NEWS FROM CHASEAMERICA

NEWS FROM CHASEAMERICA!!

Click here for Meet The Seniors of 2024
Click here for Photos of 2024 Chase High School Graduates

Chase Raymond Primary students learned about the Thanksgiving Day Parade, created their own balloons, and paraded throughout the district. Our staff keep the focus on authentic learning that is engaging!

Ninth grade students went to Barton Community College to learn techniques to use a potter's wheel from Mark Freeman. Afterwards students attended a pastel workshop at Shafer Gallery.
Students found art that inspired them to create their own work.

Happy birthday to Mr. Short, our awesome principal!
We appreciate all the hard-work you do for students and staff!

    A gigantic THANK YOU!! to Jeri Lynn 
    Patry and Grace Faltysek for going above and beyond during the month of 
    November for staff and students!
    
     As we welcome new 
    students through our doors today, your efforts inspire us and remind us of 
    the power of collaboration and determination! Thank you for embodying our 
    values and making a difference every day!! 
  

Way to Go BULLDOGS! Great start to the basketball season with WINS against Paradise!

Valerie Reynoso, author and illustrator of "The Adventures of the Rabbits in Rice County" read her book to CGS students Wednesday. Each student at Chase-Raymond Primary and Intermediate School will receive a free book. Thank you Rice County Tourism for sponsoring the books.

November 6th, Chase FFA attended the Entomology and Milk Quality Products Career Development Events in Harper, KS. Luke Short, Zada Evans, and Robert Devorss identified 50 different insects, sampled and identified multiple varieties of cheese, milk, and other dairy products, and tested milk for mastitis. They were also assessed on their knowledge of the contests by completing assessments in both genres. Chase FFA placed 12 out of 20 teams in the Milk Quality Products CDE!

Lady Kats Oct 12

New project for Chaseamerica

CHS seniors are participating in Apply Kansas this week!

Homecoming 2024

Aaron Aguilera and Haylee Miller, King Zeke Spangler and Queen Maudie Bowen,
Edward Esquivel and Jersey Meyeres
Ryker Whiting, Ashley Martinez and Jacob Martinez

Chase High School 
  2024 Fall Homecoming Candidates

  Aaron Aguilera, Zeke Spangler, Edward Esquivel

  Haylee Miller, Maudie Bowen, Jersey Meyeres

Congratulations to the Raymond Junior High Lady Bulldogs on their first win!!

2024 Grandparent Day was a big success at Chase/Raymond Primary and Intermediate School.
Grandparents and students were involved in a variety of activities.

New mural painted in Chase, I have not found out the artist as yet.
Painted on building across the corner from Kats Korner

    NexGen Small Engine Repair & Scrap 
    Metal. Servicing Rush, Rice, Barton, Reno and Pawnee Counties. Dj Aldridge 
    will be the 3rd generation to operate out of his grandpa and dads shop. The 
    remainder of the year they are focusing on clean up, repairs to the shop and 
    getting proper insurance etc. but 2025 we will start taking small engine 
    customers. The scrap side will still run as usual. His dad wanted the 
    property to stay in the family and be used. Things will start to look a 
    little different off highway 56 but the same good ole boy service can be 
    expected. 
    
    NexGen would like to announce the hiring of a financial 
    manager. Heather Baker (Brittany's Mother) has a masters degree in business 
    administration. She has been employed by Sunflower Electric Power 
    Corporation for 20 years where she is currently their Power Supply Analyst. 
    She loves crunching numbers and they know she will be a great asset. She is 
    already rolling, bringing her expertise to the table and will enjoy this as 
    a side gig with them.

    JM Builders LLC is excited to 
    Announce! We have opened an office at 501 Main St in Chase! We offer full 
    Building Material and Metal sales, also a full in stock selection of Colored 
    rivets. Along with that we offer full service building construction! Call 
    785-639-0527 for service until we get our office staff moved over!

    Que a BIG happy dance! We were able 
    to get the two new water fountains installed prior to the school year being 
    let out. Our students were thrilled to have a fountain accessible in our 
    smaller gym. 
  

    Thank you again to the South 
    Central Community Foundation for the $5,000 grant to help us to continue to 
    provide clean/filtered drinking water for our students!

Current Menu from Kats Korner

A new disc ring and cage were added to the Chase/Raymond facilities this spring. We want to say THANK YOU and give HUGE SHOUT OUT to those who made this possible! Thank you to JM Builders LLC, City of Chase, CHS welding students, and Coach Broeder! We appreciate your continued support of our students and district

This is a helicopter view of Chase taken by Dace Winkelman.

The wood shop class for designed and constructed an addition for Mrs. Schepmann’s desk! The craftsmanship is superior and provides additional workspace!

JM Builders LLC

              It’s always amazing when we get to be 
              apart of a community project! We were given the chance to build 
              this turn key fire station for the City Of Chase, and being our 
              home town we were able to provide $65,000+ in donated materials 
              and labor between all of our vendors and crews. This will forever 
              be our pride and joy and hope we can continue to help our 
              community out! Thank You Again!

Also a huge shout out to everyone from Chase and elsewhere that donated to help with this project.

Few photos of the 2023 Chase Fest, snagged a couple from facebook
and from Janet Kirsch Gray & LeeAnn Dellinger, thanks!

Class of 1976 Float

Class of 2010 Float

CHS Alumni Float, Classes represented were 1957, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1972, & 1985

The Veterans Float

Jarett Mermis's idea was to help clean the entrance into the city to help with some grant and funding opportunities. So he and wife Audrey (Pray) came up with some ideas they had seen and they found this idea from the Fort Worth stock yard signs that go over the roads. So they put a design together and presented it to city council. Tom Kizzar suggested Chase in red. They liked the idea and asked for it to be put to bid, Leon’s Welding and Fabrication out of Hays won that bid and the city has some ARPA funding from covid relief to use and elected to do so with that. So between their company (JM Builders) and Tim White they helped put it up and will get it cemented soon. Also big thank you to Ellinwood Roustabout and Jayhawk Pipeline for bringing their cranes to place it for us!

Today on 3-13-23, Members of the Chase City and Fire Department broke ground on our new fire station!!
This was truly a team effort as between city and fire dept members, over 90% of the total building cost was fund raised from in and around our community! We would like to Thank every single person and business that donated and made this effort come to fruition!!
Building will start in the next couple weeks with a finish goal of June 1st!

Before the Chase Fest last Saturday sister Paula Bieberle along with Gene Haas stopped by the High School to put some bars on the In Memory Plaque. Of course I had to use the loo and was surprised to see this on the stall doors. I asked Gene if the Men's room was the same way and he confirmed so i went in and took photos there too. Love them.

Dave Peebler also provided this way after photo

Dave Peebler provided the before photos

After photos by Valerie Keesling Saunders

So this happened in Chaseamerica the first week or so of April. It was posted on facebook and some of the comments
that speculated as to what it used to be are these: That is the Joe Adams (snow cone) home. Dr. Wallace had an office there also, The old Adams building. Joe Adams had a plumbing shop there and they lived in the back, I think at one time he had a shoe repair shop. I remember him sitting out on those stairs in the evenings, They used to sell fireworks out of there, it was originally a meat market. The house was added in the 50's and it was the oldest building in town. It was made of Chase bricks, which were very soft bricks and they were made at a plant down by where Farley's is now. So what do you remember about this building? email me and I will add those comments to this post. Sad to see any building in Chase gone.