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THE STAFF of Baldwin Family Vision celebrate the clinic’s recent opening while that of Auburn Pharmacy mark its 20th year at a Baldwin City Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting Thursday at the adjoining businesses on Ames Street.
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WITH THE temperature still above 100 degrees, Ed Pyle, left, and Mike Burns, owner of Auburn Pharmacy, add to their discomfort by firing up the grill to cook hamburgers at the ribbon cutting Thursday afternoon for Auburn Pharmacy and Baldwin Family Vision Center.
All-Star Game’s return to Kansas City stokes baseball memories CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7
Junction City to state title contention in the late ’90s. These Bobcats had those tools, but their bats were just so hot, too. “They flat out mashed,” he recalled. “They could score 15 to 20 runs on you without trying.” The Braves cut it closer the next year, rallying from a 6-0 deficit before Bobcats second baseman Michael Armstrong turned an unassisted double play to silence the Braves’ attempted turnaround. Four years later, Armstrong was killed in an automobile accident at just 21 years old. Svodoba still has a photo of himself using the Kauffman Stadium bullpen phone, Armstrong peering over his shoulder with a look of mischief wiped across his face. “Looking back now means even more to me,” Svodoba said. “Little did we know how fragile life can be. He’s not even here now just scant years later to share that.” It was on that April afternoon, captured in that photo, midway through their game, that Pier got every bit of Josh Ishmael’s pitch, blasting it eight rows north of the left field fence.
“Every kid dreams of hitting a home run in a major league stadium,” Moulin said. “He hit a bomb.” Two seasons later, the Braves returned to finally end Basehor-Linwood’s Kauffman Stadium streak. The Braves finally got theirs, a 7-2 victory and a chance to pose in front of the scoreboard for photos. It was a series that heightened a rivalry already circled on calendars in both towns. Friendly, yes, but a desire to win, and win decisively, did not relent. “We flat out wanted to beat them,” Svodoba added. “We wanted to beat them like a drum every time we were there.” At the last Frank White Classic the Bobcats played, a few seasons after the Braves stopped playing in the game, Svodoba stood in the third base box with tears in his eyes. “I realized it was the end of a run — a real special thing to be a part of a program that had the opportunity to play over there,” he said. “The kids may not necessarily have gotten it or thought of it in the way Rick and I appreciated it. But most of these kids today didn’t see the Royals when they were good, when the place just hopped and the Royals were right.” Moulin never could find that video
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of the home run. Just as well. How could it show how lush the sunlit field was, how crisp the air and just how hard Mike Pier crushed that pitch? ••• It was Phil Thomas’ small stature that led him away from the gridiron and hardwood and toward his true passion for America’s pastime as a boy in Kansas City, Kan. “I was kind of used as a tackling dummy when it came to playing football, and they were all taller than I was when we played basketball, so basically, I had a wall and a glove,” Thomas said. “While everybody was playing football, I was playing catch with myself.” What started as a neutralizer eventually became a forte, as Thomas developed into one of the premier baseball players in the state. After moving to Tonganoxie as a teen, he flourished on Ban Johnson and American Legion teams in Leavenworth. He played in both leagues at once, logging as many as 100 games a summer. Thomas had several notable pitching performances during his teenage years, including three consecutive no-hitters as an eighth-grader, but another game sticks out in his mind as one of the most memorable. Pitching against a Marysville squad head-
lined by Junior Riggins, brother of Kansas University football star John Riggins, Thomas didn’t allow a hit in the game, but suffered a 1-0 defeat. “(Junior) was just as fast as John Riggins, and he could hit,” Thomas said. “I said I wasn’t going to let him hit a home run off of me, so I pretty much pitched around him and walked him. On one pitch, he was on second, then the next pitch he was on third, then somebody popped up to the outfield. He went home, and I got beat 1-0.” Thomas’ talents didn’t go unnoticed by professional scouts, as he was drafted by the San Francisco Giants as a Tonganoxie High senior in 1966. However, rather than accepting $500 to play in a threemonth league with the Giants’ rookie affiliate — the Magic Valley (Idaho) Cowboys — Thomas accepted a scholarship at the College of Emporia, where he pitched for two years. He was inducted into the school’s athletic hall of fame in July 2010. After graduating from college and a three-year term in the Army, Thomas returned to northeast Kansas. He continued playing baseball for a few more years, including a semi-pro stint with the Halstead Cowboys, but eventually got married and hung up his cleats. He still lives in Tonganoxie.
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| COMMUNITY CALENDAR |
7/5 | THURSDAY
7/10 | TUESDAY
Baldwin City Tourism Bureau meeting, Three Sisters Inn, 9 a.m.
Coffee Talk, Vintage Park, at Baldwin City, 321 Crimson Ave., 9 a.m.
Daily Exercises, Vintage Park, 10 a.m. Caregivers support group, Baldwin Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 1223 Orchard Lane, 1 p.m.
TOPS meeting, Baldwin Community Library, 9 a.m. Daily Exercises, Vintage Park, 10 a.m.
Bingo, Vintage Park, 2 p.m.
Sing-a-long with Pastor Bud, Vintage Park BPW meeting, Vintage Park, 6:30 p.m. Baldwin First United Methodist Church, vacation Bible school, 6:30 to 9 p.m.
7/6 | FRIDAY Coffee Talk, Vintage Park at Baldwin City, 321 Crimson Ave., 9 a.m. Daily Exercises, Vintage Park, 10:30 a.m. Bingo, Vintage Park, 2 p.m. Youth cabaret, Lumberyard Arts Center, 7 p.m.
7/7 | SATURDAY
7/11 | WEDNESDAY Baldwin City Chamber of Commerce monthly luncheon, The Lodge, 502 Ames St., noon Baldwin First United Methodist Church, vacation Bible school, 6:30 to 9 p.m.
Farmers Market, downtown west of the Post Office, 7:30 a.m. to noon
7/12 | THURSDAY
Youth cabaret, Lumberyard Arts Center, 7 p.m.
Daily Exercises, Vintage Park, 321 Crimson Ave., 10 a.m.
7/8 | SUNDAY
Caregivers support group, Baldwin Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 1 p.m. Bingo, Vintage Park, 2 p.m.
Baldwin First United Methodist Church, vacation Bible school, 6:30 to 9 p.m.
Baldwin First United Methodist Church, vacation Bible school, 6:30 to 9 p.m.
7/9 | MONDAY
7/13 | FRIDAY
Coffee Talk, Vintage Park, at Baldwin City, 321 Crimson Ave., 9 a.m.
Coffee Talk, Vintage Park at Baldwin City, 321 Crimson Ave., 9 a.m. Daily Exercises, Vintage Park, 10:30 a.m.
Horsin’ Around junior day camp, Midnight Farm, 9 a.m. to noon. Daily Exercises, Vintage Park, 10 a.m. Bingo, Vintage Park, 2 p.m. Children lunch summer lunch program distribution, Ives Chapel UMC, 6 to 8 p.m. Baldwin City Council Community Development Committee, Baldwin City Hall, 4 p.m. Baldwin First United Methodist Church, vacation Bible school, 6:30 to 9 p.m. Boy Scout Troop 65 meeting, 7 p.m., Scout Cabin 341 Fremont St. Baldwin First United Methodist Church, vacation Bible school, 6:30 to 9 p.m.
Bingo, Vintage Park, 2 p.m.
7/14 | SATURDAY Farmers Market, downtown west of the Post Office, 7:30 a.m. to noon.
7/16 | MONDAY Coffee Talk, Vintage Park, at Baldwin City, 321 Crimson Ave., 9 a.m. Daily Exercises, Vintage Park, 10 a.m.
| BCRC CALENDAR |
6/28 | THURSDAY
7/2 | MONDAY
Bulldog Days, Baker University Liston Stadium, 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. Group fitness, BESPC South Gym, 8:30 a.m.
Bulldog Days, Baker University Liston Stadium, 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. Group fitness, BESPC South Gym, 8:30 a.m.
Water aerobics, city pool, 9 a.m. and 6:15 p.m. Left, Right Center, BCRC office, 715 High St., 1 p.m.
Pinochle, BCRC office, noon Zumba, BESIC, 5:30 p.m.
6/29 | FRIDAY
7/3 | TUESDAY
Bulldog Days, Baker University Liston Stadium, 6 a.m. and 8 p.m.
Bulldog Days, Liston Stadium, 6 a.m. and 8 p.m.
Group fitness, BESPC South Gym, 8:30 a.m. Pinochle, BCRC office, 715 High St. noon Lake Shawnee day camp field trip.
Group fitness, BESPC South Gym, 8:30 a.m. Water aerobics, city pool, 9 a.m. and 6:15 p.m. Rummikub, BCRC office, 715 High St, 1 p.m. Holton day trip
3 on 3 registration deadline Friday The deadline to register for the Baldwin City Recreation Commission’s 3-on-3 youth basketball league is Friday. This year, BCRC is combining the skills and games in the program. All children will participate in skills from 9 to 10:30 am on Mondays with games to be played on Wednesday mornings. A game schedule will be available Monday, July 9. At this time, boys and girls will be combined. Practices and games will be at the Baldwin Elementary School Primary Center. Richard Ebel will be in charge of the instruction and game supervision.
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6/30 | SATURDAY Pokemon League, Baldwin City Public Library, 1 p.m. Free community swim, 6 p.m.
7/1 | SUNDAY Yoga, BESIC Library, 5 p.m.
7/4 | WEDNESDAY Bulldog Days, Liston Stadium, 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. Group fitness, BESPC South Gym, 8:30 a.m. Zumba, BESIC, 5:30 p.m. Martial Arts, BESIC, 6 p.m. Spanish Class, BCRC office, 714 High St., 6 p.m.
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Asked why she was sewing dresses and shorts Saturday in the fellowship hall of Baldwin First United Methodist Church, 8-year-old Riley Smith answered, “because sewing is fun.” After a few seconds reflection, Riley amended her answer. “I think it’s good we’re sewing dresses and shorts because not everyone has enough money to go buy them,” she said. Sitting at a sewing machine to the right of her mother, Riley was part of a 14-woman assembly line that cranked out dresses and shorts to be sent to children in Haiti. The process started in the kitchen where five women cut donated used T-shirt to patterns taken from the PBS show “Sewing with Nancy,” said Linda Ballinger, who organized the workday. But the women did make one alteration to the pattern by adding cargo pockets made from sleeves. “It didn’t say anything about pock-
City to explore sculptors’ public art proposal By Elvyn Jones ejones@theworldco.com
The Baldwin City Council has agreed to discuss with sculptors a proposal to create statues in downtown Baldwin City or its parks. City Administrator Chris Lowe told the Baldwin City Council on Monday that representatives of the Kansas Sculptors Association approached Sandy Cardens, secretary and gallery director of the Lumberyard Arts Center, about bringing a public art project to Baldwin City. The association had a show featuring the work of its members last year at the Lumberyard. In the program, sculptors with the association come to Kansas cities to
create pieces at no cost, except the price of the stone and their lodging while in the community. Lowe said the sculptors could create a work to fit a setting as small as Tom Swain Park or as large as the park near the swimming pool. Enhancing the arts in the community, particularly downtown, was one of the topics the council discussed in recent workshops. Council members agreed Monday the request would be a good fit with that effort and gave Lowe direction to further discuss the proposal with the association. Mayor Ken Wagener suggested the Lumberyard board members be involved in those discussions as a way for the city to broaden its partnership with that board.
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ets, but we decided they needed them,” she said. The cut patterns were then passed one of the women sitting at the seven sewing machines available Saturday. The sewing day was a project of the UMC Women she chairs but was open to all who wanted to participate, Ballinger said. The clothes originally were to be sent to Africa, but the destination was changed to Haiti because the need was just as great there since the 2010 earthquake and because of the church’s association with missionaries Sandy and Joe Edgerton. When they arrive in Haiti, the clothing will give the island a little bit of northeast Kansas flavor. Some of the T-shirts had Kansas City Royals insignias on them, others were adorned with Kansas University lettering and one piece of material had orange maple leafs on blue background, which are the colors of Baker University. The splashes of local color seemed appropriate when Coleen Burgess explained the day’s activity.
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LINDA BALLINGER, left, helps Riley Smith with her sewing at a Saturday’s workday at Baldwin First United Methodist Church. Also at the table is Riley’s mother Kelley Bethell-Smith, her sister Bailey Smith and Babs Reed. All spent the morning sewing shorts and dresses for children in Haiti.
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Musing on the Hill What childhood memories the twirled the sparklers around in the air Fourth of July brings to mind. Next and danced on the lawn. The tiny lights to Christmas, it was our most excit- of the fire flies offered no competition ing holiday. After rising very early, we Usually a few skyrockets were set were allowed to set off noiseless white off in the field by the fathers with worms on our front walk. Worms, much pomp and ceremony. Our famwhen touched with a lighted punk ily had no skyrockets — supplying stick, slowly emerged five children with from a small white JUNE JEWETT worms, torpedoes, cone, finally turning firecrackers and into dry ashes. These sparklers was quite left black marks but enough. The Great they soon washed off. Depression of the No noise or yelling 1930s was very much was permitted before in evidence and ex9 a.m. because our penditures for skychildless neighbors rockets were not conwere still asleep. sidered a necessity. After that hour came torpedoes, I remember with great fondness the which exploded upon impact when fireworks display Baldwin City used to thrown hard against the cement walk, have in Baker’s Liston Stadium. What and then, best of all, firecrackers. A a wonderful crowd, with no chairs to prodigal person might light an entire drag and a clear view. It was the highstring of crackers, but we hoarded light of the Fourth. Usually we ended ours carefully. A single cracker at a the evening at the long-gone old Dari time for us. Our small store was all too Ring. As I recall, for a few years, Baldsoon exhausted. We set our firecrack- win had no fireworks and some of us ers under empty soup cans (saved for drove to Lawrence. Thank you to all this purpose) and lit them with our involved in bringing back our very own punks. There were many arguments fireworks display. As usual, Baldwin about whose can flew higher. adds an extra fillip — the ice-cream There was an empty field next train ride at Midland Railway. to our house that served as a neighI am writing this column July l. I do borhood playground. Our yard had hope that the dangerous fire condiswings, parallel bars for skin-the-cat, tions do not interfere with the planned a push-me-around see-saw and merry- ceremonies. Not to worry. Our fine go-round. My mother was very easy- fire departments will protect us. Drivgoing and did not scold children if they ing home from Lawrence at night can happened to step into her flowerbeds. be dangerous, especially after toasting Later in the day, the big boys came to the Fourth of July. the field with their large firecrackers. “July 1776 will be the most memoThe cans flew even higher and the ar- rable epochs in the history of America guments grew more heated. … it ought to be celebrated with pomp By early afternoon, our firecrackers and parade … guns, bells, bonfires and were usually depleted and we waited illuminations from this time forward impatiently for the evening festivities. for evermore.” — John Adams in a letAt dusk, out came the sparklers. We ter to his wife, Abigail, 1776.
POINT OF VIEW The Signal visited the Knights of Columbus fireworks tent to quiz shoppers of their buying habits this year. From time to time, additional comments may be posted on The Signal’s Web site, baldwincity.com.
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Are you buying more or fewer fireworks this year than you have in the past?
“About the same as last year with the economics of it. With the BCRC show this year, you don’t have to spend a lot for a public display.”
“About the same amount as always. I stay within a budget.” Cindy Jones,
“About the same as always.” Brian Patterson, Baldwin City
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BALDWIN SCHOOL BOARD Ande Parks 708 Chapel St. Baldwin City, KS 66006 aparks@usd348.com
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Mother grateful for support given son with rare genetic condition CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
who said hello to Eli, who talked to Eli and engaged with him.” In the latest example of that compassion, the Baldwin City Lions Club gave a specially designed bicycle to Eli on June 27, his ninth birthday, Amy said. In the latest example of that compassion, the Baldwin City Lions Club gave a specially designed bicycle to Eli on June 27, his ninth birthday, Amy said. Neu Therapy and Baldwin Athletic Club have made facilities available for Eli’s therapeutic use, she said. Genetic testing revealed in December 2010 that Eli has Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome, a rare partial or total absence of the TCF4 gene. There are only two children in Kansas diagnosed with the syndrome and just 120 in the world. That diagnosis came more than six years after 9-month-old Eli was first referred to Kansas University Medical Center and Children’s Mercy Hospital subsequent to Amy and her husband, Scott, noticing he wasn’t as active or engaged as a normal baby. The doctors there couldn’t help much, Amy said, and she and her husband passed on testing at that time because they didn’t want to put Eli through all the “poking and prodding” that genetic testing involved. It was a sound decision because the test for Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome wasn’t developed until 2007. Instead, the family started working with a succession of agencies, such as Douglas County Infant and Toddler
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on their face,” she Services, Parents said. “The strength I think with everyone Eli as Teachers, the of the relationship Baldwin school meets, he somehow has the Eli has formed district and East ability to put a smile on their with is class is Central Kansas amazing.” Cooperative in face.” Ulrich gives Eli’s Education. They family credit, too. worked with Eli — Betsy Ulrich, special education teacher 13-year-old His and the family brother Blake has at home and at a special bond with school to overEli and his parents come limitations his parents now know are associated work very well with his therapists, she with the syndrome, such as mental said. Although his diagnosis didn’t impairment, weak muscle tone and vichange the approach to Eli’s thersion problems. “The doctors we have interfaced apy or individual education plan at with are minimal compared to the school, it has been good for the famcounselors, therapists and para-pro- ily. “We can now interface with famifessionals that have helped him daily since he was 12 months old,” she said. lies with other children who have “They were focused on his develop- been diagnosed,” Amy said. “When ment. As it turned out, that was the we got the diagnosis, we went on Google and found pictures of chilright thing to do.” “The school district has been ex- dren that look like Eli. We thought traordinary. I never got the feeling my immediately, ‘Hey, these are Eli’s child was a square peg trying to be fit people.’ “We’re one of two families in Kanin a round hole. His special-education teacher, as well as his therapists, get sas with a child with Pitt-Hopkins. very excited about his success and We’re going to get together with them soon. That’s a really nice thing.” progress.” The diagnosis also gave her peace His schoolmates further enrich his of mind, Amy said. educational experience, Amy said. “It let me know I didn’t do some“His peers are phenomenal.” she said. “His teacher told me his class- thing wrong during my pregnancy,” mates argue over who gets to sit next she said. “I had a huge sense of guilt lifted from me. There wasn’t anything to Eli or help Eli.” Betsy Ulrich, Eli’s special-education I could have done to change the way teacher at school, said his schoolmates he was supposed to be.” She makes an effort to live in the respond to Eli’s personality. “I think with everyone Eli meets, he moment and not dwell on the future, somehow has the ability to put a smile Amy said. But when she does look
ahead, she sees Eli continuing to benefit from the good side of human nature. “My dream and desire for him is that he will be around caring and compassionate people his whole life,” she said.
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New Life Assembly of God 5th & Baker, Box 274, 594-3045 Rev. Mark Halford, Pastor
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AMERICAN BAPTIST
Gathering Places A house church meeting at 1208 Long Creek Ct.
Dave Killingsworth, Pastor . ........... 785-764-6868 Sunday Meal and Gathering ........................ Noon
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Worship Service ................. ................ 10:30 a.m. Bible Study Sunday at church ................... 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Evening Service ................ 7:00 p.m.
Annunciation Catholic Church 740 North 6th St., 594-3700 Father Brandon Farrar
Sunday Holy Mass ...........10:30 a.m. & 6:00 p.m. Confessions Sunday ............................. 5:00 p.m. Adoration 1st Sunday of month
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CHURCH OF CHRIST
Baldwin Church of Christ 203 10th St., Box 282.................... 594-6712 Minister James Kennedy Sunday Class ...................................... 10:00 Sunday Morning Worship .................... 11:00 Sunday Evening Service ....................... 5:00 Wednesday Class ................................. 7:00
Faith Works Therapy Jennifer Groene, LCMFT Serving the Spiritual, Emotional, & Psychological well-being of women, children, & families. Call ....................................... (785) 979-5434
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CHURCH OF CHRIST 309 E. High St. 594-4246
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VINLAND CHURCH OF CHRIST 1702 N 700 Rd.594-3648 Shawn Smith, Preacher
Bible School ........................................ 10:00 Worship Service .................................. 10:45 Sunday Evening Service ....................... 6:00 Wednesday Bible Study ........................ 7:00
CATHOLIC 8TH & HIGH BALDWIN CITY, KANSAS 66006
Sunday Worship .................................. 10:30 a.m.
(3 1/2 miles West of jct. 59/56 and 1 mile north) 396 E 900 Rd. ....................................... 594-3478 Pastor: Rev. Lewis Hinshaw Sunday School ................... ................ 10:00 a.m. Worship Service ................. ................ 11:00 a.m.
Bible Study .......................................... 10:00 Worship ............................................... 11:00 Sunday Eve ........................................... 6:00 Wednesday Bible Study ........................ 7:00
Lighthouse Baptist Church 115 6th St. ..... 594-4101 Pastor Richard Austin
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Lonestar Church of the Brethren 2 mi. N. of Lonestar Lake 883 E. 800 Rd. Pastor Benny Rosell 785-748-9837
Sunday School ................... .................. 9:30 Morning Worship ................ ................ 11:00 Sunday Evening Worship ...................... 6:00 Wednesday Family Night Bible Study & Dinner .................................. 6:00
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Grace Episcopal Church
315 W. 5th St., Ottawa .............................785-242-5390 Rite 1 Service (2nd Sunday/Month) ................. 8:30 a.m. Rite 2 Service (Every Sunday) ......................10:15 a.m. Healing Service (Every 1st Thursday) ...........12:15 a.m.
GOSPEL
Christ Gospel Church 1600 South St................ ............... 594-2992 Coal Creek Gospel Hall 1718 N 466 Rd. .......................785.979.5012 Good News
UNITED METHODIST Clearfield United Methodist Church ..........................................................883-2360 Pastor Rev. Lane Bailey Morning Worship ................ .................. 9:00 a.m. Sunday School ................... ................ 10:30 a.m.
First United Methodist Church 704 8th St., Box 25........ ............... 594-6612 Pastor Paul Babcock Sunday School ................... .................. 9:30 a.m. Worship Service ................. ................ 10:45 a.m.
Ives Chapel United Methodist Church 1018 Miami (West Baldwin)...594-6555 Pastor Rev. Jacob Cloud Sunday School ................... .................. 9:45 a.m. Worship Service ................. ................ 11:00 a.m.
Vinland United Methodist Church 1724 N 692 Rd.594-3256 Pastor Nick Woods Sunday Worship .................................. 10:30 a.m. Sunday School ................... .................. 9:30 a.m.
Worden United Methodist Church 298 E 900 Rd. (3 1/2 miles west of jct. 56/59) ............................... 594-3894 Bud Tuxhorn, Pastor Traditional Worship ............................... 8:15 a.m. Church School ....................................... 9:30 a.m. Contemporary Worship ....................... 10:30 a.m.
Sunday School ................................ 11:45 a.m.
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BRIEFLY IN BRIEF Fire department offering free CPR classes The Baldwin City Fire Department is offering free CPR classes to businesses or organizations. Classes need a minimum of six participants. The classes will also be available to individuals should they enroll in classes with the required six participants.
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The course is three to four hours long and those completing the instruction will receive a two-year certification in CPR.
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DRESSED AS A LEPRECHAUN, Chris Rachol attracts motorists’ attention to the We Buy Gold LLC location at 22342 W. 66th St., Shawnee. It is one of seven We Buy Gold outlets on the Kansas side of the state line that pay cash for gold.
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Retail outlets that pay cash for gold have been proliferating. We Buy Gold LLC, for instance, has opened seven Kansas locations. Behman Zakeri, the business’s chief executive, explained the trend. Q: What is driving the opening of these outlets that buy gold and other precious metals? A: Simple, it’s because of the high prices of gold and silver over the past few years. People can now sell gold jewelry they bought in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s and sometimes triple or quadruple what they paid for it. Q: Do you expect this service to continue, or are the stores temporary? A: For many, it’s just temporary while prices remain high. For us it’s different. … We are providing the public with a much-needed service where they can convert unwanted precious metals into cash for fair prices. This service was al-
ways needed and just took the price spikes for people to recognize it. Q: Is the value of gold at a record high? A: Gold is around $1,620 an ounce, down from last summer’s record high of about $1,900 an ounce. Gold prices have soared because people have recognized it’s one of the only safe places to invest their money. Q: What types of gold pieces do most people bring in to sell? A: We see just about anything from gold jewelry and coins to dental gold and gold dust. Q: How do you determine the value of the pieces the public brings in? A: We have a three-step process that we go through to test each piece that is offered to us to determine our buy prices. Our buy prices are a percentage of spot (prices) based on the market value for precious metals each day.
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Photo guild to meet Sunday The July meeting of the Photographers Guild will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Lumberyard Arts Center, 718 High St. There will be a showing of the documentary “Stand: Under the Dark Cloth,” which couldn’t be viewed at the last meeting because of technical difficulties. This photo month’s challenge will be “fireworks.”
Baldwin City’s businesses to be recalled at senior mix This month’s Baldwin Community Senior Mix will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, July 11, at Ives Chapel United Methodist Church, 1018 Miami St. The program will be “A Backward Glimpse at Baldwin History/Business.” Those attending will be invited to share memories of businesses they remember. Refreshments will be available after the program.
Youth theater camp planned for July 23 to 27 Baldwin City Community Theater and the Lumberyard Arts Center will have a youth theater camp from July 23 to July 27 at the Lumberyard for children in kindergarten through sixth grade. Classes for kindergartners through second-graders will be from 9 to 11:30 a.m. and those for third-graders through sixth-graders will be from 12:30 to 3 p.m. Both will be led by Jennifer Glenn, a drama teacher at the Lawrence Arts Center with more than 30 years of theater and directing experience. The cost of the camp in $60 and preregistration is required by July 16. For information about scholarship help to attend the camp or other questions, call Wendy Conover at 785-594-3186.
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Midsummer classic stokes baseball stories By Stephen Montemayor smontemayor@theworldco.info
This being summer, Philip Hannon is sitting in his office thinking about recruiting, thinking about who next will don a Baker University baseball cap. He’s just concluded his 12th season as head coach of the Wildcats. Their playoff chances looking up this year, the Wildcats lost their final 12 games, eight of them by a margin of just one run. An error here, a home run conceded there. “Just really freakish things,” he said. Baseball in so many words. Baseball has kept Hannon a part of the Baldwin City community for three decades now, his wife Charlene by his side and four children coming up out of their household (three of which attended the same university.) He grew up in Lexington, Mo., a football town. His high school didn’t even have a baseball team, so Hannon would spend his summers baking in the heat in front of family, friends and fans at a local ballpark. Still, it was his football proclivity that earned Hannon a scholarship to Baker. Baseball still found him. Keith Hackett, Baker’s head baseball coach, was also the football team’s offensive line coach. “Heard you played summer baseball,” was something like how it started one day. “We’re down in numbers this year. Won’t you come out and try this college baseball thing?” Soon after, Hannon joined a freshman-laden club, comprised of what he’d call some “darn good baseball
players.” After his eligibility was up, Hannon worked out for major league scouts on diamonds in Chicago, Tulsa, Joplin. He played five years for the Chicago Cubs’ minor league organization, making it all the way up to AA ball. After a while he transitioned into a player/ coach and then a full-time outfield instructor. From 1992-1995, Hannon shuffled between minor league coaching jobs before he returned to Baldwin City to spend more time raising his children. After bouncing between non-hardball occupations for four years, Hannon received a call from Baker’s athletic director, asking Hannon to return to his old team as manager, the job he’s now held for more than a decade. “It ended up being real good for me,” he said. Hannon’s mindset has been that of the .300 hitter. Making an out on 70 percent of your at-bats is still good for the Hall of Fame in this game. So while a conference title has eluded Hannon’s Wildcats over the years, he doesn’t take for granted his program’s 87 percent graduation rate, or players like Vidal Nuno, now working his way up as a pitcher in the New York Yankees organization, or those holiday weeks that find Christmas cards waiting in Hannon’s mailbox, concealing photos of former players who’ve grown to be friends and fathers. “You have to understand that you’re going to fail more times than you will succeed,” Hannon said. “Savor those moments you succeed because they don’t come around too often.” •••
A morning in mid-June, and it may as well be evening in April, or dusk in Colorado at the end of May or, for that matter, later that same June day in Emporia, a two-hour drive from Shawnee. That’s where Billie Thompson will be. A police officer at Shawnee Mission Park going on 29 years, Thompson is off work today, and he’s going to watch baseball. In less than a week, he’ll help drive his eldest son, Jake, to Bowling Green, Ky., where he’ll join the Hilltopper baseball program after two years pitching at Iowa Western Community College. A little more than a month later, Thompson will take his youngest, Ty, to report for his freshman year at the Missouri Institute of Science and Technology, where he, too, will pitch. When his sons leave, they’ll take with them the same things Billie will keep. Scores of stories, each delivered by rattling off the names of supporting characters: coaches, teammates, family, fans. Stories like this one: When Billie was 7 and growing up in Pratt, he was asked to help fill in on a men’s recreational team low on players that week. (“And that’s when I got to hit my first home run,” Thompson said. “Hit it to right field — which I never did again.”) Or stories like the one that helps explain why we’re here in the first place talking about baseball, why Thompson is wearing an Iowa Western National Champions T-shirt and is about to drive and watch Ty pitch on a summer ball team. Billie was All-State in football and bounced between Pratt Community College, Fort Hays State
University and the University of Hawaii before he came back to Kansas. Within days, he’d go from 80-degree weather to being snowed in at Emporia State on a visit over the holidays. “I fell in love with Emporia,” he said, without an ounce of sarcasm. He was about to commit to play both football and baseball, but the football coach offered a full scholarship. “I drop baseball, they win the national championship and we win three games in football,” Thompson said. ••• Say, Coach, you still have the video of my home run? Bonner Springs alum Mike Pier encountered his old baseball coach Mike Moulin, now the high school’s vice principal, at a gas station a few weeks ago. The sight of each other stirred old memories. Memory’s a funny word. It suggests something that needs recalling. And when you play at Kauffman Stadium, how can you ever forget? On three occasions — in 2003, 2004 and 2006 — rivals Bonner Springs and Basehor-Linwood met in the Frank White Classic, a high school baseball showcase held for 10 years at the home of the Kansas City Royals. The Bobcats made short work of the Braves in their first meeting, in front of their largest audience until then: 1,100 spectators. Basehor-Linwood ran through Bonner Springs, 16-3. David Svodoba, Basehor-Linwood’s assistant head coach in 2003 and head coach from 2004-10, had built a philosophy of winning with pitching and defense, something he perfected while leading Please see ALL-STAR, Page 8
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Mother says community surrounds son with compassion By Elvyn Jones ejones@theworldco.info
Last week, 9-year-old Eli Adamson thrilled his mother with the answer, “yeah.� Amy Adamson said the exchange started when Eli put a key chain of communication picture cards on her lap. “I said, ‘Are you asking me to watch a movie?’ He said ‘yeah,’� his mother said. Although Eli isn’t completely non-
verbal, the words he does share with his family are often non sequitur phrases. The incident with the key chain was the second time in recent weeks he’s replied with an appropriate one-word answer to a question. “There are little things every day that happen with that kid, and they are just little miracles,� Amy said. She’s grateful for those moments, but Amy also knows those miracles grow from the hours of work that counselors,
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AMY ADAMSON, left, says the Baldwin City community has opened its heart to her 9-year-old son Eli, hugged by his 13-year-old brother Blake. Eli is one of two children in Kansas diagnosed with the genetic condition, Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome.
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By Meagan Thomas Baldwin City teenagers are tuning up their singing skills by participating in the Baldwin City Community Theater’s “Give My Regards to Baldwin: A Broadway Review.� The review is in lieu of a June summer musical. “We sort of replaced (the musical), so we wanted to give the high school kids something to do,� said Joe Bathke, Baldwin City Community Theater president. “It is sort of a way to keep their musical skills active over the summer.� Performing will be seven teens from 15 to 19 years old and some adults who were recruited for the show. They began practicing for the show in mid-May. The cabaret-style show will include performances of Broadway show tunes from “Chicago,� “Cinderella� and “Cabaret.� There is a mix of solos, ensembles and a wholecast performance, as well as choreography for many of the numbers. “They are excited. A lot of them who have been in our summer musicals before are used to sort of being up on stage ... and this is something a little different for them,� Bathke said. The summer musical would return next year, Bathke said. “Give my Regards to Baldwin: A Broadway Review� is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Lumberyard Arts Center. The show is an hour with no intermission. It is free and open to the public.
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therapists and teachers provided Eli and the affection given to him from those at his school, the family’s Lighthouse Baptist Church and the Baldwin community. “The people in our community, they treat Eli like a little celebrity,� she said. “We are so blessed to be living in a community that is so compassionate.� “When we went to the Maple Leaf Festival carnival, my brother was amazed at all the children and adults Please see MOTHER, page 3