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HEARD IN BONNERBonner Springs reporter Caroline Boyer shares the tidbits that don’t make it in the paper in her blog.

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Retirement reception set for Edwardsville city clerk

The city of Edwardsville is announcing the retirement of Phyllis Freeman, who has served more than 23 years as the City Clerk.

The city will have a community celebration in her honor 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 17, at the Edwardsville Community Center, 696 S. Third Street. For more information, contact City Hall at 913-441-3707.

Second clue set released for city park scavenger hunt

The Bonner Springs Parks and Rec-reation Department has released the second set of clues for the Search and Swim Expedition, a free scavenger hunt in which participants use weekly clues to discover the location of hole-punches hidden in four city parks.

There are four clues for each park. Punch cards are available at the Com-munity Center, 200 E. Third St., Bonner Springs. Once the card has been com-pleted and turned in, it will be entered into a drawing for a 10-punch pass to theAquatic Park. This week’s clues are:

• Centennial Park: If you can’t find the hole-punch by the pond, maybe you should look further beyond.

• North Park: Since this hole-punch doesn’t play soccer or swim, finding it in the upper part of the park is slim.

• South Park: This hole-punch doesn’t skateboard, so this area should be ignored.

• Lion’s Park: You can look for this hole-punch along the front entrance of the creek, but the chance of finding it is bleak.

Clues also are available at bon-nersprings.org. For more information, contact the Community Center at 913-422-7010.

Optimist’s tourney approaches

The Bonner Springs Optimist Club will have its 23rd Annual Golf Tournament later this month.

The tournament is set for 1 p.m. Wednesday, July 18, at the Sunflower Hills Golf Course and benefits the Kerry Roberts Basketball League and other youth sports, as well as college schol-arships. The four-player scramble is open to 30 teams, with a shotgun start. Registration fee is $80 per player and includes green fees and golf cart rental. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top finishers.

Organizers are seeking sponsors, door prize donors and tournament partici-pants. To register or for more informa-tion, contact Ken May at 913-441-6752.

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DRESSED AS A LEPRECHAUN, Chris Rachol attracts motorists’ attention to the We Buy Gold LLC location at 22342 W. 66th St., Shawnee. It is one of seven We Buy Gold outlets on the Kansas side of the state line that pay cash for gold.

Retail outlets that pay cash for gold have been proliferating. We Buy Gold LLC, for instance, has opened seven Kansas locations. Behman Zakeri, the business’s chief executive, explained the trend.

Q: What is driving the opening of these outlets that buy gold and other precious metals?

A: Simple, it’s because of the high prices of gold and silver over the past few years. People can now sell gold jewelry they bought in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s and sometimes triple or quadruple what they paid for it.

Q: Do you expect this service to continue, or are the stores tempo-rary?

A: For many, it’s just temporary while prices remain high. For us it’s different. … We are providing the public with a much-needed ser-vice where they can convert un-wanted precious metals into cash for fair prices. This service was al-

ways needed and just took the price spikes for people to recognize it.

Q: Is the value of gold at a record high?

A: Gold is around $1,620 an ounce, down from last summer’s record high of about $1,900 an ounce. Gold prices have soared because people have recognized it’s one of the only safe places to invest their money.

Q: What types of gold pieces do most people bring in to sell?

A: We see just about anything from gold jewelry and coins to den-tal gold and gold dust.

Q: How do you determine the value of the pieces the public brings in?

A: We have a three-step process that we go through to test each piece that is offered to us to deter-mine our buy prices. Our buy prices are a percentage of spot (prices) based on the market value for pre-cious metals each day.

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Veteran shares World War II talesThere is a monument at Wright Pat-

terson Field in Ohio that carries words Gene Ward knows well — words that describe the 449th Bombardment Group.

“A group of men, who rode the wind together in the crimson skies of a world ravaged by war with purpose and precision to perform heroic acts of cool valor and unqualified trust in each other,” it reads.

Ward flew 50 missions with the bomb group in World War II, and the 90-year-old Bonner Springs resident proudly reflects on his service on days like Memorial Day and Independence Day. He rattles off details of the B-24 and other planes of the war and tell funny stories about his fellow corps-men driving Jeeps through the mud and “being crazy.”

But he also remembers the 103 planes from his bomb group lost in combat, the 388 men killed in action, the 363 shot down and captured. He remem-bers the respect sol-diers got when they returned home.

“In World War II, when you came home, you did not get out of uniform,” he said. “You were to stay in uniform anywhere you went — that way, people could recognize what you’d done.”

Ward was born in Linwood on his grandfather’s farm. His family moved closer to Bonner in 1934, but he contin-ued on at Linwood High School, where he graduated in 1938.

His brother, two years his senior, went into the Navy by choice, going on active duty Dec. 15, 1941 — a week after Pearl Harbor was attacked. Ward worked locally at the Bonner lumber-yard and then Sunflower Ammuni-tions Plant until he was drafted Aug. 28, 1942.

He was assigned to the Army Air Corps and went to aviation mechan-ics school, advancing to technical ser-geant by the time the 449th was leav-ing Bruning, Neb., for its assignment in the 47th Wing of the Fifteenth Air Force in Grottaglie, Italy, on the Adri-atic Sea.

There were four squadrons in the 449th, each with 15 planes; Ward was in the 718th squadron on the plane dubbed “Everybody’s Baby.”

The old dirigible balloon base where they were stationed had been heavily bombed and didn’t have much in the

way of housing. The men slept in tents and had to take a truck 20 miles to shower. One of Ward’s favorite stories is about some of his fellow corpsmen getting creative with supplies on hand to create a heater — and nearly blow-ing up their tent.

Their mission was to interrupt the German fuel supply, so they often bombed cities such as Bucharest, Vi-enna and Ploesti, Romania.

There were lots of close calls for “Everybody’s Baby” — once, the plane was so battered by flak it returned with 150 holes in it.

It was lucky to make it through the German anti-aircraft fire. Ward re-members seeing flak blow up an en-gine of another plane, and watching as only about half of the crew was able to bail out.

“You couldn’t shoot back at it, so it made you all the more scared,” he said. “In that top turret, I’d sit there, and it would blow up like black smoke… You’d see it coming up through the planes, and you’d think ‘Oh, by God,

they’ve got us.’” And then there was

the closest call. On April 4, 1944, Ward’s crew was among 28 planes to fly on a mission over Bucha-rest with no escort, when they were at-tacked by more than 60 enemy fighters.

“We were right off the lead plane of the colonel, and you could see them com-ing at us up in the sun, and then sud-denly, you couldn’t see them,” he said.

Ward received his only injury on that mission, as he looked out of the plane’s top turret. Something

blew up near the top of the plane and hit his face, breaking his oxygen mask. It was fortuitous that he moved below immediately; he later realized his vest was full of flak.

The blow to his head sent him to the hospital for several days, but it could have been worse: Seven of the planes on the mission didn’t return to base.

He left Italy in June 1944, and con-tinued in the Army Air Corps train-ing new flight crews until he was dis-charged on Sept. 18, 1945.

As World War II veterans continue to pass on, there aren’t as many to re-member — of the 11 men who served on his plane’s crew, Ward is one of three still alive.

But he says he passes his stories on to his children and grandchildren, and he keeps his memory fresh with the many books and histories written about his bomb group.

By Caroline [email protected]

GENE WARD rifles through the numer-ous books and written histories he has of the 449th Bombard-ment Group in World War II.

Caroline Boyer/staff

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AMONG GENE WARD’S war artifacts is a photo of himself, his crew’s radio operator Paul Hadley, and another unidentified soldier (from left) while the crew was on R&R at the Isle of Capri.

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CALENDARTo submit a calendar item, send, in writing, to: The Chieftain, P.O. Box 256, Bonner

Springs, KS 66012, or send by online submission form at bonnersprings.com or e-mail to [email protected]. Deadline for calendar items is 5 p.m. Monday for the following Thursday publication. There is no charge for publication of calendar items.

7/5 | Thursday• Morning Steppers, 7:30 a.m., Edwardsville Community Center, 696 S. Third St., 913-441-3707

• Walkie Talkies, 8 a.m., Bonner Springs Community Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010

• Open gymnasium, noon, Bonner Springs Community Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010

• Bonner Springs City Band Summer Concert Series, 8:30 p.m., Kelly Murphy Park, Second and Elm streets, 913-422-1020

7/6 | Friday• Walkie Talkies, 8 a.m., Bonner Springs Community Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010

• Job Club, 8:30 a.m., Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church, Shawnee, 5501 Monticello Road, 913-422-5700

• Open gymnasium, 10 a.m., Bonner Springs Community Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010

• Youth Summer Theatre Production: “Shakespeare’s A Mid Summer Night’s Dream,” 6 p.m., Tonganoxie Performing Arts Center, Tonganoxie High School, Ton-ganoxie

• Summertime Concert Series: Leveetown, 6:30 p.m., Holy-Field Vineyard & Winery, 18807 158th St., Basehor, 913-724-9463

• Theatre in the Park presents “Jungle Book” and “Sleep-ing Beauty,” 8:30 p.m., Theatre in the Park, 7710 Renner Road, Shawnee, 913-312-8841

7/7 | Saturday• Leavenworth County Republican Women’s Club candidate meet-and-greet, 10 a.m., Basehor Community Library, 1400 N. 158th St., 913-724-2828



7/8 | Sunday• Theatre in the Park presents “Jungle Book” and “Sleep-ing Beauty,” 8:30 p.m., Theatre in the Park, 7710 Renner Road, Shawnee, 913-312-8841

7/9 | Monday• Walkie Talkies, 8 a.m., Bonner Springs Community Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010


• Bonner Springs Rotary Club meeting, 11:45 a.m., Twist-ers Grill and Bar, 13100 Kansas Avenue, 913-667-3700

7/10 | Tuesday• Morning Steppers, 7:30 a.m., Edwardsville Community Center, 696 S. Third St., 913-441-3707



• Business and Professional Women’s club, 6:30 p.m., Bonner Springs City Library, 201 N. Nettleton, 913-441-2665

• Kaw Valley Chorus rehearsals, 7 p.m., Basehor United Methodist Church, 18660 158th St., 913-724-2077

7/11 | Wednesday• Walkie Talkies, 8 a.m., Bonner Springs Community Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010


• Movie for adults: “The Vow,” 6:30 p.m., Basehor Com-munity Library, 1400 N. 158th St., Basehor, 913-724-2828

7/12 | Thursday• Edwardsville Kiwanis Club meeting, 6:45 a.m., Sisters Restaurant & Bar, 11657 Kaw Drive

• Morning Steppers, 7:30 a.m., Edwardsville Community Center, 696 S. Third St., 913-441-3707



• Bonner Springs City Band Summer Concert Series, 8:30 p.m., Kelly Murphy Park, Second and Elm streets, 913-422-1020


7/13 | Friday• Walkie Talkies, 8 a.m., Bonner Springs Community Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010

• Job Club, 8:30 a.m., Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church, Shawnee, 5501 Monticello Road, 913-422-5700



• Summertime Concert Series: Lonesome Hank and the Heartaches, 6:30 p.m., Holy-Field Vineyard & Winery, 18807 158th St., Basehor, 913-724-9463


7/14 | Saturday• Manna from Heaven Food Pantry, 9 a.m., Manna from Manna from Heaven Food Pantry, 119 Sixth St., Tonganoxie

• Tractor Daze and Mud Run, 9 a.m., National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame, 630 N. 126th St., 913-721-1075


7/15 | Sunday• Theatre in the Park presents “Jungle Book” and “Sleep-ing Beauty,” 8:30 p.m., Theatre in the Park, 7710 Renner Road, Shawnee, 913-312-8841

7/16 | Monday• Walkie Talkies, 8 a.m., Bonner Springs Community Center, 200 E. Third St., 913-422-7010


• Bonner Springs Rotary Club meeting, 11:45 a.m., Twist-ers Grill and Bar, 13100 Kansas Avenue, 913-667-3700

| ON THE RECORD |Edwardsville Fire Department Calls

MONDAY, JUNE 25

• Emergency services at 9:36 a.m. in the 100 block of Delaware

•EMS at 10:55 a.m. in the 700 block of Newton

TUESDAY, JUNE 26

• Police assist at 12:40 a.m. in the 100 block of Beach

• EMS at 9:45 a.m. in the 400 block of Newton

• EMS at 2:31 p.m. in the 200 block of White

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27

• Fire at 6:25 p.m. in the 200 block of Blake

• EMS at 8:05 p.m. in the 100 block of Mellott

• EMS at 11:06 p.m. in the 9100 block of Woodend

THURSDAY, JUNE 28

• EMS at 11:53 a.m. in the 200 block of White

• Fire at 1:02 p.m. in the 2300 block of 98th Street

• EMS at 2:19 p.m. in the 100 block of Mellott

FRIDAY, JUNE 29

• Fire at 12:55 p.m. at I-435 and Woodend

• Illegal burn at 2:25 p.m. in the 10100 block of Riverview

• EMS at 10:46 p.m. in the 700 block of Blake

• EMS at 11:54 p.m. in the 200 block of White

SATURDAY, JUNE 30

• EMS at 1:31 p.m. in the 1600 block of 102nd Street

SUNDAY, JULY 1

•EMS at 8:29 p.m. in the 1100 block of Edwardsville Drive

| ON THE AGENDA |Bonner Springs City CouncilWORKSHOP – TBAREGULAR MEETING – 7:30 P.M.MONDAY, JULY 9CITY HALL, 204 E. 2ND ST.WORKSHOP

• Executive session – non-elected personnel

• Review evaluation performance formCOUNCIL MEETING

• Proclamation – Clinton Long retirement

• Citizen ConcernsCONSENT AGENDA

• Minutes of the June 25 meeting

• Claims for city operations

• Public Housing Authority claims

• Massage therapy license for Debra Fisher

• Massage therapy license for Essential Massage

• Appointments to Marion Vaughn Award Committee

• Personnel Policy Handbook amendments

• CMB license for Star Fuel, 35 N. 130th Terr.REGULAR AGENDA

• Resolutions of authority for 134th Street utility reloca-tion — street improvement, water improvement and sewer improvement

• Ordinance amendment to define Canaan Center Drive as a trafficway connection

• Award bid for 2012 concrete street program

• Award bid for 2012 recycle in place street program

• Ordinance to approve pay plan amendments

• City manager’s report

• Council items

• Mayor’s report


DEATHS

Jim Head, 73, passed away on Monday, June 25, 2012 at Shawnee Mission Medical Center in Merriam, KS. As per Jim’s request his body was donated to science at the University of Kansas Willed Body Program. His Memorial Service will be 7 pm, Sunday, July 1st at the Alden – Harrington Funeral Home in Bonner Springs, KS where his family will receive friends at the visitation from 5 to 7 pm, prior to the service at the funeral home. The family suggests memorial contributions to the Pittsburgh State University James S. Head Scholarship fund at POBox 4005, Pittsburg, KS 66762.

Mr. Head was born on April 13, 1939 in Milford, KS to Lee and Dorthy Head. Jim was an accomplished high school basketball and track star graduating from Milford High School in 1957. He served in the US Navy from 1957 to 1961. He later played and coached baseball at Pittsburg State University graduating in 1965. He was one of the founding members of the Cochran and Head Accounting Firm in Kansas City, KS and was appointed by

Governor Joan Finney to the Kansas Board of Accountancy. He was a Past-President of the Kansas City KansasRotary Club, Past Board member andPresident of the Kansas City KansasBoard of Public Utilities and a member and Past President of the Kansas CityGorilla Club where he considered himself the “Head Gorilla”.

Jim was preceded in death by a sister Gladys Rose in 2011. And is survived by his wife Judy Head ofthe home. 3 Children Tamera Weber(Shawn), David Head (Jackie),and Sherri Hoffman (Phil). 2 Step Children Steve Connell, and Pamela Pickell (Jeremiah). 2 Sisters ImogeneHutcherson and Pat Tyrell. 1 Brother Ron Head (Shirley). 3 GrandchildrenKyle Mabary, Aubrey and Bethany Head, and 2 Step Grandchildren Jacob Connell (USMC), and Thomas Connell. And his former wife and mother of his children Gloria J. Head.Arr. Alden - Harrington Funeral 913-422-4074 AldenHarrington.com

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Harry A. Tennant, age 81, of Lake of the Forest, Bonner Springs, Kansas passed away on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 at his home. His visitation with Celebration of Life to follow will be at 3:00 pm, Sunday, July 8, 2012 at the Lake of the Forest Clubhouse. The family suggests memorial contributions to the Lake of the Forest Historic Preservation Society.

Harry was born on July 3, 1930 in Seattle, Washington. He grew up in the Seattle, WA area and moved to the Kansas City area in about 1950. He then joined the U.S. Air Force and was stationed in England. While in the Air Force he met and married Jean O’Connor and their daughter Stephanie was born. After the service he made the Kansas City area his home where he worked for many years for GMAC retiring in 1990. He was a long time member of the local Kiwanis International and had served in many positions. He was a charter member of the Kicks Band and a main stay of the Bonner Springs City Band, he also played in the KCKCC Symphony Orchestra. He has lived at Lake of the Forest since the early

1960’s and loved being involved in allof the lakes activities especially Golfand Men’s Club.

He was preceded in death by hisfirst wife Jean Tennant in 1986 andhis sister Irene Williamson in Feb. 2012. He is survived by his wife of 22 years Karen Tennant of the home. His Daughter Stephanie Tennant Dunn (Joel), 2 Stepchildren Robert Trupp (B.J.) and Kristine Vrchoticky (Tim),3 Sisters Rita Pardo, Mona Croneand Pat Acey (Rex), 5 Grandchildren, 3 Step-Grandchildren, and 7 GreatGrandchildren as well as a host ofother family, neighbors and friends.AldenHarrington.com


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Blanche T. (Klamet) Murphy 1916 - 2012 Bonner Springs

Funeral services for Blanche T. Murphy, 96, of Bonner Springs, were held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 3 at Holy Angels Catholic Church in Basehor. Burial was in Holy Angels Cemetery, Basehor.

Mrs. Murphy died Friday, June 29, 2012, at her daughter’s home in Auburn, KS.

She was born Feb 27, 1916, on the Klamet farm near Bonner Springs. She spent most of her life as a homemaker and assisting her husband Dan in operating a dairy farm. She attended Dafer grade school and graduated from Bonner Springs High School in 1933. She married Dan Murphy on September 16, 1946 at Sacred Heart Church in Bonner Springs. Her husband, Dan, died in 2008 and a daughter Marilyn Sullivan in 2011.

She is also survived by her three sons, Daniel Murphy Jr. and Richard

Murphy, Des Moines, Iowa, Jim Murphy, Centennial, Colorado; threedaughters, Janet Turini, Kingwood,Texas, Carol Westfall, Auburn, KS, and Norene Ryks, Bellevue, Nebraska.; five sisters; Sister Devota Klamet, OSB, Atchison, KS, Mary Seufert,Tonganoxie, KS, , Teresa Griffin, Batavia, NY, Regina Jennings, BonnerSprings, KS and Ruth Martin, Kansas City, KS; 13 grandchildren; and 4 great-grandchildren.

A visitation will be from 6 p.m. to 8p.m. Monday at Quisenberry FuneralHome where the Rosary will be said at 7 p.m. Memorials are suggested to the Holy Angels Catholic Church or Alzheimer’s Association, c/oQuisenberry Funeral Home, P.O. Box993, Tonganoxie 66086. Condolences may be left for the family at http://www.quisenberryfh.com/.


BLANCHE T. (KLAMET) MURPHY

Jacqueline T. Moore, 84, of K.C., KS died Sun., July 1, 2012 at Providence MedCenter. Private funeral services. Visitation 6 to 8 pm, Thurs., July 5th at the Alden-Harrington Funeral Home in Bonner Springs, KS. (913)422-4074

JACQUELINE T. MOORE

Jim Watkins, 91 of Linwood, KS., died July 2, 2012. Funeral 11:00 a.m. July 7 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Lenexa, KS., burial Lenape Cemetery in Linwood, KS. Visitation 10-11am at Church. AldenHarrington.com

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Thanks to the patriotism and generosity of local businesses and residents of Bonner Springs and sur-rounding areas, this year’s 12th Bon-ner Blast was a success. The volume of spectators for the display was fan-tastic, bringing residents and visi-tors together to celebrate our great nation’s freedom and independence.

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COMMENT

| LETTERS |

We are past the Fourth of July and, hopefully, there were no fireworks-caused blazes. Come to think of it, as dry as the weather has been, we have been fortunate, at this writing, not to have experienced a grass fire.

Over the years, we have seen our share of grass fires along the railroad tracks and highways. Sadly, there are people who don’t know what an auto ash tray is intended to be used for. They throw the still-smol-dering butts out of the vehicle window onto a tinder-dry road shoulder, and the re-sult can be a devastat-ing fire.

I might add that when it comes to shooting fireworks, it isn’t fire safety that keeps me from stocking up on rockets and firecrack-ers. No, the reason is much more ba-sic — I’m too frugal to buy fireworks. I have told the story many times, but when I was 11 or 12, I mowed lawns. I put in a couple of hours of hard work and was rewarded with a dollar.

I rushed to the fireworks stand for firecrackers. That night I fired them off and it occurred to me that I had worked very hard for very little plea-sure. From then on, I invested in ice cream, a Saturday afternoon movie matinee or tickets to the local baseball team’s games.

It isn’t just fireworks that I don’t like — I have always been very care-ful with fire. Although, I can think of a few instances when I did get in trouble with being careless with fire. Probably the one I’ll never forget is a “good news-bad news” story. When we bought the Mulvane News, it was a very small newspaper, and my first challenges were improving news coverage and increasing advertising.

I spent a lot of time talking with the local Dillon’s Store and was invited to send a proposal to the Hutchinson home office. A couple of weeks later, I was asked to meet with the district manager. In those days, I was an avid pipe smoker and was puffing away during the meeting.

They wondered if I would guar-antee the price for two years and in

turn, they would run a two-page ad every other week. Obvi-ously I couldn’t say “yes” quick enough, and I grabbed my pen to sign the contract. In doing so, I stuffed my pipe in the side pocket of my sports

coat. At the time, Jean happened to be shopping in the store and was check-ing out when the clerk commented that she smelled something burning. Yes, you guessed it! The smoke was coming from my pocket. The coat had a big hole in the pocket and was ru-ined. The good news was that I made a big sale, which was instrumental in our success in Mulvane. The bad news was it took a few weeks’ profits to buy a new coat.

The other time I got in trouble with a clothing fire was when I was baby-sitting my oldest daughter, Jill. I was getting her bottle from a pan on the stove when I suddenly smelled smol-dering cloth. I caught the tail of her long gown on fire. I quickly put it out and only a bit of hem was singed. Of course, that didn’t prevent me from getting a “severe talking-to” about my babysitting skills.

If this dry weather continues, we will all have to use extra caution to prevent a disaster.

Or maybe better yet, we will hope for cooler temperatures and a two-day

POINT OF VIEWThree local residents are our community voices for this three-month period. The three will comment on events local and national. And, at times, our local commentators may offer

additional views online at bonnersprings.com.

“I’ve never seen a really great fire-works show, but

the few I’ve seen at Kauffman Stadium have been pretty good ... My kids

are young, but old enough to enjoy

even the smallest show, and their

eyes light up at just about anything!”

Erin EvansBonner Springs YMCA

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“On the lake at Loveland, Colo.,

while visiting fam-ily.”

Blake WatersBasehor / Piper mar-

ket president for First

State Bank & Trust

Q: What is the best fireworks display you have ever seen?

“The one at the Lake of the Forest.

It’s awesome. It lasts about 20 to 30 minutes. We pay for it ourselves through donations and fund-

raising.”

Sydney ShepherdBonner Springs High

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Council supports 2nd improvement district

The Bonner Springs City Council last week gave preliminary support to a second tax increment financing dis-trict in the city.

In a workshop prior to its regular meeting, the council reached a general consensus of support for the proposal of a second Community Improvement District. It would cover the rest of the shopping center for which the city’s first district was approved, on the southwest corner of Kansas Avenue and Kansas Highway 7. The district would help the same developer, David Christie, purchase and renovate the remainder of the shopping center.

“What we’re asking to gain tonight is consensus for Mr. Christie before he takes the plunge and moves forward with this, so he has some assurance that he could get this incentive,” said Marcia Harrington, the city’s commu-nity and economic development direc-tor.

Harrington explained the basics of how CIDs work, allowing property owners to use additional property or sales taxes to fund improvements to their property.

In January 2011, the city approved a CID for a portion of the shopping center including the former Cummins Tool building, which was redeveloped for Nuts and Bolts True Value Hard-ware; the retail strip center on the south; a pad site that is to be developed with a restaurant; and McDonald’s.

At the time, the council was told that Christie hoped to purchase and redevelop the rest of the retail center, which includes The Dollar Tree, the Goodwill Store, the space formerly oc-cupied by Aaron’s Rents and another

vacant space.Harrington said the total project

costs are $3.4 million, and the CID request would be for $1.22 million to be paid through sales and property taxes generated in the district until that amount is met or within 15 years, whichever occurs first.

Like the first district, the district application was for an additional 1 percent sales tax within the district, meaning the sales tax rate in both dis-tricts would be 10.05 percent, and 50 percent of the city’s 1 percent sales tax, though only for any businesses that would locate in the two currently-va-cant spaces. The developer also would recoup incremental property tax.

While some council members noted how good the improvements in the first district looked, George Cooper, Racheal Haas and Jack Knight re-mained unsure if they wanted to sup-port another CID, while Eric Freeman said he would not support it.

Mayor Clausie Smith reminded the council that the city would continue to receive the current amount of prop-erty taxes it was receiving, as Christie would get only the increment once the property was improved. John Helin, city manager, added that the develop-er was paying all the up-front costs out of his own pocket, so none of the city’s money was at risk.

Councilmember Tom Stephens not-ed that the additional sales tax wasn’t forced upon the residents, because they could choose to shop elsewhere, and the three undecided council mem-bers agreed they would give the dis-trict their support, though Freeman continued his opposition.

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A Basehor 18-year-old and his 11-year-old sister were honored by the Leavenworth County Sheriff’s Of-fice in May for coming to the rescue of their brother when he had a seizure while the siblings were driving on a rural road.

Tyler and Hayden Fritts received certificates of recognition from the Sheriff’s Office on May 31 for their actions about 18 months ago. Their brother Trevor, 13, accepted Tyler’s award on his behalf, as Tyler was un-able to attend.

Tyler, then 16, was driving Trevor, 12, and Hayden, 9, to McDonald’s in Bonner Springs on Dec. 26, 2010, when Trevor began to have a seizure and became unresponsive. Tyler called 911 and gave dispatchers directions to their location on 142nd Street near Kansas Avenue in rural Leavenworth County. Hayden, meanwhile, comfort-ed Trevor until emergency responders arrived.

Tyler and Hayden prevented injury and possible death for their brother,

Sheriff Dave Zoellner said.“They are heroes and a wonderful

example to everyone,” Zoellner said.

City Council eyeing worker pay bumpThe Basehor City Council is poised

to back up its talk about giving city employees a bump in pay.

Council members at a work session Monday signaled support for a 2013 pay proposal providing more than $90,000 in salary increases that skew toward lower- and mid-level workers.

The plan was created by Interim City Administrator Lloyd Martley along with council members Brian Healy and Vernon J. Fields, after Mayor David Breuer tasked them last month with studying employee pay.

“What we’re trying to do with this is just realign the salaries that we feel are out of line with our competitors,” Martley said Monday.

The plan would give all city em-ployees a 2 percent cost-of-living pay increase, along with additional bumps for all of the city’s full-time low- and mid-level workers, ranging from about $1,000 per year to about $4,500 per year. Most would receive about a $2,000 increase, and most work in the police department.

Those adjustments are based on a survey of workers’ pay in surrounding cities — cities that range in size from Tonganoxie and Bonner Springs to Overland Park and Kansas City, Kan.

“We’re going to at least get people raised to a point where, in comparison to the other cities in this area, they will be competitive,” Healy said.

Healy, Fields and Martley also pro-posed a new salary structure that would include performance-based increases. The city has not used per-formance evaluations to determine pay in several years, Martley said, in-stead relying on a matrix that awarded 2.5 percent increases every two years regardless of per-formance.

“There was no differentiation between a really good employee and just an aver-age employee,” Martley said.

The new pay system would in-crease the maxi-mum possible pay for the city’s de-partment heads by as much as $28,000. But the proposed salaries in the 2013 pay plan would put those department heads on the low end of their pay scale, with a number of performance-dependent steps required before they hit their maximum.

For 2013, Healy said, the city’s up-per-level employees agreed they were comfortable without any pay adjust-

ments beyond the staff-wide cost-of-living increase.

“They brought that to us volun-tarily,” Healy said. “We didn’t ask for that.”

Council member Travis Miles said he’d support even greater pay increas-es for some positions than what was presented, for police officers and mid-level supervisors in the public works department.

Healy said he agreed that wages could be more competitive, but it would take several years to bring them up to that level.

“You can’t take the entire apple at one time,” Healy said.

Altogether, the proposed 2013

plan would increase wages by about $94,000, assuming all positions are filled for the entire year. Breuer asked the staff to present two wage plans — the one presented Monday and one with the additional increases pro-posed by Miles — at the council’s July 16 meeting for possible inclusion in the city’s 2013 budget. The long-term pay changes — the introduction of perfor-mance reviews and new salary ranges

— will require additional study beforethey can be approved, Healy said.

Also during the work session Mon-day, council members discussed a pos-sible study of the city’s sewer rates.

About 18 months after the coun-cil voted to increase residents’ sewerrates by about 40 percent in order torepay state loans on the city’s waste-water treatment plant, the city’s sewerfund is already projected to become insolvent by 2015, according to a re-port from City Clerk Corey Swisher.

Slowed growth has resulted infewer connections to the city’s sewersystem in recent years, Swisher said,causing the sewer fund to fall short ofprojections.

Breuer said the council could con-tract with a financial adviser for a study to determine what to do with the city’s sewer rates. But, he said, previous councils did not follow the recommendations of a previous study,opting not to raise rates during the high-growth years of the mid-2000s,and that contributed to some of thefund’s current problems.

“If you don’t do what the studysays, then you might as well not do it,” Breuer said.

The city’s financial adviser, Spring-sted Inc., has offered to perform a util-ity study for $12,600.

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HAYDEN AND TYLER FRITTS display the cer-tificates of recognition they received from the Leavenworth County Sheriff’s Office in May, as their brother Trevor stands behind them.

Youths honored by Sheriff’s Office

We’re going to at least get people raised to the point where, in comparison to the other cities in this area, they will be competitive.”

— Brian Healy, Basehor City Council member

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Longtime officer joins race for Leavenworth County Sheriff

Burdel Welsh has been back in Kan-sas for just a few weeks, but he’s no stranger to the Leavenworth County Sheriff’s office.

And he’s ready to make a return.Welsh filed for the sheriff’s race and

will face Andy Dedeke, the current sheriff’s office captain, in the Novem-ber general election.

“I think it’s a natural pro-gression in my career,” Welsh said.

Welsh filed days before the filing deadline June 1. He had been working as deputy chief of police in the Kwajalein Po-lice Department on the U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

“I’ve been thinking about it for months,” Welsh said. “I’ve been discussing it with my wife and sup-porters. I’ve been trying to make things work with my contract and being able to return and finally everything fell into place.”

Welsh, 55, has worked in law en-forcement since he was 18. He’s worked in the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and served as deputy sheriff and act-ing undersheriff in the Atchison Coun-ty Sheriff Department, an undersheriff with the Leavenworth County Sher-iff’s office and police chief for Lake

Quivira Police. Welsh also served in the Kansas University Police Depart-ment and with Leavenworth County Emergency Management.

Welsh became familiar with the de-partment in the Marshall Islands when his youngest son, Brian, was stationed there from 2005-07.

“It gave us some exposure to the is-land and the department,” Welsh said.

Welsh and Dave Zoellner were co-undersheriffs in Leavenworth County

in the early 2000s. Zoellner is in his second term as sheriff, but is not seeking a third.

Welsh said his focus as sheriff would be on interac-tion with other agencies.

“I’d like to really work on relationships with emergency agencies and how the sheriff’s department works with police and fire departments and the

highway patrol,” Welsh said. “And building and working on those rela-tionships.”

The longtime law enforcement of-ficial also touched on what he would like to see continue in the sheriff’s of-fice.

“I think the department has always worked to hire quality employees and I want to continue that,” he said. “Keep that level of professionalism high.”

In addition to son Brian, who works for Leavenworth police, Burdel and his wife, Cynthia, have an older son,

Jim, all of Tonganoxie. Jim also works in law enforcement as a Lawrence po-lice officer.

Currently retired, Welsh said his fo-cus would be solely on the campaign.

“I think the campaign is really going to give me an opportunity to talk to a lot of residents and see what challeng-es there are that might be different on the inside,” he said.

Welsh, a Democrat, will face De-deke, a rural Easton Republican, in the November election.

Dedeke, 44, and his wife, Wendy, have three children: daughters Bren-

na, 17, and Grace, 12, and son, Chase, 8.He has worked in the Leavenworth

County Sheriff’s office for 20 years.In an interview after Dedeke filed in February, he said he was privileged to have daily interaction with Zoell-ner and Undersheriff Ron Cranor onthe business side of the office dealing with budgets, proposals and large pur-chases.

“With that in mind, the next logical step, I believe, is for me to pursue theoffice of sheriff,” Dedeke said in a Feb-ruary interview. “It is something that I have thought of for some time.”

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Leavenworth Democrat files in county treasurer race

If you’re hiring for a job, you don’t just hire the first person who applies, Thomas Koch says. You choose from as many applicants as possible.

Elected positions should work the same way, Koch said: Voters should have choices. That’s especially true for an elected position that pays nearly $80,000 a year, he said, and that’s why he filed to run for county treasurer.

Koch, 50, a Leavenworth Democrat, filed for county treasurer’s job shortly be-fore the June 1 deadline, sev-eral months after Republican Janice Dickson, an assistant county clerk, filed for the job. The two will compete to re-place Janice Young, who has served as treasurer since 1998 and is not seeking re-election.

Because Leavenworth County was guaranteed to get a new treasurer, Koch said, he felt voters should have at least two choices.

“If she’s going to win it, she’s at least going to have to earn it,” Koch said. “And the same thing for me.”

Koch is a janitorial supervisor for the city of Leavenworth, and he’s been a member of the city’s Waterworks Board since 2009, he said, helping set water rates and manage finances.

“Basically my thing was to keep the

water rates lower, especially for the smaller customers,” Koch said.

He is a Kiwanis member and a Sal-vation Army volunteer, he said, and he has a bachelor’s degree in math and a master’s in economics. That back-ground, he said, might come in handy when it comes to handling the coun-ty’s money.

“My education makes treasurer a suitable job for me,” Koch said.

Koch said he believed that educa-tion would make up for the fact that Dickson has 10 years of experience in the county clerk’s office.

Koch ran for Congress in 2010 but lost in the 2nd Dis-trict Democratic primary. This campaign would be dif-ferent, he said, in that politi-cal issues aren’t likely to come into play.

“It shouldn’t be partisan,” Koch said. “It should be just people evaluating who they think will do the best job.”

The county treasurer oversees the collection and distribution of taxes, as well as motor vehicle registration. The new treasurer elected this fall will not take office until October 2013.

The general election for county, state and national races will be Nov. 6.

— To read more about the other candidate for county treasurer, Janice Dickson, visit the news

archive for March 5 on basehorinfo.com.


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Teacher and coach Tim Johnson needed a way to make weightlifting seem fun and interesting to 9-, 10- and 11-year-olds. He found his answer in an unexpected place this spring: a South Korean exchange student from whom he’d hardly heard a word all year.

Johnson, a U.S. history teacher and assistant powerlifting coach at Base-hor-Linwood High School, and student Mi-Ji Lee teamed up to produce “Pow-erlifting,” a children’s book that John-son is distributing to area schools and libraries. Johnson wrote the words, and Lee drew the illustrations.

The idea for a children’s book about powerlifting, Johnson said, came from a desire to teach kids (and their par-ents) about the benefits of the sport before they reach high-school age.

“I realized a lot of people still don’t know what our sport is,” said Johnson.

BLHS has been a force in powerlifting in re-cent years, with the girls team winning five straight state cham-pionships and the boys taking home three consecutive titles.

But the real goal in getting more students to pump iron isn’t to win tro-phies, Johnson said. It’s to encourage them to be active and healthy at a time when exercise habits are dwindling for children and teenagers.

“We’re not talking about sports, just healthy kids,” Johnson said.

Johnson, who worked in law en-forcement before he became a teach-er four years ago, has some experi-ence communicating with kids — he has spoken with children and youth groups at churches, and written sever-al religious-themed children’s books. He thought some colorful, cartoonish pictures might be a good fit for the book, but he didn’t have an artist.

Then he saw an assignment that Lee turned in for his class, a mock World War I-era poster advertising war bonds.

The poster, drawn in colored pen-cil, featured a bald eagle and extensive use of red, white and blue, and John-son was struck by its beauty, he said.

“She’s just so talented,” Johnson said.

Curious about what else she could do, Johnson asked Lee — who had talked rarely in class, he said — if she

might be interested in creating some illustrations for his book.

Lee quietly said “OK,” he said.She provided the illustrations for

free, as Johnson is not expecting to profit from the book. But she was thrilled about the opportunity, she said via email from South Korea, where she returned last month.

“It was the most interesting thing I’ve ever been asked (to do),” Lee said.

Drawing had long been a hobby she loved, something she does when she’s a bit bored, she said. Johnson told her about some of the material planned for the book, and as soon as soccer season was over (she played for the Bobcat squad this season), she got to work.

A few weeks later, when she brought her drawings in for Johnson to see, he knew he had the artwork for

his book, he said. Best of all was a cari-cature of John-

son himself, wearing a white,

s h o r t - s l e e v e d button-up shirt and red bow tie while

straining to lift a barbell off the floor.

“She’d been s t u d y i n g me,” John-son said. “She was

kind of mak-ing fun of

me, but that was great.”

Lee said that when she thought of Johnson, she thought of his trademark bow tie.

“I think it made the character really cute,” Lee said.

The “Mr. J” caricature appears on the cover of “Powerlifting.” But Lee’s favorite illustration, she said, is a “muscly arm” that appears on the book’s first page. Most of the drawings she’d done before had been portraits of famous people or family members, she said, but after she drew that bulg-ing arm, she knew should could get the job done for the book.

“She just came up with those ideas,” Johnson said. “I told her some things I wanted to represent in the book, and she just drew them.”

Though she was quiet, Johnson said Lee quickly improved her English, “aced” his U.S. history class despite little knowledge coming in, and even laughed in class once when everyone wore Mickey Mouse hats and sang a song. Lee, who also sang in the choir at BLHS, said the experience was part of a great year.

“I think I’m never gonna have a fun year like this again,” Lee said.

The “Powerlifting” book, intended for third- through seventh-graders, will be distributed to schools and li-braries in Leavenworth and Wyan-dotte counties. The book is also avail-able for purchase for $10 through mail

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TIM JOHNSON and Mi-Ji Lee, a U.S. history teacher and an exchange student from South Korea at Basehor-Linwood High School, teamed up this year to release a children’s book intended to teach kids about the benefits of weightlifting, simply titled “Powerlifting.” Johnson, also an assistant powerlifting coach at BLHS, wrote the words, and Lee provided illustrations. Lee included Johnson’s trademark bow tie in a caricature (at left) that appears on the book’s cover.

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A soup for summer

Ready for a cool and refreshing soup hot off the grill? It’s got to be gazpacho.

Gazpacho is the perfect healthy summer food. It’s jammed with all manner of vegetables, including the tomatoes and zucchini that tend to overrun our gardens, and traditionally is served cool to help beat the summer heat.

While some people prefer their gaz-pachos made from raw vegetables, we find that cooking the produce, then chilling it deepens the flavors.

But who wants to head inside to cook in summer? So we came up with this delicious recipe for grilled gazpa-cho.

Along with being a low-fat cooking method that won’t heat up the kitchen, grilling vegetables adds a delicious smoky char to the soup. Make this soup at least several hours and up to a day ahead, then chill until you are ready to enjoy.

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1 tablespoon fresh oregano1 medium cucumber, peeled and finely

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Season the tomatoes, zucchini, sum-mer squash and onion with salt and pepper. Arrange the vegetables on the grill and cook until slightly charred and tender, about 4 to 5 minutes per side. Transfer to a platter and set aside.

Using the paper bag to assist, rub the poblano pepper until all of the charred skin loosens and peels off. Using a par-ing knife, cut out and discard the core and seeds of the pepper.

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10 Years Ago — July 3, 2002The Bonner Springs City Band re-

ceived a new trailer through donations by local businesses including Com-mercial State Bank, Bonner Springs Thriftway, Price Chopper and Cole-man Implement Co.

The Basehor Fourth of July celebra-tion featured a large fireworks display costing about $3,000.

The Kansas Department of Trans-portation announced plans to repair the railroad crossing on K-21 near 121st St.

Roy Davidson was honored by the Bonner Springs Masonic Lodge for 10 years of service as secretary. Mike Miller was master of the lodge.

25 Years Ago — July 2, 1987

Dr. Mark L. Peterson joined the medical practice of Dr. Franklin E. Waggoner and Dr. Philip E. Martin.

The Bonner Springs Public Library was moved to its new location on the lower level of the Bonner Springs Community Center.

The First Christian Church of Bon-ner Springs honored Phyllis Schram for her volunteer service to the church program.

The Basehor City Library launched its summer reading program with 161 children signing up to participate.

50 Years Ago — July 3-6, 1987

Petitioners filed documents asking the district court to halt a vote on uni-

fication of Bonner Springs. The mea-sure was favored by both the grade school and high school boards of edu-cation.

The sale of assets of the Bonner Springs Building and Loan Associationwas planned.

Several youths were part of a gangthat broke into the Edwardsville CityHall and stole tents belonging to the Boy Scouts. Authorities quickly foundthe tents and charges were being dis-cussed.

The new township water boardheld its first meeting at Basehor HighSchool.

100 Years Ago — July 3, 1912

Thanks to efforts by local business-men, telegraphic reports from the Johnson-Flynn heavyweight champi-onship boxing match were to be post-ed after each round at the Fourth of July celebration.

The First Infantry camped in the woods near Lincoln School. They wereon their way to Ft. Leonard Wood,Mo., for maneuvers with the MissouriNational Guard.

Harry Smith and Fred Purtee dugthe first carload of potatoes at Ed-wardsville.

The Bonner Springs Grays defeated the Ft. Leavenworth Army team, 10-2. The Bonner Springs Nationals de-feated Edwardsville, 10-5, behind thepitching of McEvers.

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The grand opening is set for 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and the business will provide a free lunch and the chance to win a 32-inch flat screen TV.

KC Homestead is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays and can be reached at 913-441-0071.

Bank awards scholarships

KCB Bank recently awarded college scholarships to two Bonner Springs High School graduates. The bank’s scholar-ship program is designed to reward stu-dents with interests in entrepreneurship and a record of good citizenship.

Joseph Dooley was a member of the school football, basketball and baseball teams. He also was an honor student and a member of the student council. Away from school, he works as a sports referee and does lawn work.

Melissa Cisneros plans to study ac-counting at Wichita State University. She was a drum major with the high school band, an honor student and a member of the tennis team. She works part time at Walgreens and helped start a business in the high school student union called the Brave Cave.

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By Stephen [email protected]

The way Jackie Harris saw it, her-self having boxed from ages 3 to 10, she couldn’t exactly say no when her 14-year-old son, Tyler Holland, ex-pressed interest in joining the Shaw-nee boxing club that opened near their home last year.

“You’ve got to go meet them,” said Tyler — then an eighth-grader at Trailridge Middle School — of RNE Boxing’s coaches. “I want to start to-morrow.”

Still, Harris had reservations when coach Leo Moreno phoned her and said he wanted to find Tyler a fight af-ter just three weeks of watching him train. Harris had seen what her 5-10, 163-pound son could do on the foot-ball field, where he looked like a man among children. She just hadn’t yet seen what he could do in the ring.

So before she would agree to any-thing, she wanted to see him spar first. The time frame just didn’t seem nor-mal to her.

“But then he almost knocked the other kid out in the first sparring ses-sion,” she said.

That was last fall. Today, Tyler is 5-0, having won the Junior Olympics State Championship in April and Ju-nior Olympics Regional Champion-ship in May. His age has been the only thing so far able to stop him. Next time, at 15, Tyler will be eligible to compete in the National Junior Olympics.

An out-of-town trip delayed Tyler’s amateur boxing debut until February, when he boxed at RNE Boxing’s Rum-

ble in the Jungle. Looking back, Tyler doesn’t pretend that he wasn’t ner-vous walking to the ring. Something changed, though, when he stepped through the ropes.

“From there I kind of just went with it,” he said, “And it ended up going the way I wanted it to.”

Until that moment, Tyler had only competed in team sports — he still does and will play football this fall for Shawnee Mission Northwest.

The individuality and accountabil-

ity ingrained in boxing is attractive to Tyler, he said. In the ring, Tyler can be himself. If he fails, he has no one else to blame.

“He told me ‘Mom, I like this be-cause it’s just me,’” Jackie Harris said. “Win or lose, it’s my fault. He had nev-er thought that way before.”

Tyler is among the more than 340 boxers awaiting news of where RNE Boxing will move after it closed its doors upon the expiration of its lease on July 1. Leo Moreno and his daugh-

ter, E-Lisa, herself a professional boxer and assistant head coach at RNE Box-ing, may have a lot of uncertainty to deal with, but Tyler’s future prospects leave no doubt.

“For him, if he continues with this, he can be a world champ one of these days,” E-Lisa Moreno said.

One morning, Leo Moreno sat at his desk as he began plans to move out of the gym. When the subject of Tyler came up, he didn’t hesitate in his as-sessment.

Leo lifted his finger and poked firm-ly at the silver boxing globe pendant hanging above his chest.

“Boy that kid has a heart,” he said.At first, Leo said, he’d have Tyler

spar with the older boxers because of his size. He told the older boxers to take it easy initially, but then Tyler would pop them. Stunned, they looked at Leo, who gave them the green light to step it up. So did Tyler.

“He’s only 14 years old and he hits like a man already,” Leo said. “But he don’t have that manpower yet.”

Consider the possibilities.There’s no doubt, Leo said, that

Tyler will start on the football team at some point this year. He’s just too strong. But that doesn’t mean boxing will leave his mind.

“When he’s here, he don’t look at it as a hobby,” Leo said. “He wants this.”

By the time football ends, Tyler said he’ll return to training five days a week with sights set on nationals.

“It sparked,” he said of his regional championship victory. “It just made me want to go even more and contin-ue to fulfill what I can do.”

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TYLER HOLLAND, 14, won all five of his fights this year, training out of RNE Boxing in Shaw-nee. Holland, who will be a freshman at SM Northwest this year, won a Junior Olympics regional championship in May. Next year, he’ll be eligible for nationals.

Raising the bar: Shawnee teen boxer undefeated

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By Blake SchusterContributing writer

Coming off its best season in school history, the Bonner Spring girls bas-ketball team has some rebuilding to do. With the grad-uation of Yessenia Hernandez, Emily Wilson, Erica Wil-son and Erin Marx, coach Clay Oakes will have an un-tested roster.

But Oakes has handled a situation like this in the past, and it produced last season’s sub-state championship.

“We were in this same position three years ago.” Oakes said. “When the girls who just graduated were sophomores we had to stick them in and play them when they were young. Over the course of the next two years

all that experience settled in and we became a pretty good team.”

Last season the Braves set school records with most wins in a season (23), points scored (1,250), free throws (276) and rebounds (780).

Yet Oakes’ team was made up of size, something his new squad won’t have much of.

While the Braves have eight return-ing players, it might be a rookie hav-ing the biggest impact on the floor in freshman Julianne Jackson.

Jackson has been gathering praise from both the junior varsity and varsi-ty levels during her summer workouts, and may find herself slipping into a starting role on Oakes’ squad.

“She’s going to be someone that we expect to fill one of the starting posi-tions on varsity.” Oakes said. “She’s real athletic, has great basketball sense and does a great job on the court. She has a natural ability for the game; things come to her smoothly and

quickly. I see her being one of the best basketball players to come out of Bon-ner Springs.”

Oakes went on to say that the Braves would most likely have three starters with no varsity experience, opening up the chance for Jackson to cement a spot by the start of the season.

In putting together a plan to ready his new players, Oakes is reverting back to the one he used three years ago.

Over the course of the summer the Braves will take part in 25 to 30 games to get the girls as much experience as possible.

Last Weekend, ninth- and 10th-grad-ers on the team took third place at the Mid America Youth Basketball tour-nament hosted by the Bonner Springs District Physical Education Center.

The tournament not only gave more court time to junior varsity play-

Good summer for girls hoops teamsBOBCATS WIN

Next week we’ll catch up with the Basehor-Linwood girls basketball team, who, under first-year head coach Jason Tatkenhorst, has had a successful summer.

The Bobcats’ juniors and seniors squad placed first in the Mid America Basketball Tournament in Bonner Springs, led by seniors Jamie Johnson, Kara Stephens, Haley Waters and Sa-mantha Weatherford. The finish came in addition to a second-place perfor-mance in a weekly summer league.

“Everybody is feeling good,” Tat-kenhorst said. “We hope this leads to great things this winter, knowing that we can win.”

Stay tuned to basehorinfo.com and the July 12 issues of The Chieftain and Sentinel for more.

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By Stephen [email protected]

A morning in mid-June, and it may as well be evening in April, or dusk in Colorado at the end of May or, for that matter, later that same June day in Em-poria, a two-hour drive from Shawnee.

That’s where Billie Thompson will be. A police officer at Shawnee Mis-sion Park going on 29 years, Thomp-son is off work today, and he’s going to watch baseball.

In less than a week, he’ll help drive his eldest son, Jake, to Bowling Green, Ky., where he’ll join the Hilltopper baseball program after two years pitching at Iowa Western Community College. A little more than a month later, Thompson will take his young-est, Ty, to report for his freshman year at the Missouri Institute of Science and Technology, where he, too, will pitch.

When his sons leave, they’ll take with them the same things Billie will keep. Scores of stories, each delivered by rattling off the names of supporting characters: coaches, teammates, fam-ily, fans.

Stories like this one: When Billie was 7 and growing up in Pratt, he was asked to help fill in on a men’s recre-ational team low on players that week. (“And that’s when I got to hit my first home run,” Thompson said. “Hit it to right field — which I never did again.”)

Or stories like the one that helps ex-plain why we’re here in the first place talking about baseball, why Thompson is wearing an Iowa Western National Champions T-shirt and is about to drive and watch Ty pitch on a sum-mer ball team. Billie was All-State in football and bounced between Pratt Community College, Fort Hays State University and the University of Ha-waii before he came back to Kansas. Within days, he’d go from 80-degree weather to being snowed in at Empo-ria State on a visit over the holidays. “I fell in love with Emporia,” he said, without an ounce of sarcasm. He was about to commit to play both football and baseball, but the football coach of-fered a full scholarship.

“I drop baseball, they win the na-tional championship and we win three games in football,” Thompson said.

His boys, and we’ll get to them soon, would never play football.

•••This being summer, Philip Hannon

is sitting in his office thinking about recruiting, thinking about who next will don a Baker University baseball cap. He’s just concluded his 12th sea-son as head coach of the Wildcats. Their playoff chances looking up this year, the Wildcats lost their final 12 games, eight of them by a margin of just one run.

An error here, a home run conceded there.

“Just really freakish things,” he said. Baseball in so many words.

Baseball has kept Hannon a part of the Baldwin City community for three decades now, his wife Charlene by his side and four children coming up out of their household (three of which at-tended the same university.)

He grew up in Lexington, Mo., a football town. His high school didn’t even have a baseball team, so Hannon would spend his summers baking in the heat in front of family, friends and fans at a local ballpark.

Still, it was his football proclivity that earned Hannon a scholarship to Baker. Baseball still found him. Keith Hackett, Baker’s head baseball coach, was also the football team’s offensive line coach.

“Heard you played summer base-ball,” was something like how it start-ed one day. “We’re down in numbers this year. Won’t you come out and try this college baseball thing?”

Soon after, Hannon joined a fresh-man-laden club, comprised of what he’d call some “darn good baseball players.”

After his eligibility was up, Hannon worked out for major league scouts on diamonds in Chicago, Tulsa, Joplin. He played five years for the Chicago Cubs’ minor league organization, mak-ing it all the way up to AA ball. After a while he transitioned into a player/coach and then a full-time outfield in-

structor. From 1992-1995, Hannon shuffled

between minor league coaching jobsbefore he returned to Baldwin City to spend more time raising his children. After bouncing between non-hardball occupations for four years, Hannon received a call from Baker’s athletic director, asking Hannon to return to his old team as manager, the job he’s now held for more than a decade.

“It ended up being real good forme,” he said.

Hannon’s mindset has been that ofthe .300 hitter. Making an out on 70 percent of your at-bats is still good forthe Hall of Fame in this game. So while a conference title has eluded Hannon’s Wildcats over the years, he doesn’t take for granted his program’s 87 per-cent graduation rate, or players likeVidal Nuno, now working his way upas a pitcher in the New York Yankeesorganization, or those holiday weeksthat find Christmas cards waiting inHannon’s mailbox, concealing photosof former players who’ve grown to befriends and fathers.

“You have to understand that you’re going to fail more times than you willsucceed,” Hannon said. “Savor thosemoments you succeed because theydon’t come around too often.”

•••When Billie Thompson started a

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family in Shawnee, youth soccer was the sport to play. His boys played for a while before finding a baseball program through the local parks and recreation department. Each worked their way on up from tee ball to ma-chine pitch and, finally, kid pitch. Soon enough, Billie would be coaching, too, and helped manage Ty’s LePeep Mus-tangs to the 2003 national champion-ship tournament in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Each morning they’d be up and on a field by 6 a.m. “We had a routine go-ing,” Thompson said. “Every game in the tournament we ran through just about everybody.”

But in the first game of the final round, the Mustangs lost. Though they were still in the hunt, Thompson had to return to work and wouldn’t be able to see the title run through.

He ribbed them for that, and before he took his exit, added: “I’m going to leave. You guys win me a game. I don’t want you to come back to Kansas City unless you win me a national champi-onship.”

By the time he reached Mound City, he got the call from his wife.

•••Say, Coach, you still have the video

of my home run?Bonner Springs alum Mike Pier en-

countered his old baseball coach Mike Moulin, now the high school’s vice principal, at a gas station a few weeks ago. The sight of each other stirred old memories.

Memory’s a funny word. It suggests something that needs recalling. And when you play at Kauffman Stadium, how can you ever forget?

On three occasions — in 2003, 2004 and 2006 — rivals Bonner Springs and Basehor-Linwood met in the Frank White Classic, a high school baseball showcase held for 10 years at the home of the Kansas City Royals.

The Bobcats made short work of the Braves in their first meeting, in front of their largest audience until then: 1,100 spectators. Basehor-Linwood ran through Bonner Springs, 16-3. David Svodoba, Basehor-Linwood’s assistant head coach in 2003 and head coach from 2004-10, had built a philosophy of winning with pitching and defense, something he perfected while leading Junction City to state title contention in the late ’90s. These Bobcats had those tools, but their bats were just so hot, too.

“They flat out mashed,” he recalled. “They could score 15 to 20 runs on you without trying.”

The Braves cut it closer the next year, rallying from a 6-0 deficit be-fore Bobcats second baseman Mi-chael Armstrong turned an unassisted double play to silence the Braves’ at-tempted turnaround. Four years later, Armstrong was killed in an automobile accident at just 21 years old. Svodoba still has a photo of himself using the Kauffman Stadium bullpen phone, Armstrong peering over his shoulder with a look of mischief wiped across

his face.“Looking back now means even

more to me,” Svodoba said. “Little did we know how fragile life can be. He’s not even here now just scant years lat-er to share that.”

It was on that April afternoon, cap-tured in that photo, midway through their game, that Pier got every bit of Josh Ishmael’s pitch, blasting it eight rows north of the left field fence.

“Every kid dreams of hitting a home run in a major league stadium,” Mou-lin said. “He hit a bomb.”

Two seasons later, the Braves re-turned to finally end Basehor-Lin-wood’s Kauffman Stadium streak. The Braves finally got theirs, a 7-2 victory and a chance to pose in front of the scoreboard for photos.

It was a series that heightened a ri-valry already circled on calendars in both towns. Friendly, yes, but a desire to win, and win decisively, did not re-lent.

“We flat out wanted to beat them,” Svodoba added. “We wanted to beat them like a drum every time we were there.”

At the last Frank White Classic the Bobcats played, a few seasons after the Braves stopped playing in the game, Svodoba stood in the third base box with tears in his eyes.

“I realized it was the end of a run — a real special thing to be a part of a pro-gram that had the opportunity to play over there,” he said. “The kids may not necessarily have gotten it or thought of it in the way Rick and I appreciated it. But most of these kids today didn’t see the Royals when they were good, when the place just hopped and the Royals were right.”

Moulin never could find that video of the home run. Just as well. How could it show how lush the sunlit field was, how crisp the air and just how hard Mike Pier crushed that pitch?

•••Jake Thompson left Iowa Western

with school records in games won (19) and shutouts (4). He also leaves a champion.

On Memorial Day weekend, Thompson’s traveled to Grand Junc-tion, Colo., longtime site of the Junior College World Series. Thousands turn up, with large swaths adopting their own teams well ahead of time. Iowa Western being a perennial contender, one boy convinced his family to take him on a road trip to Council Bluffs just to see the school.

A woman in her 70s, whose daddy once owned the grocery store nearby, had seen enough games at Suplizio Field to know after watching Iowa Western lose 5-2 to San Jacinto, the same Texas community college that Roger Clemens and Andy Pettite at-tended, that Billie’s son’s team needed to play them again.

“That was the championship game we just watched,” she told him. And so it was.

Six days later, Iowa Western clinched the championship in the re-match. The stands cleared as pirate-dressed fans and players’ families crowded the field.

Children ran up for autographs and memorabilia. Billie caught a glimpse of a young boy approaching Jake, ask-

ing for his hat. Jake shook his head, he couldn’t part

with the hat. But he tied his cleats together and

tossed them to the boy.“Mom, mom!” the boy cried “Jake

Thompson gave me his cleats!”The Thompsons cried, too.

•••It was Phil Thomas’ small stature

that led him away from the gridiron and hardwood and toward his true passion for America’s pastime as a boy in Kansas City, Kan.

“I was kind of used as a tackling dummy when it came to playing foot-ball, and they were all taller than I was when we played basketball, so basical-ly, I had a wall and a glove,” Thomas said. “While everybody was playing football, I was playing catch with my-self.”

What started as a neutralizer even-tually became a forte, as Thomas de-veloped into one of the premier base-ball players in the state. After moving to Tonganoxie as a teenager, he flour-ished on Ban Johnson and American Legion teams in Leavenworth. He played in both leagues at once, logging as many as 100 games per summer.

Thomas had several notable pitch-ing performances during his teenage years, including three consecutive no-hitters as an eighth-grader, but anoth-er game sticks out in his mind as the most memorable. Pitching against a Marysville squad headlined by Junior Riggins, brother of Kansas University football star John Riggins, Thomas didn’t allow a hit in the game, but suf-

fered a 1-0 defeat.“(Junior) was just as fast as John Rig-

gins, and he could hit,” Thomas said.“I said I wasn’t going to let him hit a home run off of me, so I pretty muchpitched around him and walked him.On one pitch, he was on second, then the next pitch he was on third, then somebody popped up to the outfield.He went home, and I got beat 1-0.”

Thomas’ talents didn’t go unnoticed by professional scouts, as he was pur-sued by the San Francisco Giants as a Tonganoxie High senior in 1966. How-ever, rather than accepting $500 toplay in a three-month league with the Giants’ rookie affiliate — the Magic Valley (Idaho) Cowboys — Thomasaccepted a scholarship at the Col-lege of Emporia, where he pitched fortwo years. He was inducted into the school’s athletic hall of fame in July 2010.

After graduating from college and a three-year term in the Army, Thomas returned to northeast Kansas.

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He continued playing baseball for a few more years, including a semi-pro stint with the Halstead Cowboys but eventually got married and hung up his cleats for good. He still lives in Tonganoxie.

•••We still haven’t gotten to the day

Billie Thompson coached his son Ty’s little league team against George Brett and his son. Billie’s team won, 2-1, that day, and Brett signed a ball for his boy.

“I never will forget that,” Thompson said.

Or the story of when Jeff Montgom-ery presented Billie with the Good Sportsmanship Award at 3&2 Baseball in 2005, and asked Billie, “Do you re-ally know every umpire’s name?”

Yes, he replied. He keeps a ledger of them.

Oh, sure, there are more stories. And Ty and Jake will no doubt have their share of contributions to family lore.

Did we mention that in their day, their grandfather and granduncle each played for the minor league affiliates of the Cardinals and Dodgers, respec-tively?

They may or may not realize it, but their memories and ecstasies and dis-appointments either coincide with or echo those of a kid up the interstate

filling up his gas tank, or a coach sit-ting in his office, thinking of the dayshe toiled in the sun, dreaming.

They’re all connected, all-stars in their communities, woven together inbaseball’s infinite web.

— The section on Phil Thomas was

written by The (Tonganoxie) Mirror’s Justin Nutter, [email protected].


All-starsMissed opportunities plagued

Sporting Kansas City as the Chicago Fire became just the second team this year to defeat the home side at Livestrong Sporting Park, with a 1-0 victory on Saturday.

Marco Pappa’s goal in the 58th min-ute proved the difference in a match that saw Sporting KC attempt 27 shots only to be stuffed by Chicago goal-keeper Sean Johnson’s five saves

The loss put Sporting KC (9-5-2, 29 points) four points behind D.C. Unit-ed in the Eastern Conference and two points behind the second-place New York Red Bulls.

“It was a good performance,” coach

Peter Vermes said, “we were just on the wrong side of the result.”

Sporting KC’s 27 shots attempted tied for its season-high total, out-strik-ing by 17.

“You can shoot as many shots as you can,” Soony Saad said, “but if they have a good goalie and get lucky a cou-ple times, you don’t get the breaks.”

On Wednesday, Sporting KC began another 14-day, five-game stretch, with just one game (Friday’s 7 p.m. match against Houston) being at home.

ers who might leap to Oakes’ team this winter, but also gave the new JV coach, Crystal Richardson, a chance to work with her team.

Richardson takes over junior varsity after having coached volleyball, soft-ball and tennis. Along with her coach-ing experience, Richardson also teach-es health and P.E. at Bonner Springs High School.

“I want to have the girls really fo-cused on the fundamentals and have them strong and ready to go for var-sity.” Richardson said, before joking

that running practices would make teaching her classes much easier.

Richardson said since taking over her priorities have been to make sure her girls can box out and take care of the ball. As she get acquainted with her team the day-to-day game plan will not be set in stone.

“Pretty much it’s just how the day goes, we’re on and off on different days, so whoever is feeling it will be on the floor.”

Yet Oakes has a stronger feeling for how Bonner Springs top girls squad will pan out. His hopes are higher than what he was working with in 2010.

“This team is more athletic than that team was,” Oakes said. “This team is a finesse type team. Realistically, I can see us having a 14-win season.”


BasketballFile photo

DAVID SVOBODA, LEFT, coached at Basehor-Linwood until 2010. His teams met Bonner Springs at Kauffman Stadium three times.

Fire tops Sporting, 1-0

ONLINE: Read more about Sporting KC’s game against Chicago and find a recap from Wednesday’s game.


Staff photos by Caroline BoyerSee more photos online at basehorinfo.com and bonnersprings.com.

Having a BLAST

ABOVE: MEMBERS OF THE LYNNE family of Basehor, formerly of Bonner Springs, watch the Bonner Blast fireworks from their truck in the O’Reilly Auto Parts parking lot.

TOP RIGHT: GWENYTH KREEL, front left, came to watch the Bonner Blast prepared for loud booms with (from left) her grandfather, Bob Paulson; her mother and brother, Kelly and James Kreel; and her aunt, Wendy McKee (rear right).

CENTER RIGHT: SIBLINGS HAILEY (left) and Jacob Robinson of Edwardsville relax in their camping chairs as they watch the Bonner Blast near Wagner’s.

BOTTOM RIGHT: BONNIE PAULSON of Bonner Springs watches the Bonner Blast with her grandson, Thomas McKee of Piper.

Area residents set up camp in parking lots along Front Street, the highway exit ramps at Kansas Highways 7 and 32 and many other areas Thursday, June 28, to watch the 2012 Bonner Blast fireworks display.


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PINT-SIZED POLKA PARTY

ABOVE LEFT: LOGAN BILYEU (left) and Shanna Gaghebin spread their wings during a flying song at the Pint-Size Polka program Friday at the Bonner Springs City Library.

ABOVE: “UNCLE MIKE” leads the Pint-Size Polka activity. The library is still taking registrations for programs like this in July.

AT LEFT: GRACE HORNBACK rocks to clap her hands and her feet along with the polka music during the polka program.

FAR LEFT: RACHEL and Sarah Beck and Ian Weatherman (from left) dance to “Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes.” Participants also danced “The Chicken Dance” and learned the basic polka steps.

Staff photos by Caroline BoyerSee more photos online at basehorinfo.com and bonnersprings.com.

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CITY OF SHAWNEE

ORDINANCE NO. 3030

AN ORDINANCE GRANTING TO SUREWEST KANSAS LI-CENSES, LLC, THE RENEWAL OF A CONTRACT FRANCHISE TO CONSTRUCT, OPERATE AND MAINTAIN A TELECOM-MUNICATIONS SYSTEM IN THE CITY OF SHAWNEE, KANSAS AND PRESCRIBING THE TERMS OF SAID CON-TRACT FRANCHISE.

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT OR-DAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF SHAWNEE, KANSAS:

SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS.

For the purposes of this Or-dinance the following words and phrases shall have the meaning given herein. When not incon-sistent within the context, words used in the present tense include the future tense and words in the sin-gle number include the plu-ral number. The word “shall” is always manda-tory, and not merely direc-tory.

a. “Access line” - shallmean and be limited to retail billed and collected resi-dential lines; business lines; ISDN lines; PBX trunks and simulated ex-change access lines pro-vided by a central office based switching arrange-ment where all stations served by such simulated exchange access lines are used by a single customer of the provider of such ar-

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Shawnee rangement. Access line may not be construed to in-clude interoffice transport or other transmission me-dia that do not terminate at an end user customer’s premises, or to permit du-plicate or multiple assess-ment of access line rates on the provision of a single service or on the multiple communications paths de-rived from a billed and col-lected access line. Access line shall not include the following: Wireless tele-communications services, the sale or lease of unbun-dled loop facilities, special access services, lines pro-viding only data services without voice services processed by a telecommu-nications local exchange service provider or private line service arrangements.

b. “Access line count” -means the number of ac-cess lines serving consum-ers within the corporate boundaries of the City on the last day of each month.

c. “Access line fee” -means a fee determined by the City, up to a maximum as set out in K.S.A. 12-2001(c)(3), and amend-ments thereto, to be used by Grantee in calculating the amount of Access line remittance.

d. “Access lineremittance” - means the amount to be paid by Grantee to City, the total of which is calculated by multiplying the Access line fee, as determined in the City, by the number of Access lines served by Grantee within the City for each month in that calen-dar quarter.

e. “City” - means theCity of Shawnee, Kansas.

f. “Contract franchise” -means this Ordinance granting the right, privilege and franchise to Grantee to provide telecommunica-tions services within the City.

g. “Facilities” - means tele-phone and telecommunica-tion lines, conduits, man-holes, ducts, wires, cables, pipes, poles, towers, vaults, appliances, optic fiber, and all equipment used to pro-vide telecommunication services.

h. “Grantee” - means SureWest Kansas Licenses LLC, a telecommunications local exchange service pro-vider providing local ex-change service within the City. References to Grantee shall also include as appro-priate any and all succes-sors and assigns.

i. “Gross Receipts” - shall mean only those receipts collected from within the corporate boundaries of the City enacting the con-tract franchise and which are derived from the fol-lowing: (1) Recurring local exchange service for busi-ness and residence which includes basic exchange service, touch tone, op-tional calling features and measured local calls; (2) Recurring local exchange access line services for pay phone lines provided by Grantee to all pay phone service providers; (3) Local directory assistance reve-nue; (4) Line status verifi-cation/ busy interrupt reve-nue; (5) Local operator as-sistance revenue; (6) Non-recurring local exchange service revenue which shall include customer service for installation of lines, re-connection of service and charge for duplicate bills; and (7) Revenue received by Grantee from resellers or others which use Grantee’s Facilities. All other revenues, including, but not limited to, revenues from extended area serv-ice, the sale or lease of un-bundled network elements, nonregulated services, car-rier and end user access, long distance, wireless tel-ecommunications services, lines providing only data service without voice ser-vices processed by a tele-

communications local ex-change service provider, private line service ar-rangements, internet, broadband and all other services not wholly local in nature are excluded from gross receipts. Gross re-ceipts shall be reduced by bad debt expenses. Uncol-lectible and late charges shall not be included within gross receipts. If Grantee offers additional services of a wholly local nature which if in existence on or before July 1, 2002 would have been included with the definition of Gross Re-ceipts, such services shall be included from the date of the offering of such ser-vices within the City.

j. “Local exchangeservice” -means local switched tele-communications service within any local exchange service area approved by the state Corporation Com-mission, regardless of the medium by which the local telecommunications serv-ice is provided. The term lo-cal exchange service shall not include wireless com-munication services.

k. “Public right-of-way” -means only the area of real property in which the City has a dedicated or ac-quired right-of-way interest in the real property. It shall include the area on, below or above the present and future streets, alleys, ave-nues, roads, highways, parkways or boulevards dedicated or acquired as right-of-way. The term does not include the airwaves above a right-of-way with regard to wireless telecom-munications or other non-wire telecommunica-tions or broadcast service, easements obtained by utilities or private ease-ments in platted subdivi-sions or tracts.

l. “Telecommunication ser-vices” - means providing the means of transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of in-formation of the user’s choosing, without change in the form or content of the information as sent and received.

SECTION 2. GRANT OF CON-TRACT FRANCHISE.

a. There is hereby granted to Grantee this nonexclu-sive Contract franchise to construct, maintain, extend and operate its Facilities along, across, upon or un-der any Public right-of-way for the purpose of supply-ing Telecommunication services to the consumers or recipients of such serv-ice located within the cor-porate boundaries of the City, for the term of this Contract franchise, subject to the terms and conditions of this Contract franchise.

b. The grant of thisContract franchise by the City shall not convey title, equitable or legal, in the Public right-of-way, and shall give only the right to occupy the Public right-of-way, for the purposes and for the period stated in this Contract fran-chise. This Contract fran-chise does not:

(1) Grant the right to use Facilities or any other prop-erty, telecommunications related or otherwise, owned or controlled by the City or a third-party, with-out the consent of such party;

(2) Grant the authority to construct, maintain or op-erate any Facility or related appurtenance on property owned by the City outside of the Public right-of-way, specifically including, but not limited to, parkland property, City Hall property or public works facility property; or

(3) Excuse Grantee from obtaining appropriate ac-cess or attachment agree-ments before locating its Facilities on the Facilities owned or controlled by the City or a third-party.

c. As a condition of this grant, Grantee is requiredto obtain and is responsiblefor any necessary permit,license, certification, grant,registration or any otherauthorization required byany appropriate govern-mental entity, including,but not limited to, the City,the FCC or the Kansas Cor-poration Commission(KCC). Grantee shall alsocomply with all applicablelaws, statutes and/or cityregulations (including, butnot limited to those relatingto the construction and useof the Public right-of-wayor other public property).

d. Grantee shallnot provideany additional services forwhich a franchise is re-quired by the City withoutfirst obtaining a separatefranchise from the City oramending this Contractfranchise, and Granteeshall not knowingly allowthe use of its Facilities by any third party in violationof any federal, state or lo-cal law. In particular, this Contract franchise does notprovide Grantee the right toprovide cable service as acable operator (as definedby 47 U.S.C. § 522 (5)) within the City. Granteeagrees that this franchisedoes not permit it to oper-ate an open video systemwithout payment of feespermitted by 47 U.S.C. §573(c)(2)(B) and withoutcomplying with FCC regula-tions promulgated pursu-ant to 47 U.S.C. § 573.

e. This authority to occupythe Public right-of-wayshall be granted in a com-petitively neutral and non-discriminatory basis andnot in conflict with state orfederal law.

SECTION 3. USE OF PUBLICRIGHT OF WAY.

a. Pursuant to K.S.A.17-1902, and amendmentsthereto, and subject to the provisions of this Contractfranchise, Grantee shallhave the right to construct, maintain and operate it Fa-cilities along, across, upon and under the Public right-of-way. Such Facilities shall be so constructed andmaintained as not to ob-struct or hinder theusual travel or public safety onsuch public ways or ob-struct the legal use by other utilities.

b. Grantee’s use of the Pub-lic right-of-way shall al-ways be subject and subor-dinate to thereasonable public health, safety andwelfare requirements andregulations ofthe City. The City may exercise its homerule powers in its adminis-tration and regulation related to the managementof the Public right-of-way;provided that anysuch exercise must be competi-tively neutral and may notbe unreasonable or dis-criminatory. Grantee shallbe subject to all applicablelaws and statutes, and/or rules, regulations, policies, resolutions and ordinancesadopted by the City, relating to the constructionand use of the Publicright-of-way.

c. Grantee shallparticipate in the Kansas One Call util-ity location program.

SECTION 4. COMPENSA-TION TO THE CITY.

a. In consideration of thisContract franchise, Granteeagrees to remit to the City afranchise fee of 5% ofGross Receipts. To deter-mine the franchise fee,Grantee shall calculate theGross Receipts and multi-ply such receipts by 5%.Thereafter, subject to sub-section (b) hereafter, com-pensation for each calen-dar year of the remaining

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ance with the Kansas Un-derground Utility Damage Prevention Act, K.S.A. 66-1801 et seq., it has no claim for costs or damages against the City and its au-thorized contractors unless such parties are responsi-ble for the harm or damage by its negligence or inten-tional conduct. The City and its authorized contrac-tors shall be responsible to take reasonable precau-tionary measures including calling for utility locations and observing marker posts when working near Grantee’s Facilities.

Grantee shall indemnify and hold the City and its of-ficers and employees harmless against any and all claims, lawsuits, judg-ments, costs, liens, losses, expenses, fees (including reasonable attorney fees and costs of defense), pro-ceedings, actions, de-mands, causes of action, li-ability and suits of any kind and nature, including per-sonal or bodily injury (including death), property damage or other harm for which recovery of damages is sought, to the extent that it is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be caused by the negli-gence of Grantee, any agent, officer, director, rep-resentative, employee, af-filiate or subcontractor of Grantee, or its respective officers, agents, employ-ees, directors or represent-atives, while installing, re-pairing or maintaining Fa-cilities in the Public right-of-way.

The indemnity provided by this subsection does not apply to any liability result-ing from the negligence of the City, its officers, em-ployees, contractors or subcontractors. If Grantee and the City are found jointly liable by a court of competent jurisdiction, lia-bility shall be apportioned comparatively in accord-ance with the laws of this state without, however, waiving any governmental immunity available to the City under state law and without waiving any de-fenses of the parties under state or federal law. This section is solely for the benefit of the City and Grantee and does not cre-ate or grant any rights, con-tractual or otherwise, to any other person or entity.

Grantee or City shall promptly advise the other in writing of any known claim or demand against Grantee or the City related to or arising out of Grantee’s activities in the Public right-of-way.

SECTION 6. INSURANCE RE-QUIREMENT AND PERFOR-MANCE BOND

a. During the term of this Contract franchise, Grantee shall obtain and maintain insurance coverage at its sole expense, with finan-cially reputable insurers that are licensed to do business in the state of Kansas. Should Grantee elect to use the services of an affiliated captive insur-ance company for this pur-pose, that company shall possess a certificate of au-thority from the Kansas Insurance Commissioner. Grantee shall provide not less than the following insurance:

(1) Workers’compensation as provided for under any worker’s compensation or similar law in the jurisdic-tion where any work is per-formed with an employers’ liability limit equal to the amount required by law.

(2) Commercial general lia-bility, including coverage for contractual liability and products completed opera-tions liability on an occur-rence basis and not a claims made basis, with a limit of not less than Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000) combined single limit per occurrence for bodily in-jury, personal injury, and property damage liability. The City shall be included as an additional insured with respect to liability arising from Grantee’s op-erations under this Con-tract franchise.

b. As an alternative to the requirements of subsection (a), Grantee may demon-strate to the satisfaction of the City that it is self-insured and as such Grantee has the ability to provide coverage in an amount not less than one millions dollars ($1,000,000) per occurrence and two million dollars ($2,000,000) in aggregate, to protect the City from and against all claims by any person what-

term of this Contract fran-chise shall continue to be based on a sum equal to 5% of Gross Receipts, unless the City notifies Grantee prior to ninety days (90) be-fore the end of the calendar year that it intends to switch to an Access line fee in the following calendar year; provided, such Ac-cess line fee shall not ex-ceed $2.75 per Access line per month. In the event the City elects to change its ba-sis of compensation, noth-ing herein precludes the City from switching its ba-sis of compensation back; provided the City notifies Grantee prior to ninety days (90) before the end of the calendar year.

b. BeginningJanuary 1, 2013, and every 36 months there-after, the City, subject to the public notification pro-cedures set forth in K.S.A. 12-2001 (m), and amend-ments thereto, may elect to adopt an increased Access line fee or gross receipts fee subject to the provi-sions and maximum fee limitations contained in K.S.A. 12-2001, and amend-ments thereto, or may choose to decline all or any portion of any increase in the Access line fee.

c. Grantee shall pay on a monthly basis without re-quirement for invoice or re-minder from the City, and within 45 days of the last day of the month for which the payment applies fran-chise fees due and payable to the City. If any franchise fee, or any portion thereof, is not postmarked or deliv-ered on or before the due date, interest thereon shall accrue from the due date until received, at the appli-cable statutory interest rate.

d. Upon written request by the City, but no more than once per quarter, Grantee shall submit to the City a statement showing the manner in which the fran-chise fee was calculated.

e. No acceptanceby the City of any franchise fee shall be construed as an accord that the amount paid is in fact the correct amount, nor shall acceptance of any franchise fee payment be construed as a release of any claim of the City. Any dispute concerning the amount due under this Sec-tion shall be resolved in the manner set forth in K.S.A. 12-2001, and amendments thereto.

f. The City shall have the right to examine, upon writ-ten notice to Grantee no more often than once per calendar year, those rec-ords necessary to verify the correctness of the fran-chise fees paid by Grantee.g. Unless previously paid, within sixty (60) days of the effective date of this Con-tract franchise, Grantee shall pay to the City a one-time application fee of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00). The parties agree that such fee reim-burses the City for its rea-sonable, actual and verifia-ble costs of reviewing and approving this Contract franchise.

h. The franchise fee re-quired herein shall be in addition to, not in lieu of, all taxes, charges, assess-ments, licenses, fees and impositions otherwise ap-plicable that are or may be imposed by the City under K.S.A. 12-2001 and 17-1902, and amendments thereto. The franchise fee is com-pensation for use of the Public right-of-way and shall in no way be deemed a tax of any kind.

i. Grantee shall remit an ac-cess line (franchise) fee or gross receipts (franchise) fee to the City on those ac-cess lines that have been resold to another telecom-munications local ex-change service provider, but in such case the City shall not collect a franchise fee from the reseller serv-ice provider and shall not require the reseller service provider to enter a contract franchise ordinance.

SECTION 5. INDEMNITY AND HOLD HARMLESS.

It shall be the responsibility of Grantee to take ade-quate measures to protect and defend its Facilities in the Public right-of-way from harm or damage. If Grantee fails to accurately or timely locate Facilities when requested, in accord-

rights, but instead ex-pressly reserve any and all rights, remedies, and argu-ments the City or Grantee may have at law or equity, without limitation, to argue, assert, and/or take any po-sition as to the legality or appropriateness of any present or future laws, non-franchise ordinances (e.g. the City’s right-of-way ordinance referenced in Section 3b of this Contract franchise), and/or rulings.

SECTION 9. FAILURE TO EN-FORCE.

The failure of either the City or the Grantee to insist in any one or more in-stances upon the strict per-formance of any one or more of the terms or provi-sions of this Contract fran-chise shall not be con-strued as a waiver or relin-quishment for the future of any such term or provision, and the same shall con-tinue in full force and ef-fect. No waiver or relin-quishment shall be deemed to have been made by the City or the Grantee unless said waiver or relinquish-ment is in writing and signed by both the City and the Grantee.

SECTION 10. TERM AND TERMINATION DATE.

a. This Contract franchise shall be effective for a term commencing on the date of publication of this Contract franchise ordinance or upon the Grantee filing with the City Clerk its accept-ance in writing as provided by Section 14 hereof, whichever date is later, and said term shall end on June 30, 2013. Thereafter, this Contract franchise will au-tomatically renew for up to five (5) additional one (1) year terms, unless either party notifies the other party of its intent to termi-nate the Contract franchise at least one hundred and eighty (180) days before the termination of the then current term. The addi-tional term shall be deemed a continuation of this Contract franchise and not as a new franchise or amendment.

b. Upon written request of either the City or Grantee, this Contract franchise shall be renegotiated at any time in accordance with the requirements of state law upon any of the following events: changes in federal, state, or local laws, regulations, or orders that materially affect any rights or obligations of ei-ther the City or Grantee, in-cluding but not limited to the scope of the Contract franchise granted to Grantee or the compensa-tion to be received by the City hereunder.

c. If any clause, sentence, section, or provision of K.S.A. 12-2001, and amend-ments thereto, shall be held to be invalid by a court or administrative agency of competent jurisdiction, provided such order is not stayed, either the City or Grantee may elect to termi-nate the entire Contract franchise. In the event of such invalidity, if Grantee is required by law to enter into a Contract franchise with the City, the parties agree to act in good faith in promptly negotiating a new Contract franchise.

d. Amendments under this Section, if any, shall be

provided, to afford Grantee due process, Grantee shall first be provided reasona-ble notice of the date, time and location of the City Council’s consideration, and shall have the right to address the City Council re-garding such matter. Noth-ing herein shall prevent the City from invoking any other remedy that may oth-erwise exist at law. Upon any determination by the City Council to revoke and terminate this Contract franchise, Grantee shall have thirty (30) days to ap-peal such decision to the District Court of Johnson County, Kansas. This Con-tract franchise shall be deemed revoked and termi-nated at the end of this thirty (30) day period, un-less Grantee has instituted such an appeal. If Grantee does timely institute such an appeal, such revocation and termination shall re-main pending and subject to the court’s final judg-ment. Provided, however, that the failure of Grantee to comply with any of the provisions of this Contract franchise or the doing or causing to be done by Grantee of anything prohib-ited by or in violation of the terms of this Contract fran-chise shall not be a ground for the revocation or termi-nation thereof when such act or omission on the part of Grantee is due to any cause or delay beyond the control of Grantee or to bona fide legal proceed-ings.

SECTION 8. RESERVATION OF RIGHTS.

a. The City specifically re-serves its right and author-ity as a customer of Grantee and as a public en-tity with responsibilities to-wards its citizens, to par-ticipate to the full extent al-lowed by law in proceed-ings concerning Grantee’s rates and services to en-sure the rendering of effi-cient Telecommunications service and any other ser-vices at reasonable rates, and the maintenance of Grantee’s property in good repair.

b. In granting its consent hereunder, the City does not in any manner waive its regulatory or other rights and powers under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Kansas as the same may be amended, its Home Rule powers under the Constitution of the State of Kansas, nor any of its rights and powers under or by virtue of present or future ordinances of the City.

c. In granting its consent hereunder, Grantee does not in any manner waive its regulatory or other rights and powers under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Kansas as the same may be amended, or under the Constitution of the State of Kansas, nor any of its rights and powers under or by virtue of present or future ordi-nances of the City.

d. In entering into this Con-tract franchise, neither the City’s nor Grantee’s pres-ent or future legal rights, positions, claims, asser-tions or arguments before any administrative agency or court of law are in any way prejudiced or waived. By entering into the Con-tract franchise, neither the City nor Grantee waive any

made by contract franchise ordinance as prescribed by statute. This Contract fran-chise shall remain in effect according to its terms, pending completion of any review or renegotiation provided by this section.

e. In the event the parties are actively negotiating in good faith a new contract franchise ordinance or an amendment to this Con-tract franchise upon the termination date of this Contract franchise, the par-ties by written mutual agreement may extend the termination date of this Contract franchise to allow for further negotiations. Such extension period shall be deemed a continuation of this Contract franchise and not as a new contract franchise ordinance or amendment.

SECTION 11. POINT OF CONTACT AND NOTICES

Grantee shall at all times maintain with the City a lo-cal point of contact who shall be available at all times to act on behalf of Grantee in the event of an emergency. Grantee shall provide the City with said local contact’s name, ad-dress, telephone number, fax number and e-mail ad-dress. Emergency notice by Grantee to the City may be made by telephone to the City Clerk or the Public Works Director. All other notices between the parties shall be in writing and shall be made by personal deliv-ery, depositing such notice in the U.S. Mail, Certified Mail, return receipt re-quested, or by facsimile. Any notice served by U.S. Mail or Certified Mail, re-turn receipt requested, shall be deemed delivered five (5) calendar days after the date of such deposit in the U.S. Mail unless other-wise provided. Any notice given by facsimile is deemed received by the next business day. “Business day” for pur-poses of this section shall mean Monday through Fri-day, City and/or Grantee observed holidays ex-cepted.

The City:The City of Shawnee,KansasCity Hall11110 Johnson DriveShawnee, KS 66203Attn: City Clerk(913) 631-7351 fax

Grantee:SureWest Kansas Licenses, LLC14859 West 95th StreetLenexa, KS 66215

soever for loss or damage from personal injury, bodily injury, death or property damage occasioned by Grantee, or alleged to so have been caused or oc-curred.

c. Grantee shall, as a mate-rial condition of this Con-tract franchise, prior to the commencement of any work and prior to any re-newal thereof, deliver to the City a certificate of insurance or evidence of self-insurance, satisfactory in form and content to the City, evidencing that the above insurance is in force and will not be cancelled or materially changed with re-spect to areas and entities covered without first giving the City thirty (30) days prior written notice. Grantee shall make availa-ble to the City on request the policy declarations page and a certified copy of the policy in effect, so that limitations and exclu-sions can be evaluated for appropriateness of overall coverage.

d. Grantee shall, as a mate-rial condition of this Con-tract franchise, prior to the commencement of any work and prior to any re-newal thereof, deliver to the City a performance bond in the amount of $50,000, in accordance with the City’s right-of-way management ordinance, payable to the City to en-sure the appropriate and timely performance in the construction and mainte-nance of Facilities located in the Public right-of-way. The required performance bond must be with good and sufficient sureties, is-sued by a surety company authorized to transact busi-ness in the State of Kansas, and satisfactory to the City Attorney in form and sub-stance.

SECTION 7. REVOCATION AND TERMINATION.

In case of failure on the part of Grantee to comply with any of the provisions of this Contract franchise, or if Grantee should do or cause to be done any act or thing prohibited by or in vi-olation of the terms of this Contract franchise, Grantee shall forfeit all rights, privi-leges and franchise granted herein, and all such rights, privileges and fran-chise hereunder shall cease, terminate and be-come null and void, and this Contract franchise shall be deemed revoked or terminated, provided that said revocation or termina-tion, shall not take effect until the City has com-pleted the following proce-dures: Before the City pro-ceeds to revoke and termi-nate this Contract fran-chise, it shall first serve a written notice upon Grantee, setting forth in de-tail the neglect or failure complained of, and Grantee shall have sixty (60) days thereafter in which to com-ply with the conditions and requirements of this Con-tract franchise. If at the end of such sixty (60) day pe-riod the City deems that the conditions have not been complied with, the City shall take action to revoke and terminate this Contract franchise by an affirmative vote of the City Council present at the meeting and voting, setting out the grounds upon which this Contract franchise is to be revoked and terminated;

ble for payment of all costsand expense of publishingthis Contract franchise, andany amendments thereof.

SECTION 16. SEVERABILITY.If any clause, sentence, orsection of this Contractfranchise, or any portionthereof, shall be held to beinvalid by a court of com-petent jurisdiction, suchdecision shall not affect thevalidity of the remainder,as a whole or any partthereof, other than the partdeclared invalid; provided,however, the City orGrantee may elect to de-clare the entire Contractfranchise is invalidated ifthe portion declared invalidis, in the judgment of theCity or Grantee, an essen-tial part of the Contractfranchise.

SECTION 17. FORCEMAJEURE.

Each and every provisionhereof shall be reasonablysubject to acts of God,fires, strikes, riots, floods,war and other disasters be-yond Grantee’s or the City’scontrol.

PASSED by the GoverningBody of the City of Shaw-nee, Kansas this 25th day ofJune, 2012.

APPROVED by the Mayorthis 25th day of June, 2012.

/s/ Jeff Meyers, Mayor

ATTEST:

/s/ Keith D. Campbell,City Clerk

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

/s/ Marvin E. Rainey,City Attorney

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SECTION 12. TRANSFER OR ASSIGNMENT OF OWNER-SHIP, CONTROL OF THE BUSINESS OR ASSETS OF GRANTEE.

No consent or approval of the City is required for transfer of ownership or control of the business or assets of Grantee, except-ing that the Grantee shall provide notice to the City of the intended transfer or as-signment of the ownership or control of the business or assets of the Grantee not less than thirty (30) days prior to the intended day of the transfer or assignment and Grantee shall provide current point of contact in-formation as provided in Section 11 hereof within twenty-four (24) hours of an assignment or transfer.

SECTION 13. CONFIDENTI-ALITY.

Information provided to the City under K.S.A. 12-2001 shall be governed by confi-dentiality procedures in compliance with K.S.A. 45-215 and 66-1220a, et seq., and amendments thereto. Grantee agrees to indemnify and hold the City harmless from any and all penalties or costs, includ-ing attorney’s fees, arising from the actions of Grantee, or of the City at the written request of Grantee, in seeking to safe-guard the confidentiality of information provided by Grantee to the City under this Contract franchise.

SECTION 14. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS.

Grantee shall have sixty (60) days after the final passage and approval of this Contract franchise to file with the City Clerk its acceptance in writing of the provisions, terms and conditions of this Contract franchise, which accept-ance shall be duly acknowl-edged before some officer authorized by law to ad-minister oaths; and when so accepted, this Contract franchise and acceptance shall constitute a contract between the City and Grantee subject to the pro-visions of the laws of the state of Kansas.

SECTION 15. PAYMENT OF COSTS.

In accordance with statute, Grantee shall be responsi-

(Published in the ShawneeDispatch, Tuesday, July 3,2012)

CITY OF SHAWNEE

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Detailed specifications maybe obtained at City Hall, Fi-nance Dept, 11110 JohnsonDrive, Shawnee, Kansas66203, (913) 742-6261 or online at cityof shawnee.org.

Each proposal must be in asealed envelope, the out-side of which is plainly marked “AUDIT RFP”, andaddressed to the City ofShawnee, Attn: DebbieKelly, 11110 Johnson Drive, Shawnee, Kansas 66203.

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