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No novelty
animals for
Easter
m a d e
By Jessie Wagoner
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Emporians get inside look at local businesses
By Cathryne Scharton
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Emporia Main Street offered Emporians the chance to get an inside
look at three local businesses Thursday in their “How It’s Made” tour.
The tour started out at Reeble’s
Country Mart bakery.
Tina Mercer, bakery manager,
showed those on the tour the different equipment the department
uses to make large batches of
baked goods. Reeble’s has a large
oven, that rotates several cookie
sheets at a time.
Liz Anderson, a senior studying
art at ESU, gave the group a demonstration on frosting a cake, air brushing techniques and how she makes
animals out of frosting.
Reeble’s provided bags of cookies
to all of the attendees.
The group then went to the Emporia Arts Center. Claudia Diltz,
glass fusing instructor, gave a
demonstration on creating a painting with fused glass. The center
will hold two different glass fusing
classes in April on the 13th and
26th. In the class, participants will
get to make a small glass dish and
a pendant. Emporia Arts Center
Executive Director Dawn Young
emphasized that art classes make
good gifts for people who “have everything.” Casey Woods, executive
director of Main Street, pointed
out the arts center’s gift shop offers a lot of unique gifts, too.
Arts center staff gave attendees a
coupon for $5 off of pre-registration
for a class.
The last stop on the tour was
Studio 11.
Owners Kari Crump and Michele Boyce told the story of how
their store got started, from selling $10 necklaces to working with
the 27 consigners they do today.
Studio 11 recently partnered with
a new consigner who specializes
in selling recycled pallets. Crump
said pallet projects are very popular on Pinterest.
Studio 11 offers a variety of
different trinkets and treasures
and will custom-paint furniture
for customers.
Several Emporia State students
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were in attendance for an entrepreneurship class.
“It’s good to know (about) local
businesses,” said Jiapeng Huang,
Master of Business Administration
student. “I’ve been to Country Mart
many, many times but I never knew
how they make stuff in the bakery. It
was amazing that they get up so early to make those cookies, like 3:30
in the morning. People work hard.”
One student invited his wife and
made the event a date night.
“I thought it was a lot of fun,”
said Jennifer Hart, who came with
her husband Jason Hart. “I didn’t realize it was open to whoever wanted
to come. But I liked seeing the inside
of businesses, like, I know they are
here, but I had no idea that Studio
11 shipped all over. I thought it was
just a little Emporia nook place.”
Woods said about 25 people attended and the weather factored into that number. When the weather is
nice, Woods said some of the groups
have as many as 60 people and then
they will divide into three smaller
groups. Main Street offers four tours
a year: two “How It’s Made” tours
and two historical tours.
Easter is fast approaching and
with it comes Easter baskets filled
with goodies for children. Each
year millions of animals, mainly
baby ducklings,
chicks and rabbits
are sold or distributed as novelties
in connection
with the Easter season. The
Kansas Department of Health
and Environment
(KDHE) is
e n c o u ra g ing the public to abandon
this practice.
KDHE issued a release
warning of the risk of human Salmonella infection from live poultry. Live baby poultry can carry
Salmonella and easily spread this
bacterium to people, especially
children.
“Outbreaks of Salmonella infections linked to live poultry occur
every year,” the release said. “One
of the largest outbreaks was in
2013 when a multistate outbreak
of human Salmonella infections
caused illnesses in more than 350
people from 39 states; Kansas tied
for third with 19 confirmed cases.”
Live baby poultry can carry
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Celtic Nights to brighten
EMS students flex their green thumbs Emporia’s skies Saturday
in community service project
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Emporia Middle School students work to break down old planters during a service project at the
school Wednesday. The project was a collaboration between the Junior Spartan X-Tra after-school
program and TRIO.
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By Regina Murphy
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By John Robinson
After the school day ended
at Emporia Middle School on
Wednesday, a group of students
put down their pencils and
picked up shovels, rakes and
trash bags as the Junior Spartan
X-Tra Program partnered with
the federal student outreach
program TRIO for a community
service project at EMS.
According to Shanna Eggers, director of the TRIO Talent
Search Program at Emporia State
University, which is a branch of
the federally funded program
TRIO, the program helps students from the sixth through 12th
grades prepare for college.
Laura Albertson, directer of
the after school program at the
middle school, said that several
after school clubs are partnering with TRIO to take care of
the flower installation around
the school.
“TRIO wanted to do a community service project and we
had a group here called Junior
Spartans Serve, which is a com-
Celtic Nights, presented by the Emporia Arts Council, is a multimedia, high-energy show currently touring North America.
munity service group, and the
other clubs are pitching in to
help,” Albertson said. “We’re all
going to take off from clubs and
working on projects together.”
The students replaced