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CONCORDIA
VOL. CIX NO. 217 (USPS 127-880)
CONCORDIA, KANSAS 66901
Monday, April 6, 2015
Three seeking seat on city commission
Good Evening
Concordia Forecast
Tonight, partly cloudy in the evening,
then mostly cloudy with a 20 percent
chance of showers after midnight. Lows
around 54. East winds 5 to 15 mph.
Tuesday, mostly sunny. A 20 percent
chance of thunderstorms in the morning.
Highs around 69. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
Tuesday night, partly cloudy in the
evening then becoming mostly cloudy. Lows
in the upper 40s. Northeast winds 10 to 15
mph.
Wednesday, mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the
mid 60s. East winds around 10 mph. Gusts
up to 20 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday night, mostly cloudy with a
50 percent chance of thunderstorms. Lows
in the lower 50s.
Thursday and Thursday night, breezy.
Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows in
the upper 30s.
Friday and Friday night, partly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 60s. Lows in the upper
30s.
Saturday, partly sunny. Highs in the
upper 60s.
Saturday night and Sunday, mostly
cloudy with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 40s. Highs in
the lower 70s.
Three candidates are vying
for one open spot on the Concordia city commission in Tuesday’s general election.
Chuck Lambertz, Sam Sacco
and Marty Tatum are running
to replace Charles Johnson on
the five-member commission.
Johnson did not file for reelection after serving three
terms.
There is one contested race
in the four seats up for election
on the Unified School District
333 board of education.
Mark Nordell and Pat Prindaville are seeking the USD 333
board of education District #2,
position 2 seat.
Don Bates also filed for the
position, and his name will
appear on the ballot, but he has
moved from Concordia.
The position was held by Jay
Thomas, who did not seek reelection.
Tony Miller is running unopposed for the District #3, position 3 that was held by Pat
Murk, who did not refile.
Steve Wetter, District #1,
position 1; and Kevin Pounds,
District #4, at-large, are running unopposed for re-election
to the school board.
Three members of the Cloud
County Community College
board of trustees, Ellen Anderson, Larry Henry and Thomas
Tuggle, are running unopposed
for re-election.
In the city of Clyde, there are
four candidates seeking three
open seats on the city council.
Wendy Genereux and Dennis
Streit are seeking re-election.
Also on the ballot are Mike
Cook and Rusty Sikes.
Michael Dove, June Peterson
and Kent Studt are seeking the
three open seats on the Glasco
city council.
Jon Puckett will be challenged by Richard McKinley for
mayor of Miltonvale.
Darren Bates and Gregory
Copple are seeking re-election
to the Miltonvale city council.
The city of Jamestown has
Royce Bruntzel, Jason Martin
and Thomas Thoman seeking
re-election to the city council.
Three candidates are seeking
the member at large, position 7
on the USD 334 board of education.
Terry Tate has filed for reelection, and is joined on the
ballot by Amanda Demars and
Jason Paillet.
Mark Meyer, District #1,
position 1, and Matthew Martin, District #2, position 2, are
running unopposed for re-elec-
tion to the USD 334 board.
Angela Bates is running
unopposed for District #1, position 3.
Bill Garrison and Linda Begnoche are seeking re-election to
the River Valley Extension District #4 board.
April 7 Election
Polling Places
Concordia
First Christian Church
Fellowship Hall
402 W. Sixth St.
Concordia 1st Ward, 1st
Precinct/2nd
Ward,
2nd
Precinct/2nd Ward, Buffalo
and Sibley Townships, USD
333 voters of Arion, Center and
L yon
Townships,
North
Lawrence, South Lawrence,
East Lincoln and West Lincoln
Precincts, USD 426 voters of
Sibley Township, USD 109 voters
of
North
Lawrence
Precincts.
Valley Rental Center
803 Valley St.
Concordia 3rd
and 4th
Ward.
Glasco
St. Mary’s Catholic Parish
Hall
300 First St.
Glasco City, Solomon Township, USD 334 voters of West
Meredith Precinct, Arion, Cen-
Vocal music concert
Concordia Junior and Senior High
School vocal music students will present a
festival music concert at 7 p.m., Tuesday,
April 7, at the CHS Auditorium.
Featured will be the Junior High School
Choir and Concordia High School Singers,
Women’s Ensemble and Chamber Choir.
Admission will be charged for adults.
Across Kansas
Greensburg to
have theater again
GREENSBURG, Kan. (AP) — It’s been
decades since Greensburg offered people a
movie theater.
That will change this month when the
Twilight Theater opens, about 25 years
after it closed and eight years after a tornado destroyed most of the Kiowa County
town.
Grand opening events are scheduled for
April 24-25.
The Hutchinson News reports the theater opened in 1917 and was a hub of activity until it closed in 1989. Renovations
were scheduled to begin in May 2007, until
an EF5 tornado destroyed 95 percent of the
town that month.
Funds for the theater were raised again
through memorials and supporter donations. Equipment was donated by Wichita
theater owner Bill Warren. The $3.5 million
needed for the repairs was reached when
an anonymous donor offered $100,000 if
the community could match it by January.
Theater executive director Adam Wagner
says the new building has state-of-the-art
sound, lighting and concessions systems,
along with the largest screen between
Wichita and Denver.
Board to review
school laws, bonds
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas State
Board of Education is meeting April 16 to
review changes to the state’s education
laws including an overhaul in the way
schools are funded.
The board also plans to consider giving
authority to hold bond elections to the
Haysville, Maize, Haven, Great Bend and
Dodge City districts and the Central district in Cowley County. They would issue a
total of $260 million in bonds.
Since the state school board met in
March, Republican Gov. Sam Brownback
signed into law a bill overhauling the way
the state distributes more than $4 billion
in aid to schools.
Districts will lose $51 million they
expected to receive for the current school
year under the plan. State funding for
schools would then increase for the next
two school years.
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Clean up begins
A brush pile is picked up on East First Street Monday morning as city of Concordia employees
begin the City Wide Clean up that will continue throughout the week. (Blade photo by Jay Lowell)
Drought expands across large
section of nation’s crop region
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Drought
conditions are expanding across a large
section of the U.S., from California to the
Great Plains.
The National Drought Mitigation Center
at the University of Nebraska says the area
covered by moderate drought or worse
expanded by nearly five percentage points
to 36.8 percent during March.
The drought monitor shows dry conditions broadened in the Midwest with 22
percent of the U.S. corn production area
and 18 percent of the soybean area in
some degree of drought. That’s up sharply
from early March when just 6 percent of
the corn growing area and 5 percent of the
soybean region were in drought conditions.
Dryness worsened during March in Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska,
North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
Two-thirds of California is in extreme to
exceptional drought.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is honoring
the place where its famous state song was written by designating a nearby road as the Home
on the Range Highway.
Gov. Sam Brownback’s office says he signed
a bill last week to bestow the designation on K8 highway in Smith County. The new law takes
effect July 1.
The designation applies from the road’s
junction with U.S. 36 to the Nebraska border,
17 miles to the north.
The words to the state song were written as
a poem by Dr. Brewster Higley on the bank of
West Beaver Creek in Smith County in 1871.
The next year, he and friends built a cabin
there.
A private foundation is preserving the cabin,
and it is off K-8, about 9 miles north of U.S. 36.
Rural Kansas road to become
Home on the Range Highway
ter, L yon and Summit Townships, USD 273 voters of
Solomon and Summit Townships, USD 239 voters of West
Meredith and Lyon Townships.
Miltonvale
Miltonvale Community
Building
107 Starr
Miltonvale City, Starr Township, Oakland Township, East
Meredith Precinct, USD 334
voters of Aurora and Colfax
Townships, USD 239 voters of
East Meredith Precinct, USD
379 voters of Colfax and Starr
Townships.
Aurora
Knights of Columbus Hall
Main Street
Aurora City, USD 333 voters
of Aurora and Nelson Townships.ClydeClyde City Hall412
WashingtonClyde City, Elk and
Shirley Townships, USD 224
voters of Colfax and Nelson
Townships, North Lawrence
Precinct and South Lawrence
Precinct.
Jamestown
Jamestown Downtown
Activity Building
311 Walnut
Jamestown City, Grant
Township, USD 333 voters of
Summit Township, USD 426
voters of Grant Township.
Uber urges
Brownback
to veto bill
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Ride-hailing company Uber says it will be forced to pull out of
Kansas if the governor signs a bill increasing
regulations on its drivers.
The dispute over the bill, which passed
both chambers Thursday, has grown
increasingly acrimonious as a deluge of
protest emails from the company’s users
temporarily disabled the Legislature’s email
server.
Republican Rep. Scott Schwab, who led
the work to amend the bill at the conference
committee stage, said he was irritated with
Uber’s tactics and accused its representatives of lying to him during the process.
“The frustration I’ve had dealing with
Uber, which I’ve been — my analogy is that
it’s like trying to paint an ice cube, nothing
sticks to them,” Schwab said.
Uber connects drivers to riders through a
mobile app and announced in March that it
had reached an agreement with several
national insurance companies on a policy
framework that would fill in gaps in the network’s driver insurance coverage. It has proposed model legislation to the states to make
it official.
The model proposal provides liability
insurance throughout the period that Uber
drivers are using the app, but it “intentionally excludes additional coverage options
such as collision and comprehensive insurance,” according to a study released Monday
by the National Association of Insurance
Commissioners.
The Kansas bill would require some drivers for Uber and other ride-hailing companies to provide proof of those types of
broader insurance, and would also require
them to undergo background checks
through the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
Uber spokeswoman Lauren Altmin said
that both requirements are onerous for Uber
because it is primarily a technology company providing the platform for riders and drivers to connect and shouldn’t be expected to
bear the same responsibility as taxi companies.
The company urged Republican Gov.
Sam Brownback to veto the bill in a statement Thursday, saying it would “destroy
thousands of Kansas jobs by making it
impossible for Uber to continue operations
in the state.”
Brownback spokeswoman Eileen Hawley
said the governor has not yet reviewed the
bill and declined to speculate on what action
he would take.
Five states have already passed legislation regulating companies like Uber, and 35
others have measures pending.
Many issues drive constituents to email
their legislators en masse, but Terri Clark,
the Kansas Legislature’s director of technical services, said the barrage of emails that
the system began receiving Monday on the
Uber bill was unprecedented.
OPINION
2 Blade-Empire, Monday, April 6, 2015
Washington Merry-Go-Round
by Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift
By George Meyer
Today in History
10 years ago
April 6, 2005—Jack and
Michele Widen, Concordia, announced the birth of
their son, Christian Frederick, born March 22. . . .
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puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with
several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9
in the empty squares so that each
row, each column and each 3x3
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only once. The difficulty level of
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5 years ago
April 6, 2010—Concordia High School’s chapter of
the National Honor Society
inducted eight new members: Morgan Berk, Melissa Hartsel, juniors; Slater
Champlin, Emily Hasch,
Bianca Fischer, Blake Michaud, Blake Woellhof and
Kadin Zimmerman, sophomores. . . . Robbie Kearn
and Pattie Darnall, Concordia, announced the birth of
their son, Jason Blaze Kearn, born March 13.
1 year ago
April 6, 2014—Joyce
Hood was the successful
bidder for the Ad Astra Statue replica created by Richard Bergen auctioned off at
the Cloud County Community College Auction. Winning price for the signed
piece was $3,900. . . . Wanda Davenport and Betty
Samuelson were recognized
prior to the Everything Fitz
Concert at the Brown Grand
Theatre for their longtime
service to the Concordia
Concert Association.
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25 years ago
April 6, 1990—Ed Kilpatrick had been named vice
president, lending, at Cloud
County Bank & Trust. . . .
Becket Hinson signed a national letter of intent to play
baseball at Cloud County
Community College.
Skyler Hittle placed first in
the 105-pound class in the
8-and-under division at the
Cliff Keen Reno World Wrestling Championships.
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50 years ago
April
6,
1965—Mrs.
John M. Peck, soprano,
presented a program of allItalian operatic selections at
the Concordia Music Club
meeting. . . . Four from Concordia and two from Jamestown would comprise the
new board of education for
Unified District 333. From
Concordia were E.W. (Bill)
Larson, Boyd Lewis, Celeste McComas and George
Ganstrom, who were swept
into office without opposition. From Jamestown were
Don W. Hutchinson, Jamestown, who defeated James
LaBarge, Aurora, and Armin
Herbin, Jamestown, who
won over Tom McDaniel,
Rice.
WASHINGTON – The minute Apple CEO Tim Cook
came out of the closet was
the beginning of the end of
discrimination against gay
people. Apple is the largest company in the world,
and the prospect that Cook
might not be able to order a
wedding cake in Indiana is
beyond preposterous. What
were those legislators thinking?
Even as we ask the question, we know the answer.
It is an attempt to turn the
clock back to a time not that
long ago when discrimination against gay, lesbian and
transgendered people was
more acceptable than it is today. Indiana’s Governor Mike
Pence kept insisting that his
state was only doing what 19
other states have done, and
the federal government did in
1993.
He’s right to the extent
that President Clinton signed
the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RIFRA)
after it passed the House
unanimously and the Senate
almost unanimously (three
votes opposed). At the signing ceremony, representa-
tives from a wide array of
interest groups, from the
ACLU to the Traditional Values Coalition, applauded the
legislation initiated by Native
American groups seeking to
protect their right to ingest
peyote as part of their religious ceremonies.
Twenty-odd years later,
1993 could just as easily have been 1893 for all its
relevance to today’s debate.
The American public at that
time did not approve of gay
marriage; the American public today recoils from thinly
veiled bigotry directed at gay
people.
The sea change in attitude is remarkable, and
perhaps more remarkable,
some politicians hadn’t noticed. Governor Pence evidently saw the legislation as
a way to woo Christian conservatives for a possible 2016
presidential run. He surely
didn’t anticipate the backlash from corporations and
the threat posed for Indiana’s
commerce and tourism leading into the Final Four games
in Indianapolis.
When even the Republican mayor of Indianapolis
DOONESBURY® by G.B. Trudeau
Senator proposes bill
on transfer students
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – A
Kansas state senator is proposing a bill intended to
ensure that school districts
can’t remove current students who live outside their
boundaries.
But critics said Republican Sen. Ty Masterson’s
bill is a solution in search
of a problem. They claim it
doesn’t address the main
reason behind some districts limiting new, transfer students – budget cuts
related to the state’s new
law establishing temporary
block grants for schools.
Masterson’s bill comes
after two Shawnee County
districts – Seaman Unified
School District 345 and Silver Lake Unified School District 372 – said they have no
plans to accept out-of-district students next school
year, the Topeka CapitalJournal reported.
School
administrators
note that it won’t affect current nonresident students,
but Masterson said he
wants legislation that guarantees they’re protected.
“We never contemplated
the possibility that a district might – because legally
they could – refuse all those
out-of-district kids,” said
Masterson, the Senate’s
budget committee chairman. He added that dis-
tricts wouldn’t be required
to continue accepting new,
nonresident students under
the bill.
Seaman’s director of communications, Jeff Zehnder,
wondered why the bill was
necessary.
“This bill blocks something that no one is doing,”
Zehnder said. “Is this bill
good public policy, or is it
just trying to make educators look bad? We would
never do what this bill considers.”
According to the state education department, about
21,000 students attend a
public school outside their
home district. Hundreds of
children in Shawnee County attend school outside the
district they live in.
The block grant law would
scrap the state’s school finance formula for the next
two years. Lawmakers say
they’ll write a new formula
during that time.
Meanwhile, districts are
to receive grants that largely
freeze their general aid at
this year’s level, cutting the
link between fluctuations
in student enrollment and
funding. Most districts also
would lose dollars in two
other categories of state aid
used for everyday operating
expenses or maintenance
costs.
voiced his opposition to the
pending legislation, Pence
began to backslide, and by
Wednesday, he was promising a fix to the bill that would
ensure nobody could use it as
cover to discriminate. Democrats called for its repeal, as
did the gay community and
many others, and Pence may
discover it’s too late to find a
fix for a bill that had no reason to exist in the first place.
In Arkansas, where Republican
Governor
Asa
Hutchinson had been prepared to sign a similar bill, the
national backlash prompted
a quick rewrite to assure it
wouldn’t be perceived as discriminatory. In his public remarks, Hutchinson said his
adult son, Seth, was one of
many who signed a petition
urging him to veto the bill.
“This is a bill that in ordinary time would not be controversial, but these are not
ordinary times,” Hutchinson
said, citing the divisiveness
in the country that has each
side in the culture wars distrusting the other’s motives.
Republicans had hoped
to sidestep the cultural wars
in the lead up to the 2016
election, but the outcry over
Indiana and Arkansas is a
reminder how quickly these
issues can spin out of control
in the new world of social media. Early in the week, most
of the GOP contenders voiced
support for the Indiana legislation, but by midweek, former Governor Jeb Bush was
backpedaling as fast as he
could, and Rand Paul, a libertarian like his father, had
nothing to say.
For Democrats, it was a
political win. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
tweeted her disapproval of
the Indiana bill the day that
it was passed, and in Washington, most analysts think
the Supreme Court is going
to rule by the end of its term
in June that same sex marriage is constitutional. That
would end a lot of the debate
that has proven so destructive, not only to politicians
but to people simply trying to
live their lives.
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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars
By Jacqueline Bigar
Annie’s
Mailbox
by Kathy Mitchell and
Marcy Sugar
Dear Annie: I am expecting my first child. My mother is a wonderful, intelligent
68-year-old woman. She is
also bipolar and seems incapable of keeping herself
physically healthy and her
house clean. I know her poor
health almost certainly stems
from the fact that her living
conditions are filthy. She also
has a sour smell about her
that makes me worry that
she is lax about her personal
hygiene.
I have tried many times
over the years to help her
keep her house clean, but inevitably it returns to a state
of extreme disarray. The only
visible floor is the pathway
through piles of junk. The
kitchen and bathroom are
moldy biohazards. Eventually, I came to the realization
that nothing I say or do is going to make her start taking
care of herself. I can't afford
to hire a caregiver to help her,
and I'm past the point of trying to make a dent in the perpetual filth myself.
My main problem is that
when my baby is born, I
know Mom is going to want to
spend time with her. I don't
feel comfortable allowing my
infant child to be exposed
to the unhealthy conditions
of her house. I am ashamed
to say that I also don't feel
comfortable placing my baby
in the care of a woman who
seems incapable of caring for
herself.
How can I tell my mother,
the woman who raised me,
how to live? This is a conversation I never wanted to
have. Is there any way I can
avoid breaking her heart and
embarrassing her? — A Concerned Daughter and Momto-Be
Dear Concerned: We sympathize, but your child's welfare will soon become your
first priority. This will make it
easier for you to talk to Mom.
Tell her you love her and
understand that her level of
cleanliness and hygiene is
her choice, but it is not appropriate for your child. Explain that visits with the
baby will take place only in
your home, under your supervision. She will promise
to do better, but that is not
a guarantee. So, also say
that you hope this will spur
her to seek professional help
to make her life healthier for
herself and everyone around
her. Her doctor can refer her.
If she is heartbroken and embarrassed, that should not
change the parameters you
have set up for the care of
your child.
Dear Annie: "On the Outside Looking In" complained
that at holiday gatherings,
four of the female relatives go
into another room to laugh,
excluding the other three
women and the men. The
others should plan something they can enjoy together with or without the other
four.
Plan ahead, and make
sure everyone knows you
have a game to play, a funny
gift exchange, a skit to perform or a tale to tell of holidays past in which each person is expected to speak for
one minute. Have a bonfire
and roast marshmallows. Be
silly and lighthearted, forget
your troubles and play games
with the children.
Turn these gatherings into
a celebration for all of you, instead of a party for the clique
and a whining session for the
rest. Whether they join in or
not, you'll have fun, and your
children will remember that
for a lifetime. — Been There
Dear Been There: We
couldn't have said it better.
Thank you.
Annie's Mailbox is written
by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy
Sugar, longtime editors of the
Ann Landers column.
Club notes
American Legion Auxiliary Unit 76 approved the following slate of officers when
it met April 2 at the Post
Home: Bev Taddiken, president; Patti Post, vice president; Lorene Phipps, treasurer; Laura Christensen,
secretary; Kim Mills, chaplain; Doris Hale, historian;
Karen Driscoll, sergeant-atarms.
These officers will be installed at the May 7 meeting
at the 19th Hole. Pictures
of the new officers wearing
white shirts and blue jackets will be taken at 7 p.m.
June 4, before the meeting
at 7:30 at the Post Home.
Chaplain Teresa Benson
opened the meeting with
prayer. President Patti Post
called for a moment of silent
prayer. Members recited the
Pledge of Allegiance and the
Preamble.
Benson, who is also
membership chairman, reported she had sent eight
senior and two junior members’ dues to Department.
Thank you cards with donations were received and read
for serving lunch following
family funerals.
Certificates and pins
were delivered or mailed to
those members unable to
attend the March 14 Legion
Birthday/Continuous Years
Membership Pin Dinner.
Members made plans for
the April 11 soup/sandwich
and dance to help fund the
next Honor Flight.
The executive board will
meet at 7:30 p.m., April 16,
at the Post Home.
Card shower
Jeanne (Chubbuck) Ritter,
former
Concordian,
will be 95, April 12. She is
in Assisted Living (John
Knox Village), but still able
and reasonably healthy.
Jeanne’s family would like
to surprise her with a card
shower. Friends may send
cards to Jeanne Ritter, 1706
NW O’Brien, Apt. 619, Lee’s
Summit, MO 64081.
Ruth Hedstrom will be 90,
April 18. Cards may be sent
to her at Country Place, 308
Washington Street, Scandia,
KS 66966.
Senior Citizens Menu
Tuesday, April 7—Pork
chops, fried potatoes, mixed
vegetables, pears; VA representative.
Wednesday, April 8—
Chicken
and
noodles,
mashed potatoes, corn, apple streusel; 10 a.m.—Exercise; 1 p.m.—Boosters.
Thursday, April 9—Meat
loaf, baked potatoes with
sour cream, green beans,
pudding.
Friday, April 10—Chicken
salad, pea salad, Jell-O®
poked cake; 10 a.m.—Exercise; progressive cards.
Call Teddy at 243-1872
for questions or to make reservations
PAULA and PAUL TATUM
1975
Reception to mark
Tatums’ ruby day
Paul and Paula Tatum,
Concordia, will celebrate
their 40th wedding anniversary Saturday, April 11,
with a 2-4 p.m. reception at
the City Hall meeting room
in Concordia.
Paul Tatum and the former Paula LeBlanc were
married April 12, 1975,
at St. Joseph Catholic
Church in St. Joseph, Kan.
They have lived in Concordia most of their married
life. Paul works for ARVOS
Group, Inc. and Paula is
employed at the Nazareth
Convent and Academy.
Their children are Kathryn Tatum, Concordia; Michael Tatum and Matthew
Tatum, Wichita; and Kimberly Tatum, Olathe. They
have one grandchild.
Spring into action
and donate blood
The American Red Cross
encourages eligible blood
donors to make a difference
in the lives of patients this
spring by giving blood.
Donated blood is perishable and must be constantly
replenished to keep up with
the demand. Red blood cells,
with a shelf life of only 42
days, are the most frequently transfused blood component, and are always needed
by hospitals.
Eligible donors can give
red cells through either a
regular whole blood donation
or a double red cell donation,
where available. Double red
cell donations yield twice the
usual amount of red cells in
a single appointment and
are accepted at selected donation locations. Double red
cell donors must meet additional eligibility criteria,
which will be determined at
the donation appointment.
Donors with all blood
types are needed, especially
those with types O negative,
A negative and B negative.
Whole blood can be donated
every 56 days, and double
red cells may be donated
every 112 days, up to three
times per year.
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be in Concordia
April 28 from noon-6 p.m.,
at the Catholic Parish Hall,
307 East 5th and in Miltonvale April 24 from 12:15-6
p.m. at the EMS/Fire building, 117 Starr.
To make an appointment for a donation call
1.800.733.2767. A blood donor card or driver’s license or
two other forms of identification are required at check-in.
Individuals who are 17 years
of age (16 with parental consent in some states), weigh
at least 110 pounds and are
in generally good health may
be eligible to donate blood.
High school students and
other donors 18 years of age
and younger have to meet
certain height and weight requirements.
4-H news
The Hill & Dale 4-H
Club met March 1. Lauren Wheeler led the Pledge
of Allegiance. Roll call was
“What’s your favorite summer time sport?” There were
16 members, two leaders
and 14 parents present.
Minutes from last month
were read with no corrections and were approved.
Treasurer report was given.
Last month’s report was
published. The 4-H Council
didn’t meet in February, so
there was no report.
Community leader Megan Murdock informed us
that the next practice shoots
were March 15 and April 12
at 3:00. Both gavel games
teams got to go to Regional
4-H days which were held
on March 28 in Clay Center.
Gunnar Hale did a demonstration and Angelica
Hale did an illustrated talk.
Next club meeting is Monday, April 6, at 7 p.m. A motion to adjourn the meeting
was made by Ashley Bartlett
and seconded by Tracer
Murdock. Luke Anderson
and his family brought
drinks and treats.—Angel
Hale, reporter
A baby born today has a
Sun in Aries and a Moon in
Scorpio.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for
Monday, April 6, 2015:
This year you are driven
to find a new outlet for selfexpression. You will experience great fulfillment as a result. You also discover a new
ability to understand and resolve problems quickly. You’ll
work best with a partner on
a one-on-one level, no matter
what the project or issue is. If
you are single, someone you
interact with closely easily
could become a more romantic bond. This person will be
quite important to your life’s
history. If you are attached,
the two of you experience a
period where you are more
closely connected. SCORPIO
has as much energy as you
do, but he or she is more
subtle.
The Stars Show the Kind
of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult
ARIES (March 21-April
19)
* * * * You might be unusually tuned in to a loved one.
Your creative energy blooms,
which allows you to move
through your day more successfully. A partner could be
difficult no matter how hard
you attempt to appease him
or her. Let it go. Tonight: An
animated conversation.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20)
* * * * * Define your objectives and pursue them before
someone trips you up or distracts you. You’ll gain insight
when you can relax and see
what has been accomplished.
A personal matter could put
a smile on your face. Share
an insight with a loved one.
Tonight: Accept an invitation.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
* * * * You might feel overwhelmed by the constant
barrage of people who need
you, or at least think that
they do. You need to reach
out to a close associate or
loved one, as this person will
support you in carrying out
what must be done. Tonight:
Express your easygoing personality.
CANCER (June 21-July
22)
* * * * You might want to
reconsider a judgment you
have made about a loved
one. You also could need to
review a matter that requires
your ingenuity. A conversation with a trusted pal could
cause an enormous backfire.
Tonight: Be playful, and your
stress levels will go down.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
* * * * * You could be content, yet there is someone
close to you who is often
combative and difficult. You
might be wondering whether
you need less time with this
person. A discussion will
help you understand why
he or she acts like such a
curmudgeon. Tonight: Head
home early.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
* * * * You have a tendency
to choose your words with
care. This trait easily could
help you win over a difficult
person. You might feel very
optimistic at this moment,
but it would be wise to proceed with care; others seem
to be on the warpath. Tonight: Make an effort toward
a love one.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
* * * Be aware of the costs
of a situation with which you
are about to be involved. A
partner could have a totally
different perspective from
you, and will let you know in
no uncertain terms. You will
discover that you have some
strong opinions as well. Tonight: Run errands first.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.
21)
* * * * * The Moon in your
sign tends to give you that
extra magnetism and energy you might want or need.
You could be challenged by
a family member and might
be disappointed with what
happens. Investigate potential options involving your
health. Tonight: Be spontaneous.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21)
* * * Step back a bit before making a decision -- the
more information you get,
the wiser your choice will be.
Keep reaching out to someone at a distance whom you
care about. You’ll gain a
sense of well-being through
a conversation. Tonight: Embrace your impulsive side.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19)
* * * * Don’t lose your focus with regard to a special
issue. Honor a change, and
be more open to new possibilities at a later point. You’ll
need to complete a project as
it stands. Do not sell yourself
short. Tonight: Do what you
want to do.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18)
* * * You’ll be coming from
a place of confidence despite
a difficult authority figure.
Communication could be erratic, but you can deal with
the unpredictability. A partner will support you in a venture, and he or she will make
a difference. Tonight: Burn
the midnight oil.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20)
* * * * You might feel as
if you can handle nearly everything, and you can -- if
you detach. Recognize the
importance of taking an overview and understanding why
certain people act in the way
they do. Tonight: Surf the
Web or watch a good movie.
BORN TODAY
Composer Andre Previn
(1929), actor Paul Rudd
(1969), actor Walter Huston (1884)
***
Jacqueline Bigar is on
the Internet at www.jacquelinebigar.com.
(c) 2015 by King Features
Syndicate Inc.
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Jobs Wanted
ONE PLACE HAS IT ALL
THE CLASSIFIEDS
Card Of Thanks
CARD OF THANKS
We would like to thank
everyone for the many
thoughts, prayers, words of
encouragement and support
during the loss of Sharron
Sutton-Kearn. Thank you
to each and every single
person. Often words cannot
express the gratitude and
love of a community coming
together. From our hearts to
yours, thank you and may
God continue to bless you all.
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CDL DRIVERS
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with locations in Abilene, Junction
City, Manhattan, Wamego,
Perry, & Lawrence is accepting
applications for truck drivers.
These positions are full-time with
excellent benefit packages and
competitive wages. Minimum
requirement is a valid class “B”
CDL with airbrake endorsement.
Please submit applications
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is a drug free work place and
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Applications are available on
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HELP WANTED
CNA/CMA
Full or part time includes
every other weekend. All
shifts available. Differential
paid for 2nd and 3rd shifts.
HOUSEKEEPER
Full or part time includes
every other weekend.
DIETARY AIDE/
COOK’S ASSISTANT
Full or part time includes
every other weekend.
Park Villa is looking for
dependable, caring team
members to ensure the
best care for our residents.
Apply in person
PARK VILLA
114 S. High St.
Clyde, KS 66938
785-446-2818
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Administrative Assistant
Must possess good people
and computer skills and
be able to multi-task and
communicate effectively. EOE.
Send resume to:
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Email:
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or 785-243-9977, ask for Luke
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GREAT EMPLOYMENT
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Legals
(First published in The Blade-Empire,
Monday, April 6, 2015.)
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF CLOUD
COUNTY, KANSAS
In the Matter of the Estate of
Betty A. Myers, Deceased.
Case No. 15-PR-21
(A Proceeding Pursuant to K.S.A.
Chapter 59)
NOTICE OF HEARING
THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL
PERSONS CONCERNED:
You are hereby notified that a Petition
for Determination of Descent has been filed
in this Court by LaVerne Parks, Jr., Heir of
Betty A. Myers, deceased, requesting:
Descent be determined of the following described real estate situated in Cloud
County, Kansas:
Lot Seventeen (17), in Block One Hundred Ninety (190) in the City of Concordia,
Cloud County, Kansas, according to the
recorded Plat thereof;
and all personal property and other
Kansas real estate owned by the Decedent at the time of her death. And that
such property and all personal property
and other Kansas real estate owned by
the Decedent at the time of her death be
assigned pursuant to the laws of intestate
succession.
You are required to file your written
defenses thereto on or before April 28
2015, at 11:00 a.m. at the Cloud County
Courthouse, in the City of Concordia,
Cloud County, Kansas, at which time and
place the cause will be heard. Should you
fail therein, judgment and decree will be
entered in due course upon the Petition.
LaVerne Parks, Jr.
Petitioner
CONDRAY & THOMPSON, LLC
Scott R. Condray
812 Washignton
P.O. Box 407
Concordia, KS 66901-0407
(785) 243-1357
FAX (785) 243-1359
Sup. Ct. #10047
Attorneys for Petitioner
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•Saturday,
April
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Kearn Auction House, 220
West 5th Street, Concordia,
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Blade-Empire Monday, April 6, 2015 5
Sports
Cardinals blank
Cubs in opener
CHICAGO (AP) — The
Chicago Cubs had Joe Maddon in the dugout, and Jon
Lester on the mound.
Wrigley Field had a new
look,
with
a
giant
videoboard in left field and
pictures of Ernie Banks
draped over the closed
bleachers.
The St. Louis Cardinals
had Adam Wainwright, and
a bunch of familiar faces in
the lineup. And it was more
than enough for the NL Central champs.
Opening night went to the
old guard.
Wainwright threw six
innings of five-hit ball, leading the Cardinals to a 3-0
victory over Lester and the
Cubs on Sunday in the
major league opener.
“I was fortunate to throw
some good pitches when I
needed to throw some good
pitches,” Wainwright said.
Jason Heyward had three
hits in his St. Louis debut,
and Matt Holliday drove in
two runs. Throw in Matt
Carpenter’s two hits, and
the top third of the Cardinals’ lineup went 7 for 14
with three RBIs.
“Selfishly, I like the idea
of hitting between those
two,” Heyward said. “Holly
can do damage and Carp
sees so many pitches and
has good (at-bats). I’m going
to be kind of spoiled hitting
there.”
Playing their most anticipated opener in years, the
Cubs went 0 for 13 with
runners in scoring position.
Lester, who got a $155 million, six-year contract during free agency, allowed
three runs and eight hits
over 4 1-3 innings in his
fifth straight opening day
start.
“Just wasn’t real sharp,”
Lester said. “Ball was flat.
Anytime I get that many fly
balls I know that I’m not
where I need to be.”
The addition of Lester and
Maddon ramped up the
expectations for Chicago
after five straight losing seasons. But it was more of the
same in their first game.
The biggest difference for
the home team was the towering videoboard, part of a
major renovation for the
iconic neighborhood ballpark. Images of Banks, a
Hall of Fame slugger who
played for Chicago for 19
seasons and died in January at age 83, covered the
famed bleachers.
The Cubs honored Banks
with a pregame moment of
silence, and his sons Jerry
and Joey Banks each threw
out a ceremonial first pitch.
The club also extended its
condolences to the Cardinals for Oscar Taveras, an
outfield prospect who died
in a car crash in his native
Dominican Republic last
October.
“The
ballpark
was
absolutely electric,” Maddon
said. “The pregame was
wonderful. Everything was
great. We just have to come
through with a couple
knocks now and then, but
we will. I thought it was a
really, really — for lack of a
better term — a really good
night.”
Heyward got the majors’
first hit of the season when
he doubled and scored on
Holliday’s single in the first.
Holliday had another RBI
single in the fifth.
It was more than enough
for Wainwright, who was
slowed by an abdominal
injury early in spring training, but looked just fine in
his fourth opening day start.
The 6-foot-7 right-hander
made the most of umpire
Mike Winters’ wide strike
zone, striking out six with
no walks.
“He’s fun to watch,” manager Mike Matheny said.
“There’s just special guys
like that, when they get in
tough situations, big games
they’re able to make the big
pitch when they need to.”
Carlos Martinez, who won
the fifth starter job in training camp, then worked the
seventh for St. Louis. Jordan Walden got three outs
before Trevor Rosenthal
struck out the side for the
save.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cardinals: LHP Jaime
Garcia (shoulder inflammation) is expected to begin a
throwing program in the
next week or so, and general
manager John Mozeliak said
OF Tommy Pham (strained
left quad) is scheduled to see
a specialist on Monday. Garcia was competing for the
fifth starter job before the
injury. “I would say in the
next week to two weeks we’ll
have a better idea of perhaps
expected return or perhaps
what a rehab assignment
might look like,” Mozeliak
said. “But I would say it’s
still about 10 to 14 days
away before we make that
decision.”
Cubs: OF Chris Denorfia
(mild left hamstring strain),
RHP Jacob Turner (right
shoulder
inflammation),
RHP Dallas Beeler (right
shoulder inflammation) and
LHP Tsuyoshi Wada (mild
left groin strain) were placed
on the disabled list before
the game. Each of the DL
stints is retroactive to March
27.
KEARNEY, Neb. — The
Concordia Kids Wrestling
Club had four wrestlers
place in the top five in the
Midwest Classic Tournament on Friday and Saturday.
Warric Eakins placed
first in the 40-pound class
in the 6-and-under division.
Koby Tyler, 58 pounds,
10-and-under,
finished
third.
Carter
Eakins,
55
pounds, 8-and-under, and
Zach Strait, 120 pounds,
15-and-under, placed fifth.
Four wrestlers place
Sports in Brief
The Associated Press
BASEBALL
NEW YORK (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers set a baseball record with a $270 million opening-day payroll, including nearly $44 million going to players no longer on the team.
Major League Baseball’s average salary on opening day
Sunday also set a mark at $4.2 million, according to calculations by The Associated Press. That is up 6.3 percent from
last year’s opening average of $3.95 million and is a 15 percent rise over two years.
Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels says “it’s a
shocking number for the average family to think about.”
The Dodgers’ payroll includes $43.8 million for 2015 to
cover the costs of players traded and let go.
At the bottom are Houston ($69.1 million) and Miami
($69.2 million). A record 508 players earn $1 million or
more.
T-Birds suffer narrow defeats to Pratt
PRATT — The Cloud
County Thunderbirds suffered a pair of narrow losses to Pratt Community
College in a Jayhawk Conference Western Division
baseball doubleheader on
Saturday.
Pratt edged Cloud County 4-3 in the first game of
the twinbill, and then rallied for a 12-10 victory in
the second game.
Cloud County, 14-25
overall and 8-16 in the Jayhawk West, split with the
Beavers on Friday, losing
the first game 6-1 and winning the second, 13-10.
In game one on Saturday, the T-Birds trailed 1-0
heading into the top of the
fourth inning.
Scoring three runs on
four hits and an error,
Cloud County took a 3-1
lead.
Pratt tied the game with
two runs in the bottom of
the fifth inning.
The Beavers scored the
winning run in the bottom
of the seventh.
Emilio Foden pitched six
and two-thirds innings in
taking the loss. He gave up
four runs, two earned, on
five hits, struck out seven
and walked two.
Coleton Besse, Bryce
McMullen and Reymond
Snyder had two hits each
for the T-Birds.
Cloud
County
fell
behind 3-1 in the first
inning in game two.
Single runs in the third
and fourth innings pulled
the T-Birds even at 3-3.
Pratt scored one run in
the bottom of the fourth
and one in the fifth to go up
5-3.
Snyder singled home
two runs in the top of the
sixth inning, and the game
was tied again at 5-5.
Cloud County tacked on
four runs in the top of the
seventh inning, and led 95.
Jacob Wells knocked in
two runs with a single.
Pratt answered with four
runs in the bottom of the
seventh to tie the game at
9-9.
The Beavers added three
runs in the eighth inning to
make it an 12-9 game.
Cloud County scored
one run in the top of the
ninth.
Derek Newcome allowed
seven runs, five earned, on
11 hits, struck out three
and walked three for Cloud
County.
Bryce Girdner suffered
the loss. He gave up five
runs, three earned, on
three this, struck out one
and walked two in an
inning.
Chanse Copple pitched
two-thirds of an inning,
and allowed one hit and
struck out one.
Snyder was 2-for-3 at
the plate with three runs
batted in.
Cameron Zane had
three hits.
McMullen and Trevor
Reid had two hits each.
Besse
and
Wells
knocked in two runs each.
Cloud County grabbed a
1-0 lead in the top of the
first inning in game one on
Friday
when
Bowe
Behymer
singled
and
scored on a sacrifice fly by
Alixon Herrera
The T -Birds would not
score again.
Pratt pushed across two
runs in the bottom of the
first, and two more in the
second.
The Beavers scored one
run in the fourth inning
and one in the fifth.
Cole Otto took the loss.
He allowed six runs, three
earned, on 10 hits, struck
out two and walked one in
five innings.
Anthony
Arellano
worked
one
scoreless
inning. He gave up one hit.
In the second game, the
T -Birds broke a scoreless
tie with six runs in the top
of the second inning.
Jared Zerr had a tworun triple in the inning.
Besse singled home two
runs.
Pratt put up three runs
in the bottom of the second.
Cloud County extended
the lead to 9-3 with three
runs in the top of the third
inning.
Pratt made it a 9-4 game
with a run in the bottom of
the inning.
Three runs in the top of
the fifth inning gave the TBirds a 12-4 cushion.
McMullen, Wells and
Colton Kooser singled to
drive in runs.
Pratt closed the gap to
12-8 with four runs in the
bottom of the fifth.
Each team scored a run
in the sixth inning, and
Cloud County led 13-9.
Pratt added a run in the
seventh.
John Badgett got the
win for Cloud County. He
allowed nine runs, seven
earned, on 13 hits, struck
out nine and wa
Zachary Horton gave up
one run on two hits, struck
out three and walked one
in three innings.
Wells had four hits in
the game for the T-Birds.
Besse had two hits and
drove in three runs.
Zerr was 3-for-5, drove
in two runs and scored
Behymer had three hits
and scored two runs.
McMullen had two hits
and drove in two runs.
Herrera and Zane had
two hits and scored two
runs each.
UConn back in national title game
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Geno
Auriemma and his UConn
Huskies now stand one win
away from a third straight
championship and matching another vaunted milestone.
Breanna Stewart scored
25 points and Morgan Tuck
added 24 to lead UConn to
an 81-58 win over Maryland
on Sunday night in the
Final Four.
UConn will face a familiar
foe stands for the title Tuesday night, Notre Dame — a
rematch of last season’s
championship game.
“Every time we play Notre
Dame, it’s something. I just
have a lot of respect for
what they’ve been able to
do,” UConn coach Geno
Auriemma said. “They’ve
got a heck of a team and
their team has gotten a lot
better as the season has
gone on. Jewell’s a great
player, obviously, but all
their other players have gotten significantly better since
the beginning of the season.”
The Huskies are 9-0 in
title games and a victory
over the Irish would tie
Auriemma with vaunted
UCLA men’s coach John
Wooden for the most alltime with 10. It would also
be the second three-peat for
UConn, which won three
straight
championships
from 2002-04. The last two
titles of that run came
against Tennessee, marking
the only other time in NCAA
Tournament history that
the same teams met in
back-to-back championship
games.
Making the Final Four
seems like a rite of spring
lately for the Huskies (37-1).
They have appeared in the
last eight national semifinals.
UConn
had
cruised
through this year’s tournament, but Maryland coach
Brenda Frese said her team
wouldn’t be intimidated by
the Huskies.
“I think the biggest thing
against Maryland is they
can break you down with
their guard play, and then
they’re so big inside,”
Auriemma said. “If you
make a mistake on their
guards, you’ve got the big
guys to deal with. We needed to try and make sure that
we only gave up one thing,
that we didn’t give up both.
So we tried to concentrate
on taking away their 3s,
which they’re really good at.
And then try to create some
mismatches on this end
with Tuck and Stewie
because I thought that’s
where we had the advantage.”
The Terrapins took it
right at them from the start,
hanging with UConn for the
first 10 minutes. Maryland
only trailed 22-19 before
UConn
scored
seven
straight points capped by
Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis’
3-pointer that made it a 10point game. Maryland (343) didn’t back down and
pulled within 39-33 on
Lexie Brown’s 3-pointer
with 1:52 left in the half.
Then Tuck took over.
She scored the final five
points of the half to give the
Huskies a double-digit
advantage going into the
break. Tuck started the second half with another 3 as
UConn scored the first nine
points to break the game
open. Her layup capped the
burst and gave UConn a 5333 advantage, essentially
putting the game out reach.
“Tuck was a big time Xfactor for them tonight,”
Frese said. “The stat line of
Kaleena, she hits one three
but gives seven assists. goes
into facilitator, get everyone
else going.”
The redshirt sophomore
missed last season’s championship run while she was
recovering from microfracture surgery on her right
knee that allowed her to
only play in eight games.
She made her presence felt
on the game’s biggest stage,
finishing just two points
short of her career high.
“It means a lot, to be out
there and actually contribute and make an
impact,” Tuck said. “That’s
why I came here. To really
be doing it, it’s a great feeling.”
The loss ended a schoolrecord 28-game winning
streak for Maryland, which
hasn’t won in its four meetings with the Huskies.
Brionna Jones scored 14
points and Lexie Brown
added 12 to lead the Terrapins, who cruised through
the Big Ten in their inaugural season in the conference
going undefeated.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Notre
Dame keeps finding ways to
win. One more victory and
the Irish will be national
champions again.
A young team that lost
three starters from last
year’s squad is back in the
NCAA title game after fighting off a gallant comeback
by Final Four newcomer
South Carolina 66-65 on
Sunday night.
All-American Jewell Loyd
scored 22 points as the Irish
(36-2) advanced to the
championship game for the
fourth time in five years, but
it took a basket from an
unlikely source to survive a
scoring drought that lasted
more than seven minutes
down the stretch.
Madison Cable’s putback
for her only points of the
night put the Irish in front
for good.
“I was just crashing any
way to try to get a rebound,
and it kind of just bounced
right where I was,” Cable
said. “I turned around and
had an open shot and took
it. Luckily, it went in.”
Loyd said no one boxed
out Cable on her game-winning basket, adding: “She’s
done it all year. She’s the
MVP.”
Now, Notre Dame will
face two-time defending
champion Connecticut (371) Tuesday night in a
rematch of last year’s title
game.
The Irish ran out to double-digit
leads
against
South Carolina, but the
Gamecocks wouldn’t go
away.
“We didn’t rebound,
missed a bunch of shots,”
said Notre Dame coach
Muffet McGraw. “Just a
great basketball game. We
went to Jewell. She had to
do everything. Everyone
contributed.”
Notre Dame is looking to
win it all for the first time
since McGraw led them to
their only national title in
2001.
South Carolina (34-3)
overcame a 12-point, firsthalf deficit and did it again
in the closing minutes. The
feisty Gamecocks used a
13-0 run to take their only
lead on Aleighsa Welch’s
offensive stickback with
1:12 remaining.
“It came down to them
making a play when they
needed to make a play and
we didn’t,” South Carolina
coach Dawn Staley said.
Brianna Turner scored
17 points and grabbed eight
rebounds before fouling out
for Notre Dame. Taya
Reimer had 16 points for
Notre Dame.
Freshman A’ja Wilson
came off the bench to lead
South Carolina with 20
points. She scored 10
straight for the Gamecocks
at one point in the second
half to keep her resilient
team within striking distance.
Notre Dame led 64-52
with 7:51 to go. The Irish
missed eight straight shots
before Cable wiped out
South Carolina’s short-lived
lead. South Carolina AllAmerican Tiffany Mitchell’s
off-balance 3-point attempt
bounced high off the backboard as time ran out on the
best season in school history.
Mitchell fell to the court
in dejection and was helped
up by teammates.
“They were making it
hard for me to try and find a
shot. And when I tried to
pass it, they deflected it,”
said Mitchell, who finished
with 11 points on 5-of-11
shooting.
The Gamecocks hurt
themselves, going 7 for 16
from the foul line, and missing six of seven in the closing minutes while they were
trying to catch up.
Notre Dame edges South Carolina
6 Blade-Empire, Monday, April 6, 2015
Relieving Restless Legs Syndrome: Device A
Real-Life Example Of “Physician Heal Thyself”
(NAPSA)—According to the
U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, sleep deprivation
is a serious and growing epidemic
in the U.S. with potentially lifethreatening consequences. The
chronically sleep deprived may be
at greater risk for obesity, heart
disease, heart attack and even
premature death.
Some people may be able to
address the problem by reducing
their caffeine intake, shutting
down the mesmerizing glow of
their computer and cell phone
screens, or choosing an earlier
bedtime. But for millions of Americans suffering from Restless Legs
Syndrome (RLS), problems of
sleep deprivation actually begin
the moment they lay down.
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
(NINDS) estimates that as many
as 12 million Americans may be
suffering from RLS, a lifelong
neurological condition that’s also
known as Willis-Ekbom Disease.
Suffering With RLS
People with RLS often experience uncomfortable, uncontrollable
tingling, aching and pain in their
legs. The symptoms, which typically begin while a person’s at rest,
may awaken him or her from a
sound sleep or delay his or her ability to fall asleep in the first place.
In severe cases, RLS attacks may
occur several times and with increased severity during the night.
Many people find their only
relief from an RLS attack comes
from physical movement, such as
massaging their limbs or walking
around the room, to address their
discomfort. Repeated sleep interruptions from RLS can reduce a
patient’s quality of life, leading to
physical fatigue, reduced mental
functioning, and emotional stress.
Women are twice as likely as
men to have RLS. And although
people of any age may be affected,
mature adults may suffer the
most, because RLS symptoms
tend to increase in both frequency
and duration with age.
Historically, medications have
been used to treat RLS, but many
of these drugs have significant
side effects and present risks of
drug interaction and addiction.
NINDS also reports that some
drugs have been found to actually
worsen patients’ RLS symptoms
over time, despite initially providing relief.
Fortunately, there’s new hope
for RLS sufferers. The U.S. Food
and Drug Administration (FDA)
recently cleared Relaxis, a new,
nondrug treatment to help RLS
A new device can help people
with Restless Legs Syndrome
sleep better.
patients. Relaxis is not a drug and
therefore does not carry any of the
risk and side effects associated
with them.
How Relaxis Addresses RLS
Relaxis is a prescription-only
medical device that provides controlled, targeted, vibratory counterstimulation. During an RLS
episode, patients place the lowprofile Relaxis pad at the site of
their discomfort. They then choose
a vibration intensity, which ultimately overwhelms their RLS
symptoms while they remain in
the comfort of their bed. After 30
minutes, Relaxis gradually ramps
down and shuts off without waking the patient.
Relaxis was invented by Dr.
Fred Burbank, a well-known
physician and inventor who
sought relief from his own RLS
symptoms. Results from two randomized, multicenter, controlled,
double-blinded, prospective clinical research studies have been
published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, indicating that the
Relaxis device was found better
than placebo pads for improving
sleep quality in patients with primary RLS.
“Until now, RLS patients’ only
options were to suffer unaided
through their condition or face the
potential side effects of long-term
medication therapy,” says Dr. Burbank, chairman of Sensory NeuroStimulation, Inc., the company
that developed Relaxis. “We are
pleased to have the first and only
nonpharmacological approach,
which is clinically proven and
FDA cleared, to address the symptoms of this devastating condition,” he concluded.
Relaxis is now available nationwide by prescription only.
Interested patients should ask
their doctor or visit www.My
Relaxis.com for more details.
Relaxis is made in the U.S.A. by
Sensory NeuroStimulation, Inc., a
privately held company based in
San Clemente, Calif.
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Medicare bill helps doctors and kids
WASHINGTON (AP) – Republicans say bipartisan
legislation that reworks
how Medicare pays doctors is a milestone toward
curbing a huge, growing
benefit program.
It’s “the first real entitlement reform in decades,”
says House Speaker John
Boehner, R-Ohio, using
Washington jargon for programs that automatically
pay people who qualify.
Many deficit hawks are
less impressed with the
bipartisan measure that
Congress is expected to
complete soon.
A look at the debate over
how significantly the legislation would bolster Medicare’s finances:
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WHAT’S WRONG WITH
MEDICARE?
Nothing a few trillion
bucks wouldn’t fix. The
program, which helps pay
medical bills for more than
50 million elderly people,
is expected to spend more
than $600 billion this
year. That’s one-sixth of
the entire federal budget.
The
nonpartisan
Congressional Budget Office
expects that price tag to
nearly double by 2025 as
more baby boomers retire.
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WHAT ENTITLEMENT
REFORM IS BOEHNER
TALKING ABOUT?
The budget office says
the Medicare legislation
would cost $214 billion
over the coming decade.
The House approved it
overwhelmingly March 26,
and Senate passage seems
likely this month.
Besides helping physicians, the bill finances
health care for children
and low-income people.
Most of its cost is for annulling a law imposing repeated, steep reductions in
physician reimbursements
for treating Medicare patients. Doctors say such
cuts, which Congress usually prevents, would make
them stop seeing Medicare
recipients.
Most costs over the next
decade — $141 billion —
would be financed by making federal deficits even
larger. To pay for around
half of the rest, federal
payments would be reduced to hospitals, home
health care companies and
other providers.
The bill would also
squeeze $34 billion from
beneficiaries.
It
would
raise monthly premiums
for medical care and prescription drugs paid by
top-earning Medicare recipients
beginning
in
2018, and make additional
higher-income recipients
pay larger premiums starting in 2020.
An additional $1 billion
would come from requiring people buying Medigap
insurance, which covers
costs Medicare will not
pay, to incur out-of-pocket expenses before their
Medigap coverage begins.
This would start for people buying new policies in
2020. Currently, some Medigap policies protect purchasers from virtually any
out-of-pocket costs.
It’s these beneficiary
changes Republicans are
crowing about.
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DO
REPUBLICANS
HAVE REASON TO DECLARE VICTORY?
To a degree, yes.
They modestly curbed
Medicare without raising
taxes, which Democrats
normally demand in exchange for squeezing benefit programs.
There’s true savings because the more Medicare
recipients pay in premiums, the less the program
needs government money. And making Medigap
policy holders pay more
for their own care should
encourage them to watch
their medical spending,
easing some Medicare expenses.
Republicans say the initial $35 billion in savings
would escalate the second
decade from now as the
number of Medicare recipients and medical costs
grow.
They cite an estimate
by Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a
Republican-appointed former Congressional Budget Office director, that
those changes would reduce Medicare spending
by $230 billion from 2026
through 2035. This helped
win votes for the bill from
conservative House Republicans unhappy over
its projected deficit increases between now and
2025.
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WHAT’S WRONG WITH
THE GOP ARGUMENT?
Critics say saving $35
billion over a decade pales
compared to the nearly
$9 trillion Medicare is expected to spend over that
period. That’s a saving of
about one-third of 1 percent.
They
say
President
Barack Obama, House Republicans and the 2010
bipartisan
commission
headed by former Democratic White House chief of
staff Erskine Bowles and
former Sen. Alan Simpson,
R-Wyo., have all proposed
more robust plans for
bolstering Medicare than
what’s in the bill.
“These are wimpy forms
of
important
policies,”
said Maya MacGuineas,
president of the bipartisan
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
The critics say HoltzEakins’ estimate covered
only
potential
savings
during the decade he examined, not the Medicare
bill’s overall expenditures.
They note that the budget office, Holtz-Eakin’s
old employer, warned of
“considerable uncertainty”
over such long-range predictions and said the bill
might save or cost money
two decades from now,
with small savings in the
middle of their estimate
range.
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IS THIS THE FIRST
REAL ENTITLEMENT REFORM IN DECADES?
That’s debatable.
In 2003 under President
George W. Bush, Congress
increased Medicare medical premiums for higherearning recipients for the
first time, as part of the
law creating the program’s
prescription drug coverage. The higher premiums started in 2007, and
around 5 percent of recipients pay them today.
Obama’s 2010 health
care law required upperincome people to pay higher prescription drug premiums, too.
That law also froze the
income levels above which
people pay higher premiums through 2019, instead of increasing those
thresholds annually with
inflation. This meant more
people owed the bigger
premiums each year as
their incomes grew.
Republicans
discount
those
savings
because
they came packaged with
new, expensive benefit
programs – Medicare’s
prescription drug coverage
and Obama’s health care
overhaul.
Paul set to enter presidential chase
WASHINGTON (AP) –
Change? For sure. Hope?
Maybe not so much.
That’s Rand Paul’s approach to winning the
White House when the
original hope-and-change
candidate, Barack Obama,
vacates it in early 2017.
Ready to enter the chase
for the Republican presidential nomination this
week, the first-term Kentucky senator has designs
on changing how members
of his party go about getting
elected to the White House
and how they govern once
they get there.
He will do so with an approach to politics that is
often downbeat and usually dour, which just might
work in a nation deeply
frustrated with Washington.
Since his election to Congress, and in the lead-up to
his entry into the presidential race, Paul has favored
blunt takes on America’s
woes instead of the sunny
earnestness that helped
fuel Obama’s rise to popularity in 2007 and 2008.
Consider Paul’s response
this year to Obama’s State
of the Union address, a
speech filled by presidents
of all parties with bullish
predictions for the nation’s
future. Paul’s message that
night was downright sullen.
“I wish I had better news
for you, but all is not well in
America,” Paul said. Much
of the country, he said,
“still suffers.”
Paul is set to declare his
candidacy during a speech
in his home state of Kentucky on Tuesday. Expect
Paul to outline a vision for
America that doesn’t fit any
of the traditional Republican molds.
He would alter the scale
and mandate of the federal
government in more radical
ways than other members
of the GOP. And he bucks
party ideology in standing
against government surveillance, for deep cuts in
military spending and in
questioning the wisdom of
harsh sentences for drug
offenders who cost government billions to imprison.
Those libertarian impulses resonate with people on
the left as well as the right,
though they can be hard
for many mainstream Republicans to swallow. Sen.
John McCain, the Arizona
Republican who was his
party’s 2008 presidential
nominee, called Paul and
others “wacko birds” of the
Senate when they unsuccessfully tried to block the
nomination of John Brennan as CIA chief in a dispute over the use of drones.
“He can appeal to a
broader spectrum of voters,” said Eliott West, a student at Michigan’s Spring
Arbor University who led
a pro-Paul delegation to a
recent conservative conference near Washington.
“He is about more freedom,
less government. And if Republicans are going to win,
that’s what we need.”
Paul also plans to seek
out support from those who
might not necessarily think
a Republican deserves their
vote. Among 2016 GOP rivals, Paul alone has made
a point of visiting college
campuses,
historically
black universities and minority communities. For
instance, after the protests
over police violence in Ferguson, Missouri, Paul visited the city and urged black
residents to vote.
Immediately after his
Kentucky speech on Tues-
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day, Paul will visit counties
in the first four early nominating states that favored
Obama over GOP nominee
Mitt Romney in 2012. In
three of Rand Paul’s destinations, his father, Rep.
Ron Paul, came in second
in his longshot 2012 bid for
the Republican presidential
nomination.
He’ll do so with a campaign style that is utterly unique. Where Ronald
Reagan promised that “It’s
morning in America again”
and George H.W. Bush
pitched “a thousand points
of light,” Paul skips the feelgood slogans. He tells audiences, for example, that
he wants to stop the government from snooping on
people’s data. “We’re going
to be the party that protects
your phone.”
Paul’s advisers acknowledge that his approach
could be off-putting to voters who expect optimism in
their presidents. They bank
on the expectation that
frustration with the status
quo will again mean a vote
for change – this time, for
a Republican after eight
years of a Democrat in the
White House.
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Police Dept. Report
Damage to property—At
approximately 7:30 p.m.,
Sunday, April 5, Bryan Colard reported criminal damage to property in the 600
block of East 17th.
Theft—Pizza Hut reported at approximately 9:40
p.m., April 3, Theft By Deception in the 2100 block of
Lincoln.
Brandon Callihan reported at approximately
2:40 a.m., April 3, Theft of
a Motor Vehicle in the 1000
block of East 8th. The vehicle was recovered by the
Cloud County Sheriff’s Department.
Officers responded to a
complaint at approximately
8:30 p.m., April 3, and arrested Lisa Helton, 36, Concordia, in the 800 block of
East 6th on charges of Aggravated Burglary and Impersonating a police Official.
Helton was transported to
the Cloud County Law Enforcement Center.
On Thursday, April 2, at
approximately 6:10 p.m. officers responded to a complaint in the 800 block of
West 8th and executed a
search warrant at 3:45 p.m.
which resulted in the following Arrests and all adults
were transported to the
Cloud County Law Enforcement Center:
Kaylee Martinez, 19,
Concordia,
arrested
on
charges of Possession of
Drug Paraphernalia, Possession of Hallucinogenic Drug,
Possession With Intent to
Distribute, Possession of a
Controlled Substance, and
Felony Obstruction;
Lane Campbell, 18, Concordia, arrested on charges
of Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Possession of
Hallucinogenic Drug, Possession With Intent to Distribute and Possession of a
Controlled Substance.
Wade Stimatze, 18, Concordia, arrested on charges
of Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Possession of
Hallucinogenic Drug, Possession With Intent to Distribute and Possession of a
Controlled Substance.
Catrina Plummer, 18,
Concordia,
arrested
on
charges of Possession of
Drug Paraphernalia and
Possession of Hallucinogenic drug;
Crocket Stortz, 20, Concordia, arrested on charges
of Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and Possession of
Hallucinogenic Drug.
A 16-year-old juvenile
was arrested on charges
of Runaway, Possession of
Drug Paraphernalia and
Possession of Hallucinogenic Drug. The juvenile was
transported to a juvenile facility.
Indiana faces long
road to restore image
after religious law
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Indiana tourism agencies are
rolling out campaigns emphasizing that everyone is
welcome, but it might not
be enough to quickly restore
the state’s battered image
after a backlash over its religious objections law.
An uproar sparked by
fears that the law would allow discrimination against
gays and lesbians led a few
convention organizers and
performers to cancel events
and some state and local
governments to ban travel
to the state last week. Revisions to the law’s language
have eased some of the criticism, but experts say the
state could be dealing with
a damaged reputation for
years to come.
In a sign that Indiana is
still under close scrutiny,
hundreds of gay rights supporters marched to the site
of the NCAA Final Four in
Indianapolis on Saturday as
college basketball fans were
arriving for the games. The
marches called for the state
to go further and enshrine
in its civil rights law protection for gays and lesbians.
Chris Gahl, vice president of Visit Indy, the lead
promoter for Indianapolis,
said he has been in “full
crisis mode” since the furor erupted after Gov. Mike
Pence signed the law late
last month.
Gahl said Visit Indy received more than 800
emails from people saying
they were canceling trips
for events such as the Indianapolis 500 or choosing
a different vacation destination. The agency has
been scrambling to prevent
groups and businesses from
either pulling out of negotiations for future conventions or canceling upcoming
events altogether.
Two groups, including the
public employee union AFSCME, have canceled conventions, and Gahl said two
others were on the fence. He
put the economic impact of
those events at a “healthy
eight figures.”
“What keeps us up at
night is the fact that 75,000
people depend on tourism
for a paycheck,” Gahl said.
“And if we don’t fill the city
with conventions and visitors, they don’t work.”
The crisis isn’t confined to Indianapolis. Fort
Wayne, the state’s secondlargest city, has had six national conventions express
concerns about continuing business in Indiana. If
all six pulled out, it would
represent about $1.2 million in revenue, said Dan
O’Connell, president and
CEO of Visit Fort Wayne.
Businesses say they’ve
been inundated with emails
from people asking for reassurance that they are welcome in Indiana, or canceling orders or plans. The
famed French Lick Resort,
a hotel in an historic town
in southern Indiana, issued
a statement Friday saying it
has “always been open and
inclusive” and that the new
law won’t change that.
Traci Bratton, owner of
the Hoosier Candle Company in Dayton, about 50 miles
northwest of Indianapolis,
said she’s received emails
from out-of-state customers
who like her products but
say they won’t be bringing
their business to Indiana
because of the law.
“Hoosier Hospitality has
been thrown out the window,” Bratton said.
But the impact is being
most keenly felt in Indianapolis, which has earned
national praise for its transformation from a place once
referred to as “Naptown”
and “India-No-Place” to a vibrant, friendly city that used
sports and a downtown renaissance to land a Super
Bowl and become a popular
pit stop in what was once
called “flyover country.”
Indy Big Data, a tech
convention slated for May,
has lost nine national sponsors, including Amazon and
Cloudera. GenCon, the city’s
largest convention, has a
contract with the city until
2020, but Gahl said negotiations to extend the agreement for another five years
could fall through because
of the outcry over the law. A
departure of GenCon, which
brings in about $56 million
each year, would be a huge
loss, Gahl said.
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Rolling Stone rape
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Blade-Empire, Monday, April 6, 2015 7
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) –
Rolling Stone is pledging to
review its editorial practices
but won’t fire anyone after a
leading journalism school issued a blistering critique of
how it reported and edited a
discredited article about an
alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia.
The Columbia Graduate
School of Journalism said in
the Sunday report that the
magazine’s shortcomings “encompassed reporting, editing,
editorial supervision and factchecking.”
Two of the report’s authors,
dean Steve Coll and academic
dean Sheila Coronel, were
scheduled to discuss their investigation at a news conference Monday in New York.
The analysis was accompanied by a statement from
Rolling Stone Managing Editor Will Dana apologizing for
the failures and retracting the
November 2014 story. Some
University of Virginia students said none of that will
erase the article’s repercussions.
“I think the real casualty
of the report is the University
of Virginia’s trust in journalism,” said Abraham Axler
of New York City, president
of the university’s Student
Council. “I don’t think any
University of Virginia student
going through this will ever
read an article the same way.”
Maggie Rossberg, a second-year nursing student
from Crozet, Virginia, said
her chief concern is the effect
the journalistic lapses will
have on rape victims. “This
is probably going to discourage other sexual assault survivors from coming forward,”
Rossberg said.
The Columbia review was
undertaken at Rolling Stone’s
request and posted on both
organizations’ websites. It
presented a broad indictment
of the magazine’s handling
of a story that had horrified
readers, unleashed protests
at the university’s Charlottesville campus and sparked
a national discussion about
sexual assaults on college
campuses.
It came two weeks after the
Charlottesville police department said it had found no
evidence to back the claims
of the victim, identified in the
story only as “Jackie,” who
said she was raped by seven
men at a fraternity house.
The article’s author, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, also apologized in a statement, saying
she would not repeat the mistakes she made when writing
the article, “A Rape on Campus.”
“Reading the Columbia
account of the mistakes and
misjudgments in my reporting was a brutal and humbling experience,” she said.
The magazine’s publisher,
Jann S. Wenner, however,
told The New York Times
that Erdely would continue
to write for the magazine and
that neither her editor nor
Dana would be fired.
The university’s president
issued a statement accusing
Rolling Stone of “irresponsible journalism.”
Rolling Stone had asked
for the independent review
after numerous news media
outlets found flaws with the
story about Jackie, who said
the attack happened during a social event at the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity house
more than two years earlier.
The article quoted Jackie as
saying that the attack was
orchestrated by a fraternity
member who worked with her
at the school’s aquatic center.
She also said she immediately told three friends about
the attack, but she said they
were generally unsupportive,
and that at least two encouraged her to keep quiet to protect their social standing.
The report found three
major flaws in the magazine’s
reporting methodology: that
Erdely did not try to contact
the three friends, instead taking Jackie’s word for it that
one of them refused to talk;
that she failed to give enough
details of the alleged assault
when she contacted the fraternity for comment, which
made it difficult for the organization to investigate; and
that Rolling Stone did not
try hard enough to find the
person Jackie accused of orchestrating the assault.
If the fraternity had had
more information, it might
have been able to explain
earlier that it did not hold a
social function the night of
the attack and that none of
its members worked at the
aquatic center, the report
noted.
Soon after the article was
published, several news media organizations began finding problems with the account, forcing Rolling Stone
to acknowledge on Dec. 5 that
there were discrepancies.
Dana and Erdely said they
had been too accommodating
of requests from Jackie that
limited their ability to report
the story because she said
she was a rape victim and
asked them not to contact
others to corroborate, the report said.
However, Columbia’s report said, Rolling Stone also
failed to investigate reporting
leads even when Jackie had
not specifically asked them
not to.
“The editors made judgments about attribution,
fact-checking and verification
that greatly increased their
risks of error but had little or
nothing to do with protecting
Jackie’s position,” it said.
The report said Rolling Stone’s article may cast
doubt on future accusations
of rape. It also said the article
damaged the reputation of
the Phi Kappa Psi chapter at
U.Va. and depicted the university administration as neglectful.
Prior to the issuance of the
journalism school’s report,
the fraternity called the Rolling Stone article defamatory
and said it was exploring legal options. Neither the fraternity nor its lawyer would
comment Sunday night.
Thrivent Financial is a
fraternal benefit society that
has local member groups
throughout the country.
Soon these member groups
called chapters will transition members to the Thrivent Member Network.
This decision was based
on member input throughout the country, to engage
more people in a way that
supports the mission of
Thrivent to help more people be wise with money and
live generously so that more
families and communities
thrive. This means that
our local chapter, Republican River #30307 (serving Washington, Clay and
Cloud counties) will cease
operation on June 30, 2015.
The transition has been
in progress for some time,
starting with a program
called “Choice Dollars” in
which individual members
may direct benefits to the
organization of their choice.
In 2014, Thrivent Financial
adopted a new volunteer
program called “Thrivent
Action Teams” in which any
member can volunteer to
lead a one-time project team
to support a cause they care
about through a fundraiser,
service activity or educational event. Members will
also continue to have the
opportunity to participate in
Thrivent Builds with Habitat
for Humanity and attend financial workshops and other events within the region.
Courthouse
District Court
CRIMINAL
Joseph Raymond Lopez
appeared April 1 and was
found Guilty and convicted of Disorderly Conduct.
He was sentenced to 10
days in the Cloud County
Jail, ordered to pay a fine
of $50 and costs of the action, $158. His sentence
was suspended on condition
that all fines and costs are
paid in full by May 6. They
further found that he shall
complete counseling and
provide the Court with proof
of the same.
Jacob Lee Deckert appeared April 2 and was
found Guilty and convicted
of Disorderly Conduct. He
was sentenced to 30 days in
the Cloud County Jail and
ordered to pay costs of the
action, $158, attorney fees
of $100 and all other assessed fees. His sentence
was suspended with Defendant being placed on supervised probation with Court
Services for 12 months following specific terms and
conditions.
***
Motherhood meant I have written four fewer books,
but I know more about life.
-A. S. Byatt
***
8 Blade-Empire, Monday, April 6, 2015
Obituaries
IMOGENE “IMO” HANSON
RICHARD “DICK” E. HANSON
IRENE MARCELLA AAKER BREWER
Imogene “Imo” F. Hanson,
87, of Grand Island, Neb.,
died Monday, March 30,
2015, at CHI Health Saint
Francis.
Service was held 11 a.m.
Friday at First Presbyterian
Church. The Rev. Caroline Price-Gibson officiated.
Burial was in Grand Island
City Cemetery.
Visitation was from 5-7
p.m. Thursday at All Faiths
Funeral Home.
Mrs. Hanson was born
March 22, 1928, in Concordia, Kan., to Ralph and
Christine (Nelson) Davis.
Those left to cherish
her memory include three
sons and daughters-in-law,
Craig and Judy Hanson of
Janesville, Wis., Brad and
Jan Hanson of Bartlett, Ill.,
and Paul and Deb Hanson
of Lee’s Summit, Mo.; and
a daughter and son-in-law,
Christine and Ed Wright of
Milwaukie, Ore.
Additional survivors include eight grandchildren,
Becky (Matt), Kait, Eric, Michael (Maureen), Jared (Megan), Jeff, Teresa and Paige;
and one great-grandchild,
Kaiden.
She was preceded in
death by her beloved husband, Richard “Dick”, on
March 29, 2015; and sisters,
Marge Conley and Bonnie
Welsh.
Imo received her education in the public schools of
Concordia, Kan. She then
went to Kansas Wesleyan
University, from which she
graduated in 1950 with a
Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology. She was a member
of Delta Kappa Chi social sorority and was also a member of (and toured nationally
with) the Kansas Wesleyan
Choir.
She was united in marriage to Dick Hanson on
Jan. 29, 1950. They lived
in Manhattan, Kan., where
she worked in the city office and where she and Dick
started their family. In 1956,
the couple moved to Peoria,
Ill., where their family continued to grow. In addition
to being a loving and wonderful mother, friend, and
neighbor, Imo was actively
involved in all aspects of her
children’s lives; including
serving her community as a
Richard “Dick” E. Hanson,
86, of Grand Island, Neb.,
died Sunday, March 29,
2015, at CHI Health Saint
Francis.
Service was held 11:00
a.m. Friday, April 4, at First
Presbyterian Church. The
Rev. Caroline Price-Gibson
officiated. Burial was in
Grand Island City Cemetery.
Visitation was from 5-7
p.m. Thursday at All Faiths
Funeral Home.
Mr. Hanson was born Nov.
16, 1928, in Jamestown,
Kan., to Frank and Ida (Andersen) Hanson.
Those left to cherish his
memory include three sons
and daughters-in-law, Craig
and Judy Hanson of Janesville, Wis., Brad and Jan
Hanson of Bartlett, Ill., and
Paul and Deb Hanson of Lee’s
Summit, Mo., and a daughter and son-in-law, Christine
and Ed Wright of Milwaukie,
Ore.; brother, Dean Hanson
and sister, Ann Hanson.
Additional survivors include eight grandchildren,
Becky (Matt), Kait, Eric, Michael (Maureen), Jared (Megan), Jeff, Teresa and Paige;
and one great-grandchild,
Kaiden.
His beloved wife, Imogene
“Imo” died the day after Dick,
March 30, 2015. He was preceded in death by a sister,
Fran Evans and sister-inlaw, Dorothy Hanson.
Dick received his education in the public schools
of Concordia, Kan. He then
went to Kansas State University, where he graduated in
1955 with a Master’s Degree
in Agricultural Engineering.
He was a member of Alpha
Gamma Rho social fraternity, Steel Ring honorary society, Sigma Tau Scholastic
honorary society, Cadet Colonel in the Air Force ROTC,
and was on the varsity track
team.
He was united in marriage to Imogene Davis on
Jan. 29, 1950. They lived
in Manhattan, Kan., where
Dick worked for KSU for five
years doing research in irrigation. In 1956, the couple
moved to Peoria, Ill., where
Dick worked for the Nelson
Family in all phases of ir-
Irene Marcella Aaker
Brewer, homemaker, music enthusiast and longtime
area resident, died Wednesday at her home northeast
of Carthage, Mo. She would
have been 97 on April 12.
She and her husband,
Archie, lived in their historic Maple Lane Farm home,
which they moved to from
Norway, Kan., in 1961. They
celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary on Feb.
24.
Mrs. Brewer had been
hospitalized twice in recent
weeks with age-related illnesses. She had not lost
her sense of humor and still
knew members of her extensive family and friends.
Mrs. Brewer was born in
Seattle, Wash., in 1918, the
daughter of the Rev. V.O.
and Emma Aaker. At her
confirmation, she was given
the middle name of Magdalene. She studied voice at a
music conservatory in Fargo, N.D., where she sang on
local radio station WDAY.
The well-known singer Peggy Lee was then a receptionist at the station and she
and Mrs. Brewer became
friends. Later in Atchison,
Kan., she had a weekly radio program called “15 Minutes With Smiles.”
She met her husband
in Norway, Kan., where her
father was a Lutheran minister. During World War
II, Mrs. Brewer joined the
ranks of “Rosie the Riveter,”
helping manufacture military aircraft windshields at
a plant near Glendale, Calif.,
where Archie was stationed
in the Army Air Force.
After the War, they returned to Norway to farm.
Mrs. Brewer was a frequent
soloist in her church and
at weddings and funerals.
She continued to pursue
Imogene “Imo” Hanson
Cub Scout Den Leader, PTA
member, hospital volunteer
and church deaconess.
In 1975, Imo and Dick
moved to Grand Island,
where she began a new
chapter in her life; beginning
many new, lasting friendships and rekindling her
interest in tennis and other
activities.
Her first priority was
always love of family and
friends and her infectious
laugh and sense of humor
were enjoyed by everyone
she came to know or those
she had just met for the first
time. Her famous poems
were not just enjoyed as annual Christmas greetings,
but Imo always had a great
poem for every important occasion in the lives of her family and friends. She kept her
family in touch as their lives
took them in different directions, as Editor-in-Chief of
the Hanson Herald. Each of
her grandchildren built lifelong memories at weeklong
summer adventures at Papa
and Nana’s home on the lake
(affectionately referred to as
Camp Run-A-Muk). Nana’s
hospitality and cooking was
the hit of family get-togethers
at holidays, and she enjoyed
many family reunions (including an Alaskan Cruise)
where she was often heard
to say, “Isn’t this Jolly!” To
which everyone would reply, “I knew you were going
to say that!” Imo loved life,
God, her family, her friends
and people in general.
She was a member of the
First Presbyterian Church
and had been a longtime
member of the Grand Island
Racquet Center.
In lieu of flowers, the
family request memorial donations be made to the Leukemia Lymphoma Society.
www.lls.org.
WAYNE L. CHRISCO SR.
Wayne L. Chrisco, Sr.,
age 76, entered into rest
March 30, 2015, at the Via
Christi Hospital St. Francis
Campus, Wichita, Kan. He
was born June 2, 1938, in
Abilene, Kan., to Wayne and
Lorraine (Brown) Chrisco.
He graduated from Dickinson
Community
High
School in 1956. He served
four years in the Army Reserves and then served in
the U.S. Navy. He married
Delores Pfeiffer on Jan. 4,
1957, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Wayne was a Master Scheduler for ABB/Alstom Preheater in Concordia. He was
an avid horseman and enjoyed riding.
He is survived by his wife,
Delores of the home in Delphos; sons, Wayne Chrisco,
Jr. (Becky), Delphos, Kan.;
John (Maria), Concordia,
Kan.; Bill (Jody), Manhattan,
and Tim (Sheila), McPherson;
daughters; Dolores Benefiel,
Austin, Texas; Connie Jaderborg, Abilene and Tina Ast
(Jim), Colwich; sisters; Carol
Rutz (Bill), Enterprise and
Beverly Womichel (Glen),
Abilene; 28 grandchildren,
41 great-grandchildren and
one great-great- grandchild.
He was preceded in death
by his son, Robert Elee
Chrisco; his parents and sis-
Wayne L. Chrisco, Sr.
ter, Marylen Widler.
Visitation will be held
from 8-11 a.m., Saturday,
April 11, 2015, at the Chaput-Buoy Funeral Home.
Funeral services will be
held 11 a.m., Saturday, April
11, 2015, at Chaput-Buoy
Funeral Home, Concordia,
with Pastor Al Paredes officiating. Military honors will
be conducted by American
Legion Post #76 & VFW Post
#588. Cremation will follow
the services. Inurnment will
be held at a later date. Memorial contributions are to
Donor’s Choice c/o Funeral
Home. Online condolences
may be sent to www.chaputbuoy.com.
***
Kindness is contagious. The spirit of harmony trickles
down by a thousand secret channels into the inmost
recesses of the household life.
-Henry Van Dyke
***
Richard “Dick” E.
Hanson
rigation equipment which
included vice president of
engineering, developing new
products, and marketing
turf and agricultural sprinkler and irrigation equipment. His career with Nelson
spanned 47 years.
Initial irrigation products were the Big Gun for
traveling sprinklers and end
guns for center pivots. The
success of these products
launched a division to develop and market all types of
agricultural sprinklers. Most
successful were those being
used on center pivots.
Nelson
Irrigation
was
moved to Walla Walla, Wash.,
and in 1975 Dick elected to
move to Grand Island to establish further product ideas
and market Nelson products
to manufacturers and dealers.
Dick’s father died when
Dick was in second grade,
so he had no role model. But
despite this he was a wonderful husband, Dad, and
Papa. He was always fair,
honest, generous and nonjudgmental, not only with
his family, but with all who
knew him. He instilled love,
respect and work ethics in
his children, which makes
them the special people they
are today. Dick’s first love
was his family, for whom he
planned many family get-togethers, including an Alaska
Cruise for the whole family.
He was a member of the
First Presbyterian Church
and played a competitive
game of tennis until age 76.
In lieu of flowers, the
family request memorial donations be made to the Alzheimer’s Association. www.
alz.org.
California governor
defends drought order
SACRAMENTO,
Calif.
(AP) – Gov. Jerry Brown on
Sunday defended his order requiring Californians
statewide to cut back on
their water use in a historic
mandate that spares those
who consume the most –
farmers.
As California endures
a fourth year of drought,
Brown’s order this week
requires towns and cities statewide to draw down
water use by 25 percent
compared with 2013 levels.
While past reductions were
voluntary, Brown said he is
using his emergency powers
to make the cuts mandatory.
Martha Raddatz, host of
ABC’s “This Week” public affairs program, asked Brown
why the order doesn’t extend to California farmers,
who consume 80 percent of
the state’s water supply but
make up less than 2 percent of the state’s economy.
Brown said farmers aren’t
using water frivolously on
their lawns or taking long
showers.
“They’re providing most
of the fruits and vegetables
of America to a significant
part of the world,” he said.
Brown said that before
the cutbacks, some California farmers had already
been denied irrigation water
from federal surface supplies, forcing them to leave
hundreds of thousands
of acres unplanted. Many
vulnerable farm laborers
are without work, he said.
Farmers who don’t have ac-
cess to surface water have
increased the amount of
water pumped from limited
groundwater supplies.
Brown announced the
mandate on April 1 standing
in the Sierra Nevada, where
the snowpack measures at
5 percent of historical average, the lowest in 65 years
of record-keeping.
Addressing agriculture,
Brown said on the broadcast that farmers asserting
century-old water rights
deeply rooted in state law
that allows them access to
more water than others “are
probably going to be examined.”
After declaring a drought
emergency in January 2014,
Brown urged Californians to
voluntarily cut their water
use by 20 percent from the
previous year. That resulted
in great variations among
communities and an overall reduction of about 10
percent statewide. Brown
did the same as governor in
1977, during another severe
drought, asking for a voluntary reduction of 25 percent.
The mandatory order will
also require campuses, golf
courses, cemeteries and
other large landscapes to
curb their water use.
“It is a wakeup call,”
Brown said. “It’s requiring action and changes in
behavior from the Oregon
border all the way to the
Mexican border. It affects
lawns. It affects people’s ‚–
how long they stay in the
shower, how businesses use
water.”
musical interests after they
moved to the Carthage area,
including being in the choir
of Good Shepherd Lutheran
Church and the Carthage
Music Devotees. She also
played piano and organ.
Even late in life, Mrs.
Brewer sang for her family and as recently as early
March gave a strong rendition of one of her wedding
songs, “Because.”
Besides her husband,
survivors include six children, Norman (Judy) of
Bethesda, Md., Vallie Cook
of Carl Junction, Renie
(Doug) Wilson of Chicago,
Mark of Carthage (Julie
Winter, significant other),
Mary Ellen (Phil) Morgan of
Manhattan, Kan., and Joe
of West Plains, Mo. (Laurie
Harris, fiancée); an informally adopted son, Michael
“Butch” Taft (Charlene) of
Harbor City, Calif.; a sister, Ordelle M. Aaker of Joplin; and 47 grandchildren,
great-grandchildren
and
great-great-grandchildren.
Local
relatives
include:
brother-in-law, Dean Brewer and wife Irma; nephew
Don Hutchinson and greatnephew, Brandt (Ashley)
Hutchinson; nephew Dana
(Tina) Brewer; niece JoDee
(Mark) Rothfuss; niece Sheri
(Kevin) Johnson; as well as
nephew Dennis Hutchinson
(Pam) of Smith Center, Kan.,
niece Sonja Kobbeman of
Lincoln, Kan., and niece Diane (Rick) Johnson of Snowflake, Ariz.
The funeral was at 2
p.m., Monday, April 6,
2015, at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Carthage,
Mo., followed by interment
at Hackney Cemetery northeast of Carthage. The family
suggest memorials to Good
Shepherd Lutheran Church
in lieu of flowers.
Weather
Today’s weather artwork by
Rebekah Brown,
a 4th grader in
Mr. Brown’s class
Today’s weather artwork by
Narda Garcia,
a 3rd grader in
Mrs. Nease’s class
Markets
NEW YORK (AP) – U.S.
stocks rose in quiet trading
on Monday. The price of crude
oil jumped, helping to push
Chevron, Exxon Mobil and
other oil and gas companies
up. Many overseas markets
remain closed for holidays.
KEEPING SCORE: As of
1:10 p.m. Eastern time, the
Standard & Poor’s 500 index was up 18 points, or 0.9
percent, to 2,085. The Dow
Jones industrial average rose
161 points, or 0.9 percent, to
17,924, and the Nasdaq composite rose 39 points, or 0.8
percent, to 4,926.
JOBS: With the stock market closed in observance of
Good Friday, the Labor Department reported late last
week that employers added
just 126,000 workers to their
payrolls in March, the smallest gain since December
2013. For investors, it was
mixed news. The report was
another sign of weaker economic growth, but it also added more pressure on the Federal Reserve to put off raising
interest rates. Historically low
rates have helped fuel the
stock market’s long run.
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Oats ..............................$3.25
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Soybeans .....................$9.10
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