Mayoral Candidate Tours Ensor
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Howard Cripe, NØAZ, with LeEtta Felter in the Peg Barn Olathe City Councilwoman LeEtta Felter, who is challenging Mayor John Bacon for his job, was given a personal tour of Ensor Park and Museum the morning of Thursday, September 28, with SFTARC Secretary-Treasurer Marty Peters, KE0PEZ, Howard Cripe, NØAZ, Peg Nichols, KDØVQO, and myself doing the honors.
Had Wheels, Did Travel
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It was 90 years ago this month that Marshall Ensor, W9BSP, accompanied by his wife Ina and his sister Loretta, W9UA, returned to the Olathe area following a 43-day trip that covered 5,335 miles and took this ambitious trio north of the border into Canada. The summertime adventure was one of several such pre-World War II adventures that are documented by way of an old map that hangs on the south wall of the Peg Barn at Ensor Park and Museum, next to which is a photograph of Marshall and the car that made all of this traveling possible.
The journey began July 6 and ended August 18. Cities visited along the way included Jefferson City, Mo., St. Louis, Hodgenville, Ky. (Abraham Lincoln was born nearby), Bardstown, Ky., Natural Bridge, Va., Staunton, Va. (the birthplace of Woodrow Wilson), Washington, D.C., Annapolis, Md., Baltimore, New Windsor, Md. (Marshall and Loretta's parents grew up in the area), Harpers Ferry, W.Va., Philadelphia, Atlantic City, N.J., New York City, Boston, Portland, Maine, Montpelier, Vt., Montreal, Ottawa, Buffalo, Erie, Pa., West Springfield, Pa., Cleveland, Toledo, Ohio, Elkhart, Ind., South Bend, Ind., Chicago, Neponset, Ill., Kewanee, Ill., Quincy, Ill., and Cameron, Mo.
New Transceiver at Ensor
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Lee Ward Tunes the New Transceiver in the Radio Room
Several members of the club assembled at Ensor Park and Museum the morning of July 29 to meet Lee Ward of Peculiar, Mo., KØLW, as he arrived with a new Icom 7300 that has been donated for use at the historic eight-acre site owned and operated by the City of Olathe. Ward, who subsequently tuned the transceiver in the Radio Room, told Jeff Darby, KSØJD, club president, Marty Peters, KEØPEZ, secretary-treasurer, Joe Krout, KRØUT, president of The Olathe Ensor Foundation, Howard Cripe, NØAZ, vice president, and Peg Nichols, KDØVQO, that the transceiver was purchased from the company at a nice discount and that "an angel donor" had picked up the tab.