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TWO-VEHICLE CRASH RESULTS IN INJURIES
By John Robinson
[email protected]
A two-vehicle crash at 10:45
a.m. on Thursday resulted in two
individuals being transported to
Newman Regional Health for injuries.
According to officers at the
scene, a pickup truck was headed east on Sixth Avenue when it
struck a van, which was northbound on Constitution Street.
The van then flipped and skidded.
Bastian Wade witnessed the
collision and said the truck
“pulled out of nowhere.”
“The lights were red and the
truck pulled out of nowhere and
slammed into the side of that car,”
Wade said adding the collision
sounded like an explosion. “It was
loud.”
According to officers at the
scene, it is believed that the driver
of the pickup ran a red light.
The two occupants of the van reJOHN ROBINSON/GAZETTE
ceived transport to Newman for minor injuries. The driver of the truck Two vehicles collided at Constitution Street and Sixth Avenue leaving two people with minor injuries
did not receive medical transport. Thursday morning.
GLASS GUILD BLOWOUT
By Cathryne Scharton
[email protected]
Saturday, the Emporia State
University Glass Guild will hold
the annual Glass Guild Blowout
at the Art Annex, 1702 Highland
St.
This year, the featured artist is
John Miller, an associate professor of glass at Illinois State University. Miller has been working
with students this week as well.
Activities Saturday include hot
glass demonstrations
f ro m 9 : 3 0 Glass Guild
a.m. to 12:30 Blowout
p.m. and
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to 5 p.m., Saturday, 9:30 a.m.
lunch, mu- to 8 p.m.
sic by Don- WHERE
key Show at ESU Art Annex,
5:30 p.m., 1702 Highland St.
a barbecue
potluck din- The event is free
ner at 6 and and open to the
a glass auc- public.
tion at 7
p.m.
The proceeds from the auction
will be used to fund future visiting artists, supplies, equipment
and educational field trips for
glass students.
According to Miller’s website,
he began working with glass in
1987 in the undergraduate program at Southern Connecticut
State University, (SCSU) in New
Haven, Connecticut. He later
earned an MFA in Sculpture at
the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Since 1993 he has
been a staff member at Pilchuck
Glass School in many different
capacities, as a technician, coordinator, gaffer and instructor.
Miller exhibits internationally
and frequently tours the country
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lecturing and demonstrating with
Students in the 2015 Glass Guild Blowout demonstrate glass blowing techniques.
hot glass.
The website also states, he has
shown work at Habatat Galleries,
Royal Oak, Michigan, William
Traver Gallery, Seattle Washington, and at Sculpture, Objects and
Functional Art (SOFA) in Chicago, among others. Miller has
work in permanent collections
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across the country and internationally: Glazen Huis, Lommel,
Belguim, Museum of Arts and
Design, New York; Chysler Mutudents in Emporia
seum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia;
State University’s athMobile Museum of Art, Tacoma
Museum of Glass, Pilchuck Glass
letics program danced
School, and the Museum of Amerthe night away with area
ican Glass, Millville, New Jersey.
Miller has been featured in Glass
seniors at the annual
Magazine, American Craft, Glass
senior prom. This year,
Quarterly, and Vetro Magazine.
‘PICKIN’ AND GRINNIN’ AT THE PROM
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the theme was country
and western.
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AMBRIZCERVANTES
SENTENCED
By John Robinson
[email protected]
Diego Ambriz-Cervantes was
sentenced Wednesday to nearly
seven years in prison for a kidnapping conviction.
Ambriz-Cervantes was found
guilty on one count of kidnapping in February.
The charges stemmed from
an incident that occurred on Feb.
3, 2014. On that date the Emporia Police Department was called
to a residence in the 900 block of
Graphic Arts Road. There they
found a female bound in duct
tape. The female explained that
a man knocked on her door and
when she opened it he forced
his way into her residence. He
placed a gun to her head, bound
her wrists behind her back with
duct tape and taped her arms
to her torso. After the man left
the residence the woman sought
help at a neighbors home. It was
estimated that over $2,000 was
stolen from the residence. During trial evidence was presented
that a fingerprint found on the
duct tape was an exact match to
Ambriz-Cervantes.
Ambriz-Cervantes will spend
six years and seven months in
prison along with three years of
supervision after he is released.
He will also have to register as
a violent offender due to his kidnapping charge.
COMMISSION
APPROVES BID
TO IMPROVE
ELECTRICAL AT
FAIRGROUNDS
By John Robinson
[email protected]
During the 2015 Lyon County
Fair, hundreds of fans were waiting to hear the John Michael
Montgomery concert when the
grandstands lost power. The
combination of lights and sound
equipment was too much of a
electrical demand for the fairgrounds causing the blackout.
Fairgrounds staff scrambled to
bring back up power sources to
make sure the show could go on.
Since that event the Lyon
County Commission has been
studying the issue of how to increase the electrical capacity at
the fairgrounds and yesterday
during the Commission meeting
approved a $239,500 bid from
Topeka-based Torgeson Electric,
for electrical work at the Lyon
County Fairgrounds.
“The project consists of addressing some of our electrical
issues on the fairgrounds,” said
Sam Seeley, fairgrounds manager, in February. “Looking at the
concert area where the grandstand is, making sure we have
the proper electrical needs there.
We’ll also be lookin rBF