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The Anthony Republican: Vol. 144 - No. 46 • The Anthony Bulletin: Vol. 124 - No. 46Established October 9, 1879: Oldest continuous business in Anthony • Wednesday, November 15, 2023To advertise your business or event in our “Hot Spot”call the Anthony Republican at 620-842-5129. Photo By: Ross Downing/Anthony RepublicanSALUTING OUR VETERANS: The Veterans Day Program put on by the Anthony Chamber of Commerce, was held last Friday at the Municipal Hall. The Boy Scouts presented the colors, the Girl Scouts led the Pledge of Allegiance and Julie Konkel sand the Star Spangled Banner. A welcome was given from Martha Vail DAR Regent Deniese Fawcett, then Anthony Elementary 3rd and 6th grade students sang several songs. Next was a special presentation to 97 year old (98 on Dec. 22nd) WWII Veteran Joseph Wright (far left) of Anthony from Interim HealthCare of Wellington, who provides home health care to Joe. Pictured next to Joe is his hospice nurse Pam Thurman, who learned of Joe’s amazing story and wanted to do something special. She enlisted the help of Rev. Bob Nusser (far right), Chaplain at Interim HealthCare, to tell Joe’s story at the Veterans Day program (also published in last week’s issue of the Anthony Republican). After Joe’s story was told to the audience, Interim HealthCare Branch Manager Carmen Altendorf presented Joe with a quilt made by volunteers to show thanks for his service. The audience also watched a tribute video to the Veterans and learned of the signicance of poppies.By Kasey WaldschmidtFarm Bureau CountyCoordinatorThe Harper County Farm Bureau Association held their Annual Meeting on Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at the Bank of the Plains hospitality room. After welcoming everyone, President Kyle Carothers Farm Bureau Honors 2023 Farm Family Of The Year, Century Farm RecipientsCourtesy PhotoFARM BUREAU FAMILY OF THE YEAR: The Harper County Farm Bureau selected Tanner and Heidi Greve as the 2022 Farm Family of the Year. Pictured is Tanner and Heidi Greve with their daughters Piper and Sadie, with the 2022 Farm Family of the Year sign.introduced Farm Bureau Financial Services Agent Charlus Bishop. He updated on the insurance ofﬁce re-model and new staff of Bret Walker and Emily Usham. Jackie Mundt with KFB’s Vote FBF shared about this political fund to support the campaigns of pro-agricul-ture candidates for federal and state ofﬁce. Tyler York, District Representative for U.S. Senator Jerry Moran’s ofﬁce, gave an update on the happenings with the Kan-sas Senators. Carothers an-nounced that Paige Swingle, Chaparral Senior, is our current Ag Ambassador. She will be receiving a scholar-ship next year as she goes on to higher education follow-ing graduation and will also serve alongside the Board at meetings and events to learn the importance of ag-riculture and leadership skills. Each year, Harper County Farm Bureau recog-nizes an outstanding Farm Bureau family who has distinguished themselves through participation in Farm Bureau programs and leadership, family activities, community and civic ser-vice, as well as displaying good farm operation man-agement. This year, one of the current Board members, Tanner Greve and his fam-ily were awarded. Congrats to Harper County’s Farm Family of the Year, Tanner and Heidi Greve, and their daughters, Piper and Sadie!The next awards were extra special as we hon-ored those family farms that have passed down through family heritage for more than a century. We had 3 Farm Bureau mem-bers with ownership within the same family for 100 or more years by December 1, 2023 with at least 80 acres of the original Kansas farm-land that applied this year. Fourteen Teams Battle For PRIDE At 2nd Trivia NightTrivia question: What non-proﬁt group held their second Trivia game night in Anthony at the Munici-pal Hall on Saturday night, November 4, 2023? If you answered Anthony PRIDE, you would be right! Four-teen teams took part, in-cluding: Team Willow, Ti-tanic, Team Thomas, The Quizzard’s of Oz, Manches-ter Dead Heads (sponsored by Prairie Rose Funeral Home), The Pinkie’s & the Brain, Anthony Public Li-brary, Muddy Water Club, Bank of the Plains, Quizan-themums, Quiz in my Pants (both teams sponsored by Pronto Tire & Service) Outnumbered (sponsored by Smoke & Lights Smoke Shop), Dumb-Dumbs, and Kiwanis (sponsored by Prai-rie Rose Funeral Home) with up to 6 members per team entered to test their knowledge answering ques-tions in various categories.The main goal of the eve-ning was having fun! Cat-egories included science, sports, television, music, movies, history, literature, geography with 8 questions per category. If a team felt, they needed a little help in a category (or all categories) they could purchase a “mul-ligan” which was a free pass that counted as the right answer. One mulligan could be used per category. Ques-tion/answer sheets were passed out for each category, one category sheet at a time with a limited time frame to answer before the sheets were collected and graded.While waiting for the an-swers to be announced in between categories, a table number was drawn, with the team given the opportunity to answer a trivia question. If they answered correctly, they drew an envelope that contained anywhere from $6 to $50. Thirty-nine of the players were new while thirty-four returned to play again.Another fun fact, the eve-FARM Continued on next pageTRIVIA Continued on next page

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Page 2 the Anthony Republican • November 15, 2023Each of the Century Farms awardees received a certiﬁ-cate and impressive metal sign for their farms. They also shared some of the his-tory of their family’s farms which was most interest-ing. The 3 Century Farms winners were Jim Bergman with Kirk, Brady and Bryan Bergman; Alecia Crabtree for Blubaugh Farms LLC including Patricia Fisher-Carlson, Alan Blubaugh and Sandra Blubaugh; and ning had three generations from one family playing on different teams. Grand-mother and grandson, Vir-ginia & Ross Downing, were returning players. Join-ing the fun this time was Ross’s mother, Carla Down-ing. PRIDE’s concession stand offered sloppy joes, snack tray, chips, cookies, candy bars, pop, and water throughout the evening. Another Trivia question: Who won and what did they win? First place prize was the $100 entry fee back and $100 in prize money. This was won by Team Willow who donated the $200 back to PRIDE. The team players were Team Captain Susan Croft, Martha Hadsall, John FARM Continued from previous pageBryon and Wanda Wencl.The meeting concluded with the business portion of the meeting including ﬁnan-cial reports, Board Member elections and State Annual Voting delegates. The cur-rent Harper County Board consists of Kyle Carothers, President; Charles Coggins, Vice President; Mark Whis-man, Secretary/Treasurer; Brent Cashier, member; Debra Blanchat, member; Michael Eslinger, member; Tanner Greve, member; and Kasey Waldschmidt, County Coordinator.TRIVIA Continued from previous pageCox, Libby Burnett, Taryn Meek, and Rodney Go-ertz. Three of these players played on Team Willow and won ﬁrst place last time. Second place went to Pron-to’s team, Quiz in My Pants. Second place got their $100 entry fee back along with $50 which was donated back to PRIDE. Third place win-ners were Team Thomas. They received their entry fee back. The 50/50 drawing was won by Joe Hall who do-nated his winnings back to PRIDE.If your answer to the question of “Who Won?” was, Anthony PRIDE won, our group feels that we did. We won with fourteen teams being sponsored by busi-nesses and individuals (one more team than last time.) Anthony PRIDE won when Aaron Warner (an Anto-nian by birth and son of PRIDE member Pauletta Goertz) and James Cline, both of Wichita, offered to help organize this event for PRIDE. Both are known for helping non-proﬁts host various fund-raising events in Wichita and are trivia gu-rus. We achieved our goal of providing an evening of en-tertainment and camarade-rie for our community while hosting a fundraiser for our various projects. We won when Karen & Mike Cather and Barbara Thomas do-nated the hamburger for the sloppy joes and Prairie Rose Funeral Home donated pop, chips, candy bars and other items.We think most partici-pants will agree that it was a fun event and something that Anthony PRIDE should do again. Thanks to all that participated and to those who came to watch and eat. PRIDE will be hosting an-other game night on March 24, 2024. Working to keep Anthony – "Active and At-tractive", Anthony PRIDE meets on most 1st and 3rd Thursday’s at Bank of the Plains community room from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. We are always looking for more members, come join us. If you would like to support Anthony PRIDE with a do-nation, send your donation to P.O. Box 2, Anthony, KS 67003.Dear Editor & Readers,Right now, we have a rare opportunity to fundamen-tally change the future, and it begins with the teaching profession. We invite you to join the Harper County NEA and encourage our board of education to im-prove teachers’ salaries, as it is a cornerstone to the re-form our community needs. The educators in USD 361 are dedicated and hardworking people who are frustrated they have to work so hard on top of their day job to convince board members for a little raise. One offer had teachers tak-ing home less this year than last because of higher insur-ance premiums. The present offer is not much better. And the money is there to do it. Teachers do not understand why they seem to be the last thought and not the ﬁrst when looking at the budget.Communities that have shown great results in edu-cation have one thing in common: a stable, presti-gious team of educators. Harper County NEA is rais-ing awareness of the impact of underpaying and under-valuing educators. Teachers play a role in ensuring our democracy works and help-ing our economy grow. Our • • • LETTER TO THE EDITOR • • •kids and our community deserve the most talented, dedicated teachers available who can stay and thrive in the profession, and those teachers deserve our respect and fair pay. Great teachers are vital for our kids and our commu-nity, but we are losing them because we don’t pay them like the professionals we ask them to be. Please sup-port raising teacher salaries so that excellent teachers will be able to afford to stay in the classroom and talent-ed graduates will choose to join the most important pro-fession in the world. Please contact Board of Education members and encourage them to settle this matter.Thank you,Harper County NEA

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the Anthony Republican • November 15, 2023 Page 3Wes Higgs Agency, LLC125 W. Main St., Anthonywhiggs@amfam.comHarper Co. Line: Back To The Present ~ A Conversation With Today’s Teen & SeniorJoin the Party Line(Episode 3)By Cary MathesSo, at the end of “Epi-sode 2” Senior and his 15 year-old Teen grandchild were headed to pick up the newest i-Phone followed by a treat for the young’un at Starbucks as reward for gutting out the adventure into an antique store along the way. The following con-versation continues begin-ning in the Verizon store.T: Hi, I’m here to trade in my old i-Phone 14 for the new Titanium i-Phone 15.S: Did I hear you say trade it in? Didn’t you just get this one last year?T: Uh-huh, but they will give me a “free” one every year.S: Well, anytime someone gives you something new for “free” it’s usually not really “free.” Don’t they teach you anything at school?T: You’re starting to sound a lot like Mom and Dad. They keep complain-ing that our monthly phone bill clearly shows it’s not re-ally free. As long as I stay with Verizon I don’t have to pay for a new phone.S: So, what if you don’t stay with Verizon?T: We have to pay them about a thousand bucks for this phone.S: Yeah, that sounds like “free” all right. And I have this feeling that you are ot part of the “We.”T: C’mon Pops! Get real!S: So, what’s so great about these fancy i-Phones you keep getting?T: Well, they give you just about everything you need right at your ﬁngertips. You can call anybody you want without even looking up and dialing their number; you can send letters; it has an alarm clock; a ﬂashlight; a calculator; maps that talk to you and tell you where to turn to ﬁnd someplace; text messaging so you don’t re-ally have to call someone to have a conversation; and Facebook so you can share information about yourself and give your opinions to people around the world that you don’t even know. Almost forgot. You can even talk into your phone and ask this woman named Siri to help you ﬁnd anything you want.S: Well, ﬁrst, if your grandmother caught me talking to some other woman named Seeree, I’d have some explaining to do. Second, I’ve had the same alarm clock for 40 years and it works just ﬁne; and a ﬂashlight and calculator that don’t add up to a thou-sand dollars. But I have to admit you having them all in one place sounds like a perk. Your grandmother would probably like me to have that map stuff you’re talking about but where’s your sense of adventure?T: Almost forgot. Did you know you can take as many pictures as you want: get the weather, news, and sports without waiting for the 10 o’clock news; listen to any song you want? I bet they’ve even got some of those old country songs you like on the Apple music app! And if you can’t remember where you put your phone down there’s a tracking system that always knows where your phone is.S: I’m starting to see where we’re a lot different. We’ve grown up in different worlds. I don’t need to know everything immediately. I can wait until evening to catch up on the news; if I wonder what the weather’s going to do, I just look out my West window; and I can read a printed newspaper the next day to ﬁnd out if my favorite teams won or lost. Come to think of it, if a sporting event was that im-portant, I’d probably head out to watch it myself right here in my hometown.And, about that talk-ing to people that you don’t even know. I kind of ﬁgure it’s important to have some really good friends that you can see and talk to -face-to-face whether it’s at school, church, or the local café. And about that phone track-ing where you are; I’m pretty sure there a few people who don’t need to know then I’m at the Copper Lounge.T: What’s the Copper Lounge?S: They make things out of copper there. That’s all you need to know. Let’s get out of here and let me get you that Starbucks that I promised.(at Starbucks)T: Hi! I’d like to order a Venti Frozen Mango Drag-onfruit Lemonade Refresh-er with extra Strawberry Puree, Light Lemonade, and Cold Foam.S: Was that a drink or-der or a grocery store shop-ping list? I thought you re-ally liked Cherry Limeades and they only run a couple of bucks.T: Yeah, but they don’t have this cool logo on the side of my cup so my friends can tell I’m “with it.”S: Hey, one other thing. With all these new cell phone contraptions I’m not too keen on all these big, old, ugly cell towers popping up all over the place and ru-ining my view of the beauti-ful countryside.T: Yeah, but did you know that they pay big bucks every month for like 20 years to people that let them use their land to put those towers on? You’ve got some farmland up on that hill next to your house that would be worth a lot!S: Well, you don’t say. (long pause) Can you ask that Seeree person for a phone number? * * WWW.ANTHONYREPUBLICANNEWS.COM * *PHC’s IT Products Are Nearing End Of Use DatesHD#6 Hospital Board Regular MeetingOfﬁcial MinutesSeptember 28, 2023PresentBoard of Directors -Kara Bello, Jan Lanie, Stan Wed-man, Tim Penner, Kristen Stoughton. PHC - Sarah Teaff, CEO; Lori Allen, COO; Sandra Owen, CFO; Paige Wise, Senior Executive Assistant. Guests - none. Call To OrderLanie called the meeting to order at 5:21 pm. Board Education OrPresentations Owen provided Board members with a documented series on Hospital Finances published by the Kansas Hospital Association. The series included a review of hospital revenue and costs (terminology, deﬁnitions, etc.) that show how hospi-tals operate in a unique and challenging economic envi-ronment. Kansas hospital statistics were also provided that show what challenges all hospitals are facing from reimbursement to costs.Public CommentsNoneApproval Of MinutesMinutes of the August 24, 2023, regular board meeting was presented for approval. Motion by Penner; seconded by Lanie to approve minutes as presented. Motion carried unanimously.Department Reports,Policy Review &Approval 1. Quality Report: Amber Speer made a quality re-port that was brought to the board through Sarah Teaff. COVID numbers are slight-ly spiking in the county, but not enough to put Harper County in any alarm. Speer went over the ﬁve goals of HOSPITAL Continued on next page

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Page 4 the Anthony Republican • November 15, 2023SCTelcom’s 9TH ANNUAL TURKEY GIVEAWAY!SCTelcom would like to say thanks by giving away turkeys!You can enter to win by ONE of the following ways:1. Like, share and comment on our Facebook Turkey Giveaway post from November 6th - 16th. 2.StopbyaSCTelcomofceinAnthony, Kiowa  orMedicineLodgeandlloutanentryform.SCTelcom is an equal opportunity employer.111 W. Main, Anthony • 215 S. Iliff, Medicine Lodge • 717 Main, KiowaYour hometown Internet provider 877-723-6875Drawing will be on November 17th!the hospitals through qual-ity and how we are doing with the goals. The hospital is on trend for the goals. 2. HR Policies: Kim Bar-wick brought two policies to the board, one new and one revised policy. Barwick cre-ated a policy based on the ﬁt testing that new hires do and annual reviews for employees. The second poli-cy is a revised policy of the tuition assistance policy for employees. There was a cap put on the semester amount paid and a requirement of employment in exchange for tuition assistance. Along with the policy there was an application made for those employees interested in as-sistance to ﬁll out. Motion by Bello; sec-onded by Penner to approve minutes as presented. Mo-tion carried unanimously. Medical Staff AndCredentialing ReportCredentialing appoint-HOSPITAL Continued from previous pagements, reappointments and resignations were pre-sented as approved by the Executive Medical Staff on September 27, 2023 – there were two new appointments, two reappointments, and two resignations. The board approved the medical staff and privileges as presented. Motion by Lanie seconded by Bello. Motion carried unanimously.Operations ReportCOO: Lori Allen provid-ed some Medicare Advan-tage information pages for the hospital to hand out to the community to be more informed about Medicare Advantage. Patterson was going to hold an education session for the community, but after learning that who we were going to have given the presentation would be a conﬂict of interest with Medicare Advantage, so that it’s no longer going to be held.JR, the contractor inter-ested in the old Harper hos-pital property for housing, has reached out to let Allen know the company is no lon-ger interested in the proper-ty as of now. There was land provided by Harper that they feel would be a better ﬁt for them now.Anthony building is done being demoed, but they are ﬁnishing up cleaning the site. Once it is ﬁnished, we will be billed the last 10% of our bill. The project should be completed in the coming weeks. The Community health needs assessment; we are required to do it every 3 years. Allen reached out and got several quotes from dif-ferent companies to perform the assessment for us. Allen recommends moving for-ward with VVV Consultants due to the lower costs. Mo-tion made by Lanie, second-ed by Penner. Motion carried unanimously to go with VVV Consultants. CEO: Sarah was able to attend an event with Gov-ernor Kelly last week for Medicaid Expansion. Kelly wants to expand Medicaid within the next couple of years throughout the state. The hospital is getting ready for several surveys at the facility. The CLIA survey will be held mid-October in our Lab, and a Rural Heath Clinic survey will be held sometime in October as well. The Lab is gearing up for their CLIA survey and preparing all that they can for them to come. The RHC survey will be to re-accredit the on-site clinic and add on our mobile clinic. The hospital got to test the emergency response plan for the water outage that occurred last week. The hospital was out of water for approximately 8 hours. Operations ran as normal with the water outages. There was an after-action meeting afterward to review the event. There were some places that the group saw room for improvement, but for the most part it went bet-ter than expected. DME got their certiﬁ-cate of accreditation. Passed their survey with ﬂying col-ors. There is an IT Director position open currently. We have received a couple of applicants for the position, most that we have received are out of our budget but there is one good candidate that we have brought in for interviews. This candidate will have another interview with the IT team involved. Dialysis is sitting at around $88 thousand raised for the project. Sarah brought that next month will need to be thinking about if PHC is ready for purchasing some equipment. Still in the process of looking for a di-alysis nurse. Financial Statements Owen reported on the August 2023 Financials. August’s activity in cash ac-counts was reviewed that included payments received and expenses paid out. Reve-nue included the 2022 Medi-care Cost Report Settle-ment of $621,769.00 along with Retro Payments in the amount of $361,500.00. Payments received from in-surance and patients were $1,597,971. August included three payrolls paid but two recorded on the proﬁt and loss statement due to accru-al basis. Days Cash on Hand remain strong at 185 days; current average for other Kansas hospital is 119 days. Patient Accounts Receivable increased with a total AR balance of $2,752,407.00 and AR Days at 31. Gross Patient Revenue for September was $2,221,290, achieving the Board’s monthly goal of $2 Million. There is a YTD in-crease of Gross Patient Rev-enue of $510,661 compared to August 2022. Outpatient service lines saw a signiﬁ-cant increase in total reve-nue in August at $1,498,835. Cost centers that continue to grow in patient volume are Lab, CT, Sono, Wound Care, Pain Management, and others. Total Operat-ing Revenue for August was $2,034,950; with a YTD in-crease of $751,033 or 5.55% over August 2022. Total Op-erating Expenses increased by $17,286.00 for the month with a total of $2,102,814; YTD shows an overall de-crease in expenses of 3.46% or $597,004. A Net Proﬁt of $65,159 was reported for the month of August with a YTD Loss of $1,214,626.Accounts payable for August was $2,065,879.40. Motion by Bello seconded by Wedman to approve ac-counts payable. Motion car-ried unanimously.Owen reported that the Provider Relief Fund Single Audit was completed by For-vis/BKD. The audit included compliance requirements and internal controls relat-ing to COVID expenditures from July 1, 2021, to De-cember 31, 2022. The audit related to ensuring that COVID expenditures were allowable costs and met the reporting requirements. A sample of COVID related expenditures were provided for the audit. An Unmodiﬁed Opinion was issued meaning that all compliance require-ments and expenditures met the Provider Relief Funds program requirements.Harper County Health Foundation (HCHF) Beth gave 15% of sales towards dialysis through her sales last week. Bed races at the red ﬁsh fest are next weekend in Harper. The health founda-tion is going to be doing a test run with the hospital bed to publicize the event. Unﬁnished BusinessNone.New BusinessHOSPITAL Continued on next page

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the Anthony Republican • November 15, 2023 Page 5Obituary...Caroline ‘Corkey’ Ferda1934 ~ 2023Caroline “Corkey” (Waggoner) Ferda, was born February 18, 1934 in the Galloway Hospital in An-thony, Kansas. She was the 14th child born to Daniel Dorchester “Dorsey” Waggoner and Lillie Ogle (Ford) Waggoner. She passed on November 8, 2023, at 89 years of age, in Wichita, KS. She grew up on a family farm near Waldron, KS. In her early years she attended Hillview School and then Eagle School. She also attended Anthony High School. In 1945 she was bap-tized in the Christian Church in An-thony, KS. On February 19, 1953, she married Johnnie M. Ferda of Bluff City, KS. Together they had four children. They were married for 63 years. After they married, they resided on a farm near Wakita, Oklahoma and then moved to a farm south of Bluff City, KS. She enjoyed the farm life and worked hard her entire life and occasionally worked outside of the home in local restaurants. She loved all animals especially dogs, cats and horses. She enjoyed tending to her veg-etable garden, reading magazines and drawing. She also enjoyed her family reunions. Survived by her children: Lonnie Ferda of Kan-sas, Joyce Smith of Oklahoma and Sherryl Anderson of Missouri and one sister Marie Wiechring of Wich-ita, KS. Preceded in death by her husband in 2016, infant son Jimmy and 13 brothers and sisters. No fu-neral or memorial. Donations are requested for the ASPCA, PO Box 96929, Washington, DC 20090-6929 or aspca.org. HOSPITAL Continued from previous page1. IT Redesign: PHCs IT products are coming to end of use dates. There has been a group that has investigated this and come up with some options. The two choices are to pur-chase the equipment or to lease the equipment. The totals would equate to the purchasing would be the cheaper option overall. Our IT department has suggest-ed purchasing the equip-ment instead of leasing the equipment. There are some Cerner funds that have been set aside for events such as this. 2. November & Decem-ber meeting Times: Wise brought to the group the need to reschedule the November board meeting and potentially December due to holidays. November meeting would fall exactly on Thanksgiving, so the board moved it to Novem-ber 30th at 5:15. December meeting will stay as sched-uled on the 28th of Decem-ber at 5:15. Executive SessionAt 6:42p.m. members en-tered executive session un-til 6:47p.m. to discuss non-elected personnel. Motion made by Lanie; seconded by Penner. Motion carried unanimously. The open ses-sion resumed at 6:47p.m. AdjournmentThere was no further business, and the meeting was adjourned to 6:48pm. Motion made by Bello; sec-onded by Wedman. Motion carried unanimously.Approved by the BoardKara Bello, SecretaryHARPER COUNTYDISTRICT COURT REPORTEditor’s Note: Due to the Kansas Courts electronic ling system be-ing ofine caused by a secuity in-cident, information from the Harper County Clerk’s ofce including the Paid Trafc Fines, Case Filings and Court Docket were unavailable as of the press deadline.HARPER COUNTY JAILIndividuals listed below are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.ARRESTS & BOOKINGSNathan M. Duvall, 39: Arrested: 11-6-23; Released: 11-8-23. Arrested By: APD. Charges: 1) Domestic battery.Aletha R. Gilchrist, 38: Arrested: 11-6-23; Released: N/A. Arrested By: APD. Charges: 1) Domestic battery. 2) Battery on law enforcement ofcer. 3) Interference with law enforcement ofcer.Megan R. Hodson, 34: Arrested: 11-6-23; Released: 11-7-23. Arrested By: HCSO. Charges: 1) Possession of narcotics.James P. Sowter, 34: Arrested: 11-9-23; Released: 11-9-23. Arrested By: HCSO. Charges: 1) Failure to appear.Darryl D. Fye, 56: Arrested: 11-10-23; Released: N/A. Arrested By: HCSO. Charges: 1) 72 hour quick dip.HARPER COUNTY DEEDSBOOK D108#1010 - Warranty Deed: Terry G. Bane and Judy A. Bane to Terry G. Bane and Judy A. Bane, Trustees of the Bane Family Trust, the W/2 of the NW/4 of Sec. 34, Twp. 32 S, Range 9 W of the 6th P.M. (aka 482 NW 140th Ave); and all the surface and an un-divided 1/2 of minerals in the NE/4 of Sect. 6, Twp. 33 S, Range 9 W of the 6th P.M.; Harper County, Kansas.#1011 - Statutory Warranty Deed: Dennis D. Turner to Vicki Bowles, Lots 3 and 4 in Blk. 2 of Glenn’s Ad-dition to the City of Harper, Harper County, Kansas.#1012 - Transfer-On-Death Deed: Cathy L. Ewertz transfers on death to Monica L. Holden, Mary B. Ewertz, and Melinda J. Ewertz, and undivided 1/3 interest in the SE/4 of Sect. 29, Twp. 32 S, Range 7 W of the 6th P.M., less a 31.06 and 17.71 acre tracts, Harper County Kansas.#1013 - General Warranty Deed: James Steen to Terry J. Fischer, a tract in the NW corner of Blk. 1 in Jen-nings Addition to the City of Anthony; and a tract in the NW corner of Blk. 1 in Jennings Addition to the City of An-thony; and a tract in Blk. 1 in Jennings Addition to the City of Anthony; and a tract in the NW corner of Blk. 1 in Jen-nings Addition to the City of Anthony; all in Harper County, Kansas.Ofﬁcial Meeting MinutesRegular MeetingSubmitted ByCity of Anthony ClerkOctober 17, 2023Welcome / Call to Order. Invocation / Pledge of Al-legiance. Roll Call: Present - Mayor Greg Cleveland, Commissioner Sherrie Ea-ton, Commissioner Jan Lanie, Commissioner Kenny Hodson Jr., Commissioner Eric Smith, City Adminis-trator Cyndra Kastens, Dep-uty City Clerk Sherri Miller, Police Chief Kenny Hodson and Superintendent Randy Moore.Approval of Agenda: A motion was made to approve the agenda. Motion made by Mayor Cleveland, Seconded by Commissioner Lanie. Vot-ing Yea: Mayor Cleveland, Commissioner Eaton, Com-missioner Lanie, Commis-sioner Hodson Jr., Commis-sioner Smith.PUBLIC COMMENTMayor Cleveland read a thank you note from Craig Winters for sponsoring Disc Golf.CONSENT AGENDA1. Approve October 3, 2023 Regular Meeting Min-utes.2. Special Appropria-tions: Fund #83 - Electric Equip Replacement - Border States - $1,698.35 - Sun-rise 2nd bracket/cut outs/mounts/cross arms. Fund #34 - Airport Capital Im-provements - Border States - $763.88 -AWOS/Beacon Conduit.3. Appropriation Ordi-nance No. 3176 $289,364.52.4. Approve 10.10.2023 Payroll $56,109.88.5. Approval to Submit Bid for Sunrise 2nd Electri-cal Materials.6. Bank of the Plains Res-olution COD 5000001940.Mayor Cleveland asked if any items should be pulled from the consent agenda for further review. Hearing none, a motion was made to Commissioners Have Discussion Regarding McDonald’s FireCITY Continued on next page

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Page 6 the Anthony Republican • November 15, 2023Courtesy PhotoSPRING ROBINS 4-H CLUB HOLD NOVEMBER MEETING: The Spring Robins 4-H club held their November 4-H meet-ing at Plains State Bank. There were 13 members, 11 adults and 2 leaders present. Our guest speakers were Harold and Mary Waldschmidt. They visited with the club about bees. It was a hands-on presentation, the 4-hers were able to see bees and look at honeycombs and equipment that Harold uses to process the honey. Everyone got to sample some of the honey and it was so good! Spring Robins will meet again on December 22 for a Christmas party. Thank you Harold and Mary Waldschmidt for the special presentation! Pictured front row (L-R): Kallie Thomas, Caroline Wetherill, Finley Henderson, Cason Angle, Grady Henderson, Porter Henderson, Braxtin Cashier, Boston Thomas and Hazen Nuffer. Back row (L-R): Claire Porter, Mary Walkschmidt, Harold Waldschmidt, Jessa Pray, Leah Oliphant, Jaci Eslinger.Nicholas McCammon, a Veteran Service Repre-sentative for the Kansas Commission on Veterans’ Affairs, will be in Harper County one day a month to assist Veterans and their family members ﬁle claims for various veteran bene-ﬁts. On Tuesday, November 21st, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. the Veteran Service Representative will be at the Harper County Health Department, 123 N. Jen-VA Rep To Visit Harper Countynings, Anthony, KS 67003.The Kansas Commission on Veterans’ Affairs is a State Agency that provides free assistance to veterans and their families with vet-erans’ beneﬁts. If you are or any of fam-ily members are in need of assistance with veteran beneﬁts, please call the Harper County Health De-partment at 620-842-5132 to schedule an appoint-ment. approve the consent agen-da. Motion made by Mayor Cleveland, Seconded by Commissioner Smith. Vot-ing Yea: Mayor Cleveland, Commissioner Eaton, Com-missioner Lanie, Commis-sioner Hodson Jr., Commis-sioner Smith.PUBLIC HEARINGSNone.REGULAR BUSINESS7. Municipal Hall CMB Application: A motion was made to approve the re-quest from Joe Mendoza for the Municipal Hall CMB Application as presented. Motion made by Commis-sioner Smith, Seconded by Mayor Cleveland. Voting Yea: Mayor Cleveland, Com-missioner Eaton, Commis-sioner Lanie, Commissioner Hodson Jr., Commissioner Smith.8. McDonalds Fire Dis-cussion: The Commission had a discussion regarding the ﬁre at 801 W Main.9. KDWP Recreational Trail Grant Project: A mo-tion was made to approve the KDWP Recreational Trail Grant Project #NRT2023-1 for the Anthony Lake Trail for $535,150.00. Mo-tion made by Commissioner Lanie, Seconded by Com-missioner Eaton. Voting Yea: Mayor Cleveland, Com-missioner Eaton, Commis-sioner Lanie, Commissioner Hodson Jr., Commissioner Smith.10. LKM Conference Up-date: Administrator Kas-tens gave an update on the 2023 LKM Conference.11. 2023 Veterans Day Observance: The City Com-mission ordered city ofﬁces closed on Friday, November 10, 2023, in observance of Veterans Day. STAFF REPORTS12. Administrator Re-port: The Administrator provided a written report on Pending Demolitions, Turf Runway Rehab, BASE Grant, Cold Weather Rule, Anthony Lake Boat Ramp, Housing, Banners, Stafﬁng and Current Projects.13. Chief of Police Report: We investigated a distur-bance in the 300 block of N. Kansas and the 200 Block of W. Main and arrested Chad Deffenbaugh for criminal damage to property and battery on a Law Enforce-ment ofﬁcer. Ofﬁcer Man-ning was injured during the incident and will be off for a while. We arrested Chy-enne Murphy for possession of marijuana after a trafﬁc stop. We investigated a case of identity theft. We investi-gated one minor trafﬁc ac-cident. The houses at 432 S Anthony and 301 N. Kansas have been removed and the properties cleaned up.EXECUTIVE SESSIONNone.ADJOURNMENTA motion was made to adjourn the meeting. Mo-tion made by Mayor Cleve-land, Seconded by Commis-sioner Lanie. Voting Yea: Mayor Cleveland, Com-missioner Eaton, Commis-sioner Lanie, Commissioner Hodson Jr., Commissioner Smith.Gregory Cleveland, MayorCyndra Kastens, City Clerk/AdministratorCITY Continued from previous page

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Must be reliable. Call Michael at 620-842-2986. M-11-15-1tc HELP WANTEDEMAIL YOUR ADS TO:anthonyrepublican@att.netSHIRTS • SIGNSBANNERSLD’S PRINTING 620-842-512960 YEARS AGO - 1963Anthony Fire Depart-ment sponsored a ﬁre pre-vention poster contest at Washington School. Win-ners were awarded prizes of $1 for ﬁrst, 50¢ for second and 25¢ for third. First grade winners were Nancy Dufﬁeld and Myrtle Baker, ﬁrst; Debbie Warbinton and Jackie Vogt, second; Kathy Lou Stewart and Cindy Mitchell, third. Second grade prizes went to Mareline Magnussen, Glen Averill and Jimmie Jackson, ﬁrst; Bobby Ham-ilton, Martha Crouch and Terry Cupps, second; Wes-ley Hargrove, Chet Barber and Betty Lou Dillon, third. Third grade winners includ-ed Kirk Stewart, Jayne Ann Snyder and Connie Otis, ﬁrst; David Carmichael, Mike Brewer and Rickey Shepard, second; Barbara Poston, Glenda Smith-hisler and Debbie Siefert, third. Winners in the fourth grade were Gail Webb and Joe Holmes, ﬁrst; Dennis Leader and Kimberly West, second; and Marie Barber and Lydia Perry, third. 50 YEARS AGO - 1973Grant Dick, 35 of Antho-ny, had been hired by acting sheriff, Clayton Thurman as a deputy. Dick would be undersheriff as soon as Thurman’s appointment as sheriff became ofﬁcial.‘A’ Girls’ Varsity ten-nis team members were: Janeen Adams, Debbie Warbinton, Sheri Piersall, Kathy Stewart, Vicki Moore, Laquita Robinson, Ginger Cooper, Pam Wiliams, and Carla Cooperdrider. Sheri Piersall, No. 1 netwoman, placed ﬁrst in the Alva, Okla. tournament. Kathy Stewart, placed third.‘B’ team members were: Dana Hufford, Doreen Da-vis, Cindy Cartmill, Lisa Bayless, Elaine Groves, Pilar Newerry Debby Ga-rancosky, Debra Netahla, and Jo Lynn Moore. Tennis coach was Laura Clark.Debra J. Hatﬁeld, daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs.Eugene Hatﬁeld, was chosesn “Miss Anthony” by the Anthony Business and Profesisonal Women’s Club to partici-pate as a visiting queen in the 42nd Akalalah Hallow-een Festival in Arkansas City. 40 YEARS GO - 1983Fifteen fourth and ﬁfth grade girls had decided to turn green... in uniform! They had registered as Ju-nior Girl Scouts for Troop 51 with leaders Pam Frost and Cynda Carr. Troop members were: Brandy Nichols, Tammy Huntsman, Shannon Hamilton, Karie Frost, DeAnne Baker, Sta-cey Bonham, Dawn Cooper, Bethany Daniel, Elizabeth Hunt, Monique Wilson, Ju-lie Smith, Laina Berry, Tab-by Fly, Stacey Garlow and Meredith Whaley.The Student Coun-cil at Anthony’s Lincoln Junior High were select-ing throughout the year, a boy and girl student of the month. The boy of the month for September was eighth grader, Trent Jones. He was in Homeroom 8A, taught by Chet Dickey. Trent is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Bob Jones of Anthony. Girl of the month was Beth Williams. She was a member of Randy Diek-er’s homeroom class 7B. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ferris Willaims, Anthony.Back to its original spot at the intersection of Main and Central in Harper was the old cast-iron fountain. Donated in 1909, the foun-tain was replaced by a more modern brick structure in 1969.30 YEARS AGO - 1993Charlotte Gates of An-thony was among 11 North-western Sate University students who attended an “Immersion in Spanish Weekend” at Oklahoma State University’s Center for International Trade Development. Gates was a senior at Northwestern ma-joring in elementary educa-tion.About 420 students completed their degrees at Wichita State Univer-sity during the summer. Dan Bertholf, son of Dean and Pat Bertholf, Anthony, earned a Master of Physical Therapy degree.Two businesses on Main Street in Argonia were call-ing it quits in the small community of 550. Liq-uidation of the Argonia Hardware was Oct. 22 and Argonia Food Mart was in the process of selling out its inventory.20 YEARS AGO - 2003Vincent Reel broke the Chaparral High School cross country record of 16:26, established in 1991 by Andy Alder, during a meet at Lake Afton. Reel’s time, three seconds faster than Alder’s was 16:23.King Wade Williams and Queen Beth Giesen were crowned as homecoming royalty during pre-game ceremonies at Chaparral High School.EMAIL YOUR NEWS TO:anthonyrepublican@att.net

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Page 8 the Anthony Republican • November 15, 2023Courtesy PhotoCENTURY FARM: Harper County Farm Bureau President Kyle Carothers presents Jim Bergman with his Century Farm Certicate and sign at the Annual Meeting.Courtesy PhotoCENTURY FARM: Alecia and Bob Crabtree, representing Blubaugh Farms LLC, with their Century Farm certicate and sign at the Harper Co. Farm Bureau Annual Meeting.Courtesy PhotoCENTURY FARM: Wencl Farms receiving their Century Farm certicate and sign at the Farm Bureau Annual Meeting. Pictured (L-R) Bryon, Wanda, Delton and Melanie Wencl.Photo By: Don HoltDRIVE INTO THE RABBIT HOLE: The Chaparral Singers presented the musical Wonderland: Alice’s Rock & Roll Adventure this past Friday and Saturday at CHS, taking the crowd on a unexpected and wild ride. Pictured is the cast of the musical.News From The HCARSPBy Shirley ZirklePublic Relations ChairThe meeting for Harp-er County Area Retired School Personnel (HC-ARSP) was be Monday, November 13 at 11:30 at the Art Center in Anthony. Attendees brought a sack lunch and cookies to make trays for distribution to the area schools for Education Week.The ﬁrst meeting of this group for the current year was held on September 11 at Patterson Health Cen-ter. A group of 19 members attended and were enter-tained and educated by El-don Younce’s presentation of Harper County Trivia. Here’s a small sample of Harper County Trivia: Ted-dy Roosevelt made a whis-tle stop in Harper in the early 1900’s; the ﬁrst town-ship high school in Kansas was Spring High School built in 1912.PRINTING • SIGNS • SHIRTSRUBBER STAMPS • STICKERSLD’s PRINTING • 620-842-5129Photo By: Ross Downing/Anthony RepublicanVETERANS DAY PROGRAM: Joe Wright’s nephew Gary Wayne Wright, Ret. Marine Gunnery Sergeant, gave a speech during the Veterans Day Program held last Friday.GOT NEWS OR PICS YOU WANT TO SHARE? SEND IT TO US AT:anthonyrepublican@att.net

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