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ESU FOOTBALL PLAYERS WORK
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By Brandy Nance
By Melissa Lowery
[email protected]
Area canines received a helping
hand from the Emporia State University football team on Saturday
during the Humane Society of the
Flint Hills’ annual dog house build at
the Anderson Building.
About a dozen ESU football
players dedicated their Saturday to
constructing six dog houses to be
distributed to area dogs and their
owners.
Tre Ammons, a freshman defensive end from Omaha, Nebraska, had
never built a dog house before, but
he was happy to join his teammates
and help.
“This is a good way to give back
to the community,” Ammons said,
“and it’s a lot better than sleeping
late, which is what I’d normally be
doing on a Saturday morning.”
Also on hand was Desmond, a
17-year-old rescue dog belonging
to Humane Society board member
James Bordonaro. “Des” calmly
made the rounds, inspecting each
A collision involving three
semitrailers on the Kansas Turnpike Friday evening blocked
traffic. The accident caused the
lanes to be partially closed until
late Saturday afternoon at mile
post 107, 20 miles south of Emporia.
According to the Kansas
Turnpike, 42-year-old Ali Ahmed
Gababa of Snelleville, Georgia,
was driving southbound at a
slow rate of speed in the far right
lane or possibly on the shoulder in a 2007 Peterbuilt when
27-year-old Ernesto PenalozaGonzalez of Wichita rear-ended
Gababa’s semitrailer. A third
semitrailer driven by 56-year-old
Donald Hay of Independence,
Missouri, struck Penaloza-Gonzalez’s vehicle.
Penaloza-Gonzalez was injured and transported to a Wichita hospital. The other two drivers were not injured.
Traffic was completely
blocked southbound Friday
evening and remained partiallyblocked Saturday morning.
Special to The Gazette
Please see Dogs, Page 8
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Trent Rietzke and Alex Johnston put together a dog house for the Humane Society of the Flint Hills to
give away on Saturday.
KENDRA JOHNSON/GAZETTE
Luke Meyer, Brett Osbern and Alex Johnston work together to put
the roof on a dog house on Saturday.
KENDRA JOHNSON/GAZETTE
Tre Ammons pets Desmond, a 17-year-old rescue dog, while helping
put together dog houses Saturday in the Anderson Building.
GIRL SCOUTS FLIP PANCAKES
FOR TRAVEL OPPORTUNITIES
The Associated Press
By Melissa Lowery
Special to The Gazette
Girl Scout Troop 30025 welcomed the public to a pancake feed
on Saturday at the First Congregational Church, 326 W. 12th Ave.,
to raise money for their upcoming
summer travel experience.
Troop members were responsible for planning, organizing and
advertising, and helped cook, serve
and manage donations during the
event. Guests were offered unlimited pancakes, sausage links, orange juice and coffee. Gluten-free
pancakes and sugar-free syrup were
also available.
The secret to a successful pancake feed is simple.
“Never leave your station unless
you have to,” troop member Margarita Alvarez said. “Today we’re
short-staffed, so we’ve had to help
out at other stations a little more.”
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Please see Pancakes, Page 8
Margarita Alvarez serves pancakes Saturday. The money raised will
help pay for the troop’s next travel opportunity.
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VOL. 124, NO. 176
Stephany Walker talks to a diner
at the Girl Scout Troop 30025
pancake feed on Saturday.
ICY ROADS,
SPOTTY
TRANSIT
SERVICE
FOLLOW
EAST COAST
BLIZZARD
KENDRA JOHNSON/GAZETTE
Lesley Draper mixes pancake batter at the girl scouts pancake feed
at the First Congregational Church on Saturday.
East Coast residents who
made the most of a paralyzing
weekend blizzard face fresh challenges as the workweek begins:
slippery roads, spotty transit
service and mounds of snow that
buried cars and blocked sidewalk entrances.
The storm dropped snow
from the Gulf Coast to New England, with near-record snowfalls
tallied from Washington, D.C. to
New York City. At least 31 people have died as a result of the
snowstorm.
Sunday’s brilliant sunshine
and gently rising temperatures
provided a respite from the blizzard that dropped a record 29.2
inches on Baltimore. The weekend timing could not have been
better, enabling many to enjoy a
gorgeous winter day.
It was just right for a huge
snowball fight in Baltimore,
where more than 600 people responded to organizer Aaron Brazell’s invite on Facebook.
Overall snowfall of 26.8
inches in Central Park made it
New York’s second biggest winter storm since records began
in 1869. An official total of 22.4
inches landed at the National
Zoo in Washington.
The zoo remained closed
through Monday but a video of
its giant panda Tian Tian making snow angels got more than
48 million views. Joining the
fun, Jeffrey Perez, of Millersville,
Maryland, climbed into a panda
suit and rolled around in the
snow, snagging more than half a
million views of his own.