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WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWChris Meister of Newton adjusts some lights on one of the white trees in his family's front yard. This tree is part of the family's annualChristmas light show.

Not everyone thinks of objects in their frontyard as being musical, but around Christmas-time, Chris Meister and his dad, Richard Meis-ter, do.

The white artificial trees are piano keys, theporch poles are guitars, and two big trees in thefront yard are the drums.

“I designed them according to what would beneeded for the style of music,” said Chris Meis-ter, a Newton High School senior.

Meister was talking about the Christmas lightshow he and his dad have put on at their housethe past several years, which is set to music.Folks driving by 3 Hickory Court in Newton cantune into FM 88.7 to get the music that goesalong with the light show. The home is on thenorthwest part of Newton.

The Meisters have a variety of lights set up onthe house and trees, as well as eight small whiteartificial trees (the piano keys), that all go onand off, accompanying such tunes as “AmazingGrace Techno,” “Carol of Bells,” “Christmastimeis Here” from the Charlie Brown Christmas spe-cial, “First Snow” by Trans-Siberian Orchestra(TSO), “Reflections,” which is the introductionfrom Epcot at Disney World, and “Mad RussianChristmas,” also by TSO.

Right now, they have nine songs for the show,and Meister was hoping to have another onedone this past weekend. He said programming a

Tune into 88.7 FM to get the music that goes with the light show at theMeister’s home in Newton.

Getting into the spirit� Meisters have annual show for communityset to Christmas music.

BY WENDY NUGENTNEWTON NOW STAFFwendy@harveycountynow.com

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As far as the local school board is concerned,some kids in Newton still will get a head start ontheir education.

In a 6-1 vote, with Barbara Bunting votingagainst, the board decided, after a great deal ofdiscussion during its Monday night meeting, tohave the district apply for the Head Start grantand to be the sponsoring agency for Head Startservices in Harvey County.

“Obviously, having kids ready for kindergartenis a big deal,” Board Member Tim Hodge said be-fore the vote. “I’m OK going forward with it re-gardless of the unknowns, because it can have aninvestment for kids. We seem like the type of com-munity that needs this program.”

He also said if the board doesn't keep HeadStart, he's not sure there's another group thatwill.

Head Start parent Annessa Russell of Newtonspoke to the board before the meeting in favor ofkeeping Head Start, as she's had one child in theprogram, and another currently is enrolled. Afterthe vote, she was glad, and clearly emotional.

“I'm very glad that they decided to continue,”she said. “It's a good program.”

Head Startto stay inNewton

BY WENDY NUGENTNEWTON NOW STAFFwendy@harveycountynow.com

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After seven years as Harvey County Adminis-trator and a lifetime of public service, John Walt-ner will retire from the position in February.

Waltner made an official announcement atMonday's county commission meeting.

“When I was hired, the questionwas asked how long I anticipatedworking here,” he said. “Theywanted to know how long it wouldbe. I wanted to work until I was70.”

Waltner turned 70 last June. “I'm not leaving because of prob-

lems or things are not going well,”he said. “We have a lot of goodthings in place. I think its workingwell. I think the skills that some other people canbring to this job could far surpass my own.”

Waltner, prior to his position, worked for thecounty as a special projects director, had variousstints teaching elementary, high school and atBethel and served as the Mayor of Hesston from

Waltner announceshis retirement ascounty administrator

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WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWThe new Newton Goodwill is schedule to open soon. The South of 50 Highway location was sup-posed to open during the Spring of 2016 but should be open before the new year.

The Goodwill store inNewton should open in thenext few weeks, or at leastbefore the New Year.

That’s according to MollyFox, vice president of mar-keting and development forthe Goodwill Industriesbranch in Kansas.

The location, on SouthKansas Avenue just south ofWal-Mart, will act as a re-tail thrift store and donationcenter.

Fox said right now the

company is waiting on walk-throughs and inspectionsbefore it opens its doors, soshe declined to give ahard opening date. She didsay it will likely hold anopen house and ribbon cut-ting in January. The origi-nal opening date was set forthe spring of 2016.

Fox also said it could beopen for donations soon. Thenew location features a do-nation drive where peoplecan deposit donations di-rectly into a box that willplace the items in the build-ing, as opposed to leaving

Goodwill opening soonBY ADAM STRUNKNEWTON NOW STAFFadam@harveycountynow.com

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One thing about get-ting married isthat it complicates

all family holidays. Our family compromise

now that my sister and Iboth have in-laws compet-ing for our attention is tomeet at our parents’house in the morning fora big Christmas breakfastbefore heading out for af-ternoon fun for the otherside of the family.

It’s worked really well,since both of our in-lawstend to be night owls, andit’s also a great arrange-ment, because my momknows how to do break-fast right.

Remembering back tomy childhood, I knowChristmas morning washectic. My sister and Iwere bouncing off thewalls with excitement,and we then we packedup the car with food andpresents to head off tofamily events all day.

For both our laid-backtradition now and thecrazy mornings fromyears ago, I think the per-fect food for Christmasmorning is a good break-fast casserole.

If you’re looking to try anew one this year, you’rein luck, because the one Irecently tried is amazing.It’s easy to make and a

good, hearty breakfast.Plus, it’s definitely kid-friendly, and it reheats re-ally well, too, so if youwant to make it the nightbefore and pop it in theoven in the morning towarm it back up, thatwould work fantastically.The recipe’s author also

suggests you can coverthe pan and put it in thefridge after putting all thecomponents together andbake it that way, too. Ijust don’t trust myself tocarry something withsloshing eggs in it over tomy fridge.

This comes from the

blog “Plain Chicken” byStephanie Parker. Youcan find it athttp://www.plainchicken.com/2016/09/cracked-out-tater-tot-breakfast.html.

Cracked Out TaterTot Breakfast

Casserole

Ingredients2 pounds bacon (I used

turkey bacon)32-ounce bag frozen

tater tots2 cups shredded ched-

dar cheese 8 eggs1-ounce package ranch

dressing mix2 cups milk (I used

whole milk)Preheat the oven to 350

degrees.In a very large skillet (I

used two medium-sizedones), cook up the baconand chop it in pieces. (Ijust cut mine into piecesto fry it to make it easier.)Drain the grease.

Spray a 9x13-inch panwith cooking spray. Addthe tater tots, drainedbacon and cheese to thepan and stir to combine.

In another bowl, whiskthe eggs, ranch mix and

milk together untilsmooth and then pourover the other ingredientsin the pan.

Bake for about 45 min-utes or until eggs are setup.

We ate this for break-fast over the course ofseveral mornings, reheat-ing it in the microwave,and it was so sad whenwe polished off the finalpiece. It’s been a yummyaddition to cold mornings.

I also think you couldeasily substitute sausagefor the bacon in this andeven throw in some extraslike peppers or onions ifyou wanted to get fancy.

Merry Christmasbreakfast to you! I hopeyou start the day off right.

Lindsey Young is co-owner of Newton Now.

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Breakfast casserole will please tiny tots

Man arrested forbreaking juvenile's

face bonesOn Dec. 4, the Newton

Police Department ar-rested William “Matt”Holmes, 23, for breakingthe bones of a juvenile'sface andthreaten-ing an-otherpersonwith agun.

Accord-ing toNewtonPolice Lt.Scott Powell, Holmes wasat a house in Newtonwhen he saw a 17-year-old boy he had a disagree-ment with. The twofought, and Powell said

Holmes broke the boy'snose and other bones inhis face.

“After the fight, hewent to another houselooking for someone,”Powell said. “He tells thepeople at the house 'whenyou see him, tell him I gotsomething for him,' andpulls out a gun.

Powell said police laterarrested Holmes but didnot find the weapon onhim.

Holmes was chargedwith aggravated batteryfor the fight and aggra-vated assault and crimi-nal threats for theincident at the otherhouse.

Man booked on theftcharges following fightMatthew Bjork, 37, was

arrested for domestic bat-tery, theft and obstructionof justice after he foughtwith his father and tookhis father's car.

NewtonPolice Lt.Scott Pow-ell said,accordingto policereports,Bjork wasintoxicatedwhen hestartedphysically fighting withhis father. He then left,taking his father’s car. Ac-cording to Powell, policeeventually located Bjorkon Dec. 2 in the 600 Blk ofE. Fourth. Powell said hewould not tell police thelocation of the car andcontinued to repeatedlyflip off police officers.

Shop opens in formerBill's location

Bill's Bar at 421 N.Main St. has a new ten-ant.

Nathaniel Winkler willsell items out of that loca-tion. It will also serve asthe front for a wholesaledrop shipping business hehas. He runs a website,uhave2haveit.com, thatorders items wholesaleand ships them.

From the looks of it, thestore front sells clothes,toys and knickknacks.

Dickey’s Barbecuecloses recently

Dickey's Barbecue Pitclosed recently in Newton.

The restaurant openedup in 2014 and was a

franchise location ownedby Shawn Stubbe.

The closure leaves New-ton with two barbecue op-erations, Le J's at 601 SE36th St and Billy Sims at1414 N. Main St.

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Food, holiday refresh-ments, and door prizeswill be provided. Theevent is come and go, soplease come in and say

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for the holidays with aChristmas tree, fireplaceand lights in the window.

Newton officer punchedin the face

on domestic callPolice arrested Nolan

Pugh, 30, on charges ofdomestic battery and bat-tery of a law enforcementofficer. According to po-lice reports, officers re-sponded to a domesticbattery complaintagainst Pugh, who thenpunched a police officerin the face.

Newton Police Lt. ScottPowell said the officerdid not sustain seriousinjuries.

—Newton Now staff

NEWS BRIEFS

Holmes

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Tom Unzicker andhis brother, Jeff,did with their busi-

ness what they do withclay—they made some-thing functional from ba-sically nothing.

With clay and theirbusiness, Unzicker Bros.Pottery, they use theirtalents to make a living.

One of their businessesis in rural Newton, andthe other is in Indiana.Both locations have thesame name.

Tom is the brother wholives in the Newton area,and he enjoys makingpottery.

“I like working on thewheel,” Tom said. “I thinkthat's the main thing thatcaptivated me—takingjust a lump of clay andturning it into somethingbeautiful and useful andpermanent.”

He likes creating largevessels.

“I do like the biggerpieces,” he said. “I likethe presence that theyhave.”

The shop that's just afew miles north onKansas Highway 15 hasbeen open for a couple ofyears, while another shopwas open by the brothersand existed for a numberof years.

Leading into his art ca-reer, Tom said he studiedit in college.

“Took a ceramics classin college and just kindagot hooked,” he said.

He graduated with adegree in art and Englishfrom Goshen College inIndiana. Tom said hethinks a formal educationis important, but he alsothinks the training he re-ceived while still in col-lege from working for alocal potter was just asimportant. After college,he did a three-year termwith Mennonite CentralCommittee in Botswana,working with craftspeopleon an income-generationproject.

“I got to work with pot-ters there, as well,” Tomsaid.

After that stint, he andhis wife, Andrea Unz-icker, attending IndianaUniversity, where he re-ceived a master of finearts degree in ceramics,and she got her juris doc-torate. Tom said he grad-uated in 2000, which isthe year he and Jeff es-tablished Unzicker Bros.Pottery, setting up agallery in Thorntown,Ind., and they were thereuntil 2013.

“I felt like by the timewe left, I felt like we werepretty established there,”Tom said.

Their specialty is woodfiring.

He and Andrea tookone year, 2008, duringthat time to do a one-yearstint in Cambodia. Tomhelped with a handicraftorganization, workingwith Ten Thousand Vil-lages, a fair-trade organi-zation that used to have astore in Newton.

“So, basically, my jobfor that year was to de-velop a pottery workshopand getting things readyfor export,” he said,adding he had five stu-dents. “I keep in contactwith them from time totime—e-mail and Skype.As far as I can tell,they're still doing well.”

The Unzicker couplemoved to the Newtonarea, because Andreachanged jobs from being alawyer to being a regional

director for Everence outof Hesston. Tom said hiswife moved out here first,and he followed later,since it was about ayear's transition, sellingthe house, tearing downkilns and setting up shop.When they moved to thearea, they had almost asemitruck-load of brickused for kilns. Tom saidthey brought 8,000 to10,000 bricks.

“That's one of the mostexpensive parts of the op-eration,” Tom said.

They acquired most ofthe brick from a toilet fac-tory in Indiana. The toiletfactory kilns were demol-ished and headed for thedump, so the Unzickerswere told they could takewhatever bricks theywanted.

The rural Newton shopopened in November2014, and Jeff just re-cently bought a farm witha barn that's going to be astudio.

Tom said his brothercomes to the area three tofour times a year whenTom's firing a kiln forfour days. Tom uses awood kiln, the fire inwhich needs to be fedaround the clock, andthat's not a one-personjob, Tom said. This is atype of Japanese firingtechnique.

“When you fire thatlong, pieces get kind of anatural glazing,” he said.

With this technique,pieces don't have glaze onthem, Tom said, andwhen they're with burn-ing wood that long, theash floats onto the pieces.When the temperatureteaches 2,300 degrees,the ash liquefies, and itturns to glass. For differ-ent looks, Tom also com-bines the ash with glazeon pieces.

“The kiln is big enoughwhere pots come out dif-ferently,” Tom said, de-pending on where they'replaced in the kiln, so hetried to remember wherecertain items were whenhe reloads.

“We go through about awheelbarrow of woodevery 15 minutes,” Tom

said. “Burns up fast atthat high temperature.”

For an entire kiln-load,they use six to sevencords of mostly hedge-wood. A cord is 4 feet by 4feet by 8 feet, he said.

At the rural Newtonshop, Tom has a gallery,so folks who stop by canbuy things, includingsome of his brother'swork. He also has a buddyat work—adachshund/Chihuahuamix named A.J.

“I carry some of hiswork for sale, and whenhe gets his gallery set up,he'll probably carrymine,” Tom said.

Tom also uses a gaskiln for simple glazes.

“And it works well forfunctional pieces, too,” hesaid.

Half of the work hedoes is functional and halfis decorative, Tom added.Some of the items hemakes and/or what's soldin the shop are pitchers,jars, teapots, coffee mugs,tumblers, casseroledishes, water pitchers andlarge decorative vessels.

For all of these works ofart, Tom uses three tofour types of clay, he said.

“Primarily, that's thewood fire,” he said. “Dif-ferent types of clay makesa difference in the waythe pieces look.”

The pieces do look good,and their sales are a tes-tament to that.

“Most of our sales arethrough art shows,” Tomsaid, adding that makesfor about 75 percent oftheir sales.

He's been to SmokyRiver Hill Festival inSalina, Art in Autumn inWichita, Art and BookFair in Wichita and FallFest in North Newton.

The last two years, he'sprogressively done moreart shows. Tom said it'san ongoing process, find-ing which shows work forhis kind of work.

These past two yearshaven't been withoutchallenges.

“I'm remembering howmuch it takes to buildeverything back up,” Tomsaid about the business.

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PHOTOS BY WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWABOVE: Tom Unzicker scrapes the bottoms of some tumblers that re-cently were pulled from the kiln.ABOVE RIGHT: Tom Unzicker’s business, Unzicker Bros. Pottery, is afew miles north of Newton on Kansas Highway 15.

Indictment comes down for basement beer-keg moonshine

The U.S. Attorney's of-fice has indicted a couplefor making moonshine intheir basement.

According to a releaseby the office, Newton cou-ple Ryan Penner, 41, andJennifer Penner, 37, wereindicted on one count ofpossession of an unregis-tered still, one count ofunlawful production ofdistilled spirits, and onecount of failing to bebonded as a distiller.

“The indictment allegesthe Penners producedmoonshine, which is ille-gal liquor on which fed-eral and state excisetaxes have not beenpaid,” the release stated.

According to the indict-ment, the Newton PoliceDepartment learned ofthe production of moon-shine at a residence atthe 1000 block of E. 7thStreet in Newton andpurchased moonshineproduced at the residenceusing undercover agents.

A quart of the stufftypically sold for $20.

Police served a search

warrant at the end of Oc-tober and seized a stillbuilt around a 15.5-gal-lon beer keg with metallegs and copper tubing.

The couple could faceup to five years in federalprison and a fine up to$250,000 if convicted.

“The Newton Police De-partment, the Bureau ofAlcohol, Tobacco, andFirearms and Explosivesand the Kansas AlcoholicBeverage Control investi-gated. Assistant U.S. At-torney Matt Treaster isprosecuting,” the indict-ment stated.

BY ADAM STRUNKNEWTON NOW STAFFadam@harveycountynow.com

NORTH NEWTON—The City of North Newtonwill help pay for some in-frastructure connectionsfor a new office park inthe city limits.

North Newton passedtwo resolutions allowingcity funds to be used topay for a percentage of in-frastructure attachmentsto the North Woods PlazaOffice building.

The city will pay a$26,850.71 in total to ex-tend sewer and waterlines to the project. On thesewer side, it would pay4.92 percent of the totalcost of $4,728. On thewater pipe side, the citywould pay $22,121.86.Kidron Bethel and Devel-oper Alan Vogts will payfor the rest of the cost.

Vogts, who's buildingthe office complex, askedthe city at a previousmeeting to pay for part ofthe project. Vogts said thewaterline that will be in-stalled to serve the prop-erty will be upsized froma 6- or 8-inch pipe to a 12-inch pipe at request of theCity of North Newton toserve future projects andpossibly North Newton asa whole.

Vogts also gave an up-date on the project.

“We're moving for-ward,” he said. “Theweather obviously will behindersome going intowinter. We're in contin-ued negotiations with Ev-

erence. We're final-izing that hopefullythis week. We'll bepulling a buildingpermit shortlyafter.

The North New-ton City Commis-sion approvedhiring KnudsenMonroe and CompanyLLC to audit the city fi-nances for $7,900. Thatnumber is $250 higherthan last year.

The city has had a longtrack record of workingwith the local firm.

City AdministratorJohn Torline recom-mended an addition to thepersonnel policy entitlingemployees to longevityraises for their time withthe city. Torline said thepay scale usually stops in-creasing for employees onmerit based raises aroundthe four to six years,though employees are stilleligible for cost of livingraises.

“This is specific to re-ward long-term employ-ees,” Torline said.

At 10 years, employeeswould be eligible for a 1percent raise, at 15 yearsemployees will get a 2percent raise and at 20years there would be a 3percent increase.

Ron Ratzlaff suggestedinstead of the increasebased on tenure, Torlineshould do a market studyand evaluate the addi-tional responsibilities anemployee picks up andprovide extra merit basedincreases based on that.

“The training I've re-

ceived would saytenure-based payis not the bestway to do that,”he said.

The councilthen discussedthe changingroles differentemployees have

had and how the roleschanged during theirtenure with the city.

After the conversationturned onto particularemployees, Torline saidhe was uncomfortable dis-cussing employees specifi-cally and recommendedgoing into executive ses-sion. The council thenwent into executive ses-sion to discuss non-electedpersonnel for 15 minutes.

Following the executivesession, Mayor Ron Braunsaid they had good discus-sions in the executive ses-sion and then askedcouncil members for addi-tional comments.

The commissionemerged after discussionand approved the sugges-tion of Torline.

Gregg Dick recom-mended annual marketevaluations of employeepayment, however. Goer-ing said that Ratzlaff'sideas had merit.

Ratzlaff said theyshould create a revisedjob description for the Di-rector of Public Works toreflect Danny Bisoni'scurrent responsibilities.

The motion passedunanimously.

Council Member JimGoering gave a report onthe North Newton Com-

munity Foundation Fund.Current asset balance isup 3 percent from the No-vember. A silent auctionheld at the North NewtonChristmas party helpedboost the fund, bringingin around $855. The auc-tion brought in about$600 more than last year.

Torline reported thatthe city will end the yearin improved financial po-sition. The city will endwith more than $1 millionin the bank.

For the first year of the

city having its own waterand sewer, Torline saidall have met or exceededexpectations in servicebeing provided. Torlinesaid for an extended wetperiod of time the citymay have to increasewater rates. But he be-lieved the city would beable to make it throughthe next year and haveenough money in itswater reserve fund.

“As long as we sell ade-quate water, we’re set tomaintain without raising

rates?” Braun asked. Tor-line said barring anyhuge change, the citywould not increase waterrates.

In the case of sewer,Torline said the city isbuilding up reserves in itssewer fund.

“We've seen significantsavings in our sewer rateand are building up re-serves.”

Kurt Friesen was ap-pointed to the NorthNewton Housing Author-ity Board.

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Food & Farm Council starts the year with healthy appetite

The Harvey CountyFood & Farm Council ac-complished a few thingsthis past year or so, oneof which included havingits first meeting, whichwas Oct. 22, 2015.

The entity started afterState Sen. CarolynMcGinn, R-Sedgwick,spoke with HarveyCounty AdministratorJohn Waltner about form-ing such a council, saidCarol Sue StayrookHobbs, chair who repre-sents the food retail sec-tor.

“The year has beenlabor intensive, getting toknow each other, deter-mining goals, setting ourstructure and then tryingto establish our identitywithin the community,”said Lisa Bartel, a Har-vey County Health De-partment employee whohelps coordination withthe grant.

The group also hasbeen working on theirwebsite, where people cango to buy local foods andlearn about the food sys-tem in Harvey County,which is everything fromthe Interurban, like howdo I get my groceries, to

other matters, Bartelsaid.

“The whole thing isabout food,” Bartel said.“How is our food handledat our restaurants andgrocery stores?”

Bartel said they wantto connect the farmerwith the institutions thatwant to use local food,making that easier andsupporting the local econ-omy by making that eas-ier.

“Really encouragingpeople to buy local andmaking that easier to do,”Bartel said.

During 2016, the coun-cil was given a $10,000Kansas Health Founda-tion grant. This year,they also planned for2017, completed “What isa Food Assessment?”training with Barbara La-Clair in January, went toa Baseline Creativebranding workshop, ap-proved the group's logo,formed a social media pol-icy, took part in the gov-ernor's September TradeTour, sent out and cre-ated a community sur-vey—488 of which werereturned—with HealthyHarvey Coalition, co-sponsored the HealthyHarvest of Food flier, fin-ished the “what does ourfood assessment reallymean?” training, and ap-

plied from the SunflowerFoundation a HEROPlanning Grant.

Of the $10,000 grant,the group still have about$8,000 left, having spentsome on having a logodone and other matters.

For the HERO grant,the group requested$12,880, and funding an-nouncements are ex-pected by Friday, Dec. 16.The predicted start dateis Feb. 1, 2017, with thepredicted end date Dec.

31, 2017. One thing thegroup might do is have aFEAST in the commu-nity. FEAST stands forFood, Education, Agricul-ture Solutions Together;these are community-wide forums that centeron making the local foodsystem better. A mealwith local foods is encour-aged.

In addition to Barteland Hobbs, other mem-bers are Greg Nickel,community at large;

McGinn, farming; PaulaSims, farming; JackHobbs, seniors; TracieStrain, community andfaith-based organizations;Jennifer Rose and JessicaTaylor, organizationsserving at-risk popula-tions; Margaret Goering,agricultural organiza-tions; Kandy Fisher,schools and institutions;Norm Oeding, food retail;Annie Pitts, Kansas StateResearch and Extension;and Lorrie Kessler, localhealth department.

“The purpose of theHarvey County Food &Farm Council is to inte-grate all departments ofthe county as well as a di-verse group of public andprivate stakeholders in acollaborative effort to im-prove access to locallygrown, health food,” ac-cording to a news release.

The group's other pur-poses are to have ways forpeople to be able to getsafe, culturally accept-able, nutritionally ade-quate food and “provide aforum to bring togetherstakeholders from diversefood-related sectors fordiscussion and coordina-tion for community-wideefforts to improve accessto local food, examinehow food systems operateand to develop solutionsto improve it.”

Results from the surveyhave been tabulated. Nowthe group just needs toput the results in a formpeople can understand.

“Food assessment willhelp us with our strate-gies for 2017,” Bartelsaid.

Some of the questionson the survey included:Do you raise or grow yourown food? A total of 52.1percent said they growtheir own vegetables. An-other question was: Howsatisfied are you withhealthy food options inHarvey County? A total of52.5 percent said theywere somewhat satisfied,while 19.3 percent statedthey were somewhat dis-satisfied. The survey has-n't been broken out intoethnicity and demograph-ics yet, Bartel said,adding they gave the sur-vey to a variety of groupswith varying ranges of in-come and other matters.These included collegeand Circles of Hope folks.

The group met at 4p.m. Monday, Dec. 12, inthe community room at215 S. Pine St. All mem-bers were present, includ-ing Strain, who was onthe phone. The nextmeeting will be at 2 p.m.Monday, Jan. 9, at thesame location. The publicis welcome to attend.

BY WENDY NUGENTNEWTON NOW STAFFwendy@harveycountynow.com

WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWGina Bell, director of planning and zoning for Harvey County, talks tomembers of the Harvey County Food & Farm Council about legislationon Dec. 12 at 215 S. Pine St. in Newton. She also is a member of theKansas Association of Planning and Zoning Officials.

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Couple offering reward: ‘Catillac’missing from Tongish Auto Mart

Dave and Pat Tongishusually are happy if some-thing turns up missingfrom their car lot atTongish Auto Mart, be-cause that most likelymeans they sold a vehicle.

However, what's miss-ing from their businessnow is Catillac, an at least10-1/2-year-old Main CoonCat they've had for sevenand one half years.

The last time they sawhim was 3:30 p.m. Friday,Dec. 2.

“We're sad,” PatTongish said. “We misshim.”

The Tongishes are offer-ing a reward for Catillac'ssafe return, which is $500,Dave said.

Catillac, who weighs inat 17 pounds, is a bigstriped ball of fluff whoresides at the Newtonbusiness at 1600 N. MainSt.

“He was kind a meet-and-greet cat,” Dave said.“People would come in,and he'd just come tothem,” adding peopleliked him. “He was a realspry cat. We don't feel likehe wandered off and diedsomewhere,” Dave added.

That was because heseemed fine that Friday.

Pat said Catillac liked itat the shop.

“This is his hangout,”Pat said while sitting inthe office. “The only placebecause he wouldn't like itin the house.”

It sounded like the busi-ness and car lot wereCatillac's kingdom. Some-times he'd climb aboard avehicle that was about tohit the road.

“He kinda likes to be astowaway sometimes,”Dave said. “He would justkinda curl up in a seat,and customers wouldn'tknow he was there untilthey got home, and they'dturn around and comeback.”

The Tongishes havelooked high and low fortheir pet, posting photos

at animal shelters in Wi-chita and Newton.They've also searched allthe vehicles on the lot.However, at about thetime the cat disappeared,some people rented a vanto drive to Galveston,Texas, for a cruise. TheTongishes think it's possi-ble Catillac climbedaboard the van and leapedout when they got home toHesston without themnoticing.

“It's so cold,” Pat said.“We'll talk to that familywhen they get back.Maybe he's on the farmsomeplace.”

The Tongishes didn'tlike to let Catillac out atnight, even returning tothe business at 3 a.m. justto look for him.

“I don't know if we'llfind him,” Pat said. “Welooked all over. I've beenlooking all over the creekfor a body or something.”

Pat said the cat hasbladder problems andneeds special food.

“He's not chipped,” shesaid. “He just showed upone day, and that's howhe left.”

In addition, the kittyknows a variety of tricksand even trained himselfto unlatch a door marked“employees only.”

“He's real good at open-ing it, but I can't get himto close it,” Dave said,adding folks will be sit-ting in the office signing acontract, and Catillacused to let himself in thedoor. The people ask, “Didthat cat just open thatdoor?”

The Newton couple isattached to their pets.When Catillac showed upat the business as a stray,the veterinarian thoughthe was 3 to 5 years old, sothat would make him 10-1/2 to 12-1/2 years old.

“Maybe somebody willsee him,” Dave said.

If anyone knows whereCatillac is, they can callTongish Auto Mart at316-283-6400.

BY WENDY NUGENTNEWTON NOW STAFFwendy@harveycountynow.com

WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWDave Tongish with Tongish Auto Mart in Newton pets Catillac in June2016 at the business. The cat is missing.

Man ends up in hospital, jail after diving through glass windowAn area man ended up

in the hospital and thenjail on a slew of chargesafter taking a swan divethrough a plate-glasswindow.

Around 11:30 p.m.Monday, Newton Policeresponded to a report of asuspicious person walk-ing in the 1500 Blk of ENinth St. near Spencer.

“They said the guy waslaying in yards, walkingup and down the street,”Police Lt. Scott Powellsaid. “Acting real weird.”

Officers responded andbegan searching theneighborhood for theman.

While searching, Pow-ell said they heard someloud bangs as well as thesound of glass shatter.

They ran to the soundand found the suspect aswell as an unusual scene.

“He's hung up on thiswindow,” Powell said.“His feet are on the out-side of the house hishand is hanging inside.”

Powell said the occu-

pants ofthe housewere homeat thetime andalso calledpolice asthey at-tempted tokeep theman from gaining entryinto the home throughthe window.

According to police re-ports and the people in-side the house, the man,Chad Wenger, originallybanged on the home’sdoor, demanding to be letinside.

“He starts banging onthe door of a house ofpeople he doesn't know,”Powell said. “He startsyelling, 'If you don't letme in, I'm going to killyou.’”

After not being let in-side, the man tried amore direct way of gain-ing entry.

“He decides he's goingto do a swan dive throughthis plate glass window,”

Powell said. The action caused

Wenger to receive facialinjuries, and law enforce-ment had to free himfrom the window after ar-riving.

“We had to take him tothe hospital,” Powellsaid. “Our officers gotcovered in blood; therewas blood inside thehouse.”

Powell said the depart-ment suspects drugsplayed a role in the man’sbehavior.

“We suspect the guywas under the influenceof meth and for whateverreason decided to take aheader to try to get in-side,” Powell said.

Police booked Wengeron charges of criminalthreat, criminal damageto property and aggra-vated burglary.

Powell said anytime aperson breaks into an-other's house while theoccupant is home, itcounts as aggravatedburglary.

Wenger

The Newton Police Department is in-vestigating a possible rape that was re-ported Dec. 6 in the 800 block of East12th.

According to Lt. Scott Powell of theNewton Police Department, a womanreported that a man broke into herhouse and had intercourse with heragainst her will.

Powell said the woman previouslyhad a relationship with the man andhad a protection from abuse orderagainst him.

Powell said the department is investi-gating the incident, has collected foren-sic evidence and is searching for theman, who police believe to be from Oak-land, Calif. Powell said the police haveyet to locate the man. That was all theinformation Powell released.

Newton Police Department investigating reported rapeNEWTON NOW STAFF

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The county will now hold haveto hold a county-wide votewhether or not to keep

Camp Hawk.And the county will likely ap-

prove yet another public-welfaregreen space program. Again, thatvote will be decided by urban vot-ers in populated areas represent-ing a small geographicalpercentage of the county. Wewouldn't have such a vote if itweren't for community organizers.

Of course, they'll vote to keepCamp Hawk. Those in the city areclose to the park and benefit fromsuch a county hand out.

Some of these voters probablydon't have large backyards andjust want to use more governmentproperty, not for something worth-while like grazing cows, but forrecreation.

But what about the people inthe rural part of the county?Should a county-wide issue be de-cided by only a precinct or two ofconcentrated people?

That's why I propose changinghow the county decides elections.

Instead of deciding an issue byan overall majority, I vote wechange it to a sort of electoralforum or something. I haven'tquite worked the name out yet.

Each voting precinct will begiven two electors. The elector willbe pledged to vote how the major-ity of their precinct votes. We willalso redraw the precincts to dis-burse the urban populations ofNewton and North Newtonamongst the townships to even outthe size of all the precincts.

Once that is decided, then wewill hold the vote.

And then later our electoralcounty forum will vote.

And that way we prevent a sim-ple majority from voting to keepthe park and protect the interestof the more rural county residents.

This argument is airtight. You will say that it’s undemoc-

ratic. I will say that we live in aRepublic, not a Democracy.

You will say that it’s unfair tomake a decision contrary to whatthe majority of county voters de-cides.

I will say that my electoralforum provides as a check againstthe decisions of a concentratedgroup infringing on the rights ofthe entire county.

My system favors smaller gov-ernment by giving a disproportion-ate amount of power to votingprecincts. Instead of county lead-ers campaigning simply for whatis best for the county, they willnow have to pander to each singletownship.

Sure, my system makes it possi-

ble for more people to vote in favorof an issue and still lose. Sure, itmay be archaic, not make a wholelot of sense and make the votes ofpeople in less populated areascount for more than those who livein cities.

But to that I answer this: yourcritiques are unpatriotic and muststop. Because if it's good enough toselect the President of the mostpowerful and prosperous nation inthe world, the United States ofAmerica, then it should be goodenough for us in Harvey County.

Though when I put it like that...

Adam Strunk is the managingeditor at Newton Now. He can be

reached at 316-281-7899 oradam@harveycountynow.com.

Satire: Harvey County needs electoral forumColumns

EditorialSenate, Kansas delegation

must come forwardto check forefathers’ vision

Each year, I challenge myselfto write a thoughtful andgripping letter to Saint

Nick, in hopes that he hasn’t paidclose attention to his naughty list.This year is no exception…

Dear Santa:By now, you’ve probably re-

ceived my grandson’s demands forChristmas morning, and I’m sureyou’ve had to engage the servicesof an engineer to help fit his giftsin the sleigh along with those forthe rest of the world.

For that, I’m sorry.However, I hope you will also

consider my grown-up Christmaslist, because as adults, all of usharbor desires that no mere mor-tal could fulfill. I also read a studywhich found that writing to youwas a way to connect to our lostcreativity in adulthood, whilethinking about specific problems.I’m a little unclear how my cre-ativity will help the basement toi-let flush better, but I’m willing totry if you can share a little magicwith me.

1. This year, I wish to becomebetter at handling tools—power orotherwise. This has been on mylist for a long time and every year,I come closer to losing a digit,thanks to a general lack of ability.A little help would be appreci-ated…or a large supply of Band-Aids in all of the popular sizes.Perhaps you could toss in an armsling and tourniquet, as well.

2. I want to finally learn to playthe acoustic guitar. I already ownone – it’s tucked away under thebasement stairs along with a wideselection of how-to books. I sup-pose the problem has more to dowith focus rather than under-standing the placement of my fin-gers at predetermined spots onthe strings. I’m not looking to be-come a rock star, although, Iwould graciously accept that out-come, too.

3. World peace is on a lot of peo-

ple’s lists, but I’m only asking forcivility among various politicalparties. If you’ve followed thenews, I’m certain you shook yourhead more than a few times whenseeing how people responded afterthe latest elections. It’s ugly.Even Time magazine presented its“Person of the year” as the “Presi-dent of the `Divided States ofAmerica.’” I’m not sure whatmakes the most sense, but I’m in-creasingly inclined to think thatdisabling all social media accountsmight help. I’ll miss the cute ani-mal videos but not the snarkycommentaries about liberals andconservatives.

4. Less complexity in my fam-ily’s lives. Among the hundreds ofsayings my mother used to sharewas, “The simplest solutions areusually the best ones.” Althoughher advice didn’t help in algebraclass, I’ve come to understandthat it means a great deal in life.Today, I’m harried by the sheernumber of ways one has to com-municate. Do we really needdozens of social networks or con-stant barrages of news updates?

5. Help me to sing in theshower again, instead of make de-cisions in there. I used to love tosing—I even made it into a selecthigh school vocal music groupwhere we danced and I first heldhands with a girl other than mymom. The girl happened to be mydance partner, so it was required,but still... Now, I stand in there

thinking about appointments orwhether I actually wrote downthe phone number of the person Iwas supposed to call back. I thinkmy wife misses my singing, also.There was nothing like a few barsof an Aerosmith song drifting intothe next room while she tried tocatch an extra 10 minutes ofsleep.

6. Finally, I would like moretime to spend with my youngestson before he leaves his mom andme as empty nesters. It seemslike only yesterday he was a littleboy, and today he’s mid-waythrough his junior year of highschool. There are so many experi-ences I have yet to share withhim, but time is quickly tickingaway. I’m not looking for cash,but just more time to go on atrain excursion in the mountains(he loved trains as a little boy),see a few more 1980s bands to-gether and spend some weekendson camping trips where we havepoor cell phone reception, can eathot dogs cooked over an openflame, go fishing and talk.

Every year when I look back atmy list, I’m reminded how I’m atrue grown-up, since most of whatI want no longer comes from astore. So, if you could just help meout this year, I’ll gladly leave youplenty of milk and cookies…or agift card to your favorite steak-house, since living at the NorthPole must limit your dietarychoices to fish and an unendingsupply of snow cones.

Thank you for thinking of me.Safe travels and have a veryMerry Christmas…

Ken Kenpper, who admits tohaving asked Santa for a bass

boat a couple of years ago underthe false claim that it would pro-

vide hours of family entertain-ment, when actually it would only

provide him with hours of enter-tainment, can be reached at

KKnepper@TheCSB.com.

Grandpa Ken writes a heart-felt letter to Santa

We now must call upon on our national legislators asa necessary and important check to an unproven andunstable incoming executive branch.

In the last eight years, our national elected officials inKansas have had no qualms attacking and questioningthe executive branch and the President of the UnitedStates at nearly every turn.

Oftentimes our representatives and senators framedsuch arguments with the executive branch aroundAmerican values, such as upholding the Constitution,ensuring national security, etc.

We hope, and we pray, their conviction to these valueswill continue now that they face a president of theirsame party, or at least one who claims to belong in theirsame party.

The last month has begun to melt away some of theoptimism and instead offered a disheartening view ofwhat the Trump administration could look like.

The president elect has come off as disinterested inthe process of governing. He says he doesn't have timeor doesn't need to attend the daily security briefingwhich the president of the U.S. is supposed to receive.He does have time to say he will be an executive pro-ducer of next season's “Apprentice.” He has time towatch “Saturday Night Live” and get upset at it onTwitter each week. He has time to attack individual citi-zens on the Internet, like a union leader who worked atCarrier and questioned just how many jobs the soon-to-be supreme leader actually saved.

Then there's his strategy to save the Carrier jobs.Trump promised the government will now give $7 mil-lion in tax breaks to keep 700 jobs from being shippedoverseas like the company threatened. So now we havea precedent set that if a company comes to the govern-ment and says, “We're leaving,” the government foldsand gives in to their demands. How many other manu-facturing companies are thinking about this strategynow? And what happened to the strong penalties Trumppromised on companies that try to ship jobs overseas?

His call to drain the swamp in Washington could havebeen greeted with joy, as the swamp needs to bedrained.

Instead, the man who ran a populist campaign, criti-cizing his opponent for her connections with Wall Streetnow has named three billionaires and two GoldmanSachs executives to his cabinet.

It will be the wealthiest cabinet in history—full of lob-byists, political donors and activists and CEOs.

Small business will be watched over by Linda McMa-hon, wife of WWE owner Steve McMahon. It's likely be-cause of her business savvy, not the fact that shedonated $7 million to a pro-Trump PAC as USA Todayreported. These are the best and brightest he promisedto surround himself with.

Exxon Mobile CEO Rex Tillman looks to be Trump’spick for secretary of state. Tillman previously came outagainst U.S. sanctions toward Russia for invadingCrimea and aiding in the Ukrainian war. Tillmancounts Vladimir Putin as a friend and was awardedRussia's Order of Friendship in 2013—which calls tomind the uncomfortable role Russia had in our currentelection and the foreign policy implications this electionwill have.

The CIA has now said that it is confident that Russiainterfered with the election to get Donald Trumpelected. This should concern everyone. Often, when theU.S. interferes in elections, it does so to put in a puppet.So what was Russia doing?

Trump dismissed the assumption, saying the CIA hasbeen wrong in the past and taking a shot at the CIAover its belief in weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Trump suggested the information about the Russianinfluence on our election was made up by the Democ-rats, mad at losing in one of the biggest landslides inAmerican political history. So says the man who lost thepopular vote in the election by 2.8 million votes andcounting.

It is this attitude, it is this disinterest and these poli-cies that the U.S. House and Senate must now act as acheck and a balance against. They must realize this hasnothing to do with party and everything to do with thesafety and continuation of the United States. While theKansas delegation disagrees with nearly everythingPresident Obama did, surely they, too, must also findthe upcoming administration hard to stomach.

Senate leader Mitch McConnell, Republican elderJohn McCain and other conservatives have alreadycalled for an investigation into Russian meddling.That's a start. Senate Republicans have also begun tostep forward to block some of Trump's more odious ap-pointment suggestions, such as John Bolton or Rex Till-man. That's another start. The senate will haveconfirmation votes on 20 of his cabinet members. Theseare important votes for the senate.

We call on leaders such as Jerry Moran to be a part ofthe effort, making sure people with the country's bestinterests occupy these posts, not those who want per-sonal gain. We don't always or often agree with Moran,but he does care about his state and the people in it. Asfor some of the others, who can tell?

We only hope that eventually more members of thenational Republican Party will make a decision to putcountry over party and serve as the check we will des-perately need in the coming days.

Because it's now stopped being about a matter ofparty. It's now about who we are as a people, what webelieve is important as Americans and what rights wewant to continue to exist. Left and right, we agree onmany of those things. And it will take both sides to pre-serve what already made this country great in the com-ing days.

—Newton Now Editorial Board

STRUNK IN PUBLIC

ADAM STRUNK

CONVERSATION PIECE

KEN KNEPPER

You will say that it’sundemocratic. I willsay that we live in aRepublic, not aDemocracy. You willsay that it’s unfairto make a decisioncontrary to whatthe majority ofcounty voters decides.

Rethink social media’spass from responsibility

“Let (Truth) andFalsehood grap-ple; whoever knew

Truth put to the worse in afree and open encounter?”

John Milton, 17th cen-tury poet and polemicist,wrote that in a 1644 ad-dress to the British Parlia-ment opposing governmentcensorship of expression.

Milton, meet Michael G.Flynn, 21st century politi-cal provocateur and con-scienceless Twitter, whowrote: “Until Pizzagate isproven to be false, it’ll re-

main a story.”Flynn, son of Donald

Trump’s choice for nationalsecurity adviser, is, like hisfather, an intense socialmedia circulator of outra-geous conspiracy theories,including Pizzagate. BothFlynns posted the bizarreclaim that Hillary Clintonand her former campaignmanager, John Podesta,ran a child-sex ring atComet Ping Pong, a pizze-ria in Washingon, D.C. No,

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“Happy, happy Christmas, thatcan win us back to the delusions ofour childish days; that can recall tothe old man the pleasures of hisyouth; that can transport the sailorand the traveller, thousands ofmiles away, back to his own firesideand his quiet home!” —CharlesDickens

Igrew up in a Catholic home,part of a family that went tomidnight (literal) Mass every

Christmas EveYear after year, I was one in a

long line of kids wearing a robe andsilver pipe cleaner halo, grasping atiny candle as we marched up theaisles of the church toward thealter, formed rows in front of thepacked church and sang, “Away ina Manger.”

To and from Mass, I sat in thebackseat, face pressed against thewindow, searching the black sky infurious silence for that small redglow. I always hoped to see it, butalso felt nervous about making ithome and falling asleep beforeRudolph’s hooves touched down.(Update: We made it every singleyear.)

One specially selected gift wasopened on Christmas Eve. Otherswould appear Christmas morning,set out by Santa Claus around thetree in their unwrapped glory.

To this day, I feel the same antic-ipation as Christmas approaches.From the first ornament stockedonto store shelves before Halloween

to the last left-over peanut butterball at New Year’s, I feel like thekid version of me in the backseat,searching for the red light in thesky.

I wasn’t raised in a home withresources for a lot of gifts. But wealways had them. I don’t rememberevery present, just a few that lingeryears later. But I remember thefeeling. Gifts have always been apart of my Christmases. Even moreso after I came to know the joy—not work—of giving them.

Losing the heart of Christ masseems to be a collective fear. I justcan’t be convinced that every otherbeautiful part of the holiday needsto be dismissed on a quest to pre-serve the real meaning. Is the sea-son commercialized? Yes. Do weput too much emphasis on stuff?Yes. And gluttony has found itsseason.

But if we’re going to wait aroundfor “them”—whomever they are—tochange their view of Christ mas, it’llbe a long haul. It happens inside

each home, like all solid thingsshould, in spite of distractions.

I love presents. I love carameland chocolate. I love Christmascards. I love “Away in a Manger”and “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” I lovewide eyes on Christmas morning. Ilove “A Charlie Brown Christmas”and “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

I love pipe cleaner halos. I loveSanta Claus and believing in themagic of believing. If you’ve seen“The Polar Express,” you knowwhat I mean when I say I still hearthe bell.

What else happens during thismaterialistic nightmare? We spendmore time with family. We read theChristmas story. We hang lightsand spend evenings driving aroundto find the best displays. We hearChrist mas bells. We watch kidstransform into Mary and Joseph atnativity plays. We share cards andbuy gifts for giving tree families.

I can't help but love Christmasfor what it is. For ALL of what it is.

Those of us who believe know thereason for the celebration, but canstill appreciate the other symbolsthat come with the season. Theones sung by candlelight or shownthrough a child waiting for Santa.

I love Christmas because I be-lieve. There’s room for all of itunder my tree.

Shelley Plett is a graphic de-signer for the Free Press and

Kansas Publishing Ventures.

Lots of room under my Christmas tree

Guest EditorialWe must protect individual

rights as AmericansIrecall one year before Christ-

mas, my mom and I decidednone of us in the family were

going to buy Christmas presents.It was too stressful.

Not too long after that, however,I was in a local discount store andsaw all the folks shopping and felttotally out of the loop. I guess Imissed the crazy shopping time. Ifelt out of the loop of the generalpublic, and I wanted to buy pres-ents.

So we all bought presents. Iwould have missed all that Christ-mas morning present unwrapping.I feel lucky I've been able to go tomy parents' house for Christmasmorning almost all the years I'vebeen alive. I've unwrapped pres-ents at their Manhattan home as ayouth and then as a young adult.I've unwrapped presents there asa young mother with all my kids.Christmas morning definitely ismore magical with little excitedkids waking up and looking at thewonder under the tree.

I only can recall one Christmas Iwasn't at my parents' house. Thatwas the year I was in Key West,Fla., with my then-husband and atleast one kid (the others hadn'tbeen born yet). It was warm thatday; we went to the beach. It wasweird. It didn't seem like Christ-mas. I equate chilly weather withChristmas.

I also recall returning toKansas, being happy when itsnowed, and going outside andrunning around in the snow. I still

enjoy watching the snow comedown, but I'm not real happy withthe bitter cold temperatures oflate. They make my body hurt,and then I want to hibernate.

So, I'm pretty much done withChristmas shopping for this year.However, I wanted to get my old-est son something else, since Igave him one of his Christmaspresents as a birthday present.His birthday was the day afterThanksgiving this year. So I askedhim if he had any other Christmaspresent hints, and he said, “Aflash,” meaning a camera flash. Iprobably said, “You already haveone, but for some reason when Iborrow it, I always seem to thinkit will work on my camera, but itwon't.” He said, “A flash, so I cangive it to my mom.” I think he's ei-ther tired of me borrowing hisflash, or he wants me to have one.I'm not sure. It's probably a combi-nation of both. By the way, I stillhave his flash, and I still can't fig-ure out how to make it work withmy camera. I need to consult the

Google.I just have a few more presents

to buy. Need to get something elsefor my dad, Rodger, my boyfriendand possibly another son, Andy.And then I need to get the stockingstuffers.

All this while, I am keeping inmind the reason for the season. Ibelieve it's important to rememberthis is Jesus' official birthday, al-though I've heard he actually wasborn on a different day. It's impor-tant for me to believe this is awonderful day, because Jesus diedon the cross so our sins could beforgiven. That is my belief.

I'm sure he didn't die on thecross so we could get stressed outbuying presents, but the presentsdo signify, at least I believe, thepresents the Three Kings broughtto baby Jesus.

Even with all the commercial-ization of Christmas, the holiday,to me, seems to be a time whenpeople tend to think of others. Peo-ple wish each other “Merry Christ-mas,” and we buy presents wethink loved ones would enjoy. Peo-ple also tend to give more moneyto charities this time of year, all inthe spirit of love, giving and familytogetherness.

I hope you enjoy your family thisseason and remember the reasonfor Christmas. Merry Christmas.

Wendy Nugent is the features ed-itor at Newton Now. She can be

reached at 316-281-7899 orwendy@harveycountynow.com.

Remember the reason for the season

PARTS OF SPEECH

SHELLEY PLETT

WENDY’S WORDS

WENDY NUGENT

As our nation prepares to observe the 225th anniver-sary of the ratification of the U.S. Bill of Rights, some ofus might be excused for wondering if the individual lib-erties we have come to cherish will survive another twocenturies.

Although such a thought might seem preposterous ina country that prides itself—and rightly so—as theshining example of freedom in the world, intolerance ofopposing ideas and values has been simmering fordecades, and it appears to have reached the boilingpoint more recently.

While there is nothing wrong with disagreeing on howto attack the issues we face, we Americans have dividedourselves intocamps unlike anytime since the CivilWar. This divisionis being fed fromboth extremes ofthe political spec-trum, fueled by ide-ologies aboutgovernment as dia-metrically opposedas when our nationdivided itself be-tween North andSouth, ripping families apart in the process.

Our Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to theU.S. Constitution, traces its ratification back to Dec. 15,1791. Those first additions to the newly minted Consti-tution laid the necessary groundwork for the freedom ofexpression needed to foster active citizen participationin government. A number of those rights also haveserved to protect us from an overzealous or even tyran-nical government.

While all 10 amendments are vitally important, theFirst Amendment provides the basis for every other in-dividual freedom.

Even though it is a sickening thought, ponder withme for a moment where we would be without thoseguaranteed rights of expression in America.

If our citizens could no longer speak out freely on im-portant societal issues, the public's participation in ourdemocracy would crater, greatly increasing the possibil-ity for corruption, despotism and cronyism.

If we didn't feel safe to exercise our right to peaceablyassemble, to march in protest and to petition our gov-ernment for a redress of our grievances, the likelihoodthat we could continue to make progress toward a bettersociety and a better world most certainly would be di-minished.

If Americans no longer could freely make decisionsabout their religious life, they might quickly find them-selves ostracized if they didn't go to the "right" churchor follow the same beliefs as the majority.

If our nation's journalists could not continue to relyupon unfettered access to the decision-makers and thedecision-making processes of government, public offi-cials might be even more encouraged to serve narrowspecial interests rather than the common good.

And if we were barred from utilizing all those rightsto question authority and scrutinize law enforcementand our court system, then our nation's future surelywould be in jeopardy.

Even though we Americans say we cherish the funda-mental right to speak our minds—and most of us arenot bashful about doing just that—it has become moredifficult for a variety of reasons. Certainly, the burgeon-ing growth of social media, fake news sites and politi-cians who put "beliefs" before "facts" have allcontributed to the division in our country.

Rather than quell speech we don't like, the answer tothis cacophony of voices actually is "more speech." Themarketplace of ideas is how we find common ground,even though it can often be a messy process.

So, will we ever be talking of our guaranteed right tofree expression in the past tense? For our sake, let'shope not, for it would certainly sound the death knell forthe greatest experiment in self-government in the his-tory of the world.

On this 225th anniversary of one of our nation's finesthours, let's celebrate the individual rights we have asAmericans. And let's pledge to make sure those rightssurvive attacks from those who believe "their" way isthe "only" way.

— Doug Anstaett is executive director of the KansasPress Association.

KANSAS PRESS ASSOCIATION

DOUG ANSTAETT

really. With Milton and his

ideals long buried andpeople like the Flynnshaving zero regard fortruth, Americans need tobe asking these questions:▪ How has our society

reached the point thatFlynn can say with arro-gant assurance that vic-tims of a whollyfabricated accusation arerequired to prove a nega-tive or let the lie live onas faux truth by default?▪ Who do we see about

this problem? Our society

and politics are destabi-lized and imperiled by theglobal dissemination oflies at a volume and levelof virulence unprece-dented in our history andheretofore unimaginablein our darkest moments.

The answers lie in theinternet world that at itsconception promised to bea source of enlightenmentand personal independ-ence but, as with many ofthe works of human imag-ination, has been cor-rupted by greed,immaturity, ignoranceand the allure of confir-mation bias.

As unmediated sources

of information multiplyexponentially (more thanone billion websites), thedigital environment be-comes for many Ameri-cans not liberating butintellectually suffocating;not an enriching environ-ment for open minds togrow but a dark, bottom-less bog where closedminds can find confirma-tion of any bias they hold,reinforcement for any pre-conception they value. Nocritical thinking required,only a modem.

That’s how we reachedthis point. So who do wesee about it?

Start with the lords of

social media, the billion-aire geniuses behindFacebook and Twitter andsuch whose proprietaryalgorithms reshape everymillisecond of an informa-tional environment wherenothing lasts for long buteverything stays forever.Theirs is a business planbased on the reality thatthe warehousing of dataattracts eyeballs, whichattract advertising dol-lars. The revenue streamis dependent upon volumeand transience: moredata, more clicks, morepage visits.

Their vehicle transportslies and truth indiscrimi-

nately, and the lords ofthe realm insist they arenot responsible for thecontent that enrichesthem. They are not, theyinsist, publishers oftruths or lies, just carri-ers of bits and bytes.Facebook’s Mark Zucker-berg was shocked –shocked! – at the sugges-tion social media noisehad any influence on theelection.

In 1996, there were nointernet billionaires, onlybright, mostly govern-ment-connected peopleexploring a promisingcommunications idea thatCongress wanted to en-

courage, so it declaredthat providers of internetservice are not publishersand, therefore, not liablefor what they distribute,no matter its content.

But that was pre-Face-book, et al, which culti-vate content, solicitcontributors, reserve theright to omit material andpeople, and sell advertis-ing around the content.It’s time to rethink that“non-publisher” free passfrom responsibility.

Davis Merritt, a Wi-chita journalist and au-thor, can be reached at

dmerritt9@cox.net.

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Say what?

Christmas, my child,is love in action.Every time we love,every time we give,it’s Christmas.

Dale Evans

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song on the computer takes twohours for every 10 seconds of asong.

“So we start early,” he said.The process also involves using

an SD card.Meister's inspiration for his

light show also started early, as inearly in life. In seventh grade, hesat in the audience of a Trans-Siberian Orchestra show with allits professional and entertaininglighting.

“The amount of lighting trig-gered my lighting interest,” hesaid. “That's what started it all.”

From there, he watched videoson YouTube of other people'shouses using lighting equipment,where he learned a lot about howeverything works to make a lightshow operate.

“[My dad] and I program all theshows and set up all the lightingand controllers,” Meister said.

Meister started doing lightshows in the eighth grade.

“I started with a generic lightshow box like you can buy atMenard's or something,” he said,adding the box had six plug-ins towhere he could plug in six differ-ent lights so it would blink closelyto the music.

During his freshman year, theyordered professional-grade light-ing controllers so they could pro-gram the lights to the musichowever they wanted.

“More customizable,” he saidabout that system. “We orderedtwo of them, and so we have 64channels, which the channels arethe plug-ins.”

During their first light showyear, they put out a donation boxso folks could give money if theychose to Newton High School’sJazz Ensemble I for their springtour, Meister said, adding he’s injazz. The next year, they put thebox out for donations to Meister’sEagle Scout project, which was atSt. Mary School in Newton,whereby he and volunteers redidthe curtains and lighting systemon the stage, as well as paintingthe walls and floor. Meister said

he organized and prepared every-thing, and then adults whowanted to help, and other Scoutswere part of a crew that helpedwork on it.

This project took two years.Now, Meister is considering put-

ting out the donation box to raisemoney for the Newton Dog Park.

The light show is no small un-dertaking, as the Meisters use atleast 10,000 lights, if not more,and 5,000 feet of extension cords.

“We probably have a mile,”Meister said about the extensioncords. “Every extension cord wehave is almost 100 feet.”

They do get a number of peoplegoing by every night during theholiday season. This amounts tomore than 20 per night.

“As it gets closer to Christmas,it just increases,” Meister said.

At one point last year, they hadcars all the way down the streetand around their circle to see it.

“So we jam-packed the street,”he said.

They ordered an FM radiotransmitter from the web, andthey use wireless radio waves forfolks to listen to the music in theirvehicles.

“Just like a normal radio sta-tion,” Meister said.

The Newton resident said hisfamily’s lighting bill hasn’t gone

up.“Surprisingly, it goes down,” he

said, adding 50 percent of thetime, the lights are off whenthey’re flashing.

In addition, when, during ashow, all the lights flash at once,it causes the lights inside thehouse to dim a little.

Meister said supposedly it’stheir last year doing the lightshow “since I’ll be going off to col-lege.” He plans to attend JohnsonCounty Community College andmajor in live music lighting designfor large concerts. The TSO con-cert led him to like Christmaslighting, which then led to an in-terest in live music lighting, Meis-ter said. That’s when he startedhis own lighting and DJ-ing com-pany, OnTrack & Lighting, duringhis freshman year. Meister saidhe’s been doing all the lighting forNewton High School productions,plays, Tournament of Championson the final nights, and has DJ-edand did lighting last year forprom.

Show hoursThe Christmas light show is

from 5:30 to 11 p.m. Sundaysthrough Thursdays, and 5:30 p.m.to midnight or so on Fridays andSaturdays through New Year’sEve.

Another Newton resident,Myrna Krehbiel, also spoke be-fore the board and also was a bitchoked up. She said she is a for-mer kindergarten and first-grade teacher.

“I know no one needs convinc-ing Head Start is a neededthing,” she said. “Not too manypeople would argue it’s the rightthing to do. I would just offeryou two questions for you to con-sider. […] What are your fearsabout doing Head Start throughthe school? How do you imagineyour community is going to backyou on this, because I thinkyou’ll be surprised? I think youfeel all alone. Maybe, maybe,just maybe, the communitymight just back you in ways youdon’t know now. Thank you.”

In the past, school district ad-ministration recommended theboard not approve filing forfunding, which would haveended Head Start. Administra-tion said at the time the issuewasn't because Head Start was-n't a good program, it was be-cause of the funding and thenew guidelines for the programthe government had set forth,which includes all-day school-ing.

On Monday, after beingasked, district SuperintendentDeborah Hamm said when shecame in Monday night to themeeting, she didn't have a rec-ommendation for the board, andat that moment, which was afew hours later, she still didn'thave one.

“I see both sides,” Hamm said

before the vote. “For me, if I’mgoing with just solely is what isbest for kids, then the decisionis easy,” Hamm said. “I can tellyou there will be an impact onkindergarten. I can tell youthere will be an impact on fi-nances. This would not even bea question if we were able tocontinue our grant and our pro-gram just as it is written.”

The current five-year grant isabout to expire.

“The emphasis on kinder-garten readiness is again ir-refutable,” Bunting said. “Wedon’t have enough money to dowhat’s best for kids.”

Also before the vote, SarahLivesay, building administratorat Cooper Early Education Cen-ter in Newton, gave a presenta-tion on the new Head StartProgram Performance Stan-dards, which includes half of allHead Start students would beenrolled in 1,020 hours everyyear during an eight-monthminimum by Aug. 1, 2019, andthat number would go to all stu-dents enrolled in Head Start byAug. 1, 2021.

“In November 2016, newguidelines and policies for HeadStart programs became effec-tive,” according to informationprovided by district administra-tion. “Among the changes is apolicy to move from a half-dayprogram (3 hours, 15 minutes)to a full-day program (6 hours,15 minutes). This change maybe phased into practice.”

In order for the district to bethe sponsoring agency for HeadStart past June 30, 2017, theyneed to reapply for the HeadStart Grant.

“USD 373 applied for a Head

Start grant to become the spon-soring agency for Head Startservices in Harvey County in2011,” district informationstated. “For five years, the dis-trict has operated a blended pro-gram with 3- and 4-year-oldHead Start students, state 4-year-old at-risk students, andspecial education studentslearning together in a total of 10classrooms.”

The grant application is dueFeb. 1, 2017, and the dollaramount awarded is the same asthe current grant, which is$933,178 a year. The grantaward date is June 30, 2017.

Just because the district ap-plies for the grant doesn't meanthey'll get it, and the districtwill have to provide somematching funds.

Hamm addressed board mem-bers after the vote.

“Thank you, board members,”she said. “I know it’s a tough de-cision.”

In other business, the board:• Met for about two hours and

45 minutes.• Learned they'd need to meet

in executive session during theJanuary meeting to discussHamm's evaluation.

• Learned students in Beth

Burns' art classes, in part, deco-rated the holiday tree in theroom.

• Approved the consentagenda, which includes bills,treasurer's report, personnel re-port and the minutes of the Nov.14 board meeting.

• Approved the final audit re-port by Knudsen Monroe &Company at a vote of 7-0.

• Gave the nod 7-0 for a vari-ety of gift requests, including adonation to Newton High Schoolof 10 tons of steel valued at$600 from Kuhn-Krause Inc. forstudents in the agriculture shopclasses.

WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWA number of folks attend the Monday night board of education meeting.

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1985-2010. “I've just been so fortu-

nate the last number ofyears; I've had the oppor-tunities to learn what Ilearn,” he said. “It's been alot of fun it really has. Ofall the jobs I had, this isby far the most rewardingI've ever experienced, andin some respects, the mostchallenging.”

Waltner was born inIndia to Mennonite mis-sionaries and ended up inHarvey County as his fa-ther moved there to workfor the General Confer-ence of the MennoniteChurch.

He attended NewtonHigh School, then Betheland then got his graduatedegree at the University ofKansas.

He returned to the com-

munity to continue teach-ing, and he's been hereever since.

Waltner said he willcontinue to live in HarveyCounty. As for what hewill do, Waltner didn'thave any exact answers.

“There are so many in-teresting things to do inthis world; I'm not goingto tell you for a secondwhat that's going to be,”he said. “I'm not going todo nothing. I want to dosomething.”

Waltner's replacementhas not been announced.Waltner declined to say ifAssistant County Admin-istrator AnthonySwartzendruber wouldsucceed him. Swartzen-druber, at the time of theinterview, was next doorto Waltner's office in a 30-minute executive sessionwith the county commis-sion to discuss confiden-tial personnel matters.

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them outside.

Fox said that the storehired a manager, wouldemploy members of its jobtraining program, but stillmight have openings.

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WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWNewton High School senior Chris Meister stands by his family's house just before the sun sets.

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New Jerusalem working to keep people warm and fed through winter

As temperatures dropfor winter, local efforts tohelp the less fortunateare just warming up.Penny Dugan from NewJerusalem Missions ishelping the communitythis winter.

“We help a lot of theworking poor or peoplewith fixed incomes whojust need some help everynow and then,” Dugansaid.

New Jerusalem alsohosts meals for the com-munity where people cancome and eat this winterevery Monday throughFriday. Lunch is from 12to 1 p.m., and dinner isfrom 6 to 7 p.m., al-though the meal programwill be closed the weekafter Christmas.

“During this week,

most people have re-ceived their donationboxes, and we also like togive our volunteer cooksa little break,” Dugansaid.

New Jerusalem servesbetween 900 to 1,000meals weekly, not includ-ing the meals that areput back for those whocannot come during thetimes they serve. Dugantries to accommodatethose who live with NewJerusalem and also work.

“We put quite a fewmeals back for those wholive here and may workor for those who work thenight shift and needmeals then also,” shesaid. “We have between15 and 20 men who staywith us over the weekendand we keep meals forthem as well.”

Recently, NewJerusalem has been see-ing a lot of families come

through. “We have seen families

with two or three kidscome through,” Dugannoted, sadly. “These peo-ple are working, but onelittle emergency or trip tothe doctor, and it justputs them over their abil-ity to live. I just think wewill see much hardertimes in the future.”

Grateful for the New-ton community, Duganexpects generosity tomeet adversity.

“We have a very gener-ous community, and it isjust in our heart that noone will have to stay outin the cold,” she said.

New Jerusalem is ac-cepting blankets, clothingand any old furniture ordonations that go to helpthe needy of HarveyCounty.

James Wilson, directorof the New Hope Shelterin Newton, is also prepar-

ing for the winter cold.“Right now we haven’tseen a whole lot of peoplecome in to stay overnight,but when the weatherquits cooperating, I’msure we will see an in-flux.”

From Nov. 1 to March31, New Hope Shelterhas a cold-weather policy,which allows anyone tocome in and stayovernight any time ofday. Although Wilsonsaid if the shelter is atcapacity, those stayingovernight must be out by10 a.m. the next morning.

“Thus far we have onlyhad six people use this,but we provide overnightresidents with local re-sources, shelters, or otherhousing options once theyleave,” he said.

Wilson did add that noone who wishes to staycan be under the influ-ence of drugs or alcohol,

registered violent offend-ers, or sex offenders, asto keep the other resi-dents safe.

Always in need of extravolunteers, the New HopeShelter hopes to encour-age volunteer work, andon Dec. 13, they held avolunteer training ses-sion at the shelter.

“It takes about anhour,” Wilson said. “Wetry to make volunteeringhere fairly simple sothere aren’t a lot of re-quirements. We just wantthem to be here to helpresidents or to help an-swer questions and mostof all just hang out withthem and build relation-ships.”

The New Hope Sheltertakes direct donations onsite, via mail at P.O. Box978, Newton, KS, 67114,or their new website atwww.newhope-shelter.org.

From the end of Octo-ber, the New Hope Shel-ter has been having ayear-end fundraiser thatso far has raised around$12,000 so far, but Wil-son would like to seemore.

“This goes towards allof our operating costs forthe year, so we wouldlove to have more so thatwe can offer more tothose in need. The morewe get, the more we canoffer to those who use theshelter,” he said.

Wilson expressed theextra need that comeswith the New Year.

“We are experiencing alot of changes, and we aretrying to develop new andbetter ways to help oth-ers out,” he said. “I justhope those in the commu-nity see the value and arewilling to invest in whatwe are trying to createhere.”

BY ETHAN BIRDWELLSPECIAL TO NEWTON NOW

Fire/EMS receives grant for brush truck nozzles

Newton Fire/EMS re-ceived a grant from theKansas Forestry Service toimprove capabilities forfighting brush and grassfires.

The department recentlyupgraded its brush truckswith slide-in units that didnot allow for placement offirefighters on the exteriorof the vehicle. The grant,through the CooperativeFire Protection Program,provides two remote-mounted nozzles that allowfirefighters to direct water

flow from inside the vehi-cle. 

Remote-mounted nozzleswere a great option to re-main compliant with Na-tional Fire ProtectionAgency standards. Thegrant funded half of the$10,000 project.

Division Chief CoryLehman said the monitorshave been installed and allpersonnel have recentlyhad operational training.

“We especially would liketo thank Ross Hauck at theKansas Forestry Servicefor his help on this project,”Lehman said.

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Thursday, Dec. 1510:30 a.m.—Fall Preschool Story Time. Newton

Public Library.1 p.m.—Wii Bowling. Grand Central.4 to 5:30 p.m.—City Commission Work Session.

City Hall.5:15 p.m.—Tai Chi. Grand Central.6 to 8 p.m.—American Legion Open Grill. Members

and guests welcome. American Legion Post 2, 400 S.Spencer Rd.

6 p.m.—NHS Wrestling vs. Salina South, Raven-scroft Gym.

6 p.m.—Teen Game Zone. Newton Public Library.6 to 8 p.m.—Third Thursday: Winter Snowflakes.

Come and go with winter snowflake craft and winterdecorating. Harvey County Historical Museum, 203N. Main.

7 p.m.—Teen Youth Leaders in Kansas. NewtonPublic Library.

7 to 9 p.m.—American Legion Bingo Night. Anyoneage 8 or older is welcome. Full game package is $10,and early-bird package is $5. American Legion Post 2,400 S. Spencer Rd.

Friday, Dec. 169:30 a.m.—Fall Toddler Story Time. Newton Public

Library.10 a.m. to 6 p.m.—Ten Thousand Villages Sale.

Kidron Bethel, 2517 N. Main, North Newton.10:30 a.m.—Fall Preschool Story Time. Newton

Public Library.1 p.m.—Line Dancing. Offered by Lanny Reichert.

Grand Central.6 p.m.—Friday Night Games. Grand Central.6, 7:30 p.m.—NHS Basketball vs. Maize. Raven-

scroft Gym.

Saturday, Dec. 17

8 a.m.—NHS Wrestling at Bishop Carroll Tourna-ment.

10 a.m. to 6 p.m.—Ten Thousand Villages Sale.Kidron Bethel, 2517 N. Main, North Newton.

3 p.m.—Teen Screen Saturday. Finding Dory. New-ton Public Library.

5:30 to 7:30 p.m.—NHS Alumni Basketball Tourna-ment. Free admission, donations accepted. Raffle tick-ets sold for tickets to KU, K-State and WSUbasketball games.

Sunday, Dec. 187 to 11:30 a.m.—American Legion Monthly Break-

fast. $8 for adults, $4 for children 12 and younger.American Legion Post 2, 400 S. Spencer Rd.

7 to 8:30 p.m.—Handel’s Messiah. First MennoniteChurch, 429 E. 1st St.

Monday, Dec. 19All Day—Grand Central Billiards. Four competition

quality tables available for use Monday through Fri-day at Grand Central.

10 a.m.—Blood Pressure Check. Grand Central.11:45 a.m.—Friendship Meals. Call (316)283-2222

for reservation. Monday through Friday at GrandCentral.

1:30 p.m.—Golden Notes. Call at (316)283-2222 toschedule a performance. Grand Central.

4 p.m.—Teen GameZone. Newton Public Library. 6 to 8 p.m.—American Legion Open Grill. Members

and guests welcome. American Legion Post 2, 400 S.Spencer Rd.

7 p.m.—Beginners Square Dance Class. Grand Cen-tral.

7 p.m.—Family Holiday Time. Stories, puppetshows and hot cocoa. Newton Public Library.

7 p.m.—Fall Preschool Story Time. Newton PublicLibrary.

Tuesday, Dec. 2010:30 a.m.—Bingo. Grand Central.10:30 a.m.—Fall Preschool Story Time. Newton

Public Library.1 p.m.—Craft Handwork. Grand Central.1 p.m.—Line Dancing. Offered by Lanny Reichert of

Park City. Grand Central.3 to 5 p.m.—Tech Help Open Hours. The library's

IT supervisor is available to help with any technologyquestions. Newton Public Library.

6, 7:30 p.m.—NHS Basketball vs. Buhler, Raven-scroft Gym.

7 p.m.—Round Dance. Grand Central.7 p.m.—City Commission Meeting. City Hall.7:30 p.m.—American Legion Post 2 Meeting. Ameri-

can Legion Post 2, 400 S. Spencer Rd.

Wednesday, Dec. 211 p.m.—Cards/Games. Grand Central.1 p.m.—Beginner’s Pool for Women. Ken Fast

teaches billiards using Steve Mizerak’s complete bookof pool. Donation of $1 per week. Grand Central.

3:30 to 5 p.m.—Master Builders Legos. Buildingtime with lots of Legos. Ages 8 to 18. Newton PublicLibrary.

6 to 8 p.m.—American Legion Weekly Grill Special.Members and guests welcome. American Legion Post2, 400 S. Spencer Rd.

Thursday, Dec. 2210:30 a.m.—Fall Preschool Story Time. Newton

Public Library.1 p.m.—Wii Bowling. Grand Central.3 p.m.—Hour of Code: Star Wars. Program Droids.

Newton Public Library.5:15 p.m.—Tai Chi. Grand Central.5:30 to 8 p.m.—American Legion Open Grill. Mem-

bers and guests welcome. American Legion Post 2,400 S. Spencer Rd.

ELBING—WilmerWedel, 90,died onThursday,Dec. 8, 2016,at NewtonMedical Cen-ter.

He wasborn Sept.13, 1926, in Halstead, theseventh of 10 children ofHerman and ChristinaVoran Wedel. The familylived in ruralMoundridge on a farmuntil August 1937, whenthey moved to a farm inBurns. It was here hegrew to adulthood,farmed and eventuallyraised his own family.

Wedel attended Gar-den Valley Grade School,District 43, in ruralMoundridge until the ageof 9, and then WilcoxCountry Grade School inrural Burns, graduatingfrom Burns High Schoolin 1944. 

After high school,Wedel worked on thefamily farm until enter-ing voluntary service andW service in November1954 under MennoniteCentral Committee. Hisfirst assignment was atthe National Institutes ofHealth in Bethesda, Md.,where he met his futurewife, Martha Loewen.

He is survived by hiswife, Martha, of 59 years,of Newton; children,Nancy and MarvinHarms of rural Newton,Barb and Mike McGee ofKechi, and Brian andJulie Wedel of ruralMoundridge; grandchil-

dren, Jana,Laura, Brettand SaraHarms, Robertand AlexisLaFave, Chris-tann andJames Covey,Riley McGee,Collin, Kaylee,and Addison

Wedel; seven great-grandchildren; brother,Clarence and ThelmaWedel of rural Burns; sis-ters, Ruth Andres andJane Entz of Newton; sis-ter-in-law, Sue Loewen ofReedley, Calif.; and manynieces, nephews, otherrelatives and friends.

He was preceded indeath by his parents; sis-ters, Verna Regier, Elisa-beth Regier and EleanorWedel; brothers, Stanley,Howard and KennethWedel; sisters-in-law,Edith, Louise and MaeWedel, Melita Janzen;and brothers-in-law,William Regier, RonaldAndres, Arnold Entz,Milton Janzen and JohnLoewen.

Services were Dec. 12at Zion MennoniteChurch, Elbing, with bur-ial at the Zion MennoniteChurch Cemetery, ruralElbing.

Viewing was Dec. 11 atBroadway Colonial Fu-neral Home in Newton,with family present from2 to 4 p.m.

Memorials are desig-nated for MCC MeatCanning and Zion Men-nonite Church of Elbing.

Condolences may beleft at www.broadway-colonialfh.com.

WILMER WEDELVilas Leonard Kauf-

man, 92, died on Friday,Dec. 9, 2016, at Pine Vil-lage Care Center inMoundridge.

Vilas was born on Feb.19, 1924, in Moundridgeto Ray and Emma(Schrag) Kaufman.

Vilas married Donna D.Neel on Aug. 18, 1944,and they were married for65 years until her deathin 2010.

Vilas and Donna movedto Fresno, Calif., in 1962,where he sold real estateand served as a counselorin a Juvenile DetentionCenter. Upon his retire-ment in 1982, they movedto Newton to be near fam-ily and friends. Vilasloved music, sang in bar-ber shop quartets and for

many weddings and fu-nerals. He coached andloved baseball and alsorefereed basketball in theoff season.

He is survived by hischildren, Sherry (Larry)Nuehring and Rick (Bar-bara) Kaufman; sister,Velora Peters; grandchil-dren, Stacey Dennett andfamily, Jana McKinneyHedrick and family,Keenan Kaufman andfamily; and great-grand-children.

He was preceded indeath by his parents, Rayand Emma Kaufman;wife, Donna Kaufman;grandson, Lance McKin-ney; one brother; and twosisters.

There will not be aservice.

VILAS KAUFMAN

Richard “Rick” PayneJr., 69, of Newton died onSunday, Dec. 11, 2016.

He was born to Barbaraand Richard A. Payne Sr.on March 10, 1947.

He is survived by hiswife, Maura Payne; son,Todd Payne; daughters,Tiffany (Michael) Whiteand Tara Payne; five

grandchildren; and broth-ers, David (Ann) Payneand Mike Payne.

There will be no serv-ices.

Friends may make me-morials to Caring HandsHumane Society in c/oBroadway Colonial Fu-neral Home 120 E. Broad-way, Newton, KS, 67114.

RICHARD ‘RICK’ PAYNE JR.

HOW TO RUN AN OBITUARYObituaries in Newton Now are free as long as

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If you have an obituary that should run in New-ton Now please send it to: wendy@harveycountynow.com.

Dec. 6Criminal calls:Rape, Agg Criminal

Sodomy, Agg Burglary,Violate PFA, CriminalRestraint, 100 Blk E 7th

Theft, Making False In-formation, 100 Blk EBroadway

Counterfeiting, Theft,100 Blk Manchester

Theft, 1200 Blk N MainArrests:Jeremy Bufford, 31, In-

terference with Law En-forcement Officer,obstruction

Brittany Hurt, 23, War-rant, KDOC Topeka,

Jeremy Brannan, 41,Warrant, 400 Blk SantaFe

Rochelle Atwood, 50,Warrant, US50 Milepost285

Alma Will, 60, Theft ofproperty or services, 2301Old Highway 81

Dec. 5Criminal calls:Distribute Drugs, Poss

DrugsPhone Harassment,

500 Blk N MainArrests:Alexander Kostelecky,

19, burglary, 2100 BlkSingle Tree,

Molly Thomas, 22,Warrant, 400 Blk WThird

Dec. 4Criminal calls:Theft, Forgery, 100 Blk

E BroadwayCriminal Use of Finan-

cial Card, Theft, 1300 BlkWashington Rd

Theft, 100 BlkWheatridge Ct

Arrests:William Holmes, 23,

Aggravated Assault, Ag-gravated Battery, use of adeadly weapon, criminalthreat, 1700 Blk SKansas

Dec. 3Criminal calls:Burglary, Theft, 1400

Blk S KansasBurglary, Theft, Crimi-

nal Damage, 700 Blk EWheatridge

Theft, 2100 Blk Belt-

lineTheft, 300 Blk

Wheatridge DrCriminal  Use of Finan-

cial Card, Theft, 1700 BlkS Kansas

Theft, 600 Blk SE 36thTheft, 2100 Blk Belt-

line CtTheft, 700 Blk N HighTheft, 300 Blk

Springlake CtTheft, 400 Blk Home-

wood LaneTheft, 200 Blk

Wheatridge Dr

Dec. 2Criminal calls: Theft, 500 Blk Stone

Creek CtBattery, 200 Blk SE

2ndBattery, 1000 Blk S

KansasAtt Theft, 200 Blk E

12thArrests:Charles Miles, 37, pos-

session of narcotic, pos-session of paraphernalia,warrant, 100 Blk KansasCourt

Vela Daniel, 55, War-

rant, 1200 Blk N WalnutTommy Osborn, 44,

warrant, 100 Blk E ElmMatthew Bjork, 37,

theft, domestic battery,obstruction, 600 Blk EFourth

Adrian Gutierrez, 31,DUI, 1200 Blk Connector

Nolan Pugh, 30 Domes-tic Battery, 800 Blk OldMain, Battery of Law En-forcement Officer

Dec. 1Criminal calls:Defacement of Prop-

erty, 200 Blk W Broad-way,

Battery, Assault, DC,Reckless Driver, 1200 BlkN Anderson

Fail to Stop at Acci-dent, 400 Blk N Poplar

Arrests:Devin Schlickau, 27,

stalking, 200 Blk E SixthStreet

Travis Jones, 26, Do-mestic Battery 400 Blk NWalnut

Kristina Carrion, 32,Domestic Battery, 400Blk N. Walnut

County selling number of conference tables

Does anyone needsome padded chairs andconference tables? Thecounty commission ap-proved putting up forsale surplus propertyvalued under $1,000.The items up for sale in-clude a 12-by-5-foot ovalconference table, a 10-by-5-foot oval conferencetable, a wooden 12-by-4-foot rectangular confer-ence table, a wooden8-by-4-foot conferencetable, and 41 chairs withpadded seats. No date forthe sale was established.

“There are a lot ofitems in our vaultsdownstairs that we'recommitted to clearingout,” County Administra-tor John Waltner said.

County CommissionerChip Westfall recom-mended some of theitems should be put on

Craigslist.Commis-

sioner RonKrehbiel saidthat a closingdate should beput on theitems so staffwould not haveto continueshowing the items for along period of time. Inthe middle of his argu-ment, CommissionerRandy Hague made amotion that the commis-sion accept the sale ofthe items and leave theprocess up to the discre-tion of administration.

“I can go for passingthe buck, yeah,” Krehbielresponded before second-ing Hague's motion.

The vote went 2-1,with Westfall votingagainst it, saying hethought they should putthe items on the Internetto sell.

Waltner then re-minded commissioners tolook at the language of

the resolutionwhich requiredunanimous ap-proval of the com-mission. The groupthen rescinded theresolution and re-voted it, with West-fall changing hisvote to go in favor.

The Food and FarmCouncil submittednames of new boardmembers for the countycommission's approval.Jessica Taylor of Safe-hope will replace Bar-bara Lee asrepresentative for at-riskpopulations. Jack Hobbs,Hesston, will replaceRich Hanley as represen-tative for senior popula-tions. Members TracieStrain, Lorrie Kesslerand Paula Sims will allrenew their positions.

Waltner notified thecommission that heplanned to terminate ahay lease of a tenantwho has a contract withthe county to cut hay off

of East Park.Waltner said the

county contract requirestenants to provide aweight slip for at leastthree hay bales so it canknow how much moneythe county should receivefor its share of the bales.Waltner said the countyalso expects to be paidfor the bales on time.Waltner said this hadnot been happening, andhe sent the tenant a let-ter outlining the county'srequirements.

“It's not been doneagain,” he said. “My rec-ommendation is sendinga letter saying we're ter-minating that lease [...] Iexpect the county to betreated fairly.”

No commissioners ob-jected to Waltner pro-ceeding with thetermination of the lease,which will end in March.

The commission ap-proved paying the city$235,000 to pay theweekly bills.

BY ADAM STRUNKNEWTON NOW STAFFadam@harveycountynow.com

Waltner

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on-the-job-training as well.Excellent benefits including health/

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The City of Herington is seeking qualified applicants for the position of

City Clerk/Finance Director The current City Clerk is retiring after thirty-five years of service.This position is under the supervision of the City Manager and isa non-exempt position under FSLA which performs administrativeand financial duties. A Bachelor's Degree, from an accredited fouryear College or University, in Accounting or related field preferred.Applicant must be a Certified Municipal Clerk or be willing to be-come certified and have a minimum of three years in GovernmentAccounting Experience. College coursework in Accounting, or arelated field, may substitute for part of the Government experience.Also applicant must possess excellent communication, organiza-tional, supervisory, and public relations skills. The City Clerk/Fi-nance Director is responsible for payroll, accounts payable,accounts receivable, preparing agenda and minutes for commis-sion meetings, issuing licenses and permits, maintaining personnelrecords, records retention, supervising office personnel, preparingfinancial accounting and the budget.

The first review will begin December 12, 2016. The applicationprocess will be open until the position is filled. A full job descrip-tion, application form, and information about the City of Heringtoncan be found at www.cityofherington.com.

Please submit your cover letter, resume, transcripts, and application by mail to:

City of Herington, Attn: Ed Patton, City Manager, 17 NorthBroadway, P.O. Box 31, Herington, KS 67449. eoe

FT-2nd Shift Assembly$11-12/hr

FT-2nd Shift Press Operator $12/hr

FT-1st Shift General Labor $10/hr

Marion County Fair ManagerAre you an outgoing, detail-oriented person, who enjoysfundraising, organizing events and working with a minimumamount of supervision? If so, then the Marion County Fair As-sociation is looking for you! We are hiring a new Fair Managerwhose responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:fundraising thru a large, supportive network of sponsors; or-ganizing & managing the fair, as well as off season rentals andwebsite maintenance; marketing and overseeing operations dur-ing fair week. Marketing and fundraising experience is a plus; office and com-puter skills are required; and candidates must be willing to thinkoutside the box. This is a part time, paid position, requiring ap-proximately 400 hours a year (more in spring & summer).Compensation is negotiable and will depend on skills & expe-rience. The successful candidate will have the support of a 24person board that is active, knowledgeable and helpful.

Please email resumes to: mncofairmanager@gmail.com orcall with questions at 620-381-0109 or 620-242-7965.

We are expanding!

Current Needs: Healthcare Center

• LPN/RN 2-10 pm

• CNA/CMA 2-10 pm

• Transportation Aide (CNA) FT Hours will Vary

• Homemaker/Housekeeper 6:30 am-2 pm

• Cook/Salad Bar Aide 12-8pm/10am-2pm

• Evening Cook 12-8 pm

• Assisted Living - CMA 5 pm - 5 am

Please contact Marci Heidebrecht, HR, at (620) 947-2301 or marcih@parksideks.org for an application.

Criminal background checks run at the time of job offer. Parkside is proud to be a drug-free, EOE workplace.

200 Willow Road, Hillsboro, KS 67063(620) 947-2301 • www.parksideks.org

Part-time Community Mobilizer(s)Marion County Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition (SAPC),together with its fiscal agent Families and Communities To-gether, seeks a part-time Community Mobilizer (s), funded bythe Kansas Prevention Collaborative-Community Initiative gran(the Coalition will consider splitting available hours between twoor more mobilizers). SAPC's mission is to make positive changein Marion County's communities by doing what works to pre-vent underage drinking & substance abuse. SAPC needs a positive, energetic person(s) with a heart forthe well-being of the county's youth who will represent andadvance the Coalition's mission and strengthen communityconnections. This position will will represent the Coalition tocommunity sectors outlined by federal prevention organiza-tions for the recruitment and maintenance of members andwill participate in preparing grant deliverables. The successful candidate(s) will reside and have establishedcommunity relationships in Marion County, along with the de-sire and ability to create new networks and connections for theCoalition's work. Applicants must have strong communicationskills both written and verbal to engage all sectors of the com-munity and work well independently. Schedule flexibility-includ-ing arranged training-and dependable transportation required.Mileage reimbursement, laptop use, and phone and internetstipends are provided. The person(s) chosen for this positionwill work under the supervision of the Executive Director ofFamilies and Communities Together, the fiscal agent for SAPC,who is the Program Director for this grant and the acting Chairfor the Coalition.

Please send a cover letter describing your desire to workwith the Coalition and in the community on prevention and

behavioral health and a brief resume of relevant work experience by Dec 19 to fact@usd410.net or mail to

FACT, 416 S Date St, Hillsboro, KS 67063.

For questions, please call 620-947-3184 x 1011

Mental Health Worker Want to make a difference in the life of an adolescent?

Prairie View is recruiting for a Mental Health Worker in our

residential unit. Day, evening, and night shifts available,

include every other weekend.

High school diploma or equivalent required.

Complete an online application at www.prairieview.org. EOE

Salem Home currently has the following position open:

Salem Home currentlyhas openings for:

Apply at 704 S. Ash

PH: 620-947-22721

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Salemhomeks.orgE.E.O.E. – drug free workplace

PT evening Dietary Aid

FT evening C.N.A.

PT C.N.A. Float - to include RA & Activities, posi-tion may turn into a FT position.

USD 398 is accepting applications for a position as Food Service & PBMSHS Treasurer-SecretaryThe position is a 214 day, 40 hour per week during the schoolyear job opportunity that requires; professional attitude and

image, computer experience, multi-tasking capabilities, necessary people skills, general accounting knowledge andcapabilities, and general secretarial skills in supporting and

fulfilling the vision of the School District. Applications for the position are provided at the

USD 398 Central Office by contacting:Lisa Hodges, Clerk

USD 398 Central Office, 506 Elm, Peabody, KS (620-983-2198) or online at www.usd398.net

Applications and Resumes will be accepted until December 19, 2016. ~USD 398 is an EOE.

DriverElderly Services-

Transportation Division

Part time position.Transports the general public,including the elderly and per-sons with disabilities, fromone location to another withinHarvey County and the sur-rounding counties by meansof KDOT mini-vans and smallbuses.

Applicant must have a neatappearance, ability to readand follow a map, and a validCommercial Driver’s Licensewith passenger endorsementor willingness to obtain onewithin 30 days.

This position is included inthe Kansas Department of

Transportation (KDOT) drugand alcohol testing program.Applications are available inthe Administration Office,

Harvey County Courthouse,800 N Main, Newton, KS or

you may apply on-line atwww.HRePartners.com.

Position closes December 20, 2016. EOE

Immediate opening for a

Registered NurseBachelor of Science degreepreferred. Full time. Will beassisting with flu clinics, im-munizations, WIC and otherduties as assigned.

Applications available at theMarion County Health

Dept., 504 S. Roosevelt, Marion, KS 66861.

620-382-2550. Position open until filled.

EEOE.

Part-time custodian needed M-F, 15 hours/week.

Good second job for retiree!Call for info.

316-283-5404.

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1005 N. B St.Herington, KS 67449

Classified DeadlineMondays at Noon

1 EmploymentLeading Newton insurance agency lookingfor full time Customer Service Represen-tative/Insurance Agent. People and com-puter skills required as well as reliabilityand Willingness to do variety of differentjob functions. Must have or be willing toobtain Property & Casualty Insurance Li-cense. Please send resume to InsuranceAgency, PO Box 999, Newton, KS 67114.38-tfn

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ApartmentsNewton - 1-2 BEDROOM, all electric. $350-450/month. Includes water/trash. rentnewton.com 316-680-6456. 42-tfn

House for rent• 2 bedroom house with ap-pliances located in Hillsboro. 620-245-1648. 48-2tp

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Rock Springs 4-H Center, located 14 milesSW of Junction City is accepting applica-tions for a full time/part time position inmaintenance/grounds keeping. Preferbackground in plumbing, electrical, con-struction and heavy equipment. Musthave a valid driver’s license. Pay basedon experience. For an application go towww.rocksprings/apply . For any additionalinformation email Dave Anderson atmaint@rocksprings.net. 49-2tc

Newton – Direct Support Worker for an in-dividual with disabilities. At least 18 years.Up to 40 hrs/week. Ask for DD application.Call Susan at 620-421-5502. 46-5tc

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Automobiles For sale: 1992 Buick LeSabre, 6 cyl. recentlyinstalled plugs and computer components.$700. 620-924-5254. 50-2tp

FirewoodFirewood For Sale. Unseasoned hedgewood $125 per pickup load. Will deliver.Call Rick at 620-382-5744. 46-4tp

Firewood for sale. Seasoned Hedge. Willdeliver. $65 / pickup load. Call Steve Schale620-877-0139. 50-2tp

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December 15, 2016

SPORTS

MIKE MENDEZ/NEWTON NOWNewton freshman Josh Edson locks up opponent Cooper Chard from Salina Central to get a pin on Dec. 8 in Salina.

HeartbreakerRailers fall on a tiebreaker in Salina

The Newton HighSchool wrestling teamlearned a valuable lessontraveling to Salina Cen-tral for a dual. After fin-ishing the dual 31-31, theRailers dropped atiebreaker, with Centralwinning eight matches toNewton’s six, giving thewin to the Mustangs andshowing a young Railerteam that every point inevery match matters.

“I tell these guys if weget somebody on theirback, we have to put themaway,” Newton headcoach Tommy Edgmonsaid. “Right here is a goodexample.”

Edgmon was told thenumber of matches wonwas tied at 7-7, whichwould have given the dualto the Railers on the nexttiebreaker of the mostpins. But Central headcoach Shannon Peters re-counted the number ofwins and found 7-7 to beincorrect, giving the dualto the Mustangs.

Short some starters inthe dual, Newton hadsome wrestlers in the

upper weights get achance to get out on a var-sity mat in a high-pres-sure situation. Whetherfair or not, it is the upperweights that have thepressure of the dual,wrestling last. AfterAaron Cruz picked up sixpoints for Newton withCentral open at 195, theRailers had a 31-22 leadwith two matches left.Central picked up ninepoints to get the tie, withCole Butts winning a 2-1decision over ChristianRodriguez at 220 andJames Morrow getting apin over Brecken Wedel at285.

“All the pressure is onthem,” Edgmon said.“From 106 and every-thing, we teach our guysto get bonus points. If wecan win by more thanseven points, we can getbonus points. But all thepressure is on the heavy-weight.”

At 106 pounds, the Rail-ers started fast. GrantTreaster needed all of 37seconds to get a pin overKyson Harmison to putNewton up 6-0. Drew Bur-goon got some points backfor Central at 113 with a6-2 decision over BooneRoberson to cut the lead

to 6-3.Logan Treaster came

through with more bonuspoints for Newton, turn-ing Julion Falco often toget a 14-3 major decision,making it 10-3 Railers.Isaiah Harder kept theMustangs in it with a 7-4decision over AndrewTrowbridge at 126 poundsbefore Newton made a bigrun of points.

Freshman Josh Edsongot things going,wrestling down at 132,trading places with Brody

Roberson who went up to138. Edson out-wrestledCooper Chard, picking upa pin, and gave the New-ton bench a jolt of energywith a 16-6 lead.

“Josh Edson did well forus, got a pin for us,” Edg-mon said. “We havebumped him up a little.He’s natural; he should bewrestling at 126. He isour 138 varsity. This onewe kind of flip-flopped theline up. We moved Brodyup, and we bumped him

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MIKE MENDEZ/NEWTON NOWNewton's Grant Treaster gets a pin over Kyson Harmison from SalinaCentral on Dec. 8 in Salina.

Rangel completes11th marathon withdaughter and friend

When things get tough for the students in theNewton High School Career and Technical Educa-tion (CTE) program, a quick glance in the directionof program director Melinda Rangel may help to putthings in perspective. On Dec. 11, Rangel, herdaughter Jenna Koerner and Koerner’s friendTiffany Zinn completed the Dallas BMW Marathon,and she battled a sore foot to finish. It was the 11thmarathon Rangel has run.

“If nothing else, I want kids to see in me, grit,”Rangel said. “I think a lot of our kids, when thingsget hard, they have a hard time persevering throughthat difficulty. They often will just quit because theydon’t have the skills to get through that. Just getthrough it, work hard and persevere. The medal atthe end is an awesome reward that you will be soproud of yourself once you get through it. Maybe Iam an example for kids to say, ‘Hey, if Mrs. Rangelcan run a marathon, maybe I can get through this.’”

As an experienced marathon runner, Rangel saysthe race can be broken into two parts: the first 20miles and the final six. While all the training canprepare you to run 20 miles, those last six comedown to a test of will. It becomes a matter of thepower of the mind triumphing over a spent andnumb body that wants to quit.

If it isn’t hard enough to get through the end inperfect conditions, in Dallas, Rangel had to battle abum foot to push through. But with the investmentput into getting to the race, quitting was simply notan option for Rangel.

“I am not quitting,” Rangel said. “I put in 562miles to get ready for that race. My husband [Chris]found me at 19, and I was limping and walking.There was a cart coming to pick up runners whowere cramped up. Chris was like, ‘Just get on thecart,’ and I’m like, ‘I am not getting on that cart.There is no way. I will crawl across that finish line.’When you’ve put that much into it and that manymonths—it took me almost four months to get readyfor this race—I am not giving up in the last hour.There is just no way. I am getting that medal, nomatter what it takes me.”

The work that goes into training for a marathoncomes with some early mornings packed with disci-

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MIKE MENDEZ/NEWTON NOWNewton High School Career and Technical Education DirectorMelinda Rangel sits in her office at the Brooks Trade Center at New-ton High School. Rangel ran in the Dallas BMW Marathon with herdaughter Jenna Koerner and her friend Tiffany Zinn on Dec. 11. Itwas the 11th marathon Rangel has completed. See RAILERS/ 12

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Railer girls handle Campus on the road

From the early going,there wasn’t much theCampus girls basketballteam could do against thesuffocating Newton de-fense. In fact, the Coltscouldn’t score a singlepoint in the first quarter,while the Railers turneddefense into offense for a20-0 lead after one on theway to a 56-24 win forNewton.

“It felt like our run-and-jump; we are startingto trust each other moreand play together,” New-ton head coach RandyJordan said. “And that isthe whole concept of thatdefense is trust. Tonight Isaw that, and it is a goodfeeling.”

As things start on de-fense, the Railers arestarting to show off anumber of differentweapons with a well-rounded offense as well.Savannah Simmons ledthe team against theColts with 12 points, withKyndal Bacon close be-hind scoring 11 and DesiKernal scoring 10 points.

“The last few practices,my coaches have pushedme on not being so hesi-

tant with the ball anddriving when I see anopening,” Bacon said. “Sotonight, they pushed meto start out strong, and Ithink we all did, and thatcreated stuff for every-one.”

Kernal had a big nightas she settled into thespeed of the game afterhaving to miss the begin-ning of the season withan injury. While it washard to sit out and watchher team, it made herhungry to get back on thecourt.

“Coming back out onthe court, it was a greatfeeling to come back andplay with my teammatesagain,” Kernal said. “Wehave been working on itin practice, but since thatgame was like a loss forme, I had to rebuild. Iknew my team could helpme do that and get me re-focused for it.”

Megan Akers had sixpoints for Newton, andJada Berry had five.Maggie Remsberg andAbby Schmidt had fourpoints each, and TaylorAntonowich had three.Megan Bartel had 1point.

The No. 5 Railers han-dled a step up in competi-tion against ValleyCenter on Dec. 13 with a

51-40 win over the Hor-nets. Simmons led theteam with 13 points, withfive coming in the fourthquarter with the game onthe line. Two Antonowich3-pointers helped her to a12-point night and Ker-

nal came up big in thefourth quarter as wellwith four of her 10 pointscoming in the final frame.

Schmidt scored sevenpoints for Newton, Berryhad five, Bacon had fourand Akers had two.

MIKE MENDEZ/NEWTON NOWDesi Kernal turns toward the basket in the second half against Cam-pus on Dec. 9 in Wichita.

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Colts edge Railerswith late surge

With a 15-point lead over Campus in the secondhalf, the Railer boys could taste the first win underhead coach Andy Hill. But with a steady march backinto the game, and a pair of free throws with 5.7 sec-onds left on the clock, Campus ripped the victory outof the hands of the Railer in a 57-56 win for the Colts.

“You can’t single out one possession,” Hill said. “Wegot up 15 there, and the coaches and I were just talk-ing. Every possession is critical when you are lookingto get a win. Especially when wins have been eludingyou. Every possession is critical. It is 15 and then allof the sudden, we let it get to nine and then it is five,and it kind of just snowballs from there.”

Newton opened the game on a 6-0 run, and Cam-pus fired back with a 7-0 run, and the game wasplayed closely in the first quarter, with the Railerstaking an 18-16 lead after one. In the second quarter,Newton found separation with a 31-20 lead going intothe locker room at the half.

And with Nathan Ahrens shooting the lights out inthe third quarter, it didn’t seem like there was anyway for Campus to stop the train. But gradually, theColts fought back, with a chance to win at the end.

With a 56-55 lead in the final seconds, a Newtonfoul in a scramble for the ball on the Railers’ side ofthe court in the double bonus sent the Colts to theline for two free throws that iced the game.

While the loss was a tough one to swallow, theRailers are eager to use it as a learning experienceand move forward better prepared for the late-gamepressure than they were.

“We just came out a little bit softer than we shouldhave,” Ahrens said. “It seems like we got confident.I’m not sure overall. We definitely shouldn’t have

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down, because we knewthat he was a smaller guy.We thought that wouldwork out for us, and it did.He is a team player. Hewill go 38 for us. If weneed him at 32, he will go32. This weekend he isgoing to go 126 for us. Heloves the sport, and hewants to be on varsity,and he will do what hedoes.”

Moving up to 138,Brody Roberson camethrough as well, earning a7-0 decision over KrayTrue to make it 19-6 New-ton.

Kadin McBee followedwith a first-period pinover Cade Harris at 145pounds to give Newton a25-6 lead to wrap up thefirst half of the dual.

The second half was adifferent story. In thefinal seven matches, theonly points Newton scoredwas Cruz trotting out toget his hand raised at 195with Central open. TheMustangs started thescoring with Donivyn Willpinning Austin Gehring at152 and didn’t look back.

Trent Prothro earned a4-1 decision over BryanCusick at 160 pounds, andCayman Munson pickedup a 12-3 major decisionover Dante Harper at 170pounds to earn anothervaluable bonus point.

Taylon Peters kept it

rolling with a 3-1 decisionover Wyatt Hendricksonat 182 pounds to make it25-22 Newton before theRailers got the six pointsat 195.

Cole Butts got a 2-1 de-cision over Rodriguez at220 pounds to bring theMustangs to within sixpoints at 31-25.

At 285, Wedel picked upa thunderous takedown inthe first period over Mor-row and had the upperhand. But early in thethird period, it was onemistake that led to a pinfor Central to completethe comeback.

“We actually go to atournament in Douglass,”

Edgmon said. “We havebeen to several duals,dual tournament, duals onThursday. Some of ouryounger guys, first timebeing there, I would likethem to get on thepodium. It is a chance towrestle some people anddo well.”

At Douglass on Dec. 10,the Railers had a strongshowing with 161.5 pointsand a second place finish,3.5 points behind firstplace Wichita South. New-ton had eight wrestlersplace.

Grant and LoganTreaster, along withBrody Roberson all tookfirst place. Grant Treaster

defeated Douglass’ AshtenDodson 15-5 in the 106-pound finals and LoganTreaster got a 2-0 decisionover Dallas Wilson fromWichita South in the fi-nals at 120 pounds.

Brody Roberson beatSouth’s Malachi Karibo 6-1 in the 132-pound final.

Boone Roberson tooksecond after a 10-1 loss toKobe Girjalva from Derbyin the 113-pound finals.

Hendrickson, ColbyBeer and Cyle Gautschiall wrestled to third placefinishes. Hendricksonbeat Dejuan Scott fromWichita Heights 7-5 in thethird place match at 182pounds. Beer beat GabeArrendondo from BishopCarrol with a pin at 195pounds. Gautschi pinnedDonovan Green from Dou-glass at 220 pounds.

Austin Gehring made itto the third place matchat 152 pounds where hewas pinned by Alex Fox-worthy from WichitaSouth.

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It’s the little things that go farThere are not a lot of coaches

in the state who don’t stressthe importance of the little

things. That goes for every sport atevery level. The message is clearfrom all of them. They all wanttheir athletes to give attention toevery little detail in order for suc-cess to take care of itself on a largerscale.

And it continues to be the littlethings that impress me.

While the outcome wasn’t the onethe Railers were looking for, I maygo the rest of the season withoutseeing a better basketball gamethan the boys game at Campus. Ithad a little bit of everything youcould want from an entertainmentstandpoint. Newton was still look-ing for its first win of the season,and the boys were playing like itwas Saturday at state. Every pointthe Railers scored felt like a sledge-hammer blow to the body.

The Colts took every shot but justkept coming, giving the story plentyof conflict and drama.

As the time started ticking downin the fourth quarter and Campuswas crawling back, the gym wasear-splitting. Every last point camewith a back and forth of cheeringthat shook the building. It matteredto both sets of teams, schools andcommunities. It mattered a lot.

And after a touchy foul sent Cam-pus to the line in the double bonusfor a pair of free throws and a 1-point win, the inevitability of devas-tation for one side came down onthe Newton end of the gym.

In the middle of it all, NathanAhrens had an amazing game. Itwasn’t only in the dialed-in preci-sion of his shooting but in his lead-ership down the stretch in a close

game. Ahrens was the one control-ling the emotions of the team andgetting everyone to stay focused onthe play ahead when the buildingwas losing its mind about the playthat just happened.

Talking to Ahrens after the game,he was visibly hurt by the loss. Heshould be. He wants to win. He hasspent a lifetime of work preparingfor his senior season, and he hasdone it so that his team can comeout on the winning end of thrillinggames. The moment when a teamdoesn’t care about losing a gamelike that is the moment a teamstops existing.

I always appreciate when a losingcoach or athlete takes the time totalk after having their heartsripped out of their chests. It isn’tthe most comfortable conversationto have on either side of the equa-tion. It takes a lot to have to re-group enough to talk in a way thatis not robotic but also respects thepower of a microphone in an emo-tional situation. It is often morethan adults can handle, let alonehigh school kids. It really doesmean a lot to me, and I admirethose who can do it.

So, after getting what I needed, Ijumped in the car and headed backto town on the drive back to New-

ton. I thought about how close thegame was and how hard it musthave been to lose. I thought abouthead coach Andy Hill talking abouthow every possession matters. Theyall did. When you are talking abouta point, over the course of a game,there are countless things thatcould have swung the balance ei-ther way.

And when I got back and shut offthe car, I took a look at my phone.There was a message from Ahrensapologizing for having his hood upwhile he was talking to me and thatit was disrespectful.

I am an old-fashioned guy when itcomes to headgear, especially whenit comes to wearing hats in restau-rants. It drives me crazy. Probablymy favorite scene in all of The So-pranos is when Tony approaches acustomer at Vesuvio who is wearinga hat and informs him, “They don’tserve hot dogs here.”

But never did I realize he had ahood up. I honestly didn’t care onceI realized it nor did I feel disre-spected in any way. Again, I am justimpressed a kid will take the timeafter a loss like that, in any waythey have to do it.

But that was a good look intowhere the bar he has set for himselfsits and the lengths he is willing togo to hold himself accountable tothat lofty standard. It is that kindof attention to detail about the littlethings out of a leader that leads meto believe this program is in goodhands.

Mike Mendez is the sports editorat the Newton Now and can be

reached by e-mail at mike@harvey-countynow.com and followed onTwitter at @MendezNewtonNow

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pline for Rangel. With herjob at the high school,there is no telling whatthe evenings are going tobring. And so rather thantake the chance on miss-ing out a training session,she gets into her runningschedule before the daystarts.

A big trick to the train-ing is keeping her mindoccupied. If she is on thetreadmill because of badweather, it may mean a“Law and Order” binge.When she is outside, itmeans switching up theroutes, a practice thatleads to some new sceneryto enjoy and a detailedknowledge of every nookand cranny of Newton.

“You kind of have tomake a game out of itsometimes,” Rangel said.“I am at this place at thistime kind of a thing. I cantell you, it is .3 miles tothis spot, .7 to here, andthen I turn here, and Ican pretty much tell youall over town where if Iwant to get somewherehow long it is going totake me or how manymiles it is.”

Having finished 11marathons now, the re-ward at the finish line isjust as good now as it waswhen she finished herfirst one, the ChicagoMarathon in 2006. It is afeeling of accomplishmentthat has become some-thing of an addiction.

“You kind of get a bug,”Rangel said. “You rest fora while, and after you get

done you think, ‘I amnever doing that again.That hurt too bad.’ Butthen after you rest for awhile you are like, ‘Whenis the next one?’ They re-ally are fun.”

While running in herfirst marathon in 2006,she met a veteran of 30-some marathons. Whenthe runner found out itwas her first race, he in-formed her that shewould cry when she fin-ished. He was right. Itwas a feeling Rangel hasbeen chasing ever sincethat has carried over tothe CTE program in New-ton.

“It was this overwhelm-ing feeling of, well, a lotof pain, but also I did it,”Rangel said. “That feelingof accomplishment boilsover into my job, too. I

love in this job I have somany opportunities to donew things. I am giventhat freedom in this roleby our superintendentand my principal to say,‘Find new ways to makeus better. Find new waysto make Career and TechEd for Newton HighSchool a program thatstands out in the state. Ilike that challenge. Forme, I’m competitiveenough to say we aregoing to be the best in thestate. I try to do things tobuild community part-ners. I think we arestronger with our commu-nity support and our part-nerships. We have done afew things the last fewyears to be better. Alwaysbe better. I guess I getthat competitiveness frommy running.”

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MIKE MENDEZ/NEWTON NOWKadin McBee wrestles opponent Cade Harris from Salina Central onDec. 8 in Salina.

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The Newton Fire/EMSDepartment managed tokeep a downtown buildingfire contained to one roomand building, a feat whichFire Chief Scott Metzlersaid is difficult to do.

Around 10 p.m. Satur-day night, the departmentresponded to a fire at theClayworks Gallery, 417 N.Main Street.

Metzler said the firebegan in the back of thebuilding in a 20-by-40-footbrick room built on tohouse two gas-fired kilns.

“It was coming throughthe roof of the building,”he said.

The response wasthanks to the building'soccupant quickly noticingthe fire calling Fire andEMS.

He said a combination

of the kiln room beingmade out of brick and thequick response allowedfirefighters to knock downthe fire before it got intothe two-story section ofthe building or spread tobordering buildings.

Metzler said historicand old downtown build-ings are among some ofthe most dangerous anddifficult places for fire-fighters to combat flames.

“A lot of those buildingswere built at the turn ofthe century and have hadnumerous property own-ers,” he said. “Many timesthey can fall into disrepairwhen there are not prop-erly cared for.

That makes it danger-ous.”

Metzler also said theway such buildings areconstructed adds to thedanger. Most are builtwith a shared party wall,meaning one wall sup-ports two buildings. They

often have shared atticspaces or holes or openspaces between the build-ings for duct, electricaland plumbing work.Those open and sharedspaces make it easier forfires to spread, Metzlersaid.

He added that manyolder buildings are madewith more flammable ma-terials, compared to newerones.

He said downtown firescan sometimes result inthe loss of two or threebuildings or even an en-tire block.

He said, outside of thekiln room, the nearbybuildings were undam-aged.

“Other than smoke,there was little damage tothe other building,” hesaid. “We got a good jumpon the fire. It could havebeen very bad.”

Metzler didn't have anofficial cause for the fire.

Local firefighters contain downtown fireBY ADAM STRUNKNEWTON NOW STAFFadam@harveycountynow.com

If you're flubbing busi-ness presentations or sim-ply can't speak in front ofpeople when the crowdnumbers more than one,there's a club in Newtonto help you fix that. Or asTimothy Marlar hopes,there soon will be.

Marlar will host andhas been working to get aToastmasters Club off theground in Newton. Theyet-to-be chartered New-ton Chapter will hold itsnext meeting 6:30 p.m.Thursday, Dec. 15, at theNewton Rec Center. Mar-

lar hopes to get the clubmembership up highenough to charter it as apart of the InternationalToastmasters Organiza-tion, which boasts over342,000 members. The or-ganization operates as aneducational resource tohelp people improve pub-lic speaking and leader-ship skills.

“Basically we have anopportunity to let speak-ers practice a speech, theyhave a workbook, theylearn leadership skillsand they learn how to runan efficient meeting,” hesaid.

At the meetings, peoplehave the opportunity to

make and be evaluated onfive- to seven-minutespeeches, speak off thecuff and receive construc-tive criticism on their ora-torical abilities.

“The fear of publicspeaking is the numberone fear in the world,”

Marlar said. “Ithink there's a lotof people just get-ting started intheir profession.If I would havehad one of these, Iwould have bene-fited from it. Andit's an addedvalue to the com-munity.”

The group hasalready had one

meeting. Marlar said ithas about eight commit-ted members, but hehopes it will grow. Marlargot interested in workingto organize a NewtonChapter after belongingto a Wichita Chapter

since 2007.“I think Newton is a big

enough community thatwe could support onehere,” he said. “The mis-sion at Toastmasters is togive people the opportu-nity to practice publicspeaking in a supportiveenvironment.”

He said that right nowthe group is scheduled tomeet every Thursday

He said outside of thespeaking aspect there'salso a social aspect to theclub. You get to know peo-ple, meeting with themonce a week, and youlearn quite a bit listeningto their speeches, Marlarsaid.

The group does comewith dues to participate,but Marlar said they willstay minimal until theclub gets a charter andthen be around $45 forevery six months to par-ticipate.

“The biggest thing isthere will be another op-portunity for you to haveto give a speech and tospeak in public,” he said.“This will prepare you forthat. We're not going togive out any Fs or badgrades.”

For more information,contact 316-288-9496 or e-mailtimothy.marlar@gmail.com.

BY ADAM STRUNKNEWTON NOW STAFFadam@harveycountynow.com

Toastmasters Club working to get off the ground in Newton

given up that manypoints. We should havejust done better on de-fense. Most of our teamprobably hasn’t been inthat situation in schoolbasketball. Most of it isthe speed of the game inthat situation. It is a lot ofexperience. You learn a lotfrom the game and inevery game you play youlearn from it. So, yeah, wecan definitely learn fromthat.”

Ahrens led the team

with 21 points, while TyBerry finished with 17,providing a one-two punchwith an experienced sen-ior in Ahrens and a fresh-man learning varsitybasketball quickly inBerry.

Damarius Peterson andCailen Valdez contributedeight points each. C’An-thony Kelley scored twopoints.

The Railers couldn’tbounce back to start theweek with a 72-66 loss toValley Center. Newtonwill be at home againstMaize on Friday, Dec. 16at 7:30 p.m.

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MIKE MENDEZ/NEWTON NOWNewton's Ty Berry gets wrapped up driving to the rim against Campuson Dec. 9 in Wichita.

Newton Wrestling Club competes in Emporia

The Newton WrestlingClub had a bunch of suc-cess competing at theEmporia Tournament.Six wrestlers took firstplace and four moremade it to finals withsecond place finishing.Seven wrestlers tookthird place and two tookfourth.

In the 10 and under di-vision, Nathan Barron,Lucas Kaufman, TaylorRickard and LoganBuchanan all won theirbrackets. Nick Treasterand Jett Brackeen bothwon the tournament at12 and under.

Wyatt Mayes took sec-ond in the 10 and underdivision, while there wasa bunch of success fromthe younger kids as well.Maverick Lies took sec-

ond in the 6 and undertournament, whileTrevor Beyer and DylanHedrick both finishedsecond at 8 and under.

Both Cole Chalashtariand Clayton Kaufmantook third in the 12 andunder brackets. KarstonWall and Eddy Southerntook third at 10 andunder while ChaytonLopez, Zane Metzler andKaden Chalashtari alltook third at 8 and

under.In the 14 and under di-

vision, Gaige Llamastook fourth and Keon Ed-wards took fourth at 10and under.

Jensen Livesay tookfifth at 8 and under andIsaac Guy placed as wellwith a sixth place finishat 10 and under.

James Johnson, Brax-den Lopez and BobbySouthern all competed inEmporia as well.

BY MIKE MENDEZNEWTON NOW STAFFmike@harveycountynow.com

SPORTS BRIEFS

NHS alumni to raisemoney for basketballIf you are feeling nos-

talgic, on Saturday, Dec.17, Ravenscroft gym isthe place to be. NewtonHigh School alumni willplay in an annualfundraising tournamentto raise money for Newtonbasketball with thealumni women starting at5:30 p.m. and the men at

6:15 p.m. Admission is free, but

donations for Newton bas-ketball will be accepted atthe door.

If you are feeling lucky,during the Railer homegames against Maize onFriday, Dec. 16, raffletickets for the fundraiserwill go on sale with tick-ets being sold at thealumni event as well.Tickets go for $1 each orsix for $5. The prize for

the raffle winners is tick-ets for a Wichita State, K-State, or KU basketballgame. Raffle winners donot need to be present towin.

Rodriguez makes first-team All-American

The Bethel College de-fense wouldn’t have beenthe same without seniorcornerback Rickey Ro-driguez. And with a

KCAC-leading six inter-ceptions on the season,Rodriguez was honoredon the NAIA first-teamAll-American list for2016.

“This couldn’t havehappened to a betterkid,” head coach MorrisLolar said. “Rickeyplayed his heart out onthe field every game, andhe’s a nursing major; youknow he has to be asmart kid.”

Threshers knock off conference-leading Swedes

With a final bucketfrom Austin Mitchell togive the Threshers an85-84 win over theSwedes, conference-lead-ing Bethany got to seefirst hand that Bethel isa threat to win everynight out.

Guard Deven Goodwinled the Threshers with acareer-high 33 pointsand spread the ballaround with a team-highfive assists. Chris Robin-son scored 14 points,Chase Banister had 13,and Mitchell made itfour Threshers in doublefigures with 11. JacobMiller led the team witheight rebounds.

Tied at 24-24 witheight minutes left in the

first half, Bethel fin-ished on a 20-7 run totake a 44-31 lead at thehalf.

The Threshers stayedhot in the second half,using a Goodwin bucketto extend the lead to 19at 58-39.

The Swedes regroupedto gradually cut into theBethel lead. And with 31seconds left, a KhalidWashington bucket gaveBethany an 84-83 lead,

the first lead of thegame for the Swedessince it was 19-16 nineminutes into the game.

But a second-chancebucket from Mitchellafter a Goodwin shotwas blocked gave Bethelthe lead back with eightseconds left and the win.

Bethel rolled KansasWesleyan to make it awin streak with a 108-69win over the Coyotes.

BY MIKE MENDEZNEWTON NOW STAFFmike@harveycountynow.com

Dave Anderson’s Wurl-itzer Style 125 MilitaryBand Organ made its firstpublic appearance sincehe’s had it at Halloween aspart of a three-ring circusof sorts.

The Newton residentsaid he and his family setup three areas in theirgarage with the bandorgan playing Halloweenturns, a ghost sitting at aplayer piano and a tableset up with spooky ani-mated figures, like moreghosts and skeletons.

“It was really fun,” hesaid. “It was a big hit. Wehad a lot of comments frompeople. I think it had stagefright—it hadn’t played inpublic since, I don’t knowwhen—the ’70s.”

That evening, a couple ofgears stripped on the bandorgan, which is completewith horns and drums, andAnderson said his son fixedit with a washer in 20 min-utes.

The thing Anderson re-ally liked this past Hal-loween was there were alot of people out trick-or-treating, and his bandorgan played a variety ofHalloween music, like thetheme to “The AddamsFamily.” He said whenthat song played, duringthe part where people snaptheir fingers in the tune,he could hear people upand down the street dou-ble-clapping.

“One guy came up, ‘Oh,thank you for doing this.This is so cool,’” Andersonsaid.

“We could leave it outhere and play it for our-selves, but I think peopleneed to hear it,” he saidabout the rural HarveyCounty location they havethe band organ stored in.

“That’s when we decidedwe wanted to be in the Pa-rade of Lights,” Andersonsaid. “Nobody has seen oneof those. It’s so cool.”

It took two years to re-furbish the band organwith his youngest son,Jacob, helping the most.His other son, Andrew,helped in the beginningand then got busy withschool.

“There’s so many parts,”Anderson said about theband organ. “You wouldn’tbelieve how involved it is.”

The organ, built in 1909,with paper rolls, a pres-sure pump and air, whichgoes through variousmechanisms. Andersonwas quite knowledgeableabout how it all workedand said the organ partplays just like a pipeorgan.

“Wurlitzer made onlyabout [500] to 700 ofthese,” Anderson said,adding they were used forcarousels or skating rinks.

“It’s a lot cheaper thanhaving a band, even inthose days,” he said.

The Anderson family has

had player pianos for a fewyears now.

“We’ve been into playerpianos since 1997 when wegot our first one,” he said.

There appears to be atleast two at the rural Har-vey County building andone at home. One of themhad a part break, and An-derson said he put a pleafor parts out on the Inter-net. He got a reply fromDana Johnson in Califor-nia. Anderson said he andhis kids always wanted aWurlitzer 125, and John-son said he had one andwould sell it to Anderson.He had it shipped toKansas and got it twoyears ago.

“He got it from Ten-nessee four or five yearsago, and we don’t knowwhere it came from beforethat,” Anderson said.

Basically, it was allthere, although it had apipe missing and someminor things gone. Ander-son said, however, itneeded to be completely re-built, which they did.

“We took it completelyapart,” Anderson said. “Wewanted to use as muchoriginal as we could.”

The cabinet was toodamaged to fix.

“Mike Hanchett said hewould help me rebuild thecabinet,” Anderson saidabout his friend, who’s re-built calliopes and rebuiltplayer pianos. “He actuallydid it. I helped him,” fetch-ing tools. Anderson saidmost of the cabinet is new.

Anderson has wanted aplayer piano for a longtime.

“I’d always wanted aplayer piano,” he said.“When I started takingpiano lessons at thirdgrade,” he tried to get hisparents to buy a playerpiano. “They said it wastoo hard to tune.”

Anderson said he knewit was a complex operationto restore one, and he getshelp from Hanchett, whodoesn’t know a lot aboutband organs. So Andersonhas been talking to John-son in California about theWurlitzer.

“He’s just been reallyhelpful,” Anderson said,like finding parts.

What also was helpfulwas the Model A that An-derson used to pull theWurlitzer in the Parade ofLights. This is a vehicleAnderson restored in the1980s.

“I rebuilt two Model A’s,”Anderson said, adding theyare 1928 and 1930 models.

A Model A was anotherthing Anderson said hewanted. At the time, An-derson lived in Dodge City,and the Model A, which hedescribed as a “realclunker,” belonged to hisuncle. This was his firstmajor restoration project.

Anderson also has re-stored John Deere tractors,ranging from 1939 through1950. Both of his sons haverestored a tractor, eachmechanically.

“I’ve done two of them

mechanically and cosmeti-cally, so they aren’t mine,”he said. “They belong tomy kids, too.”

Anderson likes to re-store things for a few rea-sons.

“I just like to take thingsthat are kind of derelictand put them back to theiroriginal use,” the retiredBNSF claim agent said.“It’s a good feeling to bringthings back to life, espe-cially if you can sharethem with other people.”

Anderson’s also restoredsome radios and phono-graphs.

“It’s just fun to takesomething that’s not work-ing and get it work thatit’s designed to do,” hesaid.

Anderson also really ap-preciates his wife, Barb’s,support.

“I’m really lucky she’sreally supportive of theseprojects,” Anderson said,adding she always tellshim to get an item he’seyeing and to go for it.

In August, for ThreshingDays in Goessel, Andersonand other folks drive thetractors from the largebuilding in rural HarveyCounty where they’restored to Goessel at 12mph. During a couple ofyears, they took all six toGoessel. They don’t, how-ever, take the highways,but prefer the dirt countyroads for this slow travel.

“It was a caravan ofJohn Deeres,” Andersonsaid. “Quite a sight.”

Anderson also has a1948 truck he wants to re-store but hasn’t gottenaround to it yet.

However, the family hasused it during Halloween,putting skeletons in thefront and passenger seatsat their home.

“It’s always the nextproject, and then some-thing else comes up,” hesaid. “Keep pushing itdown the line.”

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Band organ: Newton man restores Wurlitzer Style 125BY WENDY NUGENTNEWTON NOW STAFFwendy@harveycountynow.com

WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWABOVE: Dave Anderson of Newton stands next to his Wurlitzer Style 125 Band Organ, which took two years torestore.TOP: Dave Anderson works on a vintage John Deere tractor where he stores tractors and his band organ inrural Harvey County.

The Newton First Men-nonite Church Choir andNewton-area communitymembers will present se-lections from Handel’s“Messiah” at 7 p.m. Sun-day, Dec. 18, at 429 E.First St.

Soloists are Soyoun LimChun, Bethany AmstutzSchrag, Matthew Schlo-neger and Chris Kliewer.Karen Schlabaugh isharpsichordist; AmandaRempel, organist; NancyJohnson, concertmaster;and Kay Schroeder, con-

ductor. An offering will be

taken for the Harvey

County homeless shelterand to cover concert ex-penses.

'Messiah' performance slated for SundayFOR NEWTON NOW

COURTESY PHOTOThese folks represent three generations of singers in the choir: JudySchrag, daughter Rachel Sommerfeld, and granddaughter Lauryn Som-merfeld.