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The question will be heaven or hell, not trick or treat,

during First Baptist Church of Shawnee’s

upcoming Judgement

House presentation,

“59 Minutes.” A Christian twist on Halloween

haunted houses, the walk-through

dramas will begin Oct. 24 at the church. See story on page 7.

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Bill Hansen’s positive outlook on life has help him happy and healthy throughout his long life. He’ll celebrate his 100th birthday on Oct. 22.

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The Shawnee Parks and Recreation De-partment is offering Boot Camp fitness classes Thursday evenings from Oct. 25 through Nov. 29.

The classes will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Shawnee Civic Center, 13817 John-son Drive. They will include a high-energy mix of cardio and weight training that will burn fat, increase stamina, and build and tone muscle.

The fee is $20, and registration is required by Oct. 18. For more information or to register, call 913-631-5200.

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TONGANOXIE ELEMENTARY School students wear camouflage in support of 2011 Red Ribbon Week. Schools promote dress-up days as part of the anti-drug awareness program.

Connie Weltha, Tonganoxie Ele-mentary School counselor, answers questions about national Red Rib-bon Week.

Q: When is Red Ribbon Week?A: Most area schools are observ-

ing it Oct. 22-26.Q: What is Red Ribbon Week?A: It’s a week dedicated to edu-

cating children about the dangers of substance abuse, whether it’s illegal drugs, alcohol or legal drugs used il-legally, such as prescription pills. It gives communities an opportunity to make a stand against substance abuse.

Q: How did it start?A: The Red Ribbon Campaign

started after Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Ca-marena was murdered by drug traf-fickers in Mexico City in 1985. This began the tradition of displaying red ribbons as a symbol of intoler-ance towards the use of drugs.

Q: Why dedicate a week to drug

awareness?A: As we know, drug and alco-

hol abuse with our young people is one of the highest concerns in ev-ery community. Kids are looking for something, and they’re turning to drugs for answers. The sooner we can educate them the better. Red Ribbon Week also serves as a reminder to parents to be vigilant about their children’s activities.

Q: What can parents do to par-ticipate?

A: Kids aren’t just using illegal drugs. It’s drugs found in the home. Those are so accessible, and most people don’t notice when they go missing. We need to educate our kids. Studies show that children that do not fall into the patterns of drug and alcohol use are the ones that have the strongest relationship with their parents. We hope that opening the door to discussion at school will open the door at home, too.

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Shawnee city manager lauded for excellence

Shawnee City Manager Carol Gonza-les was awarded the Edward O. Stene Award for Managerial Excellence on Oct. 7, during the International City Man-ager’s Conference in Phoenix.

This award was presented by Kansas University City Managers and Trainees, the alumni association for the University of Kansas Masters in Public Administra-tion Program. It recognizes individuals who have performed in an exceptional manner in the management of the or-ganization in which they are employed. This may be demonstrated through establishment of a new and innova-tive program, resolution of a difficult organizational problem or completion of a long-term organizational goal.

According to Shawnee Mayor Jeff Meyers, Gonzales has done all three.

She was nominated for the award by all of Shawnee’s department direc-tors for her work to stabilize the city’s financial position leading up to and dur-ing the recession, her efforts to diversify the city’s tax base through economic development, and her commitment to professional local government.

Gonzales has been Shawnee’s city manager since December 2005.

The Stene award is named for the man who directed the KU Master’s in Public Administration Program from its beginning in 1948 to 1970 and then again from 1973 to 1974. The KU program is one of the oldest and most respected master’s in public administra-tion programs in the United States.

Willow Tree creator to visit Naomi’s Hallmark

Naomi’s Hallmark, 12128 Shawnee Mission Parkway, will host Willow Tree figurine creator Susan Lordi on Saturday to raise funds for Children’s Mercy Hos-pitals and Clinics.

From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the store will donate 10 percent of sales of Willow Tree purchases and Lordi will be on hand to sign her work.

Inspired by dance, art history, nature and personal experiences, Lordi carves figurative sculptures that communicate through gesture only, expressing senti-ments such as hope and healing.

“Willow Tree is among our most popu-lar lines, and we believe that a hand-signed piece will increase the collectabil-ity and add a personal touch to a special gift-giving occasion,” said Larry Benson, owner of Naomi’s Hallmark.

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ON THE COVERTOP: LARRY CROSLEY directs a shooting

scene during a rehearsal for First Baptist Church of Shawnee’s upcoming Judgement House production. Portraying the teenage victims are, from left, Tilden Howie, Makenzie Denham and Laura Smith.

BOTTOM LEFT: ANGIE COLE plays the wife of a man about to be taken off of life support.

BOTTOM RIGHT: CURTIS JONES portrays a man defending his practice of putting his job before church to his wife, played by Curtis’ real wife, Sarah Jones.

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Volunteers help elderly couple remain in home

Larry and Luciana Mejia, a Shawnee couple in their early 80s, recently de-cided it was time to say goodbye to the old homeplace.

Larry, who is losing his eyesight, and Luciana, who suffers from rheu-matoid arthritis, could no longer safely get around the split-level home where they’d raised their children and lived for the past 40 years.

But when it actually came time to start boxing things up, put their house on the market and start looking for an assisted-living facility, the couple had second thoughts. What if, by some miracle, there was some way for them to remain in their dear old home for a few more years, they wondered.

And then, through a referral from the Johnson County Area Agency on Aging, they found their miracle.

It’s called Rebuilding Together Shawnee.

On Saturday, as the Mejias sat as-tounded in their living room, they were surrounded by 34 volunteers from the organization, an affiliate of the nation’s largest volunteer home rehabilitation organization.

Founded in 2007, the local nonprofit organization relies on business dona-tions and volunteers from churches, businesses and other institutions to provide the repairs and other rehabili-tation necessary to help eligible home-owners continue to live safely and in-dependently.

On Saturday, it was the St. Joseph

Catholic Church’s turn to provide the labor, which, along with donated materials, was valued at more than $20,000, said Mike Walberg.

Walberg, a local plumber and “house captain” for the project, said the proj-ect involved rebuilding stairs to make them easier to climb, moving a washer and dryer out of the basement, repair-ing a deck, installing grab bars and a handheld shower in the bathroom, painting interior walls and doing yard work.

In addition, the Mejias received a new hot water heater donated by Re-Bath and new bedroom car-pet donated by Spectrum Carpets. “I didn’t realize people were that kind to do what they’re doing, and they’re

so joyful in doing it,” Larry Mejia said as the beehive of volunteer activity buzzed around him and his wife. “We can’t believe it.”

Luciana Mejia said the improved ac-cessibility will allow her and her hus-band to remain close to their doctors and nearby Shawnee Mission Medical Center.

“We want to live here as long as we can,” she said.

Others who believe they could ben-efit from Rebuilding Shawnee Togeth-er’s assistance, as well as those who would like to donate cash, materials or

labor for the organization’s projects,can receive information by calling 913-248-2802 or visiting rebuildingtogeth-ershawnee.org.

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ABOVE: LARRY AND LUCIANA MEJIA were amazed Saturday as a crew of Rebuilding Together Shawnee volunteers made improvements allowing the couple to remain in the house they’ve called home for the past 40 years.RIGHT: KIM STEVERMER was among 34 volunteers from the Saint Joseph Catholic Church who showed up to work on the Rebuilding Together Shawnee project.

MARY KAY RIEHLE, left, and Carol Lust were among the vol-unteers who gave the bed-rooms in the Mejias’ home a fresh coat of paint.

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line is noon Friday before publication. There is no charge. For future events or more information about listings, see our online calendar at shawneedispatch.com/events.

10/17 | Wednesday• Shawnee Chamber a.m. Connect, 8 a.m., Little Monkey Bizness, 12219 Shawnee Mission Parkway

• Shawnee Lions Club, 6:30 p.m., Power Play, 13110 W. 62nd Terrace Ave.

10/18 | Thursday• Shawnee/Lenexa Chapter of Business Network International meeting, 7 a.m., First Watch, 11112 Shawnee Mission Parkway

• Shawnee Chamber of Commerce Coffee, 8:30 a.m., Shawnee Gardens, 6416 Long

10/19 | Friday• Shawnee Rotary Club, 7:15 a.m., Shawnee Town Hall, 11600 Johnson Drive

• Job Club, 8:30 a.m., Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church, 5501 Monticello Road

• Friday Films, 1 p.m., Shawnee Civic Centre, 13817 Johnson Drive

• Lenexa Chili Challenge, 6-11 p.m., Old Town Lenexa, Santa Fe Trail Drive east of Pflumm Road

10/20 | Saturday• Shawnee Farmers’ Market, 7 a.m., Shawnee City Hall, 11110 Johnson Drive

• Holiday Treasures Craft Festival, 9 a.m., Shaw-nee Civic Centre, 13817 Johnson Drive

• Lenexa Chili Challenge, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Old Town Lenexa, Santa Fe Trail Drive east of Pflumm Road

• Figurine signing by Willow Tree creator Susan Lordia, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Naomi’s Hallmark, 12128 Shawnee Mission Parkway

10/21 | Sunday• Hymn Festival, 7 p.m., Hope Lutheran Church, 6308 Quivira Road. Organ recitalist and composer Charles Ore will perform on the church’s new Pasi Opus 21 pipe organ.

10/22 | Monday• Shawnee City Council, 7:30 p.m., Shawnee City Hall, 11110 Johnson Drive

10/23 | Tuesday• Biz 2 Biz Connections, 8 a.m., Edward Jones Investments, 5725 Nieman Road, Suite D• Shawnee Kiwanis Club, noon, First Watch, 11112 Shawnee Mission Parkway

10/25 | Thursday• Biz 2 Biz Connections, 8 a.m., Edward Jones Investments, 5725 Nieman Road, Suite D

• Shawnee Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours, 5-7 p.m., Steve Taylor, American Family Insurance, 21632 Midland Drive

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• 6 by 6: Ready to Read Literacy Spaces. Drop in through Feb. 28 with your preschooler and use a picture book to explore activities that enhance children’s pre-reading skills.

• Vote for Books! Drop in through Nov. 6 to let children in preschool through sixth grade vote for their favorite book characters. Each participant will get a free book-mark and a chance to win a book.

• Preschool Storytime, 10:30 a.m. Oct. 18. This weekly 30-minute event features short stories, songs and fin-gerplays for children ages 3 through 5 years accompa-nied by adults. Registration is not required, but space is limited to the first 15 children.

• Toddler Storytime, 10:30 a.m. Oct. 22. This weekly 20-minute event will feature short stories, songs and fingerplays for children ages 2 through 3 accompanied by adults. Registration is not required, but space is limited to the first 15 children.

JOHNSON COUNTY MUSEUM OF HISTORY

6305 LACKMAN ROAD, 913-715-2550

• Suburban Bliss? Bob Bliss’ political cartoons, which appeared in the Sun Newspapers from 1991 until 2002, will be on exhibit through May 18. Free admission.

• Jo Ho Storyteller, 10 a.m. Oct. 17. A free activity for families. Groups of 10 or more are asked to register by calling 913-715-2552.

• Family Fun Day, 10 a.m.-noon, Oct. 20. Families are invited to make crafts and tour KidScape! free.

• Pop ’n Play, 9-11 a.m. Oct. 24. Drop-in activities for 9-month- to 3-year-olds. $1 per child, or free for members.

• Halloween Spooky Fun, 10-noon, Oct. 31. Wear a cos-tume and come enjoy crafts and treats. Free admission.

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• Speaker Series, 7 p.m. Oct. 23. “Gathering Memoir of a Seed Saver,” presented by Diane Whealy, co-founder of Seed Savers Exchange.

• Historical Hauntings, 6-8:30 p.m. Oct. 27. This free event will feature trick-or-treating, hayrides, an eyeball candy counting contest, Halloween photo opportunities and costume contests.

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• Come Sign with Me Story Time, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Oct. 18. Children can learn sign language and hear a story every third Thursday. Free with museum admission.

• Wonderpalooza: Dino O’Dell, 2-3 p.m. Oct. 20. A fun afternoon of music and family fun. Free with museum admission.

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BILL HANSEN, a resident of Shawnee Hills Senior Liv-ing, tells his story and a few jokes during an interview on the eve of his 100th birthday.

After 100 years, resident still looking on bright side

Ask Bill Hansen how he made it to 100 in such good shape and, without missing a beat, he’ll tell you, “Beats the hell out of me.”

But that’s just the salty style of the Shawnee Hills Senior Living resident, who will hit the century mark on Oct. 22. His substance, which manifests it-self in his positive outlook on life, may be the real secret behind Hansen’s lon-gevity.

“He is a joy to be around, and he constantly inspires both staff and resi-dents on how to live your life to the fullest,” said Angie Johnson, director of fun at the retirement center. “He gives lunchtime serenades to lucky ladies and hugs to staff members to remind them how much they are ap-preciated. And he lives by a couple of simple rules: ‘Don’t sweat the small stuff’ and ‘Everything in moderation.’”

Everything but jokes, that is. Over 100 years, he’s stored away one for ev-ery occasion. So when the subject of health and doctors came up during an interview, he quipped, “Old doctors never die, they just lose their patients.”

“I’ve had two hip replacements on my left side,” Hansen said on a more serious note. “Other than that, I’m what the doctors would call disgust-ingly healthy.”

Of course, he failed to mention he is legally blind due to macular degen-eration. And when a daughter-in-law brought up the fact, Hansen added, on a positive note, that he can still read thanks to some equipment that illumi-nates and magnifies the written word.

“It’s kind of a chore, but I get by with it,” he said.

Hansen can also still make out the ladies around him, which brought to mind another of his aphorisms, this one an original, he claimed.

“A woman is as old as she looks, and a man is old when he quits looking,” Hansen said.

It was clear from the conversation, however, that one woman in particu-lar will always be the apple of his eye: his wife, Muriel. They had been mar-ried 62 years when she died on Jan. 14, 2004, from cancer that the couple had fought “for 14 years, two months and 20 days,” Hansen said.

He could have packed it in after that, pining for the good old days for the rest of his long life. But sadness and living in the past both seem like foreign concepts to Hansen.

“The good old days,” he said, “are right now — power steering, power brakes, jet airplanes, air conditioning, color TV. Progress is the most im-portant thing. But man doesn’t do it by himself. You have to have faith in something.”

Old-fashioned values like faith and work ethic were instilled in Hansen on his parents’ farm near Edna, a wide place in the road in southeast Kansas.

“We lived within a half-mile of Oklahoma, where bootleggers were so numerous in the ’30s they had to wear badges so they wouldn’t waste time trying to sell each other,” he joked.

Helping out with the crops, the hogs and milk cows translated into 14 hour work days for Hansen, curing him of any ambition to follow in his parents’ farming footsteps as an adult.

“In those days, it took a lot of money to get started in farming,” Hansen said. “Today, you’ve got to have a fortune. And if you’ve got a fortune, what the hell do you need with a farm?”

One of the best days of his life, he said, was when he left the farm in 1939 to go to work for a Phillips oil refinery in Kansas City, Kan.’s Fairfax District.

“Can you believe I shocked corn for my brother when I was 18 for 50 cents a day?” he said. “I went to work at the refinery for 50 cents an hour. ... After six or seven years, I got up to $1.22. Then the damn union came in and ab-solutely ruined it.”

Before that, however, Hansen struck it rich in the romance department. Sitting on the porch of his boarding house after work, he noticed a pretty girl getting off the bus down the street every day. And when he described her to a friend, he learned her name: Mu-riel Joyce Holmgren.

“Her brother and I are great friends,” the friend told him. “Would you like to meet her?”

Hansen said “sure,” and two years later they were married.

Shortly thereafter, Hansen bought a new house for his growing family in Kansas City, Mo. And in 1949, the Hansens moved to 18 acres in Base-hor, where he bought a grocery store in 1964.

His three sons helped with the gro-cery. But after each had gone away to the Army or college, Hansen decided he didn’t want to hire help “because they’d steal me blind.” So after owning the store four years, he sold it back to the original owner and went to work for Farmland Industries.

After retiring in 1977, Hansen and his wife began spending winters on property they purchased in McCal-lum, Texas, then spent three years in a rented condo on Padre Island.

By then, Hansen’s aspiration was to live to the end of the century, when he would turn 88.

“Now, I’m 12 years past that,” said Hansen, who gives some of the credit to the fact that he gave up smoking when he was 33. He’d contracted Ger-man measles, which made his Lucky Strikes taste awful, he said.

“So I decided, ‘This is my golden opportunity to quit,’” Hansen said, re-minding himself of a song.

“Smoke, smoke, smoke that ciga-rette,” he sang, belting out his favorite verse of a Hank Williams classic.

On Oct. 22, Hansen will be on the receiving end of “Happy Birthday” serenades from fellow Shawnee Hills residents, friends and a family that includes four grandchildren and four great-grandkids.

Asked if he had any advice for younger people, which includes just about everyone on the planet, Hansen thought for a moment, then offered this:

“If it’s possible, get an education, and then do something with it.”


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School finance factsTo the editor,You reported in your Oct. 10 article

about the 18th District Kansas House race that my opponent, former Demo-crat State Representative Milack Ta-lia, said: “The Kansas Legislative Re-search Department has confirmed that in 2011, the Legislature made the larg-est cut off the base state aid per pupil in Kansas history.”

How disingenuous and misleading! The “2011” cuts in education Mr. Ta-lia refers to were contained in the FY 2011 (July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011) bud-

get for the 2010-2011 school year. The vote on this budget occurred in 2010, when Mr. Talia, not I, served in the Kansas House, and Democrat Mark Parkinson, not Sam Brownback, was governor. In fact, it was Mr. Talia, not I, who voted for these cuts in per-pupil spending that he now complains of, as part of the FY 2011 budget.

For the record, the FY 2009 budget, which funded the 2008-2009 school year, provided base state aid per pupil of $4,400. The FY 2010 budget, fund-ing the 2009-2010 school year, voted for by Mr. Talia during the first year

of his term, and approved by the Par-kinson administration, cut base state aid per pupil to $4,012. And the FY 2011 budget, funding the 2010-2011 school year, voted for by Mr. Talia during the second year of his term, and approved by Governor Parkinson, reduced base state aid per-pupil again, to $3,937. If my math is right, and it is, that’s a drop of $463 dollars in base state aid per pu-pil voted on and approved by Mr. Ta-lia during his two years in the House.

By contrast, Gov. Brownback’s first budget, for the 2012 fiscal year, fund-ing the 2011-2012 school year, reduced

base state aid per pupil by only $157, far less than the $463 in cuts engi-neered by the Parkinson administra-tion with the approval and votes ofMr. Talia. And in any event, I voted against the FY 2012 budget. And this year, I voted for and we approved andpassed a FY 2013 budget containingfunding for the current school year which restored $40 million to base state aid per pupil, resulting in totalper pupil spending this year of $12,656, only $4 less than its all time high in the 2008-2009 school year.

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COMMENT

I’m starting to get a touch of the wanderlust again.

We’ve been home since July, and of course it’s always nice to return to familiar routines and settle into your favorite armchair. But for me there comes a time when I’m ready to be off again.

U n f o r t u n a t e l y , our next trip won’t be until the spring. We’ve spent the last two Christmases away from home, so we decided some time ago that we’d stay home for Christ-mas this year.

In the meantime, we’re planning our next great adven-ture, to visit my wife’s father’s ances-tral homeland, France. Arrangements are, at this point, still fluid. My wife’s father’s family came over from France in the 1800s, and we’re trying to see if we can’t find some of those who stayed. Thus far, we think there may be a cousin in Besancon, but we’re still trying to confirm this — and, to see if there are others, as well.

Once we’re able to establish contact, then we’ll be able to plan our itinerary.

In many respects, I get almost as much pleasure from planning a trip like this as I do from the trip itself. I sit at my computer desk and surround myself with all the trappings — maps, brochures, guidebooks and the lot.

I’ll search the Internet for infor-mation on hotels or train schedules.

We’ll try to line up as much as possible in advance. By that I mean hotels, rail passes, car rentals and maybe a few mu-seum reservations.

Despite all the planning, I always find it helps to build a considerable

amount of flexibility into the schedule. At some point, I figure we’ll want to simply sit at a cafe and linger over a cafe au lait or something.

Also I’ll want to brush up on my French. I traveled in France many years ago, and the French seemed to appreciate it when I made the attempt to communicate in their language.

But, for now, I’ll spread out the map and try to put together an itinerary. Let’s see, if we spend two nights here, then we can use the extra day to ...

POINT OF VIEWThe Dispatch’s 2012 Point of View panelists respond to weekly questions. See

more responses and add comments of your own at shawneedispatch.com.

“Peanut free good-ies are my go-to fa-vorites. I’m handing out the giant Pixy

Stix this year.”

Angela JeppesenShawnee

“The apartment complex where I live usually has a party for the kids. So I haven’t seen

a young one come around in years.”

Ray ErlichmanShawnee

Q: What do you plan to dish out to trick-or-treaters this Halloween?

“Popcorn and fruit rollups, but most im-portantly, a friendly

reception for the little goblins and an

enthusiastic ap-preciation for their

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An armchair traveler


Judgement House to takecrowds through heaven, hell

Halloween’s centurieslong focus on death and the hereafter has given risen to a modern Christian tradition — the Judgement House — now marking its fourth year at the First Baptist Church of Shawnee.

The first Judgement House was cre-ated in 1983 by an Alabama youth pas-tor looking for a Christian alternative to haunted houses.

Since then, Judgement House has grown into a nonprofit organization that provides scripts for other church-es wishing to stage what the Rev. Bob Hartmann, pastor at the First Baptist Church of Shawnee, describes as “a walk-through drama presenting our choices as human beings concerning eternity.”

According to the organization’s website, more than 6 million people have participated in Judgement House presentations at churches in 35 states and 10 foreign countries and about 600,000 of those have made first-time professions of faith.

Larry Crosley, director for this year’s seven-scene drama at First Bap-tist Church of Shawnee, said its previ-ous Judgement House presentations have each attracted about 1,000 visi-tors. “And there have been a number of people who have come to know the Lord because of it,” Crosley said. “It’s very intense.”

Parents of small children are ad-vised that “the hell scene may not be for them” because it’s so dark and scary, Hartmann said.

But no, he added, anticipating a question he’s often asked, the idea isn’t to use fire and brimstone to scare people into a relationship with Jesus Christ. The idea is to address gospel lessons in a visual way.

“I can preach about heaven. I can preach about hell. I can preach about judgment,” the pastor said. “But it’s just something about that visual ele-ment that helps us to have a little bet-ter understanding.”

Hartmann said he came to realize how visually oriented young people are 10 years ago, when he was in-

volved in a Judgement House program as part of the clergy at the Sharon Bap-tist Church in Wichita.

Judgement House presentations were initially geared toward young au-diences, he added. But due to the age diversity of the actors and the real-life situations they depict, “they touch ev-eryone,” Hartmann said.

The script chosen by First Baptist Church of Shawnee this year is titled “59 Minutes” because it involves the final 59 minutes in the lives of a hus-band and father who dies from an unexpected heart attack and three teenagers killed by gunfire during a convenience store robbery attempt.

The deaths will be depicted during one “split scene,” which will be fol-lowed by scenes depicting their judge-ment, hell and heaven.

“We do have a hell scene; Jesus talked a lot about eternal judgement,” Hartmann said. “But we really try to emphasize the heaven scene, the glory of heaven and God’s presence.”

According to Hartmann, the pro-duction requires weeks of prepara-tion and involves about 150 young and adult church members in acting, tour guide, security and other roles.

“It’s kind of an intergenerational thing,” said Hartmann, who added that the Judgement House participants of-ten end up revising their judgements of one another in the process.

“Our seniors come to realize, ‘Hey, we have some quality young people,’” he explained, while younger partici-pants find out that “those grey-haired people are pretty cool.”

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Candidates for state board of education agree on evolution, disagree on state funding levels for public schools

Two area candidates vying for the Kansas State Board of Education Dis-trict 2 seat both have strong back-grounds in education.

Cindy Neigh-bor, Democrat, and Steve Roberts, Re-publican, agreed that they would not support any cur-rent proposals for a voucher system whereby the state or taxpayers would fund students’ at-tendance at private or parochial schools. They also agreed that evolu-tion should be taught in schools.

Their opinions differed, however, on other major issues facing public educa-tion these days, including the matter of state funding for public schools.

Neighbor, a Shawnee resident now in her 16th year serving on the Shaw-nee Mission school board, said she was running for the state board because “this is one of the most critical times in our history to maintain the excellent quality of education in Kansas.”

“I believe my background would help me in being prepared and (under-standing) what the responsibilities of

the state board entail,” Neighbor said in a questionnaire prepared by The Dispatch.

Roberts, who lives in Overland Park and has been a math and science teach-er for about 20 years, lost his bid for a seat on the board in 2008 as an inde-

pendent candidate. He said he switched parties in 2009 af-ter finding the GOP to be “closer to my values.” He’s run-ning again, he said, “to fix some of the fundamental flaws that have nagged education for de-

cades.”Some of those flaws, he said, include

how teacher evaluations are handled — he believes an evaluation system of “checks and balances” should take the place of tenure — and that legislators are too involved in the education pro-cess and are “too willing to pass laws to fix every problem.”

“The more we manage our schools locally, the more services we can pro-vide to poor families,” Roberts said.

If elected, Neighbor said, her main priorities would be helping to devel-op new multi-state science standards — they revolve around the evolution theory — “in a very conscientious

manner,” as well as the Common Core standards, a new approach to learning in Kansas public schools that went into effect this school year.

“These standards will require the partnership of administrators, teachers and other resources in order to have successful programs,” Neighbor said.

Roberts said one of his first orders of business would be to gauge “the indi-vidual hopes and dreams” of the other board members.

Working together, he said, “was crit-ically important to being an effective board member.”

The two disagreed on state fund-ing, with Neighbor saying the current funding level was inadequate to sup-port public education, especially with the increase in enrollment in schools. She allowed that more money was be-ing funneled into specific areas, such as special education and the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System.

“But they’re not putting more mon-ey into education” as a whole, she said.

Roberts argued that actually, “we are spending a lot of money on school-ing,” given that the lion’s share of the state budget goes to support public education.

On the issue of assessment test scores, which statewide have dropped for the first time in more than 10 years, Neighbor said the lack of state fund-

ing was to blame. Additional math and reading support, as well as smallerclass sizes, she said, could go a longway toward bringing test scores backup, but “all of these solutions require more funding to pay the needed stafffor these services.”

Roberts said too much emphasis was placed on test scores to begin with.

“We are going to save a lot morekids — born and unborn — with love than we ever will with legislation,” he said.

He also disagreed with separatingstudents into race or income catego-ries, which is done for testing purposes during state assessments. He called the practice “a hindrance to having a col-orblind society.”

“We have to quit labeling schoolsas ‘mostly minority’ or ‘mostly poor,’” Roberts said. “We’re killing our poorercitizens, particularly in urban areas, with legalized labels for marginaliza-tion.”

Neighbor said her past experience,which also includes 13 years on Shaw-nee Mission’s advisory board, would allow her to “hit the ground running rather than be brought up to speed.” Roberts said, as someone who has ex-perience teaching in public, private and parochial schools, he was “in a uniqueposition” to be able to fully address the current educational challenges.

By Melissa [email protected]

Cindy NeighborSteve Roberts


17th District candidates voiceeconomic development views

In the three-way race for the 17th District seat in the Kansas House, the candidates have differing views on how to develop the state economy and create jobs.

Brett Hildabrand, a Shawnee Repub-lican, believes the road to economic development must be paved with low-er taxes. And he’ll get no argument there from Michael Kerner, a Lenexa Libertarian seeking the seat. But Larry Meeker, a Lake Quivira indepen-dent, said the state should look to the economic develop-ment model estab-lished by Johnson County, where businesses have been attracted by exceptional schools and services, not tax-cutting “experi-ments” that threat-en to erode quality of life.

Hildabrand, the closest thing to an incumbent in the

race, was elected state representative for the 23rd District in 2010, while liv-ing in Merriam. But during legislative redistricting this year, he was drawn out of his district and decided to move to a Shawnee apartment in the newly configured 17th District. It includes Lake Quivira and parts of Shawnee and Lenexa.

A conservative Republican, Hildab-rand believes the best way to grow the economy and create badly needed jobs is to lower the tax burden on busi-nesses. Thus, he voted last session for a dramatic tax cut plan that called for lower marginal income tax rates and elimination of taxes on nonwage in-come. According to the Kansas Leg-islative Research Department, those cuts will leave revenue shortfalls, wid-ening to $2.4 billion by 2018, for state government to backfill.

If he is elected, Hildabrand said, he will seek additional revenue through elimination of several of the tax cred-its, deductions and exemptions that Gov. Sam Brownback had proposed eliminating last session to help pay for the tax cuts. But until the economy sta-bilizes, Hildabrand said, he would not favor elimination of the state mort-gage interest deduction or earned in-come tax credit for the working poor.

Hildabrand said the added jobs and consumer spending generated by the income tax cuts also will help fill the projected revenue gap. And so will the reduction in state spending he would support, he said.

“The average voter knows they’ve had to cut back,” Hildabrand said. “They want to know why the govern-ment isn’t being held to the same stan-dard.”

Kerner, a transplanted New Yorker who has run for the Kansas Legislature several times, said his top priority, if elected, will be “cutting government spending, a lot” because the taxes re-quired to maintain current spending levels “are discouraging new business and severely hurting our people.”

Like the conservative Republicans, Kerner said his goal is to march on toward total elimination of the state income tax, “which is the most dev-astating to the economy as far as dis-couraging growth and investment.”

Kerner said studies of income taxa-tion on the federal level have proven that government revenue diminishes as rates exceed a certain point.

“Once you pass 28 percent, people stop doing things, they stop invest-ing, they stop working,” Kerner said. “We’re already taking 35 percent, and they want to go to 40 percent. They say, ‘We need the extra money.’ Well, you’re not going to get more money; you’re going to get less.”

Meeker, a former mayor of Lake Quivira, planned to run as a Demo-crat for the 17th District seat but was forced to run as an independent after the Kansas Secretary of State’s office claimed his filing paperwork was nev-er received.

According to Meeker, he had re-sponded to the Democratic Party’s request that he run for the Legislature because of the civic and economic development background he brings to the table. A former vice president for the 10th Federal Reserve District, Meeker currently leads an economic development program at Western New Mexico University.

Thus, Meeker said, he is concerned with the current tax-slashing approach to economic development being pur-sued by conservative Republicans in Kansas.

“In economic development, you don’t bet the farm on one play,” Meek-er said, “and that’s really what the state has done.”

The idea is that slashing business taxes and lowering the upper income tax brackets is going to translate into a business recruitment bonanza and great riches for the state, Meeker said.

“But would you move your busi-ness to a state that’s having, in its own words, a tax experiment?” Meek-er asked. “Well, what happens if it doesn’t work? Does that mean you’ll have to pay the taxes after all and you’ve moved for no good reason?”

If he is elected, Meeker said, he would work to restore some of the income tax cuts. Instead of offering across-the-board tax cuts and incen-tives, he added, he would go after new business through targeted measures, such as the investments that have


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FIRST LADY of Kansas, Mary Brownback, paid a visit Oct. 4 to Broken Arrow Elementary to read to students for Read for the Record, a national early childhood edu-cation aware-ness campaign. Brownback read the selected Read for the Record book, “Ladybug Girl and the Bug Squad,” by David Soman and Jacky Davis.

THESE ST. JAMES ACADEMY students recently were recognized for being Kansas Honors students. The Kansas Honors Program, developed by the Kansas University Alumni Association, recognizes high school seniors across the state who are in the top 10 percent of their class. Pictured from left to right in the back row are Brian Buechler, Austin Petz, Kelly Cosgrove, Hannah Sanchez, Emily Abraham, Lindsay Chandler, Anna Pyle, Michelle Dorsey and Eric Zheng. Seated in the front are Cole Feldman, William Englander and Connor Hosty.


been made in biotechnology jobs by the Kansas Bioscience Authority.

According to Meeker, businesses, more than anything, want to locate in states that offer the quality of life necessary to attract top talent to their workforces.

“This great experiment clearly flies in the face of what we’ve been able to do in Johnson County,” Meeker said. “The only way to make up for the shortfalls it will create will be to cut dramatically into education, transpor-tation and other services the state of-fers.”

Hildabrand said he believes both quality of life and affordable taxes are key to economic development.

“We will maintain our quality of life by attracting business through our tax code,” he said. “Other states, like Ten-nessee and Texas, have done similar things and have seen growth and busi-ness and expansion. So to say we are venturing into new territory with no background is completely false.”

Hildabrand didn’t rule out short-term cuts to state education spend-ing as a result of the tax cuts. “But at

the moment, I don’t perceive that,” he said. “To me, cuts to education would be a last resort.”

Hildabrand added that local school district challenges could, in large part, be addressed through a new state school finance formula that reduces the percentage of Johnson County-generated tax dollars being exported to schools across Kansas.

Meeker, meanwhile, believes “we must walk back the recent tax cuts to adequately fund school.”

According to Kerner, “there is no way, in a government-run school sys-tem, to judge what is adequate fund-ing.”

“They will always spend whatever they get and then ask for more,” he said. “You can only know the correct price of education when there is com-petition.”

Therefore, Kerner favors the Kansas Education Liberty Act, which would allow Kansans to designate a signifi-cant portion of their state income tax-es for investment in scholarship funds that would allow students to get out of public schools and into competitive private schools.

“Our public education system is a total failure,” Kerner said. “We are generating people who don’t even un-derstand what’s going on, who are civ-illy illiterate.”

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FOOD ONL INE : ON THE MENUFind this story online to see photos of chef Michael Beard preparing fegalo, plus other restaurants’ offal dishes. Food stories appear in the ‘Living’ section at shawneedispatch.com.

Offal gets gourmet treatment at trendy eateries

In the basement prep kitchen at Lawrence’s 715 restaurant, Michael Beard is carefully wrapping a sticky-looking web of white tissue around a palm-size lump of meat.

He pins the wrapping closed with a toothpick and a laurel leaf, slides his creation in the oven, then plates the finished product atop a bed of sweet caramelized onions. Add a glass of Sangiovese and — voila! — caul fat and pork liver have just become a gourmet treat.

Animal brains, glands, tails, intes-tines, feet and other organs are noth-ing new at many ethnic eateries. But the oft-spurned meat parts known as offal have made their way into some of the area’s hippest mainstream res-taurants, where chefs say foodies and more timid diners alike seem to be nibbling.

Beard, executive chef and owner at 715, 715 Mass., plans to serve his fegalo appetizer — an Italian-style liver sau-sage encased in fatty membrane sur-rounding the heart and other organs — as a weekend special this fall.

In addition to the fried chicken livers on 715’s regular dinner menu, diners might also have the option of stewed beef, pork or lamb heart papri-kash, or seared testicles with aioli and pickled peppers.

“I’m really surprised how fast we sell the testicles,” Beard said. “We sell them out in a weekend — it’s crazy.”

A few blocks away at Pachamamas, 800 N.H., chef Ken Baker’s fall menu includes Rice Crisped Sweetbreads — veal glands, such as the pancreas and thalamus — with cauliflower bran-dade and candied apple-chili pickles.

Offal dishes have popped up on sea-sonal menus at Pachamamas, a long-standing Lawrence restaurant, for

years, general manager Richard Gar-cia said. For the most part, Garcia said, his customers don’t seem turned-off by items such as trotters and foie gras.

“Maybe it’s proliferation from tele-vision food programs, or maybe peo-ple are more curious these days about other parts of the animal,” Garcia said. “I think nose-to-tail eating — in a re-ally good way — is becoming kind of hip.”

On the menuAt the Rieger Hotel Grill and Ex-

change, 1924 Main St. in Kansas City, Mo., owner and chef Howard Hanna said one of his most popular dishes is a “play on French onion soup,” topped with fried pig skin instead of a crou-ton.

The Rieger’s fall menu, rolling out this month, will feature biscuits with rabbit-heart, -liver and -kidney gravy as well as pork cheek pie in a savory crust.

Hanna also plans to serve an “old-school” dish called “Butcher’s Treat” — his version, at least, calls for poached veal brains, chopped and dusted with flour, then sauteed un-til crispy and brown and served with scrambled eggs over toast.

The dish is a throwback to one served in early England, France and even the United States, Hanna said. Small restaurants made it for butchers who needed a hardy meal and a beer when their shifts ended at dawn.

“It was a cut that was tough to sell but really delicious,” Hanna said of the brains. “So it was something that the butchers kept for themselves.”

Port Fonda chef and owner Patrick Ryan said Tacos de Lengua (Spanish for tongue) is among best-selling dish-es at his restaurant, 4141 Pennsylvania Ave. in Kansas City, Mo. The modern Mexican hot spot also serves menudo, a spicy soup with beef tripe, and mo-ronga, a pig’s blood sausage.

“Some people are just a little weird-ed out by it,” Ryan said of the sausage, a traditional Latin American item he puts his own spin on by mixing with cheese and stuffing into poblano pep-pers. But apparently not everyone, he said, because “every single weekend we sell out.”

Tongue tacos, menudo and other offal dishes aren’t unusual at mom-and-pop Mexican restaurants, though Ryan said Port Fonda aims to make them approachable for an “American audience.”

“A lot of people that are really into food love the fact that they serve that stuff,” he said. “We just kind of wanted to do it and make it a little more main-stream.”

Prepping and pairingExpert preparation can help take the

edge off meat cuts infamous for being tough, gamey or just plain strange.

“You can’t just serve something and have it on your menu because it sounds cool,” said Beard, of 715. “You want people to actually try it and like it, and want to try it again.”

Beard butchers his own pigs, goats and lambs and knows the flavor nu-ances of each animal’s liver — pork is fuller-flavored, for example, while lamb is more delicate.

Over-cooking liver concentrates the flavors, which isn’t necessarily good in an already pungent meat, Beard said. Cooking organ meat with bold spices or pairing it with sweetness such as caramelized onions, port sauce or a fruit-forward Italian wine also helps take the edge off.

At the Rieger, preparing sweetbreads is a three-day process of brining, poach-ing, peeling, pressing to extract excess blood, flouring, sauteeing and “basting like crazy,” Hanna said.

Port Fonda brines beef tongue five days to reach the melt-in-your-mouth pot roast consistency of its Tacos de

Lengua, Ryan said. Spicy salsa and fresh onion, cilantro and lime juice — and maybe a cold, spicy michelada to drink — complete the package.

Far-flung influencesBeard, a southern Oklahoma native,

remembers his grandmother buying him chicken gizzards for after-school treats. His offal fandom — and com-fort cooking it — grew while attending culinary school in Italy.

Hanna is a Manhattan native whose Samoan mother followed tradition by playing host to a pig roast on his 1st birthday; the adults enjoy the pig and toss an ear to the teething toddler.

“I had my first pig ear at age 1, and I pretty much never looked back,” he said.

Hanna cooked in Lawrence briefly before heading to culinary school in New York City and on to cooking stints in France and Italy. He came to appreciate the waste-not approach many other cultures embrace when it comes to meat.

At the Rieger, Hanna said his offal customers seem to be those who tried similar dishes while traveling abroad, a few whose friends convinced them to try something new, and generations whose parents or grandparents used to cook the “forgotten” cuts.

“It’s edgy and cool, and that attracts a certain clientele,” Hanna said. “But it’s also a tradition that I think reso-nates with older people.”

Hanna would like to see the trend catch on with larger or chain restau-rants — but not treated as freakish.

“I kind of hate it when it’s ap-proached as ... shock-value kind of stuff,” Hanna said. “People are seeing this stuff as really legitimate, tradi-tional foods that are coming back.”

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STUDENTS IN THE work skills class at Trailridge Middle School work together to stock the chip racks. Pictured from front to back are seventh-graders Brandon Moore and Jonathan Skalick and eighth-grader John Baska.

Trailridge program provides work experience for students

“Gentlemen, let’s go wash our hands.”

And with that directive given by special education teacher Stacey Smith, a group of students in the work skills class at Trailridge Middle School begin their day.

The pre-vocational program, which is held the first hour every school day, teaches special education students simple work skills in preparation for the vocational programs offered to them at high schools in the Shawnee Mission school district, Smith said.

“The goal behind it was you’re working on being on time, attitude and performance,” she said.

Smith developed the program last school year — her first teaching in the district — with the help of Kelly Chap-man, the district’s transition services specialist, and Jo Sullins, Trailridge cafeteria manager.

Smith said she asked Sullins “what opportunities she would have for us, if any, and it was her suggestion to do the coolers, and it went from there.”

Every morning, the class of eight helps to stock the four drink cool-ers and the chip racks in the cafeteria kitchen. Students also take any pack-aging left over to the trash and recy-cling bins outside. If they show up to class on time and the work is done well and with a good attitude, the stu-dents receive three punches for the day on their “time cards.” Fifteen total punches results in a “payday,” when the students get to choose one drink and one snack from the cafeteria for themselves.

“They actually love the job. They hate that they lose a punch. The goal is that they want the payday,” Smith said. “They own their own work, and they’re proud of it.”

Friday morning, the four students who had been encouraged to wash their hands before work walked into the kitchen to join the other four stu-dents already stocking coolers. The

class this year includes only one fe-male student, Janel Sellers. The friend-ly, outgoing seventh-grader, who quitematter-of-factly explained that she was also a “diva,” worked side-by-sidewith eighth-grader Ahmalik Willing-ham to stock a cooler with different flavors of Gatorade.

That’s another skill students gener-ally take away from the class, Smith said.

“I do think it’s developed that senseof teamwork you might not just get ina math class,” she said. “You have to work together, you’re pulling invento-ry together … the communication hasto happen together during the work time, and you have to have a good re-lationship.”

Smith said other lessons learnedthrough the class include how to workwith supervisors — herself and two paraprofessionals, Melissa Vivers andDeborah Phillips — and how to listen.

Then there’s also the chance to“learn how to do stuff like adults do,” Matt Chalabi, eighth-grader, said ofwhy he likes the class.

“They’re trying to teach you how todo it when you get a job, like at a res-taurant or something,” he said.

The students aren’t the only onesseeing benefits from the program, though. Sullins said the work they do “keeps our kitchen running smooth-er.”

“I don’t think they realize how much they truly help us,” she said. “The workthat they do, I would have to commit a person to, and it would eat up all their time. So (the students) have done the work of one of the people in the kitch-en, which frees that person up to doother things.”

Smith said she wants to keep collab-orating with Sullins, looking for other tasks in the kitchen the students canhelp out with. And Sullins said she wasmore than game to keep the studentsworking.

“They’re just a joy to be around. Iwould miss them if they weren’t here,” she said. “I love this program. I’d loveto see it go nationwide.”

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By Stephen [email protected]

KANSAS CITY, KAN. — For the first time in more than a month, Mill Valley’s senior running back looked spent. He spoke in short, matter-of-fact terms, gulps of air punctuating sentences.

Kendall Short is back.Short carried 18 times for 107 yards

and three touchdowns to lead the Jag-uars (6-1) to a 43-0 victory on Friday against Schlagle (4-3) to begin district play.

“I’m feeling great,” Short said. “It was a good game all around and we played like a team.”

It was Short’s heaviest workload since sustaining an injury against Turner on Sept. 7. In recent weeks, coach Joel Applebee has eased Short back into the lineup. A few looks in the slot one week, nine carries the next. But on Friday, it was back to the grind. And just in time.

“We need that out of Kendall,” Ap-plebee said. “We’ve got to have that each week from here on out. He’s a special kid.”

It’s not that the Jaguars’ offense took a hit in Short’s absence. Senior quar-terback Skyler Windmiller has always been comfortable airing it out. He has led Mill Valley to six consecutive vic-tories, attempting more than 21 passes per game with 27 total touchdowns, including a nine-yard pass to senior L.J. Hatch at the start of the second

quarter on Friday.But with two more games of district

play remaining, and an uptick in com-petition awaiting beyond, Applebee is none too happy to have Short back.

“We need to be balanced to be good,” Applebee said.

The Jaguars’ offensive line did a better job paving the way for Short on Friday than it did giving Windmiller

enough time to throw. Each week Applebee has been given the task of sifting through tape of blowout vic-tories seeking nits to pick. This week, pass protection sits atop the list. When speaking on the need to improve as a team, Applebee can sense the possibil-ity of disbelief.

SPORTS SMNW BOYS WIN LEAGUEClayton Henderson and Kirk Bado led the SM Northwest boys cross-country team to a first-place finish in Monday’s Sunflow-er League championship run in Lawrence. Page 19.

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MVHS SENIOR KENDALL SHORT carried 18 times for 107 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Jaguars to a 43-0 victory against Schlagle to begin district play on Friday.

In short: Kendall’s backDISTRICT FOOTBALL

Senior rusher leads charge

in 43-0 victory

CROSS-COUNTRY

Jags dominate KVL meet


MVHS JUNIOR C.J. MEEKS won Thursday’s KVL cross-country meet in Bonner Springs.


SM NORTH SENIOR JEN LANMAN placed 10th in all-around competition on Saturday at the Sunflower League gymnastics meet at SM East, one week before state competition.

Cougars, Indians get tuneup for state at league meet

GYMNASTICS

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By Stephen [email protected]

BONNER SPRINGS — Mill Valley swept the Kaw Valley League cross-country meet Thursday at Wyandotte CountyPark in Bonner Springs, as junior C.J. Meeks won the boys race and all 14Jaguars runners medaled.

Seven Jaguars boys runners cap-tured top 10 spots, led by Meeks (16:55)and his brother, freshman Derek Meeks (17:05) in third place.

That C.J. Meeks won was a bit of asurprise even to his coach, Mark Chip-man, although Mill Valley’s domina-tion of the head of the pack seems to present an opportunity for a new win-

Please see CROSS-COUNTRY, page 15

By Angelique McNaughtonSpecial to The Dispatch

PRAIRIE VILLAGE — Both Shawnee Mission Northwest and Shawnee Mis-sion North gymnasts had the opportu-nity to gauge their competition a week ahead of the state championship meet on Saturday during the Sunflower League championship meet.

SM Northwest totaled 99.85 points for fourth place, a mere 0.6 points be-hind SM West, at the 11-school meet held at Shawnee Mission East. Com-peting mostly on the opposite side of

the gym, the Indians placed 10th over-all with 91.5 points.

Lawrence Free State took home first place with a combined score of 104.575, with Olathe East putting up 103.775 for second place.

SM West edged the Cougars out of a top-three overall finish, only three days after the Cougars placed second overall at SM Northwest’s home Cou-gar Classic meet.

“We looked better than what I ex-pected,” SM Northwest coach Cindy

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“Honestly we do,” he says at the end of the statement. “Tomorrow we’re going to look at film and get better from this.”

The Jaguars will have to shore up their pass protection while senior Coleman McCann remains week-to-week after an injury sustained at Ton-ganoxie on Sept. 21. Applebee stopped short of saying McCann was done for the season, saying instead that his readiness is being evaluated each week. Junior Adam Swearingen, one of the key cogs on the line in McCann’s absence, will also be monitored this week. Swearingen went down in the fourth quarter with a leg injury, but Applebee said he expected Swearin-gen to be ready for next week’s game against Washington.

Still, the Jaguars have been able to plug in backups and shift the makeup of its line to counter the spate of inju-ries it’s seen all year.

“I have to give it all to the o-line,” Short said. “They blocked their butts off. It’s good to score, but its also bet-ter to share with your o-line.”

On Friday, both sides struggled to move the chains in the first quarter, with Mill Valley taking a 2-0 lead in

the final moments of the quarter af-ter Schlagle snapped the ball over its punter’s head for the safety. It took just six seconds into the second quar-ter for senior Staton Rebeck to run in a nine-yard touchdown and set in mo-tion Mill Valley’s making up for lost time in the opening frame.

Alongside Short, Hatch was perhaps Mill Valley’s most potent weapon. Windmiller found Hatch for four re-ceptions for 65 yards and a score, and the senior also ran back the opening kickoff of the second half for an 85-yard touchdown, putting to rest any possibility that this would be a con-test.

“Our special teams have been out-standing this year, and they just did it again tonight,” Applebee said.

That’s to say nothing of the Jaguars’ defense, led by junior Micah Clarke, who picked up a crucial first-half sack against Schlagle quarterback Marvel Wheeler, and junior T.J. Midiros, who hauled in an interception late in the game and also recovered a first-half fumble.

When time ran out Friday, Apple-bee sent the Jaguars off to the bus shortly after shaking hands with their opponents. It was time to go home, and to rise early in preparation for the next round of district play.

“We’ve got Washington now,” he said of Friday’s 7 p.m. senior night game. “Biggest game of the year.”


MVHS SENIOR L.J. HATCH returned the second half’s opening kickoff for an 85-yard score.

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ner each time out.“C.J., that was a little bit of a sur-

prise,” Chipman said. “I didn’t think he was our number one this year. We had three or four. I think it might be his first time to be number one.”

Sophomore Kurt Loevenstein placed fourth with a time of 17:12, followed by seniors Chris Gillespie (sixth, 17:23) and Stephen McEerny (seventh, 17:30). Senior Andrew Eigsti (17:34) and sophomore Callahan Eck-ardt (17:43) rounded out the top 10, placing ninth and 10th, respectively.

C.J. Meeks’ emergence at the finish line contrasted with the start of the race, a product of his strategy.

“He always runs a very smart race,” Chipman said. “He always starts at the back and moves up. That’s what he did this time.”

On the girls side, a pair of freshmen in Amber Akin (15:04) and Ellie Wil-son (15:15) led the way for the Jaguars, placing third and fourth, respectively.

Akin trimmed 16 seconds off the school record she set last month in the Bonner Springs Invitational, also at Wyandotte County Park.

“Amber likes this course, I guess,” Chipman said.

Junior Bailey Parke placed eighth with a time of 16:21.

Junior Maria Kalma followed in 11th place with a time of 16:31. Freshman Kennedy Hoffman placed 14th with a time of 16:35.

Junior Holly Peterman (16:38) and sophomore Hollis Tharp (16:52) placed

16th and 19th, respectively.Mill Valley will return to competi-

tion next Saturday in a crowded 5A re-gional race at Shawnee Mission Park, where the Jaguars will again meet Shawnee Mission South, Blue Valley Southwest and St. Thomas Aquinas to name a few.

“We’ll have our hands full,” Down-ing said.

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SMNW SENIOR AMY HEIN (ABOVE) helped lead the Cougars to second at Wednesday’s Cougar Classic. SMN’s Natalya Freeman (below) tied for 15th on the bars at the meet.

Beason said on Sunday. “Overall, skill-wise, I think we are making improve-ments and I look to see even more im-provements by next Saturday.”

Grace Gregory, an SM Northwest junior, yielded a third-place finish af-ter a solid performance on the balance beam with a score of 8.55. Gregory also led her team in the all-around compe-tition, placing ninth.

“Grace was very good, considering she had a fall (on the balance beam), and had she not fallen she would have placed first,” Beason said.

Teammate Mallory Wilhite, who won the floor routine last week, placed eighth in the same event on Saturday with an 8.8.

Senior Caitlin Chen struggled in the same event, placing 25th with 8.1. Toward the end of her routine, the 17-year-old gymnast began to grimace and fight back tears.

A dislocated shoulder sus-tained during the state competition last year came back to haunt Chen during warmups and has hindered her final season as a Cougar.

“It hasn’t been as great of a year as I was hoping it could have been,” Chen said.

Looking ahead to Saturday’s state championships, Chen said she wants to be satisfied with her routine and maybe even nab a first-place medal.

“I want to be able to be happy with what I’ve done,” Chen said. “But it would be really nice to place top three in the floor. Last year I had a really good chance of it and it all crumbled; to come back and reclaim that would be great.”

Chen has been with the Cougars since her freshman year and said the short season’s been somewhat of “an emotional ride” for her, one of seven seniors graduating in May.

“It’s super exciting and super sad,” she said. “It’s putting it all out there.”

SM North coach Chuck Lundblad had similar advice for his two seniors

going into their final meet. “Talking to one of the seniors, I said,

‘If not now, then when?’” he said. “I don’t want them to say ‘what if …’ or ‘if only I would have done this better or that better.’”

Lundblad said the Indians’ lack of depth — and the experience and confi-dence that come with it — contributes to the team’s placing.

“All the girls, and not just these girls, all the gymnasts doubt themselves and they don’t have the confidence,” he said.

With a mostly freshman squad, Lun-dblad is hoping to finish in the top eight at the competition.

Senior Jen Lanman secured 10th place in the all-around competition behind SM Northwest’s Gregory, with 33.375. Lanman also wound up in a three-way tie for second on the vault led by a 9.25.

Fellow senior Elaina Zinn said she felt like she “struggled with consis-tency” in her events. Zinn didn’t place within the top 10 in either the vault or the uneven bars, scoring 7.1 and 8.3, re-

spectively.“I think I have

the skills, I just need to work on improving them and the tech-nique,” Zinn said. “I wasn’t as con-sistent (on Sat-urday) and have

new skills in there and I’m excited to show them off next week.”

Natalya Freeman received her best score (8.0) in the vault to finish 32nd in the all-around competition with 26.75.

Lundblad said his team basically needs to work on the essential funda-mentals in gymnastics.

“We need to work on form, and on the beam we had too many falls,” he said. “You just need to have three solid scores.”

All but two of the teams that will be competing at this Saturday’s state meet at Lawrence High School were at the Sunflower League meet.

Beason said ultimately she’s com-fortable with the Cougars’ perfor-mance over the weekend.

“I like going into state in fourth po-sition,“ Bleason said. “(We) can be the dark horse that might sneak in and surprise someone.”

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PRAIRIE VILLAGE — There was a point this weekend when Shawnee Mission Northwest’s doubles team of Claire Gordon and Colleen Freeman didn’t know if they had anything left.

They won their first match against Topeka in a tiebreaker —6-2, 6-7 (10-5) — and then lost to the No. 1 seed from Blue Valley Northwest, 6-4, 6-2, despite a solid performance.

They then had to face off against their SM North-west counterparts, Lauren Benjamin and Amanda Re-bori, and won, 9-4.

The day had taken a toll, and Gordon couldn’t ex-plain how they won the next match. It was against a Maize team who placed ninth at state last year, and SM North-west came away with a 9-8 (7-3) vic-tory.

“I never know how we win,” she said. “We just do it.”

On Sunday, after matches were postponed at Harmon Park because of inclement weather, Olathe East eliminated Gordon and Freeman from medal contention with lobs galore that the pair didn’t have much of an

answer for. Olathe East went on to place fifth.

“We were the better hitters, but they played well against us,” Cougars coach Ken Clow said. “That was frustrating.”

They lost their next match against Blue Valley North, 9-0, followed by a defeat against Washburn Rural, 9-7, which put SM Northwest 13th at state.

Gordon was the only senior at state for the Cougars. Freeman, meanwhile,

is a freshman, and both Benjamin and Rebori are ju-niors.

The juniors will reprise their role as doubles partners next year, but Clow has yet to decide if he wants to find Freeman a part-

ner or move her to singles.Gordon, one of two varsity seniors

leaving, wants to play tennis in col-lege, so she is waiting to see who contacts her. She hasn’t decided on a school yet; that wasn’t on her mind this weekend.

The results this weekend were more than the team expected coming into the season, making it a good experi-ence overall.

“I have one of my best partners, and we just have fun out there,” she said. “I couldn’t ask for anything more.”

STATE TENNIS

After state, SMNW’s Gordon focuses on playing in college

Wetzel caps Mill Valley career with state appearance

By Corey ThibodeauxSpecial to The Dispatch

Mill Valley senior tennis player Sar-ah Wetzel wanted to make it to state since she was a freshman.

Finishing her high school career af-ter finally qualifying was a nice way to go out.

Still, she want-ed a better result.

Wetzel lost her first two matches at Topeka this weekend, first to Megan Wong from Andover Central, 3-6, 1-6. She lost in the next round to Maddie Oxler from Wichita-Bishop Carroll in a 3-9 pro set.

“She was upset that she didn’t make it further but excited she was in with those girls,” coach Alyssa Meyer said. “There was some amazing play there.”

Meyer said that the competition was so fierce that everybody from Mill Valley’s region lost in the first round. Regardless, she said, Wetzel was hap-py to be there.

Going into the season, no one on the team was betting on going to state, let alone performing well, but there were plenty of benefits beyond this week-end.

“We hoped it would have gone a little bit better,” Meyer said, “but we didn’t really expect it to, if that makes

sense.”Wetzel brought

along sophomore Mikaela McCabe for the trip to share in the ex-perience, if only for the comfort of a familiar face. In the long run, Wet-zel’s appearance at state means a

lot for this program, and there is plen-ty of young talent to aspire to these expectations.

“She’s only the third singles player to make it to state in Mill Valley his-tory. So to have somebody make it kind of sets this standard for girls in the future. Taking Mikaela, our sopho-more, and having her see that, I could tell that she was excited to work to try to get there herself.”

I have one of my best part-ners and we just have fun out there. I couldn’t ask for anything more.”

— SMNW senior Claire Gordon on her No. 1 dou-bles partner, freshman Colleen Freeman

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OVERLAND PARK — Opportunities can never be wasted, and when one team takes advantage, it’s hard for the other to fight back. Shawnee Mission North-west dominated ball control Thursday and cruised to a 4-0 victory against Shawnee Mission North.

SM North (2-12) failed to gain any momentum, and rarely moved the ball past midfield against SM Northwest (6-8-2) except on a couple of chances early in the game.

One of their few scoring threats was when junior Mario Garcia crossed a pass to senior Gergely Zatko, which went wide left.

Every time the Indians had the ball the Cougars would take it away, suffo-cating their counterpart’s attack.

Indians coach Jim Ricker said his team struggled finding openings and is currently a work in progress.

“We kept losing our shape, and we’ve been working on trying to get better angles,” Ricker said. “It’s a lot of learning, and I’m trying to change the whole concept of what we’ve been known to do. We don’t have a speed-ster on the team or anyone who can outrun anyone else.”

SM Northwest senior forward Cody Sliva played passer and shooter, scor-ing the first goal of the game with 32:08 to play in the first half.

Cougars head coach Todd Boren said Sliva is one of his most experi-enced players.

“He’s had two years to build up to this season, and we lean on him quite a bit,” Boren said. “He gives us flexibili-ty up top at the striker spot. And when he plays well, we play well.”

SM Northwest led 2-0 at halftime, thanks to a header by sophomore mid-fielder Cole Nelson off a cross from senior midfielder Galen Gossman with 6:08 to play in the first half.

The Cougars also had several free kick opportunities, one turning into a goal after senior defender Tyler Sliva found junior midfielder Evan Miller

for a 3-0 lead. SM Northwest scored its last goal

with six minutes left in the game. Nel-son was in a crowd of teammates and defenders in the box and found a hole to put the ball past the goalie.

Boren said this was a must-win game after the team fell 1-0 to Shaw-nee Mission East earlier in the week.

With regionals looming, the Cou-gars know they can’t afford to give in the rest of the season.

“We’re not in a position where we can take anybody lightly,” Boren said. “We have to go out and play our game and play our system.”

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SMNW SOPHOMORE DEFENDER SAM NOBREGA helped the Cougars shut out SM North, 4-0, on Thursday at the Shawnee Mission District Soccer Complex.

BOYS SOCCER

Cougars blank rival SM North as regular season nears end

FOOTBALL

Cougars continue to struggleBy Tyler Scott

Special to The Dispatch

OVERLAND PARK — SM Northwest is starting to look down a dreary road. After starting 1-0, the Cougars (1-6) have lost six straight with Friday’s 34-7 defeat against Shawnee Mission East (6-1) to begin district play.

Three straight possessions ending in a punt or turnover proved costly as the Cougars never gained momen-tum Friday. Quarterback Lucas Kar-lin was 13-of-17 for 81 yards and an interception for the game. A rushing touchdown from running back Alex Quinn with less than a minute left in the game helped the Cougars avoid a second-straight shutout.

SM Northwest’s defense looked good enough early, almost picking off two passes. But Cougars coach Linn Hibbs thought the performance was a disappointment overall.

“I can’t take away a whole lot from tonight to be honest,” Hibbs said. “I thought defensively we competed in the first half. They (Lancers) had their second and third unit in there. We were able to get some first-and-10s, so it was nice to get some points at the end.”

Quinn and Kelby Quint gained the bulk of the Cougars’ yardage against the Lancers. Quinn finished with 51 yards on eight carries, while Quint

had 46 yards on 15 carries. Wide re-ceiver Jake Horner had a decent per-formance, totaling 75 yards on ninereceptions as he was Karlin’s favorite target. Entering this week’s game at SM North (0-7), the Cougars are aver-aging just 13 points per game.

“Offensively, we’re searching,”Hibbs said.

Lancers quarterback Jordan Darlingstruck first on Friday, after SM North-west gave SM East’s offense another opportunity to move the ball by get-ting called for a roughing the kicker penalty. Darling was able to find aseam in the middle, scampering for 12yards. He finished with 255 yards and two touchdowns through the air and a rushing touchdown. As a team, SMEast ran for 148 yards and three touch-downs on 38 carries.

The Lancers led 14-0 at halftime af-ter SM Northwest was very short on a 52-yard field goal attempt as time ex-pired. Even though the Lancers onlyscored on two of their first five pos-sessions, it was enough to maintain the lead all night. The Lancers churnedout 247 of their 403 total yards and20 points in the third quarter. By thefourth quarter, the game had already been decided.

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The Shawnee Mission Northwest boys cross-country team won the Sunflower League championship on Monday at Rim Rock Farm, finishing 43 points ahead of second-place SM West. Clayton Hender-son (16:28) and Kirk Bado (16:43) placed first and second, respectively. Connor McDonald added an eighth-place finish with a time of 17:04.

SM North’s boys placed fourth overall, led by Ben Burchstead (17:03) and Jason Foster (17:04) in fourth and fifth place. On the girls side, the Cougars placed fourth, followed by the Indians in 10th place. McKenzie Iverson led SM North-west with a fifth-place finish, and Micki Krzesinski led the Indians in ninth place with a time of 16:28. Both teams will compete in Saturday’s regional meet at Shawnee Mission Park. The girls run begins at 9:30 a.m., followed by the boys at 10:30 a.m.

Mill Valley secures best record in school history

Against a field heavy on 6A schools, Mill Valley volleyball went 5-1 to place second at the Olathe Northwest tour-

nament and improve to 29-5, the best record in program history. The Jaguars, led by Taylor Cowan and Molly Oshinksi, earned 2-1 victories against Olathe Northwest, Olathe North and Blue Valley Southwest, and they downed Shaw-nee Mission North and they Shawnee Mission South in two sets. Olathe East handed the Jaguars their only loss on the weekend in two sets (22-25, 21-25).

Mill Valley traveled to Piper on Tues-day for its final league match of the season. Results were not available at press time.

On Saturday, the Jaguars travel to Leavenworth for sub-state, where they will meet Schlagle, Washington, Lansing, Leavenworth, Shawnee Heights, Topeka West and Topeka-Seaman.

SM Northwest to host volleyball sub-state

One week away from hosting Sat-urday’s sub-state tournament, the Shawnee Mission Northwest volleyball team didn’t receive any favors from its schedule. The Cougars fell to 13-21 on the season after going 1-8 last week, in-cluding a trip to Emporia for a Saturday tournament.

Eight of the Cougars’ losses come from teams ranked within the top eight

in Class 6A. Abby Born and Abbi Bird led the Cougars to an average of 10 assists per match. SM Northwest’s trio of serve receivers (senior Bridget Killeen and juniors Gaby Riggs and Maddie Frazier) averaged 2.6 on serve-receive passing. The Cougars hosted rival SM North for senior night on Tuesday. Results weren’t available at press time.

SM Northwest returns home on Sat-urday to host sub-state play against Wy-andotte, Blue Valley North, Blue Valley Northwest, SM East, SM North, SM West and Blue Valley. SM North entered Tues-day’s match at SM Northwest at 0-32 after going 0-6 at the Olathe Northwest Tournament on Saturday.

Shawnee athletes, coach lead Thunder to Saints Invite win

St. James Academy senior Emily Tripp of Shawnee led the Thunder with 66 digs in a Saints Invitational tournament victo-ry on Saturday at St. Thomas Aquinas to improve to 31-3. Freshman setter Jenna Gray, Shawnee, led the Thunder with 137 assists and junior Arianna Person, Shawnee, led with 41 kills and added 50 digs. The Thunder, led by head coach Nancy Dorsey, defeated SM East, Lib-erty, Oak Park, St. Theresa’s, Lee Summit West and St. Thomas Aquinas to win the tournament. St. James will travel to Blue Valley Southwest Saturday for sub-state.

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PRESBYTERIAN BUCKET BRIGADE

SHAWNEE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH volunteers, including Martha Cunningham (left) and Jacqueline Rozine, formed a bucket brigade of sorts last Wednedsay to help victims of floods, tornadoes and other disasters across the United States. Since May, the church has created 100 emergency clean-up buckets for distribution by a relief organization called Church World Service. The church members have raised money for and shopped for the necessary supplies, then gathered to fill the five-gallon buckets.

LEFT: MAXINE LEWIS finishes filling another couple of buckets.ABOVE: THE CONTENTS of the buckets included scouring pads, sponges, cleaners, dusk masks, gloves, trash bags and other materials helpful following a disaster.

ABOVE: CATHERINE LEWIS gets the clean-up buckets ready for delivery after they have been filled by other volunteers.BELOW: STRUGGLING to get a couple of buckets unstuck are, from left, Mamie Richardson, John Rozine and Adele Stuart.

Dispatch staff photos by Rob Roberts

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Found Item

FOUND ladies watch, at post office. Call to iden-tify. 785-393-0830

Found Pet/Animal

FOUND parakeet, evening of Oct. 13 outside the Lied Center. Looks like a stand-ard yellow-green parakeet. Call or text 785-550-2194

Lost Item

LOST Large set of keys, west of Holidome. Please call 785-842-9950.

Auction Calendar

ESTATE AUCTIONSAT., OCT. 20, 11:00 A.M.1112 S. Eisenhower Ave.,

Ottawa, KSGUNS, ANTIQUES & COL-LECTIBLES, HOUSEHOLD

REX HUGHES ESTATEGriffin Auctions

Buddy GriffinAllen Campbell

OTTAWA, KS 785-242-7891www.kansasauctions.

net/griffin

Estate AuctionSun.,Oct. 21st, 9:00 A.M.

2110 Harper, Fairgrounds Bldg. 21, Lawrence, KS

Coins, High End Jewelry, Collectibles, Furniture,

Tools & Much More!Roy & Mary Easum Estate

Elston Auctions 785-218-7851 or

785-594-0505www.KansasAuctions.

net/elston

Land AuctionSat., Oct. 27, 10:00 A.M.160 Ac. M/L, Osage Co.

Will be held at “The Diner”/ BP station (405 E

8th ), Overbrook, KSMidwest Land & Home

Mark Uhlik, Broker /Auctioneer 785 325 2740

Chris Paxton, Agent /Auctioneer 785-979-6758

www.KsLandCo.com

PUBLIC AUCTIONSat., Oct. 20, 9:00 AM

26296 Hospital Dr., PaolaGUNS, KNIVES, COINS,

CAMPING, LAWN, WATER GARDEN & IRRIGATION,

ANTIQUESSteve Atkinson, owner

Branden Otto, auctioneer 785-883-4263

www.ottoauctioneering.com

Real Estate &Personal Property Auction

SUN., OCT. 21, 2012702 S. Oak, Ottawa, KS

MARTHA SWORDSLIVING ESTATEGriffin Auctions

Buddy GriffinAllen Campbell

OTTAWA, KS 785-242-7891www.kansasauctions.

net/griffin

Real Estate AuctionSat., Oct. 20, 11:30 AM

Former Adult Care/Nursing Home

413 S Prospect Place,Burlingame, KS

Built in 1973. 15,000 sq ftTerry Simnitt

Real Estate AuctioneerColdwell BankerGriffith & Blair785-231-7568

www.rtsimnitt.com

Two-Day Southwest& Indian Art Auction

Oct. 19 6PM Oct. 20 11AMMonticello Auction

Center, 4795 Frisbie Rd. Shawnee, KS

Pottery, Navajo rugs,Jewelry, Artwork

Bob & Dal Payne, Payne Auction Co. Bloomfield,

NM. 505.320.6445LINDSAY AUCTION

SERVICE INC913.441.1557

www.lindsayauctions.com

Auctions ESTATE AUCTIONSAT., OCT. 20, 2012

11:00 A.M.1112 S. Eisenhower Ave.

Ottawa, KS( ! Mile South of K-68 Hwy on Eisenhower Ave. Watch for Auction & Parking Signs.)

GUNSATF RECOMMENDATIONS WILL APPLY KANSAS RESI-DENTS ONLY. Nice selec-tion of good - clean guns. Guns sell at 12:30 P.M.

ANTIQUES &COLLECTIBLES

HOUSEHOLD & MISC

www.kansasauctions. net/griffin

for full list & pictures.

Terms: Cash or Check w/Positive ID/Not Re-sponsible for Accidents or Loss

REX HUGHES ESTATE

Griffin AuctionsBuddy Griffin

Allen CampbellOTTAWA, KS 785-242-7891

Auctions

ESTATE AUCTIONSun., Oct. 21st, 2012

9:00 A.M.2110 Harper

Dg. Fairgrounds Bldg. 21(Heated), Lawrence, KS

Coins(9:00A.M.)170+Lots1899S $20/1914 $10/1852 $2 !/American Buffalo one troy oz. Gold Coins; Morgan & Peace silver dollars; $2 Green Seals; Mercury & Roosevelt dimes; Indian & Wheat pennies; old foreign coins. (See Web Page For Complete List)

Fine Jewelry25 pieces Inspected By Lo-cal Jeweler!!(see web page for detailed list): gold bracelets & earrings, dia-mond bridal sets, diamond & sapphire bracelet, opal necklace & earrings, 3 ct. diamond bracelet, tanza-nite pendant, 10k 1.15 ct t.w. diamond solitaire, dia-mond studs, ruby diamond ring, David Yarman sterling 14k amethyst bracelet, Tif-fany sterling bracelet & necklace; costume pieces; sterling spoons

Vintage Toys/CollectiblesMcCormick Deering “Whitehead & Kales Co. De-troit Michigan” cast-iron tractor(RARE); McCormick Deering arcade thresher; Avery cast-iron steam en-gine; Hubley Kiddie #5 cast iron race car w/driver(RARE); Lupar po-lice car; 1920’s A.F. #120 cast-iron wind-up train w/American Flyer cars & metal track w/box; Lionel train Union Pacific #202 w/box; 1916 cast-iron train cars; Wyandotte”Round The Clock Service” truck; large Wyandotte truck & duck; Model Motoring IN HO scale slot race car/track w/box; Gilbert #6 ! erector set; tinker toys; American Logs #815;

PUBLIC AUCTIONSaturday, October 20th

9:00 AM26296 Hospital Dr.,

Paola, KS(Just West & South of

Hillsdale.)

Many, many new & slightly used items-check website for photos & en-tire list.

GUNS, KNIVES,COINS & TOOLS

Rifles, Shotgun, Pistols, Scopes, old & newer knives; Coins check website; more.

CAMPING, OUTDOOR, HOME, LAWN, WATER GARDEN & IRRIGATION

ANTIQUES

Steve Atkinson, owner

Branden Otto, auctioneer785-883-4263

www.ottoauctioneering.com

Real Estate &Personal Property

Auction

SUN., OCT. 21, 2012702 S. Oak, Ottawa, KS

Real Estate Sells 1:00 P.M.Followed by

Personal Property

Personal PropertyEntire Personal Property contents will be sold right after Real Estate in one lot for one money. House will be open at 12:00 Noon for viewing. Some of the per-sonal property items in-clude 3 oak china cabinets full of glassware, bed-room suites, appliances, kitchen items, sewing items, dining table & buf-fet, much misc. household items.

www.kansasauctions.net/griffin

for listing and pictures.

MARTHA SWORDSLIVING ESTATE

Griffin AuctionsBuddy Griffin

Allen CampbellOTTAWA, KS 785-242-7891

Two-Day Southwest& Indian Art

Fri., Oct. 19, 6P.M.Sat., Oct. 20, 11A.M.Monticello Auction

Center, 4795 Frisbie Rd. Shawnee, KS

We have a fantastic col-lection for our annual fall auction. Included is the Native American portion of a fine estate from Northern New Mexico. Pottery, Navajo rugs, Marlin Pinto Kachinas, Jewelry, Selection of Art-work to include originals & various prints. Sand Paintings, Drums, Pen-dletons, Storytellers.

View the website for ad-ditional info. or call for flyer. Bob & Dal Payne, Payne Auction Co. Bloom-field, NM. 505.320.6445

LINDSAY AUCTIONSERVICE INC913.441.1557

www.lindsayauctions.com

Accounting-Finance

Great PlainsTransportation, Inc.,

specializing in bulk transportation services, with an emphasis in the agricultural industry, is accepting applications for a Bookkeeper and Transportation Broker.Bookkeeper responsibili-ties: including accounts payable and receivables, bank reconciliations, and payroll. Quickbooks ex-perience required.

The Transportation Bro-ker responsibilities: building clientele, negoti-ating, logistic coordina-tion and dispatch, work independently, and great customer service skills. Applicants need to be highly motivated. Indus-try knowledge preferred.

Great PlainsTransportation, Inc.

5030 Bob Billings Pkwy. Suite C,

Lawrence, KS [email protected]

Fax: (785)-856-1019

Computer-Software

Software AnalystDeveloper

Clinical Reference Labo-ratory, Inc. in Lenexa, KS is a growing, innovative company looking for a key individual to help us achieve our next level of success. CRL has an opening in the Informa-tion Systems Depart-ment. Responsibilities will include design, de-velop and maintain soft-ware applications for supporting the different business units in meet-ing their company de-partmental goals and objectives. Qualified candidates will have:

- BA/BS degree in Com-puter Science or equiva-lent

- Minimum 2 years appli-cation development

- Experience in C++, Java- 1 year in web scripting, PHP or Cold Fusion pre-ferred

- 1 year application devel-opment in Windows NT/Unix environment, proficiency in SQL, Ora-cle preferred.

This unique opportunity offers a competitive sal-ary and an excellent benefit package.

Please apply online at:www.crlcorp.com

EOE

Construction “Can You Dig It?” Heavy Equipment School. 3wk Training Program. Back-hoes, Bulldozers, Excava-tors. Local Job Placement Asst. VA Benefits Ap-proved. 2 National Certifi-cations. 866-362-6497

CONSTRUCTIONSeeking a motivated Proj-ect Manager/Estimator to join our General Con-tracting Company, Trinium. Candidates should have experience estimating and managing GC projects up to 10M & building relationships with owners and subcon-tractors. Work sites across the state of Kan-sas.Reliable transportation, a valid driver’s license and the willingness to travel throughout Kansas is a must. We offer competi-tive pay, vacation pay, health insurance and a drug-free workplace.Apply on line www.hitechinteriors.com,email [email protected] or at 5006 Skyway Drive, Manhattan, KS 66503 for an Employment Applica-tion. (785) 587-8523

Customer Service

CUSTOMER SERVICEREPRESENTATIVE

CEK Insurance, an inde-pendent insurance agency in Lawrence, KS is searching for a per-sonal lines insurance customer service repre-sentative. The ideal can-didate will have at least one year of experience in the property and cas-ualty business. This is an inside service posi-tion requiring good communication and computer skills as well as an outgoing cus-tomer friendly person-ality. This salaried posi-tion with bonus poten-tial also includes a full slate of benefits.

If you meet these re-quirements & are look-ing for a positive em-ployment change, send resume to 1011 Westdale Rd. Lawrence, KS 66049 or email to [email protected]

or fax to 785-843-1583.

General

PRESS OPERATOR

The World Company, a forward-thinking media company in Lawrence, Kansas is hiring for a part-time Press Opera-tor. We are a family-owned operation with a 20,000 circulation daily newspaper, several weekly community news-papers, a Commercial Printing division, and a contract print site for USA TODAY. Operator is responsible for preparing rolls for the printing process and monitoring the paster operation and will performs regular pre-ventative maintenance. Candidates must be available to work be-tween the hours of 8 p.m. and midnight, including weekend and holidays.

We are looking for a tal-ented and hardworking individual with at least six months printing press experience; a self-starter with an attitude of con-tinuous improvement; de-tail oriented with the abil-ity to work independ-ently; and strong me-chanical aptitude is pre-ferred. Our press opera-tors spend most working hours on their feet and must be able to bend and twist; lift up to 80 pounds and see with 20/20 near vision.

Join our Team! We offer a competitive salary, em-ployee discounts and more. Background check, pre-employment drug screen and physical lift assessment required. If you feel you meet the qualifications for the Press Operator position, please send a cover letter and resume [email protected] EOE

Healthcare

CharDonnay Dialysis, Inc.has an immediate opening for an experienced Hemo-dialysis RN and a certified Patient Care Technician for a full time position. Of-fering excellent pay and benefits package. Please contact Stacy at 217-477-1490 or fax resume to 217-477-1495

Registered NurseFull-Time Position

Haskell Health CenterHours of operation are Mon-Fri., 8am-5pm. Experience preferred.

Great working environment.

For additional information call 785-832-4818This position is in a

Tobacco-Free Environment.Equal Opportunity Employment

Tonganoxie Nursingand Rehabilitation

is now accepting applica-tions for team members who share our passion for excellence. Currently, we are seeking:

Certified NursesAssistants

All Shifts AvailableCome join our team and

enjoy a great workingatmosphere, competitive

pay and great benefits. EOE

Apply in person at: at 1010 East Street, Ton-ganoxie, KS 66086 or contact Samantha O’Hare at (913) 369-8705.

Social Services Prevention/Diversion

Case Manager

Position available in The Shelter, Inc.’s Prevention and Diversion Program. Case manager will work with at-risk youth and their families on factors that are causing youth to miss school.Case Manager will also supervise first time juve-nile offenders on Condi-tions of Release and Pre-Filing Diversion.Requires Bachelor’s De-gree in Human Services or related fields, experience working with youth and families, must be at least 21 years of age, have a valid driver’s license, reli-able transportation, proof of car insurance, and be able to pass background checks. Preferred experi-ence working as a Case Manager, the court sys-tem, schools, prevention and diversion services. Salary commensurate with experience. Benefits available.If interested, apply with cover letter and resume to: Ms. Meghan Bardwell, The Shelter, Inc., P.O. Box 647, Lawrence, KS 66044. Inquiries to (785) 843-2085. EOE

ApartmentsUnfurnished

Hunters Ridge Apts.550 Stoneridge

1 and 2 Bedroom Apts.Salt Water Pool, Business Center, Fire Side Lounge

and Tennis CourtCall Today 785-830-8600www.HuntersRidgeks.com

Townhomes 3BR, 2 bath, all amenities, garage. 2807 Four Wheel Drive $795/mo. Available Dec. 1. Call 785-766-5950

3BR, 1.5B, Nice townhome, 2 car, fenced yd, W&D, loft, yard maint, gas FP. By FSHS. $1050. 785-218-7832

Basehor Near New Large 3BR townhome 2.5 bath, 2 car, Lawn care & snow removal provided. Avail Oct 1. $1,150/mo.+ utils. Call 785-456-4145/ 913-927-1713

Bonner Springs 1BR Apts Starting at $445

2BR Apts at $565Tiblow Village

Bonner SpringsRiver City Rentals

913-441-6108

2BR duplex, Avail NOW. 440 Jamison. Nice appls., deck, garage, storage area, lawn care. $700/mo. $700 dep. No pets. Call 913-208-7976

3BR house, on cul-de-sac, quiet. 1 bath, W/D hookup, big back yard, off-st. park-ing, $775/mo. 913-832-5111

Appliances Over the stove microwave (black) very good condi-tion $50.00. Call 785-979-7870 for more info.

Kenmore (black) dish-washer. 34 inches across. $75. very good condition. Call 785-979-7870.

wooden blocks; old bicy-cles; models; several other toys; Vanity Fair kid’s rec-ord player & records; 1913-1965 Kansas Licenses Plate display on plywood(NICE); bullet pen-cils; fountain pens; old games; radios; many boxes to unpack!!

Vintage FurnitureOak drop-front secretary w/bookcase; oak kitchen cupboard cabinet; maple drop-front secretary w/bookcase; oak chiffo-niers; oak rocking chair; oak library table; chrome kitchen dinette; blonde bedroom suite; lamp stand; several wooden trunks; several pieces that need various work!!

Furniture & Misc.La-Z- Boy Signature II sofa; 2- La-Z-Boy recliners; ma-ple loveseat; Maple full size bedroom suite; single bed; 42 in. LCD flat screen T.V.; kitchen dinette w/swivel chairs; kitchen décor; pyrex/corning ware; Lawn Boy push mower; several power/hand tools; kid’s toys; truck tires; numerous items too many to men-tion!!!

Seller:Roy & Mary Easum Estate

Auction Note: Many items to be unpacked, surprises for sure!!!

Auctioneers:Mark Elston &

Wayne WischroppHome (785-594-0505)Cell ( 785-218-7851)

“Serving Your Auction Needs Since 1994”

Please visit us online at www.KansasAuctions.

net/elston for pictures!!

Healthcare

Bonner Springs

Ice Maker, water refrig (black) Fridge side works. FREE. 35” across and 68” high. Call 785-979-7870.

Kenmore Black glass top stove $100. very good con-dition, 30 inches across. Call 785-979-7870.

LG Microwave - Over the Range in like new condi-tion, 1 yr old - Color: white 785-393-6746

Health & Beauty WANTED:

29 people who areserious about losing20 lbs by Christmas

Call for details:913-832-2003

Miscellaneous Kitchen Aid Refrigerator, 22 cu. ft. white with ice maker, 33” wide x 66” high, like new. $350. Ent. center, 68” long, x 52”high x 20” deep, $250. TV opening 33” wide x 26” high, never been used. 785-843-7093

Bonner Springs

Huge Garage Sale

325 N. 134th St. Bonner Springs, KS

(Directions: North ofRiverview.)

Oct. 19 & Oct. 207-5pm.

Antique dresser, Schwinn bikes, household items, decor, reclining sofa and loveseat, table & chairs, queen size bed, extra long twin bed, TVs, and much more.

Pets Australian cattle dog, needs good home. 6 yr. old loveable, friendly, owner unable to care for dog. raised on a farm as an in-door pet. 785-841-3054

Cars-Domestic Buick 2004 La Sabre, 135K, excellent condition. $6,500. 913-796-6198

Motorcycle-ATV Fleetwood 2002 Discov-ery 38, 330 HP Diesel, 2 Slides, Flat TVs, Wood

Floors, $31500, 785-380-7341 or email [email protected]

Yamaha Maxim 1985,700cc, red, Classic looks, Runs great! Lots of power! Great mileage! $1,500 orbest offer. 785-230-0549.

Truck-Pickups Chevrolet 2005 Suburbanleather, sunroof, power,everything DVD player, Bose stereo 138K, $11,500/offer. 785-979-0303

Thicker line?Bolder heading?

Color background or Logo?

Ask how to get these features in your ad

TODAY!! SunflowerClassifieds

Shawnee

(Published in the ShawneeDispatch, Wednesday, Oc-tober 17, 2012)

Notice to BiddersCITY OF SHAWNEE,

KANSAS

Sealed proposals will be re-ceived from Bidders by theCity of Shawnee, hereinaf-ter referred to as theOwner, at the office of theCity Clerk at Shawnee CityHall, 11110 Johnson Drive,

PUBLIC NOTICECONTINUED ON 23

(First published in theShawnee Dispatch, Wednesday, October 3, 2012)

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF JOHNSON COUNTY, KANSAS

Filed Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 59

In the Matter of theEstate of

Richard D. Fairbanks,deceased.

No. 11-PR1092-MI

NOTICE OF HEARING ONPETITION FOR

FINALSETTLEMENT

STATE OF KANSAS TO ALLPERSONS CONCERNED:

You are hereby notifiedthat a petition has beenfiled on August 3, 1012 byDiana Fairbanks and DennisFairbanks, co-executors ofthe will of Richard D. Fair-banks, deceased, prayingfor a final settlement of theestate, approval of theiracts, proceedings and ac-counts as executor, allow-ance for executor and at-torneys’ fees, determina-tion of the heirs, deviseesand legatees entitled to theestate and assignment tothem in accordance withthe will of Shirley Jean Fair-banks, deceased. You arehereby required to file yourwritten defenses thereto onor before October 25, 2012at 11:30 a.m. on said day insaid court, in the city ofOlathe, Johnson County,Kansas, at which time andplace said cause will beheard. Should you failtherein, judgment and de-cree will be entered in duecourse upon said petition.

Diana Fairbanksand

Dennis Fairbanks,Petitioners

CONLEE, SCHMIDTAND EMERSON LLPJon Von Achen #19813200 W. Douglas, Suite 300Wichita, KS 67202316-264-3300 (phone)316-264-3423 (fax)Attorney for Petitioner

_______

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Accounting

Caroline H. Eddinger, CPA, LLC

Tax ServicesBusiness Consulting QuickBooks Support

lawrencemarketplace.com/eddinger-cpa(785) 550-4149

Auctioneers

BILL FAIRAND COMPANYAUCTIONEERS

SINCE 1970 800-887-6929

AutomotiveServices

Bryant Collision RepairMon-Fri. 8AM-6PM

We specialize in Auto Body Repair, Paintless DentRepair, Glass Repair,& Auto Accessories.

[email protected].

lawrencemarketplace.com/bryant-collision-repair

Dale and Ron’sAuto Service

Family Owned &Operated for 37 Years

Domestic & ForeignExpert Service

630 Connecticut St785-842-2108

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For All Your Battery NeedsAcross The BridgeIn North Lawrence

903 N 2nd St | 785-842-2922lawrencemarketplace.com/

battery

Tires, Alignment, Brakes,A/C, Suspension Repair

Financing Available785-841-60501828 Mass. St

lawrencemarketplace.com/performancetire

Westside 66& Car Wash

Full Service Gas Station100% Ethanol-Free Gasoline

Auto Repair Shop- Automatic Car Washes

Starting At Just $3 -2815 W 6th St | 785-843-1878lawrencemarketplace.com/

westside66

Carpet Cleaning

Kansas Carpet Care, Inc.Your locally owned and

operated carpet andupholstery cleaningcompany since 1993!

• 24 Hour Emergency Water Damage Services Available

By Appointment Only 785-842-3311

For Promotions & More Info:lawrencemarketplace.com/

kansas_carpet_care

Specializing in Carpet, Tile & Upholstery clean-ing. Carpet repairs & stretching, Odor Decon-tamination, Spot Dying & 24 hr Water extraction.

www.doctor-clean.com785-840-4266

Carpets & Rugs

LIMITED TIME…

EXTRA15%-40% OFF

ALL KINDS OF FLOORING

Markdowns on Markdowns!

From 59c sq.ft.

Many priced

BELOW wholesale!

Limited quantities on some items.Installation? No Problem!

Jennings’ Floor Trader3000 Iowa - 841-3838

www.FloorTraderLawrence.com

Child Care Provided

Full service preschool &licensed childcare center for

children ages 1-12. Open year-round, Monday- Friday,

from 7 am to 6 pm

Cleaning

Janitorial ServicesBusiness-Commercial-Industrial

HousecleaningCarpet Cleaning

Tile & Grout CleaningThe “Greener Cleaner”

Locallly OwnedSince 1983

Free Estimates785-842-6264

LawrenceMarketplace.com/bpi

Concrete

CONCRETE INC.Your local concreteRepair SpecialistsSidewalks, Patios,

Driveways, Waterproofing, Basement, Crack repair

888-326-2799 Toll Free

Electrical

For Everything ElectricalCommitted to Excellence

Since 1972Full Service

Electrical Contractorwww.quality-electric.net

Get Lynn on the line!785-843-LYNN

www.lynnelectric.comlawrencemarketplce.com/

lynncommunications

EmploymentServices

Office* Clerical* AccountingLight Industrial* Technical

Finance* LegalApply at eapp.adecco.com

Or Call (785) 842-1515BETTER WORK

BETTER LIFElawrencemarketplace.com/

adecco

Temporary or Contract Staffing

Evaluation Hire, Direct HireProfessional Search

Onsite Services(785) 749-7550

1000 S Iowa, Lawrence KSlawrencemarketplace.com/

express

Events/Entertainment

Eagles LodgeBanquet Room Available

for Corporate Parties, Wedding Receptions,

FundraisersBingo Every Friday Night

1803 W 6th St.(785) 843-9690

lawrencemarketplace.com/Eagles_Lodge

Financial

All Your Banking NeedsYour Local Lawrence Bank

Flooring Installation

Artisan Floor CompanyHardwood Floor Installation,

Refinishing and RepairLocally Owned, Insured,

Free Estimates785-691-6117

www.artisanfloorcompany.com

Foundation Repair

ADVANCED SYSTEMSBasement & foundation repairYour hometown company

Over three decades785-841-0145

mybasementiscracked.com

Concrete, Block & Limestone Wall Repair, Waterproofing

Drainage SolutionsSump Pumps, Driveways.785-843-2700 Owen 24/7

FOUNDATIONREPAIR

Mudjacking, Waterproof-ing. We specialize inBasement Repair &Pressure Grouting.

Level & Straighten Walls & Bracing on wall. BBB.

Free Estimates Since 1962Wagner’s 785-749-1696

www.foundationrepairks.com

Garage Doors

• Garage Doors• Openers• Service• Installation

Call 785-842-5203or visit us at

Lawrencemarketplace.com/freestategaragedoors

General Services

785-856-GOLD(4653)Jewelry, coins, silver,

watches. Earn money with broken & Unwanted jewelry

NOT Your ordinary bicycle store!

Guttering Services

JAYHAWK GUTTERINGSeamless aluminum gutter-ing. Many colors to choose from. Install, repair, screen, clean-out. Locally owned. Insured. Free estimates.

785-842-0094jayhawkguttering.com

Heating & Cooling

“Your Comfort Is Our Business.”

Installation & ServiceResidential & Commercial

(785) 841-2665lawrencemarketplace.com/

rivercityhvac

Air Conditioning/& Heating/Sales & Srvs.

Free Estimates on replacement equipment! Ask us about

Energy Star equipment & how to save on your utility bills.

Roger, Kevin or Sarajane785-843-2244

www.scott-temperature.comlawrencemarketplace.com/

scotttemperature

HomeImprovements

JASON TANKINGCONSTRUCTION

New Construction Framing, Remodels, Additions, Decks

Fully Ins. & Lic. 785.760.4066lawrencemarketplace.com/

jtconstruction

Insurance

Serving individuals, farm-ers & business owners

785-331-3607LawrenceMarketplace.com/

kansasinsurance

Landscaping

Low MaintenanceLandscape, Inc.1210 Lakeview Court,

Innovative Planting DesignConstruction & Installationlawrencemarketplace.com/

lml785-550-5610

Plan Now For Next Year• Custom Pools, Spas &

Water Features• Design & Installation

• Pool Maintenance(785) 843-9119

midwestcustompools.com

Lawn, Garden &Nursery

ROCK-SOD-SOIL-MULCH

1783 E 1500 Rd, LawrencePineLandscapeCenter.com

Find us on FacebookPine Landscape Center

785-843-6949

Moving-Hauling

Haul Free: Salvageable items. Minimum charge:

other moving/hauling jobs. Also Maintenance/Cleaning

for home/business, inside/out plumbing /

electrical & more. www.a2zenterprises.info

785-841-6254

STARVING ARTISTS MOVING15yr. locally owned and

operated company.Professionally trained

staff. We move everyth-ing from fossils to office

and household goods. Call for a free estimate.

785-749-5073lawrencemarketplace.com/

starvingartist

Music Lessons

PIANO LESSONSLearn to play 30-50

songs in the first year with Simply Music!

Keys of Joy785-331-8369

Karla’s Konservatory785-865-4151

Lawrencemarketplace.com/keysofjoy

Painting

Int/Ext/Specialty PaintingSiding, Wood Rot & Decks

Kate, 785-423-4464www.kbpaintingllc.com

Supplying all yourPainting needs.

Serving Lawrence and surrounding areas for

over 25 years.Locally owned & operated.Free estimates/Insured.

Professional Service with a Tender TouchStress Free for you

and your pet.Call Calli 785-766-8420

www.cnnmobilepetsalons.com

Plumbing

PrecisionPlumbing

New ConstructionService & Repair

Commercial & ResidentialFREE ESTIMATES

Licensed & Insured785-856-6315

lawrencemarketplace.com/precisionplumbing

Taking Care of Lawrence’s Plumbing

Needs for over 40 Years(785) 841-2112

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Real EstateServices

Realty Executives - HedgesJoy Neely

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at Shawnee City Hall Council Chambers. A site visit will directly follow the pre-bid conference and start at Family Tree Nursery and conclude at the Nieman Road crossing. The pre-bid conference and site visit are not manda-tory.

CITY OF SHAWNEE, KANSAS________

Shawnee, Kansas, until 10:00 A.M., November 2, 2012 at which time, the bids received will be opened and publicly read for the construction of the Storm Drainage Improvements -Fairview Heights. Bidders will be notified of the re-sults within fourteen (14) days of the date set above for bids to be received. The Contract shall be awarded by the Governing Body of the Owner at the sole and complete discretion of such Governing Body. The City of Shawnee reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive informal-ities or irregularities in bids. The Notice to Proceed is expected to be issued by December 3, 2012.

The Project provides for the construction of approxi-mately 140 linear feet of 6’x5’ RCB, 4430 linear feet of RCP ranging in size from 15” to 60” in diameter, 43 inlets, 28 structures, 1 cast-in-place outfall struc-ture, 515 linear feet of curb and gutter, replacement of 28 driveway approaches, grading, sod replacement, sidewalk replacement, mis-cellaneous street repairs, and other related improve-ments.

Complete digital contract document and plans are available after 10:00 A.M., OOctober 19, 2012,

3350, TC-21-063. An officer of the firm making such proposal shall properly ex-ecute all proposal forms. Bids received after the time and date above specified shall be returned, uno-pened, to the Bidder.

A pre-bid conference will be held at 10:00 AM on Tuesday, October 23, 2012

lowed on the Bid. Bids are for a total bid package, and total contract price.

Each bid shall be made on a printed proposal form in-cluded with these docu-ments. Bids shall be sub-mitted in sealed envelopes and shall be marked “Bid for: Fairview Heights. SHAWNEE PROJECT NO.

www.questcdn.com. You may download the digital plan documents for a non-refundable fee of $10.00 by inputting thee quest project # 2299042 on the website’s Project Search page. Plan holder’s list is available at the same website at no charge. Please contact Quest CDN.com at 1-952-233-1632 or [email protected] for assistance in free member-ship registration, downloading, and working with this digital project in-formation. An optional pa-per set of project docu-ments is also available for a nonrefundable price of $125 per set from the City of Shawnee, City Hall, De-velopment Service Depart-ment, 11110 Johnson Drive, Shawnee, Kansas 66203. If you have questions, please contact the City of Shaw-nee at 913-742-6012.

Each Bidder shall file with their bid a cashier’s check, certified check, or bid bond drawn on an acceptable bank in an amount of not less than five percent (5%) of the total amount of the bid. Bid Bonds will be re-turned to the unsuccessful bidders, with the exception of the second qualifying bidder, at such time as their bids are rejected.

All bidders shall verify that they have considered all written addenda. Any writ-ten addenda issued during the time of bidding shall be covered and included in the bid. There will be no clarifi-cations or exceptions al-

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