YATES CENTER — Visiting Caney Valley raced to an early lead and never looked back Friday in a 64-49 defeat of Yates Center High’s boys.
The Bullpups led 24-13 after one quarter and 38-14 at halftime. Yates Center closed the gap to 47-39, but Caney Valley closed the game with a 17-10 run.
Austin McNett scored 10 points to lead the Wildcats, followed by Caleb DeNoon and Cameron Brown with nine each.
Tanner McIntosh had a monster game for Caney Valley, pouring in 30 points.
The Wildcats travel to Neodesha Tuesday for another Tri-Valley League contest.
Caney Valley (24-14-9-17—64)
Yates Center (13-11-15-10—49)
Caney Valley (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Matthew 1-5-1-7, Yougn 1-2-2-4, McIntosh 4/5-7-3-30, Estes 4/1-2-1-13, Matthews 4-2-1-10. TOTALS: 14/6-18-11-64.
Yates Center (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Chism 0/2-0-0-6, DeNoon 2/1-2-1-9, Schemper 0-0-2-0, Brown 4-1-1-9, McNett 4-2-5-10, Dice 3-1-4-7, Rossillon 1-0-3-2, Arnold 3-0-4-6. TOTALS: 17/3-6-22-49.
Lady Cubs lose
FREDONIA — Humboldt High’s girls “played hard and fought the whole game,” Lady Cub coach Sherri Nelson said. “But we have a few small things to fix.”
Host Fredonia defeated Humboldt 62-34.
Lakota Wilson led Humboldt with 10 points and four steals. Megan Hudlin added eight points, as did Brea Kline. Sheri Middleton scored four, while Kayle Riebel and Karsyn Menzie had four each. Riebel pulled down seven rebounds; Morgan Morris had five boards. Kline had three steals, Middleton two blocks.
Humboldt hosts Burlington Tuesday.
Cubs pick up road victory
FREDONIA — Humboldt head coach David Taylor said the theme of his pregame peptalk Friday night was not about strategy, but his high expectations for the team — and they lived up to his expectations.
Following what Taylor deemed a poor performance on Tuesday against Neodesha, the Humboldt High Wildcats bounced back in high fashion against the Fredonia Yellowjackets with a commanding 56-25 win.
“We got off on sort of a tangent on Tuesday, and I didn’t see any of that tonight,” Taylor said.
The Cubs outscored the Yellowjackets 30-14 in the first half. Taylor said Trey Johnson came out hot in the first half from beyond the 3-point line. He had five threes total in the contest on seven attempts.
A strong 24-point third quarter from the Cubs put the game out of reach.
“I didn’t feel negatively about any kids that came into the game,” Taylor said. “It was nice to see some of the other kids in the scoring column.”
Tanner McNutt led the team with 16 points. Johnson came in just behind with 15, all of which came beyond the 3-point line.
“Trey Johnson played really well, which I was happy to see, he deserved it,” Taylor said.
Taylor said Noah Thornbrugh’s assists and defensive effort were essential the the Cubs’ strong performance. Thornbrugh had nine rebounds and two blocks, Hunter Murrow had three steals and Nathan Whitcomb had six assists.
“Noah was getting some good rebounds and getting outlet passes to our guards, which put some pressure on their defense,” he said.
The Cubs play Burlington at home on Tuesday.
The Humboldt JV squads came up with a pair of victories as well. The B team defeated the Yellowjackets 54-48. Kason Siemens had 15 points in the contest. The C team won over Fredonia 62-34, Rhett Smith led the way with 22 points.
Humboldt (17-13-24-2—56)
Fredonia (8-6-9-2—25)
Humboldt (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Vanatta 3/1-0-1-9, McNutt 5/2-0-1-16, Murrow 1-0-0-2, Whitcomb 2-0-3-4, Aguirre 0-0-1-0, D’Armond 0-0-1-0, Crawford 1-0-2-2, Johnson 0/5-0-2-15, Thornbrugh 4-0-2-8. TOTALS: 16/8-0-13-56.
Fredonia (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Both 4-5-2-13, Sommer 0-0-1-0, Siegle 3-0-0-6, Stephens 2-0-0-4, Morris 0-0-1-0, Moya 1-0-0-2. TOTALS: 10-5-4-25.
IMS Pony squads sweep past Coffeyville
Iola Middle School’s basketball teams went unbeaten in three games Thursday against visiting Coffeyville.
The eighth-grade A team jumped out to an early lead, then maintained its lead in the fourth quarter of a 52-42 win.
The seventh-grade A team, meanwhile, bounced back from its first loss of the season in resounding fashion, thumping Coffeyville 48-20.
The combined B team made it a clean sweep with a 34-22 win.
The Ponies’ efforts drew high praise from coach Marty Taylor.
The eighth-graders led 16-9 after one quarter and 29-16 at halftime. Coffeyville closed the gap to 39-31 after three quarters, but could not pull within shouting distance down the stretch.
“Just a very good effort against a very athletic team,” Taylor said.
Ben Cooper and Chase Regehr led the way with 15 points apiece. Regehr also had 14 rebounds, while Cooper had three boards. Joey Zimmerman followed with 10, followed by Braden Plumlee with eight points and nine rebounds, Ethan Scheibmeir with two points and four rebounds and Garrett Wade with two points and seven boards.
“Ben Cooper has been the leader of this team all year, and was fantastic tonight,” Taylor said. “Joey hit a couple of big shots for us, and Ethan Scheibmeir made a couple of hustle plays that really made a difference.”
The victory lifts the squad’s record to 7-4.
THE SEVENTH-GRADE squad led 16-3 after one quarter and 34-5 at halftime. Coffeyville closed the gap to 38-20 by the end of the third period before the Ponies closed the game with a 10-0 run.
“The first half was by far the best basketball these kids have played,” Taylor said. “We ran the floor, made good passes and defended the basket.”
Matt Komma led the way with 20 points and 10 rebounds, followed by Ethan Holloway’s 13 points and 13 rebounds. Evan Sigg pulled down 12 rebounds to go with six points. Dalton Ryherd scored four points, Isaac Vink scored three with five assists and Nick Vaughn scored two.
“Isaac did a great job tonight of taking care of the ball and getting where it needed to go. Matt and Ethan were very good inside. When Coffeyville would try to take one away, the other stepped up and made them pay. Dalton Ryherd gave us some great minutes off the bench.”
The records lifts the seventh-graders’ record to 10-2 on the season.
Rhett Allen scored 14 of the B team’s 34 points. Gage Cleaver scored nine, Colton Toney seven and Darius Greenawalt and Ryherd had two apiece.
Iola wraps up its basketball season Monday at home against Pittsburg.
Letters to the editor
To the editor,
I read Ona Chapman’s letter to the editor on public education and I said, “Hurray!” Somebody finally said what I had been wanting to say about public education in our country and especially in Kansas.
When our teachers are assaulted by our governor and by other Republican governors, such as the one in Wisconsin, when funds for public education are being slashed, isn’t it time to think long and hard about the future education of our children?
Do these governors and their rich political backers want only the rich to be educated? Do they want all the funds for public education saddled on the backs of local property owners while the rich pay little or no income tax on their wealth?
I always believed we became the wealthiest and greatest country in the world by educating the masses. Can we afford to stop educating everyone to their fullest potential?
Isn’t it time to start a grassroots uprising to try to save public education?
As a retired public educator that spent 44 years in a profession I loved, I’m truly concerned about its future. I pray all concerned citizens will start working together to stop this trend.
Retabess Ling,
Iola, Kan.
To the editor,
A number of proposals for changing local elections will likely be considered by the Kansas Legislators in the coming weeks. The proposals focus on two areas: 1) changing city and school elections to the fall; and 2) making city and school elections partisan in nature.
City and school elections in Kansas are now held in the spring and are non-partisan. Moving these elections to coincide with partisan primaries and general elections would be inappropriate and confusing for the public.
Local candidates and elections would be lost when combined with statewide and federal elections. The length of the ballots would be confusing to many. Information about local candidates would be lost and confusing when mixed with the state and federal candidates.
To change the election date would cause much confusion on the terms of those now setting on city councils and commissions and school boards. It would also be an added unnecessary problem for the county clerks and city clerks of Kansas.
There would be not significant fiscal savings to making this change.
I am asking that you please contact your legislators and ask them to oppose changes to the city and school elections.
Vada Aikins,
Humboldt, Kan.
When fairy tales fall short
While rummaging through the mail atop my dad’s desk earlier this week I found confirmation of a poetry class on Emily Dickinson in which he had enrolled at the University of Kansas through its continuing education program.
The class, Wrestling Emily Dickinson, was for three consecutive Monday nights beginning next week.
My dad, 88, has fallen ill and will not be able to attend the class. He and his “committed partner,” Edith, of Topeka, were to take the class together.
She now is at his bedside most of each day at a facility in Topeka.
This is not a eulogy; just thoughts of what it is to have a seriously ill parent.
“I KEEP expecting to wake up, dead,” he said Thursday morning, half joking. “To be honest, I’m almost half disappointed I’m not dead.”
That’s the pain talking.
“I think about the pain too much. I need something else to occupy my thoughts.”
This is from a man who up until this very minute has spent a lifetime critically thinking and writing about this world that he loves so much, and who less than a month ago bragged about walking two miles on the treadmill, “3.2 miles an hour!”
He has one drawer that has nothing but sweatbands in it.
In a tumultuous two weeks, Dad has been diagnosed with an aggressive small cell cancer originating in the prostate. For several years he’s managed the slow-growing prostate cancer with hormones. His most recent PSA testing of three weeks ago showed no unusual activity.
But then his legs gave out. The cause, a tumor wrapped around his spinal column high up between his shoulders.
The neurosurgeon greeted dad with surprise. “When I first saw your chart, I thought we should let the old man die in peace. But I can see you’re not the average 88-year-old.”
Dad basked in his words.
The surgery was a success in as far as removing the growth. The outcome is still to be determined.
Truth is, Dad is showing his age.
What once seemed as a no-brainer for someone so determined, the physical and occupational therapy is now a monumental ordeal. Sleep comes easier.
“I’m having the craziest dreams,” he said. “Your mother is everywhere. Not necessarily talking, just there, in the background.”
Dad used to marvel at my mother’s dreams. “They were always our morning’s conversation,” he said.
When mother died in 2009, I feared it would be the death of him, too. That another love has come into his life has brought us all immeasurable joy.
DAD MAY RALLY.
Two things keep pulling him into this world.
For the past five years he’s been working on a second installment of the “Annals of Allen County,” this time from 1945 to 2000. We’re in the final stages of its editing, with photos and an index to go.
Every visit I tell him what year I’m up to. Six more to go.
He also very much wants to see a fountain being built in memory of mother in front of the Bowlus Fine Arts Center completed.
That’s within reach.
Thursday’s mental status exam didn’t go so well. He got the day mom died off by one day — but that’s consistent. He got his parents’ deaths and their ages mixed up. He said it was Monday.
Of course, before the evaluation, we were discussing the U.S. Postal Services’ decision to stop Saturday delivery and how that would impact delivery of the newspaper. “The real question that needs to be asked is what it would cost to keep delivery at six days a week and then price it accordingly,” he said.
Dad is a newsman to the core. He relies on facts to base his decisions.
When the social worker glibly said “We’re going to get you home in no time,” Dad held his tongue, turning to me with raised eyebrows, as if to say she must be confused.
“I don’t want fairy tales,” Dad said later. “Just the truth.”
Audra Clary
Audra Madalyn Clary, 92, Louisburg, died Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, at the Louisburg Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center.
Madalyn was born July 24, 1920, in Bronson. She was the only child of Ray M. and Jewell Grace (Duncan) Myers. The family moved to the Moran area in 1929. She graduated from Moran High School in 1938. She worked as a telephone operator several years.
On Oct. 16, 1940, she was united in marriage to Lloyd L. Clary. When Lloyd returned from the armed forces in 1945, they moved to Moran where their son David was born. They were partners in the C&M Produce and Feed business. Madalyn was also the city librarian and editor of the Moran Mirror newspaper.
In 1972, they moved to Iola where they made their home at 518 N. Vermont. She was a member of Moran Methodist Church. She lived in many towns in Kansas including Arcadia, Cherryville, Moran, Iola and Paola. After her husband’s death, she moved to Vintage Park Assisted Living in Paola and then Louisburg Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center for the past 10 years.
Madalyn’s family always came first. She was a loving daughter, wife, mother, grandmother and neighbor and will be sadly missed by her family and friends. She was a very strong person and survived two cancer surgeries.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her loving husband Lloyd and a son Rolland who was stillborn.
She is survived by her son David and his wife Julie, Paola; her granddaughter Erin Royce and her husband Greg, Jacksonville, Fla., and grandson Matthew Clary and his wife Melissa, West Lebanon, N.H.; and three great-grandchildren Jack, Ben and Kate Clary.
Visitation will be from 2 to 4 p.m., Feb. 17, at Penwell-Gabel Funeral Home, 305 N. Pearl, Paola. Burial will take place at Moran Cemetery, Moran, at a later date. Memorials are to Grace Hospice.
Beverly Arbuckle
Beverly Ann Arbuckle, 56, Humansville, passed away Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, at her home. Beverly was born Oct. 15, 1956, in Iola, the daughter of Joe and Shirley Martin Hicks.
She grew up on a farm north of LaHarpe and was a graduate of Iola High School and Allen County Community College.
Beverly worked for the Dodge City Police Department and upon moving to Bolivar she worked for Bolivar Public Schools as her health permitted.
She was a member of First Baptist Church of Bolivar and attended the Esquire. She was a follower of the Lord.
Beverly was preceded in death by her father and sister-in-law Chris Hicks.
She is survived by her daughter Amy Arbuckle of Bolivar; mother Shirley Hicks, LaHarpe; brothers Jon Hicks, LaHarpe, and Joe Hicks, Jr. and his wife Bonny, McLouth, sister Mona Spurlock and her husband Dr. Joseph Spurlock, Haxton, Colo.; grandchildren Landon, Paxton and Madison, Bolivar; three nieces and one nephew.
She loved her three grandchildren and her daughter more than anything else in this world. She was a great friend, amazing mother, grandmother and a caring, loving person. She will be truly missed.
Memorial services are at 1 p.m. today at First Baptist Church, Bolivar, officiated by Dr. Billy Russell under the care and direction of Murray Funeral Home, Bolivar.
Memorials are suggested to Going to the Dogs, 1837 W. Broadway, Bolivar, MO 65613.
Online condolences may be submitted to www.murrayfuneralhomes.com.
James Kelley
James K. Kelley, 79, LaHarpe, died Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute.
Jim was born Jan. 2, 1934, in Marshall, Ark., the son of Coy Duncan and Okla Hester (Jackson) Kelley. He grew up at Marshall, Ark. and later in Shawnee, Okla. He enlisted in the U.S. Army for two years and then served in the U.S. Air Force in Korea and Vietnam.
On Jan. 16, 1951, James married Mignonette L. Schmitt in Roseville, Calif. He was a master machinist and master mechanic. They moved to Kansas where he operated a gas station at Williamsburg until purchasing the Phillips 66 Station at Moran which he operated from 1980 until 2000.
He was a member of the Moran American Legion and Masonic Lodge.
He is survived by his wife wife of 62 years, Mignonette Kelley; three children, Bryan Kelley and wife, Tina, Piqua, Debra Gail Kelley, Iola, and Jolene Louise King and husband, Steven, Oklahoma City, Okla.; one brother, Coy Kelley, Shawnee, Okla.; one sister, Dorothy Parkin, Ottawa; 14 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by two sons, James Dennis Kelley and Carlos Coy Kelley, daughter Teresa Lee Barber, infant sister Betty Sue and brother Johnny Coy Kelley.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m., Tuesday at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel in Iola.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 16, at Hope Cemetery in Ottawa.
Memorial choice is LaHarpe Baptist Mission and can be left with Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel of Iola, which is in charge of arrangements.
Online condolences for the family may be left at www.iolafuneral.com.
Helene Mae Monfort
Born April 10, 1913, Helen Mae Monfort passed away in her sleep Jan. 16, 2013, after two years of decline, three months short of her 100th birthday.
She was one of nine children born to Earl and Winnie Monfort of Iola. As an infant, she was voted “Prettiest Baby” at the Allen County Fair, and as a young woman was chosen “Miss Allen County.”
She graduated from Kansas State University; taught school near Iola in a one-room schoolhouse encompassing five grades; was a chemist testing munitions for Hercules Powder Company during WWII; a home economist for the Amana Company, and taught sewing and upholstery for the County Extension Service after the war.
She was married to S. Max Brown of Brown Brothers’ Construction in Manhattan. They moved to Tucson, Ariz., in 1957, where they raised two children, Richard and Joy. A few years after the death of her husband in 1969, she moved to Washington state to rejoin many of her brothers and sisters who had moved to that area over the intervening years. There she met and married retired Air Force Master Sgt. Joseph Eaves. She and Joe were instrumental in forming and supporting the Fort Walla Walla Museum in Walla Walla, Wash., where they lived.
She became an avid dealer in small antiques and collectibles. A passionate advocate of education, she generously contributed to the education of several nieces, and was a large donor of the University of Arizona and the Desert Museum in Tucson. She was a past president of the YWCA in Tucson. She was adventurous and traveled by boat, car, plane and train through much of the United States and also into the Yukon of Canada and to Mexico, Morocco, Tahiti and London. She was very excited to go to China when it opened its doors to the West. Helene was debilitated by a series of small strokes years ago while wintering in Tucson and remained in Tucson until her death.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Max, and daughter Joy; and later by her stepson Earl Eaves, she is survived by her second husband Joe and his children, Buddy, Cheri and Jo Ellen; by her son Richard Brown, daughter-in-law Kathryn, and grandchildren Kellner, Helene and Dennett; by her youngest brother, Phillip, of Waitsburg, Wash., and by the extensive offspring and their offspring of her Monfort siblings. She will be remembered as a generous and steadfast wife, mother and friend.