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Dirty Kanza
sells out in four hours
People gather at Gravel City Adventure and
Supply Company for the second annual
DK 200 Registration Party on Saturday.
By Melissa Lowery
Special to The Gazette
Dirty Kanza 200 organizers
knew registration for this year’s
gravel-based bicycle race would
be swift, but even they were surprised by how quickly the numbers climbed when registration
opened on Saturday morning.
“One thousand!” came the announcement at 8:15 a.m., a mere
15 minutes after registration
opened. By 8:30 a.m., 1,500 of
the 1,900 field spots were gone.
By 10 a.m. both the DK 200 and
the Half-Pint (the 100-mile) rac-
P H O T O S B Y K e n d r a
es were full, and by 11:15 a.m.
the entire race was sold out.
“I’m so proud of this,” said
Kristi Henrikson-Mohn, Dirty
Kanza Promotions treasurer and
Community Liaison. “It’s the little race that could. What a great
thing for Emporia!”
At the second-annual DK 200
Registration Party, held at Gravel
City Adventure & Supply Co., 11
W. Eighth Ave., about 50 local cyclists gathered for breakfast and
conversation before registering
for this year’s event. They traded Bobby Thompson, Ann Schnakenberg and Mark Schnakenberg
Please see Dirty Kanza, Page 3
gather around a computer while trying to register for the Dirty
Kanza on Saturday.
Beard Team Kansas begins Polar
Plunge fundraising with Chilifest
By Melissa Lowery
Special to The Gazette
Beard Team Kansas hosted
their kickoff fundraiser of the year
on Saturday, a chili contest to help
raise money for next month’s Polar Plunge. Held at Big Tobacco’s
House of Ink, 720 Commercial St.,
the event drew friends and supporters of the club, members of
which are recognizable by their
variety of lush, creative facial hair
expressions.
Proceeds from the event go toward the club’s entry fee for the
Polar Plunge on Feb. 20. The Polar
Plunge is an annual event that sees
people jumping into the freezing
waters of Mouse Lake to raise money for Special Olympics of Kansas.
This is the latest in a string of charitable and community-based activities for the club.
Beard Team Kansas came together as an alternative way to get
involved in supporting the community and various causes near and
dear to club members’ hearts.
“We wanted to get involved April Armstrong, Michael Lang, Kaitlin Byington and John Armstrong stand with their trophies after
in the community in a unique the chili contest to help raise money for the Polar Plunge.
way,” said club vice-president
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VOL. 124, NO. 164
P H O T O S
Beard Team Kansas held a chili
contest to help raise money for
the Polar Plunge on Saturday.
The contest was held at Big
Tobacco’s House of Ink.
B Y
K e n d r a
J ohnson
John Armstrong, Paul Robinson and Larry Parker talk during the
Beard Team Kansas Polar Plunge fundraiser on Saturday.
J ohnson
Jim Cummins speaks before the
start of the registration for the
Dirty Kanza on Saturday. The
Dirty Kanza was open to 1,900
riders and sold out in four hours.
Powerball
jackpot
now $1.3
billion
The Emporia Gazette
Nobody hit the jackpot in
Saturday’s Powerball drawing,
bringing the jackpot to $1.3 billion for Wednesday’s drawing.
The cash option on the prize
would be $806 million.
The Jan. 9 winning numbers
were 16-19-32-34-57 Powerball
13 Power Play 3. No ticket
matched all numbers, according to the Kansas Lottery.
“Although the jackpot eluded Kansas players (and everyone else), there were 134,395
winning Powerball tickets
in Kansas (Saturday) night,
which won players $728,132 in
prizes,” according to the Kansas Lottery.
One ticket sold in northeast
Kansas, matched four of the
first five numbers and the Powerball to win $50,000. To see a
list of all Powerball prizes won
in Kansas Saturday, click on
Prizes Won in Kansas on the
Kansas Lottery’s website.
“Congratulations to all our
Kansas winners and also a big
thank you to our lottery retailers
and clerks for their hard work
this past week,” said Kansas Lottery Executive Director Terry
Presta. “Our retailers earned
nearly $500,000 in Powerball
selling commissions last week.”
The Kansas Lottery set a new
sales record in Saturday’s drawing, selling more than $6.767
million worth of Powerball tickets. At the peak of the buying
frenzy, which occurred from 6
to 7 p.m. Saturday, players were
buying Powerball tickets at the
rate of $7,107 per minute.
Saturday’s winning numbers
did gain some people a little
Please see Powerball, Page 3