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FRIDAY COMING WEDNESDAY SALUTE HE OLTON INSIDE SUBSCRIBE TODAY! County to host T H The special DENISON, KANSAS Play Christmas When you subscribe, northeast Kansas Hometown of Football greetings and you save nearly 50% o officials meeting. Mike and Wileta Letters to the newsstand price! See page 11. Hughes Pick’em See Page 8. Santa section! Holton Recorder subscribers for 21 years. RECORDERServing the Jackson County Community for 148 years Volume 148, Issue 81 HOLTON, KANSAS • Monday, October 12, 2015 16 Pages $1.00 SAVINGS When you Today is the TODAY subscribe , you first day of fall! Spring rains have save nearly Fall sports 50% o the team photo ‘varying effect’ newsstand price! section WEDNESDAY inside! on fall crops Jackson Elect By Brian Sanders nels, and places where water seeped County 4-H y is ion Although rains received this out of the ground. It’s kind of hard a D spring in Jackson County have to make up for areas where there MARCH MADNESS sd pulled the area out of an ongoing just isn’t any corn. Overall, though, e a Fair parade u y drought, they have also had a vary- corn’s probably better than what they T ! ing effect on the county’s fall crops, thought they were going to get.” with corn not doing as well as last This year’s average per-acre yield NCAA men’s set for 6! year’s record crop and soybeans just for corn in Jackson County, Holli- starting to come in. day said, has so far been “about 140 tournament Both Dennis Holliday, agronomy bushels, plus or minus,” which is manager at Jackson Farmers Co-op in better than what some farmers who bracket on Holton, and David Hallauer, Mead- saw some of their fields under water owlark Extension District crops and in late spring were expecting. page 10! soils expert, noted that while many “Just looking at the corn crop in farmers are reporting “solid” corn the first part of June, it looked pretty yields this year, they are no match sick about that time,” he added. for last year’s bumper crop. Much of Hallauer noted that many area the reason for this year’s lower crop, farmers are “pleasantly surprised to they said, is the heavy spring rain. some degree” with the corn yields, “A lot of farmers are seeing about particularly with farmers apprehen­ 50 bushels an acre less than what sive about planting corn so late in they were seeing last year,” Holliday the spring. said. “There was a lot of rain, a lot of drowned-out spots and terrace chan- Continued to Page 5 A groundbreaking ceremony was held Thursday in Hoyt at the site of the new Family Practice Associates clinic. The new clinic will be located on Kansas Highway 214 just north of Denison State Bank and is expected to be constructed within six months. Those pic- tured breaking ground on the new clinic include Nate McAlister, Hoyt City Council member; Carrie Saia, Holton Community Hospital CEO; Jamie Stuke, who serves as the advanced practice registered nurse at the current clinic; D.J. Chance of Chance Construction; Nazarene church gets and J. Richard Lake, Holton Community Hospital board member. Photo by Ali Holcomb Ground broken for new FPA clinic in Hoyt new name and pastor By Ali Holcomb est Nazarene church.” By Ali Holcomb Hospital chief executive officer, lion in health care facilities revenue a physician’s office, a lab/draw room Holton’s Nazarene church has Kneisley spent 19 years teach- A special groundbreaking cer- announced last fall that the Rural bonds on behalf of Rural Health Re- and some workrooms. changed names and leadership re- ing before switching to ministry. He emony was held Thursday morning Health Resources of Jackson County sources in order to refinance existing “As of right now, we’re just going cently. taught in Hutchinson, as well as in for the new Family Practice Asso- had purchased the land near the bank bonds used in the construction o