Cowley soccer

Dayton Rodriquez (9) gets the second goal of the game for Cowley as she led the team to a resounding 7-0 win over Cloud County Monday in Arkansas City. She scored six of her team's goals in the match. In the men's game, Walisson Gomez (19) dribbles the ball up the field against Cloud County. The score was tied in that game 1-1 at the half. For more photos, see the web site. (www.arkcityrevived.com) Stories to come in the morning.

health, drugs

Since I dont have insurance at the moment, I was trying to find some decent prices online for my drugs.
Here is something interesting. For my acid reflux, i can get 90 pills for $60 from a company in the US. I can get the same pills for $30 from a company in England, and that is with paying shipping.
I just thought that was interesting.
These are drugs made in the US. So, they are made here, exported to england, and they can be imported back here at half the price.
Im getting more and more skeptical of horror tales of medicine in England.

More updates

Fall is in the air. Football season must be starting.
It is, but at Cowley College today the "other" football teams will be playing. The two soccer teams open their home season today at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., with the women playing first, followed by the men.
In most of the world, what we call soccer, is called football.
I know, i know, we have "real" football here in the USA. Im as excited about that as anyone.
Anyways, over the weekend, Cowley College got its fall seasons into full swing with several teams having games. You can see all about the weekend's action on my Cowley page
Or just go to the main site.
Volleyball team has its first home match wednesday.
I am planning on having a sports section. But you probably expected that right. :)

Monday, cop notes

Good morning.
Cop notes are updated.
There was a rape reported yesterday, no one arrested yet. There were also some car break-ins, and three vehicles versus bicycle accidents. Be careful out there.
Another sign that school is in session, was a few people charged - in different cases - with minor in consumption. This of course, is when the cops arrest 20-year-olds for drinking with 21-year-olds. Those who are 21 are charged with hosting. I may be exaggerating a bit, but that is the case at times.
But no matter what you think about that, it is still illegal to drink alcohol under the age of 21.

Getting historical
I see no one has commented on my post yesterday about a historic event, or an event from history. I don't know if people are interested in that sort of thing. I like history, and Arkansas City does have a colorful history. We really should make more of our history. What I posted was on the church page, but I thought it was interesting from a history-point of view as well as from the religious.
I also found links to Arkansas City race tracks. There used to be car racing here. There were two tracks over the years. One in the 30s and another in the 50s.
Ill post more on that later. I need to run some errands this morning. Then Ill get busy posting and reporting.

Healing evangelists

Just a reminder of the healing service tonight at Wilson park at 6:30. Healing has been a controversial matter for years, in secular as well as religious circles.
But, I found that years ago, another healer came through Arkansas City.
She was a nationally known evangelist.
AIMEE SEMPLE McPHERSON was a pentacostal preacher in the 1920s. She conducted massive healing services across the country and was a pioneer in the pentacostal style of preaching. She was controversial at the time, but her meetings drew thousands of people. She held meetings for a month in Wichita, in 1922, and many people were healed, including several from Arkansas City. People in Arkansas City were so impressed they invited her to come here.
It is estimated that 5,000 people crowded into Wilson Park to hear her speak and watch her heal people. It was reported in the newspaper that a storm was stopped by her prayer.
There were long reports about her in the local newspapers. There were reports about her meetings in Wichita, as well as reports about arranging for her visit, as well as a long report of the visit itself. A Traveler Sports Writer was healed.
This was in May of 1922
You can read the entire newspaper account here:
http://www.arkcityrevived.com/CHURCH/AIMEE_SEMPLE_McPHERSON.html

(If this link does not work, please try again later. There is an issue with the server.)
An aside, the journalist in me marveled at the reporting. Certainly a different style. The detail was pretty amazing. Im no sure how many papers would print such a thing objectively today.
I do like the way papers were written back in the old days.
As Larry Norman once said. "sometimes i think we have advanced, but then i look at where we are."

Saturday updates

Was a bit tied up yesterday, so didn't have much of a chance to post.
I have updated the site. I put my notes from the city commission worksession on the site.
I have also posted the county commission agenda. I think eventually I will get into covering them, just not there yet.
Also I have posted the latest dean hall column on the health page.
Our hunting and fishing writer is running a bit behind this week, but we might have him up there today.

There are more live blogs coming along. Next Wednesday is Jerry Campbell. The wednesday after that will be Sean Wallace. I am trying to add a couple here and there in between. We may also do a general open live blog. When is a good time for that?

Friday morning

Cop notes are posted.
Sorry its so late. Just having a hard time getting anything going today.
Some really good comments on yesterday's post about growth and business and such.
We had a good live blog last night with Curt Freeland. More are scheduled.
I was thinking about having a live blog tomorrow morning. Let me know if you are interested and ill turn it on.
More news coming later today

Live interview with curt freeland, 7 p.m.

Still trying to move on from lowes

I am still trying to get us to move past Lowe's.
I know opponents say there never was a Lowe's coming, but there would have been.
There is nothing that can be done now. What is done is done.
People who voted against it were convinced they were doing the right thing.
We can debate that till the cows come home, and nothing will ever be resolved.
We need to move on.
The question on the floor should be ... what do we do now?

I was also thinking about growth. I saw a figure that in 1920 we had 11,000 people in Arkansas City. That is about what we have now. So we have not "grown" in 90 years.
Maybe we are asking the wrong questions.
Do we need growth? Why? Why not?
There is the debate between industrial and retail. The obvious answer should be that we need both. I fear we may be spending too much time debating which one, and accomplishing neither.
What if we changed our focus from growth, pretty much making the retail versus industry debate irrelevant, and concentrated on improving what we do have?

city commission worksession

Good morning.
Cop notes are posted on the site.
City commission worksession is today at 5:30 p.m. They may be discussing the Corp of Engineers situation that I wrote about last night. That information is in the pre-meeting packet that commissioners receive.
There's not much on the agenda tonight.
1. There will be hearings for six possible dangerous structures in the city. These properties could eventually be torn down. The properties are at : 505 N. 7th.; 219 S. 8th St.; 508 S. 7th St.; 319 North D Street; 1320 South K Street; 507 E. Van Buren.
2. Select delegates to the league of municipalities annual meeting.
3. Consider charter ordinance relating to primary elections and general elections for city commissions. This would make it more likely that there would be a primary election.
4. Consider instituting a 2-hour parking zone around 100 block of East Central. This is around the Osage. Residents park on the street instead of the parking lot, and some local businesses have objected.

Those are the only agenda items.