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CONCORDIA, KANSAS 66901
Hail, tornadoes
reported as storms
roll across Midwest
Good Evening
Concordia Forecast
Tonight, mostly clear in the evening then
becoming mostly cloudy. A 50 percent
chance of thunderstorms. Lows around 64.
Northeast winds 5 to 15 mph.
Thursday, mostly cloudy in the morning
then becoming mostly sunny. A 40 percent
chance of thunderstorms. Highs around 78.
Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
Thursday night, partly cloudy in the
evening then becoming mostly cloudy. A 20
percent chance of thunderstorms. Lows in
the lower 60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
Friday, mostly cloudy in the morning
then becoming mostly sunny. A 30 percent
chance of thunderstorms. Highs around 80.
East winds 5 to 10 mph.
Friday night, thunderstorms likely. Lows
in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
Saturday, thunderstorms likely. Highs in
the upper 70s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
Saturday night, mostly cloudy with a 40
percent chance of thunderstorms. Lows in
the upper 50s.
Sunday, partly sunny. Highs in the mid
70s.
Sunday night and Monday, partly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 50s. Highs in the upper
70s.
Monday night and Tuesday, mostly
cloudy. A 30 percent chance of thunderstorms. Lows around 60. Highs in the upper
70s.
Relay for Life meeting
Lending a hand
A Relay for Life team captain meeting
will be at 6:30p.m., Thursday, June 5, in
the OK conference room (east entrance) at
Cloud County Community College. Anyone
wanting to form a team or who has questions may call Jamie Kegle, 785-427-6080
or 785-446-3547.
Adam Lambert, the coach of the Peoples Insurance T-Ball team, helps
Braytin Hake hit the ball off the tee during a game Tuesday night. (Photo by
Todd Leif)
Topeka to host world
horseshoe competition
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP)— Kansas
Gov. Sam Brownback announced
Tuesday that he is pushing the federal government to assume some
costs for protecting the lesser
prairie chicken by expanding incentives for farmers to enroll their land
in a longstanding conservation program.
Brownback also said Kansas will
return to federal court this week to
seek additional time for farmers,
ranchers, and oil and natural gas
producers to respond to the federal
government’s decision in March to
list the bird as threatened. Kansas
residents were supposed to decide
last month whether to participate in
conservation efforts. They faced
restrictions and federal fees to continue business activities in areas
with prairie chicken habitats.
The Republican governor criticized the listing of the lesser prairie
chicken as a regulatory overreach
by the federal government that
threatens the state’s economy. He
outlined new state responses during an Associated Press interview
and had a news conference in
Wichita.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has said the listing is justified
by a steep decline in the bird’s
numbers in recent years. The five
states affected — Kansas, Colorado,
New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas
— had fewer than 18,000 in 2013,
down almost 50 percent from 2012.
Brownback released a letter
dated Monday to U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack,
calling on the U.S. Department of
Agriculture to pursue “enhanced
incentives” to encourage more
farmers to enroll land in the
agency’s Conservation Reserve Program, which pays them not to cultivate. Brownback said doing so
would expand lesser prairie chicken
habitats; with such a move, the federal government also would pay
farmers to help protect the bird,
rather than the other way around.
“If they’re upset about loss of
habitat, the federal government has
a fabulous tool that is available and
that they’ve been cutting back on,”
Brownback said during the Statehouse briefing. “Instead, they’re
Across Kansas
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas residents
are being encouraged to try their skill at
pitching horseshoes to qualify for the world
championships being held next year in Topeka.
The Topeka Horseshoe Association and
the Kansas Horseshoe Pitching Association
say more than 1,500 people are expected to
compete in July 2015 at two venues in Topeka.
Kansas will have several qualifying events
over the next year at locations including
Bonner Springs, Salina, Topeka and Wichita.
State board agrees
to teacher regulation
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The State Board
of Education has agreed to allow schools
to hire teachers for certain subjects who
have expertise but no education degree.
The regulations approved Tuesday
require teachers to meet one of three criteria: They would need an out-of-state
license and to pass the licensure tests, or
at least a bachelor’s degree and at least
five years of related work experience in science, technology, engineering or math, or
an industry-recognized certificate in a
technical profession and at least five years
of related work experience.
Oil production
in Kansas increases
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Fracking in
southern Kansas has increased oil production in the state, but natural gas production continued its downward spiral.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports
the value of both oil and gas produced in
Kansas has increased despite the lower
gas output.
The state produced about 46.8 million
barrels of oil in 2013, a 7 percent bump
from the 43.7 million barrels in 2012.
Most of that increase came from southcentral and southwest Kansas.
Natural gas production fell 1.5 percent, from 299 billion cubic feet in 2012
to 295 billion cubic feet last year.
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Brownback pushes back
on lesser prairie chicken
putting the costs on the private
landowner and energy industry.”
The two federal departments
announced last month that
landowners enrolled in the program
and adopting practices to protect
the lesser prairie chicken would not
be subject to additional restrictions. USDA spokesman Cullen
Schwarz said farmers in all five
states already receive conservation
funds through “a number of programs.”
“Kansas farmers are receiving
enhanced incentives through the
Conservation Reserve Program in
particular,” Schwarz said in a statement. “USDA will continue to provide the support we can to help
farmers in Kansas and throughout
the region with voluntary, incentive-based conservation programs.”
But federal farm legislation
enacted earlier this year cut the cap
on acreage in the Conservation
Reserve Program by 25 percent, to
24 million from 32 million. Kansas
acreage in the program has
declined by 28 percent since 2008,
to less than 2.4 million.
Ron Klataske, executive director
of Audubon of Kansas, said rising
commodity prices, federal support
for ethanol production and heavy
federal subsidies for crop insurance
have given farmers incentives not to
enroll on the conservation program,
resulting in “a major loss of wildlife
habitat.” Audubon of Kansas has
criticized Brownback for opposing
the listing, but Klataske said
improved conservation incentives
are a good idea.
And U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, a
Kansas Republican, said: “I would
be very supportive of that.”
Kansas already has responded to
the listing in other ways.
A new Kansas law that took
effect last month declares that the
federal government has no authority to regulate lesser prairie chickens inside the state and allows the
attorney general or county prosecutors to sue to block federal conservation efforts. Kansas also joined
Oklahoma, Nebraska and North
Dakota in a lawsuit filed in U.S.
District Court in Tulsa over the
process leading to the lesser prairie
chicken’s listing at threatened.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) —
Baseball-sized hail pummeled
homes and cars in Nebraska
and Iowa on Tuesday as powerful thunderstorms moved
through a swath of Midwest
states, also causing severe
flooding and prompting
reports of tornadoes.
The National Weather Service said reports of extensive
hail damage and flooding
trickled in as storms pushed
into Nebraska and moved into
neighboring Iowa, where
winds of up to 85 mph were
recorded. Up to 4 inches of
rain was expected in parts
those states, which were the
hardest hit. The storm also
tracked across parts of
Kansas, Missouri, South
Dakota and Illinois.
“This is one of these days
we can’t let our guard down,”
said Bill Bunting, forecast
operations chief at the Storm
Prediction Center in Norman,
Oklahoma.
Bunting
said
several
trained spotters reported tornadoes in central and southwest Iowa, and at least one
report came in from southwest Kansas. Reports will not
be confirmed until damage
can be assessed Wednesday
morning.
Becky Kern, a meteorologist with the National Weather
Service in Valley, Nebraska,
said the system has involved
a “training” of thunderstorms,
which involves a series of
thunderstorms following one
after another. The system will
move to the southeast early
Wednesday, toward parts of
Missouri and Illinois, she
said.
“It looks like the threat has
pushed further south into
Missouri,
the
northern
strongest of the storms,” she
said.
Heavy rain and flooding
were reported in the Omaha
area of Nebraska, where
dozens of residents were evacuated from low-lying homes
on the northeast side of the
city. The Eppley Airfield airport closed for several hours.
“It’s just completely flooded
these areas, and these homes
are now filling up with water
in their basement areas, so
we’re pulling people out,” said
Omaha police spokesman
James Shade, noting a 95year-old woman in a wheelchair was rescued.
Police also used boats to
assist dozens of drivers
stranded in floodwaters
around the city. Shade said
many cars remain stuck on
those flooded streets.
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad
issued Tuesday night a
proclamation of disaster
emergency for Pottawattamie
County in the western part of
the state, which will allow officials to use state resources to
respond to the effects of the
storms.
In the northeast Nebraska
cities of Norfolk and Blair, residents reported shattered
windows in homes and vehicles after baseball-sized hail
passed through. The weather
service received reports of two
motels with roofs torn in
western Iowa’s Missouri Valley.
On Interstate 29 north of
Council Bluffs in western
Iowa, more than 25 vehicles
had their windows shattered
by hail, said Terry Landsvork,
an observation program
leader for the National Weather Service in Valley, Nebraska.
“They were driving along
Interstate 29, had no place to
go, and whether they were
driving or pulled over, they
just didn’t escape the hail,” he
said.
The storms impacted primary elections in Iowa and
South Dakota. Officials in
Pottawattamie and Montgomery counties in Iowa,
where polls closed at 9 p.m.
CDT, reported closing some
precincts temporarily due to
poor weather.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) —
The problems with delayed
care and unauthorized wait
lists that caused a furor at a
Veterans Affairs health care
campus in Arizona existed
at several facilities in the
Midwest, but in much
smaller numbers, VA officials said in letters to two
U.S. senators.
The Department of Veterans Affairs maintained 10
such “secret waiting lists” of
military veterans in need of
care at facilities in Kansas,
Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, the letters said. They
also said at least 96 veterans waited more than 90
days for treatment at seven
facilities in those states,
including 26 in St. Louis
and 19 in Columbia, Missouri.
The letters said that eight
of the 10 lists “served to
complement
authorized
lists to more fully support
Veteran care and access.”
But the two other lists,
including one at the Wichita
facility, “placed Veterans at
risk.”
The information about
conditions in the VA’s
Heartland Network was sent
to U.S. Sens. Pat Roberts
and Jerry Moran of Kansas
late last week, as the VA
released a summary of 216
site-specific audits detailing
widespread falsification of
waiting list records and
unreported
treatment
delays at VA facilities
nationwide. In that release,
the VA did not reveal any
information about conditions at individual sites.
The VA is conducting a
system-wide investigation
after it was found that the
Phoenix VA Health Care
System had about 1,700
veterans in need of care on
secret waiting lists, and
another that had 1,400
waited over 90 days for primary care appointments.
The scandal led to the resignation last week of Veterans
Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki.
Roberts said Tuesday he
wanted more answers about
conditions at the Robert J.
Dole Veterans Administration Medical Center in
Wichita and the other facilities. One letter said 21 veterans waited longer for 90
days for care in Wichita; the
second put that total at
nine. Roberts said he had
earlier been assured by VA
officials there were no such
problems at the hospital.
“My top priority is who is
on that secret list and what
is the status of their care?”
Roberts said.
VA hospitals had
secret waiting lists
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OPINION
Trivial History of Concordia and Environs
By Clarence Paulsen
November 11, (misdated the 18th) 1983
ARMISTICE
Today, November 11,
1983, is Veterans Day. It is
both a national and a Kansas legal holiday. It is the
65th anniversary of the ending of the first World War.
Not until May 28, 1925, did
the Kansas legislature declare November 11th to be a
holiday. It
was then
called Armistice
Day.
On
June 30,
1955, the
legislature
enlarged the
holiday to
honor all
veterans
Clarence
of all UnitPaulsen, 1987
ed States
wars, and changed the name
to Veterans Day. Beginning
in 1971 Veterans Day was
celebrated in Kansas on the
4th Monday in October, but
for only five years; since and
including 1976 the day has
again been celebrated in
Kansas on November 11th.
Let us explore the day’s beginnings in Concordia, Kansas.
On April 6, 1917, the
United States formally declared war on Germany. We
were in it to win; it was not
a so-called “police action.”
Naturally, our soldiers, sailors and marines were treated as heroes. Patriotism
reached a fever – sometimes
ridiculous – pitch.
Southeast of Fort Riley a
vast place known as Camp
Funston sprang up where
Marshall Field is now.
Many, if not most, of our
Cloud County, Kansas, boys
went there. Some of them
died there – of Spanish influenza. Local newspapers
carried long lists of names
of people who had enlisted,
or were registered for and
drafted, into military service. The Concordia Empire
started a “Tobacco Fund”
for the men. The Huscher
preacher, the Reverend W.F.
Schuerman, objected strenuously. He said the men
should be given Bibles, not
tobacco.
In August 1917 a woman, who said she was Lieda
Bachtol of Concordia, tried
in Salina to enlist in the
navy. She had been working
as a man doing farm labor.
She didn’t back down until
a male navy officer told her
to strip for a physical examination.
In 1918 Karl Flitch of
Yuma and Harry Larson of
Concordia were busily running a jitney service between Junction City, Camp
Funston and Manhattan.
On Easter Sunday, in
1918, a new daylight savings law went into effect – to
end the last Sunday in October. The railroads permitted local folks to plant “war
gardens” on the railroad
rights of way. In those days
when one bought a pound
of wheat flour in a store he
had to buy a pound of corn
meal also. No one could kill
a hen, only roosters. Hens
had to be kept to lay eggs.
Certain days of each week
were “meatless.” In June
1918 there was a standard
restaurant menu designed
to save meat. Beef could be
served on only certain hours
during Monday, Wednesday,
Thursdays and Saturdays.
Sugar bowls were removed
from restaurants, and sugar was dispensed in small
individual packets. In May
1918 there was a Red Cross
drive in Concordia. The
names of the donors, and
the amounts given by each,
were published. And there
was a “Slacker Committee”
to wait on and “encourage”
those whom the committee
members thought hadn’t
given enough. It was dangerous to have a German or
German-sounding name.
On November 11, 1918 –
one year and seven months
after we declared war – an
armistice was signed at five
o’clock in the morning near
Compiegne, France, in the
private railroad coach of
French Marshal Ferdinand
Foch, chief commander of
the allied forces. At eleven
that forenoon bugles sounded “Cease firing,” and the
war was over. One news
gathering service jumped
the gun, and erroneously
announced an armistice on
November seventh. Red faces resulted.
The pent-up tensions
of the past twenty months
exploded across the land.
In Concordia on November
13th there was a very noisy
and more or less impromptu
celebration. All Concordia
businesses closed for the
day. There was a parade, so
long that it chased its own
tail. At the city park that
night there was a torchlight
drill. A big bonfire was arranged. A huge pile of inflammable material arose,
and on the very top of the
pile was the “Kaiser’s Castle.” It was somebody’s outhouse, with an effigy of the
recently-abdicated German
Kaiser Wilhelm II seated
inside. Guards had to be
posted around the pile to
prevent boisterous people
from igniting the fire before
the planned time. And when
at last that time came the
fire threatened to get out of
control. The fire department
was called, and stood ready
to contain the conflagration.
When the fire finally died
down the people attended
a street dance and kept on
celebrating.
Eleven months later, on
October 10, 1919, Concordia again celebrated the
ending of the first World
War. This time Mayor A.D.
Millirons issued a proclamation, and everyone declared a holiday. Concordia and thirty surrounding
towns were represented by
“queens.” Those from Cloud
County’s towns were: Helen Rigby, Concordia; Clare
Letourneau, Aurora; Frances Mahon, Hollis; Lucille
Buoy, Ames; Margaret Rogers, Clyde; Phoebe Chitty,
Jamestown; Hazel Isabel
Lundy, Rice; Segra Flobert,
Miltonvale; and Vivian Pratt,
Glasco. Again there was a
parade, featuring, among
many other things, marching veterans in uniform. At
eleven o’clock that forenoon
Kansas Governor Henry J.
Allen made a speech. During the afternoon there was
a football game, a baseball
game, a municipal band
concert, a dance, and dinner for the veterans, and
fireworks – all despite a disagreeable cold wind.
That afternoon occurred
the “piece de resistance.”
The county poor farm (now
the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Blosser) on the east
side of the Meridian Highway (now U.S. Highway 81),
a mile south of town, and
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McCowan’s pasture (now
Blossers’ pasture) on the
west side of the highway,
were closed and vacated.
The surrounding roads, including the Meridian Highway, were closed to traffic.
Horse-drawn vehicles were
kept far back. The military,
in charge of the event, prescribed places where the
approximately 20,000 spectators could watch.
Promptly at three o’clock
soldiers of the U.S. Army’s
Seventh Division from Camp
Funston began laying down
a bombardment from about
where the Cloud County
Community College is today. It wasn’t a phony show.
They used live ammunition!
High explosive shells, some
of them sixty-pounders, and
shrapnel, landed around
and beyond the poorhouse.
After fifteen minutes of this
deafening barrage, the soldiers, crouching in the pasture to the west, cautiously
began to advance under
cover of the artillery fire.
Army planes droned overhead. Soon the army “took”
the poorhouse. The War Department had authorized
the “battle” to reproduce as
nearly as possible the Battle
of the Argonne in France in
which several of Concordia’s
veterans had seen service.
Veterans, witnessing the
event, pronounced it just
like what they had been in
as “doughboys” in France
the year before.
A month after the “second Battle of the Argonne”
Mayor
Millirons
issued
another proclamation to
commemorate the first anniversary of the armistice.
He asked all businesses in
Concordia to close at eleven
o’clock for fifteen minutes
on the forenoon of November 11th. At eleven o’clock
the town’s whistles blew for
fifteen minutes, and local
telephone switchboard operators were swamped with
inquiries about why the
whistles were blowing. That
evening the town’s Chamber of Commerce celebrated
the day with a quiet dinner
in the Presbyterian church.
It was much quieter than it
was when the Kaiser’s effigy burned in the outhouse
atop the bonfire in the city
park the year before – but it
was Armistice Day.
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FBI: Man had bomb components
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) –
Federal investigators said
a search of a social media
expert’s apartment in San
Francisco turned up ball
bearings, screws and components needed to make a
homemade bomb designed
to kill or maim, according to
an affidavit unsealed Tuesday.
Investigators said they
found the materials inside a
bag at the apartment of Ryan
Kelly Chamberlain during
a search over the weekend.
The discovery prompted a
manhunt for the 42-yearold Chamberlain that ended
with his arrest Monday in
San Francisco.
The bag also contained
a circuit board, screw top
glass jar with batteries, a
wire and a powdery green
substance believed to be explosive material, FBI Special
Agent Michael Eldridge said
in the document.
“FBI bomb technicians
believe that the circuit board
described above was designed to serve as a remote
control, allowing detonation
of the device from afar,” Eldridge said. “They further
believe that the device was
designed to maim or kill a
human being or human beings.”
The FBI has not said
what, if any, plans Chamberlain might have had for
the device, or how they were
alerted to the material.
Though Chamberlain was
considered armed and dangerous, FBI spokesman Peter Lee reiterated Tuesday
that he did not seem to pose
an immediate threat to public safety.
Chamberlain
appeared
in federal court Tuesday after being charged with one
count of possession of an il-
legal destructive device. He
was accompanied by a public defender and did not enter
a plea. He had on the same
shorts and sweatshirt when
police arrested him near the
Golden Gate Bridge.
On Saturday, as authorities arrived to search the
apartment, they spotted
Chamberlain and a woman
leave and drive away.
Chamberlain returned on
foot about 30 minutes later,
when Eldridge said he identified himself and asked if
they could talk in a nearby
coffee shop. After a short
discussion,
Chamberlain
asked if he could leave, and
Eldridge said he could, the
document states.
Authorities tried to follow
him as he drove off but decided to pull back when he
began speeding and running
lights, Eldridge said. Authorities then searched the
apartment and found the
bomb materials.
“There were particular
items that were found when
we executed the search warrant that caused us great
concern, concern for the
public’s safety in the event
he decided to use those in
such a fashion,” FBI Special
Agent in Charge David Johnson said. “It was going to be
a significant problem.”
Chamberlain was arrested by police officers who
responded to a report that a
person matching Chamberlain’s description had been
spotted, Police Chief Greg
Suhr said.
Chamberlain had spotted
the officers and was taken
into custody after a brief
chase and struggle, Suhr
said. He described Chamberlain as someone who was
in crisis and getting “more
desperate by the moment.”
PEOPLE
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Marriage
announced
Annie’s
Mailbox
Thomas William Dunn
and Beverly June Parks,
Concordia, were married
Friday, May 30, at the home
of the bride. Judge Guy R.
Steier officiated.
Diane Dunn is the mother of the groom and Betty
Myers is the mother of the
bride.
by Kathy Mitchell and
Marcy Sugar
Dear Annie: I work at a
regional medical center, and
friends and family often ask
me to recommend a doctor
or a physician's group for
them. For a while, I didn't
mind giving these people a
few names, but I have grown
reluctant to do so.
My reluctance is not because I don't trust in the
knowledge and care provided
by the doctors I work with.
It's because of the negative
feedback I get after these
people visit the specialists
I recommend. I am tired of
handing out the names of
good, hardworking practitioners to people who refuse
to listen to the advice given
to them. They don't want to
take the prescribed medications or regimens, nor do
they follow through with the
therapy as ordered. Then
they complain to the entire
community about what terrible doctors I told them to
see.
I feel as if the doctors are
judging me each time they
see my name as a referral.
Yet when I decline to give
suggestions, people react as
if I am being a snob. How do
I keep my sanity, as well as
my career? — Please Stop
Asking Me
Dear Please: Medical professionals are accustomed
to patients who disregard
their instructions, but you
certainly can ask directly
whether they would prefer that you not refer your
friends and family to them.
We suspect they are glad
to know that someone who
works closely with them
thinks highly of their skills.
But either way, you are under no obligation to give out
recommendations. It's OK
to tell people nicely that you
no longer make referrals because you don't wish to mix
your professional and personal lives. If they don't like
it, too bad.
Dear Annie: My 85-yearold aunt, who was quite active, recently underwent extensive abdominal surgery
and ended up in the hospital
for six weeks. During this entire time, she was not bathed
by the overworked nursing
staff except for the times we
complained about the smell.
There wasn't even a washbasin in her room.
Eventually a friend of hers
who is a retired nurse came
in regularly and bathed her.
This was in Florida, but I've
heard similar stories from
friends and family in other
states. I think this is absolutely disgusting.
When I was a student
nurse in the 1970s, my textbook dedicated 20 pages to
the importance of bathing,
not only for physical health,
but for psychological wellbeing. Florence Nightingale
said that nurses who allow
sick patients to remain unwashed are interfering with
their healing. This lack of
care did not occur where I
worked. We bathed our patients daily and gave them
back rubs to increase circulation and prevent bedsores.
Since then, nurses aides and
LPNs have practically been
eliminated.
My aunt is now home,
but she is still weak from
fighting off infections. It's no
wonder. I would like to see
the doctors and medical staff
running the hospitals again
and not the insurance companies, which seem to know
nothing about human dignity. This kind of care is appalling. — Disgusted in New
York
Dear New York: Health
care costs have skyrocketed
since you were in nursing
school, and it is unfortunate
that in some cases the level
of care has deteriorated in
an effort to save money. We,
too, wish there were a better
solution.
Dear Annie: This is for
"Wish I Could Turn Back
Time," the 62-year-old greatgrandmother who served
prison time for a nonviolent
felony and can't get a job because of her record.
Most states have laws allowing for the expungement
of criminal records, especially for nonviolent offenses.
This allows those who made
a mistake and learned their
lesson to get a conviction
removed from their record,
in which case, she wouldn't
need to tell prospective employers. She should check
out the expungement requirements in her state. — L.
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“My Favorite Older Person”
The winning essays in Concordia Elementary School
fourth graders’ “My Favorite Older Person” writing activity
selected by Sunset Home residents are being published
as space permits in the Blade. Following is an essay by
Jessica Thurston.
“My Favorite Older Person”
By Jessica Thurston
My favorite older person gets to watch my dad work on
the farm. He is also my Grandpa Thurston. My grandpa
is bald. He wears dark blue overalls and walks with a
cane. He is funny and he can make anyone laugh.
One of his interests is taking care of his cats. He also
takes care of his cattle. He lives in Jamestown. I’m related to him because he’s my dad’s dad.
My grandpa and I enjoy checking cows and taking
drives out in the country. We also enjoy visiting the
neighbors. Anytime I get to spend time with him, I feel
happy. He is patient about getting his tasks done. He
never lies. He tells the truth. He has been gentle with his
wife, my grandma, for 65 years. He does everything correctly. These qualities make him a perfect grandpa.
My grandpa has always been my favorite older person
and always will be.
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An elder statesman is somebody old enough to know his own mind
and to keep quiet about it.
-Bernard M. Baruch
Beckner
speaker
for CWO
Helping a student
Sister Ramona Medina, one of the three Sisters of St. Joseph who opened Neighbor to Neighbor four years ago, helps a student in a Tuesday afternoon painting class, held in the sunlit
studio upstairs at the downtown Concordia Center. A new grant from the Kansas Health Foundation will help pay for art supplies and other materials used in Neighbor to Neighbor’s free
programs.
Neighbor to Neighbor
receives Health grant
Neighbor to Neighbor has
received more than $5,800
to help pay for crafts and
cooking for use in three of
the Center’s most popular
activities.
The Recognition Grant
awarded to the downtown
day center operated by the
Sisters of St. Joseph of Concordia was one of 66 announced today by the Kansas
Health
Foundation.
Those grants total about
$1.2 million.
The grant to Neighbor to
Neighbor includes $2,550
for art supplies used in
classes offered by Sister Ramona Medina twice a week;
plus $2,400 for food used
in the Thursday afternoon
cooking and baking classes;
and $900 for jewelry making
supplies.
Neighbor to Neighbor,
which celebrated its fourth
anniversary in May, offers a
variety of programs for women and their preschool children, while also giving them
a place to find friendship
and to informally learn from
each other. All programs and
services are free to the Center’s guests, with funding
provided by the Sisters of
St. Joseph, individual donations of money and materials
and a few grants.
“Each year we are amazed
at the incredible projects being done by organizations
across Kansas,” said Steve
Coen, president and CEO of
the Kansas Health Foundation. “This grant program
allows us to support these
innovative and impactful
community initiatives and
recognize the groups and
individuals making them a
reality.”
Using a competitive application process, the Foundation allocates up to $2
Martin honored at
retirement reception
Former Concordian, Bill
Martin, was honored at a
reception at the Federal
Courthouse in Wichita, April
25, to recognize his years of
service as a United States
probation officer and to celebrate his retirement.
The Honorable Monti L.
Belot presided at the reception. Chief U. S. Probation
Officer Ron Schweer and
Deputy U. S. Probation Officer Phil Messer presented Martin with certificates
recognizing his service. He
received a U.S. flag which
flew over the Wichita federal
courthouse and a representative of Congressman Mike
Pompeo’s office presented a
second U.S. flag that flew
over the Capitol. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom’s office
and the Office of the Federal
Public Defender also made
presentations.
Martin was appointed
to his position in 1987 by
Chief Judge Earl O’Connor
and served in the Kansas
City, Manhattan and Wichita offices during his 27-year
career. Prior to becoming a
U.S. Probation Officer, he
was a Court Service Officer
for the Fifth Judicial District
of Kansas in Emporia.
He is a graduate of Concordia High School and
Cloud County Community
College, received a Bachelor of Science degree from
Kansas State University and
a Master of Science degree
from Emporia State University.
Martin is the son of Susan Martin, Concordia, and
the late W.D. Martin.
million each year for the Recognition Grants program.
Application deadlines for
the two cycles are March 15
and Sept. 15 each year. Any
tax-exempt, nonprofit organization using the money
for charitable purposes and
proposing a project meeting
the Foundation’s mission
to improve the health of all
Kansans is eligible.
For information about
the Neighbor to Neighbor
programs that will be funded
with this grant, or to learn
how to make a donation or
volunteer, visit csjkansas.
org/neighbor-to-neighbor/
or the Center’s Facebook
page
at
facebook.com/
N2NConcordia. Visitors are
always welcome at the Center at 103 E. 6th St., which
is open 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday, Tuesday and Friday,
and from 1-5 p.m., Thursday.
“Little Houses on the Prairie” will be Brenda Beckner’s
topic when she speaks at the
monthly Christian Women’s
Outreach meeting June 10
at Marla’s Joy Tea House.
Beckner and her husband
have been in ministry since
1985. They help support local ministries. The Beckners
have three children and one
grandson.
Jason Waller, the couple’s son-in-law, who is a
recording artist and worship
leader at his church, will
provide music.
Amanda Townsdin, owner of the Flower Gallery, will
present the feature, “Greenhouse Effect.”
The meeting will begin
with brunch at 9 a.m. followed by the program. To
make a reservation call Dorothy Morgan, 243.1807 or
Sherry Johnson, 243.3360
by June 5. To cancel a reservation call 243.3360.
Senior Citizens Menu
Thursday, June 5—Smothered chicken, dressing, green
bean casserole, cookie.
Friday, June 6—Liver and
onions, mashed potatoes,
vegetable blend, apricots;
alternative: beef patty; 10
a.m.—Exercise.
Fresh coffee and cinnamon
rolls daily, 9 a.m.–11 a.m.
Call Teddy Lineberry at
243.1872 to make reservations or for questions.
Today in History
50 years ago
June 4, 1964—Seniors
on the last semester honor
roll at Concordia High School
were Jeanean Graves, Steve
Johnson, Doug Musick,
Jean Saindon, Tana Sherwood, Russell Swenson, Eldon Trost,
Evamarie Frehwald, Sandra Arnold, Dixie Waite,
Ginger Williams, Martha
Palmquist, Dennis McFall,
Jean Kelly, Rita Hopkins,
Carolyn Elliott, Karen Barleen, Cathy Ceder, Bill Trower, Ray Higgins and Sarah
Andersen. . . . George Meyer
took first place the hard way
at the Downs invitational
golf tournament. Meyer tied
with Fred Bond of Russell,
six under par, and was able
to claim first in the six-hole
sudden death playoff.
25 years ago
June 4, 1989—Rustin
James Carter and Kimberly K. Chandler announced
their May 27 wedding, which
took place at the Jamestown
Fellowship Church. . . . Mr.
and Mrs. Dennis Dutton,
Concordia, announced the
birth of their son, Darin Michael, born June 6.
10 years ago
June 4, 2004—Cloud
County Historical Society
Museum was having a reception to honor Byron and
Dan Menke for the dona-
tion of Norman Rockwell
figurine plates, in memory
of Helen Menke. . . . Members of the Hollis Hustlers
4-H Club who donated $50
to Mt. Joseph Senior Village for purchase of flowers
for its grounds and patios
and planted the flowers as a
service project were Krystal
Mosher, Angie Dvorak, Megan Thoman, Kaylee Mosher, Ashlee Adams and Audrey Stiles.
5 years ago
June 4, 2009—Freshmen
on the 3.40-3.99 Honor Roll
for the second semester at
Concordia High School were
Garrett Brummett, Suzanne
Carlgren, Sydney Chrisco,
Aren Coppoc, Ian Currier,
Drew Erkenbrack, Connor
Goedert, Hannah Haist,
Emily Hasch, Jamie Morgan, Tyrel Peters, Brittney
Randall, Gabriel Sprague
and Kristin Strait. . . . Haley
Walsh was the winner of the
2010 Cloud County Junior
Miss title at a program at
the Brown Grand Theatre.
1 year ago
June 4, 2013—David
Smith and Kenda Campbell
Preston announced their
March 15 wedding, which
took place in Kansas City,
Mo. . . . Chaput-Buoy placed
first in the Big Bang Softball
Tournament at the Concordia Sports Complex.
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(First published in The Concordia
Blade-Empire, Wednesday, May 21, 2014.)
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF CLOUD
COUNTY, KANSAS
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
DAVID WAYNE FOWLER, Deceased.
Case No. 14PR18
NOTICE OF HEARING
THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL
PERSONS CONCERNED:
You are hereby notified that a petition
was filed in this Court by Phillip R. Fowler, interested party in the estate of David
Wayne Fowler, deceased, praying descent
be determined of the following described
real estate situated in Cloud County, Kansas:
Lots Five (5), Six (6), Seven (7), Eight
(8) and Nine (9), Block Sixty-0ne (61),
College Addition to the City of Miltonvale,
Cloud County, Kansas, commonly described as 615 Williams St., Miltonvale, KS
67466.
and that such real estate owned by the
decedent at the time of death be assigned
pursuant to the laws of intestate succession. You are required to file your written
defenses thereto on or before June 16,
2014, at 11:00 o’clock a.m. in the District
Court, Cloud County, Kansas, at which time
and place the cause will be heard. Should
you fail therein, judgment and decree will
be entered in due course upon the petition.
Phillip R. Fowler, Petitioner
Submitted by:
Robert A. Thompson, S.C. #11594
316 N. Santa Fe, P.O. Box 2237
Salina, Kansas 67402-2237
Attorney for Petitioner
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CONCORDIA—Concordia Farmers Market will open at 5
p.m., June 5, at the same location as last year, Concordia
City Park, 11th and Washington.
The spring weather has been unusual with extreme hot
and cold days coupled with minimal rainfall, but area gardeners have persevered and the volume of produce available warrants the opening of the Market.
Fresh locally grown produce and baked goods will be
available. For more information call 785.275.1700.
For the Record
Sheriff’s Dept. Report
Arrest—Deputies
arrested Keici Lynn Seibold,
25, and Kaleb Ricky James
Howell, 21, June 3 after a
routine traffic stop. During
the stop, deputies discovered several types of illegal
drugs and drug paraphernalia. Seibold was arrested
and charged with Possession of Drug Paraphernalia,
Possession of Methamphetamine and Transporting an
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Cardinals, 8-7
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St.
Louis Cardinals ended their
offensive slump, but the
Kansas City Royals found a
way to keep the National
League champs down.
Eric Hosmer hit a
tiebreaking single off closer
Trevor Rosenthal in the
ninth inning and the Royals
won 8-7 Tuesday night for
their second straight road
victory in the four-game,
two-city series.
“It was a great game back
and forth, a lot of clutch hits
by both teams,” said Alex
Gordon, who homered in
both games. “It was good to
see and hopefully we can
build on this.”
Rookie Kolten Wong’s
first career home run was a
grand slam in the second
that ended the Cardinals’
20-inning scoreless drought
and gave them an early
four-run cushion. Wong
said it was the first grand
slam he’s hit at any level.
“It’s awesome,” Wong
said. “It was good to get us
up early, try and give us a
chance.”
The Cardinals finished a
dismal 2-7 home stand
when their pitchers faltered
and fell to 30-29 overall.
Before the game, manager
Mike Matheny fielded an
endless series of questions
about the lack of hitting.
Gordon’s
three-run
homer capped a six-run
fifth for the Royals against
Jaime Garcia that put them
up by two.
“We can’t complain about
what the offense did,” Matheny said. “It just wasn’t
enough.”
Kansas
City
starter
James Shields also scuffled,
surrendering five earned
runs in 5 1-3 innings, and
has given up seven homers
his last three starts. Shields
helped himself with two
hits, including an RBI double.
“I was just kind of all over
the place, really wasn’t commanding my slider at all,”
Shields said. “I made three
crucial bad pitches and
that’s what caused six
runs.”
Peter Bourjos’ 422-foot
homer put the Cardinals
ahead 7-6 in the sixth.
Alcides Escobar’s bloop RBI
single off Pat Neshek tied it
in the eighth, a rally fueled
by pinch hitter Billy Butler’s
infield hit.
Omar Infante doubled off
Rosenthal (0-3) with one out
in the ninth ahead of Hosmer’s hit.
Wade Davis (5-1) allowed
a hit in the eighth and Greg
Holland worked the ninth
for his 16th save in 17
chances for the Royals, the
home team for the last two
games of intrastate interleague series that resumes
Wednesday.
“That was one of those
grinder games, where you’re
grinding right from the getgo — everybody,” Royals
manager Ned Yost said. “It
was a great game.”
Jhonny Peralta added
two doubles and an RBI for
St. Louis, outscored 14-0
the previous two games by
the Royals and Giants.
Wong was chosen as the
NL rookie of the month earlier Tuesday and his slam in
the second was the Cardinals’ fifth hit in 10 at-bats
against Shields.
St. Louis loaded the
bases in the first, too, but
Yadier Molina grounded into
an inning-ending double
play on good glovework by
Escobar at shortstop and
capped by Infante’s barehanded grab on the move at
second and relay.
The Royals had one runner in scoring position the
first four innings, then batted around and hit for the
cycle in the sixth to take the
lead. Gordon homered for
the second straight day,
Escobar had an RBI triple
and Shields had an RBI
double with his second
straight hit.
No St. Louis relievers
warmed up during the rally
and Matheny said after the
game a couple of pitchers
had been unavailable.
“I’m on the mound, I’m
trying to execute pitches
until the manager takes the
ball out of my hand,” Garcia
said. “I’m not looking anywhere else.”
SAN ANTONIO (AP) —
Tony Parker plans to play in
Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
The San Antonio Spurs
open their rematch with the
Miami Heat on Thursday,
and their star point guard
is nursing a balky left
ankle.
“He’s getting better every
day, and I expect him to
play,”
coach
Gregg
Popovich said Tuesday.
Parker aggravated the
injury Saturday, missing
the second half of San
Antonio’s series-clinching
victory over Oklahoma City
in the Western Conference
finals.
Parker didn’t practice
Tuesday, but said he
expects to be back Wednesday.
Parker is averaging a
team-leading 17.2 points
and 4.9 assists this postseason but has been bothered by injuries the past
two rounds.
“I always try to be honest
with Pop,” Parker said. “He
knows, but if I’m 50 percent
I’ll try to play. If I’m under
50 percent, we can argue.”
Parker conceded the
ankle has bothered him
since San Antonio’s second-round series against
Portland, although he did
not divulge it at the time.
“I don’t like to talk about
when I’m hurt,” he said. “I
played on it for the whole
series against Portland.
That’s why I think my hamstring got hurt because I
was playing on a bad
ankle.”
Parker had tightness in
his left hamstring midway
through the second quarter
of Game 5 against the Trail
Blazers, forcing him to miss
the rest of the Spurs’ seriesclinching victory.
He did not miss any of
the Western Conference
finals because of his hamstring. But he aggravated
the ankle injury in Game 4
against Oklahoma City.
“I twisted it again, but
didn’t say anything,” Parker
said. “Played on it, and then
Game 6 I think my body is
like, ‘That’s enough.’ It’s
perfect timing to get five
days and to get better and
to be ready for Game 1.”
San Antonio was still
able to clinch the series
without Parker, holding off
Oklahoma City for a 112107 overtime victory to
advance to its sixth finals
appearance.
Parker said he wanted to
return for the second half,
but was overruled by
Popovich and the team’s
medical staff.
Parker plans to play
in game one of finals
Four Panthers named All-NCKL
Four members of the
Concordia High School
baseball team have been
named first team All-North
Central Kansas.
Infielders Jordan Mehl
and Drake Hake, outfielder Tanner Gilbert and
pitcher
Skyler
Hittle
received all-league honors
for the Panthers.
Trevor Tholstrup, outfield, and Ethan Bechard,
utility, received all-league
honorable mention.
Mehl, a senior, batted a
team high .577 for Concordia. He led the Panthers in
hits (41), runs batted in
(42), total bases (67), onbase percentage (.698) and
slugging
percentage
(.944).
Hake, a senior, batted
.439. He drove in 17 runs
and led the team in runs
scored (36) and stolen
bases (13).
Gilbert, also a junior,
batted .368. He drove in
17 runs and scored 26.
Hittle, a senior, compiled a 7-2 record with a
2.20 earned run average.
He allowed 35 runs, 18
earned in 57 1/3 innings
and struck out 56. He batted .333 with 21 runs batted in.
Tholstrup, a sophomore, batted .283 with 15
runs batted in.
Bechard, a sophomore,
batted .280 and had 12
stolen bases.
Joining the four Panthers on the all-league
team include:
Shawn Burns, catcher,
Wamego; Carson Sherbert,
catcher, Abilene; Chase
Stalder, infield, Abilene;
Derek
Piper,
infield,
Wamego; John Teneyck,
infield, Wamego; Jayton
Haggard, infield, Marysville; Gavin Canaday, outfield, Chapman; Kyler
Alderson, outfield, Wamego; Grant Prichard, outfield, Abilene; Trenton
York, outfield, Wamego;
Hunter DeMars, utility,
Clay Center; Brock Watts,
utility, Marysville; Jared
Ayres, pitcher, Wamego;
and
Hunter
Combes,
pitcher, Abilene.
Receiving
honorable
mention include:
CJ Becker, catcher,
Marysville; Kade Wallace,
catcher, Clay Center; Lody
Black, infield, Clay Center;
Parker Base, infield, Abilene; Wade Hambright,
infield, Chapman; Tommy
Brinegar, infield, Marysville; Jon Lang, outfield,
Clay Center; Cole Hogan,
outfield, Clay Center; Triston Hormann, outfield,
Marysville; and Landis
Rowden, utility, Wamego;.
Subway rallies to beat American Legion
Scoring four runs in the
fifth inning, Subway rallied
to defeat the American
Legion 8-6 in Girls’ Softball
play Tuesday night at the
Concordia Sports Complex.
Subway, trailing 6-4
heading into the final inning
pushed across four runs to
take an 8-6 advantage.The
American Legion was held
scoreless in the bottom of
the fifth.
Kendall Reynolds was the
winning pitcher for Subway.
She
also
scored
two
runs.Arista Bombardier did
the pitching for the American Legion.
Subway led the game 2-1
after one inning of play.Two
runs in the top of the second inning gave Subway a
4-1 cushion.
The American Legion
scored five runs in the bot-
tom of the second to go up
6-4.
It remained a 6-4 game
until the fifth inning.
Samantha
Sjogren
scored three runs for Subway.
Athina Liby scored two
runs for the American
Legion.
In the other game played
on Tuesday night, Funk
Pharmacy shut out Cloud
County Co-op, 11-0.
Taking advantage of six
walks, Funk Pharmacy
scored six runs in the first
inning.
Funk Pharmacy added
five runs in the third inning
to make it 11-0.Allison
Poore had two hits for Funk
Pharmacy.
Haley Lewis and Kennedy
Chrisco scored two runs
each.
The Concordia Swim
Team hosted a meet Saturday at the Concordia
Municipal Pool.
Concordia
swimmers
placing in the top six in their
individual events include:
Boys
6-and-under
Danner Benfer — 25backstroke, 1:42.27, 1st;
25-freestyle, 47.03, 1st; 10freestyle relay, 2:57.60, 1st.
8-and-under
Davin Benfer — 25-butterfly, 37.38, 1st; 25-back42.57,
1st;
stroke,
25-freestyle, 31.02, 1st,
100-freestyle relay, 2:57.60,
1st.
Reece Dorman — 50freestyle, 1:43.44, 1st; 25backstroke, 1:04.49, 2nd;
25-freestyle, 49.85, 4th;
100-freestyle relay, 2:57.60,
1st.
Damien Tremblay — 25butterlfly, 45.14, 2nd; 25backstroke, 1:22.10, 3rd;
25-freestyle, 44.13, 3rd;
100-freestyle relay, 2:57.60,
1st.
9-10
Gunnar Hale — 50breaststroke, 1:29.06, 5th;
200-medley relay, 5:56.81,
3rd; 200 freestyle relay,
5:48.55, 3rd.
Levi Mehl — 200-medley
relay, 5:56.81, 3rd; 200
freestyle relay, 5:48.55, 3rd.
Phillip Shirkey — 100individual medley, 3:54.85,
3rd; 200 medley relay,
5:56.81, 3rd; 200 freestyle
relay, 5:48.55, 3rd.
—
25Koby
Tyler
freestyle, 26.91, 4th; 200medley relay, 4:33.55, 1st;
200-freestyle relay, 3:45.93,
1st.
Drew Benfer — 50freestyle, 44.91, 3rd; 50butterfly, 1:02.27, 2nd;
100-individual
medley,
2:27.64, 1st; 200-medley
relay, 5:28.18, 2nd; 200freestyle relay, 4:08.31,
2nd.
Drew Brown — 200-medley relay, 4:33.55, 1st; 200freestyle relay, 3:45.93, 1st.
Nathan Brown — 50freestyle, 56.00, 6th; 50butterfly, 1:18.23, 3rd;
50-breaststroke, 1:29.85,
5th; 25-freestyle, 28.00,
1st; 200-medley relay,
4:33.55, 1st; 200-freestyle
relay, 3:45.93, 1st.
Shelby Giersch — 50butterfly, 1:24.47, 4th; 100individual medley, 3:04.67,
2nd; 200-medley relay,
5:28.18, 2nd; 200-freestyle
relay, 3:49.32, 2nd.
Dalton Owen — 50freestyle, 55.31, 5th; 50-
backstroke, 1:13.81, 2nd;
50-breaststroke, 1:36.81,
6th; 200-medley relay,
5:28.18, 2nd; 200-freestyle
relay, 4:08.31.
Chase Parker — 50freestyle, 42.02, 1st; 50breaststroke, 1:14.24, 4th;
25-freestyle, 22.14, 2nd;
200-medley relay, 4:33.55,
2nd; 200-freestyle relay,
3:45.93, 1st.
Cole Stahlman — 50backstroke, 1:16.47, 4th;
50-breaststroke, 1:11.17,
3rd; 25-freestyle, 30.77,
6th; 200-medley relay,
5:28.18, 2nd; 200-freestyle
relay, 4:08.31, 2nd.
11-12
Treyton Marsh — 50backstroke, 1:30.10, 4th;
200-medley relay, 4:17.94,
2nd; 200-freestyle relay,
3:47.77, 2nd.
Ivon
Owen
—
50freestyle, 42.22, 5th; 50backstroke, 53.78, 2nd;
100-freestyle, 1:45.41, 1st;
200-medley relay, 3:12.92,
1st; 200-freestyle relay,
2:48.30, 1st.
Kyle Palmquist — 50freestyle, 38.30, 3rd; 5046.75,
1stt;
butterfly,
50-breaststroke, 47.81, 1st;
200-medley relay, 3:12.97,
1st; 200-freestyle relay,
2:48.30, 1st.
13-14
Alex Bonebrake — 50freestyle, 42.07, 3rd; 100breaststroke, 2:20.92, 3rd;
100-freestyle, 1:49.51, 2nd;
200-medley relay, 3:12.92,
1st; 200-freestyle relay,
2:48.30, 1st.
Oakley Champlin — 50freestyle, 37.01, 1st; 100butterfly, 1:53.22, 1st;
100-backstroke, 1:40.41,
2nd; 200-medley relay,
3:12.92, 1st; 200-freestyle
relay, 2:48.30, 1st.
15-and-over
—
50Paul
Frost
freestyle, 34.52, 4th; 100breaststroke, 1:45.34, 2nd;
200-individual
medley,
3:32.16, 1st; 200-medley
relay, 3:39.72, 1st; 200freestyle relay, 2:18.12, 1st.
Bryson Johnson — 50freestyle, 35.80, 5th; 100backstroke, 1:38.91, 2nd;
100-freestyle, 1:28.85, 3rd;
200-freestyle relay, 2:18.12,
1st.
Jacob Palmquist — 50freestyle, 31.38, 3rd; 100butterfly, 1:46.97, 1st;
100-freestyle, 1:15.04, 1st;
200-freestyle relay, 2:18.12,
1st.
Jared Knapp — 50freestyle, 30.92, 1st; 100breaststroke, 1:40.13, 1st;
200-medley relay, 2:39.72,
1st; 200-freestyle relay,
2:18.12, 1st.
Levi Sporing — 50freestyle, 31.33, 2nd; 100backstroke, 1:33.85, 1st;
100-freestyle relay, 1:15.05,
2nd; 200-medley relay,
2:39.72, 1st.
Girls
6-and-under
Hannah Nelson — 25freestyle, 1:25.40, 3rd.
8-and-under
Eden Hart — 25-backstroke, 46.32, 6th.
Lacie Duvall — 25freestyle, 31.20, 5th.
9-10
Tessa Christiansen —
1:01.59,
50-backstroke,
4th; 25-freestyle, 24.31,
6th; 200-medley relay,
4:09.73, 2nd; 200-freestyle
relay, 3:49.32, 2nd.
Shaelin Giersch — 25freestyle, 23.56, 5th; 200medley relay, 4;09.73, 2nd;
200-freestyle relay, 3:49.32,
2nd.
Jordan Gilkeson — 50freestyle, 46.28, 2nd; 50
backstroke, 55.96, 2nd; 50
breaststroke, 1:01.47, 3rd;
200 medley relay, 4:09.73,
2nd; 200 freestyle relay,
3:49.32, 2nd.
Kennedy Anderson — 50freestyle, 48.16, 3rd; 50butterfly, 1:04.78, 2nd;
50-backstroke,
1:00.64,
3rd.
Ayla Collins — 50-backstroke, 1:05.62, 6th.
Misty Collins — 50freestyle, 50.08, 5th; 50breaststroke, 1:12.16, 6th;
200-medley relay, 4:09.73,
2nd; 200-freestyle relay,
3:49.32, 2nd.
Chloe Nelson — 50breaststroke, 1:09.02, 5th.
11-12
Chloe Conway — 50freestyle, 43.22, 6th; 50backstroke, 54.44, 5th;
200-individual
medley,
4:26.55, 1st; 200-medley
relay, 3:19.97, 2nd; 200freestyle relay, 2:57.69, 1st.
Elizabeth Duvall — 50backstroke, 58.06, 6th.
Liah Huff — 50-freestyle,
40.88, 5th; 50-butterfly,
56.73, 3rd; 50-breaststroke, 58.19, 5th; 200medley relay, 3:19.97, 2nd;
200-freestyle relay, 2:57.69,
1st.
Emily Strommen — 200individual medley, 4:53.59,
4th; 200-medley relay,
2:57.69, 1st.
Rachelle Anderson — 50butterfly, 56.34, 4th; 50breaststroke, 54.19, 4th;
200-individual
medley,
4:27.99, 2nd; 200-medley
relay, 2:57.69, 2nd.
Terra Loeffler — 50freestyle, 37.05, 1st; 50backstroke, 47.96, 3rd;
200-medley relay, 3:19.97,
2nd; 200-freestyle relay,
2:57.69, 1st.
13-14
Janessa Ade — 100backstroke, 2:01.79, 6th;
200-medley relay, 3:50.72,
4th; 200-freestyle relay,
3:15.78, 4th.
Grace Carder — 100backstroke, 2:01.79, 6th;
200-medley relay, 3:20.36,
3rd; 200-freestyle relay,
2:46.82, 3rd.
Claire Conway — 200medley relay, 3:50.72, 4th;
200-freestyle relay, 3:15.78,
4th.
Jessica Dethloff — 200medley relay, 3:50.72, 4th;
200-freestyle relay, 3:!5.78,
4th.
Angel Hale — 200-medley
relay, 3:50.72, 4th; 200freestyle relay, 3:15.78, 4th.
Cydney Bergmann — 50freestyle, 34.46, 1st; 100breaststroke, 1:45.39, 1st;
100-freestyle, 1:22.11, 2nd;
200-medley relay, 2:54.69,
1st; 200-freestyle relay,
2:29.24, 1st.
Cassidy Brown — 50freestyle, 36.22, 3rd; 100backstroke, 1:43.50, 2nd;
100-freestyle, 1:23.41, 3rd;
200-medley relay, 3:20.36,
3rd; 200-freestyle relay,
2:29.24, 1st.
Jaden Champlin — 50freestyle, 38.28, 5th; 200butterfly, 1:50.49, 3rd;
100-breaststroke, 1:50.97,
2nd; 200-medley relay,
2:54.69, 1st; 200-freestyle
relay, 2:29.24, 1st.
Britney Gilkeson — 50freestyle, 38.54, 6th; 100breaststroke, 1:58.00, 4th;
100-freestyle, 1:32.55, 5th;
200-medley relay, 3:30.36,
3rd; 200-freestyle relay,
2:29.24, 1st.
Roylynn Madden — 100breaststroke, 1:55.07, 3rd;
200-medley relay, 2:54.69,
1st; 200-freestyle relay,
2:46.82, 3rd.
Zaide Thoman — 50freestyle, 37.78, 4th; 100backstroke, 1:45.54, 3rd;
100-freestyle, 1:28.78, 4th;
200-medley relay, 2:54.69,
1st; 200-freestyle relay,
2:46.82, 3rd.
Nicole Timme — 100freestyle, 1:37.57, 6th; 200medley relay, 3:20.36, 3rd;
200-freestyle relay, 2:46.82,
3rd.
15-and-over
Kaelyn Ade — 100-backstroke, 1:54.59, 3rd; 100breaststroke, 1:58.74, 4th;
100-freestyle, 1:35.27, 4th.
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For the Record
Police Dept. Report
Damage to property—
Richard L. Wendelken, Concordia, reported Damage
to Property at 10:30 a.m.,
June 2. Damage occurred in
the 300 block of West 17th
St.
Amanda Townsdin, Concordia, reported Damage to
Property June 2 at 6:45 p.m.
in the 100 block of West 6th
Street.
Accidents—Officers investigated a non-injury Accident at 10:40 a.m., June
2, in the 100 block of East
7th Street involving vehicles
driven by Quentin Breese
and Norman Christian, both
of Concordia.
Officers investigated a
two vehicle accident at 5:20
p.m., June 2, in the 300
block of West 11th Street
involving vehicles driven by
Amber L. Desario and Cassandra Marie Stuber, both
of Concordia.
Officers
investigated
a two vehicle accident at
11:45 a.m., June 3, in the
100 block of East 6th Street
involving vehicles driven by
Jennifer L. Flavin, Courtland, and Travis Aaron Lawrence, Concordia. No injuries were reported.
Arrest—Officers arrested
Thomas William Dunn, 44,
Concordia, at 3:55 p.m.,
June 3, in the 800 block of
East 5th Street. Dunn was
transported to Cloud County Law Enforcement Center
and charged with Attempted
Domestic Battery, Criminal
Threat, Felony Theft, and
Possession of Stolen Property.
Online pirates thrive
on legitimate ad dollars
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SUDOKU
“Good Money Gone Bad.”
The study, commissioned
for the Digital Citizens Alliance, a Washington-based
group that advocates for
a safer Internet, sampled
596 of the worst-offending
websites. Researchers discovered that the infringing
websites were displaying ads
from 89 premium brands
like Walmart, McDonald’s,
Google, Microsoft and Ford.
“It’s certainly fair to say
that millions of dollars in
revenue
from
premium
brand ads are supporting
content theft sites,” Berns
said.
That’s similar to an estimate from DoubleVerify,
an online fraud protection
company. According to a
DoubleVerify report released
last May, rogue website operators cheat mainstream
advertisers out of $6.8 million each month, mainly by
“laundering” ad traffic in
ways that are hard to detect.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) –Movie and music piracy thrives
online in part because crafty
website operators receive
advertising dollars from major companies like Comcast,
Ford and McDonald’s.
That’s the conclusion of
several recent reports that
shed light on Internet piracy’s funding sources.
Content thieves attract
visitors with the promise of
free downloads and streams
of the latest hit movies, TV
shows and songs. Then they
profit by pulling in advertising from around the Internet, often concealing their illicit activities so advertising
brands remain unaware.
Pirate websites run ads
that are sometimes covered up by other graphics.
They automatically launch
legitimate-looking websites
as pop-up windows that advertisers don’t realize are
associated with piracy. At
the end of the day, the pirate website operators still
receive a check for serving
up a number of views and
clicks.
The illicit activity is estimated to generate millions of
dollars annually. That’s only
a small portion of the roughly $40 billion of online ad
spending every year. Yet it is
helping to feed the creation
of millions of copyrightinfringing
websites
that
provide stolen content to a
growing global audience.
“(Companies)
placed
their ads on the assumption that they were going to
be on high-quality sites and
they’re not,” said Mark Berns, vice president of MediaLink LLC, a consulting firm
that produced a study looking into the practice called
Two girls charged Weather
in adult court for
alleged stabbing
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) –
Neighbors of two Wisconsin
girls accused of stabbing a
friend nearly to death say
they’re struggling to reconcile the allegations with
what they know about the
12-year-olds and their upbringings.
Waukesha County prosecutors have charged the two
girls in adult court with attempted homicide for allegedly stabbing a girl the same
age in the woods. The girls
told detectives they conspired for months to kill the
other girl in hopes of pleasing Slenderman, a fictional
character they read about
on a horror website.
Most residents in their
Waukesha
neighborhood
didn’t want to talk to reporters Tuesday. They said they
were still trying to wrap their
minds around the allegations. But neighbors who did
agree to talk said the girls
came from good families
and that the parents were
responsible guardians who
doted on their children.
Emily Edwards, 15, baby-sat one of the girls for
about two years. She told
The Associated Press the girl
seemed to be a well-adjusted
child who was never mean
or violent. She said the girl
never even picked on her
younger brother, and if anything acted as a peacekeeper
whenever others teased him.
“She was completely normal, nothing off about her.
She was very social, friendly, outgoing,” Emily said,
“which is what makes this
whole thing so weird.”
Prosecutors say the two
girls lured the victim into
the woods Saturday and
stabbed her 19 times, with
one of the wounds coming
within a millimeter of piercing a major artery near her
heart.
The AP isn’t naming either girl because their cases could end up in juvenile
court, where proceedings are
closed to the public. The victim is identified in court documents only by her initials.
Emily said that as far as
the girl she baby-sat, she often saw her family laughing
and smiling together. She
described the girl’s parents
as “such nice people” who
seem devoted to their two
kids.
Paul Plotkin, another
neighbor close to the father
of one of the girls, said he
was troubled by comments
he’s seen online suggesting
the parents must have been
absent, negligent, addicted
to drugs or worse.
“Anyone who knows them
knows these are good people, a normal middle-class
family,” said Plotkin, 44. “It
just goes to show, no matter
how hard you try to instill
good morals, good values,
things can still go wrong.”
The two girls live in the
same apartment complex,
which has about a dozen
buildings scattered in an
open layout with leafy trees.
About a dozen small children played on a small playground in the center of the
complex Tuesday afternoon,
as parents watched from a
distance.
Your Birthday
By Stella Wilder
Born today, you enjoy dabbling in all kinds of
things, and you can often be
found in the most unexpected or unlikely of places. Indeed, exploring is what you
enjoy most and, to a large
degree, what you do best. If
there’s an issue that needs
to be uncovered, a mystery
exposed or anything else revealed, you are the one for
the job -- as long as it requires exploring! You love
getting involved in the nittygritty of things; you’re not
the kind to enjoy a “broad
strokes” approach to anything because you prefer
examining the details quite
closely. You like knowing
how things work -- and why
-- and that goes for people
as well as devices!
You can be quite blunt
-- often disarmingly so. You
have your own way of doing things, and of saying
things, and this comes from
your unique way of thinking
about things. Your perspective is uniquely your own.
You are no copycat; you
look at the world through a
lens of your own making.
Also born on this date
are: Angelina Jolie, actress; Russell Brand, actor;
Noah Wyle, actor; Bruce
Dern, actor; El DeBarge,
singer; Dennis Weaver, actor; Parker Stevenson, actor; Dr. Ruth Westheimer,
sex expert; Michelle Phillips, singer; Joyce Meyer,
televangelist;
Rosalind
Russell, actress; Sam Harris, singer and actor; Scott
Wolf, actor.
To see what is in store
for you tomorrow, find your
birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let
your birthday star be your
daily guide.
THURSDAY, JUNE 5
GEMINI (May 21-June
20) -- It is best that you put
yourself in fine array, as
others will be judging you on
style as well as substance.
This is a strength!
CANCER (June 21-July
22) -- You don’t want to borrow from yourself as much
as you have been in the
past; you’re more interested
in forging a new, original
“you”!
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -Others will swing into your
orbit -- and out again -- all
day long. There is something
about you that attracts all
kinds.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
-- What you see is, indeed,
what you will get -- at least
in most cases. Where love is
concerned, get ready for a
wild ride.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
-- Take care that you don’t
confuse the emotional with
the intellectual. Your best
bet, in fact, is to get out of
your head for now.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.
21) -- You have what it takes
to impress someone who is
not easily impressed. The
results, particularly after
dark, are more than you
imagined.
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov.
22-Dec. 21) -- You may be
haunted by a notion that
has recently kept you up at
night -- but today you’ll find
a way to free yourself from it
for good.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19) -- There is a certain
attraction that cannot be
denied, yet you may not be
ready to make the changes
required if you explore further.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18) -- Certain mysteries prevail, and you’re eager to get
to the bottom of at least one
of them. Clues abound; interpretation is key.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20) -- You may want to let
your turn pass at this time,
to give yourself a greater opportunity to prepare for the
next round.
ARIES (March 21-April
19) -- You’re seeking something that cannot be found
in the usual ways. The moment you release yourself
from its thrall, it may well
become available.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20) -- You’re ready to begin what some would call a
“working vacation,” but you
really don’t see anything but
fun in what lies ahead -- or
do you?
Today’s weather artwork by
Taley Murdock,
a 4th grader in
Mr. Brown’s class
Girl, dog who were
abandoned form bond
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – A
5-day-old baby, umbilical
cord still attached, abandoned at a bus stop in China.
A puppy, worm-infested,
vomiting blood and starving
to death on a porch in Topeka.
Two creatures born to misery worlds apart but brought
together to teach each other
about love, family, faith and,
above all, about trust.
“It’s OK,” the little girl
would whisper in his floppy
ear the first time they meet.
“Marvin, I got left behind,
too, once. But sometimes,
God does that so you can
end up in the family you’re
supposed to be in.”
When
Kathryn
and
Kirk White brought their
9-month-old baby home
from China in August 2005,
the 33-year-olds decided to
name their second daughter
Eden.
“As in the Paradise,” Kathryn White said Tuesday. “Because she was so beautiful.”
The early years were a
breeze, compared to the stories the Whites had heard
about other abandoned babies. Eden was all smiles,
even with Kirk – likely one of
the first men who had ever
held her.
It wasn’t until she was
about 3 years old that she
started waking up screaming
in sheer panic, The Topeka
Capital-Journal reported.
White had read that for
some children, night terrors
were the manifestation of the
abandonment they knew as
a child. But that didn’t make
them any easier to handle.
“She was in a constant
state of being afraid, of being left,” White said. “She
couldn’t calm down enough
to get a good sleep.”
Sometimes, Eden would
be sleep walking, repeating the same phrase “I don’t
want you to leave.”
This went on for years,
progressively getting worse
and more frequent until it
was just about every night.
“No one was sleeping,”
White said. “You don’t realize
how important sleep is until
you stop getting it.”
The Whites tried everything, from taking turns
sleeping with her to waking
her up every time someone
was going to leave the house.
She would want to give her
dad and sister, Peyton, tons
of kisses, in case they didn’t
come back.
Last summer the couple,
firmly against the idea but at
their wits’ end, finally started
to cave. It was time to look
into getting Eden what she
always wished upon a star
for: A dog.
Meanwhile, a 1-year-old
brindle mix, then named
Pork Chop, laid starving and
vomiting blood on a porch
across Topeka.
He had been abandoned
by his former owners, left
as a neighbor’s problem.
The neighbor, out of money,
phoned who people call in
such instances: Maureen
Cummins, co-owner of Second Chance Animal Refuge
Society in Auburn.
“This dog is dying,” Cummins said when she saw
Pork Chop, noting to herself
the dog had never even seen
the food of his namesake.
She immediately took him
to the nearest veterinarian,
who diagnosed him with
three types of worms, possibly a bleeding ulcer and
acute diarrhea, which was
compounded by starvation.
He weighed less than 20
pounds.
Marvin was given the OK
to leave one week later, but
he wasn’t out of the woods
yet.
The next two months were
a blur of feeding, antibiotics,
vitamins and exercise, Cummins said. And she renamed
him Marvin – as in Starvin’
Marvin.
By August, Marvin was up
to 50 pounds and, while still
shy, he was more energetic
and active with the other 50
dogs at the refuge.
“Someday,”
Cummins
assured him, staring into
his gentle eyes, “you will be
strong, and you will be someone’s hero.”
Then, the Whites called.
All Cummins knew about
Eden was that she was adopted and she needed to feel
safe – not that she had been
abandoned as an infant or
suffered horrific night terrors.
With that information,
the refuge workers came up
with a list of qualities Eden
needed in a dog: Calm, good
with children, never shown
any sign of aggression, no
accidents, big enough to intimidate strangers, but safe
and loving.
Marvin fit the ticket.
But when he bounded
out of Cummins’ vehicle that
fateful August day last year,
White was having second
thoughts.
“I was thinking something small she could put
bows on,” White said. At 50
pounds, Marvin weighed
more than Eden, and he had
a face like a pit bull – White
had heard the stories.
But Eden took to him
immediately, and the two
started playing and running around in the backyard
while both women watched
with careful eyes.
Cummins hadn’t known
Eden’s background, but as
White described it, she started to cry.
It was then Eden pulled
Marvin aside, when she
told him bad things happen
sometimes so God can bring
the right families together.
“To me, that is what rescue is about,” Cummins said.
In the past nine months,
Marvin has become an central figure in the White family, despite breaking all of
Kathryn’s rules about being
inside, sleeping on the bed
and sitting on the furniture.
Family members describe
him differently: For Eden,
he is a best friend, a baby, a
cuddle buddy. For White, he
is her child’s protector. For
Peyton, 13, he is a brother.
But as much as everyone
loves Marvin, there is something special between him
and Eden.
“They’ve been like this
from the start,” White said,
nodding to where her daughter laid on top of Marvin,
showering him with kisses.
“He loves all of us, but he
and Eden have A Thing.”