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CSerin te ackson Conty Commnity for years Volume 151, Issue 98 HOLTON, KANSAS • Wednesday, December 5, 2018 14 Pages $1.00 City to participate in Neighborhood Revitalization By Brian Sanders ments are now eligible for five The City of Holton will years of property tax rebates. participate in the rebooted For commercial and business Neighborhood Re vitalization im provements, the rebates are Program, the Holton City 100 per cent in the first year, Commission decided at its 90 percent in the second, 80 regular meeting on Monday. percent in the third, 70 percent City commissioners voted in the fourth, 60 percent in the unani mously to take part in the fifth and 50 percent in the sixth county’s plan to offer property and seventh years. tax rebates on a decreasing scale For residential on residential and commercial improvements, the rebates are property improvements, to go 75 percent in the first year, into effect on Jan. 1 and be ef­ 65 percent in the second, 50 fective for 15 years. Holton percent in the third and 35 City Manager Kerwin McKee percent in the fourth and fifth said the city participated in the years. county’s previous revitalization The program does not program “as an incentive for decrease the amount of Jackson improvements in the county,” County property taxes currently and would do so again. being collected but defers taxes The new plan is similar to the on the new improvements over pre vious plan, offering seven that period of time, pro vided years of tax rebates to eligible the improvements are being commercial and business carried out under the terms of properties with im provements the program. Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus (Holton Post Office employees David Adkins and Pam Bryant) rode through Saturday’s valued at $15,000 or more, Parade of Lights on the back of a Holton Post Office mail truck driven by post office employee Luke Geist. The Holton while residential improve­ Continued to Page 11 Post Office won the Best Business Float honor during the annual event. Buck’s Grove Church won Best Religious Float and Developmental Services of Jackson County won Best Club/Organization Float. Photo by Ali Holcomb Preliminary hearing held for Perez­Marquez Ideker, McClintock set to retire from HCH By Brian Sanders and then no lights,” he said. By Ali Holcomb “I needed purpose in my fied hospice, Ideker was given courage in their journeys,” Topeka resident Matthew “It seemed like the cars had Longtime health care work- life and the doors opened, and the opportunity to be the hos- she said. Lang worthy was driving south swerved off onto the shoulder… ers Esther Ideker and Zennie I see it as the hand of God,” pice volunteer coordinator for Ideker said she is looking on U.S. Highway 75 toward and then the lights went dark, McClintock are retiring from Ideker said. HCH for 17 years. forward to remaining a hos- Holton some time between 8:15 and then I saw a big puff of Holton Community Hospital. She began serving as the “Hospice opened doors pice volunteer in her retire- p.m. and 8:30 p.m. on the night dust.” Ideker has served as HCH’s hospice volunteer coordinator for me to work beside car- ment. of Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017, Langworthy’s testimony hospice volunteer coordina- for Jackson County Friends ing nurses, Dr. Joel Hutchins, “I have been blessed with about a mile north of Netawaka. about that evening’s traffic tor for 17 years and has been of Hospice in 1992 with just chaplains and patients’ per- the best role in the world – “It was a typical November accident was given during a a hospice volunteer for 28 a typewriter, desk and file sonal pastors, social workers not a job, but a mission, which night, probably a little bit preliminary hearing for Maria years. cabinet at the Jackson County and volunteers as a team to has enriched my life,” she overcast,” Lang worthy said. D. Perez­Marquez of Oma ha, McClintock was the direc- Health Department. care for the terminally ill pa- said. “Both Jackson County “There was a black SUV in Neb., held Monday in Jackson tor of social services at HCH Jackson County Friends of tients and their families who Friends of Hospice and front of me, then another ve­ County District Court. Perez­ for 13 years. Part of her duties Hospice became affiliated have taught me so much about Holton Community Hospital hicle, and then a semitrailer.” Mar quez, 49, has been charged included hospice social work. with the Northeast Kansas what is really important in have been so good to me, and The vehicle behind the with three felony counts of She’s been semi-retired for the Health Department in 1995 life,” Ideker said. “Their ac- I have been blessed to be sup- semitrailer then switched lanes involuntary manslaughter in past year, working solely as to become a Medicare certi- ceptance, values and peace, as ported by a host of commu- to pass it when Langworthy said connection with the deaths of the social worker for HCH’s fied hospice, and Ideker said well as stories of their lives, nity advocates of our hospice. he suddenly “saw headlights three members of a Sabetha Home Health and Hospice. she helped set up volunteer are treasured.” Not least, our volunteers are coming” in his direction. family in that accident. Ideker graduated from programs in Jackson, Brown, Ideker said hospice also like gold and are like family.” “I remember my immediate District Court Judge Norbert Washburn’s School of Nursing Nemaha and Atchison coun- gave her the opportunity to McClintock was the first reac tion was, oh, my gosh, what Marek said the testimony given in 1986 and attended the first ties. reach out to the bereaved fam- full-time social worker for the are they doing?” he said. by Langworthy and others organizational meeting of the In 2001, when Holton ilies in the form of a grief sup- hospital. Then Langworthy saw the during Mon day’s hearing Jackson County Friends of Community Hospital began port group. passing vehicle colliding head­ constituted probable cause to Hospice. serving as a Medicare certi- “I really learned lessons of Continued to Page 14 on with a northbound vehicle. “There were brake lights, Continued to Page 8 BAK tour to stop in Holton For the first time since 2002, The following morning, the annual Biking Across Kansas cyclists will ride to the Missouri (BAK) ride across the state border, passing through will make an overnight stop in Effingham and arriving in Holton, it has been reported. Atchison, where they will cele­ Registration opened Nov. 23 brate the end of the ride. This for the 2019 BAK bicycle tour, year’s BAK will also take it was reported. The 45th year cyclists through Kanorado, of the longest­running bicycling Brewster, Hoxie, Palco, Ellis, event in Kansas history — a Russell, Lincoln, Randolph, 478­mile ride across the state — Onaga and many more Kansas begins Saturday, June 8, 2019. towns. BAK is an eight­day tour BAK promotes health and originat ing at the Kansas­ Holton. well ness through bicycling, the Colorado line with as man The cyclists’ final night history and beauty of the state of as 900 bicyclists, including together will be in Holton on Kansas and the warm hospitality support staff. The bicyclists will Friday, June 14, 2009. The of the Kansas towns and people, start at the Kansas­Colorado stop will mark the third such it was reported. The very first line west of Goodland and occurrence in the past 25 years, Biking Across Kansas was will make overnight stops in as previous overnight stops in launched in June of 1975. Colby, Hill City, Hays, Wil son, Holton were included in BAK’s Continued to Page 14 Minneapolis, Clay Center and 1997 and 2002 rides. More funds available in Sitzler fund By Brian Sanders administered by Holton City well as a request from McKee More funds will be available Attorney Dennis White, whom for names of Holton residents in this year for disbursement from McKee said “did a good job” need of assistance. a City of Holton­administered in finding ways to increase the Sitzler’s initial donation had fund established more than a amount of interest generated by pre viously been estimated at century ago to help those in the fund. somewhere between $15,000 need during the holiday season, “Dennis found a way to draw and $20,000, it was reported. it was reported. more interest by moving some The fund has grown over the During the Holton City mon ey to different funds,” years through private donations, Commis sion’s regular meeting McKee said. and as of Nov. 27, the fund had on Monday, Holton City Commissioners received a $141,126.63, up nearly $4,000 Manager Kerwin McKee told report from White on the fund, from its balance of $137,176.66 commissioners that more than which start ed when Sitzler’s on Dec. 15, 2017, according to $2,700 in interest generated estate gave the city a sizable White’s re port. by the Sitzler Fund would be donation to be used to help “the available for distribution this poor” after her death in 1912, as Continued to Page 8 year, nearly $1,700 more than Chris Heineken of Developmental Services of Jackson County portrayed Cousin was available during the 2017 Eddie as part of the organization’s float in the Parade of Lights, which was a tribute holiday season.

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