Anderson County Review — February 20, 2025

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Local legislators boost Help Not Harm veto override to protect kids
Rejection of Governors
veto is first power play win
after voters stoke majorities
BY DANE HICKS
THE KANSAS INFORMER
TOPEKA Over attempts by
Democrats to smoke screen the override vote with claims that it doesnt
lower grocery prices for Kansans,
Republicans in the Kansas statehouse
on Tuesday used the strengthened
majorities they won after last falls
voter backlash against radical progressive ideology to can Governor
Kellys veto of the Help Not Harm Act,
which will now forbid Kansas doctors
from the chemical and surgical abuse
of minors to change their sex.
Legislators representing Anderson
County in the local area, including
9th Dist.Rep. Fred Gardner, 59th Dist.
Rep. Rebecca Schmoe and 12th District
Senator Caryn Tyson all voted in favor
of the override.
It was the third
attempt in as many
sessions to overturn
Kellys vetoes on
similar legislation.
The Senate voted
31-9 in the override
with all members
voting. The House
Tyson
vote passed with its
2/3 majority 85-34,
with District 60 Rep. Mark Schreiber
of Emporia breaking ranks with
Republicans. Two other Republicans,
Samantha Poetter-Parshall of Paola
and Rick Wilborn of McPherson, did
not vote on the measure.
Parshall told the Informer she was
called home to a family issue but was
tracking the vote after being assured
the override would fly. She said she
planned to return
to Topeka to vote in
favor of the override
if needed. Wilborn,
who also voted to
pass the original
measure, said he
was at home ill for
the override vote.
In her veto mesGardner
sage last week, Kelly
called the bill to
stop irreversible surgeries on minors
under the age of 18 with a mental condition previously known as gender
dysphoria an infringement on parental rights.
Democrats have echoed those who
encourage gender dysphoric youth,
saying sex change surgeries and chemical puberty blockers reduce what
is statistically a higher incidence of
suicide among this
cohort a position
not supported by
numerous qualified
studies which show
so-called gender
affirming care has
no bearing on whether those youths will
attempt suicide. The
Schmoe
number of youths
claiming
transgender identities has surged among
those under 25 in recent years, in correlation with the explosion of social
media among young people, leading
researchers to believe the expansion
is rooted in social contagion.
Vocal opponent of gender affirming care Chloe Cole, who received
puberty blockers and testosterone
when she started transitioning at the
age of 12 and a double mastectormy at
15, testified in Kansas in favor of SB
63.
Surgeries to change ones sex
included double mastectomies for
teen girls and hysterectomies, as well
as the construction of a false penis
from fat and tissue typically taken
from the arms or legs or buttocks. For
boys, castration and penectomy is followed by construction of a faux vagina
and addition of breast implants. Both
include the addition of opposite sex
hormones which must be continued
for life. Complications from the surgery often continue for decades and
SEE OVERRIDE ON PAGE 3
New detention hearing set Tuesday for
teen suspected in Colony church fire
BY DANE HICKS
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW
GARNETT A followup to a
previous January detention
hearing will be held February
25 for the 16 year-old Colony
youth accused in the arson
and destruction of the Colony
Community Church.
Robb was discovered in the
smoke-filled church the day
after Christmas as the result of
a search following a domestic
incident and removed from the
scene by a county sheriffs deputy that evening. Firefighters
believed they had the fire under
control, but it rekindled overnight and destroyed the structure by following day.
Robb has
yet to be
arraigned on
charges but
could face felonies related
to arson and
Robb
aggravated
assault
in
connection
with the domestic incident.
Anderson County Attorney
Steve Wilson said Robb was
undergoing a mental evaluation to determine his competency previous to the January
hearing.
A detention hearing in a
juvenile matter involves a
judges consideration of evaluations, prior history and other
information to determine if
the juvenile should be released
from detention and if so, under
what conditions.
Robbs hearing is set for 9:15
a.m. before magistrate judge
Kara Reynolds.
Bench trial coming in March set to solve
lawsuit over scuttled sale of church property
BY DANE HICKS
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW
GARNETT A two-day bench
trial has been scheduled to
begin March 12th in Anderson
County District Court on civil
litigation over the attempted
sale of the former parsonage
belonging to Garnetts First
Baptist Church.
Former pastor Daniel Meyer,
acting as First Baptist Church,
sued members of FBCs onetime board of directors in
April 2024 after they attached
an affidavit to the parsonage
deed in the Anderson County
Appraisers Office specifying
that Meyer had no legal right
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW 2-20-2025 / DANE HICKS
The Garnett Industrial Airport recorded 6 inches of snowfall in the Monday/Tuesday winter storm that
brought -3 temperatures to the area early Wednesday morning. Sunshine made the single digits all
day Wednesday a little more tolerable. Forecasters expected highs of 14 and low of -11 Thursday,
24/-2 Friday, 39/15 Saturday, 51/29 Sunday and 60s Monday and Tuesday with lows in the 30s.
Moran floats bill to move USAID food aid
under USDA, gives DOGE a thumbs up
BY PATRICK RICHARDSON
THE SENTINEL
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
Contrary to online blog reports
suggesting U.S. Senator
Jerry Moran (R-Kansas)
was opposed to cuts to the
United States Agency for
International Development
and to the mission of the
Department of Government
Efficiency, recent remarks on
the Senate floor make it clear
he is in favor of both.
A story by the Kansas
Reflector on February 7, 2024,
headlined Kansas Moran,
Davids sound alarm on delay
of USAID food aid to starving
people worldwide, seemed to
imply that Morans concerns
about food
aid at the
time sitting
in
ports
awaiting
shipment
meant that
Moran was
not in favor
of reining in
Moran
waste, fraud
and abuse at
the agency.
Moran said there was a
moral component to food aid,
but he understood administrative issues with U.S. aid programs had to be addressed,
the Reflector reported. That
reform, he said, must go
beyond presidential directives
so Congress could be involved
in making the decision of what
this should look like.
The Reflector then tied
Morans remarks and those
of U.S. Rep. Tracey Mann
(R-Kansas), who sits on the
House Ag Committee who
said: Hunger destabilizes
countries, starts wars, elimSEE MORAN ON PAGE 5
or authority to execute a sale
on behalf of the congregation.
The move scuttled a sale Meyer
said he had negotiated with a
private buyer.
The suit followed a twoyear schism within the church
in which the defendants said
Meyer purged the church board
and filled it with members
including his wife who would
do his bidding. They claimed
Meyer planned to use the proceeds of the sale of the parsonage at 510 N. Cedar in Garnett
to operate the church, whose
finances dramatically declined
after membership evaporated
under his leadership.
Commissioners give scorned dust
control company a second chance
BY DANE HICKS
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW
GARNETT The Overland
Park Chemical company that
left rural Anderson County
residents high and dry two
years ago when it backed out
of a summer dust control contract sidled itself back into
the good graces of county
commissioners this week
for a price.
Commissioners agreed
Monday to contract Scotwood
Industries LLC for this summers gravel road dust control application, although its
previous sins from two years
ago were not forgotten.
They did a good job until
the one year they didn't said
county commission chairman Les McGhee. They did
a good job until they just
didn't show up.
The county had to refund
some $58,000 to about 120 customers who prepaid during
the spring of 2023 for dust
control application on their
gravel roads. Scotwood made
multiple promises to make
good on its contractual agreement with Anderson County
to do the applications of
chemical that year but never
made good on the pledge. No
other contractor could be
acquired by the time the deal
was declared bad, so county
residents went without dust
control that summer.
Greg Stiles with Scotwood
Industries told commissioners the debacle was wholly
on the company, which he
said had subcontracted with
a provider who in turn failed
to deliver on its commitment.
His pledge of personal monitoring of this years agreement as well as a bid of $1.20
per unit 5 per unit lower
than its bid last year was
SEE DUST ON PAGE 2
Former church members
Rose Miller, Warren Winfrey
and LeRoy Teter were named in
the suit. Both sides filed court
documents naming witnesses
and evidence to be presented.
Meyer maintains his authority was granted by duly elected
board members; the defendants
say proper notice was never
given of those board changes and that they violated the
church bylaws.
A bench trial is conducted under the purview of the
judge in the case who determines applicable evidence and
matters of law, with no jury
involved.
County cuts
deal to share
county appraiser
BY DANE HICKS
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW
GARNETT Anderson County
Commissioners have finalized a temporary employment
contract
with County
Appraiser
A d a m
Wilson in a
workshare
arrangement
with Trego
County, and
agreement
Wilson
the county
expects
to
renegotiate prior to its June
30th expiration.
The county will pay Wilson
$72,500 in the shared arrangement with Trego, a county
of about 2,800 people in West
Central Kansas. Its county seat
of Wakeeney is about 300 miles
from Garnett. Trego County
SEE DEAL ON PAGE 7
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THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Thursday, February 20, 2025
RECORD
COUNTY GOP HOSTS
SCHOOL BOARD PRIMER
The
Anderson
County
Republican Partys Feb. 27
meeting will host Kansas School
Board District 9 Representative
Jim Porter to discuss his experience running for the state
school board, along with information on getting involved as
an elected member of your
local school board. The county
GOP meets Thursday, Feb. 27
at 6 p.m. at Garnett Pizza Hut.
If you plan to eat dinner please
come early or order in advance.
SOUP SUPPER
Mont Ida Church will host a soup
supper on Saturday, February
22 from 4 p.m. – 8 p.m. Ham &
beans with cornbread and vegetable beef soup will be served
along with homemade pies &
desserts. Free will offering.
GARNETT CLASS OF 75
50TH REUNION
The Garnett High School
Class of 75 is having their
50th Reunion on May 9th-11th.
Class members and teachers
who have not been contacted
please call/text Sandra 785204-2157 or Deanna 913-9521450.
GARNETT SQUARE FAIR
Garnett BPW is looking for
workers to help with setup
and take down at Square Fair
on Saturday, May 10th. Great
event that needs workers and
anyone needing Community
Service hours. Please call
Helen at 785-448-8745 to sign
up or any questions.
CORNHOLE TOURNAMENTS
Every Thursday their will be
a cornhole tournament at the
Garnett VFW, 1507 S. Elm St. It
is a family friendly event open to
everyone. Registration begins
at 6 p.m., tournament begins at
6:30 p.m. Entry fee is $15.
UNPLANNED PREGNANCY
Advice & Aid Pregnancy Center
in Overland Park helps women
and their families make an
educated decision about an
unplanned pregnancy by providing evidence-based, medical information about parenting, adoption and abortion. Call
(913) 962-0200 or visit www.
adviceandaid.com.
City of Garnett Commission
Meeting, February 11, 2025
The Governing Body of the City
of Garnett met in regular session
on February 11, 2025, at 6:00 p.m.
with the following individuals present, Mayor, Mark Locke; City
Commissioners, Nate Wiehl and Jody
Cole; City Manager Travis Wilson;
City Clerk, Trish Brewer; City Attorney
Terry Solander.
CALL TO ORDER
Mayor Locke called the meeting to
order at 6:01 p.m.
The Pledge of Allegiance was recited.
Invocation, Mayor Mark Locke
CITIZENS TO BE HEARD (FIVEMINUTE TIME LIMIT PER PERSON)
No citizens to be heard.
GOVERNING BODY COMMENTS
Commissioner
Cole
Congratulated Goppert Foundation for
the Furnace and Air Conditioning unit
at the Senior Center and all students
on the honor-roll.
Commissioner Wiehl – Asked the
citizens to be safe over the next few
days of bad weather and be mindful
of City crews clearing roads.
Mayor Locke – Wished Officer
Naylor the best in the upcoming training he will be attending.
CONSENT AGENDA
Approval of minutes from January
28, 2025, Regular City Commission
Meeting.
Approval of Semi-monthly Bills and
payroll in the amount of $351,391.11
Consideration of the 2025 Garnett
BPW Event Agreement
Consideration of the Special Event
Request for the 2025 Garnett BPW
Square Fair
Consideration of the 2025 Garnett
Farmers Market Event Agreement
Consideration of the TGT
Application from the Anderson County
Flywheelers
Consideration of the TGT
Application from the Chamber Players
Community Theatre
Consideration of the TGT
Application from Garnett BPW
Consideration of the TGT
Application from Garnett BPW
Commissioner Wiehl motioned to
approve the Consent Agenda as presented. Seconded by Commissioner
Cole.
Motion passed (3) AYE (0) NAY
REGULAR BUSINESS
Presentation of the Gigabit City
Award by Kenzie Prewitt, KwiKom
Communications.
Trenton Travis, Marketing Director,
was present and presented the
Commission with the award.
Garnett Community Foundation/
City of Garnett Relationship
Discussion
Mutually agreed among the
Commission to keep the Garnett
Community Foundation and the City
of Garnett as two separate entities.
Consideration of the appointment
of Michelle Ware to the Parks &
Recreation Advisory Board
Commissioner Cole motioned to
appoint Michelle Ware to the Parks &
Recreation Advisory Board.
Seconded by Commissioner Wiehl.
Motion passed (3) AYE (0) NAY
Consideration of GRDA Resolution
Consideration of GRDA Purchase
Power Agreement Extension
Items D & E were discussed in brief
for the Commission to prepare for the
deadline of March 2025
STAFF UPDATES
Darin Wilson gave a brief update
on the progress of Cloudpermit.
Stated that if citizens need help with
the online process they are coming in
and staff are sitting with them through
the process.
Stated that the RFP draft for the
Comprehensive Plan has been given
to the City Attorney for review.
DISCUSSION ITEMS
No Discussion Items.
INFORMATIONAL ITEMS
The Anderson County Youth
Entrepreneurship Challenge, hosted
by the Anderson County
E-Community will be held on
February 25th.
The Garnett BPW Womens Fair,
hosted by the Garnett BPW, will be
held at the Garnett Recreation Center
on March 8th.
A Nice Family Gathering, hosted
by The Chamber Players Community
Theatre, will be held at the Thelma
Moore Playhouse on March 21st-23rd
and March 27th-30th.
Spring City Wide Garage Sales,
hosted by Garnett Publishing Inc., will
be held on April 5th.
The Egg Drop Easter Egg Hunt,
hosted by the Garnett Church of the
Nazarene, will be held at the Garnett
Industrial Airport on April 12th from
10:00am to 2:00pm
The Vintage Clothing Display,
hosted by the Anderson County
Historical Society, will be held at the
Harris House on April 26th.
CITIZENS TO BE HEARD (FIVEMINUTE TIME LIMIT PER PERSON)
No citizens to be heard.
SIGNING OF DOCUMENTS
Signing of documents approved
during the commission meeting.
ADJOURNMENT
With no further business before The
Governing Body, Commissioner Wiehl
made a motion to adjourn the meeting. Commissioner Cole seconded
the motion. Motion passed (3) AYE
(0) NAY
Meeting adjourned at 6:32 p.m.
ANDERSON COUNTY
TRAFFIC CASES FILED
Jose Angel Delgado-Lopez has
been charged with operating a motor
vehicle without a valid license.
ANDERSON COUNTY
CIVIL CASES FILED
Robbin Christine Warren has filed
a Petition for Change of Name to
Robbin Christine Lomberk.
Discover Bank has filed suit
against Devon Mast in the amount of
$8,403.81 for unpaid charges.
On January 31, Tra Jordan
Johnston, Garnett, was arrested for
domestic battery.
On January 31, Carlos Wayne
Hendricks, unknown, was arrested for
an outstanding warrant.
On February 1, Christopher Lee
Kirkland, Garnett, was arrested to
serve a court ordered sentence.
On February 3, Robbie Lee Foulk,
Bronaugh, Missouri, was arrested for
purchasing liquor by a minor.
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on October 20, 2023.
Kevin Labelle was booked into jail
on April 25, 2024.
Jason Boothe was booked into jail
on June 26, 2024.
William Vandenberg was booked
into jail on July 25, 2024.
Porfirio De La Cruz-Cantu was
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Erika Bond was booked into jail on
October 31, 2024.
Jeremy Lankard was booked into
jail on November 18, 2024.
Walter Kerns was booked into jail
on January 13, 2025.
ANDERSON COUNTY JAIL FARM-INS
(as of January 22, 2025)
Christomer Hassell was booked
into jail on September 12, 2024.
Doyle Stryker was booked into jail
on September 14, 2024.
Jesse King was booked into jail on
September 30, 2024.
Julio Casanovavega was booked
into jail on November 9, 2024.
Joshua Franks was booked into jail
on December 12, 2024.
Margo Doty was booked into jail on
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Brandon Sage was booked into jail
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DUST…
enough to win another chance
from the commissioners.
In other business:
Commissioners approved
a bid for the purchase of 74
various tires for county vehicles and equipment from Cedar
Valley Tire of Garnett at a bid
of $38,942.
Commissioners reviewed a
proposed job description for
the position of certified jail
sergeant, submitted by county
sheriff Wes McClain.
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THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Thursday, February 20, 2025
FLACK
MAY 7, 1944 FEBRUARY 9, 2025
Henry C. Flack passed away
on February 9, 2025 at his home
in Arlington, Texas.
Funeral services will be
held at 1:30 P.M. on Saturday,
February 22, 2025 at Feuerborn
Family Funeral Service Chapel
in Iola, Kansas. Henrys family
will greet friends and family
prior to the service from 11:00
A.M. to 1:00 PM, Saturday,
February 22, 2025 at Feuerborn
Family Service Chapel.
Friends of the PSRT met
Friends of the Prairie Spirit
Rail Trail met February 17,
2025 at 1:00 p.m. in the Archer
Room at the Garnett Public
Library.
Mike and Helen Norman
were congratulated on their
community award that they
had received at the Chamber of
Commerce Banquet.
Susan Wettstein spoke to the
group about tentative plans for
the trail Walking Club April
9th to July 9th. The executive
board will be meeting before
the March 12th trail meeting to
finalize plans for the Walking
Club.
Discussion was held on
several projects that the trail
might accomplish this year.
Election of officers was held.
The following officers are:
Ruth Theis, President; Susan
Wettstein, Vice President;
Diane Doran, Secretary; and
Helen Norman, Treasurer. The
members voted to spend $80.00
to be listed in the 2025 Kansas
Travel Guide. All enjoyed delicious chocolate treats after the
meeting.
The next meeting will be
March 12, 2025 at the library.
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OBITUARIES
OVERRIDE…
How long will you ignore him?
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can bring about related infections. Prior to the Kansas ban,
parents who enabled children
under 18 suffering from gender
dysphoria could give consent
for their kids to undergo such
procedures.
Today,
the
Kansas
Legislature stood up for Kansas
children, ensuring they cannot
become test subjects for gender ideologues, said Brittany
Jones with Kansas Family
Voice. Our kids deserve better
than being subjected to procedures that even proponents of
the procedures have admitted
are experimental.
Even while other countries
are choosing to end these procedures, Governor Kelly sided
with radical activists who are
profiting off of children, Jones
said.
Senate
President
Ty
Masterson and House Speaker
Dan Hawkins wrote Kellys veto
off as more lock-step allegiance
to radical policy embraced in
recent years, signified by the
heavy Leftist influences and
policy by President Joe Biden
2×4 kpa public
notices
since he took office in 2021.
Kelly vetoed similar bills in
2023 and 2024 when Republican
defectors cost the majorities
their required 2/3 override
margins. Last Novembers elections saw the Kansas Senate
hold its supermajority and add
two additional seats, while the
House maintained its existing
complement and flipped three
Democrat House districts to
red, one in Hutchinson and two
in Olathe. The wins were broadly seen as a repudiation of radical left philosophy which also
saw Republicans seize the U.S.
Senate from Democrats and
re-elect Donald Trump president.
Trump, in two of his initial
executive orders since taking
office a month ago, declared the
official U.S. policy that there
are only two genders, male and
female. A second related order
banned men from competing in
womens sports in the United
States. Twenty-six states limit
these procedures by various
laws, though some are being
challenged in court.
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In the Book of Revelation
Jesus addresses the seven
churches in the province
of Asia. The apostle John is
exiled to the island of Patmos
for preaching and teaching the
word of God and the testimony
of Jesus. On the Lords day he
received a vision concerning
the churches in Asia. To the
church in Laodice the vision
he received from God was, I
know your deeds, that you are
neither cold nor hot. I wish you
were either one or the other.
So, because you are lukewarm neither hot nor cold I am about
to spit you out of my mouth.
You might say that John
is having to tell the church,
you are like a lukewarm cup of
coffee or a warm can of soda.
Before anyone drinks either
they are going to return them
to the condition where they
taste the best, hot or cold. It
appears the church has become
complacent. Jesus tells them
that their wealth has clouded
their judgment. In his eyes
(Jesus) they are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked, the
very things they believed they
had avoided. The wealth they
had obtained had created the
apathy they displayed. What
the church needs to understand
today is there are many more
ways to be wrong than right.
We can develop a hard heart,
our teaching can become corrupt, tolerating wrong doctrine
within the church, the pursuit
of legalism and the list goes on.
WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL
BY DAVID BILDERBACK
All of this leads the church off
course. So, what is the course
the church should pursue?
Jesus tells us in John 14:6 he is
the way and the truth and the
life. We dont like to hear this
because we think life should be
like the breakfast cereal aisle
in WalMart full of choices.
Jesus tells us plainly he is the
only way. That one statement
defines the way to eternal life,
but it also defies every inclination within us because of our
fallen nature. Unfortunately
we dont treat God or his word
with the respect he treats
us. Sometimes we walk right
over the top of God without a
thought. Since we began with
a text from Revelation that is
where we should end. Jesus
says, I stand at the door and
knock. If anyone hears my
voice and opens the door, I will
come in and eat with him and
he with me. How long will you
ignore him?
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GRACE & TRUTH BAPTIST CHURCH
Sunday Service 10:00 am
Wednesday 7pm
East 6th & Hwy 169, Garnett, KS
Pastor – Joshua Ford (785) 448-3908
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Sunday Connect Groups 9 am
Sunday Worship Service 10:00am
Bible Studies Sunday 5:30pm
258 W. Park Road, Garnett, Ks.
(785) 448-3208
Lead Pastor – Scott King
Childrens Pastor -Sarah Pridey
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TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH
Sunday School 9am
Sunday Worship 10am
Bible Study – Wednesday 7pm
(785) 448-6930
Hwy 31 & Grant, Garnett, KS
KINCAID SELMA
COMMUNITY CHURCH
Worship 9am
Sunday School 10:15 a.m.
709 E. 5th St., Kincaid, KS
Church Office (620) 439-5773
ST. THERESE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Worship Service Saturday 5pm
Richmond, KS
Fr. Gerald Williams
(785) 835-6273
NORTHCOTT CHURCH
Sunday Morning Bible Study 9am
Sunday Worship 10am
12425 SW Barton Rd., Colony, KS 66015
(620) 228-9324
BEACON HOUSE OF WORSHIP
Sunday Worship Service 10:00 am
23031 1750 RD Garnett
(785) 229-5172
ST. JOHNS CATHOLIC CHURCH
Mass Sunday 8am
Greeley, KS
(785) 448-3846
Pastor Fr. Daniel Stover
COLONY CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Cross Training 9:45am
Sunday Worship 10:45am
211 Catalpa Ave., Colony, KS 66015
(620) 852-3200
Pastor – Chase Riebel
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
www.fccgarnett.org
Early Worship 8am
Sunday School (All Ages) 9:15am
Second Worship Service 10:30am
Childrens Church 11am
Nursery Provided
Second & Walnut, Garnett, KS
(785) 448-3452
Chris Goetz, Pastor
Brianna Wilson, Youth Minister
brianna@fccgarnett.org
COLONY COMMUNITY CHURCH
Sunday Worship 9:30am
Sunday School 10:30am
Risen & Rockin Sunday School Service
10:35am
(620) 852-3237
Colony, KS 66015
Pastor – Steve Bubna
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH KINCAID
Sunday School 9:30am
Church 10:45am, Eve Worship 7pm
Wednesday Bible Study 7pm
3rd & Osage, Kincaid, KS
(620) 439-5311
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday School 9:15 a.m.
Sunday Worship 10:30am
Bible Study Wed. 10am
Chancel Choir Sun 9am
(785) 448-6833
2nd & Oak, Garnett, KS
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday School (All Ages) 10:00 am
Sunday Morning Worship 11:00am
116 N. Kallock, Richmond, KS
(785) 835-6235
WELDA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday Church School 9:45am
Church Services & Childrens Church
11am
Nursery Available
(785) 448-2358
Welda, KS
Pastor – Bill Nelson
MONT IDA CHURCH
Sunday School 9:30am
Church 10:40am
(785) 448-8042
1300 & Broomall Rd, Welda, KS 66091
From Garnett – 7th St, W 7 miles, S 3 miles
Pastor – Vernon Yoder
KINGDOM HALL OF
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Sunday Public Meeting 10am
Sunday Watchtower Study 10:50am
Tuesday Ministry School 7:30pm
Tuesday Service Meeting 8:20pm
Thursday Congregation Book Study 8pm
704 Westgate – Garnett, KS
(785) 448-6755
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HOLY ANGELS CATHOLIC CHURCH
Mass: Saturday 5:30pm, Sunday 10am
(785) 448-3846
514 E. 4th, Garnett, KS
Pastor Fr. Daniel Stover
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ST. BONIFACE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday Worship 9am
(785) 835-6273
Scipio, KS
Fr. Gerald Williams
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ST. TERESA CATHOLIC CHURCH
Westphalia, KS
Mass: Sunday 10 a.m.
Fr. Colin Haganey
(620) 364-5671
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NEW LIFE BAPTIST CHURCH
Sunday School 10am
Sunday Worship 11am, 1:30pm
705 S. Westgate (end of 7th St.)
Garnett, KS
(785) 204-1769
Pastor – Chadd Lemaster
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ST. PATRICKS CATHOLIC CHURCH
Emerald (Hwy 31 West of Harris, KS)
Mass: Saturday 4:00 pm
Fr. Colin Haganey
(620) 364-5671
COLONY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Church Services 9:30am
Colony, KS
Parsonage (620) 852-3103
Church Office (620) 852-3106
Pastor – Dorothy Welch
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Garnett, KS
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OPINION
High time to DOGE the USPS
My power was almost shut off because my
check to my electric company took twelve days to
get from Williamsburg to Beto.
Please President Trump and DOGE butt-kicker Elon Musk based on our newspapers experience as a weekly mail customer of the post
office and whats become near constant interaction with subscribers who seem to have a better
chance of getting hit by a meteor than getting
the paper we mail them delivered on time, dont
wait too long to DOGE the U.S. Postal Service.
We were told that they werent running the
Lane mail route today.
Because if were getting messages like these
from people who are complaining about the
delivery of their newspapers, which is now
almost a constant phenomena in the traditional
print division of our media company, its a pretty good bet its happening all over the country.
My rural water payment took two weeks to get
to Garnett and I nearly had my water shut off.
We know postal service issues arent exactly breaking news. Decades of cost overruns,
mandates to fund all the future health benefits
of future retirees, labor troubles, First Class
postage stamps that now cost 73, the loss of
postal business to email certainly no shortage of challenges. But you know what? Not to
sound calloused, but things are tough all over.
According to governmentexec.com, the USPS in
2024 was delivering just 83 percent of First Class
Mail on time its worst performance in the past
three years, down from 91 percent the previous
year.
I received my Jan. 9 and Jan. 16 newspapers
at the same time and this is late January.
What we know now, after all these years of
mounting problems and new challenges that
only serve to raise prices and reduce service,
is that the management of the USPS is utterly
befuddled and unable to solve these problems.
If were going to have a national postal tradition
in this country that can function in tandem with
competition from private package deliverers,
ongoing technology developments and service
demands from the public, then somebody else
is going to have to dive in and break the old
molds. There simply can be no better time than
this historic shakeup in the federal government
for these amazing disruptors to wade into the
operational abyss that is the U.S. Postal Service.
Ive asked about first class mail sometimes
and have been told that the second truck didnt
come down from the city that day with it to
Garnett.
And how coincidental is it that one of the
REVIEW COMMENTARY
DANE HICKS, Publisher
biggest messes in the federal government or
rather a quasi-governmental agency is at the
same time steeped up to its gizzard in Diversity,
Equity and Inclusion that policy so despised
by the President and the DOGE Master that it
was among the first governmental malcontents
summoned to the Trump2 guillotine? The revelations of billions of dollars wasted in other
areas of government like USAID or the $20 billion hidden by the Biden EPA for later retrieval,
has crystallized what we all knew to be true
but needed executive authority to confirm: that
the best examples of inefficiency, waste and all
around wretched work product, both in and out
of government, are also the most rife with DEI.
Thats why major corporations like management of companies like Amazon and Disney,
now feeling like they have cover to slip the yoke
of this woke nonsense, are canning it with all
due speed. If only the USPS could have a similar
revelation.
People on my block here in Garnett are continually delivering mail to each other that is
sorted wrong and left at the wrong address.
After all, what could have more bearing on
the mission of sorting and delivering the mail
than having your identity and your sense of self
confirmed and feeling included in your job?
Sure.
Fostering an inclusive work environment
is a core strategy within the United States
Postal Service, the web page reads. We strive
to equip and empower employees to recognize
and address unconscious bias and to help us live
out our pledge to value and respect the dignity
of our employees. (Still waiting for that part
about delivering the mail)
I received a handful of Kansas City Star
papers in one day. All were late.
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The height of hypocrisy. Democrats hijacking
our social security, funneling millions to pay
for the housing, education, feeding, and medical aid for illegals. At the same time, they
claim Republicans are going after USAID funds.
Thank you, DOGE.
My understanding concerning the Hendersons
house fire that the Hendersons were rescued by
a law enforcement officer and an EMT, and that
was notably missing from your article about
that. Thank you.
Thursday paper February 6, Henry mentioned
something about candling the eggs. I was wondering, you mention that from time to time
youd find a chick in there. Would it be alive,
and if so what would you do with it? If it was
Trump has the guts to end Ukraine/Russia War: Biden didnt
President Trump promised that when he
entered office, he was going to assess the RussiaUkraine situation and try to facilitate an actual
end to the war.
People who have been watching this war very
closely understand Russias original goal: take
Kyiv, completely ingest and then digest all of
Ukraine, and turn it into a functioning part of
the new Russian empire.
That failed very early on in the war.
The war then very quickly transmuted into
a Ukrainian attempt, backed by Europe and
the Biden administration, to take back portions
of the country that had essentially been conquered by Russia in 2014 after the Euromaidan
Revolution. That revolution was an attempt to
take Donbas and Crimea back from Russian
forces but was largely doomed to failure. The
only way for it to have been successful would
have been to arm Ukrainians to the extent that it
might have prompted a larger Russian intervention, possibly using tactical nuclear weapons.
It may be that those concerns over a larger
war were exaggerated. However, the risk-reward relationship was out of balance. The reality was that the West had very little interest
in Ukraine fighting a large-scale war to take
back Donbas and Crimea, areas that are predominantly pro-Russian by virtually all polling
data, even before the fake Russian democratic
takeover. Those areas were historically very
pro-Russian.
Russia taking over those areas was devas-
NATIONAL COMMENTARY
BEN SHAPIRO, THE DAILY WIRE
tating to the economy of Ukraine. Much of
Ukraines oil-rich area is in its east, in the
Donbas region. Crimea, of course, is on the
Black Sea, where many of the warm water ports
available to the Ukrainians were.
The reality was that, barring some sort of
massive war effort, those areas were not going
to be retaken by Ukraine. So, this conflict had
settled into a stalemate for almost three years;
the original invasion took place at the end of
February 2022.
For a very long time, the Biden administration had a conflicting and mutually exclusive
strategy. On the one hand, the Biden administration suggested they would continue to provide
endless aid until victory was achieved, but
on the other, they refused to provide either the
necessary aid to achieve full-scale victory or to
define victory as something other than full-scale
victory.
These were mutually exclusive tactics. If they
were defining victory as, Ukraine takes back
Donbas and Crimea, then they were going to
have to give Ukraine the weaponry necessary
to accomplish that. Anything less would lead to
stalemate and loss. Or, theoretically, victory
could have been redefined as survival, meaning
Russia already controlled Donbas and Crimea
before the 2022 invasion thus Russias goal had
already been defeated. At that point, victory
could have been achieved by any sort of rational stretch of the imagination by simply fending off further Russian territorial aggression.
By that measure, the war should have come to
an end a couple of years ago, basically because
the battle lines in Ukraine have been fairly
solidified for roughly two and a half years.
The late Henry Kissinger proposed that this
off-ramp essentially be offered in May 2022. I
thought that his idea was the correct approach
because there was no actual end goal achievable.
The Biden administration openly admitted
this. They basically said, We are going to
provide weaponry until victory is achieved.
How was victory defined? They said, We dont
know.
You cannot win a war if you refuse to define
victory. Either victory would mean taking back
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Donald Trump, Chicken Little, and the Constitutional Crisis dujour
So much is new and topsy-turvy in our
national politics, but one thing has endured
the commitment of the Democrats and the media
to whipping up insta-hysteria about something
Donald Trump has said or done, or might say or
do.
This has been a consistent thread in their
reaction to Trump since 2015, and the near-unanimous insistence that we are in, or about to
enter, a constitutional crisis over the last several days is the latest instance.
From seemingly nowhere, the phrase became
nearly obligatory in attacks on the Trump
administration and in the press coverage.
On the influential New York Times podcast,
The Daily, the papers Supreme Court reporter,
Adam Liptak, said that the consensus is that
this is a constitutional crisis.
There is indeed such a consensus among
scholars and commentators hostile to the administration, and soon enough, there will be another rapidly congealing consensus around some
other, similarly dire contention.
These panics often say as much about the
panickers who hope to create a political reality out of sheer passionate repetition as they
do about Trump.
There is no doubt that the administration is
determined to exercise the maximum possible
power over the federal bureaucracy, and it may,
if it hasnt already done so, overstep its bounds.
Everything is being litigated as we speak, and
the administration will surely win some and
lose some.
Its not clear why this is a crisis, even if the
pace and audacity of the Musk-driven changes
to federal operations have been extraordinary.
NATIONAL COMMENTARY
RICH LOWRY, King Features Syndicate
A post on X by Vice President JD Vance saying that judges arent allowed to control the
executives legitimate power supercharged the
claims of a crisis, even though the vice presidents statement constituted a truism. Its a matter of Constitutional Law 101 that the judiciary
cant control the legitimate powers of the
executive branch otherwise, the separation of
powers means nothing.
Vances hypothetical examples of judicial
lawlessness a judge telling a general how to
conduct military operations or the attorney general how to use prosecutorial discretion were
unassailable. Yet the darkest possible interpretation was put on Vances post based on what
he didnt say namely, that Trump would defy
court rulings.
When both President Trump himself and his
White House press secretary subsequently said
that hed comply with judicial orders, it did little
or nothing to shake the consensus that theres a
constitutional crisis.
Maybe progressives and the mainstream
press are just particularly sensitive about
high-handed exercises of executive power and
challenges to the standing of the courts? This is
hard to credit given that they were supportive
of, or blas about, brazenly unconstitutional
acts of unilateral governance by Barack Obama
(on immigration) and Joe Biden (on student
loans).
Nor was anyone outraged when the entire
Democratic Party worked to undermine the
legitimacy of the Supreme Court after its ruling
in Dobbs. Both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
endorsed Court reform that amounted to a
call to pack the Supreme Court and to bring an
effective end to its existence as an independent
institution. Yet this issue was considered an
afterthought in the campaign, and not nearly as
threatening as JD Vances post on X.
At the moment, the Trump administration is
getting delayed, not defeated, in the courts. After
initially halting it, a district judge just permitted the administrations Fork in the Road resignation offer to federal employees to proceed. If
the Trump administration eventually prevails
in such cases (it is on strong ground on matters
related to personnel policy), the supposed crisis
wont be that its defying court decisions, but
that its winning them.
Whats guaranteed is that sometime soon,
perhaps within days, there will be another hairon-fire moment, with all the usual suspects
using the same catchphrase to try to create a
sense of urgency about a new crisis du jour. The
more things change in the Trump era, the more
this stays the same.
Rich Lowry is editor of The National Review
dead of course it would be thrown away, but
what would you do if it was still alive? Thank
you. It would be an interesting answer. Take
care, bye-bye.
Garnett is wanting to build a new swimming
pool. How about building one thats an indoor
pool maybe attached to the high school where
they can have a swim team and they can be
used by the public when its not being used
by the school district? That way it can be used
all year round and like Miami County, all the
high school teams can use and it. Apparently
it works for Miami County. Thats all, thanks.
Happy Valentines Day. Remember when
everybody was there after the Super Bowl on
this same day after the Chiefs won? For some
reason I just feel like there should be a memorial for the people that get shot and killed.
Theres a movie that people should watch,
its called 2012, its about global warming and
humanity.
As an ardent anti-Trump Republican, I submit
the following. To all the folks who voted for
Trump and were so happy that he won, at the
end of his reign of terror, will they regret what
they have done?
Since Elon is doing such a great job of exposing waste and the federal government, can we
take DOGE to the state and county level also?
Anytime you see six state workers watching
one guy work or taking two county employees
to start a brush pile, you know theres more
waste to be uncovered in the offices.
President Donald Trump
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
(202) 456-1111
Governor Laura Kelly
300 SW 10th Ave #241s,
Topeka, KS 66612
(785) 296-3232
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
Fred Gardner
State Capitol Room512-N
Topeka, KS 66612
Office: (785) 296-7451
fred.gardner@house.ks.gov
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THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Thursday, February 20, 2025
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HISTORY
A little history of Roy Rogers
DIGGING UP THE PAST
Last week I received an email
from a good friend of mine
from Osawatomie, Kansas, that
brought back so many childhood memories. If I asked you
if anyone remembers the name
Leonard Franklin Slye, better
known as Roy Rogers King
of the Cowboys, what would
your answer be?
Roy was born in 1911 and
passed away in 1998 of congestive heart failure. He was an
American singer, actor, television host, Freemason and a
rodeo performer.
Roy was married twice, his
first wife was Grace Arline
Wilkins (m. 1932, she died after
child birth) second wife was
Dale Evans (m.1947, she died
in 2001).
Between 1951-1957, Roy hosted The Roy Rogers TV Show.
On this show, he appeared with
his wife Dale Evans, his Golden
Palomino (Trigger) and his
German Shepherd (Bullet).
Do any of you remember
Roys signature song Happy
Trails? Roys movies featured sidekicks: Pat Brady and
his jeep Nellybelle, Andy
Devine, George Gabby Hayes
or Smiley Burnette.
The Roy Rogers Museum in
Branson, Missouri was opened
in 1967 until 2009. Roy told his
son, if the museum ever operates at a loss, close it and sell
the contents. Thats exactly
Henry Roeckers
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what happened, the entire contents of the museum were sold
at a public auction.
Here are just a few items sold
at that auction:
Roys
1964
Pontiac
Bonneville, $254,500.
Triggers saddle, $386,500.
Nellybelle Jeep, $116,500.
Bullet German Shepherd
(stuffed), $35,000.
Trigger Prized Palomino
(stuffed), $266,500.
An item that really caught
my eye was the family bible
they used at their table every
night, sold for $8,750.
Many of you and myself
were born at the right time.
Roy and Dale were just two of
the great heroes of our childhood.
It is extremely sad to see this
era almost gone forever.
Respectfully submitted by:
Henry Roeckers. 10Feb2025
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human suffering. America
benefits on multiple levels
from making investments
that address it. America is the
leader of the free world, which
comes with certain responsibilities. Addressing global hunger is both the morally right
and strategically wise thing do
to. (sic.) to more aggressive comments by U.S. Rep
Sharice Davids (D-Kansas),
who claimed the shutdown was
reckless and illegal.
Elon Musks reckless and
illegal shutdown of USAID
isnt lowering prices as promised its hurting our economy, national security, and
hardworking Kansans, the
Reflector reported Davids said.
My team has heard from many
who have lost their jobs, small
businesses facing bankruptcy,
and Kansas farmers struggling
to sell their crops. This level
of irresponsibility cannot go
unchecked.
However, information from
Morans press secretary and
his own remarks on the Senate
floor make it clear that
Morans concern was for this
one program, not for USAID
as a whole, nor opposition to
DOGE.
Sen. Moran worked with
the Department of State and
USDA to make certain that the
US-grown commodities that
were stalled in ports did not
spoil, Moran Spokeswoman
Angela Lingg said. Secretary
(of State Marco) Rubio issued
a waiver for life-saving aid
and shipping of the food was
resumed over the weekend.
Moreover, on the Senate
Floor, Moran noted that the
Food for Peace program has
fed more than 4 billion people in more than 150 countries
over the last 70 years but that
USAIDs management of the
program has been a concern.
Food for Peace is administered by the USAID, and the
inefficiency of USAID has been
a growing concern, Moran
said. The Agency struggles
with bureaucratic delays,
mismanagement, and a lack
of coordination, which undermines its ability to deliver
effective aid to those in need.
This inefficiency not only
wastes taxpayer dollars but
also diminishes the impact
of American foreign aid in
addressing global crises.
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Moran said USAIDs waste
has undermined U.S. interests.
Reports suggest that millions of taxpayer dollars have
been allocated to promoting tourism in Lebanon and
Egypt, funding the purchase of
electric vehicles for Vietnam,
and inadvertently supporting
the cultivation of opium in
Afghanistan, he said. Even
more concerning, it has been
confirmed that $9 million
intended for civilian food and
medical supplies in Syria fell
into the hands of terrorist organizations linked to al Qaeda
due to the failed oversight of
USAID.
Moran said he has introduced a bill, along with Senators
John Hoeven (R-North Dakota)
and Roger Marshall (R-Kansas)
as well as Rep. Mann, to move
Food for Peace from the turbulent USAID program to the
Department of Agriculture in
an effort to prevent waste and
bring the program closer to
farmers that depend upon it.
USDA has a long and proven
history of managing agricultural policy and programs that
support American farmers,
food distribution systems, and
global security efforts.
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LOCAL
Iola rallies to down AC boys Crest wins at the buzzer
GARNETT – To open the season
the Anderson County Bulldogs
went on the road and defeated
Iola 68-46 back on December
5th, but Iola returned the
favor on Friday downing the
Bulldogs at home, 56-54.
Through the first half, it
looked to be a repeat of that
season opening matchup as
the Bulldogs jumped out to a
14-11 lead after the first quarter
and had a double digit halftime
lead after a 22-14 advantage in
the second quarter to make the
score 36-25.
Following intermission, Iola
would slowly chip away at the
lead though and heading into
the fourth quarter they were
within striking distance trailing 48-41.
The Bulldogs went cold
down the stretch, scoring just 6
points over the final 8 minutes
allowing Iola to rally with 15
points of their own to pull off
the stunning road victory.
Viking girls win big
LEROY – In a game that was
moved up a day due to weather, the Central Heights Lady
Vikings hit the road and traveled to Southern Coffey County
High School and scored a
dominating 46-11 road win to
improve their record to 8-10 on
the season.
Central Heights took control early by jumping out to a
19-2 after the first quarter and
stretched their lead to 33-6 at
halftime with a 14-4 advantage
in the second quarter.
Following intermission the
game slowed significantly. The
Vikings outscored SCC 8-5 in
the third and 5-0 in the fourth
to close out the victory.
Macy Cubit led nine Viking
scorers with 13 points and also
led the team with 3 assists.
Addison Ouellette tallied 10
points, 6 rebounds and 2 steals.
Other girls to get in the
scoring column were Arabella
Dunbar with 6 points, Melaney
Chrisjohn with 5, Sydney Evans
with 4 points and 4 rebounds,
the trio of Ashley Harkins, Lily
Burkdoll and Cayleigh Latimer
all had 2 points and Carly
Matile chipped in with 1 point.
MORAN – Despite the excitement of Denton Ramsey of the
Crest Lancers hitting a game
winning buzzer beater over
Marmaton Valley on the road,
a part of the win was overshadowed due to an injury to
Lancer Lane Yocham.
The Ramsey shot gave the
Lancers a 52-49 win after Crest
squandered a seven point
fourth quarter lead.
It was the only points on
the night for Ramsey, but they
came at the perfect time for
Crest. Ramsey did pull down
7 rebounds and dished out 3
assists.
Crest led 11–8 after the first
quarter before Marmaton
Valley rallied in the second to
knot the score up at 20.
Crest dominated defensively
in the third quarter by limiting Marmaton Valley to just 2
points to take a 29-22 lead into
the fourth.
Marmaton Valley chipped
away at the deficit and knotted
the game up at 42 heading into
overtime. Crest outscored their
opponent 10-7 in the overtime
session.
Crest head coach Dakotah
Sporing said, Yocham played
really well but unfortunately
hurt his knee and it looks like
he will be out the rest of the
year.
Yocham played a key role
in the win leading the Lancers
with 21 points. He connected on
5 of 11 three point attempts on
the night before the injury.
Kole Walter also scored in
double figures, finishing the
game with 12 points and 5
rebounds.
Jacob Zimmerman added 8
points to go along with a team
high 9 rebounds.
Levi Prasko chipped in with
5 points and 5 rebounds and
Gentry McGhee rounded out
the scoring with 3 points.
Lady Bulldogs stun Iola
GARNETT – The Anderson
County (4-14) girls basketball
team has struggled this season but picked up their most
impressive win of the season on Friday night as they
knocked off Iola (9-9) 36-35.
Iola had knocked off the AC
girls 40-19 to open the season.
Anderson County was cling-
ing to a 19-18 lead at halftime
thanks in large part to Brylie
Kohlmeiers 7 first half points.
Both teams tallied 17 points
in the second half.
Brooke Kellerman would
lead the Bulldogs with 11
points and Kohlmeier would
finish the night with 10.
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THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Thursday, February 20, 2025
Public Notice
Your RIGHT to know,
guaranteed by Kansas Law.
Current statewide Public Notice archive available at
www.kansaspublicnotices.com
Notice of zoning application
(Published in the Anderson County Review on
February 20, 2025.)
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Notice is hereby given that the Board of Zoning
Appeals will hold a Public Hearing on March
11, 2025 at 7:00 P.M. in the Anderson County
Annex, 409 South Oak, Garnett, Kansas to
consider:
Board of Zoning application #VAR2025-01
(Hobert) for a variance for lot split configuration in the Fractional NW/4 of Section One
(1), Township Twenty-three (23) South, Range
Seventeen (17) East of the Sixth Principal
Meridian, containing approximately 6.6 acres,
more or less, and subject to road easement
along the west side thereof, Anderson County,
Kansas.
Any person concerned with this request may
attend the public hearing or submit written comments, opposed or in support, to the Board of
Zoning Appeals. The Board of Zoning Appeals
may continue this hearing date to a future date,
if necessary, without further notice.
/s/Thomas R. Young
Planning & Zoning Director
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Notice of zone change application
(Published in the Anderson County Review on
February 20, 2025.)
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Notice is hereby given that the Anderson
County Planning Commission will hold a Public
Hearing on March 17, 2025 at 7:00 P.M. in
the Anderson County Annex, 409 South Oak,
Garnett, Kansas to consider:
Zone Change application #ZC2025-01 (Hobert)
to split off and rezone approximately 6.6
acres from A-1 Agriculture District to R-E
Residential Estate District. Said property is
described as the following (not final description):
A tract of land in the NW/4 of Section 1,
Township 23, Range 17 East of the Sixth
Principal Meridian containing 6.6 acres, more
or less, and subject to road easement along the
west side thereof, in Anderson County, Kansas.
Any person concerned with this request may
attend the public hearing or submit written comments, opposed or in support, to the Planning
Commission. The Planning Commission may
continue this hearing date to a future date, if
necessary, without further notice.
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THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Thursday, February 20, 2025
ECKAAA menu for the week
CALENDAR
Thursday, February 20, 2025
5:30 p.m. – PM Yoga
6:00 p.m. – 13 Point Pitch & Snacks
at Garnett Senior Center
7:00 p.m. – Alcoholics Anonymous
Friday, February 21, 2025
8:45 a.m – AM Yoga
Monday, February 24, 2025
8:45 a.m – AM Yoga
9:00 a.m. – Anderson County
Commission Meeting
5:30 p.m. – TOPS Meeting
6:00 p.m. – Celebrate Recovery
6:00 p.m. – Hot Yoga with Jenelle
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
10:00 a.m. – Storytime For
Preschoolers
12:00 p.m. – Rotary International
Club Meeting
5:30 p.m. – PM Yoga
6:30 p.m. – American Legion Bingo
7:00 p.m. – Alcoholics Anonymous
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
8:45 a.m. – Yoga
1:00 p.m. – Duplicate Bridge
6:30 p.m. – Awana
6:30 p.m. – Shotokan Karate Training
6:30 p.m. – Book Discussion
Thursday, February 27, 2025
2:00 p.m. – Emergency Food
Assistance Program (Harvesters)
5:30 p.m. – PM Yoga
6:00 p.m. – 13 Point Pitch & Snacks
at Garnett Senior Center
7:00 p.m. – Alcoholics Anonymous
Friday, February 28, 2025
8:45 a.m – AM Yoga
7:00 p.m. – Adult Reading Program
Monday, March 3, 2025
8:45 a.m – AM Yoga
9:00 a.m. – Anderson County
Commission Meeting
9:00 a.m. – Friendship Quilters Mtg
4:00 p.m. – Greeley PTO
5:30 p.m. – TOPS Meeting
6:00 p.m. – Celebrate Recovery
6:00 p.m. – Garnett Lions Club Mtg
6:00 p.m. – Hot Yoga with Jenelle
7:30 p.m. – Kincaid Masonic Lodge
No. 338 Meeting
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
10:00 a.m. – Storytime For
Preschoolers
12:00 p.m. – Rotary International
Club Meeting
5:30 p.m. – PM Yoga
6:30 p.m. – American Legion Bingo
7:00 p.m. – Alcoholics Anonymous
7:00 p.m. – Garnett Senior Center
Board Meeting
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
8:45 a.m. – Yoga
1:00 p.m. – Duplicate Bridge
3:30 p.m. – Tinkering & Tech hosted
by the Garnett Public Library
5:30 p.m. – Bulldog Booster Club
5:30 p.m. – GES Site Council
6:00 p.m. – GES PTO Meeting
6:30 p.m. – Awana
6:30 p.m. – Parks & Recreation
Advisory Board
6:30 p.m. – Shotokan Karate Training
7:00 p.m. – Kincaid Lions Club Mtg
Thursday, March 6, 2025
5:30 p.m. – PM Yoga
6:00 p.m. – 13 Point Pitch & Snacks
at Garnett Senior Center
6:30 p.m. – USD 364 Endowment
Association
7:00 p.m. – Alcoholics Anonymous
7:00 p.m. – USD 365 BOE Meeting
Friday, March 7, 2025
8:45 a.m – AM Yoga
Saturday, March 8, 2025
10:00 a.m. – BPW Womens Fair
Monday, February 17, 2025
8:45 a.m – AM Yoga
9:00 a.m. – Anderson County
Commission Meeting
9:30 a.m. – American Legion
Auxiliary Meeting
12:00 p.m. – GACC Board Meeting
5:30 p.m. – TOPS Meeting
6:00 p.m. – Celebrate Recovery
Following is the menu for
February 21 to February 27.
Suggested meal donation is $4,
reservation or cancellation for
a meal must be made with your
site by 11 a.m. the day before.
Colony nutrition site number is (620) 852-3530, Kincaid
is (620) 439-5449, Richmond is
(785) 393-4213 and Garnett is
(785) 448-0065. The ECKAAA
office can be reached at (785)
242-7200.
Friday, February 21
Pancakes, sausage patty,
orange juice, fruit cup
Senior Center pitch
results for Jan. 28 – Feb. 3
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW 02-20-2025 / CHELSEY DALBINI
Lions Clubs International and the local Garnett club recently awarded memberships celebrating club
tenure. From left: Dane Hicks 10 years, Bob Heriford 30 years and Bill Barnes 30 years. Club President
Skip Landis, far right, made the presentations.
K-State beef cattle experts share how
to incorporate older hay into the diet
MANHATTAN To help
reduce waste and stretch the
food dollar, many people look
for ways to use items in the
refrigerator before they spoil.
Beef producers with old hay
stored on their operation often
look for appropriate ways to
incorporate that into the forage feeding strategy. This was
the topic that Kansas State
University Beef Cattle Institute
experts addressed on a recent
Cattle Chat podcast.
In this case, a listener runs
spring and fall-calving cows in
the same pasture and is trying
to determine how to best meet
the varied nutritional requirements with hay that is 2-3 years
old.
Depending on the type of
hay, when it was cut, and how
it was stored, there could be a
lot of variability in the quality
of that forage, K-State nutri-
tionist Phillip Lancaster said.
To help determine the quality of the hay, K-State veterinarian Bob Larson recommended
producers keep track of the
harvest date.
If we know the harvest date
and are familiar with the maturity pattern in the area, we will
have a pretty good idea about
the nutrient quality of that
hay, Larson said.
Lancaster said the highest
quality hay needs to be fed to
lactating cows that have high
maintenance energy requirements. He said producers can
use older hay, but they will
likely need to offer a vitamin
and mineral supplement as
well.
In 2-3-year-old hay that is
stored outside, the beta carotene in those bales deteriorate
rapidly, so it is important to
offer them a vitamin A supple-
ment, Lancaster said, adding
that the minerals need to be
fresh.
In some herds, producers
can separate the fall and spring
calving cow herds, allowing
them to offer the older hay to
cows with lower maintenance
requirements, such as cows
in mid-gestation. But in this
case, the cows are maintained
together and that leads to a
different strategy, the experts
said.
With the fall-calving cows
just coming out of the breeding
season and the spring-calving
cows in their last trimester,
I recommend primarily offering them hay cut this year,
but every once in a while, you
could throw them a bale of the
older hay to try to use it up
and that should allow them to
keep from getting too thin,
Lancaster said.
Local students named to Dean's
Honor Roll at Wichita State University
WICHITA – Wichita State
University has announced the
names of 3,865 students who
were on the WSU Dean's Honor
Roll for fall 2024.
Locally Aubree K Holloran,
Colony, and Madison K Miller,
Hallie M Fritz and Madison S
Danner, all of Garnett, were
included.
To be included on the dean's
honor roll, a student must be
enrolled full time (at least 12
credit hours) and earn at least
a 3.5 grade point average on a
4.0 scale.
DEAL…
FROM PAGE 1
will pay Wilson $62,500 annually per the work share agreement. Trego will also reimburse Anderson County half
of Wilsons health insurance
premium.
Wilson previously had a sole
4-year contract with Anderson
County which would have
totaled $83,522 for the year,
including the countys most
recent cost of living allowance,
before the work share contract
was agreed upon. The contract
runs from February 1 to June
30, 2025.
County appraisers in Kansas
are charged with listing, valuing and assessing real estate
and personal property for tax
purposes. Appraisers use sale
data of similar properties to
establish a market value for
real estate and set those values
as of January 1 of each year for
tax purposes.
Appraising property for tax
purposes is a job that frequently brings them into conflict
with property owners concerned about the ultimate tax
impacts of those decisions, particularly after recent years low
interested rates spurred record
sale prices for most property
across the country.
A a 55.1 percent increase in
assessed values from 2022-2024,
Anderson County ranks in the
top five percentage increases in
the state according to Kansas
Policy Institute research.
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On the 6th of February I
was doing battle with the grim
reaper fighting the influenza.
Nevertheless my card buddies
Carla Ewert and Mike Kilet
took command and control to
host the evening. Top honors
went to Pat Uhlenhake for winning 8 of 10 games; Carla Ewert
won the 50/50; Ron Walter had
3 perfect hands of 13 and Karen
Register won the least number
of games.
Last week on the 13th of
February Jan Wards took top
honor winning 7 of 10 games;
Dorothy Spencer won the 50/50;
Jan Wards had 3 perfect hands
of 13 and Mike Kilet won the
least number of games.
Come join us on Thursday
evening promptly at six p.m.
at the Senior Center. Always
room for one more, would love
to have you.
Jan Wards reporting
Chapter Y P.E.O. met in Feb. elected officers for new club year
Chapter Y P.E.O. met
February 17, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.in
the Archer Room at the Garnett
Public Library.
Diane Doran was hostess
and Dorothy Miller served as
co-hostess. The hostesses used
a President's theme for the
meeting.
President Alice Anderegg
read her President's letter as
a review of Chapter Y's events
and programs for her past year
as President.
Election of officers for
the new club year was held.
The following officers were
elected:
President–Alice
Anderegg, Vice President-Pam
Covault, Recording Secretary-Connie Fagg, Corresponding
Secretary–Lucille Holderman,
Treasurer–Deanna Wolken,
Chaplain–Denise Weber and
Guard–Joyce Malone.
The next Chapter Y
P.E.O.meeting will be March
3, 2025 in the Archer Room at
the library. Joyce Malone will
be hostess and Alice Canavan
co-hostess. The program on "
Framing" will be presented by
Ann Michael.
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The last time it was in single digits, January 23, yours
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Riviera. However, ten brave
souls fought the weather
conditions to play 10 games
of 13-point pitch. Winners of
those games are as follows: Don
Smith won seven of 10 games;
John Walter won the 50/50,
Jessie Duncan had 4 perfect
hands of 13 and Paula Walter
won the least number of games.
Thanks to Carla Ewert and
Mike Kilet for making it possible for the group to play.
On the 30th of January Don
Smith (90+ years young) had
a perfect night winning all 10
games played. His partner for
most of those games was Mike
Kilet who won 9 of ten games.
Other winners were Jessie
Duncan who won the 50/50,
Don Smith also had 4 perfect
hands of 13 and Glenda Stanley
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more trees. Call (916) 232-6781 in
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Unit #37 – will be auctioned,
located at Outwest Storage,
1704 High Street, Baldwin City,
Kansas on February 22, 2025,
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THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Thursday, February 20, 2025
SHAPIRO…
FROM PAGE 4
taking back all Ukrainian territory, which would have
required the Biden administration to send F-16s to Ukraine,
or victory would be defined in some other way, in which
case an off-ramp should have been sought.
Trump is taking a much more concerted view of reality;
he is open to negotiations with the Russian regime. He has
put forward a proposal to meet with Vladimir Putin directly. He revealed on Wednesday, according to the New York
Post, that he and Russian President Putin have agreed to
start talks immediately to end Moscows war on Ukraine.
[W]e want to stop the millions of deaths taking place
in the War with Russia/Ukraine, Trump wrote on Truth
Social, contending that the war would not have happened
if I were President, but it did happen, so it must end. No
more lives should be lost!
The Post continued:
The president also said that he and his Russian counterpart expressed openness to visiting each others nations,
while letting slip to reporters in the Oval Office Wednesday
afternoon that we expect that hell come here, and Ill
go there, and were going to meet also, probably in Saudi
Arabia.
Trump added on Truth Social that the negotiating
process will begin by calling President [Volodymyr]
Zelenskyy [sic], of Ukraine, to inform him of the conversation, something which I will be doing right now, before
revealing that the American delegation to any peace talks
would be led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA
Director John Ratcliffe, national security adviser Mike
Waltz, and Middle East special envoy Steve Witkoff.
Zelensky then confirmed in a Facebook statement that
he and Trump had a meaningful conversation about
opportunities to achieve peace [and] discussed our readiness to work together at the team level, and Ukraines
technological capabilitiesincluding drones and other
advanced industries.
In other words, he was making an argument to Trump
that the United States should provide Ukraine with enough
weaponry to fend off any future Russian attack.
Now, in reality, Zelensky is going to have to be dragged
kicking and screaming to the deal, at least publicly.
Why? Lets assume youre a Ukrainian citizen, and youve
watched your brothers and sisters get murdered by the
Russians, which is what has happened over the course of
this war. Youre talking about hundreds of thousands of
people if you combine both sides dead and wounded.
Youve been told by Zelensky that youre not just going
to win the war, but youre also going to push the Russians
off of every inch of Ukrainian land, and now youre going
to get less than that. Zelensky is going to have to take the
political hit unless the United States is willing to take the
political hit.
Biden was never willing. He was always cowardly and
pusillanimous when it came to the idea that he would take
the hit for anything less than a full Ukrainian victory. He
did not want to be blamed for Ukraine not being able to
push Russia off that land. So, instead, he decided to let the
war percolate and simmer on, and he was willing to allow
his poll numbers to be boosted by Russian and Ukrainian
dead.
Why? Because he was unwilling to do what actually
had to be done, which was to publicly negotiate a deal with
Putin over Zelenskys head and then cram down the deal
on Zelensky. That would have made him a bad guy in the
eyes of many members of the Left in the United States who
decided that the Ukrainian flag was going to go in their
COMICS / PUZZLES
profile.
If Biden had been a brave, capable leader, he would have
negotiated the off-ramp that everyone saw coming.
The off-ramp looks something like this: Ukraine does
not become a part of NATO because one of the reasons
that Russia says they invaded Ukraine was because Russia
didnt want to be bordered by NATO nations. Instead, there
would have been, effectively, a mutual defense guarantee
between the United States, Europe, and Ukraine to prevent
a further act of Russian aggression that was not exactly
NATO.
There wouldnt have been an entry by Ukraine into the
EU, which has always been a sort of hot button issue in
Ukraine. In fact, when Zelensky was first elected, he was
not somebody who was considered supremely for entering
the EU. It was only after the Russian invasion that he
seemed to turn wildly in that direction.
What the deal looks like is Ukraine gets armed up to
prevent further Russian invasion. Russia gets to claim sovereignty over these areas which, by the way, it already
has. In its own Duma, theyve already voted to claim sovereignty over Donbas and Crimea.
The international community probably half-accepts it.
They dont say, Yes, this is now sovereign Russian territory, but they do say, We are not going to foment war over
the retaking of that territory.
Then, everybody basically goes weapons-down for the
moment. It doesnt end the conflict. Its more like the
Korean War. Theres an armistice line. There was never
any peace agreement signed at the end of the Korean War.
There just ended up being a North Korea and a South
Korea. And that armistice line has been holding since 1953.
Thats probably the best-case scenario. President
Trump is not willing to allow Putin to slow-play this, to
wait for Trump to withdraw aid and then invade the rest of
Ukraine.
I said all this during the campaign. There was all of
loose talk, by both isolationists on the Right and nut-jobs
on the Left, that Trump was going to walk into office,
immediately pull all aid from Ukraine, and allow Putin to
stroll down the streets of Kyiv.
I said that was not something that Trump was willing to
do. Why? Because Trump doesnt want a headline in which
he surrenders Ukraine to Putin.
If theres one thing that President Trump cares about
on a personal level, it is not being made to look weak and
feckless. So he was always going to provide continued aid
to Ukraine to the point where some sort of off-ramp could
be reached.
President Trump is a strong president. And he wishes
to give off the image of a strong president, which is why
hes not going to cut off the aid. President Trump is deeply
American. And this country was founded on strength and
on freedom.
Trump is not a fool. Hes not going to trust Putin, whos
a deeply untrustworthy, evil dictator. He throws people off
the third stories of buildings if they happen to cross his
regime.
But Trump understands power. He innately understands politics in his bones.
He is taking the pragmatic, utilitarian approach to
the situation. It has been the correct approach for several
years, but Biden was unwilling to do it. Trump will be seen
by those on the Left as a bad guy for having sold out
Ukraine. But Ukraine was never going to be able to retake
the territories.
And Trump has the guts to face everyone down and get
the job done.
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THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Thursday, February 20, 2025
SPORTS
Three lady Viking wrestlers heading to state Bulldog wrestler Schaffer scores win at league
ROSSVILLE – Last Friday &
Saturday, the girls wrestling
teams across Kansas took
center stage with hopes of
punching their ticket to the
state meets this coming weekend, and that is exactly what
Julie Platt, Ebony Hughes
and Landry Sparks of Central
Heights did.
Platt (140) finished second as
she opened with a win by fall
(0:14) over Willow Lamberson
of St. Marys. In the quarterfinal match, Platt won again by
fall (1:51) over Brooklyn Shields
of Cherryvale. Platt continued
her solid run with a semifinal win over Addi Martin of
Erie, again by fall (1:16). Mya
Crabtree of West Franklin got
the upperhand of Platt in the
championship match winning
by fall (0:58).
Hughes (110) finished third
as she won 4 of her 5 matches over the 2 days to qualify. Hughes opened with wins
over Ruthie England of Riley
County by fall (1:26) and Kolette
Williamson of Bluestem by fall
(4:00). Hughes only loss of the
tournament would come in
the semifinals against Camila
Martinez of Remington by fall
(1:56). Hughes would rebound
to win the consolation semifinal match over Claudia Grimm
of Sabetha by fall (1:41) and
the 3rd place match by, once
again, downing Williamson of
Bluestem by fall (2:45).
Landry Sparks (100) also
qualified by finishing 6th, winning 3 of her 6 matches in the
process. Sparks opened with
a win over Maicey Marrs of
Bluestem by decision (8-7).
Ginger Landis of Douglas
would knock Sparks off in
the quarterfinal round by fall
(2:45). Sparks would win her
next two matches, the first over
Lydia Turner of Oskaloosa by
fall (2:39) followed by a win
over Asia Montague of Royal
Valley by fall (0:49). Sparks
would then drop the consolation semifinals to Alyanna
Barrager of Cherrvale by fall
(4:54) and the ensuing 5th place
match to Maicey Marrs of sudden victory (SV-1 8-5).
Also competing for the
Lady Vikings were Charley
Roehl (115), Faith Coons (125),
Paige Powell (130) and Kinsley
Shaffer (155).
Roehl opened with a bye
before dropping her next two
matches. Coons sandwiched
her pair of losses by knocking
off Lauren Smith of Atchison
County Community in the consolation second round. Powell
dropped both of her matches
and after opening with a bye
and winning in round 2 over
Aurora Gray of Riverside,
Shaffer would go on to lose in
the quarterfinals and then in
her consolation round to end
her hopes of a state run.
The state meet will be
February 28 and March 1 at
Fort Hays State University at
Gross Memorial Coliseum in
Hays.
Lady Bulldog wrestlers fail to qualify for state
PAOLA – The Anderson County
Bulldog lady grapplers came up
short in their attempt to send a
wrestler to state in last weeks
regionals.
Danika Metcalfe (125) and
Serenity Boothe (145) each won
a pair of matches to lead the
way but had to navigate the
consolation side of the bracket after early defeats, which is
very tough to overcome.
Metcalfe lost in the opening
round to Makenzie Robers of
Santa Fe Trail by decision (127). Following a bye, Metcalfe
downed Brooklyn Taylor of
Baldwin by fall (4:33) and Alexis
Denton of Perry-Lecompton by
decision (13-8) before her run
came to an end at the hands of
Riley Mohler of Silver Lake by
major decision (MD 13-1) in the
fourth round of the consolation
bracket.
Boothes run was a somewhat similar path but did
receive a first round bye
before losing in the second
round by Abigail Fager of
Eudora by fall (2:57). Boothe
would battle back with wins
over Addison Vaughn of Fort
Scott by fall (0:29) and Morgan
Salyer of Perry Lecompton by
fall (2:18) before a consolation
fourth round loss to Mackenzie
Colgrove of Tonganoxie by fall
(1:20).
Several additional wrestlers
gained some regional experience.
Obree Barnes (155) opened
with a bye, lost in round 2
before a win in the consolation
bracket over Sarah Probst of
Hayden by fall (0:52). Barnes
season concluded with a loss
to Jayla Dunivin of Chanute
by fall (4:15) in round 3 of the
consolation bracket.
Emma Baumann (110),
Ashlyn Nelson (120), Marlee
Hollon (130), Avery Coyer (135),
and Hayden Wright (140) all
lost both of their matches without a win.
OSAWATOMIE – As a team,
the Anderson County Bulldogs
finished at the bottom of the
league with 71 points last
Thursday, but had some solid
finishes at the Pioneer League
meet led by a first place finish
by Zach Schaffer (150).
Schaffer opened with a
quarterfinal round bye before
winning in the semifinals
over Emmit Chapman of
Osawatomie by fall (1:07) and
then the first place match
against Bryson Crotinger of
Santa Fe Trail by tech fall (TF1.5 6:00 (22-6)).
Gaven Collins (106) finished
in second place with a round
1 win over Breckyn Malin
of Prairie View by fall (1:01)
before losing in round 3 to
Tanner Bolt of Santa Fe Trail
by tech fall (TF-1.5 1:28 (15-0)).
Braxton Williams (126)
finished 3rd by winning his
Round 3 match over Bryce
Ortiz of Osawatomie by fall
(3:18). Williams lost his first
two matches on the day.
Chase McClain (120) placed
4th. McClain opened with a
bye and then closed out the
day with a win over Tyson
Benjamin of Wellsville by fall
(1:17) and also had a pair of
defeats.
Lucas Mills (157) finished
fourth but failed to pick up
a victory, losing all 3 of his
matches.
Brody Kohlmeier (165) also
finished 4th. Kohlmeier opened
with a bye, lost in the seminal, won his consolation semifinal match against Berdjonley
Seance of Iola by fall (0:46)
before losing the 3rd place
match to Collin McClendon of
Wellsville.
Owen Thompson (138) had
a rough day concluding in a
medical forfeit. Thompson
opened with a win over Evan
LaCrone of Iola by decision
(3-0). Thompson would lose in
the semifinals and then have to
forfeit in the next round.
Donavan Zimbelman (190)
lost both of his matches on the
day.
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