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Some area motoristsignoring railroadcrossing gatesprompted localpolice and UnionPacific law enforce-ment officials to stepup enforcement Tues-day.The Union PacificRailroad brought itsOfficer on a Trainprogram and a UnionPacific Crossing Acci-dent Reduction, Edu-cation and Safetyoperation to BonnerSprings late after-noon Tuesday at thecrossing at Front andSecond streets. TheBonner Springs PoliceDepartment andKansas HighwayPatrol participated.The officer on a trainprogram consists ofputting law enforce-ment officers aboarda locomotive to par-take in a short trainride in an effort toget a different per-spective of motoristbehavior at highwayrail crossings.The officers involvedcan view situationsthat train crew mem-bers often experienceand also are able tospeak with the crewmembers and rail-road managementabout the safetyissues involved withrailroad operations.In a U.P.C.A.R.E.S.operation, membersof the Union PacificRailroad PoliceDepartment act asground enforcementunits for motorist vio-lations at the high-way-rail crossings.

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Officials with the Unified Gov-ernment of Wyandotte Countyand Kansas City, Kan., last Thurs-day got a sneak peek at the brightlights and glamour of the area’snewest economic boon.

But first, they had to go inthrough the basement.

The Unified Government’sBoard of Commissioners andother officials toured not only thecasino floor and four restaurantsat the Hollywood Casino atKansas Speedway — set to openFeb. 3 — they also got to see a fewareas the public won’t see.

The officials entered throughthe casino’s “back door,” theemployee entrance in the base-ment containing much of the casi-no’s inner workings, coming in asmany of the employees were leav-ing from their orientation train-ing. The bulk of employees —about 600 of the 1,050 positions— started their jobs last week, saidBob Sheldon, general manager.

“As you can see, the buildingsort of came to life last week withpeople,” Sheldon said.

Sheldon said as of last week, 750employees had started jobs at thecasino, 200 others had been hiredbut were awaiting their start dates,

and the casino had about 100positions left to fill.

Some of the first areas that offi-cials viewed were the efficientcleaning system set up for 700employee uniforms, the lockerrooms and the employee cafeteria.

The basement also contains anemployee fitness center, food stor-age, administrative offices, officesfor state officials with the KansasRacing and Gaming Commission,and the surveillance center for thecasino’s 970 cameras.

Sheldon said the basement also

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Bob Sheldon, general manager of the Hollywood Casino, leads the tour of the casino Thursday for the Board ofCommissioners of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kan. The casino is set to open Feb. 3,with a special invitation-only event Jan. 30.

Lights,camera,action!Commissioners tourHollywood Casino

Workersinstallportions of aslot machinestation at theHollywoodCasino nearthe "Turn 2Lounge"sports bar,whichoverlooks thecasino floor.

SEE COMMISSIONERS, PAGE 11

Neighbors protest rezoning for apartmentsBY CAROLINE BOYER

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Concerns about rezoning aproperty to make way for a pro-posed apartment complexbrought more residents out Tues-day than could fit into the coun-cil chambers at Bonner SpringsCity Hall.

While residents said the pro-posed project was not a good fit fortheir neighborhood and wouldcause property values to drop andtraffic safety issues to develop, the

Bonner Springs Planning Com-mission approved the change tothe comprehensive plan and therezoning by a 4-3 margin.

“There were legitimate con-cerns brought up during the meet-ing,” Merle Parks, chair of thecommission, said after the meet-ing. “… But I think in the overall,

from my viewpoint, it was aworthwhile project that hopefullywill be a benefit to the area.”

Residents stood in the hallwayor sat on the floor to be present forthe public hearing concerning thefirst of four steps required forapproval for the Village at Deer-field, a 232-unit, gated complex

proposed by Bonner Springsdeveloper Guy Tiner at KansasAvenue and 132nd Street.

The northern portion of L-shaped development — which onthe east would wrap around thecommercial development con-taining Nuts and Bolts True Valuehardware store — is already zonedfor multi-family development.But about six acres on the southside needed to be rezoned fromsingle-family residential to multi-

SEE REZONING, PAGE 11

“There were legitimate concerns brought up during the meet-ing … But I think in the overall, from my viewpoint, it was a

worthwhile project that hopefully will be a benefit to the area.”Merle Park

Chair of Bonner Springs Planning Commission

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Kansas celebrates its 151st year ofstatehood Sunday. The Kansas Histor-ical Society, kshs.org, answers ques-tions about our state’s history andKansas Day celebration.

Q: How did Kansas Day get its start?A: Kansas Day started in 1877 in

Paola, inspired by 15 to 20 studentsstudying the Battle of New Orleans.The lesson sparked patriotism, andthe school planned the study ofKansas — on Jan. 29, 1877. The cele-bration continued to gain steamthrough various teachers’ associationsin the state.

Q: Are there any celebrationsplanned for this year’s Kansas Day?

A: The Kansas History Museum,Topeka, will have activities from 9a.m. to 3 p.m. More information: 785-272-8681, ext. 414, or [email protected]. Johnson County isplanning a Kansas Day celebration for2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at Ernie MillerNature Center, 909 N. Kansas High-way 7, Olathe. Cost: $5. Reservationsare required: 913-764-7759.

Q: Is there a list of Kansas historicsites?

A: Constitution Hall, Lecompton;Cottonwood Ranch, Studley; First Ter-

ritorial Capitol, Fort Riley; Fort Hays,a frontier fort in Hays; GoodnowHouse, Manhattan; Grinter Place,Kansas City; Hollenberg Pony ExpressStation, near Hanover; Iowa and Sacand Fox, drive-through site in High-land; John Brown Museum,Osawatomie; Kaw Mission, CouncilGrove; Marais des Cygne Massacre,national historic landmark nearPleasanton; Mine Creek Battlefield,near Pleasanton; Pawnee IndianMuseum, near Republic; ShawneeIndian Mission, Fairway; and WilliamAllen White House, Emporia.

Q: I want to research somethingabout Kansas history. Can the KansasHistory Museum help?

A: There is no charge for phone oremail requests for information, astime permits, but there are fees formore in-depth requests. Anotheroption: have your local library borrowthe museum’s microfilm on interli-brary loan.

Q: Do you have particulars aboutthe Kansas History Museum?

A: The museum, 6425 S.W. SixthAve., in Topeka, is open from 9 a.m. to5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdaysand 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays.

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Eagle Day event taking offat Wyandotte County Lake

The Kansas City, Kansas PublicLibrary will have its 11th annual EagleDay event from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 4at Wyandotte County Lake. The eventwill take place at both the Mr. & Mrs.F.L. Schlagle Library and J.P. Davis Hall.

Events taking place at the libraryinclude live bald eagle presentations byOperation Wildlife at 10 a.m. and 1:30p.m., and presentations by author TySmede titled, “The Return of the BaldEagle,” at 11:30 a.m. and 2:45 p.m.Binocular checkout is available forpatrons who want to view bald eaglesalong the lake, and a children’s craftarea also will be available all day.

At Davis Hall, visitors will have theopportunity to talk with volunteersfrom Operation Wildlife and see a vari-ety of live hawks, owls and falcons.

For more information, call 913-299-2384.

Library celebrating Kansas The Bonner Springs City Library will

celebrate Kansas Day with a free pro-gram about local history.

Bertha Cameron, founder and pastpresident of the Monticello Communi-ty Historical Society, will present a pro-gram at 2 p.m. Sunday in the meetingroom of the library, 201 N. NettletonAve. Refreshments will be served.

For more information, contact thelibrary at 913-441-2665.

Students from Bonner earnspots on UCM Dean’s List

Charissa Beeves, Jeff Renner, KaitlinAllen and Nate Hopkins, all of BonnerSprings, earned a place on the fall 2011dean’s list at University of Central Mis-souri.

Each semester the dean’s list is divid-ed into two parts. The first list includesthe names of students who achieved aperfect 4.0 GPA, and the second listincludes the names of students whoattained GPAs of 3.5 to 3.99.

Beeves’ and Renner’s academic workearned them a place on the 4.0 list.Allen’s and Hopkins’ academic workearned them a place on the 3.5 to 3.99list.

Club hears about tree careGreg VanBooven of VanBooven Tree

Service, was the speaker at the regularmeeting of the Edwardsville KiwanisClub, which took place last week at Sis-ter’s Restaurant. He explained the plant-ing and care of trees, particularly duringa dry winter.

The club will play host to twofundraisers during the next twomonths. The bowling tournament willbe conducted in February and theannual pancake day is planned forMarch.

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Basehor Athlete(s) of the Week• Name(s): Colin and Ryan Murohy

• Senior boy’s basketball players, BLHS

• One game after Colin Murphy reached 1,000career points, his twin brother, Ryan, followedsuit. On Jan. 19, Ryan scored 18 points in a vic-tory against Park Hill. The Murphys may nothave won the Bobcat Invitational as they hadhoped, but the tournament was not without itsmemorable moments.

• Favorite song on Colin’s iPod right now: “TheMotto,” by Drake.

• Favorite song on Ryan’s iPod right now: “Pretty much any Drake songs,” he said.

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Ryan Murphy reaches 1K points, joins ColinBasehor-Linwood defeated Park Hill

75-43 on Jan. 19, advancing to theChampionship Game of the Bobcat Invi-tational on Saturday.

“Yes, we played exceptionally welltonight,” coach Mike McBride said. “Imean, there are things we can work on,but it feels like on the right path now. Theguys know how they can play.”

The team played its most completegame of the season. The Bobcats startedthe game on a 12-0 run and never trailed.The score was 14-6 in the first half, andBasehor-Linwood extended the lead to36-20 at halftime.

Early in the fourth quarter, Basehor-Linwood made a field goal to go up by 30points. The rest of the game was playedwith a running clock.

Basehor-Linwood had four players indouble figures.

Ryan Murphy scored 18 points, join-ing his brother Colin Murphy in the1,000 career points club for the Bobcats.He had 985 points entering the game.

“He kind of took the accomplishmentin stride and went about his business,”McBride said.

— Nick Bratkovic, Contributing writer

NICK BRATKOVICCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Basehor-Linwood defeated PlatteCounty 54-25 on Friday with 10 differ-ent players scoring at least two points.

The game was the type of performanceon offense that coach Noah Simpson hassaid throughout the season that his teamis capable of playing. Players hadarguably their best half of offensive bas-ketball this season in the game.

Bailey Hooker scored eight points forthe Bobcats, catching the ball and mov-ing with relative ease into the paint. Shefinished with nine points.

Cara McCarty scored six points in ahalf where BLHS appeared comfortablerunning its new offense that emphasizeda lot of cutting and getting good interiorlooks at the basket.

Possessions looked polished as playersmade short-range field goals after receiv-ing crisp passes. Players seemed to be run-ning the offense from memory, allowingthem to relax a little bit more while play-ing the game.

“Right now, we aren’t thinking about

it on offense, we are just putting it up andscoring,” Simpson said.

At intermission, the team’s defensehad forced 12 turnovers and led 28-11.

Basehor-Linwood outscored PlatteCounty 14-10 in the third quarter andthen outscored the Pirates 13-4 to openup the lead in the final quarter.

“I think a lot of it has to do with ourintensity,” Simpson said. “Instead of fiveor six girls playing with confidence, wehave 11 playing as hard as we can.”

Johnson led the Bobcats with 12points. Hooker finished with ninepoints. The team’s other scorers wereCara McCarty, 6; Victoria Smith, 5; AlexGorman, 6; Samantha Rutherford, 2;Sarah Ford, 3; Maggie Hattock, 7; KaraStephens, 3; and Naqari Harris, 2.

On defense, Basehor-Linwood shutdown the Pirates offense. The team didnot have a player score in double figures.

Kirsten Clemens and Gabby Robinsoneach had six points in the game.

After the first round loss to St. Joe Ben-ton, Simpson said it was nice to finishwith two wins and a fifth-place finish atthe Bobcat Invitational.

BSHS’s Edmondson sets new school swimming record

BLHS girls finish fifth at Invite

Bonner Springs swimmer BlaineEdmondson set a school record in the200-yard individual medley on Saturdayat Blue Valley Northwest.

Edmondson finished sixth in theevent at 2:20.10. The Braves took sixth-place overall in the Timberwolves Invita-tional with three top-10 relay finishesand four top-10 individual finishes.

Edmondson, Nate Mitchell, RyanCook and Ethan Hook finished sixth in

the 200-yard freestyle and 200-yardmedley relays. Jacob Sopher, CodyCrider, Tony Smith and Thomas Hookalso finished 10th in the 200-yardfreestyle relay.

Cook finished seventh in the 100-yardbreaststroke and eighth in the 100-yardfreestyle. Hook was tenth in the 100-yardbackstroke.

The team will play host to the WYCOInvitational at 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26.

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Bonner Police identify bodyfound in Bonner creek

Bonner Springs police have releasedthe name of a Bonner Springs womandiscovered dead in a Bonner Springscreek Jan. 15.

Lt. George Collins Friday said thewoman was identified as Ursula Den-ley-Malton, 44. While police have notdetermined the cause of death, Collinssaid foul play was not suspected.

A resident on a walk discovered Den-ley-Malton’s body just before 5 p.m. inthe creek along Springvalley Avenuebetween Kump and Shadyside avenues.Her obituary can be found on page 5.

Bonner resident hit by car;police still investigating

Bonner Springs police are investigat-ing a case in which a Bonner residentwas hit by a vehicle late last week.

Lt. Rick Schubert said the man, Emer-son A. Brazee, 35, was hit by the vehicleabout 4 p.m. Friday in the 400 block ofNorth Park Street. Brazee was taken tothe hospital with several broken bones.

Because the case is still under investi-gation, Schubert said he could notrelease any more details. He said policeare trying to determine if the incidentwas an accident or if criminal chargesshould be filed.

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1/26 | THURSDAY• Edwardsville Kiwanis Club meeting, 6:45 a.m.,Sisters Restaurant & Bar, 11657 Kaw Drive,Edwardsville• Bonner Springs-Edwardsville Area Chamber ofCommerce Networking Group, 7:15 a.m. to 8:30a.m., Bonner Springs Family YMCA, 2251 S. 138thSt., 913-422-9348• Morning Steppers, 7:30 a.m. a.m. to 9:30 a.m.,Edwardsville Community Center, 696 S. Third St.,Edwardsville, 913-441-3707• Walkie Talkies, 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., Bonner SpringsCommunity Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010• Open gymnasium, noon to 5 p.m., BonnerSprings Community Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010

1/27 | FRIDAY• Walkie Talkies, 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., Bonner SpringsCommunity Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010• Job Club, 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., Sacred Heartof Jesus Catholic Church, 5501 Monticello Road,Shawnee, 913-422-5700• Open gymnasium, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., BonnerSprings Community Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010• Linwood Elementary School Chili Cook-off andSupper, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., LinwoodElementary School, 215 Park St., Linwood • Wonderscope Texas Hold ‘em Charity PokerTournament and BBQ Dinner, 6 p.m.,Wonderscope Children’s Museum, 5705 Flint St.,Shawnee, 913-268-8130

1/28 | SATURDAY• League of Women Voters of LeavenworthCounty meeting, 9:15 a.m., Leavenworth PublicLibrary, 417 Spruce, Leavenworth, 913-682-5666• Polar Plunge and Strut 2012, 10 a.m., ShawneeMission Park, 7900 Renner Road, Shawnee • Simone Dinnerstein Classical Piano Performance,8 p.m., Johnson County Community CollegeCarlsen Center, 12345 College Blvd., OverlandPark, 913-469-4450

1/29 | SUNDAY• Kansas Day “Home on the Range” party, 2 p.m.to 5 p.m., Holy-Field Vineyard & Winery, 18807158th St., Basehor, 913-724-9463

1/30 | MONDAY• Walkie Talkies, 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., Bonner SpringsCommunity Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010• Open gymnasium, noon to 5 p.m., BonnerSprings Community Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010

1/31 | TUESDAY• Morning Steppers, 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.,Edwardsville Community Center, 696 S. Third St.,Edwardsville, 913-441-3707• Walkie Talkies, 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., Bonner SpringsCommunity Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010• Open gymnasium, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., BonnerSprings Community Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010

2/1 | WEDNESDAY• Walkie Talkies, 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., Bonner SpringsCommunity Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-

7010• Open gymnasium, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., BonnerSprings Community Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010• WOW! (The Word on Wednesdays) Program,6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Basehor United MethodistChurch, 18660 158th St., 913-724-2077

2/2 | THURSDAY• Edwardsville Kiwanis Club meeting, 6:45 a.m.,Sisters Restaurant & Bar, 11657 Kaw Drive,Edwardsville• Bonner Springs-Edwardsville Area Chamber ofCommerce Networking Group, 7:15 a.m. to 8:30a.m., Bonner Springs Family YMCA, 2251 S. 138thSt., 913-422-9348• Morning Steppers, 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.,Edwardsville Community Center, 696 S. Third St.,Edwardsville, 913-441-3707• Walkie Talkies, 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., Bonner SpringsCommunity Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010• Open gymnasium, noon to 5 p.m., BonnerSprings Community Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010

2/3 | FRIDAY• Walkie Talkies, 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., Bonner SpringsCommunity Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010• Job Club, 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., Sacred Heartof Jesus Catholic Church, 5501 Monticello Road,Shawnee, 913-422-5700• Open gymnasium, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., BonnerSprings Community Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010• Wild Hayride Band show and dinner, 6:30 p.m.,Heritage Center, 109 Delaware St., Leavenworth,913-682-2122

2/6 | MONDAY• Walkie Talkies, 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., Bonner SpringsCommunity Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010• Open gymnasium, noon to 5 p.m., BonnerSprings Community Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010• Basehor City Council work session, 7 p.m.,Basehor City Hall, 2620 N. 155th Street, Basehor,913-724-1370• Open gymnasium, noon, Bonner SpringsCommunity Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010• USD 204 Board of Education, 7 p.m., DistrictOffice, 2200 S. 138th St.

2/7 | TUESDAY• Morning Steppers, 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.,Edwardsville Community Center, 696 S. Third St.,Edwardsville, 913-441-3707• Walkie Talkies, 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., Bonner SpringsCommunity Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010• Open gymnasium, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., BonnerSprings Community Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010• Senior Sing-A-Long, 1:45 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.,Council on Aging, 109A Delaware St.,Leavenworth, 913-684-0777• Kaw Valley Chorus rehearsals, 7 p.m., BasehorUnited Methodist Church, 18660 158th St., 913-724-2077

2/8 | WEDNESDAY• Walkie Talkies, 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., Bonner SpringsCommunity Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010

| ON THE RECORD |BONNER SPRINGS POLICEDEPARTMENT CALLS

THURSDAY, JAN. 12• Possession of illegal substance at 1:21 p.m. inthe 13000 block of Kansas Avenue.• Theft at 3:30 p.m. in the 300 block of Insley.• Theft at 6 p.m. in the 12100 block of Kaw Drive.

FRIDAY, JAN. 13• Distribution of illegal substances at 1 p.m. in the400 block of Bluegrass.

SATURDAY, JAN. 14• Obstruction of legal process at 12:05 a.m. in the900 block of Nettleton.

SUNDAY, JAN. 15• Battery at 3:40 p.m. in the 100 block of Cornell.

THURSDAY, JAN. 20• Exploitation of a child at 1:30 p.m. in the 100block of McDanield.• Aggravated battery at 4 p.m. in the 400 block ofPark.• Possession of illegal substance at 11:20 p.m. inthe 13400 block of Kansas Avenue.

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Kelly Svitak opened her new chiropractic office, Pure Movement Integrated Health Center, Jan.16 at 13100 Kansas Ave., Suite H.


Kelly Svitak says her goal as a chiro-practor is to treat the whole body, not justone problem area.

“Trying to really idealize the body’smovement — try to find where the prob-lem is and fix that,”Svitak said.

That’s why shedecided to call hernew chiropracticpractice Pure Move-ment IntegratedHealth Center. Thecenter opened Jan.16 at 13100 KansasAve., Suite H., andwill offer sportsrehabilitation andacupuncture inaddition to chiro-practic services.

Svitak, who isfrom northeast Kansas near Baileyville,lived in the St. Louis area for the last fewyears. There, she attended Logan Chiro-practic College. When she and her hus-band moved back to the Kansas City arealast October, she began looking for aplace to open her own practice.

Because she comes from a town ofabout 200 people, she wanted to stayaway from the more heavily populatedareas.

“I didn’t want to be in the big city somuch. I kind of wanted to be in an area

that had a little more of a small townfeel,” she said.

Her sister lives in Edwardsville, so Svi-tak contacted the Bonner Springs-Edwardsville Chamber of Commerce anddecided Bonner was the right fit for her.

Svitak had her own positive experi-ence with having spinal adjustments asa volleyball player in high school, but itwas her sister’s experience that made herdecide to move into the profession.

Svitak said her sister had ulcerativecolitis, a disease that affects the largeintestine and immune system. She wentto several doctors who put her on highlevels of medication that weren’t helpingher pain. So she started going to a chiro-practor as well as an integrated healthcenter for nutritional treatments inWichita.

“Between those things, she eventuallystarted to slowly get better, and she’s noton any medications today, which usual-ly, that’s a disease where you’re on somesort of maintenance medication all thetime,” Svitak said.

Svitak said her main area of interest issports rehabilitation. And acupuncture issomething she became interested inwhile in chiropractic school. She is boardcertified in acupuncture in Missouri.Kansas does not require certification.

Pure Movement is open for varyinghours Monday through Wednesday andFridays, and is available by appointmentonly on Thursdays and Saturdays. PureMovement can be contacted at 913-745-4036 or online at pmihckc.com.

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NANCY J. GRAYBONNER SPRINGS — Nancy Jane

Gray, 78, Bonner Springs, KS, died Jan.23, 2012. Funeral services 11 a.m., Fri.,Jan. 27, Alden-Harrington FuneralHome. Burial, Leavenworth NationalCemetery. Visitation 6-8 p.m., Thur., Jan.26 at the funeral home.

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URSULA C. MELTONBONNER SPRINGS — Ursula C.

Melton, age 44, of Bonner Springs,Kansas, passed away on Sunday Jan. 15,2012. Funeral Mass will be 10:00 a.m. Sat-urday Jan. 28, 2012, at the Sacred Heartof Jesus Catholic Church (Monticello Rd.& Johnson Dr.) in Shawnee, KS.


JAMES H. ROGERSTONGANOXIE — James H. Rogers, 65,

Tonganoxie, died Saturday, January 21,2012, at Providence Medical Center,Kansas City, KS. Funeral services wereWednesday January 25, 2012, at theQuisenberry Funeral Home, Tonganoxie.Visitation was Tuesday.


MARVIN WALLACEOVERLAND PARK — Marvin Wallace,

87, Overland Park, KS, died January 23,2012.

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I remain proud to be a Kansan, andgiven the present political landscape, Ihave some friends who probably can’tmake that statement. Currently, Kansasis a politically divided state featuring skir-mishes between moderates and conser-vatives, and I am not sure there are anyliberals left in the state.

My guess is that theelection this fall will bethe biggest battle sincethe Civil War withmoderates and conser-vatives firing verbaland printed salvos ateach other. The maindifference from a cen-tury and a half ago isthey will be firingemails, not bullets. It will be vicious, withnegative TV commercials, anonymousdirect mailings, blogs and a dozen otherelectronic gizmos that I know or carenothing about. If anything, seeing thesame negative commercial every nightmakes me want to vote the opposite way.

The real victim will be the public, sinceit will be very hard to determine the truthfrom fiction. It is sad, but there are far toomany politicians who care more aboutgetting elected than telling the truth.They spend more time attacking oppo-nents than telling us what they will doonce they get in office. I want an open-minded candidate who will look at theneeds of the entire state and represent allpeople, not just one ideological group.

Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised sinceKansas was born in controversy and,unfortunately, violence. I didn’t realizeuntil I did a little research what really ledto the border war of the 1850s. It seemsthere was a “backroom” agreement thatNebraska would enter the union as a freestate and Kansas would be a slave state,or at least that’s what a lot of Missouri-ans thought. Well, no one told Kansassettlers about that, and Missourians wereshocked that a vast majority of our stateopposed slavery. This led to attacks byMissouri “border ruffians” who terror-ized Kansas. They tried to stuff ballot

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hawkers” retaliated and discovered thatMissourians had been making a profitlooting Kansas homesteads. Through theviolent likes of John Brown, Bloody BillAnderson and William Quantrill, soon

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the buffalo hunters, who nearly eradicat-ed the species. Kansas also gained noto-riety during the outlaw era of the late19th century.

Yet, during that period Kansas was oneof the most progressive states in theunion. Now known as an arch conserva-tive state, Kansas once was a leader insocial legislation. The Progressive Partyalmost elected a governor, and there wasa strong socialist movement in south-eastern Kansas. Kansas has always had adiverse political landscape and one thatusually has led to controversy.

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Kansas has produced many great lead-ers who have held high office. Theseinclude President Dwight Eisenhowerand Charles Curtis, who served as vicepresident. The state has been a leader inagriculture and areas of manufacturing.If you stop to think about it, there aremany reasons to be proud of Kansas.

Yes, we have problems now, but as inthe past, Kansans will grumble, argueand fight, but in the long run they willsolve the issue. I remain a proud Kansan.

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Maybe you did and maybe you didn’t.

As January is a month of renewal, let’s consider it a second chance of sorts and revisit the issue.

One of the most common excuses for avoiding a workout involves time, or the lack thereof. And while I fully understand that, after awhile this excuse develops into a crutch. We can’t make more time, but we certainly can try and restructure the time that we do have, and incorporate exercise and movement into our lives.

To many people, devoting one full hour of time to a workout is a lot. Let’s be honest. Most of the time it’s way over an hour, once you factor in drive time to the gym and showering. Some days this is possible and others it’s not.

But consistency is key to achieving a workout goal, so you need to be able to compensate for the days when you have a packed schedule. And if that is every single day, then so be it.

Instead of focusing on the time that you don’t have, focus on the time that you do. Break

up that hour into manageable segments throughout your day, and you absolutely can get your workout in. It may not be conventional, but you can make it count. Focus on the fact that you are actively doing something instead of zeroing in on the things that you have yet to do.

If you are out of shape, that certainly didn’t happen overnight. So accept the fact that you will not wake up 30 pounds lighter and with rock-hard abs tomorrow. Be willing to suck it up and get to work. It’s for you, after all.

Incorporating change into your workout will force your body to work in different ways and will help keep you from getting bored.

It goes without saying that if you are trying to lose weight, you are going to have to work hard. There really are no new “rules” here. Be mindful of what you eat, cut out the empty calories and junk food, and move more. These are just a few basics that we all have heard a few thousand times. There is a reason they have staying power.

In my previous column I promised some new moves, and I hope that you will give them a try. All can be easily modifi ed to accommodate different levels of fi tness, so challenge yourself.

And let me know how you are doing. We all can use a little motivation and inspiration, after all.

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Overhead Squat with Ball: Works chest, arms, shoulders, back, abs, glutes and quads. Stand with legs slightly wider than shoulder length apart and raise stability ball over your head, with arms close to your ears. Squat, hold for one count,

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Two- Arm Row: Works upper and mid back. Holding 5- to 8-pound weights in each hand, stand with feet together and knees slightly bent. Hinge forward at waist so that weights are at knee level. Keep back straight and pull weights to chest until upper arms are parallel to spine. 12-15 reps.

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Weight can be a diffi cult subject for parents to talk about with their

children, and too often, it’s put on the back burner.

A recent study by WebMD and Sanford Health shows 5 percent of parents struggle when talking to their child about drugs and alcohol, and 10 percent are uncomfortable talking about sex, but 25 percent are hesitant to discuss their child’s weight issues.

In fact, many parents of 8- to 17-year-olds admitted to avoiding the weight conversation altogether.

That’s a problem when 17 percent of children are obese — triple the rate from just a generation ago.

Amy Beck, a child psychologist in weight management at Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, said it’s not only parents who don’t want to talk about weight, but primary care doctors, too.

“Children are referred to our weight management program, and often it hasn’t been spoken about before. So, the parents will say, ‘I had no idea that this was a problem,’” Beck said.

She encourages parents to

advocate for their children’s health and discuss any weight issues with their doctor. The sooner the better because it’s easier to prevent than treat. She has clients who are 2 years old and considered obese.

“It really can affect the majority of our body systems in some way,” Beck said.

“It may seem like, ‘He’s just a bit pudgy,’ but it can have a great impact. It just makes our bodies work harder,” she said.

Jennifer Church, a nutritionist at the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, also emphasizes early prevention. She said about 10 percent of the children ages 2 to 5 who are enrolled in the health department’s WIC program are overweight.

“We have seen that continuing upward,” she said.

If a child has gained weight, she said parents should not talk about diets and losing weight with their children because it can affect them psychologically. She also said a child should not be singled out or told that they are obese or overweight.

Instead, parents should talk about the importance of overall

health and address it as a family.“It’s critical for the whole

family to participate. If a parent wants a child to eat healthy, they have to change, too,” Church said. “You can’t take soda away from them and then continue to carry around a big jug of it yourself.”

She said the same goes for exercise. Parents will say, “Go outside and play,” but that often doesn’t work or last long. She said it’s better to make it a family activity whether it’s kickball, rollerblading or a basketball shooting contest. If you are crunched for time, she suggests playing with them for a little while so they start having fun and don’t want to stop.

Also, turn off the computers and televisions and turn up the tunes. “No matter what you are doing, you will move more when music is playing,” Church said.

When it comes to food, Church said it’s hard for parents to tell a child they can’t have a second or third helping because that’s their job to keep them nourished. Her advice is to let the child guide their own hunger, but the key is to provide nutritious, nonprocessed foods and not

chicken nuggets, corn dogs and french fries.

“Those are all foods that interfere with the normal response in the brain because they are packed with sodium and fats,” Church said. “If you have healthy food at mealtime, let them eat until they are satisfi ed. If you start saying, ‘No. You’ve had enough,’ it’s going to make them want more food and it’s going to backfi re. It’s often a psychological

thing.”Beck, of Children’s Mercy, said

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“You are not harming the child by not letting them have the candy bar that they are screaming for in the grocery store,” she said. “I realize that can be hard for some people, but just remember that giving them whatever they want will be harmful down the road.”

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Charlya Cooley loaned quilts sewn by her grandmother, mother and aunts, largely in the1930s, for a display at the Bonner Springs City Library. The display will remain until the end ofthe month.

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Family quilts on displayBY CAROLINE BOYER

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Charlya Cooley has always felt con-nected to her mother, grandmother andaunts through the quilts that can befound either in use or carefully folded instorage in her home.

And through the end of January,patrons at the Bonner Springs CityLibrary can view these historical exam-ples of Midwestern quilts, which Cooleyloaned to the library’s art display area.The five quilts were all sewn or partiallysewn by hand by the Bonner resident’srelatives.

Cooley got the quilts from her moth-er, with the exception of the “doublewedding ring” quilt, which one of heraunts made for her in 1969. The rest wereall created in the 1930s by her grand-mother and her aunts.

“I guess that was her pastime, herhobby — they didn’t have hobbies then,probably,” she said. “All the ladies prob-ably quilted.”

Though she knows that, historically,women often gathered to quilt as a socialevent, Cooley said her aunts did not usetheir quilting time for gossip.

“In the afternoons they would sitdown and quilt, one at one end and oneat the other end, and they wouldn’t saya word to each other — at least, that’swhat my mother said,” Cooley said.

One, a “morning glory” pattern, wasdesigned and partially sewn by her moth-er in 1938, but Cooley said her mothertended to use her sewing talents for dress-making, instead.

Cooley quilts some herself andbelongs to a quilting guild that meets inMission, but she said she doesn’t have

the talent for quilting by hand that herrelatives had.

The quilts are a good example of howfarm families used and reused materials,Cooley said. Most of the quilts weremade from scraps, as quilts often were,and Cooley believes the “grandmother’sflower garden” patterned quilt on displaywas made from feed sack pieces cut intohexagons.

Cooley has been surrounded by herfamily’s quilts throughout her life.

When she was a child, one of her auntsmade “sunbonnet Sue” quilts for Coo-ley’s bedroom and a turtle quilt for herbrother’s bedroom. She uses about five ofher family’s quilts regularly in her home,but the five on display are more careful-ly stored.

“It’s nice to have them up on displayhere, because I don’t have any place athome to hang them up like this,” Cooleysaid. “… My aunts and my grandmotherwould be surprised that their quilts areon display somewhere.”

Cooley folds the quilts using a specialacid-free tissue paper in the creases ofeach fold and then wraps them in sheetsor pillowcases before storing them.

“It’s quite a job to fold them and putthem back,” she said.

She’s never had them appraised, butCooley knows that buying a new hand-sewn quilt can cost several hundred dol-lars. But she said the sentimental value,not the monetary value, is what makesher take such care with them.

“I think it’s really great to have some-thing like this to remember (her),because my grandmother died when Iwas 2, so I really didn’t know her,” shesaid. “The only way I knew her was bythe stories my mother told.”

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Daniel Foster of Schlagel and Associ-ates said the apartment complex’s gatedcommunity and amenities weredesigned to offer a high-quality multi-family development. He said rezoningthe southern portion of the property toinclude it would allow for more units and

make it economically viable to offer thehigh-end amenities, such as a pool andclubhouse.

But about 14 nearby residents whospoke said the development was toodense to build adjacent to their single-family homes.

Bill Bezer said neighbors believe thedevelopment would lower property val-ues and cause traffic problems.

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Some residents expressed concern thatthe project would increase stormwaterdrainage problems already present in thearea. City staff and the developer said anexisting stormwater retention basinwould be improved as part of the devel-opment to mitigate drainage issues.

Most were concerned about trafficfrom the complex moving souththrough their neighborhood on 132ndStreet, saying the neighborhood alreadyhas speeding problems. City staff agreed

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Commission members David Pierce,Robin Neal and Jason Krone votedagainst the change to the comprehensiveplan and rezoning.

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On the main floor, officials got to viewthe cavernous kitchen for the Epic Buf-fet, where Sheldon explained there wasenough storage for a full day’s worth offood service.

He said the layout of the casino wasdesigned to shorten the distancebetween attractions for visitors, with the

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“We have a very efficient footprint,”Sheldon said.

Of course, officials also took in thelights and colors of the casino floor itself,where trailers for current movies playedalongside images of classic Hollywoodactors such as Humphrey Bogart, JimmyStewart and Audrey Hepburn. They metthe head chefs for each of the restaurantsand watched the dealers brush up on

training at the gambling tables.One question posed to Sheldon con-

cerned a future hotel planned for thecasino. Sheldon confirmed that PennNational Gaming was still committed tohaving a hotel within two years of thecasino’s opening, but the company is stillworking to find a hotel to partner with.The hotel would be built on the casino’swest side, he said.

A handful of guests will get to see thecasino in action before its grand opening.

The casino plans a nine-hour, invitation-only event Jan. 30 to raise funds for Sun-flower House and the Kansas City,Kansas, School Foundation for excel-lence. Invited guests will choose one ofthree three-hour “seatings.” The eventalso will serve as a controlled demonstra-tion for state regulators to ensure allinternal controls and operations areready for the public opening.

• Find more photos of the commis-sioners’ tour on page 23.

Commissioners get behind-the-scenes look at casino

Rezoning for proposed apartments approved by narrow vote

Chieftain closes office; paperproduction will continue

STAFF REPORTS

The Chieftain is closing its businessoffice in Bonner Springs effective Jan. 25and will operate out of business offices inTonganoxie and Shawnee.

Customers wanting to place a classi-fied advertisement or display ad, pur-chase a Chieftain subscription, submit anews item or talk to a reporter or editorcan call the Chieftain via a toll-free tele-phone number, 800-578-8748. A recep-tionist is on duty from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30p.m. Monday through Friday and willdirect callers with questions about adver-tising, newspaper purchases or deliveryand news articles to the proper contact.

To place a classified ad, customers cancall 800-578-8748 or go online tobonnersprings.com and click on “classi-fieds” at the upper right corner of thewebsite.

Chieftain news reporter CarolineBoyer will be based in the offices of theShawnee Dispatch, 6301 Pflumm Road,and continue to cover events in Bonner

Springs and Edwardsville. She can becontacted via cell phone at 913-232-6511or by email, [email protected].

Chieftain sports editor Stephen Mon-temayor is based at the Shawnee Dis-patch office. His phone number is 913-962-3000 and his email [email protected].

Dennis Anderson, managing editor,can be reached in Lawrence at785-832-7194, or via email,[email protected].

Jerry Hall, Chieftain account execu-tive, will be based in Tonganoxie. He canbe reached at 785-840-4894 or by email,[email protected].

The Chieftain is available at severallocations in Bonner Springs, includingWalmart, Thriftway, Degoler Pharmacy,Christi’s Star Mart, Wood’s Minimart,Shell, BP, Sunset Discount Smokes, PriceChopper, Surf & Go, Jackson’s ServiceCenter, Happy Foods, Grab-N-Go, G&P,Dari Dine, Bonner Springs Laundry, Piz-zaville Restaurant, Daylight Donuts andthe Bonner Springs Post Office.

| NEWS IN BRIEF |Bonner native is ESU grad

Catherine Lee Smith of BonnerSprings was one of 550 candidates forgraduation from Emporia State Univer-sity during commencement exercisesDec. 17.

Smith earned a bachelor’s degree inbusiness administration with a minorin information systems.

KCK residents charged inTurner bank robbery

Two Kansas City, Kan., residents lastweek were charged with bank robbery,U.S. Attorney Barry Grissomannounced.

Jason Ham, 21, and Holly Lindsey,29, were charged Thursday with one

count of bank robbery in U.S. DistrictCourt in Kansas City, Kan. An agent’saffidavit alleges that on Jan. 17, Hamrobbed Bank Midwest, 4600 ShawneeDrive in Kansas City, Kan., while Lind-sey waited in a car.

Before leaving the bank and drivingaway with Lindsey, Ham allegedly gavethe teller a note saying, “This is a rob-bery. Give me everything.”

Police got a tag number of the get-away vehicle from a witness and used itto find Ham and Lindsey at Ham’smother’s home in Kansas City, Kan.

If convicted, they face a maximumpenalty of 20 years in federal prisonand a fine up to $250,000. The KansasCity, Kan., Police Department and theFBI investigated. Assistant U.S. AttorneyLeon Patton is prosecuting.

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A checkout encounterAgatha Christie had her English Vil-

lage; I have my local grocery store. It issaid that Agatha Christie rarely venturedout of her village. She had, however, anunderstanding of human nature, asrevealed in her mystery stories that par-alleled someone having traveled theworld.

Her village, like the local grocery store,is a microcosm of the world. If you takethe time to get toknow that piece ofthe world, become apart of it and let itbecome a part ofyou, you come toknow human naturein a very real way.

I think about thatwhen I do my week-ly grocery shoppingor when I pick up mymonthly medica-tions from the pharmacy. How like a vil-lage this store is. I can walk the streets ofmy town and tell you the history of mostof the homes in the old part of town. Ican peruse the aisles of the grocery storeand shop blindfolded. Well, I couldbefore someone took it upon him or her-self to rearrange the shelves and movethings around.

It is, however, more than the familiar-ity of the environs that makes this par-ticular grocery store vital to this commu-nity. It was there, during my treatmentsfor breast cancer, that I shopped and got

to know the checkers, the deli people, thepharmacists and the pharmacy techs,and came to know a hodgepodge of peo-ple with their own aches, pains, dreamsand ambitions. I also was the recipient ofcare, concern and encouragement.

I came to know who was trying to quitsmoking, who was going off to college,whose car radiator sprung a leak, whosemother had breast cancer, whose girl-friend liked what movies, who shoppedon Friday afternoons and whose in-lawswere coming to town for the holidays.

I heard a woman say recently she wasstanding in line at the checkout counterand a man behind her, whom she did notknow, paid for her holiday shopping. Forthe first time in her life, she experiencedthe generosity of a stranger. That it hap-pened in the Price Chopper grocery storehere at home didn’t surprise me.

There are kind, generous, compassion-ate people in the world, just as there arerascals and scallywags. I found, however,more of the goodness in people in theaisles of the store and behind the coun-ters than I did otherwise.

It was the fox in the children’s book,“The Little Prince,” who said this to thePrince: “What is important is invisible tothe eye; it is with the heart that one see’srightly … it is the time we take for ourrose (friends) that is important.”

Agatha Christie found it in her village.I find it at the grocery store — the deli,the pharmacy, the checkout counter, ina random aisle — my village.

By Rae Sedgwick

| REMEMBER WHEN |

KCKCC tour heading to EuropeSTAFF REPORTS

Kansas City Kansas Community Col-lege Fall Tour Abroad will visit the AlpineJewels of Europe Sept. 24 through Oct. 5.

A 13-day junket, the trip will start inSwitzerland and continue throughFrance, Italy, Liechtenstein and Austriabefore ending in Salzburg and Munich.Highlights in Switzerland will includethe cities of Lucerne, Bern and St. Moritz,Lake Geneva and Mt. Titlis and Mt. Pila-tus in the Alps. Two days in France willinclude a visit to the base of Mont Blancand the opportunity to take a cable car to“the top of the world” in Chamonix.

The famed lakes country and LakeComo will be visited in Italy, while thetiny principality of Lichtenstein is

known worldwide for its wines, postagestamp trade and royal family’s hilltopcastle. Innsbruck, the Austrian site of twoWinter Olympics, will also offer thechance to see the famed “Disney castle,”Neuschwanstein, and the historic villageof Oberammergau before the trip con-cludes in Salzburg, the home of Mozartand the city made most famous by“Sound of Music.”

The cost round trip from Kansas Cityis $3,569 double occupancy if signed upduring January and includes daily buffetbreakfasts, five three-course dinners,transportation and guided sightseeing. Afull itinerary can be obtained by callingAlan Hoskins at KCKCC at 913-288-7158or by email at [email protected].

10 YEARS AGO — JAN. 24, 2002

The Basehor and Glenwood RidgeCub Scouts organized the annualpinewood derby. Glen Maughmer wasthe Cub Master.

Ted and Dora Stolfus were namedBonner Springs Community Persons ofthe Year by the Bonner Springs-Edwardsville Chamber of Commerce.The Edwardsville winners were Nateand Tammy Burgoon.

The Unified Government of Wyan-dotte County and Kansas City, Kan.,announced cuts in funding to the Sen-ior Center and Tiblow Transit service inBonner Springs.

Jeff Harrington was installed as presi-dent of the Bonner Springs-Edwardsville Chamber of Commerce.

25 YEARS AGO — JAN. 22, 1987

Dede Sue Cline, daughter of Jamesand Patty Cline, won the Chieftain-Sen-tinel First Baby of the Year contest.

Connie and DeeDee Harringtonannounced plans to open a new floral

shop in Bonner Springs.Don Craven, Ed Roberts Jr. and John

Waggoner filed as candidates for theUSD 204 Bonner Springs-EdwardsvilleBoard of Education.

50 YEARS AGO — JAN. 25, 1962

Glen Barb was re-elected to the boardof directors of the Bonner Springs Build-ing and Loan Association.

A new coin-operated laundromat wasscheduled to open in Basehor. The busi-ness was being opened by the Brewerbrothers.

100 YEARS AGO — JAN. 25, 1912

A Bonner Springs woman filedcharges of wife beating against her hus-band. He knocked her unconscious andthen left town.

L. G. Frisbie was president of theFarmers State Bank. James Mann wasvice president and J. D. Waters was treas-urer. C. L. David was president of theFirst National Bank. Charles King wasvice president and Roy Stotts was treas-urer.

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BY SHAUN [email protected]

Washington, population 1,100, is oneof the small Kansas towns not far fromthe Nebraska border along Kansas High-way 36, in the north-central part of thestate.

As you shoot through town, one blockfrom the MarCon Pie Factory, and beforeyou get to Washington’s one restaurant,you’ll see a series of nondescript build-ings right off the main road.

The few windows and the gray vinylsiding give visitors little clues as to whatgoes on inside the complex. The inhabi-tants are rambunctious but well-trained,and their barking can’t be heard fromoutside.

Newcomers are greeted by Morris, atubby feline tour guide who will accom-pany visitors to the kennels, where thesight of a dog’s best friend causes a ruckusamong the dozens of golden retrieversand black and yellow Labradors.

The dogs, over a span of more than twoyears, have been trained to protect, assistand guide a human companion throughthe world, away from cars, up escalators,to the kitchen and out of bed.

After their intensive training is com-plete, the dogs will be sent all over thecountry, giving independence back tothe visually impaired and others withdisabilities, all free of charge.

Welcome to the headquarters of KSDS.

PUPPY RAISERS

Lawrence resident Nancy Giossi’sassistance-dog-in-training, McLaren, a22-month-old golden retriever, accom-panies Giossi to work during the week atthe Kansas University Department ofContinuing Education.

Giossi, who’s been a KSDS puppy rais-er for nearly a decade, has a personalstory of how she first became involvedwith the agency. One of Giossi’s child-hood friends had to use a wheelchairafter an accident. Knowing a service dogwould help her friend, Giossi signed up,raising the very dog her friend would beassigned to.

Giossi’s been a puppy raiser ever since,and McLaren is her fourth training dog.

During the day, McLaren faithfully sitsunder Giossi’s desk wearing his workclothes, a KSDS-embroidered cape thatlets McLaren know he’s supposed to beon his best behavior.

“When he wears his cape, he’s nice andcalm,” Giossi said. “When the capecomes off, he’s a wild man.”

McLaren has become a workplacefavorite for employees. With his teeth,McLaren carries papers between officesand shuttles the watering can around thebuilding.

In addition to such tricks, Giossi trainsMcLaren on 40 or so other commands.

In two months, Giossi will sendMcLaren back to KSDS, where he’ll bescreened and receive his final training.

While McLaren seems like the perfectdog, Giossi tells stories of the behind-the-scenes work of a puppy raiser, whenMcLaren chews up cellphones or acts up.

“The time commitment is huge,”Giossi said. “Twenty-four hours a day,365 days a year.”

But it comes with the territory, andGiossi said it’s impossible not to get emo-tional as McLaren’s return dateapproaches.

“It’s very hard,” Giossi said. “We cry alot” when it’s time to say goodbye.

“But we know that they’re going on tobigger and better things,” she said.“They’re going to give somebody inde-pendence.”

A PERSON’S NEEDS

If there’s a doggy heaven, it’d probablylook something like the KSDS headquar-ters.

In the main building, the goldenretrievers and Labradors frolic about,learning commands, playing games andgetting kisses from the organization’sdedicated staff.

But it’s not all fun and games, saidLarry Stigge, executive director. The dogsare working and the trainers equally so.

The trainers “have to have so muchpatience,” Stigge said.

The work is repetitive, as the trainersteach the dogs to sit, stand, climb on thegrooming table and heel. Over and overagain.

The dogs are all in different stages oftraining and are being trained for differ-ent tasks.

The two dozen dogs are rotated inshifts throughout the day for an hour orso of training per day.

Some of the dogs will be guide dogs forthe visually impaired, others will be serv-ice dogs assisting those with disabilities,and others will become social dogs, usedin schools and hospitals for therapeuticpurposes. More than 100 assistance dogswho have been trained at KSDS are scat-tered in 32 states, Stigge said. Since 1990,the organization has trained more than400 dogs.

When the dogs come back to KSDSfrom the puppy raisers, the staff evaluatesthe dogs to see which type of assistancedog will be the best fit. Once the dogs aretrained, the people who will receivethem come to KSDS for more specifictraining on each person’s needs. Thosereceiving an assistance dog stay in on-sitedormitories for up to three weeks.

Debbie Tegethoff, a guide dog trainerfor the past 13 years, was working with ablack Labrador named Cadillac on arecent day. Cadillac is nearing the end ofhis training and listens obediently toTegethoff as she puts his guide harnesson and directs him to the door for a walk.

Braving the brisk winter weather andhigh winds, Cadillac hugs the curbs onthe street, directing Tegethoff aroundobstacles, such as parked cars and pot-holes. In addition to acting as the eyes ofa visually impaired person, Cadillac is

trained to give his life, if need be, byblocking any threat from his owner.

Through the years, Tegethoff hasworked with hundreds of dogs and saysthe best part is seeing the quick connec-tions and deep impact the dogs make ontheir owners and new best friends.

“Seeing the independence that thesedogs give to people,” she said. “It’s amaz-ing.”

While Tegethoff works with the moreexperienced Cadillac, fellow trainer AnnMetz wrestles around with Indigo, anewer yellow Labrador who will some-day be a service dog.

Though he looks a little unwieldytoday, once he’s matched with his owner,Metz said, he’ll be able to open doors,


SEE BASEHOR-LINWOOD, PAGE 15

Kansas-trained dogs brighten days for many

KEVIN ANDERSON

KSDS staff members Jenna Petesch, left, and Annette Metz work with a couple of yellowLabradors, who will become assistance dogs. The two dozen dogs at KSDS, formerly known asthe Kansas Specialty Dog Service, in Washington, Kan., get about an hour a day of training fromstaff.

KEVIN ANDERSON

Nancy Giossi plays with McLaren, a 2-year-old golden retriever who will eventuallybecome an assistance dog, at the KansasUniversity Department of ContinuingEducation. Giossi has been a KSDS “puppyraiser” for nearly a decade, and she’ll soonsend McLaren back to the training center forthe final portions of his training.

FROM PAGE 14help put on and take off clothes, retrievefood from the refrigerator and pick upjust about any object, even something assmall as a paperclip.

“Just depends on what a person’sneeds are,” Metz said of a service dog’sabilities.

BEING SOCIAL

In front of Glenwood Ridge Elemen-tary School south of Basehor, studentafter student pets Zip, an 8-year-old yel-low Labrador, on the head as they fileonto the bus.

Zip, too, was trained by KSDS. Butunlike the service and guide dogs trainedthere, she hasn't been taught to devoteher full attention to helping one person.Instead, she provides a comforting,friendly presence for many people — inher case, elementary students. She is asocial dog.

And it's plain to see why Zip wasdeemed a better fit for this job, said herowner, Marilyn McGown. She'd nevercut it as a guide dog.

“She'd be saying hello to everybody,”said McGown, a school counselor in theBasehor-Linwood school district.

But as a social dog, Zip is perfect, shesaid.

The dog welcomes students as theycome in the front doors in the morning,says goodbye when they leave and doesa lot in between.

But perhaps never is she more helpfulthan when a student comes intoMcGown's office tearful or upset. Themoment a child comes in the door, Ziphops up from the floor and comes to hisor her side. McGown calls it “uncondi-tional love.”

“She just sits right there by them, putsher head in their lap,” McGown said.

Zip is McGown’s second social dogtrained by KSDS. She was preceded byHunter, who died in 2005 and was thefirst socialdog KSDSsent any-where.

McGown,who grew upin the town ofWashingtonand knew ofKSDS, askedthe organiza-tion in 1995about train-ing a socialdog after sheread a journalarticle about aprincipal whobrought herdog to school.She thoughtit might be away to helpkids enjoyschool more.

KSDS tookon the challenge, and since then it hastrained nearly 100 social dogs for place-ment in schools, nursing homes, mentalhealth facilities and medical practices,Tegethoff said.

Social-dogs-in-training at KSDS taketrips to an elementary school in Wash-ington, Tegethoff said, where studentssimulate injuries, temper tantrums andcrying fits to make sure the dogs canremain calm. They also visit nursinghomes, where they practice giving eachof the residents a friendly greeting.

“The social dog has to be very tolera-ble of all kinds of situations,” Tegethoff

said.McGown recalled that when she first

proposed to the Basehor-Linwood schoolboard that she use a dog for counselingpurposes, the practice was unusual. Butsince then, it's become more common,she said.

“The school board took a leap of faithto try it, I think,” McGown said. “Butnow there are dogs in lots and lots ofschools.”

OUT IN THE WORLD

Step into the cafeteria on the fifth floorof the Landon State Office Building inTopeka, and as you make your way to thesnack bar, you’ll pass Kircaldy, a 3-year-old golden retriever.

During his eight-hour workday, Kir-caldy naps ona doggy bed inan alcovebelow a signasking visitorsnot to pet orfeed him. Allday, he waitspatiently,occasionallypopping hishead up.

Lethargyquickly turnsto enthusiasmthe minuteKircaldy’sowner, BillDain, stepsout frombehind thekitchen.

“The sec-ond I’m readyto go, he’sready to go,”

said Dain, the visually impaired ownerand operator of the cafeteria.

For 15 years, Dain’s been guidedthrough the world by a dog like Kircaldy.First, there was Leggo and, more recent-ly, Bronco.

Dain has owned and managed thecafeteria, as well as one other a few blocksaway, for 11 years.

Glaucoma and macular degenerationslowly robbed Dain of most of his vision,and, before the guide dogs supplied byKSDS, Dain used a cane, but his mobilitywas limited. It was much more difficultto come and go as he pleased, and man-

aging two cafeterias wouldn’t have beenpossible.

Dain, like all of those who receiveguide dogs from KSDS, spent a week or soin Washington getting acquainted withKircaldy. Tegethoff, the KSDS trainer, alsotraveled to Topeka for a couple of weeks,helping Dain train Kircaldy in navigatinga daily routine.

The duo wake at 3 a.m. every day dur-ing the week and are dropped off in Tope-ka by Dain’s wife. By 5 a.m., Kircaldy hashelped Dain get to the cafeteria for thedaily shift. Throughout the work day, Kir-caldy helps Dain back and forth betweenthe two work sites. Some days after work,

they shop, and Kircaldy has learned tofind very specific items at the grocerystore, such as bananas and even cannedenchilada sauce.

And when his work day is done, Kir-caldy takes his guide dog harness off and“he’s a full-blooded dog,” Dain said, run-ning around and lounging at their home.

“I got my independence back,” saidDain of the gift of a guide dog. “The feel-ing of being free. It’s indescribable.”

— Matt Erickson contributed to this story.


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Zip, an 8-year-old yellow Labrador,stands beside Marilyn McGown as they watchstudents ride away on buses outsideGlenwood Ridge Elementary School south ofBasehor. McGown began using social dogstrained by KSDS in 1994, a year afterbecoming a school counselor.

Basehor-Linwood school dog gives ‘unconditional love’

• Nonprofit organization based in Washington,Kan., formerly known as the Kansas Specialty DogService, that trains assistance dogs.• Founded in 1990 by a group of 4-H leaders inWashington County.• Program is funded solely by donations.• Offers training for three types of assistancedogs: guide dogs for the visually impaired, servicedogs for the disabled and social dogs for thera-peutic purposes.• Because of increasing demand, there can be upto a two-year wait for those who qualify for anassistance dog.• KSDS will play host to a fundraiser, Cabernet fora Cause, from 7 to 10 p.m. Jan. 28 at Maceli’s,1031 New Hampshire St. in Lawrence. Tickets are$35 in advance and $40 at the door and includea wine tasting and appetizers.• For more information, call (785) 325-2256 orvisit ksds.org.

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MEGAN’S FAVORITE GINGER VANILLA ROASTED PEARS6 to 8 pears (I had 8 smallish ones)4 tablespoons butter, melted1/2 cup brown sugar2 teaspoon cognac2 teaspoon vanilla1/4 cup candied ginger, chopped into small pieces

• Begin by preheating your oven to 400 degrees.Slice your pears in half and lay them face down ina large, glass casserole dish. • Whisk together the butter, brown sugar, cognacand vanilla. Pour the mixture over the pears. Ipicked up each pear and rolled it through the liq-uid to be sure each side was completely covered. • Then sprinkle the ginger over the top. Candiedginger is a very strong taste, so go easy. If youdon’t prefer the taste of ginger, you can certainlyjust omit this ingredient.• Pop the dish in the oven and bake for 20 min-utes. I like to serve this next to some good vanillaice cream and garnish with a sprig of mint. Ladlethe cooking liquid over the top, like syrup. A dol-lop of creme fraiche is delicious with them, or youcan serve them atop a brownie or drizzle withchocolate sauce and pecans.

GINGERY PEAR FIG CRUMBLE DESSERT PIZZA4 ripe pears (I used Anjou)2 cups dried white Turkish figs2 cups pecans (or almonds)2 tablespoons maple syrup1/2 teaspoon vanilla3/4 teaspoon cinnamon, divided3/4 teaspoon ginger, divided1/4 teaspoon nutmeg1 squirt limePinch salt

CRUMBLE: • Tear figs in half and remove any tough stems.Place figs, pecans, salt, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon,1/2 teaspoon ginger and nutmeg in a foodprocessor. • Pulse until crumbly (don’t overprocess!). • Place all but 1 packed cup of the crumble into a10-inch tart pan or 9-inch glass deep-dish pie pan. • Press the crumble into the pan to create a crust;set the remaining 1 cup of crumble aside to usefor topping.

FILLING: • Roughly chop pears into 1/2-inch pieces and dis-card the stems. • Place 3 of the pears into the food processor (noneed to clean it in between uses). Pulse until pearsare roughly chopped into smaller pieces (youwant them to keep some texture) and use a spatu-la to remove them to a medium bowl. • Place the remaining pear, maple syrup, vanilla,1/4 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon ginger anda squirt of lime in the food processor and processuntil smooth. Use a spatula to scrape the pearmixture into the bowl with the chopped pears.Use your spatula to mix the pears together. Spreadthe pears evenly over the crumble crust.• Top with the remaining 1 cup of crumble mix-ture. Serve immediately or put in the fridge to setup a bit more. Store in fridge, use within 3 days.

Serves 8.

BY SARAH [email protected]

Sarah Henning — The World Company’s food reporter basedin Lawrence — and Megan Stuke take advantage of an in-sea-son fruit, pears, for this month’s recipe face-off.

MEGAN: DELICIOUS

I’m not sure if there is an ingredient, besides butter, that Ilove more than pears.

When Sarah and I decided on pears for this month’s project,my head exploded. The possibilities were so many and varied,it was like trying to choose from among an array of belovedrecipes to publish only one.

Finally, I settled on simplicity. Roasted pears is one of mymost favorite desserts to serve at a dinner party. My husbandand I are not huge lovers of sweets, and most of our friendstend to be a little shy of a confection-y, sugar-heavy dessert.Plus, I am a terrible baker, so serving roasted pears gets me offthe hook but still seems elegant.

You can roast pears to be savory or to be sweet. The beautyof roasting pears is that they’re so forgiving, you can just sortof look through the cabinets and choose ingredients based onwhat you have laying around. You can roast pears with a littlechili powder and some rosemary, or you can do them withlemon juice and mint. You can make those pears sing any noteyour heart desires. You can dip them in chocolate or make theminto sorbet.

But to me, vanilla — plain, old, everyday vanilla — is the fla-vor that best complements the pear, so I usually come up witha mixture that highlights that flavor.

Roasted pears have a lot to give. If you have the time and thedesire, you can cut the flesh from the core and peel the pears,run them through the food processor and then push the pulpthrough a fine wire mesh strainer. Give it a spin in your icecream freezer. Sorbet! It works great as a palette cleanserbetween courses, or as dessert itself.

These beauties can’t fail. They are fool-proof, easy to do andhave a wow factor that earns great dinner-party props. I hopeeveryone you serve them to enjoys them as much as I do.

SARAH: NUTRITIOUS

Pears! Pears! Pears! Man, I love them. In another life, I wasprobably a partridge, just lazing about in my pear tree, eatingthe ripe ones as fast as birdly possible.

Therefore, if this weren’t a recipe column, I’d probably sayeating them out of hand was the very best recipe for a pear. Imean, they’re practically perfect on their own — sweet, juicy,tender and not cloying in the least.

But, because this is a recipe column, I figured I probablyshould dress up the pears in question. I thought about all theways I love them (besides alone) — cut and dehydrated into lit-tle slivers, juiced with veggies, chopped into salads … yum. ButI know not everyone has a dehydrator or juicer, so I threw those

ideas out. And because I so often blog about salad onLawrence.com, I feared I might sound (more) like a brokenrecord if I went on and on about the virtues of salad yet again.

So, I decided to go for only a semi-broken record.In the summer, I often rely on fresh foods and don’t turn on

my oven all that often. As a busy mom, it just seems so mucheasier — and healthier — to chop up a few things (and makesalad, naturally) than to choose something that requires cook-ing. I know this probably sounds nutso to some folks out there,but at this stage in my life, it’s what I prefer at home.

The same goes for desserts — I used to live to bake, but thesedays, I’d rather whip up something fresh in the food processorthan fire up the stove. I’ve found that not only does this savetons of time (this recipe will be ready to eat in 10 minutes, tops),it also tends to yield healthier treats — no white sugar or flour,no trans fats, no junk.

Thus, I give to you my long-in-name Gingery Pear Fig Crum-ble Dessert Pizza. It’s got a crust of figs, pecans and spices, a fill-ing of chopped and pureed pears and more of the “crust” crum-bled on top for a very yummy and healthydessert/breakfast/snack. Also, I was all set to call this one sim-ply a “crumble,” but decided to add pizza to its name. Because,seriously, who doesn’t love pizza? (Probably people who don’tlove pears, I imagine. Sheesh, weirdos.)

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The Braves traveled to Blue Valley Northwest on Friday andSaturday and earned a pair of first-place finishes, finishingfourth as a team. Visit bonnersprings.com for more.

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The Bonner Springs boys basketball team poses for photos and holds its Baldwin Invitational first-place trophy on Saturday after it defeated its hosts, Baldwin, 47-32 in the championship game.The Braves jumped out to sizeable leads throughout the game and weathered several comeback attempts by the Bulldogs.

BY STEPHEN MONTEMAYOR ANDELYVN JONES

[email protected]@THEWORLDCO.INFO

The Bonner Springs boys basketballteam weathered several runs, but ulti-mately held Baldwin High at bay, win-ning 47-32 in the final of the BaldwinInvitational tournament.

Two early free throws gave Baldwin (8-3) its only lead of the game at 2-0 beforeBonner Springs (8-3) went on its 11-1run. The Bulldogs didn’t record their firstfield goal until a three-point shot sevenminutes in.

It was a game largely characterized byruns and, conversely, droughts. In thefirst half, the Braves built leads of eight-and seven-points, only to see themshrink to three. But long scoringdroughts — and multiple turnovers —

committed by Baldwin allowed BonnerSprings to swell its lead once again.

“Defense won the game,” BonnerSprings coach Andy Price said. “Anytimeyou can hold a quality team to two pointsin a quarter, you’re playing gooddefense.”

It was all but over after Baldwin scoredjust two points off a pair of free throwsin the third quarter. Even when the Bull-dogs started challenging the Braves leadyet again, a pair of three-point shots byJordan Jackson and J.J. Jackson in quicksuccession quickly put a stop to anymomentum the home team had startedto muster.

“Those were big,” Price said. The back-to-back threes, though they

kept Bonner Springs firmly in control,still put Price on the edge of his seat.

“They made things a lot more com-

fortable for us,” he said.Baldwin put together back-to-back

nine-point quarters to start the game, butwhen Bonner Springs held the Bulldogsto a two-point third quarter, momentumremained in the Braves’ possession.

Still, Baldwin didn’t go away easily inthe fourth, scoring 12 points to BonnerSprings’ 15 points.

“It was a competitive game,” Baldwincoach Dustin Loechner said. “It was morecompetitive than the final score wouldindicate.”

Price agreed, praising the Bulldogs’defense.

“During timeouts, our guys said theywere frustrated because they couldn’t dowant they wanted on offense,” he said.

Price pointed to the eight seniors onhis club and the many sophomores play-ing important minutes for the Bulldogs.

“They’d been there before,” he said ofhis seniors. “I think that was the differ-ence.”

Brett Steuart led the Braves with 15points, including six straight field goals

to close out the game. B.J. Watsonadded 11 points for the Braves, JordanJackson scored eight and J.J. Jacksonadded seven.

Steuart and teammate B.J. Watsonwere named to the 10-member all-tour-nament team, as were C. Brown andCaleb Gaylord of Baldwin.

Others so honored were Jason Stonek-ing, Anderson County, Brandt Patterson,Augusta, C.J. Vallejo, Bishop Ward, JackSteadman, K.C. Christian and AustinJohanning, Perry-Lecompton.

Bonner Springs returns home to playhost to Independence, Mo.’s Chrismanat 7 p.m. on Friday.

Bonner Springs boys win Baldwin Invite

NICHOLAS BRATKOVICCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Basehor-Linwood boys basketballplayers held the second-place trophy onSaturday night.

It was like a hot potato, nobody want-ed to hang on to it too long.

Players watched as BLHS AthleticDirector Joe Keeler awarded Ottawa HighSchool the Championship trophy.

In a tip-your-cap moment, theyclapped when the award was issued tothe Cyclones for winning 56-49 and forSemi Ojeleye, who was named the tour-nament’s most valuable player.

He was a difference maker, scoring 30points and grabbing more than 10

rebounds in thegame.

Ojeleye went 9-of-10 from the freethrow line in thefourth quarter toseal the win forthe Cyclones.

Ojeleye wasOttawa’s onlyplayer to score indouble figures, and the leading scorer forboth teams.

Ryan and Colin Murphy each scored14 points for the Bobcats.

When the game and ceremony wereover, Basehor-Linwood players tookstock of the loss.

“They outplayedus tonight,” RyanMurphy said. “Theyhit us in the mouth,and we were notready for it.”

They talked abouthow they didn’thandle Ottawa’szone in the gamewell enough.

“They came after us tonight and werephysical against us,” coach Mike McBridesaid. “By the time we figured it out, it wastoo late. We hope to see it again on downthe road.”

They never surrendered a lead built byoutscoring Basehor-Linwood 16-7 in the

second quarter and a 26-20 halftime lead.Ojeleye scored seven points in the

quarter, and on defense Basehor-Lin-wood struggled to handle the Cycloneszone.

Brad Waterman made a three-pointerlate in the half to make the halftime score26-20.

The Cyclones maintained the lead inthe third quarter as the two teams wererelatively even in scoring. Colin Murphyhit a three-pointer late in the quarter,making it a 38-31 lead in the fourth quar-ter.

In the fourth quarter, the Bobcatsnever cut the lead to less than six points.

SEE BOBCATS, PAGE 20

Ottawa too much for BLHS boys in Bobcat Invite finalRYAN JOINS 1K CLUB

Ryan Murphy joined his brother inreaching 1,000 career points lastweek. The twins are Basehor’sAthlete(s) of the Week, page 22.Bonner Springs’ Athlete of the Week,Anna Deegan, is featured on page 19.


Around 7:15 p.m. last Thursday, Iwanted to tell you that the BonnerSprings girls had opened an early 10-0lead in the first quarter against SumnerAcademy.

Earlier that day, Ihad promised to keepyou posted on the girlsbasketball contestthrough updates onTwitter and our web-site.

But when I lookeddown at my iPad, itlooked back much thesame way a toy poodlewould if you told it tofetch a duck from the lake. Similiarly, myiPhone was engaged in a profound act ofintrospection.

Searching…Searching…Searching…My wifi hot spot device’s only purpose

would be as a hand warmer as it heatedup a few degrees in its own forlorn searchfor service.

Reporters today have more journalis-tic firepower at their fingertips than everbefore. The digital revolution is the mostsignificant happening in journalismsince the invention of the printing press.

This also translates to readers havingmore options of what they can read andhow they can find news.

My hope is that we can bring you mul-tiple, and engaging, ways to stay currenton sports in your hometown.

Each week we’ll find a way to tell sto-ries that will be fresh on this printed pageand dynamic on our websites, basehor-info.com and bonnersprings.com.

Furthermore, game nights have pre-sented a unique opportunity to recordand report on an event as it happens. InShawnee, we did this on Wednesday at awrestling meet. We tweeted results asthey happened, shot video of key match-es and bundled it all together in a nicepackage.

You can find our Bonner Springs cov-erage on Twitter at @bonnersprings andour Basehor coverage at @basehorsen-tinel.

We’ll be using hashtags to further

organize our social media sports coverage(#BonnerSports, #BasehorSports) so thatyou can search either phrase and find allthe latest scores and updates in one

stream.But on Thursday,

what firepower I had —a hulking MacBookPro, an iPad andiPhone — was fresh outof ammo, relegated tostandby mode in therecesses of the BonnerSprings High Schoolgymnasium.

I sat there, poking,poking, poking, and curs-

ing under my breath at my despondentdevices. The machines had beaten theman.

So what did I do? I shifted my focus tothe game at hand. I put everything butmy camera and notebook away andwatched the game.

The game is the one constant in all ofthis. Prior to tipoff, I had planned onusing an iPad app to keep track of statis-tics. Without the app, Anna Deegan stillled the team in scoring on her birthday,Yessenia Hernandez still forced two earlyturnovers in rapid succession. ClayOakes’ girls still added another victory totheir 9-0 record.

And the exits still smelled of hot dogs,the band still played The Party RockAnthem and parents still clapped andhollered for their daughters.

But to steal a phrase Brett Favre onceuttered on a voicemail, “I’m still trying.”

First thing I did when I returned to mycar? I welcomed two shining beacons ofhope in the form of two bars of cellphoneservice.

I tweeted.“@bonnersprings: Birthday-girl Anna

Deegan scored 18 en route to a 58-28BSHS victory against Sumner Academy#BonnerSports.”

We’d later find out that Deegan actu-ally scored 19 points, reaffirming thenotion that be it a pencil and paper orfingertips and a touchscreen, whenhumans are involved, nothing is perfect.

STEPHEN MONTEMAYOR

Keeping score, chasingperfection in digital age

Basehor now acceptingregistration for summeryouth baseball, softball

Basehor’s youth baseball and soft-ball leagues are accepting registra-tions for the 2012 season, which willbegin in May and continue throughJune.

Players will be placed on teams thatcorrespond to age, grade and schooland all games will take place Mondaythrough Thursday each week.

The participation fee is $60 for tee-ball and $90 for baseball. Fees are dueby or on March 1. The City of Base-hor will continue to refund half of thefee for all participants who live inBasehor and meet the March 1 dead-line.

All home games will take place atthe Field of Dreams athletic complex,14333 Fairmount Road. For moreinformation, contact Field of Dreamsoperator Troy Wiseman at 785-221-2934.

Four-on-four youth soccerto return to Field ofDreams

Basehor’s four-on-four youth soc-cer league will continue at the Field ofDreams athletic facility, 14333 Fair-mount Road, this year.

Boys and girls from kindergarten tosixth grade are eligible to participateand rosters will be kept to a minimumto ensure all participants get plenty oftime on the field.

Games will be played on Saturdaymornings starting March 24 with asix-game season being considered.

Registration and a $45 fee, whichincludes a T-shirt, are due by Feb. 24,after which the fee will be $65.

The City of Basehor said it willrefund half of the fee for all partici-pants living in Basehor who meet theFeb. 24 deadline.

A second soccer season is plannedfor fall 2012. Contact Field of Dreamsoperator Troy Wiseman at 785-221-2934 for more details.

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Anna Deegan, Bonner Springs junior guard, attemps a shot before halftime against SumnerAcademy on Jan. 19. This week, the Braves travel to Wellsville for the Top Gun Tournament.

BY STEPHEN [email protected]

For Yessenia Hernandez, BonnerSprings’ last game apparently hadn’t yetended. It was still the fourth quarterwhen the next one — a 58-28 victoryagainst Sumner Academy — began.

A fire still needed stoking.So the senior point guard came out

and forced two quick turnovers thattranslated to an early 4-0 advantage,beginning a shutout that would extendfor much of the first quarter, develop intoa blowout and become a chance toremain perfect for one more night.

Bonner Springs needed this. It neededthis after falling behind 18-6 in the firstquarter last Friday against Turner. It need-ed this when it stared down a 25-17 half-time deficit that same game, needing toreadjust in a major way lest its perfectstart to the season be halted.

Those first two baskets would actuallybe Hernandez’ only points of the game.“We’ve talked about more focus on get-ting the ball to the rim,” Oakes said of hisfour-year starter. “She’s not been attack-ing as much this year.”

Hernandez still caused problems forthe Sabres, forcing turnovers and thread-ing their defense with on-point passes —she finished with five assists.

It’s little wonder, then, that Oakeswould call this the first “complete game”the Braves have played this season.

“It’s the best we’ve played all year,” hesaid.

This came at the right time, Oakes said,as the Braves prepare to compete in theTop Gun Tournament next Wednesdayagainst Wellsville. Like against Sumner,Bonner Springs will be the heavy favoriteand Oakes is counting on another oppor-tunity to test his team’s focus should thescore get out of hand. It may need thatfocus should it advance as potential foesSt. Mary and Spring Hill may pose as stiffa challenge as the team’s faced all season.

As family members flashed a large“Happy Birthday” sign in the bleachers,junior guard Anna Deegan celebrated her17th with style, scoring a team-high 19points and eight rebounds. It was a per-formance the Braves have come to expectfrom Deegan, who entered Thursdayleading the team with 14 points-per-game.

Deegan struggled to find a rhythmearly, turning the ball over twice. Still,

she finished with nine first-half points,and went on to convert 6-of-9 free throwsdown the stretch in the second-half.

“When she does something wrong,she takes it personal,” Oakes said.

Added Deegan: “I definitely got downon myself. But my teammates were pos-itive and they brought us all back up.”

Senior center Erica Wilson added 10points, most of her baskets coming fromthe paint, which was an especially phys-ical environment Thursday. Senior for-ward Emily Wilson and junior guard Cas-sady Holloway each added eight points.Junior guard Haley Hoffine added sevenrebounds and led the Braves with sixassists.

The Sabres were led by junior powerforward Jamie Redic, who scored 11points. Redic and senior point guard Ash-leigh Byers each scored the game’s onlythree-point goals.

After the game, Deegan sucked on awintergreen mint, smiling and chattingwith her family at the foot of the bleach-ers.

“It was a good day,” she said. “But itwas also a good day as a team.”

Deegan’s family still waved her“Happy Birthday” sign.

Bonner Springs Athlete of the Week• Name: Anna Deegan

• Junior guard, Bonner Springs High School.

• On Jan. 19, Deegan scored 19 points to improve her team’srecord to 9-0 in a 58-28 victory against Sumner Academy. Oh, andit was her birthday, too.

• Favorite song on her iPod right now: “Countdown” by Beyoncé.

Want to nominate an athlete?

Email sports editor Stephen Montemayor at [email protected] or call 913-962-3000, ext. 108. Please have all

submissions in by 5 p.m. Friday.

Anna DeeganBonner Springs

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Senior point point guard YesseniaHernandez created two early turnovers tojumpstart the Braves’ first-quarter run. BonnerSprings never trailed against Sumner Academyin a 58-28 victory on Jan. 19.

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With about three minutes left in thequarter, Downing also dislocated hiselbow. While playing press defense on theCyclones’ guard, Downing dislocated hiselbow and the Bobcats were a player shortthe rest of the play. The game was stoppedwhen the Cyclones Dallas Natt wasfouled.

Downing would later return and makea three-pointer to make it 50-46 with lessthan two minutes left in the game.

On the next possession, Ojeleye turnedthe ball over via a five-second violationand the Bobcats had a chance to score andmake it a one-possession game.

Basehor-Linwood’s Colin Murphymissed a three pointer at the other end ofthe floor.

After Ottawa missed back-to-back foulshots, Basehor-Linwood’s Downingmissed a three point shot at the other endof the floor, and the Bobcats were forcedto foul Ottawa’s Kaden Shaffer who made1-of-2 foul shots to make it a five-pointgame.

At the other end of the floor, Ben John-son missed a three-point shot and againthe Bobcats were forced to foul. The gamedeveloped a rhythm of Basehor-Linwoodmissing three-point attempts and thenbeing forced to foul on defense.

The Cyclones were 6-of-8 from the foulline late in the fourth quarter. The Bob-cats hit four shots from 3-point range inthe quarter with Colin Murphy making apair and guards Ryan Shaffer and JPDowning each making one in the quar-

ter. With the loss, Basehor-Linwood finish-

es second in the tournament. The teamnow plays host to Lansing on Friday in agame that could go a long way towarddetermining the Kaw Valley LeagueChampion.

Following the game, players also talkedabout the room the team has to improve.

“The thing with this team is we haven’tcome close to reaching our potential yet,”junior forward Ben Johnson said.

While the team wanted to win thetournament, players also stressed the ideathat their main goal remains the same:success in the state tournament.

“It is great to win the tournament,”Colin Murphy said. “But our main goal isto win the state tournament.”

If the Bobcats are to win state, theycould see Ottawa again in the state tour-nament.

This is another elite Class 4A programthat Basehor-Linwood has played thisseason. The team has also played Sumn-er Academy and Topeka Hayden, alongwith Bonner Springs. While these twoteams could meet again in the future,Ottawa’s foul shooting decided the gamein the fourth quarter.

The following were scorers for bothteams in the game.

Ryan Murphy, 14; Colin Murphy, 14;Ben Johnson, 8; Brad Waterman, 3; ChaseYounger, 4; Ryan Shaffer, 3; JP Downing,3.

The scorers for Ottawa were ConnerGoedert, 6; Alex Hasty, 6; Dallas Natt, 4;James Peoples, 2; Semi Ojeleye, 30; KadenShaffer, 4; Austin Blaue, 2.

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Swede Johnson, a 2008 BLHS graduate, started two years at MidAmerica Nazarene in Olathe,where he recently earned a NAIA All-America nod.

BY STEPHEN [email protected]

It’s mid-afternoon and Swede Johnsonis between classes at MidAmericaNazarene University.

It’s his last semester before he walkswith his classmates, some of which heused to revel with this time of the week:Hump Day, the week’s midpoint and signthat the hard work at football practicewas about to pay off. Johnson — a 2008graduate of Basehor-Linwood HighSchool — and his fel-low offensive line-men used to recite achant to commemo-rate the day.

“Can we get a‘Hump Day?’”

“Hump Day!”“Orca!”“Eee!”“Buffalo!”“Moo!”“Pioneers on three!”The last such chant occurred just a few

months ago after it finished rankedfourth in the National Association ofIntercollegiate Athletics. The team felljust short of its national title hopes witha playoff loss to eventual national cham-pion, St. Xavier. Still, Johnson closed hiscareer on a high note: At year’s end, hewas named a first-team NAIA All Ameri-can.

“It was a great honor to be recognizedin my last season,” Johnson said.

Johnson had an uphill climb just to geton the field last season. The previous yearin the first round of the playoffs, John-son went down with what was thoughtto be a meniscus tear at the time. Whenhe went in for surgery, doctors discov-ered that he had actually torn his anteri-or cruciate ligament and would need toreturn for more surgery.

He missed spring scrimmages andpractices, but returned in time for sum-mer conditioning and even earned a hostof preseason honors.

Johnson still may participate in a pro-fessional draft combine in the spring, butat present he’s ready for his life’s nextchapter. Later this year, he will completea degree in criminal justice. He’s alreadyapplying, trying to get his foot in thedoor at a metro-area police department.

“I’m looking forward to the brother-hood and team aspect,” he said. “It’s niceto know someone has your back.”

Already, Johnson begins to draw par-

allels to football.“A lot of police officers have played

sports,” he said. “It’s just kind of a thingthat fits in well with it.”

Johnson would know what to expectfrom a career in law enforcement as hisfather, Tim Johnson, worked for theWyandotte County Sheriff’s Departmentbefore eventually teaching social studiesand helping coach power lifting at Base-hor-Linwood.

Johnson knows that wherever he’ll go,he’ll have to start off as a patrol officerand take his lumps en route to eventual-ly becoming a K-9 officer.

“I’m OK with that,” he said. “I have tolearn the ropes first.”

Perhaps it’s appropriate that Johnsonfinishes his career a Pioneer. While atBasehor-Linwood, he anchored a teamthat returned the program to the postsea-son, where it has remained a consistentcontender since his departure.

Those years are also the source of oneof his favorite football memories, certain-ly one of his favorite memories as a Bob-cat. In a game against Piper his senioryear that would determine whether theBobcats would make the playoffs, John-son scooped up a fumble from his quar-terback and ran 40 yards for a touch-down.

“It sure seemed like a lot longer thanthat when I was running,” he said.

After he graduated in 2008, the mayorproclaimed July 26 “Swede JohnsonDay” and Johnson went on to play in theKansas Shrine Bowl.

Johnson’s collegiate career also includ-ed two years at Butler Community Col-lege, where he earned a national cham-pionship ring his freshman season. Andnow, with consecutive national fourth-place finishes at MidAmerica Nazarene,Johnson will be keeping an eye on histeam moving forward.

“This year we just built another foun-dation for the next year to hopefully winthe championship,” Johnson said.

That will be among the accomplish-ments Johnson will think about when heleaves. That and the realization that 3p.m. practice was never the dreadedgauntlet players like to make it out to be.

“Looking back now, you knew it’s thattime of day when you go out with yourfriends and just play football,” he said.“You didn’t worry about school, you did-n’t worry about work, you just went outand have fun.”

With that, Johnson was back off to thedaily grind of class. Hump Day wasalmost here.

Former BLHS linemanready for next chapter

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Members of the USD 204 Board of Edu-cation Monday reviewed the regulationsbehind the Kansas Open Meetings Actbut didn’t ask many questions.

The board reviewed the act in a work-shop prior to the open meeting after TheChieftain questioned the legality of anexecutive session in July. Board memberslearned about what meetings should beopen and when executive sessions areappropriate under the statute.

Board members thanked the attorneygeneral’s office for conducting the meet-ing via conference call, but still seemedunsure they had committed any wrong-doing.

“Did we really violate the open meet-ings act?” Board President Ray Cox askedafter the call was ended, inducing laughsfrom some board members. “Thinkabout it. No comment.”

The session was conducted at therequest of The Chieftain, which last sum-mer questioned the legality of an execu-tive session carried out by the board inJuly, prior to the appointment of newmember Jeff Barger. After a preliminaryinvestigation by the District Attorney’sOffice, Charles Thomas, board attorney,and Cox agreed the session — in whichmembers discussed candidates to fill avacancy on the board — should not havebeen conducted in private. Theyanswered questions about the closed-door session and agreed the board wouldundergo training on the Kansas OpenMeetings Act.

On Monday, members listened to apresentation from Lisa Mendoza, assis-

tant attorney general, who explainedwhat is considered a meeting of the gov-erning body, including serial communi-cations, such as forwarded e-mails.

“If it eventually reaches a majority ofmembership of your (governing) body,you may have inadvertently tripped overthe open meetings act,” she said.

For executives sessions, an open meet-ing first must be convened, and motionsmust be made to go into the session. Nobinding actions may be taken in execu-tive session, but consensus is allowed.The governing body must go back intoopen meeting and make a formal vote totake action.

In the motion, the justification for thesession and the general subject must bementioned, as well as the estimatedlength of the session.

“If you run out of time … if you sayyou’re going to do 10 minutes and youreach that 10 minutes, you must comeback out into open session,” Mendozasaid. “You cannot just continue or votein the executive session to go another 10minutes.”

Acceptable justifications are for non-elected personnel matters; consultationwith attorney in which the attorneymust be present and it must be an attor-ney/client privileged subject; employ-er/employee negotiations; confidentialdata relating to financial affairs; mattersaffecting a student, patient or resident,who can request that hearing be open;preliminary discussions for acquisitionof real property; and security measures.

A citizen, county or district attorney orthe attorney general can enforce theopen meetings act. Several remedy meas-ures can be taken to be compliant with

the law, and penalties can be a fine of upto $500 per person per violation.

“It’s easy to get tripped up, the way theopen meetings act is set out, it can beconfusing,” Mendoza said. “The bettercourse of action is to ask in advance whatyou can do as opposed to doing it.”

During its regular meeting, the board:• Discussed concerns of teachers at

Bonner Springs High School about thestudent grading system in the district’sSkyward grading software. The boardagreed to put the item on the agenda ofa future meeting.

• Heard an update on the possibility ofnew bleachers at the football stadium.

Robert VanMaren, superintendent, saidbids would be sent out Feb. 6, and theitem should come back to board inMarch to decide if members want tomove forward with it.

• Recognized Clark Middle Schoolvocal music teacher Pam McGuire andCMS math teacher Sarah Andeverde withEducation Foundation Honoring Excel-lence awards.

• Heard a presentation from OpaaFood Management of Chesterfield, Mo.,concerning the district’s food servicescontract. The board approved acceptinga request for proposals from the compa-ny.

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Gov. Sam Brownback speaks during the Leavenworth County Development Corporation'sannual meeting at the Riverfront Community Center in Leavenworth on Friday.

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Gov. Sam Brownback, speaking to adevelopment group in Leavenworth onFriday, pointed to his proposed stateincome tax cuts as a ticket to economicgrowth.

At the annual meeting of the Leaven-worth County Development Corpora-tion, the governor said lower income taxrates would be the best way for the stateto attract more residents, businesses andjobs.

“We've got to do this to get competi-tive,” Brownback said.

Brownback's tax proposal, which heoutlined in his State of the State addresslast week, would lower the maximumpersonal state income tax rate to 4.9 per-cent and eliminate individual stateincome taxes for most small businesses,while also eliminating many tax creditsand reductions. The plan was criticizedthis week after reports showed it wouldincrease income taxes for many Kansans.

On Friday the governor, though, saidhis plan would spark development —especially the income tax cut for smallbusinesses.

“That's the one that causes thegrowth,” Brownback said. “That's theone that attracts people into the area.”

In fact, during a question-and-answersession, Brownback said he'd like for thestate's income tax rates to continue to fallin future years, and a complete elimina-tion of individual income tax would beideal.

“This is a good step in the right direc-tion,” Brownback said. “It's not nearenough.”

He admitted that eliminating the taxaltogether would be a difficult proposi-tion, as about 40 percent of the state'sgeneral fund receipts currently comefrom personal income taxes.

President Mike Nixon and executivedirector Steve Jack of the LCDC, whichworks to bring businesses to Leaven-worth County, said after the governor’stalk that a lower state income tax couldcertainly make it easier to advertise thearea to prospective groups. Jack noted,though, that development required abalancing act between tax rates andamenities funded by taxes, includingschools and roads, that might also makean area attractive to businesses.

“Somehow, you need state govern-ment to do those sort of things to havethe kind of communities that companieswill come to,” Jack said.

The governor also discussed educationduring his address, saying he'd like to seemore Kansas high school students to beprepared for college or a technical careerupon graduation — or perhaps both.

“I'd love to see us graduating kids thatwork their way through college insteadof borrow their way through college,”Brownback said.

If a student could earn certification asa plumber and use it to work him or her-self through college, he said, that personcould emerge well-rounded and with lit-tle debt. To encourage more career readi-ness, he said he'd like the state to awardhigh schools funding for each studentwho earns a technical certificate.

When asked about another economicdevelopment issue, the alleged “poach-ing” of businesses between Kansas andMissouri, Brownback said economiccompetition between the two stateswould only be good for the region, andhe wanted Kansas to be as attractive tobusinesses as it could be.

“I'm for making this atmosphere in thestate of Kansas the most competitive inthe country,” Brownback said. “We'renot anywhere close to it right now.”

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As Leavenworth County Commission-ers decide whether and how to proceedwith studies into a possible new airportin the county, they will invite officialsfrom the county's four biggest cities tochip in their two cents.

The commissioners said Thursdaythey would ask officials from Tonganox-ie, Basehor, Leavenworth and Lansing tomeet to help decide how to move for-ward on the airport project. Their discus-sion came after Leavenworth city offi-cials said earlier this month they mayoppose the possible airport site nearLansing recommended by a consultingfirm last year.

Commissioners did not say when themeeting with the cities might take place.

Before proceeding with two remainingairport studies required by the FederalAviation Administration, the county andcities have to determine which entity willserve as a sponsor for the potential air-port and which possible site to study fur-ther, Commissioner John Flower said.

Though Coffman Associates, a Lee'sSummit, Mo., consulting firm, recom-mended a site near 127th Street andGilman Road east of Lansing for a futureairport, city of Leavenworth officials saidthis month they may prefer a site off Cof-fin Road nearer to Leavenworth and FortLeavenworth.

The consulting firm ranked the CoffinRoad site second out of three finalists.Commissioner Clyde Graeber said that anew airport near Fort Leavenworthmight help the post remain a big eco-nomic force even if the federal govern-

ment looks to cut back on defense costs.“An airport close to Fort Leavenworth

would be a plus for the retention of thatsite as a very viable military operation,wouldn't it?” Graeber said.

But Flower said that if the Coffin Roadsite was chosen, the city of Leavenworthand not the county should serve as theproject's sponsor and provide the bulk offunding for the remaining studies andeventual construction.

Commissioners have discussed com-bining a new airport with an industrialpark to maximize economic develop-ment, and the Coffin Road site north-west of Leavenworth would be a poorlocation for shipping trucks to travel to,Flower said, as they would mostly comefrom the south.

“Why would I, as a trucker, want tonegotiate Lansing and Leavenworth andon out to a site north of Leavenworth?”Flower said.

An official from the consulting firmsaid in August that the best attribute ofthe Gilman Road site near Lansing wasits easy access to Kansas Highway 7 andU.S. Highway 24-40.

Commissioners have said the countywould not purchase land for the con-struction of an airport without a county-wide vote on the issue first, and Flowerrepeated that pledge Thursday.

“We will neither buy land or dig dirtuntil a vote of the people has been takenas it relates to the county participating inthe funding of an airport,” Flower said.

More information about the studiesconducted by Coffman Associates isavailable at leavenworthcoun-ty.airportstudy.com.

County commissioners want input on airport

BY SCOTT [email protected]

TOPEKA — Gov. Sam Brownback's taxplan was on the ropes Friday after reportsand studies showed it would increasetaxes for many Kansans while cuttingtaxes for businesses and the wealthy.

House Democratic Leader Paul Davisof Lawrence said he doubted the plan byBrownback, a Republican, could passeither the House or Senate even thoughthe GOP has huge majorities in bothchambers.

"There is opposition all across the

political spectrum for a lot of differentreasons," Davis said.

House Republican leaders praisedBrownback for producing a plan, but onFriday offered one of their own. In a state-ment, the House GOP leaders said theywanted a comprehensive plan thatincreased jobs "while not increasing thetax burden on lower-income Kansans."

In a news conference, Brownbackdefended his proposal, which heunveiled nine days ago. But Brownbackadded that he was "open to suggestions."He maintained that tax rates must be cutto spur economic development.

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