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VOLUME 17, N UMBER 27
T HURSDAY, D ECEMBER 4, 2008
W INNER OF THE K ANSAS G AS S ERVICE
E XCELLENCE I N E DITORIAL W RITING
2006 K ANSAS P ROFESSIONAL
C OMMUNICATORS P HOTO E SSAY AWARD
Biodefense Lab
Government Recommends
Manhattan
By SAM HANANEL
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON -- The federal government has recommended a site in
Kansas for a new $450 million laboratory to study biological threats like
anthrax and foot-and-mouth disease,
congressional lawmakers and staff
said Wednesday.
The Department of Homeland
Security's choice of Manhattan, Kan.,
beat out intense competition from
other sites in Georgia, Mississippi,
North Carolina and Texas.
Agency official revealed their decision to several lawmakers late
Tuesday, according to lawmakers and
staff familiar with the briefings. The
officials spoke only on condition of
anonymity because a formal
announcement won't be made until
later this week, when the agency
releases an environmental impact
statement.
The choice won't become final until
sometime after a 30-day window period for comments on the decision,
which could face legal challenges
from losing states.
The new lab would replace an aging
24-acre research complex on Plum
Island, about four miles off the eastern
shore of Long Island, N.Y. Foot-andmouth research has been confined to
the island since 1955 to avoid an accidental outbreak that could lead to the
slaughter of millions of livestock. The
disease does not sicken humans.
Some farm groups have expressed
concern about the risks of moving the
lab to the U.S. mainland. The Bush
administration acknowledged earlier
this year that accidents have happened
with the feared virus at the Plum
Island facility.
But Homeland Security officials are
convinced it can operate safely using
the latest containment procedures.
And Kansas officials are focused on
the $3.5 billion economic infusion the
lab could mean for the local economy.
The lab is expected to generate
about 1,500 construction jobs and a
permanent payroll of $25 million to
$30 million for more than 300
employees once the project is completed by 2015.
The state mounted one of the most
aggressive efforts to win the new lab,
forming a special task force to lobby
Homeland Security officials after Sen.
Pat Roberts, R-Kan., promoted its
economic potential.
The Kansas legislature approved
$105 million in bonds to buy land,
upgrade roads, install a security fence
Plum Island, New York
From Wikipedia,
The free encyclopedia
Location and description
The center is located on Plum
Island, off the northeast coast of Long
Island in New York state. During the
Spanish-American War, the island was
purchased by the government for the
construction of Fort Terry, which was
later deactivated after World War II
and then reactivated in 1952 for the
Army Chemical Corps. The center
comprises 70 buildings (many of them
dilapidated) on 840 acres.
Plum Island has its own fire department, power plant, and water treatment plant. No wildlife exists on the
island. However, as Plum Island was
named an important bird area by the
New York Audubon Society, it has
successfully attracted different birds,
Plum Island had placed osprey nests
and bluebird boxes throughout the
island and will now add kestrel houses.
History
In response to disease outbreaks in
Mexico and Canada in 1954, the Army
gave the island to the Agriculture
Department to establish a research
center dedicated to the study of foot
and mouth disease in cattle.
The island was opened to news
media for the first time in 1992. In
1995, the Department of Agriculture
was issued a $111,000 fine for storing
hazardous chemicals on the island.
Local Long Island activists prevented the center from expanding to
include diseases that affect humans in
2000, which would require a Biosafety
Level 4 designation; in 2002,
Congress again considered the plan.
The Wall Street Journal reported in
January 2002 that many scientists and
government officials wanted the lab to
close, believing that the threat of foot
and mouth disease was so remote that
the center did not merit its $16.5 million annual budget. In 2002, the Plum
Island Animal Disease Center was
transferred from the United States
Department of Agriculture to the
United States Department of
Homeland Security.
In 2003, a whistleblower who
voiced concerns about safety at the
facility was fired by the contractor he
worked for. He had discussed his concerns with aides to Senator Hillary
Clinton. A National Labor Relations
Board judge found that the contractor,
North Fork Services, had discriminated against the whistleblower.
Diseases studied and outbreaks
As a diagnostic facility, PIADC scientists study more than 40 foreign animal diseases and several domestic diseases, including hog cholera and
African swine fever.[1] PIADC runs
about 30,000 diagnostic tests each
year. PIADC operates Biosafety Level
3 Agriculture (BSL-3Ag), BSL-3 and
BSL-2 laboratory facilities. The facility's research program includes developing diagnostic tools and preventatives (such as vaccines) for foot-andmouth disease and other diseases of
livestock.
Plum Island's freezers also contain
samples of polio and diseases that can
be transferred from animals to
humans. In 1991, the center's freezers
were threatened following a power
outage caused by a hurricane.
Because Congressional law stipulates that live foot-and-mouth disease
virus cannot be studied on the mainland, PIADC is unique in that it is currently the only laboratory in the U.S.
equipped with research facilities that
permit the study of foot-and-mouth
disease
and build a utility plant at the site on the
Kansas State University campus. Kansas
State University already conducts similar
research at its Biosecurity Research
Institute, near the proposed site of the
new lab.
Besides foot-and-mouth disease,
researchers also would study African
swine fever, Japanese encephalitis,
Rift Valley fever and the Hendra and
Nipah viruses.
Other finalist sites were Flora,
Miss.; Athens, Ga.; Butner, N.C.; and
San Antonio.
C OMMUNICATORS E DITORIAL AWARD
W INNER OF THE K ANSAS P RESS
A SSOCIATION A DVERTISING AWARD
County Employees Receive
KAC Service Awards
Last week the Riley County
Commission and department heads
presented the 2008 KAC Service
Awards to the following employees:
Eight Years:
Jill Conard – Counselor’s Office
Robert Isaac – Planning &
Development Office
Alvan Johnson – County
Commission
Anne Johnson – Public Works
Cynthia Kabriel – Clerk’s Office
Robert Nall, Jr. – Information
Technology
Debra Regester – Register of
Deeds
Shirley Zoeller – Legal Secretary
Sixteen Years:
Linda Glasgow – Historical
Museum
Twenty-Four Years:
Joseph Collins, II – Public Works
Robert Hannan – Noxious Weed
Rhonda Lund – Public Works
Bertra Manning – Public Works
Sherie Taylor – Planning &
Development Office
Monty Wedel – Planning &
Development Office
Catherine Willard – Appraiser’s
Office
Thirty-Two Years:
Jolene Campbell – Clerk’s Office
Patrick Collins – Emergency
Management
Rod Meredith – Public Works
Carol Springer – Clerk’s Office
Certificate in Effective
Supervisory Skills:
Doug Byarlay – Public Works
Jolene Campbell – Clerk’s Office
Larry Gassmann – Public Works
Gilbert Terrell – Public Works
Level II Advanced Kansas
Road Scholar, Supervisory Skills
Program:
Doug Byarlay – Public Works
Larry Gassmann – Public Works
Gilbert Terrell – Public Works
KSU Student To Perform At Commencement
Plum Island
The talents of several Kansas State
University students will be on display during commencement ceremonies Dec. 12 and 13.
K-State students speaking or performing include:
Ben Tryon, senior in chemical
engineering, Hiawatha, will give the
student address for the College of
Engineering.
Karissa Dorleus, senior in communication sciences and disorders,
Junction City, will deliver the reflections address for the College of
Human Ecology.
Laura Romig, junior in dietetics,
Leavenworth, will play the processional and recessional for the
College of Agriculture and the
College of Business Administration.
Alia Collingwood, senior in horticulture, Manhattan, will sing the
national anthem for the College of
Agriculture.
Bryan Pinkall, graduate student in
music, Manhattan, will sing the
Arts and Sciences, the Graduate
School and the College of Human
Ecology.
Mai Shibahara, graduate student in
music, Manhattan, will sing the
Education.
Molly Kuhlman, senior in bakery
science and management, Ness City,
will give the graduate address for the
College of Agriculture.
Steven Anderson, senior in
mechanical engineering, Overland
Park, will sing the national anthem
and lead his classmates in the alma
mater for the College of
Engineering.
Jon McLelland, sophomore in professional pilot, Salina, and student
body president at K-State at Salina,
will give student remarks and act as
student marshal for K-State at
Salina.
Hannah Penner, senior in marketing, Wichita, will give the student
remarks for College of Business
Administration.
Magan Harrell, senior in elementary education, Fort Pierce, Fla., will
deliver the reflections address for the
College of Education.
Sebelius Hosts Meals, Events At Mansion
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ Kansas taxpayers have footed the bill for numerous
parties, receptions and other private
functions at the governor’s mansion.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reported
Sunday that 42 functions held by Gov.
Kathleen Sebelius at Cedar Crest
between January 2006 and May 2008
cost the state $36,000, according to state
documents.
They have included a July 2007 meal
for Delano Lewis, a Washburn
University graduate and former ambassador to South Africa, that served 10
people and cost the state $870, and a
series of holiday dinners in December
2007 for Sebelius’ staff, cabinet members and others that served 120 people
and cost $4,300.
Other events were cheaper, including
$270 for a media reception in December
2006 and an auction lunch for Trinity
Presbyterian Church in August 2007 that
cost $75.
Politicians on both sides of the aisle
said they saw nothing wrong with the
practice, saying it reflected the importance of the mansion as an extension of
the governor’s office and that previous
governors have done the same thing.
``The residence provides a less formal
setting for discussion and is also used for
entertainment purposes,’‘ said Sebelius
spokeswoman Nicole Corcoran.
House Speaker Melvin Neufeld, RIngalls, said he felt the expenditures
were appropriate, as did Rep. Mike
O’Neal, R-Hutchinson.
`Ìt is very obvious a venue for governmental activities,’‘ O’Neal said.
Jennie Rose, who was chief of staff for
former First Lade Linda Graves, said
former Gov. Bill Graves often held
events at the mansion.
``When I came into my office that first
day, there was a stack of requests for
Cedar Crest about 2 feet high,’‘ Rose
said.
But the practice attracted scrutiny earlier this year when it was revealed that
one of the state events in April 2007 had
included Wichita abortion provider
George Tiller. Tiller had won the meal at
a Greater Kansas City Women’s Political
Caucus auction in 2005.
Sebelius said at the time that her office
hasn’t followed its policy of not paying
for political events and the Women’s
Political Caucus reimbursed the state for
the meal. The governor’s office said it
would search through previous dinners
for other inappropriate items.
The newspaper said its review of the
documents found another instance where
the state paid for another Women’s
Political Caucus auction in September
2007 but wasn’t reimbursed until June
2008.
Corcoran said the office discovered
the error in an internal review and `òur
efforts are ongoing to ensure expenses
are handled appropriately.’‘
Victim Of 2006 Cat Tracker Crash Still Recovering
By GARY DEMUTH
The Salina Journal
SALINA, Kan. (AP) _ It’s been two
years since doctors removed part of
Chris Orr’s skull and put it in his
abdomen.
They did this so the Salina man would
have a better chance of surviving a traumatic head injury that had caused his
brain to swell.
After removing the section of skull,
doctors put a protective cap over Chris’
exposed brain.
He wasn’t given much hope _ about a
20 percent chance of survival, he heard
later. There was a good chance he’d end
up severely disabled, or more likely,
dead within a week.
He survived his ordeal but at a great
cost.
Because Chris’ brain injury was primarily to the frontal lobe, he lost a lot of
his short-term memory, developed vision
and balance problems and faced difficulty with his visual memory.
`Ì can’t remember faces,’‘ said Chris,
36. `Ì can be talking with someone and
they’ll leave the room and come back an
hour later, and I won’t remember who
they were. If I know someone from
church and see them in the grocery store,
I won’t know who they are because I’m
seeing them out of their normal setting.’‘
Even those closest to him are not
immune.
``Sometimes I haven’t remembered
my wife,’‘ he said as his eyes began to
tear.
Tears come easier to Chris now, along
with emotional highs and lows and anger
_ normal results of massive brain trauma.
But it’s been two years since his injury
and Chris is still alive. For that, he’s forever thankful.
`Ì’ve beaten the odds,’‘ he said. `Ì
feel like I’ve been given a second
chance.’‘
Chris doesn’t remember anything
about Nov. 18, 2006, except that he was
looking forward to a ``guy’‘ weekend of
football and fun. Chris, a former sportswriter for the Salina Journal who also
had published a high school sports magazine, was a fan of all sports, especially
baseball.
He also was a passionate Kansas State
University Wildcat fan, and there was no
bigger game that weekend than the
showdown with the University of Kansas
at Lawrence.
Chris intended to go to Lawrence on a
Saturday, and then head to Kansas City
to join Sigma Chi fraternity brother Josh
Callahan for a Kansas City Chiefs game
Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium.
He ended up in Kansas City, but far
from the way he intended.
While riding on the Cat Tracker, a
converted school bus that took Wildcat
fans to games outside of Manhattan,
Chris struck his head on a concrete
bridge near the stadium.
The bus had a ladder leading to a
metal deck on top. Several other people
reportedly were sitting on top of the bus,
but only Chris and Shawnee resident
John Green struck their heads as the bus
passed under the bridge. Green, 27, was
killed instantly.
Because of a pending lawsuit, Chris
was unable to discuss the circumstances
of that day _ not that he remembers anything about it.
`Ì can’t remember anything two
weeks before the accident,’‘ Chris said.
Chris was flown to the University of
Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City,
where he was put in the hospital’s neurointensive care unit.
His wife, Stacey, had stayed behind in
Salina with the couple’s two young sons,
Caleb and Tyce. She received a call
informing her of Chris’ injury from
Chris’s father, Jerry, who had been called
by a person riding on the Cat Tracker
bus.
`Ì got the boys and tried to throw
things in a suitcase,’‘ she said. `Ìt was
awful. It was the longest drive of my
life.’‘
When Stacey arrived at the hospital
and first saw Chris, she was shocked.
``Tubes were coming out of his head,
machines were all around him, and there
was a tremendous amount of swelling,’‘
she said.
A few days after his arrival, the front
of the top part of Chris’ skull was
removed to allow his brain to continue
swelling and begin to heal itself. The
skull portion was put in his abdomen to
allow blood flow to continue so it later
could be reattached.
Chris was in a coma for about a month.
Josh Callahan, who had been looking
forward to spending Sunday with Chris
at the Chiefs’ game, instead found himself by Chris’ bedside, looking into his
fraternity brother’s battered face.
`Ìt was shocking to see him,’‘ said
Josh of Hays. ``He looked like he’d been
on the wrong end of a bad fight.’‘
No one knew when or if Chris would
awaken, but Josh said he was given a
sign of hope just before Christmas that
Chris might be coming back.
`Ì gave him the handshake we always
give each other in public when greeting a
fellow Sigma Chi,’‘ Josh said. ``He
shook my hand with that grip.’‘
When Chris began coming out of the
coma, it was a gradual process, Stacey
said.
`Ìt’s not like you see on TV where
they wake up right away,’‘ she said.
`Òne day he’d open one eye. One day
he’d be awake 20 minutes and go back to
sleep.’‘
Stacey stayed by Chris’ side during
most of the month of his coma, reading
newspapers, books and cards and letters
from friends and relatives sent to the hospital.
Finally, Chris awoke.
``He had a tracheotomy (an incision in
the windpipe to allow breathing) so he
couldn’t talk,’‘ Stacey said. `Ìt’s hard to
say if he knew who I was right away.’‘
Chris thought he said `Ì love you’‘ to
his wife, but he can’t remember if it really happened.
After regaining some strength, Chris
began physical, speech and occupational
rehabilitation at the hospital. That lasted
through Feb. 11, when he was released.
``There were some days during rehab
that he knew who I was, and some days
he didn’t,’‘ Stacey said. `Òne day he
thought I was his sister.’‘
Throughout this time, Chris’ skull was
still in his belly and he still wore a protective cap to protect his exposed brain.
``The least they could have given me
was a Royals or Chiefs hat,’‘ he said.
Doctors reattached Chris’ skull on Feb.
9, two days after his father’s birthday.
`Ì didn’t get him (his father) a birthday present that year, so that was his
present,’‘ Chris said.
After returning to Salina, Chris continued to receive therapy until October
2007. While he has continued to improve
since then, he knows he’s far from being
100 percent.
``My balance is not good _ I’ve fallen
down the stairs at home three times _ I
have some double vision,’‘ Chris said.
`Ì’m seeing a psychiatrist for my emotional issues, and I’m still on disability.’‘
This fall, Chris achieved an important
milestone in his recovery _ he went back
to work. Before his injury he had left
sportswriting and was managing The
Jacket Shack, a store at Salina’s Central
Mall.
But he still wanted to write sports stories, and he was given a chance to do so
at the Abilene Reflector-Chronicle.
Editor-publisher Dave Bergmeier hired
him to work 30 to 35 hours a week covering local sports events at Abilene and
Dickinson County schools.
``He’s been able to keep up with things
and works hard at it,’‘ Bergmeier said.
``He knows how important sports is to
our market, so he’s really focused on
doing a good job.’‘
Chris said is grateful for the opportunity.
`Ì always thought I’d be able to go
back to work,’‘ he said. `Ì covered a
wrestling tournament in Salina and was
able to see my byline again. It was one of
the best days of my life.’‘
Callahan said he’s seen profound
changes in Chris’s appearance and abilities since sharing that fraternity handshake two years ago.
``He’s come a tremendous way,’‘
Callahan said. `Àt first he was like a little boy. Just in the last year, you can definitely see he’s grown up again. There’s
still a ways to go, but where he’s come in
two years is amazing.’‘
Chris’ recovery challenges haven’t
always been easy on those around him _
Stacey, Caleb and Tyce, now 13 and 9
respectively.
``The part of the brain he injured controls emotions and personality, so he’s a
whole different person now,’‘ Stacey
said. ``But then I see actions that remind
me of the old Chris. We’re still in the
process of figuring everything out.’‘
The boys are taking the changes in
their father as well as they can, Stacey
said.
``They know he had an accident and
had a brain injury, but I’m not sure to
what extent they understand everything,’‘ she said. ``But kids are resilient.
I’m just thankful the boys still have their
father.’‘
Stacey also is thankful for friends,
family members and `èveryone else for
the support, help and prayers they have
provided us over the past two years.’‘
For two years, Stacy said, her family
NEWS
Obituaries
Edna Richardson
Edna Campbell Richardson, age 89,
of Manhattan, died Monday, December
1, 2008, at the Mercy Regional Health
Center in Manhattan.
She was born on July 14, 1919, in
Greenville, South Carolina, the daughter of Walter Huff and Fannie (Tollett)
Campbell.
Mrs. Richardson graduated from
Winthrop College, Rock Hill, South
Carolina, in 1940, with a B.S. degree.
She taught Home Economics and
coached high school women’s basketball in Kingstree, South Carolina, and
then served in Anderson, Lancaster and
Greenville counties with the South
Carolina Extension Service.
On October 4, 1942, in Pelzer, South
Carolina, she married Draytford
“Drake” Richardson, a 1938 graduate
of Clemson University. In 1951, they
moved to Manhattan, Kansas where
her husband joined the faculty of the
Shirley Waters
AlmaShirley Irene (Theel)
Waters, 71, of rural Alma, Kansas,
passed away at her home Sunday,
November 30, 2008.
She was born Jan. 3, 1937 in
Manhattan, Kansas, the daughter of
Vincent and Irene (Fink) Theel. She
attended a one room country school
north of Manhattan thru 5th grade
and moved with her family in 1946
to a farm near Alma. She then
attended St. John Lutheran School
until 8th grade, and graduated from
Alma High School in 1954. She
married Patrick H. Waters on June
13, 1954 in Alma. They lived south
Henry Lige, Jr
Manhattan- Henry “Hank” Edward
Lige, Jr., age 54, died November 20,
2008 at KU Medical Center in
Kansas City.
Born on November 6, 1954 in
Montgomery, Alabama. He was the
son of Henry Edward Lige Sr and
Pearlie Lee (Sankey) Lige. He
received Christ at an early age at
Nazareth Catholic Mission. Henry
played football at Robert E. Lee
High School in Montgomery,
Alabama and went on to play at
Kansas State University as a cornerback #45 for two years. He worked
John Cyrene
John Emil Cyrene, Jr., age 85, of
Manhattan, died November 30,
2008, at Stoneybrook Retirement
Community in Manhattan.
He was born August 28, 1923, in
Trinidad, Colorado, the son of John
Emil and Julia Helen (Carlton)
Cyrene, Sr. He moved to Manhattan
in1938, and graduated from
Manhattan High School in 1942.
John was a clerk in the Game
Carolyn Bowers
Carolyn M. Bowers, 70, of Alma,
Kansas, died Monday, December 1,
2008 at the Alma Manor. She was a
twenty year resident of the community.
Carolyn was born September 11,
1938 near Arapahoe, Nebraska, the
daughter of Ray and Edith Hokanson
Disney. She attended local schools
and graduated in 1956 from
Arapahoe High School.
Carolyn married Lloyd E Bowers
on September 9, 1962 in Arapahoe,
Nebraska. He survives at their
home.
She lived 12 years in
Lawrence and 20 years in Alma.
Carolyn was a homemaker but also
worked at Scotch Laundry in
Lawrence and then the Alma Manor
laundry in Alma. Carolyn was a
member of St. John Lutheran
Church. She loved to garden and
tend her flowers, was an avid reader,
enjoyed taking long walks and loved
her pets.
Carolyn is also survived by her
two daughters, Nancy Meinholdt and
her husband Alan and their children,
Rachel, Cindy and Karen; Emporia,
Lisa Howard and her husband, Gary,
and their children, Allison and
Monica, Baldwin City; a sister,
Katheryn Sander and her husband,
Allen, Superior, Nebraska; and a
brother, Gerald Disney, Arapahoe,
Nebraska.
Funeral services will be held at
11:00 a.m., Thursday, December 4,
2008 at St. John Lutheran Church in
Alma. Reverend Robert Grimm will
be officiating. Burial will follow at
St. John Lutheran Cemetery. Mrs.
Bowers lied-in-state starting at 2:00
p.m. on Wednesday, at CampanellaGentry Funeral Home in Alma,
where the family will greet friends
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Animal Husbandry Department at
Kansas State Agricultural College,
now Kansas State University.
Edna was a dedicated homemaker
and participated with her husband in
international activities from 1968 until
1970. While serving with the USAID
(United
States
Agency
for
International Development) project at
Andhra
Pradesh
Agricultural
University, in Hyderabad, India, she
used her home economics and hospitality skills to benefit and serve the
local communities.
As an active member of the
Manhattan community, her memberships included the First Baptist
Church, Eureka Valley EHU, Chapter
BD of PEO and the Faculty Club at
KSU. She also served in various adult
leadership roles with the College Hill
and Be Busy 4-H clubs of Riley
County.
Edna is survived by three sons:
David A. Richardson and his wife,
Sharon, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio,
Ralph C. Richardson, DVM and his
wife Beverly, of Manhattan, Kansas
and Daniel C. Richardson, DVM and
his wife, Kathryn, of Topeka, Kansas.
Five grandchildren: Mark Richardson,
Helena Richardson, Travis Richardson
and his wife Sally, Ty Richardson and
his wife Macy and Troy Richardson
and his wife Christine. Nine great
grandchildren: Luke, Joel, Nathan,
Kathryn, Emma Claire, Carter, Noah,
Grace and Samuel Richardson also
survive.
Edna was preceded in death by her
parents, by her husband, Drake
Richardson, in 2001, by two sisters:
Sara Sutherland and Evelyn Harper,
three brothers: Huff, Bob, and Harry
Campbell, and by one grandson:
Nikolaus Drake Richardson.
The family will receive friends during a visitation from 6:00 until 8:00
p.m. Friday evening at the YorgensenMeloan-Londeen Funeral Home.
An additional visitation will be held
from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday at
Meadowlark Hills in the living room
off the main lobby.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30
p.m. Saturday at the First Baptist
Church, 2121 Bluehills Road, with Dr.
Dave Stewart officiating. Cremation
will follow with inurnment in the
Sunset Cemetery.
On-line condolences may be left for
the family through the funeral home
website located at www.ymlfuneralhome.com.
Memorials have been established for
the Draytford and Edna Richardson
Graduate Student Fund in Animal
Science at Kansas State University
(Acct. # D76840), for the Draytford
and Edna Richardson Graduate
Student Fund in Animal Science at
Clemson University, Clemson, South
Carolina, and for the Meadowlark
Hills-Good
Samaritan
Fund.
Contributions may be left in care of the
Yorgensen-Meloan-Londeen Funeral
Home,
1616
Poytnz Avenue,
Manhattan, Kansas 66502.
of Topeka until August of 1959,
when her husband was transferred to
Mobile, AL until 1965, and then to
San Antonio, TX, until 1976 when
they returned to Kansas. In 1978,
they moved to McFarland, KS where
they resided for 4 years, before moving northwest of Alma to her family’s farm, where she lived until her
death. Her husband, Patrick, preceded her in death in August of 1989.
While in San Antonio, Shirley held
many P.T.A. offices, one of which
was President of the John Glenn
Elementary School P.T.A. She was
especially proud to have received the
Texas P.T.A. Life Member award.
She was also a member of the St.
John Lutheran Church of Alma, the
United Community Club, and the
District 3 Card Club. She was also
proud to have started the annual
Theel family reunion, now going
over 20 years. She enjoyed going for
drives in the countryside, gardening,
playing cards, and helping people
and families who were in need.
She is survived by her three
daughters, Audrey Waters and
Bernice Waters, both of Alma, KS,
and Cindy Louk, of St. George, KS;
one sister, Virginia Snodgrass, of
Alma, KS; three brothers, Phillip
Theel, of Alma, KS, David Theel, of
Eudora, KS, John Theel, of Lake
Charles, LA; and two grandsons,
Charles Thomas and Richard Louk.
Funeral services for Mrs. Waters
will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday,
Dec. 6, 2008 at St. John Lutheran
Church in Alma, burial to follow in
the church cemetery. She will lie instate at the Stewart Funeral Home of
Alma beginning at 1:00 p.m. Friday,
where a visitation will be held from
7:00 – 8:30 p.m. Memorials are suggested in her name to be designated
later, and may be left in care of the
Stewart Funeral Home of Alma, PO
Box
126,
Alma,
66401.
Condolences may be left for the family: www.stewartfuneralhomes.com.
for over thirty years as a contractual
pipe fitter and was a member of the
Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Union
Local #165. Henry liked to fish, golf
and cook but most of all loved
spending time with his children and
grandchildren.
His survivors include: his daughters, Aresha Nichole Lige of
Manhattan, KS; Tamica (Clark
Trawick) Lynn Lige of Manhattan,
KS; Mrs. Tracey (Takata) Lewis of
Montgomery AL. His son, Henry
Edward Lige III of Manhattan, KS.
His siblings, Arvella Wilkins of
Manhattan NY, Mrs. Henrietta
Meyers of Bronx NY, Reginald Bray
of Montgomery AL, Tyrone
(Elizabeth) Bray of Lawton OK,
Timothy
(Patricia)
Lige
of
Montgomery AL, Haywood (Regina)
Lige of Manhattan NY, Rose Carolyn
Lige of Montgomery AL. Six grandchildren are Ari, Ryder, Kelsey,
Joshua, Jaquan, and Whitney. Two
great grandchildren, Kedrick Jr and
Ja’ Meryn. Several nieces and
nephews. His step-mother Mrs.
Mattie Lige of Montgomery, AL. He
was preceded in death by his parents,
his sister Connie Lige and his grandson Kedrick Smith, Sr.
Funeral Services were held
Saturday, November 29th at 10:00
a.m. at Faith Evangelical Free
Church,
1921
Barnes
Rd.,
Manhattan, KS with Pastor Steve
Ratliff officiating. Burial followed
in the Sunrise Cemetery, Manhattan.
Memorial contributions in the
name of Henry E. Lige JR “Hank”
may be left in care of the IrvinParkview Funeral Home, 1317
Poyntz Avenue, Manhattan, KS
66502. The memorial will be designated later by the family. On-line
condolences may be sent to
www.irvinparkview.com.
Room and then later an associate at
Wal-Mart for the past twenty years.
Prior to Wal-Mart he had worked for
Workman Printing, Chapel’s Dairy,
Pepsi-Cola, Dr. Pepper, Chapman
Gas Station in Keats, survey crew for
the I-70 construction, Champlin Gas
Station, Rambler Garage, Faith
Furniture, Klepper Oil, and John’s
Used Cars.
He enjoyed bible study at
Crestview Christian Church, playing
cards at the Riley County Seniors’
Service Center and was a member of
the Manhattan Folk Square Dance
Group.
He was married to Hazel
Dalrymple, and they later divorced.
He married Ruth L. Irwin on August
9, 1964, in Manhattan. She preceded
him in death on August 7, 2001. He
was also preceded in death by one
half-sister Evelyn Breese.
Survivors include one son, Johnny
Cyrene and his wife Susie of
Manhattan; two granddaughters,
Sandra Fencil and her husband Terry
of Manhattan, and Susan Van De
Woestyne and her husband Kevin of
Osco, IL; seven great-grandchildren:
Aaron, Jaimie, Jesica, Kate, Kyle,
Teri Jo and Robbie; and one greatgreat grandson, Tobin.
Funeral services were held at 1:30
P.M. Wednesday, at the Yorgensen-
Meloan-Londeen Funeral Chapel
with Robert Leonard officiating.
Interment will follow in Valley View
Memorial Gardens Cemetery east of
Manhattan.
The family of Mr. Cyrene received
friends from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday at the Yorgensen-MeloanLondeen Funeral Home.
Online condolences may be left for
the family through the funeral home
website
at
www.ymlfuneralhome.com.
from 7:00 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. They
suggest memorial contributions to
the American Cancer Society and
those may be sent in care of the
funeral home. Online condolences
may be made at www.campanellafuneral.com.
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By Ron Wilson, director, Huck
Boyd National Institute for Rural
Development at Kansas State
University.
Let´s go huntin.´ Here´s a checklist of the things we need. A good
huntin´ dog: Check. Some pheasants
to shoot at: Check. A good place to
get a hearty meal: Check and check.
Today in Kansas Profile, we´ll meet
a young man who is involved with
not one, not two, but all three of
these elements that make up hunting
enterprises.
Meet Jess Cupp, a young man in
rural Kansas who is involved with all
these aspects of hunting. Jess´ parents are Jay and Debbie Cupp. Jay
has worked in the mining industry all
over the western U.S. Jess grew up in
Colorado and Wyoming where he
did a lot of hunting. He and his dad
would visit family in Iowa and go
bird hunting.
After graduation, Jess entered the
business world in Texas. There he
met and married his wife Denee, who
is originally from southern
California. In 2001, his folks Jay and
Debbie bought a place near Ness
City, Kansas where they began raising pheasants as game birds for sale
to hunting preserves. Using their initials, they named their enterprise J &
D Game Birds. Jess came home to
help whenever he could.
Jess says, "When I got out here, I
realized I really enjoyed being in the
country. We felt this would be the
best place to raise our kids, so a year
ago we moved here." He and Denee
now have two children, ages 4 and 7.
Before making this move, the smallest city where Denee had lived was
Fort Worth, Texas, so it was a significant change.
Jess also produces purebred
German Shorthair pointers which he
starts as hunting dogs. Since he and
Denee have the same initials as his
parents, they call this business J & D
Game Dogs. Many dogs are sold
locally, but he has also shipped dogs
as far away as Florida and
The Cupp Family
Massachusetts.
In 2007, Jess and Denee had the
opportunity to buy a small restaurant
in Ness City. They purchased the
restaurant on the day after
Christmas, remodeled it, and
reopened it on Valentine´s Day 2008.
The place is named Good Eats - not
exactly an imaginative name for a
restaurant.
Jess says, "We just want people to
enjoy our good food."
I thought the food was terrific. Jess
also operates a catering business,
which served nearly 600 people at
the Ness County Fair last year.
So now he is involved with several dimensions of the hunting industry. He helps his parents who raise
nearly 20,000 pheasants every year,
sells quality hunting dogs, and operates the Good Eats restaurant in Ness
City.
Their restaurant´s building, by the
way, is located next door to a skyscraper. No, not one of those skyscrapers like in downtown Fort
Worth. It is next to a historic stone
building known as the Skyscraper of
the Plains.
The Skyscraper of the Plains is a
beautiful four story bank building
that was constructed in the 1890s.
Originally the Ness County Bank, it
was a finalist for the eight wonders
of Kansas architecture, due to its
classic construction and ornate stone
work. The building is an absolute
work of art.
Today, the Skyscraper of the Plains
houses a business known as the
Prairie Mercantile and is used for
special events and meetings. Jess
says, "It is really handy for our catering business, because the building is
right next door." All this is a great fit
with this rural region.
Jess says, "I was raised in the
country, and when my folks came
here, I fell in love with it." Their
restaurant is in the town of Ness City,
population 1,485 people, but they
actually live out in the country near
the town of Bazine, population 298.
Now, that´s rural.
Let´s go huntin.´ Thanks to Jess
and Denee and Jay and Debbie Cupp,
we can find good huntin´ dogs, birds
to shoot, and a good place to get a
hearty meal. We commend them for
making a difference with their entrepreneurship and initiative. But in a
larger sense, Jess and Denee were
hunting for something else: A great
place to raise their children.
On that score, rural Kansas is right
on target.
42 Die In Kansas Police Chases In 12 Years
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) _ Police chases
on Kansas roads have cost 42 lives over
the past 12 years and injured 37, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The Wichita Eagle analyzed state
records and found that about 20 percent
of those killed were in vehicles hit by
fleeing cars.
Such statistics anger the families of
victims, who say the toll is too high.
Michael King’s 44-year-old sister,
Peggy King, was killed Nov. 15 when the
Buick she was riding in was struck by a
vehicle fleeing a state trooper who was
trying to pull over the driver for speeding.
`À lot of us feel that it could have
been avoided,’‘ King said.
Wichita Deputy Police Chief Tim
Stolz acknowledged the problem of innocent bystanders being killed during
3A
police chases, saying `Òne of those is
too many.’‘
But Stolz also said the public expects
law enforcement officers to pursue and
stop people whose behavior may risk
others, including traffic violators.
``The police officer’s in a no-win situation here,’‘ he said. ``The people who
are at fault in these tragedies are the people who make the decision to run.’‘
The crash that killed King’s sister
occurred just after 1 a.m. in south
Wichita when a trooper clocked a vehicle
traveling at 83 mph on Interstate 135.
The crash also killed the driver of the car
Peggy King was riding in, 43-year-old
Mia Cynthia Alberson, and the driver
being pursued by police, 24-year-old
Jennifer Stilley. Another passenger in
Alberson’s car, Teresa Phillips, was critically injured and is still in the hospital.
The Kansas Highway Patrol said the
trooper appeared to follow the department’s chase policy, which encourages
light traffic and good road and weather
conditions. A local criminologist also
supported the trooper, saying Stilley’s
speeding posed a danger to others.
But Michael King disagreed, questioning why the trooper continued to chase
Stilley after she got off the highway and
entered an area of connecting residential
streets, crosswalks and businesses.
``Why are we chasing people throughout residential areas?’‘ he said, adding
that while Stilley’s speed was ``somewhat excessive’‘ he didn’t think it was
life-threatening and that the trooper
should have stopped the chase earlier.
In total, the 42 deaths since 1997
occurred during 35 chases and happened
in both rural and urban settings, accord-
ing to records from the state Department
of Transportation. Eight involved
Wichita police and six involved the
Highway Patrol.
Kansas City, Kan., police started three
of the fatal chases while police in Topeka
and Lawrence began two each.
Stolz said it makes sense that Wichita
would have disproportionate percentage
of the crashes, given that it’s the state’s
most-populous city, but added, ``Clearly,
we’re disappointed that we have that
many in our jurisdiction.’‘
The police department changed its
chase policy in 2001 after a fleeing
shoplifter killed an Independence couple.
The new policy required an officer to
break off pursuit if they could identify
the driver through other means, such as a
tag number.
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Kansas Lawmakers Will Learn To Say No
By CARL MANNING
Associated Press Writer
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ For most legislators, their least favorite word is ‘no’ _
as in ``no, you can’t do this’‘ or ``no, you
can’t have that.’‘
But it’s going to be a word they’ll be
saying a lot during the 2009 legislative
session.
Many legislators campaigned on
promises to deal with various concerns,
from more money for local schools, to
fixing rutted roadways, to making sure
the senior centers continue to serve hot
lunches.
But on Election Day, the state’s economic forecasters unloaded a mountain
of bad financial news.
The message was as simple as it was
alarming _ state general fund revenues
are falling way short of what everybody
expected when the current budget took
effect July 1.
Lawmakers now face a projected $141
million deficit at the end of the current
budget year June 30. Left unchecked, it
will grow to $1.02 billion in the next
budget year by its end June 30, 2010.
Since the state must have a balanced
budget, that leaves it up to legislators and
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to find the solution.
``The agencies are going to take a hit
and people will be affected. We’ve got to
get the budget in balance,’‘ said Senate
Ways and Means Committee Chairman
Dwayne
Umbarger,
a
Thayer
Republican. ``We’re going to force a lot
of problems back on local government.’‘
Beyond revenues falling short, the
promise of new riches from gambling has
turned into more fluff than fact.
Supporters of the 2007 gambling bill
said it would generate $200 million a
year but that assumed four state-owned
casinos, slots at three tracks and what
appeared to be a healthy economy.
Now with the reality of two casinos,
no tracks and a turbulent economy, the
estimate is closer to $24 million for the
next budget year.
For the current budget year, there’s the
chance of $30.5 million in one-time privilege fees from the casinos if they pass
muster with the Kansas Racing and
Gaming Commission. While it won’t
solve the problem, it will help. But that is
one-time money.
To help balance the budget in the
state’s last financial crisis in 2003,
Sebelius and legislators used hundreds of
millions of dollars of one-time accounting gimmicks, often called ``magic
money.’‘ But the magic money isn’t
available this time around.
As House Speaker Melvin Neufeld, an
Ingalls Republican, put it: ``There’s little
voodoo left.’‘
Umbarger, who has been through more
than his share of money crunches, says
there’s no easy solution this time around.
Bowman Forum Dec. 10th
The tenth annual Bowman Design
Forum, sponsored by Kansas State
University's College of Architecture,
Planning and Design, will start at 1:30
p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 10, in the Pierce
Commons at Seaton Hall.
The forum is a design competition
open to K-State architecture students in
their third year of study. It is sponsored
by Brent Bowman, K-State graduate and
principal of Bowman Bowman Novick, a
Manhattan-based architecture firm with
offices also in Kansas City, Mo.
As a part of the forum, Coleman Coker
and Marlon Blackwell will present a lecture at 5 p.m. in Forum Hall. Coker and
Blackwell also will lead the jury for the
design forum. All events are free and
open to the public.
Coker, a Fellow of the American
Academy in Rome and a Loeb Fellow in
Advanced Environmental Studies at
Harvard University, is currently the
Favrot visiting chair at Tulane
University's School of Architecture in
New Orleans. He received a master's and
an honorary doctor of fine arts from the
Memphis College of Art. Coker founded
buildingstudio in 1999, an architecture
firm based in Memphis and New
Orleans. He is former director of the
Memphis Center of Architecture, a collaborative program of design sponsored
by the University of Tennessee and the
University of Arkansas. He also has held
the E. Fay Jones chair in architecture at
the University of Arkansas.
Blackwell is an architect and tenured
professor at the University of Arkansas in
Fayetteville and co-founder of the
University of Arkansas Mexico Summer
Urban Studio. He has a bachelor's degree
from Auburn University and a master's
degree from Syracuse University in
Florence, Italy. Blackwell's work has
received national and international
recognition by the American Institute of
Architects and his residential projects
have been featured in five design books.
Blackwell has been a visiting professor at
the
Massachusetts
Institute
of
Technology, Syracuse University and
Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.
``Whatever we do will cause pain,’‘
said the Republican from Thayer.
While the economy certainly is a factor, the state was headed for budget problems before the financial meltdown.
For more than a year, it’s been spending general revenues significantly faster
than it’s been collecting them, using cash
reserves to sustain programs.
For instance, the state phased in a 39
percent increase _ $892 million _ in aid
to public schools over four years without
increasing revenues for it. Sebelius and
legislators also cut business taxes to
stimulate economic development.
The governor, and many legislators,
want to protect public schools and entitlement programs, like Medicaid, which
eat up about two-thirds of the state’s general revenue. But many worry that would
cripple other programs.
Legislators and the governor will have
to forge compromises on many fronts to
get through this. Raising taxes is a nonstarter and Umbarger said that could
prove counterproductive.
``Cutting services is possible, but
that’s not popular among legislators,
even some conservative legislators,’‘
said Bob Beatty, Washburn University
political science professor. ``They can do
that but then they have to go back home
and explain what they did.’‘
For legislators, this isn’t the time to be
fixated on ideologies.
``The moderates may have to cut more
than they want and the conservatives
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He said Sebelius could help bridge the
factions.
`Ì think she can work with conservatives because Kansas has been doing OK.
But the economic problems are coming
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But there’s the chance Sebelius won’t
be around.
She’s been mentioned as a potential
pick for President-elect Barack Obama’s
administration. If she leaves, it would
elevate Lt. Gov. Mark Parkinson, who
could run for the job in two years.
`Ìf she is not there, it’s a fantastic
dynamic,’‘ Beatty said. ``You have the
classic political conundrum between
Republican legislators and Parkinson.
They need to do something to get out of
this mess, but if they do he might get the
credit.’‘
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Kansas and Oregon have this in
common: They are both at the end of
the Oregon Trail, albeit at opposite
ends. Ten days ago we spent the
night in “St. Joe”, one of the jumping
off locations for the early emigrants,
to begin our holiday trek that now
finds us at the other end of the
Oregon Trail in Oregon. Jenny and I
had breakfast at one of the eastern
terminals and dinner at one of the
western terminals. We had far less
hardship than the early travelers, but
also far less adventure. The Oregon
Trail was the primary corridor that
opened up the West including
Washington, Oregon, California,
Utah, Nevada and Idaho. It took
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman more
than three months to make the 2,000
mile journey to Oregon in a covered
wagon in 1836.
The pioneer men and women were
a hardy and industrious breed. Some
walked the entire way pushing wheel
barrows or pulling handcarts. Others
walked alongside their supply wagons pulled by mules or oxen. Other
entrepreneurs like Rufus Porter,
founder of Scientific American, didn’t cotton to the idea of walking
2,000 miles, so in 1849 he founded
the first Oregon-bound airline without government subsidy. His plan
was to fly pioneers to Oregon on propeller-driven balloons powered by
steam engines. He apparently advertised the endeavor and 200 brave
souls signed up for the trip. The “airline” never got airborne but there is
no record of a bailout.
Then there was an inventor that
had already begun to think green.
Dick Miller
“Wind-Wagon Thomas” crossed a
sail boat and a wagon and got a
“wind wagon.” The prototype barreled across the plains at the advertised 15 miles per hour before going
out of control and crashing. Thomas
kept trying but was overtaken in
1869 by the railroad. The railroad
ended the glory years of the Oregon
Trail, but not before half a million
pioneers traversed the rugged trail in
search of their dreams. One out of
every ten travelers didn’t make it and
their grave markers along the trail
have long since been covered by the
sands of time and their locations
known only to God. The determination to endure and conquer extreme
hardships was characteristic of those
early settlers who asked only for the
opportunity to reap the fruit of their
labor. It was their sacrifice, courage,
ingenuity, and unbreakable spirit that
was instrumental in the formation of
our nation.
Sadly, the fabric of the America
woven by those stalwart pioneers is
Ann
Coulter
Terrorists’ Restless Leg
Syndrome
I thought the rest of the world was
going to love us if we elected B.
Hussein Obama! Somebody better
tell the Indian Muslims.
As everyone but President-elect B.
Hussein Obama's base knows, many
of the Guantanamo detainees cannot
be sent to their home countries, cannot be released and cannot be tried.
They need to be held in some form of
extra-legal limbo the rest of their
lives, sort of like Phil Spector.
And now they're Obama's problem.
If Obama wants his detention of
Islamic terrorists to be dramatically
different from Bush's Guantanamo,
my suggestion is that he cut off -- so
to speak -- the expensive prosthetic
limb procedures now being granted
the detained terrorists.
Far from being sodomized and tortured by U.S. forces -- as Obama's
base has wailed for the past seven
years -- the innocent scholars and
philanthropists being held at
Guantanamo have been given expensive, high-tech medical procedures at
taxpayer expense. If we're not careful, multitudes of Muslims will be
going to fight Americans in
Afghanistan just so they can go to
Guantanamo and get proper treatment for attention deficit disorder
and erectile dysfunction.
After being captured fighting with
Taliban forces against Americans in
2001, Abdullah Massoud was sent to
Guantanamo, where the one-legged
terrorist was fitted with a special
prosthetic leg, at a cost of $50,000$75,000 to the U.S. taxpayer. Under
the Americans With Disabilities Act,
Massoud would now be able to park
his car bomb in a handicapped parking space!
No, you didn't read that wrong,
4A
Ann Coulter
because the VA won't pay for your
new glasses. I said $75,000. I would
have gone with hanging at sunrise,
but what do I know?
Upon his release in March 2004,
Massoud hippity-hopped back to
Afghanistan and quickly resumed his
war against the U.S. Aided by his
new artificial leg, just months later,
in October 2004, Massoud masterminded the kidnapping of two
Chinese engineers in Pakistan working on the Gomal Zam Dam project.
This proved, to me at least, that
people with disabilities can do anything they put their minds to. Way to
go, you plucky extremist!
Massoud said he had nothing
against the Chinese but wanted to
embarrass Pakistani President Pervez
Musharraf for cooperating with the
Americans.
You
know,
the
Americans who had just footed -you should pardon the expression -a $75,000 bill for his prosthetic leg.
Pakistani
forces
stormed
Massoud's hideout, killing all the
kidnappers, including Massoud.
Only one of the Chinese engineers
was rescued alive.
As a result of the kidnapping, the
Chinese pulled all 100 engineers and
dam workers out of Pakistan, and
work on the dam ceased. This was
bad news for the people of Pakistan - but good news for the endangered
Pakistani snail darter!
In none of the news accounts I
read of Massoud's return to jihad
after his release from Guantanamo is
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are won by those with the most
benevolent promises, new initiatives
require government subsidies, and
organizations collapsing due to greed
and gross irresponsibility cry out for
bailout. Hope is regained, not
through whimsical promises of
change, but returning to the trail of
our glorious past. As a youth,
Alexander the Great slept with a
copy of Homer’s story of Achilles
beneath his pillow; Napoleon slept
with the story of Alexander under
his. According to author Glenn
Clark, “Both these men looked into
the timeless past for their inspiration.” When Alexander was warned
that his army was too small he
replied, “You forget I have my
hopes.”
America was founded as a
covenant nation by men whose hopes
were anchored in the benevolence of
the Almighty. Their only request was
the freedom to pursue their dreams.
But history condemns societies
whose hopes are based upon the
expectations of benevolence from
government whose only resource is
that produced by those who are productive. The purveyors of socialism
in America were pursuing their
objective using stealth and redefinition of terms, but have been exposed
by Joe the Plumber. This redistribution of wealth is the antithesis of the
personal initiative and responsibility
demonstrated for us by our founders.
In his first inaugural address, George
Washington issued both a warning
and, conversely, the source of hope:
“The propitious smiles of Heaven
can never be expected on a nation
that disregards the eternal rules of
order and right, which Heaven itself
has ordained.” It would be a good
idea for all of us who have hopes for
our future to put a copy of the
Declaration of Independence under
our pillows.
there any mention of the fact that his
prosthetic leg was acquired in
Guantanamo, courtesy of American
taxpayers after he was captured trying to kill Americans on the battlefield in Afghanistan.
News about the prosthetic leg
might interfere with stories of the
innocent aid workers being held captive at Guantanamo in George Bush's
AmeriKKKa.
To the contrary, although
Massoud's swashbuckling reputation
as a jihadist with a prosthetic leg
appears in many news items, where
he got that leg is almost purposely
hidden -- even lied about.
"Abdullah Massoud ... had earned
both sympathy and reverence for his
time in Guantanamo Bay. ... Upon
his release, he made it home to
Waziristan and resumed his war
against the U.S. With his long hair,
his prosthetic limb and impassioned
speeches, he quickly became a
charismatic
inspiration
to
Waziristan's youth." -- The New
York Times
He's not a one-legged terrorist -he's a freedom fighter living with a
disability. I think we could all learn
something about courage from this
man.
"He lost his leg in a landmine
explosion a few days before the fall
of Kabul to the Taliban in September
1996. It didn't dampen his enthusiasm as a fighter and he got himself
an artificial leg later, says Yusufzai."- The Indo-Asian News Service
Where? At COSTCO?
"The 29-year-old Massoud, who
lost his left leg in a landmine explosion while fighting alongside the
Taliban, often used to ride a horse or
camel because his disability made it
painful for him to walk long distances in hilly areas." -- BBC
Monitoring South Asia
Side-saddle, I'm guessing. And
you just know those caves along the
Afghan-Pakistan border aren't
wheelchair accessible.
"He was educated in Peshawar and
was treated in Karachi after his left
leg was blown up in a landmine
explosion in the Wreshmin Tangi
gorge near Kabul in September 1996.
He now walks with an artificial leg
specifically made for him in
Karachi." -- Gulf News (United Arab
Emirates)
Karachi? Hey, how do I get into
this guy's HMO?
They can't lick leprosy in Karachi,
but the Gulf News tells us Massoud
got his artificial leg at one of their
specialty hospitals.
Anyone
who
thinks
the
Guantanamo detainees can be
released without consequence doesn't have a leg to stand on.
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Treasurer Jenkins Reflects On Her Time At The State Treasurer’s Office
By State Treasurer Lynn Jenkins
Nearly six years after taking the
oath to become the 37th State
Treasurer of Kansas I am resigning
from the office to represent Kansas’s
Second Congressional District in the
United
States
House
of
Representatives.
Serving as your State Treasurer
has been an incredible experience
and one that I will always cherish.
Thank you for the opportunity to
serve you in this capacity.
As I reflect on the past six years I
hope that Kansans are reaping the
rewards of the changes we have
made to the various programs at the
State Treasurer’s office. For instance,
the Kansas 529 Education Savings
Program has seen many positive
changes. Legislation our office presented to Kansas lawmakers
increased the amount Kansas taxpayers can deduct from their Kansas
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adjusted gross income from $2,000
($4,000 for married, filing jointly) to
$3,000 ($6,000) for contributions
into each beneficiary’s Learning
Quest
account. We have also expanded
investment options and lowered fees
for those who contribute to a Kansas
529 account. Another important
change that we made in Kansas was
to be one of the first states in the
nation to pass parity. This means that
Kansans may invest in whichever
accredited 529 plan in the United
States they choose and still take the
Kansas state tax deduction. In nine
short years since Learning Quest was
created, the Kansas 529 plan has
grown to nearly 200,000 accounts
and has more than $1.5 billion in
assets.
Another important and very popular department at the State
Treasurer’s office is the Unclaimed
Property program. Finding money
you didn’t know was due to you is
almost as fun as winning the lottery!
Unclaimed property can be inactive
savings and checking accounts,
uncashed checks, stock shares and
bonds, dividend checks, insurance
proceeds, mineral royalties, utility
deposits, and safe deposit box contents. When Kansans take back their
money - $12.8 million last year alone
- they don’t pay to do it! The Kansas
Unclaimed Property program is
impressive! Kansans are able to
search www.KansasCash.com for
real-time results and in some cases
begin the claim process online. The
Unclaimed Property Professional
Organization awarded our website
the 2008 Holder’s Choice Award for
Best Website for user-friendliness.
An initiative that I began in 2004
is the Financial Literacy program. I
started this to help Kansans of all
ages develop a better understanding
of money and to help them learn how
to make their money work for them!
We offered free seminars and workshops to senior citizens and eventually found a niche with grade school
and middle school students. One of
the programs - Save@School - partnered schools and financial institutions to bring the bank to the school.
Grade school students opened savings accounts, made deposits and
were taught lessons approved by the
Kansas State Board of Education on
interest, credit cards, accounts, and
other topics. Since 2004 Kansas
grade schools have saved $1.2 million as a result of the Save@School
program.
Another important program that
reached out to middle school students is the MoneySmart Financial
Management camp. The camp was
created specifically for Kansas middle school students. It is designed to
offer students training in sound personal financial philosophies and
practices in a fun environment that
enhances leadership and teamwork
skills. Students engage in specific
workshops regarding topics such as
Foundation In Top Philanthropic Tier
The
Greater
Manhattan
Community Foundation recently
received notification that it has met
the nation’s highest philanthropic
standards for operational quality,
integrity and accountability. The
notice comes from the Council on
Foundations, a national professional
association based in Washington,
D.C.
“This is similar to the Good
Housekeeping Seal for community
foundations,” said Steve Gunderson,
Council on Foundations president
and chief executive officer. “It says
that the Greater Manhattan
Community Foundation has demonstrated a commitment to operational
quality, integrity and accountability.”
The National Standards for U.S.
Community Foundations Program
requires community foundations to
document their policies for donor
services, investments, grantmaking
and administration. With over 200
community foundations already confirmed in compliance nationwide,
the program is designed to provide
quality assurance to donors, as well
as to their legal and financial advisors.
“This is critically important to our
donors,” said Sarah Saueressig,
Greater Manhattan Community
Foundation Executive Director.
“When people make a charitable
bequest, establish a fund or set up an
annuity, they are putting their trust in
us. They are counting on us to manage the investment wisely, honor
their charitable wishes and, in some
cases, provide lifetime income to a
loved one. The National Standards
confirmation says our house is in
order.”
The
Greater
Manhattan
Community Foundation offers a
range of charitable funds, allowing
donors to advance a cause such as
education or the environment, sup-
port an individual organization,
provide flexible support for community needs or recommend individual grants. In addition to affirming
the organization’s philanthropic
services, the confirmation validates
the
Manhattan
Community
Foundation’s grantmaking practices
for the nonprofit community.
“Some say it’s easier to create
wealth than to give money away
wisely,” said S. Lee Taylor, Greater
Manhattan Community Foundation
Board President. “There’s some truth
in that. Grantmaking is a lot like
investing… we need to assess risks,
weigh potential gains, diversify
assets, monitor performance and
operate fairly. When you see the
National Standards Seal, you can be
assured that we’re committed to
meeting the highest standards for
grantmaking as well.”
The National Standards for U.S.
Community Foundations program is
the first of its kind for charitable
foundations in the United States.
Through philanthropic services,
strategic investments and community
leadership, The Greater Manhattan
Community Foundation helps people
support the causes they care about,
now and for generations to come. For
more information on the Greater
Manhattan Community foundation,
visit its website at www.manhattancf.org.
The Council on Foundations is a
Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit
membership association of more
than 2,000 grantmaking foundations
and corporations, with assets totaling
more than $280 billion. The Council
provides the opportunity, leadership
and tools needed by philanthropic
organizations to expand, enhance
and sustain their ability to advance
the common good. For more information on the Council, visit its website at www.cof.org.
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Letter: Fund Vitamin D-Breast Cancer Research
Dear Editor
Research now links vitamin D
deficiency with a significantly elevated risk of breast cancer. So why
isn’t there public outcry to continue
funding this breakthrough science?
Vitamin D is made naturally when
skin is exposed to UVB in sunlight.
Because sunshine is free, there’s no
marketing department out there calling for this research to be continued.
Because the stakes are so high –
200,000 women will be told they
have breast cancer in North America
this year, and 45,000 will die – I am
proud to be supporting “D-Feat
Breast Cancer” – a North American
campaign to fund the continuation of
this important research.
The research on vitamin D and
breast cancer prevention to date is
impressive:
• A 2006 paper published in
Anticancer Research established that
women with higher vitamin D levels
are 50-70 percent less likely to
develop breast cancer.
• A 2007 study in the American
Journal of Epidemiology reported
that women with high sun exposure
levels – the most natural and abundant source of vitamin D – had half
the risk of developing advanced
breast cancer.
• A 2002 paper in Occupational
and Environmental Medicine established that women who received regular sun exposure were less likely to
die from breast cancer.
Those specific studies stand out in
their category and are on top of hun-
dreds of papers that now establish
the role vitamin D plays in cell
growth regulation in the body –
research that solidifies the mechanism by which vitamin D would prevent or slow the growth of dozens of
forms of cancer in the body.
D-Feat Breast Cancer is being supported in the month of January by
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U.S. Cellular To Donate
$1 Million To Schools
U.S. Cellular is Calling All
Communities to believe in something better for our children’s education by letting communities decide
which 10 schools around the country
will share $1 million. Between now
and January 15, 2009, U.S. Cellular
customers who come in to any
Kansas U.S. Cellular store, including
participating agent locations, to activate, renew or add additional lines
can vote for the school of their
choice to receive $100,000.
The program comes at a time when
school districts across the country
are feeling the pinch in a slowing
economy. According to an October
study from the American Association
of School Administrators, two-thirds
of superintendents described their
districts as “inadequately funded.”
“We recognize that funding for
Court Hears Arguments
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) _ A federal
appeals court in Virginia is considering
whether a Kansas church was protected
by the First Amendment when it protested at a soldier's funeral.
A lawyer for Topeka-based Westboro
Baptist Church on Tuesday urged the 4th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in
Richmond to overturn a Maryland jury's
$5 million award to the family of
Matthew Snyder, a Marine who was
killed in Iraq. Protesters carried signs
with inflammatory messages like,
``You're going to hell.''
An attorney for the church said the
messages were grounded in the congregation's religious beliefs and were protected by the Constitution.
The Snyder family's attorney said the
messages were not protected because
they did not involve a matter of public
concern.
education is falling short and this is
an important issue for local residents. We hope this opportunity will
empower our communities to rally
around our schools and our children,” said Roberta Winger, Director
of Sales for U.S. Cellular in Kansas.
All schools in Kansas and across
the U.S., public and private, serving
kindergarten through high school are
eligible. The 10 schools each receiving a $100,000 donation will be
announced in February 2009 and
each school can choose how it will
use the money.
Nationwide, U.S. Cellular has
donated more than $4 million to notfor-profit organizations serving
youth, families and seniors; and
associates have volunteered more
than 8,000 hours so far in 2008.
“We have the most loyal customers in the industry because we
listen to them and care about what
they care about,” said Winger. “We
are in the business of connecting
people and the schools that can successfully connect parents, teachers
and communities will ultimately
generate the most support.”
Visit uscellular.com/callingallcommunities for official rules.
U.S. Cellular has served northeast
and south central Kansas customers
since 2006. The company operates
42 stores and employs 158 associates
in Kansas.
The 8,700 associates of U.S.
Cellular believe a wireless phone
enhances people’s lives and a wireless company should be in the business of bringing people together.
Based in Chicago, U.S. Cellular is
the nation’s sixth-largest wireless
carrier, serving 6.2 million customers across the country. To learn
more about the company visit one of
its retail stores or uscellular.com.
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Men’s Basketball - 2008
Season Schedule, Record 5-2
Fri, Nov 14
Sun, Nov 16
Wed, Nov 19
Sat, Nov 22
Tues, Nov 25
Fri, Nov 28
Sat, Nov 29
Florida A&M
SE Missouri State
Emporia State
@ Cleveland State
Oakland
Kentucky
at Las Vegas, Nev.
Iowa
11 p.m.
96 - 57 W
88 - 68 W
82 - 60 W
69 - 59 W
83 - 64 W
72 - 74 L
63 - 65 L
Sun, Dec 07
Thu, Dec 11
Sun, Dec 14
Sat, Dec 20
Tue, Dec 30
Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series
Oregon
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7:30 p.m. FSN
Southern Mississippi at Kansas City, Mo.
7 p.m.
FSN Kansas City
Gardner-Webb Manhattan 6 p.m.
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Wagner Manhattan 7 p.m.
FSN Kansas City
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Mon, Jan 05
Sat, Jan 10
Tue, Jan 13
Sat, Jan 17
Wed, Jan 21
Sat, Jan 24
Wed, Jan 28
Sat, Jan 31
Idaho State
Manhattan 1 p.m.
FSN Kansas City
Chicago State
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FSN Kansas City
Oklahoma *
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KSU Sports Information
MANHATTAN, Kan. -- The
Kansas State Wildcats are making
their 12th NCAA Tournament
appearance and take on Santa Clara
in the opening round at 4 p.m. CST at
the Bank of America Arena in
Seattle, Wash. The Wildcats enter the
tournament on an up-and-down run
winning three of their last six matches and not winning back-to-back
matches.
The Wildcats are 12-11 in the
NCAA Tournament advancing to the
second round every year but one -1997. Kansas State has reached the
Regional Semifinals twice with the
last appearance in the Sweet 16 coming in 2003.
This year K-State faces a strong
regional with No. 5 Washington
hosting. Santa Clara is receiving
votes in the latest Bison/AVCA Top
25 Coaches Poll and Portland State is
making its first tournament appearance in school history after winning
the Big Sky Conference.
Santa Clara is making its 11th
straight tournament appearance and
represent
the
West
Coast
Conference. Five teams from the
WCC reached the tournament and
the Broncos tied for fourth in the
league.
If the Wildcats get through Santa
Clara, they will face a potential
meeting with former K-State coach
Jim McClaughlin who has led the
Huskies to their 12th NCAA
Tournament appearance as well and
seventh straight in his eighth year
with the program. Washington. He
also guided the Huskies to the 2005
NCAA Championship.
The Series
Santa Clara has won the only contest between the Broncos and
Wildcats. Santa Clara bested K-State
3-0 early in the 2006 season at the
Fresno State Invitational when the
Broncos were ranked No. 6 in the
nation.
K-State has won their only match
against Washington. The Wildcats
beat the Huskies 3-1 in 1983 at the
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follow the Women’s Division I
Volleyball Championship like never
before.
Live stats for matches can be
found at www.ncaa.com as well.
Catching Up with the ‘Cats
The Wildcats won their regular
season finale at Texas Tech on
Saturday. K-State swept the Red
Raiders to complete Tech’s winless
season in Big 12 Conference action.
It is just the third winless season in
Big 12 history.
Senior outside hitter Rita Liliom
tallied 15 kills in the win bouncing
back after notching just one in a loss
to Iowa State on Senior Night in
Ahearn Field House (11/26). Jenny
Jantsch added eight kills and Kelsey
Chipman followed with six kills.
Chipman also had five block assists
in the sweep over the Red Raiders.
Kansas State Volleyball team will play Santa Clara.
Wyoming Invitational.
A meeting between K-State and
Portland State would be the first time
the teams meet on the court.
The Coaches
Kansas State: Suzie Fritz (Florida
Atlantic ‘94) is in her eighth season
leading the Wildcats. She became the
school’s winningest coach with her
169th career win against Colorado
(11/19) and is 7-6 in the NCAA
Tournament.
Santa Clara: Jon Wallace (UC
Santa Barbara ‘89) is in his 10th year
at the helm of the Broncos. He has a
career record of 212-87 and coached
the Broncos to the national semifinals in 2005.
Portland State: Michael Seemann
(Portland State ‘99) has led the
Vikings to their first NCAA
Tournament appearance in his second year coaching at his alma mater.
His team won its first regular season
Big Sky title in his first year.
Washington: Jim McClaughlin
(UC Santa Barbara ‘85) is in his
Defense Propels Kansas State
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Following
early shooting struggles and trailing by
as many as eight, Kansas State caught
fire midway through the first half and
used an aggressive style play in the second frame to finish its Thanksgiving road
trip 2-0 after topping Jacksonville, 53-43,
Friday night at Swisher Gymnasium.
Kansas State combated a season-high
20 turnovers by holding Jacksonville to
just 15 second half points. The Wildcats,
who shot 40.9 percent (18-of-44), limited
the Dolphins to just 30.0 percent from
the field (18-for-60) and out-rebounded
Jacksonville 41-34.
The Wildcats were led by Ashley
Sweat and Kari Kincaid as each scored
11 points, while Kincaid nailed three of
her six three pointers. Shalee Lehning led
all players with 11 rebounds and also
scored seven points and registered six
assists.
The victory marked the first time since
the 2005-06 campaign and the third time
under head coach Deb Patterson that the
Wildcats have started a season with a
perfect 5-0 record. K-State also handed
Jacksonville just its fourth home loss in
the last 30 games.
Jacksonville jumped all over K-State
from the outset, leading by as many as
eight at 12-4, which forced the Wildcats
to call their second timeout of the game
just over five minutes in.
Following the timeout, Kansas State
came back with a 5-0 spurt, capped by a
Kelsey Nelson three-pointer to make the
score 12-9. However, the Wildcats still
faced an uphill climb as they trailed
throughout the first 15 minutes of the
half and didn’t even reach double digits
until the 10:43 mark of the frame.
With the Dolphins holding a 20-15
lead with 6:24 left, K-State went on a 90 run over the next 2:39, taking the lead
for the first time on a deep three-pointer
from Kincaid. The Dolphins would not
back down, though, as they outscored the
Cats 8-3 over the final minutes to take a
28-27 halftime lead.
Just as Jacksonville did to open the
game, Kansas State came out of the locker room aggressive and blitzed the
Dolphins in the opening minutes of the
second half. The Wildcats scored the
half’s first seven points and held
Jacksonville scoreless for the first three
minutes of the frame to take a 34-28 lead.
The Dolphins came back and took
their first lead of the second stanza at 35-
34 before the two teams traded the next
three buckets. Both teams suddenly went
cold as a 3:28 scoreless drought followed, but K-State broke up the drought
as it went on another 9-0 run to take a 4839 lead..
Jacksonville got within seven at 48-41
after a pair of free throws, but the
Wildcats were just too demanding down
the stretch as they held on for the 10
point win.
The Wildcats return to action next
Friday, December 5, as K-State hosts the
Commerce Bank Wildcat Classic at
Bramlage Coliseum. Mississippi Valley
State takes on Arkansas at 4 p.m., while
Kansas State faces Alcorn State at 6 p.m.
eighth year with the Huskies and has
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He
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the Wildcats defeated Texas Tech on
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Iowa Wins In Buzzer-Beater
LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Cyrus Tate’s
layup at the buzzer lifted Iowa over
Kansas State 65-63 in the third-place
game of the Las Vegas Invitational
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Tate, who had 10 points and seven
rebounds, converted an uncontested
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final horn. Also for Iowa (6-1), Jeff
Peterson led with 18 points and six
assists. He also went 11-of-12 from
the free-throw line.
Prior to Tate’s layup, Kansas
State’s Jamar Samuels, who scored
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seven seconds to tie it after the
Wildcats trailed by as many as 13
points in the second half. Jacob
Pullen led Kansas State (5-2) with a
game-high 22 points. Pullen has
now scored 20 or more points in
three consecutive games for the first
time in his career.
Iowa never trailed in the first half,
once building a 13-point advantage,
before leading 36-25 at halftime.
After the Wildcats made their second-half run of 24-10, there were
eight lead changes and five ties.
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he and his allies lost major debates
on energy and gambling.
GOP House members and members-elect picked veteran Rep. Mike
O'Neal, of Hutchinson, as their new
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incumbent speaker to be denied a
second two-year term since 1994.
The decision still must be ratified
by the entire House when the 2009
Legislature convenes on Jan. 12. But
Republicans will hold a 77-48 majority, and the minority party traditionally defers to the majority party's
decision.
Neufeld's ouster was the biggest
news from leadership elections in
both chambers.
Senate Republicans again picked
President Steve Morris, of Hugoton,
and Majority Leader Derek Schmidt,
of Independence, as their leaders.
House Democrats named Rep. Paul
Davis, of Lawrence, to replace
Minority Leader Dennis McKinney,
who's giving up that post to become
state treasurer.
The
vote
among
House
Republicans was 41-36 in O'Neal's
favor. Both he and Neufeld are conservatives, and both were first elected to the House in 1984. O'Neal is
the longtime chairman of the
Judiciary Committee, while Neufeld
is a former chairman of the
Appropriations Committee.
But some Republicans have grumbled about Neufeld since last year,
when a bill allowing state-owned
casinos passed despite his opposition.
This year, Neufeld and his allies
failed to muster enough votes to
override Gov. Kathleen Sebelius'
three vetoes of bills allowing two
coal-fired power plants in southwest
Kansas. Sebelius' administration has
been blocking the plants over their
potential carbon dioxide emissions.
`Ìt's not about ideology. It's not
about being moderate or conservative,'' said Rep. Kevin Yoder, an
Overland Park Republican who nominated O'Neal. `Ìt's about which candidate is most prepared to lead our
state through the difficult times we
face.''
Neufeld's backers pointed to his
experience with budget and health
care issues. Legislative leaders are
projecting that Kansas will end its
current fiscal year on June 30 with a
$141 million budget deficit and, if
the problems aren't addressed, the
gap will exceed $1 billion by June
30, 2010.
``The No. 1 issue, of course, will
be the budget,'' said Rep. Sheryl
Spalding, another Overland Park
Republican supporting Neufeld. `Ìt's
also not politic to change leaders in
volatile economic times.''
In the Senate, Morris would serve
a four-year term. Morris, a moderate,
defeated conservative Sen. Susan
Wagle of Wichita on an 18-13 vote
by GOP senators and senators-elect.
Republicans' decision must be ratified by the entire chamber, but, as in
the House, the minority party typically defers to the majority party.
Republicans will have a 31-9 majority when the next session convenes.
Senate Vice President John Vratil,
of Leawood, also won a three-person
contest to claim a second term. His
selection also must be ratified by the
full Senate.
Selections for majority and minority leaders don't have to be ratified
by the entire House or Senate.
Schmidt faced no opposition to his
re-election as Senate majority leader.
In the House, McKinney's impending departure sparked a contest
between Davis, the Democrats' campaign chairman, and Rep. Bill
Feuerborn, of Garnett, the ranking
Democrat
on
the
House
Appropriations Committee. Davis
prevailed, 29-18.
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there.
“Serving the military is not only
about going to war, it’s also to help
give back to the community because
think about it – when you guys go off
to combat it’s this community that
helps your families out. It’s the local
communities that take care of your
kids when you’re gone and not able
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Kan.
Soldiers of Company A, 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment.
By Spc. Richard Colletta
FORT RILEY, Kan. – In the spirit
of the holiday season, Soldiers of
Company A, 1st Battalion, 28th
Infantry Regiment volunteered Nov.
24 to help the less fortunate by renovating and cleaning up the Caroline
Peine Transitional Shelter, also
known as the Manhattan Emergency
Shelter.
The Soldiers rolled up their
sleeves as they cleared debris from
the yard, scrubbed walls, cleaned the
kitchen, swept hallways, and even
built new shelves for the shelter.
“Attack” Company Soldiers worked
tirelessly throughout the day, yet
there wasn’t an unhappy face among
them.
Pfc. John Bustamante said he was
glad to get out and help. “A lot of
these guys don’t have any other
place to go and really aren’t given a
lot in their life so we get to come
down here and help them out. That’s
Hooah!”
The shelter has facilities to hold
about 47 people. It consists of a
men’s dorm, women’s dorm, family
dorms, and special rooms for the
handicapped.
Jeni Hart, a Case Manager at the
Something the new shelter needed
was shelving in the basement.
Photo at right shows workers cutting the lumber for the shelves
and the bottom photo shows the
shelving going up.
shelter was all smiles at the sight of
85 Attack Company Soldiers cleaning the shelter.
“This is the greatest work day ever
in my life. I love it,” she said.
Becca Simmons, a volunteer and
donation coordinator for the shelter,
was also excited about the help the
shelter received.
“It’s pretty amazing,” Simmons
said. “Even though the Soldiers were
busy they were able to come down
and help out the shelter.”
Company A 1st Sgt. Adam Smith
donned safety goggles and manned
the rotary saw as sparks flew to manufacture new shelving units for the
shelter. As Soldiers took a short
break for lunch he had a few words
to say to them about why they were
The soldiers cleaned the wall on the new shelter at 416 South Fourth Street.

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