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Priceless Take One T HURSDAY VOLUME 16, N UMBER 71 T HURSDAY, A PRIL 10, 2008 W INNER OF THE K ANSAS G AS S ERVICE E XCELLENCE I N E DITORIAL W RITING 2006 K ANSAS P ROFESSIONAL C OMMUNICATORS P HOTO E SSAY AWARD Theatres Discovery Center Conference Center Mixed Use Downtown Redevelopment - South Officials Worry Proposed Center Won’t Meet Expectations By Tyler Sharp Kansas State Collegian The task for the proposed Flint Hills Discovery Center that will be a part of the southern Manhattan redevelopment project might appear a daunting one. The museum, which has been an ongoing project for several years now, is projected to draw between 70,000100,000 people per year - that is where City Commissioner Bob Strawn's cautious approach originates. "I'm not against the [Center]; I have concerns about the merit," he said. "I will worry if it'll achieve what's expected out of it. Will it have merit and will Manhattan adapt and support it as a hallmark of the community? Will it be a tax strain? Will it draw what it's projected to? Somebody has to show me it has merit." Proving the merit of the Center has been an ongoing task since the Kansas Department of Commerce approved $50 million in STAR (Sales Tax Revenue) bonds to the City of Manhattan in December 2006. According to the Department of Commerce's Web site, STAR bonds are provided to offer Kansas municipalities opportunities "…to issue bonds to finance the development of major commercial entertainment and tourism areas and use sales tax revenue generated by the development to pay off the bonds." Of the soon-to-be allotted STAR bonds, $11 million will be set aside for construction, $3 million will go toward consultants and related fees, $12 million will go toward land acquisition, $3 million will go toward infrastructure, and the final $11 million will account for accumulated interest on the bonds. In an initial feasibility study by Canyon Research Southwest, Inc., a Tempe, Ariz., based company, the Flint Hills Discovery Center and the Downtown Manhattan Redevelopment District are forecasted to increase annual out-of-town visitation to the Manhattan area by 120,000 to 380,000 people. This influx of visitors will increase the demand for overnight accommodations by approximately 20,400 to 64,600 annual room nights. The money generated by out-of-town visitors is forecasted to account for approximately $50 million of the Downtown Manhattan Redevelopment District's annual retail sales. This information forms the basis of city commissioner Bruce Snead's support of the Discovery Center. "I've been on the city commission throughout the downtown redevelopment project and I've seen the interest folks have and the desire to increase tourism in the Flint Hills," he said. "The draw for nature-based tourism along with the location of Manhattan and the presence of K-State in the community all "My observations of museums indicate to me that museums are notself-sustaining. They require outside funding, lots of it and consistently," "I am not aware of any funding sources for this museum beyond limited admissions and city funds, which must also be applied to many other things." Associate Professor Lauren Ritterbush Museum Consultant present itself as a natural choice along with the STAR bond acceptance." Featured exhibits in the Discovery Center will include an aquarium, interactive exhibits in which students can experience the prairie and other exhibits that will be determined by a consultant's study, Strawn said. He also said an exhibit has been purchased from the Smithsonian Institution. "It speaks to native prairie, though I have not seen it myself," he said. The Center will employ eight full-time employees and 18 part-time employees. Operating costs are estimated to run from $600,000-$700,000. Twenty-five thousand people visit the Mariana Kistler Beach Museum of Art annually, said Martha Scott, business and marketing manager. Abilene's Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum is visited by an estimated 70,000 people every year, said Linda Smith, archive specialist for the museum and library. Whether the center lives up to the claims of success that have accompanied it in preliminary studies is still up in the air. Lauren Ritterbush, associate professor in sociology, anthropology, and social work has served as a museum consultant in the past. She said she does not think the Center will be able to survive on its own. "My observations of museums indicate to me that museums are notself-sustaining. They require outside funding, lots of it and consistently," she said in an e-mail interview. "I am not aware of any funding sources for this museum beyond limited admissions and city funds, which must also be applied to many other things." The city commission is accepting bids for consulting services to assist in the museum's development. The consulting service will help with exhibit and facility conceptual design. Proposals are due to the city by April 14. Strawn said the consultant will likely come to K-State and inquireabout aspects of the Center and whether or not it has merits. Snead said he knows many people associated with K-State have knowledge of the prairie and the science that the attractions will portray, andhe said he hopes they will provide their insight. Strawn said if the consultants tell the commission that the Center doesnot have merit there will be "… a big argument and I will be standingon a chair, yelling lies." But Snead said he has faith in the Discovery Center. "There are big challenges with the project, but it is a uniqueopportunity to help revitalize downtown and the community," he said. Free Shred Day In Manhattan Each year individuals and households accumulate many personal financial and health documents which require secure disposal to prevent Identity Theft. Document Resources, the area’s locally owned AAA Certified information security company, is having a FREE Shred Day to dispose of the general public’s personal documents and files at NO CHARGE. Individuals and households can bring their items to Document Resources facility at 414 South 5th St., Manhattan, KS between 9 AM and Noon on Saturday April 19, 2008 so they can be gathered for destruction, including recycling the destroyed remains. The public need not worry about removing staples or paper clips, or burning up their personal shred- W INNER OF THE K ANSAS P RESS A SSOCIATION A DVERTISING AWARD Letter Gives Commissioners Conflict Of Interest Facts Union Pacific Depot Hotel Tower 2006 K ANSAS P ROFESSIONAL C OMMUNICATORS E DITORIAL AWARD der. Our professional equipment will take care of them. For compliance reasons, only personal and household materials will be accepted at no charge on the day of the event. This is our way of helping our community combat identity theft, recognize Earth Day activities and say thank you for the many years of community support we have received. Call us at 537-1222 with any questions. In business since 1998, Document Resources provides comprehensive, secure shredding and record storage services to businesses and individuals throughout much of north east, north central and north west Kansas. For more information, contact David Kreller at (785) 537-1222. The City Commission held a work session on Ethics Tuesday night. Here is a letter given to the Commissioners by City Attorney Bill Frost about “Conflict of Interest. The Free Press has contacted the Kansas Ethics Commission on several issues in the past and we were told, “Basically there is not a Conflict of Interest unless money has changed hands.” When the Free Press asked why the law did not cover more we were told, “This is all we could get through the State Legislature.” Here is the Attorney’s letter: CITY OF MANHATTAN MEMORANDUM January 11, 2008 TO: Ron Fehr, City Manager FROM: William L. Frost, City Attorney SUBJECT: Conflict of Interest for elected and appointed officials You have asked that I prepare a memo that discusses “conflict of interest” as it relates to both elected and appointed officials that you can use as a “refresher” to provide to our Board Members and Commissioners. The information I set out in this memo applies equally to both elected and appointed officials, except where I specifically set out differences. I would separate conflicts of interest into two separate categories. Legal conflicts—-i.e., those types of conflicts that are specifically addressed by some legal authority— -either statutory or court created, and which have some formal legal rami- fication if there is a violation. Perceived conflicts—-i.e., circumstances where a governmental official has some relationship which might appear to influence his/her official actions, but the relationship is not actually prohibited by any formal authority, and there are no legal ramifications that can result. Perceived Conflicts This “conflict” is probably more related to “ethics”, because the government officials, themselves, are the ones who address this issue. An example of this type of “conflict” would be an employee of KSU serving on the Manhattan City Commission, and acting on matters in which the University has a vested interest——i.e. the City/University Projects Fund or franchise agreements between the City and the University. There are no legal prohibitions against this type of action by the City Commissioner, and no legal ramifications if the Commissioner acts on these matters; however, some people might perceive a conflict on the part of the Commissioner. It is purely up to the individual official to resolve this type of “conflict”, and decide as to whether or not they can participate in the matter before them. I would presume that they will weigh the “ethics” involved, as well as perhaps the political ramifications of their decision. Legal Conflicts I would further separate Legal Conflicts into 3 separate categories. Statutory, i.e., those created by a legislative act. General, i.e., those creat- ed by a court through common law. And, Quasi Judicial, i.e., those related to acts, such as zoning decisions, which require the due process rights of parties to the action to be protected. Statutory Legal Conflicts There is really only one set of statues, in Kansas, which specifically address conflict of interest. That set of statutes is found at K.S.A. 754304 and K.S.A. 75-4305. The effect of those statutes revolves around the relationship between a public official and businesses in which they have a “substantial interest”. The term “substantial interest” is defined by the statute and basically consists of five (5) different circumstances by which an official could be deemed to have a substantial interest in a particular business, or combination of businesses. Those five (5) circumstances are as follows: a) The ownership, within the preceding twelve (12) months by an individual or his or her spouse, either individually or collectively, of a legal or equitable interest exceeding Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) or five percent (5%) of any business, whichever is less. b) The receipt from any business, or combination of businesses, by an individual or his or her spouse, either individually or collectively, during the preceding calendar year, of compensation which is, or will be, required to be included as taxable income of the individual and spouse, See Conflict of Interest page 2 CIA Director To Give Landon Lecture The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Gen. Michael Hayden, will present a Landon Lecture at Kansas State University. Hayden will speak at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, in McCain Auditorium. The lecture is free and the public is welcome. "K-State's Landon Lecture Series has featured every president since Richard Nixon, as well as some of the top world leaders like Mikhail Gorbachev," said Charles Reagan, associate to the president and chair of the Landon Lecture Series. "We're pleased that Gen. Hayden will be among this prestigious lecture series' speakers, as he will be the first CIA director to deliver a Landon Lecture." Hayden became the 18th director of the CIA in May 2006. In his role, he manages human intelligence operations and open source collection programs on behalf of the director of National Intelligence. Hayden previously was first principal deputy director of National Intelligence, appointed in April 2005. At that same time, he also earned his fourth star, making him the highest-ranking intelligence officer in the armed forces. Hayden has held several leadership positions in the intelligence community, including serving as director of the National Security Agency and chief of the Central Security Service at Fort Meade, Md., from March 1999 to April 2005. He also was commander of the Air Intelligence Agency and director of the Joint Command and Control Warfare Center, both at Kelly Air Force Base in Texas, from January 1996 to September 1997. From May 1993 to October 1995, he served as director, Intelligence Directorate, U.S. European Command, Stuttgart, Germany. In addition, Hayden has had senior staff positions at the Pentagon, National Security Council and the U.S Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria. He also has served as deputy chief of staff for the United Nations Command and U.S. Forces Korea. Hayden entered active duty in 1969 as a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Air Force Reserve Officer Training Program. He earned a bachelor's in history and a master's in modern American history from Duquesne University. That’s The Brakes Ex-Vice President Al Gore may not have invented the Internet, but.... He did invent Global Warming. Jon A. Brake Publisher Manhattan Free Press April 10, 2008 Big Weekend In Waterville Follow Us Highway 77 north from Manhattan to find the small town of Waterville nestled in the valley of the Little Blue River. There will be a weekend of fun and entertainment to be had on April 26 and 27. Get your reservations now for the elegant English tea at the annual Victorian Day Celebration. This tea will be served by reservation only in the former St. Monica’s Catholic Church from 10am until 4pm on the 26th. Reservations may be made by calling 785-363-2515. There will also be a performance in the Opera House by Wayne Kruse of Bremen, at 2pm and 4pm that day. The school children will give a last day of school program in the Game Fork School House in the park at 11am, 1pm, and 3pm. On Commercial Street you will find an Art Show, A Quilt, Trunk, and Tool Display, and shopping opportu- nities. The local Lions and Leos organizations will offer Buffalo Burger Dinners and Ice Cream Sundaes for your culinary tastes. There will be a “Madhatter “ display of vintage hats and clothing by Ann Walter in the parlor and dinning room of her home. The Samuel Powell House, owned by Ward Allen Minge will be on tour, and a drive by tour can be made of several other “Painted Ladies”, including “Bankers Row” on Hazelwood Street. The Railroad and Caboose Museums will be open. Complimenting Victorian Day this year will be a visit by the “Bart Plasterson Gang”. This troupe will be staging reenactments along the streets of Waterville thought out the day and the Historical Marshall County Railroad Society will provide rides by rail out to the site of the gang’s constructed prairie town, “NOWWHERE”. At the site the “Gang” will stage some “Rootin Tootin Cowtown Fun”. The Bart Plasterson Gang” will return on Sunday for more activities along the rail, beginning with a church service with circuit riders at 10am near the caboose and continuing with the “Fun” at “NOHERE” until 4pm. Finnish your weekend in Waterville with a Lasagna Dinner at 5pm at the Waterville Community Center. This will be sponsored by three “Relay for Life” teams; Waterville Lumber, Fancy T’s and More of Waterville, and Yungeberg Drug of Blue Rapids. To make reservations, purchase tickets or for more information call 785-363-2515, or e-mail > sharding1948@hotmail.com < KANSAS NEWS Conflict________________from page one in an aggregate amount of $2,000.00, or more. c) The receipt from any business, or combination of businesses, by an individual or his or her spouse, either individually or collectively, within the preceding twelve (12) months, without reasonable and valuable consideration, goods or services having an aggregate value of $500.00, or more. d) The holding by an individual, or the individual’s spouse, of the position of officer, director, associate, partner or proprietor of any business, other than one exempt from federal taxation, under specified sections of the United States Code. This provision applies irrespective of the amount of compensation received by the individual or spouse. e) If an individual, or the individual’s spouse, receives compensation, which is a portion or percentage of fees, or commissions, paid to a business by a client, and the portion or percentage amounts to $2000, or more, in the aggregate in the preceding calendar year, then the individual is deemed to have a substantial interest in the client. K.S.A. 75-4302a requires elected officials to file a “statement of substantial interest” setting forth all of their “substantial interests”: 1) at the time they file for their office; 2) when they are appointed to fill a vacancy; or 3) whenever a change occurs in their “interests”. The statute does not require appointed officials, such as Board Members, to file such a statement. However, K.S.A. 75-4305 requires any official, which would include Board Members, “before acting upon any matter which will affect any business in which the officer has a substantial interest, to file a written report of the nature of the interest with the county election officer….” It is somewhat up to the official to make their own determination as to whether, or not, their action “will affect” a business in which they have a substantial interest. This determination is not necessarily an easy one, and reasonable minds could probably differ on this issue. K.S.A. 75-4304 prohibits any public official from participating in the making of a contract with any person or business by which he or she is employed or in whose business he or she has a substantial interest. K.S.A. 75-4304 does not apply to contracts let after competitive bidding or to contracts for property or services for which the price or rate is fixed by law. The phrase “participating in the making of a contract” means doing any act which assists in the furtherance of a contractual relationship between the City and the subject business. It would probably be somewhat unusual for Board Members to be involved in the “making of a contract”; however, there are instances where advisory boards make recommendations as to the hiring of a particular consultant or the purchase of a certain piece of property, and, in doing so, they would be “participating in the making of a contract”. General Legal Conflicts “General” conflicts of interest consist of those general circumstances where a court would say that because of the public official’s interest, he or she is placed in a situation of temptation to serve their own purposes, to the prejudice of those for whom they are sworn to act. This circumstance does not require that the public official exhibit any actual dishonesty, it is only the possibility that the outcome could serve the public official’s own purposes, as opposed to the citizens of the community, that creates the conflict. It is difficult to give you examples of this circumstance, since the few court cases that have arisen in Kansas have all held that no conflict existed. A possible Obituaries Bobby Joe Alexander Bobby Joe Alexander, age 68, died Sunday April 6, 2008 at the Geary Community Hospital, Junction City, Kansas. He was born on February 15, 1940 in Monticello, Kentucky the son of Leslie & Anna Mae (Bertram) Alexander. Following High School, he enlisted in the United States Army and served from 1962 until 1968. Upon returning to Manhattan, he began working for Hunter & Lundberg Construction. He was proud of the fact that this was his only job, retiring after 40 years. Bobby Joe loved to fish, play with his dog and being with his family and friends. Survivors include his daughters: Lucinda Sparks of Chapman, KS; LaDonna Johnson of Spring, TX and Michelle Dewyer of Phoenix, AZ. He is also survived by his brother: Wallace “Logan” Alexander of Indianapolis, IN; and 7 grandchildren. Graveside Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday April 11, 2008 at the Sunrise Cemetery, Manhattan, Kansas with the Rev. Neil Engle officiating. Visitation will be from 9:00 Douglas Zarger R. “Doug” Zarger, age 51, of St. George, Kansas, died Tuesday morning, April 8, 2008, at his residence near St. George. He was born on November 18, 1956, in Manhattan, Kansas, the son of Robert G. and Patricia Anne (Williams) Zarger. Doug was a lifetime area resident and 1974 graduate of St. George High School. Following high school he took training in Automotive Technology at the Manhattan Area Vocational Technical School, earning his diploma in 1975. In 1974 Doug began working as a machinist at the Bonawitz Machine Shop. He became the owner and operator in 2000. Doug was an outdoorsman. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, camping and boating. He also was a skilled wood craftsman, enjoyed hunting mushrooms with family and friends and was well known for his delicious barbeque. He was a member of the St. George United Methodist Church and past president of the St. George Recreation Commission. He also enjoyed announcing at the Rock Creek Junior Varsity football games. Doug Zarger Doug was united in marriage to Pamala Sue Moody on September 29, 1979, at the All Faith’s Chapel at Kansas State University; she survives of the home. Also surviving are three sons: Christopher G. Zarger and his fiancée Abby Sklenicka of Manhattan, Justin M. Zarger of the home and Nicholas R. Zarger and his fiancée Monica Martinez, also of the home. One brother, David Zarger of St. George, Kansas, two uncles: Rod Williams of Manhattan and Fred Williams of Columbia, South Carolina and a brother in friendship, Dudley Torrey of St. George, 2A MANHATTAN FREE PRESS - THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2008 a.m. until 10:30 on Friday at the Yorgensen-Meloan-Londeen Funeral Home 1616 Poyntz Ave., Manhattan, Kansas 66502. Online condolences may be left for the family through the funeral home website at: www.ymlfuneralhome.com. Memorial contributions may be made to the Terry C. Johnson Center for Basic Cancer Research in care of the Yorgensen-Meloan-Londeen Funeral Home 1616 Poyntz Ave., Manhattan, Kansas 66502. Kansas. Doug is also survived by numerous nieces, nephews, additional family and countless friends. He was preceded in death by his father in 2000 and by his mother in 2007. Funeral services will be held 10:00 a.m. Monday at the YorgensenMeloan-Londeen Funeral Chapel with Reverend Leslye A. Haller officiating. Interment will be in the St. George Cemetery, at St. George, Kansas. The family will receive friends during a visitation from 7:00 until 8:30 p.m. Sunday evening at the Yorgensen-Meloan-Londeen Funeral Home. On-line condolences may be left for the family through the funeral home website located at www.ymlfuneralhome.com A memorial has been established with the First National Bank of Wamego as a relief fund for the Zarger family. Those checks may be made to the “Doug Zarger Fund”. A memorial has also been established for the St. George United Methodist Church. Contributions may be left in care of the Yorgensen-MeloanLondeen Funeral Home, 1616 Poyntz Avenue, Manhattan, Kansas 66502. example might be a circumstance where a Commissioner owned property that existed within a proposed benefit district. Certainly the prudent position in such a circumstance would be for the commissioner to refrain from participating in the creating of that benefit district. However, there is case law in Kansas to the extent that such a circumstance is not a conflict of interest. Each case would probably have to be evaluated on its own merits. Quasi-Judicial Conflicts Finally, a conflict of interest could arise when a Board, or the Commission, considers quasi-judicial acts such as zoning, where the due process clause of the United States Constitution, as well as the Constitution and laws of the State of Kansas, guarantee that the parties have a fair, open and impartial hearing, and that the public officials who hear the case are unbiased and impartial. The statutory prohibition in K.S.A. 75-4305 would prevent a City Commissioner or a Planning Board Member from participating in a zoning decision that had any affect upon a business in which the Commissioner had a substantial interest, until the disclosure statement, or the report, has been filed. However, simply filing the disclosure statement may not eliminate totally a conflict of interest that might exist in that circumstance. There are no specific zoning cases in Kansas which set forth criteria upon which we can judge whether or not a relationship of the public official with an interested party is sufficient to cause bias on the part of the official. The Kansas cases dealing with conflicts of a public official do say however that each case is to be determined on its own facts and circumstances. Since there are no specific cases, it is difficult for me to know the exact factors upon which a reviewing court will rely in order to determine whether or not bias exists. Nevertheless, in the past, I have attempted to formulate factors which I believe a court would consider in making that determination. Those factors are as follows: 1) The nature of the relationship between the zoning official and the interested party, and whether or not the zoning official has any direct financial interest in the interested party. (This factor is related to the requirement in 75-4305 of filing a statement of substantial interest. However, as I indicated above, simply the filing of that form, may not remove the bias that would exist in a quasi judicial circumstance.) 2) The nature of the interest that the interested party has in the issue before the zoning officials. 3) Whether or not the relationship between the zoning official and the interested party will be affected by the action of the zoning official. 4) Whether or not the interested party has taken an active position on the issue before the board, and if so, whether or not the zoning official was involved in formulating that position on behalf of the interested party. 5) Whether or not there have been discussions, outside the public hearing, between the interested party and the zoning official concerning the issue before the board. 6) Whether or not the zoning official himself feels he can be impartial in deciding the issue, and base the decision solely upon information from the public hearing. 7) Whether or not the public record completely discloses the relationship of the zoning official and the interested party. I would suggest that in any circumstance in which the appearance of a conflict exists, the above-mentioned criteria should be reviewed, and if after such a review, a reasonable person would believe that the public official could act impartially upon the issue, then I am comfortable that a reviewing court would not invalidate the proceedings, assuming the substantial interest filing required by 75-4305 has been complied with. The responsibility for knowing whether or not a given set of circumstances creates a conflict of interest lies totally with each individual commissioner or board member. The Legal Department will be glad to provide advice concerning any possible conflict of interest in any given set of circumstances. It would be helpful if the Legal Department had as much advance notice as possible of a possible conflict of interest. It is sometimes difficult to evaluate all the facts and circumstances involved in a question concerning conflict of interest when the question is raised only a few minutes before the applicable meeting. I hope this memo is adequate to serve as a “refresher course” to all board members and commissioners. If there are any questions, please let me know. & ASSOCIATES, INC 720 POYNTZ AVENUE MANHATTAN, KS 66502 (785)539-7576 Serving your insurance needs BEST Independent Insurance Agent $21.95 Expires May 15, 2008 EXP:03-31-07 Brown Pine Trees By Gregg Eyestone Our lonesome Scots pine fell victim to pine wilt last summer. During fall clean up around the yard, it was cut down and burned to prevent the pine sawyer beetle from migrating to new pine trees. The beetle carries the pinewood nematode that causes death. To reduce the spread of the beetle, dead pines should be cut down and the wood burnt or chipped by the end of April. A new alternative is to inject the tree to prevent infection. Research has shown this to be fairly effective. Unfortunately, once a tree is infected there is no cure. There is a cost to having trees injected and it needs to be done preventatively every 2 years, before May 1. Contact a professional applicator for pricing. While pine wilt is a relatively new disease to the area, Diplodia tip blight and Dothistroma needle blight have been around as long as we have been planting pines in Kansas. The results from these diseases are brown dead tips and needles. Location, age, tree health and genetic make up of each tree will influence the severity of these diseases. Living with these symptoms is the Gregg Eyestone most common situation. However, suppression of these diseases can occur with timely applications of labeled fungicides. Beginning around the 3rd week in April, copper-containing or other labeled fungicides are applied to the new growth (candle) to prevent infection. A second application is made to protect the further growth of the candle. This is for the tip blight. Application equipment to apply treatment to provide thorough coverage is necessary. A hand sprayer to reach a 30 feet tree won’t work. Most likely, a commercial applicator will be necessary. Timing is critical for it to do any good. Needle blight prevention follows tip blight. When the candle has reached its length for the season, the needles begin to emerge. Protecting the needles as they develop is the objective. This occurs around mid-May and may require two applications. Pines give the landscape an interesting form and color. Unfortunately, they are not best adapted to many Kansas locations. They still have a place in the landscape. Be aware that they are not as long lived as most tree species. For more information on pine diseases, stop-by the Extension office or go to www.plantpath.ksu.edu and click on Extension and then fact sheets. You can find out more information on gardening by going to Riley County’s K-State Research and Extension website at www.riley.ksu.edu or you may contact Gregg Eyestone at the Riley County office of K-State Research and Extension by calling 537-6350 or stopping by 110 Courthouse Plaza in Manhattan or e-mail: geyeston@ksu.edu Little Apple Toyota appreciates the efforts of all area teachers! Show your teacher you appreciate all they have done for YOU by entering their name in a drawing to win a brand new 2008 Honda Fit from Little Apple Honda on May 6th. Students, come in to our dealership and enter your teacher by 12 noon May 3, 2008. You’ll receive an apple just for coming in and have a chance to have YOUR name drawn for a Apple IPod! Teacher must be present to win. HISTORY moved into Beach House!! 2.50 pr month! Tuesday, April 16, 1878 Made a Martin Box & fixed up an Old one. Swept out Dearbon House & touched some places with paint. Went to evening train & brought up G.W. Cheney & wife & wife’s mother, Mrs. Boote. Prospect of Storm. Set Old Whity!! Hen No. 7, Griffing Eggs! The Goodnow Diary gives a glimpse into the life of Isaac Goodnow, a leader in the free-state movement and one of the founders of the town of Manhattan. He later established the college which became Kansas State University. A prominent farmer and successful businessman, Goodnow and his wife, Ellen, built a unique stone farmhouse in the 1860s. Isaac's and Ellen's interest in education and nature is reflected in the hundreds of objects they collected. Visiting Goodnow House Location: 2309 Claflin Road in Manhattan, Kansas Hours: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tuesday - Friday 2 - 5 p.m. Saturday - Sunday. Subject to staff availability. 1878 The Miller’s on hand to Spend the Sabbath as usual. Saturday, March 30 1878 Failed to meet Pierce. Returned to Manhattan at 11 A.M. Dined with Sawyer. Talked over Bank business, &c. Rode home, Whitney. P.M. visited at Rollins &c. Wrote Goss & Dickson on the Potters. To bed at 12 M. W& Ben Miller here. Wrote A.W. Rinehart, A.C. Pierce. Sunday, April 7, 1878 Pleasant day. 11 A.M. Sermon by Rev. Gill. Goodnow, Miller went to church with us. Read some. Sunday, March 31, 1878 Went to Church. Heavy Frost last night! Ice 3/16 inch thick! A.M. Sermon by Rev. Gill, our new Preacher. Wrote Mr.& Mrs. L.H. Whitney, G.W. Quereau. P.C. H.W. Cheney. W.G. Leduc, B.&W. Miller Spend the Sabbath with us. Monday, April 1, 1878 Helped Hattie about washing. Spaded up by House, trimmed trees, &c. Called on Soupene; fixed walk at Dearbon House. P.M. Went to town; got Wagon mended. Home at dusk. Evening read in Ridpath’s History of U.S. Bought Paint of Purcell. Tuesday, April 2, 1878 Damp & rainy. Paint-Square room in L. Set out 2 pear trees (Bartlet). Hoed Horse [ra—-?]. Went to Dearbon House. King moved today. Hoed drains in road. Wednesday, April 3, 1878 Tore off plastering, Dearbon House. Fixed up Barn loft. Went to town. Wrote H.B. Henson, J.M. Spence, N. Taylor. Mostly pleasant but flying Clouds with wind. Visited at Rev. J. Griffing. Miller’s came & Spend the night. Thursday, April 4, 1878 Worked at Dearbon House. Planted Early Kent. Peas. Rode to town, P.M. Letter from Goss. Ret‘d. home & got Geo Platte to drive me to the Cars. Went to Junction & stopped at Pacific House. Friday, April 5, 1878 Up at 3 A.M. & went to N. Falls. Called on Goss & Dickson Consultation on Potter & wife. Capt. Houghanout took me to Gardner farm to See Potter. Pleasant Call on him & wife. Supper at De Mars. Eve. Train to Junction City at 12-20, Midnight. Beautiful day. Saturday, April 6, 1878 Called on Pierce, $20. Returned to Manhattan at 11 A.M. French took me home. Whelan plastered in Dearbon House = 2.50. Painted in wood L. Wrote Mark Staple, Upton, J.M. Spencer. Beautiful weather. 3A MANHATTAN FREE PRESS - THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2008 Monday, April 8, 1878 Painted in Back room. Shook put down two Carpets in our Sleeping room & in the Palor Chamber. Reynolds laying Wall. Clark hauling Stone. Getting ready for G.W. Cheney & wife & pigs! Wrote W.P. Boreland & R.W. Randall. Tuesday, April 9, 1878 Painted at Dearbon House. Went to the Woods with Johnson & Set him to trimming up tree. Helped about putting down carpets. Set 3 hens!!! Painted in L. &c. Tired. Wednesday, April 10, 1878 Painted at Dearbon House. Whelan Whitewashed, $1.25. Went to town to meet folks. Now Came! Wrote H.B. Henson, & again enclosing Draft on N.Y. for $139,50. Wrote Clark, Dodge, & Co. for Bond. Thursday, April 11, 1878 Went to Manhattan with Rev. Griffing. Wrote A.M. SommersJacob Winzeler. Returned at 1 P.M. Worked on flower beds. Col. Goss, W&B Miller & families Spent the night with us. Old fashion. Eve— Set a hen east of 2 others. Friday, April 12, 1878 Millers & families left. Rode with Col. Goss & Ellen to Rocky Ford, Calling at S. Whitney’s & Manhattan, bringing home, Mudge to Dinner. Whitney here. P.M. took Goss to train. Clark hauled Stone. Wrote H.B. Henson. Set 5th Hen! S.W. came. Saturday, April 13, 1878 Finished painting Kitchen to Dearborn House. Planted Radish Seed—Patent Office Seed. Hail & rain 5 ¼ P.M. 6 P.M. Went to town & got wall paper. Muddy. Wilbur did not come. Set Hen No. 6 with Mrs. Griffing’s Eggs. Single High Box on East Side. Sunday, April 14, 1878 Sermon by Rev. Gill “the Bush was not Consumed”. Called on Prof. Mudge. Cloudy day. Read Trans/Herald &c. Monday, April 15, 1878 Campbell papered Dearbon House 3.25. Settled with Reynolds; Paid him $7.70. balance due him. Good day. Painted & plastered Some. Wrote Warren Tyler. Mr. Johnson Wednesday, April 17, 1878 Fine rain last night, some showers during the day. Rode to town with Wilbur Cheney & Son about his load of hogs & goods. Fixed the hogs in Stable, &c. Henry M. Laurens along. Mr. Allen decides to take hog pasture. P.C. H.D. Dickson. J.J. McBride, Wrote him. Thursday, April 18, 1878 Went to town with Wilbur Cheney who move his goods from Car to Dearbon House. Painted Some & glazed at Dearbon & Beach House. 2 lb. Visit at Rev. Gill’s. Sent him $2. pd through lb. Mail. Friday, April 19, 1878 Went to town twice after Hiram. Train delayed by a wrecked freight beyond Brookville till 10 O Clock. P.M. Tinned up Mouse holes in Dearbon House. P.C. Frank Goodnow, J. Denison, R. H. Wood. Beautiful day. Mrs. Kingrick. ished 2 posts. Elisha gave us 2 fish! Call from Wilbur & wife, Ben Miller & wife. Saturday, April 27, 1878 Clark continued his ploughing. J. Griffing brot “Marker”. Harrowed 4 ½ Acres Garden Spot to Reynolds. Went to town & got 1 Bu. Lime for pointing wall. Hiram experimenting on planters. Fine weather. Webster quarried for Todd. Hiram planted Wm’s . Sweet Corn, Beans, & Marrowfat peas. Sent Henry to Lawrence for silk. $14.00. Washed!. Sunday, April 28, 1878 A.M. Sermon by Rev. Lloyd. Carried G.W., T. Cheney & wife to church with Hattie & Ellen. Prof. Hougham also. Read Nationalist & in National Repository. Henry Laurens Called in the evening. Gave “Jim” a bite in the Pasture! Sent Em Nat‘l. Bank Draft on Martin Bank $125. Willie ploughed 5 hours. Hiram & Webster planted cane 4 hours. John Griffin ploughed & harrowed. H.&W. burnt Stalks, &c. Made Some repairs. Chickens hatched (21). 3 new. Set Whity No. 1 and the last of Buff Bochins? Some rain and hail! Mid-America Office Supplies Tax Forms W-2 Forms 328 Poyntz (Downtown) 539-8982 Wednesday, May 1, 1878 Wrote H.B. Cullom & A.W. Rinehart. Called at G.W. Cheney’s. Nailed on Boards &c; rode to town too late for train, Dr. Vail. Webster finished grass in Walks! Hoed out ditches on road. Harry Hougham’s Two Colts put in pasture, yesterday. Fine rain in the night. Monday, April 29, 1878 Clark marked out 4 ½ Acres cane land ½ day. Willie Whitney ploughed 4 ½ hours, 4 horses. Wilbur planted theirs A.M. 4 ½ hours. P.M. Henry &co.. Burnt Stalks, raked by Wilbur & Billy. Reynolds pointed up Wall 8 hours. Fine day. Wrote E. Makins, due $25.14. Tuesday, April 30, 1878 Saturday, April 20, 1878 Went to town early & brought up H.S. Denison & Webster & trunks, All eight. Took up wood to G.W. Cheney &c. P.M. Went to town with Cheney & attended to his broken furniture. PHYSICIAN-SUPERVISED WEIGHT LOSS BUFFALO MEAT Sunday, April 21, 1878 A.M. Sermon by Rev. Gill. “Thy word is a lamp &c”. Excellent! P.M. Read Herald &c. Eve— long talk with Hiram. Laurens & Webster killed rattlesnake. 10 rattles! Land receipts $144,30. Orientation General Seminar All natural, No hormones, Grass fed, Low cholesterol. Monday, April 22, 1878 Wrote A.C. Pierce, H.D. Dixon. P.C. L.T. Heritage. Went to town A.M. & P.M. G.W. Cheney Settled with Harvey for damages on his goods; $90.00. Brought up Prof. Hougham from town. Pleasant. 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This is more than halfway across the visible universe.” Then a Reuters story this week reported that a British physicist, Peter Higgs, predicts it should soon be possible to prove the existence of a force which gives mass to the universe and makes life possible. Higgs said he believes a particle named the “Higgs boson,” that some have dubbed a “God particle”, which originates from the force, will be found when a vast particle collider at the CERN research centre on the Franco-Swiss border begins operating fully early next year. The article claimed the existence of the invisible field is widely accepted by scientists, who believe it came into being milliseconds after the Big Bang created the universe some 15 billion years ago. Dick Miller We live in a very dynamic and sometimes dangerous universe. It’s enough to give a person the heebee geebees. No wonder 81 percent of Americans don’t like where things are headed. Reckon it has a lot to do with the worldview of people and politics. The secular activists have convinced us we are a bunch of random particles extruded out of nothingness given mass after passing through an invisible force with no design at the beginning and a black hole in space at the end. What a deal! Think I won’t have some. Our second president, John Adams, had a good idea: “[R]eligion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.” Religion not only provides a foundation for life, but true religion and true Ann Coulter Obama’s Dimestore “Mein Kampf” If characters from “The Hills” were to emote about race, I imagine it would sound like B. Hussein Obama’s autobiography, “Dreams From My Father.” Has anybody read this book? Inasmuch as the book reveals Obama to be a flabbergasting lunatic, I gather the answer is no. Obama is about to be our next president: You might want to take a peek. If only people had read “Mein Kampf” ... Nearly every page — save the ones dedicated to cataloguing the mundane details of his life — is bristling with anger at some imputed racist incident. The last time I heard this much race-baiting invective I was ... in my usual front-row pew, as I am every Sunday morning, at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Obama tells a story about taking two white friends from the high school basketball team to a “black party.” Despite their deep-seated, unconscious hatred of blacks, the friends readily accepted. At the party, they managed not to scream the Nword, but instead “made some small talk, took a couple of the girls out on the dance floor.” But with his racial hair-trigger, Obama sensed the whites were not 4A MANHATTAN FREE PRESS - THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2008 Ann Coulter comfortable because “they kept smiling a lot.” And then, in an incident reminiscent of the darkest days of the Jim Crow South ... they asked to leave after spending only about an hour at the party! It was practically an etiquette lynching! So either they hated black people with the hot, hot hate of a thousand suns, or they were athletes who had come to a party late, after a Saturday night basketball game. In the car on the way home, one of the friends empathizes with Obama, saying: “You know, man, that really taught me something. I mean, I can see how it must be tough for you and Ray sometimes, at school parties ... being the only black guys and all.” And thus Obama felt the cruel lash of racism! He actually writes that his response to his friend’s perfectly lovely remark was: “A part of me wanted to punch him right there.” Listen, I don’t want anybody telling Obama about Bill Clinton’s “I Manhattan Free Press Reporting The Truth as we see it. science are in total coalescence and are mutually beneficial. Both an evolutionist and a creationist worldview have a single-point origin, be it a Big Bang or the spoken word of a Designer. Dr. Donald Barnhouse, in his book The Invisible War, succinctly describes a scenario that reconciles the dilemma of an old universe and a young Earth by piecing together bits of the puzzle found in Genesis, Isaiah, Ezekiel and John. Barnhouse describes a colossal war in which the CEO of the universe, I’ll call him Ludicrous, rebels against the Designer. The result is that Ludicrous is exiled to a shapeless, dark mass we later find out is called Earth. It’s as if the Designer says, “Okay, Ludicrous, you think you are my equal, see what you can make out of the dark chaos on Planet Earth!” Eons pass, chaos remains on Planet Earth, the Designer appoints Begotten as the new CEO and says, “Go bring order out of the chaos on dark Planet Earth. Ludicrous hasn’t been able to get the lights turned on.” So a few thousand years ago Begotten stepped out on the rim of the universe and says, “Let there be light” and the Earth got a dramatic face-lift in the span of seven days. So, if scientists are correct that Star GRB 080319B preceded Earth by several billion years, the colossal explosions are an orderly sequence of birth, death and rebirth on a cosmic scale. Now science and religion can be partners. Scientists have a universe that’s very old and creationists have an awesome Designer, a purposeful beginning, a reconditioned Earth and a magnificent future. Now that’s a deal worth considering! feel your pain” line. Wanting to punch his white friend in the stomach was the introductory anecdote to a full-page psychotic rant about living by “the white man’s rules.” (One rule he missed was: “Never punch out your empathetic white friend after dragging him to a crappy all-black party.”) Obama’s gaseous disquisition on the “white man’s rules” leads to this charming crescendo: “Should you refuse this defeat and lash out at your captors, they would have a name for that, too, a name that could cage you just as good. Paranoid. Militant. Violent. Nigger.” For those of you in the “When is Obama gonna play the ‘N-word’ card?” pool, the winner is ... Page 85! Congratulations! When his mother expresses concern about Obama’s high school friend being busted for drugs, Obama says he patted his mother’s hand and told her not to worry. This, too, prompted Obama to share with his readers a life lesson on how to handle white people: “It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied, they were relieved — such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn’t seem angry all the time.” First of all, I note that this technique seems to be the basis of Obama’s entire presidential campaign. But moreover — he was talking about his own mother! As Obama says: “Any distinction between good and bad whites held negligible meaning.” Say, do you think a white person who said that about blacks would be a leading presidential candidate? The man is stark bonkersville. He says the reason black people keep to themselves is that it’s “easier than spending all your time mad or trying to guess whatever it was that white folks were thinking about you.” Here’s a little inside scoop about white people: We’re not thinking about you. Especially WASPs. We think everybody is inferior, and we are perfectly charming about it. In college, Obama explains to a girl why he was reading Joseph Conrad’s 1902 classic, “Heart of Darkness”: “I read the book to help me understand just what it is that makes white people so afraid. Their demons. The way ideas get twisted around. I helps me understand how people learn to hate.” By contrast, Malcolm X’s autobiography “spoke” to Obama. One line in particular “stayed with me,” he says. “He spoke of a wish he’d once had, the wish that the white blood that ran through him, there by an act of violence, might somehow be expunged.” Forget Rev. Jeremiah Wright — Wright is Booker T. Washington compared to this guy. COPYRIGHT 2008 ANN COULTER PUBLISHED WEEKLY EVERY THURSDAY Manhattan Free Press WINNER OF THE KANSAS GAS SERVICE EXCELLENCE IN EDITORIAL WRITING AWARD Free Press Staff Jon A. and Linda L. Brake, Publishers Jon A. Brake, Editor Linda L. Brake, Advertising Manager Ben Brake, Sports Editor “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” - Thomas Jefferson, 1787 Subscriptions: eFreePress subscriptions are Free Street Address: 103 North 3rd Street Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1191, Manhattan, Ks 66505 E-Mail: jonbrake@kansas.net or freepress@kansas.net 537-8953 CLASSIFIEDS 5A MANHATTAN FREE PRESS - THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2008 School Program Stopped Weight Gain In Two Years By STEPHANIE NANO Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) _ Five Philadelphia elementary schools replaced sodas with fruit juice. They scaled back snacks and banished candy. They handed out raffle tickets for wise food choices. They spent hours teaching kids, their parents and teachers about good nutrition. What have they got to show for it? The number of kids who got fat during the two-year experiment was half the number of kids who got fat in schools that didn’t make those efforts. ``It’s a really dramatic effect from a public health point of view. That’s the good news,’‘ said Gary Foster, director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University. He is also the lead author of the Philadelphia schools study being published Monday in the April issue of Pediatrics. The bad news: There were still plenty of new overweight kids in the five schools _ over 7 percent of them became overweight compared to the 15 percent in the schools that didn’t make changes. ``That signals to me that we have lots more work to do,’‘ said Foster. Schools are ideal settings for programs that target childhood obesity, the researchers noted. Children spend long hours each day at schools and eat lunch and often breakfast at school. But school-based programs have had mixed results. The Philadelphia study put to the test a program developed by the Food Trust, a local nonprofit which works to improve access to affordable, healthy food. Ten schools enrolled in the government-funded study in 2002, and half made the changes. Since then, many of the modifications have been carried out at most of Philadelphia’s schools, according to Joan Nachmani, the district’s director of nutrition education and one of the researchers. She said such studies help people ``wake up and realize it can be done on a larger scale.’‘ The 1,349 students in the study were in grades four to six. At the start, about 40 percent were overweight or obese. Many received free or subsidized meals. For the study, changes were made to the food in vending machines or the cafeteria in five of the schools. Juice, water and low-fat milk replaced sodas. 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The message was reinforced in other subjects: food labels were used to help teach fractions. And parents were also enlisted: a fundraiser successfully substituted fruit salad for baked goods, said another of the researchers, Sandy Sherman, the Food Trust’s director of nutrition education. She said the children were also urged to exercise at activity stations during recess. They were measured and weighed periodically and surveyed about food and exercise. After two years, besides fewer new overweight children, the overall number of overweight students at the five schools dropped about 10 percent to 15 percent. At the no-change schools, the number of overweight children rose a quarter to 20 percent. There was no difference between school groups in new obese students (6 percent) or the overall number of obese (about 25 percent). Obese children probably benefit more from individually targeted efforts, Foster said. 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NEWS 6a MANHATTAN FREE PRESS - THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2008 April Marks 35th Anniversary Of The Cell Phone Call Remember when cell phones weighed a few pounds, cost thousands of dollars, and service couldn’t be guaranteed? That was the mid1980s, in the early days of cellular service, when the technology was an expensive and cumbersome commitment. Cell phones have changed dramatically since the first cell phone call was made in April, 1973. They have transformed from 2-pound “brick” phones to the size of credit cards that weigh only a few ounces. Today’s smartphones send and receive emails, take photos and video, as well as provide your own music playlist, directions, news and weather updates. Martin Cooper, known as the father of the cell phone, made the first cell phone call 35 years ago using a “brick” phone in New York City. Ten years later, the 1½-pound DynaTAC phone became available to the public and sold for $3,500, for one hour of talk time and eight hours of standby time. During the 1990s, the popularity of cell phones started to rise. The cell phone went from being rare and expensive equipment of the business elite to a pervasive, low-cost personal item. With smaller hand held devices, made possible with energyefficient electronics and more cellular sites, wireless subscribers in the United States grew from 7.5 million in 1992 to more than 255 million in 2007. “The advancements in cell phone case a cell phone is lost or they choose to upgrade to a new cell phone. “The cell phone is no longer just for placing calls,” adds Winger. “Wireless users can find their way to an appointment with GPS location based services, like Your Navigator™, answer emails on the go, personalize their phones with a favorite song and take pictures to use as their screen’s wallpaper. The opportunities for information are endless with access to the Internet. Cell phones have become an essential tool that keeps us connected with loved ones and our daily routines.” U.S. Cellular is the nation’s sixth-largest wireless service carrier, providing wireless service to six mil- Motorola DynaTAC 8000: the first “brick phone” introduced in the early 1980’s. technology and network improvements allow customers to make a call anytime, anywhere,” said Roberta Winger, U.S. Cellular director of sales in Manhattan. “Wireless communications continues to evolve and change to meet the growing desires of wireless customers that want access to friends, family, and information.” Early cell phones could only store up to 20 numbers. Today, cell phones lion customers in 26 states. The Chicago-based company employs 8,000 associates and operates on a customer satisfaction strategy, meeting customer needs by providing a comprehensive range of wireless products and services, superior customer support, and a high-quality network. Here are some current cell phone facts from the wireless industry group CTIA: * There are more than 255 million wireless subscribers in the United States. Wireless Service was once projected to be a niche market, appealing to a maximum of 900,000 customers in the year 2000. As a matter of reference in 1992, there were only 7.5 million wireless sub- scribers in the United States. This represents a year-over-year increase of more than 22 million subscribers. * During the first six months of 2007, customers logged 1.95 trillion minutes of usage, which collectively equates to 1.6 million years spent on the cell phone. * Text messaging continues to be enormously popular, with more than 48 billion messages reported for the month of December 2007 alone—1.6 billion messages per day. This represents an increase of 157% over December 2006. * More than 12 percent of U.S. households have “cut the cord” completely and rely solely on wireless phones instead of landlines, up from 7.7 percent in 2005. Blackberry Pearl 8130 Red: Today’s “smartphones” like the BlackBerry Pearl include a camera, audio/video player, email capabilities and more. can store thousands of contacts and with web based storage, like My Contacts Backup, wireless users have a secure location for numbers in Saturday, Satu rday, April 26, 2008 2 Tea Te T ea Gayle Doll Named Director Of K-State Center On Aging By Jane Marshall KSU News Service Gayle Appel Doll has been an elementary art teacher, a YMCA fitness leader, a professional quilter and a Kansas State University Research and Extension project manager. But, when she trained to teach an older adult exercise class, she found her niche. She became a gerontologist. Doll, who has been promoted to assistant professor , has been named director of the Center on Aging in KState's College of Human Ecology. The appointment becomes effective June 15. Doll had previously served as the center's interim director and was appointed to the director's position after a nationally competitive search. As director, she will coordinate and develop educational and training programs in aging, stimulate aging research, coordinate outreach activities and guide the center to become the top referral center for information on aging resources in Kansas. "I'm more excited about the field now than the day I started. I get to be a teacher, a connector, a communicator, a leader. I get to teach students to change their perceptions about aging processes. I get to awe-inspiring Captivating Radio Dramas for the Whole Family! examples of successful aging," Doll said. "Perhaps one of the best things about my chosen field: I will only get more credible the older I get," she said. "Our focus is primarily on the range of care giving services, both informal and formal, for frail elders in Kansas. We try to help people find the opportunities that afford the best quality of life possible as people age," Doll said. According to Doll, in the Midwest, 82 percent of the counties exceed the U.S. proportion of population 65 and above. "Aging has a number of socioeconomic implications both at the national and local levels of social organization, including its impact on further demographic change, elderly well-being and poverty, community development and economic growth," she said. Undergraduate students can get a secondary major in gerontology at K-State. "It compliments nearly every career focus offered on campus," Doll said. Faculty in disciplinary departments throughout the university teaches most gerontology courses. served serv rvedd at ffo former orrm mer St. SSt t. 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The Heritage Center of Dickinson County is on the back side of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum . It is a Museum displaying the history of Dickinson County. It looks to me like the Heritage Center is make up in three parts. The Historical Museum shows the history of Dickinson County from the days of the American Indians until now. The Museum of Independent Telephony is the history of the telephone and the “Back Door” displays show shops from old Main Street. We were impressed with the way the Museum was set up. You started at the beginning of time in Dickinson County. Display show the American Indians and how they lived. The Explorers and Cowboys have their place in history and in the Museum. The Historical Museum has a lot to see and it will take some time to see everything. For years I have seen billboards for the Museum of Independent Telephony and wondered why it would be in Abilene, Kansas. The answer is simple. Abilene is where Sprint was born. C.L. Brown built an independent telephone company in Abilene in 1898. You will see many, many ringy-dinges in this display. There are large displays of wall phones, desk phones and the operator desks. Most from our generation recall standing up to the wall phone (on a chair) and saying “Hello! Central? It is all on display and it is impressive. Out the “Back Door” are old buildings showing what life would have been like in the late 1800’s. A meat shop, a school house, a barn and a log cabin. Each is filled with items of memories. And then you have the Carousel. What a joy. Built before 1928 by C.W. Parker, who started a amusement devices company in Abilene, it returned to Abilene in 1976. “The Abilene carousel is a trackoperated machine consisting of 24 horses, in 12 pairs, and four chariots on a fifty foot platform. It has it’s original steam engine. The carousel is not of the type that most people relate to. Because of it age, it redates most of our memories. Instead of being mounted on a pole, the horses are mounted on a rocking mechanism on the platform. It has been placed under a ten-like building on the grounds of the DCHS museum.” The carousel is on the National Landmark list. All of the horses have been repainted, repaired and received new leather reins and horsehair tails. Children of all ages will enjoy a Colored glass insulators of all kinds make up a large display. ride. We sure did. The Heritage Center of Dickinson County's 412 South Campbell, Abilene, Kansas 67410 -directly east of the Eisenhower Center. Phone: 785-263-2681 e-mail heritagecenterdk@sbcglobal.net Open daily all year. Winter Hours: Monday - Friday 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM Saturday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM --- Sunday 1:00 AM - 5:00 PM Extended hours from Memorial Day thru Labor Day - Open until 5:OO PM Monday Friday and until 8:00 PM Saturdays Admission fee: $4.00 for those 16 years and older. Carousel extra. Seniors (62 and over) $3.00. Carousel extra. Carousel only $2.00 each Children (age 2-15) $2.00 each and includes Carousel. Inquire for group rates of 8 adults or more and school group rates. Color was added to the desk and wall phones. What is a “Telephony”? A later wall phone. Photos By Linda L. Brake and Jon A. Brake The wall phones are on display. A 1919 desk phone. NEWS Figures Don’t Lie...the just change The City of Manhattan staff gave the City Commissioners a Feasibility Study on January 30, 2007 showing the Plan for financing the Downtown Development. Total cost of the project was going to be $194,000,000. In March of 2008 the Staff gave the City Commission a “Downtown Redevlopment Finance Overview. Changes? Yes the tolal cost has gone down to $182 million. In January of 2007 the City would not use property tax to pay for the project. In 2008 a sixteen percent in property tax will be needed. What is funny is that in 2006 the cost of constructing 4th Street was $3 million, in 2008 bids came in at $8 million. The cost of 4th Street has gone up almost 3 times but the cost of the complet project has dropped. The State of Kansas needs to investigate the financing of the Downtown Redevelopment Project. Here is the 2007 Sutdy and the the right is the 2008 figures. Feasibility Study – January 30, 2007 15 City of Manhattan, Kansas VI. Plan of Finance This Plan of Finance is preliminary based on the various project and financial factors known at this time. This Plan of Finance will become more final in the months ahead as additional information is provided, among other factors the completion of an independent market study of the project’s public revenues. The Plan of Finance will center on the State’s approval for the issuance of Sales Tax Revenue Bonds (STAR). The State’s approval has limited the total principal amount of the STAR bonds to $50M, and requires the amount of STAR bond financing not to exceed 50% of the total costs of the Flint Hills Discovery and Visitor’s Center and the South Development Entertainment Area Project upon completion. The projected sources and uses of funds involves the estimated types of financings described below. The City is not limited by the described financing methodologies. The City will ensure that each financing meets statutory requirements and follows the State approval described above. A Sales Tax Revenue (STAR) Bond will be issued (estimated to occur on 5/1/2007) to provide $41,000,000 of net proceeds to pay project costs. The projected security for these bonds includes an annual appropriation pledge of the City to replenish the debt service reserve fund, if drawn on. A tax increment revenue bond 2B MANHATTAN FREE PRESS - THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2008 Funding Sources Total Project Costs STAR TIF A TDD North TDD South City Obligation Dial North Redevelopment North Land Acquisition North Site Preparation North Tenant Relocation Plaza Infrastructure / Utilities 3rd St / Osage 3rd / Leavenworth / Humboldt Opening Leavenworth / 4th St / Tuttle Creek Blvd. Moro Street TCB Sidewalk from RIRO to Bluemont Bluemont Sidewalk from 4th St. to TCB Right In / Right Out North Retail North Residential 15,800,000 500,000 15,800,000 2,060,000 260,000 950,000 780,000 130,000 475,000 850,000 1,188,000 125,456 735,000 68,744 850,000 1,188,000 517,000 735,000 68,744 70,683 825,000 25,750,000 25,750,000 Total North Redevelopment Project Costs 780,000 130,000 475,000 391,544 70,683 825,000 25,750,000 25,750,000 74,824,427 - 16,300,000 15,780,000 1,500,000 11,000,000 5,000,000 3,000,000 12,000,000 3,792,200 - 1,847,227 52,885,000 1,890,000 750,000 1,890,000 750,000 South Redevelopment South Land Acquisition South Site Preparation Discovery Center Construction Discovery FF&E Discovery Center Consulting Fees Infrastructure / Utilities Intersection - 3rd St. and Fort Riley Blvd. 3rd St. from Fort Riley Blvd to Pierre Street Colorado St. from 4th St. to 3rd St. Warren Theater Parking Lot Pierre St. from 3rd St. to 4th St. K-177 / 3rd St / Pierre St (Including streetscape) Private Utility Relocation South End Water (Improvements related to redevelopment) South End Wastewater (Improvements related to redevelopment) Connection to Depot Public Acre Park Parking Garage 741,600 1,674,162 836,620 437,091 692,936 3,328,249 882,987 812,000 340,000 819,545 1,214,184 8,000,000 Total Project Costs 5,000,000 3,000,000 Manhattan Realty Service 741,600 1,674,162 836,620 96,392,424 Duane L. McKinney Broker-Appraiser-Inspector 437,091 692,936 3,328,249 441,494 719,821 92,179 340,000 441,494 819,545 1,214,184 4,000,000 728,000 STAR TIF A TDD North TDD South 404 Humboldt St, Suite D Manhattan, Ks 66502 APPRAISALS, BLDG INSPECTIONS, SALES, PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Phone: 785-776-1010 Fax: 785-539-1026 E-mail: manreal@kansas.net 3,272,000 City Obligation Dial PURPLEWAVE AUCTION CO. (PURPLEWAVE.COM 9,500,000 9,500,000 15,450,000 4,243,600 530,450 8,487,200 2,121,800 Total South Redevelopment Project Costs Therefore the maximum amount of Project Costs which can be funded from Project Benefits is estimated at $112,641,941. The difference between this estimate and the total revenues are costs of financing, namely interest costs, coverage requirements, etc. The estimated TIF/TDD/STAR eligible expenditures, the Project Costs, are $95,141,941 — $59,404,592 for the South Project and an existing $35,737,349 for the North Project. An additional $17,500,000 of expenditures are obligations of the City/Developer but are not TIF/TDD/STAR eligible expenditures. (Editor’s Note: This is not the complete study, just part of the financing.) 11,000,000 Funding Sources Conference Center Hotel Restaurants Retail Theater Residential nanced with special obligation bonds .VII. Conclusions The amount of funding which can be supported by these resources over the 20-22 year term is summarized as follows: STAR Bond principal $50,000,000 TDD North Bond principal $4,715,000 TDD South Bond principal $1,100,000 TIF A Bond principal $21,820,000 TIF B Bond principal $9,435,000 Investment Earnings $3,727,902 Tax Collections During Construction $2,400,000 City/Developer Contributions – TIF/STAR/TDD $1,943,939 City/Developer Contributions – non-TIF/STAR/TDD $17,500,000 Total $112,641,941 15,450,000 4,243,600 530,450 8,487,200 2,121,800 38,919,930 - - 728,000 22,829,951 33,914,544 4th Street South 4th St. and Fort Riley Blvd. Intersection South 4th St from Fort Riley Blvd. to Pierre Street North 4th Street from Leavenworth to Moro Manhattan Marketplace Waterline E (Pd from Water Fund) North 4th St. 16" Water line North 4th St. Sanitary Sewer 4th St./ Bluemont Roundabout Land Acquisition - 4th St. Roundabout Tenant Relocation - 4th St. Roundabout Building Relocation - 4th St. Roundabout Total 4th Street Project Costs 483,000 1,182,000 2,800,000 80,709 181,269 940,000 1,769,980 440,000 60,000 500,000 483,000 1,182,000 2,800,000 80,709 181,269 940,000 1,769,980 440,000 60,000 500,000 8,436,958 - - - - 8,436,958 - Other Related Projects South End Stormwater (Project 15 in Master Plan) South End Water (General City improvements) South End Wastewater (General city improvements) 2,018,000 186,000 372,000 2,018,000 186,000 372,000 Total Other Related Project Costs Total (TIF A Bond) will be issued to refinance the existing North Project obligation at the same time. The projected issuance of this bond includes City annual appropriation support with revenues exceeding debt service 1.35 times. The current estimated financing will not fully refund the existing North Project bond. The City and/or the Developer will need to come up with approximately $2M to retire the obligation in full. This will enable the pledge of South Project local sales tax revenue to be released, and be used as repayment for the STAR bond. An additional TIF supported bond (TIF B Bond) may be issued pledging revenues subordinate to the TIF A Bond described above. This bond will reimburse the City for TIF/TDD eligible public infrastructure and 2,576,000 - - - - 2,576,000 - 182,229,809 38,919,930 16,300,000 3,792,200 728,000 35,690,136 86,799,544 parking expenditures in both the North and South Project areas. The City plans to finance certain project costs upfront through their standard public infrastructure financing methods (which may include general obligation bonds). The reimbursement of any TIF eligible costs financed initially by the City is an eligible use of property and sales tax increment received throughout the term of the Downtown Redevelopment District. Two additional bonds will be issued to pay for transportation related expenditures supported by the TDD sales tax. The transportation related bonds will be issued in multiple series to correlate with the City approval process. The revenue to service each of these bonds will be limited to the projected revenue streams and are projected to include a limited obligation of the City for repayment (a promise to annually appropriate revenue to replenish the debt service reserve fund if it has been accessed to pay debt service due to insufficient project revenues). 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White, Tennessee’s Chris Lofton, UCLA’s Kevin Love and Georgetown’s Roy Hibbert, while Memphis’ Derrick Rose, Kansas’ Brandon Rush, Vanderbilt’s Shan Foster, Stanford’s Brook Lopez and Duke’s DeMarcus Nelson composed the third team. The 15-member team was selected and voted on by the member coaches of the NABC. The honor was one of many that continue to roll in for the freshman who is already the first player in Kansas State history to earn a National Player of the Year award. In addition to earning Player of the Year accolades from both CBS Sports.com and Rivals.com, Beasley has been named a finalist for both the prestigious John R. Wooden Award, which will be given out on April 11 at the Los Angeles Athletic Club, as well as the Naismith Player of the Year Award presented by AT&T and the Atlanta Tipoff Club, which will be presented on Sunday at the NABC Guardians of the Game awards program. In addition to his National Player of the Year awards, Beasley has been named National Freshman of the Year by five organizations, including CBS Sports.com, Rivals.com, CollegeHoops.net, The Sporting News and U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA). He has also Michael Beasley AP All-American been selected a first team All- as Beasley averaged 26.2 points on American by numerous outlets, 53.2 percent shooting (307-of-577), including The Associated Press, John including 37.9 percent from 3-point R. Wooden Award, CBS Sports.com, range, with 12.4 rebounds, 1.6 Dick Vitale, ESPN.com, Rivals.com, blocks, 1.3 steals and 1.2 assists in Sports Illustrated, The Sporting 31.5 minutes per game this season. News and U.S. Basketball Writers He posted the second-most rebounds Association. In addition, he was (408) by a freshman in NCAA histochosen as a first team Freshman All- ry, trailing just the record of 462 set American by CBS Sports.com and by Nevada’s Pete Padgett in 1972Rivals.com. 73, while he collected the third-most The former No. 1 high school points (866) by a freshman behind recruit posted one of the greatest sea- LSU’s Chris Jackson (965; 1988-89) sons by freshman in NCAA history, and Texas’ Kevin Durant (903; 2006- 07). As of the last NCAA ranking, he still was rated among the top-5 in the nation in both scoring (third) and rebounding (first). He leads the nation in five categories, including double-doubles (28), 40-point games (three), 30-point games (13), 20point, 10-rebound games (23) and 30-point, 10-rebound games (13). He is just the 11th player in NCAA Division I history to post 28 or more double-doubles in a season and the first since Wake Forest’s Tim Duncan collected 29 during the 1996-97 season. Beasley already holds 30 Kansas State career, single-season and freshman records as well as 17 Big 12 single-game and single-season marks. He is both the school’s and conference’s all-time single-season leader in scoring average (26.2 ppg.) and double-doubles (28), while he owns school single-season marks for points (866), rebounds (408), most 30-point games (13), most 20-point games (26), field goals made (307), free throws made (216) and free throws attempted (279). Beasley and company helped Kansas State post a 21-12 overall record in 2007-08, including a thirdplace finish in the Big 12 with a 106 mark. The Wildcats advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in nearly 12 years and captured its first NCAA Tournament win since 1988 with their 80-67 victory over USC in the first round of the Midwest Regional in Omaha, Neb., on March 20. The team has now posted back-to-back 20-win seasons for the first time in nearly 20 years, while the 10 conference wins tie the 2006-07 squad for the best league record in the Big 12 era. The thirdplace finish is the best since the inception of the Big 12 and the highest since the 1988-89 team finished third in the Big Eight. ! " 16.95 2828 Amherst • Manhattan, KS • 800-365-0017 Expires April 10th, 2007 K-State On Texas Two-Step Weekend Kansas State women’s tennis will travel to the Lone Star State this weekend to face a pair of ranked teams, No. 33 Texas A&M on Friday and No. 20 Texas on Sunday. K-State (6-10, 2-5 Big 12) dropped a pair of 5-2 decisions last weekend to end its five-match homestand with a 1-4 mark. A pair of freshmen have improved their play over the last four matches, as Antea Huljev and Pauline Guemas have tallied two wins during this span. Huljev is 2-2 in her last four matches, defeating Yawna Allen of Oklahoma State and No. 28 Taylor Ormond of Baylor. The win over Ormond by Huljev is her first career win over a ranked opponent. Guemas is 2-1 in her last three performances, including her first straight set win since Sept. 23. The product of St. Fort, France defeated Natalie Holmes of Baylor, 6-4, 6-1 to improve to 2-1 in Big 12 play. Texas A&M (12-6, 6-1) has three players among the Big 12 wins leaders at Sports Potpourri By Mac Stevenson This is a time to gloat, regardless of the outcome of Monday night’s NCAA championship game. KU basketball fans should send a courteous letter to North Carolina’s AD, Dean Smith, and thank him for taking Roy Williams back to NC. If it wasn’t for that, KU wouldn’t have Bill Self. For many KU followers, last Saturday’s 84-66 win against NC was the best ever. That’s saying a lot. It was fitting for a season filled with Dick Vitale and Dick Phelps and their East Coast colleagues telling us how NC and the ACC were much better than KU and the Big 12. Williams could have left KU for NC with no hard feelings, but he and Smith dominated the news media just before the 2003 Syracuse-KU game for the national championship. Williams loves center stage and he put that ahead of his team and the championship game. And Smith could have waited until the tournament was over before making his recruitment of Williams public. But they chose to take the low road instead of the high road. Bill Self is perfect for KU. The guess here is that he’ll stay for a long time. Coach Self is smart enough to realize that he has a chance to become a coaching legend if he remains at KU. In years to come, Self would rank with KU’s greats, including Phog Allen. As long as Bill Self is at KU, the Jayhawks will be a national power. He is a superb blend of recruitingand coaching ability. From all reports, it appears that Brandon Rush and Darrell Arthur will leave early for the NBA. Arthur could improve his draft position immeasurably with one more year, but he’s probably going to leave. The big question is whether or not guards Mario Chalmers and Sherron Collins will leave or stay. The hunch here is that Chalmers will come back for his senior year, but maybe not. Collins would profit greatly from one more year, but that too is open to conjecture. If Chalmers and Collins return, look out. Kansas would have the start of another exceptional team with these two guards and Cole Aldrich at center. Add the outstanding recruiting class and the Jayhawks would be potent again next season. But now isn’t the time to worry about next season. The only thing missing last Saturday were some tears from Roy. This is a time to gloat. It took some time, but evidently Kansas State football coach Ron Prince has learned that Bill Snyder knew what he was doing when he coached the Wildcats. Kansas State dumped Fresno State from the 2008 schedule and replaced them with a patsy, Montana State. Prince has problems with his football program. K-State has hired 16 assistant coaches in the past three years. That’s too many. Every college coaching staff has frequent turnovers, but the successful teams keep them to a minimum. Wildcat fans are having a hard time forgetting K-State’s complete collapse during the last four games of the 2007 season. Prince’s team lost at Iowa State (31-20), at Nebraska (73-21), at home to Missouri (49-32), and on the road to Fresno State (45-29). K-State’s offense wasn’t that bad, but the Wildcats’ defense was shredded in all four games. During that horrendous homestretch, K-State’s defenders gave up an average of 506.5 yards per game and a total of 198 points. That’s unacceptable. Kansas State lost two of their most-productive offensive players to graduation: WR Jordy Nelson and RB James Johnson. Nelson had a great 2007 and he’ll be difficult to replace. QB Josh Freeman is poised to emerge as one of the best quarterbacks in the nation, but he’ll need some quality receivers. Coach Prince needs to put a team on the field in 2008 that is markedly improved; otherwise, there’s going to be a rising tide of discontent among the Wildcat faithful. Prince has already been criticized by some for getting rid of the Fresno State game, but he was smart to do it. When questioned about the move by the media, Prince said, “Whatever schedule we have, we’ll play it to the best of our ability.” That rejoinder will suffice for now. K-State is going through spring practice with the spring game scheduled for April 19 (6:30 p.m. kickoff). The potential of the 2008 team will remain a mystery until fall drills because of the unknown quality of the incoming junior college recruits. Prince is going to be at a big disadvantage to have to count on so many new players; most of them will have just a few weeks of practice before the first game. One thing is certain: The 2008 season will be a decisive turning point—north or south—for Ron Prince and his coaching staff. their respective lineup positions and a doubles team leading the conference. At number one singles, the Aggies are paced by Elze’ Potgieter with a 6-1 mark to rank second in the league. At number three singles, Texas A&M is led by Anna Blagodarova with a 4-1 record. At number five singles, Morgan Frank leads the conference with a 5-0 record. The doubles pair of Stephanie Davidson and Morgan Frank leads the league at number three doubles with an unblemished mark of 7-0. Texas (12-4, 6-0) has three players and two doubles teams with unbeaten league records, led by number one singles player Vanja Corovic with a 4-0 mark. Right behind Corovic is Courtney Zauft at the number two position with a 4-0 record. 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