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Dave McFarlane, of McFarlane Aviation at the Vinland Valley Aerodrome, accepts the award for the Baldwin City Chamberof Commerce’s Business of the Year at the chamber’s annual awards banquet Saturday.

Baldwin City Chamber of Commercemembers gathered for the organization’sannual awards banquet Saturday at StonyPoint Hall to socialize and honor theachievement of its members during thepast 12 months.

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Linda Ballinger receives the Community Service Award fromChamber President Greg Kruger.

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Scott Schultz, owner of ComfortCare Homes of Baldwin Citywith his wife, Linda, accepts the chamber’s new businessHorizon Award.

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Baldwin City Fire Chief Allen Craig accepts the PartnershipAward for the Baldwin City Fire Department.

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Baker University President Dr. Pat Long, the keynote speakerat the chamber banquet, reminds Baldwin City residents to BOB,or brag on Baldwin.

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North Sixth Street to open Friday evening

Baldwin City motorists frustrated with driving out-of-route gravel road miles to get to Lawrence will have an early reason to be thankful Friday with the removal of barriers on North Sixth Street.

Terese Gorman, engineering divi-sion manager for Douglas County Public Works, said North Sixth Street would be opened to traffic at 5 p.m. Friday with the removal of barriers on the street blocking access to the proj-ects third and final phase. That phase improved the street from just north of the Annunciation Catholic Church driveway to Douglas County Route 12. The opening will mark the substantial completion of the project.

Keith Browning, Douglas County public works director, said work on the actual street was completed Friday and Saturday when contractor R.D. Johnson Construction took advantage of unseasonably mild weather to put the finishing final lift of asphalt on the project’s entire length from U.S. High-way 56 to Douglas County Route 12.

“We jumped through a lot of hoopsto get that final slip of asphalt applied,”Browning said. “The contractor wentto extraordinary means to accomplishthat.”

However, there are a handful oftasks still to be finished on phase 3,including seeding, mulching, fertiliz-ing, the placement of permanent signs,some sidewalk installation and back-fill for the sidewalk work. The finalsection could not be opened to trafficuntil road signs were in place and thathad to wait until the sidewalk installa-tion and backfill was finished, he said.

Gorman said some remaining workwould require the posting of a 25 mphconstruction speed limit until thetasks were completed.

“There will be closed lanes as crewscontinue to work,” she said. “But, it’snow a three-lane road now, so therewill be two-way traffic.”

The county and Baldwin City splitthe cost of the $2.18 million project,which added a turn lane, curbs andguttering to North Sixth Street, whichis also Douglas County Road 1055, fromU.S. 56 to Douglas County Route 12.The city is spending another $185,000to add sidewalks along the route.

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THE SEVEN-MONTH North Sixth Street project is nearing an end. Barricades will come down and the road open to traffic at 5 p.m. Friday.

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Baker provides stability to local economy

When a group of Methodist minis-ters settled in eastern Kansas in 1858, they had no idea how founding Baker University would influence the city that now surrounds it.

Although a number of Baldwin City businesses have closed in recent months, those that thrive are depen-dent on business generated by people affiliated with the university.

The College of Arts and Sciences’ 936 students and 237 faculty and staff members, who earned more than $5.4 million in 2011, inject much of that pay-roll into Baldwin City’s economy. Of employees, 124 live in town and many of the 121 students living off campus rent in Baldwin City. Students, facul-ty and staff members also add to the community economically through the city’s 1.25 percent local sales tax.

Baldwin City Administrator Chris Lowe, who has served in the position since September 2011, said Baker pro-vides more of a cultural than economic impact to the community. However, of the six local businesses interviewed, the percentage of profits related to customers affiliated with Baker ranged from 20 to 40 percent.

Martha Wright, owner of Whitney’s Creative Hair Design, said her father brought the family-owned business to Baldwin City in 1952 because of the university, and today about 40 percent of her cliental are involved with Baker.

“I used to hear Dad talk about ‘If Baker wasn’t here, we wouldn’t be here. It would not be a business. We couldn’t make it,’” Wright said.

Wright is not alone in believing the Baker community has a large econom-ic impact on Baldwin City. Chamber of Commerce President Greg Kruger said he could not fathom what the town would be like without Baker.

“Sometimes folks do not understand

how much Baker does for our commu-nity,” Kruger said. “They are kind of our silent partner and do quite a bit for us.”

Although the majority of Baker stu-dents live on campus with meal plans, three of four students interviewed said they use Baldwin City services two to three times a week.

Senior Alex Graber, who goes to the Kwik Shop at least three times a week, said students are attracted to the busi-ness because of its hours and custom-er service.

“I have a great relationship with all of the people working there,” Gra-ber said. “And also the aspect of be-ing open later than everywhere else in Baldwin because we always go in

there so late.”While determining the exact eco-

nomic impact of Baker on Baldwin City is difficult, the multiplier effect formula helps explain how a percent-age of money spent at local businesses will stay within the community.

David Proctor, CEO of the Center for Engagement and Community De-velopment at Kansas State University, said of every $100 spent locally, $45 re-main in the community and circulate through the town. If $100 is spent in chain restaurants or stores, only $14 remains in the area.

Proctor said the effects of money circulation are more important in smaller towns, such as Baldwin City, because they rely on locally owned

businesses.Although students living on campus

do not pay property taxes, 1.25 percentof every purchase made in BaldwinCity is kept locally to improve general infrastructure and complete other im-provements to the city.

In addition to students acting as pa-trons to area businesses, faculty andstaff make a difference in BaldwinCity’s commerce as well. Baker is the second-largest employer in town, be-hind the Baldwin City school district,which helps contribute to Baker’s eco-nomic impact on the town.

Lowe, the city administrator, saideven though Baker would make a

By Sara Bell and Jordan DolbinSpecial to the Signal

Editor’s note: This is the first in a se-ries of three articles on the economic impact of Baker University on the Baldwin City community.

Please see CITY, page 10

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MARTHA WRIGHT, owner of Whitney’s Creative Hair Designs, styles and colors Sue Cranston’s hair.


greater impact if more students were allowed to live off-campus, he is per-sonally fond of Baker’s rule to keep students on-campus.

“I think it’s important that they stay and have that structure,” Lowe said. “If somebody was building apartment complexes to house Bak-er students that would impact our tax roll. The question is how much of the problems associated with that type of growth are you willing to take on?”

However, Lowe added students living on-campus could slow down local businesses.

“It’s kind of two sides to the same coin,” Lowe said. “They don’t cause us a lot of problems, but in some ways because of the meal plan and the way they are structured in terms of living on campus, I think that Baker kids tend to end up going to Lawrence when they really want to spend some money.”

Lowe believes this problem is one of the largest challenges for the city.

“We need to foster business that will attract Baker students off of that campus,” Lowe said. “Not that it’s not

a beautiful place to be, but I cer-tainly don’t want Baldwin City to always remain where they went to college … and the memories they created are in Lawrence on down-town (Massachusetts Street). If that’s true for the next 10 years, we will have failed.”

The city is working to draw stu-dents into local businesses and devel-oping ways to promote residency in the town upon graduation.

Although Lowe believes warehouse jobs will not attract Baker students, he said some think this is the direction Bald-win City is headed with Edgerton as the site of the BNSF Intermodal Facility.

Kruger said the town’s reliance on Baker is key because it makes the economy more stable than it would be if it were based around the success or failure of one industry.

Kruger said the university is not only beneficial to the Chamber of Commerce but the community as a whole because in its absence the pop-ulation and number of services people enjoy would decrease.

‘“Without Baker do we need that big of a grocery?”

City looking to keep morestudent dollars at home

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The Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department urges residents to take precautions against pertussis, also called whooping cough, as it has seen a resurgence of activity especial-ly in the Baldwin City area.

The health department reported 23 cases of pertussis in October, and it is investigating additional cases. So far this year, there have been 84 cases compared to 17 cases in 2011. The department has responded by providing treatment and prevention recommendations to the ill, their possible contacts and area physi-cians. It has been working closely with local school districts, Kansas University and Baker University.

Statewide, there have been 588 per-tussis cases so far this year, compared to 52 in 2011.

Pertussis is a contagious, respira-tory disease caused by bacteria. It is spread by coughing or sneezing in close contact with others. The symp-toms of pertussis begin much like a common cold:

• Runny nose or congestion • Sneezing • Occasionally a mild cough or fever • Infants and children with the dis-

ease may cough violently and rapidly,

over and over, until the air is gone from their lungs and they’re forced to inhale with a loud “whooping” sound.

In rare cases (one out of 200), per-tussis can cause death, especially in children age 1 or younger.

To stop the spread of pertussis, the health department recommends:

• Contacting your physician by phone if you have any symptoms.

• Be sure to take all medication if recommended and isolate yourself.

• Stay home when you are ill. • Cover your cough. • Be sure that you and your children

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“Play in the exultation of the possible.”

Martin Buber

COMMENT

How well I remember those long ago days of the Vietnam War.

I fail to understand why the return-ing veterans of what, in the opinion of many, was a misguided conflict were looked down upon when they returned. The draft was enforced but exceptions were made if one could afford to attend college. I, and many others, did not understand why the war was necessary. The French, who were chased from their former colony in the 1950s, warned us against going. They understood that the war was a losing proposition. Thousands of young men were killed or wounded. I immediately joined “Another Mother for Peace” and was ostracized by my in-laws.

The above comments are the of-ten-suppressed sentiments of many and could be repeated today. Why? The United States and neighboring Canada maintain the longest peaceful border between nations in the world.

It took two wars, the American Rev-olution (when Canada belonged to Great Britain) and the War of 1812 to achieve this. We finally decided to set aside our differ-ences and become good neighbors.

I heard on Nation-al Public Radio that the jobless rate for returning veterans is 10 percent. This is not acceptable. Some issues I do not believe can be ad-dressed by the private sector. Presi-dent Franklin Roosevelt saved many families in the Great Depression.

The Civilian Conservation Corps taught many a man a trade and good work habits. Part of their pay was sent home to support their families. Home-less did not freeze to death while sleeping under bridges, but had three meals a day and a warm place to sleep.

Communities throughout our country benefited by the repair and building of bridges, dams, stadiums and also cabins were erected in many national

and state parks. Lat-er, when the reces-sion was over, we spent several enjoy-able weeks in a CCC cabin in Parvin State Park in New Jersey. We were happy to pay for the privilege. I imagine the initial cost of the cabins was

repaid many times. Free charity “hand-outs” were replaced by various govern-ment agencies. Instead of free charity handouts, the Works Project Adminis-tration was enacted and kept many a family afloat.

After WWII (another war to end wars?) the GI Bill providing help for veterans to attend college was enacted. Many believe we failed the vets of the

Vietnam War. Let us not repeat this er-ror for a new crop of returning veterans.

When Bob Dole, badly woundedand unable to walk, returned to Kan-sas, he was determined to walk again. In his book “One Soldier’s Story” hewrote that the song “You’ll NeverWalk Alone” from the Roger’s andHammerstein’s 1945 musical “Car-ousel” took on a whole new meaningfor him. “I determined to walk for my buddies who went out that morn-ing near Castel d’Aiano, up Hill 913 with me — for the doctors and nurs-es in the hospitals, the thousands of other men and women who had laidit all on the line to win that war ... They’d all be there, cheering me on. No, I’d never walk alone. I wouldwalk — not just for myself, then for all of them, too.”

Thank you, Senator Dole, and all thebrave veterans of all our wars. Let us hope the dream of no more wars willfinally be realized. .

Musing from the Hill

JUNE JEWETT


SPORTS ALL-STATEBaldwin High School soccer players Mason Bandre and Nick Joslyn were named to the 4A All-State team, while Russell Cloon and Austin Kraus were honorable mention selections.

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Baker coach’s student days provided leadership class

Many freshmen have an adjustment period once they reach college, but few go on to have a career like Baker University’s head soccer coach, Nate Houser.

A National Professional Soccer League championship as a player for the Kansas City Attack in 1997. A Bak-er University Athletic Hall of Fame inductee in 2007. Coach of the year in 2011, for both men and women soccer teams. Even a casual sports fan would find this partial list of accomplish-ments intriguing.

These are just some of the high-lights of Houser’s career. While he may dismiss the idea that his story is special, the series of accomplishments certainly says otherwise.

However, each triumph comes with a journey and lessons learned along the way. It took Houser some time to develop into the man that he is today.

Even at the high school level, Houser’s home state of California offers some es-sence of Hollywood. Poway High, where Houser played soccer, was no exception. Tony Gwyn Jr., son of the Hall of Fame baseball player for the San Diego Padres, spent his high school career at Poway High. Phil Plantier was another ball play-er for Poway who spent some time in

the major leagues. Tom DeLounge, lead guitarist and vocalist for the punk band, Blink-182, is one of the school’s more fa-mous former students. With so many tal-ented and standout students, it was easy to get lost in the crowd.

“You’re not fo-cused on it, but you’re trying to keep up with that,” Houser said. “We’d go run and I was never last, but I was never first. Top eight. Not having a perspective of what else is going on all over the place, you just kind of think that’s who you are. I’m guy five or six.”

Because of the environment, Houser fell into the role of a follower, a far cry from the position of leadership he holds today in his head coach. It wasn’t that Houser was a follow-ing type. He simply never felt his opinion was needed or valued. So, he followed.

Not until he came to Baker Univer-sity in 1990 was he was asked to be more assertive. He was challenged, as he had never been before, by both coaches and professors on Baker’s campus. To simply be a follower was not acceptable if you were a Wildcat.

“They really got after me to not set-tle and stop screwing around. To be better,” Houser said. “They said, ‘You need to understand the rest of your life is going to come.’”

The impressions Houser’s professors had of him as a freshman were mixed, to say the least. Professor of Business and Economics Lee Green and head men and wom-en’s golf coach Karen Exon were two of Houser’s main motivators during his time as a student.

“Nate was a skinny kid from

California,” Exon said. “I could tell right away he was innately intelligent, but he certainly wasn’t living up to his potential.”

Houser coasted for a while, making decent grades and doing enough to re-main eligible to continue to play soc-cer. But Exon demanded more of him.

“I remember at one point in time telling him, ‘You’ve got a couple of choices here: You can continue to go along and be the skinny, California, pretty-boy who does enough to skate by in the classroom so that you can

play soccer,’” Exon said. “Or you can wake up and have a V-8.”

Green was another professor whorecognized Houser’s intelligence andability, but also thought he needed tobe pushed.

“He was your kind of typical fresh-man,” Green said. “He came here from California, highly recruited soccer play-er, so he had some of the same learning-curve challenges as any freshman does.”

At 9:30 a.m. on a hot Thursday earlyin the semester, Houser took his placewith his soccer mates in the back of the narrow classroom for Business Law. Houser leaned his chair back, rested his head against the wall, and fell asleep by9:35 a.m. At 10:45 a.m., once class had concluded and the students began to puttheir supplies away, Houser woke and moved to leave. However, Green had other plans for the young Californian.

“I always like at the beginning of thesemester to kind of set the tone of expec-tations in classes,” Green said. “So I said, ‘Ok, we’re done. Everybody can head out now. But I feel bad for Nate, because he’s been asleep for basically the entire class back there, and I don’t want him to missout on this topic that we covered today. So Nate, how about if you stay behind … so just move up to the front row and I’ll repeat the whole lecture for you.’”

By Shawn DeeganSpecial to the Signal

BAKER UNIVERSITY soccer coach Nate Houser used his student experience at the university as a springboard to a profes-sional career and a return to the college to head its soccer programs.Submitted photo

Please see Houser, page 13

I remember at one point in time telling him, ‘You’ve got

a couple of choices here. You can continue to go along and be the skinny, California pretty-boy who does enough to skate by in the classroom so that you can play soccer. Or you can wake up and have a V-8.’ ”

— Karen Exon, Baker golf coach

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Baker University football team earns NAIA playoff berth

KANSAS CITY, MO. — For the first time since the 2008 season, the Baker University football team has earned a spot in the 2012 NAIA Football Cham-pionship Series Playoffs and the No. 11 seeded Wildcats will travel to Fort Wayne, Ind., to take on No. 6 ranked University of St. Francis.

The 8-2 Wildcats will face off against the 8-2 Cougars at 12 p.m. Saturday in-side Bishop John D’Arcy Stadium.

With a four-game winning streak to finish regular-season competition, the University of Saint Francis is No. 6 in the final regular-season NAIA Football Coaches’ Top 25 giving USF 166 consecutive Top 25 poll selec-tions, the longest current streak in the NAIA.

This will be USF’s 12th NAIA FCS qualification in the 15-year history of the program. USF has qualified for the NAIA FCS in 12 of the last 13 seasons

and this is the Cougars’ third consecu-tive invitation.

USF was tri-champion of the Mid-States Football Association Mideast League, which has three teams in the NAIA Top 6. St. Xavier, tri-champion along with Marian and USF, will get the league’s automatic berth in the NAIA FCS since SXU is the highest ranked team of the three at No. 4.

USF won its final regular-season game on Saturday 44-7 at Linden-wood University-Belleville (Ill.). The Cougars are 2-2 against NAIA Top 25 teams this season.

Baker has also won four straight and defeated Graceland, 40-7, Saturday on senior day.

This will also be the 12th appear-ance for Baker in the NAIA Football Playoffs and the last time Baker ap-peared was back on Nov. 22, 2008 in a 65-27 loss at Morningside.

Wildcats fall to Pittsburg StatePITTSBURG — The Baker Universi-

ty men’s basketball team hit the road on Tuesday night for a tough test against NCAA Division II Pittsburg State Uni-versity in an exhibition game in which the Wildcats fell to the Gorillas, 88-67.

The game did not count against the Wildcats overall record, as they still stand at 3-1 on the year, but the contest was the season opener for Pitt State, as they open up 2012-13, 1-0.

Rico Pierrevilus scored 18 of his game-high 20 points in the first half while A.J. Adams and Kaleb Porter combined for 25 second-half points to lead Pitt State at John Lance Arena.

The Gorillas led by as many as 19 points

at 56-37 with 11:59 to play in the game but the Wildcats used a 17-5 run over the next 4:36 to trim the margin to 61-54 on Corey Anderson’s three-point play.

Adams and Porter combined to score the game’s next seven points and Marky Nolen completed a 9-0 Pitt State run to push the Gorillas back in front 70-54 with 5:24 remaining in the contest.

Anderson and E.J. Carter led Baker with 12 points apiece and Brandon Moore added 10 with two three-point makes.

Ben Steinlage led Baker with five as-sists and point guard Julian Mills had four. Baker struggled from the floor, shooting 22-of-60, but was stellar from the free-throw line, going 19-of-22.

Friends ends BU women’s winning streak

The Baker University women’s bas-ketball team saw its four-game win streak come to an end on Tuesday night in a 56-49 loss at Friends University.

The Wildcats fell to 4-2 on the year, while Friends improved to 4-1. During the first half, both teams struggled to get shots to fall, as the Falcons shot only 22 percent from the field, compared to just 16 percent for the Wildcats.

Baker knocked down only five shots in the first half, shooting just 15.4 per-cent from beyond the arc at 2-of-13.

After 20 minutes of play the buzzer

sounded with the score tied 18-18. The Wildcats doubled the amount of field goals made in the second frame shoot-ing 10-of-28.

Rece Huddlin had a strong game for Baker with a double-double 13 points and 10 rebounds. Alisha Fanshier didn’t struggle from the field with her 3-of-5 night from behind the three-point line and a team-high 15 points.

BriAnna Garza had a game high five assists and seven points and Baker kept a good handle on the ball with just 12 turnovers.

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DEATHS

Infant, Hannah Faith Allen, was born and died November 6, 2012 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. She is the daughter of Joslyn Ingram and Jacob Callie Allen.Services and burial were Saturday Nov. 10 at Oakwood Cemetery.

HANNAH FAITH ALLEN

BHS presents ‘Anything Goes’

For Baldwin High School English teacher Kathy Cook, there’s a simple reason to choose “Anything Goes” for the school’s fall musical.

“Cole Porter,” she said. “It’s Cole Porter. You have great roles for males and females. It has great dance scenes and classic musical numbers.”

Cook, stage director of the fall musical, said “Anything Goes” also appealed to her because of its large cast, which was expanded for the school’s production.

Cole Porter wrote the now stan-dards tunes “Anything Goes,” “You’re the Top” and “I Get a Kick Out of You” for the 1934 musical Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay adapt-ed from Guy Bolton and P.G. Wode-house’s book.

The plot concerns the quest of stow-away Billy Crocker (Tyler Cawley) to woo heiress Hope Harcourt (Madeline Miley) on an ocean liner bound to London from New York. He is helped or hindered in the that quest by such

characters as his boss and Wall Street heavyweight Elisha J. Whitney (Ben Foster), public enemy No. 13 Moon-face Martin (Ian Kirk) and his sidekick Bonnie (Cassidy Markley), Hope’s mother Mrs. Wadworth T. Harcourt (Sammy Weiss), evangelist turned nightclub songstress Reno Sweeney (Regan LaTessa) and Hope’s fiancé Sir Evelyn Oakley (Sam Huntington).

“It’s fun,” said junior Kirk of the mu-sical and his role as Moonface Martin. “I get to have an accent.

“I get into quite a mess and get of-fended in the end.”

LaTessa said she liked the song and dance numbers in “Anything Goes.” The senior who has been in musicals all four of her high school years said each play was a new experience.

“We’ve got a lot of new people out this year, so the cast in different,” she said. “I like working with my friends.”

The musical will be performed at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Per-forming Arts Center at Baldwin Junior High School. Tickets are $5 for children and students and $6 for adults.


Elvyn Jones/Staff

CAST MEMBERS of Baldwin High School’s fall musical “Anything Goes” wave bon voyage during a dance number in the play.


BALDWIN

CALENDARS11/15 | THURSDAY Daily Exercises, Vintage Park, 321 Crimson Ave., 10 a.m.

Bingo, Vintage Park, 2 p.m.

Book Talk, Baldwin City Public Library, 7 p.m.

11/16 | FRIDAY

Coffee Talk, Vintage Park at Baldwin City, 321 Crimson

Ave., 9 a.m.

Daily Exercises, Vintage Park at Baldwin City, 321 Crim-

son Ave., 10:30 a.m.


11/17 | SATURDAY

Community food pantry, Baldwin First United Methodist

Church, 8 a.m. to noon

Free kids’ yoga workshop, Lumberyard Arts Center, 10

a.m.

Kids theater , 10 a.m. to noon, Lumberyard Arts Center

11/19 | MONDAY Coffee Talk, Vintage Park at Baldwin City, 321 Crimson

Ave., 9 a.m.

Daily Exercises, Vintage Park at Baldwin City, 321 Crim-

son Ave., 10 a.m.


Lions Club, Vintage Park, 6:30 p.m.

USD 348 Board of Education meeting, District Office,

6:30 p.m.

Baldwin City Council, American Legion Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Boy Scout Troop 65 meeting, Scout Cabin 341 Fremont

St., 7 p.m.

11/20 | TUESDAY Election day, polls open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Coffee Talk, Vintage Park, 9 a.m.

TOPS meeting, Baldwin Community Library, 9 a.m.

Daily Exercises, Vintage Park, 10 a.m.

Sing-a-long with Pastor Bud, Vintage Park, 10:30 a.m.

Baldwin City Business and Professional Women meeting,

Vintage Park, 6:30 p.m.

Chicken Noodle dinner, Ives Chapel United Methodist

Church, 5 to 7 p.m.

11/21 | WEDNESDAY Story time with Miss Barbara, Baldwin City Library, 10

a.m.

Rotary Club, Harter Union, noon

Blood pressure clinic, Baldwin Rehabilitation and Health

Care, 1223 Orchard Lane, 2 to 3 p.m.

11/22 | THURSDAY Thanksgiving

11/23 | FRIDAY

Coffee Talk, Vintage Park at Baldwin City., 9 a.m.

Daily Exercises, Vintage Park at Baldwin City, 10:30 a.m.


| COMMUNITY CALENDAR |

| BCRC CALENDAR |

11/15 | THURSDAY Group fitness, BESPC South Gym, 8:30 a.m.

Lunch bunch, Big Boppers

Dominoes, BCRC office, 715 High St., 1 p.m.

Tops, Baldwin Senior Center, 5 p.m.

Pickleball, Vinland Elementary School, 6:30 p.m.

11/16 | FRIDAY

Early Morning Boot Camp. Baldwin Junior High School,

5:45 a.m.

Coffee, BCRC, 9 a.m.

Group fitness, BESPC South Gym, 8:30 a.m.

Pinochle, BCRC office, 715 High St. noon

11/17 | SATURDAY

Pokemon League, Baldwin City Public Library, 1 p.m.

Biddy Basketball

Breakfast with Santa

11/18 | SUNDAYElementary open gym, BESPC South Gym, 1 p.m.

Junior high open gym, BHS, 2 p.m.

Adult volleyball, BHS, 4 p.m.

Yoga, BESIC Library, 5 p.m.

Adult open gym, BHS, 6 p.m.

11/19 | MONDAYEary morning boot camp, Baldwin Junior High School

gym, 6:45 a.m.



Yoga, BESIC, 4:15 p.m.

Zumba, BESIC, 5:30 p.m.

11/20 | TUESDAY Group fitness, BESPC South Gym, 8:30 a.m.

TOPS, Baldwin City Library, 10 a.m.

Pitch, BCRC office, 715 High St, 1 p.m.

11/21 | WEDNESDAY Early morning boot camp, Baldwin Junior High School gym, 6:45 a.m.


New restaurant day trip


Martial arts, BESIC, 6:30 p.m.


As there were no classes scheduled, a blushing Houser was forced to move to the front row and listen to the lec-ture once again. This time, Houser was attentive, took notes and even thanked Green for taking the time to go over the class subjects with him again. It ended up being a very positive experi-ence for both Houser and Green.

“It actually ended up being a lot of fun,” Green said. “It’s a fond memory I have of Nate.”

Houser took the lessons he learned from his professors and used them on the field of play. The hard work paid off. He was drafted by the Wichita Wings in 1993 and then traded the next day to the Kansas City Attack. In 1996, he was part of the Kansas City team that won 18 games in a row, a franchise record. He played 11 seasons with the Attack, winning a championship in 1997. After never even making it to the final game in college, Houser found validation in a championship as a professional.

“It was freeing,” Houser said. “It was kind of like that last little bit of, yeah, your ideas work and you can compete with the best that there are and be in that pond and be successful.”

In 2003, as his playing career wound down, Houser got a call from Ron Pulvers, Baker’s head coach for men’s soccer at the time, offering him the women’s soccer head coaching posi-tion. Houser accepted.

“I was totally unprepared,” Houser said. “I jumped into managing a team full of women. I don’t know anything about managing women … I mean, I had somebody leave to go rescue a dog

in Arkansas the day before a game.”In 2008, Houser would expand his

role to include men’s head soccer coach. He hired Davey Philips, now the associate head coach for Baker soccer, to be his assistant.

The first time the two met was in an alumni game when Phillips was a freshman at Baker. The alumni game was typically a laid-back event in which former players tend to tone down their intensity. However, Phil-lips had other motivations in mind. He put two hard tackles on Houser during the game. The first simply resulted in some choice words between Houser and Phillips. The second tackle from Phillips came from the side, result-ing in Houser landing on top of him. Houser proceeded to push Phillips’ head into the ground, as he helped himself to his feet.

“My first impression was top 10 jerks of all time,” Phillips said. “When I came back to coach in 2008, he brought that up, and he didn’t know it was me.”

During his time with the program, Philips has seen Houser grow, as both a coach and a man.

“I think he realizes it’s more than just about soccer,” Phillips said. “I don’t think he’s changed the way he’s treated people, but he’s kind of let the guard down a little bit to let people in.”

Now a confident, successful coach, Houser wants to show his appreciation for the opportunities Baker gave him.

“Every day, it’s giving back. At least that’s the way I look at it,” Houser said. ““I can never repay for what Bak-er gave me the opportunity to do. Or helped prepare me for the opportuni-ties that I had for 13 years.”


KANSAS CITY, MO. – The Baker University women’s soccer team earned the No. 14 seed in the NAIA Women’s Soccer National Champi-onship tournament and will host un-seeded Bellevue University (Neb.) Saturday at Liston Stadium for the NAIA Opening Round match.

This will mark the third time in pro-gram history the Wildcats have earned a spot in the NAIA National Tourna-ment.

The Wildcats enter the tournament, 12-6-1 and earned the No. 3 at-large spot. Bellevue is 13-3-1 on the year and won the Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference championship to qualify for the postseason.

Ironically, Baker and Bellevue are the only two teams paired in the open-ing round that have played previously in the national championship. The two sides’ lone meeting came in the open-ing round of the 2011 national champi-onship.

There will be 30 teams playing at 15 campus sites on Nov. 17. The 15 win-ners of the National Championship Opening Round matches, as well as host Mobile (Ala.),will advance to the 29th annual national championship fi-nal site from Nov. 26 to Dec. 1 in Or-ange Beach, Ala.

Top seed and four-time defend-

ing national champion Lee (Tenn.) will host first-time qualifier Montreat (N.C.). The Lady Flames, who enter the tournament riding a 20-match championship win streak dating back to 2008, own the third-most all-time tournament wins (26) and are 4-0-0 in Opening Round matches. Montreat, who qualified by winning the Appa-lachian Athletic Conference Tourna-ment, is 1-of-8 programs appearing in their first-ever national championship.

Twenty-four teams earned an au-tomatic berth into the field of 31 by winning their respective conference/independent/unaffiliated group tour-nament or regular season. Champion-ship newcomer Faulkner (Ala.) also received an automatic spot as the Southern States Athletic Conference Tournament runner-up. The Eagles will travel to seventh-seeded Embry-Riddle (Fla.).

The six at-large teams were selected based on the final official NAIA Wom-en’s Soccer Modified Ratings Percent-age Index. The MRPI consists of the team’s modified winning percentage, their opponents’ winning percentage and the cumulative ratings points from the NAIA Women’s Soccer Coaches’ Top 25 Poll. Each of the three values has a weighted percentage calculated in the MRPI.

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Want to proclaim your individu-ality on your Kansas license plate? Be careful what you say, state offi-cials warn.

Looking to pimp your ride with plates that say “BITEMEE,” “KZMI-AZ“ or “AWSHIFT”? Forget it. Think you’re “2HOT4U”? Too hot for Kan-sas vehicles. Does driving make you say “AAAAHH”? Other drivers will never know. Are you a hockey fan? “PUCKU” is out of bounds. Hoping to celebrate your birth year of 1969 on a plate? You’re out of luck.

In all, nearly 1,800 combinations of words, numbers and phrases are banned from Kansas license plates, according to a list maintained by the State Department of Revenue and obtained by the Journal-World. Not surprisingly, the list is full of varia-tions on sexual references, drug slang and ethnic or racial epithets — even if they’re cleverly misspelled.

“That’s a known list that if those

come up, we don’t let them go on the street,” said Donna Shelite, the Department of Revenue’s director of vehicles. “There are more combi-nations that may come across … that may cause some phone calls from the public.”

It costs $46 to purchase a vanity plate for a Kansas-registered truck or auto-mobile, and Shelite’s department gets more than 61,000 applications annually for the custom plates. Most requests are innocent and easily approved.

But even some innocuous-sounding plate proposals are prohibited for vari-ous reasons, ranging from potentially mistaken identity to association with notorious crimes or brand names. The banned list includes words such as “THRILED,” “UNKNOWN,” “KBI,” “BTK” and “VIAGRA.”

Sometimes applicants try to pull a fast one. For instance, one applicant requested the plate MYA55, explain-ing that it was for a 1955-model ve-hicle.

“Clearly that was not the intent,” Shelite said. “You get some people that think those combinations are

fun to have on their vehicle.”As in most other states, Depart-

ment of Revenue employees review vanity license plate applications, looking out for combinations that fall outside the legal guidelines for vanity plates. About 300 are reject-ed a year, adding to the prohibited plate list.

Drivers applying for personalized tags have the opportunity to explain why they are requesting a certain alpha-numeric combination or phrase, if state officials question their application.

But sometimes, vanity plate re-quests slip by when they contain phrases with which the monitor is unfamiliar.

“There are some that have come across and been denied, and when I ask about them, it’s actual slang,” Shelite said. “On the street, it may mean something totally different than I deem it.”

Occasionally, that means legitimate requests are denied. In one case, she said, an application that appeared to contain slang was flagged, when in fact the phrase was a family’s surname. Af-

ter an appeal, the plate was allowed tostand.

“Application folks have to keep up with slang,” Shelite said. “It’s going to continue to grow as people get more creative and put more thingson a plate just to stand out.”

Complaints from the public about distasteful license plates are rare. Shelite said she’s received only two since she began her job in April 2011. But there is formal complaintprocess. Jeannine Koranda, pub-lic information officer for the De-partment of Revenue, said people should write down the seeminglyoffensive tag number and county and call the division of vehicles. If the plate is deemed offensive, local law enforcement officials are askedto get the plate off the streets.

Drivers whose plates are denied or taken away can apply for a new vanity plate or settle for a standard plate. But no doubt, Shelite said, the list of forbidden Kansas license plates will continue to grow as driv-ers try to express themselves on the road.

Baldwin City woman to stand trail for blackmail attempt

Douglas County District Court Judge Peggy Kittel ordered a 31-year-old Baldwin City woman to stand trial for allegedly blackmail-ing a convicted Lawrence sex of-fender.

Janice Boline faces one count of blackmail after she allegedly threat-ened a registered sex offender that she would publish his photo and name in a magazine unless he paid her $5,000.

The man — who manages a lo-cal business — testified Tuesday at a preliminary hearing that Bo-

line approached him in Septem-ber.

She allegedly told him he could keep his name and photo out of an October magazine if he agreed to pay her the $5,000.

The name of the publication was not released during Tuesday’s testi-mony.

The man emailed Boline later about the offer, and turned those docu-ments over to police. Boline was ar-rested Sept. 26 and released on a $2,500 bond.

Blackmail is a level 7 non-personfelony, punishable by up to 34 monthsin prison, depending on someone’s criminal history.

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First dinner train cars arrive in Baldwin City

Monday morning in a rock quarry north of Ottawa, a crane operator gen-tly picked a 75-foot red dining car from the back of a semitrailer to place on two sets of wheel assemblies already on railroad tracks.

The car was pulled later in the day to Midland Railway’s Baldwin City yard, where it will be part of what is now called the Kansas Belle Dinner Train.

The use of the quarry site for the transfer was the latest adjustment the owners of the dinner train made to move their business from Fremont, Neb., to Baldwin City’s Midland Rail-way. Last week, they found there wasn’t enough room at the Baldwin City yard to transfer the first car, a 65-foot long baggage car equipped with a generator that powers the dining cars when on the move, from its carriage behind a semitrailer to the railroad tracks.

All went well Monday, and Bob Eveland, manager and co-owner of the Kansas Belle Dinner Train, is hopeful that the remaining inven-tory of five dining cars and one ca-boose can be moved by Thanksgiv-ing to Baldwin City and operating on Midland Railway’s 21-mile line in time to salvage some of the holi-day season.

“I’d like to be operating at least part of December,” Eveland said. “That’s an important month.”

Eveland started exploring the move

to Midland Railway more than a year ago out of concern the Fremont and Elkhorn Valley Railroad, a 15-mile ex-cursion line that had been the dinner train’s home for 24 years, might not be properly main-tained with its recent sale.

“It’s taken this long,” he said. “When we started talk-ing, Midland Railway was at a point they felt it would enhance their overall finan-cial operation and provide their customers with more options.

“We needed a place to live. The scenery is good. The railroad is in good shape. The location is good.”

Although the uncertain future of the Fremont and Elkhorn Valley Rail-road prompted the move, Eveland also thinks the dinner car business will benefit from moving from a site dependent on the Omaha and Lincoln markets to one that taps into the Kan-sas City metropolitan area.

“It’s fair to say it’s a superior lo-cation,” he said. “At the same time, we’re close enough we think custom-ers we’ve had over the years will find a good reason to come down to Kan-sas.”

The dinner train was at its peak be-fore the recession; more than 10,000 tickets a year were sold for the experi-

ence that included a ride and meal on its four primary dining cars.

Eveland isn’t alone in anticipat-ing tourists will find their way to the dinner train. The Baldwin City Coun-

cil and the Douglas County Commission have helped bankroll the move because of that potential.

Midland Railway officials are also excited about the prospect of the din-ner train adding to the 20,000 visitors it draws annually. The railway will re-ceive payment from

the dinner train for the use of its tracks and locomotive, but the Kan-sas Belle also will showcase a side of railroading history Midland Railway hasn’t been able to offer, said Mike Fox, president of the Midland Rail-way Historical Association.

“It’s another leg on the stool,” he said. “It will enable people to see scenic parts of Douglas and Franklin counties from a dining car — a part of railroad history that I don’t think is offered anywhere else in Kansas.”

The Midland Railway’s Sunday ex-cursion train schedule would need to be tweaked next spring, but there would be no real conflicts with its existing late morning and afternoon trips on Thursday, Saturdays and Sundays with that of the Kansas Belle, Fox said.

Eveland said the plan was for the

Kansas Belle to duplicate the din-ner train’s Nebraska schedule with Friday and Saturday evening runs and early afternoon Sunday trips.The Friday and Saturday trips willfeature five-course meals. Formalattire is encouraged. Sunday out-ings are more informal, geared forfamilies, with children’s menusavailable.

“It will be from the low- to mid-$60 range for the evening meal,” Evelandsaid. “Sundays are a little less.”

Meals on cars offering entertain-ment will cost more. As in Nebras-ka, customers will have the option of buying tickets on cars featuringmysteries, melodramas, recreations of World War II USO shows and other musical offerings, Evelandsaid.

Unlike the Midland Railway, which runs seasonally from Aprilthough November, the heated and air-conditioned dinner cars run 12months a year. Eveland said it wasn’tyet known, though, whether thethree-day a week scheduled would be maintained in the coldest, post-holiday months.

The Kansas Belle Dinner Trainwould hire roughly 15 part-time em-ployees as waiters, bartenders, officeclerks and custodians, Eveland said. Itwill also provide work for the caterer,who prepares the meals for the 70 peo-ple who purchase tickets for each trip, he said.

“We’re working on that,” he said.“I’m coming down this week to startgetting that in place.”


KANSAS BELLE’S PUBLIC FINANCING

A number of public economic development financing tools made the move of the Kansas Belle Din-ner Train to Baldwin City possible. Among them were:

• A $5,000 Baldwin Economic Development Grant.

• A three-year, $15,000, low-in-terest loan. The loan payments will be forgiven on an annual basis if the dinner train’s owners can demon-strate through ticket sales and Kan-sas sales tax records that the din-

ner sold 6,000 tickets and collected $5,000 of sales tax revenue in 2013, sold 6,500 tickets and collected $5,500 in sales tax in 2014, and had 7,000 paying passengers and raised $6,000 in sales tax revenue in 2015.

• A $25,000 Entrepreneurship Communities loan from the Net-Works Program, which makes mon-ey available for business opportuni-ties in smaller Kansas communities.

• A $54,000 heritage grant from Douglas County to help build a short spur line equipped with utili-ties on which dinner cars will be parked when not in use.


It will enable people to see scenic parts of Douglas and Franklin counties from a din-

ing car — a part of railroad his-tory that I don’t think is offered anywhere else in Kansas.”

— Mike Fox, president of Midland Railway Historical Association

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IN BRIEFBaldwin UMC taking orders forElementary science fair Nov. 15

The Baldwin Elementary CSO wi l l have a Sc i ence Fa i r open house and pancake supper from 6 to 7 :30 p .m. Nov. 15 a t theB a l d w i n E l e m e n t a r y S c h o o lPrimary Center . The event wil lfeature science projects of kin-de rga r t en th rough f i f th -g r adeBaldwin elementary students.

Chris Cakes will provide the pan-cakes for the all-you-can eat price of $3.50 for children 8 years old or younger and $4 for adults.

For more information, contact Science Fair Chairwoman KelleyBethell-Smith at [email protected] or 785-418-4051.

City starts email billing option

Baldwin City residents now havethe option of receiving city utility billby email, which will not only allow residents to receive bills sooner, but will reduce the city’s cost and be moreenvironmentally friendly.

Those interested can sign up at City Hall or by calling 785-594-6427.

Santa making visit to BESIC on Saturday

Baldwin City Parks and Recreation will have a Breakfast with Santa at 9 a.m. Saturday the BESIC. There will be pic-ture opportunities, crafts and a pancake breakfast. Tickets are $6 in advance and$8 at the door.

Community garden seeks bagged leaves

The Baldwin City Community gar-den is accepting bagged leaves again this fall. Residents can bring them to the site at Seventh and Lincoln streets or call 594-3832 for pick up. No brush, please.

LAC holiday art sale startsNov. 24

The Lumberyard Arts Center’s holi-day arts sale starts from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.Saturday, Nov. 24, at the arts center,718 High St. The sale will continue during regular art center hours throughDec. 22.

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Stann Tate, marketing director with the Community Blood Center of Greater Kansas City, discusses the need for blood donations.

Q: How has Superstorm Sandy af-fected blood donation needs?

A: We did not have much of a re-quest from the East Coast to help with Superstorm Sandy. The Com-munity Blood Center supplies 70 hospitals in the Kansas City area. We did send donations to CBC of the Ozarks following the Joplin tor-nado.

Q: Is there a time of year when blood donation is needed more?

A: Yes. It is very hard for us to collect blood coming up toward Thanksgiving. This time of year, people have got to get ready for family coming, Christmas shop-ping and holiday planning. A lot of times, people put donating blood on the back burner with the colder weather.

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blood?A: Whole blood every 56 days;

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ed can it be used?A: Shelf life of blood is 42 days,

the first five committed to testing. Platelets’ shelf life is only five days, the first two reserved for testing. We always need people to help not only CBC, but coworkers and fam-ily who need blood. One day it may be you who needs blood.

Q: What can folks do to organize a blood drive?

A: You can give our recruitment staff a call to help throughout the entire process, 816-753-4040 or visit savealifenow.org. We provide you with all the materials, signage and electronic messaging to make sure you hold a successful blood drive.

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IAN KIRK as Moonface Martin, public enemy No. 13, and his sidekick Bonnie sneak aboard the S.S. American with the gangster disguised as a man of the clothe.

BHS SENIOR Regan LaTessa as evange-list turned nightclub diva Reno Sweeney and her Angels vamp before the S.S. American sets sail in the musical “Anything Goes.”

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Great turkeys need great classic sides

The turkey may be the centerpiece, but a classic Thanksgiving dinner simply isn’t complete without a bevy of traditional sides. To accompany our cider-brined bird, we went with a gently sweet cranberry sauce cooked with peaches for a delicate texture and fruitiness to balance the tart berries. For the mashed potatoes, we kept it basic — sour cream, butter and chives — but delicious.

And because you can never have enough carbs at Thanksgiving (Stuff-ing! Mashed potatoes! Rolls! Cranber-ry sauce!), we added a second variety of potatoes — herb-crusted sweet po-tatoes.

Sour Cream and Chive Mashed Potatoes

Start to finish: 45 minutes

Servings: 8

4 pounds red potatoes

1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room

temperature

1 cup sour cream

Salt and ground black pepper

1/3 cup chopped fresh chives

Peel half of the potatoes. Place of the

potatoes in a large pot, then add enough

water to cover them by 1 inch. Cover the

pan and set over medium-high. Bring the

water to a simmer and cook until tender,

about 20 to 25 minutes. Thoroughly

drain the potatoes, then return them to

the pot.

Set the pot over low heat and cook

for 1 to 2 minutes, shaking or stirring the

potatoes to dry them. Using a masher,

roughly mash the potatoes, then stir in

the butter and sour cream. Season with

salt and pepper, then stir in the chives.

Herb Crusted Sweet PotatoesStart to finish: 45 minutes

Servings: 8

4 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled and

cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices

Salt and ground black pepper

1 cup panko breadcrumbs

1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme

1 tablespoon chopped fresh rosemary

1 tablespoon chopped fresh sage

1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter, melted

Heat the oven to 350 F. Coat a large

casserole dish or a 9-by-13-inch baking

pan with cooking spray.

Place the potatoes in a large sauce-

pan and add enough water to cover by 1

inch. Add 2 teaspoons of salt and bring

to a boil. Cook until firm-tender, 12 to 15

minutes. Drain the potatoes, then spread

them in an even layer in the prepared

casserole dish or baking pan.

In a small bowl, combine 1/2 tea-

spoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon black pepper,

the panko, thyme, rosemary and sage.

Sprinkle over the sweet potatoes. Drizzle

the melted butter over the crumbs and

bake for 30 minutes, or until golden

brown and tender.

Peach Cranberry SauceStart to finish: 15 minutes

Servings: 6

12-ounce bag fresh cranberries

10-ounce bag frozen peaches,

chopped

Zest and juice of 2 oranges

3/4 cup sugar

Pinch salt

In a medium saucepan over medium

heat, combine all ingredients. Cook, stir-

ring occasionally, until the cranberries

pop and the mixture has reduced to a

thick sauce, about 10 minutes. Allow to

cool.

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Matthew Mead/AP Photos

THE TURKEY may be the centerpiece, but a classic Thanksgiving dinner simply isn’t complete without a bevy of traditional sides. Pictured is a dinner plate of cider brined turkey with sage gravy, peach cran-berry sauce, sour cream and chive mashed potatoes, sausage pecan stuffing, arugula pear salad with pomegranate vinaigrette and and herb crusted sweet potatoes.

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The 15th annual Baker University Invitational Jazz Festival, featuring the Baker Jazz Ensemble, is this week.

A concert is planned for 7:30 p.m. today and a day-long competition will take place on Friday in Rice Auditorium on the Baker campus. Both events are free to the public.

This evening’s con-cert will feature the Jazz Ensemble with guest artist Ken Watters, a trumpeter from Huntsville, Ala. J.D. Parr, professor of music, will direct the concert.

On Friday, Watters and four professional jazz musicians from the Kansas City area will adjudicate 18 high school bands, which will receive a rating from the judges and a clinic conducted by one of the jazz art-ists. Outstanding soloists and one “Exemplary Performer” award winner will be announced after the competition.

Watters, who studied jazz at the University of North Texas and the Manhattan School of Music, has also worked privately with Wynton Marsalis and Joe Lovano. He placed first in the International Trumpet Guild Jazz Improvisation Competition, has received numerous Downbeat Magazine Music Awards, and has performed, recorded or toured with celebrities such as Carlos Santana, Frank Sinatra, Natalie Cole and Gregg Allman.

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Richard Gwin/StaffSTEPPING DOWN from a dining car, Ira Schreiber, a part owner of the Kansas Belle Dinner Car restaurant relocating to the Midland Railroad in Baldwin City, looked over a dining car Monday at the completion of its move from Fremont, Neb. TOP: Old advertising sheets in the dining car show what it was like during the car’s heyday. Look for the story on page 3.

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Junction City to state title conten-tion in the late ’90s. These Bobcats had those tools, but their bats were just so hot, too.

“They flat out mashed,” he recalled. “They could score 15 to 20 runs on you without trying.”

The Braves cut it closer the next year, rallying from a 6-0 deficit before Bobcats second baseman Michael Armstrong turned an un-assisted double play to silence the Braves’ attempted turnaround. Four years later, Armstrong was killed in an automobile accident at just 21 years old. Svodoba still has a photo of himself using the Kauffman Stadium bullpen phone, Armstrong peering over his shoul-der with a look of mischief wiped across his face.

“Looking back now means even more to me,” Svodoba said. “Little did we know how fragile life can be. He’s not even here now just scant years lat-er to share that.”

It was on that April afternoon, captured in that photo, midway through their game, that Pier got ev-ery bit of Josh Ishmael’s pitch, blast-ing it eight rows north of the left field fence.

“Every kid dreams of hitting a home run in a major league stadium,” Mou-lin said. “He hit a bomb.”

Two seasons later, the Braves re-turned to finally end Basehor-Lin-wood’s Kauffman Stadium streak. The Braves finally got theirs, a 7-2 victory and a chance to pose in front of the scoreboard for photos.

It was a series that heightened a rival-ry already circled on calendars in both towns. Friendly, yes, but a desire to win, and win decisively, did not relent.

“We flat out wanted to beat them,” Svodoba added. “We wanted to beat them like a drum every time we were there.”

At the last Frank White Classic the Bobcats played, a few seasons after the Braves stopped playing in the game, Svodoba stood in the third base box with tears in his eyes.

“I realized it was the end of a run — a real special thing to be a part of a program that had the oppor-tunity to play over there,” he said. “The kids may not necessarily have gotten it or thought of it in the way Rick and I appreciated it. But most of these kids today didn’t see the Royals when they were good, when the place just hopped and the Roy-als were right.”

Moulin never could find that video

of the home run. Just as well. How could it show how lush the sunlit field was, how crisp the air and just how hard Mike Pier crushed that pitch?

•••It was Phil Thomas’ small stature

that led him away from the gridiron and hardwood and toward his true passion for America’s pastime as a boy in Kansas City, Kan.

“I was kind of used as a tackling dummy when it came to playing foot-ball, and they were all taller than I was when we played basketball, so basically, I had a wall and a glove,” Thomas said. “While everybody was playing football, I was playing catch with myself.”

What started as a neutralizer even-tually became a forte, as Thomas de-veloped into one of the premier base-ball players in the state. After moving to Tonganoxie as a teen, he flourished on Ban Johnson and American Legion teams in Leavenworth. He played in both leagues at once, logging as many as 100 games a summer.

Thomas had several notable pitch-ing performances during his teenage years, including three consecutive no-hitters as an eighth-grader, but another game sticks out in his mind as one of the most memorable. Pitch-ing against a Marysville squad head-

lined by Junior Riggins, brother of Kansas University football star John Riggins, Thomas didn’t allow a hit in the game, but suffered a 1-0 defeat.

“(Junior) was just as fast as John Rig-gins, and he could hit,” Thomas said. “I said I wasn’t going to let him hit a home run off of me, so I pretty much pitched around him and walked him. On one pitch, he was on second, then the next pitch he was on third, then somebody popped up to the outfield. He went home, and I got beat 1-0.”

Thomas’ talents didn’t go unno-ticed by professional scouts, as he was drafted by the San Francisco Giants as a Tonganoxie High se-nior in 1966. However, rather than accepting $500 to play in a three-month league with the Giants’ rook-ie affiliate — the Magic Valley (Ida-ho) Cowboys — Thomas accepted a scholarship at the College of Empo-ria, where he pitched for two years. He was inducted into the school’s athletic hall of fame in July 2010.

After graduating from college and a three-year term in the Army, Thomas returned to northeast Kansas.

He continued playing baseball for a few more years, including a semi-pro stint with the Halstead Cowboys, but eventually got married and hung up his cleats. He still lives in Tonganoxie.


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THE STAFF of Baldwin Family Vision celebrate the clinic’s recent opening while that of Auburn Pharmacy mark its 20th year at a Baldwin City Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting Thursday at the adjoining businesses on Ames Street.

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WITH THE temperature still above 100 degrees, Ed Pyle, left, and Mike Burns, owner of Au-burn Pharmacy, add to their discomfort by firing up the grill to cook hamburgers at the rib-bon cutting Thursday afternoon for Auburn Pharmacy and Baldwin Family Vision Center.

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7/5 | THURSDAY Baldwin City Tourism Bureau meeting, Three Sisters Inn,

9 a.m.


Caregivers support group, Baldwin Healthcare and Reha-

bilitation, 1223 Orchard Lane, 1 p.m.


7/6 | FRIDAY

Coffee Talk, Vintage Park at Baldwin City, 321 Crimson

Ave., 9 a.m.

Daily Exercises, Vintage Park, 10:30 a.m.


Youth cabaret, Lumberyard Arts Center, 7 p.m.

7/7 | SATURDAY

Farmers Market, downtown west of the Post Office, 7:30

a.m. to noon

Youth cabaret, Lumberyard Arts Center, 7 p.m.

7/8 | SUNDAY

Baldwin First United Methodist Church, vacation Bible

school, 6:30 to 9 p.m.

7/9 | MONDAY Coffee Talk, Vintage Park, at Baldwin City, 321 Crimson

Ave., 9 a.m.

Horsin’ Around junior day camp, Midnight Farm, 9 a.m.

to noon.



Children lunch summer lunch program distribution, Ives

Chapel UMC, 6 to 8 p.m.

Baldwin City Council Community Development Commit-

tee, Baldwin City Hall, 4 p.m.



Boy Scout Troop 65 meeting, 7 p.m., Scout Cabin 341

Fremont St.



7/10 | TUESDAY Coffee Talk, Vintage Park, at Baldwin City, 321 Crimson

Ave., 9 a.m.

TOPS meeting, Baldwin Community Library, 9 a.m.


Sing-a-long with Pastor Bud, Vintage Park

BPW meeting, Vintage Park, 6:30 p.m.



7/11 | WEDNESDAY Baldwin City Chamber of Commerce monthly luncheon,

The Lodge, 502 Ames St., noon



7/12 | THURSDAY Daily Exercises, Vintage Park, 321 Crimson Ave., 10 a.m.

Caregivers support group, Baldwin Healthcare and

Rehabilitation, 1 p.m.




7/13 | FRIDAY Coffee Talk, Vintage Park at Baldwin City, 321 Crimson

Ave., 9 a.m.

Daily Exercises, Vintage Park, 10:30 a.m.


7/14 | SATURDAY Farmers Market, downtown west of the Post Office, 7:30

a.m. to noon.

7/16 | MONDAY Coffee Talk, Vintage Park, at Baldwin City, 321 Crimson

Ave., 9 a.m.


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6/28 | THURSDAY Bulldog Days, Baker University Liston Stadium, 6 a.m.

and 8 p.m.


Water aerobics, city pool, 9 a.m. and 6:15 p.m.

Left, Right Center, BCRC office, 715 High St., 1 p.m.

6/29 | FRIDAY

Bulldog Days, Baker University Liston Stadium, 6 a.m.

and 8 p.m.



Lake Shawnee day camp field trip.

6/30 | SATURDAY

Pokemon League, Baldwin City Public Library, 1 p.m.

Free community swim, 6 p.m.

7/1 | SUNDAY

Yoga, BESIC Library, 5 p.m.

7/2 | MONDAY Bulldog Days, Baker University Liston Stadium, 6 a.m.

and 8 p.m.


Pinochle, BCRC office, noon


7/3 | TUESDAY Bulldog Days, Liston Stadium, 6 a.m. and 8 p.m.


Water aerobics, city pool, 9 a.m. and 6:15 p.m.

Rummikub, BCRC office, 715 High St, 1 p.m.

Holton day trip

7/4 | WEDNESDAY Bulldog Days, Liston Stadium, 6 a.m. and 8 p.m.



Martial Arts, BESIC, 6 p.m.

Spanish Class, BCRC office, 714 High St., 6 p.m.

The deadline to register for the Bald-win City Recreation Commission’s 3-on-3 youth basketball league is Fri-day. This year, BCRC is combining the skills and games in the program.

All children will participate in skills from 9 to 10:30 am on Mondays with games to be played on Wednesday mornings. A game schedule will be available Monday, July 9. At this time, boys and girls will be combined. Prac-tices and games will be at the Baldwin Elementary School Primary Center.

Richard Ebel will be in charge of the instruction and game supervision.

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LINDA BALLINGER, left, helps Riley Smith with her sewing at a Saturday’s workday at Baldwin First United Methodist Church. Also at the table is Riley’s mother Kelley Bethell-Smith, her sister Bailey Smith and Babs Reed. All spent the morning sewing shorts and dresses for children in Haiti.

Church assembly line benefits Haiti

Asked why she was sewing dresses and shorts Saturday in the fellowship hall of Baldwin First United Method-ist Church, 8-year-old Riley Smith an-swered, “because sewing is fun.”

After a few seconds reflection, Riley amended her answer.

“I think it’s good we’re sewing dresses and shorts because not ev-eryone has enough money to go buy them,” she said.

Sitting at a sewing machine to the right of her mother, Riley was part of a 14-woman assembly line that cranked out dresses and shorts to be sent to chil-dren in Haiti. The process started in the kitchen where five women cut donated used T-shirt to patterns taken from the PBS show “Sewing with Nancy,” said Linda Ballinger, who organized the workday. But the women did make one alteration to the pattern by adding cargo pockets made from sleeves.

“It didn’t say anything about pock-

ets, but we decided they needed them,” she said.

The cut patterns were then passed one of the women sitting at the seven sewing machines available Saturday.

The sewing day was a project of the UMC Women she chairs but was open to all who wanted to participate, Ball-inger said. The clothes originally were to be sent to Africa, but the destina-tion was changed to Haiti because the need was just as great there since the 2010 earthquake and because of the church’s association with missionaries Sandy and Joe Edgerton.

When they arrive in Haiti, the cloth-ing will give the island a little bit of northeast Kansas flavor. Some of the T-shirts had Kansas City Royals in-signias on them, others were adorned with Kansas University lettering and one piece of material had orange ma-ple leafs on blue background, which are the colors of Baker University.

The splashes of local color seemed appropriate when Coleen Burgess ex-plained the day’s activity.



The Baldwin City Council has agreed to discuss with sculptors a pro-posal to create statues in downtown Baldwin City or its parks.

City Administrator Chris Lowe told the Baldwin City Council on Monday that representatives of the Kansas Sculptors Association ap-proached Sandy Cardens, secretary and gallery director of the Lumber-yard Arts Center, about bringing a public art project to Baldwin City. The association had a show featuring the work of its members last year at the Lumberyard.

In the program, sculptors with the association come to Kansas cities to

create pieces at no cost, except the price of the stone and their lodging while in the community.

Lowe said the sculptors could cre-ate a work to fit a setting as small as Tom Swain Park or as large as the park near the swimming pool.

Enhancing the arts in the commu-nity, particularly downtown, was one of the topics the council discussed in recent workshops. Council members agreed Monday the request would be a good fit with that effort and gave Lowe direction to further discuss the proposal with the association.

Mayor Ken Wagener suggested the Lumberyard board members be in-volved in those discussions as a way for the city to broaden its partnership with that board.

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What childhood memories the Fourth of July brings to mind. Next to Christmas, it was our most excit-ing holiday. After rising very early, we were allowed to set off noiseless white worms on our front walk. Worms, when touched with a lighted punk stick, slowly emerged from a small white cone, finally turning into dry ashes. These left black marks but they soon washed off. No noise or yelling was permitted before 9 a.m. because our childless neighbors were still asleep.

After that hour came torpedoes, which exploded upon impact when thrown hard against the cement walk, and then, best of all, firecrackers. A prodigal person might light an entire string of crackers, but we hoarded ours carefully. A single cracker at a time for us. Our small store was all too soon exhausted. We set our firecrack-ers under empty soup cans (saved for this purpose) and lit them with our punks. There were many arguments about whose can flew higher.

There was an empty field next to our house that served as a neigh-borhood playground. Our yard had swings, parallel bars for skin-the-cat, a push-me-around see-saw and merry-go-round. My mother was very easy-going and did not scold children if they happened to step into her flowerbeds. Later in the day, the big boys came to the field with their large firecrackers. The cans flew even higher and the ar-guments grew more heated.

By early afternoon, our firecrackers were usually depleted and we waited impatiently for the evening festivities. At dusk, out came the sparklers. We

twirled the sparklers around in the air and danced on the lawn. The tiny lights of the fire flies offered no competition

Usually a few skyrockets were set off in the field by the fathers with much pomp and ceremony. Our fam-ily had no skyrockets — supplying

five children with worms, torpedoes, firecrackers and sparklers was quite enough. The Great Depression of the 1930s was very much in evidence and ex-penditures for sky-rockets were not con-sidered a necessity.

I remember with great fondness the fireworks display Baldwin City used to have in Baker’s Liston Stadium. What a wonderful crowd, with no chairs to drag and a clear view. It was the high-light of the Fourth. Usually we ended the evening at the long-gone old Dari Ring. As I recall, for a few years, Bald-win had no fireworks and some of us drove to Lawrence. Thank you to all involved in bringing back our very own fireworks display. As usual, Baldwin adds an extra fillip — the ice-cream train ride at Midland Railway.

I am writing this column July l. I do hope that the dangerous fire condi-tions do not interfere with the planned ceremonies. Not to worry. Our fine fire departments will protect us. Driv-ing home from Lawrence at night can be dangerous, especially after toasting the Fourth of July.

“July 1776 will be the most memo-rable epochs in the history of America … it ought to be celebrated with pomp and parade … guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from this time forward for evermore.” — John Adams in a let-ter to his wife, Abigail, 1776.

POINT OF VIEWThe Signal visited the Knights of Columbus fireworks tent to quiz shoppers of their buying habits this year. From time to time, additional comments may be posted on The Signal’s Web site, baldwincity.com.

“About the same amount as always. I stay within a bud-

get.”

Cindy Jones,

Baldwin City

“About the same as last year with

the economics of it. With the BCRC show this year, you don’t have to spend a lot

for a public display.”

Mike Paulick,

Baldwin City

Q: Are you buying more or fewer fireworks this year than you have in the past?

“About the same as always.”

Brian Patterson,

Baldwin City

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Mother grateful for support given son with rare genetic condition

who said hello to Eli, who talked to Eli and engaged with him.”

In the latest example of that com-passion, the Baldwin City Lions Club gave a specially designed bicycle to Eli on June 27, his ninth birthday, Amy said.

In the latest example of that com-passion, the Baldwin City Lions Club gave a specially designed bicycle to Eli on June 27, his ninth birthday, Amy said. Neu Therapy and Baldwin Ath-letic Club have made facilities avail-able for Eli’s therapeutic use, she said.

Genetic testing revealed in Decem-ber 2010 that Eli has Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome, a rare partial or total ab-sence of the TCF4 gene. There are only two children in Kansas diag-nosed with the syndrome and just 120 in the world.

That diagnosis came more than six years after 9-month-old Eli was first referred to Kansas University Medical Center and Children’s Mercy Hospital subsequent to Amy and her husband, Scott, noticing he wasn’t as active or engaged as a normal baby. The doc-tors there couldn’t help much, Amy said, and she and her husband passed on testing at that time because they didn’t want to put Eli through all the “poking and prodding” that genetic testing involved.

It was a sound decision because the test for Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome wasn’t developed until 2007.

Instead, the family started working with a succession of agencies, such as Douglas County Infant and Toddler

Services, Parents as Teachers, the Baldwin school district and East Central Kansas Cooperative in Education. They worked with Eli and the family at home and at school to over-come limitations his parents now know are associated with the syndrome, such as mental impairment, weak muscle tone and vi-sion problems.

“The doctors we have interfaced with are minimal compared to the counselors, therapists and para-pro-fessionals that have helped him daily since he was 12 months old,” she said. “They were focused on his develop-ment. As it turned out, that was the right thing to do.”

“The school district has been ex-traordinary. I never got the feeling my child was a square peg trying to be fit in a round hole. His special-education teacher, as well as his therapists, get very excited about his success and progress.”

His schoolmates further enrich his educational experience, Amy said.

“His peers are phenomenal.” she said. “His teacher told me his class-mates argue over who gets to sit next to Eli or help Eli.”

Betsy Ulrich, Eli’s special-education teacher at school, said his schoolmates respond to Eli’s personality.

“I think with everyone Eli meets, he somehow has the ability to put a smile

on their face,” she said. “The strength of the relationship Eli has formed with is class is amazing.”

Ulrich gives Eli’s family credit, too. His 13-year-old brother Blake has a special bond with Eli and his parents

work very well with his therapists, she said.

Although his diagnosis didn’t change the approach to Eli’s ther-apy or individual education plan at school, it has been good for the fam-ily.

“We can now interface with fami-lies with other children who have been diagnosed,” Amy said. “When we got the diagnosis, we went on Google and found pictures of chil-dren that look like Eli. We thought immediately, ‘Hey, these are Eli’s people.’

“We’re one of two families in Kan-sas with a child with Pitt-Hopkins. We’re going to get together with them soon. That’s a really nice thing.”

The diagnosis also gave her peace of mind, Amy said.

“It let me know I didn’t do some-thing wrong during my pregnancy,” she said. “I had a huge sense of guilt lifted from me. There wasn’t anything I could have done to change the way he was supposed to be.”

She makes an effort to live in the moment and not dwell on the future, Amy said. But when she does look

ahead, she sees Eli continuing to ben-efit from the good side of human na-ture.

“My dream and desire for him is that he will be around caring and com-passionate people his whole life,” she said.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1I think with everyone Eli

meets, he somehow has the ability to put a smile on their face.”

— Betsy Ulrich, special education teacher

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AMERICAN BAPTISTGathering PlacesA house church meeting at 1208 Long Creek Ct.Dave Killingsworth, Pastor . ........... 785-764-6868Sunday Meal and Gathering ........................Noon

BAPTISTLighthouse Baptist Church115 6th St. ..... 594-4101Pastor Richard AustinWorship Service ................. ................ 10:30 a.m.Bible Study Sunday at church ................... 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Evening Service ................ 7:00 p.m.

CATHOLICAnnunciation Catholic Church740 North 6th St.,594-3700Father Brandon FarrarSunday Holy Mass ...........10:30 a.m. & 6:00 p.m.Confessions Sunday ............................. 5:00 p.m.Adoration 1st Sunday of month

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CHURCH OF THE BRETHRENLonestar Church of the Brethren2 mi. N. of Lonestar Lake 883 E. 800 Rd.Pastor Benny Rosell 785-748-9837Sunday Worship .................................. 10:30 a.m.

CHURCH OF CHRISTBaldwin Church of Christ203 10th St., Box 282 .................... 594-6712Minister James KennedySunday Class ...................................... 10:00 a.m.Sunday Morning Worship .................... 11:00 a.m.Sunday Evening Service ....................... 5:00 p.m.Wednesday Class ................................. 7:00 p.m.

CHURCH OF CHRIST309 E. High St. 594-4246Bible Study .......................................... 10:00 a.m.Worship ............................................... 11:00 a.m.Sunday Eve ........................................... 6:00 p.m.Wednesday Bible Study ........................ 7:00 p.m.

VINLAND CHURCH OF CHRIST1702 N 700 Rd. 594-3648Shawn Smith, PreacherBible School ........................................ 10:00 a.m.Worship Service .................................. 10:45 a.m.Sunday Evening Service ....................... 6:00 p.m.Wednesday Bible Study ........................ 7:00 p.m.

EPISCOPALGrace Episcopal Church315 W. 5th St., Ottawa .............................785-242-5390Rite 1 Service (2nd Sunday/Month) .................8:30 a.m.Rite 2 Service (Every Sunday) ......................10:15 a.m.Healing Service (Every 1st Thursday) ...........12:15 a.m.

GOSPELChrist Gospel Church1600 South St. ............... ............... 594-2992Coal Creek Gospel Hall1718 N 466 Rd. .......................785.979.5012Good News Sunday School ................................ 11:45 a.m.

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRISTSt. John’s United Church of Christ(3 1/2 miles West of jct. 59/56 and 1 mile north)396 E 900 Rd. ....................................... 594-3478Pastor: Rev. Lewis HinshawSunday School ................... ................ 10:00 a.m.Worship Service ................. ................ 11:00 a.m.

UNITED METHODISTClearfi eld United Methodist Church..........................................................883-2360Pastor Rev. Lane Bailey Morning Worship ................ .................. 9:00 a.m.Sunday School ................... ................ 10:30 a.m.

First United Methodist Church704 8th St., Box 25 ........ ............... 594-6612Pastor Paul BabcockSunday School ................... .................. 9:30 a.m.Worship Service ................. ................ 10:45 a.m.

Ives Chapel United Methodist Church1018 Miami (West Baldwin)...594-6555Pastor Rev. Jacob CloudSunday School ................... .................. 9:45 a.m.Worship Service ................. ................ 11:00 a.m.

Vinland United Methodist Church1724 N 692 Rd. 594-3256Pastor Nick WoodsSunday Worship .................................. 10:30 a.m.Sunday School ................... .................. 9:30 a.m.

Worden United Methodist Church298 E 900 Rd. (3 1/2 miles west of jct. 56/59) ............................... 594-3894Bud Tuxhorn, PastorTraditional Worship ............................... 8:15 a.m.Church School ....................................... 9:30 a.m.Contemporary Worship ....................... 10:30 a.m.

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Fire department offeringfree CPR classes

The Baldwin City Fire Department isoffering free CPR classes to businesses or organizations. Classes need a minimum of six participants. The classes will alsobe available to individuals should theyenroll in classes with the required sixparticipants.

The course is three to four hours long and those completing the instruc-tion will receive a two-year certifica-tion in CPR.

Call Baldwin City Fire Chief Allen Craigat 785-594-3678 or email him at [email protected] if interested.

Photo guild to meet SundayThe July meeting of the Photographers

Guild will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at theLumberyard Arts Center, 718 High St.There will be a showing of the documen-tary “Stand: Under the Dark Cloth,” which couldn’t be viewed at the last meetingbecause of technical difficulties.

This photo month’s challenge will be“fireworks.”

Baldwin City’s businessesto be recalled at senior mix

This month’s Baldwin Community Senior Mix will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, July 11, at Ives Chapel United Methodist Church, 1018 Miami St. Theprogram will be “A Backward Glimpse atBaldwin History/Business.” Those attend-ing will be invited to share memories of businesses they remember.

Refreshments will be available after the program.

Youth theater camp planned for July 23 to 27

Baldwin City Community Theater andthe Lumberyard Arts Center will have a youth theater camp from July 23 to July27 at the Lumberyard for children in kin-dergarten through sixth grade. Classes for kindergartners through second-graders will be from 9 to 11:30 a.m. and those forthird-graders through sixth-graders willbe from 12:30 to 3 p.m. Both will be led by Jennifer Glenn, a drama teacher at theLawrence Arts Center with more than 30years of theater and directing experience.

The cost of the camp in $60 and pre-registration is required by July 16. For information about scholarship help to attend the camp or other questions, call Wendy Conover at 785-594-3186.

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DRESSED AS A LEPRECHAUN, Chris Rachol attracts motorists’ attention to the We Buy Gold LLC location at 22342 W. 66th St., Shawnee. It is one of seven We Buy Gold outlets on the Kansas side of the state line that pay cash for gold.

Retail outlets that pay cash for gold have been proliferating. We Buy Gold LLC, for instance, has opened seven Kansas locations. Behman Zakeri, the business’s chief executive, explained the trend.

Q: What is driving the opening of these outlets that buy gold and other precious metals?

A: Simple, it’s because of the high prices of gold and silver over the past few years. People can now sell gold jewelry they bought in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s and sometimes triple or quadruple what they paid for it.

Q: Do you expect this service to continue, or are the stores tempo-rary?

A: For many, it’s just temporary while prices remain high. For us it’s different. … We are providing the public with a much-needed ser-vice where they can convert un-wanted precious metals into cash for fair prices. This service was al-

ways needed and just took the price spikes for people to recognize it.

Q: Is the value of gold at a record high?

A: Gold is around $1,620 an ounce, down from last summer’s record high of about $1,900 an ounce. Gold prices have soared because people have recognized it’s one of the only safe places to invest their money.

Q: What types of gold pieces do most people bring in to sell?

A: We see just about anything from gold jewelry and coins to den-tal gold and gold dust.

Q: How do you determine the value of the pieces the public brings in?

A: We have a three-step process that we go through to test each piece that is offered to us to deter-mine our buy prices. Our buy prices are a percentage of spot (prices) based on the market value for pre-cious metals each day.

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This being summer, Philip Hannon is sitting in his office thinking about recruiting, thinking about who next will don a Baker University baseball cap. He’s just concluded his 12th sea-son as head coach of the Wildcats. Their playoff chances looking up this year, the Wildcats lost their final 12 games, eight of them by a margin of just one run.

An error here, a home run conceded there.

“Just really freakish things,” he said. Baseball in so many words.

Baseball has kept Hannon a part of the Baldwin City community for three decades now, his wife Charlene by his side and four children coming up out of their household (three of which at-tended the same university.)

He grew up in Lexington, Mo., a football town. His high school didn’t even have a baseball team, so Hannon would spend his summers baking in the heat in front of family, friends and fans at a local ballpark.

Still, it was his football proclivity that earned Hannon a scholarship to Baker. Baseball still found him. Keith Hackett, Baker’s head baseball coach, was also the football team’s offensive line coach.

“Heard you played summer base-ball,” was something like how it start-ed one day. “We’re down in numbers this year. Won’t you come out and try this college baseball thing?”

Soon after, Hannon joined a fresh-man-laden club, comprised of what he’d call some “darn good baseball

players.” After his eligibility was up, Hannon

worked out for major league scouts on diamonds in Chicago, Tulsa, Joplin. He played five years for the Chicago Cubs’ minor league organization, mak-ing it all the way up to AA ball. After a while he transitioned into a player/coach and then a full-time outfield in-structor.

From 1992-1995, Hannon shuffled between minor league coaching jobs before he returned to Baldwin City to spend more time raising his children. After bouncing between non-hardball occupations for four years, Hannon received a call from Baker’s athletic director, asking Hannon to return to his old team as manager, the job he’s now held for more than a decade.

“It ended up being real good for me,” he said.

Hannon’s mindset has been that of the .300 hitter. Making an out on 70 percent of your at-bats is still good for the Hall of Fame in this game. So while a conference title has eluded Hannon’s Wildcats over the years, he doesn’t take for granted his program’s 87 per-cent graduation rate, or players like Vidal Nuno, now working his way up as a pitcher in the New York Yankees organization, or those holiday weeks that find Christmas cards waiting in Hannon’s mailbox, concealing photos of former players who’ve grown to be friends and fathers.

“You have to understand that you’re going to fail more times than you will succeed,” Hannon said. “Savor those moments you succeed because they don’t come around too often.”

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A morning in mid-June, and it may as well be evening in April, or dusk in Colorado at the end of May or, for that matter, later that same June day in Em-poria, a two-hour drive from Shawnee.

That’s where Billie Thompson will be. A police officer at Shawnee Mis-sion Park going on 29 years, Thomp-son is off work today, and he’s going to watch baseball.

In less than a week, he’ll help drive his eldest son, Jake, to Bowling Green, Ky., where he’ll join the Hilltopper baseball program after two years pitching at Iowa Western Community College. A little more than a month later, Thompson will take his young-est, Ty, to report for his freshman year at the Missouri Institute of Science and Technology, where he, too, will pitch.

When his sons leave, they’ll take with them the same things Billie will keep. Scores of stories, each delivered by rattling off the names of supporting characters: coaches, teammates, fam-ily, fans.

Stories like this one: When Billie was 7 and growing up in Pratt, he was asked to help fill in on a men’s recre-ational team low on players that week. (“And that’s when I got to hit my first home run,” Thompson said. “Hit it to right field — which I never did again.”)

Or stories like the one that helps ex-plain why we’re here in the first place talking about baseball, why Thompson is wearing an Iowa Western National Champions T-shirt and is about to drive and watch Ty pitch on a sum-mer ball team. Billie was All-State in football and bounced between Pratt Community College, Fort Hays State

University and the University of Ha-waii before he came back to Kansas. Within days, he’d go from 80-degree weather to being snowed in at Empo-ria State on a visit over the holidays. “I fell in love with Emporia,” he said, without an ounce of sarcasm. He was about to commit to play both football and baseball, but the football coach of-fered a full scholarship.

“I drop baseball, they win the na-tional championship and we win three games in football,” Thompson said.

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of my home run?Bonner Springs alum Mike Pier en-

countered his old baseball coach Mike Moulin, now the high school’s vice principal, at a gas station a few weeks ago. The sight of each other stirred old memories.

Memory’s a funny word. It suggests something that needs recalling. And when you play at Kauffman Stadium, how can you ever forget?

On three occasions — in 2003, 2004 and 2006 — rivals Bonner Springs and Basehor-Linwood met in the Frank White Classic, a high school baseball showcase held for 10 years at the home of the Kansas City Royals.

The Bobcats made short work of the Braves in their first meeting, in front of their largest audience until then: 1,100 spectators. Basehor-Linwood ran through Bonner Springs, 16-3. David Svodoba, Basehor-Linwood’s assistant head coach in 2003 and head coach from 2004-10, had built a philosophy of winning with pitching and defense, something he perfected while leading

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Baldwin City teenagers are tuning up their singing skills by participating in the Baldwin City Community Theater’s “Give My Regards to Baldwin: A Broadway Review.”

The review is in lieu of a June summer musical.

“We sort of replaced (the musical), so we wanted to give the high school kids some-thing to do,” said Joe Bathke, Baldwin City Community The-ater president. “It is sort of a way to keep their musical skills active over the summer.”

Performing will be seven teens from 15 to 19 years old and some adults who were recruited for the show. They began practicing for the show in mid-May.

The cabaret-style show will include performances of Broadway show tunes from “Chicago,” “Cinderella” and “Cabaret.” There is a mix of solos, ensembles and a whole-cast performance, as well as choreography for many of the numbers.

“They are excited. A lot of them who have been in our summer musicals before are used to sort of being up on stage ... and this is some-thing a little different for them,” Bathke said.

The summer musical would return next year, Bathke said.

“Give my Regards to Bald-win: A Broadway Review” is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Lumberyard Arts Center. The show is an hour with no intermission. It is free and open to the public.

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Last week, 9-year-old Eli Adamson thrilled his mother with the answer, “yeah.”

Amy Adamson said the exchange started when Eli put a key chain of com-munication picture cards on her lap.

“I said, ‘Are you asking me to watch a movie?’ He said ‘yeah,’” his mother said.

Although Eli isn’t completely non-

verbal, the words he does share with his family are often non sequitur phrases. The incident with the key chain was the second time in recent weeks he’s replied with an appropriate one-word answer to a question.

“There are little things every day that happen with that kid, and they are just little miracles,” Amy said.

She’s grateful for those moments, but Amy also knows those miracles grow from the hours of work that counselors,

therapists and teachers provided Eli and the affection given to him from those at his school, the family’s Lighthouse Bap-tist Church and the Baldwin community.

“The people in our community, they treat Eli like a little celebrity,” she said. “We are so blessed to be living in a com-munity that is so compassionate.”

“When we went to the Maple Leaf Festival carnival, my brother was amazed at all the children and adults

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AMY ADAMSON, left, says the Baldwin City community has opened its heart to her 9-year-old son Eli, hugged by his 13-year-old brother Blake. Eli is one of two children in Kansas di-agnosed with the genetic condition, Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome.

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When Joyce Castle talks abouther life and work, she talksof New York City, Paris,

Rome, Berlin and San Francisco andpeople such as Beverly Sills, LeonardBernstein and Stephen Sondheim. Butshe often refers to Baldwin City andsprinkles in the names of Alice AnneCallahan, Wendell Hicks and other

people from her childhood.She’s not name-dropping when she

talks about the famous, anymore thanteachers would be in mentioning theco-workers and principals they knewduring their careers. Last year, mezzo-soprano Castle celebrated her 40th yearin opera, a career than included a 25years with the New York City Operaand 14 at the Metropolitan Opera. Shehas performed 134 roles in opera andmusicals.

Baldwin City residents will be able tohear Castle when she will be thekeynote speaker March 8 at the Bald-win Education Foundation’s annualluncheon. Castle will conclude thatgathering with a short performance inthe district’s new Performing Arts Cen-ter.

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For the second-consecu-tive year, the Baldwin Edu-cation Foundation has invit-ed a distinguished BaldwinHigh School graduate tospeak at its annual lunch-eon.

The foundation startedthe practice last year withBoeing test pilot MichaelCarriker, the lead test pilotfor the company’s new 787Dreamliner passenger jet.This year, the foundationinvited 1957 BHS graduateJoyce Castle. A mezzosoprano with a long careerin opera, Castle will speakand sing after the lunch atthe district’s new Perform-ing Arts Center.

Kathy Grestner, execu-tive director of the founda-tion, said the luncheon isthe foundation’s biggestannual fundraiser. The non-profit organization wasfounded in 2003 with themission of helping USD348 students, faculty andstaff attain excellence.

To do so, the foundationawards Innovative ProjectGrants to teachers. Last fall,20 grants totaling $13,000were awarded to 41 districtteachers, which were dis-tributed to classrooms dur-ing the annual Paws Patrol.The foundation also pro-vides administrative schol-arships to district schools.

A video by BHS seniorKylie King will be shown atthe luncheon, document-ing the classroom uses ofthe grants. The event willbe from noon to 1:15p.m., March 8, at the Bald-win Junior High SchoolCommons and the Per-forming Arts Center. Ticketsare $25 and available atthe Baldwin Junior HighSchool or at the districtoffice, 708 Chapel Street.

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Joyce Castle, a 1957 Baldwin High School graduate and past member of the New York City and Metropolitan operas, will return March 8 to herhometown to be the keynote speaker and sing at the Baldwin Education Foundation’s annual luncheon. Now a Kansas University vocal music professor,Castle has performed 134 roles in her 40-year career in opera.

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