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OVERLAND PARK — Late in the afternoon Fri-day, Junction City Area Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Weigand stood near the table he had been sitting at for hours and list-ed the strengths and weak-
nesses of community col-laboration within the Flint Hills region.
He said the proximity of communities to one anoth-er is a strength.
On the other hand, the economic development groups in each community must more easily share information and fully take
advantage of what the Flint Hills Regional Council efforts can provide.
That statement was music to Courtney Dun-bar’s ears.
“That is the key,” said Dunbar, the economic development leader at Ols-son Associates, an econom-
ic development engineering firm. “I agree completely. Sharing information is not a threat to any communi-ty.”
That was just one of the lessons learned during the afternoon session of the Flint Hills annual Leaders’ Retreat.
Many, like Weigand, all drove for at least an hour — some close to two — to listen to fellow leaders and experts talk about the sub-ject of regionalism and col-laboration as it pertains to benefitting and improving the communities within the Flint Hills.
About 250 area stakehold-
ers, including more than 30 from Junction City, 150 from the Manhattan area and 25 more from Wamego gathered and talked about economic development efforts throughout the day and were expected to com-plete the retreat Saturday morning.
The most interaction came when all 26 tables pre-sented what they believed to be the strengths and weaknesses of collabora-tion in the Flint Hills region.
A man convicted in Geary County of kidnapping, rap-ing and murdering a young woman in 1974 was denied parole last month by the Kansas Prisoner Review Board.
The board denied parole for Frank Pencek Jr., 66, because of the seriousness and violent nature of his crimes, Kansas Department of Corrections Communica-tions Director Jeremy Bar-clay told The Daily Union Thursday.
Barclay said victim and community objections also played a factor in the board’s decision.
Almost 40 years ago, Pencek was sentenced to two consecutive life sen-tences plus five to 20 years for kidnapping, raping and murdering 20-year-old Eliz-abeth Bush of Junction City on May 14, 1974.
Bush, a Kansas State Uni-versity student, had been working at a Milford Lake park when she was reported missing.
Two days later, Bush was found dead. She had been stabbed 27 times.
Pencek was a soldier sta-tioned at Fort Riley at the time of the killing.
A public hearing session
Pencek denied
parole for ninth time
Flint Hills stakeholders focus on economic development
during annual leaders’ retreat
MORESee future editions of The
Daily Union for more followup on the retreat and what local leaders are doing to be part of the Flint Hills
As her peer reads a colorful book, Serenity Sosa paid close attention to the words being spoken aloud on the pages.
Every school morning, the West-wood Elementary School fifth-grader enjoys volunteering her time to make younger students better readers.
The library usually is quiet.But that silence is broken in the
morning by the sounds of children reading and pages turning for the school’s “Rockin’ Readers” program.
“I feel like I’m making a differ-ence,” Serenity said.
Serenity is one of the program participants known as “Listeners.” These students assist “Readers,” a group of younger students who are less advanced in reading.
“When they’re older they are going to read better because the Listeners are helping them,” Serenity said. “In jobs, you have to read a lot of things. If you’re a business person, you have
to read the files they give you.” Coordinator Kimberly Van Cleave
said there was a time when the library was not packed.
During the previous school year, there were only 15 students each morning.
But now, about 40 students partici-pate each day.
Last year, the pro-gram had more than 1,000 participants.
“I think it’s a good program and I like it,” said Kaleb Shaker, a fifth-grade Listener. “It feels good to help them.”
Van Cleave said the program builds confidence and char-acter.
“I always tell them that they’re changing the world every day by helping someone learn to read,” Van Cleave said. “You have to learn to read if you want to be anything in life.”
Like Serenity, fifth-grade Listen-
er Chalsey Dawson enjoys helping other students.
“I like it because it helps little kids read and it helps them grow and (go up a level) with reading,” Chalsey said.
Along with other students, fifth grader Kayleen Crenshaw likes to
spend time at the library for the pro-gram.
She also under-stands the impor-tance of the pro-gram.
“I can meet friends and help people get better,” Kayleen said. “You need to read everywhere, even at
the supermarket.Fifth-grade volunteer Kody Dun-
can enjoys the program, which will help students become better readers down the road.
“It lets you relax and helps you figure out words that you can’t figure
Rocking and Reading
Chase Jordan • The Daily Union Westwood Elementary School students participate in the ‘Rockin’ Readers’ program.
Through a potential grant, the Geary County Health Department is hoping to join forces with local medical facilities to strengthen the local health care system and services provided.
The department is taking the lead by requesting an $85,000 grant so they can link up with Fort Riley’s Irwin Army Community Hospital and Konza Prairie Community Health Center.
Department Administrator Pat Hunter recently discussed the grant with board of health members.
“Keep your fingers crossed that it’s funded so we can be able to start work-
ing,” Hunter said. The grant is through the U.S. Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services, and its purpose is to develop a planning pro-gram in rural communities.
“We’re looking at how we can improve our system so we can improve the overall health of Geary County,” Hunter said.
If approved, the projected start date is June 1, and the program will last for one year. Its intent is to meet the needs of residents, active duty military and veter-ans.
Hunter said it’s the department’s first official grant requested with the military as an independent partner sitting at the table.
Health Department looking for grant money
Submitted PhotoVisitors to Milford Lake will have the opportunity to view bald eagles and other birds of prey during the annual Milford Eagle Days. See story on 10A.
Eagle Days
Please see Denied, 10A
“I like it because it helps little kids read
and it helps them grow and (go up a
level) with reading.”Chalsey Dawson
Fifth grader
Please see Reading, 10A
Please see Health, 10A
Victim and community objections
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Rain And Snow Northeast, More Snow Great Lakes
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Low pressure will produce rain and snow over the Northeast. A second system will produce snow from the southern Great Lakes into the Ohio Valley. The Southeast will be quiet and dry, but with well below normal temperatures.
National forecastForecast highs for Saturday, Jan. 18
Daily weather recordPrecip. to 7 a.m. Friday .00January to date .10January average .65Year to date total .10Year to date average .10Friday’s High 38Overnight low 23Temp. at 6 p.m. Friday 38Today’s sunrise 7:44 a.m.Tonight’s sunset 5:31 p.m.
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CORRECTIONA quote from the office of U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran was used
incorrectly in the article about a policy from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Katie Niederee, press secretary for Moran, released the statement. The quote did not come from Moran’s office.
Pets of the
Week
COCOCoco is a 1-year-old male Kelpie
Lab mix. He likes to plays fetch and is very energetic once he gets out-side. Coco is very friendly and is willing to please.
COSMO Cosmo is a 1- to 2-year-old
female domestic short-haired tabby. Cosmo needs to find a home because she’s been at the shelter for a long time.
SWEETYSweety is a 3-year-old female
chihuahua. She was turned in because the owner could no longer care for her.
For more information, contact
the shelter at (785) 238-1359.
Ashlynn Lee PinkstonTristan and Chelsea Pinkston of
Junction City announced the birth of their daughter, Ashlynn Lee Pinkston, who was born Jan. 8, 2014 at the Martha K. Hoover Women’s Health Center at Geary Community Hospital in Junction City.
Ashlynn weighed 5 pounds, 13 ounces, and was 18-1/2 inches long.
The maternal grandparents are Pat Motley Shankle and the late Bob Shankle of Junction City.
The maternal great-grandpar-ents are Donna and the late Frank Motley of Junction City.
The paternal grandmother is
Carol Houston of Arkansas City.
Mariah Renee CurrySheena R. Strahley and Dexter
L. Curry Jr. announced the birth of their daughter, Mariah Renee Curry, who was born Dec. 12, 2013 at Mercy Regional Hospital.
Mariah weighed 5 pounds and
was 17-3/4 inches long. The maternal grandparents are
Bob and Jenny Strahley of Junc-tion City.
The paternal grandparents are James and Alice Johnson of Junc-tion City, and the late Dexter Curry Sr. Mariah joins her brothers Cam-ron,
Tre and Andrew Curry at home.
Saturday, Jan.18• Noon — Narcotics Anon-
ymous, 119 W. Seventh St.
• 1 p.m. —Doors open at JC Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.
• 6:30 p.m. — JC Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie Bingo, 203 E. 10th St., open to pub-lic
• 8 p.m. Alcoholics Anony-mous, 119 W. Seventh St.
Sunday, Jan.19• Noon Doors open at JC
Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.
• Noon Alcoholics Anony-mous, 119 W. Seventh St.
• 12:15 p.m. — Father Kapaun Knights of Colum-bus, basement of St. Mary’s Chapel, Fort Riley
• 1:30 p.m. American Legion Post 45 Auxiliary Bingo, Fourth and Franklin Streets
• 8 p.m. Narcotics Anony-mous, 119 W. Seventh St.
Monday, Jan.20• Noon — Alcoholics
Anonymous, 119 W. 7th St.
• 2 p.m. — Doors open at Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.
• 6 p.m. — JC South Kiwan-is meets at Valley View.
• 6:45 p.m. — Social Dupli-cate Bridge, 1022 Caroline Ave.
• 7 p.m. — Hope Al-Anon meeting at First United Meth-odist Church
• 7 p.m. — Hope Al-Anon, First United Methodist Church, 804 N. Jefferson.
• 7 p.m. — Bingo, Knights of Columbus, 126 W. Seventh St. Doors open at 5 p.m.
• 8 p.m. Alcoholics Anony-
mous, 119 W. Seventh St.
• Afternoon Bingo at Senior Citizens Center
• Senior Center Citizens closed in observance of Mar-tin Luther King Jr. Day
Tuesday, Jan.21• 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. — AAA
Board Meeting at Senior Citi-zens Center
• 9:30-10:30 a.m. — Friend-to-Friend Caregiver Support Group, Faith Lutheran Church, 212 N. Eisenhower Drive
• 9:30-10:30 a.m. — Line dancing at Senior Citizens Center
• 10-11 a.m. — Bible study at Senior Citizens Center
• Noon — Alcoholics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.
• 2 p.m. — Doors open at the Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.
• 5-8 p.m. — Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie and Auxiliary kitchen is open with full meals
• 6:30 p.m. — JC Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie Bingo, 203 E. 10th St., open to pub-lic
• 6 p.m. — Alcoholics Anonymous, Women’s meet-ing, 119 W. Seventh St.
• 6:30 p.m. — JC Fraternal Order of Eagles Auxiliary Bingo, 203 E. 10th St., open to public
• 6:30 p.m. — JC Sundown-ers Lions Club 11th Annual Coronation of Snow King and Queen following the monthly evening meal at the Geary
County Senior Center
• 7 p.m. — New Begin-nings-New Life Support Group, Martha Hoover Con-ference Room, Geary County Community Hospital
• 8 p.m. — Alcoholics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.
Saturday, Jan.25• Noon — Narcotics Anon-
ymous, 119 W. Seventh St.
• 1 p.m. — Doors open at JC Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.
• 6:30 p.m. — JC Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie Bingo, 203 E. 10th St., open to pub-lic
• 8 p.m. — Alcoholics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.
Sunday, Jan.26• Noon — Doors open at JC
Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.
• Noon — Alcoholics Anon-ymous, 119 W. Seventh St.
• 1:30 p.m. — American Legion Post 45 Auxiliary Bingo, Fourth and Franklin Streets
• 8 p.m. — Narcotics Anon-ymous, 119 W. Seventh St.
Monday, Jan.27• 9:30-10:30 a.m. — Exer-
cise at Senior Citizens Center
• 10:30 a.m. — Site Council, Senior Citizens Center
• Noon — Alcoholics Anon-
ymous, 119 W. 7th St.
• 1-2:30 p.m. — Trouba-dours of JC rehearsal at Geary County Senior Center, 1025 S. Spring Valley Road
• 2 p.m. — Doors open at Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.
• 6 p.m. — JC South Kiwan-is meets at Valley View.
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In briefFriend to Friend
Caregiver’s support group
The Friend to Friend Caregiver’s Support Group will meet for its regular meeting at 9:30 a.m. Tues-day at Faith Lutheran Church, locat-ed at 212 N. Eisenhower Drive Feel free to bring a friend or neighbor.
Fort Riley tax center to open Jan. 22
FORT RILEY — The Fort Riley Tax Center will be opening with a 9 a.m. ceremony Jan. 22 at its location, Building 7034, at the corner of Nor-mandy and Bullard streets. Hours of operation for the center will be 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Fri-day, and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays. Appointments will be available Monday through Friday, and Satur-days are designated for walk-ins only. Appointments are available by calling (785) 239-1040, and walk-ins are always welcome. The center will provide free tax service for all active-duty military, activated Army Reservists on orders for more than 30 days, retirees and eligible depen-dents.
Geary County Senior Center evening meal
and danceThe Geary County Senior Center
monthly evening and dance will be held starting at 6 p.m. Jan. 24 at the senior center, located at 1025 S. Spring Valley Road.
Dinner will begin at 6 p.m., fea-turing ham salad sandwiches, hot vegetable soup and baked apples.
The dance begins at 7 p.m., with Rick Stanley performing. Hostesses for the evening are Vi Long and Sandy (Erdman) Rothlisberg. Guests are asked to bring finger foods to eat during the break.
Everyone is invited. To make meal reservations, call
(785) 238-4015. In addition, the monthly birth-
day party to celebrate January birthdays will be held Jan. 29, with Valley View brining dessert. Call for a reservation for lunch, and stay and play cards in the afternoon.
Relationship education workshop
Catholic Charities of Northern Kansas will be holding a free rela-tionship education workshop from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Jan. 25 at the Geary Community Hospital in Junction City.
The workshop will include dis-cussions on communication, prob-lem solving, expectations, and cre-ating and maintaining a loving rela-tionship. The session is open to the public; singles and those in a rela-tionship, regardless of faith, are welcome. Preregistration is required. To sign up, or for more information, visit www.KansasLoveLetters.com or call (785) 323-0644.
Chicken and homemade noodles
dinnerThe Chapman Lavender Lappers
will be selling tickets for a chicken and homemade noodles dinner, to be held from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Jan. 26 at Sterl Hall in Abilene, located at the fairgrounds. Tickets are $6, and the menu contains chicken and noodles with mashed potatoes, green beans, drinks and a dessert.
Chili, vegetable, and potato soup lunches
The Immanuel Lutheran Laymen League’s annual chili, vegetable and potato soup lunch with relishes, dessert and drink will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today in the Fel-lowship Hall, at 630 S. Eisenhower Drive. Proceeds will go to the schol-arship fund for church workers and Open Door; there will be a free will offering. Seconds are free.
In addition, matching funds from Thrivent have been applied for.
Submitted PhotoGeary County Perinatal Coalition members include, front row,from left: Alicia Bean, MD; Jolana Montgomery-Matney; Lynley Holman, MD; Jill Nelson, GCPC Program Coordinator; Carissa Horton, PA; and Tracy Sabo, RD; and back row, Terrah Stroda, CNM, GCPC Medical Director; Daniel Sessions, MD; Kim Milleson; Nikki Keene-Woods, PhD; Harold Marion; Sara Girard; Sarah Talley and Shaquencia Raymond-Anderson. Board members not pictured include Florence Whitebread and Pat Hunter. The Geary County Perinatal Coalition held its inaugural Board of Directors meeting Jan. 13 at Geary Community Hospital. “With the growth of Delivering Change, we felt it was necessary to establish a formal board of directors to help us continue our successes, overcome our challenges, and help us get to the next level,” Nelson said, GCPC program coordinator. GCPC established the Delivering Change: Healthy Moms-Healthy Babies initiative. Previously, the group had been guided by a core group represent-ing the various collaborative organizations. The board of directors will meet quarterly and are responsible for oversight of the GCPC committees, medical director, pro-gram coordinator, and for providing direction to the Delivering Change program.
Perinatal Coalition holds inaugural meeting
Submitted PhotoJim and Michele Brethour will be recognized as the recipients of the 2013 Grassland Conservation Award for Geary County.
By Myra richardson
Special to the Daily Union
Jim and Michele Brethour are the recipients of the 2013 Grassland Conserva-tion award for Geary Coun-ty and will be recognized during the Geary County Conservation District’s annual meeting Thursday.
The award is given to those who strive to protect and maintain the Kansas tallgrass prairie and agri-cultural heritage, and is sponsored by the Geary County Conservation Dis-trict.
The legacy of conserva-tion in the Brethour family goes back as least as far as Jim’s grandfather, Dr. George Brethour of Dwight. George purchased land near Dwight in the 1930s that included grassland as well as some cropped ground.
The cropland (nearly 40 acres of it) was seeded back to native grass, and a pond was built through the Works Progress Administration.
The WPA was one of the New Deal programs that provided work for unem-ployed Americans during the Great Depression years.
George was recognized for his conservation efforts in 1955 with a Geary County Bankers Award.
Recently, Jim enrolled the Dwight property in the USDA Grassland Reserve Program (GRP).
The GRP is a voluntary conservation program that emphasizes support for working grazing operations, enhancement of plant and animal biodiversity, and protection of grassland under threat of conversion to other uses.
“I enrolled the land because I want to see it kept as prairie for the
future,” Jim said.Jim has continued with
the conservation traditions of the family on his home property south of Junction City.
In 2002, Jim and Michele purchased a pasture adjoin-ing their property Jim described as “a mess.
“You couldn’t see from one end to the other because of all the cedar trees,” he said. “There wasn’t even enough grass to carry a fire.”
The property was enrolled in the USDA Environmen-tal Quality Incentives Pro-gram (EQIP), which provid-ed assistance to cut the cedar trees and purchase chemicals to control other types of brush. Many hours were spent cutting trees with a chain saw and spray-ing brush on a four-wheeler. Today, they are able to burn the pasture regularly.
Jim believes fire is one of the keys to protecting the prairie from being overtak-en by trees and brush.
“The prettiest kind of cedar tree is one on fire,” Jim said.
Jim runs some stocker cattle on his ground, and he has renters who run cattle on the rest of his land.
“They are good people,” he said, emphasizing the importance of having rent-ers who share his beliefs on taking care of the land.
Jim and Michele live south of Junction City. Jim spent 32 years on Fort Riley before retiring. He now spends his time keeping up with spraying brush and thistles, helping neighbors during harvest, and enjoys fishing and hunting in his spare time.
Along with other local musicians, Bob Cervera is looking forward to per-forming tonight at the C.L. Hoover Opera House.
The next Acoustic Junction is scheduled for 7 p.m.
“It’s a great community event,” Cervera said. “It’s
free and anybody can come.”
Performers include John Farrow, Brian Clark, Pete Pelligrin, and Mark West-fall and Company.
Cervera considers it a reunion from the original Acoustic Junction, which began several years ago. The free concert series allow musicians to show-case their talents.
About 70 to 100 people usually attend the event.
“People like to sit there, socialize and listen to good music,” Cervera said. “It’s a fun event. I hope every-body comes out and enjoys it.”
For more information, contact Cervera at (785) 238-8069. The Opera House is located at 135 W. Seventh St.
Local musicians to perform at Acoustic Junction
There will be no trash/garbage pick-up Monday by the city of Junction City due to Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Trash and garbage pick-up will be picked up the next work day, as follows:
• Monday’s will be picked up on Tues-day;
• Tuesday’s will be picked up on Wednes-day;
• Wednesday’s will be picked up on Thursday;
• Thursday’s will be picked up on Fri-day;
• And Friday’s will be picked up on Sat-
urday. In order to ensure pick-up, trash should
be set out by 6 a.m. Tuesday morning. Carts should be removed from the curb/alley by the following day of scheduled pick-up. For example, Monday’s pickup will need to be set out by 6 a.m. Tuesday and removed by 6 a.m. Wednesday.
Additional items set out may require making arrangements for a special pick-up.
Customers with questions should con-tact Junction City Department of Public Works at (785) 238-7142.
No trash pick-up Monday, city reports
FORT RILEY — Fort Riley’s Irwin Army Com-munity Hospital welcomes local beneficiaries of Department of Defense medical care to choose IACH as their primary health care provider. This invitation extends to eligi-ble military family mem-bers as well as local mili-tary retirees. Invitation letters are being mailed to eligible beneficiaries, invit-ing them to choose IACH for their health care.
According to the com-manding officer of IACH,
Colonel Barry Pockrandt, local beneficiaries can expect to receive world-class, cutting edge health-care by some of the best doctors and health care professionals in Army medicine.
IACH health care offers the following benefits:
• A multi-disciplinary team approach to health care
• Access to online appointments, medical tests results and prescrip-tion refill request using TRICARE Online
• No copay when a bene-ficiary is seen at IACH
• Online communication with primary care provid-ers using secure messag-ing
• And several convenient locations on the installa-tion for pharmacy and other services
Informational meetings are being scheduled for the community on the benefits of getting health care at IACH and will be announced soon.
IACH welcomes local beneficiaries of DOD medical care
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Obituaries/News4A The Daily Union. Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014
Erica McDaniel
Joseph DukeJan. 30, 1935 — Jan. 14, 2014
A memorial visitation will be held Jan. 22 from 6-8 p.m. at Penwell-Gabel Johnson Chapel for Erica Lasha M c D a n i e l “LOVE,” who died in Brook-
lyn, N.Y. Erica’s parents are Kevin and Syretha Goff of Junction City.
Please visit www.penwell-gabeljunctioncity.com to leave a condolence for the family.
Joseph Thomas Duke, 78, of Junction City, passed away Jan. 14, 2014.
Joe was born in Webb, Ala. on Jan. 30, 1935, the son of the late Evitus Lee and Lennie Mae (Durden) Duke. Joe graduated from high school in Webb, Ala. and was married on June 18, 1965 in Grand Junction, Colo. to Bonnie Brockelman, who survives him of the home. Joe retired from the U.S. Army in 1976 as a sergeant first class, and served a tour in Vietnam. His hobbies were fishing, hunting, and restoring antique furniture, and he was a life-long member of the DAV.
Survivors include his wife, Bonnie of the home;
three sons, Brian J. Duke (Stephanie) of Manhattan, Jeffrey B. Duke (Johnna) of Macclenny, Fla.; and Bruce Duke (Anita) of Dothan, Ala.; two sisters, Emily and Betty; two brothers, Harry and Ricky; and three grandchildren, Steven Duke, Thomas Duke and Manny Duke. He was preceded in death by his parents and three brothers, Wallace, Rudolph, and Wayne.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Jan. 22 at the Irvin-Parkview Funeral Home and Cremation, in Manhattan. Cremation was chosen and at the family’s request, there will be no visitation.
The family requests donations to DAV in care of the funeral home. To send an online condolence or gift, visit www.irvinparkview.com. Services are under the direction of Irvin-Parkview Funeral Home and Cre-mation.
Joseph Duke
erica McDaniel
By The Associated Press
KOLKATA, India — Suchi-tra Sen, a legendary Indian actress known for her memo-rable roles in both Bengali-language and Hindi Bolly-wood films, died Friday of heart failure. She was 82.
Sen was hospitalized in Kolkata more than three weeks ago for treatment of a respiratory infection and died following cardiac arrest, said her daughter, Moon Moon Sen, who is also an actress.
Indian actress dies
By Julie Pace
AP White House Correspondent
WASHINGTON — Tight-ening the reins on the nation’s sweeping surveil-lance operations, President Barack Obama on Friday ordered new limits on the way intelligence officials access phone records from hundreds of millions of Americans — and moved toward eventually stripping the massive data collection from the government’s hands.
But Obama’s highly antici-pated intelligence recom-mendations left many key details unresolved, most notably who might take over as keeper of the vast trove of U.S. phone records.
Final decisions on that and other major questions were left to the Justice Depart-ment and to intelligence agencies that oppose chang-ing surveillance operations, and to a Congress that is divided about the future of the programs.
If fully implemented, Obama’s proposals would mark the most significant changes to the surveillance laws that were passed in reaction to the Sept. 11, 2011, terror attacks.
While Obama has said he has welcomed the recent spy-ing debate, it’s unlikely to have happened without the national and international backlash following a wave of leaks from former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden.
For now, the phone records will continue to reside with the government.
But the NSA will need to get approval from the secre-tive Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court each time it wants to access the data, a more cumbersome process than currently required. Exceptions will be made in the event of a national secu-rity emergency, officials said.
Responding to outrage overseas, Obama pledged on Friday to curb spying on friendly allied leaders and to extend some privacy protec-tions to foreign citizens. The proposals appeared to ease some anger in Germany, which had been particularly incensed by revelations that the NSA had monitored the communications of Chancel-lor Angela Merkel.
Despite the firestorm at home and abroad, Obama robustly defended the intel-ligence community’s role in keeping the nation safe. But he said the U.S. had a “spe-cial obligation” to ensure that its muscular spying apparatus was not trampling on civil liberties.
“The reforms I’m propos-ing today should give the American people greater confidence that their rights are being protected, even as our intelligence and law enforcement agencies main-tain the tools they need to keep us safe,” he said during a speech at the Justice Department.
Privacy advocates, who have pushed for ending the phone record collections altogether, criticized the president’s restrictions as insufficient. The intelligence community appeared pub-licly content with his plans.
On Capitol Hill, the
response was decidedly mixed. A rare cross-section of lawmakers from both par-ties, including House Minor-ity Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., called for greater reforms. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, blamed the president for fail-ing in the past to properly explain the importance of certain intelligence gather-ing practices.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Rep. Mike Rog-ers, R-Mich., who head their chambers’ intelligence com-mittees, called on the presi-dent to send them specific legislation with his proposed changes.
Obama’s announcement capped a six-month White House review triggered by Snowden’s flood of disclo-sures about the scope of U.S. spying. But by ordering fur-ther review of key issues, Obama ensured that his speech would hardly be the final word in the resurgent debate over balancing priva-cy and security.
The most glaring omission
in Obama’s announcement was any recommendation on where Americans’ phone records should be kept if they are no longer housed by the government.
A presidential review board recommended moving the data to the phone provid-ers or a third party, but both options present obstacles.
The phone companies strongly oppose the expense and potential liability of holding the data, and no credible third party option has emerged.
Administration officials also raised the possibility of replacing the bulk phone col-lection program with new surveillance methods that would negate the need to store the data long-term.
Obama ordered the Jus-tice Department and intelli-gence community to report back to him with options within 60 days.
If they propose housing the data with the phone com-panies or a third party, con-gressional legislation would almost certainly be needed, raising questions about how
quickly lawmakers could reach an agreement, if at all.
“I think the odds are long that we can get it done in a timely way,” said Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., though he was largely supportive of the president’s proposals.
Under Obama’s plan, the government will no longer be able to gain access to phone records beyond two “hops” from the person they are targeting. That means the government can’t exam-ine records for someone who called someone who called someone who called the sus-pect.
Privacy advocates said they were troubled that Obama’s proposals did not go further.
“He seems to endorse amending bulk data collec-tion but not ending it,” said Anthony Romero, the execu-tive director of the Ameri-can Civil Liberties Union.
The president cast the changes as a pre-emptive attempt to curb possible gov-ernment abuse as new tech-nologies give intelligence
agencies the ability to round up more information more quickly.
But he said there was noth-ing in the White House review that “indicated that our intelligence community has sought to violate the law or is cavalier about the civil liberties of their fellow citi-zens.”
Obama mentioned Snowden and his disclosures in negative but measured language.
“The sensational way in which these disclosures have come out has often shed more heat than light, while revealing methods to our adversaries that could impact our operations in ways that we may not fully understand for years to come,” he said.
Anger with the U.S. after Snowden’s revelations has been particularly strong abroad, especially when it
was revealed that the Ameri-cans were monitoring the communications of friendly foreign leaders such as Merkel and Brazil’s Presi-dent Dilma Rousseff. Obama said new guidelines will cut back on such monitoring, except when there is a com-pelling national security interest.
“The leaders of our close friends and allies deserve to know that if I want to learn what they think about an issue, I will pick up the phone and call them rather than turning to surveillance,” said Obama, who also called on the Justice Department to look for ways to extend pri-vacy protections to foreign citizens. The president’s assurances were welcomed by officials in Europe, though they cautioned that details of the plans still needed to be analyzed.
Obama tightens reins on surveillance programs
Associated Press(From left) National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander, Deputy Attorney General James Cole, Attorney General Eric Holder, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., sit together on Friday before President Barack Obama spoke about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance at the Justice Depart-ment in Washington.
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health insuranceThe following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Thursday, Jan. 16:
While overall enrollment in the insur-ance marketplaces designed under the Affordable Care Act was vigorous in
December, more young and healthy consum-ers are needed to make the complex math of the health reform law add up.
About 2.2 million Americans have now enrolled in health coverage through the new insurance exchanges. That’s a welcome num-ber, considering the badly bungled rollout of HealthCare.gov, the online federal market-place. The website is working much more smoothly now for enrollees, although a couple of the state-based sites still have issues.
But more than half of the enrollees so far are in the 45- to-64-year-old age bracket. That group racks up higher medical costs than the 18- to 34-year-old demographic, which accounts for only about a fourth of the enrollment so far. Insurers say they need to have younger consumers in the pool to hold down the costs of policies.
The shortage so far of the “young health-ies,” as they are called, isn’t necessarily a cause for panic. It makes sense that older people who depend on medical care would be the first to sign up. But more youthful con-sumers are needed before this year’s open enrollment period ends March 31.
Foes of “Obamacare” have targeted young people with unhelpful messages, urging them not to sign up for insurance and pay a fine instead.
Talk about bad advice.Many young consumers will find they are
eligible for subsidies, enabling them to buy insurance at surprisingly low rates. Those who choose to opt out will be subject to a tax penalty, and they’ll receive nothing for it. What they will receive is the full bill for any routine or emergency medical expense they may accrue. And a one-time trip to the emer-gency room — for a sprained ankle, say — can run into thousands of dollars.
Considerable confusion continues to swirl around the health care law. Health and com-munity groups should step up efforts to edu-cate people, especially young consumers, about the exchanges.
People are more likely to kill when they have a gun
Even though there is steadily accu-mulating evidence of the futility of criticizing the gun culture,
certain episodes prod me to go there. One of those occurred last week, when an unarmed man was shot dead after assaulting a fellow movie patron with, ah, popcorn.
This particular incident wasn’t one of those that dominate newscasts, that summon President Obama to a press conference, that propel some members of Congress to insist on tighter gun control laws. It didn’t pack the awful, gut-wrenching punch of the Newtown, Conn., massacre, in which 20 young children and six adults were gunned down by a psychopath.
The power of this recent episode lies in its more mundane nature: Person with gun gets angry, loses control and shoots an unarmed person. It’s a more common occurrence than gun advo-cates care to admit.
And it contradicts several of the gun lobby’s central arguments because it demonstrates that the proximity of firearms can change circumstances. It undermines that dumb and overused cliche, “Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.” That may be true, but people are much more apt to kill when they have a gun.
As it happens, this shooting occurred in Florida, where an ill-considered “Stand Your Ground” law has prompt-ed many a trigger-happy bully to pull a gun and shoot a stranger (or, some-times, an acquaintance). Curtis Reeves, 71, has been charged with second-degree homicide in the death of Chad Oulson, 43, on Jan. 13, according to the Tampa Tribune.
The newspaper reported that Reeves
got angry because Oulson, who was sit-ting in front of him, was using his cell-phone during previews before the film “Lone Survivor” started. Reeves, after asking him several times to stop, went into the lobby to complain to a theater employee about Oulson — who was apparently communicating with his child’s baby sitter.
When Reeves returned, the two again exchanged words, and Oulson report-edly showered Reeves with popcorn. Reeves drew a .380-caliber handgun and shot Oulson in the chest. Oulson’s wife was wounded because she reached for her husband as the shot was fired, the Tribune said.
You know how the gun lobby always insists that the antidote to gun violence is to allow more properly trained citi-zens to carry guns everywhere — inside nightclubs and schools and churches? Well, Reeves could hardly be better trained in the use of firearms. He’s a retired Tampa police captain and a for-mer security officer for Busch Gar-dens.
Reeves had a permit to carry a con-cealed weapon. (The chain that owns the movie house, Cobb Theaters, says its policy bans weapons.) Few gun own-ers would know more about gun safety. But that hardly helped Reeves control
his temper.Human beings have a limitless capac-
ity for irrational acts, bizarre confron-tations, moments of utter craziness — and that includes those of us who are usually mature, sane and rational beings. If we allow firearms every-where, we simply increase the odds that one of those crazy moments will result in bloodshed.
The Violence Policy Center (VPC) notes that 554 other people have been killed since May 2007 by people licensed to carry concealed weapons in inci-dents that did not involve self-defense.
“The examples we have collected in our Concealed Carry Killers database show that with alarming regularity, individuals licensed to carry concealed weapons instigate fatal shootings that have nothing to do with self-defense,” said VPC Legislative Director Kristen Rand in a statement on the center’s website.
The facts notwithstanding, the National Rifle Association and its allies across the country are busy pressing friendly legislators to expand the wild frontier and permit firearms in ever more venues. The Georgia General Assembly, for one, is considering a measure to allow guns on the state’s college campuses.
That’s a recipe for more stupid con-frontations like the one that has landed a retired police officer behind bars, charged with homicide, and a husband and father dead.
Cynthia tuCker, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, is a visiting professor at the University of Georgia. She can be reached at [email protected].
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Allowing American creativity to flourishBy Dr. Ben Carson
Special to The Daily Union
When government grows too large, dependency replaces achieve-ment.
When I was in high school in Detroit, I had a job as a biology laboratory assistant. I spent a substantial amount of time in the greenhouse preparing botany experiments. I had acquired some seeds of an interesting plant and was anxious to use them to pro-duce my own crop of these plants.
I planted the seeds in a special container and kept enriching the soil and providing plenty of moisture and sunlight to enhance and accelerate the growth. I was very dis-appointed with the results and eventually abandoned the project, leaving the seeds in some soil behind the greenhouse to fend for themselves.
To my surprise, one day when I was behind the greenhouse, I discovered that the seeds not only had germinated, but had produced a substantial crop without my help.
I realize that no analogy is perfect and that many people will try to discredit this one, but in this case, I believe the seed is similar to America when it was a fledgling group of colonies. Many people came to America from other countries because they saw an opportunity to lead the life of their choice without a lot of interference from an overarching governing structure.
Although there has been constant ten-sion between those desiring a strong cen-
tral government that maintains control and order and those desiring maximum personal freedom as long as the rights of others are preserved, our country man-aged to thrive for many decades with an unprecedented level of autonomy for its citizens. People largely were left to their own devices and could experience great financial success or profound failure with-out the government playing a major role, other than ensuring the rights of the citi-zens to pursue their dreams.
Government plays a vital role in the smooth functioning of a successful society. In our country, it was intended that the central government would provide such services as policing, military protection, roads, sanitation, public safety and similar things.
In recent years, well-meaning govern-ment officials from both parties have deter-mined that citizens need to be more closely managed because they are not capable of acting responsibly or planning for the future. Unfortunately, many of our citizens have grown accustomed to having others regulate their lives and now take little responsibility for their own well-being and that of their families.
In the meantime, the government contin-ues to grow at a rapid pace in order to meet the needs and expectations of the growing dependent class of citizens. This scenario is well known to historians, who realize that bureaucracy begets more bureaucra-cy. It is incredibly rare — if not unheard of — for bureaucratic agencies to conclude
that they have grown too big and need to be reduced.
It’s not that people who work in the gov-ernment are bad people; rather, there is a natural tendency for government to grow. Our Founders feared this, and they includ-ed measures that we are now ignoring to restrain the growth and power of the cen-tral government.
Just as I was meddling with the natural growth of those seeds, constant interfer-ence in Americans’ business by govern-ment stifles economic growth, creativity and entrepreneurship.
The early settlers of this country had very limited government support, and yet prosperous towns sprang up all over the country. In many cases, entrepreneurs became very wealthy, and that wealth begat wealth and opportunities for others.
Both free enterprise and government want to grow. The free-enterprise system creates wealth and grows the economy, but it is hindered when it is constantly manip-ulated by government interference and, I dare say, predation.
Government growth saps the lifeblood of an expanding economy: money. It is like a spider sucking dry a fly caught in its web, getting ever bigger and requiring more victims to sustain its growth.
If, instead of regulating and taxing to death the engine of growth, our govern-ment suddenly decided to leave it alone and allow it to be nourished by free-market forces, like the seed, it would explode with vibrant growth, jobs would return quickly,
and to the pleasant surprise of the govern-ment, its own coffers would fill because the tax base would be broadened. As an added bonus, the obligations of the government would lessen because there would be fewer citizens on the dole.
This would make it possible to reduce and eventually eliminate the national debt. If our government could learn to create a nourishing environment for entrepreneur-ial endeavors rather than gorging itself on the fruits of their labor, a win-win situa-tion would ensue.
We have strayed far from the idea of independent life and personal responsibil-ity for our populace. Many of our young people cannot even conceive of a world in which personal freedom reigns supreme. This does not mean we should not try to recapture the spirit of freedom and cour-age that characterized our rapid ascent to the pinnacle of world power.
We the people must control the govern-ment before it attains the size and power that will preclude that possibility. It is time we begin discussing with friends, associ-ates and neighbors our vision for our nation and how to realize it. This is not a Democratic or Republican issue. It is an issue of freedom in America for everyone and our progeny.
Ben S. CarSon is professor emeritus of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University. To find out more about Ben Carson and to read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com.
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Police & RecoRds6A The Daily Union. Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014
Junction City Police Department
The Junction City Police Department made nine arrests and responded to 160 calls in the 48-hour period ending 6 a.m. Friday.
Wednesday• 8:49 a.m. — Accident, 821
E. Chestnut St.• 11:48 a.m. — Theft, 604 E.
Chestnut St.
Thursday• 12:47 a.m. — Assault,
1515 W. Ash St.• 12:02 p.m. — Accident,
Eisenhower Drive and Brown St.
• 12:13 p.m. — Accident, 427 E. Chestnut St.
• 12:40 p.m. — Theft, 906 Perry St.
• 5:33 p.m. — Theft, 521 E. Chestnut St.
• 5:53 p.m. — Accident, 521 E. Chestnut St.
• 9:20 p.m. — Disturbance, 617 S. Washington St.
Friday• 1:58 a.m. — Accident, 900
block of N. Washington St.
Grandview Plaza Police Department
The Grandview Plaza Police Department made no arrests and responded to seven calls in the 24-hour period ending 12 a.m. Friday. A report for Wednesday wasn’t received.
Junction City Fire DepartmentThe Junction City Fire
Department made nine trans-ports and responded to 11 calls in the 48-hour period ending 8 a.m. Friday.
Geary County Sheriff’s
DepartmentThe Geary County Sheriff’s
Department made 13 arrests and responded to 106 calls in the 48-hour period ending 7 a.m. Friday.
Thursday• 12:01 a.m. — Domestic,
200 block of Barry St., Mil-ford
• 5:13 a.m. — Accident, US-77 mile marker 156
• 5:48 a.m. — Accident, US-77 mile marker 159
• 2:37 p.m. — Fire call, 8000 block of Erickson Road
Friday• 5:48 a.m. — Accident,
US-77 mile marker 166• 5:51 a.m. — Accident,
1200 block of S. Milford Lake Road
Geary County Detention CenterThe Geary County Deten-
tion Center booked the fol-lowing individuals during the 48-hour period ending 7 a.m. Friday.
Wednesday• 9:30 a.m. — Christian
Borneman, probation viola-tion
• 11:09 a.m. — Linda Rich-ard, failure to appear
• 12:02 p.m. — Henry Gil-water, probation violation
• 5:30 p.m. — Marcus Allen, criminal possession of a fireamr, aiding a felon, felony theft
• 5:50 p.m. — Karissa Gos-ney, theft, possession of mar-ijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, felony posses-sion of drug paraphernalia, possession of drugs with intent to sell, possession of illegal drugs
• 5:53 p.m. — Maurice Pip-pen, domestic battery, crimi-nal restraint, intimidation of a witness or victim
Thursday• 1:20 a.m. — James Melton,
domestic battery, criminal damage to property
• 1:38 a.m. — Jonathan White, assault
• 7 a.m. — Robert Brown, probation violation
• 9:46 a.m. — Kyle Hester-man, parole violation
• 1:58 p.m. — Doris Bailey, parole violation
• 2:15 p.m. — Mantrail Everette, theft, failure to appear
Felder, failure to appear, pos-session of marijuana, posses-sion of drug paraphernalia
Geary County District Court
Criminal complaints were filed in the following person felony cases during the two-week period ending noon Friday.
Jan. 3• State of Kansas vs. Jeffery
Lee Bock — Count 1: domes-tic battery, Count 2: criminal restraint, Count 3: aggravated endangering a child
• State of Kansas vs. Jamar-co Jasminte-Deanthony Jones — Count 1: aiding and abet-ting kidnapping
Jan. 7• State of Kansas vs. Juve-
nile DOB 1998 — Count 1: aggravated endangering a child, Count 2: interference with law enforcement, Count 3: criminal damage to prop-erty, Count 4: criminal dam-age to property
• State of Kansas vs. Juve-nile DOB 1995 — Count 1: robbery
• State of Kansas vs. Laquanda Sheneak Taylor — Count 1: criminal threat
Jan. 10• State of Kansas vs. Michael
John Roth Jr. — Count 1: aggravated battery, Count 2: criminal threat, Count 3: stalking, Count 4: endanger-ing a child
• State of Kansas vs. Duane W. Hacker — Count 1: Driv-ing under the influence of alcohol or drugs, Count 2: driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, Count 3: transportation of an open container, Count 4: driving on roadways laned for traffic, Count 5: lamps required,
Count 6: criminal threat
Jan. 13• State of Kansas vs. Andrew
Brown — Count 1: possession of methamphetamine, Count 2: possession of drug para-phernalia, Count 3: aggravat-ed child endangerment
• State of Kansas vs. Saman-tha Hertlein — Count 1: pos-session of methamphet-amine, Count 2: possession of drug paraphernalia, Count 3: aggravated child endanger-ment
Jan. 15• State of Kansas vs. Juve-
nile DOB 1999 — Count 1: battery on a juvenile correc-tional facility employee, Count 2: interference with law enforcement
DispositionsJan. 6
• State of Kansas vs. Roy Anthony Jones — Count 1: aggravated battery, no con-test, Kansas Department of Corrections for 27 months, post-release for 12 months; Probation: community cor-rection supervision for 24 months
• State of Kansas vs. Steven Lee Gonser — Count 1: aggra-vated battery, no contest, Kansas Department of Cor-rections for 13 months, post-release for 12 months; Proba-tion: court service supervi-sion for 24 months
Jan. 9• State of Kansas vs. Wil-
liam Robert Klock — Count 1: assault, no contest, county jail for 30 days; Count 2: assault, no contest, county jail for 30 days; Count 3: assault, no contest, county jail for 30 days; Probation: court service supervision for six months
Jan. 10• State of Kansas vs. Bran-
don Deshawn Williams — Count 1: criminal threat, no contest, Kansas Department of Corrections for seven months, post-release for 12 months; Count 3: domestic battery, no contest, county jail for six months; Probation: court service supervision for 12 months
Jan. 14• State of Kansas vs. Paul
Columbus Goodman III — Count 2: sexual exploitation of a child, Alford Plea, Kansas Department of Corrections for 57 months; Count 5: aggravated endangering of a child, Alford Plea, Kansas Department of Correction for 57 months; Count 6: posses-sion of certain hallucinogenic drugs, Alford Plea, Kansas Department of Corrections for 57 months
Jan. 16• State of Kansas vs. Jordan
Charles Young — Count 1: aggravated criminal sodomy, no contest, Kansas Depart-ment of Corrections for 165 months; Count 2: aggravated indecent liberties with a child, no contest, Kansas Department of Corrections for 43 months; Count 3: aggravated indecent liberties with a child, no contest, Kan-sas Department of Correc-tions for 43 months; Count 4: aggravated indecent liberties with a child, no contest, Kan-sas Department of Correc-tions for 43 months
Geary County Marriage Licenses
Dec. 30• Corleone Nygene Davis,
Courtney Pandora Plummer-Davis
• Michael Jason Bernal, Rachel Dawn Bernal
Dec. 31• Roy Benjamin Aviles,
Caitlin Marie Mester
Jan. 2• Stephen Russell Boggess,
Lisa A. Koster• Nicholis Lee Samlin,
Michelle Samlin• Blaine Scott Simon, Kayla
Suzanne Simon• Treynard Eugene
McMath, Jasmine Renee Nwamaka Owen
• Emmanuel Rivera-Diaz, Emily Montalvo Velez
Jan. 3• Stephen Michael Schu-
bert Sr., Joie Renae Schubert• Nathaniel Thomas Crain,
Tiffay Rose Mueller
Jan. 6• Kyle Kreider, Mckenzie
Mae Kreider• Lincoln Patrick Moloney,
Lauren Marie Moloney• Tara Sue Johnson, Bryan
James Johnson
Jan. 7• Chad Allen Hirt, Arina
Maryrose Hirt• Luis Antonio Alemany,
Marissa Leeann Hayes• Stephen Gregory Scog-
gins, Jordan Diana Bigham
Jan. 9• Timothy Allen Price,
Hunter Augusta Price• Megan Irene Landry,
Keaton Hurst Landry II• Emilio Issac Espinoza,
Editza Liz Rodriguez-Marti-nez
Jan. 10• Dakota Trey Henderson,
Katlyn Rachelle Dees• Abraham Elisapa Mori,
Sharon Amechu Abeja
Divorce FilingsDec. 30
• Phillip Charles Boller, Tami Dawn Boller
Dec. 31• Tiffany S. Mack, James
Montrell Mack
Jan. 2• Lisa Elizabeth Mitchell,
James Borden Burleigh• Brenda Kay Lacey, Ste-
phen Eugene Lacey
Jan. 6• Richard Leroy Harding
III, Michelle Z. Harding• David Desiderio Perez,
Tracy Renae White-Perez• Sebastian T. Roe, Benne-
na B. Roe• Shannan Marie Merri-
weather, Dyron Sylvester Merriweather
Jan. 8• Carl Dewayne Ross Sr.,
Cassandra Wheeler-Ross
Jan. 9• Selena Shanae Wright,
Spencer Eric Reeves Jr.• Stephanie Lorraine
Downey, Dustin Tyler Bla-sengame
• Natallie Ann Shakin, Vic-tor Michael Moore
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Dear Annie: My brother, “William,” recently passed away in his sleep.
His passing came as a shock to everyone.
He wasn’t ill or showing any indication that some-thing was wrong. We suspect it was a heart attack.
However, the real tragedy of his passing is that William and his two children had been estranged for more than 19 years.
When I called his son and daughter to inform them of their father’s passing, I could tell that they certainly felt the loss, and they also under-stood that any opportunity for reconciliation was now lost forever.
All the years of anger and resentment suddenly appeared senseless.
I do not know the reasons for the estrangement, but I can place blame on William, as well as his children, because all of them were adamant that they were “right” about the way they felt.
I had discussions with my brother, but he was never ready to open up communi-cation with his kids.
I also met with my niece in the hope of persuading her to phone her father and try to talk things out.
She didn’t. And her broth-er declined to talk to me about it.
Whatever wounds they had incurred had not healed, and there was no change of heart.
With their father’s pass-ing, they will now have to cope with their inaction for the rest of their lives.
Please pass my letter along to your readers.
Life is too short to harbor ill feelings and resentment, especially with loved ones.
God gave us the blessing of children.
Parents and children should not toss this blessing aside for what turns out to be in hindsight some perceived slight or miscommunication. — Mourning My Brother
Dear Mourning: Our sin-cere condolences for the loss of your brother.
We hope your letter serves as a heartbreaking warning.
People often think they have limitless time to fix relationships, but you never know what will happen.
If someone is important to you, work it out.
Talk it through.Get an unbiased third
party to mediate if neces-sary, but don’t let it fester until it’s too late.
Dear Annie: I am a heat-ing and cooling professional. In the past month, I have gone into many homes to repair their furnaces.
Several times, the only problem I found was faulty batteries in their digital ther-mostats.
Please inform your read-ers that spending five dollars and replacing their thermo-
stat batteries could save them an $80-$100 service call from their heating contrac-tor.
They should change these batteries every year.
Perhaps next fall, when they are thinking about Thanksgiving or buying hol-iday gifts, they could pick up some extra batteries as a gift to themselves. — Staying Warm in South Dakota
Dear South Dakota: Thanks for the welcome information.
We admit that replacing thermostat batteries did not occur to us, but we will pay more attention in the future, and we hope our readers will, as well.
Dear Annie: “Finally at Peace” said she learned to appreciate those grandchil-dren who keep in touch and stop mourning the ones who don’t.
I, too, spent an inordinate amount of time “grieving” the loss of my nieces and nephew after my parents and my husband passed away.
Over time, I decided to help with my church’s Sun-day school and recently went to work for an after-school program.
I’m no longer grieving, and guess what?
The last time I spoke to my nephew, it was a very posi-tive experience.
I agree with “Finally” that there are ways to involve yourself with children.
They don’t even need to be related to you. I meet and enjoy the company of many young people.
And actually having a job allows me to earn extra money, as well. — Also Finally at Peace
Annie’s MAilbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your q u e s t i o n s t o [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.
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ARIES (March 21—April 19). Maybe you don’t have to lose to gain. Maybe you’ve been carrying around a void long enough and there’s plenty of room for a wonderful treat to drop into your life. Go with that theory, and your attitude will attract it.
TAURUS (April 20—May 20). You can’t help your feelings or your reaction to people. But you can control your expo-sure to them. Arranging for more good feelings has to do with being around the people who make you feel good.
GEMINI (May 21—June 21). Choosing the right medium for your message will be important. Should you text or call? Should you show up in person or create a mystery post on a website? Let your stel-lar sense of style dictate.
CANCER (June 22—July 22). There’s an old saying: “Pay the piper.” In your case, the piper may not have been invited to play in the first place, which will make paying him a bit challenging on a psycho-logical level.
LEO (July 23—Aug. 22). Unconditional love seems like it should be everyone’s birthright, and yet it is a rare commodity. Can you give it? If you do, you won’t ever be able to unlove the recipient of this gift.
VIRGO (Aug. 23—Sept. 22). Stating what you want lets others know some-thing about who you are. That’s why you sometimes prefer to keep your wants quiet. You’ll be in a private mood, and you’re still not sure whom you can trust.
LIBRA (Sept. 23—Oct. 23). Being cre-ative gives you a lift unlike anything else now. You’ll touch on the higher places of your psyche and stretch into the outer reaches of your physical capabilities, too.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24—Nov. 21). Who wouldn’t want to be smarter, stronger and richer? The drive to do so may feel urgent today, but it will lessen as the weekend progresses. Don’t be fooled: Happiness is embracing who you are now.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22—Dec. 21). Your mind is like a pond. Do something to keep the water agitated, or the algae and mos-quitoes will take over. Challenging activi-ties and people will freshen your out-look.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22—Jan. 19). Does this scene look a lot like yesterday’s? That’s a plus. This is the new “normal”: the ordinary circumstances that will pro-vide your best opportunity for doing extraordinary things.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20—Feb. 18). True, you are similar to other members of the human race, and yet you are also quite unlike any being who’s ever been created. Therefore, it would be wrong to compare yourself to the others. Don’t do it.
PISCES (Feb. 19—March 20). It’s bet-ter to be patient than to waste time and mental resources on speculation. This is a case where the best answer is: Wait and see. If you can accept that, you are wise indeed.
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Submitted photoWestwood Elementary recognized four of their top student volun-teers: Joseph Brown, Owen Vars, Chalsey Dawson, and Aiden Zander, who volunteer before school almost every morning. They help younger students complete their reading homework at Rock-in’ Readers. During the first semester of this school year, there were over 2,000 participants in the Rockin’ Readers program.
Rockin’ at Westwood
Principal’s Award: Mackenzie Adair, Matthew Adair, Aaron Adams, Hailey Aprill, Jackson Austin, Ash-lyn Bailey, Audrey Baskerville, Carl Baskerville, Austin Bressman, Xan-der Caldwell, Izzi Edwards, Tracey Grawberg, Victoria Martinez, Naja McCrea, Joel Myers, Landon Macalu-so, Ellani Perez, Leann Pittenger, Aylin Raghunandan, Ty Raulston, Valeria Rios-Sosa, Manuel Roman-Esparza, Madeleine Sevart, Keegan Smith, Maria Stanislow, Olivia Tor-res, Hector Torres-Saavedra, Isabella Vester, Hailey Wilborn and Rachel Williams.
Kayla Shoemaker, Kaylie Snyder, Andrea Spaid, Stephanie Stanislow, Clyde Steible, Jonathan Stevens, Mys Swift, Mia Trevino, Dominick Tripo-di, Anderson Vasquez-Mejia, Zulady Velez-Cruz, Breyona Wallen, Aman-da Williams, Dominic Wilson, and Levi Wilson-Glacken,
Outstanding Citizenship: Aaron Adams, Cheyenne Archambault, Aavon Banks, Carl Baskerville, Arion Blanton, Xander Caldwell, Shawn Cremeans, Givonni Edwards, Keyana Fisher, Jada Gannon, Tracey Graw-berg, Chaniya Green, Justin Khayo, Jamelia Lard, Elizabeth Little, Naja McCrea, Ma’Ius Mejia-Hill, Katlyn Mohler, Joselly Montanez, Edwin Moreno, Ellani Perez, Leann Pit-tenger, Aylin Raghunandan, Mariau-na Ragsdale, John Rich, Lewis Rive-ra, Manuel Roman-Esparza, David Rowell, A’Kylie Savoy, Gracelyn Schmidt, Madeleine Sevart, Keegan Smith, Maria Stanislow, Jonathan Stevens, Jalyah Thomas, Olivia Tor-res, Hector Torres-Saavedra, Raybel Velez-Cruz, Isabella Vester, Jennika Walter, Layne Williams, Rachel Wil-liams and Dominic Wilson.
Improved Effort: Ny’Asia Akins, Lucas Allred, Karl Anders, Jaedon Cobb, Herbert Fisher, Keyana Fisher,
Crystal Gardner, Aiden Keener, Dan-iel LaShure, Ma’Ius Mejia-Hill, Jorge Murcia-Moras, Matthew Pierce, Leann Pittenger, Skyler Ricker, Ta’Marion Robinson, Ashton Sharp-steen, Jennika Walter and Hayden Walters.
Outstanding Attendance: Ny’Asia Akins, Lucas Allred, Jayce Alonzo, Cheyenne Archambault, Jacob Austin, Audrey Baskerville, Quinton Baskerville, Lania Blount, Micah Boyer, Dominik Bucher, Bran-don Colon, Francisco Correa, Jordan Crivits, Rebecca Crossman, Colten Drake, Aaron Entrikin, Ella Harper, Dontrell Hush, Nickales Jaecke, Jus-tin Khayo, Travis Leasure, Alisia Martinez, Victoria Martinez, Alexis Massey, James McCardle, Rachel Miller, Edwin Moreno, Natalie More-no, Verenissee Murcia-Moras, Hayl-lie Oquist-Tucker, Brian Pittenger, Jesus Ramos, Arun Reoung, Lewis Rivera, Victoria Rudolech, Serenitty Roberts, Samia Saloka, Abigail Schmidt, Gracelyn Schmidt, Ashton Sharpsteen, Keegan Smith, Jenna Stanley, Francisco Suarez, Darius Toney, Angel Trevino, Mia Trevino, Kyla Walsh, William Wilkins-Little and Brianna Zoeller.
Franklin Elementary announces second quarter awards
Achievement, first grade: Jackson Archer, Carlos Ayala-Hernandez, Allison Bandelow, DeAnte’ Battiste, Aden Bentley, Xavier Briscoe, Anthony Casey, Trevor Crenshaw, Sarenity Crotchett, Cole Crowley, Kaliya Dausuel, Kieshawna Forbes, Tru-man Fortner, D’Andrea Griffin, Matthias Hagans, Lusian Halbach, Maiyaun-ss Harley, Karla Howell, Ki’Asiah Jackson, Quamar Jones, Grace Kasper-Rome-ro, Logan Loving-Gabriel, Gage Lupo, Nevaeh Phil-lips, Nicholas Rinehart, Galen Ruffin, Emelia San-doval, Tyler Stanley, Syn-trell Sullivan, Nicholas Throckmorton, John Rey Villamor, Micheal Wash-ington, Jr., Irelynn White-bread, Ja’Twaan Williams and Sydney Yale.
Perseverance, first grade: Jace Johnson, Xzayvier Ocean, Treyvon Payne, Kianna Thomas, Nikiya Turner, Ivan Velarde and Aleksandr Winkleman.
Westwood Wildcat Honor Roll – All A’s (including PE/music): Sec-ond Grade, Darian Brat-ton, Zaden Cole, Braylon Garnett, Mariana Gibson, Caden Groves, Nadia Hagans, Matthan Harley, Misahirys Laboy-Colon, Tre’Vion Ruffin, Shane Schembera, Jamarcus Ses-sions, Anja VonSpreckels-en, Aaleyah Whisenhunt and Keiondrae Wilcox; third grade, Hailey Bande-low, Kaitlyn Brunk, Elijah Clarke-Boyd, Neil Crowley, Jommy Fasehun, Christy Foster, Alex Gayle, Isabelle Halbach, Brianna Hyler, Julius Mader, David Oca-sio, Enrique Sandoval, Kaleb Shaker, Isabella Souza and Kaelyn Tolley; fourth grade, Marissa Ben-itez, Chelsea Clark, Trace Cruz, Tamrian Gibbs, Colby Hartung, Angel Ramos-Burgos, Jorge Rosa-
rio-Cepeda, Alessia Ruffin, Shantell Sessions, Vincent Smith, Juliauna Throck-morton, Brinley Vanwey, Emily Wolfe, David Wrench and Fidel Ybanez; and fifth grade, Joseph Brown, Mya Cruz, Chalsey Dawson, Christopher Frewerd, Joseph Gibson, Elijah Han-cock, Jovani Heredia-Munoz, Brandon JC May-field, Kevon Moore, Alex Seelye, Serenity Sosa, Owen Vars, Hakim Vargas, Manuel Villamor and Any-cia Wright.
Honor Roll – receives all A’s and B’s (including PE/music): Second grade, Lillian Babylon, E.J. Ben-itez, Aaryana Childs, Armani Coleman, Kiara Coons, Kattiria DeLeon, Miwako Elbelau, Desinay Gardner, Elanna Green, Calleya Hartung, J’Khai Johnson, Jason Mader, Hana Moeller, Naziah Mor-ris, Trellnaishia Praylow, Jerome Putnam, Honora Remengesau, Makayla Saul, Anthony Skillern, Andreyus Smith, Emclean Taylor and Carson Woods; third grade, Anthony Aus-ton, Charlee Bailey, Leah-na Barber, Schyler Clark, Keyan Duncan, Brooke Foister, Tatyana Grant, Destiny Gwinn, Jayden Hamler, Benjamin Helm, Thelonius Jones, Devony Jones, Quincy Jones II, Kyleonna Joyner, Romeo Linares, Ashton Lupo, R’Amyah Moore, Michael Nurse, Samuel Perez, Isa-iah Smith, Cameron Sny-der, Ahmarianah Stroman and Keyris Vega-Crespo; fourth grade, Mikeem Brown, Angello Capelle, Quamir Davis, Kody Dun-can, Chris Forbes, Paige Jackson, Rachel Kun, Bianca Larios-Tapia, Ryan Lott, LaMarius Mitchell, Steven Orr-Webster, Ben-nie Palmer, Kayla Queza-da, Chazaya Ruffin, Dil-lon Schembera, Cortez Williams and Aidan
Zander; and fifth grade, Vivica Allen-Harris, Mel-lana Davis, Kayshlana Everette, Summer Gard-ner, Sean Holguin, Ila James, Haiden Jennings, Kaylena Johnson, Banrosy Kimpoumboudi and Chris-tina McClatchy.
Honorable Mention – receives all A’s, B’s and one C (including PE/music): Second grade, Kelsey Bro-dosi, Bryanna Carll, Jere-miah Collins, Marah Cruz, Jo’sya Gomez-Sharp, Car-lito Merced, Shannon Rob-inson, Ta’Lavion Seals, Jayden Stennis, Jordan Tate and Orion Wrench; third grade, Samarra Fisk, Pharrell House, Jeniah Johnson, Keylen Marks, Emma Turner; fourth grade, Drake Guillory, Jer-emiah McClatchy and Xavier Santiago; and fifth grade, Kayleen Crenshaw, Andrea Davis, Christopher DeLeon, Alvine Gayle, Jayden Johnson, Amanda Resendiez and Jerry Serra-no-Velez.
Quarterly perfect attendance – No absences or tardies: First grade, Lusian Halbach and Karla Howell; second grade, Kelsey Brodosi, Armani Coleman, Andreyus Smith and Aaleyah Whisenhunt; third grade, Elijah Clarke-Boyd, Isabelle Halbach, Keylen Marks and Dia-mante Taylor; fourth grade, Breanna Auston, Mikeem Brown, Mikema Brown, Angello Capelle, Quamir Davis, Tamrian Gibbs, Jesus Gonzalez, Jeremiah McClatchy, LaMarius Mitchell, Jorge Rosario-Cepeda and Alessia Ruffin; and fifth grade, Joseph Brown, Alvine Gayle, Man-uel Salvador and Serentiy Sosa.
Quarterly outstanding attendance – Only absent
or tardy one day: First grade, Cole Crowley, Logan Loving-Gabriel, Nevaeh Phillips, Syntrell Sullivan, Nicholas Throckmorton and Irelynn Whitebread; second grade, Bryanna Carll, Christian James, J’Khai Johnson, Naziah Morris, Jerome Putnam, Makayla Saul, Jamarcus Sessions, Anthony Skill-ern, Jordan Tate, Emclean Taylor, Anja VonSpreck-elsen and Carson Woods; third grade, Leahna Bar-ber, Neil Crowley, Keyan Duncan, Christy Foster, Destiny Gwinn, Jayden Hamler, Pharrell House, R’Amyah Moore, Michael Nurse, Cameron Snyder and Ahmariahnah Stro-man; fourth grade, Chelsea Clark, Christopher Forbes, Jr., Drake Guillory, Colby Hartung, Angel Ramos-Burgos, Juliauna Throck-morton, Brinley VanWey and David Wrench; and fifth grade, Chalsey Daw-son, Kevon Moore, Aman-da Resendiez, Owen Vars and Trinity Zander.
Kiwanis Terrific Kids: First grade, Trevor Cren-shaw, Truman Fortner, Maiyaunss Harley, Kianna Thomas, John Rey Villam-or and Ja’Twaan Williams; second grade, Armani Coleman, Marah Cruz, Nadia Hagans, Matthan Harley, Honora Remenge-sau and Jamarcus Ses-sions; third grade, Charlee Bailey, Leahna Barber, Eli-jah Clarke-Boyd, Jayden Hamler, Ashton Lupo and Kaelyn Tolley; fourth grade, Quamir Davis, Jorge Rosario-Cepeda, Emily Wolfe and David Wrench; and fifth grade, Summer Gardner and Joseph Gib-son.
Westwood Elementary announces second quarter awards
Roxanne Quinata is the January employee of the month at Geary Communi-ty Hospital.
The Fort Riley resident is a regis-trar in the Patient Access department.
According to GCH officials, she was nominated by a grateful emergency department patient whose wife wrote the following:
“In September when driving home to Colo-rado, my husband become very ill. We were so pleased to find Geary Community Hospital nearby.
During a long wait to be seen in the ER, Roxanne Quinata went far beyond her job to reassure us and to continue checking on my husband in a reassuring
and caring manner. I have never been associated with a more professional and caring hospital than yours.
Your patients are in good hands.”
Officials said Qui-nata’s strong cus-tomer service skills and a great atten-tion to detail help her give a first impression to the hospital’s custom-ers.
They said Quinata has an outstanding attitude and a desire to have each and every person she meets “experience the excellence” at Geary Community Hos-pital.
She received a day off with pay, a reserved park-ing place for one month and an employee of the month pin.
Quinata named employee of
month at GCH
Roxanne Quinata
Connor Gallentine, a 2009 graduate of JCHS, and 2013 graduate of Ottawa Univer-sity was recently accepted to the fall 2014 entering class at Northeastern State Uni-versity Oklahoma College of Optometry in Tahlequah, Okla.
He is currently working at the offices of Dr. Curt Anderson, O.D. in Lawrence. Gal-lentine is the son of Rex and Connie Gal-lentine of Milford.
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Air Force Reserve Air-man 1st Class Ron-ald M. Quiroz grad-uated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio.
The airman com-pleted an intensive, eight-week program that included train-ing in military dis-cipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical
fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.
Airmen who com-plete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
Quiroz is the son of Marites Quiroz of Junction City.
He is a 2013 graduate of Junction City High School.
Quiroz graduates from basic military training
Ronald QuiRoz
FAYETTE, IA — Upper Iowa University names its 2013 Fall Dean’s List. To be honored, the undergraduate must have earned a minimum 3.50 GPA for the semester and be enrolled as a full-time student.
Forrest Blum of Manhattan, Donald Bush of Manhattan, Patrick Franzen of Fort Riley, Inna Garcia of Grand View Plaza, Andrea Guilday of Junction City, Steven Guilday of Junction City, Jamettea Jackson of Junction City, Howard Johnson of Junction City, Victoria Macias of Fort Riley, Aminu Mohammed of Fort Riley, Gregory Paine of Mil-ford, Richard Saucier of Fort Riley, Ronald Schum of Man-hattan, Albert Smeal of Milford, Allen Smith of Fort Riley, Ashley Wiggins of Fort Riley, Jasmyn Willis of Junction City, Johnny Webb of Junction City.
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Submitted PhotoThe Scholars’ Bowl kids finished first out of 24 teams in the Southeast of Saline tournament. Pictured are Matthew Champagne, Frank Kim, Hunter Seech, Katharine Kellogg, Danny Bramucci, and Nick Dombrowski
Third grade: Dalton Allen, Liam Car-penter, Hunter Day, Joseph Dyer, Emelia Ernstmeyer, Nevaeh Lee, Khaliq Sey-mour, Emma Maupin, Miranda Baker, Dylan Lisciandro, Lily Matinson, Makay-la Munoz, Mariah Wyche, Darleen Ferrer-Stricker, Xiaotong Jiang, Ivy Chapman, Jadyn Dawson, and Addison Morrison;
Fourth grade: Jett Ford, Ari-Lene Jen-kins, Elizabeth Lee, James Baker, Nikki Bourgault, Amarisa Flores, Drake Juliao, Garrett Knowlton, Hiromi Maranga, Aydan McKinney, Brenden Moreland, and Elizabeth Otero-Miranda;
Fifth grade: Chalice Carter, Kayla Clayton, Malekia Jenkins, Karlie Stinson, Jessica Stuber, Joysidine Mendiola, Eliza Mercado, Joanelys Ortiz, Katelynn Page, and John Patrick Scoville
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Gospel Tribute & Musical Celebration
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Wiley College “A Cappella” Choir Marshall, Texas
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MLK Commemoration & March Monday, January 20 - 10 am
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Jose Soto – ’67 JCHS Graduate
Gospel Tribute & Musical Celebration
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Wiley College “A Cappella” Choir Marshall, Texas
Under the direction of Dr. Stephen L. Hayes
MLK Commemoration & March Monday, January 20 - 10 am
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Dr. Jose Soto – ’67 JCHS Graduate
Gospel Tribute & Musical Celebration
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Wiley College “A Cappella” Choir Marshall, Texas
Under the direction of Dr. Stephen L. Hayes
MLK Commemoration & March Monday, January 20 - 10 am
Keynote Speaker:
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for Pencek’s possible parole was held late last year.
Bush’s parents have attended parole hearings
for Pencek in the past. Her parents lived in Junction City when their daughter was killed, but later moved to Emporia.
On Oct. 29, the Emporia Gazette published a letter from Bush’s father, Don Bush, and sister, Carol Otto
Coffman, requesting assis-tance in assuring Pencek remained in jail.
This was the ninth time Pencek has been denied parole.
He will be eligible for review again in January 2017.
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out,” Kody said about the children working together.
Adults are welcomed to come and make a difference as well. Board of Education president Dr. Ferrell Miller volunteers as an adult Listener.
“The kids love that,” Van Cleave said about his weekly visits. “They enjoy read-ing to an adult and showing them how much they’ve improved.”
Van Cleave hopes the program contin-ues to grow.
“I’m sure we will,” Van Cleave said. “Our younger students can’t wait to be the older students, so they can be the Listen-ers.”
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“The grant is just an infrastructure grant,” Hunter said. “It’s not for us to provide any services. It’s just for us to sit and develop ideas and see what will best serve us.”
Funds will be used for a coordinator to schedule meetings with officials. The position will be housed at the health department.
Board member Larry Hicks was glad to see focus being placed on the needs of the rural community.
“This is something that’s been needed for a long time,” Hicks said about the
possible formation. Other communities are
applying for the grant, but Hunter said the associa-tion with the military makes their application unique.
“Even if we don’t get the grant, we’ll be able to do some groundwork while we look for something else,” Hunter said.
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on Fort Riley and individu-al strengths of each com-munity, such as education in Manhattan, land and housing in Wamego and workforce in Junction City.
Some even mentioned an improved cooperation and communication among the communities, K-State research, transportation and the airport.
Among the areas needing improvement according to the attendees included infrastructure, better trust between communities, a need to identify land uses, not waiting for something to happen before taking action and understanding
where the competition is, which is not between the communities. That one received a smattering of applause.
Earlier in the afternoon, the retreat started with a quick discussion of the goals of the Flint Hills Regional Council and the impact Fort Riley has on the entire area.
With a focus on “why here, why now,” topics included economic develop-ment, the power of region-alism and Fort Riley, com-munity preparedness and the practice of regional-ism.
“Regionalism is about doing together what we can’t do alone,” Flint Hills Regional Council Director Bill Clark told the group early in his presentation.
“The people we serve don’t look at governmental lines the way we do. This is all about taking care of those people we serve.”
The informational after-noon sessions focused on the goals and purpose of the Flint Hills Regional Council, Fort Riley’s impact on the area and how to improve economic develop-ment.
Clark focused on the fact the Regional Council can leverage elected officials, help share ideas, create larger planning efforts and views and allow others to assist.
“Our No. 1 priority is to build trust,” he said. “Your neighbors to the left and right and in front and behind, if we can each have each others’ interest in
mind, that’s what we are after.”
One of the key compo-nents discussed included the impact of Fort Riley on all of the Flint Hills region.
Col. Frank Muth, the deputy commanding gen-eral of Fort Riley, talked about what he called “the power of regionalism tied to the Army” and more spe-cifically, Fort Riley.
Muth said there are two key factors for soldiers when considering a duty station — housing and schools.
Other factors, especially for single soldiers, appears to involve being part of a historic division in the Army, educational oppor-tunities and the hunting and fishing.
With 17,000 soldiers and a
total of 55,000 people involved with Fort Riley in some way, the economic impact is huge at $1.7 bil-lion. That includes $1.2 bil-lion in payroll, $252 million in supplies and contracts and $153 million in con-struction.
Later in the afternoon, Dunbar focused on eco-nomic development.
Her key takeaway was planning and ensuring those businesses that desire to locate to a community have land information available to them. She also said it is key the area diver-sifies where its money is coming from.
“You don’t have a lot of exports,” she said. “We have some great things, K-State and manufacturing, but we need to diversify.
That base needs to grow and gather more people and keep them here.”
One piece that may help that is the National Bio and Agro-Defense facility, which officially will be located in Manhattan.
“That is a game changer for you,” Dunbar said. “They want to be here and they are big. Others are going to want to be next to them. We need to start thinking about what that means. Are we ready for that?”
This gathering came just days after Junction City area stakeholders gathered at a local retreat at the C.L. Hoover Opera House. That event was meant to focus on Junction City and its relations within the Flint Hills.
With their massive hooked bills and long broad wings, large birds of prey are often seen soaring the skies around Mil-ford Lake.
But today, anyone can get a detailed look at these creatures from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. during Eagle Day at Milford Lake.
The annual event, held at the Milford Nature Center, 3415 Hatchery Drive, allows visitors to learn more about ani-mals such as the American Bald Eagle, owls and hawks.
“It gives a lot of people who don’t nor-mally have an opportunity to see wild-life, a chance to get up close and learn a lot about these really important ani-mals,” said Jennifer Mai, a naturalist for the Milford Nature Center. “They’re hard to find and sometimes dangerous.”
The event also gives people the oppor-tunity to learn about the center’s attrac-tions and the state park.
“All of the animals that we have at the nature center are animals that are native
to Kansas,” Mai said. Along with live animal programs
inside the buildings, a guided bus tour will be available to view birds at the lake.
“We’ll have a scope set up so we can see them more easily,” Mai said.
The event hosted by the nonprofit organization is free for the public.
“We hope to see a lot of new faces,” Mai said.
The program also includes a tent with activities and crafts for children.
For refreshments, Milford Friends is providing free popcorn and hot choco-late.
The entrance to Milford State Park is free today.
Annual event allows opportunity to observe eagles, birds of prey
HERINGTON — Dickinson County and Herington law enforcement agencies arrested a woman on Dec. 20 after locat-ing 211 grams of methamphetamine inside her home.
Officers arrested 25-year-old Kendra Dee Gable of Herington after finding the drugs and paraphernalia items consistent with the sale and use of methamphet-amine inside her home, located at 119 N. Eighth St.
The arrest was announced Thursday in
a press release from the Dickinson Coun-ty Sheriff’s Department.
Gable was living with children inside the home when a search warrant was executed, the release stated.
Gable was booked in the Dickinson County Jail for possession of metham-phetamine with intent to sell, possession of methamphetamine, two counts of pos-session of drug paraphernalia, failure to obtain a Kansas drug tax stamp and two counts of aggravated endangerment of a child.
The United States Attorney’s Office has been consulted for possible federal prose-cution in the case.
Herington woman arrested for possession of methamphetamine
TOPEKA — The number of Kansans who applied for concealed carry handgun permits last year exceeded the previous one-year record by 50 percent, Kan-sas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced.
More than 24,000 Kan-
sans applied for concealed carry handgun permits in 2013.
“Record numbers of Kan-sans are exercising their Second Amendment rights and taking advantage of the Kansas concealed carry law,” Schmidt said.
The 24,181 applications received by the Attorney General’s Concealed Carry Licensing Unit during the 2013 calendar year was more than had been received in any previous calendar year since the pro-gram began in 2006.
Handgun permits reach record
The program also includes a tent with activities and crafts for children. For refreshments,
Milford Friends is providing free popcorn and hot chocolate. The entrance to Milford State Park is
free today.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Roy-als agreed to one-year deals Friday with first baseman Eric Hosmer, right-hander Luke Hochevar and utilityman Emilio Bonifacio to avoid going to arbitration.
Hosmer, who made just $528,250 last season, received the biggest bump to $3.6 million with a $50,000 bonus if he makes his first All-Star team. Hochevar will make $5.21 million while being eligible for up to $400,000 in incentives, and Bonifi-cio will make $3.5 million.
The Royals agreed with left-handed reliever Tim Collins on a one-year deal worth $1,362,500 on Thursday. That leaves only All-Star closer Greg Holland, fellow relief pitcher Aaron Crow and outfielder Justin Maxwell as their unsigned arbitration-eligible players.
The deadline for teams and play-ers to exchange contract figures was Friday. Arbitration hearings begin in February.
Hosmer, who endured an awful sophomore slump in 2012, is com-ing off a bounce-back year in which he hit .320 with 17 homers and 79 RBIs while playing in 159 games. He also won his first Gold Glove while helping Kansas City to an 86-76 fin-ish, its best since the 1989 season.
The Royals control Hosmer for three more seasons through arbi-tration, but most people believe they will try to sign him to a long-term deal before he reaches free agency. General manager Dayton Moore has routinely declined to comment on the status of such negotiations.
Hochevar, who made $4.56 mil-lion, is due to become a free agent
Junction City senior Jonathan Wilds sat on the wooden benches of the mostly-cleared out Jays’ nest in the Shenk Gymnasium at Junction City High School Friday.
Changed from his uniform into jeans and a hoodie raised over his
hair, he wasn’t watching the remaining people who stood chatting in small groups on
the gym floor.Instead, he replayed his final
shot of the game against Manhat-tan.
With Junction City trailing 33-32 and the clock rapidly running out, junior guard Tanner Lueker passed the ball to Wilds on the wing in front of the Blue Jays’ bench.
He dribbled around the arc, try-ing to find some separation from the Manhattan defender who stuck to him like a bead of sweat.
With the final buzzer nearing, Wilds rose up and tried to square his chest to the hoop but his body kept drifting through the air. He launched the ball toward the hoop and missed with 1.6 seconds left.
Junction City quickly fouled on the inbounds pass, but Manhattan (6-2, 3-1) sank both free throws, handing the Blue Jays (4-4, 2-2) a 35-32 loss.
“Really, I can’t believe I air-balled it,” Wilds said. “I shouldn’t have taken the shot, I should’ve taken it straight to the rack but I won’t let it take me down.”
Trailing by one with 20 seconds left, Junction City coach Pat Battle drew up a play to try and get the ball down low to senior Semaj Johnson for what was supposed to be an easy two.
But like most of the night, offen-sive miscommunication quickly threw the plan to the wind.
“We had the wrong guy set the screen, which left us scrambling for something there at the end,” Battle said. “And it wasn’t the best look, but our player did what he had to do.”
So Wilds, who hit a last-second shot to defeat Topeka High on the same hoop three nights earlier, took it upon himself to make some-thing out of the chaos.
“(Wilds), he’s a clutch player, that’s all it is,” senior Danny Thornton said. “Tuesday, he came
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MLB
Buck, Mariners finalize $1 million,
one-year dealCatcher John Buck and the
Mariners have finalized a $1 mil-lion, one-year contract, giving Seattle another veteran option behind the plate.
The agreement was struck earlier this week and announced Thursday. He can earn $3 million in performance bonuses, with half based on games started and half on plate appearances.
The 33-year-old hit .215 with 15 homers and 60 RBIs in 101 games last year for the New York Mets, who traded him to Pittsburgh on Aug. 27. He batted .292 with two RBIs in nine games for the Pirates.
Buck hit 63 homers over the last four seasons, fifth-most among catchers. Before joining the Mets, he played for Miami, Toronto and Kansas City.
With the Mariners, he’ll be in the mix with Jesus Sucre and Humberto Quintero to back up Mike Zunino.
Seattle designated outfielder Carlos Peguero for assignment to clear a spot on its 40-man roster.
NCAA Basketball
Regents approve $17.5 million KU basketball dormsThe Kansas Board of Regents
has approved a proposal to build a $17.5 million apartment com-plex that will house basketball players at the University of Kan-sas.
The proposed apartments will house up to 66 university students, with nearly half being men’s and women’s basketball players. It is scheduled to open just south of Allen Fieldhouse for the 2016-17 school year.
Kansas officials say the Field-house Apartments will be financed by private donations and bonds, which will be paid off through rent from the apart-ments. The state Legislature will have to authorize the bonds.
Each apartment will have a full kitchen, living and dining rooms, with lounges on each floor, two team meeting rooms, tutoring space and a multipur-pose room. Construction is not scheduled to start for another year.
NCAA Football
Tulsa offensive coordinator will not
be retainedTulsa football coach Bill Blan-
kenship says offensive coordina-tor Greg Peterson will not return next season.
Blankenship praised Peterson on Thursday, but said he thinks it is best that a change be made.
Peterson spent three seasons as offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach at Tulsa after serving as offensive coordi-nator at Northern Colorado. Peterson has also coached at Colorado State, Washington State, Kansas State and Nebras-ka Wesleyan.
No timetable was set for naming Peterson’s replacement.
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Jays can’t keep up with Manhattan, falling 63-43ethan PaDway
The Junction City girls basketball team found Manhattan’s pace of play to be remarkably similar to the high-octane fashion first-year coach Nate Parks is try-ing to implement.
But Friday, Manhattan simply ran it better.
In a game filled with turnovers, the visiting Indians (7-1, 4-0) took full advan-tage of Junction City’s (2-4, 1-3) mistakes and the locals couldn’t reciprocate in a 63-43 loss.
“That’s what we’re really trying to play and that’s what we want our style to be,” Parks said. “We had some people that were not very confident in this game and didn’t play as well as they can and that led to our turnovers.”
Junction City kept up with Manhattan for most of the game, but the Indians kept at it, slowly building the lead for the first three quarters of the game until they
held a 47-36 advantage entering the final period.
But then the 11-point deficit felt too daunting for the Blue Jays.
“I think our lack of intensity and effort in the third quarter is what hurt us,” Parks said. “We had a lot of girls thinking it was out of reach.”
Junction City senior Kori Kamm fought off an illness all evening as she desper-ately tried to keep her team in the game.
Kamm led the Blue Jays with 10 points in the game, but Manhattan caught on and held her scoreless in the fourth quar-ter.
“(Kamm) toughed it out for us,” Parks said. “They started figuring out we were trying to get the ball to her so we had a lot of times where they were collapsing, so I think that’s what happened in the fourth quarter.”
The normally-automatic outside shoot-ing of sophomore Kealee Rains fell off in the game.
For 23 consecutive dual meets, stretching all the way back to 2011, the Junction City wrestling team left the mat victorious.
However, Thursday night in Abilene, the Blue Jays fell into an early 27-0 hole.
No matter how much the deficit grew, Junction City never counted itself out. Spurred by upperclass-men in the upper weights, Blue Jay wrestlers won eight of the final nine matches by pin to triumph 47-31.
Junction City coach Robert Laster said he knew it would be up to Junc-tion City’s bigger wrestlers to bring home the victory.
“This was exciting and I’m real
proud of our guys because they knew what we had to do in order to win this, which was to go out, be aggres-sive and get the pins. I really like how they took that task to hand.”
Jake Bazan put the Blue Jays on the board with a win in his 138-pound match.
Bazan battled even with Abilene’s Blake Anguiano in the first period before finally taking a lead in the second.
But a win wouldn’t be enough — Junction City needed the six points from a pin and needed them fast.
While Anguiano held off a pin for as long as he could, Bazan finally forced the will from him, winning by fall 33 seconds before the buzzer.
Junction City senior Andrew Mill-sap held Kevin Wilson’s shoulder blades hovering mere millimeters above the mat for most of the first
Wrestling extends dual winning streak to 24
Ethan Padway • The Daily UnionJunction City’s Kamari Smith (top) wrestles against Abilene’s Rouven Heid in the 152-pound match in Abilene Thursday.
Ethan Padway • The Daily UnionJunction City’s Semaj Johnson (24) blocks the shot of Manhattan’s Alex Stitt Friday in Junction City High school’s Shenk Gym.
No easy basketsJunction City
loses slugfest to Manhattan
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Ethan Padway • The Daily UnionJunction City’s Darja Russell shoots against Manhattan in the Shenk Gym Friday.Please see Girls, 3B
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SCOREBOARDTV Sportswatch
Today
BOXING9:15 p.m.HBO — Heavyweights, Mike Perez (20-0-0) vs. Carlos Takam (28-1-0); light heavy-weights, Jean Pascal (28-2-1) vs. Lucian Bute (31-1-0), at Montreal
COLLEGE FOOTBALL3 p.m.NFL — East-West Shrine Game, at St. Petersburg, Fla.5 p.m.ESPN2 — NFLPA Collegiate Bowl, at Car-son, Calif.
GOLF2 p.m.TGC — PGA Tour, Humana Challenge, third round, at La Quinta, Calif.6 p.m.TGC — Champions Tour, Mitsubishi Elec-tric Championship, second round, at Ka’upulehu-Kona, Hawaii3 a.m.TGC — European PGA Tour, Abu Dhabi Championship, final round, at Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKET-BALL
11 a.m.CBS — National coverage, Tennessee at KentuckyESPN — Boston College at North CarolinaESPN2 — Temple vs. La Salle at the Pal-estra11:30 p.m.NBCSN — George Mason at Rhode Island1 p.m.CBS — National coverage, N.C. State at DukeESPN — Alabama at MissouriESPN2 — Oklahoma at BaylorFS1 — Southern Cal at Colorado1:30 p.m.NBCSN — Fordham at Saint Louis3 p.m.CBS — National coverage, Oklahoma State at Kansas
ESPN — Pittsburgh at SyracuseESPN2 — Indiana State at Wichita StateFS1 — UCLA at Utah5 p.m.ESPN — Michigan at WisconsinFSN — Texas Tech at TCUFS1 — Dartmouth at St. John’s7 p.m.FS1 — Creighton at Providence8 p.m.ESPN — Louisville at UConn
MEN’S COLLEGE HOCKEY5:30 p.m.NBCSN — Penn St. at Michigan St.
MOTORSPORTS9:30 p.m.FS1 — AMA Supercross, at Anaheim, Calif.
NBA7 p.m.WGN — Philadelphia at Chicago
SOCCER6:40 a.m.NBCSN — Premier League, Southampton at Sunderland8:55 a.m.NBCSN — Premier League, Arsenal vs. Ful-ham, at London11:30 a.m.NBC — Premier League, Aston Villa at Liv-erpool
TENNIS8 p.m.ESPN2 — Australian Open, round of 16, at Melbourne, Australia2 a.m.ESPN2 — Australian Open, round of 16, at Melbourne, Australia
WINTER SPORTS1:30 p.m.NBC — USSA, U.S. Freeskiing Grand Prix, at Park City, Utah3:30 p.m.NBCSN — USSA, U.S. Freeskiing Grand Prix, at Park City, Utah
Sunday
FIGURE SKATING3 p.m.NBC — European Championships, at
Budapest, Hungary
GOLF2 p.m.TGC — PGA Tour, Humana Challenge, final round, at La Quinta, Calif.6 p.m.TGC — Champions Tour, Mitsubishi Elec-tric Championship, final round, at Ka’upulehu-Kona, Hawaii
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
noonFS1 — Louisiana Tech at Southern Miss.2:30 p.m.NBCSN — Towson at Charleston
NFL2 p.m.CBS — Playoffs, AFC Championship, New England at Denver5:30 p.m.FOX — Playoffs, NFC Championship, San Francisco at Seattle
NHL11:30 a.m.NBC — Boston at Chicago6:30 p.m.NBCSN — Washington at N.Y. Rangers
SOCCER7:25 a.m.NBCSN — Premier League, Tottenham at Swansea City9:55 a.m.NBCSN — Premier League, Manchester United at Chelsea
TENNIS8 p.m.ESPN2 — Australian Open, round of 16, at Melbourne, Australia2 a.m.ESPN2 — Australian Open, round of 16, at Melbourne, Australia
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
2 p.m.ESPN2 — UConn at RutgersFS1 — Villanova at DePaul4 p.m.ESPN2 — Penn St. at Michigan St.
NBAEASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division W L Pct GBToronto 20 18 .526 —Brooklyn 16 22 .421 4New York 15 25 .375 6Boston 14 27 .341 7 1/2Philadelphia 13 26 .333 7 1/2
Friday’s GamesCharlotte 111, Orlando 101Miami 101, Philadelphia 86Washington 96, Chicago 93L.A. Clippers 109, New York 95Toronto 94, Minnesota 89L.A. Lakers 107, Boston 104Utah 110, Detroit 89Memphis 91, Sacramento 90Portland 109, San Antonio 100Dallas 110, Phoenix 107Cleveland 117, Denver 109Oklahoma City 127, Golden State 121
Today’s GamesL.A. Clippers at Indiana, 6 p.m.Detroit at Washington, 6 p.m.Miami at Charlotte, 6:30 p.m.Philadelphia at Chicago, 7 p.m.Utah at Minnesota, 7 p.m.Milwaukee at Houston, 7 p.m.Golden State at New Orleans, 7 p.m.Portland at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.
Friday’s Sports Transactions
MLBAmerican League
BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Agreed to terms with 1B Chris Davis, RHP Tommy Hunter, LHP Brian Matusz, RHP Bud Norris and LHP Troy Patton on one-year contracts.BOSTON RED SOX — Agreed to terms with 1B/OF Mike Carp, INF Jonathan Herrera, and RHP Junichi Tazawa on one-year con-tracts.CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with INF Gordon Beckham and OF Ale-jandro De Aza on one-year contracts.
period of his 160-pound match. But he couldn’t drop them down as time expired and his opponent lived to fight another round.
The result didn’t change.Millsap quickly gained control in
the second period and 3:15 into the match, forced his foe’s shoulders to the floor for the pin.
“He stayed in pretty good posi-tion,” Millsap said. “That was my main goal of the match, to pin him. I wasn’t really looking to put a bunch of points on the board, my goal was to go out there and put him on his back.”
Then Jeryl Denton, returning to the mat for the first time this season after recovering from an serious injury, shook off any rust early. He aggressively grabbed a 2-0 lead in the first period.
Once again, the Blue Jay wrestler knew a simple win wouldn’t be enough and he labored relentlessly to earn a pin, making the score 32-23.
Denton said it was all about the team.
“You get one pin down in a match and you just start rolling and the mentality is like ‘I’m ready to do this, I’m ready to get out there,’” he said. “Really, you’ve just got to get the ball rolling and it took a while to do that but when we did, it was
done.”Micah Felton wasted no time in
his 182-pound match, pulling the Blue Jays within reach, 32-29.
Felton was thrilled to help keep the streak alive.
“I got in there, got arm control, got that chicken wing and kept run-ning and running and running it toward his head till I got him on the shoulders,” he said.
Devonte Wilson, winner of his division in the previous two tourna-ments, then put Junction City on top for good in the 195-pound match.
After Abilene forfeited in the 220-pound division, freshman Kayne Hutchinson stepped up and earned a pin in the 285-pound match.
The most impressive part was Millsap, Denton, Felton, Wilson and Hutchinson were each wrestling above their normal weight.
Freshman Kamari Smith stepped into the lineup as a 12th-hour sub-stitution in the 152-pound division.
He scored the first of seven con-secutive wins to close out the meet.
Junction City competes in the Basehor-Linwood tournament Fri-day and Saturday.
“I got the jitters out and I’m ready for the weekend and for my weight,” Denton said. “I was unranked, they took me off the rankings and every-body thinks I’m not wrestling so, I’m going to go out there and show them what’s up. This is Jeryl Den-ton, I’m here to wrestle.”
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Ethan Padway • The Daily UnionJunction City’s Millie Ybarra wrestles against Abilene’s Tanner McGivney in the 106-pound match at Abilene on Thursday.
Smart vs Wiggins as Oklahoma St. visits KansasBy Dave Skretta
Associated Press
LAWRENCE — It’s been a few months since Kansas fresh-man Andrew Wiggins and Oklahoma State star Marcus Smart stood on the floor of the Sprint Center and posed for some fairly awkward photo-graphs.
It was during the Big 12’s annual media day in Kansas City, shortly before the start of the season. The two favorites for player of the year were paired up for some promotion-al pictures just a few minutes after Smart said Wiggins had yet to deserve his considerable hype.
“A lot of people are saying he’s the best player now in col-lege basketball,” Smart said then. “All I’m saying is how can you be the best player in something you haven’t even played yet?”
Well, both have had chances to show everyone what they can do. They’ll get a chance to show each other when Smart leads the ninth-ranked Cow-boys into Allen Fieldhouse to face Wiggins and No. 15 Kansas on Saturday in the first of two regular-season showdowns.
“A lot of people took their own opinions to that statement I made,” Smart said this week. “I’m not really here to talk about that. This team has a lot on their minds, a lot on their plate to get ready for Saturday against a great team and a great coach and a great crowd.”
Smart and Wiggins have both burnished their credentials this season.
Smart is averaging 17.9 points, and 22 points and near-ly 11 rebounds over his last three games. He had 39 points in a win over Memphis earlier this season, and is the biggest
reason Oklahoma State (15-2, 3-1 Big 12) has been among the nation’s most consistent teams.
“The thing that amazes me about him is he impacts an entire program from a person-ality standpoint,” said Kansas coach Bill Self, who watched Smart have two of his best games against the Jayhawks last season. “He’s been great in that regard.”
Wiggins, meanwhile, is aver-aging 15.8 points and more the six boards a game. And the nation’s No. 1 overall recruit a year ago has excelled in the most high-profile games, his scoring average spiking to nearly 20 points when the Jay-hawks (12-4, 3-0) have faced another ranked team.
“Extremely talented,” said Oklahoma State coach Travis Ford. “One of the best finish-ers in all of basketball when it comes to fast break. And I said all of basketball. I’m including now, the next level, anybody. There’s probably not 10 other players even in the NBA that can finish on the break like he can finish. He’s special.”
Leave the platitudes to the coaches, though.
Smart has had his say on
Wiggins — and Wiggins cer-tainly heard him.
“It’s just someone’s opinion. It doesn’t mean anything,” Wiggins said of those com-ments back at media day. “When someone says some-thing, and I don’t really care for the person, they don’t influ-ence me or nothing like that. It doesn’t matter what he says.”
Even though they don’t real-ly play the same position — Smart is a prototypical guard, Wiggins a lanky forward — there’s still a good chance they’ll match up defensively on Saturday.
That should offer college hoops fans quite the treat.
“They struggled at the begin-ning of the season, but they’re coming on. They’re a young team, but they’re a good team,” Smart said. “We’re going to have to bring our ‘A’ game.”
The Cowboys certainly brought it last season.
Smart scored 25 points and teammate Markel Brown rained down 3-pointers in an 85-80 victory that not only ended the Jayhawks’ nation-leading 18-game win streak but also their 33-game winning streak at the Phog. And when the buzzer sounded, and silence filled the old gym, the preco-cious Smart celebrated by doing a cartwheel and a back-flip on the field house floor.
“I watched it on tape,” Self said with a grin, “and I thought, ‘What beautiful form!’ I thought he tucked just at the right time and got full extension. It was very impressive.”
You can bet Self made sure the rest of his team watched it on film, too.
“I just know after they won, there was a big celebration their team had,” Wiggins said this week. “We all know it’s very important. It’s a big game.”
Orlin Wagner • The Associated PressKansas guard Andrew Wiggins shoots against Kansas State in Law-rence, Jan. 11.
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She scored eight points, but only converted once from beyond the arc.
Sophomore A’Kia Fain scored seven points and freshman Darja Russell dropped nine on the Indians.
Sophomore Abryana Dixon saw a significant increase in her time on the court due to injury and foul trouble.
She stepped up, playing up top in the Blue Jays’ full-court press and creating havoc in Manhattan’s backcourt.
But Junction City couldn’t convert it’s opportunities.
The team travels to Emporia on Tuesday.
“We’ve just got to get better as a program overall,” Parks said. “We don’t have the skilled players to knock down the shots when we need to so that’s going to take some time and some confidence.”
GirlsContinued from Page 1B
through and he had a great game against Hays. I think he’s really a second half player, fourth quar-ter, we can count on him to make big shots and keep us in the game.”
He hit two big 3-point shots to open the fourth quarter, bringing Junction City back from a seven-point deficit to trail 28-25 early in the final period.
Neither team could sink a buck-et to start the game; instead the two teams were locked in a furi-ous defensive struggle that wouldn’t relent for the entire 32
minutes of the contest.Thornton finally broke
through at the midpoint of the first quarter.
He drilled a trey to give Junc-tion City a 3-0 lead and went on to score all eight of the Blue Jays’ first quarter points before finishing with a team-high 13.
“It was a great environment,” Thornton said. “It was my senior year, last chance to play Manhattan in my own backyard so I just came out and was focused, got my mind right and then played my game. My team-mates found me open shots and I knocked them down.”
Junction City’s defense buck-led down in the second quarter, limiting Manhattan to just three points as the Blue Jays entered the half with a 17-14 lead.
But then the local’s offense sputtered to a halt coming out of halftime and Manhattan’s Alex Stitt nailed two big three-point shots, one barely beating the buzzer at the end of the quarter to give Manhattan a 26-19 lead, the largest separation either team created all game.
Junction City tips off the Val-ley Center tournament Thurs-day at 3:15 p.m. against Olathe Northwest.
“It’s not for a lack of trying, we just struggled to score,” Bat-tle said, “We had a lot of good looks, we had shots rim in and out and that’s going to happen in a big game. We’ve just got to do a better job executing on the offensive end to win these things.”
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after this season. The first overall pick in the 2006 draft, Hochevar struggled as a starter but flour-ished in the bullpen last season, going 5-2 with a 1.92 ERA in 58 games.
Bonifacio, who made $2.6 mil-lion last season, arrived in a mid-season trade from Toronto. While he hit just .243 for the year, Boni-facio hit .285 with th e Royals, and his ability to play second, third and shortstop along with the out-field made him a valuable utility player.
Bonifacio was in line to become the starting second baseman until the Royals signed veteran Omar Infante to $30.25 million, four-year contract in December.
“I like our team,” Moore said in a recent interview. “I feel very good about the way we finished the second half last season, and the chemistry in the clubhouse is good.”
The Royals have been aggres-
sive this offseason, signing left-hander Jason Vargas to a $32 million, four-year deal to make up for the likely loss of right-hander Ervin Santana in free agency, and trading reliever Will Smith to the Brewers for outfielder Norichika Aoki.
Those moves, along with raises given to arbitration-eligible play-ers, will likely push the Royals payroll past $90 million for the first time. That’s led to specula-tion that Moore would seek to cut payroll through a trade — desig-natred hitter Billy Butler, who is owed $8.5 million, has been ban-died about in what Moore down-played as “hot stove rhetoric.”
“We’re not under any directive to cut,” Moore said, “but at the same time you want to put togeth-er a team where players can be utilized well. My main focus is put the best team we can on the field, work to gel the current pool of players in a way that creates synergy and togetherness and a winning team, and we certainly have financial people who remind me of where we are.
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Ethan Padway • The Daily UnionJunction City’s Ja’Male Morrow puts up a shot against Manhattan in the Shenk Gym Friday.
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OPEN TO THE PUBLIC – INTERNET BIDS ONLY
Pursuant to K.S.A. § 1102 and K.S.A. § 211 the following vehicles will be sold at public auction on Tuesday, Janu-ary 21, 2014 at 6:30 pm unless claimed by the owner and all tow and storage charges are paid in full. !This auctionis open to the public at www.TowLot.com.Pre bidding begins at noonThursday, January 16, 2014, and continues until the live internet sale begins at 6:30 pm
Tuesday, January 21, 2014.Vehicles may be inspected at D & D Wrecker Service, 2715 Industrial Street, Junction City, KS starting January 16
through January 21, 2014, from 9 am to 4 pm Monday – Friday and 9 am to Noon on Saturday.Terms of auction: !ALL SALES ARE FINAL - NO REFUNDS. ONLY REGISTERED USERS OF www.TowLot.com
MAY BID ON VEHICLES. !This sale is by Internet bids only!All sales are “AS IS” and “WHERE IS” there are NO GUARANTEES OR WARRANTIES. !Paperwork to obtain title
is $100.00 per vehicle. !There is NO GUARANTEE the paperwork we provide will obtain a title for you in your state.!Please check with your state for the requirements. !You must agree to all sale disclosures and be a registered userof www.TowLot.com to qualify as a bidder for this sale.
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VP Retail Officer
Astra Bank is a family-owned bank looking for
employees who display excellence and commitment in all that they do!
Astra Bank has an immediate opening for a VP Retail Officer at any of the locations; Abilene, Chapman, Belleville, Scandia, Plainville, Hays KS
and/or Sutton NE
Establishes and monitors branch operating standards. Creates excitement in generating
business for the bank, through a variety of methods
including but not limited to sales contests, product development, sales training, and current product
changes. Drives success through creating, tracking, monitoring and analyzing results of
programs and products. Accountable for compliance with procedures and regulations.
Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field not required but preferred. Minimum of 2 years
management, 3 sales experience, 7 – 10 years’ experience in customer service; or equivalent
combination of education and experience.
Astra Bank offers competitive pay. Benefits include Health Insurance, Incentive Compensation, Group
Term Life Insurance, Profit Sharing and 401k
Apply online at www.bankwithastra.com
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VP Retail Officer
Astra Bank is a family-owned bank looking for
employees who display excellence and commitment in all that they do!
Astra Bank has an immediate opening for a VP Retail Officer at any of the locations; Abilene, Chapman, Belleville, Scandia, Plainville, Hays KS
and/or Sutton NE
Establishes and monitors branch operating standards. Creates excitement in generating
business for the bank, through a variety of methods
including but not limited to sales contests, product development, sales training, and current product
changes. Drives success through creating, tracking, monitoring and analyzing results of
programs and products. Accountable for compliance with procedures and regulations.
Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field not required but preferred. Minimum of 2 years
management, 3 sales experience, 7 – 10 years’ experience in customer service; or equivalent
combination of education and experience.
Astra Bank offers competitive pay. Benefits include Health Insurance, Incentive Compensation, Group
Term Life Insurance, Profit Sharing and 401k
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Full-Time Customer Service Rep/Teller
Astra Bank is a family-owned bank looking for employees who display excellence and
commitment in all that they do!
Astra Bank has an immediate opening for a Full-Time Customer Service Rep/Teller at
our Chapman, KS Location.
The main focus of this position is to provide service to bank customers by conducting appropriate transactions and meeting the needs of customers by referring them to appropriate departments in the bank.
The ideal candidate will be patient, cooperative, dependable, strives for
perfection, possesses a steady nature, easygoing, friendly, will work to minimize and resolve conflicts, approachable and
peaceful with people
High school diploma or GED required.Teller experience preferred. Cash handling
or sales experience preferred. Prior Customer Service experience.
Apply online at www.bankwithastra.comAstra Bank is an
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Animal Doctor in Junction City hasopenings for Full Time Kennel Techand Full Time Grooming position.Apply in person at 511 S. CarolineAvenue. No Phone Calls.
Awesome job available!Lead service technician, must beable to fix, repair, point, install andcomplete whatever job is asked ofhim/her. Must be able to listen to in-structions, work extremely hard andsupervise others. Apply at 902 N.Washington.
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U.S. Government Requires SpaceTo Lease in the Junction CityApproximately 10,000 - 12,000square feet of space to be used for aMedical Clinic that will improve pri-mary healthcare access for DoD per-sonnel. The medical clinic will be insupport of the MEDCOM CommunityBased Medical Home Campaign.This clinic is to be located in an areathat contains businesses and otherestablishments that are of a compati-ble nature . The facility should haveall public utilities and municipal serv-ices available, provide good accessand have secure/lighted parking toaccommodate employees and pa-tients. The space is required as soonas possible.Interested parties should provide thefollowing in writing:Map of facility locationAddressCurrent zoningPrimary base rent before any altera-tionsOwner/agent name, address, anddaytime telephone numberInterested parties should respond nolater than January 31, 2014 to:U.S. Army Corps of EngineersAttn: CENWK-RE-M (Darren Jones) 601 East 12th StreetKansas City, MO 64106-2896Ph: (816) [email protected] 1/4, 1/7, 1/9, 1/11, 1/14,1/16, 1/18, 2014
ADVERTISEMENT FOR REQUESTFOR PROPOSAL (RFP)
Professional Services Water andSewer Rate Study
City of Junction City, Kansas
The City of Junction City, Kansas willreceive proposals, from qualified pro-fessional firms, through the CityClerk, by 10:00 a.m. January 24,2014 at City Hall, 700 N. JeffersonSt, Junction City, KS 66441. The Re-quest for Proposal (RFP) for Profes-sional Services will be for providing awater and sewer rate analysis for theCity to include the areas of waterand wastewater operations, capitalimprovements and debt obligations.Proposals shall be directed to theCity Clerk, securely sealed and en-dorsed upon the outside wrapperwith a brief statement for the sum-mary as to the proposal is made.The City reserves the right to rejectany or all proposals, and to waiveany informalities in the bidding. Pro-posal packages are available at theoffice of the City Clerk or the Citywebsite at www.junctioncity-ks.gov.Questions regarding the RFP shouldbe directed to Gregory S. McCaffery,P.E., Director of Municipal Servicesat (785) 238-3103 or [email protected] a mini -mum 5 days prior to the RFP duedate.
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Public Notices 310 NOTICE TO SELL OR DISPOSE
To: Chance and Hope Sledd, DonaldHanna, Theodora Ngiraklei and JimSnowbergerNotice is hereby given that the per-sonal property removed from 125-2E. 4th, 701 N. Eisenhower, 220 W.14th and 540 W. 8th, respectively,will be disposed of February 10,2014, if not claimed and past duerent, storage and publication feespaid.Gary OldsOlds Property Management3308 Frontier CircleManhattan, KS 66503785-236-6537A12711/18 2014
Public Notices 310 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OFGEARY COUNTY, KANSAS
CIVIL DIVISIONCase No. 13 CV 369
GESO 13-3938
STATE OF KANSAS, ex rel.GEARY COUNTY SHERIFF’SDEPARTMENT,Plaintiff,v.$1,256.00 U.S. Currency, more orless;ONE SILVER IN COLORMACBOOK PRO,(Unknown serial #, Described asItem JS8 on ECR);ONE SILVER IN COLOR APPLEMACBOOK PRO,(Unknown serial #, Item JS9 onECR),Defendants._____________________________Pursuant to the Kansas StandardAsset Seizure and Forfeiture ActK.S.A. 60-4101 et seq.
To: Shawn Possemato, 14Dynasty Dr., Milford, MA 01757
PUBLICATION NOTICE(Pursuant to K.S.A. 60-4101, et seq.)
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIEDthat this property and contents wereseized by the Geary County Sheriff’sDepartment on October 29, 2013, onI-70, mile marker 296, Junction City,Geary County, Kansas, because aninvestigation connected it directly orindirectly to drug possession or traf-ficking. The Geary County Attor -ney’s office has since instituted civilforfeiture proceedings authorized bystate law. If you have an ownershipor legal interest in any of this cur -rency, and wish to contest the forfei-ture, you must file a “petition for rec-ognition of exemption” or claim within30 days of this publication. Yourdocument must be sworn to before anotary public (under penalty of per-jury), and contain all of the informa-tion required by K.S.A. 60-4111.Anyone intending to file such apleading should first report to thecounty attorney’s office and meetwith the plaintiff’s attorney in order toreceive an official summary of thedrug investigation, an explanation forwhy the property was seized, a copyof relevant forfeiture statutes, andwritten answers to some frequentlyasked questions. The 30-day dead-line is mandatory and will not be ex-tended.Tony Cruz #18366Assistant Geary County Attorney801 N. Washington, Suite AJunction City, KS 66441
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Miscellaneous 270 7 cu ft chest freezer. 3 years old,$50. Small microwave $10.785-223-6179
Public Notices 310 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF
GEARY COUNTY, KANSASCIVIL DEPARTMENT
Case No. 13CV376!!!Court No. 5
!Title to Real Estate Involved!Pursuant to K.S.A. § 60
!
Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc.Plaintiff,vs.Edith T. Elzie, Samuel B. Elzie, Jr.,AMS Servicing, LLC, Credit SuisseFinancial Corporation, and MortgageElectronic Registration Systems,Inc., et al.Defendants,
NOTICE OF SUIT!
STATE OF KANSAS to the abovenamed Defendants and The Un -known Heirs, executors, devisees,trustees, creditors, and assigns ofany deceased defendants; the un-known spouses of any defendants;the unknown officers, successors,trustees, creditors and assigns ofany defendants that are existing, dis-solved or dormant corporations; theunknown executors, administrators,devisees, trustees, creditors, succes-sors and assigns of any defendantsthat are or were partners or in part-nership; and the unknown guardians,conservators and trustees of any de-fendants that are minors or are un-der any legal disability and all otherperson who are or may be con -cerned:!
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED thata Petition for Mortgage Foreclosurehas been filed in the District Court ofGeary County, Kansas by SelectPortfolio Servicing, Inc., praying forforeclosure of certain real propertylegally described as follows:!
A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED INLOT TWENTY (20), BLOCK TWO(2), HICKORY HILL ADDITION TOJUNCTION CITY, GEARY COUNTY,KANSAS, BEING MORE PARTICU-LARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHEASTCORNER OF SAID LOT TWENTY(20), SAID POINT ALSO BEING LO-CATED ON THE WESTERLYRIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF HICKORYLANE; THENCE ON AN ASSUMEDBEARING OF S 89° 18' 45" WALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF SAIDLOT TWENTY (20), A DISTANCEOF 120.00 FEET TO THE SOUTH-WEST CORNER OF SAID LOTTWENTY (20); THENCE N 00° 41'IS" W ALONG THE WEST LINE OFSAID LOT TWENTY (20), A DIS -TANCE OF 42.82 FEET; THENCE N89° 28' 12" E ALONG A PARTYWALL LINE AND EXTENSIONSTHEREOF, A DISTANCE OF 120.00FEET TO THE EAST LINE OF SAIDLOT TWENTY (20) AND SAIDRIGHT-OF-WAY LINE; THENCE S00°41' IS" E ALONG SAID EASTLINE AND SAID RIGHT-OF-WAYLINE, A DISTANCE OF 42.49 FEETTO THE POINT OF BEGINNING.!TAX ID #: 04269G4!
for a judgment against defendantsand any other interested parties and,unless otherwise served by personalor mail service of summons, the timein which you have to plead to the Pe-tition for Foreclosure in the DistrictCourt of Geary County Kansas willexpire on February 18, 2014.! If youfail to plead, judgment and decreewill be entered in due course uponthe request of plaintiff.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Accountant Assistant - Accounts Payable ClerkCAH hospital in need of accounts payable clerk. Will report to the CFO. Associate degree in accounting or equivalent experience is necessary. General office
experience and accounts payable experience helpful. Must have the ability to operate a personal computer and general office equipment. Full-time position normally working Monday-Friday with benefits including health insurance, vacation, sick leave, and matched pension contributions. Must have good people skills, able to work independently and with others. For more information about the Clay County Medical Center check us out at www.ccmcks.org. Print an application from our website or pick one up at the Clay County Medical Center, P.O. Box 512; 617 Liberty; Clay Center. Post-offer drug screen and physical required. CCMC is a Tobacco Free Facility and an EOE.
Hospital Respiratory Therapy Department - Registered or Certified Respiratory TherapistFull-time temporary position for one year and PRN positions available. Prefer previous hospital experi-ence. Will need to be available for a rotation of on-
call, some weekend and holiday coverage. Will need to be able to work independently and with others, have good people skills, basic office and computer skills along with above average skills as a respiratory therapist. For more information about the Clay County Medical Center, check us out at www.ccmcks.org. Print an application from our website or pick one up at the Clay County Medical Center; P.O. Box 512; 617 Liberty; Clay Center. Post-offer drug screen and physical required. CCMC is a Tobacco Free Facility and an EOE.
Early Childhood EducatorNeeded for K-State Department
Teacher/Lead Teacher: The K-State Center for Child Development, a nationally accredited early childhood program, is looking for a highly dedicated and enthusiastic Lead Teacher for an infant classroom. This position is full-time, 12-months term. Pay rate: $11.47- $14.89 per hour.
Excellent Benefits including Health, Dental, Life insurances, flexible spending account, sick and vacation leave, K-State tuition assistance for self, spouse & dependents, staff childcare discount, and excellent retirement plan.
Ability to pass KBI Background Check, Physical and TB Test required. Minimum Qualifications: Child Development Associate Credential (CDA), or 12 hours of college level course work in ECE or an AA in ECE with 6 months teaching experience. Preferred: BA or BS in ECE or a related field.
Screening starts January 23, 2014 and will continue until position is filled.
Send application, letter of interest, transcripts and 3 work related references to: 1 Jardine Drive, Manhattan, KS 66506. Questions call Ashley Lignitz at 785-532-2958 or email [email protected]. A criminal background check will be required for the candidates selected for hire. EOE
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Business Opportunities 400 For Sale! J.C. Cigar BarEstablished & Turnkey
Garage Sales 510 315 W. 3rd. For sale/rent by owner,5BR/1.5bath, 2car garage, 2car car-po r t . Wrapa round po rch .785-226-4096
Estate Sale this Saturday and Sun-day. 909 Dreiling Rd., Junction City,Saturday, Jan. 18 from 9-5 and Sun-day January 19 from 12-4. SundayEVERYTHING is 1/2 OFF. There arebeds, couches, tables, chairs, linens,movies, books, home decor, a refrig-erator and much more. Check outT-La-Re.com for pictures of itemsbeing sold. This is a relocation/doun-sizing estate sale for Dorothy Olson.Items that we are selling are cleanand have been well cared for.
Misc For Sale 530 Cakes, cookies, party trays, pies,tarts, tortes and cheesecakes. Giveme 2 days advance notice and I de-l i v e r . 7 8 5 - 4 6 3 - 2 1 5 6 o [email protected].
1BR and 2BR apartments for rent.Affordable. 10 minutes from Post.Call 785-341-5759.
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Help Wanted 370 Now accepting applications for expe-rienced groomer. Resume and port-folio a plus. Apply in person at 106N. Eisenhower. No Phone Calls.
B&B Busing is now hiring transporta-tion monitors for Headstart routes.Obtain job description from B&BBusing, 2722 Gateway Court. Junc-tion City. 238-8555. EOE
Looking for dependable people towork Mon - Fri to pack up homes formoving. Must have drivers licenseand 18 years old. 316-208-1196 or785-375-3729
Accessible Home Health, Inc. hiringLPNs for PT in-home pediatric care.!New grads encouraged to apply.!Weekly pay.! Email resume to ac [email protected] or call785-493-0340.! EOE
Rock Springs 4-H Center, located 8miles south and 4 miles west ofJunction City, is accepting applica-tions for a full time lead cook as wellas a part time cook. Successful can-didates will have 3-5 years of experi-ence cooking great food in largequantities and should be very famil-iar with safe food handling regula-tions. ServSafe certification a plus.Must be available for day, night, andweekend shifts. Applications area v a i l a b l e o n l i n e a twww.rocksprings.net and must besubmitted with a cover letter to: 1168Hwy K157, Junction City, KS 66441,Attn Bev Knopp.!Questions regard-ing the positions should be for -warded to Andra Thurlow, FoodService and Hospitality [email protected].!Nophone calls, please.
Senior Project Manager. CampusPlanning and Facility Management:Senior Project Manager. Bachelor’sdegree in engineering, architecture,construction management or relatedfield and 5-7 years of experience incapital project management/deliveryand architect/engineer supervision.Master’s degree, professional li -cense, 7-10 years experience inlarge capital project delivery, experi-ence in a university setting or envi-ronment, LEED accredited profes-sional preferred. Screening of appli-cants begins 5 Feb, 2014 and contin-ues until position is filled. KansasState University is an equal opportu-nity employer and actively seeks di-versity among its employees. Con-tact Larry McGee, 785-532-1713 [email protected]. For positiona n n o u n c e m e n t s e e :http://www.k-state.edu/facilities/em-ploy/
Upper Iowa University is conductinga search for a part-time (25 hoursper week) Office Manager at our FortRiley Center. Baccalaureate degreepreferred but not required, knowl -edge of adult education is beneficial,excellent customer services skills anabsolute. Responsibilities include an-swering student inquiries, preparingand maintaining student and facultyfiles, processing registrations, with-drawals and data entry, assistingwith financial aid applications, re -cruiting and representing UIU at localeducation fairs and workshops.Travel on occasion may be required.Submit a letter of application, re -sume and the names and telephonenumbers of three references to: EOOfficer, Academic Extension, UpperIowa University, PO Box 1857, Fay-e t t e , I A 5 2 1 4 2 ; e m a i [email protected]. Review of applica-tions will begin immediately and con-tinue until the position if filled. EOE.
WANTED : Full-time Male JuvenileCorrections Officer. Must be 21 yrsor older and have a high school di-ploma or GED. No prior correctionsexperience required. Starting pay$11.00. Great benefits package! Po-sition closes on January 31, 2014 atnoon. Applications can be obtainedat 820 N. Monroe, Junction City, KS.EOE
Z Sleep Diagnoztics located in Man-hattan and Clay Center, KS is ac -cepting resumes for a full timeRPSGT. Join our team and work in agreat environment Flexible schedul-ing 12 hr. shift 7P-7A. Benefits avail-able. Please submit resume [email protected].
Help Wanted 370 Full time employment. Health & re-tirement, vacation. Laborer anddriver. CDL, or be able to obtainCDL. Farm background. Geary Grain340 E. 13th Street, Junction City, KS
HousekeepingLocal Apartment Community seekingfull time housekeeper to clean va-cant units and touch up clean interiorhallways and climb up and down 3flights of stairs. Housekeeper mustalso help pick up grounds and othersimilar duties. Bilingual English andSpanish a plus.! Full time positionwith Paid Vacation after 1 year.785-341-9870 or email [email protected]
Leasing ConsultantApartment Community near Ft. Rileyseeking Full Time Leasing Agent.Must have a dynamic personality, su-perior sales experience and be ableto multitask. Hours include weekendrotation and until 6-7pm some weeknights. Hourly wage + leasing com-mission.Experience with Property Manage-ment Software preferredHourly position with Paid Vacation,Sick Time and 401 K options785-341-9870 or email [email protected]
Help Wanted 370
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Bachelor’s Degree or an equivalentcombination of education and experi-ence required for Reference posi -tions.!!
PART-T IME CIRCULATION
CLERK. ! Twenty hours per week in-cluding Monday-Thursday, 5:15-9:15p.m. & Sundays 1:15-5:15 p.m. Highschool diploma or equivalent re -quired.!!
Previous library experience preferredfor all positions.! Applications and jobdescriptions available at CirculationDesk, Dorothy Bramlage Public Li-brary, 230 West Seventh Street,Junction City.! Positions availableuntil filled.! No phone calls please.!EOE
Help Wanted 370 CDL DRIVERS WANTED: WardcraftHomes is looking for Class "A" and"B" CDL drivers. Job requires someheavy lifting, a good driving record,and a pre-employment drug screen.Pay commensurate with ability. Com-petitive wages, insurance, holidaypay, vacation, and retirement pro-gram available. Apply in person atWardcraft Homes, Inc. 614 MapleStreet, Clay Center, KS between8:00 AM and 5:00 PM Mondaythrough Friday. EOE
CDL Drivers. Competitive wages,benefits, various trucks & must passdrug screen. 2646 Sage Road,Chapman, KS, 785-922-6180.
Ft. Riley/Junction City DominosPizza now hiring drivers & insiders,come by the store for application,232 W. 18th St. or 7840 NormandyDr.
Excellent entry level position. Mustbe extremely hard working, withgood driving skills. Honest, trustwor-thy, clean and professional. Willtrain. Apply at 902 N. Washington.
Experienced cleaners for movein/out cleans. Also part time wood re-f inisher. Voice/vehicle must.785-263-9817, leave message.
6B The Daily Union. Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014
Classifieds
open houses906 S. Adams • $153,900Well built 3 bed/2 bath ranch, 1/3 acre, FP in FR, Sunroom,
Hardwood, Att 1 car gar, carport, storage. Walk-in closet, tub & seper-
workshop, basement has non-conforming bdrm and family room. A must see!
Host: Angie Morgan at 785-210-5089.
2124 Rucker Road • Junction City, KS 66441785-210-2500
509 Beck Drive • $145,000Lots of space for the growing family in
established neighborhood. Short distance to Sheridan Elementary. Contact Larry Johnson
at 785-223-1352 or 785-210-2500.
11630 Farnum Run • $299,900Price reduced on this beautiful 4 bdrm, 3.5 bath home located near lake. Many special
features. Fin. bsmt. Located on 2 acres.Hostess: Mary Rickley 785-223-1254
MOWRY CUSTER, REALTORS ®522 N. Eisenhower Dr. • Junction City, KS 66441
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5629 Legends View Wamego, KS $242,500
3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3 Car garage, ranch style house with full
partial finished basement, 1.82 acres, no special taxes, another Robinson Building Corp house.
9974 Rosemary Ln,Manhattan, KS $216,950
3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 single car garage, ranch style house with full unfinished basement,
huge backyard, another Robinson Building Corp house.
9966 Rosemary Ln,Manhattan, KS $212,950
3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 car garage, ranch style house with full
unfinished basement, huge backyard, another Robinson Building
Corp house.
Open Houses from 1-3 pm on Sunday, January 19th
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2428 2200 AVENUE (LILLY ROAD)(LOCATED SOUTH OF JUNCTION CITY, KS ON HWY 77 TO LYONS CREEK ROAD, WEST APPROX. 4 MILES TO LILLY ROAD, RIGHT ON LILLY ROAD TO AUCTION)
TRACT I: APPROXIMATELY 40 ACRES AND MOBILE HOME
Tract in NW ¼ Section 24, Township 13S, Range 4E, Dickinson County Kansas. 40 Acres with 2001 Ashton 40’X80’ mobile home. Very nice clean home located on 40 Acres with nice view. The land has been terraced and previously in the CRP program, it is currently all in grass. The well kept home has 3 bedrooms, 2 bath, living room & kitchen. The property has its own well and propane tank. Great place in the Country.
TRACT II: 5.4 ACRES GEARY COUNTY KANSAS
This tract is located 4 ½ miles west of Junction City, Ks on Hwy 18 (NW corner of Hwy 18 and Milford Road). Tract in SE ¼ Section 2, Township 12S, Range 4E, Geary County Kansas. 5.4 Acres with lots of trees and abundance of wildlife, great for secluded build-ing site or hunting. Many possibilities. NOTE: This tract will be sold at the location of Tract I.
TERMS ON BOTH TRACTS: Buyer to pay 10% down day of Auction with balance due on or before March 3, 2014. Buyer & Seller to divide Cost of Title Insurance equally. All inspections to be made prior to Auction at Buyers expense. STATEMENTS MADE DAY OF AUCTION TAKES PRECEDENCE OVER ANY OTHER INFORMATION. To view properties contact Vern Gannon Broker/Auctioneer 785-770-0066 or Gannon Real Estate and Auc-tions 785-539-2316.
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REAL ESTATE AUCTION (CAR WASH)WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2014 AT 6:30 P.M.
AUCTION LOCATION 215A RILEY AVENUE (ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE CAR WASH)
OGDEN, KANSASREAL ESTATE: 218 RILEY AVENUE, OGDEN, KS.CAR WASH WITH 4 BAYS Approx. 1,822 Sq. Ft.,LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Lots 7-9, Block 19, Ogden City Addition to Ogden, Riley County, Kansas.SIZE:3 City Lots ZONED: (Commercial & Industrial)TAXES:$2,047.06 Taxes for 2013 and all prior years will be paid by the Sellers. 2014 Taxes will be pro-rated to date of closing. Closing &Possession on or before February 27, 2014.TERMS:10% DOWN DAY OF SALE. Balance due when Merchantable Title and Warranty Deed is delivered. All Buyersinspection must be done before day of Auction.Title Policy & Escrow Fee will be divided equally between the Sellers and the Buyers.ANNOUNCEMENTS & STATEMENTS made day of sale takeprecedence over all printed material. Broker & Auctioneers arerepresenting the Sellers.FOR INFORMATION: CALL JAY E. BROWN (785) 223-7555
REAL ESTATE & PERSONAL PROPERTY AUCTIONSATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2014 AT 10:00 A.M.
2323 N. JACKSON, JUNCTION CITY, KSREAL ESTATE IS LOCATED AT 1353 FOGARTY DRIVE, JUNCTION CITY, KS.PROPERTY WILL BE AUCTIONED AT 2323 N. JACKSON AT 1:00 PM. AUTOMOBILE, FURNITURE, 1991 Chevrolet Lumina Z34, V6, All Power, Dining Room Table w/6-Chairs, 3-China Cabinets, Couch & Loveseat, Couch w/2 Chairs, 2-Black Occasional Chairs, 2-Coffee Table & End Table Sets, Glass Top Coffee Table, 2-Stainless Steel Tables w/Glass Tops, 2-4 Piece Bedroom Sets (One King Size), Twin Size Bed, 7-Bar Stools, Writing Desk, Oak Office Chair, 4-Bookcases, Electric Organ w/Bench, Sewing Machine w/Cabinet, 2 Brass Lamps, Emerson Star Turntable & 8 Track Player w/Many 8 Track Tapes, Magnavox 51” Television w/Stand, MW Microwave w/Stand, GE RefrigeratorGLASSWARE & MISCELLANEOUS Crystal Bells, Hummel Dish, German Tea Set, Several Music Boxes, Fairfield Setting For 8 China w/Water Glasses, Rosette Setting For 8 China w/All Serving Pieces, Several Beer & Bar Lights, Bar Glasses, Red Stop Light, Ceramic Figurines, Canister Set w/Salt & Pep-per, 33 RPM Records, Several Stuffed Bears, Old Kraftsman Electric Guitar, Artificial Plants, Metal Plant Stand, Humidifier, Pictures & Frames, Hanging Oil Light, 3 Section Hanging Mirror, Purses, Several Touch Lamps, 2-Metal Cabinets, Alum Step Ladder, Hand Tools, Shovels, Shears, Shop Vac, Paper Shredder, Metal Coat Rack, Area Rugs, Lace German Curtains, Safe, Norelco Clean Air Machine, AND MANY MORE ITEMS TO NUMEROUS TO LIST.
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2BD/2BA 2-story home in Chapmanon corner lot. Newly remodeled in-side. New exterior paint. $69,000Call Jack at 785-922-6826
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Small basement studio apartment.$395/deposit. Water, trash, gas pro-vided. NO PETS. 6th &. Adams.785-238-1663.
Mobile Homes For Rent 750 Mobile Homes For Rent 750 1, 2, 3 Bedroom, near Post, Schooland Lake. $275 and up. Military In-spected. 463-5526
2-3-4BR. Clean, good condition.Near Post, schools, Lake. W/D hook-ups. Refrigerator, stove furnished.785-463-5321
Chapman- 2br, 1 bath. Central airunit, 8’x12’ shed. 1 pet with restric-tions. $495 plus deposit. 785226-0150
Newer 3BR, 2 bath, manufacturedhome on private lot. CH/CA, petswith fee. Fenced yard, availableNow. Close to School and Post.$850 + deposit. 223-7055.
Houses For Rent 770 1BR house, 220 N. Jefferson$400.00mo/deposit. Pay own utili-ties. 785-238-7714 or 785-238-4394
Available Now! (2) 1BR houses, (1)4BR house. Call 210-0777 or202-2022 or 375-5376
(2) houses, large 3BR/2BA, in Enter-prise. Fenced yard, pets okay, largegarage, basements. $1,125/mo plusdeposit. References required. Pic-tures/info ahrn.com 785-280-2024
2BR house, 1032 Northwest Ave.$600.00mo/deposit. Pay own utili-ties. 785-238-7714 or 785-238-4394
3BR house, 124 E. 4th St.$650.00mo/deposit. Pay own utili-ties. 785-238-7714 or 785-238-4394
1BR, 1150 sf house, fully furnished,utilities paid. $1,000/mo. No Pets, nosmoking. 785-375-5755
2 bedroom house. Totally remod -eled. $650.00 rent. No pets.785-223-7352.
2BR apartments. 735 W. 1st.$495.00mo/deposit. Pay own utili-ties. 785-238-7714 or 785-238-4394
2BD/1BA, Fenced Yard, QuietNeighborhood, Next to pool andgreat school. Pets Negotiable.$700/rent + deposit. Available Imme-diately. Call 785-375-3729 or316-208-1196.
2BD/1BA, finished basement, all ap-pliances, $650/rent & deposit, fencedyard, 924 N Madison. Call785-761-7331
2BR new paint, LR, DR, 1 1/2BA,hardwood floors. Garage. Near Post,Lake, schools. 785-463-5321
3 bedroom, 2 bath, full fenced-inyard. 785-226-4859
3 b e d r o o m a p a r t m e n t s .$570.00mo/deposit. Pay own utili-ties. 785-238-7714 or 785-238-4394
3 BR house, located at 1739 N. Jef-ferson, $750 rent, $750 deposit.No Pets. Call Charlie 785-210-8535.
3BD, 1-1/2BA Townhome. Garage,fenced yard. In Indian Ridge. $800rent/deposit. Available Now.785-223-8178
Cedar Estates. 1 acre lot. 2 BR, 2 1/2 Bath, Option for 3rd BR in basement. Vaulted ceiling, WBFP
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Life arts : books : entertainment : home The Daily Union. Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014
The doctors of Geary County have been well documented in
the past, particularly O’Donnell, Smiley, and of course, Brinkley, but what was surprising to me as I read more on the topic was the large number and range of doctors who practiced in such a condensed area.
Perhaps it was an anti-quated idea I had in my head from watching too many westerns as a child, but it was so easy to imag-ine the one, or maybe two, kindly doctors that trav-eled around the whole of the city to administer relief.
But this was not the case for Junction City and its surrounding areas.
In fact, at the turn of the 20th century, Junction City boasted over a dozen doc-tors — at least two who were well respected female doctors — a handful of den-tists, and surgeons who specialized in anesthesia, eye care, and — in 1897 — the art of the x-ray.
Dr. D. J. Moyer, the town’s oldest physician, took spe-cial care to keep informed on all the latest medical advances, like the x-ray.
He was known for taking frequent trips back east, and even traveling to Europe, in order to make sure his patients had the most modern care possible. Which is why it probably shouldn’t have been a sur-prise when, in November of 1897, The Daily Union reported that Dr. Moyer had purchased an X-ray machine.
At the time, the X-ray was the most modern of inventions.
The practice had only
been discovered in 1895 by a German university profes-sor, Wilhelm Conrad Roent-gen.
It was an easy procedure to recreate with the current technology of the time and the X-ray spread quickly among scientists and doc-tors.
But in 1897, the X-ray was still a foreign idea to the Geary County community.
The Junction City X-ray was only the third in the entire state and there was widespread skepticism over
the science behind the device.
After all, how could a machine see through solid flesh to your bones?
So, in order to assure the community that the X-ray did indeed do what it prom-ised, Drs. Moyer and Yates offered free trials at their clinic.
The Daily Union took part in the free trials and printed this assurance for their read-ers: “If anyone has doubts as to being able to see through his hand, a trial will clear up
any such doubts.Two inches of cotton-bat-
ting or an inch of board cut no figure.
The bones of the hand show up plainly just the same.
It is so clearly shown that one can see the joints of the fingers and hand so plainly that the hand very much resembles a skeleton.
One can see the shoulder joint move just about as plainly.”
So, despite any hesitancy the community may have
initially had for the X-ray, by December of the same year, people were traveling into Junction City in order to have their bones set using the X-ray.
The Daily Union reported one event when Mrs. D.B. Jenkins of White City brought her daughter Gracie to have her broken arm set.
Little Gracie Jenkins was able to return home with her arm set straight and the Union declared “The machine’s work was most gratifying and satisfactory.”
Interested in learning more about the doctors and nurses of Junction City?
Stop by the museum this February to see the new exhibit, Healing Geary Coun-ty and discover what it was like to be a horse and buggy doctor at the turn of the 20th century.
The Geary County History Society is open Tuesday to Sunday 1-4 p.m.
HeatHer Hagedorn is the curator at Geary County Historical Society
Doctors brought X-rays to JC in the early 1900s
Submitted PhotoShown is an early x-ray machine circa 1890-1900
HeatHer HagedornMuseum Musings
Week in Review
Tim Weideman • The Daily UnionBill Robinson of Clay Center, on left, shows Jan Kissinger with Twin Valley Communications the rack of a buck he took with a bow south of Clay Center this past season. Robinson was one of many entrants in the 15th annual Grandpa Boone’s Cabin and Outfitters Buck Contest Sunday in Milford.
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Chase Jordan • The Daily Union For the upcoming Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance, artifacts from previous celebrations and artwork by Ruby Stevens is currently on display at the C.L. Hoover Opera House. Stevens, who taught English for many years at Junction City High School, founded the local observance in Junction City. This picture is titled “A penny short.”
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Cars2C The Daily Union. Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014
A race-worthy Cor-vette, a sumptuous Mercedes C-Class
and other glitzy new mod-els caught the eye at this year’s North American International Auto Show, but larger trends in the auto industry were also on display.
Ford’s aluminum-clad F-150 shows us that auto-makers are figuring out how to improve fuel econ-omy and still give Ameri-cans the big vehicles they want.
Porsche’s 911 Targa and pocket rockets from Volk-swagen and Subaru dem-onstrate that buyers still love performance cars, no matter what their budget.
And new mainstream cars like the Honda Fit and Chrysler 200 will have to work hard to compete in a market that’s not growing as fast as it once did.
Here are five things we learned at the auto show’s media days this week.Glimpse of the future
These and other auto-makers showed concepts, which are experimental cars that test design ideas and new technology.
Toyota’s FT-1, a sinewy sport car, reflects the com-pany’s desire to shed its stodgy reputation and build cars that make your heart pound.
The clean, white Volvo XC coupe, made of high-strength steel, shows that Scandinavian safety can be sexy.
Volkswagen’s BlueMo-tion concept — a souped up Passat — shows techni-cal prowess, deactivating cylinders from its four-cylinder engine to get an estimated 42 mpg on the highway.
Some concepts are just trial balloons. Honda’s space age FCEV barely looks drivable; it’s just testing the design limits for
Honda’s new fuel cell cars. Others, like Kia’s radical GT4 Stinger sports car — which would take the Korean carmaker in a whole new direction — may be headed to show-rooms.
The mere fact that the show is packed with con-cepts is a good sign.
During the recession, budgets for these dream cars dried up.
“Automakers are clear-ly comfortable spending more,” said Jessica Caldwell, a senior analyst with Edmunds.com
Let’ make a dealIt’s become a buyer’s
market. And the industry knows it.
Automakers and analysts expect total U.S. sales between 16 million and 16.5
million this year.That’s a return to pre-
recession levels and a natu-ral place for sales to be, based on population and other factors. But there’s a catch: The easy sales have already been made.
Jim Lentz, Toyota’s North American CEO, says the big sales gains — at least 1 million a year for four straight years — were driven by pent-up demand from people who held on to their cars through the recession and needed new ones.
But that demand is dry-ing up; many are forecast-ing industry sales gains of 500,000 or less this year.
“I call it a levelling off,” Lentz said. “We’re going to rely more on the fundamen-tals of a strengthening economy that will grow the market.”
That could be a boon for car buyers. Automakers could offer better lease deals and other incentives get their share of sales. But that can quickly spiral into an expensive game for car-makers.
“They’re eating their young if they’re not care-ful,” said Larry Dominique, president of ALG, an auto-motive data company.
Everyone’s an engineer
At past shows, nobody talked much about what the cars were made of. The widespread use of alumi-num in the body of Ford’s new F-150 pickup truck changed that. “Alloy” is now a buzz word.
The F-150 — whose body is made of 5000 and 600 series aluminum alloys — had everyone talking about materials.
Toyota pointed out the aluminum hood of the hybrid Prius.
Honda said it uses mag-nesium for steering beams. The electric BMW i3 is made of carbon fiber. Volvo promises high-strength boron steel.
In the future, expect even more discussion about materials, their properties, their cost and their benefits or draw-backs.
The carbon fiber used on the hood of the Cor-vette Stingray, for exam-ple, is half the weight of aluminum, says chief engineer Tadge Juechter. But carbon fiber also has drawbacks.
It’s pricey and takes longer to form into parts — hardly ideal for high-production models.
And steel still has its place. Beneath the alumi-num, the F-150’s frame is made of high-strength steel.
“It’s about choosing the right material for the right purpose,” said Art St. Cyr, vice president of product planning for American
Honda.Bigger is better
Using new materials does more than just shed weight. It also debunks the widely held theory that cars and trucks will have to get smaller, or use batteries or other alternative power, in order to meet strict federal gas mileage requirements.
“The expectation used to be that you’d have to get the green version, the eco model,” Dominique said. “But now everyone’s bak-ing it in normally.”
That’s good news for the industry. Vehicles have qui-etly been getting bigger for the past few years, to the point that compacts are as big as older midsize cars.
The Audi A4, for exam-ple, has gained 6 inches in the last decade, and its little sibling, the A3, has stretched to take its place.
The A3 sedan is nearly the same size as the A4 was in 2004.
At the same time, U.S. consumers are also choos-ing bigger vehicles, at least while gas prices are steady. Car sales grew at less than half the pace of SUVs and crossovers last year, accord-ing to Autodata Corp.
Ford’s gamble on alumi-num suggests those trends could continue despite the government’s mandate that fleets meet a 54.5 mpg aver-age by 2025.
Zoom, zoomThose fuel economy man-
dates once appeared to sig-nal the death of sporty cars. But of the 50-plus new mod-els being introduced in Detroit, more than a dozen are performance cars.
Americans now have more discretionary income — and a growing appetite for fast, maneuverable cars.
Chevrolet unveiled two race-worthy versions of the Corvette, each with a stag-
gering 625 horsepower V8, while Volkswagen pulled the cover off the 290-horse-power Golf R compact.
Subaru unveiled a high-speed version of the already powerful WRX small car. Lexus showed its 450-horse-power RC F. Kia omitted the radio from its 315-horse-power GT4 Stinger because it thinks drivers will prefer the sound of the engine.
The industry isn’t just showing off.
Sports cars take a lot of research and development time and money, but the payoff to automakers comes when technology finds its way into mainstream cars, said Stifel auto analyst Jamie Albertine. Chrysler has a sporty version of its new 200 midsize car, a seg-ment known for more pedestrian rides.
And BMW added M sport versions to its 3-Series sedan and 4-Series coupe.
The icing on the cake: The cars have smaller but better engines than the snarling V8 gas guzzlers of the past.
“Consumers have pound-ed the table on it,” Alber-
tine said. “They don’t want to sacrifice the get-up-and-go.”
Most people won’t test the cars’ limits, but they do merge onto highways and
accelerate to avoid trouble, Albertine said. “You don’t want to put your foot to the floor and wait 10 seconds. There’s an element of safe-ty to it.”
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The Kia GT4 Stinger concept debuts during media previews Monday during the North American Inter-national Auto Show in Detroit.
The Volvo XC Coupe concept is shown during media previews.
Story and photos by The Associated Press
Chevrolet Corvette Stingray chief engineer Tadge Juechter holds up the North American Car of the Year award Monday.
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1. “The Invention of Wings” by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking Adult)
2. “Dark Wolf” by Christine Fee-han (Berkley)
3. “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown)
4. “Sycamore Row” by John Grisham (Doubleday)
5. “Hazardous Duty” by W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV (Putnam Adult)
6. “Standup Guy” by Stuart Woods (Putnam Adult)
7. “Fear Nothing” by Lisa Gard-ner (Dutton)
8. “The First Phone Call from Heaven” by Mitch Albom (Harper)
9. “Command Authority” by Tom Clancy (Putnam Adult)
10. “River Road” by Jayne Ann Krentz (Putnam Adult)
11. “Cross My Heart” by James Patterson (Little, Brown)
12. “The Pagan Lord” by Bernard Cornwell (Harper)
13. “The Gods of Guilt” by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
14. “Innocence” by Dean Koontz (Bantam)
15. “King and Maxwell” by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. “Super Shred” by Ian K. Smith (St. Martin’s)
2. “Things That Matter” by Charles Krauthammer (Crown Forum)
3. “Killing Jesus” by Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard (Henry Holt)
4. “The Daniel Plan” by Rick War-ren (Zondervan)
5. “The Pound a Day Diet” by Rocco DiSpirito (Grand Central Pub-lishing)
6. “The Body Book” by Cameron Diaz (Harper Wave)
7. “David and Goliath” by Mal-colm Gladwell (Little, Brown)
8. “The Doctor’s Diet” by Travis Stork (Bird Street Books)
9. “Grain Brain” by David Perl-mutter (Little, Brown)
10. “George Washington’s Secret Six” by Brian Kilmeade (Sentinel)
11. “Brainstorm” by Daniel J. Sie-gel (Penguin/Tarcher)
12. “I Am Malala” by Malala Yousafzai (Little, Brown)
13. “The Pioneer Woman Cooks” by Ree Drummond (William Mor-row)
14. “I Am a Church Member” by thom S. rainer (B&H)
15. “Staying Strong” by Demi Lovato (Macmillan/Feiwel & Friends)
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3. “Guilt” by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine)
4. “Blindsided” by Fern Michaels (Zebra)
5. “Seaview Inn” by Sherryl Woods (Mira)
6. “The Night Before” by Lisa Jackson (Kensington/Zebra)
7. “After the Storm” by Maya Banks (Berkley)
8. “Montana Bride” by Joan Johnston (Dell)
9. “The King’s Deception” by Steve Berry (Ballantine)
10. “Zoo” by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Vison)
11. “Preacher’s Blood Hunt” by William W. Johnstone (Pinnacle)
12. “Notorious Nineteen” by Janet Evanovich (Bantam)
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The launch of a new year means a new semester of the
Learning Is for Everyone community education program is also under-way.
It contains a little something for everyone and a host of classes, activities and events to mark on your 2014 calen-dars.
LIFE is actually an organization of organiza-tions that includes most-ly public agencies and nonprof i t g roups throughout the commu-nity.
The current partners include: Cloud County Community College, Dor-othy Bramlage Public Library, Geary Commu-nity Hospital, Geary County Health Depart-ment, Geary County K-State Research & Extension, Arts Council, Parks and Recreation Department, Milford Nature Center, Rock Springs 4-H Center, and USD 475.
All have combined to offer a spring semester that features a wide vari-ety of activities to fit the diverse interests of the community.
This includes the library which will have classes on everything from hands-on how to’s to demonstrations to opportunities to listen and learn.
Book lovers will find listings for each of the five discussion groups and the titles they will be reading this semester.
In addition, a class on borrowing ebooks will also be offered as well as a program to celebrate the 2014 Kansas Reads statewide reading pro-gram.
The latter will see the Ladies of the Night Book Discussion Group and the Mystery Club join forces on Feb. 11 for an examination of Sara Paretsky’s Bleeding Kan-sas.
This evening will also include a related pro-gram at 7 p.m. by Profes-sor Isaias J. McCaffrey of Independence Communi-ty College entitled “Wel-come to the Melting Pot: Kansas Immigrants.”
It will chronicle the history of Kansas migra-tion and settlement and the resulting ethnic and cultural diversity includ-ing dialects, traditions, and cuisine.
McCaffrey will also talk about the social pro-cesses that drive commu-nities as they appear, dis-
appear, combine, and sometimes resurface.
Computers classes are once again the hot topic and the library will be offering several in the upcoming semester.
This includes Commu-nication in the Digital Age, Computers for Abso-lute Beginners, Internet and Email Basics, Excel 101, Power Point 101, Word 101, and Word II.
Creating Your Business Plan, Getting Out of Debt, Writer’s Block, and three classes on raising chick-ens will also be offered during the spring semes-ter.
They will join Founda-tion Center Basics, Bas-ket Making, Family His-tory Research Online, Writing Your Family His-tory, Meditation and You, Reiki, Relaxation Tech-niques English As a Sec-ond Language, Flint Hills Wisdom Keepers, and others that will all return for another semester.
All of the classes and activities included in the fall semester are listed in the LIFE directory and in the program website.
The directory also includes a feature on some of the speaking pro-grams and meeting facili-ties available through the participating agencies.
In addition, a separate section with information pertaining to the more formal education oppor-
tunities available to adults is also included.
The new LIFE directo-ry premiered recently in the Fort Riley Post and in the Daily Union.
In addition, copies will also soon be distributed through the school sys-tem to staff and students as well as be available at each of the participating agencies and other busi-nesses and organizations throughout the commu-nity. The directory serves as physical evidence of the broad range of “stuff to do” in the community.
In addition, the LIFE program itself illustrates the partnerships and col-laborations that often take place to make them happen.
It puts the community in community education and the new semester starts now.
SuSan Moyer is the Library Director at Dorothy Bramlage Public Library
Exciting things happening this springWhat are the book
clubs readingBleeding Kansas by Sara
Paretsky (Ladies of the Night Book Discussion & the Mystery Club)
Ada’s Rules by Alice Randall (Mahogany Readers)
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (TALK in conjunc-tion with the Geary County Cam-pus of Cloud Community College)
SuSan MoyerLibrarian’s report
Calendar of Events
Jan. 20Library closed for Martin
Luther King, Jr. Day
Jan. 21Preschool Storytime at
10 a.m.Evening Storytime at 6
p.m.Sunflower Quilters Guild
at 6 p.m.LIFE class: English as a
Second Language-First Ses-sion begins at 7 p.m. at Dorothy Bramlage Public Library Corner
Jan. 22Toddler Time at 10 a.m.Preschool Storytime at 1
p.m.LIFE class: Meditation &
You at 7 p.m. at Dorothy Bramlage Public Library Cor-ner
Jan. 23Wiggles & Giggles Baby
Time at 10 a.m.Preschool Storytime at
11 a.m.Writing Your Family His-
tory at 1 p.m. at Dorothy Bramlage Public Library Cor-ner
Jan 25Saturday at the Library-
Carnival and Family Fair at 9 a.m. at JC Municipal Build-ing
By The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — Lex Luthor is sporting a new title on his busi-ness card: Hero.
And, the way things are going in the wake of the Crime Syndicate’s mayhem on earth, the erstwhile corporate titan and super hero-wary skeptic may find himself lead-ing the Justice League, too. That would be much to the chagrin of some of its members, notably Super-man whose visage is not among those featured on the cover of “Jus-tice League” No. 30 due out April 23 and illustrated by Ivan Reis and Joe Prado.
“Is he going to lead the Justice League? It depends on whom you ask on the team. Certainly, he thinks he should,” said series writer Geoff Johns, who said the Justice League will have to rebuild its reputation and its dynamic among members Batman, Wonder Woman, Aqua-man, Captain Marvel, Cyborg and former Flash rogue Captain Cold.
Hero and leader are new sobri-quets for Luthor, a man better known for his wariness about cos-tumed crime-fighters and super-powered champions.
Johns, who is DC Entertainment’s chief creative officer, said this week that development will make for intriguing and unsettling events as the super group finds its place anew in a world wracked by the alternate-
dimension Crime Syndicate from Earth-3 and the mayhem they wrought in the vast “Forever Evil” event that started in September and is heading toward its final conclu-sion this spring.
“The Justice League is going to go through a lot of changes, obviously, in the wake of ‘Forever Evil,”’ he explained this week. “A lot of the blame can be put on their shoulders for what has happened: They were infiltrated and they fought each other and that led to the unleashing of the Crime Syndicate and the evil that took over the world.”
But amid the takeover, and the field day for the villains that went with it, Luthor seized the opportu-nity to become leader of the so-called Injustice League and a rally-ing point to reclaim the world from the Crime Syndicate’s Ultraman, Owlman, Superwoman, Johnny Quick and Atomica, Deathstorm and Power Ring.
Johns said readers will see “the post-’Forever Evil’ world with the lines being a little bit blurry between good and bad and seeing what kind of heroes it will take to not just pro-tect the world, but defend the world.”
While it’s not going to be a Luthor Legion, the team’s dynamic is going to be tested with his presence and, Johns said, so, too, will he find him-self facing different pressures com-mensurate with his new position.
In DC’s ‘Justice League,’ an unlikely leader
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By The Associated Press
BOISE, Idaho — After sev-eral recent child deaths, an Idaho lawmaker wants to fol-low Oregon’s lead and require parents to seek medi-cal help for kids suffering from potentially fatal condi-tions — even if their religion frowns on it.
Since 2009, numerous chil-dren of members of the Fol-lowers of Christ in Marsing, Idaho, have died of treatable causes, according to their autopsy reports.
Many children are buried at a cemetery overlooking the Snake River that is favored by the church.
The church, with locations in Idaho, California and Ore-gon, relies on faith healing, not medicine, to help sick members.
Democratic Rep. John Gannon of Boise says Idaho’s existing faith-healing exemp-tions for injury-to-a-child crimes should be updated.
He has support from Linda Martin, an Oregon woman who left the church in Idaho decades ago and has returned
this week to champion the changes.
“These children need a chance to grow up,” Martin told The Associated Press Thursday.
According to an autopsy from June 2012, 15-year-old Arrian Jade Granden died after suffering from food poi-soning.
After three days of vomit-ing, her esophagus rup-tured.
Preston John Bowers, who was 22 months old, died in March 2011 of pneumonia, according to his autopsy report.
He had been suffering from a fever for days.
That same month, 14-year-old Rockwell Alexander Sevy died after a two-week illness. “As time went on, he began having more shortness of breath and the rattle in his chest got worse,” wrote Can-yon County Coroner Vicki Degeus-Morris, concluding pneumonia.
Pamela Jade Eells, 16, died in November 2011, again of pneumonia, according to the
Payette County coroner.None of their parents
returned phone calls or could be reached for comment.
In Idaho, someone found guilty of felony injury to a child — causing conditions likely to produce great bodily harm or death or permitting a child to be injured — can get a decade behind bars.
But the law has this exemp-tion: “Treatment by prayer or spiritual means alone shall not for that reason alone be construed to have violated the duty of care to such child.”
Gannon’s proposal would lift that exemption “whenev-er a child’s medical condition may cause death or perma-nent disability.”
“Medical treatment for physical harm to a child should supersede every other consideration,” Gannon said.
In 2011, Oregon legislators trimmed a faith-healing exemption, expanding a 1999 law that eliminated the defense from some charges, including manslaughter.
That change came as Fol-lowers of Christ members there were prosecuted and convicted following child deaths.
In Idaho, Gannon wants to introduce his bill in the Leg-islature, but there’s already resistance.
Rep. Christy Perry, R-Nam-pa, said he fears the bill tramples on religious free-doms and parental rights.
“This is about religious beliefs, the belief God is in charge of whether they live, and God is in charge of whether they die,” said Perry, whose district is not far from the Followers’ Idaho church. “This is about where they go for eternity.”
But Rep. Rich Wills, R-Glenns Ferry and chair-man of the House Judiciary Committee where Gannon’s bill could be introduced, said he is willing to consider updating faith-healing exemptions.
“I’m concerned any parent would put their religious beliefs ahead of child wel-fare,” Will said. “It just stuns
me.” On Thursday, Ada County Coroner Erwin Son-nenberg recalled autopsies of numerous Followers’ chil-dren.
In some instances, routine intervention — antibiotics here, an appendectomy there — could have saved them, he said.
He has also been to Follow-ers’ homes and seen them cry over lost children. “These are great people,” Sonnen-berg said. “They love their children.”
While he favors limits on the faith-healing shield to prevent abuse, Sonnenberg said he isn’t convinced some-body with beliefs so powerful they spurn medical care for their children would take heed.
“At times, you sit back and wonder, ‘Is my faith that strong?’ “ he said. “I under-stand the faith side of it. But it seems like at least let your kids grow up, when it comes down to it, and decide for themselves.”
Idaho rep tackles faith healing after child deathsBy The Associated Press
PHOENIX — A Senate committee has given ini-tial approval to a bill allow-ing people to claim their religious beliefs led them to refuse service to gays or other groups.
The bill pushed by Republican Sen. Steve Yar-brough also broadened a bill that was a vetoed last year to include corpora-tions and other entities.
Civil rights groups are opposed to the bill, saying it will allow discriminato-ry actions by businesses.
Yarbrough says his push was prompted by a New Mexico case where the state Supreme Court allowed a gay couple to sue a photographer who refused to record their wedding.
Yarbrough cut a provi-sion in last year’s bill that allowed lawsuits by reli-gious groups over poten-tial violations of their rights.
GOP senator again pushing religious
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The meeting agenda shall include the following business items: 1) The supervisors of the Geary County Conservation District shall make full and due report of their activities and financialaffairs since the last annual meeting.
2) They shall conduct an election by secret ballot of the land occupiers who are qualified electors, there present, of two supervisors to succeed Don Eickhold & Gary Schellhorn.
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Board of Supervisors:Brandon Dibben, ChairmanDonald Eickholt, Vice-ChairmanGary Schellhorn, SecretaryDavid Munson, TreasurerGeorge Poland, Member
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Home & Living6C The Daily Union. Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014
Once every few years the Geary County Extension Office
hosts a country living expo.
A series of seminars pro-vide information that is of interest to a lot of folks, but especially those who live outside incorporated city limits. 2014 is a Country Living Expo year and the date is Jan. 25.
The sessions run from 9 a.m. to noon and the event will be at the Geary County 4-H/Sr. Citizen’s Building at 1025 S Spring Valley Road.
The programs are pre-sented at no charge and are open to everyone.
No preregistration is required.
Sessions will be present-ed simultaneously in the dining room and the east
room at the 4-H Building.While I’d encourage you
to spend the entire morn-ing at these informative sessions, you are welcome to show up for just one or two if those are the ones that catch your interest.
Let’s preview the presen-tations that are scheduled for next Saturday.
The first session at 9 a.m. in the east room is Keeping horses on a few acres.
One of the common rea-sons that I find for people wanting to live in the country is so that they can
have horses.Horses aren’t as “easy
keepers” as some folks lead you to believe and they can turn small grassy paddocks into dirt lots really quick.
K-State Research and Extension Dickinson Coun-ty Ag and Natural Resourc-es Agent Laura Marks will be presenting a great pro-gram on how to manage your horse(s) to maximize your enjoyment, the horse’s health, and causing the least amount of negative impact to the land.
Laura has a lot of experi-ence working with horses and you will find her pre-sentation helpful and inter-esting.
From 10 a.m. to noon we will have a “super session” on beginning beekeeping.
Everyone has heard a lot about the problems honey-
bees have been facing across the country, and many gardeners and home-owners have developed a recent interest in keeping a hive or two of bees.
Being a former beekeeper I can tell you that it is a fun and fascinating hobby, but can entail a fair amount of work.
Sharon Dobesh-Beck-man, beekeeper and K-State faculty member, will have an awesome hands-on ses-sion so you can see much of the beekeeping equipment that it takes and have a lot of one-on-one time with Sharon.
Meanwhile, in the dining room, we have three great sessions planned.
Starting at 9 a.m. Jason Hartman with the Kansas Forest Service will be pre-senting a session on fire-
proofing the rural resi-dence.
We’ve all seen some of the catastrophes with wild-fire in the western US, and we are not without our risks here.
Jason will explain things you can do to minimize the wildfire risk to your resi-dence.
At 10 a.m., Lisa Davies with the Geary County Health Department will discuss how to manage your private water well.
While rural water dis-tricts are more common than they once were, there are still a lot of folks who depend on their own water well.
Lisa will discuss how to keep it safe and functioning properly.
At 11 a.m. we will have a program on radon in Kan-
sas homes.January is Kansas Radon
Action Month and Brian Hanson, Radon Program Coordinator for K-State will discuss how this naturally- occurring gas can cause problems in our homes.
Geary County is in an area known to have elevat-ed levels and everyone should check their home regularly.
I hope to see a lot of you at the Country Living Expo next Saturday.
If you have any questions give me a call at the Exten-sion Office, (785) 238-4161, or email me at [email protected].
ChuCk Otte is the agricultural and natural resources agent with Geary County Extension.
Living in the country seminars
ChuCk OtteField & Garden
A new year with new opportunities.
Make this one of the best years of your life.
Forget about all the bro-ken New Year’s resolutions you have made to yourself and live, laugh, and love in 2014.
Live with being thankful for every moment that you are gifted to be alive.
We all need to know that we are making a difference in every person’s life that we come in contact with on a daily basis.
Teach your children how important it is to live taking advantage of opportunities to grow, learn and fulfill their hopes and dreams, and their ultimate destiny.
Start a simple routine this year of talking or reading to your children about what they like, what they love, and what is important to them.
You don’t have to always buy things for your child. Time is something that you can’t buy. Once the early childhood moments are gone they can never be replaced.
This year, turn off your smartphone and television, and look away from the com-puter. Put down the video games and spend time with your family.
Life is too short. You can be here today and gone tomorrow. Love the people that mean so much to you. Let them know how much they mean to you, not by just buying them things, but tell-ing them “I love you.” You see, it is in our nature to want to be loved.
Therefore every once in a while we all want to know that we matter to someone.
This is especially impor-tant to our children because our family values are passed from generation to genera-tion.
Most of all laugh.
Know that every day is not going to be a bed of roses. You have the power to decide how what is hap-pening in your life, around the world, and on your job is going to affect your day,
week, month, and even your year. As parents, we have the power to determine how our behavior or how we react to a situation affects our children.
My father used to tell me “it takes more wrinkles to frown than to smile”.
Live, laugh and love in 2014.
LaFarris L. risby , CFLE is a mother of two. She is a Certified Family Life Educator and the Executive Director of Loving Arms Learning Center and CEO of Loving Arms Child Care and Preschool in Junction City. For questions and share your insights, please visit www.lafarrisrisby.com or email [email protected]
Live, laugh and love in 2014
You can tell that I am a farm girl.
I know the weath-er forecast for the next week and plan my days accordingly.
So it should come as no surprise that on Monday, I already knew the weekend forecast is fantastic.
With that in mind, I plan to load up the kids on Sat-urday for Eagle Days at the Milford Nature Center and make a point to take a long, brisk walk in the after-noons. The weather is per-fect for it and my body is telling me I need to get back into a walking rou-tine balanced with healthi-er food choices.
Not quite a New Year’s resolution, but rather a post-holiday reality.
You may be thinking about walking, too.
Walk Kansas season is right around the corner — March 16 through May 10.
In its 13th year, Walk Kansas is once more being sponsored by K-State Research and Extension. How does the program work and how can you get involved? Co-workers, family members, friends and neighbors form teams of six people who will track minutes of physical activi-ty and food choices during the eight week challenge.
Led by a team captain, each team identifies a goal, or challenge, it wants to reach.
Each team member keeps track of and reports their weekly walking amounts, as well as their fruits and vegetables con-sumption.
They report these to their team captain so that a running total can be maintained for the team.
Prizes and recognition are given to teams on a weekly basis as well as for the eight-week program, as a whole.
It isn’t too early to start thinking about who you would like to have on your team.
Team packets will be available starting on Jan. 27 and can be picked up at the Geary County Exten-sion office at 119 E. ninth Street, or you can print off the materials at www.geary.ksu.edu.
All team registrations and individual participa-tion forms need to be sub-mitted to the extension office on or before Feb. 25.
The cost is $7 per person for the eight week pro-gram.
Take the first step toward a healthier lifestyle by join-ing us for Walk Kansas 2014.
Next steps for a healthier you
No one, including myself, should dive into a new physical activity plan with-out having a checkup from their doctor and doing a little reading to help them get started in a way that is both healthy and research-based.
Make sure you have the doctor visit checked off of your pre-Walk Kansas checklist.
Here are some reminders about healthy living
through the Dietary Guide-lines for Americans provid-ed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Look at any additional changes you might want to make before you get started with the Walk Kansas pro-gram.
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend eating and physical activity patterns that promote over-all health.
While the guidelines are based on the most current research, these recommen-dations also reflect food preferences, cultural tradi-tions, and customs of the many and diverse groups living in the United States. Here are the highlights.
Balancing caloriesEnjoy your food, but eat
less.Most Americans eat
more calories (energy) than they use through daily activities and movement.
Start by being aware of what, and how much, you are eating and begin to replace foods higher in cal-ories with nutrient-dense foods and beverages. Nutri-ent-dense foods offer a high amount of nutrient content to the calories they con-tain.
Think of nutrient-dense foods as being opposite of empty-calorie foods. Skim milk, for example, is a nutrient-dense beverage — rich in calcium and eight ounces contains 90 calo-ries. Soda is an empty calo-rie beverage — 105 calories in eight ounces and no nutrients.
Avoid oversized por-tions.
Research shows that we eat and drink more when given larger portions.
Start to downsize serv-
ings by eating off a smaller plate, and stick with regu-lar size meals when eating out.
Say “no” to offers to supersize your meal.
Foods to increaseMake half your plate
fruits and vegetables.Go for variety and color
when choosing these foods.Divide the other half of
your plate between a pro-tein and grain source.
Switch to fat-free or low-fat milk and milk prod-ucts.
If this is a challenge for you, make the switch grad-ually.
Foods to reduceCompare sodium in foods
such as soup, bread, and frozen meals — choose
foods with lower numbers. Most Americans are con-suming too much sodium and the guidelines get spe-cific on numbers.
The average American has a daily sodium intake of 3,400 mg. The recommen-dation is 1,500 mg for most people, and not more than 2,300 mg.
Drink water instead of sugary drinks.
A major source of added sugars in the diets of Amer-icans is soda, energy drinks, and sports drinks — up to 36 percent of added sugar.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services jointly create each edition of the dietary guidelines.
They are revised and
published every five years. For more information,
visit: www.dietaryguide-lines.gov. Now that you have the information, you can make a plan.
Start now by taking steps toward a healthier lifestyle. Check with your doctor, learn what you need to adjust, and walk with us in Walk Kansas 2014.
For more information on healthy lifestyle patterns or the Walk Kansas pro-gram, contact me at the Geary County Extension office at (785) 238-4161.
Until next time, keep liv-ing resourcefully.
Deb anDres is the family and consumer science agent with Geary County Extension.