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TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2016
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Play on,
disc golfers!
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GBO PLAYERS READY FOR LARGEST
DISC GOLF EVENT IN HISTORY
GBO Schedule of Events
The Emporia Gazette
TUESDAY, APRIL 26
7 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Flex Start C-Tier at Jones West Park
7 p.m. - 12 a.m. **Free Bowling Night at Flinthills Lanes
9 p.m. - Midnight Mini Disc Golf at the Bourbon Cowboy
This week Emporia will host the largest
disc golf event in history and the world’s best
disc golfers are here to compete in the Glass
Blown Open. Here are some interesting statistics on the event and activities the participants and community can take part in.
The community is encouraged to come out
and watch the action as well as take part in
some of the events.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27
7 a.m. - 3 p.m.
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Flex Start C-Tier at Peter Pan
**Hot Stamping at Dynamic Distribution
**Putting Championships Prelims at the Granada
Theatre
6:30 - 7 p.m.
**Meet the owners of Dynamic Discs, Latitude
64º and Westside Discs
7 - 8 p.m.
**Q&A with Top Touring Professionals at the
Granada Theatre, Players TBA
9 p.m. - Midnight Mini Disc Golf at the Bourbon Cowboy
GBO by the numbers:
✦✦The largest tournament in Disc Golf history was the 2012 Combined Amateur and
Professional PDGA World Championships
held in Charlotte, North Carolina. This
event had 1,095 registered players. The
2016 Glass Blown Open has 1,200 players
registered to play this year.
✦✦Eleven of the top 12 men in the world will
be competing in the 2016 GBO.
✦✦Four of the top 5 women in the world will
be competing in the 2016 GBO.
THURSDAY, APRIL 28
8 a.m.
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
12 - 5 p.m.
7 - 11 p.m.
FRIDAY, APRIL 29
Please see GBO, Page 3
8 a.m.
7 p.m.
8 p.m.
10 p.m. - Close
Tee times start for Round 1
**Putting Championships Prelims at the Granada
Theatre
**Hot Stamping at Dynamic Distribution
**Swedish Bonfire
**Nite Chains Glow Golf
Tee times start for Round 2
**Poker Party at the Emporia Country Club
**Putting Championships Semi-Finals at the
Granada Theatre
Live Music with Rusty Lafoon at the Bourbon
Cowboy
SATURDAY, APRIL 30
Tee times start for Round 3
2016 Dynamic Discs Glass Blown Open Junior’s
Challenge presented by The Emporia Gazette
6 - 11 p.m.
Block Party in front of Dynamic Discs
7 p.m.*
Awards in front of the Dynamic Discs Retail Store,
912 Commercial St.
*Awards will start no more than one hour after the last card has
been turned in.
BRIAN HENSLEY/COURTESY PHOTO
7:30 a.m.
8 a.m.
IMMEDIATELY AFTER AWARDS: Ring of Fire in front of the Dynamic
Discs Retail Store, 912 Commercial St.
IMMEDIATELY AFTER RING OF FIRE: Putting Championships Finals in
front of the Dynamic Discs Retail Store, 912 Commercial St.
Stu Mullenberg of Portland Oregon putts at Peter Pan Park. Mullenberg is a
world famous disc golf photographer who came to document the Glass Blown Open.
T O R N A D O
**Indicates activities for players only
S E A S O N
F-5 TORNADO STRUCK THE WICHITA
METRO AREA 25 YEARS AGO
By Beccy Tanner & Stan Finger
The Wichita Eagle
The air was so muggy that day.
April 26, 1991.
It wore a person down, the humidity drenching clothes after a few
moments in the outdoors.
That humidity helped fuel storms
that would produce killer tornadoes.
One would strike Haysville, then
south Wichita and McConnell Air
Force Base, then Andover, just as
people were running errands after
work or sitting down to dinner, The
Wichita Eagle reports.
On that Friday, 55 tornadoes
touched down — from Texas to Minnesota.
The strongest formed at 5:57 p.m.
and began its march through the
Wichita metro area. It ended at 7:10
p.m. five miles north of El Dorado.
It was on the ground for 69 miles
and grew to be 500 yards wide — or
about a third of mile in width.
east of Wichita and 13 in the Golden
Spur mobile home park in Andover.
‘Andover tornado’
Hundreds more were injured.
Andover’s only tornado siren
The tornado was so strong it
didn’t work so a police officer drove scoured the ground and swept away
through the city streets urging peo- entire neighborhoods in Andover.
ple to take shelter as the tornado ap- Thousands were left homeless
proached.
and officials estimated at least 350
Many found it; others did not.
homes were destroyed.
The tornado measuring F-5 on
“When you look at the totality of
the Fujita Scale with winds esti- that event, it’s a miracle that there
mated at 260 mph killed 17 people weren’t more lives lost,” said Chance
— four in a rural subdivision south- Hayes, warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather
VOL. 124, NO. 255
Service in Wichita.
Those who survived the tornado
WEATHER
ADVISORY
FOR THIS
EVENING
The Emporia Gazette
FILE PHOTO/THE WICHITA EAGLE
picked up the pieces and moved on,
carrying with them random bits of
life and a sense of gratitude. All of
them talk about having a greater
awareness of Kansas weather and
how lives can change or stop in a
heartbeat.
Although the tornado rampaged
through several communities and
changed the course of many lives, it
became known as the Andover tornado because the city took the brunt
of the storm.
But in the storm’s aftermath,
Andover became a boom town. Rebuilding streets, sewers and water
lines and updating codes helped
open doors to development.
The city’s population has nearly
tripled since the storm, and Andover
is full of high-end homes and diverse
businesses.
Twenty-five years after the fact,
there is a sense of moving on.
Some will mark Tuesday’s anniversary, others won’t.
Haysville Chief Administrator Officer Will Black said his city has no
plans to observe the 25th anniverPlease see Andover, Page 5
N
ational Weather
Service