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THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL

MAYETTA -- Frank Norman was in his element -- standing among native grasses and plants, a hawk flying nearby, surrounded by garden club members eager to learn more about Snyder Prairie.

Norman is a board member of Grassland Heritage Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Johnson County that is devoted to prairie preservation and education, and coordinator of restoration efforts at the 140-acre plot of prairie east of Mayetta.

"Our goal is we want to keep the prairie -- our native vegetation," he told the group before they headed out on a walking tour of the land. "We're trying to get back to pre-settlement times."

In 1977, the late Rachel Snyder, author of "Gardening in the Heartland" and longtime editor of Flower and Garden magazine, purchased 160 acres of land three miles east of Mayetta. Snyder, who lived in Prairie Village and also worked as a reporter for The Topeka Daily Capital and the Washington Post, rebuilt the stone homestead and replanted some of the land that had been used for crops or grazing with prairie grasses. The site also has four small ponds and a river tributary running through it.

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In the late 1990s, Snyder deeded the 160-acre area to the Grassland Heritage Foundation, which sold 20 acres and kept the rest to restore.

Joyce Wolf, president of the Grassland Heritage Foundation, said part of the foundation's mission is to educate others about the state's prairie land and how endangered it is.

makeup brushes "We in Kansas kind of take (the prairie) for granted because of its relevant abundance," Wolf said. "It's a threatened ecosystem and a lot of the creatures that call the prairie home are in decline. ... Grassland birds have been stressed the most because of decline of habitat."

Only about 2 percent of the nation's original tallgrass prairie remains, she said. At one time, the original tallgrass prairie stretched from Canada to Texas.

"In Kansas, there are counties that had prairie that have none remaining," she said.

Wolf said Snyder Prairie represents "thousands of years of ecological evolution" and contains "thousands of plants."

"The beauty of native prairie is the diversity of species," she said, adding she visits the prairie periodically during the summer months and it never looks the same because of its plant diversity.

In addition to grassland birds, the Snyder Prairie is home to raccoons, deer, bobcats, coyotes, turkeys, red-tail hawks, blue herons, monarch butterflies and many other creatures.

Wolf said Snyder Prairie, which is open to the public only for organized tours, is maintained by a group of 30 to 40 Grassland Heritage Foundation volunteers who call themselves the Groundhogs. They meet on the third Saturday of each month, and typically go in small groups to the prairie to perform specific tasks, such as collecting ripe seed to spread in areas being restored, mowing fire breaks, clearing or burning trees or spraying invasive weeds.

Norman said one of the group's biggest tasks is eliminating the encroachment of woody vegetation and invasive species like sericea lespedeza, a legume that reproduces rapidly, forms a dense stand and crowds out native prairie vegetation.

"In 1942, there were few woods here," he told the garden club memb
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The Tactix have done Kiwi trans- Tasman league teams no favours with a humiliating 43-goal loss to the Queensland Firebirds.

Few would have given the bottom- placed Tactix hope of upsetting the Firebirds in Brisbane last night, but their 75-32 thumping will leave two New Zealand teams sweating on their ANZ Championship semifinals hopes. The Southern Steel (16 points) and Waikato-BOP Magic (16) need to win their final round-robin games - against the NSW Swifts (24) and Adelaide Thunderbirds (18) respectively - next week or rely on goal percentage to help them through.

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But the Firebirds, now on 14 points, will go into the last round with plenty of confidence after smashing the Tactix, and if they can get two points with a win over the West Coast Fever next week will be in the box seat on goal percentage to see them through to the playoffs.

Last night's match was decided by quarter time, with the hosts racing to a 20-8 lead which they extended to 37-15 by halftime.

The threat of 1.96m Firebirds shooter Romelda Aiken was apparent early on for the Tactix, with the Jamaican a huge target and also a key rebounder for her side. Aiken netted 47 goals for her team and was fed well by goal attack Natalie Medhurst.

The Tactix defensive unit did all they could but lacked in height, which ghd iv styler told in 11-2 rebound statistics in favour of the Firebirds by halftime.

But it was the Tactix attack line which played into the hands of the goal-hungry Firebirds as they squandered too much ball in the transition from defence to attack.

The Tactix had turned over three times as much ball as their rivals after three quarters of play and trailed 24-53 with 15 minutes to play.

A superior shooting percentage early on meant little for the Tactix as they continually struggled to get ball into the shooting circle.

There was plenty of niggle in the game as the Tactix' frustrations boiled Seiko Replica Watch over.

The Firebirds stuck with their starting seven for the entire match, and netted their biggest number of goals in a championship match.

Result:

Canterbury Tactix 32 (Ellen Halpenny 8/11, Anna Thompson 16/19, Angela Mitchell 8/12) lost to Queensland Firebirds 75 (Romelda Aiken 47/62, Natalie Medhurst 28/36). Quarter scores: 8-20, 15-37, 24-53, 32-75.

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Striker Rory Fallon is convinced the All Whites are good enough to beat world champions Italy and qualify for the second round of the World Cup - and says his confidence is born out of faith.

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The 28-year-old made his claim immediately after saying New Zealand had "pulled off one of the shocks in World Cup history" by holding Slovakia to a 1-1 draw in Rustenburg yesterday for the All Whites' first point at a World Cup finals tournament.

The All Whites, who meet Italy in Nelspruit on Monday morning (NZ time), are now part of a four-way tie at the top - and the bottom - of Pool F with Italy, Paraguay and Slovakia. The quartet all have identical goal differential ratios with one goal for and one against.

Fallon - still on a high after Winston Reid's game-saving stoppage time goal - said he was "never so cocky to [predict] we will beat up the world champions. But we'll put up a great fight. They won't have an easy game. I really believe we will get through to the next round."

He said Italy's 1-1 draw with Paraguay had revealed the Italians "struggle on crosses and long diagonal balls".

The result against Slovakia would "make waves in New Zealand" although the enormity "hasn't really sunk in yet", he said. "Getting a first World Cup point for New Zealand is a landmark for us and we know we can kick on Fake Louis Vuitton Monogram Multicolore Handbags and do even better.

"That's the beautiful thing about our team, we believe we can do it.

"I personally believe we can go through to the next round. People think I'm mad, but people didn't think we'd go out and take a point against Slovakia and it's happened. We're going to prove everyone wrong."

When asked where his confidence came from, the born- again Christian said:

"I believe in Jesus Christ. My faith comes through him. I just know that something great is going to happen, all the boys, know something special is going to happen."

Before leaving for Rustenburg, some of the New Zealand party had had a prayer session with Graham Power, the owner of the Serengeti Estate where the All Whites are staying on the outskirts of Johannesburg.

"Even Winston said he prayed before he went to bed," Fallon said. "He said he never believed in it, but then he prayed and he scores a goal.

"That's the power of prayer."

When a journalist pointed out that Italians were fairly devout too, Fallon, said: "I know, we'll see who believes the most, eh?

He said the seeds of self-belief were sown when the All Whites beat Bahrain last November to make the World Cup finals.

Fallon - whose father Kevin was the All Whites' assistant- coach at the 1982 World Cup finals 28 years to the day of the Slovakia match - was proud to complete a family World Cup double.

Other All Whites were equally proud after the Slovakia stalemate, but were amore circumspect about their chances against four-time World Cup champions Italy.

Skipper Ryan Nelsen said a second-stage place is not beyond his team's reach.

"What it's done now is give us something to play for. All we've got to do is win against Italy or against Paraguay or vice versa and you never know, we could go through [to the round of 16 knockout phase].

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By Mike Pucci Register Staff

STRATFORD -- Patience was the operative word for the Lauralton Hall softball batters against Taylor Lane, Griswold's crafty left- handed pitcher.

Strikes were at a premium as Lane, a senior, attempted to paint the corners and not serve up a pitch down the heart of the plate.

Despite Lane's methodical pitching style, Marisa Dowling proved that patience does, indeed, pay off. The Crusaders' sophomore shortstop waited for a pitch she can drive, and Dowling did just that. The result was a two-run single in the second inning that proved to be all the runs eight-seeded Lauralton Hall needed.

The Crusaders added an insurance run in the fifth inning to emerge with a 3-1 Fake Franck Muller Watches victory over the No. 4 Wolverines in a semifinal game of the Class M state tournament Monday at DeLuca Field.

"It's always good to score first to set the tone," Dowling said. "I think we all got really excited, and we kept it going."

Lauralton Hall (21-4), the ninth-ranked team in the Register Top 10 poll, will play St. Joseph in the championship game either Friday or Saturday.

Rebecca Napolitano led off the second inning with a single for Lauralton Hall and then was sacrificed to second by her sister, Jessica Napolitano. Hayley Spragg was then hit by a pitch, and two batters later, Jessica Linden reached on an infield hit to load the bases.

That set up Dowling's single that gave the Crusaders a 2-0 lead. The Lauralton Hall batters did an effective job of working Lane into deep counts. The Crusaders' persistence continued throughout the game.

"That pitcher was very good," Dowling said. "She had a lot of good movement, but we just had to do our own thing. If we get into other people's style, and how they play, we get a little antsy. So, we just had to do our own thing."

Spragg, who allowed just four hits, walked three and struck out four, helped herself with two hits and an RBI. Her single in the fifth inning scored Mariel Schlaefer.

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"My performance was because of my whole entire team," Spragg said. "Everybody behind me backed me up every single time. We brought our game today."

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Jess Synott scored on Lane's groundout in the fourth inning for Griswold's only run. Lane allowed nine hits, walked two, hit two more and struck out five for the Wolverines (23-4).

"They put a lot of pressure on us (defensively)," Griswold coach Rick Arremony said. "That's probably the most pressure anyone's put on us all season. We rebounded a couple of times, and worked ourselves out of some jams, but they (Crusaders) did a nice job."

Despite just one senior, catcher Courtney Collins, Lauralton Hall will attempt to win its fourth state title. The last came in 2008.

"They've accomplished a lot, they're young," Lauralton Hall coach Theresa Napolitano said. "Behind the leadership of Courtney and the other players returning from the (2008 team) -- the juniors, they were freshman when we won the state championship -- there's experience there. But really the senior leadership, and to say it's one for all and all for one, that's pretty much how they play. One through nine, at any point, someone else comes up for the big play."

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AS part of the Pounds 50m leisure plans, Derby City Council will create two leisure hubs and four "satellite" centres in the north, south, east and west of the city, providing swimming and gym facilities.

One satellite centre is likely to be the new Pounds 1m Gayton swimming pool at Gayton School in Littleover.

Derby City Council is now inviting companies to tender fendi Replica for a contract to manage the day-to-day running and staffing of the centre.

The authority said particular emphasis would be on using the pool to teach children swimming skills.

The pool in Gayton Avenue was closed in 2007 by the then Labour- led council.

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It said that money needed to repair the building would just "paper over the cracks" but decided that a rebuild would be too costly.

But Gayton Community Association, which owns a building adjoining the pool, took the council to the county court, claiming its leasehold agreement meant the authority should have maintained the pool building properly.

The association won its action and the judge ordered Ebel Fake the city council to work with community members to come up with an acceptable plan to bring the pool enclosure up to a good standard.

The authority decided to spend more money on the site for a higher quality of pool which it now hopes will fit into its leisure strategy.

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