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For those of you who know or don't know. The city office will be relocating to 101 N. Main (formerly Countrylife Studio)
We should be moved by Nov. 1st. There will be a drop box at the new location. We hope you stop in and check out the new office. It is so nice. Pass the word around to those who don't check the forum. Thanks everybody

I don't have the details only that he has passed away. He is a brother to Bill who lives in Howard. Bob lived here in Moline until about 6 months ago.

You all are just pathetic.  You have absolutely no clue what you are talking about.  You just get on here and congratulate each other for once again stopping any and all progress towards a solution that has been needed for decades.  That's the problem with Elk County, all you regressive, uber-right quasi-anarchist Reationaries.

Did you ever think to go to a school board meeting before the bond election? No!

Did you ever think about going to the courthouse and setting in on a Commissioners meeting to see where the money goes?  No!

Have you ever gone to Topeka and set in the balcony and watch the Legislature in action, and then go talk to your representative about where the money goes?  No!

Have you ever served as a legistative intern, and watched from the inside what goes into the job of representing anal retentive butt-wipes like you?  Again, No!

Firstly I think you owe everyone and apology for this over emotional display of crap. If you can't seem to do this then here is what I have to say about that.
Where do you live and why? How many school board meetings have YOU been to? How many children do you have? How much land do you own and pay taxes on in Elk County? How many commission meetings did you attend when you weren't employed by the county? How many trips to Topeka did you make? Name calling is a bit childish and your way older than that. Where do you get off talking like that to people who still live and struggle here? 

Bonnie Louise (Wheeler) Smith of Derby, Kansas, age 79, retired Medical Office Manager, died Friday, August 7, 2009.

Bonnie is preceded in death by her parents, Melvin and Viola Wheeler; son, Troy Smith; brothers, Frank and Willard Wheeler; sisters, Dorothy Seward, Ramona Tatum and Francis Wheeler.

Survivors include her husband of 60 years, Robert; son, Kelly (Shirley) Smith of Rose Hill, Kansasl; daughter, Jill (Arlen) Thomassian of Boulder, Colorado; brothers, Robert Wheeler of Elk City, Kansas and Melvin Wheeler, Jr. of Aurora, Colorado; sisters, Mary Kiser of El Paso, Texas and Glenda Bersuch, Ft. Worth, Texas; grandchildren, Ben and Kyle Smith, and Troy, Athena, Michelle and Simon Thomassian; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Visitation will be from 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at Smith Mortuary, 1415 N. Rock Road, Derby, Kansas with family receiving friends from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.  Graveside service will be held at 11:00 a.m on Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at Moline Cemetery in Moline, Kansas.

A memorial has been established with Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice, 313 S. Market, Wichita, KS 67202. View tributes at smithfamilymortuaries.com. Smith Mortuary in Derby, Kansas is in charge of arrangements.

(taken from the Wichita Eagle website)

Down here in Moline we had a similar problem a couple of years ago and I don't know if it's the same thing Howard has going on. But here is what caused ours. The State of Ks. in their infinite wisdom decided that we needed to add ammonia to our water to help with the residue that the clorine disinfection process leaves (breath) so adding ammonia drops the pH in the water to the bottom which makes the water very acidic and it likes to eat metal. Well we all know that our little towns have mainly metal lines and thus brown or rust colored water. I know that the City of Moline spent a fortune on soda ash to offset the pH problem and it took a while to get lined out. Still to this day periodically we will have a few lines that go brown and we can't figure it out.
The people at the state told me that science is working against us as they keep getting more detailed tests and then they come up with some bright idea as to OMG how to fix it!!! Like I said I don't know if that's what Howard is having a problem with or not.

The date of birth for William as listed on his tombstone is Feb 11, 1842

Build a building over the howard pool/ball court and keep it open year round and add a weight room and walking track.

Okey dokey well I'd like to just restate my earlier post of misleading, misrepresentation ect... by the administrator. He told them it would fail and I think he is going to do everything he can to make sure that it does. After the decision Monday night we were fine teacher wise with Sally as 6th grade teacher. But now we are one short. And who do we have to thank for that. Raise your hand if you know?

Here is what I know from a school board member. Sally quit, don't know her reasons. I do know that she was supposed to teach 6th. She told them when she was hired she would only teach 6th or Jr. High. It was offered to others down the line. Lynn, Mary ect... Mary took it. I personally feel that this is more of Bert Moore trying to undermine what the board did to get back at them for not doing what he wanted. Time will tell if he is constantly going to undermine and cause problems to make the board look bad and to make the plan fail.
The paper this morning hmm well lets just say that Bert is trying to justify hisself or at least make himself look good. More smoke and sugar coating. I know for a fact that he renewed his contract for only a year SEVERAL months ago!!! To me it just looks like he is throwing a tantrum because he didn't get his way. GOOD! I say. I do not believe that he is beneficial to our school or our communities. How many games, activities and graduation have you seen him at? Very few and not graduation. I would not believe a third of what was written in the story. I am sure that Rudy printed what he was given. Darlene Riggs said it right at the meeting. There's a whole lot of sugar coating on this stuff. I think that all of the board needs to remember that Bert Moore works for them and they work for us. Not the other way around. I for one would be writing up a reprimand to go in his file for continually withholding information or falsifying it as he sees fit. Misleading, the public with this article is a prime example. You cannot tell me that the pilot program was going to save that much versus what they finally decided to do. It should in all actuality be around the same cost with the exception of we won't loose at least 30+ kids had they stuck to the change. I believe this is more deceivement my Bert. ALL of the figures on ALL options should of been presented to the board for consideration. Not here is what I want and you vote for it. Wrong answer.
I commend the board members that made the change and especially Rob for voting NO in the first place. If I was from Severy I would be very worried and very angry at my board members. Be aware, very aware that one of those board members will make a motion in the near future to build a new school in Howard to house the grades schoolers. Maybe they should take a little look at Sedan before doing so. Yes they have their schools all together but when your enrollment is declining who is going to attend there? That is from a Sedan person. So building a new school won't solve the main problem. With the rising cost of fuel people will be moving to the Cities for closer work. The few left behind will be paying for it with unaffordable & unreasonably high taxes.
More and more stuff is coming out all the time. I was told last night that the teachers did suggest that the 6th grade be moved to the junior high. This happened months ago also. OOOHHH wait uh yep here it is more sugar and smoke screening. By you know who. And just so you know Bert Moore makes $103,000ish with his new raise. BUT don't be totally alarmed West Elk does not pay all of that.  That being said if Bert is so worried about the teachers not making enough money (which they don't) then give up some of your salary to them.

Does anyone have a picture that you can scan and email me of the old round house that used to be on the west side of town? It was a building they turned the engine around in.