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UNION RECORDER

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2016

SPORTS 1B Badida wins 4th place in final match

BECAUSE COMMUNITY MATTERS

Ky. GOP presidential caucus goes on without Paul Paul’s impact

Chris Mayhew cmayhew@communitypress.com

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Retiring Boone County High School football coach Owen Hauck acknowledges the cheers of the crowd in 1997 at an assembly/pep rally at which he (and all the school’s teams and band) were honored. Standing behind him to the right are members of the football team.

HAUCK ‘TAUGHT LIFE THROUGH FOOTBALL’ James Weber jweber@communitypress.com

In more than four decades of coaching, one of Owen Hauck’s greatest legacies was the litany of former players who became head football coaches themselves at the high school level. A long list of former players and coaches were mourning Hauck after he passed away Feb. 17 at the age of 88. Hauck was head football coach at Highlands and Mount Healthy but spent the majority of his career at Boone County High School. “He taught a lot about life through football,� said Bryson Warner, a 1992 BCHS graduate and former head coach at Ryle. “It’s not about getting knocked down, it’s how soon you get back up.� Hauck became head coach at Boone in 1972, spending 25 years there with a record of 210-101. He led the Rebels to the state championship game in Class 4A four different times, the last in 1994 with Shaun Alexander, the record-setting running back who was the most valuable

Republican voters in Kentucky can’t elect U.S. Sen. Rand Paul to the presidency, but party leaders are urging people to get out to the March 5 caucus Paul created. “It’s their one chance to come out and vote for president, so people need to come out and said vote,â€? Campbell County’s caucus organizer Sarah CamSparks eron of Fort Thomas. Boone, Campbell and Kenton counties will each have their own caucus sites open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 5, for Republican voters to help pick their party’s nominee. Âť Campbell County’s caucus site was moved from Wilder to Campbell County High School at 909 Camel Crossing in Alexandria by party leaders. More space, especially for parking, was needed, Cameron said. Âť Boone County voters will cast ballots at Florence Baptist Church at Mount Zion at 642 Mount Zion Road, Florence. Âť Kenton County voters will cast ballots at Summit View Middle School at 5006 Madison Pike, Independence.

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Paul, who dropped out of the presidential race Feb. 4, is the reason Republican Party leaders in Kentucky voted in August 2015 to switch to a presidential caucus instead of voting for president in the May 17 primary election. Paul raised $250,000 last September for Kentucky’s GOP to pay for the caucus. Paul wanted to run for both president and re-election to the U.S. Senate. State law forbids a candidate from being on the same election ballot for two different offices. Democrats will continue to vote for their choice of president in the May primary, as will non-presidential Republican candidates. “Even though we might be disappointed that our U.S. Senator is not in the running anymore, it’s still a horse race,� Cameron said. Votes for Paul, or any other candidate who dropped out including Rick Santorum or Mike Huckabee, still count, said Walton resident Phyllis Sparks, Boone County caucus chairwoman. “They may be out of the race, but this is not a winner-take-all election,� Sparks said. Candidates gain a percentage of delegates in a state based on how many votes they receive, she said. See CAUCUS, Page 2A

Owen Hauck was 210-101 in his 25 years as head football coach of Boone County.

player of the National Football League in 2005. Alexander was expected to return to town for the funeral Feb. 24. The morning of Hauck’s passing, Alexander tweeted a tribute message to Hauck, “Love you Coach Hauck! Thank Jesus for allowing a great man like you in my life. You taught us how to fight & be a winner.� Hauck retired at the age of 69. He was an honored

RABBIT HASH MEMORIES

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As restoration planned, readers recall iconic General Store. 4B

Old speedy ‘scratch’ recipes gone viral. 9A

with an assembly at the school in 1997 and six years later the football stadium at Boone was named in his honor. “â€?It’s difficult for me,â€? he said in a 1997 Enquirer article. â€?Football has been both an avocation and a vocation. I haven’t wanted to do anything else ‌’ The thing that sustained me more than anything else is to see what happened to the See HAUCK, Page 2A

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