Nov. 7 entry

Wednesday 69/44Sunny

Abundant sunshine. Highs in the low 70s and lows in the mid 50s.

Thursday 73/54Sunny/Wind

Windy with sunshine. Highs in the low 70s and lows in the mid 50s.

Friday 77/58Partly

Cloudy/Wind

Windy with a mix of sun and clouds. Highs in the upper 70s and lows in the upper 50s.

Saturday 74/41

Windy with times of sun and clouds. Highs in the mid 70s and lows in the low 40s.

Sunday 46/34Few Showers/

Wind

Windy with a few showers. Highs in the mid 40s and lows in the mid 30s.

Monday 56/33Sunny

Sunny. Highs in the mid 50sand lows in the low 30s.

Tuesday 59/37MostlySunny

More sun than clouds. Highs in the upper 50s and lows in the upper 30s.

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THE DERBY

By Scott [email protected]

Derby Public Schools could soon construct a new football field and track much closer to the high school than Panther Stadium.

Tom Snodgrass , d i rec tor of operations at the school district, unveiled schematic designs to the school board for an eight-lane, 400-meter synthetic track enccircling a turf football field near the south end of Derby High School.

The $1.5 million project, which is funded by capital outlay and not the school bond, will need approval from the school board at its next meeting on Nov. 13 to proceed to the design and development stage.

The area for the new football field and track is currently an open grass area used for practice by various athletic teams and school organizations.

The area, which varies in elevation, is currently being surveyed, Snodgrass

said. The survey will also address drainage issues on the property near James Street.

“There are definitely elevation changes on this site,” Snodgrass said. “We also have some drainage issues on the north end of the site. We are going to try to address all of that at the same time.”

The proposed football field and track will be similar to Panther Stadium, said design architect Gary Holler, with Schaefer Johnson Cox and Frey Architecture.

“The property south of the high school is very tiered. A survey will be able to show us where those tiers are located right now and where the best location is. We may tweak it east and west a little bit, but right now this is the best location for it,” Holler said. “It will be considered a practice field right now, but with the understanding that things do grow. As time goes this may turn into something bigger than that.”

Design plans include sidewalk

access to the track and football field. Bleacher seating for 500 spectators was also integrated into the design, but a master plan will encourage growth well beyond that, Holler said.

The master plan could include another football field to the east, two soccer fields to the west, and an additional 50-yard practice football field to the north. Three new tennis courts could also be added to the current tennis complex at the high school.

Additional parking and 6,000 total bleacher seats (4,000 home seats, and 2,000 visitor seats) could be added in the distant future, Snodgrass said. Panther Stadium currently has bleacher seating for an estimated 4,000 spectators.

“The 6,000 spectator capacity most likely will be well in the future, though,” Snodgrass said. “I think the 500-seat bleachers will be the only

New football field, track proposed

Rendering by Schaefer Johnson Cox and Frey ArchitectureThe architect’s rendering for future athletic areas at Derby High School is shown above. A new $1.5 million football field and track are included in district capital outlay planning. The plan includes an eight-lane, 400 meter synthetic track and and artificial turf football field with bleachers to seat 500. Further in the future, the plan is to upgrade soccer and band practice areas and add three tennis courts on the south side of the current courts.

By Linda [email protected]

A Corvette, stolen from K-15 Auto in Derby, was recovered by Wichita police after a pursuit from Wichita into Haysville on Oct. 29.

The driver of the 1999 silver Corvette fled from Wichita police, leading them on a pursuit which went into Haysville. The driver managed to elude officers, but when he tried to ditch the vehicle in the driveway of a residence, the homeowner confronted him. The homeowner was physically assaulted, but did not let the driver of the Corvette leave, tackling him and holding him until officers arrived.

The 30-year-old driver was booked into the county jail on charges including criminal deprivation of property; flee or elude; criminal possession of a firearm by a felon; driving while his license was cancelled, suspended or revoked; and driving while a habitual violator. He has been released from jail as the investigation into the incident continues.

Stolen Corvette recovered after

police chase

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With a hearing scheduled for Tuesday on whether to continue negotiations with organized city employee groups, talks with the Fraternal Order of Police took a step forward this week.

Representatives of the FOP and city management met on Oct. 30 for a meet and confer session and hammered out the majority of the items on the table, according to Mike Cordell, FOP representative. The pay scale was the primary piece on which the two sides did not reach an agreement. That will remain on the table for a scheduled session in December.

As those talks move on, a public hearing will be held during the Derby City Council meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 13, to seek public input on rescinding negotiations with organized employee groups. The city moved under the Public Employer-Employee Relations Act in 1987, after employees of the Public Works Department organized under the Service Employees International Union Local 513.

That group has now disbanded, but the Fraternal

Order of Police Lodge No. 16 formed in 2005 and has negotiated employee contracts since that time. In addition, the International Association of Firefighters Local 4888 has sought a charter and is asking to n e g o t i a t e c o n t r a c t s , according to Firefighter Carson Chatwell, president of the local.

The cost of city staff time is already at $13,700, based on 36 hours in meetings and 108 hours of preparation time in previous negotiation rounds, according to Kathy Sexton, city manager. She has proposed an employee advisory council, through which each city department would be represented on issues of employee concern, including policies and benefits changes. The police and fire departments would also have their own advisory councils, reporting directly to their chief.

I f the counci l f inds the public is in favor of rescission of the city’s decision to come under PEERA and takes action to move out from under it, changes would take effect on Jan. 14, 2014, if action is taken in 2012, or on Jan. 1, 2015, if action is taken in 2013, Sexton said.

Public hearing on city unions

planned forTuesday evening

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There are times when we walk into public meetings, listen to the topic at hand and ask ourselves internally, “Is this a pipe dream?”

Passenger rail service through the area, including a potential stop in Mulvane, is one of those topics. It is a multi-million dollar subject, complicated by freight vs . passenger, central vs. western Kansas economies, Kansas vs. other state economies, and private companies vs. public funding, which is almost overwhelmingly daunting.

The idea has a wide-reach ing appea l . The thought of taking the train to another destination is intriguing in this area where members of society drive themselves everywhere.

Taking a train would mean you would see more of the countryside and less of major highways. Someone else would drive. And, the risks of an accident are far less than being on the highway for hours on end.

What fun would it be to load up a bunch of college football fans – no matter which Kansas college you favor – and take the train to an Oklahoma or Texas game?

We are pleased a legislative interim committee has recommended another study of the issue. While it has been done before, this time there may be factors coming into play sooner than most of us expected.

An Amtrak deadline is moving this direction within the next four years, based on the fact the rails which now carry the Southwest Chief are deteriorating.

Unfor tunate ly, publ ic transportation rarely pays its own way.

Thus, without tax dollars to repair those rails, the r a i l r oad w i l l r e rou t e passenger service to the freight lines. Those long rumbling cars of freight which we despise when they hold us up while they pass this direction are what pay the bills to keep the track in shape.

It must be pointed out that Mulvane has yet to be named as a stop in the talk for passenger rail service. Naturally, Wichita is routinely where the arrow falls, but as talk evolves, expect Mulvane and other communities to lobby for stops.

Today, Mulvane’s former railroad depot is a nice museum which tells the history of the railroad’s impact on the community. A walk around the building reveals fencing erected to keep people from going near the tracks, which are the busiest in the area for freight service pass-through.

There is little doubt a passenger stop would banish the ghostly feel of times past – even if the stop does not happen at the old depot.

In the meantime, there will be a lot of political maneuvering with as many shrieks and clanging chains as any ghost could produce. We hope it is not a pipe dream and when the chains fall it is at a ribbon cutting for passenger rail depot within a short distance of Derby.

– By Linda Stinnett

Passenger train has universal appeal

By Jeff [email protected]

With the conclusion of another presidential campaign, voters can finally take a vacation from the piles of direct mail propaganda, obnoxious television commercials (thank goodness we do not live in Ohio) and pre-programmed talking heads.

No matter how all of that impacted your decision, the media coverage this year made a clear statement to all of us – unbiased political campaign journalism is officially obsolete.

I must admit, in my 34-year media career I have never seen more biased

National media hits an all time low

and controlled campaign coverage out of the national media. The biggest culprits of this are the cable news television networks, with the mainstream networks not far behind. What is most frightening about this type of journalism is that it resembles the embryonic stages of a controlled state media.

The Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan “fact tank” that provides information on the issues, attitudes and

trends shaping America, says research shows the political bias of U.S. news organizations is at an all time high. Americans say the media is biased by a ratio of more than two to one.

P e w a l s o i n d i c a t e s that almost two-thirds of respondents prefer to get political news from sources who do not present a political v i e w p o i n t . C e r t a i n l y newspapers are included in having a political bias and, like television, it tends to be restricted to more national publ icat ions or major market daily newspapers.

One reason media bias has increased on television is a result of the infusion of commentary news programs

and heavy commentary networks such as FOX News and MSNBC over the past couple of decades. It is human nature to have an opinion, and journalists especially will have a tendency to express that opinion.

The problem develops when political opinion b e c o m e s e n g a g e d i n deciding what is and is not news. Admittedly, it can be difficult to pull that out of the equation, but when it becomes blatant, it is not true journalism.

The mainstream networks have crossed the line and are not providing the country snapshots of reality. Rather, they are skewing the reporting and what is reported to reflect their views and what may be a personal agenda.

One of the most obvious non-coverage decisions from the mainstream media is the question in Benghazi. National security is one of the primary duties of the President and his staff. Avoiding certain confirmed and sourced events that may have led to a tragic event and could prove incompetence in the administration is showing a lack of respect to the millions of Americans who deserve to know.

The real concern of biased media is ultimately the impac t i t has on journal ism across the nation. If consumers of news continue to not get broad-based unbiased reporting, it will ultimately result in a complete lack of confidence and credibility. Pew Research Center also says that a large number of

To the editor:So the city wants to get

into the union-busting business.

I am a lifelong Derby resident, having been born here in 1952, and in 60 years, this is the craziest thing I have read yet. Does no one at City Hall remember anything about Derby’s history?

Many of the local aircraft workers, most of whom were union members, chose to make Derby their home. They spent their union wages buying new homes, eating at Derby restaurants, and so on. All the while their union-fed tax dollars were returned to Derby to finance our continued prosperity.

I was proud to be a union member before I retired (battalion chief for Wichita Fire Department), as was my wife Susie, a retired Derby schoolteacher. Several other unions in the region

also contributed greatly to Derby’s prosperity. T h o u s a n d s o f D e r b y residents have benefited from union affiliation, and this affiliation has benefited Derby as well.

Endur ing ex t remely tight budget conditions, the school board and teachers have managed to successfully negotiate contracts for decades. For some reason, the FOP is having trouble negotiating with the city, and now the council wants to rescind the 25-year old agreement that recognizes employee’s union affiliation.

I n s t e a d , I w o u l d encourage the council and city manager to find an agreeable solution between themselves and the FOP. I personally know several of the service workers, several of the firemen, and I have worked closely with many of the police officers.

I have found them all to be very loyal and dedicated employees. They are very conscientious about how they represent Derby.

It is their right to be represented by a union in order to seek the best wages and benefits that they can negotiate. If we truly want to attract and keep qualified employees, then we must be competitive in our wage and benefit packages. If you want good people, it comes with a price.

Unions are made up of dedicated hard-working individuals doing the best they can for their f a m i l i e s . D o n ’ t c i t y employees deserve the same consideration that many of our citizens have enjoyed?

Contact your council representative and insist that city employees be allowed to exercise their rights.

John RussellDerby

letter to the editor

By Martin Hawverwww.hawvernews.com

Oh, so that is what the new Fords look like.

Finally this week the election is over, and we do not have to look at and hear any more campaign commercials and it is back to life as nearly as normal as we like to live it.

But ... for us Statehouse habitués who probably are not quite normal, the next election is less than a month away. What? Yes, less than a month, but the campaigning here will not jarringly interrupt Dancing with the Stars.

It is the election on Dec. 3 for leadership offices of the Kansas House and Senate, and the campaigning will be just among the newly e l ec ted o r r e -e l ec ted

members of those chambers. It is the election where the president of the Senate and the Speaker of the House are decided, and majority leaders of each chamber are identified, and just a dab downstream from those elections, we will learn what committees each chamber will have and who will run them.

Count on a lot of quiet campaigning here mostly among the Republican caucus members of each chamber.

This is what thenew model looks like

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The RecordDeloris M. Ham

DERBY – Deloris M. Ham, 94, passed away Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. A graveside service was held on Friday, Nov. 2, at Prospect Hill Cemetery in Blue Rapids.

Delor is was preceded in death by her parents, Henry Robertson and Pearl Balderson; husband of 72 years, Henry Ham; daughter, DeAnn Rogge.

She is survived by her son and his wife, William and Andrea Ham of Derby; grandchildren, J.D. (Lauren) Ham, Mitchell Ham and Lisa Rogge; great-grandchildren, Taylor, Jenna and Lucas Ham and Luke Rogge; great-great grandson, Dallas Rogge.

Memorial donations may be made to R ivercross Hospice, 251 S. Whittier St., Wichita, Kan. 67207.

Send condolences via www.smithfamilymortuaries.com.

Allen Charles Hatcher Sr.DERBY – Allen Charles

Hatcher Sr., age 63, retired Boeing inspector, passed away Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012. A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 9, at Rocky Community Cemetery in Johnson City, Texas.

Allen was preceded in death by his parents, Raymond and Mary Hatcher; brother, Raymond Brooks.

He is survived by his wife of 41 years, Gail Hatcher; son, Allen (Heather) Hatcher Jr. of Clearwater; granddaughter, Adeline Hatcher and one on the way; sister in-law, Anna Brooks of San Antonio, Texas.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Rocky Community Cemetery,

7195 W. US Highway 290, Johnson City, Texas 78636. www.smithfamilymortuaries.com.

Taylor Danielle HeerscheMULVANE – Taylor Danielle

Heersche, age 15, Mulvane High School sophomore, p a s s e d a w a y Tuesday, Oct. 3 0 , 2 0 1 2 . A celebration of Taylor’s life was held on Sunday, Nov. 4, at Central C o m m u n i t y Church, Wichita.

Ta y l o r w a s preceded in death by her grandma, Winifred Heersche; and her papa, John H. Hastings.

Surv ivors include her parents, Dan and DeAnne Heersche of Mulvane; sister,

Connor Heersche of Mulvane; maternal grandmother, Millie Hastings of Derby; paternal grandfather, George Heersche of Mulvane; her P-Papa, Arlie Simpson of Hutchinson; and beloved dog, Kaiser.

In lieu of flowers, memorials have been established with The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, 300 N. Main, Suite 300, Wichita, Kan. 67202; Taylor Heersche Cancer Fund, c/o Carson Bank, P.O. Box 158, Mulvane, Kan. 67110; Mulvane High School Thespians Club, 1900 N. Rock Rd., Mulvane, Kan. 67110; LEOS Club, c/o of Mulvane Lions Club, 1208 Joann Dr., Mulvane, Kan. 67110, and The Mulvane United Methodist Church Chancel Choir, 107 S. Central, Mulvane, Kan. 67110. View tributes at smithfamilymortuaries.com.

November 7Derby Senior Services Advisory

Board meeting, 10 a.m. at Senior Center, 611 Mulberry

Lions Club meeting, 12 p.m. at Dillons Marketplace Community Room

Old Fashioned Burger Burn, 5-8 p.m. at Derby VFW/American Legion, 101 S. Baltimore

November 9Rotary Club, noon at Derby Golf

and Country Club meeting roomSteak Night, 5:30-8 p.m. at VFW/

American Legion, 101 S. BaltimoreNovember 11

Sons of the American Legion Breakfast, 8-11 a.m. at VFW/American Legion, 101 S. Baltimore. Adults $6; ages 4-11 $3

November 12Derby Garden Club meeting, 7

p.m. at Woodlawn United Methodist Church parlor, 431 S. Woodlawn. Charlene Schneider will present program on seed preparation

VFW Post meeting, 7 p.m. at VFW/American Legion, 101 S. Baltimore

VFW Men’s Auxiliary meeting, 7 p.m. at VFW/American Legion, 101 S. Baltimore

November 13City Council meeting, 6:30 p.m.

at city hall. Go to derbyweb.com for meeting agenda

Board of Education meeting, 7

p.m. at Derby High School. Go to usd260.com for meeting agenda

November 14Derby Senior Services Advisory

Board meeting, 10 a.m. at Senior Center, 611 Mulberry

Lions Club meeting, 12 p.m. at Dillons Marketplace Community Room

Old Fashioned Burger Burn, 5-8 p.m. at Derby VFW/American Legion, 101 S. Baltimore

November 15Keenagers covered dish meeting,

11:30 a.m. at Pleasantview Baptist Church, 1335 N. Buckner. Call the church at 788-3734 by Monday for reservations

Joyful Page Turners Book Club meeting, 6:45 p.m. at library, 1600 E. Walnut Grove

Derby 4-H meeting, 7 p.m. at Derby Church of Christ, 225 N.Derby St. Those interested can call Stephanie Babino, 573-6233

Derby Middle School seventh-grade band concert, 7:30 p.m. in DMS auditorium

November 16Rotary Club, noon at Derby Golf

and Country Club meeting roomSteak Night, 5:30-8 p.m. at VFW/

American Legion, 101 S. Baltimore

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November 31:26 a.m., 1300 block

Cresthill, EMS call1:38 a.m., Madison and

Mulberry, EMS call3:03 a.m., 1700 block

Walnut Grove, EMS call6:14 am., 400 block N.

Westview, EMS call12:54 p.m., 400 block Mary

Etta, EMS call3:56 p.m., 1400 block Webb

Rd., Mulvane, brush fire4:22 p.m., 100 block W.

Market, EMS call11:59 p.m., 1400 block

Pinion Rd. , CO detector activationNovember 2

6:54 am., Rock and Patriot, motor vehicle accident

10:44 a.m., 1100 block N. Rock Rd., EMS call

2:50 p.m., 700 block Klein Cr., EMS call

3:22 p.m., 900 block N. Rock Rd., motor vehicle accident

4:23 p.m., 1200 block Armstrong Ct., EMS call

7:40 p.m., 1400 block N. Rock Rd., EMS callNovember 1

11 a.m., 900 block Crestway,

special assignment11:15 am., 900 block N.

Lakeview, EMS call1:15 p.m., 1100 block N.

Nelson, EMS call3 p.m., 800 block N. Derby,

EMS call5:43 p.m., 300 block S.

Derby, grass fireOctober 31

4:25 a.m., 900 block Kay, EMS call

10:44 a.m., 1200 block Baltimore, EMS call

6:43 p.m., 1400 block N. Georgie, gas leak

8:38 p.m., Lakeview and Crestview, gas leakOctober 30

3:49 a.m., 1200 block N. Buckner, EMS call


11:09 p.m., 600 block N. Rock Rd, EMS call

11:52 p.m., 700 block Klein Cr., EMS callOctober 29

9:57 a.m., 2000 block N. Nelson Dr., EMS call

10:10 a.m., 1500 block Derby Hills Ct., assist citizen

10:45 a.m., 400 block

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ArrestsNov. 5, 30-year-old male from

Derby, driving under the influence.Nov. 3, 25-year-old male from

McConnell, theft.Nov. 3, 20-year-old male from

Derby, theft.Nov. 3, 31-year-old female from

Peck, theft.Nov. 3, 25-year-old female from

Wichita, failure to appear.Nov. 3, 40-year-old male from

Okmulgee, Okla., failure to appear.Nov. 2, 36-year-old female from

Derby, driving under the influence.Nov. 2, 36-year-old male from

Arvada, Colo., failure to appear.Nov. 2, 24-year-old male from


Valley Center, failure to appear.Nov. 2, 59-year-old male from


Derby, rape.Oct. 30, 17-year-old female

from Wichita, truancy.Oct. 30, 51-year-old male from

Haysville, failure to appear.Traffic Accidents

Nov. 4, 7:18 p.m., non-injury accident at W. Patriot Ave. and N. Buckner St.

Nov. 4, 1:44 p.m., non-injury accident at 1400 block N. Nelson Dr.

Nov. 2, 5:01 p.m., non-injury accident at 400 block N. Baltimore Ave.

Nov. 2 , 3:22 p.m., injury accident at 900 block N. Rock Rd.

Nov. 2 , 6:53 a.m., injury accident at E. 63rd St. S. and N. Rock Rd.

Oct. 31, 3:15 p.m., non-injury accident report at 1100 block E. Lost Hills St.

Oct. 29, 9:57 a.m., injury accident at 2000 block N. Nelson Dr.Larceny

Nov. 4, 4:47 p.m., report at 500 block S. Baltimore Ave.

Nov. 4, 9:49 a.m., report at 600 block W. Songbird St.

Nov. 4, 3:14 a.m., 200 block W. Patriot Ave.

Nov. 3, reported at police dept.Nov. 3, 1:32 a.m., 400 block W.

Patriot Ave.Nov. 1, 7:21 p.m., report at

2000 block N. Nelson Dr.Nov. 1, 6:23 p.m., reported at

police dept.Nov. 1, 4:59 p.m., report at

2000 block N. Nelson Dr.Oct. 31, 5:22 p.m., reported at

police dept.Oct. 30, 9:07 p.m., report at 800

block E. Market St.Oct. 30, 12:59 p.m., report at

100 block E. Wedgewood Dr.Oct. 29, 11:03 a.m., report at

400 block E. Lincoln St.Burglary

Nov. 2, 9:55 p.m., 2200 block N. White Oak Rd.Fraud/Forgery

Nov. 3, 12:06 p.m., fraud at 200 block E. Patriot Ave.

Nov. 2, 10:29 a.m., fraud at 1600 block E. Walnut Grove Rd.

Nov. 1, 4:03 p.m., fraud at 800 block E. Lincoln St.

Oct. 31 , 2:15 p.m., fraud reported at police dept.

Birchwood, EMS call11:10 a.m., 1100 block N.

Georgie, special assignment12:49 p.m., 300 block Red

Powell, EMS call5:02 p.m., 1200 block N.

Buckner, EMS callOctober 28

12:04 p.m., 2200 block Ironwood Ct., EMS call

4:17 p.m., 100 block W. Market, EMS call

5:04 p.m., 1400 block Baltimore, EMS call

7:40 p.m., 900 block El Paso, good intent call


9:45 p.m., 1300 block Meadowhaven, EMS call

Americans already feel that a majority of today’s news stories have inaccuracies.

Continuing with biased and uncovered news will only add more damage to the long-term value of journalism as we know it today.

Jus t l ike any o the r business or industry, the consumer has the power

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A new crosswalk signal in the 2300 block of Meadowlark – between Walnut Creek Street and Hamilton Drive, near the St. Mary church and school – will be available for pedestrian use

at about 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 7.

The new signal has two red lights on top, with a yellow light on bottom. It remains dark until a pedestrian activates the push-button.

When activated, the yellow light on bottom will first flash, to warn motorists to slow down.

A solid yellow follows the flashing yellow, urging motorists to stop.

The double solid red signals require motorists to stop for pedestrians.

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a full stop, but they may then proceed when all pedestrians have cleared the crosswalk.

This reduces the time motorists have to wait at the crosswalk, said Kristy Bansemer, Derby public information officer.

The crosswalk was installed to allow pedestrians to safely cross Meadowlark to reach their destination, whether that be home, school, church or an area business, she said.

The Meadowlark street project also includes new sidewalks on both sides of Meadowlark for walkers, runners and bikers. The street project is nearing completion.

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GINGER G. GOLDEN/Informer photoDerby senior Scott Lewis cringes as he is thrown forward by a simulated 5 mph impact Friday at the high school. Trooper Gary Warner, public resource officer for the Kansas Highway Patrol, was on hand to teach students the importance of wearing their seat belts. The simulator allowed students to feel the impact of a head-on collision.

Democrats? If their current leaders are re-elected, do not look for much change. But the current Senate President Steve Morris (R-Hugoton), was defeated in the GOP primary election, and will not have a desk in the Statehouse anymore. Speaker Mike O’Neal (R-Hutchinson) did not seek re-election, now is chief of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, and will probably roam the Statehouse halls, but will not have a desk, either.

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With the holiday season rapidly approaching, Derby - Operation Holiday is preparing for its 28th year of providing assistance to residents within the Derby school system.

This organization depends solely on the donations and volunteer support of local businesses and residents living within the school district boundaries. Derby - Operation Holiday does not receive financial support from other holiday programs sponsored in Sedgwick County. With the troubled economy, needs for support are expected to rise again this year.

This community mission provides individuals and

families in need with non-perishable food items, g rocery vouchers fo r turkeys and perishable items, and gifts for children ages infant through 14. Generous gifts can help bring joy to the hearts of the neediest children and their parents.

There are many ways Derby residents can help others during this holiday season.

• Financial donations – Payable to Derby - Operation Holiday. It is a 501(C) tax-exempt organization. Donations may be mailed to Derby - Operation Holiday, c /o Woodlawn United Methodist Church, 431 S. Woodlawn, Derby, Kan. 67037

• D o n a t e – N o n -perishable food items or toys

may be donated at Derby schools beginning this week or at area businesses and churches beginning Nov. 13.

• Adopt-A-Family – A unique opportunity to personalize one’s giving. Donors are matched with a family size of their choosing. Visit the website, www.derbyophol.org to find out more information.

• Volunteer – Hundreds of volunteers will be needed Dec. 13-17. A detailed listing of volunteer positions can be found by visiting the website.

For those who do not have Internet service or prefer to talk to one of the committee members about Derby - Operation Holiday, please call Carol Jones at 788-6814.

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Derby may be enjoying an Indian summer, but the holiday season and cooler temperatures are fast approaching.

Pull out those hats and mittens for Derby’s seventh annual Tree Lighting on Thursday, Nov. 15, at 6 p.m. and join family and friends at Madison Avenue Central Park (Madison Avenue and Derby Street) for this community event.

The Tree Lighting ceremony kicks off the holiday season in the city of Derby and the following is planned for the evening:

• Lighting of the city tree by Mayor Dion Avello

• Photos with Santa Claus by CL!X • Cookies from Down Home Sweets • Kettle korn by Black Sheep • Hot chocolate and coffee • Cookie, frame mat and ornament

decorating activities.

ADA accessible parking will be available on the west side of the former gymnasium building. Public parking will be available in the parking lot northwest of the building, in the parking lots west of the park, and on side streets.

After the city tree is lit, green lights will glow all around town. City facilities and participating businesses will be adorned with green energy-efficient LED lights. Residents are encouraged to replace old holiday lights with energy-efficient LED lights to reduce electricity consumption and save money.

This “green” initiative is spearheaded by the Derby Chamber of Commerce and is in its third year. It is a visual reminder for residents to shop locally and keep their “green” in Derby this holiday season. Businesses lit up with green lights will stand out to shoppers and stand together to encourage residents to shop locally.

City Christmas treelighting will be Nov. 15

committee leadership and membership? It is because the speaker and president, in conjunction with their respective majority leaders, generally decide what bills are considered, which ones make it out of committees and to the floor of each chamber – or at least the debate calendar of each chamber.

That means the leadership races will determine to a large degree just what the Legislature does or does not do and to what or whom.

It is possible for, say, a bill to be introduced in one chamber, pass, and never get a second look across the rotunda. That happened under the, uh, previous Senate leadership with abortion bills, with union regulation bills and with a measure sought by Gov. Sam Brownback that would let him, not the Judicial Selection Commission, decide who might become an appeals court judge.

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First Christian Church w i l l h o s t i t s a n n u a l Thanksgiving dinner for seniors at the Powerhouse, 302 N. Georgie, on Nov. 17.

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Anyone who is home-bound and would like to receive a meal is asked to contact the church.

Transportation can also be provided to the event. Arrangements for that should be made when the

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They were accepting donations for the Toys for Tots program as well as raising money for the Children’s Miracle Network.

The group collected over 100 toys and more than $150 in cash donations for Toys

for Tots. They also raised over $300 for the Children’s Miracle Network.

The group gave away two prizes, a Princess basket won by Liz Hames of Haysville and a $100 gift card won by Lori Bateman of Wichita.

M e m b e r s f r o m t h e lodge will be at Lowe’s this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. to collect more donations for these two charities. There will be another gift basket and card giveaway as well.

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T h e J o h n M . We s t American Legion Post 408 and the Joseph F. Herndon VFW Post 7253 will be hosting a Toys for Tots fundraiser this Saturday, Nov. 10, from noon to midnight at the Post, 101 S. Baltimore Ave.

The event, which is open to the public, will begin at noon with Cheryl Cobb singing the national anthem. The Marine color guard will be present for the event.

Lunch will be served with a suggested donation of a toy or $5.

The Powder River Band will perform at 8 p.m. with a suggested donation of $10

per person. Prize drawings will be held at 9 p.m. and ticket holders need not be present to win.

All proceeds made during the event will be donated to Toys for Tots.

Toys may be donated at the Post now through Saturday’s event. Marines will pick the toys up on Saturday.

Major Bill Hendricks of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve began the Toys for Tots program in 1947 in an effort to collect toys to give as Christmas presents for underprivileged children; 5,000 toys were collected that first year.


I f i t seems that the month lasts longer than the food budget, then a local organization may have a solution to help stretch the dollars.

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When Carlton “Tink” Wolf left for the military in 1939, he saw it as a way to gain an education which would help him overcome hard times brought by the economic Depression.

Instead, it became a seven-year service as World War II broke out. The war eventually separated him from his wife and two young sons who returned to Kansas to live with Janet Wolf’s mother in Clearwater.

Janet and Carlton married in 1942, when he was stationed in Wichita Falls, Texas. The war had just leapt into full-fledged motion,

but he was still stationed stateside and even worked part-time for a car dealership. His off-base employer helped find an apartment for the newlyweds when they set up house in Wichita Falls, Janet said.

When he was shipped overseas, Janet returned to Kansas and she said Carlton told her she was not to work at one of the plants and leave their sons with her mother to baby sit.

Looking back, Janet knows being away from her husband was difficult, but she does not speak of her situation as any harder than others at the time.

“I had a lot of willpower,” she said.

They planted a large garden, had lots of fruit trees and canned or sold all they could. She also mowed her mother’s larger corner lot with a push mower.

“I got a lot of exercise,” she said.

These were families who had survived the Great Depression and worked to help each other. At age 13, Janet’s father was serving as town constable in Clearwater and was gunned down and killed by bank robbers.

“We learned to save after Dad was killed,” she said.

World War II was a time of letters – they did not have email, many phones or other ways to communicate. And, someone else

read all of their letters before they were posted.

“All our letters were censored,” she said.

Carlton returned home safely, and the couple eventually settled in Derby, where they raised their five children. But, as the years rolled on, they soon found their own three sons enlisting in the military during the Vietnam War.

“You didn’t like it, of course,” Janet said. “You still worried over them.”

Son Carl, who would later have Wolf Pharmacy in Derby, was in a Navy reserve unit which was called to Vietnam. Son Ron enlisted to get ahead of the pending draft and served as an air traffic controller in

a busy zone of the war. Their son, Layton, would serve in Germany, which allowed his parents a fun European vacation to visit with him in 1968, Janet said.

A s a c o u p l e w h o f u l l y understood the call of the military, seeing sons leave without being allowed to attend a Thanksgiving dinner tore at their parents’ hearts. At that point, Janet said she no longer had small children to keep her occupied and she took a job to keep herself busy and not thinking about sons in a war zone.

One thing had not changed since World War II.

“I looked for their letters,” she said.

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The city of Derby is offering an amnesty day for the over 200 people who have outstanding warrants through municipal court.

Warrant Amnesty Day will be Tuesday, Nov. 20, allowing those people the opportunity to clear their case without the fear of being arrested, according to Police Chief Robert Lee. The amnesty program is available from 1 to 7 p.m. on that day in the Police and Courts Building at 229 N. Baltimore (K-15) in Derby.

“This is an opportunity for them to come in through some extra hours to make it as convenient as possible,” Lee said. The amnesty day is designed to clear the system of old warrants and to collect as much as $35,000 in outstanding court costs and fines.

Those appearing must do so in person and pay all of their fines and costs associated with their original infraction on the amnesty day.

“They have to pay in full that day,” said Shelli Adams, court administrator.

Each person who appears will save nearly $166 for each warrant which is dismissed, she said. That includes a $50 fine, $50 warrant fee and $66 in court costs associated with the warrant.

The program through the local court only includes unpaid parking tickets, unpaid traffic infractions and those who still owe fines. It does not include criminal misdemeanor or felony charges from other courts, Adams said.

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The Corvette was returned to the used car business with its speedometer showing it was driven 1,400 miles before officers recovered it, according to owner Tom Scripp. At this point, Scripp does not know where it was driven, but the mileage does show it was not sitting in a garage.

“That’s amazing for 30 days,” he said.

In addition to the Corvette, a 1999 silver Mercedes Benz LKO hardtop convertible was stolen from K-15 Auto. That vehicle was found abandoned in a parking lot in Emporia, just off I-35, at 1:30 a.m. on Oct. 15, according to Derby Police Lt. Tim Brant.

The Mercedes had both mechanica l and body damage, Scripp said. His insurance considered that vehicle a total loss.

The Corvette had severe scratches, l ikely from being driven through the company’s fence when it

was stolen. A dollar amount of damages to that vehicle is still being determined, Scripp said.

Both vehicles were being driven with license plates which also may have been stolen. The Corvette had a Texas tag and the Mercedes a handicapped tag, he said.

The car theft spree began Sept. 28, with the theft of a 2008 Mazda from an apartment complex in the 300 block of south Woodlawn. That vehicle was found later that evening near Panther Stadium, where two other vehicles were stolen from parking areas as the football game was played.

A 1986 Toyota Tacoma, taken f rom the game area, was later recovered in the 8100 block of south Hancock, just west of Derby. A 1996 silver Honda Accord, tag number 544EVA, is the only vehicle from the spree still not recovered.

Brant said no one has been arrested or charged with the thefts of the five vehicles. Police continue to try to connect the thefts.

“ C e r t a i n l y t h a t i s something the detectives are going to explore,” he said.

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N a v y w i f e B r i d g e t Horlacher knows what it means to keep the home fires burning.

She drove from Tennessee to Derby in August with three children so she could enroll them at Park Hill before school began.

H e r h u s b a n d , L t . C o m m a n d e r K y l e Horlacher, did not arrive until this past week.

“I didn’t get to transfer until three months after they did, so I was worried about her moving on her own and being on her own, but she constantly reassured me that she loves it here in Derby,” said Kyle.

Kyle has been apart from Bridget on Mother’s Days and birthdays, as the Navy pilot has been deployed multiple times, including Operation Iraqi Freedom

and Operation Enduring Freedom.

The family has also moved c ross coun t ry multiple times.

“I knew what I was getting into when we got married,” said Bridget. “When we were first married, I used to love finding out where we were going next, but now that we have kids, I’d like to settle down. I love it here in Derby and love the people.”

Kyle gently reminded her that Navy life means moving, but agreed it is great to be back in a “military town.”

The Horlachers live in the Park Hill neighborhood near the Garret t Park Veterans Memorial Walk of Freedom.

“We go to the park often,” said Bridget. “Joey had his Derby Junior Football practices here, so the kids and I came out here several times a week this fall.”

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Photo by DAVI STUHLSATZThe Horlacher family stopped to look at the Navy bricks and monument on the Walk of Freedom after church on Sunday. Pictured from left to right are Bridget, Kelly (9), Joey (11), Kyle, Abby (6) and Jim Horlacher. The Navy family is eager to see the new statue unveiled this weekend.

Kyle said he appreciates how supportive the school, neighborhood and town is.

“ I l ove s ee ing t he ‘Welcome Home’ and ‘Welcome Home, Daddy’ signs in our neighborhood in support of returning troops,” he said.

Kyle has addit ional family support – whenever the family transfers, his father takes time off from his medical practice to drive with him to his new assignment.

“We drove from Norfolk, Va. , where Kyle was training, to Derby, one step ahead of Hurricane Sandy,” said Dr. Jim Horlacher. “I loved doing it. How often do you get to spend five days with your 39-year-old son?”

K y l e w i l l a s s u m e his off ic ia l dut ies as commander of the Navy Operational Support Center in Wichita in January.

Courtesy photos This 1999 silver Chevrolet Corvette, one of two vehicles stolen from K-15 Auto on Saturday, Sept. 29, was recovered on Oct. 29.

In addition, detectives hope evidence from the vehicles which have been recovered leads to the person responsible for the thefts. There are times that the thief is not the person who has possession of the vehicle when it is recovered, he said, and local detectives are working with Wichita police on the case.

“We are hoping that will actually lead us to who stole the vehicles,” Brant said.

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Though some may find it intimidating to step boldly into a foreign land, many choose to embrace their unfamiliar surroundings and experience what the region has to offer.

Recently, airmen from the 90th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron did this by participating in some of the customs of the Muslim Feast of Sacrifice holiday, known as Kurban Bayrami in Turkey.

The feast’s origins come from the story of Abraham heading up a mountain to sacrifice his son, but his son’s life was spared by God’s provision of a ram. In a spirit of thankfulness during this festival, animals are sacrificed and the meat divided into portions – some being kept by the family, and the rest given away to the poor.

The more the 90th EARS heard about the Feast of

Local airmen lend hand to goodwill mission in Turkey

Senior Airman Michelle Horter, 90th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, gives meat from a sacrificed sheep to a local Turkish family Oct. 25, 2012, at Incirlik Village, Turkey. This was the first time many local shop owners saw Americans participating in the Muslim Feast of Sacrifice holiday, or Kurban Bayrami, part of which includes charitable practices by helping those in need.

U.S. Air Force photos by Senior Airman Clayton LenhardtSenior Master Sgt. Richard Tigges and Lt. Col. Mike Moeding of Derby (at right), 90th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, bag meat from a sacrificed sheep at Incirlik Village, Turkey. During the Muslim Feast of Sacrifice holiday, or Kurban Bayrami, sacrificing an animal is a symbolic way of thanking God for favors throughout the year.

Sacrifice, the more they found it interesting and wanted to participate in some way as non-Muslims, said Lt. Col. Mike Moeding of Derby, 90th EARS commander.

Many 90th EARS airmen no t i ced the pa ra l l e l s between Kurban Bayrami and Thanksgiving and Christmas, with families gathering together and taking care of those in need, and how though the cultures might differ on small points, there are many similarities.

Capt. C.J. Hein, 90th EARS KC-135 pilot, came up with an idea as he was passing through Adana on the way to base.

“I saw all these sheep on the side of the road,” he said. “The cab driver explained why they were there and I thought, ‘Hey, why don’t we buy a sheep.’”

From there, the idea took off. Several 90th EARS members donated money to buy a sheep, and a couple airmen went out with help

from a Turkish friend, Hussein, to pick it out.

They donated all the meat from the sheep to local Adana families, rather than keeping some for themselves, according to tradition.

Many local shop owners said they had never heard of Americans buying a sheep for the Kurban Bayram and giving it away to the poor. They thought what the 90th EARS did was wonderful and should be talked about in town.

One of the families the 90th EARS gave part of the sheep to was a young woman and her husband who had lost his leg and was unable to work and support their three children.

When the airmen brought the meat to them, she was overjoyed and kissed several of them on both cheeks, Moeding said.

“Helping those in need is part of the custom during this holiday. This is a way for us to show goodwill through

Turkish culture,” Moeding said. “We’re not pushing the religious part, but focusing on the charitable part. We want to do something nice for the local community by partaking in one of their customs.”

“This was a way to learn about the history and culture of Turkey,” Hein said. “We get to interact with them, bring our cultures together, understand each other better, and through doing so, take a step in helping make the world a better place.”

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McConnel l Air Force Base’s Air Force Reserve 931st Air Refueling Group are currently serving as members of the 90th EARS, according to 1st Lt. Zachary L. Anderson, chief of public affairs. The primary duty of the 90th EARS is to fly refueling missions supporting C-5 Galaxy and C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft coming in and out of the area of operations.

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Derby had an opportunity to wade in the shallow end of the playoff pool, with an easy 70-7 victory over Wichita North in the opening round of the Class 6A playoffs on Friday.

North snuck into the playoffs with a 1-8 record, but quickly found itself outgunned against the Panthers.

“You have to prepare to win here on out, and that’s what we did,” said Derby head coach Brandon Clark. “Our focus was on North. The kids did a great job of preparing for this game.”

Derby quickly found the scoreboard on its first offensive drive. After quar terback Chandler Shantz connected on back-to-back passes to DeAndre Goolsby, running back Tyler West ran 16 yards untouched into the end zone for a 7-0 lead.

North countered with a 15-play drive that whittled more than six minutes off the clock and tied the game at 7-7 with 2:49 left in the first quarter.

Any momentum North gained on the touchdown d r i v e w a s q u i c k l y extinguished on the ensuing kickoff. Jose Delgado, who leads Derby’s defense with 74 tackles, recovered the short kickoff and returned it for a touchdown.

“We thought they were going to pooch it, so we were ready for it,” Clark

said. “Our kids did a nice job of reading that. It’s great to see Jose get that touchdown.”

North’s woes continued to escalate, allowing Derby to score 63 unanswered points.

After gaining two yards on the next two plays, the Redskins fumbled a backwards lateral, which Reed Trease returned for a 29-yard touchdown to give Derby a 21-7 lead.

Derby’s offense took control of the game from there.

West, who has been hindered by a leg injury this season, ran with ease over and around North’s defense for three rushing touchdowns. He finished with 118 yards on 12 carries in the first half.

“We had a great week of practice and it showed tonight,” West said. “The offense was executing plays. The line did an excellent job of blocking, and the receivers really opened up the outside. That allowed me to do the rest.”

West was not the only Derby offensive player to put up solid numbers in the victory. The Panthers had more than 400 total offensive yards and never punted.

Shantz added a 26-yard touchdown run whi le combining for 153 yards passing and rushing. He also had a 20-yard touchdown pass to receiver Kellen Sims at the halftime buzzer to give Derby a 42-7 lead.

Derby rested a majority

Derby clobbers North for first playoff win

[email protected] Jose Delgado (2), Ben Becker (10) and Chandler Ayer (25) swarm Wichita North’s offense in Derby’s 70-7 victory in the opening round of the Class 6A playoffs Friday.

of its first-string players in the second half, but that did not keep the score from climbing.

Backup running back Devin Peter took over in the second half with 93 rushing yards, including a 70-yard run to cap off the 63-point victory for Derby.

The Panthers’ defense held North’s offensive production to a minimum after the Redskins’ only touchdown.

Despite running nearly 20 more offensive plays than

the Panthers, North only dabbled near Derby’s goal line, managing less than 170 total offensive yards.

The Redskins tried to get into the end zone one last time in the final seconds of the game, but Derby came away with a fumble recovery at the goal line.

Although Derby was scarcely tested against North, Clark said it gave his team an opportunity to get backup players some decent playing time in case injuries hinder starters. Injuries have

been a primary burden, which gave opponents an advan tage aga ins t the Panthers in previous seasons.

“We stayed healthy, which is huge for us right now. That’s what bit us last year,” Clark said. “We were able to play some guys that may have to come in for injured players in the future.”

1 2 3 4 FinalNorth 7 0 0 0 7Derby 21 21 21 7 70

D—West 16 run (Williamson kick)N—Beard 2 run (Bogle kick)D—Delgado kick return (Williamson

kick)D—Trease fumble recovery

(Williamson kick)D—West 3 run (Williamson kick)D—West 7 run (Williamson kick)D—Sims 20 pass from Shantz

(Williamson kick)D—Shantz 26 run (Williamson kick)D—Sims 24 run (Williamson kick)D—Palmer 19 run (Williamson kick)D—Peter 70 run (Williamson kick)

Individual statisticsRushing — North, Williams 20-60,

Elliot 10-38, Franklin 11-30, Bryan 1-1. Derby, West 12-118, Peter 3-93, Shantz 7-76, Sims 2-23.

Passing — North, Beard 4-10-40. Derby, Shantz 5-8-77, Snodgrass 0-1-0.

Receiving — North, Galyardt 1-18, McBride 1-14, Williams 1-4, Jarvis 1-4. Derby, Goolsby 3-47, Sims 2-30.


Even with more than 160 miles of wide-open space between teams, Derby head coach Brandon Clark said the Panthers are aware of what has made Dodge City the surprise team in the Class 6A playoffs this season.

Derby is coming off a 63-point win over Wichita N o r t h , w h i l e D o d g e City upset powerhouse Manhattan 38-6 to advance. The two teams will meet in the Class 6A sectional game in Dodge City on Friday.

“ D o d g e C i t y i s a n explosive offensive team. They run a couple of fronts we don’t see that often on defense,” Clark said. “They have a lot of speed.”

The driving force behind the Red Demons’ powerful offense is future Division-I running back Parker Davis. The 6-foot, 200-pound running back and linebacker averaged more than 315 yards a game in 2011.

His 207 rushing yards and two touchdowns led Dodge City’s 32-point upset over

Manhattan, who entered the playoffs with two losses on the season.

“We are going to have our hands full,” Clark said. “From what I’ve heard, (Dodge City) has been getting better and better each week. Dodge has played some of the teams we’ve played, and we watched them on film, so we know what they are about.”

Dodge City struggled through midseason, which included four consecutive losses. The Red Demons lost their first two district games before defeating Garden City 24-20 for a Class 6A playoff berth.

“I think that when most people look at a 4-5 team beating a 6-3 team, that there is a surprise element,” said Dodge City head coach Dave Foster. “We like to think that we had two to three games that we could have turned around into a victory.”

Dodge City’s victory at Manhattan was one of its biggest margins of the season, a direct result of the six turnovers the Red Demons forced, Foster said.

Derby gets first real playoff test against Dodge City

When: Friday, Nov. 9 at 7 p.m.Where: Dodge City High SchoolDodge City record: 5-5 overall, 1-2 in districtsDerby record: 9-1 overall, 3-0 in districtsDerby succeeds ... if the Panthers stay healthy. For

the first time in more than a month, Derby could have a roster with minimal injuries to its starting line up.

Derby struggles ... if Parker Davis has a big game. Davis averaged more than 300 yards as a junior, and had two touchdowns and 207 rushing yards in Dodge City’s upset over Manhattan in the first round of the playoffs this past week.

Dodge City vs. Derby

“We have forced six turnovers in each of the last two games, which has given our offense more opportunities to put points on the board. We will have to win the turnover margin to have a chance,” Foster said. “We were pleased with our performance at Manhattan for the last three quarters. We didn’t execute offensively or in the special teams during the first quarter, which was full of mental mistake penalties. From the second quarter on, we hit on all cylinders and the result was a 38-6 victory.”

Derby’s 70-7 victory over North was more than just a momentum-booster, said

Clark. It allowed several Derby starters to rest and recover from injuries.

The Panthers could have several starters that have missed games back in the lineup against Dodge City, including juniors Travis Young and Jeremy Dunham, who both suffered back injuries earlier in the season.

“Last year, that was the kicker,” Clark said. “Being healthy is huge in the playoffs, because that’s when teams really start beating up on you.”

Dodge City’s success against Derby will depend on how energized Foster can keep his players. Unlike Derby, most of Dodge

City’s starters play offense and defense.

“They are a much deeper team when looking at talent and the number of one-way players on their squad,”

Foster said. “The majority of our players are two-way starters, and our ability to delay fatigue will make a difference.”

Final Standings

Overall W L Newton 34 11Maize 29 13Salina Central 28 13 Derby 24 15 Hutchinson 20 20 Campus 8 28 Salina South 8 30

Boys Soccer Overall W L T Salina Central 15 3 0 Derby 13 6 0Maize 11 5 1Newton 11 7 1 Hutchinson 10 6 1 Salina South 5 12 1 Campus 4 12 0

Volleyball



TOPEKA – Despite a season that started full of uncertainty, Derby came within four minutes of a trip to the Class 6A state soccer tournament this past week.

After more than 75 scoreless minutes, Washburn Rural senior Corey Hall bounced the game-winning goal off the left post with 3:42 left in the game for a 1-0 victory to eliminate the Panthers in quarterfinals on Oct. 30.

The goal ended Derby’s deepest run in the postseason since 2007.

“No one on this team has ever been to this point. It’s even new for me,” said Paul Burke, Derby head coach and former soccer player at Derby High School. “It took (Washburn Rural) hitting the post in the final minutes to finally end it. I thought it could have honestly gone either way.”

Burke felt like his team was well-prepared for the

match against Washburn Rural, who went on to win the Class 6A state title two games later.

The Panthers watched game footage and developed a plan to counter Washburn Rural’s size, Burke said.

“They just do what they do well and they are a big team,” he said. “We tried to limit the amount of set pieces they had. We worked on it. We talked about it. We were prepared for what they were going to do.”

Washburn Rural came out with a strong offensive attack in the first half, but goalkeeper Edgar Vaquera and the rest of the Derby defense held the Junior Blues scoreless going into halftime.

After rarely having a scoring opportunity early on, Derby improved its offensive possession in the second half.

“We knew that we needed to take advantage of the opportunities that we did get,” Burke said. “We weren’t going to get 50

chances in a game like we have been. We were only going to string together maybe 10 or 12 really good chances. We were dangerous in the second half.”

Washburn Rural went on the attack after its goal, making it difficult for Derby to get anything going offensively in the final minutes of the game.

“I feel like we had the game won. They just came away with a lucky goal,” said senior midfielder Jose Vaquera. “They had other chances and we were able to stop them. We knew coming into the game that they were going to play like this. We knew we had to play on the ground and keep the ball out of the air.”

A trip to the quarterfinals w a s a c o n s i d e r a b l e improvement for Derby, who had its first winning record since 2008. The Panthers finished the season 13-6 in Burke’s first year as head coach, after going 17-25-2 in the previous three seasons.

“Who knows how many of us expected we were going to be here. Everyone wants to be here, but you have to realistically look at the fact that we have a new coach and new team,” Burke said. “Our chemistry was great. It was a great ride. I wish it didn’t have to end. It’s an experience that we can grow on.”

The Panthers will lose several seniors, including Jose Vaquera, a four-year starter and team leader. Derby started nine juniors at the beginning of the season and integrated a handful of underclassmen as the season went on, which can be a building block for next season, Burke said.

“We improved a lot throughout the season, especially on defense. We were a goal-scoring machine early on, and our defense caught up with that,” Jose Vaquera said. “Derby has not gone this far in a pretty long time. It feels good being able to lead this team this far.”

Derby’s wild ride ends a game shy of state soccer

SCOTT ELPERS/Informer photo Senior Marcus McKee (right) battles for possession in Derby’s 1-0 quarterfinal loss to Washburn Rural in Topeka this past week. Derby finished the season 13-6, with its deepest run in the postseason since 2007.

Class 6A State Football PlayoffsAll games at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted

#1 Lawrence Free State (8-1)

Olathe North (3-6)

#4 Olathe East (5-4)

Shawnee Mission East (7-2)

#3 Gardner-Edgerton (6-3)

Lawrence (7-2)

#2 Shawnee Mission West (8-1)

Blue Valley Northwest (5-4)

#1 Derby (8-1)

Wichita North (1-8)

#4 Manhattan (7-2)

Dodge City (4-5)

#3 Wichita Northwest (6-3)

Topeka (8-1)

Championship Yager Stadium, Topeka • 1 p.m.

#2 Hutchinson (7-2)

Wichita Heights (7-2)

Friday, Nov. 2Top team on bracket hosts Round 1

Friday, Nov. 9

Friday, Nov. 16

Saturday, Nov. 24

Lawrence Free State

Olathe East

Lawrence

Shawnee Mission West

Derby

Dodge City

Topeka

Hutchinson

38-22

17-7

34-32

34-14

70-7

42-13

42-7

38-6

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SoccerChange was imminent for

the Derby boys soccer team.Paul Burke made the

jump from assistant to head coach of the varsity squad. Aaron Aberg, formerly a head coach at Campus High School, took over the Panthers’ junior varsity team.

“ T h e r e w e r e m o r e similarities than anything,” Aberg said after the switch from Campus to Derby.

Aberg coached the JV team to a 7-6-3 record, including a 3-0-3 start with wins over Valley Center, Camp us an d Wich i t a Northwest by a combined score of 22-1. The Panthers lost four of their last ten games by five total goals, one which came in overtime place kicks.

“We play one of the strongest schedules of any JV team in this part of the state,” Aberg said. “Even when we were faced with some very challenging situations this season, I never gave up on our players because they never gave up

on themselves.”Derby went undefeated

(4-0-3) on the road, and outscored its opponents 17-3. On their home field, the Panthers allowed six goals, while scoring 22.

Freshman midfielder Caleb Brussow led the Panthers with 11 goals. Twelve o ther p layers scored at least one goal for Derby. Raymond Macias and Cade Brown, who shut out opponents in eight of their 16 games, alternated at goalkeeper.

“The season was just too fast,” Aberg said. “I’m very lucky to have gotten a chance to work with the guys that I have been able to work with.”

VolleyballConsistency was the key

ingredient for Derby’s junior varsity volleyball team.

“Each match we seemed to have a different player step up their performance,” said Derby JV coach Brad Pendrak. “That was one of our downfalls. Players would step up in one match and then not maintain that level.”

That individuality of each player was the primary

obstacle the Panthers had to overcome in 2012.

Derby started 3-8 in its first five competitions of the season, with meets at Goddard, Hutchinson, Andover and two at home.

“This team was one of my most-talented teams individually that I have had in several years, but we just had a hard time coming together and playing as a team in matches,” Pendrak said.

Derby’s best performance of the season was in the Newton triangular on Sept. 15, despite losing both matches, Pendrak said.

In its first match against Newton, Derby dropped the first set 28-26, as well as the second set. Derby forced Hutchinson to three sets in the following match, but ended the night on a 25-23 loss.

“Although we lost both of those matches, we played very well as a team,” Pendrak said.

Derby finished the season 10-23, and was 2-3 in the AVCTL league tournament.

“We lose four seniors from the varsity squad next year. Any one of my players

JV’ers gain experience before jump to varsity

SCOTT ELPERS/Informer photo Derby sophomore Gage Tretheway goes for a header against Hutchinson in the final junior varsity soccer game of the season. The Panthers finished 7-6-3 under first-year coach Aaron Aberg.

could move up to the varsity next year,” Pendrak said. “It will be determined by who has the most desire to improve over the off season and has a burning desire to be in one of those four spots.”

TennisDerby’s gir ls junior

varsity tennis team followed in the footsteps of the varsity team in 2012.

“Our JV girls did very well,” said Derby JV coach Huy Vien. “In the first three tournaments we finished first, first and second, and that set a positive tone for the remainder of the season.”

Doubles partners Ada May and Macie Hamlett could see significant varsity matches next season after spending time on JV this year.

“Ada and Macie had a great season and played over the off season,” Vien said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if they spend more time in varsity next year.”

Alexis Hoffmeier and MacKenzie Tilma were impressive for the Panthers in singles competition, Vien said.

Ti lma played No. 2 singles at the AVCTL league tournament and placed after winning her first two matches, including a victory over the No. 1 seed. Derby placed second at the league meet as a team.

“ W e w e r e v e r y

c o m p e t i t i v e . E v e r y tournament that I took the girls to, we finished in the top half in the team results,” Vien said. “Our main goal is getting them to the point where they can perform on varsity.”

Derby Bowl Honor Roll Women’s Game- Melissa Letterman, 278 Women’s Series- Diana Clasen, 670Men’s Game- Jack Mahoney, 299 Men’s Series- Jack Mahoney, 798 Senior Women’s Game- Vicki Walton, 224Senior Women’s Series- Vicki Walton, 594 Senior Men’s Game- Danny Easter, 262Senior Men’s Series- Rusty Ulmer, 634 Bumper Boy Game- Remyngton Fowler, 66Bumper Girl Game- Courtney Parker, 73Bantam Boy Game- Kaiden Corbin, 87

Bantam Boy Series- Kaiden Corbin, 156Bantam Girl Game- Kami Corbin, 94Bantam Girl Series- Kami Corbin, 158Prep Boy Game- Micheal Hausler, 188 Prep Boy Series- Micheal Haulser, 489 Prep Girl Game- Bayleigh Vaughn, 147 Prep Girl Series- Bayleigh Vaughn, 361Jr/Mjr Boy Game- Cordell Erbert, 227 Jr/Mjr Boy Series- Noah Brooks, 590 Jr/Mjr Girl Game- Larissa Ester, 206 Jr/Mjr Girl Series- Maddison Osenbaugh, 546

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The following commercial building permits have been approved by the city of Derby:

• First Christian Church, 900 Rock Rd, $4.66 million.

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Meyer named to Academy board

LeRoy Meyer, a retired U.S. Air Force veteran, is among 11 people named to Congressman M i k e P o m p e o ’s S e r v i c e Advisory Nominations Board.

The board consists of 4th District residents who will review applications and interview the candidates from the district to the U.S. service academies for 2013.

Pompeo can nominate a limited number of high school graduates to the U.S. Military Academy, U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Air Force Academy and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Early in 2013, the academies make the final decision on whom they will admit.

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Just as clay takes shape under tools wielded by John Parsons’ nimble hands, his career has taken shape, molded by life’s events.

Parsons is a taxidermist and makes life-size bronze sculp tures – for loca l customers and across the country.

“I love what I do,” said Parsons. “I have no ideas about quitting any time soon.”

Parsons was a Wichita firefighter until the avid hunter fell from a deer stand in 1979 and broke his back.

“The fall left me partially paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair,” he said.

Af ter a three month hospital stay, the Derby resident was able to walk with the aid of crutches. Today he uses a cane.

Unable to continue his firefighting career, he turned

Sculptor’s career has gradually taken shape

DAVI STUHLSATZ/Informer photo John Parsons uses a wire end modeling tool to cut away excess clay from a model of a turkey that will be one of a series of animal-themed digital alarm clocks he is designing.

his taxidermy hobby into a successful business with the aid of books on the subject.

“I just read up on how to do it, and did it for friends, and people started showing up on my doorstep,” he said.

In taxidermy, the hide is mounted on a sculpted foam mannequin. A stainless steel framework adds strength.

“Taxidermy is sculpture,” Parsons said. “You have to sculpt it all just right. I’d make these little models so people could see what they were going to be getting, and people wanted the models, so I started selling them, too.”

Parsons realized that bigger sculptures would be more lucrative.

“I was fortunate to get a couple of big jobs – the deer on the Water Walk, monuments for Cabela’s, the Verus Bank panther,” he said.

For bronze sculptures, Parsons uses Art Castings of Colorado to make a mold, pour the wax, “chase” the wax, create a ceramic shell, de-wax and pour the metal, sandblast the cast metal, weld all the pieces together, chase the metal, apply patina and mount it to a base.

N o w P a r s o n s h a s progressed to sculptures with people. He has completed a sculpture of a boy fishing that is destined for Rose Hill’s School Street Pond, and has designed a veterans memorial sculpture for Rose Hill City Hall.

“Sculpting the veterans memorial has got me a little intimidated, but excited,” he said. “With a deer or elk, you can make a little error or take artistic license, and people don’t notice. A soldier has to be accurate.”

Thirty years in taxidermy provided the anatomical understanding that is the foundation for his taxidermy and sculpt ing success . Two traits furthered his

progression from fireman to successful taxidermist/sculptor.

“I’m pretty quick, so I meet deadlines,” he said. “And every artist reaches a point where you think, ‘This is never going to look like I want it to look.’ You’ve just got to work through that roadblock.

“I do that.”

U.S. Senator Jerry Moran will speak at the Chamber’s monthly luncheon Thursday, Nov. 8 in the Welcome Center Austin Room, 611 Mulberry. The public is invited to attend.

Buffet luncheon and networking begin at 11:30 a.m. and the program starts at noon. Cost is $12 and reservations can be made by calling 788-3421 or e-mail [email protected].

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The Haysville Board of Education approved bond refinancing that will save over $1 million over the life of the bond.

The bond issue passed in 2005 for $49 million. It funded school improvements which included a new elementary, a new middle school, and renovations to Campus High School. Prairie Elementary was completed in the summer of 2006 and Haysville West Middle Schoolwas completed a year later.

“There were two original issuances as the project was spread out over several years,” said Clint Schutte, assistant superintendant of business and finance. “In 2005 the district issued $20 million in general obligation

bonds and in 2007 they issued the remainder of the $49 million to complete the projects.”

The new bond was possible with the district recently attaining a high grade Aa3 credit rating. In i t i a l l y i t had been estimated to save the district less than $900,000.

“An increase in the district assessed evaluation combined with the excellent condition of our financial statements helped warrant the district’s earning an Aa3 rating,” said Schutte.

He said the window of opportunity for re-issuance was currently available for just the 2005 series bonds.

“If the bond rates stay favorable, we will attempt to re-issue more of the original bonds up to $10 million as that is the IRS limit,” he said.

Bonds will save schools $1 million


Haysville will soon have two disc golf courses.

The request was made to the city from middle school students on the east side who wanted to be able to walk to a course. The request was approved and the city Park and Community Forestry board purchased a new system.

“Our course that we have over in Riggs Park has more obstacles in it,” said Georgie Carter, director of recreation. “The one we’re putting in now will have more distance to it.”

The distance will be a mile longer than the half-

mile course at Riggs Park. Both courses have nine holes. The new course will be north of the public works office and in Orchard Acres Park.

Carter said she hopes the new park will be open by late November. The system arrived two weeks ago and city employees will install it.

The city held a disc golf tournament on July 4. Carter said there is a tournament being organized for this spring.

“We haven’t actually gotten any leagues done,” she said, “but the usage on it is very high. That’s one of the reasons they wanted to put another one in.”

New disc golf coursecoming to Haysville


M U LVA N E – T h e K a n s a s L e g i s l a t i v e I n t e r i m C o m m i t t e e on Transportat ion has recommended a study to re-route the Southwest Chief railroad.

T h e d e c i s i o n t o recommend the study was made Oct. 29. The proposed change would end travel past Newton through western Kansas and Colorado.

Instead, the route would go south of Newton with s tops in Wich i ta and Mulvane. It would then travel down to Wellington, Argonia, and Attica. It would cross Oklahoma east of the panhandle and down to Amarillo, Texas, before moving into New Mexico.

The Southwest Chief is the only passenger train currently in Kansas. It goes from Chicago to Los Angeles with nearby stops at Kansas City, Lawrence, Topeka, Newton, Hutchinson, Dodge City, and Garden City.

T h e t r a c k b e t w e e n Hutchinson and Garden

City is in such bad shape that trains must slow down through that area. Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico recently notified Amtrak that they did not have the millions of dollars needed to repair that section of the passenger rail.

“My last conversation with the Secretary of Transportation was that he doesn’t see where he can come up with the additional funding,” said Rep. Pete DeGraaf (R-Mulvane). “We’re still in a recession. I don’t see where Colorado is going to come up with it and New Mexico has already said that they’re not going to come up with it.”

A m t r a k w o u l d b e responsible for paying the full cost to maintain the route in 2016 when the current route agreement b e t w e e n A m t r a k a n d Burlington Northern Santa Fe expires.

Amtrak officials have given the s ta tes unt i l 2014 to come up with a solution or they will move the Southwest Chief track through Oklahoma and

Texas. The route could bypass Kansas by going through Missouri and Tulsa, Okla., which is why Kansas officials are recommending a study to reroute the rail which would go through Mulvane.

“Obviously it’s a concern for the people out in Dodge City and those who are in Colorado,” said DeGraaf. “The real problem is that they don’t carry a lot of freight over that part of the country, so most of it goes down south through Wichita and that’s where the rail’s covered, that’s where the expenses and the shared expenses can occur.”

Moving the passenger line south would mean shared tracks with freight trains.

“That’s the key,” DeGraaf said. “A lot of the cost in maintaining those tracks is going to be shared by Amtrak and the freight drivers whether it’s Union Pacific or Burlington Northern.”

The Nor thern F lyer Alliance is advocating expansion of the Heartland Flyer, a passenger rail between Oklahoma City

and Fort Worth, Texas. If approved, the Southwest Chief would also be re-routed to travel south from Newton, through Wichita and Mulvane, but then to Oklahoma City. This would connect Kansas to Oklahoma City and Fort Worth. In Fort Worth, travelers could board trains for other destinations.

Autumn Heithaus of Wichita has been on the Northern Flyer Alliance for many years and is a strong advocate for keeping passenger trains in Kansas. She said she would prefer to see the western track repaired, but if the states cannot afford it, she would like to see the passenger rail move south through Wichita and on to Oklahoma.

“I support any type of passenger rail service that we can get, that we can afford, that the governor will sign a bill on,” she said. “I hope that the funds are found by Colorado, New Mexico, and Kansas to fix their tracks and keep the Southwest Chief on its original course.”

Passenger rail to be studied

Ribbons lined a main route through Mulvane this past week, in remembrance of Taylor Heersche, a 15-year-old who fought a battle with leukemia for over four years. As her health failed in the week preceding, she asked to return to her home and residents lined the streets with orange “Welcome Home Taylor” signs, in addition to this one at an automotive shop. The orange ribbons, signifying the fight against leukemia, remained around the community after Heersche’s death on Oct. 30.LINDA STINNETT/Informer photo

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R O S E H I L L – A nondescript concrete block in front of city hall will begin use for its nobly intended patriotic purpose next spring.

“When we built city hall in 2004 or 2005, the city council decided they wanted to have a veterans memorial up front by the flag pole,” said Kathy Raney, city administrator. “We’ve had the concrete pedestal since then, and I felt it was really overdue to get the veterans memorial project going.”

The city commissioned Derby’s John Parsons to design a monument that will eventually include a soldier on the pedestal, with a woman and child leaning against its base.

“The woman and child waiting at home signify the sacrifices the family makes, too,” Parsons said. “It’s not just the soldier. Kathy wanted to include the family, too. They all sacrifice for our country.”

Parsons said the soldier will be able to be seen from the road.

“With the woman down lower, she’s at eye level,”

Veterans sculpture will gracecity hall entrance

he said. “I think people will really be able to relate to her. She looks like your neighbor, or someone you’d see at the grocery store.”

With a $10,000 Butler County wind farm grant plus donations from a pancake feed, burger feed, bracelet sales and granite pavers, the city has raised $18,200 of the project’s $65,000 cost – enough to start phase 1.

“Phase 1 will be the flag relief – a flag on the indented base of the statue, with a plaque dedicated to men and women and their families who have served and are serving to protect our freedom,” Raney said.

Parsons bel ieves so strongly in the project that he personally sent out emails to everyone in his

address book asking them to buy the granite pavers to support it.

“It’s really popular to say we support our troops, but it’s hard sometimes to get people to pry open their wallets,” he said.

Raney said those emails have a l ready brought donations, but more are needed to reach the $65,000 goal.

Donations can be sent to Raney at city hall. Pavers are $100, and may be engraved with a business name, an individual’s name or whatever the donor wants, she said. The paver order form is on the city website, at www.cityofrosehill.com.

“I’m excited that we’re finally getting started on this project,” she said.

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A pair of international election observers made a point of stopping in Kansas to speak with government officials and party leaders about the inner workings of the state’s electoral process, but they left the Sunflower State long before the gears start turning Nov. 6.

The observers, with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, were dispatched to Kansas on Oct. 15. They met with election officials at the Kansas Secretary of State’s office, as well as with several political party leaders and election officials in Wyandotte, Ford and Jackson counties, among others.

But less than a week before Election Day, they were long gone. Brad Bryant, director of elections and legislative matters for the Kansas Secretary of State, said the observers left Kansas on Oct. 22, bound for Colorado.

“They’re not coming back, unless something changes,” Bryant said.

Thomas Rymer, OSCE spokesman, said the observers were tasked with looking at a broad range of issues, including electoral frameworks, candidate and voter registration and the balance of reporting in the media, just to name a few topics. Rymer confirmed the pair would not visit any

Kansas polling stations on Election Day.

Wyando t t e coun ty e l ec t ion commissioner Bruce Newby met with the observers for a planned 30-minute meeting that stretched to two hours. Newby said all it really amounted to was a discussion about general procedures for the election.

“I looked at it as some Europeans that were curious at how we succeed in doing what we do, by holding free and open elections,” Newby said. “There wasn’t anything that wasn’t

real obvious in terms of an answer from what Kansas law said.”

The OSCE is a regional security organization that includes 56 states from Europe, Central Asia and North America. While it is tied to the United Nations, it is still an independent organization. The OSCE monitors elections worldwide for fair practices, including the U.S. presidential elections in 2004 and 2008, and the mid-term elections in 2010. It started this year’s U.S. mission in early October.


The Kansas 2011 Annual Summary of Vital Statistics shows cancer again was the leading cause of death in Kansas.

The summary is the annual report on births, deaths, marriages, divorces, abortions and stillbirths. It has been published for the past 10 years by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and shows cancer topped heart disease for the second year in a row.

Another notable change

for 2011 was the decline in the Kansas birth rate to 13.8 live births per 1,000 population, the lowest level recorded since the Kansas Vital Records system was established in 1912. This is slightly lower than the previous low of 13.9 live births per 1,000 population in 1973, during the “baby bust” years. The number of live births to Kansas resident mothers in 2011 was 39,628, down 2 percent from 40,439 in 2010.

There were 3,545 live births in 2011 to Kansas resident mothers under the

age of 20, down 8.6 percent from 3,879 live births to Kansas resident mothers in this age group in 2010. Births to mothers under 20 were 8.9 percent of all resident births in 2011, down from 9.6 percent in 2010.

The full vital statistics summary report is available at www.kdheks.gov/hci/annsumm.html. The tables and charts contained in this report represent only a glimpse of the insight that can be gained from the data. It is considered invaluable for public health planning.

Give money not goods in disasters

Anyone wishing to donate to disaster relief efforts ongoing in the East Coast is asked to donate cash to disaster relief organizat ions ra ther than donating goods.

“Monetary donations are preferred in disaster situations,” said Angee Morgan, deputy director of the Kansas Division of Emergency Management. “Donations of goods must be sorted and stored until they can be distributed. However, cash donations allow emergency relief organizations to purchase exactly what is needed when it is needed.”

KDEM recommends Kansans consider donating to the disaster relief organization of their choice, such as the American Red Cross, Salvation Army, United Way or local organizations within the communities affected.

“Large donations of the wrong items can lead to significant challenges for disaster response efforts, forcing response workers to find a place for items because there simply isn’t time to match the right items with the right individuals,” Morgan said. “We know Kansans want to help and we want to see that their generosity is truly assisting those in need along the East Coast.”

State economy shows signs of improvement

Although October revenue receipts fell short of estimates, the Kansas economy still shows strong signs of growth when compared to results at the same time last year.

Current fiscal year to date receipts have grown 4.8 percent, about $91 million, more than collections for the same time period (July through October) of Fiscal Year 2012.

“This is a slight dip that is more a reflection that Kansas had fewer withholding periods in Oct. 2012 compared to Oct. 2011, than a struggling economy,” said Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan.

When compared to 2010, revenue receipts have grown about $210 million, or 12.3 percent.

October revenue receipts fell short of expectations by $37 million or 7.3 percent. Despite that, Kansas collected $19.6 million, or 4.3 percent, more for the month than it did during October 2011.

Trails advisory board to meet Dec. 5

The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism Trails Advisory Board will hold a public meeting for the purpose of hearing and discussing projects submitted for funding under the Recreational Trails Fund Act.

The meeting will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, at the Great Plains Nature Center, Wichita. Signs on the premises will direct visitors.

Grant applications are due Nov. 30. Grant information can be found at ksoutdoors.com.

P e r s o n s i n t e r e s t e d i n commenting should attend this meeting. Grant applicants are encouraged to attend and discuss their proposals.

Economic projectionsmade by state

The Kansas Department of Labor has released 2011 to 2013 short-term and 2010 to 2020 long-term economic projections, predicting total employment in the state to grow by more than 1 percent through both time periods.

Since the first quarter of 2010, Kansas’ worst point during the recession, the state economy has slowly increased in the number of jobs. The short-term projections indicate that this positive trend will continue into 2013, growing by 21,752 jobs or 1.5 percent. The long-term projections predict Kansas to add an average of 17,774 jobs per year through 2020, a 1.2 percent gain each year.

The industries with the largest increases in the short-term projections are administrative and support services, professional scientific and technical services, and ambulatory health care services. These three industries are projected to create 11,116 jobs.

“These projections give us insight into the labor market of the future – what jobs will be available, what industries will be growing,” said Tyler Tenbrink, labor economist. “Anyone planning their career in Kansas can benefit from the information provided.”

Election observers leave state

Courtesy photo Election observers with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe visited Kansas briefly earlier this month, but left long before yesterday’s general election.

state news in brief

Cancer tops reasons for death in KansasNotable findings

• 25,114 Kansas resident deaths in 2011, an increase of 2.8 percent from 2010. • Unintentional injuries and pneumonia/influenza each rose one level, becoming the fourth and eighth leading causes respectively.•Pregnancy-associated maternal deaths increased to 24 in 2011 from 19 in 2010.•The number of reported abortions fell from 8,373 in 2010 to 7,885. The resident abortion ratio of 99.6 abortions per 1,000 live births is the lowest since abortion reporting began in 1971.

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DaveRamsey

Dear Dave,I got married in May, and

my wife brought student loan debt into the marriage. I had some savings before the wedding, and I could pay this off immediately without putting us in a bind. But is this “her” debt, or should I look at it as “our” debt?

– ErnestDear Ernest,

Absolutely, you should view it as “our” debt. It came with the territory when you two walked down the aisle.

A lot of people do not use the old-fashioned marriage vows anymore, but The Book of Common Prayer reads, “… for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health, and unto thee I pledge my worldly goods.” Basically, that means you are saying, “I am ready to take a bullet for you. I am going to do whatever it takes to serve you, and vice versa.” You are joining your separate lives into one.

In addition to all this, you guys need to be in agreement on how you are going to handle money. In other words, it all gets worked out together with both of you sitting down and planning your financial future as one. This is called a budget. Like everything else, you work on it together. It is not a situation where one of you is making all the decisions or bailing out the other.

But if you guys are on

Married for richer or poorerthe road.

In addition to the risk factor, the biggest problem with the offer in Afghanistan is that once it is over, it is over. Then you are right back where you are now. You may have money in your bank account, but you’re unemployed all over again.

You know, one of the things I have noticed over the years is when wealthy people assess a financial opportunity, they almost always think in five-, 10- and 20-year blocks of time. We are talking long term here. There is not a whiff of living paycheck to paycheck or “Thank God, it’s Friday. Oh, God, it’s Monday!” on them.

Take the state job and fashion a good, long-lasting career for yourself. Do not go chasing money on the short term!

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Byrne and Howellperform at Newman

Alison Byrne and Austin Howell of Derby participated in Newman Un iver s i t y Chorale and Troubadours’ first concert of the year on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012.

Choruses from works by Handel, Beethoven, Mozart, Gilbert and Sullivan, and Randall Thompson were performed.

Britton memberof Delta Zeta Hanna Britton of Derby is a member of the Delta Zeta sorority at Ashland University. Britton is majoring in early childhood education.

She is the daughter of Mark and Cathy Britton of Derby, and is a 2010 graduate of Derby High School.

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Rajean Kanaga turns 90

Rajean Kanaga cele-brated her 90th birthday with about 75-100 family members at the Derby Public Library on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012.

She graduated from Derby Senior High School in 1940, when it was the red school on Market Street. Her family farmed wheat north of town.

She has one son, Richard Kanaga and his wife, Pat Kanaga; two grandchildren, Rob and Lori Kanaga; and

two great-grandchildrenKanaga is well known

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D e r b y r e s i d e n t A z u r e H e n w o o d h a s been recognized by the Southwestern C o l l e g e e d u c a t i o n d e p a r t m e n t w i t h t h e “ T e a c h e r s of Promise” award.

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Dillard graduates from basic training

Air Force Airman 1st Class James D. Dillard graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.

Dillard is a 2010 graduate of Derby High School. He is the son of James and Veronica Dillard of Holloman Air Force Base, N.M.

The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.

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Chad and Earlyn Scott of Derby proudly announce the marriage of their son, Cody Scott, to Rachel Agnello, daughter of Joel and Laurie Agnello of Walnut Creek, Calif.

Cody is the grandson of Irene Kersey and the late Earl Kersey, and Jack and Rosemarie Scott. Rachel is the granddaughter of Chuck and Lois Taylor and Les and the late Gene Agnello.

Cody proposed to Rachel at his graduation party from Wichita State University with his master’s degree in exercise science. Rachel is a graduate of Azusa Pacific University.

The wedding ceremony was held on Monday, Sept. 3, 2012, at Bridges Golf Course in San Ramon, Calif. They honeymooned in the Fiji

Islands.Cody and Rachel will reside

in Walnut Creek, where Cody works at Hemming and Morse Associates and Rachel works for McKenzie-Gray Builders.

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submit two individuals each year to receive this award.

“I am honored to represent Southwestern College as a recipient of the Teacher of Promise award,” said Henwood. “I would like to extend my gratitude toward the college professors that have positively impacted my educational experience.”

H e n w o o d a n d h e r husband, Ben, have lived in Derby 10 years. They have three children. She said she would not have been able to accomplish her educational goals without their support

and the support of friends.H e n w o o d a t t e n d e d

college after graduating high school but chose to pursue it full time these past two years to pursue a degree in elementary education. She will graduate in December.

Currently she student teaches fifth grade at Derby Hills Elementary. She said she just accepted a fifth grade teaching position at Minneha Core Knowledge Magnet Elementary in Wichita next year.

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I love fourth and fifth graders,” said Henwood. “I give 110 percent on the way that I teach and the way that I plan. I feel that building a positive learning environment is what helps students be successful and making students feel like they’re a part of a family aids in their educational experience.”

Henwood will be honored along with other recipients at a banquet in Wichita on Nov. 17.

the same page—if your relationship is healthy and you are in agreement about moving forward with shared dreams and goals—then I would say write the check today and knock out that debt!

– Dave

Think long termDear Dave,

I have been unemployed for three months, but recently I received two job offers. One is a state job that would pay $50,000 a year. The other is a one-year contract for a position in Afghanistan that pays $200,000. I know I would like both jobs, so which would be the smartest choice?

– NickDear Nick,

If it were me, I would take the state job. I know that any kind of situation with six figures attached to it looks and sounds wonderful, but in my mind we are talking about a career choice versus risk. Plus, I am a firm believer in the idea that people make better decisions when they think in terms of 10 years from now rather than 10 or 12 months down

to raise funds and support for Bekah Crowe, 14, a Derby Middle School student with malignant ovarian cancer.

• The Deal Detecting Diva is hosting a Battle for Bekah couponing class at First Christian Church on Nov. 10, from 10 a.m. to noon.

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• St. Joseph – Glastonbury Church at 1309 West Lydia,

Wichita, is hosting a Battle for Bekah community garage sale on Nov. 10, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• Donations for Battle for Bekah can be sent directly in care of Southwest National Bank, P.O. Box 1401, Wichita, Kan. 67201.

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Girl Scouts sponsored by St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church are collecting new and used gloves. Donations can be dropped off at

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1889 – 123 years agoIn the Derby Dispatch:

• A very sensational elopement was brought to light at Lawrence a few days ago. It appears that Miss Annie Grimes, daughter of James Grimes, a prominent farmer near town, eloped with James Wilson, a hired man on an adjoining farm.Wilson is a married man and

his attentions to Miss Grimes have been the subject of some comment among the neighbors and were recently forbidden by her father. The father visited Lawrence a few days ago, leaving the girl in the neighbor’s care, but she slipped away and joined her lover, who took her in a buggy, driving toward Kansas City. Officers have been unable to obtain any clue as to the whereabouts of the runaways. Miss Grimes is a very handsome girl and stood high in the social circles of Lawrence.• Frank Delong, who shot and

killed Lemidisky near Rulo several weeks ago, while both were drunk, attempted to kill himself and other prisoners in the jail at Hiawatha a few nights since. Delong is only 18 years old and his crime has cost him his reason. So violent is his insanity that he cannot live.1962 - 50 years ago• The Masonic Fraternity of

Kansas, operating through its 438 constituent lodges,

launched Project Textbooks this week. The project will have far flung results in that it will bring a better understanding of America, the English language and our way of life into the hotbed of Communism.The Derby lodge has set a

goal of 1,000 books, as their part of a statewide drive to raise 100,000 good used school books to be shipped to schools in the Philippine Islands.William H. Quasha, grand

master of the Grand Lodge of Kansas, said, “We are doing our best to fight the forces of Communism, and it seems to us that if this program is successfully carried out, we will be making a two-pronged attack on communistic activities. First, by improving the educational level of children, we will be combating ignorance. Second, the fact that the gift has been made from America will enhance immeasurably the goodwill which exists between Americans and Filipinos.”Books should be taken

to Derby High School for shipment.

1987 - 25 years ago . • On an average day, the water level in the Derby Municipal Pool drops an average of 2 inches, leaving the Derby Recreation Commission and the city of Derby in a soggy predicament.

Leaks in the filtration system at the pool are suspected as the cause of the dropping water level and rising water usage costs. This year alone, a total of 2.4

million gallons of water have been pumped into the pool – more than double the amount used in the previous three years. Between 755,000 and 1,024,000 were used during each of those years. During 1984-86, an average

of $664 was spent annually on water for the pool. This year the cost jumped to $3,038.

2002 - 10 years ago• In a quietly emotional

ceremony this past week, the Derby community remembered its third death due to the war on terrorism.

Spc. Dustin K. “Dusty” McGaugh, 20, died from a non-hostile gunshot wound in his bunker near Balad, Iraq, on Sept. 30.

• Professional Engineering Consultants, which performed the city of Derby’s first water rate study, will be hired to do another over at least the next three months.

PEC will charge the city $3,200 to look at the rates. City Manager Mark Schroeder told the council city staff does not have the manpower or the expertise to do an adequate review, so the consultant’s service is needed.

By Kevin [email protected]

Flight is more than just a nail-biting thriller. It is a spiritually inquisitive one as well.

There is talk of God, prayer, AA, and all kinds of personal demons to be dealt with in Robert Zemeckis’ first live action film since 2000’s Cast Away.

In the film, veteran star Denzel Washington plays two versions of the same man. Whip Whitaker is an airline pilot who saves lives by skillfully crash-landing a fuel-less jet in the midst of a mechanical breakdown.

His intuition and ingenuity make him nothing short of a hero. That he does it

Spiritual questions abound in character drama Flight

with booze and cocain in his system also makes him a criminal.

The film opens with one of the most harrowing crash sequences I have ever seen. Zemeckis and Company ratchet up the tension by cramming the camera into the claustrophobic quarters of a commercial airliner cockpit.

In doing so, we are placed alongside Whitaker, his

panicking co-pilot (Brian Geraghty), and a dissolute flight attendant (Tamara Tunie) . Whitaker, who has learned to manage his problems by relying on intuition, tremendous talent, and a healthy portion of charm, crash lands the plane in the field of a small church.

T h e p o i n t o f v i e w established in the crash is critical to the rest of the film’s narrative. Surely the turbulence will persist long after the dust settles.

Whitaker recovers from the crash while sustaining serious injuries himself. His actions saved nearly all of the 102 passengers on board. It is nothing short of a miracle.

Quickly he is framed by the media as a near demi-god,

and industry officials are all the while closing in on the truth of his secret addiction. For a brief moment, we think that Whitaker has turned a corner. His close call inspires him to sober up, but soon enough all hell breaks loose.

He wrangles his old Navy buddy (Bruce Greenwood), a pilots’ union rep who wants to help Whitaker avoid criminal charges. A smooth-talking lawyer (Don Cheadle) is brought on board to make all the incriminating evidence pointed towards Whitaker disappear.

Whitaker does more to

Courtesy photo Denzel Washington delivers a riveting performance as flawed Capt. Whip Whitaker in Flight.

alienate his defense team than anything else. The trio makes a point that lying becomes second nature the longer you are able to do it.

Along the way, Whitaker he lps a down-and-ou t heroin addict (Kelly Reilly) get back on her feet. A romance develops more out of necessity than anything. She does not allow him to slip back into his old patterns of substance abuse, but John Goodman as Whitaker’s colorful dealer and enabler does it with a grin.

Washing ton inhab i t s the skin of a drunk with a tempered performance. Rarely showy, yet full of brooding emotion, it is easily one of his best performances.

Flight is by no means easy to watch, especially for anyone who understands the slavery that addiction becomes for a loved one. The film is not without its problems either. Too much is left unexplored with Whitaker ’s deteriorated family life, and one lengthy exposition on life and death outruns what effectiveness

it potentially has within minutes.

It is delivered by a patient in the cancer ward, starts off promising, but feels strained by the time its tired points are hammered home. Subtlety is not always Flight’s strongest note.

Watching a hero’s fall from grace is not always entertaining. Flight makes an exploration of inner turbulence as complex and watchable as a mainstream audience could ask for, though.

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National Crime Information Center database. Thus, if they are stopped in any jurisdiction in the country, they could face arrest for the warrants, making this a good option for avoiding that, Lee said.

“It is much more convenient than for them to be arrested,” he said.

Derby has nearly 5,000 cases in an average year though the municipal court.

Because of the traffic through the community on its two heavily traveled corridors, as many as half of the cases are not local residents. Adams also said there is a high turnaround on address changes for those who have not paid and followed through on their court cases.

E v e n w i t h s o f t w a r e designed to help the court address the problems of unpaid fines, keeping up with people is a full-time task. The

department added a station officer this year and among her duties are tracking down people with warrants.

Because that officer came to the job with a backlog, the amnesty day should help the department get ahead with the effort.

“It is an ongoing, virtually every day process for us,” Lee said.

Derby held a s imilar program in 1999 and it was considered successful, Adams

said.In addition other cities

have recently offered warrant amnesty. In Topeka, 60 warrants were cleared in the first day of a week-long effort, she said.

A complete list of eligible part icipants in Derby’s Warrant Amnesty Day can be found at www.derbyweb.com/departments/municipal-court.cfm and on Derby Cox Channel 7.

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H i s o w n b r o t h e r ’s willingness to serve his country and the sacrifice he made inspired Fred Gourley to become an Air Force fighter pilot.

“I saw Lee’s life at the Air Force Academy and then he went into pilot training,” Gourley said. “If it wasn’t

for him, I might not have even decided to try to be a pilot. I do not know if I would have had the self-confidence to have tried that route. But talking to him after he went through all that was probably the main reason that I ended up going to pilot training and becoming a fighter pilot in spite of the dangers involved with it.”

Vet inspired by brother’s sacrifice

Courtesy photoFred Gourley in his American Airlines uniform, 2006.

to promote to co-pilot and about five years to captain. Once he transitioned to the MD–80, he stayed on that plane by choice.

“I chose not to go to the bigger airlines because there’s a lot of night flying and you have multiple time zone changes, especially if you’re going east or west out of the U.S,” he said. “The older I got, I found that was very hard on the body. I did not do well at all-nighters.”

His schedule changed every month.

“ I t w a s a c o m m o n occurrence to keep the same schedule on larger airplanes,

Gourley was in college as his brother fought in the Vietnam war. In 1969, Lee became missing in action. Lee’s remains were returned to the U.S. in December, 2011, and identified the following August.

Gourley, who graduated from Iowa State in 1970, did not let that stop him from joining the Air Force.

“It made me more aware of the outcome of that decision,” he said. “That’s kind of an ultimate result of joining the military. I’d already decided on joining, but it gave me a deeper awareness of the consequences of choosing that line of work.”

Gourley spent eight years on active duty. He served as a fighter pilot as his brother had, and flew F-4’s in the Vietnam War. He left the Air Force in 1978.

For two years he worked as a pi lot for Braniff International, a now defunct airline.

He served the Air National Guard in Des Moines, Iowa, part time until 1982, when he moved his family to Derby to serve the Kansas Air National Guard.

“We liked the looks of Derby and we’ve been here ever since,” he said.

The position was full time until he started work with American Airlines in 1985. He continued to serve the Kansas Air National Guard part time until 1992.

“It was a little different working for American A i r l i n e s , b e c a u s e I commuted from Derby all those years,” he said. “I was based for the first couple of years in Chicago, Ill., where I flew out of O’Hare. Then I transferred to Dallas and spent the next 21 years commuting to there to fly.”

Commuting required Gourley to be on stand-by, waiting for a seat to open on a flight.

“It’s bad for going to work because you then have to leave early,” he said. “You waste a lot of time commuting that you wouldn’t normally with an airline job.”

Gourley said that some of his flight schedules would allow him an overnight stay in Wichita.

“It was nice to actually get to come home and spend a night instead of going to a hotel room for a change,” he said.

The largest plane he flew for American Airlines he said could be compared to the size of a Boeing 727 or a McDonnell Douglas MD–80.

“The 727 was actually, when I started, a three-man cockpit,” he said. “But the MD-80 was always a two man cockpit. That flight engineer that they always, years ago, used to have, and the 727 had that, that went away. We don’t have flight engineers on any airplanes anymore.”

He started his American Airlines career as a flight engineer on a Boeing 727.

“Anytime you get hired by a major airline when they had the three-man cockpits, you always started in that position because it’s all based on seniority,” he said.

Flight engineers would sit at a panel behind the captain and co-pilot to m o n i t o r a n d o p e r a t e instruments controlling the fuel, air conditioning, pressurization, oil systems and engine instruments. The position has been eliminated by modern technology in newer airplanes.

It took Gourley one year

especially those that flew overseas,” he said. “But with my airplane, because we flew so many different places, those schedules changed every month. I was flying to a lot of different cities around the United States as opposed to just always flying from here to Denver and back. That was one of the good things about it. It was a change from city to city.”

Gourley said that a pilot’s life can be hard on family because of all the time spent away from home.

“The spouse of a pilot, they have to be a kind of special people because when I’m gone, I’m really gone,” he said.

Gourley’s wife Kris has sold real estate in Derby for 30 years and has been active in the community.

G o u r l e y s a i d t h e commercial airline industry was more relaxed when he first flew with Braniff. He said with the cost of flying being higher, they had smaller loads which gave people room to relax. Passengers would also dress up to fly.

W i t h t h e A i r l i n e Deregulation Act passing in the late 1970s making air travel more affordable, Gourley said that changed.

“It’s good that a lot more people can fly,” he said. “But you end up with 90 to 100 percent load factors and then all the people are cramped and they’re not happy for whatever reason. They don’t dress up and their attitudes are worse.”

Gourley said that before deregulation, airlines could earn a profit with a 40 percent load factor.

“Nowadays, if you don’t average at least 80 to 90 percent, you don’t make money,” he said.

Gourley retired from American Airlines in 2008.

Rock River Rapidsavoids closing for a full day in 2012Slides will be rebuffed for 2013


Rock River Rapids – the community’s public water park – found the 2012 season to be slightly cooler and less populated than the year before. However, it did not have to close this summer for any full day and revenue appears to be holding strong for a season in the black.

Darcie Parkhurst, aquatics/fitness facilities director for the Derby Recreation Commission, said the season started with 1,600 in attendance on the first day.

“It was the best first day ever,” she said.The average summer temperatures were not as hot as

2011 – at 95 degrees, down from 99 in 2011 – possibly creating the drop in total daily attendance from 84,532 in 2011 to 81,218 in 2012. The average daily attendance, though, was only one swimmer below 2011, at 1,069 in 2012.

The total attendance at the facility dropped from 105,852 in 2011 to 100,310 in 2012, Parkhurst said.

The DRC shows a $38,000 profit at this point, but that will drop considerably after the city deducts costs associated with public works employees’ time, according to Kathy Sexton, city manager.

As the facility prepares for 2013, swimmers can expect to see a gel coat applied to the large slides to revitalize them, according to Robert Mendoza, city director of public works. The appearance of the slides has been fading in the past few years, despite continual applications of armor protectant, he said.

A special section of

Honoring veterans and active duty military

Keep the home Fires Burning

Sunday, November 11, 2012

2 PM – Garrett Park, Derby, Kansas

We honor every Derby

InformerTHE DERBY

Published November 7, 2012

Derby Area Veterans MemorialWalk of Freedom

A Special Veteran’s Day Ceremony

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By Theresa [email protected]

I learned the importance of keeping the home fires burning from my father, who served for 27 years in the United States Air Force.

Though he retired when I was quite young, I grew up listening to his stories, many of them about how he dealt with being away from his family while serving his

country.Whether i t was

flying over Berlin as a bombardier and navigator dur ing World War II, or serving a 72-hour shift as a member of a Strategic Air Command team at Lincoln Air Force Base, or shuttling generals to Newfoundland or Greenland while stationed in

England, my father found great comfort in the concept of “keep the home fires burning.”

Dad took great comfort in the idea that life was continuing as usual while he was away from his family. He used to visualize the daily routine at home in order to find relief from the stress of his duties.

“In the mornings I could picture your mother getting the children ready for school, eating

breakfast, brushing teeth, packing sack lunches,” he reminisced. “At lunchtime I’d think of the conversations the children would have with their friends in the school cafeteria and what your mother would be feeding the toddlers at home.”

Even when he was in an airplane over Berlin under enemy fire, he found comfort in thoughts of his parents and siblings sitting at home in Pittsburgh, Pa., listening

to the radio, doing homework, his father smoking his pipe and reading the newspaper.

For my father, the ordinary, simple routines of life were what “keep the home fires burning” meant.

As we celebrate Veterans Day, let us not forget to acknowledge those who keep the home fires burning with simple, daily acts, while loved ones are away serving our country.

Acknowledge daily the ones who stay behind

Entrance Escort .................................................... American.Legion.Riders.Post.408.Derby

Presentation of Colors.......................................... McConnell.Air.Force.Base.Honor.Guard.

National Anthem.................................................... Joy.of.Singing.(Derby.Senior.Services.Choir). Ross.E..Hearn,.Director

Welcome and Acknowledgements....................... Dion.Avello,.Mayor,.City.of.Derby

Keep the Home Fires Burning.............................. Joy.of.Singing.(Derby.Senior.Services.Choir). Ross.E..Hearn,.Director

A Salute to Those Who Kept the........................... Theresa.A..Hearn,.Executive.Director,Home Fires Burning...............................................Derby.Community.Foundation(Dedication of bronze sculpture)

Recognition of Amanda Chastain........................ Lt..Col..Kyle.Korver,.Commander,..McConnell Air Force Base 22nd.Logistics,.2012.National.Air.Force.SquadronSpouse of the Year. .

Because of Them…............................................... Emily.Noe.(teacher).and.students.from.. Wineteer.Elementary.School

Closing Remarks................................................... Theresa.A..Hearn. .

Tours of Walk of Freedom

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Derby Area Veterans MemorialWalk of Freedom

Veterans Day Ceremony

Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012 • 2 p.m. – Garrett Park

Thanks to the members of the Derby High School AFJROTC, Colonel MichaelJ. Dillard, Commander; and the American Legion Riders Post 408 Derby.

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Sara Coffey “kept the home fires burning” for two full years – her husband, Jim, was in Korea from 1964-65, and in Vietnam, 1968-69.

There was no Skype, email or even direct phone conversation.

“Sara had a serious illness while I was in Vietnam, and Red Cross made contact with me through a ham radio operator,” Jim said. “I didn’t get to talk to her directly – we each relayed our messages to the operator. I told the operator, tell her ‘I love her,’ and he did and then took her message and told me, ‘She said she loves you, too.’”

Jim left for Korea the week their son Michael was born.

“He was late, so the Army extended my leave so I could be there for his birth, since I’d be gone for 12 months after that,” said the retired Army major. “He had three older brothers, so Sara was on her own with a newborn, and three other kids under the age of 7.”

Jim said he was grateful that Melvin and Juanita Godwin helped Sara out during his Korean tour of duty, and that Sara’s sister

Sacrifice included years apart

Courtesy.photo.The bronze statue Patriotic Boy will be a new addition to the veterans memorial.

Courtesy.photo.Sara and Jim Coffey are shown in March 1964, when she was pregnant with their son, Michael, and Jim was preparing to spend a year in Korea.

and brother-in-law, Mary and Tony Rico, helped her when he was in Vietnam.

“It was difficult being away for so long,” he said. “In Vietnam, a chopper came in once a week with the mail, so at most we would hear from each other once a week. She was busy with four kids, though, so sometimes it was tough for her to even find time to write.”

Even when assignments allowed the couple to be together, his career required the family to move often – to Germany, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Ft. Riley and Schilling Manor.

It was in honor of his late wife that Jim was inspired to fund an addition to the Derby Area Veterans Memorial – Walk of Freedom to honor the spouses and family of those who serve or served in the military.

T h e b r o n z e s t a t u e Patriotic Boy, which depicts a young boy dressed in his father’s military gear, will be placed on a pillar in the Walk of Freedom.

“It’s really fitting that the statue is of a boy dressed in his father’s gear,” said Jim. “My four sons all used to play Army and I have pictures of them in uniforms, with the Coffey name on them.”

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I n m a n y m i l i t a r y families, both spouses play an important role serving their country – and their community.

Amanda Chastain has transformed her husband’s d e p l o y m e n t s i n t o opportunities to strengthen her community, working ardently to help other military families.

W h e n a s p o u s e i s deployed, the family left behind has a responsibility to hold down the fort, said

Chastain. “We learn to do things on

our own we never imagined we could.”

A fellow military wife o n c e d i s a s s e m b l e d a television, learned how to fix it, and repaired the set by herself, Chastain said.

This sort of self-sufficient vigor, reminiscent of Rosie the Riveter, propelled the mother of two to channel the kind of personal pain that might incapacitate some into good works that have brought light to hundreds of lives.

When Chastain’s husband,

Air Force spouse’s strength, perseveranceget her through lengthy deployments

Courtesy.photo.Amanda Chastain, the 2012 Joan Orr Air Force Spouse of the Year, is shown with her husband, Staff Sgt. Beau Chastain and their children, Emma (age 12) and Ethan (age 6).

Staff Sgt. Beau Chastain, an explosive ordnance disposal technician, was wounded by an enemy ambush in action in Afghanistan during his fourth deployment, she maintained perspective and an unceasing dedication to her community involvement.

He was on foot when his platoon was ambushed. Several soldiers were wounded, including Beau, who took a bullet from an AK-47 in his left thigh.

Even after this harrowing expe r i ence , Chas t a in continues to look on the bright side.

“In his line of work, he was lucky it was a gunshot wound and not wounds caused by an IED blast,” she said.

She focused on the fact that her husband is alive and did not lose his leg, saying they were lucky.

Now, only a year and a half after being wounded, her husband prepares to deploy again.

While it will not be easy to say goodbye again, Chastain

takes comfort in her support system.

“I have always been a volunteer at heart,” Chastain said. “Right now, my heart is with helping support military families.”

Chastain advises military spouses to keep their minds busy.

As vice president of the McConnell Enlisted Spouses Club, key spouse in the 22nd Civil Engineer Squadron, Girl Scout leader to girls who are military dependents and leader of a weekly military wives Bible study group, Chastain practices what she preaches.

Winning the 2012 Joan Orr Air Force Spouse of the Year award presented new opportunities to serve military spouses, Chastain said.

Chastain also received national attention for her birthday-in-a-bag idea. To honor Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low during the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouting celebrated in October 2011, Chastain and Troop 40710 created self-contained birthday-in-a-bag kits and donated them to food banks or similar charitable organizations. The idea caught on and Girl Scout Troops across the country participated.

A year after starting the project, Chastain still receives messages from Girl Scout leaders nationwide who are continuing to join her troop’s Juliette Low’s

Birthday-in-a-Bag Project.“This project showed my

girls that if you have an idea, anything is possible,” Chastain said.

The role of a military spouse is not easy, she said, but focusing on a job, furthering an education, learning a hobby, exploring the community or forging new friendships are great

ways to stay engaged. Chastain encourages

military spouses to maintain strength by putting down roots, getting involved and investing in their community.

“Admire our strength and perseverance, but do not pity us,” she said. “We are proud to serve and sacrifice for our country.”


Lt. Col. Kyle R. Korver, commander of the 22nd L o g i s t i c s R e a d i n e s s Squadron at McConnell Air Force Base, will recognize Amanda Chastain during the Veterans Day ceremony at Garrett Park on Nov. 11.

Chastain has been named the 2012 National Air Force Spouse of the Year.

Korver is responsible for planning and deploying base personnel and cargo in support of contingency and peacetime operations at McConnell. Those include a 15,000 line-item supply inventory, 4.5 mill ion gallons of aircraft fuel and

Logistics Readiness Squadron commander to recognize Chastain

Lt. Col. Kyle Korver

operation and maintenance of 429 assigned vehicles. The inventory is valued at over $120 million.

Korver commands over 240 military and civilian personnel and provides logistics readiness for the 22nd Air Refueling Wing, 931st Air Refueling Group and tenant units in support of the 63 KC-135R/T Stratotankers and over 3,000 airmen.

Korver was assigned to McConnell Air Force Base in June. He came from Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, where he was operations off icer fo r the 279th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron.

He was commissioned through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program at South Dakota State University in Brookings, S.D. He received his bachelor’s degree in landscape design from SDSU and his master’s

of science in business organizational management from the University of La Verne. He completed the LOGTECH Advanced Program in Logistics and Technology from Kenan-Flagler Business School, U n i v e r s i t y o f N o r t h Carolina, in 2011.

H e h a s c o m p l e t e d assignments with the U.S. Transportation Command, A i r F o r c e s C e n t r a l Command and multiple base level duties.

He and his wife, Stephanie, have four children.

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O n O c t . 3 , 1 9 3 9 , Carlton “Tink” Wolf left his hometown for military service which he hoped would improve his ability to make a living in a post-Depression era.

Seven long, and at times harrowing, years later he would return to south central Kansas and embark on a life which would include service to Derby residents and the community.

Wolf’s story of service began even before he enlisted. By the age of 9 he was orphaned and was raised by an uncle until his teen years. At that time, he began working for a dairy farmer near Clearwater, which provided him room and board and the opportunity to finish high school.

Af te r g radua t ing in 1939 and working for the summer, Wolf enlisted and took his love of tinkering with anything mechanical to the military. As with many Kansans at that time, he was headed to Ft. Riley for basic training and then to Hamilton Field in California. He re-enlisted then and was sent to Chanute Field and Scott Field, both Army Air Corps bases in Illinois.

After completing that training, he was off to Sheppard Army Air Field

in Wichita Falls, Texas. The new base had no hangars.

“They went down there to tents,” said Janet Wolf, Carlton’s widow.

The military build-up was ramping into gear. Five hangars were quickly built and the base began rebuilding damaged B-17s.

Carlton Wolf created a name for himself at the base and three years to the day after he first enlisted he was promoted to master sergeant and was serving as the line chief for the structures work on the planes.

With the war on, the military had just as hard of a time getting parts as the private companies and residents. Carlton designed and built a machine to take the main tires off the rims of the B-17. His superiors allowed the move, but told him he would be personally responsible for the over $100 cost of the machine.

“They were going to charge him for it if it didn’t work,” said the Wolfs’ son, Ron.

Carlton also learned the tedious records required for aviation work sometimes pay off. He kept specific logs, many times to justify the needed part, and to show when they were turned down. When a young pilot leaned on the brakes too hard, breaking rotors on his plane and taking the rear end

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off a B-51 Mustang parked nearby, a general came “looking for somebody to hang,” Ron said.

The stack of requests for parts and the logs which supported them were shown to the general.

“He excused my dad,” Ron said, adding that the major which had turned down the requests for parts took the heat for the problem.

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The Derby Community Foundation and the city of Derby plan to further deve lop t he Wa lk o f Freedom in 2013 and host the third and final year of a grand celebration.

“The veterans memorial was envis ioned to be a perpetual project with our commitment to host a community celebration as a three-year effort,” said Theresa Hearn, executive director of the Derby Community Foundation. “Our first two years have been so successful, and year three promises to be the best celebration yet. We look forward to continuing to add to the memorial and are hopeful that another organization in the Derby community will offer to

host an annual celebration at this site.”

In 2011, the memorial began with five stations honoring the five branches of the U.S. military along the existing bike path in Garrett Park. A total of 195 Derby-area veterans were honored with bricks at each station, and benches were installed in memory of Joe Herndon, Jerry Griffith, Paul Damm, Merlyn Dethlefsen, and the John Michael West American Legion Post 408.

Year two highlights of the memorial’s development include a new bronze statue honoring Sara Coffey and other spouses of veterans, expansion of the Air Force memorial, plus nearly 100 more memorial bricks and a bench in memory of Carlton W. Wolf Sr.

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The Jo McGovern Memorial Veterans Day Prayer Service will be held Monday, Nov. 12 at 8 a.m. at the St. Mary Faith Center, 2300 E. Meadowlark. A brunch will follow in the Knights Hall.

The public is invited, and a special welcome is extended to all veterans and service men and women.

The fifth grade class will lead patriotic song, prayer, and a recognition of veterans’ and active duty military personnel’s contributions to the nation’s history.

The service is named in honor of Jo McGovern, who started the annual event before her death in 2010.

Veterans Day Prayer serviceis Monday at St. Mary’s

Courtesy.photoCarlton “Tink” Wolf is shown during his service years, as he posed in front of a war plane. This model was not one on which he worked, but he loved planes, his widow said.

field in Amarillo, Texas, began having problems getting its staff in line, the job went to Carlton. He showed up, told the men they were going to work to get the job done.

“He put on his coveralls,

too, and worked with the men,” Janet said.

His hands-on attitude helped create the attitude needed on the line.

“If they had a problem, he would get in there and help them on the problem,” Ron said.

C a r l t o n e v e n t u a l l y served in search and rescue operations in the Philippines, Ie Shima and Okinawa. He considered a military career when he returned from the war, but had a wife and two young sons at that time. He could not get assurances the family could always be stationed with him, so he opted to return to Kansas.

After a short time in Wichita, the family moved to Derby and Carlton opened Wolf Motor Company in the former post office building – now the VFW/American Legion posts’ home. He served on the Derby City Council in the early 1950s, helping hire the city’s first police chief and serving in the city’s wastewater department when employees took vacation time.

He also served on the fledgling fire department at a time when local men

answered fire calls in their own trucks. Oftentimes that also meant they carried with them the hand-held fire extinguisher from their own business until the city’s single truck arrived.

In 1954, Carlton built the city’s first strip mall on K-15 north of Madison – the six units just north of the current Garnett Auto Supply. He ran his mechanic shop for nearly 15 years, became a real estate broker and obtained his securi t ies l icense. After five years working at Boeing, he discovered he had his first of three battles with cancer.

He died in 1996, proud to have served his country and calling himself lucky to have worked on the planes of the World War II era. He never, though, felt the military members of World War II got the recognition they deserved for the job, Janet said.

On Sunday, Nov. 11, Carlton Wolf’s sacrifices and hard work will officially be remembered. A bench in the Walk of Freedom, the Derby-area Veterans Memorial, will be dedicated in his name.

overhau led to g ive a fresh appeal to the Derby Community Foundation’s 1998 memorial to members of the Derby community who began the city’s Hike and Bike path system that today totals 25 miles. The Walk of Freedom surrounds this memorial.

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The Senior Center’s Joy of Singing choir will perform this Sunday at the Derby Area Veterans Memorial Walk

of Freedom ceremony in Garrett Park. The ceremony will take place at 2 p.m.

This is the first year the choir will sing for the event.

Retired Derby High School choir

director Ross Hearn has directed the choir since it began three years ago.

“Most of these people in the choir have lived through several wars, so they know the sacrifices that were made by our soldiers,” he said. “It’s very meaningful to all of us to be able to be a part of the ceremony.”

The choir will perform two songs: Keep the Home Fires Burning by Ivor Novello and The Star Spangled Banner.

Sherry Warner has been singing all her life and has been a part of the Joy of Singing choir since it began.

“I love being in the choir,” she said. “It’s great music and we have a lot of fun. It’s familiar music that everybody knows.”

Warner, who moved to Derby in 2000 from Long Island, N.Y., attended the Walk of Freedom dedication this past year. She also sings with the Wichita Choral Society and the Derby Community Choir.

The choir meets together every Thursday and Hearn said they usually perform at least two times a month.

Joy of Singing will perform at Veterans Day service

GINGER.G..GOLDEN/Informer.photoMembers of the Joy of Singing choir practice for the Veterans Day event at Garrett Park. From left are R.C. Schreck, Myron Schwartz, James Mc-Intosh, Gary Herman, and Peggy Unkel.

memorial bricks. Also in 2013, a new

concrete Hike and Bike path will be installed on the east side of the memorial to provide a loop for walkers and open up more space for donated statues and other ways to honor veterans. The route is marked with white

flags. “Space will be available

for families to honor their loved ones with benches, statues and water features or for organizations to honor military heroes,” said Mayor Dion Avello.

“We plan to install a multi-panel display of pages from the Time magazine

article about Col. Merlyn Hans Dethlefsen, a fighter pilot stationed at McConnell Air Force Base and the only area resident to have been recognized with the Congressional Medal of Honor,” Avello said. “Such a tribute would honor not only his service but also the vital role of McConnell Air

FUTURE: Memorial will grow with new displays, bricksFrom page 7


A seven-year effort to create a memorial for area veterans came to fruition in 2011 with a quarter-mile walking path through Garrett Park.

The Derby Area Veterans Memorial: Walk of Freedom was unveiled on Veterans Day 2011. The Walk of Freedom has stations for each branch of the military, featuring an obelisk with the branch’s seal, landscaping and bricks honoring Derby-area veterans who served in that branch.

The effort to create a memorial to local veterans began in 2004. That effort stalled, but the committee which revi ta l ized the idea consisted of donor representatives of the initial effort to create a memorial, the Derby Community Foundation and Derby city

staff. Members were Gerald and Virginia Evans, Debora Morris Nelson, Theresa Hearn, Kathy Sexton, Jim Meidinger and Jonas and Cynthia Harris.

They developed the idea of the stations in honor of each branch of the military along a quarter-mile of the city’s Hike and Bike path system in Garrett Park.

The design features an entry monument at the original point of the walking path and five obelisks along the path dedicated to a branch of the service – Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps and Navy.

Garrett Park was chosen due to its serene environment, access to restrooms and parking and the maturity of the park’s landscaping.

“This is a fitting way to honor veterans as well as improve the park, and be a nice enhancement to the park,” Sexton said.

Veterans memorial is a walk in the park

How to participate in the Wall of Freedom:

Derby Area Veterans Memorial• Honorably discharged military veterans or active-duty

members in good standing can be honored with a brick to be placed at the base of the monument honoring their branch of service. A $120 donation for the memorial brick can be made through the Derby Community Foundation. An Aug. 1 deadline must be met for the brick to be unveiled with the annual Veterans Day ceremony.

• Be prepared to verify service with Department of Defense forms or attest to the accuracy of the information submitted.

• The veteran or military member must have been or be a current resident of Derby, Rose Hill, Mulvane or Haysville or attended school in those communities.

• Bricks will be inscribed with the veteran’s name, military rank or grade, inclusive years of service and/or any conflicts served. There is a limit of three lines.

• For additional information, contact the Derby Community Foundation at P.O. Box 372, Derby, Kan. 67037; call 788-9815; go to www.derbycf.org; or email [email protected].

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Anyone cons ider ing honoring a family member or a veterans organization should contact Theresa Hearn at 788-9815 or a d m i n @ d e r b y c f . o r g or complete a Veterans Memorial brick form online at www.derbycf.org. Spaces available for additional memorials are marked with signs throughout the Walk of Freedom. SUBSCRIBE NOW

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