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Special to the L&T

LPD offers helpful safety advice for holiday shoppers

Always be aware of your surroundings,
lock vehicle doors and keep purchases
with you until shopping is complete
By ELLY GRIMM
Leader & Times
The holiday shopping season has begun, and
with that, there are some precautions shoppers
should take while out looking for those perfect
gifts.
The main thing is to be aware of your
surroundings, know whats around you, dont
turn a blind eye to things, Liberal Police

Department Lieutenant Jared Ratzlaff said.

When you go in shopping, of course youll be
in your vehicle, so lock your doors when you go
in and other precautions along those lines to
keep yourselves safe. Then after youve done
your shopping, everyone goes from one store
to the next, dont throw your purchases in the
backseat or in the back of the pickup where
people can see, because thats basically window
shopping for potential criminals at that point.
If you throw a brand-new TV in the backseat
and people can see what it is, its tempting for
the potential criminals to try and break in and

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Hobble steps down as SCCC Trustee

Seward County Community
College

The
Seward
County
Community College Board of
Trustees met as a board of five
Monday night. After nearly
20 years of service, longtime
trustee Sharon Hobble
submitted her letter of resignation.
Family matters and other
considerations have prompted
this action, Hobbles letter
stated. The institution has
been and continues to be of
primary importance to me.

accept Hobbles resignation,

pending the appointment of a
replacement trustee to
complete her term, which
expires in 2017.
It was hard for me to read
Sharons resignation letter last
night, said SCCC Board
Chair Ron Oliver. Shes been
an
outstanding
board
member, and I really hate to
lose her.
Hobbles departure marks
the end of her familys
decades of formal service to

HOBBLE
The board voted unanimously with regret, to

The Christmas Blast and Pancakes with Santa will be from 9

a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Mid-America Air
Museum.
The fee into the carnival games will be $3.
A variety of carnival games and bingo will be
played with lots of prizes to be given away.
Refreshments will be served. Pictures
with Santa by E.M. Photography.
Picture packets will be
available.
For more information please contact
the Recreation Office during
regular business hours, 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. weekdays at 626-0133.

LEADER
&TIMES
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DEC. 7, 2016

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CITY ON A HILL

CERTIFIED
Kansas Attorney General Schmidt
announced the City On A Hill was fully
compliant with state standards of the
Batterer Intervention Program

Page 5

Groendyke to find,
expand new home
By ROBERT PIERCE
Leader &Times
The year 2016 began like any other for Liberals
Groendyke Transport terminal, but less than two weeks
into the new year, an explosion knocked portions of one
of the buildings at the facility out of use.
With 2017 soon on the horizon, the terminal will likely
be looking at a
new home not
too far from its
old one thanks to
a vote Monday
from the Seward
C o u n t y
Commission.
After nearly an
hour-long
discussion,
commissioners
voted to allow the
issuance of industrial
revenue
bonds
(IRBs)
DIEPENBROCK
with 100 percent
tax abatement for 10 years, along with a payment in lieu
of taxes (PILOT) plan for each of those 10 years. The
commission also voted unanimously to allow Groendyke
to expand its facility.
Prior to the vote, officials from both the county and
Groendyke spoke about the matter, starting with county
counsel Dan Diepenbrock, who talked about a prior
workshop on the issue with Groendyke officials, stating
there had been no action on the item.
Diepenbrock said the commission needed to agree to
issue IRBs for $2.5 million as Groendyke had requested.
That will include a 10-year 100 percent tax
exemption, he said. The proposed resolution involved
a payment in lieu of taxes, payment in lieu of the 100
percent abatement for 10 years. You need to decide on
that, whether youre going to do one and if so, how
much.
Diepenbrock said once that decision had been made,
the commission could have a public hearing on the item.
You need to make the decision, he said. Are we
going to issue these bonds which will include a 10-year
100 percent abatement? Is there going to be a PILOT,
and if so, what are the terms of the PILOT? You cant
issue bonds to anybody that walks in and asks for them.

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Judge issues
temporary
restraining order
against business
Dorothys House,
Coronado Museum,
Land of Oz to celebrate
Christmas Open House
Special to the L&T

The Seward County Historical Society will be

celebrating a Christmas Open House following the
membership and annual meeting at 1:30 p.m.
Sunday, with special guest speaker Betty Jane
Buchanan.
The Christmas Open House will be celebrated
from 2 to 4 p.m. with music and holiday refreshments.
The festivities will take place at Dorothys House,
Coronado Museum and the Land of Oz at 567 E.
Cedar St. in Liberal. For further information, call
624-7624.

Southwest Symphony
Society Orchestra to present
Do You Hear What I Hear?

This October 2015 photo provided by the Culinary Institute of America shows Snickerdoodle cookies in Hyde
Park, N.Y. The sugar cookies zre rolled in cinnamon-sugar before being baked. Phil Mansfield/Culinary Institute of
America via AP

Christmas cookies a 4generation family tradition

They started by scribbling down names
of 19 species of cookies they planned
to bake: sugar cookies, butterscotch,
cinnamon nut, walnut butter balls,
Santa Claus faces, cinnamon pecan
pinwheels and more
By ROYWENZL
TheWichita Eagle

Special to the L&T

The Southwest Symphony Society Orchestra will

present its Christmas concert Do You Hear What I
Hear? at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, at the Showcase Theater
at Seward County Community College, under the
direction of Conductor Charles Jeffrey. The talented
group of local musicians in the orchestra will be
joined by the Seward County Community College
Choir and the Turpin High School Choir. Admission
is a free-will donation and refreshments will be
served.
This concert marks the debut of Jeffrey as the
orchestra conductor.
We are thrilled to have Charlie as our new
conductor, said Kay Burtzloff, president of the
Southwest Symphony Society. He brings a strong

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WICHITA (AP) Make a note: If youre going to

bake 670 or so Christmas cookies, it will cost you $250
at Costco for 45 cups of flour and roughly 50 other ingredients: nutmeg, sugar, brown sugar, red sugar, green
sugar, red hot cinnamon, almond extract and more.
And if youre the proudly Polish-American
Augustyniewicz family of west Wichita, it also takes six
Augustyniewiczs working all waking hours for two days,
including two Augustyniewiczs flying in to carry on more
than 70 years of tradition while wielding a certain 70year-old set of cheap red plastic cookie cutters that four
generations of the Augustyniewicz family have used
since the 1940s, The Wichita Eagle reports.
They started by scribbling down names of 19 species
of cookies they planned to bake: sugar cookies, butterscotch, cinnamon nut, walnut butter balls, Santa Claus
faces, cinnamon pecan pinwheels and more.

Vol. 131 Iss. 201 10 Pa ges

Mark and Marna Kagele Augustyniewicz spent $400

on those round-trip tickets from Seattle. They joined
Frank, Cathy, Jonathan and Elise Augustyniewicz on
Friday.
On Saturday, Cathys west Wichita kitchen smelled
like Christmas.
A baking history
The first Augustyniewicz family Christmas cookies
were made in 1940s Chicago by Stanley Augustyniewicz
Sr. for members of the extended Augustyniewicz family.
The cookies became such a family Christmas tradition
as to be held almost sacred by the Augustyniewiczs, who
have baked now for parts or all of eight decades.
It kind of binds us all together as a family, Frank
Augustyniewicz said.
Theyve managed to do this without accidents or
injuries, or accidentally inhaling powdered sugar, or
any family feud blow-ups, Cathy Augustyniewicz said on
Saturday. We all get along, so the only thing we do is talk
(behind the backs) of the ones who are not here, Cathy
said.
Marna Kagele and Mark Augustyniewicz believed so
much in the tradition that they flew to Wichita from
Seattle this week to help Frank and Cathy and 11-yearold Elise and 16-year-old Jonathan bake.
I knew about the cookies because weve been getting
them for years, Marna said.
Stanley Sr. made 200 cookies that first 1940s Chicago
Christmas. Its a number that three generations of his
Augustyniewicz descendants now view as small potatoes

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HUTCHINSON (AP) A Reno County

judge has temporarily blocked a South
Hutchinson business from reselling a pair of
machines that purport to assist in body
healing amid an ongoing legal dispute.
The Hutchinson News reports that the
temporary restraining order issued last week
also prohibits Greg Dovel and his company,
Energy Genesis of Kansas, from revealing
confidential information about the machines.
The order comes in a lawsuit filed by
Beaver Creek LLC, which says it sold the
machines to Dovel for $40,000 each. The suit
alleges Dovel agreed to buy 12 machines and
later indicated he would sell the two he had
and proprietary information to a Beaver
Creek competitor.
Dovel says he never agreed to buy more
machines. He says hes negotiating to settle
the lawsuit.

Oklahoma City
Zoo announces
birth of giraffe
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) The
Oklahoma City Zoo has announced the birth
of a male giraffe.
The zoo said Tuesday that the giraffe calf
was born Monday to a 16-year-old female
named Ellie and
stands
more
than five feet
tall.
The calfs
father,
Bogy, died
in October
2015. The
average
gestation
period for a giraffe
is 15 months.
The zoo did not announce a name for the
giraffe calf, but said he can sometimes be
seen in the giraffe yard from mid-morning
through early afternoon.

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