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Gas line project presses forward Feds pass
stimulus bill,
checks coming
Gas line workers set
to job despite rain,
traffic delays on U.S 59
BY DANE HICKS
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW
WELDA Crews working the
Southern Star gas pipeline
replacement project are making headway with the Weldato-Ottawa job that started last
month, dodging highway traffic tie-ups, rainy weather and
a population sequester due to
Covid-19.
As the job proceeds, it takes
shape as a broad continuous
ribbon of cleared ground some
60 yards wide stretching clear
to the southern horizon from
some vantage points.
The project will install a
36-inch gas line along the path
of a smaller existing line on a
31.5 mile route which was originally constructed in the mid
1940s and early 1950s. Corrosion
problems on the lines and frequent repairs in recent years
necessitated the replacement.
After the new line is laid,
the old one will be disconnected
and removed. The total project
is expected to take two years
and will cost more than $140
million.
Tyler McClure, communications with Southern Star,
said the project is on schedule
despite wet weather.
Crews are currently clearing and grading land, installing erosion control devises
and boring under county roads
and creeks, McClure told the
Review last week. Were about
20 percent complete in that
process, which is just one of
the first phases of the construction.
McClure said nearly 282
employees and contractors
were currently working on the
project. Crews have been loading materials and equipment
SEE PROJECT ON PAGE 3B
$2 trillion federal package aims
to power economy in the interim
until all-clear comes from Covid-19
BY DANE HICKS
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW 3-31-2020 / EAGLE EYE NEWS DRONE PHOTO
Workers on the Southern Star gas pipeline project
clear ground in Jackson Towhship west of Garnett in
preparation for the installation of a new line stretching
from Welda to Ottawa. Some 282 contract workers and
Southern Star staff are engaged in the initial phase of
the project, according to the company.
Kansans ordered to stay at home as of yesterday
Order greatly restricts
who can be out, and
what they can be doing
BY DANE HICKS
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW
TOPEKA At first she asked,
now Governor Laura Kelly is
telling you…
Stay home.
As part of ongoing efforts
to limit the spread of novel
coronavirus in Kansas, Kelly
on Saturday issued Executive
Order 20-16 F, making Kansas
the 22nd state in the nation to
institute a temporary, statewide
stay-home order due to concerns
over spreading coronavirus.
As of Saturday, state labs in
Kansas as well as private testing labs had run more than 3,600
tests for the virus since the first
week of March, finding 261 positive cases, out of a population of
2.9 million Kansans.
Saturdays order will exist
in conjunction with the Kansas
Essential Function Framework
for COVID-19 response efforts
and took effect at 12:01 a.m.
Monday, March 30. The measure will be in place at least
until Sunday, April 19.
Our modeling continues
to suggest that the number of
confirmed positive coronavirus
cases in Kansas could reach as
high as 900 over the next week,
Kelly said. While I left these
decisions to local health departments as long as possible, the
reality is that the patchwork
approach that has developed is
inconsistent and is a recipe for
chaos and, ultimately, for failure in our statewide fight to
slow the spread of COVID-19.
Under Executive Order 20-16,
Kansans are directed to stay
home unless performing one of
the following essential activities:
Obtaining food, medicine and
other household necessities;
Going to and from work at a
business or organization performing an essential function
as identified in the Kansas
Essential Function Framework;
Seeking medical care;
Caring for children, family
members or pets, or caring for
a vulnerable person in another
location;
SEE ORDER ON PAGE 2A
A little relief from rain, but experts expect next months will be wet
BY DANE HICKS
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW
GARNETT A week-long spat of
rain and clouds that ended late
last week may have made it a
little easier for county residents
to get some fresh air during the
ongoing Covid-19 sequester, but
the reprieve from rainy, cloudy
weather isnt expected to last
long, state weather officials say.
The 8-14 day outlook is from
drier than normal, Kansas
Weather Librarys Mary Knapp
said last week, But both the
April outlook and the threemonth outlook for April, May
and June calls for wetter than
normal conditions.
That timeline will mean a
game of whack-a-mole again
this spring for farmers, who typ-
ically like to plant corn around
April 1. Last year continued
intermittent rains delayed
planting until into May, but had
less impact on fall crops than
analysts initially believed.
Through March 25, Knapp
said Garnett reported 4.10 inches of rainfall for the month
nearly double the 2.07 inch
norm. The wettest March on
record through that date was
8.71 inches in 1922.
A total of 8.95 inches had
been recorded year-to-date
as of March 25 at the Garnett
Municipal Airport, whereas
5.13 inches would have been
expected in a normal year. The
wettest year-to-date at this point
on record was 12.94 inches in
1973.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. President Trump
and members of congress put the final touches on a record-setting $2 trillion stimulus bill
Friday which will put cash in the hands of most
Americans and hopefully bolster an economy
torpedoed by government restrictions designed to
stop the spread of coronavirus.
As federal presses inked up to write millions of
subsidy checks, Kansas Governor doubled down
on efforts to shut transmission in Kansas down
with an official Stay At Home order which took
effect yesterday effectively making it a crime for
unauthorized Kansans to venture outside their
homes except under certain circumstances.
Kansas 2nd District Congressman Steve
Watkins said the bill reflected a response to the
situation that crossed party lines and years of
acrimony.
While I know the work is far from over–and
this bill is far from perfect–I am proud my colleagues in Congress were able to work in a bicameral and bipartisan fashion to provide assistance
directly to the American people, a statement
from Watkins read.
The highlights of the bill, as laid out by
Watkins office and an analysis by ABC News,
include:
Direct payments:
Under the plan, individuals who earn $75,000
or less in adjusted gross income would get direct
payments of $1,200 each, with married couples
earning up to $150,000 receiving $2,400.
An additional $500 per child will be tacked on to
that.
The payment would scale down as income
rises, phasing out entirely at $99,000 for singles
and $198,000 for couples without children.
Ninety percent of Americans would be eligible
to receive full or partial payments, according to
estimates by the Tax Policy Center.
Its unclear how long it will take the Internal
Revenue Service to process and calculate each
SEE STIMULUS ON PAGE 2A
USD 365 students begin new
style of classes from home
GARNETT Students in
USD 365 who got an extra
week of Spring Break 2020
were set to start online
courses yesterday, in an
unprecedented move by
public schools closed by
Governor Laura Kelly due
to fears over the spread of
coronavirus.
Schools in Kansas had
only days to set up their
continuous
learning
programs alternatives
to traditional classroom
gatherings designed to
keep students and school
staff from congregating in
close quarters in an effort
to minimize the spread of
airborne coronavirus. As
of last Saturday more than
3,600 tests for the virus
had yielded 261 infections
blamed for five deaths out
of a population of 2.9 million in Kansas.
A memo from Anderson
County Junior-Senior High
School said Seminar and
Homeroom teachers would
be making phone calls to
SEE USD 365 ON PAGE 3B
CHHS board approves plan
RICHMOND Central
Heights School Board
members approved a continuous learning program
at a special meeting last
week designed to keep an
educational connection
with students during the
Covid-19 sequester.
Kansas public schools
Failure isnt falling down; its not getting back up again.
were closed indefinitely by
Governor Laura Kelly in
an announcement March
17, while many districts
in the state were observing their spring break. The
first state in the country
to institute a public school
SEE BOARD ON PAGE 2A
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RECORD
NEWS IN
BRIEF
ANDERSON CO. LANDFILL
The Anderson County Transfer
Station will be open to Anderson
County residents only MondayFriday from 7 a.m. – 10 a.m.
Commercial account holders
may use the landfill during normal business hours.
COLOR SPLAT CANCELED
Due to uncertain times that all
of us are facing The Garnett
Community Foundation is cancelling the 3rd Annual Color
Splat that was scheduled on
Saturday, April 25th. The Board
wants to thank everyone for
their support and hope to come
back bigger and stronger next
year. Thank you for your understanding and safety. If you have
any questions please feel free
to call 448-8745.
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
BANQUET POSTPONED
The Anderson County Historical
Society Annual Banquet scheduled for March 31, is being postponed until further notice due to
Covid 19 concerns.
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SENIOR CENTER IN
SEARCH OF MEDICAL
EQUIPMENT
The Garnett Senior Center is
seeking donations of used
medical equipment such as:
walkers, wheelchairs, scooters,
beds, shower chairs, etc. You
may drop off at the center from
9:30-1:30, Mon-Fri or call 4486996 for the item to be picked
up.
SUICIDE AWARENESS
GROUP
SAM – Suicide Awareness
Members, a division of SASSMoKan – meets on the first
Tuesday of the month from
6:30-7:30 at the Anderson
County Hospital Conference
Room A&B located at 421 S.
Maple in Garnett. The facilitator is Lu Ann Nichols, who
may be reached at lu.ann.
nichols.1956@gmail.com.
KS-VINE AVAILABLE
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is free and anonymous and
provides victims of crime and
the general public the ability to
search for an offender housed
in a county jail and receive
notifications.
ANDERSON COUNTY COMMISSION
MARCH 16, 2020
Chairman Jerry Howarter
called the meeting of the
Anderson County Commission
to order at 9:00 AM on March 16,
2020 at the County Commission
Room.
Attendance: Jerry
Howarter, Present: David
Pracht, Present: Leslie McGhee,
Present. The pledge of allegiance
was recited. Minutes from the
previous meeting were approved
as presented.
Road & Bridge
Lester Welsh, Road & Bridge
Supervisor, met with the commission. Lester will open bids
for the remainder of the Bush
City overlay project on March
23rd. A quote was received from
Housby to purchase the countys laydown machine but Lester
is unsure if he would sell it at
the price that is being offered.
Discussion was held on county
roads and bridges.
Bond Refinance
David Arteberry, Stifel,
Nicolaus, & Company INC, met
with the commission. David discussed the interest rate market
and that this might be a good
time to refinance the new hospital bond. Projected savings
could be potentially 2.1 million.
David will evaluate the market
this week and return with hard
numbers in a couple weeks.
Emergency Management
JD Mersman, Emergency
Management Director, met
with the commission. He discussed the COVID-19 virus
and what measures the county is taking for support. The
Southeast Multi-County Health
Department is taking the lead
for information and all employees are encouraged to follow the
CDC recommendations. A disaster resolution was presented.
Commissioner Pracht moved
and Commissioner McGhee
seconded to approve resolution
20-13 Disaster Declaration. All
voted yes. The declaration is
valid for 60 days and showed
that the county is working proactively and are understanding
the severity of the outbreak.
Anderson County Economic
Development
Commissioner
Howarter
moved and Commissioner
Pracht seconded to elect Nick
Durand to fill the vacant county seat on the ACDA board. All
voted yes.
Rural Water District #5
Rural Water District #5 presented an approved resolution
by their board members to
attach adjoining lands to RWD
#5. Commissioner Pracht moved
and Commissioner Howarter
seconded to grant the request
from RWD #5 to attach adjoining
land to their current district. All
voted yes.
Abatements & Escapes
Abatements B20-179 through
B20-184 and Escapes E20-117
through E20-119 were approved
as presented.
ANDERSON COUNTY COMMISSION
MARCH 23, 2020
Chairman Jerry Howarter
called the meeting of the
Anderson County Commission
to order at 9:00 AM on March 23,
2020 at the County Commission
Room.
Attendance: Jerry
Howarter, Present: David
Pracht, Present: Leslie McGhee,
Present. The pledge of allegiance
was recited. Minutes from the
previous meeting were approved
as presented.
Road & Bridge
Lester Welsh, Road & Bridge
Supervisor, met with the commission. He presented two bids
from Killough Construction and
Bettis Construction to put a 1.5
inch overlay on 31 Highway
North to Bush City Rd for 10.5
miles. Killough bid $60.25 per
ton and $9,025 for traffic control. Bettis bid for $60.80 per ton
and $14,500 for traffic control.
Commissioner Pracht moved
and Commissioner McGhee
seconded to hire Killough
Construction to put a 1.5 inch
overlay 10.5 miles on 31 Highway
North to Bush City Rd. All voted
yes.
Emergency Management
JD Mersman, Emergency
Management Director, met with
the commission. Discussion was
held on COVID-19. Department
heads were questioning how to
enact the social distancing within their offices and what that
looked like for staffing. The
Commissioners recommended
reduced staffing if able while
keeping all offices open for public phone calls and/or assistance.
Veterans Memorial
The commissioners received a
quote from Performance Electric
Solutions to install flood lights
and bollards with wiring for the
Veterans Memorial for $10,234.50.
Commissioner Pracht moved
and Commissioner McGhee
seconded to hire Performance
Electric Solutions to install
flood lights, bollards, and wiring
for the Veterans Memorial for
$10,234.50 to be paid out of the
Veterans Memorial Fund. All
voted yes.
ANDERSON COUNTY COMMISSION
MARCH 24, 2020
Chairman Jerry Howarter
called the meeting of the
Anderson County Commission
to order at 9:00 AM on March 24,
2020 at the County Commission
Room.
Attendance: Jerry
Howarter, Present: David
Pracht, Present: Leslie McGhee,
Present. The pledge of allegiance
was recited.
COVID-19
The Commissioners discussed putting a policy in
place for reduced staffing within county departments. The
Commissioners would like a
policy written regarding paid
leave to accommodate social distancing and staff rotation due to
COVID-19. Scott Garrett, Solid
Waste Supervisor, met with the
commission to discuss opening
the landfill for household trash
only. He will be writing a policy
for review at the next meeting.
ANDERSON COUNTY COMMISSION
MARCH 26, 2020
Chairman Jerry Howarter
called the meeting of the
Anderson County Commission
to order at 9:00 AM on March 26,
2020 at the County Commission
Room.
Attendance: Jerry
Howarter, Present: David
Pracht, Present: Leslie McGhee,
Present. The pledge of allegiance
was recited.
COVID-19
JD Mersman, Emergency
Management Director, met with
the commission. Discussion was
held on whether to recommend
a stay at home order to the public health officer for Anderson
County. The commissioners
think a two week order would
be beneficial for the county and
could reassess after that time
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period. The local health officer
must make the decision of whether to implement a stay at home
order. Commissioner Howarter
moved and Commissioner
McGhee seconded to recommend to the local health officer to implement a stay at home
order for two weeks beginning
Saturday, March 28th, 2020. All
voted yes.
LAND TRANSFERS
Chris D Jones, Andrea Jones, Lane
A Jones, Cindy Jones, Brad L Jones
and Darla K Jones to Mary T Milner:
sw4 33-19-18.
Judith E Lenon and Judith E Peck
F/K/A to Ronald C Moore Jr: Beg at pt
in east line of Martindale Street immediately east of ne cor lot 4 blk 2 City of
Kincaid; according to recorded plat of
said city,thence north 190 along east
line of said Martindale Street to pt in
continuation of centerline of Second
Avenue, thence east to east line of
36-22-20, thence south on section line
190,thence west to pob; less south
50 thereof; & all blk 03 reserve strip
to City of Kincaid.
Tara N Calley, Tara N Wiltsey F/K/A
and Kevin D Calley to Kevin D Calley
and Tara N Calley: Beg at pt 4.92
chains north of north line of road east
and west, west 2.31 chains, north
15.36 rods, east 2.53 chains south
to pob; all in 29-19-20; & all that part
of nw4 29-19-20, described as follows: com at pt 29.80 chains south,
915east of nwcor 29-19-20, said
pt being secor oftract of land deeded
to Kansas Natural Gas Company,
thence south 75 feet along west side
of county road, thence west 2.53
chains to r/w of Santa Fe Railroad,
thence north 75 feet along railroad
r/w to swcor tract of land deeded
to Kansas Natural Gas Company,
thence east alongsouth line of said
land 2.53 chains to pob.
Monty L Nelson to Kelly Stevenson
and James A Stevenson: The sw/4 of
the se/4 of 17-23-21.
Denise Lynn Adkinson to Taylor
Spooner: E/2 of lot 15 and all of lot 16
in block 39 in the City of Garnett.
ANDERSON COUNTY SHERIFFS
DEPARTMENT ARRESTS
Rodney Lindsey, Parker, was
booked into jail as a hold for the Linn
County Sheriffs Office as he was
arrested for use/possession of drug
paraphernalia.
Aaron Roberts, Garnett, was
arrested for disorderly conduct.
William Thacker, Garnett, was
arrested for failure to appear.
ANDERSON COUNTY JAIL ROSTER
Stephanie Knavel was booked into
jail on June 22, 2019.
Russell Prater was booked into jail
on October 29, 2019.
Justin Jackson was booked into jail
on November 12, 2019.
Zackery Mitchell was booked into
jail on December 12, 2019.
Kevin Frazier was booked into jail
on December 13, 2019.
Kevin Gatlin was booked into jail on
December 21, 2019.
Christopher Bowen was booked
into jail on February 14, 2020.
Barry Weber was booked into jail
on February 15, 2020.
Joshua Evans was booked into jail
on February 20, 2020.
Harley Maley was booked into jail
on March 8, 2020.
Chadley Mueller was booked into
jail on March 17, 2020.
ANDERSON COUNTY JAIL
FARM-INS ROSTER
Kevin Kimbrough was booked into
jail on August 28, 2019.
Jerome Provance was booked into
jail on September 25, 2019.
Brooke Phillip was booked into jail
on January 14, 2020.
John Muzzy was booked into jail on
February 14, 2020.
Seth Landie was booked into jail on
February 21, 2020.
Kevin Jones was booked into jail
on March 7, 2020.
Jon Clark was booked into jail on
March 10, 2020.
Rodney Lindsey was booked into
jail on March 18, 2020.
ANDERSON COUNTY
ACCIDENT REPORTS
On March 14, a vehicle driven
by Robert Kempnich was traveling
northbound on U59 Highway when
his car struck a deer that entered the
roadway.
On March 19, a vehicle driven by
Tina Estabrooks was traveling south
on K31 Highway when she swerved
to miss a deer and went into the ditch.
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Tuesday, March 31, 2020
STIMULUS…
FROM PAGE 1
and every payment. The
White House has indicated
that Americans could be seeing direct payments as soon as
April 6.
Expanded unemployment
insurance:
Lawmakers agreed to a significant expansion of unemployment benefits that would
expand unemployment insurance by 13 weeks and include
a four-month enhancement of
benefits — an additional $600
per week – on top of what state
unemployment programs pay.
In total, unemployed workers are eligible to receive up
to 39 weeks of unemployment
benefits.
The program was expanded to include freelancers, furloughed employees and gig
workers, such as Uber drivers.
The massive boost in unemployment insurance is expected to cost $250 billion.
Small business to receive
emergency loans:
The legislation creates a
$367 billion federally-guaranteed loan program for small
businesses who must pledge
not to lay off their workers.
The loans would be available during an emergency
period ending at the of June,
and would be forgiven if the
employer pays its workers for
the duration of the crisis.
According
to
Senate
Minority
Leader
Chuck
Schumers office, the deal also
includes $10 billion in Small
Business Administration emergency grants and up to $10 million of emergency relief per
business. It allocates $17 billion
ORDER…
FROM PAGE 1
Engaging in an outdoor activity, provided individuals maintain a distance of six feet from
one another and abide by the
10-person limitation on gathering size.
I know this is hard, and I
cant tell you how much I wish
it werent necessary, Kelly
said. But we have a small window to ensure that Kansas does
not suffer the same terrible
fate of other hard-hit states like
New York and Missouri. Weve
all got to do our part to help
stop the spread of the disease.
Stay home. Stay Safe.
In a public address to
Kansans on Saturday morning,
Kelly explained that this action
became necessary for three key
reasons:
To provide statewide uniformity in response efforts;
To prevent overwhelming hospitals especially rural hospitals who may not have the
same capacity to handle an
influx of COVID-19 patients;
FROM PAGE 1
ban, the move was made in a
continuing effort encouraged
by the health care industry to
minimize public congregations
to help halt the transmission of
the airborne Covid virus.
That ban on public gatherings has also scuttled standard
spring rights of passage at area
schools prom and graduation.
The Central Heights plan said
the district presently had not
decided on a course of action to
take regarding senior graduation.
The approved plan details
that USD 288 teachers will use
a number of online options,
including Google software
called Google Meets, email,
telephone calls and even curriers carrying hard copy packets
Attention : Medicare services
ECKAAA will be suspending all face-to-face
appointments and group presentations for Medicare
assistance through the SHICK program until further
notice.
Appointments will be conducted via phone,
email or using technology for video appointments.
We also have Medicare information on our website
at:
www.eckaaa.org/medicare-resources
117 S. Main Street, Ottawa
(785) 242-7200
1-800-633-5621
www.eckaaa.org
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To buy Kansas more time as
the state officials work with
federal partners to secure
badly needed protective personal equipment (PPE), additional ventilators and COVID19 testing supplies.
Kelly also commended federal efforts in recent days to support state and local response
efforts in the form of an historic emergency relief package.
More details about implications the federal stimulus bill
will have for Kansas will be
released as they become available.
The executive order can be
viewed here: https://governor.
kansas.gov/newsroom/executive-orders/
Please visit kdheks.gov/
coronavirus for additional
virus-related
information,
and visit getkansasbenefits.
gov for federal stimulus benefits updates or to file for
Unemployment Insurance benefits.
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for the SBA to cover six months
of payment for small businesses with existing SBA loans.
It will offer $30 billion in
emergency education funding
and $25 billion in emergency
transit funding.
Big companies get cash:
The plan includes loans for
distressed companies from a
$425 billion fund controlled by
the Federal Reserve. An additional $75 billion would be
available for industry-specific
loans, including to airlines and
hotels.
The plan also calls for an
immediate disclosure of the
fund recipients.
The stimulus bill also
includes a provision that forbids President Trump and his
family, as well as other top government officials and members
of Congress from getting loans
or investments from Treasury
programs in the stimulus.
As part of the deal, airlines
will be prohibited from stock
buybacks and CEO bonuses.
Hospitals drowning under
crisis to receive aid:
The massive package also
includes $100 billion in assistance for hospitals and health
systems across the nation.
Schumer said the plan
offers billions more for critical investments into personal
and protective equipment for
health care workers, testing
supplies, increased workforce
and training, among other
things.
Lawmakers also agreed to
increase Medicare payment
increases to all hospitals and
providers, Schumer said.
* SHICK assistance is made possible through a grant with the
Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services (KDADS).
and computer memory sticks
to families with students who
dont have any or adequate
internet service at home. The
plan said 15 USD 288 families have no Internet service.
The plan maintains limited
individual contact between
students and teachers within
those established teacher office
hours.
Teachers will make person-to-person contact with
assigned students beyond
delivering online, and packet instructions to their classes, the plan reads. Teachers
will also have minimum office
hours posted for students as
well as minimum instructional
time requirements.
Central Heights serves about
510 students in the Richmond,
Lane, Rantoul and Princeton
areas.
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Tuesday, March 31, 2020
WILSON
ing but elk hunting in Colorado
with his family was his favorite. Dick and Velva loved travelling and loved spending time
with family and friends. He
enjoyed playing with his children, singing them silly songs,
or telling stories that just keep
repeating, giving rides in
a small trailer pulled by his
mower, and on occasion winning a footrace with a grandson.
He was preceded in death
by his parents, Charles and
Alice Wilson; one brother,
John Wilson; one sister, Ruth
(Wilson-Fry) Eckert; and
his daughter, Judy (Wilson)
Newberry.
Dick is survived by his son,
Charles Corky Wilson and
wife Kay of Greeley, Kansas;
three grandchildren, Charles
Wilson and wife Megan of
Garnett, Kansas, Sherry Uhrich
and husband Dan of Loma,
Colorado; and Matt Wilson and
wife Darla of Catawaba, Ohio;
ten great grandchildren; three
great great grandchildren; and
one brother, Jim Wilson of
Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Memorial services will be
held at a later date.
Memorial contributions
may be made to First Christian
Church in Garnett, P.O. Box
126, Garnett, Kansas. You may
send your condolences to the
family at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.
MARCH 26, 2020
life, Brenda.
He served proudly in our
United Sates Air Force as well
as worked for AT&T for 46
years.
He was a member of St. Pius
X and while attending, became
a Chapter member of the
Knights of Columbus. Edward
enjoyed doing and being a part
of many things in life. He loved
hunting, he was a scout master,
knife maker, hunting instructor, in Georgia and Kansas, as
well as many other talents that
he possessed.
In lieu of flowers, donations
may be made to H.A.L.L. Fund,
Hope And Love of the Laity,
fund; P.O. Box 236 Garnett, KS
66032.
Condolences may be submitted on-line at www.scotward.com. Scot Ward Funeral
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Rd., Conyers, GA, 770-483-7216.
HECK
Wanda; son, Robert; sister,
Florence Heck; sister, Ruby and
husband Elmer Flora and second wife, Mary Emma; brother,
Owen; sister, Francis Shuck;
brother-in-laws, Eldon Baker
and wife Betty Rose; J.R. Knaus
and wife Betty; Wayne Knaus;
half sister-in-law, Gail East;
niece Freda Flory and husband
Delbert; nephew, Dennis Heck;
half nephew, Brent Brown; and
a great granddaughter, Sierra
Heck.
Raymond is survived by
his three sons, Larry and wife
Janell, Gary and wife Jewel,
and Duane and wife Ralene; 12
grandchildren; 35 great grandchildren; sister-in-law, Thelma
Heck and Della Knaus; brother-in-law, Darrell Shuck; halfbrother-in-laws, Gary Knaus
and Ron East, and a half sisterin-law, Gloria Rusk.
Graveside services were
held Thursday, March 26, 2020,
at Bethel Cemetery, Westphalia,
Kansas.
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Velva LaRee Wilson, age 90 of
Garnett, Kansas, passed away
on Friday, March 20, 2020, at
Richmond
Healthcare
and Rehab,
Richmond,
Kansas.
She was
born
on
O c t o b e r
5, 1930, in
Moreland,
Wilson
Kansas, the
daughter
of Clifford Lee McGuire and
Edith Bertha (Prout) McGuire.
Velva married Richard L.
Wilson on February 24, 1951, in
Hill City, Kansas. This union
was blessed with two children,
Charles Corky and Judy.
Velva enjoyed cooking,
sewing, crafts and especially
spending time with family and
friends. She was happy to put
her plans for the day aside and
set out on an adventure. She
supported her husband in his
business ventures and when he
decided to become a pastor she
was at his side.
She was preceded in death
by her husband, Richard; parents; brothers, Duayne and
Doyle McGuire; sister, Mable
Tilberry; and daughter, Judy
(Wilson) Newberry.
Velva is survived by her son,
Charles Corky Wilson and
wife Kay of Greeley, Kansas;
three grandchildren, Charles
Wilson and wife Megan of
Garnett, Kansas, Sherry Uhrich
and husband Dan of Loma,
Colorado; and Matt Wilson and
wife Darla of Catawaba, Ohio;
ten great grandchildren; three
great great grandchildren; and
two sisters LaVahn McGagn
of Cleveland, Oklahoma and
LaVeren Gillilan of Haltom,
Texas.
Memorial services will be
held at a later date.
Memorial contributions
may be made to: First Christian
Church in Garnett, PO Box 126,
Garnett, KS 66032.
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A small boy had one line
to speak in a play. The line
was, It is I , do not be afraid.
When the lights went on and
the curtain went up he walked
out and looked at the crowd
and said, It is me and I am
scared. We chuckle at childrens responses sometimes to
situations but maybe this line
describes most of us today.
There is a lot of fear present in us today. One thing
we need to remember is this
type of pandemic causes fear
which causes markets to be
driven by fear which causes overreaction by the stake
holders. This includes stocks,
bonds, securities of all kinds
and agricultural markets.
Consumer purchases are no
different, hoarding creates
artificial shortages and taxes
the supply chain which creates more fear. However the
one big fear we hold that is
most dear to us, is the threat
to life itself. In John 6:16-21
we read, That when evening
came his disciples went down
to the lake, where they got
into a boat and set off across
the lake for Capernaum. A
strong wind was blowing
and the waters grew rough.
When they had rowed three
or three and a half miles they
saw Jesus approaching the
boat walking on the water;
and they were terrified. But
he said to them, It is I dont
be afraid. Then they were
willing to take him into the
boat, and immediately the
boat reached the shore where
they were heading. Wouldnt
it be great if our pandemic
could be resolved as quickly
as Jesus solved the swamped
boat of the disciples.
If you are a Christian
you have trusted Jesus for
your salvation which he did
through the cross and the res-
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urrection. How much more
can we trust him to handle
our other trials in life, which
though they seem very large,
are small compared to our salvation. It is important for us
to be vigilant and to cooperate
with the guidelines that are
passed along assuming they
are within the power of the
agency mandating them. This
is what Jesus was referring
to when he said, Render to
Caesar what is Caesars and to
God what is Gods.
We must remember God is
our infinite creator and sustainer. Even when we have
to walk through the shadow
of the valley of death he will
walk with us. His rod and
staff will comfort and protect
us. When we come out of the
valley we shall see the beautiful city of God, whose maker
and builder is God. Where
all things will be made new,
the old order of things shall
pass away and there shall
be no more curse. When we
face fear and doubt we must
remember John 10:29 where
Jesus says. My Father who
has given them to me is greater than all, no one can snatch
them out of my Fathers hand.
I and the Father are one. The
Christian is safe in the hands
of Jesus.
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OCTOBER 10, 1930 – MARCH 24, 2020
Raymond William Heck, was
born near Westphalia, Kansas,
on October 10, 1930, the son of
William and Verna (Hirt) Heck.
He passed away peacefully at
his sons home on March 24,
2020, at the age of 89.
He was united in marriage
to Wanda Lee Knaus on August
22, 1954. They were members of
the Old German Baptist Church
and were called to serve in the
Deacons Office on April 25,
1959, to which he served faithfully.
They were blessed with four
sons. Robert, age 13, was tragically taken in an auto accident
along with his cousin, Dennis
Heck in 1973, causing them
much sorrow.
He was anointed several
times during his heart afflictions which gave him much
peace and comfort.
Dad received much enjoyment farming with his boys.
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Edward Frank Rockers, age
68 of Conyers, died Thursday,
March 26, 2020.
He was preceded in death
by his parents, Kenneth and
Kathleen Rockers, brother,
Patrick Rockers.
He is survived by his
wife, Brenda
Rockers;
sons
and
daughtersin-law, Luke
and Annette
Rockers, Dan
and Stefani
Rockers
Rockers;
grandchildren, Mark Rockers, Lillian
Rockers,
Evan
Rockers,
Spencer Rockers; brother and
sister-in-law, Ben and Katie
Rockers; sister and brother-inlaw, Kathy and James Poss.
Edward was married for 46
glorious years to the love of his
Safe in the hands of Jesus!
WILSON
MARCH 3, 1929 – MARCH 17, 2020
Richard Dick Wilson, age
91, of Garnett, Kansas, passed
away on Tuesday, March
17, 2020, at
Richmond
Healthcare
and Rehab,
Richmond,
Kansas.
He
was
born
on
March 3, 1929,
Wilson
in Protection,
Kansas, the
son of Charles
Beacon and Alice Faith (Cook)
Wilson.
He joined the United States
Navy in 1945 and served for
3 and years. Dick married
Velva LaRee McGuire on
February 24, 1951, in Hill City,
Kansas.
This union was blessed with
two children, Charles Corky
and Judy.
He was a blacksmith, welder, millwright, carpenter, and a
minister. He served his ministry at Delta Christian Church,
Delta, Colorado, Annabelle
Christian Church in Missouri,
Syracuse Christian Church in
Kansas, and Lamar Christian
Church in Colorado.
He loved the Lord and was
a man who truly hid Gods
word in his heart. Dick traveled with his wife and twelve
other women on a mission trip
to build a house for a family in
need in Mexico; he was their
driver and crew chief.
He enjoyed fishing and hunt-
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THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Tuesday, March 31, 2020
OPINION
Small business paying the price
For small businesses all over the country,
the state and federal governments response to
Covid-19 has been like killing termites in your
house with a hand grenade.
While the financial damage to mainstreet
business is as yet unassessed, the resounding
theme that has emerged, albeit too late, is that
this is no way to run a crisis.
Despite the paranoia which has swept the
country over face masks and hand sanitizer
and social distancing, the mortality rates
of Covid-19 simply have not justified the kind
of economic damage and social upheaval that
the treatment has wrought. Though that may
seem like a callous assessment that puts money
above lives the numbers bare it out, particularly in rural areas.
As of early
Kansas has about this week, Kansas
had 319 confirmed
2.9 million cases of Covid-19
from among 4,914
residents, which people who were
tested. The Kansas
means .00011 D e p a r t m e n t
of Health and
percent of Environment says
of those 55 were
Kansans are hospitalized and
six
individuals
infected. passed away from
complications of
the illness. Kansas
has about 2.9 million residents, which means .00011 percent of
Kansas are infected. The reported number of
infections is also misleading because it suggests
all those people are still sick and that none of
them have recovered. The KDHE figures dont
measure recoveries.
Death is a dark reality but it is a reality
every day in the United States over 7,700 people
die for dozens of reasons (2017 figures). The
Centers for Disease Control pegs the number of
influenza hospitalizations per year in the U.S.
at 140,000 to 810,000 from 9 million to 45 million
cases. Flu-related deaths run at 12,000-61,000 per
year since 2010.
Obviously no one wants a loved one to die
from the flu, from Covid-19 or for any other reason for that matter. But we dont shut down half
the small businesses in the country and curtail
the activities of the population because of the
threatening realities we live with every day. We
REVIEW COMMENTARY
DANE HICKS, Publisher
take precautions we get flu shots, we wash our
hands, we look both ways before we cross the
street.
With the concern being that Covid-19 would
overload the nations health care system, perhaps a better solution than a $2 trillion public
relief bill would have been to write cash grants
to hospitals and other health care providers
to stock up on supplies, additional staff and
facilities needed to bolster against an onslaught
of patients and then monitor the situation
day-to-day to determine if more restrictive measures were required. Instead, were now dealing
with not just the disease but the economic
calamity and stress that has come from treating it. That damage is immediate and ongoing,
and if paranoia persists among some members
of the public that theyre now worried about
diseases they havent even heard of yet, that
damage will be irrevocable.
Within in a period of days and due mostly to
governmental mandate, we effectively choked
off billions of dollars in economic activity from
the small business sector and upended many
of the other functions of the broader economic
fabric of the country. Retail businesses closed
or their activity greatly reduced; schools shut
down; public gatherings banned; the foot traffic
that drives so much of consumer commerce in
the country literally evaporated.
Thats a perilous danger which cant be
undersold, because it is the U.S. economic
strength which enables the country to stand
up to the challenges that face us health and
otherwise. We have a pretty good handle on the
threat Covid-19 poses; we dont yet know how
much or how long-lasting will be the damage
from the cure. ###
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Dear ones I am putting this message in that
this coronavirus we feel is a fulfilling of Bible
scriptures. If you do not know the Lord Jesus
Christ, get to know him. If you do not know
scriptures, read them. It will take more than
just being a good person, its going to take an
intimate relationship with our Jesus. He will
be coming back one day on a great white horse.
Every knee will bow, very tongue will confess
that he is the Lord Jesus Christ. Get ready dear
ones, we love you all. If you do not have peace
in your hearts, seek peace.
Has anyone heard about some tweaker girl
running around Garnett offering to trade donuts
for toilet paper? If you see her please send her
over to (name deleted) house at (address deleted). Thank you.
Yeah, you people that are running harvesters out there, when you say 4 oclock you
Give the economy a break from coronavirus
No one knows what will happen, of course,
but weve put a lot of effort into trying to limit
the spread of the corona virus and flattening
the curve of the Covid-19 virus pandemic.
More remains to be done, but there is
another crisis that we must face at the same
time: We must save the worlds economy
before it spirals downward into another deep
recession, or worse.
Someone will gasp, We are trying to save
lives here.
But the world has yet to grasp the meaning
of another bad recession. Covid looks to kill
thousands, perhaps a few million. If the world
economy tumbles into the abyss, times will be
tough everywhere. Around the world, millions
could starve to death in places where mere
existence is seldom taken for granted. Even in
the U.S. people would die.
Were not arguing that the economy is more
important, but in the end, it may be just as
important.
There are people worried about the economy in Washington, London, Tokyo, Beijing,
Paris, Berlin and Moscow, as the U.S. Federal
Reserve board showed Monday when it
announced massive purchases of bonds and
other debt to boost the economy.
However, the resources at the command
of these central banks are fewer than those
now arrayed against the virus, or in previous
financial crises.
The powerful Fed threw what it had the the
GUEST COMMENTARY
STEVE HAYNES, Haynes Publishing Co.
stock-market panic this month. The market
rebounded for a day, then resumed its plunge.
The Fed cut interest rates and little happened.
Around the world, there is not a whole lot of
cutting left to be done, few levers to pull or
push to restart things. Central banks already
have cut interest rates to the limit. Many are
at or near zero percent. Some are below, into
negative interest. These banks have few
levers left.
For the last century, the world has relied
on monetary policy to boost the economy and
smooth out recessions. That coin was spent
in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Rates
have never returned to normal.
What is left? Government might be able to
print more money, but that just trades inflation for our current problem, and most likely
wont bail us out. That is what the Fed will be
doing, however, as it makes billions in new
loans.
We suggest that the government must give
equal currency to stopping or curbing the
virus and shoring up the economy. Give business whatever room it needs to do business,
without compromising on health.
That will require common-sense application of virus suppression and doing whatever
can be done to boost and enable business.
Without a magic wand, the central bankers
wont be able to do this, not this time. Entire
governments will have to focus on two problems at one time.
The economic future seems bleak today.
The outlook will not change overnight. But the
worlds economy was strong and growing just
a month ago. Not booming, but still surging
ahead. It may not be too late to turn things
around, end the panic and re-establish confidence.
The alternative, in human terms, could
dwarf the medical damage done by this virus.
Certainly, with either threat, the stakes are
high. We must be up to the battle. We need
leaders who understand what is going on and
will do what it takes to win on both fronts.
And time is short. We, the world, need to get
to these tasks.
Steve Haynes is president of NorWest
Newspapers in Oberlin, Kan.
This coronavirus path is unsustainable
Countries have experienced economic
depressions before, but not usually as a matter
of choice.
The nationwide coronavirus shutdowns
over the past three weeks have ground parts of
the country to a halt. We have probably never
before in our history seen so much economic
activity vaporize so quickly — within days or
even hours. The Great Depression and the
panics of the 19th century are the only possible analogues.
Goldman Sachs is forecasting a 24% drop in
quarterly GDP. Morgan Stanley is anticipating a 30% decline.
These are the top-line numbers of a vastation that will throw millions out of work,
stress families and blight personal lives,
destroy the dreams of small-business owners
and bankrupt industries. This is a tale of
human misery, not just of declines in the stock
market and in GDP.
The federal government can alleviate some
of the damage, but even the biggest, best-designed stimulus bill is no substitute for shuttered storefronts and factories. And how many
times can Washington pass $2 trillion bills?
No, this is not sustainable, nor will people
stand for it except as a temporary expedient.
President Donald Trump is already expressing impatience with his own guidance against
gatherings of more than 10 people for the next
15 days.
If that sentiment is understandable, itd be
foolish to give up on the lockdowns before they
NATIONAL COMMENTARY
RICH LOWRY, King Features Syndicate
have much of a chance to, in the cliche of the
hour, flatten the curve.
If the disease had been left unchecked, it
would have exacted an enormous price, in
lives of the infected, in the breakdown of the
hospital system, in the follow-on effects on
people ill with conditions that would have
gone untreated. No matter how bad todays
lockdowns are, imagine if we decided to undertake them at a time when the U.S. already had
a million cases and the health care system was
in deep crisis.
Our aim should be to shift from the blunderbuss solution of mass shutdowns to rifleshot remedies, on the model of what South
Korea has done with its widespread testing
(although it has much more favorable conditions as a smaller, more cohesive country with
an outbreak centered on one church).
We should focus on the production of tests,
ventilators, masks and other protective gear
on an industrial scale. Whatever the government has to spend or do to get it done should
happen — just as if we were on a wartime footing.
The first priority should obviously be backstopping the hospital system and protecting
front-line medical workers. But, as economists Paul Romer and Alan M. Garber argue,
we need to widen out from there to create a
system of population-wide testing and the
distribution of protective gear to workers
interacting with the public to protect against
the spread, while allowing for ordinary work.
This regimen would depend on innovation
— cheaper, faster tests, etc. — but that is surely within our power with enough will and
resources.
Then, we could begin to return to normal with much less risk, even if vulnerable
populations and metropolitan hot spots still
require extraordinary precautions.
Whatever path we take will be costly and
have its downsides. All we can know with certainty is that the current path is untenable.
Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.
ought to mean 4 oclock. We were out there at 4
oclock and they said they handed out the food
at 1 oclock. Why dont you all set your watch.
That is not 4 oclock, when you handed out at 1
oclock. We are on social security and we kind of
rely on Harvesters to spread out our food over
the month. You folks need to get your act together out there.
Since when did liquor stores become essential?
Im 66 years old and Ive lived in this town
most of my life and I never knew the people
around here only cared about themselves. Ive
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Virus saved lives
in Jonesboro
Letter to the Editor,
As we live in unprecedented times, we have
upon us a great opportunity to learn. As if
the Corona virus isnt enough to think about,
another great lesson is last weeks tornado in
Jonesboro, Arkansas.
Jonesboro, a town of 75,000+ people, is home to
Arkansas State University and has a geographical layout
strikingly
Readers Letters
similar to
Joplin, Mo.,
which has
a population of 50,000+. As you may already
know, Jonesboro was directly struck by a tornado March 28th, as was Joplin in May of 2011.
Early estimates of the Jonesboro storm say an
EF4 (winds 166-200 mph) moved through the
heart of the town around 5 pm. The Jonesboro
storm missed St. Bernards Medical Center,
Baptist Memorial Hospital and Arkansas State
University campus.
But here is the most striking difference
Joplin: 158 dead, over 1,000 injured. Jonesboro:
0 dead, approximately 22 injured. I think its
obvious that because of the virus and everyone
staying home people were able to receive the
early warnings and had time to take adequate
shelter.
The Best Buy store in Jonesboro looks strikingly similar to Joplins damaged Home Depot
store in May of 2011 where seven people perished
including a father and his two children. At the
time of the Jonesboro tornado, Best Buy was
empty. One police officer commented that The
Mall at Turtle Creek, which was nearly completely destroyed, would have been packed with
people at 5pm on a Saturday afternoon. It was
closed and empty.
I know this is a stretch, but the virus saved
lives in Jonesboro. The glass is half full, and
Jonesboro is proof of that.
Barb Hicks
Greeley
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THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Tuesday, March 31, 2020
HISTORY
20s insurance policy discovered
While rummaging thru
some of my fathers papers, I
came across this very interesting item.
It is an Automobile
Insurance Policy from The
British America Assurance
Company
of
Toronto,
Canada. (Note: Assurance not
Insurance Company)
This policy was written and
issued on the 11th day of June
1927 by the Simon Land Co. of
Garnett, Kansas.
The assured was Mr.
M.L.Jones, a farmer in
Anderson County. Mr. Jones
purchased a new 1927 Ford
4 cylinder Touring Car for a
DIGGING UP THE PAST
Henry Roeckers
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total cost of $429.
This policy was for one year
11 June 1927 until 11 June 1928.
He took out a policy of $400 and
the cost of this policy was $3.20
for Fire & Transportation,
$11.80 for Theft & Tornado and
$.60 for Collision & Upset for a
total of $15.60.
If anyone knows anything
about the British America
Assurance Co., the Simon
Land Co. of Garnett or Mr.
M.L. Jones, please contact
me. I have been unable to
find a thing in our Anderson
County History books. Im
wondering if my father perhaps purchased this car from
Mr. Jones and that is why he
had this old insurance policy
among his paper work.
Public
NOTICE
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Your
RIGHT
to know
Respectfully submitted by:
Henry Roeckers
23March2020
March 1920 – Paper shortage caused by manufacturers Notice to creditors
March 2010
Bad things seem to happen
after midnight sometimes,
said Father Klingele, Priest at
Holy Angels Catholic Church
in Garnett, when referring to
a weekend break-in. According
to Klingele, an individual or
group of individuals vandalized and stole from the local
Catholic Church emptying a
fire extinguisher all over the
church damaging the carpet,
altar, walls, etc. inside the
church. Outside a statute of
St. Joseph holding baby Jesus
was taken to the parking lot
and the head of baby Jesus broken off. Several personal items
belonging to Father Klingele
were also stolen.
March 2000
State fire investigators want
to hear back from the person
THAT WAS THEN
Melissa Hobbs
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they say made a cellular telephone call to report the Astro
West fire the night of February
13th, hoping the caller may
have more information on the
fire they now say was caused
by arson. State fire officials
determined that the fire that
destroyed the offices at Astro
Cap Manufacturing was intentionally set.
March 1990
Unemployment in Anderson
County rose 1.2 percent last
month to a figure of 5.4 percent.
This is the second straight
month that the county has
noticed an increase in unemployment. However, all of the
five other area counties also
witnessed increases in unemployment. The biggest jump
in unemployment was in Linn
county and it skyrocketed to
10.8 percent in January.
March 1980
Emergency room rates at
the Anderson County Hospital
have been increased from
$10.00 to $12.50 per individual. Administrator Gary Bryant
says this charge is still lower
than many area hospitals.
Doctor fees and the cost of medication are extra.
March 1920
There should be no shortage
of paper, and if there is a shortage, there is no excuse for it
except that the manufacturers
have kept the production down
in order to keep the prices up.
There are thousands of acres
of land in the Northwest which
is covered with the kinds of
timber of which paper pulp is
made. This has been proved
by government investigation.
It is also true that Alaska has
an almost unlimited supply of
paper wood, which could be
utilized if certain legislative
restrictions were removed.
(First published in The Anderson County
Review, Tuesday, March 17, 2020)
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ANDERSON
COUNTY, KANSAS
In the Matter of the Estate of
Ricky D. Ellis, Deceased.
Case No. 20PR10
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS
CONCERNED:
You are hereby notified that on March
11, 2020, a Petition was filed in this Court by
Ronnie W. Ellis, the Executor named in the Last
Will and Testament of Ricky D. Ellis, deceased,
dated July 1, 2019, praying for admission of
said Will to probate, that he be appointed as
Executor without bond, and that he be granted
Letters Testamentary.
You are hereby required to file your written
defenses thereto on or before April 8, 2020 at
9:00 oclock a.m. of such day, in this Court, in
the city of Garnett in Anderson County, Kansas,
at which time and place the cause will be
heard. Should you fail, judgment and decree
will be entered upon due course upon the
Petition.
All creditors of the above-named decedent
are notified to exhibit their demands against the
Estate within four months from the date of the
first publication of this notice, as provided by
law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they shall be forever barred.
Ronnie W. Ellis
Petitioner.
Bryan K. Joy, #10966
Joy Law office, P. A.
512 Neosho Street
P. O. Box 209
Burlington, Kansas 66839
Telephone (620) 364-8411
Attorney for the Estate.
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THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW 3-31-2020 / ARCHIVE
Circa October 1981 – The St. Johns girls softball team won both the league and the tournament to complete an undefeated season. They
were coached by Bill Quintance. Pictured in the front row, from left: Denise Peine, Diane Miller, Toni Katzer, Shari Lickteig, Laurie Katzer,
Diana Peine, Dawna Rogers. Back row, from left: Michele Egidy, Pat Egidy, Becky Katzer, Debbie Peine, Donna Setter, Nancy Katzer.
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW 3-31-2020 / ARCHIVE
Circa September 1981 – Todd Adams, Kansas state junior trapshooting champion, poses with the trophies he earned at the
Wichita shoot.
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW 3-31-2020 / ARCHIVE
Circa August 1981 – Pictured is the Central Heights Class of 1966 at their 15 year reunion.. Front row, from left: Jane Clark, Terry
Brittingham, Janice Collins, Janice Cherry, Anna May, Dole Gaddis, Vickie Gaddis. Back row, from left: Judy Wall, Jane Donohue, Bob
Erisman, sponsor, Mike Moore, Dennis Stiffler, Dean Kueser, Dale Schome, Pat Kueser, Joan Wood, Debby Lowe, Ann James.
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Christopher Stock, shown here with his mother Regina, won first
place in a boys baby contest, ages 13-18 months.
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THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Tuesday, March 31, 2020
U.S. Department of Labor announces $22 million in
grants to help homeless veterans reenter the workforce
WASHINGTON, DC The
U.S. Department of Labor
announced today the availability of approximately $22
million in Homeless Veterans
Reintegration Program (HVRP)
grants to provide services to
reintegrate homeless veterans
into meaningful employment
and work to stimulate the development of effective service
delivery systems that address
the complex problems facing
homeless veterans. The departments Veterans Employment
and Training Service (VETS)
administers the program.
No one should be left homeless after answering the call to
serve in our nations military,
U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene
Scalia said. Especially today,
as we fight to overcome the
economic disruption caused by
coronavirus, we have a duty to
help those veterans who have
fallen on the hardest of times to
reenter the workforce.
The U.S. Department of
Labor is committed to serving
the needs of this population
who once offered to sacrifice
everything through their military service for all of us, said
Assistant Secretary of Labor
for Veterans Employment
and Training, John Lowry.
Through
the
Homeless
Veterans
Reintegration
Program, we continue the
fight to end homelessness for
Americas veterans and to help
as many homeless veterans
reintegrate into the workforce
as possible.
To provide holistic service, HVRP grantees actively partner with the U.S.
Department of Veterans
Affairs Supportive Service for
Veteran Families program and
the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Developments
Continuum of Care program.
In the last program year, HVRP
grantees successfully served
19,946 homeless veterans with
a job placement rate of 65.2 percent and an average wage at
placement of $14.50 per hour.
Funds will be awarded on a
competitive basis to state and
local workforce investment
boards, local public agencies,
nonprofit organizations, tribal
governments, and faith-based
and community organizations.
With these funds, the HVRP
grantees will provide services
such as career planning, comprehensive employment assessments, resume writing and job
placement services to homeless
veterans.
Organizations interested
in applying for these grants
are invited to participate
in a Prospective Applicant
Webcast on April 3, 2020, at 2
p.m. Eastern. Registration is
required. While participation
in this webcast by grant applicants is strongly encouraged, it
is not mandatory.
Grantees under the HVRP
program network include the
Homeless Female Veterans and
Veterans with Families grants
and the Incarcerated Veterans
Transition Program grants.
Each applicant may request up
to $500,000. The closing date for
applications is April 27, 2020.
To submit a grant application,
go to www.Grants.gov.
Learn
more
on
the
Department of Labors programs for veterans.
VETS mission is to prepare
Americas veterans, service
members and their spouses
for meaningful careers, provide them with employment
resources and expertise, protect their employment rights
and promote their employment
opportunities.
The mission of the U.S.
Department of Labor is to foster, promote and develop the
welfare of the wage earners,
job seekers and retirees of the
United States; improve working conditions; advance opportunities for profitable employment; and assure work-related
benefits and rights.
Kansans warned about Coronavirus phone scams
People in Kansas are being
warned to be extra vigilant as
scam callers are likely to ramp
up their activity over the next
few weeks to take advantage of
increasing amounts of people
being at home due to the current Coronavirus outbreak.
CPR Call Blocker, makers
of the USs best-selling call
blocking device, is predicting
that scammers and fraudsters
will be ready to strike and
take advantage of the situation
as more states go into lockdown, forcing people to stay at
home, and is warning people in
Kansas to be on their guard for
a rise in bogus calls.
In a bid to beat the scammers who are likely to take
advantage of this extraordinary situation, CPR Call
Blocker has compiled the top
five active scams that people
in Kansas should watch out for
over the next few weeks as the
Coronavirus situation unfolds:
Fake test kits scam someone may call claiming to offer
free Coronavirus testing kits
and will ask you for your personal information and health
insurance details. A common
version of this scam targets
diabetic individuals that are
higher risk, where a scam
caller will offer both a free
Coronavirus test kit and a free
diabetic monitor.
FDIC scam scam-callers
posing as employees from the
Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation will ask you for
sensitive information, such as
your social security number
and bank account information,
over the phone as a precondition to receive federal money.
Remember the FDIC would
never make unsolicited phone
calls asking for personal infor-
mation and money, and especially would not put pressure
on you or threaten you.
Charity scam you may get a
call from someone claiming to
be from a charitable organisation which is collecting donations for individuals, groups or
areas affected by Coronavirus.
The caller will ask you to send
cash donations in the mail, by
wire transfer or by gift card.
Healthcare provider scam
scam-callers pretending to
work for a healthcare provider will tell you that a relative
or friend has been treated for
Coronavirus, and then demand
immediate payment for treatment before threatening
legal action if you dont pay.
Healthcare providers would
not contact you this way.
Student loan scams you
receive a call to tell you that
new measures due to the
Coronavirus outbreak will
have an effect on your student
loan, and that you need to ring
a different phone number to
find out how the new measures
will impact your future payment obligations. If you ring
this number, a scammer may
ask you for personal information like your social security
number and credit card details.
While the list is not exhaustive, CPR Call Blocker hopes to
make people in Kansas aware
that scammers are becoming
more inventive and if something sounds too good to be
true or out of the ordinary,
then it could well be a scam.
Chelsea Davies from CPR
Call Blocker said: As more
and more restrictions are put
into place in the US, we predict that scammers are going to
take advantage of more people
being at home and, with many
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of those people also being distracted or stressed about the
Coronavirus situation, this
could be a recipe for disaster.
When were feeling vulnerable
or distracted, it can be too easy
to say yes to something without checking first whether its
genuine.
Were warning people in
Kansas to bear this in mind
and we would always strongly recommend never giving
your bank details or paying for
something over the phone that
youre unsure of. Especially
if the call you receive is the
first time you have heard of
any payment that needs to be
made.
If you want to stop receiving
scam and nuisance calls, follow
CPR Call Blockers quick threestep guide to stopping unwanted calls:
Register with the National
Do Not Call Registry visit
DoNotCall.gov.
Dont consent to being contacted get your phone number
taken off directories and look
out for tick boxed on all marketing correspondence to see
if ticking or unticking them
will prevent your details being
passed on to third parties.
Consider getting a call blocker.
If you think you may be
receiving scam calls, here are
a few ways to protect yourself:
Don't
reveal
personal
details. Never give out personal
or financial information such
as your bank account details or
PIN even if the caller claims
to be from your bank.
Hang up. If you feel harassed
or intimidated, end the call.
You have the right not to feel
pressurised.
Ring the organisation. If youre
unsure whether the caller is
genuine, you can always ring
the company they claim to be
from. Make sure you find the
number yourself and don't use
one provided by the caller.
Don't be rushed. Scammers will
try to rush you into providing
personal details. They may say
they have a time-limited offer
or claim your bank account is
at risk if you don't give them
the information they need right
away.
Ms Davies continued: If you
suspect you may have compromised your bank account, contact your bank or card provider
as soon as possible. It is also
advisable to check your bank
and card statements regularly
for unauthorised charges as a
matter of course.
These local businesses are still
available to serve you during this time of
limited public contact.
is still here to serve you!
Open 6 a.m.10 p.m. Mon-Sun.
Simple Simons Pizza open 11 a.m.- 6 p.m.
Mon-Sun., call (785) 448-6582
Use Simple Simons drive-thru!
Sandras is taking precautions to keep our customers safe sanitizing gas pump handles, all door
handles, coffee handles anything a customer can
touch on a regular basis throughout the day.
Were trying to keep the store open to serve the
trucking industry and drivers delivering much needed products to stores all over the country during this
challenging time. Thank you and stay safe.
Diversified Supply
Parker, Kansas
(913) 898-6200
Now Open M-F 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Closed Saturdays until further notice.
Call-in, pick-up and
delivery services available.
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never seen so much hoarding
in the grocery store. People
with carts full of bread and
milk theyll never use and end
up throwing it away. (Store
name deleted) had a senior
time twice a week in the morning, an hour for seniors. I go
in there, theres people of all
ages just grabbing stuff. They
dont care about seniors. I just
want you to know those people
arent your neighbors, theyre
your enemies. This is what Im
talking about Garnett.
Daily Specials
Every Sunday
Monday: $1 tacos
Tuesday: bbq & burgers, open-face roast
11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
beef or 1/2 lb. cheeseburger
Homemade
Wednesday: Fried chicken
Thursday: Meatloaf
PAN-FRIED
Friday: Chicken fried steak or chicken
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Saturday: Different special every week
We have pizza!
Sunday: Homemade pan-fried chicken w/sides
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Monroe 816 will be providing online shopping experience through
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Curbside pickup available for phone or online orders!
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Scipio Supper Club
RESTAURANT AND BAR
Call ahead for large parties
Kitchen Hours: Wed. & Sun. 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Fri. & Sat. 6 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Bar open later
32465 NE Neosho Rd Garnett 785-835-6246
Dutch Country Cafe
Garnett
OPEN FOR
CARRYOUT
ORDERS ONLY
Call (785) 448-5711
Email: orders@dutchcountrycafe.com
Text: (785) 204-1382
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THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Garnett Public Library still
offer digital content and
Wi-fi during shutdown
The library building is
closed, but our digital collection is still open. The Wi-Fi is
on 24/7 if you need to connect.
If you have never used our
online eBooks and audios, now
might be the time to give it a
try.
We
have
temporarily
increased the monthly borrowing limit on Hoopla from 5 to
15. Hoopla has books, audios,
movies and magazines.
You will need a current
Garnett Public Library card to
access Hoopla and Sunflower
ebooks. You will need a State of
Kansas Library card to access
RBdigital and Cloud Library.
Tumblebooks doesn't require
THE ANDERSON COUNTY REVIEW 3-31-2020 / DANE HICKS
County commissioners and construction contractors started flagging groundwork Monday for the countys new veterans memorial
soon to be built on the north courthouse lawn. Above are brick and
concrete designers Bob Salazar and Leon Lickteig, county commissioners Dave Pracht, Jerry Howarter and Les McGee, and John
Campanelli with Performance Electric.
Due to the KSRE COVID-19
Response Protocol, all Frontier
Extension District offices are
temporarily closed, and all faceto-face events have been cancelled or postponed until May 16.
However, all district employees
are still working via telecommunication and are available to
respond to requests. Phone calls
to the district offices are being
forwarded to another number
your local office in advance to
make arrangements. Other programs may be offered online,
or through video-conferencing. For more information and
to locate staff emails, see the
Frontier District website: www.
frontierdistrict.ksu.edu.
Also follow us on our social
media pages:
Facebook:www.facebook.com/
FrontierExtensionDistrictKSRE
Frontier Extension District still providing education
or are monitored remotely. To
reach the Lyndon office call 785828-4438; Ottawa office call 785229-3520; and Garnett office call
785-448-6826.
Many services such as sending soil tests, or purchasing a
radon kit, are still available to
the public. However, district
employees are currently practicing social distancing as they
respond to requests. Just phone
KDHE and KDA recommend
voluntary reduction in burning
In response to the COVID-19
pandemic currently impacting
all states, including Kansas,
the Kansas Department of
Health and Environment and
the Kansas Department of
Agriculture strongly encourage all land owners and managers to voluntarily reduce
the number of acres that they
intend to burn this spring.
With the potential for this
pandemic overwhelming the
states medical facilities, any
additional respiratory concerns that could be produced
from breathing smoke from
prescribed fire need to be mitigated, Dr. Lee Norman, KDHE
Secretary, said.
Common health problems
related to smoke can include
burning eyes, runny nose,
coughing and illnesses such
as bronchitis. Individuals with
respiratory issues, including
COVID-19, pre-existing heart or
lung diseases, children and the
elderly may experience worse
symptoms.
With resources of the county emergency response staff
already being taxed with
COVID-19 response, it is important to minimize responses that
would come with prescribed
fire activity.
It is critical that land managers in areas included in the
Smoke Model available online
at ksfire.org consult the model
if they do choose to burn. The
model indicates the level at
which a burn would contribute
to urban area air quality problems. Secretary of Agriculture
Mike Beam urges land managers to refrain from burning,
especially if your area is predicted in the large (red) contribution range.
Prescribed burning is a
valuable land management
tool in the efforts to fight invasive species and maximize land
productivity, and this request
should not be interpreted as
an indictment of the practice of burning, Beam said.
However, the circumstances
surrounding the coronavirus
pandemic have created a situation that calls for reducing
burned acres this spring.
For the latest information
related to COVID-19, and to
sign up for daily updates sent
to your email inbox, visit the
Kansas Department of Health
and Environments COVID19 Resource Center at www.
kdheks.gov/coronavirus.
Colony Christian Church – Protecting the Family
Since we didnt have a
normal church service,
Pastor Chase Riebel gave the
Communion Meditation. God
calls us to gather together as
believers, and to remember the
sacrifice he made for us. We
need to be dependent on God
and not our government to get
us thru rough times. When we
come around the table for communion, we are declaring that
we need Jesus for eternal life.
We need Him to sustain us.
Just as we need food for physical strength, we need Jesus
for our spiritual strength. He
chose a meal and told us to eat
it often. Every Lords Supper
looks back to the Last Supper,
but also looks forward to the
Wedding Feast of Jesus with
the Church. It is a picture of
intimacy; who we choose to eat
and drink with shows who we
are loyal to. We are one body in
Christ. (Ref: John 6:53, Romans
5:10)
Pastor Chases sermon was
on Protecting the Family.
Our job is to help our children
build a solid, Godly foundation
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for their lives. Jesus tells the
parable of the wise man who
listens to his teachings, he is
like the man who builds his
house upon the rocks. He has
a strong foundation, so whatever storms or trials come his
way, his house wont collapse.
The foolish man doest listen
to Jesus teachings. Its like
a house built on the sand, it
doesnt take much wind and
rain to bring it down. We must
teach our children to listen to
Jesus teachings, and to be good
role models for them on how
to follow that teaching. Moses
parents raised him for several years before taking him to
the princess to raise. He had
a strong foundation of Godly
teachings to rely on when God
chose him to lead the Israelites
out of Egypt. We all must put
God first and live our lives
like we do, to be a good example to our children. We should
spend this extra time together to read, write and repeat
the scriptures, to pray with
them, and to teach them not
to be surprised by conflict in
the world. Lead your kids thru
these tough times with courage
and confidence in God. (Ref:
Matthew 7:24-27, Exodus 2:38, John 16:33, Hebrews 13:5-6.
Hear this and all our sermons
on our website at http://www.
colonychristianchurch.org.
Mens Bible study, Tuesday
mornings at 7:00. Womens
Bible study, Tuesday mornings at 8:00. Adult Bible study
and youth group Wednesday
evenings at 7:00. Check out our
Facebook page for any changes.
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K-State
Research
and
Extension-Frontier Extension
District is part of a statewide
network of educators sharing
unbiased, research-based information and expertise on issues
important to Kansas. It has
established local, state, regional, national, and international
partnerships. This integrated
system connects the university to every county through
locally based educators who
serve as sources of objective
information. K-State Research
and Extension is a short name
for Kansas State University
Agricultural
Experiment
Station
and
Cooperative
Extension Service.
any card at all.
For assistance you may
email us at garnettlibrary.
yahoo.com, leave a message
at 448-3388 or contact us on
Facebook and we can get you
set up to use all of these services.
Another library service
that your kids can still enjoy
is our StoryWalk on the rail
trail between Park Road and
1st Street.
If you have items currently checked out, you may keep
them until we reopen or return
them in one of the book drops.
The good new is that no fines
will accessed on anythng while
we are closed.
Lutz wins top ASHRAE
scholarship at K-State
A Kansas State University
student in architectural engineering has been awarded an
ASHRAE national scholarship
for the next academic year.
Owen Lutz, Garnett, sophomore in the GE Johnson
Department of Architectural
Engineering and Construction
Science, will receive a twoyear, $10,000 Reuben Trane
Scholarship for 2020-21.
Awarded for $5,000 per year
over two years, the Reuben
Trane Scholarship was established in memory of The Trane
Company founder, an engineer,
inventor and business executive, whose manufacturing
enterprise ranks today as one
of the worlds largest in the
heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration, or
HVAC&R, industry.
The scholarship is available
to undergraduate students
enrolled full-time in a post-secondary educational institution
and pursuing a Bachelor of
Science or engineering degree
in a course of study traditionally seen as a preparatory curriculum for the HVAC&R profession.
ASHRAE is a global society
advancing human well-being
through sustainable technology for the built environment.
The society and its more than
56,000 members worldwide
focus on building systems,
energy efficiency, indoor air
quality, refrigeration and sustainability.
Four
Color
Printing
Now available at
Garnett
Publishing, Inc.
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Cont – The Skinning Tree A novel by G. Dane Hicks
Due to "social distancing" directives in view of the present Covid19
emergency and the fact that many
Review readers are sequestering to varying degrees in their
homes and looking for reading
materials among ways to pass the
time, we are publishing segments
of Review publisher Dane Hicks'
2003 novel "The Skinning Tree"
(Began March 24) over the course
of the next several weeks.
Chapter 1
Brambles and low tree
branches catching at his clothes
and tearing at his legs and arms,
Ronnie Alan Halford ran wildeyed through the timbered hillside of Pod Tuckers land, his terrified, rasping breath too quick
to scream, like a ten year-old boy
running two steps ahead of the
devil himself.
His eyes burning with tears
and his vision clouded, every
smashing bass drum beat of
his pounding heart wobbled
the already distorted image of
the world in front of him. Tiny
droplets of sweat spun from his
now matted red hair as his head
swung back every few steps,
wide eyes searching frantically
behind him at the rapidly passing oak and hedge trees, praying hed see no one nothing
behind him.
Cresting a small rise, Ronnies
speeding, youthful body broke
gravity for a moment as he flew
into the clearing and slid down
the backside of the hill. Losing
his footing, he tumbled to the
ground in a spiraling heap,
sliding on his chest and hands
against the awakening spring
grass where Pod Tuckers cattle
grazed in the summertime. The
impact of the fall knocked the
wind out of him, and he lay there
a second as the dust and debris
settled on his freckles and his
red hair, adhering to his perspiration soaked arms and legs and
forehead and swirling about his
tightly shut eyes.
He rolled over slowly to his
back, disturbed grass and dirt
stuck to the front his sweaty red
T-shirt, and as his face slowly
contorted he managed finally
to find the wind to cry. Just
a spackling of emotion at first,
spitting from his mouth as his
chest began again to rise and fall
with the pumping of his laboring
lungs. It sounded restrained, as
if conducted in church, or on the
back of the school bus or some
other place where he was afraid
someone might hear. But there
was some resolution in his collapse, and the gentle coughing of
his cry elongated to a moaning,
cathartic wail.
Not far from him was Graders
Rock, a nearly 12-foot tall and
wide boulder which rolled to this
spot 10,000 years ago from the hillside above, a wayward specimen
of Manitoba, Canada, picked up
and carried on the inching face
of a continental glacier 150,000
winters past, and washed from
the muddy bank above after hundreds of years of rains filled and
routed the nearby Pottawatomie
Creek. Just beyond the rock
was a minimum maintenance
county road, and over the years
during its bi-annual grading by
the county road equipment, the
old stone was scraped repeatedly, because it crowded the road
against the hillside a little closer than the skill of most grader
operators would condone. No
one knew who coined the name
Graders Rock, and grader operators had for years denied being
at its root. Now the old monolith sported makeshift campfires
nearby where partiers warmed
themselves against the chill of
windy Kansas nights and beer
spilled on their clothes, and graffiti snaked its way over the face
of the boulder with bright spray
painted arrows that led from
words like oops and aw shit
and pointed to the steel-gouged
stone.
Struggling to his feet, Ronnie
rested his hands against the ageless stone to steady himself, his
face still convulsed with emotion and clean streams of skin
showing under his eyes where
tears had washed away the dirt
and dust of the young Kansas
spring. He limped past the stone
and down the old road, and
across the two inches or so of
water that covered the gravel
and mud bottom creek bed. The
shadow from the silver maples
along the stream bank cooled his
skin briefly from the hot sun.
Slogging through the mud where
the water stopped and the road
began on the other side, his pace
quickened until he topped the
slope of the stream bank, and his
legs picked up stride until the
scraggily chopped stalks of last
years field corn now scattered
in moist spring fields blurred
past him on either side. It wasnt
far to the blacktop, and the brief
reminder of what he had seen
moments before rekindled the
fear that numbed his legs and
made him feel cold inside. He
thrust his dirty, scratched and
bruised hands forward to grab
hands full of air, tossing his head
from side to side, as he pulled
hard into his running stride and
left fainter and fainter footprints
of creek water on the dry road
behind him.
Molly Halford was rolling up a
green garden hose near a big iron
hook on the barn where it was
supposed to hang when the old
red pickup turned hard into her
driveway in a cloud of dust and
squeaking brakes. Her mothers instinct riveted her immediately with thoughts of her two
boys, whod meandered away for
one reason or another earlier on
that Saturday afternoon, leaving
the garden unweeded and their
four year-old brother as her sole
ward. The flash of anxiety, eased
as she saw Ronnies dirty face
through the dusty windshield,
was replaced by confusion as to
what so much fuss could possibly
be about. A glance to the face
of the driver, an older man who
lived a few miles away and whom
she did not know well, gave her
no clues. His bewildered gaze
met her own as if asking her telepathically for some answer.
The passenger side door of
the pickup flew open before the
truck came to a complete stop.
Ronnie bolted, arms outstretched
and voice an indiscernible blubber, toward his mother, who had
dropped the rolled hose to the
side and now ran toward him.
Surveillance has its trade-offs.
Draw a target with easy access
to place and maintain bugs,
and its usually a place so public that interference gets in the
way of data gathering. Special
Agent for the Federal Bureau
of Investigation Donald Trent
thought about that as he walked
past Cheesy Tonys, whose booming lunch business nestled in the
heart of downtown Kansas City,
was nearing full swing at about
twenty minutes after noon.
Next door to Cheesy Tonys
was Broadway Cleaners, another
of Kansas Citys vintage buildings, whose pretty blue canvas
awning on the front shook a little in a slight April breeze, and
stood in historic contrast to the
monoliths of steel and glass that
set the citys skyline.
Trent glanced inside the plate
glass windows as he passed,
catching a glimpse of a few customers milling about ready to
pick up or drop off. His Kansas
City Chief windbreaker buffeting in the wind against his yellow button-front cotton shirt and
jeans and his flat shoes padding
against the cement sidewalk,
Trent looked just like any other
non-professional Kansas Citian
on the street, a few fashion steps
below the professional office
clothes of the lawyers, accountants and advertising executives
who staffed the towering buildings overhead. Turning the corner onto 6th Street and heading
down to a dank alley behind the
block, Trent watched the reflections in the windshields of the
parked cars and delivery trucks
for any sight of anyone behind
him who looked like someone he
might have seen before.
The key in his jacket pocket
fit easily into the back door of
Broadway Cleaners, up a short
flight of steps and half hidden
from view by a giant and abandoned swamp cooler. Set in
place fifty years ago as part of
an old air conditioning system,
its rotten baffles now collapsed
on top of each other, and the
whole thing smelled of stagnant
water. It hadnt been used in
years beside it sat two modern
high-efficiency heating and cooling units and as Trent turned
the key in the lock a startled
blackbird rocketed from a hole in
the sheet metal of the unit with a
whoosh of wings. Trent pushed
the door open, which felt firm
but gave way easily considering
the otherwise dilapidated look
of the rest of the alley side of the
building.
He stepped forward onto a
worn wooden floor, the closing
door behind him choking out a
wisp of light. While his eyes
adjusted to the darkness of the
back storeroom of Broadway
Cleaners, Trent fastened the
deadbolt lock on the door and
walked down a long corridor of
shelving, half filled with boxes
and what looked like old spare
machinery parts. Up one aisle he
could see a few of the employees
facing customers as they hastily
tried to meet impatient demands
of workers on their lunch hour.
Trent pushed open an old wooden door at the end of the shelving, stepped inside onto a small
stairway landing, and pressed a
four-digit code into the keypad of
a plastic security station mounted on the old plaster wall. He
waited until the green light flickered on the monitor, then headed
up the steep, narrow staircase,
and inside an old apartment door
to the room that shared a thick
but not impermeable firewall
with Cheesy Tonys.
The agent in charge from the
DEA was Vincent Palerri, a fifty-something Italian from New
Jersey who fit the ethnic stereotype in name only. He was tall
and thin with a great swath of
salt-and-pepper gray hair. His
sharp but sagging features gave
him a despondent look; Trent
thought he looked like an undertaker, but he was one helluva
good surveillance cop. Like
Trent, the professional G-Man
clothes had been set aside in
favor of a pair of khakis and a
red golf shirt.
Wheredja
go,
Donny?
Mistros?
Nah, Trent said, unzipping
his jacket to display a shoulder holster and 9mm Beretta.
Burger King.
Trent hung his jacket on one
of several nails sticking out of
a two-by-four on the south wall.
The room was large for a bedroom by todays standards, built
long ago as part of the second
story four-room apartment. It
had been empty for years, and it
took nearly a full day to clean it
up enough to be usable. Down
a short hallway to the east was
the old main living room, with
ancient graying wallpaper and
dirty, curtainless windows that
used to provide a metropolitan
view of the street below. The
grime-covered glass now served
mainly to let in the only natural
light in the apartment, which
filtered through the years of dirt
on the glass gave the room a soft,
dawn-like glow in the midday
sun. The windows also served
as a vantage point to look directly across Broadway into the
Nations Federal Bank building,
a modern, glass-encased financial workplace where the tinted windows concealed another
team like Palerris, this one concerned with photographing anything coming or going to Cheesy
Tonys.
Three large dry erase marker boards hung on the bedroom
walls for special notations. Four
folding tables pushed together
formed a square work area, holding equipment and laptop computers, with a spaghetti bundle
of wires leading this way and
that around the various listening
and recording devices. Agents
monitored each of Cheesy Tonys
incoming phone lines with earphones as they sat at the tables,
noting each of the calls as they
began to record them on the computer hard drives, then deleting
file after file of Philly and fries
orders, employees personal calls,
or telemarketer calls after the listener realized there was nothing
pertinent to the investigation.
A reel-to-reel tape recorder, the
mainstay of the previous generation of audio surveillance, was
used as a backup to the computer
files.
In addition to the phone taps,
agents had placed four additional
electronic bugs throughout the
restaurant. Two at the family
table, near the main kitchen
door, which was preferred by
owner Tony Malone. In his seventies now, Old Tony used the
table as an outpost to lookout
over his forty-eight year-old
empire. Since his stroke three
years ago he didnt work much.
But he was here from 10 a.m. to
around 3 p.m. every day to watch
over his boys and the help; part
of the shops ambiance along
with the original marble tabletops, oak woodwork and glistening tile floor. Cheesy Tonys had
a reputation for great cooked
meat sandwiches. The agents
listening next door noticed Old
Tony breathed heavily as he sat
there, usually alone, at times
muttering to himself about a
weird hairstyle or body piercing
on a customer, and even from
time to time about the physical attributes of the parade of
young female professionals who
frequented the restaurant. Eight
feet above his head, two directional microphones the size of
a dime and hidden well into the
ornate tin ceiling focused solely
on the table and its conversations, and broadcast them via
FM frequency to the computer
receivers only a few feet away
through the wall where the
agents were posted.
Old Tony wasnt the target
of the investigation, and
there was more than a hint
of sympathy in the agents
conversations about the
job and the old guy, who
they determined to be a
pretty decent fellow. Old
Tonys curse was his oldest son, Ricky, who would
eventually bring the full
force and power of a federal prosecution down not
only on himself, but also
on his fathers nearly fifty
year-old small business
dream.
The surveillance detail
included five agents, four
of which cycled on and
off shifts of two hours at
each of the two posts in
order to stay fresh, with
Palerri coming and going
and making occasional
reports. The tenor in the
room full of federal law
officers ranged from silent intensity at times to an occasional
burst of juvenile laughter, like a
study hall at a fraternity house.
Surveillance was 99 percent boring, monotonous work.
Yeah, baby! Agent Randy
Rogan got up from his listening
post when he saw Trent was back
to take his 12:30 shift. My ass
is aching. Rogan grinned big,
stretching his 26 year-old lanky
frame as Trent loosened his
shoulder holster so the Beretta
didnt jab into his ribs as he sat.
Ya know, after listening to all
those orders for those Phillies,
Id love to go get one for lunch,
Rogan said, rubbing his belly in
the international male signal for
hunger. Anybody else know of
any other place nearby thats got
Phillies?
Trent allowed the computer screen to take his attention
away from Rogans search for
food, while another agent tried
to give him directions up town
to another eatery. Trents mind
was on Ricky Malone, and who
he might be talking to today, and
how much business was really
going through the books down
at Cheesy Tonys during a busy
weekday lunch crowd.
Only a few feet away on the
restaurant floor Lonnie Casey,
the twenty-eight year-old boyish-looking agent passing for
twenty-one, was now in his second month busing tables and taking orders downstairs at Cheesy
Tonys. He hustled an order out
of the kitchen and into the dining
room to a table of three nicely
dressed women. He smiled a big,
all-American boy grin under soft
brown eyes as he sat the plates of
food down in front of them.
Okay, thats two lunch specials and a chefs salad, he said
methodically, speaking directly
to them but keeping Tonys table
within his peripheral vision.
Will there be anything else?
The women shot glances around
at each other grinning, but
declined, waiting for him to turn
back toward the kitchen so they
could each give their review of
his backside as they dined.
Trent watched Casey on a little television screen. By the time
they were finished theyd have
hours and hours of video and
audio surveillance. His teams
audio and the photos from the
team across the street would
support the real evidence Casey
gained from his frequent peeks
into the office books, and his
notes on the amounts of the cash
register tapes and order slips an
hour before closing each night.
He was a good looking kid who
made pretty good tips, and his
bachelors in accounting plus a
number of previous field assignments since joining the bureau
gave him one hell of a nose for
money. His temporary boss,
Ricky Malone, liked him too.
Casey had been there only a few
months. A smart, nice-looking
kid the customers liked, a hard
worker who was always willing
to stay late and close the joint
when everybody else wanted to
head home. A kid like that could
really make it in this business,
Ricky told himself.
Business was good at Cheesy
Tonys too good. So far a sandwich, fries and a drink that sells
for around seven fifty on the
menu was generating around
sixty-eight dollars. Additional
money all of it cash was coming from somewhere, and the FBI
was convinced Ricky Malone
could tell them where. Trent
folded his fingers together and
pushed his hands over his head,
stretching and cracking a few
knuckles as he settled in at work.
Sandy Marcum didnt work
most Saturdays, and she resented it when she had to especially
today. Just twenty five minutes
ago shed been snuggled up next
to Max in bed back at her tiny
upstairs apartment across town,
the two of them sleeping into
the early afternoon after partying into the wee hours with some
of his friends. Max slept over a
lot lately, and Sandy was determined to make sure he didnt
want to sleep anywhere else. But
the end of the month was coming and she still wasnt sure if
she could run renewal notices
on the new circulation software.
The anticipation was gnawing
at her. Shed worked at The
Sharon County Sentinel almost
three years, and this damn new
program was completely different than the old one.
At twenty-one years of age, it
was the longest shed ever held a
real job. With no other schooling after high school except for
a year in business college, the
job was as good as any shed
probably be able to find in town.
She had learned early the pace
at a weekly newspaper, even in
a little town like Henrysville,
is faster than its readers could
ever imagine. She was learning the business the buzz of
news, the body of customers who
were sometimes adoring and
sometimes hateful, and the smell
of ink that met her nose every
morning when she walked in the
door. And she was learning to
like it.
The downtown traffic in
Henrysville on a Saturday afternoon was always light and there
was no need to worry about
taking up customer parking,
she thought to herself, so Sandy
pulled her light blue Mustang
into a parking slip in front of
the Sentinel and turned off the
engine. She pushed the tail of
her T-shirt a little further in her
jeans to be sure it was tucked
in. Sandy was tall and lanky
and a little flat chested, and she
looked up into the rearview mirror for a second and wondered
if she ought to put on makeup,
in case anybodys at the office.
She pushed her fingers through
her short brown curls and tried
to fluff out the bed-head, and ran
a red nail-polished finger under
her eye. Makeup would take too
much time. Max was waiting at
home. She hoped.
Saturdays used to be big days
in downtown Henrysville. It was
the day most farm folks came to
town to do business and maybe
recreate a little, since they
worked all week on their acreages and had little time to make
the trip while working sunup
to sundown during the week.
Capitalizing on the traffic and
the general excitement created
when a crowd gathers, store owners used to have their biggest day
on Saturday, staying open well
into Saturday night until the
crowds finally thinned. It wasnt
uncommon to see all three barbershops open and three-deep
in customers at 9 p.m. on those
old Saturdays. Cars filled every
streetside parking slot up and
down Main, doors open with
mom sitting on the passenger
side, window rolled down and
talking to another woman on the
sidewalk, and dad standing in
the open drivers side door, one
foot up on the threshold of the
car door and arm resting on the
roof of the car, talking to someone else or even a group of men,
all of them smoking cigarettes.
The kids were either sitting in
the back seat, having gotten into
trouble for running up and down
the town causing mischief, or
were busy running up and down
the town causing mischief.
But those were the old days.
Sandy had heard about them, but
they were done long before her
time.
Main Street in Henrysville
wasnt too wide, and Saturday
traffic used to have to move
slowly and carefully down the
center because of all the cars
parked along the streetside with
their doors open. Groups of people frequently crossed not just at
the corners, but anywhere they
wanted. Highway 59 used to run
right up the center of town until
the bypass was built, which gave
the locals a fresh crop of strangers to gawk at as they made their
way up and down the highway
on their way to somewhere else.
The businesses and the crowd
fed off each other in those days,
and every Saturday was like a
little festival. But satellite television, the Internet, the decline
of family farming and Wal-Mart
put an end those heydays, and
now the struggling few businesses left downtown lamented that
they could shoot the old Civil
War cannon on display in the
city park down Main Street on
a Saturday at noon and not hit a
soul.
So the street was a fairly private scene on this Saturday as
Sandy slipped her well-worn
key into the glass front door of
The Sharon County Sentinel,
glanced down the row of building
windows behind which set the
idled pressroom of the newspaper, turned the lock and stepped
inside. Light from the offices
plate glass windows seemed to
get swallowed up by the dark,
century-old woodwork of the
vintage office as Sandy crossed
around the heavily varnished
customer counter to the hallway
door to hit the office light switches. The overhead lights lit up a
rich-looking carpeted work area
with four modern office desks,
each with a computer monitor
sitting on a side work table,
which looked a little out of place
and oddly compelling against the
backdrop of the ancient stained
oak paneling and ornate woodwork of the office. Across the
room, more carpeting, this time
with plastic runners laid down
to protect it against heavier traffic, spread out under brass hand
railings in place to guide traffic
along the walls where frame after
frame of historic photographs,
letters to and from presidents,
display boxes filled with mementos and other memorabilia were
arranged to convey the unique
place the Sentinel claimed in
Kansas history. Sandy sat at one
of the desks closest to the counter, and had barely sat her keys
down beside her desk when a
message crackled over the office
police scanner sitting on a file
cabinet across the work floor.
Sharon County Center/
Sharon County 2 and 3, the dispatcher said.
Sharon County 2, go ahead
another voice responded.
Be enroute to 22545 Northeast
Osage Road.
Again, 22545
Northeast Osage Road. Have a
report of a 10-54. Be advised the
10-54 is in a dry well on the property.
Ah, 10-4, Sharon County.
Go ahead and notify EMS and
Sharon County Rescue, and tell
them to respond with high-angle
gear. Sharon 3 do you copy?
The dispatcher identified the
location again for the Emergency
Medical Service and rescue personnel. But Sharon County
Undersheriff Todd Bookman,
Sharon 2 as he was identified
on the radio, listened closely for
a confirmation of the call from
his road deputy on that shift,
Sharon 3.
Sharon 2/ Sharon 3, did you
copy that traffic?.
There was still no response.
The dispatcher had passed along
the word to the other responders, and was awaiting further
instructions.
Sharon 2/ Sharon 3? Still
no answer. There was a pause.
Sandy listened intently.
Sharon 2/Sharon County
Center, can you public service
Sharon 3 and advise of the situation, tell him I need him at
the location with me ASAP. He
should have his cell phone on.
10-4, Sharon 2, will advise
you.
By this time, Sandy had
hustled back to McKanes desk
and was looking for his list of
law enforcement 10 signals.
Finding a photocopied list
pushed under the glass table
top on the corner, her finger
stopped half way down the page,
as she faintly caught her breath.
Omigod, escaped under her
breath, more in concern than
in exclamation. She picked up
the phone, punched the button
for line two, and dialed Michael
McKanes home number.
Two long, solid legs in
a pair of old blue jeans stuck
out from under the front of the
blue Chevrolet van as Delbert
Stimpson walked slowly up the
gravel alley, tracing his knuckle along the fading decal lettering on the van that read First
Presbyterian Church. Grunts
and groans were apparent as
Stimpson came closer to the half
of the man that was visible, he
watched as the occasional contortion knotted up the mans legs
when the unknown discomfort
under the van was most audible.
Preacher, has that thing
got a hold of you under there?,
Stimpson warbled, his skinny,
seventy-nine year-old body leaning now on an oversized hand,
grown large from years of manual farm work and now connected
to the end of a frail but so far
cancer surviving arm. The legs
stopped shifting at the realization someone was nearby, and
their owner uttered some indiscernible words as his ratty old
sneakers started back pedaling
at the cardboard box the body
was using as a pad on top of the
gravel. Stimpson began to laugh
a little as the large body became
visible.
Ah, brother Stimpson,
good morning! Reverend Pete
Tinneys hands were covered
in engine grease, and beads of
sweat lined his forehead as he
lay on the cardboard, his head
just clearing the underside of
the vehicle, but his face smiled
the smile of a man legitimately
happy to see someone. He pushed
his way out from under the van
along the cardboard, clutching a
rusty hose clamp in his left hand
as he did so, and squinting as
road grime from underneath the
van fell in speckles into his eyes
and thick, billowing gray and
white hair.
I said, I wondered if that
thing was going to eat you or
something, Stimpson said as
Tinney became more visible.
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Tinney had heard what Stimpson
said, but Stimpsons hearing
wasnt what it once was and they
both knew it, so Stimpson had
gotten into the habit of repeating
himself. It was enough to drive
his wife of sixty years crazy.
Brother Smith found a water
pump on one of his salvage vehicles down at the gas station that
fit our van, so I was doing my
best to install it, Tinney said,
turning over the clamp in his left
hand and pushing sweat away
from his brow with the back of
his right. He straightened into
tree of a man, six-foot four inches
tall, big shoulders and a broad
chest inside a tan T-shirt with
some printed emblem now mostly washed away. He had just a
hint of a paunch belly which
had come about in the last few of
his fifty-five years. His graying
beard was neatly trimmed but
right now splotched with a little
grease on the side of his chin,
and his thick, shoulder-length
gray hair was pulled back into a
pony tail. His light complexion
was worn, like that of a light
skinned man whod spent almost
as much time outside in the elements as he had inside writing
sermons. Thick gray eyebrows
arched over two beautiful and
bright sky-blue eyes, which
smiled back at Stimpson, who
continued to cackle.
I suppose it must have looked
like Jonah and the Whale,
Tinney laughed back with his
soft, resonant bass. What can
I do for you today, Brother,
his inquiry was like his smile
warm and soft.
I finished with the baby
Jesus, and Ive got him out in the
car, Stimpson said. I was going
to bring him in, but the front
doors were locked.
The words caught Tinney by
surprise at first, but his memory jogged a little to recall that
Stimpson was talking about
the baby Jesus from the town
Nativity Scene. Last Christmas
the local Ministers Fellowship
had noticed the weathering on
the figures for the Nativity, and
had decided to farm the separate pieces out among some of
the member churches for repair
and refurbishment. Stimpson,
a long-time church member and
a woodworker hobbyist, had volunteered to give the baby Jesus
the once-over.
Oh, yes- well thats great,
Brother Delbert, Tinney said.
But you say the church doors
were locked?
Yep- triedem, but they
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wouldnt budge.
The conversation was broken
by the snap of the storm door on
the back of the church parsonage
a few yards away. Lara Tinney
stood on the back step near the
iron pipe railing with a glass
pitcher in her right hand and
some cheap plastic glasses coupled one inside the other in her
left. The weight of the pitcher
pulled hard against her delicate
hand, flexing the slender, smallish but defined muscles in her
already tanned forearm, and on
up her triceps to where her arm
disappeared under the shortsleeved, faded blue flower print
cotton dress. She turned to look
toward the men, and raised the
pitcher and the glasses a little
with a faint smile to signal that
shed brought some refreshment.
She glanced down, daintily making her way down the three concrete steps so as not to spill the
pitcher.
She was an ample breasted
woman ten years her husbands
junior, and the dress, worn thin
but not ragged from age, pulled
slightly across her shoulders
and down across her bosom
where the aging bra she wore
gave only half-hearted support
to the weight of its mission. She
was not a skinny woman, but
her body gathered well at the
waistline as it flared down to
her gently rounded hips, The
bones in her face were well-pronounced, with her chin, her jawline and her cheekbones lending
themselves toward her big round
brown eyes. Thick auburn hair
touched here and there by gray
pulled back into pony tail and
held with two brass barrettes
in the front, reached near the
middle of her back even gathered
as it was. She stepped lightly
across the gravel of the alley and
over a few early dandelions blossomed wide and yellow into the
Saturday afternoon sun.
I saw we had company, so
I though you might like a glass
of tea, her voice was light and
level, sounding a little more
bubbly than the slightly tired,
slightly distant look that always
seemed to occupy her face.
Stimpson waved and made his
greeting. She shook her head
a bit to the right to control an
errant strand of hair as it wrestled across her mouth from a
slight breeze that made its way
down the alley. Her motion was
deliberate, but strangely fluid,
almost like she was underwater.
She handed a cup to Stimpson,
who at first waved it off in protest that he couldnt stay long,
but then accepted at her insistence. Smiling, she handed a cup
to her husband, and then feigned
a look of contempt at the sight of
his greasy hands and the smudges across his beard.
Youre a mess, reverend, she
pressed a gentle thumb across
his chin and tried to remove the
smudge, to no avail.
Mechanic work, he smiled
back, from someone who knows
precious little about mechanic
work.
Lara poured Tinneys drink
after Stimpsons, and the three
sipped from the plastic cups
and chatted about the van, the
nativity piece and the warm
April Saturday. Stimpson squatted on a closed tool box near
the van, Tinney leaned on his
newly finished project, and Lara
stood, feet together and straight
backed, arms folded across her
chest, lifting the glass occasionally to her full and paintless lips.
Stimpson finished his drink, and
Tinney took that as a cue.
Lara, why dont you go inside
and unlock the church doors I
think that trick lock fell again
when we let it shut too hard Ill
go help Brother Delbert with the
baby Jesus.
Lara jolted slightly at his command, her eyes widening a little
in subservient acknowledgment,
and she sat her glass in the open
door of the van as she quickened
PROJECT…
FROM PAGE 1
77-foot long joints of pipe arriving to the staging facility with
more sections on their way.
He said 30-40 trucks per day
carrying three of the pipe sections each have been delivering
the pipe sections for installation.
Company officials estimated
the project would add some $5
million to the Anderson County
economy during the construction and removal period, with
a similar impact in Franklin
County. The State of Kansas
as a whole could see some $45
million from the project, the
company said.
Local entrepreneurs developed at least three additional RV facilities in Welda and
Garnett in recent months in
an effort to take advantage of
construction workers who will
rent space for their trailers
as housing during the project
period.
The gas service corridor that
transports natural gas from the
Welda storage fields to the companys markets in Kansas City
and beyond has been active in
one form or another for over a
century.
USD 365…
FROM PAGE 1
parents this week to let them
know what to expect regarding
communication from teachers
and asking questions about
Internet connectivity in the
students household. The memo
said students should expect
email communication from
each of their teachers regarding logging into an online classroom, along with class expectations under the new system.
The district expects to have
additions to the grade book
on Powerschool each week in
addition to weekly lesson plans
available to parents and students.
The high schools automobile service program was
planned to continue to meet
on a regular schedule, but the
memo said welding and HVAC
course would be moving to an
online format as of yesterday.
Students would be notified if
hard copy packets would be
included as well as a schedule
as to when to pick them up or
deliver them.
School breakfasts and lunches would still be available on
a drive-thru basis each school
day at the schools north circle
drive from 10:30 a.m.- 12 noon.
The student must be present to
collect meals.
USD 365 Superintendent
Done Blome said elementary Schools have chosen to do
mostly educational packets
with a delivery/pickup schedule for students. Teachers
have been trained in zoom so
that meetings can take place
between teams/parent/students as needed. Some teachers are already using DoJo and
Seesaw to communicte with
their families. If teachers havent been using this and want
training, it is available as needed. Elementary teachers made
an initial contact with all their
student families and during
that time developing a plan for
further communication. All
contact will be documented on
a contact log and turned in to
their building principals.
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her way toward the few steps
of the open basement door to
the church. On the second step,
the slow crawl of a blaring siren
grew to a full wail. It was located
a few blocks away but was loud
enough to cover this quadrant of
town. Tinney winced a little at
the shrieking alarm, and instinctively looked up and down the
alley to its convergence with the
two city streets. He saw nothing.
Goodness!, there was a bit
of alarm in Laras voice as well
as she stepped back up to ground
level, alternating glances at her
husband with others that traced
around the neighborhood, to the
church, to the parsonage, and
around the building to Apple
Street, which ran in front of the
church.
Her eyes were open with concern as she looked to her husband, who was now walking back
toward her from the alley. Her
voice was soft and concerned.
I wonder whats happened?
***To be continued next week
beginning with Chapter 2
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Mona and the late Jim
Blevins of Greeley, Ks., and
Andre and Stephanie Maurer
of Lawrence, Ks., announce the
upcoming marriage of their
children, Madison Blevins and
Wyatt Maurer on November
7, 2020, at St. Johns Catholic
Church in Greeley.
Both the prospective bride
and groom are graduates of
Kansas State University. Wyatt
is an agriculture teacher in the
West Franklin school district.
Madison is a client services
specialist for a wealth management firm.
This week the Anderson
County Transfer Station will be
open to Anderson County residents Monday through Friday
from 7 a.m. until 10 a.m. only.
Commercial account holders
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Ideas of things to do during shutdown
According to a recent
Reuters report, about 101 million residents are being asked
to stay at home. With schools
shifting to online classes, bars
and restaurants closing to
patrons and most people working from home, Americans are
spending more time at home
than ever before.
So, what are they doing with
their time?
To help you embrace your
introverted side, here are
six stay-at-home activities
to consider before Netflix or
snacking get old from Rebecca
Gramuglia, Consumer Expert
at TopCashback.com:
Organize. Dedicate your
new-found time and attention
to sorting and organizing your
home. Whether its a hall closet, bookshelf or makeup drawer, go through these cluttered
areas and organize them. Use
your judgment and toss anything that is extremely worn
out, falling apart or unusable.
For makeup, go through the
products and toss whatever is
old and expired.
Start a blog. Now is the time
to let your creative juices flow
and let your voice be heard.
Whether its fashion, beauty, travel, fitness, cooking or
something else, a blog may be
a great creative outlet for you
to show off your passions and
skills. Be yourself and the following will come.
Learn something new.
Looking to refresh your skills
or want to simply learn something new like French, sewing or even playing the piano?
Well, now is the perfect time to
finally get around to it. Make
the most of your time at home
and check out free resources
online. Youtube is a great place
to turn to for free tutorials and
lessons.
Stay inside and shop online.
Dont worry about running out
of essentials. Keep your social
distance and shop directly from
the comforts of your own home.
Whether you need storage
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or other supplies, be sure to
look for ways to save by shopping via a cashback site like
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more.
Have a stargazing night.
The skies havent been this
clear in a very long time, so
take advantage of it. Grab a
blanket and a telescope (or
binoculars!) to explore the
endless possibilities the night
sky holds. Its rewarding, educational and an inexpensive
activity you can do from your
own backyard or bedroom window. Bonus points if you build
a blanket fort and roast marshmallows!
Try new recipes. Whether
you use cookbooks, online recipes or follow chefs on social
media, test out a recipe youve
recently been eyeing. Now is
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life returns to normal, invite
friends and family over to show
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mastered.
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Kids Khronicles
This is a continuation of creative writing stories submitted by area
4th, 5th and 6th graders that are published annually in our Creative
Kids Advertising Design and Creative Writing Contest.
When I Climbed A Mountain
by Colt King
Mrs. Reimers Class
5th Grade Central Heights
I was climbing a mountain it was called Pineapple
Mountain because of its shape
and color. Well at the top were
3 tigers named Lor, Thor, and
Ror. They guard a gem and
they have powers from the
gem. No one had ever got the
gem but I had power to.
I can run 10X faster than the
average human, 15×10 = 150 so
I can run up to 150-200 MPH. I
can jump 100 times the average
human so 100 x 15=1500, I can
jump 1500 feet off the ground.
I can do it if I am quick so I
jumped on the mountain and I
saw the 3 tigers, Thor, Lor, and
Ror. They were sleeping but
they were sleeping on the gem,
so I woke them up and hid.
They got up and I snatched
the gem and ran but they saw
me and they had super speed
and they caught me. I didnt
know what to do so I jumped
up on another mountain. They
caught me so I grabbed one
and threw it into another one
and they hit heads. One left,
Ror. So I jumped on him and
he freaked out and ran into a
rock. I got the gem, woot woot,
so I became rich.
Mazis Miracle
by Rylee Hill
Mrs. Rockers Class
5th grade St. Rose School
Mazi was the Kansas City
Roosters point guard. In all
of his games he had scored
over 100 points. They had won
every game and were headed to
the championship. Mazi was
walking to practice when his
friends Elvis came over to him
and said Can you believe that
we will be the first Roosters to
go to the championship?! Its
only a week away.
Mazi took out a binder
and wrote down another tally
mark. Elvis I know youve
only told me fifty-seven times
in the last four days., he said
calmly.
After practice the guys
went to Dairy Queen. Up to
the day before the game they
had practiced every day. That
day before the game they had a
long, hard three hour practice.
They ran sprints did pushups,
and ran a four on four and then
when it was all over everyone
went to Mazis house to spend
the night.
The next morning everyone
showered and got in their jerseys. When they got there they
worked
on their
offensive
guard and
defensive
positioning
and before
they knew
it Leim was
at the jump.
Then it was
the end of the
first quarter the
Roosters were losing 37-4 but they still kept their
heads held high. Listen up its
the fourth quarter and were
tied at 62 points. Coach K.
said I want you boys to run
the fake out. Do you know
what to do Mazi?
Yes answered Mazi.
Um coach stammered
Leim Yes, Leim coach said
I forgot what to do again
said Leim. Of course you did
joked Elvis.
What you do is come up
and screen for Mazis defender coach explained. Team
on three said their captain
Brody. One, Two, Three
then they all broke off onto
the court. Before they knew it
they were off the court to get a
drink with only 3 minutes to
spare. Mazi are
you ok, you look
kind of pale? asked
coach. No, Im fine
just a little nervous,
said Mazi.
Brody passed
the ball in to Mazi.
Everyone was yelling shoot. Every game
people would yell shoot
and he would make it, so
even though he was at the
half court line he shot with
only seconds to spare. Then
everyone looked at the goal
except Elvis because he was
too scared to, instead he looked
at Mazi. When he looked back
he saw Mazis mom and their
coach running out to Mazi who
was laying on the court. He
fainted! When he woke up, he
saw the championship trophy
and his mom, dad, coach and
teammates sitting next to him
in his hospital bed. You will
be able to leave in an hour
said Mazis mom and next
time, tell the truth when your
arent feeling good:. I will,
answered Mazi. And from that
season on the Roosters won
every game.
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Keeping
you fed
in trying
times
Store manager Lois Jolliff and the
staff of Garnetts Country Mart
grocery store work to ensure
food gets to your table during the
stresses of the Covid-19 sequester.
Ag Focus
An Annual Publication By
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
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Special to The Anderson County Review – March 31, 2020
Grocery store meeting food needs
under pressure from pandemic
Though most of agriculture began running a night shift to deep
clean the store overnight for extra
focuses on farmers and producers
and agri-business which makes up
viral protection and preparation for
the lions share of the ag econothe coming days customer traffic.
my, grocery stores occupy perhaps
No Covid-19 cases have
the most prominent public role
been reported in Anderson County,
as the final organizational link in
though cases have been reported in
the chain from field
adjacent counties
to fork. Under the
including Coffey,
present Covid-19
Franklin and Linn
Under
the
present
emergency, that
counties.
face-to-face role has
Experts say
Covid-19
emergenbecome all the more
though the virus
critical.
can remain on
County Mart cy, that face-to-face surfaces for hours,
in Garnett, Anderits not clear how
role has become all long its infectious.
son Countys only
full-service grocery
Even so, mass
retailers and high
store, is pushing
the more critical.
traffic areas have
ahead with necesbeen instructed to
sary changes and
meeting these new
frequently clean
challenges all in the interests of
surfaces and any other items like
door handles and debit card pay
keeping local residents connected
machines at cash registers that
to their necessities with as little
large numbers of customers touch.
interruption as possible.
Currently, the Food and Drug
Were open our regular
hours from 6 a.m.-9 p.m. just like
Administration says there is no
normal, said Lois Jolliff, manager evidence of food or food packaging
being associated with transmission
of Garnetts Country Mart store,
of COVID-19, so presently offibut we have allocated 6 a.m.-7
cials dont believe there is a need
a.m. for our high risk customers.
She said thats typically the stores to conduct environmental testing
in food settings for the virus for
slowest time, when those customthe purpose of food safety. Cleaners are least likely to come into
ing and sanitizing the surfaces is a
contact with the majority of the
better use of resources than testing
stores traffic. This week the store
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all buy from the same warehouses.
The warehouse is just out
of a lot of stuff, she said. They
cant get wipes because the manufacturer cant make them fast
enough.
The rush for certain products has had a byproduct, Jolliff
said. The stores seeing customers
its never seen before.
Were getting a lot of
people not from here, she said.
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K-State veterinarian: No evidence that livestock can transmit COVID-19 to humans
MANHATTAN, Kan. The director of
a Kansas State University veterinary
laboratory that responds to animal
health issues across the state says that
while coronavirus is a disease familiar
to livestock producers, it is not the
same strain of the virus that is grabbing
headlines across the globe.
The novel strain of coronavirus, COVID-19, is transmitted through
humans. There is no evidence that
livestock can transmit the disease to
humans, and the food products from
livestock cannot carry COVID-19 to
humans.
Producers are well aware that
there is a (different strain of) coronavirus that is associated with neo-natal diarrhea, and theres another one
that we think is now associated with
cattle respiratory disease, said Gregg
Hanzlicek, director of the production
animal field investigations unit in
K-States Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.
But I want to make it perfectly clear that our cattle coronavirus
has no relationship to the coronavirus
that is currently circulating in humans. These coronaviruses are very
species-specific. There is absolutely
no indication that livestock can be
carriers of COVID-19 and be a source
of infection to humans, either through
carrying it on their skin or their hair or
anywhere else.
He added: Milk, eggs, beef
porkwhatever proteins that are
produced by livestock are absolutely safe to eat. People do not have to
worry about those products carrying
COVID-19 to the population.
Hanzlicek said that producers
are safe to go about the business of
taking care of animals: They need to
minimize the amount of exposure they
have to humans. At this point, they
should keep on doing what they do
every day with their livestock.
Livestock producers who
think they may have been exposed to
COVID-19 should see their medical
professional. If their livestock begin
showing signs of illness, as well, Hanzlicek said they should contact their
local veterinarian.
The local vet will call the
state or federal veterinarian and then a
decision will be made whether to test
those animals for COVID-19, Hanzlicek said. We dont want to just start
blanket sampling all animals. Again,
with this virus, we do not believe that
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Hanzlicek said that the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration has
relaxed its rules just a bit to allow
producers to consult with a veterinarian through tele-medicine that is,
communicating sickness to a veterinarian by phone or online technology.
The veterinarian is not
necessarily required to make a trip
to actually look at the animals, thus
maintaining social distance guidelines
for humans, Hanzlicek said.
The K-State Veterinary Diag-
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remains open during the universitys
limited operations status. Hanzlicek
said the lab is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday, and 8 a.m. to
noon on Saturday.
Hanzlicek and others also are
still available to travel throughout Kansas to help local veterinarians diagnose
suspected livestock disease. The staff
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Getting bulls ready for the breeding season
MANHATTAN, Kan. Any coach of a
winning athlete will say that success in
competition is the result of the athletes
nutrition and fitness preparation. Beef
cattle experts at Kansas State University say that same mentality applies to
preparing bulls for the breeding season.
A single bull is responsible
for many pregnancies, so it is critical
that he goes into the breeding season
healthy and fertile, said veterinarian
Bob Larson, speaking recently on the
Beef Cattle Institutes CattleChat podcast.
To make sure bulls are
well-vaccinated heading into the breeding season, Larson advises producers
to follow similar protocols for females
and males of the same age. For example, the heifers and yearling bulls
should receive similar vaccinations
(except bulls do not receive a brucellosis vaccine), and cows and mature
bulls should be vaccinated similarly.
He also stressed the importance of evaluating yearling and mature
bulls with a breeding soundness exam
prior to the start of breeding.
That exam will include the
bulls physical health as well as an
evaluation of the reproductive tract and
semen quality, Larson said, adding
that even with healthy looking bulls,
about 10-20% will actually show up as
sub-fertile.
Once theyve passed their
health exam, Weaber advised that producers focus on acclimating the bulls
to the breeding environment ahead
of when they are turned out with the
cows.
The environmental adaptation
is really important, he said. Bulls
that go from a high energy growing ration to dormant winter forage can lose
a body condition score. That decline
in energy status can have an impact on
breeding performance as well as semen
quality. This nutritional insult is exacerbated in bulls that were in marginal
condition initially.
Another concern is how the
bulls will get along in a breeding pasture.
Managing the introduction
of yearling bulls with mature bulls
pre-turnout is important because they
will need to sort out a pecking order,
Weaber said. Oftentimes the bulls can
get injured in a fight for dominance.
He added: If there is a big
tussle going on, human safety is
important, and producers need to be
careful how they interrupt that. It is
important that those bulls are located in
a spot where they can be separated as
needed.
Get the bulls introduced and
settled before you turn them out with
cows. What you dont want are bulls to
be distracted from settling the cows because they are fighting for dominance
over who is the king bull.
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K-State researchers test fertilizers for best results in Kansas, other soils
MANHATTAN, Kan. Ganga Hettiarachchi knows that farmers want to
be good stewards of the environment.
And as a soil scientist at Kansas State
University, she is in a good position to
help them along the way.
Hettiarachchi and former
doctoral student Jay Weeks recently
completed a study of how phosphorus
an important nutrient for growing
farm crops reacts in alkaline farmland, called calcareous soils, which are
abundant in arid to semiarid regions,
due to their high concentrations of
calcium and carbonate
Because plant available phosphorus is often lacking in calcareous
soils, one tendency is to over-apply
fertilizer to make sure that crops have
enough phosphorus available to meet
its growth needs.
But Hettiarachchi said more
may not be better when applying
fertilizer in calcareous soil, such as
those found in many parts of western
Kansas.
Our research group conducted
experiments in a laboratory to understand exactly what is happening to the
phosphorus when fertilizer is applied
to crops, Hettiarachchi said.
What they found is that when
fertilizer is applied in granules, the
phosphorus is readily converted into
calcium phosphate and not available
to the plant. In that case, Hettiarachchi
said, precipitated phosphorus could
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Instead, she said, farmers
should apply smaller amounts of
liquid fertilizers, or other phosphorus
sources, such as ammonium polyphosphate (APP). Those products are more
capable of permeating the soil, minimizing calcium phosphate precipitation
and delivering phosphorus and other
nutrients to the plant.
By selecting the right source
and formulation, Hettiarachchi said,
they could actually save money by
applying less phosphorus. That is good
for the farmers economically and good
for the environment because we are not
over-applying phosphorus.
Hettiarachchi noted her
groups findings support a well-known
principle of responsible nutrient
management that calls for applying
nutrients at the right time, rate, source
and place. I think that is the driving
thing for farmersthey want to do this
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The bottom line is that when
considering granule fertilizers or liquid
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Hettiarachchis work, which
studied soils found near Garden
City, Kan., was recently accepted for
publication in the journal for the Soil
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She added that future work
will study the impact of other nutrients
common in fertilizer. We are looking
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fertilizers, Hettiarachchi said. Again,
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K-State ag economist advises producers to focus on costs, increase liquidity
MANHATTAN, Kan. Economic
turmoil sparked by the COVID-19
virus means agricultural producers
now more than ever, should do what
they can to control costs and increase
liquidity, according to agricultural
economist Brian Briggeman.
With this COVID-19 pandemic, were seeing a re-trenching
people pulling in and doing social
distancing, said Briggeman, who
is the director of the Arthur Capper
Cooperative Center at Kansas State
University. Our U.S. economy is
driven by consumption, roughly 66%
to 70% of our gross domestic product comes from consumption. Were
a nation of consumers, and if were
not out consuming, that creates a lot
of questions going forward.
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In response to this uncertainty and
economic disruption, the Federal
Reserve is using its monetary policy
tools to support the economy.
In a March 19 radio interview on Agriculture Today, Briggeman noted that the Federal Reserve
exists to help guide the U.S. economy and provide a stimulus and support when needed and on the other
side, a cool down when needed.
The primary monetary policy tool that the Fed has at its disposal
is the federal funds rate. The Fed
Funds rate is the rate at which banks
lend and borrow from each other in
short term markets, Briggeman said.
He noted that the federal
funds rate is a signal to the economy
and global markets. The Fed recently
announced it is dropping the Fed
Funds rate to the zero bound. The
last time this rate reached that low of
a mark was during the 2008 financial
crisis.
The Fed is taking a pretty
aggressive approach, similar to what
we saw in the 2008 financial crisis,
Briggeman said.
In 2008, the Feds balance
sheet expanded from $850 billion
in assets to more than $2 trillion in
a matter of months. The additional
assets were aimed at ensuring shortterm credit markets remained functional. Similar to the Feds response
in 2008, its committed to providing
$1.5 trillion of short-term funding to
credit markets today.
Other actions have been
taken by the Fed to help support the
U.S. economy, including creating
credit facilities to support borrowing
and lending of households and businesses, as well as purchasing longer
term U.S. treasuries that have helped
push longer term interest rates down.
Many farmers, agribusinesses, and cooperatives that Ive talked
to saw long-term interest rates fall
at the end of 2019 and (early) 2020,
and that provided them opportunities
to lock in some pretty cheap longer
term money. Briggeman said.
Whether the actions taken
by the Federal Reserve so far will
be enough to counter the turmoil the
COVID-19 outbreak is having on the
U.S. economy, including the agricultural industry, is unclear, he said.
Unfortunately, that is just
something were going to have to
watch and monitor as things develop, Briggeman said. The 2008
crisis was created by the housing
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much debt out there in households.
This crisis is different. Its a pandemic where we are re-trenching
and pulling in and hopefully we will
bounce back quickly. With that said,
the likelihood of the U.S. entering a
recession has gone up.
When asked about the effect
on agriculture, Briggeman said:
Each farm, ranch, and agribusiness
needs to look at running as efficient
of an operation as possible. Monitor
costs. Build liquidity or working
capital. Use sound farm and agribusiness financial management practices.
Depressed commodity prices and
low net farm incomes makes this
challenging. But weve got to focus
on being efficient.
In addition to the audio interview on this topic, a video is also
available.
K-State Research and Extension also has a resource page with
links to a variety of topics associated
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Jolliff said in the same way
the people are cooperating to minimize the risk of transferring the
disease in so many other aspects of
public life, they can help ensure the
grocery store remains functional,
staffed, and able to meet public
needs.
The basic things, like stay
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If we get sick, then we cant get to
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K-State beef experts offer common sense advice
Growing up on a livestock
operation teaches agriculturists such
life lessons as the value of hard work,
the miracle of birth, the joy of caring
for animals and, sometimes, the loss of
livestock.
Recently, experts from the Kansas State University Beef Cattle Institute
tackled the topic of calf death loss on a
weekly podcast. Leading the discussion
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director and veterinarian Brad White.
Nationally, beef producers
lose about 2% of calves at birth or within the first 21 days of life, and another
2% prior to weaning, Larson said. He
noted that there are wide herd-to-herd
and year-to-year variations in those
numbers.
These losses are attributed to
difficult births or diseases such as scours
that can weaken the calves in their first
few weeks of life.
Difficult births can cause the
calf to be born dead, but also those that
survive may be weak and unable to get
up and get the necessary colostrum,
Larson said.
One of the factors that White
said contributes to birthing difficulties
relates to cow nutrition.
If the cows are really thin
that can lead to calving challenges and
potentially hamper nutrition for the calf,
so it is important to maintain the cows
in good body condition, White said.
Larson added: A cow that is
thin often doesnt have enough energy
reserve to take care of her calf.
One of the ways to support
body condition for cows consuming
low-quality forage is through protein
supplementation.
In late gestation a cow will
need a couple pounds of protein, Larson said. She typically will get a pound
from low quality forage available this
time of year and the balance will need to
come through a cube or some other form
of a protein supplement.
Larson encouraged producers to
work with their veterinarian or nutri-
tionist to calculate the correct amount
of supplementation needed for their
management situation.
Another factor to minimize calf
death loss relates to the environment.
We prefer to have cows calve
on grass rather than in a dry lot where
there is more potential for mud, Larson
said. White added it is also important
to make sure the cows and calves are
current on their vaccinations.
For those who are experiencing calf death loss, White stressed the
importance of understanding why that is
happening in the herd.
Your biggest category of death
cant be an unknown cause because it
is very hard to solve that problem, he
said.
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