In Caney, a library on the move

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2016 • 20 PAGES • 2 SECTIONS • 75 CENTS • ALWAYS CLEAN AND NEWSY!
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IN THIS ISSUE
CANEY CITY LIBRARY PREPARES FOR WELCOME RELOCATION TO NEW QUARTERS
In Caney, a library on the move
Library to confront
unique (but good) problem in new building:
available space to hold
collections, programs
BOWL BOUND
Cherryvale High School’s
Brady Snider selected for
2016 Kansas Shrine Bowl.
See page B2
CANEY
City council approves
uniforms for public works
department employees,
consider purchase of
equipment trailer.
See page A9
COURTHOUSE
Commission hears of
change in health care provider for jail inmates.
See page A5
SPORTS
Independence High School
varsity basketball teams
sweep rival Field Kindley
in Tuesday action; Caney
Valley girls, Cherryvale girls
also victors.
See page B1-B4
CHERRYVALE
Cherryvale Chamber of
Commerce’s annual banquet set for Jan. 28
See page A6
OPINION
The great icon of smalltown life in the winter: the
basketball game.
See page A4
INDEPENDENCE
Oklahoma watercolor artist
Monte Toon opens soloexhibit at Independence
Museum.
See page B8
INDEX
Caney .............................A8-A9
Cherryvale ....................A6-A7
Coffeyville............................ B6
Classified ads....................... B9
Datebook............................B10
Independence.................... B8
Obituaries.............................A2
Public notices...................... B5
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BY DONNA CELAYA
[email protected]
BY ANDY TAYLOR
[email protected]
CANEY — The month of
January will be a time of
transition for the Caney City
Library.
And, the move to new quarters can’t come soon enough.
Confined to its “temporary”
location in a former neighborhood grocery store since
1978, the tight-and-compact
library will soon move to its
new location at Fifth and
State streets. Contractors are
putting the final touches on
the library project in hopes
of turning over the keys to
library director Chris Bannon
and her library staff on or
around Jan. 25.
Once the keys to the new
building are in the library
staff’s hands, they will begin
the arduous process of moving the library — book by
book.
Just the thought of moving
more than 12,000 books and
DVDs — not to mention countless pieces of furniture and
shelves — is no easy trick.
“It’s a little overwhelming to think about it,” said
Bannon this week. “We have
already developed a plan on
how we would like to have
everything moved. The move
itself is going to a major task.”
A local contractor has
already volunteered to provide muscle power in moving boxes, desks and metal
shelves. However, Bannon
said the full scope of the move
won’t be known until they are
able to get in the new library
and fully visualize where the
furniture and shelving units
will go.
Tucked away in a storage
unit on the north end of Caney
are countless pieces of metal
shelving that were procured
— for free — from another
Kansas library. Those shelving units will be used in the
new library as will some of
the existing shelving units.
One piece of furniture that
will not be making the movie
Joel Pile
to assume
top post in
Cherryvale
The crowded conditions of the current Caney City Library at 100 N. Ridgeway are evident when library
patrons have to maneuver around boxes of photocopying paper, book shelves and carts containing
library materials — all of which is accumulated around the circulation desk. The current library, which
contains more than 1,600 square feet of space, will relocate to new quarters at Fifth and State streets
later this month. The new library has more than 4,000 square feet of available space. Seated at the
circulation desk is Jennifer Rosson, assistant library director. Note the crowded conditions of the
public computer area (in background) and the wooden desk (right backgorund) that also serves as
the office of the library director. (Photo by Andy Taylor)
is a circulation desk. That’s
because the new library will
come equipped with a twoperson circulation desk and
information center. Plus, the
library director will have a
dedicated office space.
The new library also will
have a multi-station computer
area plus an area dedicated to
a computer for handicapped
persons.
Another feature of the
new library will be a flexible, multi-purpose room for
library projects and programs. The room is capable of
• see Library, page A2
CHERRYVALE — With the
start of the new year, it’s out
with the old and in with the
new.
Current Cherryvale city administrator Travis Goedken
attended his final city council
meeting on Monday evening —
the same meeting in which his
successor was named.
The council voted unanimously
to
hire
Joel
Pile as the
new
city
administrator.
Contract details
were left up
to Goedken
and the city
a t t o r n e y,
and will be
Joel Pile . . .
released
former city
when they
administrator
are
finalin Valley Center,
ized.
Kan.
Pile did
not attend Monday’s meeting,
but Goedken said he is an experienced city administrator.
His most recent two positions
were with the cities of Valley
Center and Rose Hill. Pile currently is managing his family’s farm in Haysville, Kan.,
and should be in attendance
at the next city council meeting at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 19.
The meeting was moved from
the usual Monday time to accommodate the Martin Luther
King holiday.
Goedken came to Cherryvale as city administrator
in the summer of 2013, from
a position with a community
in Iowa, and he returns to his
home state when he leaves
his job here at the end of this
week. He said he hopes Cherryvale’s financial situation and
persistence in presenting a
good face continue to improve,
as they did under his guidance,
and he said he and his family
• see Pile, page A2
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Cherryvale man’s use of
Facebook has generated buzz
among Pizza Hut’s top brass.
See page A6
Forum exposes conflicts toward Medicaid expansion
Kansas has refused to
expand Medicaid rolls;
however, issue has taken
on new emphasis following closure of Mercy Hospital in Independence
BY MIKE SHERRY
Heartland Health Monitor
If policymakers in deep-red
Indiana can do it, so can their
equally conservative counterparts in Kansas.
That was the dominant –
though not unanimously held
– message at a forum Tuesday
at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park,
where the topic was expanding
the Kansas Medicaid program
to cover as many as 150,000
additional Kansans.
Doug Leonard, president of
the Indiana Hospital Association, told an audience of more
than 300 people at the forum
that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence,
who is a conservative like Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, was
satisfied that Medicaid expansion in Indiana was fiscally
sound in the short- and longterm.
“He was not going to throw
the state under the bus,” Leon-
Listening
For A
Remedy
ONGOING COVERAGE OF THE
CHANGING MEDICAL SCENE IN
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
ard said.
The expanded Indiana program, which took effect nearly
a year ago, has added more
than 220,000 residents to the
Medicaid rolls. Nearly 1,000
new health care providers have
joined the program.
Kansas, by contrast, is one of
20 states that have not expanded Medicaid, which in Kansas is
a privatized program that goes
by the name KanCare.
A February analysis by the
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation called the Indiana plan
the most complex waiver of the
four the federal government
had approved up until that
time. The analysis cited the
As Kansas lawmakers, including State Sen. Jeff King (R-Independence) looked on, Tom Bell of the Kansas
Hospital Association made a point at a forum on Medicaid expansion Tuesday in Overland Park. (Photo
by Mike Sherry/Heartland Health Monitor)
state’s four Medicaid packages
and varied treatment of beneficiaries based on variables such
as income, medical frailty and
maintenance of premium payments.
The government has allowed
states to experiment with
new approaches to Medicaid
through expansion. One gen-
eral idea in these waivers is to
have recipients pay premiums
and co-pays.
That’s the case in Indiana.
Leonard said that Medicaid
beneficiaries in Indiana are
required to have some “skin
in the game” and must make
modest contributions to health
savings accounts to qualify for
enhanced benefits. Enrollees
who fail to pay their share of
monthly premiums face added
co-pays and other fees.
Another key component of
the Indiana plan, Leonard said,
is that it pays health care providers at Medicare rates, which
• see Medicaid expansion, page A2
Page A2
Thursday, January 7, 2016
Montgomery County Chronicle
OBITUARIES
Obituaries are printed in their entirety for a $25 fee. To
submit a paid obituary, contact the Montgomery County
Chronicle at (620) 336-2100 or (620) 879-2156. Or, submit
an e-mail to [email protected].
Cameron Henry Wawrzynaik
JEFFERSON — Cameron Henry Wawrzynaik, age 35, of Jefferson passed away
Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015.
A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m.,
Friday Jan. 8 at the First Assembly of God
Church, 301 N. McGee, Caney. Pastor Mike
Morris will officiate.
Funeral arrangements are being handled
by Stumpff Funeral Home in Bartlesville, Okla.
Flowers may be dropped off at the First Assembly of God in Caney. Or in lieu of flowers,
memorial donations may be given to the First
Assembly of God Church.
Violet Ashford
CANEY — Violet Ashford, age 87, of Caney
passed away Saturday, Jan. 2, 2016, after a
long and happy life.
Violet Lowry was born Aug. 26, 1928, in rural
Peru, the sixth of six children born to Lawrence
Everett Lowry and Georgia May (Thurman)
Lowry. She was raised in rural Peru, attended
schools there, and graduated from Peru High
School.
On June 29, 1946 she
married Alfred Andrew Ashford at Independence. The
couple moved to Caney in
1947 where they raised their
two children: son Alfred Andrew Jr. and daughter Sheila
Violet.
Violet was employed for
over 32 years for optometrists Doyle Burch and
Roger Burch. She enjoyed
crocheting, blanket making, sewing, gardening,
traveling, and her pet cats. She was an active
member of the VFW Auxiliary, American Legion Auxiliary, and the Caney United Methodist
Church.
Survivors blessed by her memory are her
children, Alfred and wife Janice Ashford of
Rocky Mount, N.C., and Sheila Ashford of
Caney; granddaughter Ashley Ryan Ashford;
and numerous other relatives. She was preceded in death by her husband Alfred Sr. in 2008,
her parents, and her siblings Leonard, Ethel,
Cleona, Bert, and Andrew.
Celebration of life services were held
Wednesday, Jan. 6, at Potts Chapel Funeral
Home, Caney. Pastor Will Kenyon of the Caney
United Methodist Church officiated. Interment
followed at the Sunnyside Cemetery, Caney.
Memorial donations are suggested to the
Caney United Methodist Church in memory of
Violet Ashford.
are higher than Medicaid reimbursement rates.
Under the Affordable Care
Act, the federal government
pays 100 percent of the costs
of Medicaid expansion through
2016 in states that raise eligibility to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, or $16,242
annually for an individual.
The federal share gradually
phases down to 90 percent in
2020 and remains at that level
afterward.
The forum included three
state senators – Jeff King, a
Republican from Independence, Jim Denning, a Republican from Overland Park, and
Laura Kelly, a Democrat from
Topeka – and two state representatives – Jerry Henry, a
Democrat from Atchison, and
Mark Hutton, a Republican
from Wichita. A similar forum occurred in November in
Wichita.
It was unclear after the
three-hour session if the Kansas Legislature will schedule
committee hearings on Medicaid expansion in the session that begins next week,
let alone find enough common
ground to pass a measure this
year.
Denning, for one, expressed
serious misgivings about expanding KanCare, insisting Indiana would be unable to control the costs of its expanded
program, especially given the
higher reimbursements it’s
paying to providers.
“They have no idea what is
fixing to happen to them,” he
said.
N
Naomi E. McDonald
CANEY — Naomi E. McDonald, age 79, of
Caney passed away on Saturday, December 26,
2015 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center in
Coffeyville.
Cremation has taken place, and a celebration of life service was held Wednesday, Dec.
30 at Tyro Christian Church
with evangelist David Bycroft officiating.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorials to
Tyro Christian Church and
may be left with Webb & Rodrick Chapel. Naomi was born Feb. 11,
1936 in Spavinaw, Okla., to
Alva and Kathleen (Stokes)
Duncan; she attended and
graduated Oklahoma schools.
Naomi married Rex McDonald on Nov. 18,
1976 in San Angelo, Texas. The couple later
made their home in Caney.
Naomi was very active in her Joy group with
the Tyro Christian Church and with the American Legion Ladies Auxiliary in Caney. Naomi was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers, her husband, Rex, and one
son, Donald.
Survivors include three sons, Ronald Henson, Overland Park, Kan., Lonnie Henson, Orlando, Fla., Jonnie Henson, Kansas City, Mo.;
two sisters, Bonnie Ashmore, and Jewell Williams, both of Claremore, Okla.; several grandchildren and many extended family members
and friends and her beloved dog, Baby.
Medicaid expansion viewpoints aired
• continued from front page
STATE STREET
FIFTH STREET
He cited a recent analysis of serious and design a plan for
the Indiana plan posted on the Kansas with Kansas princiwebsite of Forbes magazine. ples.”
Leonard, however, derided the He said that any Kansas
analysis, saying it consisted of solution should require ben“wild claims” posted on a blog eficiaries to pay something for
that had been thoroughly de- their care and contain an embunked by Indiana state offi- ployment component.
cials.
King, whose hometown hos “Sen. Denning must have pital, Mercy Hospital, closed
access to some books in Indi- last year, said the closure
might
have
ana that we
happened
don’t
have
“Saying no to every- even if Kanaccess
to,”
he said. “The thing is not the answer.” Care had been
expanded and
governor’s ofprovided
it
fice, the Sen— STATE SEN. JEFF KING
with additionate and the
House all looked at this, and al Medicaid reimbursements.
it’s the state that came to us But expansion, he said, might
with the idea of the plan and have provided other options.
the funding mechanism, so “Saying no to everything is
they have a lot more confi- not the answer,” King said.
dence in it than Sen. Denning Even if expansion does
has.”
come up for debate, King said
Funding for Indiana’s ex- he doesn’t expect it to pass this
panded program comes from session. He predicted it could
the state cigarette tax and an take as long as two years for
that to happen.
assessment on providers.
Dave Kerr, a former Re- The forum was held one
publican state senator from week before the Kansas LegHutchinson who served as islature convenes for its 2016
president of the Kansas Sen- session. Legislators will return
ate, told the forum audience to Topeka next Monday for the
that Kansas needed “to get start of the session.
Shown above is a rendering of the new Caney City Library at 5th and State streets.
Library prepares for welcome move
seating as many as 50 people
(including chairs and tables)
and even more people when
chairs and tables are removed. That room will serve
as the location for the everbusy summer reading program, or the Scholastic Book
Fair, or any other program,
presentation or project involving the library.
“That room will offer such
a huge change in how our
library interacts with the
public,” said Bannon. “In the
past, we had to shut down the
library during the hours of
the summer reading program.
We won’t have to do that anymore. We also had to limit the
size of our book fairs because
of limited size. That won’t be
the case once we move to the
new library.”
Bannon also said she was
looking forward to creating a
coffee bar for library patrons
to use. The library also will
have a dedicated area for
genealogy and local history
research.
“This library is going to
pose some challenges — but
they are good challenges,” she
said. “We have so much more
space. It’s going to take a bit
for us to get adjusted because
we have been so accustomed
to our existing library.”
The existing library at 100
N. Ridgeway has about 1,600
square feet of space. The
new library will have more
than 4,000 square feet of usable space — roughly a 150
percent increase in available
Pile hired as Cherryvale
city administrator
will miss Cherryvale and their
neighbors and friends they
made here. He said he imagines some of the residents
aren’t sad to see him leave, but
that most people would agree
the city ordinances that have
been enforced have benefitted
the entire community.
Goedken said earlier that
most of the city administrators
in southeast Kansas had been
on their current jobs for less
than three years, making him
the most senior of all of the
city administrators in Montgomery County.
“It’s the nature of the job,”
he had said. “Sometimes when
you want to move up, you have
to move away.”
The mayor and the councilors said they wished Goedken and his family well, and
thanked him for all of the work
he did for the city.
****
Present at the council meeting were Mayor John Wright
and councilors Chad Wickham, Lew Forman Jr., Randy
Wagoner and Don King.
space.
Bannon said the library
will add to its book and DVD
collections as money is made
available through grants and
donations. Other services and
resources available to the
public will be added as funding allows, she said.
“Even though we are moving to a bigger building, we
will get the same funding as
we always have to purchase
new materials,” she said. “So,
we’ll add to the collection as
funding provides. The community has been good about
donating new books and DVDs
to the library as well. We
hope to see that continue.”
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Capital murder charges filed against John Mack Brown
Independence man to return to court next Tuesday
concerning legal representation; documents show
Brown allegedly attempted to kill multiple people
BY ANDY TAYLOR
[email protected]
INDEPENDENCE — Capital
murder charges have been
formally filed in the Dec. 23
homicide and shooting of two
Independence people.
John Mack Brown of 712
S. 4th appeared in Montgomery County District Court on
Tu e s d a y
in a brief
hearing
presided
by Judge
William
Cullins.
Brown is
charged
with one
count of
c a p i t a l John Mack Brown
murder in
. . . accused of
the death
capital murder
of Willie
and attempted
LaMont
capital murder
Hayes,
age 29, at
604 N.17th Street, Independence, and attempted capital
murder in the shooting of Keisha Marie Hayes. According to
a court complaint, Brown also
attempted to kill five other
people, all of whom are minors.
Keisha Hayes was wounded in the shooting melee that
took place in Independence
on Dec. 23. However, a press
statement from the Independence Police Department did
not include any information
about the alleged attempts
made against on the lives of
the five minors.
Because
the
shooting
MONTGOMERY
COUNTY
spree involved multiple victims, Brown is being charged
with with most severe murder charge in Kansas: capital
murder and attempted capital
murder, which is punishable
by life imprisonment (with a
minimum of 25 years in prison before parole eligibility)
or lethal execution. However,
county attorney Larry Markle,
who is prosecuting the case,
has not yet determined if he
will seek the death penalty
against Brown. He said state
laws dictate the various factors that would allow him to
consider the death penalty
against Brown.
Brown allegedly committed the action Dec. 23. However, he fled the scenes of the
crimes and was ultimately
captured in Crawford County
on Monday, Dec. 28.
Brown will return to court
on Tuesday, Jan. 12 for an attorney review hearing. As of
last Tuesday’s hearing, Brown
is being afforded representation by a capital defense coordinator in the State Board of
Indigents’ Defense Services.
He remains incarcerated in
the Montgomery County Jail
on $1 million bond.
Oklahoma man
charged with
murder, arson to
return to local court
Thad Christopher Green,
the Pawhuska, Okla., man
accused of killing Cameron
Wawryznaik and burning his
Jefferson home on Dec. 23 will
return to Montgomery County
District Court in two weeks to
select the date for his preliminary hearing.
Green stands charged with
first-degree murder and arson in the death of Wawryznaik, whose deceased body
was found by firefighters inside Wawryznaik’s home in
the early-morning hours of
Dec. 23. Green was arrested
in Pawhuska later that day on
a Kansas arrest warrant.
Court documents in Oklahoma claim Green was having difficulty with his ex-wife,
Ramanda Ferguson, who had
a relationship with Wawryznaik. Court documents say
Ferguson heard Green make
threats against Wawryznaik.
Ferguson
had
sought
protective orders
against
Green in
the Oklah o m a
courts because of
her relaThad Christopher
tionship
Green . . . charged
with Wawr y z n a i k . with first-degree
murder, arson
Green and
Ferguson were divorced in
2008.
Green remains incarcerated in the Montgomery County
Jail on a $1 million bond. He
will be represented by a lawyer who specializes in indigent defense.
He will have a court hearing on Jan. 26, at which time
a date will be selected for
Green’s preliminary hearing.
At that preliminary hearing, a judge will determine
whether enough evidence exists to have Green bound for
trial.
Hearing to be held
in February in
shooting incident
with local police
A preliminary hearing is
scheduled in February for
a Parsons man shot by Coffeyville police in November after he allegedly shot at them.
Kenneth J. Jones, age 24,
of Parsons is charged in Montgomery County District Court
with attempted second-degree
murder and aggravated assault of a law officer. Coffeyville police and the Montgomery County Attorney’s
Office have yet to name the officers involved in the shooting.
The
complaint
against
Jones names officer Lucas
Vargas as the alleged victim
of attempted murder and aggravated assault. The court
record lists three other officers who will be subpoenaed
for the case: Darin Daily, Cody
Rexwinkle and Thomas Darbro.
The charges against Jones
relate to a Thursday, Nov. 5,
incident in Coffeyville.
At 1:30 a.m. Nov. 5, Coffeyville police responded to
the 300 block of West 11th
Street to investigate a report
of an individual with firearms.
Following a search of the area,
officers found and attempted
to stop and question Jones in
the parking lot behind the 100
block of West Ninth Street,
according to information re-
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Church Directory
WAYSIDE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: Jerry D. Davidson,
minister. (620) 778-6575. Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
Church, 11 a.m. Mailing address for the church: Wayside Christian Church, 508 S. Spring, Caney, KS 67333.
NEW HOPE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: 908 E. Fourth,
Cherryvale, Kan. (620) 330-0121. Come and worship
with us at New Hope Christian Church, 908 E. 4th.
Sunday School for adults and youths starts 9:30 a.m.,
with coffee and donuts served. Sunday worship service
begins at 10:30 a.m. Guest speakers will include professors, teachers and students from Ozark Christian College. Find Hope in Christ Jesus at New Hope Christian
Church. Colossians 1:27.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CHERRYVALE:
Fourth and Montgomery streets, Cherryvale, KS. John
Chastain, pastor. (620) 336-2440. Sunday School-All
Ages, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday Worship, 10:30 a.m.; 2nd
Sunday, Cookie Sunday; 4th Sunday, Fellowship Dinner. Wed. - Family Night - 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm - Free
dinner, 6:30 Youth Group and Ladies Bible Study, Monday - Men’s Bible Study - 6:00 pm.
CHERRYVALE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: Eric Lang, minister. 319 E. Main, Cherryvale, Kan. (620) 336-2533.
Free coffee and doughnuts on Sunday mornings, 10:15
a.m.; Worship Service, 10:45 a.m. Wednesday evening
6:30 p.m. Student Service. Love God, Love People,
Serve the World. Go to www.cheryyvalechristian.org.
COFFEYVILLE FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH DISCIPLES OF CHRIST: Gordon Willhite, pastor. 906
Elm Street, Coffeyville, KS. (620) 251-1710. Sunday
Church at Study, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday Church at Worship,
10:30 a.m.; Church mission: Community-wide
breakfast last Saturday of every month, 8 a.m. to 11
a.m.; Game Day on Mondays, 1 p.m.
FIRST SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH OF
CHERRYVALE: 717 E. 6th, Cherryvale, Kan. (620)
336-3504. David Bennett, pastor. Website: www.
fsbccherryvaleks.com. Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.;
Sunday Worship, 11 a.m.; Sunday Evening Service, 6
p.m.; Wed. Night Bible Study & Youth, 6 p.m.
NEW LIFE PRAISE & WORSHIP: David and Renea
Cavaness. 308 N. Liberty, Cherryvale, Kan. (620) 3368027. Sunday School begins at 9:15 a.m.; Morning
Worship Service is at 10:30 a.m. Sunday Youth Meeting
starts at 5:30 p.m., followed by Sunday evening worship at 7 p.m. Wednesday Prayer Meeting and Bible
Study will be held at 7 p.m. For more information, go to
www.nlpw.org or send an e-mail to [email protected].
TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: 108 N. Bradley, Caney,
KS. (620) 879-5604, church number; Rev. Jonathan
Schultz, pastor, (918) 520-9829 (pastor’s cell number);
Sunday School, 9 a.m.; Church, 10 a.m.
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF CANEY: 100 E.
Fourth, P.O. Box 141, Caney, Bill Wright, pastor. Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday Worship Service, 10:30
a.m.; Wednesday Adult Bible Study, 6 p.m.
9-17-15
TYRO CHRISTIAN CHURCH: David Bycroft, evangelist. Box 307, Tyro, KS. (620) 289-4433. Traditional
Worship Service, 8:30 a.m.; Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
Contemporary Praise/Worship, 11 a.m.; Sunday Eve.
Worship & Youth Classes, 6 p.m.; Wednesday Youth
Classes, 7 p.m.
CHERRYVALE ASSEMBLY OF GOD: Pastor Jeffrey L.
Owen, 305 E. Main. Sunday school 9:30 a.m.; Sunday
morning worship 10:30 a.m. Call (620) 217-9665 for
other service times. “Come & Dine” free community
meal 5 p.m. on the fourth Saturday of each month, unless otherwise noted.
SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH: Fr. Sixtus Ye
Myint, priest. 303 N. Hooker, Caney, KS. Sunday Mass,
11 a.m.; Weekday Masses on Monday, 8 a.m.; Confessions are before Mass; CCD/PSR Classes on Sunday at
9:30 a.m.; Altar Society, Wednesday, 7 p.m.
CORNERSTONE CHURCH OF CANEY: Brad Sanders,
pastor. 900 S. Ridgeway, Caney, KS. (620) 879-5220.
Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday Morning Worship,
10:40 a.m.; Sunday Night Service (during summer),
6:30 p.m.
ST. FRANCIS XAVIER CATHOLIC CHURCH: Fr. Andrew Heiman, pastor. 202 S. Liberty, Cherryvale, KS.
Parish Hall: (620) 336-2599. All mail and calls to St.
Andrew Parish in Independence, KS: (620) 331-1789.
Sunday Mass, 8 a.m.
CANEY ORTHODOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: 2nd
and Vine streets. Worship led by Rev. Tim Black. Adult
& children’s Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship at 11
a.m. Wednesday Kids’ Quest/Prayer Meeting at 6:30
p.m. For more info call (918) 331-6334. Visit caneyopc.
org for more information.
CHERRYVALE CHURCH OF CHRIST: Stan Bryan, minister. North Hwy. 169, Cherryvale, KS. (620) 336-3948.
Sunday Bible Study, 10 a.m.; Preaching, 11 a.m.;
Wednesday Bible Study, 7 p.m.
CROSS POINT BAPTIST CHURCH OF CANEY: Joshua
Eaton, pastor. South 75 Highway, Caney, KS (620) 8792839. Sunday Morning Worship, 10:30 a.m. Website:
crosspointcaney.com.
COFFEYVILLE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: 300 W. 9th
Street (corner of 9th & Willow), Coffeyville, KS; Dr. J.
Dean McNamara, pastor; Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.;
Sunday Services, 10:45 a.m. & 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday,
Adult Bible Study, Office “Ivy Room”, 6:30 p.m.; Youth,
“R.C.” Kids, Main Church Social Hall, 6:30 p.m. Phone:
(620) 251-3980; www.coffeyvillefbc.com.
FIRST SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH OF INDEPENDENCE: Ryan Carpenter, pastor. 918 W. Chestnut,
Independence, KS. (620) 331-3810. www.fsbindependence.com. SERVICES: Sunday Morning Bible Study
for all ages, 9:30-10:30 a.m.; Worship Service, 10:45
a.m.; Sunday Evening Service, 6 p.m.; Wednesday
Night Bible Study/Prayer & Youth, 6:30 p.m.
CROSSROADS COMMUNITY OF CHRIST: three
miles north of Dearing, Kan., at the corner of county
roads 3900 and 2600. Pastors are Melissa McIntosh.
Leslie Brooks, and Johnna Hugo. Church school 10
a.m., Worship service 11 a.m. Crossroads is a welcoming congregation to all races, genders and orientations. Phone 620-331-9294.
LIBERTY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: Bill Booe,
pastor. Sunday morning service, 9 -10 a.m. (nursery
available). Sunday school for youth and adults, 10:1510:45 a.m. Other events include Kids Club and Food,
Fun & Fellowship at 6:30 p.m. on 1st, 3rd Wednesday
of each month; Bible Study on 2nd Wednesday of
each month; Family Night on 5th Wednesday of each
month. Youth Group meetings at 5 p.m., on 2nd and
4th Sundays of each month. P.O. Box 175, Liberty, KS
67351. Call (620) 330-3432.
CHRIST’S CHURCH AT CHERRYVALE: 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday night Bible study at 1000 E. 4th St., Cherryvale. We welcome new friends and returning brothers and sisters back after Pastor Louie Celaya’s period
of recovery. Sunday morning services considered at a
later date. Watch this listing for updates, or call (620)
702-6024 for more information.
CANEY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE: Keven
Grigg, pastor, 407 N. Spring, Caney, KS. 620-8792101. Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.; Sunday Worship,
10:30 a.m.; Youth Group, Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.;
Divorce Care, www.divorcecare.org. For events see
our Facebook page and Instagram.
CHERRYVALE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: 305
W. Third, Cherryvale, Kan. (620) 336-2375. Pastor Carl
Ellis. Worship 11:00 a.m., Sunday School for all ages,
9:45 a.m. Preschool is open from September to April.
Nursery is available every Sunday.
FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD OF CANEY: Mike Morris,
minister. 301 N. McGee, Caney, KS. (620) 879-5255.
Morning Worship, Sunday, 10 a.m.; Evening Worship,
Sun., 6 p.m.; Sunday Youth Meeting, 6 p.m.; Wednesday Service, 6:30 p.m.; Children’s Church, 1st, 2nd,
3rd & 5th Sundays of the Month.
CANEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: Will Kenyon, pastor. 114 N. High, Caney, KS. (620) 879-2648.
Caney United Methodist Church: where God, tradition
and community intersect. Pastor Will Kenyon leads us
in worship at 10:45am which follows Sunday school
at 9:30am. Community meal open to all on the 2nd
and 4th Wednesdays of the month. Come be a part
of living out God’s mission. Reach out and transform
lives by sharing Christ’s love. You matter to God, and
you matter to us.
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this advertisement is $10 per month. To
have your church listed on this Church
Directory, call Emalee Mikel, ad director
for the Montgomery County Chronicle,
at 1-800-592-7606.
leased by Coffeyville police at
the time.
Jones apparently ran and
officers attempted to deploy
a Taser. At this point, Jones
allegedly fired a weapon at a
Coffeyville police officer. Officers returned fire and shot
Jones. It is unknown which
officers fired the shots that
wounded Jones. The officers
involved were placed on administrative leave
pending
the investigation.
They have
since returned to
duty.
There
were no
Kenneth J. Jones
injuries to
o f f i c e r s , . . . charged with
second-degree
and Jones
murder and agwas taken
to
Cof- gravated assault
f e y v i l l e of a law enforceRegional
ment officer
Medical
Center for treatment and then
transported by ambulance to
a hospital in Tulsa. In earlier
court appearances, Jones was
in a wheelchair. On Thursday, he walked slowly into the
courtroom for the brief hearing.
Last Thursday, Judge Jeff
Gossard scheduled a preliminary hearing in Jones’ case
for Feb. 11 in Coffeyville.
Jones remains jailed on a
$1 million bond.
Media outlets have requested a copy of the probable
cause affidavit in the case, but
Judge Gossard denied the request, saying the release may
prejudice Jones’ right to a fair
trial and make it difficult to
empanel a jury. The affidavits
are public record in Kansas.
As for Jones’ injuries from
the shooting, Coffeyville city
taxpayers are having to pay
the medical bills for Jones’
hospitalization and recuperation, according to city manager Kendal Francis, who spoke
about the matter at a recent
Coffeyville city commission
meeting. He said the hospital
bill and recuperation likely
would be “in the six figures.”
11 murder cases
from Montgomery
County pending
in district court
The separate homicides
that took place in Montgomery County on Dec. 23 have
brought the number of persons charged with murder
to 11, county attorney Larry
Markle said this week.
The most recent homicides
led the arrest of John Mack
Brown of Independence, who
is charged with capital murder in the death of Willie
LaMont Hayes and attempted
capital murder of five other
people, and Thad Christopher
Green, who is accused of firstdegree murder and arson in
the death of Cameron Wawryznaik of Jefferson.
Of the 11 separate murder
cases (capital murder, firstdegree or second-degree murder) in Montgomery County,
only one is being prosecuted
by the Kansas Attorney General’s Office. The remainder
are being prosecuted by Markle and his legal staff.
The Kansas Attorney General’s Office is handling the
prosecution against Alejandro
Garcia, the Mexican national
who is charged with attempted first-degree murder following a car chase and shootout
with law enforcement near
Liberty on May 28-29, 2015.
Because of the volume of
murder cases now pending in
Montgomery County, Markle
said he planned to talk to the
Montgomery County Commission soon about his department’s annual budget. The
prosecution of murder suspects typically comes with a
high price tag: an average of
$20,000 per case.
“If you can get a quick confession of guilt by a murder
suspect, then the costs are
controlled and limited,” he
said. “However, if you have a
much bigger case that has to
involve multiple witnesses, forensic evidence, or expert testimony, then the costs can be
much, much greater.”
The difficulty in working
with an annual budget, which
the county commission sets for
the county attorney’s office, is
because of the unknown factor of how many homicides
will be committed in a given
year, Markle said.
“Every case has to be treated individually and separately,
which is why it’s hard to anticipate how much money is
needed to run the county attorney’s office each year,” he
said.
Convicted double
murderer eligible
for parole; public
comments sought
A Texas man who was convicted in the double murder of
his grandmother and aunt in
Coffeyville in 1991 will have
his parole eligibility decided
by the Kansas Prisoner Review Board in January.
Daniel Ray Royse, age 55,
of Irving, Texas, is an inmate
at the Wichita Work Release
Center
where he
was serving a pair
of concurrent, 15year
to
life prison
terms for
the
suffocation
death of
Daniel Ray Royse
his grand. . . convicted of
m o t h e r,
killing grandFlorence
mother, aunt in
M. Royse,
1991
age
87,
and
the
beating and suffocation of his
aunt, Elsie Jean Hinthorn,
age 70, on the night of Feb.
6, 1991, in the elder Royse’s
home in Coffeyville.
A review of Royse’s prison
record indicates he has not
been cited for any violations
during his incarceration and
has graduated from several
occupation-related programs.
The Prisoner
Review
Board will accept public
comments in January about
Royse’s parole eligibility. Prisoners who are eligible for a
parole hearing in February
can be released, subject to the
board’s approval, in March.
The public comment sessions will be held at the following locations:
• Wednesday, Jan. 13, 10
a.m. to noon at the Derby Police and Courts, 229 N. Baltimore, Derby, Kan.
• Friday, Jan. 22, 8:30 a.m.
to 10:30 a.m., Municipal Court
House, 214 SE 8th, Topeka,
Kan.
• Monday, Jan. 25, 10 a.m.
to noon, City Hall, 701 N. 7th,
Kansas City, Kan.
Any citizen who would like
to express comments on these
inmates, but is unable to attend one of the Public Comment Sessions, may send a letter to: Kansas Department of
Corrections, Prisoner Review
Board, 714 SW Jackson, Suite
300, Topeka, KS 66603.
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Poking the TV in the nose
might be best plan for 2016
Wintertime evenings can be mighty long
noise for an hour or so, especially when somewhen there’s nothing worthwhile on television. body across the room will listen to them, ask
questions about their interests and smile at
Kathy and I have our family TV shows, and
their attempts to be funny, smart or pleasing.
we record them so we can spread them out
over a week. Otherwise, with more than 150
We older adults sometimes blame kids with
channels on our cable system, there are many
their obsession for electronic devices, but it
times when we can’t find one solitary show
actually is they who crave those times when
that promises to entertain us, even for an
everybody sits on the floor and talks, laughs or
hour.
plays a simple game.
We like to watch movies, so
Seniors like Kathy and me
we scan the schedule to find a
are no different. While our
Hallmark film or perhaps an
bones prefer sitting at a table,
old movie that fits more into
it is there that we can plan
our value modes.
a weekend; make a simple
RUDY TAYLOR
grocery list; talk about friends
And, sometimes we rent a
Off the Cuff
and family who are succeedmovie from Pay Per View. Even
ing, hurting or doing well at a
there, it’s hard to find one that
long distance from us.
is rated to our liking, or even
one that deals with real characters rather
Habits are hard to break, but as we head
than computer graphics that crash, bang and
into 2016, I want to overcome the inclination
swoosh, showing skyscrapers exploding and
to plop down after supper, turn on the TV and
jet planes slicing into throngs of scary animals
say those beastly words, “… so, what’s on TV
with dripping faces and elongated ears.
tonight?”
So, it leaves us with reruns of “The Sound of With DVR at almost everyone’s disposal,
Music,” “Field of Dreams,” and “Sweet Home
there’s no excuse for wasting entire chunks of
Alabama.”
our precious lives in such a pit.
But here’s the crazy thing: Seldom do we
We have books that we haven’t yet read;
totally shut off the stupid TV and sit at the
broken stuff that needs fixed; and across the
kitchen table to talk or play cards.
table — a face that won’t always be there.
We have friends who do that, and we ad It would be shameful to spend another year
mire them so much.
of home evenings staring into a device that
promises only to bore us.
It reminds me of my growing-up years
before there was a TV in our home, or an anTime Is
tenna atop our roof.
The older I get, the more I realize that eve
Too slow for those who wait,
nings at home are precious jewels, and should
Too swift for those who fear,
be cherished.
Too long for those who grieve,
What I find amazing is that peaceful eve
Too short for those who rejoice;
nings without the intervention of TV, comput
But for those who love,
ers and smart phones are non-controversial.
Time is not.
Everyone, from 8 to 80, likes to stop the
— Henry Van Dyke, 1904
Of cleaning cluttered messes as a new year passes
. . . being in total awe and
etching it into your heart . .
. eating a nutritious snack of
apple slices and cheese . . .
getting all of your tax records,
checks, receipts, payroll
information, etc., gathered so
you can file your taxes before
April 15 . . . kids going back
to school following Christmas break . . . the aroma of
homemade chili simmering on
top of the stove . . . attending
to details will save you a lot of
KATHY TAYLOR
Life’s Little Lifesavers
future agonizing . . . choosing the most cluttered room
in your house and cleaning it from floor to ceiling .
. . when the doctor tells you
that your medical tests are of
good report . . . the welcome
of payday . . . giving hugs to
help those around you with
their daily journey of life . . .
the best riches in the world
are not made of money but
come in the form of a good
name and a giving and sweet
spirit: “A sterling reputation
is better than striking it rich;
a gracious spirit is better than
money in the bank.” (Proverbs
22:1)
PUBLIC FORUM
City of Independence’s
acquisition of hospital
property, extension of
Webb’s contract were
part of scheme
Editor:
The Mercy Hospital/city
offices remodel conspiracy
has come full circle when on
Wednesday, December 23rd,
commissioners Fred Meier
and Gary Hogsett voted to
extend city manager Micky
Webb’s contract, with mayor
Leonhard Caflisch voting no.
Mayor Caflisch explained,
in full detail, why he was
against Independence accepting the Mercy Hospital as a gift
to the city. His main concerns
were the conditions and secrecy placed on the gift by Mercy
and the unknown expenses in
converting the hospital into
city offices. The mayor felt that
having medical facilities for
the citizens were more important than spending unknown
millions on the new city hall.
On several occasions mayor
Caflisch requested information on expected costs for the
proposed remodel of Mercy
Hospital and the city manager’s office refused to comply. Time after time Webb has
over-stepped his authority –
not giving the mayor the information he requested is just another example. It seemed not
to matter to Meier or Hogsett
that Micky Webb had obtained,
without commission approval,
a preliminary architectural
outline of remodeling Mercy
Hospital into city offices (be-
MONTGOMERY
COUNTY
fore the city had accepted the
hospital) not did it matter that
citizens wanted Webb gone
or Webb or Webb refusing to
comply to the mayor’s request
for information. Doesn’t the
city manager report to, and is
hired, by the commissioners? Webb wasn’t worried about
being fired and now we know
why – he evidently had the
backing of Meier and Hogsett.
The scheming threesome
got their way and what will
surely follow will be increases
in our mill levy to pay for this
extravaganza. Let us remember December 23, 2015 and
the two commissioners when
it comes voting time.
Ernestine Farris
Independence, Kan.
Chronicle
Volume 131, No. 1 • January 7, 2016
OUR THOUGHTS
The spirit of basketball
Whistles, buzzers and cheers warm up wintertime evenings
The Kansas prairies appear frigid and
bleak during January, and this year is no
exception.
But the chilly winds are balanced out by
a singular occurrence that hits Kansas like
a storm — basketball.
Every town of any size has a gymnasium that turns amateur sports into a major
event for hometown fans. Ditto with field
houses in larger towns where community
colleges send men’s and women’s teams out
that give fans a glimpse of higher level play.
Then, as darkness falls and televisions
are snapped on, the state of Kansas becomes the mecca of NCAA play. Teams like
KU, K-State and Wichita State claim high
rankings and provide game-watching for
home state fans that is unparalleled in excitement.
Just this week, No. 1 Kansas hosted No.
2 Oklahoma and TV viewers around the
world cheered to a triple-overtime win by
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Independence office: 108 W. Main, Independence, KS 67301. (620) 331-9178.
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— Rudy Taylor
Expensive reality
City of Caney’s sewer issues shows high cost of neglect
In a very expensive way, the City of Caney
is learning firsthand how deferred maintenance and neglect will put a massive punch
in local wallets.
A proposal by new city administrator
Fred Gress that would raise the monthly base sewer rates from $14 to $29 per
month — a 107 percent increase — won’t
make him Man of the Year. But give kudos
to Gress for having street smarts. He wants
Caneyites to realize how not adequately
addressing utility infrastructure over an
extended period of time will create stickershock when the infrastructure system
starts to fail.
And, failing it is.
The problems confronting the sewer
system are befalling the Caney community simultaneously — like a confluence of
multiple rivers of bad luck. Not only is the
existing sewage treatment plant being targeted by Kansas Department of Health and
Environment for eventual (and costly) updates but the sewage collection system itself is falling into disrepair. Compound that
with the collapse of a major 15-inch sewer
main on the north end of Caney — an issue
that was flagged by KDHE as an immediate
emergency — and you’ll find the price tag
quickly escalating.
Another issue: the high rates of infiltration and inflow of storm water into the
x 5.75”
stormsewer system.3 col
That
collection system
also has its share of problems, including the
release of stormwater whenever the system
is inundated with too much water from rain
or melting snow.
In short: the problems are a costly mess,
simply because previous city leaders either
weren’t aware or unable to address those
issues with a critical eye.
Across the county, state and nation, we
see a disturbing trend by governments to
ignore the obvious failings of our crumbling
infrastructure. County roads and bridges,
state and federal highways, water treatment systems, even sidewalks and gutters
all are being ignored because governments
tend to shy away from the reality of repairs.
That’s because it requires tax revenue
to fill potholes, replace bridges, and pave
highways. In today’s political climate, such
spending is seen as a sin. Yet, we find the
intentional neglect as even more sinful.
We would not put our own loved ones in
a same situation by ignoring their health
problems.
Why then do we refuse to pull the trigger
when it comes to addressing the sewer systems that transport and treat our wastes,
the water systems that provide us fresh
aqua, the highways that rely on for safe
travel, or the bridges that carry us over
natural moguls?
It’s not flattering or enjoyable to discuss
the bottom line about unsexy topics like
sewer systems.
However, the world has to flush its collective toilets — and see to it that what goes
down the drain doesn’t return to the surface through a broken system that has been
ignored through timidness.
That’s why infrastructure analysis and
planning should be at the forefront of any
government that operates those vital systems.
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the Jayhawks.
And, of course, the dazzling Oklahoma
City Thunder and other NBA teams keep us
entertained throughout each week of late
winter.
Even grade school, mid-high and recreation teams keep moms, dads and school
friends cheering for kids who observe their
state’s drills in dribbling, shooting, guarding and screening.
All in all, basketball during the wintertime is a lifesaver, because nothing else
much is moving on the drafty prairies.
There’s no cause for depression as snow
flurries hit the forecast, and local towns
turn colorless and grim. All is well when
referee whistles pierce the cold air, clock
buzzers are heard two blocks away, and
cars park along otherwise deserted streets
— because it’s game night in the hometown
gym.
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GUEST COLUMN
On fresh starts, new beginnings and do-overs A new year’s resolution:
to be more like Lee Cain
I love the idea of starting anew every
year. Call me naive, but I always hope that
the New Year will see our world somehow
become nicer, safer, better; that people
will become kinder, more patient and
more helpful; that my loved ones will be
healthier, happier and more financially
secure; and that I will become kinder,
smarter and healthier. And thinner. And
wealthier. Might as well go for the whole
enchilada!
Like putting crisp, clean sheets on your
bed, we all get a bright, spanking-new
New Year free of charge. A fresh start.
Out with the old and in with the new! A
good, old-fashioned do-over. I hear these sentiments echoed from
people I run across in my daily rounds: “I
think 2016 will be a lot better, don’t you?”
they say, and I happily agree with them.
As we flip the calendar from the tired old
year to the sparkling new one, we look
forward with optimism and hope. We
aren’t ignoring the threats of terrorism,
economic collapse, worldwide pandemics.
We choose to follow the Bible’s advice to
dwell on positive thoughts and to handle
troubles as they arise, not letting sour attitudes take root and spoil our joy!
Who couldn’t use a fresh start, a chance
to have the old slate wiped clean, to
have our figurative stinky, filthy clothing
washed as white as snow, to begin with
nothing hanging over our heads, with old
threats replaced with iron-clad promises?
Here’s the game plan. The Bible says God’s mercies are new
every day. He is forgiving, he doesn’t hold
grudges against those
who ask for His forgiveness, and He makes sure
we’re equipped for the
journey through life. The
Bible is the road map, full
DONNA
of colorful stories and exCELAYA
amples of those who tried
daily to follow the right
path, and enthralling
tales that depict in detail what happens to
those who stray off track. Church is our motor club, a place where
we park on Sundays and sometimes midweek to worship the One True God and
to share our joys and sorrows with others
traveling the straight and narrow road.
Church is that refreshing rest stop along
the way, a place to get important repairs
done and adjustments made. Prayer is the onboard communications
system to be used in all situations, whether it’s to thank the Creator for smooth
sailing, to compliment Him on a particu-
larly lovely bit of scenery along the route
- maybe that green pasture and still water
mentioned in the 23rd Psalm - or to ask
for help navigating and finding the right
direction through a particularly bumpy or
slippery few miles on the journey.
God stands ready to help us, love us
and guide us as we strive
each day to keep from
falling and scraping our
spiritual knees or crashing headlong into catastrophic mistakes. As the
Apostle Paul lamented,
“The spirit is willing,
but the flesh is weak.”
Each of us will on occasion stumble and fall, but we keep trying
to do the best we can and we do better
with each others’ encouragement. Some
are having a hard time of it right now and
could use a little bit of TLC. Remember to be patient and kind with
our fellow travelers. Churches are populated by imperfect folks just like you and
me, who are trying in their own flawed
and oh-so-human ways to become transformed into better people. So Happy New Year and new beginnings to one and all. And best wishes for a
great do-over! Wintertime daydreams push us to be a little better in 2016
The beginning of a new year is always
exciting for me. The days on the calendar are no different than the last but the
changing of the year, the frozen, bleak
landscape, and a clean, undecorated
house ushers in a time of reflection on the
past year and hope for
the year to come.
I’m not big on resoluJENNY
tions. They seem to be
DIVELEY
a good way to set myself
Pick A Little,
up for failure, as one of
the most undisciplined
Talk A Little
people on the planet. But
a healthy anticipation of
the future and what it will bring is a good
way to spend daydreaming during these
cold, winter days.
My family is planning a Disney World
trip this summer. In 15 years of marriage, my husband and I have never been
on a plane together and never taken our
children farther than a day’s drive. And
in the 11 years since graduating from col-
lege, I have only missed two newspaper
deadlines, each for the birth of our sons.
So this is a big deal. We will be gone
for a solid week and this newspaper editor may freeze the smartphone in a block
of Mickey Mouse shaped ice for that week.
Our first plans were set
in stone last August and
now, just about 180 days
out from our trip, things
are starting into motion.
Dinner reservations are
being made, flight schedules checked, and the
travel guide book that sits
in our living room is getting well-worn
pages from reading about each ride,
show, and attraction.
Now that Christmas is behind us, we
also have to buckle down and save every
penny we can for the big trip. We’ll sacrifice some things between now and July
in order to wrap our arms around the
Mouse.
And on days when there is no ice on the
road, we gradually increase our steps per
day, knowing we’ll be among the thousands who walk an average of 14 miles
per day at the gigantic park.
Those daydreams, conversations, and
warm thoughts carry us through these
first days of the year.
Every year there seems to be something that pushes each of us to be a little
bit better, whether it’s a big vacation, a
move, a new job, new baby, or even just
the thought of finally cleaning out the garage.
Every person has their own terminology for resolutions or goals. Some goals
are met, others fall short, and others have
to be put on the back burner because of
a new path. But we can all anticipate the
future and know that it holds excitement,
hope, laughter, and sunshine.
Such things that make us better, year
after year.
COURTHOUSE NEWS
BY STATE SEN. JEFF KING
R-Independence
one of his core values, one that
those of us in public life (my I don’t know if it is the spirit self certainly included) need to
of the season or the knowl- remember more.
edge that my future writing Lee was county commiswill focus mostly on
sioner and an elder
specific legislation,
at the First Chrisbut I want to take a
tian Church when I
little bit different apattended there as a
proach for my final
young boy. I was in
column of 2015. No
awe of the way he
matter how hard I
worked, the way he
try, I am used to legsolved tough probislative work enterlems, the way he
ing my head over the
clearly cared for peoholidays. Session is
ple. He didn’t make
always just around
decisions by force,
the corner but by finding com This year, howmon ground with
Jeff King
ever, my mind drifted
others. I wasn’t even
to the Legislature for a differ- a teenager and I didn’t underent reason. Just before Christ- stand fully what he did, but I
mas, we lost a great Kansan, knew I wanted to find a way to
an esteemed local leader and help people like Lee did.
the man who first kindled my When I decided to run for
interest in public service.
office, Lee was one of the first
For those of you who didn’t people I called. We had lunch
know longtime Independence and shared coffee a number of
resident Lee Cain, I regret that times. His message was always
you didn’t have this
the same. He told me:
kind and generous
“I am a Democrat.
man as part of your
You are a Republilife. For those who
can. We don’t have
knew him, and that
to agree. Fight for
was most of northern
what you believe and
Montgomery County,
stay true to that. But
what we lost with
always treat every
Lee’s death needs no
person with respect
further explanation.
and dignity. Never let
They don’t make
your battles get permany like Lee anysonal. Always shake
more. I doubt God
hands with your opLee Cain . . .
ever did. Lee, who
ponents when the
a difference of
died in December,
fight is done, then
opinion never
will be missed.
share a meal with
got between
I’m not writing
them. They are good
himself and
this column to eupeople, too.”
others
logize Lee, though
Politics is a tough
his esteemed life (as
business. It is now. It was
state representative, county when Lee served. It probably
commissioner,
postmaster, always has been. Legislators
church leader, and dedicated fight tooth and nail for their
member of about every civic constituents, for their beliefs,
and service organization in for Kansas. Elections are often
existence) rightfully deserves fierce as people put themselves
recognition and praise. Rather, on the line before their friends
this column is meant to recall and neighbors asking for support. The issues are hard. The
battles are important. That’s
how it should be.
But somewhere along the
way, we have lost the ability to
respect each other even when
we disagree. We too rarely
work with those of different
opinions to promote the comthan inmate medical coverage. mon good. Civility and plain
“Health coverage in a cor- decency are too often neglectrectional department is an en- ed, exchanged for a caustic
tirely different animal,” said sound bite or a harsh email.
I will continue to fight for my
Junod.
convictions
and for the people
Asked why the Montgomery
of
southeast
Kansas. That’s my
County Health Department no
job
and
I’m
honored
to have it.
longer provides health care to
Lee
always
understood
that
jail inmates, Dierks said the jail
having
the
strength
to
fight
environment and condition of
the inmates themselves posed isn’t enough. We must have
risks to the county health de- the courage to listen, the heart
to respect, and the humility to
partment staff.
“I think most nurses in the work with those with whom we
health department did not feel disagree.
comfortable subjecting them- I have fallen short of his adselves to the jail or the in- vice many times. I hope Lee
forgave me for those shortmates,” said Dierks.
Commissioners said they comings. I know I will fall short
would address the issue of of his goal again, but pledge in
the advanced medical care the new year to use his memoproposal offered by TurnKey ry to add more civility to public
Health at an upcoming com- dialogue. I can’t think of a better way to honor him.
mission meeting.
Medical providers to change for inmate healthcare
BY ANDY TAYLOR
[email protected]
INDEPENDENCE — Medical
care given to inmates in the
Montgomery County Jail will
soon change as Sheriff Robert
Dierks has chosen a new medical provider.
Commissioners on Monday
learned of Dierks’ decision to
change providers for inmate
medical care at the end of
January. The county jail had
been served by Advanced Correctional Health (ACH). Dierks
has chosen to go with TurnKey
Health of Oklahoma City, Okla.
Dierks said changing medical providers will save about
$13,000 per year. TurnKey
Health would charge Montgomery County $170,985.96
per year to maintain the same
level of service as ACH. ACH
now charges $184.662.29
per year, which includes a
$6,113.75 per diem fee whenever jail census exceeds 120
inmates.
TurnKey
Health
would not assess a per diem
fee.
However, Dierks also suggested that Montgomery County sign an advanced care arrangement whereby TurnKey
Health would have an on-site
nurse on duty for 80 hours per
week instead of the existing
40-hour arrangement. Having the on-site nurse available
Quality
for more hours would lessen
the liability that Montgomery
County now faces with corrections guards dispensing medication to the inmates, said Dierks.
“Whenever you have county
jail employees handing out
medications, you are going to
encourage a lawsuit,” said Dierks.
To have additional nursing
coverage in the jail would cost
Montgomery County an additional $55,000 per year. That
would mean TurnKey’s total
charge would be $239,973.96
— which is almost $69,000
higher than TurnKey’s initial
medical coverage.
Stability
Commissioners took no action on whether to adopt the
advanced care arrangement
through
TurnKey
Health.
Commissioner Ryan York said
he wanted more time to research the issue, including
possibly discussing the issue
of inmate medical care with
three area medical providers,
including Labette Health, Coffeyville Regional Medical Center and Wilson Medical Center.
However, Flint Junod, who
represented TurnKey Health
at Monday’s meeting, emphasized to York that community
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CHERRYVALE
Chamber of Commerce
annual awards dinner
scheduled for Jan. 18
BY DONNA CELAYA
[email protected]
Register now for the Cherryvale Chamber of Commerce
annual
membership
and
awards dinner and there’s a
chance to attend for free.
Cherryvale City Council
learned Monday evening that
the awards dinner is at 5:30
p.m. on Monday, Jan. 18, at the
Cherryvale Community Center.
Tickets are $10 each, but the
first 100 registrants are free.
Free tickets are restricted to
two per registration, and dinner is by reservation.Those
planning to attend need to
claim their free tickets and
RSVP at City Hall by Friday this
week, Jan. 8. Recipients of the
free tickets must pick them up
in person at City Hall.
City clerk/assistant administrator Hillary Lawrence told
the council that trout were
stocked at Lake Tanko in November and more of the coldwater game fish will arrive on
Jan. 12. Anyone with a Kansas
fishing license and trout stamp
can fish at the lake.
Public works director Wade
Webber reported that that his
crew has finished the fall leaf
pickup and have gathered up
most of the downed tree limbs
from the last heavy storm that
hit recently. The crew in the
last month also has fixed two
collapsed sewer lines, fixed
two storm-water culverts and
completed two water line repairs on Main Street, Webber
said.
City administrator Travis
Godeken said that he, Lawrence and Cherryvale Chamber
of Commerce board member
Shirley Ann Hogben recently
toured Cherryvale with a member of the Coffeyville Chamber
of Commerce to determine the
best way to dovetail the tourism attractions of both towns.
The council also tabled
choosing an engineering services contract for sidewalk
construction
between
the
grade school and middle/high
school and Logan Park, to allow the council and the mayor
time to review the six submitted bids. Godeken said each
submission consists of about
20 pages.
And the council learned Cox
Communications is raising the
price of its cable television
rates again. Cox representatives said the price hike is because of rising costs from their
suppliers.
Friends of Library to discuss cookie sales
Friends of the Cherryvale Public Library will meet at 5:30
p.m. tonight, Jan. 7, at the library, 321 E. Main. One of the
main topics of discussion will be the Valentine Cookies sale
project in early February. Anyone interested in helping with
that project or any other Friends events and projects is welcome to attend.
Call Tammie at the library, (620) 336-3460 for more information.
Sweet appreciation
Members of the Happy Hustlers 4-H club spent a day during their Christmas break preparing baked goods for members of the Cherryvale police and fire departments and employees of the Cherryvale Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Helping the youth make the
many varieties of cookies, muffins and candy were 4-H leaders Florence Blaes, Debbie Reilly, parent Mark Ellis and volunteers Carol
Staton and Frances Lickteig. The group delivered the goodies as a thank-you for all that the recipients do for the community. Holding
samples of the baked good are, front row left to right, Savanna Ellis, Shooter Welch and Maria Ellis. Holding the tray of cookies are, left
to right, Olivia Saucedo and Kadynce Forman. In the back row, left to right, are Emily Lattin, Allison Bryant, Camdyn Forman and Jessica
Wood. (Courtesy photo)
Blood drive to be held next Monday
January is designated as
National Blood Donor Month
by the American Red Cross,
and Montgomery County residents are asked to help fill
the need and help maintain a
sufficient blood supply for patients.
A blood drive will be held
on Monday, Jan. 11, from 2:15
p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Cherryvale Presbyterian Church,
211 S. Montgomery.
Since 1970, National Blood
Fire department’s bake sale nets $1,314
BY DONNA CELAYA
[email protected]
The Cherryvale Fire-Rescue Department’s
Dec. 19 bake sale netted $1,314, enabling the
department to purchase Christmas gifts and
goodies for every resident at Cherryvale Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
“It was an amazing response, especially for
the department’s first project of this kind,”
said fire chief Jesse Reed. “There were a few
residents who didn’t want to come out of their
rooms for the party since they didn’t expect to
have any family visiting, but we coaxed them
out and everyone got a bunch of gifts,” Reed
said. “They were all so surprised and so happy.
We want to thank everyone who baked, bought
and put their time in for this cause. The end
result was amazing. We’re considering making
it an annual event.”
In the rest of his report to the Cherryvale City
Council on Monday evening, Reed said the department responded to 17 fire calls in December. Of those, five were motor vehicle accident,
three were grass fires, three were EMS calls
and one was a structure fire.
The department also responded to 39 EMS
calls involving 34 patients. Of those 39 calls, 19
required transport for treatment at a nearby
hospital, 15 patients refused further treatment
and transport, and six were “other,” such as no
patient found at the scene, call cancelled, or
patient discovered dead at the scene.
The highest number of EMS calls involved
five patients with breathing problems, five patients who had fallen and five motor vehicle
accidents; four patients with chest pain; three
diabetic patients, and three medical alarms.
Reed said EMS responded within one minute
of the call 90 percent of the time, and within
three minutes 97 percent of the time; and arrived on the scene within five minutes 82 percent of the time and within 10 minutes 92 percent of the time.
Of the 39 calls, 11 - that’s 28 percent - were
outside the city limits, requiring longer arrival
times.
Cherryvale man’s whimsical campaign
generates buzz among Pizza Hut’s top brass
A Cherryvale man’s innocent and funfilled conversation at a local pizza eatery
has now generated some buzz in the corporate offices of the world’s largest pizza
company.
Nathan Conner of Cherryvale is the instigator behind the “Bring Back the Big New
Yorker” page on Facebook that aims to put
Pizza Hut’s Big New Yorker-style pizza back
on the menu. The Big New Yorker, which
debuted in 1999 but has since been discontinued, was the largest Pizza Hut pizza
— a 16-inch pizza known for its hefty layer
of pepperoni, foldable slices and sweeter
sauce.
Conner said he and his wife, Paula, were
dining with friends at a local Pizza Hut
when they were reminiscing about icons of
their youth.
“My wife and I use to eat a Big New
Yorker almost every Friday night here at
the local Cherryvale Pizza Hut, when we
were dating,” said Conner. “We were sitting
around with some friends a few years ago
and somehow got on the topic of things
from our youth that we wish were still
around. Literally as a joke I created a Facebook page called ‘Bring Back The Big New
Yorker.’ I never thought much about it.”
The Facebook page matriculated
throughout the global Facebook community to the point that it has garnered 967 Likes . . . and it prompted
a direct message from the corporate hierarchy of Pizza Hut.
Conner said a Pizza Hut executive
vowed that if Conner’s Bring Back the Big
New Yorker page on Facebook generated
1,000 Likes, then the company would reconsider reviving the recipe from the Pizza
Hut cellar and bringing it back to menus
across the nation.
Conner said the Facebook page, which
started as a joke, obviously has struck a
nerve — and a hungry one at that — with
one-time Big New Yorker fans across the
world.
“You can see the light hearted origins of
this movement when you read the Facebook page,” said Conner. “I wholeheartedly
believe 2016 could see the return of what
many consider one of the best pizzas ever
made.”
So, what will happen if Pizza Hut decides
to bring the Big New Yorker pizza to the
local pizza scene . . . and act made possible
by Cherryvale’s Nathan Conner?
“The first Friday it is back on the menu,
I will be found with my beautiful wife of 13
years at the Cherryvale Pizza Hut . . . eating the Big New Yorker, just like we did so
many Friday nights years ago,” he said.
Donor Month has been observed in January to not only
honor blood and platelet donors, but also to help increase
donations during the winter
months. Maintaining a sufficient blood supply for patients is difficult at this time of
year because extreme winter
weather and seasonal illnesses often impact donor turnout.
The Red Cross encourages
eligible blood donors to resolve
to give blood regularly, beginning in January. Donors with
all blood types are needed, especially those with types AB,
O, B negative and A negative.
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
my be eligible to donate blood.
High school students and
other donors 18 years of age
and younger also have to meet
certain height and weight requirements.
To make an appointment,
go to redcrossblodd.org or
call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800733-2767).
Local church to host free soup supper
The First Presbyterian Church in Cherryvale
hosts a free soup supper for the public at 5:30
p.m. every Wednesday at the church, corner
of Montgomery and East Fourth streets, immediately south of Lincoln-Central Elementary
School.
“When we first started we had about 50 people, and it has kept growing since then,” said
Pastor John Chastain. “We are up to more than
100 people most of the time, and everyone is
welcome to come and join us.”
For more information, call (620) 421-0541.
Men’s breakfast set for Saturday morning
Cherryvale Christian Church at 319 E. Main
in Cherryvale invites all men to the free monthly men’s breakfast at 7:30 a.m., Saturday, Jan.
9.
The men’s breakfast normally is on the first
Saturday of each month.The January breakfast
was pushed back a week to avoid conflict with
the New Year’s holiday weekend.
The men’s breakfast is a time of fellowship
and food. All men in the community are invited
to attend. The meal is free. Any donations go to
the Cherryvale Community Food Bank.
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CHERRYVALE
3 juveniles arrested in string of home, car burglaries
BY DONNA CELAYA
[email protected]
Cherryvale Police Department has arrested three juveniles in connection with
numerous reported home and
vehicle burglaries that started
the first week of December.
Police chief Perry Lambert’s
report to the Cherryvale City
Council on Monday night stated that the three arrests are
the first of what he anticipates
will be many in the cases,
which remain under active investigation. “This is just the tip
of the iceberg,” he said earlier.
His report also stated that
the Cherryvale Police Explorers earned money helping
sponsor the Christmas Train
Rides on Dec. 12, and they
used the proceeds to treat a
local family of two adults and
three children to Christmas
presents and Christmas dinner. “I would personally like to
thank all of the Explorers, Sgt.
(Shannon) Plumley, (reserve)
officer (Amanda) Lambert and
Mayor John Wright for their
assistance,” the chief said.
The police department received 139 calls in December,
up from 98 in November. A
detailed look at those calls reveals:
• 21 traffic stops
• 10 miscellaneous officer
calls
• 9 B&T calls
• 8 welfare checks
• 7 miscellaneous public
calls
• 6 accidents with injuries
• 5 medical calls
• 4 each: alarms, assists to
an outside agency, fights in
progress, suspicious activity,
suspicious vehicle
• 3 each: animal-related
complaints, burglary, case follow-up, harassment, vehicle
identification number check
• 2 each: disturbance of
unknown type, nuisance dog,
grass fire, structure fire, follow-up investigation, noise
complaint, open door, theft,
transport juvenile, roadway
hazard
• 1 each: accident without
injury, assault, civil matter,
drug activity, escort, extra patrol, found property, forgery,
fraud, request to speak with
an officer, person walking,
suicide attempt, suspicious
person, tree down and blocking road, warrant arrest.
Zeta Gamma Sorority hosts Christmas party at Cedar Lodge
The Zeta Gamma Sorority met on Dec. 2 at the Cherryvale public Library for its
first meeting of the month,
which began with the roll call
question, “Is your Christmas
shopping and decorating finished?”
Minutes and treasurer’s report were read and accepted,
and Secret Sisters exchanged
thank yous. No bills were presented.
The group learned the social committee would host
the Christmas party at Cedar
Lodge, rural Cherryvale, on
Dec. 16. Members signed up
to bring a dish to pass for the
dinner. Ways and means discussed Valentine cakes, and
the Service Committee gave
Misty Gill items for Hannah’s
House.
Under new business, the
group discussed Founder’s
Day coming up on April 20
with a meeting at Cedar Lodge.
The Independence chapter is
invited. A committee was established to handle the details.
Elisa Beshear said the Independence Library will host a
book sale, and the group discussed the possibility of hosting a father-daughter dance as
a possible future project.
The meeting adjourned and
refreshments were served.
Nichole Smith and Rita Mendoza shared hostess duties.
Christmas gift bags were assembled for the members to
distribute to people in Cherryvale.
****
The sorority’s second meeting was the Christmas party
on Dec. 16 at Cedar Lodge.
Each member brought a covered dish, and the social committee set up the meal.
Members exchanged gifts
after dinner and learned the
identity of their 2015 Secret
Sisters. They also received
Christmas ornaments with the
names of their new Secret Sisters for 2016.
The remainder of the evening was spent socializing.
The first meeting in January
will be on the 6th with Penny
Lumbley as hostess and Amy
Allen as co-hostess.
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Council unable to vote on sewer rate hike proposal
BY ANDY TAYLOR
[email protected]
Caney city councilors were unable Monday
night to take action on a proposal that would
raise customers’ base sewer rates by $15 per
month.
In late December, city councilors were presented with a plan, prepared by city administrator Fred Gress, to raise base sewer rates
from $14 per month to $29 per month. Gress
was prepared to present the actual proposal at
Monday’s meeting. However, only five councilors were in attendance. According to city ordinances, any proposal concerning a utility rate
increase requires at three-fourth majority of
the council to be in attendance. That means six
of the eight councilors had to be present to take
action on the proposal. Because only five of the
eight councilors were in attendance, no action
could be taken on the proposal.
Present at Monday’s meeting were councilors Dan Vernon, Thomas Burk Jr., Nathan
Byrd, Kenith Butts and Dan Johnston. Also in
attendance was Mayor Chad Bradford.
Absent were councilors Kerry Gorby, Zoe
Wahl and Ralph Anthony.
Part of the justification for the $15 increase
to the base sewer rate is to build a revenue
source that will be used to address the City
of Caney’s sewer system, which is beset with
numerous problems. The City of Caney has applied for a loan, which is administered through
the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, to address those issues. A condition of
the loan is to use dedicated sewer revenues to
repay the loan, which requires larger payments
in the early years of the loan period.
Among other issues dealing with sewer issues in Caney:
n Gress told city councilors at Monday’s
meeting that one mechanical issue at the City’s
sewage treatment plant will require immediate
repairs due to a KDHE mandate. The rails that
hold a cage screen that catches sediments and
other debris before the treated sewage goes
into a wet well has to be replaced, Gress told
councilors.
“There’s no way around this: KDHE is requiring the City to address this one issue immediately,” he said.
n The City of Caney also is addressing a
collapsed 15-inch sewer line that KDHE has
flagged as an immediate emergency. The sewer
line will require wholesale replacement of the
line and in a new location, Gress said. A survey
crew will be in Caney to survey potential easement sites for the sewer line.
n The council gave permission to Gress to
apply for a permit that would allow the City of
Caney to go under the SKO Railroad tracks in
the City’s quest to replace the affected 15-inch
sewer line.
n The commission authorized Mayor Chad
Bradford to sign necessary paperwork for a
grant that, if awarded, would allow an engineering firm to perform a preliminary evaluation of the wastewater treatment plant. That
assessment would provide a thorough examination of the wastewater sewage plant’s condition, provide recommendations for repairs, and
provide a cost estimate for those repairs.
Jan. 26 is deadline
to file as candidate
for council races
Caney city voters will go to
the polls in the spring months
to decide four positions for the
Caney City Council.
The deadline to file for candidacy for those four positions
is noon Tuesday, Jan. 26. The
four positions that will be decided in the spring election
cycle will be:
• Ward 1: position now held
by council Nathan Byrd.
by councilor Ralph Anthony.
by councilor Dan Vernon.
by councilor Zoe Wahl.
If four or more candidates
file for any one of the four positions, then a run-off election
will be required on Tuesday,
March 1. The general election
will be held on Tuesday, April
5 with the winning candidates
assuming the oath of office at
the second Caney City Council
meeting in April.
Normally, all city council
positions are two-year terms.
However, the Kansas Legislature in 2015 approved a
new law that moves all local
elections (city council, school
board, community college
trustees) to the fall election
cycle effective in 2017. That
means the winning candidates
in the spring election cycle —
which will be the final spring
elections in Caney due to the
change in state law — will
have to serve a longer- term in
office as the council positions
transition to a new election
timeframe.
Persons interested in filing for the council elections
should fill out the necessary
paperwork at Caney City Hall.
Homecoming coronation set for Friday night
Caney Valley High School’s winter sports homecoming week will culminate with the crowning of the 2016 winter sports homecoming
king and queen on Friday night. Five CVHS girls and five CVHS senior boys are vying for the crowns. The coronation will be held between
the varsity girls’ and varsity boys’ basketball games in the CVHS Gymnasium. Candidates are (standing on floor, left to right) Jeremiah
Nunneley, Brycen Gulick, Kandace Inman, Ashlyn Hefley, Heather Strickler, Tara Blagg and Lyric Brooks. (Standing on stairs, left to right)
Ty Rogers, Jacen Clapp and Troy Watson. (Photo by Andy Taylor)
Police make two arrests in drug case
Two Caney residents were arrested by
Caney police during a traffic stop on Jan.
4, according to Caney interim police chief
Ron Wade. Officers stopped the vehicle
in the 200 block of South Hooker Street
and allegedly located methamphetamine
and illegal prescription drugs. The two
subjects, Harley Lee Dean, a 23-year-old
white female, and Tyler Blaze Privitt, a
24-year-old white male, both of Caney,
were taken into custody and arrested.
Wade is recommending they be charged
with possession of methamphetamine
with intent to sell; possession of prescription drugs with intent to distribute, and
no drug tax stamp.
Wade advised this is an ongoing investigation indicating further arrests are
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Traffic stop prompts
council to consider
buying new trailer
BY ANDY TAYLOR
[email protected]
Lincoln School’s students of the month
Lincoln Memorial Elementary School recognized its December students of the month during an all-school assembly several weeks ago.
One student from each grade level is nominated by teachers for the monthly award. Recognized in December are (front row, left to
right) Trinity Thomas, Aia Price, Molleigh Kaminska, Fallon Bracken, Nadaley Gulick, Jade Jabben, (middle row, left to right) Chloe Owensby, Gentry Bachman, Jaden Kerstetter, Katie Miller, Aiden Gorby, Scout Smith, (back row, left to right) Tye Bird, Saige Scott, Kaitlyn
Gulick, Anthony Rogers, Braiden Bachman, Melanie Viezcas. (Photo by Sherry Owen)
School board to meet next Monday
The USD 436 Board of Education will
meet next Monday, Jan. 11 at 6:30 p.m.,
at the district office, 700 E. Bullpup Blvd.
The meeting is open to the public.
The tentative meeting agendas includes:
• Approve consent agenda (meeting
minutes, bills, salaries, financial state-
ments).
• Hear reports from school principals.
• Hear update on transportation and
maintenance issues.
• Adopt recommended policy changes from Kansas Association of School
Boards.
• Hear report from school superinten-
dent.
• Hold executive sessions, which are
closed to the press and public, to discuss
personnel issues and negotiations.
• Hear reports on various committees,
including Caney Valley Recreation Commission and Tri-County Special Education
Cooperative.
USD 436 MENUS
USD
436-Caney
Valley
breakfast and lunch menus for
Friday, Jan. 8, through Friday,
Jan. 15, follow. These menus
are for Lincoln Memorial
Grade School and Caney Valley Jr.-Sr. High School. Menus
are subject to change. Salad
bar and milk and fruit choices
are offered daily.
• Friday, Jan. 8: (breakfast)
breadsticks/sauce or whole
grain cereal, assorted fruits,
juice, milk; (lunch) macaroni and cheese, meatballs,
peas, fresh baby carrots,
whole wheat roll/honey, apple
halves, milk, or pbj, choice of
fruits and vegetables.
• Monday, Jan. 11: (breakfast) apple frugal or whole
grain cereal, assorted fruits,
juice, milk; (lunch) cheese
stuffed
breadsticks/sauce,
fresh baby carrots, tossed salad/romaine, applesauce, milk,
or pbj, choice of fruits and
vegetables.
• Tuesday, Jan. 12: (breakfast) sausage pancake/syrup
or whole grain cereal, mandarin oranges, juice, milk;
(lunch) BBQ rib on a bun, tri
tater, green beans, romaine/
tomato slices, apple crisp (612), pears, milk, or pbj, choice
of fruits and vegetables.
• Wednesday, Jan. 13:
(breakfast) blueberry waffles/
syrup or whole grain cereal,
banana, juice, milk; (lunch)
pepperoni pizza, fresh garden
salad, seasoned carrots,
graham snacks (9-12), orange
wedges, milk, or pbj, choice of
fruits and vegetables/tomato
wedge.
• Thursday, Jan. 14: (break-
fast) biscuit/gravy or whole
grain cereal, pears, juice,
milk; (lunch) baked chicken
drumstick, fresh broccoli,
corn, savory rice, oatmeal roll/
honey, ob pbj, choice of fruits
and vegetables.
• Friday, Jan. 15: (breakfast) chicken breakfast sandwich or whole grain cereal,
apple half, juice, milk; (lunch)
sloppy joe on bun, whole grain
chips, baked beans, sweet potato puffs, tropical fruit, milk,
or pbj, choice of fruits and
vegetables/tomato wedge.
A traffic inspection of a City
of Caney equipment trailer —
and the lengthy list of faults
cited by a Kansas Highway Patrol inspector — led city councilors to consider the purchase
of a new trailer at Monday’s
Caney City Council meeting.
Councilors learned that
the inspection division of the
Kansas Highway Patrol did a
routine stop of a City of Caney
truck pulling an equipment
trailer on Monday morning.
The inspector cited the City
of brake light failure but also
provided a lengthy list of other problems concerning the
trailer, which is used to haul
various pieces of heavy equipment.
While the inspector is not
requiring the City of Caney to
buy a new trailer, the inspector suggested that further use
of the existing trailer will likely
warrant a stiff penalty the next
time it is on the highway.
Craig Evans, public works
director, said he located a
trailer from Four Mile Trailers
in Copan. The new trailer will
cost $7,025 and can be used to
transport any piece of heavy
equipment in the City of Caney
fleet. It also comes with three
foldable ramps and has a lowboy profile for easier loading
of heavy equipment.
Councilors said they agreed
that the City of Caney should
replace the trailer but asked
Evans to find other quotes
from other vendors, or possibly find a suitable used trailer
at a lesser cost.
In other business transacted at Monday’s meeting,
city councilors agreed to uniform rental agreement for
employees in the public works
department. United Rental of
Bartlesville agreed to provide
a set of uniforms for each of
the employees each week at
a cost of $8 per week. That
brings the total cost to about
$4,200 per year.
Evans said public works
employes will be required to
wear the uniforms while on
duty. Uniforms for winter season and summer season will
be available to the city employees.
Tyro Community Christian
School announes honor rolls
TYRO — First semester
honor rolls have been announced at Tyro Community
Christian School.
Elementary School
A Honor Roll
Draven Anderson, Heide
Blackert, Jordy Curtis, Andrea Fitzsimmons, Silas Good,
Jaben Heater, Graham Higbie, Isabella Hudson, Lauren Leoffler, Emma Marshall,
Martin Marshall, Olivia Medsker, Lynnli Melchiori, Haylee
Osborn, Avery Vargas, Brenli
Welton, Hadley Witwer, Jaxin
Wren, BrodyXanders, Jacob
Youk.
Elementary School
A-B Honor Roll
Ava Box, Jeremiah Elrod, Sig-
frieda Gale, Collier Harp, Hal
Higbie, Hans Higbie, Lydia
Nunneley, Nevaeh Partridge,
John Savage, Jacob Tucker,
Rayna Witwer.
Jr.-sr. high school
A Honor Roll
Katie Base, Abigail Medsker, Preston Miller, Rebecca
Raybourn, Mary Savage, Sarah Schwatken.
Jr.-sr. high school
A-B Honor Roll
Drew Curtis, Andrew Elrod, Kena Haley, Leah Harris,
Paige Harris, Cheyenne Higbie, Chavela Martinez, Brennan Melchiori, Simeon Nunneley, Kaley Witwer, Laura
Zellers.
USD 436 EVENTS
Scheduled events at Caney Valley Jr.-Sr. High
School for Thursday, Jan. 7, through Saturday,
Jan. 16, follow.
• Thursday, Jan. 7: Jr. high basketball games
at Eureka, 4 p.m.
• Friday, Jan. 8: High school basketball
games, 5 p.m., Yates Center at Caney, homecoming coronation to be held between the varsity girls’ and varsity boys’ basketball games.
• Saturday, Jan. 9: Kansas Music Educators’
Association, all-state high school band at Salina; Scholars Bowl event at Wichita; high school
JV wrestling meet at Independence, 9 a.m.
• Monday, Jan. 11: Scholar’s Bowl meet at
Fredonia; jr. high basketball games, Galesburg
at Caney, 6 p.m.
• Tuesday, Jan. 12: High school basketball
games, Erie at Caney, 5 p.m.
• Thursday, Jan. 14: Jr. high basketball
games, Caney at Yates Center, 6 p.m.
• Friday, Jan. 15: State debate meet at Independence; high school basketball lames, Caney
at Fredonia, 5 p.m.
• Saturday, Jan. 16: State debate meet at
Independence; Southeast District junior high
band/choir at Chanute; high school wrestling
meet at Clearwater; high school JV wrestling
meet at Labette County High School.
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SYCAMORE — The regular
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21 at the Sycamore Township
Hall. The meeting was presided by Vice President Luke
Borton.
Roll call was answered by
your favorite Christmas tradition. Thirty-eight members
were present. Maggie Chandler and Caden Berger led the
club in singing Rudolph the
Red Nosed Reindeer.
Alaina Dillon gave a demonstration on how to customize your littlest pet shop characters. Emma Lewis gave a
project talk/demonstration on
the parts of a cello and how
to play it. Tanner White gave
a project talk on the parts of a
fishing pole. Berea Dill and Rylie Reichenberger led the club
in playing a Christmas game
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and draw. A fun time was had
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Jackie Chandler announced
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INDEPENDENCE BOYS DEFEAT RIVAL FIELD KINDLEY, 60-50, ON ’NADO COURT
January starts strong for Bulldogs
BY BRIAN THOMAS
[email protected]
COFFEYVILLE — What a
way to open the second semester … a matchup of the twotime defending Southeast Kansas League champion against
the preseason favorite to take
the title. Add to the fact it was
a battle of two longtime rivals,
and there was some added
importance to Tuesday night’s
SEK boys’ basketball showdown between Independence
and Field Kindley.
By game’s end, the Bulldogs
proved they are likely still the
team to beat in the league this
season. IHS built an 18-point
lead in the second half and
held on down the stretch to
preserve a 60-50 victory over
the Golden Tornado.
“It was a good win for us,”
said Independence boys’ coach
Marcus Lanning. “We had a
good game plan going in, and
I thought we executed it pretty
well. Anytime you can get a
road win in the SEK, especially
this year with everyone being so balanced, is huge. We’ll
take it.”
The Bulldogs won despite
watching that double-digit
lead dwindle down to seven in
the closing minutes. Yet they
were able to hold on by hitting
six straight free throws over
the final 1:11.
“We were able to close out a
close game against Pittsburg,”
Lanning said. “They’re used to
it, but at the same time, I think
in that fourth quarter we were
more trying to play keep away
than running our offense. I
want to fix that. We need to be
able to finish a game a little bit
better. Not that they got back
Melchiori
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points,
but ’Pups
fall, 63-59
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Independence’s Levi Kemper tries to keep his grip on the basketball while battling for possession with Field Kindley’s Zach Holman.
Also pictured from Independence are Jalynn Lawrie and Evan Kleibert. Field Kindley’s Logan Vacca is pictured behind Kemp and Lawrie.
(Photo by Andy Taylor)
into it, but I just want us to get
better at the end-of-game situations because we will have
more games like that when
we have to execute down the
stretch.”
With Tuesday’s win, the
Bulldogs
continued
their
amazing string of wins in
league play as they extended
their SEK streak to 22 consecutive games. Independence
has not dropped an SEK contest since Jan. 10, 2014, when
it suffered a 48-43 overtime
setback at Fort Scott. That included a perfect 12-0 league
mark a year ago en route to a
second straight championship.
Since an 0-2 start to the
season, IHS has now won four
in a row as it moved to 4-2
overall and 3-0 in league play.
The Bulldogs will take Friday
off before returning to action
on Tuesday at home against
Parsons.
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On the other side, Field
Kindley, which was picked to
finish in first place in the SEK
according to the preseason
coaches’ poll, suffered its first
league loss as it dropped to 3-3
overall and 1-1 in league play.
The Golden Tornado jumps
back into action on Friday
when it entertains Parsons.
“I think our toughness
showed,” said ‘Nado coach Tyler Thompson. “It just wasn’t
there. They wanted it a little
more tonight, and that’s sad
to say with a rivalry game
on our home floor. Hopefully,
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two ways where we either get
down on ourselves or we regroup and get better from it.
We have to have more pride
on our home floor, get tougher and protect it better. If we
don’t raise our level of play,
we’ll be in trouble.”
Early in the contest, it appeared as if it would be a battle
from start to finish. The teams
went back and forth during
the opening quarter and were
locked up at 11-all after one
quarter of play. That’s when
Independence turned up the
heat.
The Bulldogs got a threepointer from Zack Schroeder to open the second period. Leading 16-15, IHS then
closed the half strong by outscoring FKHS 14-4 in the final
3:31 — including Schroeder’s
three-pointer at the buzzer —
to take a 30-19 edge into the
break.
That seemed to spark Independence at the start of
the second half. The Bulldogs
scored seven of the first nine
points out of the locker room
and eventually pushed their
lead up to 18, 42-24, with 1:18
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CANEY — Baylor Melchiori
put together one of the best
single-game performances in
recent memory for the Caney
Valley High School boys’ basketball team. Yet, despite his
38 points, it was still not quite
enough for the Bullpups as
they suffered a hard-fought
63-59 loss to rival Sedan Tuesday night.
CVHS suffered a second
straight loss as it dropped below .500 at
2-3 overall
on the season.
Prior
to the holiday
break,
the
‘Pups
dropped
a
home game
against Dewey
(Okla.).
They
will
remain
at
Baylor
home
on
Melchiori . . .
Friday
as
Caney Valley
they enterguard scored a tain
Yates
personal-best Center
in
38 points on
their annual
homecoming
Tuesday
game.
The
team will cap off a four-game
home stretch next Tuesday
against Erie.
Melchiori had a careerbest game for Caney Valley on
Tuesday. He knocked down 14
shots in the contest, including
four from long range, and was
6-of-9 at the free-throw line
for his 38 points.
The junior had things going from the start, knocking
down three treys as part of
an 11-point first quarter. By
halftime, he had reached 24
points.
As a team, the Bullpups
hung tough the entire way
against a Blue Devil squad that
entered the game perfect and
• see CVHS boys, page B2
Caney Valley
girls surge
past rival
Blue Devils
BY BRIAN THOMAS
[email protected]
CANEY — With the help of
a fourth-quarter surge, the
Caney Valley High School girls’
basketball team pulled away
down the stretch to preserve
its fourth straight win — a 5746 home decision over rival
Sedan on Tuesday.
“I thought we played very
hard and aggressive, plus we
reacted to what they did very
well,” said Lady Bullpup coach
Tom Nelson. “We took care of
the ball and didn’t give them
any easy scoring opportunities after the first couple of
minutes. They like to live off
of your turnovers, but we kept
possession and didn’t give
them easy looks. We were
more patient but still did attack, and we have emphasized
that so I was very pleased with
the girls focus and mental efforts there. We missed a lot of
short shots around the rim,
but that will come. This was
a good win so now we keep
working to improve day by day
and continue this journey one
game at a time.”
Since a season-opening
home loss to Neodesha, CVHS
has won four straight games,
including victories over Southeast-Cherokee, Oxford and
Dewey (Okla.) before the holiday break. Now at 4-1 overall,
the Lady Bullpups will remain
• see CVHS girls, page B2
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Bulldogs
defeat ’Nado
in Coffeyville
• continued from previous page
left in the third quarter.
Field Kindley managed to
cut the difference down to 4430 at the end of the third quarter and tried to make a game
of it in the final period. An oldfashioned three-point play by
Trey Myrie sparked a 7-0 run
by the Golden Tornado to cut
the difference in half to 44-37
with 5:45 to go.
The ‘Nado tried to hang
tough with some pressure defense, but it mostly resulted
in fouls that sent the Bulldogs
to the free throw line. Independence hit 14 of its 20 free
throws down the stretch that
preserved the victory.
“Once we got a couple freshmen out there, they kind of
sparked us,” Thompson said.
“We cut into that lead. We were
playing good hard defense and
diving on the floor. We were
getting to the rim and sharing
the ball like we did in the first
quarter. We went away from
that and were taking tough
shots. We weren’t shooting the
ball well, and when you don’t
shoot the ball well, you better
get to the rim more.”
Field Kindley finished the
game 1-of-17 from three-point
range and just 15-of-28 at the
foul stripe. In comparison, Independence knocked down six
three-pointers and was 24-of38 overall from the line.
The Bulldogs got another
big game from Jalynn Lawrie,
who finished with a team-high
27 points. Schroeder knocked
down three treys as part of a
13-point effort.
For the Golden Tornado,
Jawaun Thompson led the
way with 18, while Kameron
Wilson put in 10.
INDEPENDENCE 60, FIELD KINDLEY 50
INDEPENDENCE (4-2, 3-0): Lawrie 5 (2) 1116 27, Schroeder 0 (3) 4-6 13, Johnson 1 (1)
1-2 6, Kemp 2 2-4 6, Morton 0 3-6 3, Kleiber
0 2-2 2, Hadley 1 0-0 2, Pasternak 0 1-2 1. TOTALS 9 (6) 24-38 60.
FIELD KINDLEY (3-3, 1-1): Thompson 9 0-3
18, Wilson 3 4-7 10, Lewis 1 6-9 8, Graham 1
(1) 0-2 5, Myrie 1 1-1 3, Swift 1 0-2 2, Vacca 0
2-2 2, Logan 0 2-2 2, Holman 0 0-0 0. TOTALS
16 (1) 15-28 50.
INDEPENDENCE 11 19
14 16 — 60
FIELD KINDLEY 11 8
11 20 — 50
Hawkins
scores
23
Cherryvale’s Brady Snider
to pace Chargers
selected for Shrine Bowl to Tuesday victory
Annual charity football
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30 in Emporia
BY BRIAN THOMAS
[email protected]
BY BRIAN THOMAS
[email protected]
CHERRYVALE — After
earning all-state recognition
for his play on the field during the fall, Cherryvale High
School’s Brady Snider has
added one more honor to his
list of accomplishments.
Earlier this week, the
senior was selected to participate for the East Squad
in the 43rd annual Kansas
Shrine Bowl, which is scheduled for Saturday, July 30, at
Welch Stadium in Emporia.
“I am very proud of
Brady,”
said
Cherryvale
football coach Harry Hester, who was the head coach
of the East Squad in last
year’s Shrine Bowl. “He is a
great kid who works hard.
He hasn’t missed a day of
weights since seventh grade.
He has been great for our
program.”
Snider is the seventh player from Cherryvale to ever
be selected to the Shrine
Bowl and second in the last
three years, joining Tristan
Thornton in 2014. Other
past selections included Jon
Rash in 1995, Jon Hooper in
2000, Matt Boss in 2004, and
Joe Blaes and Jeff Schaper
in 2005. Hunter Hester was
also named team manager
for the East Squad last year.
A four-year starter on
the Charger offensive line,
Snider provided a boost for
the squad up front as it put
up solid numbers during the
2015 campaign.
The 6-1, 280-pound senior was named All-TVL for
his play on the offensive line,
including at the center position. He has been selected
all-league the past two seasons and was also an Honorable Mention All-Class 3A
Brady Snider . . . Cherryvale senior lineman to represent East
squad at Kansas Shrine Bowl.
performer a year ago.
Defensively, Snider played
on the line as well and had
30 total tackles, including
10 solos, one sack and seven
tackles for loss.
“Brady was a disruptive
force up front,” Hester said.
“He found a different level
this year.”
Snider was named All-TriValley League this season.
He was also recognized at a
state level, earning All-Class
3A First Team by The Wichita Eagle and Kansas Football
Coaches Association, as well
as Honorable Mention by
The Topeka Capital-Journal.
In addition to Snider,
other members of the East
Squad include the following: Cole Baird, Silver Lake;
Mason Barta, Holton; Orion
Battaglia, St. Marys-Colgan;
Carson Becker, Rock Creek;
Alex Blake, Blue Valley
North; Anthony Brown, Mill
Valley; Connor Byers, Bonner Springs; Austin Cook,
Fort Scott; Dawson Downing, Bishop Miege; Grant
Elston, Eudora; Riley England, Osawatomie; Wykeen
Gill, Atchison; Jared Green,
Shawnee Mission West; Jeff
Gurley, Blue Valley; Paul
Holt, Burlingame; Tucker
Horak, Rossville; Teven Jenkins, Topeka; Will Jones,
Washburn Rural; Tom Killilea, St. Thomas Aquinas;
Nick Kirmer, Emporia; Jace
McDown, Columbus; Will
Mengarelli, Pittsburg; Ryan
Menghini, Frontenac; Winston Meyer, Nemaha Central;
Jordan Newby, Topeka West;
Brooks Peavler, Hayden;
Zach Schwalm, Uniontown;
Patrick Shuler, Mission Valley; Isaiah Simmons, Olathe
North;
Bryce
Torneden,
Lawrence Free State; Anders Vance, Louisburg; Chris
Winkel, Troy; and JD Woods,
Lawrence.
Blake Pierce of TopekaSeaman will be the head
coach of the East Squad.
Lady Bulldogs bury Field Kindley, 68-34
BY BRIAN THOMAS
[email protected]
COFFEYVILLE — It had
been a rocky start to the Southeast Kansas League season for
the Independence High School
girls’ basketball team. Nothing
like a matchup with Montgomery County rival Field Kindley
to get the energy level up.
Playing their most complete
game of the year, the Lady
Bulldogs were lethal from long
range, connecting on 11 threepointers en route to a 68-34
thumping of the Lady ’Nado
Tuesday evening.
“We did a good job of coming out and bringing the intensity,” said IHS girls’ coach Dale
Reynolds. “We came out with
good defensive effort and got
after them. It was back and
forth there at first, but then we
started to pull away. Our girls
started believing in their shots
and started taking good looks.
I was really pleased with the
way we played tonight. It was
an all-around good effort.”
Independence finished the
game shooting 50 percent
overall (23-of-46) but was especially tough from beyond
the arc. The Lady Bulldogs
were 11-of-19 on three-point
attempts, including 7-of-13 in
the first half alone.
“They were on,” said Lady
‘Nado coach Nick Hart. “It was
one of those nights where they
hit everything and we looked
slow coming back from the
break. They hit 11 threes. I
told the girls that every one
of the girls on their roster is
a shooter. It doesn’t matter
who they put in … they can all
shoot the three and they can
all handle the ball. They were
all on tonight. It was one of
those things where you don’t
know what to do. We aren’t a
team that can shoot 11 threes,
so it’s tough to match that.”
With the win, the Lady Bulldogs snapped a two-game skid
to improve to 3-3 overall and
1-2 in the SEK. IHS will take
Friday off before returning
Field Kindley dribbler Bailey Naden faces defensive pressure from
Independence’s Alex Keller during Tuesday’s game in Coffeyville.
(Photo by Andy Taylor)
home to take on Parsons on
Tuesday.
“We came out ready to
play,” Reynolds said. “It was
great to get a win out of break.
It’s going to help us moving
forward. Hopefully, it gives
us more confidence moving
forward. We just have to go
in and believe in ourselves. If
we play like that defensively
against anybody, we’re always
going to have a shot at coming
out on top.”
Meanwhile, Field Kindley
dropped to 3-3 on the season, including an 0-2 mark in
league play. The Lady ‘Nado
jump right back into action
on Friday with another home
game against Parsons.
“You’re not going to get an
easy one in the SEK,” Hart
said. “I just hope we can come
back and play well on Friday.
It doesn’t get any easier for us
after that. Any time you can
play close in a league game,
steal a win and play well at
home, that’s what you are
shooting for, especially when
you have a bunch of young
girls.”
Heading into the holiday
break, the teams were heading in opposite directions. Independence had been struggling with back-to-back league
losses to Labette County and
Pittsburg, while Field Kindley
was coming off an impressive
road win at Frontenac.
That meant little when the
teams took the court on Tuesday. Despite the game being
tight in the opening minutes,
the Lady Bulldogs had control
for the better part of the game.
FKHS jumped ahead 6-3
midway through the first quarter when back-to-back threepointers from Paige Hufferd
and Kara McGrath gave IHS
the lead for good. The Lady
Bulldogs closed the quarter on
a 14-5 run to grab a 17-11 advantage.
Independence took off in
the second period to leave no
doubt in the final outcome.
The Lady Bulldogs capped off
a 14-0 run with consecutive
treys from McGrath and Schabel to go up 30-11.
IHS then turned up the defensive intensity and converted it into points on the offensive end. Independence scored
the final 10 points of the half
to go up 45-18 heading into
the intermission.
Independence
outscored
Field Kindley in each quarter.
Rindy Marquez hit a bucket at
the end of the third quarter to
put the Lady Bulldogs up 6029 — forcing a running clock
the entire fourth period.
McGrath was in a groove
shooting the ball for IHS. She
knocked down five of her seven three-point attempts and
finished with a game-high 17
points. Marquez and Schabel
added 11 points each.
Andre’a Newton led Field
Kindley in scoring with 13
points, while Bri Rutherford
put in 12. The Lady ‘Nado finished the game 14-of-41 from
the floor and were just 5-of-15
at the free throw line.
INDEPENDENCE 68, FIELD KINDLEY 34
INDEPENDENCE (3-3, 1-2): McGrath 0 (5)
2-2 17, Marquez 4 (1) 0-0 11, Schabel 3 (1)
2-3 11, Renfro 0 (3) 0-0 9, K. Smith 2 3-5 7,
Hufferd 1 (1) 0-0 5, Ewing 0 4-4 4, Lawrie 1
0-0 2, Griffin 1 0-0 2, Keller 0 0-0 0, J. Smith 0
0-0 0, Daniels 0 0-0 0, Carter 0 0-0 0. TOTALS
12 (11) 11-14 68.
FIELD KINDLEY (3-3, 0-2): Newton 5 3-6
13, Rutherford 4 (1) 1-3 12, Naden 2 0-1 4,
Herkelman 1 1-2 3, Rooks 1 0-0 2, Wilson 0
0-1 0, Homan 0 0-0 0, Bernett 0 0-2 0, Bromley 0 0-0 0, Turner 0 0-0 0. TOTALS 13 (1) 5-15
34.
INDEPENDENCE 17 28
15
8 — 68
FIELD KINDLEY 11 7
11
5 — 34
ERIE — Beth Hawkins
scored a game-high 23 points
to lead the Cherryvale High
School girls’ basketball team
to a 60-34 road win over Erie
to open up the 2016 portion of
its schedule on Tuesday.
“It is good to get started
again after the break,” said
Lady Charger coach David
Smedley. “In the first quarter,
we made a lot of mental mistakes, and Erie was able to
take advantage of them. In the
second quarter, we got on a
good role and were able to hit
several shots. That allowed us
to extend the lead and try to
come out after half and work
on a few things.”
Hawkins knocked down
seven shots, including five
three-pointers, as part of her
23-point effort. She was one
of three CHS players to reach
double figures in scoring, including Jordan Carinder with
15 and Michelle Rau 10.
Erie (1-5) tried to make a
game of it early on as Cherryvale had an 18-13 lead after
eight minutes of action. But the
Lady Chargers overwhelmed
the Devils before halftime.
CHS exploded on a 29-7 run
during the second quarter to
open up a 47-20 edge at the
intermission.
From there, it was smooth
sailing for the Lady Chargers,
who picked up their third
straight win. Their only loss so
far on the season was a 44-41
setback to Sedan — which is
currently ranked No. 6 in Class
2A according to the Kansas
Basketball Coaches Association — at the Wildcat Winter
Classic in Yates Center.
With the win, the Lady
Chargers improved to 5-1
overall on the season. They
will remain on the road Friday
as they travel to rival Neodesha before returning home on
Tuesday for a matchup against
Yates Center.
CHERRYVALE 60, ERIE 34
CHERRYVALE (5-1): Hawkins 2 (5) 4-9 23,
Carinder 4 (2) 1-2 15, M. Rau 5 0-1 10, A. Rau 1
4-9 6, Reed 1 2-8 4, Hucke 0 2-2 2, Steed 0 0-1
0, Spencer 0 0-0 0, Vining 0 0-0 0, Wagner 0
0-0 0, Hughes 0 0-0 0. TOTALS 13 (7) 13-32 60.
ERIE (1-5): Wimp 2 (2) 4-4 14, Steveson 3
0-0 6, McDaniel 0 (1) 0-2 3, K. Brown 0 (1) 0-0
3, S. Brown 1 0-0 2, LaForge 1 0-1 2, Robertson 1 0-0 2, Dillinger 1 0-0 2, Taylor 0 0-0 0,
Cleaver 0 0-0 0, Gard 0 0-0 0. TOTALS 9 (4) 4-7
34.
CHERRYVALE 18 29
11
2 — 60
ERIE
13 7
9
5 — 34
CVHS boys beaten despite
38 points from Melchiori
was ranked fifth in Class 2A
according to the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association.
CVHS trailed just 15-14 after
one quarter but kicked it into
gear before halftime to grab a
34-30 advantage.
The difference in the game
proved to be the third quarter
when Sedan flexed its muscles.
The Blue Devils outscored the
Bullpups 21-11 during that
stretch to reclaim the lead at
51-45. Although Caney Valley
stayed in it until the end, it did
not have enough to overtake
Sedan by game’s end.
In addition to Melchiori’s
38-point performance, Troy
Watson also reached double
figures for the Bullpups with
10.
Sedan — now 6-0 overall —
was led by Kiefer Brewer with
22 points, followed by Alex
Perez and Noah Chee with 15
each.
SEDAN 63, CANEY VALLEY 59
SEDAN (6-0): Brewer 8 6-10 22, Perez 4 7-8
15, Chee 3 (2) 3-5 15, Walker 3 (1) 0-1 9, Uhls 0
2-2 2, Jeffery 0 0-0 0, Burger 0 0-0 0, Smilko 0
0-0 0, Padgett 0 0-0 0. TOTALS 18 (3) 18-26 63.
CANEY VALLEY (2-3): Melchiori 10 (4) 6-9
38, Tro. Watson 3 4-6 10, Davis 1 3-4 5, Rogers
1 2-4 4, Nunneley 1 0-0 2, Gulick 0 0-0 0, Tre.
Watson 0 0-0 0, Richey 0 0-0 0, Messner 0 0-0
0, Clapp 0 0-0 0. TOTALS 16 (4) 15-23 59.
SEDAN
15 15
21 12 — 63
CANEY VALLEY 14 20
11 14 — 59
CVHS girls have balanced
scoring in win over Sedan
at home on Friday as they entertain Yates Center as part
of their annual homecoming.
Caney Valley will also host Erie
on Tuesday to cap off a stretch
of four straight home games.
Facing the sixth-ranked
team in Class 2A according to
the Kansas Basketball Coaches
Association, the Lady Bullpups
found themselves down early
as they trailed 13-12 after one
quarter of play. The teams continued to be locked in a battle
before halftime, but CVHS was
able to take a 22-20 edge into
the locker room.
Things remained tight in
the second half with the teams
playing even in the third quarter. Yet, Caney Valley finally
took control of things down
the stretch. Leading 37-35 at
the end of three, the ‘Pups outscored the Lady Devils 20-11
in the final period to lock up
the victory.
Kyndal McIntosh led a balanced Lady Bullpup scoring
attack with 13 points. She was
joined in double figures by Aubrie Owen with 10.
Sedan (5-1) was paced by
Braylee Unruh with 14 points,
followed by Taj Smith with 13
and Jessica Roggow 10.
CANEY VALLEY 57, SEDAN 46
SEDAN (5-1): Unruh 3 8-10 14, Smith 3 (1)
4-9 13, Roggow 3 4-5 10, Hurt 2 3-4 7, Miller
0 2-2 2, H. Williams 0 0-0 0, Sims 0 0-0 0, A.
Williams 0 0-2 0. TOTALS 11 (1) 21-32 46.
CANEY VALLEY (4-1): Ky. McIntosh 5 3-4
13, Owen 5 0-2 10, Ko. McIntosh 4 1-1 9, Buoy
1 (2) 0-0 8, K. Nunneley 0 (2) 0-0 6, Sanders 1
4-6 6, Cunningham 2 1-2 5, Lawrence 0 0-0 0,
Rogers 0 0-0 0. TOTALS 18 (4) 9-15 57.
SEDAN
13 7
15 11 — 46
CANEY VALLEY 12 10
15 20 — 57
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ICC channels extra power in overtime win Chargers
remain
asleep
at Erie
BY BRIAN THOMAS
[email protected]
INDEPENDENCE — Despite
shooting just 29.2 percent from
the floor, the Independence
Community College women’s
basketball team came up with
a big victory to open the second semester, knocking off
14th-ranked Seward County
76-73 in overtime Saturday at
the ICC Field House.
“Our kids played together
and never gave up,” said ICC
women’s coach Leslie Crane.
“The entire team was unified
through the entire game.”
With that win, the Lady
Pirates snapped a brief twogame skid they had heading
into the holiday break with
losses to Garden City and
Hutchinson. Independence improved to 11-4 overall and 2-3
in the Jayhawk Conference as
it traveled to Great Bend for
another conference matchup
against Barton on Wednesday.
No score or details were available from that contest as of
presstime.
ICC will return to the Field
House on Saturday as it takes
on Dodge City. Tip time for the
women’s contest is set for 4
p.m.
Statistically, Saturday’s contest was a rough one for the
Lady Pirates on the offensive
end. ICC hit just 21 of its 72
field-goal attempts, including 8-of-35 from three-point
range. Meanwhile, Seward
County shot a decent 45.5 percent (30-of-66) overall.
The difference proved to be
at the free throw line. The Lady
Pirates were 26-of-33 from the
charity stripe for 78.8 percent,
while the Lady Saints were a
dismal 11-of-25 (44 percent).
The teams went back and
BY BRIAN THOMAS
[email protected]
Members of the Independence Community College women’s basketball team celebrate at the conclusion of Saturday’s 76-73
forth much of the contest.
Seward County had a 19-13
lead after one quarter before
Independence responded to
cut the difference down to two,
39-37, at the intermission.
Things remained tight in the
second half. The Lady Saints’
lead stood at three, 50-47, at
the end of three quarters. ICC
came back to take a two-point
lead with 15 seconds left in
regulation, but Seward County’s Tiani White hit a shot on
the other end to tie the score
at 65-all as the teams went
into overtime.
Independence had a fourpoint lead in the extra frame,
but Seward came back to even
the score once again at 72all with 1:15 remaining. ICC
grabbed a two-point edge in
the final minute, but the Saints
split a pair of free throws with
6.8 seconds left to get back
within one. On the other end,
the Lady Pirates were sent to
the free throw line and gave
the Saints a chance by missing
both charity tosses. But the
host team managed to grab
the rebound and then hit both
free throws this time to go up
three.
Seward County’s last-second half-court shot missed as
Independence picked up a key
home win in conference play.
Brianna
Jackson-Brewer
was the leading scorer for
ICC with 22 points, followed
by Simone Costa with 16,
Ja’Vonda Daniels 12 and Elina
Berzina 11.
As for the Lady Saints (13-3,
3-2), they had a game-high 26
points from Joanna Grymek,
followed by 12 each from
Axelle Bernard and Clitan de
Sousa.
INDEPENDENCE 76,
SEWARD COUNTY 73 (OT)
SEWARD COUNTY (13-3, 3-2): Joanna Grymek
11-20 4-12 26, Axelle Bernard 6-8 0-0 12, Clitan de Sousa 4-6 3-6 12, Tiani White 3-8 0-0 6,
Samm Ashida 1-6 2-2 5, Erin Richardson 2-6
1-1 5, Neidy Ocuane 1-4 1-4 3, Manuela Fungate 1-4 0-0 2, Leslie Speer 1-2 0-0 2, Daniela
Galindo 0-2 0-0 0. TOTALS 30-66 11-25 73.
INDEPENDENCE (11-3, 2-3): Brianna JacksonBrewer 6-21 9-12 22, Simone Costa 4-8 7-8 16,
Ja’Vonda Daniels 4-13 0-0 12, Elina Berzina
2-10 6-7 11, Cierra Palmer 2-6 2-2 6, Jay’Nee
Alston 1-7 2-2 5, Sarah Hadjukovich 2-3 0-0 4,
Olivia Murdock 0-0 0-2 0, Sarah Bartel 0-2 0-0
0, Maressah Milum 0-0 0-0 0, Syonah Williams
0-2 0-0 0. TOTALS 21-72 26-33 76.
SEWARD COUNTY 19 20
11 15 8 — 73
INDEPENDENCE
13 24
10 18 11 — 76
Three-point goals — SCCC 2-17 (Ashida 1-4,
de Sousa 1-3, Richardson 0-4, Galindo 0-2,
Ocuane 0-2, White 0-1, Fungate 0-1); ICC 8-35
(Daniels 4-12, Alston 1-7, Jackson-Brewer 1-6,
Costa 1-5, Berzina 1-4, Bartel 0-1). Rebounds
— SCCC 46 (de Sousa 10, Grymek 10); ICC 45
(Berzina 10). Assists — SCCC 12 (de Sousa
4); ICC 11 (Jackson-Brewer 2, Alston 2, Costa
2). Turnovers — SCCC 30; ICC 22. Total Fouls
— SCCC 29; ICC 26. Fouled out — Bernard,
Grymek, Ashida, Palmer. Technicals — none.
Nelson’s 24 points strengthen Raven victory over Colby
BY BRIAN THOMAS
[email protected]
COFFEYVILLE — Jumping
out to a double-digit lead in
the first quarter, the Coffeyville
Community College women’s
basketball team opened the
post-holiday part of its schedule with an easy 84-39 victory
over Colby Saturday at Nellis
Hall.
“It was a good game to help
us get back into the swing of
things,” said CCC women’s
coach Emily Washburn. “Desiree (Nelson) had a nice game
and did a good job hitting shots
against the zone. We will need
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL
SOUTHEAST KANSAS LEAGUE
BOYS’ BASKETBALL
LEAGUEOVERALL
Independence
Chanute
Parsons
Field Kindley
Pittsburg
Fort Scott
Labette County
3-04-2
2-05-1
2-15-1
1-1
3-3
1-22-4
0-2
1-4
0-3
3-3
MONDAY’S RESULT:
Pittsburg 58, Joplin (Mo.) 54
TUESDAY’S RESULTS:
Independence 60, Field Kindley 50
Chanute 62, Labette County 54
Pittsburg 67, Parsons 52
FRIDAY’S GAMES:
Parsons at Field Kindley
Chanute at Pittsburg
Labette County at Fort Scott
SOUTHEAST KANSAS LEAGUE
GIRLS’ BASKETBALL
LEAGUEOVERALL
Labette County
Pittsburg
Chanute
Fort Scott
Independence
3-0
6-0
3-06-1
1-15-1
1-1
2-3
1-23-3
Field Kindley
Parsons
0-2
3-3
0-32-4
Independence 68, Field Kindley 34
Labette County 46, Chanute 44
Pittsburg 44, Parsons 36
FRIDAY’S GAMES:
Parsons at Field Kindley
Chanute at Pittsburg
Labette County at Fort Scott
TRI-VALLEY LEAGUE
BOYS’ BASKETBALL
Fredonia
Humboldt
Eureka
Burlington
Yates Center
Caney Valley
Neodesha
Cherryvale
Erie
LEAGUEOVERALL
0-05-0
0-06-1
0-04-2
0-04-3
0-0
4-3
0-0
2-3
0-02-3
0-02-4
0-02-4
Erie 64, Cherryvale 35
Sedan 63, Caney Valley 59
Burlington 56, Eureka 50
Humboldt 59, Marmaton Valley 29
Yates Center 71, Flinthills 39
FRIDAY’S GAMES:
Cherryvale at Neodesha
Caney Valley at Yates Center
Fredonia at Eureka
Erie at Uniontown
TRI-VALLEY LEAGUE
GIRLS’ BASKETBALL
Humboldt
Cherryvale
Caney Valley
Fredonia
Neodesha
Burlington
Eureka
Erie
Yates Center
LEAGUEOVERALL
0-06-1
0-05-1
0-0
4-1
0-04-1
0-04-1
0-05-2
0-02-5
0-01-5
0-0
1-6
TUESDAY’S RESULTS
Cherryvale 60, Erie 34
Caney Valley 57, Sedan 46
Burlington 56, Eureka 35
Humboldt 60, Marmaton Valley 30
Flinthills 56, Yates Center 25
FRIDAY’S GAMES
Cherryvale at Neodesha
Caney Valley at Yates Center
Fredonia at Eureka
Erie at Uniontown
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
KANSAS JAYHAWK COMMUNITY
COLLEGE CONFERENCE MEN’S
BASKETBALL
LEAGUEOVERALL
Hutchinson 5-016-0
Barton
4-0 12-3
Seward County
3-2
13-3
Neosho County
3-2
11-3
Garden City
3-2
11-5
Colby
3-2 10-5
Pratt
2-2 9-6
Independence2-3 11-3
Butler
2-3 10-6
Cowley
2-3
10-6
Dodge City
1-3
10-5
Coffeyville
1-3
8-7
Allen
1-4 9-6
Cloud County
1-4
8-8
SATURDAY’S RESULTS
Independence 79, Seward County 66
Coffeyville 85, Colby 81
Cloud County 78, Butler 73
Neosho County 100, Garden City 96 (2 OT)
Barton 80, Allen 72
Hutchinson 75, Pratt 72
Cowley 81, Dodge City 78 (OT)
WEDNESDAY’S GAMES
(Scores not available as of presstime)
Independence at Barton
Coffeyville at Cloud County
Cowley at Hutchinson
Pratt at Garden City
Butler at Dodge City
Allen at Colby
Neosho County at Seward County
KANSAS JAYHAWK COMMUNITY
COLLEGE CONFERENCE
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Cowley
Coffeyville
Hutchinson
Garden City
Butler
Seward County
Cloud County
Dodge City
LEAGUEOVERALL
5-0
14-2
4-0
12-3
4-114-1
4-1
10-6
3-2 13-3
3-2
11-4
3-2
11-5
2-2
12-3
Independence2-3 11-4
Barton
1-3 9-6
Pratt
1-3 8-6
Neosho County
1-4
7-6
Allen
0-5 4-11
Colby
0-5 4-12
to do a better job in the next
two road games taking care
of the ball and making free
throws.”
The Lady Ravens — receiving votes in the latest NJCAA
rankings prior to the holiday
break — remained perfect in
Jayhawk Conference action at
4-0, while improving to 12-3
overall on the season. They
remained a half game behind
first-place Cowley (14-2, 5-0) in
the conference standings heading into Wednesday’s action.
CCC was scheduled to travel
to Concordia for a matchup
against Cloud County. Details of
that contest were not available
as of presstime. The team will
remain on the road Saturday
when it travels to Liberal for
a 6 p.m. contest against 14thranked Seward County.
Desiree Nelson, a product of
Caney Valley High School, had
a big game for the Lady Ravens as she led the way with
24 points. She did most of her
damage from long range as
she connected on six of her
13 three-point attempts in the
contest.
Coffeyville led from start
to finish, building a 19-9 advantage after one quarter and
extending that to 37-20 at the
intermission. The Lady Ravens
put things well out of reach
after the break, using a 23-10
run in the third quarter to open
up a 60-30 lead.
CCC extended the margin to
as many as 48 points at 84-36
late in the contest.
In addition to Nelson, Alanie Fisher recorded 16 points
for Coffeyville, while Chanel
Khammarath also reached
double figures with 10. CCC had
COFFEYVILLE 84, COLBY 39
COLBY (4-12, 0-5): Aubrey Thomas 2-13
5-10 9, Amber Perryman 3-5 1-2 9, Kyra Tucker 3-10 0-0 8, Hanna Herman 2-3 0-0 4, Clara
Schwartz 1-7 1-2 3, Jazmine Jefflo 0-5 2-2 2,
Kenzie Curry 1-3 0-2 2, Janea Dennis 1-2 0-0
2, Gillian Muniz 0-1 0-0 0. TOTALS 13-49 9-18
39.
COFFEYVILLE (12-3, 4-0): Desiree Nelson
7-15 4-6 24, Alanie Fisher 8-17 0-1 16, Chanel
Khammarath 4-7 0-0 10, Caletria Curtis 4-4
1-3 9, Antoinette Daniels 3-4 0-0 6, Odyssey
Trussell 2-7 0-0 5, Jasmine Davis 2-4 0-0 4,
Jazmine Torian 2-5 0-3 4, Chantelle Smith 0-2
2-4 2, Jade Carranza 1-4 0-0 2, NaQari Harris
1-3 0-0 2, Alex Arline 0-2 0-0 0, Lauren Anderson 0-0 0-0 0. TOTALS 34-74 7-17 84.
COLBY
9
11
10
9 — 39
COFFEYVILLE 19 18
23 24 — 84
Three-point goals — Colby 4-24 (Tucker
2-6, Perryman 2-2, Thomas 0-7, Jefflo 0-4,
Schwartz 0-3, Curry 0-2); Coffeyville 9-27
(Nelson 6-13, Khammarath 2-4, Trussell 1-5,
Fisher 0-4, Harris 0-1). Rebounds — Colby
25 (Tucker 6); Coffeyville 58 (Carranza 8). Assists — Colby 10 (Perryman 3); Coffeyville 22
(Fisher 5). Turnovers — Colby 27; Coffeyville
25. Total Fouls — Colby 22; Coffeyville 18.
Fouled out — none. Technicals — none.
ERIE 64, CHERRYVALE 35
CHERRYVALE (2-4): Wagner 3 3-6 9, Menzer 2 2-6 6, L. Raida 2 2-7 6, Main 0 4-6 4, Bennett 1 1-2 3, Vigil 1 0-0 2, Verge 0 2-2 2, R. Robertson 1 0-0 2, Smedley 0 1-4 1, T. Raida 0 0-0
0, John 0 0-0 0, J. Robertson 0 0-0 0. TOTALS
10 (0) 15-33 35.
ERIE (2-4): P. Semrad 8 2-7 18, W. Semrad
1 (3) 0-1 11, Beachner 3 (1) 1-2 10, Rice 3 2-2
8, Richwine 1 4-4 6, Thompson 1 (1) 0-0 5, Yarnell 1 2-2 4, Clevenger 1 0-0 2, Ruark 0 0-0 0,
Elliott 0 0-0 0. TOTALS 19 (5) 11-18 64.
CHERRYVALE 10 15
2
8 — 35
ERIE
20 10
18 16 — 64
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SATURDAY’S RESULTS
Coffeyville 84, Colby 39
Independence 76, Seward County 73 (OT)
Butler 65, Cloud County 62
Garden City 57, Neosho County 55
Barton 78, Allen 67
Hutchinson 73, Pratt 52
Cowley 87, Dodge City 64
WEDNESDAY’S GAMES
(Scores not available as of presstime)
Coffeyville at Cloud County
Independence at Barton
Cowley at Hutchinson
Pratt at Garden City
Butler at Dodge City
Allen at Colby
Neosho County at Seward County
a 58-25 edge on the boards, including a team-high eight from
Jade Carranza.
ERIE — This wasn’t exactly
the way the Cherryvale High
School boys’ basketball team
wanted to come out of the holiday break.
The Chargers struggled offensively in the second half
as they eventually suffered a
64-35 loss to Erie to open up
second-semester action on
Tuesday.
“It was a tough game for us
from every aspect,” said CHS
boys’ coach Aaron Rehmert. “I
thought we played flat, especially on the defensive end. We
didn’t play with much energy
or emotion. We got some key
players in foul trouble early,
and that didn’t change in the
third quarter. We really struggled shooting the ball … from
inside, outside and the charity
stripe. Erie, on the other hand,
played very well and shot the
ball efficiently as well. It was
an all-around bad formula for
success.”
Cherryvale was hoping to
build off some momentum it
carried into its break. The
Chargers, who started the season 0-3, had picked up backto-back wins, including a decisive 79-49 home decision over
Southeast-Cherokee to close
out their first semester. Yet
Tuesday’s loss dropped CHS to
2-4 on the season as it heads to
rival Neodesha on Friday for a
non-league matchup.
The Chargers got a slow
start following the break. Erie
(2-4) stormed out of the gates
to a 20-10 lead, which was just
a sign of what was to come the
rest of the evening. Although
Cherryvale cut the margin in
half to 30-25 by the intermission, the second half would not
be so kind.
The Red Devils exploded
on an 18-2 run during the
third quarter to take complete
charge of things. In fact, trailing 48-27 at the end of three
quarters, things did not get
any better for the Chargers
in the fourth quarter as they
were outscored 16-8 during
that stretch.
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SPORTS
Pirate strengths shine against Seward Academic all-state
honors earned by
IHS tennis players
BY BRIAN THOMAS
[email protected]
INDEPENDENCE — Riding a
three-game losing streak, the
holiday break may have come
at the perfect time for the Independence Community College men’s basketball team. That was definitely the case
after a rejuvenated Pirate
squad ended that skid on Saturday with an impressive 7966 victory over No. 19-ranked
Seward County at the ICC Field
House.
“I thought we played hard
and played together as a
team,” said ICC men’s coach
Tony Turner. “We moved the
ball on offense. On the defensive end, we did a great job
sticking to the game plan.”
ICC opened Jayhawk Conference play in late November
with a road win at Cloud County. But after that, which led to
the team’s first 10-0 start to
a season in a decade, the Pirates dropped three straight
games. Saturday’s win put Independence back on track as
it improved to 11-3 overall and
2-3 in conference play heading
into Wednesday’s contest at
Barton County. No score was
available from that contest as
of this week’s presstime.
Up next, the Pirates will return home on Saturday to take
on Dodge City in a 6 p.m. contest at the ICC Field House.
Making its first appearance
on the court in three weeks,
Independence got off to a sluggish start to open the second
semester. The teams were
scoreless in the first three
minutes, but Seward County
eventually grabbed the lead.
ICC managed to tie the game
at 10-all before the Saints got
things going. SCCC opened up
a double-digit lead and pushed
it to as many as 11 in the first
half. Yet, the Pirates would not
go away.
Independence closed the
half strong, using an 8-0 run
in the closing minutes to get
back within one, 32-31, heading into the intermission.
Although Seward County
opened up a five-point lead
after an old-fashioned threepoint play from Marcus Mathieu, much of the second half
belonged to ICC. The Pirates
ran off seven consecutive
points to take their first lead of
the game at 39-37 with 15:30
to go.
From there, Independence
continued to expand its lead,
taking a 50-46 lead at the media timeout and extending that
to nine, 58-49, with a little less
than six minutes remaining.
The Saints never made a serious threat from that point on
as the Pirates ended their losing streak.
ICC recovered from a rough
BY BRIAN THOMAS
[email protected]
Damian Hunt, a 6-foot-8 forward from Topeka, Kan., takes a field goal attempt over the heads of
several Seward County players during Saturday’s game in the ICC Fieldhouse. (Photo by Andy Taylor)
shooting first half, connecting
on just 38 percent, as it managed to hit 57 percent from
the field after the break. That
allowed Independence to outscored Seward County 48-34
during that stretch.
Independence
had
two
key statistics stand out. The
Pirates were 10-of-22 from
three-point range, compared
to 5-of-26 for the Saints.
Meanwhile, ICC outrebounded
SCCC 44-29 in the contest, including a team-high 14 from
De’Andre King.
The Pirates were led in
scoring by David Beasley
with 22 points, followed by
Davauhnte Turner with 20,
and Tate Turner and Tyrone
Riley with 13 each.
Seward County (13-3, 3-2)
got a team-high 19 points from
Niem Stevenson, followed by
16 from Mathieu and 12 from
Charles Beauregard.
INDEPENDENCE 79, SEWARD COUNTY 66
SEWARD COUNTY (13-3, 3-2): Niem Stevenson 6-11 6-12 19, Marcus Mathieu 5-12
6-7 16, Charles Beauregard 4-12 3-4 12,
James Byrd 4-6 0-0 9, Delano Jones 3-13 0-2
8, Kris Williams 1-2 0-0 2, Mitchell Packard 0-0
0-0 0, Matthew Lewis 0-1 0-0 0, Delwin Young
0-1 0-0 0, Jeromie Simmons 0-1 0-0 0. TOTALS
23-59 15-25 66.
INDEPENDENCE (11-3, 2-3): David Beasley 8-17 3-4 22, Davauhnte Turner 6-10 5-6
20, Tate Turner 4-10 3-4 13, Tyrone Riley 5-7
3-8 13, Aaron Smith 2-5 0-0 5, De’Andre King
CANEY, INDEPENDENCE,
COFFEYVILLE, CHERRYALE
Caney Valley, Cherryvale girls’
teams split victories Monday
CANEY — Points were tough to come by on both sides, but
the Cherryvale Middle School girls’ basketball team eventually
slipped past Caney Valley 12-7 to open second-semester action
on Monday.
With that win, CMS improved to 4-3 overall and 3-2 in the TriValley League. Meanwhile, CVJH dropped to 0-5 in the TVL.
The Lady Chargers fell behind 3-0 after one quarter but outscored the Lady Bullpups 4-0 in the second period to take a onepoint lead at the intermission. CMS had a 6-4 edge after three
quarters before outscoring CVJH 6-3 in the final period.
Camden Forman had six points to lead the way for Cherryvale, followed by Allison Poole, Christa Boswell and Jairen
Burns with two each. Caney Valley scoring was not available as
of presstime.
The teams managed a split of games on the evening as Caney
Valley won the B contest 22-17. The ‘Pups overcame a 13-5 deficit at halftime by outscoring the Lady Chargers 17-4 in the second half.
Cherryvale’s top scorer was Burns with six points. No CVJH
scoring was available from the contest.
Both teams will return to action on the road today, with Cherryvale traveling to Galesburg and Caney Valley visiting Eureka.
1-3 1-3 4, David Adeyemo 0-1 2-4 2, Devin
Ferguson 0-2 0-0 0, Alex Ennis 0-0 0-0 0, Damion Hunt 0-1 0-0 0, Deon Tripp 0-0 0-0 0.
TOTALS 26-56 17-29 79.
SEWARD COUNTY
32
34 — 66
INDEPENDENCE
31
48 — 79
Three-point goals — SCCC 5-26 (Jones 2-8,
Beauregard 1-7, Stevenson 1-5, Byrd 1-2,
Mathieu 0-3, Williams 0-1); ICC 10-22 (Beasley 3-8, D. Turner 3-4, T. Turner 2-5, Smith
1-3, King 1-2). Rebounds — SCCC 29 (Beauregard 6); ICC 44 (King 14). Assists — SCCC 10
(Mathieu 3); ICC 16 (Beasley 5). Turnovers —
SCCC 10; ICC 18. Total Fouls — SCCC 27; ICC
NA. Fouled out — none. Technicals — none.
school and is currently ranked
in the top five in her class.
INDEPENDENCE — Not “Alex had a great junior
only did the Independence year and jumped onto the
High School girls’ tennis team scene teaming with Anna to
have another successful sea- get sixth place at state, second
son on the courts during the at regionals and winning SEK
fall, it is also getting recogni- in doubles. On top of the team
tion for its work in
accomplishments
the classroom.
this year, she is a
Senior Anna Millgreat student and
er, junior Alex Keller
does extremely well
and sophomore Lysin the classroom.”
sa Schabel were all
Schabel has postnamed Academic Alled a 58-20 record
State by the Kansas
in singles through
Tennis Coaches Assoher first two years
ciation. To be recogin the Lady Bulldog
nized for that honor,
program. This past
Schabel
student-athletes had
season, she finished
to place in the top 10
28-12 and took ninth
at the state tournaplace in the state sinment as well as comgles bracket.
pile a 3.5 grade point
“Lyssa had another
average over the last
great year followyear.
ing up her freshmen
“I am really proud
season with another
of all of three of these
good state appeargirls for what they
ance,” Ysusi said.
accomplished on the
“Lyssa has placed in
Miller
tennis court and in
the top 10 at state
the classroom,” said
twice already and
IHS tennis coach
has done extremely
Matt Ysusi. “I have to
well at the league
admit the girls make
and regional level.
my job very easy beShe is involved in
cause they are good
four different school
student-athletes and
activities, including
kids. These girls and
tennis,
basketball,
many on the team
dance and softball.
are involved in so
It is impressive that
many activities in
she is able to do well
Keller
school and in the
in school, while at
community, and it is admira- the same time doing so much
ble on how much they take on outside the classroom.”
with success.”
As a team, the Lady Bull Miller and Keller teamed up dogs won the Southeast Kanto take sixth place in doubles sas League championship for
at the Class 4A State Tourna- a fourth straight year, while
ment. The duo finished the also claiming a fifth straight
season with a 28-11 overall regional title. They went on
record.
to finish in a four-way tie for
“Anna was a great senior third place at the Class 4A
leader and helped us reach State Tournament in Winfield.
many of our team goals this This was the fourth straight
year,” Ysusi said. “Over the year and ninth time in the last
last two years, she has placed 10 seasons that IHS finished in
in the top six at state in dou- the top three of the state tourbles and has won several SEK nament.
and regional team championships. Anna has done well in
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Hutchinson is undefeated at 16-0 as the Blue Dragons stand
alone atop the rankings.
One other Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference
teams is in the NCJAA national polls. Seward County, which lost
to Independence, 79-66, last Saturday, dropped from 19th to
24th.
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SPORTS
Ravens improve to 8-7 with narrow victory
BY BRIAN THOMAS
[email protected]
COFFEYVILLE — After dropping three
straight games to open conference play,
the holiday break may have come at just
the right time for the Coffeyville Community College men’s basketball team. The
Red Ravens now hope Saturday’s 85-81
victory over Colby at Nellis Hall provides a
jumpstart to what’s to come in the second
semester.
“I thought for the first game back in
three weeks, we played pretty well,” said
Red Raven coach Jay Herkelman. “We
scored 85 points against a team that plays
a good 2-3 zone. Our shot selection was
good. Defensively, we need to continue to
get better at defending the ball screens.
Colby’s guards were able to get too deep
in the lane on us. That’s something we
will address.”
CCC suffered home losses to Hutchinson and Dodge City as well as a road defeat at Garden City prior to the break.
With Saturday’s victory, the Ravens
posted their first Jayhawk Conference
win of the season as they moved to 1-3
in conference play and 8-7 overall. Cof-
feyville was scheduled to travel to Concordia on Wednesday for a matchup with
Cloud County (details will appear in next
week’s Chronicle) and will remain on the
road Saturday as they make the long trip
to Liberal to face 19th-ranked Seward
County.
Coffeyville appeared to be on cruise
control in the second half. Leading 4132 at the intermission, the Red Ravens
pushed their lead up to as many as 16
points at 68-52 midway through the second half.
The Trojans (10-5, 3-2) would not go
away, though. Colby ran off 11 straight
points to get back within five and continued to make a push down the stretch. In
fact, the visitors got as close as one in the
final minute of play, but the Red Ravens
made some key stops on defense and hit
three key free throws to lock up the win.
Four Red Raven players reached double
figures in scoring, led by Darrion Strong,
who was 13-of-15 at the free throw line.
As a team, Coffeyville hit 26 of its 37 charity tosses in the contest.
In addition to Strong, other double-figure scorers for the Red Ravens were Jor-
dan Taylor with 14 points, Jovan Barksdale with 12 and Lee Reliford with 11.
Colby got a big performance from Brian Starr, who was 11-of-20 from the floor
and 13-of-17 at the stripe for a game-high
37 points. Starr received two technical
fouls and was eventually ejected late in
the second half. Layton Leydig added 11
points for the Trojans.
COFFEYVILLE 85, COLBY 81
COLBY (10-5, 3-2): Brian Starr 11-20 13-17 37, Layton Leydig 4-10 0-0 11, Justice Cuthbertson 4-6 0-0 9, Zachary Motley 4-6 1-3 9, Hassan Attia 3-7 2-3 8, Tyriq Gunnels 1-4 2-2 5,
Ahmed Ismail 1-1 0-1 2, Noskie Obanya 0-0 0-0 0, Anei Anei
0-0 0-0 0, Michael Vos-Ottin 0-5 0-0 0, Cole Smith 0-2 0-0 0,
Spencer Tubbs 0-0 0-0 0, Bilal Abdur-Rahim 0-1 0-0 0. TOTALS
28-62 18-26 81.
COFFEYVILLE (8-7, 1-3): Darrion Strong 7-13 13-15 29, Jordan Taylor 4-7 2-4 14, Jovan Barksdale 4-11 2-3 12, Lee Reliford 4-5 2-6 11, Jailen Gill 4-6 1-1 9, Gregory Poleon 1-2 2-2 4,
Tedrick Wolfe 1-7 1-2 3, Trayvon Hards 0-0 3-4 3, Mo Ahmed
0-1 0-0 0, William Jefferson 0-0 0-0 0. TOTALS 25-52 26-37 85.
COLBY
32 49 — 81
COFFEYVILLE 41 44 — 85
Three-point goals — Colby 7-25 (Leydig 3-9, Starr 2-6, Gunnels 1-3, Cuthbertson 1-2, Vos-Ottin 0-2, Smith 0-2, AbdurRahim 0-1); Coffeyville 9-23 (Taylor 4-6, Strong 2-7, Barksdale
2-7, Reliford 1-2, Wolfe 0-1). Rebounds — Colby 37 (Attia 9);
Coffeyville 30 (Gill 6). Assists — Colby 15 (Starr 7); Coffeyville
12 (Reliford 4). Turnovers — Colby 14; Coffeyville 19. Total
Fouls — Colby 25; Coffeyville 23. Fouled out — none. Technicals — Colby bench, Starr 2, Attia.
Caney Valley boys’ teams sweep Chargers in jr. high action
CANEY — Up by double
digits at halftime, the Caney
Valley Junior High boys’ basketball team coasted to a 5115 victory over Cherryvale to
open second-semester action
on Monday.
CVJH remained perfect on
the season in the Tri-Valley
League at 5-0 overall, with
all five wins coming by double digits. The Bullpups had
already beaten Yates Center
(50-29) on Dec. 7, Fredonia
(52-41) on Dec. 10, Humboldt
(46-19) on Dec. 14 and Neode-
sha (54-18) on Dec. 17.
On the other side, the Chargers dropped to 5-2 overall
and 3-2 in the TVL. They had
won their previous two games
before the holiday break
against Neodesha (51-7) and
Yates Center (42-26).
Caney Valley had control
from the start of the contest,
jumping ahead 11-5 after one
quarter and extending that to
21-11 at the intermission. The
‘Pups blew things open with a
16-3 run in the third quarter.
The Bullpups swept a pair
of games against the Chargers,
also earning a 24-11 victory in
the B game. In that contest,
CVJH had a narrow 10-9 lead
at the break but used a 12-0
run in the third period to take
control of things.
Both teams hit the road today, with Caney Valley visiting
Eureka and Cherryvale traveling to Galesburg.
A GAME
CANEY VALLEY 51, CHERRYVALE 15
CHERRYVALE: G. Hooper 2 (3) 0-0 13, Bond 0
1-2 1, Bennett 0 1-2 1, Sawyer 0 0-0 0, Lantz
0 0-0 0, Stoddard 0 0-0 0, Myers 0 0-0 0, K.
Hooper 0 0-0 0. TOTALS 2 (3) 2-4 15.
CANEY VALLEY: Melchiori 4 (2) 0-3 14, Kaminska 4 0-1 8, Bush 4 0-0 8, Richey 1 (1) 1-2 6,
Nunneley 3 0-2 6, Cowell 1 1-1 3, Kirchner 0
2-2 2, Moreland 1 0-0 2, Allen 0 0-0 0. TOTALS
18 (3) 4-11 51.
CHERRYVALE 5
6
3
1 — 15
CANEY VALLEY 11 10
16 14 — 51
B GAME
CANEY VALLEY 24, CHERRYVALE 11
CHERRYVALE: K. Hooper 0 (2) 0-0 6, Reid 1 0-0
2, Booe 1 0-0 2, Bennett 0 1-4 1, Sawyer 0 0-2
0, Stoddard 0 0-2 0, Linn 0 0-0 0, Dodson 0
0-0 0. TOTALS 2 (2) 1-8 11.
CANEY VALLEY: Postrach 2 (1) 1-5 8, Scott 1
(2) 0-0 8, Killian 3 0-0 6, Finney 1 0-0 2, Kyser 0
0-3 0, Davis 0 0-0 0, Kyler 0 0-0 0, Washburn 0
0-0 0. TOTALS 7 (3) 1-8 24.
CHERRYVALE 2
7
0
2 — 11
CANEY VALLEY 6
4
12
2 — 24
PUBLIC NOTICES
(Published in the Montgomery County
Chronicle on Thursday, Jan. 7, 14 and
21, 2016)
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, KANSAS
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (Plaintiff)
vs.
Kimberly Hunt , et al. (Defendants)
Case No. 15cv177
K.S.A. 60
Mortgage Foreclosure
(Title to Real Estate Involved)
NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S
SALE
Under and by virtue of an Order of
Sale issued by the Clerk of the District Court in and for the said County
of Montgomery, State of Kansas, in a
certain cause in said Court Numbered
15cv177, wherein the parties above
named were respectively plaintiff and
defendant, and to me, the undersigned
Sheriff of said County, directed, I will offer for sale at public auction and sell to
the highest bidder for cash in hand at
02:00 PM, on 02/04/2016, at the Main
Door of the Courthouse in Independence, Montgomery County, Kansas,
Montgomery County Courthouse, the
following described real estate located
in the County of Montgomery, State of
Kansas, to wit:
LOT 6 AND THE EAST 10 FEET
OF LOT 7 BLOCK 4 QUEEN CITY
SECOND ADDITION TO THE CITY
OF COFFEYVILLE COMMONLY
KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 1211
W. 4TH ST.
Robert Dierks, sheriff
Montgomery County, Kan.
Shawn Scharenborg, KS # 24542
Michael Rupard, KS # 26954
Dustin Stiles, KS # 25152
Kozeny & McCubbin, L.C. (St. Louis Office)
12400 Olive Blvd., Suite 555
St. Louis, MO 63141
Phone: (314) 991-0255
Fax: (314) 567-8006
Email: [email protected]
Attorney for Plaintiff
_____________________________
Chronicle on Thursday, Jan. 7, 14 and
21, 2016)
Wells Fargo Bank, NA (Plaintiff)
vs.
Melissa S. Campbell, a/k/a Melissa
Shawn Campbell, David B. Campbell, et al., (Defendants)
Case No. 15CV99I
K.S.A. 60
NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S
SALE
15CV99I, wherein the parties above
02:00 PM, on 02/04/2016, at the Main
Kansas, to wit:
LOT 15, BLOCK 6, EDGEWOOD
ADDITION TO THE CITY OF COFFEYVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
KANSAS COMMONLY KNOWN AS
509 WAVERLY WAY.
St. Louis, MO 63141
Phone: (314) 991-0255
Fax: (314) 567-8006
_____________________________
Chronicle on Thursday, Dec. 24, 31,
2015 and Jan. 7, 2016)
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, KAN., SITTING
AT COFFEYVILLE
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF ANN F. DATSON, a/k/a A. F. DATSON, DECEASED
Case No. 15 PR-16 C
NOTICE OF HEARING
THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL
PERSONS CONCERNED:
You are hereby notified that on the
15th day of December, 2015, a Petition was filed in this Court by Richard
G. Datson, Executor of the Estate of
Ann F. Datson, a/k/a A. F. Datson, deceased, praying for a final settlement
of the estate, approval of his acts,
proceedings, and accounts as Executor, allowance for attorney’s fees and
expenses, determination of the heirs,
devisees, and legatees entitled to the
estate and assignment to them in accordance with the Will of Ann F. Datson,
a/k/a A. F. Datson, deceased.
You are required to file your written
defenses thereto on or before the 19th
day of January, 2016, at 9:00 o’clock
A.M. of said day in said Court in the
City of Coffeyville, Montgomery 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.
RICHARD G. DATSON, petitioner
HALL LEVY DeVORE BELL OTT & KRITZ
815 Union, P. O. Box 9
Coffeyville KS 67337
(620) 251-1300
Attorneys for Petitioner
_____________________________
2015, and Jan. 7, 2016)
Wells Fargo Bank, NA (Plaintiff)
vs.
Darren Triebel, Emily J. Triebel, et al.
(Defendants)
Case No. 15CV125
K.S.A. 60
NOTICE OF
SHERIFF’S SALE
15CV125, wherein the parties above
02:00 PM, on 01/21/2016, at the Main
Kansas, to wit:
LOT 4, BLOCK 3, COUNTY CLERK`S
PLAT OF SUNSET VILLAGE, PART
OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP
33, RANGE 15, MONTGOMERY
COUNTY, KANSAS
Property Address: 625 Tower Drive, Independence, KS 67301, Montgomery
DID YOU
KNOW?
St. Louis, MO 63141
Phone: (314) 991-0255
Fax: (314) 567-8006
_____________________________
2015, and Jan. 7, 2016)
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR CITIGROUP
MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2007WFHE1, ASSET-BACKED PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES
2007-WFHE1 (Plaintiff)
vs.
MICHAEL EMERSON, et. al. (Defendants)
No. 15CV169
Div. No.
K.S.A. 60
NOTICE OF
SHERIFF’S SALE
Sale issued by the Clerk of the District
Court in and for the said County of
Montgomery, in a certain cause in said
Court Numbered 15CV169, wherein the
parties above named were respectively
plaintiff and defendant, and to me, the
undersigned Sheriff of said County, directed, I will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for
cash in hand at the South door of Judicial Center in Independence in the City
of Independence in said County, on
January 14, 2016, at 2:00 P.M., of said
day the following described real estate
located in the County of Montgomery,
State of Kansas, to wit:
LOT 21, BLOCK 2, NORTHFIELD
SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF COFFEYVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
KANSAS. Commonly known as 301 N
Parkview, Coffeyville, Kansas 67337
This is an attempt to collect a debt
and any information obtained will be
used for that purpose.
SHAPIRO & KREISMAN, LLC
Attorneys for Plaintiff
4220 Shawnee Mission Parkway
Suite 418B Fairway, KS 66205
(913)831-3000
Fax No. (913)831-3320
Our File No. 15-008399/JM
The Montgomery County Chronicle serves
as the official newspaper for legal notices
for the following local governments:
City of Caney
City of Cherryvale
City of Tyro
City of Havana
USD 436-Caney Valley
USD 445-Coffeyville
USD 447-Cherryvale
Independence Community College
Bird hunting on the rebound
for southeast Kansas hunters
Quail season is again becoming a popular time for southeast Kansas hunters, following several years of sparse populations.
Regular season for both quail and pheasant began Nov.
15 and will continue through Jan. 31, 2016.
This is a statewide season on these birds which have traditionally drawn hunters from their office or plant jobs to
walk through grain fields or pastures to flush out coveys of
these fast-flying birds.
It is a common sight in southeast Kansas counties to see
quail running along a roadside ditch and hiding in nearby
thicket.
But finding pheasant to hunt will require a trip westward, unless you’re lucky enough to pay high prices for
private bird hunting experiences.
There are six pheasant regions in the state, and officials
with the Kansas Wildlife, Parks and Tourism say the overall
pheasant harvest this year will likely remain below average.
There was a time — 50 to 60 years ago — when the area
around Moline became nesting ground for pheasant, but
even then, not too many.
In Elk County, farmers adjoining the well-known hunting
resort, Flint Oak, sometimes see singles of pheasant and
quail that have escaped the confines of the private hunting
reservation. But truthfully, seeing pheasant in southeast
Kansas is a rarity.
Over the past few decades, bird hunters have mostly turned to quail, when they could find them, and dove,
which are much more plentiful in southeast Kansas.
With good rainfall in 2015, it has increased populations
of quail, and the best hunting opportunities are in the Flint
Hills and Southcentral regions.
The Northern Plains Region of Kansas remains the hot
territory for pheasant hunters. It is a rarity to see pheasant in southern Kansas. However, the rural area surrounding places like Flint Oak in Elk County, there occasionally
are pheasant which escape the confines of the nationallyknown hunting reserve — and they can be seen, mostly in
singles.
For pheasant hunting, there is a daily bag limit on pheasant of four cocks during regular season, and two cocks during youth season (held in November).
For quail, the daily bag limit is eight during regular season and four in youth season.
For exotic dove season (Eurasian collared and ringed
turtle doves only), the season has been extended to Feb.
28, 2016. There is no limit on these birds.
For complete information on how to obtain hunting licenses, visit www.ks.wildlifelicense.com.
****
In other outdoors news of interest to the Montgomery
County area:
• Turkey season extended: Turkey hunting season has
been extended to Jan. 31, 2016.
This is for shotgun or archery and there is a bag limit of
one turkey, either sex, per permit or game tag.
This is an extension of fall season, so dogs may be used.
• Limited deer season extended: Deer season also has
been extended for firearms hunters --- whitetail anterless
deer only. Season will end Jan. 17.
STATE NEWS
Are Rocky Mountain highs
affecting the Sunflower
State? AG wants to know
TOPEKA – Kansas Attorney
General Derek Schmidt has
launched a statewide project to
collect information about how
marijuana acquired in Colorado is entering and affecting
Kansas.
Since Colorado’s widely publicized decision more than three
years ago to “legalize” acquisition and possession of small
amounts of marijuana under
its state law, Kansas law enforcement agencies have consistently reported encounters
in Kansas involving marijuana
acquired in Colorado. Existing criminal justice information systems are inadequate to
track the phenomenon because
they do not collect information
about the origin of marijuana
encountered by Kansas law
enforcement, and they cannot
readily be modified to do so.
“There are numerous and
persistent anecdotal accounts
of marijuana acquired in Colorado and illegally transported
into Kansas causing harm
here,” Schmidt said. “But because of technology limits,
the confirming data is elusive.
Since Colorado’s experiment
with legalization is affecting
Kansas, we need to know more
about what is actually happening here so policymakers can
make informed decisions.”
Under the authority of K.S.A.
21-2504(a), which allows the
attorney general to gather statistics about potential crimes
and circumstances surrounding them, Schmidt has sent a
request for information to all
county and district attorneys,
sheriffs and chiefs of police
throughout the state surveying
them about their experience
with Colorado marijuana in
their jurisdictions. More than
500 surveys were distributed
last week.
Schmidt said when survey responses are received and compiled later this spring, he will
make them publicly available
so the data can be evaluated by
the public, by law enforcement
officials and by policymakers.
A copy of the survey distributed
to county and district attorneys
is available at http://go.usa.gov/
c5uRe, and a copy of the survey
distributed to sheriffs and police chiefs is available at http://
go.usa.gov/c5umV .
Anecdotal reports of the
types of problems Kansas law
enforcement has encountered
with marijuana brought from
Colorado include: People driving under the influence of Colorado marijuana, distribution
in Kansas of edible food products laced with marijuana from
Colorado, people who “bundle”
marijuana acquired in Colorado into larger amounts and
transport it into Kansas for illicit resale and distribution,
and increased Kansas juvenile
access to marijuana products.
While the reports have been
more numerous from counties
near Colorado, they have come
from throughout the state.
Although possession and
sale of marijuana remains illegal nationwide under federal
law, the U.S. Department of
Justice has elected not to fully
enforce federal law in states
like Colorado that have “legalized” marijuana under their
state law. However, federal enforcement guidelines state that
federal enforcement remains
appropriate if marijuana from
states like Colorado comes into
surrounding states and causes
harm. Kansas state law prohibits the possession or distribution of marijuana.
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COFFEYVILLE
Roosevelt students
collect 2,000 pounds
of food in December
USD 445 students returned to classes on Wednesday for the
start of the second semester of the 2015-16 school year.
At Roosevet Middle School, principal Jeff Pegues reported on
the following events that happened at the end of the first semester.
• RMS students collected 2,000 pounds of food during the
Canned Food Drive in December.
• Students finished the semester strong with MAP testing in
Language Arts and Math.
He also advises parents on the following upcoming events at
RMS:
• First semester report cards will be mailed at the end of the
week.
• Yearbook forms will be sent along with Report Cards. Yearbooks are $15.50 for black and white and $20.50 for full-color.
Orders are due by Feb. 19.
• Dental screening forms will also be sent with Report Cards.
Parents are to fill out the form and have students return them to
the Main Office. The date for RMS Dental Screenings will be set
soon.
• On Saturday, Jan. 16, six RMS students will travel to Chanute for the Southeast District Middle School Honors Choir.
• There will be no school on Monday, Jan. 18.
Rotarians learn about
local animal shelter
from new director
The first Coffeyville Rotary Club meeting of the new year was
held Tuesday, Jan. 5 with President-Elect Sonia Larrimore leading the meeting.
The Rotarian of the Day was Becky Medley and she introduced the guest speaker Bradley Grey, who is the new director
at the Coffeyville Animal Shelter. Grey told the Club that in 2015
the shelter received 563 animals from the animal control officer
and had 77 animals surrendered to them. He also said that last
year the shelter had a “save” rate of 68 percent, which is better
than the ASCP’s national average of 61 percent.
He said the shelter has several goals for 2016 including a new
washing machine since they do six to eight loads daily, the construction of some new dog runs and replacement of the cat enclosures.
He also announced that the Coffeyville Friends of Animals annual “Chili Bowl” fund raiser will be Feb. 7.
Sycamore man injured in
wreck north of Coffeyville
A two-vehicle accident on
U.S. 169 highway north of Coffeyville on Tuesday night left a
motorist with serious injuries
and also snarled highway traffic for several hours.
The Kansas Highway Patrol
says a 2014 Chevrolet Sonic
driven by Tyree Frazier, age
39, of Sycamore was northbound on U.S. 169 highway
when the vehicle went left of
center and struck a 2012 Kenworth semi driven by Kenneth P. Henderson, age 51, of
Charleston, Ark. The collision
took place near the intersection of county road 3000, or
about eight miles north of Coffeyville.
Frazier was flown by helicopter to Freeman Hospital in
Joplin, Mo., due to the serious
nature of his injuries. Henderson was not injured in the collision.
The collision closed U.S.
169 highway for several hours
as traffic was detoured onto
adjacent county roads.
All hands on deck
Field Kindley High School students lined the sidelines of the Stoner-McClure Gymnasium at Field Kindley High Scool on Tuesday night
during the introductions of the varsity boys’ basketball players. FKHS senior Jawaun Thompson joined other teammates in exchanging
high fives with fellow FKHS fans. (Photo by Andy Taylor)
Positive mindset to be discussed at senior workshop
The Southeast Kansas Se- with Four County Mental
nior Safety and Wellness Health Center, will speak about
Coalition will meet at Sir- “Mind over Matter – Keeping a
loin Stockade in Coffeyville Positive Mindset when Faced
on Wednesday, Jan. 13 from with Physical and Aging Chal11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., for their lenges”.
The Coffeyville Fire Department responded to 1508 W. 2nd quarterly luncheon. Lunch will Virginia is a certified physiStreet early Wednesday morning in response to a structure fire. be available at a reduced rate cians assistant with a Fellow
Upon arrival, all occupants were out of the residence. The fire of $5.00. Sponsorships are from the American Academy
was located in the attic with the cause determined to be electri- provided by Active Partners of Physician Assistants, a Felcal. Off-duty fire personnel, as well as the South Coffeyville Fire Home Health Care & In Home low from the Kansas Academy
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health field. She provides primary care to all ages through
the Community Health Center
of Southeast Kansas located
within Four County Mental
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the senior population is encouraged to attend and learn
more about ways that our senior population may be targeted. This presentation will
also be of special interest to
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Luncheon reservations may
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What’s in a name? Local writing
group wants to find out!
Coffeyville Night Writers
will begin the 2016 year with
a meeting at 6 p.m., Tuesday,
Jan. 26 at Sycamore Landing,
701 Lewark. Louise Click will
be the hostess. The assignment is names:
your name, nickname, or one
you have given. Perhaps you
might write about a title or
name from history, a family
name or even the origin of a
name given to a river or mountain. Anything about a name
or names will be accepted.
The
Coffeyville
Night
Wrtiers’ Christmas party at
Sirloin Stockade was attended by 20 people. Among the
guests were Sarah Owen from
the Coffeyville Public Library
who presented material on internet publishing. Coffeyville
Journal editor Rayma Gegg
also attended and recorded the
event with her camera. Max
Pippin sang, “Mary, did you
know?” and Louise Click portrayed the prophetess, Anna,
from the Bible. Others from
Coffeyville Night Writers read
their manuscripts and poems
about Christmas or winter.
Everyone who is interested in writing or just listening
to others share their thoughts
are invited to the January
meeting.
This institution is an equal opportunity provider and employer.
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Where In The World Was the Chronicle in 2015?
Bill and Terri Holeman of Caney are the winners in the Where In The World Is The Chronicle contest for 2015. For having
their name drawn among all of the participants in the 2015 contest, the Holemans will receive a $100 cash prize.
Deborah and Dennis Bayless of Havana on the island of St. Thomas
Deb Woodall-Evensvold of Coffeyville in Hawaii
Decee Joy Villaflore in Singapore
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Debbie and Chris Moore of Independence in Belize
Tim Tucker of Niotaze in Singapore
Kathy and
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Moon Palace
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Mexico
Ray and Janie Stice of Cherryvale in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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INDEPENDENCE
Museum to hold exhibit featuring artwork of Monte Toon
Coffeyville native to
also lead watercolor
workshops in January
BY ANDY TAYLOR
[email protected]
Monte Toon, a professional
watercolorist boasting more
than 43 years of experience,
will display “Moody Hues,” a
solo watercolor exhibit at the
Independence Historical Museum & Art Center from Jan.
5-30.
And, Toon’s exhibit will hit
close to home — literally.
That’s because Toon is a
Montgomery County native (he
was raised in Coffeyville and
graduated from Field Kindley
High School) and uses some of
the landscapes of the region
for his influences. It’ll be easy
to recognize the Montgomery
County vistas in Toon’s watercolor paintings. Old barns nestled next to rustic farm equipment, tall grasses and scrubby
trees are familiar images in
Toon’s works.
“I love old barns because I
love the architecture,” he said.
“The angles of a barn contrast
with the sweeping curvatures
of nature itself.”
Toon is no stranger to Independence. He has judged previous art competitions at the
museum. And, his wife, Linda,
was raised in Independence in
the late 1950s.
“I always enjoy coming back
to Independence and Montgomery County,” said Monte,
while he and Linda were hanging paintings at the museum
on Monday.
Toon cities the influence of
Field Kindley art teacher Mary
Greer for introducing Monte to
the love of art. However, he did
Monte and Linda Toon were at the Independence Historical Museum and Art Center on Monday in preparation for the month-long
exhibit of Monte’s watercolor paintings. The Toons live on Lake Keystone, northwest of Tulsa. (Photo by Andy Taylor)
not have an appreciation for
watercolors until years later
when he was introduced to the
medium at an art show.
Today, watercolors consume Monte’s life and views
of the world. And, his many
years with brush in hand have
now garnered him as a nominee to the prestigious American Watercolor Society (AWS),
which represents less than 10
percent of the professional
watercolor artists in the nation.
Monte and his wife often
travel to the northeastern
United States and Canadian
provinces. Many of Monte’s
watercolor paintings depict
the lighthouses, harbors, boats
and dockside scenery that are
synonymous with the northern
Atlantic provinces and New
England states.
While “in the field” scouting
for painting scenes, he carries a camera that is his tool
for finding the right image. He
reviews those images while in
his studio in Oklahoma and
then begins the process of put-
Chamber of Commerce
banquet set for Jan. 26
The Independence Chamber of Commerce’s
102nd Annual Chamber Meeting and Banquet
will be held at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 26 at the
Independence Civic Center.
Tickets for the banquet went on sale this
week. Tickets are $35 per person. A corporate
table can be purchased for $300 for eight peo-
ple. Corporate tables include reserved seating
and a special gift.
Reservations are due by Tuesday, Jan. 19 by
calling the chamber office at (620) 331-1890 or
email [email protected].
The banquet begins with a silent auction at 6
p.m., followed by a banquet meal at 7 p.m.
ting paint and water onto paper.
He has ventured into some
modern painting techniques,
such as air brushing, and even
dabbles in ancient styles, such
as egg tempera, which was
used by the old masters of the
watercolor genre.
Toon is a graduate of Oklahoma State Technical Training
Center in graphic/commercial
art. He spent 32 years as art
director and graphic designer
for KTUL, an ABC affiliate in
Tulsa, where one of the most
iconic images and slogans of
the Tulsa television market
was developed on his desk.
The “8’s The Place” logo became KTUL’s brand and image
for much of the late 1970s and
1980s — crafted and perfected
under Toon’s brush and under
the influence of promotions director Carl Bartholomew.
“The ‘8’s the Place’ logo
was developed on my desk at
KTUL,” said Toon. “Carl wanted me to create a logo that
could be placed on anything
and everything. And, we did.
It was on bumper stickers, Tshirts, airplanes, billboards
and even in the bottom of a
swimming pool.”
Toon’s works have been
displayed in numerous solo
shows in Kemper Center for
the Arts; The Rockport Center
for the Arts; The Oklahoma
Heritage Museum; Coffeyville
Center for the Arts; the Independence Historical Museum
& Art Center; and the Springfield Regional Arts Center.
Monte Toon’s website is
http://monte-toon.artistwebsites.com.
****
Other aspects of the Toon
exhibit during January:
n As host to Toon’s exhibit,
the Independence Historical
Museum and Art Center (IHMAC) at 123 N. 8th will hold
a reception in Toon’s honor on
Saturday, Jan. 9 at 2 p.m.
n The month-long exhibit
ends on Jan. 30, immediately
after the drawing for Monte’s
original watercolor titled “Independence Riverside Park,” a
fundraiser gift to the museum.
Chances on this painting, valued at $750, are available by
calling the museum at (620)
331-3515.
n Toon will teach a Watercolor Workshop on Jan. 27, 28,
and 29 (Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday) from 9 a.m.
to noon and from 1 p.m. to 4
p.m. The workshop is limited
to 20 participants and the fee
is $150.
Workshop attendees may
order a lunch or bring their
own each day of the workshop.
READ THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY CHRONICLE
IN A WHOLE NEW WAY
Who has the best chili in town?
CMIH contest will make it known
A 2nd Annual Chili Challenge has been announced by
the Community Mission for
Improved Housing Inc, of Independence.
The fundraiser will be from
noon-2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 17,
at the Church of the Brethren
Fellowship Hall, 920 W. Myrtle.
Cooks vying for the claim to
making the “best chili in town”
are asked to bring a crock pot
of their chili plus a list of ingredients so that consumers can avoid food allergies.
CMIH will provide the paper
goods, beverages and crackers. Awards will be presented
to first, second and third-place
winners at 2 p.m.
The other way to support
the fundraiser is to attend the
lunchtime contest and vote.
There is a suggested donation
of $5.
“We are inviting anyone
who wants to make a pot of
chili,” CMIH President Renita
Butler said. “Come compete or
eat.”
Proceeds will benefit the
organization whose mission
is to serve the Independence
area by helping people of low
income, those with disabilities
and the elderly needing repairs to their homes.
“CMIH had a year that exceeded our expectations,” Butler announced. “We completed
11 projects and acted as advocates for homeowners on four
others. Thank you, everyone,
for your encouragement and
support in 2015.”
For more information about
the chili competition, contact
Dana Hart at (620) 332-9589.
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STORAGE CONTAINERS FOR SALE: 20?
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NURSES, CNAs, HOUSEKEEPERS:
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p.m. - 2 miles North of KOAM TV Tower,
then East 2 miles to 85th, then 1/2
North; 146 Acre Farm and home located
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to NE Star Valley Rd. (5473 NE 85th St.,
Weir)
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with this position include maintenance,
repair, and installation of HVAC
systems, electrical, plumbing, carpentry,
and boilers. Requires physical exertion
and applicants must be able to work
indoors & outdoors year-round. A
complete job description is available on
the district website. Applications may
be submitted on line at
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District Office located at
401 S. High School Street,
Altamont, Kansas 67330.
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to end up between $2.25 and
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$2.40 per gallon, Hanni said.
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New members appointed
to county’s planning board
DATEBOOK
THURSDAYJAN.7
provided sponsored by the Kansas Corn Commission.
This school will feature excellent speakers
covering a number of issues facing corn producers. These topics range from production
practices, soil fertility, insect, weed, disease
and risk management strategies. To register for the school, or for more information, contact Jeri Geren, Wildcat Extension
District Crop Production Agent, at jlsigle@ksu.
edu or (620) 331-2690. Participants may also
choose to register online at http://bit.ly/KSCORNSchools.
• The Caney Valley High
School winter sports homecoming coronation will be held
between the varsity girls’ and
varsity boys’ basketball games
at the CVHS Gymnasium.
• The Caney City Library is
open from 12 noon to 6 p.m.
• The Caney City Rec Center
will be open to the public from
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Protecting livestock is key theme at Animal Health Day
open from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• The Cherryvale Christian Church at 319 E. Main in
Cherryvale invites the all men
to the monthly Men’s Breakfast at 7:30 a.m.
• A reception honoring watercolor artist Monte Toon will
be held at 2 p.m. at the Independence Historical Museum
and Art Center, 123 N. 8th.
The reception will coincide
with a month-long solo exhibit
of Toon’s watercolor works at
teh museum.
p.m. at the Klotz Education
Service Center, 615 Ellis, in
Coffeyville.
• The USD 446-Independence Board of Education will
meet at 7 p.m. at the Riley Resource Center at 10th and Oak
streets, Independence.
• The American Red Cross
Blood Drive will be held at
the Cherryvale Presbyterian
Church, 211 S. Montgomery,
from 2:15 p.m. to 6 p.m.
• The USD 436-Caney Valley
Board of Education will hold
its monthly meeting, which
is open to the public, at 6:30
p.m. in the board meeting
room, 700 E. Bullpup Blvd.
• The Caney Pioneers 4-H
Club will hold its monthly
meeting at 7:15 p.m. in the
Trinity Lutheran Church.
• The City of Tyro will hold
its monthly council meeting at
7 p.m. at the Tyro Christian
Church.
• The City of Havana will
hold its monthly council meeting at 7 p.m. in the Havana
City Hall.
• Fawn Creek 4-H Club will
hold its monthly meeting at
the Tyro Christian Church, 7
p.m.
• The Bolton Trailblazers
4-H Club will hold its monthly
meeting at 7 p.m. at the Bolton
Church.
• The Caney Valley Historical Museum is open to the
public 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
is open to the public 9 a.m. to
3 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
• A Corn School sponsored
by the Wildcat Extension District will be held on Monday,
Jan. 11 at the Independence
Civic Center with registration
starting at 8:15 a.m.
• The 30th Annual Animal
Health Day will be held at the
Independence Civic Center
with registration at 5:30 p.m
MONDAYJAN.11
TUESDAYJAN.12
BY ANDY TAYLOR
[email protected]
INDEPENDENCE — Montgomery County commissioners
appointed two new members
and reappointed another to
the Montgomery County Planning and Zoning Commission.
At the county’s commission
weekly meeting, commissioners appointed Ron Davis of
Cherryvale and Terry Downing of Coffeyville to the ninemember planning and zoning
commission and also reappointed Sam Forrer of rural
Independence to the planning
and zoning commission.
The naming of Ron Davis,
Terry Downing and Sam Forrer brings the total number of
planning and zoning commission to eight members. That
leaves one vacancy to the ninemember board. That position
will come from any interested
individual who resides within
the Montgomery County Commission’s First District.
The planning and zoning
commission is responsible for
overseeing and implementing
policies affecting the threemile zoning territory of Independence and Coffeyville as
well as any new subdivision
development in Montgomery
County.
In other business transacted at Monday’s meeting, commissioners:
• appointed former county
commissioner Lee Mattix of
rural Cherryvale to the position of Drum Creek Township
Trustee to fill the vacancy left
with the resignation of David
Wallis.
• sign-off on various property tax abatements totaling
$64,286.04.
• held an executive session,
which is closed to the press
and public, to discuss personnel matters. No action was
taken following the closeddoor discussion.
FARM NEWS
Corn School to be held in Independence on Monday
INDEPENDENCE — A series of corn production schools will be held in three locations
across Kansas to provide in-depth training targeted for corn producers.
These K-State corn schools will be sponsored
primarily by the Kansas Corn Commission and
by several entities with an interest in the corn
industry.
The Southeast Kansas event will be held on
Monday, Jan. 11 at the Independence Civic Center with registration starting at 8:15 a.m. The
presentations will begin at 8:50 and conclude
around 3 p.m., in the afternoon. A lunch will be
INDEPENDENCE — In partnership with Montgomery
county Veterinarians and affiliated beef businesses, K-State
Research and Extension’s
Wildcat District will host the
30th Annual Animal Health
day on Monday, Jan. 11 at the
Independence Civic Center.
This meeting will begin with
registration at 5:30 p.m and
will focus on calving manage-
ment and a veterinarian panel
discussion. There will also be
time to visit with sponsors of
the meeting and register for
door prizes.
Make meal reservations
prior to 4:30 p.m., Friday, Jan.
9 by calling the Wildcat Extension Office at (620) 331-2690.
For more information about
this meeting and/or information about other livestock and
forage topics, call Keith Martin
at (620) 252 5247 or email [email protected].
• MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) will meet from 9
a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Tyro
Christian Church. All mothers
with children, birth to kindergarten age, are invited to attend.
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. to
8 p.m.
• Friends of the Cherryvale
Public Library will meet at
5:30 p.m.at the library, 321 E.
Main. One of the main topics
of discussion will be the Valentine Cookies sale project in
early February.
FRIDAYJAN.8
SATURDAYJAN.9
• Montgomery County Commission will meet at 9 a.m., in
the lower level of the Montgomery County Judicial Center
in Independence.
• USD 445-Coffeyville Board
of Education will meet at 6
The deadline
for placing an
advertisement
or story is 5 p.m.,
Monday
• The Caney Masonic Lodge
#324 will hold a regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. at the lodge
hall.
• Coffeyville City Commission will meet at 6:30 p.m.
at the Senior Citizen Activity
Center.
8 p.m.
• The Grief Support Group
will meet from 6:30 p.m. to
8:30 p.m. at the Community
Access Center, 307 1/2 W. Pecan, Independence. It is free
and is open to anyone. Preregistration is not necessary
and individuals are encouraged to attend at their convenience.
WEDNESDAYJAN.13
• First Presbyterian Church
of Cherryvale will hold its
weekly soup supper at 5:30
p.m. at the church, Fourth and
Montgomery streets.
• The Caney Valley Recreation Board will hold its
monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m.
at the rec center, 403 E. First
Ave.
• The Caney United Methodist Church will host its free
evening meal to the public
from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Meals
are served in the fellowship
hall. This is a come and go
event. A meal can also be delivered by calling 879-2648
between 5-6 p.m. The church
is located at 114 N. High.
6 p.m.
THURSDAYJAN.14
8 p.m.
• Independence Chamber
of Commerce Leadership, session 5 to be held.
• The Caney FFA Booster Club will hold its monthly
meeting at 7 p.m. in the Caney
Valley High School vo-ag room.
FRIDAYJAN.15
• The Montgomery County
Clerk’s office at the courthouse in Independence will
assist residents of the county
starting today with processing
their Homestead Claim and
Property Tax for Low Income
Seniors. The deadline for processing the returns will be
Friday, April 15. See detailed
story found elsewhere in this
issue.
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
SATURDAYJAN.16
How do we know residents like
living at Windsor Place…
They keep coming back.
“I was a little apprehensive the first time I came to Windsor Place. I quickly found
out it was going to be okay. I never dreamed the staff would be so nice to me. I like
everything about Windsor Place. I really like the activities with the kindergarten
kids. The food is good. My favorite is pancakes. I can have them about any time
I want. The staff is great and there’s not a lot of turnover. I want other people to
know there’s no reason to be afraid of the nursing home, especially Windsor Place.
It’s a nice place to live, if you can no longer live at home.”
– Dennis Bellamy
Dennis Bellamy is no stranger to
Windsor Place. His first visit was about
five years ago when he suffered a massive stroke. Even after a long stay in the
hospital, Dennis wasn’t ready to care for
himself and he needed further therapy
to overcome the effects of his stroke. His
son made arrangements for him to come
to Windsor Place.
After many months of tender, loving
care and lots of therapy, Dennis was
eventually able to return to his own
home.
There have been some ups and downs
for Dennis since his stroke. On several
occasions, he has returned to Windsor
Place for further rehabilitation.
If you’re like Dennis and have suffered
from illness, injury or surgery, Windsor Place is prepared to help you make
a full recovery. Our physical, speech
and occupational therapists as well as a
specially trained staff of nurses and aides
are ready to help you get better.
For more information about Windsor
Place, call Karen at (620) 252-4929.
Now Providing Services at Our
Cherryvale Clinic . . .
Scott Fox, APRN-C; Family Medicine
Anne Gordon, APRN-C; Family Medicine
Michael Bolt, MD; General Surgery
Windsor Place
2921 W. 1st • Coffeyville
(620) 251-5190 • www.windsorplace.net
116 N. Maple * (620) 336-3255 * www.labettehealth.com

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