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Vol. 2: No. 44 Thursday, June 15, 2017 USPS (17818) $1.25 A CLOSER LOOK Amtrak rail progress ‘huge deal’ for Newton

BY ADAM STRUNK NEWTON NOW STAFF [email protected]

Nearly 40 years ago, rail passenger service stopped moving north and south out of Wichita. Amtrak wants to reopen a line. And that decision will put Newton smack dab in the path of economic development. That was the message of Ray Lang, who works in communications and government affairs with the passenger rail service. In recent years, the company has been exploring connecting its Heart- land Flier and Southwest Chief by rail. The connection would take passenger service through Wichita and end the connector in Newton. “Newton is so important to this,” Lang said. “Ei- PHOTOS BY WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOW ther we would crew trains out of Newton or Nevon Demel gives his dad, Sam Demel, a hug on Saturday afternoon at Mojo's Coffee Bar in North Newton. overnight in Newton. There would also be some sort of servicing of the trains.” That would mean either more jobs or more people spending the night and spending money on a regular basis. That would mean opening cities like San Antonio, Dallas and Oklahoma City to New- ton residents for train travel. That would mean Their happy place See RAIL / 8 Newton residents find joy in helping homeless children through fostering, adoption

BY WENDY NUGENT Suderman retires NEWTON NOW STAFF [email protected] after a half-century of Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; banking in Newton where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; BY MIKE MENDEZ where there is despair, hope; NEWTON NOW STAFF where there is darkness, light; [email protected] and where there is sadness, joy. —Portion of the Peace Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi It took 52 years for John Suderman to move 10 feet. He started at Midland National Bank with Seven-year-old Nevon Demel spent humble beginnings on a makeshift desk he used to some time on a recent Saturday after- go over the books. Working through the family noon at Mojo's Coffee Bar in North New- business, he worked his way up to ton, shaking up his Sprite, jumping into his father’s old office as the bank’s “quicksand” from the stage and crawling chairman. And when he looks out of around to where his dad, Sam, sat in Sam Demel and Nevon Demel take some playtime on Saturday afternoon in a the window of that office, he can see order to surprise him. North Newton park. the very spot he started no more The Newton youngster is talkative. than a makeable putt away from He likes ice cream, macaroni, pizza where it all started. and “then pizza again.” “They put me to work,” Suderman His favorite animals include “baby said. “As a matter of fact, this place puppies and baby cats and foxes. That's Want more info? Suderman was being remodeled, so they it,” he said. St. Francis Community Services in Newton will have an weren’t sure what to do with me. So they set me Nevon also has his sights set on a fu- open forum at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 28, at Newton Pub- up with a card table and a folding chair. It was ture career. lic Library, 720 N. Oak St. right where that stairway was.” “I wanna be a fashion designer when I There will be foster parents in attendance, and those at- And 52 years after being put on that card table grow up,” he said, wearing a tending can learn more about St. Francis, fostering and and moving up to become the chairman of the adopting. bank, Suderman is retiring. Though he is staying See CHILDREN / 8 See RETIRE / 8

Mail Label St. Mary Church undergoes 'full-church reno' BY WENDY NUGENT which are graced with what ap- NEWTON NOW STAFF pear to be cherubs. [email protected] In 2015, Patterson restored four of St. Mary Catholic Church's statues—those of St. Beneath the hands of Dolores Jude, St. Anthony, St. Patrick Patterson, a statue of Jesus ap- and St. Boniface—and she's now pears expressionless, lying on back to help with a renovation the ground with the cross at his project. back. “It's a full-church reno,” said Patterson scrapes and meticu- Rob Tierney, pastoral assistant lously removes the paint and and music director. “It's a combi- years of yellowing with the goal nation of things.” of giving the statue new life. The church will receive a new She's working on one of 14 roof, and the interior will be statues, The Stations of The painted. Cross, with her grandson, Derek The entire project will take Patterson, in the old St. Mary about six weeks this summer. WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOW School building. Dolores is han- However, nothing will be done Statuary artist Dolores Patterson from Wiley, Texas, works Monday afternoon on one of dling the statues, while Derek is 14 Stations of the Cross statues at St. Mary Catholic Church in Newton. working on the statue bases, See CHURCH / 8 Page 2 www.harveycountynow.comNEWS Newton Now June 15, 2017 Smooth sounds of jazz: Webb siblings concert June 22 in Wichita

BY WENDY NUGENT side, con- NEWTON NOW STAFF cert-goers [email protected] need to bring their own North Newton natives chairs. The April, Nathan and Jacob event is Webb, now accomplished free. musicians in their own The con- Nathan Webb rights, grew up watching cert lineup is jazz at a concert series in Jacob on keys, Todd Wichita. Now, things have Schefflin on sax, April on come full circle, and keys and vocals, Nathan they're coming back to the on drums and Ryan Lee area to perform during on bass. the event. Nowadays, April is a “My brothers and I part of the group Sounds COURTESY PHOTO COURTESY PHOTO grew up watching the of A&R, which also is Jacob Webb’s group, The JT Project, is releasing a new album, “An- April Webb, a North Newton native, and Randall Haywood travel, per- Bradley Fair Summer known as S.O.A.R. They other Chance,” which comes out in September. forming as part of Sounds of A&R. Jazz Concert Series,” will release a jazz project April said. “We are titled “Sounds of A&R” new album, “Another performed at The Leg- “Overdrive” was No. 1 on ASCAP Foundation thrilled and honored to be soon. Chance,” comes out in endary Birdland Jazz the Billboard Contempo- "Reach out and Touch" the headlining performers “Be on the lookout,” September. Club in NYC. We also per- rary Jazz Charts, and Award in honor of Nick this year.” April said. April's been quite busy form at The Iconic Apollo April was a top three fi- Ashford and was pre- They will perform from Jacob is a member of on the East Coast. Theater in Harlem.” nalist at the Mid Atlantic sented by the “iconic Va- 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Thurs- The JT Project, and their “Randall Haywood and She and her brother, Jazz Festival Vocal Com- lerie Simpson,” April said. day, June 22, at 2000 N. new single, “Give Me The I have been relentlessly Jacob, also have been repetition in Washington, For more information, Rock Road in Wichita. Heart,” “drops June 16,” performing in the NYC ceiving awards. D.C. In addition, the JT visit thejtproject.com or Since the concert is out- April said, adding their area,” she said. “We've The JT Project single Project received the soundsofaandr.com.

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Community to celebrate June 11 Blk N Main St June 7 ton, warrant, 100 Blk E Arrests: Arrests: Criminal Calls: Eighth St Christopher Turley, 29, John Quint, 42, New- Assault/ Battery 400 Zachary Beal, 27, athletic achievements Newton, disorderly con- ton, DUI, 100 Blk W Blk S Kansas Ave Newton, criminal posses- duct, 1600 Blk E Twelfth Burglary, 1300 Blk W sion of weapon by felon, NEWTON NOW STAFF Video highlights of the Eleventh St Brandon Hayes, 45, Broadway Ave 900 Blk S Meridian track season will be Arius Watkins, 30, Newton, operation of a Other Offenses, 700 Charlie Tarter, 40, Lately Newton High played, and there should Newton, theft, 1600 Blk car without a ignition in- Blk E Second St 17-1930 Newton, domestic bat- School athletics has had also be appearances and N Main St terlock device, 100 Blk W Assault/Battery, 1700 tery, 800 Blk E 12th St a lot to celebrate, with speeches by city leaders, twelfth Blk E Eighth St back-to-back girls state school district represen- June 10 Ricardo Greenwood, Assault/Battery 9600 June 5 track championships, set- tatives and members of Criminal Calls: 37, Wichita, warrant, N East Lake Rd Criminal Calls: ting an all-time state the media about the Criminal Damage, 300 100 Blk W Elm St Arrests: Domestic Disturbance, record in the 4x100-meter achievements. Blk Highland Ave Jill Baxa, 34, McPher- 800 Blk of N Walnut St relay and consecutive top Tea and water will be Criminal Damage, June 8 son, warrant, 200 Blk E Criminal Trespass, 100 five performances by the provided. 1400 Blk SE Third St Criminal Calls: Tenth St Salina Blk SW Fifth St boys squad. Newton City Manager Assault/Batter, 200 Street Gang Unit Ac- Joseph Bryant, 24, Arrests: The achievements Bob Myers offered the Blk SW Second St tivity, 1600 Blk W First Newton, aggravated en- Cody Goodall, 24, passed with little pomp Meridian Center as a Arrests: St 17-1949 dangerment of a child, Newton, Driving with in- and circumstance, with venue to honor the ath- Christopher Manale, Arrests: 700 Blk E Tenth valid license, 500 Blk N school already out. letes and serve as a 56, Newton, domestic Calvin Vick, 20, Wi- Nicholas Reynolds, 19, Main “It's kind of a let down venue for a sort of com- battery, 1000 Blk S. chita, warrant, 900 Blk S Cheney, warrant, 800 Donald Ward, 56, New- for our kids when you munity pep rally. Kansas Ave Meridian Blk N Main St ton, 300 Blk Muse St win a state title and then Myers has been work- Jesse Dake, 29, New- Sasha Slifer, 30, New- Mary McFarlane, 58, you come back,” coach ing during his tenure to ton, driving under the in- ton, warrant, 300 Blk June 6 Newton, interference Tad Remsberg said. “It's highlight various commu- fluence of alcohol, 100 SW Second St Criminal Calls: with law enforcement of- a little bit of a let down nity members and Blk N Elm Dion Fields, 29, Wi- Domestic Disturbance, ficer, 900 Blk W Fifth St coming back and not achievements during city chita, warrant, 100 Blk 100 Blk E Sixteenth St. Davis Smith, 23, El being able to celebrate commission meetings in June 9 E Eighth St Arrests: Dorado, warrant, 10800 one.” order to point out the Criminal Calls: Ethan Campbell, 25, Christopher Clark, 36, Blk First St However, thanks to ef- positive actions happen- Criminal Damage, 200 Newton, driving while Newton, warrant, 800 James Hilmer, 47, forts from coaches as well ing in Newton. Blk W Sixth suspended, 1000 Blk N Blk N Main St Newton, warrant, 100 as the City of Newton, Remsberg said he was Other Offenses 1300 Pine St Clifton Rosin, 27, New- Blk Eastgate Ln the teams and spring se- glad to see his team get a mester achievers will be chance for some extra able to get their pep rally, recognition. Wednesday, June 21, at 7 “Anytime you are able Heartland Credit Union awards two $2,500 scholarships p.m. at the Meridian to accomplish a state Center. championship, it's very FOR NEWTON NOW Magnus is a 2014 ton High School graduate, tinues to support local ed- The event will be open special,” he said. “For our to the students, their par- Hutchinson High School will study sports media at ucation through grants for girls to go back to back Heartland Credit Union ents and the community graduate and will con- Oklahoma State Univer- teachers, Heartland Edu- makes it more special. awarded $2,500 Heart- as a whole in order to cel- tinue studying psychol- sity. cation Scholarships, Mad Overall, both teams did land Education Scholar- ebrate the achievements ogy/medicine at the Founded in 1948 as City Money (a financial well. Our guys got fourth. ships to Afeni Magnus and of Newton High School University of Kansas. Hutchinson Teachers literacy course for high It is great for our commu- Katherine Lindgren. Lindgren, a 2017 New- Credit Union, HCU con- school students) and more. students. nity.”

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BY WENDY NUGENT Other Uncle Carl Camps NEWTON NOW STAFF that still have openings [email protected] this summer include: • Minecraft at the Mu- seum from 9 to 11:30 a.m. The sound of a little kit- or 1 to 3:30 p.m. June 12 ten mewing its heart out through 16 for 9- to 12- echoed through the air year-olds. During the near Kauffman Museum camp, attendees will build on a recent morning as Minecraft structures in Uncle Carl Camp partici- real life and study histori- pants and their parents cal periods of time. In- made their way to the structor is Brian Skinner large parking lot after the with USD 373. camp session was over. • Prairie Animals from 9 That morning, there was to 11:30 a.m. June 19 some excitement on the in- through 23 for ages 6 side of Kauffman Museum through 8. Instructor is with the energy of young- Carol Dilts with the Har- sters creating art, but vey County Parks Depart- after the camp was over ment. that day, there seemed to • Home Sweet Home be a little ruckus going on Ceramics Workshop from 9 with some campers and a a.m. to noon July 11 couple moms in the park- through 14 and July 21 for ing lot. ages 13 through 18, taught One of the moms, who by David Long, instructor came to pick up at least at Bethel College. one of her kids at camp, For more information Megan Nagel, said she about registering, call the found a little gray striped museum at 316-283-1612. kitten stowed away on the Camps are $80 per camper outside of the vehicle she for non-museum members PHOTOS BY WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOW was driving, which was and $65 per camper for her mom's. And the kitten museum members. Above: Campers are busy at work during the Watercolor My World camp session on Monday morning, June 5. was making a lot of noise. Uncle Carl's Camp Below right: Torri Myers holds up a female kitten that an Uncle Carl Camp attendee's mother found within the vehicle she was driving. Nagel held the mewing started after Charles ball of fur while a few Kauffman, known as Association formed in brick part of the facility. from outside contract brick-and-steel interpreta- youngsters petted the kit- “Carl,” was invited to 1983, and that group initi- The main facility is called work, grants and private tion facility has 17,900 ten. Nagel wasn't sure bring his museum from ated a capital campaign the interpretation build- donations. square feet. In two lofts, what to do with the kitten South Dakota to Bethel that established an en- ing. Funds for running Museum grounds com- there's another 1,600 or where she came from. College in 1940, and the dowment and built the Kauffman Museum come prise 4.5 acres, and the square feet. However, someone there museum was named after told her the humane soci- him. The first mention of a ety takes in strays like museum at the college is that. Another woman, 1896, however, according Torri Myers, who appeared to information shared by to be the mother of a cou- museum Director Annette ple campers, came upon LaZotte. the scene and said she'd “In 1910, the museum take the kitten home. was located in a single Problem solved. room in the Administra- Earlier, these campers tion Building,” the infor- created art in the Water- mation stated. “In 1932, it color My World camp was moved to Science taught by LaDonna Unruh Hall. In the mid 1970s, Voth, art instructor for Bethel College decided to USD 373. build Schultz Student They watercolored on Center, where the mu- cards, leaving them wet, to seum was located so all see how a variety of other the artifacts were packed materials, like rubbing al- up and placed in a metal cohol and salt, affected the storage building erected WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOW paint. This camp session across the street from the Above: Aaron Tschetter, center, helps ends Friday and is for chil- college.” camper Grady Hershberger, right, with his dren ages 6 through 8. The Kauffman Museum watercolor.

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BY MIKE MENDEZ is something we have KDOT is looking for rea- sign ordinance. The this,” Council Member NEWTON NOW STAFF wanted to do for as long sons to eliminate applica- amendment deals with Paul Harder said. [email protected] as he has been on the tions. He believes the the digital sign aspect of Councilman Jim Goer- council,” City Administra- scenic route, along with the new ordinance. The ing was not in atten- tor John Torline said. the lowered cost, gives the amendment the council dance, as he is in The North Newton City “The time, I think, is city the best opportunity voted on requires parties Mongolia teaching Eng- Council will take the next nigh. It is coming to- to be awarded the grant. interested in putting up a lish. Torline gave Goer- giant step moving for- gether.” While the council digital sign to get permis- ing’s prepared staff ward on a plan for a bike The approval by the Torline Jordan agreed there is also a sion from the council on a report, detailing the trail that’s been in the city council is to move for- need for a sidewalk on case-by-case basis. North Newton Commu- works for a decade. ward applying for the Al Vogts of Vogts-Parga Main, with the competi- Sarah Steele from nity Foundation asset The council voted unan- grant. But it is far from a Construction expressed a tion for the grant, it was Gilmore and Bell Attor- balance as of June 5 is imously to authorize an sure thing the state will perceived need for a side- in the best interest to neys gave a presentation $178,290. About 95 people application for a Kansas award the funding to walk on Main St. by the keep the trail along the on the North Woods Plaza attended the June 1 cele- Department of Trans- North Newton. Torline is MCC building and the creek. Industrial Revenue Bond. bration event at the portation Alternative optimistic the proposal Bethel College football “If we did not win a Steele said that now that Meridian Center for the Transportation grant that will give the city the best stadium. He said it is not state transportation construction is moving 2017 grant winners. could provide 80 percent chance of being selected. uncommon to see people grant, then we would be forward, Al Vogts from After Torline recog- of the funding for the esti- However it is not a slam walking in the ditch to looking at a $650,000 Vogts-Parga is ready to nized City Clerk Pat Red- mated $650,000 project. dunk, and he wants to be stay off the road that pro- project,” North Newton ask for final consideration ding’s fifth anniversary The proposed project sure the city puts the best vides no space for pedes- Mayor Ron Braun said. from the city in authoriz- with the city, she talked would make a multi-pur- plan forward. trians. The trail proposed “If we were to embark on ing the issuance of the about the upcoming pose pedestrian and bike “The program is com- would not provide a side- everything this proposed revenue bonds, which ALICE training to pre- trail that would begin at petitive,” Torline said. walk on Main and would layout is, that is why we provide for a property tax pare for what to do in the 30th St. and Kidron “Cities across the state lack a connection to the are seeking the grant for exemption and a sales tax event of an active shooter. Creek. It goes north on apply. Many are called new North Woods Plaza 80 percent cost sharing exemption on materials Deputy Clerk Cindy the east side of the creek and few are chosen. I am building Vogts is develop- from the state. If we don’t going into construction. Hiebert talked about a and goes up to 36th St., optimistic, although cau- ing. He said people may get the grant, it probably The ordinance author- possible city-wide garage where it would bend to tious, moving forward.” want to either walk or dies at some point, or it is izes up to $5 million over sale like one that recently the west after crossing a The plan provides a bike to the building. prolonged over a longer the next 15 years which took place in Hesston. low water bridge. From long-time need to provide Torline said, in his period of time to con- could be eligible for the Police Chief Randy Jor- there, it would follow a sidewalk on Anderson opinion, the way the trail struct a sidewalk in the property tax exemption. dan stated they are look- 36th St. to Anderson, that would take pedestri- goes through the woods route that is being pro- The bonds are not a debt ing to purchase a new where it would go south ans and bikers out of along the creek meets a posed.” of the city and purely an Dodge Charger patrol car to the Kidron Bethel path harm’s way on a busy scenic requirement for the Other notes: obligation of North Woods to give to K-9 officer Colt that already exists at street with fast-moving grant, as well as keeps The council also voted Plaza. The council voted Pfautz while he takes Lakewood Cir. traffic. The stretch of road the costs down. In a com- to approve the amend- to approve the bond. Pfautz’ current car, be- “I think, as Councilman has long been a concern petition for the money, ment to the “We could sure gum up cause his is showing nor- [Ron] Ratzlaff knows, this for Ratzlaff. Newton/North Newton the works by not doing mal wear and tear. Newton City Commission looking to cut budget deficit BY ADAM STRUNK Deficit reductions of pay city debt service in the enue they could increase actly how much the city NEWTON NOW STAFF $300,000 could be general fund. The city without triggering the cap. could raise taxes within [email protected] found using federal funds could then increase rev- Myers said, however, that the budget cap if it needed given to Newton for streets enues to pay off the debt the state’s suggestions do to. for 2017 and 2018. The service and have those in- not actually match the lan- “I can't tell you today A budget workshop had funds could be used on creases exempted from guage of the law. that we can levy,” Myers the city commission look- road resurfacing projects their property tax cap Under the property tax said. “That's the next piece ing at how to cut down the for 2018.The city was sav- under current state cap law, cities can only in- of the puzzle.” deficit between expendi- ing those funds to pay for statute. crease their revenues at or (316)283-3729 tures and revenues in its the occasional large street Myers said he assumed below the five-year aver- general fund. project. the city could save some age increase of the Con- City Manager Bob City Engineer Suzanne budget money with insur- sumer Price Index. Myers walked the city Loomis said that using the ance premiums increasing Certain revenue in- commission through its funds for routine street less than expected as well. creases, such as those second work session to look projects would likely delay All in all, the deficit in caused by property evalua- at a 2018 budget. Myers larger projects such as the general fund would be tions going up, are exempt. took projections of in- work on the 24th St. and cut down to $316,000 with Increased revenue gener- creased budget costs for Kansas Ave. intersection the changes. ated to spend on public the next year and added for a few years. If the city However, Myers did note safety is exempt. Money them up for the commis- did need a more immediate that the city need to re- spent to pay off bonds and sion, showing that in- project completed, the proj- place equipment at the golf debt would be exempt. creases in personnel ect could be totally bonded, course, hire a new building Myers said the state's expenses, employee bene- as those actions would not inspector and has a pend- suggestion was that the fits, golf course debt serv- affect the city's property ing funding request of city remove the exemp- ice payments, software tax cap. $25,000 to Grand Central tions from its budgets first. costs and other expendi- Mayor Barth Hague and Station. It would then use the tures would have the city Commissioner Glen Davis Fulfilling those requests smaller number of the non- spending $1,139,380 more both expressed hesitation would bring the general exempted budget to figure than last year without tak- at the idea. fund's deficit up to out the dollar figure it ing any action. “We're almost being $467,000. could increase its revenues Myers said that as the forced to do what the State And hanging over this while staying within the city has been trying to de- of Kansas has been doing,” entire conversation again property tax cap. crease deficit spending the Hague said in regard to was how much the City of Myers said how the last few years, he had the state’s repeated use of Newton can raise its rev- statute is written does not some ideas on how to lower its transportation funds to enues under the new prop- define that practice as the the deficit. offset budget deficits. “And erty tax cap law without state suggested it and Rental Cars He also said the city had that's what the State of triggering an election. that, in his opinion, the 283-0789 a property tax cap to con- Kansas has forced us to Myers said that the city could use its whole sider, one that does not do.” statute is vague enough to budget when determining allow the city to signifi- Another way of shorten- be open to interpretation the dollar amount it could 130 E. 4th • 283-9100 cantly raise taxes for proj- ing the fund deficit that in some cases. increase revenues. ects but exempts raising Myers suggested was The State of Kansas did Myers said he and staff taxes to pay off bonded transferring $344,000 of give cities a worksheet to would continue to crunch debt. sales tax payments used to compute how much rev- numbers to figure out ex- With warm weather police dealing with roaming children

BY ADAM STRUNK ing a few dogs and hadn't neighborhood. ther. When they located NEWTON NOW STAFF come home. The child's Officer Jose Jurado re- the child's father, he told [email protected] mother called police sponded to the call, find- them he only left the child when she couldn't find ing a 4-year-old child for a moment as he went him. Lt. Bryan Hall said dressed in a princess out- to run errands. Kids are out of school, officers soon located the fit wandering around. Hall said officers were the weather's nice, and child, who was walking Eventually, Officer Ju- with the child for more that means they've been between houses a few rado got her name and got than an hour after locat- wandering off. blocks away. her to remember a ing her. On June 7, Newton Po- Earlier that day, dis- teacher she had. Police Joseph Bryant was ar- lice received a report of a patch took the report of a learned that the girl had rested on charges of child 6-year-old who was chas- child walking around a been staying with her fa- endangerment.

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BY ADAM STRUNK tional $185,000 spent on lot of our in- the media and those read- expensive, but heavier 1 to approve a bid of G and NEWTON NOW STAFF law enforcement to pay for frastructure ing the article that the duty, mower. H farm for a batwing [email protected] a full time deputy to pro- and making number and budget are “I did it because Raven- mower for $12,850. vide courthouse security sure we can just a baseline and are scraft didn't bid their Westfall voted against. and two investigators with maintain subject to changes. heaviest gauge mower,” he “I'm nay, and the reason A preliminary county the sheriff's office. One in- and retain Commissioner Randy said, noting they did their is it should have been budget would raise the vestigator would replace a our employ- Hague suggested that the 10 gauge and everyone rebid,” he said. “We're mill levy by 0.536 mills deputy that the sheriff's ees in the commission try to hold the else did a seven gauge. making to many excep- and also allocate addi- department allocated to county,” Krehbiel budget for 2018 flat. The commission voted 2- tions.” tional law enforcement of- the newly formed Harvey Swartzendru- Swartzendruber said ficers to investigate drug County Drug Task Force. ber said. that can be done, but if the crimes and deal with Another investigator The mill levy would in- commissioners wish to courthouse safety. But it would be added on specifi- crease to 41.894, which make cuts to support wouldn't require a citizen cally to beef up the drug would mark the ninth year adding on additional sher- vote to pass. task force. of increases, starting in iff's deputies, they should That was a short sum- The county would then 2010, when the mill levy make cuts from ongoing mary of a recommended have two full time officers increased from 27.868 to programs and not one- budget for 2018 presented working drug investigation 27.875. time expenditures. to the Harvey County com- cases. Newton also dedi- The projected budget In other news, the mission by Administrator cates a police detective to would spend reserves county accepted bids for a Anthony Swartzendruber the task force, which was down by $210,000, leaving “batwing” mower for use of and Assistant Administra- something the sheriff cam- an ending fund balance es- the solid waste depart- tor Dan Bronson. paigned on and something timated at $4,460,000, ment. The county asked That tax increase would seen as a way to help curb $2.4 million more than the for bids from dealerships put the company at the recent drug violence in required amount. on their heaviest duty limit of the amount it Harvey County. The commission will batwing mower. According could increase its taxes “The increase was have until June 26 to dis- to conversation from the without triggering a public smaller than what I cuss the budget. On that commission, they received vote. The county saw prop- thought it would be trying date, they will have to the low bid from Raven- erty evaluations increase to fill three law enforce- have decided if they want scraft Implement out of by 1.8 percent over the ment positions,” Commis- to increase the budget's Whitewater. year prior, which should sioner Chip Westfall said. revenues past its current However, commissioners add an additional $219,000 Other significant expen- point. didn't believe it was the to county funds this year. diture increases would be Then a vote would have heaviest duty mower “We're very confident in with the road and bridge to be held. available, despite the bid what we have outlined fund, for which the budget If they decide to stick request. there,” Swartzendruber projects to spend $576,000 with that budget or de- Commissioner Ron Kre- said. “The question is more, a 6.2 percent increase it, they will have hbiel said that heavy duty knowing that you could be crease, on the previous another month and a half mower decks on were im- under a tax lid for several year’s budget. Those in- to iron out the details. portant to have, and he years in the future, do you creases come from already- “The recommended had mowers he owned and want to take the maximum planned projects but also budget does not require a pulled behind a tractor amount allowable?” an idea that since asphalt tax-lid election,” Swartzen- that had decks crack in The budget increase and road prices have bot- druber said. “If we choose the past. Westfall sug- would represent an addi- tomed out in the region, not to have an election, we gested that they rebid the tional $6.16 annually for the county should invest in can say, 'OK, let’s slow set of mowers until they an owner of a $100,000 infrastructure repairs down and figure out what satisfy all the bid re- home. while the prices are good. we want to do with it.’” quests. Notable increases to the “We're emphasizing Swartzendruber Hague suggested the budget would be an addi- working on sustaining a stressed for the benefit of county purchase a more Newton area

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Editorial ABI Chemicals a cautionary tale

Recently, we've treated public investments to robust and open discussions, as they should be. Newton has talked at length about paying $20,000 for downtown flowers. It formed a task force to debate spending $125,000 on downtown retail recruitment. We have a police facilities planning task force to debate remodeling or building a new police station. All these conversations have taken place with public input and debate. Budgets have been on the top of the city's mind. They had to cut budgets and raise taxes by five mills last year to curtail years of deficit spending and prepare for a looming property tax lid. Economic development, however, hasn't been subject to robust public discussion in the past. Conversations about requests from new companies and developers, as well as the incentives promised to them, often take place behind closed doors, protected from open meeting laws if they pertain to real estate, legal or proprietary information. Such protections, though sometimes necessary, make the world of business incentives and economic development an especially murky one. It's an easy world to miss. But it's one that can impact your lives and your pocketbooks. It took us five months, a large amount of company re- Columns sources as well as trust to write the story we did about ABI Chemicals in last week’s paper. We didn't do so much work to put egg on someone's face. A good amount of people involved in the deal no longer work in Harvey County. There's magic in a train We undertook the effort because the public has a right to know why and how the city spends its dollars, no matter if it's for a police station, a park, an employee's ears ago, at a family re- I knew the last member of my severance package or in this case, a $6.8 million expen- union somewhere in King- ADAM STRUNK family to board at that station diture on a built-to-spec facility for a fledgling company. Yman County, my cousin and was my father when he shipped The story needed to be told. And without that amount of I grew tired of the related out for San Antonio. work, it would have stayed buried. We hope the story strangers and the comments At the lunch counter, I won- serves as a cautionary tale. about the speed of our growth and dered how many other people had It's easy to call a development a bad deal in hindsight. the need to put a brick on our waited there, gotten on the train Still, it might have been easy for some to call the ABI heads. and never made it back home to development a bad deal at the time, if all the details We found a new object of inter- that spot. It was an eerie feeling were available. est: the train that would whoosh to me; the same one I get looking Should the city have spent $6.8 million to build a by the edge of the property at ran- at the signed piano that sits in the newly formed private company a manufacturing plant dom intervals. STRUNK IN PUBLIC Harvey County Historical Mu- with the promise of 22 jobs in two years and the com- I had heard from my father seum with the scribbled names of pany paying back the construction costs in 20 years about how a train could flatten a military members who passed through rent? Is that a good idea, even knowing that the coin and how he used to do such After what felt like an eternity, through Newton. company was supported and financially tied to Wichita things as a child. I didn't know if the engine passed, and the noise I wondered if my dad ate there State? this fact was true. drowned out the humid summer. once waiting on his train. I de- Should the city spend $1.53 million a year later on My mother informed me there Clackity clack clack clack. cided not, as there was no way his 160 more acres because the company promised expan- would be a train that went by the Clackity clack clack clack. family would have let him leave sion? property before we left home and I thought about the stories of home without a large meal to send Perhaps Newton residents, if asked, would say yes. that I needed to stay off the people who got stuck between ties him off. The ABI deal, according to all involved, had a lot of up- tracks. or laid down on the tracks. What I will say Wichita looked far dif- side. But perhaps residents should have had at least a So, naturally, I came prepared if I got stuck? Standing feet from ferent from the observation deck chance to say no. with a pocket full of pennies and the tracks, I wondered if perhaps I of an Amtrak. The cathedral After all the digging and work, we tend to agree with nickels. should run back to my parents. dome, Via Christi Hospital and the summary Leroy Koehn gave of the entire affair. Past the adults and through the Clackity clack clack clack. Old Town changed to the indus- “I don't think they woke up and thought, 'Let's screw weeds, we snuck until the sounds Clackity clack clack clack. trial spreads of north Broadway, the folks in Newton,'” he said of those involved in the of the reunion faded into the Eventually, the last of the cars dissipating into green and gold ABI development process. “It was the timeline and sound of bugs in the grass and the pulled through, and after waiting fields as the time passed. I lived 'doing whatever we can' to make it work." humid wind. a minute, my curiosity overrode in the area all my life and never The project had a short timeline, eight months from We placed our coins on the track the forming ruminations about my saw it like this. It was beautiful. initial meetings to construction completion, by our and waited. own mortality. I had interviews to do inside the count. The lack of actual signed contracts should have I stepped a good distance away. The train had flattened the train for the story in this week’s raised flags with those involved. The fact that ABI I was never as brave as my cousin coins. Abraham Lincoln's face paper. There just might be a small wanted a facility to rent and not own should have raised and had never been this close to stretched to twice its size. The chance that Newton residents will flags. If ABI didn't want any risk for the development, the tracks. And then we heard it. metal was hot on my hand. The be able to take the train south in why should Newton? Faint at first but growing louder train was danger and power and the future. But in case that never We understand why, with the promise of more aero- and louder as the engines came magic made steel. I reached in my happens, I took a few quiet mo- space jobs, such a development would be tempting, but into view. I eyed my coins on the pocket for more coins. ments in the train car to soak up as the saying goes, if a deal's too good to be true, it prob- track. Would they shoot off? I was waiting on a different the experience. I looked through ably is. Would they flatten? Would they train last Friday. I sat at the the back window and squinted, Today, we have a company that hasn't started produc- derail the train? counter of the Old Mill Tasty hoping to see two boys standing in tion in its new facility, hasn’t brought its jobs and has At the derailment question I Shop, a block away from Union the weeds admiring the train as it had trouble paying rent. was gripped with a cold fear. I'd Station in Wichita, drinking a rumbled past. The decision three years ago now looks like a much likely go to jail, even as a kid, for limeade. I would be riding up to larger risk. If the company isn't able to eventually shell such a crime. I was sure of it. Newton, and I don't think many Adam Strunk is the managing out and meet its obligations, it will be the city ponying It was too late to go back. I people have gotten to have that editor of Newton Now. He can be up $600,000 a year to make payments on the building. couldn't stop what was going to experience in the last three or four reached at adam@harveycoun- Either the city would cut it from services it’s already happen now. decades. tynow.com or 316-281-7899 paying for in its budget or raise taxes. That amount— $600,000—is about five mills worth of property taxes in the city, for those keeping track at home. As it stands, the whole ABI Chemicals story should serve as a cautionary tail for Newton residents and The fortune cookie is calling and I must go those involved with economic development. We should s if facing the harsh reality continue to evaluate how we spend money pertaining to of having to leave a beach COURTNEY CRITCHFIELD Just the other development and promises of growth and if that money Aafter a sunny vacation is is a good investment for the City of Newton. To make never enough, there is always a those evaluations, we need transparency, something nightmare awaiting you when you night, I was that's increased a bit over the last few years at city hall get home: sand. No matter what but something we must continue to strive for and de- you do or how much you clean, mand. We'll be there, as your community newspaper, there will be those little grains of finishing some leading the charge for such transparency. sand coming out of the nooks and Until then, we wish ABI the best in bringing those crannies to haunt you and remind Chinese take- jobs and expansion it promised to Newton. Regardless of you of how you’re not at the beach. what happens, the situation the city finds itself in right Sawdust has been the equiva- HOME ON THE CHANGE now should not be allowed to happen again. lent to sand for me lately. No mat- out, and my —Newton Now Editorial Board ter how hard I work to sweep it up, I find heaps of it to clean some- grill every single meal via an out- where else and am reminded of door gas grill since we don’t even husband and I how my home is not yet livable. have our new appliances yet. If There have been some days that daily hamburgers were my one- were deep in Weigh in I am working at the house along- way ticket to moving in, I was side my sweet Kendall and sud- going to take it. denly become consumed by the Just the other night, I was fin- conversation Estes inconsistent in pro-life stance feeling that there will never be an ishing some Chinese takeout and end in sight. I know that progress my husband and I were deep in As a pregnant, self-employed woman, I am concerned is happening day by day, but when conversation about the soonest about the about the reckless way in which our elected officials are there aren’t these big, visible possible time that we could move. seeking to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act changes that are being made, it I cracked open my fortune cookie soonest possi- (ACA). feels like the progress slows dras- only to find the answer I was need- Currently, maternity care and childbirth are consid- tically. ing to confirm it all, “The time has ered essential health benefits under the ACA, and a These past few weeks I have come to allow your heart to guide ble time that woman cannot be denied coverage or be charged more been so restless and dying to get you.” OK, fortune cookie, well if for her insurance because she is pregnant. In the pro- out of our apartment that I have you say so… posed American Health Care Act (AHCA), these protec- lived in for almost three years So guess what I did? I turned in we could move. tions would no longer be guaranteed. now. I literally have tried every- our 30 days’ notice to our landlord, According to the peer reviewed medical journal “Per- thing from trying to rent a tiny and we will officially be moved My husband and I have figured spectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health” (Volume home to live in to asking family into our home by the end of the out a plan to still live like normal, 34, Issue 5), “lack of prenatal care is associated with a friends if we could borrow their RV month! There are still hundreds of civilized people, and I also won’t 40-percent increase in the risk of neonatal death.” to just straight up being willing to little details that we have yet to have to live off of hamburgers for It is simply unacceptable that “pro-lifer” Representa- settle with living in a tent if that ready for our move in—you know, months on end. There is no guar- tive Ron Estes voted in favor of a plan that does not meant that we could be at our just the basic necessities like run- antee on the sawdust epidemic, guarantee adequate and affordable health care for our house. ning water and working air however, but I will tackle it in mothers and their babies—whether born or unborn. At one point, I remember even vents—but I am confident that we strides and with great joy. I urge Senators Roberts and Moran to seriously con- begging my husband at the local will be able to pull it all together. So let the countdown begin. sider the ways in which the AHCA falls short in provid- hardware store like a little four I am all the more confident since Thirty or so fewer days of prepara- ing adequate and affordable health care. year old to buy us a couple of ham- Kendall’s fortune cookie went on to tion and chaos means 30 days of I urge the members of this community to keep our mocks to sleep in. We could hang read, “The trouble you are now fac- being even closer to decorating elected officials accountable. Let your voices be heard. them in our roof rafters and life ing now will soon pass away.” and dinner parties. My heart is Call or write Estes, Roberts, and Moran. And when the could be just grand, but he didn’t Now mind you that it’s not every bursting at the seams. time comes, vote! quite see it the way like I did. day that I put my hope in and base Sincerely, I have officially reached a point my decisions off of a stale ol’ for- Courtney Critchfield is the mar- Michelle Voth, of moving desperation that I was tune cookie, but how could that keting director for the Newton Area Newton also beginning to research how to not be a sign!? Chamber of Commerce. June 15, 2017 Newton NowOPINION www.harveycountynow.com Page 7 Culture gap, human contact Guest Column apparent between generations Summer brings

he other night I was out about e-mail and most of the other walking my dog on the path MICHAEL LUNSFORD many ways we now have to con- danger and fun Tnear Kauffman Museum nect electronically. They’re all con- ummer is here! There are children roaming the when I met the nicest couple. They venient and fast, but cold and streets of Newton! They are unsupervised! They had a dog and my dog is, well, impersonal. At the end of the day, Sare drinking ice cold sodas and riding bikes while kind of a jerk when he sees other like my father and grandfather, I holding on with only one hand! Miraculously, not one of dogs. He is a really sweet pup and prefer a face-to-face conversation them has been struck by an oncoming vehicle or just wants to make friends, but he when possible. dropped that sweating gas station soda. It never ceases thinks the appropriate way to Then I see my son’s generation. to amaze me. make friends is to bark loudly, Forget about having a conversa- Every stage and period of our lives is marked with take a very aggressive stance and tion; they’ve already moved past new adventures and well-worn old ones that we can’t lunge in an effort to break free of CONVENTIONAL WISDOM text and e-mail. They send self-de- help repeating. Though I no longer have a bicycle, I his leash. To date, he hasn’t met structing photos and digitally pro- spend a lot of time riding on the back of my friend’s another dog who shares the same but that my grandfather had a lot duced pictograms as their main Harley. Sometimes he also rides with one hand, which enthusiastic approach to relation- of friends, and they all came to forms of communication. They’ve makes me think that all boys, no matter the age, have ship building. pay their respects. I understand even developed their own lan- an innate need to When we approached each other now that the reason so many peo- guage because spelling out “laugh- drive women crazy on the path, the woman picked her ple cared enough to come to my ing out loud” (which just took me and put their lives LILA TIBBETS dog up and stood just behind her grandfather’s funeral was because approximately two seconds) is too at risk. husband as he put his hand out, he made everyone he met feel like time consuming and, let’s face it, This may be nei- shook mine and introduced him- he genuinely cared about them. mentally exhausting. In some ther a new or old self, his wife and their dog. We vis- My dad is similar to my grand- cases, I think they prefer texting adventure but just ited for a couple of minutes then father in many ways. He can “hungry” from their bedroom to ac- a new twist on an headed down the path in opposite strike up a conversation with any- tually walking to the living room old way to acciden- directions. After a short time I re- one, and people just seem to gravi- to find out when dinner will be tally maim one- alized I had already forgotten tate towards him. He’s a great ready. self. their names. I was sad because I storyteller, and although I’ve Meeting the nice people during The old adven- had hoped to remember them in heard most of them numerous my walk made me remember what tures I never want case our paths cross in the future. times, I never tire of listening to made my grandparents so special, to stop repeating TIBBETS’ TIDBITS I considered turning back and tales of his youth or mine, which and it made me miss them. It also are the family bar- chasing them down but decided seem to be his favorite subjects. made me realize how much com- becues, sitting under a ceiling fan while petting a dog, not to for fear that my dog would He also loves talking on the tele- munication and relationships have and discovering new places to have “the best burger I’ve get the wrong idea and think we phone. I can’t tell you how many changed in the span of a few gen- ever had!” I swear that the last cheeseburger was better were going back to finish what he times I’ve called and not been able erations. Technology continues to than the one before, but I’d have to have another one of tried to start originally. I contin- to get through because he and one make our lives easier and more each to make absolutely sure. Who said I needed to ued walking toward home, disap- of his tractor buddies are talking convenient, but that convenience wear a swimsuit this summer? pointed that I could not recall the shop. And yes, he does have caller comes at a price. I’ve recently revisited another old activity: I attended names of my new friends, or their ID on his landline phone. He just My father’s generation doesn’t church with my family last week. dog. doesn’t know how to use it, nor care because, if they’re like him, I discovered that if I go too infrequently, they all learn While walking and thinking does he care to learn. Like my they just refuse to use it. My chil- new songs without me and I start singing during the about the situation, my grandfa- grandfather, my father has led a dren’s generation doesn’t care be- quiet parts on accident. I write off those mistakes as ad- ther came to mind. He was a mostly unremarkable life. Not cause it’s all they’ve known. I ventures in zero musicality, practicing not looking em- WWII veteran and the word that he hasn’t lived well. He has. I guess that leaves my generation barrassed, and blaming the fussy baby in the row in “stranger” was completely foreign just don’t anticipate any movies stuck in the middle, sitting in a front of me. to him. He led a simple life with being made from his as yet un- living room with our parents, eat- A few of my new adventures are a little less whole- my grandmother, retiring from an written biography. ing a Wurther’s Original while try- some. I have now started ignoring the bad sound that aircraft instrument manufactur- I like people. I love engaging in ing to decide how to respond to the my car makes. I’m looking forward to that day when I ing company after working as a conversation and enjoy most social most recent eye-roll emoji text we push my little Subaru to its limits and have the oppor- truck driver for many years. At his situations. I resisted using text just received from our kids’ bed- tunity to really appreciate a hot summer day while I funeral, I recall the entire church messaging for many years but fi- room. wait for my dad to tow me home. being packed with faces with nally succumbed to peer pressure For my faithful reader’s sake (my grandma), I will call which I was unfamiliar. I asked a few years ago and started tex- Michael Lunsford is the man- a mechanic and pay him to make the sound go away. I my dad who some of the people ting. I don’t like it, but it’s conven- ager of The Meridian Center in just don’t have the courage to face the inevitably empty were and he said he didn’t know ient and fast. I feel the same way Newton. bank account afterwards. I have also begun leaving my keys in locked places. This has lead to adventures in “How to break into your own home without a neighbor calling the police” and “Please pick me up at work; I don’t want to break into my house again.” I now have a very specific skill set that I have promised to only use for the good of mankind and never for evil. My newest adventure is getting to know new people. I tend to go from apartment to work to an unnamed fast food place and back to work before I go home to my apartment. It’s just as fun as it sounds. Somehow, new people don’t often fit into that schedule. Those who have defied all odds and committed them- selves to disrupting my rather bland routine have maybe not been prepared for my awkward happiness. Awkward happiness is things like asking, maybe too hopefully, if someone wants to see my knitting. My new friends can show off their kids, but I don’t even have a goldfish. The best I can do is say, “Look at this big creative knot that I’ve made out of pink string!” Everyone has very kindly complimented my pink thing, and I have tried to keep all names attached to the right child. A lot of people are going to new places, starting new jobs, or finally getting that classic car back onto the road. Maybe a part of me admires the kids with enough coordination to bike and drink a soda at the same time. Summer is the best season for adventures.

Lila Tibbets is a grown-up farm girl, a Bethel student and a Harvey County native.

Say what? Autumn junkie liking summer this year “The castle grounds were gleam- my favorite temperature and I I am not what has ing in the sunlight as though SHELLEY PLETT handle it less elegantly year by freshly painted; the cloudless sky year. I turn beat red, I get head- smiled at itself in the smoothly aches, my fingers swell. It’s a ge- sparkling lake, the satin-green netic thing. Pleasant. happened to me. I lawns rippled occasionally in a But here’s that “but” again. I’m gentle breeze: June had arrived.” still kinda into it. Maybe I’m just —J.K. Rowling, “Harry Potter” opening my eyes to what’s happen- am who I choose to ing instead of what’s going to hap- reek mythology says the pen. The leaves will drop, but not four seasons came to be be- yet. Gcause of a mother’s grief PARTS OF SPEECH Right now, that aforementioned become. (and persistence.) Demeter was catulpa tree is full and green and the goddess of the harvest, the But here we are in June, and gorgeous. Hollyhocks are bursting wife of Zeus. Their daughter, Pers- lately I sense a small but steadily by the minute, rabbit families are Carl Jung phone, one day wandered too far growing “but.” entertaining daily and there’s a from her mother while picking I melt around autumn color, but shady spot with my name on it flowers. Hades, the god of the unit turns out my catulpa tree is where I can simultaneously watch derworld and brother to Zeus, de- most beautiful right now, in late a swim meet and read for hours in CONTACT YOUR LEADERS ciding Persephone should be his, spring. a row. kidnapped her, took her to the un- I worship spicy candles and hot Summer, you have my attention. Newton Commissioner Glen Davis Goering derworld and forced her to be his peppermint tea in front of a fire- I know fall will come and that 316-283-8976 316-284-0786 queen. Demeter, grief-stricken place, but lemon geraniums and makes me happy because I love me [email protected] [email protected] after her daughter went missing, fresh cilantro refill my soul and some pumpkin. But Demeter is liv- Newton Mayor Barth Hague North Newton Council Member Paul went into a deep depression, which somehow just make the air feel ing in a corner of my mind. I carry 316-283-2785 Harder affected every living thing on lighter. my own apprehension about the [email protected] 316-283-8262 earth. Her sadness caused a year- I remember bits and pieces of end of these current pair of sea- [email protected] long famine, with no end in sight, summer as a child. My memories sons. Newton Commissioner Leroy Koehn persuading Zeus to strike a deal vary from the feeling of the win- Summer will fade and my own 316-772-3166 North Newton Council Member Ron with his brother. Persephone dow air conditioner smell wafting daughter will go away to college. [email protected] Ratzlaff 316-283-2566 would live six months with Hades around me as I watched Bugs The beginning of my favorite time Newton Vice Mayor David A. Ny- [email protected] and six months back with her Bunny and walking the few blocks of year will now be shared with gaard mother. from our house to the ball dia- this giant, new step. I dread it. I’m 316-207-7934 North Newton Council Member Jane Persephone spent spring and mond to watch the games with excited for it. I feel... like a mom, I [email protected] Schmidt summer with her mother when the sunflower seeds and candy wax suppose. 316-283-6251 harvest and all life would bloom bottles in hand. But today, it’s still spring-al- Newton Commissioner Kathy Valen- [email protected] tine and grow from Demeter’s happi- I liked summer—I still do like most-summer. 316-516-4691 Harvey County Commissioner ness. In the fall and winter, every- summer, but I don’t think I have Demeter had to find a way to [email protected] George A. “Chip” Westfall thing would go dormant and die ever loved it. I don’t wait impa- balance it all. The circle goes on— 316-283-5360 because of the sadness her mother tiently for it to arrive like I do fall. spring to summer to fall to winter. North Newton Mayor Ron Braun [email protected] felt over her absence. And by mid-July, I’m generally And then again and again. It has 316-283-7990 Harvey County Commissioner Randy As seasons go, I am a fall per- over it, wishing hard for a single to be about finding the best parts [email protected] Hague 316-284-7340 son. I always have been and as- independently minded leaf any- of the season we’re in. If she can North Newton Council Member [email protected] sumed I always would be. where in eyeshot to begin fading do it, I can do it. Gregg Dick Cinnamon and nutmeg are too im- into the slightest hue of orange. 316-283-1366 Harvey County Commissioner Ron portant to me to allow my taste All this said, I feel differently Shelley Plett is a graphic de- [email protected] Krehbiel buds wander off into second rate this year. I’m honestly digging this signer for Kansas Publishing Ven- 620-463-287 fruit snow cone territory. almost-summer thing. Hot is not tures, owner of Newton Now. North Newton Council Member Jim Page 8 www.harveycountynow.comFROM PAGE ONE Newton Now June 15, 2017 RAIL CHILDREN From Page 1 From Page 1 increased ridership going Batman/Superman T-shirt. through the Newton station. Sam said Nevon's quite passionate Now, in part, it is Lang's about fashion designing. job to say that. He was riding “He was designing at age 2,” Sam said, on a train Friday, traveling adding Devon would get his wife's high- through Oklahoma and heel shoes, put them under kitchen chairs Kansas to help build up pub- and wrap blankets around the chairs. licity and educate people Sam and his wife, Lynda, took Nevon in along the way for a possible as a foster child when he was 4 days old line expansion. and adopted him at age 2. Yet the idea has local lead- “It was really kind of happenstance,” ers excited about the possibil- Sam said about how they got Nevon. ities. Nevon has a brother 10 months older “It's a huge deal,” Mayor who's being raised by his great-grandpar- Barth Hague, a long time ad- ents. Sam said his own brother worked vocate of rail service said. with the great-grandfather. “It's a huge deal for Newton “So they knew the family, so they felt and Wichita.” more comfortable with us being the foster Such a connection has been parents and then adopting,” Sam said, a long time dream of Hague, adding the great-grandparents didn't whose father worked for the think they could raise two children under railroad and who often fre- ADAM STRUNK/NEWTON NOW the age of 1, which would have included quents passenger trains. Mayor Barth Hague discusses rail development on an Amtrak passenger train traveling from Wichita to Newton last Nevon, and a toddler. County Commissioner Chip Friday. Sam said Nevon is part Chickasaw, and Westfall noted that the route through the process of adopting, it was through Arkansas City, Wi- Lang said the bus is aver- eral budget submitted by bled. nice the tribe advocated for the Demels to chita and Newton that would aging about 22 riders a trip, Donald Trump that sug- Residents cheered and adopt. connect the cities to with its high mark at 45 rid- gested cuts to Amtrak serv- waved, enjoying a festive at- “It worked out,” Sam said. “We call, go Lawrence and Kansas City ers. ices. mosphere on a Friday after- pick up his brother and go out to the [fam- also has particular interest to Hague said that the bus Hague said now the feeling noon. ily] farm.” Amtrak, because colleges lead has seen increased ridership with the company is that the Brothers Antonio and Celio Nevon and his brother still have con- to increased ridership. each month since it president’s budget will be Sandate were standing on tact, although not as often as Nevon Allen Wedel of Bethel Col- launched, and that's a good subject to significant revi- the platform, waving the would like. lege said that the addition of sign. sions and changes if Con- American flag, a Jayhawks Nevon was elsewhere for the first four such a line would be great for “The volume and majority gress would ever pass that. flag and a Mexican flag to days of his life. the school as well as its stu- of riders are coming from be- Lang wouldn't say what an greet the train. Both were ex- “He was with the children's home— dents, many of whom come tween Oklahoma City and exact estimate of opening cited about the possibility of placed with somebody there for two days from Oklahoma and Texas. Newton,” he said. “If you such a line would cost. Am- service to Wichita and the or something,” Sam said. “We did let him “Just think of what this want to call that bus an ex- trak would have to negotiate south returning to Newton. know last summer he was adopted. My would mean for our Bethel periment so far, the experi- with Burlington Northern The brothers said the rail- wife is Latin American, so he blends in College students,” he said. ment is working.” Santa Fe, which owns the road was part of their her- with the rest of the family.” All the talk about reopen- Lang said eventually, the line. It would also have to in- itage, with their father When the Demels started fostering chil- ing a train line is good, but State of Kansas would be stall signal upgrades and do working on it in the ’40s and dren, they initially did that through talk doesn't make it happen. asked to help pay for the work at stations along the ’50s. Youthville, and now it's through Saint Dollars do. service, making up the differ- way. “We have one of the great- Francis Community Services in Newton. Lang said Amtrak is seri- ence between Amtrak rev- He said another step for- est stations along the line,” Through the years, they've fostered ous about the line and will enue's and cost. ward would be the formation Antonio said. “I used to ride around 15 to 18 children, who stay about undertake a revenue study in Oklahoma and Texas have in four to six weeks of a com- the train down to Wichita a year or two. the near future to see how already ponied up for rail mittee made up of leaders and go to the movies,” Anto- “We started off with Youthville,” Sam much an expansion would service, and Lang said 19 and supporters along the pro- nio continued, adding he said. “We adopted him when we were fos- cost and what sort of rev- states in the country have posed line to drum up sup- couldn't wait to ride it again. tering through Youthville.” enues the service would take entered into similar agree- port with residents, as well If that ever happens will They've been fostering for about 10 in. ments with Amtrak. as legislators, for such an ex- depend on the decisions years, as they waited until their youngest Amtrak has already taken That might be a tall order pansion. made by Amtrak, BNSF and child was 9 or 10. The couple has two steps in that direction, with a currently cash- When the publicity train the State of Kansas. But Am- other children, ages 23 and 26, and they launching a bus route to con- strapped state legislature. pulled into Newton at 1 p.m. trak officials made their mes- have another foster child at home. nect Oklahoma City and the Recently, there were also Friday, there were more than sage known with their stop They wanted to adopt for several rea- Heartland Flyer line with the worries that Amtrak would a few supporters of extended Friday. They want to keep sons. Southwest Chief. see budget cuts due to a fed- rail service already assem- the train moving forward. “I grew up in a large family,” Sam said. “I had four brothers and four sisters.” He added his wife couldn't have any- more children after their last one was RETIRE born, so they decided to wait to foster From Page 1 until their youngest was a certain age. Their favorite age group to foster is on as the president of the holding com- birth to ages 2 or 3. pany that owns the bank, walking “Because that's when we feel it's the away from the banking side after a greatest impact on the children,” Sam half-century will be an interesting said. “It's the greatest brain development transition. and impact on the child.” “It is going to be hard to push myself In addition to preferring a certain age away from the banking side of it, be- group, the Demels only like to have two at cause I have been married to the bank a time, although one time, they took in one year less than I’ve been married to three siblings, and that was a special my wife,” Suderman said. “We have case. been married 53 years, and I have “Any more than that, you feel like been married to the bank 52.” you're overwhelmed,” Sam said. “Plus, we When Suderman started at Midland got him.” fresh out of college in 1965, it wasn’t There was another time the Demels the first time he worked for the bank. considered adopting. As a kid, he worked for a construction “Our first children that we had that company in the summer, and when the were with us a long time went with an bank’s janitor went on vacation, he aunt,” Sam said. “We thought about it at filled in cleaning the bank at 5 a.m. be- the time and later regretted it.” fore going to the construction job at 8. Being a foster parent isn't easy. But Suderman’s roots with the bank “I recognize there's going to be pain, go much deeper than filling in as a and it's worth it,” he said. “I'm willing to go through the pain to make a difference janitor one summer when he was a MIKE MENDEZ/NEWTON NOW kid. Midland National Bank is the in the kids' lives. You get more out of it family business that goes back to a Midland National Bank chairman John Suderman flips through one of the bank’s first record books in his than—it's always worth it. There are frus- time when Newton was a very differ- office. Suderman is retiring after 52 years with the bank. trating times, but it's worth it. It's good ent place. It goes back to his grandfa- when you see a family come back to- ther, a 13-year-old Prussian When Herman’s health started to people,” John said. “That is what we gether. There's a lot of work for parents to Mennonite immigrant named Herman decline, he brought his son, John’s fa- try to do. It is all about the customer. get children back. It's good to see that, Suderman, getting off a boat in Balti- ther, into the business, and he became A lot of relationships, they happen too.” more in 1885 and riding the rails into the president in 1954. over years and years and years. It is Sam said sometimes people tell him Kansas without a dime in his pocket When John left KU, there might kind of fun to think back.” they couldn't foster because of the pain of or a word of English on his tongue. He have been a bad omen when he got After retiring in late June, John is letting go. made his way in Newton as a messen- back to Newton. It was a couple of looking forward to the free time. There “The question I like to ask them is, ger boy for the German National days before the Sand Creek flood of will be a chance to do his own yard 'What can you do?'” Sam said. “Just say- Bank, dodging a few bullets along the 1965. But John stayed dry and picked work while he still can and fishing ing I can't do that doesn't change the need way. up a job at the bank, going over the poles to tend to at his house at Table in the community. I've gotten so much out “He had a few stories that were kind books on a card table. He worked his Rock Lake in Missouri. of it. I encourage everybody to do it— of interesting, trying to find people the way up the company, working out of And though John is stepping away everybody that can.” bank was looking for and giving them every office in the building along the at the bank, the family tradition won’t What Sam seems to be getting out of it messages,” Suderman said. “They way, before finding himself as the end, with his son Paul being groomed is the love of a son. They like to spend would make fun of him because he was bank’s president in 1994. He retired as for the job. time together, which is evident in the way a little skinny German immigrant who the president in 2005 and took over as And even after retiring from the they play a gentle slap-hand game, swing didn’t speak any English. I think he the bank’s chairman. bank, he will still serve as the presi- on swings, laugh and joke. They go to danced a few times when they shot Having worked at a family-owned dent of the holding company that owns garage sales together, build Legos, read their guns and that kind of stuff. This bank, John had a chance to make a lot Midland. He will work out of the same and fish. Sometimes Batman and science was a wild west town for a while, be- of relationships over the years. Those office at the bank in that job he works are involved. And Nevon likes to draw. cause it was the beginning of the rail- relationships people have with the out of now, the office that used to be “Why do you scribble?” Sam asked his head for the cattle drives coming up president and chairman of a bank pro- his dad’s. It is the same office that sits son. from Texas.” vide a unique experience in a time a few feet from where his card table “Because I like to,” Nevon replied. After moving to Kansas City to work when consolidation is eating smaller was once placed. “You like to draw stories,” Sam said. for a bank, Midland brought Herman companies. “Even though I’m retiring, they can’t Sam enjoys fatherhood. back to Newton to work in 1902. A “I think you know the community get rid of me,” John said. “I am just “It's nice to come home to a house year later he was made vice president, and you know the people in the com- going to hang around until I die, I where everbody's so excited to see you,” and he became president in 1919. munity and are here to serve those guess.” he said.

sanctuary, the congregation meets in CHURCH the gym for now, and the gym seats From Page 1 about 300. The sanctuary floor has cushy cardboard under foot with scaf- to the steeple at this time. folding all around with nary a pew in “Steeple's in good shape right now,” sight. Tierney said. “[The church] was due for A group of items that are not getting a full roof replacement.” renovated are the murals, however, Hail had taken its toll on the church’s which were completed in 1918. roof, and insurance money is helping “They say he painted them all in the with the repairs, Tierney said. In addi- church basement,” Tierney said. tion, the church was able to raise The murals depict the life of Jesus $100,000 since last June, which is going and are inset into the barrel arch ceil- to plaster repair, repainting and refur- ings that have floating vaults. bishing statues. The estimated cost to refurbish those The last time the church was painted is $1 million. was 1991, Tierney said, and it will have “We've had someone come in and look a slightly different color scheme and at them,” Tierney said. stenciling. Those who wish to donate money to “Hopefully with the new roof, we won't St. Mary Catholic Church can send it to have any leaks,” Tierney said about the the church at 106 E. Eighth St., New- church that was constructed in 1902. ton, KS, 67114. “It needs loving care,” he said. “We're “Through the years, there have been a very blessed here. There's a lot to it.” lot of changes,” Tierney said. “This is WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOW Since the pews were moved out of the just the next one.” Roofers work Monday morning in the Kansas summer heat atop St. Mary Catholic Church in Newton. June 15, 2017 Newton NowCOMMUNITY www.harveycountynow.com Page 9

NEWS BRIEFS OBITUARIES Economic growth director to speak JOY PAYNE LESTER JARRELL Informed Women of Harvey County will meet June 15 at 7 p.m. at St. Matthews Episcopal Church in New- Joy Leuna She is sur- Lester Paul Jarrell, 83, bowling leagues through ton. Guest speaker will be Heidi Holliday, Executive Di- (Porter) vived by her died Sunday, June 11, the years. rector of the Kansas Center for Economic Growth (and a Payne, 88, son and his 2017, at his Newton resi- In earlier years, Lester former Newtonian). Heidi will include three things in died on Fri- wife, Jason dence. and Barbara had a social her presentation: a background on the Brownback tax day, June 9, and Marcella He was born Oct. 25, membership with the experiment and its impact on the state, legislative up- at Christ Payne of Wi- 1933, in Chase to Charles VFW and were members dates from this session, and what is next for Kansas. Care Home chita; siblings, R. and Ethel R. (Strem- of the ELKS club. Lester Plus in Wi- Wayne Porter, pel) Jarrell. On March looked forward to spend- chita. Bernice 28, 1953, he married Bar- ing time with his wife, Summer reading program offered in Walton Joy was Winskey and bara Dimmitt in Joplin, completing various home WALTON—The Walton Library is offering a Summer born on April Esther Israel; Mo., and she survives of projects and spending Reading Program, June 26-30, for ages 5 and up. It will 21, 1929, to Carl and and five grandchildren. the home. time with his loving fam- be from 9 to 11 a.m. Monday through Thursday and 9 Agnes (Davidson) Porter She was preceded in Lester, as he was ily and many friends. a.m. to noon on Friday. in Newton. She was one of death by her parents, Carl known by his work col- Lester is survived by We will be doing some community service work, so if 11 children. and Agnes Porter; six sis- leagues, retired as a pro- his wife, Barbara of the there are any Walton residents who need help with Joy was a retired tele- ters; and two brothers. duction supervisor at home; son, Stan and his some light yard work or other small jobs, please contact phone operator for South- Funeral services were Excel Industries in Hes- wife Tracy of Newton; Stephanie at the city office. western Bell. She was scheduled for June 14 at ston. Earlier in his ca- and daughter, Teresa and Parents, please contact the city office if you are inter- immaculate in all aspects the First Baptist Church reer, he worked for her husband Tim of Hal- ested in your child attending our summer reading pro- of her life. She always in Newton. A public visita- Coleman Co. in Wichita. stead. He also is survived gram. dressed to perfection and tion was held June 13 at He and his wife had a by seven grandchildren, enjoyed nice clothes and Petersen Funeral Home. A weekend home on Marion 10 great-grandchildren jewelry. She was a classy graveside committal serv- County Lake for many and one great-great- First Bank to host customer appreciation cookout and unique lady. She took ice followed the service at years, where they en- grandchild. First Bank will hold its annual Customer Apprecia- impeccable care of her Greenwood Cemetery in joyed boating and social- He was preceded in tion Cookout on Friday, June 23, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. home and possessions. Newton. Pastor Chip Bun- izing with family and death by his parents; son, in Military Park at Broadway and Oak in Newton. The Most importantly, she was gard will be the presiding friends. Byron Keith Jarrell; and event is open to the public. a person of great faith who pastor. Lester was a Boy Scout brother, Leon Jarrell. Attendees will enjoy free hot dogs, chips, drinks and deeply loved her grand- A memorial has been set leader, known for his A time of Remem- sno-cones, compliments of the bank. Other activities in- children and family. Her up for First Baptist handy-man skills, and brance and Sharing with clude a moonwalk, giveaway items and prize drawings. kindness and love touched Church, 200 W. 6th, New- used his creative talent the family will be 6 to 8 For more information, contact Kimberly Richtig at and blessed the lives of ton, KS, 67114. Petersen- alongside his wife to dig p.m. Friday, June 16, at First Bank, 316-283- 2600. those around her. familyfuneralhome.com. and design several back- Petersen’s Chapel in —For Newton Now yard fish ponds for him- Newton. A private family self and his family. He interment will be at a and Barbara enjoyed later date. CAROL SOOBY square dancing and were Memorials are sug- COMMUNITY CALENDAR affiliated with the Circle gested to Harry Hynes Carol Nadine Schmidt and wife Julie of 8 square dance club; they Memorial Hospice in care Thursday, June 15 (Schmidt) Sooby, 77, Paola, and Lynette Kay enjoyed playing bridge of Petersen Funeral passed away peacefully Hjuleberg and husband and were on several Home. All Day—Main Street Mainia. Downtown Newton. at her home in Newton Nathan of Anoka, Minn.; 5:30 p.m.—North Newton Night at the Museum. on Sunday, June 11, stepchildren, Todd Kauffman Museum. 2017, with her husband Wayne Sooby of Big 6 to 8 p.m.—American Legion Open Grill. Members Donald by her bedside. Spring, Texas, and RUTH HUEBERT and guests welcome. American Legion Post 2. She was born on June Kristal Lee Sooby 6:30 p.m.—Newton Toastmaster Meeting. Newton 12, 1939, in Walton, the Brecheisen and husband Ruth B. Robbins Hue- Kan.; grandchildren, Jen- Recreation Commission. daughter of Charles W. Tim of Amarillo, Texas.; bert, 87, of Newton, died nifer Behee, Shawn Rob- 7 to 8:30 p.m.—Law Enforcement Advisory Panel and Edna Berg Schmidt. brother, Richard Schmidt Friday, June 9, 2017, at bins and wife Shannon, Meeting. Chaplain Response Team Office, 209 S. Pine. Spending her early life and wife Laverna of Wesley Medical Center in Jessica Adams and Jade 7 to 8:30 p.m.—Third Thursday Book Discussion: on a farm near Walton, Bozeman, Mont.; sisters, Wichita. Adams; step-grandchil- “True Tales of the Prairie and Plains” by David Dary. Carol attended Walton Marilyn Ruby and hus- She was born on Oct. dren, Megan Wilson and Newton Public Library. schools and graduated band Mark of Illinois, 19, 1929, in Newton, the husband Josh and 7 p.m.—Newton Area Cancer Support Group. Shalom from Walton High School Jeanne Banulski and her daughter of Philip Joshua Crawford and Mennonite Church. in 1957. husband Tom of Dix- William and Pearl wife Heather; great Carol has four children mont, Maine; 14 grand- Vidella Leech Gibbens. grandchildren, Jaxson Friday, June 16 from a previous marriage children; and five Ruth attended schools in Robbins, Jeremy Pless, to Jerry Schmidt, who great-grandchildren. Newton. Breckynn Behee, Wyatt All Day—Main Street Mainia. Downtown Newton. are Kim Lee, Allan Ray, Carol also is survived by She married Robert C. Behee and Kimber 9:30 a.m.—Summer Toddler Story Time. Newton Pub- Lynette and Jeffery Linn. her brother-in-law and Robbins on Oct. 12, 1947, Adams; and step-great lic Library. Carol and Don Sooby sister-in-law, Cline and in Newton. grandchildren, Dilan 10:30 a.m.—Summer Preschool Story Time. Newton married in 1975 at the Judy Sooby Gronau of She married Ronald P. Crawford, Dauri Craw- Public Library. Hillcrest Community Newton. Huebert on Dec. 31, ford, Arianna Wilson, 4 p.m.—Better Builder: Biplanes. Newton Public Li- Foursquare Church in Carol was preceded in 1976, at First Baptist Gage Wilson, and Maddix brary. Newton. death by her parents and Church in Newton. They Wilson. 6 p.m.—Friday Night Games. Grand Central. Carol was diagnosed in two children, Kim Lee later moved to Derby. He Ruth was preceded in Great Falls, Mont., with Schmidt and Jeffery Linn died on Dec. 16, 2002. death by her parents; in- Saturday, June 17 the early onset of Parkin- Schmidt. Ruth returned in New- fant son, Duane; broth- son’s disease and spent Funeral services were ton in 2007. She was a ers, Jim, Gene, David All Day—Main Street Mainia. Downtown Newton. longtime member of the and Bill Gibbens; sister, 7 a.m.—Cookie Daze 5K. Athletic Park. the remainder of her life June 14 at the Broadway fighting this disease. Colonial Funeral Home First Baptist Church, the Naomi Drake; and grand- 8 a.m. to noon—Harvey County Farmers Market. V.W.F. Ladies Auxiliary, sons, Jon Robbins and Parking lot between 6th and Main. Carol and her husband in Newton. Interment Don returned to Newton was in the Walton Ceme- where she held several Jeremy Adams. Monday, June 19 in 1983. tery. local, state and national Funeral services were In 2002, Carol was In lieu of flowers, a me- offices, including state on June 13 at First Bap- All Day—Grand Central Billiards. Four competition privileged to have bi-lat- morial has been estab- president. She also was a tist Church in Newton. quality tables available for use Monday through Friday eral deep brain stimula- lished with the National very active member of Interment will be in the at Grand Central. tors (then a new Parkinson Foundation, the Military Order of the Greenwood Cemetery in 10 a.m.—Blood Pressure Check. Grand Central. procedure) implanted to Good Shepherd Hospice Cooties. For many years, Newton. 11:45 a.m.—Friendship Meals. Call (316) 283-2222 for alleviate many Parkin- and Meals on Wheels. she was a volunteer at A memorial has been reservation. Monday through Friday at Grand Central. son’s symptoms at KU Contributions may be the Veterans Hospital in established with Meals Noon to 2 p.m.—Brown Bag Movie: High Noon. New- Medical Center in sent to Broadway Colo- Wichita and a lifetime On Wheels, and contribu- ton Public Library. Kansas City, Kan. Al- nial Funeral Home, 120 donor to the American tions may be sent to 1:30 p.m.—Golden Notes. Call at (316) 283-2222 to though not a cure, this E. Broadway, Newton, Red Cross. Broadway Colonial Fu- schedule a performance. Grand Central. procedure added several KS, 67114. Survivors include her neral Home, 120 E. 4 p.m.—Teen GameZone and Crafts. Newton Public quality years to Carol’s Condolences may be sons, Robert “Steve” Rob- Broadway, Newton, KS, Library. life. left at www.broadway- bins and his wife Treva, 67114. 6 to 8 p.m.—American Legion Open Grill. Members She leaves behind her colonialfh.com. and Rodney Robbins all Condolences may be and guests welcome. American Legion Post 2. husband, Don of the Arrangements are by of Newton; daughter, left at www.broadway- 7 to 8:30 p.m.—Author Talks: Bill and Blake Bush home in Newton; her Broadway Colonial Fu- Rita Adams and Don colonialfh.com. and N. Jade Gray. Newton Public Library. children, Allan Ray neral Home, Newton. Dixon of Sedgwick; Arrangements are by 7 p.m.—Beginners Square Dance Class. Grand Cen- brother, Philip “Buzz” Broadway Colonial Fu- tral. Gibbens of Gardner, neral Home, Newton. 7 p.m.—Summer Preschool Story Time. Newton Pub- lic Library. MAURICE MCCLURE Tuesday, June 20 Maurice A. McClure, He married Joyce ECKY NN AGEE 89, died on Thursday, Jackson, and they had B A M 10:30 a.m.—Bingo. Grand Central. June 8, 2017. three children. He was a Becky Ann Magee, 64, gusta, and Rachel Mae 10:30 a.m.—Garden Club. Newton Public Library. He was born April 23, farmer and stockman. died Friday, June 9, Young and husband 1 p.m.—Line Dancing. Offered by Lanny Reichert. 1928, in rural Harvey Maurice belonged to 4- 2017, at her home. Ryan of Whitewater; two Newton Rec. Center. County to Lester and H in Harvey County and She was born on Nov. sisters, Glenda Miller of 1 p.m.—Craft Handwork. Grand Central. Leto McClure. He gradu- won a trip to Chicago for 2, 1952, in Excelsior Newton and Colleen 3 to 5:30 p.m.—Harvey County Farmers Market. ated from Walton High sheep shearing, since he Springs, Mo., the daugh- Charbonneau of Boyton Parking lot between 6th and Main. School and Kansas State was the Kansas sheep ter of Glenn D. and Beach, Fla.; and four 7 p.m.—Cowboys and Clerics. Newton Public Library. University. shearing champion. Wilma Baker Thomas grandchildren, Matthew 7 p.m.—Round Dance. Grand Central. Magee. As a child, she Wesley Young, Jack 7 p.m.—American Legion Post 2 closed. and her family moved to Aidan Ford, Addison Newton, where she was Mae Ford and Hudson Wednesday, June 21 WILLADENE HARTZLER KEENEY raised and attended Walker Ford. Willadene Hartzler Keeney, Phoenix; six school. Becky was preceded in 1 p.m.—Cards/Games. Grand Central. Keeney, 92, died Tues- grandchildren; and one Becky graduated from death by her parents and 1 p.m.—Beginner’s Pool for Women. Donation of $1 day, June 13, 2017, in great-grandchild. Newton High School in brother, Ed Thomas. per week. Grand Central. North Newton. Memorials have been 1970. She later gradu- Memorial services will 1:30 p.m.—Barnyard Puppet Theatre. Newton Public She was preceded in established with First ated from Hutchinson Jr. be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Library. death by husband Mennonite Church, College and attended June 15, at First Baptist 3:30 p.m.—Master Builders LEGOs. Newton Public William “Bill” Keeney, Bluffton, Ohio; Mennon- WSU, becoming a dental Church in Newton. Library. parents, two brothers, ite Central Committee; hygienist. She married There will be no visita- 6 to 8 p.m.—American Legion Grill Special (Mexican one sister and one Raymond and Nora Don Potter in 1973, and tion or viewing as crema- Special). Members and guests welcome. American Le- brother who died in in- Hartzler Scholarship they were married for 13 tion has taken place. gion Post 2. fancy. Fund at Bluffton Univer- years. In lieu of flowers, a She is survived by chil- sity; or World Wildlife She was very creative memorial has been es- To submit events for the community calendar, con- dren Lois (Phil) Palmer, Federation. and artistic, as well as a tablished with Celebrate tact Mike Mendez at [email protected]. North Newton, Carol There will be no local people person. She loved Recovery, and contribu- (Carlos) Keeney, Elkhart, services. spending time with her tions may be sent to Ind., William “Bill” (Vir- Petersen Funeral family. Becky was in- Broadway Colonial Fu- CORRECTION ginia) Keeney, Philadel- Home in Newton is in volved with the Cele- neral Home, 120 E. phia and Richard (Mary) charge of arrangements. brate Recovery group at Broadway, Newton, KS, Riverpoint Church in 67114. Newton Now mixed up the name of two individuals Newton. Condolences may be involved in economic development efforts in Newton in Survivors include her left at www.broadway- its article about the EDC budget in last week’s issue. Find more news at son, James Aaron Potter colonialfh.com. Troy Carlson, not Tucky Allen, was contracted by the of Whitewater; daugh- Arrangements are by City of Newton and Harvey County in the past to help harveycountynow.com! ters, Geneva Ellen Ford Broadway Colonial Fu- with development efforts at the logistics park. and husband Nick of Au- neral Home, Newton. Call Natalie for help with classifieds FREE PRESSClassified CLASSIFIED Ad Categories AD CATEGORIES: Callalie Nataliefor lp withfor help clas with classifieds 1 Employment 6 Automotive THE HERINGTON TIMES 2 Services 7 Farm & Ranch uInnty’s Mar largeion County’ss ribut largestion news distrpaibutpe ion newspaper 3 Merchandise 8 Real Estate 4 Announcements 9 For Rent 620-947-5702 or Fax 620-947-5940 [email protected] 5 Public Notices 10 Too Late To Classify

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ewton native Jana school history, and after Boston knows ex- just one season, she is No. Nactly what to ex- 4 in school history in ca- pect. That is not good reer assists. news for Friends Univer- But when you ask her sity opponents. about what is quickly be- Last year she went to coming a novel of acco- Friends as a blind fresh- lades after one season, she man, nearly alone and is quick to deflect the con- overwhelmed by a barrage versation to the point of of information as she discomfort. Not only did quickly found out at the she need defenders to get college level, she had her the ball and hitters to everything yet to learn. put it down, but after com- But what she did with the ing to Friends alone, it opportunity she got under was a group learning ef- those circumstances was fort. The family support spectacular. system within the pro- “It was just one of those gram welcomed her as NEWTON NOW FILE PHOTO things where, when the they went through the Jana Boston celebrates a point against McPherson during the 2015 AVCTL Preseason Tournament in Hutchinson. Boston had a record-breaking time comes, it will hap- process together. So while season as a freshman setter at Friends University in 2016. pen,” Boston said. “I was the individual accomplish- really fortunate and very ments are great, she does excited that I even got not miss an opportunity to reloads talent but heroes that opportunity. My recognize them as a group for the girls in town to as- coach had faith in me, and effort. pire to emulate. that was a big confidence “[The records] are on But the moment that booster for me. But I had the Internet somewhere,” really made the sport no idea. I just kind of was Boston said. “I think it is click for Boston came in like, go to practice and cool and everything, but at eighth grade while sitting work your butt off. Then the end of the day, it is with her mother tracking whatever happens is going about your teammates stats at the Newton Invi- to happen.” and it is about winning as tational. The champi- What happened was an a team and as a whole. onship match came down assault on the school That stuff is cool and all, to Newton and McPher- record books. In her fresh- but winning at the end of son. The atmosphere in man season, Boston sits at the day is the priority, and Ravenscroft gym was No. 1, No. 3 and No. 4 at your teammates are like something that stuck in Friends in single-game as- your sisters. It is all about her mind. sists for a three-set match. us. It takes everybody, be- “It was the craziest She is No. 1, No. 7 and No. cause there is no way I thing ever,” Boston said. 8 twice for single-game as- can be where I’m at with- “I don’t think I will ever sists in a four-set match. out my team.” forget it. Newton won. I She is No. 2, No. 3 and No. Boston grew up playing think that was the mo- 6 twice for single-game as- the game in Newton. ment where I was like, sists in a five-set match. Wanting to be a part of ‘OK, I have to be here. I With 1,233 assists last Newton volleyball was really want to be here and season, she is No. 3 at something that was obvi- play in this tournament. Friends in single-season ous to every little girl in This is so cool.’ The at- assists. Her 9.2 career as- town. The program is a mosphere: Ravenscroft NEWTON NOW FILE PHOTO sists per game is No. 1 in powerhouse that not only See BOSTON / 12 Jana Boston serves against McPherson during the 2015 AVCTL Preseason Tournament in Hutchinson.

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The setup isn’t exactly BY MIKE MENDEZ competitive. As two NEWTON NOW STAFF teams play volleyball on [email protected] the east side of Raven- scroft Gym, girls from the Newton High School The idea makes so much sense, it is almost astound- volleyball team are offici- ing it hasn’t happened earlier. Newton High School ating, from the head offi- coaches got together and found common ground in pro- cial to the linesmen and gram principles to bring together in the summer weight the scorekeepers. They program, with athletes of every sport working together. are far from trained and It is called the Railer Way and the hope is to set a level polished referees. But of expectation across the athletic department that can just a week into June, no bring about success across the board. one is really complaining “It is an effort to hopefully improve the culture of the about the calls. school along with it,” head basketball coach Andy Hill But at the same time, said. “We talk to our athletes about being leaders here if this tournament was in in the building and in the community. If they are getting the fall, it would be the a consistent message from us as far as our core values most intense tournament and leadership and the way we want to do things from around. At this round of an athletic standpoint, they can kind of at the start the scrimmages the Railers MIKE MENDEZ/NEWTON NOW school year, hopefully filter that within to the culture of put on to get practice and the building.” raise money, there is a DesiRay Kernal (20) and Taylor Antonowich team up for a block in an exhibition summer tournament on June 7 in Newton. The idea took shape when head football coach Chris giant from nearly every Jaax came to head baseball coach Mark George and classification. Along with can work hard, even asked what he did for winter weights. The coaches Newton, the No. 1-seed worked together and started bringing other coaches on at the 5A state tourna- though we lost half of our team last year, and still board. ment is state champion Jaax said, from his perspective, coming from Bishop Rose Hill and state run- be competitive and beat teams we don’t usually Carroll with a wide array of successful teams, the more ner-up Hesston. There coaches can work together, the better off the programs are also teams with a re- see in the regular season.” will be. While Jaax isn’t going to teach George about cent history of success baseball and Hill isn’t going to be able to teach head vol- like Derby and Valley The senior class New- ton lost is substantial, leyball coach Jamie Dibbens about volleyball, they can Center, just to name a share experiences with what works and what doesn’t in few. It feels like every not only in numbers, but in quality. At the net, terms of leadership and motivation. Every coach has dominant team in the strengths. Getting everyone together to work out at once area goes together for an Emily Regier was one of the best middle blockers gives athletes exposure to coaches they may not other- all-class rumble. wise work with. It gives athletes the chance to benefit And it is the perfect in the state, and Kailey Harris provided a state from coaching styles they may not see from the coach in opportunity to get an their respective sport. early measurement of placer in the high jump to get up and control the Getting together also provides a unified message for where the young Railers the athletes as they go throughout the different seasons. stand after graduating a tape as well. In the back, libero Kara Peaney, The key values the Newton coaches want to drive home huge class of seven sen- become a common terminology that gains meaning iors from a team with the Megan Akers and Dawsyn Long kept the through repetition. best record in 5A going “If Coach Hill says it, and I say it, then the kids think, into state. balls that did get through the block off the MIKE MENDEZ/NEWTON NOW ‘That must be important,’” Jaax said. “The more they “We haven’t been see- Newton senior Caroline Barger officiates during a match at an exhibi- hear it, the more shareholders they hear it from, the ing competition like floor and set up a potent offense with precision tion volleyball tournament on June 7 in Newton. more important it is.” this,” Newton senior Car- The girls sports in Newton have seen a ton of success. oline Barger said. “And I passing. They were the heart of the team. Senior Taylor she hits a ball. Kyndal The volleyball, basketball, soccer, gymnastics and track think it has been a little Antonowich has the Bacon gives the Railers a teams are all state powers. For assistant soccer coach bit of a wakeup call for But the team returning is far from bare. speed to move around senior setter to run the Robin Montano and Dibbens, there is a lot of emphasis us because we did lose so the block and the power offense. in keeping with the summer routines that have worked many people. But we Barger is a senior with height at middle blocker. to dent the floor when have realized that we See VOLLEYBALL / 12 See WEIGHTS / 12 Page 12 www.harveycountynow.comSPORTS Newton Now June 15, 2017 WEIGHTS From Page 11 before. There is also a value in breaking up the grueling monotony of lifting weights in the summer by trying to make things fun. Seeing the boys teams Mark Boston Agency working together in the spring, Dibbens could eas- 614 N. Main, Newton ily tell how much fun they 316-283-0021 were having. It made her excited to get the program going in the summer. In a time of specializa- tion in sports, there is a push back to getting athletes involved in multiple sports in order to develop a more rounded athleticism. Getting everyone on the We service ALL brands of air conditioners and same page during summer PHOTOS BY MIKE MENDEZ/NEWTON NOW heat pumps to keep you cool this summer! weights strengthens the Above: Newton head baseball players in universal core coach Mark George addresses the ways that prepare them Railer boys athletes after a weight for success across the session on June 12 at Willis Gym board, something the New- in Newton. 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Railers in the first set. learns a skill or a concept somewhat overwhelming But McPherson made a at a level that satisfies as a freshman, this sum- BOSTON PUBLIC NOTICE From Page 11 fatal mistake after taking Dibbens, she quickly ush- mer Boston knows exactly set point. The Bullpups ers them on to the next what is ahead. Though gym, you can’t get any poked the bear inside of thing. It is a tough and she still has a lot to learn Published in the Newton Now on June 8, 15, and 22, 2017. better. It is loud. Every- Boston, who, as the leader constant grind for im- and feels like a baby thing echoes. When they of the team, made sure it provement to be a Railer. when it comes to the beat McPherson when I was just as upsetting to The process at Friends is game, she will carry that was in eighth grade, that the rest of the team. the same thing, but it will to learn with the was when I was like, ‘OK, “They laughed at us,” happens faster. The way knowledge of the prepara- this is Newton volleyball. Boston said. “So I pulled Dibbens runs the program tion it will take to get This is what it is all everyone together and I is tough but fair and sets there. about. I really want to be was like, ‘Dude, they are the table for habits that “I definitely feel more a part of it.’” laughing at us.’ You could pay off with success. relaxed,” Boston said. “I Her time in Newton see everybody else was “I am very demanding, am still anxious and came full circle in a crazy mad, too. It was insane. and I think it can be a lit- ready for the season, but Newton Invitational Everybody was intense. tle bit scary at first, but this time I know what to matchup against McPher- I’ll never forget our through the process, those expect for the most part. I son in her senior season. bench. Whenever we girls get to know me, and know how to move into a Although it was in Willis would score, our girls and they know that I have the dorm. I know how to do a Gym and not Ravenscroft the assistant coaches best interest for them,” preseason. The wheels are and came early in the would all jump up. You Dibbens said. “I want more like, ‘This is what to morning, the importance could feel it. You could see them all to reach their po- expect. This is what is may as well have been a the fear in McPherson’s tential and so I demand a probably going to happen.’ championship match. eyes. You could see the, lot and I hope that is get- I am not going in totally Boston said it was all ‘We are coming for you.’” ting them ready. If it is blindfolded and just say- they prepared for leading Entering college, just varsity that they ing, ‘Here, best of luck to up to the tournament. She Boston discovered an en- want to play, I hope I am you.’” said head coach Jamie tire world of information getting them ready for Dibbens told them they she didn’t know about but that. If it is the next level were playing a champi- had to learn in a hurry. that they want to play, onship match at 8 a.m. But her time at Newton that is what I want to But after all the High School prepared her push them to do.” buildup and preparation, for the unending learning Though the learning the Bullpups smoked the process. When a Railer process was steep and

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BY ADAM STRUNK Member Barb Bunting take time to discuss, and if and Bunting abstained. asked if they needed a you need to modify it, mod- Hodge then tried to clar- NEWTON NOW STAFF seven people present to ify it. In theory, you have ify with Koontz how his [email protected] vote for the bond resolu- two or three more weeks if vote was counted. Koontz tion. you need to discuss and told Hodge his vote was USD 373's proposed Koontz said that was debate, and we'd be on the counted as a yes, which bond issue made it on the not necessary and that Er- same schedule for Novem- Hodge agreed with. ballot. Barely. ickson had told him she ber.” The motion passed on a Four board members might have to depart to at- The meeting was then vote of four in favor, one voted in favor on Monday tend a family emergency interrupted as Koontz re- against and two abstain- night of putting it up for a or personal issue. ceived a phone call on his ing. vote. Two abstained. One Bunting said she pre- cell phone from Erickson. “My apologies for having voted no. ferred to have all seven She was then dialed on to leave early,” Erickson To get to that vote took a board members present. speaker phone. said. bizarre 40 minutes of de- Koontz answered there WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOW “I know you're taking The approved resolution bate, with some board were only six at the meet- When the Newton Board of Education talked about the bond issue in care of a personal issue,” will allow district resi- members refusing to vote ing. meetings past, it usually was standing room only in the meetings, like Koontz said to Erickson. dents to vote in favor or until Board Member Board Member Tim at this one in February. “We've had a conversation against a $61 million bond Renee Erickson, who left Hodge then interjected, here. We don't have a mo- on to remodel the high the meeting early, could be saying he wished for all Sue Stayrook Hobbs inter- Bunting also told Koontz tion yet.” school, Walton Rural Ele- put on record. seven board members jected, saying that school she'd be disappointed if a Hodge then called for a mentary School and add The board had already, present. board unity was important vote moved forward with- motion to put the bond security upgrades as a majority, indicated fa- “It's important for me to to her and if the vote was out the whole board. vote on the ballot, and he throughout the district. voring moving forward have all seven votes,” put off, it might give her At a standstill, the was seconded. The motion would also re- with the bond at a special Hodge said. “Does she more time to wrestle with board took a quick “com- Koontz then had align the district’s grade meeting. At Monday's have a cell phone num- the issue. She said she was fort break” as Koontz at- Shogren repeat the previ- schools with a K-5 and 6-8 meeting, all it had to do ber?” currently planning to ab- tempted to get a hold of ous conversation he just set up. was formally vote on a res- Bunting followed up stain from voting on the Erickson. gave to the board to Erick- Shogren told the district olution to put the vote on Hodge's interjection, sug- bond. She didn't want to Following the break, son over the speaker it could expect a 3.75 inter- the ballot. gesting the board vote at a vote against it, but she Koontz asked the financial phone. est rate or possibly lower District Financial Ad- meeting the next day. didn't feel able to support adviser to then speak to “It's not a death knoll to for a 20-year bond. He viser Steve Shogren “I would be committed the current plan in good the board for a while about not have unanimity, but noted that he recently sold started the conversation, to do anything within my conscience. his philosophy about the it's very much a positive if bonds with a 3 percent in- making a presentation to power to do anything to be Bunting then indicated voting on bond resolutions. the board is united,” terest rate for Goddard the board about the inter- present for that vote,” she she planned on abstaining Shogren explained that, Shogren said into the and Clearwater School est rates involved with the said, “if that was the only as well. in his mind, a vote for a speaker phone. Districts, but interest now $61 million proposed thing on the agenda. The At that point, Superin- resolution didn't necessar- The vote was called, and rates could always in- bond issue. unity piece is a big piece tendent Deborah Hamm ily favor a bond vote but Koontz asked for a raise of crease. After Shogren's presen- for me. Is she not available informed the crowd that did favor a wish to move hands in favor of the reso- The cost of such a bond tation, Board Member by phone?” she sent a text to Erickson. forward with a bond. lution. Matt Treaster, to taxpayers has been pro- Dick Koontz called for a Koontz did not appear Hodge continued to “I think a split board Koontz and Steve Richards jected at an additional 11 vote on placing a bond comfortable with the idea press his opinion on the makes it difficult to voted yes, while Hodge mills of taxes, or $126 question on the Nov. 7 bal- of pushing off the vote fur- importance of all board achieve success,” he said. hesitated before putting more annually, for a lot. ther. members voting on the “Rather than have a split his hand up shortly. Erick- $100,000 residential prop- That's when Board Board Member Carol bond resolution. board, it's important to son voted no, and Hobbs erty. 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