Piper High School – track at DeSoto
– Boys 1st and Girls 5th
– 1st place
o Micaiah Noel – Shot Put (New School Record, previous record set in 1976)
o Jalen Taylor – 200m dash
o Josh Brown – 400m dash
o JJ Letcher – Long Jump
o Emmett Lockridge – Triple Jump
o Girls 4x100m relay – Aliya Webb, Talia Simmons, Jada Simmons, Alex Moran
– 2nd place
o Brendan Smith – 400m dash
o Dalton White – 110m hurdles
o Bryant Rogers – High Jump
o Emmett Lockridge – Long Jump
o Micaiah Noel – Discus
o Boys 4x100m relay – David Holmes, JJ Letcher, Devon Marshall, Jalen Taylor
– 3rd place
o Daj’ah Jones – 100m hurdles
o Aliya Webb – 300m hurdles
o Zoe Surprise – Pole Vault
o Talia Simmons – Long Jump
o JJ Letcher – 100m dash
o Khayree Barnes – 800m run
o Dalton White – 300m hurdles
o Marcus Wallace – Pole Vault
Piper High School – music at Chapman (state)
– Outstanding Rating
o Josie Jones, Drew Novak, Patricia Telthorst and Kevin Duperon
– Excellent Rating
o Pierce Green and Anna Traynham
– 1 Rating
o Bella Voce, Music-n-Motion, Music-n-Motion ladies, Josie Jones, Corey Mann, Alena Riley, and Isaia Wilcoxen
– 2 Rating
o Music-n-Motion men and Ariana Williams
Piper baseball vs. Turner has been canceled for today. Re-scheduled for Tuesday, May 2nd. Same times and places.
Due to field conditions Piper softball games are canceled today.
– Information from Doug Key, Piper High School activities director
Commissioner Mike Kane, right, visited with Mary Winchell, 96, of Kansas City, Kansas, today in an effort to resolve issues in getting the electricity turned back on. The power has been off there for more than two weeks. (Staff photo) by Mary Rupert
The community has helped get a 96-year-old woman’s electrical meter fixed on the back of a house in Kansas City, Kansas, this morning, but as of last reports, the electricity was still not turned on.
This morning, although a master electrician came by and signed off that the meter has been fixed, there appeared to be another snag involving getting the power back on at Mary Winchell’s home on North 81st, as the local authorities say the wiring needs upgrading.
Earlier today, Winchell said she just wanted to get her power back on, that’s all. The power has been off for more than two weeks at her home. She said a truck drove through her back yard, damaging the meter.
Volunteers working with Winchell asked Unified Government Commissioner Mike Kane’s help. He visited Winchell today at the request of the volunteers and said he wanted to get the power back on, and he wanted it to be safe. He said he would make some phone calls today about it.
Kane said he wants to see what can be done to get the issue resolved and get the electricity back on. He said every issue like this should be resolved as fast as possible. He also said he wanted to see what was happening here for himself.
Unified Government Commissioner Melissa Bynum, who knows Winchell, said she was happy to see the community volunteers’ response in coming forward to help Winchell.
Janice Witt of the Reola Grant Center helped with the volunteer effort to get power restored at the home, and there are Kansas City, Kansas, businesses that have said they will help to pay for some improvements for Winchell. Another volunteer, who remembers Winchell from years ago, also has been very active in arranging for electrical service, plus some neighborhood residents have come over to help.
Witt said a master electrician looked at the box and wiring inside the home today, said it was fine, there were no problems, nothing was burned out in the fuse box and no changes were needed. The house just uses lights and no refrigerator, no television or radio. Witt said the master electrician told her no permit was needed because the only repairs needed were outside, and the master electrician approved the meter outside today. Witt said she believes the house is safe.
Commissioner Mike Kane, left, listened to Janice Witt talk about the issues involved in getting the power back on at Mary Winchell’s home. The power has been off more than two weeks. (Staff photo)
However, the BPU says a permit is needed.
A BPU spokesman told the Wyandotte Daily that the meter was removed after it was damaged because it was a fire hazard.
David Mehlhaff, BPU spokesman, today said that all the necessary repairs haven’t been done yet. He said the BPU sent personnel and a UG staff member handling electrical codes over to the house this morning with the information on what needs to be done.
Apparently the house is an older one, wired for 60 amps, and the UG’s code for new structures requires 100 amps.
“A licensed electrician needs to secure an electric permit, and that hasn’t been done yet,” Mehlhaff said. The paperwork is important, he said, because then “we know they’re certified and gives us a flag to follow up on.” They wouldn’t want an unlicensed electrician working on a project.
“That house isn’t ready to be energized, and it won’t be until it’s safe to be energized,” Mehlhaff said.
Mehlhaff said when the electricians get all the wiring completed, the UG will do a quick inspection, and the BPU will restore the power. He said they would expedite it once the permit is in place and the wiring work is completed.
Winchell, who is a former Sunday School teacher, said today she didn’t know how much longer she will continue to live at the small house on her property, and is thinking about moving. She has two older homes on her property, and there is already working electricity at the other home, but she has been living for some time in the smaller home, which she prefers. She has natural gas heat and water at her smaller house. She never had problems before with the electricity.
“I pray every night, God tell me what to do,” Winchell said today. She earlier said that this situation for the past few weeks has tried her patience.
Witt echoed some other comments heard throughout the community in remarking that the BPU could have fixed the meter itself on the day it pulled the meter off the house, but because of various rules and policies, it didn’t.
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A Texas man was sentenced Monday to time served (two years) for selling designer drugs manufactured in Kansas, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
Michael Myers, 37, Montgomery, Texas, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances and one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
Myers was indicted in April 2014 along with co-defendants Tracy Picanso and Roy Ehrett, the owners of an Olathe-based business that produced and sold dangerous controlled substances and controlled substance analogs of THC (the active ingredient in marijuana) and methcathinones (stimulants). Picanso and Ehrett are awaiting sentencing.
Picanso and Ehrett sold products to distributors under names including Pump It, Head Trip, Black Arts, Grave Digger, Voodoo Doll and Lights Out. Some of the counterfeit drugs were manufactured in buckets with drill-powered immersion mixers and tried out on “testers” who helped tweak the recipes.
Myers and co-defendant Michelle Reulet lived together in Houston, Texas, and owned and operated Bully Wholesale, an independent wholesaler and distributor of products purchased from Picanso and Ehrett.
Ehrett routinely traveled from Kansas City to Houston to pick up cash from Reulet and Myers. On at least two occasions Myers met Ehrett in Oklahoma to transfer in excess of $100,000 cash to him. Investigators collected emails and text messages exchanged among the defendants. In an October 2011 email, for instance, Myers claimed the fake weed he was selling would not show up on a drug test. In a January 2012 email to Ehrett, Myers says he and Reulet were buying $600,000 to $900,000 worth of products each month from Ehrett and Picanso.
Beall commended the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Food and Drug Administration – Office of Criminal Investigations, the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations, Customs and Border Protection, the FBI, the Overland Park Police Department, the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, the Olathe Police Department, the St. Joseph Police Department and the Buchanan County Drug Strike Force, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tanya Treadway, Michael Varrone, associate chief counsel at the Food and Drug Administration, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Tony Mattivi for their work on the case.
