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CONCORDIA
VOL. CXI NO. 9 (USPS 127-880)
CONCORDIA, KANSAS 66901
Monday, June 13, 2016
Last of bodies
removed from
Orlando nightclub
Good Evening
Concordia Forecast
Tonight, mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
around 70. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday, mostly cloudy in the morning
then becoming mostly sunny. A 50 percent
chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 10
to 15 mph.
Tuesday night, mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday, sunny. Highs in the upper
90s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday night through Sunday, mostly
clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Highs 94 to 99.
Across Kansas
Lawrence library to
bike books to public
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The Lawrence
Public Library has introduced a new way of
bringing its books and programming into the
community this summer.
The Lawrence Journal-World reports that
the library has unveiled its new book bike,
which staff hope will enable to library to
reach more people by visiting places that are
less accessible for the library’s book van.
The bike includes a custom-made box
that opens up into shelving. Pattie Johnston,
who works in the library’s outreach services
department, says the bike will not only be
used for checking out books but also for
information on library programs and services, such as technology help or e-book checkout.
Judge rules mom
is fit for trial
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas
judge has ruled that a woman accused in her
7-year-old stepson’s death is mentally fit to
stand trial for murder.
Separately, Wyandotte County District
Attorney Jerome Gorman confirmed Monday
that remains found on a Kansas City,
Kansas, property that the family was renting
belonged to the boy.
Michael Jones and his wife, Heather, are
charged with murder in the death of Michael
Jones’ son and they are both jailed on multimillion dollar bonds.
Wyandotte County District Judge Michael
Grosko last week found Heather Jones competent to stand trial in the killing.
Police investigating a disturbance last
November found juvenile remains in a livestock area on the property. Authorities have
not publicly confirmed media reports that
the child’s remains were fed to pigs.
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Award presentation
Joshua Meyer, left, is presented the Business Person of the Year Award from
Concordia Area Chamber of Commerce president elect Jeremy Will during
the Chamber’s Dinner and Awards Ceremony Saturday at the Cloud County
Fairgrounds. (Photo by Anna Jackson)
Awards presented
at Chamber Dinner
Six Awards were presented during the Concordia Area Chamber of
Commerce Annual Dinner and
Awards Ceremony Saturday night at
the Cloud County Fairgrounds.
Joshua Meyer, Chaput-Buoy
Funeral Home, was presented the
Business Person of the Year Award.
The Leon Gennette Award for
Community service Volunteer of the
Year Award went to Amber Lambertz.
Former Chamber director Roberta
Lowrey, received the Leon Gennette
Award for Lifetime Achievement for
Community Service.
The Business Person of the Year
Lifetime Achievement Award was
presented to Tim and Carrie Parker,
Taco John’s.
Ty Gennette and Michael Walker,
Concordia Disc Golf Course,
received the Kaleidoscope Award.
The Lifetime Chamber Membership Award went to Dallas and
Nancy Nading.
It was announced during the dinner that Brenda Gilliland has agreed
to serve as interim director of the
Chamber of Commerce this summer.
Gilliland is a business instructor
at Concordia High School.
The Chamber is conducting a
search to replace president Amanda
Mocaby, who has accepted a job at
Cloud County Community College.
Area businesses celebrating milestone anniversaries were recognized
during the dinner. Those include:
100 years - Citizens National
Bank.
50 years - Cloud County Community College.
25 years - Brown Business Services, Cloud County Convention and
Tourism and United Bank and
Trust.
20 years - Nutter Mortuary and
Rod’s Food Store.
15 years - Dumbbells Fitness
Center, Funk Medical & Mobility,
Koch CPA, Kristy’s Family Restaurant and Wentz Eye Care.
10 years - Cunningham Telephone, DVACK, Kansas Creek Inn,
Secure Shred, Tallgrass Veterinary
Clinic, Wildside Creative, Wadell &
Reed, Holiday Inn Express, Kearn
Auction House and McDaniel Memorial.
5 years - Anna Jackson Photography, Haug Home Renovation, LeDuc
Memorial, Luxe Leopard, Alliance
Insurance and Concordia Chevrolet/Buick.
Outgoing members of the Concordia Area Chamber of Commerce
board were recognized including Rod
Imhoff, Vikki Jochems and Sister
Jean Rosemarynoski.
Jeremy Will has been elected to
serve as the next president of the
Chamber board.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) —
The last of the bodies were
removed from an Orlando
gay nightclub overnight as
investigators dug into the
background of the gunman,
who called 911 to profess
allegiance to the Islamic
State during the attack that
left 49 victims dead.
At the White House, President Barack Obama said
Monday there is no clear
evidence so far that gunman
Omar Mateen was directed
by the extremist group. He
said Mateen was inspired by
radical information over the
internet, calling it another
apparent example of “homegrown extremism.”
Wielding an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and a handgun, Mateen opened fire at
the crowded Pulse Orlando
club early Sunday in the
deadliest shooting rampage
in modern U.S. history. He
was killed in a gun battle
with a SWAT team after
police used explosives and a
small armored vehicle to
punch a hole in a wall and
allow dozens of club-goers
to escape, police said.
The tragedy shocked the
nation and cast a pall over
Orlando, known the world
over as the home of Walt
Disney World and other
theme parks.
“We will not be defined by
the act of a cowardly hater,”
Mayor Buddy Dyer vowed.
Mateen was a 29-yearold American-born Muslim
who worked as a security
guard in Florida. FBI officials said they had investigated him in 2013 and 2014
on suspicion of terrorist
sympathies but could not
make a case against him.
Counterterrorism experts
have been warning in the
past few years about the
danger of so-called lone wolf
attackers who act in sympathy with extremist groups
like the Islamic State but
are not directed by them.
Despite the 911 call from
the club, Mateen’s Afghan
immigrant father suggested
another motive: anti-gay
hatred. The father said his
son got angry a few months
ago when he saw two men
kissing in Miami.
Also, Mateen’s ex-wife
attributed the violence to
mental illness, saying he
was bipolar and abusive
toward her.
Obama said investigators
are still looking into the
killer’s motivations and
considering all possibilities,
noting that Muslim extremist groups like the Islamic
State have been known to
target gays.
The Islamic State’s radio
called Mateen “one of the
soldiers of the caliphate in
America.” Al-Bayan Radio, a
media outlet for the extremist group, hailed the attack,
saying that it targeted a
gathering of Christians and
gays and that it was the
worst attack on U.S. soil
since 9/11.
The statement gave no
indication of whether the
group planned or knew of
the attack beforehand.
Mateen’s father, Seddique Mir Mateen, told
reporters Monday that the
massacre was “the act of a
terrorist,” and added: “I
apologize for what my son
did. I am as sad and mad as
you guys are.”
He wouldn’t go into
details about any religious
or political views his son
held, saying he didn’t know.
Asked whether he missed
his son, he said: “I don’t
miss anything about him.
What he did was against
humanity.”
Thirty-nine of the dead
were killed at the club, and
the others died at hospitals,
the mayor said. By Monday
morning, families of 24 of
the victims had been notified, Dyer said.
Workers removed the
bodies four at a time on
stretchers and loaded them
into white vans. The action
was repeated over and over.
The covered bodies were
taken to the county medical
examiner’s office. All were
there by 11 p.m., Dyer said.
At least 53 people were
hospitalized, including five
in grave condition, meaning
the death toll could rise.
On Monday morning,
officials emphasized that
there was no immediate
threat to the public.
FBI: Gunman had strong
Post Office
indication of radicalization
to host
business expo
The Postal Service is extending an
invitation to all rural north central
Kansas business owners to meet with
USPS Business Development Specialist
Deb Dankof.
Dankof will host the Rural Business
expo at the Concordia Post office, 622
Washington St. from 8-11 a.m., June 17.
The expo will offer solutions to help
local business customers grow their
business with the Postal Service, as well
as partnership opportunities.
Light refreshments will be serve
“The Postal Service has long been a
champion of small businesses, and we’re
excited to host this rural business expo
to share information on our exciting
products and services,” said Dankof.
“Whether you’re a large or small business, shipping solutions at USPS are
crafted to help you grow.”
The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on
the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The gunman at the Orlando gay nightclub
had “strong indications of radicalization” and was likely inspired by
foreign terrorist organizations, the
FBI director said Monday.
James Comey said the man, who
has been identified as 29-year-old
Omar Mateen, also spoke with a 911
operator three times during the
deadly event. At one point, Comey
said, he pledged loyalty on the call to
the head of the Islamic State group.
Comey’s remarks offered further
detail on the shootings that left 49
victims dead and more than 50
hurt, making it the deadliest mass
shooting in modern U.S. history.
Mateen died in a gun battle with
police.
President Barack Obama said
Monday the killer was inspired by
extremist information over the internet, calling it an apparent example
of the “homegrown extremism” that
U.S. officials have been worrying
about for years.
Mateen had twice come to the
FBI’s attention before Sunday’s
shooting, the FBI said. It investigated him for 10 months, beginning in
May 2013, because he had made
“inflammatory and contradictory”
statements about ties to terrorist
groups that caught his coworkers’
attention.
Mateen was working at the time
as a contract security guard at a
local courthouse. He has held a
Florida license to be an armed security officer since at least 2011, state
records show.
Mateen had told coworkers “he
hoped that law enforcement would
raid his apartment and assault his
wife and child so that he could martyr himself,” Comey said.
The FBI’s Miami field office
opened a preliminary investigation
to determine whether Mateen was
“possibly a terrorist.” The FBI began
introducing him to confidential
sources, following him and reviewing some details of his communications.
The FBI director also said that
Mateen at the time claimed family
connections to al-Qaida and was a
member of Hezbollah, which Comey
said “is a Shia terrorist organization
that is a bitter enemy of the socalled Islamic State.”
2 Blade-Empire, Monday, June 13, 2016
OPINION
Washington Merry-Go-Round
by Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift
By George Meyer
Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars
By Jacqueline Bigar
A baby born today has a
Sun in Gemini and a Moon
in Libra.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for
Monday, June 13, 2016:
This year you might find
it difficult to make a clear
decision or even understand
some of the more complex issues happening around you.
The problem is not one of intelligence, but rather one of
awareness. Your mind often
drifts to other ideas, thoughts
and people. Recognize the
need to get feedback from
others. If you are single, enjoy the moment, but make no
commitments. Time is your
ally. If you are attached, the
two of you often misunderstand each other and ask for
clarification. Refuse to stand
on ceremony. Also, maintain
your sense of humor. LIBRA
knows how to charm you.
The Stars Show the Kind
of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult
ARIES (March 21-April
19)
*** If chaos ever could or
would reign, it would be today. Seeing through the haze
will be close to impossible,
and the fallout is not likely
to play out as you think it
might. Make a genuine effort to listen to an associate,
partner or loved one. Tonight:
You will get results.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20)
**** You might be flabbergasted by what happens at
work or in some other area
of your daily life. Whatever
is happening, you are unlikely to be prepared. Worry
less and stay centered as you
watch new information head
down your path. Tonight:
Follow through on an imaginative idea.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
**** You might need to
support someone else as well
as yourself in a key professional or community happening. You might be confused about your role. Before
you head down a certain
path, be sure that you are
seeing eye to eye with others.
Tonight: Double-check times
and places.
CANCER (June 21-July
22)
**** Reach for the impossible, because if ever it were
to be a possibility, it would
be now. News from a distance encourages you down
a different path. Understand
what your expectations are
and how they can interfere
with the joy of the moment.
Tonight: Home is your castle.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
***** What you hear might
not make sense. You’ll need
to listen to the message
again. Ask questions if you
are confused. It is possible
that there is a hidden message here. Share what you
are picking up on, but don’t
be surprised by any denial
you hear. Tonight: Hang with
friends.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
**** You might have
thought that a loved one or
dear friend would react in a
certain way, but then didn’t.
Perhaps you didn’t understand this person’s reaction
and feel confused. In any
case, you’ll open the door to a
new vision or a different way
of thinking. Tonight: Count
your change.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
**** You could be drawing
people in left and right, or the
very opposite, although that
is unlikely. A Neptunian haze
envelops you, so despite any
distortions you might experience, you still will be unusually magnetic. Enjoy the moment. Tonight: Out strutting
your stuff.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.
21)
*** Take a stand, and
know full well where you
are heading. However, you
might start wavering when
deciding what you want. You
were very sure yesterday, but
now you could be confused.
Slow down before you create
something you don’t want.
Tonight: Call it early.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21)
**** You might be wondering what is going on in your
domestic and/or personal
life. What comes out could be
more realistic than what you
initially had believed. You
probably will want to think
through what you are hearing before you react. Tonight:
Happy at home.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19)
****You suddenly might
be able to pick up on others’ perceptions, specifically
one person. How much you
share of what you are receiving is up to you. You know
when someone is done with
a conversation. At that point,
choose to let it go. Tonight:
Paint the town red.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18)
**** You will be a lot happier if you can relax and just
note your feelings, which
might be quite intense. In
fact, you could be picking
up a whole series of feelings
about different matters. Jot
them down and, in a couple
days, look them over and
evaluate them. Tonight: Feed
your mind.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20)
*** You could be surprised
by a sudden and unexpected
feeling. Know that you don’t
have to act on it. In fact, it
would be preferable if you
wouldn’t, for everyone’s sake.
Give yourself a few days to
mellow out and rethink some
of the information you’ve
heard. Tonight: All smiles.
BORN TODAY
Mathematician
John
Forbes Nash Jr. (1928), actor Tim Allen (1953), actor
Chris Evans (1981)
***
Jacqueline Bigar is on
the Internet at www.jacquelinebigar.com.
(c) 2016 by King Features
Syndicate Inc.
Thank You for Reading the Blade-Empire
WASHINGTON – As the
nation moves from one gun
or bomb terrorist tragedy –
they are all terrorist activities, whether the instigation
is foreign or domestic – to
another, it appears only the
frequency factor will finally
spur action because each
time one of these horrific
events happens we repeat
the same cycle: tragedy, horror, lamenting, handwringing, debating gun-control,
seeing above-the-fold becoming below-the-fold news
coverage, failing to adopt
meaningful legislation, fading memories, normalcy –
and then we await the next
attack.
Apparently, action will
only be taken when these
incidents occur in a tighter
timeline, before memories
are allowed to fade.
And what action should
be taken? The extremists
say we should eliminate all
guns or arm everyone. These
impossible poles then act
like magnets on the public
whose attitudes fall across
the spectrum between the
extremes, creating stalemate, that is until the public
finally moves the center of
opinion in favor of gun control and police protection.
When that happens, the
nation will wake up to the
idea that there is no place
outside the military for automatic and semi-automatic
weapons and that all weapons should be registered
just as automobiles are
registered and all gun owners should be tested and
licensed just as car drivers
are licensed. Most of all, the
public and our government
will comprehend that the
first duty of government is
to care for the public safety,
and that can best be accomplished by having more police on the beat on the street.
But the fear mongers
have always offered a vocal force preaching how the
spectre of a police state increases as the number of officers increases. History and
worldwide examples prove
otherwise. According to the
FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Orlando, the
scene of the latest attack,
has only 29.9 police officers
per 10,000 population. This
compares with high-crime
cities such as Washington,
DC with 65.6, Newark, NJ
with 46.7, and Detroit, MI
with 32.1. At first glance,
naysayers might argue that
the figures fail to prove the
case. In fact, when the Clinton administration in the
1990s provided funds to put
more than 100,000 additional officers on America’s
streets, crime rates plunged
to a 26-year low, proving
that
police-to-population
ratios only work when compared with crime-to-population levels. So, in the case of
a city like Washington, 65.6
is too low a figure.
The Clinton administration trend was eventually
reversed by both political
decisions and tight budgets brought on by the 2008
Great Recession. And, today, we have the added risk
of international terrorism
DOONESBURY® by G.B. Trudeau
capable of threatening any
community.
If this means we must
accept and pay for policeto-population ratios of 100
per 10,000, then so be it.
Without safety and the public’s confidence in safety, all
else – safe streets, businesses, schools, parks, playgrounds, theaters, sporting
events, and more – will fail.
Society will become ugly.
Even government operations
in government buildings
will be unsafe, or have we
already forgotten the 1995
bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma
City?
Douglas Cohn’s new
book, “The President's First
Year: None Were Prepared,
Some Never Learned – Why
the Only School for Presidents Is the Presidency,” is
available in book stores.
Twitter
@WMerryGoRound
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Kansas, Missouri challenged by lead paint
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) –
Health officials estimate that
as many as 1,500 children
in Kansas City and hundreds more in nearby Kansas counties have lead poisoning from paint in older
homes.
In Kansas City, the situation persists despite decades of efforts to clean up
contaminated homes, largely concentrated in poor and
minority neighborhoods, The
Kansas City Star reported.
In Kansas, the lead poi-
soning prevention programs
disappeared years ago after
the state lost federal funding to budget cuts. Kansas
devotes almost no money to
lead poisoning prevention,
and when federal funding
returned for some programs
two years ago, Kansas didn’t
apply for it.
Lead in paint was banned
in 1978. The effects of lead
poisoning include learning
disabilities and hearing loss.
The paint becomes problematic when small children in-
Today in History
50 years ago
June 13, 1966—Two
Clyde men were taking on
Fancis Trahan, seeking his
seat on the Cloud County Commission. Trahan, a
Democrat was completing
his first term representing
the first district. Virgil G.
Cyr, Democrat, and Martin
R. Koch, Republican, filed
for the position . . . Gerald
Bulleigh and Alice Bisnette
announced their May 28
wedding, which took place at
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Catholic Church in Concordia.
Comfort, Delphos, and Patrick Peterson, Clyde.
25 years ago
June 13, 1991—Greg
and Jodi Aytes, Concordia,
announced the birth of their
son, Caleb Scott, born June
9 . . . Greg Thoman and Jeff
Tholstrup were cutting wheat
west of Concordia as harvest
was beginning to pick up in
the Concordia area.
5 years ago
June 13, 2011—The
Concordia Blues battled
back from a 9-7 deficit to
defeat
Republic
County
11-0 in the second game of
an American Legion Baseball doubleheader at the
Concordia Sports Complex.
Creighton Leif, the fourth
pitcher used by Concordia,
shut out Republic County
in the top of the seventh inning as the Blues completed
the sweep of the twin bill.
Nathan Gieber threw a onehitter as Concordia won the
game 11-9 . . . CTI Concordia Tractor Inc. advertised
its pre-harvest truck specials: Free D.O.T. Inspection
or $149 Oil Change which
included oil, filter and lube.
Inspection specialists were
Garth Harvel and Edward
Rudolph.
10 years ago
June 13, 2006—Jessica
LeDuc and Wonda Phillips
were co-recipients of the
Darrell and Ledona Dowell
Volunteer of the Year award
presented as part of the National Orphan Train Celebration . . . Four people were
vying for Joann Freeborn’s
position of State House of
Representative from the
107th District: Republicans Elaine Bowers and Joe
Strecker, both of Concordia;
and Democrats C. Richard
1 year ago
June 13, 2015—Mary
Jane and Ted Tieking were
preparing to celebrate their
40th wedding anniversary
. . . Citizens National Bank
scored three runs in the
bottom of the fifth inning to
pull out a 6-5 win over Clay
Center in the second game
of a K-18 baseball game at
Concordia Sports Complex.
Brent Beaumont was the
winning pitcher for Citizens
and also had two hits and
scored three runs.
gest lead paint dust.
Kansas City’s Project Lead
Safe KC has removed lead
hazards from 2,491 homes
by repainting and by replacing windows – a common
collecting point for toxic lead
dust. The program, however, faces huge challenges
as it’s been hit by federal
budget cuts. About half the
city’s houses date to before
1950, when the lead content
of paint was highest, putting
as many as 40,000 homes at
risk. The program has the
capacity to fix at most 80 a
year.
“Kansas City is such a
high-risk area, we recommend children get tested every year,” said Amy Roberts,
manager of the city program.
Recently
the
department started sending health
workers to help families in
Kansas because no services
are available there. Kansas
maintained a lead poison-
SUDOKU
Sudoku is a number-placing
puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with
several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9
in the empty squares so that each
row, each column and each 3x3
box contain the same number
only once. The difficulty level of
the Conceptis Sudoku increases
from Monday to Friday.
ing program for years, which
helped create Lead Safe KCK
in Wyandotte County. But
Lead Safe KCK lost its funding in 2009 and disappeared.
The same thing happened to
the statewide program three
years later, when Congress
wiped out the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention funding that supported
it. The same year, the CDC
lowered the threshold for
childhood lead poisoning by
half.
Kansas no longer inspects
houses for lead or provides
home lead repairs and case
management to families. The
state also stopped reporting
how many children are poisoned by lead.
The Kansas health department still receives all
lead tests in the state and
sends them to county health
departments, which inform
parents. But they can offer
little or no help.
PEOPLE
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Student
luminaries
Annie’s
Mailbox
SALINA—Students from
Concordia named to the
Spring 2016 President’s
Honor Roll at Kansas Wesleyan University, Salina,
were Kari Grogan, Zachary
Kyle and Autumn Zimmerman. Students receiving this
honor must have a semester grade point average of
at least 3.75 and no incompletes.
by Kathy Mitchell and
Marcy Sugar
Dear Annie: My husband
is a good, dependable man,
but he is a terrible hoarder.
A number of years ago, we
agreed on separate bedrooms, so he could be messy
in private. When we bought
our current home, it came
with a garage and he was
in seventh heaven. All of his
"treasures," including things
that had been in boxes for
decades, would have a home.
He would have the garage to
himself, as well as the huge
workroom in the basement.
In return, I got the master
bedroom, and the third bedroom would be for our books
and household files.
Well, Annie, my book
room is now a constant stash
place for transient items and
the downstairs workroom
looks like an explosion went
off. The garage is filled to the
hilt with his stuff. I have one
small shelf with gardening
materials that I struggle to
reach over all of the accumulation.
He never throws anything
out, for fear he "might need
it." This includes mail going back weeks, which he
leaves on the dining room
table until the stack topples
over. Then I put the stack in
a shopping bag and stash it
beside his computer. Where
it stays for decades.
But the latest drama has
me really irked. A few years
ago, he bought a beautiful, expensive mattress, but
claimed it made him sore. So
he started buying one cheap
air mattress after another.
The original mattress ended
up in my book room, so now
I can't even reach the household files. He wants to put
it in my bedroom, claiming
I have two bedrooms to his
one.
Am I being too inflexible
and strict? I can't stand clutter, and I feel he is constantly encroaching. Every time I
manage to create an empty
shelf, he fills it.
How can I make this better? — Drowning in Stuff
Dear Drowning: Your
husband will continue to
encroach on any available
space. He can't help himself. You've been exceedingly
tolerant, but everyone has
limits. Please contact the
International OCD Foundation (iocdf.org) for information on hoarding and how to
help your husband. You can
start by respectfully asking
whether he will allow you
to dispose of the mattress,
since he will not be using it
again and it is taking up a lot
of space. Under no circumstances should you let it be
stored in your bedroom.
Dear Annie: Your response to "Fearful" should
have included advice to see
her ophthalmologist for an
eye exam. Her poor night
vision may be due to developing cataracts, a common
problem in older persons. Interocular lens replacements
is a very short, safe procedure performed under local
anesthesia. My surgery is
scheduled, and I'm looking
forward to once again driving
at night. — Montana
Dear Montana: Several readers suggested that
"Fearful" might enjoy driving
at night once she has cataract surgery, if that should
turn out to be the problem.
It's a great suggestion, although she may have other
reasons for not driving at
night that are unconnected
to her vision.
Safe Sitter class May 23-24
These children completed the Safe Sitter Class at Cloud County Health Center held May 23-24.
They are pictured with their teachers, Pam Tremblay (left) and Cindy Fazel.
MANHATTAN—More than
3,650 Kansas State University students have earned
semester honors for their
academic performance in
the spring semester.
Those from Cloud County
earning honors were: Damian Cyr, Michelle George,
Clyde; Clay Boley, Alyssa
Champlin, Robin Daniels,
Christa Deneault, Stormie
Hittle, Daniel Longfellow,
Taelor Mendenhall, James
Tyler, Concordia; Madison
Davis, Elizabeth Tobald,
Glasco.
Students earning semester honors must have a 3.75
or above on at least 2 graded
credit hours. They receive
commendations from their
deans and the honors are
recorded on their permanent
academic records.
CONCORDIA—Edward
Mazzolini and Jesse Sanders, both of Concordia, have
completed the requirements
Safe Sitter class June 1-2
for the 33-hour wind energy
These children completed the Safe Sitter Class at Cloud County Health Center held June 1-2. technology certificate from
They are pictured with their teachers, Cindy Fazel (left) and Pam Tremblay.
Cloud County Community
College. These certificates
may be earned alone or as
part of completion of an
associate degree. To learn
more about the certificate
visit www.cloud.edu.
Area youth complete
Safe Sitter class at CCHC
On May 23-24 and on
June 1-2, girls and boys from
Concordia, Beloit, Washington, Clyde, and Clifton, successfully completed the Safe
Sitter class at Cloud County
Health Center.
Safe Sitter is presented
by trained facilitators who
are employees of Cloud
County Health Center and
have been teaching the class
since 2001. It is a national
program, which is medically
accurate and teaches boys
and girls ages 11 to 13 how
to handle emergencies when
caring for children.
This class teaches safe
and nurturing childcare
techniques, behavior management skills, and appropriate responses to medical
emergencies.
A part of the class includes writing an evaluation
of the class. Comments from
these students included: “I
think the babysitting course
is important because if you
go babysit for someone and
haven’t taken the class, you
could have a child get hurt
and not know what to do.”
“The most important thing
I learned was CPR; I never
knew how to do it until now.
That’s why I’m going to tell
my friends about babysitter class.” “I think that a
babysitting course is very
important because without
the Safe Sitter program,
babysitters wouldn’t know
what to do in an emergency.” “The very important
things are the teachers,
Cindy and Pam teaching us
the correct way of first aid
and being safe.” “It teaches
you how to be a better sitter while watching kids and
what to do for certain situations. I think a babysitting
course is important because
it teaches you a lot of things
you will always use as a
babysitter and as a parent
in the future.” “Thank you
for turning the last two days
into so much fun. I loved
safe sitter and wish I could
do it again.”
“I also liked that the
My Favorite Older Person
(Each year the Concordia Elementary fourth graders are asked to participate in an essay contest during
nursing home week. The residents of Sunset Home, a
local nursing home, read the essays and select winners
from each class. The winners read their essays aloud to
Sunset residents during National Nursing Home Week.
The essays will be printed in the Blade as space permits.)
Grandpa Buddy
By Gabriel Stephens
I have a lot of friends but believe it or not, one of my
best friends is my Grandpa Buddy. I spend a lot of time
with my grandpa when I go to my Dad’s in the summer.
He lives in a small farm house outside of town that he
built himself. He has a few farm animals like pigs and
cows. He’s 80 years old, his hair is as white as snow and
he loves to take naps.
When I go to Grandpa’s house, I like to help him barbecue chicken, steaks and anything else we can think
of. I also like to help him do chores around the farm
like mowing the yard because I get to drive the riding
lawnmower.I help him feed the animals and take out the
trash and burn it.
My grandpa is a quiet man but he teaches me a lot of
things. He’s kind and considerate and these are just a
few of the reasons he’s my favorite older person.
teachers really explained
things, so that we all understood. I had no clue what to
do if a child started to choke,
but now I don’t have to worry
about that anymore, thanks
to Safe Sitters.” Some of the
problems Safe Sitter students have had babysitting
(or think they might have
in the future): “trying to get
the children to go to bed,”
“making children mind me,”
and “getting kids down for a
nap.” “I loved the class and I
learned so much! I also liked
how much more fun the
class was than I thought it
would be.” “To me, the CPR
was the most important skill
learned. Most people don’t
know how to do it, but I do
now. I will never ever forget
what I learned in this class.”
The instructors for this
class were Pam Tremblay,
RN, and Cindy Fazel, RRT,
RCS. The next class will be
scheduled for May of 2017.
Anyone interested should
contact Cindy Fazel at Cloud
County Health Center.
Seniors
play cards
Concordia Senior Citizens
had four tables of pitch players when they gathered for
their progressive pitch party
last Friday afternoon at the
Senior Center.
Winners were Dolores
Aytes and Neva Demanett,
two-way tie for first; Kay Anderson, Vera Girard, Trudy
Poe, Charlene Lesperance,
Beulah Nobert and Dolores
Deneault, six-way tie for
second; and Evelyn Irwin
and Rosalee Olson, two-way
tie for third.
Next party will be June
24.
EMPORIA—Suzanne
Carlgren, Concordia, and
Kylie Cool, Glasco, were
among the nearly 500 students named to the Dean’s
List for spring 2016 at Emporia State University. To
achieve this honor, students
must earn a minimum semester grade point average
in at least 12 graded hours.
Carlgren and Cool are both
elementary education majors. Students who qualified
for the College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences list earned a
semester grade point average that put them in the top
10 percent of all students
enrolled in full-time undergraduate work within the
college and have a cumulative 3.5 GPA for all Emporia
State courses.
SALINA—Kari
Grogan,
Concordia,
was
named
among the 73 official Spring
2016 graduates of Kansas
Wesleyan University on May
7, 2016, after completing all
requirements for a Bachelor
of Arts degree in Photography.
Support Group
will meet
North Central Kansas
Parkinson’s Support Group
will meet at 2 p.m., Thursday, June 16, at the First
United Methodist Church in
Concordia. Speaker will be
Madlyn Swenson.
Those attending should
use the south door entrance
at the lower level.
Senior Citizens Menu
Tuesday,
June
14—
Chicken casserole, pea salad, fruit; birthdays.
Wednesday, June 15—
Pulled pork on a bun, macaroni salad, beets, fruit, pudding; 12:30 p.m.—BINGO;
Hearing aid service.-10 a.m.
Exercise
Milk, bread and butter
served with meals.
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interested in joining our staff.
Positions include:
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Help Wanted
CLOUD COUNTY HEALTH
DEPARTMENT
is seeking a qualified LPN
or RN to assume the duties
of immunization Coordinator
at the Health Department.
This individual must pass
an interview, background
check, reference check and
be self-motivated, efficient
and accurate. He or she must
possess excellent computer
skills to work with KIPHS,,
Web-IZ and Vax-Care and
the ability to learn a lot of
information in a relatively
short time. Applicant will be
responsible for calculating
and giving all injections
from Pediatrics to Senior
Citizens. Be responsible for
all immunization records
and sending all information
as requested by the State of
Kansas and be responsible
for utilizing and providing
information regarding the
immunization Action Plan
Grant. Must be able to
react quickly in emergency
situations and possess
knowledge of anaphylactic
reactions and what to do.
Able to follow state rules and
regulations and work closely
with other staff members.
Work hours are from 8
to 4:30 pm Monday thru
Friday. Applicant will work for
one full month with current
immunization Director before
being allowed to assume the
title of immunization Director.
Applicant will start on July
1, 2016 with training and
assume full responsibility on
August 1, 2016. Interested
individuals may contact
the Health Department for
an application at 785-2438140 or may stop by and
pick one up. Only nurses
with at least three years of
good clinical experience will
be considered. For more
information contact: Diana
Gering RN, Administrator
Cloud County Health
Department.
Full Time
Fleet Maintenance
Technician
Applicant must meet the
following criteria:
*Have a working knowledge
of Fleet Maintenance for Air
Brakes, Tire Repair, Annual
DOT Requirements
* Have own hand Tools
* Be able to Travel
* Highly Motivated
* Safety Oriented
Salary will be based on
experience. We also offer
Quarterly Attendance
bonuses, Paid Holidays,
p a i d Va c a t i o n D a y s ,
Life Insurance, AFLAC
Supplemental Insurance,
Simple IRA, Cell Phone
Allowance.
Apply in person at 301
Cedar, Concordia, Kan. or
call for application.
Sunset Home, Inc. is EOE.
Sunset Home, Inc. does drug
testing.
CDL DRIVER
Champlin Tire Recycling
Is hiring for a full time Class
A CDL Driver to operate
truck with self-loading
boom. Sign-on bonus plus
eligible for attendance/safety
bonuses. Benefits available.
Home weekends and most
evenings. Apply in person
at 301 Cedar, Concordia
or call 785-243-3345. EOE.
Sales Calendar
•Saturday, June 18, 2016
– Public Auction at 9:30
a.m. located at the National
Guard Armory at the South
edge of Concordia, Kansas
on Hwy #81. Tractors, Pickup, Model T, Antiques and
Collectibles. Private North
Central Collection, Seller.
Thummel Auction.
•Saturday, June
25,
2016– Public Auction at
9:30 a.m. located at the
National Guard Armory in
Concordia, Kansas. Trailer,
Lawn Mowers, Tools, Antiques, Household and Collectibles. Harvey M. Olson
Trust & Rosalee Olson Revocable Trust, Seller. Novak Bros. & Gieber Auction.
•Monday,
June
27,
2016– Farmland Auction
at 7:00 p.m. at the Glasco
Senior Center at 109 East
Main Street, Glasco, Kansas. 155.57 + Acres of Cloud
County Farmland. James
and Patricia Lamay Family
Trust, Sellers.Crossroads
Auction, Salina, Ks.
Upcoming
events
Tuesday, June 14—Program and discussion of rural
schools in Cloud County, 7
p.m., Cloud County Historical Society Museum. Public
welcome.
GOP lawmakers look to limit court’s power
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) –Republican legislators who
want to limit the courts’
power to force changes in
how Kansas funds its public
schools could revive several
long-standing proposals for
revising the state constitution.
Lawmakers convene June
23 for a special session
called by Gov. Sam Brownback to respond to a state
Supreme Court order last
month declaring that the
state’s school funding system remains unfair to poor
school districts. The court
warned that public schools
will not be able to reopen
after June 30 unless legislators rewrite school education funding laws.
Senate Vice President
Jeff King, an Independence
Republican, said he’s drafting a proposed constitutional amendment to prevent
courts from threatening to
close schools in the future.
GOP legislators have talked
about such a change for
more than a decade, and two
major alternatives also have
been discussed as long.
“I want to be open to considering a number of options,” King said.
Here are some of the legal
issues involving school funding and proposals to amend
the Kansas Constitution:
___
ONGOING LITIGATION
Kansas has been in and
out of legal disputes over
school funding for nearly
30 years. The latest round
began with a lawsuit filed
in 2010 by the Dodge City,
Hutchinson, Wichita and
Kansas City, Kansas, school
districts.
The Kansas Constitution
says the Legislature must
make “suitable provision” for
financing the state’s “educational interests.” The state
Supreme Court has ruled
repeatedly that lawmakers must finance a suitable
education for all children,
whether they live in rich areas or poor ones.
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prompted a special legislative session and promises
from lawmakers to boost
spending on schools. The
latest lawsuit was filed after
the Great Recession prompted lawmakers to back off
those promises.
___
WHAT CHANGE REQUIRES
A proposed constitutional
amendment must be approved by two-thirds majorities in both the House and
Senate. While the GOP has
larger majorities than that
in each chamber, House Republicans have been split
enough to prevent anything
from passing.
If lawmakers were to
approve a constitutional
change, it would go on the
November general election
ballot. Approval by a simple
majority of voters would revise the constitution.
___
NO SCHOOL CLOSINGS
King said his proposal
would prohibit the state’s
courts from ordering schools
closed as a remedy in education funding cases.
The Senate approved such
a proposed amendment during the 2005 special session,
but supporters failed to get
the necessary two-thirds
majority in the House. It was
one of four such propos-
als introduced in 2005 and
2006.
John Robb, an attorney
representing the four school
districts that filed the 2010
lawsuit, said it’s taken the
threat that schools won’t
reopen to get lawmakers to
consider rewriting school
funding laws again. He said
taking away the possibility would “emasculate” the
constitutional provision on
school funding.
“That’s all the court has,”
he said.
___
WHO DEFINES SUITABLE?
King pursued a different proposed amendment
in 2013, one declaring that
financing education is “exclusively a legislative power”
and suitable funding “shall
be established solely by the
Legislature.” Senators approved it, but the measure
never received a vote in the
House.
It was among six versions
of such an amendment introduced during the past 11
years.
One unsuccessful House
proposal during the 2005
special session would have
added language to the state
constitution declaring: “The
courts of the state of Kansas
shall have no jurisdiction to
review the financing of public education or the distribution of education expendi-
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tures in the state.”
___
APPROPRIATING MONEY
A third idea is expanding
a short section of the constitution that says no money
can be drawn from the state
treasury without a “specific
appropriation made by law.”
The wording of proposals
has varied, but they generally would have added language to prevent the courts
from ordering legislators to
make specific appropriations. The goal has been to
block the Supreme Court
from directing lawmakers to
increase aid to public schools
by a specific amount.
A version of the proposal
failed in the House in 2012,
and another introduced in
2015 died in committee.
___
CAPPING SPENDING
As they consider longstanding proposals, GOP
conservatives may consider
a new one: Capping education funding.
Rep. John Rubin, a Shawnee Republican, said he’ll
raise the idea of amending
the constitution to limit aid
to public schools to a certain percentage of the state’s
spending.
Rubin said he believes the
state is spending too much
on its public schools already
and, “All they want is more,
more and ever more.”
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Sports
Blues win three straight, capture tournament title
MARYSVILLE — Posting
three wins in three days, the
Concordia Blues won the
Marysville Tournament.
The
Blues
downed
Sabetha 9-5 in the championship game on Sunday.
Concordia shut out Corning 14-0 in the tournament
opener on Friday and then
scored two runs in the
eighth inning to get past
Marysville 8-6 in the semifinals on Saturday.
The Blues fell behind
Sabetha 3-1 in the first
inning in the title game.
Four runs in the top of the
second inning gave Concordia a 5-3 advantage.
Sabetha picked up one
run in the bottom of the second.
Concordia scored three
runs in the top of the third
inning, and led 8-4.
One run in the bottom of
the third left Sabetha trailing
8-5.
Tyler Stupka doubled and
scored on a ground ball by
Corey Joyner in the fourth
inning, and the Blues led 95.
Neither team scored over
the final three innings.
Brent Beaumont pitched
the first six innings for Concordia to get the win. Stupka
worked a perfect seventh
inning.
Joyner had two hits and
drove in two runs for the
Blues.
Billy Bechard pitched a
five-inning no-hitter in Concordia’s win over Corning in
the first round of the tournament. He struck out 10 and
walked four.
Concordia scored two
runs in the second inning.
Garrett Lawrence doubled
to drive in Kyle Bliss and
scored on a single by Blaze
Payeur.
The Blues extended the
lead to 7-0 with five runs in
the third inning.
Beaumont doubled with
the bases loaded to drive in
three runs. He scored on a
ground ball by Isaac Mehl.
Bechard had a run-producing single.
Blake Leiszler walked and
scored on a fly ball by
Bechard in the fourth
inning, and Concordia led 80.
The Blues added six runs
in the fifth inning to make it
14-0.
Payeur had three hits in
the game.
Beaumont drove in three
runs.
Concordia and Marysville
were tied at 6-6 through
seven innings of play in the
semifinals.
With one out in the top of
the seventh inning, Beaumont walked.
Jaden Payeur reached
base on a fielder’s choice.
With two out, Stupka got
abaord on an error.
Lawrence then doubled to
drive in two runs that gave
the Blues an 8-6 lead.
Jaden
Payeur
held
Marysville scoreless in the
bottom of the eighth inning.
Payeur pitched all eight
innings to get the win.
Marysville got out to a 3-0
lead in the first inning.
Bechard reached base on
a fielder’s choice and scored
on a single by Jaden Payeur
CHICAGO (AP) — The
Baltimore brawl is over.
Yordano Ventura is concentrating on finding his
form for the Kansas City
Royals.
This was an awfully nice
step in that direction.
Ventura pitched seven
sharp innings in his first
start since his fight with
Manny Machado, and the
Royals beat the Chicago
White Sox 3-1 on Sunday
for their second straight
win following an eightgame losing streak.
“Today (I) was feeling
what (I’ve) been working on
all along,” Ventura said,
with catching coach Pedro
Grifol serving as translator,
“which is get the ball out of
the glove quickly and get
out in front.”
Ventura (5-4) struck out
a season-high 10 and
walked one in his first win
since May 17 against
Boston, making the most
of Kansas City’s run-scoring singles in the first and
second. Salvador Perez
added a leadoff homer
down the left-field line in
the ninth.
The 25-year-old Ventura
went 0-2 with a 6.17 ERA
in his previous four starts.
“When we took him out
of the game, I told him
tomorrow his duty was to
come in and watch every
pitch of that ballgame
because every pitch that he
delivered for me was phenomenal,” manager Ned
Yost said.
Ventura was suspended
nine games by Major
League Baseball after he
hit Machado in the back
with a 99 mph fastball in
the fifth inning of a 9-1 loss
Tuesday, leading to a
bench-clearing fight. But
the right-hander appealed
the punishment and is
allowed to pitch until the
process is complete.
“For me, I mean, he was
totally judged guilty without even a trial, without
hearing any of the evidence,” Yost said. “To me,
that wasn’t right, but it is
what it is.”
Chicago put runners on
first and third with no outs
in the fifth, but J.B. Shuck
struck out looking and
Ventura got rookie Tim
Anderson to bounce into a
double play — one of three
on the day for Chicago.
After Jose Abreu homered
in the sixth, Ventura
struck out Melky Cabrera
and Todd Frazier to end
the inning.
Kelvin Herrera worked
the eighth and Wade Davis
finished for his 17th save
in 18 chances, helping Yost
improve to 500-499 in
seven years with Kansas
City.
The White Sox lost for
the 14th time in their last
18 games — five of those
defeats have come against
the Royals.
“There’s no worry,” lefthander Carlos Rodon said.
“We know we’re good
enough. We’re just going
through a rough patch.”
Rodon (2-6) shook off a
slow start and pitched six
effective innings after he
was pushed back a couple
of days due to a sore neck.
He allowed seven hits,
struck out seven and
walked two.
“He threw well,” White
Sox manager Robin Ventura said. “He got into some
binds there and I think he
limited his chances. There
could have been some big
innings there and he
bucked up and got out of
it.”
Kendrys Morales’ twoout RBI single got Kansas
City on the board in the
first, and Whit Merrifield
added another run-scoring
single in the second.
OLD FRIENDS
White Sox right-hander
James Shields chatted
with Yost when he visited
the Royals before the
game.
Shields won 27 games
over two seasons in Kansas
City, helping the Royals
Tournament champions
The Concordia Blues, American Legion Baseball Team, won
the Marysville Tournament over the weekend.
in the top of the third inning,
and Concordia trailed 3-1.
Marysville made it a 4-1
game with a run in the bottom of the third.
Matthew James singled
and scored on an error in the
fourth inning to make it 4-2.
Blaze Payeur had a threerun double as the Blues put
up four runs in the sixth
inning to grab a 6-4 advantage.
Mehl walked and Bliss
and James singled to load
the bases.
Payeur then doubled to
drive in three runs. He
scored on a fly ball by Beaumont.
Marysville tied the game
with two runs in the bottom
of the seventh inning.
Concordia scored two
runs in the eighth to get the
win.
James, Blaze Payeur and
Jaden Payeur had two hits
each for the Blues.
CNB rallies to
Ventura is sharp in Royals’ 3-1 win
beat Minneapolis
Scoring seven runs in the
bottom of the seventh inning,
Citizens National Bank rallied to defeat Minneapolis 76 in the second game of a
K-18 Baseball doubleheader
Friday night at the Concordia Sports Complex.
Citizens National Bank (82) won the first game of the
twinbill, 9-1.
Minneapolis scored one
run in the first inning, one in
the second, three in the third
and one in the top of the
fourth to grab a 6-0 lead in
game two.
Wyatt Trost led off the
bottom of the fourth with a
walk.
Chase Parker reached
base on an error and Hunter
Schroeder was hit by a pitch.
All three would come around
to score.
With two out, Easton
Atwood and Gavin Thomas
singled and would score.
Tyson Roush walked and
scored and Nick Vignery
reached on an error and
scored.
Trost had a single in his
second at bat in the inning.
With Citizens National
Bank leading 7-6, Jacob
Rosenbaum pitched a scoreless fifth inning.
Parker pitched the first
three innings for Citizens
National Bank, and Rosenbaum worked two innings to
get the win.
In the first game Citizens
National Bank fell behind 10.
Citizens National Bank
scored seven runs in the bottom of the third inning to go
on top to stay.
Trost had a two-run double in the inning.
Parker singled home two
runs.
Citizens National Bank
tacked on two runs in the
fourth inning.
Chas Carlgren pitched the
first three innings to get the
win.
Schroeder worked the
fourth inning. He also had
two hits.
Rosenbaum had three
hits and Chance LeDuc had
two hits.
Sports in Brief
The Associated Press
HOCKEY
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A turnaround season for the Pittsburgh Penguins ended with Sidney Crosby once again holding the Stanley Cup.
Crosby set up Kris Letang’s go-ahead goal midway through
the second period and the Pittsburgh Penguins won the
fourth Stanley Cup in franchise history by beating the San
Jose Sharks 3-1 in Game 6 of the final Sunday night.
Brian Dumoulin opened the scoring with a power-play goal
and Patric Hornqvist added a late empty-netter. Matt Murray
made 18 saves to give the Penguins a championship seven
years to the day after they beat Detroit for their third title.
The game ended when Crosby cleared the puck the length
of the ice with San Jose on the power play, setting off a wild
celebration. All that was left was for Crosby to accept the
Conn Smythe trophy as playoff MVP and then the Stanley
Cup.
PRO BASKETBALL
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Golden State star Draymond
Green was suspended for Game 5 of the NBA Finals after the
league assessed a Flagrant 1 foul from his scuffle with Cleveland’s LeBron James.
The NBA announced the retroactive decision Sunday,
issuing James a technical on the play late in Golden State’s
108-97 victory Friday. A statement announcing the discipline
said that Green “made unnecessary contact with a retaliatory swipe of his hand to the groin” of James.
Green has been on the cusp of trouble for much of the
postseason. This is his fourth flagrant foul point, which
resulted in the automatic suspension. He also has five technicals and was fined $25,000 for kicking Oklahoma City’s
Steven Adams in the groin during the Western Conference
finals.
NIGHTCLUB SHOOTING
The sports world reacted strongly Sunday to the worst
mass shooting in U.S. history.
Baseball teams across the country held moments of
silence after a gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a
handgun opened fire inside a crowded gay nightclub in
Orlando, Florida, early Sunday. At least 50 people were killed
and the gunman died in a gunfight with SWAT officers,
according to police.
“We begin with our thoughts and prayers for the Orlando
community and all of those affected by the tragic events this
early morning,” Father Geoff Rose of St Francis de Sales High
School said Sunday at NASCAR’s race in Michigan.
reach the 2014 World
Series. He signed with San
Diego in February 2015
and was traded to the
White Sox on June 4.
“He left a big impact
here. It’s good to see him,”
Yost said. “I’m glad he’s
back in the American
League.”
Shields lasted just twoplus innings in an 11-4
loss to Washington in his
White Sox debut on
Wednesday. He pitches
again on Monday against
Detroit.
TRAINER’S ROOM
was
Royals:
Perez
checked on by Yost and a
trainer after the catcher fell
awkwardly while chasing a
wild pitch in the fourth
inning. Perez stayed in
after catching a warmup
pitch from Ventura.
UP NEXT
Royals: RHP Edinson
Volquez (5-6, 4.25 ERA)
gets the ball when Kansas
City begins a seven-game
homestand Monday night
against Cleveland. RHP
Carlos Carrasco (2-1, 3.48)
pitches for the Indians in
the opener of a three-game
series.
White Sox: Shields (2-8,
5.06 ERA) is 7-6 with a
4.10 ERA in 18 career
starts against Detroit. LHP
Matt Boyd (0-1, 3.38) goes
for the Tigers.
Hamels reaches milestone, Rangers win
SEATTLE (AP) — Cole
Hamels became the seventh
active pitcher to reach 2,000
strikeouts and Mitch Moreland homered to lead the
Texas Rangers past the
Seattle Mariners 6-4 on
Sunday.
The AL West-leading
Rangers took two out of
three games in the series
against second-place Seattle to open up a season-high
five-game division lead. The
Rangers have won seven
straight series and 12 of
their last 15 games.
Hamels (6-1) picked up
strikeout No. 2,000 in the
third inning when he got
Leonys Martin swinging. It
was one of five strikeouts for
Hamels, who allowed one
run on four hits in seven
innings.
Martin homered for the
Mariners, who have now
lost eight of their last 12
games. Seattle starter Wade
Miley (6-3) allowed three
runs on four hits in five
innings and picked up his
first loss since April 19.
Miley had won his last six
decisions.
Indians 8, Angels 3
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) —
Francisco Lindor homered
and drove in three runs in
the first two innings, and
the
Cleveland
Indians
pounded another David
Huff in a victory over Los
Angeles.
Carlos Santana hit two
homers and drove in three
more runs for the AL Central leaders, who took two of
three at the Big A.
Mike Trout left the game
in the eighth inning with a
bruised right thumb after
getting hit by a pitch from
Cleveland reliever Tommy
Hunter. X-rays showed no
broken bones for the 2014
AL MVP.
Lindor’s
three
hits
included a solo shot in the
first and a bases-loaded single during Cleveland’s fourrun second, chasing Huff
(0-2).
Danny Salazar (7-3)
pitched three-hit ball into
the sixth with eight strikeouts, earning his third victory in four starts. Jefry
Marte hit his third homer in
five games for the Angels.
Giants 2, Dodgers 1
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
Brandon Belt hit a two-run
homer off rookie Julio Urias
in the sixth inning to help
Jake Peavy earn his 150th
win when San Francisco
beat Los Angeles.
Belt struck out in his first
two plate appearances
against the 19-year-old
Urias (0-2) before homering
into the right-center stands.
Joe Panik singled ahead of
Belt’s home run.
Joc Pederson homered
and Chase Utley had three
hits for Los Angeles. The
Dodgers fell five games
behind
the
first-place
Giants in the NL West after
losing the final two games of
the series.
Peavy (3-6) tossed six
scoreless innings and gave
up four hits. He became the
sixth active pitcher in the
majors with 150 wins.
Six relievers combined to
pitch the final three innings.
Santiago Casilla worked the
ninth for his 13th save.
Blue Jays 10, Orioles 9
TORONTO (AP) — Russell
Martin hit a three-run
homer, Kevin Pillar had a
solo shot and the Toronto
Blue Jays used a five-run
first inning to beat the Baltimore Orioles.
Edwin
Encarnacion
scored three runs and
extended his streak of
reaching base safely to nine
plate appearances before
grounding into a fielder’s
choice in the sixth as the
Blue Jays took three of four
from the AL East leaders.
Adam Jones hit two of
Baltimore’s five home runs,
four of which came off
Aaron Sanchez (6-1), but
the Orioles lost their third
straight. Jason Grilli gave
up a bases-loaded sacrifice
fly in the ninth but struck
out Jonathan Schoop with
runners at the corners to
end it for his first save.
Ubaldo Jimenez (3-7)
allowed five runs and six
hits in one-third of an
inning, the shortest start of
his career. Pedro Alvarez,
Chris Davis and Matt
Wieters also homered for
Baltimore.
Tigers 4, Yankees 1
NEW YORK (AP) —
Detroit rookie Michael Fulmer dominated on OldTimers’ Day at Yankee
Stadium, winning his fifth
straight start while extending his scoreless streak to
28 1/3 innings to lead the
Tigers over New York.
With Whitey Ford, Reggie
Jackson and several more
Hall of Famers and World
Series MVPs on hand for the
pregame festivities, the 23year-old Fulmer by far was
the biggest star of the afternoon.
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Obituaries
ZELLA DYSON
Zella Dyson, Concordia,
died Saturday, June 11,
2016, at the age of 101. Funeral services will be Thursday, June 16, 2016, at 10:30
a.m. at The First Christian
Church in Concordia. Visitation will be Wednesday,
June 15, from 9 a.m.-8 p.m.
with the family present from
5-7 p.m. at Nutter Mortuary. Nutter Mortuary is in
charge of arrangements.
A full obituary will be
printed in Tuesday’s BladeEmpire.
More students in
Kansas will get
meals this summer
SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) –
Kansas has done a relatively
weak job of making sure lowincome students have nutritious food when school’s
out during the summer, but
schools, nonprofits and government agencies are making progress.
Advocates expect to have
162
sponsors
providing
breakfast, lunch or snacks
at 575 sites this summer, an
increase from 138 sponsors
and 484 sites last summer,
said Kelly Chanay, assistant
director of Child Nutrition &
Wellness for the Kansas Department of Education.
It’s important, advocates
say, because losing schoolprovided meals during the
summer is a financial blow
to many low-income families, and the loss of nutritious food puts the students
at risk for setbacks in health
and education, particularly
in rural and low-income areas. Nearly half of the state’s
children qualify for free or
reduced-price lunches.
“We just know that there
are so many families where
food insufficiency is a regular, daily struggle,” said
Rhonda Synovec, director of
Family Life Ministry at Trinity Lutheran Church, which
sponsors lunches, arts and
crafts and a bookmobile
three days a week at Waterworks Park in Shawnee.
“A parent can be working
two or three jobs but it’s not
enough to meet the needs of
the families ... Our hearts
just want to make sure those
kiddos have the opportunity
to be taken care of.”
The Food Research &
Action Center, a national
anti-hunger group, in 2014
ranked Kansas 49th among
states based on the percentage of students qualifying
for free and reduced-price
lunches who were receiving
summer meals. And 35 of
Kansas’ 105 counties didn’t
have a single site providing
meals last year. Ten of those
counties are expected to offer food this summer.
Meal sponsors are reimbursed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service program,
with some also supplemented by grants and private donations. All children 18 and
younger are eligible, regardless of income, but the focus
is on low-income students.
Sponsors are encouraged
to provide social and physical activities along with the
meals.
“It’s important because
one of the problems children face is the learning gap
over the summer,” said Audrey Rowe, administrator of
USDA’s Food and Nutrition
Service. “Where there is programming, you have more
children attending on a daily
basis.”
The USDA is pushing for
increased participation nationwide, with a goal of serving more than 200 million
free meals this summer, up
from 191 million last summer, she said.
It’s all good news to Emily Davis, who last week took
her 2-year-old daughter and
6-year-old son to eat, play
and get a free book at the
Shawnee park.
“It gives us time to get out
of the house and gives me a
break from having to cook all
the meals every day,” Davis
said. “And it certainly helps
the finances.”
With most of the meals
served at school sites, some
are concerned how the state’s
current school funding crisis
would impact the program if
school buildings are closed
July 1. Chanay said the
federally-funded programs
will continue, although some
sponsors would have to find
alternative sites.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Award winner
Honored for her service
Kaleidoscope Award
McKenzie Parker, left, receives the Business Person Lifetime
Achievement Award on behalf of her parents, Tim and Carrie
Parker, from Concordia Area Chamber of Commerce president elect Jeremy Will during the Chamber’s Annual Dinner
and Award Ceremony Saturday night at the Cloud County
Fairgrounds. (Photo by Anna Jackson)
Amber Lambertz, left, is presented the Leon Gennette Award
for Community Service Volunteer of the Year from Concordia
Area Chamber of Commerce president elect Jeremy Will during the Chamber’s Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony Saturday night at the Cloud County Fairgrounds. (Photo by Anna
Jackson)
Roberta Lowrey, left, is presented the Leon Gennette Award
for Lifetime Achievement for Community Service from Concordia Area Chamber of Commerce president elect Jeremy Will
during the Chamber’s Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony
Saturday night at the Cloud County Fairgrounds. (Photo by
Anna Jackson)
Ty Gennette, left, receives the Kaleidoscope Award from Concordia Area Chamber of Commerce president elect Jeremy
Will during the Chamber’s Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony Saturday night at the Cloud County Fairgrounds, Gennette and Michael Walker were presented the award on behalf
of the Concordia Disc Golf Course. (Photo by Anna Jackson)
Boarding schools for young under scrutiny Weather
Adrian Hooper Jr.’s parents hoped to secure a bright
future for their son when they
sent him away to boarding
school at age 11. It was the
early 1960s, and the Fessenden School in Massachusetts
had an impeccable reputation, having educated Roosevelts and Kennedys.
Hooper spent the next
three years begging to come
home for reasons he didn’t
disclose until much later: He
and at least 16 other former
students say they were sexually abused by teachers when
they were middle schoolers in
the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s.
At Indian Mountain School
in Connecticut, lawyers estimate 50 to 100 middle
schoolers were violated by
staff members at the prestigious boarding school in the
1970s and ‘80s.
Sexual abuse scandals
have erupted in recent years
at a number of elite boarding schools, including St.
George’s in Rhode Island and
Phillips Exeter in New Hampshire. But what sets Fessenden and Indian Mountain
apart is the age of the students. These “junior boarding schools” accept children
before ninth grade, some as
young as 10 and 11.
Victims and their advo-
cates say the abuse cases
underscore
how
vulnerable younger children are at
boarding schools, where they
are often far from home, away
from their parents, for the
first time in their lives. Several say boarding programs
for students so young should
be reconsidered.
At that age, Hooper said in
a recent interview, “I was still
trying to figure out what was
right and what was wrong.”
He said that in the often stern
environment at the school,
kids who felt alone and away
from their families were
drawn to “any teacher that
showed any kind of niceness
or affection or caring.”
As far as anyone can remember, no one at either
institution was ever charged
with offenses committed
there, and the statute of limitations ran out a long time
ago. But investigations by
plaintiffs’ attorneys and police
substantiated many of the allegations, and the schools
have settled with more than a
dozen victims.
Similar cases have been
reported among the several
dozen boarding schools in
the U.S. that accept children
before ninth grade: A dormitory director in Texas was
convicted after five pupils ac-
cused him of showing them
porn and abusing them.
A houseparent at an Ohio
school pleaded guilty to sexual battery against a 13-yearold boy. In Minnesota, one
teacher was convicted and
three others have been accused of abuse at ShattuckSt. Mary’s, a school known
for supplying hockey players
to the NHL.
In Britain, where it has
been common practice for
generations for upper-class
parents to send children
as young as 8 to boarding
school, advocates are pushing to ban boarding before
age 16, in part because of
abuse allegations.
The schools say they offer
an unparalleled education.
On its website, the Junior
Boarding School Association,
which represents 10 schools
in the Northeast, including
Fessenden and Indian Mountain, highlights the opportunity for children to learn
independence and explore a
wide variety of fields.
Many of these institutions serve as feeder schools
to prestigious prep schools,
which are in turn a pipeline
to elite colleges. For some
youngsters, boarding school
can offer stability — for example, if their parents hold
jobs overseas or there is upheaval in the family.
At Indian Mountain, many
of the cases involve now-dead
English teacher Christopher
Simonds.
According to victims’ lawyers and a police investigation from the 1990s, Simonds
would supply alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana to boys
ages 10 to 15 and show them
porn. Victims said he gathered groups of boys and encouraged them to masturbate
or have sex with each other,
and took photos he would
use to keep children silent.
He also sexually assaulted
them, admitting during depositions to abusing at least a
dozen children, according to
lawyer Antonio Ponvert, who
represents three former students.
One of Ponvert’s clients
says he buried a coffee can of
pornographic images in the
1980s as potential evidence
against Simonds. A dig authorized by a judge last fall
failed to turn up anything.
Attorney Rick Kenny, who
has represented four victims,
said Simonds made the molestation into something like
a game for the children. “As
far as these kids were concerned, it was like going to
supper,” he said.
Today’s weather artwork by
Emalee Johnson,
a 4th grader in
Mrs. Stensaas’ class
Markets
LOCAL MARKETS -EAST
Wheat ...........................$3.93
Milo ......(per bushel) ....$3.42
Corn .............................$3.71
Soybeans ...................$10.80
CONCORDIA TERMINAL
LOADING FACILITY
LOCAL MARKETS - WEST
Wheat ..........................$3.93
Milo .....(per bushel) .....$3.42
JAMESTOWN MARKETS
Wheat ...........................$3.83
Milo ...(per bushel) ........$3.37
Soybeans ...................$10.70
Nusun .........................$15.10
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