Community Calendar

July 1-31 New Strawn Branch Li-brary - Fiber arts, Tuesdays at 5 p.m. Movie days, Fri-days at 1:30 p.m. Children’s storytime, Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. Discovery time, Fri-days at 10:30 a.m., except first Friday of the month. K-4 Summer reading activi-ties, Tuesdays at 1:30 p.m., Thursdays at 10:30 a.m.

LeRoy Branch Library - Boredom busters bingo, kids K-4, 11:00 a.m., Fridays. Story hour, 10:30 a.m., Mon-days. Crochet class, Tues-days at 10 a.m. Arts and crafts, Wednesdays at 10 a.m., ages 6-9. Chair danc-ing, Tuesday and Thurs-days at 9 a.m.

Lebo Branch Library - Wii bowling and popcorn, 1:30-3 p.m., Thursdays. Senior exercise, 10 a.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays. Tai Chi, Mondays at 1 p.m.

Burlington Branch Library - Trading card game day, Tuesdays at 5 p.m. Story-time for children 0-PreK, Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. Twisted Threads fiber arts group, 5 p.m. Wednesdays. S.T.A.R. club young adult summer reading, 1:30 p.m., Wednesdays. Summer read-ing, K-4th grade, 1:30 p.m., Thursdays.

Gridley Branch Library - Chair dancing, Mondays and Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. Fizz boom read for preschoolers, 10:30 a.m. on Wednesdays, except last two Wednesdays of month. Fizz boom ready for gradeschool-ers, 1 p.m. on Thursdays, except last two Thursday of month. Fizz boom read for young adults, Thursdays at 2 p.m., except last two Thursdays of month.

Eagles 3577 Bingo - Wednes-day nights at 7 p.m., 317 Neosho, Burlington.

July 11 Free outdoor movie, “Monsters University,” at dusk at Waverly City Park. LeRoy Branch Library - Book discussion, “Love Lift-ed Me” by Sara Evans, 9:30 a.m. Bicycle safety course with Deputy Jeremy Lind, 10 a.m., all ages. Waverly Branch Library - Friday movie mornings, 10 a.m., “Weather Kid Sid.”

July 13-17 Trinity Lutheran Church vacation Bible school, 6-8 p.m. Ages three through fifth grade.

July 13 Burlington Senior Center free dance, 6-9 p.m. Bring a finger food to share. Awana sponsored pool party, free and open to the community, 6-8 p.m. at Wa-verly City Pool.

July 14 Elmendaro Township Li-brary - Movie Monday, 6 p.m. Burlington Branch Li-brary - Diabetes Support Group meeting, 10 a.m. Gridley Branch Library - Prayer shawl group meet-ing, 2 p.m. Fiber arts group meeting, 1 p.m. New Strawn Branch Li-brary - 4-H science tech trunk robotics, 1:30 p.m., kids ages K-4. LeRoy Branch Library - Wood craft class with Mr. Lee, ages 9-12, registration required, 1:30 p.m.

July 15 Elmendaro Township Li-brary - Children’s program, robots, 10 a.m. Gridley Branch Library - Nutrition with Janae, mak-ing ice cream, 11 a.m. LeRoy Branch Library - Wii bowling with Seniors, 1 p.m. Brown bag bingo, 11:15 a.m. Burlington Branch Li-brary - Bob Dole visit, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

July 16 Lebo Branch Library - Movie on the lawn at dark, 9-9:15 p.m.

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WANTED The Coffey County Repub-lican and the Coffey County Sheriff’s Office are asking for assistance in lo-cating a wanted person. Hector Luis Gomez is be-ing sought on a warrant for failure to comply with conditions of probation on the original charge of dis-tributing marijuana. He is a 24-year-old male, 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 220 pounds. He has brown eyes and

black hair. He was last known to be living in Emporia. The public should not make any at-tempt to appre-hend or detain Gomez. If you have in-formation as to

his location, please call Crime Stoppers at (620) 364-2252 or 1-800-KS-CRIME (1-800-572-7463), if you wish to remain anonymous. Other-wise, call the Coffey County Sheriff’s Office at (620) 364-2123.

Hector Luis Gomez

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USD 244 Board of Education BURLINGTON — The USD 244 Board of Education will meet in regular session at 7 p.m. Monday, July 14, at the administration office for their final meeting of the 2013-2014 school year. The agenda in-cludes: call to order, pledge of allegiance, approval of the minutes of the June 9, 2014 regular meeting and the June 19, 2014 special meeting, ap-proval of the June 2014 bills and transfers, any other old business and adjournment of the 2013-2014 board. The organizational meeting of the 2014-2015 board of edu-cation’s agenda includes: call to order, election of president and vice president, additions and approval of agenda, ap-proval of July 2014 bills, con-cerns of Burlington USD 244 patrons, communications, administrative report, board member items, business items and reports, ground rules, goals for 2014-15, bud-get status report, personnel items, contracts/approvals/appointments, board policies, debriefing and adjournment.

L. Doris Traw, 88, formerly of Emporia, died Sunday, July 6, 2014, at the Windsor Place Care Center, Iola. Lela Doris Williamson, the youngest of 11 children of Arthur Eben and Laura May (Sime) Williamson, was born in rural Hartford Sept. 10, 1925. She married Paul R. Traw at Burlington on April 9, 1944. He died May 4, 1996. Surviving members of the family include three sons, Dennis (Rena) Traw, Empo-ria, Pastor Steven P. Traw, Iola, and Rex B. (Linda) Traw, Tulsa, Okla.; three sisters, Bessie McCartney, Emporia, Lena Griffin, Burlington, and Jean Richards, Torrance, Ca-lif.; six grandchildren, two step-grandchildren, and 22 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, three brothers and four sis-ters. Mrs. Traw worked for In-terstate Bakeries/Dolly Mad-ison Cake in Emporia for 21 years, retiring in 1990.

She graduated from Strawn (Kansas) High School, and was valedictorian of her class of three. She attended Kansas State Normal School (ESU) in Emporia and taught one year in the Otter Creek Elementary School in rural Coffey County. She was a member of Flint Hills Chris-tian Church, Emporia. Funeral services were 2 p.m. Thursday in the Cha-pel of Flint Hills Christian Church, Emporia. The ser-vice was conducted by Pastor Bob Robison, Madison Chris-tian Church. Burial followed in the Strawn Cemetery, Cof-fey County, Kansas. Memorials have been estab-lished with the Allen County Hospice (Iola) or the Emporia Alzheimer’s Support Group. Contributions may be sent in care of Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home, P.O. Box 175, Emporia, Kansas 66801. Online condolences for the family may be left at the fu-neral home web site, www.robertsblue.com.

L. Doris Traw(Sept. 10, 1925-July 6, 2014)

Station 8, New Strawn, re-sponded at 10:34 a.m. July 3 to a vehicle fire at the intersec-tion of 19th and Iris Road. Station 6, Lebo, responded at 5:37 p.m. July 3 to a vehicle accident, general cleanup at mile post 154 on I-35. Station 6, Lebo, responded at 5:15 a.m. July 4 to a grass fire in the 100 block of 4th Street in Lebo. Station 6, Lebo, responded at 5:53 p.m. July 4 to a medi-cal assist in the 100 block of Broadway Street in Lebo. Station 6, Lebo, responded at 7 p.m. July 4 to a standby for fireworks in the 2600 block of Emmer Road. Station 6, Lebo, responded at 8:55 p.m. July 4 to a medical assist on I-35. Station 6, Lebo, responded at 6:40 a.m. July 5 to a stand-by in the 600 block of Ogden Street in Lebo. Station 5, LeRoy, responded at 3:33 p.m. July 5 to a medical assist in the 600 block of 10th Street in LeRoy. Station 6, Lebo, responded at 8:15 a.m. July 6 to a stand-by in the 600 block of Ogden Street in Lebo. Station 3, Burlington and Station 8, New Strawn, re-sponded at 9:18 a.m. July 6 to a vehicle accident at the intersection of 9th and June-berry Road.

Station 8, New Strawn, and Station 3, Burlington, re-sponded at 11:38 a.m. July 7 to a vehicle accident with inju-ries at the intersection of 15th Road and U.S. 75. Station 3, Burlington, re-sponded at 12:27 a.m. July 8 to a power line down at the intersection of 12th and Shet-land Rd. Station 8, New Strawn and Station 3, Burlington, re-sponded at 11:25 a.m. July 8 to a vehicle accident south of 20th Rd. on U.S. 75. Station 8, New Strawn and Station 3, Burlington, re-sponded at 2:16 p.m. July 8 to a smoke detector alarm in the 300 block of 3rd Street in New Strawn. Station 7, Waverly, respond-ed at 12:27 p.m. July 9 to a medical assist in the 400 block of Pearson Street in Waverly.

Theft The theft of two Bushnell trail cameras, a Tasco trail camera and a mule tree deer feeder was reported on July 1. The items were reported to be stolen on June 21 between 5:45 and 6:22 p.m. The theft oc-curred at 775 18th Road, Bur-lington. The estimated value of the items stolen is $399. The victim of the theft is Marc A. Newkirk, Burlington.

Offense report An offense was reported July 7, happening between 9:12 and 11:30 p.m. at Inter-state 35, mile post 154, against the State of Kansas. Offenses occurred included possession of hallucinogenic drug, use/possess with intent to use drug paraphernalia into hu-man body, liquor; purchase/consumption of alcoholic li-quor/CMB by minor and un-lawful use of driver’s license. Description of property found includes one ounce of green, leafy vegetation, four pipes with residue, rolling papers, a scale and a fictitious ID.

Injury accidents Carmen Jolene Scott, 49, Yates Center, was traveling northbound on Hwy. 75, three-tenths mile north of 15th Road, in her 2001 Mercedes when a vehicle in front of her stopped to turn into a private driveway. She did not see the vehicle’s turn signal, and made an evasive turn to the left, putting her in the south-bound lane, where she col-lided with a 2007 Dodge Chal-lenger driven by Casey Wade Green, 32, Burlington. Green and one of his passengers, Al-len Dale Bush, 58, Williams-burg, were both wearing seat belts and were uninjured, but the third passenger, Ralph Lenord Bass, 52, LeRoy, also wearing a seat belt, was transported by ambulance to Coffey County Hospital with possible injuries. Scott and her passengers, Maria V. Ji-menz, 12, Yates Center, and Zeno J. Jimenz, 11, Yates Cen-ter, were wearing seat belts and were uninjured. Both vehicles sustained disabling damage and were removed by a towing company. The ac-cident occurred at 11:35 a.m. Monday, July 7. Stephanie Marie Reavis, 39, Gridley, was traveling north on Juneberry Road, two-

tenths mile north of Ninth Road, when she lost control of her 2001 Ford pickup on the gravel. She left the road-way to the right, crossed back over the center line and ran off the roadway to the left, where she overturned the vehicle, coming to rest on the driver’s side. Reavis was ejected and pinned under the pickup. Reavis was wearing a seat belt, but suffered dis-abling injuries. Her passen-gers, Brenna R. Reavis, 12, Gridley, and Austin W. Rea-vis, 3, Gridley, were properly restrained and received pos-sible injuries. Austin was ex-tracted from the vehicle. The accident occurred at 9 a.m. Sunday, July 6. Reavis’ pick-up received disabling damage and was removed from the scene by a towing company. Michael Kent Bahr, 59, Grid-ley, was driving a 2011 Honda ATV four wheeler at the in-tersection of First Street and Emmer Road, when he lost control and was unable to stop due to excessive speed. He proceeded through the intersection and was ejected from the ATV into a barbed wire fence, damaging the fence and which had to be cut from him to be removed. He fled the scene and was cited the next day. The accident oc-curred at 9:47 p.m. Saturday, July 5. Bahr was injured in the ejection. He was given three citations. The owner of the damage barbed wire fence and bean field is Jared M. Ec-ton, Gridley. Katherine Elizabeth Diehl, 21, Prairie Village, was north-bound on Interstate 35 in the passing lane, 2.8 miles east of Fauna Road, when the 2000 Honda CRV she was driving went off the left shoulder. Diehl overcorrected and lost control, causing the vehicle to enter the right ditch and roll over numerous times. Diehl was wearing a seat belt and suffered disabling inju-ries. Her vehicle, registered to Robert P. Diehl, Prairie Village, was destroyed and towed from the scene. Diehl was estimated to be traveling

at 75 mph at the time of im-pact. The accident occurred at 5:31 p.m. Sunday, June 29.

Van and trailer overturn Kelly S. Orndorff, 49, An-gel Fire, New Mexico, was traveling north on Interstate 35, 1.23 miles west of Hwy. 75, when the 2000 Dodge van she was driving struck tire de-bris on the roadway, causing the trailer she was pulling to swing. She was unable to re-gain control of her vehicle, and it rolled onto the pas-senger side. It is unknown if Orndorff was wearing a seat belt, but she was not injured. Orndorff’s passengers, Logan B. Orndorff, 47, Corey Jane Orndoff, 17, and Abbey Eliza-beth Orndorff, 13, all of An-gel Fire, New Mexico, were wearing seat belts and were uninjured. Property damage to her vehicle, which is reg-istered to Logan B. Orndorff, Angel Fire, New Mexico, and trailer, exceeded $1,000. The accident occurred at 5:40 p.m., Thursday, July 3.

Deer accident Viola R. Wilson, 75, Hart-ford, was driving westbound in a 2008 Cadillac Escalade on 16th Road, two-tenths mile west of Blackbird Lane, when a deer crossed the road in front of her. She struck the deer, which ran away. Property damage to Wilson’s vehicle exceeded $1,000. She was wearing a seat belt and was uninjured. The accident occurred at 4:57 p.m. Monday, June 30.

County Commission BURLINGTON — The Cof-fey County Commission will meet in regular session at 9 a.m. Monday, July 14, at the courthouse. The agenda in-cludes: call to order and flag salute (9 a.m.), emergency management monthly report (9:05), engineer’s weekly re-port (9:30) and fair board 2015 budget information (10:15).

Meeting