New Members
Greg & Shelby Carriger became Northside members on August 17. He was born and raised in Topeka and she was born in Wichita and raised in Topeka. Greg is a cyber security engineer for Invista, a Koch company. He previously worked in IT for Amazon Web Services and for Spirit Aerosystems. Greg enjoys canoeing, kayaking, and beach vacations. Shelby graduated from K-State with a degree in apparel and textiles and worked for four years for Spirit as a project manager in the Transfer of Work Department. For the past four years she has been a homemaker. Shelby spends most of her time caring for her children, but she also enjoys beach vacations in Florida. Her parents, Mark & Marilee Cox, and her aunt, Kathy Diekmann, are Northside members. Their daughter, Mya, will be 14 in October and is in 8th grade at Eisenhower Middle School. She is on the track and cross-country team and enjoys drawing and playing the clarinet. Stella (9) is in 4th grade at Apollo Elementary School. She likes swimming, roller skating, art, and watching her baby sister. Seraphina (3) is very active and likes to wear fancy dresses. Genevieve is 8 months old and enjoys babbling, laughing, and being the center of attention for Mark & Marilee.
Jon & Casie Yowell moved to Wichita three years ago. He was born in Hugoton and raised first in Hooker, OK, and then in Hugoton. While in high school, he was involved in 4H and FFA, raised show cattle, and worked for several farmers. After graduating in 2003, Jon earned certificates from tech schools in diesel tech and machining and has worked in the oil & gas industry or trucking ever since. For 11 years, he ran the trucking side of the J&R Sand Company’s business in Liberal. For the past two years, Jon has worked for Foley Equipment in Wichita, rebuilding large engines. He enjoys riding motorcycles and dirt track racing. In fact, it was through the love of that sport that Jon and Casie met. She was born and raised in Liberal and after high school, she worked 12 years as the safety director of J&R Sand Company (owned by her dad). In 2014, Casie earned a degree in elementary education with a minor in English from Newman University through online classes and has worked as a teacher for the past 10 years. She now teaches 7th grade English for Valley Center Middle School. Casie also works at several school athletic events, is the chair for the Sunshine Committee, is the treasurer for the Band-Aid group, and volunteers on the Campaign Leadership Committee at Tanganyika Wildlife Park. In addition to dirt track racing, she also likes watching baseball. Their daughter, Jayden Graves (15), is a sophomore at Valley Center High School. She plays flute in the marching band, flute and piccolo in the concert band, and saxophone in the jazz band. She will also play flute in the Wichita Youth Symphony and next summer will travel to Europe with the Kansas Musicians Abroad for a month. Jayden is on the school’s bowling team, competes in the Scholars’ Bowl, and volunteers at Tanganyika. She wants to attend K-State to be a veterinarian. Jeffrey (13) is in the 8th grade at Valley Center Middle School. He plays trombone in the school band and sings bass in the school choir. When he was younger, before his voice changed, Jeffrey sang with the Wichita Community Children’s Choir. His mom says he loves all things having to do with technology and is proud to be known as a tech nerd.