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Eudora Students honored as Kansas Scholars
Photo courtesy The Eudora School District
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Thirteen Eudora High School seniors were named Kansas Honors Scholars at a ceremony on Sept. 21.
The Kansas Honors Scholars program recognizes high school seniors who rank in the top ten percent of their class and is a program of the KU Alumni Association.
Eudora students qualifying as Kansas Honors Scholars this year are Katelyn Abel, Anna Berthelsen, Bria Carder, Kate Dennis, Madeline Dickerson, Lacey Gabriel, Derrick Higgins, Auston Katzfey, Matthew Kelso, Victoria Lehmann, Brock Miller, Whitney Weld and Morgan Wiley.
Regulars return to Eudora CPA picnic
Sticking around for the Eudora CPA Picnic parade Friday were sisters Holly, 5, left, and Lexi, 2,the daughters of Bryan and Carrie Baumann of Eudora. The girls rode their stick horses toward the start of the parade. (photo by Richard Gwin, courtesy the Lawrence Journal World)
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Story by Joe Preiner of the Lawrence Journal-World
The heat may have affected the number of people who attended Eudora’s annual CPA picnic Friday evening, but it didn’t do much to discourage the ones who showed up.
With temperatures still in the mid-90s Friday night, several hundred Eudora and area residents made the trip to CPA Park near Ninth and Main streets to take in the sights and sounds of the 103rd event. The CPA, which stands for the Cattlemen’s Protective Association, was formed in the 19th century to protect Eudora from cattle rustlers and horse thieves.
Veterans of the yearly event included seventh-grader Ethan Leahew and friends Nick Dreiling, a fourth-grader, and Dakota Bruner, a fifth-grader. The Eudora locals took a break from rides to hydrate and rest. They sat against a backdrop of carnival ride lights courtesy of the Mind Winder, the Zipper and the classic Ferris Wheel. The trio of friends lamented about the final day at the picnic.
“This is probably our last day coming here,” said Nick, who thought the crowd was noticeably smaller.
Apart from the numerous rides, which drew most of the attention, Friday’s festivities included food, live music and a parade for children riding nonmotorized vehicle of varying styles.
Bill Elmer attended the CPA picnic with his grandchildren, some of whom are former residents of Eudora and yearly attendees. Jenna Elmer said she’d been going to the picnic for the past several years.
“It’s always something different,” fourth-grader Jenna said.
Parents mingled amid children who darted around and between the various rides and games brought into town by Toby’s Carnival Inc. The traveling carnival business makes the stop in Eudora yearly as part of its seven-month season.
The picnic events will continue today with the grand parade, rides, food and games. The grand parade is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m., with registration starting an hour before in the Laws Field parking lot at 16th and Elm streets.
(Editor’s Note: We will have parade pictures and recaps of Saturdays festivities here on Eudorareporter.com. If you have some pictures from this years event you wish to share, you can email them to editor@eudorareporter.com.)
Kids Day Done Cainan’s Way
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A benefit will held on Saturday June 25, for the family of Cainan Shutt. Shutt was the 5-year-old boy killed in a crossover accident on K-10 on April 16 just east of the Church Street exit. The benefit will be held in CPA Park in downtown Eudora. The festivities will get under way at 9:00AM.
all the video game and trailer
blowup obstable course slide and obstacle course
blow up hamster balls
J hawk
Hot air balloon on ground
cycle ride to Tongie – Desoto
cycle show
250 for 1st 100 2nd
Kids pick winner
other surprises possibly in store
food/drinks
We have A KIDS DAY DONE CAINAN’S WAY!!! LOCATION: CPA picnic park in Eudora DATE: June 25, 2011 TIME: 9AM – 5:00PM. There will be kids blowup toys to play in, shaved ice, the company GAMES 2 U. and weather permitting there will be air balloon to view, Motorcycle ride and bike show. The petition to get the cross-over cables/median barriers installed on K-10 will also be there!!! -Thank you for your support.-Tina
Remember those who have gone on before us
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Today is the day that we honor the men and women who gave their lives in the cause of freedom of our country.
I had written a short piece about Memorial Day and the significance of it. Shortly after I had put my fingers to the keyboard, I read a piece a friend of mine wrote. His words better describe the day and what Memorial Day is all about.
Eric Potts is a Police Detective in New Jersey. With his permission, I am sharing his words with you.
Memorial Day is a great time to spend with the family. It is, after all, the unofficial start of summer. Trips down the Jersey shore, BBQs, Parties, a weekend of great fun celebrating the re-birth of all the trees, flowers, and, in essence, ourselves as we reawaken from our winter doldrums and get outside to enjoy the weather. I appreciate all of you that sent me personal notes thanking me for serving, however, that is what Veterans Day is for I am proud to have served but I survived…this is a day of honoring our fallen Soldiers, Marines, Sailors and Airmen.
Many of us, not everyone, forget what the day is all about and really what the weekend is all about. Memorial Day is our chance as Americans to remember all those that died in the service of our Country…we can’t thank them personally, they’ve already passed on, but we can and should remember those that bravely gave their lives so that you and I can live free.
I could very easily write about this in detail, but a speech was already written and delivered by a US President that sums up what Memorial Day is all about. It wasn’t written specifically about Memorial Day, it was a “few appropriate remarks” at the dedication of a Cemetery in Pennsylvania that has become one of the greatest speeches ever written. If you’ve never read the Gettysburg Address, or paid attention to what its says-please do and at some point this weekend remember those that bravely defended you and those who’s names will, unfortunately, be added to a as yet to be built War Memorial in Washington honoring those that died and will die in our current war! God Bless The USA!
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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Editors Note:
We wish to thank all veterans and especially those who died defending our freedom. May God smile upon those who gave the ultimate sacrifice.
Eudora Police Officer heading to Joplin
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Story by George Diepenbrock – courtesy the Lawrence Journal World
Eric Garcia, a Eudora police officer, arrived Tuesday morning in Joplin, Mo., to assist law enforcement and emergency management personnel dealing with the aftermath of a tornado that destroyed much of the city on Sunday.
The police department originally planned to send an officer to assist with tornado recovery in Reading in Lyon County, where a tornado struck on Saturday. But Sgt. Tom Willis, a police spokesman, said Joplin had a major need for law enforcement officers. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said Tuesday morning that the death toll was 117, making it the nation’s single deadliest twister in 60 years.
Willis said it’s possible the department would send help to Reading later.
