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TEG TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 V V V PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING FAMILY OWNED SINCE 1895 V V V Good Evening VVV Get your kicks. WWW.EMPORIAGAZETTE.COM 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, life throughout Willie Nelson, the Hollywood Kris Kristofyears (nine f e rs o n a n d writing credJohnny Cash, its, including surveying the an Oscar for world for sto“Sling Blade;” ries of ordinary Billy Bob Thornton & six directing people.” The Boxmasters with credits; numerTheir debut Moreland & Arbuckle ous roles in film album, “ The and television). B ox m a s t e rs , ” 8 P.M. SATURDAY While in the was a two-CD GRANADA THEATRE, band, he goes set comprised 807 COMMERCIAL ST. by “Bud.” of original songs Tickets $20-$70, Thornton — including 2-4-1 balcony seating has a warm the Americana www.emporiagranada.com, bass-baritone Radio hit “The 342-3342 voice with a Poor House” somewhat con— and eclectic LEARN MORE AND SEE versational covers of tunes VIDEOS AT style. The music by The Beatles, www.youtube.com/ is reminiscent The Nitty Gritty watch?v=sDAqYDZAWR4 of Jimmy BufDirt Band, Mott www.youtube.com/ fett, with a little The Hoople and watch?v=O2jvytR2-YM homespun, a litMel Tillis. tle rough edge, Thornton, a www.facebook.com/ a lot of story Hot Springs, ArTheOfficialBoxmasters telling, unexkansas, native, www.morelandarbuckle.com pected twists hadn’t intended in the lyrics and to go into actwww.alligator.com sometimes a ing. He moved 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 Please see Boxmasters, Page 3 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 VOL. 124, NO. 39 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. Wit