advertising “Now Hiring,” why can’t you be courteous enough to give those who apply with you a call back, especially when you promise one, to let these
applicants know where they stand? This is just inexcusable, in my book, and just so unprofessional.
And if you can’t call, text them. That’s the newest and greatest way to inform people. If you’re so busy and can’t do it, assign the task to someone who can call and pass on your decisions.
Please quit leaving people hanging. It really isn’t fair to those who are trying.
— RICK TILLETT, Salina
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Photos by TOM DORSEY / Salina JournalKevin Hazelton, pastor of First Baptist Church, leads a prayer Thursday afternoon during the National Day of Prayer event at Caldwell Plaza in Salina. More than 60 people attended the gathering. The event was sponsored by Peter’s Rock Ministries and the Salina Ministerial Prayer Alliance.
Kawanis Scott, co-pastor of Peter’s Rock Ministries, reads a proclamation from Salina Mayor Carl Ryan during the National Day of Prayer event Thursday afternoon at Caldwell Plaza.
By ERIN MATHEWSSalina Journal
WaKEENEY — Trego County District Court documents indicate that some of the charges filed Wednesday against Wa-Keeney Police Chief Terry Eberle might have stemmed from an effort to prevent his son from being prosecuted in 2012. Eberle, who was released on bond Wednes-day, was in Ellis County Jail on Thursday after a bench warrant was issued for a al-leged violation of conditions of his bond.
District Court Clerk Kerrie Keith said no cases were filed against Joshua Eberle in 2012, although a theft case was filed against him April 12. The complaint al-leges that on Nov. 16, 2015, Joshua Eberle stole less than $1,500 worth of gasoline that belonged to the county.
By JOHN HANNAAssociated Press
TOPEKA — Kansas’ top court wrestled Thursday with whether it can mandate new, separate sentencings for two broth-ers facing execution for four notorious slayings that became known as “the Wich-ita massacre.”
Jonathan and Reginald Carr had a joint trial and sentencing hearing over dozens of crimes in Wichita in December 2000 that ended with three men and a woman shot to death in a snow-covered soccer field. The crimes were among the most no-torious in the state since the 1959 slayings of a western Kansas family that inspired Truman Capote’s book “In Cold Blood.”
By TIM HORANSalina Journal
The Affordable Health Care bill approved Thurs-day by the U.S. House of Representatives with a vote of 217 to 212 protects those with pre-existing condi-tions, according to Rep. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas.
“Kansans sent me to Washington to fix health care and I think this is the first step in that direction,” Marshall said.
After the vote, Marshall reached out to media representatives through a telephone press conference, news release and YouTube video.
He said many people called his office with ques-tions about the bill, many asking if it would cover pre-existing conditions.
“Under this plan, insurance companies are prohib-ited from de-nying coverage on the basis of a pre-existing condition and prevented from raising premiums on individuals with previous conditions to maintain continuous coverage,” he said. “Not only, it protects pre-existing conditions, it makes it even
better. The people who have pre-existing conditions to-day and are going to develop it tomorrow or the next day are better protected by this legislation than they were under the Affordable Care Act.”
The bill eliminates funds for some health programs, including for the prevention of bioterrorism and disease outbreaks, as well as money to provide immunizations and heart-disease screen-ings.
Saline County Health Department Director Jason Tiller said he has not stud-ied the bill.
By ERICA WERNER and ALAN FRAMAssociated Press
WASHINGTON — Deliv-ering at last, triumphant House Republicans voted Thursday to repeal and replace the “Obamacare” health plan they have re-viled for so long, overcoming united Democratic opposi-tion and their own deep divi-sions to hand a major win to President Donald Trump.
The 217-213 vote was a narrow victory, and ultimate success is far from assured since the measure must still make its way through a highly skeptical Senate.
All four Kansas repre-
sentatives voted with the majority.
But after seven years of campaign promises and dozens of show votes, Repub-licans finally succeeded in passing a health care bill that has a chance of becoming law. They weren’t waiting for final passage to celebrate.
“What a great group of people!” Trump exclaimed at the White House, arms raised to salute the dozens of
lawmakers who hurried to join him in the Rose Garden immediately after the vote. Set aside for the moment were the feuds and philo-sophical divides that nearly sank the bill time and again.
And at the same time, the Republicans had begun to show that perhaps they can come together and govern the country now that they
Marshall: New health bill protects people with pre-existing conditions
Carr brothers argue for new sentencings
By TIM CARPENTERThe Topeka Capital-Journal
TOPEKA — Gov. Sam Brown-back joined a dozen Kansas elected officials Thursday marking the National Day of Prayer with pleas for divine guidance that strengthens families and bonds of marriage and for the comfort of traumatized police, fire, paramedic and military personnel.
The governor closed the event at the Capitol by telling about 150 people that life was too short to skip a day in the struggle to create a nation that follows God’s will. Despite political and philosophical differences that exist among people at the Statehouse, he said, everyone working under the dome should unite under the banner of faith.
“Just give us that intensity to live every moment for the kingdom of God,” said Brownback, who affirmed faith-based leadership required sacrifice. “When you’re the
tip of the spear, it hurts.Senate President Susan Wagle,
R-Wichita, and House Speaker Ron Ryckman, R-Olathe, prayed for col-leagues to find wisdom and courage to meet financial and policy chal-lenges facing the 2017 Legislature.
In addition, Wagle asked that Je-sus walk the path of recovery with a 2-year-old girl hospitalized with a traumatic injury.
Rep. Randy Powell, R-Olathe, re-quested that God’s message reclaim prominence in American govern-ment, education, business and the arts. He said he was on a hiking trail in Johnson County when he recog-nized how far society had fallen.
“I’m not a fatalist. We shouldn’t throw in the towel,” Powell said. “God is calling an army to raise up and not do business as usual.”
Rep. Pete DeGraaf offered a prayer that touched upon what he considered broad assault on the definition of marriage as the exclu-sive union of a man and a woman.
Officials mark National Day of Prayer
WaKeeney police chief arrested a second time
Marshall
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• EXHIBITION: “Pulp as Portal: Socially Engaged Hand Papermaking”• WHEN: Opens Wednesday through July 23• WHERE: Salina art Center, 242 S. Santa Fe
• INFO: 827-1431 or salinaartcenter.org• FYI: Opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. May 19 at Salina art Center. Gallery talk will begin at 7 p.m. from Jessica Cochran, co-curator of the
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Sheets of paper, measuring 17x14, made by Drew Matott and Margaret Mahan, were decorated by artists from 77 neighborhoods in Chicago. The work is titled “Chicago 77.”
Photos by TOM DORSEY / Salina Journal“Mobile Mill Travel Log,” by Jillian Bruschera, features paper from around the world made collaboratively with students.
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Through its SAC Paper-works Initiative, the Salina Art Center has become what executive director Bill North called “the only com-munity-based papermaking studio in the U.S., as far as we know.”
The project, which received a $10,000 grant from the National Endow-ment for the Arts in 2015, is designed to introduce the art and transformative powers of papermaking by integrating it into existing programs and taking it into the Salina community.
“Papermaking has been a really transformative experience, especially for trauma survivors,” North said. “People go through the process of cutting up mate-rials that have meaning for them, and then see it pulped and transformed.”
The inspiration for the project was a workshop by the Peace Paper Project in November 2014 that helped veterans reconstitute their military uniforms into paper artworks. Since then, there have been several renowned papermak-ers-in-residence at Salina Art Center, including Julia Goodman, Robert Possehl and Drew Matott.
Now these artists and nearly 60 other papermak-ers throughout the world will be displaying hundreds of examples of their works in an ambitious exhibition opening Wednesday at Salina Art Center, 242 S. Santa Fe.
“Pulp as Portal: Socially Engaged Hand Papermak-ing” focuses on papermak-ing as a socially engaged art form, especially in the area of book arts that include publications, zines and other printed matter.
North said this is “sort of a sequel” to a similar exhibition, “Social Paper,” in Chicago organized by Columbia College that displayed handmade paper artworks and book art.
“These are hand paper-makers who have a social practice, artists who try to engage community, democ-racy and equality,” North said. “These are not artists who work alone in a garret, but who have been socially active most of their careers. Some of the work in this ex-hibit goes back to the 1970s.”
The exhibition runs through July 23. An opening reception will be from 6 to 8 p.m. May 19 and will feature a gallery talk by Jessica Cochran, co-curator of the Chicago exhibition.
North said the Salina Art Center exhibition was organized by the Center for Book Arts with special support from the Depart-ment of Cultural Affairs of New York City and the New York State Council on the Arts, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts.
The exhibition primarily is focused on book arts,
which North said is defined “loosely and broadly.”
“There are many defini-tions of a book, but these are designed to engage the community at large and has content that reflects that,” he said. “There is a lot of feminist work, environ-mental and political work. There’s also poetry. It’s a pretty wide range.”
Artists to exhibitAmong the hundreds
of pieces to be displayed on the Art Center’s walls and on pedestals and glass cases in two gallery spaces
will be 15 works created by artists who have done papermaking projects in Salina, including Goodman, Matott and Possehl, as well as members of the Combat Paper Project and Peace Paper Project.
Because of the exhibi-tion’s connection with the SAC Paperworks Initiative, North said this is one of the more important exhibitions ever done at the Salina Art Center.
“For the Salina commu-nity, this will help put in a broader context what we’re doing here,” he said. “We’ve
now become part of this tradition and lineage of papermaking art.”
Papermaking exhibition opens
A handmade paper book from 1973 by John Risseeuw called “Politics of Underware” is one of many pieces included in the exhibit “Pulp as Portal: Socially Engaged Hand Papermaking” at Salina Art Center. The exhibit features works from artists around the world.
JUST THE FACTSEXHIBITION: “Pulp as Portal: Socially Engaged Hand Papermaking”WHEN: Open Wednesday through July 23WHERE: Salina Art Center, 242 S. Santa FeINFORMATION: 827-1431 or salinaartcenter.orgFYI: An opening reception will be from 6 to 8 p.m. May 19 at Salina Art Center. A gallery talk will begin at 7 p.m. from Jessica Cochran, co-curator of the exhibit.
There also will be a celebration of the completion of a handmade paper quilt created by more than 600 Salina fourth-grade students at a free brunch and unveiling from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Salina Art Center.
Photos by TOM DORSEY / Salina JournalBill North (left), director of Salina Art Center, and Marc Durfee, contract exhibition designer and preparator, lift a work by Alison Knowles, of New York City, from its shipping container. The work, titled “Bean Turner,” is a large sheet of paper made with beans. It is part of the Art Center’s exhibit, “Pulp as Portal: Socially Engaged Hand Papermaking.”
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The first paragraph of Anita Shreve’s new novel, “The Stars Are Fire,” is a real beauty. She opens her gripping story on a spring day in 1947. The Maine coast-al town of Hunts Beach is so sopping wet that it’s impos-sible to hang laundry on the line to dry. Suddenly, there’s a break in the weather and the women get busy. The last sentence of the paragraph reads: “With white sheets, undershirts and rags flap-ping in the wind, it looked as though an entire town of women had surrendered.”
Shreve’s writing is both lovely and purposeful, her words gracefully orienting us. A few sentences into the book and we’re off and run-ning, wholly under the spell of an expert storyteller.
Shreve, author of 18 nov-els and a resident of Maine and New Hampshire, often writes about New England. In “The Stars Are Fire,” that spring of endless rain does nothing to ameliorate the ruinous effects of the drought to come. Grace, the mother of two with another due in four months, is only 23. Her husband, a surveyor, grows increasingly abu-sive and detached. When his wealthy mother dies, he shuts down completely. Grace and Gene’s marriage, due to pregnancy, becomes a microcosm of good and evil — a weighty node of energy that drives this book to its
conclusion.Offsetting the grimness
are Grace’s mother and her best friend, Rosie, who also live in the small seaside town of Hunts Beach. Bonds among these women are strong because Shreve’s women are strong. We take comfort in the ways the women share work, fun and worries.
By late fall, all of coastal Maine is a tinderbox. When fire inevitably breaks out, towns up and down the coastline are leveled. In Hunts Beach, 150 of 156 houses burn and people, lacking any kind of advance warning technology, must run for their lives. Grace drags Rosie and their chil-dren to the surf where they lay on their stomachs, half submerged in bitterly cold water, and dig air pockets in the sand to breathe. There
they spend a horrific night as the blast furnace holds them at bay. When she final-ly raises her head and opens her eyes the next morning, all she sees are the skeleton chimneys reaching up from the charred, smoking earth. Hypothermic and nearly dead, Grace loses the baby but she and her two chil-dren survive.
Gene, her husband, had joined other men to create a fire break in advance of the oncoming fire. Gene is one of two men who go missing that night, leaving Grace to find food and shelter for her homeless family.
Post-war changePost-war America was
on the cusp of tremendous growth and change in 1947. But in remote and coastal Maine, the old ways were still entrenched. Women didn’t drive. Husbands and wives lacking reliable birth control, produced a lot of children. The division of labor made sense but left women less skilled and less welcome in
the labor market. Grace had to start from scratch.
Grace meets good men and women who round out her life by showing qualities ab-sent in her abusive husband. One man, the doctor who treats her daughter’s scarlet fever, hires Grace to put some order to the administrative chaos in his clinic. Another man, a squatter in Gene’s mother’s house, is a concert pianist who, like everyone else, is putting his life back together after losing every-thing. Both men respond to Grace’s compassion and competence and give her new material she uses to build a stronger sense of self.
Shreve tackles dark subjects like shame, sexual abuse and emotional depriva-tion. She’s a good storyteller. Yes, something else can always go wrong, and if you read to the novel’s conclusion you will see that. Aspirations can be squelched. Peace shattered. Fortunately, we’re reading about New England, where resourcefulness is not just virtuous, it’s victorious.
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