City Budget Process Could Be Difficult

Mexican-American softball has Heat doesn’t keep people from going strong Newton history - Page 12 out - Page 3 www.harveycountynow.com - Newton, KS Vol. 1: No. 46 Thursday, June 23, 2016 $1.25 City budget All hands on deck process could be difficult BY ADAM STRUNK NEWTON NOW STAFF [email protected] An unstoppable force meets an immovable object. So the budgeting process for the city's 2017 budget was described at a commission work session Wednesday. The current $19.6 million budget is projected to spend $1.58 million more than the city takes in, draining general fund reserves to around $1.6 million. Family helps with Budde wheat harvest If spending remained the same for its 2017 budget, reserves would be drawn down to of his daughters to start farming and her older sister, Michelle, had BY WENDY NUGENT $183,000. Those reserves with our grandfather, Frank to make 30 sandwiches every morn- would be about 1 percent of NEWTON NOW STAFF Budde, when we were in high ing. Mindy didn't like making the [email protected] the overall fund. The city has school. I bought my first piece of sandwiches at the time and recalls a policy to have that ending ground when I was 21 years old.” her mother would buy 25 frozen balance equal 15 percent of Bill Budde's hands are rough and And even though he was diag- loaves of bread just for harvest. the overall fund. It would take calloused, unlike him. There might nosed with cancer two years ago, Mindy does not like frozen bread. a roughly 21 mill increase in be some grease under his finger- Budde still manages to work every At the time, her dad would say, taxes to reach that 15 percent nails, but he doesn't seem to mind. day, Mindy said. “Well, I got a surprise in my sand- reserve He's worked the land for decades. During wheat harvest time, the wich today,” Mindy said, as some “Do we just keep spending He farmed with his grandpa and family has a few traditions, in addi- sandwiches missed ingredients. down reserves?” Commis- dad, and now the 68-year-old is tion to family all working together. “Now, they're good memories,” Johnson sioner Koehn said in a rhetori- working with his kids and grand- “The only big tradition we have is Mindy said. “[…] Now, we don't cal question about the possibility of “kicking kids. we eat dinner together every provide lunches for all the hired the can” down the road. There have been five generations night,” Mindy said about harvest men. They bring their own.” “That's what we've been doing the past six or of the family farming in Harvey time, whether that's at 10 p.m. or Since they had two deep freezers, seven years,” Assistant City Manager Tim County throughout the years. The midnight. Mindy said her mom would stock Johnson said. “And now it’s the unstoppable Budde farming operation is in rural Jacob Petersen, 11, Mindy's son, up on food for harvest. force meets the immovable object.” Newton. and Carrie White, Mindy's sister, Another tradition includes some Basically, the city is nearing the point either “He was 16 when [he] started cooked dinners for the crew. Food family history. in the 2017 budget or the following year that it farming on his own,” Budde's from night to night ranged from “One more tradition for me would daughter Mindy Budde said. “Be- lasagna to nachos to ribs to soup. be is that I take my grandfather’s See BUDGET / 8 fore that, he helped his father farm For lunch, people just bring along [Frank Budde] water jug to the and an uncle. My dad would have their own sandwiches. This wasn't field with me to every day during been young when his grandfather always the case, however. Mindy passed away. He allowed all three recalled when she was a kid, she See HARVEST / 8 Flurry of restaurant locations open in north end of Newton BY ADAM STRUNK NEWTON NOW STAFF [email protected] The north end of Newton is seeing a bevy of new restaurants. Recently two restaurants as well as a drive through coffee shop have opened in the area, with another restaurant to open this week. Nena's Mexican Carry Out On May 20, Nena's Mexican Carry Out opened at 1728 N. Main St. The location may be new, but the faces and recipes are familiar ones to the area. Part-owner Miguel Corona said the restaurant, which serves Mexican-American food, features mostly the recipes of his mother Helen “Nena” Corona. Miguel said his mother previously ran PHOTOS BY WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOW Nena's Mexican Food in a restaurant located Framed by large wheels, members of the Budde family who helped with the recent wheat harvest include, from left, Jacob Peterson, Bill Budde, on the corner of Fifth and Main Street in New- Mindy Budde and Courtney White. ton 25 to 30 years ago. See RESTAURANTS / 8 Mail Label Students learn about driving in local summer classes BY WENDY NUGENT doing it here, we haven't had a NEWTON NOW STAFF major crash,” Triggs said during a [email protected] drivers ed ride-along Monday morning. “We really haven't had any crashes.” Just like taking algebra, ignor- Triggs teaches drivers education ing one's parents and getting in the summer through the local grounded, drivers education is a school district. During the regular rite of passage for many teens in academic year, he instructs gov- America. ernment and sociology. Charle Triggs has been helping The summer sessions last three students through that rite for 49 weeks, Triggs said. years. To illustrate, if a person On Monday, Triggs went out on took drivers ed with him 49 years a drive with three students and a ago at the age of 15, he or she reporter; this was their first day of WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOW would be 64 today. Local driving instructor Charle Triggs, left, talks to student Amber Cox on Monday “It's fun, and since I've been See DRIVING / 8 morning about parts of a vehicle before they hit the road. Furniture Mattresses Rugs Accessories HURRY IN FOR BEST SELECTION! 200 W. Broadway U Newton 800-964-1812 Buy One Item At Regular Marked Price And Get Lift Chairs Î£ÈÓnÎ£n£nÊU Mon-Fri 10-6 U Saturday 10-5 A Second Items Of Equal Or Lesser Value At 55% OFF! On Sale *Excludes already on sale items. Starting at Does not include discontinued $599 or close out items. Page 2 www.harveycountynow.comNEWS Newton Now June 23, 2016 DIGGING CAMP Archeology students learn about finding artifacts BY WENDY NUGENT NEWTON NOW STAFF [email protected] Campers scurried about Friday morning at Kauff- man Museum, getting their displays ready for their parents to see, and even some of them skipped recess to make sure things were just so. The camp was Explo- rations in Archeology, taught by Nathan Dick of PHOTOS BY WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOW Newton at the North ABOVE: Johannes Kreider, left, high school helper for the week, and Newton museum. This Rachel Unruh guide a large wheel to its display area Friday, June 17, at camp is part of Uncle Kauffman Museum in North Newton. At right is camper Taylor Redington. Rogers Camps at the mu- LEFT: From left, campers Aaron Downey, Elisabeth Friesen and Taylor seum. Redington talk about their display. “The way the camp is set up is project-based Unruh said they used get some hands-on work learning,” Dick said. Google Drive to collabo- from an archeologist's The camp had two out- rate so they all could perspective,” he said. door dig sites; one was a work on the same project “You get to see what they cowboy campsite and the at the same time, and actually do.” other a Native American they even had access to it For example, he said, site. tor Rachel Unruh, adding good teamwork and col- up for display. We used if they wanted to work on one day it was really hot, On the first day of each student had a job, laboration.” the museum as an exam- it from home. so he had the opportunity camp, which was Monday, whether it was digging, Between the two sites, ple of how to put them up Camper Haley Sams to experience what arche- June 13, students marked recording, mapping or campers found about 150 for display.” said she liked camp. ologists in Egypt go with flags anything that cleaning. “The students items, Unruh said. Those That Friday, which was “I like digging,” she through. stuck out of the ground. took those roles. They included scissors, barbed the last day of camp, par- said, adding she found an “I learned how they dug “Wherever there were worked well together. […] wire, horseshoe, broken ents showed up during old ring and a couple of up items and how they the most flags is where And when things didn't dishes, spearheads, scrap- the last part, watching a rocks. had to preserve it and they decided to dig, and work, they stopped and ers, horsebit collar, PowerPoint presentation Another camper, Aaron show it off at the mu- then they mapped out the figured out why it wasn't chipped pottery and a given by campers and see- Downey, really enjoyed it. seum,” he said. “It was a site,” said camp coordina- working. It was really spearhead.

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