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(Published in The Oskaloosa Independent and Valley Falls Vindicator January 16 and 23, 2020 )2t

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF THEJEFFERSON COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICTTo all qualified electors residing within the boundaries of the Jeffer-

son County Conservation District, notice is hereby given that pursuant to K.S.A. 2-1907, as amended, on the 29th day of January 2020, at 12:00 p.m., an annual meeting of the Jefferson County Conservation District will be held at the Kendall State Bank Community Room, 408 Broadway St., Valley Falls, KS.

The meeting agenda shall include the following business items: ONE:The supervisors of the Jefferson County Conservation District

shall make full and due report of their activities and financial affairs since the last annual meeting.

TWO:The supervisors shall conduct an election by secret ballot of quali-

fied electors there present, of two supervisors to serve for a term of three years from date of said meeting.

The terms of John Wunder and Andy Winsor are expiring.All in the county of Jefferson in the State of Kansas.

By /s/ John WunderChairman

Jefferson County Conservation DistrictAttest/s/ Taresa Stutz, District Manager

Photo by Rick Nichols

‘Nothing to it’This was the scene the morning of Jan. 4 in the Purple Gym at the McLouth school complex as high school students from a number of area schools, boys and girls alike, put their upper body and lower body muscles to work in competing for top honors and “bragging rights” at the annual Bulldog Powerlifting Meet hosted by McLouth High School. In the photograph above, a boy representing Wabaunsee High School, the home of the Chargers, has just completed one of the three lifts that comprise the seem-ingly growing-in-popularity sport of powerlifting. These lifts are the deadlift, the squat and the bench press.

PUBLIC NOTICE(Published in The Oskaloosa Independent January 16, 23 and 30, 2020)3t

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY,

KANSASIn the Matter of )the Estate of: )Betty Jean Reynolds, ) Deceased. )

Case No. 20 PR 1(Pursuant to K.S.A.Chapter 59)

NOTICE OF HEARINGTHE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CON-CERNED: You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed in this Court by Robert L. Reynolds, an heir of Betty Jean Reynolds, deceased, praying Descent be determined of the following described real estate situated in Jefferson County, Kansas:

The Southeast Quarter (SE/4) of Section Seven-teen (17) Township Eight (8) South, Range Twenty (20) East, Jefferson County, Kansas.

and all personal property and other Kansas real estate owned by decedent at the time of death. And that such property and all personal property and other Kansas real estate owned by the decedent at the time of death be assigned pursuant to the laws of intestate succession. You are required to file your written defenses thereto on or before February 7, 2020 at 9:30 a.m. in the Jefferson County District Court, city of Oskaloosa in Jefferson County, Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

Robert L. ReynoldsPetitioner

Mark Doty #14526GLEASON & DOTY,CHARTERED401 S. Main, Suite 102P.O. Box 490Ottawa, KS 66067-0490(785) 242-3775 FAX: (785) 242-3855Attorney for petitioner

Weather forecast wreaks havoc on scheduled games Concerns over what a strong winter storm taking aim on eastern Kansas could poten-tially bring in the way of ice and snow led school officials here, there and yonder Friday to call off any number of basketball games that were to have been played that evening and at least three wrestling tournaments that were to have been held Saturday. Wiped out by “Old Man Win-ter,” at least for the time be-ing, were the Jefferson West at Hiawatha basketball games, the Perry-Lecompton at Riv-erside basketball games, the Jackson Heights at Oskaloosa basketball games, the Jefferson County North at Valley Falls basketball games, the McLouth at Pleasant Ridge basketball games, the wrestling tourna-ment Burlington High School was going to be hosting, the wrestling tournament Ross-ville High School was going to be hosting, and the wrestling tournament Herington High School was going to be hosting. Oskaloosa’s grapplers were headed for Burlington, Perry-Lecompton’s for Rossville and Jefferson West’s for Herington. With the exception of the basketball games pitting the Jefferson West Tigers against Hiawatha, none of the roundball games and none of the wrestling meets had been rescheduled as of 2 p.m. Friday. The Tigers and the Red Hawks, they will be making up the contests lost to the elements Monday, Feb. 3 in Hiawatha.

Boys’ Basketball Jan. 6 in Troy — Jefferson County North over Troy 52-30 Ja n . 7 i n M c L o u t h — McLouth over Oskaloosa 48-31 Friday in Oskaloosa — Jack-son Heights vs. Oskaloosa (can-celled) Friday in the Easton area — McLouth vs. Pleasant Ridge (cancelled) Friday in Valley Falls — Jef-ferson County North vs. Valley Falls (cancelled)

Sixteen basketball teams instead of the usual 15 will be participating in the 33rd annual McLouth Invitational Tourna-ment hosted by McLouth High School, which is slated to get going Monday evening at the school complex. The schedule released last week by USD 342 Athletic Di-rector Mark Lackey has the MHS boys team battling the Cyclones of Riverside High School on Monday and the girls team facing the Eagles of Silver Lake High School on Tuesday. It also has both of Jefferson West High School’s teams playing on Tuesday, the Tiger boys against the Red Hawks of Hiawatha High School and the Tiger girls against the Seahawks of Bishop Seabury Academy. MHS, JWHS and four other schools, Riverside, Silver Lake, Maur Hill-Mount Academy and Cair Paravel Latin School, will be represented at the tourna-ment by both a boys squad and a girls squad. Veritas Christian School will be joining Hiawatha to round out the eight-team bracket for the Boys Division, while Kansas City Christian School will be joining Bishop Seabury to complete the eight-team bracket for the Girls Divi-sion. In recent years the field for the tournament has been

Bulldogs, Trojans meet at “The K” in April The paper learned last Thurs-day that McLouth High School’s baseball team will be going up against Troy High School’s team Saturday, April 11 at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., as part of this year’s High School Baseball Classic sponsored by the Kansas City Royals. The game between the Bull-dogs of MHS and the Trojans of THS is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. The contest is open to the public, and there will be no charge for either admission or parking. High school teams selected for participation in the base-ball classic sell vouchers for tickets to Royals games prior to the start of the Major League Baseball season. Area residents interested in catching “the boys in blue” in action at “The K” this year can pick up a Voucher Order Form at the MHS office. Tickets in two sections, Field Plaza and View Reserved, can be purchased through a voucher. Field Plaza tickets are priced at $25 each, View Reserved tickets at $13 each. The sale of vouchers will end March 23.

MIT starts Monday,will feature 16 teams

made up of either eight boys teams and seven girls teams or seven boys teams and eight girls teams. Where there were seven teams involved, four of them were assigned to a bracket and the other three to a pool for round robin play, but that always meant that one of the bracket teams, the one that lost the consolation game, only got to play two games during the tournament while everyone else played three. This year, every team will be playing three games. Here is the schedule for the first two days of the 2020 MIT: Monday, 6 p.m., the top-seed-ed Cair Paravel girls vs. eighth-seeded Kansas City Christian (Gold Gym); 6:15, the second-seeded Maur Hill-Mount Acad-emy girls vs. seventh-seeded Riverside (Purple Gym); 8, the second-seeded McLouth boys vs. seventh-seeded Riverside (Gold Gym); 8:15, the top-seeded Maur Hill-Mount Academy boys vs. eighth-seeded Silver Lake (Purple Gym). Tuesday, 6 p.m., the third-seeded Silver Lake girls vs. sixth-seeded McLouth (Gold Gym); 6:15, the fourth-seeded Jefferson West girls vs. fifth-seeded Bishop Seabury (Purple Gym); 8, the third-seeded Cair Paravel boys vs. sixth-seeded Veritas Christian (Gold Gym); 8:15, the fourth-seeded Jeffer-son West boys vs. fifth-seeded Hiawatha (Purple Gym). The second-round games are to be played Thursday, Jan. 23 and Friday, Jan. 24, with the championship, third place, fifth place and seventh place games in the two divisions to be con-tested Saturday, Jan. 25.

Bulldogs, Bears battleon even terms

Boys’ Basketball Records

W LMaur Hill-Mt. Acad. 5 0Valley Falls 6 1Jefferson Co. North 5 1McLouth 4 1Pleasant Ridge 3 2Jackson Heights 2 3Horton 1 5Atchison County 1 7Oskaloosa 0 6

Girls’ Basketball Records

W LJefferson Co. North 6 0Jackson Heights 4 1Oskaloosa 4 2Horton 4 2Pleasant Ridge 2 3Maur Hill-Mt. Acad. 2 3Atchison County 3 5Valley Falls 1 6McLouth 0 5

Inaugural girls’ regionalwrestling tournamentswill be two-day affairs The Kansas State High School Activities Association announced last week that the first-ever regional wrestling tournaments for girls will be two days in length instead of just one as was originally planned. There will be two regional meets next month, one in Paola and the other in McPherson. Both will now take place Friday, Feb. 14 and Saturday, Feb. 15. They had been scheduled for the 15th only. According to the news re-lease the paper received from KSHSAA, because of the rule that prohibits a wrestler of either gender from wrestling more than five times a day, the organization was forced to extend the regional meets by a day to account for the possibility that a girl could be involved in more than five matches in try-ing to earn a berth at the state tournament. The female wrestlers at Os-kaloosa High School and Jef-ferson West High School will be competing in the regional meet at Paola. All told, 71 schools have been assigned to that re-gional. At each regional, the top six wrestlers in each of the established weight classes, 101 pounds, 109 pounds, 116 pounds, 123 pounds, 130 pounds, 136 pounds, 143 pounds, 155 pounds, 170 pounds, 191 pounds and 235 pounds, will qualify for the state meet. It is slated to be held Thursday, Feb. 27 in Salina. Over 950 girls are out for wrestling this winter, according to KSHSAA.

The first basketball games of 2020 for the varsity teams at Oskaloosa High School and McLouth High School saw each of the schools record a win the evening of Jan. 7 in McLouth, Oskaloosa’s girls topping the Bulldogs 52-30 before McLouth’s boys downed the Bears 48-31. In the boys game, McLouth led 12-7 at the end of the open-ing quarter and was out in front by seven points at halftime, the score 23-16. When the two teams returned to the court for the start of the fourth quarter, the home side was comfortably ahead by 16 points, the score 35-19. Jaxson Pope and Tayshawn Barfield delivered a one-two punch for Steve Lilly’s Bulldogs, with Jaxson knocking down 16 points to lead the squad, while Tayshawn was right behind him with 15. With the victory, the purple and gold improved to 4-1 on the season. A.J. Kreutzer paced the Bears on offense with 11 points. He was backed up by Cord Perry’s 9-point effort and Trevor Willits’ 8-point effort.

Oskaloosa: 7-9-3-12--31McLouth: 12-11-12-13--48

Oskaloosa: Willits 3 2-4 8; Perry 3 (2) 1-3 9; Kreutzer 4 (3) 0-0 11; Thayer 1 (1) 0-0 3; Totals 11 (6) 3-7 31 McLouth: Willits 2 0-4 4; Pope 7 2-5 16; Kuglin 2 1-2 5; Begaye 2 0-1 4; Barfield 5 (1) 4-7 15; Arnett 1 (1) 1-2 4; Totals 19 (2) 8-21 48

In the girls contest, Oskaloo-sa was up 11-7 after one quarter of play and took a 14-point edge into the locker room at halftime, the score 29-15. The Bears con-tinued to pour it on during the third quarter and carried a 31-point margin with them into the fourth quarter, the score 50-19. Oskaloosa had three play-ers finish in double figures, Regan Curry, Reese Curry and Jenna Pfau. Regan led the way with 15 points, and Reese and Jenna chipped in with 10 points apiece. The victory enabled the crim-son and blue to go to 4-2 on the season under Drew Kraxner. Samantha Pope and Jaci Lackey shared scoring honors for McLouth, with each girl connecting for 7 points. Shianne Hill added 5 points.

Oskaloosa: 11-18-21-2--52McLouth: 7-8-4-11--30

Oskaloosa: Reg. Curry 7 1-2 15; Ree. Curry 5 0-4 10; Pfau 5 0-0 10; Malsbury 1 0-0 2; Rock-hold 3 1-2 7; Caldwell 3 (2) 0-0

8; Totals 24 (2) 2-8 52 McLouth: Holwick 1 (1) 0-0 3; Jolley 1 0-0 2; Pope 3 (1) 0-0 7; Dice 2 0-2 4; Hill 2 1-1 5; Lackey 3 (1) 0-0 7; Sparks 1 0-0 2; Totals 13 (3) 1-3 30

Girls’ Basketball Jan. 6 in Troy — Jefferson County North over Troy 64-24 Jan. 7 in McLouth — Oska-loosa over McLouth 52-30 Friday in Oskaloosa — Jack-son Heights vs. Oskaloosa (can-celled) Friday in the Easton area — McLouth vs. Pleasant Ridge (cancelled) Friday in Valley Falls — Jef-ferson County North vs. Valley Falls (cancelled)