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SPECIAL VETERANS DAY EDITION: Nachtigal recalls WWII service, Page 13 Carmichael had close calls in Korea, Page 17 THE HARVEY COUNTY Serving Halstead, Sedgwick, Burrton, Bentley and Harvey County VOL. 139: No. 25 HALSTEAD, KANSAS 67056 v THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2019 (USPS 233-320) $1.00 New faces elected in Harvey County nifer Barrett with 137, in- By JARED JANZEN cumbent Richard Lu- THE INDEPENDENT STAFF dowese with 103, Justin Nold with 81 and Ed Pat- HARVEY COUNTY— ton with 56. Unofficial election results In the only contested Tuesday night showed in- seat on the Sedgwick cumbent Mike Wallace School Board, Shawn leading challenger Brody Chapman led incumbent Flavin by just two votes George Currier, 249 to for a spot on the Halstead 143. City Council. Wallace had For Sedgwick's two- 254 votes to Flavin's 252. part sales tax question, Incumbents George voters favored a 0.5 per- Torres and Denice cent sales tax for street Klassen both kept their improvements, 245 to seats with 299 and 274 113, but narrowly voted votes, respectively. against a sales tax for Dennis Travis won the parks, 185 to 172. JARED JANZEN PHOTO Halstead mayor race with For the Burrton coun- 274 votes against 151 cil, incumbent Craig Lang Mary Jo Hall removes a pan of piping hot peppernuts write-in votes. received 78 votes and from the oven. Women at the Halstead Senior Center For the Halstead-Bent- Justin Freeman 62 to win spend two afternoons a week making thousands and ley School Board position the two seats over Mark thousands of peppernuts to sell. 3, Jennifer Brantley led Morris with 40. Michael Davison 371 to 265. For position 7, Joel Uncontested Races: Flory led with 292 votes Halstead-Bentley BOE Gary Warner: 566 over Korey Carmichael Shawn Kohr: 583 with 226 and Donnie Sedgwick BOE Bean Jr. with 138. Steve Kingsley: 351 For the three Sedgwick Kenneth Blank: 334 Michele Rowley: 341 council seats, Monty Burrton BOE Leonard received 218 Angela Penner: 121 FreshPeppernut production From in full The swing inOven Halstead votes, Brenda DeHaven Aaron Hurst: 100 received 217, and incum- J. Manuel Hernandez: 91 Mark Young: 60 By JARED JANZEN includes four cups of brown sugar, bent Kirby Stucky re- four eggs, six cups of flour, anise, Bentley City Council THE INDEPENDENT STAFF ceived 161. Other Toyia Bulla: 54 cloves, cream of tarter, allspice and vote-getters were Jen- Shannon Koehn: 44 cinnamon. Reba Lee: 51. ALSTEAD—A sweet “This is the same recipe we’ve al- aroma wafts through the ways used, and I’m not sure where it air as you enter the Hal- H came from,” Roberts said. She pulled stead Senior Center on certain week- Grassfire burns near Burrton a battered recipe card out of one of day afternoons. Follow your nose, the kitchen cabinets, but by now as high as 20-25 feet. and it will lead you back to the By JARED JANZEN she’s got the recipe memorized. She “Right off the bat, it kitchen, where you’ll find volunteers THE INDEPENDENT STAFF said she’s been helping the pepper- was kind of hectic at the churning out peppernuts by the nut group for about five or six years. get-go,” Roberts said. thousand. BURRTON—Firefight- “I had never heard of peppernuts “The humidity was up, so So far this year since September ers from eight surround- before I moved to Halstead,” she said. that helped a little bit.” they’ve made close to 100 pounds of ing agencies teamed up “I was brought up in Cheney and had He added that wind the bite-sized holiday treat. Sunday afternoon to bat- never heard of peppernuts.” wasn’t much of an issue “Last year we made and sold 400 tle a sizeable grassfire She added that they’re very popu- while fighting the fire. pounds, and we ran out,” Mary Jo northeast of Burrton. lar in this area. “It burned, but it Hall said. “We could have sold more, About 300-400 acres Ingredients are donated, which wasn’t leapfrogging down so our goal this year is 500 pounds.” burned in the 3800 block helps the senior center sell them for the road,” he said. “We The peppernut bakers meet in the of North Sand Hill Road, less than other businesses do. were able to get ahead of afternoon on Mondays and Fridays or roughly half a square The dough is then passed to Karol it and back-burn.” and work for about three hours. They mile. Smith for what the other ladies say Fields were dry enough bake four batches each time, which Crews responded to the is the hardest job. that trucks didn’t get equals about 19 pounds. scene at 1 p.m., encoun- “We don’t know what we’d do with- stuck to hamper crews. The group of seven has an efficient tering 10-foot high out her,” Hall said. JARED JANZEN PHOTO “We didn’t have any assembly line process, with each per- flames. Burrton Fire Smith cuts the dough into bite- Karol Smith cuts dough into pep- mud issues or get stuck,” son in charge of a certain task. Chief Jon Roberts said Roberts said. “That’s the sized pieces using a contraption built pernuts, 10 at a time, using a con- fortunately the humidity It begins with Jo Roberts, who traption from Troy’s Hardware number one issue when mixes the dough together. The recipe was up a little bit; other- we go off-road, getting See PEPPERNUTS / 3 Store. wise, they could have been dealing with flames See FIRE / 18 Online school ‘clicks’ with Sedgwick student Armed robbery leads By JARED JANZEN THE INDEPENDENT STAFF to high-speed chase SEDGWICK—Angel Baker writes essays. She THE INDEPENDENT STAFF beef jerky and M&Ms just before 1 p.m., last has exams. She takes lots Thursday. of notes. She asks her “When the drawer teachers questions about BURRTON—A suspect opened up, he pulled out her assignments when she was arrested last week a gun and said, ‘Give me needs to. after an armed robbery at all your money,’” Becker But although many of the Dollar General in said. the fundamentals of this Burrton that led to a po- The suspect escaped in teen’s school year sound fa- lice chase on US-50 high- a Chevy Monte Carlo miliar, there are also dif- way. with $215 in cash, leav- ferences. Burrton Police Chief ing the snacks behind, ac- She doesn’t start at 8 Dave Becker said the cording to Becker. A a.m. and finish by 3 p.m. If man went up to the vendor who was in the she wants to take a break counter to purchase pop, store helped the clerk get for a couple hours in the a description and tag afternoon, she can pick up MAIL LABEL number of the car and where she left off later that notify police. evening. Becker said two sher- Baker is finishing up her iff’s deputies had been high school career by tak- in the area at the time ing online classes through and pursued the sus- Kansas Connections Acad- pect east on US-50, emy. while he went to Dollar “I do better working on JARED JANZEN PHOTO General to make sure my own, at my own pace, Angel Baker looks over assignments for her online classes through Kansas Connec- on my own time,” she said. the clerk was OK. He tions Academy. 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Queenie, the Inn’s dents of the Inn as tem- SO LITTLE TIME Ihe’s compatible to do- In general, I think the most important member, peratures are dropping. nate a kidney to his best things in life, our was unable to be present Mrs. Becker (Grace) re- daughter. It’s a time that best experiences, are due to transportation mains particularly proud brings a lot of anxiety those for which we’ve problems but she is al- GRACE BECKER of her husband’s broad and uncertainty for the sacrificed. That’s one of ways remembered as one range of skills gained in family. the reasons children are of the team. stairs gingerly due to a his 40-year tenure at Sky- It’s also an incredible so valuable.