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Monday, February 9, 2015
Multi-purpose facility at CCCC discussed
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Across Kansas
Officials concerned
about bat listing
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A pending federal decision on whether to list a small bat as
a threatened or endangered species could
affect some construction projects in eastern Kansas, although the extent of any
restrictions is still undetermined.
The U.S. Department of Fish and
Wildlife is expected to announce April 2
whether the northern long-eared bat will
be listed as an endangered or threatened
species. The bat has been hit by a fungal
disease called white-nose syndrome, which
has decimated its population in the northeast U.S. and appears to be spreading
west.
Kansas is on the edge of the bat’s range,
but 66 of the state’s counties could be
affected if it is placed on the federal list,
The Wichita Eagle reported.
The issue was highlighted last week,
when Wichita city engineer Gary Janzen
told the City Council not to delay decisions
on an interchange project for too long
because the bat listing could affect tree
removal at the project site.
The bat has been found in a handful of
north-central Kansas counties, including
Ellis, Graham, Marshall, Osborne, Phillips,
Rooks and Washington, according to Curtis Schmidt, zoological collections manager
at Fort Hays State University’s Sternberg
Museum of Natural History. He said the
restrictions will depend on whether the bat
is considered threatened or endangered.
“There’s talk right now that if they’re
threatened and not endangered, then each
region will be able to protect them differently based on how well populations are
and what the threats are locally,” Schmidt
said. “So if we go that route, our hands
probably won’t be tied as much.”
White-nose syndrome was discovered in
New York state in 2006, and the bat’s population has declined 99 percent in the
northeast, said Tony Sullins, chief of
endangered species for the Midwest region
of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department.
While no white-nose cases have been spotted in Kansas “researchers say it’s coming,” said Ed Miller of the Kansas
Department of Wildlife, Parks and
Tourism.
Two men sought in
Lawrence shooting
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Lawrence
police are searching for two men after a
shooting injured three people near the
University of Kansas campus.
Police spokesman Sgt. Trent McKinley
says police think the suspects and victims
in Sunday’s shooting know each other but
a motive for the shooting has not been
released.
McKinley says the search for the shooters was continuing Monday morning.
The victims were taken to Kansas City
area hospitals with injuries that were considered life threatening. Their identities
weren’t released.
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By Jessica LeDuc
Blade Staff Writer
The Cloud County Community College board of trustees
met with the college’s Foundation board of directors at a
study session Friday afternoon
to discuss the possibility of a
new multi-purpose facility on
campus.
Since September 2014, Carlton & Company, has been conducting a planning study for
the college to obtain facts and
opinions to develop a capital
fundraising campaign to build
a new multi-purpose facility.
After conducting interviews
with 80 individuals, the company determined that levels of
potential giving fall well short of
the amount needed to implement an $8 million fundraising
campaign.
“The extent of broad community awareness among both
alumni and the counties in the
service area outside Cloud
County is doubted — these
undeveloped aspects add up to
serious challenges,” the report
said. “While the college has
formed many sound relationships in the community, it is
the perception of the (interview)
respondents that these relationships are underdeveloped
both on the level of philanthropy and personal involvement.”
Rather than aiming to raise
$8 million for a field house and
health and wellness classroom
facilities, the company recommended moving forward with a
campaign to raise, at mini-
mum, $5 million.
College President Danette
Toone said the plan would
involve constructing a new field
house, which would include an
eight-lane indoor track, a practice field for baseball, softball
and soccer, a fitness center,
and courts for both basketball
and volleyball.
Foundation Executive Director Kim Reynolds said the facility would benefit both the
college and the community. Not
only would it be available as a
fitness center for community
members, but the courts could
be used to host weekend youth
volleyball and basketball tournaments.
Both of which, Reynolds
said, would bring people to
town and increase tax revenue.
Of those interviewed for the
study, 94-percent said there
was a need for new facilities on
campus. Ninety-percent of the
respondents said the time is as
good as any for the college to
launch a capital campaign.
Carlton & Company recommended that the college develop the strengths revealed in the
study to build the framework
necessary for a fundraising
campaign to begin in 2015 and
continue for at least 24
months.
Both boards also said they
thought it best to keep Carlton
& Company on board throughout the fundraising process.
Toone said their fee is 10percent of the total amount to
be raised, and is built into the
campaign.
“I’m definitely in favor of
keeping them on board,” said
trustee Larry Henry. “I definitely don’t feel comfortable talking
to someone about a million dollar donation.”
Toone said the college has
never attempted a capital campaign before, and having Carlton & Company’s guidance and
input would be vital.
“This won’t happen without
Carlton & Company or someone like them,” said Tim
Gottschalk, Foundation president. “You won’t get to first
base without them. We have to
have a professional fundraiser
to make it go forward.”
Reynolds said Carlton &
Company will put a plan in
place that will be implemented
by fundraising team leaders,
who will work on a volunteer
basis. Those team leaders find
other people to help them make
calls to potential donors.
Many of the interview
respondents said they believed
the project would have broad
support, but Carlton & Company said it must have the full
support of the board of
trustees.
“We need the boards to be
active participants in the campaign,” Reynolds said. “Go out
and let people listen to you tell
them why you’re for it and passionate about it.”
Foundation board member
Shelly Farha said now is the
time to try to build the facility.
“I say let’s do it,” she said.
Charred
Shrubbery surrounding a yard stone at the Leroy Tholstrup home, 1765 N. 160th Road is
charred after a fire on Sunday afternoon. (Blade photo by Jay Lowell)
House panel introduces
plan to expand medicaid
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas would
expand state health coverage for the poor
and disabled in line with the federal overhaul but would tax hospitals and clinics to
raise any state dollars needed to attract
extra federal funds under a proposal outlined Monday by a legislative panel.
The measure sponsored by the state
House Vision 2020 Committee would allow
Kansas to require able-bodied Medicaid
participants to hold jobs or volunteer positions to receive coverage. The state also
would be able to charge premiums for coverage.
The committee is unusual in the Republican-controlled House because it’s not
dominated by GOP conservatives, and its
chairman, Rep. Tom Sloan, of Lawrence, is
more liberal than other Republicans.
There is still strong opposition among top
Republican legislators to expanding the
state’s $3 billion-a-year Medicaid program, which provides health coverage to
about 368,000 people.
Sloan said the committee’s proposal,
which would expand coverage to 169,000
more people, is designed to address the
reasons many GOP legislators give for
opposing a Medicaid expansion.
Hospitals have endorsed an expansion
and said they would support a new tax to
draw down federal dollars. The bill would
allow the state to tap them for a total of
$327 million over five years.
“It is an attempt to balance the political
realities,” Sloan told reporters.
A legislative committee in Tennessee
last week rejected a plan from popular
Republican Gov. Bill Haslam to expand
Medicaid there that emerged from nearly
two years of negotiations with the federal
government. But Indiana, led by conservative GOP Gov. Mike Pence, recently
expanded coverage under a federally
approved plan that includes health savings accounts.
The federal government promises to pay
the full cost of a state’s Medicaid expansion through 2016 and at least 90 percent
after that.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, a GOP
conservative, has said he’s open to proposals to expand Medicaid, which is now
barred by state law. But he and other top
Republicans question whether Kansas
could raise any matching funds.
“It’s going to be hard, but it’s
long overdue.”
Boone said the Carlton &
Company’s study would be presented at the next regular
board meeting for approval.
She also said she would present information and costs on
hiring an architect who would
start the formal drawings of the
facility.
Prior to the study session,
the board accepted a $50,000
grant from the Dane Hansen
Foundation for outside signage
for the Concordia campus.
A grant application, also to
the Dane Hansen Foundation,
was approved for the mass
communications program.
Toone said the English
department has been looking at
the former career center as a
new production lab for the
mass communications program.
Marc Malone, department
chair of the English department, said the space will be
renovated into a “hands-on live
learning lab,” that will provide
for radio and video production
and transmission. He said the
grant application will ask for
$200,000 to cover all the costs
associated with the renovation.
Tasha Riggins, mass communications instructor, said a
modern lab is necessary to continue to grow the mass comm
program. With an improvement
in technology, she said, it
would help keep Cloud competitive and boost the program’s
enrollment.
Right to hunt
amendment
proposed
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A proposed constitutional amendment that would guarantee the right to hunt, fish and trap in
Kansas is designed to turn away any
efforts by animal rights groups to restrict
or ban those practices, one of the
amendment’s sponsors said.
The amendment is co-authored by
Republican Rep. Adam Lusker of Frontenac and Rep. Travis Coutoure-Lovelady of Palco. If approved by the Kansas
Legislature, the proposal would go to voters in the next election, The Joplin Globe
reported.
“Vermont put it in their state constitution in 1777, so it’s nothing new by any
means, to protect those basic rights and
not have a threat of outside groups to
come in our state at some point and try
to impede them,” Lusker said. “We felt
like this amendment would protect that
right and those freedoms forever — as
long as we are a state.”
Eighteen states guarantee the right to
hunt and fish through constitutional
amendments. A similar proposal failed in
Missouri last year, but a lawmaker there
said it would be reintroduced.
Kristin Simon, a cruelty casework
manager with People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals, said such constitutional amendments make it difficult to
ban practices such as bow hunting and
body gripping traps, which she said
many citizens find offensive. PETA has
about 13,000 members in Kansas.
About 1.2 million people hunt, fish or
watch wildlife in Kansas, spending
around $906 million, said Ron Kaufman
of the Kansas Department of Wildlife,
Parks and Tourism. The state sold $22.7
million in hunting and fishing licenses in
2014, about a third of the agency’s revenue of $73.7 million.
In neighboring Missouri, a similar
effort was introduced in the Legislature
last year but didn’t advance. Rep. Charlie Davis, R-Webb City, who supported
the measure, said supporters will try
again.
“We look at our Missouri heritage, and
the vast majority of adults around had
dads or grandpas who went duck hunting, turkey hunting, deer — whatever —
and they’re now doing it with their kids,
grandkids,” Davis said. “Before someone
tries to take that away, we have to get it
in the Missouri Constitution, and in
Kansas.”
OPINION
2 Blade-Empire, Monday, February 9, 2015
Washington Merry-Go-Round
by Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift
By George Meyer
Today in History
10 years ago
Feb. 9, 2005—Raymond
and Jolene Kindel, Aurora, were the winners of the
2004 Bankers Award at the
Cloud County Conservation
District annual meeting. . .
. Concordia Fire Chief Jeff
Stricklin was heading into
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Feb. 9, 2010—David Coltrain joined the staff of the
K-State Research and Extension River Valley District
as a horticulture and community development agent.
. . . Members of the Cloud
County Commission and
USD 333 board of education were urging Concordia
city commissioners not to
use TIF money to partially
finance the 5th Street improvement project.
1 year ago
Feb. 9, 2014—USD 333
board of education approved
the resignation of Blair Alderson, district maintenance supervisor, effective
at the end of the school year
and for KPERS purposes.
He was to return Sept. 1 on
a part-time capacity. Michael Wahlmeier was hired
as the boys and girls tennis
coach and Doug Thoman
was hired as an assistant
junior high track coach. . . .
The Conchords composed of
Mike Charles, Bruce Brown,
Lloyd Preston and Eric Andersen were preparing to deliver singing valentines as a
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25 years ago
Feb. 9, 1990—James
and Shelly Haskins, rural Concordia, announced
the birth of their son, Corey Gene, born Jan. 27. . .
. Employees of the Boogaart
Supply Division honored
with service awards at the
company awards banquet
were: Mabel Christensen,
Emeline Sulanka, Rod Reusch, 20 years; Dorothy
Charbonneau, Leroy Regnier, Bill Powell, 25 years;
Rex Harper, Glen Hill, Ron
Deal, 30 years; Leland Martin, 35 years; and Jim Haist,
40 years.
the war zone in Iraq to manage the civilian fire service
and implement a paramedic
program at Camp Victory.
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50 years ago
Feb. 9, 1965—Charles
H. “Bud” Batdorf reported
he had sold his Circle B
Feed and Supply company
in Concordia to George and
Robert Sis of Belleville who
would take over operation of
the business March 1. . . .
Hamburgers were 19 cents
or six for $1 at the A&W
Drive In.
WASHINGTON – Ashton
Carter, President Obama’s
nominee to succeed Chuck
Hagel as Secretary of Defense, appeared before the
Senate Armed Services
Committee, and confirmed
that he favors sending arms
to Ukraine.
Ukraine is under attack
by Russian forces, spearheaded by Russian tanks,
which the Ukrainian Army
has no means of stopping.
The American arsenal has
available MANPATs (manportable anti-tank systems)
weapons capable of doing just that. Ukraine has
the need; the U.S. has the
means. But what is the history behind the holdup?
The nuclear age dawned
as World War II came to
a close in 1945, and the
concepts of war-making
changed. The initial U.S.
nuclear
monopoly
was
countered by a massive Soviet Army in Eastern Europe, which meant that a
Soviet conventional attack
would be met by a massive U.S. nuclear response.
It looked like stalemate,
but Soviet Premier Joseph
Stalin, a leader no less evil
than Adolf Hitler, devised
a safe solution to expand
communism: the surrogate
war.
Even before the guns of
the world war went silent,
communist
insurgencies
erupted and eventually
spread to Indochina, Malaysia, and beyond. Stalin armed Chinese communists, and China fell.
Then, in 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea
with Stalin’s support. By
the mid-1950s, Stalin was
dead, but France had lost
Indochina, and the Korean
War wound down to the
status quo-ante. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union became a nuclear power.
This set the stage for
wars in the nuclear age, for
wars during the Cold War.
The super powers could not
directly engage in combat
without risking a nuclear
conflagration and the expectation of mutually assured destruction.
In the 1960s, Soviet and
Chinese armaments supplied North Vietnam as
it fought a surrogate war
against South Vietnam
and its allies, especially
the United States. Stalin’s
surrogate strategy was winning there and elsewhere.
But the tables were turned
in Afghanistan in the 1980s
when Soviet forces invaded that country and were
countered by U.S. surrogates, the Mujahedeen,
operating out of Pakistan,
another nuclear nation. Afghanistan became the Sovi-
DOONESBURY® by G.B. Trudeau
Hostage’s family
hopeful she is alive
PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) –
The parents of a 26-yearold American who has been
held hostage for more than
a year by Islamic State extremists were clinging to
hope Sunday that their
daughter is alive, having yet
to receive information confirming otherwise.
Family friend Todd Geiler
said that the parents of Kayla Jean Mueller of Prescott,
Arizona, are in a very “fragile state.”
“The strain of not knowing where their daughter is
at and whether or not she
is alive or not is something
that is starting to wear on
them,” Geiler said. “But if
we had to go on ahead and
say in a word how they’re
doing, they’re hopeful for
her safe return.”
The parents are asking
the nation and the world to
pray for Mueller’s return, he
said. “This thing, it’s time
to have an ending. It’s time
to bring Kayla home to her
parents and her family,”
Geiler said.
The Islamic State group
said Friday that Mueller
died in a Jordanian airstrike. The government of
Jordan dismissed the statement as propaganda. U.S.
officials said they have not
seen any evidence to corroborate the report.
Mueller is the only known
remaining U.S. hostage held
by the Islamic State group.
She was taken hostage in
August 2013 while leaving a
hospital in Syria.
Her parents and a few
close friends kept Mueller’s
situation a closely guarded
secret to ensure her safety.
Since her identity was publicized Friday, they have
stayed out of public view
but released a short statement addressed to Islamic
State.
“You told us that you
treated Kayla as your guest,
as your guest her safety and
well-being remains your responsibility,” Mueller’s family said.
Meanwhile,
the
road
leading to their Prescott
home remains blocked off
by Yavapai County Sheriff’s
Office vehicles. In downtown Prescott, Mueller is on
the minds of most people.
Tourists stop to look at a
handmade “Pray for Kayla”
sign at the corner of a busy
street.
Mueller is an aid worker
who previously volunteered
with organizations in India,
Israel and the Palestinian
territories. She had been
working in Turkey assisting
Syrian refugees, according
to a 2013 article in The Daily Courier, her hometown
newspaper.
“She knew where she was
headed,” Geiler said. “She
knew what she wanted to
do. There was compassion
and caring for those less fortunate. She always wanted
to help somebody in need.”
***
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was
born in another time.
-Rabbinical saying
***
et’s Vietnam, and its troops
departed before the decade
was out.
The Soviet Union itself collapsed in 1991. Its
Eastern European Empire
was gone as were its internal “republics,” including
Ukraine. What remained
was Russia. It tried its
hand at democracy, and
soon reverted to its more
familiar reliance on strongman government reminiscent of czarist Russia and
Stalinist USSR.
Most of the Eastern
European nations joined
NATO, the U.S.-led alliance
that had confronted the Soviet Union throughout most
of the Cold War and now
confronted Vladimir Putin’s
Russia. However, Ukraine
was not among those nations brought under the
NATO umbrella, an umbrella that called an attack
on one an attack on all.
Putin saw opportunity in
this, and in 2014, his forces
quickly captured and annexed Ukraine’s Crimean
region. This was followed
by the supplying of arms
to Russian-speaking separatists in eastern Ukraine.
However, when those insurgents ran into trouble,
Putin sent in the Russian
Army. These were measured steps to determine
if NATO would react, and
when it did not, the next
step was taken.
It is now too late to bring
Ukraine into NATO, at least
while hostilities continue,
but the concepts of surrogate war are fully in play.
When Russian forces entered the war, NATO failed
to treat Ukraine as a surrogate, but that is what is
now on the table. If the U.S.
and NATO follow Ashton
Carter’s advice and change
that policy, arms will flow
to Ukraine just as they did
to the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan. The difference is
that the Afghans were fighting a guerrilla war, whereas
Ukraine is fighting a conventional war, and that
is a war Ukraine cannot
win unless NATO-supplied
arms make the cost of the
war in men and rubles too
high for Russian tolerance.
In the end, as with most
surrogate wars, the risk for
the surrogate’s patrons -the U.S. and NATO – is almost nonexistent, which is
why there is really no downside to supplying Ukraine
with the weapons it needs
– a strategy straight out of
Stalin’s playbook.
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PEOPLE
Annie’s
Mailbox
by Kathy Mitchell and
Marcy Sugar
Dear Annie: I am 26
years old and have been in
a wonderful relationship for
four years. "Cody" is my best
friend, and we are extremely
compatible.
Here's the problem: His
sex drive could run circles
around mine. Sex is the only
way he feels appreciated,
loved and needed. Cuddles
and kisses don't sate his
desire. This puts immense
pressure on me to accommodate him, and I'm starting to
resent it.
If Cody does something
sweet for me, such as taking
me to dinner, he will make
a casual joke about how I
should thank him in the bedroom. I have sat him down
before and told him how his
comments make me feel and
that I don't like the emphasis he puts on sex. He either
brushes it off, saying I'm too
sensitive, or gets upset and
says I should do the things
for him that he enjoys.
I love him and want
to make him happy, but
shouldn't that go both ways?
I don't want to feel like sex is
his favorite form of currency.
Any advice? — California
Dear California: The fact
that Cody likes sex and prefers it to other things is neither unusual nor worrisome.
But we don't like the way he
brushes off your concerns,
blaming you for being "too
sensitive." This is an indication that Cody is immature and dismissive of your
feelings. Pressuring you is
a form of controlling the relationship. You may think
Cody is terrific and your best
friend, but we think otherwise.
Sexual compatibility issues don't disappear. In fact,
they tend to get worse over
time, especially when compounded with the other traits
Cody displays. If you are determined to stay with Cody,
please get couples counseling to see whether you can
make this better.
Dear Annie: I am 70 years
old, but still enjoy an active
life with numerous outdoor
activities. My problem is
"Ralph," whom I've known
for 50 years.
When he has nothing else
to do, Ralph phones me to
talk ad nauseam about all of
his health issues, ailments,
pharmaceuticals, etc.
He never asks how I'm doing, but immediately starts
cataloging his myriad prob-
lems, none of which are critical.
I have a few issues myself, but I never discuss
them with anyone, because I
cannot conceive of anything
more boring than listening
to someone complain about
their aches and pains.
Fortunately, I have Caller
ID and can avoid Ralph most
of the time. He's a good person and a loyal friend, but
this has become an obsession I'd like to remedy. How
do I address this with him?
— Bored in New York
Dear Bored: We know
many people who enjoy giving "organ recitals," but
no one likes to hear them.
You need to be honest with
Ralph. He probably has no
idea how he comes across.
Do him a favor and tell him
nicely (and with humor, if
you can manage it) that his
fixation on his health, to the
exclusion of everything else,
makes a friendly chat difficult and a little depressing.
Ask that he limit his complaints to one per conversation so you can discuss other
things of interest.
Dear Annie: I am writing
in response to the letter from
"Logansport," who does not
like it when people talk during performances. I, too, find
it rude.
I simply ask the talkers,
"Don't you like the performance?" And with that, they
usually take the hint. I said
that to two senior women
last month, and though they
looked daggers at me, they
stopped. After the intermission, however, they moved to
another aisle so they could
keep talking.
We often hear about how
rude young people are today,
but I believe these young
ones often grow up to be
rude senior citizens. — Danville, Ill.
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By Jacqueline Bigar
April wedding planned
NICHOLSON-DOERING
Ashly Nicholson, Concordia, and Jeff Doering, Minneapolis, announce their
engagement. Ashly’s parents are Jerry and Marcia
Jensen, Jamestown, and
Tim Nicholson and Susan
Melhus, Concordia. Jeff’s
parents are Tammy Doering and Jim Doering, both of
Minneapolis.
The future bride graduated from Concordia High
School in 2002 and attended
Cloud County Community
College and Brown Mackie
School, Salina. She is a Registered Nurse at Salina Regional Health Center and the
Topeka Allergy and Asthma
Clinic.
The future groom graduated from Minneapolis High
School in 2004 and attended
Fort Hays State University.
Nicholson-Doering
He is a route salesman for
Mahaska Bottling Company.
The couple plan to be
married April 4 at Jensen
Farms, Jamestown.
Seats still available
for Valentine’s Dinner
Manna House of Prayer
still has a few seats available for its Valentine’s Day
Dinner.
The special dinner is a
fundraiser for the spirituality and retreat center at 323
E. 5th Street. Seating is limited, so reservations are required by calling 243.4428.
Dinner will be served at
6:15 p.m., Saturday, and
will feature a special menu
prepared by Sister Betty
Suther.
The menu includes a
strawberry spinach salad, a
choice of either chicken piccata or balsamic roast pork,
rice pilaf, honeyed carrots
and a special Valentine dessert.
Hints from Heloise
RECYCLING
GUIDELINES
Dear Readers: Recycling
may take a little effort, but
the payoff is well worth the
time. However, there are
items that should NOT be
recycled. Read over this
short list. Recycling centers
have different guidelines:
These products typically
are not recyclable:
Paper coated with plastic
(wax paper, cereal-box liners and ice-cream containers)
Grease-soaked
(pizza)
boxes
Books (softcover -- some
can be used, others not)
Tissues, napkins, paper
towels (soiled)
Motor-oil cans
Paint cans
Light bulbs.
Card Marathon
winners
Winners of the Women’s
Division of the Concordia
Area Chamber of Commerce
Card Marathon for January
were:
Bridge, Jan. 1-15—Joan
Bechard and Carol Chartier,
4290; Jan. 16-31—Shirley
Lind and Darlene Hepperly,
4380.
Pitch, all month—Nina
Sheely and Charlene Lesperance, 164.
Check with your recycler
about what is a “Yes” and
what is a “No.” -- Heloise
GRAHAM-CRACKER
CRUST
Dear Heloise: I make my
own graham-cracker crust.
I had a problem crumbling
up the crackers until I hit on
a method that worked. Using a square-bottom bowl, I
mashed the graham crackers with a potato masher.
It worked great! The potato
masher I use is round with
little squares. Then I just
add butter, put it in the pie
pan, spread it out and it’s
done. -- Janeen Miller, Santa Maria, Calif.
Senior Citizens Menu
Tuesday, Feb. 10—Chicken salad sandwiches, French
fries, green beans, brownies.
Wednesday, Feb. 11—
Goulash, corn, fruit cocktail,
garlic bread; 10 a.m.—Exercise; 1 p.m.—Booster Club.
Thursday,
Feb.
12—
Cream of broccoli soup with
crackers, ham sandwich,
apple crisp. Board meeting.
Friday, Feb. 13—Baked
ham,
sweet
potatoes,
squash, blushing pears; 10
a.m.–Exercise; progressive
cards.
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make reservations.
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A baby born today has
a Sun in Aquarius and a
Moon in Libra if born before
1:06 p.m. (PST). Afterward,
the Moon will be in Scorpio.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for
Monday, Feb. 9, 2015:
This year you have more
control over your life than
you have experienced in a
while. You have the ability
to detach and see the big
picture, which helps you
choose your commitments.
Others will look to you for
leadership, and you will
serve as a role model. If you
are single, you open up to a
different type of person who
exposes you to different cultures. You are likely to get
involved in a very romantic bond within the next 12
months. If you are attached,
your interactions with your
sweetie take on a new tone.
You will better understand
where your significant other
is coming from. SCORPIO
can be demanding and as
stubborn as you are!
The Stars Show the
Kind of Day You’ll Have:
5-Dynamic;
4-Positive;
3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult
ARIES (March 21-April
19)
**** You have the ability to move through issues
quickly. You often draw others toward you to help resolve problems. Though you
are an initiator, you like to
hear many different ideas.
You’ll bypass a problem today because of these innate
skills. Tonight: Be with a favorite person.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20)
*** You might feel pressured by someone who
knows you well. The real
issue will be figuring out
how to resolve this problem. You have the ability to
see through people’s games,
but you will need to incorporate diplomacy in order to
succeed. Tonight: Defer to
someone else.
GEMINI (May 21-June
20)
**** You might be full of
creative ideas in the morning, yet by the afternoon,
you could be questioning
how you should carry them
out. Know that your practical side is likely to emerge,
which could hinder you
from achieving what is possible. Tonight: Play it easy.
CANCER (June 21-July
22)
**** Fun events will
emerge, which could open
up many opportunities. How
you see someone is likely to
change as you understand
how important this person’s
needs are. You’ll want to be
supportive and able to offer
whatever you can. Tonight:
Allow the fun to begin.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
**** Your enjoyment of
others sometimes needs to
be restrained, especially
when negotiating or checking out a serious investment. On the other hand,
people just meeting you for
the first time could be disarmed by your charm. Tonight: Happily entertain at
home.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
**** You could be too serious about dealing with a
financial matter. You might
convey deep concern and
likely will encourage others’
trepidations. Say less for
now. In a few days, you will
see your tune change. Tonight: Catch up on a close
friend’s news.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
**** If you want others to
listen, present your ideas
early in the day so that you
can achieve the best results.
You could become concerned about your finances
and whether you can afford
the expenses that you have
your eye on. Only you can
make this decision. Tonight:
Time to treat.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.
21)
**** Though you might be
out of sorts in the morning,
you’ll perk up by the afternoon. Your charisma will
draw in more of what you
want. Trust in your ability
to express yourself and have
others come to your way of
thinking. Tonight: Beam in
what you want.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21)
**** Use the morning
to the max. Your ability to
communicate
effectively
will be at its peak during
that time. You can manifest much of what you desire. As the day goes on, you
will want to relax and think
about a decision or how to
proceed. Tonight: At home.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19)
**** You’ll begin to understand how many responsibilities have been dropped
on you lately. Take your time
absorbing this information,
and then decide whether
you would like to change
this situation. Reach out
to a loved one for feedback.
Tonight: Get together with
friends.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18)
***** You’ll have the energy to go after what you want.
Your mind often works overtime and takes you to some
strange places, but not right
now. You are on target with
having a situation go your
way. Know that you will
carry most of the responsibility. Tonight: Till the wee
hours.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20)
**** Togetherness seems
to be the theme today.
When having important
conversations, make sure
that they’re on an individual
basis. In the afternoon, you
might want to detach a bit.
Do you feel as though you
are on the right path? Tonight: Relax, play a game or
surf the Web.
BORN TODAY
Actor Joe Pesci (1943),
actress Zhang Ziyi (1979),
actress Mia Farrow (1945)
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Jacqueline Bigar is on
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Concordia High School faculty
representatives and student leaders
have selected Gage Canfield as
Student of the Month for February.
Gage is the son of Dave and Lisa
Canfield.
Gage has participated in National
Honor Society, Science Club, FFA,
Student Council as Executive
Treasurer, football, wrestling, golf,
Prayer & Action, and American
Legion Boys State. He is also a
member of the Catholic Church, and participates in CYO and Youth
Leadership Team. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with
family and friends, and hunting and fishing as often as he can.
Gage plans to attend Pittsburg State University in the fall to major
in field and environmental biology, with a minor in military science.
He also plans to join the Pitt State Gorilla Battalion Army ROTC.
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Sports
North Carolina CHS has three place in Rose Hill tourney
coaching legend
Dean Smith dies
Dean Smith was more
than simply a basketball
coach.
Yes, the retired Hall of
Famer left North Carolina
as the winningest coach in
men’s history after capturing two national titles along
with the 1976 Olympic gold
medal and coaching some of
the sport’s biggest names,
Michael Jordan among
them.
But he also was an innovator who left a lasting
influence on the sport, as
well as someone known for
his stand on civil rights
driven by the belief that it
was the right thing to do.
Smith died “peacefully”
Saturday at age 83 at his
Chapel Hill home, his family said in a statement
released by the school Sunday. He was with his wife
and five children.
Roy Williams, the current
Tar Heels coach and
Smith’s assistant for 10
years, said his mentor was
the “greatest there ever was
on the court but far, far better off the court with people.”
“I’d like to say on behalf
of all our players and coaches, past and present, that
Dean Smith was the perfect
picture of what a college
basketball coach should
have been,” Williams said in
a statement. “We love him
and we will miss him.”
Smith kept a lower profile
amid health issues in recent
years, with his family saying
in 2010 he had a condition
that was causing him to lose
memory. He was unable to
travel in November 2013 to
receive the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, the
nation’s highest civilian
honor presented to Smith as
much for his work off the
court as on it.
At the urging of his pastor, he recruited black athletes, and in 1967 made
Charlie Scott the school’s
first black scholarship athlete and one of the first in
the segregated South.
In a statement Sunday,
President Barack Obama
said Smith “pushed forward” the civil rights movement
with
Scott’s
recruitment as well as helping integrate a restaurant
and a neighborhood in
Chapel Hill.
Smith “showed us something that I’ve seen again
and again on the court —
that basketball can tell us a
lot more about who you are
than a jumpshot alone ever
could,” Obama said.
On the court, his “Four
Corners”
time-melting
offense led to the adoption
of the shot clock to counter
it. The now-common “point
to the passer,” in which a
scorer acknowledges a
teammate’s assist, became
a hallmark of Smith’s
always humble “Carolina
Way.”
He was a direct coaching
descendent of basketball’s
father, James Naismith,
playing and later coaching
at Kansas for the inventor of
the game’s most famous
student, Jayhawks coach
Phog Allen.
At UNC, he tutored perhaps the game’s greatest
player in Jordan — who
burst onto the national
stage as a freshman by hitting the winning shot in the
1982 NCAA final — and two
of basketball’s most successful coaches, fellow Hall
of Famers Larry Brown and
Williams.
When UNC held a
reunion for its 1957 and
1982 championship teams
in 2007, Smith drew the
largest applause from the
crowd in the arena bearing
his name, even as he stood
alongside Jordan and fellow
Tar Heel great James Worthy. During the ceremony,
Jordan put his arm around
Smith and kissed him on
the head.
In a statement Sunday,
Jordan said Smith was
“more than a coach ‚Äî he
was a mentor, my teacher,
my second father. Coach
was always there for me
whenever I needed him and
I loved him for it.”
Smith’s only losing season was his first, and he left
the game in October 1997
having surpassed Kentucky’s Adolph Rupp as the
winningest coach in Division I men’s history with
879 wins in 36 seasons — a
record now held by Duke
Hall of Fame coach Mike
Krzyzewski.
Sports in Brief
The Associated Press
GOLF
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Jason Day won a four-man playoff in the
Farmers Insurance Open with a par on the second extra hole
at tough Torrey Pines.
Day only made the playoff by a couple of feet. His chip from
behind the par-5 18th green in regulation came out hot and
was headed down the hill for the water when it stopped at the
yellow hazard line. He made par for a 2-under 70.
J.B. Holmes chose to lay up on the 18th and made par for a
72. They were joined in the playoff by Scott Stallings (69) and
Harris English, who birdied the last hole for a 72.
Day and Holmes birdied the 18th in the playoff. On the par3 16th, Holmes went long and missed a 15-foot par putt.
PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP) — South Korean rookie
Sei Young Kim won the Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic for
her first LPGA Tour title, holing an 8-foot birdie putt on the first
hole of a playoff with countrywoman Sun Young Yoo and Thailand’s Ariya Jutanugarn.
The 22-year-old Kim shot a 1-under 72 in the completion of
the delayed third round and closed with a 68 to match Yoo and
Jutanugarn at 14-under 278 on Atlantis Resort’s Ocean Club
course. Kim birdied the par-5 18th in regulation and won the
playoff with her birdie on the hole. Yoo finished with rounds of
69 and 70, and Jutanugarn shot 70-69.
Brittany Lincicome was third at 13 under after rounds of 68
and 70. Lydia Ko tied for seventh at 11 under in her first event
as the No. 1 player in the world. She shot 70-68.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Billy Casper, one of the most prolific winners on the PGA Tour who was overshadowed at the height of
his career by the “Big Three,” died of a heart attack Saturday
at his home in Utah. He was 83.
Bob Casper said his father died quickly and peacefully with
wife Shirley at his bedside. They had been married 62 years.
Casper passed out in the clubhouse at the Masters last year,
had work on his heart and recovered from a bout of pneumonia over Thanksgiving that kept him hospitalized for a month.
ROSE HILL — Zach
Strait, Tracer Workman
and
Gunner
Rairden
recorded top five finishes
for the Concordia High
School wrestling team in
the Rose Hill Invitational
on Friday and Saturday.
Strait placed third in
the 106-pound class for
the Panthers.
Workman, 152 pounds,
finished fourth, and Rairden, 113 pounds, was fifth.
Concordia placed 13th
as a team with 61.5
points.
Chanute won the team
title with 173.5 points.
Derby was second with
168.5 and Andover was
third with 138.
Strait, now 37-4 on the
season,
pinned
Jake
Patch, Andover Central, in
1:30 in the opening round.
He won by technical fall,
17-2, over John George,
Augusta, in the second
round.
Arthur Jesse, Independence, pinned Strait in the
semifinals.
Strait pinned Brian
Gates, Hutchinson, and
then beat Jayson West,
Maize South, 7-0 in the
third-place match.
Workman (25-18) needed just 47 seconds to pin
Cody Hancock, El Dorado,
in the opening round. He
then pinned Connor Spellman, Augusta.
Sam Kissane, Maize
South, pinned Workman
in the semifinals.
Workman pinned Alec
Stock, Andover. He then
lost 4-2 to Andrew Pelkey,
Wellington, in the thirdplace match.
Rairden (18-9) pinned
Mannie Gonzales, Fort
Scott in 1:08. He won a 42 decision over Bryce Garcia, Andale.
Jake
Goldenstein,
Augusta, pinned Rairden
in the semifinals.
Rairden dropped a 6-2
decision to Tanner Smith,
Derby. He beat Mike
Turkali, Valley Center, 3-1
in the fifth-place match.
Isaac Sprague, 126
pounds, went 2-2 for Concordia.
Gage Canfield, 138
pounds, and Jared Knapp,
160 pounds, were each 12.
James McCabe, 120
pounds, and Rope Dorman, 145 pounds, were 02.
Concordia will host Clay
Center in a North Central
Kansas League dual on
Thursday.
CCCC’s Robinson wins triple jump
LINCOLN, Neb. — Cloud
County Community College
jumper Damar Robinson
won the triple jump at the
Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational indoor track and
field meet at the Bob
Devaney Sports Center on
Friday.
Robinson had a leap of
50-1 3/4 to place first and
qualify for the NJCAA Indoor
Championships. He is currently ranked third in the
NJCAA.
Cloud County had four
other competitors qualify for
nationals while competing in
the meet.
Orwin
Emilien
ran
1:20.21 to place sixth in the
600-meter run, and qualify
for nationals. He also qualified for the national meet in
the 400-meter dash by running 48.26, which placed
him 10th overall and first
among junior college runners.
Solomon Afful turned in a
national qualifying time of
21.61 to finish ninth overall
in the 200-meter dash. He
was second among junior
college runners.
William Young advanced
to the national meet with a
time of 49.69 in the 400.
Jane Ahanta qualified for
nationals in the women’s
400 with a time of 58.70.
Cloud County also had
several athletes compete in
the Fred Beile Classic, host-
ed by Doane University.
Raven Davis won the
women’s 60-meter dash in
7.83, and qualified for the
national meet. Chanelle Barnett finished second in 7.85.
Stephanie Barrett placed
third in the 800-meter run
for the Thunderbirds in
2:21.84 and sixth in the
1,600 n 5:25.52. She qualified for the national meet in
both races.
Cloud County’s 4x400
relay team of Barrett, Barnett, Tiara Johnson and
Debbie Ames placed fifth in
4:16.26.
Rashell Reid threw 52-8
to finish eighth in the weight
throw.
Ajia Hamlin qualified for
nationals in the high jump
by clearing 5-1 3/4.
The Cloud County men
got a second-place finish in
the 4x400 relay with Young,
Boone Cady, Malik Jackson
and Xavier Harris turning in
a time of 3:23.67.
Jamal Namous placed
third in the 1,600 in 4:27.31.
He was sixth in the 3,000 in
9:21.80.
Harris ran 22.98 to finish
fifth in the 200.
Stevens Dorcelus placed
fifth in the long jump with a
leap of 22-9 1/4.
Zane Downing finished
seventh in the 1,000-meter
run, and qualified for
nationals, with a time of
2:38.14.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) —
Kevin Durant scored 29
points to lead the Thunder to
a 131-108 win Sunday over
the Los Angeles Clippers,
who were without All-Star
Blake Griffin.
The Clippers announced
before the game that Griffin
will be out indefinitely
because of a staph infection
in his right elbow. Without
him, the Clippers fell to their
most lopsided loss of the
season.
Russell Westbrook had 19
points, 11 rebounds and five
assists, and rookie Mitch
McGary had 19 points and
10 rebounds for the Thunder, who shot 52 percent and
moved back above the .500
mark.
Jamal Crawford scored
21 points and Chris Paul
had 18 points and 13 assists
for the Clippers.
Grizzlies 94,
Hawks 88
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) —
Mike Conley had 21 points
and six assists, Marc Gasol
finished with 16 points and
10 rebounds and Memphis
beat Atlanta.
The game was tied at 86
after Mike Scott’s 3-pointer
with 3:24 left before Memphis scored the next eight
points to put away the game.
Zach Randolph had 11
points and 15 rebounds,
while Kosta Koufos finished
with 10 points and seven
rebounds as Memphis outrebounded the Hawks 55-37.
One of those rebounds
provided the tiebreaking
basket, with Tony Allen tipping in Randolph’s miss to
make it 88-86 with 2:28
remaining.
Jeff Teague led the Hawks
with 22 points, shooting 9 of
13, while Kent Bazemore
added 14 points. Dennis
Schroder and Scott finished
with 11 apiece off the Atlanta
bench and DeMarre Carroll
scored 10.
Cavaliers 120,
Lakers 105
CLEVELAND (AP) —Kevin
Love scored a season-high
32 points, LeBron James
flirted with a triple-double
and Cleveland quickly got
back to winning.
The Cavs had their 12-
game
winning
streak
snapped Friday, a run that
started when they beat the
Lakers on Jan. 15. This
time, Love made five 3-pointers in the second quarter
and two more in the third as
Cleveland opened a 26-point
lead.
James scored 22 with 10
rebounds and eight assists
in three quarters. All-Star
guard Kyrie Irving added 28
points and 10 assists.
Rookie Jordan Clarkson
scored a career-high 20 for
the Lakers, who matched a
franchise worst with their
10th straight road loss. Los
Angeles hasn’t won away
from Staples Center since
Dec. 30 at Denver. The Lakers also lost 10 in a row on
the road in 1957-58 and
1963-64.
Raptors 87
Spurs 82
TORONTO (AP) — James
Johnson scored a seasonhigh 20 points in his return
to the starting lineup, DeMar
DeRozan had 18 and Toronto denied Spurs coach Gregg
Popovich his 1,000th career
victory.
Amir Johnson added 15
points, Kyle Lowry 12 and
Jonas Valanciunas had a
season-high 16 rebounds as
Toronto improved to 8-2 at
home against Western Conference opponents. The Raptors snapped a seven-game
losing streak against the
Spurs and won for the first
time in five home meetings.
Tim Duncan and Marco
Belinelli each scored 12
points, Kawhi Leonard had
11 and Tony Parker 10 as
the Spurs shot 31 for 93
(.333), their worst performance of the season. San
Antonio’s previous low was
.344 at Houston on Nov. 6 in
a 98-81 defeat.
Trail Blazers 109,
Rockets 98
HOUSTON (AP) — LaMarcus Aldridge scored 24
points and Damian Lillard
added 23 to help Portland
fight off a late charge from
Houston.
James Harden tied a season high with 45 points for
the Rockets, who are playing
without star center Dwight
Howard, out indefinitely
with knee swelling.
The Trail Blazers led by
17 in the second half, but a
big third quarter helped
Houston to a slim lead early
in the fourth quarter. Portland scored seven straight
points to break a tie and take
a 92-85 lead midway
through the period, with five
points from Meyers Leonard
in that stretch.
Houston cut the lead to
four points twice in the last 2
1/2 minutes, but Portland
answered both times.
Bulls 98,
Magic 97
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) —
Pau Gasol dunked in the
rebound of Derrick Rose’s
missed layup with 9.4 seconds left, and Chicago rallied to beat Orlando.
Jimmy Butler led the
Bulls with 27 points, and
Gasol finished with 25
points and 15 rebounds.
Joakim Noah added 18
points and nine rebounds.
Chicago led by as many as
16 points, before finding
itself in a six-point hole with
just over 2 minutes to play.
The Magic had two opportunities to win the game in
the closing seconds. But Nik
Vucevic’s hook rolled off the
rim, and Tobias Harris overshot a potential game-winning tip-in as time expired.
Victor Oladipo led six
Orlando players in double
figures with 18 points. Harris added 15, and Vucevic
14.
Pacers 103,
Hornets 102
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) —
George Hill’s baseline layup
with 4.9 seconds left lifted
Indiana to a come-frombehind victory over Charlotte.
C.J. Watson had 22
points and David West, Luis
Scola and Rodney Stuckey
each had 15 as the Pacers
battled back from a 21point, third-quarter deficit
for their third straight win.
Al Jefferson had 30 points
and 13 rebounds, and Brian
Roberts added 19 points in
the loss.
After Marvin Williams
knocked down a 3-pointer
with 14 seconds left to put
the Hornets up by one, Hill
drove the right side of the
line. He got underneath the
basket and turned around to
find himself alone near the
low block. He converted the
easy layup for the go-ahead
basket.
Timberwolves 112,
Pistons 101
AUBURN HILLS, Mich.
(AP) — Nikola Pekovic scored
29 points and Kevin Martin
added 24 to lift Minnesota to
its third straight victory.
Minnesota had not even
won back-to-back games
this season until this modest
streak. The Timberwolves
led throughout against the
Pistons despite the absence
of guard Ricky Rubio, who is
still recovering from a left
ankle injury. Andrew Wiggins scored 18 points for
Minnesota, and Thaddeus
Young added 16.
Andre Drummond had 17
points and 14 rebounds for
the Pistons, going 8 of 8 from
the field.
Detroit trailed 74-55 in
the third quarter before
fighting back to make a
game of it. It was 83-79 early
in the fourth, but a 3-pointer
by Wiggins started an 18-6
run for Minnesota.
The Timberwolves have
won 10 straight over the Pistons.
Kings 85,
Suns 83
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)
— DeMarcus Cousins made
a jumper as time expired
and finished with 28 points
and 12 rebounds as Sacramento beat Phoenix at the
buzzer.
It was the fourth loss on
the final shot for the Suns,
and like ones by the Clippers’ Blake Griffin and Milwaukee’s Khris Middleton
that hit rim or backboard
first, it wasn’t a pretty one.
Cousins launched a 19footer from the key that hit
the rim several times before
settling into the basket, setting of a huge celebration at
midcourt by the struggling
Kings.
Isaiah Thomas had 14 of
his 26 points in the fourth
quarter for the Suns, who
have dropped four of five
games. Goran Dragic added
13 points.
Griffin out, Thunder rout Clippers
6 Blade-Empire, Monday, February 9, 2015
ONE PLACE HAS IT ALL
THE CLASSIFIEDS
Card Of Thanks
CARD OF THANKS
Thank you to all my family
and special friends for
making my 87th Birthday
Special. Thank you for the
cards, flowers, and phone
calls and visits.
Bernie Swiercinsky
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Divorce to be focus of legislative hearings
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Divorce is expected to be the
main focus of two days of
information legislative committee hearings on marriage.
One of the key questions
to be addressed this week is
whether Kansas has made it
too easy for couples to end
their marriages, said Rep.
Jan Pauls, a Hutchinson Republican who serves on the
House Federal and State Affairs Committee.
“Some people have suggested it would be helpful to
have requirements of counseling, or extended or longer
waiting periods, as long as it
doesn’t involve domestic violence or problems like that,”
Pauls told the Lawrence
Journal-World.
Kansas is what’s considered a “no fault” divorce
state, which means that
either party in a marriage
can petition for divorce. The
person seeking the divorce
doesn’t have to prove that
there are legal grounds for it
beyond “incompatibility.”
Kansas also does not have
a mandatory waiting period before a divorce can be
granted, and it does not require couples to go through
counseling before a divorce.
Judges do have the discretion to order counseling, and
in some counties they do so
routinely, especially in cases
that involve the custody of
minor children.
“I think what’s being discussed is the idea that it
might be helpful to have
some people wait because
sometimes it’s a problem
that can be worked out,”
Pauls said. “Sometimes it’s
kind of in the heat of the moment, someone wants out.”
Among the groups expected to present information,
she said, is Focus on the
Family, a Colorado-based
organization that describes
itself as, “a global Christian
ministry dedicated to helping families thrive.”
In recent years, lawmakers have considered proposals for what are called “covenant marriages,” which are
voluntary arrangements that
require premarital counseling as well as marital counseling, and only limited al-
lowable grounds for divorce.
None of those proposals has
ever passed, and Pauls said
she is not aware of any efforts underway to raise the
issue again this year.
She also said she does not
believe next week’s hearings
will be a springboard to reintroduce the so-called “religious freedom” bill that
passed the House last year
but died in the Senate. That
bill would have given legal
protection to anyone who refuses, on religious grounds,
to take part in or recognize
same-sex marriages.
MUTTS® by Patrick McDonnell
ZITS® by Scott and Borgman
***
As I grow older, I pay less
attention to what people say.
I just watch what they do.
-Andrew Carnegie
***
Sales Calendar
•Wednesday,
February
11, 2015 – Online Auction Only Register and Bid
at GoldenBeltMarketing.
com. Plumbing, Heating
and AC, Rolling Stock, Well
Drilling Rig, Vans, Trucks,
Dumptrailers, Bobcat and
Attachments, Car and Cargo Trailers. Secured Creditors, Sellers. Larry Lagasse
Auction.
•Saturday, February 28,
2015– Land Auction at
10:00 a.m. located at the
Dinner Bell Cafe at 18th and
M Street in Belleville, Kansas. 160 acres (more or less)
cropland, pasture land, waterways and pond. Charles
(Bud) Hanzlick Estate,
Seller. Roger Novak Auction.
•Saturday, February 28,
2015 – Public Auction at
9:00 a.m. located at Kearn
Auction House, 220 West
5th Street, Concordia, Kansas. Furniture, Misc. and
Collectibles. Items in this
auction are from Lucy Curtis’s house in Vermillion,
Kansas. The majority of the
furniture was purchased
from 1908-1912. J Kim and
Annette Bramhall, Sellers.
Dannie Kearn Auction.
•Saturday, March 14,
2015 – Concordia’s 29th
Annual Optimist Club Auction located at the Cloud
County Fairgrounds.
•Saturday, March 21,
2015– Public Auction at
10:30 a.m. located Jamestown. Farm Machinery and
Equipment. Wayne Ruud,
Seller. Larry Lagasse Auction.
•Saturday, April 4, 2015–
Public
Auction
located
at the Cloud County Fairgrounds, East edge of Concordia, Kansas. Antiques,
Furniture, Household and
Misc. Pearl Townsend Estate and Others, Sellers.
Larry Lagasse Auction.
BABY BLUE® by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott
BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH® by John Rose
HAGER THE HORRIBLE® by Chris Browne
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2014 Conservation Winners
Wildlife Award winners
Winners of the Kansas Bankers’ Association Wildlife Award presented at the Soil Conservation
dinner Thursday evening. Pictured are (l-r): John Forshee, River Valley Extension District director; Luke Kramer, Kansas Wildlife Parks and Tourism; and representing the Bonneau family
farm: Joe Bonneau (Don’s son), Ben Rumsey (Don’s brother-in-law), Kaylynne Bonneau (Joe’s
daughter), Barb Rumsey (Don’s sister); and Daren Sanders, vice president and Ag loan officer
at The First National Bank of Hope. (Blade photo by Jessica LeDuc)
Soil Conservation winners
Winners of the Kansas Bankers’ Association Soil Conservation Award were Breck and Cynthia
Monier (center) pictured with John Forshee, River Valley Extension District Director, left; and
Daren Sanders, vice president and Ag loan officer at The First National Bank of Hope. (Blade
photo by Jessica LeDuc)
Courthouse
District Court
CIVIL
Dismissed:
The case of Gaylin Dale
Shimele vs. Department
of Revenue has been dismissed.
Settled:
In the case of Jacob Hake
vs. Kansas Employment Security Board of Review for
judicial review, review was
denied and the decision of
the Employment Security
Board of Review was affirmed.
In the case of Jarod Francis, Clyde, vs. Kansas Department of Revenue, relief
prayed for in the petition
was denied and the administrative order of suspension
affirmed with costs assigned
to plaintiff.
LIMITED CIVIL
Settled:
Credit Management Services Inc. received a judgment of $95.70 plus costs
and fees from Renee Wright,
Concordia.
Credit Management Services Inc. received a judgment of $567.78 plus interest and costs from Carl
Shroatz, Glasco.
Dismissed:
The case of Credit Management Services Inc. vs.
Ryan Crump, Concordia,
has been dismissed with
prejudice.
Filed:
Credit Management Services Inc. seeks a judgment
of $2,498.37 plus interest
and costs from Frank Dobrinski, Concordia.
Clyde Apartments seeks
a judgment of $1,223 plus
interest and costs from Lela
A. Harper-Haswell, Clifton.
Clyde Apartments seeks
a judgment of $1,976.67
plus interest and costs from
Jalynn Renz, Scandia.
Clyde Apartments seeks a
judgment of $4,183 plus interest and costs from Ethan
Tyler Kahle, Topeka.
Clyde Apartments seeks
a judgment of $7,125.17
plus interest and costs from
David Loyal Padilla, Salina.
Clyde Apartments seeks
a judgment of $602.33 plus
interest and costs from
Tonya Kay Sterling, Clifton.
Nex Tech seeks a judgment of $1,393.83 plus interest and costs from Jason
Ray Davis, Clay Center.
Mike Strong Inc. dba
Mike’s Payday Loans seeks
a judgment of $200 plus
interest and costs from Katlynn Marie Williams, Belleville.
Portfolio Recovery Assets
LLC seeks a judgment of
$3,228 plus costs and interest from Amber L. Wogomon, aka Amber Meczywor,
Concordia.
Midland Funds LLC seeks
a judgment of $824.33 plus
interest and costs from Ruben Hernandez, Concordia.
Midland Funds LLC seeks
a judgment of $984.75 plus
interest and costs from
Donna Huber, Concordia.
Discover Bank seeks a
judgment of $1,714.34 plus
interest and costs from Lisa
Valcoure, Concordia.
Central National Bank
seeks a judgment of $735.21
plus interest and costs from
Timothy D. Wogomon Jr. et
al, Concordia.
Credit Management Services Inc. seeks a judgment
of $10,979.78 plus interest
and costs from Skyi Mariatta Melton et al, Glasco.
University
of
Kansas
School of Medicine seeks a
judgment of $1,251 plus interest and costs from Scott
A. Yoxall, Concordia.
SMALL CLAIMS
Filed:
Lon R. Vass seeks a judgment of $1,876.91 plus interest and costs from Roberta Eichenberger, Concordia.
Town Estates LLC seeks a
judgment of $3,702.50 from
Shelbi Hamel, Concordia.
Jennifer Herrick seeks a
judgment of $4,000 from
Karen Senters, Jamestown.
TRAFFIC
All Case Types
Jan. 28-Feb. 3, 2015
The following people received fines for Speeding:
Joshua L. Aguirre, Nancy P.
Brodersen, Sherrill E. Burgdorf, Caleb T. Haight, Kara
K. Nobert, Angela Roberts,
Randall L. Roeber, Samuel Steele Rolle, Ernesto A.
Ruiz, William I. R. Shawver
III, Alicia D. Smith, Casey C.
Smith, Stephanie R. Watts,
$153; Jason A. Barnes,
Phillip P. Haase, $234; Josh
E. Beam, $222; Kimberly
D. Griffis, $201; Jeanne A.
Mcdaniel, $303; Niyizurungero Moise, $207; Marcus
Deron Pearson, $183; Lonnie A. Purdy, $165; Ian S.
Snell, $201; Nathan James
Henry Willey, $177; Elmer I.
Zelaya, $213.
Receiving fines for other
violations were: Justin L.
Boeckner, overweight limits
on wheels and axles, $303;
Kimberly Jean DeRousse,
domestic battery, knowing
rude physical contact with
family member, $22; Keith
C. Dewing, child passenger
safety, restraining systems
and seat belts, $168; Austin Michael-Gerard Green,
use/possess with intent to
use drug paraphernalia into
human body, $158; Austin
Michael Gerard Green, liquor, purchase/consump-
tion alcoholic liquor/CMB
by minor, $200; Joshua R.
Grennan, failure to wear
seat belt, $91; Kimberly D.
Griffis, driving while suspended, second conviction,
$100; Tony L. Johannsen,
violation of wildlife, parks
and tourism laws, first conviction, $208; Ernesto A.
Ruiz, operating motor vehicle without a valid license,
$100.
CRIMINAL
Julia Lynn Brown appeared Feb . 4 and was
found Guilty and convicted
of Speeding, 80/65, and No
Driver’s License. For the
speeding violation she was
ordered to pay costs of the
action, $108, and a fine of
$75. For the no driver’s license violation she was
sentenced to 30 days in the
Cloud County Jail and ordered to pay a fine of $50.
Her sentence was suspended upon full payment of all
costs and fine by March 25.
LEGAL TRANSFERS
Warranty Deeds:
City of Concordia to Pawnee Comprehensive Mental
Health Center Endowment
Association Inc., lot 1 block
8 of Blosser’s 2nd addition in the city of Concordia, Cloud County Kansas;
a tract of land in the south
half southwest quarter 4-63, containing 2.17 acres
more or less, see record.
Michael P. Bachand to
Bachand Farms Inc., the
southwest quarter northwest quarter of section 4-71 west of the 6th P.M. in
Cloud County Kansas.
Linda S. Kindel to Andrew Ross Esser and Megan O’Neal Esser, all of lot
6 except the east 8 feet and
the east 8 feet of lot 7 College Heights Addition city of
Concordia.
Quit Claim Deed:
Glenn A. Kegle to Jamie
Joann Kegle, the west half
of lot 10 in block 1 except
6 inches off the east side
thereof and 3 feet off the
east side of lot 9 in block 1
in the city of Clyde, Cloud
County Kansas.
Sheriff’s Deed:
Sheriff of Cloud County
Brian K. Marks to Colonial
Savings FA, lot 4 in block 1
in the city of Clyde, Cloud
County Kansas.
Transfer on Death Deed:
June O. Buche to Trudy
Cooley, Harry F. Buche and
Shirley Hutabarat, all of lot
3 and the north half of lot 4
in block 34 north addition to
the city of Miltonvale, Cloud
County Kansas according to
the recored plat thereof.
EARLY
HISTORY
OF
CLOUD COUNTY
By H.E. Smith
A Jealous Ghost
On the morning of the
21st of June, 1874, Mr. Eli
Surden, who had entered
a Madison Avenue omnibus on Broadway, just
above Fourteenth Street,
was struck suddenly and
forcibly on the left side of
his head by what appeared
to him to be a fist. He was
sitting close to the door of
the vehicle; there was only
one other passenger in the
stage, a middle-aged gentleman on the opposite side,
and at least eight feet away
from Mr. Surden when the
blow was struck. So powerful was the impact that
it knocked him partly over
upon the cushioned seat,
and for a moment caused
him considerable pain. He
sprang up suddenly. The
glass sash behind him was
closed. The stage was moving rapidly, and had been
for some time, and the
street was entirely clear of
human beings and vehicles
for some distance in all directions. It was impossible
for his fellow-passenger to
have inflicted the blow, for it
was from the opposite side
that it came.
Mr. Surden, smarting
with pain, pulled the strap,
jumped out and ran round
so as to satisfy himself that
there was nobody on the roof
of the vehicle but the driver,
who appeared to regard his
movements with surprise.
He then went into the
drug store adjoining Wallack’s Theater and saw by
the glass an inflamed and
swollen mark extending
across the maxillary to the
neck. It was bathed with arnica by the attendant, who
volunteered the remark that
it was “a bad blow.”
This occurred on June
21. In the latter part of July
following Mr. Surden was in
his small office in Wall Street
one morning sampling some
drugs. The office was in the
front of the third floor of
the building known as “The
Tontine.” It contained two
windows looking out upon
Wall Street, a door leading
to the hall and a dark closet
at the rear. The furniture
consisted of a large desk, a
number of shelves containing drugs covered with a
sash, a large square table
similarly loaded with samples of beeswax, ginseng
and annatto, two or three
ordinary office chairs and
several files of the American
and foreign Prices Current
hanging upon the wall.
(continued)
Register of Deeds
Judy Lambert
Married 81 years,
Kansas couple
still going strong
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) – To
Alice Rockey – a sharp, funny and occasionally ornery
99-year-old Olathe woman
– the secret to the success of
her 81-year marriage to husband Dale comes down to one
simple thing.
This week at the two-room
assisted living apartment she
and her 99-year-old husband
share, she summed it up this
way:
“I always let him have my
way.”
And then she chuckled,
The Kansas City Star reports.
For Alice and Dale Rockey,
it’s been some kind of ride,
a marriage so lengthy that it
is receiving recognition from
the California-based group
Worldwide Marriage Encounter as part of the organization’s 2015 Longest Married
Couple Project.
Although the award doesn’t
claim to crown America’s unequivocal
longest-married
couple – the Rockeys are the
longest out of the more than
375 nominations received by
the organization nationally –
few would argue that a marriage that has spanned eight
decades, 13 presidents and a
number of U.S. wars doesn’t
warrant some sort of formal
celebration.
“We’ve had a wonderful
life,” Dale Rockey said.
To trace the origins of their
union, you must go back
– and back, and back, and
back – to the early 1930s.
Alice Planansky and Dale
Rockey grew up together in
the small Nebraska town of
Hemingford. They went to
school together, lived just a
couple of blocks from each
other.
She was movie-star pretty,
with brown, wavy hair and a
sweet smile. He was thin and
bushy-eyebrowed and, as Alice Rockey put it, “one of the
handsomest guys in town.”
On the day that would forever change their lives, they
were supposed to be going
on an evening double-date –
Alice with another boy, Dale
with another girl.
But that afternoon, when
the other girl was still at
work, Dale Rockey pulled up
in front of Alice’s house. She
was sitting on the front porch.
“He came by and says,
‘You want to go for a ride?’”
recalled Alice Rockey. “So we
went for a ride, and that was
our first date.”
And although the pair had
a bit of explaining to do later
that day – “We were in the
doghouse,” she admitted – it
was otherwise a marvelous
decision.
On Dec. 29, 1933, they
were married in Nebraska.
The marriage license cost $2.
For a honeymoon, they
took off for a few days in Hot
Springs, S.D., where an aunt
and uncle of Dale Rockey’s
lived. When they returned,
they moved into their first
home – a two-room apartment – and settled into a typical Midwestern existence.
He worked in a garage that
had been owned by his father,
then for other Ford dealerships in the area. She worked
as a typesetter for Iron Man
magazine.
They had five kids, all boys.
They were very much in
love, and to be sure, that
sense of matrimonial harmony trickled down to the next
generation: Of their five children, all are still married to
their original spouses.
“That’s probably the good
example set by our parents,”
said Tom Rockey, 76, one of
the sons.
Dale and Alice Rockey both
retired in 1979, filling their
newfound free time with travel and their ever-expanding
collection of grandchildren,
great-grandchildren and, later, great-great-grandchildren.
They traveled everywhere –
Florida, Texas, “all the southern states,” as Dale Rockey
put it. They traveled so much,
in fact, that they were only
home about five months out
of the year.
Then, about a decade ago,
it got to where Dale Rockey
couldn’t take the trash out or
mow the lawn on his own any
longer, and so they moved
down to Olathe, where Tom
Rockey lived.
They lived with Tom and
his wife until 2011, when they
moved into an independent
living facility. Then, last September, they moved into their
current place, a two-room
apartment not unlike the first
home they shared nearly a
century ago.
Today, they spend their
days together, laughing and
reminiscing.
They go to breakfast together, then return to their
apartment and settle into
their recliners. He reads the
paper, she does her crosswords. They used to go to bingo on Sundays, but now they
mostly pass the time in what
Alice Rockey calls a “fancyfree” kind of way.
Those around them don’t
express too much surprise at
the couple’s longevity.
8 Blade-Empire, Monday, February 9, 2015
Weather
Obituaries
LORENE M. FRASER
KAREN L. BROWN
Lorene M. Fraser, age
104, Concordia, died Sun.,
Feb. 8, 2015, at Mt. Joseph
Senior Village, Concordia,
Kan. She was born on January 19, 1911, on a farm near
Concordia to Jesse E. &
Katherine Mary (Feser) Fraser.
She graduated from Concordia High School and Ft.
Hays State University with a
Master’s degree. She taught
at the West Branch School
District 50 for four years and
at Brown School Dist. 44 for
19 years in Cloud County. In
1935, she became Principal
of the Garfield Elementary
School in Concordia, where
she taught for 23 years.
Lorene taught a total of 46
years before she retired in
May 1976. She really enjoyed teaching, as she devoted her life’s work to her
profession.
After retirement, she did
volunteer work at St. Joseph
Hospital for a number of
years. She was a member of
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Catholic Church, Ladies of
the Moose #1476, VFW #588
& American Legion #76 Auxiliaries, Senior Citizens activities;, Altar Society, Red
Hat Club, Christian Women
Outreach & Concordia High
School Booster Club and a
host of other organizations.
She was preceded in
death by her parents; infant
brother, Raymond & brother, Orville; a sister, Maxine
Stephens & a foster brother,
Dennis Fraser.
She is survived by nieces & nephews; Gary Fraser
(Joan), Alice Faye Hanson
(Rick), Stephanie Nichols
Karen L. Brown, age 73,
died Friday, Feb. 6, 2015, at
her home in Concordia, Kan.
She was born on Dec. 24,
1941, in Scandia, Kan., to
Lauren “Hap” & Julia (Flesher) Davis.
Karen graduated from
Scandia High School. She
married Donald “Donnie”
R. Brown on July 30, 1966.
He preceded her in death on
March 1, 2001. She was a
cook for the Sisters of St. Joseph at the Nazareth Motherhouse & Manna House. She
was a member of Our Lady
of Perpetual Help Catholic
Church and Altar Society.
She is survived by her
daughter, Judy Womack
(Jeff), Concordia; son, Donald Davis, Concordia; four
grandchildren, one greatgrandchild.
She was also preceded in
death by her parents; son,
Alan Brown; one brother,
Buster Davis.
Funeral services were at
Lorene M. Fraser
(Dwayne), all of Concordia;
Mary Kaye Blackwood (Rex),
Clay Center; foster sisterin-law, Dee Fraser, Denver,
Colo.; niece-in-law, Lorrie
Fraser Mason (Raymond),
Concordia & many grandnieces & nephews.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 am, Wed.,
Feb. 11, 2015 at Our Lady
of Perpetual Help Catholic
Church with Rev. Brian Lager officiating. Burial will
follow at St. Concordia Cemetery, Concordia. Visitation
will be from 12-9 pm with
an Altar Society Rosary at 5
pm and a Vigil service at 6
pm on Tues., Feb. 10, 2015
all at Chaput-Buoy Funeral
Home. In lieu of flowers, the
family suggest memorials to
the Our Lady of Perpetual
Help Catholic Church or
Concordia Senior Citizen’s
Center in care of the funeral
home. For online condolences, please visit www.
chaputbuoy.com.
MELVIN DAVENPORT
Melvin Russell Davenport,
Concordia, passed away at
the Dillon Living Center in
Hutchinson on Feb. 6, 2015.
He was born in rural Chester,
Neb. on March 29, 1930, to
Clay A. and Lela F. (Hazen)
Davenport.
Melvin married Wanda
Leigh Maphet on Aug. 17,
1951, at Enid, Oklahoma.
He attended Phillips University in Enid and graduated
from the University of Denver. He received his Master’s
Degree from Fort Hays State
University. Melvin spent 37
years as an educator in Atwood, Glasco, and Concordia.
He is survived by his
wife Wanda of the home; his
four sons, Harlan (Barbara),
Great Bend; Gary (Susan)
Carbondale; Joel (Jeannette),
Hutchinson; and Darren
(Deborah), Nederland, Colo.;
grandchildren: Douglas (Jennifer) McNett, Larned; Jennifer (Eric) Strecker, Towanda; Chris (Caley) Davenport,
Topeka; William (Joy) Davenport, Topeka; Jonathan
(Kara) Davenport, Carbondale; Joshua (Lexie) Davenport, Topeka; Carrie Davenport, Carbondale; Andrew
Davenport,
Carbondale;
Ashlea Davenport, Louisville, Ky.; Tyler Davenport,
Clovis, N.M.; Shelby Davenport, Grove City, Pa.; and
Kate Davenport, Elgin, Ill.; 15
great-grandchildren, brother
Glenn (Estel) of Tahlequah,
Oklahoma; sisters, Jean (Wilbert) Crouse of Chester, Neb.
and Joan (John) Crouse of
Topeka.
Melvin was preceded in
death by his parents. Melvin’s first love was farming on
the family farm in the Chester, Neb., area for most of his
life. He was a member of the
Melvin Russell Davenport
First Christian Church where
he served as an elder, Sunday school teacher, and volunteer. Melvin recently was
presented an award for 55
years of membership in Lions Club. During his retirement years, he served on the
Concordia Planning Commission for several years. Melvin
enjoyed keeping up with his
friends and family, especially
his grandchildren, through
Facebook.
Visitation will be held on
Feb. 9, 2015, from 2-9 p.m.
at the Chaput-Buoy Funeral
Home with family greeting
friends from 5-7 p.m.
Graveside services will
be held at the Chester, Neb.,
cemetery 10 a.m., Tuesday,
Feb. 10, 2015, with a memorial service at the First Christian Church, Concordia at 2
p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 10, with
the Rev. Jeff Nielsen officiating.
Memorial contributions
may be given to NCK Teens
for Christ or 1st Christian
Church, Concordia, c/o Chaput-Buoy Funeral Home.
Online condolences may
be sent to www.chaputbuoy.
com
Upcoming events
Friday, Feb. 13, 7 p.m.—Aerosmith: Documentary on Rock
to the Rising Sun, Brown Grand Theatre.
Saturday, 6:15 p.m., Feb 14—Valentine’s Dinner at Manna
House, call 243.4428 for reservations.
Tuesday, Feb. 17, 7 p.m., Cloud County Courthouse meeting room, Memories of Velma Hudsonpillar, presentation by
her granddaughter and daughters.
Tuesday, Feb. 17, 7 p.m.—BG Classical Series: Lily Guerrero, soprano, Brown Grand Theatre.
Wednesday, Feb. 18, 7 p.m.—Popovich Magic/Comedy
show, Brown Grand Theatre.
Karen L. Brown
1 p.m. today, Monday, Feb.
9, 2015, at Chaput-Buoy Funeral Home, Concordia, with
the Rev. James Hoover officiating.
Burial was at St. Concordia Cemetery. The family
suggest memorials to Karen
L. Brown Memorial Fund or
Meadowlark Hospice in care
of the funeral home.
For online condolences,
please visit www.chaputbuoy.com.
IN LOVING MEMORY
EVELYN MAE (BRAY) BURNETT
Evelyn Mae (Bray) Burnett, 96, of Kirkland, Wash.,
died peacefully in her sleep
on Feb. 4, 2015. Born Oct.
22, 1918, on a farm in Concordia, Kan. She is predeceased by her parents,
Edward William and Anna
(Cunningham) Bray and
her husband of 37 years,
Raymond P. Burnett. Her
brothers Glen and Nile Bray
from Concordia, Kan. also
preceded her in death. Evelyn moved from Wichita,
Kan., to Seattle, Wash.,
with her husband, an employee of Boeing Airplane
Co., in 1953. Evelyn worked
as an executive assistant
for Boeing for ten years before purchasing a women’s
apparel business, Carol’s
Dress Shop, in downtown
Kirkland. She was a longtime resident, successful
business owner, and a city
community leader. Evelyn
was a founder of the Lake
Washington
Methodist
Church, active member of
the Kirkland Choral Society
and member/President of
Kirkland Business and Professional Women where she
was named the 1987 “Woman of the Year”. During her
retirement she volunteered
at the Boeing Museum of
Flight, Kirkland Chamber
of Commerce and Bellevue
Convention and Visitors Bureau. Evelyn’s greatest pleasures were traveling abroad,
theater, singing, gardening
and simply spending time
Evelyn Mae (Bray)
Burnett
with friends and family.
Evelyn is survived by her
daughters, Donna (David
O.) Wallace, of Walla Walla,
Wash.; Jeanie (Bill ) Arthur,
of Bothell, Wash.; and Janet
Watke of Marysville, Wash.;
plus eight grandchildren,
11 great-grandchildren; six
nieces and 11 nephews. A
private memorial service
will be in May in Kirkland,
Wash., and graveside services will take place at the
Glasco Cemetery in Glasco,
Kan., on Memorial Day
weekend 2015. In lieu of
flowers, memorial donations
may be made in Evelyn’s
name to the Glasco Community Foundation, Joan
Nothern, 571 Eagle Road,
Glasco, KS 67445 or Glasco
Alumni Assoc., Lauri Cool,
239 N. 70th Road, Glasco,
KS. Arrangements by Chaput-Buoy Funeral Home in
Concordia, Kan.
JAMES DEAN TROST
James Dean Trost, 64
years old, of Idaho, passed
away Feb. 3, 2015. Born
July 4, 1950, in Concordia,
Kan. to the late former Concordians Merton and Dorothy (Holton) Trost. He was
preceded in death by his
parents and a brother Norman “Bud” Trost.
He is survived by a
daughter Selina and grandson of Utah; siblings Ilona
(Trost) Ode and husband
Dick, of Idaho; Rick and
Patty Trost and Debby
(Trost) Jenson and husband
Don, of Oregon. Also many
cousins in the Concordia
area.
Markets
NEW YORK (AP) – Concerns about the world economy helped tug U.S. stocks
to slight losses on Monday.
Major indexes followed European markets lower as worries
mount over Greece’s standoff
with its creditors.
KEEPING SCORE: The
Dow Jones industrial average
fell 54 points, or 0.3 percent,
to 17,770 as of 12:10 p.m.
Eastern time. The Standard &
Poor’s 500 slipped two points,
or 0.1 percent, to 2,053, while
the Nasdaq composite fell
five points, or 0.1 percent, to
4,740.
GREECE,
AGAIN:
On
Sunday, Greece’s new prime
minister, Alexis Tsipras, set
his government on a collision course with the country’s
creditors. Tsipras proclaimed
an end to a regimen of bud-
get cuts and tax increases
and said he would push for a
“bridge agreement” that would
give Greece and its creditors
time to negotiate a new lending arrangement by June.
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Today’s weather artwork by
Joel Gross,
a 1st grader in
Mrs. Peltier’s class
Today’s weather artwork by
Alina Haist-Richard,
a 1st grader in
Mrs. Popelka’s class
Kansas musician
writes love songs
for customers
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP)
– You’d think that people
would have had enough of
silly love songs, or so sings
Paul McCartney on the 1976
Wings track.
But Katlyn Conroy, a local musician who is writing
and performing personalized
tunes for customers for Valentine’s Day, looks around
Lawrence and notices it isn’t
so, the Lawrence JournalWorld reports.
“I had no idea if many
people would actually jump
on board, but it’s been really good,” Conroy, 26, says
of her business venture. “I’ve
had over 20 orders so far.”
For $20, anyone can hire
Conroy – a longtime staple of
the Lawrence music scene,
currently of La Guerre and
previously with the popular
band Cowboy Indian Bear –
to write a song for a friend
or loved one and then record
it. Throw down another $10
and receive her newest La
Guerre album, “Sapphires,”
along with a hand drawing
(also by Conroy) of you and
that special someone.
Originally, the deadline
to submit orders was Feb.
7, but because of popular
demand, Conroy will take
requests up until Tuesday –
though they might not make
it back to the customer by
Valentine’s Day.
“My boyfriend keeps telling me, ‘You can stop when
you want to,’” jokes Conroy, who says she hasn’t felt
overwhelmed by it all – yet.
Love songs, Conroy says,
come natural to her. She’s
been writing them for years –
“for boys” and the people she
cares about – but never for
complete strangers.
“This is really different,
to take someone’s story that
has nothing to do with me
and to put myself in that
person’s place,” she says.
“That’s been really cool.”
It’s the latest project in
a long line of do-it-yourself
experiments from the Lawrence native, who branched
out from Cowboy to start La
Guerre, a four-piece electronic indie-pop band, back
in 2013.
Keeping organized with
the steady influx of song requests (she sometimes receives up to six orders a day)
is a challenge, admits Conroy, who also works as an
assistant manager at Acme
T-shirt shop when she’s not
pursuing her music.
But if there’s one thing
Conroy likes, other than love
songs, it’s a good challenge.
The process is “helping me
as much as it’s helping anyone else,” she says.
Oftentimes, that entails
jotting down lyrics in bed,
surrounded by her cats
Weatherby and Heisenberg
– besides her boyfriend,
they’re two of her greatest
loves in life.
“For my own practice, I’m
trying to keep all these songs
very different from each other,” says Conroy, who’s also
trying her hand at using
more choruses. “It’s finding
all these different ways to
say, I love you.”
And, as it turns out, love
comes in many forms.
So far, she’s gotten requests from twentysomethings couples, married folks
in their 60s and even a person who wanted a song for
their best friend.
“Sometimes you have people who are so close to you
that it’s intimate, that you
would die for each other,”
she says. “It’s essentially the
same as writing something
for someone’s wife.”
In the past few weeks,
opening her inbox has invited in a flood of “warm and
fuzzies,” Conroy says. Each
song begins with an email
from the customer, giving
background on their relationship.
Some have been surprisingly personal, says Conroy, who was “shocked” to
see how many stories have
closely mirrored her own experiences. Love isn’t always
perfect, but it’s always worth
celebrating, she says.
“A lot of these people have
not had perfect lives together. They’d had horrible
things happen – tough times
and illnesses – but they always find each other again,”
Conroy says. “When I read
things like that, it gives me
a lot of drive. It makes me
realize how important it is to
make something worthwhile
for these people.”
And it’s what’s keeping
her going mere days before
Valentine’s Day. Soon, she’ll
start contacting her customers, asking them how they’d
like their songs delivered.
Shooting off the mp3 file
might be easiest way to go,
but perhaps not the most romantic, admits Conroy.
Come Wednesday, “I’ll
probably just be at the post
office for an hour,” she says
with a laugh. But she’s happy to do it.
“This is getting to the
root of what Valentine’s Day
could be,” Conroy says. “You
don’t have to get someone
fancy jewelry or meaningless
expensive things. You can
find something creative to
show them how much they
mean to you.”
It’s a practice we should
keep up every day of the
year, she thinks, not just
Valentine’s Day.