Priceless Take One Vol. 19 Number 18 An Award Winning Weekly Newspaper Thursday, October 21, 2010 Area Shooter Take Part In Kansas State 4-H Fall Shooting Match Homecoming Events The Riley/Pottawatomie 4-H Straight Shooters had six youth partic- Sunday, October 24 sadors, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. ipate in the Kansas 4-H Fall Shooting All University Homecoming Yard Art displayed, Greek houses, Sports Match at the Capitol City Gun Philanthropy 5K Race to benefit the judging begins at 4 p.m. Club near Topeka Saturday October 2, Manhattan Emergency Shelter, Alumni “Cars in the Big Apple” Children’s 2010. Youth from across Kansas par- Center, race begins at 10 a.m. Carnival, Union, 6-8 p.m. ticipated in Recurve, Olympic and Spirit Signs displayed, Campus, 12- Friday, October 29 Open Archery, Muzzleloading, Small 2 p.m., judged at 2 p.m. Trick-or-Treat in Aggieville, 3:30- Bore Pistol and Small Bore Rifle. Spirit Banners displayed, Union, 12- 5:30 p.m. Bringing home the Top Shot Hat in 2 p.m., judged at 2 p.m. Homecoming Parade, route begins Small Bore Rifle was Jacob Stroda Sidewalk Chalking Contest, Bosco at Manhattan Town Center, 5 p.m. with 517 points of 700 possible. Jacob Student Plaza, 12-2 p.m., judged at 2 Homecoming Pep Rally, Larry placed 1st in silhouettes hitting 24 of p.m. Norvell Band Shell, City Park, imme- 40 targets for 240 points. In the 3 posi- “A Big Slice of the Little Apple” diately following parade, (approx. 6:30 tion match, he placed 1st in standing Coloring Contest winners displayed p.m.) with 88 points of 100 possible, 1st in Crazy Cat Kickoff, Weber Arena, 7 Residence Hall Homecoming kneeling with 95 points and 3rd in p.m. Dance, Derby Basketball Courts, 9:30 prone with 94 points in the senior divi- Monday, October 25 p.m.-11:45 p.m. sion. Seth Brandon placed 8th aggre- Pant the Chant, Bramlage Coliseum, Saturday, October 30 gate in Small Bore Rifle senior divi- 8 p.m. K-State Alumni Center open, 8-11 sion with 356 points. Brandon placed Tuesday, October 26 a.m. 5th in prone with 91 points, 4th in Wildcat Request Live, Bramlage Homecoming Tailgate, Cat Town, 9- standing with 78 points and 5th in Coliseum, 8 p.m. 10:30 a.m. kneeling with 87 points. Wade Stroda Wednesday, October 27 Football game, K-State vs. placed 1st aggregate in the junior Paint the ‘Ville Contest, Aggieville, Oklahoma State, 11 a.m. Small Bore Rifle division with 409 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Winning spirit signs displayed at points, 1st in prone with 94 points, 2nd K-State volleyball vs. Iowa State, 7 Bill Snyder Family Stadium in standing with 82 points, 2nd in Jacob Stroda shoots 10 shots in kneeling during the 3P por- p.m. Committee recognized & new kneeling with 83 points and 1st in sil- Thursday, October 28 ambassadors announced during foot- houettes with 150 points. The RL/PT tion of the small bore rifle match. K-State Ambassador Elections, ball half time Small Bore Rifle Team of Jacob Stroda division. Austin Becker placed 3rd ipate in the Kansas 4-H Fall Shooting www.K-State.com/studentambas- and Wade Stroda placed 1st with 926 aggregate with 213 points, 2nd on Sports Match at the Hays City points, Jefferson Co. placed 2nd with paper with 113 points and 3rd on sil- Sportsman’s Club in Hays Saturday 888 points, Wyandotte Co. placed 3rd houettes with 100 points in the junior October 9, 2010. Youth from across with 833 points, Bourbon Co. placed division of Muzzleloading. The Kansas participated Shotgun and 4th with 726 points and Gove Co. Muzzleloading Team of Austin Becker Hunting Skills. Austin Becker and Company Pays placed 5th with 694 points. and Wade Stroda placed 2nd with 541 Matthew Plummer participated in the Jacob Stroda was the Top Shot for points to Jefferson Co’s 1st with 608 Hunting Skills event which consisted the Muzzleloading Match with 340 points while Logan Co. placed 3rd of wildlife ID, compass & orienteer- points of 500 points. He placed 2nd on with 510 points and Wilson Co. placed KDHE $800,000 ing, and hunting knowledge combined paper which included a six bull target, 4th with 438 points. with their best shooting score percent- By Rachel Whitten She also said she learned a lot about the bottles and Hafner critter targets with Katherine Sundgren and Michaela age from a qualifying event. Becker KansasReporter complicated workings of the storage 180 points of 300 possible and 1st in Marstall participated in the Open placed 2nd with 155.34 points of 200 TOPEKA, Kan. – A massive com- network. silhouettes with 160 points of 200 in Archery event which consisted of FITA possible points in the junior division. puter system failure at the Kansas “We learned which systems always the senior division. Wade Stroda targets shot at 20, 30 and 40 yards and Plummer placed 3rd with 155.24 Department of Health and have to be up—the ones that can’t be placed 1st aggregate with 328 points, 3D targets set at varying distances. points. Environment in August, cost roughly down for even a minute,” Schaefer 1st on paper with 208 points and 2nd in The Riley/Pottawatomie 4-H $800,000, state legislators learned said. silhouette with 120 points in the junior Straight Shooters had two youth partic- Thursday. The problem came from a perfect Xiotech, the Minnesota company storm of failures surrounding the com- whose storage area network failed, puter system. A firmware installation Eric Peck Promoted To Brigadier General crippling the state agency for almost a went bad. After that, the storage area This week the Kansas Senate tions such as the Bronze Star Medal, decorations such as the Bronze Star, month, picked up the charges. They network experienced a circular refer- Confirmation Oversight Committee the Meritorious Service Medal with the Meritorious Service Medal with came from replacing the entire com- encing situation, which caused the net- approved three promotions for the oak leaf cluster and the Global War on four oak leaf clusters and the Army puter memory storage system as well work to become unstable. Additionally, Kansas National Guard put forth by Terrorism Medal. In his civilian career, Achievement Medal. as overtime for employees and the cost a required shut down of all servers Governor Mark Parkinson. Colonel Tafanelli is a state representative for Col. Braden, Lawrence, has over 30 of shipping hard copies of records up caused one server to crash. Those three Lee Tafanelli, Colonel Eric Peck and the 47th District in the Kansas years of military service which has from Hutchinson salt mines. situations combined to make the whole Colonel Vic Braden were appointed to Legislature. included commands at the company, Norma Jean Schaefer, in charge of system go down. brigadier generals by Governor Col. Eric Peck, Manhattan, has battalion and brigade level and three technology and information at the The system was restored on August Parkinson, and with the approval of the served at all levels of command from combat tours in the Persian Gulf, KDHE, told the Legislative Budget 25, although it took many more weeks Senate committee, are awaiting confir- detachment through brigade and has Bosnia and Afghanistan. Col. Braden Committee Thursday there were a lot to clear up the backlogged information mation by the full Senate upon the next been assigned to the Department of the returned from Afghanistan in April of late nights and a lot of challenges requests. Legislative Session. Army and National Guard Bureau after having served as the senior advi- during the roughly four week debacle. Col. Tafanelli, Topeka, assumed the staffs. He formerly served as the sor for the commanding general, 205th position of assistant adjutant general – Kansas Army National Guard chief of Afghan National Army Corps. He is Army, Kansas Army National Guard staff before becoming the chief of the the recipient of the Bronze Star Medal, on July 19, 2010. He is also the com- Joint Staff in 2006. He commanded 1- the Meritorious Service Medal, and the mander of the Land Component for the 6th Kansas Agribusiness Development Senior Aviator Badge for having Kansas Deficit Joint Force Headquarters-Kansas and Team deployed to Afghanistan from served as a UH-60 Blackhawk pilot. has served as a member of the Kansas October 2008 through March 2010 and Beyond his military career, Braden is a National Guard for over 30 years. has over 2,500 hours of flight time. prosecuting attorney for the State of Most recently, Col. Tafanelli has Col. Peck has completed numerous Kansas and has led the prosecution of Could Top $300M served as the director of operations for military education courses including numerous high-profile murder cases. the Kansas Guard and the commander the Command and General Staff He is also the current deputy Kansas By Gene Meyer totalling about $1.3 billion, which of 69th Troop Command. He has College and the U.S. Army War attorney general and is responsible for KansasReporter topped year-earlier levels by about 12 earned a number of awards and decora- College. He has earned several military the Criminal Litigation Division. TOPEKA, Kan. - Losing federal percent and official projections for the stimulus money that runs out next year current year by about 1.3 percent. threatens to put Kansas’ 2012 state Those gains follow steep and often budget between $300 million and $500 unpredicted shortfalls in each of the million in the red, the state’s legislative previous two years.