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Junction City to state title conten-tion in the late ’90s. These Bobcats had those tools, but their bats were just so hot, too.

“They flat out mashed,” he recalled. “They could score 15 to 20 runs on you without trying.”

The Braves cut it closer the next year, rallying from a 6-0 deficit before Bobcats second baseman Michael Armstrong turned an un-assisted double play to silence the Braves’ attempted turnaround. Four years later, Armstrong was killed in an automobile accident at just 21 years old. Svodoba still has a photo of himself using the Kauffman Stadium bullpen phone, Armstrong peering over his shoul-der with a look of mischief wiped across his face.

“Looking back now means even more to me,” Svodoba said. “Little did we know how fragile life can be. He’s not even here now just scant years lat-er to share that.”

It was on that April afternoon, captured in that photo, midway through their game, that Pier got ev-ery bit of Josh Ishmael’s pitch, blast-ing it eight rows north of the left field fence.

“Every kid dreams of hitting a home run in a major league stadium,” Mou-lin said. “He hit a bomb.”

Two seasons later, the Braves re-turned to finally end Basehor-Lin-wood’s Kauffman Stadium streak. The Braves finally got theirs, a 7-2 victory and a chance to pose in front of the scoreboard for photos.

It was a series that heightened a rival-ry already circled on calendars in both towns. Friendly, yes, but a desire to win, and win decisively, did not relent.

“We flat out wanted to beat them,” Svodoba added. “We wanted to beat them like a drum every time we were there.”

At the last Frank White Classic the Bobcats played, a few seasons after the Braves stopped playing in the game, Svodoba stood in the third base box with tears in his eyes.

“I realized it was the end of a run — a real special thing to be a part of a program that had the oppor-tunity to play over there,” he said. “The kids may not necessarily have gotten it or thought of it in the way Rick and I appreciated it. But most of these kids today didn’t see the Royals when they were good, when the place just hopped and the Roy-als were right.”

Moulin never could find that video

of the home run. Just as well. How could it show how lush the sunlit field was, how crisp the air and just how hard Mike Pier crushed that pitch?

•••It was Phil Thomas’ small stature

that led him away from the gridiron and hardwood and toward his true passion for America’s pastime as a boy in Kansas City, Kan.

“I was kind of used as a tackling dummy when it came to playing foot-ball, and they were all taller than I was when we played basketball, so basically, I had a wall and a glove,” Thomas said. “While everybody was playing football, I was playing catch with myself.”

What started as a neutralizer even-tually became a forte, as Thomas de-veloped into one of the premier base-ball players in the state. After moving to Tonganoxie as a teen, he flourished on Ban Johnson and American Legion teams in Leavenworth. He played in both leagues at once, logging as many as 100 games a summer.

Thomas had several notable pitch-ing performances during his teenage years, including three consecutive no-hitters as an eighth-grader, but another game sticks out in his mind as one of the most memorable. Pitch-ing against a Marysville squad head-

lined by Junior Riggins, brother of Kansas University football star John Riggins, Thomas didn’t allow a hit in the game, but suffered a 1-0 defeat.

“(Junior) was just as fast as John Rig-gins, and he could hit,” Thomas said. “I said I wasn’t going to let him hit a home run off of me, so I pretty much pitched around him and walked him. On one pitch, he was on second, then the next pitch he was on third, then somebody popped up to the outfield. He went home, and I got beat 1-0.”

Thomas’ talents didn’t go unno-ticed by professional scouts, as he was drafted by the San Francisco Giants as a Tonganoxie High se-nior in 1966. However, rather than accepting $500 to play in a three-month league with the Giants’ rook-ie affiliate — the Magic Valley (Ida-ho) Cowboys — Thomas accepted a scholarship at the College of Empo-ria, where he pitched for two years. He was inducted into the school’s athletic hall of fame in July 2010.

After graduating from college and a three-year term in the Army, Thomas returned to northeast Kansas.

He continued playing baseball for a few more years, including a semi-pro stint with the Halstead Cowboys, but eventually got married and hung up his cleats. He still lives in Tonganoxie.

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THE STAFF of Baldwin Family Vision celebrate the clinic’s recent opening while that of Auburn Pharmacy mark its 20th year at a Baldwin City Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting Thursday at the adjoining businesses on Ames Street.

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WITH THE temperature still above 100 degrees, Ed Pyle, left, and Mike Burns, owner of Au-burn Pharmacy, add to their discomfort by firing up the grill to cook hamburgers at the rib-bon cutting Thursday afternoon for Auburn Pharmacy and Baldwin Family Vision Center.

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7/5 | THURSDAY Baldwin City Tourism Bureau meeting, Three Sisters Inn,

9 a.m.

Daily Exercises, Vintage Park, 10 a.m.

Caregivers support group, Baldwin Healthcare and Reha-

bilitation, 1223 Orchard Lane, 1 p.m.

Bingo, Vintage Park, 2 p.m.

7/6 | FRIDAY

Coffee Talk, Vintage Park at Baldwin City, 321 Crimson

Ave., 9 a.m.

Daily Exercises, Vintage Park, 10:30 a.m.


Youth cabaret, Lumberyard Arts Center, 7 p.m.

7/7 | SATURDAY

Farmers Market, downtown west of the Post Office, 7:30

a.m. to noon

Youth cabaret, Lumberyard Arts Center, 7 p.m.

7/8 | SUNDAY

Baldwin First United Methodist Church, vacation Bible

school, 6:30 to 9 p.m.

7/9 | MONDAY Coffee Talk, Vintage Park, at Baldwin City, 321 Crimson

Ave., 9 a.m.

Horsin’ Around junior day camp, Midnight Farm, 9 a.m.

to noon.



Children lunch summer lunch program distribution, Ives

Chapel UMC, 6 to 8 p.m.

Baldwin City Council Community Development Commit-

tee, Baldwin City Hall, 4 p.m.



Boy Scout Troop 65 meeting, 7 p.m., Scout Cabin 341

Fremont St.



7/10 | TUESDAY Coffee Talk, Vintage Park, at Baldwin City, 321 Crimson

Ave., 9 a.m.

TOPS meeting, Baldwin Community Library, 9 a.m.


Sing-a-long with Pastor Bud, Vintage Park

BPW meeting, Vintage Park, 6:30 p.m.



7/11 | WEDNESDAY Baldwin City Chamber of Commerce monthly luncheon,

The Lodge, 502 Ames St., noon



7/12 | THURSDAY Daily Exercises, Vintage Park, 321 Crimson Ave., 10 a.m.

Caregivers support group, Baldwin Healthcare and

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7/13 | FRIDAY Coffee Talk, Vintage Park at Baldwin City, 321 Crimson

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7/14 | SATURDAY Farmers Market, downtown west of the Post Office, 7:30

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7/16 | MONDAY Coffee Talk, Vintage Park, at Baldwin City, 321 Crimson

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6/28 | THURSDAY Bulldog Days, Baker University Liston Stadium, 6 a.m.

and 8 p.m.

Group fitness, BESPC South Gym, 8:30 a.m.

Water aerobics, city pool, 9 a.m. and 6:15 p.m.

Left, Right Center, BCRC office, 715 High St., 1 p.m.

6/29 | FRIDAY

Bulldog Days, Baker University Liston Stadium, 6 a.m.

and 8 p.m.


Pinochle, BCRC office, 715 High St. noon

Lake Shawnee day camp field trip.

6/30 | SATURDAY

Pokemon League, Baldwin City Public Library, 1 p.m.

Free community swim, 6 p.m.

7/1 | SUNDAY

Yoga, BESIC Library, 5 p.m.

7/2 | MONDAY Bulldog Days, Baker University Liston Stadium, 6 a.m.

and 8 p.m.


Pinochle, BCRC office, noon

Zumba, BESIC, 5:30 p.m.

7/3 | TUESDAY Bulldog Days, Liston Stadium, 6 a.m. and 8 p.m.


Water aerobics, city pool, 9 a.m. and 6:15 p.m.

Rummikub, BCRC office, 715 High St, 1 p.m.

Holton day trip

7/4 | WEDNESDAY Bulldog Days, Liston Stadium, 6 a.m. and 8 p.m.


Zumba, BESIC, 5:30 p.m.

Martial Arts, BESIC, 6 p.m.

Spanish Class, BCRC office, 714 High St., 6 p.m.

The deadline to register for the Bald-win City Recreation Commission’s 3-on-3 youth basketball league is Fri-day. This year, BCRC is combining the skills and games in the program.

All children will participate in skills from 9 to 10:30 am on Mondays with games to be played on Wednesday mornings. A game schedule will be available Monday, July 9. At this time, boys and girls will be combined. Prac-tices and games will be at the Baldwin Elementary School Primary Center.

Richard Ebel will be in charge of the instruction and game supervision.

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LINDA BALLINGER, left, helps Riley Smith with her sewing at a Saturday’s workday at Baldwin First United Methodist Church. Also at the table is Riley’s mother Kelley Bethell-Smith, her sister Bailey Smith and Babs Reed. All spent the morning sewing shorts and dresses for children in Haiti.

Church assembly line benefits Haiti

Asked why she was sewing dresses and shorts Saturday in the fellowship hall of Baldwin First United Method-ist Church, 8-year-old Riley Smith an-swered, “because sewing is fun.”

After a few seconds reflection, Riley amended her answer.

“I think it’s good we’re sewing dresses and shorts because not ev-eryone has enough money to go buy them,” she said.

Sitting at a sewing machine to the right of her mother, Riley was part of a 14-woman assembly line that cranked out dresses and shorts to be sent to chil-dren in Haiti. The process started in the kitchen where five women cut donated used T-shirt to patterns taken from the PBS show “Sewing with Nancy,” said Linda Ballinger, who organized the workday. But the women did make one alteration to the pattern by adding cargo pockets made from sleeves.

“It didn’t say anything about pock-

ets, but we decided they needed them,” she said.

The cut patterns were then passed one of the women sitting at the seven sewing machines available Saturday.

The sewing day was a project of the UMC Women she chairs but was open to all who wanted to participate, Ball-inger said. The clothes originally were to be sent to Africa, but the destina-tion was changed to Haiti because the need was just as great there since the 2010 earthquake and because of the church’s association with missionaries Sandy and Joe Edgerton.

When they arrive in Haiti, the cloth-ing will give the island a little bit of northeast Kansas flavor. Some of the T-shirts had Kansas City Royals in-signias on them, others were adorned with Kansas University lettering and one piece of material had orange ma-ple leafs on blue background, which are the colors of Baker University.

The splashes of local color seemed appropriate when Coleen Burgess ex-plained the day’s activity.

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The Baldwin City Council has agreed to discuss with sculptors a pro-posal to create statues in downtown Baldwin City or its parks.

City Administrator Chris Lowe told the Baldwin City Council on Monday that representatives of the Kansas Sculptors Association ap-proached Sandy Cardens, secretary and gallery director of the Lumber-yard Arts Center, about bringing a public art project to Baldwin City. The association had a show featuring the work of its members last year at the Lumberyard.

In the program, sculptors with the association come to Kansas cities to

create pieces at no cost, except the price of the stone and their lodging while in the community.

Lowe said the sculptors could cre-ate a work to fit a setting as small as Tom Swain Park or as large as the park near the swimming pool.

Enhancing the arts in the commu-nity, particularly downtown, was one of the topics the council discussed in recent workshops. Council members agreed Monday the request would be a good fit with that effort and gave Lowe direction to further discuss the proposal with the association.

Mayor Ken Wagener suggested the Lumberyard board members be in-volved in those discussions as a way for the city to broaden its partnership with that board.

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What childhood memories the Fourth of July brings to mind. Next to Christmas, it was our most excit-ing holiday. After rising very early, we were allowed to set off noiseless white worms on our front walk. Worms, when touched with a lighted punk stick, slowly emerged from a small white cone, finally turning into dry ashes. These left black marks but they soon washed off. No noise or yelling was permitted before 9 a.m. because our childless neighbors were still asleep.

After that hour came torpedoes, which exploded upon impact when thrown hard against the cement walk, and then, best of all, firecrackers. A prodigal person might light an entire string of crackers, but we hoarded ours carefully. A single cracker at a time for us. Our small store was all too soon exhausted. We set our firecrack-ers under empty soup cans (saved for this purpose) and lit them with our punks. There were many arguments about whose can flew higher.

There was an empty field next to our house that served as a neigh-borhood playground. Our yard had swings, parallel bars for skin-the-cat, a push-me-around see-saw and merry-go-round. My mother was very easy-going and did not scold children if they happened to step into her flowerbeds. Later in the day, the big boys came to the field with their large firecrackers. The cans flew even higher and the ar-guments grew more heated.

By early afternoon, our firecrackers were usually depleted and we waited impatiently for the evening festivities. At dusk, out came the sparklers. We

twirled the sparklers around in the air and danced on the lawn. The tiny lights of the fire flies offered no competition

Usually a few skyrockets were set off in the field by the fathers with much pomp and ceremony. Our fam-ily had no skyrockets — supplying

five children with worms, torpedoes, firecrackers and sparklers was quite enough. The Great Depression of the 1930s was very much in evidence and ex-penditures for sky-rockets were not con-sidered a necessity.

I remember with great fondness the fireworks display Baldwin City used to have in Baker’s Liston Stadium. What a wonderful crowd, with no chairs to drag and a clear view. It was the high-light of the Fourth. Usually we ended the evening at the long-gone old Dari Ring. As I recall, for a few years, Bald-win had no fireworks and some of us drove to Lawrence. Thank you to all involved in bringing back our very own fireworks display. As usual, Baldwin adds an extra fillip — the ice-cream train ride at Midland Railway.

I am writing this column July l. I do hope that the dangerous fire condi-tions do not interfere with the planned ceremonies. Not to worry. Our fine fire departments will protect us. Driv-ing home from Lawrence at night can be dangerous, especially after toasting the Fourth of July.

“July 1776 will be the most memo-rable epochs in the history of America … it ought to be celebrated with pomp and parade … guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from this time forward for evermore.” — John Adams in a let-ter to his wife, Abigail, 1776.

POINT OF VIEWThe Signal visited the Knights of Columbus fireworks tent to quiz shoppers of their buying habits this year. From time to time, additional comments may be posted on The Signal’s Web site, baldwincity.com.

“About the same amount as always. I stay within a bud-

get.”

Cindy Jones,

Baldwin City

“About the same as last year with

the economics of it. With the BCRC show this year, you don’t have to spend a lot

for a public display.”

Mike Paulick,

Baldwin City

Q: Are you buying more or fewer fireworks this year than you have in the past?

“About the same as always.”

Brian Patterson,

Baldwin City

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Mother grateful for support given son with rare genetic condition

who said hello to Eli, who talked to Eli and engaged with him.”

In the latest example of that com-passion, the Baldwin City Lions Club gave a specially designed bicycle to Eli on June 27, his ninth birthday, Amy said.

In the latest example of that com-passion, the Baldwin City Lions Club gave a specially designed bicycle to Eli on June 27, his ninth birthday, Amy said. Neu Therapy and Baldwin Ath-letic Club have made facilities avail-able for Eli’s therapeutic use, she said.

Genetic testing revealed in Decem-ber 2010 that Eli has Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome, a rare partial or total ab-sence of the TCF4 gene. There are only two children in Kansas diag-nosed with the syndrome and just 120 in the world.

That diagnosis came more than six years after 9-month-old Eli was first referred to Kansas University Medical Center and Children’s Mercy Hospital subsequent to Amy and her husband, Scott, noticing he wasn’t as active or engaged as a normal baby. The doc-tors there couldn’t help much, Amy said, and she and her husband passed on testing at that time because they didn’t want to put Eli through all the “poking and prodding” that genetic testing involved.

It was a sound decision because the test for Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome wasn’t developed until 2007.

Instead, the family started working with a succession of agencies, such as Douglas County Infant and Toddler

Services, Parents as Teachers, the Baldwin school district and East Central Kansas Cooperative in Education. They worked with Eli and the family at home and at school to over-come limitations his parents now know are associated with the syndrome, such as mental impairment, weak muscle tone and vi-sion problems.

“The doctors we have interfaced with are minimal compared to the counselors, therapists and para-pro-fessionals that have helped him daily since he was 12 months old,” she said. “They were focused on his develop-ment. As it turned out, that was the right thing to do.”

“The school district has been ex-traordinary. I never got the feeling my child was a square peg trying to be fit in a round hole. His special-education teacher, as well as his therapists, get very excited about his success and progress.”

His schoolmates further enrich his educational experience, Amy said.

“His peers are phenomenal.” she said. “His teacher told me his class-mates argue over who gets to sit next to Eli or help Eli.”

Betsy Ulrich, Eli’s special-education teacher at school, said his schoolmates respond to Eli’s personality.

“I think with everyone Eli meets, he somehow has the ability to put a smile

on their face,” she said. “The strength of the relationship Eli has formed with is class is amazing.”

Ulrich gives Eli’s family credit, too. His 13-year-old brother Blake has a special bond with Eli and his parents

work very well with his therapists, she said.

Although his diagnosis didn’t change the approach to Eli’s ther-apy or individual education plan at school, it has been good for the fam-ily.

“We can now interface with fami-lies with other children who have been diagnosed,” Amy said. “When we got the diagnosis, we went on Google and found pictures of chil-dren that look like Eli. We thought immediately, ‘Hey, these are Eli’s people.’

“We’re one of two families in Kan-sas with a child with Pitt-Hopkins. We’re going to get together with them soon. That’s a really nice thing.”

The diagnosis also gave her peace of mind, Amy said.

“It let me know I didn’t do some-thing wrong during my pregnancy,” she said. “I had a huge sense of guilt lifted from me. There wasn’t anything I could have done to change the way he was supposed to be.”

She makes an effort to live in the moment and not dwell on the future, Amy said. But when she does look

ahead, she sees Eli continuing to ben-efit from the good side of human na-ture.

“My dream and desire for him is that he will be around caring and com-passionate people his whole life,” she said.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1I think with everyone Eli

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BAPTISTLighthouse Baptist Church115 6th St. ..... 594-4101Pastor Richard AustinWorship Service ................. ................ 10:30 a.m.Bible Study Sunday at church ................... 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Evening Service ................ 7:00 p.m.

CATHOLICAnnunciation Catholic Church740 North 6th St.,594-3700Father Brandon FarrarSunday Holy Mass ...........10:30 a.m. & 6:00 p.m.Confessions Sunday ............................. 5:00 p.m.Adoration 1st Sunday of month

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CHURCH OF THE BRETHRENLonestar Church of the Brethren2 mi. N. of Lonestar Lake 883 E. 800 Rd.Pastor Benny Rosell 785-748-9837Sunday Worship .................................. 10:30 a.m.

CHURCH OF CHRISTBaldwin Church of Christ203 10th St., Box 282 .................... 594-6712Minister James KennedySunday Class ...................................... 10:00 a.m.Sunday Morning Worship .................... 11:00 a.m.Sunday Evening Service ....................... 5:00 p.m.Wednesday Class ................................. 7:00 p.m.

CHURCH OF CHRIST309 E. High St. 594-4246Bible Study .......................................... 10:00 a.m.Worship ............................................... 11:00 a.m.Sunday Eve ........................................... 6:00 p.m.Wednesday Bible Study ........................ 7:00 p.m.

VINLAND CHURCH OF CHRIST1702 N 700 Rd. 594-3648Shawn Smith, PreacherBible School ........................................ 10:00 a.m.Worship Service .................................. 10:45 a.m.Sunday Evening Service ....................... 6:00 p.m.Wednesday Bible Study ........................ 7:00 p.m.

EPISCOPALGrace Episcopal Church315 W. 5th St., Ottawa .............................785-242-5390Rite 1 Service (2nd Sunday/Month) .................8:30 a.m.Rite 2 Service (Every Sunday) ......................10:15 a.m.Healing Service (Every 1st Thursday) ...........12:15 a.m.

GOSPELChrist Gospel Church1600 South St. ............... ............... 594-2992Coal Creek Gospel Hall1718 N 466 Rd. .......................785.979.5012Good News Sunday School ................................ 11:45 a.m.

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRISTSt. John’s United Church of Christ(3 1/2 miles West of jct. 59/56 and 1 mile north)396 E 900 Rd. ....................................... 594-3478Pastor: Rev. Lewis HinshawSunday School ................... ................ 10:00 a.m.Worship Service ................. ................ 11:00 a.m.

UNITED METHODISTClearfi eld United Methodist Church..........................................................883-2360Pastor Rev. Lane Bailey Morning Worship ................ .................. 9:00 a.m.Sunday School ................... ................ 10:30 a.m.

First United Methodist Church704 8th St., Box 25 ........ ............... 594-6612Pastor Paul BabcockSunday School ................... .................. 9:30 a.m.Worship Service ................. ................ 10:45 a.m.

Ives Chapel United Methodist Church1018 Miami (West Baldwin)...594-6555Pastor Rev. Jacob CloudSunday School ................... .................. 9:45 a.m.Worship Service ................. ................ 11:00 a.m.

Vinland United Methodist Church1724 N 692 Rd. 594-3256Pastor Nick WoodsSunday Worship .................................. 10:30 a.m.Sunday School ................... .................. 9:30 a.m.

Worden United Methodist Church298 E 900 Rd. (3 1/2 miles west of jct. 56/59) ............................... 594-3894Bud Tuxhorn, PastorTraditional Worship ............................... 8:15 a.m.Church School ....................................... 9:30 a.m.Contemporary Worship ....................... 10:30 a.m.

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BALDWIN CITYBY THE NUMBERS IN BRIEF

Fire department offeringfree CPR classes

The Baldwin City Fire Department isoffering free CPR classes to businesses or organizations. Classes need a minimum of six participants. The classes will alsobe available to individuals should theyenroll in classes with the required sixparticipants.

The course is three to four hours long and those completing the instruc-tion will receive a two-year certifica-tion in CPR.

Call Baldwin City Fire Chief Allen Craigat 785-594-3678 or email him at [email protected] if interested.

Photo guild to meet SundayThe July meeting of the Photographers

Guild will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at theLumberyard Arts Center, 718 High St.There will be a showing of the documen-tary “Stand: Under the Dark Cloth,” which couldn’t be viewed at the last meetingbecause of technical difficulties.

This photo month’s challenge will be“fireworks.”

Baldwin City’s businessesto be recalled at senior mix

This month’s Baldwin Community Senior Mix will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, July 11, at Ives Chapel United Methodist Church, 1018 Miami St. Theprogram will be “A Backward Glimpse atBaldwin History/Business.” Those attend-ing will be invited to share memories of businesses they remember.

Refreshments will be available after the program.

Youth theater camp planned for July 23 to 27

Baldwin City Community Theater andthe Lumberyard Arts Center will have a youth theater camp from July 23 to July27 at the Lumberyard for children in kin-dergarten through sixth grade. Classes for kindergartners through second-graders will be from 9 to 11:30 a.m. and those forthird-graders through sixth-graders willbe from 12:30 to 3 p.m. Both will be led by Jennifer Glenn, a drama teacher at theLawrence Arts Center with more than 30years of theater and directing experience.

The cost of the camp in $60 and pre-registration is required by July 16. For information about scholarship help to attend the camp or other questions, call Wendy Conover at 785-594-3186.

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DRESSED AS A LEPRECHAUN, Chris Rachol attracts motorists’ attention to the We Buy Gold LLC location at 22342 W. 66th St., Shawnee. It is one of seven We Buy Gold outlets on the Kansas side of the state line that pay cash for gold.

Retail outlets that pay cash for gold have been proliferating. We Buy Gold LLC, for instance, has opened seven Kansas locations. Behman Zakeri, the business’s chief executive, explained the trend.

Q: What is driving the opening of these outlets that buy gold and other precious metals?

A: Simple, it’s because of the high prices of gold and silver over the past few years. People can now sell gold jewelry they bought in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s and sometimes triple or quadruple what they paid for it.

Q: Do you expect this service to continue, or are the stores tempo-rary?

A: For many, it’s just temporary while prices remain high. For us it’s different. … We are providing the public with a much-needed ser-vice where they can convert un-wanted precious metals into cash for fair prices. This service was al-

ways needed and just took the price spikes for people to recognize it.

Q: Is the value of gold at a record high?

A: Gold is around $1,620 an ounce, down from last summer’s record high of about $1,900 an ounce. Gold prices have soared because people have recognized it’s one of the only safe places to invest their money.

Q: What types of gold pieces do most people bring in to sell?

A: We see just about anything from gold jewelry and coins to den-tal gold and gold dust.

Q: How do you determine the value of the pieces the public brings in?

A: We have a three-step process that we go through to test each piece that is offered to us to deter-mine our buy prices. Our buy prices are a percentage of spot (prices) based on the market value for pre-cious metals each day.

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This being summer, Philip Hannon is sitting in his office thinking about recruiting, thinking about who next will don a Baker University baseball cap. He’s just concluded his 12th sea-son as head coach of the Wildcats. Their playoff chances looking up this year, the Wildcats lost their final 12 games, eight of them by a margin of just one run.

An error here, a home run conceded there.

“Just really freakish things,” he said. Baseball in so many words.

Baseball has kept Hannon a part of the Baldwin City community for three decades now, his wife Charlene by his side and four children coming up out of their household (three of which at-tended the same university.)

He grew up in Lexington, Mo., a football town. His high school didn’t even have a baseball team, so Hannon would spend his summers baking in the heat in front of family, friends and fans at a local ballpark.

Still, it was his football proclivity that earned Hannon a scholarship to Baker. Baseball still found him. Keith Hackett, Baker’s head baseball coach, was also the football team’s offensive line coach.

“Heard you played summer base-ball,” was something like how it start-ed one day. “We’re down in numbers this year. Won’t you come out and try this college baseball thing?”

Soon after, Hannon joined a fresh-man-laden club, comprised of what he’d call some “darn good baseball

players.” After his eligibility was up, Hannon

worked out for major league scouts on diamonds in Chicago, Tulsa, Joplin. He played five years for the Chicago Cubs’ minor league organization, mak-ing it all the way up to AA ball. After a while he transitioned into a player/coach and then a full-time outfield in-structor.

From 1992-1995, Hannon shuffled between minor league coaching jobs before he returned to Baldwin City to spend more time raising his children. After bouncing between non-hardball occupations for four years, Hannon received a call from Baker’s athletic director, asking Hannon to return to his old team as manager, the job he’s now held for more than a decade.

“It ended up being real good for me,” he said.

Hannon’s mindset has been that of the .300 hitter. Making an out on 70 percent of your at-bats is still good for the Hall of Fame in this game. So while a conference title has eluded Hannon’s Wildcats over the years, he doesn’t take for granted his program’s 87 per-cent graduation rate, or players like Vidal Nuno, now working his way up as a pitcher in the New York Yankees organization, or those holiday weeks that find Christmas cards waiting in Hannon’s mailbox, concealing photos of former players who’ve grown to be friends and fathers.

“You have to understand that you’re going to fail more times than you will succeed,” Hannon said. “Savor those moments you succeed because they don’t come around too often.”

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A morning in mid-June, and it may as well be evening in April, or dusk in Colorado at the end of May or, for that matter, later that same June day in Em-poria, a two-hour drive from Shawnee.

That’s where Billie Thompson will be. A police officer at Shawnee Mis-sion Park going on 29 years, Thomp-son is off work today, and he’s going to watch baseball.

In less than a week, he’ll help drive his eldest son, Jake, to Bowling Green, Ky., where he’ll join the Hilltopper baseball program after two years pitching at Iowa Western Community College. A little more than a month later, Thompson will take his young-est, Ty, to report for his freshman year at the Missouri Institute of Science and Technology, where he, too, will pitch.

When his sons leave, they’ll take with them the same things Billie will keep. Scores of stories, each delivered by rattling off the names of supporting characters: coaches, teammates, fam-ily, fans.

Stories like this one: When Billie was 7 and growing up in Pratt, he was asked to help fill in on a men’s recre-ational team low on players that week. (“And that’s when I got to hit my first home run,” Thompson said. “Hit it to right field — which I never did again.”)

Or stories like the one that helps ex-plain why we’re here in the first place talking about baseball, why Thompson is wearing an Iowa Western National Champions T-shirt and is about to drive and watch Ty pitch on a sum-mer ball team. Billie was All-State in football and bounced between Pratt Community College, Fort Hays State

University and the University of Ha-waii before he came back to Kansas. Within days, he’d go from 80-degree weather to being snowed in at Empo-ria State on a visit over the holidays. “I fell in love with Emporia,” he said, without an ounce of sarcasm. He was about to commit to play both football and baseball, but the football coach of-fered a full scholarship.

“I drop baseball, they win the na-tional championship and we win three games in football,” Thompson said.

•••Say, Coach, you still have the video

of my home run?Bonner Springs alum Mike Pier en-

countered his old baseball coach Mike Moulin, now the high school’s vice principal, at a gas station a few weeks ago. The sight of each other stirred old memories.

Memory’s a funny word. It suggests something that needs recalling. And when you play at Kauffman Stadium, how can you ever forget?

On three occasions — in 2003, 2004 and 2006 — rivals Bonner Springs and Basehor-Linwood met in the Frank White Classic, a high school baseball showcase held for 10 years at the home of the Kansas City Royals.

The Bobcats made short work of the Braves in their first meeting, in front of their largest audience until then: 1,100 spectators. Basehor-Linwood ran through Bonner Springs, 16-3. David Svodoba, Basehor-Linwood’s assistant head coach in 2003 and head coach from 2004-10, had built a philosophy of winning with pitching and defense, something he perfected while leading

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Baldwin City teenagers are tuning up their singing skills by participating in the Baldwin City Community Theater’s “Give My Regards to Baldwin: A Broadway Review.”

The review is in lieu of a June summer musical.

“We sort of replaced (the musical), so we wanted to give the high school kids some-thing to do,” said Joe Bathke, Baldwin City Community The-ater president. “It is sort of a way to keep their musical skills active over the summer.”

Performing will be seven teens from 15 to 19 years old and some adults who were recruited for the show. They began practicing for the show in mid-May.

The cabaret-style show will include performances of Broadway show tunes from “Chicago,” “Cinderella” and “Cabaret.” There is a mix of solos, ensembles and a whole-cast performance, as well as choreography for many of the numbers.

“They are excited. A lot of them who have been in our summer musicals before are used to sort of being up on stage ... and this is some-thing a little different for them,” Bathke said.

The summer musical would return next year, Bathke said.

“Give my Regards to Bald-win: A Broadway Review” is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Lumberyard Arts Center. The show is an hour with no intermission. It is free and open to the public.

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Last week, 9-year-old Eli Adamson thrilled his mother with the answer, “yeah.”

Amy Adamson said the exchange started when Eli put a key chain of com-munication picture cards on her lap.

“I said, ‘Are you asking me to watch a movie?’ He said ‘yeah,’” his mother said.

Although Eli isn’t completely non-

verbal, the words he does share with his family are often non sequitur phrases. The incident with the key chain was the second time in recent weeks he’s replied with an appropriate one-word answer to a question.

“There are little things every day that happen with that kid, and they are just little miracles,” Amy said.

She’s grateful for those moments, but Amy also knows those miracles grow from the hours of work that counselors,

therapists and teachers provided Eli and the affection given to him from those at his school, the family’s Lighthouse Bap-tist Church and the Baldwin community.

“The people in our community, they treat Eli like a little celebrity,” she said. “We are so blessed to be living in a com-munity that is so compassionate.”

“When we went to the Maple Leaf Festival carnival, my brother was amazed at all the children and adults

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AMY ADAMSON, left, says the Baldwin City community has opened its heart to her 9-year-old son Eli, hugged by his 13-year-old brother Blake. Eli is one of two children in Kansas di-agnosed with the genetic condition, Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome.

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