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SHARING CULTURE
AND LANGUAGE
COURTESY PHOTO
GAZETTE NAMED SPONSOR
OF GBO YOUTH TOURNAMENT
By Jessie Wagoner
[email protected]
There are a growing number
of Emporia children learning to
speak Chinese thanks to the Emporia State University Chinese
Student Scholar Association. The
group offers one-on-one Chinese
lessons each Saturday.
“We had quite a few kids last
semester,” Joyce Zhou, faculty
advisor to Chinese Student
Scholar Association said. “We
do the one-on-one instruction
because it is more effective
that way.”
The children may be learning
a foreign language but the teaching techniques follow “American
standards” Zhou says. During
lessons children can be found
participating in arts and crafts
activities and earning stickers for
their hard work. Other students
are busy practicing their Chinese
writing on dry erase boards while
others learn the art of Chinese
calligraphy.
The teachers are all currently
enrolled at ESU and volunteer to
teach the children. They enjoy
Please see Chinese, Page 16
JESSIE WAGONER/GAZETTE
Kyler Zhou draws and learns Chinese during his lesson on
Saturday. Children can start taking Chinese lessons at age three
and begin with arts and crafts activities. Above, Emma Zhou
practices her colors in Chinese, making a rainbow and labeling it
with both the English and Chinese words.
Player spots
still available
The Emporia Gazette
Dynamic
Discs has named
The
Emporia Gazette as
the presenting
sponsor for the
Dynamic Discs
G l a s s B l ow n
Open Junior’s Rusco
Challenge.
The youth
tournament is a nationally-sanctioned Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA) C-tier event
and is a new addition to the Glass
Blown Open tournament this year.
City approves
fireworks
ordinance
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The Lyon County Commission approved Sheriff Jeff Cope’s
vehicle replacement plan presented on Thursday. Several vehicles
will be replaced this year, including five patrol cars and the
detention transport van.
COUNTY APPROVES VEHICLE
PURCHASE PLAN
By Jessie Wagoner
[email protected]
The Lyon County Commission approved Sheriff Jeff
Cope’s request for 2016 vehicle
purchase plans at their regularly scheduled meeting on Thursday.
“I’m in front of you today to
approve our vehicle purchase
plan,” Cope said. “We submit
these numbers with our budgets
and then historically we usually
come back in to get it approved
on the minutes.”
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The first vehicle to be replaced will be the one used by
the volunteer patrol.
“We are replacing the Dodge
Nitro which the volunteer patrol uses,” Cope said. “It is going to have 100,000 miles on it
by the time we get it done.”
Several patrol cars will also
be replaced.
“We are also replacing five
patrol vehicles that are all at
100,000 miles; one is at 150,000
miles, which is the one that the
probation enforcement officer
uses,” Cope said.
The detention vehicle van
also is in need of replacement.
Please see County, Page 3
JEREMY RUSCO
Owner of Dynamic Discs
The 2016 Glass Blown Open
is setting up to be the largest disc
golf event in the United States.
The professional and amateur
fields have close to 1,200 total
players registered. The Junior’s
EMPORIA 2016
FIREWORK ORDINANCE
By Cathryne Scharton
JESSIE WAGONER/GAZETTE
“It is our hope that children will
sign up for the Dynamic Discs Glass
Blown Open Junior’s Challenge
presented by The Emporia Gazette
even if they have never played
before. We also hope those families
and the Emporia community
will come out to watch the
Championship round at the Emporia
Country Club later that day.”
At the city commission meeting
commissioners approved the 2016
firework ordinance.
By law the sale and discharge are
banned in the city of Emporia by the
Fire Code unless specifically authorized by an overruling ordinance.
The City Commission determined
that with proper storage and handling, Class C fireworks may be sold
and discharged in the city over the
Fourth of July holiday period.
“The State Fire Marshal, by statute, regulates the dates of sales for
fireworks. Those dates are specific
to days surrounding the Fourth of
July,” said Mark McAnarney, city
manager. “The state does not regulate the discharge of fireworks; that
is done by local ordinance. Those
are typically designated to be similar to those regulating the sale of
fireworks to celebrate the Fourth of
July.”
Class C fireworks are authorized
by the Kansas State Fire Marshal to
be legally sold to consumers in the
state of Kansas but do not include
“bottle rockets” (rockets mounted
on a wire or a stick), sparklers with
wire rods and unmanned luminaries.
In addition to Class C fireworks,
toy smoke devices, poppers, sparklers, burning “snakes” and toy caps
or balls will be permitted to be sold,
possessed, stored and discharged in
accordance with this ordinance.
The sale and discharge of Class C
fireworks will be allowed in the city
limits between June 27 and July 5
from the hours of 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
except on the third and the fourth
of July the sale and discharge hours
will be from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Fireworks may not be discharged
on real property without the permission of the owner or person or entity in control of the property. The
discharge of fireworks is prohibited
on street rights-of-way, in city parks,
the city golf course, city parking
lots, recreation fields, David Traylor
Zoo, Lee Bernan Recreation Center,
Jones Aquatic Center, all federal,
state, county or city owned or leased
real property within the city limits
of Emporia. Fireworks may not be
discharged within 200 feet of the
property line o b