Casey Melander and Lyndsay Roper, Caney Valley High School seniors, were named 2010 CVHS fall sports homecoming king and queen at coronation ceremonies Friday night in the CVHS Stadium. Other royalty candidates included (king candidates) CVHS seniors Dustin Bayless, Gage Billingsley, Dalton Lockwood, Kurt Lockwood and Skye Richey; (queen candidates) Sarah Boatman, Melanie Davis, Rachel Estes, Mercades Price and Jessica Wyrick. (Photo by Sheri Thompson)

COFFEYVILLE — Coffeyville Community College will honor Lue Barndollar at the annual Distinguished Alumni and Friends Banquet on Friday, Oct. 15.

Barndollar joins 25 other alumni and CCC friends who have been recognized through the Distinguished Alumni and Friends Award.

Barndollar has been associated with CCC since joining the college in 1978 as an English instructor. During her tenure at CCC, Barndollar worked as the Honors Program Coordinator, Division Chair, Academic Challenge Coach, Humanities Tour Leader and a grant coordinator.  Her work in the classroom has been recognized in a number of ways.  She was CCC’s first faculty member to earn the Distinguished Professor award in 1985.  She was the recipient of an Award for Teaching Excellence from the International Institute for Staff and Organization Development (NISOD), in Austin, Texas, and was named the Coffeyville Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Educator in Higher Education.

An active volunteer in the Coffeyville community, Barndollar currently serves on the Coffeyville Community College Board of Trustees, the Coffeyville College Foundation Board, the Coffeyville Historical Society and the Friends of the Brown Mansion. At various times she has served as a Sunday school teacher, Camp Fire leader, Cub Scout den mother, PTA Picture Lady, Red Cross water-safety instructor and as a trustee of the Coffeyville Public Library.
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CHERRYVALE — Chris and Julie Sale of rural Cherryvale were named the 2010 Farm Family of the Year by the Labette County Farm Bureau during the bureau’s annual meeting in Altamont on Sept. 18.

The Sale family farm is located east of Cherryvale in Labette County. The family grows corn and soybeans and maintains a cow-calf herd along with backgrounding yearling calves. Chris and his brother Kevin Sale also operate a seed business based at the farm. Chris served the Labette County Farm Bureau as a board director for four years including one year as county president. He has served as a voting delegate at the Kansas Farm Bureau Annual Meeting and participated in meetings with state legislators and a county commissioner.
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“Conquer the Tornadoes” is theme for the 2010 fall sports homecoming week at Cherryvale High School, which culminates on Friday, Oct. 8, with the crowning of the 2010 homecoming queen.
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CANET — A special Mass will be held on Sunday, Oct. 10, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Caney, to celebrate the church’s centennial year, 2010. Bishop Michael Jackels, bishop of the Wichita Diocese, will serve as the principal celebrant. Bishop Eugene Gerber, who was bishop of the Wichita Diocese in the 1990s, is unable to attend due to illness. Father Sixtus Myint, pastor of Sacred Heart, will be the concelebrant.

All current and former members, as well as the public, are invited to attend the special service.
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Community Elementary School is partnering with the Coffeyville McDonald’s to bring McTeacher Night to the community.

McTeacher Night will be held from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 13 at the local McDonald’s restaurant on 11th Street.
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CHERRYVALE — A retired Cherryvale school teacher has teamed up with an artistic sister to create a series of children’s books centering on the adventures of a puppet.

Joyce Long of Cherryvale and her sister Margie Trotter of Edmond, Okla., collaborated on the new book “The Misadventures of Zortz: The Real Me,” which was released last week by Tanos Books of Coffeyville.

Zortz not only is the green puppet that is the centerpiece of the books, but it also is a real puppet that is taken on the road for various magic shows and other presentations.

“I acquired Zortz at a Christian magicians’ show about three years ago, and that’s when I developed the idea of writing a book that puts the young reader in the life of the puppet,” said Long.
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BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

LIBERTY — Sixty-five years after being honorably discharged from the U.S. Army, rural Liberty resident Carl Funk can still proudly wear the uniform that suited him during his days as a paratrooper in the Pacific.

And, he still carries a high regard for the service — and the war — that he says liberated the world from tyranny.

Funk, a retired music teacher, was one of 114 World War II veterans from Kansas who made a trip to the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 28-29 as part of the Central Prairie Honor Flights. The Kansas chapter of the national grassroots movement has now made 11 total trips to the nation’s capital for aging veterans to view the monuments and the newly-established National World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The organization hopes to fly at least 3,000 more Kansas World War II veterans in the coming months.

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Sheriff Robert Dierks reports Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department deputies received information on Tuesday, Oct. 5 regarding possible narcotic activity in the 100 block of West Main Street in Independence.
Officers conducted a surveillance of this area.  During this surveillance, a vehicle driven by Richard Cretcher, Cherryvale, was stopped for a traffic violation. During the traffic stop, Cretcher and his passengers, Gregory Chapman and Renee Tindle, also of Cherryvale, were found to be in possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphenalia.
Based on activity observed during the surveillance and subsequent traffic stop, a search warrant was obtained for 107½ West Main Street in Independence. During the search of the apartment by Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department and Independence Police Department, evidence of sale of methamphetamine, methamphetamine, packaging material, digital scales, and other drug related items were found. Christopher York of Independence was also arrested.
Officers are still attempting to locate Kyle Cole Harris, age 35 of Independence, and Bryanna Leigh Yarbrough, age 18, also of Independence. These two people are persons of interest in this investigation.
Contact local law enforcement if you have any information relating to these two subjects.   The CrimeTip Hotline is 1-800-498-1019. Callers will remain anonymous.