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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 2008
Page
1
Drasye Rivas is pictured with his uncle Brandon Nunez hanging out together in a casual moment. The scene captures family bonds and a relaxed, informal gathering.
A 17 year old Garden City boy, Joaquin Deanda, was arrested on first degree murder rape and other charges in connection with the death of 16 year old Julia Quintana. Quintana’s body was found in a Dumpster behind Deanda’s home after she went missing the prior weekend. Evidence from the autopsy indicated suffocation a broken neck and sexual assault. Deanda is detained at the Southwest Juvenile Detention Center and detectives continue to search his residence and the victim’s mother’s vehicle.
At First United Methodist Church on Main Street a nativity re-enactment unfolds on the lawn with angels, Mary, Joseph and wise men. Young actors in robes braved 19 degree cold as a live choir performed the Christmas story five times for churchgoers and passersby.
Norma Ragel 81 plans Christmas well ahead each year crafting 30 homemade stockings. Displayed in two rows along her Kansas Avenue mantel, she has lived in Garden City since 1956 and devotes herself to needlework from wedding and birth announcements to pictures. She was the youngest of four sisters in a family rich in embroidery and sewing.
The article recalls how Angel and her husband Bill started aging Christmas stockings in 1945 with simple socks. Their daughter Sheilah received the first stockings about 30 years ago for her child, now aged 31, as neighbors reflect on thrift and festive family traditions.
The Garden City Telegram recalls the 2008 Ulysses tragedy that killed four sophomore girls Myranda Mason Veronika McDaniel Victoria Dowell and Julia Alcala when a car failed to yield at Stubbs Road and US 160. The driver Jennifer Longfellow survived. Community grief and school event cancellations followed as memorials and lime green ribbons appeared in town.
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