Haysville Sun-Times 11-09-17

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Norton to speak at Veterans Day program Haysville’s annual Veterans Day program will take place at 11 a.m.

Saturday. The program will take place in the parking lot of the city administration building, 200 W. Grand Ave. The featured speaker will be Tim Norton, former Haysville mayor and longtime Sedgwick County Commis-

sioner from District 2. Norton left the county commission in January. He was mayor at the time of the 1999 tornado, and helped lead efforts to rebuild the city.

The Campus High School band will perform, and other dignitaries from the city, county and from state offices are expected to be in attendance.

City employee rescues dog from burning house Staff report

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Last Friday, Nov. 3, City of Haysville employee Kyle Berger was first on the scene of a house fire in the 200 block of Spencer Drive.

While pounding on doors and windows, trying to see if anyone was inside, Berger found the back door unlocked. He opened it, went inside, and grabbed a small white dog in its kennel.

“I guess I just kind of did it,” Berger said. “I really wasn’t thinking about it; I just kind of went into action.”

After neighbors secured the dog, Berger helped Sedgwick County fire crews pinpoint the location of the

fire. Berger was modest about the rescue.

“If it wasn’t me, it would’ve been one of the other neighbors or somebody else,” he said.

Nobody was home when the fire broke out, but other pets in the house may have been injured or killed, according to Sedgwick County Fire Battalion Chief Ray Hensley.

Berger is a volunteer firefighter and EMT in his hometown, Clearwater.

The home was partially destroyed, with much of the damage on the back side of the house. No injuries were reported. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Spencer Drive was closed for part of the afternoon.

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Ruth and Bob Curless of Haysville were honored over the weekend. Ruth will turn 89 this month, and Bob celebrated his 93rd birthday over the weekend. Together, they worked for more than nine decades for USD 261 Haysville.

History comes alive Family, friends celebrate

Haysville couple

By Sam Jack

Haysville Sun-Times sjack@tsnews.com

On Saturday, Nov. 4, more than 120 family and friends gathered at the Curless Farm, just south of Haysville on 79th St. S., to celebrate Bob and Ruth Curless.

Bob celebrated his 93rd birthday over the weekend, and Ruth, 89, will celebrate her birthday later this month.

Between the two of them, the couple worked for USD 261 Haysville for more than 90 years.

Ruth started her teaching career right out of high school, in a one-room country school near Garnett.

She was 17 when she started teaching, and some of her students were as old as 14.

“I graduated from high school and then went to summer school that summer, then got all the (college) hours I could get during the next year, and just kept picking up hours as I could.

I ended up finally getting my master’s degree,” Ruth said.

Ruth married Bob in 1950

and moved to the family farm where they still reside. A few years ago, the Kansas Farm Bureau recognized the Curless Farm as a Century Farm, owned by a single family for 100 years.

Once Bob and Ruth settled in Haysville, Bob continued his work as a farmer, and they both went to work for the local schools. Ruth first taught at the Haysville School on Grand Avenue. Later, she taught the district’s gifted

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Wyatt Hollingshead demonstrates his whip-cracking skills by popping a balloon. He was one of the re-enactors who participated in last weekend’s Living History Rendezvous in Haysville. See more photographs on Page 5, and on the Sun-Times website, tsnews.com.

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Family members join Bob and Ruth Curless at a celebration over the weekend. Bob and Sue are having birthdays this month.

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students.

“That was the joy of my life,” Ruth said. “They are the most interesting kids there are. You can’t name something they’re not interested in; that’s what’s fun about them.”

Between maintenance work and driving a school bus, Bob worked for USD 261 for 62 years. He transported the children of former students that rode his bus to school.

“There wasn’t much to Haysville when I was a kid,” Bob recalled.

“There was just two streets, a couple churches, the bank, the hardware store, a little stockyards, and three or four houses there that the crew who worked on the railroad track lived in.”

Bob is the third generation to farm near Haysville. His son, Rick, represents the fourth. Rick and the couple’s daughter, Anne Curless Lassey, planned the family celebration. Mary Ellen Balmer made a surprise visit after traveling in from Arizona, delighting her older sister, Ruth.

“People have come in from all over; a lot of family, a lot of friends,” Rick said. “You just need to celebrate things in life, so it’s a good reason to get people together.”

Haysville Friendship Meals menu

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Ruth Curless, seated, got a surprise visit from her sister, Mary Ellen Balmer, during the celebration for her and her husband, Bob.

Following is next week’s menu for Friendship Meals and Meals on Wheels.

Monday: Chicken pot pie, tomato salad, apricots, blueberry crisp, milk.

Tuesday: Crispy fish or Chix patty, oven brown potatoes, cole slaw, peaches, bun, milk.

Wednesday: Beef & noodle casserole,

beets, green peas, strawberries, bread, milk.

Thursday: Turkey, mashed potatoes, dressing/gravy, green beans, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie square, roll, milk.

Meals are served at the Haysville Senior Center, 160 E. Karla. Lunch is served at 11:30 a.m. To register for a meal, call 316529-5903.

Creative costume Haysville student incorporates wheelchair into Halloween costumes

By Sam Jack

Haysville Sun-Times sjack@tsnews.com

Haysville West Middle School student Nathan Tolentino uses a wheelchair because of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. For the last several years, Nathan’s dad, Miguel, has incorporated his son’s wheels into custom Halloween costumes.

This year, Nathan dressed up as a Haysville police officer, complete with patrol car. In years past, he has gone trick-or-treating as a big-rig truck, an ambulance, and Transformers character Bumblebee.

Mom Erna Tolentino said Nathan’s costumes make him a celebrity each Halloween.

“He ends up in a lot of pictures, and there’s a couple of families that come over to our area to see what he is going to be this year; they look forward to him,” she said.

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Nathan Tolentino’s Halloween costume this year was a Haysville police car. In previous years, costumes have included a Transformers character, a big-rig truck and an ambulance.

Great Things Are Happening In Haysville November 9 Storytime, 10:30 a.m., Haysville Community Library Lego Club, 4 to 6 p.m., Haysville Community Library Tae Kwan Do, 5:30 to 7 p.m., Haysville Activity Center November 10 VETERANS DAY observed SOS Day, 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Haysville Activity Center

Center Tae Kwan Do, 5:30 to 7 p.m., Haysville Activity Center Turkey Shoot Out, 6 to 7 p.m., Haysville Activity Center November 15 Haysville Healthy Habits Coalition meeting, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., The Learning Center November 16

November 11 VETERANS DAY Nelson Elementary Fall Boutique, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Nelson Elementary Haysville VFW Veterans Day Ceremony, 11 a.m. to noon, Haysville Police Department Haysville Genealogy meeting, 2 to 3 p.m., Haysville Community Library Painting, Merlot & Snacks w/Pam Hill, 2 to 4 p.m. or 6 to 8 p.m., call Haysville Activity Center November 13 Monday Night Movie “Maximum Ride,” 6 p.m., Haysville Community Library November 14 Storytime, 10:30 a.m., Haysville Community Library Senior Center Advisory Board meeting, 1-2 p.m., Haysville Senior

For additions, please contact Cathy Hurley at 316-522-8149.

Storytime, 10:30 a.m., Haysville Community Library Tae Kwan Do, 5:30 to 7 p.m., Haysville Activity Center Fall Festival Committee meeting, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Haysville Community Bldg.

Bedtime Storytime, 7 p.m., Haysville Community Library November 17 Friday Night FPS After Hours, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., Haysville Community Library November 18 Overnight Basketball Camp, 7 p.m. to noon, Haysville Activity Center November 19 Overnight Basketball Camp, noon to 7 a.m., Haysville Activity Center

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Northwest Grizzlies end Colts’ season

By Michael Buhler

Haysville Sun-Times

It is not hard to find a few silver linings in the Campus Colts’ 57-24 loss at Wichita Northwest in the second round of the Class 6A football playoffs last Friday.

The Colts compiled a long list of accomplishments in head coach Greg Slade’s fifth season at the helm. Among them are: • Campus made it to the round of 16 for the first time since 2010.

• The Colts also finished 5-5, their most wins since 2006.

• Campus defeated Ark Valley-Chisholm Trail League Division I rival Hutchinson twice, the Colts’ first wins over the Salthawks since 1999.

• The second win over Hutchinson was also the Colts’ first postseason win in recent memory.

• Last but not least, Campus increased its win total from the previous season for the fourth year in a row.

Not bad for a team that won eight games in six seasons before Slade arrived.

“It was nice to have improvement this year,” Slade said. “We’ve accomplished a lot – and the one thing that excites me is that we had a chance to finish the

season well and we did.

Obviously, we’d have liked to have done better than we did this last game, but Northwest is pretty good.”

Northwest got the win last Friday on the strength of big plays, scoring five touchdowns on plays of 40 yards or more.

“They’re a pretty good team,” Slade said. “They put up some big numbers and we didn’t have an answer for it.”

The Grizzlies got a 60-yard touchdown run from Roy Johnson in the first quarter and also got scoring runs of 52 and 40 yards from Breece Hall in the first half.

Quarterback Austin Anderson threw a 58-yard touchdown pass to Kale Patterson in the second period as the Grizzlies took a 50-10 lead to the locker room.

Northwest extended its lead to 57-10 in the third quarter on another big play when Jaxson Reynolds returned an interception 70 yards for a score.

The Colts answered with a big play of their own when quarterback Federico Harvey ran 73 yards for a touchdown to cut the deficit to 57-17 later in the third quarter.

Harvey added another scoring run in the fourth period to set the final

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Federico Harvey carries the ball against the Grizzlies during Friday’s playoff game between Campus and Wichita Northwest.

score.

Harvey is one of several seniors who finished their careers last Friday. The senior signal-caller finished with 2,144 yards and 23 touchdowns passing and also ran for 660 yards and eight more scores.

However, Campus could return several key players

next season, including Cameron Harvey (Federico Harvey’s younger brother), who had 1,025 yards and eight touchdowns from scrimmage as a junior – 483 yards rushing and 542 receiving.

Also eligible to return are Wise, wide receiver Tyler Kahmann (team-high 625

yards receiving and eight touchdowns) and tight end Quinton Hicks (teamhigh 38 catches for 523 yards and seven touchdowns).

With three starting linemen, three of their four receivers and six starters on defense – including top tacklers

Hicks (team-leading 145 tackes), Cameron Harvey (108 tackles) and Mateo Martinez (71 tackles and team-leading five sacks) – Slade is optimistic for next fall.

“I feel like that we can build on how we finished this year for next year,” Slade said.

Derby Optimist Club sponsors essay contest

The Optimist Club of Derby invites juniors and seniors in high school within the geographical boundaries of USD 260 Derby and USD 261 Haysville to contemplate the phrase “Can society function without respect?”

That is the topic for the Optimist International-sponsored essay contest for 2017-18.

The Optimist Club will judge the local students’ essays written on that theme and determine a winner. The author of the winning theme will win a $500

Astronomer to speak on northern lights

At Lake Afton Public Observatory on Friday, astronomer José Francisco Salgado will give a talk about the science behind the northern lights and how he uses digital photography to capture their beauty and inspire audiences.

Salgado, who earned his doctorate in astronomy from the University of Michigan, is an experimental photographer, visual artist and public speaker who creates multimedia works that communicate science in engaging ways. He is the executive director and co-founder of KV 265, a nonprofit science and arts education

organization.

In 2014, Salgado started visiting Yellowknife in northern Canada to photograph auroras for three KV 265 Science and Symphony productions: “The Legend of the Northern Lights,” a collaboration with composer Chris Theofanidis; “Borealis,” set to an orchestral work

by John Estacio; and “Carol of the Lights,” set to music by Ottorino Resphighi.

Live performances of these works have served as ambassadors for Yellowknife in 12 cities in four countries and have reached a combined audience of 130,000 people.

The Wichita Symphony Orchestra and Lake Afton Observatory will present Salgado’s program “In Awe of the Northern Lights,” 8 p.m. Friday at the observatory.

Tickets to the event are $20, limit four per party. To order tickets, visit www.wichitasymphony. org/events, or call the Wichita Symphony box office, 316-267-7658.

Tickets are also available for the Wichita Symphony family concert Salgado will present at Century II Concert Hall the following day, Saturday from 4 to 5 p.m. Tickets to that event are $15 for adults and $10 for children ages 3-12.

Dignitaries visit schools

scholarship, to be presented by the Derby Optimist Club, which has members from the Haysville community.

The winning essay will also compete at the Optimist District (State) level for a $2,500 scholarship.

High school juniors and seniors who were not 18 years old before Oct. 1 and who wish to participate in the essay contest can find out more by seeing their high school counselor or by contacting the club chair, Jim Morris, at 316-516-1186.

Healthy Habits draws winners

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On Oct. 25 Paige Crum (left), Maleah Peak, Penny Shuckman, Kalyssa Williams and Cathy Hurley (not pictured), members of the Haysville Healthy Habits Coalition, met at the Campus High School commons area and held a drawing for their raffle items. Prizes for the first drawing were a Fitbit Charge 2, one-month single membership to the Haysville Activity Center, and an H3 water bottle valued at $165. The winner was Marion Renner. For the second drawing, the prize was a Fitbit Charge 2, one entry into the Gobble Wobble 8K/5K race and an H3 water bottle, valued at $185. The winner was Maleah Peak.

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Kansas State Department of Education Commissioner Randy Watson (center), along with State District Board Members Jim McNiece (left, District 10) and Kathy Busch (right, District 8) recently spent time touring several Haysville USD 261 schools. Campus High School Business Teacher Zac Kliewer (foreground left) explained about the operation of the student-run coffee shop, Stompin Grounds.

Susan Holmes, the Valley State Bank Campus High School Branch Manager, talked about supervising the student interns who work in the branch bank at CHS.

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Official Rules for The Great Turkey Giveaway 1. Must be 18 or older to enter. 2. Individuals may enter as many times as they wish, but only one entry per visit to a participating business. 3. Individuals may enter the contest at more than one location. However, winners will be limited to one per immediate family. 4. Winners will be drawn and notified by Wednesday, November 15, 2017. Each winner will be presented with a gift certificate from a local grocery store. Winners will be able to use their gift certificate as soon as they are notified and receive their gift certificate. 5. Any incomplete entry form may be disqualified.

All entries must contain entrant’s first and last name, age, full address and daytime phone number. 6. All participating businesses and their winners will be listed in the November 23 edition of the Haysville Sun-Times. 7. Employees of Times-Sentinel Newspapers, LLC, and their immediate family members may not enter the contest. Employees of participating businesses may enter at other participating businesses but may not enter at the place of their employment, unless the contest is limited to only employees of that business.

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Armstrong to remain as Haysville mayor

CONTESTED RACES Haysville Mayor

1 4 Bruce Armstrong 1 Russ Kessler

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1 Darren A. Pokorski 1 4 Danny D. Walters USD 261 Haysville

1 4 Jeremy Bennett 1 4 Paige Crum 1 4 Forrest Hummel 1 Pat Lemmons

By Travis Mounts

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City Council - Ward I

1 4 Steven Crum 1 Aaron Lindsay

Pat Lemmons loses BOE seat

Unofficial results as of Tuesday, Nov. 7

Bruce Armstrong will get another term as Haysville’s mayor.

Armstrong held off a challenge from sitting city council member Russ Kessler, who will remain on the council. Kessler was not up for re-election in Ward IV this year.

The vote was close, with Armstrong garnering 51 percent. Early results showed the incumbent with 394 votes to 376 for the challenger, a difference of just 18 votes.

Two city council races were contested.

Steven Crum won 56 to 42 percent over Aaron

Lindsay in Ward I. Ward IV will have a new council member in Danny D. Walters, who got 71 percent of the vote to easily beat Darren A. Pokorski. Walters will replace Mike Kanaga, who decided to not seek re-election.

Daniel Benner in Ward II and Patricia Ewert in Ward II were unopposed.

Janet Parton won the unexpired term for the other seat in Ward II. She was appointed to that seat earlier this year to replace Jeremy Rardin, who resigned. Although state law did not require Parton to stand for election this year, city ordinance states that an appointed council member must stand for election in the next possible election, rather than serving the rest of the term.

Four people sought

three open seats on the USD 261 Haysville Board of Education. Three of them were incumbents, but only two will remain on the BOE. Forrest Hummel and Paige Crum, both incumbents, led with 26 percent of the vote – Hummel with 675 votes and Crum

with 668.

Challenger Jeremy Bennett garnered 599 votes, or 23 percent, to edge out the final incumbent, Pat Lemmons, who had 541 votes for 21 percent. There were 19 write-in votes, although it won’t be known until next week who received those votes.

Bruce Armstrong, left, defeated Russ Kessler by 18 votes to remain as Haysville mayor, according to unofficial results available late Tuesday.

Rendezvous with history

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History enthusiasts brought 19th-century America to life on Friday and Saturday in Riggs Park, during the sixth annual Living History Rendezvous.

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Lincoln Nicholson plays catch with a member of the Cowtown Vintage Base Ball Club. Reenactor Chris Raynor chats with visitors; Raynor portrayed Capt. Nicholas Nolan, an officer of the African-American 10th Cavalry Regiment, known as the Buffalo Soldiers.

Local resident Gunner Plank enjoys a photo opportunity with the Delano Dollies dancers. Caryl Rose comes out on top after a simulated Old West shootout. Payton Rinke enjoys a horseback ride thanks to Rendezvous participant Bill Green. Darrell Plenert cooks pork ribs at his campsite.

Plenert’s camp name is Nabor, and he portrays a fur trapper from the 1820s to 1840s era.

Salute To Veterans

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Campus High grad serves nuclear deterrence mission

By Lt. Lauryn Dempsey United States Navy

A 2006 Campus High School graduate and Wichita native is serving in the U.S. Navy as part of the nation’s nuclear deterrence mission at Strategic Communications Wing ONE. Petty Officer 1st Class Brandyn Welch credits hometown friends for his decision to join the service.

“I have friends from Wichita that had joined the Navy and told me that they were enjoying the service,” said Welch.

The mission stems from the original 1961 Cold War order known as “Take Charge and Move Out!” Adapted as TACAMO and now the command’s nickname, today, the men and women of TACAMO continue to provide a survivable communication link between national decision makers and the nation’s nuclear weapons.

The commander-in-chief issues orders to members of the military who operate nuclear weapons aboard submarines, aircraft or in land-based missile silos. Sailors aboard TACAMO E-6 Mercury aircraft provide the one-of-a-kind and most-survivable communication needed for this critical mission.

“I’m honored to serve with the men and women who help keep our nation safe through nuclear deterrence,” said Captain Edward McCabe, commodore, Strategic Communications Wing ONE. “Their dedication to our mission is a testament to our mantra of ‘Take Charge and Move Out!’”

The command consists of three squadrons and a wing staff that employs more than 1,200 active-duty sailors who provide maintenance, security, operations, administration, training and logistic support for the TACAMO aircraft fleet.

Welch is an aviation machinist’s mate assigned to Tinker Air Force Base, where the Navy command is headquartered.

As an aviation machinist’s mate, Welch teaches incoming mechanics about the E-6 Mercury platform so they can join a squadron and make an immediate impact on operational readiness.

The Navy’s presence aboard an Air Force base in the middle of America may seem like an odd location given its distance from any ocean; however, the central location allows for the deployment of aircraft to both coasts and the Gulf of Mexico on a moment’s notice.

This quick response is key to the success of the nuclear deterrence mission.

“There’s a lot going on in the world today, and by providing nuclear deterrence, we are helping to prevent conflicts from escalating,” said Welch.

Sailors serving from America’s heartland take pride in the vital mission they support as well as the nuclear deterrence they help provide.

“My service means being part of a huge family,” said Welch. “It makes me proud to be part of something so great and bigger than myself.”

Editor’s note: Lt. Lauryn Dempsey is with the Navy Office of Community Outreach.

Chief Petty Officer Gary Ward/Navy Office of Community Outreach

Petty Officer 1st Class Brandyn Welch is a 2006 graduate of Campus High School.

WHEN IS VETERANS DAY? Veterans Day occurs on November 11 every year in the United States.

In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower officially changed the name of the holiday from Armistice Day to Veterans Day. In 1968, the Uniform Holidays Bill was passed by Congress, which moved the celebration of Veterans Day to the fourth Monday in October. The law went into effect in 1971, but in 1975 President Gerald Ford returned Veterans Day to November 11, due to the important historical significance of the date.

Great Britain, France, Australia and Canada also commemorate the veterans of World War I and World War II on or near November 11th: Canada has Remembrance Day, while Britain has Remembrance Sunday (the second Sunday of November).

In Europe, Great Britain and the Commonwealth countries it is common to observe two minutes of silence at 11 a.m. every Nov. 11.

Veterans Day is an official United States public holiday, observed annually on November 11, that honors military veterans; that is, persons who served in the United States Armed Forces. It coincides with other holidays, including Armistice Day and Remembrance Day, celebrated in other countries that mark the anniversary of the end of World War I. Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect. The United States previously observed Armistice Day. The U.S. holiday was renamed Veterans Day in 1954.

Veterans Day is not to be confused with Memorial Day, a U.S. public holiday in May; Veterans Day celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans, while Memorial Day honors those who died while in military service. It is also not to be confused with Armed Forces Day, a minor U.S. remembrance that also occurs in May, which specifically honors those currently serving in the U.S. military.

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The military men and women who serve and protect the U.S. come from all walks of life; they are parents, children, grandparents, friends, neighbors and co-workers, and are an important part of their communities. Here are some facts about the veteran population of the United States: 16.1 million living veterans served during at least one war.

5.2 million veterans served in peacetime.

2 million veterans are women.

7 million veterans served during the Vietnam War. 5.5 million veterans served during the Persian Gulf War. Of the 16 million Americans who served during World War II, about 558,000 are still alive.

2 million veterans served during the Korean War. 6 million veterans served in peacetime.

As of 2014, 2.9 million veterans received compensation for service-connected disabilities.

As of 2014, 3 states have more than 1 million veterans among their population: California (1.8 million), Florida (1.6 million) and Texas (1.7 million).

The VA health care system had 54 hospitals in 1930.

Since then it has expanded to include 171 medical centers; more than 350 outpatient, community, and outreach clinics; 126 nursing home care units; and 35 live-in care facilities for injured or disabled vets.

The Gile Family Thanks you for serving our country!

Land of the free Because of the Brave!

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Doughboys on the Plains

Historical interpreters mark WWI centennial Staff report

Haysville Sun-Times

On Saturday, Haysville’s Flores del Sol Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution hosted two historical interpreters who presented a program on World War I. The event was held at the Haysville Community Library.

Jacob Allen of Fort Scott portrayed a World War I doughboy, while Sarah May of Eskridge portrayed a Salvation Army Doughnut Girl.

Both Allen and May are Kansas State University juniors, and both are volunteers at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City. Allen served eight years in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division Infantry, including two tours in Iraq and a support mission in Haiti after that country’s devastating 2010 earthquake.

Both reenactors wore complete period costumes, and they brought with them lots of memorabilia and handson displays.

Allen talked about life in the trenches, basic troop gear, stateside training and the history leading up to American involvement in the war.

May talked about how one became a doughnut girl, how they made the donuts, and the importance of the nutritional and emotional support the doughnut girls provided.

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TOP: World War I reenactor Jacob Allen displays some of the weapons used by World War I infantrymen.

ABOVE: Karl Compton examines soldier gear. His grandfather was a World War I veteran.

RIGHT: Sarah May displays equipment that would have been used by a World War I-era doughnut girl.

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Making our annual trip to the turnip patch I got a phone call last week from Lynn Buerki letting me know it was “time.”

Time, in this case, was a reference to picking turnips. And giant radishes.

And this year, a little kale.

Lynn and I have known each other for the past 25 years. He farms out south of Goddard, and is known around these parts as one of the original godfathers of soil conservation.

In his early 20s, he helped plant the seeds of conservation in Sedgwick County, and now, in his mid-80s, he continues to plant trees and watch the conservation movement grow. He’s been active with the Sedgwick County Conservation District for more than 60 years, and a few years ago was honored with a Special Conservation Award for his lifetime commitment.

He’s known as “Mr. Conservation” around

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these parts, and for good reason. And, he’s a past president of the Kansas Association of Conservation Districts, so he’s also known across the state for his efforts.

I first met Lynn at a Conservation District meeting in my early days of covering events for our newspaper group, and still run into him occasionally. In fact, we had lunch together at last year’s Community Thanksgiving Dinner in Goddard, and that’s where we had our first conversation about

turnips.

I grew up with parents who were prolific gardeners, and we grew – and ate – everything that was considered to be a vegetable. That included turnips, and no…I never made a vow that would never eat turnips again.

But it had been years since I’d cooked up a batch of turnips, and Lynn invited me out to pick some from one of his alfalfa fields, where he routinely plants turnips and other tubers that help the soil and provide some good eats, if you’re into those kinds of vegetables.

So this past Saturday, gloomy weather and all, Kim and I made what is now becoming our annual trek out to the turnip patch. It’s a date that just sings of adventure, and for us produced a couple of buckets of bountiful harvest. We came home with

lots of turnips, a few of the giant white radishes that Lynn also grew, and this year’s new addition – kale.

We’ll share the harvest with friends, but mostly we’ll savor the opportunity we had to get out into the country, get our shoes a little muddy, and to commune with the soil that still feeds the world around us. I appreciate the fact that my old friend Lynn Buerki thought of me as the weather turned chilly and it was time to venture out to his turnip fields, and hopefully we’ll be able to complete that adventure again in the future.

In the meantime, I’ll have to let Google do a little research for me and see if I can come up with a new turnip recipe to try out this winter…

They’re turnips, after all.

Sometimes you need to come up with new ways to make them tasty.

Change is in the air, and I don’t mean elections Change is in the air.

This has nothing to do with this week’s elections, which are guaranteed to bring changes to some governing bodies, while in other races it will be the status quo because of a lack of challengers.

No, this has to do with the little dictatorship known as “my house.”

You see, the number of citizens there is declining by 1.

My oldest son, Isaac, is moving out.

(And there was much rejoicing.)

This is a happy time, for him and and for me.

For him, this is his first real taste of freedom.

He spent his first year of college on campus in Hutchinson, but he shared a place with two other people. For the second year, he was back at home, splitting time between my house and his mother’s house.

This summer he wrapped up his degree, and just a few weeks ago started a new job in the Hutchinson area.

He works early, so the drive was a bit much.

On his own, he found a place to rent, and in the last week got the utilities moved over and began moving his stuff in.

On Sunday, after we

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went to the hockey game along with his brother, Isaac decided to go spend the first night at his new place. Independence is his.

I haven’t had a chance to see his new place, thanks to all the recent sports stuff that’s taken place on top of my regular work

load. I’ve seen the pictures, and it looks like he chose well.

He’s already learning some of the ugly lessons of adulting, like how much it costs “to adult.”

On Friday, he brought home a pretty nice paycheck, thanks in part to a lot of overtime hours.

“This should last me a couple weeks,” he texted me immediately after he got off work.

When he got back to my house on Saturday, most of that check was already gone, thanks to rent and the deposit. It was a harsh welcome to adulthood.

He’s ready, though. I’m excited for him. I remember the first places I had in

college, and then when I moved to Tulsa after completing my degree.

Plus, it’s just time for him to go. Our relationship is very good, but there comes a point where a kid needs his own place, and you need for him to have his own place. It helps preserve the relationship.

So, I wish my son the best. I’m glad he’s less than a 30-minute drive away.

It will make for easy visits both directions.

The weather has cooled, the leaves are suddenly changing colors and falling. I’m down to just one kid at home instead of two.

Change is in the air. And that’s OK.

KPI to legislators: ‘To the rear, march’ The Kansas Policy Institute, Charles Koch’s state lobbying arm, has issued its marching orders to legislators as they prep for perhaps the toughest and most significant session in the state’s history.

Unfortunately, if predictably, the command is, “To the rear, march.”

Legislators who will convene in January are already working on a response to the Kansas Supreme Court’s October order requiring a substantial increase in public school funding.

The order is backed up by the harsh human and political reality that the court could prevent schools from opening next year if the funding does not pass constitutional muster.

The KPI’s plan was unveiled in this space Oct. 26 by its president, Dave Trabert. The manifesto begins cynically, Trabert writing that while there are legitimate reasons to argue for simply defying the Kansas Supreme Court’s order, that would not be good for students, who are, he contends, at the heart of KPI’s involvement in the issue. It closes by urging legislators to follow a three-step plan that is a classic passive-aggressive substitute for outright defiance and which, if carried out, surely would be seen by the court as defiance.

The difference between the beginning and the end of the manifesto is negligible.

The KPI is associated with the ultra-conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, which churns out cookie-cutter “model” legislation and rewards local officials and legislators with trips to nice places where they are propagandized in the philosophies of the far right, small government establishment. Koch foundations also heavily support ALEC. Insofar as educating children goes, the unexpressed long-term aim of KPI and ALEC is to dismantle public education, and that process would get another push if the 2018 Legislature followed API’s plan.

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Kansas’ dedication to public schools predates its statehood: The 19th Century Territorial Legislature decided that there must be a school within walking distance of every student.

In 1966, the legislature and people approved a constitutional amendment requiring that that legislature make “suitable provision for finance of educational interests.”

The state school board and various governors and legislators have been arguing off-and-on since then, including the last 20 years, about what that means. At one point early in this century the matter seemed to have been settled in a lawsuit, but during the 2008 recession, the legislature cut back the court-ordered funds, leading to new litigation.

The court is now understandably fed up. In October, in its sharpest language yet, it reminded the state that for “most years between 2002 and 2019… inadequacy (of funding) has been judicially declared to exist….With that regrettable history…in mind… we will not allow ourselves to be placed in the position of being complicit actors in the continuing deprivation” of education.

That should be clear enough. Legislators must understand, even if KPI doesn’t, that evasion of constitutional responsibility is no longer an option, and that continued obeisance to KPI’s cut-taxes, shrink-government mantra would be a very poor choice.

The only viable alternative is a tax increase.

Nobody loves that idea, of course, but if the public schools do not open next fall or a major constitutional crisis paralyzes the entire state, Kansans would not have any trouble identifying who is at fault. And it won’t be the people in the black robes, who are doing what the constitution requires of them and settling a dispute between two parties who agreed years ago that the court has jurisdiction to decide.

Editor’s note: Davis Merritt, Wichita journalist and author, can be reached at dmerritt9@cox.net.

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On Wednesday, Oct. 25, the USD 261 Haysville Board of Education approved pay raises for all district employees, including teachers, administrators, and classified workers such as janitors and paraprofessionals.

All employees received a raise of at least 7.1 percent, and some workers’ pay went up as much as 14 percent, according to assistant superintendent Clint Schutte.

Virtually all the additional state aid that USD 261 received due to a law the Kansas Legislature passed this summer – about $4 million – went to increasing compensation, Schutte said.

“It makes us competitive for the Sedgwick County market. That market is really tough when it comes to both teachers and classified employees, and it’s even starting to get tough on administrative.

This make us competitive.

I’d love to say it puts us at the top, but it makes us competitive,” Schutte said.

The union-negotiated teachers’ contract got unanimous approval from those who voted on it, including both union members and non-members.

The school board also approved it unanimously.

Like many districts in Kansas, Haysville gives teachers raises based on both years of experience and educational attainment beyond a bachelor’s degree.

The revised contract restores some of those “steps” from years when the pay-scale was frozen due to budget constraints.

Jennifer Alexander, president of the Haysville Education Association and language arts teacher at Haysville West Middle School, said she believes the revised contract will improve morale and help recruit top talent to the district.

“I think it went pretty well,” Alexander said. “I know that, as a district negotiations team, we work really hard with the district in trying to give fair accommodation in raises.

Sometimes it doesn’t work out the way that we like, and that isn’t always the district’s fault; it’s about

how the Legislature has funded or not funded us.”

Starting pay for teachers went up from $37,200 to $38,000, Schutte noted.

The contract also increases the district’s contribution to health insurance premiums, while holding employee contributions flat, and it reduces the number of contract days that teachers work during the school year.

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