The DAV Vintage Bike Show brought bikers from across the region to raise money for a new van for the DAV.
The organization needs to raise $15,000 toward the van and then the national DAV will supply the remaining funding for the van.
The van is used to bring veterans from outlying areas into Hays for appointments and to bring veterans from Hays and the surrounding region to the Bob Dole VA Medical Center in Wichita.
Doug Nichols of Palco is a Veterans of the Vietnam War. He was wounded in combat during the Tet Offensive and received the Purple Heart and the Silver Star. He has been a member of the DAV every since.
Nichols brought his 1977 Yamaha, which he bought new in 1977. He still rides the bike.
“It’s a nostalgia thing,” he said. “It is an older dirt bike. I had similar bikes when I was younger. In 1977, this was brand new — the ultimate bike. I bought it then and have enjoyed it every since.”
Nichols also has three other road bikes. He has ridden with the Run For the Wall group to Washington, D.C., every May since 2006, but will but will be sitting this year out.
“It is total freedom,” Nicholas said of riding. “You are on your own, and you have to use your own ingenuity if something goes wrong. It is nothing like being in the cage of a car. I like to call them cagers — people who drive cars. It’s the freedom of it and the adventure and being able to interact in the environment more than you do in a car.”
John Weber’s 1947 Chief Indian
John Weber of Denver brought four bikes to the show — an 1947 Chief Indian, 1940 Sport Scout, 1938 Junior Scout and 1929 Henderson with a side car.
Weber said he married into a bike family. His father-in-law rode the Henderson until he was 84. His mother-in-law and father-in-law rode a 1928 Super X Excelsior while they were dating.
Weber’s favorite bike of the four is the Sport Scout, which was all in boxes when he bought it.
Weber rides all of his classic bikes.
“They’re different,” he said. “I get on a modern bike, and I’m bored.”
John Weber’s 1940 Sport Scout
The Henderson has a manual spark advance. As the motor RPM goes up, the spark tends to lag, so you have to manually advance it.
Weber said he enjoys going to shows and has already been to more than a dozen this year. He is president of the Antique Motorcycle Club of America. He also likes to go on club rides.
“You are in the space,” he said of riding. “When you are in a car, you’re in a box. Inside that box is your space. When you are on a motorcycle, you’re not restricted.”
The Patterson brothers bought the 1926 in Wichita from the original owner’s son, who was 83 at the time. The brothers rebuilt and restored the bike from the frame up.
He also brought to the show a 1946 Harley UL.
“I have been riding bikes since I was 8 or 9 years old, and every year they got bigger and faster and faster. I found myself seeing how fast I could make it to Sturgis. As I have gotten older now, I jus wanted to slow down. These bikes run about 45 or 55 miles per hour. You slow down and enjoy the day. You enjoy the environment. It is a whole different style than how quick can you get there.”
He said on the older bikes, you ride them for a couple of hours and then wrench on them for 30 minutes.
“It’s just more of a journey on the old bikes, and that’s what I enjoy doing right now,” he said.
Gary Shormam’s 1928 Harley Davidson
Gary Shormam of Hays brought to the show his 1928 and 1940 Harley Davidsons. He started riding on his family’s farm when he was about 8 years old.
“It’s fun to ride. It is fun to find the old ones and bring back some history of how motorcycles got started,” he said.
Shorman said he likes to see how the motorcycle has progressed.
“The difference even between the ’40 and the ’28 is big,” he said. … “How they just advanced year, after year, after year to become better and now the new ones are like cars today.”
Gary Shormam’s 1940 Harley Davidsons
He said the 1928’s engine is fairly simple.
“When you look at that, it is a pretty simple single-cylinder motorcycle engine that runs that,” he said. “There’s not a lot to it. You have a battery, a spark plug. Put some oil in it and gas, kick it and away you go.”
Shorman said the appeal of riding is being outside.
“Many times you are in meetings all day long and you are working in different areas that are inside — being outside on the weekend and playing with these …” Shorman said was the reason why he owns the bikes.
“The other thing is you can take them apart. You can take them apart and put them back together. You can take the head off that and put it back on, clean it up. The new stuff you really have to take to a real professional. It is a real engine you can work on.”
All of the men said they enjoyed talking to other motorcycle owners, but the real reason they came was to help raise money for the DAV.
Editor’s note: Gary Shorman is the president and CEO of Eagle Communications, which owns and operates the Hays Post.
LAWRENCE — When one thinks of the military, images of elite, highly fit soldiers often come to mind. Conversely, talk of eating disorders generally steers toward undernourished individuals, often young women. However, data has shown that the prevalence of eating disorders in the military is roughly the same as in general society, and two University of Kansas researchers have secured a grant from the Department of Defense to develop a screening to detect eating disorders among the nation’s soldiers and identify organizational barriers to identifying and treating them.
Kelsie Forbush, associate professor of psychology, and Alesha Doan, associate professor of women, gender & sexuality studies and faculty member in the School of Public Affairs & Administration, have secured a three-year, $1.7 million grant to study eating disorders in the military, adapt a previously successful screening tool and determine organizational challenges to detecting and treating eating disorders in both active-duty soldiers and veterans. The grant is administered by KU’s Life Span Institute.
Active military face a wide range of dangers on the battlefield, and the risks of post-traumatic stress are well-documented. However, the constant pressure to meet fitness standards, physical requirements to enlist and expectation for leaders to maintain fitness levels as role models all can lead to eating disorders.
Kelsie Forbush
“Many people are not aware that the military has rigorous standards that require military personnel to meet specific body mass and other physical fitness standards,” Forbush said. “In addition to physical fitness and body mass standards, in deployment situations, soldiers can experience additional pressures that can lead to disordered eating. The availability of calorie-dense ‘meals, ready to eat’ and high-calorie cafeteria-style comfort food served in chow halls can cause weight gain. Active-duty service members are also exposed to stress and trauma, which may lead to unhealthy eating behaviors in an attempt to cope with traumatic experiences and temporarily ‘escape’ from negative emotions.”
Recent studies show that eating disorders occur in about 13 to 15 percent of young women and 3 percent of young men in the general population, and those statistics are approximately the same among members of the military. That number could actually underestimate the total in the military as there is not currently a servicewide screening to detect eating disorders, and those most often used in general populations rely on highly gendered questions most applicable to young women, Forbush said.
Failure to maintain body mass index and fitness standards can lead to referral to weight-loss programs and, potentially, discharge from service. Further, eating disorders have the highest mortality rate among all mental health disorders. Yet, despite the severity, no screening is in place for recruits and active-duty military or within the Veterans Health Administration system. Forbush’s research group has developed a screening known as the Eating Pathology Symptoms Inventory, shown to comprehensively measure disordered eating in both men and women.
The researchers will work to adapt the screening to identify veterans who may have eating, mood, anxiety or trauma disorder. A nationally representative sample of 1,000 men and women discharged from the military within one year will take the screening at four time points. The reliability and validity will be tested, and a shorter form will be developed and tested with a second sample of 400 veterans to determine if the screening can accurately identify cases of eating, mood, anxiety or trauma disorder.
The screening will be designed to detect disordered eating and other potentially dangerous behaviors such as muscle building, excessive exercise, purging and restricting.
Alesha Doan
Doan will lead research into organizational barriers by conducting interviews with a subset of 100 veterans on their perceptions of institutional and cultural issues that may prevent identification and treatment of eating disorders.
“We’ll be looking at organizational practices and policies that may factor into eating disorders and perhaps impede treatment,” Doan said. “We want to better understand how the environment may be creating formal barriers that contribute to the problem. For example, eating disorders are often viewed as a health issue that affects women. Understanding this issue as a gendered problem may heighten stigma for men seeking treatment in the organization.”
By developing effective screening, the researchers hope the military can implement measures to detect enlistees at risk of eating disorders when they enter, identify current soldiers also at risk or currently displaying disordered eating behaviors and to serve veterans who suffer from eating disorders. Potential recruits often feel pressure to lose weight rapidly in order to qualify, active-duty military face high levels of stress, and veterans often deal with post-traumatic stress, all of which can contribute to disordered eating. To complicate matters, obesity is a problem throughout society. Early detection and treatment could greatly enhance military readiness, the researchers said, as well as lead to improved health following treatment.
In addition to the Department of Defense funding, Forbush has received $330,000 in Research Excellence Initiative funding from KU’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. The funding will support two years of research via an Academic Accelerator Award in the College, which will allow Forbush to complete a longitudinal research project designed to improve the ability to predict who will recover or relapse from an eating disorder and to provide treatment to KU students experiencing eating disorders.
The military project is also among the first to examine eating disorders and related mental health conditions among veterans on a national level. Thus, Forbush and Doan said they hope the results will not only contribute to the understanding of the scope and effects of eating disorders in post-9/11 veterans but demonstrate the need for a national VA program to address them.
SEDGWICK COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a burglary and have two teen suspects in custody.
Dylan Dominick-photo Sedgwick Co.Nick Dominick-photo Sedgwick COunty
At approximately 12 a.m. Friday, officers responded to a burglary-in-progress call at the Central Plaza building, 111 W. Douglas in Wichita, according to office Charley Davidson. The reporting party stated unknown suspects were inside the building damaging property.
Upon arrival, officers observed Nick Dominick and Dylan Dominick exit the building and they were arrested without incident. Officers also located several windows damaged throughout the building
The teens are being held on requested charges of burglary and destruction to property, according to Davidson.
The investigators will present the case to the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office.
RENO COUNTY— Law enforcement authorities are investigating a robbery and have a suspect in custody.
Crenshaw -photo KDOC
Just after 6:30p.m. Friday, police were dispatched to the Anima Bella Salon, 16 South Main in Hutchison reference a robbery where currency was taken, according to a media release.
With help from the Reno County Sheriff’s office the suspect was later identified.
Just after 10:30a.m. Saturday, police located and arrested Jackie D. Crenshaw, 66, Hutchinson, for the robbery. He is confined at the Reno County jail with a bond of $10,000, according to the release. The case will be presented to the Reno County District Attorney’s office.
Crenshaw has over two dozen convictions that include forgery, theft, burglary and for drugs, a according to the the Kansas Department of Corrections.
Jacob “Jake” Kelling, 85, passed away Thursday, May, 9, 2019 at Smith Center Heath & Rehab, Smith Center, KS.
Jake was born March 3, 1934 in Cedar, KS, the son of Allen S. and Lena M. (Genthe) Kelling. On February 12, 1954 he married Donna Gayle Miller in Kensington, KS, to this union they were blessed with three children, Theresa, Mike and Dawn. Donna and Jake were able to celebrate 62 years of marriage together before her passing on October 9, 2016.
He was preceded in death by his parents, wife Donna, two sisters, Ruby Tomlinson and husband Jack, and Fern Balsam and husband Jim, and a son-in-law Gunnar Hall.
Jake is survived by one son, Mike Kelling & wife Mable of Amarillo, TX; two daughters, Theresa Hall of Atwood and Dawn Schmalzried & husband Rory of Castle Rock, CO; one sister, Mavis Parnell and husband Chuck of Solomon, KS; six grandchildren, Katrenia Sankovich, Jake Kelling, Heath Schmalzried, Tyler Schmalzried, Jack Schmalzried & wife Ashley, Hope Payne & husband Norris and six great-grandchildren, Creighton and Addie Sankovich, Rhys and Tate Schmalzried, Owen and Lucas Schmalzried and many nieces and nephews.
A celebration of Jake’s life will be held at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at All Faiths Funeral Chapel, Smith Center, KS. Visitation will be held on Monday, May 13, 2019 from 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. with family present to greet friends from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the funeral chapel. Memorials may be given to Smith Center Library and can be sent in care of the funeral chapel.
Sharon B. Price, 79, of Larned, Kansas, was welcomed into the arms of her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on May 10, 2019 at Country Living of Larned.
She was born September 22, 1939 in Rozel, Kansas, the daughter of Alfred and Mildred Bruntzel. Growing up in Rozel, she met and married her high school sweetheart, Larry Price on January 14, 1956. They celebrated 47 years together before Larry preceded her to heaven on May 30, 2003. Together they had two children, a son Gene Price (Sharon) of Larned, Kansas and daughter Tonya Burton (Rusty) of Medicine Lodge, Kansas. She has five grandchildren, Anna Connell (Matt), David Price, Joseph Price, Michael Price, Jennifer Burton, and three great grandchildren, Aubrey Burton, Ethan Connell, and Zoey Connell, as well as, Many nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her brother, Eldred Bruntzel and sister JoAnne (Simmons) Selzer. To her family and friends, she was faithful and never wavered in her belief in our Lord Jesus. She had many accolades, of which, she cherished being a wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother most.
Funeral services are to be held at Beckwith Mortuary, Saturday, May 18th at 10:00 a.m., with Pastor Roger and Elaine Alford presiding. Following the service, dinner for family and friends will be provided at the First Christian Church fellowship hall, the corner of E. 8th Street and Topeka. Visitation is to be Friday, May 17th from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. with family present from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the mortuary. Burial will be in the Larned Cemetery, Larned.
Memorials may be given to the American Cancer Society or the Roger Alford Ministry in care of Beckwith Mortuary, Box 477 Larned, KS 67550.
Lillian Rose (Williams) Rosenberg, passed away May 10, 2019, at Kansas Heart Hospital, Wichita. She was born Sept. 22, 1923, in Phillips County, Kan., to Claude and Emma (Schippert) Williams. On June 22, 1945, Lillian married Verlyn Rosenberg in Jewell. He passed away Oct. 28, 2004. They were blessed with 59 years of marriage.
Lillian was a 1940 graduate of Alma High School, later pursuing her teacher’s certificate from Kearney Normal School, then teaching first through eighth grades in a one room school in rural Nebraska. Lillian had been a Great Bend resident since 1952, coming from Phillips County, having owned and operated, with Verlyn, Rosenberg Engine Service, where Lillian faithfully served as vice president and secretary for 33 years.
Lillian was a member of First Assembly God Church, Great Bend. Lillian and Verlyn traveled the U.S. extensively, also having visited Italy and the Holy Land.
Survivors include two sons, Rex Rosenberg of Hoisington and Neil Rosenberg and wife Carolyn of Fraser, Col.; two daughters, Joyce VanCamp of Great Bend and Kay E. Cook and husband David of Tulsa, Okla.; 16 grandchildren, 29 great grandchildren and 9 great great grandchildren. She was preceded in passing by her husband; two sons, Douglas Rosenberg and Mark Rosenberg; and one daughter, Barbara Casey.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, May 14, 2019, at First Assembly of God Church, with Pastor Dwight Dozier. Interment will follow at Great Bend Cemetery, Great Bend. Visitation will be 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Monday, May 13, 2019, with the family receiving friends from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., all at Bryant Funeral Home. Memorials may be given to First Assembly of God, in care of Bryant Funeral Home.
Samuel J. ”Sam” Ward, age 96, passed away May 11, 2019, at Almost Home, Great Bend. He was born January 4, 1923, at Joplin, Mo., to Grover Cleveland and Martha Jane Ward. Sam married Anneliese Fruehauf July 17, 1949, at Hudson. She survives.
Sam, a resident of Great Bend since 1935 coming from Joplin, Mo., was a lifelong farmer and stockman, belonging to First Christian Church, Great Bend. His passion was farming, but also enjoyed woodworking, carving, fishing and hunting.
Survivors include wife, Anneliese Ward, of the home; one son, Robert Ward of Anthony; two daughters, Mildred Dills and Karen Spears both of Great Bend; three grandchildren Donnie Beeler, Duane Spears and Tracey Spears; and many great grandchildren. Sam was preceded in passing by two brothers, Bob and Grover, Jr.; four sisters, Ellie, Mary, Violet, Jewel; three additional young siblings; and two sons-in-law, Bennie Dills and Al Spears.
Funeral services have been scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 15, 2019, at First Christian Church, Great Bend, with Rev. Joshua Leu officiating. Interment will follow at Great Bend Cemetery, Great Bend. Visitation will be from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 14, 2019, at Bryant Funeral Home, with the family receiving friends from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. Memorials may be given to First Christian Church, in care of Bryant Funeral Home.
Della Ann Ranker, age 86, passed away May 11, 2019, at Medical Lodges of Great Bend. She was born Nov. 17, 1932, at Ellsworth, to Otto F. and Anna C. (Kohls) Haase. Della married William Von Ranker Oct. 23, 1951, at Ellsworth. He passed away Feb. 16, 2016.
A 1950 Graduate of Ellsworth High School, Della had been a resident of Great Bend since 1956, coming from McCook, Neb. She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, where she held an active role as a Sunday School teacher, and was employed by Security State Bank for 22 years, retiring in 1995.
Survivors include three sons, David Ranker and wife Ronda of Hays, Steve Ranker of Florissant, Mo., and Philip Ranker and wife Darcee of Solana Beach, Calif.; four grandchildren, Matthew Ranker and wife Becca, Amy Brooks and husband Wyatt, Hayley Ranker, and Lynsie Ranker and husband James; five great-grandchildren, Noah, Caleb, Gracie, Hope and Isaac Ranker. She was preceded in passing by her husband Bill; and by one brother Otto Haase, Jr.; and by one sister, Edith Reed.
Services are pending. Memorials may be given to Trinity Lutheran Church, in care of Bryant Funeral Home.
Almena resident Lila P. Engelhardt passed away May 10 at her home in Almena at the age of 84.She was born Feb. 9, 1935 in Kanona, KS, the daughter of Franklin & Augusta (Soderlund) Towery.
Survivors include her son Daniel of Norton; her daughter Carlene Schemper of Holdrege, NE; her brother, Francis Towery of FL; her sister, Leola Curtis of Denver, CO; 6 grandchildren & 13 great grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Wed. May 15 at 10:00 a.m. in the Long Island United Methodist Church with Pastor Ted Stapleton officiating.Burial will follow in the Mt. Hope Cemetery, Almena.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Lila Engelhardt Memorial Fund.
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