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Priceless WWEDNESDAYEDNESDAY Take One VOLUME 15, NUMBER 74 WEDNESDAY,, MMARCH 7, 2007 WINNER OF THE KANSAS GAS SERVICE 2006 KANSAS PROFESSIONAL 2006 KANSAS PROFESSIONAL WINNER OF THE KANSAS PRESS EXCELLENCE IN EDITORIAL WRITING COMMUNICATORS PHOTO ESSAY AWARD COMMUNICATORS EDITORIAL AWARD ASSOCIATION ADVERTISING AWARD Kite’s To Host Manhattan Ex-President Visits Kansas State, Dem’s Gathering Arts Center’s Blarney Breakfast Join the Manhattan Arts Center at Tickets can be purchased at the For more information on this and By JOHN HANNA Kite’s Bar and Grill for the annual Manhattan Arts Center, Claflin other performances at the Manhattan AP Political Writer Blarney Breakfast fundraiser, Books & Copies, The Dusty Arts Center, visit its Web site at TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ As his Saturday, March 17th, for green eggs Bookshelf in Aggieville or from any www.manhattanarts.org. wife campaigned for the office he and ham, and much more from 7:30 Manhattan Arts Center board mem- The Manhattan Arts Center is once held, former President Bill am until 10:30 am. Celebrate St. ber. For more information, call (785) funded in part by the Kansas Arts Clinton traveled Friday to Kansas Patrick’s day by eating a delicious 537-4420. Manhattan Arts Center Commission, a state agency, and the to deliver two speeches, one as breakfast for a good cause. box office hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. National Endowment for the Arts, a part of a lecture series named for a Adult tickets are $7 in advance and Monday through Friday. The federal agency. Additional funding Republican icon, the second to a $8 at the door, and children’s tickets Manhattan Arts Center is located at comes from the City of Manhattan political gathering of fellow are $5 in advance and $6 at the door. 1520 Poyntz. and MAC members and friends. Democrats. His first event was a 3:30 p.m. Landon Lecture inside Kansas State University’s Bramlage Coliseum in Manhattan. The 41- Mentoring Program Works year-old series is named for Gov. Alf Landon, the 1936 GOP nomi- nee for president, and Clinton is With Children’s Life Skills the sixth sitting or former presi- dent to make an address. School is out and 10 rambunctious She said they meet once a week One story in particular was a sev- The ex-president’s second event middle schoolers bust into the UFM and keep in contact with one another enth grader who stayed in the pro- was a 7 p.m. address to Kansas Learning Community Learning at least once a week. gram until he was a senior in high Democrats’ annual Washington Center bright-eyed and ready to go Mentor Grant Reichert senior in school, Teener said. Days convention, naturally a more ice-skating. political science said he enjoys hang- He lacked self-confidence, she partisan audience. Recently, the students involved in ing out with the teens and learning said. While Kansas has a strong the UFM teen mentoring program about what’s going on in their lives. “His brother was involved in Republican heritage and Clinton went ice skating at City Park as one Reichert said jokingly, “I have the heavy drug use, and he (the mentee) lost the state handily in his 1992 of many bonding activities with K- mind of a 12 year old at times, so me was teetering off the edge,” Teener and 1996 races, he still draws State student mentors. and the kids work out great.” said. “He was into animae (Japanese large crowds. About 9,000 people Linda Teener, director of the UFM Instructor of Family Studies and cartoon characters), and no one real- had free tickets to the Kansas State teen mentoring program founded the Human services, David Thompson, ly gave him credit for it,” she said University speech, and 1,500 were mentoring program 10 years ago. said the mentor program serves as a Teener said his mentor encouraged Teener said the program serves as way for college students to stay con- him to explore his artistic skills. expected to attend the Topeka Former President Bill Clinton gave a Landon Lecture Friday. (Photo a haven for Manhattan teens who nected to the community. “He told us UFM was a place that event at a downtown hotel, paying Cathy Gaides) $125 a person. A Clinton speech at struggle with the pressures of life. Thompson also said the program he knew people would listen and the University of Kansas in 2004 million voters are registered Paul Morrison and Lt. Gov. Mark “When I first started the program, serves as an outlet for the students cared,” she said. drew about 12,000 people. Democrats; there are more independ- Parkinson. we were seeing middle school and that may have family who can’t pay Teener said when the student came His wife, New York Sen. ents, and GOP voters outnumber The Landon Lecture series as a high school students falling through special attention to them. in he didn’t think he would finish Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrats by 322,000. history of attracting prominent the cracks,” she said. “College kids are the epitome of high school. announced her presidential candi- Yet the former president came to political leaders and media figures. Tenner said there were no services coolness for the mentees,” “He is now a freshman at K-State, dacy in January. Her biggest per- Kansas with his party is enjoying rel- President Bush delivered a lec- available in the Manhattan commu- Thompson said. and he is wanting to apply to a art ceived rival is Illinois Sen. Barack atively good political times. ture last year, as did President nity at this time, and these kids Teener said she has seen many school in Chicago next semester,” Obama, who addressed Kansas’ Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius Ronald Reagan in 1982 and seemed to get themselves in trouble. success stories through the mentor- she said. Democratic convention last year. easily won a second-term last year, President Richard Nixon in 1970. Maureen Mersmann, coordinator ing program. In most decades, Kansas has and she’s serving as chairwoman of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy of youth programming at UFM and been a Republican stronghold, and the Democratic Governors Carter gave addresses after leaving senior in family studies and human no Democratic presidential candi- Association and receiving some office, Ford in 1978 and Carter in services, said the mentors meet with Rural Leaders Conference In Salina date has carried the state since national attention. The party also had 1991. Reagan also delivered a lec- the mentees weekly. The Kansas Sampler Foundation regarding the topics of the eight rural will host the We Kan! Conference culture elements (architecture, art, Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Less two high-profile converts win ture in 1967, when he was gover- She said the high school group statewide office, Attorney General nor of California. meets on Tuesday’s from 3-5 p.m. March 20 and 21 in Salina. The con- commerce, cuisine, customs, geogra- than 27 percent of the state’s 1.6 ference is designed to help rural com- phy, history, and people) and how to and the middle school group meets munities be the best they can be at market those ideas it becomes quite on Thursday’s at the same time. being themselves. Explorer Tourism energizing.” Specific topics range Teener said they focus on one life and community development ideas from “Techy things we can do to attract skill a week including drug and alco- presented at this conference will a younger market” to “Restoring a Clinton Says He Does hol prevention, rape awareness, rela- empower community leaders in pre- downtown building: Advice and les- tionship skills, anger-management serving, sustaining and growing rural sons learned.” and communication skills. culture. Chambers, economic developers, “The mentors are very important Foundation director Marci Penner city councilpersons, community or Not Support Attack On Iran to the program,” Teener said. “The said, “More than 80% of the cities in county leaders of any age, entrepre- Kansas have less than 2,000 popula- neurs, artists, media, preservationists, By JOHN HANNA He came to Kansas while his wife K-State students often develop what you don’t have in common _ you tion. We designed the format and museums, and tourism people will be Associated Press Writer is campaigning, though he didn’t friendships and have a significant should talk first.’‘ chose the presenters so that the content among those who will find the confer- MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) _ mention her bid for his former job impact with the students they work The former president’s comments would be especially applicable for ence useful. For conference agenda Former President Bill Clinton said answered audience questions follow- during his lecture. with.” Mentors are responsible for trans- those towns—though towns of any size and registration fee information go to Friday sanctions against Iran were ing his 45-minute lecture. His remarks Clinton questioned some of will find useful information. kansassampler.org, call 620.585.2374 working better than people think and touched on a wide range of topics, President Bush’s policies, though porting the students from school to Communities will hear from peers that or e-mail [email protected]. questioned whether a military strike including the need to improve health he didn’t criticize Bush directly. UFM and then home after their have found success with common would work to end its nuclear pro- care and the economy in the United He said the No Child Left Behind weekly activities, Tenner said. issues. When you mix successful ideas gram.