CONCORDIA VOL. CXIV NO. 58 (USPS 127-880) CONCORDIA, KANSAS 66901 Thursday, August 22, 2019 LADECity approves- projectMPIRE programming request The Concordia city commis- concrete pavement placed. totaled by the insurance com- totaling 20 minutes, with city B sion approved authorizing ConcordiaE was selected to pany, and the city received manager Amy Lange and city Mayor Mark Matthew to sign receive $1 million in funding $42,973.12, which will be put attorney Justin Ferrell for the the project programming from KDOT's City Connecting toward the cost of having the purpose of preliminary discus- request with the Kansas Link Improvement Program box remounted. The remainder sion of acquisition of real Department of Transportation (CCLIP). of the cost will come from the estate. No action was taken. (KDOT) for pavement replace- CCLIP funds improvements equipment reserve fund. Lange, during her city Good Evening ment to the southbound lanes to state highways that extend “We have good luck with manger's report, informed the on U.S. Highway 81 from the through cities. remounting a box, and that is commissioners that the city Concordia Forecast south city limits to north of KDOT awarded approxi- Medic 2 that we bought from and Cloud County Health Cen- Tonight, mostly cloudy with a 40 per- College Drive. mately $18 million in 23 com- Osage,” Voss said. ter had the property closing on cent chance of showers and thunder- KDOT has allocated $1 mil- munities through CCLIP. The city received cost esti- Tuesday for Lot 5, Block A of storms, mainly after 1 a.m. Low around lion for preliminary engineer- Concordia is among the mates to have the box College Park Drive. 66. East wind 5-10 mph. ing, construction engineering cities receiving funding for remounted from Osage Ambu- The commission approved a Friday, mostly cloudy with a 20 percent and the construction for the 2021 for pavement restoration, lances and Arrow. development agreement with chance of showers and thunderstorms project. which typically involves full- Osage Ambulances had the Cloud County Health Center before 1 p.m. High near 80. Southeast The city of Concordia is depth pavement replacement low bid by $69,918. (CCHC) for the purpose of wind 5-15 mph. required to contribute a mini- without changes to the overall “They (Osage) are a month building a new $40.35 million, Friday night, mostly cloudy with a 40 mum of 10 percent plus any- geometric characteristics and longer than Arrow, but we have 74,000 square-foot, 14 bed percent chance of showers and thunder- thing over the amount of $1 may also address drainage bought other ambulances hospital on the property in Col- storms, mainly after 1 a.m. Low around million. issues. through them and the cus- lege Park Drive. 66. Southeast wind 5-10 mph with gusts Preliminary cost estimates In other action taken during tomer service is good, so we feel CCHC qualified for free land as high as 20 mph. for the project are the meeting, the board that month is worth the cus- under the College Park Land Saturday, mostly cloudy with a 40 per- $787,888.40. approved a bid of $63,000 from tomer service and continuing Pricing Policy. cent chance of showers and thunder- It states on the project pro- Osage Ambulances, Jefferson to work with someone, plus If the land remains undevel- storms, mainly before 1 p.m. High near 78. gramming request that the out- City, Mo., to remount the box they were the lowest bid,” Voss oped for 18 months, the city Southeast wind around 10 mph with gusts side southbound lane on U.S. of the city's Medic 5 onto a said. has the right to reacquire it for as high as 20 mph. Highway 81 has broken and 2020 Ford E450 chassis to Osage Ambulances will take the same price of $0. Saturday night, mostly cloudy with a 40 settled in many places, creat- replace Medic 1 which was care of transporting Medic 5, CCHC is currently working percent chance of showers and thunder- ing a very rough driving serv- damaged in a rollover accident remount the box, and the Fire on securing financing for the storms. Low around 67. ice. The concrete pavement in Harvey County in April. Department will pick it up project through the United Sunday, partly sunny with a 30 percent needs to be replaced and any Concordia Fire Chief Eric when the work is completed. States Department of Agricul- chance of showers and thunderstorms. underlying drainage or sub- Voss reported to the commis- The commission met in two ture, and has stated it plans to High near 83. base issues corrected and new sion that the ambulance was separate executive sessions, break ground early in 2021. Across Kansas Kansas fights KU associate professor doing research charged claim of man WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — An associate pro- wrongfully fessor at the University of Kansas was secretly working full time for a Chinese university while doing research in Kansas on projects funded by the U.S. govern- imprisoned ment, an indictment filed Wednesday alleges. WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is fighting Feng "Franklin" Tao was charged with the compensation claim of a man who one count of wire fraud and three counts of spent 23 years in prison for a double homi- program fraud. The 47-year-old Lawrence cide before a judge vacated his convictions, man has been employed since August which were secured despite a complete lack 2014 at the Kansas University's Center for of physical evidence and motive tying him Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis in to the crimes. Lawrence. The center conducts research Lamonte McIntyre's case was one of on sustainable technology to conserve nat- three that helped prompt the Legislature ural resources and energy. last year to allow the wrongfully convicted Court records do not list an attorney for to seek compensation. The law provides for Tao, who was arrested Wednesday at his $65,000 for each year a person spent home. behind bars, along with health insurance The Kansas Board of Regents requires benefits, financial assistance for higher staff to file an annual conflict-of-interest Gorilla on the grounds education and various social services. report, and the indictment accuses Tao of An inflatable gorilla has a seat on the yard at 712 East Fifth Street. (Blade photo by Jay Lowell) When signing it into law, then-Gov. Jeff falsely claiming in those reports to have no Colyer publicly apologized to McIntyre and such conflicts. Prosecutors also allege he the other men saying "we will make it right." fraudulently received more than $37,000 The state attorney general's office sup- in salary funded by the Department of Rattle and Hum to perform ported the compensation claims of the Energy and the National Science Founda- other two men, Richard Jones and Floyd tion. Bledsoe, allowing the court to quickly grant "Tao is alleged to have defrauded the at Brown Grand Theatre them money and officially declare them U.S. government by unlawfully receiving innocent. But it issued a statement federal grant money at the same time that U2 tribute band Rattle and Hum, with Wednesday saying it couldn't do so for he was employed and paid by a Chinese guest Tomorrow Man will perform at the McIntyre because it found "the record of research university — a fact that he hid Brown Grand Theatre at 7 p.m. Saturday prior judicial proceedings" in his case to be from his university and federal agencies," night. "insufficient." Furthermore, it recommend- John Demers, assistant attorney general Rattle and Hum places a priority on ed in a legal filing last month that the court for the Justice Department's National accurately delivering the sound of U2, and rule against McIntyre's claim and require Security Division, said in a news release. is dedicated to making the audience feel as McIntyre to pay any costs. Tao signed a five-year contract in May if it were experiencing a real U2 concert. McIntyre's attorney, Cheryl Pilate, blast- 2018 that designated him as a Changjiang Rattle & Hum to perform at Brown Grand The- Formed in 2006, Rattle and Hum is com- ed the attorney general's office's position, Scholar Distinguished Professor and atre Saturday night. prised of some of Kansas City's most tal- saying there is nothing in the compensa- required him to be a full-time employee of ented musicians including vocalist Mike Tomorrow Man hails from Lincoln, Neb., tion law that would prevent the office from Fuzhou University in China, according to Jackson, Anthony Trevino on guitar, Gary and performs a mix of folk, Scottish punk independently examining the facts of a the indictment. Bertoncin on drums and Pat Ross on bass. and storytelling. claimant's case and to reach an agreement His first court hearing is Friday in U.S. The band is relentless in playing the The doors for the concert will open at with a claimant. Although the office's posi- District Court in Kansas City. songs with passion and energy, and always 6:30 p.m. Tickets are available at the door tion is disappointing, it doesn't mean McIn- wins over any crowd it plays to. or online at www.browngrand.org. tyre has lost, she said. Regulators investigating "What it means is we have a year or more of litigation ahead of us and that the pur- Sedgwick County moves to restrict pose of the act — which was to provide swift cause of earthquakes relief and assistance to unjustly convicted TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas regulators people who were just released from prison are investigating the cause of a cluster of wind farms, commercial solar — is defeated," Pilate told The Associated 11 earthquakes that hit Reno County in Press on Wednesday.