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Sweet Granada moves next door E mily G iffin W ill A ustin news@esubulletin.com Moving to a new address just a few feet away from their previous location, the Sweet Granada opened for business yesterday at 803 Commercial Street. The chocolate company will have a grand opening event Oct. 14. Nearly six years ago, it was decided that the hometown business had outgrown its space. “We have had a growth year every year since we opened in 2004,” said Kim Redeker, owner and operator of the Sweet Granada. “I guess one way to say it is that Emporia has been good to us.” Redeker said they had searched previously for a bigger building to fit their growth, but weren’t quite willing to give up their “little shop.” Late last year, the opportunity she was waiting for finally came. “We started the concept in December last year and the actual renovations began in July this year,” Redeker said. “We literally started from the ground up.” For years, the Sweet Granada
had separate locations for retail and production. With the move, they are now able to house both under one roof. “We used to produce out of Olpe, so when the opportunity for space came along right next door, we jumped at it,” Redeker said. Rachael Richardson, chocolatier at the Sweet Granada, said that for her, this is the best part of the move. “It’ll be more efficient, too, and it’ll just be fun to have everyone working together,” Richardson said. Derek Krause, junior business major, works in the retail section of the Sweet Granada. He said he is happy with the new building. “It looks great – it feels great,” Krause said. “It’s so much better with all the extra space. It saves Kim (Redeker) and everyone a lot of time.” The connection between the Sweet Granada, the Granada Theatre and the Granada Coffee Shop is being maintained through the design of the new building, which incorporates elements of the older buildings.
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William Allen White Book Awards honor two authors
Emporia High School’s drum line and cheerleaders pump up the crowd before the award ceremony begins at the William Allen White Children’s Book Award Ceremony in the morning on Saturday, Oct. 5. Over 400 young students gathered to attend the event. Jennifer Pendarvis/The Bulletin
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Kerri Hoover, production assistant at The Sweet Granada, stocks shelves Oct. 7 in the chocolate and sweets shop’s new building. The Sweet Granada purchased the building directly south of their previous location due to a need for more space. Their grand reopening will take place Oct. 14. Nicholas Sumner/The Bulletin
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Over 400 young Kansas students swarmed Emporia State’s campus for the William Allen White Children’s Book Awards Oct. 4-5. Children who attended the event were able to listen to and meet authors Patrick Jennings and Peg Kehret, this year’s award winners. “It is very exciting,” said Peg Kehret, author of “Ghost Dog Secrets,” which won the award for grades 6- 8. “It’s an honor. I love that the kids do the voting,” Patrick Jennings, author of “Guinea Dog,” picked by students in grades 3-5, said he was on “cloud nine.” “This award is literally the highest honor I could dream of,” Jennings said. The award was founded in 1952 to honor William Allen White’s love for reading. Each year, two authors are selected to receive the WAW Book Award. The recipients are chosen by student votes in two sets of grade levels (3-5 and 6-8) across the state of Kansas.
“When William Allen White passed away, there were a number of things done in his honor,” said John Sheridan, executive director of the WAW Book Awards and dean of university libraries and archives. “He was just a tremendous reader and he wrote 17 books and thousands of columns and millions of words so books were something very dear to him.” Before students are given the books to vote on, a selection committee of representatives from different organizations across the state must narrow down the master list of nominees. “There is this group of people who do the really, really heavy lifting, and I bring them together on one Saturday in September, and it consists of representatives of a number of different organizations,” Sheridan said. “This past year there were 123 nominees.” Over time, these children’s book awards have grown to encompass much more than the presentation ceremony. As early as Friday afternoon, the authors were interacting with the visiting children. “We had Patrick signing (books)
at the William Allen White house, and all the children...know that William Allen White is one of the eight wonders of the state,” Sheridan said. Following dinner, the authors joined the early arrivals of students for a question and answer session. “It was part of my job to know when to pull (the authors) away because they would be there all night if I let them,” Sheridan said. Saturday, events kicked off at 7:30 a.m. with more book signings. Students could engage in other activities while they waited for the ceremony to begin. “We found that there has always been a line, so we thought up some activities, some arts and crafts, making dog toys and some other things,” Sheridan said. “Students could come in and write the authors…there was also some science and robotics for students interested in science.” The festivities ended with a parade through campus and the awards ceremony. At the end of the day, the awards are more for the students than they are the authors, Sheridan said.
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Government shutdown will not immediately affect ESU W ill A ustin news@esubulletin.com It is unclear how soon legislators in the United States capitol will bring an end the government shutdown that began at 12:01 a.m. Oct. 1, after they failed to agree on a spending bill to fund the government for the next fiscal year. This has made the impact of the shutdown on Emporia State equally uncertain. For now, very little has changed for students. Sarah McKernan, executive assistant in the ESU President’s office, said that over time, however, federal grants and student Financial Aid could be affected. Pamela Fillmore, a program consultant for the ESU Research and Grants Center, which helps people apply for and administer federal grants, said grants which have already been received are safe for now. With several federal websites still down, Fillmore said the biggest obstacle they currently face is searching for new grant opportuni-
ties and making progress with ongoing proposals. “If we’re waiting on a proposal previously submitted to be reviewed, that’s going to be delayed,” Fillmore said. Should the shutdown last to the end of October, Fillmore said it will also begin to affect ESU’s access to money from grants that have already been approved. Requests for cash are made every 30 days to reimburse the university’s grant-related spending. “I’d say if (the shutdown) went on a month it would be problematic,” Fillmore said. “Hopefully, it won’t.” It will take longer to see an impact on federal Financial Aid for current students, said Elaine Henrie, director of Financial Aid and scholarships. “All programs that were available for (the 2013-2014 academic year) are currently being funded,” Henrie said. If enough time goes by before a spending bill is passed allowing Department of Education employees to return to work, the ESU office of Financial Aid and Scholarships will have difficulties addressing “more complex
student loan borrower issues,” Henrie said. “We just do not know, as this is uncharted territory for us,” she said. Another, more immediate, effect of the indefinite furlough for Department of Education workers is that they cannot be contacted, said Kristi Bolen, director of TRIO programs. For Bolen and others who work in federally funded education programs, this is a potential problem if they have pressing questions to ask the government department. An article at Usa.gov, the U.S. government’s official website, said veterans’ education, along with compensation, pension and other benefits, risk being put on hold if the government situation were to last. Marilyn Buchele, executive assistant of the dean of students, said her office has not yet received any information about how long it would take to see real consequences of the shutdown on veteran students. Back in Washington D.C. and
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Photo illustration by John Coffey