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Muhammad Ali dies at age 74 PAGE 6A

SUNDAY June 5, 2016

Arheart celebrates
40 years of service
By ELLY GRIMM
Leader & Times

The Seward County Court Services helps prepare

pre-sentencing investigation reports for all felony
cases, helps supervise adult felony and adult misdemeanor probation cases, and the rare juvenile case.
Since June 1976, Robert Arheart has worked for
the Court Services as the Chief Court Services

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Not-for-profit
funding requests
due by June 30
City of Liberal

Applications for Not-for-Profit Funding Requests

for the 2017 budget year are available at City Hall at
324 N. Kansas. The applications are due to the City
of Liberal by June 30.
For more information, contact the Administration
Department at 626-2201.

Overlay to
begin Monday

Bee Jays open

with a win

PAGE 8A
Former Bee Jay
manager Adam
Anderson, right,
and Bee Jay Cale
ODonnell unveil
the bronze
statue of Kaiser
Carlile Friday.
The statue will
be permanently
displayed at
Brent Gould
Field. Kaiser was
the batboy for
the Liberal Bee
Jays last season
and was
accidentally
struck by a
practice swing
during the NBC
World Series in
Wichita. He died
the next day, but
the family and
team rallied
togther along
with a city, state
and nation. L&T
photo/Earl Watt

ARHEART

Arheart has been the Chief Court

Services Officer for the 26th Judicial
District since June of 1976

PLAY BALL

Kaiser continues to inspire

By EARL WATT
Leader & Times
The helmet still seems big for the young Kaiser Carlile, but that is
exactly how it was when the 9-year-old hustled after bats and foul
balls a year ago.
The optimistic smile of Kaiser will be shared with future
generations who come to Brent Gould Field on the campus of
Seward County Community College after a bronze statue was
unveiled during opening ceremonies Friday for the Bee Jays season.
Kaiser was serving as Liberals batboy at the NBC World Series
in Wichita in August when he was accidentally struck by a practice
swing. He died the next day.
But his family and the Bee Jays rallied together along with the
cities of Liberal and Wichita, and support poured in from around
the globe.
That support helped the team and family cope with the tragedy.
After four years of coaching the Bee Jays, a long stint for a
summer program coach, Adam Anderson did not return this season
to coach, but he did come back to Liberal to be a part of the
unveiling ceremony Friday.
It was a terrible situation, Anderson said. It took all of us in
the baseball community quite a while to deal with it. Everyone
deals with it in a different way. For me, going back to the school
where I work and getting involved in baseball with our fall practice
really helped. For me to do my job, I would have to get back out
there on the baseball field, and it gave me a new sense of why I love
what I do. The whole baseball community coming together was
really special. It affirms why I love this job and why the Bee Jay
organization is the best around.
After the accident, the Bee Jays continued to battle through the Kaiser Carliles grandmother, Kim Carlile, looks at the statue of her grandson Friday
tournament and eventually finished third in the nation. The KC
night at Brent Gould Field. After losing her grandson to a tragic accident at the NBC
lettering was seen throughout Lawrence Dumont Stadium by fans of
World Series, Kaisers grandfather
all participating teams, and those shirts were also on display around
and her husband Alan Carlile
Brent Gould Field for opening night Friday when the statue was
died within the same year.
unveiled.
She finds comfort, she
said, in returning to
For Anderson, who coached the team through the tragedy, the family encouraged the
Brent Gould Field
players to continue, and they put together a strong run.
to watch the Bee
It speaks to the type of people that were on the team, to their character, the
Jays play. L&T
mental toughness and the passion they felt for Kaiser, and knowing he would
photo/Earl Watt
want them to play hard, he said. So you dont put the emotions aside, but you
deal with the emotions and go out there and play baseball and do it because the
Kaiser
bond he had with them was so strong, and they knew that is what he would want
Carliles
them to be doing.
optimistic

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City of Liberal

The City of Liberal will start the Kansas Avenue

Overlay Project on Monday. The project will start at
15th Street down Kansas Avenue to Pine Street.
Please obey all traffic signs and markings.
New light poles will also be installed on Kansas
Avenue from 11th Street to Pine Street.
The City apologizes for any inconvenience, and
thanks the public for its patience.

Memorial Day decor to

be removed by Tuesday

approach to
the game of
baseball, even
as batboy, will
be on
permanent
display at
Brent Gould
Field when his
likeness in broze
was unveiled
Friday. Carlile was the
teams batboy last season
and died after beig
accidentally struck by
a practice swing at
the NBC
World
Series. L&T
photo/Earl
Watt

City of Liberal

The staff of the Liberal Cemetery and Restlawn

Memorial Gardens would like to remind the public
all flowers and decorations must be removed by
Tuesday. Any items not removed by this date will be
disposed of.

Kaiser Carliles younger sister Keirsie has an emotional moment after the
unveiling of the bronze statue at Brent Gould Field Friday along with her parents
Chad Carlile and Gayle Glenn. L&T photo/Earl Watt

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