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By Mary Ann Redeker
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Emporia City Commissioners considered budget requests
and legislative ordinances at
their meeting Wednesday morning at the Civic Building.
The 2017 budget for non-personnel funds was presented by
City Treasurer Janet Harrouff.
The commission has heard
appropriations requests in recent meetings from various
agencies in Emporia.
“Everything is basically the
same as last year,” Harrouff
said. “I have put all the entities’
requests in the budget. All were
flat with the exception of one,
which was an increase. All of
those are reflected within the
budget as this year’s requests
for consideration, and also included is what we gave them
last year.”
The commission was presented with the following for
review:
✦✦A coversheet for each fund
detailing the revenue and
expense categories
✦✦CIP items for each fund
✦✦Assumptions included in the
funds
Vice Mayor Bobbi Mlynar
made suggestions to the board
as commissioners discussed the
requests.
“Is there any way we can
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GIVING THE GIFT OF LITERACY
The gift will benefit the Mobilizing Literacy program at Emporia State University. The program
The bell rang at Emporia State focuses on children from birth
University on Wednesday, cel- through age 8 living in Coffey, Lyebrating a $2 million gift from The on and Osage counties. As part of
the Campaign for
Jones Trust.
Ken Weaver, “The bell-ringing celebrates Grade-Level Reading, Mobilizing
Dean of The Teachers College, wel- the $2 million gift from The Literacy funds procomed attendees Jones Trust to support five grams that align
with three pillars
and expressed how
the gift will impact years of literacy initiatives — school readiarea children.
for all the children in all of ness, summer or
extended learning
“The bell-ringing celebrates the the communities in Coffey, and school atten$2 million gift Lyon and Osage counties.” dance.
ESU President
from The Jones
Allison Garrett
Trust to support
KEN WEAVER,
Dean of The Teachers College
said focusing on
five years of literearly literacy is
acy initiatives for
crucial.
all the children in
“The Annie Casey Foundation
all of the communities in Coffey,
Lyon and Osage counties,” Weaver did a study and looked at earlysaid. “This is awesome. I couldn’t stage literacy and they found some
be happier that you all are here to
help celebrate this gift.”
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By Jessie Wagoner
[email protected]
JESSIE WAGONER/GAZETTE
Ken Weaver, dean of The Teachers College talked about the impact
the donation will have on children throughout the area. Photo above,
Area school superintendents ring the bell at Emporia State University
Wednesday morning. The bell ringing celebrated a $2 million donation
from Jones Trust to Mobilizing Literacy a program at ESU.
‘LITTLES’ TEAM UP TO CONCOCT THE PERFECT PIZZA PIE
By John Robinson
[email protected]
Gathered around a table at Flint
Hills Technical College, a group of
students assembled their idea of
the perfect pizza.
They poured on the sauce and
added the herbs, stacking as much
meat on the pie as they could get
— pepperoni and sausage galore.
Though, in their opinion, what really made their creation stand out
was the amount of bacon — which
made the name an obvious choice.
“The Bacon Lovers,” Jashua
Zamora said. “It has lots of bacon.”
Jashua is one of the many children who received a lesson in the
culinary arts Wednesday. A “Little” in the Big Brothers Big Sisters
of the Flint Hills program, the organization brought a group of “unmatched” children to the tech college for the first of many planned
summer activities.
“All the kids in there are unmatched kids,” Brooklyn Owens,
program coordinator, said. “So we
do activities with them to keep
them involved with our program
and to get to know them a little bit
better so that when we do match
them we’re able to make the most
compatible match.”
The children spent the afternoon learning from Paul Kennedy,
a culinary instructor at FHTC, on
how to prepare a perfect pizza and
kitchen etiquette.
“It’s about building teamwork,”
Kennedy said. “Letting them realize they can take some things they
can find around the house and help
make simple meals for themselves
and for their families.”
Jashua said it wasn’t his first
time cooking; he helps his mother
in the kitchen often, though there
were still some things about the
pizza-cooking process which surprised him.
“(I’m surprised) at how fast
you can make a pizza,” he said.
“‘Cause I thought to make a pizza
you needed like an hour or so, it’s
actually like two minutes.”
According to Owens, around 19
children participated in the cooking lesson and each of them is
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Miguel Hernandez, Alexander
Hernandez, Diego Hernandez, Eli
Lopez and Jashua Zamora pose
with their pizza “The Bacon
Lovers” before it is cooked.
B Y
J O H N
R O B I N S O N
Paul Kennedy,
culinary
instructor
at Flint Hills
Tech College,
taught a
group of
children from
Big Brothers
Big Sisters of
the Flint Hills
how to make a
pizza.