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PHOTOS BY WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWFramed by large wheels, members of the Budde family who helped with the recent wheat harvest include, from left, Jacob Peterson, Bill Budde,Mindy Budde and Courtney White.

All hands on deck

Family helps with Budde wheat harvest

Bill Budde's hands are rough andcalloused, unlike him. There mightbe some grease under his finger-nails, but he doesn't seem to mind.He's worked the land for decades.He farmed with his grandpa anddad, and now the 68-year-old isworking with his kids and grand-kids.

There have been five generationsof the family farming in HarveyCounty throughout the years. TheBudde farming operation is in ruralNewton.

“He was 16 when [he] startedfarming on his own,” Budde'sdaughter Mindy Budde said. “Be-fore that, he helped his father farmand an uncle. My dad would havebeen young when his grandfatherpassed away. He allowed all three

of his daughters to start farmingwith our grandfather, FrankBudde, when we were in highschool. I bought my first piece ofground when I was 21 years old.”

And even though he was diag-nosed with cancer two years ago,Budde still manages to work everyday, Mindy said.

During wheat harvest time, thefamily has a few traditions, in addi-tion to family all working together.

“The only big tradition we have iswe eat dinner together everynight,” Mindy said about harvesttime, whether that's at 10 p.m. ormidnight.

Jacob Petersen, 11, Mindy's son,and Carrie White, Mindy's sister,cooked dinners for the crew. Foodfrom night to night ranged fromlasagna to nachos to ribs to soup.

For lunch, people just bring alongtheir own sandwiches. This wasn'talways the case, however. Mindyrecalled when she was a kid, she

and her older sister, Michelle, hadto make 30 sandwiches every morn-ing. Mindy didn't like making thesandwiches at the time and recallsher mother would buy 25 frozenloaves of bread just for harvest.Mindy does not like frozen bread.At the time, her dad would say,“Well, I got a surprise in my sand-wich today,” Mindy said, as somesandwiches missed ingredients.

“Now, they're good memories,”Mindy said. “[…] Now, we don'tprovide lunches for all the hiredmen. They bring their own.”

Since they had two deep freezers,Mindy said her mom would stockup on food for harvest.

Another tradition includes somefamily history.

“One more tradition for me wouldbe is that I take my grandfather’s[Frank Budde] water jug to thefield with me to every day during

BY WENDY NUGENTNEWTON NOW [email protected]

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An unstoppable force meets an immovableobject.

So the budgeting process for the city's 2017budget was described at a commission worksession Wednesday.

The current $19.6 million budget is projectedto spend $1.58 million more than the city takesin, draining general fund reserves to around$1.6 million.

If spending remained the same for its 2017budget, reserves would be drawn down to

$183,000. Those reserveswould be about 1 percent ofthe overall fund. The city hasa policy to have that endingbalance equal 15 percent ofthe overall fund. It would takea roughly 21 mill increase intaxes to reach that 15 percentreserve

“Do we just keep spendingdown reserves?” Commis-sioner Koehn said in a rhetori-

cal question about the possibility of “kickingthe can” down the road.

“That's what we've been doing the past six orseven years,” Assistant City Manager TimJohnson said. “And now it’s the unstoppableforce meets the immovable object.”

Basically, the city is nearing the point eitherin the 2017 budget or the following year that it

City budgetprocess couldbe difficult

BY ADAM STRUNKNEWTON NOW [email protected]

WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWLocal driving instructor Charle Triggs, left, talks to student Amber Cox on Mondaymorning about parts of a vehicle before they hit the road.

The north end of Newton is seeing a bevy ofnew restaurants.

Recently two restaurants as well as a drivethrough coffee shop have opened in the area,with another restaurant to open this week.

Nena's Mexican Carry OutOn May 20, Nena's Mexican Carry Out

opened at 1728 N. Main St. The location may be new, but the faces and

recipes are familiar ones to the area. Part-owner Miguel Corona said the restau-

rant, which serves Mexican-American food,features mostly the recipes of his mother Helen“Nena” Corona.

Miguel said his mother previously ranNena's Mexican Food in a restaurant locatedon the corner of Fifth and Main Street in New-ton 25 to 30 years ago.

Flurry of restaurantlocations open innorth end of Newton

Students learn about drivingin local summer classes


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See BUDGET / 8

Just like taking algebra, ignor-ing one's parents and gettinggrounded, drivers education is arite of passage for many teens inAmerica.

Charle Triggs has been helpingstudents through that rite for 49years. To illustrate, if a persontook drivers ed with him 49 yearsago at the age of 15, he or shewould be 64 today.

“It's fun, and since I've been

doing it here, we haven't had amajor crash,” Triggs said during adrivers ed ride-along Mondaymorning. “We really haven't hadany crashes.”

Triggs teaches drivers educationin the summer through the localschool district. During the regularacademic year, he instructs gov-ernment and sociology.

The summer sessions last threeweeks, Triggs said.

On Monday, Triggs went out ona drive with three students and areporter; this was their first day of


Johnson

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Mexican-American softball hasstrong Newton history - Page 12

The project of theweekend at ourhouse was hanging

black-out curtains in sev-eral rooms and renewingsome window seals to tryto keep the summer heatfrom raising the tempera-ture inside.

Now we’re waiting withexcitement for an air con-ditioning repairperson/hero to comerecharge our system andget us back to livable tem-peratures once again.

When your schnauzer isonly sitting next to you totry to steal some air froman oscillating fan, youknow your living room isgetting a little uncomfort-able.

It’s on days like we’vehad lately that I com-pletely lose any desire tocook. I never want to heatup the stove or stand in

front of a hot grill.That’s when the crock-

pot becomes my bestfriend.

This week, I made somedelicious shredded pork,and it made a ton offood—so much so that I’llgive you a recipe for whatto do with the leftoversnext week.

This comes from theblog “Lynn’s Kitchen Ad-ventures,” and you canfind the original athttp://www.lynnskitchenadventures.com/2009/10/slow-cooked-shredded-chipo-tle-pork-tacos.html.

Slow-CookedShredded Chipotle

Pork3-pound pork shoulder

roast (mine was closer tofive or six pounds)

1 onion, chopped6 cloves garlic, minced

1 teaspoon basil1 teaspoon oregano6 ounces tomato paste28 ounces diced toma-

toes1 to 2 chipotle chiles in

adobo sauce, choppedPlace the pork roast

into your crock pot anddump the rest of the in-gredients in around it,spreading the tomatopaste out along the top ofthe roast if necessary.

Cook on low for seven toeight hours.

When it’s done, removethe roast from the liquidinto a large pan and dis-card any big pieces of fat(mine came off really eas-ily because the meat wasso tender).

Shred the pork withtwo forks.

For a delicious sauce togo with the pork, makesure all chunks of fathave been removed fromthe liquid in the crockpotand pour it into a blender.Blend until smooth andserve it with the pork.

Optional step: To servethis with rice, put theamount of rice you wantto make into a saucepanwith a lid and then usehalf water, half liquidfrom the crockpot to cookit.

We loved this recipe,and because I found anice, big roast on sale, weate on this for quiteawhile. The sauce thatcame out of it was also de-

licious. I have it in a bigMason jar in the fridge,and we’ve been using it onall kinds of things evennow that the pork is gone.I wouldn’t be all that sur-prised to see Joey eatingit over cereal in the morn-ing. It’s pretty yummy.

Next week, I’ll tell you

something we did withthe leftovers, but we atethis in tortillas with blackbeans, fresh spinach andguacamole along with riceI made from the liquid inthe crockpot. (And, ofcourse, that beautiful redsauce I blended up.) Itwas really, really good.

And it was nice to havesuch a great meal withoutever having to heat up thekitchen. I’ll take that dealany day.

Lindsey Young is co-publisher of Newton Now

and managing editor ofThe Clarion in Andale.

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Archeology students learn about finding artifacts

Campers scurried aboutFriday morning at Kauff-man Museum, gettingtheir displays ready fortheir parents to see, andeven some of themskipped recess to makesure things were just so.

The camp was Explo-rations in Archeology,taught by Nathan Dick ofNewton at the NorthNewton museum. Thiscamp is part of UncleRogers Camps at the mu-seum.

“The way the camp isset up is project-basedlearning,” Dick said.

The camp had two out-door dig sites; one was acowboy campsite and theother a Native Americansite.

On the first day ofcamp, which was Monday,June 13, students markedwith flags anything thatstuck out of the ground.

“Wherever there werethe most flags is wherethey decided to dig, andthen they mapped out thesite,” said camp coordina-

tor Rachel Unruh, addingeach student had a job,whether it was digging,recording, mapping orcleaning. “The studentstook those roles. Theyworked well together. […]And when things didn'twork, they stopped andfigured out why it wasn'tworking. It was really

good teamwork and col-laboration.”

Between the two sites,campers found about 150items, Unruh said. Thoseincluded scissors, barbedwire, horseshoe, brokendishes, spearheads, scrap-ers, horsebit collar,chipped pottery and aspearhead. “We put them

up for display. We usedthe museum as an exam-ple of how to put them upfor display.”

That Friday, which wasthe last day of camp, par-ents showed up duringthe last part, watching aPowerPoint presentationgiven by campers and see-ing the displays.

Unruh said they usedGoogle Drive to collabo-rate so they all couldwork on the same projectat the same time, andthey even had access to itif they wanted to work onit from home.

Camper Haley Samssaid she liked camp.

“I like digging,” shesaid, adding she found anold ring and a couple ofrocks.

Another camper, AaronDowney, really enjoyed it.

“I like it because you

get some hands-on workfrom an archeologist'sperspective,” he said.“You get to see what theyactually do.”

For example, he said,one day it was really hot,so he had the opportunityto experience what arche-ologists in Egypt gothrough.

“I learned how they dugup items and how theyhad to preserve it andshow it off at the mu-seum,” he said. “It was agood camp.”

PHOTOS BY WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWABOVE: Johannes Kreider, left, high school helper for the week, andRachel Unruh guide a large wheel to its display area Friday, June 17, atKauffman Museum in North Newton. At right is camper Taylor Redington.LEFT: From left, campers Aaron Downey, Elisabeth Friesen and TaylorRedington talk about their display.


Get ready to pig out on chipotle pork

LINDSEY YOUNG/NEWTON NOWSlow-cooked shredded chipotle pork makes for a big meal without hav-ing to use the oven or stand over a hot grill.

As thunderstorms andhail raged around theNewton area, PeggyWambold sat at a table ona recent Thursday night,looking at the destructionof her hometown in thebook “Greensburg: TheTwisted Tales.”

The recent bad weatherisn't an easy time for peo-ple who understand thedestruction a tornadoleaves.

Even though the dam-age caused by an F5 tor-nado that was 1.7 mileswide happened nine yearsago, the now Newton resi-dent appeared a little emo-tional as she talked aboutthe incident that destroyedmost of the town and left12 people dead.

“Sad,” she said. “It'llnever be the same. Youcan never go home any-

more.”Wambold and her family

spent a lot of years there.“I grew up in Greens-

burg,” she said. “My familymoved there in 1951. I wasa year old.”

Wambold said sheresided there from 1951 to1971, and then from 1999to 2004, she and her hus-band Bob lived there. Bobtaught music there, whileWambold taught in DodgeCity.

At the time of the tor-nado, Wambold didn'thave any family living inthe town, although herparents, grandparents andbrother are buried in thecemetery, which wasn't af-fected by the tornado. As amatter of fact, Wamboldand her husband Bob hadplanned to decorate theirgraves Friday, May 27, forMemorial Day.

Wambold said hergrandparents lived inGreensburg, as her

grandpa Wiley Edwardswas a farmer. Hergrandma was Mae Ed-wards. Their home is gone,as is Wambold's childhoodhome.

“They helped with thehistorical museum thereand helped set that up,”Wambold said about hergrandparents. Now there'sno more museum. “It blewaway,” she said.

In addition, Wamboldgraduated from highschool there in 1968, andthe high school was left intatters. Wambold recalledone street, Bay Street, thatwas twice as wide as a nor-mal road, had “big, beauti-ful trees,” and now they'regone as well.

Wambold said the tor-nado, which happened afew minutes after 10 p.m.,was on May 4, 2007, andthe townspeople had a 20-minute warning. Wamboldsaid she was concerned be-cause it was her home-town, so she watched theTV weatherman, since shelived in Scandia at thetime.

“We knew there was notgoing to be much of a townleft,” she said aboutGreensburg. “The tornadocame in town from thesouth side out in the coun-try” from the Coldwater di-rection. “It just came inand hit that part of townfirst.”

Initially, it took thePanzer house, killingColleen Panzer.

“When I was a little girl,my brother and I used togo to their farm and ridehorses,” Wambold said.

One edge of the twisterhit Main Street, and therest of it went to the west.

It was on the ground forabout 30 minutes, shesaid, from Greensburg toalmost Lewis.

“There weren't manyhouses left on that side oftown,” Wambold said. “Youcouldn't live in them. Theyhad to be torn down.”

Wambold visited thedevastation a month later.

“It looked like a bombwent off,” Wambold said.“It's the best way I can de-scribe it. […] It peeled thebark off the trees.”

During the night of the

twister, Wambold's sister-in-law's mother, who was92, was a patient at theGreensburg hospital. Allpatients were taken to thebasement, and the hospitalsustained extensive dam-age.

“None of them werehurt,” Wambold said aboutthe patients.

What struck Wamboldabout the mass destructionwas how some things weredestroyed while otherswere left untouched. Forexample, walls were miss-

ing at the Lunchbox, whichwas a place like DairyQueen, while a table wasleft intact with salt andpepper shakers and nap-kins still on the table.

“But the whole side ofthe wall was gone,” shesaid.

One reason more peopleweren't hurt was because alot of folks were at a trackmeet about two hoursaway.

“Because it's such asmall community, theyrally around sports teams,”

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On Thursday night,some Main Street Mainiaattendees had a few min-utes of respite from thehot, humid temps afterpurchasing cold, sweet,yummy-smelling ice creamfrom Salted Creamery.

Salted Creamery sellsits products at PrairieHarvest in Newton, andKendra Burkey with thecreamery had a booth out-side the store, offering avariety of flavors, includ-ing new takes on the oldNeapolitan flavors. Hersweren't just the regularvanilla, chocolate andstrawberry. Burkey soldflavors with an artisan dipto them—berry cheese-cake, dark chocolate andvanilla bean.

“I make it with Hilde-brand milk and cream, so Iuse local ingredientswhenever I can and natu-ral and fresh whenever Ican,” Burkey said.

Burkey was one of sev-eral hundred out Thurs-day night, most of whomwere families with kids.Many of them enjoyedkids' activities in the 100block of West Sixth Street,where there were inflata-

bles, games, bubbles andat least one YMCA Zumbaclass.

Kilar Gillispie, 9, ofNewton seemed to enjoyherself blowing up a bal-loon while doing the HulaHoop. She was there forone reason.

“’cause my mom worksat the Newton Chamber,”she said. “I like the firetrucks and bouncy housesand how we got to raffle.”

Jaye Skinner, 10, ofNewton also took part inkids' activities.

“We came to do the firetruck, and Kilar came todo the fire truck, and westarted walking around,”

she said.Bill Schmitz of rural

Newton with the YMCAalso was there, releasingbubbles on the sultry airand encouraging folks todo the Hula Hoop exer-cise.

“We had three or foursisters out here doing realgood,” he said.

The YMCA also pro-vided music.

Other activities besidesthe games and bubbles in-cluded arts and crafts andbicycle safety training.There also were free snowcones, water and popcorn.

“We just come here tohave fun,” said Azaria

Pauls, 11, of Newton. “Ohyeah, having a lot of fun.”

The Newton AreaChamber of Commercealso thought it was suc-cessful.

“It was very successfuldespite the extreme heat,”said Pam Stevens, cham-ber executive director.“We hope to move it ontoMain Street next year. Wewould have more shade.The participating mer-chants said they were

busy, and it was greatsidewalk sale this year.We did bring in the cityfire truck to spray thekids from 6:45-7:15 p.m.to help keep everyonecool. We moved the side-walk sales to June hopingit would be cooler thanJuly but that is not al-ways the case.”

The five winners ofprize baskets kick-offevent were:

• Paula Miller with her

daughter Clara: winner ofthe $400 Grand PrizeBasket

• Melinda Koonce: win-ner of the “Just For Men”Prize Basket

• Tammy Willms: win-ner of the “Date Night”Prize Basket

• Andrea Jones: winnerof the “Just for Women”Prize Basket

• Michelle Mitts: win-ner of the “Family Night”Prize Basket

PHOTOS BY WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWABOVE: Kendra Burkey with Salted Creamery prepares to hand a cup full ofberry cheesecake ice cream to a customer. RIGHT: Azaria Pauls, 11, ofNewton does a Hula Hoop exercise Thursday night in the 100 block ofWest Sixth Street during Main Street Mainia.

WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWNewton resident Peggy Wambold looks at a photo of the Baptist churchwhere she had her bridal shower in Greensburg, which is her hometown.


Newton resident recalls how Greensburg tornado destroyed her hometownBY WENDY NUGENTNEWTON NOW [email protected]

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For the last five years,Newton has hosted someof the biggest parties ofpeople’s lives. From wed-dings to other socialevents, conferences andmeetings, sitting at thejunction of I-135 and US50, the Meridian Centerhas brought people fromall directions into thetown.

On Friday, July 8, thefacility will get a chanceto throw Newton a party,celebrating five years ofoperating as a showcasefacility that has exceededall expectations since itopened.

“The community de-serves a party,” MeridianCenter General ManagerMichael Lundsford said.“I’ve talked to peoplequite a bit, that we do alot of fundraising eventsthat are fun, social-typestuff. But we thought itwould be nice to do some-thing and keep the priceas basic as possible, so allI’m trying to do is coverthe cost of getting thisgroup here and let peoplehave an opportunity tojust come out, have funwith their friends, mingle,talk, eat, have a beverageif they so choose and kindof just for one night puteverything aside and justhave a good time, becausewe have had a lot of goodstuff going on here. Ithink we deserve it.”

The event will includeentertainment by 176Keys, Dueling Pianos, amusical group that hasplayed everywhere fromthe Fox Theater in New-ton to the Super Bowl.

“They are performers,”Lundsford said. “Theydon’t just get up and play.It’s a show. And they arereally good at what theydo.”

There will be finger

foods and a cash bar forparty goers with a $20ticket cost for the event. Asocial hour begins at 7p.m. with the entertain-ment starting at 7:30 andgoing until 10.

The decision to bringthe Meridian Center toNewton came as a way toboost travel and tourismto the city. The goal wasto bring in business at arate of about half comingfrom inside Newton andhalf coming from outsidethe town in order to bringin transient guest taxmoney from people stay-ing at the hotel next door.While the money gener-ated from the taxes goesback into the tourismbudget for Newton, theguests staying in townspend money, which has abig economic impact onthe community.

“The U.S. Travel Associ-ation, they have formulasthat they use to estimatethe impact of travel andtourism,” Lundsford said.“It is a little hard for us togauge, because it is a na-tional number, and forthem it’s $126 a day. Sothey say anyone whocomes to your communityis going to spend $126while they are there. Sowe can use that model tokind of roughly estimatewhat the 50 percent com-

ing from outside the com-munity spending thenight would contribute tothe community. And thosenumbers are very large, inthe millions of dollars peryear range, that peopleare coming and spendingin Harvey County.”

As both properties aremanaged by KemperSports, the addition of theMeridian Center workingtogether with Sand CreekStation has helped thegolf course bring bigevents to the communitywhich brings in big moneyas well.

“[Sand Creek GeneralManager Chris Tuohey]will tell you that he is thelittle dog chasing the bigcar,” Lundsford said. “Andthen every once in a whilehe catches the big car andhas to figure out what todo with it. They have donea fantastic job. Part ofthat equation is not onlyhaving a great golf course,but they have otherthings they need to do.For example, the [Ama-teur Public Links Cham-pionship], we did sevenevents here in five daysfor that group. That waseverything from their reg-istration to we did dinnerfor their families, we dida big banquet. So it wasThursday, Friday, Satur-day, Sunday and Monday,

all here; we were runningaround the clock.”

The location of thebuilding, in the crosshairsof two major highways,has been a big boost tothe success as well. Aspeople drive by on thehighway, it sticks out andstirs up business. Andwhile the Holiday Innacross from the MeridianCenter is a different prop-erty, they have worked to-gether to benefit eachother.

“That property nextdoor has won awards na-tionally with Holiday InnExpress, and obviouslywe’ve done extremelywell,” Lundsford said.“The way that we worktogether is we know eachother and we talk. If weneed something, we ask,and we take care of eachother if we can. [They]were over here just lastweek asking about anevent. We stay in touch.We don’t have anything todo with their business,and they don’t have any-thing to do with ours, butjust the communicationabout the different eventsis the way we do that.That just says that muchmore about our commu-nity, because this really isall about the community.”

Tickets for the anniver-sary party, as well as re-served tables for 10 canbe booked by calling salesmanager Sandy Wood at(316) 284-3100 or by e-mail at [email protected].


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Newton man killed afterstepping in front of train

An elderly Newtonman died after steppingin front of a train thisweek.

Around 7:45 a.m. onJune 17, an eastboundtrain approached theFirst St. and BNSFcrossing when a manwalked toward thetracks, according toNewton Police ChiefEric Murphy.

“The train was comingaround the bend,” hesaid. “They saw an eld-erly white male ap-proaching the tracks.”

Murphy said the sig-nal gate at the crossingwas down. The crossinglights flashed and thecrossing horn tolled.

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ued to do so to warn theman, who was now inclose proximity of thetracks.

“They then put thetrain into emergencystop mode,” he said.

The man stepped infront of the train.

He was coded blue atthe scene—in cardiacarrest—and pronounceddead at Newton MedicalCenter.

Murphy said the New-ton Police Departmentand the Newton High-way Patrol will continueto investigate the scenebut believe the incidentto be a likely suicide.Murphy said the manwas of Newton and inthe 70 to 80 age range.Murphy did not releasea name.

The crossing near theevent was closed duringthe morning. Murphysaid crews were workingto get it open for traffic.


Lawsuit dropped against police officers, sheriff's deputies

A lawsuit by an Okla-homa man against theCity of Newton, five New-ton Police officers and twosheriff’s deputies for in-juries he received follow-ing a car chase wasdropped by his attorney.

Newton City SeniorLegal Counsel Bob Myerssaid that, to his under-standing, the attorney forthe man, Bret Easley, de-cided to dismiss allcharges.

Myers explained that

the procedure was done“without prejudice,”meaning that it was possi-ble the suit could bebrought back to civil courtat a later date, thoughthere was no indicationthat would happen.

“We’re OK with him dis-missing them,” Myerssaid.

The suit stemmed froma broken collar boneEasley suffered after hewas apprehended in Har-vey County on Jan. 17,2014, after leading lawenforcement on a chasenorthbound on I-135 andwent over a number of de-ployed spike strips.

Law enforcementforcibly removed him fromthe car, taking him to theground and resulting inthe injury.

Easley was taken toNewton Medical Centerwith injures and was re-leased into Newton Policecustody, which trans-ferred him to Park CityPolice custody, which tookhim to the SedgwickCounty Jail.

The lawsuit stated atthe time Easley was with-held proper medical treat-ment for two weeks in theSedgwick County Jail andasked for $75,000 in dam-ages.


Raeanne Wiebe will besetting up her vegetablestand every Tuesday atKidron Bethel Village be-ginning June 21. Thestand will be open from2-4 p.m. in the HarvestTable dining area.

Wiebe will be selling

beets, potatoes, greenbeans, cucumbers,onions, tomatoes andsquash. The stand willgive residents and staffeasy access to fresh,homegrown, vegetables.The public is welcome tocome buy from her aswell.

“My mom lives there at

Kidron Bethel Village. Ithink this will be a greatopportunity for residentsto purchase fresh produceto snack on in theirrooms,” Wiebe said.

Wiebe has been grow-ing and selling producefor 15 years. She alsosells at the HarveyCounty Farmer’s Market.

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As combines roll out ofthe shed, Annie Pitts getsrolling in the kitchen.

Pitts, the new HarveyCounty Extension agent,said she usually shemakes 50 dozen cookiesfor her family's harvestcrew, working all day fora week. That's 600 deli-cious orbs of sweetness.

“I love to bake andhaven't lately,” said thenew Harvey County Ex-tension agent for familyand consumer sciences(FACS). “I'm like thecookie queen.”

Pitts, from Cheney,said her dad began har-vesting around Tuesday,June 7, adding she grewup on a farm.

Pitts said her mom hasa split oven, so she canmake an entire batch ofchocolate chip cookies in20 minutes. She has therecipe memorized.

“So I've kind of gottenthat down,” she said.

In addition to chocolatechip cookies, Pitts saidshe's made molassescookies and Pay Daycookies.

“Basically, almost everycookie,” she said.

Pitts graduated from K-State, where she majoredin family and consumersciences.

“I started this job twoweeks after graduation,”Pitts said.

Pitts replaces SusanJackson, who recently re-

tired after working inthat position for manyyears.

In 2014, Pitts internedwith K-State Researchand Extension in LinnCounty, where there wasno FACS agent, so shewas thrown into the fireserving as that agent forthree months during thesummer. While there, sheanswered questions andhelped with agriculturethings like tagging ani-mals. She even spent anhour chasing a goat whoescaped.

“I pretty much ran theFACS side of the fair be-cause there was no FACSagent,” Pitts said. “So,yeah, I'd say I got a lot ofgood experience.”

She's carrying that ex-perience to her new job,where she'll also helpwith the county fair. An-

other of Pitts' duties isrunning the SeniorHealth Insurance Coun-seling for Kansas pro-gram.

“In the process of get-ting trained for that,” shesaid, sitting in her office,surrounded by a varietyof decorations, like vin-tage cookbooks andshabby chic clocks.

She would like to havea frozen meal program, aswell, for the public withmaster food volunteershelping teach. For theclass, people pay a nomi-nal fee and make frozenmeals instead of purchas-ing frozen meals with lotsof additives at the grocerystore.

Pitts has other plans.“Eventually, I will do

the SNAP Ed program,”she said.

SNAP stands for Sup-

plemental Nutrition As-sistance Program, whichinvolves educating peopleabout nutrition. With theprogram, Pitts can go toschools and read a book tostudents about food andnutrition.

“I'll see the needs andthe wants for this com-munity and do programsfor it,” Pitts said.

For example, if she no-tices the county is experi-encing low birth weights,she'll present programsaddressing this issue.She'd also like to do aprogram on domestic vio-lence, but she's not sure ifshe'll be able to do thatthis year.

Pitts' interest in familyand community sciencesstems from her childhood,as she was in 4-H for 11years, doing all of thefamily and communitysciences projects at leastonce, she said. Those in-cluded home environ-ment, which is likeinterior design, where shetransformed her bedroomfrom a child's room to ateen room; foods and nu-trition; clothing construc-tion; and buymanship.

“As I got into the majorand have taken classesthat relate to the major,I've learned our missionand how it applies tohelping people,” Pittssaid. “[…] I think ourmission is really cool. I'mpassionate about FACS.”

The FACS mission is tofocus on individual fami-lies and communities andbetter them for a sustain-able and healthy life,

Pitts said. This missiongoes with the extension'smission, which is knowl-edge of life skills.

“They partner togetherreally well,” Pitts said.

As part of work, Pittscommutes to Newtonfrom Buhler, where shelives with her husband of

six months, Nate. Pittssaid they married onBlack Friday during anice storm, and his parentsreside in Harvey County.

Right now, Pitts is fo-cusing on the HarveyCounty Fair.

“I'm working on that,”she said.

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Coloring books for adults popular in Newton

Jane Medina has afriend with dementia,who watches her color.She said this helps withhis anxiety.

“I give him the finishedones to look at, too,” shesaid. “If I want him tocalm down a lot, a lot, I'llgive him one with coolcolors. […] He likes red—anything red or orange.”

Medina, 29, of Newtonis one of thousands peo-ple in the United Stateswho have taken up thelatest fad for adults—col-oring books. These color-ing books aren't like theones adults did as chil-dren; they're a lot moreintricate.

Medina also finds col-oring to be calming.

“It helps me becauseit's something creative Ican do,” she said, sittingin Mojo's next to some ofher creations. “It's reallycalming when I have alot of anxiety.”

She also uses coloringas a tool for her originalart.

“I started using the col-oring books as a solutionfor like artistic block,”Medina said. “Helps meget started and helps cor-ral my ideas. It helps […]discipline my thoughts.”

Many of the coloringbooks for adults have de-

signs that are quite de-tailed. Medina's books in-clude “Enchanted Forest”and one with mandaladesigns.

“I like these mandaladesigns,” Medina said,holding up the coloringbook. She also likes de-signs that incorporatenature.

“It's like going into an-other world,” Medinasaid about coloring.

For her work, Medinalikes to use crayons, al-though she has to usecolored pencils for “En-chanted Forest” becausethe pages are too glossy.

While some peoplecolor in groups, Medinaprefers to work alone.

“It's solitary,” she said.“I have a cat-like person-ality. I don't watch TV,really. This is like a wayto unplug like people dowith TV.”

She likes to color be-fore going to bed becauseit helps her unwind.

“Especially if there's alot on my mind, it helpsto focus,” Medina said.

Another part about col-oring, the Newton resi-dent said, is she reallylike crayons.

“I like picking the col-ors,” she said. “I lovecrayons. […] I love theway they feel in myhand.”

She also loves the waythey smell.

“Smells like child-hood,” Medina said.

Medina is a heavysmoker, she said, andwhen she works, shedoesn't smoke, so color-ing helps with any crav-ings, as crayons areabout the same size as acigarette.

“So my mind and myhands are focused,” Med-ina said.

With her other art-work, Medina uses a va-riety of media, includingacrylic paints, pastels,Sharpies, markers, wa-tercolors and coloredpencils. She's done paint-ings and made dreamcatchers. The artist alsomakes meditation rocks,which are painted quite

intricately. It's medita-tive painting them andmeditative looking atthem.

“I just paint a wholebunch of them and throwthem in my garden andlet nature have them,”Medina said about therocks. “It's all aboutcalming me down.”

Mary Enz, who worksat Eau Lily Boutique indowntown Newton,echoed those thoughts.The boutique sells color-ing books for adults, aswell as colored pencilsand handmade pencilholders.

“They're wonderful,wonderful therapy,” she

said.Enz said some cus-

tomers have told herthey invite neighborladies for coffee. Theyscatter coloring pages onthe tables and let thegals go to work.

“You can sit there, andyou're busy, you know?”Enz said.

The boutique is at-tached to local quilt shopCharlotte's Sew Natural.Sometimes women willcolor a page and then

turn that design into aquilt block, Enz said,adding grandmas like tocolor with their grand-children, too.

Others take the coloredpage and fold it into anotecard, which they useto write a letter to afriend.

“They're very, very,very detailed,” Enz saidabout the coloring books.“We do sell a lot of this.They say it's good ther-apy.”


PHOTOS BY WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWABOVE: Eau Lily Boutique in Newton has a selection of coloring booksfor adults. RIGHT: Newton resident Jane Medina colors Monday after-noon at Mojo's in North Newton.

Queen of cookies: Annie Pitts starts job as new local extension agentBY WENDY NUGENTNEWTON NOW [email protected]

WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWThe new K-State Research and Extension, Harvey County, family andconsumer sciences agent Annie Pitts, right, talks to Glenda Prieba, of-fice professional, recently at the local office.

Page 6 www.harveycountynow.com Newton Now June 23, 2016OPINION

Iown a gun. I grew up withguns. Our family farm basi-cally has a small arsenal of

arms, many of which passed downthrough the years.

In my youth, much of my timewas spent in the creek bottomhunting rabbits. On weekends, I'dgo pistol shooting, trap shooting,rifle shooting at the creek or in afield we owned with some familyfriends who were gun enthusiasts.We had the space, a functioningbackstop, and it was a cheaperplace than the range.

In my better days, I could placea pretty tight grouping on a targetwith an AR-15.

But I am an irresponsible gunowner. My dad, who taught meabout guns, is an irresponsiblegun owner.

I got my BB gun on my 10thbirthday. Mom did not approve.Mirroring “A Christmas Story”plot, she worried I'd shoot my eyeout.

My parents came to take mygun after I shot a red bird.

“I didn't think I could actuallyhit it,” I confessed.

That was not an excuse. I hadbeen lectured over and over not topoint it at anything I didn't intendto kill.

A lecture that was repeatedduring the years as I graduated toa pellet gun and then a Ruger .22short.

That Ruger had a banana clip,one we purchased before bananaclips were briefly taken off themarket. I didn't understand whatmade that specific clip so danger-ous, when a 10-shot clip was legal,but so it goes.

But before I got to use theRuger, or the Marlin .22 long mydad used as a kid, or the 12 GaugeI inherited from my grandfather, Ihad to go to Hunter SafetyClasses, which meant sittingaround at the extension office forhours on end.

At the time, in my naivete, Ididn't question why before I wasallowed to exercise my secondamendment rights, my family re-quired that I learn how to use afirearm safely.

Such practices are antiquated.Today in Kansas, I can carry a

pistol around with no training atall.

Had I had the foresight to knowabout such changes, I would havequestioned my father, when hetold me guns came with responsi-bility or that one stupid decisionwith a gun could end the life of meor another person.

Clearly, he was misinformed,needlessly fearful of a simple tool.The only way I could have donebad with a gun was if I had amental problem or was a bad per-son. And in that case, the gun did-n't matter because I'd figure out away to do it anyway.

No, unfortunately, I still carrythe scars of such irresponsibletraining today and continue to bea bad gun owner.

How do I know?Because when someone talks

about having background checksfor people who buy guns, I don'tget angry and yell. Deep down Iagree with them, and that scaresme.

When someone proposes we findcommonsense solutions as part ofa broad effort to limit gun vio-lence, I often don't view them withsuspicion. I have this idea weshould look at all solutions if wewant to solve a problem.

I have actually never worriedthe government was planning toconfiscate my guns, a fact thattroubles me deeply. I actuallyhave never even considered guncontrol a significant factor when Ivote. I don't even pay dues to theNRA, and I know that means Idon't deserve to be a gun owner.

And somehow I can't seem tounderstand why we can't regulateguns but we can regulate drunkdriving. Both cars and guns aretools, and I know a car is lethal in

the wrong hands, but I keepthinking a gun also is lethal in thewrong hands.

Now I know the answer to thisquestion should be the SecondAmendment. And I understand Ineed to ignore all historical con-text involving the Second Amend-ment. But I can't bring myself todo so.

I know I should have felt saferwhen I was eating in the restau-rant in Halstead the other dayand a disheveled man in a dirty T-shirt walked in with a pistol onhis hip. He was only there to pro-tect me from a bad person with agun. But the thing is, I didn't feelsafer.

I would like to continue to ownguns but also would not like to seepreventable mass shootings.

I know these shootings wouldstop if we would put a gun in thehands of every person, require notraining outside of a John Waynemovie.

But I can't get my mind to workthat way. I must be an irresponsi-ble gun owner.

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

reached at 316-281-7899 [email protected].

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Less local ownership injournalism not encouraging

Legislature needs to getfunding right

One of my sons said I'm men-tally challenged when itcomes to electronics. He's

right. I just want things to work. Idon't want to fix anything or figureit out. Things are just supposed torun.

That's not what happens in thereal world, however. I always haveto contact my oldest son, Rodger,who owns computer repair shops inNorth Newton and Hesston, aboutthe runnings and non-runnings ofmy computer. Once they're run-ning, I'm fine with computers. Butget me to try to fix one, and nope.

Some people will call me to getmy son's work number, which isfine, and then they'll explain theentire problem with their com-puter. I do hope they don't think Iknow how to fix whatever is wrong,because there's a really goodchance I don't. I think they proba-bly just want someone to listen tothem. I know what it's like whencomputers fail—you want it fixedbefore the problem even happenedin the first place.

When he'd explain things to me,Rodger would give his directionsreally fast, and I had no idea whathe was talking about. The old air-plane going over my head. Well,OK, I just had a flashback of himrecently telling me what to do, andit was really fast, so I guess he'sstill doing it. His mind worksspeedy on these things; it's habit

for him, but not for me.He has, however, taught me

some about computers. When I vol-unteered at his shop while doingfreelance work a while back, Imanned the store until he arrivedmost days. There were a few thingsI picked up on, and I even did workon some hard drives.

Rodger always has been good

with electronics. When he was lit-tle, he was fascinated with lightbulbs. And then he grew into moresophisticated electrical things, likeNintendo and computers. He's al-ways been very handy.

So, I spent time when he wasyoung teaching him things, likegoing to the bathroom and what-not, and then the tables turnedthese last few years. A few monthsago, the tables turned back on him,however, as he wanted to learnhow to make piecrust dough. Hecalled me around 10:30 p.m. oneweeknight and asked me about it.So, armed with my mom's wonder-ful piecrust recipe, I was ready. Itold him the directions and gavehim the ingredients. At one point, Iremember yelling into the phone,“No! No! Don't do that!” I don't re-call what “that” was, but I also toldhim to stir the oil and ice water to-gether. He didn't, saying some-thing like, “Oops.” Later, I thoughtthis conversation sounded a lot likewhen he instructs me on comput-ers. Things get repeated. Confu-sion and frustration abound.

His piecrust turned out nice forhis peach pie, however.

Anyway, I think we do prettywell teaching each other things.

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

reached at 316-281-7899 [email protected].

The teacher teaches the teacher

Last Friday was a tough one for Kansas journalism. The Lawrence Journal World, one of the few remaining

daily papers with local ownership, was sold to Ogden, anewspaper chain based in West Virginia.

On the same day, Harris Enterprises, a family owner-ship group based in Kansas, announced its search for aseller for its Kansas properties, including the SalinaJournal, Hays Daily News and its flagship, The Hutchin-son News.

It's a large group to sell, making it unlikely a small- ormedium-sized company will be able to cough up the capi-tal to buy the group or a single paper. Instead, the pur-chaser will likely be a large chain.

It's not to say that those papers, strong voices like theLJWorld and The News, will immediately fade away.They might do alright under new ownership.

Still, we hated to see it happen. It seems the more lay-ers of control between the reader and the ownership, theless invested and responsive to a community the owner-ship becomes. Readers take a backseat to share holders.Quality reporting takes a backseat to profit margins.

In the short term, there are ways of running some ofthese daily publications with far fewer staff members.The industry has made a recovery following a difficultdecade, and profits might rise for a while if some of thosecorners are cut. But it doesn't take very long to lookacross the media landscape in Kansas and find examplesof this process of less does not equal more in terms ofjournalism.

Plenty of papers have made the transition from proudpublications that a community could get behind to “Mc-Papers” built and edited elsewhere, with a few boots onthe ground to write stories of substance. The open spaceis filled with AP copy and junk food. That's not to say thepeople who do work at these papers do a bad job. Instead,they are used as commodities, hamstrung by upper levelmanagement policies, short staffing and low pay.

That occurrence is a shame. Each time a paper dimin-ishes so does the larger power of the state press. Today,with a proliferation of misinformation, a strong statepress is needed more than ever.

The state benefits from quality journalism as do its cit-izens. The papers hold elected officials accountable, pro-vide strong community voices and help citizens learnabout where they live and who makes up their communi-ties. Increased media consolidation also means the voicesdirecting our country's media grow fewer. It becomes eas-ier for the most powerful voices to drown out those of thesmaller ones.

So we hope that Ogden and whoever buys the HarrisGroup does a good job.

If not, it's a blow to journalism in Kansas as the HarrisGroup and the Lawrence Journal World company ownedstrong, proud papers.

Though it won't be the end of the world. It might justopen up a niche for the launch of a local publication fiveor 10 years down the line. And what we've found in New-ton is that if a community wants something like that, thecommunity is willing to support it.

—Newton Now Editorial Board

STRUNK IN PUBLIC

ADAM STRUNK

WENDY’S WORDS

WENDY NUGENT

Had I had the fore-sight to know aboutsuch changes, Iwould have ques-tioned my father,when he told meguns came with re-sponsibility or thatone stupid decisionwith a gun couldend the life of me oranother person.

Rodger has alwaysbeen good with elec-tronics. When he waslittle, he was fasci-nated with lightbulbs. ... He’s alwaysbeen very handy.

Members of the Kansas Legislature are under a lot ofscrutiny today as they head to Topeka for a special ses-sion that is intended to resolve a pesky school financeissue.

Over the past two weeks, they have taken harsh criti-cism for the way they have responded to a KansasSupreme Court decision that declares a tiny portion oftheir duly-passed school finance policy unconstitutional.We say tiny, because its resolution will require a minoradjustment in state law, and perhaps one percent morein the state's school funding.

Already, we're hearing about their committee meet-ings which center around a possible constitutionalamendment, pointed mainly at what they consider a lib-eral, over-reaching court.

And, there are other side issues being formulated fordiscussion in the special session which begins Thursday.

Our plea for the legislators is simple: Stick to theissue at hand. Work on verbiage and funding that willcreate mutual understanding with the court. And, mostimportantly, stay focused upon the kids of Kansas in alldeliberations.

It's a tough assignment for them, because it goesagainst the nature of their elected roles to "suck it up"and try to please another branch of government.

But we all must do that in life, don't we?Who hasn't been required to cough up more collateral

for a bank loan than they really wanted to do?Who hasn't resigned from a good-paying job, to accept

something that makes better sense for family and per-sonal health reasons?

And, who hasn't grumbled about a judge's decision,but chose to please the court and move forward to betterdays?

That's the challenge for lawmakers who will betempted to cure all things in their deliberations. Theywill be tempted to pontificate, punish and point fingers.

Let's pray they don't.In fact, let's do just that. Let's say a prayer for these

oft-maligned public servants as they huddle in theStatehouse and try for the impossible --- pleasing every-body.

May their deliberations be brief, amiable and smart.And, for Pete's sake, may every school door remain

open.— Rudy Taylor, Taylor Newspapers

CARTOON BY AMY SMARSH-JOHNSON/NEWTON NOW

June 23, 2016 Newton Now www.harveycountynow.com Page 7OPINION

“I hate war as only a soldier whohas lived it can, only as one whohas seen its brutality, its futility,its stupidity.” — Dwight D. Eisen-hower

It had been at least 20 yearssince my last trip to the Eisen-hower Museum and Presiden-

tial Library in Abilene. I used myrecent birthday to convince thekids a return trip was in order.

I figured this is an especially im-portant year to learn about one ofthe most influential presidents inhistory. In other words, I wantedthe kids to understand that theroad to the White House hasn’t al-ways been what they are seeingplayed out on the nightly news.

Upon arrival at the museum, wewatched an introductory movie tohelp give context to the rest of thevisit. The kids enjoyed it, althoughLauren (age 4) was confused aboutwhy it was in black and white.That didn’t make me feel old oranything.

At the museum, Lauren’s unex-pected and unwelcome encounterwith the head of a polar bear rugon display made me wonder whatthe kids would take away fromthis experience.

It was a gift from a RussianCzar or something like that. I did-

n’t get a chance to read the detailsas I was watching her belly crawlto avoid its gaze. Eisenhowerwould have been impressed by herinfantryman moves.

Sensing I was living on bor-rowed time, I sped it up thoughthe rest of the exhibits.

I did have the chance to readabout Eisenhower’s work to bringthe Korean War to a quick end andwas surprised to learn his son,John, was serving in that war.

Dwight and Mamie said goodbyeto their son, surrounded by mem-bers of the press. They didn’t dareexpress emotion as it would onlybe played out in the latest storyline. They stood in silence, lettingtheir eyes speak instead.

And that became my takeawayfrom the experience. Back home, I

did some additional research. What wasn’t explained in the ex-

hibit, was that they knew hewould be an easy mark for kidnap-ping. His capture would be valu-able leverage, as his father wasthe Republican nominee.

In 2008, John Eisenhower wrotean editorial to the New YorkTimes titled, “Presidential Chil-dren Don’t Belong in Battle.” Hespoke from his unique perspectiveof serving in World War II whilehis father was Supreme AlliedCommander, and again while hisfather was running for office.

He described the private meet-ing with his father prior to depart-ing for battle. They spoke of thepotential of capture and devised acontingency plan. His fatheragreed he would resign from thepresidency. His son said he wouldtake his own life instead.

The love of a father for his son.The man became much more thana bronze sculpture surrounded byfive stars. His words about thestupidity of war carry new mean-ing.

Kind of brings new perspectiveto this Father’s Day weekend,doesn’t it?

Tina Payne is the director of theHarvey County United Way.

Eisenhower museum gives food for thought Weigh in

Clarity neededfor education funding

If you read only the headline formy last column, you would think Iwant children to starve. The pointof my last column is we are becom-ing too dependent on government,and free lunches are just an exam-ple of that.

Another example is the incessantwhining from the media and schooldistricts about getting shutdown. All you read in articles ishow the evil Republican governorand Republican legislature areholding the districts hostage. Youdon’t read about how a few un-elected judges deemed 1 percent,read that again, 1 percent of themoney for the schools isn’t beingspent right so they will shut downthe schools. Well, they will hold themoney hostage and not let the statetransfer it to the schools. They areOK with 99 percent of how themoney is being spent but threatena massively expensive shutdownover 1 percent they are not happywith.

To me, this is an example of themyopic view of the world liberalstend to take. They berate me for‘wanting to starve children’ whenall I want is more personal respon-sibility by the parents. Then, whenthey are threatened by a liberalcourt, they scream and blamesomeone else. They can’t seem tomake the connection to the factwhen you are dependent on govern-ment for something, they can takeit away at a whim. There was re-porting about how latchkey andfree lunches will stop on July1. These programs were set up forthe convenience of the parents, butthey also put small child care facili-ties out of business. I didn’t see any

crying from the media then. I alsodon’t think this current shut downwould put anyone out if it was allprivately ran. To be fair, from whatI have read, the district is beingprudent and making plans to com-pletely mothball the district facili-ties. Is it going to get thatfar? Probably not, but it’s worth alook anyway. What I find funny isthe reporting last week included anarticle or column almost every daypredicting doom and gloom but notplacing the blame where itbelongs: the un-elected judges whoare holding 99 percent of the schoolmoney hostage. This is a result ofthe money USD 373, and others,have spent over the decades fund-ing an endless series of lawsuitstrying to (and winning) milk moremoney out of the taxpayers.

The district spends $13,000-$14,000 per student per year to ed-ucate our youth. In a classroom of25 students, that is over $325,000per classroom per year. The privateschool I send my kids to spendsaround $6,500-$7,000 per studentper year.

Our classrooms average 12 stu-dents for less than $100,000 peryear. When I ask why the differ-

ence, I always get vagueanswers. The answer is simple:when you have a monopoly anddon’t need to compete, you will al-ways be less efficient. They needmore money? Just milk the taxpay-ers for more. If my school needsmore money, they have to ask medirectly for it and then be willing toexplain the need. In the ‘real world’when you provide a good or service,you have to provide value for thatproduct or you will soon be out ofbusiness. In a government monop-oly, that incentive is much less.

I have attended another ‘visionsession’ with the district and cansay we are starting to make someheadway. They are putting to-gether a strategy for the future andthe last meeting gently touched onfacilities. I feel this is the ultimategoal of the whole exercise. Theschool board found substantial re-sistance to another bond issue lastyear, so they had to try a new tac-tic. They thought nothing to spend$75,000 on an architecture firm tohelp the district figure out their vi-sion. Note that they hired an archi-tecture firm, not just an educationconsultant firm. I will do my best tostay involved in the process, butyou can bet there will be a bondissue come out of this even whenwe are paying on $10s of millions ofold debt. $75,000 pays for a lot ofbooks, supplies, etc. I don’t knowwhat the utility costs are for thedistrict, but I bet $75,000 wouldkeep some buildings open if thecourts shut down the schools.

Jason Mitchell is a local landlordand chair of the Harvey County Re-

publican Party.

Liberals, media take myopic funding view

BRINGIN’ THE PAYNE

TINA PAYNE

MY VIEWS

JASON MITCHELL

One of the joys of being an educator is seeing that ahamoment of understanding. I hope Kansans can have amoment of clarity on education funding.

K-12 funding is at an all-time high with increasesevery year since 2011 (KSDE). That’s readily availableto anyone willing to know. For 2017, K-12 receives $4billion state and another $2 billion federal and local.

The court did not rule $4 billion wasn’t enough. Itruled on how money is divided between districts. ReadRep. Rhoades’ equalization blog on my Facebook.

Kansas far outspends the U.S. average, but an un-elected court, selected by a small group of undisclosedlawyers, keeps threatening chaos and rewardinglawyers suing the state.

School lawsuits have been a huge money maker forthe same lawyers for over a decade.

This latest shakedown wouldn’t even go to class-rooms, but to lawyers and local municipalities, and notnecessarily to poorer counties. Does that sound equi-table?

Usual responses:“Until you’ve taught in the classroom…” For a com-

bined 51 years, my husband and I have been publicschool teachers and principals.

“KPERS.” KSDE’s Dale Dennis is on record thatKPERS has gone directly to schools since 2005. (He alsoacknowledged special ed. funding has gone directly toschools for a decade.) Even excluding KPERS, educationfunding increased.

“Inflation.” K-12 state funding has exceeded inflationby tens of millions.

“Three-legged stool.” Before 2014, 20 mills of state aidwere credited as local. State funding was even higherthan recorded, and it still went up. Of the three legs, thestate pays more.

“BSAPP.” The old funding formula used Base StateAid multiplied by numerous weightings for total statefunding. When people name drop BSAPP now, they failto mention weightings. Bottom line: K-12 state fundinghas increased.

“Districts are spending more.” That’s true. But howhard is it to spend more? K-12’s 2010 cash reserve was$705 million. By 2015, it was $853 million. Their sav-ings grew. Did yours?

“Then why does our district keep cutting teachers andprograms?” Now, there’s a question. And why do theyalways cut where it hurts most?

As a USD 373 school board member and USD 259principal, I’ve seen many poor spending decisions. USD373 circulated a letter on spending but failed to mentionthe $1 million health insurance mistake it made lastyear or $3,000 vases (each) purchased years ago or theadministrative building some dub the Taj Mahal.

USD 373’s superintendent ranks 45th in Kansas inoverall pay, while its teachers rank 128th.

Is that equitable?Is it equitable teachers are told there’s no money for

supplies, but USD 373 spent $75,000 this year on archi-tects to develop vision/mission statements for new con-struction?

Is it equitable board members and district office ad-ministrators travel at taxpayer expense throughout theU.S. while cutting educational field trips for students?

Is it equitable superintendents and others use schooltime to push liberal politics? I know personally; conser-vatives are pressured to stay quiet.

I could go on, and I’m willing to, until every open-minded Kansan gets it and has their own aha moment.

Schools have become platforms for liberals to pushtheir agendas, and until parents and teachers wake up,a liberal court and a few lawyers will keep pushing,even if the money doesn’t go to teachers or classrooms.

True change will only occur when we focus on issuesthat directly impact student achievement and equalityin our districts. I want to give students, parents andteachers a fresh, clear voice in Topeka. If you have ques-tions, contact me. I’d love for you to have your own ahamoment.

Renee EricksonNewton school board member

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will need to raise revenues, cutspending or both.

“We are clearly on an unsus-tainable path,” CommissionerBarth Hague said. “We have gotto turn this around.”

Commissioner David Ny-gaard said at the meeting thatthe public needs to be madeaware of the city's currentbudget situation as Newton'slocal press has not been pre-senting the public with thefacts, in his opinion.

“They need to know this, be-cause when it comes down toraising taxes five or six mills,there’s not going to be a lot ofhappy campers.”

Simply put, the city budget-

ing process could be messy thisyear and may end with signifi-cant tax increases, cuts to bemade or both. Throw in a loom-ing property tax cap and a planfor an $8 million police stationand this upcoming budgetingprocess grows even more com-plex.

For the city, this would be thelast year it could raise propertytaxes above inflation rates with-out triggering a public vote.

Taxes would likely have to beraised to fund a new police sta-tion. If those taxes were raisedfor 2017, the action could betaken without a public vote. By2018, from discussion that tookplace at the work session, rais-ing property taxes enough topartially or fully fund the proj-ect would require a ballot initia-tive.

Mayor Glen Davis said alarge expenditure such as a po-lice station should be put on theballot to allow voters to makeand own their decision. Davissaid he also believed voterswould approve the measure.

Other commission membersworried that the communitywould not have an appetite fortax increases.

“I'm not sure putting it on theballot will bring the responsewe want,” Commissioner KathyValentine said.

“I have the same feeling asKathy,” Commissioner BarthHague said. “We have an elec-tion and we'll be remodeling the[current] station.”

The commission saw threedifferent preliminary budgetscompiled from city depart-ments. One consisted solely of

department requests, one of re-quests plus needs labeled es-sential, and finally oneincluding both discretionaryand essential needs.

The first budget submittedwith only department requestswould be $167,000 smaller thanthe current budget. The budgetconsisting of requests plus es-sential needs, such as funds forprisoner care with jail pricesgoing up, would be roughly thesame as the adopted budget for2016 and the budget includingall departments discretionaryrequests would come in at$20.87 million.

Items such as the debt pay-ments for a new police buildingas well as $165,000 funding forupkeep of the WarkentineHouse, and $225,000 for twoadditional police officers and an

evidence custodian/detectivewere included in the discre-tionary budget submission.

Commissioners at the meet-ing expressed backing for finan-cial support for the WarkentineHouse, which the city owns, aswell as adding on police offi-cers.

Now it remains up to thecommissioners to figure outwhat sort of budget to approve,if they want to consider spend-ing down reserves, if they wantto increase taxes, make cuts ordo a combination of the above.

The next budget work sessionwill be scheduled at 4:30 p.m.before the city commissionmeeting on Tuesday, June 28.Another budget work session isscheduled for Thursday, June30, at 9 a.m., according to thecity calendar.

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The restaurant closed and his motherpassed away in 1998.

Miguel said the family has continueddoing private catering and working festi-vals like Taste of Newton, however.

“My mother had a reputation for 40years,” he said. “A lot of people enjoyedher food, and we're carrying on herrecipes and memory,” he said.

Corona owns the restaurant with hiswife, Jocelyn. He said Roque Camachoand Lee Kerschen are part owners of therestaurant.

The restaurant is open 11 a.m. to 7p.m.

Billy Sims BarbecueBilly Sims Barbecue will hold a soft

opening on June 30, with a grand open-ing likely to be held in mid July.

Franchise Owner David Dunn was onhand in the restaurant Tuesday, June 21,overseeing finishing touches for therestaurant, which will open up in the oldLong John Silver's building at 1414 N.Main St.

The will serve ribs, brisket, pulledpork, chicken, to some unique offeringslike turkey and bologna.

Dunn also operates Billy Sims loca-tions in Arkansas City and Andover.

“It's all about the quality of meat weuse and the pecan wood,” he said, ex-plaining why people should give therestaurant a try.

Billy Sims BBQ is a Tulsa based chainwith 48 locations in five states foundedby Heisman award winner and NFL foot-ball player Billy Sims.

Dunn said it was likely Sims wouldmake an appearance at the grand open-ing, though the date for the event is stillto be announced.

Newton DonutNewton Donut recently opened at 1710

Main Street. The shop is operated by Sophannarath

Poeur and serves donuts, croissants aswell as pigs in a blanket.

Poeur previously operated a DaylightDonuts in Oklahoma. Hours posted forthe restaurant are Monday through Sat-urday from 5:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and onSunday from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.

12 Brew Drive-Thru12 Brew Drive-Thru is now up and run-

ning at 220 E 12th StreetLocal business owner Murray Ander-

son remodeled an aging car wash to cre-ate the drive-through coffee shop, 12Brew Drive-Thru, which offers coffee,local pastries and local breads, all in theconvenience of customers’ own cars.

The restaurant serves coffee roasted byReverie Coffee Roasters in Wichita, cin-namon rolls and scones from The Bread-basket, and bread and croissants fromCrust and Crumb.

It also serves a full menu of espressos,coffees and specialty drinks from a driveup as well as a walk up window.

Stores hours are from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.on weekdays and possibly be a bit lateron weekends.

ADAM STRUNK/NEWTON NOWOwners Roque Camacho, left, and Miguel Coronapose in Nena's Mexican Carry Out that opened re-cently at 1728 N. Main Street

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harvest since he passed away about 10years ago,” Mindy said.

This year, the Budde clan startedwheat harvest on Wednesday, June 8,and were done by the following Tues-day. They missed the heavy rains onWednesday, June 15.

“I didn't think it'd start until Fridayor Saturday,” Bill said about the har-vest.

They took a sample, which was at14.2 or 14.3 percent moisture, and theyknew it was time to harvest. At thetime, it was hot and dry outside.

Bill said their first cut had 12.2 per-cent moisture.

“That was three days earlier than weexpected to start, so harvest was a lotearlier this year,” Mindy said. “Our goalis to get done by the Fourth of July.”

They have more than 1,000 acres ofwheat with 60 bushels per acre.

During harvest, they had absolutelyno rain.

“Worked out just beautiful,” Bill said.“Hot and windy every day.”

“It wasn't our best crop in the lastfive years, but it wasn't our worst crop,”Mindy added.

Bill said the best thing for him thisharvest was having family and friendshelp. Now, they have a younger genera-tion of grandkids running the com-bines.

When Mindy was young, she startedrunning combines at age 7 or 8, shesaid. Back then, combines cost $25,000and had 20-foot headers. Now, com-bines are around $250,000 with 40-footheaders.

“You're entrusting an 11- and 13-year-old with a quarter of a million dol-lar machine,” Mindy said. “[…] Onething I attribute to a fast harvest waswe started early so the lines weren't aslong at Ardent.”

Granddaughter Courtney White, 13,enjoyed harvest this year.

“Favorite part is getting to drive thecombines,” she said. “Me and Jacobswitched off between combines and gotto drive with Grandpa,” addingGrandpa jumped out and she got todrive by herself. “It was pretty awe-

some getting to learn from Grandpa.”He also had a good time.“It was fun because I had never

driven anything that big,” he said,adding he had to drive the combineclose to the grain cart since they “un-loaded on the go.”

One part of their job wasn't so pleas-ant.

“We had to blow off the combines andgrain carts [and semis],” Peterson said.

“First day it hit 100, and they had toclean them off,” Mindy said, chuckling.

In addition to those already men-tioned, others assisting with harvestthis year included Peterson's friendDylan McBee, who helped get thingsready; Steve Hartnett, who traveledfrom Stafford and stayed; and MattRegier, neighbor and employee whohelped get machines ready and servicedevery morning. There also was abrother-in-law helping out, as well asMindy. Mindy and Bill run BuddeFarms.

During harvest, about 95 percent ofthe time, Mindy said she runs theplanter, planting soybeans and milo.

“Because they have to be done at thesame time,” Mindy said. “If there's aspare minute, someone is running theharrow over the ground to spread thestraw,” or whatever else needs to bedone. “There's a million things at that

one minute.”During harvest, life still goes on.

There's still chores to do, ballgames toattend and 4-H matters to attend to.

“There's still life,” Mindy said.Harvest includes doing a lot of work

in a short amount of time.“It wouldn't be possible without all

the employees helping,” Mindy said.This year marked the second year

without Mom, Linda Budde, whopassed away June 5, 2015, just beforeharvest last year. Mindy's mom used tohelp with the all meals, as well as mov-ing headers, and shuffling kids backand forth to fields.

“Yes, it's a family affair,” Mindy said.“So everybody contributes. […] All of uslive within five miles of each other.”

In addition to the wheat harvest,Grandpa Budde does something elsewith his grandkids, which is building ahot rod from scratch. Peterson saidthey've been working on the red vehiclefor five years now. When they're done,he plans on driving it, and at least oneof the grandkids will take it to prom.Budde has five grandchildren and onegreat-grandchild. When Budde was inhigh school, he built one but soon after,he got married and there was a baby onthe way, so he sold it.

“That's not very practical for a wifeand baby,” he said.

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WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWWheat harvest for the Budde family started Wednesday, June 8, and finished the following Tuesday.

driving during the courseand the second week of theirsession. The first week, theyspent in class.

“Class part's pretty boring,but get the work done,” stu-dent Jason Henrich, 15, said.

“But have you learnedanything?” Triggs asked thestudent, who sat in the backseat.

“Yes, quite a bit, actually,”Henrich said.

Another student, AmberCox, 15, also said shelearned things in class.

“I've actually learned somesigns I haven't seen before,”she said about road signs.This includes a wide inter-section sign.

She said their classstarted Monday, June 13,and she's planning on get-ting her restricted licensethe last day of class.

The third student, HectorCamacho, was the first stu-dent to drive. Before theydrove anywhere, Triggsschooled them on differentparts of the vehicle, such asthe turn signal, warningflashers, where to adjust theseat, the horn, cruise control,tachometer, odometer andfuel gauge.

He said things to Camacholike “Move that down andoperate the turn signal,”“This will push it back andbring it up” and “This is thelumbar.”

He also joked with stu-dents.

“First driver is always re-sponsible for checking thefuel,” Triggs said. “If we runout of gas, you're walking.Not me.”

The ride was not at theleisurely Sunday-driverpace. They had business toattend to. First, Triggs hadCamacho drive in and out ofa line of bright orange conesin the Chisholm MiddleSchool parking lot—first for-ward and then backward, allthe while Triggs giving in-structions. Then it was outof the parking lot, first stop-ping at at least one stop signand off to some side streetsto practice various ways ofturning, including a three-point turn, U-turn and back-ing out of a driveway.

Once downtown, they ven-tured onto the one-waystreet near the train station.

“That car is going thewrong way,” Triggs ex-claimed, pointing, seeing acar headed toward them,which pulled into a parkingspot before there was achance for a collision.

Triggs mentioned to Ca-macho he thought Camachohad done a lot of driving, ashe drove well, only having tohit the brakes real hard onetime, during about the hour-long drive.

At a stop, Triggs also toldCamacho, “When you stop,you wanna stop behind thewhite line. That's the stopline.”

“Watch your speed,”Triggs joked with the stu-dent. “You're over 20. You'rethe one who gets the ticket,not me.”

In addition, Triggs hadCamacho do the dreaded

parallel parking, which hedid with flying colors.

Triggs said it used to bestudents had to have somany driving hours and nowthey have competencies theyhave to pass at either 80percent or 90 percent. Youthhave to have an instructionpermit for a year, whichthey can get at age 14,Triggs added. Then at 15,they can get a restricted li-cense, where they can driveto and from school and toand from work. They dohave to have the instructionpermit for a year before get-ting the restricted permit,however.

Students have to be 14 totake driver education, and ifthey pass the district'shandbook class, they can getan instruction permit fromthe Department of MotorVehicles. They have to havethat before they can get anykind of license, Triggs said.

Of course, any kind ofdrivers education class in-volves driving. While thefirst drive included drivingaround town, future classeswill include going to otherplaces. For example, the sec-ond ride had students cruis-ing on dirt roads, the fourthride will review in-towndriving, and for the fifthride, they'll go to Wichita onthe interstate.

If students don't pass,they'll do some extra drivingunless the state closes theschool, Triggs said. The lastday of class is supposed tobe July 1, which is the dateschools might be shuttered.

WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWStudent Hector Camacho looks behind him during a maneuver Mondaymorning.

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The Newton Police Department par-ticipated in a brief foot chase beforeusing a taser on a man and arrestinghim on June 15.

The man, Frank Lewis, 48, was ar-rested on charges of aggravated bat-tery, obstruction of a law enforcementofficer and on escaping from custody.

According to Scott Powell, Lewis vis-ited the Harvey County Courthouse onJune 14, where he admitted to a paroleofficer he had consumed alcohol, whichviolated his parole. The officer told himhe would have to do a 48-hour stint injail the next day for the violation.

He returned June 15 to the Court-house and met the parole officer heav-ily intoxicated.

“They were ready to issue a warrant,and he then shoved a probation officerand ran out,” Powell said.

Lewis got out of the building, andthe police department was notified.

“Our guys were called and theyfound him,” Powell said. “Then he ranfrom our guys.”

Powell said officers used a taser insubduing Lewis and then arrested him.

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Brenda I.Pfortmiller(Soles), 76, ofNewtonpassed awayTuesday,June 14,2016.

She wasborn to Lyleand AnnaSweasy on Oct. 12, 1939,in Caldwell. Brenda mar-ried Joe Bill Soles, and to-gether they had threesons, Allen, David andMark. Brenda’s husbandJoe passed away in 1971.In 1995, she married KenPfortmiller in Las Vegas.They enjoyed traveling to-gether for many years.

Brenda took great in-terest in quilting, makingone for each of her eightgrandchildren. She alsoenjoyed studying the ge-nealogy of her family.She was a member ofCowtown Social Club,Prairie Quilt Guild, RedHat Society and the Ap-plique Ladies Group.

She was preceded indeath by her parents, Lyle

and AnnaSweasy;brother, LarrySweasy; firsthusband, JoeBill Soles; andsecond husbandKen Pfort-miller.

She is sur-vived by her

sons, Allen Soles, DavidSoles, and Mark and wifeLesli Soles; grandchil-dren, Ciera, Kylie, Kate-lyn, D.J., McCayla,Casondra, Jeremy andThomas; great-grandchil-dren, Cassie, Simon andConner; and sister, Vickyand husband Bill Auman.

Burial was at 9 a.m.Saturday, June 18, atKechi Township Cemeteryin Kechi, followed by amemorial service at 10:30a.m. at Trinity HeightsUnited Methodist in New-ton.

Memorial contributionsmay be made to Cowtownor Newton Area SeniorCenter. Condolences maybe left at www.petersen-familyfuneralhome.com.

BRENDA I. PFORTMILLER

Durwood L Oblander,86, died Friday, June 17,2016, in Newton. He wasborn April 29, 1930, inMarion to Jacob and Ellen(Morse) Oblander.

On Sept. 1, 1956, hemarried LaWanda R.Flaming at Alexander-wohl Church in Goessel,and she survives of thehome.

Durwood worked inmanufacturing during hiscareer including at Guir-don Industries, BuntingMagnetics and Miraflex.He and his wife ownedand operated an orchardin rural Newton wherethey raised peaches, pearsand many fruit trees.Durwood is survived byhis wife LaWanda of the

home; daughter SherylWright of Wichita; twosisters, Carol Hett of Mar-ion and Darlene Hiebertof St. Augustine, Fla.

He was preceded indeath by his parents, twobrothers and one sister.

Graveside committalservice was at 9 a.m.Tuesday, June 21, atRestlawn Gardens ofMemory in rural Newtonwith Pastor Jay Andersonpresiding. Visitation was5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Mondayat Petersen FuneralHome with the family re-ceiving friends from 6:30to 8 p.m. at the funeralhome.

Memorials are sug-gested to Asbury Park incare of the funeral home.

DURWOOD OBLANDER

Evelyn (Stucky) Frey,88, Newton, died on June18, 2016.

She was born July 3,1927, at the Alta Mill,Moundridge, to John E.Stucky and Katie E.(Friesen) Stucky. Shelived there until her mar-riage to J.R. Frey on May27, 1948.

She was preceded indeath by her husbandJ.R. Frey, sisters FeodoraMueller and Melba

Nachtigal, brother Ran-som Stucky, and infantbrother Jacob Stucky.

She is survived byson John and his wifePatricia of Athens, Ala.,son Monty and his wifeLinda of Goessel,daughter Rebecca and

her husband G.K.Rhoads of Omaha, Neb.,seven grandchildren and14 great-grandchildren.

Evelyn was a memberof the Bethel CollegeMennonite Church, ahomemaker and was aretired elementary schoolteacher.

Family and friends areinvited to a memorialservice in celebration ofEvelyn’s life at 11 a.m.Friday, July 1, at BethelCollege MennoniteChurch. In lieu of flow-ers, memorials may besent to the Bethel Col-lege Church Library orthe Sedgwick Elemen-tary School Library incare of Petersen FuneralHome, Newton.

EVELYN FREY

Mildred L.Unruh, em-ployed atSouthwesternBell Tele-phone for 32years, retir-ing in May1980, died atAsbury Parkin Newton.

The service is at 10a.m. Friday, June 24, atPetersen Funeral Home,215 N. Main St.,Newton.

Visitation is from 5 to9 p.m. Thursday with thefamily from 6 to 8 p.m.greeting friends.

She was born to Cor ne -lius and Sara (Schroeder)

Unruh at Goes-sel.

Survivors in-clude friendsand neighborsin the Goesseland Newtonarea.

Memorialsmay be madeto the Gideons

International, P.O. Box140800, Nashville, TN,37214-0800, or FirstMennonite Church, Attn:Caring Fund, P.O. Box291, Newton, KS, 67114-0291.

Condolences may beleft to the family via: pe-tersenfamilyfuneral-home.com.

MILDRED UNRUH

Carolyn J. Wedel, 74,a farmer, jeweler andhomemaker, died Fri-day, June 10, 2016, ather home in Goessel.

A graveside servicewas June 18 at Blumen -feld Cemetery in ruralMar ion County.

She was born Jan. 4,1942, to John A. andBertha (Frey) Schroederat Goessel.

Survivors include son

Chanin and wife CorinaWe del of Newton; daugh-ter Tammy Wedel ofMinnesota; brothersRobert Schroeder of Man-hattan and DonaldSchroeder of Hesston;and four grandchildren.

Memorials may bemade to the donor’schoice and sent in care ofPetersen Fu neral Home,215 N. Main St., Newton,KS, 67114.

CAROLYN WEDEL

JuanitaMonares, 93,of Newton,died Sunday,June 19, 2016,at KansasChristianHome in New-ton.

Juanita wasborn on April13, 1923, in San Antonio,the daughter of Soledadand Saturnina (Corona)

Sanchez. She married Salvador

Monares on Oct. 28,1943, in San Antonio.

Survivors include herhusband, Salvador, ofthe home in Newton;sons, Robert Monaresand Dany Monares withhis wife Luci, all of New-ton; daughters, GloriaWhisler, with husbandRick, and DaynaMonares, all of Wichita;brothers, EdwardSanchez of San Antonioand Eugene Sanchez ofColumbus, Ga.; sisters,Rosa Ybarra and Pat Fa-cundo, both of San Anto-nio; three grandchildren,Ryan Whisler, Omar andAshley Monares, and

RomanMonares; onegreat-grandson,DuncanMonares; alongwith manynieces andnephews.

Juanita waspreceded indeath by her

parents; sister, Susie; son-in-law, George Dick; andbrothers, Joe, Catarinoand Felix.

Recitation of the HolyRosary will be said 7 p.m.Thursday June 23, 2016,with the Mass of Chris-tian Burial at 10 a.m. Fri-day, June 24, both at OurLady of GuadalupeCatholic Church. Inter-ment will be in St. Mary’sCatholic Cemetery inNewton.

The casket will be openat the church after 1 p.m.Thursday.

A memorial has beenestablished with Our Ladyof Guadalupe CatholicChurch; contributionsmay be sent to BroadwayColonial Funeral Home,120 E. Broadway, Newton,KS, 67114.

JUANITA MONARES

Hilarion“Leo” Ter-rones, 86, ofNewton, diedMonday, June20, 2016, atthe KidronBethel Centerin North New-ton.

He wasborn on Oct. 21, 1929, inNewton, the son ofThomas and Clara LandinTerrones. Leo was raisedand attended schools inNewton. He marriedEmily Juarez.

After spending 46 yearswith the Santa Fe Rail-road, Leo retired on Oct.4, 1991. He was a lifelongmember of Our Lady ofGuadalupe CatholicChurch.

Survivors include hissons, David Terrones ofNewton, and James Ter-rones and wife Janet ofOlathe; daughters, SophiaMartinez and husbandTony Jr. of Newton, VeraEspinoza of Hutchinson,Gloria Warner and hus-band Kevin of Hutchin-son, and Patricia Gosselinand husband Chad ofAbbeyville; sister, LorrieLujano of Newton; 11

grandchildren;15 great-grand-children; andone great-great-grandchild;along withmany niecesand nephews.

Leo was pre-ceded in deathby his parents;

brothers, Foster, Alfred,Gene and Andrew Ter-rones; and sisters, Ven-tura Campa, HopeGonzalez and Anna Ter-rones.

The Recitation of theHoly Rosary will be saidat 7 p.m. Friday, June 24,with the Mass of Chris-tian Burial at 10a.m. Saturday, June 25,both at Our Lady ofGuadalupe CatholicChurch. Interment will bein the St. Mary’s CatholicCemetery in Newton.

The casket will be openafter 3 p.m. Friday at thechurch.

A memorial has beenestablished with thebuilding fund of Our Ladyof Guadalupe CatholicChurch, and contribu-tions may be sent toBroadway Colonial Fu-neral Home.

HILARION ‘LEO’ TERRONES

Elsie(Harder)Regier, 97,died Thurs-day, June 16,2016, at herrural Newtonresidence.

She wasborn Sept. 9,1918, inWhitewater to Gustavand Anna (Wiebe)Harder. On May 17,1945, she married Her-man B. Regier at Em-maus Church inWhitewater, and he pre-ceded her in death onSept. 27, 1998. Elsie wasa longtime member of theFirst Mennonite Churchin Newton. She enjoyedthe farm life and did notshy away from work,helping her husbandfarm and raise livestock.Elsie enjoyed her timeliving at Kidron BethelApartments, makingfriends and connectingwith people before mov-ing back to the farm tolive with her daughterand her family. She washappy to reconnect withher daughter and familyand grow closer to eachother during her finalyears. Elsie was devotedto her Lord and Saviorand read her Bible everymorning. She enjoyedspending time with herloving family and manyfriends.

She is survived by her

daughter,Karen Regierof Newton; son,James Regierof Haysville;two brothers,GerhardHarder ofWhitewaterand ArthurHarder of

Olathe; sister, Ella JudyHarnly of Lancaster, Pa.;six grandchildren; andfour great-grandchildren.She was expecting herfifth great-grandchildsoon.

Elsie was preceded indeath by her parents,husband, four brothersand four sisters.

Funeral service was at11 a.m. Wednesday, June22, at First MennoniteChurch in Newton withPastors Anita Kehr andKay Schroeder presiding.Graveside committalservice preceded the me-morial at 10 a.m.Wednesday at Green-wood Cemetery in New-ton. Visitation was 5 to 9p.m. Tuesday at PetersenFuneral Home in Newtonwith the family receivingfriends from 6:30 p.m. to8 p.m. at the funeralhome.

Memorials are sug-gested to the Alzheimer’sAssociation of Wichita orFirst Mennonite Churchcaring fund both in careof Petersen FuneralHome.

ELSIE REGIER

Card shower requestedfor Kessler’s 100th birthday

Mary Kessler will be100 years old on Friday,June 24.

To mark her centennialbirthday, a card showeris planned.

Send a note or card toarrive on or around June24 to: Mary Kessler, 1200E. Seventh St, NewtonKS 67114.

She will be verypleased to receive yourgreetings.

Presbyterian Manor ishosting a reception from2 to 4 p.m. Friday, June24, in the Main DiningRoom, and TrinityHeights United

Methodist Church ishosting a reception

after the 9 a.m. serviceat 10 a.m. on Sunday,June 2, in Murray Hall.

Thursday, June 237:30 a.m.—City Commission agenda review, Newton

City Hall3:30 to 5:30 p.m.—Free mini golf lessons. Register

for a free 10-minute lesson from the pros at SandCreek Station. Stay for special Thursday rate of twoplayers for $24 after 3:30 p.m. through June. Registra-tion is required. Call (316) 284-6161 to sign up for les-son or tee times. Sand Creek Station.

6 to 8 p.m.—Adult painting workshop. GatheredGoods is hosting “Colors of the Night,” an paintingworkshop for adults. Learn basic painting, blendingand shading techniques, and create a work to takehome. Cost is $25 and includes supplies. Register atGathered Goods, 625 N. Main.

7 p.m.—Newton Area Cancer Support Group,Shalom Mennonite Church, 800 E. First St. The topicof discussion will be “Living with Cancer” led by Eve-lyn Mierau.

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

Saturday, June 25Kids Fishing Clinic. Kids will learn about fishing

with instructional time and an opportunity to go fish-ing. Hot dog lunch will be served. A parent orguardian must attend with children. Free, but regis-tration is required. Call (316) 283-5420 for more infor-mation. Harvey County West Park.

8 a.m. to noon—Harvey County Farmers Market.Fresh produce, baked goods and other handmadeitems. Parking lot at 121 E. Sixth St., Newton

3 p.m.—Teen Screen. Teens are invited for a freeshowing of “Star Wars 7.” Newton Public Library

6 p.m.—Picnic and Concert in the Park. Grand Cen-tral will host the fourth-annual Picnic and Concert inthe Park. Event will feature the Great Plains Jazz Or-chestra, a best pie auction, prize drawings and a bar-becue. Tickets are $15 in advance and $16 at the gatefor adults and $6.50 for kids. Benefits Grand Centraland Newton Meals on Wheels. Krehbiel Park

9 p.m.—Movie at the Boat Dock. CaNewton will hosta movie under the stars at the boat ramp at FourthStreet and Sand Creek. Bring blankets or lawn chairsand non-alcoholic refreshments. Free.

Monday, June 279 a.m—Harvey County Commission Meeting at the

Courthouse7 p.m.—BOE Meeting, McKinley Administration

Center

Tuesday, June 283 to 6 p.m.—Harvey County Farmers Market. Fresh

produce, baked goods and other handmade items.Parking lot at 121 E. Sixth St., Newton

1 p.m.—Author talk. Grant Overstake will discusshis book “Don’t Quit Use Grit.” A book signing will fol-low the discussion. Newton Public Library

7 p.m.—City Commission meeting, Newton CityHall

Wednesday, June 296 to 8 p.m.—Beginner’s Watercolor: Playing with

Color. Third of four beginner’s watercolor workshops,“Amazing Textures.” Each workshop is $35 with allsupplies included. Class sizes are limited. Contact thegallery at (316) 284-2749 to reserve a space. CarriageFactory Gallery, 128 E. Sixth St., Newton

6 p.m.—Newton Rebels vs. Valley Center DiamondDogs. Adult admission is $3. Centennial Park, Newton

Thursday, June 309 a.m.—City Commission 2017 budget, Newton City

Hall3:30 to 5:30 p.m.—Free mini golf lessons. Register

for a free 10-minute lesson from the pros at SandCreek Station. Stay for special Thursday rate of twoplayers for $24 after 3:30 p.m. through June. Registra-tion is required. Call (316) 284-6161 to sign up for les-son or tee times. Sand Creek Station

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

Do you have an event you'd like listed in theCommunity Calendar? If so, contact Mike Mendezat 316-281-7899 or [email protected].

CORRECTIONIn the June 16 edition of Newton Now, the pool man-

ager should have been listed as Elizabeth Brown. New-ton Now apologizes for the error.

Walton museum to open WALTON—The Walton

Historical Society willhave the museum openfor the public duringJune and July.

The museum will beopen from 2 to 4 p.m. thesecond and fourth Sun-days, and it can beopened other times bycontacting Steph at theWalton City Offices.

Boy Scouts putin landscaping

Local Boy Scout ParkerHarpley, with the help ofTroop 119 and friends, re-worked and placed addi-tional landscaping infront of the Law Enforce-ment Memorial, locatedby the doors of the LawEnforcement Center at7th and Oak Streets.

According to the New-ton Police Department,the group planted plantsand will install irrigationinto the area and a light-ing system. The projectwill help Harpley earnthe rank of Eagle Scout.

“This is a great projectthat was really needed,”the NPD stated in a re-lease. “We cannot expressour gratitude or whatthis means to us enough.”

Applegate joins MirrorCharlie Applegate of

Wichita joined Mirror,Inc., as its vice presidentfor finance and informa-tion technology beginningJune 20, 2016.

He previously served asthe chief financial officerfor Wichita Children’sHome. Prior to WichitaChildren’s Home, Apple-gate served in finance po-sitions with SpiritAeroSystems, Big Broth-ers Big Sisters, RainbowsUnited and HealthcareAmerica.

S. Kansas constructionto affect business access

Access to some SouthKansas Avenue busi-nesses will be affected byroad construction begin-ning this week.

At 5:30 a.m. Tuesday,

June 21, the contractor,Kansas Paving, beganplacing concrete on thesouthbound driving lanesof Kansas between 24thStreet and Victoria Road.

Victoria will remainopen to two-way traffic.The contractor will pourthe entrance one-half at atime to keep traffic flow-ing.

The entrance to theshopping center south ofVictoria will be closed atKansas. Access will befrom Southwest 24thStreet via the CitizensState Bank parking lot.

The paving and curetime will take about four

weeks, weather permit-ting. Kansas Pavingmade onepass Tuesday from southto north. Then it will takeup to 14 days for thepavement to cure andgain strength.

When the west side iscomplete, the contractorwill move traffic to thenew southbound lanesand begin demolishingthe northbound lanes andreconstructing the easthalf of the box culvertunder Kansas.

—For Newton Now

The Newton RecreationCommission moved for-ward with a proposed taxincrease of 1.21 mills anddiscussed costs jumpingfor a concession standproject in Athletic Park.

At the Tuesday nightmeeting, the Newton RecCommission reviewed itsbudget compiled by Recre-ation SuperintendentBrian Bascue.

The total budget pro-posed and accepted for itsgeneral fund comes in at$2,230,968.

For its separate em-ployee benefit fund, ex-penditures will total$331,016.

Combined, the overallmill levy will be 9.35 mills.

Property taxes will fund$1.64 million for the com-bined funds.

Bascue said that he got

property tax numbersfrom the county recently,and assessed evaluationsfor the school district—

the area that generatesproperty taxes for theRec.—only increased by 1percent, lower than anexpected 3 percent.

He said that he sawthose numbers only a fewdays before the meetingand had to hurriedly findaround $30,000 to cutfrom the Rec. budget.

Of the tax increase, 1mill or around $159,000will go toward improve-ments on sports facilitiessuch as softball and base-ball fields. The Rec boardpetitioned the schoolboard to up its taxing au-thority earlier this yearto pay for such improve-ments.

In field improvementnews, in a 3-2 vote thePublic Building Commis-sion directed the NewtonRec. to increase the sizeof bathrooms at a pro-

posed new restroom andconcession facility atKelsch Field.

Bascue said that wouldup the amount of stallsto four in the men’s andwomen's bathrooms.

He estimated the addi-tional cost for the size in-crease would run around$20,000, which was origi-nally estimated as cost-ing around $230,000.

In other Rec. news,Bascue said pool partici-pation was high for thisyear, with the swimmingpool serving 5,470 peoplein June. He attributed itin part to the heat wave.

“The municipal pool isdoing well. Numbers arebetter than last year,which were better thanthe year before,” he said.

Bascue said programand fitness center rev-enue was also up for thefiscal year, but he antici-pated that going downnext year, especially nearthe back half.

The board recognizedJohn Roberts for hisservice. Roberts servedon the board for eightyears, and his last meet-ing was Tuesday night.Tim Marlar will replacehim on the board.


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The Harvey CountyCommission saw a pro-posed budget from theHarvey County Sheriff'sOffice for next year at itsMonday meeting. Thebudget, which includescosts to run the depart-ment and the county jailcame in at $4,188,606, a4.5 percent increase overits allocation for thisyear.

Part of that jump comesfrom a $162,000 increasein allocation requests forvehicles as well as ma-chine.

“We tried to stay as flatas we could,” Sheriff T.Walton said. “Well, this ismy last budget as sheriff,so if you approve it or dis-approve it I really don'tcare,” he added as a joke.

During the budget dis-cussion, Walton said thedepartment was in a se-cure place financially andin a much better placethan when he came on assheriff.

Commissioners creditedWalton for the changes.

In other news, the com-mission heard from JessieKaye, CEO of PrairieView Inc., which providesmental health servicesand treatment. Kaye re-quested a 2.5 percent in-crease in funding fromthe county for next year,or $131,000. The group isfunded through a varietyof governments and rev-enue sources and seesmore than 400 a patientsa day, with around 230coming from HarveyCounty.

Kaye said that recentpolitical developmentsmade for difficulties inthe group’s budget, which

amounts to around $22million.

Kaye estimated thestate's recent 4 percentcut in state Medicaidcompensation paymentsto balance the budgetwould cut the amount thegroup takes in by$700,000.

She said between 40and 60 percent of the pa-tients Prairie View seesfall into the Medicaidgap, or people who wouldhave been covered byMedicaid had Kansaschosen to expand its sys-tem under the AffordableCare Act.

Kaye estimated theloss in those paymentsaccounted for an addi-tional $500,000.

“Had they expandedKanCare, you wouldhave received half a mil-lion dollars?” Commis-sioner Randy Hagueasked. “How sad.”

Changes in nationalsalary labor laws wouldalso account for thegroup having to spend anadditional $100,000 onstaff.

Kaye said the group isalso spending additionaltime treating patientswho are waiting for spotsat state hospitals to openup. Recent state budgetcuts have reduced thestate's capacity to housemental patients.

The county courthousejury room kitchenettewill get a remodel.

The county did not ac-cept bids for a largerproject that would haveremodeled the kitch-enette and put handicapaccessible bathrooms inthe jury rooms. A sectionof a concrete wall wouldhave had to have beenremoved for the project,which drove up costs.

Instead, a single kitch-

enette will be updatedand remodeled as well asthe north jury room. Theproject will be done inhouse.

ETC.*The new Harvey

County 800 megahertzradio system recentlyhad a glitch in lastweek’s storms, causingdispatch to be unable tocommunicate. The prob-lem occurred when powerwent out and a back upgenerator did not kick onbecause of a loose wire.Sensors are still in theprocess of being installedon the generators to givealerts if they do not turnon.

*The county commis-sion authorized contractswith five juvenile intakeofficers. Cost for the offi-cers is shared betweenHarvey and McPhersonCounties.

*County commission

authorized an annualcontract to McCully andAssociates to do analysesfor the Harvey CountyAppraisers Office.

The group provides theappraisers office with in-formation to help analyzeappraisals and informa-tion on neighborhoodsthroughout the county.

“They've been here aslong as I remember andall I heard is good,” RonKrehbiel said.

*The commission saw arequest to build up itsconstruction and demoli-tion landfill by 30 feet toallow for more space andat least 10 years of addi-tional use.

“Then we could start aski slope,” CommissionerChip Westfall joked.

*The commission ap-proved paying its weeklybills for $214,776.

*All commission mem-bers were present.


Newton Rec. Commission proposes 1.21 mills tax increaseBY ADAM STRUNKNEWTON NOW [email protected]

WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWJadyn Medina jumps off the diving board at the Newton. The NewtonRecreation Commission oversees the pool.

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MIKE MENDEZ/NEWTON NOWRayna Barnes (left) and Paige Barnes get some water at the final station with about a mile to go in the Cookie Daze 5K race.

Chewing on the runAthletes take on Cookie Daze 5K

Running a 5K race isno easy task. Thethought of running 3.1miles is enough tobuckle knees. But forNewton’s Julio Mar-tinez, finishing firstoverall at the sixth an-nual Cookie Daze 5Krace on Saturday, June18, completing thecourse in 16:36 was onlya warm up.

“The yearly track clubnationals are next weekand I qualified,” Mar-tinez said after the race.“This is more of a work-out to just kind of closeout the season in prepa-ration for this meet. Iam actually heading tothe track right now toget the real workout.This is just the thresh-old, now I am going toget the tapering.”

Training to run a half-mile at the track clubnationals, the 25-year-old Martinez runs forthe Kansas City Smokeclub team. He finishedfirst in the male overallcategory, with 18-year-old John Brunner fromElbing taking secondwith a 17:12 and 14-year-old Erik Jantz fromNorth Newton takingthird with an 18:59.

18-year-old CarissaSlabach from Newtontook the female overalltitle, finishing in 23:59.Tavia Hart, a 17-year-old from Mulvane, tooksecond with a 24:22,while McPherson’s Dar-ian Trost was close be-hind for third with a24:31.

But with a sea of 172participants, includingthose who did a virtualrace, the real winnerswere the Caring HandsHumane Society and theHarvey County SafeHouse, who benefitedfrom the second biggestturnout in the event’shistory.

“I feel like it went re-ally well,” Cookie Dazecommittee memberCasie Powell said.“Every year it runssmoother and smoother.We kind of get into agroove on who doeswhat. And I feel like therunners and walkers allreally walked it and hada really good time.”

The course, starting at

Athletic Park and follow-ing the bike path alongthe river and back to thepark, provides enough ofa challenge for an expe-rienced runner like Mar-tinez but is simpleenough for participantsof all ages and abilities.The youngest runnerwas 6-year-old ArmondoMoreno from Newton,while 69-year-old BevHunter from Newtontook third in her agegroup as the oldest par-ticipant in the race, fin-ishing in 41:40. HowardWiebe, a 62-year-oldfrom Newton finishedthe course on a walker.

“I really like thecourse,” Martinez said.“It is exactly 3.1 miles,

so I’m really pleasedwith that. I think thechallenging part is theups and downs you getthrough the course. Butthat makes it challeng-ing, so it makes it a goodcourse overall. I think itis well managed by thegroup that hosts it.”

Although the mercuryhas been rising, a rarecool morning on Satur-day made for a more en-joyable race.

“We could not haveasked for a better day,”Powell said. “Yesterday,it was like 105, consider-ing the humidity, sothankfully it stormedlast night and broke thatup. It is perfect, perfectrunning conditions.”


MIKE MENDEZ/NEWTON NOWNewton runner Julio Martinez receives his trophy for taking first place in the male overall division. Mar-tinez finished the race in 16:36, beating John Brunner from Elbing who took second and Erik Jantz fromNorth Newton who took third.

COURTESY PHOTOSoftball tournament director Manuel Jaso (left) poses with Tomas DeLa Torre. The Jaso family was integral in starting the Mexican-Ameri-can fast pitch tournament in Newton.

Mexican-Americansoftball preparesfor 68th tourney

When the Fourth of July rolls around, it brings asense of national pride for everyone. It is a time toget outside, fire up the grill, detonate some explo-sives and maybe throw the ball around with friendsand family.

But for many Mexican-Americans across the coun-try, the idea of throwing the ball around gets takento an extreme, with fireworks coming on the dia-mond at the Newton Mexican-American AthleticClub (NMAAC) Fast-Pitch Softball Tournament.

“It’s a family tradition,” NMAAC president RicardoMartinez Jr. said. “And a lot of the families thatstarted it are still working with it.”

The railroad brought a large Mexican-Americanpopulation to Newton. And upon returning from thewar while looking for a place to play ball, they werestaring in the face of segregation. But rather than beleft out, in 1946, with Martinez’ grandfather NickJaso, Elmer Vega and Ted Romero as directors of theNMAAC started a softball tournament of their own.

“As we would say, ‘The white guys wouldn’t let theMexicans play with the white guys,’ so they startedtheir own tournament in their own kind of game,”Martinez said. “They played hardball at first andthen they transitioned over to fast-pitch softball. Weare not prejudiced, by no means. It was just a tradi-tion that started in ’46. We thank them for this tour-nament. That’s what we say now, ‘Thank you forbeing that way. Because without that happening,this tournament wouldn’t be right now as big as it isnow.’”

Through the years, Newton sending teams to othertournament to recruit, along with word of mouthfrom the teams playing in the tournament hasspread a big reputation.

“The ball teams love coming here to play ball,”Martinez said. “They consider it—since it’s Mexican-American that consists of mostly Mexican decent—they consider this their World Series. There areother tournaments around. But this one here, theyconsider it their World Series.”

That reputation makes Newton a destination vaca-tion on the Fourth of July year after year. There areeven family reunions planned around the tourna-ment. And what was born out of exclusion has be-come an opportunity for Newton to welcome peoplein with open arms.

“A lot of them come in on Friday and stay untilSunday,” Martinez said. “Even when they lose out ofthe tournament, they stay to watch the games and tomingle. It makes a big impact. In fact, Newton putsup the welcome flags for us. It does make a big im-pact on the economy.”

Although the club has the longest running tourna-ment, the popularity of the sport is beginning to de-cline. Having put together 67 tournaments already,it can be a challenge to keep driving for innovationsfor the future. But with the pull of electronics provid-ing younger generations an alternative, it is becom-ing increasingly more important for the NMAAC tokeep pushing.

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Headin’ for Home 5K benefits Babe Ruth Baseball, brain cancer research

Three years ago, 14-year-old Joe Bisterfeldtand his family got somebad news. He was diag-nosed with inoperablebrain cancer.

“As a parent, any timeyou hear your child hasbrain cancer, it is devas-tating,” his mother AmyBisterfeldt said. “Wedidn’t know what to ex-pect.”

What the family got outof Babe Ruth Baseball inNewton was an open armsshow of support. In 2014,Babe Ruth hosted Packthe Park night to raiseawareness for pediatricbrain tumor research. Itgrew into the Headin’ forHome 5K in 2015, a raceto raise money for BabeRuth Baseball and the Pe-diatric Brain Tumor

Foundation. On Monday,July 4, Headin’ for Homewill launch its second an-nual event.

“[Joe] is such a neatkid,” Newton Babe Ruthvice president Jim Brownsaid. “It is a neat family.It is a family that we wishall families could be likethis. They are just won-derful. I can’t say enough.I almost get teary-eyedjust thinking about them,because they are suchwonderful people. And it’speople like that you wantto give back to.”

The race is a certifiedcourse that heads northfrom Centennial Park,through the Bethel Col-lege campus and back tothe finish line of a homeplate at Kenny WilliamsField. The cost to partici-pate is $25 dollars for thefirst 50 entrants and $30for every entrant afteruntil June 26. After that,the cost is $35 up until

race day. One dollar out ofevery entrance fee will bedonated to the Pediatric

Brain Tumor Foundation,while the rest goes toBabe Ruth.

While he could stillplay, baseball was a bigpart of Joe’s life. While

getting the news wastough to take, he keeps apositive attitude, whichrubbed off on his team-mates, especially in atough last year of playing.

“He has always beenpretty quiet,” Amy said.“He was a leader as far asthe way he acted on thefield and sportsmanship.The last year he playedwith the Newton team, hewas kind of looked at asan inspiration.”

His positive outlook hashelped his family as well,with some strong divinehelp as well.

“Faith is definitelywhat keeps us going,”Amy said. “Joe is positive.He has never asked whyhe got brain cancer. Hehas faced everything.”

In the last year he wasable to play, Joe’s teamtried to make it special. Itwas a family gesture that


COURTESY PHOTOJoe Bisterfeldt (middle) poses with his father Bobby at the 2014 All-Star Tournament while his mother Amytakes their photo.

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bers, and we are talking60-some-year-olds, andthey were stuck in theirtraditions,” Martinezsaid. “And as a youngmember, when I gotelected president, I had tobring them into the fu-ture so to speak. Andthen now that I am work-ing in there, we are bring-ing in some my age groupand a little bit younger toget their ideas to keep itgoing. Because if thingschange, technologychanges. Everythingchanges. So you have gotto go with the change.They were stuck in theold ways a,nd they justcouldn’t grasp that it wastime to change. It wastime to evolve. When I goout there, I recruit. I say,‘Hey, this is your her-itage.’ It doesn’t takenothing to join the club.All it is, is hey, can I jointhe club? Well, sure. Yourqualifications are you areMexican and you comefrom a family that helped

start this. I target theyoung crowd, as I’m 52years old. I get theirideas. I want them tobring new ideas to thestage and keep thisgoing.”

But one of the easiestways the tournament willstay around is the exactsame way it started. Itwill continue with fathersmaking a tradition out ofthe event that passes

from generation to gener-ation.

“It really starts rightthere,” Martinez said,“playing catch, throwingthe ball around, buyingtheir first glove, gettingtheir bats, taking themwith you to a ball game.That’s where it all starts.”

The 68th tournamentwill begin on Friday, July1, and go through Sun-day, July 3.

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COURTESY PHOTOStan Estrada (right) shakes hands with Rico Garcia from the KansasCity Indios as Garcia accepts his All-Tournament honor in 2014 withRicardo Martinez Jr. (middle) watching.

Hernandez will have a brother with him in the ringIlove the Olympics.

Some of my earliestmemories revolve

around growing up watch-ing the Olympics and theexcitement they generateevery four years.

As I got older, I startedto like the Winter Gamesslightly more than thesummer for the daredevilfactor. If you fall on thetrack, you will skin yourknee. Fall on a downhillski course, and it becomessomething spectacular.High stakes: that’s whatmakes good live television.But that isn’t to put downthe Summer Games, ei-ther. I love it all.

If you paint up anAmerican flag on a snail’sshell, I will stand up androot for it in a 10-minute,one-foot dash as thoughthe mafia spotted me$100,000 to bet on thatsnail.

But as much as I lovewatching the Olympics,this summer will be differ-ent.

Years ago, looking forsummer sports content, I

stumbled upon an ama-teur boxing event at theWichita Ballroom. Thefinal fight of the eveningfeatured a kid namedTony Losey and to watchthe dizzying display ofskills, with quick con-trolled aggression counter-ing hard against anopponent who was in wayover his head, it was clearwhy he finished the show.

Later, I heard there wasanother kid from Wichita,Nico Hernandez, who wasstockpiling national andworld championship belts.Getting out to talk to Nicoand his father Lewis whoalso trains him, it didn’ttake long to discover Her-nandez and Losey were in-terconnected. Afterstarting out working withIsrael Villa at the VillaBoxing Club, Losey madehis way to Lewis, wherealong with Nico, the threeof them became the foun-dation of the Northside316 Boxing Gym in Wi-chita. The goal was to getto the Olympics, and theywere both on track to get

there.Nico won the men’s na-

tional Golden Gloveschampionship at hisweight in his first year ofeligibility, earning his wayinto the Olympic qualifier.Tony was at work and inthe gym straightening outhis troubled life and gear-ing up for a run at makingit to Rio as one of the top-ranked amateurs in thecountry.

But in Sept. of 2014,Tony’s dream was endedin an industrial accidentat work in Wichita when asix-ton tank fell on top ofhim, leaving a fiancé andtwo daughters behind.

Talking with Lewis andNico after the accident,the pain was very clear.So was the anger, theshock and the confusion ofall the unanswered ques-tions. Lewis had essen-tially lost a son and Nico abrother in unexplainablefashion. And suddenly hisfiancé was without a part-ner and his daughterswithout a father.

You could see it inNico’s face. He was on thecusp of fulfilling an im-probable lifelong dreamand was now going tohave to find a way tomake his kick to the finishline without the brotherwho had always beenthere and was supposed tobe right beside him.

But through that painand sadness in his eyes, Icould also see a blazingfire, sitting with him talk-ing about Tony. While theloss hurt, it didn’t extin-guish his Olympic flame.It only dumped rocket fuelon the fire.

I had always known itwas a pretty good possibil-

ity Nico would make it toRio. He has the skill inthe ring win a gold medaland have a successful pro-fessional career after thatif he wants it. But aftersitting with him in hisfamily’s living room, talk-ing about Tony right afterhis untimely death at theage of 22, seeing that lookin his eyes left no doubt inmy mind that he wasgoing to Rio.

Nico made it to TeamUSA and is fighting in Riothis summer. He will befighting for his ownOlympic dream. But hewill also be fighting forthe medal Tony won’thave the chance to fightfor. He is fighting forTony’s fiancé, AudrianaNajera, and their daugh-ters, Aaliyah and Ava,who will only really knowtheir father through sto-ries.

As Nico does what prac-tically none of us will everbe able to do in our life-times and live out an im-possibly lofty dream inRio, Tony will be right by

his side. There is a wakebehind Nico comprised ofbested opponents who arealso some of the most tal-ented and hardworkingpeople in the world. Butgrowing up training withTony, sharing wisdomwhile motivating andpushing each other be-yond the brink is a gigan-tic reason why Nico getsto live his dream and theywon’t. His mastery of thesweet science at a worldclass level was crafted be-side Tony when Northside316 was the two of themtraining in Lewis’ house.

I miss covering Nicowhen I worked in Wichita.But not covering him freesme up to be a fan. Andwhen he takes theOlympic ring in August, Iwill be on my feet scream-ing at my television loudenough for him to hear ita continent away. I hopeyou will join me.

Mike Mendez is thesports editor at Newton

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Newton Rebels take two weekendgames 4-3 against separate teams

Late-game theatricsruled the weekend for theNewton Rebels, who wontwo games by a score of 4-3, beating the HutchinsonMonarchs on Friday, June17, and the Salina BlueJays in the nightcap onSaturday, June 18. TheRebels lost the first gameagainst the Blue Jays 14-6.

Against the second-placeMonarchs on Friday, New-ton fell behind 1-0 on aJordan Cannon sacrificefly for an RBI. But theRebels answered with anEric Baynton line drive toplate Turner Sparks in thefifth to tie the game.

In the sixth, Newtonblasted the ball with RBIdoubles from Dylan Brooksand Jordan Rousselle.Rousselle came around toscore on a Hutchinsonerror to cap a three-runsixth to give the Rebels a4-1 lead.

The Monarchs scratchedback into the game with arun in the seventh to cutthe lead to 4-2.

After seven innings giv-ing up one earned run andpicking up seven strike-outs, Newton pitcherMitchell Sparks left the

game with Jacob Gibsoncoming in to pick up a two-inning save. Hutch camewithin a run in the ninth,but Gibson shut the door.

After dropping the firstgame against Salina onSaturday, the Blue Jaystried to rip the Rebels’heart out in Game 2.

Going into the seventhand final inning, Newtonwas sitting comfortablywith a 3-0 lead. But helpedby two Rebel errors and awalk, Salina scored threein the top of the seventh totie the game at 3-3.

Newton shook off thebad half-inning and got

back to work in the bottomof the seventh. Jake Dunnreached on a one-out sin-gle and stole second baseto get into scoring posi-tion. Dunn was still onsecond with two outsbringing Justin Hinsley tothe plate for walk-off hero-ics. Hinsley singled toright field, bringing Dunnto the plate to give New-ton a win.

Dylan Brooks went 1 for3 from the plate with twoRBIs, while Zach Dedinhad an RBI as well. Ontop of getting a walk-offhit, Hinsley finished 2 for3.

MIKE MENDEZ/NEWTON NOWNewton outfielder Jake Dunn dives back into first base on a pickoff attempt against the Kansas Cannons.

Newton outfielder Jake Dunn heads back to first base against theKansas Cannons on Tuesday, June 21 at Klein Scott Field.

continues with the Inde-pendence Day race.

“What we would reallylike to see is for this tobecome a destinationevent,” Brown said. “Wewant to make it so thathopefully some other peo-

ple see this and say, ‘Hey,well maybe we are goingto do this.’ We feel it iskind of a great way ofstarting your celebrationoff.”

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The motto of the Olympic Games is “Faster, Higher, Stronger.” Kid Scoop’s Silly Summer Games has a motto, too. Use the code to discover it!

Standards Link: Science Investigations: Find similarities and differences in common objects.

Create this goofy headgear to wear during the Silly Games. You’ll need:

• Brown paper sack• The newspaper• Construction paper• Tape / glue stick• Scissors

The frigid fun begins with this ceremonial event.

Give each participant an ice cream cone with one scoop of their favorite

flavor. The winner is the person who can finish

their cone with the fewest licks and drips.

Roll the paper bag down a few inches to create a brim.

Cut out long strips of newspaper and construction paper.

Roll the strips around a pencil to make them curly and bouncy. Tape or glue the ends of the strips to the top of the hat.

Cut out pictures or comic characters from the newspaper and paste them on your hat.

Wear your zany creation proudly!

Find the two identical

ice cream cones.

All sorts of countries can participate in the Silly Summer Games. Countries like Jarodtopia, Amyland and The Royal Republic of Kevin will attend the festivities. Never heard of them? That’s because these kids invented countries named after themselves!

Create a flag for a country named after YOU! Have your friends do the same, and display them at your Silly Games.

Who has the most pucker power? Give each participant a lemon wedge. At the count of three, each participant holds the pulpy side of the lemon wedge in their mouth. Ewwww! Eyes water! Noses twitch! Fingers cringe! The last one to spit out their lemon wedge is the Big Wincer!

Can you find five or more differences between Patricia and her reflection?

Race against a group of friends –chicken style! Fold your arms into wings, and run like a chicken towards the finish line.

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Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow multiple step directions.

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Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow multiple step directions.

Look through the sports section of the newspaper to select and clip a picture that shows the thrill of victory and one that shows the agony of defeat. Pose yourself to show each emotion.

Victory vs. Defeat

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his song is sung to the tune of ‘Yankee Doodle Dandy.’ But there are a few lines missing. Complete the song with your own silly words, then sing it while wiggling your fingers over your lips!

The Silly Games are really ____________________!They’re goofy,And they’re funny!They make the summer_____________________________when the day is sunny!

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Standards Link: Writing Applications: Write compositions that describe familiar events; Speaking Applications: Recite poems, songs and rhymes.

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Try these silly exercises with a friend or family member.

Silly TimePretend you are a clock.

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Your leg is the second hand, moving all the way around the clock in 60 seconds. What time

is it? Time to laugh!

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