Area Boy Scout preparing community Coverage on local fall for active shooter - Page 13 festivities - Page 5 www.harveycountynow.com - Newton, KS Vol. 3: No. 10 Thursday, October 19, 2017 USPS (17818) $1.25 New facility not finished yet, but has waiting list Apartments being constructed behind Wal-Mart taking names with demand high. BY BLAKE SPURNEY SPECIAL TO NEWTON NOW About 70 percent of the 63 units being con- structed by Prairie View Development Group be- hind Wal-Mart have been framed, and the company will begin reviewing applications for new residents in January. PHOTOS BY WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOW “The need for this type of project is every- From left, the Breadbasket owner Chad Lehman, and employees Alyssa Rogers and Kati Jackson make verenike on Friday afternoon for where,” said Kelley Hrabe, president of the Tabor College in Hillsboro. Kansas City, Mo.-based company. Prairie View is committed to providing afford- able living space along the Interstate 135 corridor. It is erecting similar units in Moundridge and McPherson, and the company is in discussions with Salina and Hesston about doing similar proj- ects. A local staple "There's a lot of pent-up demand for rental product, quality rental product,” Hrabe said. After the housing market crash in 2007, which Verenike: Restaurant makes Fall Fest, Taste of Newton tradition led to the Great Recession, underwriting restric- tions became stricter. That made it harder for peo- BY WENDY NUGENT ple to obtain mortgages. Another factor added into NEWTON NOW STAFF the mix is a lack of supply of rental properties in [email protected] recent decades. See FACILITY / 8 One lady actually seemed to be quivering with excitement, wait- ing at Fall Fest in line to get her highly anticipated verenike. She was one of many standing Shooting leaves man in line Taste of Newton and Fall Fest last week for verenike, and people usually like to eat it injured, community slathered in ham gravy or fes- tooned with some drippings of pancake syrup. Verenike is a Mennonite dish locked down during comprised of a cheese filling sur- rounded by a noodle-type of dough, cut in circles. search of suspect The Breadbasket restaurant in Newton has been supplying BY ADAM STRUNK verenike for years for Bethel Col- NEWTON NOW STAFF lege homecoming’s two annual [email protected] main events—Taste of Newton on Thursday and Fall Festival the following Saturday. A Newton man is recovering from an abdominal “I’d say for 20-some years it’s wound after being shot in a confrontation with a been,” Breadbasket owner Chad burglar. Lehman said. The event led to lockdowns for a neighborhood He said they took over the and Bethel College, as well as a seven-hour search restaurant in 2005, and the owner for the suspect that came up empty. before that had been making the At 8:27 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16, Newton dispatch Mennonite treats for Bethel Col- received a call reporting a burglary in the 400 lege. Block of Normandy in northern Newton. In all, the Breadbasket hand Newton Police Lt. Scott Powell said that a makes almost 4,000 verenike homeowner saw a man messing with the home- every year for Bethel College. owner’s vehicle in his driveway. The homeowner “Roughly, we plan around 1,400 went out and confronted the man. Breadbasket employee Kati Jackson, center, looks up at her boss while they're on a Powell said the burglar charged the man, and See STAPLE / 8 verenike assembly line. the two struggled in a physical confrontation. See SHOOTING / 8 Mail Label Masonic Lodge packs historical wallop, plenty of local treasures BY BLAKE SPURNEY "It's just a fraternal organi- SPECIAL TO NEWTON NOW zation that tries to make good men better," he said. Any man can petition to join Contrary to the myths pro- the Masons through a form ti- jected in "The Da Vinci Code" tled "Petition for the Myster- and "National Treasure" ies of Freemasonry." A movies, Newton Masonic candidate must believe in a Lodge No. 142 is not part of a deity, though no religion is secret society bent on ruling specified. Discussion of reli- the world from the shadows. gion or politics is strictly ver- "They say we're a secret or- boten. ganization, but we're not. We "A man should never enter advertise. A secret organiza- the Fraternity in the hope of tion is the Ku Klux Klan and making business connections things like that," said long- or for any other sort of WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOW time member Adrian McCul- Longtime member Adrian McCulloch stands in front of one of the local Masonic Lodge's loch. See MASONS / 8 stained-glass windows. Page 2 www.harveycountynow.comNEWS Newton Now October 19, 2017 Sauce will have you wanting ‘summer’ here they were on salt and pepper to taste boil the pasta according to It has a tiny kick to it, so my kitchen counter- 16 ounces pasta (I used package directions. if you have family mem- Ttop: the final rem- wheat spaghetti) Carefully pour the bers who don’t like spice, nants of two friends’ dried parsley (for op- sauce into a blender and I’d eliminate or cut back summer garden efforts, a tional garnish) blend until smooth. Pour the chili flakes and maybe line of tomatoes and the sauce back into the toss in just a little more sweet peppers, all staring Directions skillet. Add salt and pep- paprika, but I didn’t find at me, begging to be made Heat the olive oil in a per to taste. it overly spicy or abrasive. into something delicious. large skillet with a lid If the sauce is too thick, I also threw in some So I searched “tomato over medium heat. add a little pasta water. If turkey meatballs I had on and pepper recipes” on- Saute the onion with it’s too thin, add some hand and let them heat line, scrolled through the the lid on, stirring occa- more parmesan cheese. up in the sauce on the results and felt com- sionally, until they are Dump the strained stove. They were a nice pletely uninspired. soft. Toss in the diced pasta into the sauce and addition. Nothing seemed to ap- peppers and saute with stir to coat it. I’m definitely not ready peal to my current mood, the lid on for a couple Serve with a sprinkling to completely abandon and I wanted to use both more minutes until they of parmesan and dried recipes, but maybe this of these gifts as well as soften. parsley for color. experience will help me be possible, considering that Add the diced tomatoes, a bit braver in the future. hot house tomatoes and garlic, chili flakes, parme- Joey came home after Sometimes it just takes LINDSEY YOUNG/NEWTON NOW peppers season is upon san, paprika, dried covering a city council the right ingredients to us. Tomato pepper pasta sauce combines the sweet flavors of fresh toma- oregano, dried basil and meeting, just as I was inspire some creativity. I had the thought that I toes, bell peppers and yellow onion into a thick sauce, perfect for any mushrooms and stir. Let dumping my spaghetti could just cook them down kind of pasta. the mixture stew with the into the pan, and we sat Lindsey Young is co- into some kind of sauce lid off for about 20 to 30 down for a late dinner. owner of Newton Now and and serve it over pasta. went along. I’m sure I was color, diced minutes, stirring occa- He was pretty im- managing editor of The So I searched “tomato inspired by many differ- about one dozen small- sionally, until the toma- pressed that I went rogue Clarion in Andale. She and pepper sauce” online, ent recipes I’ve made over to medium-sized toma- toes release their juices. for a change, and we both also is a Bethel College scrolled some more and the years, but it was just toes, diced While the sauce cooks, really enjoyed this sauce. graduate. still wasn’t happy with me, my cutting board and 6 to 8 cloves garlic, the results. my stove whipping this minced Feeling unsure of my one up this week. 1 teaspoon chili flakes next step, I slung my 1 cup grated parmesan shopping bags over my Tomato Pepper Pasta 1 heaping teaspoon pa- shoulder and walked to Sauce prika the grocery store. I could- Ingredients 1 tablespoon dried n’t get the pasta sauce 1 tablespoon olive oil oregano idea out of my head on 1 small yellow onion, 1 tablespoon dried basil the way there and decided diced 1 pint mushrooms, that if the Internet could- 2 big bell peppers, any diced n’t give me a recipe I liked, I’d just make one up myself. This doesn’t seem like much of a revolutionary idea, but I’m a pretty committed recipe user, so just dumping things into a pan and hoping gener- ally isn’t my style. Those fresh veggies had some- how boosted my confi- dence. At the store, I grabbed a sweet onion. Then I spotted a pint of mush- rooms on sale. I had no idea what I’d do with them, but I decided I’d fig- ure it out and added them to my bag. When I got home, I started tossing things into my skillet, measuring each ingredient so I could recreate the recipe if it turned out well. So I don’t have a blog or link for you for this week’s recipe, since I re- ally just made it up as I TO SUBMIT NEWS: Newton Now welcomes your news and will print it as long as it fits our guidelines.