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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

The Abilene

Obama vows

to flex powers

By JULIE PACEThe Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Seeking to energize his sluggish second term, President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday night in his State of the Union address to sidestep Congress “whenever and wherever” necessary to narrow economic disparities be-tween America’s rich and poor.

He unveiled an array of modest executive actions to increase the minimum wage for federal con-tract workers and make it easier for millions of low-

income people to save for retirement.“America does not stand still and

neither do I,” Obama declared in his prime-time address before a joint session of Congress and millions of Americans watching on television.

Draped in presidential grandeur, Obama’s hour-long address served as the opening salvo in a midterm elec-tion fight for control of Congress that will quickly consume Washington’s attention. Democrats, seeking to cast Republicans as uncaring about the middle class, have urged Obama to focus on economic mobility and the gap between the wealthy and poor. His emphasis on executive actions was greeted with shouts of “Do it!” from many members of his party.

Declaring 2014 a “year of action,” Obama also sought to convince an increasingly skeptical public that he still wields power in Washing-ton even if he can’t crack through the divisions in Congress. Burned by a series of legislative failures in 2013, White House aides say they’re now redefining success not by what Obama can jam through Congress but by what actions he can take on his own.

Indeed, Obama’s proposals for ac-tion by lawmakers were slim and largely focused on old ideas that have gained little traction over the past year. He pressed Congress to re-vive a stalled immigration overhaul, pass an across-the-board increase in the federal minimum wage and ex-pand access to early childhood edu-cation — all ideas that gained little traction after he proposed them last year. The president’s one new legis-lation proposal calls for expanding an income tax credit for workers without children.

In the bag

Local women teach students about wheat farming, breadmaking

By TIFFANY RONEYtiffany.roney@abilene-rc.com

Students decorated drawings of dogs with hero award stickers, put together puzzles about concepts like volunteerism and got up-close and personal with artifacts from World War II at the Dogs for Defense pro-gram at Garfield Elementary School Monday afternoon.

Children in the afterschool pro-gram, Achievement Begins with Caring, started by listening to Emily Miller, education outreach coordina-tor of the Eisenhower Foundation, as she read her book, “Chips: The Hero Hound” — a true story about a heroic canine who exemplified the patriotic spirit.

After listening to the story and answering Miller’s questions, the students split up into six groups and rotated activity stations, in which they were invited to delve deeper into thinking about the Dogs for

Defense program and the roles dogs played in the war, as well as interact with primary sources, such as a K-9 veteran honorable discharge notice from 1945.

“My husband (Jon Gose), who is a vet, and I were talking about how to bring things to the kids — ‘What’s in World War II that’s down to the kids’ level?’ and we came across Dogs for Defense,” Mitzi Gose, digital educa-tion coordinator of the Eisenhower Foundation, said. “We have stuff for every age level — where they’re at, we meet them.”

Additionally, Gose and Miller said teachers would be pleased to know that Dogs for Defense integrates into the Common Core Standards now mandated for most public schools.

While World War II may be a se-rious topic, there was plenty of laughter and chatter throughout the Garfield library, where more than 15 students partook in the activity.

Tiffany Roney • Reflector-ChronicleGarfield Elementary School students raise their hands to answer a question from Emily Miller, education outreach coordinator of the Eisenhower Foundation, during the Dogs for Defense program Monday afternoon.

Garfield students learn about World War II through dogs

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Tiffany Roney • Reflector-ChronicleMikaela Andres (left), junior at Abilene High School, helps 1st-graders at Kennedy Elementary School, knead their dough and form it into loaves at the Bread in a Bag presentation Tuesday. Area sisters Ila Beemer and Joyce Taylor led the program as part of their volunteer work with the 4-H Wheat Sci-ence Project through Kansas State Research and Extension.

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By TIFFANY RONEYtiffany.roney@abilene-rc.com

They grew up making bread in their mother’s kitchen on a farm south of Abilene.

Now, they’re teaching children across the county to make bread and to understand the route wheat takes, from a seed in the hand of a farmer to a loaf of sliced bread at the grocery store.

Students at Kennedy Elementary School got sticky fingers Tuesday when sisters Joyce Taylor and Ila Beemer instructed them to mix ingredi-ents, knead dough and shape it into loaves.

“To see the kids take a loaf of bread home — they just think they have a masterpiece in their hand,” Beemer said.

Taylor added, “I mean, to them, it’s never a flop, so we’ve never had a flop.”

Taylor and Beemer, Kansas State Research and Extension volunteers for the 4-H Wheat Science Project, have reached more than 4,100 Dickinson County students in the past 17 years. They’ve presented their interactive Bread in a Bag program at elementary schools of Chap-man, Abilene, Blue Ridge, St. Andrew’s, Rural Center, Herington and Hope, and Enterprise is next. One year, they also presented the pro-

gram to a special needs group at Chapman High School.

“One little boy told his mother one year that she didn’t need to buy bread anymore — he knew how to make it now,” Beemer said.

Taylor said one boy followed her “all the way down the hall” to ask her a bread-related ques-tion after one of the programs.

“He said, ‘Mrs. Taylor, do you make jam?’ and I said, ‘Well, yes, but not today,’” Taylor said. “The other day, a little girl came up and said, ‘Can I give you a hug?’ because they’re appreci-ate of what they’ve learned.”

The program starts with a video about wheat production that shows where wheat is grown, how it’s harvested and how it becomes flour. Afterward, students begin to mix and form their loaves, with assistance from volunteers — six per student.

“We’ve had one school district that has ‘Adopt a School,’ and that’s servicemen that come from Fort Riley,” Taylor said. “This year, we had some at Chapman and we’ve had some at Blue Ridge. They are very good, and they enjoy it. They stay all day, then, with the kids, and do things.

“We’ve had grandfathers, and we’ve had all demographics help us,” she said. “It’s kind of

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Tiffany Roney • Reflector-ChronicleA 1st-grader at Kennedy Elementary School, kneads her dough at the Bread in a Bag presentation Tuesday.

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ThequarterlymeetingoftheElsieBrooksMemorialCancerFund(EBMCF)ofDickinsonCountywasheldMonday,Jan.20,atthePlazaApartments.MarieCoulson,vicepresident,openedthemeeting,whichwasattendedbysevenmembersandoneguest.Year-to-datefinancialreportsweredis-cussed.EBMCFassisted71DickinsonCountyresidentsfightcancerin2013.GuestAmandaMooretalkedabouthereffortstohelpthosewithcancerfinanciallybyorganizingfundraisingben-efits.It’sacauseshesupportssincehergrandmotherdiedofcancer.AChristmasbrunchwasenjoyedbyEBMCFmembersinDecember.ItwasheldatthehomeofMarieCoulson.SandyWilleyandMaritaMillnerattendedtheJanuaryChristianWomen’sUnitedmeetingandspokeaboutElsieBrooksandtheEBMCForganization’sgoalsandeffortsonbehalfofcancerpatients.FundraiserswereheldinHopeandHeringtonandmoniesweredonatedtoEBMCF.ItwasnotedthatresidentsalloverDickinsonCountyhavesupportedandhelpedraisefundsforthegroup.TheannualelectionofofficerswasheldwiththegroupelectingMaritaMilleraspresident,MarieCoulsonvicepresi-dent,SandyWilleysecretary-treasurerandDeannaDunkelassistantsecretary-treasurer.EMBCFisoperatedentirelybyvolunteers.AnyonewhoknowsofsomeoneneedingfinancialassistanceoranyoneinterestedindonatingorbecomingamemberofEBMCF,contactMaritaMillnerat263-4253,SandyWilleyat263-3814MarieCoulsonat263-3711,MargieMillerat263-2568orLolaLondeneat479-5886.ThenextEBMCFmeetingisscheduledfor9;30a.m.April21,atPlazaApartments.

Jolly JayhawkersTheJollyJayhawkersgotthenewyearoffwithmakingplansfor2014.TheJanuarymonthlymeetingwascalledtoorderbyJuniorPresidentLoganDiekmannattheUnitedMethodistChurchonJan.12,at6p.m.Presentwere13members,twoleaders,fiveparentsandoneclover-bud.GraceDiekmannledtheflagsaluteand4-Hpledge.SecretaryJarythBartenreadtheminutesofthepreviousmeeting.TreasurerKyannaVolkmanandreporterJessykaBartengavetheirrespectivereports.ClubleaderCharlotteBartenremindedtheclub4-HdaysdeadlineisJan.15.ClubleaderBeckyDibbenencouragedmemberstoreviewtheirpinapplicationstoseewhattheymustaccomplishthisyearfornextpin.EducationaltourchairmanShelbyHettenbachgavethecluboptionshercommitteeselected.TheirchoiceswereeithertourandmakepizzasattheManhattanOliveGardenorattendtheKansasSamplereventtobeheldinWamego.TheclubvotedtogotoOliveGarden.Theclubalsovotedtodonate$25totheSpringBeefShow.TeaganSiebertdemonstratedhowtomakeminipizzas.SkeeterSiebertgavepresentationontattooinggoats—howtoandwhatthetattoosmean.JarythBartenconcludedtheprogramwithaspeechonhisexperiencesinstatewide4-Hevents.VicePresidentKyannaVolkmanannouncedthenextmeetingwouldbeFeb.9,at6p.m.attheWoodbineUnitedMethodistChurch.RefreshmentswereprovidedbytheSiebertfamily.

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Christian Women’s ClubTheAbileneChristianWomen’sClubguestluncheonisplannedfor11:30a.m.Thursday,Feb.6atFirstUnitedMethodistChurch,601N.CedarSt.Thebuffet-stylelunchwillbecateredbyWest’sCountryMart.BillManginelli,ofLeeSummit,Mo.,willbethespeaker.ManginelliservedintheU.S.MarineCorpsinVietnam,graduatedfromtheUniversityofFloridaandovercamealcoholismandhisfearofdeath.JoeBassowillalsopresent“OriginsofWords”andMitchLangvardt,ofChap-man,willprovidemusic.Costoftheluncheonis$12.Reserva-tionsareduenolaterthanSaturday,Feb.1,toMargeGreen,1508N.Campbell,AbileneKS67401.Formoreinformation,callMargeat263-1199.

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Rankin returns to Abilene Animal HospitalSpecialtoReflector-Chronicle

Becky J Rankin recently rejoined Abilene Animal Hospital as a general practitioner in the now eight-doctor mixed animal practice located at 320 N.E. 14th St.

Rankin received her bachelor of animal science degree as well as her doctorate of veterinary medicine from Kansas State University.

Rankin previously worked in rural mixed animal practice in Washington, since graduating veterinary school in 2011.

“Having Becky back with us is sort of like a family reunion.” Said Dr. Lisa Tokach, president of the group. “We’ve wanted her to come home since she grad-uated and we were finally able to make it happen. She worked hard for us as a student while she was in high school and

came back on breaks during college.”Tokach said that many students come

through the doors of the hospital with as-pirations of becoming veterinarians.

“We are proud to have fostered several students that have gone on to obtain col-lege degrees in animal science or vari-ous medical fields, but we are especially proud of those like Dr. Rankin who have gone on to obtain their veterinary de-grees,” she said.

Rankin enjoys working with animals of all sizes and is happy to be back work-ing in her hometown of Abilene. She is currently a member of the American Vet-erinary Medical Association, the Kan-sas Veterinary Medical Association, the American Association of Bovine Practi-tioners, and the American Association of Small Ruminant Practitioners.

She lives in Abilene with her husband, Matt, and their daughter, Keelan.

Photo providedBeckyJ.RankinhasrejoinedAbileneAnimalHospital.

Above:JuniorRotariansSageTokachandSusieGeigerpresentedtheAbileneHighSchoolreportsus-inghandpuppetsatRotaryClublastFriday.

Left:Dr.HeatherBlosser,whojoinedtheHeart-landHealthCliniclastSeptember,presentedaprogramattheAbileneRotaryClubFriday.Bloss-erattendedschoolatChapman.

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Abilene RotaryRock Springs holding camp

in MarchSpecialtoReflector-Chronicle

An environmental en-gineering camp for chil-dren ages 9 to 11 will be held March 21-23 at Rock Springs 4-H Center near Junction City.

Registration information is available at www.rock-springs.net.

The camp will integrate science and engineering topics, with youth learning to improve the environment by providing healthy water, air and land for humans and wildlife.

In hands-on activities, youth will construct wind powered devices, design dams and study wildlife habitats. All those attend-ing will receive a Power of Wind guide.

Weather permitting, recre-ation will include canoeing, the Leadership Adventure Course and a campfire.

Youth attending the camp must have an adult chaper-one who is responsible for a maximum of five youth. Registration is limited to 34 youth campers on a first-come basis. Feb. 28 is the deadline to register or ear-lier if the camp is full.

Those having questions about the environmental en-gineering camp may contact Mandy Kern at mkern@rocksprings.net, or call 620-412-1725.

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6:30 p.m.—DuplicateBridge,AbileneElksClub,417N.W.FourthSt.

7 p.m.—Al-Anon,Com-munityBibleChurch,121W.FifthSt.,Abilene

7 p.m.—YouthGroup,FirstBaptistChurch,501N.SpruceSt.,Abilene

7:30 p.m.—ChapmanRebekahLodgeNo.645,ChapmanSeniorCenter

Thursday5:15 p.m.—TOPS444,weigh-inandmeetingFirstChristianChurch,SeventhandBuckeye

8:30 a.m.—TOPS595,weigh-in,meetingatFirstChristianChurch,SeventhandBuckeye

Noon—MHSVolunteerCorpsannualmeeting,FirstPresbyterianChurch,1400N.CedarSt.,Abilene

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12:10 p.m.—AbileneRotaryClub,Mr.K’sFarm-houseRestaurant,407S.VanBuren.

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ObituaryJackie Dale Branham

Jackie Dale Branham, 70, of Lyons, died Jan. 22, 2014 in Detroit, Mich. He was born Nov. 22, 1943, in Sarcoxie, Mo., the son of James William and Ethel May Revis Branham.

Branham was united in marriage to Young Hui Kim in Seoul, South Korea on June 12, 1970.

Branham was the former owner of Jack’s Sanitation in Abilene and served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.

As a 30-year resident of Rice County, Branham was a member of the Bushton United Methodist Church.

Survivors include, wife, Kim of the home; son Jimmy and Laurie Branham of Salina; three daughters, Brenda and Clayton Smith, Clay Center; Vickey Kniffin, Geneseo; Christina Kay Wenthe, Junction City; sister, Maxine Wheeler, Sterling; sister-in-law, Dorothy Branham, Sterling; seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by three brothers, Samuel, Joseph and Billy; two sisters, Deloris Yoacham and Betty King.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014 at United Methodist Church, Bushton, with military honors by the Fort Riley Honor Guard. The Ref. Gene Lang-hofer will officiate. Burial will follow at Geneseo Cemetery. Memorials can be sent to Disabled American Veterans in care of Birzer Funeral Home, Lyons, KS.

Jackie Branham

TheAssociatedPress

SALINA — The city of Salina and other water users are considering forming a group to buy additional stor-age at Kanopolis Reservoir.

City commissioners decid-ed during a study session on Monday that Salina should pursue creating a Lower Smoky Hill Water Supply Access District with other cities, industries and farm-ers that get water from the Smoky Hill River.

The Kansas Legislature approved creating the dis-trict in 2011, and detailed regulations were finished last August, but the group has not been formed, The Salina Journal reported.

Discussion about forming the group started after water flow in the river dropped to zero during the summer of 2006, said Martha Tasker, Salina’s director of utili-ties. That experience led to more cooperation, including weekly conference calls in

the summer of 2012 to coor-dinate water usage between irrigators and the city.

“The point is for all of us to be involved in allocating the river flow,” said City Manager Jason Gage. “If we know what’s going on, what the irrigators are doing, we can work together.

“Salina’s water rights are senior to most, and if we wanted to, we could be mean about it. We could cut off the irrigators (during droughts). But farmers are part of our economy, part of Kansas.”

Purchasing storage in the lake differs from exercis-ing traditional water rights, which apply to natural flow in a river and are allocated based on when the right was established. By buying stor-age in the lake, the city and others in the district could have water sent to them dur-ing droughts, superseding even those with older water rights.

TheAssociatedPress

JUNCTION CITY — A group of northeast Kansas children is scrambling to come up with money to fund a trip to Colorado after a trusted adult was accused of steal-ing thousands of dollars from their travel fund.

Glen Irwin was charged last week with felony theft after roughly $10,000 was found to be missing from the Geary County Children’s Choir’s bank account. Irwin used to be the choir’s business manager.

The choir had been selling candy bars and performing around Junction City to raise money for the trip to Colorado Springs, Colo., scheduled for after the end of the school year.

“It’s a shock to the kids

because they spent a lot of hours fundraising,” said Greg Gooden, director of the chil-dren’s choir. “It’s sad some-one would take money from children. That’s really what he did.”

The complaint filed Thurs-day accuses Irwin — who was a member of the fundraising committee for three years and served as business manager

for one — of stealing money between Jan. 1, 2012, and June 8, 2013.

The total cost of the trip is $35,000. The choir was un-able to make the first pay-ment of more than $8,000 in January because of the theft. The choir now must make a double payment to the tour company in February.

“Prior to Christmas vaca-

tion, we noticed there was money missing and I ques-tioned him through emails and texts,” Gooden said. “He finally agreed to meet with us and he lied to us.”

Gooden said Irwin claimed to need the money for liver cancer, but that turned out to be untrue.

Irwin is being represented by the public defender’s of-

fice in Junction City, which declined to comment Tuesday morning.

Gooden said he was told the money would be replaced, with interest, by Jan. 13, but that never happened.

“We may get some of that back with restitution, but that may be a long process,” he said.

Children’s choir trying to replace lost funds

MeetingMHS boardTheMemorialHealthSys-temboardofdirectorswillmeetat12:30p.m.Tues-day,Feb.4intheConklinConferenceCenteratthehospital,511N.E.Tenth.Itemsontheagendainclude:•calltoorder;•boardmembercom-ments;•approvalofconsentagendawhichincludesmin-utesofpreviousmeetingandspecialmeeting,itemspurchased$1,000-$5,000,MHSQualityManagementPlan;•itemsremovedfromconsentagenda;•boardeducation/legisla-tiveupdate;•reportsandupdates,—financialstatementreview,—statisticsreview,—monthlyQAreport;—quarterlyHIPPAreport;—quarterlyHRreport;•businessesupdates;—ImpactSports&Fit-nesssemiannualreport;—VillageManorsemian-nualreport;•medicalstaff;—CMOcomments;—credentialing•boardcommittees—physiciansrecruit-ment;—constructionproject;—other• capitalexpensere-quests;•oldbusiness—ROSEUnitrenovation;•newbusiness;• CEOreport—correspondence;—datestonote;—generalitemsandupdates;•executivesession;•adjournment.

Salina, others might form group to buy more water

Proposed Kansas response on gay marriage debated

By JOHN HANNATheAssociatedPress

TOPEKA — Gay-marriage opponents urged Kansas legislators Tuesday to approve new le-gal protections for bakeries, photographers and others who refuse for religious reasons to sup-ply goods or services for same-sex weddings, anticipating that federal courts could soon strike down the state’s ban on such unions.

But gay-rights advocates said the bill backed by social conservatives and the Kansas Cath-olic Conference would permit individuals, businesses and groups to discriminate against gays and lesbians and encourage government officials to ignore court rulings favoring gay marriage.

The House Federal and State Affairs Com-mittee’s hearing on the bill came in an uncer-tain legal climate for Kansas and other states that ban gay marriage. Federal judges in Okla-homa and Utah recently struck down bans in those states, which are under the jurisdiction of the same federal appeals court as Kansas.

Under the bill, no individual, business or reli-gious group with “sincerely held religious be-liefs” could be required by “any governmental entity” to provide services, facilities, goods, employment or employment benefits related to any same-sex marriage or domestic partner-ship. The measure prohibits anti-discrimina-tion lawsuits on such grounds.

Tim Schultz, state policy director for the American Religious Freedom Project, said the Kansas bill is similar to policies in states that have legalized gay marriage to protect individ-uals, groups and businesses with religious ob-jections to same-sex unions. The project is part of a conservative think tank, the Washington-based Ethics and Public Policy Center, whose board includes evangelical, Catholic and Mor-mon leaders.

Schultz said a court ruling striking down the Kansas Constitution’s ban on gay marriage would be a serious threat to religious liberties, absent the protections offered by the bill.

“This could have an unintended but very foreseeable consequence of placing Kansas’

freedom law in a worse position than if Kansas had enacted same-sex marriage,” he said.

But Lori Wagner, a retired Lawrence teacher who traveled to Iowa in 2012 to marry her fe-male partner, said religious freedoms already are well-protected.

“Their right to believe their religion does not allow them to force their religious beliefs on others or to deny my existence or my life,” she said after the hearing.

The committee was continuing its hearings Wednesday and hadn’t set a date for acting on the measure.

A state agency in Oregon and an administra-tive law judge in Colorado recently found that bakers who refused to make wedding cakes for same-sex ceremonies had discriminated against the couples. Cases in other states have involved refusals to provide flowers or take photos of same-sex marriages.

State Rep. Charles Macheers, a conservative Shawnee Republican and attorney who’s push-ing the Kansas measure, acknowledged that he knows of no similar cases in Kansas. But sup-porters said they’re trying to prevent similar problems.

Schultz said the bill would allow religiously-affiliated adoption agencies to continue declin-ing to place children with same-sex couples or unmarried individuals.

“Religious freedom has always meant the freedom to live one’s faith and to bring your religiously informed moral judgments into the public square,” said Michael Schuttloffel, ex-ecutive director of the Kansas Catholic Con-ference.

Gay-rights advocates worry about a provi-sion allowing government employees to in-voke religious liberty protections to avoid involvement in providing services. The bill’s backers said workers’ ability to opt out still would be limited by federal civil rights laws and past court decisions.

But Tom Witt, executive director of Equality Kansas, the state’s leading gay-rights group, called it “just another way to maintain the dis-crimination against a minority of people in this state.”

By JOHN HANNATheAssociatedPress

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators wrestled Tuesday with whether revela-tions about the federal govern-ment’s domestic surveillance program should prompt limits on electronic data-gathering by state and local government agencies.

The House Judiciary Com-mittee held a hearing on a bill described by its sponsor, Re-

publican Rep. Brett Hildabrand of Shawnee, as an effort to curb domestic spying on law-abid-ing citizens. But several law enforcement officials testified that the measure would hinder efforts to fight crime, and John-son County District Attorney Steve Howe said it could block officers and prosecutors from even doing Internet searches on potential suspects.

State and local agencies would have more limited ac-cess to sets of data held by a

third party, such as records of cellphone calls or electronic banking transactions, accord-ing the bill. An agency would have to obtain a warrant or get an individual’s consent to ac-cess such data, except when law enforcement officers want-ed to obtain the location of a cellphone call in an emergency.

Hildabrand drafted his pro-posal amid disclosures about National Security Agency sur-veillance in the name of com-batting terrorism.

Bill attempts to limit ‘spying’

CorrectionSteveDoocydidnotliveinAbileneasreportedinFriday’seditionoftheReflector-Chronicle.Doocy’ssisters,AnnDoocy-Walker(ownerofTheDish),LisaDoocyandJenniferHaugliveintheAbilenearea,alongwithSteve’sfather,JimDoocy.DoocycurrentlyresidesinNewJerseyandisaco-hostof“FoxandFriends.”

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The Grizzwells

The Born Loser

Frank and Earnest

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.19)--Avoidhavingsecretaf-fairs or getting sucked in todealing with other people’sproblems. You should workquietly tucked away some-where--preferablyinthepri-vacyofyourhome.

PISCES (Feb.20-March20)--Co-workersmaybeunusu-ally challenging to deal withtoday.Don’tbenaive.Some-oneyou’dneversuspectmaybeafteryourjoborjusttry-ingtogetyououtoftheway.

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20)--Minorhealthproblemswillariseifyouhaven’ttakenthenecessary precautions. Donot get involved in joint fi-nancialendeavors,andavoidlending money to friends orrelatives.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22)--Takefulladvantageofanybusiness opportunities thatareavailabletoyou.Youcanmake professional changesnow if you so desire. Yourwinning attitude will vastlyimproveyourchancesforad-vancement.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) --

Romantic opportunities willdevelopifyouattendasocialevent. You stand to gain fi-nanciallybyparticipatinginagroupventure.Timespentinthe companyof childrenwillbefulfilling.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)-- New love connectionswill develop through friendsor relatives. Completing ahomedecoratingprojectthatyou’vebeendreamingaboutwillyieldwonderfulresults.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)-- Special relationships will

evolvethroughpleasuretripsor participating in sportsactivities. You will feel pas-sionateandbequitecapableof using your charm to getwhateveryoumaywant.

SCORPIO (Oct.24-Nov.22)-- Your innovative money-making ideas may well payoff. You will approach yourpursuits with creativity. Re-frain from going overboardspending on your lover. In-stead, wisely invest yourmoney into your own busi-ness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec.21)--Youmaybecon-foundedbythestateofyourfinances all of a sudden.Avoid spending money onany unnecessary items. Un-anticipatedbillsmaycropupandsurpriseyou.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.19) -- Self-deception maycauseproblems for you.Re-flect carefully on a situationthatyoumaybemisjudging.One-sided romantic infatua-tionsareevident.

DEAR DOCTOR K: My father recently had a heart attack. His doctor recommended cardiac re-hab, but he refuses to go because he “already has a gym member-ship.” How important is cardiac rehab?

DEAR READER: Cardiac re-habilitation is a safe, proven way to reduce risk factors for heart disease. Dr. Daniel Forman, di-rector of the exercise testing lab at Brigham and Women’s Hos-pital and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, feels strongly about the subject. He says that for reducing deaths and increasing quality of life, cardiac rehab exceeds any pill or proce-dure.

Like your father, many of my patients push back on the idea of cardiac rehab. They too won-der why they can’t just go to the gym. But there’s a lot more to cardiac rehab than exercise.

Cardiac rehab is a structured program. It does include exer-cise, but it is initially done in a medical setting, under close ob-servation. As a person ramps up the exercise, the reaction of the heart is being monitored. Exer-cise is heart-healthy, but it has to be started slowly and gradually increased.

In my experience, most people who have had a heart attack are not like your father. They don’t just go back to the gym, like your father would like to do. On the contrary, they are afraid to exercise again after a heart attack -- and failing to exercise regularly only increases their risk of another heart attack. My patients who have had that fear are greatly reassured to learn that cardiac rehab provides the opportunity to exercise in a safe environment.

A cardiac rehab team may include a physical therapist, a nurse, a nutritionist, and a psy-chologist or social worker. The team assesses an individual’s risk factors for heart and blood vessel disease. Then the team members work with the patient to:

-- Teach and support lifestyle changes. These include weight control, a heart-healthy diet and quitting smoking.

-- Develop a tailored exer-cise plan. They’ll also help the patient get started, and help in-tegrate exercise into daily rou-tines.

-- Monitor and help control blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar.

-- Assess mental health prob-lems related to heart disease and provide counseling.

-- Improve communication with doctors and other health care providers.

If your father is worried about the cost of entering a cardiac rehab program, tell him that Medicare and many other insur-ance plans cover cardiac rehab programs. Patients generally qualify if they’ve had a heart attack, angina, angioplasty or stents, open-heart surgery or a heart transplant.

I hope you’ll be able to con-vince your father to enter car-diac rehab. He will enjoy it and he will learn how to protect his heart -- and it will likely give him more years of good health.

(Dr. Komaroff is a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. To send questions, go to AskDoctorK.com, or write: Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck St., Second Floor, Boston, MA 02115.)

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BRIDGE by PHILLIP ALDER

Joni Mitchell said, “What I do is unusual: chordal move-ments that have never been used before, changing keys, and modalities mid-song.”

Her voice is not to every-one’s taste, but she has written some great lyrics; “The Circle Game” is my favorite.

Outside the tournament world, many players do not know the unusual response to make with the North hand in today’s diagram. After South opens one spade and West makes a takeout double, what should North do?

If West had passed, North would have bid three spades, a game-invitational limit raise. But when righty doubles, now a jump raise is best played as pre-emptive, showing four-card spade support and a weak hand. This, one hopes, will make life much harder for the fourth hand.

To invite game with four or more trumps, respond two no-trump. (This should be called Truscott, after Alan the de-viser, who lived in England at that time. But it is often known as Jordan, after Bobby, the advertiser of the idea in the United States.)

Note that any strong, bal-anced hand without four spades begins with redouble, promising 10 points or more.

Here, over two no-trump, East would pass and South would jump to four spades, keeping his club suit hidden.

West leads the heart king: four, 10, ace. South will prob-ably draw trumps ending in his hand and play a diamond to the jack. East wins and con-tinues hearts. South ruffs the third round of that suit, leads a club to the queen, discards two clubs on the high diamonds, and concedes one club trick.

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“I love kids — it’s a blast,” Miller said. “And it’s about dogs. I mean, who doesn’t love dogs?”

Gose said the children weren’t the only ones excited to discuss Dalmatians and German shepherds.

“(Emily and I) are both dog-lovers, so it really stood out as a way to connect to the kids,

because so much about World War II is on a higher academ-ic level than the elementary kids,” she said. “It was one of those great finds.”

Miller said any school groups who are interested in Dogs for Defense or other programs of the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Boy-hood Home can call Miller or Gose at the Eisenhower Foun-dation at 785-263-4751.

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Republicans, who saw their own approval ratings fall fur-ther in 2013, have also picked up the refrain of income in-equality in recent months, though they have cast the widening gap between rich and poor as a symptom of Obama’s economic policies.

“Republicans have plans to close the gap, plans that focus on jobs first without more spending, government bailouts and red tape,” said Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodg-ers, R-Wash., in the Repub-licans’ televised response to the president’s speech. “We hope the president will join us in a year of real action, by empowering people, not making their lives harder with unprecedented spend-ing, higher taxes, and fewer jobs.”

The economy and other domestic issues, includ-ing health care, dominated the president’s address. He touched only briefly on for-eign policy, reiterating his threat to veto any new sanc-tions Congress might levy on Iran while nuclear negotia-tions with the Islamic repub-lic are underway and touting the drawdown of American troops from Afghanistan this year.

In an emotional high point, Obama singled out Cory Remsburg, an Army Ranger who was a guest of first lady Michelle Obama. Remsburg, who was nearly killed in Af-ghanistan during one of his 10 deployments, rose slowly from his seat and was greeted by long and thunderous ap-plause from the president and lawmakers.

Even as Washington in-creasingly focuses on in-come inequality, many parts of the economy are gain-ing strength, with corporate profits soaring and the finan-

cial markets hitting record highs. But with millions of Americans still out of work or struggling with stagnant wages, Obama has found himself in the sometimes awkward position of promot-ing a recovery that feels dis-tant for many.

“The cold, hard fact is that even in the midst of recov-ery, too many Americans are working more than ever just to get by, let alone get ahead,” Obama said. “And too many still aren’t working at all.”

The president garnered some of his loudest applause — at least from Democrats — when he took on lawmak-ers who oppose his signature health care law, which floun-dered in its initial rollout last fall. Obama said that while he doesn’t expect to convince Republicans on the merits of the law, “I know that the American people aren’t in-terested in refighting old battles.”

The president’s speech drew an eclectic mix of visi-tors to the House chamber. Among those sitting with Mrs. Obama were two survi-vors of the Boston Marathon bombing, as well as Jason Collins, an openly gay for-mer NBA player. Republican House Speaker John Boeh-ner brought business owners from his home state of Ohio who say Obama’s health care overhaul is hurting their com-panies. Willie Robertson, a star of the television show “Duck Dynasty,” also scored a seat in the House gallery, courtesy of the Republicans.

Though Obama sought to emphasize his presidential powers, there are stark lim-its to what he can do on his own. For example, he unilat-erally can raise the minimum hourly wage for new federal contractors from $7.25 to $10.10, as he announced, but he’ll need Congress in order

to extend that increase to all of America’s workers.

The executive order for contractors, which Obama will sign in the coming weeks, is limited in its scope. It will not affect existing fed-eral contracts, only new ones, and then only if other terms of an agreement change.

Republicans quickly panned the executive ini-tiative as ineffective. Said Boehner: “The question is how many people, Mr. Presi-dent, will this executive ac-tion actually help? I suspect the answer is somewhere close to zero.”

White House officials countered by saying many more working people would benefit if Congress would go along with Obama’s plan to raise the minimum wage across the board.

“Give America a raise,” Obama declared.

Among the president’s other executive initiatives is a plan to help workers whose employers don’t offer retire-ment savings plans. The pro-gram would allow first-time savers to start building up savings in Treasury bonds that eventually could be con-verted into traditional IRAs. Obama is expected to pro-mote the “starter” accounts during a trip to Pittsburgh on Wednesday.

The president also an-nounced new commitments from companies to consider hiring the long-term un-employed, the creation of four “manufacturing hubs” where universities and busi-nesses would work together to develop and train workers, new incentives to encour-age truckers to switch from dirtier fuels to natural gas or other alternatives and a pro-posed tax credit to promote the adoption of cars that can run on cleaner fuels, such as hydrogen, natural gas or bio-fuels.

The president’s go-it-alone strategy is in many ways an acknowledgment that he has failed to make good on two major promises to the Ameri-can people: that he would change Washington’s hyper-partisanship and that his re-election would break the Republican “fever” and clear the way for congressional ac-tion on major initiatives.

Some Republicans have warned that the president’s focus on executive orders could backfire by angering GOP leaders who already don’t trust the White House.

“This isn’t the American way, courts have not sup-ported his past attempts, and he only does damage to the American people’s confi-dence in government when he doesn’t work with Con-gress to pass real reforms,” said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Oversight Committee.

Obama isn’t abandoning Congress completely. He made a renewed pitch for legislation to overhaul the na-tion’s fractured immigration laws, perhaps his best oppor-tunity for signing significant legislation this year. But the odds remain long, with many Republicans staunchly op-posed to Obama’s plan for creating a pathway to citizen-ship for the 11 million people already in the U.S. illegally.

Seeking to give the GOP some room to maneuver, Obama did not specifically call for a citizenship pathway Tuesday, saying only, “Let’s get it done. It’s time.”

Opening a new front with Congress, the president called for an extension of the earned-income tax credit, which helps boost the wag-es of low-income families through tax refunds. Obama wants it broadened so that it provides more help than it does now to workers without children, a view embraced by

some Republicans and con-servative economists.

Obama singled out Repub-lican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, who has proposed replacing the tax credit with a federal wage supplement for workers in certain low-paying jobs. Unlike Obama, however, Republicans have suggested expanding the tax credit as an alternative to in-creasing the minimum wage.

Pivoting briefly to foreign policy, Obama reaffirmed that the U.S.-led war in Af-ghanistan will formally con-clude at the end of this year. But he said a small contingent of American forces could be left behind if the Afghan government quickly signs a bilateral security agreement, a prospect that looks increas-ingly uncertain.

The president also warned lawmakers in both parties against passing new eco-nomic sanctions against Iran while the U.S. and interna-tional partners are holding nuclear negotiations with the Islamic republic. He renewed his commitment to veto sanc-tions legislation if it passes, arguing that a new round of penalties would upend the sensitive diplomacy.

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neat seeing the kids work with intergenerational (people) here. Young kids work right together with the older adults.”

While the yeast does its work, students participate in the “What’s in a Bushel?” activity, in which Taylor and Beemer teach them things like how many sacks of flour and loaves of bread can be made out of a bushel of wheat, and how much a bushel of wheat weighs, “if it’s good wheat,” Taylor said.

Each item in their “bushel” — a wooden basket on a table in the front of the room — is la-beled with the number of cents of wheat in the product and the cost of the product.

“We have given them the amount of ‘money’ that a farm-er would get when he sells a bushel of wheat, and then we tell them to buy some of these items on the table,” Beemer said. “About the time they get ready to buy, we say, ‘But wait a minute — there was so much cost in raising this,’ so they have to pay us back what it cost the farmer to grow it.

“Every year, up to this year, they’ve been able to buy at least one thing, but the wheat price is so low this year, they can’t buy one item with a bushel of wheat,” she said.

Taylor said, this year, it would take the profit from more than four bushels of wheat to buy one box of cereal.

“When we started doing this two weeks ago, the sell-ing price of wheat was $5.94 a bushel, and the growing cost was $4.90, so there was only $1.04 (that the farmer was get-ting),” Taylor said. “There was not one item you could buy for that price this year.”

Beemer said students in past years, with their “money” from their bushel of wheat, could usually afford one of the cheap-er wheat products like a box of spaghetti or a sack of flour. She said they “study pretty hard with the money they’ve got in their hand” to make a wise pur-chase.

“One year, a little boy said, ‘Well, I’ll buy a sack of flour and then I can make more bread,’” Taylor said.

Beemer capped off the story: “He got that figured out,” she said.

BreadContinuedfromPage1Republicans bristle at Obama’s speech

TheAssociatedPress

WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans swiftly and sharply re-jected President Barack Obama’s vow to act on his own if lawmakers won’t help him create jobs and narrow the nation’s yawning income gap, insist-ing he’ll accomplish little in a divided government without them.

“The authority he has doesn’t add up to much for those without op-portunity in this economy,” House Speaker John Boehner said after Obama’s State of the Union address before a packed House chamber and a prime-time television audience.

“The real answer is for Obama to refocus his priorities and work with us on the things that we can achieve together to create jobs and promote greater opportunity,” he added.

Obama’s aim to move beyond a pat-tern of political crises and division is further complicated by the fact that 2014 is a midterm election year, with control of Congress at stake.

Hoping to gain the political initia-

tive, Obama summoned lawmakers to create jobs, overhaul immigration laws, combat climate change and more, and said he would act unilat-erally where possible if they won’t compromise.

“America does not stand still, and neither will I,” the president declared. “So whatever and wherever I can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more American fami-lies, that’s what I’m going to do.”

Vice President Joe Biden under-scored that blunt message Wednes-day as Obama prepared to take his pitch on the road, starting with visits to suburban Maryland to highlight his call for raising the minimum wage and to Pittsburgh to build support for improved retirement security.

“The president will take action where in fact he thinks it will spur action in the state or in Congress,” Biden said on “CBS This Morning. “We’re just not going to sit around and wait for the Congress if they choose not to act.”

For their part, House Republicans

were departing for a two-day re-treat on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Obama’s promise to wield his presi-dential power was certain to be part of the discussion — and so, too, ways to gain concessions from the White House in exchange for increasing the nation’s $17 trillion debt ceiling.

From Boehner down, there was little evidence they intended to move Obama’s way.

“Too many people are falling fur-ther and further behind because, right now, the president’s policies are making people’s lives harder,” Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers said in the Republicans’ official response.

The State of the Union speech came at the beginning of the sixth year in Obama’s presidency and was replete with all the political pageantry that Washington can muster. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg opened her arms wide to give a grin-ning Obama a huge hug as he walked past her on the way to the speaker’s rostrum.

The galleries ringing the floor were

crowded with guests, also part of the traditional setting. The evening’s lon-gest — and most bipartisan — ap-plause went to one of them. Army Sgt. 1st Class Cory Remsburg, griev-ously injured by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, acknowledged the cheers from his seat next to first lady Michelle Obama.

By contrast, Obama’s mention of the health care law that bears his name brought cheers from Democrats and silence from Republicans, who have spent the past three years trying to repeal a program they loathe.

He said he didn’t expect Republi-cans to change their minds but chal-lenged them to offer improvements. “If you have specific plans to cut costs, cover more people and increase choice — tell America what you’d do differently. Let’s see if the numbers add up.

“But let’s not have another 40-something votes to repeal a law that’s already helping millions of Americans.”

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Tee TimeTim Horan

Take a test driveAs you read last week, I have

been in the process of looking for a new vehicle. Well, I’m

happy to say that I am now the proud owner of Orville, a silver Chevy Malibu, thanks in no small part to the staff at Chamber member Holm Automotive.

While I was going through the process and paperwork required when purchasing a vehicle, I was suddenly inspired with a topic for this week’s newspaper column. The process of buying a car is a lot like joining the Chamber. Let me further ex-plain.

When you buy a new car, the first step is to usually get acquainted with the sales-people, and choose a car to test drive. You don’t just want to automatically buy a car. You want to make sure that the car runs well, has everything you’re look-ing for, and will treat you right for years to come. This is the same way with the Chamber.

We receive inquiries every day on what we offer and why it’s worth investing in the Chamber. This is a “test drive” of the

Chamber. Members make sure that we run well, have everything you’re looking for, and will treat members right for years to come.

The next step in buying a car or joining the Chamber is the financial part. While the processes are very different as far as overall prices go, the end result in the thought process is the same. You want to feel a sense of ease about the investment that you’re making, and the dealership ( and us!) can give you that sense of ease that’s what you’re looking for.

The final step in this process is the best part – making the commitment! You’ve come this far, gone through the process,

and you now get the satisfaction of hav-ing that Chamber membership (or new vehicle) to call your own. The hard part is over!

However, like the salesperson that sells you that vehicle, my work doesn’t stop when you become a member. Over the next year of your membership, and hope-fully many years after that as a renewed member, I do many things to make your membership like that new car ... every-thing you wanted and more!

If you have any questions regarding joining the Chamber, please come in and see what the Chamber is up to.

I’d be happy to answer your questions, let you know what being a Chamber member is all about, and add you to the list of businesses that found the value in joining the organization that is all about business. As they say at Holm Automo-tive, “You’ll be glad you did!”

______________________________Torey Berndt is the executive director

of the Abilene Area Chamber of Com-merce.

Chamber ConnectionTorey Berndt

Another of ‘the Three Rs’ — WRITINGWriting, as well as reading, is

essential in a literate society. According to Peter Elbow

in his book, Writing First (2004), “The process of writing helps children com-prehend written language and control letters and texts, an understanding that they need when reading.” His state-ment is based on the discovery that very young children can write before they can read, can write more than they can read, and can write more easily than they can read — because they can write anything they can say” (Dalkins1982, Graves 1083).

Judy Farris, Abilene Schools Reading Specialist, believes that “writing is the reciprocal of reading” and is a key com-ponent in teaching students to read.

Lori Portelli, the coordinator of USD 435’s Parents as Teachers (a research-based birth –to-three program), shared some interesting information that comes from the National PAT office. “Long before a child can pick up a pencil, the stage is set for the development of writ-ing. When your baby uses her index finger and thumb to grasp object it is called the pincer grasp. This skill forms the basis for holding a pencil in a ma-ture writing position.” PAT encourages parents to point out letters in books and other written materials, and suggests they provide preschoolers with materials for scribbling. In a publication designed for the parents of young children, PAT’s national office offers a list of steps chil-dren typically follow as they learn to

write: 1) Experiments with writing tools by scribbling, 2) Scribbles left to right, 3) Understands the difference between drawing and writing, 4) Makes letter-like forms and perhaps some letters, 5) Write letters all over the page, 5) Strings letters together to represent writing, 6) Groups letters separated by spaces to imitate words, 7) Copies a letter by looking at a model, 8) Writes a first word, usually his name.

Using the core standards, teachers in our school system have identified grade level expectations for writing; these guidelines outline the knowledge and skills that students need to acquire along the pathway to writing proficiency.

For example, just a few of the expecta-tions for students at the ninth grade level include:

• Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.

• Use a variety of techniques to se-quence events so that they build on one another to create a coherent whole.

• Develop the topic with well-chosen, relevant, and sufficient facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples ap-propriate to the audience’s knowledge of the topic.

According to Vicki Cooper, ninth grade English teacher, “Currently, students are writing a synthesis essay answering the question, ‘What does society gain when students are held to high standards? —active voice, strong verbs, complex sen-tences, and overall analysis of the five pieces of data covered will be expected.” She added, “Students produce some amazing material. I just wish everyone could see what students are capable of writing.”

The importance of writing can be summed up by a statement offered in a recent report from the National Commis-sion on Writing that says, “If students are to make knowledge their own, they must struggle with the details, wrestle with the facts, and rework raw information and dimly understood concepts into language they can communicate to someone else. In short, if students are to learn, they must write.”

Note: A link to the writing and lan-guage core standards for all grades lev-els can be found on our district website abileneschools.org –– District Tab/Su-perintendent Page.

_____________________________Dr. Denise Guy is superintendent of

USD 435 schools.

Abilene SchoolsDr. Denise Guy

Age of Aquarius

Kansas DayWith today being Kansas Day, the enclosed

poem “In My Veins” would be appropriate to be printed in the Reflector-Chronicle.

The poem was written by Dorcas Lady Good and won first place in 2002 at the Kansas Au-thors Club competition. Ms. Good taught Eng-lish and drama at Gossel.

“In My Veins”2002 Kansas Authors Club Literary Contest,

In my veins flows the blood ofrisk takers, dream shapers,

sod turners, mortgage burners,passionate lovers (under quilted covers),

peacemakers, quite Quakers,scrumptious cooks, several crooks,

medical practitioners, divine petitioners,barroom brawlers, academic scholars,

lasso ringers, a cappella singers,lantern lighters, gifted writers.In my veins flows the blood ofthe pioneers…Kansas pioneers.

MYRONLADYAbilene

United States Post OfficeHere we go again. On Jan. 26 the postal ser-

vice raised the price of a first-class stamp an-other three pennies to 49 cents.

When I was very young, a postcard was one cent. It couldn’t go any lower because they stopped making half-cent coins in 1857. A let-ter was three cents, it dropped to two cents, then back up to three cents. It could get across the country in three to four days by train.

Back in the years of the Pony Express, April 1860 to October 1861, it took about 10 days in the summer and 12 days in the winter for a letter to go from St. Joseph, Mo., to Sacra-mento, Calif. Most riders were very young and lightweight (easy on the horse). The youngest known was only 11 years old. Pay was $25 a week.

Horses had to be changed every 10 miles, as that was the most a horse could run at full gallop. A fresh horse was always ready at 157 stations between St. Joseph and Sacramento. A letter was $5, later $3.

After the end of the Pony Express in 1861, it was replaced by telegraph, which was still relatively expensive.

Now a letter can get to Wichita or Kansas City on one or two days, California in two to three days. Recently a letter I sent to Emporia took four working days; one to Salina, 10 days, 35 miles away (Turtle Express).

Trains later carried the majority of the mail. With the advent of airplanes, you could pay a few cents more and airmail got there faster. Eventually, all long-distance mail went by air with no extra cost.

Back in 1977, 37 years ago, a first-class stamp was 13 cents. There was a commemora-tive, experimental size stamp 11/16 by 13/16 inch. It had a picture of an Indian head penny, dated 1877 on it.

The penny was the color of a penny on a tan background. Current value was 26 cents. It was a limited release and not all post offices received them. Mine did not.

I got mine at the state fair in Hutchinson. It

was decided this size was too small to be prac-tical.

In 2012 there were 32 different stamps, and again in 2013, in different sizes. That means extra plates and more paper for bigger stamps; more expense.

Well, yes I like a variety but not that many; maybe five or six, like a flag, love, funny, Christmas. Guess that would mess up stamp collectors. Does any one do that anymore?

Why does the postal service have to advertise on television? Like “This weather report was brought to you by your Postal Service.”

Lance Armstrong, was sponsored by the Postal Service a few year ago for millions of dollars. When he was blackballed, they sued to get it back. I don’t know how that came out.

It is not the fault of the postal works. Over-size stamps, too many kinds, TV ads, etc., cost big bucks; no wonder the Postal Service is broke and having to close some post offices and lay off workers.

THERESALORSONHope

“Most of your readers don’t read the newspaper online” is a comment we often hear.

Truth is, there are more online readers than subscribers to the Abilene Reflector-Chron-icle.

For several years the Reflector-Chronicle has published many of its local stories and photos online. Generally, the newspaper’s online publication is updated at 7 a.m. Tues-day through Saturday and, judging from our hits, a good number of readers are enjoying the online version with their morning coffee.

Last year Abilene-RC.com averaged 13,733 unique visitors per month. Those visitors are worldwide, including 24 visits from Ecuador. Page views totaled 1,268 million in 2013.

One would assume that displaced Abile-neites wanting to keep in touch with “back home” read the webpage. But in the last 30 days, 7,406 visits came from Abilene.

With stats like those, one would think the newspaper would do more online.

In today’s technology there are a number of tools a news organization can use online, in-cluding apps to make the news available on smart phones and iPods, tablets and iPads.

Getting updates frequently, readers wouldn’t have to wait for the newspaper to hit the streets to be up on current events. Ath-letic scores, key votes by governmental of-ficials, and breaking news coverage could be up-to-date. Links to key stories could be sent to readers via e-mail or text message.

Many times the agenda for a meeting sched-uled for Monday arrives in our office after the Friday deadline so, unfortunately, the in-formation is published the day of the meeting and mail customers receive it after the meet-ing has been held. Those agendas could be published immediately via electronics.

In reporting events, our reporters and pho-tographers often shoot hundreds of photos of events like the Fourth of July celebration, the Night of Christmas Magic, and the Easter Egg Roll, to publish only one or two in the newspaper. Online galleries could easily be published as could videos.

Along with all that, many newspapers publish an e-Edition, the complete newspa-per available cover-to-cover complete with news, photos, comics and advertisements. Again, with this access, there is no need to wait for the printed issue to get news, sports and features and eventually, easy access to back issues.

Did we mention a Twitter feed?Yep, an online newspaper as described

would have a lot of offer.These are just some of the changes that will

be coming to Abilene-RC.com, and not next year, not next summer but next week!

The all-new Abilene-RC.com will take a couple days to update throughout the world wide web but by Monday and Tuesday the new site should be up and rolling.

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Super Bowl a homecoming

for MorenoTheAssociatedPress

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Knowshon Moreno still cherishes the weekly phone calls and texts from his high school coach.

After all, they’ve helped the Denver Bron-cos running back through some tough times and celebrated great moments in the years since he graduated from New Jersey’s Middletown South High School. There have been plenty of both for Moreno, who is back home this week and prepar-ing for the biggest game of his life.

And, of course, he can count on hearing from Steve Antonucci. Just like always.

“I told him from the moment he graduated from high school that I didn’t care if he carried the foot-ball or not,” said Antonucci, who won three state titles with Moreno setting records in his backfield. “I told him, ‘I’m always going to be here. I’m not just your coach. I’m your friend.’ He’s always come to me.

“He’s as much a part of my family as anybody.”Moreno, who was in and out of shelters and

apartments with his father as a youngster, moved to the town of Belford in New Jersey with his maternal grandmother Mildred McQueen when he was 11. She raised him through his formative years, and did all she could to steer him in a posi-tive direction.

By the time he got to high school, Moreno had dealt with more adversity than many adults. It’s a journey upon which he reflects before every game, usually during the national anthem, and usually accompanied by tears — a pregame ritual that became a hot topic when TV cameras caught him crying before a game last month.

“It made me into the person that I am today,” Moreno said Monday. “Just learning from my ex-periences, going in and out of doing what I was doing, shelters and things like that, that’s part of life. Everyone goes through different things. It’s how you battle back from that and see the positive in all the negative.

“I think I did a good job of that.”Moreno graduated from Middletown South as

New Jersey’s career leader in total touchdowns (128) and scoring (782 points).

Reflector-ChronicleStaff

WHITE CITY – The Rural Vista Heat basketball teams took two games from Southern Cloud Tuesday.

The Heat boys won 63-41 behind the shooting of Sam Morgan, who had 22 points.

Rural Vista led by 20 points at the end of the first quarter, 23-3, and by 16 at the break, 34-18.

“This was a game that had moments of greatness,” coach Joel Kahnt said. “We were able to get out to a big lead but gave up some easy buckets to keep them in it early. Sam had another out-standing game and continues to get better.”

The Heat outscored Southern Cloud 29-23 in the second half to secure the 22-point victory.

“I love the effort of the kids as we continue to play hard,” Kahnt said. “But as a team, we have to do a better job rebounding.”

The Heat girls defeated Southern Cloud 52-32.

Alexis Campuzano had 16 points and Morgan Ash scored 14 to lead Rural Vista to its eighth win on the season.

“We got off to a good start execut-ing on offense and playing a stingy defense to lead 11-4 at the end of the first quarter,” coach John Keating said. “We attacked the rim a lot better and were hitting the boards with a lot more intensity, especially the offensive re-bounds.”

Rural Vista led by 10 at the break, 21-11, and maintained that margin through the second half.

“I thought Alexis and Morgan played well,” Keating said. “After being score-less in the first quarter Alexis erupted to score 16 and Morgan 14 with many of those points coming because of great defensive pressure. It was a great win.”

The Heat will play Solomon on Fri-day.

Boys summary:So.Cloud 3 15 14 9 - 41RV 21 11 23 6 - 63SouthernCloud–Pelky2,Cooper5,Graham9,Prachaska5,Perkins15,Bellows5.RuralVista(11-2)–Q.Adkins5,TraceHostetter3,A.Adkins3,T.Blythe1,Robetoy2,TrevorHostetter4,David-son4,Egger7,Morgan22,Brown3.

Girls summary:So.Cloud 4 7 8 12 - 32RV 11 10 14 17 - 52SouthernCloud–Cool2,Kingsley2,McAlister2,Pruitt7,Hartley9,Schmidt5,Primeaux5.RuralVista(8-5)–Ink5,Young6,Campuzano16,Kahnt3,Ash14,Larson2,Aumiller4,Weeks2.

Rural Vista takes 2 from

So. CloudReflector-ChronicleStaff

MARYSVILLE – The Marys-ville Bulldog wrestling team de-feated the Chapman Fighting Irish in a North Central Kansas League dual Tuesday in Marysville, 43-25. Chapman came back to defeat Riley County 46-33 in the second dual.

“Against Marysville I thought the team came out flat,” coach Jeff Sheets said. “We had very little emotion and didn’t wrestle as well as they capable of doing. We had several wrestlers in different weightclasses and had two varsity wrestlers out due to Injury.”

The Irish scored team points from Wyatt Pryor (106) forfeit, Cole Sut-terfield (126) with a 13-2 major de-

cision, Zach Witt (170) with a 7-1 decision, Robert Walsh (182) won with a 7-5 decision, Jacob Stone-berger (195 with a 7-4 decision and Jason Zook (285) pinned his oppo-nent.

“Against Riley County the team wrestled a lot better,” Sheets said. “They had a lot more emotion and the results showed it.”

ResultsMarysville 43,Chapman 25

106:WyattPryor,Chap,receivedabye.113:ChrisDeters,MHS,re-ceivedabye.120:ChristianPerez,MHS,pinnedJordonHenderson,Chap,3:37.126:ColeSutterfield,Chap,maj.dec.MitchellSchoen-berger,MHS,13-2.132:JoeSmith,

MHS,maj.dec.BrettLemon,Chap,9-0.138:JacobStryker,MHS,dec.RobertSteck,Chap,10-4.145:DylanJones,MHS,pinnedPaytonLott,Chap,2:18.152:JacobMintzmeyer,MHS,pinnedLeonAnderson,Chap,0:29.160:JoshNelsen,MHS,receivedabye.170:ZachWitt,Chap,dec.DaveLuebcke,MHS,7-1.182:RobertWalsh,Chap,dec.NickAckerman,MHS,7-5.195:JacobStoneberger,Chap,dec.CalebVogelsberg,MHS,7-4.220:CaseyHilton,MHS,pinnedDustinLister,Chap,2:33.285:JasonZook,Chap,pinnedGregMartin,MHS,0:59.

Chapman 46, Riley County 33

106–WyattPryor(CH)wonbyforfeit,113–BlakeDodson(RC)

wonbyforfeit,120–JordonHen-derson(CH)wonbyforfeit,126–ColeSutterfield(CH)pinnedColtonHazlett(RC):55,132–WesMarch(RC)majordecisionBrettLemon(CH)9-0,138–RobertSteck(CH)majordecisionZachBohnenblust(RC)10-0,145–TommyTrusedal(RC)techfallPeytonLott(CH)17-2,152–GibsonEyestone(RC)pinnedLeonAnderson(CH):42,160–TuckerCales(RC)wonbyforfeit,170–ZachWitt(CH)wonbyforfeit,182–GavinGrater(RC)pinnedRobertWalsh(CH)1:13,195–JacobStoneberger(CH)pinnedCodyLindquist(RC)1:09,220–DustinLister(CH)pinnedDillonRelchert(RC):59,285–JasonZook(CH)pinnedClayReed(RC);37.

Irish split double dual at Marysville

Spradling sparks K-StateSpecialtoReflector-Chronicle

MANHATTAN — Se-nior Will Spradling scored a season-high 17 points to pace three Wildcats in double fig-ures, as Kansas State earned a 66-58 win over Texas Tech at Bramlage Coliseum on Tuesday.

The win was the 11th con-secutive at home for K-State (15-6, 5-3 Big 12), which moved to 28-2 in home games under head coach Bruce We-ber, including 12-1 in Big 12 play. The win snapped a two-game losing streak after dropping back-to-back con-tests on the road at Texas and No. 16 Iowa State.

“Every time you win, even if it wasn’t pretty, you still have to be happy,” said We-ber. “We came out in the first half and played energized basketball. It was good to be back home. We went on a stretch where we held them scoreless for eight minutes. We had great energy from the bench, and then Will (Spra-dling) got going as well. We had our chances in the first half to stretch it out. We have to make good decisions to-wards the end of the half. We keep giving up baskets in key momentum situations.”

Spradling, who scored in double figures for the second consecutive game, went 4-of-9 from the field, including a pair of 3-pointers, to go with a 7-of-8 effort from the free throw line. Joining Spradling in double figures was ju-nior Nino Williams (13) and freshman Wesley Iwundu (11).

The bench was key for K-State, as reserves accounted for 25 points, including the

big effort from Williams. It marked the ninth time this season that the bench has posted 20 or more points.

The defense was also stellar for K-State, as the team held Texas Tech (10-11, 2-6 Big 12) to 58 points on a season-low 33.9 percent (19-of-56) shooting from the field. The 58 points were the second-fewest scored by the Red Raiders, as the Wildcats have now held 11 opponents to 60 points or less.

After falling behind 9-7 in the first four minutes, a jump-er by Williams tied the game and sparked a 16-2 run. Dur-ing the run, K-State’s defense proved to be impenetrable, holding the Red Raiders to no field goals for nearly eight minutes. In that span, Wil-liams scored five of his nine first-half points.

K-State would lead by as many as 14 points, and went into halftime holding a 32-20 advantage. The Wildcats had 10 assists on 48.1 percent shooting (13-of-27) from the field in the first half. Spra-dling and Williams paced the Wildcats with nine points each.

The Wildcats looked to ex-tend their lead in the second half, after an alley-oop dunk from Iwundu gave K-State a 34-20 lead with 18:42 to play. However, Texas Tech found its stroke, going on a 22-12 run, to make the score, 46-42, with just 10 minutes to play.

Another dunk from Iwundu gave the Wildcats a boost, but a Red Raider tip-in and a 3-pointer from Dusty Han-nahs made it a 48-47 contest with 7:16 to play.

However, a pair of free

throws by Iwundu ignited a 6-0 run by K-State to push the advantage to seven points with 4:37 to play, as Texas Tech got no closer than four points the rest of the way.

The Wildcats made 12 straight free throws in the last 6:12 of the game, includ-ing six in a row by Spradling and two each by Iwundu, Williams and senior Shane Southwell.

“We missed four layups to start the second half, and then they pushed it at us and got some baskets,” said Weber. “They started to feel good and the game changes. In gut-check time, Will made an unbelievable layup. Marcus (Foster) did not make many shots, but he made a great pass to Wesley (Iwundu) for a dunk. We also got enough stops when we needed to. They do not quit. Tubby Smith has done a great job. They are a tough team. They play together and they play hard.”

Jaye Crockett led Texas Tech with 15 points, while Hannahs came off the bench to score 14.

K-State connected on 44 percent (22-of-50) from the field, including just 20 per-cent (3-of-15) from 3-point range, and knocked down 70.4 percent (19-of-27) from the free throw line, including 75 percent (15-of-20) in the second half.

Despite losing the rebound-ing battle, 34-32, the Wild-cats were able to outscore the Red Raiders, 28-24, in the paint. K-State has now out-scored 12 opponents in the paint this season.