A line of happy and excit-ed first graders fol-lowed Jennifer Mal-

colm through the halls of Lin-coln Elementary School before entering their room.

As children ate snacks and engaged in activities inside the classroom, a few of them gathered around Malcolm as she conducted a math activity using blocks. Next, she assisted students with reading.

“I really like teaching first grade,” Malcolm said. “I’ve con-templated other grade levels, but there’s something about the 6- or 7-year-old children and how they grow throughout the year.”

Her work in education has resulted in an elementary nomi-nation for Kansas Teacher of the Year. For Malcolm, it’s an honor and humbling experience.

“In this district, there are so many quality educators,” Mal-colm said. “Any one of us in the buildings would be an excellent candidate for this award.”

A committee of past nominees selected Malcolm as the elementa-ry candidate to represent Unified School District 475.

She will represent the district in September when the 2015 Kan-sas Teacher of the Year will be announced. The program is spon-sored by the Kansas State Depart-ment of Education and recognizes teachers in elementary and sec-ondary schools throughout the state.

Malcolm is now in her 12th year of teaching first graders. Prior to her time at Lincoln Elementary,

she spent 10 years at Westwood Elementary School.

Malcolm feels she’s making a difference in the lives of students.

“It’s really cool to help them grow,” Malcolm said about help-ing to mold students. “They start the year off with a blank slate and at the end of the year, they’re so much more fluent at reading, math and with their conversation abilities.”

One issue she’s passionate about is helping children in pov-erty overcome educational obsta-cles.

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Junction City officials have the green light to move forward with architectural and engineering ser-vices for a municipal court facilities project.

The City Commission Thursday approved entering into contract negotiations with Bruce McMillan AIA Architects to perform those services for the renovation of the city-owned building at 701 N. Jef-ferson St. The firm will complete its services at a cost not to exceed $100,430 — or 10.5 percent of the estimated $1.1 million total project cost.

However, the com-mission discussed how staff recom-mendations to lean toward renovating the North Jefferson Street facility ver-sus remodeling the old court building on Seventh Street could have been more open.

“I know a lot of work goes on behind the scenes, but a lot of folks don’t understand that a lot of work goes on behind the scenes,” Com-missioner Mick McCallister said.

The commission in December approved the option to renovate the North Jefferson Street building.

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By Tim Weideman

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After years of customers walking into Waters True Value in Junction City, the store is giving back to the community by expanding to offer more services.

Company president Jim Waters confirmed Thurs-day the store is undergoing an expansion that will add 37 percent more space to the building, located at 129 E. Sixth St.

“We’d been going through our stores and kind of decid-ed that to offer everything we’d like to (in Junction City), we needed to expand,” Waters said.

The addition will include areas for more indoor rental items, better lumber displays and more merchandise. The entire store will go through a remodeling phase, during which it will receive new fix-tures, shelving and updated lighting. Waters said the makeover will give the store “a little bit of a fresher look.”

Not too many businesses have been in Junction City as long as Waters True Value.

The relationship began in 1905 when G.E. Waters pur-chased Gretners Hardware. In 1917, Waters Hardware moved to the corner of

Eighth and Washington.Almost 60 years later, in

1974, the store underwent a major addition and remodel-ing. The store moved to its current location in 1991 and expanded to include a full lumber yard in 2002. Waters,

a Junction City native now living in Salina, remembers working for his father at the previous Junction City loca-tion. When Waters had his eyes set on a new toy, his father would put him to work at the store, putting together bicycles and barbecue grills for 25 cents a piece.

“I’d say, ‘Dad, I really want a new toy,’” Waters recalled. “He’d say, ‘No problem. We’ve got stuff down at the store that needs doing. If you want it, go work for it.’”

The Waters True Value

brand now has expanded to seven stores in Kansas.

Waters said he’s proud to be part of the Junction City community and to see the company’s store in town con-tinue to grow. “I still consider us very much a local compa-ny,” he said. “Our roots are still in Junction City.”

The expansion and remod-eling likely will be finished in early fall.

“That’s pretty fluid at this point,” Waters said. A grand opening will be held when the project is completed.

Waters True Value to start expansion projectDollar General considering relocation

Dollar General may move one of its Junction City stores into a new, larger building, although no decisions have been made. Store public rela-tions representative Jaclyn Dees said corporate officials are in the “due diligence” phase of determining whether to proceed with a relocation. Dees said the phase is scheduled to last until July. She added it could be a while before a final decision is made.

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Inside a room that will make any child wide-eyed, Junction City native Stephanie Holloway systematically arranged toys on shelves stocked with action heroes, prin-cesses and cartoon characters.

The miniature figures are accompanied with replicas of beer cans and drug para-phernalia. To the average adult, those items may seem inappropriate, but in the world of Play Therapy, it’s required to help chil-dren through a rough period.

“This is a really great place and a lot of healing comes out of here,” Holloway said.

As a Certified Story Play Practitioner and Facilitator, Holloway is working to bring awareness to the therapy method during National Play Therapy Week by the Association for Play Therapy.

Through play therapy, emotionally-dis-turbed children are encouraged to act out

fantasies and express feelings through play, aided by a therapist’s interpretations.

“We believe that children do not have the language to describe their problems,” Hol-loway said. “We believe that the toys are their method of communication.”

Using a sand tray and other methods, the children tell a story through their play. Besides human-like figurines, some chil-dren may use a large, dangerous animal to represent an unruly or abusive parent.

“Having the children use these minia-tures takes them one step away from the

Toys offer children new way to express problems“Having the children use these miniatures takes them one step

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BONNIE & CLYDE Bonnie and Clyde are domestic

short-haired tabby cats. They’re a hilarious duo to watch. Bonnie and Clyde are playful, curious and would liven up any home.

MR. SNOWBALL Mr. Snowball is a 1-year-old

white domestic short-haired, neu-tered male. He’s a handsome young cat and would love to have a home because he’s been at the shelter for a long time.

TYSON Tyson is a 6-year-old Rottweiler

mix. He’s lovable and loves to play. An application process is required to adopt him.

For more information about these pets, contact the Junction City-

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2424 N. Jackson St.

Last month, I presented a health and wellness workshop at a staff in-

service for a local organiza-tion.

As we talked about creat-ing a wellness plan to improve overall health, well-ness, and dietary habits, one of the participants asked about using mobile applica-tions.

Apple recently shared their iTunes store has a total of more than 350,000 applica-tions available for download (for purchase or free).

This doesn’t account for the additional applications available through Android, Windows, and Blackberry.

The dramatic increase in application availability is also reflected in the area of health and wellness apps.

The iTunes app store alone has nearly 20,000 health care and wellness apps. Sorting through the massive amount of options can be daunting.

The challenge comes in finding apps based on sound health and wellness practic-es.

University of Missouri Extension recently pub-lished a list of apps reviewed by their Nutrition and Health Education Extension Specialists.

Although there are many apps that could be added to the list, these trained and experienced professionals shared six as their recom-mended apps to get you started.

In the area of food and

nutrition, they recommend MyFitnessPal. This app will track your food intake and physical activity.

It has over three million foods in its extensive data-base.

You can add additional foods not currently in the system and save them for future use.

The app has been rated highly among 9,000 readers surveyed by Consumer Reports. Ease of use was a contributing factor to its popularity.

Keeping a daily food log is a research-proven advan-tage in losing weight.

Another app, Cooking Matters, can assist you in finding healthy, easy and affordable recipes.

Within the app, you can identify your favorite reci-pes and connect with other health-conscious users via social network links.

Using an app like this one can help plan meals in advance so both your time and money are well-spent at the grocery store.

Planning your meals for a week at a time will limit the number of times you need to make a stop for groceries.

Seasonal & Simple is an app created by University of Missouri Extension service that provides a guide to find-ing, selecting, storing, and preparing fresh fruits and vegetables found in Mis-souri.

With our growing season being similar to Missouri’s, this application would be of benefit to Kansans as well. When you buy fruits and vegetables in season, you can reduce food costs while promoting a healthier diet through fresh produce.

If you are trying to watch blood glucose levels, Glucose Buddy may be an app for you.

You can enter glucose numbers, carbohydrate con-sumption, insulin dosages/medications, hemoglobin A1C, and activities on this app.

Just as with their previ-ously-recommended apps, the Missouri Extension spe-cialists found Glucose Buddy easy to use and found it espe-cially good for those who do not have advanced blood glucose meters.

Keeping track of blood glucose levels is essential for managing diabetes and this tool is helpful for recording daily glucose levels.

Are you trying a new workout program for 2014?

You might want to look at Simple Workout Log. The application is just what the name indicates — a simple way to track your workouts. It is both easy to use and intuitive allowing you to

enter strength training exer-cises, cardiovascular activi-ty, and your weight. What is your level of physical activi-ty? The weekly amount of activity recommended for most adults is at least two hours and 30 minutes (150 minutes) of moderate activ-ity or one hour and 15 min-utes (75 minutes) of vigor-ous aerobic physical activity weekly.

Moderate activity means you are able to talk with minimal effort (but would not be able to sing) during the activity.

During vigorous activity, you would not be able to speak more than a few words without pausing for a breath.

The last app recommend-ed is Conscious. This app is designed to make you aware of your daily activities and to help you become more mindful. Too many times, our days seem to require us to be put on “auto-pilot” and before you know it, the day becomes a blur.

This app helps users become more fully present in their daily living.

If you want to explore other nutrition and health apps, here are some tips on what to look for to make sure you’re making good selections.

1) Identify the source of the application. Find out if the app has a website and, if so, read the “about” section to learn more about the organization or person who created the app. Make sure

they have credentials and experience to support the information and tools on the app.

2) Make sure the app meets your needs. Are the tools included in the applica-tion broad enough for the purpose you are using it?

3) Is the app user-friendly and intuitive? You are more likely to use tools that have easy access and designed for the way you think or oper-ate. These tools are supposed to make your life easier, healthier, and less stressful.

4) Look at the reviews. What do nutrition, health, and wellness professionals say about the app? The American Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics hosts a website that provides reviews of top-rated apps. You can view the site at: http://www.eatright.org/appreviews

Make sure you are an informed consumer when it comes to selecting nutrition, health and wellness apps. Good health and wellness practices are key to having a long and fulfilling life.

For more information about nutrition and well-ness, feel free to contact me at Geary County K-State Research and Extension: (785) 238-4161.

Until next time, keep liv-ing resourcefully.

Deb AnDres is the family and consumer science agent with Geary County Extension.

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Carter Owen ChesbroWilliam and Kaci Chesbro of

Fort Riley announced the birth of their son, Carter Owen Chesbro, who was born Feb. 4, 2014 at the Martha K. Hoover Women’s Health Center at Geary Community Hos-pital in Junction City.

Carter weighed 9 pounds, 14 ounces, and was 21 inches long. Carter joins his brother, Liam Chesbro, 17 months, at home.

The maternal grandparents are Aaron and Deanna Gray of Rus-sell, and David and Belinda Reyn-olds of Hutchinson. The paternal grandparents are Charles Sr. and Laurice Chesbro of Alamogordo, N.M.

Mia Jean DupreeChris and Christy Dupree of

Aurora, Colo., announced the birth of their daughter, Mia Jean Dupree, who was born Jan. 24, 2014 in Lone Tree, Colo.

Mia weighed 6 pounds 1 ounce, and was 19 inches long.

The maternal grandparents are Sam and Karen Cavender of Wat-kins, Colo. Paternal grandparents are LaMonte and Ruth Dupree of Milford.

Great-grandparents include Don Dorn of Watkins, Colo., Jim and MaryAnn Cavender of Yuma, Colo., the late Norma Jean Clarke, Helen Dupree of Los Angeles, and John and Kathinka Albright of Petaluma, Calif.

Juliet Jasten FrancisZachary and Jessie Francis have

announced the birth of their daugh-ter, Juliet Jasten Francis, who was born Feb. 5, 2014 at Irwin Army Community Hospital. Juliet weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces, and was 20 inch-es long. Her paternal grandparents are Scott and Joy Francis. Her maternal grandparents are Randy Umscheid and Barb Estey.

Mallory Ann KingAndrew and Ashley King of Lib-

eral, and formerly of Junction City, announced the birth of their daughter, Mallory Ann King, who was born Jan. 14, 2014 in Liberal.

Mallory weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces, and was 20 inches long.

The maternal grandparents are Roscoe and Patty Maycroft, and Mark and Sandy Powers, all of Junc-tion City. Paternal grandparents are Rodney and Lesley King of Liberal. Great-grandparents include James and Maria Rhodes, Pat and Jerry Powers, Joyce Sullivan, the late Wayne and Pat King, Bud and Geor-gia Valerius, and Virginia Rhodes.

Xane Wolfe KluthCharles Kluth and Angel Rie-

man of Ramona announced the birth of their son, Xane Wolfe Kluth, who was born Jan. 29, 2014 at the Martha K. Hoover Women’s Health Center at Geary Community Hospi-tal in Junction City. Xane weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces, and was 19-1/2 inches long.

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In briefCity lifts traffic

snow emergencyJunction City has lifted the traffic

snow emergency issued earlier this week, but is still advising motorists to refrain from parking on city streets, if possible, to allow Junc-tion City Public Works crews to continue clearing roads that have yet to be cleared.

Public Works crews indicated Fri-day that all streets in the city, expect for a few dead-end streets and cul-de-sacs, were plowed.

Fish and Game Association cancels

meetingThe Geary County Fish and Game

Association membership meeting scheduled for Feb. 10 has been cancelled, due to weather condi-tions.

Geary County Landlords

Association to meet Monday

The Geary County Landlords Association will hold its regular meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at the Dorothy Bramlage Public Library. All Geary County landlords are invited to attend. For more information, contact Doris McLaird-Nelson at (785) 762-3951.

Harry Belafonte to be keynote speaker

at KSUHarry Belafonte will be the Kan-

sas State University Black History Month Keynote Speaker, at 4 p.m. Monday in the McCain Auditorium at KSU.

Belafonte is a civil rights giant, human rights advocate and world-renowned entertainer.

The event is free to the public, but space is limited. Tickets are available for pickup at the McCain Box Office.

For more information, contact mttorres@ksu.edu.

JCPD to continue nighttime seat belt

enforcement through FebruaryOfficers with the Junction City

Police Department will conduct nighttime seat belt enforcement at the intersection of Sixth and Wash-ington streets through the month of February.

Additional officers will be on the streets throughout the month, according to JCPD Capt. Dan Breci. Field sobriety tests will also be administered to those drivers who are suspected of driving while intoxicated.

In January, 44 drivers or passen-gers were cited for not wearing their seatbelt, no proof of insur-ance, no driver’s license or expired vehicle registration, according to the JCPD.

NARFE announces monthly luncheon

and meetingThe February 2014 meeting of

the National Association of Active and Retired Federal Employees (NARFE) will be a monthly luncheon and meeting at 11:30 a.m. Feb. 13 at the Senior Citizen Center, located at 1107 S. Spring Valley Road. The guest speaker will be County Com-missioner Florence Whitebread.

All current and retired federal employees, whether a member of not, are invited to attend.

For information or reservations, call Dixie Thomas at (785) 238-1455 or Calling Chair Vi Martin at (785) 238-8539, or (785) 210-6037.

Love and Respect relationship conference coming to JC

A weekend video conference for relationships, “Love and Respect,” will be held March 7-8 at the Opera House. Sessions will take place from 6 to 9:30 p.m. March 7, and from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. March 8. Registration is $30 per person until March 1, and $35 per person after that date. Couples and individuals are welcome, but registration is limited to 70 people.

For more information, contact B.J. Solander at (785) 762-3292, or email jcagoffice@gmail.com.

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MANHATTAN — Riley County police are inves-tigating an armed rob-bery Wednesday night at Ray’s Apple Market on Manhattan’s east side.

Officers responded to the grocery store, locat-ed at 222 N. Sixth St., at about 9:05 p.m. for a report of an armed rob-bery and aggravated assault, a Thursday press release from the Riley County Police Department stated.

Police were called shortly after the inci-dent occurred.

Upon arrival, officers were told two subjects, one brandishing a hand-gun, had entered the grocery store and obtained cash.

After a brief period inside the store, the sus-pects were able to flee the area, police stated.

Police didn’t release how much cash was taken from the store.

Nobody was injured during the incident.

No further informa-tion was released by press time.

Police first confirmed what had happened on Twitter at 10 p.m. Wednesday.

Police stated several officers still were on scene and others were in the surrounding area.

The RCPD asks any-one with information about this crime to con-tact the department at (785) 537-2112.

Anonymous tips can be submitted to the Man-hattan-Riley County Crime Stoppers by call-ing (785) 539-7777 or by installing the “TipSub-mit Mobile” app on Android or iPhone devices.

For more information on how to contact the Crime Stoppers, visit www.manhattanriley-countycrimestoppers.com.

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Submitted photoTwenty-five children received the Sacrament of Reconciliation Jan. 25 at St. Francis Xavier Church. Those receiving the Sacrament in 2014 include Colton Allmon, Kylie Allmon, John Bamba Jr., Brock Bazan, Madison Brown, Clemente Cano III, Carmine Mancanelli, Gedrick Comiso, Alyssa Dugan, Delaney Fawcett, Emma Hardin, Katie Henning, Zachary Henning, Avery Houser, David Hurley, Keira Jones, Ava Lamar, Braden Litzinger, Caleb Lyon, Mia MacKinnon, Andrew Mortimer, Nadine Olidan, Becky Peterson, Creytin Sanner, Madilyn Sanchez, Christian Waters, Brooklyn Wayne and Donald Won. The group will now be preparing for the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist, which they will receive in early May. Service coordinators were Sandy Leistner and Ross Conner, and celebrants were Fathers Kerry Ninemire and Peter O’Donnell.

Sacrament of Reconciliation

By tim WeiDeman

city.beat@thedailyunion.net

For as much snow as Junction City received earlier this week, snow removal crews did a good job, offi-cials said Thursday during a City Commission meeting.

The city received 10.5 inches Tues-day night through Wednesday — a single snow event record. But Junc-tion City Public Works Department crews were ready.

Commissioner Mike Ryan told Municipal Services Director Greg McCaffery he appreciated the effort put in by Public Works employees.

“I was surprised that some of the side streets were even hit (Wednes-day) night,” Ryan said. “For as much snow as we had, you guys are doing a good job.”

McCaffery explained the city’s first priorities were major thorough-fares and streets connecting those high-traffic roads. He said it takes time to reach residential streets.

“People need to realize we have 150 miles of streets,” McCaffery said. “About 35 miles of those are arterials and collectors. The rest are residen-tials.”

As of late Friday morning, all Junction City streets had been plowed, except for a few dead-end roads and cul-de-sacs, McCaffery said. The focus since, he said, has shifted to hitting those remaining areas and improving traction at more heavily-traveled intersections.

The continuing snow-clearing efforts haven’t come without com-plaints from residents, City Commis-sioners said Thursday.

“There are some concerns and I’ve passed those on,” Mayor Cecil Aska said. “Hopefully there’ll be some kind of dialogue.”

Citizens’ complaints relayed by commissioners and city staff includ-ed some streets not having been plowed as of Thursday. Other com-plaints were aimed at how streets had been plowed.

“One of the irritating things, as I can understand, is when you shovel your driveway, then the city comes by and pushes it right back in,” Aska said. “That’s one of the hazards. And if we had a bigger crew, which would mean also raising your taxes, we would have the ability then to clean those spots back out.”

Overall, Aska was pleased with how snow removal crews responded.

“I think the city did a good job, considering the equipment that we have and the amount of snow — that was quite a bit of snow,” he said.

Junction City has seven trucks for snow removal, six of which are in operation.

McCaffery said crews were work-ing hard to get the streets cleared.

“We’ve got anywhere from five to six trucks that are running basically 24 hours around the clock,” he said. “We’ve got individuals that come in, working 12 hours on, 12 hours off.”

City Manager Gerald Smith said he was pleased with how the Public Works Department used its resourc-es in response to the storm.

“What we do here is based on the resources we have available,” Smith said. “I thought we did a pretty good job to keep the main arterials open.”

However, there’s room for improve-

ment, he said.“I understand and I sympathize

with residents who live on cul-de-sacs and essentially are at the bottom of the rung when it comes to getting those areas,” Smith said. “As the city begins to have additional resources, we might be able to ratchet up the ability to be able to get to those.”

On top of the amount of resources available, the city’s snow removal program is young, having only been in operation for two years, Smith reminded commissioners. Previous-ly, Veolia Water had handled those and other public works operations for the city.

“Our guys are learning this pro-gram and I think they’re doing a pretty good job,” Smith said.

City pleased with response to snowstormBrown: Public cooperated

during snow stormJunction City residents responded well to an

early snow emergency declaration and stayed safe during this week’s winter weather, police chief Tim Brown said Thursday.

Brown told Junction City Commissioners a snow emergency declaration was issued mid-night Monday, earlier than any declaration in a number of years.

The department brought in additional offi-cers Tuesday to advise people still parked on snow routes they needed to move their cars off the streets.

“Overall, I was surprised we only ended up towing 18 cars over that two-day period,” Brown said.

Police also issued a number of citations for cars parked on snow emergency routes.

Officers responded to “very few” accidents over the course of the storm, Brown said.

By tim WeiDeman

city.beat@thedailyunion.net

The Junction City Fire Department is making progress in updating its aging fleet.

City Commissioners Thursday approved the purchase of a new pump-er apparatus from Rosen-bauer LLC for $480,816.

To speed up the deliv-ery process, Junction City Fire Chief Kevin Royse told commissioners the department agreed to purchase a demo truck from Rosenbauer.

“We could possibly have this as early as May this year,” Royse said.

As part of the deal between the manufactur-er and the city, Rosenbau-er will build the truck, take to a national con-ference to show, then deliver it to the fire department.

“This speeds things up by at least a mini-mum of six months,” Royse said, adding the deal also saved the department money on the purchase price.

The purchase will be

funded by a lease-pur-chase program and with funds in the city’s fire equipment reserve.

The pumper apparatus is the second of three pur-chases the city plans to make from Rosenbauer. Last year, the commission approved purchasing a new aerial apparatus from Rosenbauer through a federal grant.

“The third and final step will occur later this summer when we will spec out an engine with Rosenbauer again,” Royse said.

Royse explained pur-chasing all three engines from the same manufac-turer has two main bene-fits.

“Every apparatus will be the same in its pump-ing capabilities,” he said.

“Each apparatus will be the same in its driver con-figuration. Our mainte-nance costs and our train-ing (needs), we’re looking to decrease tremendous-ly.”

Public Works to purchase used

sanitation truckFacing a situation simi-

lar to the fire depart-ment’s, Junction City Public Works will be pur-chasing a used sanitation truck to replace an older truck that would require $30,000 in maintenance.

Municipal Services Director Greg McCaffery told commissioners the need to buy a truck was known, but a year earlier than planned.

“We’re in a sort of unusual situation here

because of the unit going down sooner than we thought,” he said.

The commission approved the depart-ment’s request to pur-chase the used truck without a formal bid pro-cess at a cost not to exceed $104,050.

Money for the purchase is available in the city’s sanitation fund.

McCaffery said the bid process waiver was requested because used sanitation trucks are hard to find.

“These units move,” he said. “The used units that have any life in them, they move relatively quickly.”

Public Works has been

renting a unit at $5,000 per month.

The city likely will lease-purchase a new unit later this year to start the process of replacing its fleet over the next few years.

New sanitation trucks cost about $170,000, McCaffery said.

Assistant Manager Cheryl Beatty said sanita-tion costs may rise 50 cents per household next year to help fund the pur-chases.

Public Works plans to operate the used unit for a while before it would be replaced.

“Our intent is to run that unit four if not five years,” McCaffery said.

Commissioners approved purchase of pumper apparatus

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Obituaries/News4A The Daily Union. Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014

Sally NarducciJan. 13, 1927 — Nov. 28, 2013

Sally K. Narducci, a longtime resident of Junction City, was a sister, girlfriend, fian-cee, wife, mother, and all those in between.

Sally (Mom) was a kind-hearted, quiet, loving soul who always thought of others first. Now, she has hear place in heaven, passing away Thanksgiving Day 2013 in San Antonio, Texas, with her beloved daughter, Barbara, at her side.

Rest in peace, mom. Sally

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By The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Marty Plissner, the longtime political director of CBS News, died Thursday of lung cancer. He was 87.

Plissner is credited with coining the phrase “too close to call” a half-centu-ry ago, heard often ever since during tight

vote counts.He was known for his

extensive political knowl-edge and his range of political contacts, estab-lishing himself by one appraisal as the gold stan-dard for several genera-tions of political journal-ists.

He was a pioneer of exit polls and was known to say

that members of Congress who had pushed to limit them would nonetheless contact him on primary days seeking information on what they revealed.

Born in Brooklyn in 1926, Plissner attended Yale and served in the Navy during World War II.

After graduation and stints at ABC and NBC, he

joined CBS News in 1964. He participated in cover-ing the 1964 presidential race as well as the next eight.

He retired in 1997 as senior political director. Plissner’s coinage of “too close to call” was noted in 1996 by New York Times language columnist Wil-liam Safire.

Plissner, veteran CBS political sage, dies

NATION/WORLD

WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency collects less than 30 percent of calling data from Ameri-cans despite the agency’s massive daily efforts to sweep up the bulk of U.S. phone records, two U.S. newspapers reported Fri-day.

Citing anonymous offi-cials and sources, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal both said the NSA’s phone data collection has had a steep drop-off since 2006.

According to the newspa-pers, the government has been unable to keep pace since then with a national surge in cellphone usage and dwindling landline use by American consumers.

The Post said the NSA takes in less than 30 per-cent of all call data; the Journal said it is about or less than 20 percent. In either case, the figures are far below the amount of phone data collected in 2006, when the government extracted nearly all of U.S. calling records, both news-papers reported.

NSA officials intend to press for court authoriza-tion to broaden their cover-age of cellphone providers to return the government to near-total coverage of Americans’ calling data, the newspapers said.

The lowered estimates for the sweep of govern-ment surveillance would be significant because federal judges, members of govern-ment task forces and media accounts based on docu-ments provided by NSA leaker Edward Snowden have all described the NSA’s bulk metadata collection as sweeping in millions of records from American phone users.

Lowered estimates could be cited by officials to alle-viate privacy and civil lib-erties fears, but they could also raise questions about the government’s rationale for the program — that the NSA’s use of all Americans’ phone records are critical in preventing potential ter-rorist plots.

National security offi-cials have said that the col-lection of bulk data is essential to national secu-rity because it provides a massive pool of callin records and other metadata that NSA analysts can quickly search to pinpoint calling patterns showing evidence of potential terror threats.

Congressional critics

have pressed efforts to end the bulk phone data sweeps, and two panels of experts have urged President Barack Obama to end the program because they see little counter-terrorism advantages and say the pro-gram intrudes on personal liberties.

Obama has committed to ending government storage of phone records but still wants the NSA to have full access to the data. National security officials did not immediately comment on the new reports.

Civil liberties groups said they were not reassured by the reports, saying the gov-ernment still intends to gather phone records from all American users. “To accept their legal reason-ing is to accept that they will eventually collect everything, even if they’re not doing so already,” said Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union.

Verizon and AT&T said last December that they would provide figures this year on data requested by the government in law enforcement and intelli-gence investigations.

But the Journal reported last year that several major cellphone entities includ-ing Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile were not part of the NSA’s bulk metadata collection.

It is not clear why cell-phone providers would not be covered by the NSA legal authority.

Intelligence officials are already moving to alter the structure of the phone sur-veillance program to con-form to changes Obama ordered last month.

On Friday, Office of the Director of National Intel-ligence, or DNI, posted a government website appeal to private companies to develop ways for the gov-ernment to continue its phone record searches without storing a massive inventory of phone data. The posting, on FedBi-zOpps.gov, said the DNI is “investigating whether existing commercially available capabilities can provide for a new approach to the government’s tele-phony metadata collection program.”

The Associated Press reported last month that the DNI is already funding five research teams across the country in an effort to develop an encrypted search technique that could be used by the NSA to securely scan phone data-banks held elsewhere.

In a related development, the secretive Foreign Intel-ligence Surveillance Court in Washington on Thurs-day authorized two major changes in the phone col-lection program that Obama committed to in January.

The court agreed to require judicial approval for each internal NSA search of telephone data for terrorist connections and it will narrow the num-bers of American phone users whose records can be scanned during each search, the DNI reported.

In the first instance, the NSA now must provide judges with “reasonable, articulable suspicion” for each search of phone data for terrorist connections.

That hurdle can be lifted during national emergen-

cies. And the court ruling now scales back the NSA’s use of a “three-hop” system in its searches — allowing the agency to scan the records of those in phone contact with a terror sus-pect and a second wave of people in touch with the first group, but no longer allowing searches of a third wave of phone contacts.

Chief Justice John Rob-erts on Friday named two new judges to the secret court. Roberts said that U.S. District Judges James E. Boasberg and Richard C. Tallman joined the court on Jan. 27. Boasberg was appointed by Obama, Tall-man by President Bill Clin-ton. Their appointment will likely do little to dampen criticism that the majority of FISA judges picked by Roberts are Republicans.

Why a weak jobs report isn’t as bad

as it looksWASHINGTON — The

January jobs figures were a downer: Employers added just 113,000 jobs last month, far fewer than economists had expected. Job cuts by retailers and government agencies lowered overall hiring.

But the Labor Depart-ment report contained enough good news to sus-tain hopes that 2014 may be a solid year for the U.S. economy.

Consider:— Unemployment didn’t

just fall to a five-year low of 6.6 percent; it fell for the right reasons. Nearly 500,000 Americans poured into the job market last month, and 616,000 more people said they had jobs.

Previous drops in the unemployment rate had occurred partly because many Americans gave up looking for work and there-fore were no longer counted as unemployed.

— Factories, mines and construction firms hired at a healthy pace.

These so-called goods-producing industries added 76,000 jobs in January, the most since January 2006.

Hiring by goods produc-ers is typically seen as a harbinger of an improved

job market. They ramp up production when they think the economy is going to strengthen.

— The job market entered 2014 in better shape than previously believed. The Labor Department announced revisions Fri-day that added 369,000 jobs to U.S. payrolls last year. That means employers added 2.3 million jobs last year, or 194,000 a month, the most since 2005.

White House giving Boehner room on

immigrationWASHINGTON — The

White House is hoping Republican resistance to overhauling immigration is temporary and tactical. That’s why President Barack Obama continues resisting pressure from allies to take matters into his own hands and ease his administration’s deporta-tion record.

For Obama, it’s a high-wire act. If he acts alone to slow deportations, he prob-ably dooms any chance of comprehensive legislation. If he shows too much patience, the opportunity to fix immigration laws as he wants could slip away.

White House officials say they believe House Speaker John Boehner ultimately wants immigration legisla-tion. But they are giving Boehner space to tamp down the conservative out-cry over immigration prin-ciples that he brought for-ward last week. And Obama doesn’t want to appear as if he is telling Boehner how to lead the Republican House.

Russian official denies role in

Nuland call leakMOSCOW — A Russian

government aide who was among the first to post a video online containing a bugged phone call between two U.S. diplomats denied Friday that he or the gov-ernment played a role in leaking the recording.

Dmitry Loskutov said he was surfing a social net-working website on Thurs-day when he came across

the video, in which the top U.S. diplomat for Europe, Victoria Nuland, disparag-es the European Union.

Loskutov, an aide to Dep-uty Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, told The Associat-ed Press in a telephone interview that his decision to repost the video had no connection to his work for the Russian government.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said Thursday that Loskutov’s post point-ed to Moscow’s possible involvement. U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the video was “a new low in Russian tradecraft,” indirectly sug-gesting that Russia was responsible for bugging the call.

Loskutov posted a link on Twitter which he said proved that another anony-mous user had posted the video on Wednesday, the day before he did.

“I think you’re better off asking the titushki (about the origins of the video),” he said, using the word that Ukrainian protesters have used to describe violent, government-paid thugs who are meant to delegiti-mize the protest move-ment.

The AP verified that the post cited by Loskutov was made on Wednesday, but the sender could not be identified.

Rogozin, Loskutov’s boss, was unavailable for com-ment but posted an indirect but vociferous response to American accusations online on Friday.

“While the westerners weave little intrigues and get into scandals, Russia is helping the regions of Ukraine restore lost con-nections with our indus-tries,” he wrote on the blog-ging platform Twitlonger on Friday morning ahead of a meeting with Ukraini-an industrialists.

“Maybe then there will be fewer unemployed and embittered people to orga-nize riots in their own cities with foreign money,” Rogozin said.

In the video, voices resembling those of Nuland and the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine discuss interna-tional efforts to resolve Ukraine’s ongoing political crisis.

Reports: NSA gets under 30 percent of phone data

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Another ViewAthletes should be

the real stars of the Winter Olympics

The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Thursday, Feb. 6

If you’re weary of all the buildup to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia — the bare-chested president Vladimir Putin, athletes’ odd-

looking uniforms, computer hacking, potential terrorist attacks, blatant discrimination against gay people and, now breaking, journalists unhappy with their Third World hotel rooms — here’s much more positive news.

The first competition in the Games started Thursday in Sochi, and the Opening Ceremony will be Friday.

After all the recent controversies, this is, we can hope, when much of the narrative tilts p o s i t i v e l y toward what the athletes are accomplishing.

Thanks to live television, plus t a p e - d e l ay e d broadcasts in prime time, A m e r i c a n s could witness some amazing performances until the Olym-

pics end on Feb. 23.Don’t worry if the names of the U.S. athletes

aren’t familiar; they seldom are for many winter sports. But the events still ought to attract large audiences.

The figure skating competition will be elegant, the downhill skiing fast and furious, the bobsled-ding medalists decided by the hundredths of a sec-ond, the snowboarding ridiculously perilous and the cross country skiing an endurance test for the ages.

More than likely, we’ll still hear about Russian corruption, cost overruns at the Olympic venues and various protests during the next few weeks. These stories also deserve attention.

But as so often happens at the Olympics — and often out of nowhere — athletes will put their own stamp on the Games with some brilliant perfor-mances on the ice or snow.

Thousands of talented women and men will be competing fiercely to win gold, silver and bronze medals in Sochi, many after training a lifetime to get there. This is their time to shine.

It makes no sense to criminalize people for getting stoned

By the time my 5-year-old daugh-ter leaves for college, it’s quite likely that marijuana use will be

broadly decriminalized. Alaska has become the most recent state to move toward legalization, placing an initia-tive on the ballot for an August vote. If it passes, Alaska would join Washing-ton and Colorado, which have already made recreational use legal for adults.

The trend will probably continue, since 52 percent of Americans support legalization, according to the Pew Research Center. That’s good news — and not because I want my daughter to indulge.

Quite the opposite. Having grown up in the years of cannabis prohibition, I know all about the dangers of the weed. Even though I don’t accept the exag-gerations of such propaganda as “Reef-er Madness,” a 1930s-era film that por-trayed pot-smoking as the road to destruction, I know that marijuana overuse is dangerous. That’s especially true for adolescents, whose brains are stunted by frequent pot-smoking, research shows.

Overindulgence in alcohol is danger-ous, too. Yet the nation learned through wretched experience that Prohibition was worse. It bred a gaggle of violent criminals who trailed death and devas-tation in their wake. Their crimes were generated by the law itself: Making alcohol illegal did not stop its use; it merely fostered a huge and profitable black market.

The futile War on Drugs has done the same thing, promoting violent crime throughout the Americas and fueling the growth in prison populations. According to the FBI, about half of the annual drug arrests in the United States are for marijuana.

The so-called war has done its great-

est damage in black America, decimat-ing whole neighborhoods as young black men are locked up for non-violent crimes, then released with records that will restrict their employment oppor-tunities for the rest of their lives.

At a time when policymakers are struggling to close a yawning income gap — to find ways to support equal opportunity for all — it makes no sense to criminalize a group of people for get-ting stoned. Not only does a drug record stigmatize them for life, but a prison sentence also forces them into close quarters with hardened criminals, making it more likely that they will graduate to violent crimes themselves.

And here’s the thing that’s especially galling: Whites don’t pay nearly the same price. (If they did, marijuana would have been legalized decades ago.) Although studies show that whites and blacks smoke pot at about the same rate, blacks are 3.7 times more likely to be arrested, according to a 2013 report by the American Civil Liberties Union. “The war on marijuana has dispropor-tionately been a war on people of color,” Ezekiel Edwards, director of the ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project, said last year.

Even with all the evidence of the harm from the War on Drugs, though, many middle-aged and older Ameri-cans are still reluctant to support legal-ization of marijuana. That’s less true

of the young. According to Pew, 65 per-cent of millennials — born since 1980 and now between 18 and 32 — favor legalization, up from just 36 percent in 2008.

Those less enthusiastic about legal-izing pot point to risks, including a likely increase in rates of cannabis addiction. In addition, they note, legal-ization of marijuana would probably lead to increased calls for the decrimi-nalization of much more harmful drugs, such as heroin.

There is no doubt that most narcot-ics are more dangerous than pot and may need to be treated differently. The recent death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is a stark reminder of that. But we can distinguish between can-nabis and heroin just as we distinguish between Tylenol and Oxycontin.

Unfortunately, the federal govern-ment stubbornly clings to an outdated view, insisting that its law enforcement authorities will continue to view mari-juana sales and possession as a crime. That’s dumb, and President Obama ought to know better. He has long admitted his youthful pot use, and he recently acknowledged in a New York-er interview that it is no more danger-ous than alcohol.

That doesn’t mean he wants his two daughters to smoke pot, any more than I want mine to. But I certainly don’t think any of them should go to jail if they do.

Cynthia tuCker, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, is a visiting professor at the University of Georgia. She can be reached at cynthia@cynthiatucker.com.

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Solution to income inequality opportunity, not entitlementBy Dr. Ben Carson

Special to The Daily Union

There has been much discussion about income inequality recently. President Obama seems to think we can make significant progress in eliminating

poverty by raising the minimum wage, as his State of the Union address highlighted.

Many hope that through a simple declaration, the poor can be elevated to a higher social status. Such people fail to realize that pay is associated with value — otherwise, we could just pay everybody $1 million a year and let everybody be rich. In a capitalistic society, those individu-als who produce the wherewithal to obtain income tend to be paid quite handsomely, while individuals who don’t generate significant income are paid accordingly.

As in any situation that involves human beings, there will be some abuses, but generally speaking, this kind of system works by incentivizing individuals to do the things necessary to enhance their value in the marketplace.

Many in the current administration and their syco-phants in the news media are trying to persuade Ameri-cans that there is significant improvement in the general economy. But record numbers of people are enrolling in the food-stamp program and receiving various govern-ment subsidies.

Common sense dictates that if the economy were improving, there would be an accompanying decline in the number of people depending on government supple-ments.

As a child, I was eyewitness to people who preferred a sedentary, nonproductive life as long as they could collect public assistance. Others, including my mother, from the exact same environment, worked incessantly to try to improve their own lives and those of their children. My mother worked as a domestic in the homes of wealthy people who were generous to her because she was depend-able, honest and hardworking.

They also learned about my brother and me, because my mother would share our stellar report cards with them once we had conquered our academic doldrums. As a result, these successful people would send us significant monetary incentives to keep up the good work. One of them even loaned me his luxury convertible for a special occasion.

I was never resentful of the wealthy; I was inspired by their achievements and wanted to achieve at the highest possible levels so I could realize my potential and enjoy a pleasant lifestyle. Luxury and a comfortable lifestyle are no longer goals of mine; they are byproducts of making myself valuable to society. I recognized after many diffi-culties in early childhood that the person who has the most to do with what happens to me in life is me. Other people and the environment could not thwart me unless I permitted it. Only my attitude and acceptance of the vic-tim mentality could get in the way.

As an adult, the best thing I can do for young people is to give them hope and opportunity. We all need to realize that by showing them kindness and sharing with them, we can have a significant, positive impact on their lives.

We must, however, go beyond rhetoric and put concrete plans into action to allow people to ascend from the lower socioeconomic levels to the apex of our society based on their hard work and creativity.

We should be thinking about creative ways to fund schools in order to even out the distribution of resources between wealthy and impoverished neighborhoods. Cor-porations and businesses need to concentrate on mutually beneficial apprenticeships and internships for potential workers in their cities. Courses in basic finance and work ethics should be offered in places where such knowledge would not be redundant. These are constructive things that can be done by “we the people.”

This does not mean the government doesn’t have an important role to play in promoting economic health. The following Jeffersonian quotation is an excellent definition of good government: “A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”

In other words, protect people and get out of the way. Let’s use innovation to create opportunity, instead of using government to suppress it. Once we have a vibrant economy, entitlement reform will be a much easier discus-sion.

Ben S. CarSon is professor emeritus of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University.

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Police & RecoRds6A The Daily Union. Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014

Junction City Police Department

The Junction City Police Department made four arrests and responded to 133 calls in the 48-hour period ending 6 a.m. Friday.

Wednesday• 6:32 a.m. — Accident,

I-70 westbound mile marker 298

• 8:31 a.m. — Accident, Sixth St. and Washington St.

• 9:37 a.m. — Accident, 948 Grant Ave.

• 11:48 a.m. — Theft, 1214 S. Washington St.

• 12:06 p.m. — Accident, Ash St. and Washington St.

• 1:02 p.m. — Accident, 1410 W. 14th St.

• 1:32 p.m. — Accident, 201 W. 18th St.

• 4:54 p.m. — Disturbance, 221 S. Madison St.

• 5:46 p.m. — Theft, 239 S. Jefferson St.

• 6:09 p.m. — Accident, 1015 Burke Drive

• 6:13 p.m. — Damage to property, 315 W. Seventh St.

• 7:03 p.m. — Accident, Chestnut St. and Washing-

ton St.• 9:24 p.m. — Disturbance,

210 W. Second St.

Thursday• 12:50 a.m. — Accident,

400 block of W. Fourth St.• 4:06 a.m. — Accident,

1911 Lacy Drive• 1:42 p.m. — Accident,

935 Windwood Drive• 5:11 p.m. — Disturbance,

210 E. Ninth St.• 5:43 p.m. — Burglary,

823 W. 14th St.• 5:44 p.m. — Accident,

Ash St. and Webster St.• 11:12 p.m. — Theft, 905

Dreiling Road

Friday• 3:56 a.m. — Accident, N.

US-77 mile marker 156

Grandview Plaza Police Department

The Grandview Plaza Police Department made no arrests and responded to 10 calls in the 24-hour period ending 12 a.m. Thursday. A report for Thursday wasn’t received as of Friday after-noon.

Junction City Fire DepartmentThe Junction City Fire

Department made 13 trans-ports and responded to 18 calls in the 48-hour period ending 8 a.m. Friday.

Geary County Sheriff’s

DepartmentThe Geary County Sher-

iff’s Department made one arrest and responded to 52 calls in the 48-hour period ending 7 a.m. Friday.

Thursday• 1:29 p.m. — Theft, 1000

block of N. Washington

Geary County Detention CenterThe Geary County Deten-

tino Center booked the fol-lowing individuals during the 48-hour period ending 7 a.m. Friday.

Wednesday• 5:14 p.m. — Mariella

Pin-Mayorga, failure to

appear• 7:12 p.m. — Albert Willis,

failure to appear

Thursday• 10:55 a.m. — David

Shrewsbury, failure to appear

• 4:25 p.m. — Damien Lopez, bond violation

• 4:58 p.m. — Ray Mad-dox, probation violation, theft of property

Geary County District Court

Criminal complaints were filed in the following person felony cases during the one-week period ending noon Friday.

Feb. 6• State of Kansas vs. male

juvenile — Count 1: criminal threat, Count 2: interference with law enforcement

• State of Kansas vs. male juvenile — Count 1: battery on a juvenile correctional facility officer

DispositionsJan. 31

• State of Kansas vs. Thom-as Cole Aven — Count 1: battery, no contest, county jail for six months suspend-ed; Count 2: obstruction, guilty, Kansas Department of Corrections for eight months suspended, post-release for 12 months; Count 3: obstruction, guilty, Kansas Department of Corrections for eight months suspended, post-release for 12 months; Count 4: obstruction, guilty, Kansas Department of Cor-rections for eight months suspended, post-release for 12 months; Probation: court service supervision for 18 months

Geary County Marriage Licenses

Jan. 27• Christopher David Brice,

Analiza Grafil Brice• Wade William Carey,

Brooke Rae Carey• Cody Joseph Drouin,

Haleigh Marie McCracken-Drouin

Jan. 28

• Bradley Joseph Whitlock, Jillian Victoria Davis

Jan. 30• Jonathan Markel Perez,

Bernadette Perez• Michael Matthew Salaz,

Kelly Jean Salaz• Erick James Rollins Wil-

liams, Javunna Monique Rollins Williams

Jan. 31• Kevin William Frier-

mood, Alicia Marie Frier-mood

• Daren Eric Beenen, Joy Elizabeth Beenen

Divorce FilingsJan. 29

• Richard A. Simmons, Andrea I. McGinnis

Jan. 30• Juan C. Chacon Anchon-

do, Maritza Garcia Hernan-dez

Jan. 31• Dena M. Neece, Cory J.

Eberwein• Christine Maree Bishop,

Zachary Alan Bishop

KANSAS NEWS

TOPEKA — Kansas leg-islators want to ensure that carrying firearms while drunk or under the influ-ence of drugs is illegal, so a committee has delayed a planned vote on a gun-rights bill partly to give members more time to hash out the language of such a ban.

The House Federal and State Committee had planned to vote Friday on the measure, which strips cities and counties of any power to regulate guns. But members instead spent more than an hour review-ing changes suggested by the bill’s leading sponsor, Rep. Jim Howell, a Derby Republican, and postponed the vote until Wednesday.

Howell’s changes includ-ed a new, broad declaration that it’s a misdemeanor to carry firearms under the influence of alcohol or ille-gal drugs. Federal law bans illegal drug users from owning guns, and a Kansas law authorizing people with state permits to carry con-cealed weapons forbids the permit-holders to do so under the influence. How-ever, it’s not clear that Kan-sas law has a broader pro-hibition.

“If someone is out hunt-ing, for example, and they’re drunk, that would be a violation,” Howell told the committee, describing how the law would change. “I believe someone who’s under the influence of drugs or alcohol shouldn’t be operating a firearm. This is a very good principle.”

But committee members quickly became tangled up in the details. For example, Rep. Erin Davis, an Olathe Republican, said the lan-guage should be expanded to cover impairment by legal prescriptions that, when taken as directed, can make people “a little bit loopy.”

And Patricia Stoneking, president of the Kansas State Rifle Association, sought assurances that the language wouldn’t hinder self-defense rights if, for example, someone who’s

had drinks with dinner is accosted by an attacker in a parking lot.

“You know, if I have two glasses of wine with my dinner, I’m fully capable of still defending myself,” Stoneking.

Jason Long, an attorney on the Legislature’s bill-drafting staff, told her that people who are impaired still could take temporary possession of firearms to protect themselves, and Stoneking’s concerns were assuaged.

Wichita robber hides face with

boxer shortsWICHITA — Police in

Wichita say an armed rob-ber made a strong impres-sion with his choice of a mask: a pair of gray boxer shorts pulled over his face.

The holdup occurred around 8:30 p.m. Thursday at a Family Dollar store in the eastern part of Wichita while two people were inside.

Police said the robber pointed a revolver at the clerk, threatened to shoot and demanded money. He left with a small amount of

cash.Besides the underwear

on his head, the robber wore dark shoes, a hooded sweatshirt, black jacket and blue jeans.

Kansas Senate panel weighs deadlines for

courtsTOPEKA — A Kansas

Court of Appeals judge said Friday that the judicial branch was doing its best to produce timely rulings and legislation to create dead-lines was unnecessary.

Judge Patrick McAnany told the Senate Judiciary Committee that judges and justices were aware of con-cerns about timeliness of decisions and were trying to prompt each other to pick up the pace.

The committee is consid-ering a bill that would cre-ate soft deadlines for the

district courts, Court of Appeals and Kansas Supreme Court, meaning the deadlines could be missed if proper notice was given to parties in the cases. District courts would have 120 days to rule on motions and nonjury trials; the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals would have 180 days after oral arguments to issue rulings.

McAnany said the 14-member Court of Appeals had its own inter-nal system of the “60-day list” of those cases that were awaiting a ruling 60 days from their court hear-ing. Last year, the Court of Appeals disposed of 1,221 cases in an average of 51 days.

“It seems to be fairly pro-ductive because of the num-bers that you see,” he said.

By comparison, the Kan-sas Supreme Court dis-posed of 133 cases in an

average of 288 days from the date of hearing. How-ever, statistics from the Legislative Research Department suggested that civil cases heard in the past year took an average of 402.6 days — more than 13 months — to be completed.

McAnany defended the figures, saying the Supreme Court typically receives more complex cases that require more consider-ation.

“I don’t fault them from taking more time,” he said, adding that what is decided often has great public inter-est and every word could “come back and bite them.”

He also questioned whether the law would infringe on the court’s con-stitutional authority to oversee court administra-tion.

Senate Vice President Jeff King says six states have similar laws on time limits and can withhold pay from judges who are tardy in their rulings. King said those states all have similar provisions in their consti-tutions that give the judi-cial branch authority to administer court opera-tions.

“I think today’s testimo-ny makes it clear, the Kan-sas Court of Appeals is doing its work in a timely manner,” said King, an Independence Republican and attorney. “We need to do everything we can to encourage swift justice from the Kansas Supreme Court.”

Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce said the mea-sure would give the court guidance on cases without rushing any issue to quick judgment.

“Every case is different and we’ve given them dis-

cretion in the bill,” said Bruce, a Hutchinson Repub-lican and attorney.

Fire at Sterling College gym cancels

gameSTERLING — A fire pos-

sibly sparked by a blowtorch used to melt ice forced the evacuation of up to 400 peo-ple from a central Kansas college gym just minutes before a men’s basketball game was due to start, a school spokesman said.

Sterling’s Gleason Center filled with smoke and flames licked up the walls of the gym forcing the postpone-ment of the scheduled game between Sterling and Tabor colleges Thursday evening, the Hutchinson News report-ed. No one was hurt.

“When we were trying to thaw some pipes earlier today, we had some water leaking,” said Sterling sports information director Hans Nickel. “We think we caught the building on fire, but we’re going to wait and see after the investigation because we really aren’t 100 percent sure what happened. We were using a blowtorch to try to help thaw the ice. It probably caught something on the inside on fire and it kind of festered.”

The game initially was delayed for 30 minutes and all spectators were asked to leave while the maintenance staff looked for the source of the smoke. The Sterling Fire Department was called after the flames appeared on the west wall.

Firefighters removed tin, plywood and particle board inside the gym to extinguish the smoldering fire, Sterling Fire Chief Richard Jones said.

Kansas House panel delays vote on gun measure

Associated PressKansas state Rep. Valdenia Winn, left, a Kansas City Democrat, asks questions during a committee review Friday on gun-rights legislation at the Statehouse in Topeka.

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Calendar/Business7A The Daily Union. Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014

Saturday, Feb. 8 • 10 a.m. — Geary County

Women’s Democratic Club meets at Church of Our Sav-ior Methodist Church, Thompson Drive

• Noon — Narcotics Anon-ymous, 119 W. Seventh St.

• 1 p.m. — Doors open at JC Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.

• 6:30 p.m. — JC Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie Bingo, 203 E. 10th St., open to pub-lic

• 8 p.m. — Alcoholics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.

• Registration Deadline for Mad Science II (Feb. 10), Dorothy Bramlage Public Library, 230 W. Seventh St.

Sunday, Feb. 9• Noon — Doors open at JC

Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.

• Noon — Alcoholics Anon-ymous, 119 W. Seventh St.

• 1:30 p.m. — American Legion Post 45 Auxiliary Bingo, Fourth and Franklin Streets

• 8 p.m. — Narcotics Anon-ymous, 119 W. Seventh St.

Monday, Feb. 10• 9:30-10:30 a.m. — Exer-

cise at Senior Citizens Center, 1025 S. Spring Valley Road

• 9:30 a.m. — Board meet-ing at Senior Citizens Center, 1025 S. Spring Valley Road

• Noon — Alcoholics Anon-ymous, 119 W. 7th St.

• 12:30-1:30 p.m. — Bingo after lunch

• 1-2:30 p.m. — Trouba-

dours of JC rehearsal at the Geary County Senior Center, 1025 S. Spring Valley Road

• 1 p.m. — Mad Science II, Dorothy Bramlage Public Library, 230 W. Seventh St.

• 2 p.m. — Doors open at Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.

• 5:30 p.m. — Friends of Hope Breast Cancer Support Group and Circle of Hope Cancer Support Group, Med-ical Arts Building II, Third Floor Conference Room,

Geary Community Hospital

• 5:30 p.m. — Library Board, Dorothy Bramlage Public Library, 230 W. Sev-enth St.

• 6 p.m. — JC South Kiwan-is meets at Valley View.

• 6:45 p.m. — Social Dupli-cate Bridge, 1022 Caroline Ave.

• 7 p.m. — Hope Al-Anon meeting at First United Meth-odist Church

• 7 p.m. — Hope Al-Anon, First United Methodist Church, 804 N. Jefferson.

• 7 p.m. — Bingo, Knights of Columbus, 126 W. Seventh St. Doors open at 5 p.m.

• 7 p.m. — Geary County

Fish & Game Association meeting, 3922 K-244 Spur

• 7 p.m. — JC Fraternal Order of Eagles Auxiliary meeting, 203 E. 10th St.

• 7:30 p.m. — Acacia Lodge #91, 1024 N. Price St., Junc-tion City

• 8 p.m. — Alcoholics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.

• Senior Citizens Center errands to bank and post office

• Computer class at Senior Center, 1025 S. Spring Valley Road

• Registration deadline for basket making (Feb. 24), Dor-othy Bramlage Public Library, 230 W. Seventh St.

Tuesday, Feb. 11• 8 a.m. to Noon — Taxes at

Senior Citizens Center, 1025 S. Spring Valley Road

• 9:30-10:30 a.m. — Zumba at Senior Citizens Center, 1025 S. Spring Valley Road

• 10-11 a.m. — Bible study at Senior Citizens Center, 1025 S. Spring Valley Road

• 10 a.m. — Preschool Sto-rytime, Dorothy Bramlage Public Library, 230 W. Sev-enth St.

• Noon — Alcoholics Anon-ymous, 119 W. Seventh St.

• 2 p.m. — Doors open at

the Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.

• 5-8 p.m. — Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie and Auxiliary kitchen is open with full meals

• 6 p.m. — Evening Story-time, Dorothy Bramlage Pub-lic Library, 230 W. Seventh St.

• 6:30 p.m. — JC Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie Bingo, 203 E. 10th St., open to pub-lic

• 6:30 p.m. — Ladies of the Night Book Discussion Group, Dorothy Bramlage Public Library, 230 W. Seventh St.

• 6:30 p.m. — Mystery Club,

Dorothy Bramlage Public Library, 230 W. Seventh St.

• 7 p.m. — Composite Squadron Civil Air Patrol, JC airport terminal, 540 Airport Road

• 7 p.m. — English as a Sec-ond Language, 238 W. Eighth St.

• 7 p.m. — Welcome to the Melting Pot, Dorothy Bram-lage Public Library, 230 W. Seventh St.

• 8 p.m. — Alcoholics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.

• Computer class at Senior Center, 1025 S. Spring Valley Road

• Senior Citizens errands to Fort Riley, 1025 S. Spring Val-ley Road

Wednesday, Feb. 12 • 6:30 a.m. — Alcoholics

Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.

• 6:45 a.m. — Breakfast Optimist Club, Hampton Inn

• 9:30-10:30 a.m. — Exer-cise at Senior Citizens Center, 1025 S. Spring Valley Road

• 10 a.m. — Toddler Time, Dorothy Bramlage Public Library, 230 W. Seventh St.

• Noon — Noon Kiwanis meets at Kite’s, Sixth and Washington streets

• Noon — Alcoholics Anon-ymous, 119 W. Seventh St.

• 12:15 p.m. — Weight Watchers, Presbyterian

Church 113 W. Fifth St.

• 1 p.m. — Preschool Story-time, Dorothy Bramlage Pub-lic Library, 230 W. Seventh St.

• 2 p.m. — Doors open at the Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.

• 1-4 p.m. — Cards at Senior Citizens Center, 1025 S. Spring Valley Road

• 6-7:45 p.m. — AWANA Club, First Southern Baptist Church

• 6:30 p.m. — Bingo at American Legion Post 45, Fourth and Franklin streets

• 7 p.m. — Relaxation Tech-niques, Library Corner, 238 W. Eighth St.

• 8 p.m. — Narcotics Anon-ymous, 119 W. Seventh St.

• 8 p.m. — Alcoholics Anonymous, Presbyterian Church, 113 W. Fifth St.

• Senior Citizens Center errands to Dillons

• Meadowlark Home Health Program at Senior Citizens Center, 1025 S. Spring Valley Road

• Senior Citizens Center errand to Dillons, 1025 S. Spring Valley Road

Thursday, Feb. 13• 9:30 a.m. — MOPS (Moth-

ers of Preschoolers), First Southern Baptist Church, child care provided

• 10 a.m. — Wiggles & Gig-gles Baby Time, Dorothy Bramlage Public Library, 230 W. Seventh St.

• 11 a.m. — Preschool Sto-rytime, Dorothy Bramlage Public Library, 230 W. Sev-enth St.

• 11:30 a.m. — NARFE Old Trooper Chapter 383 lun-cheon meeting, Senior Citi-zens Center, 1025 S. Spring Valley Road, members and guests welcome

• Noon — Alcoholics Anon-ymous, 119 W. Seventh St.

• 1 p.m. — TOPS (Take Off

Pounds Sensibly), Episcopal Church of the Covenant, 314 N. Adams St.

• 1 p.m. — Writing Your Family History, Library Cor-ner, 238 W. Eighth St.

• 2 p.m. — Doors open at the Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.

• 5-8 p.m. — Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie and Auxiliary kitchen is open with full meals

• 6:30 p.m. — Bingo at American Legion Post 45, Fourth and Franklin streets

• 7 p.m. — Writer’s Block, Library Corner, 238 W. Eighth St.

• 7 p.m. — JC Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie, 203 E. 10th St.

• 7 p.m. — Talk about Lit-erature in Kansas (TALK), hosted by the Dorothy Bram-lage Public Library, 631 Caro-line Avenue

• 8 p.m. — Alcoholics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.

• Senior Citizens Center errands to Walmart, 1025 S. Spring Valley Road

Friday, Feb. 14 • 9:30-10:30 a.m. — Exer-

cise at Senior Citizens Center, 1025 S. Spring Valley Road

• Noon — Alcoholics Anon-ymous, 119 W. Seventh St.

• 2 p.m. — Doors open at the Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.

• 5-8 p.m. — Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles kitchen is open with short-order meals

• 6 p.m. — Smoky Hill Free Trappers, Tyme Out Lounge

• 6 p.m. — Ogden Ameri-can Legion Bingo, 515 Riley Blvd.

• 6 p.m. — Alcoholics Anonymous, Women’s meet-ing, 119 W. Seventh St.

• 6:30 p.m. — JC Fraternal Order of Eagles Auxiliary Bingo, 203 E. 10th St., open to public

• 8 p.m. Alcoholics Anony-mous, 119 W. Seventh St.

Saturday, Feb. 15 • 10 a.m. — Trains, Trains,

Trains!, Dorothy Bramlage Public Library, 230 W. Sev-enth St.

• Noon — Narcotics Anon-ymous, 119 W. Seventh St.

• 1 p.m. — Doors open at JC Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.

• 6:30 p.m. — JC Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie Bingo, 203 E. 10th St., open to pub-lic

• 8 p.m. — Alcoholics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.

Sunday, Feb. 16• Noon — Doors open at JC

Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.

• Noon — Alcoholics Anon-ymous, 119 W. Seventh St.

• 12:15 p.m. — Father Kapaun Knights of Colum-bus, basement of St. Mary’s Chapel, Fort Riley

• 1:30 p.m. — American Legion Post 45 Auxiliary Bingo, Fourth and Franklin Streets

• 8 p.m. — Narcotics Anon-ymous, 119 W. Seventh St.

Monday, Feb. 17• 9:30-10:30 a.m. — Exer-

cise at Senior Citizens Center, 1025 S. Spring Valley Road

• Noon — Alcoholics Anon-ymous, 119 W. 7th St.

• 1-2:30 p.m. — Trouba-dours of JC rehearsal at the Geary County Senior Center, 1025 S. Spring Valley Road

• 2 p.m. — Doors open at Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.

• 6 p.m. – JC South Kiwanis meets at Valley View.

• 6:45 p.m. — Social Dupli-cate Bridge, 1022 Caroline Ave.

• 7 p.m. — Hope Al-Anon meeting at First United Meth-odist Church

• 7 p.m. — Hope Al-Anon, First United Methodist Church, 804 N. Jefferson.

• 7 p.m. — Bingo, Knights of Columbus, 126 W. Seventh St. Doors open at 5 p.m.

• 8 p.m. — Alcoholics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.

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Dear Annie: I am a live-in caregiver for my grand-mother, who is in failing health.

She has five children (including my father) who do absolutely nothing for her because they say Grand-ma is a mean, nasty person, which she is.

Grandma feeds off of neg-ativity and gossip.

Nothing is ever good enough, and she blames everyone else for her own failings.

I go out of my way to do things to make Grandma’s life easier, and it is either never good enough or she just doesn’t care.

It has brought me to tears.

I have threatened to move out numerous times, but then Grandma walks on egg-shells until the dust settles, and everything goes back to the way it was.

I am at the end of my rope.

But I also have a con-science and am afraid that if I move out, her children will rip her out of her home and slam her into an assisted liv-ing center, and that would be the end because no one else would step up to take care of her. — Frustrated Charles

Dear Charles: You are a caring grandson, but please don’t let Grandma blackmail you into a situation that is no longer tenable.

Does Grandma have money to pay a caregiver?

Would your aunts and uncles be willing to help foot the bill in order to have Grandma cared for without their direct involvement?

Look into the cost of hir-ing someone to live in the home, which Grandma may prefer.

But also check out senior housing, including assisted living options.

Many of them are excel-lent places that offer activi-ties and friendships.

You can visit often.Grandma undoubtedly

will complain about the change, but she will get used to it and may even come to like it. You deserve to have a life, too.

Dear Annie: Could you please inform your female readers that we are tired of seeing their behinds because they refuse to buck a fash-ion trend that has been forced on them?

I am talking about hid-eous low-cut jeans.

Unless you are model thin, it’s hard to look good in these jeans.

And if something hangs over, they’re not for you, period.

Do women have no sense anymore?

It is disgusting to see someone’s behind hanging out of their pants.

Young women have been misled to think that jeans

that sit at the natural waist and don’t show your assets are “mom jeans,” which is supposed to make them sound undesirable.

But listen up: It’s a mar-keting ploy to sell more jeans.

Women need to wake up and take a good, hard look at themselves. — Sick of See-ing It in Indy

Dear Sick: The desperate need to look young and hip afflicts a great many women, regardless of size and age. (Men, too.)

The reason marketing works is because people believe the hype. If you are convinced you look terrific with your rear end hanging out, you will continue to wear jeans that achieve that.

But we agree they are not flattering. Of course, we still can’t figure out why young men think it looks cool to have to hold up their pants with one hand because oth-erwise they would fall to their ankles. To each his own.

Dear Annie: Two years ago, we took our 10-year-old grandson, a voracious read-er, to visit the National Archives in Washington, D.C. As we proudly looked intently at the Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation Proclama-tion, my grandson looked up at me and asked, “What does it say?”

Why would the people of this country think it is worth millions of dollars to protect documents that our children cannot read?

Surely our schools can find a way to teach children to read historic documents that were carefully written in beautiful cursive writing.

And then we, the grand-parents, can go back to writ-ing birthday notes to our grandchildren. — Grandpa in South Dakota

Annie’s MAilbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your q u e s t i o n s t o anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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ARIES (March 21—April 19). If you could take care of all of your own needs, you wouldn’t have any reason to be angry at all. But you also wouldn’t have a reason to connect with others, and that’s why you’ll be happy for what you lack.

TAURUS (April 20—May 20). Of course the bull can be stubborn, but this isn’t always a bad thing. In fact, you’ll be cele-brated for that particular brand of stub-bornness called “tenacity.” Your refusal to give up will lead to a victory.

GEMINI (May 21—June 21). All things being equal, why not surround yourself with people who believe in you and like being witness to your work instead of with people who are critical and jealous?

CANCER (June 22—July 22). Everyone has triggers to anger, but mature people resist acting on them automatically. Each time you take a moment, breathe and choose your reaction wisely, you retrain your brain and raise your emotional intel-ligence.

LEO (July 23—Aug. 22). It seems like you’re making constant adjustments in order to stay on the right path, but don’t think your situation is any worse than anyone else’s. Good lives are filled with correction.

VIRGO (Aug. 23—Sept. 22). To have positive illusions of who a loved one is and will become is to be in love. Today you’ll take every opportunity you see to support your loved one’s attempts to grow and develop.

LIBRA (Sept. 23—Oct. 23). You won’t

be sure whether you’ve landed in a good place or a bad place today, but if you are lucky enough to be there with one of your favorite people, it’s heavenly either way.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24—Nov. 21). What one person considers to be a tense situa-tion might be status quo for another per-son. Today will be about testing and expanding the limits for you and your team.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22—Dec. 21). You need and enjoy relationships, but at the end of the day, you are your own person: autonomous. You don’t have to make a big deal about this now. They’ll find out sooner or later that you make your own decisions.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22—Jan. 19). The time you spend with family is precious even when it’s not all that fun, smooth, comfortable or even civil. There’s some-thing necessary in family connections, and that’s where you’ll focus tonight.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20—Feb. 18). Today’s decision—making boils down to your feelings about each choice. You can logi-cally assess the pros and cons all you want, but in the end, you’ll still make the choice that feels the best.

PISCES (Feb. 19—March 20). You’re not nitpicking or critical. You’re just calling it as you see it. You have to notice when an action is taking you in the wrong direc-tion in order to course correct.

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The Kansas FFA Alumni Auction successful raised enough money to provide 40 Kansas FFA members schol-arships to the Washington Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C.

Nine of the 40 students are members of the Chap-man FFA Chapter.

Each year Kansas FFA members apply for WLC scholarships and are ranked from one to 40 based on stu-dent, community and chap-ter involvement.

For the first time since the program began all 40-ranked members will receive either a $450 or $350 scholarship. The level of involvement of the stu-dent’s FFA alumni chapter determines the scholarship amount.

The Chapman students will each receive a $450 scholarship.

The Chapman FFA Alum-ni hosted this year’s auc-tion and had more than 10 FFA members, two FFA advisors and seven FFA alumni members who assisted in collecting more than 125 items for the auc-tion.

The Chapman FFA would like to thank the following individuals and businesses for their support: Don’s Tire, Trenton Horn, Trac-tor Supply Co. of Salina, Harley Davidson of Salina, Salina Municipal Golf Course, Tod Hettenbach, Kevin Harris, Auto Zone of Salina, Midwest Ace Hard-ware of Manhattan, B & W Trailer Hitches, Abilene Machine, Harris Crop Insurance, Abilene Con-crete, Webb Home Center, Courtyard Marriott of Sali-na, Hampton Inn of Salina, MKC of Abilene, O’Reilly’s Auto Parts of Salina and Junction City, Abilene Ani-mal Hospital, Alco, Central

National Bank, Bruna Implement, Lang Diesel, Wilbur Ellis, Tom Hemmer, Hoover Tarp Sales, Phillips Seed, Smart Insurance, Pio-neer Seed, Neal and Angie Barten, Abilene, North Cen-tral Kansas Coop, DS&O Rural Electric, Warren Wil-son Hay Inc., Abilene, Kevin Harris Farm, The Scoular Company, Holm Automo-tive, Chuck Henry Sales, Hildebrand Farms, Inc., Walter Pitts, Linda McReyn-olds, Rawhide Livestock Equipment, Rain Road Boat/RV Storage, Bert and Weta Alfalfa, Orschelns of Junction City and Salina, Waters True Value of Junc-tion City, The Appliance Center, Auto Zone of Abilene and Salina, NAPA Auto Parts of Abilene, West’s Country Mart, Lond-eens, Stalder Auto Supply, UMB Bank of Abilene, Scott and Lorie Flippo, Robson Oil Co., Central Kansas Free Fair, Solomon State Bank of Abilene, The Yard, Sheplers of Wichita, Via Christi Gift Shop, Carl’s Heating and Air, Hilton Garden Inn of Manhattan, Central National Bank, Clay Center Livestock Sales, Town and Country Veteri-nary Hospital, Cathy Fahey, M&M Tire, First Bank of Kansas, Great Plains Manu-facturing, Vanderbilts of Salina, Straub Internation-al, Symbion Inc., Mystic Hair Studio, Hair Tamers, Devin Neal, Bruce Weber, Pioneer Farm and Ranch, Jodi Mason, Blue Stem Vet Clinic, DNR Enterprises, Anna Marie Gaither, Jim Clark Auto Center, Menards of Wichita, Frisbie Con-struction, Mike and Judy Frisbie, Herington, Wyatt Thompson “Voice of the Wildcats”, Gavilon Grain and Daryl Beemer.

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Geary County Unified School District 475 has chosen an ele-mentary and secondary Kan-sas Teacher of the Year nomi-nee.

A committee of past USD 475 Kansas Teacher of the Year nominees chose Lisa Torres-

Wigton, a Junction City High School Eng-lish educator, and Jennifer Malcolm, a first grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary, as nominees for the 2015 Kansas Teacher of the Year awards.

The teachers will

represent USD 475 in Septem-ber when the 2015 Kansas Teacher of the Year will be announced.

The program is sponsored by the Kansas State Department of Education and recognizes teachers in elementary and secondary schools throughout the state.

USD 475 nominates Torres-Wigton and Malcom for Teacher of the Year

Stage auditions for parts in “Jesus Christ Superstar,” are scheduled for 6 p.m. Feb. 16 and 6:30 p.m. Feb. 17 in the C.L. Hoover Opera House rehearsal hall.

Prospective cast mem-bers can attend auditions on any of the scheduled days.

Anyone wishing to audition should come prepared to sing a pre-pared song, or learn a song from the show.

Auditioners will also learn a short choreo-graphed scene.

Director Steve Horn-baker said he is looking for roughly 49 singers.

Three would fill the role of Jesus, Judas and Mary Magdalene, six would fill the male-fea-tured parts of Herod, Caiaphas, Peter, Pontius Pilate, Simon Zealotes and Annas; and the remaining 40 would be members of the chorus.

The chorus would con-

tain the other Apostles, Apostle women, soul sis-ters, merchants, soldiers, followers, reporters and temple ladies.

For more information, contact the Junction City Little Theater office at (785) 238-3871, or email jcltsuperstar@gmail.com.

Junction City Little Theater holding auditions for April play

Submitted PhotoA team of students representing Junction City High School captured second place honors among class 6A schools at the recent Quest High School Academic Competition at Washburn University. Fifty-four teams from throughout the state participated. They also were one of 16 teams earning the highest scores and qualified to participate in the televised, single-elimination tournament filmed at KTWU studios on the Washburn campus. (Front, from left) Frank Kim, Katharine Kellogg, and Nicholas Dombrowski; (back from left) Matthew Champagne, coach Tim Hickert, and Hunter Seech.

Earl Hayter was the lone person with a January birth-day at the Geary County Senior Center for the January birthday party.

Valley View brought out the birthday cake for all those attending. Cards were played in the afternoon, pitch, bridge and pinochle.

Birthdays are celebrated the last Wednesday of each month right before lunch.

For meal reservations call 238-4015.

Cynthia Stroda, of Heri-ngton, is the February Employee of the Month at Geary Community Hospi-tal. Stroda is Dr. Rhonda Mace’s nurse in the GCH Rural Health Clinic at Geary Community Hospi-tal.

She is highly dedicated and dependable. Stroda is also a very empathetic

nurse who is able to forge positive and therapeutic relation-ships with others in even the most chal-lenging of circum-stances. She follows the Golden Rule and treats her patients the way she would like to be treated.

“Every single day

she does something above and beyond what is required that shows how much she cares about our patients,” Dr. Mace said.

Stroda prioritiz-es and organizes which keeps things flowing smoothly in the clinic for

herself, her provider and her patients. She single-handedly manages multiple duties for the office and manages to share a smile on even the most stressful of days.

Stroda received a day off with pay, a reserved park-ing place for one month and an employee of the month pin.

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MANHATTAN — Leaders and activists in the fight against hunger will convene in downtown Wichita in Feb-ruary to generate strategies and action plans for ways that college campuses can combat hunger.

The 2014 Hunger Dialogue is Feb. 25-26 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.

The event brings together individuals from across Kan-sas to build awareness, advo-cacy and action about hun-ger by sharing of research, best practices and model pro-grams.

Participants will learn strategies to combat hunger both locally and globally.

Keynote speakers are Rob-ert Egger, founder and presi-

dent of L.A. Kitchen, and Cindy Jones-Nyland, the executive vice president of marketing and resource management at Heifer Proj-ect International.

L.A. Kitchen recovers fresh food like fruits and vegetables from hospitality businesses and farms and uses them to fuel a culinary arts job training program for men and women coming out of foster care, or older men and women returning from incarceration.

Heifer Project Interna-tional links communities and helps brings sustainable agriculture and commerce to areas with a long history of poverty. The animals pro-vide communities with both

food and reliable income, as agricultural products such

as milk, eggs and honey can be traded or sold at market.

Kansans invited to take action against hunger

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Court services had been held in that building since August, when mold and water damage problems were discovered in the Sev-enth Street facility.

Questions had been raised as to whether the city had explored all of its options, including remov-ing the mold and repairing the roof of the Seventh Street building. Another option would have been to construct a new facility.

“Building brand new would have been quite cost-ly,” Assistant City Manager Cheryl Beatty said to com-missioners.

As for comparing the benefits of remodeling the Jefferson Street location or fixing up the Seventh Street building, Beatty said staff explored “all efficiencies.”

Preliminary estimates suggest remodeling the Jef-ferson Street building is the cheapest option.

Beatty added the building would be designed as a “multi-use” facility and noted its useful location across the street from the city offices.

“It is an advantage to the citizens as well as the city

staff,” she said.McCallister said he would

rather have seen more transparency throughout the decision-making pro-cess, but agreed it was the best decision.

“This will be a good use of a building that maybe has no use, other than sell-ing it for pennies to a dol-lar — and I don’t think that’s a good idea,” he said.

Commissioner Jim Sands said it would be ben-eficial for the city to see the project progress. He said nothing but the parking lot was worth saving at the Seventh Street location, which was in a state of dis-repair.

“I feel bad that we treat-ed our judge and our citi-zens who come to munici-pal court that way,” Sands said.

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problem,” she said.To promote the week, she wrote a

guest blog for a St. Louis-based ther-apist. Next week, she’s also doing in-service training at Lincoln Elemen-tary School. At the end of the month, she’s scheduled to conduct a session at Sheridan Elementary.

On a weekly basis, close to 30 chil-dren visit her office for sessions. Hol-loway meets with parents to have conversations about the needs and struggles of their children.

The majority of her referrals come from Unified School District 475 and other agencies on post.

“The collaborations with the school district and Fort Riley are essential in helping children in our community,” Holloway said. “We

deal with almost all kinds of social and emotional issues.”

Those issues may include prob-lems at school, disorders, death, depression, divorce and military deployments. Recently, she’s noticed an increase in anxiety disorders.

“In some ways, I think it’s related to the Internet,” Holloway said. “Kids are losing that valuable connection of communicating with people, with-out some kind of social media or electronic device.”

There’s a lot of play therapists who allow computers or tablets for children, but it’s not allowed in her office.

“I feel that kids get enough of that outside the office and I see that in the waiting room,” she said. “There’s enough toys that were specifically chosen to help kids.”

Holloway said it’s interesting to see children who say, “I don’t know what to do.”

“They really don’t know how to play,” Holloway said. “They want an iPad or they want to bring their DS in here. It helps them avoid the issue at hand by losing themselves in their electronic devices.”

Play therapy is often used in the mental health profession.

Currently, there are only 51 regis-tered play therapists in Kansas.

For about five years, Holloway worked as a school social worker, before beginning her own practice, Play Therapy for Children.

“It’s definitely a passion,” Hollo-way said. “There’s never a day where I wake up and don’t want to come to work.”

But there are days and times when her work can become heartbreak-ing.

“I always want to come back and do more,” she said, “It never feels like work to me. I think that I have the best job in the world.”

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“I know a lot of work goes on behind the scenes, but a lot of

folks don’t understand that a lot

of work goes on behind the scenes.”

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“It really does affect how they feel throughout the day and the amount of knowledge they accept and internalize,” Malcolm said.

She briefly discussed stu-dents as products of their environments.

“If their environment is not stimulating or providing the background knowledge that they need, how can we help catch them up in school so they can perform with their peers in school,” she said. If she would pur-sue her doctorate degree, Malcolm said her disserta-tion would focus on children and poverty.

“Universities aren’t cover-ing that very well with their classes,” Malcolm said. “Teachers need to be experi-enced to meet the needs of those students because it’s different. It’s a problem in the United States.”

She’s also involved with other training programs and grants in conjunction with Kansas State Universi-ty. The Lincoln Elementary educator said she would love to produce children’s books in the future.

“I love to write children’s books here with my class,”

she said. “They’re a great audience.”

Her husband, Zac, is a vocal music director and coaches basketball for Clay Center High School. Togeth-er they have two children. Some of her hobbies include sewing, cooking and dance choreography.

“Right now, my main hobby is being a mom, which is a lot of fun,” she said with a laugh and a smile. Malcolm comes from a family of educators and grew up in Manhattan. As a youth, she was involved with 4-H in Riley County and other activities.

After graduating from high school, Malcolm received her bachelor’s degree in education from Emporia State and her mas-ter’s in curriculum from K-State. In college, she con-templated a career in dance or cosmetology.

“I decided that my heart really was in teaching,” she said.

Principal Kathi Teeter said Malcolm is a great leader.

“She works very hard to make sure that our first graders are achieving at the highest levels,” Teeter said. “She a very upbeat and pos-itive person in our build-ing.”

Chase Jordan • The Daily UnionTeacher Jennifer Malcolm works with Holly Hallbert, a student at Lincoln Elementary School.

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Alix Kunkle • The Daily UnionStudents prepare for the first session of the Junction City High School Forensics Tournament Friday at Junction City High School. Students from districts across the region participated in a variety of struc-tured debates, including Congress and Lincoln-Douglass debates. The Junction City High School Foren-sics Tournament continues today at JCHS.

Forensics Tournament continues today

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ANKARA, Turkey — A Ukrainian man tried to hijack a Turkey-bound flight to Sochi, Russia, as the Winter Olympics were kicking off Friday, but the pilot tricked him and land-ed in Istanbul instead, where he was stealthily detained after a four-hour stand-off on a plane full of passengers, an official said.

The hijacking drama came as the Winter Olym-pics opened in the Russian resort city, with thousands of athletes from around the world pouring into the tightly secured stadium amid warnings the games could be a terrorism tar-get.

A Turkish F-16 fighter was scrambled as soon as the pilot on the Pegasus

Airlines flight from Kharkiv, Ukraine, with 110 passengers aboard signaled there was a hijacking attempt, according to NTV television. It escorted the plane safely to its original destination at Sabiha Gokcen airport in Istanbul.

Officials credited the pilot and crew for convinc-ing the 45-year-old-man, who claimed he had a bomb, that they were following his wishes.

“Through a very success-ful implementation by our pilot and crew, the plane was landed in Istanbul instead of Sochi,” Istanbul governor Huseyin Avni Mutlu told reporters at the airport. “He thought it was going to Sochi but after a while he realized that (the plane) was in Istanbul.”

He said the suspected hijacker was arrested after

a stand-off during which a negotiator convinced him to first allow women and children to be evacuated and later agreed to let all other passengers off the plane as well.

“Our security units sneaked through various entrances during the evac-uation of the passengers and with a quick and effec-tive intervention the hijack-er was subdued,” Mutlu said. No bomb was found, he said.

The man’s motive was unclear, but Mutlu said he had “requests concerning his own country” and want-ed to relay a “message con-cerning sporting activities in Sochi.” Mutlu said there was no immediate indica-tion that the man was a member of any terror orga-nization and Mutlu did not give his name.

Attempt to hijack Turkish plane to Sochi foiled

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SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 2014 • 10 amAuction will be held at the Columbian Theatre

521 Lincoln Wamego, KS 66547

TERMS: Buyer to pay 10% non-refundable earnest money day of sale. Buyers are encouraged to pre-register prior to day of sale; all Buyerswill be qualified with bank letter or verification of funds prior to being given a bid number. Closing is set for May 15, 2014. Seller reserves theright to accept or decline bids. Title policy and closing fees to be split equally between Buyer & Seller. Crossroads Real Estate &Auction, LLCis representing the Seller. Statements made day of sale take precedence over printed material.

For more information, or to schedule a tour, interested parties should call the listing broker, Barbara Torrey, at 785-456-4334.For more information, visit our website at: www.kscrossroads.com

Real Estate AuctionThe Historic Ditto-Leach House

Address: 910 W. 5th St. Wamego, KS 66547

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American Legion baseball breakfastAmerican Legion Post 45 is

holding a breakfast fundraiser today for its summer baseball program. at Post 45 on Franklin and fourth streets.

The menu includes biscuits and gravey, scrambled eggs, hash browns, and sausage.

Tickets cost $6 for adults, $3 for kids under 10.

JCMS vs. Fort RileyJunction City Middle School’s

7th grade boys basketball host-ed Fort Riley Thursday.

The JCMS ‘A’ team won 41-19 to improve to 8-0 on the season. Javonetez Brime, A.J. Divkerson, Baylor Wilkinson and Kody Westerhaus led the team with 11, 10, eight and seven points, respectively.

James Hall scored 19 points to lead the ‘B’ team to a 34-15 victory.

The 7th grade teams travel to Anthony Middle School in Man-hattan next Tuesday.

NASCAR

Kansas Speedway extends Toyota

partnershipKansas Speedway has

announced an extension of a multi-year partnership with Toy-ota that will keep the automak-er’s line of vehicles as its official pace car.

Toyota became the pace car of the two Sprint Cup races at Kansas Speedway in 2012.

The deal was announced on the same day Toyota revealed an 11-year agreement for vari-ous naming rights at revamped Daytona International Speed-way. The famous Florida track is owned by International Speed-way Corp., which also owns Kan-sas Speedway.

Kansas Speedway president Pat Warren said the partnership helps to strengthen the track’s ties to Toyota dealerships in the Kansas City area.

MLB

Royals add former player Sweeney to

front officeThe Royals have added for-

mer first baseman Mike Sweeney to their front office, giving him the title of special assistant to baseball operations.

Sweeney was a five-time All-Star for the Royals, and arguably their most popular player from 1995-2007. He was a career .297 hitter who finished with 215 homers and 909 RBIs, even though he dealt with persistent back trouble that caused him to miss long stretches of time.

It wasn’t immediately clear what Sweeney’s duties will be, though general manager Dayton Moore said in a statement that he will work closely with the baseball operations depart-ment.

Sweeney said Friday that he hopes to help Kansas City return to the playoffs, something he was unable to accomplish as a player.

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TOPEKA — There wouldn’t be overtime.

Either a miracle shot would lift Junction City past Hayden or the last second heave would fall by

the wayside, dashing the Blue Jays’ hopes.

Down 48-46 with 3.9 sec-onds left,

Junction City senior Danny Thornton inbounded the ball to a player who has experienced being both the hero and the goat this season, senior Jonathan Wilds.

He darted down the court, try-ing desperately to close as much

of the distance between himself and the bucket before launching the ball into the atmo-sphere.

As he neared half court, he checked how much — or more realisti-cally how little — time remained.

After a few more s t e p s , W i l d s put up his shot.

It hit off the front of the rim, sending Junction City

home with a loss.“We had a nice look at

the end there,” Battle said on his postgame radio spot. “It goes off the front of the rim, looked like it was on line there at the end. But there are always plays

and situations where we’re one basket away from being able to pop it open on them.”

Junction City had the ball with the game tied 46-46 and

a little over a minute remaining. After drain-

ing the clock down to a little more than 30 seconds left, guard Tanner Lueker drove

to the rim.The Hayden defense collapsed

down on him but the junior was able to kick the ball out to an open Wilds for a shot.

But it didn’t fall.“People need to remember that

this isn’t played nor is it coached by robots,” Battle said. “And kids and coaches make mistakes and it’s one of those situations, it’s a lot of pressure.”

Hayden converted on a shot down low to set up Junction City’s last second attempt.

The Blue Jays offense struggled at the outset before Wilds caught fire.

He scored seven of his 10 points in the first quarter as the teams left the first period level, 11-11.

Mark Sanchez • The Daily UnionJunction City’s Kori Kamm attempts a shot over Hayen’s Madeline Triggs Friday night in Topeka.

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TOPEKA — With her team in a hole, Junction City sopho-more Kealee Rains didn’t change her attitude.

Undeterred by early misses, she kept taking her open looks, heating up in the second and third quarter.

Rains torched Hayden for 19 points.

Ultimately, her heroics weren’t enough and Junction City lost 78-44.

“To be quite frank, she’s one that isn’t afraid to take shots,” Junction City coach Nate Parks said. “That’s one of the things we’ve been trying to work on, getting the girls confi-dence to shoot in games and that’s what we work on in practice and it’s not transfer-ring into the games as much as it should but we need to keep plugging away at it and getting people confident.”

At the start of the game, Hayden blitzed the Blue Jays with a vicious full-court press.

It forced Junction City to turn the ball over on its first five possessions of the game, giving the Wildcats a 9-0 lead before sophomore Jamia Bell put Junction City on the board.

“The injuries that we have on the team, we have some people doing some things that they’re not as experienced at,”

Parks said. “It wasn’t for lack of preparation.”

The teams finished the quar-ter playing level basketball, but the hole enabled Hayden to lead with a comfortable 10-point lead, 18-8.

Bell, sophomore Grace Craft and senior Bre Waterman each scored four points in the game.

Freshman Darja Russell scored six points in the con-test.

Rains made a string of shots in the third, with Russell and sophomore A’Kia Fain, who is fighting through an injury, finding the net as Junction City tried to stay within reach of Hayden.

But Junction City could never dig itself out of the ini-tial hole.

“One of the things I talked to them at half is that we need to really stop digging these holes for ourselves,” Parks said. “A lot of these are people doing things that are not very smart on the floor and we just need to get a little more com-petitive.”

Junction City falls to 3-10 on the season.

The Blue Jays host Topeka Seaman Tuesday.

“We just have to keep prac-ticing hard and trying to get the girls’ mental competitive-ness better and going at a fast-er speed so the transition in games isn’t as drastic,” Parks said.

Andrew Ferguson • The Associated PressKansas State’s Wesley Iwundu looks to shoot over West Virginia’s Nathan Adrian on Feb. 1 in Morgantown, W.

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MANHATTAN — Kansas State basketball coach Bruce Weber isn’t quite sure how to define team chemistry.

When he was holding a coaching clinic in Turkey a few years ago, the two interpreters of the event approached him after he used the word while speaking.

They asked Weber if he meant to give players drugs.

He fervently displaced that notion. But there is no word in the Turkish language for team chem-istry.

Weber thinks that story is a great example of how difficult it is to describe despite it being such an important aspect of the game.

“It’s something that’s there but you don’t know it until it’s not there and when it’s not there, a team can be dysfunctional,” he said at media availability Thurs-day.

No one on Kansas State (15-7, 5-4 in the Big 12 conference) is deny-ing that the opponent, No. 15 Texas (18-4, 7-2) is playing with great chemistry right now.

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SOCHI, Russia — A Russia in search of global vindica-tion kicked off the Sochi Olympics looking more like a Russia that likes to party, with a pulse-raising opening ceremony about fun and sports instead of terrorism, gay rights and coddling despots.

And that’s just the way Russian President Vladimir Putin wants these Winter Games to be.

The world’s premier athletes on ice and snow have

Russia kicks off Olympics with

hope and hubris

Matt Dunham • The Associated PressRussia’s Maria Sharapova carries the torch during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Friday.

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SCOREBOARDTV Sportswatch

Today

ATHLETICS3:30 p.m.NBCSN — New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, at Boston

GOLFnoonTGC — PGA Tour, Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, third round, at Pebble Beach, Calif.2 p.m.CBS — PGA Tour, Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, third round, at Pebble Beach, Calif.TGC — Champions Tour, Allianz Champion-ship, second round, at Boca Raton, Fla.4:30 a.m.TGC — European PGA Tour, Joburg Open, final round, at Johannesburg

MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

10 a.m.ESPNU — Morehead St. at E. Kentucky11 a.m.ESPN — Alabama at FloridanoonCBS — National coverage, Butler at George-townESPN2 — Cleveland St. at Wright St.ESPNU — Nebraska at Northwestern1 p.m.ESPN — Michigan at Iowa2 p.m.ESPN2 — Florida St. at MarylandESPNU — South Carolina at TennesseeFS1 — Providence at Xavier3 p.m.ESPN — West Virginia at Kansas4 p.m.ESPN2 — Saint Louis at La SalleFS1 — Oregon at Arizona St.5 p.m.ESPN — Duke at Boston College6 p.m.ESPN2 — Baylor at Oklahoma6:30 p.m.ESPNU — Cincinnati at SMU8 p.m.ESPN — Gonzaga at MemphisESPN2 — Wichita St. at N. Iowa8:30 p.m.ESPNU — Oklahoma St. at Texas Tech

MEN’S COLLEGE HOCKEY7 p.m.NBCSN — Maine at Notre DameMOTORSPORTS9:30 p.m.FS1 — AMA Supercross, at San Diego

SOCCER11:30 a.m.NBC — Premier League, Cardiff City at Swansea City

1:30 p.m.NBCSN — Premier League, Arsenal at Liver-pool (same-day tape)

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

11:30 a.m.FS1 — Providence at St. John’snoonFSN — Texas Tech at TCU2 p.m.FSN — Old Dominion at North Texas

WINTER OLYMPICSAt Sochi, RussiaAll events taped unless noted as LiveNBC1:30 p.m.Men’s Ski Jumping - Individual K-95 Compe-tition; Men’s Biathlon - 10km Sprint Gold Medal Final; Men’s Speedskating - 5000 Gold Medal Final; Women’s Cross-Country - Skiathlon Gold Medal Final7 p.m.Figure Skating - (Team Event: Ice Dancing Short Dance, Ladies’ Short Program); Men’s Snowboarding - Slopestyle Gold Medal Final; Women’s Freestyle Skiing - Moguls Gold Medal FinalMidnightFigure Skating - (Team Event: Pairs’ Free Skate); Men’s Luge - Singles CompetitionNBCSN8:30 a.m.Figure Skating - (Team Event: Ice Dancing Short Dance-LIVE)10 a.m.Figure Skating - (Team Event: Ladies’ Short Program-LIVE, Pairs’ Free Skate-LIVE)5 p.m.Game of the Day: Hockey2 a.m.Women’s Hockey - Sweden vs. Japan (LIVE)4:30 a.m.Men’s Cross-Country - Skiathlon Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Women’s Speedskating - 3000 Gold Medal Final (LIVE)MSNBC7 a.m.Women’s Hockey - Canada vs. Switzerland (LIVE)

Sunday

GOLFnoonTGC — PGA Tour, Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, final round, at Pebble Beach, Calif.2 p.m.CBS — PGA Tour, Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, final round, at Pebble Beach, Calif.TGC — Champions Tour, Allianz Champion-ship, final round, at Boca Raton, Fla.

HORSE RACING4 p.m.FS1 — NTRA, Donn Handicap and Gulf-stream Park Turf Handicap, at Hallandale,

Fla.

MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

noonCBS — Michigan St. at Wisconsin5 p.m.ESPN2 — UConn at UCFESPNU — Clemson at Syracuse6 p.m.FS1 — Creighton at St. John’s7 p.m.ESPNU — Washington at Colorado

NBAnoonABC — New York at Oklahoma City2:30 p.m.ABC — Chicago at L.A. Lakers

RODEO11 a.m.CBS — PBR, LiftMaster Chute Out, at Ana-heim, Calif. (same-day tape)

SOCCER1 p.m.NBCSN — Premier League, teams TBA (same-day tape)

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

noonESPN — Louisville at UConnFS1 — Creighton at DePaul1 p.m.ESPN2 — Penn St. at Ohio St.2 p.m.FS1 — Iowa St. at Texas3 p.m.ESPN2 — Oklahoma St. at BaylorWINTER OLYMPICSAt Sochi, RussiaAll events taped unless noted as LiveNBC1 p.m.Figure Skating - (Team Event Gold Medal Final: Men’s Free Skate); Women’s Biathlon - 7.5km Sprint Gold Medal Final; Women’s Speedskating - 3000 Gold Medal Final; Men’s Cross-Country - Skiathlon Gold Medal Final6 p.m.Figure Skating - (Team Event Gold Medal Final: Ladies’ Free Skate, Ice Dancing Free Dance); Men’s Alpine Skiing - Downhill Gold Medal Final; Women’s Snowboarding - Slopestyle Gold Medal Final; Men’s Ski Jumping - Individual K-95 Gold Medal Final10:35 p.m.Men’s Luge - Singles Gold Medal Final RunsNBCSN7:30 a.m.Men’s Luge - Singles Competition (LIVE)

10 a.m.Figure Skating - Team Event Gold Medal Final (LIVE)

1 p.m.Men’s Ski Jumping - Individual K-95 Gold Medal Final (LIVE)

5 p.m.Game of the Day: Hockey

3 a.m.Men’s Curling - Germany vs. Canada

5 a.m.Women’s Hockey - United States vs. Swit-zerland (LIVE)

MSNBC8 a.m.Women’s Hockey - Russia vs. Germany (LIVE)NBA

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

W L Pct GBToronto 26 23 .531 —Brooklyn 22 26 .458 3 1/2New York 20 30 .400 6 1/2Boston 18 33 .353 9Philadelphia 15 36 .294 12

Southeast Division W L Pct GBMiami 35 13 .729 —Atlanta 25 23 .521 10Washington 24 25 .490 11 1/2Charlotte 22 28 .440 14Orlando 15 37 .288 22

Central Division W L Pct GBIndiana 39 10 .796 —Chicago 24 25 .490 15Detroit 20 29 .408 19Cleveland 17 33 .340 22 1/2Milwaukee 9 40 .184 30

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W L Pct GBSan Antonio 36 14 .720 —Houston 33 17 .660 3Dallas 30 21 .588 6 1/2Memphis 26 22 .542 9New Orleans 21 27 .438 14

Northwest Division W L Pct GBOklahoma City 40 12 .769 —Portland 35 15 .700 4Denver 24 24 .500 14Minnesota 24 25 .490 14 1/2Utah 16 33 .327 22 1/2

Pacific Division

W L Pct GBL.A. Clippers 34 18 .654 —Golden State 30 20 .600 3Phoenix 29 20 .592 3 1/2L.A. Lakers 18 32 .360 15Sacramento 17 33 .340 16

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Thursday’s GamesBrooklyn 103, San Antonio 89Golden State 102, Chicago 87

Friday’s GamesOrlando 103, Oklahoma City 102Indiana 118, Portland 113, OTL.A. Lakers 112, Philadelphia 98Cleveland 115, Washington 113Boston 99, Sacramento 89Detroit 111, Brooklyn 95New York 117, Denver 90Dallas 103, Utah 81Minnesota at New Orleans, lateToronto at L.A. Clippers, late

Today’s GamesSan Antonio at Charlotte, 6 p.m.Denver at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.Memphis at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.Portland at Minnesota, 7 p.m.Houston at Milwaukee, 7:30 p.m.Golden State at Phoenix, 8 p.m.Miami at Utah, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesNew York at Oklahoma City, 12 p.m.Chicago at L.A. Lakers, 2:30 p.m.Indiana at Orlando, 5 p.m.New Orleans at Brooklyn, 5 p.m.Dallas at Boston, 5 p.m.Sacramento at Washington, 5 p.m.Memphis at Cleveland, 5 p.m.Philadelphia at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Friday’s Sports Transactions

MLBAmerican League

BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Agreed to terms with 1B Matt LaPorta on a minor league contract.CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with RHP Mitchell Boggs on a one-year con-tract. Assigned RHP Deunte Heath outright to Charlotte (IL).KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Named Mike Sweeney special assistant to baseball oper-ations. Assigned LHP Everett Teaford out-right to Omaha (PCL).

The Longhorns, winners of seven straight, are playing their best basketball as they get ready to come to Bramlage Coliseum for a game at 12:30 p.m. today.

The last time these two teams met, on Jan. 21 in Austin, the Wildcats were the ranked team on the hot streak, having won 12 of 13 games.

Since the meeting, Texas has skyrocketed up the conference standings and national rankings.

“They’re a totally different team,” senior Shane Southwell said. “Against us, it was the start of them really getting confident, even though they were doing well before us, but it seemed like after that game they really became con-fident.”

For most of the previous meet-ing, junior forward Thomas Gip-son had his way with Texas, scor-ing a career-high 24 points.

“He got (Texas forward Camer-on) Ridley moving and then he went into the post,” Weber said. “So he just didn’t sit there. I told him if it’s going to be a bear fight, even if he’s big, that dude’s bigger and you can’t just get tangled up in the middle, he’s got to keep him moving.

“And then (Ridley) got tangled up in the post and our guys got it to (Gipson) at the right time.”

But the final play of the game spoiled Gipson’s day.

With the score tied 64-64 and less than two seconds remaining on the clock, he was charged with covering Longhorn forward Jona-than Holmes.

Holmes moved to the baseline to set a screen before the ball was in play, then popped outside the arc

where he was wide open to receive the inbounds pass.

Gipson was a step late and Hol-mes drained the 3-point shot for a win.

“To be honest I kind of fell asleep and it was pretty much my fault,” Gipson said of the play. “Coach asked me what happened and I just had to tell him I fell asleep and I take the blame for that loss.”

After Texas, K-State has a quick turnaround before No. 8 Kansas comes to town.

Southwell emphasized how every game is important as the Wildcats fight for a place in the NCAA tournament.

“Before the year would you have said this was a hard stretch?” he said. “Every game is tough. It doesn’t matter. I don’t know who we play Monday, I just know we have a game Saturday against a team we lost to. We’re focused for

that.”

NOTES: Three members of the Kansas State basketball family, current coach Bruce Weber, assis-tant coach Chris Lowrey, and the Wildcats’ all-time winningest Jack Hartman, were named to the Southern Illinois University All-Century team. Hartman coached Southern Illinois from 1963-70, compiling a record of 142-64 (.689) and the 1967 NIT championship. Weber posted a 103-54 (.656) record in five seasons, including two Missouri Valley Championships and two NCAA tournament appearances. Lowrey, who also attended the school, coached the Salukis from 2005-12, guiding them to a 145-116 (.556) record, two MVC titles, one MVC tourna-ment title and three NCAA tour-nament appearances including 2007 when the team advanced to the Sweet 16.

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more to worry about than geopoli-tics as they plunge into the biggest challenges of their lives on the mountain slopes of the Caucasus and in the wet-paint-fresh arenas on the shores of the Black Sea.

But watch out for those Rus-sians on their home turf. A rau-cous group of Russian athletes had a message for their nearly 3,000 rivals in Sochi, marching through Fisht Stadium singing that they’re “not gonna get us!”

Superlatives abounded and the mood soared as Tchaikovsky met pseudo-lesbian pop duo Tatu and their hit, “Not Gonna Get Us.” Russian TV presenter Yana Chu-rikova shouted: “Welcome to the center of the universe!”

Yet no amount of cheering could drown out the real world.

Fears of terrorism, which have dogged these games since the Putin won them amid controversy seven years ago, were stoked dur-ing the ceremony itself. A passen-ger aboard a flight bound for Istan-bul said there was a bomb on board and tried to divert the plane to Sochi. Authorities said the plane landed safely in Turkey, and the suspected hijacker — who did not have a bomb — was subdued.

The show opened with an embarrassing hiccup, as one of five snowflakes failed to unfurl as planned into the Olympic rings, forcing organizers to jettison a fireworks display and disrupting one of the most symbolic moments in an opening ceremony.

That allowed for an old Soviet tradition of whitewashing prob-lems to resurface, as state-run broadcaster Rossiya 1 substituted a shot during from a rehearsal with the rings unfolding success-fully into their live broadcast.

Also missing from the show:

Putin’s repression of dissent, and inconsistent security measures at the Olympics, which will take place just a few hundred miles (kilometers) away from the sites of a long-running insurgency and routine militant violence.

And the poorly paid migrant workers who helped build up the Sochi site from scratch, the disre-gard for local residents, the envi-ronmental abuse during construc-tion, the pressure on activists, and the huge amounts of Sochi con-struction money that disappeared to corruption.

Some world leaders purposely stayed away, but U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and dozens of others were in Sochi for the ceremony. He didn’t mention the very real anger over a Russian law banning gay “propaganda” aimed at minors that is being used to discriminate against gay people.

But IOC President Thomas Bach won cheers for addressing it Fri-day, telling the crowd it’s possible to hold Olympics “with tolerance and without any form of discrimi-nation for whatever reason.”

For all the criticism, there was no shortage of pride at the cere-mony in what Russia has achieved

with these games, after building up an Olympic Park out of swamp-land. The head of the Sochi orga-nizing committee, Dmitry Cherny-shenko, captured the mood of many Russians present when he said, “We’re now at the heart of that dream that became reality.”

“The games in Sochi are our chance to show the whole world the best of what Russia is proud of,” he said. “Our hospitality, our achievements, our Russia!”

The ceremony presented the Putin’s version of today’s Russia: a country with a rich and complex history emerging confidently from a rocky two decades and now capable of putting on a major international sports event.

Putin himself was front and center, declaring the games open from his box high above the stadi-um floor. Earlier, he looked down as the real stars of the games — those athletes, dressed in winter wear of so many national colors to ward off the evening chill and a light dusting of man-made snow — walked onto a satellite image of the earth projected on the floor, the map shifting so the athletes appeared to emerge from their own country.

As always, Greece — the birth-place of Olympic competition — came first in the parade of nations. Five new teams, all from warm weather climates, joined the Win-ter Olympians for the first time. Togo’s flagbearer looked dumb-struck with wonder, but those vet-erans from the Cayman Islands had the style to arrive in shorts!

The smallest teams often earned the biggest cheers from the crowd of 40,000, with an enthusiastic three-person Venezuelan team winning roars of approval as flag-bearer and alpine skier Antonio Pardo danced and jumped along to the electronic music.

Only neighboring Ukraine, scene of a tense and ongoing standoff between a pro-Russian president and Western-leaning protesters, could compete with those cheers.

That is, until the Russians arrived.

Walking in last to a thundering bass line that struggled to over-come the ovations from the home-town crowd, the Russians reveled in all the attention. Their feeling could perhaps best be summed up by Russian singers Tatu, whose hit “Not Gonna Get Us” accompa-nied them to their seats.

Russians place huge signifi-cance in the Olympics, carefully watching the medal count — their dismal 15-medal performance in Vancouver four years ago is on the minds of many.

These games are particularly important, as many Russians are still insecure about their place in the world after the end of the Cold War and the years since that have seen dominance of the United States and China.

International politics were never far beneath the surface. One member of the VIP crowd carry-ing the Olympic flag was Anasta-sia Popova, a young televison reporter with the state-owned Rossiya TV channel, best known

for her reporting on Syria’s civil war. Putin and Russian state media have stood strongly behind Syrian President Bashar Assad, and Popova’s coverage laid the blame for the war squarely on Syr-ian rebels.

But back to that Russian pride.As Churikova rallied the crowd

to scream “louder than ever,” she told the fans in their cool blue seats their keepsakes from the night would last 1,000 years. When explaining the show would be hosted in English, French and Russian, she joked that it didn’t matter, because in Sochi, everyone “speaks every language in the world.”

Viewers of the Olympic ceremo-ny romped through the wonders of Russian cultural and scientific achievements — from Malevich’s avant-garde paintings to Leo Tol-stoy’s “War and Peace,” from Men-deleev’s periodic table of elements to the string of Soviet “firsts” in space.

Capping it all off, Russian hock-ey great Vladislav Tretiak and three-time gold medalist Irina Rodnina joined hands to light the Olympic cauldron. He’s often called the greatest goaltender of all time by those who saw him play, she won 10 world pairs figure skating titles in a row.

That was how it ended. At the top, the show — and the games — easily avoided talking about prick-ly issues even when the women in Tatu took the stage. The duo, who put on a lesbian act that is largely seen as an attention-getting gim-mick, merely held hands during their performance on this night, stopping short of the groping and kissing of their past performanc-es.

This time? Their lead-in act was the Red Army Choir MVD singing Daft Punk’s Grammy-winning “Get Lucky.”

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Jung Yeon-je • The Associated PressFormer Russian wrestler Alexander Karelin holds up the Olympic torch during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday in Sochi, Russia.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Mike Moustakas walked through the empty ballroom with such a confident swagger that it was hard to believe the Royals third baseman was coming off one of the toughest seasons of his career.

Or that he was carrying the weight of a franchise on his shoulders.

Once considered a corner-stone of Kansas City’s future, Moustakas struggled so mighti-ly last season that he was nearly sent to the minors. His playing time decreased and he became a liability at the plate, even as the Royals contended in September for the first time in a decade.

Now, with most of their key pieces back and a few signifi-cant acquisitions, the Royals are eager to take the next step by making the postseason for the first time since 1985. And if they have any hope of dethroning Detroit in the AL Central, or even challenging for a wild-card berth, Moustakas knows that he’s going to have to be more productive than a year ago.

“That’s why I worked so hard this offseason,” he said.

First, Moustakas spent a cou-ple months playing winter ball in Venezuela. Then, he returned to the U.S. and resumed work-ing with Royals hitting coach Pedro Grifol in Arizona. Along the way, he also managed to drop about 10 pounds, becoming

faster, stronger and more flexi-ble.

Oh, and he also managed to get married.

Suffice to say, it wasn’t a very restful offseason. But Mousta-kas is confident all the work will pay off with a big bounce-back year, which is why he walked through a ballroom during the club’s annual FanFest with a pronounced bounce to his step.

“I worked on all sorts of things, my swing, pitch selec-tion, different situations,” Moustakas said. “All sorts of things we could work on out there, as opposed to going into spring training to start from ground zero. I was able to get a jump on everything.”

That’s exactly what the Roy-als were hoping he would do.

“Look, we’ve got to count on

all of our young guys getting better,” general manager Day-ton Moore said. “We have to count on Moose, and we expect Moose to have a much better year.”

Moustakas made the decision to play winter ball late last sea-son, when the former first-round pick was lugging along a .233 average. He knew that there were things he could do to restore the club’s confidence in him — and his faith in himself — and that the best way to do both was to keep playing com-petitive games for as long as possible.

He wound up joining the Cardenales de Lara, which hap-pened to be managed by Grifol, allowing Moustakas a chance to work closely with his hitting coach even while in Venezuela.

The fields were a little rough. The bounces were often wacky. The crowds were passionate, if a bit small. The food, well, Mous-takas jokes that it’s one of the reasons he lost all that weight.

But the progress he made was unmistakable.

“I took about 300 swings every day before the game,” he said. “We tried to adjust a few things, but nothing too crazy, still the same swing, still try to drive the ball and do some damage. I was able to put solid contact on most every swing I took.”

That was a welcomed improvement over last season, when he got into a nasty habit of trying to pull everything to right field. The result was usu-ally weakly hit balls scooped up by the second baseman that reached first long before Mous-takas did.

“The first three or four games in Venezuela, I didn’t do so well,” Moustakas said. “I didn’t trust the process. I didn’t trust what we were doing, and I went back to my old ways. But then I was like, ‘You know what? I’m here. Let’s just do it.’ And it almost clicked.”

First baseman Eric Hosmer, one of his closest friends, said the changes have been obvious.

“I saw him about a month ago in California and he’s in great shape,” Hosmer said. “He’s real-ly done everything he could this offseason to put him in a posi-tion to succeed.”

The Royals are counting on that to put them in a position to succeed, too.

SPORTS‘Moose’ aims for bounce-back season

Charlie Riedel • The Associated PressKansas City Royals’ Mike Moustakas bats against the Chicago White Sox on Aug. 21, 2013, in Kansas City, Mo.

Trailing in the third quarter 29-26, Lueker went on a run of his own.

He was fouled heading to the rim. After sinking his first shot, he missed his second from the charity stripe.

Not deterred, Lueker chased after his rebound and put it in to tie the game 29-29.

On Hayden’s next trip down, he stole the ball and raced down the court for the layup to put Junction City in the lead.

Lueker led Junction City with 14 points in the game.

“We’re getting there,” Battle said. “We’re doing a lot of things and we’ve just got to stick with it because you just want to give yourself a chance and eventually we’re going to be on the right side of one of these two-point losses.”

Later in the third quarter, Thornton hit a 3-point shot to put Junction City back in the lead 39-36. He finished with seven points.

Senior Semaj Johnson and junior Jordan Lawrence scored six points each in the effort.

In the fourth, Junction City held a 43-41 lead. But a Hayden player was fouled while making a trey. He sank the freebie to give his team a two-point cushion, 45-43.

“(It) totally flipped the game,” Battle said. “We wanted to cover the guy because he’s such a good shooter in the corner and got a little over aggressive and he hit a shot.”

Junction City falls to 4-9 on the season.The Blue Jays travel to Emporia tonight to

make up a game that was snowed out Tues-day.

“You’ve just got to keep fighting,” Battle said. “And we’re one of those teams where, I’m sure we’d like to roll it out on some team by 20 but we’re a grind it out kind of team, bucket by bucket, it’s just who we are as an identity. I’m banking on us to win the one when it counts.”

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The City of Junction City announces the following job opening:(013014B)

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set up for scheduled activities, monitoring the facil-ity during hours of operation, public relations, & security of the facility. Supervises part time staff. Basic first-aid training and CPR certification preferred. Hours include mornings, evenings, weekdays and weekends year round. Must be flexible and highly responsible. Salary - $12.50/hour.

APPLICATION MUST BE SUBMITTED ON-LINE TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION.

Applications accepted until Friday, February 14, 2014 Application link available at www.junctioncity-ks.gov on the “How Do I?” page or at www.hrepartners.com.

Questions? Please contact Joleen Schnurr @ 785-238-3103 X112.

The City of Junction City is an equal opportunity employer.

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Kansas state University

Kansas State University is an EOE/AA, VPE employer that encourages diversity among its employees. Background check required.

Additional information regarding the requisition numbers, salary, closing date and position summary is available at the Employment Services web site at www.ksu.edu/hr

• Employment Services job line: (785) 532-6271• Kansas State University Division of Human Resources, 103 Edwards Hall, Manhattan, KS• The Manhattan Workforce Center located at 205 S. 4th Street, Manhattan, KS Submit: Application online and other required material for each vacancy by 5:00 pm on the closing date.

Announces the following Positions:Administrative Specialist • Buildings System Technician

Veterinary Tech. I or Veterinary Tech. II or Veterinary Specialty Tech. - 2 Positions Public Programming/Performance Tech.

Accountant III • Printing Service CoordinatorSr. Assist. Animal Health Officer - 2 Positions

Announcements 330 C.O.O.S.

Invites you to meet atThe Fountain for food and fellow-

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Lost & Found 350 LOST: German Shepherd from 1111Grant Ave. I f found cal l785-761-2628. Reward.

Help Wanted 370

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CNA’sCNA’s PT or PRN

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Golden Living, Wakefield 785-461-5417 EOE

Academic AdvisorAcademic Advisor, Kansas StateUniversitY, Manhattan, KS, Collegeof Education; seeks applicants withMA/MS.!For more information on po-sition description and application pro-cedures, please go to the followingw e b s i t e :http://coe.ksu.edu/about/employ-ment/index.html EOE. Backgroundcheck required.

B&B BUSINGHiring bus drivers

for daily routes.Experienced preferred

•Alcohol and drug testing•Paid holidays

•25 years old and older•$13.25/hour or more depending on

expericence.•Raise after 90 days2722 Gateway Court

238-8555Call for apppointment

EOE

CNA/WARD CLERK, Med SurgDept. Full-Time, Includes every otherweekend. Kansas certification re -quired. Must have excellent cus -tomer service skills, be a teamplayer, and able to communicate well- verbally and in writing. Excellentbenefits package. Great team atmos-phere. Apply to: Memorial HealthSystem, Human Resources Dept.,511 NE 10th Street, Abilene, KS67410 or complete online applicationat: www.caringforyou.org.

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ADVERTISEMENT2014 Articulating Front End

LoaderCity of Junction City, Kansas

Sealed bids will be received by theCity Clerk’s office until 10:00 AM onthe 20th day of February, 2014 for2014 Articulating Front EndLoader . Bids may be mailed or de-livered to the City Clerk’s Office inthe Municipal Building, 7th and Jef-ferson, Junction City, Kansas. Ques-tions concerning this solicitation shallbe directed to Ray Ibarra, Director ofPublic Works, (785)-238-7142 oremail ray.ibarra@jcks.com.

Specifications may be obtained fromthe City Clerk’s office, MunicipalBuilding, 7th and Jefferson, JunctionCity, Kansas or online via the City ofJunction City website www.junction-city-ks.gov.

The City reserves the right to rejectany or all bids or any portion of anybid or to waive informality in the bid.

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Sealed bids will be received by theCity Clerk’s office until 10:30 AM onthe 20th day of February 2014 forSanitation Carts and Dumpsters.Bids may be mailed or delivered tothe City Clerk’s Office in the Munici-pal Building, 7th and Jefferson, Junc-tion City, Kansas. Questions con -cerning this solicitation shall be di-rected to Ray Ibarra, Director of Pub-lic Works, (785)-238-7142 or emailray.ibarra@jcks.com.

Specifications may be obtained fromthe City Clerk’s office, MunicipalBuilding, 7th and Jefferson, JunctionCity, Kansas or online via the City ofJunction City website www.junction-city-ks.gov.

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Sealed bids will be received by theCity Clerk’s office until 11:00 AM onthe 20th day of February 2014 for2014 Sanitation Truck. Bids maybe mailed or delivered to the CityClerk’s Office in the Municipal Build-ing, 7th and Jefferson, Junction City,Kansas. Questions concerning thissolicitation shall be directed to RayIbarra, Director of Public Works,( 785 ) -238 -7142 o r ema i lray.ibarra@jcks.com.

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Public Notices 310 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OFGEARY COUNTY, KANSAS

(Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60)

Case No. 14 DM 107

In the Matter of the Marriage ofNICHOLAS CELESTE

andIMELDA LOPEZ CELESTE

NOTICE OF SUIT

STATE OF KANSAS to IMELDALOPEZ CELESTE, and all other per-sons who are concerned:

You are hereby notified that a Peti-tion has been filed in the DistrictCourt of Geary County, Kansas byNICHOLAS CELESTE, praying for adivorce from you, a division of allproperty, whether individually orjointly owned, over which the Courtnow has, or may acquire, jurisdictionand for other related relief. You arehereby required to plead to the peti-tion on or before the 24th day ofMarch, 2014, in the District Court ofGeary County, Kansas. If you fail toplead, judgment and decree will beentered in due course upon the peti-tion. NICHOLAS CELESTE PETITIONER

WALTER P. ROBERTSON,CHARTERED910 South WashingtonJunction City, Kansas 66441(785)762-3333(785)762-3220 (Fax)Attorney for Petitioner

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Early Childhood Educator Needed for K-State Department

Assistant Teacher: The K-State Center for Child Development, a nationally accredited early childhood program, is looking for a highly dedicated and enthusiastic Infant/Toddler Assistant Teacher-Support Staff. This position is full-time, 12-months term. Pay rate: $8.32- $11.18 per hour.

Excellent Benefits including Health, Dental, Life insurances, flexible spending account, sick and vacation leave, K-State tuition assistance for self, spouse & dependents, staff childcare discount, and excellent retirement plan.

Ability to pass KBI Background Check, Physical and TB Test required. Minimum Qualifications: High School Diploma with 3 months experience caring for Infant or Toddlers orChild Development Associate (CDA) Preferred: Center Based Child Development Associate Credential or AA in ECE.

Screening starts February 13, 2014 and will continue until position is filled.

Send application, letter of interest, transcripts and 3 work related references to: 1 Jardine Drive, Manhattan, KS 66506. Questions call Ashley Lignitz at 785-532-2958 or email ccdjobs@ksu.edu. A criminal background check will be required for the candidates selected for hire. EOE

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Geary Community Hospital maintains a tobacco-free campus andgives hiring preference to non-tobacco users.

Geary Community Hospital is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Geary Community Hospital in Junction City is seeking a dynamic Marketing and Public Relations Specialist to join our team. This person will work with the director, senior management, as well as program and department managers to develop and carry out day-to-day marketing and public relations activities that promote a positive image of the hospital, its services, and its staff in support of the organization’s strategic needs and goals.

• Bachelor’sdegreefromanaccreditedcollegeoruniversityinmarketing,publicrelations,journalism,orrelatedfieldrequired.

• Musthavestrongcommunicationsskills.

Noxious Weed & RecyclingAssistant Trainee PositionThis position involves skilled workprimarily in noxious weed control, roadsidevegetation management, household

hazardous waste and recycling management operations. A secondary amount of time will be spent working with Road and Bridge Division as needed.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:* High School Diploma or GED.* Some work experience in outside, labor or skilled labor type position.* Ability to undergo training and pass certification coursework. Pay will be increased upon passing required coursework.* Valid Kansas Class A or B CDL driver’s license.* Willingness to reside within a 30 mile radius of worksite within 90 days of employment.

This position is a safety sensitive position and will besubject to drug and alcohol screening before employment and randomly during employment.Geary County offers a comprehensivecompensation package of salary and benefits.

Online application preferred and is available at:www.hrepartners.com

If unable to complete online application, obtain a paperapplication and supplemental questions from:

Geary County Human Resources200 E. 8th, Room 123

Junction City, KS 66441785-238-5700

Or: www.geary.kansasgov.com

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This full time position requires a High School or GED diploma, a valid driver’s license, must pass an exten-sive background check and strive in providing excellent service to the public.

AN APPLICATION MUST BE SUBMITTED ON-LINE TO BE CONSIDERED.

Applications accepted until March 5, 2014. Application link available at www.junctioncity-ks.gov on the “How Do I?” page or at www.hrepartners.com.

A written exam will be given on Saturday, March 8, at the Police Dept. 210 E 9th arrive by 7:45 for test at 8am.

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PRIOR TO TAKING THE WRITTEN EXAM at JC Workforce Center 785-762-8870.

Questions? Please contact Joleen Schnurr @ 785-238-3103.

The City of Junction City is an equal opportunity employer.

The City of Junction City announces the following job opening:

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If you are energetic and have the desire to be a leader in our industry, then you are the nurse for us. Licensure in the state of Kansas is required. Sign-on bonus for full time employment will be discussed during interview.

Our ideal nurse must have strong leadership, management, and long term care experience. Current

opportunities are for one FT weekend RN on our Health Center and one FT LPN on our Assisted Living. Valley

View Senior Life is an equal opportunity employer. We look forward to having you become

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Media SalesExperienced independent media sales representative needed. The ideal candidate will be highly motivated and responsible to sell digital and printed advertising products and services. The Digital Media Executive will contact established customers throughout the Flint Hills region to sell digital packages comprised of online ads, websites and social media ads. The position includes: cold calling, prospecting and follow-up service after the sale. We are seeking a sales professional that thinks out of the box and has the ability to establish relationships in person and over the phone. The qualifications should also include superior closing skills, excellent organizational and time management skills and proficient with Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, and the Internet. This is a commission only position with approved expenses.

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The City of Junction City announces the following job opening:(013014a)

Must be 16 years of age and the position requires an extensive background check and strives in providing excellent service to the public.

Spin City Clerk: Part time position. Responsible for selling

items, taking inventory, keeping records and customer service. Hours vary (10-20 per week) Salary - $7.25/hr

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Job Opportunities:• Environmental Services Associates • Physical Therapist• Licensed Practical Nurse

Help Wanted 370 Help Wanted 370 HIRING FULL TIME & part timecook. Apply in person at Ikes Place,100 NW 14th, Abilene.

EXPERIENCED HVAC & APPLI -ANCE service person. Must have ex-perience. 785-258-3355 Herington.

Accessible Home Health, Inc. hiringLPNs for PT in-home pediatric care.!New grads encouraged to apply.!Weekly pay.! Email resume to ac -cessjennifer1@gmail.com or call785-493-0340.! EOE

Help Wanted 370 Cleaning person needed to join ourteam. Experienced, responsible, reli-able, must have valid license. Applyat 902 N. Washington

B&B Busing is now hiring transporta-tion monitors for Headstart routes.Obtain job description from B&BBusing, 2722 Gateway Court. Junc-tion City. 238-8555. EOE

Help Wanted 370 BAYER CONSTRUCTION

COMPANY, INC.An Employee Owned Company

Bayer Construction Company, Inc. isexpanding its operations into asphaltand concrete paving. We are lookingfor full-time candidates with experi-ence in all phases of asphalt andconcrete paving operations. Womenand minorities are encouraged to ap-ply. Applications will be acceptedthrough February 28, Monday-Fri-day, 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM at our office,120 Deep Creek Road, Manhattan,KS (785)776-8839. Applications arekept on file for 30 days. Bayer Con-struction is an Equal OpportunityEmployer.

Full Time Manufacturing OperatorVentria Bioscience, Junction City, islooking for a full time ManufacturingOperator to manufacture productsutilizing chromatography, filtration,microfiltration and freeze dryingequipment in a safe manner. Previ-ous manufacturing experience in achemical or pharmaceutical plant isdesirable but is not required. Salarywill be commensurate on experi -ence. Please email resume and acover letter to jrigg@ventria.com.No phone calls please.

Help Wanted 370

RNPT 6a-6p every other weekend - FT 6p-6a

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Musical Instruments 440 Keys to Their Heart Piano Sale!Over 120 pianos specially pricednow thru Feb. 15! Mid-America Pi-ano, Manhattan. 800-950-3774. pi-ano4u.com.

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Life arts : books : entertainment : home The Daily Union. Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014

February is Black His-tory month and as I was looking through

our files for ideas, I ran across an interesting arti-cle that Marilyn Heldstab, former director of the Geary County Historical Society, published many years ago.

It is the story of a former slave and Junction City pio-neer, Jack Turner.

It is such an interesting account that I thought we should tell it again.

Mr. Turner’s story first appeared in the Junction City Union on Feb. 27, 1934.

Mr. Jack Turner tells the story of his life and how he came to Junction City.

“I was born in the Ozark Mountain is 1844. This area was slave territory and I was to be under Fleetwood’s care until I was 21, when I was to be freed and receive an inheritance.”

“I was kidnapped when I was 12 years old, I remem-ber exactly what happened. I had covered corn all day long, and in the evening they told me if I would cross the creek I could ride home.”

“It was nearly a mile from home, so I waded across and a Mr. Adams took me up behind him on his horse. He started out in the wrong direction, but when I told him he was going the wrong way, he

said he was going home by way of Bald Knob.

“We rode all night and he kept whoopin’ like an owl. Finally a man came up in answer to his signal, and I was put up behind him on his horse. Next morning we got to Springfield, Mo. His wife asked me why the Fleetwoods wanted to get rid of me, but I told her I didn’t know.

“Turner was then taken to St. Louis where he stayed about a day and a night. From there he and his cap-tor went by steamboat to Memphis, Tenn. From Memphis he was taken to Okolona, Chickasaw Coun-ty, Miss.

“At Okolona I landed in Mr. Whittaker’s hands.

“We went to the Missis-sippi bottoms. We put up a crop and in the fall we went up to the hills again. There we went to Mobile Ala. and Mrs. Hodges (Mr. Whittak-er’s daughter) put me in a hotel to cook. I stayed there about six months and then she put me in a livery stable for about six months.”

After returning to Okolo-

na Turner was the coach-man and house boy. He drove the barouche for the next four years.

“The whole crowd of us was taken to the salt works in Alabama for about a year. The war was pressin’ so they made the salt work-ers build breastworks. After about three weeks we went back to the salt works. Then the whole bunch (about 20 of us) returned to Okolona. We put in two crops. Then Mrs. Hodge’s father died, and her husband took charge of us.

“In the spring of 1866 he came out on the porch one day and told us we were free.

“After the war was over Mrs. Hodges and I were in Memphis for two years, then she went back to Okolona. Like a gump, I went over to Arkansas. She told me not to, but I went anyway. I went over with a man named Williamson to kill hogs.

“I came back but went again to help in the apple orchard. I was plowing around the trees in the orchard when I struck one twice with a single-tree of the plow.

“He warned me to be more careful, but I told him I couldn’t help doing it unless someone held the single-tree for me. It hap-pened again, and slamming

the plow down, I hurried to the ferryboat landing just as the boat was leaving. Williamson rode up and motioned for the boat to come back, but it kept going.

“In Memphis again, Turner worked for a lum-ber company until he wrote to Mrs. Hodges now left a widow with her two chil-dren, Sallie and John. Mrs. Hodges immediately sent him $5 and his fare to Okolona.

“She’d sent for me every-where I went, Turner said. She’d send for me to come home even if I was just a runaway.”

In 1868, Colonel Streeter of Junction City married the young widow. She brought her family and ser-vants with her when she moved to Junction City. Jack came with them.

In 1871 Jack married his wife Martha, who had come to Kansas with her parents as part of the “Exodusters” immigration following the Civil War.

He states “I raised 10 children to manhood and womanhood. They’re all married now and I was married 58 years and eight months.” Martha Turner’s obituary shows that she passed in January of 1929.

Turner worked as a freight driver for Streeter for many years. He would

transport government sup-plies across the plains. He made his last trip in 1870.

He also worked as the foreman of the Streeter farm between Junction City and Fort Riley. Turner remembers many interest-ing tales from his life in early Junction City. “Straw rides were popular at that time and groups of people would ride in straw wagons to country dances. Turner would often ride a mule and drive the other three mules hitched to the wagon. One day someone else who was driving the barouche went under a black jack limb growing over the road, and the top of the cab was knocked off.” Turner remembers, “That man never drove again.

“In the times before paved highways, cord way rails were used as bridges over the swamps between Junction City and Fort Riley. Jack would drive over these rails day or night, and Mrs. Streeter always said she was never nervous when he was driv-ing.”

Turner recounts about his life as a slave but states that “he had never lived in the heart of the plantation section, so never had to endure the hardships of some slaves.

“Mrs. Hodges treated us nice. Her servants were

treated just as nice as other people. They always had Sunday clothes for church and he father never allowed anyone to look bad at slaves.”

“Mrs. Streeter often told Turner that she could depend upon him to do what was right. He drove the family to Fort Riley to attend the wedding of Colo-nel Forsythe’s daughter. Then the footman got drunk. Jack stayed sober, because he knew he had to drive home.”

Turner remembers a rid-ing horse owned by Mr. Streeter. “That horse could step over the steps of the stile just like a person.”

Turner recounts that he, “drove the buggy and car-riage teams from the time I needed a box to stand on to harness the horses. He also acted as a butler in the Streeter house.”

Turner looks upon his life in Junction City with the Streeter family as “the happiest day of his life, and often recalls to chance lis-teners the hospitality of this bit of old south trans-planted to the western plains.”

Jack Turner passed away Sept. 12, 1937 at the age of 93.

Jamie martin-Clark is the Director of Programs and Education at Geary County Historical Society

The life of Junction City slave Jack Turner

Jamie martin-ClarkMuseum Musings

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Arts & EntErtAinmEnt2C The Daily Union. Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014

By Sally Jardine

Special to the Daily Union

Art is the spark of sur-prise that gives joy to the day. It is a particular shade of blue where you only expected gray, or a golden note coming out of a trum-pet when you are walking down the steps to the sub-way.

Art is someone trying to bring beauty under con-trol.”

Forty years ago, some enterprising Junction Cit-ians tried to do just that: get control of the arts in our area and present them to their town for the enjoy-ment of all.

The Junction City Arts Council was a brave, new enterprise and its mission was bringing art and art-ists into public view.

After lots of ground-work, the articles of incor-poration were signed by Charles Neale, Jolana Montgomery-Matney and Lee Howe on Feb. 14, 1974.

Forty years later, we find our town bursting with art and artists.

If you walked the Dec. 13, 2013 Art Walk, you saw many fine local artists, including Freal Frazier and his amazing bowls and containers made from a variety of Kansas-grown woods. Ninety-year-old Flora Milani Alsop came here from Italy after World War II and painted both her native and her adop-tive landscapes.

Craig Greene presented his rich-hued multimedia pieces, and Ortrud Hauptli showed her gorgeous col-orful batik works.

Several other artists participated with paint-ings, photography, jewelry designs, and wooden fig-ures.

The children’s choir sang, the high school orchestra played, and this year we even had a doll-maker exhibiting.

Our job, as the Arts Council, is to provide events for the public and the artists to intersect.

Today’s Arts Council Board is a hard-working group, continuing the work of the “founding par-ents” because 40 years of care and concern shall not be wasted.

We receive no public funds – let me repeat, no public funds — from taxes, only the support that we can find in our community and from our loyal mem-bership.

We have no employees, just happy volunteers who host art classes for pre-school kids, Kindergarten through fifth grade kids, and adults.

We host birthday par-ties, tipsy easel art par-ties, and artist shows.

We sponsor Brown Bag concerts for grade school musicians in the spring and Art Walks in the fall.

This year our plans include a car show, a tal-ent show, and an art explo-sion, and several murder mystery dinners.

We are far from fin-ished.

As the new president of the group, I am searching out ways to link art expe-riences with the people of our town.

If art is the spark of sur-prise, then each of our city roundabouts holds a sur-prise for the motorist.

The South Washington roundabout has a fine obe-lisk donated by the Waters family, and depicting the sacrifice of soldiers.

At the east end of Chest-nut Street we see a full-size Native American in bronze raising aloft a buf-falo skull.

This great piece was donated by the Walker family and every time I drive by, I muse that per-haps a man actually stood in that spot centuries ago and lifted up an animal skull in gratitude for a successful hunt.

Public art is a passion of mine since moving here from Chicago many years ago.

In big cities you can turn a corner and often see a statue, a fountain, a bit of mosaic work or stained glass, which someone once called “stained light.”

Most often these pieces of beauty are unsigned and uncredited but they provide a smile or a lifted eyebrow or an inspiration to the hurried passerby.

We at the Arts Council want Junction City to have more of those smiles and lifted eyebrows and inspir-ing moments.

And we will work hard toward that goal. Please partner with us by attend-ing this year’s events.

For our first event of the year, the Junction City Arts Council invites you to the 40th anniversary Sweetheart Dinner Feb. 14 at the C.L. Hoover Opera House, located at the cor-ner of Seventh and Jeffer-son streets.

A cocktail reception begins at 5:30 p.m., and dinner begins at 6 p.m. Our chef will be Vangie Henry, former owner of the Kirby House.

For tickets, contact the Opera House Box Office at (785) 238-3906.

JC Arts Council provides 2014

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BURBANK, Calif. — Jay Leno said farewell to “The Tonight Show” once before, but that turned out to be just a rehearsal.

On Thursday, Leno is stepping down for the second and presumably last time, making way for successor Jimmy Fallon in New York. When Leno gave up the venerable show to short-lived host Conan O’Brien in 2009, he did a prime-time NBC come-dy series before reclaiming “Tonight” in 2010.

This time, Leno’s out the door.“When we left in ‘09 we were going

to the 10 o’clock show, so there wasn’t the same sort of finality to it,” said “Tonight” executive producer Debbie Vickers as the program counted down toward its last taping in its longtime studio in Burbank, Calif.

On Thursday afternoon, the set-ting outside the studio in Burbank’s so-called Media District was more fit-ting of a funeral than a bon voyage party. As rain drizzled off and on, cars carrying Leno’s final audience members filed past the studio gates.

The fenced off area where Tonight Show audiences usually line up remained empty throughout the day. Next to the soundstage where “The Tonight Show” is taped, a giant white tent had been erected, presumably the setting for Leno’s send-off party.

Outside the tent were rows of white flowers, as well as a few of Leno’s vintage cars.

“It’s going to be difficult to not come in and do a show every day for our audience who has been so great to Jay,” lamented Vickers, the execu-tive producer. “And also hard for this group of people (the staff) who have all been together for 22 years,” said Vickers, who worked on Johnny Car-son’s “Tonight” before taking the top job with Leno.

Leno, 63, said he plans to continue playing comedy clubs, indulging his passion for cars and doing such TV work as comes his way — other than hosting on late-night.

“It’s been a wonderful job. This is the right time to leave,” he said last week, and make way for the next generation.

Fallon, 39, starts his “Tonight” Feb. 17, with NBC hoping he rides the promotional wave of its Winter Olympics coverage the next two weeks.

Billy Crystal was set to help close out Leno’s run, the second-longest for a “Tonight” host next to Carson’s 30 years. The actor-comedian was Leno’s first guest in 1992, and Leno told him he wanted him to be his final one.

Garth Brooks will appear as well, along with surprises being kept under wraps. The 2009 farewell ended

with Leno filling the stage with the many children born to the longtime staffers of “Tonight,” an indication of the pride Leno takes in being a loyal boss.

How can he top that?“In the last segment, Jay will say

goodbye to our viewers,” Vickers said. “He has some closing thoughts he’s putting together.”

During his 2009 finale, Leno showed some of his favorite comedy bits and made cracks about favorite subjects, including former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and NBC, the network that shuffled him around. James Taylor, the only fea-tured celebrity, performed “Sweet Baby James.”

Leno’s late-night competitors aren’t stepping aside for his final bow.

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel, who was harshly critical of Leno when O’Brian lost “Tonight,” has the A-list cast of the new film “The Monu-ments Men,” including George Cloo-ney, Matt Damon and Bill Murray.

On CBS, David Letterman’s “Late Show” will continue its musical trib-utes to the upcoming 50th anniver-sary of The Beatles’ appearance on CBS’ “The Ed Sullivan Show.” Sean Lennon, son of the late John Lennon, will perform a Beatles tune with The Flaming Lips.

After 22 years, Leno bids farewell to ‘Tonight’

Associated PressPresident Barack Obama laughs during an interview with host Jay Leno on NBC’s “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” Oct. 12, 2012, in Burbank, Calif.

By The Associated Press

NEW YORK — NBC comes close to gold in deliv-ering the Winter Olympics online from Sochi, Russia.

Although NBC has scaled back on a few fronts compared with previous years —and still refuses to show the opening ceremo-nies live — things have improved considerably since 2000, when online “video” meant still images grabbed from NBC’s video feeds.

Fast forward to the Lon-don Summer Games in 2012, when every single competition and medal cer-

emony was available live.NBC has extended that

to the Sochi games, which began Thursday. Every sport is available live at NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports Live Extra apps for Apple, Android and Windows Phone devic-es — the Windows version just arrived Tuesday. By contrast, during the previ-ous Winter Games, NBC largely limited live video to curling and ice hockey.

On Thursday, I was able to watch the short program in team figure skating shortly after 10:30 a.m. EST, or 7:30 p.m. in Sochi.

NBC didn’t make me wait until its television broad-cast in the evening. By then, I might have learned of results from Facebook or the multitude of web-sites offering non-video coverage. The day’s cover-age actually began at 1 a.m. EST. with qualification rounds in men’s slopestyle. It’s a form of snowboard-ing in which skiers display technical skills and cre-ativity as they maneuver down a slope peppered with jumps and rails they must slide across.

I know that because NBC had a short video explain-

ing the sport.Of course, I didn’t actu-

ally get up at 1 a.m. to watch the Olympics. That would be crazy. Instead, my alarm went off at 4 a.m. Less crazy.

I didn’t make it out of bed until closer to 5 a.m., though, when qualification rounds for women’s slope-style began.

It’s unfortunate that NBC doesn’t allow me to watch from the beginning. I have to catch the live stream in progress, the way television worked before digital video record-ers came along.

NBC Olympics online deserves silver medal

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HARDCOVER FICTION

1. “The Invention of Wings” by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking Adult)

2. “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown)

3. “First Love” by James Patter-son and Emily Raymond (Little, Brown)

4. “Still Life with Bread Crumbs” by Anna Quindlen (Random House)

5. “Sycamore Row” by John Grisham (Doubleday)

6. “The First Phone Call from Heaven” by Mitch Albom (Harper)

7. “Command Authority” by Tom Clancy (Putnam Adult)

8. “Cross My Heart” by James Patterson (Little, Brown)

9. “Standup Guy” by Stuart Woods (Putnam Adult)

10. “An Officer and a Spy” by Robert Harris (Knopf)

11. “Fear Nothing” by Lisa Gard-ner (Dutton)

12. “Under the Wide and Starry Sky” by Nancy Horan (Ballantine)

13. “The Longest Ride” by Nicho-las Sparks (Grand Central Publish-ing)

14. “The Husband’s Secret” by Liane Moriarty (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)

15. “The Gods of Guilt” by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. “Duty” by Robert M. Gates (Knopf)

2. “The Love Playbook” by La La Anthony (Penguin)

3. “Super Shred” by Ian K. Smith (St. Martin’s Press)

4. “Killing Jesus” by Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard (Henry Holt)

5. “Things That Matter” by Charles Krauthammer (Crown Forum)

6. “Soul Healing Miracles” by Zhi Gang Sha (BenBella)

7. “The Doctor’s Diet” by Travis Stork (Bird Street Books)

8. “David and Goliath” by Mal-colm Gladwell (Little, Brown)

9. “The Doctor’s Diet” by Travis Stork (Bird Street Books)

10. “The Daniel Plan” by Rick Warren (Zondervan)

11. “Grain Brain” by David Perl-mutter (Little, Brown)

12. “George Washington’s Secret Six” by Brian Kilmeade (Sentinel)

13. “The Pound a Day Diet” by Rocco DiSpirito (Grand Central Pub-lishing)

14. “I Am Malala” by Malala Yousafzai (Little, Brown)

15. “Wheat Belly 30-Min. (or Less!) Cookbook” by William Davis (Rodale)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS

1. “Until the End of Time” by Danielle Steel (Dell)

2. “Home to Seaview Key” by Sherryl Woods (Harlequin MIRA)

3. “The Witness” by Nora Rob-erts (Jove)

4. “A Man’s Heart” by Debbie Macomber (Mira)

5. “Silencing Eve” by Iris Johans-en (St. Martin’s Press)

6. “The Eye of God” by James Rollins (Harper)

7. “NYPD Red” by James Patter-son and Marshall Karp (Vision)

8. “Protector” by Diana Palmer (Harlequin)

9. “Wild About Harry” by Linda Lael Miller (Harlequin)

10. “Unseen” by Karin Slaughter (Dell)

11. “Cider Brook” by Carla Neg-gers (Mira)

12. “The Night Before” by Lisa Jackson (Kensington/Zebra)

13. “Marriage Between Friends” by Debbie Macomber (Mira)

14. “Up From the Grave” by Jeaniene Frost (Avon)

15. “Big Sky Secrets” by Linda Lael Miller (Harlequin)

TRADE PAPERBACKS1. “Deadline” by Sandra Brown

(Grand Central Publishing)2. “Lone Survivor” by Marcus

Luttrell (Back Bay Books)3. “A Week in Winter” by Maeve

Binchy (Anchor)4. “The Monuments Men” by

Robert M. Edsel (Back Bay Books)5. “Life After Life” by Kate Atkin-

son (Back Bay Books)6. “Four Blood Moons” by John

Hagee (Worthy)8. “Winter’s Tale” by Mark Hel-

prin (HMH/Mariner)

Best-sellers

February is the month for lovers, whether those with a twinkle

in their eye and a song in their heart or those who just love their libraries.

Readers can celebrate both Valentine’s Day and Library Lovers Month by borrowing or buying a romance title and reading it with a passion.

According to the Romance Writers of Amer-ica (RWA), romance fiction is smart, fresh and diverse.

Whether you enjoy con-temporary dialogue, his-torical settings, mystery, thrillers or any number of other themes, there’s a romance novel waiting for you.

To qualify as a member of the romance genre, titles must contain two basic ele-ments, a central love story and an emotionally-satisfy-ing and optimistic ending.

They may have any tone or style, be set in any place or time, and have varying levels of sensuality.

These settings and dis-tinctions of plot create spe-cific subgenres within romance fiction such as Contemporary, Historical, Inspirational, Paranormal, and Romantic Suspense.

RWA’s awards program, the RITA, recognizes accomplishment in each of these areas.

Included among the 2013 winners were respectively The Way Back Home by Barbara Freethy, A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean, Against the Tide by Elizabeth Cam-den, Shadow’s Claim by Kresley Cole, and Scorched by Laura Griffin.

In addition, the RITA also offer the Nora Roberts

Lifetime Achievement Award which is given to a living author in recogni-tion of significant contri-butions to the romance genre.

To qualify for the award, the recipient’s career in romantic fiction must span a minimum of 15 years and they must in some way continue to promote the romance genre, teach romance in fiction, or pub-lish romantic fiction.

The 2013 winner of this prestigious award was Mary Jo Putney, a best-selling author with more than 29 books published since 1987.

Her stories are noted for their psychological depth and unusual subject mat-ter which have also earned her two other Rita awards and nine nominations.

She is also on the RWA honor roll for best-selling authors.

Putney’s award placed her name on a list of dis-tinguished writers that also includes Brenda Jack-son, Sharon Sala, Debbie Macomber, Alison Hart, Vicki Lewis Thompson, Linda Lael Miller, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Linda Howard, and many others since it was first launched in 1983.

This list makes a great guide for choosing your romantic read, narrowing the field to recent titles written by the best of

the best.The group also offers a

centennial award to authors upon publication of their 100 romantic novel, a media award for the arti-cle that appears in print or in another medium that best depicts the romance genre in a positive light, and an industry award to someone in romance pub-lishing.

In addition, awards for the librarian and the book-seller of the year are also given annually.

This library holds many a romance novel, most of which have been read by hundreds of fans.

Among the old standbys are print titles by such authors as Victoria Holt, Iris Johansen, Jayne Ann Krentz, Karen Robards, and LaVyrle Spencer. Ebooks are also now avail-

able by the likes of Kristin Hannah, Beverly Lewis, Diana Palmer, Kate Perry, and Beth Wiseman.

Romance titles are also available for sale in the Friends of the Library’s daily book sale.

This is a treasure trove of titles of all genres that are in great condition and reasonably priced.

In addition to finding a great read, this is also an opportunity for patrons to

add to the Friends coffers and show their love for their library.

Stop by the library or visit the website this month and check out a romance title.

You may find your next author crush as well as your next book to love.

SuSan Moyer is the Library Director at Dorothy Bramlage Public Library

February love is in the air with books

SuSan MoyerLibrarian’s report Carla Cassidy

Maureen ChildMarie FerrarellaRuth Glick Heather GrahamPenny JordanJayne Ann KrentzDebbie MacomberSusan MalleryAnne MatherLinda Lael MillerCarole MortimerNora RobertsVicki Lewis ThompsonRebecca Winters

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By The Associated Press

DALLAS — As part of an Allied mission tasked with saving works of art during World War II, a home-sick James Rorimer told his wife in a December 1944 letter from lib-erated Paris that he was working hard but worried about how much he was achieving.

“But I’m here to save works of art and that is what really mat-ters,” he wrote.

Rorimer, then 39 and a curator at New York’s Metropolitan Muse-um of Art, went on to carry out his mission successfully, helping to discover where works of art looted by the Nazis were tucked away across Europe. He was a leading figure in a group of 350 men and women from Allied countries attached to the U.S. Army’s Monu-ments, Fine Arts and Archives Section.

In the new movie “The Monu-ments Men,” Matt Damon portrays a character inspired by the real-life Rorimer, who died in 1966 at age 60.

“He was fighting for the art,” said daughter Anne Rorimer.

His contributions included help-ing discover works of art looted

from German museums that were stored in Germany’s Heilbronn mines and helping to establish the Munich Collecting Point where works were received, processed and then restituted after the war.

The Monuments Men included architects, artists, curators and museum directors.

The Harvard-educated Rorimer went on to become director of the Metropolitan Museum after the war.

Robert Edsel, the Dallas-based author who wrote the book the movie is based on, said Rorimer was “always a whirlwind of activi-ty.”

One of Rorimer’s major feats was gaining the trust of Rose Val-land, the French art expert who had been allowed to stay behind at Paris’ Jeu de Paume after the Nazis made it the base for their looting operation. Valland, who unbe-knownst to the Nazis spoke Ger-man, managed to keep track of where the works — most stolen from Jewish families in France — were being sent.

But Valland, who inspired the character played by Cate Blanch-ett, was not going to easily give up her information.

Living in Nazi-occupied Paris had made her wary, even of her fellow countrymen, and she want-ed to know that she was giving the information to someone who would help return the works to their rightful owners.

“Valland’s watching everything that Rorimer’s doing,” said Edsel. “What evolves between the two of them is this dance ... She’s testing him. She’s trying to find out where his loyalties lie.”

Rorimer was first introduced to Valland in fall 1944. Over the months, he earned her trust and by March 1945, when Rorimer was headed with the Army into south-ern Germany, she told him that Neuschwanstein Castle in the Bavarian Alps was the Nazi hide-away for about 21,000 items stolen from mostly Jewish collectors in France.

“If you got to know him, you realized that he’s got to be appreci-ated. Saving culture was ingrained upon him and he was successful,” said Harry Ettlinger, who as a 19-year-old U.S. soldier volun-teered his services to Rorimer after learning the Monuments Men needed someone who spoke Ger-man.

Ettlinger, one of only a handful of Monuments Men who are still alive, had fled Nazi Germany with his family the day after his bar mitzvah in 1938 and returned to Europe in 1945 with the U.S. Army.

He inspired a character played by Dimitri Leonidas.

Ettlinger said he quickly real-ized that Rorimer was a man who got things done, a “wheeler and dealer,” as Ettlinger put it. Ettlinger recalled a time when Gen. George S. Patton’s men had their sights on moving into the building the Monuments Men planned to use for their Munich Collecting Point — a building that happened to be the former Nazi headquarters. Rorimer, Ettlinger said, quickly put a stop to that.

Anne Rorimer grew up in the postwar years and says most of her memories of her father are tied to his work at the Met. “I heard more about all the day-to-day workings of the Metropolitan Museum.”

Her father died when she was in college, but she became an art his-torian and eventually learned more about his work as a Monu-ments Man.

A look at a real man portrayed in ‘Monuments Men’

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FIRST SOUTHERN BAPTISTMore Than a Church;

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1220 W. 8th St. 762-4404Worship Celebrations:

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Manhattan, KS 66502785-776-9069

Pastor: Dennis UlreySunday School:

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6:30 PMAwana Children Program

6:30 PM (During School Year)Wednesday Prayer

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OGDEN BAPTIST (SBC)East of Ogden on K-18 Pastor Kevin Dunaway9:15 Sunday School

10:30 Morning Worship 6:00 Evening Worship

7:00 p.m. Wed. Disc./PrayerHandicapped accessible

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Dr. Leonard F. Gray, Pastor701 W. 10th St. (10th & Clay)

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Junction City Baptist ChurchAdam Langston, Pastor

122 W. 8th St.785-238-2565

Sunday School 9:30 a.m.Morning Worship, 10:30 a.m.Evening Service, 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday Evening, 6:30 p.m.

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CATHOLIC CHURCHThird & Washington Streets

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8, 9:30 & 11 a.m.Weekday Mass 7:50

Saturday Mass 5:15 p.m.

Confession 4:00 p.m. SaturdayFor additional

information or for a ride call 238-2998

ST. MICHAEL’S CATHOLIC CHURCH

Chapman, KsMarita Campbell,

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CHURCH OF CHRIST1125 N. Adams Street

Junction City, KS785-239-7058

Sunday Bible Class 9:30 AM

Worship 10:30 AMEvening Worship

6:00 PMWednesday Bible Class.

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NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH233 W. 13th • 762-6037

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3117 Paint Rd., ChapmanPastor Andrew Kvasnica

(11 mi. west on K-18, 1.5 mi. north)

Church Services 9:30Sunday School 10:30

MADURA CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

461-53578th and Grove, Wakefield

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3560 Dempsey Rd.Sunday School 9:15 am

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Phil Hirsch, Pastor770-9656

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1025 S. WashingtonJim Bond, Lead Pastor

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Wednesday Service 6:45 pmSpanish Service Sunday - 10:30am

Spanish Ministry Wednesday - 7:00pm

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WARD CHAPELAfrican Methodist Episcipol

1711 N. Jefferson,238-4528

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Sun. Worship Service 11:00 a.m.

Wed. 7:00 Bible Study

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406 6th Street, Wakefield, KSRev. Diana StewartWorship 9:00 a.m.

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461-5599

MIZPAH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

1429 6th Rd.,785-461-5515Love God. Love others. Help others love God.Steve Thader, Paster

pentecostalFIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD

Rev. B.J. Solander7th & Madison (785) 762-3292

Wed. 7 pm Kids Bible Boot Camp

1st - 6th GradeSunday School 9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship 10:45 a.m.

GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCHRev. Franklyn D. Bryan

1302 W. 14th StreetJunction City, KS 66441

Sunday School 10:00 AMSunday Worship 11:30 AM

Bible Study Wednesday 7:30 PM

Transportation Available785-375-9267

FAITH TABERNACLE UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH

1010 Burke StreetRev. Nathan Dudley

Sunday School 10:00 a.m.Morning Worship 11:15 a.m.

Evangelistic Service 6:00 p.m.

PENTECOSTAL APOSTOLIC CHURCHPastor: William Ocean

239 W. 5th StreetJunction City, KS

Wednesday Night Bible Study 6:30 p.m.Sunday Early Morning Service 8:00 a.m.

Sunday School 9:15 a.m.Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 a.m.

You are invited to come out and worship with us.785-238-1595 for any information.

IGLESIA DE DIOS PENTECOSTAL, M.I.CASA DE DIOS424 N. Jefferson

762-2735 or 238-6409Angel & Sarai Enriquez

PasotresLunes 7 p.m -

Culto en los hogaresMartes 9 a.m. - Retirode Damas

7 p.m. - Culto AdoracionMiércoles 7 p.m. - Culto de Oracion Viernes 7 p.m. -

Culto de SociedadesDomingo 10 a.m. - Escuela Biblica Servicio

Evangelistico

7th day adventistSEVENTH DAY

ADVENTIST CHURCHDon Yancheson, Pastor238-2562 or 776-1825J.C. 10th & Jackson

Worship 9:30 a.m. Sat.Sabbath School 10:45a.m. Sat.

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTEnterprise

Doug Bing, PastorSabbath School, Sat. 9:30 a.m.

united church of christ

ALIDA - UPLAND PARISHPastor: Rob Bolton

238-82717 mi. W. of J.C. on 244

-follow signsSunday School 9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship 10:30 a.m.

ZION UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST

Rev. Nikki Woolsey1811 McFarland Rd.

238-5732Sunday School 9:30 a.m.

Worship 10:30 a.m.

non-denominationsLIVING WORD CHURCH2711 Amherst, Manhattan

Office 785-776-0940Pastor Gary Ward

Sunday School 9:00 am.Morning Worship 10:00 am

Wednesday Activities 7:00pmlivingword-church.org

LIVING WORD INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES

1704 St. Marys RoadJunction City, KS

785-238-6128Bishop Clarence R. Williams, JR Pastor

Sunday10:00am - Worship Service

Wednesday 7:00pm - ServiceSaturday 8:00am - Gathering of the Glory

PrayerNeed a Ride? Call 238-6128www.lwocc.org

COMMUNITY OUTREACHMINISTRIES

908 A Grant AveJunction City, KS(785)375-0621

Evangelist: Dorothy Garland Pastor

Sunday Service 10:30 amTuesday Bible Study 7:00 pm

NEW HOPE CHURCH3905 Green Valley Rd., Manhattan

Call for Worship Times537-2389 www.newhopeks.org

Children’s Church and Nursery Care

Bible Studies, Men’s and Women’s Groups

Family, College, Military,Youth and Children Ministries

WESTVIEW COMMUNITY CHURCH615 Gillespie Dr.- Manhattan

(785) 537-7173Pat Bennett, Pastor

Sunday Morning 8:30 & 11:00 a.m.

Connection Groups Sunday 9:45 p.m.

MILFORD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

101 Barry, MilfordMike Lacer, Pastor

463-5403Worship Service Sun.- 10:00 a.m.

other denominations

AGAPE FAMILY CHURCH121 S. 4th St.

Manhattan, KS 66502Sunday:

School of the Bible - 9:30a.m. Morning Worship - 10:30 a.m.

Nursery and Children Services providedEvening Worship - 7:00 p.m.

Wednesday Evening Svc.:7:30 p.m.Children & Youth Services

Nursery ProvidedOffice Address:

121 S. 4th, Suite 205 (785) 539-3570

ALL SAINTS ORTHODOX CHURCH

Services in Manhattan for the St. Mary Magdalene Orthodox Christian Mission,

(785) 539-3440, Saturdays, 9:30 AM Divine Liturgy at the Ecumenical

Campus Ministry building, 1021 Denison Ave., Manhattan

CHURCH OF DELIVERANCEINTERDENOMINATIONAL

1516 N. JeffersonBishops Mary E. Pope

& Robert L. PopeSunday School 9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.Sunday Night Worship 7:00 p.m.

THE CHURCH OF JESUSCHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTSMcFarland Rd. Across from YMCA

Bishop ShurtleffSacrament 9:00 a.m.

Sunday School 10:20 a.m.Priesthood/Relief Society

11:10 a.m.

LEGACY COMMUNITY CHURCH528 E. Flinthills Blvd. • GVP

238-1645Sunday Morning 10:00 a.m.

Tom Swihart, Pastorwww.LegacyChurch.net

HOLY TEMPLE C.O.G.I.C. Pastor: George Price 638 W. 13th Street

238-4932Sun.: Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Prayer 9:00 a.m. Sunday Worship Services:

10:45 a.m. & 6:00 p.m.Tuesday: Prayer: 6 p.m.Bible Study 7:00 p.m.

For All AgesThursday: Prayer 6:00 p.m.

Pastoral Teaching & Children Teaching: 7:00 p.m.

IGLESIA ESPIRITU SANTOY FUEGO INC.

Pastores: Luzz M., Luis AchevedoQual Lane Plaza #205 Hwy 24

Manhattan, KS 66503785-717-5700 / 785-341-0274

espiritusantoyfuego31@yahoo.com

Horario: Martes: 6:30pm - Estudio biblico

Miercoles: 7:30pm Escuela BiblicaViernes: 7:30pm Culto de SociedadesDomingo: 6:00pm Culto Evangelistico

LIVING WORD CHURCHManhattan (2711 Amhurst)

Office: 776-0940Gary Ward, Pastor

Sunday School, 10:00 a.m.Morning Worship, 9:00 a.m.

Wednesday Evening Activities, 7:00 p.m.

MILFORD LAKE MINISTRIESM. Ross Kirk, Ex. Dir.David Ford, Chaplain

Wakefield, Clay Co. ParkSunday: 8:30 a.m.

State Park, by Campground 3Sunday: 8:30 a.m.

COME AS YOU ARE!

MORRIS HILL CHAPELGOSPEL SERVICE

Building #5315, 239-4814(Morris Hill Chapel)

Worship Service, 10:30 a.m.

UNITARIAN/UNIVERSALISTFELLOWSHIP OF MANHATTAN

Highway K-18 East ofManhattan 1/2 mile from US 177Sunday-Adult & Youth Programs

537-2349 & 537-1817

UNITED CHURCH OF MANHATTAN

1021 Denison 537-6120Meditation, 10:15

Sunday Worship, 11: a.m.

VALLEY VIEW PROFESSIONAL CARE CENTER

1417 W. AshWorship, Sunday 3:00 p.m.

VINEYARD COMMUNITY CHURCH2400 Casement Manhattan

785-539-0542Mark Roberts, Pastor

Sunday Service 10:30 a.m.

FRIENDSHIP HOUSE(Sponsored by UMC)

207 Ft. Riley Blvd., OgdenSunday School 10-10:45

Church Service 11:00-NoonOpen Mon.-Fri. 1-4

(539-1791)

TURNING POINT CHURCH339 W. 18th St.

PO Box 184Junction City, KS 66441

785-579-5335Brian Emig - Lead Pastor

(785)477-0338brian@rlconline.org

Dan Denning - Associate Pastor(785)366-3691

denning.dan@gmail.comSunday Service - 10:30 a.m.

Cross Point (Children’s Church)

during serviceWednesday - 6 p.m.Men’s Bible Study

Women’s Bible StudyMomentum Youth Group

IGLESIA CRISTIANA EBENEZERRev. Daniel and Matilde Rosario

1015 N. Washington St.Junction City, KS 66441

785-238-6627Martes 7:00 p.m. Oracion

Tuesday 7:00 p.m. Prayer Service

Viernes 7:00 p.m. Estudios BiblicosFriday 7:00 p.m. Bible Study

Domingo 10:00-11:30 a.m. Escuela Dominical11:30-1:30 p.m.

Culto EvangelisticoSunday 10:00-11:30 a.m. Sunday School

11:30-1:30 p.m. Worship Service

IGLESIA CRISTIANA ESPIRITU SANTO Y FUEGO INC.

“Buscad el reino de Dios y SU justicia…”Pastor Luz M. Acevedo Collado

8831 Quail Ln Plaze #205Hwy. 24 Manhattan, KS 66503

Pastor:785-717-5700Co-Pastor: 785-341-0274

espiritusantoyfuego31@yahoo.comHorario/Schedule

Miercoles/Wednesday: 7:30pmEstudio Biblico/Bible Study

Inglesia Del Nino/Children ChurchViernes/Friday: 7:30pmServicio de Adoracion/

Worship ServiceDomingo/Sunday: 6:00p.m.

Servicio Evangelistico/Evangelistic Service

IGLESIA HISPANA MARANATA1012 North Jefferson St.

Junction City, KS 66Pastores: Fernando y Nati Zayas Servicios

Horario/ScheduleDomingo:

Class Dominical: 10:00amPredication: 11:00a.m

Miercoles:Estudio/Oracion: 7:30p.m.

Viernes:Predicacion/Estudio 7:30pm

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MANHATTAN CHRISTIANFELLOWSHIP

CHURCH2740 Pillsbury Drive

Manhattan KS785-587-0969

Pastor: Daryl MartinSunday Worship Times:08:00am and 10:00 am

VERTICAL HEART CHURCH117 West 8th Streetwww.verticalheart.net Pastor Randy Nichols

CORYELL INSURORS, INC.

Serving Our Community Since 1913120 W. 7th Street 238-5117

BIBLES BOOKS CARDS GIFTS & MORE

623 North Washington Street785-238-BOOK (2665)

Mon-Sat 10 am-7 pm

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Religion The Daily Union. Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014 5C

By The Associated Press

JERUSALEM — Thou-sands of ultra-Orthodox Jews blocked highways across Israel Thursday to protest attempts to draft them into the army, clash-ing with club-wielding police who aimed water cannons and fired stun gre-nades at large crowds of black-garbed men.

The violent protests came just days after a Supreme Court ruling ordered fund-ing halted to ultra-Ortho-dox seminaries whose stu-dents dodge the draft and laid bare one of the deepest rifts in Israeli society, high-lighting the fundamental disagreements between its secular majority and a devout minority over the character of the Jewish state.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews have for years been exempt from military service, which is compulsory for other Jewish Israelis.

The arrangement has caused widespread resent-ment and featured promi-nently in last year’s elec-tion, after which the ultra-Orthodox parties lost ground and found them-selves outside the govern-ing coalition.

The new government immediately began pushing a bill that will alter the existing system to gradual-ly reduce the number of exemptions and require all

to register for service. While it awaits parlia-

mentary approval, this week’s court ruling — fol-lowed by Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s freezing of the funds — marked the first concrete sanction against draft dodgers and sparked angry reactions from ultra-Orthodox leaders who claim the military will expose their youth to secu-larism and undermine their devout lifestyle.

The opposition spilled into the streets Thursday in the form of about a half-dozen simultaneous dem-onstrations that snarled traffic for several hours.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said some 400 activists tried to block the entrance to Jerusalem, while demonstrators hurled stones at police and set a patrol car on fire in the southern city of Ashdod. Elsewhere, about 2,000 pro-testers blocked a major highway in central Israel.

Police on horses beat back demonstrators with clubs and used stun gre-nades to clear the roads.

Two policemen were wounded and 35 protesters were arrested, Rosenfeld said.

The issue of army ser-vice is at the core of a cul-tural war over the place of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israeli society.

The ultra-Orthodox, who make up about 8 percent of

Israel’s 8 million citizens, largely have been allowed to skip compulsory military service to pursue their reli-gious studies.

Older men often avoid the workforce and collect welfare stipends while con-tinuing to study full time.

The ultra-Orthodox insist their young men serve the nation through prayer and study, thus preserving Jew-ish learning and heritage, and maintaining a pious way of life that has kept the Jewish people alive through centuries of persecution.

Leaders of the communi-ty, which in Hebrew is known as “Haredim,” or those who fear God, say their followers would rath-er sit in jail than join the military.

They charge their ancient brand of Judaism is under siege and warn of an upris-ing if parliament approves the draft plan.

Yair Sheleg, an expert on the Israeli religious sector at the nonpartisan Israel Democracy Institute, said Thursday’s outburst reflect-ed a genuine rage over the proposed plan but also a show of strength to try to limit its impact.

“They understand that things can’t go on the way they have and they will have to make some conces-sions to the state, but they are hoping to limit the dam-age,” he said. “For the first time, they are starting to

really be affected.”Not all the ultra-Ortho-

dox are vehemently opposed to enlistment and inclusion in Israeli society.

Due to its high birthrate and the relatively low par-ticipation in the workforce, the ultra-Orthodox commu-nity suffers from high unemployment and pover-ty.

Voices have begun to emerge criticizing the ultra-Orthodox education sys-tem, which teaches students about Judaism but very lit-tle math, English or sci-ence.

More than a quarter of all Israeli first-graders are ultra-Orthodox and govern-ment statistics project that if these trends continue, the ultra-Orthodox could make up 15 percent of the country’s population by 2025.

The tide has already begun to turn. In 2011, for instance, 55 percent of ultra-Orthodox women and 45 percent of the men held jobs, up from 48 percent and 33 percent respectively nine years earlier, accord-ing to Israel’s central bank and its central bureau of statistics.

The numbers, while still far below the national aver-age of around 80 percent, show the community is far from the homogenous mass viewed by outsiders.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest pending Israeli draft

Associated PressIsraeli police officers on horses disperse a crowd of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men during a demonstration Thursday in Jerusalem.

By Kali Thiel

Sheboygan Press Media

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Having grown up in a fam-ily of 10 siblings, Ceil DePrey had plenty of opportunities to practice cooking.

“It was exciting to cook for them because no mat-ter what you made, some-one would eat it,” DePrey said. “You also learn what people like and what they don’t like.”

In more recent years, the 78-year-old Sheboygan resident also garnered a couple of nicknames that pay homage to her talents as a chef, including “Soupy” or “The Soup Lady.” About four years ago, her name even became part of the title of an event relating to food that’s open to the entire Sheboygan community and beyond.

About four times a year, on the fifth Saturday of the month, First Congre-gational Church, UCC wel-comes the public to a free breakfast, called Ceil’s Meal, which features many of DePrey’s own recipes. Some 100 people attended a recent Saturday meal.

The Rev. Julia Hollister, pastor at First Congrega-tional Church, said the meals are important for a variety of reasons.

“Having healthy, nutri-tious food that is home-cooked is so important,” Hollister told Sheboygan Press Media.

“And then also having people sit down at the table across from someone they don’t know and then start-ing up a conversation, and the sense of fellowship that comes out of this. And the church members real-ly love having an opportu-nity to serve.”

The idea for the meals came about about four years ago during a weekly Wednesday morning Bible study/discussion time that DePrey still attends at the church. During that par-ticular session, DePrey said the group was reading about the Apostle Paul and the early Christian church.

DePrey said she shared her observation that while

many places offer a free meal to those in need, the Bible passages demon-strated a different model.

“I said, ‘The poor are always being fed by the rich,’ or whatever we think, but I saw that’s not what was going on in the first Christian communi-ties,” DePrey said. “All the people came together and ate as one. So I said, this is my idea of how a commu-nity meal should go.”

When someone in the group suggested that they call the meals, “Ceil’s Meal,” DePrey initially protested.

“I said, ‘Please don’t put my name on it,’ DePrey said. “And they said, ‘We all like that. It sounds poetic.’”

Initially DePrey served as the organizer for the meals, but took a step back from the role in 2011 when she had a double mastec-tomy. Since then, she’s served as a cook or a help-er on the day of the meal itself, along with several other volunteers from the church.

The meals normally are predominantly funded by the church, and a free will donation is collected at each one. For this most recent meal, however, DePrey said she purchased the necessary groceries herself, despite living on a fixed income in low income housing.

DePrey said she’s observed all types of peo-ple attend the meals over the years — from doctors and lawyers to homeless or low-income families.

“People did come from all over Sheboygan and outside of Sheboygan,” DePrey said. “Some are rich and some are poor and some are in between.”

It’s encouraging to see people from all walks of life attend because that’s what the meals are all about, DePrey said.

“People, and especially in the early church, they came because everybody is one,” DePrey said. “She-boygan is becoming more and more diverse. ...We have to listen to other peo-ple in order to understand what the world is like.”

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Home & Living6C The Daily Union. Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014

There’s been a lot of cussing and gnashing of teeth in recent days

because of that cool white stuff everywhere right now, known as snow.

I will be the first to admit snow is a nuisance. Sure, if I didn’t have to go to work or go to the store or get outside to do anything, it probably wouldn’t be quite so trouble-some.

But there is work to go to, groceries to buy, meetings to attend, and so there we have the conflict! But if we can get by the inconvenience of it all, snow provides us many very valuable benefits we all too often overlook.

Most obvious is the mois-ture. Okay, many of us would rather have an inch of rain in March than a foot of snow in February or Jan-

uary or any month of the year. We often talk about a foot of snow equaling an inch of rain, but that is an average.

It may only take eight inches of a really wet snow for that inch of moisture, or it may take twenty inches of a real dry snow. The snow this week started out fairly normal but as the event pro-gressed, the snow became dryer. That 10 inches of snow resulted in just under three-fourths of an inch of rain.

But here’s the neat part

about snow moisture. Bar-ring extremely heavy snows, rapid melt and frozen ground, more of the precipi-tation goes into the soil. Snow melts relatively slow-ly compared to a typical thunderstorm dropping the same amount of rain in an hour or two. Snow melt will often take days or weeks. The moisture soaks in very slowly. It may make the soil very muddy, even supersat-urated, but that’s okay because it soaks on down and doesn’t run off.

At one time there was a commonly-held belief that wheat did so well after a snowy winter because of all the nutrients the snow con-tained. At one time it was believed that a good snow fall held 20 or 30 pounds of nitrogen per acre. Well, it is

true there are plant nutri-ents in snowfall, but in real-ity it’s ounces per acre, not pounds. The good growth of wheat following a snowy winter was in part due to the slow release moisture but also because of the great insulation snow provides.

The other night, when the temperature dropped below zero, the soil, under all that snow, was comfortably right around freezing at the criti-cal 2-inch soil depth. Even just two or three inches of snow creates a great amount of insulation: insulation from cold temperatures and insulation from the drying and desiccating winds that we saw recently.

Here’s the other great misunderstood part of snow’s insulating effect. Not only does it insulate against

unseasonably cold tempera-tures, but it also insulates or buffers from rapid warm ups. We are challenged in growing fruit crops locally because of the extreme weather variability. All too often fruit trees bud out too soon, and then those flower buds get frozen.

To keep this from happen-ing we need to reverse our thinking.

Stop planting those trees on the south side of the house, where we think they are out of the cold wind, but in reality in the place that’s going to warm up first. We need to plant on the north side of the house, where the snow melts last in the spring. The snow keeps the ground cold, and the cold ground slows down the pro-cess of trees breaking dor-

mancy. The bud develop-ment will be delayed and the trees will be less likely to get their flower buds frosted off.

Yes, it was very inconve-nient to have all that snow mess up our travel. But it’s bringing us so many good things.

And if we can just get past the inconvenience, and even the benefits, we can stop and enjoy the incredi-ble beauty that snow brings to our landscape. Incredible beauty and very transient beauty. A beautiful natural sculpture that we better enjoy now, because in a day or two, it’ll be gone.

ChuCk Otte is the agricultural and natural resources agent with Geary County Extension.

Why snow is good

ChuCk OtteField & Garden

Special to the Daily Union

A little over a year ago we introduced Dr. Joe Stratton to the Junction City and Geary County communi-ties. He was chosen by the Geary Community Hospital Board of Trustees to assume the top spot at the hospital, which was vacated by Chief Executive Officer David Bradley, who retired after 17 years in August 2012.

Stratton is a great collab-orator and a believer in the value of teamwork.

If he were asked who to credit for all the upgrades and improvements, he would, of course, give credit to his administrative team: Alice Jensen, chief opera-tions officer; Darren Rum-ford, chief financial officer; and Teto Henderson, direc-tor of human resources.

He would also include the seven trustees and all the department managers and employees who participated in this year’s activities.

But, great accomplish-ments follow great leader-ship, and that’s where Strat-ton succeeds.

So what has been accom-plished since Stratton took over?

Most notably, Stratton’s team put together a com-prehensive and collabora-tive strategic plan within the first 90 days, which incorporates five pillars, each with multiple goals, timelines and persons responsible.

The five pillars are titled Patients and Families, Qual-ity Workforce, Quality Care, Business Development and Financial.

In the interest of brevity, two of the more interesting goals are highlighted here.

Patient satisfaction One project Stratton tack-

led immediately was improving patient satisfac-tion across the hospital, but especially in the emergency department (ER).

The ER is a place where patients are unhappy and don’t feel well in the first place, so having satisfied patients is extremely diffi-cult in any hospital ER.

However, with the help of a new physician staffing company called EmCare, the ER staff now does real-time bedside surveying before the patient leaves.

The Qualitik Electronic Realtime Survey gives the patient and/or family an opportunity to comment on the care they received, the treatment by the doctors and nurses, and the wait time.

“In our first round of Qualitik surveys, we had 95 percent positive results,” said Stephanie Stremming, RN, nurse manager of the emergency department. Stremming receives the surveys as soon as the

patient is finished entering them on an electronic tab-let and is able to respond back to the patient and/or investigate complaints before the patient leaves the hospital. So far, it’s working well.

Quality refocusing and retooling

Stratton also has a new focus on quality, and not just the clinical side that patients expect.

He’s also interested in the safety of the building, access to the hospital from the parking lots and if the food is good, for example.

“We are focusing and retooling toward proactive, system-wide, deliberate quality,” Stratton said. “We’re getting everyone to understand what our defi-nition of quality is so that they do the right thing at the right time — every time.

He used painting a house as an example. Everyone comes to the project with a different color and a differ-ent technique in mind.

He wants everyone to approach quality in a uni-form manner so that the outcomes are positive and predictable.

“A Century of Caring”

The hospital celebrated 100 years in business this year with the theme, “A Century of Caring.” Dr. W.A. Carr founded the original city hospital on Sept. 9, 1913.

Receptions and events, articles through local and regional media, a parade float, a display from the Geary County Historical Museum and a time cap-sule highlighted the five-month celebration.

Physician changesOn the physician front,

we honored Dr. Ronald Mace, who retired from family medicine at GCH after 38 years of service.

Dr. Mace’s replacement was Dr. Rafael Velasquez who studied with Dr. Mace in the University of Kansas Family Practice Residency Program-Junction City Rural Track and worked on Fort Riley before join-ing us.

Physician Assistant Den-nis Sewell joined Dr. Velasquez’s practice and is building his own practice.

Dr. Mary Otoo, a general surgeon out of the State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y., joined Dr. Charles Bollman and Dr. Fouad Hachem in the Flint Hills Surgical Clinic at GCH.

Notable GCH highlights in 2013

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FREEConveniently sized on-the-go tabletVerizon Ellipsis™ 7$149.99 2-yr. price – $150 instant savings. New 2-yr. activation required. Offer valid through 2/17.

FREE

Long-lasting batteryDROID MAXX

by MOTOROLA$199.99 2-yr. price –

$100 instant savings – $100 Verizon Wireless

trade-in gift card.

FREE Android™ smartphone with quad-core processorSamsung Galaxy S® 4Also available in black. $249.99 2-yr. price – $50 mail-in rebate debit card – $100 instant savings – $100 Verizon Wireless trade-in gift card.

Our Surcharges (incl. Fed. Univ. Svc. of 16.4% of interstate & int’l telecom charges (varies quarterly), 16¢ Regulatory & 88¢ Administrative/line/mo., & others by area) are not taxes (details: 1-888-684-1888); gov’t taxes & our surcharges could add 6% – 42% to your bill. Activation/upgrade fee/line: up to $35.IMPORTANT CONSUMER INFORMATION: Subject to Cust. Agmt, Calling Plan, rebate form & credit approval. Up to $350 early termination fee/line & $15/250 MB after allowance. Restocking fee may apply. Offers & coverage, varying by svc, not available everywhere; see vzw.com. Limited-time offers. While supplies last. Rebate debit card takes up to 6 weeks & expires in 12 months. In CA: Sales tax based on full retail price of phone. In MA: Sales tax based on Verizon Wireless’ cost of a device purchased at a discount with service. Add’l CA eWaste fee may apply. DROID is a trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd. and its related companies. Used under license. © 2014 Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC (“Samsung”). Samsung and Galaxy S are both registered trademarks of Samsung Electronics America, Inc. and/or its related entities. Google Play and Android are trademarks of Google Inc.© 2014 Electronic Arts Inc. EA, EA SPORTS, the EA SPORTS logo and Plants vs. Zombies are trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. In those areas in which Verizon Wireless is eligible to receive support from the universal service fund, Verizon Wireless must meet all reasonable requests for service. Unresolved questions concerning service availability can be directed to the Kansas Corporation Commission Office of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection at 800-662-0027. © 2014 Verizon Wireless. H1799

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