Sunday Fun-Day

North Newton receives grant that Over 1,000 attend first makes bike paths loop possible - A5 year blues concert - B1 www.harveycountynow.com - Newton, KS Vol. 3: No. 09 Thursday, October 12, 2017 USPS (17818) $1.25 Holiday Inn on market After being built in 2010, the hotel is for sale on commercial real estate websites. BY ADAM STRUNK NEWTON NOW STAFF [email protected] For $5.5 million, you could get a 15,000-square- foot, 68-room mansion in Newton—complete with indoor gym, swimming pool and plenty of meeting rooms. If you ask nicely, perhaps they might just throw in a continental breakfast. The Newton Holiday Inn Express is for sale. The hotel, built in 2010, has been posted on a number of hotel real estate websites. The building and property are for sale for the $5.5 million figure. The property is appraised by the county for $3.149 million and sits next to the Meridian Center. Newton Now called the hotel in an attempt to reach owner Tim Johnson. It left a message with a manager, asking them to forward the interview request on. As of Tuesday, Johnson had not re- sponded to the request. WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOW The hotel, the Meridian Center and a now Karen Schwind, right, and son, Darian Schwind, cheer during a recording of a Chiefs football game. Both are die-hard Chiefs fans. empty restaurant on Broadway Court are a part of a special taxing district that helps fund the Merid- ian Center. A bed tax from the Holiday Inn also funds operations at the Meridian Center as well as Newton's Convention and Visitor's Bureau. City Manager Bob Myers said that the hotel is Sunday fun-day an important part of Meridian Center operations, however, he was not concerned about the possible Local Chiefs fans hold onto hope for Super Bowl after hot start See HOTEL / 8 BY WENDY NUGENT NEWTON NOW STAFF [email protected] Newton Rec objects Karen Schwind and her 8-1/2- year-old son Darian love the Chiefs football team so much to governing bodies they’re making videos each time the team wins this season and posting them on Facebook. working with YMCA After the Chiefs beat the New England Patriots in their first BY ADAM STRUNK match up of the season, the New- NEWTON NOW STAFF ton residents wanted to do some- [email protected] thing special. “We have so much fun making those,” Karen said about the Both the City of Newton and the Newton School videos. “In celebration of that—we Board have rebuffed requests from the Newton just beat the No. 1 team that just Rec Commission to not help pay for health mem- won the Super Bowl. Yeah, we’re berships for employees to attend the Newton gonna celebrate.” YMCA. As of Oct. 5, the duo had made From left, Journee Rodriguez, Lashya Hollis and dad Mark “Lucky” Rodriguez stand in Currently, both governing bodies pay a part of two videos, but another one ap- Lucks Barber Shop, while Mark holds his lucky Chiefs rock, which he hopes will take them employees’ health club memberships as part of peared on Karen’s Facebook page to the Super Bowl. The Newton shop has a great deal of Chiefs décor. their wellness initiatives. Employees are allowed Monday night this week to honor to choose between health clubs, including the the Chiefs’ 42-34 win over the “I don’t know but I’ve been her words again. Newton Rec and the Newton YMCA. Houston Texans on Sunday. told,” Darian echoes, with a little Things keep going like that The school district and the city both received e- “Hello, Chiefs fans,” Karen says boy burp thrown in while they throughout the more than two- mails from Newton Rec Commission Director in the video. “Here we are again both laugh. So they start off again minute video. Brian Bascue, asking that they reconsider the pro- celebrating the fact that we are with the “I don’t know” part. By making the videos, they also grams. number 1; we are number 1. Five “We are No. 1, you know. We are wanted to document the Chiefs’ “The NRC continues to work on the partnership and ‘Oh,’ five and ‘oh.’ Five, five actually 5 and ‘oh,’” Karen sings. road, being the ever-hopeful and cooperation between our agencies, and I just and ‘oh,’” all the while with she “And I can do tae kwon do,” Chiefs fans, to the Super Bowl. don't understand why the city would not want to and her son dancing. Darian adds, while kicking his left “That hasn’t happened since the work with NRC and support our programs so that “I don’t know, but I’ve been leg out. ’70s, maybe,” Karen said. “We’re we can continue to provide great experiences for told,” Karen sings in a military, “Up to the Super Bowl we go,” our community,” Bascue said in the e-mail sent to marching style. Karen says, with Darian echoing See CHIEFS / 8 the City of Newton. “As you probably know, the See REC / 8 Mail Label Baughman prints 2 millionth T-shirt BY WENDY NUGENT printing for around 40 years NEWTON NOW STAFF and printed his 2 millionth T- [email protected] shirt around 2014-15. “That’s a guess, a good guess,” he said. The palms of Dave Baugh- That’s a lot of T-shirts— man’s hands were a reddish enough to give about a fourth color on Monday afternoon, of the people living in New but the shade on his hands York City a shirt. Baughman changes from time to time. said a pile of 200 T-shirts is “Mechanics come home with about four feet tall, so 2 mil- black [hands] every day,” lion would be a tower up to Baughman said, laughing. “I 40,000 feet. The tallest build- come home every day with a ing in the world, Burj Khalifa different color. Caught me red- in Dubai, is about 2,700 feet handed today.” tall, so that would be roughly That’s because he’s a seri- 13 or 14 of those buildings graphist, as he calls it, which stacked on top of each other. is commonly known as a The stack would stand about screen printer. WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOW Baughman has been screen See SHIRT / 8 Dave Baughman prints a T-shirt on Monday afternoon. He does the work by hand. Page 2 www.harveycountynow.comNEWS Newton Now October 12, 2017 Submission deadline for calendar contest Oct. 27 FOR NEWTON NOW Spurney said. “We get tos, and residents will be COURTESY PHOTO calls about it starting in able to vote on their fa- If you want your pic- November. Typically, it vorite on the CVB Face- "Butterfly Eyes" by Maggie ture on a calendar, the comes out around the book page. Brunson took second place deadline is approaching. first of December.” “People have really en- in the 2016 Best of Newton The Newton Conven- The top pictures earn joyed the pictures on so- photo contest. The deadline tion and Visitors Bureau chamber checks and a cial media, and the this year is Oct. 27, and the is holding its annual Best place in the CVB Newton pictures are a great way first-place winner will be of Newton photo contest, calendar for the next to promote the commu- awarded $100 with second and the deadline for sub- year. nity throughout the place getting $50 and third missions is Oct. 27. First place lands $100, year.” place awarded $25. The contest has resi- second place $50, and To submit photos, entry dents and prospective third place $20. forms can be picked up at photographers send in There will also be peo- the CVB office in City their best shots of the ple's choice and honor- Hall or at the Newton Newton area for a calen- able mention awards Public Library. dar. handed out. They can also be sub- “It's really popular,” A group of panelists mitted online at tonew- CVB Director Melody will select the best pho- ton.com. Be your family’s ‘gyro’ at dinner time zatziki (pronounced Regardless of the his- Set the meatballs aside. zat-zickee) was not tory, the version of In another bowl, com- Ta term in my vocab- tzatziki I made the other bine the Greek yogurt, ulary until just recently. day turned out well, and I grated cucumber, lemon I was scrolling through enjoyed it. juice, dill, garlic powder Pinterest, as I tend to do The recipe I used was and salt to taste and stir in my moments of spare from the blog “Joyful to combine. time, and I stumbled on a Healthy Eats with a Side Serve the meatballs on picture of something that of Sweets.” You can find the flatbread, topped with looked delicious. the original at tzatziki, tomatoes, cucum- It was a recipe for https://www.joyful- bers and onion. Greek turkey meatball healthyeats.com/greek- gyros (pronounced yee- turkey-meatball-gyro-wit I really liked this. Joey rows) with tzatziki sauce. h-tzatziki/. I increased the wasn’t too sure about the I’ve heard of gyros, but amount of garlic in my sauce, but he was a big tzatziki was a new one. version. fan of the meatballs, Apparently, I’m late to which you could totally that party, because the Greek Turkey serve with spaghetti if sauce has been around for Meatball Gyro you wanted to.

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