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RECORDERServing the Jackson County Community for 147 years Volume 147, Issue 83 HOLTON, KANSAS • Monday, October 20, 2014 12 Pages $1.00 RV breaks ground on new greenhouse By Ali Holcomb changes, and the opportunities for Royal Valley High School FFA of- investigating and hands-on learn- ficers broke ground on a new green- ing begins,” added Pfrang. “Learn- house Thursday after receiving a ing in the greenhouse will challenge $10,000 grant from America’s Farm- students to think scientifically about ers Grow Rural Education, which is agriculture as it is applied in every- sponsored by the Monsanto Fund. day life.” The greenhouse is being built for Kim Mitchell, agriculture teacher, agriculture students at the school, said that there are more than 80 stu- and it will allow them to grow veg- dents enrolled in agriculture classes etable crops and bedding plants, cal- this semester, and the school’s FFA culate fertilizer applications, plan Chapter has 34 members. The chap- layouts for maximum yield, perform ter was reinstated at Royal Valley last various propagation practices and year after it was disbanded in 2005. experience many aspects of running “The chapter has really thrived a horticulture business. this past year,” Mitchell said. “Our “One of the key shifts in the Next B Team recently took home first in Generation Science Standards states a dairy judging contest, and our stu- that science education should reflect dents have also placed at a land judg- the interconnected nature of science ing contest.” as it is practiced and experienced in Mitchell said that giving the stu- the real world,” said Susan Pfrang, dents access to a greenhouse will im- director of curriculum and instruc- prove their learning. tion for USD 337. “Agriculture is the “This will be a whole new class- perfect backdrop for the application room and a learning lab,” she said. of science.” “We’ll be able to take everything Royal Valley High School’s FFA officers (shown above, from left) Wyatt Winter, Jordan Cox, Janelle Marney, Jenna Thurman, Patrick The greenhouse will provide stu- we’re learning and apply it by doing Broxterman and Anna Johnson, recently broke ground on the school’s new greenhouse. The district received a $10,000 grant from dents with the laboratory space to experiments. The kids are really ex- American’s Farmers Grow Rural Education to help fund a portion of the new building. Photo by Ali Holcomb conduct experiments and projects citied about this new opportunity.” and will be operational from Sep- Right now, students are growing tember through May. The structure some plants in the agriculture class- will include roof vents, heaters and room using florescent lights and fans. metal bookshelves. “When students step into a green- Mayetta teen will not be tried as an adult house, the classroom environment Continued to Page 12 By Brian Sanders County Attorney Shawna Miller, offenses, Heathman said, were cal to himself” about the alleged A Mayetta teen charged with who argued that probable cause committed without “force, violence actions when they occurred, and his three counts of aggravated indecent had been established regarding the or aggression,” and Hasty had ad- thought processes at the time were liberties with a child will not be alleged June incidents that report- mitted that his reported actions “not that of an adult.” tried as an adult in Jackson County edly involved inappropriate sexual were wrong. Still, Miller said, Hasty had been Veterans Day parade set District Court. contact with a 3-year-old girl at the “He’s a juvenile,” Heathman said “placed in a position of trust” to Participants are being sought to contact Koger at 364-3321. Magistrate Judge Blaine Carter day care center. The day care cen- of Hasty. “He should be tried as a take care of the 3-year-old girl at the for a planned Veterans Day Pa- Koger said she has also con- on Friday denied a motion to try ter, operated at the time by Hasty’s juvenile.” time the alleged offenses occurred, rade, set for 1 p.m. on Tuesday, tacted area restaurants about dis- Weston Hasty, 16, as an adult on mother, Judy Hasty, has since been Furthermore, Heathman said the and therefore presented a risk to so- Nov. 11. counted meals for veterans that the three charges based on incidents closed. “presumption of adulthood” against ciety. And regardless of the fact that Carolyn Koger, who is organiz- day. Some businesses on the that reportedly occurred at a May- Hasty’s attorney, James Heath- Hasty had been “rebutted” through there was no force or aggression in- ing the parade, said that so far, Square have expressed an inter- etta day care center in June. Hasty’s man of Topeka, argued that while the youth’s sessions with Lenexa volved, she said Hasty did not take only one group has expressed est in window displays to honor case, filed as a juvenile, will return the charges against Hasty were se- psychologist Bruce Cappo, who re- the age difference between himself interest in participating in the veterans, it was reported. to district court on Nov. 20 for a sta- rious and that there was “no argu- ported that Hasty showed “no signs and the girl into consideration when parade. Any groups or organiza- More information on the tus hearing. ment” with probable cause, there of mental illness” and that he was the incidents occurred. tions interested in taking part in parade will be printed in The The motion to try Hasty as an were some “noteworthy elements” a “low risk” for future incidents. the parade to honor the nation’s Holton Recorder as it becomes adult was filed in July by Jackson to consider in the case. The alleged Hasty, Cappo said, was “self-criti- Continued to Page 12 military veterans are encouraged available. Roberts, Orman seek U.S. Senate seat Pat Roberts Greg Orman Holton High School alumnus and While Greg Orman said he is run- U.S. Senator Pat Roberts is currently ning as an independent for the U.S. seeking his fourth Senate term, it has Senate because neither one of the been reported. Roberts, a Republi- two major political parties speak for can, is running against Greg Orman, him anymore, that does not mean that who has filed as an independent. anyone who belongs to either of those A native of Topeka who graduated parties should be counted out when from HHS in 1954, Roberts was first it comes to doing the right thing for elected to national political office in America. 1981 as Kansas’ First District repre- “Progress happens when you listen sentative in the U.S. House of Rep- to all opinions and use the best ideas resentatives, a position he held until to solve problems,” said Orman, who 1997. He was then elected to his first is running against incumbent Republi- Senate term that year, and during his can Pat Roberts for the Senate seat in time in the Senate, he has served as November. “When I hear a good idea, chairman of the Senate Select Com- I don’t care if it comes from a Republi- mittee on Intelligence and the Senate can, a Democrat or an independent.” Select Committee on Ethics. Orman said he wants to represent Roberts said he is seeking his Kansas “as a problem solver, not a fourth term as the country’s “eco- partisan.” Indeed, he is convinced nomic and personal freedoms are that extreme partisanship — not just under attack as never before,” and and causes hardship for thousands in Washington, D.C., but all over the “not simply as Republicans, Demo- fighting back is “important to all of of Kansas families and Kansas busi- nation as well — is what keeps poten- crats or independents, but as Ameri- us as Kansans and Americans.” nesses,” he said in a statement at his tial solutions to the nation’s problems cans first.” “President Obama’s legacy, from coming to fruition, and he plans Obamacare, wrecks our economy Continued to Page 12 to dedicate himself to serving Kansans Continued to Page 12 Geocaching is a treasure hunt utilizing GPS By Brian Sanders hands-on scientific education in off the couch,” said Mike McMani- Reservoir using GPS coordinates, Ever play hide and seek with a harmony with the ecosystem,” ac- gal, treasurer for the science cen- Massey said. The Web site pro- GPS device? cording to the science center’s Web ter’s board of directors. vides a list of rules and helpful On Saturday, three Jackson site. Many of the science center’s Massey instructed those present hints for participating in the ac- County youngsters had the oppor- events take place on weekends to on how GPS “apps” can be down- tivity, as well as what to put — or tunity to participate in “geocach- promote full family involvement, loaded to smartphones to take part what not to put — into a cache. Chase Emery of Denison (second from right) received in ing,” the recreational activity of including the “Squints” program, in geocaching, an activity that he “People put little knick-knacks in structions from Vance Massey of Oskaloosa (second from left) hunting for and finding a hidden which takes advantage of the sci- has been involved in for “a little them,” Massey said of the caches, on how to use a GPS device to register the location of a “cache” object using GPS (global position- ence center’s 20-inch telescope.

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