10 YEARS AGO

jan. 13, 2016

Marion resident Jerry Kline leaves a radio playing for 50 chickens he keeps in a coop east of town.

“I tune it to whatever comes in good, usually KFDI,” Kline said, “but sometimes the chickens change it.”

The radio sits on a shelf inside the coop.

“Chickens get flighty,” Kline said. “They just fly up and bump it. There’s not much room on the shelf.”

Football season ended in October — too soon for Marion High School junior lineman Cade Harms and his teammates, as they missed the playoffs by the slimmest of margins. But football wasn’t quite finished with Harms, who in December already was hard at work in the weight room preparing for next year.

He was at home recently while his mother was browsing the Wichita Eagle’s list of all-state football players.

“Cade, you made the list,” he recalls her saying.

He is the first junior to do so during Grant Thierolf’s tenure as Marion coach.

Fire that reportedly began in a rubber belt that raises grain from a “pit” to the top of grain bins at Cooperative Grain and Supply’s elevator in Marion led to evacuations — even relocation of jail inmates — as a precaution last week, but no serious problems were reported.

A referee put a single tick back on the game clock after time prematurely expired during Marion’s call for a timeout. When play resumed, the Warriors’ Tyler Zinn responded by launching a catch-and-shoot three-pointer that won the game, 64-62, over Hutchinson Trinity. They were the final points of a 37-point night for the transfer student from Olathe South.