The Concordia Blade

BLADE-EMPIRE
CONCORDIA
VOL. CIX NO. 250 (USPS 127-880)
CONCORDIA, KANSAS 66901
Thursday, May 21, 2015
City receives favorable audit report
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By Jessica LeDuc
Blade Staff Writer
During a routine meeting
Wednesday evening, the Concordia City Commission heard
a favorable report on the 2014
audit.
Neil Phillips of Jarred,
Gilmore & Phillips, PA, presented the audit and said the
city is in compliance with all
Kansas cash basis laws. There
were no audit violations, which
Phillips said was because of
Finance
Director
Amber
Farha’s hard work.
The Commission also agreed
to expand the membership of
the Board of Building Trades.
Building Inspector Bruno
Rehbein said the terms of
Bruce Brown and Randy
Greenwood will expire at the
end of this month. Both had
expressed interest in serving
another three-year term, and
Tim Mehl had also expressed
interest in serving on the
board.
Rehbein said Brown, the
HVAC contractor representative, has been on the board
since its inception. Greenwood,
the plumbing contractor on the
board, has served nine years.
City Manager Larry Uri said
it is rare to have more people
apply than there are open
seats, and staff had considered
just expanding the board’s
membership to allow Mehl to
serve.
“If people want to serve the
city, we don’t want to turn
them away,” said Commissioner L yle Pounds, in voting for
the measure.
The
Commission
also
approved a supplemental
agreement with the Kansas
Department of Transportation
for a mill and overlay project
on Highway 9 from the west
city limits east to Davies
Street, and from State to
Archer.
Public Works Director Ron
Copple said KDOT will reimburse the city for 75-percent of
the costs of construction and
construction engineering, not
to exceed $400,000.
Copple said his plan is to
complete the project in the
spring of 2016, after the Fifth
Street curb, gutter and sidewalk project is completed this
year.
The Commission was presented a certificate that commemorated the Brown Grand
Theatre’s recent award of
excellence from the Kansas
Preservation Alliance.
Earlier this month, representatives from the Theatre
attended the KPA’s awards ceremony to receive the medallion
award for rehabilitation for the
success of the Theatre’s recent
restoration.
The Brown Grand re-opened
last year after being closed
since March 2012 for a structural upgrade of the stage area.
At the request of City Manager Uri, the Commission had
a brief study session to discuss
the funding of USD 333’s
school resource officer.
Uri said he had received a
letter from USD 333 Superintendent Bev Mortimer stating
the school board had taken
action earlier this month to cut
the school resource officer program for the 2015-2016 school
year, due to budget cuts.
“We have enjoyed and benefitted from the partnership
over the years,” Mortimer said
in her letter. “We know the
Senate takes up
plan to
increase taxes
Pool will open
Weather permitting, the swimming pool
in City Park will open for the season on
Memorial Day. The pool is available on
days when temperatures are forecast to be
70 degrees or higher.
Sign up for Junior Golf
Registration forms for the Concordia
Junior Golf program are available at the
Blade-Empire office.
An informational meeting is scheduled
for May 31 at 5 p.m. at the Concordia
American Legion Golf Course.
Junior golf is for boys and girls ages 718.
Across Kansas
Man gets life
in wife’s killing
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Lawrence
man has been sentenced for the second
time to life in prison without parole in the
death of his wife more than 10 years ago.
Martin Miller was sentenced Wednesday
for the strangulation death of 46-year-old
Mary Miller at their home in Lawrence in
2004. He was convicted in 2005 but the
Kansas Supreme Court ruled in 2014 that
he should get a new trial based on an erroneous jury instruction.
Martin was convicted a second time in
April.
The Lawrence Journal-World reports
prosecutors argued that Miller strangled
his wife because he was having an affair
and wanted to collect $300,000 in life
insurance.
The defense contended Mary Miller died
of natural causes. His attorney said he
would file a notice of appeal within 14
days.
Sedgwick County
cancels contract
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Sedgwick
County Commission has voted to cancel
its funding contract with Wichita’s economic development organization.
Local media outlets report the commission voted 3-2 Wednesday to terminate the
agreement with the Greater Wichita Economic Development Coalition, which helps
recruit new businesses and jobs to the
area and helps current companies
expand.
The county and the city were giving
$300,000 a year for five years to the coalition, but the county is canceling that contract effective January 2016.
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presence and the direct
involvement of the SRO in our
buildings has greatly enhanced
the safety of our schools. We
are 110 percent satisfied with
the services we’ve received as
the result of this program.”
Mortimer said the district is
open to exploring other funding options, and willing to support or write grants to bring the
program back.
Police Chief Bruce Johnson
said Doug Thoman, who has
been the SRO, has identified a
grant from the Department of
Justice to potentially fund the
position.
The three-year grant would
pay 75-percent of the officers
salary for the entire year, not
just the school year.
Johnson said the Cloud
County Sheriff’s Department is
also willing to help fund the
position, if the officer would
teach the DARE program in the
Southern Cloud school district.
Uri said staff is in the
process of preparing an application for the grant, and it
would be presented to the
Commission in June.
Chilly ride
Wearing a stocking hat, gloves and a coat, Concordia American Legion Golf Course
greenskeeper Owen Barleen mows on a chilly Thursday morning. (Blade photo by Jay Lowell)
Survey finds U.S. schools
beefed up security measures
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. public
schools beefed up security measures
with safety drills and parent notification systems in the years surrounding
the massacre at Connecticut’s Sandy
Hook Elementary School, according to
a government survey released Thursday.
The uptick came during a four-year
span that saw an overall decrease in
violent crime reported by schools, but
one that included high-profile incidents such as the Newtown, Connecticut, shootings in December 2012 that
left 20 children and six educators
dead.
The findings, from the 2013-14
school year, come from the National
Center for Education Statistics.
The survey found that 88 percent of
public schools had a written plan of
how to respond to an active shooter,
and that 7 out of 10 had drills to practice the plan. About three-quarters of
schools reported using security cameras, and 43 percent said they used
security personnel at least once a
week.
Even before the Newtown killings,
schools had been working more closely
with local law enforcement and ramping up other school security measures,
said Ronald Stephens, executive director of the National School Safety Center.
“I think something like Sandy Hook
certainly punctuates the need to
engage additional security strategies,
but I really see it as an ongoing trend,”
he said.
Stephens said he believes the work
has been a factor in a decrease in overall school crime.
The survey showed 65 percent of
public schools reporting one violent
incident in school, such as a rape,
fight, robbery or threat of physical
attack. That’s down from 74 percent in
the 2009-10 school year, when the survey was last administered.
The findings were based on a survey
sent to school principals. Among the
other results:
• About 8 in 10 schools reported
having a parent notification system
that automatically notifies parents in
case of an emergency, compared with
about 6 in 10 four years earlier.
• Slightly less than half — 47 percent — of schools reported having a
system that allowed someone to report
a crime anonymously, compared with
36 percent four years earlier.
Despite the reported decreases in
violent school crime, Ken Trump, a
school safety consultant, said personnel in the schools he’s visited don’t
have a sense that the number of incidents is going down.
“We’re hearing people saying we’re
having a lot more problems with
aggressive kids and such,” Trump said.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Top Republicans don’t
expect the GOP-dominated Kansas Senate to
pass a budget-balancing plan to increase taxes
before scuttling out of the Statehouse on Thursday for a long holiday weekend.
Senators were taking up a bill to increase the
state’s sales, cigarette and gasoline taxes to help
fill a projected $406 million deficit for the fiscal
year beginning July 1. The sales tax would rise
to 6.5 percent from 6.15 percent, though the
rate on food would drop to 6 percent.
The measure also would suspend an income
tax exemption for more than 330,000 business
owners and farmers for two years, replacing it
with a less lucrative tax credit against businesses’ payrolls. The proposal backtracks on one of
Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s key economic policies, enacted in 2012.
Backtracking on that policy is a key issue,
and the move is opposed by influential business
groups, including the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Business. If lawmakers don’t reverse
course, they’ll have to rely more heavily on other
taxes to raise new revenues.
Senate President Susan Wagle, Majority
Leader Terry Bruce and tax committee Chairman Les Donovan emerged from an hour-long,
Thursday morning meeting with GOP senators
believing that even if the bill is rewritten, nothing would pass. Yet the debate was going forward.
“We may come out of this with a flavor of what
measures are more palatable than others,” said
Wagle, a Wichita Republican.
The state’s budget problems arose after lawmakers heeded Brownback’s call in 2012 and
2013 to cut personal income taxes as an economic stimulus.
Legislators met Thursday for the 95th day of
their annual session, five more than their leaders traditionally schedule, at a total cost of
$43,000 a day.
GOP leaders planned an extended Memorial
Day holiday for both chambers, starting Friday.
They expected to withhold the $218 in daily
salary and expense payments each lawmaker
receives.
Neither chamber has passed a tax plan, and
at the end GOP senators’ meeting Thursday,
Bruce, from Nickerson, said, “I’m just not getting a sense that there is going to be healthy tax
debate overall,” Bruce, from Nickerson, said at
the end of the GOP senators’ meeting.
Donovan, from Wichita, added: “It’s a feeling
I’ve had for many months here.”
The Senate’s debate came a day after Brownback said he prefers not to draw “very clear
lines” for GOP lawmakers on his 2012 policy.
The state Department of Revenue estimates
that the exemption is worth about $220 million
a year, or about 22 percent of the total income
tax cuts for the next fiscal year. Lawmakers also
have cut personal income tax rates, reducing
the top one by 29 percent.
The Senate plan would raise $82 million during the next fiscal year by replacing the business
profits exemption with an income tax credit
equal to 1 percent of a business’ total payroll for
this year and 2 percent for 2016.
OPINION
Washington Merry-Go-Round
by Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift
WASHINGTON – There is
nothing wrong with making
money; most people strive
and often struggle for it. So,
what makes us so uneasy
about the way Bill and Hilary Clinton go about it? At
irst glance, it seems unseemly for a former president and former secretary
of State/frontrunner for
the Democratic presidential
nomination to be so aggressive in their pursuit of the
dollar. But then we remember that former President
Ronald Reagan and former
Secretary of State Colin
Powell both made a great
deal of money from their
books and speaking engagements, as have many other
former top political leaders.
So, how are the Clintons
any different?
It turns on the motivations of the people and organizations paying the fees.
Neither Reagan nor Powell
had any further aspirations
for high ofice once they left
their high ofices. However,
there were concerns about
Reagan’s acceptance of $2
million in exchange for two
speeches in Japan soon after he left ofice. There have
been no such concerns
about Powell.
What raises eyebrows
about the Clintons are that
so many wealthy individuals
and companies are willing to
pay them such high fees. Is
it because (a) the moneyed
interests are altruistic or (b)
they expect something in return? If it is the latter, are
these fees buying inluence,
actual or anticipated? Are
they simply thinly disguised
campaign contributions?
Whatever they are, it is
clearly trading on a past and
possibly future presidency.
This is a modern phenomenon. Presidents have
written memoirs, but no expresident has turned the expresidency into a perpetual
money machine, and that
is unseemly, but only ille-
gal if a quid pro quo can be
proven.
Historically, the public
would have been repelled by
such behavior, but the public is now repelled by politics
and politicians in general,
both of which are at all-time
lows in public-opinion surveys. And once the public
determines – as apparently
it has – that the whole ield
is lawed, the Clinton’s monetary machinations seem to
be of little consequence.
However,
pendulums
swing, and when the public
has inally had enough, the
condemnations could come
with unexpected speed,
turning today’s political celebrities into tomorrow’s
political outcasts. This has
happened before, during the
age of political machines.
The machine bosses were
all-powerful,
inluencing
and controlling votes, appointments, and pork. But
their day of reckoning came,
and their falls from grace
followed.
Harry Truman owed
his political career to Tom
Pendergast, the boss of
the Kansas City Machine,
but Truman went on to the
presidency while Pendergast went to jail, and when
Boss Pendergast died, President Truman went to his
funeral. Truman, who was
never found to have been
other than honest, knew
what he owed to a man who
had been otherwise, and the
public was not amused. As
such, Truman became the
link with the discredited
machine politics of the past
with the new political morality of the future.
Will such a public awakening inally put an end to
the unseemly proiteering of
the presidency? Probably.
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DEA cracks down on illegal sale of prescription drugs
of it,” U.S. Attorney Chris
Thyer said. He said the state
has 146 million hydrocodone
pills distributed annually.
In Little Rock, agents
raided the KJ Medical Center within sight of the DEA’s
local ofice, detaining seven
people, and also swept into
the Bowman Curve Pharmacy a mile away, where one
woman was brought out in
handcuffs.
Thyer said at a news conference that customers at the
KJ clinic were told in November to take their prescriptions to Bowman Curve after a major chain pharmacy
raised questions.
He said that, of the 1,484
prescriptions illed at Bowman Curve Pharmacy between December and March,
only six were not sent from
the KJ clinic.
Agents also said that, during Wednesday’s raid, oficers seized four loaded guns
and a money counter from
the KJ clinic.
The KJ Medical Center
was often protected by a security guard while another
employee was often stationed
outside to direct trafic when
patients started showing up
around 6:45 each morning.
Agents arrested one uniformed guard and another
man identiied as security
personnel, two nurses, a doctor, a man identiied as the
ofice manager and a man
accused of recruiting homeless people and others to obtain unneeded prescriptions.
Reporters asked the doctor if he was selling pills illegally. He responded, “No,” as
he was led away in handcuffs
and placed in a prisoner van.
A DEA oficial had told The
Associated Press on Tuesday
that, in Mobile, Alabama,
agents targeted two doctors
accused of running multiple
pain clinics.
Thyer said about 130 previous Arkansas arrests were
linked to the operation, including one Monday by Lonoke County oficials. Police
began investigating a Little
Rock doctor after a patient’s
death was blamed on a prescription drug overdose. He
was arrested Monday and
charged with 187 counts of
fraudulent practices.
The list also includes a
2014 raid on an oxycodone
distribution ring that netted
33 indictments.
At a Montgomery, Alabama, press conference,
Gov. Robert Bentley, a dermatologist, held up a copy of
the license that allows him to
prescribe painkillers to patients.
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He said that while drugs
can help patients, doctors
who overprescribe them to
aid abusers “change from being a physician to really being a drug dealer.”
“These physicians are an
embarrassment to the medical profession,” Bentley said.
Prosecutors said four of
the nine people arrested in
Alabama on Wednesday were
doctors, as were two in Louisiana.
DEA oficials said 40 doctors, pharmacies and others have surrendered their
DEA registration numbers as
part of the crackdown, and
two immediate suspension
orders were issued. A registration number is required
to prescribe certain medications.
Those arrested Wednesday face a variety of state
and federal criminal charges, including distribution of
a controlled substance and
conspiracy to distribute a
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP)
– Authorities raided medical
clinics, pharmacies and other locations across the South
on Wednesday as part of a
Drug Enforcement Administration attempt to thwart illegal prescription drug sales.
The raids in Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi were the latest stage
of an operation launched last
summer by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s
drug diversion unit, which
has now netted 280 arrests
over more than a year, including 22 doctors and pharmacists.
“We have people who have
taken an oath to do no harm
who are throwing that oath
out the window,” DEA Special Agent in Charge Keith
Brown said after the early
morning raids.
The DEA’s “Operation Pilluted” had focused on the illegal distribution of oxycodone, hydrocodone and Xanax
by medical professionals,
and does not target addicts.
Agents arrested 48 people
Wednesday: 22 in Louisiana,
nine each in Alabama and
Arkansas and eight in Mississippi.
Since January 2014, half
of the overall arrests have
occurred in Arkansas. It and
the other three states involved in Wednesday’s raids
each ranked among the top
11 states for hydrocodone
prescriptions in 2014, according to DEA data.
“Arkansas is unfortunately not only not immune from
this epidemic, but in some
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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stas
By Jacqueline Bigar
Cloud County students
Annie’s
earn degrees from CCCC
Mailbox
by Kathy Mitchell and
Marcy Sugar
Dear Annie: I am 17 years
old and still in high school.
I recently became "Jake's"
girlfriend. We've been dating
for about a week.
I've known Jake as a
friend for a year, and we
hang out with the same
group. I never had feelings
for him until I learned that
he liked me, and even then,
my friends kind of pushed
me into the relationship.
His
last
relationship
didn't last long, partly because he and the girl had sex
right away. When Jake and
I started dating, I told him
I am a religious girl and am
not going to do sexual things
with him. Well, we went to
prom together and back to
his house afterward, where
we were alone. He started to
put his hand up the back of
my dress. I didn't object because he was mostly stroking my back.
The next day, we went to
his house to watch a movie,
and he started jumping all
over me. It made me uncomfortable, but I'm not good
at communicating that, so
I didn't say anything. I just
didn't respond. Jake is also
a sloppy kisser, and I'm not
sure I can tolerate that.
Today I realized that I
have feelings for another
guy, and now I don't know
whether I like him more than
Jake. But if I break up with
Jake, I will be booted out
of our group, and I have no
other friends.
I don't know what to do. I
feel that Jake is pressuring
me a little about sex, even
though he hasn't actually
demanded anything. Should
I stay with him and see
where it goes? Should I wait
until summer to end it so
that the group will have time
to adjust without making
things super-awkward? Or
should I just end things now
and face losing my friends?
— Confused Girlfriend
Dear Confused: You already know that you need to
break up with Jake because
you don't actually like him
and you feel pressured.
We'd do it now, but if you
would feel more comfortable
waiting until school is out,
that's OK, too. You and Jake
might be able to drift apart
more naturally then. You
might also conide in one of
your friends that you and
Jake don't seem to be hitting
it off as well as you thought.
If your friends drop you over
this, they aren't truly friends.
Real friends have your back.
Dear Annie: My girlfriend
and I were planning to go
away together for a weekend
next month while her daughter was staying with the ex.
But the ex decided at the last
minute to take his own vacation, so we have to bring her
along or cancel.
If we cancel the reservation on the hotel room, we
lose the deposit, and upgrading to two rooms isn't possible. Is it acceptable for us to
sleep in the same bed while
her daughter is sleeping on
a cot, or should we use separate beds? Or should I try to
get a room for myself elsewhere? — N.Y.
Dear N.Y.: How old is the
girl? How long have you and
Mom been together? If you
and Mom are in a committed
relationship, the girl knows
you well and she is under
the age of 6, you may share a
room. Mom and the daughter should take the bed. You
get the cot. Otherwise, yes,
please try to ind another
room for yourself. And thank
you for caring enough to do
the right thing.
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Spring graduates of Cloud
County Community College
from Cloud County who received their degrees May 15
at Arley Bryant Gymnasium
in Concordia were:
Caitlin
Charbonneau,
Clyde, Andy Colby, Amy
Stalnaker, Alexis Logan,
Concordia, AA in Psychology;
Zui Huang, Clyde, Jaleesa
Shamburg, Jessica Bechard,
Anelise Hardacre, Lacy Jensen, Concordia, AAS in Nursing; Amanda Terrill, Ethan
Evert, Latijah Tate, MaKayla
Nelson, Stormie Hittle, Concordia, AS in Business; Joy
Bliss, Trey’Meka Dyke, Kyle
Baglo, Amanda Wolf, Isaiah
Hicks, Concordia, Joshua
Rhodes, Jamestown, AGS
in General Studies; Nikke
Krager, Connor Lamm, Richard Thomas, Concordia, AA
in General Studies; Olivia
Leif, Ashley Adams, Rachel
Blochlinger, Jane Ohanta,
Concordia, AS in Pre-Nursing BSN; Codi Womochil,
Josiah Gilliland, Concordia,
AAS in Wind Energy Technology;
Jordan
Pounds,
Concordia, AS in Athletic
Training; Kaitlyn Buckland,
Page Reed, Saul Gutierrez,
Libby Lord, Concordia, AS in
General Studies; Trevor Nor-
dell, Bryce McMullen, Hannah Wolzen, Concordia, AS
in Physical Therapy; Amanda Lawrence, Emily Brown,
Jordynn Gumm, Anthony
Dunlap, Concordia, AS in
Elementary Education; Kylie Trobee, Concordia, AS
in Sports Nutrition; Daniel
Sanchez, Concordia, AS in
Sports Management; Madison Brockman, Concordia,
AAS in Bus. Adm. and Gen.
Mgmt.; Madeline Hoard, Tai
Nittler, Concordia, AS in Sociology/Pre-Social
Work/
Counseling. Danielle Seifert,
Concordia, AS in Pharmacy.
Cloud County Community College offers a wide
variety of courses toward
completion of transfer and
career degrees in four areas:
Associate of Arts, Associate
of Science, Associate of Applied Science and Associate
of General Studies.
CCCC is one of 26 public two-year community and
technical colleges in Kansas
and is coordinated by the
Kansas Board of Regents.
CCCC’s service area encompasses a 12-county area
primarily in north central
Kansas with its two physical
campuses in Concordia and
Junction City.
Hints from Heloise
BY HELOISE
HOLD THE PAPER
Dear Heloise: If you are
going to stop your newspapers and mail for a vacation,
use the “stop date” as the
day BEFORE you leave. That
way, you can be sure the stop
order went through. I can’t
tell you how many times the
stops did NOT occur on the
day I had selected.
Love your column. I read
it in the Orange County (Calif.) Register. This is the sec-
ond hint I have sent to you.
The irst was published years
ago! -- Gayle P., via email
Gayle, thanks for the good
advice and for being a longtime reader. If possible, ask
a neighbor or friend to drive
by your home while you are
gone and pick up any papers
or liers that are in the driveway. A few days of piled-up
newspapers in a driveway is
a clear indication to burglars
that no one is home. -- Hugs,
Heloise
Kopsa retires from KDOT
The Kansas Department
of Transportation is announcing the retirement of
David Kopsa after 31 years
of service to the state and
his community
Kopsa was hired Feb. 13,
1984, in Great Bend as an
E.O. 1 (Equipment Operator
1). In 1989 he transferred
to El Dorado and was promoted to an E.O. 3. In 1992
Kopsa was again promoted
to Sub-area Supervisor and
relocated to Concordia.
His retirement from
KDOT will take place June
8, 2015.
Student
luminaries
NEW
ORLEANS—Devin
Lowell, son of Jim and Lori
Lowell, Concordia, graduated cum laude from Tulane University School of
Law, May 16. Lowell, a 2006
graduate of Concordia High
School, received a certiicate
in environmental law.
HAYS—Ryan
Steinert,
son of Kevin and Susan
Steinert, Concordia, received
his Bachelor of Science in
Chemistry from Fort Hays
State University at graduation ceremonies held May 16
in Gross Memorial Coliseum. Steinert is the grandson
of Wayne and Nonnie Steinert, Concordia, and Eunice
Prediger, Dorrance.
Senior Citizens Menu
Essay writers
These fourth graders read their “My Favorite Older Person” essays to Sunset Home residents
May 13. Back row (l-r): Georgia Trost, Cianna DeLeon, Jaida Koch, Cami Anderson, Peyton
Johnson, Makinzie Dvorak, Caitlyn Cyre, Michael Ashland, Kaliegh Brown, Shaelin Giersch,
Hanna Acree; front row: Madison Strecker, Alec Francis, Christian Widen, Jaxon Brooks, Reece
Knox, Paige Zadina, Belle Chavey, Rebekah Brown, Sarah Blochlinger.
CES fourth graders write
about favorite older person
Friday, May 22—Turkey
salad, macaroni salad, tomatoes, crushed pineapple;
10 a.m.—Exercise; progressive cards.
Fourth graders at ConCall 243-1872, Teddy
Lineberry, for reservations cordia Elementary School
write essays about their
or questions.
favorite older person each
year. This writing activBlade-Empire 243- 2424
ity is in conjunction with
[email protected]
National Nursing Home
Week.
Sunset Home residents
chose four students from
each fourth grade classroom to read their essays
at Sunset Home. These
students read to the resi-
dents on May 13 to help
celebrate the special week.
CES principal Krystal
Breese said the residents
of Sunset Home enjoy
reading all the essays from
the fourth graders.
A baby born today has a
Sun in Taurus and a Moon
in Cancer if born before 1:45
a.m. (PDT). Afterward, the
Sun will be in Gemini.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for
Thursday, May 21, 2015:
This year your sensibilities seem to soar. You also
view situations from many
different perspectives. Emotionally, you often will ind
yourself on a roller-coaster
ride. Incorporating all the information you receive could
be challenging at times. If
you are single, you might
already have encountered
an important person to your
life’s history earlier this year.
If not, remain open-minded.
If you are attached, remember that your relationship is
a two-way street. CANCER
can cause inancial swings if
you go along with his or her
ideas.
The Stars Show the Kind
of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Dificult
ARIES (March 21-April
19)
* * * * Hang in there, and
you will be able to clear up
a problem that involves your
domestic life. Your ability to
get to the bottom of a problem will emerge. You’ll make
peace at the end of it all. A
close friend appreciates you
and lets you know. Tonight:
You are full of surprises.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
* * * * * Your ability to
draw someone out will be
enhanced. You will want to
weigh the pros and cons of a
inancial matter before making a decision. A discussion
could be divisive. As a result,
you are likely to encounter a
major roadblock. Tonight: In
the moment.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
* * * * * You see the importance of harnessing a vision.
A partner might see the matter differently. Friends add
an unpredictable element to
your day. Speak your mind,
and listen to a suggestion.
Don’t forget to buy a card for
someone special. Tonight:
Just be yourself.
CANCER (June 21-July
22)
* * * * Listen to news more
openly than you have as of
late. Even though you might
not like what you hear, you
could discover that someone
reveals useful information.
Avoid a controlling person;
don’t get tangled up in his or
her web. Tonight: Take some
much-needed private time.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
* * * * * Zero in on what
is important to you. You
will need to play it low-key
and have an important discussion that you have been
avoiding. A power play could
complicate a decision. Detach a bit before thinking
this matter through. Tonight:
Catch some zzz’s.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
* * * * If you don’t want to
accept more responsibility,
say “no.” Don’t worry so much
about others’ reactions; you
need to feel comfortable. Intensity surrounds a child or
new friend. Be careful before
diving in and affecting this
person’s decision. Tonight:
Make weekend plans.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
* * * You might be more
emotional about a personal
matter than you realize. You
could have dificulty sorting
through your feelings and
your options. You are in a
period of uncertainty. You
should consider breaking out
of a rigid mindset. Tonight:
Out till the wee hours.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.
21)
* * * * Read between the
lines with a situation that
affects a loved one. A power
play will backire if you refuse
to play. Go with the moment,
even if it makes hash out of
your schedule. Express your
caring on a deeper level. Tonight: Relax to a great piece
of music.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21)
* * * * You could regret a
decision you make today. If
possible, sit on it a little longer and decide what is possible. Others will be testy, and
they suddenly might balk
at what they previously had
thought was OK. Use care
with your inances; a mistake
could be costly. Tonight: Say
“yes.”
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19)
* * * * You could be in a
position where you must take
a stand with a loved one who
seems to be driving a hard
bargain. You are able to see
the big picture, while others
cannot. Think carefully before taking a stand. Tonight:
You are on top of a problem,
even if you don’t realize it.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18)
* * * Dive into a project
that might prevent you from
getting into weekend mode.
This project might require a
inancial and emotional investment in order to be completed. Ask for feedback from
a friend who understands
what is occurring. Tonight:
Out late.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20)
* * * * Your creativity will
come out when dealing with
various situations, and it will
allow you to communicate
your caring. A inancial issue
could arise that might need
more than a little imagination to be handled effectively.
Tonight: Tap into your inner
child.
BORN TODAY
Actor Mr. T (1952), comedian
Noel
Fielding
(1973), singer/songwriter
Leo Sayer (1948)
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Sports
Guthrie throws six scoreless; Royals top Reds, 7-1
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)
— The Kansas City Royals
are off to the best start in
franchise history.
Jeremy Guthrie pitched
six shutout innings and
the Royals beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-1 on Wednesday night.
The Royals, who won for
the fifth time in six games,
improved to 26-14, the
franchise’s best record
after 40 games.
“It’s surprising,” Guthrie
said. “All the great teams
they had here in the ‘70s
and ‘80s to not have a
faster start than that. It
speaks highly of this
team.”
The Royals made the
playoffs last year for the
first time since 1985, but
lost to the San Francisco
Giants in Game 7 of the
World Series.
“You could tell in spring
training everyone was
locked in to get back,” said
Eric Hosmer, who doubled
and scored a run. “We’re a
team on a mission. We’re
trying to get back to what
we fell short of last year.
This is a great start for us.”
The Royals continue to
build off last season, when
they won 100 games,
including 11 postseason
victories.
“There is a real strong
feeling when they walk
through those clubhouse
doors, they are going to win
the baseball game that
day,” Royals manager Ned
Yost said. “It’s a great feeling to have.”
The Royals tied a club
record with 24 consecutive
scoreless innings, which
was set June 9-12, 1976.
That streak ended in the
seventh when Brandon
Phillips’ two-out double off
reliever
Ryan
Madson
scored Zack Cozart.
The Reds lost their fifth
straight, a season high.
Guthrie (4-2) pitched
out of a bases-loaded, oneout predicament in the first
inning and won his third
straight start. He gave up
five hits, walked two and
struck out three. Guthrie
retired 13 on fly balls and
two on grounders.
Reds right-hander Jason
Marquis (3-4) was pulled
after 3 2-3 innings, yielding four runs, four hits,
two sacrifice flies, two
walks and a wild pitch. In
losing his past three starts,
Marquis has surrendered
21 hits and 15 runs in 12
1-3 innings for a 15.33
ERA.
Will Marquis remain in
the rotation?
“That’s a tough question
when you’re struggling,”
Reds manager Bryan Price
said. “That’s a tough question when you’ve lost five
games in a row and there
have been some really poor
performances in those
losses.”
Mike Moustakas, who
hit .212 last season, had
three hits for his 16th
multi-hit game to raise his
average to .342.
Kendrys Morales and
Alex Gordon drove in two
runs each. Morales’ 32
RBIs ranks second in the
American League.
Phillips had three of the
Reds’ nine hits.
“I can see why the Royals made it to the World
Series last year,” Phillips
said. “I give credit where
it’s due and I feel like that’s
the best team we’ve played.
We’ve played the Cardinals
and they’re a good team,
but the Royals are the best
team we’ve played.”
GORDON’S CATCH
Gold Glove LF Alex Gordon crashed face first into
the Royals’ bullpen fence to
catch
Todd
Frazier’s
scorcher to end the fifth.
Gordon said his son imitates his fearless catches
at home. “He says, ‘Hey,
here goes Alex Gordon,’
runs into the wall and falls
down,” Gordon said. “He’s
probably going to do it
tomorrow when I see him.
It’s pretty funny. He does it
just like Daddy. He runs
into the wall and lays there
for about 10 seconds. He’s
got it down.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Reds: LHP Manny Parra
(strained neck), who struck
out the side in his only
inning Tuesday, will continue his minor league
rehab
with
Triple-A
Louisville with another
inning on Friday. ... LHP
Sean Marshall, who has
not pitched this season,
had season-ending shoulder surgery Wednesday.
Royals: Backup C Erik
Kratz (torn left planter
fasciitis) will report Thursday to Triple-Omaha for a
minor league rehab. ... LHP
Jason Vargas (flexor strain)
will throw a simulated
game Friday.
UP NEXT
Reds: RHP Mike Leake,
who starts the series opener Friday at Cleveland,
gave up a career-high nine
runs and three homers in
five innings in his previous
start, Saturday at San
Francisco.
Royals:
RHP
Chris
Young has never beaten
the Cardinals, his Friday
opponent. He is 0-3 with a
3.65 ERA in five career
starts against St. Louis.
Smith, James lead Cavs past Hawks Goodell wants to
hear from Brady
ATLANTA (AP) — J.R.
Smith knocked down a
tough 3-pointer, then another. Turning toward the fans,
their heckling transformed to
groans, he blew off his right
index finger and motioned
toward his side, like he was
holstering his pistol.
Yep, Smith was that hot.
While LeBron James led
Cleveland with 31 points, it
was Smith who ignited the
Cavaliers in Game 1 of the
Eastern Conference finals.
He made eight 3-pointers
and scored 28 points in a 9789 victory over the top-seeded Atlanta Hawks on
Wednesday night.
“When he gets hot,” Cleveland coach David Blatt marveled, “he gets smoking hot.”
Intent on bringing Cleveland its first NBA title, James
sealed the victory with a
soaring dunk in the final
minute.
For the Hawks, it was the
second straight series in
which they’ve lost the opening game at home. Cleveland
will look to take command of
the series in Game 2 Friday
night.
Making matters worse for
Atlanta, DeMarre Carroll
went down with a knee
injury driving to the basket
with 4:59 remaining. He was
helped to the locker room,
not putting any weight on his
left leg, and will undergo an
MRI on Thursday to determine the seriousness.
Besides being the main
defender on James, Carroll
had been the Hawks’ leading
scorer in the playoffs. He was
averaging more than 17
points coming into Atlanta’s
first conference final.
“DeMarre is a complete
player,” Hawks coach Mike
Budenholzer said. “He has a
big impact at both ends of
the court.”
Jeff Teague led Atlanta
with 27 points. But Atlanta
didn’t produce its usual balanced scoring, as two
starters — Kyle Korver and
Carroll — failed to reach double figures.
With Smith doing most of
the damage, Cleveland
outscored the Hawks 22-4
over the final 5 minutes of
the third quarter and the first
2 minutes of the fourth. During that span, he made five
3-pointers and another
jumper from just inside the
arc, as well as throwing up a
lob that Tristan Thompson
dunked.
Smith has been a huge
addition for the Cavaliers
since he was acquired in
January as part of a threeteam trade with New York
and Oklahoma City. A player
once known for his selfishness, he had learned to work
with within the confines of a
team led by James.
When the Cavaliers really
needed Smith in Game 1, he
seemed to make every shot.
“Once I start shooting,”
Smith said, “everybody keeps
telling me to keep shooting.”
Cleveland scored the first
11 points of the final period
— all but two on 3s by Smith
— for its biggest lead, 85-67.
Carroll’s injury silenced
the raucous crowd and
would be a tough blow for the
Hawks to overcome. While he
was being taken off, James
came over to say a few words
and pat the injured player on
the head.
“We’re all a brotherhood,”
James said. “You don’t want
anybody to get hurt like
that.”
Even without Carroll,
Atlanta closed to 91-87 with
about a minute remaining.
But James got loose from
Paul Millsap out near the
arc, took off down the lane
uncontested and slammed
home a dunk that finished
off the Hawks.
Having made their deepest run in the playoffs since
1970, the Hawks carried that
momentum to a nine-point
lead in the opening quarter.
Atlanta shot 61 percent and
James went to the bench
with about 3 minutes
remaining in the period after
picking up his second foul.
Cleveland’s dominance on
the boards kept Atlanta from
pulling away. Cleveland outrebounded the Hawks 15-6
over the first 12 minutes,
actually yanking down more
offensive rebounds (seven)
than Atlanta’s total output.
James returned in the
second quarter and began to
take control of the Cleveland
offense. He scored 14 points
in the period on 7-of-9 shooting, taking advantage when
the Hawks tried to bait him
into a third foul by guarding
him with smaller players.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
NFL Commissioner Roger
Goodell said Wednesday it’s
his responsibility to hear
directly from New England
quarterback Tom Brady in his
appeal of his four-game suspension in the deflated footballs case.
Goodell said he has not
had time to study a request
from the players’ union that
he recuse himself from the
appeal because he has been
focused on the spring owners
meetings that concluded
Wednesday.
He said he would study the
request when he returned to
New York but added that
unless there is a factor that he
is unaware of he will likely
hear the case.
“It’s my job here to make
sure we’re doing everything to
protect the integrity of the
game, protect our policies,
protect our procedures,”
Goodell said. “We have a
process that has been negotiated with the union that has
been in place for decades. It’s
my responsibility and it’s
something that we’ve had in
place for a long time.”
Goodell said no date has
been set for the appeal.
The CBA reached in 2011
to end the lockout gave Goodell the right to hear the
appeal; only the commissioner can punish players for conduct detrimental to the
league. But the NFL Players
Association claims if he delegates his authority to discipline players, it’s invalid, and
if he handles it himself, he is
no longer impartial.
When NFL executive vice
president Troy Vincent suspended Brady for the first four
games of the 2015 season, he
cited Brady’s lack of cooperation in refusing to turn over
his cellphone records as one
of the reasons for the hefty
punishment.
Goodell said he is open to
seeing those records during
the appeal and that could
play a role in a possible reduction of the suspension for
Brady’s role in the use of
underinflated footballs in the
AFC championship game
against the Indianapolis
Colts.
Astros win eighth straight, 6-1
HOUSTON (AP) — Evan
Gattis hit a two-run homer to
help Dallas Keuchel earn his
eighth straight win, and the
Houston Astros kept rolling
with a 6-1 victory over the
Oakland Athletics on Wednesday.
The Astros improved to an
American League-best 27-14,
giving them the best start
through 41 games in franchise history. Sitting atop the
AL West, this is the latest the
Astros have led their division
since May 22, 2004.
Keuchel (6-0) allowed six
hits and no earned runs in
seven innings to lower his
ERA to 1.67. He’s won eight
straight decisions dating back
to last year, which is the
longest streak by a starter in
the majors. And his 6-0 mark
this year is the best by an
Astro since Roger Clemens
opened the 2004 season at 90.
Nationals 3, Yankees 2
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Cleanup hitter Bryce Harper
and manager Matt Williams
were both ejected in the third
inning, but Washington came
back to beat New York on
Denard Span’s tiebreaking
RBI single in the seventh.
Harper, the NL Player of the
Week twice in a row, entered
with 10 homers in his previous 12 games.
In his second at-bat, he got
into an argument with plate
umpire Marvin Hudson after a
first-pitch strike call and was
tossed. Williams then came
out of the dugout to move
Harper out of the way and get
in Hudson’s face, leading to
the second ejection.
After getting kicked out,
Williams went over and kicked
dirt on home plate —with one
swipe by each foot.
Span
drove
in
an
unearned, go-ahead run with
a bases-loaded single off
reliever Justin Wilson.
Giants 4, Dodgers 0
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
Buster Posey hit a two-run
homer in the seventh inning
through a thick mist hovering
above the field, Tim Lincecum
won his third straight decision
and San Francisco beat Los
Angeles for its fifth straight
victory.
Brandon Crawford had an
RBI single among his three
hits and Angel Pagan backed
Lincecum with his glove by
stealing an extra-base hit
from Yasmani Grandal with a
great catch at the wall in center field in the seventh. San
Francisco matched its season-high winning streak and
pulled within 2 1/2 games of
NL West-leading Los Angeles.
Lincecum (4-2) won a
fourth straight home start for
the first time since July 4-Aug.
1, 2009. He struck out four
over seven innings to pass
Hall of Famer Carl Hubbell for
fourth place on the franchise
all-time list with 1,680 Ks.
Indians 4, White Sox 3
CHICAGO (AP) — Shaun
Marcum won his first start in
almost two years, Michael
Brantley had a two-run double in the seventh inning, and
Cleveland beat Chicago.
Recalled earlier Wednesday
from Triple-A Columbus,
Marcum went 6 2-3 innings
and gave up two runs and
four hits and struck out six for
the Indians, who have won
four of six.
Jose Ramirez had two hits
and two runs and reached
base four times in a game that
began after a 31-minute rain
delay.
Marcum (1-0) hadn’t started a game in the major
leagues since July 6, 2013, for
the New York Mets. He was
later diagnosed with thoracic
outlet syndrome, which
involves nerves near the neck
and caused tingling and
numbness in Marcum’s right
hand, eventually leading to
shoulder surgery.
He’s made one appearance
in relief this season, throwing
five innings and allowing one
run against Detroit on April
12.
Cardinals 9, Mets 0
NEW YORK (AP) — Matt
Adams hit a long three-run
homer, Jason Heyward also
connected and St. Louis
enjoyed a second consecutive
offensive outburst, roughing
up Bartolo Colon in a rout of
New York.
Matt Holliday and Kolten
Wong both had three hits to
back Carlos Martinez (4-2),
who pitched 6 1-3 innings of
four-hit ball in ending his twogame skid. Following a 10-2
victory Tuesday night, the
Cardinals improved the best
record in the majors to 27-13.
Jace Coppoc
Jace Coppoc, a senior on the Concordia High School
track team, picked up three gold medals at the NCKL track
meet here last Friday. Coppoc won the 200 and 400, and
was on the winning 4x400 team.
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Bike race canceled Today in History
after shooting death
DENVER (AP) – The shooting death of a bicyclist considered the unoficial mayor
of a normally quiet Colorado town has led organizers
to cancel a popular annual
race, while a lack of details
in the case fuels speculation
that Windsor’s irst homicide
in eight years is linked to a
nearby highway shooting.
John Jacoby’s body was
found Monday along a rural
road in the town of about
19,000, southeast of Fort
Collins. The 48-year-old was
a part-time parks worker and
friendly grocery store bagger
who walked or rode his bike
everywhere.
His brother, a ire department EMT, was among those
who responded to what authorities initially thought
was a fatal hit-and-run. Police later disclosed Jacoby
was shot twice, but they
have not said where he was
shot or what type of gun was
used.
Investigators said this
week they’re looking at
all possibilities, including
whether the killing involved
road rage or if it was connected to the April 22 shooting of Cori Romero about 5
miles away on Interstate 25.
Romero was shot in the
neck while driving but managed to pull over and call for
help.
On
Wednesday,
town
spokeswoman Kelly Unger
said only that the investigation is ongoing and there
was no new information to
release.
The FBI has been assisting but referred questions to
police.
Meanwhile, a string of unsolved cases of broken vehicle windows reported by
drivers since the I-25 shooting has added to residents’
concerns.
Investigators have so far
no found no evidence of gunshots in those cases. They’ve
been checking with insurance companies and repair
shops to ind out whether
something unusual is going
on, and have been getting
conlicting information, Larimer County sheriff’s spokesman David Moore said.
Last
week,
Shonna
Kempter reported damage to
one of her SUV windows after dropping off her child at
a Fort Collins high school,
about 20 miles from the latest shooting. But city police
Sgt. Dean Cunningham said
it appeared to be the result of
a stress fracture.
Kempter said part of what
concerns her is not knowing
what happened to her car or
who is behind the shootings
or broken windows.
“It doesn’t feel like as safe
a community as it did a few
years ago. I know it’s part of
growth,” she said. Kempter,
a marathon runner, added
she has restricted her runs
and those of her 14-year-old
cross-country athlete daughter to their neighborhood
and off main roads.
The organizer of the Pelican Fest Triathlon, Dennis
Vanderheiden, who regularly
bikes and runs in Fort Collins, said he is not changing
his schedule.
“People enjoy the outdoors
here,” he said. “That’s kind
of what drew us to the area.”
Vanderheiden said he
called off Saturday’s race in
Windsor because of safety
concerns and to ensure police can concentrate on the
investigation.
A friend of Jacoby’s had
planned to compete. But
Vanderheiden assured him
that Jacoby, a huge booster
of high school sports who
would have been cheering on
competitors, will be honored
in another race.
“I’ve had a lot of support
for my decision, and I appreciate that,” Vanderheiden
said, adding it was unlikely
he would reschedule the
event this year.
The annual Ride of Silence, a worldwide event to
honor those who have been
killed or injured while cycling, went on as planned
in northern Colorado on
Wednesday evening. About
100 people with black arm
bands over their neon cycling jackets rode for an
hour through Fort Collins –
the clatter of gears and the
clip of shoes the only sounds
during the 8-mile route.
50 years ago
May 21, 1965—Concordia’s 1965 population had
reached an all-time high of
7,529, according to complete enumeration igures
which had been tabulated
at the ofice of Betty Powell,
county clerk. . . . Graduates
of Jamestown High School
were Terry Collins, Annaruth Jensen, John Rhodes,
Tom Petersen, Janice Collins, Brenda Peterson, Carol
Chitty, Karol Heaton, Gloria Beaushaw, Paul Turner,
Gerald Yoder and Nancy
Swearingen.
25 years ago
May 21, 1990—Concordia High School shot
putter Jennifer Burchiel
was named the winner of
the Outstanding Senior
Girl Track Athlete Award.
. . . Concordia High School
track and ield team members headed for the Class 4A
State Meet in Wichita were
Shannon Wright, Tim Pentico, John Grant, Brandon
Ruud, Aaron Larsen, Kyle
Adams, Jennifer Strait, Jennifer Burchiel, Tina Haist
and Randy LeDuc.
10 years ago
May 21, 2005—Concordia city commission rejected
a $1 bid for the Concordia
Lumber Co. ofice building
from Arlene Clayton. Clayton, speaking during public
comments, said she had intended to convert the building into a historic country
store but in talking to City
Attorney Larry Uri before
the meeting, she found
out she would be required
to put down an additional
$10,000. . . . Buffalo Valley FCE unit received the
Gold Standard of Excellence
Award at the FCE Area Recognition Day in Jewell. Ac-
5 years ago
May 21, 2010—Members of the Hollis Hustlers
4-H Club who took an educational trip to Pawnee Indian Village Museum near
Republic and the Boyer Museum at Belleville were John
Turner, Tamara Turner, Nicole Turner, Teresa Barnes,
Moyria Barnes, Taryn Mosher, Gabby Hernandez, Sadie
Mosher, Alex Wilcox, Rope
Dorman, Jeremy Hernandez and Gunner Barnes. . .
. Kayla Champlin, daughter
of Steve and Kari Champlin,
had been chosen by American Legion Unit 76 to attend
the 68th annual session of
Sunlower Girls State on the
University of Kansas Lawrence campus.
1 year ago
May 21, 2014—Sixth
graders on the 3.0-3.99
Honor Roll at Concordia
Middle School were Shelby Bisnette, Hali Buckley,
Alexis Christensen, Bradley
Cleveland, Zoey Demanette,
Elizabeth Duvall, Kassidy
Leiszler, Tristan Mikesell,
Tristen Milligan, Victoria
Sugrue, Robert Trost and
Karlee Wahlmeier. . . . Babies born at Cloud County
Health Center between Nov.
19 2013, and May 16, 2014,
were Johnathon Wayne-Joseph Lawson, Kaden James
Ranstead, Bowen Benjamin
Miller, Nevaeh LaNae Myer,
Joseph Dale Revell, Luke
Matthew LeClair, Emmaline Marie Johnson, Hudson
Barrett Eitzman, Jazlyn Marie Smith, Simon Alexander
Gardner and Jodee Luise
Brown.
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•Saturday, May 23, 2015–
Public Auction at 9:00 a.m.
located at the Kearn Auction House, 220 West 5th
Street, Concordia, Kansas.
Misc. and Collectibles. Large
Assortment of Pepsi Items.
Dannie Kearn Auction.
•Friday, May 29, 2015–
Going Out of Business Auction at 6:00 p.m. located at
LeSalle Jewelers, 134 West
6th Street, Concordia, Kansas. Misc. and Collectibles.
Large Assortment of Jewelry. Alan and Lesli Johnson, Sellers. Dannie Kearn
Auction.
Saturday, June 6, 2015–
Living Estate Auction at
9:00 a.m. located at the Kearn Auction House, 220
West 5th Street, Concordia,
Kansas. High Quality Vintage Dolls and Antiques.
Dannie Kearn Auction.
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13,
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10:00 a.m. located 411 Republic Ave. in Republic,
Kansas. Real Estate, Tractor,
Welding,
Mechanic
Tools, Hardware Store Items
and Antiques. Republic
Feed, Fertilizer & Welding
Shop, Sellers. Novak Bros.
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cepting the award were Buffalo Valley FCE members
Pat Richey, Ruby Larsen,
Charlene Hansen and Corda
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Arts & Entertainment
Brown Grand Players A Revue
Alliance Brass is
start season with
crowd pleaser
one-act comedies
The Brown Grand Players
community theater will kick
off the 2015 season with
two comedies at the Brown
Grand Theatre in Concordia. Curtain times are 7
p.m., May 29 and 30 and 2
p.m., May 31.
Drama
newcomer
Sam Sacco will direct “A
Mad Breakfast” by Isabel
McReynolds Gray. Set in
a modest boarding house,
two residents play an elaborate practical joke on fellow
boarders and guest Robert
T. Long, psychology enthusiast.
By targeting each boarder’s
personality
quirk,
pranksters Mr. Jones and
Miss Brown portray Long as
someone different to each
boarder. This results in a
riotous gathering of breakfasters.
Brenton Phillips, Mr.
Jones, and Wonda Phillips,
Miss Brown, are joined by
Chris Stiles as Robert T.
Long. Rounding out the cast
are Kristina Frost as artist Miss Green; Kelsey Larson as the actress wannabe
Miss Smith; boarding house
proprietor Mrs. Simpkins is
played by Mikki Nelson with
Jamie Durler portraying
Lizzie the maid. Gary Dvorak and Tonya Merrill are
cast as trance medium Mr.
Hill and his wife, and Leroy
Dickinson as Mr. Roberts.
“When Doorjambs Malfunction,” written and directed by Concordia’s Chris
Stiles, features 16-year-old
Greta who wakes up one
morning and inds herself in
an unusual universe where
her parents are androids—it
seems her doorway has become a space-time portal.
As the day progresses,
she encounters worlds that
range from eerily perfect to
utterly terrifying. With the
help of an unusual maintenance woman and a Marx
Brothers-esque repair crew,
Greta embarks on a hilarious quest to stay in her own
world.
Which one does she belong in? Only Greta can tell
us, and it’s unclear if even
she knows. Greta is performed by Players newcomer, Chloe Nielsen. The case
is rounded out by Kristina
Frost, Maintenance; Chris
Stiles, Dad; Jamie Durler,
Mom; and Brenton Phillips,
Wonda Phillips and Mikki
Nelson as the repair crew.
Tickets for the two plays
are available at the door or
may be purchased in advance during Brown Grand
open hours.
Upcoming events
Tuesday, May 26, 10 a.m.—Frank Carlson Library Super
Readers Story Time for children six months-6 years old.
Friday and Saturday, May 29 and 30, 7 p.m. and Sunday, 2 p.m.—Brown Grand Players: Mad Breakfast and
When Doorjambs Malfunction.
Tuesday, June 2, 8 p.m.—Nu-Blu country/bluegrass
band, Brown Grand Theatre.
Friday and Saturday, June 5 and 6—John Knifechief
demonstration of arrowhead making and Saturday, June
6–Mountain Man Rendezvous, Pawnee Indian Museum, Republic.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, June 4-6—Annual National
Orphan Train Complex will be host for the 13th Annual
Celebration of Orphan Train Riders.
Saturday June 6, 1 p.m.—Soda Fountains of Kansas,
presentation by Cindy Higgins; 2-4 p.m.—Sock Hop with
DJ Tim Halfhide.
Saturday, June 6, 10 a.m.—”Growing Up American,”
presentation and discussion by Isaias J. Mcaffery, Orphan
Train Complex, 300 Washington St., Concordia.
Friday and Saturday, June 12 and 13—Miltonvale CookOff and Car Show, barbecue lunch from 11-2 on Saturday,
sponsored by ITC.
Monday, June 15, 10 a.m.-12 noon—Auditions, Missoula Children’s Theater: Sleeping Beauty.
June 15, 12:30-2:30—Sleeping Beauty rehearsals.
June 16–19 10a-12 noon, 12:30-2:30 p.m.—Sleeping
Beauty rehearsals.
Saturday, June 20, 3 p.m., Brown Grand Theatre—Missoula Children’s Theater: Sleeping Beauty.
CONCORDIA—Cloud County Historical Society Museum
will be host for “Soda Fountains of Kansas,” a presentation
and discussion by Cindy Higgins, at 1 p.m., June 6, at the
Cloud County Historical Society Museum, 635 Broadway.
Members of the community are invited to attend the free
program. Contact the Museum at 785.243.2866 for more
information. The program is made possible by the Kansas
Humanities Council.
Sponsored By
Concordia American Legion Golf Course
In my opinion, Sunday, May 10, was the best concert
of the year for the Concordia Concert Association.
Alliance Brass shared their talents with us for nearly
two very quick hours. They started the program with a
Monteverdi piece, “Deus in Adjutorium.”
Most of the pieces they performed were from memory. From the sound of applause, it sounded as though
“Bourbon Street Parade” was the biggest crowd pleaser.
Since my favorite music is from the 1940s, I especially
enjoyed “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square” and
“Moonlight Serenade.” “Night in Tunisia” is always a fun
piece to hear because all the instruments seem to travel
in different directions and then rejoin at the end. It is an
interesting piece to hear.
This group performed music from very diverse genres.
They played music from the Baroque Era to Swing, but
the most diverse piece was “Bohemian Rhapsody” by
Queen with a French horn solo.
Chris O’Hara performed here at the Brown Grand several years ago with a group named “Synergy.” Chris put
Alliance Brass together and from the Audience a listener
can hear and feel the musical and personnel harmonies
at work. These young musicians are a true delight to see
and hear.
If you have not renewed your membership for the upcoming year for your Concordia Concert Association, be
sure to do so right away. Next year will be phenomenal.
–Jane Linden, Concordia Concert Association
Presentation will
explore orphan
children’s experiences
The
National
Orphan
Train Complex in Concordia
will be host for “Growing Up
American,” a presentation
and discussion by Isaias J.
McCaffery at 10 a.m., Saturday, June 6, at the Complex,
300 Washington Street.
Members of the community are invited to attend the
free program. The program is
made possible by the Kansas
Humanities Council.
McCaffery’s presentation
will be the keynote address
for the 13th annual Celebration of Orphan Train Riders.
During the 19th and early
20th centuries, the children
of Kansas immigrants lived
with their feet planted in two
distinct worlds. Immersed in
the traditions of their parents, many young immigrant
children also became entirely
comfortable in mainstream
life on the southern Plains.
This presentation explores
how these children often felt
pulled between two identities
and not entirely rooted in either culture.
McCaffery is a history
professor at Independence
Community College and is
past president (and a present board member) of the
Kansas Association of Historians. He authored “Wi
Leahre Plautdietsch: An Beginner’s Guide to Mennonite
Low German,” which was
published in 2009.
McCaffery observes that
“Many thousands of Kansans experienced the unique
cultural dynamics created
by growing up as the child
of immigrants. These children modiied their behavior
in the various environments
in which they functioned, in
some ways assuming different personas when interacting in ‘America’ versus ethnic settings.”
“Growing Up American”
is part of the Kansas Humanities Council’s Humanities Speakers Bureau, featuring presentations and
discussions that examine
our shared human experience—our innovations, culture, heritage and conlicts.
The Kansas Humanities
Council conducts and supports community-based programs, serves as a inancial
resource through an active
grant-making program, and
encourages Kansans to engage in the civic and cultural
life of their communities. For
more information about KHC
programs, contact the Kansas Humanities Council at
785.357.0359 or visit online
at www.kansashumanities.
org.
For more information
about “Growing Up American” in Concordia, contact
Shaley George, NOTC curator at 785.243.4471 or visit
orhantraindepot.org.
Letterman signs off
as late-night host
NEW YORK (AP) – David
Letterman ended his 33-year
career as a late-night television host Wednesday, ushered into retirement by four
presidents who declared “our
long national nightmare is
over” and saying there was
nothing he could ever do to
repay his audience.
The show ran 17 minutes
over the usual hour, much of
it because Letterman took the
time to thank the people who
worked for him. As the tuxedoed Foo Fighters performed
“Everlong” – a song they irst
played on the “Late Show”
when Letterman returned after heart surgery in 2000 – a
long montage of photographs
from three decades of television history zipped past on
the screen.
“The only thing I have left
to do for the last time on a
television program (is say)
thank you and good night,”
he said.
Letterman presided over
6,028 broadcasts on CBS
and NBC, the transplanted
Hoosier making Top 10 lists
and ironic humor staples
of television comedy and an
inluence to a generation of
performers. True to his selfdeprecating style, he said
Stephen Hawking estimated
that tenure delivered “about
eight minutes of laughter.”
Letterman will be replaced
in September by Stephen
Colbert, who he endorsed
by saying, “I think he’ll do a
wonderful job.”
The taped intro of President Barack Obama and former Presidents George Bush,
Bill Clinton and George W.
Bush referenced President
Gerald Ford’s declaration to
the country when he took ofice following the 1974 resignation of Richard Nixon. Letterman sidled up to Obama
to say, “you’re just kidding,
right?”
Ten stars from Steve Martin to Tina Fey delivered the
inal Top 10 list of “things
I’ve always wanted to say to
Dave.” Julia Louis-Dreyfus,
with Jerry Seinfeld standing
nearby, said, “Thanks for letting me take part in another
hugely disappointing series
inale.”
No. 1 was Bill Murray:
“Dave, I’ll never have the
money I owe you.”
Letterman joked in his
monologue that he’s been on
the air for so long that the
hot show when he started
was “Keeping Up with the
Gabors.”
“You want to know what
I’m going to do now that I’m
retired?” he said. “By God, I
hope to become the new face
of Scientology.”
From his start on NBC’s
“Late Night” in February
1982, Letterman’s comedy
was about more than telling
jokes. He attached a camera
to a monkey’s back, tossed
watermelons off a roof and
wore a suit of Alka-Seltzer
to plunge into a tank of water. Celebrities used to being
fawned over either clicked
with his prickly personality or didn’t, and when Cher
called him a more profane
version of “jerk,” it became a
memorable moment.
He shifted to CBS in 1993
when NBC gave the “Tonight”
show to Jay Leno instead of
Letterman, a slight he never
forgot or forgave.
Letterman even began his
inal monologue Wednesday
by joking, “It’s beginning to
look like I’m not going to get
the ‘Tonight’ show.”
The tricks subsided as
Letterman mellowed with
age and fatherhood. His audience welcomed him back
after a heart bypass, listened
as he became the irst latenight host back on the air after the 2001 terrorist attacks
and saw him acknowledge to
inappropriately having sex
with a subordinate.
“When I screw up now,
and Lord knows I’ll be screwing up, I’ll have to go on
somebody else’s show to
apologize,” Letterman said.
With his monologue and
Top 10 list, the inal show
kept the same format of thousands before them, although
he gave no one the pressure
of being a guest on the inal
show. Murray played that
part Tuesday night. His last
few weeks have been warmly
nostalgic, with Letterman
entertaining old friends like
Tom Hanks, George Clooney,
Julia Roberts and Oprah
Winfrey. Anticipating the
end, viewers sent Letterman
to the top of the late-night
ratings the week before last
for the irst time since Jimmy
Fallon took over at “Tonight”
and they competed with original telecasts.
Letterman, before saying
goodbye, thanked virtually
everyone involved with the
show from CBS Corp. Chairman Leslie Moonves to his
researchers and crew members.
“It’s so obvious every night
and again tonight that they
were so much better at their
jobs than I am at my job,” he
said.
Letterman remained dryeyed throughout the broadcast, but several audience
members who iled out of
the Ed Sullivan Theater had
tears in their eyes.
“He was guarded but you
could tell it was really hard
for him,” said John Bernstein, who lew in from Los
Angeles to attend the inal
taping. “You could see his
emotion. But I think he’s
feeling a lot more than he’s
showing.”
Oficer, suspect killed Weather
Financial Focus in Omaha shooting
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"Step-by-Step" Approach Can Ease
Estate-planning Process
Like many people, you may enjoy investing. After all,
it can be invigorating to put away money for your future,
follow the performance of your investments and track the
progress you’re making toward your long-term goals, such
as a comfortable retirement. However, you might be less
excited about doing estate planning, dreading the perceived
time, effort and cost. Yet, you can make the entire process
more manageable by breaking it up into speciic tasks.
What are these tasks? Everyone’s needs are different,
but here are a few suggestions that may be applicable to
your situation:
Purchase life insurance. If something were to happen to
you, would your family be able to stay in the house? Would
your children be able to go to college? You should have suficient life insurance to take care of these and other essential needs. You might hear about various “formulas” for
how much insurance you should purchase, but you may be
better off by working with a inancial professional — someone who can evaluate your assets, goals and family situation, and then recommend an appropriate level of coverage.
Draw up your will. For most people, a will is probably
the most essential estate-planning document. Regardless of
the size of your estate, you need a will to ensure that your
assets and personal belongings will be distributed according to your wishes. If you die intestate (without a will), your
belongings will be distributed to your “heirs” as deined by
state laws — and these distributions may not be at all what
you had in mind.
Consider a living trust. Depending on your situation, you
may need to go beyond a will when drawing up your estate
plans. For example, you might want to create a living trust,
which can allow your assets to go directly to your heirs,
avoiding the public, time-consuming and expensive process
of probate. A living trust offers other beneits, too, so you
may want to consult with a legal professional to learn more
about this estate-planning tool.
Check beneiciary designations. The beneiciary designations on your insurance policies and retirement accounts,
such as your IRA and 401(k), are powerful and can even
supersede the instructions left in your will. So it’s in your
best interests to make sure you’ve got the right people listed
as your beneiciaries. Over time, you may need to update
these designations to relect changes in your family situation.
Make inal arrangements. Whenever you pass away, it
will be a stressful time for your loved ones. To ease their
burden, consider establishing a “payable-on-death” account at your bank, and then funding this account to pay
for your funeral and related expenses.
Share your plans. The most comprehensive estate plan
in the world may not be of much value if nobody knows of
its existence. Share your plans with your loved ones and
heirs. It’s important that everyone knows their roles in carrying out your wishes.
When dealing with any estate-planning issues, you’ll
want to consult with your legal and tax professionals. And
by taking a step-by-step approach, you can keep the process moving forward — without feeling that you’re being
overwhelmed.
Library releases
Nixon documents
WASHINGTON (AP) –
There’s little doubt Richard
Nixon was up to dirty tricks
before his presidency ever
began.
Documents released by
the National Archives’ Nixon Presidential Library on
Wednesday add weight to
considerable, existing evidence that his 1968 presidential campaign tried to
sabotage Vietnam peace
talks before the U.S. election. The apparent purpose:
to deny his Democratic challenger, Hubert Humphrey,
a political advantage in the
tight race to succeed Lyndon Johnson in the White
House.
The documents contain
a memo written to Nixon by
his aide Tom Charles Huston in 1970, looking back at
the so-called Chennault Affair, named for Anna Chennault, a Republican activist who had ties to South
Vietnam leaders. Chennault
was thought to have been
a secret GOP emissary,
conveying messages from
the Nixon campaign to the
South Vietnamese that they
should resist peace talks
with North Vietnam because
they would get a better deal
if they waited for Nixon to
become president.
Johnson was incensed by
what he regarded as Nixon’s
meddling, as a candidate, in
Vietnam War policy. At one
point he called Nixon treasonous. Federal law prohibits private citizens — which
Nixon then was — from interfering in U.S. diplomacy.
Nixon’s people saw the
episode differently. They
thought LBJ was calling a
bombing halt and encouraging peace talks merely to
give fellow Democrat Humphrey a boost in the election. And they thought he
was using the heavy hand
of government surveillance
and intimidation to get to
the bottom of what the Nixon campaign was doing with
the South Vietnamese —
tactics Nixon’s men would
practice ruthlessly against
real and perceived adversaries once in ofice.
Huston’s report to Nixon
emerged in thousands of
pages of documents from
the Nixon administration
released at the presidential
library in Yorba Linda, California, with a small sample
available online.
The full contours of the
renegade Republican diplomacy in 1968 were not
uncovered at the time, and
they are not all exposed in
Huston’s account, which
was more concerned with
investigating
LBJ’s
response to the secret GOP
contacts than with the contacts themselves. But historians have pieced much of
the story together over the
years from various sources.
In an oral history released by the National Archives last year, Huston
voiced his conviction that
Nixon’s campaign manager,
John Mitchell, was directly
involved in the episode and
that it was likely Nixon at
least knew about it. In his
2014 book, “Chasing Shadows,” Nixon historian Ken
Hughes asserted that Nixon, fearing exposure of his
1968 machinations, wanted
operatives to break into the
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – A
Nebraska man opened ire
Wednesday on oficers who
were trying to arrest him for
a previous shooting, prompting police to return gunire
in a shootout that left one
oficer and the suspect dead,
Omaha Police Chief Todd
Schmaderer said.
Oficer Kerrie Orozco, 29,
died at Creighton University Medical Center shortly
after the 1 p.m. shooting,
Schmaderer said at a news
conference. Schmaderer said
the suspect, 26-year-old
Marcus Wheeler, also died at
the hospital.
Schmaderer said Orozco
was part of a fugitive task
force looking for Wheeler to
serve a felony arrest warrant.
Wheeler, who was wanted on
a warrant charging him in
an earlier shooting, opened
ire on the oficers as they
approached him. Oficers
ired back, and Wheeler was
later found behind a neighbor’s house suffering from
gunshot wounds, the chief
said.
A semi-automatic handgun was also found on
Wheeler, Schmaderer said.
“Mr. Wheeler is a convicted felon and a known gang
member,” he said.
Orozco was a seven-year
veteran of the department
and worked in its gang unit,
Schmaderer said. She was
also a new mother with a
premature baby who is in an
Omaha hospital.
“(The baby) is set to be released from the hospital tomorrow,” Schmaderer said,
his voice breaking.
It’s been more than 10
years since an Omaha oficer
was killed in the line of duty,
when Oficer Jason “Tye”
Pratt was shot and killed
in September 2003, while
chasing down a leeing suspect. The suspect, 21-year-
Markets
NEW YORK (AP) – U.S.
stocks rose Thursday as the
price of oil climbed, boosting
energy stocks. Among individual stocks, Salesforce.
com and Best Buy were
among the biggest gainers
after reporting earnings that
exceeded the forecasts of
Wall Street analysts.
KEEPING SCORE: The
Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose ive points, or
0.3 percent, to 2,131 as of
12:13 p.m. Eastern. The
Dow Jones industrial average rose 13 points, less than
0.1 percent, to 18,297. The
Nasdaq composite was up
16 points, or 0.3 percent, at
5,087.
RATE
RISE
DELAY:
Stocks have gained this
month on speculation that
Federal Reserve policy makers will refrain from raising
interest rates until later this
year at the earliest. The cen-
old Albert Rucker of Omaha,
was in turn shot and killed
by another oficer.
Orozco is the irst female
Omaha police oficer to die
in the line of duty, according
to a list on the Oficer Down
Memorial online page.
Besides her daughter,
Orozco is survived by her
husband, Hector Orozco,
two stepchildren ages 6 and
7, her mother and two siblings.
Kerrie Orozco coached
baseball at an Omaha Boys
and Girls Club, was a Special Olympics volunteer and
served as president of the
Police Oficers’ Ball to beneit
the Special Olympics, the
chief said. She also took in
rescue dogs and was a Girl
Scout mentor.
“She was a friend, a popular oficer,” Schmaderer said.
“I just can’t even imagine
that this has happened. The
city of Omaha owes her and
her family a debt of gratitude.”
Dr. Michael Wagner, a
trauma critical care surgeon
at the hospital, said his team
provided “aggressive care” to
both Orozco and Wheeler,
but neither could be revived.
Paramedics had performed
CPR on both the oficer and
the suspect as they were
taken to the hospital.
Tiffany Atkins, who lives
less than a block from where
the shooting happened, said
she heard between ive and
10 shots Wednesday afternoon in the Florence neighborhood in north Omaha,
made up mostly of tudorstyle brick homes along treelined streets. She said she
took shelter in her basement and heard police cars
swarming the scene within
seconds of the shooting.
“I was raised in this neighborhood,” Atkins said. “This
makes me want to move.”
Today’s weather artwork by
Haley Ranstead,
a 3rd grader in
Mrs. Nease’s class
Suspect identiied in
slaying of DC family
WASHINGTON (AP) – Police identiied a suspect late
Wednesday in the mysterious slayings of a wealthy
Washington family and
their housekeeper inside
their
multimillion-dollar
home.
The man, who was still
at large, was identiied as
34-year-old Daron Dylon
Wint. An arrest warrant
has been issued for Wint on
charges of irst-degree murder, the Metropolitan Police
Department said in a news
release.
Maryland court records
indicate that a Daron Wint,
who is the same age as the
suspect, was convicted in
2009 of second-degree assault and sentenced to 30
days in jail. A Darin Dylon
Wint was charged with burglary in 2010 and pleaded
guilty to malicious destruction of property, and a protective order also was taken
out against him that year,
the records show.
Police did not immediately return a request for
comment on whether the
two men are one and the
same, or on the discrepancy in the spelling of the irst
tral bank has kept its bench- name. Police Chief Cathy
mark rate close to zero for Lanier did not immediately
more than six years, boosting the value of stocks and
bonds. Before a surprisingly
weak irst quarter for the
economy, many investors
were expecting rate increases by the middle of this year.
Police Dept. Report
Theft—Mary Hydorn reLOCAL MARKETS -EAST
ported Theft of Property at
Wheat ...........................$5.37 approximately 10:05 p.m.,
Milo ......(per bushel) ....$4.04 Monday, May 18, in the 200
Corn .............................$3.34 block of East 7th.
Soybeans .....................$8.74
Jarron Baxter reported
Theft of Property at approxiAGMARK
mately 5:45 p.m., May 18, in
the 400 block of West 10th.
LOADING FACILITY
James Anderson reported
LOCAL MARKETS - WEST
Theft
of Property at approxiWheat ..........................$5.37
mately
3:20 p.m., May 18,
Milo .....(per bushel) .....$4.04
in the 200 block of East 6th.
Rachelle Scott reported
JAMESTOWN MARKETS
respond to an email seeking more information about
Wint, why he was identiied
as a suspect, and whether
he knew the family.
Authorities have previously released very little information about who might
have killed the family or
why. When ireighters responded to the house for a
ire May 14, they found the
slain bodies still inside. Authorities believe the ire was
intentionally set.
Slain were 46-year-old
Savvas Savopoulos; his
47-year-old wife, Amy; their
son, Philip; and housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa.
Voicemails and text messages to household staff
suggest that something
was amiss at the home for
many hours before the bodies were found. A Porsche
belonging to the family was
later found set on ire in a
parking lot in suburban
Maryland. The Maryland
court records show that
Daron Wint and Darin Dylon Wint are from Lanham,
Maryland, which is near
where the car was found.
Another
housekeeper,
Nelitza Gutierrez, says she
thinks someone invaded
the home.
For the Record
Wheat ...........................$5.30
Milo ...(per bushel) ........$3.89
Soybeans .....................$8.69
Nusun .........................$16.50
Theft of Property in the 400
block of West 10th at approximately 11:05 a.m.,
May 18. After investigation,
oficers arrested a 13-yearold juvenile for theft.
Accident—Oficers investigated a two vehicle accident at approximately 3:15
p.m., May 18, in the 200
block of West 6th in the alley involving vehicles driven
by Shad Clark, Concordia,
and a vehicle owned by Michael Miller, Concordia.
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