CHETOPA — In recent years, Crest High’s boys have prided themselves on hard work and toughness, head coach Travis Hermreck said Friday.
“Because of that we’ve worn a target on our back that we could be proud of,” Hermreck said. “But tonight blew that out of the water.”
The Lancers fell behind early against host Chetopa and never recovered in a 55-17 defeat.
The loss drops Crest to 6-6 with a key sequence approaching. Crest hosts Olpe Tuesday and Oswego next Friday, both of whom are ranked among the top Class 2A teams in the state.
“Then we play a team (Lebo) that beat us by 17 earlier,” Hermreck said. “We need to figure this out quickly.
“This isn’t something we can do in practice,” he continued. “This is more the kids showing what they’re made of. These kids have the character and the heart. I know it’s there.”
Chetopa led 13-2 after one quarter and 29-9 at half-time. A 17-3 Hornet run pushed the lead to 43-12 after three.
Hunter Frazell and Taylor Davis scored four apiece to lead Crest.
Austin Sanders scored 17 and Bryce Riddle 10 to pace Chetopa.
Crest (2-7-3-5—17)
Chetopa (13-16-17-12—55)
Crest (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Frazell 0/1-1-1-4, Green 0-1-1-1, Godderz 0-1-1-1, Strickler 0-1-0-1, Davis 1-2-1-4, Brallier 1-0-0-2, Ellis 0-2-1-2, Miller 1-0-0-2. TOTALS: 3/1-8-5-17.
Chetopa (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Rogers 2-0-2-4, Moses 2/1-0-0-7, Berrios 1/1-0-1-5, Riddle 5-0-0-10, Underwood 0/3-0-1-9, Sanders 2/3-4-3-17, Clayborn 0/1-0-1-3, Cloud 1-0-4-2. TOTALS: 12/9-4-12-55.
Carole Kenworthy
Carole Ann (Shanahan) Kenworthy was born Nov. 4, 1943, to Eugene and Ruby Joy Shanahan. She was welcomed to heaven on Jan. 31, 2014. Carole graduated from Iola High School and went on to Bethel School of Nursing, where she received her BSN in 1966.
She married George C. Kenworthy, Axtell, on Nov. 4, 1966. They later divorced. They made their home in Axtell raising four daughters, Rebecca (Dale) Moats, Kalispell, Mont., Sheila (Martin) Volle, Summerfield, Renee (Frank) Critser, Auburn, Neb., and Conni Fralin, Beatrice, Neb.
Carole enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren Leon, Christina, Joseph, Loriann, and George Volle, Justin (JJ) Critser, Wade and Cheyanne Fralin, and Cody Moats.
She leaves behind her daughters, son-in-laws, grandchildren, and her brother, Scott (Candie) Shanahan, Paola, and her sister, Jill (Harold) Hoffman, Gas. She was cremated. Visitation was Sunday. Memorial services were Monday. Burial will be later.
She meets her parents and numerous relatives at heaven’s gate.
A memorial fund will be determined later. Online condolences may be left for the family at www.popkessmortuaries.com.
ACC hostin extravanganza
The Allen Community College athletic department will be hosting their Red Devil Extravaganza Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. in the gymnasium.
An all-access wristband is $10. There will be sports guns (batting station, baseball radar gun, relays, miniature gold, obstacle courses, etc.) and carnival games as well (cup cake walk, face painting, duck pond, etc.). Concessions will be available during the event also.
ACC delivers Valentines in person
Allen Community College music students are preparing to sing their hearts out for local sweethearts this Valentine’s Day.
They are offering live Valentine deliveries on Feb. 13 and Feb. 14 for $25. The delivery includes a rose, a box of candy and a personalized card. For those with a long-distance sweetheart, they provide phone deliveries for $10.
To save 10 percent on an order, contact the music department at 365-5116 by Feb. 7. Valentines will be delivered anywhere withing a 20-minute drive, including Humboldt and Moran.
Schools back on schedule
After nearly a week’s worth of weather-related postponements and cancellations, the winter sports season hits high gear starting this afternoon.
Iola High’s wrestling squad returns to the mats beginning at 5:30 with a pair of dual competitions, hosting Osawatomie and West Elk. The matches mark Iola’s only home competition of the season.
Iola then heads north to Silver Lake for a tournament Saturday morning.
ON THE hardwoods, Iola High’s Mustangs and Fillies will return to action for the first time since Jan. 25 when they travel to Garnett Friday to take on Anderson County.
Home games against Fort Scott and Wellsville were postponed because of bad weather.
The Fort Scott games have been rescheduled for Feb. 17. A makeup date for the Wellsville games has not been set.
OTHER SCHOOLS resume play Friday. Humboldt hosts Caney Valley, Marmaton Valley travels to Uniontown, Crest heads to Chetopa, Southern Coffey County hosts Waverly and Yates Center plays at home against West Elk.
Letter to the editor — February 5, 2014
Dear editor,
I was reading a story last week about Davos, Switzerland, where about 1,500 billionaires meet every year to plan how they can make more money the next year. They pay $20 million to get into the event; most fly in on their $40 million Gulf Stream jets.
They already own about half the planet and they want to get richer.
Did you know that 85 of the richest billionaires own more wealth than 3.5 billion people combined. Let that soak in for a little bit, as there are 8 billion people on earth.
President Obama gave a speech the other day in which he used the word inequality 17 times. I didn’t think much about the word because that doesn’t include you and me, does it. Looking at these figures, maybe it does.
Pope Francis says there is a revolution on inequality coming. He has declared war on inequality and says inequality is the root cause of all social ills.
The pope is commander in chief of the world’s largest army and includes 1.2 billion Catholics worldwide, 78 million Americans, 200 cardinals, more than 5,000 bishops and 450,000 priests and deacons worldwide to carry out his mission.
The pope has a 10-point plan in his 76-page report. No. 2: Trickle-down economics of the rich is a failed ideology. No. 4: The tyranny of capitalism rejects the public good.
A recent PBS documentary told of one of the richest men in North Carolina who has bought judges, senators, state legislators and the governor for his own self-interest.
I believe the same has happened in Kansas. The Koch brothers of Wichita are among the richest in America and just gave $200 million to Americans for Prosperity, which they own. That much money can buy a lot of influence. I believe they have a direct line to Governor Brownback. He has put his own lawyer in as an appellate judge, who was rejected twice before by his peers. He lambasted the Kansas Supreme Court justices before the entire state in his annual address, more or less telling them they would be fired or overrun by his cronies if they didn’t follow his ideology. If he has no respect for the law, why should we? This is someone who wants to make up his own laws and appoint his own judges. Talk about abuse of power.
Kansas is facing a budget shortfall, mark my words, because Brownback has removed the income tax that only favors people with incomes like the Koch brothers.
Brownback says all these new industries moving into Kansas will provide new jobs and their wealth will trickle down. Meanwhile, he robs the state’s highway department fund to pay for his failed experiment. Building roads provides good-paying jobs, you know.
He also doesn’t want to fund education. Kansas teachers rank 42nd in pay out of the 50 states. We don’t have to be first, but come on governor, give these folks a little raise.
David Comstock,
Colony, Kan.
Games called off
ARKANSAS CITY —Tonight’s Allen Community College basketball games at Cowley have been pushed back because of wintry weather.
The Red Devil women will tip off at 5:30 p.m. Monday at Cowley’s William F. Scott Gymnasium in downtown Arkansas City. The men follow at about 7:30.
Weather hits HS schedule again
Wintry weather has wiped away tonight’s area high school basketball games, the second time in four days all prep hoops action has been halted.
Iola was scheduled to host Wellsville tonight, while Humboldt was set to visit Eureka, Marmaton Valley was supposed to host Altoona-Midway, Crest was to host Southern Coffey County and Yates Center was to host Erie.
No makeup dates have been announced.
In a related matter, Iola High’s home games against Fort Scott — originally to have been last Friday — have been rescheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 17.
Iola’s homecoming crowning also had been scheduled for tonight.
Janet Gillespie
Janet Kay Gillespie, 61, Humboldt, passed away Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014, at Via Christi St. Francis in Wichita. Janet was born Sept. 12, 1952, the daughter of Ernest and Ruth (Dunsworth) Orth.
Janet graduated from Humboldt High School and on Dec. 18, 1971, she married David Gillespie in Humboldt. Janet worked as a school cook in Humboldt for 16 years. She belonged to the United Methodist Women’s group and was also a member of the Allen County Fair Board.
She is survived by her husband David; sons, Jeff Gillespie and wife Karen, Colony, and Josh Gillespie, Pretty Prairie; daughter, Brandi Gillespie, Chanute; brothers, Robert Orth and wife Connie, Parker, and Wayne Orth and wife Donna, Humboldt; a sister, Joyce Beatty and husband Bruce, Ottawa; and five grandchildren.
Janet was preceded in death by her parents Ernest and Ruth Orth, and sisters Carol Ann Orth (infant), and Joan Elaine Orth.
Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. on Thursday at Humboldt Methodist Church with Pastor Marge Cox officiating. Inurnment will be at the Linder-Orth Cemetery at a later date in Piqua. Memorials may be made to Humboldt Methodist Church and will be used to record services to DVD’s for area nursing homes and those unable to attend services. Services have been entrusted to Countryside Funeral Home. Online condolences may be left at www.countrysidefh.com.
To play the game you have to ante up
Across the nation, states are finally seeing some relief to their bottom lines. Robust tax collections have resulted in an overall increase of 9 percent from 2012, according to the recent State Revenue Report.
Only two states, Kansas and Mississippi, bucked the trend. Personal income tax collections were down by 3.3 percent in Kansas, and 1.3 percent in Mississippi.
Twenty-four states recorded double-digit increases.
States generally rely on a relatively balanced three-legged stool for funding: personal, sales and property taxes.
After the Great Recession of 2007, retail sales plummeted by 10 percent and stayed depressed until 2010. They have yet to come back completely. As of September 2013, retail sales were only 2.6 percent above pre-recession levels.
Property tax receipts started to trend upward almost immediately, but stalled in 2010, where they, too, remain.
And corporate income tax receipts remain 17.5 percent below from when the bottom fell out in 2007.
For those with new-found money, the wants still exceed the means. Many are planning to shore up depleted stocks or long-ignored programs
States favoring significant increases to education are Republican-leaning states Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, South Carolina and South Dakota. “Blue” states include West Virginia, Washington, Rhode Island and New York.
Our neighbor, Missouri’s Jay Nixon, a Democrat, has proposed a $270 million increase to public school funding while calling on four-year institutions for a freeze on tuition.
Kansas’ Gov. Brownback, meanwhile, is pushing the legislature to implement all-day kindergarten at the tune of $16 million a year.
Other governors are channeling funds to pay down debts and neglected programs. Alaska’s Sean Parnell has proposed to reduce the state’s pension deficit. Those wanting to address road and bridge maintenance are Delaware, Rhode Island and South Carolina.
The governors of Hawaii, Maryland and Washington wish to use their excess to raise the minimum wage.
KANSAS has pretty much cut itself out of the discussion. With its reduction of the personal income tax, the state is on track to have a zero balance by 2016, according to the Kansas Legislative Research Department.
If he were to win re-election, Gov. Brownback’s budget plan would have the state with a negative bank balance of $921 million by the end of fiscal year 2019.
Clearly, more cuts are on the horizon.
Our peers are planning for the future with enhanced schools, roads, technology and wages.
Kansas is not.
— Susan Lynn