Haysville Online

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!

By Cathy Loffland
The Haysville Times

Terry Bergen and Luther Holloway were working in a shop behind Bergen’s Aunt Barbara Chandler’s house. They decided to quit working around midnight and walked out of the shop and noticed more smoke coming out the house than just from the fireplace. Bergen and Holloway went in the house to make sure Bergen’s aunt was okay.
The living room was engulfed in flames. Bergen was the first one in the door to start looking for Bergen’s aunt, and they got seperated. Holloway went outside to call 911 and get help.
“We never even gave it a second thought that we were putting our lives at risk when we first went in the home,” said Holloway.
Holloway went back into the house and started looking for his friend and his friend’s aunt. He had to go back out a couple of time to get air.
Holloway headed to the back of the house and found Bergen lying on the floor and dragged him out of the house. Bergen was unconscious, and his skin was burnt off from the waist up. Bergen came to so he could tell his friend that he had found his aunt and had a hold of her until he collapsed.
The fire marshall calls this an act of heroism. “If anybody is the hero, Terry is the hero,” said Holloway.
Holloway feels bad because he was able to save his friend but could not save Chandler.
Bergen is in the Burn Unit at St. Francis Hospital. The doctors gave him a five percent chance to live, and Holloway says his friend is a fighter and will make it.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to Bergen and his family.

Haysville – Bonds for New Library

YES …… 1180 / 50%
NO …… 1139 / 49%

By Emily Davis
The Haysville Times

On November 3rd, and 4th the Haysville Friends of the Library will be putting on their annual Mystery Dinner Theater production. This will be the tenth year that they will be performing an original play to benefit the Haysville Library. The deadline to purchase tickets will be November 2nd. Admission prices will be $25 per couple or $15 for an individual. Children under 12 are $10. All proceeds will go toward the Friends of the Library fund which is supporting the bond issue on this years ballot about the library expansion. The production will take place at the Haysville United Methodist Church, 601 E. Grand. This will be the third year at this location.
This year’s play, “Spunky and the Haysville Gang!”, should be a great time and will be sure to entertain. Just think Little Rascals’ Our Gang with some Haysville warp. Spunky (played by Marion Renner) is the leader of a marble playing gang of kids and is accused of a crime. Is he guilty? What will happen? This is a true “who dun it“ that you won’t want to miss.
The eight person cast is filled with Haysville’s veterans to the stage. Renner works as a supervisor of the student teachers at Newman University. The play’s director is Joe Perkins, whose day job is that of a flight instructor. This is his first year directing but second year being in the play. He will make his stage appearance this year as the dog Lucky, the faithful friend to Mr. Clean played by Haysville Times’ own Ray Racobs. Racobs is a fourth year veteran to the stage. Joetta Branch who plays ragweed, is a fifth year veteran. When Branch isn’t pursuing the stage, she is a Noninvasive Cardiac Tech (a.k.a. EKG Tech) at Via Christi Medical Center. Zoe Burgess who plays Lilly is also a fifth year veteran. She works as an Executive Assistant with the Warren Theater Co. Anna Perkins, wife of Director Joe Perkins, is an Executive Assistant at Galaxy Audio and appears in the play as Mrs. Crow. Anna is one of the two first timers. Lyn Worrell is President of the Friends of the Library and is the other first timer to the stage. She will be playing the part of Darla Karla. Marion Renner, as Spunky, is the true veteran with ten years of directing and performing.
Tickets are on sale now at the Haysville Community Library.

By Staff
The Haysville Times

Lisa Hyde was the Grand Prize Winner of the First Annual Haysville Times Hometown Sweepstakes. She received $250 cash from Publisher CJ Cross and Circulation Manager/Sales Director Cathy Loffland on Wednesday morning. The three Runner-Up Winners were Lori Terrell, John Darbyshire, and Betty Hoppock. They each received $50. Congratulations! Look for another chance to win in next years Hometown