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C M Y K morningsun.net Covering Pittsburg and southeast Kansas since 1887 75 ¢ T HE M ORNING S UN friday, february 25, 2011 WEATHER MOSTLY CLOUDY Highs will be in the low 40s today under mostly cloudy skies. Clouds will remain overnight with a low around 31. | COMPLETE LOCAL AND REGIONAL FORECAST, PAGE 2A SPORTS < DRAGONS SWEEP COLUMBUS Skyler Muff and the Pittsburg High girls basketball team get a 44-34 victory over Columbus. The Dragon boys team also wins, 47-35. | PAGE 1B QUICK READ DEATHS ■ Fern Evelyn Clark, Winter Garden, Fla. ■ Virginia Ruth Hildyard, Oak Harbor, Wash. ■ Norma T. Peterson, Fort Smith, Ark. OBITUARIES, PAGE 10A Vol. 123, No. 48 ©2011 The Morning Sun INDEX Nation/World ................ 2A State/Local ................... 3A Local ............................ 4A Behind the Scenes ........ 5A Entertainment .............. 8A Opinion ......................... 9A Obituaries ................... 10A Sports .......................... 1B Comics ......................... 3B Neighbors ..................... 4B Classified ...................... 5B Health ......................... 10B LOCAL K-126 closure has been extended The closure of Kansas Highway 126 will last a bit longer than expected. Railroad repairs by BNSF have been extended for K- 126 west of Pittsburg and just to the east of the K-7 junction. The repairs began on Monday and were origi- nally planned to last until Thursday. But because of poor weather, the closure has now been extended until Monday, Feb. 28. Motorists are being detoured to U.S. 400 as an east-west thoroughfare until the repairs are completed. — THE MORNING SUN Only in today’s Morning Sun: SAFE program rapidly expanding Laura Moore was hired by the state to help implement the Seatbelts Are For Everyone (SAFE) program on a larger basis, and the statistical results were overwhelming. See Page 4A. PSU students bring home awards Pittsburg State University students demonstrated their graphic skills at this year’s ADDY Award ceremony in Joplin, taking home 27 awards. See Page 4A. FIRST IN PRINT Center’s heat, air problems discussed BY MATTHEW CLARK THE MORNING SUN A problem with the heating and cooling system at the Beard-Shanks Law Enforcement Center is causing a rift with Pittsburg City officials. The problem includes a lack of proper controls for the heating and air conditioning at the new center that will now cost the city over $12,000 for software and nearly $7,000 per year for off-site maintenance. “We essentially bought state of the art, but we didn’t get the art,” said Pittsburg City Commissioner Bill Rushton. This problem stems from the speci- fications given to builders for the $6.5 million project. The designer, Hoss and Brown Engineers, of Kansas City, Kan., did not include the need for software to monitor and control the heating and cooling system for the building. “Shame on us,” said Rushton. “We should be suing about six different people over this right now.” However, the Pittsburg City Commission signed off on the specifi- cations, leaving very little recourse in the matter. Now, the city will have to spend $12,000 for the necessary software and $6,996 per year on a maintenance agreement with Kansas Trane Service See CITY | PAGE 3A House passes annex rules BY MATTHEW CLARK THE MORNING SUN The Kansas House advanced a bill that changes the rules regarding city annexation. The bill approved means that county commissioners will have the final say on unilateral annexations. Unilateral annex- ation is used by cities to annex small tracts of land, usually to square up city boundaries. But, another provision of the bill takes bilateral annexa- tion approval away from cit- ies and substitutes it for a vote of the people to be annexed. That version of annexation is the one most used by cities in Kansas. It is that measure that has been fiercely opposed by the League of Kansas Municipalities (LKM). “It’s our opinion that will eliminate that kind of annexa- tion in Kansas,” said Dan Moler, executive director of the LKM. “The danger is that if those powers are removed, the city becomes frozen.” Any bilateral annexation proposed by a city will now have to be elected upon by residents in the annexed zone. If those voters turn down the annexation, the bill states that the city will be prohibited from annexing the same land for a period of four years after the election date. “If you restrict that ability to annex, we may not be able to grow,” said Mark Turnbull, Pittsburg director of economic development. “We want to grow.” Turnbull said that the city may eye expansion to the west of the current city boundar- ies upon the completion of the proposed new U.S. 69 bypass. However, this measure may make that difficult. “We do not support any modification of the annexation laws that exist,” said Turnbull. “There are no problems in Pittsburg and it’s not that we are out land-grabbing.” The bill was requested by the Annexation Reform Coalition, a group of rural landowners whose land was annexed in 2008 by the City of Overland Park. The other looming provi- sion requires county commis- sion ruling on any unilateral annexations. Cities would have to present its plan to commis- sioners for a ruling no less than ‘Career’ comedy GIRARD HIGH SCHOOL PLAY LEFT: Krista Jarboe is the assistant principal of Greenwood High School in the play “Career Day.” BELOW: Krista Jarboe, right, as assistant principal Suzette Crep, looks over some of the Career Day speak- ers. Seated, from left, are Jarred Mellish as a sanita- tion worker, Kayla Gordon as Miss Homemaker 2011, Jordan Lowe as a professional philosopher; Amanda Longpine, who sweeps up after circus elephants; and Manuel Lalicker as an assistant school custo- dian. PHOTOS BY SEAN STEFFEN/THE MORNING SUN Play features motley crew of characters BY NIKKI PATRICK THE MORNING SUN G IRARD — After “Career Day” at Greenwood High School, the students are probably set for a lifetime of unemployment. GIrard High School students, under the direction of forensics instruc- tor Terry Wunder, will perform the comedy at 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday in the Shireman Performing Arts Center. Tickets, available at the door, are $5 for adults and $3 for stu- dents. “They’ve done some musicals at the school, but I’ve been here six years and this is the first non-musical play we’ve done in that time,” Wunder said. “We’re hoping to start a tradi- tion and get more and more students involved.” He might also choose more elabo- rate productions in the future, if inter- est warrants. “It just takes 11 chairs and a podi- See PLAY | PAGE 10A See ANNEX | PAGE 2A Everyday 8am-7pm 606 N Cherokee, Girard, KS 620-724-8790 Open March 1st 2011 New in 2011 Small Engine Repair 620-249-6517
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