Looking Back
What Was Going On 14 Years Ago
What started out as a routine flight in his Beechcraft Bonanza six-passenger airplane on Sunday morning, Aug. 5, 2007 became a test of Jonathan Berkley’s flight training when, flying at about 6,000 feet, he heard a loud bang in the engine. Jonathan’s parents, James and Vicki Berkley, had driven to Lawrence on that Saturday with their daughter Renee to help her settle back into her second year of college life at Kansas University. The plan was for Jonathan to pick his parents up the following day at the Lawrence airport since they had traveled to KU in Renee’s car. After he had been in the air for about 90 minutes, the plane began shaking and warning lights lighting up on the instrument panel. Jonathan notified air traffic control of his engine problems, and by that time, smoke was coming out of the engine and into the cabin. Radio control out of Topeka/Lawrence was in constant contact with Jonathan as he visually looked for a place to land. Highway K91 was visible to him, and he informed traffic control of his plan for an emergency landing. Since the engine had been cut, Jonathan was set to glide the plane down, but there was one more obstacle to overcome, and that was to glide his plane under a powerline that went across the road. Though much of that stretch of highway is hilly with curves, the Kansas Highway Patrol officer who filled out the aviation accident form told Jonathan that he had literally found the only straight stretch of Highway K92.
Tragedy hit home when the Stockton community learned that Timothy Hahn, 25, son of Alan and Pauline Hahn, was one of the two hikers who lost their lives after a wall of water swept them away near Seven Falls in Sabino Canyon Recreation Area near Tucson, Ariz. More than 50 people were hiking in the area, about five miles northeast of the Sabino Canyon Visitors Center northeast of Tucson, when the water level began to rise. Witnesses reported a large wall of water came over the top of a waterfall and cascaded down to the flat areas. Staff Sgt. Timothy Hahn, an airman at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, and Angela Knoche, 19, who worked at the base pool, were hiking with three friends when a wall of water pulled Hahn and Knoche under as the water raged through the canyon.
Bob and Joan Balderston’s granddaughter, Allison, participated in the USATF National Junior Olympics Track and Field Championships in Walnut, Calif., where she earned two medals. Ally’s 4 x 800 Relay placed sixth, and she was eighth in the 1500 Meter run.
A group of local basketball players participated in a MAYB Tournament in Hays the end of July and earned second place medals. The team was made up of Carlee Lindsey, Brenna Schlaegel, Aftan Winters, Jenny Nelson, Chelsey Kriley, Amber Kriley, Hayley Strutt, Amanda Casey of Plainville, Macee Kellner, Sierra Brown and Katie Baughman. Alli Baughman and Keith Schlaegel coached the team.
And So They Say — Pat Ballard: “My eight-year-old great-granddaughter beat all the boys in the Mutton Bustin’ event held at the Phillipsburg Rodeo on Saturday night.”
Showing at the Nova Theatre was “Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix,” as Harry returns for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts.
Darryl and Patricia Nichols of Stockton proudly announced the birth of their first grandchild, Riley Frances Frank, daughter of Bill Frank and Amanda Nichols.
Jamis Ryan Hale was born August 3, 2007, to Ryan and Paula Hale of Estes Park, Colo.
Obituaries were published for James Allen Mains (1952), Wilfred J. “Will” Garvert (1934), Kerry Lynn Kollman (1960), and Sara Jo Richards (1956).
Looking Back 14 Years, Spotlighting the Year... 1993 — Big winners at the annual 4-H Style Revue were Kayla Cook, Kelly Grecian, Marissa Haines (who was overall champion), Holly Bigge, Matthew Stamper, Jodie DeBey, Jenny Reishus, Ethan Gartrell, Nikki Kraushaar, Kelcee Lowry, Ashley Miller, Shane Stout and Amy Grecian.
56 Years Ago, Spotlighting the Year... 1951 — Virginia Lee, age 7, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elford Lowe, suffered a painful injury when she ran a shingle nail into her heel. She was given immediate medical attention which included a tetanus shot.
What Stocktonites Were Doing 98 Years Ago... Spotlighting the Year... 1909 — Does your home lack music? And does it lack the means of producing it? Music drives away the blues and cheers one up. You can readily have music just when you want it—just the kind that you most desire to hear when you buy a Victor Talking Machine at B. O. King & Co.
