BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

The ever-popular car and motorcycle will be among the key events at the annual Cherry Blossom Festival, set for Saturday, May 7 at Logan Park.

The event is sponsored by the Cherryvale Chamber of Commerce.

The car and motorcycle will be held from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with registration set from 9 a.m. to noon. Entry fee is $15.00 per vehicle.
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Members of the Cherryvale Police Department, along with area law enforcement are currently looking for Caden West. Caden is a white male, 18 years of age, 6′2″ blond hair, and blue eyes. 160 lbs., last seen wearing a camo outfit, with a backpack and black shoes.

Although no foul play is believed to be involved at this time, officials are concern with Cadens well being and safety.  Caden was last seen here in Cherryvale around 3:15 p.m., Tuesday, March 8, leaving Cherryvale Middle-High School.  Several reports have placed Caden around the area and outside the county over the past 24 hours.

If you know the whereabouts of Caden, contact your local police department or the Cherryvale Police Department at 620-336-2400.

The Cherryvale Chamber of Commerce is hosting a celebration of duty for the 10 soldiers from the Cherryvale group that have served in Afghanistan for the past year. They returned home on Dec. 23 just in time for the holidays with their families.

The chamber will be having a chili supper in honor of them at New Life Praise and Worship, 308 N. Liberty, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 30. The public is invited to attend, with the special guests of the soldiers and their families.

Special Cherryvale Packages will be given to each soldier for their service to not only our country, but to our community. If you have anything for the packets, or would simply like to donate towards them, please contact Tina at (620) 891-0072.

The following soldiers will be honored at this event: Shane Harris, Andrew Snider, Aaron Plumley, Dustin Housel, T.J. Montgomery, Jake Rion, Tyler Gay, Johnny Moore, Eric Brodersen and Vincent Gonzalez.

CHERRYVALE — The Cherry Blossom Festival will have a new feature beginning in 2011: the coronation of the Cherry Blossom Festival Queen.

On Monday, members of the Cherryvale Chamber of Commerce, which sponsors the festival, heard details about the queen contest, which is designed to enhance the festival activities while also promoting ideal citizenship among teenage girls.
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Two 18-year-old men were killed in a two-vehicle collision at the U.S. 169-160 highway junction south of Cherryvale on Monday afternoon, Nov. 1.
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BY ANDY TAYLOR

chronicle@taylornews.org

CHERRYVALE — The Cherryvale area as well as South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad, which has Cherryvale as its headquarters, will be the primary beneficiaries of a $10.2 million federal grant designed to enhance the railroad’s system in southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma.

The Kansas Department of Transportation announced Wednesday that it had been awarded a $10.2 million federal Transportation Investments Generating Economic Recovery II (TIGER II) grant that will be solely used to assist the South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad with its rail operations in the Cherryvale area.  The South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad is headquartered in Cherryvale and extends through southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma. The short-line railroad is a subsidiary of Watco Transportation, Inc., which is based in Pittsburg, Kan.

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CHERRYVALE — “Battle Of the Blue” is the theme for Friday night’s Neodesha/Cherryvale football game to be held at Logan Park Stadium in Cherryvale.
The Cherryvale High School Athletic Department is sponsoring the special-theme night — True Blue Night — in hopes that Cherryvale fans will don blue as the CHS Chargers face the Neodesha Bluestreaks. All CHS fans are encouraged to wear Charger blue T-shirts or sweatshirts so that the entire home side of Logan Park Stadium is covered in a wave of Charger blue.
Door prizes will be given away throughout the game, including autographed CHS footballs, football helmets, Charger yard stones, T-shirts, water bottles, Scentsy pots and more.

First in a two-part series

BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

Had H.H. Tucker, Jr., read the business headlines in the past several years, he would have hated to hear the news.

For nothing bothered Tucker more than hearing of corporate greed, big business bullying tactics, government officials in the hip pocket of Wall Street bigwigs, corrupt judges who blatantly tipped the scales of justice, and a tainted media out of control through its own aversion toward spin and lies.

However, those stories that made Tucker red faced and spittin’ mad came from the mid-1900s in Montgomery County, Kansas — not the 24-hour news cycle of the modern mass media.

So, why did Tucker, a one-time Cherryvale newspaper publisher and an oil company promoter, get high blood pressure when he dealt with government and big business?

The story goes back to Tucker’s quest to make some quick cash in Montgomery County’s oil and gas boom of the early 1900s.
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CHERRYVALE — The City of Cherryvale will offer free pool admission at the Cherryvale Swimming Pool on two upcoming dates so that the public can see the condition of the pool facility.
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