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CONCORDIA
VOL. CX NO. 69 (USPS 127-880)
CONCORDIA, KANSAS 66901
Friday, September 4, 2015
Jobless rate
dips to
5.1 percent
Good Evening
Concordia Forecast
Tonight, partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
Saturday, mostly sunny. Highs in the
lower 90s. South winds 10 to 20 mph.
Saturday night, partly cloudy in the
evening then becoming mostly cloudy.
Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
around 15 mph.
Sunday, mostly sunny with slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 90s. South winds around
15 mph.
Sunday night, partly cloudy with a 40
percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s.
Labor Day, mostly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.
Monday night, mostly cloudy with
showers and thunderstorms likely. Lows
in the upper 60s. Chance of precipitation
60 percent.
Tuesday, partly sunny with a 30 percent
chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 80s.
Tuesday night, showers and thunderstorms likely. Lows in the lower 60s.
Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
Wednesday, cooler. Partly sunny with a
30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 70s.
Across Kansas
Lockdown at
Kansas State lifted
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — A lockdown
on the Kansas State University campus
has been lifted and classes are scheduled
to resume.
The lockdown was imposed early Friday
after police received a report of a possible
gunman on the campus.
After a building-by-building search, the
university said in a statement that classes
and all other activities would resume at
9:30 a.m. Friday.
Police spokesman Steve Logback says
police received a report about 4 a.m. Friday of a man possibly carrying a weapon
on the south side of the Manhattan campus.
Students were urged to stay indoors
and students, faculty and staff were urged
to stay away before the lockdown was lifted.
Police say armed robberies occurred
near the campus shortly before the alert
was issued.
Board of Regents has
three new members
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas
Board of Regents has three new members.
The Kansas Senate Confirmation Oversight Committee this week approved the
appointments of Dave Murfin of Wichita;
Daniel Thomas of Mission Hills; and Dennis Mullin of Manhattan. Gov. Sam
Brownback announced the appointments
in June.
The Lawrence Journal-World reports
the new members replace Fred Logan,
Robba Moran and Kenny Wilk, whose
terms expired in June.
Suspect arrested
after threat to school
MAIZE, Kan. (AP) — Police have arrested a suspect after a high school in Maize
was on temporary lockdown due to a
threat on social media.
Maize High School was placed under
“modified lockdown” for a short period
Thursday morning. According to Maize
Superintendent Chad Higgins, a parent
contacted the school’s principal about a
post on a social media website and said
they would be keeping their child at home.
Police were notified and the lockdown
was put in place while the threat was
investigated. District director of communications Lori O’Toole Buselt said the threat
was made against specific students at the
high school.
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Off and running
Members of the Concordia High School boys’ cross country are off and running at the start of the
meet the Panthers hosted Thursday at the Concordia American Legion Golf Course. Team members, from left, are: Caleb Hartzell, Devin Kymer, Paul Frost and Kyler Caspers. (Blade photo by
Jay Lowell)
Brownback: Pension system
is on solid financial footing
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Sam Brownback says the public pension system in
Kansas is on a solid financial footing,
though he’s still open to changes such as
moving toward a 401(k)-style plan for new
teachers and government workers.
The Republican governor had a news
conference Friday to discuss the financial
health of the Kansas Public Employees
Retirement System. The event was less
than a month after the state sold $1 bil-
lion in bonds to bolster the system’s
finances.
Brownback and KPERS officials argue
issuing the bonds makes it easier to close
a $9.5 billion gap in funding for retirees’
benefits over the next 18 years. Even
without the bonds, the state expected to
eliminate the shortfall.
The governor said his administration is
always looking at additional changes,
including a 401(k)-style plan.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A reduction in the
number of earthquakes rattling southern
Kansas should not make anyone complacent about studying the problem, according
to the head of the Kansas Geological Survey.
Oil-waste regulations that seem to have
contributed to lowering the number of
earthquakes are set to expire Sept. 13. But
Rex Buchanan said this week at a seminar
that it doesn’t mean people should view it
was a problem “that has gone away or is
going away.”
“I think we would be pretty short-sighted
if we did look at this that way,” he said.
“We’ve got to look at other places and we’ve
got to be better prepared than we were last
time.”
The Kansas Corporation Commission
approved regulations in March to limit the
underground disposal of saltwater that
comes up with the oil during drilling. Injecting that water back into the ground is considered a likely cause of increased
earthquakes in Oklahoma and Kansas, The
Wichita Eagle reported. The KCC staff is
staff is currently drafting recommendations
on how to proceed after the regulations
expire.
Kansas recorded 115 earthquakes so far
this year, compared with 127 last year. Most
of those quakes were felt before the reduction in wastewater injection, Buchanan
said. Since then, the quakes have been less
frequent and smaller. The reduction also
could be attributed to a drop in oil production due to falling prices, he said, but that
oilfield activity — and its resulting waste —
eventually rebounds.
The problem is compounded in Harper
and Sumner counties, where wells produce
about 16 barrels of wastewater for every
barrel of oil, said Lynn Watney, senior scientific fellow with the geological survey.
That wastewater is too salty to be responsibly disposed of above ground, Buchanan
said.
“When I was a kid, we put it in evaporation pits out in central Kansas,” he said.
“The water just went into the subsurface
and contaminated the shallow groundwater
and we’re still dealing with that today, particularly up in the Halstead-Burrton area.”
Kansas Geological Survey says
earthquake problem continues
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. unemployment rate fell to a seven-year low in
August as employers added a modest
173,000 jobs, a key piece of evidence for
the Federal Reserve in deciding whether
to raise interest rates from record lows
later this month.
The jobless rate fell to 5.1 percent — a
level the Fed says is consistent with a normal economy — from 5.3 percent in July,
the government said Friday. It’s the lowest
unemployment rate since April 2008.
Though hiring in August was the slowest in five months, the government
revised up its estimates of job growth for
June and July by a combined 44,000.
From June through August, a robust
221,000 jobs a month were added, up
from a 189,000 average from March
through May. Three years of solid hiring
have put 8 million Americans to work.
Friday’s report appeared neither so
strong nor so weak as to tilt the Fed decisively toward either a rate hike or against
one. But as the final report on the job
market before the Fed meets Sept. 16-17,
it’s one of the most significant pieces of
evidence it will weigh.
Investors appeared disappointed by the
report, perhaps because it could encourage Fed officials to lift rates. The Dow
Jones industrial average fell 260 points in
late morning trading, while broader stock
indexes also fell. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note edged down
to 2.14 percent from 2.16 percent late
Thursday.
Many economists think the Fed will
decide in two weeks to raise its benchmark rate for the first time in nine years.
At the same time, stock market turbulence, a persistently low inflation rate and
a sharp slowdown in China have complicated the decision.
Chris Williamson, chief economist at
the financial information firm Markit,
said Friday’s report provided “frustratingly little new insight into whether the Fed
will start to raise rates.”
“A bumper payrolls number would
have sealed the case for higher interest
rates in many people’s minds, while a low
number would have dealt a blow to any
chances of tightening of policy at the next
meeting,” Williamson said.
Once the Fed begins raising borrowing
rates, higher rates are likely to eventually
ripple through the economy. Americans
could face higher costs for mortgages and
other loans, though the increases could
be modest and gradual.
A key question is how a faltering China,
slow growth in Europe and a strong dollar
will affect the overall U.S. economy. The
answer probably won’t be clear for
months.
Friday’s jobs data was gathered before
the U.S. stock market plunged in late
August, after signs emerged that China’s
troubles were worsening.
Though unemployment and job growth
have reached levels that Fed officials have
said reflect a healthy economy, some
economists point to signs that the job
market still has room to heal.
One example is paychecks: Average
hourly wages for all workers rose 8 cents
to $25.09 in August, lifting the annual
gain to 2.2 percent in August.
Millennials have negative view of their generation
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even
millennials don’t think much of
their generation, according to a
new poll Thursday.
A Pew Research Center
study showed that millennials
— generally defined as those
ages 18-34 — had far more
negative views of their generation compared to Generation
Xers, baby boomers or other
age groups. More than half of
millennials,
59
percent,
described their generation as
“self-absorbed,” while almost
half — or 49 percent — said
they were “wasteful,” and 43
percent
said
they
were
“greedy.”
Around 30 percent of Generation Xers — those ages 35-50
— said their own generation
was self-absorbed and wasteful, and 20 percent of the baby
boomers said the same about
their age cohort.
Millennials “stand out in
their willingness to ascribe negative stereotypes to their own
generation,” the study said.
The older the group, the
more positively they saw themselves, the Pew study found.
For example, the so-called
“Silent Generation” — those
ages 70-87 — overwhelmingly
described themselves as hardworking, responsible and patriotic, at 83 percent, 78 percent
and 73 percent respectively.
The baby boomers were not far
behind, picking those same
three words to describe themselves, at 77 percent, 66 percent
and
52
percent,
respectively.
But the millennials and Gen
Xers were not quite so positive
about themselves: only 12 percent of the millennials and 26
percent of Generation X say
they are patriotic; 24 percent of
the millennials and 43 percent
of the Gen Xers say they’re
responsible; and 36 percent of
the millennials and 54 percent
of Generation X say they are
hard-working.
In fact, the highest-ranking
positive traits the millennials
came up with for themselves
were “environmentally conscious” at 40 percent and “idealistic” at 39 percent.
Many millennials don’t even
want to be identified as such,
with 60 percent not considering
themselves to be part of the
“millennial generation.”
Instead, 33 percent say they
are part of Generation X.
The “Silent Generation” also
didn’t want to identify with its
generation. Like the millennials, only 18 percent of the
Silent Generation considered
themselves part of that group.
Instead, more identified as
being with the baby boomers at
34 percent or the older demographic “Greatest Generation”
at 34 percent.
Generational identity was
strongest among the baby
boomers, with 79 percent of
those within the applicable age
group identifying with the
“baby-boom” generation.
The poll was conducted
using Pew’s American Trends
Panel among 3,147 respondents, initially selected over the
phone but mostly interviewed
online.
The margin of error is plus or
minus 2.4 percentage points.
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OPINION
Prairie Letters to the Editor
Pondering
by
Susan Martin
Makinna . . .
This continues the story
about Wyatt Bentz, grandson of Connie and Phil Bentz,
Concordia, but this time he
plays second fiddle to his older sister, Makinna.
Makinna, a student at
Washington County High
School, recently won the top
gold award for leadership in
FCCLA, first place in Kansas,
which sent her to Washington
D.C. to represent her school,
community and state.
FCCLA stands for Family, Career and Community
Leaders of America. As part
of their activities in Washington, D.C. , the winning students attended STAR events–
Students Taking Action with
Recognition. They had to
earn their expenses for the
trip in varied fundraising
projects.
Leadership is an individual event which recognizes participants who actively evaluate and grow in
their leadership potential.
Participants use the Student Leadership Challenge
and supporting materials
to investigate their leadership ability and develop a
mentorship relationship to
further their leadership development. Makinna worked
through the Big Brothers, Big
Sisters program to mentor a
Little Sister.
Makinna said that she
was able to bring her Little
out of her shell and to see
her become more and more
confident. Her goal was to
improve the “model the way”
characteristic from the leadership inventories. “I became
a better model with my Little,” Makinna said.
Wyatt and Makinna will
have to hang onto their honors because their little sister
Joree, age 7, has stopped
riding sheep in 4-H rodeos
and events and has her own
horse.
It would be interesting to
sit on the fence and watch the
three practice in the corral
after school, with Dad laying
on the criticism and praise in
fairly equal measure.
Would that all youngsters
had grandparents like Phil
and Connie, who enjoy retirement by keeping up with
all important events over in
Washington schools, both
grade and high school. On
return home trips, there usually is one of the three in the
back seat, who has proved all
assignments, chores and obligations are cleared.
An extra special gathering will take place when the
Bentzes' other son, Ken, wife
Vickie and their three sons
and families from varied
places east and west will join
the Kansans in celebrating
Phil and Connie's 50th wedding anniversary.
Branson may never be the
same!
Dear Editor,
I am involved in a research project and would like to
learn more about Dave Ward, a citizen of Concordia who
died in October, 1950. My email address is pasopjim@
gmail.com and I would appreciate very much hearing from
anyone who knew or remembers Mr. Ward.
Sincerely,
Jim Rohl
Dear Editor,
At the rate the U.S. National Debt is skyrocketing, it
will be at $19 TRILLION in no time. That is beyond staggering and I believe, apart from the mercy of Almighty GOD,
an impossibility to overcome. I hope I am proven wrong,
but there are a number of national and international issues
converging in the near future, that carry ominouus signs
for America and the nations of the world.
I believe uninformed persons would do themselves a
favor to secure copies of Jonathan Cahn’s The Harbinger
and/or The Mystery of the Shemitah and research for yourselves about the perilous times in which we are living. One
thing for sure, we do ourselves no favors to stick our heads
in the sand and pretend that all is well, while national and
international underpinnings are shaking. Let us be informed, to understand how to respond and not be caught
unaware. Thank you.
Carolyn Simms
Dear Editor,
In light of all of the animus directed toward Law Enforcement Officers in recent months, I feel it would be appropriate to have a Police Appreciation Day. We as ordinary
citizens do not fully comprehend what our Law Enforcement Officers here in Concordia and throughout Cloud
County do for us.
How many of our citizens can even name these men and
women? Sadly, I feel that, myself included, I cannot name
any of them. We should know them well enough to identify
them by name when we see them. When was the last time
any of us said to them “Thanks for your service” or “I appreciate what you do for our community”? We need to put
a human face on the uniforms and realize that they have
families whom they love and who love them. They are not
much different than we are, except they have a desire to
serve and protect the rest of us. Do we teach our children to
respect authority and that Police Officers are their friends?
How many of us would willingly do what these Officers do?
I think that a Police Appreciation Day would be a great
thing to combine with Fall Fest. Let’s all get together and
show our Law Enforcement Officers that we value and respect them. We should also respect and appreciate our Fire
Fighters and our EMT personnel because they too are part
of a network that provides emergency services and are also
on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Let’s all pitch in
and show our support. I for one am proud to be a citizen of
Concordia.
Sincerely,
Denny Taylor
Veteran, Voter and Taxpayer
***
The difference between what the most and the least learned people
know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
—Albert Einstein
***
In the
“Mean Time”
by
Bill Dunphy
The most familiar passage from the Book of Ecclesiastes begins, “There is an appointed time for everything
. . . ” It was put to music and became a popular song
several years ago. In the text, after speaking of a time for
everything, the author comes to this conclusion. “What
advantage has the worker from his toil? I have considered
the task which God has appointed for men to be busied
about. He has made everything appropriate to its time,
and has put the timeless into their hearts, without men's
ever discovering from beginning to end, the work which
God has done.”
For some reason, as I read that passage, I thought of
how a bull rider might feel right before his ride. There's
no question that he's in for a rough ride and this is cause
for concern or fear which must be overcome. On the other
hand, he most likely would not be doing what he is doing
if he didn't have some belief that he may be capable of
hanging on long enough to receive some kind of a reward.
In this rather strange parable, the bull is the passage from Ecclesiastes and I am the rider. So often, in
the past, when I would read a difficult passage and find
it hard to understand I would decide against the ride and
defer to the experts, the scholars. My hope was to reap
the reward without having to experience the rough ride.
Through the years I have found this action to be most
unsatisfactory. Now, when I read something difficult to
understand, I grab ahold and ready myself for a rough
ride. Rough in the sense that it will require more exercise
of my intelligence, imagination and reason than I'm used
to exerting.
What advantage has the worker from his toil (work)."
Throughout this passage, I sense a frustration on the
part of the author that many of us may have felt on occasion. What is really important, me or my work? What
is more important, my being or my doing? In the society
in which we live and work, there is much more of an emphasis on doing than being. This fits into our utilitarian
approach to life. As an employee, I'm judged on what I
can do, rather than who I am.
"I have considered the task which God has appointed
for men to be busied about." What is God's will for me? I
love what he says next, "He has made everything appropriate to the time, and put the timeless into their hearts."
The ride is beginning to get rough; we need to really hold
on. We have been endowed with "restless" hearts. Whereas everything around us is ruled by time, we are timeless
by nature. The timeless, of course, refers to our "spiritual" selves. NOTHING in this life will be able to completely
satisfy us since they will all pass with time and we are
timeless. We have a tendency to try to prove this fact to be
false. We're sort of like Lucy boasting to Charlie Brown,
"I'm a great believer in education . . . I intend to be the
most educated person in this part of the city . . . I intend
to be the most educated person in the whole world . . . I'll
never be satisfied until I'm too smart for my own good."
Have we, as a society, reached that point for which Lucy
was striving?
To discover, " . . . the work which God has done" does
not require intelligence, nor is it hastened by the accumulation of material things. The fact is these two things
can actually be detrimental to such a discovery. What
one needs is an open and loving heart, a sensitivity to
all of creation, and one thing the world seems intent on
keeping from us, "A TIME TO BE SILENT."
Washington Merry-Go-Round
by Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift
WASHINGTON – He looks
like a candidate and he
acts like a candidate, so is
Joe Biden running? We’ll
know soon enough since
he’s promised a decision by
the end of summer, which
is September 23rd. Setting
aside whatever complicated
emotions he and his family
bring to the table, the foundation for whatever the vice
president decides has to be
the polling that he and his
advisors are examining, and
whether there is a path for
him to the nomination.
If Donald Trump remains
a viable candidate and Hillary Clinton’s numbers keep
dropping, that’s an open invitation to Biden to enter the
race. If he gets in, he would
get in to win. Idealistic chatter about Biden running in
order to make Clinton a better candidate is nonsense.
That’s not how the political mind works. However
close the friendship between
Biden and Clinton, when it
comes to competing for the
ultimate prize, it’s every man
and woman for himself and
herself.
This is the Big Leagues,
and Biden doesn’t want to
get into a hard fought battle
only to end up with noth-
ing. He could beat Trump.
Any Democrat could beat
Trump, except Bernie Sanders. That’s the nightmare
scenario for Democrats, that
Sanders continues to build
momentum and could overtake Clinton. That seems
unlikely, but as Clinton
continues to get battered
by questions over her private e-mail server, and her
trustworthiness falls, the
unthinkable becomes thinkable.
The only way Trump
could win should he become
the Republican nominee
is if the Democrats go with
an unelectable candidate.
Nominating an avowed socialist is not the way to win
the presidency no matter
how disillusioned the voters are with capitalism and
no matter how grandfatherly
Sanders appears. Republicans will take him apart
and turn him into a communist, something he isn’t,
but character assassination
is par for the course in presidential elections.
No one begrudges Biden’s
wish to run. With rare exception, that’s what virtually every vice president aspires to
do. Dick Cheney disavowed
any political ambition when
he was George W. Bush’s
vice president, not that he
could have succeeded after
the disastrous invasion of
Iraq. Biden should he decide
to run would be acting well
within bounds.
At this point, he and his
advisors must be crunching
the numbers to see whether
and where he can overtake
Clinton. Biden will march in
a Labor Day parade in Pittsburgh alongside AFL-CIO
President Richard Trumka.
Pittsburgh has the kind of
working class population
that Democrats have struggled to appeal to in recent
elections, and that Biden’s
supporters believe he can
win back.
If Trump fades, and Republicans move toward a
more mainstream candidate, the temptation to join
the race will still be there for
Biden. The only thing that
could keep him out is if Clinton rebounds. She’s running
hard, unveiling new policy
proposals weekly, but the
media are more interested
in the ongoing revelations
about her e-mail server.
When decision time arrives in less than three
weeks, Biden will have to
weigh the odds of getting in
and whether there’s a payoff
for him, and for the Democratic Party, and ultimately
the country should he run.
The answer won’t be clearcut, but if he’s told that it’s
possible that he could jump
to the top of the polls and get
the nomination, that’s what
he wants to hear.
As former Clinton advisor James Carville recently
observed in a television interview, there’s a high recidivism rate for people who
have run for president. If
they’ve done it once, they’re
likely to do it again. This
would be the third time
for Biden, and as the saying goes, the third time’s a
charm.
Douglas Cohn’s new
book, “The President’s First
Year,” analyzing every president’s freshman year, is
available for presale by Rowman & Littlefield through
Amazon at:
http://www.amazon.
com/The-PresidentsFirst-Year-LearnedWhy/
dp/1493011928
Twitter @WMerryGoRound
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The
Concordia
Year of
Peace
Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars Football star Don McPherson
en on extra responsibilities
while others seem to have
gotten into weekend mode.
Try not to be so available for
last-minute requests. In the
meantime, dive into what you
must do. Tonight: Nap, then
decide. You will be missed if
you don’t show up.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
* * * * * You’ll empathize
with a friend, and the next
thing you know, you will be
hanging out together. Spontaneity and travel go together. What you have planned
could fall to the wayside, but
it is likely to be replaced by
a more satisfying adventure.
Tonight: Opt for an unusual
idea.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.
21)
* * * * Honor your need for
some one-on-one time with
a very special person. Make
plans quickly. If you do, others will find you humming
to yourself and looking off at
the view. You might not be as
subtle as you think you are.
Tonight: Celebrate the holiday weekend!
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21)
* * * * You might be excessive in everything you do.
Your excitement seems to
affect others’ moods. Their
responses are very similar
to yours. A family member
could be confused, and will
need clarification. Do it as
soon as you can. Tonight: Let
someone else make the first
gesture.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19)
* * * You might be in a
position where you need to
think ahead. Tackle as many
errands as possible. Show
off your ability to host a fun
shindig. Visit with an associate before the day ends. You
need to wrap up a conversation about a work-related
matter. Tonight: Let the party
begin!
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18)
* * * * You seem to add a
special touch to your conversations today. Understand
that a situation could become
quirky at best. An element of
the unexpected always runs
through your plans. You
know how to embrace that
quality in your life, whereas
others might not. Tonight: Be
flirty.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20)
* * Be ready to move in a
new direction and handle a
problem quickly. The faster
you put out the flame, the
better off you will be. Realize
your limits when handling
an issue that someone else
seems to want to keep on
the table. Tonight: The party
happens spontaneously.
BORN TODAY
Singer/songwriter
Beyonce
Knowles-Carter
(1981), singer/songwriter
James Bay (1990), musician Danny Worsnop (1990)
***
Jacqueline Bigar is on
the Internet at www.jacquelinebigar.com.
brings anti-violence
message to Concordia
By Chuck Lambertz
Once again, domestic and
sexual violence is in the headlines. Once again, we read or
hear about some celebrity or
athlete beating up his girlfriend or wife. Once again,
there’s an item in the daily
police report about an arrest
for a man abusing a woman.
In fact, it’s very likely that
you know someone who has
been abusive or has been
abused. Maybe that someone
is you.
There has been a lot of focus, attention, services and
thought directed toward the
victims of domestic and sexual violence, and rightly so.
But focusing on the victim
doesn’t generally stop the violence. It might help that one
person escape the pattern of
violence she is in, but often
the abuser will find himself
in another relationship and
soon another victim will experience the same degradation,
abuse and violence.
There have been efforts
lately, in Kansas and many
other states, to offer Batterer’s Intervention Programs.
This treatment approach
allows individuals who engage in domestic and sexual
violence to address and treat
these behaviors and patterns
of abuse they perpetrate upon
their victims. But these programs are all after the fact.
These services are in place
after a person has already
abused another.
The Year of Peace Committee helped gather a group
to create a grassroots task
force looking into ways we as
a community can work to prevent this violence from taking
place in the first part. We recognize that prevention is the
most important area for us to
focus our efforts if we really
want to decrease and eliminate domestic and sexual violence in our community.
We have an opportunity
coming up to hear a nationally recognized speaker address
the issue of domestic and sexual violence. Don McPherson
was a unanimous All-American quarterback at Syracuse
University who led his team
to an undefeated season. He
has been inducted into the
College Football Hall of Fame,
and he played in the Cana-
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prominence as a sports figure
into the national discussion
of domestic and sexual violence prevention.
I had the opportunity to
hear Don speak recently at a
conference sponsored by the
Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence.
What I appreciated most
about his speech was his focus on men. He called this
a man’s issue because it is
more often men perpetuating
violence towards their female
partners. He referred to a
“toxic masculinity,” a culture
that to be a man, we have to
be dominant, aggressive, violent and in control. If we are
challenged in our manhood,
we believe we must meet that
challenge with force.
Please come hear Don
speak Sept. 15. At the very
least, he is entertaining, and
I believe you will leave his
presentation with a stronger
passion to do what we can to
eliminate sexual and domestic violence in our lives and
the lives of our neighbors.
At 1 p.m., Don will speak
to students from throughout
the area in a presentation at
Concordia High School. The
public is invited, without
charge, to his 7 p.m. presentation at Cook Theatre on the
Cloud County Community
College campus.
—Chuck Lambertz is the
Western Region Therapy and
Recovery Services Supervisor for Pawnee Mental Health
and a member of the Concordia City Commission. He
and his wife Amber have two
daughters.
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A baby born today has a
Sun in Virgo and a Moon in
Taurus if born before 7:45
a.m. (PDT). Afterward, the
Moon will be in Gemini.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for
Friday, Sept. 4, 2015:
This year you are living
under a lucky star. If you
can think of a well-founded
desire, you can make it happen. Cut out any negativity
as you greet a far better year
than you have experienced in
a while. If you are single, you
will have many admirers, and
you might be hard-pressed to
maintain that status. Someone intrigues you a lot; be
ready for an intense interaction. If you are attached,
the two of you become more
playful with each other than
you have been in a long time.
Pressure builds around your
domestic life. GEMINI often
clashes with you intellectually.
The Stars Show the Kind
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ARIES (March 21-April
19)
* * * * You might have
awaken in a glum mood, but
your bounce will quickly return. Your energy soars when
you realize the weekend is
ahead. Get as much done as
you can now, because you
will want to enter this Labor
Day weekend free and clear.
Tonight: Let it all hang out.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20)
* * * * Your generosity becomes evident the more you
look at the coming weekend.
You might decide to treat
someone to a night out on
the town. You could have a
friend or two drop some lastminute errands on you if you
are not careful. Say “no.” Tonight: Remain sensitive to
others.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
* * * * The reason you perk
up today won’t be as important as the fact that you
have returned to being the
whimsical person others enjoy being around. A difficult
discussion with a higherup could be elusive, as you
might not have all the facts
yet. Tonight: Lead others into
the weekend.
CANCER (June 21-July
22)
* * * You might not be
feeling as social as you would
like to be. You have pushed
yourself so hard trying to get
so much done that you could
be overtired and a bit withdrawn. Every so often, you
forget that you are human,
and end up feeling drained.
Tonight: An early bedtime.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
* * * * * Friends, loved
ones and last-minute calls
swirl around you. You might
have made many different
plans with all the invitations
you recently received. A core
group of friends keeps you
focused, so your activities
should include those people.
Tonight: Where the gang is.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
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4 Blade-Empire, Friday, September 4, 2015
Sharing the Memories
This old photo will stay in the Blade files but we wanted to share with our readers some memories of earlier days in Concordia. Richard Cook at Cloud Ceramics and the Beltline crew.
Biden unsure of Today in History
presidential run
Financial Focus
Investors Can Learn Much from
the American Workforce
We’re getting close to Labor Day, a celebration of the men
and women who roll up their sleeves and go to work each
day. If you’re in the workforce yourself, you can appreciate
this recognition of your efforts. And as an investor, you can
employ these attributes of the American worker:
Organization – The most productive workers are those
who organize their time and efforts to maximize their productivity. When you invest, organization is also important.
You might have trouble gaining traction toward your goals,
such as a comfortable retirement, if you own a bunch of
scattered investments that aren’t really working together
to help you. Instead, try to build a portfolio in which all
your investments combine to provide the opportunities for
growth and income you need to help reach your objectives.
Perseverance – As workers, all of us go through difficult times, whether with our bosses, co-workers or even
the work itself – but we persevere. As an investor, you, too,
will experience bumps in the road, in the form of market
downturns. Yet, if you avoid making hasty and ill-advised
moves in response to potential short-term volatility, you
can maintain your focus on your long-term needs and goals
– and, as a result, you can help improve your chances of
meeting those needs and attaining those goals.
Vision – Workers put in their time, year after year, because they have a vision of what they hope their efforts will
yield – a rewarding career, sufficient financial resources for
their family, and so on. As an investor, you also can benefit
from articulating a picture of what you hope to achieve.
And that means you need to be specific about what you
want. Instead of saying to yourself, ‘I’d like to retire comfortably someday,’ pin yourself down as to what this really
means. At what age would you like to retire? Will you want
to travel the world or stay close to home to pursue your
hobbies? How much money will you need to make these
wishes come true? Where will this money come from? By
answering these and other questions, you can define a vision for your financial future, leading you to the next step
– creating a strategy to help turn this vision into reality.
Diversity – The American workforce benefits from drawing on the experiences and viewpoints of people from all different backgrounds. When you invest, you should also seek
diversity. If you only owned one type of investment vehicle,
such as growth stocks, and the market hit a downturn,
your portfolio would likely take a big hit. It’s a given that
the value of investments will fluctuate, which means, under some circumstances, you could lose some or all of your
principal. But if you spread your dollars among a range
of vehicles – including stocks, bonds, government securities, certificates of deposit and real estate – you can reduce
the impact of volatility on your holdings. (Keep in mind,
though, that diversification, by itself, does not guarantee a
profit or protect against loss.)
Labor Day will come and go quickly. But by emulating
some of the characteristics of the American workforce, you
can continue making progress toward your goals – without
even having to work overtime.
ATLANTA (AP) – Vice
President Joe Biden says
he is unsure if he will seek
the Democratic presidential
nomination, saying his decision will hinge on whether
he and his family have the
“emotional energy to run.”
“Unless I can go to my
party and the American
people and say that I am
able to devote my whole
heart and my whole soul to
this endeavor, it would not
be appropriate,” Biden said
Thursday, responding to a
question following a foreign
policy address at an Atlanta
synagogue.
Biden offered his most
extensive public remarks
regarding his deliberations
about entering a Democratic
primary race that includes
front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, Vermont Sen.
Bernie Sanders and others.
His entry would shake up
the campaign at a time when
some Democrats would like
to see more options.
Clinton has locked up
much of the Democratic establishment and few expected Biden to enter the race.
But the former secretary of
state’s recent slide in primary polls and questions surrounding her use of a private
email account and server
while at the State Department have prompted the vice
president to explore a campaign to succeed his running mate, President Barack
Obama.
Capping a day that saw
Biden defend Obama’s work
to forge a nuclear agreement
with Iran, the vice president
made clear family came first.
“The most relevant factor
in my decision is whether my
family and I have the emotional energy to run,” Biden
said, responding to a question posed by his longtime
friend, Stuart Eizenstat, a
former U.S. ambassador to
the European Union.
“Everybody talks about
a lot of other factors, other
people in the race, whether I
can raise the money, whether
I can put together an organization. That’s not the factor,”
Biden said. “The factor is,
‘Can I do it? Can my family
undertake what is an arduous commitment?’ That we
would be proud to undertake
in ordinary circumstances
and the honest to god answer is, I just don’t know.”
Biden, who unsuccessfully sought the White House in
1988 and 2008, said he did
not know if he would mount
a campaign – a move that
would come months after the
death of his 46-year-old son,
Beau Biden.
He said based on his previous experiences, there was
“no way to put a timetable
on it.” But he added, “If I can
reach that conclusion and
we can do it in a fashion that
would still make it viable, I
would not hesitate to do it.”
“I have to be honest with
you and everyone who has
come to me. I can’t look you
straight in the eye and say
now I know I can do it,” he
said.
Democrats
have
said
Biden is likely to make a decision this month. The first
Democratic presidential debate is on Oct. 13, giving him
a strong incentive to make
up his mind before the first
televised encounter of the
primary campaign.
If Biden joined the field, he
would be most closely associated with Obama, who maintains strong support among
rank-and-file
Democrats.
But the vice president has
also signaled that he would
seek to champion progressive policies, meeting recently with Massachusetts Sen.
Elizabeth Warren, a favorite of liberals, and AFL-CIO
President Richard Trumka.
50 years ago
Sept.
4,
1965—Jim
Balthazor, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Armand Balthazor, had
enrolled in Saviour of the
World Seminary in Kansas
City. . . . Karol Ann Heaton
and Darrell D. Bergeson of
Jamestown were married in
a ceremony at the Methodist
Church in Jamestown.
25 years ago
Sept. 4, 1990—Edward
Moynihan was sworn in as
the new Concordia postmaster by Susan Plonkey,
Director of Field Operation,
Topeka. Moynihan’s wife
Shirley attended the ceremony. Moynihan was formerly
postmaster at Norton. . . . A
Brown Grand Benefit Auction with items donated by
Marian Cook, raised $2,105
for the theatre.
10 years ago
Sept. 4, 2005—Cloud Ceramics was preparing for a
Grand Opening Celebration
of its new brick plant. . . . Leo
Ninemire retired from Alstom
Power Air Pre-Heater, Concordia, where he worked as a
welder.
5 years ago
Sept, 4, 2010—Jes Peterson, Concordia, had written
her first novel, “Candle of the
Dragons,” which she hoped
to be the first installment
of her planned series, “The
Tomes of Camriole.” . . . The
Concordia Police and Fire Departments were the recent recipients of new Kawasaki gators. The gators were donated
by Womack Sunshine Ford &
Kawasaki through a program
sponsored by Kawasaki. The
only cost to the city was fuel
and maintenance.
1 year ago
Sept. 4, 2014—Kinley
Hanson, 11, had the first
place photo in the Farm Bureau’s 4-H photo contest. She
won $50. . . . Local markets
showed wheat at $5.81 at
both the east and Agmark elevators.
Blade-Empire Friday, September 4, 2015 5
Sports
Chiefs
slip past
Rams
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The
Kansas City Chiefs rested
all of their regulars and still
finished the preseason
unbeaten.
Chase Daniel threw a
touchdown pass and the
Chiefs beat the St. Louis
Rams 24-17 on Thursday
night.
‘It’s not meaningless to
us,” Daniel said. “We’re
looking forward to the regular season and hopefully we
can start off 4-0 there, too.”
Kansas City (4-0) was
perfect for the first time
since 1969, the season the
franchise won its lone
Super Bowl title.
“We’re in America so you
play to win whether it’s ping
pong or a hot dog eating
contest,” coach Andy Reid
said. “It’s the preseason,
and we understand that.”
Isaiah Pead rushed for
52 yards and a touchdown
for the Rams (0-4). They
were winless for the first
time since 2002 and are 210 the past three preseasons.
“Some of those tough
years when we were 2-14,
go back and look at some of
those preseason records,”
defensive end Chris Long
said. “They were pretty
darned good. I don’t weigh
everything on winning and
losing.”
Tavon Austin had the
most electrifying play of the
game, reversing field on a
43-yard scamper after a
short catch that set up St.
Louis’ first touchdown.
The Rams played most of
their regulars for two series,
although they were down to
fourth string at running
back, and the Chiefs rested
all of their starters.
St. Louis quarterback
Nick Foles threw a costly
interception, although it
wasn’t his fault.
The Rams’ second home
game in five days was just
as poorly attended as the
first with the Edward Jones
Dome about one-fourth full.
The team said 37,616 tickets were distributed, or
about half-capacity.
At a pregame rally touting progress of a stadium
task force, Mayor Francis
Slay gave fans his “word”
there would be a new riverfront stadium and the
Rams would be playing in
it.
The Rams’ Cody Davis
jumped the route on a 24yard interception return for
a touchdown off Daniel in
the first quarter.
Concordia suffers
three losses in quad
Sticking together
Concordia’s Mallory Thompson, left,; Britney Gilkeson, middle; and Nicole Timme run together
in the cross country meet the Panthers hosted Thursday. (Blade photo by Jay Lowell)
Concordia’s Caspers places
fifth in invitational meet
won the race in 6:40.95.
Chase Parker finished
26th for Concordia in the
junior high boys’ race in
7:48.79.
Twaddell Alijah, Beloit,
took first in 5:58.96.
Concordia High School
sophomore Kyler Caspers
recorded a fifth-place finish
in the Concordia Invitational cross country meet
Thursday at the American
Legion Golf Course.
Caspers turned in a time
of 19:45.47 in the first meet
of the season for the Panthers.
The Concordia boys had
just four runners compete,
and did not score as a team.
Clay Center, with the top
two individual placers, won
the meet with 55 points.
Republic County was a
close second with 58 points
and Buhler was third with
66.
Clay
Center’s
Caleb
Siebold won the meet in
18:28.10. Kaleb Rookstool
was second in 19:05.60.
girls
The
Concordia
placed fifth in the meet with
104 points.
Clay Center captured the
team title with 35 points.
Buhler was second with 48
and McPherson was third
with 74.
Devin
Kymer
ran
21:50.17 to place 30th for
the Concordia boys.
Paul Frost finished 41st
in 22:43.30 and Caleb
Hartzell was 49th in
24:49.52.
The Concordia girls were
led by Peyton Reynolds who
placed 19th with a time of
25:46.80.
ran
Nicole
Timme
26:08.73 to finish 20th.
Mallory
Thompson
crossed in 22nd place in
26:16.28.
Britney Gilkeson ran
26:21.18 to place 23rd.
Katie Pfanz rounded out
the top five for the Panthers
by placing 34th in 35:23.37.
Deklyn Payeur was 35th
in 35:59.86.
Mariah Larson, Clay
Center, won the race in
22:26.65.
Concordia’s Emma Losh
finished eighth in the junior
high girls, 1,600-meter race
with a time of 7:27.32.
Hayley Burks, Beloit,
HESSTON — Competing
against a number of teams
they may not see again this
season, the Concordia High
School girls’ golf team
placed eighth in the Buhler
Invitational played Thursday at Hesston Golf Club.
Concordia posted a fourman score of 457.
Clay Center, a familiar foe
for the Panthers, won the
tournament with a 395.
Augusta was second with
a 415. Andover Central also
shot 415, and finished third.
Allayna Hanson shot 5853 to lead Concordia with a
111.
Kora Snavely had nines of
56-59 to card a 115.
Katie Donovan shot 6253 to finish with a 115.
Bailey Strait, with nines
of 54-62, and Kayla Dvorak,
with 59-57, each shot 116
for the Panthers.
Maddi Peltier finished
with a 133.
Tori Ward, Andale, shot a
94 and won a three-way
over
Lindsay
playoff
Buhler Invitational
Team Scores
Clay Center 395, Augusta 415,
Andover Central 415, Cheney 416,
Andale 423, Valley Center 445, Buhler
456, Concordia 457.
Top 10 Individuals
1. Ward, Andale, 94; 2. Lewellen,
Augusta, 94; 3. Wright-Frederick, Clay
Center, 94; 4. Alquist, Clay Center, 97;
5. Miles, Andover Central, 97; 6.
Wiebe, Andover Central, 98; 7.
Williams, Clay Center, 10;; 8. Manness, Buhler, 100; 9. Akler, Cheney,
101; 10. Young, Cheney, 103.
CHAPMAN — The Concordia High School girls’
tennis team placed fourth in
the quadrangular hosted by
Chapman High School on
Thursday.
Chapman won the meet
with 20 points.
Abilene also scored 20
points, and finished second.
Wamego was third with
18 points and Concordia
scored two points.
Jenna
Bloomer
and
Grace Tracy placed third in
number two doubles for
Concordia. They lost 6-1 to
Brianna Loy and Rachel
Duer, Chapman, and 6-0 to
Kaylin
Beswick
and
Madisyn Riffel, Abilene, and
defeated Kentin Brummett
and Brook Hupe, Wamego,
6-4.
Sadie Mosher finished
fourth in number one singles for the Panthers. She
lost 6-1 to Abigail Chewning, Chapman; 6-0 to
Rachel Lillich, Abilene; and
6-1 to Anna Stratton,
Wamego.
Kahlie Miller an Cameron
Collins were fourth in number one doubles for Concordia. They fell 6-1 to Jessie
Heiman and Katy Funk,
Chapman; 6-1 to Belle Barbieri and Sam Reiff, Abilene; and 6-1 to Ashlyn
Helus and Ashley Faiola,
Wamego.
Trystin Plymesser finished fourth in number two
singles for Concordia. She
was beaten 6-1 by Katie
Fehlman, Chapman; 6-1 by
Kallie Brooks, Abilene; and
6-1 by Jennifer Griffit,
Wamego.
“Don’t let the losses fool
you. The girls are getting
better each event. Once we
get a little more confidence,
the wins will start to show
up,”
Concordia
coach
Michael Wahlmeier said,
“We were happy for Jenna
and Grace in their win. We
have a week off before we
head to Phillipsburg, and
the girls are excited to have
that time to continue their
improvement.”
Abilene defeated the Concordia eighth grade volleyball team in the season
opener Thursday at the
Concordia Junior-Senior
High School gymnasium.
Concordia dropped the
first set, 25-17.
Taegan Larsen had five
service points for Concordia
with two aces.
The Concordia C-team
beat Abilene, 15-7, 15-4.
The Concordia seventh
grade defeated Abilene in
three sets.
Abilene took the first set,
25-12.
The Panthers evened the
match with a 25-15 win the
second set.
Concordia then won the
third and deciding set, 1512.
The Concordia B-team
fell 25-23, 25-19 to Abilene.
Concordia split a pair of
C-team sets with Abilene,
losing the first set 15-11
and winning the second,
15-7.
CONCORDIA INVITATIONAL
Boys
Team Scores
Clay Center 55, Republic County
58, Buhler 66, McPherson 68, Beloit
108, Ellsworth 129, Minneapolis 192.
Top 10 Individuals
1. Siebold, Clay Center, 18:28.10;
2. Rookstool, Clay Center, 19:05.60;
3. Lutgen, St. John’s-Beloit, 19:28.28;
4. Lohrentz, Buhler, 19:33.90; 5.
Caspers, Concordia, 19:45.47; 6.
Canfield, Buhler, 20:00.53; 7. Wilber,
Republic County, 209:17.64; 8. Rundus, Republic County, 20:22.29; 9.
Steinert, McPherson, 20:28.49; 10.
Timson, McPherson, 20:34.62.
Girls
Team Scores
Clay Center 35, Buhler 48,
McPherson 74, Minneapolis 80, Concordia 104.
Top 10 Individuals
1. Larson, Clay Center, 22:26.65;
2. Giles, Minneapolis, 23:12.45; 3.
Kipfer, Clay Center, 23:17.84; 4.
Chestnut, Clay Center, 23:22.53; 5.
Nuest, Buhler, 23:26.40; 6. Achterberg, Minneapolis, 23:43.36; 7.
Wurm, McPherson, 23:52.27; 8. Bahr,
McPherson, 24:06.29; 9. Chisam,
Buhler, 24:07.05; 10. Miller, Buhler,
24:07.33
CHS golf team finishes eighth
Lewellen, Augusta, and Allie
Wright- Frederick, Clay
Center, to earn medalist
honors.
Panthers take fourth in Chapman quad
Eighth grade tumbles, seventh grade wins
Abilene downed the Panthers 25-10 in the second
set.
Terryl Loeffler had three
service points.
Abilene downed the Concordia eighth grade B-team,
27-25, 25-18.
ABILENE — Concordia
suffered
three
losses,
including two to ranked
teams, in a volleyball quadrangular on Thursday
night.
Abilene, ranked third in
Class 4A-Division I in the
preseason poll, downed the
Panthers 25-14, 25-5.
Cydney Bergmann had
four kills and four digs for
Concordia.
Jordan Eshbaugh finished with three kills and
five digs.
Mykah Eshbaugh had
six digs and Hadley Thyfault had five.
Laken Schroeder had 34
good sets in 37 attempts
with eight assists and six
digs.
Concordia fell in straight
sets to Smoky Valley, 2517, 25-19.
Jordan Eshbaugh had
eight kills, six digs and two
blocks.
Bergmann finished with
eight kills and eight digs.
Mykah Eshbaugh had
six kills and nine digs.
Thyfault had eight digs
and four service points.
Schroeder had 45 good
sets in 48 attempts with 20
assists and five digs.
Thomas More Prep-Marian, ranked third in Class
4A-Division II, downed the
Panthers, 25-21, 25-17.
Jordan Eshbaugh had
nine kills, seven digs and
four service poitns.
Mykah Eshbaugh finished with seven kills and
five digs.
Bergmann had five kills
and three digs.
Mariah Blazek had 12
digs, three service points
and two kills.
Schroeder had 45 good
sets in 48 attempts with 22
assists and 11 digs.
Concordia opens North
Central Kansas League
play at Chapman on Tuesday.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)
— The Kansas City Royals
skipped their normal batting practice before Thursday night’s game against
the Detroit Tigers, a prudent move considering how
hot they have been at the
plate lately.
They wound up getting
plenty of swings in during
the game anyway.
Lorenzo Cain hit a threerun homer, Paulo Orlando
added a two-run shot and
Kendrys Morales drove in
four as Kansas City routed
Detroit 15-7 to wrap up
another series win.
Ben Zobrist drove in two
runs for the Royals, whose
15 runs and 20 hits were
their most since piling up
21 hits in a 16-8 victory at
Colorado on July 3, 2011.
“It was definitely a long
game,” Cain said, “but we’ll
take that kind of win.”
Chris Young (10-6) got
the victory with two scoreless innings in relief of
Edinson Volquez, who
yielded six runs, eight hits
and a walk in three innings
— but still put on a smile.
“It’s just part of the
game,” he said. “Just a bad
day.”
Not as bad as Matt
Boyd’s day. The Tigers
starter was hammered for
six runs before getting the
hook four batters into the
second inning. The last
batter he faced was Cain,
whose skyscraping homer
barely cleared the wall in
left field on its descent for
his second in as many
nights.
“I just couldn’t throw
stuff where I wanted to,”
Boyd said.
Reliever Kyle Ryan (1-3)
was tagged with the loss as
Detroit pitchers allowed 61
runs during a 1-5 trip
through
Toronto
and
Kansas City, two teams in
the thick of the playoff
hunt.
“You better learn from
it,” Tigers manager Brad
Ausmus said. “You better
try to get better ‘cause if it
gets any worse, I don’t
know what we’ll do. This
was a very tough road trip
for the pitching staff. We
do have some young guys,
but we’ve got to work to get
them better.”
Nick Castellanos drove
in three runs for the Tigers
while James McCann drove
in two.
After dropping the series
opener, the Royals man-
aged 34 hits and 27 runs
in taking the next two
games. That allowed the AL
Central leaders to extend
their unbeaten streak to
eight series.
Perhaps coincidentally,
their offense came alive in
the two games that Jonny
Gomes started after his
arrival in a trade from
Atlanta. Gomes had an RBI
double
on
Wednesday
night and two hits on
Thursday night, including
another run-scoring double.
All told, the teams combined for 34 hits while
leaving 18 on base in a
game that lasted 3 hours,
58 minutes. The first
inning alone included 76
pitches — 38 each side —
along with seven hits, five
runs and two visits from
pitching coaches during a
46-minute marathon.
Detroit scored three
times in the first, including
Anthony Gose’s leadoff
homer, only for Kansas
City to answer with two
runs in the bottom half.
The Royals scored four in
the second, and the Tigers
knotted the game 6-all by
stringing together a series
of hits in the third.
Both starting pitchers
had been discarded by that
point, and it came down to
which team had the better
bullpen. The Tigers kept
faltering while Kansas City
buckled down.
“They came in above the
call of duty to get us
through,” Royals manager
Ned Yost said.
ROSTER MOVES
The Tigers optioned RHP
Guido Guido Knudson to
Triple-A
Toledo
and
recalled LHP Jeff Ferrell
and INF Dixon Machado
after the game. Machado
will replace SS Jose Iglesias for a few days after
Iglesias fouled a pitch off
his finger while attempting
to bunt Thursday night.
TRAINER’S ROOM
RHP
Anibal
Tigers:
cuff
Sanchez
(rotator
strain) reported no problems throwing from 90 feet
before the game. He will try
from 120 feet on Friday.
“Baby steps,” Sanchez
said.
Royals: The Royals have
had no more cases of
chickenpox
after
RHP
Kelvin Herrera and RF Alex
Rios were diagnosed last
weekend, Yost said. Both
are doing better.
Royals pound out
15-7 win over Tigers
6 Blade-Empire, Friday, September 4, 2015
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THE CLASSIFIEDS
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Call 785-658-5758
If you would like a sneak
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Garage Sales
HUGE YARD SALE
Sept. 5th
(During Watermelon Festival)
at George Motor Car Lot
(next to the Post Office
in Clyde)
from 7am-5pm.
We will also be selling baked
goods! ALL proceeds go to
Clifton-Clyde Eagle Band.
Help Wanted
TRUCK DRIVER
Class A CDL, minimum 2yrs.
experience required. Good pay,
vacation and bonuses.
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Concordia KS Post Office
now hiring a
Rural Carrier Associate
Pay is $16.65/hour. Please apply
at USPS.com/employment.
Hurry! This job closes on
09/07/2015.
ElDorado National (Kansas)
is currently taking applications
for full time welding positions.
Candidates must be able to
pass a pre-employment MIG
welding test and become
certified within 3 months of
employment.
Candidates should
a p p l y o n l i n e @ w w w.
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Street, Salina, KS 67401.
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Has the following positions
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Full-time CNAs for all
shifts. Positions would
include working every other
weekend.
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shift CMAs. Positions would
include working every other
weekend.
For the opportunity to work
in the growing health care
industry submit an application
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Sunset Home, Inc.
620 Second Ave.
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Or apply in person or online
at www.sunsethomeinc.
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Employer. We do preemployment drug screening.
THE CLOUD COUNTY
HEALTH CENTER
Is currently looking for an
experienced
Physician Assistant
or Nurse Practitioner
to work full time in our Rural
Health Clinic and take ER
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Access Hospital, Board
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and DEA required, PALS
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trauma within acceptable
protocols. National Health
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site with loan repayment
available.
Astronomy club looks to save observatory
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) – The
Lake Afton Public Observatory has closed its doors, shuttered by financial struggles in
recent years.
The Kansas Astronomical
Observers, a local astronomy
and telescope enthusiasts
club, has stepped up in an attempt to save the observatory,
The Wichita Eagle reported.
The group is working
through the logistics of how
to take over the observatory
but has not devised a firm
plan yet.
“We’re working toward that
end, but is it finalized? No,”
said Harold Henderson, a
spokesman for the club.
The main snag in the facility’s changing-of-hands is the
fact that Wichita State University owns the 16-inch telescope and other equipment
within the building.
The group may be facing a
significant fundraising challenge if it agrees to purchase
the used equipment from the
university.
Inside the observatory,
about 20 miles southwest of
Wichita, there is the classic
16-inch telescope as well as
a small museum on space exploration.
The materials and programming inside the observatory belong to WSU.
“Whether they keep it,
Legals
(First published in The Concordia
Blade-Empire, Friday, August 28, 2015.
Subsequently published Friday, September 4, 2015, and Friday, September 11,
2015.)
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED:
You are hereby notified that on August 19, 2015, the decedent, Wilhelmina L.
Mayer, died a resident of Clyde, Kansas.
Carole Chartier, with a correct post office
address of 505 Washington, Clyde, Kansas
66938, and Shirley Bentemen, with a correct post office address of 103 Courtland
Drive, Clifton, Kansas 66937, are the Successor Trustees of the Wilhelmina L. Mayer
Trust dated October 21, 1999, the terms of
which provide that the debts of the decedent may be paid by the Trustees upon
receipt of proper proof thereof.
All creditors of the decedent are notified to present their claims against the
Trustee within the later of four (4) months
from the date of the first publication of this
notice, or thirty (30) days after receipt of actual notice, as provided by law, and if their
demands are not thus presented, they shall
be forever barred against the Trustee and
the trust property.
Carole Chartier and Shirley Benteman,
Trustees
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for less than that,” Novacek
said.
When the observatory
was built in 1979, it was a
joint venture among WSU,
Sedgwick County, the city
of Wichita and the Wichita
school district, but the city
and its public schools pulled
out years ago for financial
reasons.
WSU announced in July
the observatory would be
closing because the university could not afford it any
longer.
Novacek said in addition to
being used for public events
every weekend, WSU students occasionally used the
telescope as well.
“There’s not any cuttingedge research you can do
with a telescope of that size,
but it taught students how to
do research,” Novacek said.
“The university looked at it as
a public outreach, something
they could do for the people of
south-central Kansas to acquaint them with the wonders
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lease it, sell it - whatever happens to it, that’s their decision,” Henderson said. “WSU
is looking over our plan. They
agreed to it in principle, but
there are details both on our
side and on their side that
need to be nailed down. We’re
really in the discussion phase
still.”
Greg Novacek, who is the
director of the Fairmount
Center for Science and Mathematics Education at WSU
and was director of the observatory prior to its closing,
said the sense he’s gotten
from conversations he’s been
involved in at WSU is that the
school would sell the equipment to the club.
When the telescope was
purchased 35 years ago, it
cost $80,000, Novacek said.
A
comparable
telescope
purchased in 2015 would
cost between $125,000 and
$150,000, he said.
“Now, this is a researchgrade instrument - you can
purchase a 16-inch telescope
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of the universe we live in.”
The building itself is owned
by Sedgwick County.
Richard Ranzau, chairman of the Sedgwick County
Board of Commissioners, said
the county is just waiting on
the club and Wichita State to
come up with an agreement.
“We’re all supportive of it
here in the county, but those
two entities have to work
it out,” Ranzau said. “They
want to continue with the
same agreement (the commission) had with WSU, and
we’re fully supportive of that.”
When Wichita State was
operating the facility, it did
not pay the county rent Sedgwick County maintained
the building in exchange for
WSU providing programming
and other operations.
Until the Kansas Astronomical Observers and Wichita State finalize the details,
the Lake Afton observatory
will remain empty, the end
of a more-than-three-decade
era.
Ask the Guys
Dear Classified Guys,
I went to look at a canoe for sale and
the woman selling it offered to sell
me an outboard motor, fishing poles
and all kinds of fishing gear as well.
The prices were so good that I
bought everything. The next week I
enjoyed a great fishing trip on the
river. But when I returned, I received
a call from the woman's husband
saying his wife sold all his things
while he was away on business. Now
he wanted them back. Ten minutes
later, his wife called me and said
under no circumstances
should I sell that stuff back
to him. She didn't want it
back in the house. I love all
the fishing gear, but I sympathize with the husband. Any
suggestions what I should do?
•
•
•
Cash: Sounds like another fishing
trip may be in order. It would be a lot
more peaceful than dealing with this
couple.
Carry: You never know the circumstances that may arise after you make a
purchase. In your case, you fell into the
middle of a marital squabble.
Cash: It's like you were the first one
in line for the divorce sale before the
actual divorce!
Fast Facts
Get a Receipt
Whenever you buy an item from a
private party, make sure you get a
signed receipt from the seller. No matter how big or small the item is, get it
in writing. The receipt should include
a description of the item (including
serial numbers if applicable), the date
of the sale and the purchase price. The
seller should include his or her
address, phone number and sign the
bottom. Should any discrepancies
arise about the sale, you will have a
written receipt to protect yourself.
Duane “Cash” Holze
& Todd “Carry” Holze
08/30/15
©The Classified Guys®
Carry: At the time of purchase, you
had no reason to believe anything was
wrong. Since the couple is still married,
it's likely she had the right to sell you
the items and you can go ahead with
your fishing expeditions without worry.
Cash: However, if you're feeling
remorseful about the purchase of all the
gear and want to resolve the situation,
here's what you can do. Call the wife
back. She is the one you should speak
to since she sold you the items.
Carry: Explain that you do not want
to be in the middle of their personal
matters. However, if she would like
you to sell the items back, you would
be willing to do so.
Cash: And although tempting, it's
probably not a good idea to raise the
prices. The husband seems upset
enough. Imagine what he'd say if you
doubled the prices when you sold it
back?
Carry: If the woman turns down
your offer, then your conscience is
clear and you can plan that next fishing
trip.
Cash: But if the woman does take
you up on your offer, then maybe it's
time to look for a new hobby.
Women Rule
Who wears the pants in your family?
While many guys like to think they are
in charge, the truth is that women typically control the household.
According to recent surveys, women
control 85% of all personal and household spending decisions, and make
75% of their family's financial decisions. However guys, if you decide
you want to be in charge of something
in your house, it's really not a problem.
All you have to do is get your wife's
permission first!
•
New policy enacted on cellphone tracking
ping suspects, privacy groups
have raised alarms about
the secrecy surrounding its
use and the collection of cellphone information of innocent bystanders who happen
to be in a particular neighborhood or location.
In creating the new policy
the Justice Department was
mindful of those concerns
and also sought to address
inconsistent practices among
different federal agencies and
offices, Yates said.
“We understand that people have a concern about
their private information, and
particularly folks who are not
the subjects or targets of investigations,” Yates said.
The new policy requires a
warrant in most cases, except for emergencies like an
immediate national security
threat, as well as unspecified
“exceptional circumstances.”
The warrant applications are
to set out how the technology
will be used.
In addition, authorities
will be required to delete data
that’s been collected once
they have the information
they need, and are expected
to provide training to employees.
The policy could act as a
blueprint for state and local
law enforcement agencies in
developing their own regulations. But it’s unclear how
broad an impact Thursday’s
announcement will have,
since it does not directly affect local police agencies unless they’re working alongside
federal authorities on a case
or relying on their assistance.
Use of the technology has
spread widely among local
police departments, who have
been largely mum about their
use of the technology and
hesitant to disclose details –
often withholding materials
or heavily censoring documents that they do provide.
Local departments have
faced scrutiny from judges
about how they deploy the
equipment, though agencies
have often insisted that nondisclosure agreements with
the FBI limit what they can
say.
The FBI has said that
while specific capabilities of
the equipment are considered
sensitive, it did not intend for
the agreements to prevent
the police from disclosing to
a court that the equipment
was used in a particular case.
Yates said she expected the
FBI to revise any such agree-
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classifieds? Want to just give us your opinion?
We want to hear all about it! Email us at:
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WASHINGTON (AP) –Federal law enforcement officials
will be routinely required to
get a search warrant before
using secretive and intrusive
cellphone-tracking technology under a new Justice Department policy announced
Thursday.
The policy represents the
first effort to create a uniform
legal standard for federal authorities using equipment
known as cell-site simulators,
which tracks cellphones used
by suspects.
It comes amid concerns
from privacy groups and lawmakers that the technology,
which is now widely used by
local police departments, is
infringing on privacy rights
and is being used without
proper accountability.
“The policy is really designed to address our practices, and to really try to
promote transparency and
consistency and accountability – all while being mindful of
the public’s privacy interest,”
Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates told reporters in announcing the policy change.
The policy applies only to
federal agencies within the
Justice Department and not,
as some privacy advocates
had hoped, to state and local
law enforcement whose use
of the equipment has stirred
particular concern and scrutiny from local judges.
The technology – also
known as a Stingray, a suitcase-sized device – can sweep
up basic cellphone data from
a neighborhood by tricking
phones in the area to believe
that it’s a cell tower, allowing
it to identify unique subscriber numbers. The data is then
transmitted to the police,
helping them determine the
location of a phone without
the user even making a call or
sending a text message.
The equipment used by the
Justice Department does not
collect the content of communications.
Even as federal law enforcement officials tout the
technology as a vital tool to
catch fugitives and kidnap-
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Green with Envy
ments to be more transparent.
The American Civil Liberties Union called the policy a
good first step, but expressed
disappointment that it did not
cover federal agencies outside
the Justice Department or
local police who use federal
funds to purchase the surveillance equipment. It called
on the Justice Department
to close remaining loopholes,
such as the one allowing for
warrantless surveillance under undefined “exceptional
circumstances.”
“After decades of secrecy
in which the government hid
this surveillance technology
from courts, defense lawyers,
and the American public, we
are happy to see that the Justice Department is now willing
to openly discuss its policies,”
ACLU lawyer Nathan Freed
Wessler said in a statement.
I just love golf. In fact, I play
almost every weekend. Sad to say, it
was one of the contributing factors to
my recent divorce.
After a brutal division of assets, my
ex-wife fought to get my custom golf
clubs as a final jab at our separation.
Since then, I've been playing with my
old set that I had stored in the garage.
I thought I had gotten over the loss
of my clubs until I met up with my
buddy recently on the golf course. He
was playing with a new set of clubs.
"That looks like a nice set," I
admired.
"It sure is," he laughed. "and you're
ex-wife gave me a great deal on
them!"
(Thanks to Benny T.)
Laughs For Sale
This marriage sale is
all about compromise…
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His: Lazy-B framed posters,
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SOCIAL CALENDAR
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SUNDAY
AA, 10 a.m., Came to Believe, 317 W. 5th, Concordia
Grupo AA de Concordia-en Espanol, 317 W. 5th, Concordia
NA, 7 p.m., CCHC cafeteria
by Kathy Mitchell and
Marcy Sugar
Dear Annie: I've been in
a relationship for five years
with a guy who has been very
enjoyable company. However, in the past 18 months,
rumors have surfaced about
him being bisexual. He never
told me about this part of his
past. Finally, I confronted
him, and he admitted this
was just a whim at a time in
his life when he was alone.
He's been divorced for 43
years and claims he never
knew why his wife divorced
him.
He now feels that, since
he is with me and the past
desires are no longer there, I
should just forget about my
disgusted feelings and go on
as if nothing was ever said.
His friends were the ones
who kept dropping these
hints to me, but of course, I
ignored them until now.
I don't know if I should
continue this relationship.
He is 85 and I am 79. We
don't have sex, since he has
erectile dysfunction and his
desires have diminished. —
Worrying Winnie
Dear Winnie: What is it
that you want from this relationship? Whatever is in this
man's past does not need to
affect your future. Someone
who is bisexual is attracted
to both men and women. If
this were a sexual relationship, we might understand
your concerns. But you
aren't having sex with him
and have no plans to do so.
You don't have to marry him.
You find him to be very enjoyable company. We don't
see a problem. If you want to
continue spending time with
him, go right ahead.
Dear Annie: I have to reply to "What Happened?" the
distraught wife whose husband is preoccupied with
celebrities. You said this
isn't uncommon and to ask
him to spend 15 minutes a
day looking into each other's
eyes and listening to one another.
Your advice was a bit too
soft for this guy. His obses-
sion is one of the shallowest
things I've heard in a long
time. He sounds like someone who needs to get a life,
which should include his
wife.
This behavior needs to be
stopped cold turkey, not enabled. It's like an addiction.
And it makes a poor substitute for the real things in life.
Devoting so much of his time
to something as empty as celebrity gossip is a sign that
something's missing. This
man may need help to focus
on the special someone who
cares who he is — his wife.
— Regular Person in Phoenix
Dear Phoenix: We agree
that a fixation on celebrities
is ridiculously shallow, but
have you looked at your TV,
computer and newspaper
lately? We are bombarded
daily with celebrity news,
celebrity updates, celebrity
babies, celebrity divorces,
celebrity clothes — there's
no escape from it unless you
live in a cave.
This is a mild addiction (and we suspect most
women whose husbands are
addicted to golf or fishing
would swap in a heartbeat).
If her husband can spend at
least 15 minutes a day really
connecting with his wife, it
will help enormously. If he
cannot do that much, counseling is always useful, but
he must be willing to go.
Annie's Mailbox is written
by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy
Sugar, longtime editors of the
Ann Landers column. Please
email your questions to [email protected],
or write to: Annie's Mailbox,
c/o Creators Syndicate, 737
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Reception will
honor Blochlinger
Larry Blochlinger, administrator of Sunset Home,
Concordia, is retiring. He
will be honored at a reception from 2-4 p.m., Sunday,
Sept. 13, in the north dining
room. Refreshments will be
served.
Blochlinger has been employed by Sunset Home for
12 years. Sunset Home is
located at 620 2nd Avenue.
Parker places second
in worldwide competition
Andrew Parker, 17, a senior at Eisenhower High
School in Goddard, placed
second out of more than
600,000 competitors in a
worldwide competition that
tests students’ knowledge of
Microsoft PowerPoint 2013.
Parker is the son of Andrea and Steve Parker and
the grandson of former
Concordians, Donna Berner, Wichita, and the late
Dr. William Berner. Andrea
graduated from Concordia
High School before attending the University of Kansas
to become a pharmacist and
Steve formerly worked as
a pharmacist at Palmquist
Drug Store.
In addition to his silver
medal, Parker was awarded
$3,750 in scholarship money, a trophy and microsoft
products.
First place went to
Taweelap Suwattanapunkul
of Thailand and third place
to Waqas Ali of Pakistan.
“Andrew is part of an
elite group that knows how
to use Microsoft PowerPoint
efficiently and to its full potential,” Aaron Osmond, vice
president of the global Certiport offering for Pearson
VUE, said in a news release.
“We are proud to support
this competition as a vehicle
to promote what the world
needs most—young people
who possess in-demand
workforce skills.”
Parker earned the honor
to compete in the international contest by winning
the U.S. PowerPoint competition in Orlando, Fla. in
June.
MONDAY
AA, Belleville Crossroads Group, 24th and O Street,
Belleville
AA, Came to Believe, 6:30 p.m., 317 W. 5th, Concordia
TUESDAY
AA Concordia Gateway Group, 8 p.m., 317 West 5th
Alanon, 8 p.m., We Care, 6th and Valley, Concordia
WEDNESDAY
TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), 9 a.m., Catholic Religious Education Center, 232 East 5th
AA, 8p.m., Scandia Helping Hands group, United
Methodist Church basement
Came to Believe Group, Brown Baggers meeting at
noon, 317 W. 5th, Concordia
Agenda AA Literature Study, 8 p.m., 18 Delmar Street
Booster Club, Senior Center
RAY and ANNA MARIE (AMBER) CHARBONNEAU
Charbonneaus to
celebrate 50th
Ray and Anna Marie (Amber) Charbonneau will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at a 2-4 p.m. open
house, Saturday, Sept. 12, at
the Knights of Columbus Hall
in Aurora.
Ray and the former Anna
Marie (Amber) Kindel were
married Sept. 11, 1965, at
St. Peter’s Catholic Church in
Aurora. They lived in Aurora
for 43 years before moving to
Dewey, Okla. Ray was a General Motors parts manager
for 40 years. Amber’s last
employment was at Nazareth
Motherhouse in Concordia.
The Charbonneaus have
three children: Annette and
husband Charles Rolph,
Sandra and husband Aaron
Lessor, Cory Charbonneau
and fiancée Karen. They
have six grandchildren: Zach
and Kaylee Rolph, Annalise
Lessor, Paxton, Jaden and
Rose Charbonneau.
The couple had an early celebration in Branson,
Mo., with their children and
grandchildren.
The honorees request no
gifts. Cards may be sent to
397590 W. 1300 Road, Dewey, OK 74029
Classes of 1965 gather
for 50-year reunion
The 1965 classes of
Concordia High School and
Notre Dame High School
met for a reunion Aug. 7
and 8.
On Friday evening, classmates gathered at the home
of Loren and Joyce Swenson. On Saturday evening,
they had a catered dinner at
the Valley Rental Center.
During the two days, the
group toured the Concordia
High School, Orphan Train
Museum and POW Camp.
Many hours of memories
were shared over the weekend.
Classmates were: Dee
Downer, Johanna Taylor,
Elaine Miller, Anita Brichalli, Mike Higgins, Phyllis Rogers, Steve Stortz, Shirley
Wilkening, Sharon Swengel,
Linda Smith, Jim Demanett,
Dave Demars, Cathy Worley,
Eric Andersen, David Larkins, Norman Flesher, Keith
Christensen, Jane McCona-
hey, Barb Pearson, Marianna Miller, Linda Hummell,
Roger Hamilton, Steve Richard, Connie Lathrop, Dennis
Strait, Keith Handran, Craig
Saindon, Mike Fraser, Loren
Swenson, Bill Gropp, Carol
Meyers, Bill Krasny, Mike
Swihart, Ruth Wheeler, Twila Keenan, Gene Charbonneau, Farrell Dallen, Frank
Rock, Sue Trude, Mike
Goodwin, Eileen Puett, Dave
Haney, Robin Hood, George
Blomberg, Raymond Mason, Gene Blochlinger, Rick
Brumfield, Harriett Shrader,
Jeri Brown, Cheryl Hebert,
Linda Jones, Phyllis Collins,
Larry Ostrom, Tim Brady,
Ellen Magaw, Merle Ramsey,
Wendy Reiman, Steve Harris, Sam Henry, Steve Fredrickson, Patsy Booth, Charlotte
Chabonneau,
Dee
Weaver, Norris Andersen,
Linda Wilcox, Dave Stinson,
Jim Garlow, Mary Bray and
Rodney Lowell.
Club notes
Lady Bracknell Red Hat
Club met Sept. 2 at El Puerto
with 11 members attending.
Entertainment included stories told by Nancy Reynolds
who told a true story about
her grandparents meeting at
a skating rink and Rosalee
Olson who told about a mis-
Senior Citizens Menu
hap that happened at the
cemetery.
Martha Jochems’ September birthday was recognized.
Next meeting will be Oct.
7 at Heavy’s BBQ. Reservations should be made to Jochems or Reynolds by Oct. 2.
Monday, Sept. 7—Labor Day, Center closed.
Tuesday, Sept. 8—Spaghetti with garlic bread, green
salad, fruit.
Wednesday, Sept. 9—Sloppy Joes, French fries, cauliflower, fruit; 10 a.m.—Exercise; 1 p.m.—Boosters.
Thursday, Sept. 10—Hamburger with fixin’s, fried potatoes, baked beans, pudding.
Friday, Sept. 11—Ham, sweet potatoes, pineapple; 10
a.m.—Exercise; progressive cards.
Fresh coffee and cinnamon rolls daily 9-11 a.m.
Call Teddy for questions or to make reservations, 2431872.
THURSDAY
Alcoholics Anonymous Primary Purpose Group, 7 p.m.,
317 W. 5th, Concordia
American Legion Auxiliary, 7:30 p.m., post home
VFW Auxiliary, 6 p.m., potluck super; 7 p.m., meeting
with inspection
Senior Women of Concordia Lutheran Church, 9 a.m.,
covered dish dinner
FRIDAY
Came to Believe Group, noon, 317 W. 5th, Concordia
Alcoholics Anonymous, Concordia Gateway Group, 8
p.m., 317 W. 5th, Concordia
Progressive card party, Senior Center
Call Cloud County Chemical Dependency Committee
(CCCDC) 24/7 hotline for assistance including area addiction group meetings. They also have a website that
lists all of its AA, NA, Al-Anon and OA meeting times and
places. Freedom Club Website is www.freedom-club.org.
Freedom Club address is 317 W. 5th Street.
DVACK Weekly Support Groups in Concordia
Tuesdays—Domestic Violence Support Group; the
dynamics of domestic violence, safety planning, healthy
relationships and boundaries; Sexual Assault/Women
Empowered Support Group; trauma, coping techniques
and self-care.
Wednesdays—Survivors with Disabilities Support
Group; navigating various systems, accessing universal
services without discrimination, individual rights and opportunities and empowerment; Economic Support Group,
budgeting, individual assessment and reflection of financial literacy, gaining employment and financial goal setting.
Thursdays—Domestic Violence Parent Support Group;
cycle of abuse, identifying children’s emotions and coping
behaviors, establishing solid family connections and support; Sexual Assault Parent Support Group; child trauma, triggers and coping techniques.
Call 785.243.4349 for times/location and to preregister for support group meetings.
Upcoming events
Tuesday, Sept. 8, 7 p.m.—Acclaimed Celtic fingerstyle
guitarist, Jerry Barlow, in concert at the Frank Carlson Library. Offered free of charge to the public, under sponsorship of Tom’s Music House.
Friday, Sep. 11, 10 a.m.—Reading with Friends, storytime for children ages 3, 4 and 5,at Neighbor to Neighbor,
103 E. 6th, Concordia.
Saturday, Sept. 12, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.CCHC hospital-wide
garage sale, ambulance parking lot. Anyone willing to donate sale items may leave them in the Chapel at the hospital. Proceeds will help fund new beds at the hospital.
Sunday, Sept. 13, 6 p.m.—Frankie and Phyllis Valens
concert, Trinity United Methodist Church, freewill offering;
potluck supper at 4:30 p.m., bring a covered dish.
Saturday, Sept. 26, 2 p.m.—Mike and Mary Davis and
Mary Davis Yuneberg will be serving ice cream sundaes at
the Lester’s Sweet Shop exhibit in the Cloud County Historical Society Museum.
Saturday, Sept. 26, 5-11 p.m.—Music Fest, Broadway
Plaza, 6th and Broadway.
Sunday, Sept. 27, 1-4 p.m.—30th Anniversary Party for
the Republic County Historical Society Museum, Belleville.
Homemade ice cream, cakes, pies, grilled hotdogs, entertainment, tours of all museum buildings, freewill donation.
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Don’t be an art critic, but paint; there lies salvation.
-Paul Cezanne
***
Great art picks up where nature ends.
-Marc Chagall
***
William Stortz: The Life Of a Complicated Man
By Robert Woolsey
William Stortz was the
most complicated man many
of us will ever know. He was
deep and steadfast and difficult to fathom, like a rock
formation that may seem
strange or familiar depending on which side of it you’re
standing.
But complicated doesn’t
mean contradictory. The
chamber-music junkie was
never at odds with the motorhead; the city official did
not chafe at the salmon fisherman who stacked kings
on the deck of his skiff like
cordwood. Walking down
the street to grab a double
Americano from the Back
Door, William measured his
universe in long, deliberate
strides.
William Stortz was born
in Concordia, Kansas, on
March 15, 1953, and died
on August 18 of this year
in Sitka. The community’s
building official, he was inspecting drainage in a new
subdivision during an early
autumn downpour – the best
possible time to do that work.
The landslide that caught
William, along with brothers Elmer and Ulises Diaz,
took more than their lives; it
also swept away some of our
faith in the landscape and its
power to sustain us. We will
now lay these men to rest,
but rebuilding our relationship to this place will need
more time.
William’s life and character were shaped by lessthan-ideal
circumstances:
his mother, Dorothea, a
nurse, died of cancer just
two months before his high
school graduation. William
put his college plans on hold
to help out his dad, Marvin,
who was Concordia’s sheriff and magistrate. After two
years, William no longer saw
the point of more academics.
Instead, he joined his brother
Steve in Ft. Lauderdale and
learned yacht restoration.
It’s not hard to imagine
William making this decision.
He read extensively and had a
huge intellect; any classroom
might feel small with him in
it. He also was a remarkable
conceptual thinker when it
came to construction. Erin
came a serious hunter and
fisherman. For over two decades, every time he left the
dock William notified Kitka
of his float plan. On the day
he went missing, Libby called
Erin just to be sure that William had not intended to be
away.
“We were like an old married couple,” Kitka says of
William. “Always fighting,
always close.” Kitka is a few
years younger, and loved
to test William’s limits. On
their last alpine deer hunt
William’s heart started an
irregular rhythm. “He went
into a-fib and lay down in the
muskeg, kicking his knees up
to his chest, trying to convert
his heartbeat!” Eventually
William recovered and continued the climb. Kitka insisted on going back to town.
William relented, “but only
after a few choice words.”
During his SEARHC years
William became a civic leader. A long volunteer gig at
Raven Radio hosting “Night
Jazz” morphed into board
membership at the station.
When Newt Gingrich pressed
Congress to cut funding to
public broadcasting 20 years
Picture provided by John Bauer Jr. ago, William helped forge
CoastAlaska, which allowed
Kitka, his colleague for 23 rado, to ski and build hous- Arctic ice. His entire team Southeast Alaska’s five comyears in Facilities Manage- es. Three years later, William was discouraged, and he munity stations to survive inment at SEARHC, says Wil- and his dog, Josh, made the turned to William for help.
dependently.
Kelly invited William to his
liam wouldn’t rip out an old long drive to Fairbanks to
In 1998, Alascom put the
porch on a building unless visit friends. Fairbanks had research camps four times Cable House up for sale and
he had the new material al- good snow for skiing, some to consider ways to trap the Raven Radio was the logical
ready ordered “and practical- opportunities in custom fur- seals harmlessly. The so- buyer, but Sitka’s Assembly
ly measured and cut.” If you niture building that attracted lution finally came, but it split over whether to grant
were to ask William about his William, and a young woman wasn’t on the ice. It was in the station a loan from the
work he might just say, “I’m named Libby Finesmith who a bathtub. “He called when I city’s economic development
in the trades.” But his hands attracted him even more. was in Juneau – he had just fund. William, among others,
and brain were harnessed in They met at a party for (now jumped out of the shower,” conveyed the problem to Sen.
an out-of-the-ordinary way Fairbanks mayor) Luke Hop- Kelly says. “I have this image Ted Stevens – one of public
that allowed him to rebuild kins in January 1984, and of the guy standing naked at radio’s greatest allies – and
an outboard from the pistons were married seven months his phone table!” William’s after a few calls from the senup while a Schubert quintet later. Daughter Sasha joined eureka moment was an idea ator’s office, the Assembly
pulsed through his ears.
the family the following year. for a new net – one that magically unified overnight.
After Florida, Steve and
Libby introduced William proved instrumental in mov- The loan is long-since paid
William returned to Kansas to Brendan Kelly in Fair- ing Kelly’s research forward. off, and the beautifully-reContract work in Fair- stored Cable House anchors
and rented a farm together. banks. Kelly is the chief sciWilliam cared for his sister entist at the Monterey Bay banks eventually connected the south end of Lincoln
Patty’s kids while she took Aquarium, and a former sci- William to the tribal health Street.
advanced health care train- ence adviser to the White system, and in 1988 he
William became Sitka’s
ing. They were ages 6 and 9, House, but at the time he landed a job in Sitka as the building official in 2011. He
and William was about 22. was doing research on seals project manager in Facilities was nine months short of reHe was married briefly dur- for the University of Alaska. Management at SEARHC. He tirement when he went to ining this time, to Jean Ann William was working in the stayed 23 years.
spect the culverts on Kramer
William approached life Avenue on August 18. It was
Neeley.
UAF maintenance shop. KelIn 1980 the brothers ly had spent several springs in Sitka with humility. He his sharp attention to detail
again jumped time zones and unsuccessfully trying to cap- apprenticed himself to Erin that put him in the path of
moved to Silverthorn, Colo- ture and tag spotted seals in Kitka and his family, and be- a disaster. Like many, I have
Tow boats collide, oil spills into Mississippi
COLUMBUS, Ky. (AP) –
Part of the Mississippi River
was closed as crews investigated an oil spill caused
by the collision of two tow
boats, the U.S. Coast Guard
said Thursday.
The collision Wednesday
evening near Columbus,
Kentucky, damaged at least
one barge carrying clarified
slurry oil. The cargo tank
was ruptured, causing thousands of gallons of oil to
spill into the river, the Coast
Guard said.
No injuries were reported.
The river is closed from
mile markers 938 to 922,
Petty Officer Lora Ratliff
said.
The barge was carrying
approximately 1 million gallons, but the breach was
only in one area, affecting
just one of its six tanks,
Ratliff said. That tank holds
250,000 gallons, and Lt.
Takila Powell said a little
more than 120,000 gallons
spilled into the river.
The Coast Guard said it
was working with the barge
owner, Inland Marine Services, and an oil spill response
organization. Inland Marine
Services referred calls to its
public relations person, Patrick Crowley, who did not return repeated calls seeking
comment.
Both tow boat operators
had been interviewed by
Coast Guard investigators
and underwent drug and
alcohol testing, but results
aren’t back yet, Powell said.
It wasn’t known how long
the river would be closed.
“We are working diligent-
ly to try to restore our marine transportation system,”
Powell said. “We understand
that it is vital.”
The Coast Guard determined five barges were damaged in the collision, but
nothing other than the oil
leaked into the river, Powell
said.
The tow boats were
moored on opposite sides of
the river and a long gash was
apparent in the smaller vessel. River traffic was backed
up on both sides, though it
wasn’t yet known how many
vessels were backed up. By
Thursday evening, there was
no sign of a large cleanup
operation.
Powell said cleanup efforts had started with the
barge and that crews put a
boom around the ruptured
cargo tank to prevent any
residual oil from leaking into
the river. Cleanup crews Friday will go into the river to
try to determine where the
oil is, with a goal of trying to
recover as much of the oil as
possible from the river.
Some oil was recovered
from the surface during
cleanup operations Thursday, Powell said, but she
didn’t know how much.
Powell said the oil is thick
and has to be heated to be
transferred or moved.
“How this type of product
typically would react is that
when it reaches the water
that is of a lower temperature, it would solidify and
sink,” she said Thursday.
“But one of the things that
we will be doing tomorrow
is trying to determine where
Thank You for Reading the Blade-Empire
that oil has migrated to, to
try to determine whether or
not it has moved down the
river or if it’s still in the vicinity of where the collision
occurred.”
The collision happened in
the middle of the river channel near Columbus, Kentucky, late Wednesday, the
Coast Guard said. The cause
was under investigation. The
closure stretched 17 miles
south to the city of Hickman.
Powell said it was hard to
say how much of the oil was
released mid-channel because the barge was eventually pushed up to the bank.
Keleia McCloud, assistant director of the Hickman
port, says both the port and
ferry service were operating
normally.
Hickman County official
Kenny Wilson said local
communities
experienced
no disruptions from the spill
and the water supply in Columbus was not affected because it comes from wells.
He said Columbus-Belmont
State Park remained open.
Powell said there had
been no reports of fish kills.
Joe
Hogancamp
of
Bardwell, Kentucky, was
putting his 20-foot-long boat
into the Mississippi River
just downstream from the
collision. He said he might
refrain from fishing in the
area affected by the oil spill.
“It might mess up some
of the fishing,” he said. “I’d
say it’s going to hurt the environment a little bit. I doubt
we’ll eat some fish (from the
river) for a little while.”
A May 19 oil pipeline rupture in California caused a
spill of what has been estimated to be up to 143,000
gallons of crude, according
to documents from Texasbased Plains All American
Pipeline. That spill forced a
popular state park to shut
down for two months, and
goo from the spill washed
up on beaches as far as 100
miles away.
A July 2008 spill caused
by a collision between a tugboat and a barge carrying oil
on the Mississippi River in
New Orleans sent 282,000
gallons into the water and
caused the closure of the
river.
taken well-drawn, but illconsidered, building plans
to William in his office at city
hall and watched him sigh
deeply and turn to his copy of
the Uniform Building Code,
like a rabbi to the Torah.
Beams may bend, but William would not. He tolerated
some scatterbrained ideas,
but not at the peril of the future occupant of a building.
His signature on a permit
was a blessing, a gesture of
faith in your ability to get it
right.
Sitka breathed a collective sigh of relief when William’s body was found on the
afternoon of August 25, one
week after the slide took him.
We don’t care for mysteries
when it comes to the people
we care about most. In William’s view, death is the final
act in our existence, the period at the end of a long and
vibrant sentence. So we’ll
continue on the journey William shared for 62 years, and
it will be damned hard to pull
away from the dock without
him. We’re feeling shaken
and uncertain, and it may
take lying on the damp earth
to restore our hearts to their
normal rhythm.
William Stortz is survived
by his wife, Libby. They
would have celebrated their
31st wedding anniversary
on August 26. He is also
survived by his daughter,
Sasha, and her soon-to-behusband Kyle Doherty and
his family; brother Steve
and sister-in-law Jean Marie
Stortz; sister Patty Schindler
and brother-in-law Robert
Schindler; nieces and nephews Cara Holland, Shane Varejcka, Derek Varejcka, Allison Breeden, Blair McDonal,
Danielle Schindler, Alissa
Schindler, Tyler Stortz, Aaron Stortz; aunts and uncles
Aline and Russ Awalt, and
Jackie and Ed Gebhardt;
cousins Charles and Diane
Awalt, Curtis, Chad, Don,
Aron, Judy and Krista and
all their children.
And he is survived by so
many loving friends from
Sitka, Fairbanks, Colorado,
Florida, Kansas, Tanzania,
Holland, Sweden, Thailand
and around the world.
For the Record
Fire Dept./EMS Report
At 12:26 p.m., Wednesday, Medic-5 responded
to 2090 Fort Kearney for a
52-year-old male. No transport.
At 2:56 p.m., Wednesday,
Medic-5, Truck-2 responded to West 6th Street for a
93-year-old male who had
fallen. No transport.
At 4:11 p.m., Wednesday, Medic-5 responded to
ARVOS and transported a
63-year-old male to Cloud
County Health Center.
At 9:26 a.m., Thursday,
Medic-5, Truck-2 went to
the Police Department and
transported a 52-year-old
male to Cloud County Health
Center.
At 3:28 p.m., Thursday, Medic-2 went to Cloud
County Health Center for
long distance transfer of a
12-year-old male to Salina
Regional Health Center.
At 5:15 p.m., Thursday,
Medic-1 went to the 19th
Hole at the golf course and
transported a 14-year-old female to Cloud County Health
Center.
At 5:16 p.m., Thursday,
Medic-5 went to the 19th
Hole at the golf course for
a 15-year-old female. No
transport.
At 6:08 p.m., Thursday,
Medic-1 went to the 19th
Hole at the golf course for a
17-year-old male. Transported to Cloud County Health
Center.
At 7:12 p.m., Thursday,
Medic-5 went to the 200
block of Elm Street in Jamestown and transported a
32-year-old female to Cloud
County Health Center.
At 8:01 p.m., Thursday,
Medic-1 went to Highway
81 and Key Road and transported a 21-year-old male to
Cloud County Health Center.
At 12:03 a.m., Friday,
Medic-5 went to the Cloud
County Jail for a 21-yearold male. No transport was
made.
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Extension Extra
Katelyn Brockus, DEA
River Valley Extension District
Quantity vs Quality…You decide!
Here lately, I have had quite a bit of windshield time.
One day it might be traveling to meetings, the next it might
be doing a producer visit, or it might even be a trip home to
see my new nephew. No matter where I am in Kansas there
is one thing that seems pretty consistent. We have more
hay than we have had in years. The abundance of rainfall
that occurred during the month of May sure hasn’t hurt the
quantity of hay that was baled, but I do question the quality of hay in some of our fields. I know that my dad and I
are very satisfied with our abundance of hay this year. For
the first time in a while, we might have enough hay to get
us through the winter and that is definitely a good feeling.
A conversation that my dad and I are going to encounter
soon is that quantity and quality of hay are two independent characteristics. You can have quantity without quality
and vice versa. So the question is how we determine the
quality of our hay.
Forage analysis can be a great tool in taking out some of
the mystery concerning hay quality. Testing the grass hays
this year for protein and energy content will help producers
design winter supplementation programs most appropriate
for the forage supply that is available. Any of the potential
nitrate accumulating hays should be tested for nitrate concentration.
Forage quality has two important benefits for cows or
heifers. First, higher quality forages contain more of the
core nutrients needed to meet the animal’s nutrient requirements. Secondly, animals can consume a larger
quantity of higher quality forages. When animals consume
higher quality forages, it is more rapidly fermented in the
rumen leaving a void that the animal can fill with additional forage. To every positive always comes a negative.
When cattle have the capacity to increase fill, they will increase their intake of forages. For example, low quality forages (below 6% Crude Protein) will be consumed at about
1.5% of body weight (on a dry matter basis) per day. On the
other hand, higher quality forages (above 8% crude protein)
may be consumed at about 2% of body weight. Those forages considered “excellent” such as good alfalfa, silages, or
green pasture may be consumed at the rate of 2.5% of body
weight per day. The combination of increased nutrient content AND increased forage intake makes high quality forage very important to both the animal and the producer’s
pocket book.
After testing your forage quality, it is time to compare
the supplement needed to meet the nutrient needs of cows
in the winter. For example, if you are feeding hay to a 1200
pound spring-calving cow in late gestation, she will need
1.9 pounds of crude protein to meet her needs with a growing fetus. If she consumes 2% of her body weight in a low
quality forage (4% Crude Protein) she will receive 0.96
pounds of protein. This calculation leaves a deficiency of
0.94 pounds of protein that will be needed from supplementation. In order to meet her protein requirements, she
will need a 30% protein supplement which would require
3.13 pounds of supplement a day. This supplementation
cost will add up rather quickly. On the other hand, if she
was consuming a higher quality forage (7% Crude Protein),
then she receives 1.68 pounds of protein from the hay
and must be given enough supplement to meet the 0.22
pounds that she is lacking. Lastly, she would only need
0.73 pounds of supplement per day. As you can see, hay
quality can change the amount of supplement needed by 4
fold! Imagine the money you could save by being more efficient by testing your hay.
The preferred method of sampling hay is by using a forage coring probe. The best way to sample your hay is not
by literally “coring” the bale. If you only enter the probe into
the middle of the bale, it will not be an accurate representation of the quality of forage in that bale. Instead of only getting the “core” of the bale, approach the bale from the side.
This way the “core” sample is being taken through all of the
layers of the bale not just the “core”. This is very important
to note as you could get a false read as the forage quality
in the middle of the bale does not accurately represent the
forage quality throughout the bale. It is also recommended
that you mix samples from approximately 10% of your total
bales for an accurate reading across the entire field that
was baled.
With that said, I bet producers are just itching to get
outside in this beautiful Kansas weather and get a forage
sample. Feel free to bring those samples into your local
extension office, and they will be more than happy to send
off your samples. Normal turnaround time is two weeks. If
you have any additional questions or comments feel free
to contact me at the Washington office (785) 325-2121,
[email protected], or just stop by for a cup of coffee.
It’s Cleaning Time!!
Courthouse
District Court
CRIMINAL
Brian Ly Quang Ngo appeared Sept. 3 and was
found Guilty and convicted
of Battery, Criminal Damage to Property, Assault and
Criminal Trespass. For the
battery charge he was sentenced to six months in the
Cloud County Jail and ordered to pay costs of the
action, $158, restitution to
Paul and Linda Olson in the
sum of $425, restitution for
drug confirmation of $23.40
to the Cloud County Attorney
and restitution to the Cloud
County Sheriff’s Department
in the sum of $362.04. For
the criminal damage to property charge he was sentenced
to six months in the Cloud
County Jail. For the assault
charge he was sentenced to
30 days in the Cloud County
Jail. For the criminal trespass charge he was sentenced to six months in the
Cloud County Jail. The Court
found that Defendant’s sentences shall be served concurrently to each other and
concurrent to the prison sentence in Cloud County Case
No. 15-CR-56. Defendant’s
bond was released and the
surety, if any, discharged.
Michael Leon Bohnert
appeared Sept. 3 and was
found Guilty and convicted
of Fleeing or Attempting to
Elude a Police Officer. He
was sentenced to 30 days
in the Cloud County Jail
and ordered to pay costs of
the action, $158, and a fine
of $100 by Dec. 3. His sentence was suspended with
Defendant being placed on
unsupervised probation for
six months following specific
terms and conditions.
Wendy Marie Huff appeared Sept. 3 and was con-
victed of Criminal Use of
a Financial Card. She was
sentenced to 90 days in the
Cloud County Jail and ordered to pay costs of the action, $158 and restitution
as later determined by the
Court. The Court finds she
has been convicted of Criminal Use of a Financial Card
and sentenced to 90 days in
the Cloud County Jail. Both
sentences shall be served
concurrently. Pursuant to
State vs. Robinson, no attorney fees are assessed in this
case. Her sentence was suspended with Defendant being
placed on unsupervised probation for six months following specific terms and conditions.
Kurtis James Ninemire
appeared Sept. 3. The Court
found that Defendant had
Violated the Terms and Conditions of his Probation. It
further found that Defendant shall serve an immediate sanction of three days.
Defendant shall be released
on his continuing probation
under the original terms and
conditions following the service of this sanction. Defendant was remanded to the
custody of the Cloud County
Jail.
LEGAL TRANSFERS
Warranty Deeds:
Lowrey Inc. to Cloud
County Title Company, east
7’ of north 32’ of lot 34, block
149, city of Concordia, Cloud
County Kansas, see record.
Secretary of Veterans’ Affairs to Brice W. Bowers and
Destiny M. Bowers, a tract of
land in the southeast quarter of 22-6-3 in Cloud County Kansas, see record.
Douglas G. Liby and
Dawn M. Liby to Timothy
A. Gordon and Rachael R.
Rudd, the west 24’ of lot 8 in
block 9 in the city of Glasco,
Cloud County Kansas.
City of Concordia to Marian Condray and Andrea
Condray, the east half of lot
32 and all of lots 33, 34 and
35 in block 154 in the city
of Concordia, Cloud County
Kansas.
Covenant Homes and Services LLC to Derick S. Schebaum and Janet R. Schebaum, the west half of lot
16 and all of lot 17 and lot
18 in block 139 in the city
of Concordia, Cloud County
Kansas, according to the recorded plat thereof.
Quit Claim Deeds:
William M. Jackson and
Laurie Baldwin to Rhonda
Carroll, lot 6 in Culp’s Addition to the city of Miltonvale,
according to the recorded
plat thereof being a tract 165
feet by 300 feet.
Katherine J. West, fka
Katherine J. Lavoie to Daniel C. Lavoie, lots 1 and 2 in
block 193 in the city of Concordia, Cloud County Kansas according to the recorded plat thereof, see record.
EARLY HISTORY OF
CLOUD COUNTY
By H.E. Smith
IN BUSINESS HOURS
He did not fail to observe
that in referring to the copper product his mind rested
more upon the work that had
to be done than on the splendid results to be obtained.
“He was not sure that the
sanguine individual who had
led us into the scheme was
the cool, reliable man we
needed for the management
of our affairs in the mining
region. His calm, strong,
practical mind was going
over the whole ground in sober earnest; and it was plain
that the rosy hues which
had so pleased our eyes a
few hours before were fading
fast away.
“But he was not one to
look back after once putting his hands to any work.
He was sensitive and proud,
and more willing to face an
enemy and dare a loss than
to acknowledge a mistake.
Under the influence of his
unwanted enthusiasm he
had drawn a number of capitalists and men of business
into a mining enterprise, and
he felt pledged to the work of
its success.
“At an early day our charter was in hand, when an
election of officers was held,
and your father made President of the company. The
care and work, the anxieties and disappointments he
endured for the next year or
two, in his efforts to manage the affairs of the company broke his spirits and
impaired his health. Money
was poured into the mine
like water into sand; assessment after assessment was
made until each shareholder
had paid in thirty dollars a
share.
“It was impossible for
me to take thirty thousand
dollars out of my business
without destroying it; so I
was forced to sell half of my
stock at a loss of fifty cents
on the dollar. I carried the
balance at a crippling cost.
Your father paid at each assessment, until he had sixty
thousand dollars locked up
in certificates, that commanded no dividends, and
had ceased to be quoted at
any price in the stock market.
(continued)
Register of Deeds
Judy Lambert
With clerk jailed,
Weather
gay Kentucky couple
gets marriage license
MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) – A
gay couple emerged from a
Kentucky county clerk’s office with a marriage license
in hand Friday morning,
embracing and crying as the
defiant clerk who runs the
office remained jailed for her
refusal to issue the licenses
because she opposed samesex marriage.
William Smith Jr. and
James Yates, a couple for
nearly a decade, were the first
to receive a marriage license
Friday morning in Rowan
County. Deputy clerk Brian
Mason issued the license,
congratulating the couple
and shaking their hands as
he smiled. After they paid the
license fee of $35.50, James
Yates rushed across the steps
of the courthouse to hug his
mom as both cried.
“This means at least for
this area that civil rights are
civil rights and they are not
subject to belief,” said Yates,
who had been denied a license five times previously.
He said he and Smith were
optimistic they would get a
license when they arrived,
in part because the deputy
clerk, Mason, had always
been respectful when they
came previously.
A crowd of supporters
cheered outside as the couple
left, while a street preacher
rained down words of condemnation. Yates and Smith
said they are trying to choose
between two wedding dates
and plan a small ceremony
at the home of Yates’ parents.
The licenses were issued
only after five of Kim Davis’
deputy clerks agreed to issue
the licenses, the lone holdout
from the office being her son,
Nathan Davis. Her office was
dark Friday morning as the
license was issued to Yates
and Smith, with a sheriff’s
deputy standing guard in
front of it.
Today’s weather artwork by
Kyle Kline,
a 2nd grader in
Mrs. Zimmerman’s class
Markets
LOCAL MARKETS -EAST
Wheat ...........................$4.24
Milo ......(per bushel) ....$3.13
Corn .............................$3.18
Soybeans .....................$8.23
AGMARK
LOADING FACILITY
LOCAL MARKETS - WEST
Wheat ..........................$4.24
Milo .....(per bushel) .....$3.13
JAMESTOWN MARKETS
Wheat ...........................$4.14
Milo ...(per bushel) ........$3.03
Soybeans .....................$8.23
Nusun .........................$14.65
Please Help Us Clean The Blade ..... If you recognize a photo or photos, stop by the Blade-Empire office between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday thru Friday and pick up the
photo or photos. Thanks!
Church Directory
4J COWBOY CHURCH
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
221 West 2nd Street, Phone 955-0455
Pastor Paul McGuire
1022 E. 11th Street
243-9773, 243-9767
CONCORDIA FIRST UNITED METHODIST
740 W. 11th Phone 243-4560
Pastor Tessa Zehring
Sunday, 10 a.m.—Worship
Branch President, Kenneth Hansen, 785.280.1638
Missionaries, Elder and Sister Gardner, 479-366-2285
HUSCHER UNITED METHODIST
VICTORY FAITH ASSEMBLY OF GOD
Sunday, 9:30 a.m.—Sacrament; 10:40 a.m.—Sunday School.
R.R. 3, Concordia Phone 243-3049
Majestic 4 Theatre, 229 W. 6th St.
Sunday, 9:30 a.m. –Worship
ASSEMBLIES OF GOD
CROSSPOINT CHURCH
6th & Archer, Home 243-3043
Pastor Cory Shipley
9:30 a.m.—Sunday School; 10:30 a.m.—Worship Service and Children’s Ministry
Pastor Joe Koechner
Sunday, 9:30 a.m.—Sunday School; 10:30 a.m.—Worship;
Matthew Carder, Campus Pastor
10:30 a.m. – Sunday School.
6 p.m.—Evening service.
Andy Addis, Senior Pastor
JAMESTOWN UNITED METHODIST
Wednesday, 6 p.m.—IMPACT Youth Ministry; 6:30 p.m.—Victory Kids Outreach.
Sunday, 10 a.m.—Worship.
BAPTIST
2376 N. 60th Road, Jamestown
EPISCOPAL
Church, 439-6488 Lay Minister, Randy Whitley, 439-6353
THE BAPTIST CHURCH
CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY
333 West 7th Phone 243-3756
117 W. 8th, P.O. Box 466, Concordia 243-2947 (O)
10:45 a.m.—Worship.
Pastor David M. Fabarez
Saturday, September 5, 5:00 p.m. – Holy Communion with Father Randy.
TRINITY UNITED METHODIST
Living Hope Foursquare Church
Sunday – 11:00 a.m. Worship Service
9:15 a.m.—Sunday School;
Sunday, 9:30 a.m.—Sunday School;
FOURSQUARE.
10:15 a.m.—Coffee fellowship;
10:45 a.m.– Worship. 6:30 p.m. – Youth Group.
Wednesday, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.—AWANA (during school year);
Pastor Stuart Johnson
7:00 p.m.—Prayer meeting.
129 W. 6th Phone 243-2289
Handicap Accessible
Lincoln at Eighth Phone 243-3049
Pastor Joe Koechner
PRESBYTERIAN
Sunday, 10:30 a.m.—Service.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH
Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. – Bible Study
233 W. 7th 243-3785
Pastor Brian Hughes
PEACE PARISH LUTHERAN CHURCHES
Sunday, 11:00 a.m.– Worship Service in the Sanctuary/Communion.
For pickup, call 243-3230
LUTHERAN
Sunday, 10 a.m.—Sunday School; 11 a.m.—Worship; 6:00 p.m.—Service.
Parish Office, 785.335.2267
Wednesday, 5:30 p.m. – Choir Practice
Wednesday, 7 p.m.—Mid-Week Service. We love kids!
Pastor Thomas Kamprath
Bethel Church
Wednesday, 9 a.m -11 a.m.; Friday, 10a.m. to Noon.
18th & Archer Phone 243-3230
BETHEL CHURCH
Pastor Bob Frasier
Office Hours: Tuesday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Monday, Labor Day – Parish Office is Closed.
PROVIDENCE REFORMED
FELLOWSHIP
(nondenominational)
ADA LUTHERAN CHURCH, Rural Courtland
7 miles east and 1 mile south of Glasco or
Sunday, 11 a.m. – Worship.
www.providencereformedfellowship.com
2 miles west of 81/24 junction and 1 mile south.
AMANA LUTHERAN CHURCH, Scandia, Phone 335-2265
Sunday, 9 a.m. – Sunday School; 10 a.m. – Worship.
OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP
AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH, Belleville
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday, 9 a.m. – Worship.
307 E. 5th Phone 243-1099
OUR SAVIOR’S LUTHERAN CHURCH, Norway, 785-335-2628
CATHOLIC
Sunday, 9 a.m. – Worship.
122 West 6th (the Dance Company building)
SCOTTSVILLE COMMUNITY CHURCH
Commercial Ave. Scottsville Phone 785-534-3227
Pastor Joshua Krohse
THE WESLEYAN CHURCH
Father Brian Lager
Sunday, 11 a.m. – Worship.
Priest’s residence, 420 Kansas
CONCORDIA LUTHERAN CHURCH
Pastor David Redmond, Lead Pastor
16th and Cedar, Phone 243-4071
Pastor Bob Burns, Assistant Pastor/Visitation
MASS SCHEDULE:
325 E. 8th, 243-2476
Sunday, 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. Saturday evening, 5 p.m.
Sunday, 10:30 a.m. – Worship and Communion.
Pastor Josh Blain, Assistant Pastor/Youth
Weekdays, 7:15 a.m
Coffee Fellowship.
Sunday, 9:15 a.m.—Traditional Worship; 10:45 a.m.—Contemporary Worship;
ST. PETER’S CHURCH
Tuesday, 6:00 p.m. – Preschool Board Meeting. 6:30 p.m. – Committee Meetings.
*Nursery is available for newborn thru 36 months during both worship services.
Aurora
Fr. James Soosainathan
First, Third and Fifth Saturdays, 7 p.m.—Mass.
Second and Fourth Sundays, 8:30 a.m.—Mass.
MOUNT JOSEPH CHAPEL
Sunday, 11 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 11:15 a.m.
7:00 p.m. – Coucil Meeting.
Children’s Worship is available for children ages 4 through 1st grade and meets
Wednesday, 9:00 a.m.—Bible Study; 7:00 p.m. – Mayberry
during the 10:45 worship service after the worship medley;
ST. PAUL’S LUTHERAN
9:15 a.m.—Sunday School for all ages.
Glasco, Kansas
7:00 p.m. (during the school year) – FW Friends for
CHRISTIAN
Phone 785-568-2762
children ages 4 yrs - 4th grade.
9:00 a.m. – Worship. Coffee Fellowship following.
Rt. 56 for kids in 5th and 6th grades.
6th and Cedar Phone 243-3449
MANNA HOUSE
FIRST CHRISTIAN
Jeff Nielsen, Pastor
MANNA HOUSE OF PRAYER
Sunday, 9:30 a.m.—Bible School; 10:40 a.m.—Worship.
323 E. 5th 243-4428
Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. – Delta Chi for kids in Jr. and Sr. High; Adult Bible Studies.
Nursery is available for newborn - 36 months during the school year.
For more information visit www.wesleyan.org/beliefs.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GLASCO
Betty Suther C.S.J., Contact
Dennis McAlister, Pastor 568-2344
Retreats, workshops, spiritual direction, bookstore and video tapes.
Sunday, 9:30 a.m.—Sunday School; 10:30 a.m.—Worship;
5 p.m.—God and Country Rally.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
CHURCH OF CHRIST
1646 N. 9th St., Salina, Kan. 67401
243-1154
Kent Otott, Director
UNITED METHODIST
Hosting TFC Rallies on the 3rd Saturday of each month at the Brown Grand
GLASCO UNITED METHODIST
Theatre at 7:00 p.m. Providing Christian encouragement and programs
David Geisler, Pastor
to students and families throughout the area.
Sunday, 9:45 a.m.—Sunday School; 11 a.m.—Worship.
CONCORDIA MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION
DELPHOS UNITED METHODIST
President—Matthew Carder; Vice President, Robert Frasier;
Sunday, 9:30 a.m.—Worship; 10:40 a.m.—Sunday School.
Treasurer, Tessa Zehring; Secretary, Rose Koerber.
(785) 827-2957
Sunday, 7:30 a.m.— “Search for the Lord’s Way,” Channel 13.
North Central Kansas Teens for Christ
P.O. Box 9, Concordia, Kansas
We offer tribute to these
Church Sponsors
The Baptist Church
Taco John’s
Brown Comfort Professionals
Chaput-Buoy Funeral Home
Cloud County Co-op Elevator
Baumann Repair
Funk Pharmacy
Brown Comfort Professionals
Hood Heating, Air,
Plumbing, Electric
Scott Baumann
Bruce Brown and Employees
Taco John’s
and Employees
ServiceMaster of N.C.K.
Dennis and Nancy Smith and Employees
Schendel Pest Control
and All Employees
Rod’s Food Store
Rodney & Kathy Imhoff and Employees
The Pizza Hut
and All Employees
Family Health Mart Pharmacy
Steve Palmquist, Ken & Mary Ann Palmquist
and Employees
Nutter Mortuary
and Employees
and Staff
John L. Fischer DDS
and Staff
EcoWater of N.C.K.
Jason Martin and Employees
Duis Meat Processing
and Employees
Concordia Blade-Empire
and Employees
Cloud County Health Center
Officers and Staff
Cloud County Co-op Elevator
Association
Chaput-Buoy Funeral Home
Bruce G. Nutter, Owner
Joshua Meyer and Staff
Richard J. Kueker O.D., P.A.
Michael E. Miller O.D.
C&C Truck Lines, Inc.
and Staff
Martin LeSage Post No. 588
Ladies Auxiliary to the V.F.W.
The Jamestown State Bank
F.D.I.C. Officers and Staff
Adolph and Beth Charbonneau
Concordia Chevrolet/Buick
and Employees
Walmart Supercenter
and Employees
LeDuc Memorial Design
Troy and Shirley LeDuc, owners
The Answer
You may have heard the story about the only survivor of a shipwreck who washed
upon a small uninhabited island. He cried out to God to save him, and everyday he
scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming. Exhausted, he eventually
managed to build a rough hut and put his few possessions in it.
But then one day, after hunting for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames,
the smoke rolling up to the sky. The worst had happened; he was stung with grief. Early
the next day, a ship drew near the island and rescued him. “How did you know I was
here?” he asked the crew. “We saw your smoke signal,” they replied. Though it may not
seem so now, your present difficulty may be instrumental to your future happiness.
The Bible teaches that every human starts out as an irritant. We are enemies of God,
dead in our trespasses and sins. Yet, by God’s amazing grace, those of us who believe
in Christ are declared positionally righteous. Slowly but surely, God then envelops us
in Himself and practically transforms us into beautiful followers who reflect His beauty.
Paul said, “Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your
spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ” (1 Thessalonians 5:23). What is sanctification? It is a work of God in those
who have ceased to be in rebellion against Him.
Sanctification is the purging out of a believer’s sinful actions and the modifying of a
believer’s behavior toward holiness. It is accomplished by His word and His Holy Spirit.
The believer is declared holy by God and it is a continual action of the Holy Spirit gradually changing the believer into conformity with the image of Jesus Christ. At the coming
of Jesus Christ, the believer will be in the condition of being unblameable. The word
translated “without blame” comes from the legal arena. It means to be acquitted in a
court of law. The blood of Jesus Christ will cover all your sins by His work of grace.
Even when your little hut goes up in flames, remember the love that God has for you.
And as Augustine said, “Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; where your
treasure is, there is your heart; where your heart is, there is your happiness.” Find your
pleasure in God!
—Pastor David Fabarez