Pilot relocation incentive program

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Art Room 114 2

Frontier Western Celebration

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Natural Pet Care Center 3

BG, Barton staying on track

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EHS state track champions

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Calendar 4

Inside this issue:

One of the nation’s most successful programs now has a home befitting its tradition of excellence.

The Butler Grizzlies, six-time NJCAA national champions, begin the 2010 season in their new day-to-day home known as the Ramon and Betty Criss Football Complex. Located inside the Hubbard Champions Training Center on the Butler of El Dorado campus, the complex features spacious coaches’ offices, state-of-the-art team meeting rooms, a luxurious locker room, space-saving equipment storage area, medical training room and the crown jewel of the project – a trophy room that holds hundreds

of trophies representing Butler’s football successes.

Each room in the complex is outfitted with flat-panel televi-sions, while team meeting rooms and coaches offices have the latest in technology to help the team prepare for upcoming opponents. The complex will also pay tribute to Butler greats of the past, with displays that

feature All-Americans, hundreds of Grizzlies who transferred to Division I programs and the nearly 40 former Grizzlies who have appeared in the National Football League.

The project was completed with private funds. Ramon and Betty Criss provided the lead funding for the complex. All told, more than 100 different donors gave to the project.

The old locker room is currently being remodeled for use by the men’s basketball team, which will join the football team in having a locker room complex that rates among the best in the nation. That project is privately financed by Dr. Larry and Judy Abraham.

News from El Dorado, Kansas July 2010

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Boaters on El Dorado Lake at sunset

A dream finished- Ramon and Betty Criss Football Complex

El Dorado Today

Commerce Bank announced the construction of new community bank headquarters in El Dorado. Construction is expected to begin in late summer 2010 with a grand opening of the facility expected sometime in 2011.

The new full service banking center at the corner of Central Avenue and Denver Street will office the financial team mem-bers who provide Consumer,

Commercial, Trust, Private Banking, and Brokerage services. The banking center will be over 5200 square feet of space, including a drive-up with four lanes, a drive thru ATM and safe deposit boxes.

The bank presently occupies the building at Main and Central which was the Walnut Valley Bank before becoming Commerce Bank.

“Responding to our customer preference led us to the decision of investing in the community and building a new banking center to provide fast, conven-ient customer service,” stated Mark Utech, President, Commerce Bank in El Dorado. “We think our new community bank headquarters will provide a heightened level for the customer experience,” continued Utech.

Commerce Bank to build new El Dorado headquarters

Reminder!

City Neighborhood Revitalization Plan deadline is Sept. 1st.

• All residential real property and improvements located within the City of El Dorado are eligible for the city’s Neighborhood Revitaliza-tion Plan. Under the plan the City will offer property tax rebates for certain improvements, renovations and new construction.

• Owners wishing to rehabili-tate, add to existing homes, or construct new homes, are eligible to apply. All such property shall be eligible for a five-year tax rebate of up to $175,000 of new appraised value whose construction begins before September 1, 2010.

• For more information call The Building Department at 316-321-9100

Butler Grizzly Kickoff

Classic football game

August 26, 7 p.m.

Cessna Stadium

The gallery space is an elegant venue for featured artists to exhibit their work for sale. The gallery will also host adult and youth workshops periodically, led by different artists, to give artists of all ages the opportu-nity to experience creating art in a variety of mediums.

Currently exhibiting are painters Robert Carver, Jim Clements and Brenda Yarnall; painter/printmaker Peter Johnson; and

El Dorado Inc., with financial assistance from the City of El Dorado, is now offering a pilot relocation incentive program for new residents moving within the city limits of El Dorado. The purpose of the program is to encourage workers moving to the area to live within the city where they work.

The program will provide a $5,000 grant to new residents buying a home who meet a list

of criteria, as well as buying within the city limits.

It is a pilot program, and there-fore subject to guideline review and change.

Potential homebuyers should complete an application which will be reviewed by a committee designated by the City of El Dorado and El Dorado Inc. Applicants must have a signed and valid real estate contract to apply.

The program start date was July 1, 2010, and applications will be accepted until August 31. 2011, or until all designated funds have been expended, whichever occurs first.

All El Dorado realtors are aware of the program and willing to help buyers in the application process.

For more information or to apply, contact Linda Jolly, Executive Director of El Dorado Inc. at 316-321-1485.

Pilot relocation program to encourage home buyers

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petition on Saturday morning in the Main Street arena. Another new event is the Cowboy Mounted Shooting competi-tion on Sunday morning.

At 5 p.m. on Sunday night the FWC Ranch Rodeo will debut at the Main Street arena.

Concerts this year feature Laura Bell Bundy and the re-turn of “Bomshel” on the Main Street Stage, following the Extreme Bull Blowout at 7 p.m. Mayor Carl Brewer of

Wichita will compete, along with El Dorado Mayor Tom McKibban, in the Smoke on the Prairie State Champion BBQ Contest.

Wristbands may be purchased on the El Dorado Main Street website, at the Main Street Office and at the gates. All events take place on the Civic Center grounds unless other-wise noted on the schedule.

For a full schedule of events visit 360ElDorado.com or fron-tierwesterncelebration.com.

The best is yet to come for Frontier Western Celebration El Dorado Main Street’s Frontier Western Celebration organizers are anticipating the biggest and best celebration yet due to the many new events added this year. The event runs from August 19th through the 22nd.

Kicking off the celebration will be the Miss Frontier Pageant on Thursday. There will be compe-titions for five age classes, begin-ning with four to six year olds.

Also new this year is the Frontier Can Chaser Barrel Racing com-

The fiddling half of the Bomshel duo; the band is returning to FWC for the second time.

Home buyers may receive a $5,000 grant to purchase a home within the city limits of El Dorado.

There has been a transformation on Main Street in El Dorado. The Art Room, a small studio and workshop venue has blossomed into Art Room 114, an upscale and elegant gallery.

Brenda Yarnall owns and operates Art Room 114, which also houses her studio. Brenda taught art lessons to adults and children for the past 15 years and is an accomplished painter in oils and watercolor.

glassblower Roger Ward. The shows will change routinely, allowing for a variety of artists and mediums to be displayed.

Art Room 114 also offers full service custom framing.

The Art Room transforms to Art Room 114

El Dorado’s new gallery Art Room 114, 114 N. Main in El Dorado, Gallery.artroom114.com

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Natural Pet Care Center offers a different approach An additional 1400 square feet in the complex will house the offices of Dr. Rodney Clements, who will provide chiropractic and acupuncture services for animals referred by the Natural Pet Care Center. “Chiropractics can be very effective for treating animals. For example, I’ve seen it work wonders for dachshunds who suffer from chronic back pain,” said Dr. Wittenberg. Dr. Wittenberg takes some-what of a holistic approach in treating her animal patients.

Soon the animal population of the El Dorado area will be served by a new facility and through a slightly different approach. The Natural Pet Care Center, owned and operated by Dr. Beth Wittenburg, DVM, is a 4,000 square foot facility which will serve dogs, cats, horses and exotics. The center features two indoor horse exam areas, an avian exam room, and regular exam and surgery areas.

The Natural Pet Care Center will open in September.

This method incorporates looking at all aspects of an animal, and being open to a variety of treatments, as well as modern veterinary methods. She offers nutrition counseling which may include supple-ments, and the center will have holistic foods available for sale. Dr. Wittenberg earned her degree in veterinary medicine from Kansas State University, and has been in practice for 14 years. The new clinic is scheduled to open in September.

second. Her time for the 3200 was 11:13.17, and for the 1600, 5:03.92, just three second shy of breaking the state record. Milbourn now claims five state long distance running titles in her high school career. Teamwork and a final push at the finish line resulted in a state championship trophy for El Dorado in the Class 4A boys 4 x 800 relay race. Team members Dale Nuckolls, Casey Nightengale, Tim Jiles and Spencer Jensen ran hard on every leg to be in a position for

El Dorado High School State Track Champions shine the last runner, Casey Nighten-gale to pass the second place runner just before the finish line to give the Wildcats the title in the time of 8:06.64. Jaime House prevailed in a sudden death overtime duel to claim her third state Class 4A girls pole vault title with a jump of 12 feet, one inch. This jump broke her previous record by an inch. Overall the EHS girls track team finished in fourth place at the state meet.

The El Dorado High School track team certainly has their share of 2010 State Champions. At the Kansas State High School Activities Association state track meet on May 28th and 29th at Cessna Stadium, the athletes performed beauti-fully and brought home four Championship trophies. Junior Molly Milbourn won the Class 4A girls 3200 and 1600-meter competitions, narrowly missing the 800-meter title by only four hundredths of a

Jaime House competing for her third state title. Photo by John Curtis, courtesy of the El Dorado Times.

Barton, BG staying on track The rail spur is one of the first public infrastructure projects to be financed with the assis-tance of a $1 million federal Economic Development Administration grant and a $750,000 Kansas Department of Commerce Community Development Block Grant. The spur will be used by Barton and BG to ship product. The remaining EDA grant funds will be used to improve the infrastructure in the industrial park, such as water,

Barton Solvents storage facility

The new rail spur into the El Dorado Industrial Park is nearing completion, helping the Barton Solvents and BG Products projects to progress. Dondlinger & Sons Construc-tion is nearly finished installing the rail. During the first half of August Union Pacific will work to complete the tie-in to the main track. The rail project should be finished sometime in September.

sewer and streets, to serve multiple tenants. The construction of Barton’s storage facility is now visible from the turnpike. The $10 million facility should be complete in 2011. In the coming months expect to see the start of the new manufacturing facilities being planned by BG Products. Eventually the company will move their headquarters to El Dorado as well.

El Dorado Inc. is a public/private partnership with the City of El Dorado whose mission is to further the economic development of the El Dorado area and its environs. The primary objectives of El Dorado Inc. shall be to benefit the community as measured by increased employment, payroll, business volume, housing starts and similar factors. For El Dorado Inc. membership information, contact Linda Jolly at 321-1485 or lkjolly@eldorado-inc.com

El Dorado Inc. 201 E. Central P.O. Box 350 El Dorado, KS 67042

We’re on the web! Visit us at www.360eldorado.com

Phone: 316-321-1485 Fax: 316-321-5419 E-mail: lkjolly@eldorado-inc.com

El Dorado, Kansas—Where we enjoy the fine art of living well!

News from El Dorado, Kansas

Aug 19-22 Frontier Western Celebration Produced by El Dorado Main Street El Dorado Civic Center

Aug 20-21

"Smoke on the Prairie" KCBS-Sanctioned State Championship BBQ Contest In conjunction with El Do-rado Main Street's Frontier Western Celebration

"AG Days at the Museum" In conjunction with El Do-rado Main Street's Frontier Western Celebration Butler County History Center & Kansas Oil Museum

Aug 24 ButlerCC Welcome Center Open House El Dorado Campus

August

Aug 3 - Sep 22 Prints & Painting Exhibit Stephen Perry & Diana Werts Coutts Museum of Art

Aug 5 - 8 Mid America Youth Basketball Nationals

Aug 7 - 8 Flint Hills Overland Wagon Trip

Aug 17 El Dorado Main Street Brown Bag Lunch Noon Coutts Museum of Art

Aug 19 6th Annual Taste Of Butler Homegrown Dinner! 6:30 pm Hudson Gardens

Calendar

Aug 26 Butler Grizzly Kickoff Clas-sic, 7 p.m. Cessna Stadium

Aug 26-29 Gold Wing Road Riders Association District Rally El Dorado Civic Center

September

Sep 18 El Dorado Open Car Show 1:00pm - 9:pm, Downtown El Dorado

Walters’ Pumpkin Patch Opening Day

Sep 18 - 19 Flint Hills Overland Wagon Trip

Sep 19 8th Annual Fall Mum Fest! - 12-6pm Hudson Gardens

Sep 20 - Oct 1 Walters' Pumpkin Patch Monarch Watch

Sep 21 El Dorado Main Street Brown Bag Lunch Noon Coutts Museum of Art

Sep 25 Walnut River Festival Downtown El Dorado

Sep 25 - 26 Walters' Pumpkin Patch Goblin Egg Hunt