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SALUTE TON INSIDE HOLTON, KANSAS Hometown of Fall Sports Steven & Mary Team Richardson Holton Recorder subscribers Previews! for 48 years. CSering the Jackson ounty ommunity for years See pages 6 & 7. Volume 152, Issue 66 HOLTON, KANSAS • Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019 14 Pages $1.00 New parking lot OK’d for HES By David Powls 54-stall parking lot options The Holton school board and add-ons in the same vi- here Monday evening gave the cinity when the bids came in OK to proceed with a plan to at about $400,000, which was build a small concrete parking higher than the engineer’s es- lot addition to accommodate timate. 14 angle parking stalls along Projects that cost less than Dakota Avenue across the $20,000 are not required to street west of Holton Elemen- be advertised for bid, it was tary School at a price not to noted. exceed $20,000. Inspection recently of the Mike Porter, district main- heating and cooling improve- tenance director, said Eisen- ment work performed over barth Construction of Holton the summer at the high school will build the parking lot ad- revealed some problems with dition (five-inch concrete with hot and cold piping not prop- rebar). The project does not erly tagged, along with some include any sidewalk or curb- second floor condensation pip- ing, it was reported. Porter ing that got plugged up, caus- said parking bumpers will be ing some water to drip through placed at the end of each park- two second floor classroom ing stall. ceilings and onto tile floor and Some gravel will also be laid carpeting. down at the north and west Monday evening, it was re- end of Dakota on Sixth Street ported, only two of the nine AC for any extra overflow park- units were working at the high ing needs in the area, it was school with classes scheduled reported. to start today (Wednesday). Earlier, the school board rejected bids for a couple of Continued to Page 14 Brat Day State to collect sales tax planned from all remote retailers All online and remote retail- revenues to the state starting in ers that sell products or services October. Friday to Kansans will be required to The KDOR notice cited a Johnsonville of Holton will collect and remit state sales and U.S. Supreme Court decision host a Brat Day from noon to from June 2018 where the court 1 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 16, on use taxes starting Oct. 1, ac- cording to the Kansas Depart- overturned a requirement that a the east side of the Jackson seller must have a physical pres- County Courthouse, it was ment of Revenue. reported. The KDOR plans to enforce ence in a state before that state Proceeds from the lunch its sales and use tax collection can require the remote seller to will benefit the Jackson requirements “to the fullest ex- collect that state’s sales or use County Kid’s Closet, the tent permitted by law,” accord- tax. Jackson County Food Pantry ing to a KDOR notice issued A remote seller is any retail- and Thrive Jackson County. earlier this month. er who sells tangible personal The lunch will include a The KDOR, which is head- property and/or services into a brat, chips and a bottle of wa- ed by Mark Burghart, has re- state where it does not have a ter for $5. Single brats will be physical address. sold for $3, it was reported. ported that any “remote seller” From left to right in the top photo, Ken Glennon, Vanessa Ogden, Callie Hoobler, that does business with Kansas Remote sellers, no matter the Local Johnsonville represen- size of their business, must register Sandy Blumer and Samantha Stout served up pulled pork sandwiches with all the tatives said they hope to make residents must register with the trimmings during GNBank’s annual community appreciation dinner Friday evening on the Brat Day an annual event. KDOR, collect state and lo- the Jackson County Courtyard. Glennon said about 400 dinners were served that af- cal sales taxes and forward the Continued to Page 14 ternoon. The dinner was held in conjunction with Cruise Night, which drew a variety of classic vehicles to the Courtyard that evening. Photos by Brian Sanders Projected enrollment numbers down at Jackson Heights Elementary By Brian Sanders starts on Thursday. I’ve had since I’ve been here.” Preliminary enrollment totals Witte said the preliminary Student counts for 2018 in the Jackson Heights school enroll ment total at the 19 were 42 in preK, 28 in district will likely be down elementary school was 220, kindergarten, 33 in first grade, significantly from last year’s down from last year’s stu dent 20 in second grade, 27 in third totals, mainly due to a drop count of 245, but so far, “two grade, 24 in fourth grade, 36 in in elementary enrollment, the kids haven’t enrolled yet” and fifth grade, 35 in sixth grade, 20 USD 335 Board of Education anoth er student’s enrollment in seventh grade, 23 in eighth learned during its regular status was not confirmed, so the grade, 36 high school freshmen, monthly meeting on Monday. total number would likely be 22 sopho mores, 32 juniors and Middle and High School 217 on the first day of school. 31 seniors. Principal Darren Shupe and At the middle and high The preliminary counts for Elementary Prin cipal Cody school, Shupe said the middle 201920, according to numbers Witte provided board members school total of 55 students, up given by Shupe and Witte, were with preliminary totals, and from last year’s total of 43, was 39 in preK, 19 in kindergarten, while Shupe noted a minor attributed to “that big class of 23 in first grade, 30 in second increase at his school, the seventhgraders coming in.” grade, 21 in third grade, 28 in numbers provided by Witte The preliminary high school fourth grade, 26 in fifth grade, showed a significant de crease total of 110, down from last 34 in sixth grade, 36 in seventh in the projected number of year’s 121, was “probably the Continued to Page 14 students coming in when school smallest high school number Irene Cowger (center) of Holton created this quilt that earned her reserve grand champion honors at this year’s Jackson County Fair. The 103-year-old Cowger has donated the quilt to the Holton Community Hospital Auxiliary for a fund-raising drawing to be held at the auxiliary’s soup luncheon in October. RV B.O.E. approves purchase of Shown with Cowger are “distant relation” Marilyn Spiker, at left, who helped Cowger with the quilt, and auxiliary president Diane Gross, at right. intercom overlay system, used bus Photo by Brian Sanders By Ali Holcomb specific alerts for specific situ- fidence that communication The purchase of a new inter- ations, which could also in- will occur during the event of com overlay system for Royal clude giving students certain an actual crisis.” Cowger donates quilt for Valley schools was approved instructions on what to do. Davis said that several area during the board of education’s “In the event of an actual districts, including McLouth, meeting Monday evening in crisis situation, the system can Atchison and Nemaha Central, HCH Auxiliary drawing order to improve communica- shut down access to the con- have or are getting the same tion within the buildings in the trolled doors and call law en- system installed in their school By Brian Sanders hold a fundraising drawing Hospital until the auxiliary’s event of an emergency or a cri- forcement just by hitting one buildings. At age 103, Holton for the quilt at its upcoming fall soup luncheon, scheduled sis drill. button,” he said. “It makes it Also during the meeting, the resident Irene Cowger can still soup lunch in October, it was for Wednesday, Oct. 23. The board approved the a lot easier for a secretary or board of education accepted a quilt with the best of them, as reported. Tickets for the quilt will be purchase of TeleCenter U in- administrator handling a cri- bid of $40,104 from Midwest evidenced by her latest cre “This will be the second one available at the hospital’s front tercom overlays at a cost of sis situation. And if you have Transit of Kansas City for a ation, an eightfootbyeight I’ve donated to the hospital,” desk starting Thursday, Gross $46,921 from All Systems of to leave the building and you 2015 International Cummins foot quilt that recently earned Cowger said as hospital said. Kansas City under the recom- don’t have time to hit that but- 71-passenger school bus for her reserve grand champion auxiliary president Diane Cowger, who was born mendation of Superintendent ton, administrators can turn on the district. The price includes honors at the Jack son County Gross admired Cowger’s in rural Jackson County Aaric Davis. an alert from an app on their a $17,000 trade in, Davis said. Fair. handcrafted quilt blocks — near Soldier, said she began “There’s been some confu- smart phone.” The other bid submitted by “I don’t know how long it all done by hand. quilting when she was “about sion on communication during Davis called the overlays Kansas Truck of Wichita was took me to do that,” Cowger “I can just see whoever 17 or 18,” getting started on these drills,” Davis said. “We a “smarter brain” for the dis- $41,764 and did not meet bid said of the queensized quilt.