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34 PAGES - FOUR SECTIONS VOLUME 20 - NUMBER 42 THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2013

Single Copy Published in Scott City, Kansas 67871

KDHE delay frustrates council with subdivision project Site developers, home buyers anxious to begin A delay in getting state approval for a proposed sewer line in the Prairie Meadows housing subdivision has left Scott City officials and private developers frustrated as they wait to move ahead with the improvement district.

Public Works Director Mike Todd advised the city council that the project engineer has submitted plans to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment in Topeka and been turned down four times.

“The fellow in Topeka who’s supposed to approve this project can’t read a blueprint,” said Todd. “We’re ready

to bid the sewer line, but we can’t until we get the permits back.”

When asked if the city should consider hiring an engineer, Todd advised the council to wait and see if the engineer hired by Mike Steele, on whose land the subdivision is being built, can get KDHE approval.

“If he can get it done then it won’t cost the city anything,” noted Todd. “If he can’t, then the city may have to hire an engineer.”

Not that there won’t be cost to the city in connection with the development.

(See DELAY on page two)

Bob Campbell staff writer

Developers of two new subdivisions hope to seize the opportunity and build some of the housing that Scott City needs to solidify its growth.

The Prairie Meadows Addition, an 11-acre site on the southwest edge of

town, Mike and Shari Steele are offering 27 lots for houses expected to have at least 1,500 square feet of floor space.

And at the east side’s 26-acre Eastridge Addition, Clyde Thomas wants to sell 12 lots and build that many houses as a warmup to a site that (See BUYERS on page two)

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Scott Community High School juniors Megan Thornburg (right) and Kelly Wycoff share a hug after their 4x400m relay claimed a silver medal in the Class 3A Kansas Track and Field Championship on Saturday. In the background is teammate Bailey Nickel. The second place finish in the relay was enough to boost the Lady Beavers into third place in the final team standings. More state track results for SCHS and area schools are in The Record sports section.

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Mural, music and BBQ are among June Jaunt highlights From bluegrass to barbeque. From art to motorcycles.

The second annual June Jaunt that begins on Friday and continues through Sunday will offer a variety of fun experiences for every member of the family.

Whether you choose to remain within your own community, or venture out along the 180-mile route on K96 Highway between Tribune and Ellinwood, there will be a variety of happenings.

Scott County residents will have an opportunity to display their artistic ability in a big way by joining in the creation of a giant mural that will be featured on K96 Highway.

06 Main, St. Scott City • 620-872-2090 www.scottcountyrecord.com Community pays tribute during Memorial Day service Page 18

Painting of the mural, sponsored by the Scott County Arts Council, will take place in Patton Park on south US83 Highway during all three days from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Everyone who is at least 10-years-old is invited to participate.

Titled “Great Expectations,” the mural is being created by Scott City residents and artists AvNell Mayfield and Larry Caldwell.

Bluegrass and BBQ

A pork barbeque dinner will be served in Patton Park on Friday starting at 6:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Scott County Arts Council, the cost is $10 per person.

That will be followed by “Mike Maddux and the Headliners” providing bluegrass entertainment from 7:00-9:00 p.m.

A free movie in the park will begin at about 9:45 p.m.

Sidewalk Sale Shoppers can take advantage of bargains during a sidewalk sale on Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Local artists will also be showing and selling - artwork in the Wheatland Broadband Building, 416 Main, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

(See JAUNT on page 10)

Variety of contaminants affect quality Bob Campbell staff writer

Groundwater contamination can range from the nitrates and atrazine frequently found in drinking water in Scott County, to concerns with selenium sulfates and uranium that are confronting other communities in Western Kansas.

Nitrates, arsenic, fluorides, coliform bacteria, lead and copper have forced water suppliers here and around the area either to build or start planning new treatment plants.

But the influx of selenium salt and radioactive uranium prompts alarms from the Kansas Geological Survey.

KGS Senior Scientist Don Whittemore, Lawrence, said Arkansas River water, feeding up the Amazon Ditch past Lakin in Kearny County, runs into the White Woman Basin at Shallow Water in east central Scott County.

“East of there, Dry Lake is white in the summer because of the salt,” says Whittmore.

(See QUALITY on page 10)

406 Main, St. Scott City • 620-872-2090 www.scottcountyrecord.com Opinion • Pages 4-5 Poll question • Page 7 SCMS honor roll • Page 8 FB poster winners • Page 9 Youth/education • Page 11

LEC report • Page 12 Deaths • Page 16 Sports • Pages 19-26 Farm section • Pages 28-29 Classified ads • Pages 31-33

Former world champ featured at barrel racing clinic Page 27

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SFEC to feature Air Force pilots The Spencer Flight and Education Center (SFEC), located at the Scott City Airport, will host an aviation youth day camp featuring United States Air Force Academy instructor and A-10 pilot Major Matt Basler and KC-135 pilot Shelby Basler on Fri., June 7.

The morning session is limited to the Scott City Elementary School’s SCORE after-school program. The afternoon ses-

sion, from 1:00-5:00 p.m., is open to all youth ages 10-18.

“We are excited to utilize the SFEC in such an appropriate manner,” says SCES Principal Shawn Roberts. “The curriculum and schedule for the day camp will stir aviation enthusiasm in more than just one or two children.”

All participants will have the opportunity to fly the SFEC’s fullmotion Redbird flight

Delay Todd estimates that the cost of a 10-inch water line to the east end of the Prairie Meadows Addition, along with putting the line in the addition, will cost $82,000 in materials.

Like You Fight: The Benefits of Training in Combat Aviation.”

Major Basler will share stories and firsthand video footage from his experiences as an instructor at the Air Force Academy and as a combat pilot stationed in Afghanistan.

The event will be open to the public.

“Anyone who has ever flown or dreamed of becoming a pilot will be entertained and fas-

cinated as Major Basler ties his experiences back to the fundamentals of flight training,” says Brian Vulgamore, SFEC chairman. “It will be very eye-opening for students, pilots or aviation enthusiasts to hear the importance of proper flight training.”

For more information about the day camp or evening event, contact Vulgamore at 620-8745075 or brian@vffarms. com.

Todd told the council his crew has nearly completed the sewer line that will serve the Eastridge Subdivision. He also says that all bid documents for curb/gutter and street work in the Eastridge and

Prairie Meadows additions are completed and ready to be sent out to contractors.

Deadline for bids to be submitted to City Hall is June 28 for consideration by the council at its July 1 meeting.

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The cost of a sewer line is estimated at $17,000 for materials.

At the same time, Todd says the additional line will benefit water customers on the west end of town who are experiencing low pressure, particu-

Buyers could eventually have 50 homes.

Steele said recently that he’s had a half-dozen serious inquiries. He’s pleased that the City Council has issued $300,000 in municipal bonds to finance the curbs, gutters and streets.

Thomas said it had been a tough slog since Eastridge was first established as a subdivision 35 years ago. However, progress is being made with the city completing sewer and water lines to the area.

“We’ve got people lined up and some are putting their down payment together,” said Thomas.

“We already have proposals and construction costs.

The 12 lots will all sell

simulator and will receive a free plane ride. Youth will also participate in ground school break-out training sessions with the USAF pilots and learn about the concepts of flight. Interested youth ages 10-18 can register at www.spencerflightcenter. com for a fee of $25.

The afternoon youth session will be followed by a fly-in, free barbeque and presentation by Major Basler entitled, “Training

larly to the west of Maddux Park.

The biggest concern is with fire protection. The water pressure on the west edge of town and on Hillside Drive is about 25 percent less than it is across most of the city.

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quickly. I wish I had more streets.”

Thomas says there is plenty of demand for housing with people driving to their jobs in Scott City from Garden City, Dighton and Oakley.

Confirming his involvement, Scott City homebuilder Dave Clinton said, “I’m working with Clyde on a lot of different floor plans and he has been talking to potential customers.

“We could sell houses right now if we could get them up. I have also been talking to several subcontractors because there is a lot more work than one guy can do. I haven’t had very many say they aren’t interested,” Clinton said.

Thomas said Eastridge’s first homes will be built on both sides of Maple Street a block east of Oak. A strip of land along Maple is owned by Sam Brookover while the rest of the development is owned by Earl Roemer.

Eastridge’s lots are 100 feet deep with the widths to be determined by the homeowners as they’re sold. Plans are for the homes to have about 1,200 square feet of floor space and sell for about $120,000 each.

Steele noted a meeting last August when County Hospital CEO Mark Burnett said he needs housing for nurses, doctors and anesthesiologists.

“He had an anesthe-

siologist ready to sign on when the man asked about housing,” said Steele. “Mark said, ‘I just shrugged my shoulders and the man left.’ My wife and I looked at each other and said, ‘Okay, let’s see what we can do.’”

A quarter-mile long and 350 feet wide, Prairie Meadows will be bisected

by Curtis Street, running east from Kansas Road and connecting with Sagebrush and Wheatridge avenues from the south.

What’s for Lunch in Scott City?

Sun. - Sat., June 2 - 8

Majestic Theatre 420 Main • 872-3840

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Lunch • Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Evenings • Thurs., Fri., Sat.5:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m.

Tues. • Open faced prime rib sandwich with fries, $10.95 Wed. • French dip sandwich with fries, $6.95 Thurs. • Pork chop dinner, $6.95 Fri. • Taco dinner with rice and beans, $5.95

What’s for Supper?

The Broiler 1211 Main • 872-3215

Mon. • Sat. 5:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Sun. • 5:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Buck Lunch

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11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

• Chili Cheese Dog • 1/4 lb Cheeseburger • 3 Piece Chicken Strips with

Fries, 21 oz. Drink and Small Sundae

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Mon.• Chicken fry Tues.• Hamburger steak with mushrooms and onions Wed.• Fried chicken Thurs.• Mountain oysters Fri.• Seafood specials Sat. • Prime rib 102 Main St. • 872-5055

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Community Living

Page 3 - Thursday, May 30, 2013

Take the guesswork out of grilling vegetables

I love fresh grilled vegetables and the grilling makes it easy and fun.

Adding vegetables to the grill is one way to keep heat out of the kitchen. Doing so also allows the cook to be outside with family and friends.

Fresh asparagus, mushrooms, bell peppers, tomatoes, onions, squash, eggplant and corn-on-thecob are good candidates for the grill.

Grilling vegetables is an easy way to bring out

natural flavors. Here are some tips for cooking vegetables safely and easily on the grill: •Start with a clean grill.

•Scrub vegetables before cutting or slicing them uniformly. Pieces should be large enough

so as not to fall through the grill, and similar in size, so that all will cook in about the same amount of time.

•Pre-soak vegetables in cold water for 10-15 minutes before grilling to help retain moisture, and/or brush the surface of vegetables lightly with olive oil (before grilling) to help seal in moisture, protect skin and add sheen.

•Use tongs or spatula, rather than a fork,

which can pierce the vegetable and allow juices to escape, to turn vegetables.

Utensils used to grill vegetables should be reserved for that purpose and not used to turn other raw or cooked foods.

•If using a foil packet to grill vegetables, use heavy duty foil or a double layer of a lighter weight foil or a grill pan.

•Place vegetables to the side of the grill - not over direct heat. Most

Food pro offers tips to save on grocery costs

While some express concern about rising food prices, others are unaware of how much they spend on food.

Either way, there is room to save, said Mary Meck Higgins, Kansas State University associate professor in human nutrition, who suggested three

cost-cutting ideas to eat well for less.

Higgins, a registered dietitian, recommends keeping receipts for grocery purchases and restaurant meals for one month to assess actual food costs.

She also suggests carrying a notepad or card in a purse or wallet to jot

Recipe favorites . . .

Tuna Macaroni Salad

Ingredients 2-1/2 cups 1 cup 1 (10 oz.) pkg.

1 (6 oz.) can 1 cup 1 cup 1/2 cup 2 tablespoons

elbow macaroni mayonnaise frozen green peas, thawed albacore tuna, drained and flaked diced celery cubed Cheddar cheese chopped red onion chopped sweet pickle

Directions Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook elbow macaroni in the boiling water, stirring occasionally until cooked through but firm to the bite, 8 minutes.

Drain macaroni and cool under running water.

Place macaroni into a large salad bowl. Stir in mayonnaise, green peas, tuna, celery, Cheddar cheese, red onion, and chopped sweet pickle until thoroughly combined. Chill and serve.

Yield: 10 servings

Sharla Osborn 620-214-2114 Avon Independent Sales Representative

down the cost of foods purchased from occasional sources. A vending machine at work, coffee shop and event concession stand are examples.

Spending as little as $5 a week on such purchases can add up to more than $250 a year, she said.

According to Higgins,

people often are surprised to learn how much they are spending.

Making a decision to spend less on food can yield a savings and lead to better health, more time with family and friends, and pleasurable meals, she said.

(See GROCERY on page 7)

Area Upcoming Events May 31

Bluegrass Concert/BBQ

Patton Park

May 31

June Jaunt Weekend

June 14

Movie in the Park

Patton Park

June 21

Relay for Life

Football Field

June 29

Walk, Run and Roll

Lake Scott

July 6

Pence Church Social

Patton Park

July 18-13

Lane County Fair

Dighton

July 24-28

Scott County Fair

Scott City

July 31-Aug. 3 Wichita County Fair Sept. 6-7

Showdown on Plains BBQ Scott City

will be tender and lightly browned in 12-15 minutes.

•If a marinade is preferred, blend one-half cup of olive oil with onefourth cup of red wine vinegar.

•If marinating kabobs, thread the meat and prepared vegetables on skewers before brushing with marinade; allow marinated kabobs to stand 15 minutes before grilling.

If meats and vegetables are to be grilled sepa-

rately, cover and marinate separately in the refrigerator; marinade used on raw foods should be discarded, rather than eaten to prevent cross-contamination and food borne illness.

•Oil-based salad dressings (such as an Italianflavored dressing) can be used as a marinade.

Be creative. Wrap a steak or chop in a strip of zucchini, rather than strip of bacon, or add grilled asparagus to a summer soup or veggie pizza.

Public Transportation

872-3501 Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

Service on a rst come, rst serve basis. The Scott County VIP bus is available to the general public on an equal opportunity basis. This porject funded in part by the KDOT public transit program.

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Editorial/Opinion

Page 4 - Thursday, May 30, 2013

editorially speaking

Self-destruction:

Dysfunction results when you distrust government

As this Kansas Legislative session rolls toward its 100th day - 10 more than called for in the state constitution and 20 more than we were promised by the Republican leadership - we should be anything but surprised.

The legislature is dysfunctional for two reasons.

First of all, legislators and the governor obviously can’t come to agreement on how much to tax and spend.

Secondly, the state elected a majority of lawmakers who either distrust government, have no use for government, or don’t believe that government is capable of functioning properly.

Given that belief system, can we possibly expect lawmakers to govern?

We have a state government in which our revenue stream has been so constricted by tax cuts that it can’t possibly perform the duties which are expected. The legislature can’t fund public education, higher education, infrastructure needs and the day-to-day operation of the government without taxes which, it appears many legislators would just as soon do without.

The temporary increase in the sales tax - which bailed the legislature out of one fiscal mess and which Gov. Brownback had hoped would give him a reprieve from his massive income tax cut - is a major sticking point. Many legislators don’t want to continue with the sales tax hike, regardless of the budget hole that must be overcome by eliminating it.

Of course, given the governor’s desire and that of many legislators to continue their “march to zero” income taxes, they are left with few options.

Those options aren’t going to increase the longer the legislature remains in session. The state’s lawmakers have painted themselves into a budget corner.

In the end, Kansans will pay for their political shortsightedness through some combination of higher property taxes, higher college tuition fees, higher local sales taxes or a reduction in services.

We’re getting the government that the majority in this state have wished for and have put into office . . . and it ain’t pretty.

Political ‘stunt’:

Refusing legislative pay is the right thing to do

With the Kansas Legislature going into overtime, more than 20 lawmakers have decided not to accept a paycheck for the additional days in session.

Rep. Don Hineman (R-Dighton) is among them.

That would seem to be an admirable gesture appreciated by voters. Apparently, it’s not so appreciated by fellow legislators.

Rep. Joe Seiwert (R-Pretty Prairie) sent out an e-mail calling the decision by Hineman and others “strictly a political maneuver or stunt.”

Rep. Hineman may be frustrated with what’s happening in Topeka. He may even be angry with the gridlock in state government.

But it would be inaccurate to characterize his actions as a “stunt.”

Like his constituents, Rep. Hineman is exasperated with the inability of legislators to conduct their business in a timely manner.

It’s not like the legislature hasn’t been down this road before. They have gone beyond the allotted 90 days in 32 of the past 40 years. Last year’s legislative session lasted 99 days.

And here we are again.

For each additional day that the legislature remains in session, Kansas taxpayers are picking up the tab for an estimated $45,000. This from the so-called party of reduced government and fiscal responsibility.

Instead, we’re seeing a Republican party incapable of doing its job in a timely manner. And when some lawmakers make a statement by refusing to be paid for their leadership’s failure, they are criticized.

The political “stunt” is being conducted by lawmakers who believe that state government, cities, counties and schools can continue to function at the same level, but with less taxpayer dollars.

We can have a democratic society or we can have great concentrated wealth in the hands of a few. We cannot have both.

- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

GOP wants to be media’s BFF

How much do Republicans hate President Obama?

They like the press more.

Yes, that’s how desperate Republicans are to be on the opposite side of the fence when it comes to anything Obama.

Republicans were for a single-payer health care system until Obamacare.

Now they’re adamantly against it.

Republicans hate whistle blowers. Hate them.

That is until a whistle blower revealed the IRS may have been targeting Tea Party groups to determine whether they qualify for special tax status. Now whistleblowers and Republicans are exchanging Christmas cards.

Republicans couldn’t stand to have leaks from the government to the media until the Obama Administration began collecting the phone records of New York Times writers and editors. Suddenly, Republicans are supporting freedom of the press.

I didn’t realize how much things had changed receiving a recent tweet

from, of all people, the GOP. It was the first time we’d heard from them since uncovering the sale of military weapons to Iran so the Reagan Administration could finance its secret war in Nicaragua. The GOP called us communists and said they never wanted to talk to the media again as they slammed the door behind them.

That’s 20 years of the cold shoulder until now.

GOP: Missed you.

Where have you been?

Rod: I never left. You were mad, remember?

GOP: Mad about what?

Rod: Watergate. Pentagon Papers. Ring a bell?

GOP: So long ago. We barely remember.

Rod: S&L scandal.

Iran-Contra. Remember?

GOP: We forgive you.

Rod: Forgive us?

GOP: It’s a God thing.

You wouldn’t understand.

Rod: We were doing

our job.

GOP: We were protecting the country.

Rod: What does that mean?

GOP: You wouldn’t understand.

Rod: Why are you interested now?

GOP: We’re still protecting the country.

Rod: From what?

GOP: Whom.

Rod: From whom?

GOP: Obama. Getting phone records. Unthinkable.

Rod: What gives?

GOP: Freedom of the press. First Amendment.

Rod: You’re on our side now?

GOP: Of course. Can’t have dictatorship.

Rod: You believe in open government?

GOP: An open Obama government.

Rod: What of GOP government?

GOP: You are missing the point.

Rod: What point?

GOP: We’re on your side now.

Rod: No more secrets?

GOP: No more Obama secrets.

Rod: What about Re-

publican secrets?

GOP: We look after national security.

Rod: And Obama?

GOP: Just looking after his Muslim friends.

Rod: Are you serious?

GOP: Never been more serious.

Rod: Haven’t we been down this road before?

GOP: Things are different now.

Rod: How? GOP: First Amendment at stake.

Rod: Really. I didn’t know you cared.

GOP: Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Rod: What’s different now?

GOP: You stand between Obama and tyranny.

Rod: Tyranny? Are you sure.

GOP: If anyone knows tyranny, we do.

Rod: Good point. So we’re friends again?

GOP: We’re your BFF. Rod: Forever.

GOP: Or until 2016.

Whichever comes first.

Rod: That’s what I thought.

GOP: What did you expect? You’re the media.

Scandal season in Washington

It’s not an easy task, defending President Barack Obama from his enemies.

The “scandals” keep popping up like dandelions - all of them explainable, after a fashion. Taken together, the explanations begin to sound like “the dog ate my homework.”

For example: No one would deny that the attack on our diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that took the lives of four Americans, including our ambassador, was a serious matter.

And no one would claim that the administration’s actions either before or after the attack were above reproach. The affair was handled clumsily at best and incompetently at worst.

But an impeachable offense? A Watergate level cover-up? Only in the fevered dreams of

Where to Write

another view by Donald Kaul

the House’s right-wing loons like Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Rep. Steve King of Iowa.

Diplomatic security in war zones is always a delicate balancing act. You want to keep the diplomats safe from attack but you don’t want to seal them off from the country, making it impossible for them to do their jobs.

And then there’s the question of budget.

Security doesn’t come cheap and the ruling Republican minority has effectively slashed the State Department budget with the sequester nonsense.

Being a war-zone diplomat these days is a risky business. We took that risk

Gov. Sam Brownback 2nd Floor - State Capitol Topeka, Ks. 66612-1501 (785) 296-3232

in Benghazi and we lost.

That’s worth an honest hearing, but not a witchhunt.

Actually, the real reason the Republicans are making so much of the “cover-up” is that they see it as a chance to discredit Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State during the Benghazi incident.

That will come in handy in case she decides to run for president.

The IRS scandal is another matter altogether.

No one got killed.

What happened was that IRS employees charged with checking on the applications for the non-profit status of groups claiming to be primarily “social welfare” organizations seemed to be singling out conservatives for special scrutiny.

Personally, I think the real scandal there is that Karl Rove managed

Sen. Pat Roberts 109 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

Washington, D.C. 20510 (202) 224-4774 roberts.senate.gov/email.htm

to co-mingle funds from his Super PAC with his “social welfare” group so that his big money political donors were shielded from having to identify themselves. If Karl Rove is running a social welfare outfit, I’m the Queen of Romania.

But that’s not what people are upset about.

They’re upset about the use of the supposedly impartial IRS as a weapon in the political wars. OK, but it seems to have been a screw-up rather than a malevolent scheme.

Tell that to the tea party people. They hope to use this dust-up to frighten people into rejecting the Affordable Care Act. Don’t try and figure out the logic of that. There is none.

The third scandal - that of subpoenaing reporters’ phone records - disturbs (See SCANDAL on page six)

Sen. Jerry Moran 141 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

Washington, D.C. 20510 (202) 224-6521 www.house.gov/moranks01/

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GOP needs more Doles, fewer Bachmanns

by E.J. Dionne, Jr.

Maybe Bob Dole has more clout in the Republican Party than we think. He suggested on Sunday that the party put up a “closed for repairs” sign for the rest of the year. Then along comes Michele Bachmann declaring on Wednesday that she won’t seek reelection.

On the surface, Republicans will be happy that they won’t have to answer for her exquisitely inflammatory statements anymore.

Democrats will be disappointed to lose a face that launched thousands of contributions their way. You might say her departure is a small repair for the GOP’s image.

In fact, Bachmannism is far from finished. The Minnesota right-winger deserves to be memorialized with an “ism” because she perfected a tactic well-suited to the current media

environment: continually toss out outlandish, baseless charges, and, eventually, some of them will enter the mainstream media - if, at first, only in the form of “coverage” of what conservative radio shows, websites or Fox News are talking about.

You don’t have to bat 1.000 or even .350 in this game. Get just a handful of your accusations and strange takes on reality into the political bloodstream and you’ve won.

Bachmann’s method is now common currency. And here’s the beautiful thing: Even as the regular media does some of your work for you, you lambaste the very same media. This only creates more pressure on them to cover you.

“I fully anticipate the mainstream, liberal media to put a detrimental spin on my decision not to seek a fifth term,” she said in her eight-minute and 40-second video announcing her

You don’t have to bat 1.000 or even .350 in this game. Get just a handful of your accusations and strange takes on reality into the political bloodstream and you’ve won.

decision not to run.

She practically invited reporters to do just that by insisting her decision did not stem from the danger she might lose reelection or because of an investigation into the finances of her 2012 presidential campaign. Is citing her denials a form of “detrimental spin”?

Her video provided choice examples of the Bachmann method and the extent to which it is now being emulated by others. She denounced “this administration’s outrageous lack of action in Benghazi, Libya and the subsequent political coverup, which resulted in the deaths of four honorable, dedicated public servants.”

Note the clever construction of that sentence. It implies that it’s the administration’s “political coverup” that led to the killings in Benghazi. It’s hard not to conclude that she’s saying those deaths were all about President Obama’s political needs.

“I’ve also called out this administration and the Treasury Department,” she added, “for allowing and perhaps even for encouraging partisan, selective enforcement against American citizens based upon their political beliefs that aren’t in line with those of the administration.”

At best, in the Bachmann formulation, Team Obama was “allowing” this political persecution to go on, which implies that the White House was fully informed of what was happening in that Cincinnati IRS office, for which there is no evidence.

But she didn’t stop there: Again with no evidence, she

alleged that the administration might be guilty of “perhaps even . . . encouraging” the harassment of its opponents.

But hey, it’s Obama, so you can suspect anything. After all, as Bachmann once said, “most Americans are wild about America, and they are very concerned to have a president who doesn’t share those values.”

My nomination for the ultimate in Bachmannism was her slander against the program encouraging citizens to serve the nation and each other. Opposing a bill to expand AmeriCorps, she warned that “there are provisions for what I would call re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums.”

(See BACHMANN on page six)

Income inequality grows as taxes are cut for wealthiest

by Mark Gongloff

Walmart goes to the Devil

by Jim Hightower

Blending classical literature with the computer technology of subterranean imaging, scientists have made an astonishing discovery - namely, there is a tenth level of Hell!

In the 14th century, Dante, a renowned Italian poet, detailed a horrendous descent through nine layers of eternal damnation that he had charted, with the bottom floor reserved for the most wretched of sinners.

Yet, apparently in recognition of today’s realities, Satan has had to add a new basement to his punishing Inferno - a special level of Hell to accommodate the top executives and profiteers of Walmart.

Their sins are many and well-

documented: Paying poverty wages, using child labor, making products in global sweatshops, cheating U.S. workers, bribing public officials, bankrupting local competitors, producing shoddy products, etc.

In recent weeks, though, the massive chain’s bosses earned their assignment to Beelzebub’s basement by their abominable performance in Bangladesh.

First came their deliberate choice to profit from their suppliers’ abuses of powerless garment workers paid $37 a month.

Second was their intentional turning of a blind eye to the blatantly unsafe factories they use, including the hellhole that collapsed in April, killing more than 1,100 workers.

Third was their diabolicallyshameful denial of responsibil-

ity, claiming that the dead workers were not making clothes for Walmart on the day of the collapse.

And now, they have fiendishly refused to join nearly 40 other global retail giants in an agreement to help finance such minimal safety upgrades as putting fire escapes on Bangladesh’s factories and allowing rigorous, independent inspections.

Walmart executives explained that non-binding, unenforceable, self-regulation would be best for all concerned.

And you could hear Old Lucifer cackling as he prepared their rooms in his new, tenth level of Hell.

Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator, writer, public speaker and author

The rich just keep getting richer - not only by gobbling up more income, but also by paying less in taxes. That means less support for the poor, who are getting increasingly poorer relative to the top one percent.

One chart in a new study of income inequality in developed nations, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, puts this in stark relief. It shows that the more top tax rates are cut, the greater the share of national income that is mopped up by the wealthiest citizens.

And of course perhaps no country illustrates this better than the United States, which is at the extremes of income inequality and tax cuts for the wealthy.

The only other nation that even comes close is the United Kingdom, which was hijacked by “trickle-down economics” at about the same time as the U.S., back in the 1980s under Reagan and Thatcher.

The U.K. has cut top tax rates more aggressively than the U.S. in the past few decades, but the U.S. still has a lower top marginal income tax rate - 35 percent, compared to 50 percent in the U.K. And income inequality is far worse in the U.S., where the top one percent of households gets a fifth of all the nation’s income. In the U.K., the income share of the top one percent is less than 15 percent.

Slashing top tax rates has had

none of the positive effects on economic growth that the supply-side economists promised us, the NBER paper points out.

Instead, it has just worsened income inequality.

There are other factors driving income disparity, including a rise in investment income (think stock dividends) compared to earned income (think wages).

The recently soaring stock market, helped along by the Federal Reserve, is only pushing investment income higher.

Wage income, in contrast, has been stagnant - making income inequality even worse.

As if that weren’t enough, investment income is typically taxed at lower rates, further amplifying the disparity. That means this chart doesn’t begin to tell the full story of just how little the top one percent are paying in taxes.

Mitt Romney isn’t paying 35 percent on most of his income.

He’s calling his private-equity income “carried interest” and paying just 15 percent on it.

While Congress frantically finds ways to slash spending to close budget deficits, it has shown little interest in tweaking the tax code to make it more fair. Efforts to impose a minimum tax on millionaires, as Warren Buffett has suggested, have gone nowhere, as have efforts to do away with low carried-interest income tax rates.

President Obama this year made permanent many of the top-rate tax cuts of President (See INCOME on page six)

IRS has been too lax on tax-exempt status Sputtering adjectives - outrageous, appalling, intolerable - can scarcely do justice to the fiasco involving the Internal Revenue Service’s reported targeting of conservative groups.

But the current scandal obscures - and, ironically, threatens to prevent action on - another, equally corrosive failure on the part of the IRS when it comes to scrutinizing political groups.

This less-noticed scandal is the mirror image of the one dominating the front page. It’s not that the IRS has been too tough on such groups - it’s that the agency has been too lax.

Groups on the right and left have taken advantage of the tax laws to intervene in elections while hiding their donors from public view.

behind the headlines by Ruth Marcus

To be clear: There can be no room for politics, or the appearance of politics, in tax administration. For IRS employees to target groups whose names contain certain, loaded words - tea party, 9/12, whatever - is unacceptable, although my guess is that this will turn out to have been more boneheaded than sinister.

Similarly unacceptable, and again, likely more boneheaded than sinister, is the apparent failure of then-IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman to provide accurate information to Congress when questioned

about the treatment of conservative groups.

But back to the scandal hiding in plain sight. In order to qualify for nonprofit, tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(4) of the tax code, groups must be “operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare,” defined as activities “promoting in some way the common good and general welfare of the community.”

However, the IRS has long interpreted “exclusively” to mean “primarily” and allowed 501(c)(4) groups to engage in partisan activity as long as it constitutes less than half their operations. The problem exploded after the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United, when the number and explicit political involvement of such groups mushroomed.

This was a bipartisan outrage, although a lopsided one: Republicans were far more active on the nonprofit front than Democrats. Still, groups backing candidates from both parties abused the system by spending millions on political campaigns without revealing the identities of their donors.

Meanwhile, a passive IRS stood idly by as the groups made a mockery of campaign disclosure rules.

Theoretically - which is to say, under the campaign finance law - the identities of those giving more than $200 to political committees must be made public. The lassitude of the IRS in dealing with these supposed nonprofits, combined with the lassitude of the Federal Election Commission, has created a

gusher of so-called dark money.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, in the 2012 election, nonprofit groups reported spending more than $250 million to support or oppose particular candidates.

That’s a heck of a lot of social welfare - and the amount is way understated, because only certain spending must be reported.

The biggest nonprofit spender in the 2012 campaign was Crossroads GPS, founded by Republican strategists Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed in August 2012, Rove was not exactly coy in describing the group’s operations as an adjunct to the Mitt Romney campaign, running more than $50 million in ads (See STATUS on page six)

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$150,000 tab over holiday weekend The joke has been on First District voters

Travis Perry KansasWatchdog.org

The good news is that it didn’t cost Kansas taxpayers $45,000 per day while the state legislature was out of Topeka for the Memorial Day weekend.

The bad news is that

it cost $35,000 per day to run the Capitol in their absence.

That amounts to a $150,000 tab over the holiday weekend.

Lawmakers used up their allotted 90 days as of May 23, and with their continued failure to hash-

out a tax plan things have rolled into overtime.

Jeff Russell, director of Legislative Administrative Services, said lawmakers still received their daily $88.66 salaries and $123 per diems. The slight price drop is because of remain-

ing session employees and miscellaneous costs that won’t be necessary when legislators are out of town.

That means when lawmakers returned to session on Tuesday morning they had racked up a $150,000 tab.

Syrian rebels to McCain: ‘get over it’

by Andy Borowitz

During a meeting this week with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Syrian rebels told the senator that he still seemed “really bitter” about losing the 2008 election to President Obama and advised him to “get over it.”

After meeting with the Arizona senator in the border region near Turkey, a

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“attacking Mr. Obama’s policies or boosting Mr. Romney.”

By Election Day, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, Crossroads GPS had spent $70 million on independent expenditures attacking President Obama and other Democratic candidates, or backing Republicans.

An August 2012 report

by ProPublica showed how groups that told the IRS they did not plan to intervene in politics then did exactly that. For example, ProPublica reported, “Even before mailing its application to the IRS saying it would not spend money on elections, the Alliance for America’s Future was running TV ads supporting Republican candidates for governor in Nevada and Florida.”

The current scandal over partisan scrutiny by the IRS now threatens to engulf the underlying one of the agency’s facilitation of bipartisan hidden money. The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations had planned hearings next month on that issue; Chairman Carl Levin of Michigan and ranking Republican John McCain of Arizona announced on Monday the inquiry would be postponed while the committee broadened its look to include the agency’s targeting practices.

A healthy democracy demands a system in which citizens can trust that their government does not punish political dissenters. It also demands that citizens be able to know what interests are bankrolling their elected officials.

The two needs are not inherently at odds, but the idiocy of the IRS risks making them so. That is a sad and dangerous byproduct of this unnecessary mess.

Ruth Marcus is an editorial writer for The Washington Post, specializing in politics, campaign finance, the federal budget and taxes

spokesman for the Syrian rebels told reporters that while they appreciated Sen. McCain’s support, “We were kind of uncomfortable with the place it was coming from.”

“It was pretty obvious to me and the other rebels that everything McCain was doing was just to get back at Obama,” the rebel spokesman said. “And we were like, look, that elec-

tion was five years ago.

It’s time to move on.”

Sen. McCain denied that his support of the Syrian rebels had anything to do with a personal vendetta against President Obama, but according to the rebel, “Every time he said ‘Obama,’ a vein in his head kind of bulged out.”

“The man is a simmering cauldron of rage,” the Syrian rebel said. “He

needs to turn his anger toward Obama into something more positive. You can’t carry all of that hate around with you forever it’s not healthy.”

For his part, Sen. McCain said that he was “finished” with the Syrian rebels and would now focus on starting a war with North Korea.

Andy Borowitz is a comedian and author

editor’s mail . . .

Stay true to purpose of sales tax grant program As I looked at the picture of J&R Car and Truck Center presenting the keys for a new bus to the Scott County VIP Center, I could sense the enthusiasm of Elmer Snyder and Dan Weides for this much-needed purchase.

I also thought, “Here’s another example of how the sales tax has helped numerous organizations through the years that could never have afforded a special purchase like this.”

It was after this uplifting story that I read the article about the Scott County Development Committee asking about the possibility of using the sales tax grant program for special assistance to the Chamber or SCDC. When I think of the sales tax grant I think of the many organizations that contribute to our community. For the most part they do so with limited paid staff, and many having volunteer leadership who are rewarded only with the knowledge they are providing a service by helping others.

These organizations use the grants to purchase something they could not otherwise afford. In most instances, they receive minimum, or no assistance from the city or county.

Many of these are not included in a mill levy. They may not contribute to our economic development, or help the city’s budget, but they do contrib-

Scandal me the most. But then it would. I used to be a reporter myself.

All presidents get paranoid about leaks. All of them try to do something about them, often with disastrous results. The Watergate affair, for example, owed its genesis to President Richard Nixon’s efforts to plug leaks.

Sending the Justice Department after people who buy ink by the barrel, however, is almost always a loser’s game.

Income George W. Bush, while a payroll-tax cut that most benefited the poor was allowed to expire.

Similarly, U.S. companies aren’t paying anywhere near the 35 percent statutory tax rate they complain about all the

ute to our quality of life.

Among organizations receiving grants this past year are Russell Child Development Center, Scott Foundation Veterans Memorial, Scott Foundation Walking Trail, Scott Community Golf Course, Scott County Arts Council, Scott County Extension Council, Scott County Historical Society, Scott County Indoor Arena and Activities Center, Scott County VIP Center, Scott Recreation Commission and Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center.

Using sales tax grant money to make it possible for the Chamber to hire another part-time person would make it necessary to give them a fixed amount each year so that they could maintain a budget. This isn’t how the grant money was designed to work.

The grant awards to organizations often vary from year to year and even the recipients are not always the same.

Katie Eisenhour has done excellent work as the director of the Chamber of Commerce. I hope she is able to finance a part-time office person for the Chamber without having to take funds needed by small organizations that presently are helped by the sales tax grants.

Margaret Snyder Scott City

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Obama will rue the day.

He can argue he had no prior knowledge of it but I don’t believe him.

Again, put together, these things don’t constitute a bill of impeachment but they do have a Nixonian smell about them. They aren’t what we expect of a liberal paladin.

And yet, I’m not ready to abandon ship. We live in a two-party system.

You don’t get to choose the leader who perfectly matches your politics. You

Bob Campbell is a reporter and columnist for The Scott County Record. He can be reached at kansasnewz@att.net

Bachmann

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Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge is just around the corner.

Bachmann’s retirement should foster some soulsearching about the nature of our political discourse and how easy it is for falsehood and innuendo to get treated as just one more element in the conversation no more or less legitimate than any other.

This is the very sort of relativism (“my ‘truth’ is as good as your ‘truth’”) that sound conservatives condemn. It ends in nihilism.

Dole, one of those sound conservatives and a revered party war horse, wanted his party to shut down for a while so it could “spend that time going over ideas and positive agendas.” Bachmannism substitutes accusations for ideas and paranoia for an agenda.

Alas, there’s little reason to think it will leave the stage with her.

get to pick one of two people.

So, would we have been better off right now with Mitt Romney, the smug rich guy who turned himself inside out to grovel before his party’s extreme right wing?

E.J. Dionne, Jr., is a political commentator and long-time opOr are we better off ed columnist for the Washington Post with Obama, a somewhat disappointing but far superior alternative?

Donald Kaul is a retired Washington columnist for The Des Moines Register.

He covered the capital for 29 years. dkaul1@verizon.net

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time, pushing for even lower rates. They shelter their income offshore and find other loopholes to slash their tax bill, helping reduce the share they contribute to federal coffers.

With corporations and the wealthy paying less

The First Congressional District of Kansas is a great area, incorporating Salina, Dodge City, Emporia, Garden City, Hays, Hutchinson and Scott City, corn, wheat, milo, soybeans, cattle, higher education, health services, manufacturing, retail trade, fishing, hunting and, altogether so many assets that not representing it like a champion is a crime.

Encompassing Western most of the state, it Skyline is so important that

by Bob Campbell three of the four men who have served it since 1963, Bob Dole, Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran, advanced to the U.S. Senate.

Now comes Congressman Rep. Tim Huelskamp in his second term in the Big First after 16 years in the Kansas Senate in Topeka, where his unwillingness to work honorably got him kicked off the Ways and Means Committee in 2003.

The same type of behavior brought his removal from the U.S. House Budget and Agriculture committees late last year, which brings into question the sincerity of the surprise and indignation he expressed afterward.

It looks like the Fowler Republican is up to his old trick of grandstanding to get the boot and shore up his Tea Party base to run for higher office, perhaps the U.S. Senate with Pat Roberts pushing 80 and seeking re-election.

You want a guy to do more with an office than his predecessors did, not less, and you certainly don’t want him to alienate senior members of his party and disenfranchise the people who sent him to Washington.

Huelskamp seems to think we don’t understand the importance of committee assignments and the steps good representatives take to build respect and influence.

Losing Ways and Means, where they write the tax laws, and now Ag and Budget is like falling off your horse at a gallop and rolling 20 times in the mud. It’s a catastrophe from which most representatives never recover, and it greatly increases the likelihood of Huelskamp’s U.S. Senate candidacy because his bridges in the House are now ashes.

The most despised politicians are those who play to the gallery but cannot be trusted by their colleagues. That doesn’t just mean trusted to keep their word, it means counted on to hold the well-being of their constituents and the Republic above their own ambitions.

Tim Huelskamp looks more and more like a one-trick politician and up till now, the joke has been on us.

and less of their share, the burden of protecting society’s most vulnerable is falling more and more to the people who can afford it least.

Mark Golgloff is a chief economics writer for the Huffington Post

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Grocery

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change and skill-building recipes, said Higgins. She shared the following timeand money-saving ideas: •Plan weekly or monthly menus, and rotate them.

•Plan snacks (not necessarily pre-packaged snack foods) to provide the energy needed between meals. Healthpromoting foods, including fruits, vegetables, unsalted nuts, whole grain crackers and popcorn can work well as snacks.

•Plan to cook when time is available; double or triple a recipe to wrap and freeze for future meals when less time is available.

In doing so, cool and refrigerate (if to be used in a day or two) or label, date and freeze the extras for future meals.

•Cook once, and eat two or three times with what Higgins likes to call “planned overs.”

For example: Choose a Simplify Meal Planning If not in the habit of beef pot roast on Sunday cooking, focus on gradual that will also provide

Her first suggestion is to eat more meals at home, because “eating at home is typically less expensive than eating out.”

Higgins reported that eating at home will save time as well as money.

Doing so can also be healthier, said Higgins, who noted that restaurant meals can be higher in calories, saturated fat, and sodium.

At home, she said “you’ll know what you are eating, how food has been prepared, and be more able to measure portions that will contribute to health.”

To begin the transition, she suggested reserving restaurant meals for special occasions, and transferring the expense to entertainment.

Higgins suggested brushing up on cooking skills with family and friends.

enough cooked beef to freeze for a vegetable soup or stew later, and use what is left for quick barbecued beef sandwiches on a busy work day.

Roasting a whole chicken or turkey can be a favorite with families, yet also provide ‘planned overs’ for subsequent meals that might include chicken salad, a hot turkey sandwich, or chicken or turkey casserole.

“Just be sure to refrigerate it promptly and use it within three days or less, or to freeze it for use in future meals,” she cautioned.

•Tight on time, with an hour or less between work and a scheduled family activity?

Take advantage of leftovers, “planned overs,” or choose a meal featuring cold sandwiches or an easy “breakfast” menu, such as a glass of low-fat milk with scrambled eggs, carrot sticks, whole grain toast and fruit salad.

The Scott County board of education is considering a proposal to change the Scott City Middle School mascot from the Bluejays to the Beavers. Would you support the change?

Yes

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No

13 ______ Submit this form and your comments to The Record

office, or log onto the website: scottcountyrecord.com

Keep comments brief so they can be published in

the newspaper. The numbers represent totals as of noon Thursday. For updated totals visit The Record website.

Additional comments: ________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Changing SCMS Mascot I firmly believe that there are things in a students life worth waiting for and becoming a “SCHS Beaver” is one of them. The cost, to appease a few, would be quite expensive to change the mascot. Leave the mascot as a Bluejay and let the schools have their own distinct identity. * * * When I moved here 48 years ago I thought it was strange that the Middle School had a different mascot and different colors than the high school. I think the mascot and the colors should have changed years ago and hope it does this time.

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239 earn semester academic honors at SCMS

There were 239 students earning second semester academic honors at Scott City Middle School. The list of honor students included 59 who were on the Platinum list for maintaining a 4.0 grade point average.

Other honor lists are Gold (3.75-3.99), Silver (3.5-3.74) and Bronze (3.0-3.49).

Honor roll students include: Platinum Honor List Eighth grade: Krystal Appel, Alysan Buehler, Jess Drohman, Karen Gonzalez, Bo Hess, Chandler Janssen, Katie Nowak, Elaine Parkinson, Clarissa Ratzlaff, Kylee Trout, Nancy Unger, Paige Winderlin, Kiana Yager.

Seventh grade: Brenda Aguirre, Kayla Appel, Reid Brunswig, Trella Davis, Emily Glenn, Dexter Gooden, Jalynn Habiger, Felix Nolasco, Ashley Prewit, Abbigail Prochnow,

Emily Smith, Makaela Stevens.

Sixth grade: Karina Ayala, Dulce Ayala Chanez, Jeffery Bollwinkel, Tatyana Castillo, Stacy DominguezPeregrino, Dale Donecker, Marshall Faurot, Wyatt Hayes, Kristen Karnaze, Kally Kough, Emily Leavens, Carina Ortiz, Kodi Rogers, Irit Sanchez, Jack Thomas, Jose Trejo, Parker Vulgamore, Hallie Wiechman, Kaitlyn Wolkensdorfer.

Fifth grade: MaKenna Ashmore, William Cupp, Cynthia Gonzalez, Parker Gooden, Cale Goodman, Lanae Haupt, Braylin Heim, Blake Koehn, Kylee Logan, Gabrielle Martinez, Rosa Martinez, Lillian Pepper, Andrew Prochnow, Piper Wasinger, Emily Weathers.

Gold Honor List Eighth grade: Macy Berning, Trace Mulligan, Keely Yeager.

Seventh grade: Sahil

Anil, Jade Heim Jynessa Horney, Porter Irwin, Katie McGonagle, Dallie Metheney, Adrian Ruelas, Austen Turner.

Sixth grade: Cindy Araiza Catano, Alexis Buxton, Jera Drohman, Molly Eikenberry, Abbigale Ford, Miles Haire, Alexis Hoeme, Ashley Serrano Gonzalez, Aly Tarango Fernandez, Anthony Tinajero-Lozoya, Kassandra Troyer, Benhard Unger.

Fifth grade: Samantha Aguilar, Adon’dra Allen, Jaiden Amack, Briana Amezcuz, Emmanuel Frances Aguilar, Brian Galaviz, Morgan Irwin, Connor Jameson, LiliAnn Johnson, Eva Kliesen, Amanda Lara, Courtney Latta.

Victor Martinez, Shelby Patton, Kevin RodriguezDe-la-Cruz, Jacy Rose, Madison Shapland, Rosa Trejo, Jessica West, Brandon Winderlin, Kaden Wren, Hunter Yager, Maricio Zarate.

Silver Honor List Eighth grade: Seth Cardenas, KelsiJo Crouch, Mikennon Donovan, Taylor Goodman, Carson Haupt, Delaney Kitch, Hayden Nevills, Emma Price, Chase Rumford, Edward Tilton, Tyler Vondracek.

Seventh grade: Trenedy Beaton, Erika Blanco, Tasha Dearden, Kolby Farr, Bailey Latta, Gabriela Lopez-Reyes, Koebe Lorg, Zoey Majors, Makenzie Morris, Selena Oronia, Olivia Prieto, Austin Rios, Kaitlyn Roberts, Trevor Roberts, Andres Rodriguez.

Sixth grade: Josiah Evans, Brayan Garcia Luevano, Michelle Gracia, Aubriana Gutierrez, Ashley Lightner, Shea Morris, Briane Murphy Amack, Natali Navarrete, Aspyn Nix, Emily Parkinson, Angela Penaran, Vicky Ruiz Velasco, Alyssa Storm, Theron Tucker, Lynell Wessel, Jasmine Zapata.

Fifth grade: LuisAlfaroReyes, Aleczander Berry, Jacelynn Buffington, Bruce Colbary, Yovanni Galaviz, Jose Garcia, Samuel Irwin, Elvis Ivey, Hailey-Jo Leonard, Jackson Lewis, Diego Lopez, Jose Martinez, Nathan Nowak, Isidro Ponce, Blake Ribbing, Jaine Wiebe Neufeld, Luke Wright, Sterling Wright.

Bronze Honor List Eighth grade: Kevin Aguilera, Haley Allen, Makayla Amerine, Arely Armendariz, Stephanie Banda, Kearston Buffington, Kyle Cure, Jaime De la Rocha, Drew Duff, Paige Eggleston, Jennie Erven, Isaac Evans, Taylor Fairleigh, Justin Faurot, Diana Garcia Luevano, Madison Groth, Judith Gutierrez, Karen Hermosillo, Esmeralda Hernandez, Jacob Karnaze, Trey Loftis, Karlee Logan, Alexis Long, Kaylene McGonagle, Octavio Nolasco, Camryn Patton, Andres Perez, Georgina Prieto, Morgen Roberts,

Brynan Sherwood, Nancy Wiebe.

Seventh grade: Chelsea Amerine, Gracy Chambless, Nicholas Cheney, Jennifer Clark, Mya Foster, Cordell Green, Chandler Hornbostel, Jarret Jurgens, Shantice Lara, Samantha Lawrence.

Ivan Macias, Braylyn Mayer, Alexis Mendenhall, Jordan Miller, Nicholas Nowak, Savanna Osthoff, Paulina Prieto, Micah Steffens, Hunter Stevens, Baron Strine, Baylee Weinmann.

Sixth grade: Jaren Berning, Caleb Carter, Jordan Cramer, Chaseton Cupp, Kevin Duong, Justin Hundertmark, Viviana Medellin, Abbigail Orr, Jamie Puente, Jose Angel Rodriguez, Jordan Smith, Karenna Swart, Jordan Wagner.

Fifth grade: Elijah Amack, Grace Hutton, Jessie Ivey, Reyna Jimenez, Noah Kliesen, Chandler Murphy, Justice Torres, Cody Turner, Stormy Wells.

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Nightengale, Dirks are state winners Two local students were winners at the state level in the Kansas Farm Bureau safety poster contest.

Ross Dirks was awarded third place in Division 1 (first and second grade).

He received $25 and an autographed copy of Kailey’s Ag Adventure Book.

Elle Nightengale placed fifth in Division 2, also receiving $25 and an autographed copy of Kailey’s Ag Adventure Book.

The Scott County Farm Bureau points out that preventable injury is the leading cause of death for Kansas children.

More children die annually from preventable, unintentional injuries than from all childhood diseases combined.

This year, one child in four will suffer a preventable injury serious enough to require medical attention.

“The great tragedy is that most of these injuries can be prevented,” says safety chairman Millie Dearden.

In an effort to reduce accidents by developing “safety minded” youth, KFB has sponsored a safety poster program for nearly 50 years. Every year, several thousand youth in the first through sixth grades participate statewide.

Posters are judged on the county level and the top poster from each division is submitted for judg-

Division 1 winners are (from left to right) Ross Dirks, first; Wyatt Ricker, second; Evan Koehn, third; and Shayla Koehn, honorable mention.

Division 2 winners (from left) Elle Nightengale, first; Brock Koehn, second; Jerika Nightengale, third; and Emma Decker, honorable mention.

Division 3 winners (from left) Bryan Koehn, first; Kianna Decker, second; Kylee Koehn, third; and Tyrah Dirks, honorable mention.

ing at the state level.

Winners at the county level were: Division 1 (grades 1-2): Ross Dirks, first; Wyatt Ricker, second; Evan Koehn, third; and

Shayla Koehn, honorable mention.

Division 2 (grades 3-4): Elle Nightengale, first; Brock Koehn, second; Jerika Nightengale, third; and Emma Decker,

honorable mention.

Division 3 (grades 5-6): Bryan Koehn, first; Kianna Decker, second; Kylee Koehn, third; and Tyrah Dirks, honorable mention.

Jaunt The artist’s showcase will feature paintings, photography, china painting and more. A craft fair and quilt show will be held in conjunction with the showcase from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Railroad History

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Individuals who enjoy local history will want to visit the El Quartelejo Museum and Jerry Thomas Gallery and Collection throughout the weekend.

The museum and gallery will be open from 1:005:00 p.m.

The Scott County Historical Society will sponsor a bus trip on Sunday to Battle Canyon and a buffalo tour at the Duff Ranch in southern Logan County. The tour is free.

The bus will leave from the museum parking lot at 1:00 p.m. and return at about 5:00 p.m. Reservations must be made by calling the museum (8725912).

To find out what’s happening in all eight June Jaunt communities visit www.k96junejaunt.com.

“Heartland History on the Highway,” telling of railroads in Scott County and the Great Plains, will be a featured program at the El Quartelejo Museum, Scott City, on Saturday. Everett Green will be the guest speaker at 2:00 and 4:00 p.m.

Relay for Life will host a fundraiser meal in Patton Park at 6:30 p.m., followed by “The Last Rezort” in concert from 7:00-8:30 p.m.

In conjunction with a rod run hosted by the Lake Scott Car Club, everyone Bikes and BBQ Motorcyclists from will be able to “drag Main throughout a five-state Street” in the evening. area are expected for the first-ever Boozefighters Antique Road Show If you would like to “Ride for the Kids” on learn more about an an- Sat., June 1.

The day-long ride will tique or family heirloom, or perhaps have an ap- begin and end in Scott praisal, then you can take City with stops in Dighpart in the Antique Road ton, Garden City, Lakin, Syracuse, Tribune and Show.

Betsy Clark, an expe- Leoti. Plans are to send rienced antique appraiser, groups of cycles out of will be available at Scott Scott City in 15-20 minute City Antiques, 704 W. 4th, intervals.

The first bikes are on Saturday from 1:00scheduled to leave Scott 5:00 p.m.

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volving selenium and uranium with reverse osmosis around the Arkansas River,” Streeter said.

Water Management

Again this year, travelers along K96 Highway can also join in a geocaching expedition as part of the June Jaunt.

Those who successfully find each of the eight locations will have their name entered in a drawing for $250. Geocaching clues and coordinates along the route include: Dighton: Coordinates: 38.48467, -100.46712. Clue: You can see the sod, or dig up some clay. This historical object can tear ground away!

Ellinwood: Coordinates: 38.353423, -98.579446. Clue: Antiques can be found throughout Ellinwood. Just keep in mind an antique can be a person, place or thing. The hidden stamp you will find at a site that has historical value that years ago was a place for travelers to and from our city.

Great Bend: Coordinates: 38.37488, -98.765526. Clue: This stunning object was used to travel on the National Old Trails. To the west is Wetlands and to the east are Blizzards.

Leoti: Coordinates: 38.480142, -101.358609. Clue: You’ll find the cache guarded by “Howie,” whose exploding personality has been the keeper of Wichita Countians’ names who served our country.

Ness City: Coordinates: 38.452944, -99.905393. Clue: Across from the mural lies a piece of history - be sure to watch your step, or you could go down!

Rush County: Coordinates: 38.462847, -99.310777. Clue: It used to be a valley, but now is the Center. Find it between the steeple and stars and stripes.

Scott City: Coordinates: 38.483243, -100.916779. Clue: There’s only one-way to use me. Either man or beast can make do. Nestled near a house of treasures. We’ve hidden a cache just for you.

Tribune: Coordinates: 38.471373, -101.750956. Clue: In front of the new, sits a piece of the old. An artifact of the labor and toil, the work in the soil. A symbol of the pioneer spirit of Unified Greeley County.

Rules for K-96 Geocache/Quest: 1) Obtain the official 2013 June Jaunt Geocaching/Questing Card which can be picked up in each community at convenience stores, or look in the regional K-96 June Jaunt publication.

2) Visit each location and find the container that holds the stamp, stamp your card, sign and date the log book. Put everything back where you found it.

3) When you have the card full, you can mail it to the judge’s location, Scott City Chamber of Commerce, 113 E. 5th Street, Scott City, Ks. 67871. It must be postmarked by Sat., June 8, to be eligible to win the $250 cash prize.

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One of the duties of the KGS is to monitor the local effects of pumping around the wells.

“Water in Kansas is highly regulated, but mostly for the big users.

It drops four to six feet from winter to summer and is showing a gradual decline,” notes Wilson.

Whittemore said groundwater management districts like the five-county District No. 1, which includes Scott County, “are managing the mining of groundwater to try to extend it farther into the future.”

“The Ogallala is dropping at different rates in different locations, depending on the saturated thickness that you can draw from like a bank account,” he said. “There are thick portions in the southern tier of Stevens and Seward counties toward the Oklahoma line.

Whittemore said the KGS has sampled water from its well south of Scott City from the early 1990s to the present.

“It’s very fresh water from the aquifer, not saline water like it is from Shallow Water,” Whittemore said. “We analyzed it for nitrates in 2011, but there was nothing unusual - magnesium, potassium, sodium, calcium bicarbonate and chlorine sulfate.”

There is still water available for low volume uses. In GMD No. 1, for example, more irrigated land is being converted into dryland because there isn’t the volume in wells to support irrigation.

City at 10:00 a.m. with the final bikes departing at about 11:00 a.m. The evening will conclude with a dinner and dance at the Scott County Fairgrounds.

“We wouldn’t be surprised to have 200 to 300 bikes,” says Darin Donecker, a Scott City Shriner who is also a member of the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club, Chapter 149.

For a $10 donation a person can enjoy Saturday’s meal, dance, beer garden and be eligible for door prizes. Mobile Music Masters will provide the music.

In addition, the Shriners are also sponsoring a drawing for an Ozark Mountain grill donated by Bumper to Bumper. Tickets are available for a $10 donation.

“We’ve been planning this since October. It’s very important that everything go well so that we can bring people back and make it even better next year,” Donecker says.

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He said there are locations “where the uranium can be too high and in some cases impact the drinking water supplies,” adding that the element develops naturally, “leaching out of the rocks in the Plains area of southeastern Colorado.

“Rains in that area can’t flush it out of the closed basin.”

“The uranium concentration in the Arkansas River is twice the drinking water standard,” Whittemore said. “Once you get beyond the headwaters in the mountains, the selenium sulfates get up to around 2,000 parts per million. You wouldn’t want to drink it.”

The uranium content is about 30 parts per billion where the Amazon Ditch diverts water for irrigation. It’s simply seeping in and contaminating the Ogallala Aquifer where the river flows from the state line to mid-Kearny County and Deerfield.”

KGS Data Manager Brownie Wilson tracks the aquifer with a new index well two miles north of Scott City and with an old production well four miles south of town, both alongside US83 Highway.

Citing the adage, “Colorado keeps the water and sends Kansas the salt,” Whittmore noted that the river is dry from Garden City past Dodge City.

Tracy Streeter, director of the Kansas Water Office, Topeka, expects most Western Kansas water purification efforts to work, although they will be tied to an initiative by the region’s groundwater management districts to reduce pumping from the Ogallala.

“They’re treating the more serious issues in-

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Elementary school’s K-State influence is leaving after 17 years The Kansas State University posters are being packed away, along with all the other Wildcat memorabilia.

Nancy Schwanke, also known as the biggest fan of KSU, has resigned from her second grade teaching position at Scott City Elementary School.

“At this moment in my life, this is the right thing to do,” says Schwanke, who has been a teacher in the district for the past 17 years.

Originally, Schwanke had thought she wanted to be a nurse, until realizing she didn’t like the sight of blood. The decision to pursue a teaching career soon followed when she entered the third grade.

“I loved my teacher and she was the reason that I decided to become one,” notes Schwanke.

After graduating from Fairfield High School, Schwanke attended Kansas State University where she met her future husband, Randall, who was a Scott City native.

Upon earning her teaching degree in December of

1973, the couple married and Schwanke accepted a combined first and second grade teaching position at Manning.

However, she never had the chance to teach at the Scott County school because its doors were closed in the spring of 1974.

Instead, Schwanke was content with being a substitute teacher in the Scott County school district while raising a family.

That changed 17 years ago when she was asked to finish out the school year for a first grade teacher who left at mid-year.

Once she was back in the classroom full-time, Schwanke decided not to leave.

She continued teaching first grade for the next three years before moving to third grade because of an unusually large class.

For the past six years, Schwanke has been the second grade teacher.

The opportunity to make a difference in a young student’s life has always been the biggest source of pride for the

Second grade teacher Nancy Schwanke retires after 17 years at SCES.

long-time educator.

“When you have someone who doesn’t like school, or is a reluctant reader, and you can convince them that school is fun and reading is fun, then you’ve accomplished something pretty important in that young person’s life,” says Schwanke.

“Sometimes it’s a tough sell, but that’s part of being a teacher. That’s the reason I’ve been doing this for all these years.”

Education is Complex seen wearing a purple shirt ing from the profession

Schwanke has also seen the teaching profession become more complex over the past two decades with increased technology.

“Kids are learning so much more today at an earlier age and technology is a big part of that,” notes Schwanke.

There’s nothing complex however about her passion for K-State.

Schwanke can often be

from her alma mater while posters and other Wildcat items filled her desk or decorated the room.

“It’s all done in good fun. There are kids who love K-State, others who love KU and it’s a friendly rivalry. But I do my best to help them get started on the right foot,” she says with a grin.

While Schwanke has officially resigned that doesn’t mean she is retir-

4-H Foundation 4-H Club News Summer Free Lunches Scholarship Jayhawkers to host Pioneers in June Served at Scott City Elementary School awarded to Scott Monthly meeting of the Manning Jayhawkers 4-H Week of June 3-7

Kiersten Scott, a spring graduate of Scott Community High School, has been awarded the Winter Family Grants Scholarship through the Kansas 4-H Foundation.

The Foundation selected 57 students to share in $45,700 in scholarships, rewarding them for their dedication and leadership as Kansas 4-H members.

The scholarships can be used to fund post-secondary education during the 2013-14 academic year. They were awarded during the 2013 Emerald Circle Banquet on May 30 in Manhattan.

Scholarship recipients are 4-H members selected through an annual application and review process.

Applications are judged on 4-H leadership, citizenship and involvement.

Club was held on May 13 at the Wm. Carpenter 4-H Building.

Roll call was answered by the town you were born in. There were 24 members and one leader present.

In new business the club decided to invite the Pioneer 4-H Club to our June meeting. The program was Brynna Burnett and Gabby Martinez. They both demonstrated how to make duct tape flowers.

Jaden Jones led Duck Duck Goose for recreation.

Hosts were the Burnett and Martinez families.

Next meeting is June 10 at 8:00 p.m. at the 4-H building.

Christina Tilton, reporter

Catbacker scholarship to Anliker

Fifteen area students were awarded scholarships totaling $5,800 at the Finney County Alumni/Student/ Catbacker Golf Tournament and Banquet on May 14 in Garden City.

Among the recipients was Rebekah Anliker, Scott City.

The scholarships were awarded by the Finney County K-State Alumni Club, the Col. Gayle Foster Endowed Scholarship fund and the Kansas State University President’s Office.

Scholarships are for the 2013-14 academic year.

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Monday: Sloppy Joe on a bun, tator tots, fresh oranges.

Tuesday: Submarine sandwich, chips, lettuce and tomatoes, baby carrots, fresh apple wedges.

Wednesday: Crispitos and cheese sauce, broccoli, dark green salad blend, peaches.

Thursday: Chicken nuggets, green beans, dinner roll, strawberries.

Friday: Grilled chicken wrap, lettuce and tomatoes, hashbrowns, plums.

that she loves.

“I’m not ready to give up the kids,” she says.

“This gives me the chance to sub, which I really enjoyed doing when I started.

“But this is the right thing for me at this time,” she adds. “I can spend more time with my family and I’ll have the opportunity to attend more K-State games . . . if that’s possible.”

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House rejects plan authored by its own tax negotiators Earlier this week the Kansas House soundly rejected a compromise tax plan that Republican leaders had hoped would clear a path for adjourning the 2013 legislative session.

The plan was written

by Republican members of the House’s tax negotiating team. Senate leaders reluctantly agreed to it last Friday.

The 42-71 rejection of the plan leaves Gov. Sam Brownback and GOP leaders in the House and Senate with no immediate way of resolving a

dispute over how to deal with anticipated revenue shortfalls caused by deep income-tax cuts signed into law last session.

Brownback and Republican leaders in the Senate have been pushing to make permanent a sales tax increase passed during the recession that is scheduled to sunset on July 1.

But they’ve been blocked by a coalition in the House, which includes Democrats, moderate Republicans and a handful of their conservative colleagues.

The compromise

USD 466 Board of Education Agenda Tues., June 4 • 7:00 p.m.

Administration Bldg. • 704 College St. •Awards and recognition •Comments from public •Executive session •Recognition of persons/delegations present 1) High Plains Co-op - Eric Erven 2) NW Ks. Tech. College - Mark Davis 3) Administrative reports •Financials 1) Bills payable 2) Transfers •Consent agenda 1) Approve previous minutes 2) Resignations 3) Recommendations for hire 4) Southwest Plains Regional Service Center membership and contracted services 5) SCHS handbook approval 6) Approve KASB board training date 7) Authorization to pay bills to close 2012-13 •Consider items pulled from consent agenda New business 1) Policy review 2) Reimbursement request 3) Negotiations •Additions, if any •Adjournment

offered on Tuesday would have allowed the 6.3 percent sales tax to fall to six percent, but not all the way down to 5.7 percent, where it was before the 2010 increase.

Rep. Richard Carlson, of St. Mary’s, urged members of the Republican majority to set aside their differences and push the plan through the 125-member House.

“The minority party in the House - 33 members strong - probably can’t influence policy to where they would like it today,” he said. “The majority

party in the House today with 92 members needs to govern.”

Passing the tax plan, Carlson said, would put the state on a path to eliminating the income tax and to becoming “one of the most outstanding growth states in the nation.”

First-term Rep. Blaine Finch, from Ottawa, was among several Republicans who voted against the measure. Finch said he was opposed to keeping the higher sales tax on the books and to further reductions in income taxes until it’s proven they can stimulate

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., May 23, 2013; last published Thurs., June 6, 2013)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ELIZABETH RINEY GRUBE, deceased, Case No. 2013-PR-14 NOTICE TO CREDITORS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that on May 14, 2013, a Petition for Probate of Will and Issuance of Letters Testamentary was filed in this court by Marsha Willard, an heir, devisee, legatee, and

Executor named in the Last Will and Testament of Elizabeth Riney Grube, deceased.

All creditors of the above named decedent are notified to exhibit their demands against the Estate within four months from the date of the first publication of this notice, as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they shall be forever barred.

Marsha Willard WALLACE, BRANTLEY & SHIRLEY 325 Main - P.O. Box 605 Scott City, Kansas 67871 Attorney for Petitioner

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., May 23, 2013; last published Thurs., June 6, 2013)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF VERLA J. LEWALLEN BEEN, deceased, Case No. 2013-PR-15 NOTICE OF HEARING AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS You are hereby notified that on the 21st day of May, 2013, a Petition was filed in this Court by Judith L. Werner, an heir of Verla J. Lewallen Been, deceased, praying: That descent be determined of the following described personal property owned by the decedent: Certificate of Deposit at Farmers State Bank of Oakley, Kansas

and all other real or personal property and any Kansas real estate owned by decedent at the time of her death.

You are required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 17th day of June, 2013, at 2:00 o’clock p.m., in said Court, in the City of Scott City, in Scott County, Kansas, at which time and place said cause will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

Judith L. Werner, Petitioner WALLACE, BRANTLEY & SHIRLEY 325 Main Street P.O. Box 605 Scott City, Kansas, 67871 Attorneys for Petitioner

economic growth.

“I don’t like this tax plan and others that include set statutory (income tax) rate cuts,” Finch said. “If this truly works let’s see it work.

Let’s see the growth come in and then we can talk about using that growth to make future rate cuts if necessary.”

The rejected plan would have lowered the top individual tax rate from 4.9 percent to 3.5 percent by 2018 and reduced the bottom rate from three percent to 2.3 percent.

It would also have cut in half all itemized deductions and slashed standard deductions.

Brownback and other supporters of eliminating individual income taxes believe that doing so will stimulate economic growth. But critics don’t believe the growth will be sufficient to prevent massive budget shortfalls when the tax that generates nearly half of state revenue is eliminated.

Friday will mark the 95th day of what leaders hoped would be an 80-day session.

Scott Co. LEC Report Scott City Police Department May 17: Pam Binford reported criminal damage to property.

May 20: Alco reported a theft.

May 25: Dallas Marin was arrested for driving on a suspended license, transportation of alcohol and no driver’s license. He was transported to the LEC. May 25: Criminal damage to property was reported at 917 Crescent.

May 27: Kandice Lauber reported the violation of a protection order that occurred on May 23.

District 11 AA Meetings

Scott City

Unity and Hope Mon., Wed. and Fri. • 8:00 p.m.

807 Kingsley Last Sat., Birthday Night, 6:30 p.m.

All open meetings, 874-8207 • 874-8118

Tuesday • 8:30 p.m.

United Methodist Church, 412 College A.A. • Al-Anon, 872-3137 • 872-3343

Dighton

Thursday • 8:30 p.m.

535 Wichita St. All open meetings, 397-5679 • 397-2647

Scott City Council Agenda Mon., June 3 • 7:30 p.m.

City Hall • 221 W. 5th •Call to Order •Approve minutes of May 20 regular meeting •Approval of aerial applicator’s permit •Approve Ordinance No. 1141 (water restriction exemption) •Appointment to Planning/Zoning Commission •Open agenda: audience is invited to voice ideas or concerns. A time limit may be requested Pool Department 1) Discuss lifeguard positions Police Department 1) Misc. business Parks Department 1) Misc. business Public Works Department 1) Discuss advertising for contractor bids for 50/50 cost-share on curb/gutter work 2) Discuss water/sewer lines in Eastridge and Prairie Meadows subdivisions Clerk’s Department 1) Budget workshop on June 11 at City Hall •Mayor’s comments

Scott County Commission Agenda Tues., June 4 County Courthouse 3:00 p.m.

County business Approve accounts payable/minutes Discuss new concealed carry law Discuss VIP phone line

3:30 p.m.

25th Judicial District budget Kurtis Jacobs and Darlene Kohman

4:00 p.m.

Economic development Katie Eisenhour

4:30 p.m.

SCDC Developer - Competitive Power Ventures, Mike Resca

5:00 p.m.

Public Works Director Richard Cramer Approve grader purchase Adjourn

Agenda may change before the meeting. Contact County Clerk Pam Faurot for an updated agenda (872-2420) or visit www.scott.kansasgov.com

City water restriction starts at noon Last week’s Record incorrectly stated that lawn watering restrictions begin at 1:00 p.m.

The restriction is actually from noon to 7:00 p.m. each day.

The only exception to that are individuals with newly seeded lawns. They can water from noon to 7:00 p.m. during the first 30 days after their lawn has been seeded.

These individuals must contact City Hall and let them know they will be watering during the restricted time frame.

Vehicle tag deadline Fri. Persons whose last name begins with the letters E, F or G are reminded that license tags must be purchased by Fri., May 31, to avoid a penalty.

Tags are due for autos, light trucks, motorcycles and motorized bikes. Tags can be purchased at the county treasurer’s office.

Tags must be renewed during June for persons whose last name begins with H or I.

City pool is closed Sat. The Scott City swimming pool will be closed to the public on Saturday when the Stars Swim Club hosts their annual swim meet.

Competition will begin at 9:00 a.m. with sessions in the morning and afternoon.

Teams competing include Scott City, Dodge City, Garden City, Lakin, Leoti, Liberal and Holcomb.

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Electronic patient records are critical if disaster strikes Jenny Gold Kaiser Health News

Everyone expects a hospital to be ready to jump into action when disaster strikes. But what about when the disaster devastates the hospital itself?

Turns out, in that case, it can help a lot to have an electronic medical record system in place.

That was the case at Moore Medical Center in Oklahoma, a small hospital right in the path of the tornado that ripped through the suburbs of Oklahoma City on May 20. Some 300 patients, staff members and com-

munity - hunkered down in the cafeteria, stairwells and chapel as 200-milesper-hour winds demolished the building around them.

One patient in labor stayed on the second floor with two nurses, where they could continue to monitor the fetal heartbeat.

Amazingly, everyone survived. Within an hour, 30 patients had been transferred to the two other hospitals that are part of the Norman Regional Health System.

And every one of them arrived with their medical histories fully intact. The woman in labor delivered

a healthy baby later that evening.

“The transfer was totally seamless,” said John Meharg, director of health information technology at Norman, which has had an electronic health record system for five years. “We’re very fortunate that we’re a little ahead of the game.”

If the hospital system had still been using paper, Meharg said, “the first thing we would have had to do was find their records. And with all of the hustle and bustle of a disaster, they can easily get lost.” As for any records left behind in files, “if the tornado doesn’t

get them, the subsequent rain would ruin them. The roof’s gone, the walls are gone, and the windows are gone.”

Instead, physicians at the two transfer hospitals were able to pick up care for the Moore patients where their home physicians left off. Even if the patients had been taken to hospitals outside of the Norman system, their records would still have gone along with them.

That’s because Oklahoma City has a regional health information exchange that allows the various hospital systems in the area to access all patient records.

Kansas ranks well in senior health report A report released by the United Health Foundation examining the health and well-being of American seniors ranks Kansas 18th in the nation, and finds that Kansas has the second highest percentage of highly rated nursing homes in the country.

The report also shows Kansas has a high rate of volunteerism and social supports for older adults compared to the rest of the nation.

“America’s Health Rankings Senior Report for 2013” was released by the United Health Foundation along with its overall rating for the state. These reports focus on health determinants, such as behavior, environment, availability of care and the policies and practices of public and private health systems, and on outcomes for adults aged 65 and older.

“Overall, Kansas has made a very good showing in this report. We do have areas we need to improve upon, and we will use this information to create a healthier community for older adults in our state,” said Shawn Sullivan, Secretary of (See REPORT on page 15)

Insurers prepare to market plans on exchange Jim McLean KHI News Service

Kansas insurance companies are preparing to sell a range of health plans on a new, online insurance exchange being created by the federal government in an effort to make coverage more available to the thousands of people who have struggled to obtain it.

The Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare,” requires the new health insurance marketplaces to be up and running in

every state by October, with the coverage sold through them effective on Jan. 1. But large numbers of Americans who stand to benefit most from the exchanges still know little to nothing about the law or how it will affect them, according to a recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Anyone will be able to use the online marketplaces to purchase health coverage, but they are being created mostly to make private coverage more affordable for the unin-

sured and individual policies more widely available to those who don’t have access to group coverage through an employer.

“It’s going to create new opportunities for people who don’t have any insurance at all,” said Andy Corbin, chief executive of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Kansas, the state’s largest private health insurer.

“And for those who don’t make much money, it may save them some dollars.”

Corbin said that plans offered on the exchange will “probably be more

Children’s initiative fund is headed for ‘fiscal cliff’

The head of a Topekabased child advocacy group says a fund used to finance programs that promote early childhood development is headed for insolvency.

“There won’t be enough revenue in the Children’s Initiative Fund to meet current expenditures,” said Shannon Cotsoradis, member of the Kansas Children’s Cabinet, which administers the fund.

Cotsoradis is also the chief executive of Kansas Action for Children, which receives no money from the fund.

The shortfall, she said,

will force deep cuts in programs that rely on revenue from the state’s master settlement agreement with the nation’s tobacco companies.

“There’s a fiscal cliff on the horizon,” Cotsoradis said.

Historically, Kansas has used most of its tobacco payments - more than $810 million since 1998 - to underwrite services for at-risk children and families.

Cotsoradis said her prediction was based on information contained in a recent letter from Kansas Attorney General Derek

Schmidt to Amanda Adkins, chair of the Children’s Cabinet.

In the six-page letter, Schmidt said that a longstanding dispute over whether states had been “diligent” in their efforts to enforce market-share protections had allowed cigarette manufactures to deposit a portion of their payments in a “Disputed Payments Account.”

Schmidt said that in December he and the attorneys general in 17 other states had reached an arbitration agreement with the tobacco companies, giving both parties (See CLIFF on page 15)

expensive” than the individual and small-group policies the company now sells. But he said in many cases the amount that consumers actually pay would be lower because of federal subsidies.

The exchange, or marketplace, also will give small businesses those with fewer than 50 employees - new options.

Rather than purchasing group insurance, they will be able to select a plan on the exchange and allow their workers to purchase individual policies.

The businesses will have the option of helping their employees pay for the coverage, or not.

At least three insurance companies will sell multiple plans on the Kansas exchange, which will be operated by the federal government because Gov. Sam Brownback declined to establish a state-run exchange. The companies are Blue Cross/ Blue Shield of Kansas, Coventry Health Care of Kansas and Blue Cross/ Blue Shield of Kansas City, which does business

in two Kansas counties, Johnson and Wyandotte.

Insurance Subsidies

Ron Rowe, a vice president for BCBS of Kansas City, predicted the cost of premiums for new, non-group policies would trend higher.

“Some people’s rates are going to go down and some are going to go up, but in aggregate it’s going to be about a 30-35 percent increase for that entire block of business,” he said.

(See EXCHANGE on page 15)

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When your marriage needs professional help by the American Counseling Association

Everyone who walks down the aisle expects the relationship will last forever, but as the grim divorce statistics tell us, this isn’t always the case.

No matter how compatible or in love two people are, every marriage faces times when problems arise.

Some problems might be simple differences of opinion, while others may be much more serious disagreements over money,

Cliff access to the monies in the Disputed Payments Account (DPA).

The agreement’s terms became final March 12.

Under the agreement, Schmidt said, Kansas was allowed to keep 54 percent of the DPA, approximately $46 million; the tobacco companies were allowed to keep 46 percent, roughly $39.2 million.

Schmidt said he had the option of collecting the state’s $46 million in a lump-sum payment but, instead, decided to follow the tobacco companies’ lead and take much of the money - almost $29 million - in 2013, deferring the collection of about $17.3 million to “future

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But those increased costs could be mitigated for many. People who already have individual policies can keep them.

And those who qualify for federal subsidies could end up paying less for more expensive and more complete coverage.

“Many people who are going to see high rate increases are going to qualify for a subsidy,” Rowe said. “And the amount that they’re going to pay out-of-pocket will be less than they’re paying today, even if the premium is significantly higher.”

For example, a person with annual earnings equal to 150 percent of the federal poverty level - $17,235 - would pay about $460 a year for a $5,000 policy, according to a cost-estimating tool developed by the Kansas Insurance Department.

Federal tax credits paid directly to the insurance company would cover the remaining $4,540.

The credits, available only through the exchange, will be calculated on a sliding scale up to 400 percent of federal poverty guidelines, or annual earnings of $45,960 for an individual.

But at that top level, the subsidy would amount to only about $630, leaving the consumer responsible for the remaining $4,370.

Despite the likelihood that many consumers purchasing through the exchange could pay less, Corbin anticipates a backlash from those forced to pay more.

“We’re trying to get out in front of the negative that’s going to come,” Corbin said.

children, relatives or a thousand other issues of daily life. But the specifics aren’t as important as how ready and willing couples are to deal with and overcome these problems.

Pre-marriage counseling is one way to prepare for potential problems.

Such counseling can help a couple better understand each other’s feelings and thoughts, and offers opportunities to explore areas of potential problems and to plan for han-

dling those problems if they occur.

Many marriages, however, will encounter situations that can’t be easily resolved in a manner where both partners feel they are being treated fairly and getting exactly what each wants.

When this occurs, it doesn’t mean that the people involved are selfish, self-centered or bad people, nor that the marriage should end. But it is a time when outside counseling can offer help

before the situation deteriorates too badly for the marriage to be saved.

One common sign help is needed is when one partner feels he or she is giving more than he or she is receiving over a long period of time. Or it can be persistent and severe disagreements, with an unwillingness or inability to resolve these arguments.

Professional counselors specializing in family and marriage counseling are trained to help couples facing such problems.

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years.”

Schmidt called his decision a “sensible approach,” saying it would “minimize future payment disruptions.”

Cotsoradis said Schmidt’s decision may have kept the state’s settlement revenues from plummeting this year or next. But the fund’s longterm troubles, she said, are clear.

“This year, we got $68 million, and we now know that $28 million of that was disputed payment account money,” Cotsoradis said.

“While there is $17.3 million in DPA money available for future years, it is unlikely it will be enough to offset the loss

in tobacco revenue that is coming,” she said. “In a few years, we may be looking at revenues in the neighborhood of $40 million and unless policymakers retain any available dollars in the KEY Fund, the Children’s Initiatives Fund is going to be underwater.”

Kansas Action for Children encouraged legislators to “cushion” some of the anticipated shortfall by putting much of this year’s windfall in a reserve fund so it would be available in future years.

But the prospects of that happening, Cotsoradis said, are slim, noting that a House-Senate budget committee has agreed to

They can teach a couple how to disagree without being disagreeable, or help them learn to level the playing field so that one of the partners doesn’t feel he or she is always losing.

If your local mental health center can’t provide the help you need, they can direct you to a marriage counselor.

No counseling is going to save every marriage.

But for a couple who truly care for each other and wish to stay together, professional counseling

“sweep” $9.5 million in tobacco company payments to the State General Fund, where it’s needed to offset income tax cuts.

Cotsoradis and KAC criticized Schmidt for not doing more to educate lawmakers on the arbitration agreement.

“It’s unfortunate that the attorney general’s letter was released on 5:04 p.m. on a Friday before the Memorial Day weekend and a week before most people expected the Legislature to adjourn,” Cotsoradis said.

“This is all information that Legislature should have had as soon as the national arbitration panel accepted the settlement (in March).”

can help partners sort-out those long-standing disagreements and discover ways to cope with problems in a healthy way.

Seeking help for a marriage is not a sign of weakness, nor a signal that a marriage is going to end.

Instead, in many cases it is the beginning of building a strong, healthy and long-lasting relationship.

“Counseling Corner” is provided by the American Counseling Association.

Comments and questions to ACAcorner@counseling.org or visit the ACA website at counseling.org

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the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services. Highlights of the report show: •Kansas has a high rate of 4- and 5-star rated nursing homes beds at 64.6 beds per 100,000 adults age 75 and older; •Kansas has a high percentage of low-care nursing home residents at 18.2 percent of nursing home residents; •In Kansas, a high percentage of seniors volunteer in their communities; 36 percent of adults aged 65 and older participate in volunteer activities; •A high percentage of older adults in Kansas receive social supports, with a rate of 83.9 percent of adults aged 65 and older.

“Two of our areas that need strengthening include the use of home- and community-based services to care for seniors with ‘low-care needs’ instead of nursing homes, and our relatively low rating in how we manage diabetes,” said Sullivan.

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Pastime at Park Lane The Prairie View Church of the Brethren led Sunday afternoon services.

Residents played Wii bowling on Monday evening.

Pastor Bob Artz led Bible study on Tuesday morning. Doris Riner and Elsie Nagel led the hymns.

Residents played trivia games on Tuesday evening.

Rev. Warren Prochnow led Lutheran Bible study on Wednesday morning.

Residents played bingo on Wednesday afternoon.

Helpers were Madeline Murphy, Barbara Dickhut, MaryAnn Spangler and Emmogene Harp.

Residents played cards on Wednesday evening.

Madeline Murphy helped with the games.

Elsie Nagel gave manicures on Thursday morning.

Twenty-two residents went for a drive around Scott City to enjoy the sites.

Residents played ball games on Thursday evening.

Fr. Bernard Felix led Catholic Mass on Friday morning. Rev. Warren Prochnow led Lutheran

Joyful Noise entertains Tuesday

The Joyful Noise performed on Tuesday afternoon. Naomi Teubner played the violin and Marilee Cramer played the piano. Jewell Unruh furnished cookies.

Residents enjoy pitch, dominoes

Residents played pitch and dominoes on Monday afternoon. Game helpers were Dorothy King, Hugh McDaniel, JoAnn Dirks and Mandy Barnett.

services on Friday afternoon.

Seventeen additional residents went for a drive around Scott City on Friday afternoon.

Residents played Wii bowling on Friday evening.

Residents watched the movie, “City Slickers” on Saturday afternoon. Popcorn and pop were served.

Clifford Dearden was visited by Janet Ottaway and Jessica Hileman, both of Hays.

Bonnie Pickett was visited by Martha Boor, Treva McCandless, and Larry and Philene Pickett.

Lorena Turley was visited by David Snodgrass, Leona Logan, Tom and LaCinda Griffin, Gary Turley, Tracy Hess, Roy and Tina Turley, Shan-

tel Lobmeyer and Neta Wheeler. Lorena celebrated her birthday Saturday and Sunday. She enjoyed the extra visits from family and friends.

Earl Gorman was visited by Loretta Gorman, Charlene Becht, Pete Steffens, Orville and Marcine Gorman, Vera Gorman, Jane McBroom, George Murphy and Sharon Busby.

Phyllis Trembley was visited by Irwin, Carol, Karen, Louise, Noel, and Walker, and Greg and Andie Strong.

Edith Norman was visited by Kim Smith, Ron and Sue Riner, Sara Shane, Alice Collinsworth and Sharilyn Wilken.

Jim Jeffery was visited by Speed and Libbie Joles.

Dona Dee Carpenter was visited by Bill and Kandi John, Roger and Jackie John, Norma Jean Mulligan, Brent Turner, Bill Huseman, Ryan and Lisa Long, Ashlynn Long and Grant.

Pat Lewis was visited

by Pete Steffens, Emily Wright, Trisha Baker, Fritzie Rauch and Ronda Skibbe.

Boots Haxton attended her 64th high school class reunion in Oakley on Saturday with her daughterin-law, Kathy Haxton.

Boots was visited by Rod and Kathy Haxton and Melissa Jasnoch and Dayton Davis, Liberal.

Darlene Richman was visited by Gus and Pat Sheley.

Ruby Latham was visited by Anthony Ivey, Shylo McCulloch and Elizabeth Thoe.

Kathy McKellips was visited by Dave and Val Duff, Tim and Pat Percival, Lee Percival; Keelyn, Zach and Micaela; Todd and Johnna; and Kay Percival.

Judy Redburn was visited by Mary Torson, Wendy Derstine, Mary Torson, Jim Cooley, and Debbie Bush.

Deaths Galen K. Ryan Galen K. Ryan died Nov. 16, 2011, in a tragic house fire in Wichita.

He served in the U.S. Army and Navy. He was a medical corpsman aboard the USS Trippoli in Vietnam.

He owned and operated a truck that hauled mobile homes and groceries for Dillons.

Survivors include: one son, Galen Cahail, Wichita; one sister, Penny Ryan, Wichita; one niece, Me-

Charles LeRoy ‘Roy’ Jacobus gan Ryan, Lawrence; and one nephew, Jade Ryan Williams of Pennsylvania.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Van G. Ryan and Clara Belle Ryan; one son, Cody Keith Ryan; and one sister, Marsha V. Williams.

The family will be at the Scott County Cemetery at Mr. Ryan’s gravesite on Sat., June 1, at 1:00 p.m. They invite those who would like to join the family.

Charles LeRoy “Roy” clude: one son, Dwight, Jacobus, 72, died May 29, and wife, Lisa, Oakley; 2013, in Rice County. one brother, Steve, TriHe was born Aug. bune; two granddaughters 4, 1940, in Chautauqua and one grandson.

County, the son of Charles He was preceded in Marian and Emma Ines death by his parents and (Turner) Jacobus. one son, Brian Jacobus.

A resident of Scott City Graveside service will since 1971, moving from be held Sat., June 1, 2:00 Glenham, S.D., he was p.m., at the Scott County a custom harvester, me- Cemetery, Scott City, with chanic and truck driver.

Steve Payne officiating.

He was a member of Visitation will be Frithe First Baptist Church, day from 10:00 a.m. unElgin. He was also a til 8:00 p.m. at Price and member of the U.S. Cus- Sons Funeral Home, 401 tom Harvesters and was a S. Washington, Scott City, Virginia Mae DeWitt Boy Scout leader.

Ks. 67871.

Virginia Mae DeWitt, Eyvonne Crase, Garden On July 21, 1961, he Memorials may be sent 82, died May 28, 2013, at City; 13 grandchildren married Neva A. Peel at to the Scott County Hosthe Scott County Hospital, and 16 great-grandchil- Onida, S.D. She survives. pital in care of the funeral Scott City. dren.

Other survivors in- home.

S h e She was preceded in was born death by her parents; her March step-father, Glen Mor- Senior Citizen Lunch Menu 27, 1931, ford; and a brother, Lloyd Week of June 3-7 at HillsKrause.

Monday: Beef enchiladas, corn, stewed tomatoes, boro, the Funeral service will be daughter held Sat., June 1, 10:30 tortilla, pineapple tidbits.

Tuesday: Pork cutlet, baked potato, brussels Virginia DeWitt of David a.m., at the First Baptist sprouts, whole wheat roll, blueberry crisp. and Eva (Janzen) Krause. Church, Scott City.

Wednesday: Roast beef with gravy, mashed poShe was a hairdresser Burial will be in the tatoes, California blend vegetables, whole wheat roll, and had been a resident of Scott County Cemetery. pudding.

Scott City since 1962.

Visitation will be FriThursday: Bierock casserole, beets, Scandinavian She was a member of day from 10:00 a.m. unvegetables, rosy applesauce. the First Baptist Church, til 8:00 p.m. at Price and Friday: Pepper steak, rice pilaf, carrots, whole wheat Scott City.

Sons Funeral Home, 401 bread, strawberries and pears.

On March 23, 1952, she S. Washington, Scott City, meals are $3.00 • call 872-3501 married George DeWitt at Ks. 67871.

Deerfield. He died Oct. Memorials may be 28, 2008, at Scott City. sent to the Silent Angels Survivors include: two Animal Shelter or to the sons, David, Wamego, and church, both in care of the Patrick, Garden City; two funeral home. daughters, Shawn FosE-condolences may be ter and Lori DeWitt, both given at www.priceandof Scott City; one sister, sons.com.

by Jason Storm

Melva Rose was visited

by Trevor Redding, Sonny and Virgie Redding, and Bob and Irma McDaniel.

Delores Brooks was visited by Charles and Cheryl Brooks.

Dottie Fouquet was visited by Pete Steffens, Jon and Anne Crane, Monica and Claire Fouquet, Terri Fouquet, Emily Faurot, Tim Fouquet, Mike Fouquet, Fritzie Rauch, Frances Luke, and Brittany Fouquet, Clarksdale, Mo. Mike Leach was visited

by Jason and Linda Dunagan, Kynsley Nicholson and Rev. Don Martin.

Cecile Billings was visited by Linda Dunagan, Kysley Nicholson, Ann Beaton, Delinda Dunagan, Jed Billings, Tim Key, and Patti, Mandy and Ken Billings.

Ruth Holland was visited by Kendra Euliss, Charlene Becht, Fritzie Rauch and Debbie Bush.

Bruce Scott was visited

by George Andrasek.

Verna Willman was visited by D’Ann Markel and Nancy Johnson from Bossier City, La. Pat Palen was visited

by Linda Dunagan, Kysley Nicholson, Leona Logan and Sharilyn Wilken.

Mary Alice King was visited by Linda Dunagan, Kynsley Nicholson and Ronda Skibbe.

Harriet Jones was visited by Ronda Skibbe and Rev. Don Martin from St. Luke’s Church.

Geraldine Graves was visited by Charlene Becht, Jan Norman, Gus and Pat Sheley, and Howard Sheley.

Mildred Van Pelt was visited by David Van Pelt and Dona Dee Carpenter.

Jake Leatherman was visited by Gaby Chavez, Rod and MaryAnn Leatherman, Faye Summerville, Jackie Huerta, Dennie and Marilyn Siegrist, and Tina Barton.

Lula Dirks was visited

by Kim Smith, Jerome Luebbers, Darla Luebbers and Willetta Payne.

Harold and Ruth White were visited by Yvette Mills and Jerica and Jillian VanCampen.

Maxine Binns was visited by Treva McCandless and Jillian VanCampen.

Jim and Yvonne Spangler were visited by Greg and Yvette Mills, Tad Eubanks, Les and MaryAnn Spangler, Jerica and Jillian VanCampen, Sharilyn Wilken and Fritzie Rauch.

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Park Place People

by Doris Riner

I don’t know about you readers, but I had a great, blessed time this Memorial weekend, renewing my love for my loved ones, now gone, and love and respect for my country and our faithful servicemen.

We all need to stop and count our blessings, we still have. It made a big lump come in my throat and tears in my eyes as I listened to one after another recall special friends who didn’t make it back. I was also very moved and blessed as I went to our neat, well-kept cemetery to decorate.

I’m sure family members coming from out-oftown to decorate loved one’s graves noticed how nice it looked.

Clif and Phyllis Thon had a great family gathering Saturday. They all met in Patton Park for a basket dinner and you can bet the children enjoyed the children’s park. Phyllis said some were here from Kansas, Colorado and Kansas City.

Everyone stayed all afternoon and they had a big barbecue that evening after which the men played pool and the women visited, and it was more play for the kids.

Lela Bishop and Karlea Bishop went to a Little Britches Rodeo at Dodge City on Saturday. Lela has three great-grands she enjoys watching (doing barrel races, I think).

Joe Beaver’s son, Jay, brought relatives from Colorado to see him on Sunday and I’ll give you one guess what they spent the afternoon doing.

And I bet in all those men (several of them) our Joe could beat ALL of them!

Coming from Rocky Ford, Colo., to see Betty Ohneck was her daughter-in-law, Marlin Ohneck, and with her was Shana Foster. Gary and Beth Wilbur also came by and took Betty for a ride to the state park. As windy as it has been all last week, I’m sure it ruffled your hair going out. Betty said they put the top up coming back to town.

Attend the Church of Your Choice

Be the Church Jesus Christ is the Lord of the Church. For this reason, the Church is not only one and holy, but also universal, including all who affirm the essential beliefs of the Christian faith. We affirm the apostolic faith that has been held by all Christians, everywhere and at all times. We extend toleration to those who disagree with us on matters not essential to salvation.

Jesus the Christ is the Lord of the Scriptures. For this reason, the Church is not only one, holy, and universal, but also apostolic (almost without regard to the name on the building door). It is built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets and continually devotes itself to the apostles’ teaching.

The Church especially looks to the Scriptures, which are the Church’s only norm of faith and life. The Lordship of Jesus over the Scriptures means that we are to understand the Scriptures through the witness of the Holy Spirit as they testify to Jesus.

To confirm and correct our understanding of the Scriptures, we honor and heed the ancient creeds and other voices of the Christian tradition that faithfully explain the Scriptures. We also allow our understanding of the Scriptures to be guided by the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking to us in repentance, faith, and assurance. Finally we test our understanding of the Scriptures by seeking the reasonableness and coherence of their witness to Jesus Christ.

Our worship of the great and gracious God takes many forms. Often it is praise and prayer with and within the faith community. It also expresses itself in acts of private devotion, thanksgiving and praise, and obedience.

Evangelistic sharing of the faith, compassion toward our neighbor, working for justice, and moral uprightness are all acts of worship before our God of blazing holiness. Even the ordinary tasks of life may become acts of worship and take on a sacramental significance as worship of a holy God becomes our intentional way of life.

Worship is the first privilege and responsibility of God’s people, the followers of Christ Jesus. It is the gathering of the covenant community before God in proclamation and celebrative response of who He is, what He has done, and what He promises to do.

Worship is the highest expression of our love for God. It is God-centered adoration honoring the One who in grace and mercy redeems us. The primary context for worship is the local church where God’s people gather, not in self-centered experience or for self-glorification, but in self-surrender and self-offering.

Hebrews 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.

You can’t stand on the promises if you don’t know what they are, therefore, be on the premises so that you may understand the premise of the promises.

Pastor Ward Clinton Church of the Nazarene, Scott City

Scott City Assembly of God

1615 South Main - Scott City - 872-2200 Ed Sanderson, Senior Pastor 9:00 a.m. - Pre-Service Prayer 10:00 a.m. - Sunday Worship Service and Children’s Church Wednesday: 7:00 p.m. - Bible Study and Prayer

St. Joseph Catholic Church

A Catholic Christian Community 1002 S. Main Street - Scott City Fr. Bernard Felix, pastor • 872-7388 Secretary • 872-3644 Masses: 1st Sunday of month - 8:30 and 11:00 a.m.

Other weekends: Sat., 6:00 p.m.; Sun., 11:00 a.m.

Spanish Mass - 2nd and 4th Sundays, 1:30 p.m.

Pence Community Church

Prairie View Church of the Brethren

4855 Finney-Scott Rd. - Scott City - 276-6481 Pastor Jon Tuttle Sunday School: 10:00 a.m.

Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Men’s Fellowship • Wednesday mornings Breakfast at 6:30 a.m.

Held at Precision Ag Bldg. west of Shallow Water

Holy Cross Lutheran Church

1102 Court • Box 283 • Scott City 620-872-2294 • 620-872-3796 Pastor Warren Prochnow holycross-scott@sbcglobal.net Sunday School/Bible Class, 9:00 a.m.

Worship every Sunday, 10:15 a.m.

Wed.: Mid-Week School, 6:00-7:30 p.m.

Community Christian Church

8911 W. Road 270 10 miles north on US83; 2 miles north on K95; 9 miles west on Rd. 270 Don Williams, pastor • 874-2031 Wednesdays: supper (6:30 p.m.) • Kid’s Group and Adult Bible Study (7:00 p.m.) • Youth Group (8:00 p.m.)

Sunday School: 9:30 • Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

12th & Jackson • Scott City • 872-3219 Shelby Crawford, pastor Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship, 10:45 a.m.

Wednesday Night Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.

Wednesday: God’s High School Cru, 7:30 p.m.

First Baptist Church

Immanuel Southern Baptist Church

803 College - Scott City - 872-2339 Kyle Evans, Senior Pastor Bob Artz, Associate Pastor

1398 S. US83 - Scott City - 872-2264 Robert Nuckolls, pastor - 872-5041

Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. • Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Sunday morning worship: 8:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.

Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.

Gospel Fellowship Church 120 S. Lovers Lane - Shallow Water Larry Taylor, pastor Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

First Christian Church

1st United Methodist Church

5th Street and College - Scott City - 872-2401 Dennis Carter, pastor 1st Sunday: Communion and Fellowship Sunday Services at 9:00 a.m. • Sunday School, 10:30 a.m.

All Other Sundays • Worship: 8:30 and 10:45 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

MYF (youth groups) on Wednesdays Jr. High: 6:30 p.m. • Sr. High: 7:00 p.m.

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

701 Main - Scott City - 872-2937 Scotty Wagner, pastor Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.; Worship, 10:45 a.m.

Wednesday is Family Night Meal: 5:45 p.m. • Study: 6:15 p.m.

Website: www.fccscottcity.org

Elizabeth/Epperson Drives • Scott City • 872-3666 Father Don Martin Holy Eucharist - 11:45 a.m.

St. Luke’s - 872-5734 (recorded message) Senior Warden Bill Lewis • 872-3347 or Father Don Martin - (785) 462-3041

Scott Mennonite Church

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

12021 N. Eagle Rd. • Scott City Franklin Koehn: 872-2048 Charles Nightengale: 872-3056 Sunday School Worship Service: 10:00 a.m.

Sunday Evening Service: 7:00 p.m.

9th and Crescent - Scott City - 872-2334 Bishop Irvin Yeager • 620-397-2732 Sacrament, 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School, 10:50 a.m.

Relief Society and Priesthood, 11:20 a.m.

YMYW Wednesday, 8:00 p.m.

dissent is the strength of a democracy

Nations, and governments, don’t become stronger when everyone shares the same viewpoint or, worse yet, are unable to express differing points of view.

“We often wish there was less dissent, but where different points of view are tolerated, and encouraged, benefits generally follow,” said former Marine Corps Capt. Skip Numrich during Monday’s Memorial Day service at the Scott County Cemetery.

The morning ceremony included the local American Legion/VFW honor detail along with a color guard that included members of the National

Honor Society at Scott Community High School.

In addition, NHS students assisted with placing a memorial wreath and the reading of a poem.

Capt. Numrich reminded those in attendance that countries which allow the least dissent suffer the most in terms of their own growth and the ability of its citizens to prosper, referring to Iraq, North Korea and the former Soviet empire.

“Could it be that ideals, concepts and the written word provide the greatest opportunity for the wellbeing of a country and the prosperity of its citizens?” asked Numrich.

He pointed out that the

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Constitution, the Bill of Rights and even the Gettysburg Address have captured the hopes and dreams of men and women seeking freedom and self-determination.

“We swear allegiance to these concepts as outlined in the Constitution, not a monarch,” he said.

“So, today, we gather to give thanks for our opportunities and freedom. We give thanks to those who have made a reality of the lofty words we revere by their selfless sacrifice in the face of overwhelming odds,” said Numrich.

“And we are especially grateful for the many who gave their lives for our nation and their comrades.”

(Clockwise, from top) Scott Community High School senior Ellie Irwin places a flower at the base of the flag pole as a local casualty of war is named.

Harold Irwin salutes at the conclusion of the program.

National Honor Society color guard members James Jurgens (left) and Andrew Brown.

A member of the honor guard marches past a small memorial flag. (Record Photos)

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SC girls 3rd in state

Wycoff is 100m, 200m 3A state champion

With only two events remaining in the Class 3A Kansas Track and Field Championship, the Scott City girls weren’t even on the radar for a team trophy.

They were 17 points behind TMP-Marian for third place meaning they would need at least a first and second place finish in the final two events to overtake the Lady Monarchs.

That would have appeared an unlikely scenario unless you happen to have Kelly Wycoff on your squad.

Wycoff successfully defended her state title in the 200m and then anchored the 4x400m relay which finished second, vaulting the SCHS girls into third place in the final standings.

The 200m gold medal was no surprise. In fact, it was expected.

Once that obstacle had been removed, the Lady Beavers (See SC GIRLS on page 24)

Scott City junior Kelly Wycoff crosses the finish line in the 200m dash for her second gold medal of the Class 3A Kansas Track and Field Championship on Saturday. (Record Photo)

Wells stuns field with 191-8 toss to claim state javelin title

SCHS senior Brenner Wells competes in the javelin at the state track meet in Wichita on Saturday.

(Record Photo)

One throw.

That’s all Brenner Wells needed to claim a javelin gold medal in the Class 3A Kansas High School Track and Field Championship.

On his first toss during Saturday’s competition, the Scott Community High School thinclad had a career best of 191-8.

He then had to wait and watch while the rest of the field took aim at what would be the second best throw of the weekend in all classifications.

“With the adrenaline pumping crazy things can happen and it sure happened today,” says the SCHS senior.

After finishing fourth at state a year ago, and having the No. 3 seed with a career best of 176-8 at regional, Wells was certainly in the mix for a state medal. But no one anticipated the winning mark which puts Wells into the No. 3 spot on the all-time SCHS honor list.

In fact, Wells had been inconsistent throughout most of the season and entered regional with a season best of 168-4.

Wells acknowledges that improving on his season best by more than 23 feet in the span of two weeks is “pretty incredible.”

“I’ve been working on my steps as much as I can and it’s improved throughout the season,” says Wells.

(See WELLS on page 25)

Can SC girls ‘be back’ for bigger prize in ‘14?

Kelly Wycoff is Scott City’s version of the Terminator.

Rod Her gold medal perforHaxton, mance in the 200m and sports editor silver in the 400m terminated Cheney’s state championship hopes.

Needham in each event, She finished one spot costing Cheney two points ahead of Cheney’s Taylor in both. Had Needham

slipped ahead of Wycoff in either race then Cheney would have won the state title instead of Garden Plain, which collected all 41.5 of its points in the field events and could only watch helplessly as SCHS, Cheney and TMP inched closer in the stand-

ings.

With Wycoff’s teammates putting the 4x400m securely in second place, TMP saw their hopes for a third place trophy terminated. SCHS fans knew there was no way that anyone would overtake Wycoff as the relay’s

anchor leg.

The SCHS girls knocked TMP-Marian into fourth place and off the awards stand by a single point.

Of course, Wycoff’s gold medal in the 100m earlier on Saturday at the Kansas Track and Field

Championship also had something to do with that.

In her three sprints, the SCHS junior accounted for 28 of Scott City’s 39 points.

Add in the 4x400m relay and she had a hand in 36 of 39 points.

(See PRIZE on page 22)

it’s silver again

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Outdoors in Kansas

by Steve Gilliland

Hunting Kansas crawlers

I slowly shone the flashlight all around me then quietly took one step forward, gingerly placing my foot on the ground before panning around once more with the light.

There had been a nice evening shower so the wet grass glistened in the flashlight beam, making it doubly hard to spot my quarry.

Suddenly there it was, the object of my search, stretched out beneath the damp grass. I quickly pointed the light away so as not to spook it, cautiously lowered myself to one knee and prepared to do battle.

The lightning reflexes of my youth long since gone, I thrust my hand downward as quickly as nature now allowed and felt the slippery wriggling beast in my grasp.

Now came the trick - to tug the creature from its den without tearing it into pieces.

With firm, constant, upward pressure I pulled my catch from its earthen domain.

Success! Another fat night crawler for the can!

Where I grew up in central Ohio, every square foot of earth harbored night crawlers. Not so here in Kansas.

I can’t seem to find a definitive answer as to why not, so I can only surmise the reason has something to do with our soil.

Growing up, there were few bait shops near us and there was certainly no Walmart, so any night crawlers required for fishing had to be caught. On warm, rainy spring nights they could be found stretched out on top of the ground anywhere there was earth.

Usually we could catch all we needed on either side of the walk so we never have to step into the yard.

In Kansas, the first step, and possibly the toughest, at least where I live, is to find a place where night crawlers inhabit.

(See CRAWLERS on page 22)

Wells is denied state title by 3/100 of a second

With less than 100 meters remaining, Paige Wells thought that three years of frustration were about to come to an end.

In three previous trips to the Class 2A Kansas Track and Field Championship, the Wichita County High School senior had come away with four silver medals - two of them in the 1600m.

In Saturday’s 1600m finals, it appeared that a gold medal was finally within her grasp . . . until the unthinkable happened.

Lauren Harrell, who had been on Wells’ heels throughout the race, pulled alongside her in lane two and the sprint was on during the final 60 meters. At the finish line, it was Harrell who got the lean - and the gold medal by 3/100 of a second.

A year ago, Wells had missed out on a state title in the same race by 6/100 of a second.

Wells was shocked at the all-too-familiar outcome.

“When I came around the final curve with the lead I honestly felt I had the race won,” she said.

“I had no idea (Harrell) was coming up on me like she did. But I still thought I was able to hold her off at the finish line. I guess not.”

Both runners entered the 1600m with a game plan.

Wells knew the split times she was aiming for at the completion of each lap. Except for the second lap being 3-4 seconds slower than she wanted, Wells was pleased with the way the race was unfolding before her.

As for Harrell, it appeared the Maranatha Academy sophomore was content with letting Wells dictate the pace for both girls.

Wells was in seventh place after the first lap and Harrell was one-half second behind. Wells moved through the pack into third place at the midway point with Harrell trailing by two seconds. Entering the final lap, Wells had taken the lead by a stride and Harrell was just a second behind her in fifth place.

Leoti’s Paige Wells (right) and Maranatha Academy’s Lauren Hill sprint stride-for-stride toward the finish line in the 1600m at the Class 2A Kansas Track and Field Championship on Saturday.

(Record Photo)

“I felt that where I went wrong last year was picking up the pace with 300 meters to go. I didn’t feel that I had enough left at the end,” Wells says. “So this year I tried to hold off a little longer.”

Wells finished the race in 5:19.8, just behind Harrell’s 5:19.77.

“I told myself that this can’t be happening to me again . . . but it did,” said Wells with a slight smile following the race.

That proved to be Wells’ last, and best, chance at a gold medal.

On Friday, she had finished fourth in the 3200m (11:46.41).

“The 3200 couldn’t have been a more perfect race. My split times were exactly where I wanted them,” says Wells. “That was a big confidencebuilder. Mentally, I felt that race had me well-prepared for Saturday.”

Following her heartbreaking loss in the

paid off with a third place finish on Friday. Bailey’s first throw in the prelims was 117-8 and that held up for the rest of the competition.

“It began at regional.

I just tried not to think about it and I went out and threw and I did really well,” says the WCHS junior. “So that’s what I did here. I tried not to think about it - at least that’s what happened on the first one.

“Then when I threw really well I started thinking about it too much and I didn’t do so well after that.”

Bailey entered state as the No. 5 seed based on her regional toss and her goal was to finish at least that well in Wichita.

“I’m getting things figured out on the mental part of my game. I’m learning Bailey Wins Bronze to focus on myself and Katie Bailey has found shut out what other girls a way to relax more before are doing around me. I’ve throwing the javelin and it changed my technique, 1600m, Wells had to regroup for the 800m.

“I knew I had to go out strong from the start. My coach told me if I didn’t I would get boxed in at the back of the pack,” Wells notes.

Even though she tried to push the pace early, she still found herself in 12th place after the first 400 meters. With a gold medal beyond her reach, Wells turned her focus to a top eight finish. ”I was counting the girls ahead of me. There was no way that I wasn’t going to get back on the medal stand,” she says.

Wells moved through the pack for a fifth place finish (2:31.4). Finishing first and second were Ness City juniors Emily Hahn (2:25.4) and Jessie Rubottom (2:26.69).

especially with my approach. I felt the crossover was slowing me down, so I changed it to sort of a skip and it’s made my throws so much more explosive,” she says.

“Plus, I can’t emphasize enough how much the summer weights program has helped me in everything.”

With one state medal in her collection, Bailey is looking at other events that she can possibly take to the state meet next year.

The pole vault is a strong possibility. She only started vaulting about three weeks ago and at the regional meet established a career best by a foot.

And, surprisingly enough, don’t rule out the 3200m.

“I ran the two mile at Lakin. I really like to run,” she says. “It seems like a weird combination, but we’ll see where that goes.”

Bluegrass and Barbeque featuring Mike Maddux and the Headliners Friday, May 31 • 6:30 p.m. • Patton Park in Scott City

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TV deal a windfall for Big 12 Conference The movement of major universities from one conference to another has settled down for the moment.

Big 12 by members apMac pear to have Stevenson resolved their differences and the league has never been stronger going into its 18th year of competition.

Missouri will come to regret their decision to leave the Big 12. The Tigers have become a small fish in an ocean and it’s going to adversely affect their recruiting.

One advantage to having just 10 teams in the Big 12 is the round-robin schedule in basketball and football.

Each school plays everyone in the league.

The Big 12 is the only major conference in the nation that decides its champions in all sports on the courts and fields of play.

The most solidifying negotiation so far - which has made membership in the Big 12 a precious commodity - is the recently signed TV contract with ABC/ ESPN and the Fox Sports Media Group. The 13-year contract that runs through the 2024-25 season.

Without going into tiresome detail, the Big 12’s TV contract will ensure league members of extensive coverage in football and basketball. The financial benefits are everything that schools like Kansas and Kansas State could hope for.

During the 13 years of the TV contract, the Big 12 is guaranteed $2.6 billion, which translates to about $20 million per year for each conference member. That will allow K-State and KU to compete with the more affluent league members in facilities and recruiting.

Just as importantly, Oklahoma and Texas are satisfied with their current status.

In recent years it has become popular for fans of competing schools to badmouth Texas and that’s a mistake. Texas was instrumental in keeping the Big 12 together.

KU and K-State fans and administrators should feel particularly grateful (See WINDFALL on page 23)

Scott City senior Joey Meyer leads the field as they complete the first lap in the 800m at the Class 3A Kansas Track and Field Championship on Saturday.

(Record Photo)

Meyer again claims silver in 800m showdown with Humboldt’s McNutt

For the second time, the Class 3A state title in the 800m came down to who would have the stronger finish in the final 200 meters.

And, for the second consecutive year, Joey Meyer was unable to chase down Humboldt’s Tanner McNutt for the gold medal.

Not that the Scott Community High School senior didn’t learn from a year ago.

Meyer knew that if he was going to have a chance at defeating McNutt he would have to push the pace early in hopes of taking away the Humboldt senior’s sprint speed. “(McNutt) is a heck of a runner,” said Meyer, pointing out he had won a 400m gold medal earlier in the day with a time of 49.72. “I knew that I’d have to get a lead on him if I was going to hold him off at the end.”

Meyer ran the kind of race he envisioned, running a 58.25 split after the first lap with McNutt 7/10 of a second behind.

“I began my kick at the 300 (meter) mark and when McNutt began to die back at the 200 mark I thought that I had him,” says Meyer. “At that point, I’m thinking that I’m going to win.

“But he kicked it in at the 150 mark and when we made the final turn the wind stood me up and I couldn’t catch him.”

McNutt crossed the finish line in 1:56.78 while Meyer was close on his heels in a season best 1:58.28.

“I was pretty happy with the way that I ran. This was the best

I’ve felt all year and the pace was where I wanted it,” Meyer says.

“We finally saw the kind of race that Joey’s capable of running,” said head coach Jim Turner. “The wind made it pretty difficult for everyone, but Joey responded with a great race.”

Sophomore Brett Meyer also made his way to the medal stand with a sixth place finish in 2:03.64. He pushed the pace early, completing his first lap in 60.14.

“I wanted to be aggressive early in the race and break away from the pack and see what I could do. Getting a state medal was a bonus,” says B. Meyer.

“It’s pretty awesome to be on the award stand with my brother. We’ve trained hard together and this is a pretty neat way to end the season.”

Relay is Fourth

The 4x800m relay figured to contend for a gold medal, but couldn’t keep pace with the lead pack of Hutchinson-Trinity (8:08.07), Salina-Sacred Heart (8:08.66) and Marion (8:13.37).

The Beavers were in third place after B. Meyer’s leadoff leg, but were 50 meters behind the frontrunners when anchor leg J. Meyer got the baton.

Other members of the relay team were Brayden Strine and Miguel Chavez.

“At that point, all Joey was concerned with was holding his position,” says Turner.

SCHS finished in 8:24.33,

SCHS sophomore Brett Meyer takes the baton from Brayden Strine to begin the second leg of the 4x400m relay during Friday’s prelims.

(Record Photo)

well ahead of fifth place Fredonia (8:31.17).

The 4x400m relay had figured to be on the awards stand, but didn’t make it out of the preliminaries with a disappointing 3:34.34 that left them in 10th place.

The Beavers were in ninth place at the midway point and unable to recover.

Relay members were Strine.

B. Meyer, Chavez and J. Meyer.

The only other state qualifier was Anthony Wilson with a toss of 132-7 in the discus, good for 11th place.

“Anthony’s second throw (in the prelims) would have been good enough to get him into the finals if he hadn’t fouled,” Turner says.

Prize (continued from page 19)

Not a bad weekend.

And while the Lady Beavers were agonizingly close to a state title, they had to walk away feeling pretty good about what they had accomplished.

It’s been a long time since the SCHS girls have been on the state awards stand 13 years to be exact.

It hadn’t happened since 2000 when the volleyball team finished fourth at state. Prior to that it was 1994 when the Scott City girls won a Class 4A track title.

Outside of those two state trophies there has been a lot of futility, anguish and frustration for the Lady Beavers.

In the 13 years since the Lady Beavers collected their last state trophy, the SCHS boys have enjoyed phenomenal success with a total of nine state titles in basketball (4), wrestling (2), football (1) track (1) and cross-country (1).

Hopefully, the success that the Lady Beavers experienced last weekend will instill a different mindset - a belief that they can, and should, succeed at the highest level.

Over the last three years we’ve seen Wycoff demonstrate the physical ability, the mental toughness and the emotional drive to become one of the state’s premier thinclads. Teammates Megan Thornburg, Bailey Nickel and Aubrey Davis demonstrated that same heart this past weekend and the result was a muchdeserved place on the awards stand.

But this should only be seen as the beginning.

These girls have shown that they don’t have to continually be in the shadows of the SCHS boys.

But it’s going to take work - a lot of hard work.

Simply “wanting” success doesn’t make it happen.

It begins in the weight room. It means pushing yourself to be better each day. It means settling for nothing less than being your best.

For too long, the Lady Beavers have been content with being second best.

Finally, this year’s track team showed it doesn’t have to be that way.

Wycoff is the Terminator. She will “be back” to the state track meet next season. In addition, the Lady Beavers could very well put themselves back on the awards stand. But it will take a team that shares the same commitment and desire.

One athlete can have great success, but one athlete can’t win a team championship.

It’s time to see if the SCHS girls are finally ready to take the step beyond mediocrity and show they can be one of the elite programs in Class 3A.

Crawlers City parks, grassy pastures, compost piles and around old farm buildings are good spots to try.

(You can ask avid fishermen, but as scarce as night crawlers are, don’t hold your breath expecting a truthful response!)

Wait until its good and dark, say after 9:30 or 10:00 p.m. The wetter the night the better, even if it’s raining lightly. Dress appropriately in old jeans and sneakers that you don’t mind getting dirty.

The only other requirements are a good flashlight with fresh batteries and some kind of container.

Walk slowly and quietly, taking “soft” steps so as not to vibrate the ground any more than necessary, and pan the light all around you as you walk. You will find the crawlers stretched out on the ground beneath the grass. Some will barely be

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peeking from their burrow while others will be extended nearly full length.

But don’t be fooled.

Their tail end will always be anchored in the hole ready to snatch them backwards in the blink of an eye. When you spot the slippery form of your quarry, squat or lower yourself to one knee and reach out as fast as possible, grasping the crawler firmly.

If you can tell which end is still in the hole, grab it as near the hole as possible. If you can’t tell one end from the other, grab for the middle and you’ll soon know!

You’ll likely have to “coax” the crawler from the hole, so pull upward firmly, but not hard enough to tear it apart, This will take some practice so don’t be alarmed when you pull a few in half. Soon the worm will

Summer Sports Calendar Scott City Stars Swim Team June 1: Scott City (Dodge City, Garden City, Lakin, Leoti, Liberal,Holcomb) June 8: Garden City (Golden Belt, Hays, Scott City, Lakin, Leoti, Holcomb) June 15: Leoti (Golden Belt, Hays, Dodge City, Scott City, Lakin, Holcomb) June 22: Lakin (Hays, Golden Belt, Leoti, Garden City, Scott City, Holcomb) June 29: Dodge City (Hays, Leoti, Golden Belt, Garden City, Scott City, Lakin, Holcomb) July 13-14: WKSC combined championship meet in Hays Running June 29: Walk, Run and Roll at Lake Scott State Park Miscellaneous June 8: OK Kids Day at Lake Scott State Park Aug. 10: Triathlon at Lake Scott State Park Football July 15-18: Scott Community High School football camp Aug. 19: Two-a-day practices begin for high school football

Fishing Report Scott State Lake Updated May 16 Channel cats: fair, up to 17 inches. Cut and prepaired baits fished around brushpiles and other structure.

Crappie: good, most up to 9 inches. Fish have moved shallow to spawn. Fishing a jig under a bobber or doodlesocking a jig with a long rod around any type of structure can be good. Fishing along the steep north bank toward the mouth of Timber Canyon Cove can be a hot spot.

Walleye/saugeye: fair to good, up to 8 lbs. Casting and slow-retrieving jigs tipped with nightcrawlers or minnows or fishing various fish imitating jigs and crankbaits along dropoffs and points should be best.

Largemouth bass: fair, up to 5.5 lbs. Slow rolling spinnerbaits around the fish attractors and along rip-rap.

Sunfish: good, up to 8 inches. Nightcrawlers or mealworms under a bobber fished around the fish attractors or along rip-rap.

General comments: Release all walleye/saugeye and largemouth bass less than 15 inches.

Please discard all leftover bait in a trash can, even baitfish. Remember it is illegal to release any fish into public water unless it was taken from that water.

release its grasp and you can add it to the can.

Sometimes you will find two crawlers attached and mating. If you’re quick enough, both can be bagged at once.

Most night crawlers purchased at bait shops are shipped from Canada where one author suggested as many as a billion are harvested each year. It’s such a serious business there that fields are leased for harvesting much as deer hunting or fishing rights are leased around here.

That author put the going rate at $40 per thousand and claims that on a good night $800 can be made for those willing to spend the time.

That’s a lot of worms!

Night crawlers are classified as “deep burrowers” and are very efficient at incorporating organic matter into the soil. Their

waste is very beneficial, and their burrows, as deep as 5-6 feet, help incorporate moisture and break up the soil.

When I moved to Kansas I saw it as a lifeless land with few outdoor opportunities. However, each day since has shown me outdoor adventures I was missing.

That new perspective has not yet turned Kansas into a land abounding with free night crawlers for the taking, and I don’t see a “worm lease” anywhere in my future.

So, short of growing them in my own lawn, I guess I’m resigned to helping a few of my northern neighbors earn their living whenever I need night crawlers for fishing.

Continue to Explore Kansas Outdoors!

Steve can be contacted by email at stevegilliland@idkcom.net

Class 3A State May 24-25, 2013 at Wichita Girl’s Division Triple jump: Bailey Nickel, 10th, 33-02.75.

100m: Kelly Wycoff, 1st, 12.38.

200m: Kelly Wycoff, 1st, 26.49.

400m: Kelly Wycoff, 2nd, 58.14.

800m: Megan Thornburg, 8th, 2:28.32.

100m HH: Bailey Nickel, 7th, 16.48.

4x400m relay: Megan Thornburg, Bailey Nickel, Aubrey Davis, Kelly Wycoff, 2nd, 4:12.91.

Boy’s Division Javelin: Brenner Wells, 1st, 191-08.

800m: Joey Meyer, 2nd, 1:58.28; Brett Meyer, 6th, 2:03.64.

4x400m relay: Brayden Strine, Brett Meyer, Miguel Chavez, Joey Meyer, 10th, 2:43.543.

4x800m relay: Brett Meyer, Brayden Strine, Miguel Chavez, Joey Meyer, 4th, 8:24.33.

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Mehl is Class 2A 1600m runner-up Last season wasn’t a lost one for Josh Mehl, but it may have felt that way.

Surgery on his leg limited his ability to compete and he never was 100 percent, failing to qualify for the Class 2A Kansas Track and Field Championship in either the 800m or 1600m.

This year, the Wichita County High School junior made the most of his trip to Wichita, earning a silver medal in the 1600m (4:28.5) and adding a fifth place medal in the 800m (2:04.44).

Mehl was sitting in seventh place after the opening lap and had climbed into second place with one lap remaining - trailing Grant Garst (Inman) by just two strides. However, Garst, who led from start to finish, wasn’t going to give up his lead.

“It was just the kind of race I was hoping to run,” says Mehl. “I felt good about the pace and

I thought I could catch him on the final lap. If you don’t believe you can then you never will. (Garst) has a strong finish, but that’s what you’d expect because he’s a strong halfmiler.”

Garst crossed the finish line in 4:25.16 while Mehl still established a career best by a couple of seconds. The WCHS junior finished well ahead of Elkhart’s Israel Barco (4:32.69) in third place.

Later in the day, Garst (1:58.88) added a gold medal in the 800m.

Leoti’s Jantz Budde didn’t make it past the prelims in the 100m (13th, 11.71) or the 200m (11th, 24.03).

Likewise, the 4x400m didn’t advance to Saturday’s finals. They finished 12th in the prelims with a time of 3:37.90. Relay members were Budde, Alberto Gallegos, Jacob Schumacher and Mehl.

Windfall because their athletic programs could have ended up in a terrible mess.

All of the serious issues have been settled and the future has never looked brighter for Big 12 members. Nonetheless, a name change is in order if the league remains at 10 teams, but that will keep.

Wichita County High School junior Josh Mehl (far left) moves to the front of the pack in the 1600m run at the state track meet in Wichita on Saturday.

(Record Photo)

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Right now another ex- end of the game.” citing and entertaining That’s the comment of football season is fast ap- a manager who has beproaching. come accustomed to losing.

What’s most disturbing Hitting the Skids is that the players appear Following a recent loss to the Angels, Kansas to be passive and acceptCity Royals Manager Ned ing by their demeanor Yost said, “I thought we in the dugout and on the showed a lot of life at the field.

When he was hired by KC, Yost was heralded as being an expert at handling young players. To say that hasn’t worked out is a whopper of an understatement.

The Royals’ starting pitching is excellent, but the defense has been in-

consistent and their hitting is substandard.

This season is far from lost, however, the time for change is now while the pennant race is still relatively close.

It’s time to admit that the current manager and hitting coaches are not going to accomplish their

goals in Kansas City. Immediate and decisive action is called for, or it will be too late.

It’s unknown who has the final decision in such a major move - Moore or Glass. But staying the course with the present staff is a sure formula for another disastrous season.

SC Girls could finish no worse than second place in the 4x400m relay. That would mean finishing ahead of Marion, which had nudged the Lady Beavers by 20/100 of a second during Friday’s prelims.

Running in second place throughout the race behind favored Minneapolis, SCHS did exactly what they had to do. The Lady Beavers improved on Friday’s time with a 4:12.91 - 1.5 seconds ahead of Marion - to claim a silver medal.

That also moved them one point ahead of TMPMarian into third place in the team standings with 39 points - just behind Garden Plain (41.5) and Cheney (41).

“I knew the girls had a chance but I didn’t tell them. I figured that would only make them more nervous,” says head coach Jim Turner.

He said the balanced scoring in Class 3A was surprising. Only 9-1/2 points separated sixth place Sedgwick from Garden Plain.

“There were only two teams with more than 40 points and there probably should have been at least five teams,” says Turner.

“For us to take four girls to state and accomplish what they did was a pretty good weekend.”

This is the first state track trophy that the SCHS girls have earned since winning the Class 4A title in 1994 and it finished off a weekend that saw Kelly Wycoff reaffirm her position as one of the state’s leading sprinters with gold medals in the 100m and 200m to go along with a silver in the 400m. She also anchored the 4x400m relay.

There was no question that any hopes the Lady Beavers had of finishing in the hunt for a team trophy rested on Wycoff’s shoulders and the junior did her share.

After a disappointing fourth place finish during Friday’s 400m prelims,

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Garden Plain Cheney Scott City Hays-TMP-Marian Kingman Sedgwick Hiawatha Marysville

41.5 41 39 38 34 32 29 29

Wycoff responded with outstanding performances on Saturday, starting with the fastest time in the 100m prelims to begin the second day of competition.

“I was needing a race like this to regain my confidence,” said Wycoff after posting a wind-aided 12.68 which put her 8/100 of a second ahead of the second fastest time by Sedgwick’s Beth Francis.

The 100m finals wasn’t a contest. Wycoff’s 12.38 blew runner-up Francis away by 24/100 of a second.

That set the stage for Wycoff to gain redemption in the 400m. Following Friday’s race, Wycoff vowed that her strategy would be different in the finals. Her game plan was to go out strong in the first 200m and rely on her strong finishing speed.

However, it appeared Wycoff was in trouble at the midway point of the 400m finals. Running from lane seven, she had slipped into fifth place with 200 meters remaining.

“I didn’t let myself worry about what place I was in. I knew I’d have more kick at the end,” says Wycoff. “Actually, the race unfolded better than I thought it would.”

Turner was particularly impressed with Wycoff’s speed on the home stretch.

“In about three strides she passed three people,” says the head coach. “If she’d have started her sprint at the 170 (meter) mark she probably wins it.”

Wycoff’s 58.14 was a season best and left her just 37/100 of a second behind gold medalist Claire Theis (Kingman) who had

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Scott City junior Aubrey Davis starts her leg of the 4x400m relay after taking the baton from Bailey Nickel during the prelims on Friday at the state track meet.

(Record Photo)

also defeated Wycoff at regional. That also helped to re-establish the 400m as an event in which Wycoff has the potential to claim another state title next season.

“For some reason I’d become afraid of this race and that bothered me because this had been one of my favorites,” said Wycoff, who was struggling with her mental approach to the race following a third place finish at regional. “I know I can do better in this race and that’s something I’ll work on next year.”

As impressive as Wycoff’s performance was at the state meet, the 200m may stand out as her best.

The junior reaffirmed that she’s untouchable in the event with a time of 26.17 in the prelims and 26.49 against a stiff south wind in the finals. Cheney’s Taylor Needham (27.26) was a distant second.

Wycoff says that running in the Western Kansas wind prepared her for the finals.

“You just can’t think about the wind. I think we’re more used to it in Western Kansas than these other runners are,” she noted.

Wind or no wind, Wycoff likes to attack the curve and make up the stagger in the first 50-60 meters.

“That’s my goal. If I can do that, then I feel that I’m okay the rest of the race,” she says.

Relay Wins Silver

The 4x400m relay had emerged as one of the state’s best and they proved that with a solid second place finish in the finals. Their time of 4:12.91 put them behind Minneapolis (4:07.05) and was their second fastest of the year.

Members of the relay team were Megan Thornburg, Bailey Nickel, Aubrey Davis and Kelly Wycoff.

“My goal was to keep us no worse than third place and maybe even second,” says Davis. “I

figured if I could do that then Kelly would be able to finish it.”

The Lady Beavers were in second place at the final exchange and no one was going to catch Wycoff on the final lap.

Two More Medals

Nickel provided the SCHS girls their first medal of the meet with a seventh place finish in the 100m high hurdles (16.48). She was able to bounce back from a poor race on Friday (16.79) that saw her qualify for the finals by just 6/100 of a second).

She failed to qualify for the finals in the triple jump with a distance of 33-2 3/4 - good enough for 10th place.

“Bailey went off on the wrong board on her last jump or she’d have had a jump of about 34 feet and been in the finals,” says Turner.

“It was my first state meet and I think my nerves got to me,” she says. “In the triple jump, my phases

weren’t as explosive as they need to be.”

Nickel looked much better in the finals of the high hurdles until midway into the race.

“There was a mishap,” she says. “Me and the girl next to me hit hands and I think that threw both of us off a little bit. But it was still a lot better race than on Friday.”

Thornburg ran with the leaders for about 600 meters and then held on for an eighth place finish in the 800m (2:28.32) - her season best by 51/100 of a second. The junior was in third place after one lap and still in fourth place with 100 meters remaining.

“I wanted to go out strong for as long as I could and give myself a chance at the end,” she says.

“Megan did everything we could have asked. With 120 meters left she was still in third place,” says Turner. “We were needing a couple of girls to fade and that didn’t happen.”

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Lady Hornets claim 3 bronze at 1A state track Dakota Hoffman is only a freshman, but she doesn’t think like one.

The Dighton High School thinclad certainly wasn’t overwhelmed by her first Class 1A Kansas Track and Field Championship, earning an individual bronze medal and being part of the third place 4x100m relay during competition in Wichita last weekend.

“I was really nervous at first, but I was still pretty confident that I could do well,” says Hoffman.

Any jitters weren’t evident on Friday when she finished third in the 400m prelims in a time of 60.42, earning a spot in the finals. The top three places remained unchanged on Saturday with Hoffman battling a stiff south wind for third place in 60.72, finishing behind Brandi Jo Roepke (Valley Heights, 57.92) and Courtney Freed (ScandiaPike Valley, 58.37).

Hoffman’s strategy was to stay in touch with the leaders through the first 150-200 meters and then rely on her strong finish.

“With about 250 (meters) to go, that’s when I start my kick,” says Hoffman. “I’m pretty happy with how well I ran.”

pion Leslie Speer was a bronze medalist this time around with a leap of 35-4 - just three inches behind second place.

Speer’s best jump came on her third attempt in the prelims. She scratched on two of her jumps in the finals and was unable to improve on her third place position after the prelims.

While disappointed in not successfully defending her title, the DHS junior said that lack of practices on the track this spring were a factor.

“My triple jump didn’t come around the way that I’d hoped,” she says.

“With the weather like it was, we had a lot of in- (Above) Dighton freshman Dakota Hoffman door practices. Hopefully, nears the finish line for a third place medal in the next year will be better 400m at the Kansas Track and Field Championship. (Right) DHS junior Leslie Speer competes and I can make some imin the triple jump in which she earned a third provement.” place finish.

(Record Photos) Speer narrowly missed qualifying for the finals in the 100m high hurdles, the teams didn’t change (12:55.32). finishing ninth (17.38), in Saturday’s finals with The only other state 8/100 of a second behind Atwood (51.03) claiming qualifier was Brown who eighth place. a gold medal, followed by finished 13th in the 200m Linn (51.84) and Dighton prelims with a time of Relay is Third (52.32).

28.22.

Dighton’s 4x100 reAll four members of lay entered state favored to make it on the awards the Dighton relay will Applegate is Sixth Sophomore Graham stand and they accom- return next year, includplished that goal with a ing Speer, Hoffman, Ki- Applegate earned a sixth ara Budd (freshman) and place finish in the 800m third place finish.

The Lady Hornets Diamond Brown (junior). (2:03.17). Applegate was Freshman Payden in fourth place after the were in third place folnarrowly first lap in a time of 59.48. lowing the prelims with a Shapland missed making it to the Ryan Kuhlman fintime of 52.07 - just 3/100 Speer Earns Bronze of a second out of sec- awards stand with a ninth ished 12th in the javelin Defending state cham- ond place. The order of place finish in the 3200m with a toss of 145-8.

Wells Despite entering state as one of the top contenders, Wells knew a gold medal would not come easily. Despite being seeded No. 4, defending state champion Seth Derr (Phillipsburg) was lurking in the field and Hunter Veith (Cheney) was the top seed with a regional best of 178-3.

Because Veith was also competing in the high jump at the same time the javelin was starting, he was given the opportunity to have his three throws before all the other competitors and then leave for the high jump.

Veith quickly established the mark to beat in the final flight with a toss

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of 187-4. That held up until Wells stepped onto the runway.

“His approach (on the runway) and the release was as good as I’ve seen all year. His technique was nearly perfect,” said throwing coach Aaron Dirks.

Even as he released the throw, Wells had no idea how good it was going to be.

“It felt good. It felt better than anything I’d ever thrown before,” he says.

“It sure showed on the distance.”

Wells had two other throws of 182-0 and 1830, which would have also been career bests.

Derr was the only ath-

lete to make a serious bid at knocking Wells out of the top spot when his fifth throw measured 190-6 good enough for second place.

But even after his final throw, Wells couldn’t celebrate just yet. He had to wait for the return of Veith who had his three throws remaining in the finals.

His best in the finals was 180-5 and his final throw was a scratch.

“When you consider that two of Brenner’s other throws were more than 180 feet, that shows it wasn’t a fluke,” added Dirks. “Brenner has worked hard and he earned the right to be a state champion.”

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SCHS in Class 3A state track

Scenes from the Class 3A Kansas Track and Field Championships in Wichita (clockwise, from top): Megan Thornburg stretches out as Bailey Nickel takes the baton in the finals of the 4x400m relay.

Thornburg, a junior, nears the finish line in the 800m run.

SCHS sophomore Miguel Chavez completes his first lap in the 4x800m relay on Saturday. The Beavers finished fourth.

Scott City junior Kelly Wycoff leans for the finish line as she wins the 100m gold.

Lady Beavers with their third place trophy are (from left) Megan Thornburg, Rachel Anliker, Aubrey Davis, Kelly Wycoff, Bailey Nickel and Holly Wilcoxson.

Photos by The Scott County Record

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There’s more to barrels and horses than meets the eye When it comes to barrel racing, Olivia Prieto is a rookie, having started just a few months ago.

Goldie, a 14-year-old mare, is the veteran member of the barrel racing team.

However, both learned valuable lessons during a four-day barrel racing clinic featuring 11-time world champion Charmayne James at the Scott County Indoor Arena last week.

“She would work with us and our horses and teach us how to break bad habits,” said the 13-year-old from Shallow Water. “She taught us the techniques she uses so that we can be better.”

Thirty-four riders of all ages came from as far as Minnesota and Texas to hear and learn from one of the world’s top barrel racing experts.

“This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” noted Deb Lawrence, Scott City, a longtime barrel racer. “I learned more from her than any clinician that I’ve ever been around.”

Since retiring from barrel racing, James is now a broadcast analyst for the National Finals Rodeo and conducts clinics throughout the nation. According to Lawrence, she selects seven sites around the country each year to offer a clinic and Scott City was on that short list.

“I was shocked that she would come here,” says Lawrence. “But someone at another clinic had mentioned our arena and that she should check it out.”

James’ assistant contacted Lawrence in November and the clinic dates were confirmed for May 23-26. The clinics are limited to 34 participants. While James was working with participants at the indoor arena her assistant was working with riders and horses at the outdoor arena.

Everyone rotated between the two clinicians.

The opening day was limited to a half-day training session, but the second and third days involved eight hours of training. Everyone participated in a timed run on the final day.

Prieto says she only got into horse shows about a year ago with the help of Vic and Sandy Eitel. She began barrel racing a few months ago thanks to Levi and Dani Heinrich.

“I have a lot to learn,” she says. “The clinic helped me and Goldie.”

E a c h This was a participant once-in-a-life- would run a time opportu- through barrel race nity. I learned while Janes more from observed her than any both the ridclinician that I’ve ever been er and horse.

In addiaround.

Deb Lawrence tion, James Scott City would ride the horse in order to get a better feel for how it was performing.

One of the most valuable lessons she learned was not to look down at the barrel because that will also cause the horse to “lean where you are looking, and you will hit the barrel,” she emphasizes.

“The horse can sense where you’re looking,” noted Prieto. “She told us to look at the (horse’s) outside ear and sit straight in the turns. Your horse won’t be confident if you’re learning towards (the barrel).

She would also show us how we can teach the horse to break bad habits.”

Prieto is anxious for her and Goldie to apply the lessons learned at the clinic, but she’s even more excited about the prospect of teaching her other horse, Eclipse, a seven-year-old roan.

“Until now I’ve had to adjust to the horse and how it runs,” she says. “Now I’ll have a chance to train a horse to do what I like to do.”

Equine Care

The clinic was much more than how to improve barrel racing techniques.

Also in attendance were equine dentist Randy Riedinger, Weatherford, Tex., and horse chiropractor Casey Deal, Imbler, Ore., in addition to veterinarians who would look over the horses.

“We were pretty fortunate to have an equine dentist and chiropractor of this caliber explaining to us how we can take better care for our horses,” says Lawrence.

Even with all her years of experience in caring for horses, Lawrence says she learned a lot about how a horse’s teeth can (See BARRELS on page 34)

Scenes from the barrel racing clinic held in Scott City (clockwise from top to bottom) Thirteen-yearold Olivia Prieto, Scott City, puts her horse Goldie through the paces at the Scott County Fairgrounds.

Nine-year-old Ella Stapleton, Sublette, watches instructor Charmayne James from aboard her horse Friday morning.

Dentist Randy Riedinger, Weatherford, Tex., (left) examines one of the horses on Thursday afternoon as helper Rudy Howell holds the animal steady.

Scott City’s Deb Lawrence gets some tips from former world champion Charmayne James.

Photos by Larry Caldwell

The Scott County Record

ag briefs

Reduce RSAs for water conservation

Recently the U S D A - R i s k Management Agency (USDA-RMA) reduced their mandated number of crop samples per acre that had to be maintained for insurance appraisal under center pivot irrigation.

These representative sample area (RSAs) reductions are important for minimizing the amount of water required to be pumped on crops affected by extreme environment conditions.

This adjustment to RMA’s Loss Adjustment Manual (LAM) will allow for producers to more accurately determine and aggregate representative sample areas and conserve irrigated water, energy and operating costs when using center pivot irrigation systems.

For more information visit: http://www. rma.usda.gov/bulletins/pm/2013/13-023. pdf.

Survey: most Americans favor COOL

A survey by the Consumer Federation of America shows 90 percent of Americans are in favor of requiring companies to list the origin of the fresh meat they sell on the label.

As the USDA continues to receive pushback from Canada and Mexico on country-of-origin labeling, a recent survey proves the issue is one Americans prefer.

In a release by the National Farmers Union, 90 percent of the 1,000 respondents either strongly or somewhat favor including the data on the label.

When asked if food sellers should also provide information about where the animals were born, raised and processed, 87 percent of respondents favored the additional information on the label.

Consumers are taking an interest in where and how their food is produced and, according to the survey, would prefer the information directly on the package.

“These findings, coupled with the recent withdrawal of two short-sighted amendments to the Senate and House’s respective farm bills that would have negatively impacted COOL, are promising indications that country-of-origin labeling is here to stay,” said NFU President Roger Johnson.

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GM crops aid farmers, environment Biotechnology has delivered a substantial increase in farm income while providing substantial benefits to both farmers and citizens. That’s the take-away from a new study from United Kingdom-based PG Economics - “GM crops: global socio-economic and environmental impacts 19962011.”

The study also says crop biotechnology was responsible for producing an additional 110 million tons of soybeans and 195 million tons of corn from 1996 to 2011.

“Where farmers have been given the choice of growing GM crops, adoption levels have typically been rapid.

Why? The economic benefits farmers realize are clear and

Ag Commentary Greg Henderson

associate publisher

Drovers CattleNetwork

amounted to an average of over $315 per acre in 2011,” says Graham Brookes, director of PG Economics, and coauthor of the report.

“The majority of these benefits continue to increasingly go to farmers in developing countries. The environment is also benefiting as farmers increasingly adopt conservation tillage practices, build their weed management practices around more benign herbicides and replace insecticide use with insect resistant GM crops.

“The reduction in pesticide spraying and the switch to no

till cropping systems is continuing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture,” Brookes says.

The study examines the impact of the first 16 years of widespread adoption of crop biotechnology, concluding that the technology has “consistently provided important economic and production gains, improved incomes and reduced risk.”

Some key findings of the report: •The net economic benefit at the farm level in 2011 was $19.8 billion.

•For the 16-year period (1996-2011), the global farm income gain was $98.2 billion.

•Of the total farm income benefit, 49 percent ($48 bil-

lion) was due to yield gains resulting from lower pest and weed pressure and improved genetics, with the balance from reductions in the cost of production.

•The insect resistant technology used in cotton and corn has consistently delivered yield gains from reduced pest damage. The average yield gains over the 1996-2011 period across all users of the technology was 10.1 percent for insect resistant corn and 15.8 percent for insect resistant cotton.

•A majority (51%) of the 2011 farm income gains went to farmers in developing countries, 90% of which are resource poor and small farms.

(See GM CROPS on page 29)

Meat industry attacks new MCOOL rule National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) President Scott George, a Cody, Wyo., dairy and cattle producer, quickly responded to the justissued rule regarding the Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling rule (MCOOL).

His comments were in very close alignment with statements from the North American Meat Association and the American Meat Institute.

“We are deeply disappointed with this shortsighted action by the USDA,” George said.

“Our largest trading partners have already said

that these provisions will not bring the United States into compliance with our WTO obligations and will result in increased discrimination against imported products and in turn retaliatory tariffs or other authorized trade sanctions.

“As we said in comments submitted to USDA, ‘any retaliation against U.S. beef would be devastating for our producers,’” said George. “Moreover, this rule will place a greater record-keeping burden on producers, feeders and processors through the born, raised and harvested label.”

“As cattlemen and

women, we do not oppose voluntary labeling as a marketing tool to distinguish product and add value. However, USDA is not the entity that we want marketing beef, and on its face, a label that says ‘harvested’ is unappealing to both consumers and cattle producers.”

Jeremy Russell, NAMA directory of communications and government relations, said, “This Final Rule is not significantly different from the Proposed Rule. It will exacerbate costs, particularly for independent packers that need to commingle animals to run their plants near capacity.

Weather mod conducts one hail suppression flight The Western Kansas Weather Modification Program had two operational days during the past week.

Seeding for hail suppression occurred one day while rain optimization occurred the other day. h.

Strong to severe storms broke out Saturday afternoon, mainly over the extreme eastern portion of southwestern and westcentral Kansas. A sliver of one severe storm extended into eastern Lane before traveling northeast.

On May 26, a small line of weak storms pushed out of southeastern Colorado around sunset. Most of this line remained weak except for a small section over Kearny and Finney counties.

Very heavy rain and small hail occurred mainly along a small strip from Lakin to just south of Deerfield.

WKWMP Update Walt Geiger meteorologist

launched at 2:55 p.m. on May 18 to investigate developing storms over portions of eastern Lane, Wichita and Kearny counties. Powerful storms were anticipated along the eastern border of the GWMD target area.

Although the Wichita and Kearny county storms were positioned within the much drier air on the west of the dryline, it initially appeared these clouds might be capable of briefly developing into small hailers.

One plane investigated these storms and found no updrafts and eventually returned to base. The other two aircraft investigated the much stronger storm forming along the dryline over extreme Operations Day No. 4 eastern Lane and much of All aircraft were Ness County.

While the bulk of the storm was located over Ness, the western flank extended into eastern Lane County.

Seeding for hail suppression began at 3:34 p.m. over eastern Lane and continued there until the entire severe storm pushed into Ness County around 4:30 p.m.

This storm, along with several others over central Kansas, were super cells with large hail, tornados and torrential rains.

Operations Day No. 5

One plane was launched on May 20 at 1:30 p.m. to investigate scattered small clouds developing over eastern Hamilton and Kearny counties. Seeding for rain optimization began at 2:05 p.m. just north of Lakin.

The plane then patrolled an area of storms over extreme northeast Kearny/northwest Finney before heading for base at 3:47 p.m.

And it won’t appease the World Trade Organization concerns.”

Russell noted that Canada and Mexico successfully argued that the current COOL regime is not consistent with the WTO rules and the new rule appears to be in even greater conflict with those same rules. He said the rule requires further discrimination against product derived from livestock born outside the U.S., even when they are raised here.

NAMA will continue to pursue means to avoid the significant economic and legal fallout that this injurious rule creates.

The AMI agreed with the NAMA position, headlining its press release this way: “Burdensome Country-of-Origin Labeling Rule Will Not Satisfy WTO or Trading Partners, But Will Harm U.S. Agriculture.”

During a quickly organized press conference, AMI vice president of regulatory affairs Mark Dopp expressed the organization’s “extreme disappointment” that the AMS moved ahead with the ruling, ignoring the lengthy comments about the adverse effects of the policy.

(See MCOOL on page 29)

Drought losses could top $200B The current drought pattern may be the costliest U.S. natural disaster of 2012 and 2013, according to experts with Harris-Mann Climatology.

The long-range weather, commodity and stock forecasting service released their annual summer outlook last week, and the news wasn’t good for much of the Corn Belt.

The drought in the Southwest is expected to move and expand eastward over the central and southern Great Plains, as well as at least the western Midwest, by late June or July.

Flooded areas near the Missouri River are likely to turn to the opposite extreme of dryness later this summer season.

The company also expects drought to return to the Great Plains and western Midwest within the next six weeks.

If the drought pattern continues, its damage estimates could be near $200 billion, making it even more costly than Hurricane Sandy.

“We’re still in a pattern of wild weather ‘extremes,’ the worst in more than 1,000 years.

For example, 2012 was the warmest year ever for the U.S.,” Harris added.

GM Crops (continued from page 28)

•Between 1996 and 2011, crop biotechnology was responsible for an additional 110 million tons of soybeans and 195 million tons of corn.

Without crop biotechnology, maintaining global production at the 2011 levels would have required an additional 13.1 million acres of soybeans, 16 million acres of corn and eight million acres of cotton.

•Crop biotechnology has contributed to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture by reducing fuel use and additional soil carbon storage from reduced tillage.

The Scott County Record • Page 29 • Thursday, May 30, 2013

KSU receives $9.5M for beef grazing study Drought, flooding, extreme heat, subzero temperatures: All of these climatic events and more in Kansas can threaten the supply and affordability of the nation’s beef supply.

It’s hard to do much about the weather, but a team of Kansas State University scientists will be trying to find solutions so cattlemen can better adapt to any future climate extremes in their grazing operations.

Much of the nation’s beef supply is produced on permanent grazing lands and wheat pasture

in the Southern Great Plains, including Kansas.

Protecting this vital supply from the stresses of climate variability is one key to our nation’s food security, said Chuck Rice, university distinguished professor of agronomy and one of the leaders of the team.

Realizing the importance of this issue, the USDA recently announced a $9.6 million, five-year grant to a multistate partnership that includes Kansas State University, Oklahoma State University, Univer-

MCOOL “Despite a massive outpouring of concern from affected companies and major trading partners, (it) is incomprehensible and recklessly disregards the potential adverse retaliatory trade responses from Canada and Mexico,” he said.

With no health or public welfare issues at stake, Dopp is especially upset with the speed of which the AMS regulation will be implemented. It goes into effect immediately after it’s published in the Federal Register which he

sity of Oklahoma, Noble Foundation and Tarleton State University.

“Our uniquely qualified team will answer critically important research questions and deliver extension programming about impacts of climate variability on beef cattle grazing operations in Kansas and the Southern Great Plains,” said Peter Tomlinson, assistant professor of agronomy and environmental quality specialist. “We will also work on the sustainability of rural economies under variable and changing cli-

mates.”

The project’s goal is to increase the resiliency of beef cattle operations on grazing lands and wheat pasture, both dual purpose and graze-out, so they can better sustain productivity in the future through a wide range of potential climate changes.

The team will work with ranchers and farmers to evaluate management practices and suggest changes for better resiliency. Specifically, the project will focus on: •Improved grazing management

•Increased water use efficiency •More diversified forage sources •Development of multiple marketing options •Strategic drought planning •Improved soil and water quality •Ways to provide more stable farm household incomes Success of this effort will contribute to the longterm viability of beef grazing systems in Kansas and the Southern Great Plains under changing climate environments, Rice said.

(continued from page 28)

said could happen as early as next week.

“It is incomprehensible that USDA would finalize a controversial rule that stands to harm American agriculture, when comments on the proposal made clear how deeply and negatively it will impact U.S. meat companies and livestock producers. This rubber stamping of the proposal begs the question of the integrity of the process: Many people spoke, but no one at USDA listened,” Dopp said.

Market Report

“There is a virtual certainty that several meat packing establishments will ultimately close because of the costs they will be forced to incur in order to implement the proposal’s requirements” said Dopp.

“In effect, the agency is picking winners and losers in the marketplace in order to provide information to consumers that recent research shows they care little about and do not wish to pay for,” AMI said.

Operations on the

northern and southern borders would be impacted most severely because their businesses are premised on free trade in meat and livestock across international borders, and the new rule will have an impact on them in terms of segregation and labeling.

The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service Final Rule for mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) program is online at http:// w w w. a m s . u s d a . g o v / AMSv1.0/COOL.

County Plat Maps By

Western Cartographers Available:

Scott Ness Gove Lane Logan Finney Wichita Wallace Greeley Kearney

Closing prices on May 28, 2013 Winona Feed and Grain Bartlett Grain Wheat.................. $ 7.08 Wheat.................. $ 7.08 Milo (bu.) ............ $ 6.67 Milo (bu.)............. $ 6.67 Corn.................... $ 7.22 Corn.................... $ 7.25 Soybeans............ $ 14.48 Scott City Cooperative Wheat.................. $ 7.08 White Wheat ....... $ 7.38 Milo (bu.)............. $ 6.67 Corn.................... $ 7.22 Soybeans ........... $ 14.48 Sunflowers.......... $ 21.60 ADM Grain Wheat..................

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$ 7.12 $ 6.60 $ 7.23 $ 14.58 $ 22.35 $ 7.30

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Fur-Fection

United Methodist Church, 412 College A.A. • Al-Anon, 872-3137 • 872-3343

Dighton

Thursday • 8:30 p.m.

535 Wichita St. All open meetings, 397-5679 • 397-2647

Weekly Word Search

Alike Atlas Attack Breeze Cared Considerable Curves Drain Drily Eaten Entertainment Explains Extra Flying Gates Girls Hatch Here's Hooks Jagged Kings Knight League Leaving Light Liked

Lords Music Opera Piano Poetry Poverty Price Queue Resign Roads Roars Shaken Sheet Silvery Speed Spins Stage Tackle Takes Title T-shirt Twinkle Volume Wildly 42

Classifieds

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Buy, sell, trade, one call does it all 872-2090 ot fax 872-0009

Under New Management

Spring Custom Planting 16 Row Planter Mapping and Starter Fertilizer Available Competitive Rates Please call Jason Wells (620) 874-1160

FOR SALE BY PRIVATE TREATY

Featuring sires: Sitz Alliance 7544, Baldridge Link L29, Isaacs Gus 7133, Objective, Image Maker, Brilliance.

Fertility tested, fully guaranteed two-year-old and yearling bulls.

Free board till May 15 • Free delivery in Kansas www.enscattlecompany.com Phone (620) 397-3138, Dighton, Earl or Erik Steffens 36t8c

Pine Village Apartments 300 E. Nonnamaker

Apartments available for qualifying tenants 62+ or disabled with rental assistance available.

Hours: Tues., 10:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. by appointment Call Steve 872-2535 or (620) 255-4824.

Protect our planet!

Recycle with the Scott County Recycling Center.

For Sale

Real Estate

Everyone will enjoy this home, 3+2 bedrooms, 2 baths, basement - neat family room, large kitchen, newer FA-CA, fenced yard with covered patio, SA garage, and it’s BRICK. PLUS, JUST MOVE IN! $146,500.

Lawrence

and Associates

Deb Lawrence, GRI Broker Shorty Lawrence, Sales Assoc.

513 Main • Scott City 872-5267 ofc. 872-7184 hm. lawrenceandassocrealty.com

It’s almost that time again!

Spring/Summer Lawn Mowing.

Call Hunter Braun (620) 872-3846 References available

If you are a student wanting summer work, run your ad with us FREE!

406 Main • 872-2090

For Sale By Owner

New Affordable Home Construction Located on east side of town.

Your dream home is possible. Join the new home owners in the Eastridge Subdivision.

We can help you create your own floor plan or choose from our wide range of designs.

THOMAS REAL ESTATE www.thomasreal-estate.com 914 W. 12th St. Scott City, KS 67871 Clyde: 620-872-7396 • Cell 620-874-1753 Stephanie: 620-874-5002

Garage Sales May 31 - June 1 Household Sale 408 W. 10th Friday, 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Freezer, TV, knick-knacks, air blower, car seat, bedding, exercise glider, Kirby vacuum sweeper, 3-door medicine cabinet with light bar, misc.

Garage Sale 401 Hunter Rd.

Fri., 4:00-6:30 p.m. • Sat., 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Milti-Family Garage Sale 712 Era St. Saturday, 8:00 a.m. - noon

Bikes, bedding, lamps, clothes, flower pots, home decor, afghans, snare drum and lots lots more.

Garage Sale 1112 Myrtle Saturday, 8:00 a.m. - noon

Large piece of carpet, furniture, etc.

Bad weather we’ll reschedule.

Bring in your Garage Sales by Monday at 5:00 p.m.

(No Rainy day refunds)

Classified Ad Deadline: Monday at 5:00 p.m. Classified Ad Rate: 20¢ per word. Minimum charge, $5. Blind ad: $2.50 per week extra. Card of thanks: 10¢ per word.

Minimum charge, $3. Classified Display Ad rate: $5.50 per column inch. Classified advertising must be paid in advance unless business account is established. If not paid in advance, there will be a $1 billing charge. Tear sheet for classified ad will be $1 extra.

Agriculture

WANTED TO BUY: Stored corn. Call for basis and contract information. 1-800-5793645. Lane County Feeder, Inc. 32tfc ––––––––––––––––––– TO BUY: Avon Independent WANTED Wheat straw delivered.

Sales Representative Call for contracting information. Lane County Feeders. 397-5341.

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Sharla Osborn 620-214-2114

Sheila Ellis, Broker Assoc.

872-2056 Kerry Gough, Sales Assoc.

872-7337 Russell Berning, 874-4405 www.berningauction.com

Beautiful 2,400 square foot home with an open floor plan that includes 3 bedrooms, 2 baths and a fireplace. Lots of amenities and an extra lot as well.

Give us a call for more information.

HOUSE FOR SALE IN SCOTT CITY. Well built home on double corner lot. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. Lots of built-in storage. Over 2,400 square feet, plus 3 season screened porch, double attached garage.

Established yard with underground sprinklers.

620-353-9933. 42eow

Family

Priced To Sell

4 bedrooms, 1 bath, quad level home with a 24x30 shop in back for Dad! $122,000

Real Estate

FOR SALE: Black Angus Bulls, registered, tested, guarantee, excellent bloodlines, confirmation and performance, discounts. Contact: Black Velvet Ranch, Aaron Plunkett, Syracuse. 620384-1101.

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INDIVIDUAL OFFICE SUITES from one to four rooms available for lease. Leases starting at $250/month including utilities.

Common areas available for use including reception and break rooms. Perfect for quiet small business or climate controlled storage. Former location of Scott City Chiropractic, 1101 S. Main. Call 2143040 for information.

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2004 Chevy Silverado, 64,700 miles, towing package, runs great. Asking $14,000 OBO. Call 620-214-2114 for more information.

• Corn • Milo • Soy Beans • Sunflowers

• 2 Combines • Grain Cart • Trucking

Dual fertilizer application, 16 row planter with guidance system.

Call: Kent Geist (620) 872-3281 • 214-0502 34tfc

HIDE AND SEEK STORAGE SYSTEMS. Various sizes available. Virgil and LeAnn Kuntz, (620) 874-2120.

41tfc ––––––––––––––––––– PLAINJANS has houses and storage units available to rent. Call 620-872-5777 or stop

by PlainJans at 511 Monroe.

28tfc ––––––––––––––––––– NOW AVAILABLE: Very nice 2 bedroom, 1 bath house with central heat and air. Furnished with refrigerator and stove. Washer and dryer hookups. One car garage and fenced-in backyard. Trash and water paid. No pets please.

Call Clinton Development (620) 872-5494 after 6:00 p.m.

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––––––––––––––––––– CROOKED CREEK Angus Registered Bulls for sale. Yearlings and 2-year olds. Delivery and sight unseen purchases available.

Quiet and relaxed dis- Help Wanted positions. Adam Jones 785-332-6206 www. H O U S E K E E P E R . crookedcreekangus. Part-time. Lazy R Mocom.

37t10c tel, 710 E. 5th, Scott City. 872-3043. Apply in person.

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Recycle Custom Planting Harvesting

Rentals

Make a world of difference!

Services WANTED: Yards to mow and clean-up, etc.

Trim smaller trees and bushes too. Call Dean Riedl, (620) 872-5112 or 874-4135.

34tfc ––––––––––––––––––– FURNITURE REPAIR and refinishing, lawn mower spring tune-up and blade sharpening.

Call Vern Soodsma, 872-2277 or 874-1412.

36tfc ––––––––––––––––––– MOWER REPAIR, tune-up and blade sharpening. Call Rob Vsetecka 620-2141730.

36tfc ––––––––––––––––––– METAL ROOFING, SIDING, and TRIMS at direct to the public prices. Call Metal King Mfg., 620-872-5464.

Our prices will not be beat!

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Employment Opportunities Park Lane Nursing Home

Emergency Dept. RNs

“Quality Care Because We Care”

Scott County Hospital is looking for two fulltime, 6:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Emergency Department Registered Nurses to join our team of dedicated nursing professionals.

Has openings for the following positions: Part-time/PRN LPN/RNs PRN CNAs

This position requires weekends and holidays.

Please apply in person at:

Fill out application and return to human resources.

Is seeking to fill the position of Night Assistant

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Calling all volunteers!

We need you!

We need volunteers to be bus drivers and to deliver meals for the VIP Center.

Give us just 2

We offer diverse nursing opportunities, experienced nursing administrative staff, competitive wages, flexible paid time off, call pay and excellent benefits.

City On A Hill

Park Lane Nursing Home 210 E. Parklane Scott City, KS 67871 Or visit us at our website: www.parklanenursinghome.org

hours per WEEK!

Stop at: VIP Center 302 Church, Scott City or call 872-3501 for more information.

Save Energy

Qualified applicants must possess: • Great people skills.

• High school diploma or equivalent.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Word.

• Valid driver’s license and good driving record.

Three-day work week with four days off.

Rental housing available with position, July 1.

Position could work into full-time with benefits.

Send resume and letter of intent to: City On A Hill P.O. Box 401 • Scott City, KS 67871 or email to: chislu@aol.com

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Give these materials a new life and help preserve our environment and resources.

When you recycle, you save in more ways than one!

Scott County Recycling Center 1981 S. US Hwy 83 • Scott City

Join us today! Applications available through Human Resources: Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Avenue, Scott City, KS 67871 (620) 872-7772 and on our website: www.scotthospital.net

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Clinic Office Manager

Health Coder Clerk

Scott County Hospital is seeking a Clinic Office Manager.

Scott County Hospital has an opening for an experienced Health Information Coder Clerk.

This new full-time 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Monday - Friday position will provide administrative support to the Clinic Chief Officer and oversee the clinic reception desk.

No weekends or holidays are required. Management experience in the healthcare office setting is desired. Experience in successfully supervising multiple staff is required. This individual must have excellent customer service and communication skills, and must be proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel. Business degree helpful, but not required.

We offer competitive wages and excellent benefits.

Pre-employment physical, drug/alcohol screen, TB skin test and physical assessment required. Scott County Hospital is a tobacco free facility.

Recycling materials like paper, glass, metal, aluminum and cardboard requires less energy than making new!

Pre-employment physical, drug and alcohol screen, physical assessment, immunization titer and TB skin test required.

Applications available through Human Resources: Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Avenue, Scott City, KS 67871 (620) 872-7772 and on our website: www.scotthospital.net Return completed applications to Human Resources.

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This is an 8:00-4:30, M-F position. Applicants are required to have a CCA , CCS or CPC certification or must be able to complete this certification within 1 year of hire date.

Duties will include release of information and diagnosis coding for the hospital setting using ICD-9-CM, CPT and HCPCS codes. Previous experience in ICD-9-CM and CPT coding, knowledge of federal and state regulations and laws regarding release of information are not mandatory but preferred.

We offer competitive wages and excellent benefits. Pre-employment physical, physical assessment, drug/alcohol screen and TB skin test required. Scott County Hospital is a tobacco free facility.

Applications available through Human Resources: Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Avenue, Scott City, KS 67871 (620) 872-7772 and on our website: www.scotthospital.net Return completed applications to Human Resources.

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406 Main, Scott City • 620-872-2090 • www.scottcountyrecord.com

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Barrels (continued from page 27)

impact their health as well as how they perform.

The dentist pointed out that horses were meant to feed on grass their entire lives, but instead have had their diets converted to alfalfa and grain. This has done away with the natural pattern of their teeth.

“They would place cameras inside a horse’s mouth and show what’s happening to their teeth,” Lawrence says. “People think that a bit may be tearing up a horse’s mouth when what’s really happening is that the bit is pushing the inside of the mouth onto its sharp teeth.

“I felt the back teeth and they were razor sharp.

That’s something most of us were unaware of.”

That’s just one factor which can impact how a horse is performing in the arena.

“You may have a horse that’s running really well and suddenly doesn’t perform like they should,” she points out. “It’s because we aren’t smart enough to understand the horse’s health and their needs.”

While calling the chance to be critiqued by James a once-in-a-lifetime experience, Lawrence is hopeful that the world-renowned horsewoman will make a return visit.

“I asked if there was a possibility of her coming back and she didn’t rule it out. She said it wouldn’t happen in the next year or two, but that it could happen again after that,” Lawrence says.

Former World Champion Barrel Racer Charmayne James talks with Scott City’s Olivia Prieto, 13, as she hold the reins of her horse, Goldie, during the evaluation process Thursday afternoon.

Horse chiropractor Casey Deal, Imbler, Ore., stretches the leg of 14-year-old Goldie as Scott City’s Santos Prieto keeps the horse from moving as part of the barrel racing clinic.

Photos by Larry Caldwell

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