Anderson County Review — December 27, 2022

A look back at 2022…
See Pages 8 & 9
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BY DANE HICKS
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW
GARNETT A decade-long,
on again-off again discussion
among city officials about the
Garnett Municipal Swimming
Pool got some added context
earlier this month, when a
report from a St. Louis-area
pool construction company
estimated a cost of replacement for the pool at $2.5-$3.5
million.
Discussions about the pool
have been resurrected various times over the past decade
seemingly every time some
kind of repair is needed at
the facility. The issues been
a quandary for city officials,
since the pool is expensive to
operate and even more expensive to replace but is a staple
of local youth activity in the
summer months.
Dave Weicher with St.
Charles, Mo.,-based Capri
Pools & Aquatics, summed
up the replacement estimates
after a recent review of the
facility requested by city rec
SEE POOL ON PAGE 7
Anderson County skies have
become an outdoor gym for some
high-flying regional athletes
BY BARB HICKS
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THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW
REELEY If your hobby is racing
homing pigeons, one of your weekly
tasks will be exercising them.
The challenge is that they just dont
make treadmills small enough.
So of course you get in the truck and drive
better than an hour to a location near Greeley
to release them so they can get a workout
flying some 65 miles back in a relatively
straight line to Kansas City, Ks. This is
Robert Romes hobby.
On a weekly basis Robert Rome loads up a
couple dozen homing pigeons into his truck,
and he and his daughter head to Anderson
County to release them.
A 22-year veteran of law enforcement, Rome
said he got started with pigeon racing when he
bought his first seven birds four years ago to
train his hunting dog.
I became fascinated with the pigeons and
really enjoyed watching them fly and return
home, Rome said. This led to me taking
them further and further away from home to
see how far they could make it. I didnt know
racing was even a sport.
And do the birds make it back home? Of
course they do, every time.
Theyll get home before I will, Rome said.
Family Dollar
project waiting
for electrical
transformer
Rome said he started researching the birds
and discovered it wasnt uncommon for them
to travel 600 miles or more. That led to his
discovery of the sport of pigeon racing, and
eventually to his purchasing birds from as far
away as Belgium and the Netherlands.
If youve ever doubted the reliability of a
homing pigeons capabilities, look no further
than Cher Ami. The bird was a veteran of
the U.S. Army Signal Corps in France during
World War I and is credited with transporting
a message that saved
the lives of 194 sol- Above, Robert Rome
diers after two pre- and his daughter Faith
vious message birds release a group of
were shot and killed
homing pigeons near
by the Germans.
Greeley for a 100 mile
Cher Ami himself
flight workout, headed
was wounded in the
breast and leg but back to KCK. At right,
managed to make it Rome shows one of
to the division head- the bands that identify
quarters some 25 his birds.
miles to the rear with
a message capsule,
saving the battalion.
The bird survived
but died a year later. His body has been preserved and is on display at the Smithsonian.
Cher Ami is a decorated war veteran of WWI
and was later inducted into the Racing Pigeon
Hall of Fame in 1931.
These birds are banded for identification
with a computer chip and are released at
SEE FLIGHT ON PAGE 7
BY DANE HICKS
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW
GARNETT A supply chain
disruption in the shipment of
a commercial grade electrical
transformer is pushing back
the opening of the new Family
Dollar/DollarTree store in
Garnett, company officials said
last week.
In a perfect world, we would
probably be looking at an opening date the third or fourth
Thursday in February, said
Steve Rollins, with American
Realty and Development, the
division of Guffey Properties
which is constructing the property to be leased to Family
Dollar. But thats the difference between here and the perfect world.
Published reports reflect the
shortage in electrical transformers even the huge ones
used by utility companies
ever since the Covid pandemic hampered production labor
and availability of component
parts. One report said the U.S.
was 82 percent dependent on
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW 12-27-2022 / BARB HICKS
SEE JUICE ON PAGE 12
2022s Top Story: All the money that used to be yours…
High prices in 2022 brought
national policy to the doors
and wallets of local residents
BY DANE HICKS
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW
WASHINGTON, D.C. One thing certain about 2022 in Anderson County:
Other people have more of your
money now than they did a year ago.
So in terms of the inflation that
wracked the nation in 2022 beginning
shortly after the rollout of billions of
U.S. Government-borrowed dollars in
Covid recovery spending in virtually
every industry and literally landing
directly in the pockets of most all
Americans higher prices and the
eventual impact on your household
and your finances was undoubtedly
the biggest story of 2022.
In literal terms, it cost the average Kansas family $8,700 more to
get by this year than last between
increased costs for food, utilities,
gasoline and various other fees. And
a great amount of that price-hiking
function was simply in peoples heads.
A report from the Federal Reserve
Bank of Kansas explained how inflation expectations among decision
makers in various industries prompt-
ed them to increase prices, and more
so when already present inflation was
primed by escalating costs for gasoline.
The spike in gasoline prices in
the summer of 2022 accentuated the
similarities of inflation today to the
1970s and 1980s, said an article in
the Federal Reserves quarterly economic Review of the Midwest region.
Although much has changed since
then, including the importance that
monetary policymakers place on
managing inflation expectations,
our results underscore that inflation
expectations remain susceptible to
salient price shocks when inflation is
already high.
Like anyone turning a vehicles ignition key every morning to head to work, a lot
of Anderson Countians felt
the pain of spiking gas prices. About 45 percent of the
countys workforce some
1,500 people over the age of
16 travel outside Anderson
County each day to work with
a median commute time of
26 minutes one way according to 2020 U.S. Census data.
Twenty-one percent of those
SEE 2022 ON PAGE 6
Gasoline prices broke $4 per gallon May and
drove inflation rates higher for most goods.
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Tuesday, January 10th at 6:30
p.m.
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RECORD
LAND TRANSFERS
Douglas R Erhart and Jodi Lynne
Erhart to Jazper D Caldwell and
Jalexia E Berry: Lot 2 blk 1 McDowells
Addition to City of Garnett.
Garry R Kirkland and Goldie
Kirklan to Amy S Rowlands: All that
part of lot 17 blk 57 City of Garnett
described as follows: Beg at swcor
said lot 17, thence n13611w along
west line of said lot 17 a distance
of 77.13 feet; thence n882851e
a distance of 24.88 feet; thence
s13610e a distance of 42.53 feet;
thence s855851w a distance of
10.00 feet; thence s40109e
a distance of 10.00 feet; thence
n855851e a distance of 10.00
feet; thence s13610e a distance of
24.58 feet, to pt on south line of said
lot 17; thence s882447w along said
south line, a distance of 25.30 feet to
pob; containing 0.04 acres more or
less.
Roger Filbrun and Molly A Filbrun to
Luke T Filbrun and Maria Filbrun: The
w/2 of the sw/4 of the se/4 of the sw/4
of 21-20-18.
Roger Filbrun and Molly A Filbrun
to Roger Filbrun and Molly A Filbrun:
The n/2 of the nw/4 of 31-20-18 the
s/2 of the nw/4 of 31-20-18 the e/2 of
the nw/4 of 31-20-18.
Austin Akes and Emily C Akes to
Levi W Stevens: E2 lot 17 & all lot 18
blk 17 City of Garnett.
Kurt T Katzer and Angela M Katzer
to Brock Rickerson: Lot 8 Prairie Links
Subdivision, A Subdivision now a part
of City of Garnett.
Levi W Stevens and Heather E
Stevens to Levi W Stevens and
Heather E Stevens: E2 lot 17 and all
lot 18 blk 17 City of Garnett.
Okan Farms LLC to Richard
Thomas Miller: Sw4 nefr4 and nw4
nefr4 1-21-19.
ANDERSON COUNTY
TRAFFIC CASES FILED
Bobbie Jean Maldonaldo was
charged with speeding 75 mph in a 65
mph zone, $153.
Miles Murphy Ballard was charged
with speeding 75 mph in a 65 mph
zone, $153.
ANDERSON COUNTY
CRIMINAL CASES FILED
Anna M Belles was charged with
two counts of giving a worthless check
< $1,000.
ANDERSON COUNTY JAIL ROSTER
on December 12, 2022.
Treveon Carrington was booked
into jail on December 12, 2022.
David Crim was booked into jail on
December 13, 2022.
Danial Evans was booked into jail
on December 13, 2022.
Curtis Miller was booked into jail on
December 13, 2022.
Scott Marazus was booked into jail
on December 13, 2022.
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LOTS SEVENTEEN (17) AND EIGHTEEN
from all of us at
Dutch Country Cafe
Anderson County Sheriff
Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale
issued to me by the Clerk of the District Court
of Anderson County, Kansas, the undersigned
Sheriff of Anderson County, Kansas, will offer
for sale at public auction and sell to the highest
bidder for cash in hand at the West Side
Entrance of the Anderson County Courthouse,
City of Garnett, County of Anderson of the
Anderson County, Courthouse, Kansas, on
January 19, 2023 at the time of 10:00 AM, the
following real estate:
We will close at Noon
Fri., Dec. 23 and Dec. 30 and
be closed
Monday Dec. 26 and Jan. 2
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(18) IN BLOCK SEVEN (7) IN PARKVIEW
ADDITION TO THE CITY OF GARNETT,
ANDERSON COUNTY, KANSAS., Parcel ID
No. 0020993001008008000. Commonly known
as 345 East Monroe Street, Garnett, KS 66032
(the Property) MS206165
PennyMac Loan Services, LLC
Plaintiff,
vs.
Amy L Houston, et al.
Defendants,
Case No.AN-21CV14
Court No.
Title to Real Estate Involved
Pursuant to K.S.A. 60
Charles Rogers was booked into
jail on July 25, 2022.
Andrew Jessip was booked into jail
on September 8, 2022.
Anthony Conner was booked into
jail on October 13, 2022.
Galen Staton was booked into jail
on November 10, 2022.
Albert Toumberlin was booked into
jail on November 10, 2022.
Sean Foster was booked into jail on
November 16, 2022.
Jessica Jeanine Schmidt was
booked into jail on December 6, 2022.
Randell Smith was booked into jail
yo
Notice of Sale – Houston
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ANDERSON
COUNTY, KANSAS
CIVIL DEPARTMENT
ANDERSON COUNTY FARM-INS
Middle age is when
youre forced to.
Your RIGHT to know,
guaranteed by Kansas Law.
(First published in the Anderson County
Review, Tuesday, December 27, 2022)
Giovanni Rodriguez was booked
into jail on March 3, 2021.
Sabre Suire was booked into jail on
November 12, 2021.
Tyler Rhodes was booked into jail
on April 30, 2022.
Jeffrey Gregg was booked into jail
on July 19, 2022.
Isidro Madrid was booked into jail
on August 12, 2022.
Sean Williams was booked into jail
on August 22, 2022.
Jessica Lynn Koopman was booked
into jail on October 7, 2022.
John Randall Penner was booked
into jail on October 12, 2022.
Jesse Dean Osborn was booked
into jail on October 23, 2022.
Patric Michael Vandenberg was
booked into jail on December 12,
2022.
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to stay up on New Years Eve.
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THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Tuesday, December 27, 2022
GRAVEEN
NOVEMBER 17, 1949 – DECEMBER 19, 2022
Linda R. Graveen
passed away peacefully in the
arms of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ
on December
19, 2022.
L i n d a
Rhea Canada
was
born
November
17, 1949, in
Chicago,
Graveen
Illinois,
she was the
first of four
children of Ray and Lucille
Canada. Linda graduated from
Wheaton North High School
in 1967 and later attended
Murray State University in
Kentucky where she graduated
with a Bachelor of Science in
Business.
While in high school Linda
was a cheerleader and enjoyed
acting and singing in different
plays and musicals. She was
an avid bowler, in addition to
playing the violin and accordion. In her early years she
worked as a flight attendant for
Delta. While living in Garnett,
Linda made many acquaintances through her work at Alco,
Mr. Ds and later at Caseys.
She loved being able to greet
and talk to her customers.
Linda had a heart for others
and she never forgot a birthday
or missed an opportunity to be
a blessing to others no matter
how little she may have had at
the time. Linda was married
in 1970 and had one daughter,
Amanda. She loved spending
time with her family, spoiling her grandkids, watching
Hallmark movies with Corky
(her dog) and drinking coffee.
After a major stroke in 2019,
Linda retired (reluctantly) and
became a resident at Parkview
Heights Care Center where she
was loved and cared for until
the end. Her aides and nurses
became part of her extended
family. Linda was a wonderful
big sister, loving mother and
the best grandmother. She was
loved by all.
Linda was preceded in death
by her father Ray Canada.
She is survived by her mother Lucille Canada, her daughter Amanda Allison and husband Davy and two grandchildren Jason and Jacob Allison;
as well as her sister, Thelma
Fisher, two brothers, Ray
Canada and wife Mary, and
Rob Canada and wife Amy; and
the following nieces and nephews: Shane Fisher and wife,
Brittany, Jason Canada and
husband, Joe Caballero, Chris
Canada and wife, Candace,
Bethany Boyer and husband,
Jordan, and Hunter Canada.
She is also survived by three
great grandnieces and grandnephews Nash and Quinn
Fisher and Kai Canada.
A celebration of Lindas
life will be held at 6:00 PM,
Thursday, December 29, 2022
at New Life Baptist Church,
Garnett, Kansas. Lindas family will greet friends from
5:00-6:00 PM prior to the service at the church. Memorial
contributions may be made
to New Life Baptist Church
and left in care of the funeral home. Inurnment next to
her father in Water Valley,
Kentucky is planned for a later
date. Services are under the
direction of Feuerborn Family
Funeral Service, Garnett.
Condolences to the family may
be left at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.
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OBITUARIES
RUNNELLS
MARCH 16, 1928 – DECEMBER 20, 2022
Hoyle R. Runnells, age 94, of
Colony, Kansas, passed away
on Tuesday, December 20,
2022, at the Anderson County
Hospital in Garnett.
Hoyle Raymond Runnells
was born on March 16, 1928,
in Burlington, Kansas, the
son of Leo and Ola (Gardner)
Runnells. Hoyle was united in
marriage to Mary E. Bronson.
Funeral services will be held
at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, January
6, 2023, at the Feuerborn
Family Funeral Service Chapel
in Garnett, Kansas. His family
will greet friends following the
funeral service in the chapel.
Burial will follow at 3:00 p.m.
in the Woodlawn Cemetery in
Pomona, Kansas.
LYBARGER
JULY 22, 1938 – DECEMBER 21, 2022
Betty J. Lybarger, age 84, of
Garnett, Kansas, passed away
on Wednesday, December 21,
2022
Betty Joan Turner was
born on July 22, 1938, at
Westphalia, Kansas. She was
born to Herbert and Treva M.
(Strickler) Turner. Betty was
united in marriage to Dale
Lybarger on June 25, 1955, in
Garnett, Kansas.
Funeral services will be
held at 10:30 a.m., Thursday,
December 29, 2022 at the
Garnett First United Methodist
Church. Burial will follow in
the Garnett Cemetery. Bettys
family will greet friends from
6:00-8:00 p.m., Wednesday evening at Feuerborn Family
Funeral Service, Garnett.
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Good Shepherd
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Are you truly saved by
grace through faith?
In Ephesians we read, For
it is by grace you have been
saved, through faith–and this
not from yourselves, it is a gift
of God–not by works, so that no
one can boast. (Ephesians 2:8)
The interesting thing is it took
no more of Gods grace to save
me than would be required to
save the most hardened sinner. If I may draw a conclusion, in our legal system we
punish the guilty by the severity of the crime. In Gods eyes
sin is sin. In Proverbs 6:16, we
read a list of things the Lord
hates, a proud look, a lying
tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises
wicked schemes, feet that are
quick to rush to evil, a false
witness and a man that stirs up
dissension among brothers.
When Jesus died on the
cross he took upon himself the
sins of the world, specifically
those mentioned above. What
we must remember is it is not
the severity of our sin that
separates us from God. It is the
fact that we choose to sin.
We all live in the same world
and each of us must make
choices. The saved or born
again person will make different choices than the unsaved
person. I do not go to some of
the places now I did before I
WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL
BY DAVID BILDERBACK
was saved. I am not prohibited
from anything that is just a
choice I make. Now the next
question is am I satisfied with
that choice or do I feel I need
to modify this choice to make
it so that it fits both God and
myself? Over the years we
have softened sin by inventing
new descriptions such as alternative lifestyle and new age
morality.
If we are saved by grace
through faith into good works
then we should live that life
style. Some people try to make
a commitment to this but that
often ends in failure and frustration because that depends
on your performance. What I
believe this takes is surrender.
Webster defines surrender as
to relinquish possession of.
When you are willing to relinquish control of your life to
God then you are truly saved
by grace through faith.
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THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Tuesday, December 27, 2022
OPINION
When divisiveness is a good thing
Its often hard to wrap ones head around a
modern cultural system that holds that theres
legal justification for a gay couple to force a wedding cake baker to make a cake for an event thats
against his religious convictions, while at the
same time apparently supporting Chase Banks
closing of the account of a religious freedom lobby
group for what is a very plain but unstated reason.
So it all begs the question: Is conservative
thought and conscience under attack by various
institutions?
Duh.
Theyre symptoms of the divisiveness were
seeing in the culture right now, and though a
lot of conservatives bemoan it, Im not sure its
a bad thing. Theres much virtue, it seems, in
being divided from a cultural anomaly with such
a yearning to embrace anti-Christian, pro-perversion, pro-socialism ideologies. Most of us outside
the urban rings of the country have been ingrained
with more sensible, conservative values over our
lifetimes, and were frankly aghast at how things
could have gone off the rails to such an extreme in
some quarters of American culture.
I mean, the department of commerce in the
State of Kansas giving grants to organizations that
sponsor drag shows? How exactly does something
like that come across someones desk and get
stamped approved? Whats next? Roadside lingerie kiosk funding from KDOT?
So it comes as no surprise when the National
Committee For Religious Freedom, a non-profit
lobby organization founded by former Kansas
Governor Sam Brownback to recruit and support
Christian-based political candidates and legislation, got notice that Chase Bank was closing its
account and refunding its deposits then said it
would consider reopening the account if NCRF
would disclose its donor list to the bank on any
donor providing ten percent or more of the organizations funds.
What?
An odd request, considering that political
action organizations arent even required by the
IRS to disclose that information. Why exactly
would a private, powerhouse New York bank want
to know?
Chase wouldnt say directly, but a former
15-year veteran of management at Chase told The
Daily Wire Chase would frequently Red Dot
certain accounts if they believed the customer
would somehow negatively affect Chases reputation sort of like the Nazis banking at Swiss banks
during World War II. If they opted to close the
account for that reason, theyd never be up front
about it, so the former bank official told the news
service.
REVIEW COMMENTARY
DANE HICKS, Publisher
So it didnt take much thought for Rev. Justin
Murff, the executive director for NCRF, to come
up with the idea that perhaps religious organizations and their affiliates might launch a competing
banking system of their own if they couldnt count
on basic services from modern commercial banks.
Murff, a canon in the Anglican Church in North
America, termed the idea a banking version of
the Knights of Columbus.
Of course Murff isnt the first to come up with
the idea of ideologically conservative financial
services. Country music star John Rich was integral in laying the groundwork to launch Old
Glory Bank based on an Oklahoma bank charger
that pledges to adhere to conservative values.
Old Glory Bank the bank for the hard-working
Americans who make this country run every day.
The bank for people who believe in love of country,
respect for the flag, and appreciate the military,
law enforcement and first responders says Old
Glorys website.
Conservative competitions happened in other
industries too. About a year ago when Harrys
Razors pulled its advertising from The Daily
Wires various podcast and online programs
because the conservative news services on-air
personalities had the audacity to profess their
beliefs that boys are boys and girls are girls the
end DW chief Jeremy Boring launched his own
razor company. Called Jeremys Razors, the effort
has now siphoned millions of dollars in revenue
from Harrys market. And Jeremys Razors attitude is as forthright as its advertising copy:
Stop giving your money to woke corporations that hate you. Jeremys Razors. Shut up and
shave.
Conservatives are finding there are options to
mandates and directives from those who believe
theyve been anointed with authority to direct the
nations culture. Indeed, this kind of divisiveness
is a good thing.
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I pray the churches will open up their doors for
the homeless in Garnett while it is so cold outside. Merry Christmas and God bless you.
Merrick Garland said white supremacy is a
top security threat. Jonathan Greenblatt
said Freedom of speech not freedom of reach.
Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein orchestrated one of the biggest sex trafficking rings in
modern history and SBF just committed massive
fraud via cryptocurrency to funnel donations to
Democrats. If you have been using social media
for multiple years, and you still cant figure out
who is calling the shots, then Ive got some bad
news: youre not going to make it.
Its silly to argue about whether churches
should have regular services when Christmas
falls on a Sunday. Lets just celebrate the birth
Politics in the United States is like the 1850s again
In the run-up to the Civil War, Americans
divided themselves into two tribes: the first,
championed by Abraham Lincoln, swore fidelity to the Constitution, believing the federal government and Supreme Court had the
ultimate say in how we, the people, were
governed.
The second Tribe, led by General Robert E.
Lee, rejected Lincoln. It said that the individual states should hold policy power. And if some
states wanted to enslave human beings – they
had a right to make that decision.
After Tribe number two was defeated, bitterness and prejudice lingered, but American
authority was clear: Washington ran the show.
And so it was that our nation came together
to defeat powerful enemies in World War I
and II as well as unite against the murderous
jihad. Not much dissent in those areas – we
were one Tribe.
But now, in 2022, we are back to tribal division on a significant scale.
The midterm election in November went
against almost all historical precedents.
President Biden and the Democrats are presiding over a troubled economy, the collapse
of US border security, and a vicious rise in violent crime that is harming urban Americans
at a frightening clip.
Thus, the Dems should have been routed on
election day. They were not. It was stunning.
NATIONAL COMMENTARY
BILL OREILLY, Guest Commentary
After extensive historical analysis, heres
my conclusion: the country is changing fast,
spurred on by personal division. We are back
to the 1850s; there are two Americas now.
The first, well call Tribe number one. These
are traditional folks who generally follow the
rules and believe America remains the land
of opportunity. They purchase homes, invest
in financial markets, and support robust education both in school and at home. They generally accept the pathway their parents followed. They buy into capitalism and the belief
that the USA is essentially a generous, noble
nation.
Tribe number two sees it dramatically differently. Driven by a progressive vision,
they believe America is flawed and always
has been. They want to overthrow the white,
male-dominated power structure and replace
it with a powerful central government that
will redistribute income and dictates almost
all policies from Washington.
The second Tribe largely rejects self-reliance and competition, preferring guaranteed
outcomes dictated by liberal entitlements.
Many members of this Tribe have little stake
in the current system, believing it is rigged
against minorities and the poor. In short, they
have no chance to live in Beverly Hills, so why
bother embracing an unfair playing field; tear
it down.
Tribe two generally dismisses American
tradition and wants a brave new world built
on central government financial and lifestyle
guarantees.
The truth is the progressive movement is
growing faster than the traditional crew. And
they will never vote Republican no matter
how bad things get in the country.
Now, the reason for the rise in Tribe two is
threefold. First, public education, including
college, has moved dramatically left.
Second, the corporate media has bought
into the woke movement, which progresSEE OREILLY ON PAGE 7
Trumps terrible, awful, really bad political re-launch
So far, Donald Trump is having the worst
campaign launch since Beto ORourke.
Like almost everything else hes done lately, his early announcement of his next presidential campaign has proved a flagrant political misjudgment.
A move that was supposed to demonstrate
his strength is showing his weakness; a move
that was meant to keep other candidates out
of the race is an invitation to other candidates
to get in; a move that was supposed to serve
notice of his continued dominance of the
party is pointing toward its potential end.
Hes been eclipsed as an internet troll by
Elon Musk, and as a vote-getter by Gov. Ron
DeSantis.
Hes managed to get the worst of both
worlds — hes been largely invisible at the
same time that hes been involved in several
damaging controversies.
His midterms got even worse, with the
final thudding defeat of one of his prized political projects, Herschel Walker in the Georgia
Senate runoff.
And Trumps entry hasnt boosted his poll
numbers, or even stabilized them. Hes continuing to slide versus DeSantis, with a couple of new polls showing him trailing the
Florida governor in a hypothetical head-tohead matchup.
In short, its hard to imagine how Trump
could have had a worse monthlong run.
Ordinarily one might say, as a way of exaggerating to emphasize the point, that it only
could have been worse if he had had dinner
with a Nazi — but, of course, he did that, too.
Its still early, and premature to count
NATIONAL COMMENTARY
RICH LOWRY, King Features Syndicate
Trump out. Elected Republicans remain
scared of him, and we still cant know if the
only potential candidate to show strength
against him, DeSantis, will run, or how hed
perform.
If Trump is going to win the nomination,
though, it will involve recovering from his
disastrous announcement and aftermath.
He clearly believed that the act of announcing in and of itself would be sufficient to
cement his status as top dog. That was wrong,
and it meant he never thought through the
rather crucial question, So youre a candidate — now what are you going to do?
Theres been no media blitz. Theres been
no tour of the country. Theres been no rollout
of policy or any unifying theme.
If its too early to make too much of the
polls, the former president is still in a uniquely vulnerable place. Its one thing to be trailing if you are a new figure on the national
stage who still has room to grow; its another
if you have universal name ID and everyone
already has an extremely well-formed view of
you.
Its going to be hard for Trump to find a
second act when his act hasnt changed since
2015. Besides, even if he purports to have
turned a new leaf, who at this point is going to
believe him?
He doesnt have easy levers to use to change
the narrative. Its not as though he can have a
good legislative session next year like the governors who are thinking of running or use his
executive powers to pick useful fights.
There probably arent even exciting new
events he can hold to grab the attention of
voters or the media. His signature, of course,
are his rallies. They were fresh and new in
2015 and 2016, and quite powerful throughout
his presidency and immediately afterward.
Now, they are as old and familiar as a Rolling
Stones concert.
Whats been most damaging to Trump is
that association with him in general and
Stop the Steal in particular proved politically toxic in the midterms. Other Republicans
can try to achieve distance in the future. But
obviously Trump cant.
These things would have been true even if
he hadnt announced already, but if he hadnt
gotten in, people would have wondered if hed
instantly look stronger once he was actually
in the race. Now, hes answered that question
for his adversaries decidedly in the negative.
Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.
of our savior.
Why is our Anderson County Attorney getting a
full-time job as an assistant county attorney in
another place. When she was elected, she said
she was going to dedicate herself full-time to our
county unlike Brandon Jones.
So is the United States really interested in
helping Ukraine or not? Do we wait 10 months
to finally give them the Patriot Missile? Im
not sure they were really interested in helping.
What do you think?
Terrible job on spreading salt on 7th Street Road
during the ice storm Anderson County. Tiny
sprinkles of salt did no good at all. Are we too
cheap to put down enough salt to do the job? A
sprinkling doesnt get it done. Was there something wedged in the spreader that blocked up
and you didnt see it? You risked your life to go
spread salt, and I appreciate that, but you might
as well have stayed in bed for the little bitty
amount of salt that you spread on that road to
Wolf Creek. Please, for the sake of motorists in
Anderson County, do a better job.
Ice storm. Garnett post office. I know you were
off work but the rest of us had to check our mailboxes. No salt on the sidewalk at all. If somebody
doesnt break a leg or a hip over there today Ill
be surprised. Thank you.
Contact your elected leaders:
President Joseph Biden
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
(202) 456-1111
Governor Laura Kelly
300 SW 10th Ave #241s,
Topeka, KS 66612
(202) 224-6521
email form:
www.governor.kansas.gov
Senator Roger Marshall
Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C., 20510
(202) 224-4774
Senator Jerry Moran
2202 Rayburn House Office
Building
Washington, D.C., 20510
(202) 224-6521
3rd Dist. Congressman
Sharice Davids
1541 Longworth House Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C., 20515
(202) 225-2865
12 Dist. Sen. Caryn Tyson
300 SW 10th St. Rm 236-E
Topeka, Ks. 66612 (785) 296-6838
P.O. Box 191 Parker, Ks. 66072
(913) 898-2366
caryn.tyson@senate.ks.gov
9th Dist. Rep
Kent Thompson
300 SW 10th St. Room 187-N
Topeka, KS 66612
Office: (620) 496-2255
Home: (620) 365-3197
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Some of my December finds
The excitement of Christmas is now
a memory and the New Year is rapidly
approaching. My days of digging were
very limited in December, mostly due to
weather. At the site that Im now working at, every day I was able to be there,
the findings were very good. I have several photos of my latest finds to share
with you. Here are four of those finds.
1. Large brass WWII U.S.Army coat
button. What is so neat about this button
is, we are very sure we know who once
wore this button. (Now Deceased)
2. Either one of the landowners was
once a collector of Native American artifacts lived here or a Native American
campsite was here or close by.
One of these stone artifacts is the top
of an awl or drill. The other is a worked
stone, often referred to as a cobblestone.
3. This is a beautiful large red glass
button.
4. Here is another measuring spoon.
The earlier one I found was a 1 tea-
1
Lickteig steps down after 21 years leading Historical Society
DIGGING UP THE PAST
Henry Roeckers
Call (785) 504-4722 for
local archeology information.
spoon,this one happens to be 1/4 teaspoon. Perhaps Ill find the whole set
before I complete this project.
Respectfully submited by:
Henry Roeckers.
19Dec2022
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40 years ago…
About 20 property owners from the Hayden addition
met with the Garnett Planning
Commission on December 14
regarding a request to allow a
modular home on the property
of the addition. The addition is
located north of Highway 31 in
the northeast portion of Garnett.
Darold Hayden and Earl Lizer
had proposed to permit a modular home in the addition; though
the area is zoned as an R-1 area,
modular homes are only allowed
in R-2 and R-3 zoned areas.
Property owners were concerned
that the valuation of their properties would decline if the house
were called in the addition, per
Zoning officer Herb Waring.
A new machine at Anderson
County Hospital could stimulate
morphine-like substances in the
body to block pain. The neuro-probe unit is used in physical
therapy to produce endorphins
and enkephalins, which are the
bodys natural pain controllers.
The units can be used to alleviate pain caused by various
reasons and are available for
pregnant women because they
do not introduce new medication
or interfere with medications.
Complete treatment consists of
20 to 30 minutes of 30-second simulations at about $20.
30 years ago…
Anderson County Sheriff Fred
Litsch returned from Washington
DC, receiving a commemorative
medal for his service during the
convoy to Murmansk, Russia,
during World War II. While in
the nations capital, he was invited to participate in a D-Day reenactment held on June 6, 1994.
According to the sheriff, several
members of Merchant Marines
honored in the ceremony at the
Russian Embassy in Washington
D.C. were also invited to sail
about three ships which will
leave the United States in June to
join a convoy of 40 others to reenact the D-Day landing when the
armed forced breached Hitlers
Atlantic Wall. Litsch served in
the Merchant Marines during the
war and sailed on both Liberty
and Victory-class ships during
his tour of duty. The vessel to be
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HISTORY
THAT WAS THEN
Chelsey DAlbini
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sailed by the Merchant Marines
in the 1994 reenactment will
be the WWII Merchant Marine
Memorials SS John W. Brown,
SS Jeremia OBrien, and SS Lane
Victory. Anderson County and
ten other counties that banded
together and signed agreements
to participate in the operation of
the Northeast Kansas Juvenile
Detention Center received notification that their program has
received a one-year extension
to get the facility operational.
Commissioners learned about
the extension during the regular
meeting on Monday when a letter concerning the extension was
reviewed.
20 years ago…
Local clients of the Kansas
Department of Social and
Rehabilitation Services will likely see changes in their relationship with the entity due to a $26
million budget cut from the State
of Kansas. In late November,
state agencies were asked to trim
$78 million to staunch the hemorrhage of funds in the states budget. This was in addition to the
budget cut instituted in August,
where funding was reduced by
$41 million. Critical services
could be impacted because additional funding from the federal
government is added for each
dollar of funding provided by the
state. The funding cut from the
state will result in SRS losing
a total of more than $49 million
overall. New video equipment
in the cars of Sheriff Deputies
will give more evidence of violations recorded. Sheriff Darin
Dalsing spoke to county commissioners about the grant to purchase three mobile cameras and
that the commission had been
awarded. The cameras would
be mounted to the patrol cars
dashboards to videotape the
cars windshield view anytime
after the vehicles emergency
lights were engaged. The cameras are also detachable, allowing officers to remove them to
videotape evidence at crime
scenes and accidents. The cameras cost between $2,500 and
$3,000 per camera.
10 years ago…
Local Historian Dorothy
Lickteig has devoted her time
for the last quarter century to
telling as many local stories as
possible. Lickteigs devotion to
stories that otherwise would be
lost to time, some encapsulated
by only a tiny write-up in an old
newspaper, have filled dozens
of historical volumes and other
books that tell the history of
people who lived in and shaped
Anderson County. Her time
as 21-year-long tenure as president of the Anderson County
Historical Society comes to an
end at a time when she has high
hopes for the society. Its time
for new energy and new ideas,
she said. Her journey started
with the search for the grave
of her great-grandfather, a man
whom Quantrills raiders had
killed in 1863. The investigation
led her to archives in Topeka
and Washington, D.C., where
she learned how to research old
newspapers, military records,
and other genealogical documents. A Christmas mystery
will remain just that, a mystery.
A local pastor connects needy
families through secret correspondence with an anonymous
benefactor.
The notes appear
on his desk, and Chris Goetz, the
pastor at First Christian Church,
is asked to identify a few families that could use a little help.
His responses are to be left in a
specific area of the church for
the mysterious Secret Santa
to find. In the days before the
Christmas holiday, those families receive a feast, groceries,
and presents, but Goetz and the
families do not know the identity of their secret benefactor. It
would be hard to be a Scrooge in
the face of kindness!
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THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Tuesday, December 27, 2022
LOCAL
FROM PAGE 1
commuters travel 45 minutes
to their job, and 74 percent of
the whole lot make their trip
alone meaning they bear the
full brunt of higher prices for
gas. The commute for a fiveday work week was pulling $70
per week or more out of their
pockets.
And as the Kansas Policy
Institute illustrated in an analysis, a salary increase to match
the 9 percent estimated inflation rate was still subject to the
governments take first.
KPIs example focused on
an example for a married couple with two kids: their wage
income in 2021 was $75,000,
they take the standard deduction, and they dont have any
tax credits. A pay increase
to offset 9% annualized inflation would boost gross pay by
$6,750, but the net after income
and payroll tax only goes up
$5,058. Federal income tax
is $810 higher, state income
tax goes up $367, and Social
Security and Medicare taxes
take a $516 bite out of the pay
increase. And that doesnt take
into account higher sales taxes
due to those higher shelf prices
as well as local property tax
increases.
At the close of the year gas
prices had receded somewhat
due to reductions in demand
as recession fears mount, and
due to massive releases of oil
from the Strategic Petroleum
Reserve that has depleted it by
36 percent the lowest level
since 1984. But as 2023 dawns,
competition still had not lowered prices on food and other
goods, showing inflation will
still be a factor for locals and
Americans in general for some
time to come.
It was dry
The tap that turned on
spring rainfall in Eastern and
Southeastern Kansas shut off
after June, drying out the eastern third of the state to give a
state of what Kansas westerners have been dealing with for
a year.
Kansas State Universitys
agronomy department showed
most of eastern Kansas drought
free at the beginning of the
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County at some 126 percent of
its year-to-date expected rainfall from April 1-June 30 and
about a half degree warmer
than average over that term.
Between July 1 and September
that precip dropped to 71 percent of average and average
temperature climbed by better
than 1.5 degrees. That rainfall
made our region the garden
spot of the whole state for precip with southcenter and
southeast Kansas dropping to
less than 40 percent of average
rainfall.
The toll could be told by
looking at corn and soybean
crops browning in area fields.
Still, at only about 7 and-a-half
inches under average precip
totals most local growers had
something to harvest far better than western Kansas where
fields saw a smooch as 10 fewer
inches of rain, and where they
get less than this side of the
state to start with.
Local farmers fortunate
enough to have brought in a
crop and who didnt contract
at a lower price or have their
margin waylaid by higher
fuel and chemical prices may
have made money the standard $4 per bushel corn was
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The Kansas State Research
and Extension Frontier District
will have a speakers on Pasture
Management
Following
Drought, Cost Efficiency When
Selecting Your Mineral and the
Need for Vitamin A and Tick
Diseases of Cattle and Humans.
This will take place on
Thursday, January 19th, 2023,
at 6 p.m. at the Overbrook
Livestock
Commission
Company located at 305 1st
Street in Overbrook.
Chili will be served, free
will donation will be accepted.
Please direct any questions to
Rob Schaub at (785) 828-4438 or
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paying over $7 in this region
once the drought realities
and the Russian invasion of
Ukraine thumped the markets.
Corn was paying $8 in western
Kansas if you could find any.
Drought conditions werent
expected to improve as the year
closed, since Kansas typically
sees less rainfall in the fourth
quarter of the year than it does
in the summer months.
A brand new look
Developers spent most of the
summer of 2022 demolishing
two cornerstone businesses at
the intersection of Park Road
and Maple Street in Garnett in
preparation for new construction that will drastically alter
the aesthetics of North Maple
Street. Anderson County Sales
Company on the southeast corner was purchased by Leizler
Oil of Emporia as a location
for a new convenience store,
and the former Garnett Foods
cheese factory on the northeast
corner became the subject of a
Tax Increment Financing (TIF)
project for Guffey Properties of
Belle, Mo., to eventually house
a Family Dollar/Dollar Tree
retail store.
Besides offering new economic activity and traffic
development in the vicinity,
the replacement of the two old
structures with new construction will no doubt provide a
cleaner, more professional
looking retail area for decades
to come.
Cant find help
For reasons local business
people say they still dont
quite understand, employees
are still hard to come by in
Anderson County and for
that matter, according to statewide press reports throughout Kansas. Statewide some
thirty-three percent of Kansas
businesses reported they were
struggling to find workers
in October, while 17 percent
have decreased their hours of
operation due to limited staff.
Kansas unemployment rate
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was 2.8 percent in November
and Anderson Countys jobless
rate set a new record at a mere
1.9 percentile only 85 workers
from the countys labor pool
of 4,479 workers were without
jobs.
The trouble is particularly
apparent in food service, leisure and manufacturing businesses, but skilled positions
as well have seen continued
vacancies in a variety of industries. Locally the Garnett Police
Department and Anderson
County Sheriffs Department
struggle to fill open road officer
positions even after increasing
salary and benefits. Anderson
County Commissioners in
October 2021 bumped salaries
$2 an hour across the board as
a defensive move to keep other
employers from sharking their
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They will discuss timely
tips for corn and soybean
weed management and successful control of Broomsedge
and pasture weeds.
The first presentation is
in Ottawa on January 23rd
from 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. at Neosho
County Community College,
900 E. Logan St.
Next will be in Bronson
from 7 a.m. – 9 a.m. at the
Bronson Public Library, 509
Clay St.
The final presentation will
be in Parsons from 11:30 a.m.
– 1:30 p.m. at the SE Research
and Extension Center, 25092
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Some analysts say the
problem isnt just availability of staff, its what businesses are paying them. Jeremy
Hill, director of the Wichita
State University Center for
Economic Development and
Business Research, opined in
October that wages in Kansas
hadnt kept up with the labor
market. While the national annualized wage average
is $64,021, Kansas averages
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Staffing and many smaller businesses in the county
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Tuesday, December 27, 2022
12:00 p.m. – Rotary International
Club Meeting
5:30 p.m. – PM Yoga
6:00 p.m. – American Legion Bingo
6:00 p.m. – City Commission
Meeting
7:00 p.m. – Alcoholics Anonymous
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
8:45 a.m. – AM Yoga
12:00 p.m. – Duplicate Bridge
Thursday, December 29, 2022
5:30 p.m. – PM Yoga
6:00 p.m. – 13-Point Pitch & Snacks
7:00 p.m. – Alcoholics Anonymous
Friday, December 30, 2022
8:45 a.m. – AM Yoga
Sunday, January 1, 2023
New Years Day
Monday, January 2, 2023
8:45 a.m. – AM Yoga
9:00 a.m. – Anderson County
Commission Meeting
9:00 a.m. – Friendship Quilters
Meeting
3:30 p.m. – TOPS Meeting at the
Miracle House
4:00 p.m. – Greeley PTO
6:00 p.m. – Celebrate Recovery
6:00 p.m. – Garnett Lions Club
Meeting
7:30 p.m. – Kincaid Masonic Lodge
No. 338 Meeting
Tuesday, January 3, 2023
12:00 p.m. – Rotary International
Club Meeting
4:30 p.m. – Tourism Advisory Board
Meeting
5:30 p.m. – Garnett Community
Foundation Board Meeting
5:30 p.m. – PM Yoga
6:00 p.m. – American Legion Bingo
7:00 p.m. – Alcoholics Anonymous
7:00 p.m. – Garnett Senior Center
Board Meeting
Wednesday, January 4, 2023
8:45 a.m. – AM Yoga
12:00 p.m. – Duplicate Bridge
5:30 p.m. – ACHS Booster Club
Meeting
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THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW 12-27-2022 / SUBMITTED
Crest Lancer Trevor Church, son of Travis and LeAnn Church of Kincaid, recently signed with Fort
Scott Community College to play baseball. Pictured from left: LeAnn Church, Lola Church, Trevor
Church, Travis Church, Treyton Church, Lainey Church and Theo Church. Standing is Crest Head
Coach Roland Weir.
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varing distances to return
home. The computer-chipped
band will then be detected by
a computer once they return
logging their arrival. In races,
fastest bird wins.
Homing pigeons navigate by
use of visual cues and landmarks along known travel
routes, but they also have a
magnetic sense called magnetoreception that allows them
to triangulate their position
toward home using the earths
magnetic field. Birds that are
launched will circle a time or
two directly over head to get
their bearings before trekking
for home.
Racing pigeons is a serious
hobby and has unique challenges, like transporting the birds
for races. Actually, racers will
often mail their birds, using
the U.S. Postal Service to get
them to a race start location.
Races can begin from any location in the U.S. where birds are
sent to re-home. The birds
remain there for a period of
time to be fed and nurtured
so identify the new location
as home. Once that has been
accomplished an official rac-
ing steward will then transport
the competitors to a location
hundreds of miles away and
release them. Often the birds
are released 200-300 miles from
home.
After big races many birds
are auctioned to new owners,
usually for breeding purposes.
It is not uncommon for a bird to
be sold for thousands of dollars.
And the purses from the races
arent too shabby either.
Rome is a member of the
Kansas City Pigeon Racing
Club and he encourages anyone interested in the sport to
contact them.
to feed a hungry world and to
do that we need to have help.
There is so much of agriculture
that we cannot control, and
that makes faith in the future
so important. We plan and
work hard to do all we can, but
in the end our livelihood comes
down to what Mother Nature
decides to do. To keep going
each year requires a resolve
few others understand.
That optimism for the future
is what keeps each of us going
through the bad years and disappointments. It is what makes
us so special and why we are
the backbone of society. No
matter the situation, no matter how bad things might get,
we move forward with eternal
hope and the knowledge things
will get better. I hope that this
year will send rains at the
right time and sunshine when
we need it. I hope the crops are
bin busters and your livestock
are sleek and fat. Most of all I
hope the upcoming year is a
good one. May 2023 bring the
best for you with hope that 2024
is even better.
Here's to the New Year
Glenn Brunkow, Pottawatomie
County farmer and rancher
We are on the verge of welcoming a new year in. I dont
know about you, but I will not
be sad to see 2022 in the rearview mirror. Any way you cut
it, this year was tough whether it was the economy or the
weather. In many ways 2023
can only get better.
Our sense of optimism is
one of the best qualities of agriculture. Each year is a blank
slate, a new beginning with
endless possibilities. It doesnt
matter how bad the last year
might have been, this next one
is our year.
It is because we are in the
business of nurturing new life
each year. If we plant crops, we
put seed in the ground with the
hope rains will come, the sun
will shine and the new growth
will break through the soil. We
count on two things that we
cannot control, rain and sun-
shine. Yet each year we place
a small seed in the soil and
hope it will sprout, grow and
produce grain. If that does not
take faith, hope and optimism,
I dont know what does.
If we raise livestock of any
species, most of us are responsible for bringing new life into
this world. Very little creates
more wonder for me than to
watch a newborn lamb or calf
come into this world. I dont
care how many times I witness
the miracle of life; it will never
get old. The planning and
preparation for that moment
was months or even years in
the making. All the work, all
the waiting is worth it in those
first few moments. A sense of
optimism and hope abounds
with all livestock producers
this time of the year.
Hope and optimism are
inherent to farming and ranching, it is the one thing we all
have to have. We approach
each year knowing we need
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adding a slide to the pool would
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leading into the pool from the
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added financing. During a
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only saw $18,000-$20,000 in revenues from pool attendance.
Operating revenues are also
highly dependent on summer
weather patterns.
Bures said his objective in
contacting Capri was to get the
eyes of professionals on a subject thats become a consistent
issue.
I know this is a subject that
has been talked about numerous times, Bures said in a
report to commissioners earlier in December, but I feel it
needs to be addressed again.
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THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Tuesday, December 27, 2022
Highlights of Anderson County news from the past year
January
Jason Sheahan is selected by
Garnett City Commissioners
to fulfill the unexpired term
of Cody Gettler, who passed
away in November last year.
The Anderson County Review
tells readers recurrent problems with U.S. Mail delivery
of the newspaper is forcing the
company to take a closer look
at doing away with the hard
copy product and moving to an
all digital format. Ron Ratliff
of Anderson County Sale
Company says he has accepted
an offer from Leizler Oil to purchase his property at Park and
U.S. 59 for a new convenience
store location. Prosecution
and defense lawyers are paring their cases in the case of
Centervilles Rocky Allen,
accused of crashing his truck
into his mothers car on a road
south of Parker last year and
killing her. Local auctioneer
Ben Yoder says he plans to fill
the void left by the Anderson
County Sale Barn by holding
a Tuesday morning general
merchandise sale at Mundell
Outdoors south of Crystal Park
at the former location of TLC
Auto. The Anderson County
Review launches a new statewide conservative podcast on
Spotify and Google Podcasts.
Witnesses were scheduled in
January for the felony preliminary hearing of Tommy
Emerson of Garnett, who
claims evidence from a search
warrant of his residence should
be inadmissible because he had
a previous relationship with
the judge who signed the warrant. William Cockrum, the
local man who tried to deny the
pants he was wearing belonged
to him during a traffic stop and
subsequent drug possession
arrest in January 2020 is scheduled for a two-day jury trial
to begin in early February. A
New York-based real estate
financial advisory company
released home value averages
for Kansas this month that estimates Anderson County home
values to have increased some
35 percent over the past five
years, and ranks average county taxes locally at more than
30 percent over the Kansas
median. Garnett city commissioners are pursuing the repair
of flood damage at the Cedar
Valley Reservoir from 2018 and
2019, but have asked for another proposal on an engineering
plan after the estimate for the
first company solicited came
in at more than $65,000. Crest
Lancers boys team disassembles Chetopa 69-19 in 1A basketball action. Central Heights
elementary school teacher
Melissa Wilson is recognized
with the 2022 Kansas Horizon
Award from the Kansas
Department of Education. Still
fearing Covid-19 and staff and
student absences which have
forced class cancellations, USD
365 scrubs the live audience at
the Anderson County Spelling
Bee in favor of live-streaming
the event. Rocky Allens bond
is amended to allow him access
to 160 acres of land as part of his
house arrest restriction so he
may move about at a Richmond
residence where hes staying
pending his trial. Anderson and
Franklin counties are lumped
into the Third Congressional
District in a population realignment plan that some say is a
political ploy to dilute the district with more conservative
votes in an effort to oust the
Democrat Congresswoman
Sharice Davids. In response
to allegations of voter suppression in the 2020 election,
the Anderson County Review
offers a free 1-year subscription to any voter in the country
who can show evidence that
their vote was suppressed.
ACHS homecoming candidates
are Nathan Schmit, Reese
Jarett, Kyle Belsher, Amie
Wiesner, Brooklyn Kurtz and
Abby Johnston. Top spellers
meet at the Covid-restrict
county spelling bee, including
Dalton Kersley and Kallei Robb
from Crest, Brayden Gibson
and Tyler Christian from
Westphalia, Braylend Hewson
and Wyatt Bryan from Greeley,
Tyson Banham and Kira Felt
from ACJH and Hope Pracht
and Ashton Rouse from GES.
Area Chamber of Commerces
Business of the Year award
at the annual chamber banquet, Mike Burns received the
Chamber Champion award,
John Helms was the George
Clasen Memorial Community
Service Award winner and
The Anderson County Fair
Association was Organization
Of The Year. Wind and solar
farms would be banned in more
than half of Kansas counties
and made nearly impossible in the rest under a trio
of bills heard in Toepka by
legislators last week. Central
Heights Winter Homecoming
candidates are Kaydance
Bond, Taryn Compton, Rylee
McCurry, Cameron Peel, Wyatt
Bird, Brock Clifton, David
Krone and Dominic Lopez.
Crest homecoming candidates are Vivian Noah, Lonna
Ayers, Lindsey Godderz, Ethan
Prasko, Keaton David and
Tucker Yocham. Legislators
override Governor Kellys veto
to let a new congressional map
of Kansas stand, which puts
Anderson County in the 3rd
District. Garnett officials are
doing initial research on an
idea to incinerate trash and
use the energy to power an
electric generator for the utility department, as challenges
and higher costs in the refuse
department are brainstormed.
Passage of property tax legislation introduced by 12th
District Senator Caryn Tyson
would exempt $100,000 of the
assessed value on residential
property from the 20-mill tax
used by the state to finance
public schools and would result
in a savings of some $150 million annually in property taxes.
Anderson County Bulldog
wrestler Clarissa Sheahan will
be heading to the state tournament in Salina next week as
she finished 2nd in her class
at Chanute over the weekend,
along with male qualifiers
Masten Wrignt and A.J. Shaffer
from ACHS and CHHS wrestler
Jotham Meyer. Suzanne Guinn
of Westphalia,recently published her first book, Poems
of Everyday Life. Sixtythree year-old Barry Weber of
Garnett was sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison in connection with 2020 felony child sex
abuse charges. A contract bus
carrier transporting 21 work
release inmates from Topeka
to a work project in Iola ran
off the road while southbound
on U.S. 169 about three miles
southwest of Welda about
3 p.m. Saturday and came to
rest in a creek; after a tire was
repaired the bus was driven
from the scene and all passengers accounted for. High winds
blow 6 inches of local snow into
big drifts in some places and a
bare covering of the white stuff
in others.
lets for more and more cash.
Albert Hinds of Pleasanton is
arrested by the Kansas Bureau
of Investigation on a terrorism warrant stemming from
alleged threatening statements
made in December that resulted in the temporary shutdown
of the Linn County Courthouse.
Years of tapping the City of
Garnetts utility revenue surpluses to subsidize other line
items in the city budget have
depleted those balances, so this
spring and amid other headline-grabbing
inflationary
woes, Garnett will likely see an
increase in the cost of electricity the first rate hike since
2006. A rash of recent property
thefts prompt Garnett Police
Chief Kurt King to recommend
outdoor security cameras for
area residents. Garnett leaders
will undertake a $4.4 million
replacement and refurbishing
project of the citys electrical
generators to put them back
into good graces with federal
regulators and hopefully stave
off an emergency blackout in
the city in time of need. A federal indictment accuses four men
with ties to Russian spy outfits
of trying to gain control of U.S.
nuclear power plants one of
them the Wolf Creek plant at
New Strawn through cyber
sabotage.
archeologist Henry Roeckers
the only such column penned
locally and published among
the states newspapers. Local
enduro kart racer Bryan
Norman wins a first and second
place finish at Hallett Raceway
in Oklahoma. Students at
Greeley Elementary enjoyed
an educational visit from Kari
Hamilton, an instructor with
Southwest Dairy Farmers, and
her Jersey cow, Daisy May
Blossom. Anderson Countys
unemployment rate hangs
around two percent, and
many local employers still say
theyre short-handed. Repairs
on the Cedar Valley Reservoir
spillway from 2019s flood
damage have to be completed
in a year to keep state federal disaster funds, but have to
jump through loads of design
and engineering requirements. Garnett city leaders
are researching the legalities
involved in matching some
local activities up with changing state liquor laws, including
a proposal for wine sampling
at the upcoming Business and
Professional Womens Square
Fair on May 7. The new Beacon
of Truth Church project west
of Garnett expects completion
this summer and has seen
steady growth since the Covid
lockdowns.
April
Identification of remains
in the March fire at Greeley
reveals the fire killed 28 yearold Savanna Lyons and her
three year-old son Alan Joe
Tomblin, as well as 32 yearold Chad Likens. Local police
are searching for Chris
Vandenberg of Paola in connection with a shooting incident
on 8th Street in which a home
and a number of vehicles were
fired upon. Anderson County
generates more than $100,000
annual from renting jail beds to
nearby county jails which dont
have room for their inmates,
but that cash cow may be drying up soon due to other new
jails in the region opening soon
or in the planning stages. An
Anderson County court judge
will consider a plea agreement
cut between Caleb Foltz of
Kincaid and the prosecution
that could sentence him to as
much as 54 years in prison for
two counts of rape of his 13
year-old step daughter. Spiking
real estate prices are bringing
higher tax appraisals to local
properties, with residences
showing a median increase of
over 26 percent and nearly 7
percent for commercial properties. Brylee Zook is the biggest
check winner at the Equifest
Breakway Roping competition
in Salina with a take-home of
$1,650 after roping two calves
in 10.29 seconds in the open
competition. After a taunting reply to a Garnett Police
Department Facebook post
seeking his whereabouts, Chris
Vandenberg of Paola will face
felony charges in connection
with what police say was a rolling gun battle that ended on 8th
Avenue in Garnett with shots
fired into a vehicle and a house.
Garnett wins grant funds to
build a fitness park near the
Garnett Depot on the Prairie
Spirit Trail. Mike Norman is
selected as a Top 100 national winner of the 2021 Small
Town America Civic Volunteer
Award. A study of the nations
500 largest school districts
indicates masking children in
school during the Covid pandemic had the opposite effect
that proponents hoped, with
masked classrooms having
four times the number of disrupted learning days and 2.5
times higher Covid case rates
during the same period. Les
McGhee files for re-election
to his 1st District Anderson
County Commission seat. The
ongoing issue of stray cats in
Garnett is leading city officials to examine a trap, neuter & release program (TNR)
in town aimed at sterilizing
enough of the stray population to effectively lower those
numbers over time. After the
culmination of a three phase
audition process, 2018 ACHS
graduate Lexee Feuerborn of
Garnett has been selected to
the Kansas City Chiefs 2022
Cheerleading Team. Anderson
County property owners worried over the tax impact of
their recent property valuation
increases got some good news
in a multi-faceted tax policy bill
passed recently that will raise
the property value exemption
for schools in the state from
the present $20,000 to $100,000.
The Anderson County Review
celebrates the 20th anniversary
of its local archeology column
written by Garnett amateur
May
Garnett
commissioners
approve a base charge increase
for natural gas from $6 to $9 for
city customers and prepare for
an electric rate increase as well
to shore up utility reserve funds
commissioners have tapped
repeatedly over the years. The
City of Garnett is expected to
bring up discussions about
developing a land bank later
this month. Representative for
the 9th District Kent Thompson
of Iola, who after redistricting now represents most of
Anderson County, originally voted against both a bill to
protect womens sports against
encroachment by male competitors and a Parents Bill of
Rights bill, when they were
i n i t i a l l y passed this
session by the Kansas House,
but Thompson flipped both
his votes when both those
measures were brought back
to the House last week in an
attempt by Republican leadership to overturn Governor
Kellys vetoes. Organizers in
Garnett plan a big weekend
with the Garnett Square Far
coupled with the citys 2022
Air Fair. Anderson County
women sought and received
only 6 abortions in 2021, but the
weight of the August vote for
a state constitutional amendment dubbed Value Them
Both will no doubt intensify
the issue locally and statewide
with bombshell news last week
that the U.S. Supreme Court
may be planning to nullify the
landmark ruling guaranteeing
a constitutional right to abortion in Roe v. Wade. Kwikom
Communications
acquires
Valnet/TelXP, whose predecessor company Terraworld, formerly based in Independence,
Ks., first opened broadband
DSL service in Garnett and
a number of other cities
across Southeast Kansas and
Northeast Oklahoma in 2002.
ACHS Bulldogs win their 16th
straight baseball game of the
season with a sweep of Santa
Fe Trail. The Garnett Public
Library presents an art exhibit
by Chief Leroy Standingcloud
of Garnett. Local retired veterinarian Fred Gardner files
to run for the 9th District
Representative post in the
Kansas Legislature. Local grocery retailers have stocks of
Enfamil baby formula available on their store shelves
though theyve seen reductions
in the amounts they can order
in the midst of the recall of
another infant formula brand
which has caused fears of shortage elsewhere in the country.
Governor Laura Kelly signs the
bill cutting the states sales tax
on groceries after reports of surplus tax revenues at the state
level and a 9 percent inflation
rate hitting Kansas residents
that has both political parties
trying to make election hay out
of a cut in the food tax. Gas
prices break the $4 per gallon
ceiling locally, the highest prices seen in the area since 9/11,
and financers JP Morgan say
prices may hit $6 by summers
end. A group of locals will meet
with Garnett Public Library
officials in hopes of having a
copy of the transgender memoir Gender Queer removed
from library sheves over their
concerns it depicts child pornography. The Garnett Area
Chamber of Commerce breaks
with tradition and offers its
first-ever Mens Social event in
Garnett. With 8.5 percent inflation sapping household budgets, household meal planning
is putting a focus on cheaper
but still nutritious options like
beans, rice dishes and cheaper
meat cuts to help save money.
Governor Kelly signs open
enrollment bill that allows
any Kansas student to transfer
schools based on the receiving schools capacity. Garnett
city commissioners vote 2-1 to
establish a Land Bank after a
debate about whether rehabilitating delinquent properties
should be the responsibility of
private interests or local government. As part of its effort to
encourage the development of
daycare providers locally, the
Anderson County Development
Agency with the help of the
Garnett Public Library has
purchased three Child Care
Provider Resource Kits for
potential new providers with
grant funds from Child Care
Aware of Southeast Kansas.
Rain shortened the state golf
tournament last week for
Anderson County by a day, but
Bulldog golfer Lane Richards
shot an opening day 80 which
was good for 14th place and
earned a medal in the process.
sending the issue of abortion
laws back to state legislatures
to decide. A special Garnett
Liberty Festival performance
of Johnson County teen band
Quite Frankly is scheduled in
tribute to city commissioner
Cody Gettler, who passed away
last November. Tourism promoters in Garnett are spreading the word about a cost-sharing program that will pay
half the cost of posting local
business advertising on highway approaches to Garnett. A
special retirement reception is
planned for John Helms upon
his retirement after nearly 42
years with Garnetts refuse
department. Dylan Cole, 2021
graduate of Anderson County
High School, was recognized
as one of fifteen students
to receive the Presidents
Outstanding Freshman award
during the recent OU Campus
Awards Banquet.
2022
February
A former Miami County man
charged more than six times
since 2005 for violating state
laws that require him to register as a sex offender in different
localties is awaiting a March
hearing, after being released
from Anderson County Jail on
a personal recognizance bond
last November but again failing to register. Garnett Home
Center is selected the Garnett
March
After testimony in the hearing collapses and with no
other evidence to prove Tom
Emersons allegation of a previous relationship with District
Magistrate Kevin Kimball,
Anderson County District
Court Judge Eric Godderz rules
against Emersons in his felony drug distribution trial that
the initial search warrant of
his property signed by Kimball
should be declared inadmissible. A fire at a Greeley residence takes the lives of two
adults and a toddler, but actual
identifications of the trio are
at first inconclusive. The Crest
Lancers edge Marmaton Valley
44-41 in the first round of the
1A Substate Tournament.
No one is injured when fire
erupts at an apartment house
on the northeast corner of
5th Avenue and Walnut near
downtown Garnett, destroying
the four apartments and contents within it. The plugging
of abandoned oil and gas wells
in Anderson County will likely get a funding boost due to
President Bidens Bipartisan
Infrastructure Bill passed late
last year, which appropriated
some $58.6 million to seal up an
estimated 5,400 oil and gas wells
in Kansas. Cornstock books
Reckless Kelly, Tylar Farr,
Blane Howard to join the Roots
& Boots Tour in September
with Sammy Kershaw, Collin
Rae and Aaron Tippin. Crest
High School will play host to
the Youth Entrepreneurship
Challenge, a special youth
business training program
designed to teach kids about
entrepreneurship and have
their ideas and methods critiqued by local business people and government agency
staff. The price of gasoline in
Kansas hits a $3.81 average as
prices climb across the country, tapping local drivers wal-
June
Garnett City Commissioners
will host a hearing June 14 to
consider establishing a Tax
Increment Financing (TIF)
funded redevelopment district
that would bring a new Family
Dollar retailer to the location of
the citys former cheese plant
at Park Road and Maple. Mark
Locke, Troy Armstrong and
Justin Thompson file to run
for the seat on the Garnett City
Commission that will be left
vacant when longtime commissioner Greg Gwin leaves office
in January. Arlyn Briggs of
Kincaid files to oppose Kansas
Attorney General Derek
Schmidt for the Republican
nomination for governor.
Central Heights Viking softball
finished 3rd at the state tournament. Multiple theft charges
were filed last week against
Marvin Slyter of Garnett
after an extensive multi-year
investigation into the thefts
of numerous pieces of farm
equipment and other items
from Anderson and other counties. Anderson County plans to
sell 32 tracts of property condemned for delinquent taxes
at an upcoming tax foreclosure
sale. Despite calling the brouhaha surrounding a controversial electric line project that
would pass through Anderson
County a circus and drama
trauma, Kansas Corporation
Commission Commissioner
Susan K. Duffy voted with KCC
Chairman Dwight Keen to allow
a ratepayers lobby group to
speak on behalf of landowners
and customers at an upcoming
hearing. Regional public health
officials say beyond the media
hype, Monkeypox isnt much of
a worry locally. Jenny Myers
and Shirley Benjamin of the
Garnett chaperter of Business
and Professional Women were
inducted into the Kansas
Business and Professional
Womens Hall of Fame at the
organizations recent state
convention.
Eighty-three
vehicles were entered in the
recent Southland Cruisers Car
Show on the Garnett Square.
Bethany Powls, 2018 graduate
of ACHS, wins the Thresher,
Bethel Colleges highest academic honor. After continued
issues with the operation of
the citys recreation center,
Garnett City Commissioner
Jason Sheahan cancels what
would have been a no confidence vote in rec director
Phil Bures after its discussion
on social media prompts criticism. High wheat prices and
plenty of spring moisture may
make for a profitable wheat
crop this year if growers didnt
contract for lower prices. Arlyn
Briggs, whos running for the
Republican nomination for governor, is arrested after allegedly threatening members of the
Anderson County Sheriffs
Department. After only a year
at the combined post of administrator for Anderson County
Hospital and Allen County
Regional Hospital, Saint Lukes
officials announced the resignation of Elmore Patterson last
week. A ribbon cutting ceremony is held for Garnetts new fitness court north of the Santa Fe
Depot. The repercussions for
Kansas and its November constitutional amendment vote are
thrust into the national spotlight after the U.S. Supreme
Court overturns landmark
abortion ruling Roe v. Wade,
July
Research by The Anderson
County Review yields a finding
that Ed Finks 1991 Pictorial
History of Anderson County,
Kansas is likely the only localized pictorial folklore history
ever cartooned in any locality
in the United States. Garnett
commissioner Jason Sheahan
apologizes for a recent social
media post calling for a no confidence vote in city rec director
Phil Bures, calling the action
unorthodox. Tom Emerson will
plead to a felony count of possession of methamphetamine with
intent to distribute and a drug
paraphernalia charge but have
his remaining felonies dropped
in a plea deal with prosecutors.
Opponents of the book Gender
Queer schedule an appeal of
the Garnett Public Library
Boards 4-2 decision to keep
the book on library shelves,
maintaining their claim the
book contains pornography
and aims to groom children
toward transgender lifestyles.
Garnett City Manager Travis
Wilson tells city commissioners hes received an alert from
the Southwest Power Pool that
electricity may be in short supply this summer due to air conditioning needs and lower production from wind farms. The
Cherry Mound Community
Church dating back to 1880 is
destroyed by fire July 4 weekend and the cause is yet to
be determined. For at least
the second election cycle in
a row the Anderson County
Democrat Party has no filings
for its county party precinct
positions and Republicans
have less than 10 of 34 possible
posts filled. Two major motor
events will highlight latter
July when Anderson County
Fair kicks off its 2022 Anderson
County Fair Tractor Pull, and
the local Wittman NAPA store
sponsors the first-ever night
race in Kansas City Karting
Association history on the
sprint track in Lake Garnett
Park. A subsidiary of Japanese
industrial giant Panasonic
Corp. announces plans to build
a $4 billion plant to make batteries for electric vehicles on
the site of a former ammunition plant at the western edge
of the Kansas City area, about
an hour from Garnett. The
4th Judicial District announces plans to seek an additional magistrate judge for Coffey
County after legislation passes
to fund more positions in the
court system across the state.
Garnett commissioners will
propose a $15.9 million 2023
operating budget at an upcoming budget hearing. The number of entries in the Richmond
Free fair was up a little over
last year at 551, but the number
of exhibitors was down a bit
at l34. Results of a Co/efficient
poll conducted by Five Thirty
Eight show Kansans narrowly favor an amendment to the
state constitution that says no
right to abortion exists in the
states founding document. No
less than six Democrats will
run in the upcoming primary
election for the party nod to
contest Senator Jerry Moran as
primary season heats up across
the state. The Garnett Church
of the Nazarene & ECKAN
will host a Back-2-School Bash
and resource Fair in August
as locals ready for the coming
school year.
August
Longtime Anderson County
Commissioner
Gene
Highberger of Westphalia passes away. Evergy uses an unregulated accounting mechanism
that authorizes recouping its
costs for purchase of power
generation fuel and purchased
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U.S. Strategic Command. The
late-in-the month thunderstorm that dropped more than
two inches of rain on parts of
a parched Anderson County
spelled relief and maybe benefited the local soybean crop,
but analysts say the outcome
of the 2022 corn crop is pretty
much already known due to the
summers drought. The Kansas
Press Association recently
announced former Garnett
resident David Powls, editor
and publisher of The Holton
Recorder, as the 2022 recipient
of the Clyde M. Reed Master
Editor Award for lifetime contributions to the community,
the Kansas newspaper industry
and the state. One of Garnetts
most recognizable faces in community public relations and
marketing will retire at the
end of September, when Susan
Wettstein ends her career spanning 37 years in various positions with the City of Garnett.
County Republicans raise more
than $15,000 in a local fund raiser for Kansas Attorney General
Derek Schmidts campaign
for governor. A letter written
by Garnett attorney Manford
Schoonover and published in
the Garnett Journal in 1904
countering a mail order whiskey advertisement became
famous in the day, and generated some 75,000 orders for copies
of the newspaper.
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city advisory boards that will
have vacancies in December
of 2022. Tom Emersons lack
of a prior criminal record help
him escape jail time when he
pleads guilty to two of 13 felony drug charges in Anderson
County District Court. City
manager Travis Wilson is
working with a private contractor to begin archiving the
citys social media posts as official city records, in keeping
with requirements for other
hard copy records held by the
city according to the Kansas
Open Records Act. With only
weeks to go before the 2022 election and in a race most pollsters are calling a dead heat,
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly
has apparently reversed course
on the transgender sports ban
legislation she twiced vetoed
saying men should not be
playing girls sports then
reversing her language again
in comments to the Kansas City
Star.
ball game. Mundells Outdoors
plans a Pumpkin Bash at the
former TLC Auto facility south
of Garnett with kids games
and events and live music
entertainment from regional
country star Travis Marvin.
A former Garnett resident
and 1974 Garnett High School
grad, Diann (Cox) Hough of
Paola, told about her experiences visiting Japan at a recent
Richmond United Women in
Faith meeting. Garnett sisters
Reese and Reagan Witherspoon
will represent USD 365 at 3A
Kansas State Golf. Garnetts
BPW chapter hosts a political forum for local, state
nad regional candidates.
Investigators in Anderson
County allege a 79 year-old
Isidro Madrid of Colony instigated an ongoing series of rape
and sexual assaults against
six children at his Colony residence over a 15 year period
until last July, when a 12 yearold girl disclosed the alleged
attacks to a Kansas City social
worker. Dakota Kirkland, 30
of Welda, is killed when the
car he was driving plowed into
the rear of an equipment trailer turning from U.S.169 onto a
gravel road the first fatality
accident to occur on the rebuilt
Garnett/Welda stretch of the
highway since it reopened in
late October 2021. Blake Hess of
Garnett has a role in Emporia
State University Theatres production of Curtains, the 2022
Homecoming musical. A host of
local athletes qualify for state
cross country in various divisions, including Kyree Puckett,
Josie Walter, Peyton Schmidt,
and Aubree Allen from Crest;
Adam Mell-Tomberlin, Alex
Skeet, Brylan Sommer, Cody
Hammond, Nicholas Schultze,
Owen Miller, Connor Burkdoll,
Aidan
Howland,
Aydan
Dunbar, Christian McCord,
Alexis
Davis,
Melaney
Chrisjohn, Emma Cubit, Lilie
Johnson, Arabella Dunbar,
Lillian Coulson, and Skylar
Dyerson-Fritchman
from
Central Heights, and Tucker
Nelson from ACHS.
Country Championships held
in Wamego on Oct. 29th. ACHS
Tucker Nelson turns in a top 40
finish at the 3A cross country
meet. Crests Ethan Godderz
helped his team advance to the
2nd round of the 1A 8-man playoffs with 217 passing yards and
4 touchdowns with 97 yards
rushing in a 60-40 win over
Norwich. A cornerstone business of the Garnett community gets a new name and new
owners last week with the sale
of Beckman Motors to Victory
Auto Group, but Ray Beckman
will stay around for a couple
of years during the transition.
The Garnett Area Chamber of
Commerce has announced this
years Grand Marshall for the
51st Annual GACC Christmas
Parade and Lighting Ceremony
is local veterans activist
Clarence Hermann. Crest
Lancer baseball shortstop
Stetson Setter, Welda, KS, has
been named to the 15th Annual
World Power Showcase AllAmerican/World Team. Fred
Gardner wins 75 percent of the
vote in his bid for 9th District
Kansas Representative, Mark
Locke emerges from the threeway race for Garnett City
Commission, and Republicans
lose the governors race and
3rd District Congressional contest while elected a broad slate
of GOP members across the
state. The Anderson County
Review and various business
sponsors kick off its 24th annual Great Christmas Giveaway
with a $1,000 prize. Laverne
Howarter celebrates her 100th
birthday on November 17th.
Crest School recognizes the
recipients of the Leadership
Award at the last home football
game honoring students Stormi
Yoder, Hayden Powell, Tatum
Caudell, Penny Womelsdorf,
Nicole Bain, Bailey Boone,
Kroy Walter, Dagon Denny,
Kallei Robb, Wyatt Dickerson,
Kinley
Edgerton,
Kayla
Hermreck, Kamryn Luedke.
Garnetts Orscheln store officially becomes a Tractor Supply
location in a $320 million sale
of some, but not all, Orscheln
locations. City and county officials may expand the parameters of the Neighborhood
Revitalization Program tax
rebate program designed to
give an incentive to local developers to improve the value
of their homes and business
buildings and building lots.
City staff put some numbers
to the trash hauled during the
recent Garnett Clean-Up Week
and figure it cost the city $1,900,
adding some context to an issue
thats become a sticking point
between city and county elected officials in recent years
as commissioners canceled
free dump week for county
customers. A review by the
Kansas Policy Insitute shows
public school spending seems
to have no effect on student
performance, and has led to the
Sunflower State having one of
the lowest productivity rankings a measure of test scores
per dollar spent per pupil in
the nation. The decaying condition of many Garnett streets is
leading city leaders to the conclusion to buy the towns own
street paving equipment and
train personnel how to do pavement repair and reinstallation
in order to stave off that deterioration and save costs. Rising
energy costs will force the City
of Garnett to propose a budget
amendment increasing spending some $600,000 in reserves
for electricity and gas expenses to cover cost hikes expected to last at least through the
end of 2022. The Garnett Public
Library will present a new
installment in the Community
Gallery. Now through January
6th, 2023, Judy Worrells artwork will be available to view.
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power to effectively raise rates
up to 22 percent for Kansas
customers. President Biden
releases gasoline from the federal stockpile, and the price
of gas drops some 25 cents a
gallon in Kansas to an average
of $3.85. Kathy Schulte wins the
50-inch flatscreen television in
the Customer Appreciation
Month drawing sponsored by
The Anderson County Review
and other local merchants.
Though 60 precent of Anderson
County voters favor its passage, the abortion amendment
fails statewide in Kansas due to
blue county support and rings
as a statement to the rest of the
country after the overturn of
Roe v. Wade. County attorney
Elizabeth Oliver applies for an
open judge position in the 5th
Judicial District at Emporia.
In a move that surprises many
pundits Kansas abortion
amendment fails among voters with 61 percent in favor of
keep the state supreme court
decided right to abortion in the
state constitution. A query of
15 of the states largest school
districts by The Sentinel conservative news service finds 11
districts ignore a question as
whether they have reviewed
the post-action security report
from the Uvalde, Texas, school
shooting, and two of the
remaining four respond but
dodge the question. USD 365
security officer Phil Levota
completed the states Drug
Abuse Resistance Education
Training at the Kansas Law
Enforcement Training Center
in Hutchinson. The Kansas
Attorney Generals office is
opposing a motion last month
to allow accused 2020 vehicluar
murder suspect Rocky Allen
to be released from the GPS
monitoring condition of his
present bond so he can move
to Centerville from a location where hes been residing
in Princeton. Even with new
revenue neutral requirements, Anderson County
Commissioners will propose a
2023 budget with $1 million in
new property taxes to county residents at an upcoming
budget hearing. Garnett city
library board members vote to
keep Gender Queer in the
library without restrictions
despite opponent protests.
Third District Congresswoman
Sharice Davids votes for Joe
Bidens controversial $740 billion Inflation Reduction Act,
continuing her 100 percent voting record favoring Biden initiatives. Contrary to other published reports that said shes
conceded the primary race
for Kansas State Treasurer,
Republican candidate and 12th
District State Senator Caryn
Tyson said shes still holding
out for totals from the final
counties involved in her
requested recount. Longtime
SEK school administrator
Angie Linn takes over the
principalship at Westphalia
and Greeley elementary
schools. Kincaid native Jorge
Cumplido, Jr., a 2010 graduate
of Crest High School, is serving
as a part of the nations nuclear
deterrence mission supporting
airbone communication links
to nuclear missile units of the
September
Two August arrests threaten life in prison on charges
of child rape for Isidro
Madrid, 79 of Colony, and
Sean Jackson Williams, 18 of
Garnett. Anderson County
Commissioners place a plan on
hold which would have constructed a new rural fire station
on Westgate Road in Garnett,
after an engineers estimate for
the projects costs of 1.4 million is far surpassed by the $1.7
and $2.7 million estimates they
received. A subsidiary of a leading wind turbine field developer in Kansas has received
the go-ahead from the Kansas
Corporation Commission to do
business as a power transmission company in the state, with
a project that if approved would
run a power transmission line
across the southwest corner of
Anderson County enroute to a
destination in Missouri. Talks
between the East Kansas Agri
Energy Ethanol plant and the
City of Garnett could yield a
new local electrical plant that
would allow the city and the
local ethanol producer to generate a portion of their own
needed electricity and sell surplus power back to the regional electrical grid. Saint Lukes
Health System announces
Jeremy Armstrong, FACHE,
has been named Administrator
of Anderson County Hospital
and Allen County Regional
Hospital. Cornstock, Garnetts
preeminent fall music event,
is back on this month after a
three-year hiatus due to weather and Covid cancellations. The
area chapter of The Daughters
of The American Revolution
(DAR) made a special display
for Constitution Week at the
Garnett library which will be
on display through September.
The City of Garnett is seeking
volunteers to serve on eight
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Ely Burroughs and Bailey
Brockus are crowned King
and Queen of Central Heights
Homecoming. The half-cent
sales tax approved by county
voters in 2006 to fund bond payments for the Anderson County
Law Enforcement Center will
be paid off two years early,
owing to better than expected
sales tax yields as well as revenues from housing out-of-county inmates. A billing error that
went on for years involving the
company that employs, Greg
Gwin, one of Garnetts elected
city commissioners, apparently subsidized the company for
more than $21,000 in unpaid
electricity, and now city officials are debating over how to
handle the debacle. Six yearold Hayzlee McDowell, daughter of Candis McDowell, was
the winning entry in this years
contest to name the Garnett
Area Chamber of Commerce
Christmas Parade. Chelsey
DAlbini has joined The
Anderson County Review as a
local historical columnist and
features writer. The Garnett
Lions Club donated and
installed a new bench at the
Garnett Tot Lot last week. The
sounds of pistons and exhaust
are sure to harken back some
vintage memories for those
attending the Anderson County
Flywheelers Gas Engine &
Tractor Show in Lake Garnett
Park this month. Homecoming
King Jack Crane & Queen
Emma Schaffer were crowned
prior to the ACHS Bulldogs
game against Burlington on
Friday night. With their recent
wins against Southeast and
Yates Center, the Crest Lady
Lancer volleyball team currently sits at 26 wins on the
season with more games still
to play and in sole possession
of the most wins in a season
in school history. A meeting
in Iola of regional county commissioners called to discuss
zoning setbacks for a 94-mile
electric transmission line falls
into disarray and is canceled
mid stride after members of the
public showed up to protest.
Brinley McGhee and Stetson
Setter are crowned Crest High
School Homecoming King and
Queen at Friday nights foot-
November
After a week that started for
Kansas Democrats with damage control over Kansas commerce department funding of
organizations promoting drag
shows in Wichita, desperation
over the Kansas governors
race apparently prompted a
prominent Democrat law firm
to distribute a mailer attacking
Derek Schmidt and promoting
former Republican-turnedIndependent governors candidate from Assaria Dennis Pyle.
Katie Lybarger, a 2017 graduate of Anderson County High
School, coached the Kansas
4-H All Star meat judging
team which won the national
championship at the American
Royal in Kansas City, beating
teams from 14 states during
the 4-H Meat Judging Contest
championship. The Crest Lady
Lancers cross country team of
Aubrey Allen, Kyree Puckett,
Peyton Schimdt, and Josie
Walter finish 3rd in the 1A state
meet. Central Heights medals Cody Hammond, Connor
Burkdoll, Emma Cubit and
Melaney Chrisjohn in the top
20 in the Class 2A State Cross
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December
Prices for most retail goods will
go down a little after this month
in Anderson County, with the
sunset of the cent sales tax
added to the local sales tax
total 16 years ago to help pay
for the Anderson County Jail.
A study of state sales tax by
the Anderson County Review
shows some rural counties in
Kansas seem to be missing the
benefits of inflation-spurred
consumer prices and the
resulting increase in sales tax
collections in their localities,
while the state overall continues to make a killing on those
inflation-driven higher prices.
USD 365 school board members approve a $750 incentive
payment to district teachers
and staff from the districts
Elementary and Secondary
School Emergency Relief
(ESSER) funds, the second year
the Covid incentive has been
paid locally. Subpoenas were
being returned late last month
as witnesses were assembled
for an upcoming February preliminary hearing for Kinciads
Arlyn Briggs, accused of
threats against Anderson
County Sheriffs Department
personnel last summer. Eagle
Scout contender Carson Wood
teams with the Garnett United
Methodist Church to build
and locate a food pantry box
to help locals who may need
help acquiring food. The average price of a gallon of regular
unleaded gasoline in Kansas
last weekfell to $2.99, the first
time the average is under $3/
gallon since January 18, 2022.
Two wood stove-related fires
in one week in the county after
a recent cold snap has newly-hired county emergency
director Mark Locke talking
fireplace and wood stove heating safety. AC Bulldog wrestlers finish 2nd at their invitational tournament. Troyers
1883 Restaurant holds a ribbon
cutting ceremony to celebrate
its recent opening in the 1883
vintage building in downtown Garnett that formerly
housed Maloans Restaurat
and the former International
Organization of Odd Fellows
chapter in the 1930s and 1940s.
TrustPoint Insurance, based in
Burlington and with a Garnett
office, announces the acquisition of a Fort Hays firm and
an expansion into that market. Garnetts new Family
Dollar Store construction is
held up waiting for an electrical transformer after supply
chain disruptions force delays.
An assessment of Garnetts
city swimming pools leads to
a company estimate of $2.5 to
$3.5 million to replace the aging
facility.
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and Firefighter 2 certifications are
preferred. Resumes will be accepted at the Emergency Management Directors office. Resumes
due by January 12th.
Anderson County is an equal
opportunity employer.
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Celebrate the New Year…
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The New Year is a reason to celebrate,
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but not a reason to drink & drive. ALWAYS designate a driver.
These Businesses Wish You a Safe and Happy New Year!
Adamson Bros.
Heating & Cooling
Ottawa
(785) 242-9273
Anderson County Abstract
Garnett
(785) 448-2426
Anderson County Review
Garnett
(785) 448-3121
AuBurn Pharmacy
Garnett
(785) 448-6122
Barnes Seed Service, LLC
Garnett
(785) 304-2500
Benjamin Realty
Garnett
(785) 448-2550
Brummel Farm Service
Garnett
(785) 448-5720
Midwest Collision
Paola
(913) 294-4016
Sonic Drive-In
Garnett
(785) 448-6393
CARSTAR
Ottawa
(785) 242-8916
Midwest Gun & Supply
Paola
(913) 557-4867
State Farm Insurance
Ryan Disbrow-Agent,
Garnett
(785) 448-1660
Natures Touch
Garnett
(785) 448-7152
Terry Solander, Atty. at
Law
Garnett
(785) 448-6131
D&M Mini Barns
Garnett
(785) 504-9625
Dodds Memorials
Ottawa
(785) 242-3350
East Kansas Agri-Energy
Garnett
(785) 448-2888
Farmers State Bank
Garnett
www.fsbkansas.com
Member FDIC – Equal Opportunity Lender.
Patriots Bank
Garnett
www.patriotsbank.com
Member FDIC – Equal Opportunity Lender.
Tom Adams Construction
Garnett
(785) 448-3997
PrairieLand Partners
Iola
(620) 365-2187
Valley R Agri-Service, Inc.
Garnett
(785) 448-6533
Quality Structures
Richmond
800-374-6988
Wilson Chiropractic Clinic
Garnett
(785) 448-6151
Sandras Quick Stop
Garnett
(785) 448-6602
Wittman NAPA Auto Parts
Garnett
(785) 448-6611
Bluestem Farm & Ranch
Emporia
(620) 352-5502
Flynn Appliance Center
Iola
(620) 365-2538
Bones Rock Yard
Ottawa
(785) 242-3070
Garnett Home Center
& Rental
Garnett
(785) 448-7106
SEK Mental Health Center
Garnett
(7685) 448-6806
Wolken Tire
Garnett
(785) 448-3212
GSSB
Garnett
(785) 448-3111
6th Ave Boutique &
Western Wear
Garnett
(785) 448-2276
Yutzy Custom Structures
Garnett
(800) 823-8609
Brand N Iron
Princeton
www.thebrandniron.com
Our best wishes to you for your 2023
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Merry Christmas everyone
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foreign imports for large electrical transformers.
Until then, Rollins said,
crews will be limited to using
generators to approach interior
finish work, hopefully starting
around January 2. When that
base interior work is completed, he said crews with Family
Dollar would set about configuring the stores interior for
the move in and set up of merchandise.
The dual store concept that
merges the traditional Family
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for population centers around
3,000-4,000 with both grocery
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your life. We know it hurts,
and we want to help.
Members of the Four Winds
Chapter of DAR and student
volunteers traveled to Fort
Scott National Cemetery
on December 17 to participate in the Wreathes Across
America Program. At Fort
Scott, over 6,000 wreathes
were placed on veterans
graves on Saturday, Dec.
17. The Chapter raised
enough money to purchase
55 wreathes. Pictured above,
from left are Brendan Hasty,
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Garnett
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D&M Mini Barns
Baumans Carpet & Furniture
7th Street Grocery
Wolken Tire
Garnett Home Center
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Western Wear
GSSB
4th Street Flea Market
Country Mart
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