Bonner Springs Chieftain (Newspaper) - July 13, 2006, Bonner Springs, Kansas 24 75 GEMS SERVING BONNER EDWARDSVILLE AND THE KAW VALLEY SINCE 1896 THURSDAY JULY SPOUTS fill All Star Welcome The Kansas City get set to host the 2006 Northern League All Star Game Obsolete but beloved Brothers demonstrate antique farm machinery at Ag Halls Farm Heritage Days yards crying for relief in persistent statewide drought CAROLINE BOYER Recent spurts of rain havent quite been enough to catch the area up on its usual average and residents will need to watch their trees and for signs of Local and state experts say that while conditions arent as bad as they were two and three years low rainfall is still affecting the Because the state has had such dry years in the they say short periods of drought can have a big effect on the Mary state climatologist with Kansas State said the most uptodate figures show that in Northeast Kansas received inches of just 34 percent of the average inches the area The numbers are a little more encouraging for 2006 as a Since the beginning of the the region has gotten inches of 64 percent of the average of Knapp said isolated intense rain storms have led to different rainfall lev els across the even within the same The differences are apparent in one western Kansas county Knapp has One location in the county had dou ble their normal and two other See Page 6A WORK IN PROGRESS KEVIN CITY PROJECT Manager Matt Beets said the work on the Kansas Highway 7Kansas Highway 32 interchange should be finished an just over a The project was delayed for a few weeks because of the need to deal with Beets said that barring unforeseen problems such as bad the project should be finished by the third week in Work begins on signal JESSE TRUESDALE The proj ect to instal 1 a stoplight at the intersections of the exit and entrance ramp Kansas Highway 7 with Kansas Highway 32 continues Work had been scheduled to begin May but was delayed by the need to move underground and finally began July New City Proj ect Manager Matt Beets said the work should be finished in just over a Things are moving Beets said He succeeded current pub lic works director Kevin Barring unforeseen problems such as bad the project should be finished by the third week in Beets An engineer from George Butler and Asso who declined to give his name is over See 3A City Council OKs library bond vote Residents to be asked to approve sales tax for project JESSE TRUESDALE Few Bonner Springs City Council Meetings could be called But in terms of its potential impact on the citys thats what Mondays meeting according to Mayor Clausie Thats because the Council voted to have a special election in which Bonner Springs voters will decide whether they want the city to issue a bond and institute a sales tax to pay for a million Some 20 or 30 supporters of the library filled the audience seats for the The supporters were mem bers of the Friends of the Library and the newly formed Library Lovers com which will work to inform the public and to promote a yes vote on the ballots two The sole public opinion presented in the Council meeting was in the form of a photocopied email message from Bruce owner of Coleman In the message to Coleman objected to special elec tions on the grounds that they cost the city more because Wyandotte County charges the city the same for administer ing a general election as it does for a special Colemans letter also decried the use of special elections because it smacks of aristocracy rather than because so few voters participate in such he Coleman wrote that in the election for the school bond last year the choice to spend million was based on the votes of a few HIAT See Page 3A Edwardsville Council strips mayor of powers The Edwardsville City Council passed a charter ordinance Monday that strips the mayors power to hire and fire city officers without the consent of the Acting in the absence of Mayor Stephanie who was ill and unable to attend the the Coun cil voted 40 to adopt the Council member Jennifer Burnett was also ill and unable to be The Council acted after two executive sessions totaling about 35 Council members said the action should not be seen as a criticism of Eick This isnt about Mayor Eickhoff or about any member of the said Council member Tim It he just a better way to do the ordinance enacted Monday was similar to one the mayor attempted to veto May Her veto was overridden by the the Council agreed to hold a work session July 24 to review plans for a potential Riverview development with a local David one of the property owners asked the Council to schedule the The meeting was approved by a 40 The 75minute work session will begin at 6 July 24 at the Edwardsville Community That is the same day as the next regularly scheduled Council at Assman spoke on behalf of the devel Scott Gaskell of 110th Street Cor ridor Development Gaskell was out of town due to a death in the Assman Assman said the meeting was sug gested by city planner Dan Van City Administrator Doug Spangler reminded Council members although they might review Assmans and there would be nothing to vote on at the conclusion of See Page 3A Relay for Life planned July 2122 JESSE TRUESDALE The David Jaynes Field at Bonner Springs High School will be the site next week for a night of remembering and The Relay For an event to benefit the American Can cer will begin with a survivor rally at 6 for can cer survivors and the regular rally at 7 About 40 teams will field at least one person to be walking or running on the track throughout the with each team and team member raising money through Linda Long has cochaired the Bonner Springs Relay For Life for four but this year shell bring a new outlook to it this Shell be among the having been diag nosed with breast cancer last January and having undergone surgery and radiation treatment in The of the events start and finish is not Long Beginning before she is supposed to allow you to see what its Its daylight when you start and as evening progresses you get tired and it gets darker as the night goes until finally the sun comes up and the relay finishes about an hour That cycle is meant to mirror the state of mind of someone diagnosed with cancer as they go from a normal life to facing their to summoning the confidence to and then continuing on until they can feel optimistic Besides the actual Long there are activities for participants throughout the such as a poker lap and a scavenger RLE PHOTO THE KAW Valley Relay for Life returns to the David Jaynes Field at Bonner Springs High School on July The annu al fundraiser for the American Cancer Society hopes to raise this The highlight will be the luminary in which par light candles set in paper bags around the edge of the with names written on the bag of people who have either survived or lost the battle with See Page 3A CALL US 913 4224048 FAX 913 4224233 EMAIL
