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No more sales tax on
groceries almost
Savings may be shortlived if city passes tax
to fund new pool
BY DANE HICKS
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW
TOPEKA Local residents will
see a little inflation relief on
their grocery purchases as of
yesterdays zeroing of the state
sales tax on grocery purchases,
though Anderson Countys sales
tax of 1% will still be applied to
grocery sales.
The overall reduction has special relevance in Garnett, where
city leaders are discussing the
pursuit of a new city sales tax
to fund upgrades or new construction for the aging Garnett
Municipal Swimming Pool. If
that additional tax eventually
comes to pass, itll be added back
to local residents food purchases at local stores.
Restaurant food sales are still
charged the 6.5 percent state tax
along with whatever local taxes
apply in location jurisdictions,
a spokesperson with the Kansas
Department of Revenue told the
Review.
State sales tax on groceries
dropped to 2 percent from 6.5
percent after Legislators passed
a 2022 law that set in place a
three-year reduction plan, which
dropped the tax to 4 percent in
2023 and 2 percent in 2024. The
change came as nationwide
inflation in food costs jacked up
the amount the state was collecting with the percentage
tax, putting more
stress on households
while
the state held
more than
$3
billion in
surplus
funds.
Before
the change
K a n s a s
had the second highest
food sales
tax rate in
the country behind Mississippi,
which was at 7 percent.
Food prices jumped some
16 percent on average across
Kansas, with some food items
nearly doubling in price since
2021, when inflation many say
was launched by massive federal
SEE TAX ON PAGE 3
Derby School Board balks
at Trump bias in Boston-based
company curriculum contract
$400,000 instructional
guide painted prez-elect
in bad light, board said
BY SUZANNE PEREZ
KANSAS NEWS SERVICE
WICHITA The Derby school
district near Wichita has rejected a proposed social studies curriculum for high school students
over concerns that some materials are biased against Republican
President-elect Donald Trump.
A new conservative majority
on the Derby Board of Education
voted down a proposed contract
with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
for the high school curriculum,
which would have cost about
$400,000.
The curriculum was recommended by Derby High School
teachers, who reviewed six
social studies programs over the
past year.
Some board members voiced
concerns about anti-racism
statements on the publishers
website, as well as the companys statements about diversity, equity and inclusion. They
also said parts of a textbook and
online materials do not fairly
reflect Trumps first presidency.
My biggest concern
involved what I would define as
bias of omission, board member
Cathy Boote said.
Boote listed several examples
of material she said did not accurately reflect Trumps actions
during his presidency, including
his stance on Cuba, trade deals
with China, relationships with
allies and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Then there was the Muslim
ban, Boote said, making air
quotes with her fingers. With
no mention of the fact it wasnt
aimed at all Muslim countries,
just those that have no ability to
vet.
Safety was the top priority,
but they leave it sit there, with
no explanation, to make you
think he was xenophobic, she
said.
In January 2017, Trump
signed an executive order suspending all travel and immigration from seven predominantly
Muslim countries. During the
campaign for his first term,
Trump had called for a total and
complete shutdown of Muslims
entering the United States.
Derby board member Michael
Blankenship said he was concerned about some of the points
Boote mentioned. He also
SEE CONTRACT ON PAGE 6
TOP: Firefighters worked Friday to tamp down rekindled hot
spots in the smoldering remains of the Colony Community
Church, which caught fire Thursday evening. At right, firemen
attack the blaze in its earlier stages but are unable to salvage
the structure. Bottom right: the church as it appeared in a
2015 Facebook post.
Juvenile to be charged
in fire that destroyed
Colony house of worship
Blaze rekindled after
inital fire was brought
under control
BY DANE HICKS
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW
COLONY A 16-year-old
from Colony will likely
face two felony charges in
connection with an aggravated assault and a subsequent fire that destroyed the
Colony Community Church
on Friday, while church
members try to plan for their
continued worship and the
community at large tries to
cope with the incident.
Kaiden Robb, a 16 yearold former Crest High School
student, stands accused in
the incident officials say
resulted in the destruction of
the church building at 322 S.
Garfield, and of threatening
a Colony man with a knife in
a related domestic incident.
Anderson
County
Emergency Preparedness
Director Mark Locke said
a county sheriffs deputy
searching for Robb found
him inside the smoke-filled
church around 7:40 p.m.
Thursday evening and relocated the juvenile to safety
before calling county dispatch to report the fire.
Upon arrival of the first
fire units, fire was visible
on the west side of the building, Locke
said in a
statement.
He
said
responders
battled the
blaze until
around
11
p.m.
when
it
Robb
was determined to
be extinguished, but the fire
rekindled Friday morning
and quickly spread.
Upon arrival fire was
coming out of the roof
of the building and it was
fully involved, Locke said.
Fire units from Colony,
Welda, Garnett, Harris and
Westphalia along with mutual aid from the City of Iola
Fire Department battled the
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The lost art of high school newspapers
High school papers used
to be the learning laboratories
for basics of writing, reporting
BY CHELSEY DALBINI
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW
GARNETT The Booster, Oriole,
The Spark, The Comet, The Blazer,
the Trojournal, The Newtonian, The
Patriot. These titles share two things
in common: theyre student-led newspapers, and they are but a handful
of the fifty-seven remaining Kansas
High School newspapers that publish
a hard-copy printed edition.
According to the Kansas Scholastic
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW 1-2-2025 / DANE HICKS
Press Association website, in the 3A
classification in which Anderson
County Senior High School participates, only five schools publish a
newspaper: Burlington, Cimarron,
Humboldt, Minneapolis, and Gypsum.
Only Burlington and Santa Fe Trail
produce a newspaper in the Pioneer
League of schools.
In a digital age that allows readers
to access the school news via their
cell phones, fewer and fewer class-centered journalistic endeavors are making it to press literally.
At Anderson County Senior High
School, the Bulldog Barker, initially
a full news sheet, gave way to a single column in the Anderson County
Review before transitioning to a Blog
site.
School newspapers have been a part
of the fabric of Anderson County for
more than a century. The Kincaid
Tattler was a four-page student-led
and printed newspaper for the Kincaid
community that produced its first edition on loaned equipment during the
1914-1915 school year under the tutelage
of Wilbur Hashbarger. Hashbarger
got the newspaper approved as a second-class matter with the Post Office
as of December 8, 1914, and sent the
published matter to other schools to
encourage what millennials would call
SEE TATTLER ON PAGE 8
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THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Thursday, January 2, 2025
RECORD
NEWS IN
BRIEF
GET LIONS SOUP/CHILI
SUPPER TICKETS ONLINE
The Garnett Lions Club will host
its annual Soup & Chili Supper
Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, at
the First Christian Church in
Garnett. Lunch is 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
and dinner from 4:30 p.m.-7
p.m. Adults $8, kids 11 & under
$6, carry-out $9. Get tickets
from any Lions Club member or
use QR codes on Page 7.
AMERICAN LEGION BINGO
Bingo at American Legion Post
48 Garnett will be held every
Tuesday, starting time at 6:30
p.m.
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.
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Tell us about it. Wedding/
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ANDERSON COUNTY COMMISSION
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Chairman Leslie McGhee called
the meeting of the Anderson County
Commission to order at 9:00
AM on December 23, 2024 at the
Anderson County Commission Room.
Attendance: Leslie McGhee, Present:
David Pracht, Present: Anthony
Mersman, Present. The pledge of
allegiance was recited. Minutes from
the previous meeting were approved
as presented.
Budget Amendment
Commissioner Pracht moved and
Commissioner Mersman seconded to
open the meeting for public comment regarding the budget amendment. All voted yes. No comment.
Commissioner Pracht moved and
Commissioner Mersman seconded to
close the meeting for public comment.
All voted yes. Commissioner Pracht
moved and Commissioner Mersman
seconded to approve the 2024 budget
amendment for the Solid Waste and
Noxious Weeds funds. All voted yes.
District Court
The District Court would like to
carpet the Law Library on the 3rd floor
of the courthouse and a portion of the
District Court office. A bid was submitted from Baumans Carpet & Furniture
for $5,878.08 and installation by Scott
Kingsolver for $2,833. Commissioner
Mersman moved and Commissioner
Pracht seconded to purchase carpet
from Baumans Carpet & Furniture
for $5,878.08 and installation by Scott
Kingsolver for $2,833 for a total of
$8,711.08 to be paid half out of the law
library fund and half out of the district
court fund. All voted yes.
Central Heights Honor Flight
A letter was submitted to the commission by Tom Horstick requesting
a donation for the Central Heights
Honor Flight program. The commission currently donates $500 to the
Southern Coffey County Honor Flight
program. The letter stated how many
Anderson County residents they have
taken along with medical personnel.
The Commissioners think this is a
great program and opportunity for
our veterans. Commissioner Pracht
moved and Commissioner Mersman
seconded to allocate $500 to the
Central Heights Honor Flight program
to be paid out of the Courthouse
General fund. All voted yes.
County Clerk
Julie Wettstein, County Clerk, met
with the commission. She would like
to purchase 2 new office chairs for
her staff. The chairs have not been
picked out or purchased but would
like to encumber the purchase in
2024. The chairs will be no more than
$1,200 total and will be purchased
from Navrats. Commissioner Pracht
moved and Commissioner Mersman
seconded to purchase 2 office chairs
from Navrats for no more than $1,200
to be paid out of the county clerk fund.
All voted yes.
Road & Bridge
Ethan Lickteig, Road & Bridge
Supervisor, met with the commission.
He will be purchasing more pipe from
Welborn Sales Inc by the end of
the year. The sizes are varied by
need. The total cost is $49,514.52.
Commissioner Pracht moved and
Commissioner McGhee seconded
to purchase galvanized pipe from
Welborn Sales Inc for $49,514.52 to
be paid out of the special bridge fund.
All voted yes. Ethan presented road
permit #2024,1223:01 for Brightspeed
to install a buried wire at 25077 NE
2400 Rd. Commissioner McGhee
signed the permit. He gave an update
on a box replacement on 1300 Road.
Zoning
Tom Young, Zoning Director, met
with the commission. He presented
two zoning resolutions for approval. Commissioner Pracht moved to
approve resolution 2024-18 approving special use permit #SUP2024-03
(Hunt) to operate an Airbnb. All voted
yes. Commissioner Pracht moved and
Commissioner Mersman seconded to
approve resolution 2024-29 approving special use permit #SUP2024-04
(McAdam) to have 5 RV spots for rent
for out-of-town contractors. All voted
yes.
Economic Development
Jessica
Mills,
Community
Development Director, met with the
commission. She has been meeting
with the small cities council members
and mayors and is trying to address
their concerns with finding contacts or
solutions. The county board member
of the ACDA board is retiring and the
seat needs to be filled. The retiring
member is Doug Rockers. Jessica
received applications from Freddie
Partida, Jody Troyer, and Buddy
Rowlett. The Commissioners think all
three would be a great asset to the
board. Commissioner Pracht moved
and Commissioner Mersman seconded to appoint Freddie Partida to the
ACDA board to fill the vacated seat of
Doug Rockers. All voted yes.
Rural Fire
Cruz Gillespie, Rural Fire
Coordinator, and Mark Locke,
Emergency Management Director,
met with the commission. Randy
Bunnel, Welda Fire Chief, and Eric
Seabolt, Colony Fire Chief, were present as well. They would like to purchase a compressor at the Welda fire
station that is large enough to fill their
6,000 psi tanks. The cascade truck
(which holds the extra air tanks at a
scene) is housed at Welda. The county currently has compressors at the
Garnett and Colony stations. Those
compressors are only 5,000 psi and
will not fully fill a tank. The proposed
tank is from Alkin and will be stationary at Welda for $16,800. Randy
suggested the Welda fire station reimburse the county for half of the cost of
the compressor. Commissioner Pracht
moved and Commissioner Mersman
seconded to purchase a 6,000-psi
compressor from Alkin Compressors
for $16,800 to be paid out of the
Emergency Management fund with a
reimbursement from Welda fire for half
of the cost. All voted yes. The maintenance and repair will be completed
by Rural Fire. Cruz received a grant
to purchase 8 thermal guns at 100%
and will be housed at each station.
Discussion was held on the proposed
First Call system that Mark would like
to implement. The discussion was
tabled until the next meeting.
Executive Session
Mark
Locke,
Emergency
Management Director, requested an
executive session regarding a legal
issue. Commissioner Pracht moved
and Commissioner Mersman seconded to enter into executive session for
15 minutes for a legal issue. All voted
yes. Commissioners, Mark Locke,
Cruz Gillespie, Julie Wettstein were
present. Commissioner Pracht moved
and Commissioner Mersman seconded to re-enter into open meeting. All
voted yes. No action taken.
COLA
Commissioner Pracht moved and
Commissioner Mersman seconded
to approve a 3% COLA raise to all
employees that are on the pay scale
effective 1/1/2025. All voted yes.
Abatements
Abatements B25-137 through B25153 were approved as presented.
Call (785) 448-5711 text (785) 204-1382
Adjourn
Meeting adjourned at 12:00 PM
due to no further business.
ANDERSON COUNTY CRIMINAL
CASES FILED
Quentin Lee Lickteig was charged
with battery.
Michael James Wilson was charged
with three countes of violation of a protection order.
Anthony Alam Tomblin was charged
with unlawful distribution of methamphetamine, possession of marijuana,
possession of drug paraphernaila,
expired or no registration and driving
while suspended.
Shelby Rae Wilper was charged
with transmit/commun false info to
request emergency services; w/threat
of violent activity and interference with
law enforcement; Falsely report a felony intending to obstruct.
ANDERSON COUNTY TRAFFIC
CASES FILED
Anthony Romero was charged with
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Soups Are Back!
Daily
Lunch
Specials:
Mon: Open face turkey sandwich on bread topped
with mashed potatoes, turkey & turkey gravy.
Tues: BBQ meatballs, cheesy potatoes,
green beans and dinner roll.
Wed: Chicken pot pie with biscuit, mashed potatoes with chicken gravy.
Thurs: Fried Chicken Dinner w/roll, mashed potatoes & gravy.
Fri: Amish Wedding Feast, chicken stuffing, green beans, maxhd potatoes and chickn gravy
Sat: Chicken Fried Steak Dinner w/ homemade mashed potatoes & gravy, dinner roll
Banque t Facilitie s Mee ting Rooms Catering
Dutch Country Cafe
Traditional Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking
Saturday Breakfast Buffet 7:30-11:30
6×12 Law Enforcement Day
Because theyre there
when we need them.
Celebrate National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day January 9
These area businesses stand with our law enforcement officers…
ACE Hardware
Garnett
(785) 448-3241
Benjamin Realty
Garnett
(785) 448-2550
East Kansas Agri-Energy
Garnett
(785) 448-2888
Natures Touch
Garnett
(785) 448-7152
State Farm Insurance
Ryan Disbrow-Agent, Garnett
(785) 448-1660
Adamson Bros.
Heating & Cooling
Ottawa
(785) 242-9273
Bluestem Farm & Ranch
Emporia
(620) 352-5502
Edward Jones Josh Nelson
Garnett
(785) 448-7171
Patriots Bank
Garnett
www.patriotsbank.com
Terry Solander, Atty. at Law
Garnett
(785) 448-6131
Bones Rock Yard
Ottawa
(785) 242-3070
Farmers State Bank
Garnett
www.fsbkansas.com
Anderson County Abstract
Garnett
(785) 448-2426
Anderson County Review
Garnett
(785) 448-3121
Arnolds Prairie Greenhouse
LeRoy
(620) 964-2423
AuBurn Pharmacy
Garnett
(785) 448-6122
Barnes Seed Service, LLC
Garnett
(785) 304-2500
Brand N Iron
Princeton
www.thebrandniron.com
Brummel Farm Service
Garnett
(785) 448-5720
CARSTAR
Ottawa
(785) 242-8916
D&M Mini Barns
Garnett
(785) 504-9625
Member FDIC – Equal Opportunity Lender.
Member FDIC – Equal Opportunity Lender.
PrairieLand Partners
Iola
(620) 365-2187
Flynn Appliance Center
Iola
(620) 365-2538
Quality Structures
Richmond
800-374-6988
4th Street Flea Market
Garnett
(785) 418-1060
Sandras Quick Stop
Garnett
(785) 448-6602
Garnett Home Center
& Rental
Garnett
(785) 448-7106
6th Ave Boutique &
Western Wear
Garnett
(785) 448-2276
Midwest Collision
Paola
(913) 294-4016
Sonic Drive-In
Garnett
(785) 448-6393
Tom Adams Construction
Garnett
(785) 448-3997
Valley R Agri-Service, Inc.
Garnett
(785) 448-6533
Wilson Chiropractic Clinic
Garnett
(785) 448-6151
Wittman NAPA Auto Parts
Garnett
(785) 448-6611
Yoder Auction Service
Welda
(785) 448-4419
Yutzy Custom Structures
Garnett
(800) 823-8609
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Thursday, January 2, 2025
SCHAFER
DAVIS
JANUARY 28, 1938 DECEMBER 26, 2024
Charles B. Schafer passed
away peacefully on the morning of December 26, 2024, in
Wellsville,
Kansas. He
embraced
life and loved
teasing those
around him
with his infectious-and
playfully
mischieSchafer
vous-sense
of
humor.
A friendly man with a quick
smile, he wanted to put people
around him at ease and enjoy
the moment.
During various stages of life,
he went by different names.
He was known as Charlie
to most of the world, Ben to
his siblings and their children,
Mr. Schafer to his students,
Pop to his immediate family,
and Grandpa to his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Charles was born on
January 28, 1938, in Fort Scott,
Kansas. He was the third of
five children born to John and
Annabel Schafer. He graduated
from Fort Scott High School in
1956.
While attending Fort Scott
Junior College, Charles met the
love of his life: Rosalie Lorie
Stites. She was a 1957 graduate of Parker High School.
Two years later, Charles and
Rosalie were married at the
Methodist Church in Parker,
Kansas.
From 1956 to 1964, Charles
proudly served in the Kansas
Army National Guard. He rose
to the rank of Staff Sergeant
E-6.
Charles had a knack for all
things mechanical. He was also
creative and inventive. As a
high school student, he began
designing and building wooden
furniture pieces. While substituting for his shop teacher, he
discovered a love for working
with young people. In the man-
ner of a sturdy dovetail joint, he
combined his natural mechanical abilities with a desire to
teach students. He majored in
Industrial Arts at Pittsburg
State University (then known
as Kansas State College
of Pittsburg) in Pittsburg,
Kansas. He earned a Bachelor
of Science in Education degree
and a Master of Science degree.
Charles initially taught
at Miami High School in
Amsterdam, Missouri, before
moving on to Central Heights
High School in Kansas. For the
final 26 years of his 37-year
career, he taught in the LeRoyGridley School District. He
instructed students in a range
of industrial arts including
welding, wood working, metal
foundry, basic automotive
care, small engine repair, and
drafting.
Charles and Rosalie were
married for 59 years. In 1968,
they moved from Amoret,
Missouri to Richmond, Kansas.
They lived in Richmond for
more than 50 years and raised
their sons there. As supportive
parents, they attended baseball
games and high school plays
among many other events. They
were fixtures in the small town
and longtime members of the
Richmond United Methodist
Church. Charles loved working on projects in his shop and
taking daily breaks to meet the
coffee drinkers at R and Bs
in Richmond.
In April 2019, Charles moved
into Wellsville Health and
Rehab in Wellsville, Kansas.
With his sociable nature, he
was soon at home there. He
became one of the homes
better-known characters. It
seemed that every staff member and resident knew him.
Donning a crumpled straw
cowboy hat, he played guitar
and sang in the semi-annual Gong Show. And he wore
shorts year-round (some pairs
were winter shorts).
At Wellsville, Charles was
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OBITUARIES
FEBRUARY 9, 1936 DECEMBER 24, 2024
known as an inventor, builder,
and handyman. He turned his
room into a mini-shop with a
vice and an assortment of tools
and supplies. No longer able to
have a woodworking shop, he
began building things out of
pieces of corrugated cardboard
glued together. His cardboard
creations included Halloween
masks, iPad holders, lecterns,
game boards, log cabins, and a
bingo board with lights. Scott
Averill, owner of Wellsville
Health and Rehab, referred to
him as our amazing Charlie.
Charles was preceded in
death by his parents, John F.
and Annabel M. Schafer; his
older sisters Barbara Mattingly
and Joan Baugher; and his wife
Rosalie (who died in 2019).
He is survived by his sister Phyllis Smith and brother
David A. Schafer. Other survivors include his sons and their
children. David D. Schafer,
his wife Valerie, of Stonewall,
Texas, and his step-daughters
Sandra Jacoby and Cindy
Jacoby. Dan Schafer, his wife
Konnie, of Plainview, Texas,
and their children: Galvan
and Whitney Schafer; Daniel
and Katie Schafer and their
sons Bennett and Beau; Kassie
Schafer; and Harlan Schafer.
Joe Stites and his wife Mindy,
of Wellsville, Kansas, and their
children Joseph and Ava.
Visitation will take place
from 5:00 to 7:00 pm on
Thursday, January 2, 2025 at
Feuerborn Family Funeral
Service in Garnett. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 pm on
Friday, January 3, 2025 at the
Richmond United Methodist
Church in Richmond, Kansas.
Burial will follow at the
Richmond Cemetery.
Memorial contributions
can be made to the Richmond
United Methodist Church or
the Wellsville Memorial
Fund in care of Wellsville
Health and Rehab.
Bill Davis, age 88, of Garnett,
Kansas a beloved husband,
father, grandfather, and
great-grandfather, passed
away peacefully
on
December 24,
2024.
Charles
W i l l i a m
Davis
was
born
on
Davis
February
9, 1936, in
Williamsburg, Kansas. He
was the second of four sons
born to John R. and Teresa
(Ferns) Davis. Bill attended a
one room country school west
of Richmond and then attended
high school in Garnett.
Bill was united in marriage to Laura M. Sobba on
June 2, 1956 in the Holy Angels
Catholic Church, Garnett.
They first made their home
in Garnett before moving to
Overland Park, Kansas in 1959.
Bill worked at Proctor and
Gamble in Kansas City, Kansas
as a machine operator for over
35 years, retiring in 1994. In
1998, Bill and Laura made the
move to the farm house west
of Garnett that they had called
their weekend home since 1974.
Bill loved working on the
farm, tending to his cattle and
baling hay. He was a faithful member of Holy Angels
Catholic Church, where he
was an usher for the Saturday
evening Mass. He was a dedicated fan of KU basketball, the
Kansas City Chiefs and Royals.
In his retirement years, Bill
and Laura enjoyed many trips
with friends from his work. He
was known for keeping track
of the local rainfall amounts
and then calling his children
to see how much rain they got.
Bill loved spending time with
his grandchildren and spoiling them before they returned
home from Grampys.
Bill is survived by his devoted wife of 68 years, Laura
Davis, and their two children,
Ron Davis and Tammy Reyes
of Shawnee, Kansas, and Patti
Woodward, along with her husband, Kenn, of Olathe, Kansas.
His legacy continues as he was
Grandpa to seven cherished
grandchildren: Emily Beier,
Kathryn Davis, Ryan Davis,
John Davis, Davis Woodward,
Robb Woodward, and Alden
Woodward, as well as four
delightful great-grandchildren,
Moira, Henry, Genevieve, and
Anna Beier. A caring brother, Bill is also survived by his
brother, Don Davis, and his
wife, Mary Ann, of Silver Lake,
Kansas.
He was preceded in death
by two brothers, Fred and Bob
Davis, who forever hold a special place in his heart.
Bills life was marked by
warmth, laughter, and a deep
love for his family. He had a
way of lighting up every room
he entered and was always
there to lend a helping hand or
share a good story. He instilled
in his loved ones the importance of kindness and togetherness, values that will echo
through generations to come.
Let us gather together to
celebrate Bills remarkable
life and the enduring love he
shared so freely. May his memory be a blessing to all of us.
A Rosary was recited
Friday, December 27, 2024, at
Feuerborn Family Funeral
Service, 219 S. Oak Street,
Garnett, Kansas. Bills family
greeted friends following the
Rosary at the funeral home.
A Mass in Bills honor took
place at Holy Angels Catholic
Church on December 28, 2024.
Following the service, Bill was
laid to rest in the St. Boniface
Catholic Cemetery, 32292 NE
Norton Rd, Garnett, Kansas
66032. Memorial contributions
in Bills honor are suggested
to Holy Angels Parish and may
be left in care of Feuerborn
Family Funeral Service.
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Covid spending and subsequent public works
bills passed by the Biden
Administration
began
to work its way through
the American economy.
Pressure to reduce the
food sales tax, particularly attractive to Kansas
politicians because of the
approaching 2024 elections,
was bandied the year prior
but eventually came together in 2022.
Sales taxes are generally
considered a regressive
tax, affecting by a larger
percentage the incomes of
lower-paid and fixed income
individuals who spend a
bigger percentage of their
incomes on retail purchases.
Garnett
City
Commissioners adopted a
consensus in November to
explore a bond election to
implement a sales tax for
the city pools replacement
or reconstruction. The local
pool has struggled with
maintenance and repair
issues for a number of years
as the city continues to
stretch the useable life of
the eight decade old structure.
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THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Thursday, January 2, 2025
In 2025, viva la revolution of 2024
On the front page of todays Review is a story
about revolution.
Its the story about how an ideology that developed in the country over the past four years took
root on the Derby USD 260 Board of Education
and set the stage for a new way of thinking and
operating in the school district that might very
well improve the lives and futures of Derby students.
Its revolutionary because without the revelations of the past four years since and including
the Covid pandemic and Joe Bidens Presidential
Administration and the shadow of Donald
Trump, this kind of story most likely would not
have happened. We know this because in the
decades prior, actions based on grassroots ideology from school board members has been all too
rare.
As you will read in the story, Derby school
board members took time to review a curriculum contract from an east coast educational
services company and discovered it to be rife
with the kind of close-minded, anti-conservative
core content that has dominated such companies
and formed the bacteria-rich stock that became
dominant in the U.S. educational system. Upon
inspection, school board members there discovered the so-called historical references to
President Trumps first administration characterized the billionaire president in the same
maligning way he was branded by CNN and the
rest of the Hate Trump media of the past decade.
The difference is that conservative school board
members at Derby now hold a one vote majority
on the school board in the town, and that majority declined the $400,000 contract with Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt on the basis of that biased content. The debate actually dated back to 2022 when
the social studies content from the company was
steeped in Black Lives Matter indulgence, but
conservatives on the board lost the vote then.
What makes the move at Derby so notable is
that the attitude of the new conservative rogues
on the school board is a microcosm of a brewing
antidote for the sickness that has infected public
education in the United States. Board members
running for office, like others in local government on city councils and county commissions,
now seem to understand that they themselves
are the instruments for national conservative
thought and action.
Theres no better example than Kansas
schools, where annual state assessments have
declined to the point that the state education
commissioner now wants to junk the test alto-
REVIEW COMMENTARY
DANE HICKS, Publisher
gether because students the product of the
ailing system continue to do worse and worse
on them. This is the fruit of sickly tree of bureaucracy.
Since USDOE was founded, students are less
educated and exponentially more expensive. It
can be seen as nothing less than ironic that
the Derby revolt predates by only weeks the
death of President Jimmy Carter, who created USDOE at the behest of the leftist-driven
National Education Association. Since then the
effects of adding an overarching federal bureaucracy to education have been clear. Inflationadjusted tuition at the nations colleges and
universities rose about a percent a year over
annual inflation prior to USDOE, but in the first
35 years of its existence college tuitions were up
300 percent and climbing, and the department
itself grew to a $268 billion annual behemoth
whose bureaucratic labyrinth was exactly what
its leftist planners intended. With the bureaucracy firmly entrenched, it was time for DOE to
assault American culture and social structure.
The worst fears of both conservatives and
staunch civil libertarians came in 2011, wrote
education commentator Richard Vedder in a
2020 article for Forbes. The dear colleague
letter (that) had zero constitutional basis in law
decreeing that colleges must adopt standards in
sexual assault cases totally inconsistent with
American traditions of criminal justice the
right to confront accusers, be represented by
legal counsel, etc. It mandated a very low standard of proof completely unacceptable in criminal proceedings in America.
Education vendors like Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt of course followed suit to the social
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Isnt it weird that if somebody doesnt claim
their animal in three days they get euthanized?
I think thats terrible.
This terrible situation in Colony begs the question: Why do we lose so many buildings to fire
in Colony? Why dont we ever seem to be able
to put a fire out? In this situation they put the
fire out and it rekindled and then destroyed the
building. I know our firemen sacrifice a lot and
I admit I have not stepped up to join in and help,
but I still have to wonder what the problem is.
Is it training, personnel, equipment, or what?
Thank you.
Well, for the first time in 100 years, Jimmy
Carter cant screw anything up.
Elton Johns right about the awful foibles of legal pot
Like a candle in the wind, Elton John
extinguished the contemporary positive chatter surrounding marijuana legalization in an
interview with Time Magazine published last
week.
He claimed efforts to legalize the drug were a
huge societal error. Apparently, he finally realized what anti-weed proponents have known
for quite some time: Marijuana is harmful.
I maintain that its addictive. It leads to
other drugs, said Time Magazines Icon of the
Year for 2024. And when youre stoned and
Ive been stoned you dont think normally.
Legalizing marijuana in America and Canada
is one of the greatest mistakes of all time.
Johns epiphany on marijuana represents,
shall we say, the circle of life of many marijuana legalization proponents. First, they use
the drug. Then, they support legalizing the
drug. Then, after enough harmful things have
occurred as a result of using the drug, they
realize marijuana was terrible all along. Then,
they acknowledge it should have never been
legalized.
But while many marijuana enthusiasts might
tell the rock and roll Hall of Famer to dont
go breaking my heart, they should heed his
advice. Despite its rebranding in pop culture as
a kind of benevolent drug, studies have found
that the regular use of marijuana has been
linked to many harmful health conditions. One
of the first was published shortly after Colorado
and Washington became the first states to legalize the recreational use of cannabis in 2012.
NATIONAL COMMENTARY
CHRIS TREMOGLIE, WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Consider this study by Northwestern
Medicine in 2013, which found a link between
regular marijuana use by adolescents and
abnormal changes in their brain structures
related to working memory and performed poorly on memory tasks. Moreover, damage to the
brain includes memory-related structures that
appeared to shrink and collapse inward, with
a possible decrease in brain neurons, according
to the study. Additionally, these abnormalities
became synonymous with schizophrenia-related brain abnormalities.
In 2023, Northwestern Medicine released
another study about the dangerous effects of
marijuana use. This research found that recent
and long-term marijuana use is linked to
changes in the human epigenome. Epigenetics
analyzes the effects of behavior and the environment on human genes.
The observed marijuana markers were also
associated with cell proliferation, infection,
and psychiatric disorders, said Lifang Hou,
MD, PhD, one of the researchers of the study.
Other studies have found that marijuana has
been linked to an increase in mental health
issues, including depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and suicide ideation. Still, other studies have found that marijuana has been connected to a decrease in IQ and an increased risk
for heart attacks and strokes. Another study
discovered that marijuana use was linked to
psychotic disorders, poorer mental health
outcomes including increased risk of mood disorders, self-harm and suicidality, and associated with approximately 12 and 15 excess lifeyears lost in women and men.
There are many more negatives associated
with using marijuana than positives. Polluting
the body with marijuana leads to many dangerous health matters that could otherwise be
avoided. And, even though one can use the drug,
avoid the pitfalls associated with it, and say to
people, Im Still Standing, it would be wiser to
listen to Elton John and realize using marijuana
is a mistake.
Christopher Tremoglie is an editor and commentary writer for the Washington Examiner.
Follow him on X: @chriswtremo
Finally Trump gives Iran, Hamas an actual reason to fear
If they have any instinct for self-preservation, Iran and Hamas should be monitoring
President-Elect Donald Trumps communications closely these days.
A couple of weeks ago, there was the Truth
Social post promising ALL HELL TO PAY if
Hamas didnt release its hostages by Trumps
inauguration on Jan. 20.
Those responsible, Trump noted, will be
hit harder than anybody has been hit in the
long and storied History of the United States of
America.
He followed up during a press conference
Monday. When asked what he meant by his
prior threat, Trump left it menacingly vague.
Well, he said, referring to our adversaries,
theyre going to have to determine what that
means, but it means it wont be pleasant. Its not
going to be pleasant.
What does that signify? Does Trump have
something in particular in mind, or is he making it up as he goes along? Is he bluffing? Or is
he deadly earnest?
No one has come up with a Trump Doctrine
yet, but a candidate might be: Find out if Im
serious or not at your own risk.
The most basic thing to note about Trumps
threat, though, is that it is the first time an
official of the U.S. government — or a soon-to-be
government official — has sounded appropriately outraged and harsh about an ongoing crime
perpetrated against our fellow citizens.
Trumps hell to pay is a throwback to
Andrew Jackson or Teddy Roosevelt, making it
clear that we arent to be trifled with, and doing
it in a clarion tone.
Its been shocking how muted the Biden
administration has been about the hostages.
NATIONAL COMMENTARY
RICH LOWRY, King Features Syndicate
Whereas Trump is expressing a righteous indignation in thunderous terms, the Biden administration has spoken as compellingly as a deputy
Secretary of State summarizing the notes of a
three-hour-long committee meeting.
This kind of jawboning comes naturally to
Trump, of course. His approach doesnt represent any particular foreign-policy theory. Its
not realist, or neocon, or isolationist. Its less
Clausewitzs On War or Thomas Schellings
The Strategy of Conflict, than Trumps Art of
the Deal.
The famous British line is that the Battle of
Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton;
in the same sense, every successful Trump negotiation as president has been won on the playing
fields of Manhattan real estate, where Trump
first learned his distinctive mode of gaining
leverage and psychological advantage.
His willingness to escalate and follow through
means no threat can be completely discounted,
while his sheer unpredictably adds to the difficulty of any foreign actor trying to calculate his
next move.
To the famous Machiavellian axiom Its better to be feared than to be loved, Trump adds
the proviso, and its best to keep them guessing,
either way.
This couldnt be in starker contrast to Joe
Biden, who always fears escalation and is predictably conventional to the point of being sodden and dull.
Trump is what they call in poker a loose
aggressive player, whereas Biden plays measured games of bridge over tea and crumpets.
The president-elect doesnt like foreign conflict, but he bombed ISIS to smithereens as
promised in 2016 and killed the top Iranian intelligence official, Qasem Soleimani, without hesitation in 2020. The safest default is to take him at
his word, even if you only — in Trumps words
about a threat he says he made to Vladimir
Putin in his first term — believe him ten percent.
With an eye to the imminent arrival of
Trump, there is a chance that Hamas cuts a
deal over the hostages in the coming weeks, the
same way Iran released the captives from the
U.S. Embassy in 1980 just as Ronald Reagan was
taking office.
Regardless of how it plays out, we are already
re-entering a period when enemies of the United
States have to be scared or nervous, not knowing how far they can push us, or what will happen if they do. And thats exactly where Donald
Trump wants them.
Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.
Is woke really on the ropes?
Brady Leonard, The Washington Examiner
…cultural signposts paint a picture of a
Democratic Party that will be lost at sea for
a generation without serious reflection and
wholesale moderation….
The Left outkicked its coverage on the transgender issue, especially regarding the transitioning of children, and Democrats and their
allies are finally beginning to read the writing
on the wall…
Most of the problems that Democrats are
having when attempting to relate to everyday
people stem from the fact that the party is so
beholden to hard-left special interest groups
that it can no longer see how far outside the
realm of normal it has become to large swaths
of the general public. Vice President-elect
J.D. Vance illustrated this recently when he
responded on X to a New York Times Magazine
reader who submitted a question to the magazines ethicist columnist. The inquiry said:
My neighbor wont stop praying for me. What
should I do? The unidentified questioner went
on to complain to the ethicist about an elderly
neighbor who routinely commits the grave sin
of being a good neighbor.
What should you do? Vance replied.
Accept it as a sweet gesture and stop being a
weirdo. Or: consider that the woman praying
for her neighbors has it more figured out than
the person whining to the paper.
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
(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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My thank-yous for 2024 Public
2024, a year filled with many
ups and downs, but our Lord
Jesus Christ has brought us
through every one. Its time
for each of us to give thanks
for everything hes done in
our lives. For me, that means
thanking
everyone
who
touched my life involving my
love of archeology. My hope is
that I dont leave anyone out.
My first two thank yous
never change. They are my
Savior Jesus Christ and my
beautiful wife and lifes companion for 67 years, Kay. My
third thank you goes to the
Anderson County Review,
Dane Hicks and his wonderful staff. Without them, there
would be no weekly column.
The others I want to thank
are: Tom & Rose Rockers,
Mike & Nancy Rockers, Terry
Roberts, Jeff Birbaum, Travis
Wilson, Deb Aaron, Mary Ann
Umbarger, Melanie Naden,
Nancy Arendt, Barb Grable,
DIGGING UP THE PAST
Notice of resolution – Permit Notice of resolution – Special
to operate an Airbnb
use permit for 5 RV spots
(Published in The Anderson County Review,
Thursday, January 5, 2025.)
Henry Roeckers
RESOLUTION No. 2024-28
Call (785) 504-4722 for
local archeology information.
Mrs.Patton, Nikki Klarman,
Shelby Beltz, Martin Rockers,
Renee Pagenkopf, Kenny
Kellstadt, LaVerne Cole, Denise
Wallace, Carl Wittry, JoAnn
Lankard, Tim Weston, Jody
Beets, Beth McCord, Virginia
Wulfkuhle, Bill Ratliff, Jay
Macklin & the Brown County
Museum.
Thank you and may you have
a wonderful New Year.
Respectively submitted by:
Henry Roeckers. 28Dec2024
Ben Yoder, Your Kansas Realtor/Auctioneer
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A RESOLUTION APPROVING SPECIAL USE
PERMIT #SUP2024-03(HUNT) TO OPERATE
AN AIRBNB.
WHEREAS, Anderson County, Kansas is a
county municipal government with the authority
to adopt zoning regulations and create zoning district boundaries as provided in Section
15-753 K.S.A.; and
WHEREAS, the County did adopt Resolution
NO. 00, 0911.1 in September 2000, establishing zoning regulations for the unincorporated
areas of Anderson County; and
WHEREAS, the Anderson County Planning
Commission did hold a Public hearing on
December 16, 2024 to consider Special Use
Permit #SUP2024-03(Hunt) to allow him to
operate an Airbnb.
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission, after
reviewing and considering all written and
oral testimony, did unanimously approve said
amendment request, and recommends that
the Board of County Commissioners adopt the
Special Use Permit #SUP2024-03(Hunt); and
WHEREAS, the Board of County
Commissioners, after duly reviewing the recommendation of the Planning Commission and
considering all comments for and against said
amendment, finds that the Special Use Permit
is in substantial compliance with the intent of
the County Comprehensive Plan and the public
interest.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED,
that the Anderson County Board of County
Commissioners does hereby approve Special
Use Permit #SUP2024-03(Hunt), said property
is located Section 8, Township 20 South,
Range 13 East, all in Anderson County, Kansas.
PASSED AND ADOPTED THIS 23rd DAY OF
DECEMBER, 2024.
This action shall take effect upon publication in
the official County newspaper.
/s/Leslie D. McGhee, Chairman
/s/David Pracht, Commissioner
/s/Anthony C. Mersman, Commissioner
ATTEST:
Julie Wettstein, Clerk
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(Published in The Anderson County Review,
Thursday, January 5, 2025.)
RESOLUTION No. 2024-29
A RESOLUTION APPROVING SPECIAL USE
PERMIT #SUP2024-04 (MCADAM TO HAVE 5
RV SPOTS FOR RENT FOR OUT OF TOWN
CONTRACTORS.
WHEREAS, Anderson County, Kansas is a
county municipal government with the authority
to adopt zoning regulations and create zoning district boundaries as provided in Section
15-753 K.S.A.; and
WHEREAS, the County did adopt Resolution
NO. 00, 0911.1 in September 2000, establishing zoning regulations for the unincorporated
areas of Anderson County; and
WHEREAS, the Anderson County Planning
Commission did hold a Public hearing on
December 16, 2024 to consider Special Use
Permit #SUP2024-04(McAdam) to allow him
have 5 RV spots for rental.
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission, after
reviewing and considering all written and oral
testimony, did unanimously approve said
amendment request, and recommends that
the Board of County Commissioners adopt the
Special Use Permit #SUP2024-04(McAdam);
and
WHEREAS, the Board of County
Commissioners, after duly reviewing the recommendation of the Planning Commission and
considering all comments for and against said
amendment, finds that the Special Use Permit
is in substantial compliance with the intent of
the County Comprehensive Plan and the public
interest.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED,
that the Anderson County Board of County
Commissioners does hereby approve Special
Use Permit #SUP2024-04(McAdam), said
property is located Section 4, Township 20
South, Range 21 East, all in Anderson County,
Kansas.
PASSED AND ADOPTED THIS 23rd DAY OF
DECEMBER, 2024.
This action shall take effect upon publication in
the official County newspaper.
/s/Leslie D. McGhee, Chairman
/s/David Pracht, Commissioner
/s/Anthony C. Mersman, Commissioner
ATTEST:
Julie Wettstein, Clerk
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fire until approximately 1545
hours.
Robb was transported to
Anderson County Hospital
with minor injuries before
being transferred to Childrens
Mercy Hospital in Kansas City.
A vigil was held in the Crest
school parking lot Friday
night. Church members met
Sunday at the newly constructed Colony Christian Church at
211 Catalpa to discuss future
plans. Church leaders did not
return the Reviews messages
for a statement as of our holiday deadline this week.
As word of the churchs
destruction spread, present
and former Colony residents
were lamenting the loss over
social media.
Heartbroken here in
California, said Heather
Bell-Franklin of San Clemete,
Calif., the daughter of Marie
Martin Goodspeed. That special church holds a very special
place in my heart and always
will. My mom and brother Paul
loved that church and both
found the Lord there, she said.
Praying for comfort for everyone and happy no one got hurt
Very very sad day.
Heartbreaking!,
said
Cathy Lloyd of Callahan, Fla.
This church helped my family
through some rough times and
led me to some of my favorite
people I met in Kansas. My
kids grew up in this church.
Praying for the future.
Anderson County Attorney
Elizabeth Oliver said two separate felony cases were filed
naming Robb on Tuesday
charging him with aggravated assault, aggravated battery,
criminal damage to property
and arson.
Locke noted the level of community support for responders
during the process of fighting
the blaze, particularly the Fire
Department Auxiliary for providing food and drinks to all
of the responders, county road
crews who assisted with traffic
control, 7th Street Grocery and
Stay Grounded Coffee Co for
the refreshments and the citizens of Colony and Anderson
County for their support of all
those affected by the incident.
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LOCAL
CONTRACT…
FROM PAGE 1
opposed the new curriculum because of a statement
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
made in the aftermath of the
murder of George Floyd, who
was Black, by a white police
officer in 2020.
We believe Black Lives
Matter. We believe in social
justice. We believe learning is
a fundamental right, the company said in a June 2020 message posted on its website. We
believe the education system
needs to change, and we will
continue to use our platform to
make that change.
Thats a pretty bold statement, Blankenship said.
Wouldnt anybody want to
know, What do you mean? I
still dont have that answer.
Representatives for Bostonbased
Houghton
Mifflin
Harcourt could not be reached
for comment Tuesday.
Two years ago, after Derby
school board members voiced
similar concerns about an elementary social studies curriculum, a company representative said it stood by its statement and continues to support
efforts toward diversity.
This statement was not a
political one. Rather, the intent
was to express our care and
support for Black members of
our community teachers,
students, families and employees, company spokeswoman
Leah Riviere said at the time.
HMH does not advocate for
any ideology, political organization or agenda. Our aim is
simply to help teachers teach
and students learn.
The Derby school board
approved the Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt elementary curriculum in 2022. Since then, four
new members were elected to
the board, and conservatives
have a 4-3 majority.
What teachers think
Derby
administrators
pushed for a new high school
curriculum because teachers
have been working without
social studies textbooks and
other common materials for
several years.
Teachers who tested the
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
curriculum said they especially liked a Writable portion,
which emphasizes critical
thinking and writing skills.
It ultimately has the potential to help improve student
writing. It will be something
that we can use, said Kendall
Warkentine, a Derby High
School social studies teacher
who favored the Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt curriculum.
Warkentine said few high
school history classes focus on
events more recent than the
2000 presidential election of
George W. Bush, and that historians dont really consider
the last 20 years to be history.
Holly
Putnam-Jackson,
Derbys assistant superintendent of teaching and learning,
said the proposed curriculum
aligns with Kansas academic
standards for history, government and social studies.
Our students develop that
critical thinking piece, so
they dont see something on
Facebook or a news media
channel or from a friend and
accept it blindly, without
researching it and going back
and finding sources, she told
board members.
Our social studies teachers
aim to teach our students
how to think, and not necessarily what to think.
Three Derby board members Mark Boline, Tanya
Jacobucci and Melanie Turner
voted to approve the proposed high school curriculum. But a majority Boote,
Blankenship, Jennifer Neel
and Robyn Pearman rejected
the proposal.
Jacobucci said she trusts
teachers who tested the curriculum to know what works in
the classroom.
We are telling our teachers Youre bringing us your
best choice and the one that
you think will do the best job,
but we want you to find a different choice, and Im not OK
with that, she said.
Boline also urged the board
to accept the teachers recommendation.
It seems a little paternalistic this evening, this decision
on curriculum, and I cant
imagine that playing well with
the teachers who put that work
in, Boline said.
Nationwide debates over
curriculum
The Derby decision aligns
with broader debates about
curriculum control and the
teaching of sensitive or political topics in schools.
Florida education officials
have rejected dozens of social
studies textbooks due to concerns about topics related to
social justice and American
exceptionalism. Two years ago,
they rejected 41% of mathematics textbooks, citing attempts
to indoctrinate students.
That has forced textbook
publishers to revise content to
meet state standards.
In Kansas, local school
boards not the state make
decisions about curriculum
and textbooks.
After the Derby vote, Neel,
the boards president, directed administrators to look for
different textbooks and materials, and teachers who would be
willing to try them.
We need to wait and see if
we cant find better options
or see if some things can cool
down, Neel said. If and when
you think you have two good,
neutral products then bring
it back.
Suzanne Perez reports on education for KMUW in Wichita
and the Kansas News Service.
You can follow her on Twitter @
SuzPerezICT.
RECORDS…
FROM PAGE 2
speeding 74 mph in a 65 mph zone
and for failure to wear a seatbelt.
Ryan Al Selleck was charged with
speeding 78 mph in a 65 mph zone
and for operating a vehicle without a
valid license.
Alex Richard Gorton was charged
with speeding 79 mph in a 65 mph
zone.
Summer Dawn Carl was charged
with speeding 75 mph in a 65 mph
zone.
Caleigh Jeanette Porter was
charged with speeding 75 mph in a 65
mph zone.
Debra Lynn Davis was charged
with speeding 65 mph in a 55 mph
zone, for a defective tail lamp on
motor vehicle and operating a motor
vehicle without a license.
Wyatt Anthony Tummons was
charged with driving under the influence; 1st conviction/child present, for
transporting an open container, liquor;
purchase/possess/consume by minor
18-20 yrs, speeding 95 mph in a 65
mph zone.
Wilian Ely Contreras was charged
with speeding 77 mph in a 65 mph
zone, operating a motor vehicle without a license and vehicle liability insurance required.
Bryan Soctt Thueson was charged
with speeding 81 mph in a 65 mph
zone.
Amanda Michelle Williams was
charged with operating a vehicle without registration or w/expired tag and
vehicle liability insurance required.
Caleb Samuel Ray was charged
with speeding 75 mph in a 65 mph
zone.
Brian Matthew McBride was
charged with operating a vehicle without registration or with expired tag.
Yasel Martinez-Hernandez was
charged with speeding 80 mph in a 65
mph zone.
ANDERSON COUNTY JAIL ROSTER
(as of November 27, 2024)
God remembered!
In the first chapter
WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL
of Luke after Mary is
visited by the angel she
left Nazareth and went
to the hill country of
Judea to visit a relative
Elizabeth who the angel
had told her was also
with child. As puzzled
as Mary was over her
own situation the pregnancy of Elizabeth was
BY DAVID BILDERBACK
even more puzzling
as she was in her old
age and past child bearing. Mary sang in joy, God rememDuring this visit Mary full of bered. I wonder do we rememjoy sings. He has helped his ber? Is the return of Christ
servant Israel remembering to even a part of our thinking or
be merciful to Abraham and do we just go about our rouhis descendants forever even as tine? I dont believe there was
he said to our fathers. (Luke ever any doubt in Marys mind
1:54-55)
that God would remember
As this situation began to his servant Israel. Her stateunfold Mary remembered ment just confirms her long
a promise God had made to held belief and faith that God
Abraham 2000 years earlier. In would send the Messiah. We
Genesis 15 God makes a cov- as Christians should hold this
enant with Abram. Then the same belief. Through the birth,
word of the LORD came to him: life, death and resurrection of
This man will not be your Jesus we have been grafted into
heir, but a son coming from Gods family through adoption
your own body will be your as sons.
heir. He (God) took him outJust as the Apostle Paul
side and said. Look up at the states in Galatians 4:4-5, But
heavens and count the stars – if when the time had fully come,
indeed you can count them. God sent his Son, born of a
Then he said to him, So shall woman, born under the law,
your offspring be. Abraham to redeem those under the law,
believed God and it was credit- that we might receive the full
ed to him as righteousness.
rights of sons. Jesus confirms
Now 2000 years on the other his return in Revelation 22:20 b
side of Abraham Mary began when he says, Yes, I am comto understand the fulfillment ing soon. Abraham believed,
of this promise to Abram by Mary believed. The question is
God was beginning to happen. do you believe?
The coming of the long awaited Messiah was imminent. In
Ministry on the Holiness of God.
Author of the book,
her joy Mary bursts into song.
On the Other Side of the Door
Now we find ourselves 2000
Like David Bilderback
years beyond the birth of the
on Facebook
Savior waiting for his return.
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CALENDAR
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW 1-2-2025 / DANE HICKS
Otters munch on a breakfast of fish on a recent chilly morning in the Pottawamie Creek near the Prairie
Spirit Trail Bridge.
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Garnett Veteran
Awarded Quilt of Valor
East
Central
Kansas
Quilters, a Quilts of Valor
group which serves Anderson
and Coffey counties, was honored to have presented an
award quilt to John Malone
of Garnett. He served in the
United States Air Force from
1963 to 1990. The quilt was
pieced and quilted by Bonnie
Deiter. Presentation of the
Senior Center
Get
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Pitch – Walter
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Fifteen members met the
day after Christmas for 8 games
of 13-point pitch.
Winners are as follows: John
Walter won the most games
winning 7 of 8 games; Jessie
won the 50/50, Mike Kilet won
the least number of games and
John Walter had the most perfect hands of 13 with four.
Following the card games
we had a white elephant gift
exchange with some interesting choices of gifts.
Come join us promptly at
six o'clock at the Senior Center
for 10 games of 13-point pitch.
Any age is welcome and tasty
snacks are always available.
Jan Wards reporting.
Garnett Lions Club
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6:30 p.m. – Garnett VFW Cornhole
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7:00 p.m. – BOE Monthly Meeting
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Friday, January 3, 2025
8:45 a.m – AM Yoga
Monday, January 6, 2025
8:45 a.m – AM Yoga
9:00 a.m. – Anderson County
Commission Meeting
9:00 a.m. – Friendship Quilters
Meeting
4:00 p.m. – Greeley PTO
5:30 p.m. – TOPS Meeting
6:00 p.m. – Celebrate Recovery
6:00 p.m. – Hot Yoga with Jenelle
6:00 p.m. – Garnett Lions Club Mtg
7:00 p.m. – Kincaid Masonic Lodge
No. 338 Meeting
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
10:00 a.m. – Storytime For
Preschoolers
12:00 p.m. – Rotary International
Club Meeting
5:30 p.m. – PM Yoga
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Foundation
6:00 p.m. – City Commission
Meeting
7:00 p.m. – Alcoholics Anonymous
7:00 p.m. – Garnett Senior Center
Board Meeting
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
10:00 a.m. – Remember When
Wednesday
1:00 p.m. – Duplicate Bridge
4:30 p.m. – Tourism Advisory
Committee Meeting
6:00 p.m. – Friends of the PSRT Mtg
6:00 p.m. – VFW Auxiliary Meeting
6:30 p.m. – Awana
6:30 p.m. – Parks & Rec Advisory
Board Meeting
6:30 p.m. – Shotokan Karate Training
Thursday, January 9, 2025
8:00 a.m. – Morning Mingle
5:30 p.m. – PM Yoga
6:00 p.m. – 13 Point Pitch & Snacks
at Garnett Senior Center
6:30 p.m. – Garnett VFW Cornhole
Tournament
7:00 p.m. – Alcoholics Anonymous
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Lodge No. 44 Meeting
Friday, January 10, 2025
8:45 a.m – AM Yoga
Monday, January 13, 2025
8:45 a.m – AM Yoga
9:00 a.m. – Anderson County
Commission Meeting
9:30 a.m. – American Legion
Auxiliary Meeting
5:30 p.m. – TOPS Meeting
6:00 p.m. – Celebrate Recovery
6:00 p.m. – Hot Yoga with Jenelle
6:00 p.m. – Library Board Meeting
7:00 p.m. – Adult Reading Program
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Menu for January 6th – 10th
Monday, January 6
-Riblet on Bun
-Cheesy Potato Bites
-Stewed Tomatoes and
Zuchinni
– Mixed Fruit
Tuesday, January 7
-Salisbury Steak
-Potato Wedges
-Peas
-White Bread
-Pineapple
Wednesday, January 8
-Meatloaf
-Mashed Potatoes/Gravy
-Corn
-Wheat Roll
-Brownies
Thursday, January 9th
-Baked Chicken Breast
-Macaroni and Cheese
-Broccoli
-Whole Wheat Bread
-Blush Applesauce
Friday, January 10th
-Omelette
-Potato Bites
-Biscuit
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Colony Christian Church – What
Would Jesus do in 2025?
Lexy Langworthy led worship accompanied by vocalist,
Ashley Riebel, and Ben Prasko
on keyboard. The songs were
"Good, Good Father," "It is Well
with My Soul," "Jesus Messiah"
and ""Open Up the Heavens."
Howard Reiter gave communion meditation from Psalm
102:25-27 titled "Our Changing
World." One thing that is cer-
tain in this world is change but
as stated in Malachi 3:6 God
does not change.
Pastor Chase Riebel's sermon
"What Would Jesus do in 2025?"
was from Luke 2:41-52. Don't
lose the desire to be amazed by
Jesus. Jesus walked on water,
stilled a storm, transformed
Paul and forgave Peter. The
temple teachers were amazed
at His teachings even when
Jesus was only 12 years old.
The company we keep should
be of good character and a good
influence. We should surround
ourselves with wise people and
go to them with questions. We
should also go to God with our
questions and then listen for
His answers.
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TATTLER…
FROM PAGE 1
networking today.
The journalism and printing
program at Kincaid High School
resulted from Superintendent
Maurice L. Smiths introduction of a course in printing to
the Kincaid High School curriculum. Advertisements in
The Tattler indicate that the
Printing Department also produced cards and tickets using
homemade hand-carved fonts
by students. The Printing
Department of the Kincaid
High School self-supported the
newspaper through the sales of
the other materials produced
by the schools department,
including the High School
Yearbook.
Hashbarger
continued
to teach in the Printing and
Journalism Departments and
served as faculty advisor for
The Tattler until May 1921. He
left the school that summer
to pursue a year of work at
a printing firm in Salt Lake
City and sent home good tidings published in the Kincaid
Dispatch in December 1921.
When he returned to Kansas
in 1922, Hashbarger enrolled at
the Kansas Teachers College at
the Kansas Normal School in
Emporia, where he was one of
the founding members of the
Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity.
Upon graduating, he continued
teaching in Kansas until he
died in 1926.
The Tattler was published
in Kincaid until 1983, nearly
70 years after the first edition.
Historically, producing a newspaper has been significant
as it has been a network of
information, advertisements,
and valuable assets.
The
small community of Kincaid
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Thursday, January 2, 2025
likely did not make enough
news-worthy items to fill
more than those initial fourpage editions. Still, it garnered
support from its community by
including advertisements that
were pertinent to not just the
high school students. By selling those ad spaces, the paper
remained
self-supporting
until it was no longer feasible.
Students learned to handcarve
different typesets and cases in
the initial seven years under
Harshbarger. They knew how
to maintain the machinery
needed to print. They learned
valuable lessons about marketing and sales and how to write
their articles effectively.
Journalism in High School
curriculums is often relegated
to the yearbook alone. The
yearbook is a documentary
periodical that gazes at the
school year retrospectively.
While publishing the yearbook
is a beneficial jog to the memory for future reference, the
truly missing piece is the report
of events currently occurring
in the school. In the 1970s,
Garnett High School published
the GHS Times, which included the events at the now-razed
building in North Oak. The
Bulldog Barker Blog is a fine
example of reporting inside
ACHS, but news publication
is nearly a full year behind.
Looking at other platforms,
the link between Facebook
and Instagram would indicate
that nothing news-worthy has
occurred since Parent-Teacher
Conferences in October, the
Best Costume award on
Halloween, and a photo from
the fall drama production Clue
offered in early November.
It is easy to call the newspaper to complain about the
content of its pages. To reduce
an articles content into a single thesis that reveals the true
motivation of the author based
on supposition and assumption
is the clear expression of some
of the contents of the phone
forum. However, if a community allows a student-led printed periodical publication to be
cast aside and reduced to just a
photo or text on a computer or
telephone screen, can we hold
ourselves accountable for the
lack of good news published
because we are not encouraging good news to be reported?
The new investigative
reporters and photojournalists carefully instructed
and educated by Smith and
Harshbarger in Kincaid more
than a century ago have forgotten that their community
supported them regardless of
what was published.
What mattered in 1914 was
simply that The Tattler was
published in the first place.
What should matter in 2025 is
that it would encourage the
students of our local schools
to report the good news. We
should support the Bulldog
Barker in whatever space it
publishes itself. Instead of
condemning journalism as an
antiquated venture on a dying
medium, we should use it to
inspire the next great Kansans
in publishing and journalism.
The next William Allen
White or Arthur Capper could
be among those young minds,
and if Smith and Harshbarger
could see it a century ago, perhaps we need only open our
eyes to the text in front of us.
Glenn Brunkow, Pottawatomie
County farmer and rancher
The circle of life is moving
from one season to the next.
For instance, we are moving
from the holiday season to the
legislative season. OK, that is
a bit of a stretch but it does the
job to illustrate my point.
January starts a new session
in both our state legislature in
Topeka and our national legislature in Washington, D.C.
In both cases we have a lot of
new faces filling seats in both
the statehouse and Congress.
We also know on the federal
side the balance of power has
shifted to the Republicans.
What does that mean? Your
guess is as good as mine, but
regardless of who is in power
Kansas Farm Bureau (KFB)
will be working to help guide
future legislation to improve
the lives of farmers and ranchers.
This is where the policy we
carefully crafted over the past
year comes into play. Our policy book at the state and national levels is the playbook our
staff use as a guide. The policy
members brought forward at
issue surfacing meetings, then
honed at the listening post
meetings and finally adopted
at both the KFB and American
Farm Bureau Federation
annual meetings. This process
informs those who are lobbying on your behalf.
However, just because we
have our policy fine tuned
that doesnt mean our work,
as members, is done. No, our
work has just started. Kansas
Farm Bureau has an incredible
staff working for us in Topeka
and Washington, D.C., but the
real strength of our organiza-
tion is the grassroots muscle
we can flex.
The most important thing I
have learned over the years is
that as good as our staff is, the
opinions that carry the most
weight are those of the voters. Our lobby team is very
well respected and they carry
a great deal of influence but
when it gets really critical
nothing moves the needle like
our members voices.
That is why it is so important for each of us to create
relationships with our elected
officials. We need attend events
in the districts and our county
Farm Bureaus need to host legislative events. It is important
when critical votes come up,
our elected officials know their
constituents back home and
seek out their opinions.
It is also important for each
of us to be informed about the
current issues and legislation being proposed. We need
to understand how it fits into
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Farm Bureau policy. We also
need to be signed up for action
alerts and be ready to respond
when a call is sent out. Nothing
is more powerful than a loud
response from Farm Bureau
members. Never underestimate how much influence your
voice has especially when it
is magnified by the grassroots
nature of Farm Bureau.
Yes, we are entering the legislative season. I know it is not
nearly as much fun as the holiday season but it is not one we
can ignore either. Please make
sure you take an active role in
Kansas Farm Bureaus efforts
and have a Merry or at least a
Happy Legislative Season.
"Insight" is a weekly column
published by Kansas Farm
Bureau, the state's largest farm
organization whose mission is
to strengthen agriculture and
the lives of Kansans through
advocacy, education and service.
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student bodies in order to stay in
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members would pay little mind to
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American life. The tea is going in
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2024 – through our lens
Anderson County High School seniors toss confetti into the air at
their graduation in May.
Central Heights seniors Marcius England and Cassidy Jones listen
to the Central Heights grad message.
ACHS Masten Wright grapples with Graham Hawks of Bishop
Meige in quarterfinals action and would go on to finish fourth in the
Kansas 3A Wrestling Tournament.
Addie Fudge and AJ Schaffer were crowned Homecoming Queen and King
for Anderson County.
Anderson County 3rd basemen Porter Foltz makes a diving attempt
at a ball in a game against Iola.
Rogan Wier and Brooklyn Jones were crowned King &
Queen for the Crest Lancers. Also pictured are Cooper
Caudell, son of Dereck & Lindsay Caudell, and Klancee
Miller, daughter of Brandt & Aundi Miller.
Pictured is first grader at Garnett Elementary, Marley OConner,
competing in the standing long jump at the annual Play Day for
area schools.
The ACHS Crimson Dancers got some help from their younger proteges at a Bulldogs home baketball game.
The Crest band peforming in the annual Colony Day parade.
Kathryn Chambers, Kelsie Chambers and Mary Alice Bell stopped
by the Review office for Halloween.
Entrepreneurs Harper Bauman, Arabella Bauman and Kaira
Branch took advantage of warm temps last June with an offering
of chilled pink lemonade at their stand at First and Pine in Garnett.
Beau Newman, son of Coach Melissa Lutz, displays the proper
form for watermelon eating during the Garnett Rotary and Lions
Clubs annual back-to-practice watermelon treat for ACHS athletes
last fall.
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2024 – through our lens
Traffic was down to one lane on U.S. 169 northeast of Greeley last February after a moving truck
overturned in the southbound lane. No major injuries were reported.
Garnett volunteer firemen Austin Kellerman and Troy Armstrong work to extinguish a camper fire at the
Travis Barnett residence on Westgate Road in Garnett in July after errant fireworks found their way
into flamable material nearby. The trailer was fully engulfed and mostly destroyed by the time fighters
received the call.
Control cables and wiring lay where the ATM once stood before
thieves stole it from the Patriots Banks branch on Maple Street.
A funnel cloud can be seen looking west from behind Garnett
Elementary School on Saturday, June 8.
This January fire resulted in no injuries when a car caught fire in the
Bulldog Carwash on Maple Street in Garnett. Responding firemen
said a ruptured fuel line caused the fire. There was minimal damage
to the structure.
A barn just west of Garnett on Kansas Highway 31 was destroyed in powerful straight line winds and the storm that swept through the
area the night of Monday, May 6.
Kansas Highway Patrol officers take Stuart Wieland of Paola
into custody Sunday morning after a pursuit from Miami and Linn
counties that eventually emerged in Anderson County. Undersheriff
Wes McClain said he was able to project where the vehicle would
move into the county based on known information and the vehicles
location. Wieland and his passenger, Jana Speedone of Pleasanton
were transported to the Anderson County Jail.
Heavy rains in June dumped more than three inches on the local area, flooding low-lying areas and crop fields like this one near the
Pottawatomie bottoms just north of Garnett. The local area saw more than 18 inches of rain over 120 day span.
Local law officers and emergency personnel assist 19 year-old
Dylan Hanson of Lawrence out of his vehicle on the rock bank of
Lake Garnett Tuesday, after Hanson apparently lost control of the
car while traveling at a high rate of speed at the Snyder Corner
and skidded 275 feet to the waters edge. Garnett Police Chief Kurt
King said Hanson was written a number of traffic citations in the
incident. No one was injured.
Anderson County EMS Director Troy Armstrong, EMT Sherry
Schmitz and RN Suzi Sykes with their transport unit at the scene
of the Chiefs rally.
Workmen lay concrete on the bridge replacement portion of the Lake Garnett Road Project In August. The $500,000 project was paid for
with grants.