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n Ka sas py D p a SALUTE TON a y WHITING, KANSAS H ! Hometown of Larry & Bonnie Eubanks Holton Recorder subscribers for 30 years. CSering te acson County Community or years Volume 153, Issue 8 HOLTON, KANSAS • Wednesday, January 29, 2020 14 Pages $1.00 HOF tickets available Ticket sales for the 15th- annual Holton/Jackson County Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame banquet — to be held one week from today — have been slow so far, which is not necessarily unusual, according to Cham ber executive director Ashlee York. This year’s community event, honoring Deb Dillner, Diane Gross, Esther Ideker and Floye Knouft — will be held next Wednesday, Feb. 5 at the Evangel United Methodist Church Family Life Center, with a social hour starting at 5:30 p.m. and dinner to be served at 6 p.m. A total of 16 tickets has been re ported sold by Holton’s three banks — Denison State Bank, The Farmers State Bank and GNBank — while about 60 tickets have been sold at the Chamber office, York said this morn ing. However, she added, Chamber officials “always” get tickets sold in the days leading Travis Amon of Holton’s Brahma Excavating operated an excavator to make quick work of a dilapidated house in the 700 block of Pennsylvania up to the annual event. Avenue in Holton yesterday morning. Holton city officials noted that the abandoned, dilapidated house had generated several complaints and had Advance tickets are $30 per been targeted for demolition by the Holton City Commission, which had declared the house a dangerous and unsafe structure last August. Photo by Brian Sanders per son and may be purchased at the main Denison State Bank, GNBank and The Farmers State Bank loca tions in Holton and at Kuglin reflects on bus-driving career Super Pick’em Continued to Page 8 By Brian Sanders Kuglin said that in order to be David Kuglin of rural Holton a good school bus driver, one is retiring for a second time. must love the kids, enjoy sports Contest continues County’s Kuglin, who had worked as and enjoy driving — and he fit Holton’s postmaster, retiring in all three criteria. 1992, had been driving buses “It worked out good for me stray dog for the Holton school district over the years,” he said. “But I “on and off” for about 20 years had no intention of staying that at that time. Not long after his long.” contract retirement from the Postal What kept him in the driver’s Service, he went to work as seat, he said, was the fact a full-time bus driver for the that every year, “somebody updated district. special would come along” and By Ali Holcomb Now, 28 years later, Kuglin, make driving the route more Sunday, Feb. 2, at the Hard Banner Creek Animal at the age of 82, says he has enjoyable. The Kansas City Chiefs Hospital of Holton will receive are headed to Super Bowl Rock Stadium in Miami stepped away from the bus “You got acquainted with Gardens, Fla. Kick-off is an additional $2,400 a year to driver’s seat for the last time. them, you enjoyed their LIV this Sunday and ex- house and take care of stray citement for The Holton scheduled for 5:30 p.m. “I knew it was time,” said company and they were just Shakira and Jennifer Lopez and abandoned dogs found in Kuglin, who counts his time as special — a lot of special kids Recorder’s Super Football Jackson County after the county Pick’em Contest is build- will perform the halftime a bus driver, part-time and full- every year,” he said. “So I kept show. commissioners approved a new time, for almost half a century. driving.” ing as a free 40-inch flat- contract Monday afternoon. screen television is being If multiple people cor- “I intended to finish this year out One thing that’s changed over rectly predict the final In 2019, the animal hospital and let that be it, but I developed district started sometime in the the years, Kuglin said, has been given away to whoever provided shelter, food, water correctly predicts the score score and winning team, some health problems.” early 1970s, he said, when Jack disci pline. He said there were then their entries will be and veterinarian services, if Kuglin, who graduated from Sloan was still superintendent a few times where he had to of the game. necessary, for 77 stray dogs. The Holton Recorder, placed into a hat and a win- Holton High School in 1955, of schools — a position Sloan separate some kids and make ning name will be drawn Fifty-nine strays were cared for said his first career with the U.S. relin quished to C.L. Riley in them sit in different seats, but along with 25 area busi- in 2018 and 60 in 2017. nesses, is sponsoring the from those entries. Postal Ser vice began “right out 1972. for the most part, “I didn’t have Entry forms are avail- The updated contract states of high school,” and he worked “I had kids who were in a lot of problems. I always felt Super Football Pick’em that the animal hospital, located Contest. A 40-inch HD able on page 11 in today’s his way from a carrier’s position school back then,” Kuglin said. like I got along with my kids.” edition of The Holton just south of Holton on U.S. to postmaster over a period of “I used to drive the basketball He’s watched quite a few Smart TV will be given Highway 75, will receive $800 away to the person who Recorder and at each of the “roughly 34 years.” team, and I did some substitute of those kids grow up, from 26 participating business per month, or $9,600 a year, for “I had enough time then,” driving. It was an on-and-off- elementary to high school, and correctly predicts, or pre- the care, feeding and watering dicts closest to, the fi- locations. To participate in Kuglin said of his retirement type thing, whenever I could fit he’s taken a few Holton High the contest, fill out the en- of at-large or abandoned dogs from the post office in 1992. “I it into my schedule.” School sports teams to state nal score of Sunday’s big from the unincorporated areas game. try form at each participat- could have quit possibly a year He learned that it takes a championship games. ing location when you vis- of the county. earlier, but as soon as I could, I special kind of person to drive “Jon Holliday and Theresa The Chiefs will play The new agreement will be the San Francisco 49ers it. A different score can be got out.” school bus routes full-time. Watkins were my two favorite predicted at each business. retroactive as of Jan. 1, 2020 His bus-driving duties “I’d talked to so many people coaches,” he said. “They were for the 2019-20 National and remain in effect until Jan. got started well before that, who tried to tell me that I just good people.” Football League champion- Continued to Page 8 1, 2021. however. Kuglin’s time as a could not do that,” he joked. ship in Super Bowl LIV on bus driver for the Holton school “But I’ve always enjoyed it.” Continued to Page 8 Continued to Page 8 Snow days discussed at RV B.O.E. meeting By Ali Holcomb students) have a longer day Snow days are adding up since they go from 8:05 a.m. at Royal Valley, and dur- to 3:24 p.m.,” he said. ing the board of education’s The high school starts later meeting Monday evening, and ends earlier than the other Superintendent Aaric Davis schools. RVHS students also discussed options to recoup have a seven-minute morning lost hours if students miss break each day. additional days due to winter If the district has to close weather. again for winter weather, So far this school year, Davis and RVHS Principal the district has had four Joel Hesed are proposing that snow days. High school stu- the school day for RVHS students also had an addition- dents run from 8:09 a.m. to al unscheduled day off in 3:24 p.m. and then remove November due to the state the seven-minute break. volleyball tournament, Davis “It would give us 15 addi- said. tional minutes each day,” he “We only have one hour left said in our high school schedule The district could also add so if we miss any more days, an additional day in May we’re going to have to start or require students to go to making up time,” Davis said. school on Good Friday to The elementary and middle make up the time. schools still have four snow “We’ll see how things go, days left before any addition- but right now, the high school al make-up days are needed, is out of days,” he said. Davis said. “They (RVMS and RVES Continued to Page 8 A King and Queen of Courts will be picked from these 10 Holton High School seniors and crowned during a coro- THURSDAY’S FORECAST nation ceremony on Tuesday, Feb. 4, at halftime of the Wildcat boys varsity basketball game against Royal Valley. CO HH OF Queen candidates include, seated from left, Taygen Altenburg, Mary Pritchett, Paige Crouch, Danika Hickman and Look for the complete forecast on page 2.

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