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ERIE�—�Plans�are�in�the�mak-ing�for�a�dedication�ceremony�in�the�near�future�of� the�new�Erie�High�School,� as� the� school� has�received� its� certificate� of� sub-stantial� completion�on� the�con-struction�of�the�facility.

Crossland� Construction� and�PBA� Architects� have� signed�off� on� and� turned� the� building�over� to� the�school�district,�Erie�USD� 101� Superintendent� John�Wyrick�said.

Two�workers�from�Crossland�Construction�will�remain�on�site�for� the� next� two� weeks� to� take�care� of� any� touch-ups� or� other�problems�teachers�discover,�but�the�work�is�essentially�done.

The� only� major� part� of� the�construction�project�to�be�com-pleted�is�the�track.

“The� company� that� was� the�bid� to� subcontract� to� build� the�track�still�has�to�come�in�and�put�down� the� rubberized� surface.�Other� than� that,� the� athletic�field�and�stadium�are�complete,”�Wyrick�said.�“Our�football�field�is�finished,�and�we�will�be�play-ing�our�first�home�varsity�game�on�it�Sept.�17.

“This� has� been� a� really� long�process,�and�before�bringing�in�patrons,� alumni� and� dignitar-ies�from�across�the�state�for�the�dedication,� we� want� to� make�sure�everything�is�in�top�order.”

While�waiting�for�finalization�of�small�details�inside�the�build-ing,�and�on�the�grounds,�Wyrick�said�he�and�EHS�principal�Steve�Oliver�are�working�on�the�details�for�the�dedication�event.

“We�want�it�to�look�great.�We�want� to� have� all� the� trophies�

on� display� in� the� trophy� cases,�and�other�things�ready,”�he�said.�“We�hope�to�have�it�before�No-vember.”

A�dedication�ceremony�is�on�many�people’s�minds,�but�focus�this�week�has�been�primarily�on�getting�students�settled�into�the�new� building� during� the� first�week�of�school.

“It�was�an�awesome�feeling,”�Wyrick� said.� “By� moving� into�the� new� high� school,� we� have�seen�a�significant�change�in�the�attitudes� of� students,� staff� and�patrons.� There� is� so� much� re-spect�for�the�new�facility.”

For�example,�he�said,�follow-ing�second-period�lunch,�during�which�180�students�gather�to�eat,�by�the�time�the�last�student�left�the�dining�area,� there�was�only�one�napkin�on�the�floor.

“You�could�not�even� tell�180�

students� had� just� eaten� lunch�there,”�he�said.�“There�is�just�so�much� excitement,� and� the� stu-dents�have�so�much� respect� for�the� new� building.� They� really�have�a�sense�of�ownership,�and�they�seem�to�have�a�good�under-standing�of�what� their� commu-nities�went�through�for�them�to�have�such�a�fine�facility.”

Appearance� and� technol-ogy�of� the�building� are�not� the�only�things�that�make�the�school�“fine.”

Wyrick�said�when�he�entered�the�building�at�7:30�one�morning�this� week,� it� hit� him� how� very�quiet�the�school�was.

“I� was� wondering� where� all�the� kids� were,”� Wyrick� said.�“We�have�more�kids�now�than�in�the�old�school,�but�I�was�50�yards�

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Madison Gartner, an eighth-grader at Altamont Grade School, smiles during the school’s Grand-parents’ Day.

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Commission gets road report

FUNERALSMARY� FREDERICK,� 82,�

of�La�Grange�Park,�Ill.,�service�at�3�p.m.�Sept.�18�at�Plymouth�Place,�315�N.�La�Grange�Road,�La�Grange�Park,�Ill.�

CHARLOTTE� HALL,� 63,�of� Parsons,� service� at� 2� p.m.�Sunday�at�First�Baptist�Church�in�Altamont.

ELMER� CURNUTTE,� 79,�of�Coldspring,�Texas,�service�at�9�a.m.�Saturday�at�Bath-Forbes-Hoffman� Funeral� Home� in�Chetopa.

DAVID�DRESHER�JR.,�85,�of�Tulsa,�service�at�2�p.m.�Sat-urday�at�Oak�Hill�Cemetery�in�Chetopa.

ROBERT�HOLBERT,�50,�of�Parsons,�graveside�service�at�2�p.m.�Saturday�at�West�Bethany�Cemetery�in�rural�Parsons.

JESSIE� SCHNEICKERT,�90,� of� rural� Altamont,� grave-side�service�at�10�a.m.�Monday�at� Memorial� Lawn� Cemetery�in�Parsons.

WILLIAM�HAN,�85,�of�Erie,�service�at�11�a.m.�Wednesday�at�First�Christian�Church�at�Erie.

Ray Nolting/Sun photo

(From left) Kansas state Sen. Dwayne Umbarger, Labette County Commission Chairman Brian Kinzie, Secretary of Wildlife and Parks Mike Hayden and Parsons Economic Development Director Carolyn Kennett visit before a ceremony Friday to transfer land from the Army to the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks.

PLANT LAND TRANSFER

KDWP gets former KAAP landBY RAY NOLTING

PARSONS SUN

Friday�marked�a�new�chapter� in�Kansas�wildlife� conservation� with� the� ceremonial�transfer�of�about�2,000�acres�of�land�to�the�Kansas�Department�of�Wildlife�and�Parks.

Though�the�final�paperwork�was�not�com-plete� for� Friday’s� ceremony,� Wildlife� and�Parks� officials� were� excited� for� the� future�public�use�of�the�3,000-acre�park,�named�the�Grand�Osage�Wildlife�Area.�The�KDWP�al-ready�received�about�1,000�acres�of�land�for�the� wildlife� area,� and� Friday’s� transaction�was�for�the�remaining�2,000�acres.

The�transfer�paperwork�is�expected�to�be�complete�next�week�to�make�the�transfer�and�purchase�official.

The�transfer�is�part�of�the�Base�Realign-ment�and�Closure�Commission’s�process�of�decommissioning� the� 13,727-acre� Kansas�Army� Ammunition� Plant,� authorized� in�2005.�Wildlife�and�Parks�actually�purchased�the�property,�getting�75�percent�of�the�mon-ey� from�a� federal�grant�and� the� remaining�portion�from�state�user�fees.

Wildlife�and�Parks�Secretary�Mike�Hayden�was� keynote� speaker� Friday,� but� other� state�and�local�officials�attended.�Sen.�Dwayne�Um-barger,�a�Thayer�Republican,�and�Sen.�Stephen�Morris,�a�Hugoton�Republican,�attended,�as�did�Rep.�Richard�Proehl,�a�Parsons�Republican.

Hayden,�who�formerly�hosted�a�fishing�tour-nament�at�Big�Hill�Lake�while�he�served�as�the�state’s�41st�governor,�is�an�outdoor�enthusiast.�

He� said� the� Great� Plains� Development�Authority,�which�will�oversee�the�plant�once�all�the�land�is�transferred�by�the�Army,�has�

been� a� great� group� to� work� with.� Wildlife�and� Parks� has� been� walking� through� new�territory�with�this�process,�and�he�called�the�working�relationship�a�“great�partnership.”

The�3,000�acres�will�need�a�lot�of�work�to�create�an�even�better�hunting�and�fishing�Mec-ca.�Hayden�said�hedge,�cedar�and�locust�trees�eventually�will�be�removed,�brome�and�fescue�will�be�switched�to�native�grasses,�and�ponds�will�be�restocked�with�daily�creel�limits�set.

“So�it�will�be�gradual,”�Hayden�said�of�the�changes�at�Grand�Osage�Wildlife�Area.�“But�we’re�dedicated�to�making�it�work.”

Four�deer�hunts� are� already�planned� for�the�area�this�year:

●�The�first�takes�place�today�and�Sunday�for�youth�from�this�region.

●�The�second�occurs�in�two�legs,�Oct.�29�to� Nov.� 14� and� Nov.� 15-30.� Forty� archers�won�slots�for�this�deer�hunt�and�20�will�hunt�in�the�first�two-week�segment�and�20�in�the�final�two�weeks.�There�were�300�applicants�for�the�40�slots.

●�Catch�A�Dream�Hunt,�which�is�planned�for�a�youth�suffering�from�a�serious�disease�in�December�during�rifle�season.

●�A�wounded�warrior�hunt�is�set�for�De-cember�as�well,�for�wounded�veterans.

Jim� Zaleski,� Labette� County� tourism� di-rector,� said� these� hunts� will� bring� people�from� across� the� United� States.� Hunters� are�expected�from�Florida,�Michigan�and�Texas.

“So�we�are�looking�for�at�least�some�im-pact�from�that,”�he�said.

Rob�Riggin,�who�manages�the�Mined�Land�

FORT�LEAVENWORTH�(AP)�—�An�Army�major�is�hitting�the�pavement�this�weekend�in�a�test�of� physical� endurance� to� honor�the� 10� soldiers� who� died� under�his�command�in�Iraq.

Maj.� Cedric� Burden� will� at-tempt� to� run� 31� miles,� or� the�equivalent�of�a�5K�run�for�each�of�the�soldiers,�as�part�of�Satur-day’s�“Patriots�Run”�in�suburban�Kansas�City.

The�event�will�last�nine�hours�and�11�minutes�to�commemorate�the� terrorist� attacks�of�Sept.�11,�2001.� While� some� participants�will� be� running� relays,� Burden�will�try�to�do�what�he�is�calling�an� ultra� marathon� distance.� He�thinks�it�will�take�him�about�six�hours.

The� 35-year-old� from� Gary,�Ind.,�said�the�attempt�is�as�much�about�remembering�the�nine�men�and�one�female�who�died�under�his�watch�as�it�is�a�test�of�his�abil-ity.�He’s�notified�the�families�of�his�intent.

“It’s�not�like�a�surprise.�They�know� my� character� and� my�genuineness,”�said�Burden,�who�is�studying�at� the�Army’s�Com-mand�and�General�Staff�College�at�Fort�Leavenworth.

Burden� was� commander� of�Charlie�Company,�1st�Battalion,�327th�Infantry�out�of�Fort�Camp-bell,� Ky.,� when� the� 10� soldiers�died� in� 2005� and� 2006.� They�were� killed� in� four� separate� at-

See EHS, Page 12.

See TRANSFER, Page 12.

The newly acquired Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks land (on the western edge of the Great Plains Industrial Park) has 12 ponds, including this one that covers about three acres. KDWP hopes to open the 12 ponds to fishing in the near future, perhaps as soon as spring 2011.

USD 101 plans ceremony for new school

BY HAROLD CAMPBELL

THE CHANUTE TRIBUNE

ERIE�—�Updates�on�a�num-ber�of�road�projects�highlight-ed�discussion�at�a�brief�Neosho�County� Commission� meeting�Friday�morning.

Road� and� Bridge� Co-Direc-tor� Jason� Thompson� said� road�

See NEOSHO, Page 12.

Army major honors soldiers with run

See RUN, Page 2.

SAN�BRUNO,�Calif.�(AP)�—�All�that�was�left�of�some�houses�Friday� were� chimneys,� rising�from� still� smoldering� ruins.�Burned-out� cars� sat� along� ash-covered� streets.� And� a� rescue�worker�with�a�dog�searched�door�to�door�for�missing�people.

The�day�after� a�gas� line� rup-tured� and� a� towering� fireball�roared� through� a� suburban� San�Francisco�neighborhood,�killing�four�people,�officials�were�trying�to�determine�what�led�to�a�blast�that� raised� questions� about� the�safety�of�similar�lines�that�criss-cross�towns�across�America.

“It�was�pretty�devastating,”�Fire�Chief�Dennis�Haag�said.�“It�looks�like�a�moonscape�in�some�areas.”

At� least�50�people�were�hurt,�with� seven�suffering�critical� in-juries�in�the�explosion�Thursday�evening�that�left�a�giant�crater�and�laid�waste�to�dozens�of�1960s-era�homes� in� the� hills� overlooking�San�Francisco�Bay.

The� utility� that� operates� the�30-inch�diameter�line�said�it�was�trying� to� find� out� what� caused�the�steel�gas�pipe�to�rupture�and�ignite.�Federal�pipeline�safety�in-spectors�were�also�on�the�scene.

Some� residents� said� they�smelled�gas�in�the�neighborhood�over�the�past�several�weeks.�The�utility� said� it� was� checking� its�records� for� the� complaints,� but�added�that�none�of�its�crews�were�at�work�on�the�line�Thursday.

Compared�to�the�tens�of�thou-sands� of� miles� of� gas� pipelines�across�the�country,�accidents�are�relatively�rare.

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Area�for�Wildlife�and�Parks,�will�manage� Grand� Osage� until� the�department� budget� allows� for�staffing�at�the�wildlife�area.�Fu-ture�hunts�on�the�land�will�be�by�a�lottery�method.

Wildlife� officials� hoped� to�have�the�area�ready�for�a�spring�turkey� hunt� and� perhaps� some�of�the�12�ponds�in�Grand�Osage�open�for��fishing�after�that.�Many�plans�are�still�being�developed.

“Just�a�lot�of�unknowns,”�Rig-gin�said.

Security�remains�at�the�plant,�an�issue�that�will�need�to�be�worked�out�before�plans�progress� too�far�for�extensive�hunting�and�fishing.�

Riggin�said�KDWP�is�working�with� the� Great� Plains� Develop-ment�Authority�on�an�agreement�to�manage�the�entire�plant�grounds�for�wildlife�conservation.

Sean�Lynott,�a�fisheries�biolo-gist�for�Wildlife�and�Parks,�will�

survey�the�ponds�at�Grand�Osage�and�make�recommendations�for�stocking,�creel�limits�and�weight�and�length�limits�for�the�fish.�

“It’s�the�beginning,”�he�said.Lance�Hedges,�public�lands�su-

pervisor� for�Wildlife� and�Parks,�toured�the�wildlife�area�with�me-dia�after�Friday’s�ceremony.

He� said� the� crop� and� pasture�leases�will�be�honored�and�farm-ers� will� be� able� to� bid� on� the�farmland�and�cattle�pastures�once�the�leases�expire.�Soybeans�grew�in�many� fields�Friday;�corn�had�been�harvested�and�hay�baled.

Hedges�said�there�are�no�build-ings� on� the� Wildlife� and� Parks�land,�and�only�a�few�roads.�

Building� 52,� which� was� Fire�Station�No.�1�at� the� intersection�of�Road�D�and�Road�2�on�GPDA�land,� will� be� used� for� a� Grand�Osage�Wildlife�Area�park�office.

Lots�of�work�is�needed�to�man-age�the�area,�things�that�Hayden�touched�on�earlier.

“This�is�unlike�anything�we’ve�ever�done,”�Hedges�said.

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OBITUARIES

PRAYERGod�is�our�shelter�and�strength,�always�ready�to�help�in�times�of�

trouble.�—�Psalm�46:1�(TEV)Prayer:�Thank�you,�Lord,�for�carrying�us�through�life’s�difficult�

places.�Amen.Thought�for�the�day:�When�I�am�weak,�God�demonstrates�strength.

These� items� were� taken� from� the� Sun’s� editions� 20,� 30� and� 40�years�ago.

Sept.�11-12,�1970The�new�La�Villa�Motel,�at�the�east�edge�of�Parsons�on�U.S.�160,�was�

scheduled�to�open�its�doors�in�the�following�10�days�or�two�weeks,�a�reliable�source�reported.�The�motel�stood�idle�for�several�months�after�construction�appeared�to�be�complete,�or�almost�so,�to�raise�questions�about�its�future.�But�finishing�touches�were�being�put�on�it�and�neces-sary�arrangements�were�being�made�to�open�it,�the�source,�who�was�close�to�the�situation,�said.�Robert�Arnold�of�Blackwell,�Okla.,�who�built�the�motel,�would�open�and�operate�it,�but�it�was�understood�that�a�large�restaurant�and�private�club�would�not�be�opened�until�later.�The�motel,�built�at�an�estimated�cost�of�$500,000,�had�60�units.

The�Housing�Authority�of�Parsons�became�the�owner�of�a�seven-story�public�housing�high�rise�for�the�elderly.�A�$1,570,399.43�check�changed�hands.�It�went�to�Cown�Construction�Co.�of�Tulsa,�develop-er�of�the�project,�for�completion�of�the�first�phase.�Remaining�to�be�completed�was�development�of�land�adjoining�the�building�at�Cen-tral�and�Belmont.�The�former�building�of�Sunflower�Sales�Co.�at�301�S.�Central�was�razed.�South�Central�was�vacated�previously�by�the�city�between�Belmont�and�Corning�to�make�way�for�the�building.

Sept.�11-12,�1980Citizens�of�Erie�could�look�forward�to�having�about�15�to�20�new�

jobs�opening�in�their�community�once�Erie�Furniture�Manufactur-ing�Inc.�moved�in,�James�Dahmen,�executive�vice�president�of�Mid-America�Inc.,�announced.�Dahmen�said�the�company�hoped�to�ex-pand�production�and�hire�about�30�more�people�within�three�years.�Bill�Wilson,�who�was�helping�with�the�company’s�move�from�Tulsa,�said�the�firm�should�move�into�temporary�quarters�on�Main�Street�the�following�week.�Wilson’s�wife,�Shirley,�was�the�company’s�presi-dent.�The�new�industry�eventually�would�move�into�a�shell�building�being�built�by�Erie�Aid�to�Industrial�Development�Corp.

Joan�Beachner�of�St.�Paul,�the�daughter�of�Jerry�and�Janey�Beach-ner,�was�working�in�Philadelphia�in�the�office�of�Dan�Horgan,�Penn-sylvania�state�coordinator�for�the�Carter-Mondale�campaign.�Beach-ner,�a�student�at�Pittsburg�State�University,�was�an�administrative�aid�in�the�Horgan�office.

Sept.�11-12,�1990Parsons�swept�all�16�of� its�matches�and�claimed� the� title� in� the�

Fort�Scott�Invitational�high�school�round-robin�tennis�tournament.�In�posting�the�team’s�second�tournament�triumph�in�two�starts,�the�unbeaten�Vike�girls�piled�up�16�points.�The�four�dual�victories�lifted�Parsons’�dual�record�to�14-0.

“Finally,�brothers,�whatever�is�true,�whatever�is�noble,�whatever�is�right,�whatever�is�pure,�whatever�is�lovely,�whatever�is�admirable�—�if�anything�is�excellent�or�praiseworthy�—�think�about�such�things.”�—�Philippians�4:8�(NIV)

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FORECAST

Partlysunny

High near 83Low near 59

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 84. Mostly clear at night, with a low around 63.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 87. A 20 percent chance of showers and thun-derstorms at night. Partly cloudy, with a low around 66.

PARSONS STATISTICSFRIDAY’S HIGH: 90 LOW: 70PRECIPITATION: .14” MONTH: 3.13” YEAR: 34.83”SATURDAY’S SUNSET: 7:36 p.m.SUNDAY’S SUNRISE: 7:00 a.m.

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Goodyear 10.35 + .24Halliburton 30.88 + .66Hershey 45.94 — .39HewlettPk 38.28 — .54HomeDepot 29.68 + .27IBM 127.99 + 1.63JohnsonJn 59.98 + .16LockheedM 70.38 + 1.01Lowes Cos 21.52 — .05McDonalds 75.01 + .64OfficeMax 11.68 + .17ONEOK 44.46 + .13Penney JC 21.15 + .42PepsiCo 66.41 + .31Pfizer 16.99 + .22ProctGamb 60.40 + .11SprintNextel 4.45 + .053M Co 83.94 + .98TimeWarner 31.78 + .76UnionPacif 78.73 + .07VerizonComm 30.82 — .02WalMart 51.97 + .06WellsFargo 25.75 + .06WestarEngy 24.15 + .07

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FRIDAYBARTLETT CO-OP Bartlett

Yellow corn $4.10 U .07Hard wheat $6.49 D .01Milo $4.03 U .07Oats $2.65 Unch.Soybeans $9.66 D .15

PRODUCERS CO-OP GirardHard wheat $6.56 Unch.Soft wheat $6.16 Unch.Yellow corn $4.08 U .07Milo $3.98 U .07Soybeans $9.91 D .15

CHICAGO� (AP)� —� Futures� trading� on� the�Chicago�Mercantile�Exchange�Friday:� Open� High� Low� Settle� �Chg.CATTLE40,000�lbs.;�cents�per�lb.Oct� 97.00� 97.35� 96.90� 97.15� +� .25Dec� 99.82� 100.12� 99.70� 99.97� +� .32Feb� 101.12� 101.37� 100.82� 101.32� +� .37Apr� 101.82� 102.15� 101.77� 102.10� +� .28Jun� 98.45� 98.67� 98.30� 98.60� +� .20Aug� 98.22� 98.55� 97.90� 98.55� +� .15�Est.�sales�55,487.�Thu.’s�sales�69,677�Thu.’s�open�int�337,278FEEDER�CATTLE50,000�lbs.;�cents�per�lb.Sep� 111.65� 112.25� 111.17� 111.70� +� .28Oct� 111.75� 112.60� 111.40� 111.82� +� .07Nov� 112.35� 113.55� 112.02� 112.47� —� .25Jan� 111.97� 113.20� 111.80� 112.32� —� .33Mar� 111.75� 112.80� 111.50� 112.05� —� .30

Apr� 112.27� 112.57� 111.65� 112.40� —� .40�Est.�sales�8,158.�Thu.’s�sales�8,581�Thu.’s�open�int�33,400HOGS40,000�lbs.;�cents�per�lb.Oct� 77.45� 78.05� 76.85� 77.25� —� .12Dec� 75.30� 75.85� 74.65� 74.70� —� .42Feb� 78.60� 78.85� 77.92� 78.07� —� .43Apr� 79.85� 79.90� 79.22� 79.60� —� .05May� 83.00� 83.00� 82.50� 82.65� +� .08�Est.�sales�41,408.�Thu.’s�sales�50,789�Thu.’s�open�int�218,472,�up�1,558PORK�BELLIES40,000�lbs.;�cents�per�lb.Feb� 105.80� 105.80� 105.80� 105.80� +� .10Mar� 106.50� 107.00� 106.00�106.00May�104.00Jul� 102.00Aug� 102.50�Thu.’s�open�int�12

KANSAS�CITY�(AP)�—Wheat�futures�on�the�Kansas�City�Board�of�Trade�Friday:�� Open� High� Low� Settle� �Chg.WHEAT5,000�bu�minimum;�cents�per�bushelSep� 746�1/4� 751� 744�1/2�747�1/4� —��1/4Dec� 748�767�1/2� 743�759�1/4� —� �3/4Mar� 761� 780� 756�772�1/4� +� �1/4May� 756�768�1/4� 756�768�1/4� +�1�1/4Jul� 730� 745� 730�740�1/4� +�3�1/4Sep� 748� 750� 742�1/2�742�1/2� +�1�1/2Dec�748�1/2� +� 3�1/2Mar�746�1/2� +� 3�1/2May�742�1/2� +� 3�1/2Jul� 722�1/2� +� 5�1/2�Thu.’s�sales�17,790�Thu.’s�open�int�204,756,�up�553

Jessie ‘Louise’ SchneickertALTAMONT� —� Jessie� “Louise”� Schneickert,� 90,� of� rural� Al-

tamont�died�at�3:28�p.m.�Friday,�Sept.�10,�2010,�at�Freeman�West�Hospital� in� Joplin.� She� was� preceded� in� death� by� her� husband,�George�Schneickert,�on�June�10,�1987.

The� graveside� service� will� be� at� 10� a.m.� Monday� at� Memorial�Lawn�Cemetery� in�Parsons.�The�family�will� receive�friends�from�4�to�6�p.m.�Sunday�at�Bath-Forbes-Hoffman�Funeral�Home�in�Al-tamont.

Complete� obituary� details� will� be� announced� by� Bath-Forbes-Hoffman�Funeral�Home�in�Altamont.

William ‘Jack’ HanERIE�—�William�“Jack”�Han,�85,�a�longtime�Erie�resident,�died�

at�8:17�p.m.�Thursday,�Sept.�9,�2010,�at�Freeman�West�Hospital�in�Joplin.�

He�was�born�April�12,�1925,� at�McCune� to�Ernest� Melvin� and� Meda� (Morrow)� Han.� He�grew�up�in�McCune�and�attended�school�there.�He�then�attended�Pittsburg�State�Teachers�Col-lege,�graduating�with�a�master’s�degree�in�ad-ministration� and� a� minor� in� library� science,�speech,�biology�and�history.

In�1943,�he�enlisted�in�the�U.S.�Marine�Corps�and�served�in�the�Pacific�Theatre,�a�part�of�the�Joint�Assault�Signal�Company�attached� to� the�Second�Division.�He�was�involved�in�the�Battle�of�Okinawa�and�the�occupation�of�Japan.�He�was�discharged�in�July�1946�and�returned�to�Kansas.

He�began�his�teaching�career�in�1950�at�Eureka,�where�he�was�the�school�librarian.�In�1951,�he�moved�to�Fredonia,�where�he�was�li-brarian�also.�He�began�his�career�in�administration�at�Galva�in�1953�

and�was�here�until�moving�to�Blue�Mound�in�1956.�He�was�superin-tendent�at�Blue�Mound�until�moving�to�Spring�Hill�in�1961.�He�was�superintendent�at�Spring�Hill�from�1961�to�1966,�and�then�moved�to�Erie.�He�served�as�superintendent�of�CUSD�101�until�his�retirement�in�1987.�He�was� recognized�by�Kansas�State�University� as�Rural�Administrator�of�the�Year.�While�superintendent�of�the�Erie�school�district,�Jack�was�instrumental�in�the�establishment�of�the�Southeast�Kansas�Education�Service�Center�at�Greenbush.�

He�married�Phyllis�Pippin�on�June�3,�1950,�at�Fredonia.�She�sur-vives�of�the�home.

He�was�an�active�member�of�First�Christian�Church�at�Erie,�hav-ing�served�as�both�church�moderator�and�vice�moderator.�He�also�served�on�the�Pastoral�Relations�Committee�and�had�been�an�elder�for�many�years.�He�also�was�a�member�of�the�Christian�Church�El-der�Emeritus,�the�Blue�Mound�Masonic�Lodge�and�the�George�L.�Hendrick’s�Post�No.�102,�American�Legion.�He�received�his�50-year�pin�from�the�Legion�in�2009.�He�also�served�on�the�Greenbush�board�and�the�Superintendent�Council�at�Topeka.

In�addition�to�his�wife,�survivors�include�two�sons,�Kevin�Jay�Han�of�Topeka�and�Shawn�Kent�Han�of�Erie;�a�daughter,�Susan�(Shelley)�Michelle�Craven�of�Erie;�four�grandchildren;�and�four�great-grand-children.

He�was�preceded� in�death�by�a� son,� Jon�Kerry�Han;�a�brother,�Ernest�Han�Jr.;�and�a�sister,�Dortha�Monnat.

The� service� will� be� at� 11� a.m.� Wednesday� at� First� Christian�Church�at�Erie�with�the�Rev.�Paul�Elliott�officiating.�Burial�will�be�in�East�Hill�Cemetery�with�military�honors�given�by�the�George�L.�Hendricks�Post�No.�102,�American�Legion.�The�family�will�receive�friends� from� 6� to� 8� p.m.� Tuesday� at� Pierce-Carson-Wall� Funeral�Home,�where�the�casket�will�be�open.�The�casket�will�remain�closed�during�the�funeral�Wednesday.

Memorials�are�suggested�to�First�Christian�Church�and�may�be�left�at�or�mailed�to�the�funeral�home,�P.O.�Box�182,�Erie,�66733.

Online� condolences� may� be� left� at� www.wallfuneralservices.com.

Cox memorialFriends� and� family� of� Cpl.�

Daniel�Cox�have�planned�a�me-morial�ceremony�to�commemo-rate�the�one-year�anniversary�of�his�giving�his�life�for�his�country�in�Afghanistan.

The�public�is�invited�to�attend�the� ceremony� at� 1� p.m.� Sun-day�at�Brown-Bishop�Post�704,�Veterans� of� Foreign� Wars,� 101�Main.�A�tree�will�be�planted�in�his� honor.� It� is� anticipated� ap-proximately�100�members�of�the�

Patriot�Guard�will�be�present�to�lead�a�procession�to�his�gravesite�in� Oakwood� Cemetery� follow-ing�the�ceremony.

County meetingOSWEGO� —� The� Labette�

County� Commission� will� meet�at� 9� a.m.� Monday� in� the� com-mission�room�on� the�first� floor�of�the�courthouse�in�Oswego.�

The� commission� will� meet�with�Laura�Moore�of�the�South-

east� Kansas� Regional� Planning�Commission�at�9:15�a.m.,�Sandy�Krider,� road� and� bridge� super-visor�at�10�a.m.,�Bob�Wood�and�Mike� Dulohery� for� insurance�matters� at� 10:15� a.m.� and� Lar-ry� Cupit,� sanitation� officer,� at�10:30�a.m.

MarketsAt� the� Parsons� Livestock�

Market�sale�on�Wednesday,�802�cattle�were�sold.

Choice� cows� 50-59,� canners�&�cutters�41-50,�shelly�cows�41�&�back,�choice�bulls�65-72�and�lower�grades�50-65.

Steers:�200#�to�400#�110-145,�400#� to� 500#� 110-131,� 500#� to�600#� 110-125,� 600#� to� 700#�100-118,�700#�to�800#�100-115,�800#�&�over�95-106.

Heifers:� 200#� to� 400#� 100-140,� 400#� to� 500#� 100-120,�500#� to� 600#� 100-115,� 600#� to�700#� 97-110,� 700#� to� 800#� 95-106,�800#�&�over�93-98.

tacks�near�Kirkuk�in�an�area�north�of�Baghdad�known�as�the�Sunni�Triangle.�Two�of�the�attacks�killed�four�soldiers�each.�He�questioned�his�command�decisions�after�each�death.

“You�have�to�think,�‘Am�I�doing�something�wrong?�Am�I�setting�a�pattern?’�You�start�questioning�yourself,�but�you�have�to�remember�that�the�enemy�is�thinking�and�planning�out�there,�too,”�he�said.�“Di-vine�intervention�means�some�things�you�can’t�control.”

Over�the�past�five�years,�Burden�has�maintained�contact�with�the�soldiers’�families.

Patricia�Flanagan’s�son�Dennis�was�a�sergeant�in�Burden’s�com-pany.�He�was�one�of�four�who�died�when�a�bomb�exploded�near�his�vehicle�in�Iraq�on�Jan.�20,�2006.�She�said�her�son�knew�he�wanted�to�be�a�soldier�at�age�6�and�enlisted�after�the�Sept.�11�attacks,�adding�it�“was�his�destiny”�to�fight�and�die.

Flanagan�said�her�son�was�on�his�third�deployment�to�Iraq.�She�said�his�personal�writings�indicated�he�was�resigned�to�the�fact�that�he�could�lose�his�life�in�combat.

“I�think�he�was�hoping�that�he�was�wrong,”�she�said,�adding�that�the�night�before�he�died�he�told�his�buddies�“to�remember�him�as�the�goofy�guy�that�everyone�could�depend�on.”

Burden� went� to� Lecanto,� Fla.,� in� 2007� when� a� post� office� was�renamed�for�Flanagan’s�son.

“He�really�feels�their�loss�a�lot.�This�is�something�that’s�very�per-sonal� to� him,”� Flanagan� said.� “This� is� one� way� for� him� to� honor�them.”

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Dear Dr. Donohue: My grand-son plays baseball. He is 13 years old and is a pitcher. He also plays shortstop. He noticed that he can’t straighten his right arm, his pitching arm. When he puts his arm straight out with palms up, the arm won’t completely straighten like his left arm does. There seems to be a small bone sticking out on one side of his elbow. There is only a little pain when he presses on it. His dad says the elbow is swollen, but it looks deformed to me. I keep urg-ing his mom and dad to take him to a doctor. What do you think? — L.A.

I’m with you. Take the boy to a doctor.

Young baseball pitchers are prone to developing throwing-arm injuries. Their bones are not fully mature. Sections of imma-ture bone are growth plates, ar-eas that have not yet turned into bone. Growth plates permit the bone to grow. They are vulner-able spots.

Stress on growth plates can lead to Little League elbow. Little League elbow is not just one con-dition; it encompasses a number of conditions. One is fragmenta-tion of bone and elements of the growth plate due to excessive stress. That small bone sticking out to the side of your grandson’s elbow might be a fragment of the

bone.Young pitchers must have lim-

its on their throwing. A boy your grandson’s age shouldn’t throw more than 95 pitches (some say 75) in one day. If the pitcher throws more than 60 pitches, three days of rest should be en-forced before he’s allowed to pitch again.

Throwing from a mound is more stressful than throwing from fl at ground. The mound elevation increases the forces of gravity on the throwing arm, and the twisting motion required to get a ball over the plate from mound height puts a great deal of pressure on the shoulder, elbow and wrist.

Little League elbow isn’t the only possible diagnosis. Swelling of a bursa at the back of the el-bow is another frequent problem. A bursa is a disk placed between tendons and bones to reduce fric-tion when the tendon rubs against the bone.

I am not sure what the boy has. I am sure he needs an exam. Un-diagnosed elbow problems can put an end to his baseball career.

Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer individual let-ters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.

SAN BRUNO, Calif. (AP) — Fire crews sifted through dozens of burned-out houses and tried to account for the residents Friday after a gas line ruptured and a massive fi reball exploded through a neighborhood near San Francis-co, killing at least four people.

Crews with dogs went house to house and offi cials said there could be more casualties from the Thursday evening blast. Homes were left with just chimneys standing and smoke still rose from 15 acres of smoldering wreckage. Fire offi cials said the blaze is ful-ly contained, but a quarter of the homes are still too hot to search.

“It was pretty devastating,” said San Bruno Fire Chief Dennis Haag. “It looks like a moonscape in some areas.”

Eight investigators were at the scene Friday, working to deter-mine the cause of the explosion. Police are blocking people from approaching the burn area.

“Until we can determine what caused that, we are protecting that like a crime scene, looking for evidentiary value items,” said San Bruno Police Chief Neil Telford.

One man was arrested Thurs-day night on suspicion of looting and assaulting an offi cer, Telford said.

At least 50 people were hurt in the blast and fi re, with eight in critical condition at area hospitals. The explosion left a giant crater and sent fl ames tearing through the middle-class neighborhood of 1960s-era homes in hills over-looking San Francisco, the bay and the airport.

Haag said he didn’t know of anyone confi rmed missing, though offi cials were still wait-ing for all residents to check in. Nearly 40 homes were destroyed and seven signifi cantly damaged. Dozens of other homes suffered less severe damage in the fi re.

Christina Verafl or, 41, of Napa, grew up in the neighborhood and said Friday morning that her 67-year-old mother’s house was de-stroyed. Her mother, who had lived in the home for 40 years, was at the movies when the neigh-borhood erupted in fl ames.

“I woke up this morning and said, ‘I’ll go to my mom’s and get this and get that.’ But there is no mom’s anymore,” Verafl or said.

Pacifi c Gas and Electric Co. President Chris Johns said Friday morning a steel gas pipe ruptured about three feet underground just before 6:30 p.m. Thursday, but crews still haven’t been able to de-termine the cause of the rupture or the ensuing blast because they can’t get close enough.

Haag said Friday afternoon they’re still not able to access the site of the ruptured gas line be-cause it’s covered with water.

The damaged section was iso-lated and gas fl ow to the area has

been stopped.After the initial blast, fl ames

reached as high as 100 feet as the fi re fueled itself on burning homes, leaving some in total ru-ins and reducing parked automo-biles to burned out hulks.

“It was a continuous whoosh-ing sound as if it was a fed fi re,” resident Michael Yost said. “It sounded like, you know, you would if you had a blow torch. It’s that sound but, you know, a hun-dred times louder.”

Verafl or said she smelled gas at the house during a visit six weeks ago but did not report the smell to the utility.

“You’d get a whiff of it, and it would dissipate,” she said.

Johns said the company has heard the reports that some resi-dents smelled gas in the area be-fore the blast.

“Right now, we haven’t got confi rmation about that, but we have records that we are going back right this minute to try to confi rm what exactly those phone calls look like and when they oc-

curred, and we will report back as soon as we know something.”

The mood was apprehensive at the evacuation center Friday, where several dozens of people came to get information and ser-vices.

Carlene Vasquez did not know what happened to her house and was anxiously waiting for news when her son came up and showed her a picture of her house, still standing, on his mo-bile phone.

“Oh my house,” she said, cry-ing. “That’s my house.”

Four fi refi ghters suffered mi-nor smoke inhalation injuries and were treated and quickly released, Haag said.

It’s not the fi rst time a deadly explosion on a PG&E gas line has devastated a Northern California neighborhood.

On Christmas Eve 2008 an ex-plosion killed a 72-year-old man in the Sacramento suburb of Ran-cho Cordova, destroyed one home and seriously damaged others.

The National Transportation

Safety Board’s fi nal report said PG&E used a wrong pipe to re-pair the gas line two years be-fore the explosion. Rancho Cor-dova residents had reported of a gas smell in the area before the blast.

In response to the NTSB’s fi ndings, the company said it had taken “extraordinary measures” to ensure a blast like that would never happen again.

The NTSB has sent a four-member team to San Bruno to investigate Thursday’s blast.

The pipeline involved in the ac-cident is under the jurisdiction of the California Public Utility Com-mission. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said an offi cial from his department would be on the scene “to make sure things are being done correctly.”

“We are going to take 24/7 oversight to make sure everything is done correctly, LaHood told re-porters in Washington.

However, LaHood added: “The responsibility for this falls under the state of California.”

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Firefighters battle a fire in the hills above San Bruno, Calif., on Thursday. The flames have claimed at least 35 homes and killed four people.

Young pitcher’s arm will not fully straighten out

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OUR VIEW

The transfer of property to the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks has many exciting prospects for area outdoor enthusiasts, not to mention the boon to Labette County tourism.

Wildlife offi cials are busy planning for the 3,000 acres formerly under federal control, but released through the Base Realignment and Closure Commission’s process of decommissioning the 13,727-acre Kansas Army Ammunition Plant.

Plans are to open the 12 ponds in the Grand Osage Wildlife Area to fi shermen, after they’ve been surveyed, restocked and had creel limits set, as well as weight and length limits. Habitat for wildlife will be improved over time, removing fl ourishing cedar, hedge and locust trees and regenerating native grasslands.

This is an exciting time, having such an area well known for its ample deer population open to public hunting and fi shing.

The BRAC process began in 2005, and it has been a long road to get to this point of the transfer of 3,000 acres to Wildlife and Parks.

Now Wildlife and Parks begins another long journey to transform the land into a public park that is sure to be a huge draw for local outdoor enthusiasts as well as those from across the nation.

— Ray Nolting

Grand Osage Wildlife Area

WHERE TO WRITE: D.C.

Rep. Lynn Jenkins, (Republican) 130 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20515; phone: (202) 225-6601; PITTSBURG: 701 N. Broadway, Pittsburg, KS, 66762; phone: (620) 231-5966.

JENKINS

Sen. Sam Brownback, (Republican) 303 Hart Senate Of-fice Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; phone: (202) 224-6521;PITTSBURG: 1001-C N. Broadway, Pittsburg, KS, 66762; phone: (620) 231-6040.

BROWNBACK

Sen. Pat Roberts, (Republican) 109 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; phone: (202) 224-4774; TOPEKA: Frank Carlson Federal Building, 444 S.E. Quincy, Room 392, Topeka, KS, 66683; phone: (785) 295-2745.

ROBERTS

President Barack Obama, (Demo-crat) 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C., 20500; phone (switch-board): (202) 456-1414;(comments): (202) 456-1111.

OBAMA

WHERE TO WRITE: KANSASRep.Jerry Williams, (Democrat, District 8) Room 451-S, Statehouse, Topeka, KS 66612-1504; phone: (785) 296-7650;

e-mail: jerry.williams@house.ks.gov

WILLIAMS

Gov. Mark Parkinson, (Democrat) Capitol, 300 S.W. 10th Ave., Suite 212S, Topeka, KS, 66612-1590; phone: (785) 296-3232; e-mail: http://www.governor.ks.gov/ comments/comment.htm

Sen. Dwayne Umbarger, (Republican, District 14) Room 441-E, Statehouse, Topeka, KS 66612-1504; phone: (785) 296-7389;

e-mail:Dwayne.Umbarger@senate.ks.gov

UMBARGER

Rep.Richard Proehl, (Republican, District 7) Room 50B, Statehouse, Topeka, KS 66612-1504; phone: (785) 296-7639;

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November is the time to set things right for the nationTo The Sun:

To quote Warren Buffett, “The only cure for our current terrible economic distress is to be found in the November elections!”

Let us consider what fundamental changes the Obama administra-tion has brought to us, and what he is planning for the future. Whille he is campaigning and vacationing after ramming through a highly controversial health care law, unwanted by the majority of citizens and unsustainable in its advertised form, the country’s business is being di-rected by 30 “czars,” the majority of whom are totally unqualifi ed to perform their duties, despite their average salaries of $100,000 or more per year. Nearly all are proud radicals devoted to popular causes such as abolishing any private gun ownership, creating special “rights” for homosexuals, extremely anti-business in efforts to destroy capitalism in favor of socialism, advocates of open borders and extreme civil rights for foreign terrorists, higher taxes on the middle class to provide free housing and medical care for the indigent, with several being current members of the Communist party.

Are these the leaders to restore our capitalist economy, nearly de-stroyed by government takeover of fi nance, manufacturing, education and health care?

Another fundamental change is the fostering of such uncertainty in the matters of additional taxation, the burden of proposed health care unconstitutionally ordering private citizens to buy health insurance whether they want it or not, a massive increase in unemployment and decrease in domestic growth that people are afraid to spend any unnec-essary funds, small businesses are afraid to invest in improvements or increased employment and the economy continues to stagnate and drift lower, despite the administration’s claim of the success of the stimulus.

Many more government jobs have been created but that is not a good thing.

Not satisfi ed with suing Arizona for daring to try to protect its citi-zens and borders from unlawful, dangerous and costly invasion in ac-cordance with unenforced federal laws, our secretary of state has the audacity to report the sovereign state of Arizona to the United Nations for civil rights violations. She has invited such civil rights advocates as Cubans and Libyans to “investigate Arizona” for their efforts to protect their citizens.

Every loyal American should be outraged by this foreign intru-sion into our internal affairs. Again, the only cure for this outrageous abuse of power is the mid-term elections. We all need to work and pray for the return of our nation to the independence and individual rights guaranteed by the Constitution, which is being so blithely dis-regarded in this “fundamental change.” — EILEEN GOFOURTH, Parsons

PUBLIC MIND

Christmas is just right around the corner. Do you have a stash of money tucked away for the holiday? Many of us do not. If you start now and save just $10 dollars a week the savings could be close to $150 by the week before Christmas. Saving the money for a holiday such as Christmas can be stressful on a family and charging gifts only creates bigger problems in the new year. Aim to stay ahead as this holiday season approaches and consider the following tips to make next year even easier on the family pocketbook.

Once upon a time, banks encouraged small annual savings accounts to cover hol-iday expenses. With low interest rates and little profi tability for the bank, the emphasis was on helping people prepare for extra ex-penses, said Carol Young, fi nancial manage-ment specialist with K-State Research and Extension.

Setting up a separate savings account

or regular savings system to cover extra expenses remains a wise and fi nancially sound goal, Young said. For example, Kan-sas Saves, a statewide, Extension-supported savings program, encourages depositing coins now left lying around in a dish or a drawer at home into an interest-bearing ac-count.

“Over a year’s time, putting away $5 a

week will yield $260,” Young said. Comparing banks’ rates of return is simi-

lar to comparing prices at a grocery store or supermarket, said Young, who recommend-ed only considering accounts insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

“A return of 2 to 3 percent may not seem like much. But, when paying with cash, rather than running up a balance on a credit card, the savings on interest (from 8 to 18 percent or more) and extra fees can yield a signifi cant savings,” she said. One simple way is to set up an automatic transfer from a checking to a savings account each payday.

“Paying yourself fi rst is old, but still good advice. And, having holiday money avail-able takes the pressure off,” she added.

For additional information about savings and budgeting, contact the Labette County Extension Offi ce at (620) 784-5337 or e-mail me at ludwigk@ksu.edu.

Start now to ease holiday cash crunch

Keeping your cool can be hard to do when the market goes on one of its periodic roller-coaster rides. It’s useful to have strategies in place that prepare you both fi nancially and psychologi-cally to handle market volatility. Here are 11 ways to help keep yourself from making hasty decisions that could have a long-term impact on your ability to achieve your fi nancial goals.

1. Have a game planHaving predetermined guidelines that rec-

ognize the potential for turbulent times can help prevent emotion from dictating your decisions. For example, you might take a core-and-satel-lite approach, combining the use of buy-and-hold principles for the bulk of your portfolio with tactical investing based on a shorter-term market outlook. You also can use diversifi ca-tion to try to offset the risks of certain holdings with those of others. Diversifi cation may not ensure a profi t or guarantee against a loss, but it can help you understand and balance your risk in advance. And if you’re an active investor, a trading discipline can help you stick to a long-term strategy. For example, you might deter-mine in advance that you will take profi ts when a security or index rises by a certain percentage, and buy when it has fallen by a set percentage.

2. Know what you own and why you own itWhen the market goes off the tracks, know-

ing why you originally made a specifi c invest-ment can help you evaluate whether your rea-sons still hold, regardless of what the overall market is doing. Understanding how a specifi c holding fi ts in your portfolio also can help you consider whether a lower price might actually represent a buying opportunity. And if you don’t understand why a security is in your portfolio,

fi nd out. That knowledge can be important, especially if you’re considering replacing your current holding with another investment.

3. Remember that everything’s relativeMost of the variance in the returns of differ-

ent portfolios can generally be attributed to their asset allocations. If you’ve got a well-diversifi ed portfolio that includes multiple asset classes, it could be useful to compare its overall perfor-mance to relevant benchmarks. If you fi nd that your investments are performing in line with those benchmarks, that realization might help you feel better about your overall strategy. Even a diversifi ed portfolio is no guarantee that you won’t suffer losses, of course. But diversifi ca-tion means that just because the S&P 500 might have dropped 10 percent or 20 percent doesn’t necessarily mean your overall portfolio is down by the same amount.

4. Tell yourself that this too shall passThe fi nancial markets are historically cy-

clical. Even if you wish you had sold at what turned out to be a market peak, or regret hav-ing sat out a buying opportunity, you may well get another chance at some point. Even

if you’re considering changes, a volatile mar-ket can be an inopportune time to turn your portfolio inside out. A well-thought-out asset allocation is still the basis of good investment planning.

5. Be willing to learn from your mistakesAnyone can look good during bull markets;

smart investors are produced by the inevitable rough patches. Even the best aren’t right all the time. If an earlier choice now seems rash, sometimes the best strategy is to take a tax loss, learn from the experience, and apply the lesson to future decisions. Expert help can prepare you and your portfolio to both weather and take ad-vantage of the market’s ups and downs.

6. Take it easyIf you feel you need to make changes in your

portfolio, there are ways to do so short of a to-tal makeover. You could test the waters by re-directing a small percentage of one asset class into another. You could put any new money into investments you feel are well positioned for the future but leave the rest as is. You could set a stop-loss order to prevent an investment from falling below a certain level, or have an informal threshold below which you will not allow an investment to fall before selling. Even if you need or want to adjust your portfolio during a period of turmoil, those changes can--and probably should--happen in gradual steps. Taking gradual steps is one way to spread your risk over time as well as over a variety of asset classes.

———Chad A. Boaz, CRPC, is a fi nancial adviser

with the practice of Bruce A. Mullen, CFP, 328 W. State St., Erie.

How to stay sane in a crazy market

CHADBOAZ

Associate Financial Adviser, Ameriprise

Television, newspapers, magazines and the Web are fi lled with images of starving children — skeleton-like fi gures crouched like dogs on their haunches while their moth-ers wail in aguish. Sometimes these pictures from such far-away places as Mozambique, Ethiopia or Angola also include children eating bread, bowls of rice and other staples that may have come from food produced on the fertile land of Kansas farmers and their counterparts across the United States.

Food aid for these hungry people started nearly 60 years ago right here in Kansas. It was named Food for Peace and this program was an outgrowth of this country’s foreign-aid policy.

A few years after the conclusion of World War II, the United States implemented plans to help countries devastated by the war. The Marshall Plan in Western Europe became the cornerstone of this newly emerging program.

While some of the funding was used for re-construction, most was used to help feed starv-ing people left homeless and unemployed by the war. During this same period, the United States enjoyed bumper crops and began stock-piling huge commodity surpluses.

In September 1953, Cheyenne County Farm Bureau (in northwestern Kansas) held a countywide policy development meeting. In that meeting, Peter O’Brien, a young farmer and rancher, suggested that it would make more sense to give aid in the form of food items rather than in the form of money.

Cheyenne County Farm Bureau drafted a foreign-aid resolution that called for export-ing grain to other countries. The northwest-ern Kansas farm leaders believed that if un-derdeveloped countries were able to secure

food — once they became more prosperous — they would become major buyers of U.S. commodities.

The Kansas farmers also saw this as a “sure-fi re” method to help reduce grain in-ventories and realized that increased ship-ments of U.S. agricultural products could generate more business for American pro-cessors, packers, shippers, railroads and ocean vessels.

The county Farm Bureau resolution be-came a state resolution at the Kansas Farm Bureau annual meeting and later part of the offi cial policy of the American Farm Bureau Federation at the national level. In 1954, Kansas Sen. Andy Schoeppel sponsored legislation known as “Food for Peace” that passed both houses of Congress and was signed into law by Kansas’ native son, Presi-dent Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Since its early beginning in Cheyenne County, PL 480 has gone through many changes. Today it remains a key ingredient in our overseas plan to aid countries with food rather than money.

Using food for humanitarian relief pro-grams helps everyone. PL 480 helps feed

hungry people around the world while help-ing American farmers reduce surpluses.

While there have been many new laws and farm bills introduced during this pe-riod, not many have been as signifi cant to agriculture and feeding the world’s hungry people as Food for Peace. Without this hu-manitarian vehicle and the output of Kansas producers and their counterparts across the United States, millions of people continue to go hungry.

Each year millions of people need mil-lions of tons of food to fi ll their hungry bellies. In 2008, an estimated 963 million people remained undernourished.

That same year, more than $2.8 billion was donated worldwide from U.S. aid programs to developing countries, reaching tens of millions of people. This aid is essential in emergency situations and included drought in the Horn of Africa, confl icts in Sudan and Congo, hurricanes in Haiti and drought in Afghanistan. Approximately 43 million in 38 countries benefi ted from emergency food aid provided through Food for Peace.

At the same time, non-emergency pro-grams continued to focus on increasing agricultural production and supporting pro-grams to address health, nutrition, HIV and others aimed at investing in people. More than 7.2 million people in 28 countries ben-efi ted from USAID non-emergency food as-sistance.

———John Schlageck is a leading commentator

on agriculture and rural Kansas. Born and raised on a diversifi ed farm in northwestern Kansas, his writing refl ects a lifetime of ex-perience, knowledge and passion.

A history of Food for Peace initiative

JOHNSCHLAGECK

KansasFarm Bureau

KYLIELUDWIG

Family and Consumer Sciences

Extension Agent

BY TIM UNRUH

THE SALINA JOURNAL

BRANTFORD — Audrey Kalivoda often takes back roads home to Washington County and instantly renews her love for Kan-sas.

Cattle getting fat in rolling, grass-blanketed pastures, and small, quaint towns loaded with local art and folks eager to please and recapture the eye and heart of this photographer and videogra-pher from Nashville, Tenn.

“We just don’t realize what our great state has to offer,” said Ka-livoda, 55. The native of a farm near Brantford in southwestern Wash-ington County — her parents, Jim and Ramona Kalivoda, still live at the farmstead — Audrey said the state’s beauty is obvious.

Kansas deserves more than references to the “Wizard of Oz” movie and characters Dorothy and Toto, she said, pointing to a quarterly national magazine, Ad-venture Road, that gave her home state a mention earlier this summer with a picture of the ball of twine

in Cawker City.“Of everything we have to offer,

there’s that damn ball of twine in Cawker City. It’s a little thing, and it’s fun, but that’s all we can fi nd?” Kalivoda said. “We’ve got so much more to see.”

She scoffs at portrayals of Kan-sas as a fl at piece of land that has to be crossed by tourists before reaching more interesting attrac-tions.

Kalivoda is out to change those perceptions with her new video, “Kansas: The Center of it All.”

She recently spent time in her home state, capturing video and still photographs and doing Kan-sas research.

The 35-minute video, set to be released Dec. 1, will focus on four elements — geology, history, wildlife and what to see and do throughout the state.

Kalivoda plans an opening video Dec. 2 at Bergen’s Studio & Gallery, 320 N. Santa Fe, during Salina’s First Thursday Art Rush.

“Audrey has family here, and she’s home to see the family quite

often,” said Richard Bergen, the gallery owner and a well-known sculptor. Kalivoda was a student of his while she attended the former Marymount College in Salina. She completed an English degree from there in 1976.

“She’s an interesting young lady, a dedicated Kansan,” Bergen said. “We’ll have some of her tapes playing.”

The new video should be well-received, said Richard Gould, administrator at Pawnee Indian Museum State Historic Site, eight miles north of U.S. 36 on Kansas 266 in Republic County.

“I’ve never seen (a video) that’s for sale that talks about the whole state and lists what we have to offer,” Gould said. “Audrey re-ally gets down into the nitty-gritty, does her research really well.”

Contrary to some negative tags, Kansas has an interesting and varied landscape, Kalivoda said, from the rolling hills formed by glaciers in northeast Kansas to the Arikaree (uh-RIK-uh-ree) Breaks, an expanse of canyons

15 miles north of St. Francis in extreme northwest Kansas. Her fi rst fi lm in Kansas, “Kansas Canyon Lands,” was released in 2006 and was centered on the Breaks.

“There’s a quote about how the mountains and oceans speak to you,” Kalivoda said.

But in the prairie, she said, it takes more time.

“You have to sit and listen to it, and let it talk to you,” Kalivoda said. “Slow down and look around you.”

Her latest Kansas video homes in on “the people who were here fi rst” such as the Kansa and Paw-nee American Indian tribes.

“There’s a little bit about the immigrants, the Czechs, Swedes, Germans and French,” Kalivoda said.

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GARFIELD READING WINNERS

Courtesy photo

Garfield School held the annual drawing for prizes for a bicycle and a compact disk player on Sept. 3. Students who checked out books from the Parsons Public Library and/or the bookmobile entered their names each time in the drawing. Nahele Adams, a second-grader, won the new bicycle and Michael Stout, a third-grader, won the compact disk player. Students were awarded certificates and “dog tags” for participating in the reading program.

Toll climbs to 6 from storm

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The bodies of two men found Friday in swollen Texas waterways pushed the death toll caused by remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine to six, while a scaled-back search re-sumed for another woman swept away in fl ooding caused by a re-cord drenching.

Five people in Texas and one in Oklahoma have died in fl ooding caused by Hermine, which proved more deadly and devastating this week while dissolving over land than it did after coming ashore in Mexico on Monday.

Hermine’s weakening march north through Texas fl ooded homes, set off tornadoes and led to more than 100 high-water rescues. Only one search continued Friday — for an Austin woman who drove around a police barricade and into a fast-moving creek Tuesday night.

Divers were pulled from the search for the woman, who disap-peared after her sport utility vehicle washed down swollen Bull Creek, said Austin fi re Lt. Josh Portie.

“It’s safe to call it a recovery op-eration,” Portie said.

Hermine set rainfall records for the calendar day up and down the Interstate 35 corridor, including nearly 16 inches in Georgetown, according to the National Weather Service. Other cities from Austin to Denton received upward of 10 inches of rain over Tuesday and Wednesday.

“These records pretty much smashed the old ones,” National Weather Service meteorologist Ted Ryan said.

In the San Antonio area Friday, search teams recovered the bodies of two men missing in separate, swollen waterways. One was the second of two swimmers killed in fl ooding in the Guadalupe River in New Braunfels, a day after authori-ties found the fi rst body.

Nikos Paraskevopoulos, 28, of Alexandria, La., had been swim-ming with Derek Joel-Nelson Cle-mens, 23, of Baldwin, Mich. Both were swept over a dam in the river Wednesday.

Authorities on Friday also found the body of 57-year-old Calvin Gib-son, who tried crossing the fl ooded Cibolo Creek in his car despite his wife telling him not to risk it.

Hermine caused relatively few problems when it made landfall as a tropical storm Monday night, with the worst of the rainfall falling harmlessly into the Gulf. But once the storm was fully on land, its remnants moved north into Texas and Oklahoma and the fl ooding caught some people off guard.

Politics enter 9/11 refl ection for fi rst time

NEW YORK (AP) — For al-most a decade, the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was marked by somber refl ection and a call to unity, devoid of politics. Not this time.

This year’s commemoration of the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Shanksville, Pa., promises to be the most political and conten-tious ever because of a proposed Islamic center and mosque near ground zero and a Florida pastor’s plan to burn the Quran — and the debate those issues have engen-dered over religious freedom.

As in other years, offi cial cer-emonies are planned at the three locations the terrorists struck. President Barack Obama will attend a commemoration at the Pentagon, while Vice President Joe Biden will go to ground zero. First lady Michelle Obama and former fi rst lady Laura Bush will travel to Shanksville to observe the ninth anniversary there.

Obama told a White House news conference that Sept. 11 would be “an excellent time” for the country to refl ect on the fact that there are millions of Mus-lims who are American citizens, that they also are fi ghting in U.S. uniforms in Afghanistan, and “we don’t differentiate between ’them’ and ’us.’ It’s just ’us.”’

He said a plan by Terry Jones, the pastor of a small, indepen-dent church in Gainesville, Fla., to mark 9/11 by burning copies of the Quran must be taken seri-ously because it could cause “pro-found damage” to U.S. troops and interests around the world.

“You don’t play games with that,” Obama said, adding that as commander in chief he had an ob-ligation to respond.

Obama said he hopes Jones “prays on it and refrains from do-ing it.”

Jones has been under pressure from the White House and Defense Secretary Robert Gates to cancel the event. He said Thursday he had called it off if he could meet Satur-day with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who is leading an effort to build the Islamic center and mosque near ground zero. Rauf said in a state-ment Friday he has no plans to meet with Jones, although he is open to seeing anyone “seriously commit-ted to pursuing peace.”

Luke Jones, the pastor’s 29-year-old son, went a step further and told reporters Friday after-noon: “There will be no Quran burning tomorrow.” He said he could not say whether the event would be revived after that.

A few minutes earlier, Terry Jones said he held out hope he could meet with Rauf. “We have not heard from the imam, but we are still very, very hopeful that we will meet with him,” Terry Jones said. He said he will to fl y to New York to meet with the imam, but his precise travel plans were not known.

In Afghanistan, 11 people were injured Friday in scattered pro-tests of Jones’ plan. Only a few thousand people attended those rallies and no large-scale dem-onstrations were reported else-where. In Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, cleric Rusli Hasbi told 1,000 worshippers at Friday prayers that whether or not he burns the Quran, Jones had already “hurt the heart of the Muslim world.”

Biden will attend the largest of the three 9/11 commemorations — the New York ceremony at a park near ground zero, where 2,752 people were killed when Muslim extremists fl ew planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in 2001. Houses of worship in the city toll bells at 8:46 a.m., when the fi rst plane struck the north tower, and three more times to mark the moment the second plane hit the south tower and to observe the times each tower fell.

But this time, along with the formal ceremonies, activists for and against the proposed Islamic center are planning their own events to capture the emotion of the day for political purposes.

Also Saturday, former Repub-lican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was expected to ob-serve the anniversary in Alaska with Fox News TV host Glenn Beck. The two conservative celeb-rities hosted a tea party rally last month at the Lincoln Memorial.

Woman captures video for Kansas project

Parsons Sun Fall

Contact Audrey @ The Parsons Sun • 220 S. 18th, Parsons • 620-421-2000

Sept. 25th

JIM ROSS BIRTHDAY OPEN HOUSEFamily & friends are invited to celebrate

Jim’s 93rd birthday at his home in Liberty, Ks. from 2 to 4 pm on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010.

(No gifts, please)

Fort Scott Gun and Knife ShowSponsored by the Old Fort

Scottish Rite Club

Saturday, September 18, 20109:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Sunday, September 19, 20109:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Fort Scott Scottish Rite Temple110 South Main

Fort Scott, Kansas 66701

Buy- Sell- TradePublic Invited

General AdmissionAges 12 and up $4.00

Under 12 Free with an adultNo one under 18 allowed without Parent/Guardian

All Federal Firearms Laws Apply

Logo Co test2011 is the Centennial (100th)

Anniversary of the Labette County Fair!A NEW logo is needed!

The winning logo will be used on all materials. The winner will receive

$100 cash + 2 tickets to ALL fair events.Please send entries in jpeg format to

rod@wavewls by Oct. 15, 2010.The winner will be announced at the auction fundraiser, Nov. 13. Entries accepted from

Labette County residents only.Tickets to the dinner auction are $35/couple

$25/single and are available by calling the Extension Office 620-784-5337.

Sponsored by the Labette County Fair Board, Parsons Sun & Labette Avenue.

BY ANTHONY COOK

SPORTS EDITOR

IOLA�—�It�was�a�windy�night�in�Coffeyville�on�Oct.�13,�2007.�Tyler� Gilley� was� taking� snaps�for�the�Parsons�High�School�Vi-kings� football� team.� He� scored�two�touchdowns�in�the�game,�in-cluding�one�in�the�fourth,�and�a�two-point�conversion�to�put�the�Vikings� ahead� 14-7.� They� held�on�for�the�victory.

Flash� forward� nearly� three�full�years�and�21�games,�and�the�Vikings�of�Parsons�know�what�it�feels�to�have�victory�again.

On� Friday� evening,� Parsons�traveled�to�Iola�and�smashed�the�Mustangs� in� a� 63-20� romp� to�snap�its�losing�streak�and�move�to�1-1�on�the�year.

After�the�game,�a�teary-eyed�Dustin� Perkins� explained� the�feeling.

“It’s� unbelievable,”� said� the�Parsons�third-year�coach.�“I�told�the�kids� tough� times�don’t� last.�Tough�people�do�though.�Those�kids�have�battled�for�three�years,�and�this�is�special.”

From�the�start,�this�game�was�all�Vikings.�The�Vikings�didn’t�seem�to�mind�taking�the�drama�out�of�their�first�victory�in�near-ly�three�years.

Perhaps� in� a� nod� to� the� last�Parsons� victory,� it� was� another�PHS� quarterback,� junior� Wes�Krull,�who�scored�the�first�two�touchdowns� of� the� game� this�time.

Krull� scored� to� cap� a� five-play� drive� at� the� beginning� of�the� game� on� an� eight-yard� run�with� 7:37� left.� Next,� he� scored�from�25�out�with�6:23�after�fel-low�junior�Tevin�Johnson�rushed�for� 20� yards� to� get� him� to� the�25-yard�line�and�in�scoring�po-sition.�That�drive�took�only�two�plays,� and� the� Vikings� were� in�

business� halfway� through� the�first.

Iola� took� over� and� had� a�fourth�down�on� its�own�side�of�the� field,� and� took� advantage�on�a�short�gain.�The�Mustangs’�drive� stalled,� and� Parsons� took�over.

The�Vikings�had�a� rare�mis-take� the� following� drive� when�a�Krull�pass�was�intercepted�by�John�Whitworth,� an� Iola� fresh-man.

The� turnover� set� up� a� three-yard� run� by� junior� Jerrik� Sigg,�who�took�the�ball�out�of�the�shot-gun�formation�and�kept�it�for�the�score.

After� Iola� missed� the� PAT,�the� score� was� 14-6� in� favor� of�Parsons.

The� momentum� stayed� with�Parsons� in� a�big�way,�however.�In� the� second� quarter,� the� Vi-kings� scored� 29� points� on� the�way�to�a�43-6�halftime�lead.

Junior� Damonte� Taylor� ex-ploded� for� two� touchdowns� in�the� corner.� One� was� a� 40-yard�reception� and� the� other� was� a�20-yard�run.

Joel� Collins� scored� with� just�under� a� minute� of� play,� thanks�to�a�huge�50-yard�run,�and�made�another� huge� play� when� he� re-covered� an� errant� backward�lateral�on�an�Iola�trick�play�two�snaps�later.

Krull�chucked�a�fade�route�to�James�C.�Jackson�the�next�play,�and� Jackson� brought� down� the�pass�in�the�end�zone�to�put�Par-sons�up�big�at�the�break.

After� a� sloppy� week� one,�the� Vikings� looked� excellent�in� preparation� for� the� second�game.

“I’m� just� as� proud� of� these�coaches� as� I� am� of� these� boys.�They’ve� busted� their� butts� and�hung� in� there� for� three� years.�

We� come� to� work� every� week.�We� had� a� great� game� plan� I�felt�like�coming�into�this�week.�Coach�(Adam)�Merrell�had�them�scouted� up,� and� our� defensive�coaches� knew� what� they� were�going�to�do,”�said�Perkins.

Still,�the�kudos�from�Perkins�went�mostly�to�his�players�after�the�game.

“The�bottom�line� is�our�kids�came�to�play�tonight.�We�didn’t�step�out�on�the�field.�Those�kids�came� to� play,� and� this� is� about�them,”�he�said.

In�the�second�half,�Iola�start-ed�with�a�long�drive�that�chewed�up� nearly� six� minutes� and� re-sulted� in� a� touchdown.� Sopho-

more�quarterback�Mason�Coons�stepped� in� and� moved� the� ball�through�the�air.�As�a�team,�Iola�went�10-13�in�the�second�half.

It�wasn’t�enough.�The�Vikings�tacked�on�three�more�scores,�and�the�game�was�put�out�of�reach.

After� the� game,� senior� Vi-king� James� E.� Jackson,� whose�season�ended�with�a�knee�injury�in�week�one,�led�the�Vikings�in�the� singing� of� their� fight� song.�With� each� word� of� the� song,�memories� of� the� losing� streak�that� spanned� two� full� seasons�and�the�end�and�start�of�another�pair�disappeared.

“There’s�is�nothing�that�cures�like� winning.� Winning� cures�

what’s� wrong� with� you,”� said�Perkins.

NotesParsons�intercepted�four�pass-

es� and� recovered� two� fumbles�against� Iola.� Junior� Thatcher�Murdock�had�a�fumble�recovery�and� interception...� Iola� has� giv-en� up� 124� points� in� two� games�this� season.� The� Mustangs� lost�to� Independence� 61-51� in� week�one...� The� Vikings� have� scored�99�points�in�two�games�this�sea-son.�The�63�points�Friday�was�13�

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The� Labette� County� High�School� volleyball� team� re-mained� undefeated� Thursday�evening� with� a� non-league�sweep�in�three�games�at�home.

The� Grizzlies� hosted� Pitts-burg,�Coffeyville�and�Chanute�and� came� away� with� three�wins�against�Southeast�Kansas�League�competition.

“We�saw�moments�of�great-ness� tonight,� but� there� is� still�so� much� room� for� improve-ment,”�said�LCHS�coach�Kristi�Snider.� “We� are� playing� uni-fied� right� now� and� working�well�together.”

LCHS� defeated� Pittsburg�25-21,�25-21�to�open�play.�The�two� teams�have�already�faced�off�in�a�close�matchup�a�week�ago�in�Parsons.�LCHS�won�that�matchup�25-22,�25-17�and�did�the� same� in� the� second� meet-ing.

The� Grizzlies� next� dis-patched� Coffeyville� 25-8,� 25-11� before� defeating� Chanute�25-8,�23-25,�25-17�in�a�seesaw�match.

The� Grizzlies� were� led� by�sophomore�Michaela�O’Brien,�who�tallied�18�kills,�13�digs,�10�blocks,�eight�assists�and�seven�aces.�Senior�Stormy�Smith�had�13�digs,�six�kills�and�an�assist.�Junior� Allie� Maffei� had� eight�kills,�six�blocks�and�five�digs.�Junior� Shelbie� Foister� had� 15�kills,� 10� aces,� eight� digs� and�four�blocks�while�junior�Tiara�Ford�had�20�digs,�14�kills,�five�blocks�and�five�aces.�

Senior�Brianna�Thorpe�had�a�team-high�26�assists,�and�se-nior�Sloan�Dwyer�had�21�to�go�with�nine�digs.

The� Grizzlies� are� now� 6-0�thanks� to� two� sweeps� of� the�opening�quads�on�the�schedule.�They�will�next�travel�to�Iola�on�Saturday�for�a�tournament.

“I� am� proud� of� the� overall�team�effort,�and�we�will�get�a�real�indicator�of�where�we�are�at� Iola� at� their� invitational� on�Saturday,”�said�Snider.

The� LCHS� junior� varsity�made�it�a�clean�sweep�with�two�victories� Thursday.� The� team�defeated�Coffeyville�25-8,�25-19�and�Pittsburg�25-17,�25-22.

Galesburg team loses

The� Galesburg� Middle�School� football� team� took� on�Yates�Center�on�Thursday�eve-ning.� Yates� Center� took� the�game�14-0.

“It� was� a� good� game� and�we�had�our�chances�but�could�never� get� anything� going� on�offense,”�said�Galesburg�coach�Joseph�Clark.

After�trailing�8-0�at�the�half,�Galesburg�had�a�long�drive�to�start� the� second.� However,�Yates�Center�picked�off�a�pass�on�third�down�and�stopped�the�drive.

Galesburg� will� play� Caney�on�Thursday�at�home.

The� Labette� County� High�School�cross�country�team�trav-eled� to� Fort� Scott� for� the� Fort�Scott�Cross�Country�Invitational�on�Thursday.

The� Labette� County� var-sity�girls�placed�first�as�a�team.�Kandi� Voorhees� led� the� team�by�placing� second,� followed�by�Samantha� Workman� in� eighth,�Maddie� Brothers� in� 10th,� Ky-lie� Carnahan� in� 11th,� Hannah�Pearce� in� 14th,� Kara� Myers� in�26th�and�Haileigh�Tomlinson�in�27th.

The�varsity�boys�placed� first�as�a�team�as�well.�Brendan�Fin-ley� led� by� placing� third,� Drew�Baum� took� sixth,� Seth� Black-burn� took� ninth,� David� Geren�took� 15th,� Zach� Burke� took�24th,� Daniel� Albers� took� 40th�and�Dylan�McElroy�took�49th.���

The�junior�varsity�boys�team�was�led�by�Jake�Saye,�who�fin-

ished� 11th.� Cody� Fought� took�13th,� Dakotah� Lunsford� took�14th,�Colton�Kessler� took�16th,�William� Thompson� took� 26th,�Bo� Bryant� took� 32nd,� Bryce�Yarbrough�took�34th�and�Chase�Winters�took�38th.�

“LCHS� teams� did� an� out-standing�job�at�the�meet�in�Fort�Scott,”�said�LCHS�cross�country�coach�Marty�Warren.�“The�var-sity� girls� ran� an� excellent� race�as� a� team.� Kandi’s� (Voorhees)�leadership�for�the�girls�is�strong�and� has� the� ability� to� inspire�the� team�as�a�whole.�Samantha�(Workman)� came� on� strong� at�this� meet� along� with� Maddie�(Brothers),� Kylie� (Carnahan)�and� Hannah� (Pearce).� I� am� ex-tremely�proud�of�what� they�ac-complished� at� this� meet.� They�totally�surprised�me.”

Warren�was�also�complimen-tary� of� the� boys� team,� which�

helped�LCHS�complete�a�varsity�sweep�at�the�invite.

“The�varsity�boys�did�an�awe-some� job� as� well.� Through� the�leadership�of�Brendan� (Finley),�our�boys� team�continues� to�get�stronger.� They� seem� to� be� im-proving� by� leaps� and� bounds�from�last�year,”�he�said.�“I�was�also�proud�of�the�JV�boys�being�led�by�two�freshman,�Jake�Saye�and� Cody� Fought.� They� did� a�great�job�leading�the�JV�team.”

Individual�times�for�the�Griz-zly�runners�were�unavailable.

Erie� High� School� also� com-peted� at� the� event.� Matthew�Frech� led� the� Red� Devils’� var-sity� squad� with� a� 37th-place�finish� (22:04).� Kyle� Spielbusch�took�41st�(22:40)�and�Zack�Kane�took�46th�(24:42).

Lane� Brewer� competed� in�the�junior�varsity�portion�of�the�event�and�took�40th�(21:25).

Sports� birthdays� —� Tom�Landry� (NFL� coach),� 1924;�Eduardo� Perez� (MLB� player),�1969;� Jacoby� Ellsbury� (MLB�player),�1983.

This� day� in� sports� history�—�Boston�Red�Sox�defeat�Chi-cago� Cubs� 4-2� in� 15th� World�Series,�1918;�Ty�Cobb�has�last�hitting� appearance� and� pops�out,�1928;�Jerry�Walker�of�the�Orioles�pitches�16�innings�and�shuts�out�White�Sox�1-0,�1959;�Pete� Rose� of� the� Reds� gets�career� hit� No.� 4,192� to� break�all-time� record,� 1985;� Atlanta�Braves�get�combined�no-hitter�from� pitchers� Kent� Mercker,�Mark� Wohlers� and� Alejandro�Pena,�1991.

LC volleyballmoves to 6-0

This day in sports

LCHS, Erie run in Fort Scott Thursday

Ducks Unlimited dinner, auction

The� Parsons� Chapter� of�Ducks� Unlimited� will� have� a�dinner,� auction� and� raffle� as�part� of� its� membership� drive�on�Sept.�18�at�the�Parsons�Elks�Lodge,�220�N.�Central.�Doors�open�at�6�p.m.

Tickets�cost�$25�for�singles�and�$40�for�couples.�The�pub-lic�is�welcome.�For�more�infor-mation,�call�778-3515.

Vikings’ big win breaks longtime streak

Anthony Cook/Sun photo

Parsons High School junior running back Tre Nash (23) runs through a hole carved by junor Matt Martinez (63) during Friday evening’s victory over Iola.

LEBO�—�Inclement�weather�ended�St.�Paul�High�School’s�game�with�Lebo�here�Friday�night�at�halftime,�but�Lebo�had�generated�a�36-0�lead,�so�the�win�went�to�it.

St.�Paul�played�well�in�the�first�quarter,�limiting�Lebo�to�six�points,�but�the�Indians�weren’t�able�to�cross�the�goal�line.�Lebo�increased�the�intensity�in�the�second�quarter�and�began�to�run�away�with�the�game�when�St.�Paul�failed�to�respond,�Coach�Doug�Tuck�said.

Lebo,�which�has�two�tailbacks�and�two�tight�ends�with�talent,�was�able�to�put�points�on�the�board�as�the�rest�of�the�team�started�playing�a�more�physical�game�in�the�second�quarter.

“I� thought� we� played� well� for� a� little� while,”� Tuck� said.� “They�started�getting�physical�with�us,�and�we�didn’t�respond.”

St.�Paul,�now�1-1,�travels�to�Burlingame�next�Friday.

Lebo 36, St. Paul 0St. Paul 0 0 — 0Lebo 6 30 — 36

Scoring SummaryLebo — Holmes 28 run (run failed)Lebo — White 1 run (run failed)

Lebo defeats St. Paul

OSWEGO� —� Oswego� High� School’s� Indians�generated� more� than� 400� yards� of� offense� here�Friday�night�to�run�away�with�a�37-6�victory�over�Uniontown.

The�Indians,�now�2-0,�scored�16�points� in� the�first�six�minutes�of�the�game,�Coach�Andy�Fewin�said.� Uniontown� didn’t� score� until� five� minutes�remained�in�the�game.

Oswego�junior�Caleb�Horn�scored�two�TDs�in�the�game,�as�well�as�three�conversion�runs.

“We�got�off�to�a�really�good�start,”�Fewin�said.

He� said� two� long� Oswego� touchdowns� were�called� back� in� the� game� because� of� penalties,�which�affected�the�players�a�little�because�of�the�humidity�Friday�night.�

The�Indians�recovered,�scored�14�points�in�the�second� quarter� and� took� a� 30-0� lead� into� half-time.

“We� made� some� good� improvement,”� Fewin�said.�“We’re�going�to�get�better.�I’m�pretty�proud�

Oswego crushes UniontownSee VIKINGS, Page 7.

CHERRYVALE� —� The�Cherryvale� Chargers� may�have�been�taking�their�week�one� overtime� loss� to� Olpe�out�on�Northeast�of�Arma�on�Friday�night.

If�that’s�the�case,�the�Char-gers�did�a�good�job�of�it,�going�up�by�40�after�the�first�quarter�and� stretching� their� lead� to�67-0�at�halftime�before�finish-ing�with�a�73-0�win.

The� Chargers� totaled�479�yards�of�offense�on� the�night,� 356� on� the� ground.�Drew�Housel�racked�up�153�yards� on� just� four� carries�and�scored�two�touchdowns.�He�also�ran�a�punt�return�for�41� yards� for� another� touch-down.� Hunter� Robinson’s�one�carry�was�good�for�a�97-yard� touchdown.�Tevis�Lin-nebur� and� Curtis� Hewlett�also� scored� rushing� TDs.�Linnebur� added� a� 46-yard�touchdown�on�a�punt�return.

Quarterback� Devon� Hes-tand� completed� three� of� his�four�passes�for�93�yards�and�three� touchdowns.� Aaron�O’Brien� totaled� another� 30�yards� passing� on� his� two�completions,�one�for�a�touch-down.�Cody�O’Brien�caught�two�passes,�both�touchdowns,�for�82�yards,�and�Hewlett�also�had�two�touchdowns�on�two�catches.�On�defense,�Hestand�had�two�interceptions.

Cherryvale� Coach� Harry�Hester� said� the� team� played�hard,�and�he�was�able�to�get�a�lot�of�underclassmen�some�game�experience.�The�Char-gers�improved�to�1-1�and�play�Fredonia�at�home�on�Friday.

Cherryvale 73, Northeast 0Northeast 0 0 0 0 — 0Cherryvale 40 27 6 0 — 73

Scoring SummaryCherryvale — Cody, 41 pass

from Hestand (PAT failed)Cherryvale — Hewlett, 11 pass

from Hestand (Linnebur run)Cherryvale — Hewlett, 14 pass

from O’Brien (PAT failed)Cherryvale — Linnebur, 46 punt

return (Madl run)Cherryvale — Linnebur, 4 run

(PAT failed)Cherryvale — O’Brien, 41 pass

from Hestand (PAT failed)Cherryvale — Housel, 40 run

(Biegel run)Cherryvale — Housel, 41 punt

return (Thornton kick)Cherryvale — Hewlett, 4 run

(PAT failed)Cherryvale — Housel, 39 run

(PAT failed)Cherryvale — Robinson, 97 run

(PAT failed)

NE CVFirst Downs 4 15Rushes-net yards 42-88 22-356Passing Yards 0 123Passes 0-6-2 5-6-0Fumbles-lost 4-3 1-0Punts-Average 4-27 1-38Penalties-Yards 3-15 7-55

Chargers shut out Northeast of Arma

CHETOPA� —� The� Chetopa� Hornets� fought�hard�against�a�bigger�Southwest�Christian�Acad-emy� team�here�Friday�night,�but� the�visitors� left�with�a�42-30�victory.

Chetopa�Coach�Sean�Price�said�penalties�result-ed�in�three�touchdowns�being�called�back�against�the�Hornets.

Southwest�Christian�built�a�22-6�lead�after�the�first�quarter�and�went�to�the�locker�room�at�half-

time�with�a�22-12� lead.�Three�more� touchdowns�in�the�second�half�seemed�to�put�the�game�out�of�reach,�but� the�Hornets� fought�back� in� the� fourth�quarter,� scoring� 18� points.� The� comeback� effort�fell�short�as�time�ran�out.

“I’m�really�proud�of�our�kids’�effort,”�Price�said.�“And�we’re�going�to�get�better.”

Chetopa Hornets score 30 in loss

See HORNETS, Page 7.

See OSWEGO, Page 7.

See ST. PAUL, Page 7.

CHANUTE�—�Labette�Coun-ty�High�School�kept�close�to�the�Chanute� Blue� Comets� for� most�of�the�game,�but�Chanute�scored�four� times� in� the� fourth� quar-ter� to�put� the�game�away.�Cha-nute�won� the�Southeast�Kansas�League�game�46-14.

Chanute� scored� three� times�before� the� Grizzlies� got� on� the�board,� taking�an�18-0� lead� into�halftime.�Labette�County�trailed�

18-7�in�the�fourth�quarter�when�Chanute’s�offense�hit�hard,�put-ting�the�game�out�of�reach.

“This� was� a� lot� closer� ball�game� than�what� the� final� score�would� indicate.� We� were� right�there� in� the� ball� game� with� 10�minutes�to�go�in�the�fourth�quar-ter,”� Coach� Shane� Holtzman�said.

“We� will� get� better.� We� are�playing� a� lot� of� inexperienced�

players�in�a�brand�new�scheme�on�offense� and� defense.� There� are�going�to�be�some�growing�pains.�We� will� have� to� bounce� back�quick� and� continue� to� improve�our�leadership�and�focus.”

Labette� County’s� senior�quarterback�Keaton�Turner�had�112�yards�rushing�on�the�night.�Junior� Hunter� Seibert� had� 150�

Chanute tops Labette County

See HORNETS, Page 7.

yards�rushing.The� Grizzlies,� now� 1-1,� will�

travel�to�Parsons�on�Friday.

Chanute 46, Labette County 14Labette County 0 0 7 7 — 14Chanute 6 12 0 28 — 46

Scoring SummaryFirst quarterCH: Eric Bowman, 67 yard run. Kick

failed, 6:51.Second quarter

CH: Alec Haight, 82 yard pass from Grant McMillan. Pass failed, 11:48.

CH: McMillan, 62 yard run. Run failed, 3:27.

Third quarterLC: Keaton Turner, 6 yard run. Nash

kick, 11:28.Fourth quarterCH: McMillan, 17 yard run. Kick

failed, 9:17.CH: Bowman, 44 yard run. Pass

failed, 8:07.CH: Bowman, 3 yard run. Bowman

run, 7:48.LC: Turner, 12 yard run. Kick good, 5:47.CH: Bowman, 77 yard run. Gilmore

run, 5:29.

Page 7Weekend, Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 11-12, 2010Parsons S nu

Courtesy photo

Parsons High School runner Kody Schenker competes in the Girard Cross Country Invitational on Thursday afternoon.

GIRARD� —� The� Parsons�High�School�cross�country�team�took� part� in� the� Girard� Cross�Country� Invitational� on� Thurs-day.� Chetopa� High� School� run-ners�also�competed�in�the�race.

The�Vikings�varsity�boys�team�placed�second�as�a�team�with�35�total�points.�The�total�number�of�places�was�one�higher�than�first-place� Girard,� which� finished�with�34�as�a�team�score.

Carl� Junction� was� the� next�closest� team� with� a� total� score�of�55.

Parsons� was� led� by� Matthew�Mosier,�who�took�fourth�overall�(18:55).

Coming� in� behind� him� was�Quintin� Hammer� of� Parsons�with�a�10th-place�finish�(19:38).�Jonathan� Colbert� raced� in� his�first�varsity�action�and�took�14th�at� the� invite� (20:04).� Follow-ing�him�was�Christian�Burke�in�19th�(20:31),�Billy�Barnes�in�21st�(20:49)� and� Trevin� Magner� in�23rd�(21:07).

Chetopa� High� School� runner�Waylon� Pike� also� competed� in�the�event�and� took� third�overall�(18:25).�Pike�was�under�a�minute�behind�Carl�Stinson�of�Indepen-dence,�who� took� first� in� the� in-vite�(17:32).

In�the�varsity�girls�portion�of�the�meet,�Girard� finished� first�as� a� team� with� 21� points,� and�Carl�Junction�took�second�with�37.

Parsons� did� not� have� enough�runners�to�qualify�as�a�team,�but�two� varsity� runners� competed.�Libby� Hizey� took� 13th� overall�for� Parsons� (19:08),� and� Sherri�Burke�took�23rd�(22:22).

In� the� junior� varsity� boys�portion�of�the�meet,�True�Wil-liams�of�Parsons� took�seventh�

The�Parsons�High�School�girls�tennis�team�won�the�Columbus�High�School� tournament� in�Parsons�on�Thursday�evening�by�gathering�15�points.�Labette�County�High�School�took�second�with�11�points.

The�Vikings� took�first�place� in� the�No.�1�sin-gles,�No.�1�doubles�and�No.�2�doubles�portions�of�the�tournament�while�taking�second�in�the�No.�2�singles�portion.�Parsons�teams�went�15-1�over�the�course�of�the�tournament.

Sarah�Ong�breezed�through�the�competition�and�dropped�only�one�game�in�four�matches.�Ong�defeat-ed� Alyssa� Goodwin� of� Columbus� 8-1� before� win-ning�8-0�over�Megan�Boline�of�Carl�Junction,�Jordan�Hayes�of�Coffeyville�and�Katie�Anderson�of�LCHS.

At�the�No.�2�singles�spot,�Amy�Shaw�went�3-1�for�Parsons.�She�defeated�Kelli�Smith�of�Carl�Junc-tion�8-2,�Callie�McAskill�of�Coffeyville�8-0�and�Breanna�Mogle�of�Columbus�8-0.�Her�only�loss�of�the�day�came�to�Lakyn�Baughman�of�LCHS�8-3.

Kiralyn�Mosier�and�Lindsay�Ong�teamed�up�in�the�No.�1�doubles�spot�for�Parsons�and�went�unde-feated�to�earn�first-place�points.

The�duo�defeated�Haley�Pope�and�Emily�Cook�of�Carl�Junction�8-4,�Erin�Holeman�and�Katie�Ho-nas� of� Coffeyville� 8-2,� Kaysha� Julich� and� Allie�Reynolds�of�LCHS�8-1�and�Kelsey�Hill�and�Shay-lee�Thomas�of�Columbus�8-0.

Bailey�Riggin�teamed�with�Malina�Kipp�at�the�No.�2�spot�for�PHS.

“Mailina�Kipp�stepped�in�to�play�her�first�var-sity�match�with�Bailey�Riggin,�and�they�won�all�their�matches,”�said�Parsons�coach�Jane�Posch.

Their� four�wins� came� against�Sierra�Edwards�and� Rebecca� Hanover� of� Carl� Junction� 8-0,� Ra-chel�Gillman�and�Haley�Smith�of�Coffeyville�8-2,�Kelsey�Eckelberry�and�Paige�Wells�of�LCHS�8-1�and�Ryleigh�Schoeck�and�Ashley�Simpson�of�Co-lumbus�8-1.

Parsons�will�travel�to�Baldwin�City�for�a�tourna-ment�on�Wednesday.

The�Grizzlies’�11�points�edged�out�Carl�Junc-tion,� which� gathered� nine� points� in� the� tourney�and�placed�third.

Katie�Anderson�took�the�No.�1�singles�spot�for�LCHS�and�went�3-1�to�place�second.

Anderson� defeated� Hayes� of� Coffeyville� 8-3,�Goodwin�of�Columbus�8-0�and�Boline�of�Carl�Junc-tion�8-1�before�losing�to�Shaw�of�Parsons�8-0.

At�No.�2�singles,�Lakyn�Baughman�finished�4-0�to�finish�in�first�place.�She�defeated�McAskill�of�Coffeyville�8-0,�Mogle�of�Columbus�8-0,�Smith�of�Carl�Junction�8-4�and�Ong�of�Parsons�8-3.

Allie� Reynolds� and� Kaysha� Julich� went� 1-3� for�LCHS�at� the�No.�1�doubles�spot.�The� two�defeated�Hill�and�Thomas�of�Columbus�8-1�but�fell�to�Holeman�and�Honas�of�Coffeyville�8-6,�Pope�and�Cook�of�Carl�Junction�8-4�and�Mosier�and�Ong�of�Parsons�8-1.

In�No.�2�doubles,�Eckelberry�and�Wells�went�3-1.�The�two�defeated�Schoeck�and�Simpson�of�Co-lumbus�8-1,�Edwards�and�Hanover�of�Carl�Junc-tion�8-1�and�Gillman�and�Smith�of�Coffeyville�8-5�before�losing�to�Riggin�and�Kipp�of�Parsons�8-1.

The�Grizzlies�will�next�travel�to�Independence�on�Tuesday�for�varsity�action.

Parsons CC competes in Girard invite

overall�(12:52).�Troy�Williams�of� PHS� rounded� out� the� top�10� with� his� 10th-place� finish�(13:20).

Kody� Schenker� of� Parsons�also� competed� in� the� run� and�took�18th�(14:02).

In�the�junior�varsity�girls�race,�

sophomore� Sara� Greenough� of�Chetopa� High� School� won� her�second� meet� in� as� many� races�(13:55).�She�outran�the�competi-tion�by�25�seconds.

The� PHS� runners� will� next�race� at� their� home� meet� on�Thursday�at�Big�Hill�Lake.

Viking tennis wins another tourney

The� Parsons� Middle� School�Lancers� opened� up� their� 2010�football� season� Thursday� night�by� going� 1-1� against� the� Pitts-burg�Purple�Dragons.�

The� seventh-grade� rode� a�great� defensive� performance�and�a�55-yard�touchdown�run�by�Jumani�Coleman�and�a�77-yard�touchdown�run�by�Dontel�Mar-tinez�to�win�12-8.��

“We�did�a�good�job�of�control-ling�the�ball�for�most�of�the�first�and�second�quarters,�and�our�size�really�wore�them�down.�Our�de-fense�got�key�stops�whenever�we�

needed�them.�It�was�just�a�good�team�effort�to�start�the�season,”�said�coach�Rob�Barcus.

The�eighth�grade�was�defeat-ed�by�Pittsburg�40-0.�

“I� will� be� really� surprised� if�we�face�a�bigger,�more�physical�team� than� Pittsburg� the� rest� of�the� year.� They� have� good� size�up� front�and�good�speed� in� the�backfield.� You� put� those� two�things�together�and�add�the�fact�that� they�are�well�coached,�and�it�makes�for�a�long�first�game,”�said�Barcus.�“We�stopped�them�on�downs�on� their� first�posses-

sion� but� promptly� fumbled� the�ball� back� to� them.� Against� a�good�team�like�that,�we�needed�to� run� some� time� off� the� clock�and�get�some�first�downs,�which�we� were� unable� to� do.� But� we�will�watch�some�film�from�this�game�and�get�better�next�week.�Our� team� never� stopped� com-peting,�and�for�that�I�was�proud�of�them.”�

Parsons� will� host� Columbus�on� Thursday� at� Marvel� Park�with� the� seventh-grade� game�beginning�at�5�p.m.�followed�by�the�eighth-grade�game.

Lancers split with Pittsburg in opener

less� than� they� scored� in� the� en-tire� 2008� season...� Perkins� took�a�bit�of�a�shower�near�the�end�of�the� game.� A� handful� of� seniors�hoisted�a�Gatorade�dispenser�and�soaked�him�with�it�in�celebration.�“I�wasn’t�expecting�it�until�about�two�seconds�before�it�happened.�I�knew�(Mike)�Krull�was�setting�me�up�for�it.�I�let�them�have�their�fun.�This�is�about�the�kids,�and�I�am�thrilled�for�them,”�he�said.

Parsons 63, Iola 20Parsons 14 29 7 13 — 63

Iola 6 0 14 0 — 20

First quarterPar — Krull 8 run (Williams kick),

7:37.Par — Krull 25 run (Williams kick),

6:23.Iola — Sigg 3 run (Kick missed),

2:23.

Second quarterPar — Taylor, 40 pass from Krull

(Williams kick), 10:26.Par — Taylor 20 run (two-point PAT

Krull to Jones), 3:35.Par — Collins 49 run (Williams kick),

:59.Par — Jackson, 23 pass from Krull

(Williams kick), :34.

Third quarter

Iola — Sigg 1 run (two-point PAT Sigg run), 6:22.

Par — Jackson 53 run (Williams kick), 4:16.

Iola — Kauth, 6 pass from Coons (two-point PAT no good), 1:28.

Fourth quarterPar — Williams 82 run (Williams

kick), 8:44.Par — Williams interception run (PAT

kick missed), 5:00.

Parsons IolaFirst downs 6 13Rush-net 21-281 30-80Pass yards 110 168(comp.att.int) 6-9-0 15-27-5Fum-lost 1-0 2-2Punt-average 4-40 3-20Penalties-yards 5-50 3-20

VIKINGSContinued from Page 6.

Lebo — Strawder 20 run (White run)Lebo — Cathcard 18 run (Linsey,

pass from White)Lebo — Linsey, 18 pass from White

(Barker run) St.P LeboFirst Downs 3 8Rushes-net yards 24-36 18-142Passing Yards 12 60Passes (comp.att.int.) 2-8-0 4-6-1Fumbles-lost 3-2 1-0Punts-Average 1-24 0-0Penalties-Yards 0-0 0-0

Southwest�Christian�had�some�pretty�physical�players�and�col-lected�a�number�penalties.�

Offensively,� Justice� Riddle�scored�a�TD�on�a�75-yard�kick-off�return�for�Chetopa.�Dylan�Price� threw� two� touchdown�passes,� one� to� Dalton� Hull-Jones� and� the� other� to� Tyler�Pike.�Kyle� Johnson� recovered�a�Southwest�Christian�fumble�

in� the� end� zone� for� a� score.�Pike� scored� on� a� run� play� as�well.

Chetopa,� now� 1-1,� travels� to�Oxford�on�Friday.

Southwest 42, Chetopa 30Southwest 22 0 14 6 — 42Chetopa 6 6 0 18 — 30

Scoring SummarySouthwest — Branch, 29 pass from

Vanover (Branch, pass from Vanover)Chetopa — Riddle 75 kickoff return

(kick failed)Southwest — Stephens 4 run (Ste-

phens run)Southwest — Vanover 1 run (pass

failed)Chetopa — Hull-Jones, 21 pass to

Price (run failed)Southwest — Vanover, 12 pass from

Vanover (Vanover run)Southwest — Vanover 1 run (pass

failed)Chetopa — Johnson fumble recov-

ery in end zone (run failed)Southwest — Branch, 13 pass from

Vanover (run failed)Chetopa — Pike 23 run (kick failed)Chetopa — Pike, 30 pass from Price

(run failed)

HORNETSContinued from Page 6.

of�them.�There’s�a�lot�of�expecta-tions.”

Four�players�helped�generate�the� Indians’�332�yards� rushing.�Quarterback� Lane� Martin� had�12�carries� for�122�yards.�Caleb�Horn�had�10�carries�for�62�yards.�Nick�Billingsly�had�eight�carries�for� 51� yards,� and� Hunter� Cline�

had� four� carries� for� 69� yards.�Oswego� also� completed� five� of�eight�passes�for�92�yards.

The� Indians� will� travel� to�Fairland,�Okla.,�Friday.

Oswego 37, Uniontown 6Uniontown 0 0 0 6 — 6Oswego 16 14 7 0 — 37

Scoring SummaryOswego — Horn 6 run (Horn run)Oswego — Billingsly 2 run (Horn

run)Oswego — Leighton Smith 2 run

(Horn run)Oswego — Horn, 24 pass from Mar-

tin (run failed)Oswego — Martin 2 run (Billingsly

kick)Uniontown — Travis 8 run (run

failed) Un OswFirst Downs 7 21Rushes-net yards 25-57 49-332Passing Yards 72 92Passes (comp.att.int.) 6-17-0 5-8-0Fumbles-lost 1-1 2-1Punts-Average 5-30 0-0Penalties-Yards 1-10 7-55

ST. PAULContinued from Page 6.

GRIZZLIESContinued from Page 6.

OSWEGOContinued from Page 6.

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2010 Sprint Cup standingsRank�����Driver� Points� Behind� ���Money� Wins� Poles� Top�5� Top�101� Kevin�Harvick� 3585� ��—� $5,040,200� 3� 0� 11� 162� Jeff�Gordon� 3366� -219� $4,259,147� 0� 0� 10� 133� Kyle�Busch� 3325� -260� $4,658,222� 3� 2� 7� 134� Tony�Stewart� 3302� -283� $4,159,327� 1� 2� 7� 145� Carl�Edwards� 3288� -297� $3,964,806� 0� 1� 6� 136� Jeff�Burton� 3261� -324� $3,831,632� 0� 0� 5� 137� Jimmie�Johnson� 3247� -338� $5,158,608� 5� 1� 9� 138� Kurt�Busch� 3228� -357� $5,348,837� 2� 2� 8� 159� Matt�Kenseth� 3225� -360� $3,967,097� 0� 0� 5� 1010� Denny�Hamlin� 3147� -438� $4,072,253� 5� 1� 9� 1011� Greg�Biffle� 3110� -475� $3,659,437� 1� 0� 5� 1412� Clint�Bowyer� 3066� -519� $3,299,429� 0� 0� 4� 13

McClatchy Tribune photo

Drivers race to the start line during the Emory Healthcare 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga., on Sunday.

HAMPTON,�Ga.�(AP)�—�One�more�race�to�go�until�the�Chase�for� the� Sprint� Cup� champion-ship,� and� all� of� a� sudden� Tony�Stewart� looks� like� a� serious�contender.

Only�it’s�not�that�sudden.Stewart�has�been�steadily�im-

proving�over� the�past�couple�of�months,�consistently�running�in�the�top�10�and�seeming�to�find�a�little�bit�more�speed�every�week.�He�figured�it�was�just�a�matter�of�time�before�he� finally�got�back�to�Victory�Lane.

That�breakthrough�came�Sun-

day�night,�when�Stewart�claimed�his�first�win�of�the�season�with�a�dominating� performance� at� At-lanta�Motor�Speedway.

“We’ve� kind� of� been� silent�every�weekend,�but�we’ve�been�gaining� on� it,”� he� said.� “It� was�not�a�one-week�increment�where�

we�had�a�big�change.�We’ve�been�taking�a�lot�of�little�steps�the�last�10� to�12�races.�Nobody’s� really�noticed�it,�but�we’ve�noticed.�We�have�a�much�better�feeling�than�we� did� compared� to� this� time�last�year.”

He�led�more�laps�(176)�in�the�Emory�Healthcare�500�than�ev-eryone�else�combined�and�pulled�away�from�Carl�Edwards�on�the�last� restart� to� win� by� a� com-fortable� 1.316� seconds.� Stewart�snapped� a� streak� of� 31� races�without�a�win�-�the�second-lon-gest�drought�of�his�12-year�Cup�career,�surpassed�only�by�a�43-race� stretch� over� the� 2007-08�seasons.

But�he’s�been�one�of�the�most�consistent� racers� in� the� series�since�a�sluggish�start.�Ten�of�the�last�12�races�have�resulted�in�top-10�finishes,�and�clearly�he�hasn’t�forgotten�how�to�win,�either.

Now� comes� the� Chase,� in�which� the� 39-year-old� Stewart�will�be�seeking�his�third�career�championship�but� first� as� a� car�owner.

“I� don’t� know� if� we� have�peaked� yet,”� he� said.� “I� think�we’ve�got�room�to�be�better.”

There�won’t�be�all� that�much�drama� in� next� weekend’s� race�at� Richmond,� essentially� the�regular-season� finale.� Stewart�is� among�10�drivers�who’ve�al-ready� clinched� spots� in� the� 12-man�Chase,�led�by�points�leader�Kevin�Harvick,�Jeff�Gordon�and�Kyle�Busch.

Stewart� is� fourth,� followed�by� Edwards,� Jeff� Burton,� four-time� defending� champion� Jim-mie�Johnson,�Kurt�Busch,�Matt�Kenseth� and� Denny� Hamlin.�Still�looking�to�lock�up�spots�at�Richmond�are�No.�11�Greg�Biffle�and�No.�12�Clint�Bowyer,�each�of�whom� would� only� fall� out� with�an�unprecedented�collapse.

Bowyer� has� a� 117-point� lead�on� No.� 13� Ryan� Newman� and�merely� needs� to� finish� 28th� at�

Richmond� to� clinch� his� spot.�Sentimental�favorite�Mark�Mar-tin,� trying� to�win�his� first�Cup�championship�at�age�51,�slipped�a� spot� in� the� standings� and� is�now�15th�-�a�daunting�147�points�out�of�the�playoff.

The�final�caution�of�the�night�came� out� after� Newman� made�contact� with� Kasey� Kahne,�nearly� causing� a� crash� on� the�backstretch.

Stewart� was� out� front� when�the� green� came� back� out� with�19�laps�to�go,�and�he�zoomed�off�the�line�to�beat�Edwards�into�the�first�corner.�From�there,�the�No.�14�Stewart-Haas�Racing�Chevy�steadily�pulled�away�for�his�first�victory� since� Oct.� 4,� 2009,� at�Kansas.

Johnson� was� third,� followed�by�Burton�and�Kyle�Busch.

“I�didn’t�hit�a�restart�all�night�until� right� there� at� the� end,”�Stewart�said.�“I’ve�never�been�so�happy�with�a�win�in�my�life.”

Edwards� is�winless�since� the�2008� season� finale,� but� he� led�more� laps� in� Atlanta� (32)� than�he�had�in�the�last�46�races�com-bined.�That�gives�him�plenty�of�confidence� that�he�can�contend�for�his� first� series� title,� the�one�that�slipped�away�two�years�ago�despite�nine�wins.

“Tony� just� had� such� a� fast�car�at� the�end,�but�we’re�back,”�Edwards�said.�“I�know�we�don’t�look�as�good�as�we�did�in�2008,�but�we’re�better�prepared�to�race�for�the�championship.”

Johnson�also�is�headed�back�to�the�Chase,�giving�him�a�shot�to�add�to�an�already�unprecedented�streak�of�Cup�titles.

“This�is�a�huge�relief�for�my-self�and�this�team,”�he�said.�“That�was�so�much�fun.�That�was�the�way� racing� should� be.� Even� at�the� end,�we�were� trying� to� run�(Edwards)�down.�We�were� rac-ing� hard� with� these� guys.� That�says�a�lot�about�the�48�team�go-ing�forward.”

It�wasn’t�such�a�good�night�for�pole� winner� Hamlin,� who� had�vowed�to�shake�out�of�his�mid-season� slump� with� a� couple� of�strong�performances�going�into�the�Chase.

He�had�plenty�of�speed,�lead-ing�74�laps,�but�the�engine�didn’t�hold�out�on�his�No.�11�Joe�Gibbs�Racing� Toyota.� Coming� to� the�start-finish�line�on�the�143rd�lap,�Hamlin’s� car� suddenly� started�billowing� smoke,� sending� him�spinning�into�the�infield�grass.

He� wound� up� last� in� the� 43-car�field�and�slipped�five�places�in�the�standings�to�10th.

“At� this� point,� I’m� so� lucky�that�there’s�no�more�races�before�the�Chase�cutoff�or�else�we’d�be�in� danger� of� missing� it,”� Ham-lin�said.�“It’s�very�discouraging,�but�I�just�know�we�can�get�it�to-gether.”

He�has�struggled�since�a�five�wins-in-10-races� stretch� ear-lier� in� the� season.� He� knew� he�might�be�in�trouble�again�when�he�heard�that�teammate�Joey�Lo-gano�had�blown�a�cylinder.

Not�long�after�workers�cleaned�up�the�mess�from�Hamlin’s�spin,�the�first�big�crash�of�the�race�took�out�Biffle�and�Elliott�Sadler.

Newman�charged�up�to�make�it� three-wide� racing� going� into�turn� three� and�Biffle�didn’t� re-alize� the� No.� 39� car� was� there.�Biffle�went�into�a�spin�and�slid�down� the� banking,� where� he�clipped�Sadler�trying�to�go�low.�That�turned�Sadler’s�car�up�into�the�outside�wall�for�a�hard�lick,�but� the� padded� barrier� ensured�there�were�no�injuries.

Luckily�for�Harvick,�he�bare-ly�missed�the�crash�diving�inside�of�Sadler.

Harvick’s� luck� ran� out� when�he� messed� up� an� attempt� to�dive� down� pit� road.� He� wound�up� damaging� his� left� front� tire�and�had�problems�the�rest�of�the�night,�finally�parking�his�car�in�33rd�place.

SPARTA,�Ky.�(AP)�—�Speed-way� Motorsports� Inc.� owner�Bruton�Smith�isn’t�a�fan�of�NAS-CAR’s�insistence�on�ending�the�season�in�South�Florida.

Smith�likened�Homestead�Mi-ami�Speedway�to�“North�Cuba,”�arguing� it� is� not� the� “proper�place”�for�the�Sprint�Cup�to�end�the�Chase�for�the�championship.

The� longtime� track� owner�says�he’d�prefer�NASCAR�to�run�

its�final�Cup�race�at�SMI-owned�Las�Vegas�Motor�Speedway.�

Despite�his�protests,�SMI�did�not� make� a� formal� request� for�NASCAR� to� add� a� second� Las�Vegas� race� to� the� 2011� sched-ule.� Smith� said� it’s� because� he�doesn’t�believe�it�would�make�a�difference.�

“If�I�thought�it�was�a�possibil-ity�I�would,�but� I�don’t�see�any�possibility,”�he�said.

Smith� said� he� expects� Indy-Car�to�end�the�2011�season�at�the�1.5-mile�oval�next�October.�The�series� will� officially� unveil� its�2011�schedule�next�Friday.�When�asked�how�likely�it�is�2011�Indy-Car�season�will�wrap�at�his�track�in�Sin�City,�Smith�just�laughed.

“How� high� can� the� num-bers� go?”� he� said.� “I� would� be�extremely� disappointed� if� that�didn’t�happen.”

Stewart feeling confi dent for Chase after Atlanta win

Track owner blasts Homestead fi nale

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U.S. shrugs off N. Korea succession talksWASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama adminis-

tration is greeting with a shrug an expected North Korean political convention that could see the public debut of the country’s next ruler.

World leaders come and go, even in totalitarian North Korea; the important thing, U.S. offi cials say, is for the country to live up to past nuclear disarma-ment promises.

As North Korea hints that a meeting that could promote Kim Jong Il’s son as successor is imminent, the United States has steered clear of prediction, say-ing it is uncertain whether a new leader would spark change.

“We’re watching the leadership process and don’t have any idea yet how it’s going to turn out,” Secre-tary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said this week. She made clear that the U.S. goal is “to try to con-vince whoever is in leadership in North Korea that their future would be far better served by” giving up

their nuclear ambitions.The meeting would be the biggest since a 1980

gathering where Kim Jong Il made his public debut as future leader. Kim reportedly is suffering from health problems and is thought to be grooming his youngest son, Kim Jong Un, to continue the ruling dynasty that began with Kim Jong Il’s father, Kim Il Sung, who died in 1994.

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said it is hard to say whether new North Korean leadership would make a difference in U.S. policy. “Leaders of all stripes change around the world. Leaders don’t live forever,” Crowley said. “What we’re looking for is a change in the direction of North Korean policy and North Korean actions.”

Should it convene, the North Korean convention would come amid a fl urry of diplomatic activity among the fi ve countries pushing the North to re-sume stalled nuclear disarmament negotiations.

Obama administration offi cials say they are in deep consultations with China, Russia, Japan and South Korea, the other members of the six-nation talks.

Envoys from China, which has pushed for the re-sumption of talks, and South Korea, which has ac-cused North Korea of torpedoing one if its warships in March, visited the State Department last week. The Obama administration’s top envoys on North Korea head to Asia next week for discussions with their counterparts in Seoul, Tokyo and Beijing.

The sinking of the warship Cheonan is the latest hurdle for the long-running disarmament talks. A South Korean-led team of international investiga-tors blamed the explosion on a torpedo fi red from a North Korean submarine. North Korea denies any involvement.

The top U.S. diplomat for East Asia, Kurt Camp-bell, asked Thursday whether a North Korean apol-

ogy or admission of guilt is necessary for nuclear talks to resume, said, “It will be critical for there to be some element of reconciliation between the North and South for any process to move for-ward.”

There have been recent signs of an easing in North-South tensions. North Korea this week freed the crew of a South Korean fi shing boat seized a month ago. The North also has asked the South for aid.

Crowley said the United States is prepared to en-gage the North, even as Washington enforces tough sanctions.

“We want, ultimately, North Korea to change its behavior. And we are prepared to adapt as we see change in North Korea’s behavior,” Crowley said. But “the onus is on North Korea to take steps to show its commitment to its international obligations, to be a more constructive neighbor.”

Marketing Director

Parsons Presbyterian Manor, a well respected, not- for-profit continuing care retirement community is seeking a dynamic and self-motivated individual for the position of Marketing Director. Responsibilities include: Marketing facility to seniors and their families, visiting physicians and hospitals, following up on inquires, coordinating tours and the admissions process.

Ideal candidate will have 1 to 2 years of marketing experience and must posses knowledge of retirement living and related services such as Medicare, Medicaid and long-term care insurance. Must posses computer skills and must be comfortable with public speaking.

Please call or send resume to: Lisa Piersall, Human Resource Director

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Parsons, KS 67357 (620) 421-1450

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FARM MACHINERY AUCTIONSaturday, September 18 - 10 A.M.

North of Parsons, KS. on HWY. 59 1.5 miles North of Wal-Mart on East side or

1/2 mile South of Twin Cemeteries on HWY. 59

As I am retiring from farming, will sell the following:

Tractors & Farm Machinery sells at 12:30

Tractors1984 IHC 5088 Tractor, cab, air, duals, 55620 hrs (200 hrs on new engine); 1962 IHC 560 gas Tractor, 3516 hrs, fast hitch, narrow front.

Combine1989 Case IH 1620 Combine, 15’ (1020) Header, 2347 hrs, new rotor, 18.4x30 clamp-on duals; 1989 Case IH 1044 Corn Head, 4 row.

Trucks & Trailers1979 GMC 7000 10 wheeler, 24’ all metal bed w/hoist, has 18,000 actual miles, one of a kind. 1986 Ford F-250 PU, 5 bar w/pony wheel; Case IH 4800 24’ Vibra Shank; Case IH 496 21’ Wheel Disc; IHC (55) 15’ Chisel; Anhydrous applicator for Chisel; IHC 4x16 semi-mounted plow; 2 pt; IHC 6x16 semi-mounted plow; IHC 530 Manure Spreader, always shedded; 200 bu. Gravity Flow Wagon; JD 24’Harrow, folding evener; 24’ Hyd. Harrow carrier; IHC 400 6 row Air Planter; IHC 4 row Air Planter w/fertilizer; IHC 18x7 Grain Drill; IHC 6 row Cultivator w/roll-ing fenders; 3 pt; IHC 4 row Cultivator, 2 pt; IHC 4 row Rotary Hoe, 2 pt; New 3p tReversible Dirt Scoop; 300 gal. Field Sprayer; Speed King 42’x6” PTO Grain Auger; Polaris Broadcast Seeder for 4 wheeler; Speed King 34’x6” PTO Grain Auger; Baler belt splicer; 3 pt Boom Pole; Herd tractor seeder; 20’ sq. Hay Eleva-tor; Clipper 2 B Seed Cleaner w/sacker & screens; 2=4” & 3” 12’ Grain Augers; Paint Sprayer; New 20th Century Wire Welder; Oxy-Acctylene Welder; 220 v. 20 gal. Air compressor; Prefer auto. Cattle squeeze chute; Sev. Port. Corral panels & feeders; Gates, some new; Car ramps; Platform scales; Hand tools, lots of misc. & scrap iron; tractor weights; IHC Cadet Riding Mower (Spirit of ‘76); Poulan 17 HPRiding Mower; 5 hp Garden Tiller.

Grain Bins2= 1000 bu Grain Bins; 2= 2000 bu Grain Bins; Sweep Augers & Blowers; Sold to be MOVED.

HouseholdKenmore Almond Refrigerator; Propane wh. range; Emerson Microwave; Formica top breakfast table & 4 chrs.; Flowered Divan; Maple Rocker; 3 pc. light Oak full size bedroom set; 2= Antique curved front Oak Dressers w/mirrors; Antique twin metal bed w/casting; Old Tredle Sewing Machine, box on top; Sev. Antique frames & pictures; 2 flat top trunks; Sev. Old Kerosene Lamps; Old comic books; Lots of old toys; Lots of costume jewelry; Some old glass items; Flatware, pots, pans, eve-ryday dishes; 6 metal folding chairs; Sev. old Edison records; Kids swing set & merry go round, shop built, but nice.

Auctioneer’s notes: Everything well cared for & shedded, collection of 70 years.TERMS: Cash or good check. Picture ID w/registering. Nothing removed until paid for not responsible for accidents.

Danny SmithOwner - 620-421-0030

Auctioneers: Bud Humble, Girard, KS. (O) 620-724-4161, (H) 620-724-8364; Don-nie Humble, Girard, Refreshments & Restrooms available. www.humblereal.com.

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001 Legals

LEGAL(First published in the Parsons

Sun, August 28, 2010)

IN THE DISTRICT COURTOF LABETTE COUNTY,

KANSASPROBATE DIVISION

In the Matter of the Estate ofJudith Anne Brenner, Deceased

No. 10 PR 32 PA

(Petition Pursuant to Chapter 59 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated)

NOTICE OF HEARING AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED:

You are hereby notified that on July 21, 2010, a PETITION FOR INFORMAL ADMIN-ISTRATION UNDER THE KANSAS PROBATE CODE was filed for in this Court by Timothy Brenner, surviving heir pursuant to the Kansas laws of intestacy of the Estate of Judith Anne Brenner, deceased.

All creditors of the above-named decedent are noti-fied to exhibit their demands against the estate within four months from the date of first pub-lication of this notice, as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they shall for-ever barred.Timothy Brenner, Petitioner

101 Help Wanted

CARDIAC SONOGRA-PHER/RVT to work in busy patient centered practice in Parsons, Kan-sas. Must be able to per-form vascular, echo, dop-pler, OB/GYN and ab-dominal scans. Good in-terpersonal and written skills required. Some same day travel required, com-pany car provided. Must take part in weekend and evening call rotation. Looking for an energetic, positive professional. Competitive wages and full benefit package upon hire. Fax resumes to 316-858-2524.

GREEN COUNTRYAuto Group is accepting applications for service porter/detail specialist. Must have excellent cus-tomer service skills & a clean driving record. Ap-plicant must be depend-able & have a strong work ethic. See Jess @ 2831 N. 16th Street Parsons.

101 Help Wanted

KANSAS TIRE and Serv-ice a div. of Kansas Tire & Wheel Co has positions available for a Automotivetechnician and after hours

On call Technician. Expe-rience preferred, excellent communication skills and computer skills a must. Pay based on experience. Benefits and PTO. All ap-plicants subject to drug testing and must have a valid drivers license. All applicants apply in person at 1530 Flynn Drive Par-sons, KS 67357.

KANSAS TOWING & Recovery, a Parsons based towing and recovery com-pany has positions avail-able for day time tow truck operators. Experi-ence preferred, but will train the right individuals Applicants must have ex-cellent communication skills, valid drivers li-cense. Hourly plus com-mision. Benefits and PTO.Minimum requirements are a valid drivers license, DOT medical card and are required to pass a DOTdrug test. All applicants apply in person at 1530 Flynn Drive Parsons, KS 67357

Medicalodges Columbus is looking for a full time 10p-6a charge nurse, LPN or RN. We are looking for a special nurse with excel-lent skills and team-lead-ing abilities to enhance our quality team. If inter-ested, please call Amy Higgins RN BS DON at 620-429-2134 or apply in person at Medicalodges Columbus 101 N. Lee, Columbus, KS.

Neosho County Community College

Chanute, KSFull-time Job Openings

Vice-President for Student Learning- Chanute Cam-pus Talent Search Aca-demic Advisor- Chanute Campus Occupational Therapy Assistant Devel-oper- Ottawa Campus.

Excellent fringe benefits including sick, vacation, KPERS and health/dental insurance. Visit www.neosho.edu for com-plete position announce-ments. Call Brenda rowe, HR Director, 620-431-2820, ext. 267. EOE/AA Employer.

101 Help Wanted

RECEPTIONIST- LA-BETTE Center for Mental Health Services, Inc. is seeking an individual to work as a receptionist in our main office. This is a full time position Mon-day-Friday 8:30am to 5:30pm. Successful candi-date will be responsible for answering phone calls, scheduling patient ap-pointments, patient admis-sions and orientation of patient to the facility, data reporting, as well as light secretarial work. Mini-mum requirements in-clude: High school di-ploma and at least 3 years experience in a business office setting. An associ-ate’s degree or higher in a business related field is preferred. Competitive salary and benefits include BCBS health insurance, life insurance and KPER’s retirement. Applications must be postmarked no later than September 17, 2010. Interested individu-als need to send a cover letter and resume to LCMHS, Inc. Attn: Na-tasha Purcell, PO Box 258, Parsons, KS 67357-0258 or you can email your resume with cover letter to npurcell@lcmhs.com. In-formation about Labette Center for Mental Health Services, Inc. can be ob-tained at www.lcmhs.com.EOE.

WESTHOFF INTERIORSof St.Paul, KS is currently taking applications for Upholstery Specialist for high end yacht furniture. Experience in reading and interpreting complex drawings. Work at high quality and accuracy level. Experience in all levels of upholstery con-struction, leather wrapping furniture, plywood and lumber. Experience in double needle stitching and ”baseball stitching”.

W e b s i t e :westhoffco.com. Please send resume to bill-westhoff@westhoffco.com. Please include portfolio with resume or call Bill Westhoff 620-449-2900

101 Help Wanted

THE LIFE Span Insti-tute at Parsons, Univer-sity of Kansas, seeks Full-timeCoordinator. Require-ments include: High School diploma or G.E.D. equivalent; Minimum of one year of experience within the last two years working with individuals with Intellectual Disabilities or Mental Illness and with other professionals in the Mental Health or Community Develop-mental Disability Or-ganization field; Mini-mum of one year of ex-perience with commu-nity resources and writ-ing Individual Service Plans. Initial Review: 09/22/10 and will con-tinue until the position is filled. To apply go to h t t p s : / / j o b s . k u . e d u search for position 00207245. For more in-formation contact Laura Hanigan at 620-421-6550, ext 1896. EO/AA employer.

104 Servs. Provided

A+ HANDYMAN!!All types of repair serv-

ices. Floor covering work, lawn & garden care, gut-ters cleaned, power wash-

ing decks, porches, & houses. Call us for all

your honey do jobs. Free bids,

Reasonable Rates. 620-421-1321

ReferencesNo job too small!

A1 ROOFING & remodel-ing. Free estimates.Insured. All work guar-anteed. 421-4213.ALL AROUND Home Repair, Rebuild, and Re-model Work!

Also sidewalks and Drive-ways!

Honest and Affordable work, call David Curtis at 620-778-0564.

BUDGET CARPETCleaning. Free estimates. 421-6581, 620-778-0091.COOK’S TAX Service.Now accepting newclients. Professional, friendly service. 620-421-0933.

104 Servs. Provided

Dave’s Construction

& Repair. Roofing, Siding,

Remodeling, Decks & More!

Free Estimates Insured

620-433-2092

EASY CLEANSewer & Drain Service

Harding Window Airconditioner620-423-2640.

EL’S PLUMBING, heat-ing, air conditioning, resi-dential, commercial, back-hoe, drain cleaning, Oswego (620) 795-2490.

FLAT REPAIRS,Carry-in, only $7.50!Car & Pick-up Only!

1530 Flynn Dr, Parsons(Across from Walmart)

620-421-0005.

FLOOR LEVELING,f o u n d a t i o n s ,roofing, porches, call 620-778-9283.

G & R Pumping. Pump septic tanks & rent porta pots, install septic tanks & lagoons. 423-5955,423-5365.

GUTTERING BYSTAND-CO., 5” seamless,30 colors plus, free esti-mates. (620) 431-8198.

HARDING'S PAINTINGService. Interior & exte-rior painting. Power wash-ing, window & gutter cleaning. 421-6951.

HINMAN CONSTRUCTION

Concrete WorkNew Additions and

RemodelingRoofing

Licensed & InsuredCall Rick

620-778-2995

ENGLAND’S PAINTING.INTERIOR/EXTERIOR-painting, power washing decks and fences, and clean gutters. 620-784-5723.

PLUMB-CRAZYPLUMBING

&DRAIN CLEANING

620-332-9010

WE BUILD all fences, also roofing, carpentry, vi-nyl siding, concrete. 421-0893.

104 Servs. Provided

G&R PUMPING. Pumpseptic tanks & rent portapots, install septic tanks &lagoons. 423-5955, 423-5365.

SHAFFER’S TAX afford-able rates, E-file, Eve-

nings & Weekends. Call for appointment,

421-0003.Msg. 620-423-4437.

SMALL ENGINERepair & ServiceMower maintenance for a perfect lawn.

Free Pick-up & Delivery within city limits.

3922 Main • Parsons620-421-8865

SPENCER FENCER,Since 1990, We build all kind of fences. Done the right way, Your Way! Free Estimates. 620-226-3327 or 620-820-3406.

THE MOVERSSame Day Service

Available* Free Estimates* Residential &

Commercial* Full Service

We’re on the MOVE for You!

620-421-6142620-423-2969 Cell

104 Servs. Provided

TOBELCONSTRUCTION:

Building, remodeling, foundation, support work and roofing.

620-820-3210, 620-717-4331.

106 Day Care

Shelley’s Tender Loving Care, has 2 openings for all ages. Contact Shelley Pearce @ 620-421-0323.

202 Special Notices

ALCOHOLICS A N O N Y M O U S .423-0340, 421-5648.

IF YOU NEED a deck re-done or new, call Bodacious Handyman620-423-5679.

220 S. 18th Parsons, KS

620-421-2000

Change your TRASH into TREASURE! Find the right

buyers in the..

F ree E stimates • Senior Discounts 417-825-6539 • 620-421-0168

• 417-529-9767

McGuire Small Engine Repair & Service

Mower maintenance for a perfect lawn.

Free Pick-Up & Delivery within city limits.

3922 Main • Parsons 620-421-8865

• 20 years in Business • FREE estimates • PPG certified technicians • Insurance work

• Full frame work • PPG custom paint mixing system • Free pick-up & delivery • Can help with deductibles

(NEXT TO GOOD LUCK BAIT)

ROOFING ENGINE REPAIR BODY SHOP

NORTH END, LLC Used Cars, Salvage

Roll Off Containers & Gravel Hauling Available.

Buying Scrap Metal. Call For Current Prices!

Parsons, Kansas • 620-421-6464

Same Day

Service Available

* Free Estimates * Residential & Commercial * Full Service

Parsons, KS. Visa/Master Card

Accepted

620•421•6142 Cell 620•423•2969

Steve Adkins : Owner

Thompson Auto Body Shop

1508 22000 Rd. 620-423-9629

SALVAGE MOVERS HOME REPAIR

Competitive Rates Prompt Courteous Service 620-421-3280

Equipment Rental

Fork Lift Rental

ROLL-OFF CONTAINERS

Excavators Graders Loaders

Cranes Dozers Rollers

Free EstimatesMowingWeed EatingPaintingBrush Removal

CarpetingSnow RemovalLeaf RemovalOther Misc.

(888) 825-4727If you don’t want to do it, we will!

&

620-42 1-5205 Look for the Cement Drive 5305 Main, Parsons

Batteries $4.00 Avg. Sm. Prepared Iron

$130 ton Call on all other pricing.

Interstate Electrical Construction, Inc.

“When Quality Counts” * Commercial * Residential * Industrial

25 Years Experience

Licensed, Bonded & Insured

1715 S. 59 Hwy. Parsons, Kansas 67357

620-421-5510

ELECTRICAL/RECYCLINGDEBRIS/WASTE DISPOSAL

Monte Muninger Auto Detail 40 Years Experience Complete Details or Wash, Vac, & Wax

Corner SEK Auto Sales 32nd & Main

Call 620-423-0935

Bodacious Handyman

No job too small, No job too big!

Insured and Bonded. References Available.

620-423-5679Ready Mix Concrete

421-5127 ACI and State Certified

READY MIXHANDY MANAUTO DETAILING

Troy Brown Heating & Cooling In Business Since 1983

NATE Certified Tech Commercial & Residential

Licensed, Bonded and Insured.

East Main 620-421-0296

HEAT/AIR

Dave’s Construction & Repair.

Roofing, Siding, Remodeling, Decks & More!

Free Estimates Insured

620-433-2092

CONSTRUCTION

3 year 100,000 mile warranty For All Your

Automotive Needs 1221 MAIN • PARSONS

• 421-5120

Ask About Our Window Tinting

Auto Care Center

Auto Care Center

24 Hour Towing • 423-1078

Royʼs Auto Service, LLC PROFESSIONAL

TREE SERVICE

Spring is the best time of year for clean-up.

• Trimming • Topping • Pruning • Removal

• Stump Removal

Terry Lamb, Owner

Call: 423-4645

or 421- 0067

TREE SERVICE AUTO SERVICE

ABLE Heat ABLE Heat & Air & Air

Your Heating and Cooling Specialists Your Heating and Cooling Specialists

Servicing All Makes and Models. Servicing All Makes and Models.

620-421-0543 620-421-0543

HEAT/AIR

BUSINESS & SERVICEDirectorySAVINGS!

BODY SHOP

DUMP TRUCK

TAXES

Dump Truck For HireRock, Lime, Dirt, Etc.

Dave Heitman620-778-1743

14300 Hwy 47 • Erie • Fax: 620-244-3637

• Taxes• Payroll

Accounting• Financal Assistance

Offi ce Hours:Tues. & Wed. 9am-Noon

Fri. 9am-NoonClosed HoursAppointments

Available!

1705 Main, Parsons620-421-2850

M i k e C o l e s M i k e C o l e s Formally 2530 Main Used Appliance Sales. Now located at Red Barn. 405 N. 10th St.

Now offering In-Home Service Appliance Repair, Heat & Air repair,

Residential & Commercial. 620-423-4577

APPLIANCE/HEAT/AIR

Want an even bigger savings!

Run your business card in both

Parsons Sun and Chanute Tribune and Save up to

50%!

Call For Details 620-421-2000

LAWN CARE

Miller Lawn Care

•Professional Services

•Affordable Rates

•Residential •Commercial

•Free Estimates •Licensed •Bonded •Insured

620-249-8665 Mike Miller

All Around Home Repair,

Rebuild, and Remodel Work!

Also sidewalks and Driveways!

Honest and Affordable work, call David Curtis

at 620-778-0564

ASAP SEWER AND DRAIN Same day service

Residential and Commercial

24/7 Service

Including Holidays

620.423.0340

Keeping you in

Stitches

Newman’s Sewing Machine

Service & Repair Clarence Newman

608 Locust, Chetopa, KS 620-236-7858

SEWING

USED CARS(Expires November 30, 2010)

Buy One MonthGet One Month FREE!

For New BSN Directory Ads ONLY!Bring Coupon at time of placing ad.

1 Coupon per ad.Not Valid with any other special.

Redeem @ The Parsons Sun

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202 Special Notices

JANET HURLEY will talk about Heirloom vs. Hybrid and Seed Starts at the Parsons Community Garden meeting on Thurs-day, September 16 from 12 Noon to 1 PM in the Municipal Building Base-ment. The public is in-vited. For more informa-tion call 620-421-8367.

LABETTE COMMU-NITY CollegeRequest for BidsLabette Community Col-lege is accepting sealed bids for the sale of a 2001 Dodge van and a 2000 Chevy Malibu. Bids will be received in the LCC Business Office until 10:00 a.m., September 16, 2010. At which time the bids will be opened in the Business Office lobby area, located in the Stu-dent Union. LCC reserves the right to refuse any and/or all bids. For further information or to view the vans, contact Jennifer Har-mon at 620-421-6700 ext. 1284.

203 Personals

NEVER DIE!! Live for-ever. Read John 3:16 for details. Guaranteed.

SEWING MACHINEService & Repair. All Brands! House calls! 45 years experience. Reason-able & Guaranteed! 620-421-6279.

204 Lost & Found

LOST- BLACK/WHITEBorder Collie, female. Leather collar. Saturday 9/4. Fred Wheat 6 2 0 - 4 2 3 - 2 4 7 0 , 620-421-0691.

301 Auctioneers

COL. JERRY Chesnutt, Auctioneer/Broker Ks/Okla/Mo/Ark. 1-800-809-2790;

423-2086, 620-236-7348; Col. Cody Chesnutt,

620-795-2298.

305 Misc. for Sale

New & used furniture. Red Barn Sales. 405 N. 10th. 620-421-9311.

305 Misc. for Sale

9' X 13' Outside Storage Building, Wood Structure, New Metal Roof.... $300.00Safety Metal Staircase, 40' with handrails & Platform, Good Condition....$260.00View both items at 1900 Southern Blvd.

FOR SALE: Marcy weight bench with various attachments, 170 pounds in free weights and solid bar, $250. 421-6546.

WE SELLNew & Used Tires.

1530 Flynn Dr, Parsons(Across from Walmart)

620-421-0005.

311 Pets/Supplies

AKC REGISTERED Eng-lish Bulldog pups. 620-875-2980.

DOG GROOMING, callTrisha for appointment,pickup, delivery, nail trim $6, 421-6778.

312 Garage Sales

1318 MORGAN. Saturday 7am-?. Nice Clothing, Hoodies, Tops, Jeans, & Shoes.

312 Garage Sales

2501 WASHINGTON in garage. Rain or Shine. Fri-day 3pm-7pm, Saturday 7am-Noon. 4 Families.

2921 APPLETON, Satur-day 8am-Noon. JR & Misses Clothes, Cheap, Household items, Misc.

3100 WASHINGTON.Saturday 7am-?. Chil-dren’s clothes, Halloween costumes, lots of misc.

602 S. 25th, Saturday 7am-1pm. Lots of clothes: Girls (4T-6), Girls (12-16), Boys (3T-4T), Men’s & Women’s. Toys, Books, & Lots of misc.

BACKYARD Sale! 3023 Broadway (Credit Union Alley) Thurs./Sat. 7am-?.

CARPORT SALE! 104 Stone. Saturday 9am-1pm.

FRIDAY/SATURDAY7AM-NOON. Furniture, Junior, Women’s, Men’s All Name Brand, Some Prada, Coach. 24006 Gray Rd., Dennis.

LARGE RUMMAGESale! (Rain Cancels) Sat-urday 7am-11am. South HWY 59 to 18,000 Rd. East of Quaker Rd., dishes, books, VHF’s, Lots and Lots of Misc.

312 Garage Sales

LARGE YARD Sale. Fri-day 8am-?, Saturday 8am-?. 1416 SW 10th.

MOVING YARD Sale! (Inside). 111 N. Huston, Altamont. Friday Noon-7pm, Saturday 8am-Noon. Furniture, Misc.

NBC, FURNITURE, Har-ley, Misc. Saturday 8am-3pm. 3700 Morgan. Rain Cancels.

314 Sporting Equip.

3 WHEEL golf cart, Cosh-man, electric with charger. $350. 620-433-2429.

501 Business Opps.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

One or two operating convenience stores for sale. Call Curt @ (913) 449-0851.TRI-STATE REALITY

502 Business Prop.

BUSINESS BUILDINGDowntown Parsons for lease. 620-423-2208.

601 Automobiles

ADKINS AUTOMOTIVE:

Automotive Repairs, Tune Ups, Brakes, Tires,

*Carports*Auto Glass Installed

"Fast Reliable Service."“We will BUY your vehicle for CASH!”

620-421-5981Cell 620-423-7826

BUY HERE, Pay Here. No Credit Check

Harper’s Auto. 3124 Main, 620-421-4440.

OIL LUBE & FILTER$21.88*

*See store for details1530 Flynn Dr, Parsons(Across from Walmart)

620-421-0005.

602 Trucks

2008 GMC 1500, 43,749 ACTUAL MILES, V8, AUTOMATIC, PS, AC, AM/FM, CRUISE, 6400# GVW, WORK TRUCK PACKAGE, located at 1900 Southern Blvd. $11,800.00.

604 Motorcycles

2007 HARLEY Davidson Sportster 883 Roadster, silver, Screamin' Eagle ex-haust/intake, security sys-tem, 5,200 miles, $5,400 OBO, (620) 778-3292.

607 Service & Parts

"SAVE $50 ON4 Famous brand tires

1530 Flynn Dr.Parsons(Across from Walmart)

620-421-0005.

704 Houses for Rent

1 & 2 bedroom houses. No Pets! Deposit & Refer-ences. 620-820-1510.

3BR, 1BA, CH/A, fenced yard, deck, No Pets. $475 month, deposit. AVAIL-ABLE NOW!620-778-2085, 2810 Briggs.

NICE 2BR, CH/A. No Pets. 2519 Broadway. 620-820+9506.

705 Apts. for Rent

1BR and 3BR ,CH/A, to-tal electric, water paid, Morris Management, 620-421-4028.

705 Apts. for Rent

BRIDGEWAY PROPER-TIES. 1630 Corning, Ex-cellent 2BR, All electric,great neighborhood.620-820-9506.

BURKINGHAM EAST.Available Now! Will notlast long! Direct TV, wa-ter, sewer, trash included.All electric, no gas. 1 BRs,Studios. Only a few left!620-820-9506.

TWO AND Three bed-room apartment homes.NO SUMMER COOLING BILLS!! Short wait listopen now. Price basedupon income. Utilitiespaid. Apply at MendotaCreek Apartments, 1500S. 25th, or call620-421-5330. E.O.H.

VERY NICE 3 BR, 2 BARanch, 2100 sq. ft., 3miles south of Parsons.$650. 620-423-1002.

WEEKLY OR Monthly Rates, Furnished/Unfur-

nished, Kitchenettes, Chanute or Cherryvale.

(620) 891-0168

706 Mbl. Homes for Rent

PARSONS 3BR, 2BA,washer & dryer. $400+Deposit. 620-421-2699.

710 Storage

ALTAMONTMINI-STORAGE.

Contact Hardman Rentals, 3106 1/2 Main or call421-9220.

Center Self Storage. 8 X 12 units $42.00, otherunits also available. Con-tact Allen Veterinary Cen-ter. 620-421-1341.

MINI-BUC STORAGE.Contact Hardman Rentals, 3106 1/2 Main or call620-421-9220

SOUTH 21ST StreetIndoor Mini Storage

620-423-2566DUST FREE

CONTROLLED ACCESS

TOWNSMAN SELF STORAGE.

NEW move-in price$45 introductory period

620-421-6990.

712 Misc. for Rent

FRENCH’S (CHRIS-TIAN) Lake McKinleyLodging. RV Spots Avail-able. 620-763-2258,479-981-4705.

802 Business Bldg.

Very well established auto service business for sale in SE Kansas. Call

for details. 913-449-0851

Tri-State Realty, Inc.

803 Houses for Sale

2 houses side by side.In-Town Country setting,Parsons. 620-778-2448.

601 E. 8th, Altamont.3BR, 1BA. Completely re-modeled. $68,000. Mightconsider contract.620-485-5108.

8BR, 2BA Fixer Upper inOswego. Huge frontporch. Lets make a deal!!620-423-5235.

Great rental opportunity!South 17th Parsons duplex(607-611) for sale. Shownby appointment only. Call Jake or Amy at Commer-cial Bank 421-1000.

Newly Remodeled 2BR,New CH/A. 2325 Wash-ington. 620-421-1926, or620-423-1687.

807 For Sale

Edna, Kansas, 240 Acresmostly pasture, goodfences, $1250 per acre,216 acres. 176 cultivation, $1275 per acre, Bartlett,320 acres 196 cultivation, Chetopa Restaurant: Seats55, turnkey operation,$89,900; Western WearStore, 1000 pairs of boots,all equipment and inven-tory, 19000 sq. ft. build-ing, on route 66,$249,900. Jerry or Cody Chesnutt, aerials atChesnuttauctioneers.com800-809-2790, cell620-423-2086.

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Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 11-12, 2010

SATURDAY’S HOROSCOPE

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tive�of�the�importance�of�the�per-son�you�are�with.�Good�will�and�a�great�deal�of�emotions�arise�for�spending�time�together.�A�brain-storming�situation�opens�a�door.�

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conversation�feels�right.�You�might�want�to�make�time�for�several�peo-ple�in�your�life�—�a�child,�a�roman-tic�tie�and�someone�who�forces�you�to�look�at�the�big�picture.�

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on�proves�to�be�a�genuine�source�of�relaxation.�You�recharge�with�this�pastime�and�are�able�to�dis-cuss�what�up�till�now�was�a�vola-tile�situation�on�the�home�front.�

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es.� Single� Moon� Children� might�be�extremely�attracted�to�a�bright,�witty�character�that�pops�into�their�life,�possibly�today.�Tonight:�Make�this�the�perfect�Saturday�night.

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purchase,�whether�it’s�a�gift,�an�item� for� the� house� or� an� addi-tion� to� your� fall�wardrobe.�Use�your�intuition�if�you�are�feeling�unsure�of�yourself�—�and�listen.�

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wake� up� feeling� slightly� irritable.�Not� everyone� can� keep� running�without� stopping.� You� are� no� ex-ception.� You� also� might� want� to�make�a�call�to�clear�out�a�problem.�

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advice.�You�enjoy�that�acknowl-edgment� but� still� might� not� be�able�to�take�some�time�away�from�a�project.�An�older�friend�lets�you�know�that�he�or�she�needs�you.�

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where�you�could�meet� friends�at�the�movies�or�out�of�town.�You�do�much�more�sharing�than�anticipat-ed.�When�you�move�out�of�a�cer-tain�setting,�you�let�go�of�stress.

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� Dear� Amy:� I� hope� you� can� help�me.�My�mother�and� I�have�a�gener-ally�warm�and�close�relationship�and�I�consider�her�one�of�my�best�friends.�Like�many�moth-ers�and�daughters,�we� occasionally�fight.� Ever� since� I�was�a�child,�even�small� fights� have�ended� the� same�way:�She�tells�me�I�am�a�miserable,�nasty� person� and�says�I�will�end�up�alone.� Although� this�has� been� a� pat-tern� for� years,� it�still�pains�me�deeply,�and�I�lapse�into�a�funk�for�days�after�one�of�these�ar-guments.� I�don’t�know�if�those�are�her�true�feelings�or� just� ammunition,�but� ei-ther� way,� I� just� can’t� tune� out� her�words.� I�have�tried�every�approach�to�get�her�to�drop�the�speech,�but�she�won’t�listen.� Is�this�how�mothers�and�daughters�normally�fight?�Am�I�right�in�asking�her�to�stop?� She� refuses� to� discuss� it� or� try�group�therapy,�and�she�is�not�suffer-ing�from�any�psychological�or�mental�disorders.� I�would�really�appreciate�your�ad-vice.�—�AC

� Dear�Ac:�This�is�not�“normal”�be-havior.� You� claim� to� have� tried� every-thing,�including,�I�hope,�speaking�to�your�mother�about�this�during�a�calm�and�noncombative�moment.� You� might� ask� her,� for� instance,�if�someone�in�her�life�at�some�point�spoke�to�her�this�way.�Is�she�repeat-ing�a�pattern�established�by�her�own�mother?�Did�she�and�her�mother�ar-gue?�Has�someone�in�her�life�put�her�down� in� this� way� when� things� got�uncomfortable?� It’s� not� necessary� to� pull� your�mother�into�therapy,�though�a�coun-selor� might� help� you� come� up� with�new�strategies�to�cope�with�this�un-healthy�dynamic.� I� suggest� that� you� anticipate� this�particular�cruelty�and�try�to�prepare�yourself.� You� say� you� can’t� tune� this� out,�so�the�next�time�this�dynamic�seems�about�to�happen,�you�can�place�your�hand� gently� on� your� mother’s� arm�and�say,�“Mom,�that’s�hurtful,�and�I�hope�you�don’t�mean�it.�Let’s� try� to�move�on,�OK?”� Practice�this�—�or�a�version�of�this�you�are�comfortable�with.�Respond-ing�differently�may�scramble�this�es-tablished�pattern�and�compel�her� to�be�more�civil.

Send�questions�via�e-mail�to�aska-my@tribune.com� or� by� mail� to� Ask�Amy,� Chicago� Tribune,� TT500,� 435�N.�Michigan�Ave.,�Chicago,�IL�60611.��

ASK AMYAmy Dickinson

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and�bridge�crews�this�week�chip�and�sealed�streets�for�the�city�of�Erie�and�chip�and�sealed�county�roads�from� 140th� and� Queen� roads� to� 140th� and� Trego�roads�and�from�140th�and�Trego�roads�to�110th�and�Trego�roads,�then�east�one-fourth�of�a�mile.

In�addition,�one�of� the�commissioners;�Kenny�Blair,�president�of�the�Cook,�Flatt�and�Strobel�en-gineering� firm;� and� George� Finical,� Cook,� Flatt�and� Strobel� inspector,� will� meet� with� landown-ers�who�have�questions�regarding�Phase�IV�of�the�

160th�(Shaw)-Elk�Road�Improvement�Project�indi-vidually�on�Friday.

Phase�IV�consists�of�widening�the�intersection�of� 35th� and�Elk�Road� at� the� south� city� limits� of�Chanute�to�add�a�turn�lane�and�then�widening�and�improving�Elk�Road�for�about�a�mile�south.

Meanwhile,� County� Engineer� William� Cook�reported�fiber�optic�lines�are�being�moved�for�the�North�Main�Street�project�in�Erie.

In�other�action�at�the�meeting,�the�commission�approved�Health�Department�Administrator�Tere-sa�Starr’s�request�for�the�county�to�pay�for�county�employees’� flu� shots� this� year� and� to� give� their�family�members�flu�shots�at�a�reduced�rate.

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ABOVE — Altamont Grade School eighth-graders (from left) Destery Lunsford, Eli Tall-man and D.J. Reeves play a game in science class on Fri-day with Tallman’s grandfather (left), Don Tallman, and Reeves’ grandfather, Doug Heiskell dur-ing Grandparents’ Day at the school. Grandparents were of-fered the opportunity to attend classes and recesses in the af-ternoon with their grandchildren at the annual event.

LEFT — Altamont Grade School kindergarten teacher Teresa Leake reads to students and their grandparents on Friday.

Jamie Willey/Sun photos

GRANDPARENTS’ DAYNEOSHOContinued from Page 1.

away� from� them� and� it� wasn’t�until�I�went�around�the�corner�to�the�PBL�room�that�I�heard�them.�With� the� mass� amount� of� open�space,� we� were� concerned� that�if� we� had� students� in� the� audi-torium�and� the�PBL� room,� that�kids� in� one� section� would� be�getting� the� echo� and� overflow�of�noise�in�the�other.�The�design�of� this�building,�when� it�comes�to� acoustics,� is� amazing.� Even�though�it�has�all�this�wide-open�space,� the� way� it� is� designed�keeps�the�sound�from�traveling.�It’s�amazing.”

Finishing�off�the�school’s�first�week,� Wyrick� said,� “It� went�very�well�—�even�better�than�we�expected.�Everyone�couldn’t�be�more�pleased.”

One� of� the� most� exciting�pieces� of� news� during� the� first�week� is� that� overall� enrollment�is�up�by�11�students,�and�several�of�those�new�students�are�at�the�high�school.

“We�have�quite�a�few�out-of-district�students,�helping�the�en-rollment� to� increase.� That� was�very� encouraging� news� to� be�able�to�present�to�the�board�this�week,� after� enrollment� being�down�by�25� last�year,”�he� said.�“I� truly�believe� that�part�of� the�reason�for�us�was�the�new�facil-ity�and�that�CUSD�101�is�on�the�cutting�edge.�We’re�not�waiting�

for�new�concepts�to�come�to�us,�we�are�taking�advantage�of�new�opportunities� by� seeking� them�out,�and�the�message�is�spread-ing�that�we�are�a�leader�in�inno-vation�and�curriculum,�and�do-ing�the�right�thing�for�students.

“I�truly�believe�we�have�one�of�the�best�schools�not�just�in�South-east�Kansas,�but� the�entire�state�of�Kansas.�We�are�very�proud�of�what’s�happening�in�this�school,”�he�said.�“That�is�not�to�say�other�schools�in�the�area�are�not�great�schools.�We�have�great�schools�in�the�area,�great�teachers�and�great�administrators,� and� we� are� all�working�hard�to�help�each�other�educate�students.�But�we�are�es-pecially�proud�of�what�we�are�do-ing�here�in�CUSD�101.”

In�addition�to�providing�students�with�the�best�education�it�possibly�can,�one�of� the�other�priorities�of�the�district�is�for�the�high�school�to�be�beneficial�to�the�entire�commu-nity�in�various�capacities.

Work� already� has� begun� on�one� initiative� the� district� was�considering.

The� board� formed� a� com-mittee� in� August� consisting� of�Wyrick,� two� board� members,�the� high� school� athletics� direc-tor�and�the�high�school�principal�to�address�formulating�a�plan�for�enabling� the�community� to�use�the�school’s�fitness�facilities.

The�committee�has�met�twice�already�to�review�several�differ-ent� fitness� center�policies� from�across� the� state,� such� as� Hois-

ington,�Marion�and�Burlingame,�to�name�only�a�few.

“We� are� going� through� all�these�policies�now�and�trying�to�decide�what�it�is�exactly�we�want�to�have�in�place�so�the�community�can�use�the�weight�room,�fitness�room� and� gymnasium,”� Wyrick�said.�“It�is�our�intention�to�have�a�concept�in�place�to�present�by�the�October�board�meeting,�in�order�for�the�board�to�give�us�guidance�on�what�direction�they�want�us�to�take�from�there.�We�hope�to�have�something�in�place�by�the�end�of�October.

“This� is� all� new� and� exciting,�and� we� want� to� make� sure� we�have� policies� in� place� that� will�allow� for� the� community� to� use�the�facility,�but�at� the�same�time�we�have�to�be�responsible�to�our�students� first� and� foremost.� Our�students�have�to�be�first�in�every�decision�we�make,”�he�said.�“We�have�to�decide�what�to�do�for�those�individuals� who� are� not� adults�and�have�not�graduated�from�high�school�to�provide�services�for�the�to�use�the�facility,�too.�It�will�not�be�a�paid�position�for� the�person�monitoring�the�use�of�the�weight�room�and�gymnasium�in�the�eve-nings.�We�need�to�decide�how�to�make�it�available�to�the�communi-ty�members�that�are�18�and�older�and�have�graduated�high�school�to�have�access,�and�how�also�to�have�it�available�for� those�kids�still� in�school.�We�want�to�come�up�with�a�formula�that�works�for�everyone�in�the�district.”

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