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Achievement: A family tradition

By ROBERT PIERCE
Leader &Times Senior Reporter

SWMC demonstrates
the dangers of a stroke

DEVIN WALKER
VALEDICTORIAN
2014

While strokes are certainly a well-known

condition, many people are unsure of what
a stroke actually is

By ELLY GRIMM
Leader & Times

The first motorcycle unit with the Liberal Police

Department was utilized in the 1930s and was eventually
disbanded. Thanks to a deal with the Garden City Police
Department, however, a motorcycle unit will be rolling
down the streets of Liberal again several decades later.
Its been off and on over the years. It hasnt been anything
weve pursued real heavily simply because we didnt have the
budgeted funds for it, LPD Chief Al Sill said. We had
looked at some different options as far as dealer incentive
programs, grant money, and we were unable to find any of
that. So it wasnt something high on our priority list
because we had other budgeted issues to deal with. Then
when we came across this deal with Garden City, I
thought it would be the best way for us to pursue a motor-

Studies show that strokes are the fifth leading

cause of death in the U.S., with one person dying
every four minutes as a result.
Approximately 800,000 people have a stroke each
year, about one every 40 seconds.
With all this in mind, local EMS, along with
officials from Liberals Southwest Medical Center,
took the opportunity Thursday to provide a demonstration to educate about strokes.
The demonstration took at EMS and hospital care

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Special to the Leader & Times

The Southwest Kansas Rifle and Pistol Club is

hosting an IDPA shoot at 10 a.m. on Saturday at the
Liberal Recreational Shooting Range.
The event is open to the public, and costs $10 to
shoot. Anyone attending their first IDPA match gets
their entry fee waived. Participants will need a
9mm/.38 or larger caliber handgun, a strong-arm
side holster, at least two magazines/speed loaders,
a n d
approximately
1 0 0
rounds of
ammunition, as well as
eye and ear protection.
Members of the public
are also invited to simply come and
observe.
During competition a
shooter can expect to face several
stages, or courses of fire, each designed
around a potential real world scenario featuring a
variety of targets and obstacles which he or she must
navigate in the shortest period of time with the
highest degree of accuracy.
For more details about IDPA, visit
www.swkrpc.org/idpa.html or www.IDPA.com. For
additional questions, call 620.544.6595 or visit our
Facebook page at www.facebook.com/SWKRPC

AA group to meet every

Saturday at SWMC
Special to the L&T

The New Horizons group of Alcoholics

Anonymous is inviting all to attend meetings at 5
p.m. every Saturday at SWMC in Conference Room
No. 1.

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KYLER ANGELL
SALUTATORIAN
2014

MADISON ANGELL
VALEDICTORIAN
2016

LPD to soon implement motorcycle unit

By ROBERT PIERCE
Leader &Times

SW Kansas Rifle
and Pistol Club to
host IDPA shoot

BRITTANY WALKER
SALUTATORIAN
2016

Every year in May, millions of high

school seniors take the walk of graduation signifying the end of their time in
secondary education and for many, the
start of their time in higher education.
While siblings often graduate from the
same school and some in the same class,
a situation that occurs less often is
having siblings from two separate classes
be chosen as valedictorian or salutatorian.
This year, Southwestern Heights High
School not only has the sibling of one of
its past top two in the class, but both of

cycle unit.
The department was granted permission from the Liberal City
Commission at its most recent meeting Tuesday evening to
purchase five used Kawasaki motorcycles from Garden City P.D.
for $8,500 to begin a motorcycle unit in Liberal. All the motorcycles will come with the necessary police equipment.
Oddly enough, however, Sill said he was not expecting to start
the unit with that many motorcycles. Ultimately though, Sill
added, getting the bundle was a bonus.
Initially I had wanted to start this with only a couple motorcycles, but the price was the right amount of money for what we
were getting. In doing so, its providing us with the opportunity to
use five different bikes instead of two, and I thought that would
be the easiest way to pursue the purchase of the motorcycles, Sill
said. Especially when you have to equip them to be police motor-

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Kansas attorney charged

with sexual battery
DODGE CITY (AP) A western
Kansas attorney has been charged with
sexual battery against a client.
The misdemeanor charge was filed this
week in Ford County against Daniel
Arkell-Roca. The Dodge City attorney said
in an email to The Associated Press that he
is innocent and that his wife and 10
children are confident that he will be
vindicated. He blamed politics and said
the alleged victim is a former client who

was charged in a drive by gang-related

shooting.
The Ford County attorneys office said
in a Facebook post that Arkell-Roca would
appear in court on the charge later this
month. A secretary in the prosecutors
office said there would be no further
comment.
The charge carries a possible penalty of
up to one year in jail and a fine of $2,500.
In this Jan. 25 file photo, House Elections Committee, Secretary of
State Kris Kobach speaks in Topeka, Kan. Documents obtained by
The Associated Press show Brian Newby told Kobach that he could
count on him months before he was hired to head the U.S. Election
Assistance Commission. The new executive then decided residents of
Alabama, Kansas and Georgia can no longer register to vote using a
national form without providing proof of U.S. citizenship. Thad
Allton/Topeka Capital-Journal via AP, File

All 5 Oklahoma GOP

congressmen will have
primary opponents
Judge considers ACLU
By SEAN MURPHY
Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY Each of

Oklahomas five Republican U.S. House
members will have opponents in the fall, as
more political hopefuls filed for office
Thursday against the incumbents.
In Tulsas 1st Congressional District,
U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine will face at least
two challengers in a Republican primary
perennial candidate Evelyn Rogers and
Tom Atkinson, a Tulsa oil and gas
executive, U.S. Air Force veteran and
former federal prosecutor and judge.
Independent David Hullum of Tulsa also
filed for the seat.
Career politicians have failed us, and
the people of Oklahoma deserve a representative who is a proven leader that will
work with others to turn our conservative
ideas into real policy solutions, said
Atkinson, 66.
The three-day filing period will continue
until 5 p.m. Friday at the state Capitol. At
the close of business on Thursday, 320
candidates had formally submitted their
candidacy papers and filing fees for races
on the ballot in November, including one
U.S. Senate seat, all five U.S. House seats,
101 Oklahoma House seats and 25 of the
48 posts in the state Senate.
The only statewide race for an

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challenge to voting
documentation rule
Oklahoma office is a six-year term on the
Oklahoma Corporation Commission,
which regulates the oil and gas, utilities
and transportation industries, among
others. Candidates who have filed for that
post include incumbent Republican Dana
Murphy and longtime Democratic state
Rep. Richard Morrissette, who is termlimited and cant run again for his House
seat.
In Oklahomas 2nd Congressional
District in eastern Oklahoma, incumbent
Republican U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin
will face Jarrin Jackson of Claremore in a
GOP primary. Democrat Paul Schiefelbein
of Tahlequah and independent John
McCarthy of Afton also are seeking the
seat.
Both Mullin and Bridenstine have said
they dont plan to seek another term after
2016.
In the sprawling 3rd District in western

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The ACLU is representing six

Kansans who registered to vote
when they obtained their
drivers licenses but were not
allowed to cast ballots because
they did not comply with a state
law requiring they prove their
citizenship
By BILL DRAPER
Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Kan. The

American Civil Liberties Union
urged a judge Thursday to block
Kansas from requiring people who
register to vote at state motor
vehicle offices to show proof of
citizenship before they can cast
ballots, arguing the mandate
violates federal law.
Dale Ho, an ACLU attorney,
said that without an injunction

thousands of registered voters

could be disenfranchised in
upcoming state elections. After
about four hours of arguments,
U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson
said she would take the matter
under advisement.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris
Kobach said that if the temporary
injunction were granted, it would
create a two-tier system. People
who register to vote at motor
vehicle offices would be able to vote
in federal elections, but not state
ones, while those who registered
somewhere else without showing
adequate proof wouldnt be allowed
to vote in either, he said.
State law is still in place, said
Kobach, who helped craft the
states
proof-of-citizenship
requirement. They cant claim the
(national law) trumps state law for
state elections.

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