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BLADE-EMPIRE
CONCORDIA
VOL. CIX NO. 133 (USPS 127-880)
CONCORDIA, KANSAS 66901
Monday, December 8, 2014
Governor
working on
budget fixes
Good Evening
Concordia Forecast
Tonight...Mostly clear. Lows around 25.
West winds around 5 mph shifting to the
north after midnight.
Tuesday...Colder. Mostly sunny. Highs
around 40. East winds around 5 mph.
Tuesday night...Partly cloudy in the
evening then becoming mostly cloudy. Lows
in the upper 20s. Southeast winds 5 to 10
mph.
Wednesday...Mostly
cloudy.
Slight
chance of rain or freezing drizzle in the
morning...Then slight chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 40s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of measurable
precipitation 20 percent.
Wednesday night...Mostly cloudy. Lows
in the mid 30s.
Thursday...Mostly sunny. Highs in the
lower 50s.
Thursday night and friday...Mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Highs in the
mid 50s.
Friday night and saturday...Mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Highs in the
upper 50s.
Saturday night...Mostly cloudy with a 20
percent chance of showers. Lows in the
lower 40s.
Sunday...Cooler. Mostly cloudy with a 40
percent chance of showers. Highs in the
upper 40s.
Across Kansas
Appeals court to
hear HIV case
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas airman
accused of aggravated assault for exposing
multiple sex partners to HIV at swinger
parties in Wichita will have his appeal
heard this week before the nation’s highest
military court.
The Court of Appeals for the Armed
Forces will on Tuesday take up the case
against David Gutierrez, an appeal the
defense contends could upend similar
prosecutions in the U.S. military.
“This case will have the potential of
decriminalizing sexual contact with someone with HIV,” defense attorney Kevin
McDermott said.
Air Force prosecutors have declined
comment.
Gutierrez was a sergeant at McConnell
Air Force Base in Wichita in 2011 when he
was stripped of his rank and sentenced to
eight years behind bars.
In addition to aggravated assault,
Gutierrez also was found guilty of violating
an order to notify partners about his HIV
status and to use condoms. He was also
convicted of indecent acts and adultery.
He has not been accused of actually infecting anyone with HIV.
In his appeal, Gutierrez has challenged
whether the risk to his sexual partners
was high enough to constitute aggravated
assault, arguing that laws covering exposure to the disease are outdated since the
statistical probability of heterosexual
transmission is low and medical advances
have made the disease treatable.
“About 100 years ago we used to have a
lot of laws on the books that threw people
in prison for having syphilis because you
couldn’t cure it. Once they came up with a
cure a lot of those laws went along the
wayside,” McDermott said.
Man pleads guilty
in death of girl
NEWTON, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man
has pleaded guilty to involuntary
manslaughter in the strangulation death
of an 18-month-old girl.
The Wichita Eagle reports 21-year-old
Jason Bugner of Newton has changed his
plea in the 2012 death of Farrah Pendland, the daughter of his girlfriend at the
time.
Authorities say Bugner fastened the girl
into a car seat by only its top buckles and
placed it on the edge of a futon mattress
before he went into another room. They
say Bugner later found the car seat partially overturned and the toddler suspended with the car seat strap around her
neck.
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Panther backers
Concordia High School students dress up in costumes to cheer for the basketball teams during the season opener against Beloit Friday night. From left, are: Jaden Payeur, BradenJohnson, Dalton Walters and Stafen Guevara. (Blade photo by Jay Lowell)
Christmas baskets needed
Concordia Girl Scouts, working closely
with the Cloud County Resource Center,
will again be providing Christmas baskets
to families in the community, who are
struggling at holiday time.
They are seeking donations of food,
clothing, new or nearly new toys as well as
monetary donations.
Donations can be made to Girl Scouts,
901 E. 10th St., Concordia, KS 66901 or
by calling Amanda McDaniel, 275-2316.
2014 Christmas Basket List
1. Couple
2. Woman, boy 2
3. Couple, boy 2
4. Man
5. Woman, boy 5
6. Couple, girl 17, boy 15
7. Woman, Boys 16, 10, 8
8. Couple
9. Couple, girls 6, 2, boy 4
10.Two men, woman
11. Woman, boy 12
12. Couple, girl 2
13. Couple, boy 14, girls 14, 9, 8
14. Woman
15. Couple
16. Woman, girls 6, 4
17. Couple, boys 14, 10, 5, 4
18. Couple, girl 12
19. Woman, boy 8
20. Man
21. Couple, boys 9, 11, girl 7
22. Woman, two men
23. Woman
24. Couple, boy 12
25. Couple, girls 4, 1
26. Man, boy 6
27. Couple
28. Woman
29. Couple, boys 3, 2
30. Couple, boy 4
31. Couple, boys 5, 1, girl 6
32, Woman, boys 11, 9, girl 17
33. Two men, boy 16
34. Two men, woman
35. Couple, boy 8, girls 10, 6, 4, 1
36. Couple, Girls 11, 9
37. Woman
38. Couple, boy 12, girl 11
39. Man, girls 5, 3
40. Couple, girl 2, newborn
41. Couple, girl 2
42. Couple, boy 15, girls 14, 12, 10
43. Couple, boy 4, girl 2
44. Couple, boy 4, girls 6, 2, 1
45. Couple, boys 11, 8, 2
46. Couple, boy 7, girl 2
47. Couple, boy 16
48. Couple, boy 5, girls 10, 8
49. Couple, boy 8, girls 5, 2
50. Couple, boy 12
51. Woman
52. Woman
53. Woman, boys 5, 2, 2, girl 3
54. Man
55. Couple, boys 7, 1, girl 3
56. Couple, boys 12, 12, 7, girl 17
57. Woman, 13, 12, 10
58. Woman, girls 17, 14, 1
59. Couple, boy 11, girls 12, 9, 6, 4
60. Couple, boys 6, 3, girl 1
61. Woman, girls 13, 8
62. Couple, girl 14
63 Couple, boy 5, girls 17, 14, 11
Glasco woman killed in crash
A 21-year-old Glasco woman, Carrie
Brayton, was killed in a one-vehicle crash
early Sunday morning in Cloud County.
According to the Kansas Highway
Patrol, Brayton was southbound on 90th
Road four and a half miles north of
Delphos when her 2001 Ford F-150 drifted
across the northbound lane and into the
east ditch. The truck rolled, ejecting Brayton, and came to a rest on its wheels facing
northwest.
The Highway Patrol said she was not
wearing a seat belt, and was pronounced
dead at the scene.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Sam
Brownback isn’t publicly ruling out any ideas
for helping to close state budget shortfalls,
leaving officials and lawmakers to speculate
about the proposals he’s expected to roll out
before the Legislature convenes next month.
The Republican governor’s administration
is working on a plan to close combined shortfalls of more than $700 million in the current
and next state budgets. A few GOP legislators
have talked about diverting money set aside
for big highway projects or backtracking on
aggressive personal income tax cuts enacted
at Brownback’s urging in 2012 and 2013 in
an effort to stimulate the economy.
The budget problems also could jeopardize
increased funding for public employee pensions aimed at stabilizing the long-term
health of the retirement system for teachers
and government workers.
Legislators open their annual, 90-day session Jan. 12 — the same day Brownback
begins a second, four-year term.
“We’ll be doing this in steps, but we hope to
have something out pretty soon,” Brownback
said. “You know what the pieces are, and we
will get to a balanced budget.”
Here are some things to know about the
budget debate:
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THE PROBLEM’S SIZE
Under the budget for the current fiscal
year, which began in July, the state is committed to spending about $6.4 billion from its
main bank account. The predicted shortfalls
for the current and next fiscal year represent
a combined gap of about 11 percent between
spending commitments and anticipated revenues.
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LOOKING TO CUT FIRST
Some of Brownback’s GOP allies in the
state Senate have discussed proposals for
modifying income tax laws to pick up revenues, by slowing future promised cuts in
rates or accelerating the planned phase-out
of some deductions. But House Speaker Ray
Merrick, a conservative Stilwell Republican,
suggested such talk is premature.
“As things progress, we’ll see what happens, but I still think we spend too much,”
Merrick told reporters. “I’m a little confused
that you’d come out making those suggestions on the front end and not look at spending first.”
___
WHERE THE MONEY IS
When legislators and other state officials
talk about cutting spending from the state’s
main bank account, the focus inevitably
turns to aid for public schools, higher education and social services, because those three
areas account for nearly 90 percent of it in the
current budget.
Aid to public schools is the biggest item,
$3.3 billion, or 51 percent, with higher education spending at $794 million, or 12 percent. Social service agencies’ spending
approaches $1.7 billion, or 26 percent.
Christmas Tree Lane raises $6,000 for charities
Sisters of St. Joseph
Communications Director
Bidders donated more than
$6,000 to local charities last Friday evening and went home with
the 15 beautiful entries in the
2014 Christmas Tree Lane.
Trees, the winning bidders
and the amount paid are as follows:
•Big Brothers Big Sisters—
Teresa Swisher, $325
•Brown Grand Theatre—
Mikki Nelson, $200
•Cloud County Community
College Foundation—Danette
Toone, $800
•Cloud County Community
Resources
Council,
Dale’s
Repair, $925
•Cloud County Health Center—Mike Blochlinger, $550
•Cloud County Health Center
Auxiliary—Jim LeDuc, $300
•Club 81 Youth Center—
Dale’s Repair, $350 (The Buyer
donated it back to be re-auctioned, and the second buyer was
Danette Toone, $325)
•DVACK—Janet Lowell, $250
•Helping
Hands—Missy
LeDuc, $250
•Motherhouse Heritage Room
Renovation Project—Greg Hattan, $210
•National Orphan Train Complex—Sue Sutton, $200
•NCK Down Syndrome Society—Debbie Kearn, $200
•NCK Paws—Debbie Kearn,
$350
•OCCK Inc.—Dr. Jeremy Will,
$500
•Relay for Life—Becky Craig,
$300.
Guests at Friday evening’s
Christmas Tree Lane gala and
Thursday’s Holiday Reception
were also encouraged to make
donations to the organizations
while viewing the trees. They also
voted for the People’s Choice
Award, which was presented to
OCCK Inc. for a tree decorated in
delicate silver and blue ornaments.
The special award to OCCK
was $200, donated by Bob and
Lorene Steimel.
All the money raised in donations both evenings, plus ticket
sales to Friday’s standing-roomonly event and the live auction,
went to each organization.
Hosts for the annual fundraiser, now in its fourth year, are the
Sisters of St. Joseph at the
Nazareth Motherhouse as their
gift to the community and to the
organizations taking part.
Admiring a tree
Kirk and Janet Lowell pause Friday evening to study the Big
Brothers, Big Sisters entry in the fourth annual Christmas Tree
Lane fundraiser at the Nazareth Motherhouse. The event benefited 15 local nonprofit organizations that decorated trees that were
sold in a charity auction.
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By George Meyer
Your Birthday
By Stella Wilder
Today in History
50 years ago
Dec. 8, 1964—Concordia city band was caroling
for the shut-ins at St. Ann’s
Home, Home of the Little
Flower, Nazareth Motherhouse, Sunset Home and
St. Joseph Hospital. . . . A
reconditioned record player
was $10 at Martin Electric.
25 years ago
Dec. 8, 1989—Concordia
elementary students whose
balloons from their balloon
launch were found in distant locations were Johnathan Haritos, Jana Williams,
Tonya Sterling and Melissa
Forshee. They received pizza
certificates and silver dollars. . . . Ross Olson read
a prepared statement from
a group of Cloud County
residents
who
attended
the county commissioners’
meeting to voice their unhappiness with classification
and reappraisal.
10 years ago
Dec. 8, 2004—Brooke
Nelson received a haircut
from Andrea Garman of Creations prior to leaving for basic training in the U.S. Ma-
rines and donated her hair
to Locks of Love. . . . Mikki
Saltzman gave a piano concert at the Brown Grand
Theatre, charging an item
for the Food Bank for admission.
5 years ago
Dec. 8, 2009—Homes on
Chapter AO P.E.O. Homes
Tour were those of Pastors
David and Anita Strommen,
332 West 8th; Dr. Monte
and Nancy Wentz, 2181 Rye
Road; Sue and Bob Cadamore, 21 Terrace Circle; and
Nancy and Gary Reynolds,
1520 Country Club Drive. .
. . Lindsey Pounds and Doug
Montgomery
announced
their April 25 wedding,
which took place in Kansas
City, Mo.
1 year ago
Dec. 8, 2013—Marysville
dealt the Concordia eighth
grade girls’ basketball team
a 41-31 home defeat. Cydney
Bergmann paced Concordia with 14 points. . . . Don
Bates, new CEO of Cloud
County Health Center, spoke
at the noon working lunch at
the Nazareth Convent.
This year others often
have to step back and regroup when they have conversations with you, as
you will be revealing more
of your thought processes.
You will like brainstorming
with one person specifically.
If you are single, the desire
for a relationship becomes
more prominent in your
thoughts. You will have the
opportunity to meet two
potentially great matches.
Choosing might be fun or
problematic, depending on
your point of view. If you are
attached, the two of you will
learn to respect each other’s
perspectives. The romance
between you will improve as
a result. CANCER draws out
your vulnerabilities.
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)
**** Information that
heads your way will be clear
and precise. Your mind
might take the facts down
a new path to create different scenarios. At times, you
could feel confused by everything that is happening
around you. Allow space for
changes. Tonight: Happily
relax at home.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20)
***** A partnership could
carry you past a problem.
New information seems to
muddy up the waters. Seek
out more facts, but don’t
discount some of the vague
details you’ve already heard.
Detach, and you’ll gain an
unexpected insight. Tonight: Catch up on emails.
GEMINI (May 21-June
20)
**** You could be very
forthright, but attaining
clarity with a money matter
might be tough. An unexpected revelation might help
to open up the topic. Pace
yourself, and approach a
key person in a levelheaded
way. The unexpected will
play a role in decision-making. Tonight: Stay calm.
CANCER (June 21-July
22)
*** You could feel awkward when dealing with
someone at a distance. This
person will be more significant than you might realize. You’ll want to rethink a
difficult problem involving
someone who reflects and
responds very differently
from you. Tonight: As you
like it.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
*** Put the finishing
touches on a project. A conversation with a loved one
could be more significant
than you realize. This person serves as a muse for
you more often than not.
Detaching from the here
and now only adds to your
creative energy. Tonight:
Live in the moment.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
**** You might want to rethink a decision more carefully. Your ability to understand others’ motives and
what is going on with them
seems to mark your decisions. You could be feeling a
bit awkward with everything
that is happening around
you. Tonight: In the middle
of the action.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
**** You might be blunt,
but that is not your usual
style. Know what you want,
and you will know the path
on which to proceed. Others
seem very excitable. Listen
carefully, but don’t commit to anything that makes
you uncomfortable. Tonight:
Where the action is.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.
21)
**** Take a moment to
see the whole situation
rather than react to what
someone else is saying. You
know and understand much
more than what you are
sharing. Stay centered, and
focus on what is possible. A
conversation could prove to
be important. Tonight: Play
out a fantasy.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21)
*** You could have more
clout than you realize. Start
a conversation with a loved
one, and you will see that
this is true. Listen to your
inner voice when dealing
with a key person in your
life, and trust in your natural appeal. Tonight: A quiet
dinner with a friend.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19)
****You would be wise not
to push others or display
your dominant side. Many
people around you seem to
be showing their muscles.
The best approach is to
avoid conflict. You could
feel uncomfortable in an animated discussion. Expect
the unexpected. Tonight: Go
along for the ride.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18)
*** Your focus continues
to be work and on the end
results. A new interest or
hobby could be taking up
more time than you realize.
A friend or partner might
not be thrilled about seeing
you less. Consider ways to
free up your schedule more.
Tonight: Where your friends
are.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20)
*** Your sense of direction
is strong. You know how to
prioritize and get a lot done.
Be prepared for a spontaneous interruption from
a friend. Use caution with
your money. Risks need to
be weighed carefully before
you launch into action. Tonight: A must appearance.
BORN TODAY
Singer/songwriter
Jim
Morrison (1943), football
player Philip Rivers (1981),
actress Teri Hatcher (1964)
Survivors gather
to remember attack
of Pearl Harbor
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) – Veterans who
survived the Pearl Harbor
attack that launched the
United States into World
War II attended Sunday’s
73rd anniversary ceremony with the help of canes,
wheelchairs and motorized
scooters.
Wearing purple orchid
lei, about 100 Pearl Harbor
and World War II survivors attended the ceremony overlooking a memorial
that sits atop sunken battleship USS Arizona. Many
of them arrived well before
the sun came up.
This year’s anniversary
of the Japanese attack is
the 10th consecutive one
that USS Utah survivor
Gilbert Meyer attended.
But it’s getting harder for
Meyer, 91, to travel to Hawaii from San Antonio.
Asked if he planned to
attend next year’s anniversary, he responded with a
SUDOKU
Sudoku is a number-placing
puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with
several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9
in the empty squares so that each
row, each column and each 3x3
box contain the same number
only once. The difficulty level of
the Conceptis Sudoku increases
from Monday to Friday.
chuckle, “That’s like asking me if I’ll still be alive.”
Harold Johnson, 90, is
making it a goal to attend
the 75th anniversary, even
though traveling from Oak
Harbor, Washington, isn’t
always easy. “I’ve got a little scooter that’s a real life
saver,” the USS Oklahoma
survivor said.
Johnson
had
been
aboard the Oklahoma for
just six months on Dec.
7, 1941, looking forward
to a day off and a “date
with a little Hawaiian girl.”
He was shining his shoes
when the first alarm went
off, he recalled.
“Three months later I
ran into her in town in Honolulu,” he said of his date.
“She was mad at me because I stood her up.”
For many of the roughly
2,000 survivors who remain, there are also more
painful memories.
PEOPLE
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ONE PLACE HAS IT ALL
Annie’s DKG has annual
Mailbox scholarship auction
by Kathy Mitchell and
Marcy Sugar
Dear Annie: My 88-yearold uncle is mentally ill.
He is paranoid and suffers
from extreme anxiety. He
has refused mental help for
years. His three grown children also have indications of
mental illness.
It is difficult to be around
"Uncle Joe" because he rants
about nonsense and claims
that everyone is doing something evil to him. He writes
books that make no sense,
but expects everyone to read
them.
Now that the holidays
are approaching, my aunt
(his sister) thinks Uncle Joe
should be invited to all the
family celebrations. But, Annie, he ruins it for everybody.
If you don't listen and agree
with him, he becomes quite
threatening.
I think it is rather bossy
and controlling of my aunt
to expect my uncle to be included in every family event.
What can I do? — Love My
Uncle, But
Dear Friend: Please don't
ostracize Uncle Joe from
family gatherings because
he is difficult. Try to understand that he is sick and
cannot help the way he behaves. Yes, he should be getting professional help and
should probably be on medication, but like many mentally ill people, he doesn't
believe he needs either and
cannot recognize the toll his
behavior takes on the rest of
you.
His sister loves him and
wants to include him at
these family events. Unless
he is physically threatening,
we are asking you to be tolerant of Uncle Joe and kind
to your aunt. These family
gatherings don't happen that
often. It doesn't diminish
you to nod politely in agreement with whatever Uncle
Joe says and then turn your
attention elsewhere. Please
try.
Dear Annie: "James" and
I were madly in love when I
was 17 and he was 31. After
eight years, we agreed to go
our separate ways. He later
married and has four children.
About 10 years ago,
James sent me a letter and
enclosed his wife's obituary. She had passed away
the previous year. We began
corresponding, talking about
the good old days.
He told his children we
were in touch.
After several months,
James proposed and said he
would hop on the next flight
to be with me. I told him I
was married (no children)
and my husband had been
diagnosed with leukemia.
After that I stopped writing
him.
James is now in his mid80s, and I am 70. My husband passed away a year
ago. Deep down, I still have
feelings for James. He was
my first love. Should I contact him? Send him my husband's obituary? How do I
know whether his children
will accept me in his life? —
Still in Love
Dear Still: There's no reason not to contact James,
but be prepared: He may
have remarried or passed
away since your last correspondence. Write him a letter or phone him and let him
know you'd like to reestablish contact if he is still interested. Don't worry about his
children's reaction. You can
deal with that later.
Dear Annie: It is very sad
to read story after story of
daughters-in-law who shun
their husbands' mothers. I
realize there are many mother/daughter-in-law relationships that are wonderful,
but too often we only hear
about the bad ones.
I would give anything to
have a mother-in-law with
whom to shop, go to the
movies, cook and bake together and have family gatherings. Someone I could ask
for advice and, lastly, one I
could love and cherish.
Unfortunately, my mother-in-law lives six hours
away and has very significant dementia. Thank God
my husband's sister is caring for her. But I would take
her in a second. She is an
amazing lady. I wish some of
these insecure daughters-inlaw would realize what they
are missing out on. After all,
this is the woman who raised
the man they fell in love
with. So, obviously, Mom did
something right. — Teresa
Annie's Mailbox is written
by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy
Sugar, longtime editors of
the Ann Landers column.
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Senior Citizens Menu
Tuesday, Dec. 9—Ham
and cheese omelets, hashbrowns with onions and
peppers, sausage links, biscuits, V-8 juice.
Wednesday, Dec. 10—
Chicken strips, potato salad.
green beans, brownies; 10
a.m.—Exercise.
Thursday, Dec. 11—Tomato soup with crackers,
tuna salad on wheat bread;
alt: Chicken noodle and egg
salad.
Friday, Dec. 12—Ham
and beans, fried potatoes,
apple crisp, cornbread; 10
a.m.—Exercise; Progressive
cards.
Call Teddy at 243-1872
for questions or to make reservations.
Fresh coffee and cinnamon rolls daily, 9-11 a.m.
Birth
Amanda Hathorne Solsburg and Nicholas Barrett
Solsburg, Olathe, announce
the birth of their daughter,
Elaina Vera Solsburg, born
Thanksgiving evening, Nov.
27, 2014 in Shawnee Mission.
Elaina is the granddaughter of Gayle Hathorne,
Shawnee; Edward McCue,
Boulder, Colo.; and Jacqueline, Solsburg, Kansas City,
Mo.
***
Never wear anything that panics the cat.
-P. J. O’Rourke
***
Sue Sutton and Christy
Hasch were auctioneers
for the annual scholarship
auction when Alpha Sigma
Chapter of Delta Kappa
Gamma International met
Dec. 6 at Cloud County
Community College faculty
meeting room. Lavon Brosseau had sent a check for
$1,000 for the fundraising.
Total raised was $1,890.
Roll call was answered
by 14 members with a brief
Christmas story. Dana Nelson reported taking a rose
bowl to Peg Loveland. Guests
were Grant-in-Aid recipi-
ents Brancey Little and Jordynn Gumm. Gumm told of
her plans in education for
the future. Also stopping by
were state Sen. Elaine Bowers and state Senator elect
Susie Swanson from Clay
Center, who is a member of
DKG.
Arrangements for the
meeting were made by DKG
members of CCCC, Cathy
Forshee and Tonya Merrill.
Next regular meeting will be
at 4:00 p.m., Wednesday,
Feb. 4, at the Cloud County
Convention & Tourism Center.
Club notes
American Legion Auxiliary met Dec. 4 at the
Concordia American Legion Golf Course 19th Hole
Restaurant and Lounge for
a Christmas gift exchange
party and business session.
The membership chairman reported seven more
renewals had been sent to
Department. Communications was a request from
Department president Tonia Ison, with tickets for the
annual Department president’s raffle this year, a quilt
plus other items to benefit
“A Soldier’s Wish” project.
Members voted to send $25
to Department for this raffle.
Announcement was made
that the Area Kids Annual
Pizza/Pop Christmas Party
with Emmet Rudolph entertainment and Santa and
Mrs. Claus will be Dec. 14.
The Auxiliary will sponsor
a “kitchen” for the Bloodmobile at the National Guard
Armory Dec. 17. Members
approved a donation to
“Adopt a Family at Christmas Time.”
The executive committee
will meet at 7:30 p.m., Dec.
18 at the Post Home. Next
regular Auxiliary meeting
will be at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 6, at the Post
Home.
Norway Coffee Ladies
celebrate Christmas
The Norway Coffee Ladies celebrated Christmas
with a noon meal at Kansas Creek Inn, Concordia.
Those attending were
Aileen Carlgren, Vivian
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Sports
Turnovers prove costly in Panthers’ loss to Trojans
Bitten by the turnover
bug in the second half, the
Concordia Panthers had a
five point lead turn into a
66-51 loss to the Beloit
Trojans in the season
opener Friday night in the
Concordia Junior -Senior
High School gymnasium.
Concordia led Beloit 3732 at halftime.
The Panthers turned the
ball over 10 times in the
third quarter as Beloit battled back to take a 48-44
advantage.
Beloit limited Concordia
to just two field goals in the
final eight minutes as it
pulled away to the 15-point
victory.
”I don’t know if it was we
just weren’t comfortable
about playing with that
type of lead, but we had too
many turnovers the second
half,” Concordia coach
Michael Roe said, “The second half we didn’t execute
in the halfcourt offense as
well. I thought we forced
some shots and didn’t get a
lot of shots, but we didn’t
get a lot of shots because of
all of the turnovers.”
Concordia, ranked second in Class 4A-Division II
to open the season, fell
behind 5-0 to start the
game.
Led by 6-4 junior Cooper
Holmes, the Panthers battled back to tie the game at
11-11.
Beloit pumped in eight
straight points to go up 1911.
A jumper by Holmes and
a basket by Ethan Bechard
left the Panthers trailing
just 19-15 heading into the
second period.
A basket by Colston Rie-
Chiefs
tumble
to Cards
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) —
The Kansas City Chiefs got
their must-win game off to a
great start behind the versatility of Jamaal Charles.
Once the second half
rolled around, the Chiefs fell
flat and may have flat-lined
their playoff hopes in the
process.
Kansas City had two key
turnovers and struggled to
move the ball against Arizona’s defense in the second
half, leading to a 17-14 loss
to the Cardinals on Sunday
that puts a big dent in the
Chiefs’ playoff chances.
“We obviously need to do
a better job, take care of our
business,” Chiefs coach
Andy Reid said. “We had
every opportunity to do that
today and we didn’t get it
accomplished.”
Both teams came into the
game in desperate need of a
win.
Once the dominant team
in the NFC, Arizona (10-3)
had gone into a tailspin,
seemingly clinging to playoff
hopes through a rash of
injuries. On the ropes, the
Cardinals came through
like they always seem to at
home, rallying from a sluggish first half with a dominant defensive second 30
minutes to keep their place
atop the NFC West.
Kerwynn Williams ran for
100 yards after being elevated from the practice squad
on Thursday and Drew
Stanton threw a touchdown
pass for Arizona, which has
won its most games since an
11-victory season in 1925.
“I ain’t going to deny that
we needed one big,” said
Cardinals coach Bruce Arians, whose team is 7-0 at
home, said of the victory.
The Chiefs (7-6) may have
needed it more.
mann put the Trojans up
21-15 early in the second
quarter.
Concordia scored 10
unanswered points, six by
Gilberth Garcia and four by
Holmes, to grab a 26-21
advantage.
Beloit would pull even at
28-28.
Billy Bechard knocked
down a three-point shot
and Ian Nordell scored four
straight points to put the
Panthers up 35-28.
It was a 37-30 game
when Bailey Vetter was
fouled with under a second
to play in the half, and
made both free throws to
pull Beloit within 37-32.
The Panthers then had
trouble hanging onto the
ball to start the second
half.
Concordia turned the
ball over on its first three
possessions as Beloit went
on a 12-0 run.
Consecutive three-point
shots by Luke Hesting gave
the Trojans a 44-37 advantage.
Concordia went 6:06
without scoring before
Holmes buried a three.
A jumper by Holmes and
a layup by Jace Coppoc
tied the game at 44-44.
Colson Reames hit from
12 feet, and Concordia’s
10th turnover in the third
quarter resulted in a layup
by Vetter that gave the Trojans a 48-44 advantage.
“We kind of lost our confidence,” Roe said.
Ethan Bechard scored
off an offensive rebound,
and Concordia trailed just
48-46 eight seconds into
the fourth quarter.
The Panthers would go
3:55 without another field
goal, and missed three of
five free throws.
Reames and Vetter combined for nine points during that stretch to extend
Beloit’s lead to 57-48.
Three points by Holmes
got Concordia within six
points, 57-51, with 3:38 to
play.
The Panthers would not
score again as the Trojans
extended the lead to 16
points.
“We will bounce back
from it and do better at
those things we did wrong
and build on the things we
did right,” Roe said.
Holmes led Concordia
with 25 points. He hit 9 of
23 field goal attempts and
just 4 of 10 free throws and
also had 12 rebounds.
Ethan Bechard scored
eight points and grabbed
12 rebounds.
Concordia shot just 37
percent (19 of 51) from the
field and 50 percent from
the line (9 of 18).
The Panthers finished
with 19 turnovers.
Vetter paced Beloit with
22 points, and Reames
added 21 points.
“Those are two of the
best guards we will probably see all season. You have
to give them credit,” Roe
said.
Concordia hosts Republic County on Tuesday
night.
BELOIT (66)
Riemann 2-0-2 4, Vetter 7-6-3 22,
H. Budke 1-0-3 2, Hesting 3-0-4 9, B.
Budke 1-0-3 2, Jackson 3-0-3 6,
Reames 9-2-2 21. Totals: 26-8-20 66.
CONCORDIA (51)
Coppoc 1-1-2 3, B. Bechard 1-0-2
3, Garcia 2-2-2 6, E. Bechard 3-2-4
8, Nordell 3-0-5 6, Holmes 9-4-1 25.
Totals: 19-9-16 51.
One hander
Concordia’s Ethan Bechard puts up a shot with his right hand during a 66-51 loss to Beloit in
the season opener Friday night. (Blade photo by Jay Lowell)
T-Birds bounce back
to beat Pirates, 75-62
Breaking him down
Concordia 106-pounder Zach Strait, top, attempts to break down an opponent during the
Raider Classic on Saturday. Strait won all five of his matches to place first. (Photo by Lisa Canfield)
Concordia wrestlers place
third in Raider Classic
WAMEGO — Concordia
had seven wrestlers place in
the top four on its way to a
third-place finish in the
Raider Classic hosted by
Wamego on Saturday.
The Panthers scored 167
points in the tournament.
Abilene captured the
team title with 304 points
and Salina Central was second with 260.5.
freshman
Concordia
Zach Strait pinned all five of
his opponents on his way to
a first-place finish in the
106-pound class.
Isaac
Sprague,
126
pounds, recorded a secondplace finish for the Panthers
with a 4-1.
Cameron Miller also went
4-1 to finish second in the
132-pound class.
Tracer Workman, 145
pounds, posted a 4-1 record
and placed third in the 145pound class.
Logan Higbee was 4-1,
and finished third in the
160-pound class.
Gage Canfield placed
third in the 138-pound
class with a 3-2 record.
Brent Beaumont was
fourth in the 195-pound
class for Concordia.
Concordia had Blake
106
pounds;
Leiszler,
James
McCabe,
120
pounds; and Matthew Whitley, 138 pounds, go 3-2 in
the tournament.
Whitley,
113
Taylor
pounds, and Braydan Tang,
152 pounds, were 2-3.
“I am extremely proud of
the way our wrestlers competed. They went out and
wrestled hard all weekend
in both wins and losses,”
Concordia coach Kevin
Brown said, “They didn’t
back down from anyone and
earned wins while making
their opponents earn all
their points against them.
The tournament was good
for our team in that it
allowed everyone to get in
their five matches, which
will allow us as coaches to
determine some areas to
work on in practice over the
next week.”
The Panthers will compete in the Colby Invitational on Friday and Saturday.
The Concordia junior
varsity had two wrestlers
place in the Salina South
Invitational.
Rope Dorman was 3-0 in
capturing first place in the
145-pound class.
Steehl Limon finished
third in the 285-pound
class with a 3-1 record.
COFFEYVILLE
—
Bouncing back from their
first loss of the season, the
13th-ranked Cloud County
defeated
Thunderbirds
Independence Community
College 75-62 in the thirdplace game of the Coffeyville Resources Juco
Elite 8 Tournament on Saturday night.
Cloud County was beaten 79-63 by host Coffeyville Community College
in the semifinals of Friday
night.
Independence fell to
eighth-ranked Hill (Texas)
College in the other semifinal game.
“The tournament itself
was good. Three teams that
were ranked in the top 15
and two other teams that
went to the national tournament last year,” Cloud
County coach Chad Eshbaugh said.
Coffeyville slipped past
Hill College 115-113 in
three overtimes in the
championship game.
Playing their third game
in three days, and sixth
game in 12 days, the T Birds had a tough time
shaking the Pirates in the
first half.
There were four ties and
seven lead changes in the
first 20 minutes.
“The third game in a
row, there was some mental fatigue, physical fatigue
and emotional fatigue. It
was the same for everybody,” Eshbaugh said.
Cloud County (12-1)
started to take control late
in the first half.
A three-point shot by
reserve guard Alan Garia
gave the T -Birds a 39-32
lead at halftime.
“Alan Garcia hit a big
three for us in the final
minute. That gave us some
momentum going into halftime,” Eshbaugh said.
Cloud County gradually
pulled away from Independence.
The T -Birds led by as
many as 17 points, 69-52,
and went on to win by 13.
Sophomore guard Devon
Thomas scored 17 points
and handed out five assists
for Cloud County. He was 7
of 13 from the field and one
of four from the free throw
line.
Isaiah Hicks came off
the bench to score 16
points for the T -Birds.
Trevor Singleton added
10
points
and
eight
rebounds.
The T -Birds were 27 of
60 from the floor for 45
percent and 17 of 24 from
the line for 71 percent.
Jerry Melton paced Independence with 23 points.
Devonte Carter scored
10 points for the Pirates.
Independence shot 58
percent (23 of 40) from the
field, but made just 10 of
25 free throws for 40 percent and committed 17
turnovers to just eight for
Cloud County.
Cloud County will host
Southeast (Neb.) Community College in the final
game
before
semester
break at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Cloud County FG FT
2-9 0-0
Camidge
7-13 1-4
Thomas
Garnes
0-2 0-0
1-1 1-2
Garcia
Meyer
0-0 2-2
Griffin
0-2 0-0
0-1 0-0
Smith
5-10 5-6
Hicks
Ojinnaka
3-5 0-0
2-5 2-2
Brinker
Singleton
3-7 4-5
Patrick
4-5 0-0
0-0 2-3
Kurash
Totals:
27-60 17-24
Independence FG FT
0-1 2-4
Turner
3-3 1-1
Carter
Taylor
0-0 0-0
Carson
1-6 0-4
Melton
8-11 3-4
Harden
0-1 0-0
3-4 0-4
Jappa
3-6 0-0
Taylor
Silva
0-0 0-0
Sturdivant
2-4 2-4
Green
3-4 0-1
Totals:
23-40 10-25
R
5
3
1
0
0
1
0
1
2
4
8
6
0
33
R
0
0
1
2
2
1
3
5
4
1
7
27
A
0
5
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
2
2
1
0
12
A
0
0
0
2
0
1
0
1
1
4
0
9
T
1
1
0
0
0
1
0
1
1
0
1
0
1
8
T
1
2
1
3
0
1
1
1
1
2
1
17
F
1
2
0
0
3
1
0
2
2
3
4
0
3
21
F
0
4
0
0
1
0
4
1
3
1
5
19
TP
4
17
0
4
2
0
0
16
6
6
10
8
0
75
TP
2
10
0
2
23
0
6
6
0
7
6
62
Panthers stumble late, fall to Beloit Thunderbirds clip
Blade-Empire Monday, December 8, 2014 5
The Concordia Panthers
dug themselves out of a
fourth quarter hole only to
have the Beloit Trojans fill
it back in.
Trailing Beloit by 10
points early in the final
period,
the
Panthers
fought back to take a 4746 lead with under three
minutes to play.
Concordia was up 50-49
when the Trojans scored
the final seven points of
the game to pull out a 5650 victory in the season
opener for both teams Friday night in the Concordia
Junior-Senior High School
gymnasium.
“I felt like we got a little
bit tight. We panicked a little bit. We need to prepare
for a game like that” Concordia
coach
Michael
Wahlmeier said.
Concordia trailed 41-31
when
Shaylyn
Krone
scored with 7:37 to play in
the game.
The Panthers would
start to chip away at the
deficit.
Concordia was trailing
46-43 when Tristen Leiszler hit a three-point shot
and Cydney Bergmann
made one of two free
throws to put the Panthers
up 47-46 with 2:46 to play.
In just 13 seconds, the
Trojans got a basket by
Alison Palen and a free
throw by Megan Stout to
reclaim the lead at 49-47.
Leiszler scored on a
drive to tie the game at 4949 with 1:59 on the clock.
After Stout missed two
free throws, Cameron
Collins went one of two
from the line to give Concordia a 50-49 advantage
with 1:01 to play.
The Panthers would not
score again.
Josie Wilson hit two free
throws with 34 seconds to
play, and Beloit led 51-50.
The Trojans came up
with a steal, and Stout was
fouled. She made the first
of two free throws, but
missed the second.
Beloit pulled down the
offensive rebound, and
Kaley Broeckelman was
fouled.
The Trojans finished the
game with 20 offensive
rebounds.
“We gave them too many
second chance points,”
Wahlmeier said.
Broeckelman made both
free throws to make it a
54-50 game with 16 seconds left.
The Trojans got a layup
by Britt Widrig as time ran
out to make it a six point
game.
Leiszler led three Panthers in double figures
with 16 points. She also
had nine rebounds, three
assists and five steals.
Bergmann finished with
11 points, four rebounds
and five steals.
Maggie Lambert added
10
points
and
five
rebounds.
Broeckelman scored 16
points for Beloit.
Concordia scored the
first four points of the
game, but was battling
foul trouble the rest of the
way.
Jordan Eshbaugh, the
leading
returning
rebounder and second
leading returning scorer
for the Panthers, picked
up three fouls in the first
quarter.
Leiszler, the leading
returning scorer; Lambert
and Jennifer Boley collected two fouls each.
“We thought we could go
about nine deep, but it
would be nice for us to be
able to do that for people
to get a rest instead of for
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa
— What was shaping up to
be a successful weekend
for the Cloud County
Thunderbirds took a turn
for the worse.
Cloud County had beaten Southeastern (Iowa)
Community College 64-57
in the first round of the
Hampton Inn/Holiday Inn
Reiver Classic on Friday,
and led Lake Region (N.D.)
State College by 11 points
at halftime on Saturday.
After freshman guard
Taylor Ames went down
with a knee injury late in
the first half, the T -Birds
were outscored 47-21 in
the second half in a 70-55
loss to the Royals Friday
afternoon.
Cloud County led the
game 34-23 at halftime,
but couldn’t keep pace
with Lake Region over the
final 20 minutes.
“We lost our will to compete,” Cloud County coach
Brett Erkenbrack said,
“We turned it over. We
missed shots and we didn’t
play defense. We just quit
playing in the second half.”
The T -Birds went 1-1 in
the tournament, and are
now 7-5 overall.
Lake Region, after losing
to host Iowa Western Community College on Friday,
improved to 9-3 with the
win.
Iowa
Western
beat
Southeastern 75-60 in the
other game played on Saturday.
Cloud County led Lake
Region by as many as 15
points in the first half.
“We had things going
pretty good in the first
half,” Erkenbrack said.
The T -Birds led by 13
points when Ames got a
steal and was going in for a
layup. She was fouled
hard, and had to leave the
game.
Ames would not return
to the game, and Cloud
County had the 11-point
lead at halftime.
“Certainly a tragic blow
for Taylor Ames, and that
is another big blow for us,”
Erkenbrack said.
The
T -Birds
were
already without sophomore post player Kimi
Lindshield,
who
was
unable to make the trip,
and had lost freshman
guard Courtney Freed to a
knee injury.
Cloud County was able
to hold onto the lead for
about 10 minutes in the
second half before the Royals took control.
“They hit some threes,
and we got into a little bit
of foul trouble,” Erkenbrack said.
Lake Region, shooting
55 percent (16 of 29) from
the field in the second half,
wrestled the lead away
from the T -Birds and
pulled away for the win.
“We were on the verge of
a pretty good weekend,
and it turned into a pretty
bad weekend,” Erkenbrack
said.
Freshman Macy Davis,
getting the start in place of
Lindshield, was 9 of 14
from the floor and five of
nine from the free throw
line in scoring 23 points
for Cloud County. She also
had nine rebounds.
Breannah
Bretches
scored 11 points for the T Birds.
Cloud County finished
17 of 55 from the field for
COFFEYVILLE — A hot
shooting Coffeyville team,
playing on its home floor,
handed the 13th-ranked
Cloud County Thunderbirds their first loss of the
season, 79-63, in the semifinals of the Coffeyville
Resources Juco Elite 8
tournament Friday night.
Coffeyville, ranked 16th,
knocked down 25 of 48
field goal attempts for 52
percent, and was 10 of 16
from three-point range for
63 percent in the win.
“They did shoot the ball
very well. They are a good
shooting team,” Cloud
County coach Chad Eshbaugh said, “I thought we
did a pretty good job of
defending the three, sixteen attempts (threes) is
not very many attempts for
them, 10 makes is good.
When they got them, they
hit them.”
The T -Birds kept the
game close throughout
most of the first half. There
were seven lead changes
and four ties.
Coffeyville was able to
stretch the lead to seven
points, 40-33, at halftime.
“We got into some fairly
serious foul trouble in the
first half,” Eshbaugh said.
Cloud County closed the
gap to three points early in
the second half.
The Red Ravens then
started to pull away.
“They hit a couple of
threes. We missed a couple
of shots and had a
turnover,” Eshbaugh said.
Coffeyville led by as
many as 19 points, 76-57.
Cloud
County
was
unable to battle back down
the stretch.
“We didn’t make enough
plays,” Eshbaugh said, “I
thought they played very
well, and I didn’t think we
valued the ball.”
The T -Birds ended up
with 18 turnovers in the
game.
“On the road, if you turn
it over 18 times you are
going to get beat,” Eshbaugh said.
Freshman
Demonte
Ojinnaka led three Cloud
County players in double
figures with 18 points. He
was 8 of 12 from the field
and one of two from the free
throw line, and had eight
Devon Thomas finished
with 15 points and six
assists.
Creighton
Brinker
chipped in 12 points and
five rebounds.
Blackhawks, 64-57
Getting a shot off
Concordia’s Cameron Collins (23) puts up a shot in the lane
during the season opener against Beloit on Friday nght. The
Panthers lost to the Trojans, 56-50. (Blade photo by Jay Lowell)
people
with
fouls,”
Wahlmeier said.
The Panthers were whistled for 24 fouls.
Beloit rallied from the
early deficit, and led by as
many as five points in the
second quarter.
Trailing 15-10, the Panthers got two free throws
by Kahlie Miller, a steal
and layup by Bergmann
and two free throws by
Leiszler to go up 16-15.
The two teams went
back and forth, and the
game was tied at 24-24 at
halftime.
Beloit opened the second half with a 7-3 spurt
to grab a 31-27 lead.
Concordia was playing
catchup after that.
The Panthers were able
to reclaim the lead in the
fourth quarter, but an 8-3
spurt over the final 2:30 of
the game gave the Trojans
the win.
Concordia hosts Republic County on Tuesday
night.
BELOIT (56)
Wilson 1-2-3 5, Budke 3-0-1 8,
Widrig 3-0-4 6, Krone 4-1-5 9,
Broeckelman 5-5-4 16, Palen 2-1-2
5, Behrends 2-3-4 7, Spangler 0-0-1
0. Totals: 20-12-24 56.
CONCORDIA (50)
Bergmann 5-1-3 11, Lambert 34-5 10, Miller 0-2-0 2, Collins 1-2-2
4, Mendenhall 0-0-1 0, Eshbaugh 10-2 4, Boley 2-1-5 5, Leiszler 4-6-3
16. Totals: 16-16-24 50.
Royals use big second half to beat CCCC
31 percent and 18 of 29
from the line for 62 percent.
The T -Birds committed
21 turnovers.
Taylor Henningsgard led
four Lake Region players
in double figures with 18
points.
Sara Schwanke scored
17 points for the Royals.
Kennedy Henningsgard
finished with 13 points
and Ashtin Freije added
11.
The Royals hit 23 of 52
field goal attempts for 44
percent and 20 of 26 free
throws for 77 percent.
Cloud County FG FT
9-14 5-9
Davis
3-10 4-5
Bretches
1-7 1-3
Steppe
Farber
1-3 1-2
1-6 0-0
Ames
0-2 1-2
Nittler
1-4 0-0
Thomson
1-8 1-2
Skrastina
Idika
0-1 5-6
Totals:
17-55 18-29
Lake Region FG FT
0-3 4-4
Eberle
T. Henningsgard 5-6 8-8
Freije
4-9 0-0
K. Henningsgard5-11 2-5
7-15 3-4
Schwanke
Swanson
0-0 0-0
Stevenson
0-2 0-0
Titus
0-1 0-0
2-5 3-5
Jorgenson
23-52 20-26
Totals:
R
9
2
3
2
1
3
1
6
2
29
R
10
6
4
4
3
1
1
1
8
38
A
0
3
3
2
0
1
1
0
0
10
A
1
8
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
11
T
2
5
3
0
1
4
1
2
2
21
T
3
4
4
5
4
0
4
0
1
25
F
2
4
2
4
1
1
0
2
4
20
F
5
1
4
2
2
0
2
0
2
18
TP
23
11
4
3
3
1
2
3
5
55
TP
4
18
11
13
17
0
0
0
7
70
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa
— Three players combined
for 40 points to lead the
Cloud County Thunderbirds
to a 64-57 win over Southeastern (Iowa) Community
College in the opening round
of the Hampton Inn/Holiday
Inn Reivers Classic Friday
afternoon.
Freshman guard Taylor
Ames was 7 of 12 from the
field in leading the T-Birds
with 17 points.
Alyssa Steppe, a sophomore guard, scored 13 points
for the T-Birds.
Freshman Luize Skrastina
added 10 points.
Cloud County, struggling
to knock down shots, trailed
Southeastern 23-22 at halftime.
The T-Birds were 9 of 24
from the field for 38 percent
in the first 20 minutes.
“Southeastern was a talented team, a sophomore
dominated team,” Cloud
County coach Brett Erkenbrack said.
Trailing much of the second half, the T-Birds would
eventually go up on the
Blackhawks.
Southeastern was forced
to foul late, and Cloud County hit five of six free throws.
“The last little bit, we were
able to make some winning
type plays,” Erkenbrack said,
“Taylor Ames made a couple
of defensive plays. Alyssa
Steppe came up with a big
steal.”
Cloud County would go up
by as many as 10 points.
Southeastern hit a threepoint shot as time ran out to
make the final margin seven.
“That was a good win for
us, going up there shorthanded,” Erkenbrack said.
The T-Birds were without
sophomore post player Kimi
Lindshield.
Cloud County got eight
points
from
Breannah
Bretches.
Macy Davis pulled down
11 rebounds.
The T-Birds hit 26 of 59
field goal attempts for 44 percent. They shot just nine free
throws, and made seven of
them.
Southeastern was led by
Champale Grayts with 23
points. She was 10 of 12 from
the floor.
Tatiana Nikitina scored 12
points for the Blackhawks.
Cloud County FG FT
Davis
2-4 0-0
Bretches
3-9 2-2
Steppe
4-9 2-2
3-4 0-0
Farber
7-14 0-1
Ames
Nittler
0-4 0-0
Skrastina
5-9 0-0
Idika
2-6 2-2
26-59 7-9
Totals:
Southeastern FG FT
Nicholas
1-3 5-6
Grays
10-12 3-9
1-2 0-2
Conner
1-4 4-6
Barnes
2-4 0-1
Soy
0-2 0-0
Salas
Johnson
0-1 3-4
Mehmert
0-0 0-0
5-7 0-0
Nikitina
20-35 15-28
Totals:
R
11
2
3
2
5
4
7
7
42
R
1
4
1
7
3
2
5
0
2
25
A
0
3
3
2
2
1
1
1
13
A
1
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
3
T
1
2
2
2
2
2
2
3
16
T
2
5
0
3
3
2
4
0
2
21
F
3
1
1
3
3
3
1
3
18
F
1
2
0
4
0
2
3
1
1
14
TP
4
8
13
6
17
0
10
6
64
TP
7
23
2
6
4
0
3
0
12
57
CJHS wrestlers go 0-4
SALINA — The Concordia
Junior High School wrestling
team went 0-4 in the Lakewood Middle School Tournament on Saturday.
Concordia was beaten 6434 by Chapman in the opening round of the dual
tournament.
Eastan Hake, 95 pounds;
Anthony Bieker, 120 pounds;
and Tryston Jochems, 141
pounds, won by fall for the
Panthers.
Jeremiah
Funk,
100
pounds, won a 12-2 decision.
Anguish,
75
Jordan
pounds, and Timmy Lambert, 115 pounds, won by forfeit.
The Panthers lost 86-12 to
Hays.
Carson McMillan, 90
pounds, and Eyann Zimmerman, 165 pounds, won by fall
for Concordia.
McPherson defeated Concordia, 84-21.
Zimmerman and Chance
LeDuc, 265, picked up wins
by fall.
Jochems won a 5-0 decision and McMillan won by
forfeit.
Concordia was beaten 6632 by Lakewood.
Anguish,
Zimmerman,
Mikesell,
110
Triston
pounds; and Treyton Kindel,
134 pounds, recorded pins
for the Panthers.
Robert Trost, 127 pounds,
won an 11-8 decision.
Jochems won by forfeit.
Beloit held on to defeat
the Concordia junior varsity
boys’ basketball team 59-56
Friday in the Concordia
High School gymnasium.
Concordia trailed 14-12
after one quarter of play.
The
Panthers
were
outscored 14-11 in the second period, and it was a 2823 game at halftime.
Beloit poured in 24
points in the third quarter
to 17 for Concordia to go up
52-40.
The Panthers limited the
Trojans to seven points in
the final stanza, and scored
16 to close the gap to three
points.
Manny Mares led Concordia with 19 points.
Garrett Lawrence added
17 points for the Panthers.
Beloit defeated the Concordia junior varsity girls’
basketball team 52-8 Friday
night in the Concordia High
School gymnasium.
Kelsey Kearn, Jessica
Williams, Jennifer Garcia
and Carlie Barleen scored
two points each for Concordia.
The Concordia freshman
boys’ basketball team was
beaten 78-34 by Beloit on
Friday.
Beloit bolted to a 34-13
first quarter lead.
The Trojans added 17
points in the second stanza
to eight for the Panthers to
make it a 51-21 game.
Concordia was outscored
20-7 in the third period, and
trailed 71-28.
Beloit added seven points
in the final quarter to six for
the Panthers.
Garrett Lawrence scored
13 points for Concordia.
The Concordia Panthers
lost 61-31 to Beloit in freshman girls’ basketball play on
Friday.
Peyton Reynolds scored 10
points for Concordia.
Britney Gilkeson added
nine points for the Panthers.
HILLSBORO — The Concordia Kids Wrestling Club
had two competitors place
second in the Hillsboro
Takedown Tournament on
Saturday.
Tracer Murdock placed
second in the 110-pound
class in the 8-and-under
division.
Braxtin Mason finished
second in the 80-pound
class in the 10-and-under
division.
Trojans down Panthers
CHS JV girls fall
Red Ravens deal T-Birds first loss, 79-63 Beloit drops CHS frosh
Cloud County hit 23 of
56 field goal attempts for
41 percent and 12 of 19
free throws for 63 percent.
Darrion Strong scored
24 points for Coffeyville.
LaVone Holland added
20 points.
Cloud County FG FT R
3-10 0-0 4
Camidge
4-9 7-10 2
Thomas
Garnes
0-0 0-0 1
Griffin
1-1 0-0 1
Hicks
0-4 1-2 2
Ojinnaka
8-12 1-2 8
5-9 1-3 5
Brinker
2-9 0-0 4
Singleton
Patrick
0-0 0-0 1
0-1 0-0 0
Williams
Kurash
0-1 0-0 2
Totals:
23-56 12-19 33
FG FT R
Coffeyville
Strong
7-15 -9 8
Ellison
1-2 1-4 5
1-2 1-1 1
Barksdale
3-5 0-0 2
Williams
Holland
7-10 4-7 3
Kyles
1-3 2-2 2
Kirby
3-6 3-5 6
Davis
2-5 2-2 3
25-48 19-29 31
Totals:
A
1
6
2
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
11
A
4
3
0
2
1
1
1
0
12
T
2
7
2
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
18
T
4
1
1
0
3
0
3
3
15
F
4
2
1
2
3
4
2
5
0
1
0
24
F
1
3
2
3
3
1
4
3
20
TP
9
15
0
2
1
18
12
6
0
0
0
63
TP
24
4
3
8
20
5
9
6
79
Freshman girls lose
Local wrestlers place
6 Blade-Empire, Monday, December 8, 2014
Weather
Today’s weather artwork by
Ashten Flavin,
a 1st grader in
Mrs. Popelka’s class
Today’s weather artwork by
Lindsey Thomas,
a 4th grader in
Mrs. Gross’s class
Three killed after vehicle hits bear
MIAMI (AP) – Three people died and eight were injured in a crash that happened after a motorist in a
Cadillac Escalade hit a bear
and stopped along a twolane road in the Florida Everglades.
Seminole police spokesman Gary Bitner told The
Associated Press that people traveling in a second
vehicle Sunday evening
had stopped to help when
a third vehicle plowed into
them. The bear also died.
“Three people from a
second vehicle got out and
tried to help and all were
struck and killed by a third
vehicle,” Bitner said by telephone, adding events ap-
parently unfolded quickly.
It was shortly before 7
p.m. Sunday when the first
vehicle hit the bear.
“We’ve never had an accident involving a black
bear,” Bitner noted. “There
are black bears throughout
Florida and this is in the
Everglades, so there absolutely are black bears in
that area.”
The Broward Sheriff’s Office sent crews to help. An
official said four critically
injured patients were airlifted to a hospital in Fort
Lauderdale. Four people
with
non-life-threatening
injuries were taken by ambulance. Officials say some
of the victims were children.
Bitner said identities of
those involved and the extent of their injuries weren’t
immediately available. He
said accident reconstruction experts were on the
scene late Sunday and details remained uncertain of
precisely how events unfolded or the speed and make of
the vehicles. He said at least
two of the vehicles were going in opposite directions.
“They are still trying to
figure everything out,” he
said.
Bitner said the crash
happened on the approximately 50,000-acre Big Cypress Seminole Reservation,
one of several tribal reservations scattered around
Florida. He said the crash
occurred north of Interstate
75, which is also known as
Alligator Alley.
Encounters with bears
in Florida are reported sporadically. Last week, wildlife
authorities in central Florida said they captured and
killed a bear that was suspected of biting a woman
on the arm last Wednesday
as she walked her dog in
the Orlando suburb of Lake
Mary. Authorities said they
also captured two of that
bear’s cubs but one was
killed in the process. They
added the other cub was
old enough to survive on its
own and they planned to release it elsewhere.
Gas sickens 19 at Midwest Furfest
Rolling Stone clarifies
apology on UVA story
WASHINGTON (AP) – Rolling Stone has clarified its
apology over a story that had
reported a female student
was gang-raped at a University of Virginia fraternity,
telling readers the mistakes
were the magazine’s fault,
not the alleged victim’s.
That’s a shift from the
original note to readers, issued Friday, when it said
of Jackie, the woman who
claimed to have been gangraped at a Phi Kappa Psi
fraternity, “Our trust in her
was misplaced.” The updated note removes that line,
which struck some critics as
blaming the victim.
The magazine said that
it shouldn’t have agreed to
Jackie’s request not to contact the alleged assailants
to get their side of the story, out of sensitivity to her.
“These mistakes are on Rolling Stone, not on Jackie,”
wrote the magazine’s managing editor, Will Dana. “We
apologize to anyone who was
affected by the story and we
will continue to investigate
the events of that evening.”
The decision not to contact
the alleged rapists prompted
criticism from other news organizations.
Last month’s sensational story used Jackie’s case
as an example of what it
called a culture of sexual
violence hiding in plain sight
at U.Va., one of the nation’s
leading public universities.
The story claimed that too
many people on the Charlottesville, Virginia, campus
put protecting the school’s
image and their own reputations above seeking justice
for sex crimes.
Markets
NEW YORK (AP) – U.S.
stocks slipped in afternoon
trading on Monday as a drop
in crude oil prices to a fiveyear low pushed down energy stocks. Weak Chinese
trade figures and news that
Japan’s recession is deeper
than initially thought also
weighed on markets.
KEEPING SCORE: The
Dow Jones industrial average fell 66 points, or 0.4 percent, to 17,892 as of noon
Eastern. The Standard &
Poor’s 500 index dropped
10 points, or 0.5 percent, to
2,065. The Nasdaq composite fell 31 points, or 0.7 percent, to 4,749.
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ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) –Investigators were looking into
the release of a gas that sickened several hotel guests
and forced thousands of
people – many dressed as
cartoon animals for a convention – to temporarily
leave the building.
Although
some
participants at the Midwest
FurFest convention thought
the mass evacuation was
just part of the fun, investigators were treating it as a
criminal matter.
Nineteen people who became nauseous or dizzy
were treated at local hospitals, and at least 18 were
released shortly thereafter.
Within hours, emergency
workers decontaminated the
Hyatt Regency O’Hare and
allowed people back inside.
The Rosemont Public
Safety
Department
said
someone apparently inten-
tionally left chlorine powder in a ninth-floor hotel
stairway, causing the gas to
spread.
While authorities conducted their investigation,
organizers tried to assure
the participants that the
evacuation would not overshadow the FurFest event,
in which attendees celebrate
animals that are anthropomorphic – meaning they’ve
been given human charac-
teristics – through art, literature and performance.
Many of costumed attendees
refer to themselves as “furries.”
“In walk all these people
dressed like dogs and foxes,” said Pieter Van Hiel, a
40-year-old technical writer
from Hamilton, Canada,
chuckling as he thought
about the crowd being herded into the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center as
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Legals
(First published in The Concordia
Blade-Empire, Monday, December 8,
2014.)
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF
CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS
TWELFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
In the Interest of
DOMANI McEACHIN
Respondent.
Case No. 14-JC-27
SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF HEARING
TO:
Nicholas McEachin, Putative Father,
whose whereabouts are unknown
Unknown
Paternal
Grandmother,
whose name and whereabouts are unknown
Unknown Paternal Grandfather, whose
name and whereabouts are unknown,
and any other person or persons having
or claiming to have an interest in the captioned case
A motion has been filed in this Court to
terminate the parental rights of the abovecaptioned Respondent’s parents.
You are required to appear before this
Court in the District Courtroom of the Cloud
County Courthouse in Concordia, Cloud
County, Kansas, on January 14, 2015, at
10:00 o’clock a.m., or prior to that time
file their written defenses or responses to
said Petition with the Clerk of the District
Court of Cloud County, Kansas. If, after a
child has been adjudged to be a Child in
Need of Care, the Court finds a parent or
parents to be unfit, the Court may make
an order permanently terminating the parent’s or parents’ parental rights. Should the
Court make such a finding, the Court shall
proceed directly to a dispositional hearing,
pursuant to K.S.A. 38-1584(c), to determine if adoption of the respondent is a viable alternative.
Joseph A. Allen has been appointed
Guardian ad Litem for the Respondent.
Each parent or legal guardian or custodian
has the right to appear and be heard personally either with or without an attorney.
The Court will appoint an attorney for a
parent who is financially unable to hire one.
Dated and signed in Concordia, Cloud
County, Kansas, November 24, 2014.
Sue Peltier, Deputy
Clerk of the District Court
3m
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BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH® by John Rose
HAGER THE HORRIBLE® by Chris Browne
it was hosting a dog show.
Kit McCreedy, a 28-yearold from Madison, Wisconsin, said he didn’t think the
incident would cause further disruption at Midwest
FurFest, which was in its final day.
“I think we’ll recover from
this,” said McCreedy, his fox
tail swinging behind him as
he headed back inside. “People are tired but they’re still
full of energy.”