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4-H RODEO SHOWCASES MEMBER TALENT
By John Robinson
[email protected]
Area 4-Hers showcased their
roping, riding and flanking skills
at the Lyon County Fairgrounds
Wednesday for the 4-H Rodeo.
“The rodeo went well,” Jordan
Jenkins, rodeo coordinator, said.
“Went off without a hitch, nobody
got hurt and the kids had a lot of
smiles on their faces.”
It was postponed until 7 p.m.
and there were questions if the
event would even occur.
“The number one thing we worry about is the safety of the 4-Hers
and their horses,” Amy Jenkins,
rodeo coordinator, said. “With all
the rain earlier in the week we
were worried the arena might be
too muddy or too hard. We had to
wait and see if the arena held up
and what the conditions were so
we could keep our riders and their
horses safe.”
Jessica Klumpe, a 17-year-old
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Hope Miller won the Senior Breakaway Roping contest at the 4-H
Rodeo in the main arena.
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Camille Steffes comes out of the chute at the Senior Steer Riding
event at the 4-H Rodeo Wednesday evening.
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Final revisions to the 2017 budget were considered at the Emporia City Commission meeting
Wednesday morning in the Civic
Building.
City Treasurer Janet Harrouff
presented final budget estimations
for commissioners to consider.
Commissioners discussed the
various funds based on a 1 mill increase, as most commissioners felt
the 1 mill increase was fair.
“We reviewed our budget today
from changes made two weeks
ago,” Mayor Rob Gilligan said.
“Everything looks good and we
did some minor shifting of things,
but we’re still looking at a 1 mill
increase.”
One thing the commission
thought was important was to ask
the various agencies requesting
city funds to provide reports on
how the funds the city provides
are spent.
“I want to see an expenditure
report,” Gilligan said. “It would
be good to see how these agencies
budgeted items and see how much
they actually spent. We should
hold our organizations accountable and know how they are spending these funds.”
It was the consensus of the
commission to keep the budget as
is and bring it before the commission’s next action session for public comment.
Commissioners also discussed
potential revisions to the city’s
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G A Z E T T E
WYSOCKI TAKES LEAD, MCBETH TAKES
MISPLAY PENALTY AT WORLDS DAY TWO
By Steve Hill
Ultiworld Disc Golf
On a day when Ricky Wysocki’s
hot round put him squarely in the
spotlight, a delayed two-stroke penalty assessed to defending world
champion Paul McBeth added
an unexpected
twist to the second round of the
PDGA Professional Disc Golf
World Championships.
Wy s o c k i ’s
13-under par 48
at Jones Park
East on Wednes- Wysocki
day vaulted him
into first place with a 27-under par
95 total, while McBeth’s 9-under
par 52 initially put him into second place at a 24-under 98. Nikko
Locastro, meanwhile, fired off an
11-under par 50 to move to a 23-under 99 after two days of play.
During the middle of round two,
McBeth notified PDGA officials
that he may have played
Hole 7 incorrectly
during round one
after sailing
his approach
s h o t o u tof-bounds
without
landing on
the island
green. The
Jones East
course notes
state any outof-bounds shots
that do not come to
rest on the island must be
played from the last spot at which
the disc was in bounds. McBeth,
however, played his shot from
within one meter of where it was
marked out-of-bounds, per standard PDGA out-of-bounds rules.
As a result, McBeth was assessed a two-stroke penalty af-
ter round two under PDGA rule
803.03D for misplay, bringing his
total to a 22-under par
100 and dropping
him to third place
overall.
“If you don’t
make the island safely,
you have to
play it from
the other
side [of the
peninsula],”
McBeth said.
“I played it from
where it went out
because that’s where
it was marked. And I heard
quite a few people played it that
way, so hopefully they own up to
their mistakes as well.”
The PDGA could not be reached
for comment before press time.
The penalty extended the lead
for Wysocki from three strokes to
five, on a day in which he nota-
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bly played more placement-style
golf yet managed a stretch of
eight straight birdies from Holes
4 through 11. He said the conservative approach was a calculated
strategy.
“Just playing my own game — I
talk about that a lot — but especially in the lead group,” Wysocki said.
“And everyone throwing different
shots, and some people throwing
more aggressive shots than others … I just stuck to my game plan
throughout the whole round.”
Wysocki also deftly navigated
misfortune, recovering from an
out-of-bounds tee shot on Hole
13 that resulted in a par by carding a birdie on Hole 14. When his
putt for birdie on Hole 15 missed
high and skipped into the adjoining road, he calmly cleaned up his
bogey, then closed play with three
straight birdies.
“I had a few hiccups, but overall
I was happy with my score and obviously I’m happy with being in the
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lead,” Wysocki said.
Locastro, meanwhile, also
showed an ability to handle adversity. After missing a putt for birdie
on Hole 1, he settled down to birdie
four of the next five holes. When he
missed his bid for eagle on Hole
6, he vented his frustrations and
scored three straight pars before
rattling off seven consecutive birdies from Holes 10 through 16.
“I slipped up a little