An Archive Of Haysville History
Haysvilles Hometown Market will be having a vegetable contest Saturday July 28th. Categories include the largest, ugliest, most unusual and best-dressed. Entries will be accepted from 8am to 11:30am. Judging will be around 11:45am.
The Hometown Market is held Saturdays in the Historic Park on South Main.
The new gazebo in the historic park neared completion today as workers placed the final pieces of the roof.
By Jackie Loffland
The Haysville Times
Mr. Ferrys Government class won the Olive Garden Lunch by raising $613.00. School district charity drive, Pennies for Patients, ended March 17 after a successful drive. Although the year’s goal was set high at $30,000, the final profit of $15,500 can be considered a success. The highest that any other school in the area has raised is $6,600. Sponsors Lee LaMunyon and Tammie Milke, both CHS teachers, were those responsible for planning the fundraiser and its incentives. “I think that the incentives gave the students something to look forward to and brought the schools together,” says Ciara Pelz, a junior from Campus High. Continue reading “Pennies for Patients Raises $15,500 for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Research”
By Emily Davis
The Haysville Times
The BOE listened attentively as a mom of two Campus students shared her heartfelt concerns with them at Monday night’s meeting. Donna Wilson took the time to address the Board of Education about two items that were of particular concern to her. She first voiced her discontent with the current situation of the Campus softball practices The team is now using the Nelson Diamond for their practices and she said the facility is not adequate. She went on to say that the team had already suffered at least three injuries incurred while practicing at the field. Wilson said she feels the district can do better and is willing to help in any way she can to make other arrangements for the team. Continue reading “BOE Rejects Names for New Schools”
By Emily Davis
The Haysville Times
The March 12 City Council meeting was brought to order by Mayor Bruce Armstrong, with the evenings invocation given by Pastor, Laney Kuhn of the Haysville United Methodist Church .
Haysville police officer Serg. Kevin Sexton addressed the City Council, reading a prepared statement. His address was in response to remarks that were made at the City Council Meeting on January 8 regarding and an investigation into alleged improprieties within the police department. Remarks referred to were made by Coucilmen Joe Holub and Keith Pierce on the 8th and were directed towards the Police Chief . Sexton said that the comments led “some to believe that multiple improprieties may be occurring within the police department.” He went on to say that “ although there was no comment on how many officers were allegedly involved, or even what was occurring, it left the public to ponder and question the integrity of every officer in this department.” Sergeant Sexton continued, expounding on the dedication and hard work of the police department and that the public comments made at the January meeting caused department morale to drop. The comments Sexton referred to were made during the Council Concerns part of the agenda in January. Sexton stressed that he has no ill will and stressed that if there ever are improprieties “involving any of the officers, Chief McElroy and the staff will deal with each situation privately and per city policy.” Sexton ended by thanking the board for the opportunity to address them. Continue reading “Haysville Police Sergeant Addresses City Council”
By Kimberly Garrett
The Haysville Times
Fears were calmed in Haysville last night when news broke out that an arrest was made in connection with the threat of a school shooting on March 8.A 15 year old was taken into custody and taken to a juvenile intake and Assessment center. Haysville Police will be getting with District attorney’s office to see what charges can will be made on the criminal threat.“It makes me feel better, but worry if they got the right person or all of them” said Jayleene Garrett a freshmen.” See more on this story in next week’s issue of the Haysville Times.
By Sara Loffland
The Haysville Times
Weve all heard of the word Cancer, and most of us have felt the havoc it wreaks on our lives. Many groups have been created to help patients deal with the tragedy that is cancer. One particular group has caught the interest of our very own USD 261 This group is the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. This society is having the “Pennies for Patients” fund raiser and the schools of Haysville are taking part in the contributions.
Campus and the Alternative High Schools will be raising money for the next three weeks. The fundraiser officially began last Monday and will end on March 16. Of course the students are being given a little incentive for donating but most of the donations come from the heart. Some of the prizes they will be receiving are; a pasta lunch for the classroom that donates the most money with the school that raises the most money getting a new 27″ TV.
Prizes arent the only incentive for the students, the truth of what these diseases do, is also what makes the students donate. Some facts about the cancers that this society is associated with are that Leukemia remains the leading cause of death in children and young adults under the age of 20, a five-year survival rate for non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma has risen from 47% to 60%, and blood-related cancers will strike up to 114,530 kids which is every five minutes. Plus, every 10 minutes someone dies from a blood related cancer. All these facts have touched the hearts of the students in USD 261, and now they will raise money so that the survival rate can hopefully keep going up. Keep reading the Haysville Times every week for further updates.
By Kimberly Garrett
The Haysville Times
Parents who have children attending Campus High School received the notice, printed below, on Wednesday, nearly a week after the school had received a threatening note on February 23. According to a tip, called into the Haysville Times by a parent of a CHS student, the school had not notified parents of the threat because of the purported difficulty in reaching all of the parents. Letters were finally sent out after the media had been made aware of the situation.
“We take a chance with our students every time we send them to the school” said Wanda Dunn a parent of a sophomore. According to students, school officials are telling them that they should still come to school. “I’m scared, we don’t know when it’s going to happen, our school is open and easy to get around”, said Jackie Loffland a Junior. Sandy Bradshaw Community Relations Coordinator for the district, has said that extra security is being looked into at this time.
By Cathy Loffland
The Haysville Times
Dr. Stephen Schneider, whose medical clinic is located on south Broadway in Haysville, is back in the news. Schneider is facing multiple allegations of medical malpractice. It was February of 2004 when Schneider’s clinic first came under scrutiny from the Federal Government due to more than one complaint of malpractice allegedly involving the over prescription of medications to his patients.
Larry Wall, the lawyer for the plaintiff’s in the Schneider cases, appeared in court on Tuesday to ask a judge to allow the ten lawsuits, pending against Dr. Schneider, to be consolidated into a single case. In the ten cases pending against Schneider, there are seven wrongful deaths and three serious injury suits.
When questioned about the reason for the consolidation request, Wall explained that if these cases go to trial separately they would be equal to a quarter of all civil trials that Sedgwick County handled last year. Another concern for those prosecuting the cases, as explained by Wall, is that “we have board certified Doctors willing to testify on these cases but that do not want to travel to Wichita ten different times.”
Chris Cole, who is one of the defendant’s attorneys, and who spoke on behalf of Dr. Schneider, explained that each case is different. “There is not one uniform standard of care for all the patients,” said Cole.“ “If we were to consolidate these cases we could not expect the jury to keep all the information given to them separate if the trial were to last three or four months or longer.”
After hearing both sides the judge ruled in favor of the defense. “The plaintiffs counsel made an interesting argument” said Judge Friedel, but felt there was potential for too many differences in each case to allow for them to be consolidated.
The earliest case is set to go to trial in October of this year with several of the other cases set to go to trial in 2008 and 2009.
According to remax.com Schneider has listed as for sale, both his practice and the property upon which the practice is situated. The asking price for the property is reportedly 2.3 million, with the asking price for the practice at five million.
By Patricia Barkley
The Haysville Times
One Haysville middle school student has recently received the honor of joining the South Central Kansas Music Educators State Honor Band. Amanda Jones, 13 years old, is an 8th grader at the Haysville Middle School and has been playing the clarinet since the 5th grade, when she was attending Rex Elementary. She started by playing her older sister’s clarinet. She had tried the piano but decided that it wasn’t the right instrument for her.
In order to join the State Honor Band, Jones first had to record several songs at school and send the recording to the band committee. She was the only student chosen from Haysville to participate in the Honor Band concert.
The songs played by the band will be chosen for them, but Jones’ favorite song to play is “Soul Bossanova,” from the “Austin Powers” movie. When she’s not playing music, she’s playing tennis, which she practices at with her mother. In fact, she was one of the Middle School’s Students of the Month this year. Jones also has a 4.0 GPA, and her favorite subject is math.
This is not Jones’ first time in the spotlight. For the last two years, she has played her clarinet in a Fine Arts program through her church, in which the group with the highest score goes on to the national competition in Indianapolis.
Jones says she is very excited about playing for the Honor Band, though. Next month, she will travel to Lawrence, KS, with her parents, to perform in a concert with the rest of the students from around the state who made it into the band. Congratulations, Amanda!
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