Marietta (Lintel) Coats, 78, of Topeka, passed away October 4, 2014. She was born August 27, 1936, in Oakley KS, the daughter of Herman and Mary (Mader) Lintel. She graduated from St. Mary’s High School in Wichita. Marietta married James E. Snyder and to this union, four children were born. They later divorced. She then married Byron Coats. He preceded her in death. Marietta was a member of St. Matthew Catholic Church and was active in their garden club. She enjoyed gardening, gambling and loved spending time with her grandchildren. Marietta was dearly loved and will be sorely missed.
Survivors include her children, Jenny Prichard (William), Topeka; James D. Snyder, Topeka; Von L. Snyder (Candy), LaVergne TN and Vance A. Snyder (Kim), Mt. Vernon WA; 14 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; siblings, Armella Kruse, Oakley; Eunice Weber, Goodland; Lela Heier, Sharon Springs; Geraldine Swart, Grinnell and Donnie Lintel, Kingman AZ and 56 nieces and nephews. She was also preceded in death by her parents; James E. Snyder and her sisters, LaVerna Robben and Elaine Hammerschmidt.
First Visitation will be 5-7:00p.m. Wednesday at Kevin Brennan Family Funeral Home, 2801 SW Urish Road, Topeka KS 66614, with a rosary being prayed at 7 p.m.
Second visitation will be 5-8:00p.m., Friday, Oct 10, 2014 at Baalmann Mortuary, Oakley with a Vigil service at 7p.m. Funeral Mass will be 10:00am on Saturday, Oct 11, 2014 at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Oakley. Burial will follow in the Church Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to the St. Matthew Garden Club, 2700 SE Virginia Ave., Topeka, KS 66605, or to the Cotton-O’Neil Cancer Center, 1414 SW 8th Ave., Topeka KS 66606. Online condolences: www.baalmannmortuary.com.
Victor Carl Luhman, age 85, of Hays passed away Friday, October 3, 2014 at his home. He was born October 14, 1928 in Natoma, KS to Carl and Amelia (Ahrens) Luhman. He was a graduate of Natoma High School. He married Sylvia L. “Sue” Matthews December 6, 1962. She preceded him in death September 3, 2012.
Victor was a long time grain bin construction worker and repairman for Mel Jarvis Construction for over 30 years. He was a US Army veteran serving during the Korean War. He was a lifetime member of the Salina VFW post 1432 and a past member of Christ the King Lutheran Church in Salina.
He is survived by two sons, Tommy Jones and wife Rita of Harlinger, TX and Gary Jones and wife Paula of Luther, OK; a brother, Hugo Luhman and wife Irene of Hays; two sisters, Wilma Zeigler and Norma Horine. He is also survived by 8 grandchildren and numerous great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Esther Moenning and two sons, Ron and Jimmy Jones.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 AM Wednesday, October 8, 2014 at Peace Lutheran Church, 705 5th street, Natoma, KS. Burial will take place at the North Lutheran Cemetery rural Natoma with Military Honors courtesy of the Russell VFW.
Visitation will be held 9:30 AM until service time Wednesday at Peace Lutheran Church.
Arrangements in care of Brock’s Keithley Funeral Chapel 2509 Vine Hays, KS 67601.
Memorial contributions are suggested to: Peace Lutheran Church of Natoma
KANSAS CITY, KAN. – A man from Belize who used the alias “Popeye” to peddle methamphetamine on the streets of Overland Park was sentenced Monday to nine years in federal prison.
John Michael Hernandez, 41, pleaded guilty to one count of distributing methamphetamine and one count of unlawfully re-entering the United States after being convicted of an aggravated felony and deported.
In his plea, he admitted he was using the alias “Popeye” in December 2013 when he began selling meth to undercover investigators working with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
In a series of transactions, he sold them more than a pound of methamphetamine.
After he was arrested, Homeland Security Investigations used the Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT) and the integrated Automated Fingerprint System (AFIS) to determine Hernandez had previously been convicted of robbery in Los Angeles and deported from the United States to Belize in 2009.
PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police say a 3-year-old boy has died a day after being left in a hot car for several hours while his mother and a family friend were in church for a choir practice.
Officer James Holmes says the family friend had taken the boy and other children to a church where the friend and the child’s mother had choir practice late Saturday morning. The mother had arrived earlier.
Haden Nelson was not discovered missing for three hours, following the end of choir practice at 2 p.m. By then, temperatures had reached the high 90s, and Holmes said the child wasn’t breathing when he was found in the vehicle.
The boy was hospitalized in extremely critical condition but died Sunday afternoon.
The case will be referred to prosecutors to decide whether to press charges.
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State Fair manager Denny Stoecklein is crediting good weather and enticing entertainment for a boost in attendance at this year’s fair.
The Hutchinson News reports audited numbers announced Monday show 355,329 visitors attended the fair, which ran Sept. 5-14.
This year’s gate was up by about 15,000 people from 2013 and the highest in 16 years.
Stoecklein says it was also the fourth-highest attendance of all time — although that statistic is unofficial, because audited attendance only began in 1978.
The fair’s highest attendance was 361,647 in 1995. The lowest was about 283,000 in 2011, when the fair took place shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – The city of Folsom, California, has revealed the first section of the Johnny Cash Trail. The Sacramento Bee reports the first part of the trail is a two-and-a-half mile section that includes a bridge that’s meant to look like Folsom State Prison’s east gate guard towers. It’s a tribute to Cash’s 1968 album “At Folsom Prison.” Future plans for the trail include a 40-foot steel statue of Cash.
Dena Patee is executive director of Ellis Alliance.
Hello everyone!
This week is going to be crazy busy and I have a few more things to add to your list of to-do’s. Let’s just jump right in!
Today (Monday, for those who are already lost) you can catch the EHS JV Football game right here at home. The Railers will take on LaCrosse with a 6pm start time. At 3:30 today, the WGS Site Council will meet in the WGS Library.
This week is National 4-H week and our Ellis Sunflower 4-H Club is celebrating by showcasing some of their projects at Equity Bank and Golden Belt Bank. Stop in and check out the accomplishments of these area youths. Also, be on the look-out for Trick or Treat So Others Can Eat on Sunday. This awesome program is organized by your Ellis Sunflower 4-H Club! If you would like to explore 4-H, the Ellis Sunflower 4-H Club meets at 7pm on the first Monday of each month at the Ellis United Methodist Church. New members are always welcome!
Tuesday-The EJH Railer Volleyball team will travel to Phillipsburg for regular season play, with the match to begin at 4:30pm. The EHS Girls will play host to TMP at 5pm. It will be Senior Night at EHS, so make it up to the High School to support your Railers and congratulate the Senior Girls, as their HS Volleyball run nears an end. The Foundation will meet at 5:30pm at the Alliance Office.
Wednesday-The FCCLA kids will travel to Hoisington at 9am for a conference.
Thursday-At 10:30am, the Alliance will treat a group of individuals from Norton to the fun of the Storybook Walk. If anyone has an hour or so and would like to help with the fun, please let me know! Thanks in advance! The Cross Country Team will be in Phillipsburg for a meet beginning at 4:30pm and the EHS Volleyball team will take on Plainville and Norton in Plainville. The Junior High Volleyball ladies will host Norton beginning at 4:30pm and the Football boys will take the field against the Blue Jays at 6pm.
Friday is Homecoming and the EHS Railers are going to Trash the Tribe! Get your floats and parade entries all dolled up for the EHS Homecoming Parade at 2:30pm. The band will be marching and the King & Queen candidates will be waving to the crowds! At 5pm, the Ellis FFA Chapter will host their annual BBQ. Burgers and Country Sausage Sandwiches, chips, cookies and drinks just waiting for you to dig in to! Crowning Ceremonies are set for 6:30pm and the big game kicks off at 7pm. Get there early to get a good seat and settle in for some Railer Football action! Later after the game, all EHS Students are invited to 5th Quarter at the EUMC.
Saturday-There’s no stopping in the activities around town! The EHS JV & C-Team Volleyball ladies will be in action at Hays at 8am, and the Junior High girls will be traveling to Phillipsburg to the MCEL tournament beginning at 9am. The Milestone Dinner, honoring our 80, 90, and 100 year old community members, starts at Noon with a group picture, followed by a delicious meal prepared by the D of I Ladies. The Milestone Dinner is held at the Knights of Columbus Hall. If you need tickets or need to reserve a spot for your loved one, please call Dena at the Alliance office or Opal Flinn at 726-4432. At 4:00pm, your Jr. Railers (4th, 5th, & 6th grade) Football boys will be opening their tournament play, at home, against Plainville. If the boys win on Saturday, they will play again at 4:30pm on Sunday for the Championship, if It’s a loss, then they will play at 2pm. Announcements will be made on Saturday. The Homecoming Dance will culminate the evening from 8-11pm.
On Saturday, the AHSGR (American Historical Society of Germans from Russia) Kansas Round-Up of Chapters will -take place at Whiskey Creek in Hays. There will be great presenters beginning at 9am, with registration starting at 8am. The Keynote Banquet will begin at 6pm. If you would like more information call Kevin Rupp at 785-656-0329.
Sunday-Jr. Railer Football, time to be announced on Saturday following their first game. At 4pm, volunteers with Trick or Treat So Others Can Eat will be canvasing town collecting non-perishable food donations for the Ellis Food Pantry. ALL DONATIONS WILL STAY IN ELLIS!!! If you are not going to be home but would still like to participate, please leave your donations on your porch for pick up. Thank you in advance for your donations!
Monday-The Ellis County Health Department will be giving flu shots at the K of C Hall from 9-10am.
Well, like I said, no shortage of things to do! If you are a football fan, Ellis is the place to be this week-5 games all here in Ellis within 7 days! As always, if I’ve missed something, please let me know. Please also see the attached flyer for the Cottage Lane Pumpkin Patch. Head out there to get your pumpkins and get in the fall spirit!
SALINA — Sentencing has been delayed about a month for a former middle school counselor who was convicted last summer of raping a male student while he was working at her home.
Defense attorney Roger Struble ask for the continuance in the sentencing of 33-year-old Brooke Dinkel, citing medical issues. Judge Patrick Thompson continued the sentencing to 2:30 p.m. Nov. 12.
During her June conviction, a jury convicted Dinkel, who was a counselor at Smoky Valley Middle School in Lindsborg, of having sex with the then 13-year-old boy at her Salina home in late 2012. She was convicted on two counts of rape. She was acquitted on 18 other counts of rape and aggravated criminal sodomy.
She previously had taught at Felten Middle School in Hays.
“Gone Girl” is a dark, twisting story about a wife, played by Rosamund Pike, who disappears and the husband, played by Ben Affleck, who is accused of her murder and the equally dark and twisting relationship that exists between the two.
This is the latest entry in director David Fincher’s (“The Social Network,” “Fight Club,” “and “Se7en”) impressive resume of dramatically tense thrillers that bend away from the light, both physically and, much more importantly, psychologically. Fincher has a gift for finding an intimate darkness in characters, even when extraordinary events are afoot. While I wouldn’t put “Gone Girl” at the top of Fincher’s successes, it is nonetheless a well-deserved entry.
Affleck and Pike deliver compelling performances as Nick and Amy Dunne. Their individual character work coupled with their very complex interactions make a solid foundation that the rest of the film builds on very well.
“Gone Girl” is a satisfying mind romp that is difficult, at the best of times, to predict. This is one of the best examples of a cinematic roller coaster that I can think of, second only to “The Dark Knight”. The action and drama rises and falls so often in “Gone Girl” that I wasn’t entirely sure when or where the movie would end. For a film that is two and half hours long to feel like it reached it’s ending at about an hour and a half in is both an outstanding accomplishment and, at the same time, the film’s greatest flaw. The final ascents and descents are less tightly wound than those in the first half of the film. As such, some of the tension starts to unravel. However, that moves “Gone Girl” out of outstanding-territory only slightly. If this is the precursor to the great cinema we can expect this fall, it looks like the holidays might be coming a little early.
TOPEKA, Kan.—Reggie L. Romine, Assistant Executive Director of the Kansas State High School Activities Association, has announced his decision to retire from the KSHSAA staff effective July 1, 2015. He served on KSHSAA Board of Directors for eleven years and the KSHSAA Executive Board for five years. In 2005 he became an assistant executive director. Romine is in his tenth year of service to the Association. During that time, he has been responsible for the administration of music, debate, speech and drama activities, state basketball sportsmanship recognition programs, and spirit activities including cheer and dance.
In addition to conducting debate, speech, drama, and spirit rules meetings for coaches, Romine was responsible for the administration of summer cheer and dance camps, fall spirit spreader clinics and postseason championship tournaments in debate, speech, and drama. He was also in charge of regional and state festivals in music, speech and drama. Romine was also involved with general interpretation of KSHSAA rules for the member schools of the Association.
A native of Palco, Romine earned an Associate of Arts degree at Colby Community College prior to completing a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at Fort Hays State University, graduating with distinction. In 1980, Romine completed a Master of Science degree in Education Administration from Fort Hays State University. Romine began his career as a mathematics teacher at Dighton High School, where two years later he became principal. After serving four years as principal of Dighton High School, Romine served an additional twenty-one years as principal of Ellis High School. In 1997 the Kansas Music Educators Association honored Romine with their “Administrator of the Year Award” for his support for music education programs.
The 2014-15 school year marks Romine’s thirty-seventh year as a Kansas educator. Romine is widely known and respected throughout Kansas and the nation for his work in the field of school activity administration. During his tenure with the KSHSAA, Romine served on national committees through the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) on such issues as sportsmanship/citizenship & equity, spirit safety rules, music, speech and national debate topic selection.
ALTON — Two Kansas men died in a head-on crash just before 8 a.m. Monday in Osborne County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2000 Ford pickup driven by Shane W. Conway, 35, Alton, was northbound on County Road 661 two miles north of Alton.
The truck struck head on a southbound 1984 Chevy Caprice driven by Stephen D. Arnold, 57, Alton.
Conway and Arnold were pronounced dead at the scene and transported to Clark-Gashaw Mortuary in Osborne.
The KHP reported Conway was not wearing a seat belt.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas plans to tap unused federal funds to help launch a five-year, $25 million initiative to help disabled residents find good jobs.
State officials unveiled what they’re calling the “End-Dependence Kansas” initiative during a news conference Monday at a Topeka restaurant. The initiative involves five state agencies.
Mike Donnelly, director for the Department for Children and Families Rehabilitation Services, said the new initiative is designed to help 2,000 disabled Kansans find jobs.
The program not only will help potential workers with job coaches and workplace technology, it can subsidize their wages as they try out for jobs or after they are hired.
Donnelly said the initiative is being launched with $5 million to $6 million in unused federal funds that the state would be forced otherwise to return next year.
