Basehor Sentinel (Newspaper) - October 25, 2007, Basehor, Kansas online Sentinel October Road raio lands woman in Damns land dross country ends erW LARA CHRISTINA and Baily both members of the Basehor Linwood High School Dazzlers Dance will be performing next month in New York at the Macys Thanksgiving Day dancers ready to shine on trip to LARA HASTINGS Two members of the wood High School Dazzlers Dance Team are excited to be New York Baily a and Christina a will be spending their Thanksgiving holiday performing in the Macys Thanksgiving Day The girls earned their parade spot by winning a special award lor their hip hop duet performed at Kansas a dance and drill team competition con ducted every January at Olathe East High We went to competition last January and won Best in Class for our Self Anybody that receives that award has the chance to While the two nearly lifelong dancers know the importance of their duet was an Selfs older a Dazzler and parade gave them a crash phy course just two weeks before they were set to perform the Even See page 6A Bond issue voting comes to an end JOHN TAYLOR Voters in School district still have time to partici pate in a million school bond ref but the deadline is approaching Ballots in the mailin referendum must be returned to the Leavenworth County Clerks Office by noon today to be counted in the The district is asking voters to approve constructing a new third through elementary school for a new middle school for six additional classrooms and renovations at Glenwood Ridge Ele mentary School for reno at Linwood Elementary for and a new soccer field for The Clerks Office mailed out ballots earlier this month to registered See page 6A Check out where election results will be posted as soon as they are made Growth may spur Victory Junction revitalization THIS DOUGH BOY statue sits outside the Leavenworth County Court The stat which once the inter section at Victory Junction on Kansas Highway was one of a series of artworks ed to fallen sol diers of World War New growth in Wyandotte County has led NASCAR driver Kyle Petty to consider a Victory Junction Gang Camp in the Kansas City MIKE BELT Its called Victory but the only thing reminding people about the site now is a shuttered restaurant that at one time bore the same It used to be quite a busy said Jim a volunteer at the Wyandotte County There used to be a dough boy statue right in the middle of the intersec In the placement of the statue brought the intersection at Parallel Parkway and Kansas Highway 7 special recognition as a memorial to World War I Located in Wyandotte adjacent to the County Parallel Parkway then was Highway And built to connect New York with San was called in honor of those same fallen At the statues one of the speakers was Wilder of a veteran of the The original plan in Kansas was to have a work of art at every place the highway crossed a county Masson They never got all the way across But memorial artworks did get built in Douglas and Shawnee For a sculpture called The Eagle presided at a roadside park near the Douglas Leavenworth County line at the inter section of 40 and Kansas High way Another Eagle was placed at the Coun ty In the eagle was moved to outside Kansas Dyche home of the Museum of Natural The sec ond eagle was moved to Gage A third eagle is in In the doughboy statue was moved from Victory Junction to the front lawn of the Leaven worth County Courthouse in A BUSTLING JUNCTION Victory Junction was once a bustling Masson There were bars and gaso line There was even a fullscale model of a Dutch During World War buses loaded with newly inducted soldiers heading to Fort Leav enworth stopped so the men could Masson But sometime in the late Highway 40 was moved about a mile south to State Avenue and its current which leads into Masson JOHN See page 6A Rhode Island mans eBay transaction spurs Basehor probe SHAWN LINENBERGER A sketchy eBay transaction has pushed a 48yearold Rhode Island man to request a police investigation in Basehor Police Chief Terry Horner said the from con him recently because a 28year old Basehor man did not follow through on his end of a guitar In early the man agreed through the online auction site to pur chase a guitar from the Basehor man for nearly Horner The Rhode Island man sent the check but never received the Horner contacted the suspects moth who lives in about the inci She knew her son was attempting to sell the but was unaware he had not sent out the The suspects name is Martin Lewis Mootz whom Horner said already is wanted by Basehor Police on bench warrants for on two separate cases one for failure to pay fines on expired tags and driving with a suspended license and a second one for driving with a suspended Regarding the eBay Horner said he would be a theft warrant from Leavenworth Coun ty Attorney Frank When selling or buying pn the company requires security Mootz used his mothers credit card as which she was aware Horner mother has since contacted eBay and let them know although her credit card was she was not v Horner said this investigation is the first hes ever known regarding which he said has strict regulations for purchasing through its Heres a prime example where you think everything is secure and a guy sends a cashiers check to the city of Horner and five weeks later is asking for police intervention all the way from Rhode Island to solve how things went wrong on this end of the eBay I guess youre never safe when youre purchasing Anyone with information regarding whereabouts is asked to contact Horner at the police 724 FUEL COSTS SPUR COUNTY SURCHARGE Waste hauler passing on 3A INSIDE CROSSWORD CALLUS TELEPHONE 913 7241887 4224233