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WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWShannon Garton, right, plays 27 bingo cards at once Thursday night at the local American Legion.

A single car often sits in the parking lot of ABIChemicals.

The city has received questions about it. HarveyCounty Economic Development has had questionsabout it.

There's not a problem with the car that sits out-side the $6.8 million facility the City of Newtonhelped finance. The problem is the car sits alone.

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In April of 2014, when the ABI Chemicals firstannounced plans to build a 20,000-square-footchemical manufacturing facility in Newton the

move was greeted with enthusi-asm and touted as a “win

for Newton's Industrialpush,” as said by theWichita BusinessJournal.

ABI Chemicalswas part of the larger

ABI Group of Companies that provides coatings,abrasives, repair services and composite materialsfor manufacturing companies. The plant at New-ton was meant to produce coatings for airplane

Lack of workat $6.8 millioncity-financedsite promptssome concern

BY ADAM STRUNKNEWTON NOW [email protected]

See ABI / 8

When one lady said the dreaded word“Bingo,” a groan seeped from the crowd like aslowly spreading, low-lying fog covering a val-ley.

The winner was a lady sitting by herself in acrowd Thursday night at the local AmericanLegion Hall. Sixty-five or so show up for thebingo every Thursday night. Early Bird startsat 6:30 p.m., regular bingo at 7 p.m.

“Open to everybody and anybody,” said BillMersereau, who runs bingo and is manager atthe American Legion Post No. 2.

Willow Heubach of Texas was in town forChristmas and attended with her grandma,Judy Jones.

“I quit playing bingo a long time ago, but Iwanted some quality time with my grand-daughter,” said Jones, who wasn’t too con-cerned about winning. “If we do, we do. If wedon’t, we don’t. It’s just a quality time.”

Jones said she and her daughter used to playbingo there together all the time when herdaughter lived here.

The first time Heubach visited bingo waswhen she was 2 weeks old, Jones said.

“One of her first excursions was to this bingoplace right here just to show her off,” Jonessaid.

Bingo!Folks enjoy entertainment at Legion for decades

BY WENDY NUGENTNEWTON NOW [email protected]

See BINGO / 8Curtis Peters calls bingo at the local American Legion.

Lenny's a flashy dude. Hehangs out at Applebee’s onoccasion but does most of hisdrinking in the creek next toKranz Family Chrysler carlot.

He's a staple over there. Hespends more time on that lotthan any sales person, buthe's not winning employee ofthe month any time soon.

He's got a bit of an atti-tude. He yells a lot, like atKranz employees who don'tgive him the food he likes or

have the nerve to move thetruck he's napping under.

He poops on vehicles. Hestruts around. The people atKranz call him vain.

But that perhaps can beforgiven. Lenny is, after all, apeacock.

“Our lives would be boringwithout Lenny,” Kranz Inter-net Specialist Tosha Cooksaid.

Cook said the peacock haslived at the car lot for morethan a year after just show-ing up one day out of theblue.

He usually lounges at theWENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOW

Tosha Cook feeds Lenny the peacock some food at Kranz Family Chrysler car lot.

Peacock no car salesman BY ADAM STRUNKNEWTON NOW [email protected]

See LENNY / 8

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In recent years, vacancies in the Newton down-town have dropped and most business and retaillocations are full.

That's according to the Newton Chamber aswell as an informal count conducted by NewtonNow.

Pam Stevens, Newton Chamber director, said inthe core of downtown there were about two orthree retail vacancies.

“We have less now,” she said. “At one point wehad quite a few store fronts open. We've reallyturned it around.”

Newton Now's count backed up Stevens’ finding.We saw three vacancies from Fourth Street to

Examining downtownand possible retailrecruitment efforts

A CLOSER LOOK:


See DOWNTOWN / 13

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Iknow. I know. Here weare done with the holi-days, you’re still try-

ing to avoid all the snacksand goodies that piled upin your house, and here Iam shoving a delicious pierecipe right in your face.

But hear me out on thisone: we’re all going tohave to wean ourselves offthe sweet stuff of the holi-days and into the bettereating of the New Year, sowhat better way to do itthan with sweet potatopie?

According to WebMD,sweet potatoes “areamong the most nutri-tious foods in the veg-etable kingdom” and haveeverything from calciumto potassium and vita-mins A and C. So I’m notsaying pie is exactly ahealth food, and I’m defi-nitely not a nutritionist,but there have to still beat least a few vitaminsleft in those potatoeswhen the pie comes out ofthe oven, right?

Well, everything inmoderation, I guess.

This particular piepromises to be a more tra-ditional southern version

of sweet potato pie, soyou’ll notice it doesn’thave all the pumpkin piespices that a lot of themhave. We didn’t even missthem. This pie was fan-tastic all on its own.

This recipe comes fromthe blog “Sage Trifle,”which is written by Roc-quie. In her blog, she ex-plains that she grew up inAlabama but now lives inwestern North Carolina.This particular recipe, sheattributes to her AuntRuby. I took some liber-ties and substituted darkcorn syrup for light anddoubled the vanilla. Youcan find the original atwww.sagetrifle.blogspot.com/2011/12/old-fashion-southern-sweet-potato-pie.html.

As for cooking the sweetpotatoes, I suggest bakingthem, and the easiestmethod is one I found onthe website “EmpoweredSustenance” (www.em-poweredsustenance.com/bake-a-sweet-potato). Touse their method (whichworked amazing, al-though I used a bakingsheet instead of puttingthe potatoes right on the

oven rack like they sug-gest. I don’t like cleaningmy oven that much.), linea baking sheet in foil,prick your sweet potatoesall over with a fork, place

your potatoes on the sheetand put them in the oven.Now turn on the oven to425 degrees, bake for 45minutes for sweet pota-toes that are about two

inches in diameter, andfor larger potatoes, addabout 15 minutes of bak-ing time for every twoinches bigger they are. It’simportant to leave theoven closed, and when thebaking time is over, justturn off the oven and letthe potatoes sit for 30minutes to an hour. Whenyou remove them, theywill be soft, and the skinswill peel right off.

Old-fashionedSouthern Sweet

Potato Pie9-inch pie crust, un-

baked1/2 cup butter1/2 cup brown sugar1/4 cup dark corn syrup2 eggs3 cups cooked, skinned,

mashed sweet potatoes1 can evaporated milk4 teaspoons vanilla1/4 teaspoon saltNutmeg for sprinklingPreheat the oven to 375

degrees.Prepare a deep pie dish

by lining it with your piecrust (if you don’t have adeep dish, have a fewsmall, oven-safe dishes onhand to bake the extra

filling).Cream the butter,

brown sugar and syrup.Beat in eggs. Mix in thesweet potatoes. Finally,beat in the milk, vanillaand salt until you have asmooth mixture.

Pour it into the pre-pared dish and pour anyremaining filling intoother small oven-safedishes.

Bake for 40 minutes oruntil a knife inserted inthe center of the piecomes out clean. Sprinklea little nutmeg on the fin-ished pie.

This pie was a crowd fa-vorite when I made it re-cently, and aside fromwaiting around for thesweet potatoes to bake, itwas pretty easy, too.

I don’t know that I feelany healthier after eatingthis southern delicacy,but maybe it’ll take a fewmore slices before the vi-tamins really kick in.

I suppose there’s onlyone way to find out.

Lindsey Young is co-owner of Newton Now and

is a Bethel College alum.

It’s time for a real sweetie (potato) pie

LINDSEY YOUNG/NEWTON NOWThis traditional version of sweet potato pie sets itself apart from pump-kin pie with a unique, delicious flavor all its own.

County employees will see real raises in 2017

For the first time in atleast six years, HarveyCounty employees shouldsee an increase in theamount of money in theirpockets during the com-ing year.

Finance Director An-thony Swartzendrubertold the Board of HarveyCounty Commissionersthat health insurancepremiums were expectedto stay flat in 2017. Em-ployees will receive a 2-percent salary bump in2017 based on a salaryindex that looks at publicemployee salaries fromacross the state. This isthe first time that anysalary increase won’t be

“counterbalanced”by an increasedcost in insurancepremiums duringhis six years withthe county, hesaid.

The county’ssales tax revenuein 2016 finished2.07 percent above theprevious year at$2,384,893.34.

Commissioner RandyHague asked how theKansas Public EmployeeRetirement System wasaffected by the state’s fi-nancial woes. He said hewould like to see statelegislators adopt a lawwhereby counties woulddeposit their KPERS pay-ments directly into the ac-count instead of funnelingthem through the state.

That would insurethat the statecouldn’t get accessto the money.

Commissionersalso learned thatthe county saved$111,492 in utilitybills for the yearending Sept 30.

Kevin Player, an engi-neer with 360 Energy En-gineers, presented areport detailing the costsavings brought about arenovation project com-pleted in 2015 to makethree county buildingsmore efficient.

In other business, com-missioners:

• Approved a resolu-tion designating FirstBank of Newton as the of-ficial depository forcounty funds.

• Approved a resolu-tion designating TheKansan as the officialcounty newspaper.

• Approved a resolu-tion setting salaries forthe county’s elected offi-cials.

• Approved paying billstotaling $341,714.16 forthe two previous weeks.

Opened multiple bidsfrom Freightliner Truckand Summit Truck Groupfor a new semi tractor forthe solid waste depart-ment. The bids rangedfrom $106,981-$112,988.10. DirectorRollin Schmidt asked fora week to review the bids.

Went into executivesession for 30 minutes todiscuss non-elected per-sonnel with county coun-selor Greg Nye.

BY BLAKE SPURNEYHESSTON RECORD

Hague

Homeowner repels drunkintruder with rake handle

A man who got hit inthe face with a rakehandle ended up in jailafter he tried to enter ahome that wasn't his.

According to police re-ports, around 6:53 p.m.Monday night police re-ceived a report of a mantrying to enter a houseat the 400 Blk of E. Sec-ond.

The home's occupantreported that a man con-tinued to try to gainentry to his house evenafter being told to leave.

“He was intoxicated,”

Newton Police Lt. ScottPowell said, adding thatthe reports stated theman grew agitated andpushy. Powell said theydo not know why theman was trying to enterthe house.

The occupant then hitthe man in the face withthe handle of a rake,causing the man to runaway.

Police later arrestedShane Batterman, whowas booked into theHarvey County Jail oncharges of assault, dis-orderly conduct, at-tempted aggravatedburglary and for being apedestrian under the in-fluence.


Unlock. Lock. Un-lock. Lock. Unlock.Lock. Unlock. Lock.

That series of actionswent on for 10 minutesduring a call Barry“Howard” Havens, whoalso goes by owner ofHoward’s Lock & Key, 105S.E. 14th Court in New-ton, made one time for adonkey locked in a barn.

The donkey, it seemed,had no intention beingfreed.

Every time Havens gotthe door unlocked, thedonkey used its mouth tolock it again.

“You wouldn’t believeit,” he said.

Finally after the backand forth, Havens got itopen before the donkeyhad a chance to lock itagain.

“Truthfully, I didn’tknow a donkey was thatsmart to do that,” Havenssaid. “That surprised me. Ididn’t think I’ll ever forgetthat.”

That 10 minutes seemeda lot longer to Havens.

“When you get intosomething like that, itfeels a lot longer than 10minutes,” he said.

He wasn’t the only onewho went on the call, how-ever.

His wife, Tricia Lopez,wanted to tag along, be-cause she didn’t believeher husband about a don-key being locked in a barn.

“I liked that one,” Lopezsaid.

Haven isn’t sure how

many calls he goes on in ayear. But he knows he’sbusy all the time. In fact,he said the past six toseven months have beentough because of the largevolume of work and tryingto meet everyone’s de-mands. Havens saidthey’re working on thoseissues so someone doesn’tfall through the cracks,and if they do, it’s not in-tentional.

“I cover a lot of area,”Havens said, adding hecovers all the towns inHarvey County, as well asFlorence and some ofHutchinson.

The shop basically is aone-man show, althoughhe gets some help from hisuncle, Bob Brickell, andhis wife. Brickell handlesthe outgoing and incomingpackages.

“We build locks and shipthem to different places,”Havens said.

Howard’s handles com-mercial, residential andautomotive lock and keyneeds, as well as safes. Healso can replace ignitionlocks in vehicles.

“We pretty much doanything that relates to alock and key,” Havenssaid, adding he specializesin automotive—especiallyall the new types of keys,

like transponder and proskeys.

“A lot’s changed in theindustry,” he said. “Youcan’t just get a car keyanywhere. It has to besomebody who’s equippedto do that type of work.”

Havens started his ca-reer several decades ago.

“I actually started doinglocksmithing in 1980,” hesaid. “The last year inhigh school is when Istarted.”

That was when heworked with another lock-smith in California. Al-though he was born inNewton, Havens moved toCalifornia because of hisfather’s job and thenmoved back to Newton in1999. In addition to theother locksmith teachingHavens the trade, he’shad training in classesand trade shows.

“So you can always keepupdated that way,” hesaid.

Havens likes his work.“I enjoy it,” he said. “I

like doing it. I like helpingpeople. Sometimes it’s notabout the money to me.Sometimes I like to helppeople that need thehelp.”

He doesn’t alwayscharge. Recently, he didn’tcharge a customer for asecond key and also jump-started his car. He’s alsohelped people unlock carsat no charge and hashelped elderly folks.

In addition to a helpingspirit, Havens also has alot of keys. At one time, hesaid he counted around60,000.

“I’ve got a lot of odd andantique keys,” he said.

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It's not too late to get flu shots in Harvey County

They say there are onlytwo things that are cer-tain in life—dying andpaying taxes. There’salso another thing that’scertain. If you’re a per-son, you’re going to getsick, whether it’s the gar-den variety cold, flu orthe mumps.

“There’s an outbreak ofmumps going on in sur-rounding states,” saidToby Harkins, HarveyCounty Health Depart-ment assistantdirector/director of nurs-ing.

He said there are acouple hundred cases inMissouri and 2,000 inArkansas.

“Mumps is on the risewith all the travel, andwe wouldn’t be surprisedwhen we see some of itcoming through Kansas,”Harkins said.

The vaccine for themumps, which is theMMR or Measles, Mumpsand Rubella vaccine, isused a lot, Harkins said.People get two duringtheir lifetimes—one atage 12 months and theother before kinder-garten, when childrenare 4 to 6 years old. Eventhough people get theMMR, there’s still achance they can get themumps.

“They still say there is

a chance you can get it,”Harkins said. “It’s justseverely reduced.”

So far this year, theiroffice has investigatedone mumps case, whichisn’t unusual.

“We have a really, re-ally good safety net goingon,” Harkins said, addingchances of people gettingmumps increase with allthe travel going on, likemissionaries going toThird World countries.

“That’s why it’s a goodidea to make sure ourkids are vaccinated,” hesaid. “Even though itmight not completelyprevent the disease, itwill lesson the severity.”

However, the HarveyCounty Health Depart-ment website statedthey’re hearing aboutmumps in south centralKansas. Mumps symp-toms include fever,headache, muscle aches,loss of appetite, andswollen and tender sali-vary glands under theears on both or one side,according to the Centersfor Disease Control andPrevention website.

In addition to mumpsbeing minimal in thecounty, so is the flu or in-fluenza-like illnesses, atthis point. It’s dramati-cally reduced from twoyears ago, as it was lastyear, Harkins said.

“This year seems to bea very mild flu season, aswell,” Harkins said.

However, there are

more sinus infections.The best way to pre-

vent the flu is to get a flushot, Harkins said, al-though it’s not 100 per-cent.

“If you have a choice,get the quadravalentover the trivalent,”Harkins said. “Trivalentis better than nothing.”

Children should get aflu shot at 6 months andthen another a monthlater, he said, and then

once a year after that.In Harvey County, all

students have a chanceto get the flu shot in pub-lic schools, Harkins said,adding people also canget it at all pharmaciesand doctor’s offices. Tomake it easier for folks toget flu shots, the healthdepartment had 64 clin-ics in 2016 outside of thehealth department. Flushots become available atthe end of September,

and Harkins said he be-lieves it takes two weeksfor the shot be effective,so he advised people toget the shot two weeksbefore any large gather-ings of people they ex-pected to attend.

“Two weeks beforeThanksgiving makes alot of sense to some peo-ple,” he said.

People still can get flushots.

“The highest rates of

flu doesn’t decline untilafter March,” Harkinssaid. “It’s not too late.They’re still encouragingpeople to get them.”

In addition to protect-ing oneself from the flu,people also should getthe shot to protect otherswith whom they mightcome in contact, sincethey can become carriers.

“You’re getting the flushot to protect the mostvulnerable among us,”Harkins said, who addedthere are three stages tothe flu.

These include vaccines,standard precautions,like avoiding sick people,washing hands and stay-ing home when ill, andseeking early medical at-tention and starting anti-viral medications whenindicated by a physician.

Harkins said we havethis belief of addressingacute issues.

The truth of the mat-ter, he said, is a seden-tary lifestyle and pooreating habits can in-crease people’s chances ofgetting ill.

If people start walkingonce a day and eatingfresh fruits and vegeta-bles, the world could re-duce illness dramaticallywithout them ever hav-ing to take a shot andwithout ever having tosee a doctor.

“Our overall poorhealth has increased ourvulnerability to all ill-ness,” he said.


WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWAlice Jantzen, a nurse with the Harvey County Health Department, administers a flu shot to Skip Cowan,community preparedness coordinator with the health department.

Locksmith Havens enjoys helping others with his businessBY WENDY NUGENTNEWTON NOW [email protected]

WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWBarry Havens has around 60,000 keys at his business, Howard's Lock & Key, 105 S.E. 14th Court in Newton.For emergencies, call 316-283-6102.“I like doing it. I like helping people. Sometimes it’s not aboutthe money to me. Sometimes I like to help people that need the help.”

One of Chris Young'scareer highlightsthis past year was

speaking to a businessprofessional club at New-ton High School. It helpedsolidify what he's beendoing the past year—run-ning 701 Café in down-town Newton.

“Maybe I can impartsome kids to go after whatthey're passionate about,because this has alwaysbeen my passion,” Youngsaid, sitting near a win-dow in the restaurantafter the Tuesday lunchrush was over.

Young was told he had60 minutes to speak, andhe wasn't quite sure he'dbe able to talk that long.He said he was nervous,and he started his talk in-troducing himself and dis-cussing his background.Then, the teacher left theroom during this last classof the day, and a studentin the hallway popped aballoon, although the peo-ple in the classroom didn'trealize it was a balloon atthe time. Well, girlsstarted screaming andpeople hit the deck. Youngstuck his head out theclassroom door and askeda couple of adults in thehall if everything was OK.They said it was, so Youngwent back into the class-room and told studentseverything was cool.

It seemed from thatpoint on, something hap-pened. Young's talk wasn'tso mundane and ordinary.Maybe that scare tied himemotionally to the kids.Whatever it was, Youngstarted talking to themabout passion, and he saidthe time flew by.

“I told the kids to focuson what you're passionateabout,” he said. “And useyour passion to get youthrough hard times atwork, your personal rela-tionships. Your passionwill get you through thehard times.”

Young said the studentsalso had about 20 ques-tions for him, and thatnight, which was a Thurs-day, four of the studentsbrought their parents toeat at 701 Cafe for BurgerNight.

“There was just a lot ofinteraction, which I got akick out of,” Young saidabout the time in class.

That interaction illus-trates how the businesshas gone in the past year,which has been quite suc-cessful.

“Overwhelmingly suc-cessful, and [I'm] thank-ful,” Young said.

Tuesday, Jan. 3,marked the restaurant'sone-year anniversary, andYoung said locals, as wellas folks from other lo-cales, have been great

with their support andkind words.

“It's amazing how manytravelers we get, espe-cially sitting at Broadwayand Main,” he said,adding it seems there's apipeline from Newton toWashington. “People fromColorado have said thefood that we're servingand the environmentmakes them feel at home.That's really nice.”

Young said 60 percentof restaurants fail in thefirst year and that he usesthe Golden Rule of restau-rant success for his place.

“I think an environmentfor a restaurant startswith customer service,your décor—do you feelcomfortable sitting in theplace you're eating at—and last, but not least, isthe staff,” he said. “Andthe food. Believe it or not,food's always at the bot-tom.”

His success seems to beworking, as many folkswalk and drive to therestaurant. People alsohave their favorite fooditems. The most popularsandwich is the TurkeyAvocado Pepper JackWrap.

“We call it the TAP,” hesaid. “That's what's on themenu.”

In second is the TwistedRueben, which is theirtwist on the Rueben sand-wich, complete with amarbled hoagie bun andtheir own thousand islandsauce. The next most pop-ular is the Eddie Muen-ster sandwich.

The restaurant's mostpopular side is the cucum-ber dill salad.

“We can't keep cucum-ber dill salad on the

shelf,” Young said, addingthey go through aboutfour cases, or 100, cucum-bers a week.

Young is glad the new-ness of the restaurant hasworn off.

“Seems like for sixmonths, there were linesto the door,” he said. “Thenewness has wore off, andnow we have that steadybusiness. It's not alwaysjam-packed full like theywere used to seeing.”

Catering is a part of thebusiness that's been suc-cessful, as well. As a mat-ter of fact, Young wasbusy catering on Tuesdaymorning.

Plans for the future in-clude making upgrades asfar as curb appeal and in-terior design are con-cerned, and they'll havean online ordering sys-tem. That system shouldbe up by Feb. 1 and canbe found at 701cafe.com,which is where therestaurant's menus are lo-cated.

“It'll just be ready foryou,” Young said aboutpeople's orders. “We'llgive you an ETA.”

Young also plans to im-plement a grab-and-gokiosk, where folks will beable to pick already-pre-pared food, swipe theircards and go. Another ad-dition will be a “to-go”register, so there will betwo total. The second reg-ister should be up by theend of January.

Young also plans to beopen Friday and Saturdaynights until 8:30 or 9p.m., as he's interviewingfor staff now for thosehours.

“At this point in thegame, success isn't neces-

sarily about profits,”Young said, adding that,of course, it was quite im-portant to him to keep thedoors open but now estab-lishing relationships withfirst-time customers alsois important.

“It's really about pro-viding that environmentand customer service forthe customer,” Youngsaid.

Young purchasedKaren's Kitchen fromKaren Walton and offi-cially took over on Jan. 1,2016. The first day thedoors opened at 701 Caféwas Jan. 3, although itdidn't get its new nameuntil later.

If there's any self-fulfill-ment in being a localrestaurant owner, Youngsaid, it's in diving into thecommunity a little bitmore.

“I guess pushing the en-velope a little bit in thesense of creating down-town entertainment,” hesaid, which includedblocking streets and get-ting the community to-gether. Young said he hadcomments from folks say-ing they've wanted tohave that kind of activitydowntown for a long time.


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Children enjoy Discovery Camp at Newton Rec Center

It could’ve been Col.Mustard in the conserva-tory with the knife,Madam Rose in thekitchen with the candle-stick or Tim Curry in thehall with the rope. Who-ever killed the victim,mansionownerSamuelBlack, thechildrenwho at-tended Dis-coveryCamp likedto find out.

The chil-dren at the Newton Recre-ation Center’s holidaycamp for kids ages 5through 12 really likedplaying the board gamethat’s been around eversince Anthony E. Pratt, afire warden during WorldWar II, came up with thegame between Nazi bomb-ings.

The game has its ori-gins in a much more vio-lent setting than whenthe kids played it at therec center.

During the break, theyplayed it at least 20times.

“That’s not an exagger-ation,” said Audrey Gann,rec center program direc-tor. “We all actually loveClue, too.”

During DiscoveryCamp, kids got to takepart in a variety of otheractivities, such as cards,Wii games and with itemsthey received for Christ-mas.

“We’ve had a couple ofNerf wars,” Gann added.

“We have played a lot ofdodge ball. We playedbeach ball volleyball. Wewent to the movies earlierin the week. Swimming.”

On Friday morning, thegroup played badminton,

and they even got to playoutside on warmer days.

Gann said DiscoveryCamp is open to all chil-dren, as long as they’re atleast in kindergarten andnot older than 12. Duringthe winter session,they’ve had 20 enrolled,who attend on variousdays.

The kids’ favorite timeis free time, Gann said,which is when they get toplay board games.

One of the campers,Ethan House, enjoyed at-tending.

“I like that you get tohave snacks, and they letus have a ton of fun andget to swim in the pool,”

he said. “Sometimes theylet us do what we want todo.”

As a matter of fact,House said he received aClue game for Christmas,but he hasn’t played thatactual board game, be-cause he said he’s tryingto get his whole family to-gether to play it.


PHOTOS BY WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWABOVE: Lexi Pauls, center, moder-ates a game of “rock, paper, scis-sors” with Jonathan Goddard andKristopher McMillan. RIGHT: Gage Schmidt messesaround with this badminton racketon Friday at the Newton ActivityCenter. WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOW

Sasha Hartwig, left, and Jonathan Goddard wait for their turns to hit the birdie during badminton practice Fri-day at the Newton Recreation Center.

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Cooking up a successful business: 701 Café celebrates one-year anniversaryBY WENDY NUGENTNEWTON NOW [email protected]

WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWChris Young has owned 701 Café for about a year now.

WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWChris Young, owner of 701 Café in downtown Newton, makes a wrapTuesday afternoon at the restaurant.

NORTH NEWTON—Ben Goossen’s research, infocusing on Mennonite his-tory from the turn of thelast century, also holds im-plications for world politicsin the present day.

Goossen of Cambridge,Mass., will give the nextFriends of the MLA pres-entation at Bethel College.He speaks at 7 p.m. Tues-day, Jan. 10, in the audito-rium of KauffmanMuseum on the Bethelcampus, on the topic “Men-nonites at War: MilitaryService, Ethnic Cleansingand Global Migrationsduring and after the FirstWorld War.”

A century ago, the WorldWar I transformed theglobal Mennonite church,Goossen said. The majorityof Mennonites in NorthAmerica abstained frommilitary service, but thou-sands of their coreligion-ists in Europe, swayed bymilitarist ideologies, madea different choice.

Goossen draws on re-search from his forthcom-ing book, “Chosen Nation:Mennonites and Germanyin a Global Era” (Princeton

University Press, 2017),which examines the rela-tionship between Mennon-ites and Germannationalism in the 19thand 20th centuries.

He takes the storythrough the BolshevikRevolution and into the1920s, showing how Men-nonites across the UnitedStates, Canada, Germany,France, Switzerland, theNetherlands and Austria-Hungary found new soli-darity in efforts to helptheir “brethren in need” inthe collapsing RussianEmpire.

As communist soldiers,anarchist warlords andcounterrevolutionaryarmies swept throughlong-established Mennon-ite settlements like theMolotschna and Chortitzacolonies along the BlackSea, a worldwide Mennon-ite welfare communitybegan to mobilize. Aimingto save the more than100,000 coreligionists liv-ing in the new SovietUnion from famine andethnic cleansing, new or-ganizations like the U.S.-based Mennonite CentralCommittee sponsoredmass population transfers

to the Americas.By the close of the

1920s, they had broughtfully a quarter of all Men-nonites out of the SovietUnion and helped form anautonomous “Mennonitestate” in Paraguay.

A hundred years afterthe first World War putMennonites on a globalstage, this story illumi-nates the worldwide dis-persion of Mennonitecommunities today andprovides a warning againstthe rising tide of national-ism in our own age.

Goossen is a doctoralstudent in history at Har-vard University. He hastwo bachelor of arts de-grees, one in history andone in German studies,from Swarthmore Collegein Pennsylvania, and amaster of arts in historyfrom Harvard.

Goossen has held fellow-ships from the FulbrightCommission and the Ger-man Academic ExchangeService, and is a BeineckeScholar at Harvard. Hehas received awards for ex-cellence in scholarshipfrom the Kansas HistoricalFoundation, the AssociatedChurch Press and Swarth-

more College. His essaysand reviews appear in pub-lications ranging fromNova Religio and WagingNonviolence to the Journalof the History of Ideasblog.

The Mennonite Libraryand Archives at BethelCollege sponsors these pe-riodic presentations ontopics related to Mennon-ite history and thought.

For directions or moreinformation on the Friendsof the MLA or the Jan. 10program, call 316-284-5360 or [email protected].

Bethel College is theonly private college inKansas listed in the

Forbes.com analysis of topcolleges and universities,the Washington MonthlyNational Universities-Lib-eral Arts section and theNational Liberal Arts Col-lege category of U.S. News

& World Report, all for2016–17. The four-year lib-eral arts college is affili-ated with MennoniteChurch USA. For more in-formation, seewww.bethelks.edu.

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Wild walnut chase: Famed Harvey County tree discovered once again

One of Harvey County’smost celebrated residentsfinally has been locatedafter a weeks-long search.

Parks department em-ployees had been search-ing for a black walnuttree at West Park afterCounty Clerk Rick Piephofound a couple of resolu-tions honoring the tree.

“The sun was shiningon this tree. This is it,”Dilts said about the mo-ment she located the tree.

"The Harvey CountyBlack Walnut Tree," sodesignated by the Boardof Harvey County Com-missioners on April 10,1972, was part of a dedi-cation ceremony that co-incided with thecentennial of Arbor Day.Among about 100 specta-tors, a sharpshooter wason hand that day to shootoff small limbs that couldbe used for grafting. Com-missioners also set a $500bounty for anyone whoprovided information thatled to the arrest and con-viction of any person whomight vandalize the tree.A split-rail fence and anaccompanying plaquewere erected around thetree.

"Evidently, that treewas far superior thanyour typical walnut tree,"Parks Director KassMiller said.

Unfortunately, thesturdy old hardwood nolonger is among the liv-ing.

“It’s still standing,which is a plus,” Diltssaid. “I don’t think there’sanything alive remain-ing.” She brought a pieceof its bark to the commis-sion meeting Mondaymorning.

Earlier attempts to findthe tree had been unsuc-cessful, and parks em-ployees believed the tree

might have been wipedout by a storm. A tornadoswept through the parkin 1990.

Dilts found the treeafter Deb Stoddardhelped her obtain an aer-ial map of the park thatwas taken in 1996. Deb’shusband, Lloyd, is a re-tired parks departmentemployee who used tomow around the tree. Hewas among the many whohelped in the search.

After finding the tree inthe photo, Dilts gaugedthat the tree was twoinches from the nearestavailable landmark. Shefound the tree by pacing200 feet from the desig-nated starting point.

“As you know, it washard to find the tree forthe forest,” Dilts toldcommissioners, whoheard a couple of updatesabout the search in recentweeks.

“I don’t think wewanted to think about itbeing dead,” Miller said.“That’s why we didn’t seeit.”

Dilts was careful aboutoffering too manyspecifics about the tree’slocation, because theparks department is plan-ning to do something spe-cial with its lumber.

“You know how manygunstocks that wouldmake?” CommissionerRon Krehbiel askedrhetorically.

According to the 1972resolution, "there is a cer-tain walnut tree at thenorth end of HarveyCounty Park, which treeis outstanding because ofits beauty, commercialvalue and genetic proper-ties." The tree "shall beprotected and preservedfor research and as alandmark as long as itsurvives as a living speci-men."

In its story about thededication, The Kansancited Hank Deutsch, an

area extension foresterwho estimated the tree'svalue at $6,000. Thatwould be equivalent tomore than $34,000 today.The featured speaker,Deutsch told the gather-ing that the 70-foot treehad a diameter of 30inches and contained 750board feet of lumber.

An Associated Presswire story about the cere-mony reported that thelimbs shot off by a sharp-shooter would be distrib-uted for growing morehigh-quality trees. Thelimbs, once grafted ontoanother healthy but lessdesirable tree, could pro-duce nuts within one ortwo years.

Piepho discovered thehistory of the elegantwalnut while reviewing

minutes of old commis-sion meetings. He said hewas trying to calculatethe tenures of all thetownship officials, someof whom were appointedto fill out terms betweenelection cycles.

County AdministratorJohn Waltner first raisedthe topic of the tree at theDec. 12 commission meet-ing.

"The only reason Ishowed it to John was be-cause I was wondering ifyou can check and see ifthis tree still exists,"Piepho later explained.

Miller contacted aforestry expert with theKansas Department ofAgriculture to see if testscould be run on otherblack walnut trees in thearea to see if they might

be descendants of the spe-cial tree.

Dilts said current stateforester Larry Biles con-firmed that the late LoyShreve shot off branchesfor propagation purposesin 1972. Those brancheswere used to propagatewalnut trees at the nowdefunct seed orchard atKansas State.

At the Dec. 12 meeting,Finance Director AnthonySwartzendruber refer-enced a small plaque ac-companying two gavelscarved out of black wal-nut at the commissioners’table. The plaque notesthat trees supplying thewood were damaged in a"June of 1990 tornadicwind.” Until recently,Dilts and Miller believedthe tree had vanished.

Road and Bridge Super-intendent Jim Meier alsohelped in the hunt. Abridge can be seen in pic-tures from the dedicationceremony. Miller saidMeier contacted the engi-neer who worked on the1973 bridge project to seeif a photo could be foundwith the tree in the back-ground.

Even though the mys-tery of the famed blackwalnut revealed its de-mise, Miller said he en-joyed learning about anobscure part of thecounty's history. He saidthe search also hadhelped him learn the his-tory of the county's origi-nal park, which wasconceived in 1938 as aWorks Progress Adminis-tration project.

BY BLAKE SPURNEYHESSTON RECORD

CONTRIBUTED PHOTOHarvey County Park Department Director Kass Miller searches for the lost Harvey County Black Walnut Tree, which was honored in 1972.

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Istill can not predict whatcolumns will get response fromreaders.

A month or two when I fired acolumn off about how a brewerycould be a beneficial developmentfor Newton, I really just put to-gether a few thoughts I had thenight before production.

But for some reason, the idea ofa brewery in Newton resonatedwith some folks, and I've gotten asmuch feedback on that column asmost others I have written.

I've gotten e-mails from beer en-thusiasts and home brewers will-ing to help in a brewery project.I've gotten an e-mail from a mansaying he’s willing to throw downsome cash if we can get one going.Another had an investment planto fund the brewery. Long storyshort, some people were pretty en-thusiastic about the brewery idea.Recently, I attended a local beerbrewing club who has an entire setup, complete with side stove forfrying Schnitzel. The enjoyablevisit only strengthened my convic-tions that local made or craft beerhas a strong support in this town,be it a bit underground.

And it wouldn't be unprece-dented.

I found out from two differentpeople who brought in informationto the office that Newton once hada brewery in the past. So I willnow relate to you the tale ofCharles Charlsen and FrankZurcher, the brewers on the SandCreek.

From 1876-1880 Charlsen andZurcher ran a brewery locatedalong the Sand Creek at near theintersection of Ninth and Elm.

During the construction, theHarvey County News of Newton,Kan., printed: “We hope they willmake good beer, as we prefer hometalent to the foreign article—whenwe use it.”

Well said, Harvey County News.I would write those exact words142 years later if we had a brew-ery opening.

At this point I need to give ashout out to the Harvey CountyHistorical Society and the long-standing lawyer, landlord andlocal history sleuth John Robb.Both came by the office to provideinformation and stories aboutNewton brewing history.

According to one such articlepublished in the Evening-Kansan-Republican, the brewery on SandCreek operated two 16-by-18-footbuildings, one being a brewery and

another a still. The operation—simply called the brewery in all ar-ticles I read—put out 12 kegs or 96gallons of beer a day. Kegs of beersold for $3 a piece.

Charlsen made the beer, andZurcher sold it.

According to the historical soci-ety, Charlsen also operated an icebusiness in the area he started sixyears prior.

When the two built the opera-tion, they were in the midst of abrewing boom in the U.S. By 1876,the operation numbered amongthe 2,600 breweries in the U.S.,putting out 285 million gallons ofbeer a year. That's according tothe Harvey County News again.

At the time of the brewery, theyhad quite the clientele to sell to.Three saloons operated in Newtonat the time: the Mint, The CustomHouse, and The Legal Tender.

It's my knowledge that thisLegal Tender was not one in thesame as the loved bar, venue andsandwich location which sat whereJay's Place is now. But I haven'tdone the research. I'm sure there'ssome history buff out there whoknows if the two are connected.Stop on by the office.

And now back to our two brew-ers, who seemed to enjoy a goodrun for a few years, making theirbeer and becoming what one arti-cle called a “first-class brewery.”The only account of misfortune inthe articles was of Charlsen losingan old bay pony that wanderedaway from the brewery in 1879.

That string of fortune would allchange, however, in 1880 whenthe Kansas Legislature made alco-hol illegal.

Today, it's nearly impossible toimagine the Kansas Legislatureever interfering with local busi-nesses or making poor decisionsthat cost the state jobs and resi-dents.

But back then, that's just whathappened to Charlsen andZurcher. They had until May tosell off their product, and Charlsen

reported that many of their kegs ofbeer were stolen and the equip-ment was unsellable.

Perhaps that happened. I like tohope that Charlsen just said thekegs were stolen and insteadstashed his remaining beer kegs inthe basement of his icehouse to se-cretly sip and plot how to “fightthe man.”

Charlsen continued with his icebusiness, Charlsen Ice Co., sellingice he harvested from the SandCreek. He ran that business for 37years until the State of Kansastried again to hose him over in1917.

The state started requiring iceto be tested for purity. TheEvening-Kansan Republican re-ported that because of constantskating on Sand Creek by theyouth of the community and thefact that cutting holes in the iceexposed it to extra sediment, hisice did not meet the purity stan-dards established by the state.However, according to the HarveyCounty Historical Society,Charlsen was again able to takeup the business later and contin-ued to work until 1928. He waswalking on Sand Creek in Janu-ary, inspecting the ice when hesuffered a stroke and died.

Today, nothing remains of thebrewery. A vacant lot stands in thearea of its supposed location onmaps. Robb attested to a search ofthe property that led to no signs ofthe building or enterprise whichonce stood there and pumped outhundreds of barrels of brew.

Still, one holds out hope thatperhaps 140 years later some en-trepreneur will take up the torchand Newton will have a “FirstClass Brewery” again.

I stand resolute in my stancethat a local brewery would notonly be supported but do well inNewton. It wouldn't be a placethat serves cheap drinks andcauses trouble. It would be a welllit place where people could social-ize, grab a local brew and eat somegood quality food.

Perhaps it might stimulate theeconomy and bring in more out-of-town dollars than proposed effortsto recruit more chains for theNewton retail scene. But that's fora different column in the future,perhaps.

Adam Strunk is the managingeditor of Newton Now. He can be

reached at [email protected] or 316-281-7899.

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EditorialDowntown retail

recruitment proposal anissue to keep an eye on

It’s January and basketball isin full swing! Whee! I love it! Ihave always been a basketball

fan. It’s in my blood. I grew up in asmall town in Illinois (Winchester)in the ’40s and ’50s. Basketballwas big in Illinois, and it was bigin my family.

My uncle was tall and a basket-ball star on his team when he wasin high school. (He even earnedthe nickname “Mallet Head” afterhe broke another player’s armwhen he accidentally rammed itwith his head.) My uncle’s son, mycousin, (called “Square Peg” by hisfather’s basketball contempo-raries) played basketball in collegefor St. Louis University in the Mis-souri Valley Conference in themid-’50s. (They played WichitaState then, and he hated playingagainst WSU in their “RoundHouse.”)

My mother was tall and playedon her college team at Illinois Col-lege in the ’20s during the timewhen women could play basketball

against other college teams, usingwomen’s rules (even before Title9). I don’t know why, but by thetime I was in high school and col-lege, women could only play anysport in gym class or in intramu-rals. I would love to have playedbasketball on a girls’ team againstother schools. (I wouldn’t havebeen good, but I would have beenenthusiastic!)

So I was in heaven when I choseto attend the University of Kansas(kind of accidentally when it was

April of my senior year in highschool and I still hadn’t chosen acollege). After a visit to KU at myuncle’s urging, I knew KU andKansas was where I wanted to be.After all, I learned Kansas wasknown as the “Cradle of Basket-ball,” and KU had just won theNCAA championship that springbefore my KU freshman year.

The summer of 1952, the major-ity of the KU championship team,coached by Dr. Phog Allen, wasmembers of the United States’ bas-ketball team and winners of theOlympic basketball gold medal.That put the frosting on the deci-sion I had made. Kansas, here Icome! What a fun place for a bas-ketball fan to be.

My freshman year, KU lost 61-60 to Indiana in the NCAA cham-pionship game. After the season’send, I was “fixed up” with a datewith B.H. Born, KU’s 6-foot-9-inchstar player. Wow! For the rest ofthat semester, on my tip toes, I

Huzzah for college basketball beginning

Newton's downtown has made a come back followingthe recession. Vacancy rates have dropped, and alongMain Street, it would not take two hands to count theopen first floor store fronts from Eighth to Main Street.

Restaurants, businesses, churches, offices and banks alloccupy the area.

Steps have been taken to make the downtown more at-tractive, with ordinances being changed to allow mer-chandise along the streets and outdoor seating inrestaurants last year.

Others undertake activities to highlight the downtownsuch as the annual Taste of Newton event. The city allo-cates funds to downtown promotions. The city also allo-cates funds, some $20,000 annually, to plant flowersthroughout the Newton downtown to further beautify it.

These efforts are undertaken because the city under-stands the downtown is important. It serves as a bell-wether for the economic health of a location, it givesresidents a place to shop and spend time, and it providesjobs for community members, many of them local jobs.

These jobs capture money from outside and within thecommunity and circulate that money back into the com-munity.

The value of the commercial property generates tax rev-enue for the city at a higher rate than a residence for in-stance.

The downtown also houses much of the historical andarchitectural uniqueness of the city.

It makes sense that we have discussions on how to con-tinue to improve that space. That space is one of the manyfacets that can be polished to make the city shine.

However, it's with a good bit of curiosity and perhapshesitation that we look at a proposal to hire an outsidecompany, Retail Strategies, to try to recruit retail to thedowntown as well as Newton as a whole.

The cost of the plan, which has been said to be morethan $40,000 annually in total, would be paid with cityfunds and a possible reallocation of the money spent ondowntown flowers.

The group will make a presentation to the city commis-sion at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18, at the Meridian Cen-ter.

The group on their website advertised their service as away to evaluate a city economy identify potential needsand participate in targeted recruitment.

City Manager Bob Myers suggested that recruitingbusinesses that draw people to the downtown would be tothe benefit all the businesses in the area. He later ex-panded on the idea, saying the firm could focus on bring-ing retail to other locations as well.

Yet, after talking to the chamber and taking a count ofpossible downtown businesses locations that are open, onestarts to wonder where such retail would go—at least indowntown Newton.

There are only a few locations that would be open forsuch recruitment.

The company also advertises its successes in other city'sas new chain locations like restaurants or a sports storeor a grocery chain like Aldi.

Perhaps such a location may see a spot on the southend of town as attractive. But we also have such busi-nesses already looking at developing on the south end ofthe town.

So, with that sort of cost involved in the recruitmentand with the locations available, we wonder what the ben-efit of hiring a company for retail recruitment would be?

Myers said that the city must decide whether it wantsto wait for retail development or be more proactive insnagging it. He said he would like to see support for theplan from the business community before moving forwardwith the plan.

We'll wait until the Retail Strategies presentation ismade before offering an opinion on the issue.

Retail enterprises can bring jobs and make a town a bitnicer place to live, but they’re what are referred to as sec-ondary developments. They need customers to exist. Oth-erwise, if a new business comes in to compete with anexisting business for a limited amount of resources, an-other has to close.

We've all seen such things happen with restaurants, forinstance.

That's not to say that the city shouldn't try to look athow to improve the downtown and retail as a whole. Weapplaud looking at the issue. Perhaps it does mean draw-ing in the right businesses or increasing the ration of re-tail to, say, offices. Perhaps it means coming up withprograms to nurture entrepreneurs or local businessesstarting up.

But right now we're not sold on the retail plan. We'll seeif the presentation on Jan. 18 will change our minds.

—Newton Now Editorial Board

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In many ways, yes, 2016 was arough year for entertainment.The year started by stealing

the goblin king, then left by takinga rebel princess. But rather thanfocus on what we lost, we shouldbe grateful for the gifts that weregiven to us. Here are my picks forthe best of pop culture from 2016.

Best Movie - “Sing Street” This one’s probably no surprise

if you happened to read my reviewpraising “Sing Street” a fewmonths back. To be honest, I washolding out hope for “Rogue One”to supplant my pick in this cate-gory, but it was a bit of a disap-pointment, so I’ll spare you thatreview. And, in fairness, I haven’tyet seen some of the more recentreleases that are garnering Oscarbuzz—films like “La La Land” and“Manchester by the Sea.” But fromwhat I have seen, “Sing Street” isstill the most endearing film of theyear for me. It has a great story, afantastic original soundtrack anda talented cast of young actorswho help make “Sing Street”something special and definitelyworth seeing. If you have Netflix,consider queueing it up today.

Best Show - “Westworld”There are several shows that

could have easily taken this honorfor 2016, in my mind at least.“Game of Thrones” had anotherfantastic 10-episode run. “Billions”debuted with standout perform-ances from Paul Giamatti andDamian Lewis. And “Shameless”continued to deliver in its seventhseason, a point when most showsbegin to degrade or drop off. But“Westworld” wins because it got

people talking again…theorizingand speculating. It’s like “Lost,”“Deadwood” and “Ex Machina”wrapped up into one intriguing,thought-provoking package that isjust getting started. And that’swhat makes it so exciting.

Best Original Netflix Series -“Stranger Things”

While I still believe “Orange isthe New Black” is the most impor-tant and revolutionary thing Net-flix has done to date, “StrangerThings” is easily the best—espe-cially if you have fond pop-culturememories from the ’80s. That’s be-cause “Stranger Things” feels likeit was pulled from some forgottenvault in Steven Spielberg’s base-ment. Only, unlike movies withtwo-hour run times, “StrangerThings” tells its supernatural taleover the course of eight episodes(or eight hours), allowing morethan enough time to wrap yourbrain around the plot while grow-ing attached to the brilliant kidsat the center of it all who make theseries so great.

Best Video Game - “Titanfall2”

Even if you don’t personally playvideo games, everybody has agamer in the family. And whilemany gamers stayed faithful to es-tablished franchises like “Call ofDuty,” “Battlefield,” and “Un-charted” this year, many otherswere fortunate enough to experi-ence EA’s refined first-personshooter “Titanfall 2.” From a com-pelling, albeit short, single-playercampaign to a very-well executedmultiplayer experience, “Titanfall2” is what “Call of Duty: InfiniteWarfare” wanted to be. With fluidcontrols, great game mechanicsand beautiful graphics withoutcompromising frame rates on con-soles, no other game got thingsmore right than “Titanfall 2.”

Best album - “Blackstar” byDavid Bowie

This isn’t a sympathy pick forthe late Bowie, but “Blackstar”probably wouldn’t have taken mytop spot for best album withoutcontext. Releasing just days beforehis death, “Blackstar” is essen-tially an album from beyond thegrave. This makes the seven shorttracks so much more powerfulwhen you listen to the lyrics know-ing they were written by a manfacing his own demise. The stand-out track “Lazarus” even openswith the words, “Look up here /I’m in Heaven” because Bowieknew “Blackstar” wouldn’t beheard, or at least fully appreci-ated, until he was gone. So, con-sider this my appreciation.

Jeremy Jaso is a Newton resi-dent and Newton High School

graduate.

The year 2016 wasn’t the worst in entertainment

Guest EditorialGoal should be to increase

State of the State audienceI’ve always enjoyed the Christ-

mas season in part because ofthe cultural and family tradi-

tions that accompany the holidayroutines.

Like many other Midwesternfamilies, mine has long gatheredfor a big breakfast on Christmasmorning before opening gifts andgenerally lounging together for therest of the day. Most of my friendsand acquaintances have some vari-ation on that theme, be it a sharedmeal Christmas Eve, Christmasnight or other mutually convenienttime.

For our family’s 2016 Christmascelebration, we still celebrated ourChristmas morning brunch, butblending families for us alsomeans blending cultures, and ourculinary Christmas tradition willprobably never be the same.

In preparation for his first tripto Kansas to celebrate Christmas,my brother-in-law asked if hecould have the ingredients of a tra-ditional Scandinavian Christmasdinner shipped directly to ourhouse in Newton. I agreed, eagerto experience some of the holidayfood his family ate when he wasgrowing up in Norway.

A week or so later, a box arrivedfrom Fort Lauderdale. O.P. hadsaid the contents did not need tobe refrigerated, but a sticker on

the box insisted otherwise, and Iput the unidentified plastic-wrapped meat in the refrigerator.I also noticed the packing list iden-tified two products that had beenordered but were not included inthe shipment because they werenot available. The list, of course,was written in Norwegian.

Realizing I had absolutely nohope of attempting to communi-cate what didn’t arrive, much lessunderstanding what the ingredi-ents were to be used for, I snappeda photo of the packing list andtexted it to him. As I waited for hisreply, I attempted to decipherwhat I could about the meal hewas planning to make. The onlyEnglish words on the list were“small pigs,” which piqued bothmy curiosity and level of concern.

I was relieved to hear in hisreply that the missing ingredients

were both not essential to themeal’s overall outcome and thatthe previously-referenced smallpigs were made out of marzipanand chocolate and not the mysterymeat in my fridge.

As it turns out, our Scandina-vian Christmas Eve dinner fea-tured a main dish of salted lambthat O.P. re-hydrated, boiled andthen baked. It was a new flavor forus, but a taste of home for him.And overall, it wasn’t half bad. Al-though he scored his biggest Nor-wegian food hit the night beforewith a sweet rice pudding. In thistradition, an almond is hidden inone of the bowls, in much the sameway a doll is hidden in King Cakesin the Cajun traditions. As it turnsout, this was the intent of the“small pigs.” The person who findsthe almond gets to eat the pigs. Asthe recipient of the almond, I wascertainly grateful they were marzi-pan, and not, well, pig.

We wrapped up the eveningwith a Norwegian-style visit fromSanta—through the front door—and international good cheer andfamily conversation.

Melody Spurney is coordinator ofthe Newton Convention & Visitors

Bureau. She can be reached [email protected] or

by phone at 316-284-3642.

Small pig makes for sweet holiday treat

REWIND

JEREMY JASO

TO NEWTON

MELODY SPURNEY

dated B.H. However, eventually it

turned out that the win-ner of my heart was TedIce of Newton, Kan. Wewere married the follow-ing year after our 1956graduation from KU.

After three years tocomplete Ted’s Navy com-mitment and three yearsof law school for Ted,Kansas became my statefor good when we movedto Newton. How muchgreater can it be for abasketball fan than tolive in the state which iscalls itself “the cradle ofbasketball”?

Indiana also claims tobe the cradle (on thegrounds that the gamewas brought to the YMCA

at Crawfordsville, Ind.,by the Y’s director a yearafter it was invented in1891 by James Naismithat the Springfield, Mass.,YMCA. Naismith is saidto have invented it to pro-vide an interesting indoorgame for his men’s gymclass to play during coldweather).

But Kansas claims thetitle because James Nai-smith moved to Kansas in1898 to become the ath-letic director at the Uni-versity of Kansas. Hethen organized andcoached the KU basket-ball team. Forrest C.(“Phog”) Allen was one ofhis players. While playingon the KU team, Allencoached the Baker Uni-versity basketball teamfor three seasons.

In 1907, Naismith leftthe university and Allen

was appointed to coachthe team his senior year.He expanded his coachingthe next year to includeBaker U and Haskell In-stitute. He left KU andcoaching to obtain a de-gree in osteopathy, re-turning to KU to coach allsports, including basket-ball, using his osteopathicskills to treat injuries.(The nickname “Phog”came from his notoriousfoghorn voice.)

Phog was the onelargely responsible forbasketball becoming anOlympic sport in 1936. Hecoached the Kansas Jay-hawks until his retire-ment after the 1956season. Allen FieldHouse, named in hishonor, was dedicatedMarch 1, 1955, and I wasthere!

KU played K-State (KU

won 77-67), and I stillhave the original pro-gram.

Before Allen Fieldhouse, all KU games wereplayed in Hoch Audito-rium on a basketball floorwith fans crammed in onall sides. I attended asmany of those games as Icould get someone to giveme their activity ticketfor the game. (When stu-dents purchased their ac-tivity tickets for the year,each student receivedtickets for only half of thehome basketball gamesbecause of the space con-strictions. I could usuallyfind a sorority sister whowasn’t going to use herticket for a game which Ididn’t have allotted tome.)

Naismith family mem-bers are quoted as saying,“Basketball was invented

in Massachusetts, but itgrew up in Kansas.”

If not rocked in a cradlehere, basketball was defi-nitely rocked, nurturedand encouraged to reachgreat heights in a rockingchair by its inventor,James Naismith, and byan early-on model coach,Phog Allen, who coached39 total seasons inKansas. His coaching ca-reer in Kansas rangedfrom 1907 to 1956 (notcounting 1912-1917 whenhe attended osteopathyschool and coached atWarrensburg State inMissouri).

Attesting to the factthat it is indeed a basket-ball state, Kansas hasproduced an amazingnumber of very successfulDivision 1 basketballcoaches. Those raised inKansas are Adolph Rupp

(Halstead), Frosty Cox(Newton; University ofColorado coach from1936-1950, taking CU tothe Final Four in 1942and the NIT champi-onship in 1940), DeanSmith (Emporia andTopeka), Eddie Sutton(Bucklin), Gene Keady(Larned), Ralph Miller(Chanute), Bill Guthridge(Parsons), and LonKruger (Silver Lake).

We have winning col-lege basketball programsfor which to cheer, espe-cially the Kansas Jay-hawks, the Kansas StateWildcats and the WichitaState Shockers, makingKansas great fun for fansof basketball like me.Yeah for the game of bas-ketball!

Sue Ice is a longtimeNewton resident.

ICEFrom Page 6

With Kansas facing a painfully uphill financial battle,this year’s State of the State address from our sittinggovernor is significant.

But don’t expect to see Sam Brownback share his vi-sion on television.

The state once featured televised broadcasts of the an-nual State of the State address, a tradition giving thegovernor an opportunity to address the condition of thestate.

But as happened last year, the Tuesday, Jan. 10,State of the State will not be broadcast on TV, and in-stead will be streamed on the governor’s website, gover-nor.ks.gov.

Worse yet would be the 5 p.m. start time, when laterin the evening would be a far more convenient time towatch.

With a budget crisis hurting Kansans in many ways,the governor should understand the need for more pub-lic engagement.

Instead, Brownback’s ultraconservative regime hasconsistently avoided open, public airing of controversiallegislation and other topics.

The current plan for the State of the State also willdownplay the response of legislative opponents, whichshould be scathing.

All involved should know a governor in a perpetualstate of denial wouldn’t offer realistic solutions anyway.

During last year’s speech, also in the midst of seriousbudget problems, Brownback claimed the “State of theState is strong […] and Kansas is growing.”

Kansas has notable strengths, starting with its peo-ple, but fiscal health currently isn’t one of them. Lack-luster job growth and other poor economic indicatorsprove the folly of the governor’s “trickle down” incometax-cut approach.

The state’s shortfall of $350 million this fiscal year, ontrack to balloon to more than $1 billion, is entirely self-inflicted.

Undeterred, Brownback still clings to the failed strat-egy, and even recently called the tax doctrine that hasmore than 330,000 small businesses paying no incometax a model for the nation.

“We pioneered this field,” he said.Perhaps he meant deliberately shortchanging state

programs, as he’s done, would propel Kansas backwardto pioneer days.

When it’s time for the State of the State address, acautionary tale will become yet another imaginary talefrom the governor.

Too bad too few Kansans will be able to witness hislatest show of political ineptitude.

—The Garden City Telegram

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parts that would be used as part ofchemical milling processes or to protectthe parts when shipping. The NationalInstitute for Aerospace Research at WSUannounced a partnership to develop theproduct.

ABI Chemicals promised to have 12 to14 employees working at the plant byDecember of that year, which wouldmanufacture coatings used in airplanepart fabrication and shipping.

The company promised up to 22 em-ployees within two years.

“We already have contracts in place,”Havers-Strong told the HutchinsonNews in an April 2014 article. “I can’t di-vulge who, but they’re major OEMS[Original Equipment Manufacturers].”

At the time, the company requestedthe facility be done by October of 2014.

By July of 2015, a month before theplant held its official opening ceremony,Havers-Strong told the Wichita Eaglethat the plant had five employees andwould employ 12 once it hit full produc-tion.

Now it's January of 2017, and theredoesn't appear to be much productiongoing on at the site, let alone 22 employ-ees. The parking lot sat empty at around2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 3.

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Newton City Manager Bob Myers saidthe lack of progress with the companyhas prompted concern for the city.

Myers said that the plant was furtherbehind in its development process thanthe city expected, and the city was inves-tigating the situation and trying to ob-tain answers.

“There's not as much activity out thereas what we were counting on,” he said.“In the development agreement at somepoint they have to hit employment tar-gets.”

The city financed the plant by origi-nally issuing general obligation bonds topay for the $6.8 million project and thenby issuing industrial revenue bonds afterthe project was completed through Citi-zens State Bank in Nov. of 2014. Theseindustrial revenue bonds were awardedto Harvey County Economic Develop-ment Coalition, which distributed the

bonds as a grant tobuild the building.

ABI is responsible forpaying off the buildingthrough a 20-yearlease. Those paymentspass through the EDCto the city.

The city also re-quired a year’s reserveworth of lease pay-ments be set aside inescrow for the city's se-curity, according to theCity of Newton.

Myers declined togive any financial infor-mation on if the com-pany had been payingits lease or if the cityhad tapped in at-all tothe escrow.

Myers did say that the company origi-nally had some large contracts it hopedwould come through and that certainthings had to happen before it could getthose contracts.

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A call for Havers-Strong about theprogress of the plant was not returned.

Plant Manager Andrew Thurman, theowner of the car often parked in theparking lot, was amicable and friendlyin person during a visit at the plant onDec. 23.

He did say that the company was in-volved in research and development, buthe declined to go into details without hissupervisor present.

Thurman was contacted two othertimes in the following weeks, but as ofTuesday, Jan. 3, said that his supervisordeclined an interview.

Harvey County Economic Develop-ment Executive Director Beth Sheltonwas able to give a small bit more infor-mation about the plant’s progress.

“We've been able to go out their andvisit them a number of times,” she said.“Right now they are just doing the re-search and design for the mix. It seemsthat their research and developmentwas a little longer than they thought,but Andrew was really upbeat that in2017.”

Time will tell if the parking lot even-tually starts to fill or if the city will startto see some return on its investment.

Jones might not get tosee her granddaughter fora while, she said, whilecaller Curtis Peters readsuch number/letter combi-nations as B11, N39, N34,B3 and N44.

Jones and her grand-daughter were busy daub-ing their card squares in avariety of colors, gettingclose to blackouts.

Bingo players used vari-ous-colored daubers tomark their cards, andeven some had whatlooked like bingo bagswith holes for dauberswith them—like ShannonGarton, who played 27cards at once. She saidshe’s come to the Legionfor many years.

“I always have,” shesaid. “It’s a nice place.”

She said she also playsbingo at the Veterans ofForeign Wars building onWednesdays.

Newton residents Deb-bie and Daniel Stiver, andKevin and Jerry McKin-ney played across theroom.

“We’re neighbors andfriends,” Debbie Stiversaid, adding a reason theyplay bingo. “We’re all re-tired—just to get out ofthe house. We need some-thing to do.”

The group started play-ing bingo after driving bythe Legion one night. Oneof them said, “Do youwant to try bingo?” andthey all said, “Yeah.”

The two women, Kevinand Debbie, have won, butthe men hadn’t as of lastThursday night. Kevinsaid she even won $1,000.The couples have beenplaying bingo only a cou-ple of months, startingaround Halloween.

Another group, consist-ing of Martha Smith, Eliz-abeth Olsen and LucyVidacs, sat in the middleof the room, toward thefront. Vidacs said shebrought Olsen there, whois a youth, because Olsen’smom just had a baby andVidacs wanted to helpOlsen’s mom out.

In addition to bingo asentertainment, the Legionhas a special concessionstand for bingo-goers, Peo-ple only need to pay fortheir concessions andtheir cards. Folks usuallyhave to pay for a $10 to$15 packet of cards, aswell as extra cards if theywish. They also can buydaubers there, and prizesare money.

“They can win up to$1,000 on our progres-sive,” Mersereau said,adding that althougheveryone is welcome, kids8 and older must play,

and all kids need to be ac-companied by an adult.

Bingo has been at theLegion ever since the Le-gion’s been around, whichis since the 1920s,Mersereau said.

Actually, even thoughthe top payout is $1,000, aperson can win up to$1,500 in one night.

“Which I’ve only seenonce since I’ve been here,”Mersereau said, addingthat person wasn’t a regu-lar. The person, who wasfrom out of state, camewith family.

Payouts average about$1,200 nightly.

Bingo games includerows and blackout bingos.

They do 12 differentgames plus the EarlyBird, and there are eightEarly Bird games. DuringEarly Bird, people can buyeight games for $5.

“Depending on howmany they sell determineswhat the payout is goingto be,” Mersereau said.

Other people helping

run bingo, in addition toMersereau with the pay-outs and Peters calling,were Angel Macias as aseller and Margaret Smithat concessions.

“We’re all volunteers,”Mersereau said. “We don’tget paid for any of this.That’s all required by thestate.”

BINGOFrom Page 1

WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWFrom left, bingo-goers Kevin and Jerry McKinney, and Daniel and Debbie Stiver, all of Newton, enjoy themselves before regular bingo starts onMonday night.

ADAM STRUNK/NEWTON NOWThe ABI Chemicals parking lot sits empty on the afternoon of Jan. 3. Representatives from both Newtonand Harvey County Economic Development said they have gotten calls wondering why the parking lot isregularly empty at the $6.8 million facility that was once promised to bring 22 jobs to Newton before itwas built in 2014.

ABIFrom Page 1

Havers-Strong

Myers

lot most of the time, eitherroosting on vehicles—helikes luggage racks—walk-ing between cars or pa-trolling the brush andcreek that border the busi-ness. Staff keeps tabs onhim, and Lenny is fed byCook or Sales ManagerDavid McCall twice a day.

“He's fat and happy,”Cook said after listing offthe peacock's favoritetreats: meal worms, catfood, watermelon andCheerios. Peafowl are om-nivorous and eat justabout everything.

Cook said the bird does-n't cause too many prob-lems. He doesn't scratchthe vehicles, though occa-sionally he leaves drop-pings on them that mustlater be cleaned.

Cook said customers ap-preciate Lenny for themost part, though they'retaken aback to see the out-of-place bird at first.

“Some people come byonce a week to check onhim,” Cook said.

Lenny arrived at thedealership after leaving afarm a few miles away.

“We had a farmer showup and say it was his birdand take him home, butthree days later, he

[Lenny] was back.” Cooksaid. “He refuses to leave.”

Perhaps Lenny stays, inpart, because of the bondhe's formed with Cook.

Cook describes herselfas “Lenny's person.” Thebrightly colored bird hasgotten to know her and oc-casionally lets her pet himif he's sitting on a vehicleat the lot and the moodstrikes him. Cook saidshe's been around pea-cocks in the past and hasbeen adopting and rescu-ing animals her whole life.

“I don't think I've everturned one away,” shesaid.

So when Lenny showedup, the two just hit it off.

She's his primary care-taker, coming in on holi-days to make sure he's fed.

On a Thursday morn-ing, to get him to show upfor a news interview, allshe had to do was yell“Lenny-Bird.”

Suddenly a bright blueand green fowl material-ized from the drab brushto eat birdseed next to anew car. The scene was abit surreal.

Cook added that Lennyis quite a bit more socialthan normal for a peacock.She spoke with a peacockfarmer near Kansas Citywho said normally thebirds don't let people ap-proach them.

Lenny was a bit wary atfirst of visitors, but oncehe got acquainted, he tookthe time to strike poses,puffing out his chest andneck feathers and stand-ing on one leg.

Cook said he neverspreads his tail, becauseit's a mating display, andthere are no peahens onthe lot.

She said she only hasseen him do it once, whenshe came to feed him onChristmas Eve and hehadn't seen anyone duringthe day.

“I think he was justlonely,” Cook said.

Cook thinks that sinceLenny doesn't have otherpeacocks and peahens,he's adopted people aspart of his flock.

Once in a great while,he won’t come to the lot,causing Cook to have to goout and feed him. She saidshe was standing on theicy creek the other day inbusiness clothes, trying toput food on the other sideof it for him to eat.

“Everyone was like,‘You're insane,’” she said.“I'm like, ‘No, it’s myLenny Bird.’”

She said outside ofneeding to be fed, Lennydoes a good job of takingcare of himself. He staysaway from the nearbyhighway. He has spurs onhis legs and attacked a catthat was stalking him.

“Lenny taught the catthat it wasn't a good idea,”Cook said. “It was a bigcat, too.”

Once in a while she'llget worried if she can'tfind him, but usually thatmeans he's on the otherside of the creek or in theApplebee’s parking lot.

What's more of a con-cern for her is someonetrying to catch him or takehim.

Cook said she's fine withpeople visiting the bird,but they need to respecthis space and that the carlot is his home.

“I don't want people toharm him,” she said.“They're fragile.”

Cook said plenty of peo-ple have offered to takethe peacock, but for one,he won’t leave the lot, andtwo, they've grown to likehim. She said Lenny willhave a spot at the lot aslong as he's willing to stay.

Now they just have toteach him to sell cars.

“A couple he laid onhave sold this week,” Cooksaid. “Peacocks are sup-posed to be good luck.”

LENNYFrom Page 1

WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOWLenny the Peacock is quite colorful.

Road to El Dorado to be detoured

On Feb. 27, the Kansas Department ofTransportation (KDOT) will begin re-placing bridges on Kansas Highway 196near Potwin in Butler County.

The replacement will close the high-way to through traffic.

The bridge replacement project isscheduled to be completed and reopenthe highway to unrestricted traffic bylate November 2017, depending on de-lays due to adverse weather conditions.

So to get to El Dorado, the state recom-mends a detour of taking Interstate 135south to Wichita and then getting on

Kansas Highway 254 and heading east.The change will add about four minuteson to the drive from Newton to El Do-rado, according to Google Maps.

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Patricia Jean (Murray)Osborn, 83, died Wednes-day, Dec. 28, 2016, atNewton PresbyterianManor. She was bornMarch 5, 1933, in Liberalto Dr. Alvin W. andWilma (Dorth) Murray.Her father was the pastorof the Boise City, Okla.,United MethodistChurch.

She and Chester L. Os-born were united in mar-riage on July 26, 1953.She graduated from

Southwestern Collegein 1955. Together, theywere a parsonage familyin Winfield; Parsippany,N.J.; and the Kansastowns of Oxford, Newton,Salina, Derby, Wichita,Hutchinson and retiredback to Newton. While inHutchinson, she was theregional operations man-ager for the HutchinsonRegion of Blue Cross andBlue Shield of Kansas.

The delight of her lifewas her family. She issurvived by her husband,

Chester; and their chil-dren, Phillip and his wife,Trissie, of Dallas, SusanOsborn of Kansas City,Kan., and Douglas andhis wife, Nicole, ofOmaha, Neb. All to-gether, there are sevengrandsons and twogranddaughters, plus twogreat-grandsons.

Patricia was precededin death by her parents;sister, Ruth Brown; andstepmother, MarjorieMurray.

A celebration of lifeservice was on Tuesday,Jan. 3, at Trinity HeightsUnited Methodist Churchin Newton with PastorsVern Bowers and PhilFischer presiding. Inurn-ment will be in theGreenwood CemeteryColumbarium.

Memorials are sug-gested to the TrinityHeights UnitedMethodist Church Foun-dation in care of PetersenFuneral Home in New-ton.

PATRICIA JEAN OSBORNBertha E. Marquardt,

77, died at her home inNewton, surrounded byher loving family.

She was born on April6, 1939, in Capulin, Colo.,the daughter of MoisileVargas and Emilina Arel-lano. Bertha marriedFrank Marquardt on Aug.28, 1974. They shared 42years together. She was alongtime member of OurLady of GuadalupeCatholic Church in New-ton.

Preceding her in deathwere her parents; chil-dren, Valerie FriedaLujan, Mary Jane Var-gas, Johnny Chris LujanJr. and Matthew LujanSr.; and her siblings,Lydia Sanchez, Maria De-Bargas, Antonio Vargas

and Benny Vargas.Survivors include her

husband, Frank of thehome; son, RonaldCruzen Jr. and his wifeTina; daughters, SoniaKempfert and her hus-band Steve, and DestinyMarquardt; and manygrandchildren and great-grandchildren, along withher dog, Pepper.

Graveside services andinterment were Dec. 28 atSt. Mary’s CatholicCemetery in Newton.

In lieu of flowers, thefamily suggests memori-als be given to an organi-zation of the donor’schoice. Contributionsmay be sent to BroadwayColonial Funeral Home,120 E. Broadway, New-ton, KS, 67114.

BERTHA E. MARQUARDTOn Sunday,

Jan. 1, 2017,Jerold W.“Jerry” Don-aldson,beloved hus-band of DaleAnn Donald-son; cherishedfather ofRobin CarolTucker, DMV (Dr. JohnTucker, Ph.D.) and ErikScott H. Donaldson; dearbrother of Joyce ElainePyonk and Judy Winsky(Gary); loving uncle ofLori, Suzy, Kristin, Johnand Jeffrey; and great-uncle of MacKenzie,Matthew, Meredith andAbe, died. He also is sur-vived by many loving in-laws, his children'smother, Carolyn Donald-

son, andfriends.

Familywill receivefriends from3 to 6 p.m.Friday, Jan.6, at HarryH. Witzke'sFamily Fu-neral Home,

4112 Old Columbia Pike,Ellicott City, Md. AMass of Christian Burialwill be said at 12:30 p.m.on Saturday, Jan. 7, atChurch of the Resurrec-tion. Interment is pri-vate. In lieu of flowers,donations may be madeto the Gilchrist Centerof Howard County, theChurch of the Resurrec-tion School Tuition Fundor Ranger Rosary Fund.

JEROLD DONALDSON

Charles“Chuck” A.Hollingsheadpassed fromthis life onThursday,Dec. 29, 2016,at KansasChristianHome in New-ton.

Chuck was born onNov. 23, 1928, at home inGarnett to Frank andFrances Hollingsheadand continued livingthere until he joined theMarine Corps in 1946. In1948, he left the Marinesas a corporal and at-tended The University ofKansas. In 1951, whileliving in Kansas City, hemet Barbara Watkins ona blind date and marriedher six weeks later. Theywere married for 65years.

In 1956, they moved toNewton to be closer toBarb’s family. Chuckworked for SafewayStores and, in 1960,began his long careerwith the U.S. PostalService until he retired in1990. They attended andwere active at severalchurches in Newton, in-

cluding FirstBaptist,Bible Baptistand NewtonBible, whereChuck servedin several ca-pacities, in-cludingdeacon.

Serviceswere on Tuesday, Jan. 3,at Petersen FuneralHome Chapel in Newton.Final internment was atEastlawn Cemetery inZimmerdale.

Chuck was preceded indeath by his parents andhis only brother, Wallace,of Beloit.

Survivors include wifeBarbara, who lives atKansas Christian Homein Newton; son Dan(Patti) Hollingshead ofLongmont, Colo.; daugh-ter Becky (Bill) Smoldt ofCastle Rock, Colo., andson Tim (Denise) Holling-shead of Wichita. Othersurvivors include sixgrandchildren and 15great-grandchildren.

Memorial donationscan be made to KansasChristian Home in careof Petersen FuneralHome.

CHARLES HOLLINGSHEAD

HES-STON—Wal-lace RayJantz, 90, re-tired pastor,beloved hus-band, father,grandfather,brother, uncleand friend,passed awayon Thursday, Dec. 29,2016, in Hesston.

He was born March 4,1926, on the Jantz ranchin Haviland to SolomonB. Jantz and Katie(Wadel) Jantz.

Wallace married SylviaRuth Andres on Aug. 19,1955, in Hesston, and shepreceded him in death onFeb. 8, 2011.

He is survived by sonsJeff Jantz and wifeTeresa of Durango, Colo.,and Tim Jantz and wifeMelissa of Lancaster, Pa.;grandchildren CristinaJantz, Steven Jantz,Michael Jantz and EthanJantz; sister Doris Diller

of Hesston;and brothersDewayne andMelvinJantz, bothof Haviland.

A memo-rial servicewas Jan. 4 atHesstonMennonite

Church, 309 S. Main St.,Hesston.

Memorials may be des-ignated to the AssociatedMennonite Biblical Semi-nary or the Hesston Col-lege Music Departmentin care of the HesstonMennonite Church. Con-tributions may be sent toBroadway Colonial Fu-neral Home, 120 E.Broadway, Newton, KS67114.

Condolences may beleft at www.broadway-colonialfh.com.

Arrangements are byBroadway Colonial Fu-neral Home, Newton.

WALLACE RAY JANTZ

Paul ErbOswald, 97,North New-ton, died onThursday,Dec. 29, 2016.

Paul wasborn on April9, 1919, inO'Neill, Neb.,to Jacob andElizabeth Oswald. OnOct. 5, 1941, he marriedDorothy Mae Egli fromManson, Iowa, where heresided until June 2009,when he moved to NorthNewton and became anindependent living resi-dent of Kidron BethelVillage.

Preceding him in deathwere his wife, Dorothy, in1995, his parents, threebrothers and three sis-ters.

His survivors includefive children, Jane Lam-bert (Vaughn) of Salina,Paula McClave (Mac) ofBillings, Mont., Neil Os-wald (Kathy) of Manson,Brian Oswald (patti) ofChicago and Laurie Os-wald Robinson (Alfonso)

of Newton.He also issurvived byone brother;10 grandchil-dren; 14great-grand-children; fourstep-great-grandchil-dren; and

one great-great-grand-son.

His local memorialservice was on Monday,Jan. 2, at Kidron Bethelin North Newton withPastor Rachel Ringen-berg and Chaplain EricMassanari presiding.

Another memorialservice followed at Man-son Mennonite Churchon Jan. 4. A fellowshiplunch and sharing timewas hosted in the Man-son church hall followingthe service.

Any memorials aresuggested to KidronBethel, Shalom Mennon-ite Church or MansonMennonite Church incare of Petersen FuneralHome in Newton.

PAUL ERB OSWALDPercy Vaughn, 82, died

Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016,at St. Francis Hospital inWichita. He was bornJan. 15, 1934, in Wister,Okla., to James W. andRosa (Lucas) Vaughn. OnJune 2, 1961, he marriedFern Jones at Guthrie,Okla., and she survives ofthe home.

Percy served his coun-try in the U.S. Army inpeacetime Korea, and hewas a retired dispatcherfor the Santa Fe Rail-road. He was a chartermember of ImmanuelBaptist Church in New-ton, where he faithfullyserved the church formany years in many ca-pacities including as adeacon and on the Boardof Officers. He enjoyedwoodworking and wasknown for his mechanicskills. He was a kind andgiving person of time.Percy’s most importanttime was spent beingwith his loving familyand many friends.

He is survived by hiswife, Fern, of Newton;

and daughters, Pam andher husband Gregory Ro-driguez of Newton, andTeri Sergeant and herpartner Jeff Eubank ofEmporia. He also is sur-vived by five grand-daughters: Shanda,Alisha, Kaitlynn, Stasiaand Megan, and twogreat-grandsons, Liamand Ethan.

Percy was preceded indeath by his parents;brothers, Buck and BasilVaughn; sister, TessHuckaby; and sixnephews.

Funeral service will beat 2 p.m., Friday, Jan. 6,at Immanuel BaptistChurch in Newton, withPastor Mike Ronan pre-siding. Visitation will be5 to 9 p.m. Thursdaywith the family receivingfriends from 6:30 to 8p.m. at Petersen FuneralHome in Newton. Burialwill be in the GreenwoodCemetery in Newton.

Memorials are sug-gested to Immanuel Bap-tist Church in Care ofPetersen Funeral Home.

PERCY VAUGHN

Charlotte Ann Gaskill-Carroll,74, of Newton, passed on Dec. 30,2016, surrounded by her lovingfamily.

She was born on Sept. 30, 1942,to Mary and William Carlson inWichita. She married Bill Gaskill,and together they had three chil-dren, Jeff, Pam and Vicki.

Charlotte was a homemaker,and she enjoyed sewing and crossstitching. She also enjoyed Chris-tian romance novels. After thepassing of her late husband, BillGaskill, Charlotte married CliffCarroll. She was a wonderfulmother, a great persevering spiritand had a great sense of humor.She will be greatly missed by herfamily and friends. With her wishto help others, she became acornea donor, giving the gift of

sight. She was preceded in death by

her parents, Mary and WilliamCarlson; and husband, BillGaskill.

She is survived by her husband,Cliff Carroll; son, Jeff Gaskill andwife Rachel; daughters, Pam May-berry and Vicki Johnson and hus-band Russ; and fourgrandchildren.

Funeral service was on Tuesdayat Broadway Colonial FuneralHome in Newton. Burial followedthe service in Greenwood Ceme-tery of Newton. Memorials may bemade to American Cancer Societyin care of Broadway Colonial Fu-neral Home 120 E Broadway St.in Newton. Condolences may beleft at http://www.broadwaycolo-nialfh.com.

CHARLOTTE ANN GASKILL-CARROLL

Thursday, Jan. 51 p.m.—Wii Bowling. Grand Central.4 p.m.—NHS Swimming at Newton Invitational.

Newton High School.5:15 p.m.—Tai Chi. Grand Central.5:30 to 8 p.m.—American Legion Open Grill. Mem-

bers and guests welcome. American Legion Post 2, 400S. Spencer Rd.

6, 7 p.m.—NHS Girls and Boys Basketball at SalinaSouth.

6, 8 p.m.—Bethel Basketball at Oklahoma Wesleyan.7 p.m.—Youth Leaders in Kansas. Newton Public Li-

brary. 7 to 9 p.m.—American Legion Bingo Night. Anyone

age 8 or older is welcome. Full game package is $10, andearly-bird package is $5. American Legion Post 2, 400 S.Spencer Rd.

Friday, Jan. 61 p.m.—Line Dancing. Offered by Lanny Reichert.

Grand Central.3 p.m.—NHS Wrestling at Derby Invitational. Derby

High School.6 p.m.—Friday Night Games. Grand Central.

Saturday, Jan. 79 to 10 a.m.—First Saturday Bird Walk. Kauffman

Museum.9 a.m.—NHS Wrestling at Derby Invitational. Derby

High School.3, 7 p.m.—Bethel Basketball at York College.

Sunday, Jan. 810 a.m. to noon—Commander’s Breakfast. Members

needing to renew membership will be able to along witha free breakfast. American Legion Post 2, 400 S.Spencer Rd.

Monday, Jan. 9All Day—Grand Central Billiards. Four competition

quality tables available for use Monday through Fridayat Grand Central.

10 a.m.—Blood Pressure Check. Grand Central.11:45 a.m.—Friendship Meals. Call (316) 283-2222 for

reservation. Monday through Friday at Grand Central.1:30 p.m.—Golden Notes. Call at (316) 283-2222 to

schedule a performance. Grand Central.4 p.m.—Teen GameZone and Crafts. Newton Public

Library.4:30 to 6 p.m.—Youth Art and Painting Class. New-

ton Recreation Commission, 415 N. Poplar St.6 to 8 p.m.—American Legion Open Grill. Members

and guests welcome. American Legion Post 2, 400 S.Spencer Rd.

7 p.m.—Spring Preschool Story Time. Newton PublicLibrary.

7 p.m.—Beginners Square Dance Class. Grand Cen-tral.

7 to 8 p.m.—Planning Commission Meeting. CityHall.

7 p.m.—USD 373 Board of Education Meeting.McKinley Administrative Center, 308 E. 1st St.

Tuesday, Jan. 1010:30 a.m.—Bingo. Grand Central.10:30 a.m.—Spring Preschool Story Time. Newton

Public Library.1 p.m.—Craft Handwork. Grand Central.1 p.m.—Line Dancing. Offered by Lanny Reichert of

Park City. Grand Central.3:30 p.m.—NHS Bowling Tri vs. Andover, Maize. At

Play-Mor Lanes, Newton.6, 7:30 p.m.—NHS Basketball vs. Derby. Ravenscroft

Gym, Newton.6:30 to 8 p.m.—Paper Crafts and Coloring. Newton

Public Library.7 p.m.—Round Dance. Grand Central.7 to 9 p.m.—City Commission Meeting. City Hall.

Wednesday, Jan. 111 p.m.—Cards/Games. Grand Central.1 p.m.—Beginner’s Pool for Women. Ken Fast teaches

billiards using Steve Mizerak’s complete book of pool.Donation of $1 per week. Grand Central.

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If you have an obituary thatshould run in Newton Nowplease send it to: [email protected] it will run as soon as we canget it online and in the Thurs-day print edition as well.

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The Board of Directors also seeks a candidate who is an excel-lent communicator and is sales minded with outstanding peopleskills.Candidates should also have financial acuity with excellentbusiness facility. The ideal candidate will also have demonstratedsuccess as a business builder, preferably within a cooperative.

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Classified DeadlineMondays at Noon

Caring Hands Humane Society celebrating high live release rate for 2016Most dogs that enter

Caring Hands HumaneSociety make it out alive.

The local humane soci-ety recently sent out apress release claimingthat 90.42 percent of dogsand cats that entered in2016 were either beenadopted, released to own-

ers or transferred outalive.

According to a press re-lease put out by the or-ganization, this marks thefourth year with a no-killrate of 90 percent or morefor dogs.

Cat rates have been inbetween 52 percent and

80 percent. To deal with the high

number of cats it was see-ing, the shelter put inplace a program to spayand neuter stray cats andthen release them backinto the community, pre-venting them from breed-ing and also additional

cats moving into their ter-ritories.

“These cats and kittensare then provided basicimmunizations, de-wormed, altered and ofcourse the left ear istipped (tip is removed sothe ear is flat) to identifythem as belonging to a

managed colony,” the re-lease stated.

The program altered141 cats this year, whichwould have lead to an ad-ditional 423 kittens beingborn in 2016 had the stepnot been taken.

Following such meas-ures, the shelter expects

the intake numbers forcats to decrease in the fol-lowing year.

Caring Hands will offera celebration of its successthis year from 10 a.m. to 5p.m. Thursday, Jan. 5.The event will featurecake and refreshments.

—Newton Now staff

January 5, 2017

SPORTS

MIKE MENDEZ/NEWTON NOWBethel College’s Jacob Miller looks for a rebound during practice on Jan. 3. Miller had a career game against Texas Wesleyan with 18 re-bounds on Dec. 31 earning Defensive Player of the Week honors in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference.

From the lineDefense defines Threshers heading into New Year

As the Threshers gather aroundhead coach Tony Hoops after prac-tice on Jan. 3, he informs themthat they just had an incrediblepractice. The team should have ahard-working practice preparing tostart the conference schedule in aKansas Collegiate Athletic Confer-ence (KCAC) log jam going into2017. The Bethel mens basketballteam is right in the middle of thepack at 3-5 and has every reasonto be excited about the year tocome.

“It is a new year,” Chris Robin-son said. “The rest of our gamesare conference, so we know whatwe have got to do to be successful.

If we want to win conference, itstarts with defense and energy. Ithas kind of been our focus goinginto 2017 and that is what we aregoing to continue to focus on.Hopefully we can win some moregames and ultimately win confer-ence.”

While most people were busytaking a night off preparing tobring in 2017, the Bethel Collegemens basketball team was hard atwork on Dec. 31. And with an 18-rebound game in an 88-61 loss toNo. 19 Texas Wesleyan in Dallas,Jacob Miller’s hard work earnedhim a KCAC Defensive Player ofthe Week award.

With two Defensive Player of theWeek nods for Robinson already,the Threshers have taken the hon-ors three times in a season definedby defense. It is a staple for a pro-

gram that prides itself on teamgrit and unity in the first half of aseason that has shown the confer-ence Bethel is a doormat no more.

“It brings energy for us,” Robin-son said of the team defense. “Ithink the biggest thing for us rightnow is we have got to keep playingwith energy and the passion toplay. Because if we don’t play de-fense, we don’t have either ofthose. Focusing on defense bringsthat energy that can lead to of-fense and ultimately gives us agood rhythm and gets everyonegoing on the offensive end. Our de-fense is the key to our success.”

Success is a word that hadn’tbeen thrown around much in re-cent years. When Hoops, a Bethelgraduate, took over the program in

BY MIKE MENDEZNEWTON NOW [email protected]

See BETHEL / 12

Blaylock soaksup championship

experience

Walking off the field after a 38-17 loss to SaintFrancis, Baker University guard and Newton nativeLevi Blaylock was disappointed. He and his Wildcatbrothers were close. They were close enough to bewithin 60 minutes of turning an impossible dreaminto a reality, and coming up short hurt.

But as he came off the field and prepared to leaveDaytona Beach, Fla., after falling in the NAIA na-tional championship game, Blaylock wouldn’t havetraded the once-in-a-lifetime season with Baker.

“It still hurts now,” Blaylock said. “Time is going toheal that wound. But looking back, we just know thatwe were one of the most successful classes to come in,and that is something to hang your hat on. We brokenumerous records this season that I think are goingto go untouched for a while. That is just something tolook back and be proud of.”

The Wildcats knew pretty early in the season itwas going to be show time for the offense. With theentire offensive unit staying to attend every summerworkout, the payoff came immediately with a season-opening touchdown drive against Grand View Univer-sity in a 36-13 win.

In the second game of the season, Baker reached 70points against Culver-Stockton College in the secondquarter on the way to an 89-27 win.

“We really knew that we were an explosive groupand that we had a lot of potential,” Blaylock said.“Those first two games I’d say that we already knewthat we were a special group and that we had a lot ofpotential to go all the way.”

While having an incredible offense makes it mucheasier to win, there is one big factor Blaylock pointsto that took Baker from a great team to a champi-onship-caliber team. It was the strong bonds andfriendships with teammates that grew off the fieldand came into play on Saturdays.

“Aside from just being players, a lot of us are reallygood friends off the field,” Blaylock said. “We hadeach other’s back in various situations off the field.Staying all summer and working out helped buildthat chemistry and helped us have confidence in eachother. A national championship team, you just kind ofget a different feeling when you are on a team that isthat successful. You just know that the defensiveplayers, they are going to do their job and ball out foryou. And on the offensive side, we are going to do ourjob.”

The team chemistry was put on full display withthe season on the line in the national semifinal gameagainst Eastern Oregon University. Trailing withabout 30 seconds left in the game, the Wildcats cametogether to get a score to win 45-41 to earn the trip tothe championship game. With the pressure of the sea-son bearing down on the Baker offense, the teamdrew confidence from a Nov. 5 game against MissouriValley that ended in a similar situation.

“We got in the huddle and our leader, our quarter-back Logan Brettell, looked at us and said, ‘If we area championship team, we are going to get it doneright here,’” Blaylock said. “And we drove down andscored no problem in that game. So it was kind of thesame situation in the semifinal game. We all believedthat we could do it and we came together and we gotit done. You have got to kind of live in the moment.You have to make sure the moment isn’t too big foryou. You have just got to go out and play your bestand believe in your teammates.”

Preparing for a game-winning drive in the semifi-nals, the Wildcats were also able to play into theirteam motto of just having fun. Having the opportu-nity to take the field for a last-minute drive in theplayoffs is what every kid growing up throwing theball dreams of. And enjoying every moment of thejourney was something Blaylock made sure to do.


DALE GROSBACH WITH DALE G. SPORTSLevi Blaylock (67) breaks the huddle and heads to the line of scrim-mage with teammates Knute Holden (54), Kyle Wittman (70), and IanCalkins (74). The Baker offensive line set the table for a group thataveraged 47.8 points per game.

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Megan Akers heading to The University of Kansas to begin rowing career

For every athlete whohas ever taken to competi-tion, there has been adream to compete at theDiv. I college level. Mostof those dreams neverplay out in reality. But forthree-sport Newton HighSchool star Megan Akers,the opportunity presenteditself in the form of row-ing at the University ofKansas, where she hascommitted to competenext year.

“My cousin did it whenshe was in college, and I

thought it was cool,”Akers said. “And Ithought it would be fun tojust try a new sport in col-lege, because I haveplayed the same threesports my whole life. SoI’m like, why not trysomething new and be-come a D-I athlete doingit.”

While people may notthink of Kansas as a row-ing hotbed, KU, K-Stateand Wichita State alloffer the sport. Andthough there isn’t much ofa high school rowingscene, the programs aresimply looking for ath-letes, regardless of experi-ence. And they are

providing opportunitiesfor competition at a highlevel that may not haveotherwise been there forathletes.

“They just really lookfor athletes,” Akers said.“And they will teach youhow because it is hard,but it is easy to teach. Sothey are like, ‘Don’t rowuntil you get here, be-cause we don’t want youto learn bad techniques.’”

If athletes are what theJayhawks want for row-


COURTESY PHOTOMegan Akers poses with The Uni-versity of Kansas Baby Jay.

See AKERS / 12

2014, the Threshers werecoming off a 0-27 cam-paign. But with steadyimprovement and focuson small victories, thisyear in his third season,the Threshers jumped outto the best start in twodecades at 6-0 and areheading into a conferencegauntlet in 2017 sitting at9-7.

“We knew what wewere getting into,” Hoopssaid. “We didn’t shy awayfrom that. We focused onthe process and not theoutcome, and that is whatwe are going to continueto do. We knew we werenot going to get BethelCollege basketball a con-ference championship inYear 1. But we knew thatover time we can getthere if we keep gettingthose little baby stepsgoing forward. And thatis what we are going tocontinue to focus on.”

Hoops credits theteam’s rise with the cohe-siveness of his coachingstaff with assistantsJayson Artaz and JakeMeyer. There is a unity inthe staff that has spilledover onto the court withthe players. While DevenGoodwin has scored 21.47points per game so far,the team doesn’t have the

offense to put on a bigshow every night. Butthrough defense, theThreshers can come to-gether to play as onesnarling unit with achance to win every timeout. It is a chance theteam didn’t always have.

“That was never me asa coach, with self promo-tion,” Hoops said. “We aremore about how can werepresent Bethel and notso much the name on theback of your jersey mind-set. This is the closestgroup we have had sincewe have been here.”

“Our program allows acohesive amount of peopleto come together to suc-ceed,” Miller said. “Butwhen you bring a ton ofpeople together, obviouslythe individual piecesmake up the greaterwhole. While we mightnot see that in the statsheet every night, the De-fensive Player allowsthose defensive players tocome on out in the indi-vidual spotlight. Chris gottwo of them, I got one,and Deven should havegotten a couple more just

because of the amount ofsteals he has gotten. Theysystem allows individualsto succeed.”

Playing tough on thedefensive end of the floorhas made it tough forother teams. But it alsomakes the machine workon the offensive end, al-lowing the team to getdown the court forchances to score points.Goodwin’s scoring pergame is No. 16 in the na-tion and has earned himOffensive Player of theWeek honors this season.For Goodwin, the offen-sive success he has foundcan be credited largely towhat the team does with-out the ball.

“It starts on the defen-sive end every time,”Goodwin says. “It hasbeen that way since I gothere, and it has only im-proved every year since Ihave gotten here. Becauseour defense has become somuch better, it has al-lowed my offense to be-come as good as it isnow.”

With all the successBethel has found in the

first semester, the teamknows there is a long wayto go to get to where theThreshers want to be. Ina conference that doesn’thave a lot of separationfrom top to bottom, everygame is winnable, andBethel is only four gamesback. But the close com-petitive KCAC also meansevery game is losable aswell. It means there is notime to worry about thegames in the past, good orbad.

“We know we are notgood enough to just showup and beat anybody,”Hoops said. “We have togrind and work. And ourguys know that, too, andthat is the approach theytake. There is not a badteam in our conference.You can look at it acrossthe board. There is not abad team in our confer-ence. That is the terrify-ing thing as a coach. Butthat is the promisingthing as a coach, too, isthat you know everynight you have to bringit—home or away. Thatcreates a cool opportu-nity.”

ing, they have found onein Akers. While she pridesherself as the goalkeeperon a strong Railer girlssoccer team, she is also anintegral part of the volley-ball team that earned a

No. 1 seed in the statetournament in the fall,and a basketball teamthat has had back-to-backstate tournament appear-ances and is looking for athird in 2017. Her skills asa vocal leader and thewell-rounded athleticismrequired for all threesports will serve her well

in Lawrence.While having a cousin

row for K-State, Akers be-came aware of the oppor-tunity. She saw arecruitment questionnaireon the KU website andsent an e-mail, which ledto a visit that sealed thedeal.

Akers has been given a

lot through athletics andwants to give back bystudying to be a P.E.teacher at KU.

“I can’t see myself doinganything else,” Akers said.“Why not stay active?”

On top of the opportu-nity to get an education,Akers is looking forwardto a new challenge making

waves.“I am just looking for-

ward to trying somethingnew and pushing myself,”Akers said. “Because it isgoing to push me to have

to work harder because itis a new sport for me anda lot of people have al-ready done it there. I amjust going to work evenharder to try to be better.”

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There isn’t much time for Newton athletes to overcome Christmas staticThe break never seems long

enough. It isn’t necessar-ily such a bad thing for

athletes. At the end of every sports

season a great debate emerges:Do you rest starters at the endof the year with postseasonseeding wrapped up, or do youkeep playing them? Is it betterto earn a bye? Is it better tosweep a series and rest whilethe team you will be facing hasto play seven?

I am a big hockey fan. And formy money, there is nothing bet-ter than the Stanley Cup Play-offs. And every year there willbe a team that earns the rightto rest after a sweep. Everyyear there are commentatorsthat talk about what an advan-tage that will be as they getready to face a team coming offa physically brutal seven-gameseries.

I will put my money on theteam coming off the seven-gameseries every time. It is simplephysics. Objects in motion tendto stay in motion. Objects at

rest tend to stay at rest. Some-times, all the physical tolls paidin little dings and pains don’tactually start to hurt until youstop getting hit and have to facethe pain.

No, sometimes it is better tojust keep pushing forward.

Don’t get me wrong. Thebreak is much needed and wellearned. It is a long time to com-bine schoolwork along with ath-letics from the fall seasonstraight into the winter. A lot oftimes, it feels like we limp intoChristmas.

Maybe Thanksgiving hassomething to do with that.Thanksgiving seems to be thebreak that interrupts the mo-mentum and gets us stuck try-ing to overcome that staticfriction and with a belly full ofturkey and mashed potatoesmaking it even more difficult.

By the time you get to Christ-mas, the time off is glorious. Itis right back into some hardeating that started on Thanks-giving and continued in Decem-ber with a month of cookies,

peanut clusters, fudge, caramel,peppermint, and various nutbrittles leading into the Christ-mas feast.

The more glorious (and glut-tonous) it is, the harder it is toget going again in January. Forus old folks, it might mean fac-ing the hard reality of not get-ting to eat sugar and fatmorning, noon, and night everyday. The time might come to getback into the gym and get backto work. It means aches andpains and going to bed hungry,fighting off the urge to go aheadand have that late-night plateof nachos or bowl of ice cream.It means getting back to work

and facing the reality of thedaily grind.

I hope the athletes in Newtonenjoyed the break. It is neces-sary to take a little time off andbreathe. But I also hope they atleast stayed on the grind a littlebit and didn’t get bogged downby the smorgasbord like I did,falling into a food coma and liv-ing in elastic pajamas. Theyaren’t going to have much timeto recover.

Newton wrestling has back-to-back two-day tournaments atDerby this weekend and hostingthe Tournament of Championsnext weekend. Those are two ofthe best tournaments in thestate.

The girls basketball team isundefeated and holds the No. 1ranking in 5A. They will haveto fight with everything theyhave to stay undefeated in astretch that includes Derby andMcPherson leading into theNewton Invitational that willhost some of the best teams inthe state.

For the Newton boys, when

you have one win, every game isa battle and the time to put to-gether a streak on the heels of awin at Hutch is now.

The Railer swim team headsinto some big meets, starting athome on Jan. 5 and going into acouple of huge meets in Wichitaat Heights and Northwest.

The Bethel College men’s bas-ketball stock is rising, and theThreshers had a lot of successto end the year. But the team isnow locked in a KCAC battleroyal that looks like it will takeplace in a phone booth over thecourse of the next two months.

The Bethel women are des-perately looking for their firstconference win and will haveplenty of opportunities to goafter it in 2017.

Let’s all keep pushing for-ward.

Mike Mendez is the sports edi-tor of the Newton Now and can

be reached by e-mail [email protected]

and followed on Twitter at@MendezNewtonNow.

DROP THE MIKE

MIKE MENDEZ

“We talked about itevery day when we wereon the field,” Blaylocksaid. “You have got to besure to not take footballtoo seriously. At the endof the day, football needsto be fun. So I think thatthat was one of our mot-tos the entire season.Don’t let the moment getto you. Just go out thereand have fun like youhave always done sinceyou were a little kid. Andthat is just how you haveto play every game.”

After coming from be-hind to beat Eastern Ore-gon, Baker earned a tripto Daytona Beach for thenational championshipgame. Wanting to put ona show, the NAIA pulledout all the stops to makeit like a bowl week inFlorida. With plenty ofdistractions at the beach,Baker had to stay focusedand remember it was a

business trip and not avacation. The team got afriendly reminder fromBrettell after he receiveda player of the yearaward.

“They wanted it to feellike a bowl game experi-ence,” Blaylock said. “Wehad multiple banquets.We had a day when wewent and toured the Day-tona Speedway. We werecatered to left and right,hand and foot. We hadpep rallies. The night be-fore, Brettell was pre-sented with the NAIANational Player of theYear. That was a greatmoment, and everybodywas very excited. But inhis speech, he went upthere and said, ‘I am verygrateful for this trophy,but this isn’t the trophythat we came down hereto win.’ So I think at thatmoment everybody wason the same page that itwas a great experiencedown there, but we werereally trying to get thatnational championship.”

Though the team cameup short in the champi-onship game, what Blay-lock will remember mostabout the championshipgame run is the timespent with his team-mates.

“Every Saturday we’dgo out there and put on ashow,” Blaylock said. “Wewould go out there andaverage 50 points agame. And then thatnight we would all cometogether and have a goodtime. We would go out tothe bars in town andbuild that team chem-istry and just talk aboutthe game and how fun itwas. And then every Sun-day, we’d come in and geta great lift in, have atwo-hour film session. Itwas fun, because youwould see your team-mates out Saturdaynight, and then youwould see them the nextmorning putting in thatwork with you. I’d saythose were my favoritemoments of the season.”

BLAYLOCKFrom Page 11

DALE GROSBACH WITH DALE G. SPORTSLevi Blaylock (67) provides protection for NAIA Player of the Year quarterback Logan Brettell. Baker’s offensewas a big part of the team that made it to the national championship game in Daytona Beach, Fla.

AKERSFrom Page 11

BETHELFrom Page 11

“We knew what we were getting into. We didn’t shy away from that. We focused onthe process and not the outcome, and that is what we are going to continue to do.We knew we were not going to get Bethel College basketball a conference championship Year 1.”

-Tony Hoops

Eighth Street along MainStreet.

When we expandedthat count out to the busi-nesses and propertiesalong Main Street fromFirst Street to Eighth, wefound more than 90 per-cent of the 90 first floorlocations counted filled.

Few vacancies alsoexist on the side streets ofFifth Sixth and Broad-way. Again, those arefairly soft numbers, andthey're by no means sci-entific. There's likely un-counted office spaceavailable in a number ofbuildings. Still, they pro-vide context to the stateof the downtown, and itlooks to be pretty full.

All of this is of interestas the issue of retail re-cruitment has come uprecently with City Man-ager Bob Myers’ sugges-tion that the city at leastconsider using downtownflower dollars, around$20,000 annually, to in-stead help pay for a retail

recruitment effort, whichwould be a three-year$40,000 annual bill.

Myers originally saidthe effort would focus onrecruiting retail for down-town Newton at a com-mission meeting, butsince then, he broadenedthe recruitment effort toNewton as a whole.

“Obviously, the down-town would be a focus,”he said. “The south endwould be a focus. Thewest side. There are anumber of places thatwould just seem to havepotential.”

Myers said the city isfeeling out the idea. Theretail recruitment group,Retail Strategies, willspeak to the city commis-sion at 7 p.m. Wednesday,Jan. 18, at the MeridianCenter on the possibilityof working with them torecruit more retail toNewton. Myers said atthis point the city is justfeeling the idea out.

Myers said the groupwould look at Newton de-mographics, speak withexisting property owners,as well as identify areas

where money was leakingout of Newton to deter-mine what sort of retailwould be best for the city.

At least in the down-town area, it looks likethe options are relativelyfew for a large retail storelike an Aldi grocery storeor a chain restaurant likea Red Robin, both ofwhich Retail Strategieslisted as a success storiesof its recruiting process.

“Only with Alexander’sJewelry (613 N. Main)would there be an oppor-tunity for the business togo in,” Stevens said. “Iknow sporting goods, thattakes a bigger spot.”

New retail may bemore interested in thesouth end of town withall of the recent growthon that end such as aGoodwill recently open-ing and a large commer-cial development byOccidental Managementstill on the table and pos-sible.

“We certainly are get-ting more attention thanwe have for a long time inretail development,”Myers said.

Stevens agreed andsaid her office has alsonoticed interest ex-pressed in Newton.

“People are looking,”she said.

Which begs the ques-tion of just how necessaryrecruitment is with retailalready seeming to findits way to Newton. Myerssaid that's up for the cityto decide.

“I want to see if thereis some broad interestamong the business com-munity that this mightbe a good investment. I

don't want to do it ifthere's not some commu-nity support for it,” hesaid. “We just thoughtthis might be somethingwe ought to look into andexplore. It did seem to bea different approach thanwhat had been done inthe past.”

For Stevens, on the re-cruitment front, she saidthe chamber wouldn'twant to see another busi-ness drawn in that wouldcompete with and replacean existing business.She's waiting on the

Jan.18 presentation toget some information onthe recruitment idea.

“I want to hear whatthey have to say,” shesaid. “As a board, we'llmake a decision later,”she said, adding that anysort of recruitmentprocess would need ac-countability attached toit. “I feel like if we hireanother consultant andno results, it's not goingto be a good. I encouragepeople to come out andlearn and give some feed-back.”

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Newton Nitros Swim Club making waves in the pool

Since taking over theNewton Nitros Swim Clubin 2006, head coach Clin-ton Bailey has been pro-viding area kids to gettheir competitive fix inthe pool. With swimmersfrom Newton, as well assurrounding towns thatdon’t have varsity swim-ming in high school, theNitros have become theplace to race in the pool.

“We just try to provideanyone who wants anykind of competitive swim-ming experience that op-portunity in the Newtonarea,” Bailey said. “Weprovide swimming for allthe Newton area kids.We’ve got kids from Hes-ston, Peabody, Marionand Halstead.”

Bailey has been in-volved with swimming hisentire life. It is a sportthat has taken him allover the country and hasbeen a huge part of hislife. Growing up in a sum-mer league swim programin Valley Center from ayoung age, it was a startof a lifelong journey in thesport. From Valley Centerhe went to the WichitaSwim Club and earned aspot on a college roster inIllinois where he majoredin sports management toset him up to continue inthe sport as a coach.

When his competitive ca-reer in the pool ended, hecontinued on the deck asa coach at the WichitaSwim Club at the age of19. From there, he got ajob as a coach of a highschool team in Californiabefore coming back tosouth central Kansas witha job in Newton.

“I love coaching thekids,” Bailey said. “Itcomes very naturally forme to find that flow withthem, having that back-ground myself. And when

they are in the water andseeing how they love it, itis easy to kind of feedthem through things. It isjust great to watch thekids grow. I have hadabout 30 or 40 swimmersnow that have gone fromthe age of 10 to graduat-ing. It is just awesome towatch them grow up andbeing a part of it.”

While it is tough to con-tinue on in college at theDivision I level, the sportdoes provide opportunitiesfor college participation.

While the area kids canuse the Nitros as theirprimary source of swim-ming competition, NewtonHigh School has seen suc-cess with swimmers whohave grown up in theclub. Swimmers lookingfor competition at a limit-less level can find it withthe Nitros. But there aremany benefits for athletesof any age who want toget in the pool.

“It is great for just life-time fitness stuff,” Baileysaid. “Any kind of sport

that combines that condi-tioning type of back-ground is obviously greatfor lifetime fitness. Learn-ing a sport like swimminggives those kids as theybecome adults extra waysto find ways to exerciseand keep themselves inshape. Having that love ofthe sport, hopefully it willgrow with them and theywill actually be able touse that to exercise. But itis also lifesaving. Thereare a lot of drowning acci-dents, so that is one ofUSA Swimming’s bigpushes is trying to adver-tise the lifesaving factorsthat are involved.”

With about 45 swim-mers with the Nitros inthe current season, thereare a lot of kids in thepool both learning andfine-tuning the craft. Andgetting ready to head to apro-am meet inLewisville, Texas, justnorth of Dallas, the swim-mers will get the opportu-nity to be at the same poolas some college and evenOlympic swimmers. It canbe a daunting task to seesome of the best in theworld. But Bailey wantshis swimmers to knowthat those swimmersstarted somewhere.

“I would say our biggestchallenge for recruiting isthe new swimmer com-paring themselves to theelite athlete and thinkingthey just don’t belong

there,” Bailey said. “Idon’t think enough kidsrealize that those eliteathletes started rightwhere you were. They justspent their time gettingthere. And if you spendyour time, you will getthere, too.”

The sport is a gruelingexercise that requires afull-body fight to getthrough the water. Withthe Nitros, the processstarts with a focus on theindividual in the race andnot so much the opposi-tion.

“There are differentstages of the game withhow we approach things,”Bailey said. With ouryounger swimmers, wefocus in on the capacity of,these are your times. Thisis how fast you swim.There are other peoplethat you are racing, butlet’s get focused on whereyou are at and get a com-parison to how you haveswum before.”

When times start drop-ping, things that onceseemed impossible startto become reality. Whenthose barriers start todrop, mental toughness isdeveloped, and the kidsstart to grow in the pool.

“It helps that drive,”Bailey said. “It helps thatdesire to get in there andwork hard and get afterit. And when they hit theswim meets, it becomespretty natural.”


COURTESY PHOTOKarsen Stuhlsatz swims for the Newton Nitros Swim Club during an outdoor meet at Rock River Rapids overthe summer.

Newton High School Railer boys undefeated in 2017 with a win in Hutch

The Newton HighSchool boys basketballteam would like to putsome of the results of2016 in the rearview.

After a 0-6 start to theseason, the Railers wentto the break without awin.

But with a 57-44 winagainst the Salthawks inHutchinson, the Railershave opened the NewYear with the first win ofthe season and are unde-feated in 2017.

The reset coming intothe spring semester didNewton some good. TheRailers unloaded in thefirst quarter to take a 17-7 lead behind an 8-for-9performance from thefield.

But in the second quar-ter, Hutchinson foughtback. With a Kolby

Holmberg bucket, theSalthawks came all theway back to tie the gameat 23-23.

On the heels of a lay-up from Tre’VaughnJones, Hutchinson wentinto the locker room atthe half with a 33-27lead.

The Railers weren’t

discouraged in the secondhalf. With a 9-0 Newtonrun, the Railers took a38-35 lead on a 3-pointerfrom Ty Berry. Newtontook a 41-39 lead goinginto the fourth quarter.

With Hutch having ahard time finding points,the Railers went for thethroat in the fourth quar-

ter and closed the gameout. Newton held theSalthawks scoreless inthe first six minutes ofthe fourth quarter to getthe win.

The Railers will try tomake it a winning streakat 7:30 p.m. on Thurs-day, Jan. 5, at SalinaSouth High School.


The Newton High Schoolgirls basketball team hasused a swarming defense toclimb to the top of theKansas Basketball CoachesAssociation rankings. Andon Jan. 3, in the first gamecoming off the break,Hutchinson got to experi-ence the frustration in a 48-

23 win for Newton to stayundefeated at 7-0 on theseason.

The Railers came close toanother shutout quarterthis season right out of thegate, holding the Salthawksto a lone free throw in a 14-1 first quarter. Hutchinsononly scored in double fig-ures in the third quarter,with the Railers holding theSalthawks under 10 pointsin the first, second andfourth quarters in the win.

Newton took a 23-9 leadat the half and came outwith the best offensivequarter of the game in thethird to take a 38-19 leadafter three.

With a big lead to protectin the fourth quarter, New-ton stayed after it defen-sively, holding Hutchinsonto four points in the finaleight minutes in the win.

Abby Schmidt let Newtonwith 11 points, and JadaBerry was close behind

with 10. Both TaylorAntonowich and AubrieNichols scored six pointseach. DesiRay Kernal andSavannah Simmons scoredfour points each. KyndalBacon scored three points,with Megan Akers andMegan Bartel scoring twopoints each.

Newton will go for aneighth win in as manygames this season at 6 p.m.on Thursday, Jan. 5, atSalina South High School.

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MIKE MENDEZ/NEWTON NOWJada Berry looks over the Campus defense during a game onDec. 9 in Wichita.

When Maxine Gar-nica visited peo-ple’s homes, her

worries didn’t center onanxieties of having todeal with other people orthat maybe their dogsmight bite. No, they cen-tered on the furniture.

That was when sheweighed 272 pounds.

“I’d go into people’shomes, look at a chairand say, ‘I wonder if thatchair is going to holdme,’” she said. “I don’tworry about it as much. Iused to hate to shop forclothes because I used tohave to shop the plussizes.”

Now, things havechanged for the Halsteadresident who attends aTake Off Pounds Sensibly(TOPS) group in NorthNewton, since she’s lost80 pounds. And it feelsgreat.

“I have a lot of clothes Ican get into now,” shesaid, sitting comfortablyFriday at Mojo’s. “It feelsgood to go into a regularstore and pick whatever Iwant. I was the heaviestperson in my whole fam-ily, and I’m not anymore.”

Losing that muchweight and keeping it offhas taken determinationand work, and Garnicahas received a great dealof support from TOPS,which meets at 7 p.m.Mondays in the KidronBethel Village Commu-nity Room in North New-ton. The group itself hasbeen around almost 51years, starting Feb. 1,1966. Weigh-in is from5:30 to 6:45 p.m., and thisis in a room with only aweigher and a recorderknowing the person’sweight. Their gains orlosses aren’t made publicto the group. However,during the meeting, folkscan say if they gained orlost. Also at the meeting,there’s a program givenby a club member orsomeone they bring in.

“We have contests

going to try to loseweight,” said Newton res-ident Roxie Truan, an-other group member.

Those contests helpedGarnica.

“The contest and groupsupport were key to myweight loss,” she said.

While attending, shebecame interested inlearning about the peopleand in the contest.

“In a year and a half,I’ve lost 80 pounds,” shesaid. “This is the firsttime I’ve lost that much.”

Garnica said that inthe past, she’d go on adiet, lose weight and thengain it back, losing asmuch as 20 pounds.

“Trying to lose it a lit-tle more slow—that’swhat’s been key here,”she said. “It has had agood result so I can havea healthy [life]. Otherthan being trim in looks,it’s been good for mehealthwise, too.”

For instance, when shewas heavier, her triglyc-erides and cholesterolwere high. The last timeshe visited her doctor,which was in September,the report was good.

“That’s when she saideverything was excel-lent,” Garnica said.

Those attending TOPS,which charges $32 a yearfor national dues andthen 50 cents a meeting,need to procure a weightgoal from their doctors.Those who reach theirweight goals becomeKOPS (Keep Off PoundsSensibly) instead ofTOPS, since they’remaintaining theirweights.

When a person joinsTOPS, they’re given abook.

“Basically, you watchyour calories,” Truansaid. “Some things work.Some things don’t.”

She added one ideathey use is writing downwhat a person eats anddrinks every day.

“I’ve been colder since Ilost that weight,” Garnicasaid, smiling.

Another key to losingweight, besides eatingless, is exercise. Garnica

said she walks. However,she’s hit a plateau, so sheplans to step it up, so tospeak, and she doesn’tthink she’d have beenquite as successful if shehadn’t been exercising.She walks 30 minutesonce or twice a day five tosix days a week.

Truan also keeps herbody moving by biking,doing water exercise andusing an exercise bike.

“I definitely have to ex-ercise to keep my weightoff,” she said, addingdrinking more water alsohelps folks lose thepounds.

Garnica said peoplehave asked her if shefeels better and has moreenergy having lost theweight. Since it was sogradual, she wasn’t sure,but she has found herselfrunning down stairs,which she didn’t used todo.

When Garnica washeavier, she was con-cerned she might get dia-betes.

“If a person is quite abit overweight like I was,eventually, they’ll have abad result,” she said, likegetting diabetes.

One of the things thathappened to her whenshe was heavier was sheacquired a fast heartbeat,and now, she’s not wor-ried about getting dia-betes anymore.

“That’s a scare that’soff of me, too,” she said.

There are a few reasonswhy people should joinTOPS.

“I guess to lose theweight, to look better,more healthy,” Truansaid.

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