafter.
Wardcraft Homes is a leader
in the modular home industry.
Full time positions with 401k,
health insurance, vacation and
sick leave..
Contact Wanda 303-396-5412
or homes@wardcraft.com.
614 Maple, Clay Center, Kans.
BABY BLUE® by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott
Jobs Wanted
JOBS WANTED- Preston Electric,
Concordia Proud! Business cell 785614-2768.
BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH® by John Rose
Full or Part Time Dietary
Aides. Responsibilities
include meal setup, service
and clean-up. Positions
include lexible scheduling,
starting wage above
minimum, and every other
weekend off.
Full-time Day Shift
Housekeeping. Position
is Monday-Friday with
weekends off.
For the opportunity to work
in the growing health care
industry submit an application
to:
To advertise your
Garage Sale
HAGER THE HORRIBLE® by Chris Browne
Call 243-2424
Legals
Sunset Home, Inc.
620 Second Ave.
Concordia, KS 66901
Or apply in person or online
at www.sunsethomeinc.
com. An Equal Opportunity
Employer. We do preemployment drug screening.
WANTED
Cloud County
Health Center
and
The Family Care Center
are currently hiring in multiple
departments. For a list of all
current job opportunities, go
to www.cchc.com and select
the careers tab or call
785-243-8522.
REWARD:
NEW competitive
wages and beneits!
EOE
Drug testing performed upon
hire.
CDL DRIVER
For Sale
LPN
Champlin Tire Recycling
is hiring for a
Full-time
Class A CDL Driver
Sign-on bonus plus eligible
for attendance/safety
bonuses. Beneits available.
Home weekends and most
evenings. Apply in person
at 301 Cedar, Concordia
or call 785-243-3345. EOE.
HELP WANTED
CDL Drivers Needed, Class
A or B (prefer Class A), home
nights and weekends.
Apply by calling
800-427-5328
DRIVERS- CDL-A. FT &
PT. Excellent Pay! Great
Hometime! Union Benefits
for FT! Excellent Sign-on
Bonus. EOE.
855-599-4608
BELLEVILLE
HEALTH CARE CENTER
Has Full-time Position Open
for
Day/Evening,
Cook-Food Prep
Beneit package available.
Apply in person at:
2626 Wesleyan Drive,
Monday - Friday, 8am4:30pm.
NOTICE- Let the Classiied Department at the Blade-Empire help you with
your advertising. Call 785-243-2424.
Sales Calendar
•Saturday, July 25, 2015– Public Auction at 9:00
a.m. located at Community Center, Jewell, Kansas. Coins,
Household Items, Tools and Collectibles. Darlene Thompson, Seller. Shelton Auction Service.
•Monday, September 14, 2015– Retirement Auction
at 10:00 a.m. Machinery and Equipment. Lambert Brothers Sellers. Larry Lagasse Auction.
•Saturday, August 8, 2015– Public Auction at 10:00
a.m. located 1 mile South, 3/4 miles West of Byron, Neraska, or 3 miles East, 4 miles North and 3/4 mile West of
Republic, Kansas. Pickups, Car, Boat, Tractor, Machinery,
Lawn Mowers, Tools, Household, Antiques and Misc. Mrs.
Gene (Dorothy) Fischer, Seller. Novak Bros. & Gieber
Auction.
Published in the Blade-Empire on Friday, July 24, 2015
The irst electric-powered
washing machine called
“The Thor.” was introduced
in 1908 by the Hurley Machine Company of Chicago,
Illinois.
Published in the Blade-Empire on Friday, July 24, 2015
Ask the Guys
Dear Classified Guys,
When I stopped by the town hall to
renew my dog's license, I mentioned
that I owned a ferret. That's when the
clerk told me that the ferret needs a
license as well. I joked with her and
said that the ferret doesn't drive, but
apparently she forgot her sense of
humor that day. She actually threatened to send out animal control if I
didn't get a license. Why is a license
required on animals that stay
indoors their entire life? I don't
need one for my goldfish.
• • •
Cash: Well, getting your goldfish to
wear a collar might be a bit difficult.
And the heavy tags would weigh them
down like an anchor.
Carry: Besides, wouldn’t that be
called a fishing license?
Cash: Surprisingly though, the clerk
at your town is probably right. Ferrets
are considered exotic animals and are
regulated by laws just like dogs and
cats. Each town can vary in its ordinances, and some choose to tighten up
regulations beyond the state guidelines.
Your town just happens to have a law
that requires ferrets to be licensed.
Carry: However, you should consider
yourself lucky. Some cities such as
Washington, DC or New York City for
Duane “Cash” Holze
& Todd “Carry” Holze
Reader Humor
Identity Complex
All animals have some kind of scent,
but the ferret is known for standing out
among pets. Its scent comes from oil
glands under the skin. Fortunately
though, once a ferret is neutered or
spayed, their odor can decrease dramatically. However, more importantly,
maintaining a healthy diet, clean ears
and teeth, and clean surroundings (litter
box, cage and bedding) will help keep
any odor under control.
The other day I was sitting on a
park bench reading your column. An
older woman walked up and sat down
next to me to read a book. I looked
over at her and noticed a small ferret
laying on her shoulder. The whole
time I was there the ferret didn't
move. It was actually amazing.
As I folded up my newspaper to
leave, I turned to the woman and
asked, "I noticed your ferret hasn't
moved the whole time we've been sitting here. Does he always stay
around your neck like that?"
Reaching up to pet the little guy
she smiled and whispered, "All the
time. He thinks he's a mink."
Rats
07/19/15
©The Classified Guys®
example, actually ban the ownership of
ferrets. And currently, the entire states of
Hawaii and California still ban these pets
as well.
Cash: If you buy a ferret through a
pet store, most likely the store would
supply you with information on licensing your new ferret. However, if you
find one through the classifieds, it's up
to the owner to check with the town for
any regulations.
Carry: Ferrets tend to be regulated
for several reasons. Like cats and dogs,
they are susceptible to rabies. Hence, a
license helps insure owners are getting
Fast Facts
Stinky Pet
the proper vaccinations for their pets.
Cash: Try getting your goldfish to
stay still for those shots!
Carry: The regulations also exist
because some municipalities believe
that ferrets would breed and become a
nuisance animal if ever released into
the wild. This argument tends to be
rather questionable. Most ferrets are
too domesticated to survive living in
the wild.
Cash: The same is probably true for
your goldfish. If he escaped, the farthest he'd probably get is the living
room floor!
www.ClassifiedGuys.com
While many people associate the ferret with the rodent family, it is not true.
Ferrets are mammals, and descend
from the Siberian or European polecat.
They are a part of the weasel family
and are related to minks, otters, skunks,
badgers and wolverines. Ferrets were
first domesticated thousands of years
ago and were a favorite among the
English nobility in the 12th to 14th century. Today's domestic ferrets have few
survival instincts. They suffer from
poor eyesight, poor hunting skills, and
have little fear of potentially dangerous
situations. They are best kept in a safe
environment.
•
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•
Got a question, funny story, or just want to give
us your opinion? We want to hear all about it!
Email us at comments@classifiedguys.com.
(Thanks to Douglas M.)
Laughs For Sale
Probably not the fur
she's always wanted.
Fur Sale
age.
erret with C
One large F Friendly.
Very
Best offer.
4 Blade-Empire, Friday, July 24, 2015
PEOPLE
Garden
(continued from page 1)
So a year and a half ago
when he saw a help-wanted ad for a gardener at the
Motherhouse, he jumped at
the opportunity to go back to
work.
Pounds has always gardened — from hoeing weeds
for his father, to a couple
of years as a commercial
grower providing vegetables
to Prairie Produce in Concordia, and as a Master Gardener through Kansas State
University Extension.
He has a garden at home
— although he concedes it’s
getting much smaller as he
spends the morning hours
working in the Motherhouse
garden.
He’s here around 6:00
every morning this time of
year, and works between
four and six hours a day.
As he harvests a wide array
of vegetables, they go to the
Motherhouse kitchen for the
Sisters who live there and to
the kitchen at Manna House
of Prayer. Surplus — and
there’s often surplus — goes
to the Concordia Senior Center or the Cloud County Resource Center Food Bank.
New crops this summer
include kohlrabi, tomatillo
and a few blueberry bushes.
Most additions come at the
suggestion of Sister Betty
Suther, who heads the Sisters’ Gardening Committee,
which is also responsible for
the Concordia Community
Garden of Hope.
Pounds also receives special requests from time to
time — including an idea
from Holly Brown, the Sisters’ Development Director,
to create a pumpkin patch
as a new family event on
the Motherhouse grounds
in October. In preparation, Pounds has planted
50 pumpkin hills in a newly
tilled plot just south of the
Community Garden.
He includes that in his
rounds each morning, as
well as the main garden and
the nearly equal-in-size garden to the south of the Motherhouse garages where there
is asparagus, Jerusalem
artichoke and all the vining
crops. And he swings by the
greenhouse, also behind the
Motherhouse, at least once
or twice in a morning.
Pounds laughs as he recalls one day early on in his
new job as gardener when
he was wearing a pedometer just to gauge whether he
was getting enough exercise.
That day he walked 8 miles
crisscrossing the Motherhouse grounds.
It’s that energy and enthusiasm for the work that
most impresses Motherhouse facilities administrator Greg Gallagher. He
points out the martin house
Pounds added, plus the lowers interspersed among the
vegetables and the weed-free
paths.
“The garden is truly a
thing of beauty,” Gallagher
says. “You can tell Lyle’s
heart is there.”
Pounds, however, is not
quick to take credit.
“This spot has been a garden for probably 100 years
or more,” he says, standing
among the corn stalks in the
main garden. “And it’s still
incredibly fertile. Gardeners
before me brought in grass
clippings, sheep manure,
anything to help the soil.
Sister Annie — this is her
footprint. I’m just the next
person in line.”
Senior Citizens Menu
Monday, July 27—Sloppy Joes, French fries, coleslaw,
cookies; 10 a.m.—Exercise.
Tuesday, July 28—Pork cutlets, boiled potatoes, creamed
peas.
Wednesday, July 29—Scrambled eggs, biscuits and
gravy, sausage patty, Mandarin oranges, grape juice; 10
a.m.—Exercise.
Thursday, July 30—Chicken and dumplings, green bean
casserole, blueberry cake.
Friday, July 31—Hamburgers with ixin’s, potato salad,
peaches; 10 a.m.—Exercise.
Fresh coffee and cinnamon rolls daily, 9-11 a.m.
Call Teddy at 24-1872 for questions or to make reservations.
Annie’s “My Favorite Older Person”
Mailbox
by Kathy Mitchell and
Marcy Sugar
Dear Annie: I am 62 years
old and have been married to
"Clyde" for 12 years. We do
not have a sexual relationship. He prefers to sleep on
the sofa and always has,
saying it's more comfortable.
Clyde had a horrible
childhood. He told me that
his mother had sex with various men in his presence. On
the weekends, he would stay
with his paternal grandparents, where he witnessed his
uncle abusing his aunt. His
grandmother is the only one
who showed him any love,
and while there, he slept on
the sofa.
Prior to meeting my husband, I contracted herpes. I
am allergic to latex so sex is
always a risk. He knew this
prior to our marriage and
things were OK then. But after we married, sex became
infrequent, partly due to his
erectile dysfunction. He informed me that I was no longer attractive to him because
I had gained weight (so has
he) and he fears getting herpes.
I don't know what to do.
Clyde is moody and I sometimes feel that I'm walking on
eggshells. He can acknowledge that he is dificult, but
he doesn't change. We love
each other and share a fairly
comfortable life, but I miss
an intimate relationship.
Clyde will not go to counseling. In fact, he dislikes
speaking of our problems in
the bedroom and becomes
so angry that I once put my
feelings in a letter. He tore it
up without reading it. Any
advice? — Missing My Husband
Dear Missing: Clyde's
background indicates a lot of
unresolved issues about sex
and intimacy, but if he refuses to address them, there
is little you can do to change
how he responds. However,
you can get counseling for
yourself. A good counselor
will help you focus on what's
important to you and decide
what is best for you, including ways to cope with the
situation you have with less
frustration.
Dear
Annie:
"Good
Daughter" said her mother
endlessly stole the limelight.
I've observed the exact
same behavior in both my
husband's mother and mine,
and it seems to have started
in their 70s. I wondered if it
had to do with them ighting
the feeling of being invisible
or irrelevant in their families'
lives.
As I transition into the
empty-nest phase of life, I'm
beginning to get a glimpse of
what it feels like to go from
being the center (and coordinator) of all family activities into a much less active
role in my kids' lives, and I'm
sure it will be even more pronounced over time.
We all need to feel needed.
In our younger years, we race
through our busy lives. Once
we reach our senior years, all
of these connections and obligations fade. We need others to validate that we still
matter. While this doesn't
make it any more pleasant
to observe the redirection of
every conversation, a little
perspective might encourage
more tolerance. — Patient
Daughter
Dear Patient: While we
aren't sure that applies to all
cases (many people are selfabsorbed from childhood
on), we agree that the sense
that one is invisible and unimportant can push people
to assert themselves this
way. Thank you for providing a plea for understanding.
Annie's Mailbox is written
by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy
Sugar, longtime editors of the
Ann Landers column. Please
email your questions to anniesmailbox@creators.com,
or write to: Annie's Mailbox,
c/o Creators Syndicate, 737
3rd Street, Hermosa Beach,
CA 90254. You can also ind
Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.
To
ind out more about Annie's
Mailbox and read features
by other Creators Syndicate
writers and cartoonists, visit
the Creators Syndicate Web
page at www.creators.com.
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Workshop will address
chronic health conditions
Spots are still available in
a seven-week program that
will be offered in Concordia
to address the challenges of
chronic health conditions.
Registration deadline
for the Kansans Optimizing
Health Program—or KOHP,
pronounced “cope” is Aug.
24.
The workshop, which is
limited to 20 participants,
begins Thursday, Aug. 27, at
Neighbor to Neighbor, 103 E.
6th St. and will be from 9 to
11:30 a.m. for seven Thursdays, Caregivers, family and
friends are encouraged to attend with the person living
with a chronic health condition.
There is no charge to take
part and each participant
will receive a free copy of the
textbook “Living a Healthy
Life with a Chronic Condition.”
To register, call Neighbor
to Neighbor at 262.4215.
KOHP was developed at
Stanford University and designed by the Kansas Health
Department. It speciically
addresses living with arthritis, diabetes, heart disease and lung disease, but
includes all other chronic
health issues as well.
Leading the discussion
will be Pat Gerhardt and Sister Jean Befort, both of whom
live with chronic conditions
and who have completed the
Health Department training
to serve as KOHP facilitators.
Both women live in Concordia, where Gerhardt is an extension agent with the River
Valley District and Befort is
co-director of Neighbor to
Neighbor.
Topics that will be discussed include:
•Becoming more physically active safely
•Making healthy food
choices
•Communicating
with
family, friends and health
care team
•Dealing with dificult
emotions, frustration and
anger
•Setting and achieving
weekly action plans
•Identifying and solving
problems caused by having
a chronic condition
People who are interested
in the workshop but unable
to attend this session should
call for more information.
Another workshop may be
scheduled later in the year,
but no dates have been set
yet.
In conjunction with National Nursing Home Week last
May, fourth graders at Concordia Elementary School
wrote essays about their favorite older person.
Sunset Home residents chose four students from each
fourth grade classroom to read their essays at the Home.
These students read to the residents May 13.
The Blade published many of these essays, but because of a misunderstanding, not all of the essays were
delivered to our ofice. Any fourth grader who had a winning essay that did not get published is asked to please
mail or bring it in and we will be glad to run it. Following
is one essay that accidentally was overlooked.
My Favorite Older Person
René Brown
By Rebekah Brown
Filing papers each day is what my favorite older person does. My favorite older person is René Brown. She
has short hair and is petty as a rose and as sweet as cotton candy. She is nice, caring, kind and loving. She lives
in Concordia, Kan. We live in the same house because
she is my mom.
My favorite older person and I cook meals together
and also go shopping together. The meals we make look
yummy! When we are cooking, lour sometimes drops on
the loor quickly. When we go shopping, we try stuff on if
we are buying clothes. The clothes we buy are beautiful.
She is important to me because she loves for me and
cares for me. So I love and care for her back, because if
she was gone I would cry and cry because she is important to me. My favorite older person makes me feel all
gooey and joyful inside. My favorite older person is the
best person in the world!!!
Extension to present
gardening program
K-State Research and Extension Horticultural assistant, Aimee Wegescheide will
present a program on fall
and winter gardening, Monday, July 27, in the Cloud
County Courthouse basement.
Topics to be covered include: when to start seeds for
fall and winter harvest, cold
frames, hot beds, beneits of
mulching, frost protection,
and high and low tunnels.
Refreshments will be provided and the evening will wrap
up with door prizes.
Hours of the program
are 6-7:30 p.m. It is free,
open to the public and no
registration
is
required.
For more information, contact River Valley Extension,
785.243.8185.
SOCIAL CALENDAR
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SUNDAY
AA, 10 a.m., Came to Believe, 317 W. 5th, Concordia
Grupo AA de Concordia-en Espanol, 317 W. 5th, Concordia
NA, 7 p.m., CCHC cafeteria
MONDAY
AA, Belleville Crossroads Group, 24th and O Street,
Belleville
AA, Came to Believe, 6:30 p.m., 317 W. 5th, Concordia
TUESDAY
AA Concordia Gateway Group, 8 p.m., 317 West 5th
Alanon, 8 p.m., We Care, 6th and Valley, Concordia
WEDNESDAY
TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), 9 a.m., Catholic Religious Education Center, 232 East 5th
AA, 8p.m., Scandia Helping Hands group, United
Methodist Church basement
Came to Believe Group, Brown Baggers meeting at
noon, 317 W. 5th, Concordia
Agenda AA Literature Study, 8 p.m., 18 Delmar Street
THURSDAY
Alcoholics Anonymous Primary Purpose Group, 7 p.m.,
317 W. 5th, Concordia
FRIDAY
Came to Believe Group, noon, 317 W. 5th, Concordia
Alcoholics Anonymous, Concordia Gateway Group, 8
p.m., 317 W. 5th, Concordia
Call Cloud County Chemical Dependency Committee
(CCCDC) 24/7 hotline for assistance including area addiction group meetings. They also have a website that
lists all of its AA, NA, Al-Anon and OA meeting times and
places. Freedom Club Website is www.freedom-club.org.
Freedom Club address is 317 W. 5th Street.
DVACK Weekly Support Groups in Concordia
Tuesdays—Domestic Violence Support Group; the
dynamics of domestic violence, safety planning, healthy
relationships and boundaries; Sexual Assault/Women
Empowered Support Group; trauma, coping techniques
and self-care.
Wednesdays—Survivors with Disabilities Support
Group; navigating various systems, accessing universal
services without discrimination, individual rights and opportunities and empowerment; Economic Support Group,
budgeting, individual assessment and relection of inancial literacy, gaining employment and inancial goal setting.
Thursdays—Domestic Violence Parent Support Group;
cycle of abuse, identifying children’s emotions and coping
behaviors, establishing solid family connections and support; Sexual Assault Parent Support Group; child trauma, triggers and coping techniques.
Call 785.243.4349 for times/location and to preregister for support group meetings.
Blade-Empire, Friday, July 24, 2015 9
Courthouse
CIVIL
Settled:
Salina Concrete Products Inc. received a judgment of $2,170.19 plus inance charges for a total of
$2,292.54 from Matthew
Steward dba Tholstrup Masonry, Concordia.
LIMITED CIVIL
Dismissed:
The case of Rentals for
Retirement
vs.
Easebio
Nava, Concordia, has been
dismissed.
Settled:
Mike Strong dba Mike’s
Payday Loans received a
judgment of $931.02 plus
interest and costs from Darlene Funk aka Timmons,
Concordia.
Mike Strong dba Mike’s
Payday Loans received a
judgment of $227.58 plus
interest and costs from Chris
Hillman, Concordia.
Filed:
Credit Management Services Inc. seeks a judgment
of $758.20 plus interest and
costs from Julie Radden,
Concordia.
Cloud County Health
Center et al seeks a judgment of $675.25 plus interest and costs from Daniel
Gilmore, Concordia.
Cloud County Health
Center et al seeks a judgment of $1,298 plus interest
and costs from Gary A. Bottarini, Concordia.
Cloud County Health
Center et al seeks a judgment of $1,168.18 plus interest and costs from Denise
L. Nelson, Concordia.
Cloud County Health
Center et al seeks a judgment of $871.52 plus interest and costs from Paula
Mendenhall, Concordia.
Cloud County Health Center et al seeks a judgment of
$2,467.77 plus interest and
costs from Thomas L. Anderson Jr., Concordia.
Cloud County Health
Center et al seeks a judgment of $1,150 plus interest and costs from Steven D.
Schenk, Concordia.
Cloud County Health
Center et al seeks a judgment of $621 plus interest
and costs from Miguel A.
Muriel, Concordia.
Cloud County Health
Center et al seeks a judgment of $1,674 plus interest and costs from Kirk Barr
etal, Concordia.
Cloud County Health
Center et al seeks a judgment of $780.27 plus interest and costs from Linda
Wogomon et al, Concordia.
Cloud County Health
Center et al seeks a judgment of $1,696 plus interest
and costs from Penny Baxa
et al, Cuba.
Cloud County Health
Center et al seeks a judgment of $206 plus interest
and costs from Brandon Levi
SMALL CLAIMS
Dismissed:
The case of John R.
Royston vs. Robert Gilbert,
Concordia, has been dismissed upon settlement of
all claims between parties.
Filed:
Brenda Marcotte seeks
a judgment of $1,700 from
Matt Seward, Concordia.
Debra Morales seeks a
judgment of $110.12 from
Dallas C. Combs, Mankato.
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TRAFFIC
All Subtypes
July 15-21
The following people received ines for Speeding:
Brian J. Betlej, $183; Lacy
J. Blomberg, Kevin S. Davis, Elsie K. Feight, Jan J.
Giovino, Helen McLemore
Ham, Yvonne M. Hill, Thomas T. Inkelaar II, Christian
E. Loges, Brandon D. Lott,
Sarah A. May, Shelia Lynn
Phillips, Jon W. Pope, Linda
S. Sunquist, $153; Kasey L.
Dedonder, $195; Jesse D.
Elliott, $183; Tiffany Gitanis, $189; Ruth E. Hovermale, $195; Muhammad A.
Khalid, $231; Brandon J.
Lynn, $246; Daniel B. Mader, $171; Don T. Nguyen,
$249; Ian Medina, $222;
Portillo Maldonado W. Santos, $213; Robin S. Vernon, $285; Mary R. William,
$208.
Receiving ines for other
violations were: Brandon A.
Anguish, Tiffany R. Gatanis,
Jason G. Tanner, failure to
wear seat belt, $10; Brandon
A. Anguish, vehicles, unlawful acts, e.g. registration,
$158; Jay Lynn Rhudolph,
liability insurance required,
$408; Paine R. Taylor, driving under the inluence of
drugs/alcohol, 1st conviction, $1,098; Rachel K. Troyer, child passenger safety,
restraining systems and seat
belts, $168.
LEGAL TRANSFERS
Warranty Deeds:
Nancy Bishop aka Nancy
Bishop-Struble to Jacalyn R.
Harlow, the east 53 feet of lot
7 and the west 8 feet of lot
8 in block 2 of the irst addition to the city of Glasco,
Cloud County Kansas.
Irene F. Brown to Irene F.
Brown, trustee, and Irene F.
Brown revocable inter vivos
trust, the south 100 feet of
the east 150 feet of block
5 in College Heights addition, an addition to the city
of Concordia, Cloud County
Kansas according to the recorded plat thereof.
Michael G. Stueder and
Samantha Stueder to Lynelle Bergstrom, the east 66
feet of the west 110 feet of
lot 2 in block 56 in the city
of Concordia, Cloud County
Kansas according to the recorded plat thereof.
Jarrod Brooks and Adrianne L. Brooks to James R.
Labarge, trustee, Marlys J.
Labarge, trustee, and J & M
Labarge revocable trust, the
west half of lot 2 and all of
lot 3 in block 88 in the city
of Concordia, Cloud County
Kansas.
Todd P. Nicholson and
Chylene E. Nicholson to
Scott Dinger and Dana
Dinger, a tract of land in the
southwest quarter northwest quarter 250’x656.5’
and a tract of land in the
southwest quarter northwest quarter lying north
of state highway K-9 and a
tract of land in the southwest
quarter
northwest
quarter containing 1.0 acres
more or less in section 35-53 west of the 6th P.M. Cloud
County Kansas.
Transfer on Death Deed:
Richard H. Heersche and
Karen C. Heersche to Jennifer C. Heersche and Jeffrey
R. Heersche, part of north-
east part of northwest part
of southwest quarter/quarter of the northwest quarter consideration: the north
half northwest quarter and
southwest quarter northwest quarter except highway
right-of-way in section 31-85 in Cloud County Kansas
commonly known as 2 Acorn
Road.
Quit Claim Deeds:
Ila Ferne Nelson to Paul L.
Nelson, Block 00, lot 04-07,
lots 6 and 7 the east 5 1/2’ of
the alley running north and
south between lots 4 and 5
all in Jamison’s subdivision
of a part of the northwest
quarter northeast quarter
of section 14-8-5 west of the
6th P.M. in the city of Glasco
Cloud County Kansas; Block
04, lots 06-10, all of lots 6
and 7 and 8 and all of lot 9
and 10 in block 4 of Spaulding’s addition to the city of
Glasco Cloud County Kansas except easements and
restrictions of record.
Roy J. Koenig and Sheva
L. Koenig to Roy J. Koenig
and Sheva L. Koenig, Block
53, lots 08-09, metes and
bounds; Lots 8 and 9 in
block 53 in the city of Concordia, Cloud County Kansas.
Smith to present
information on 420,
710, other drug trends
“What you need to know:
New drugs that our kids already know about” is the title
of the two free presentations
set for Thursday, Aug. 13.
Lynn Smith, community
prevention consultant with
Prevention and Recovery Services Inc., based in Topeka,
will be the presenter. He will
speak at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.
in Cook Theatre at Cloud
County Community College.
Information will be the same
at both sessions, so those
planning to attend can pick
the most convenient time.
The information is valuLynn Smith
able for everyone and parents
of middle school, junior high
and high school students are local drug trends and data
especially encouraged to at- on how Cloud County youth
compare to the state when
tend.
Smith is a graduate of looking at substance use.
Kansas State University who He also will provide informaspent six years as the youth tion on emerging drugs, both
development coordinator and statewide and nationally.
A certiicate of attendance
community mobilizer with
will
be available for health
Safe Streets, another PARS
program before moving to care professionals seeking
the prevention ofice in June continuing education credit.
EARLY HISTORY OF 2012. He also worked as a
Sponsoring the free preCLOUD COUNTY
mental health case manager sentations is the Cloud
By H.E. Smith
and a workforce development County Chemical DepenIN BUSINESS HOURS
dency Committee, which is
specialist for seven years.
At his Concordia presen- funded by a local portion of
“It’s a poor head that can- tations, Smith will discuss state alcohol taxes.
not bear a glass of wine,”
said the young man. “Few
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heads can bear it in business hours,” was the reply. There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling
“So take a friend’s advice,
ones, others which excite by their vigor.
Howard, and let the wine
-Paul Gauguin
alone.”
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The last speaker was past
the meridian of life. He had
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ful and strong, and meant to
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win in the race of life.
“Why do you say in business hours, Mr. Clarkson?”
inquired the young man, as
he held the wine near his
lips. “Because success in
business requires a clear
head; and no head is as
clear after a glass of wine is
taken as it was before.”
Mr. Clarkson said this
so gravely and impressively that his companion was
struck by his manner, and
felt that he spoke from painful experience. He stood irresolute for a moment, and
then set down the untasted
glass of wine.
“Right, my young friend!”
There was a tone of satisfaction in Mr. Clarkson’s
voice. “But,” said Howard,
as he moved back from a
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table covered with the dain- Difficulty Level
tiest refreshments and the
choicest wines—surrounded
by beauty and fashion—”I
see many of our successful
business men here, and they
are taking wine freely. At a
bridal reception no one can
refuse.”
Register of Deeds
Judy Lambert
(continued)
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CRIMINAL
Suzette L. Wharton appeared July 22 and was
found Guilty and convicted
of No Fishing License. She
was ordered to pay the costs
of the action in the sum of
$108 by Aug. 19. Her ine
was waived. Defendant shall
reappear before the Court at
9 a.m., Aug. 19, if all costs
are not paid in full.
Brundridge, Concordia.
Cloud County Health
Center et al seeks a judgment of $516.01 plus interest and costs from Cayleen
Britt et al, Jamestown.
Cloud County Health
Center et al seeks a judgment of $398.65 plus interest and costs from Emmet
M. Rudolph et al, Concordia.
Cloud County Health
Center et al seeks a judgment of $3,895.18 plus interest and costs from John
H. Hamilton II, et al, Aurora.
Cloud County Health
Center et al seeks a judgment of $439.45 plus interest and costs from Katrina
R. Ramirez, et al, Concordia.
Cloud County Health
Center et al seeks a judgment of $3,300.10 plus interest and costs from Renee
Wright, Concordia.
Cloud County Health Center et al seeks a judgment of
$424 plus interest and costs
from Victoria Faith Gilmore
et al, Clyde.
Cloud County Health
Center et al seeks a judgment of $4,197.40 plus interest and costs from Steven
H. Patton, Simpson.
Cloud County Health Center et al seeks a judgment of
$1,659.15 plus interest and
costs from Randall Eugene
Whitley et al, Concordia.
Cloud County Health
Center et al seeks a judgment of $379.80 plus interest and costs from Barbara
Ann Hubert et al, Clyde.
Cloud County Health
Center et al seeks a judgment of $331.98 plus interest and costs from Lisa Stevenson, Waterville.
Cloud County Health
Center et al seeks a judgment of $5,982.50 plus interest and costs from Austin
Kibler-Deyoe, Concordia.
Cloud County Health
Center et al seeks a judgment of $402.72 plus interest and costs from Rachel A.
Moore, Lindsborg.
Cloud County Health
Center et al seeks a judgment of $499.05 plus interest and costs from Angel Sierra Malcuit, Belleville.
Cloud County Health
Center et al seeks a judgment of $7,774.40 plus interest and costs from Roger
B. Schmidt, Russell.
PCA Acquisitions seeks a
judgment of $1,326.38 plus
interest and costs from Shelbi R. Hamel, Concordia.
Midland Funding LLC
seeks a judgment of $587.90
plus costs from Donna
James, Concordia.
Central National Bank
seeks a judgment of $373.92
plus interest and costs from
Angela Mares, Concordia.
Retta Waite seeks a judgment of $270.50 from Rodney Eugene Mosher, Concordia.
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Markets
Major
stock
indexes
moved lower in afternoon
trading Thursday, on course
for their third down day in a
row. Disappointing earnings
and outlooks from several
big companies, including
American Express, Caterpillar and 3M weighed on the
market. Utilities were among
the biggest decliners.
KEEPING SCORE: The
Dow Jones industrial average fell 98 points, or 0.6
percent, to 17,752 as of
1:16 p.m. Eastern Time. The
Standard & Poor’s 500 index
slipped 10 points, or 0.5 percent, to 2,103. The Nasdaq
composite lost 16 points, or
0.3 percent, to 5,155.
SIZING UP EARNINGS:
Roughly one-third of the
companies in the S&P 500
have reported earnings so
far, and most have exceeded
Wall Street’s expectations.
Many companies have also
given cautious outlooks for
the second half of the year,
however, giving investors
reason to pause.
“Between the good news
of making or beating expectations but giving some
cautious guidance going
forward, the market may be
just sitting and waiting to
see how the rest of the (earnings) announcements come
in,” said Tim Dreiling, senior
portfolio manager at U.S.
Bank Wealth Management.
BLUE-CHIP BAGGAGE:
American Express, Caterpillar and 3M all released
weaker-than-expected
results, helping pull the Dow
lower. American Express
fell $2.54, or 3.2 percent,
to $76.45. Caterpillar lost
$2.79, or 3.5 percent, to
$76.97, while 3M declined
$5.23, or 3.4 percent, to
$150.20.
CRUISE
CONTROL:
Shares in General Motors
surged 4.2 percent after the
automaker’s second-quarter
earnings handily beat inancial analysts’ forecasts. The
stock rose $1.27 to $31.56.
RAILROADED:
Union
Paciic shares fell 5 percent after the railroad said
its second-quarter earnings slumped 7 percent as
coal volumes plummeted.
The stock declined $4.91 to
$92.77.
HIGH FLYER: Southwest
Airlines was up 5.7 percent
a day after the company
reported its ninth straight
quarter of record earnings.
The stock gained $2.05 to
$37.18.
Remains found in
Weather
lake may allow man’s
burial after 43 years
DNA testing that could take
weeks. There are no signs so
far of foul play.
“Circumstantially, everything points to it being Mr.
Shook, but we can’t conclusively say that yet,” Caldwell
County Sheriff’s Lt. Aaron
Barlowe said Thursday.
Kolbe, now 57, said she
met with a detective from the
sheriff’s ofice last month to
seek more information about
what happened to her father for a family genealogy
project she was working on.
She said the conversation
spurred the detective’s interest, and authorities decided to revisit the lake after
she gave them a newspaper
story from the 1970s about
failed attempts to ind him
by dragging the lake.
This time, a dive team
used advanced sonar –something not available when
LOCAL MARKETS -EAST
Shook irst disappeared – to
Wheat ...........................$4.77
ind the car in 30 feet of waMilo ......(per bushel) ....$3.91
ter.
Corn .............................$3.55
Kolbe said she doesn’t
Soybeans .....................$9.13
think his car ended up in
the lake by accident and she
says that he would not have
AGMARK
committed suicide.
LOADING FACILITY
“He would have never left
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us,” she said.
Wheat ..........................$4.77
But Kolbe said she also
Milo .....(per bushel) .....$3.91
did not know of anyone who
might have wanted to harm
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her father.
Wheat ...........................$4.67
Shook, who was 44 when
Milo ...(per bushel) ........$3.76
he disappeared, had retired
Soybeans .....................$9.13
from the U.S. Air Force as
Nusun .........................$16.30
a staff sergeant and lived in
the town of Sawmills, which
lies just north of the lake.
Kolbe said he worked in a
textile mill.
July 19, 20 and 21, 6-8:30 p.m.(Dinner for all at 5:30
The mostly rural area was
p.m.)—First United Methodist Church’s Vacation Bible
home to the irst modern
School, “Bible Blast to the Past” for ages 4-6th grade. Call
furniture factories starting
the Church to register, 243.4560.
in the late 19th century, acThursday, July 23, 2-4 p.m., Nazareth Motherhouse aucording to a county website,
ditorium, Games and Goodies, cards, board games, snacks
and empty buildings in the
and beverages. Adults of all ages invited.
heart of Sawmills point to its
Friday, July 24, 7 p.m.—Jeff Gordon, 50s/60s music
manufacturing past.
tribute band, Brown Grand Theatre.
Surviving family members
July 21-25—Cloud County Fair, events scheduled for
live mostly in Tennessee,
each night.
and Kolbe said her mother
Saturday, July 25, 1 p.m.—NCK Talent Show Auditions.
and siblings are coming to
meet with investigators Friday to discuss the case.
Tressie
Andrews,
a
70-year-old former neighbor
of Shook’s, said her children
often played with Shook’s
children. Andrews said she
never heard a disparaging
word about Shook.
“He was a very good man,”
Andrews said.
Kolbe said her father was
well-liked and outgoing.
During his two decades as
an Air Force mechanic, he’d
invite single comrades over
for dinner. After retiring, he
settled in his home state and
got work at a mill like many
in his family had done.
She remembers her father’s great baritone when
he sang songs by Hank Williams Sr.
“He sung all the time,”
she said. “He’d be driving,
belting out a song. He’d be
mowing the yard and singing.”
He also loved to ish and
would let her drive the car on
country roads as a youngster while sitting in his lap.
Student of the Month
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Robin Daniels (right), May Student of the Month at Concordia High School, receives her commemorative plaque from Cindy Thompson, employee at Central National Bank, Student of the on the road, but I was driving,” she said.
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SAWMILLS, N.C. (AP) –
Forty-three years ago, Pamela Shook Kolbe’s father
went out one night for a date
and never came home. Now,
her family may inally have
a chance to bury him after
a discovery at the bottom of
a lake.
On that night in 1972,
the then-teenage daughter
returned to an empty house
around 8 p.m. after hanging
out with friends. She eventually drifted off to sleep
thinking that her father,
Amos Shook, would be there
when she awoke.
“I went to bed, and I didn’t
think much of it, not until the next morning when I
woke up,” said Kolbe. “It just
felt like there was nobody in
the house.”
A feeling of dread set in
– then stretched four long
decades – for Kolbe, her siblings and her mother, who
was living in Tennessee after separating from her husband. Kolbe was the sibling
living with Amos Shook at
the time.
On Tuesday, investigators pulled a mud-caked,
rusty car containing human remains believed to
be Amos Shook from a lake
in the foothills of the North
Carolina mountains. Investigators found his identiication and wallet in the car,
which matches the model he
owned at the time he was reported missing on Feb. 19,
1972 from this community
about 75 miles northwest of
Charlotte.
Kolbe said she and her
family have felt a range of
emotions since the body
was found, but overall she
is happy that the discovery
is likely to bring them some
closure.
The remains are being
sent to the state Ofice of the
Chief Medical Examiner for
an autopsy. Medical examiners will try to use dental
records for a positive identiication, but may need to use
Today’s weather artwork by
Madison Starr,
a 4th grader in
Mrs. Thoman’s class
Authorities point to
evidence of suicide
in Texas jail death
HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP)
– While Sandra Bland’s family maintains that the woman found dead in a Texas
jail cell would not have taken her own life, authorities
are pointing to mounting evidence that they say shows
she hanged herself.
An autopsy showed that
marks around Bland’s neck
were consistent with suicide by hanging, and her
body showed no signs of
defensive injuries suggesting a struggle, according to
Waller County prosecutor
Warren Diepraam.
The 28-year-old Bland
had about 30 small cuts on
her wrist that were probably
self-inlicted within the last
few weeks, Diepraam said.
Some lacerations or abrasions also were found on
her wrists that he said were
consistent with a struggle
while being handcuffed.
Bland, who was from the
Chicago area, was arrested during a trafic stop in
Texas three days before she
was found hanging in her
cell on July 13. Her family
and friends dispute the oficial inding that she killed
herself using a noose fashioned from a plastic garbage
bag.
Texas Rangers and the
FBI are investigating. The
county district attorney
has said the matter will be
turned over to a grand jury,
which does not meet again
until August.
A woman who occupied
a jail cell next to Bland said
Bland was emotional and
wept often during her three
days in jail.
Alexandria
Pyle
told
KTRK-TV of Houston that
Bland was “sort of distraught” that a friend had
not come to bail her out of
jail. She said Bland told her
she “was not equipped” for
incarceration and thought
she was the victim of an injustice.
Pyle said she heard no
signs of a struggle in the
cell.
Booking documents illed
out for Bland after her arrest indicate she told staff
at the jail that she was taking medication for epilepsy,
though other documents
said she wasn’t taking medication.
Her sister, Sharon Cooper, told The Associated
Press on Thursday that
Bland suffered from seizures about a decade ago
but had not in recent years
and wasn’t on medication.
Jail-intake
documents
also contained other inconsistencies. For example, one
questionnaire said Bland
took pills in 2015 in an attempt to kill herself after
losing a baby, but a separate form illed out by another jail employee said the
suicide attempt occurred in
2014.
Church Directory
4J COWBOY CHURCH
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
221 West 2nd Street, Phone 955-0455
Pastor Paul McGuire
1022 E. 11th Street
Sunday, 10 a.m.—Worship
243-9773, 243-9767
Branch President, Kenneth Hansen, 785.280.1638
CONCORDIA FIRST UNITED METHODIST
740 W. 11th Phone 243-4560
Pastor Tessa Zehring
9:30 a.m.—Sunday School; 10:30 a.m.—Worship Service and Children’s Ministry
ASSEMBLIES OF GOD
Missionaries, Elder and Sister Gardner, 479-366-2285
HUSCHER UNITED METHODIST
VICTORY FAITH ASSEMBLY OF GOD
Sunday, 9:30 a.m.—Sacrament; 10:40 a.m.—Sunday School.
R.R. 3, Concordia Phone 243-3049
6th & Archer, Home 243-3043
CROSSPOINT CHURCH
Pastor Joe Koechner
Pastor Cory Shipley
Majestic 4 Theatre, 229 W. 6th St.
Sunday, 9:30 a.m. –Worship
Sunday, 9:30 a.m.—Sunday School; 10:30 a.m.—Worship;
Matthew Carder, Campus Pastor
10:30 a.m. – Sunday School.
6 p.m.—Evening service.
Andy Addis, Senior Pastor
JAMESTOWN UNITED METHODIST
Wednesday, 6 p.m.—IMPACT Youth Ministry; 6:30 p.m.—Victory Kids Outreach.
Sunday, 10 a.m.—Worship.
2376 N. 60th Road, Jamestown
BAPTIST
EPISCOPAL
Church, 439-6488 Lay Minister, Randy Whitley, 439-6353
Sunday, 9:30 a.m.—Sunday School;
THE BAPTIST CHURCH
CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY
333 West 7th Phone 243-3756
117 W. 8th, P.O. Box 466, Concordia 243-2947 (O)
10:45 a.m.—Worship.
Pastor David M. Fabarez
Sunday, July 26, 10 a.m. – Morning Prayer.
TRINITY UNITED METHODIST
FOURSQUARE.
Lincoln at Eighth Phone 243-3049
9:15 a.m.—Sunday School;
10:15 a.m.—Coffee fellowship;
10:45 a.m.– Worship. 6:30 p.m. – Youth Group.
Living Hope Foursquare Church
Pastor Joe Koechner
Wednesday, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.—AWANA (during school year);
Pastor Stuart Johnson
Sunday, 11 a.m.—Hymn Singing Sunday.
PRESBYTERIAN
7:00 p.m.—Prayer meeting.
129 W. 6th Phone 243-2289
Handicap Accessible
Sunday, 10:30 a.m.—Service.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH
Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. – Bible Study
233 W. 7th 243-3785
Pastor Brian Hughes
LUTHERAN
10:30 a.m. – Fellowship time with host Regina Wallace.
For pickup, call 243-3230
PEACE PARISH LUTHERAN CHURCHES
Sunday, 11:00 a.m.– Sunday Worship Service.
Sunday, 10 a.m.—Sunday School; 11 a.m.—Worship; 6:00 p.m.—Service.
Parish Ofice, 785.335.2267
18th & Archer Phone 243-3230
Pastor Bob Frasier
Wednesday, 7 p.m.—Mid-Week Service. We love kids!
Pastor Thomas Kamprath
BETHEL CHURCH
Ofice Hours: Tuesday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
PROVIDENCE REFORMED
FELLOWSHIP
122 West 6th (the Dance Company building)
Bethel Church
Wednesday, 9 a.m -11 a.m.; Friday, 10a.m. to Noon.
(nondenominational)
ADA LUTHERAN CHURCH, Rural Courtland
www.providencereformedfellowship.com
7 miles east and 1 mile south of Glasco or
Sunday, 11 a.m. – Worship.
Sunday, 9 a.m. – Sunday School; 10 a.m. – Worship.
2 miles west of 81/24 junction and 1 mile south.
AMANA LUTHERAN CHURCH, Scandia, Phone 335-2265
SCOTTSVILLE COMMUNITY CHURCH
CATHOLIC
Sunday, 9 a.m. – Worship.
Commercial Ave. Scottsville Phone 785-534-3227
OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP
AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH, Belleville
Pastor Joshua Krohse
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday, 9 a.m. – Worship.
THE WESLEYAN CHURCH
307 E. 5th Phone 243-1099
OUR SAVIOR’S LUTHERAN CHURCH, Norway, 785-335-2628
16th and Cedar, Phone 243-4071
Father Brian Lager
Sunday, 11 a.m. – Worship.
Pastor David Redmond, Lead Pastor
Priest’s residence, 420 Kansas
CONCORDIA LUTHERAN CHURCH
Pastor Bob Burns, Assistant Pastor/Visitation
MASS SCHEDULE:
325 E. 8th, 243-2476
Pastor Josh Blain, Assistant Pastor/Youth
Sunday, 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. Saturday evening, 5 p.m.
Sunday, 9:15 a.m. – Sunday School.
Sunday, 9:15 a.m.—Traditional Worship; 10:45 a.m.—Contemporary Worship;
Weekdays, 7:15 a.m
10:30 a.m. – Worship and Communion.
*Nursery is available for newborn thru 36 months during both worship services.
ST. PETER’S CHURCH
Coffee Fellowship.
Children’s Worship is available for children ages 4 through 1st grade and meets
Aurora
Fr. James Soosainathan
First, Third and Fifth Saturdays, 7 p.m.—Mass.
Second and Fourth Sundays, 8:30 a.m.—Mass.
MOUNT JOSEPH CHAPEL
Sunday, 11 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 11:15 a.m.
ST. PAUL’S LUTHERAN
during the 10:45 worship service after the worship medley;
Glasco, Kansas
9:15 a.m.—Sunday School for all ages.
Phone 785-568-2762
7:00 p.m. (during the school year) – FW Friends for
9:00 a.m. – Worship. Coffee Fellowship following.
children ages 4 yrs - 4th grade.
MANNA HOUSE
Rt. 56 for kids in 5th and 6th grades.
CHRISTIAN
MANNA HOUSE OF PRAYER
Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. – Delta Chi for kids in Jr. and Sr. High; Adult Bible Studies.
FIRST CHRISTIAN
323 E. 5th 243-4428
Nursery is available for newborn - 36 months during the school year.
6th and Cedar Phone 243-3449
Betty Suther C.S.J., Contact
For more information visit www.wesleyan.org/beliefs.
Jeff Nielsen, Pastor
Retreats, workshops, spiritual direction, bookstore and video tapes.
North Central Kansas Teens for Christ
Sunday, 9:30 a.m.—Bible School; 10:40 a.m.—Worship.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GLASCO
UNITED METHODIST
Dennis McAlister, Pastor 568-2344
GLASCO UNITED METHODIST
Hosting TFC Rallies on the 3rd Saturday of each month at the Brown Grand
Sunday, 9:30 a.m.—Sunday School; 10:30 a.m.—Worship;
David Geisler, Pastor
Theatre at 7:00 p.m. Providing Christian encouragement and programs
5 p.m.—God and Country Rally.
Sunday, 9:45 a.m.—Sunday School; 11 a.m.—Worship.
to students and families throughout the area.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
DELPHOS UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Sunday, 9:30 a.m.—Worship; 10:40 a.m.—Sunday School.
1646 N. 9th St., Salina, Kan. 67401
(785) 827-2957
Sunday, 7:30 a.m.— “Search for the Lord’s Way,” Channel 13.
We offer tribute to these
Church Sponsors
Richard J. Kueker O.D., P.A.
Michael E. Miller O.D.
Rod’s Food Store
Walmart Supercenter
Nutter Mortuary
Walmart Supercenter
John L. Fischer DDS
and Employees
and Staff
Concordia Chevrolet/Buick
Funk Pharmacy
and Employees
Doug Funk and Employees
C&C Truck Lines, Inc.
The Jamestown State Bank
Adolph and Beth Charbonneau
F.D.I.C. Oficers and Staff
Chaput-Buoy Funeral Home
Martin-LeSage Post No. 588
Joshua Meyer and Staff
The Citizens National Bank
Oficers and Staff
Cloud County Co-op Elevator
Association
Concordia Blade-Empire
and Employees
Dairy Queen
Ladies Auxiliary to the V.F.W.
Richard J. Kueker O.D., P.A.
Michael E. Miller O.D.
and Staff
Newton’s Electric
Gale and Mary
Nutter Mortuary
Bruce G. Nutter, Owner
Family Health Mart Pharmacy
Lowell and Employees
Steven Palmquist, Ken & Mary Ann Palmquist
EcoWater of N.C.K.
and Employees
Jason Martin and Employees
Rod’s Food Store
F&A Food Sales Co.
Rodney Imhoff and Employees
and Employees
ServiceMaster of N.C.K.
Farm Management Services
Dennis and Nancy Smith and Employees
310 Washington
LeDuc Memorial Designs
Troy and Shirley LeDuc, owners
Tom’s Music House
and Employees
P.O. Box 9, Concordia, Kansas
243-1154
Kent Otott, Director
CONCORDIA MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION
President—Matthew Carder; Vice President, Robert Frasier;
Treasurer, Tessa Zehring; Secretary, Rose Koerber.
Trinity and Huscher
United Methodist Churches
Why do cemeteries have fences?
Roman law, in the time of Jesus Christ, stated
that nobody could be buried within the city limits.
This could explain all the small cemeteries that exist
across this nation. In our own area, we have cemeteries that are surrounded by cultivated ields. Most
Pastor Joe Koechner
of them with fences and gates, but why?
If we look back on the early churches, we ind
that cemeteries were part of the church property. Often this area was consecrated
by the church, and boundaries were deined by either rock walls or fences. The
gateways of some cemeteries might resemble lichgates (an overhead structure
to protect the pallbearers and caskets upon entering the consecrated grounds).
Some cemeteries have an altar in their center, and burial lots are arranged by the
membership that person had to the church itself. Some are set up with all the headstones arranged so the body is facing the east, the reason for the orientation was
the belief that Christ will return from the east. Some had a separate area for those
who were not baptized, and yet another for those who committed suicide.
But why the fences? First, to mark the boundaries of the consecrated ground.
Church yards were to be maintained and kept in pristine condition. Second, fences
were built to keep wild animals out that might dig up the deceased, and also to keep
livestock out. Cows are known to rub against objects, and if they got into the cemetery they would knock over grave stones and damage altars and foliage. Third, to
mark individual family plots, not so much in our modern cemeteries, but especially
in cemeteries in the 18th century.
The term "cemetery" comes from the Greek, and means, literally "sleeping
place." May they rest in peace until the Lord Jesus returns.
—Pastor Joseph L. Koechner
1516 Lincoln, Highway 81 • 243-7900