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REC COMMISSION
BOARD DISCUSSES
POSSIBLE TRYSA
SOCCER COMPLEX
LAND TRANSFER
By Mary Ann Redeker
[email protected]
Emporia
Recreation
Commission
board member
Danny Giefer
brought
a
topic of interest to the table
regarding the Giefer
TRYSA Soccer
Complex land
transfer Monday at the monthly
meeting in the Lee Beran Recreation Center.
Giefer presented a summary
of goals and concerns for board
members to discuss, as the board
has approached the DeBauge
family about the possibility of
the family agreeing to the transfer of the TRYSA Soccer Complex to the City of Emporia.
“We have been working with
the DeBauge family,” Giefer said.
“Years ago, they were gracious
enough to donate this large tract
of land. They donated it to TRYSA and with
TRYSA going
My hope
away, we are
working on
is that next
getting the
spring at the
legal part of
this worked start of soccer
out.”
season, it will
The recreation center be completely
has already
done. If it’s
been running
the activities
before that,
of TRYSA for
great; if not,
several years
and, other then that’s what
t h a n h av ing a board, we need to do.”
TRYSA has
DANNY GIEFER,
effectively
Rec Board
wound down
Commissioner
operations.
The center
would like to have safe ownership of the TRYSA complex so
the board can feel secure in making plans for the future, as well
as making capital investments in
the complex.
Giefer said without the city
owning the property and the
recreation center operating the
Please see Rec Board, Page 3
Granada prepares
for bumptious
night of country,
rockabilly and
electric blues
By Regina Murphy
[email protected]
Things might get a little raucous at the Granada Theatre Saturday night.
The Boxmasters are made up of
Billy Bob “Bud” Thornton (vocals
and drums), J.D. Andrew (guitar,
bass and vocals) and Teddy Andreadis (keyboards). After bouncing
around Texas in early August, the
band swings through Kansas before
heading out to Iowa and meeting
up with Marty Stuart at the Ravinia
Festival north of Chicago.
It was reported in the Los Angeles Times in May 2015: “The
Boxmasters have little interest in
songs about tailgate parties and
leggy girls in cutoff jeans that often top the sales charts and commercial country radio playlists. …
Instead, they’re working in the tradition of musical mavericks such
part of his artistic
as Waylon Jennings,
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writing credJohnny Cash,
its, including
surveying the
an Oscar for
world for sto“Sling Blade;”
ries of ordinary
Billy Bob Thornton &
six directing
people.”
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to Los Angeles to write and maybe bit “blue” in the language. Some
play drums. Music was always might recognize “I’ll Give You a
his first love and has remained a Ring” from the film “The Winning
Season” starring Sam Rockwell.
The style is a definite rockabilly,
hillbilly, modbilly, straight-out
country mix that is unique but accessible.
J.D. Andrew, a native of Salina
and Kansas State University alumnus, is also a producer, engineer
and mixer, having worked on albums for The Rolling Stines, Brittany Spears and The Pussycat Dolls.
According to Elmore Magazine, he
“won a Grammy for his work on
Kanye West’s 2004 album, The College Dropout. He has also worked
as a music editor on many film projects, including 2011’s The King of
Luck, a documentary about Willie
Nelson directed by pal and bandmate Thornton.”
Teddy “Zig Zag” Andreadis
is an esteemed multi-instrumentalist and singer. His talent and
versatility have earned him global
recognition. A short list of people
he has worked with: Carole King,
Guns’n’Roses (The Use Your Illusion Tour), Alice Cooper, Chuck
Berry, Bo Diddley, B.B. King and
Bruce Willis & The Accelerators.
Andreadis currently conducts
a weekly jam session in Hollywood at the Baked Potato with
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STUDENTS HELP PREPARE CHROMEBOOKS FOR SCHOOL YEAR
By John Robinson
[email protected]
COURTESY PHOTO
Brenda Boyce (left), a district building support technician, and Kaitlyn Karjala, an Emporia High
School junior and summer technology worker, check and clean student Chromebooks at Emporia
Middle School in preparation for the first day of school. Students
have helped the district technology team get approximately 4,700
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student computers ready for the second year of the 1 - to - 1
technology initiative.
If one were to have gone to
Emporia High School or Emporia
Middle School during the summer,
chances are they would have run
into the district technology team.
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