June 6, 2013

Shocking experience gives glimpse of Lake Scott fishing Page 17

32 Pages • Four Sections

Volume 20 • Number 43

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Published in Scott City, Ks

$1 single copy

Another wind farm eyeing eastern Scott Bob Campbell staff writer

Executives from a Braintree, Mass., corporation told Scott County commissioners on Monday they are energetically pursuing the construction of a 100-megawatt wind farm in the eastern part of the county, south of K96 Highway.

Mike Resca, vice-president of Competitive Power Ventures, and Director John Hafner say they have leased about 15,000 acres.

CPT is currently operating two farms totaling 110 towers north of Cimarron and Ingalls in Gray County.

Declining to specify the precise location owing to ongoing negotiations with landowners about the placements of the towers, the executives said they are awaiting only the signing of a contract to sell their electricity, possibly to Sunflower Electric.

“We’ve got a lot into this and we want to see it through,” said Resca.

(See WIND on page two)

LEMA is topic of GWMD area meetings The prospect of establishing a Local Enhanced Management Area (LEMA) in Western Kansas Groundwater Management District No. 1 will be discussed at a series of county meetings during the upcoming week.

LEMAs are a means by which irrigators can establish their own guidelines and enforcement mechanisms to reduce groundwater usage.

The Sheridan 6 LEMA is the first of its kind to be established in Kansas. Covering parts of five sections of farmland in Sheridan County and additional land in Thomas County, (See LEMA on page two)

building bridges to the past Eagle project reopens popular park landmark Big Springs has long been known for its natural beauty as visitors enter Lake Scott State Park.

The natural spring provides a rich environment for plant life in the marshy area that leads into a holding pond even during the worst of droughts.

What Big Springs hasn’t been known for is public accessibility.

For years, a wooden foot bridge led visitors to the first of three stone bridge crossings that were part of a walking trail along the south side of the spring and pond. Over the years, the trail has been virtually closed to visitors because of a dense growth of brush.

Three years ago the foot bridge was closed as well by the Kansas Department of Transportation because of safe-

ty concerns.

“The big issue with KDOT was the lack of a handrail,” notes State Park Manager Greg Mills.

The area was recently reopened to the public following completion of a new bridge that was part of an Eagle Scout project spearheaded by Chris Hall. With the help of fellow Scouts and other volunteers, Hall was able to build the bridge during five days of work spread over three weekends.

“I was needing a good Eagle Scout project and when we were approached about building this it was just what I was looking for,” says Hall.

Mills and the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) gave Hall the green light to come up

Mackayla Koehn, 15, Scott City, adds some brush strokes to the wheat field that was part of the community mural which was painted last weekend during June Jaunt activities. More about the mural project, along with photos, can be found on page 25.

(Record Photo)

Drought, not freeze, the big issue on area wheat tour Page 16

with his own design for the bridge. Hall created the 45-foot bridge on a computer program at school.

“I had to tell (KDWPT) the materials we were going to use and that we wouldn’t move the existing bridge materials,” says Mills. “There were concerns about disturbing the habitat which Chris didn’t do.”

(See BRIDGE on page eight)

Council okays utility extensions for Prairie Meadows

Finishing strokes . . .

6 Main, St. Scott City • 620-872-2090 www.scottcountyrecord.com

(Top) Boy Scout Chris Hall with the bridge that was completed as part of his Eagle project.

(Above) A sign commemorates the approximate year when the original stone bridge was built.

(Record Photos)

The Scott City Council has given approval to approximately $116,000 in sewer and water line extensions to the Prairie Meadows housing subdivision on the southwest edge of Scott City.

The city will provide materials for the sewer line project, estimated at $17,000. Because the city lacks the equipment to safely lay the line at the depth required, that phase of the project will go to a private contractor. Public Works Director Mike Todd estimated the labor for an outside contractor would be about $17,000.

With more than $336,000 available in the city’s sewer fund, Todd assured the council money is available for the project.

He also informed the council that the Kansas Department of Health and Environment had finally given approval to engineer’s plans for the sewer project.

In addition, the city will be laying about 2,200 feet of 10-inch water line to the subdivision at a cost of about $82,000.

406 Main, St. Scott City • 620-872-2090 www.scottcountyrecord.com Opinion • Pages 4-5 Poll question • Page 7 Calendar • Page 7 Youth/education • Page 9 LEC report • Page 12

Deaths • Page 14 Sports • Pages 17-24 Farm section • Pages 26-27 Classified ads • Pages 29-31

(See UTILITY on page eight)

SCHS volleyball squad has summer camp Page 19

The Scott County Record • Page 2 • Thursday, June 6, 2013

All teaching positions filled in USD 466 Four full-time teaching positions have been filled and a high school girl’s basketball coach hired for the upcoming year in the Scott County (USD 466) school district. They include: •Clint Raynes, band director for grades 5-12.

•James Pickert, Scott Community High School physical science.

•Erin Meyers, physical education for grades 5-8 •Brenda Buehler, second grade at Scott City Elementary School.

Shelby Crawford has

been hired as the SCHS girl’s basketball coach to replace Lori Oestreicher.

He had been the seventh grade boy’s basketball coach last season.

All teaching positions have now been filled in the district, but still to be filled are openings for a high school assistant football coach and a seventh grade boy’s basketball head coach.

According to Supt. Bill Wilson, interviews are scheduled on Friday for the high school coaching position.

Other positions still unfilled are: •Two StuCo sponsorships at SCMS and one at SCHS. •English as a Second Language (ESL) position at SCES. •High Plains Education Cooperative para-professional.

Staff changes by building include: High School Resignations •Robert Ostmeyer, physical science •Joanna Freed, SCHS/ SCMS band

Middle School •Lori Oestreicher, PE Elementary School •Nancy Schwanke, second grade Coaching •Lori Oestreicher, SCHS girl’s head basketball; SCHS assistant volleyball

lo, transfer from SCES ESL aide to SCMS ESL aide •Shari Ratzlaff, halftime writing and research for grades 6-8 •Joel Edwards and Jodi Reese, full-time vocal music •Linda Helmers, increase from 5/8 full-time equivalent (FTE) to 6/8 FTE, home economics

Custodian/Food Service •Josh Burnett, change from nine-month to 12-month employee, SCMS aide and custodian •Galen Rohrbough, Custodian/Food Service change from 12-month •Misti Laubham, food to nine-month employee, Coaching service •Ashley Geyer, SCHS SCHS custodian Newly Hired Staff •Danielle Hatsis, Middle School assistant volleyball •Alexandra Hermosil•Erin Meyers, SCHS SCMS evening custodian.

Aviation camp, AF pilots Wind at Spencer Center Friday The Spencer Flight and Education Center, Scott City, will be sponsoring an Aviation Camp for all youth from ages 10-18 years on Fri., June 7, from 1:00-5:00 p.m.

Youth will have an opportunity to fly the simulator, participate in a ground school and fly in an airplane. Featured instructors will be Air Force pilots Matt and Shelby Basler.

The morning session is limited to the Scott

City Elementary School’s SCORE after-school program. The afternoon session, from 1:00-5:00 p.m., is open to all youth ages 10-18.

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

LEMA the goal is to reduce water consumption in the targeted area by 20 percent.

GWMD No. 1 would be a much larger LEMA, taking in all or part of Scott, Lane, Wichita, Greeley and Wallace counties.

In meetings held earlier this year, irrigators within the GWMD have indicated interest in cutting usage by 20-30 percent, however, details of how that would happen have yet to be ironed out by the district’s board of directors.

concepts of flight.

Free BBQ, Program

The afternoon youth session will be followed by a fly-in, free barbeque and presentation

by Major Basler entitled, “Training 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.

girl’s assistant basketball •Jordan Carter, freshman boy’s basketball •Melissa Jasnoch, SCHS dance team; SCMS cheerleaders

The event will be open to the public.

“Anyone who has ever flown or dreamed of becoming a pilot will be entertained and fascinated as Major Basler ties his experiences back to the fundamentals of flight training,” says Brian Vulgamore, SFEC chairman.

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

He explained that the company has “spent a few million” dollars developing the Scott County project since 2008. It plans to put about $300 million altogether getting 44 to 60 giant towers whirling in the powerful Southwest Kansas wind.

Resca emphasized that the project is not yet a “done deal,” but he said the company hopes to begin construction, possibly starting in September or October.

He declined to say how much the county might receive as payments in lieu of property taxes.

(continued from page one)

Commissioner Jim Minnix had said earlier in the meeting that a 250-megawatt wind farm, sponsored by Torch Renewable Energy of Houston, Tex., has been moving more slowly southwest of Lake Scott State Park.

Minnix said that project is still in the land-leasing phase, but the CPV plan, known as the Keystone Project for the township in which it is located, is looking to qualify for federal tax incentives if construction is underway before the end of the year.

“They will know more this summer,” he said.

(continued from page one)

Area meeting dates and locations include: Mon., June 10: Lane County 4-H Bldg., Dighton, 9:00 a.m.

Tues., June 11: Leoti Community Bldg., Wichita County Fairgrounds, 9:00 a.m.

Wed., June 12: Wm. Carpenter 4-H Bldg., Scott County Fairgrounds, Scott City, 9:00 a.m.

Thurs., June 13: Sharon Springs Community Bldg., Wallace County Fairgrounds, 2:00 p.m.

(CDST).

Items to be discussed

will include water level trends, saturated thickness estimates and average reported water usage.

GWMD Director Jan King says the 2012 water use reports have now arrived which will provide the latest data when talking about future policy.

“We’ll be looking at maximum and minimum water use levels, the impact if we establish a percentage of reduction over a five-year period and the possibility of allowing the transfer of water rights between wells,” says King.

The goal, she says, is to begin developing the framework for a LEMA. Additional meetings are planned with cities and feedlots within the district to hear their concerns and learn about their conservation plans.

King doesn’t anticipate a LEMA being formed until some time in 2015.

“Right now, we’re in a severe drought, so we need to keep that in consideration,” she says. “But we need to keep moving forward on a plan.”

What’s for Lunch in Scott City?

Sun. - Sat., June 9 - 15

Majestic Theatre 420 Main • 872-3840

Hours

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. • BBQ sandwich with fries, $6.95 Thurs. • Chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and gravy, $6.95 Fri. • Beef enchiladas with rice and beans, $6.95

What’s for Supper?

The Broiler Mon. • Sat. 5:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Sun. • 5:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

1211 Main • 872-3215

5 Buck Lunch

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

6

$

49

Buffet

11:30 a.m. -1:30 p.m.

1304 S. Main • 872-5301

Brea specikfast every als night .

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

Community Living

The Scott County Record

Page 3 - Thursday, June 6, 2013

Homemade ice cream is always a favorite

Highly nutritious, tasty and versatile, milk is often characterized as “nature’s most nearly perfect food.”

Because milk and milk products are now readily available and frequently consumed, a steady supply of these foods is often taken for granted. But, it has not always been that way.

I am sure there are many of you who remember how to milk a cow and grew up on raw milk.

Milk and milk products

have played an important role in America’s history since 1611 when the first cows were brought to Jamestown, Va. An important development has been the research and experimentation which has resulted

Recipe favorites . . .

New York Cheesecake

Easy to make and tastes just like the ones in a deli Ingredients 15 2 tablespoons 4 (8 oz.) packages 1-1/2 cups 3/4 cup 4 1 cup 1 tablespoon 1/4 cup

graham crackers, crushed butter, melted cream cheese white sugar milk eggs sour cream vanilla extract all-purpose flour

Directions Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9 inch springform pan.

In a medium bowl, mix graham cracker crumbs with melted butter. Press onto bottom of springform pan.

In a large bowl, mix cream cheese with sugar until smooth. Blend in milk, and then mix in the eggs one at a time, mixing just enough to incorporate. Mix in sour cream, vanilla and flour until smooth. Pour filling into prepared crust.

Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour. Turn the oven off, and let cake cool in oven with the door closed for 5 to 6 hours; this prevents cracking. Chill in refrigerator until serving.

Yield: 1 9-inch springform pan

Classic Macaroni Salad

Ingredients 4 cups 1 cup 1/4 cup 2/3 cup 2-1/2 tablespoons 1-1/2 teaspoons 1/2 teaspoon 1 large 2 stalks 1 1/4 cup 2 tablespoons

uncooked elbow macaroni mayonnaise distilled white vinegar white sugar prepared yellow mustard salt ground black pepper onion, chopped celery, chopped green bell pepper, seeded and chopped grated carrot (optional) chopped pimento peppers (optional)

Directions Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add the macaroni, and cook until tender, about 8 minutes.

Rinse under cold water and drain.

In a large bowl, mix together the mayonnaise, vinegar, sugar, mustard, salt and pepper. Stir in the onion, celery, green pepper, carrot, pimentos and macaroni.

Refrigerate for at least 4 hours before serving, but preferably overnight.

Yield: 10 servings

in improved methods of selection, breeding and feeding of cows. As an example, milk production per cow 150 years ago was estimated at 1,500 quarts annually. Today the average has increased to more than 6,600 quarts per cow.

The dairy industry is more than just milk. Ice cream is a favorite for many people and we are approaching the traditional picnic season with church dinners, family

get-togethers and holiday celebrations. Homemade ice cream is a special picnic treat.

Many common ingredients are used to create the flavored dessert.

However, one product can taint the entire dessert if not handled properly.

Avoid Raw Eggs

Eggs are the primary concern. Traditionally, homemade ice cream is made with raw eggs which could contain Salmonella.

Births PARENTS OF DAUGHTER Bryan and Laura Armendariz, Chapman, announce the birth of their daughter, Isabel Alicia, born April 29, 2013, at Salina Regional Health Center, Salina. She weighed 7 lbs., 10 oz. and was 20 inches long.

Isabel was welcomed home by her brother, Jaxon.

Paternal grandparents are Bertha Armendariz, Scott City, and the late Arturo Armendariz.

Maternal grandparents are Richard and Lynette Campbell, Abilene.

Great-grandmother is Virginia Faulkner, Concordia.

PARENTS OF SON Brandon and Jill Dirks, Scott City, announce the birth of their son, Ethan Cole, born May 24, 2013, at the Scott County Hospital. He weighed 8 lbs., 11 oz. and was 21 inches long.

Maternal grandparents are Leland and Joyce Koehn, Scott City.

Paternal grandparents are Richard and Janell Dirks, Scott City.

Maternal great-grandparents are Ike and Deloris Unruh, Scott City, and LeeVern and Lois Koehn, Othello, Wash.

Paternal great-grandparents are Jim and MaryAnn Unruh, Scott City, and Calvin and Mary Ann Dirks, Detroit, Tex.

Area Upcoming Events June 8

OK Kids Day

Lake Scott

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 8-13

Lane County Fair

Dighton

July 24-28

Scott County Fair

Scott City

July 31-Aug. 3 Wichita County Fair

Leoti

Sept. 6-7

Showdown on Plains BBQ Scott City

Sept. 27-28

Battle Canyon Symposium Scott City

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.

If the eggs are uncooked, they create a food safety risk.

Eggs add rich flavor and color to ice cream.

They prevent ice crystallization to ensure a smooth product. Since they are perishable, handling eggs safely includes keeping them in the refrigerator before use and cooking them to eliminate the bacteria.

Salmonella does not grow below 40 degrees, however refrigera-

tion or freezing will not kill or destroy the bacteria. Cooking the eggs is the only way to kill Salmonella.

The bacteria causes higher risk for youth, elderly, pregnant women and those with weakened immune systems, so it is recommended to cook the eggs in a custard mixture.

To do so, heat the eggs slowly to 160 degrees while gently stirring. Use (See FAVORITE on page 7)

The Scott County Record

Editorial/Opinion

Page 4 - Thursday, June 6, 2013

editorially speaking

Water quality:

It’s not enough to know how much water remains

Everyone is aware that the quantity of water available from the Ogallala Aquifer is on the decline.

Water quality, however, doesn’t get near the attention it deserves.

Make no mistake, the quality of our drinking water is in similar peril. But don’t expect Gov. Sam Brownback or other state officials to sponsor any highly publicized forums about water quality.

Not that it’s any big secret. A growing number of communities in central and Western Kansas are constructing multi-million dollar reverse osmosis or ion exchange systems designed to remove a growing list of contaminants from drinking water. In addition to Scott City, they can be found in Garden City, Goodland, Greensburg and Harper. They are being built in Anthony and Lakin.

In other words, cities are picking up the tab.

Scott City’s price tag was $3.1 million.

A decade ago, Scott City’s Well No. 5 was pumping 85.5 million gallons of water annually accounting for 19 percent of the city’s water supply. In 2009, the well wasn’t used at all and in 2010 it pumped just 63,000 gallons.

Because of contaminants, water pumped from Well No. 5 is classified as non-potable - available only for emergencies.

Like other Western Kansas communities, Leoti and Dighton are also finding higher levels of nitrates, arsenic and other contaminants. Leoti reports a plant is in the design stages; Dighton officials feel that a treatment facility is inevitable.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment requires cities to submit regular reports so everyone is aware of water quality issues. If water exceeds KDHE limits, then city residents are notified; cities may be required to blend “good” water with “bad”; filtration systems may be installed; and, eventually, some cities grow weary of the constant water warnings and poor image that accompanies repeated water contamination reports and opt for construction of a major treatment facility.

But what of those who drink from the same aquifer, but live outside the city and utilize a private well? They are drinking the same water that KDHE says city residents shouldn’t be drinking.

What are their options?

While state officials can, and do, monitor the rise and fall of the aquifer down to the foot, it seems that the state is a little less precise on what’s happening to that same water in terms of quality.

To what extent is water quality being compromised? What are the sources of that contamination?

While we are focusing a great deal of attention on water usage and conservation - as we should - how much good will it do if, over the next generation, the quality of that water diminishes to the point that it’s undrinkable?

Then again, how much do we care?

Do we really want to know the sources of our water contamination? Would we be willing to make the changes necessary to reduce contamination at its source?

Or is water contamination, like water usage, beyond the point of no return?

June Jaunt:

Many in SC deserve kudos for a successful weekend

We don’t know what kind of future the June Jaunt has, but we can certainly give credit to Scott City for the variety of activities that it promoted during the weekend.

The bluegrass concert on Friday, Last Rezort on Saturday and BBQ feeds on both nights, along with a guest speaker at the El Quartelejo Museum and the always popular buffalo tour offered a little something for everyone.

In particular, the Scott County Arts Council and local artists Larry Caldwell and AvNell Mayfield deserve kudos for the community mural. The steady turnout of people throughout the three days that the mural was available is testimony to its success.

The mural is a great concept. It provides the least artistic among us an opportunity to share in the creation of something that will be displayed for all to see. This is no small undertaking and all involved are to be congratulated for making it possible.

We look forward to seeing the finished work outside the Mike Harkness building on K96 Highway in the near future.

And we hope this is the first of more mural projects in our community.

Living in the new Kansas reality

Be careful what you wish for, as the old saying goes. It just might come true.

Welcome to Kansas politics.

In the last election, Kansans - at least the big majority - wanted hardright, conservative, Tea Party government and, today, we are blessed with the results.

We have a governor and a state legislature that believe government is evil, that we can slice income flowing into the state without any consequences and that gumdrops will grow on trees simply by saying it’s so.

Yes, we are truly living in a utopia. You can leave reality at the state line because we create our own in Kansas.

Like the stampede to zero - that wonderful promise by Gov. Brownback and legislators to eliminate state income taxes.

A year ago, Gov. Brownback and his “pro-growth” lemmings slashed income taxes by $3.7 billion over the next five years. This year, law-

makers were in session for 100 days - 10 days beyond what the state constitution calls for and 20 days longer than Republican leaders had promised.

Why? Because, even in utopia, if you cut hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and you don’t have hundreds of millions of dollars to fill that gap, you end up with a huge budget hole. Republicans may ignore science, but they can’t escape math.

So, now Kansans have been handed the bill for a $777 million tax increase over the next five years which, in the new Kansas reality, isn’t a tax increase at all. You see, in order not to violate the tax principles laid down by Grover Norquist, Republicans can never have a tax increase.

But, if you apply the $777 million increase this year against the $3.7 bil-

lion cut from a year ago, it’s still a tax cut, according to Republicans.

Gumdrops for everyone.

And the 6.5 percent state sales tax that was supposed to slide back to 5.7 percent on July 1, has now been set at 6.15 percent. Even though conservative Republicans vowed the sales tax would be cut to 5.7, a 6.15 percent sales tax is actually a “tax cut” because it’s still lower than where it has been for the past two years - even though it’s higher than what it was in 2010.

One can get twisted like a pretzel trying to keep up with Republican logic.

At least one conservative member of the Senate, Dennis Pyle (R-Hiawatha), isn’t buying the leadership’s explanation.

He says you can’t figure this year’s tax increase against last year’s tax cut and say that it’s still a tax cut.

“If you define all of the property to the west of the Arizona border as beach front, you can buy some property in Arizona that’s

ocean front,” Pyle said.

“Don’t buy it.”

But don’t mistake Pyle as some enlightened member of the legislature. He’s just one of those who figure you should cut taxes, cut them some more, and then let everyone fend for themselves.

Like rural health care, for example.

The latest budget will force the Kansas University Medical Center to cut 30 nursing student slots and 15 residency positions (that means doctors for rural Kansas), in addition to 38 faculty positions.

“Nationally, this says terrible things about the priority of higher education in Kansas,” says Tim Caboni, vice chancellor for public affairs at KU. For KU, the cuts in state funding total $5.5 million and amount to $8.3 million for KUMC over the next two years.

Not to worry. The Republican-controlled legislature included specific wording in the budget which forbids KU from reducing its enrollment or eliminating programs (See REALITY on page six)

GOP is too juvenile to govern

With budgetary tantrums in the Senate and investigative play-acting in the House, the Republican Party is proving once again that it simply cannot be taken seriously.

This is a shame. I don’t share the GOP’s philosophy, but I do believe that competition makes both of our major parties smarter.

I also believe that a big, complicated country facing economic and geopolitical challenges needs a government able to govern.

What we don’t need is the steady diet of obstruction, diversion and gamesmanship that Republicans are trying to ram down the nation’s throat. It’s not as if President Obama and the Democrats are doing everything right. It’s just that the GOP shrinks from doing anything meaningful at all.

Where to Write

another view by Eugene Robinson

The most glaring example, at the moment, is in the Senate. For four years, Republican senators lambasted their Democratic colleagues - with justification - for not approving a budget, one of the basic tasks of governance.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) and others regularly took to the Senate floor to announce the number of days since the body last produced a spending plan and to blast Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) for this shocking failure.

Two months ago, Reid and the Democrats finally passed a budget. Since the House has already passed its version - the controversial plan authored by Rep.

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

Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) - the next step should be for both chambers to appoint members of a conference committee that would iron out the differences. But Republicans won’t let this happen.

Specifically, far-right conservatives including Ted Cruz of Texas, Marco Rubio of Florida, Mike Lee of Utah and Rand Paul of Kentucky are refusing to allow the Senate to appoint its representatives to the conference.

Yes, having demanded this budget for four years, Republicans are now refusing to let it go forward.

Some Republicans, that is. Establishment types such as John McCain of Arizona are apoplectic at the antics of their tea party-inspired colleagues, which McCain called

Sen. Pat Roberts 109 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

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

“absolutely out of line and unprecedented.”

Cruz and the others are worried that a conference committee might not only work out a budget but also make it possible to raise the federal debt ceiling without the now-customary showdown threatening default and catastrophe.

They believe that brinkmanship is the only way to stop runaway government spending, which produces massive trilliondollar deficits, which add to the ballooning national debt, which . . . .

Hold on, senator.

According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the deficit is shrinking rapidly and will fall to $642 billion this fiscal year. That’s still substantial, but it’s less than half the deficit our government ran in 2011.

(See JUVENILE on page six)

Sen. Jerry Moran 141 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

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

The Scott County Record • Page 5 • Thursday, June 6, 2013

Delivering a verdict before the facts are in

by Dana Milbank

A third House committee joined the stampede to examine the IRS on Monday, and its chairman did exactly what you would expect somebody to do before launching a fair and impartial investigation: He went on Fox News Channel and implicated the White House.

Asked by Fox’s Bill Hemmer what he hoped to learn at Monday afternoon’s hearing, Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) offered this bit of pre-hearing analysis: “Of course, the enemies list out of the White House that IRS was engaged in shutting down or trying to shut down the conservative political viewpoint across the country - an enemies list that rivals that of another president some time ago.”

It was a sentence in need of a verb but packed with innuendo.

And it is part of an approach by House Republicans that seems to follow the Lewis Carroll school of jurisprudence. Not only are they placing the sentence before the verdict, they’re putting the verdict before the trial.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, announced his conclusions on CNN Sunday, declaring White House press secretary Jay Carney a “paid liar” for saying that the targeting of conservative groups was the work of a “rogue” element operating out of the IRS’s Cincinnati office.

“The reason that Lois Lerner tried to take the fifth is not because there is a rogue in Cincinnati,” Issa told CNN’s Candy Crowley. “It’s because this is a problem that was coordinated in all likelihood right out of Washington headquarters and we’re getting to proving it.”

. . . the lack of evidence that any political appointee was involved hasn’t stopped the lawmakers from assuming that it simply must be true.

Getting to proving it?

Congressional investigators have not produced evidence to link the harassment of conservative groups to the White House or to higher-ups in the Obama administration. But the lack of evidence that any political appointee was involved hasn’t stopped the lawmakers from assuming that it simply must be true.

And so, they are going to hold hearings until they confirm their conclusions.

Monday afternoon’s IRS hearing was held by the Appropriations Committee.

Judging from the less-thancapacity crowd, public enthusiasm for the inquiries is waning.

But for those who missed that hearing, another was scheduled for Tuesday morning so the Ways and Means Committee could take shots at the agency.

On Thursday, Issa’s committee will meet yet again to discuss the topic.

The lawmaker holding the gavel at Monday’s hearing, Rep. Ander Crenshaw (R-Fla.), chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee on financial services, preceded his official duties by going on Fox News a few hours after Rogers, the full committee chairman.

Crenshaw told Fox that “instructions on who to target and how to target were coming from Washington without any debate.”

Actually, that’s a matter of considerable dispute. IRS officials in Washington and elsewhere were indeed involved in targeting conservative groups.

But it’s quite another thing to

say that Washington was leading the effort or that any presidential appointee was involved.

Perhaps investigators will eventually uncover evidence of such a thing. But to announce their conclusions before assembling the facts helps the Obama administration make a case that the inquiries are partisan.

Of the three committees looking into the IRS, Issa’s has taken the lead in innuendo output. At a hearing two weeks ago, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) suggested that then-IRS Chairman Doug Shulman conspired with White House officials to target conservative groups as punishment for opposing Obamacare.

At Monday’s hearing, Rogers attempted to link President Obama to the scandal at what he called “allegedly an independent agency” by asking whether the president had approved bonuses (See VERDICT on page six)

Tax code is tilted toward millionaires

by Sam Pizzigati

Outlaw all political fronts

by Jim Hightower

If you’re covered in political stink, it might be prudent to avoid yelling “dirty politics” at others.

Lately, a mess of right-wing tea party groups have been wailing nonstop that they have been targeted and harassed by Obamanistic, IRS thugs.

The groups certainly are right that it’s abhorrent for a powerful agency to run a repressive witch hunt against any group of citizens just because of their political views. Liberals have certainly felt the lash of such official repression by assorted McCarthyite-Nixonite-Cheneyite forces over the years, and it must be condemned, no matter who the victims.

In this case, however, the right-wing groups were not targeted by government snoops and political operatives, but tagged by their own applications to be designated by the IRS as 501(c)(4) “social welfare” groups.

This privileged status would allow them to take unlimited bags of corporate cash without ever revealing to voters the names of the corporations putting up the money. The caveat is that 501(c)(4)s are supposed to do social welfare work and cannot be attached to any candidate or party, nor can politics be their primary purpose.

Forget what the rule says, though. Such renown political players as Karl Rove and the Koch brothers have cynically

set up their own pretend-welfare groups, openly using them as fronts to run secret-money election campaigns.

Suddenly, hundreds of wannabes were demanding the special (c)(4) designation, brazenly lying about their overt political purpose. Some even asserted that they were engaged in no political activity, when their own websites bragged that they were.

It was the groups’ stupidity and audacity that prompted the IRS inquiries, and their current hissy-fit about the agency is really just a PR effort to let them continue their “social welfare” fraud.

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

A hundred years ago, in 1913, Congress wrote into law a federal income tax. Lawmakers have been dotting the tax code, almost ever since, with an assortment of “never-minds” that hand most of us, at one time or another, discounts at tax time.

These discounts can come in handy. If you buy a home, you get to deduct off your taxes the mortgage interest you pay.

If you’re raising a family, you get to claim tax credit for your children. If you retire, you can exclude Social Security income from taxes.

And if you make a killing trading on the stock market, you only have to pay taxes on your windfall at half the normal tax rate.

How much do all these deductions, credits, exclusions, and preferential tax rates cost the federal treasury?

Rep. Chris Van Hollen, a lawmaker from Maryland, wanted to know. He asked the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office to calculate exactly how much “tax expenditures” - the wonky label in Washington for tax never-minds - were actually totaling.

Van Hollen also asked the CBO to calculate which American taxpayers, by income level, were benefiting the most from these tax expenditures.

Last week, the CBO reported back - with some big numbers: The top 10 special tax breaks in the federal tax code will cost the federal government $900 billion in 2013 and $12 trillion over the next decade.

And most of the benefits from

all these trillions in tax savings, the CBO found, are cascading down to America’s most comfortable.

If tax expenditures operated on a totally neutral basis, America’s most affluent one percent would be receiving just one percent of the taxpayer savings that tax expenditures generate.

In fact, the CBO calculates, the top one percent of U.S. taxpayers are receiving 17 percent of tax expenditure benefits.

Project these numbers over a decade, and the tax savings for America’s most affluent really start to add up. Over the next 10 years, if current law remains in effect, tax expenditures will pour $3.6 trillion into the pockets of America’s top five percent of income earners - and $1.9 trillion into the pockets of America’s top one percent, households that make over $450,000.

But the enormity of these trillions only hints at how light a tax burden rests on our rich, suggests another new study released last week, the annual global wealth survey from researchers at the Boston Consulting Group.

Just under five percent of America’s households, says this new study, now hold at least $1 million each in financial wealth, assets like stocks and other securities, the dollars in savings and checking accounts, and the like.

In 2012, the total net worth of these top five percent households pumped up America’s total financial wealth to $39 trillion - $1 trillion higher than the combined financial wealth (See TAX CODE on page seven)

Republican snake oil evident in Oklahoma There’s an almost biblical irony to Oklahoma’s latest tornado disaster. Not a funny irony, but the grim, tragic kind so common to acts of God. Four months before this twister, five of Oklahoma’s seven members of Congress including both of its senators - all Republicans, had voted against a bill providing funds to states hit by Superstorm Sandy.

They thought that the money, $50 billion of it, should come from cuts in other federal programs, not fresh borrowing.

Now, with the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore lying in ruin, not so much.

“That was totally different,” said James Inhofe, one of the chief conservative blowhards in the Senate. “They were getting things, for instance, that was

behind the headlines by Donald Kaul

(sic) supposed to be in New Jersey. They had things in the Virgin Islands . . . Everybody was getting in and exploiting the tragedy that took place. That won’t happen in Oklahoma.”

Right. Far be it from Oklahoma to take advantage of federal money . . . unless, of course it comes in the form of subsidies for oil and gas companies or huge farms.

As I indicated, not all of the Oklahomans were Sandy deniers. Rep. Tom Cole, for example, voted to support the relief bill and said, at the time: “Each member ought to rec-

ognize at some point his or her area will be hit by some disaster and they will be here seeking support.”

Cole, in another ironic twist, happens to live in Moore, the very nearly destroyed town where the tornado hit.

And yet, the whole Oklahoma delegation didn’t go all hypocritical on us. That pillar of rectitude, Sen. Tom Coburn, said that the disaster that befell his fellow Oklahomans hadn’t changed his mind about anything. (Coburn, who voted against the Superstorm Sandy relief bill in January, also insisted on offsets so that no new money would be appropriated for the victims of the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.)

He sent his spokesman

out to say that the Oklahoma Republican continued to stick to his demand that relief funds be offset by cuts in the budget elsewhere.

“If the choice is between borrowing and reducing spending on largesse,” Coburn’s spokesman said, “we should divert funds from largesse to victims.”

Which sounds fine, but what happens - realistically - is that the funds get cut from programs that benefit groups with weak lobbies, like kids and poor people. Corporate largesse remains large.

But Coburn’s underlying logic goes to the heart of the snake oil that Republicans are selling the American people these days - that the way out of a recession is to drastically

cut government spending and shrink the deficit.

As sensible as that sounds, there is little in the historical record to support the theory and most mainstream economists lean more toward the Keynesian model: increasing government debt during economic downturns to pump up demand and pulling back only when things get going again.

If you’re searching for an example of what budget-cutting does to a faltering economy, you need look no further than Europe. Bullied into a policy of austerity by the strongest euro zone member, Germany, the economies of Europe are going, one by one, into the tank. And the natives are now getting restless.

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Session concludes, but debates on budget, taxes haven’t After weeks of wrangling over tax and budget issues Kansas lawmakers found enough common ground over the weekend to adjourn the 2013 session.

The compromise agreements they fashioned garnered enough votes to bring down the gavel on one of the longest sessions on record but they likely won’t end debates over several high-profile issues.

Reality at KU campuses in Salina, Wichita, Lawrence or Kansas City, Ks. That’s like cutting your household budget by $200 a month, but putting a sticky note on the refrigerator telling your wife that she can’t cut back on groceries, clothes for the

The budget compromise included significant cuts to university budgets, something Gov. Sam Brownback said repeatedly would be bad policy. In a series of events across the state leading up to the wrap-up session, the governor said the then proposed cuts to Regents universities would be “momentum killers.”

But at a news conference on the final night of the session, Brownback

didn’t directly answer questions about whether he had acquiesced to the cuts.

“Let me see what all is in the final package,” he said. “Everybody has been working very hard. We’re at June 1st and we’re trying to get things moved on through the process.”

The budget that was approved by slim margins in the House and Senate would cut post-secondary institutions by $66 mil-

lion over two years - a 1.5 percent reduction in both the 2014 and 2015 fiscal years. It also imposes a cap on salary expenses, which university officials said would hamper recruiting top faculty.

Officials at the University of Kansas School of Medicine said the cuts negotiated in the final weeks of the session could force the closing of its Salina campus and paring back programs at the

Wichita campus from four years to two years.

But lawmakers responded to that by inserting a provision in the budget intended to bar KU Medical Center from reducing enrollment or ending programs at any of its campuses despite the state spending cuts.

During the House debate on the budget, Rep. Marc Rhoades (R-Newton) and chair of the Appropriations

Committee, questioned whether the spending reductions would be as harmful as the universities claimed.

“We see numbers all the time floating around here. That’s what they say it is, I’m not sure that I necessarily believe that,” Rhoades said.

Tim Caboni, vice chancellor for public affairs at KU, called the budget cuts “devastating.”

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next legislative session in an apparent effort to prove that bloated university budgets will hardly notice the recent cuts.

Caboni said he welcomes the review.

Of those critical of higher education spending, he suggested, “Maybe

they should study it before they come to a conclusion.”

That’s not surprising.

Only an “elitist” would suggest that legislators actually study something before making a decision. Instead, Brownback, Rhoades and other con-

servative lawmakers believe that they only have to announce a conclusion without knowing the facts and can then go about reshaping reality to support their conclusion.

This is the utopia that Kansas voters wanted . . . and lots of gumdrops.

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kids and she can’t skip a car payment.

It’s really that simple . . . if you’re living in the GOP’s new reality.

Of course, not all Republicans are convinced that the budget cuts to KU are as devastating as they’re made out to be.

House Appropriations Chairman Marc Rhoades (R-Newton) was disappointed the budget cuts weren’t deeper.

Rhoades vowed that legislators will “drill down” in the budgets of universities during the interim period before the

Obama under fire for free housing Kobach ready to

by Andy Borowitz

In the latest scandal to rock the Obama Administration, a leading Republican congressman accused the President today of using his position to obtain free government housing for himself and his family.

According to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), Mr. Obama “has arrogantly exploited the office of

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for “these very critical people in this scandal.”

In the absence of facts, Rogers said it just “doesn’t make sense” that the IRS targeting was not “directed from on high.”

Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.) accusingly asked the witness, new IRS chief Danny Werfel, if he had met “with anyone from the White House to prepare for” the hearing. He hadn’t. Graves also found suspicious the fact that Werfel has “yet to even go to Cincinnati” to investigate. Werfel has been on the job 12 days.

Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.) tried to run down a theory that the White House had told Werfel to “take any potential consequences off the table.”

And Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-Kan.) proposed that IRS civil servants were being used as “scapegoats” by Obama’s political appointees.

The Republicans seemed not to care that the other witness at the hearing, IRS Inspector General J. Russell George, told the committee that he had no evidence that anybody from the White House or any presidential political appointee was involved.

Graves pressed ahead with his belief that “the president or subordinates of the president were well aware of or involved in the targeting of political opponents.” Like his colleagues, he was not about to let the rude intrusion of contrary evidence disturb his conclusion.

Dana Milbank is a Washington Post staff writer and author

President to gain access to a 55,000 square-foot residence that could double as a museum.”

“While the average American is struggling to pay his bills, President Obama is living in a luxury home, adorned with priceless paintings and antiques as far as the eye can see,” Rep. Ryan alleged.

Additionally, the Wisconsin congressman

said, the President has availed himself of “sumptuous free meals - breakfast, lunch, and dinner - all on the taxpayer’s nickel.”

“Day after day, he selfishly sucks on Uncle Sam’s teat,” he said.

In keeping with Mr. Obama’s bloated lifestyle as “Superstar-in-Chief,” the congressman added, “The President travels with an entourage of highly trained bodyguards

Snake Oil Stimulus, rather than the bitter pill of austerity, is looking good to them.

And Japan’s economy, stagnant for the past 20 years, has shown signs of reviving after its new prime minister decided to adopt some stimulative policies, even though they were inflationary.

You will never con-

More important, if annual deficits continue to decline as the CBO predicts, the long-term debt problem begins to look more manageable. That’s good news, right?

What Republicans ought to do is declare a victory for fiscal conservatism and move on to the battle to have their priorities reflected in the budget - a promising fight, since the conferees appointed by the GOP-controlled House are hardly going to be flaming liberals.

Instead, the party seeks not consensus but crisis.

This is no way for a two-year-old to act, much less the self-proclaimed “world’s greatest deliberative body.”

And speaking of juvenile behavior, I would be remiss not to mention how Rep. Darrell Issa of California and his GOP colleagues in the House are embarrassing them-

Andy Borowitz is a comedian and author

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vince the Coburns and Inhofes of the world of that lesson, however. And there are a lot of them.

Worse, they seem to have convinced a good share of the American people that we can secure the future of our grandchildren by failing to educate them or build roads, bridges, hospitals, and air-

Juvenile

who would put Jay-Z’s posse to shame.”

Drawing a line in the sand, the Republican warned Mr. Obama to cut back on his lavish living arrangements “or face possible impeachment.”

“Across America, people are tightening their belts,” Rep. Ryan said.

“The President should not be living like a head of state.”

fields for them to inherit.

There are few things more powerful than a bad idea whose time has come. Today, that bad idea is embracing austerity to cure joblessness.

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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selves by straining to turn Obama administration missteps into Watergatestyle scandals.

The deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, resulted from a security lapse of the kind that every recent administration, unfortunately, has suffered. Since future administrations will have lapses as well, congressional oversight could be useful in at least making sure the specific mistakes of Benghazi are not repeated.

But instead, House Republicans summon the television cameras and ask round after round of tendentious questions - without paying the slightest attention to the answers.

Similarly, on the question of how and why the IRS gave added scrutiny to conservative “social welfare” groups seeking nonprofit status, House inquisitors seem barely

interested in what actually happened.

“What did the president know and when did he know it?” was an appropriate question. But the follow-up — “Harrumph, well then, why didn’t he know sooner?” - isn’t much in the way of scandal material.

And concerning the Justice Department’s overzealous crusade to thwart classified leaks - and investigative reporting - it is amusing to watch House Republicans twist themselves into champions of the hated Lamestream Media. Who knew?

None of this is boosting the GOP’s poll numbers. I’ve got an idea: Why don’t they try doing the people’s business for a change?

Eugene Robinson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and former assistant managing editor for The Washington Post

put handcuffs on FBI, ATF agents

Calling the Kansas House of Representatives and Secretary of State Kris Kobach “conservative” far understates the case in the light of laws like Senate Bill 102, which purports to make it a felony for federal agents to enforce laws concerning guns or ammunition made, sold and kept only in Kansas.

U.S. Attorney Western General Holder wrote Skyline Gov. Brownback on

by Bob Campbell April 26 that the law is unconstitutional.

But Kobach, sounding more like the state’s attorney general, says the measure, dispensing with interstate commerce issues, “is a serious law saying we believe the (U.S.) Constitution does not say Congress has the right to regulate firearms.”

So now we purportedly face having city, county or state officers jail agents of the ATF or FBI for charging a parolee as a felon in possession of a firearm if the Roscoe in question fits the Kansas-only description.

That law is usually enforced federally because state parolees get up to 10 years for breaking it.

Kobach, a 47-year-old former Overland Park city councilman and Yale-trained lawyer who once worked for U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft, played key roles in drafting Arizona’s controversial immigration law (SB 1070) and Alabama’s HB 56.

Following his two-year chairmanship of the Kansas Republican Party, Federal Election Commission auditors reported in 2009 that the party had failed to pay state and federal taxes and accepted illegal contributions.

In his 2004 speech to the Republican National Convention, Kobach advocated sending the military to the border with Mexico to stop illegal immigration; and he helped write the section of the GOP’s 2012 platform that called for illegal immigrants to “self-deport,” which, more than anything else, doomed Mitt Romney’s candidacy.

You could say combining a law degree with lunacy and a high office has entertaining results, but Kobach is no crazier than most (conceding that a few might have gone all the way around the bend) of his ideological siblings in the state House. Their Tea Party constituency put them into office and they have a great time playing to it, drawing cheers each time they identify and exploit a new extreme.

It bugs some people like me, a Blue Dog Democrat, but I don’t take it seriously. The extremists of both parties will prove historically marginal.

Kobach has such an extensive record of far right activism that I could go on at length, but it suffices to say Kansas officers can have no authority to bust feds and that the Republicans will never win another national election so long as guys like Kobach are calling the shots.

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

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a thermometer to determine that the temperature reaches 160 degrees. The mixture will eventually solidify enough to coat a metal spoon.

Egg substitutes can be used in place of raw eggs.

Commercially pasteurized eggs can also be used, and are often sold next to regular eggs in the supermarket case. They may cost a few cents more, but it is better than using raw eggs and making someone ill.

Popular recipes, such as those listed below, create refreshing ice cream without the risk of consuming raw eggs.

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Cook over boiling water or low heat, stirring constantly until thickened. Cook 2 minutes more.

Stir a small amount of the hot mixture into the slightly beaten eggs before adding the eggs to the remaining hot mixture. Cook 1 minute more. Remove from heat. Add the remaining quart of half-and-half and the vanilla.

Chill thoroughly. Freeze in a gallon ice cream freezer using 1part salt to 6 parts crushed ice.

Caboni said the university welcomed plans by members of the Legislature’s budget-writing committees to tour university campuses and dig into their finances.

“We’re also looking forward to legislators visiting our campuses so we can share the effects of these cuts, as well as detail our successful costsaving efforts,” Caboni said.

Tax Cut or Increase

The tax plan continued to be contentious right up to the final hours of the session.

A compromise that ended the session will keep the sales tax at 6.15 percent, which is expected to generate an additional $1.1 billion dollars in revenue over the next five Yield: About 3-1/2 quarts years.

The tax agreement Egg-Free Vanilla Gelatin Ice Cream 2 tablespoons gelatin would lower the top indi1-1/2 cups sugar vidual income-tax rate ½ cup cold water from 4.9 percent to 3.9 1/4 teaspoon salt percent by 2018 while 2 cups milk, hot 1-1/2 tablespoons vanilla reducing the bottom rate 6 cups half-and-half from three percent to 2.3 Soften gelatin in cold water before adding to the hot percent. The step down in milk. Be sure gelatin is completely dissolved. Add remaining ingredients. Chill thoroughly. Freeze in a gallon ice cream rates moves the state furfreezer using 1 part salt to 6 parts ice. ther toward Brownback’s goal of eliminating indiYield: About 3 quarts vidual and corporate income taxes.

To help pay for the Support Your Hometown Merchants! rate reductions, the plan

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would cut in half by 2018 all itemized deductions, except those allowed for charitable contributions.

Rep. Julie Menghini (D-Pittsburg) was among those who said that eliminating the income tax, which generates nearly half the state’s revenue, would prove disastrous.

“It’s a roadmap to a massive tax shift onto

middle-class working Kansans and Kansans living in poverty,” she said.

“Why we would continue down that path at this point is just beyond me.”

That debate, like others that dominated the 2013 session, likely will continue until revenue and budget numbers in future years prove who was right.

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of Japan, China and Germany, the world’s next three richest nations.

America’s wealthiest households pay no annual federal taxes on any of these trillions. Why? The United States has no annual federal tax on financial wealth.

We do, on the other hand, have a tax on property wealth. This property tax - a state and local government levy - essentially amounts to a tax on America’s middle class.

That’s because residential property makes up most of American middle class wealth - 66 percent, on average.

For households in America’s richest one percent, by contrast, home sweet home accounts for only 9.4 percent of household net worth.

The new CBO numbers on tax expenditures show clearly that current federal income tax deductions, credits, exclusions and preferences skew “disproportionately to the highest one percent.”

America’s absence of any national annual tax on the wealth of our wealthy skews this lopsided tax picture a good bit more.

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The first portion of the bridge leads to a short stairway that takes visitors over the original concrete structure. Located just to the north of the concrete bridge had been an upright, metal ring planted into the ground. That ring has now been filled by a metal sign - also created

by Hall - that identifies the site as “Big Springs Bridge - 1930” signifying the year that park staff believes the original bridges were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Materials for the project were donated by Bruce Wilkens. Four telephone poles, which provide the foundation for the bridge and observation deck, were donated by Wheatland Electric.

Moving those poles into place was no small task for Hall and his small workforce. It was particularly challenging getting the two poles in place for the observation deck,

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which meant negotiating a portion of the spring that flows into the pond below.

“It was a lot of work.

It turned out to be a bigger project than I thought it would be,” says Hall.

“But I’m glad we did it.”

The newly completed bridge has already proven to be a great addition to the park, says Mills.

“This is probably one of the nicest things that’s ever been done as a volunteer project,” says the park manager. “We’ve heard a lot of comments from people who are glad they can have access to the springs again. A lot of people have been enjoying (the bridge) since it’s been finished.”

The trail that begins where the bridge ends has been cleared of the heavy brush and now allows visitors a path to the other two bridges.

During a brief dedication ceremony recently, Mills thanked Hall for undertaking the project.

“To complete something like this shows a lot of character on Chris’s part,” says Mills. “If you’re ever interested in doing another Eagle Scout project, let us know. I’m sure we can come up with something.”

Nearly Complete

With completion of the bridge, Hall has taken a major step toward earning his Eagle rank.

“I only have one more merit badge to complete,” says the 17-year-old.

A member of Troop No. 149, Hall has been a Scout since he was 12-years-old.

“My father and grandfather wanted me to join Scouting to better myself and learn responsibility,” he says. “It’s taught me a lot.

“There have been a lot of fun times, like the Scout camps and campouts at Camp Ben, and it’s also been a lot of work. But I’m glad that I joined.”

Area meetings on Utility moderate income housing program The Kansas Housing Resources Corporation (KHRC) will host meetings in Hays and Dodge City to discuss an initiative designed to help cities and counties develop moderate income housing and infrastructure in rural areas.

The initiative, now in its second year, is called the Moderate Income Housing (MIH) Program and was developed in response to the increased need for higher-income workforce housing.

KHRC has posted an updated Request for Proposal (RFP) on the corporation’s website

www.kshousingcorp.org.

Individuals wanting to learn more about the MIH program may attend the following meetings: Hays: Tues., June 11, 9:30 a.m., at the Ellis County Coalition for Economic Development, 2700 Vine Street.

Dodge City: Tues., June 11, 2:30 p.m., Dodge City, Mariah Hills Golf Course Clubhouse, 1800 Matt Down Road.

For more information on the Moderate Income Housing Program, contact either Fred Bentley, KHRC’s Rental Housing Director, at fbentley@ kshousingcorp.org.

The city will bid digging the line, installing the pipe and partial backfill.

Bids are due back by July 1.

The city has received bid specifications for curb/ gutter and street work in the two subdivisions with a deadline of July 1 for contractors to submit bids.

Cost-Share Program In addition, 14 homeowners have indicated interest in participating in the city’s 50/50 curb/gutter cost-share program.

Those requests include

Chris Hall checks to see how level the base of the bridge is during construction.

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proposals dating back to 2010.

Typically, the council won’t participate in the cost-share unless there are about 1,000 feet of work to be done. The list now includes about 940 feet.

Given the amount of curb/gutter work to be done in each of the two subdivisions this fall, Todd is hopeful that bids for the cost-share program will be lower than normal.

Once the bids are submitted and the cost known, homeowners can choose whether or not to participate in the program.

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3 from area earn academic honors at Ottawa University

Three area students earned spring semester academic honors at Ottawa University.

Named to the Dean’s Honor List were Kaitlyn Thornburg, Scott City, and Sierra Herndon, Dighton.

To qualify for the Dean’s List, students must have completed a minimum of 24 hours over the preceding two semesters and maintained a grade point average of 3.5 or better.

Karita Geist, Scott City, was named to the Dean’s Honor Roll.

This includes students who have completed a minimum of 12 semester hours during the preceding semester and maintained a 3.5 gpa.

Lawrence awarded $500 scholarship Morgan Lawrence, freshman from Dighton, received a $500 Alpha Kappa Psi Scholarship from Ft. Hays State University.

More than $200,000 in financial assistance - scholarships and graduate fellowships - were awarded at the annual scholarship award ceremony of FHSU’s College of Business and Entrepreneurship.

4-H Club News

When dinosaurs roamed the earth

New Horizons gearing up for the Fair The June meeting for the New Horizons 4-H Club was held June 2 at the Wm. Carpenter 4-H Building.

Vice-President Brayden Strine led our meeting and kept us entertained since President Anna Miller was on a 4-H trip.

Club leader Monique Miller informed members about the Fair and where to get the forms for pre-entries. The Fair will be here before we know it.

Club members will have a tour and parent’s meeting for our July meeting. Members will have a very busy July meeting and will be preparing our silent auction item for the Fair and getting our float ready for the Fair parade.

Brayden gave members an update on state track.

Congratulations Brayden and the rest of the SCHS Beavers for doing such a great job at state track!

Brooke Strine gave a project talk about showing her goat and heifer at the spring show in Lakin. Good job Brooke for winning your belt buckle!

The New Horizons 4-H Club is gearing up for the fair! We hope you are, too!

Kylee Logan, reporter

Youngsters kicked off summer programming at the Scott County Library by learning about dinosaurs and fossils on Monday and Tuesday. (Above) Ella Frank (left) and Bailey Welker do the “dinosaur stomp” while Trenton Frank (right) makes a fossil.

The older youth learned about archeology and Native Americans in the region from Larry Hoeme, Scott City.

The program on June 1112 will feature underground stories as the youngsters venture into their “caves.”

The older youth will have an opportunity to experience the soil tunnel trailer from the Scott County Conservation District.

Library activities are planned every Monday and Tuesday during June.

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Scott, Davis earn state FFA degrees Kiersten Scott and Aubrey Davis, both of Scott City, were among 26 Southwest District FFA members awarded their State FFA Degree on May 31 at the 85th annual Kansas FFA Convention.

The State Degree is the highest honor the Kansas FFA Association can bestow upon its members. In order to achieve this award, members must meet the following requirements: •have received their Chapter FFA Degree; •been an FFA member and agricultural education student for at least two years;

•earned at least $2,000 or worked 600 hours in their Supervised Agricultural Experience program; •given a six minute speech about agriculture or FFA; •participated in eight different leadership activities; •maintained a “C” average or better in high school; and •shown a record of outstanding leadership and community involvement.

Scott is a spring graduate of Scott Community High School and Davis will be a senior this fall.

Free lunches for kids this summer

Young people have the opportunity to enjoy a hot, healthy lunch available through the Scott County school district for nearly six weeks this summer.

Free lunches will be offered at Scott City Elementary School from 11:30 a.m. to noon and a snack from 3:003:15 p.m. every Monday through Friday from June 3 through July 12.

Anyone 18-years or younger is invited to participate. There is no income requirement or registration required.

Support Your Hometown Merchants!

Summer Free Lunches Served at Scott City Elementary School Week of June 10-14 Monday: Pizza, country blend vegetables, pears.

Tuesday: Egg roll, capri blend vegetables, pineapple rings.

Wednesday: Submarine sandwich, oven fries, lettuce and tomatoes, cherry pie.

Thursday: Enchilada casserole, multi-grain chips and salsa, cooked carrots, pears.

Friday: Pizza mozzarella sticks, marinara sauce, winter blend, orange wedges.

Community Christian Church CIY Youth

Would like to say Thank you to our church family and the Scott City community for supporting our bake sale last Saturday!

Thank you gracias Spanish grazie Italian merci French ありがとう Japanese buíochas a ghabháil leat Irish gratias agimus tibi Latin

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Watch for fraud as health insurance changes occur You have probably read reports that many consumers know little about the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).

The Kaiser Family Foundation, a reputable organization that tracks health care issues, conducted a poll in April that revealed more than 4-in-10 Americans surveyed didn’t know that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was the law of the land.

When confusion happens, deceit flourishes.

Kansans should be on the lookout for fraudulent insurance activity dur-

commissioner’s corner Kansas Insurance

Commissioner Sandy Praeger

ing the next few months, when scammers might try to steal your money and steal your identity through various illegal schemes built around obtaining “Obamacare” information.

In the time before the federal law’s biggest phase-in, which begins in January 2014, con artists, posing as federal government workers, may look to steal your financial

information in order for you to receive a “national health insurance card,” according to Jim Quiggle, a national spokesman for the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud.

Remember, there is no enrollment for the new online marketplace health insurance exchange until Oct. 1. Coverage under the new plan, which in Kansas will be operated by the federal government, doesn’t begin until Jan. 1, 2014.

And you don’t get a “national insurance card.”

Scammers often target older people, claim-

ing they will need a new Medicare card under the ACA. They also have been known to target people of any age in door-todoor scams.

The best advice I can offer is to follow our Kansas Insurance Department motto of “Stop. Call. Confirm.”

If you are unsure about the person’s motives, STOP what you are doing, CALL our department to talk to a consumer assistance representative and CONFIRM whether the information you are receiving is truthful.

If you receive phone

Scott City man sentenced to 66 days served for sexual battery Bob Campbell staff writer

Nine Scott County defendants have been sentenced by 25th District Court Magistrate James Collins, including a man jailed for 66 days and fined $460 in a Class A misdemeanor sexual battery case.

Scott County Attorney Rebecca Faurot reported that Oscar Sanchez-Perez, arrested on March 11, had the remainder of his 90-day term suspended when he pleaded guilty on May 21.

In other court action, Tony Perez was fined $420 and given a year’s probation after pleading “no contest” to misde-

meanor charges of domestic battery and disorderly conduct.

Judge Collins dismissed a Class B misdemeanor domestic battery allegation against Mark Alan Beat, represented by Scott City attorney Colton Eikenberry. Beat had been taken into custody on Jan. 26, according to court documents.

Jonathan Crain got a year’s probation and was fined $520 after pleading no contest to felony and Class A misdemeanor charges of burglary of a vehicle and theft of less than $1,000 in property.

Crain was arrested on Jan. 15 and represented by a public defender from Garden City.

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

Charged with Class A misdemeanor battery of a law enforcement officer, Robert James Diehl entered a guilty plea and was fined $1,920 and given a one-year probated term.

Diehl was arrested on Jan. 15 and represented

by Garden City attorney Bryce Haverkamp.

Dustin Keith Diehl pleaded guilty to Class B misdemeanor domestic battery and was fined $870 and sentenced to a year’s probation. He was taken into custody on Jan. 15.

Also arrested on the same day, Robert S. Diehl, Jr., pleaded guilty to Class C misdemeanor disorderly conduct and agreed to pay an $810 fine.

Diehl was represented

by Eikenberry, as was Charles Chambliss Jr., who got two year’s probation after pleading no contest to a Class A misdemeanor charge of interfering with an officer.

Chambliss pleaded no contest to Class C misdemeanor disorderly conduct and was fined $420.

Sheryl L. Cannon entered a no contest plea to interfering with an officer and was fined $360.

She was arrested on Jan. 4.

Homero MartinezPacheco pleaded guilty to interfering with an officer last Dec. 24 and to operating a vehicle without a license. He was fined $660.

Public Notice (Published in The Scott County Record Thurs., June 6, 2013)1t ORDINANCE NO. 1141 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 8, CHAPTER 2, SECTION TWELVE OF THE CODIFICATION OF THE ORDINANCES OF SCOTT CITY, KANSAS, RELATING TO PROHIBITED ACTS AND ACTIVITIES REGARDING WATER USAGE AND REPEALING THE EXISTING SECTION. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF SCOTT CITY, KANSAS, Section I. Title 8, Chapter 2, Section 12, is hereby amended to read as follows: 8-2-12 PROHIBITED ACTS AND ACTIVITIES: A. OUTDOOR WATERING: No person shall conduct outdoor watering, including, but not limited to the irrigation of lawns, shrubs, flowers, trees, gardens and other outdoor vegetation between the hours of 12:00 noon and 7:00 p.m. effective between May 1 and September 30 each year, except 1. Discharged water from a water cooled refrigerated air conditioner system and 2. Newly seeded lawns for a period not to exceed 30 days. (Permit required from City Hall).

3. Merchants engaged in the seasonal retail sales of live plants including but not

limited to bedding plants, flowers, vegetables, fruits, trees and schrubs.

B. RESALE OF WATER: No water shall be resold or distributed by the recipient thereof from the City supply to any premises other than that for which application has been made and the meter installed, except in case of emergency.

C. TAMPERING: It shall be unlawful for any person not authorized by the City to tamper with, alter or injure any part of the City waterworks or supply system, or any meter.

D. UNLAWFUL CONNECTION: No person shall make any connection to the waterworks system of the City without the permission of the City. (Ord. 936,1-71991) Section II. The existing Title 8, Chapter 2, Article 12 of the codification of Ordinances of Scott City, Kansas is repealed.

Section III. This ordinance shall take effect and be of force from and after its passage and publication in the official City paper.

Passed by the council the 3rd day of June, 2013.

City of Scott City, Ks. Dan Goodman, Mayor ATTEST: Brenda K. Davis, MMC City Clerk

calls, personal visits or emails from someone claiming to represent Obamacare on behalf of the federal government, don’t give out personal information such as credit card numbers, bank account numbers, birth dates or Social Security numbers.

Hang up, shut the door or don’t hit “reply” on your computer.

Kansas Insurance Department consumer representatives have spent much time during the past three years learning about the ACA. They can provide you truthful,

unbiased answers to your questions.

They are gearing up for more calls during the next few months. Anyone with questions can call 800432-2484.

The department will conduct statewide informational meetings in September about health insurance changes.

Watch for these meetings and other material we will be distributing.

Our website, www. ksinsurance.org, also has the latest health insurance information, or call our Consumer Assistance Hotline listed above.

Scott Co. LEC Report Scott City Police Department May 28: David Crist was northbound on Main Street when he veered right, jumping the curb and striking a speed limit sign.

June 1: Criminal damage to property and arson were reported at 402 S. Elizabeth St. June 1: A 2010 Chevrolet owned by Kim Billinger was parked in a driveway in the 700 block of South Elizabeth St. when it was struck by an unknown vehicle.

Scott Co. Sheriff’s Dept.

May 28: Zachary Dyer was arrested for domestic battery and transported to the LEC. June 1: Lyle Tuck was northbound on US83 Highway when he struck a deer.

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., June 6, 2013; last published Thurs., June 13, 2013)2t NOTICE OF SCOTT CITY PLANNING COMMISSION HEARING Notice is hereby given that the Scott City Panning Commission will hold a special meeting on Wed., June 26, 2013, at 7:00 p.m., at the Scott City Council Meeting Room at City Hall, 221 West 5th Street, Scott City, Kansas, to consider the following agenda items: 1) Application for variance by Harold and Shannon Berry to allow a garage to be constructed of a height greater than allowed by ordinance on: Lot Four (4), Block Sixty-Three (63), Original Town (803 Myrtle) 2) Application for amendment of the official zoning map by Kirk and Shelli James to change the zoning from R-1 Residential to C-2 General Commercial District for the following described property to wit: Lots Eleven (11) and Twelve (12), Block Thirty-Five (35), Original Town (Southeast of Intersection of East 5th Street and South Washington Street) All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard at such hearing.

Dated: June 6, 2013 Rodney Hogg, Chairman Scott City Planning Commission

County Commission April 5, 2013 Scott County Commissioners met in a regular meeting with the following present: Chairman James Minnix, members Jerry Buxton and Gary Skibbe, and County Clerk Pam Faurot.

•Jim Carlson discussed forming an initiative to work together with surrounding counties to prevent the federal government from naming the Lesser Prairie Chicken as an endangered species in Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and New Mexico.

•Public Works Director Richard Cramer received information from the Kansas Department of Transportation that Scott County’s Bridge No. 5 is eligible to be replaced with 80% of the cost being paid by federal money. Bridge No. 5 is old and very narrow and needs to be replaced. The estimated cost to the County is $90,000. The commissioners agreed application should be made to have the bridge replaced.

The commission approved the following road maintenance and mowing contracts: •Galen Decker: Maintenance, 3.5 miles at $550 per mile •Galen Decker: Mowing, 28.5 miles at $50 per mile •Approval was given to placing a septic leach field in the county road right-of-way west of lots 5 and 6 owned

by Glenda Gibson at Lake Scott State Park.

•Approval was given to paying Faurot Spraying, Inc., $1,600 for spraying wheat ground on Zella Carpenter land. This will be paid from the Zella Carpenter Fund.

•Susan Wiechman was appointed to the Scott County Library board.

•Ernie Smith was appointed to the Scott County Hospital board.

May 6, 2013 Scott County Commissioners met in a regular meeting with the following present: Chairman James Minnix, members Jerry Buxton and Gary Skibbe, and County Clerk Pam Faurot.

•The county renewed its contract with appraisers John and Lisa Reeder (dba Western Appraisal and Mapping) to perform the appraisal of property in Scott County for an additional four years at $49,500 per year.

•The following tax changes were approved: Addition Armando Puente Addition Armando Puente Abatement Wheatland Electric Abatement Wheatland Electric Abatement Wheatland Electric Abatement Wheatland Electric Abatement Wheatland Electric Abatement Wheatland Electric Abatement Wheatland Electric Abatement Wheatland Electric Abatement Wheatland Electric Abatement Wheatland Electric

$ 93.50 $ 24.60 $1,452.24 $6,965.16 $1,224.16 $1,098.54 $ 1.18 $1,859.84 $ 508.52 $ .40 $1,142.48 $ 105.42

•A contract was renewed with Fire Alarm Specialist to monitor and inspect the fire alarm system at the courthouse. This is a two year contract for $1,475 per year.

•County Economic Development Director Katie Eisenhour gave the commission an update and they discussed a possible ten-year Neighborhood Revitalization Plan.

•Jim Minnix was appointed as the county’s representative on the economic development board.

Award Kansans $9M in mortage settlement claims Kansas borrowers who submitted a valid foreclosure payment claim through the National Mortgage Settlement will receive a check this month for approximately $1,480, according to Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt.

More than $9 million will be distributed to 6,350 Kansans. Eligible borrowers had their mortgage serviced by one of the settlement’s five participating mortgage servicers, lost their home to foreclosure between January 1, 2008, and December 31, 2011, and submitted a valid claim form.

The participating servicers are Ally (formerly GMAC), Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.

“These payments are in addition to mortgage assistance that already has been provided to more than 1,500 Kansans under terms of our settlement,” said Schmidt.

More than $54 million in mortgage relief already has been provided to Kansas homeowners.

Nationally, the settlement administrator will mail valid-claim payments to borrowers listed in 962,278 loan records.

The payments come from a $1.5 billion pool of funds set aside by the mortgage servicers as part of their legal settlement with the attorneys general and the federal government.

In February 2012, 49 state attorneys general and the federal government announced the historic joint state-federal National Mortgage Settlement with the country’s five largest mortgage servicers.

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5 state-based organizations lead effort to improve health Five organizations have been selected to spearhead a new statewide initiative to foster healthier diets, according to officials at the Kansas Health Foundation.

Selected to form the Statewide Partnerships for a Healthier Kansas initiative are: •American Heart Association in Kansas, •Kansas Action for Children, •Kansas Rural Center, •KC Healthy Kids, and •Kansas Hospital Education and Research Foundation, which is affiliated with the Kansas Hospital Association.

The organizations will receive up to $450,000 over three years to advance four goals: •Increase consumption of healthy foods.

•Increase consumption of water.

•Reduce overconsumption of sugary drinks.

•Support health-promoting food and beverage retailing and distribution policies.

“We see this initiative not just improving food and beverage choices, but also improving the overall health and wellness of the people in our state,” said foundation chief executive Steve Coen.

“We all make a number of choices every day regarding what we eat and drink, and we believe these organizations, with this funding, can work effectively to increase the availability of healthy options.”

Julie Mettenburg, executive director of the Kansas Rural Center, said in the first year of the project her organization would be working to convene stakeholders along the food chain - including farmers, distributors, food stores and families - to craft a statewide food plan aimed at facilitating consumption of more local produce.

“The Farm-to-Fork Food Plan will identify the state of affairs with each link in the food chain, and then identify the public policy supports that are needed to advance them,” Mettenburg said.

Private care of disabled at risk due to Kancare payments Mike Shields KHI News Service

Medicaid services for the disabled in Kansas have been undergoing dramatic changes in the past 18 months and in response many smaller providers of so-called “payroll agent” or “financial management services” for disabled persons who prefer to hire their own care attendants are either changing their business models or simply going out of business.

Some in the business predict major consolidations.

Instead of dozens of small firms dotting the landscape, they foresee perhaps four or five large ones.

“There will just be less options for people. More consolidation. The bigger you are, the more likely you are to make a profit on FMS (financial management services),” said Scott Criqui, executive director of Trinity In-Home Care in Lawrence.

Trinity has been in business since 1976. But effective this month, it no longer will provide the administrative services it has offered clients who prefer to “selfdirect” their personal care attendants.

Criqui said the nonprofit agency’s decision to stop providing the services was the result of state policy and reimbursement changes that began in November 2011.

“The reimbursement level for FMS is so low we’re no longer going to be providing that service,” Criqui said.

For almost 20 years, disabled Kansans who rely on Medicaid for services that allow them to live at home and avoid having to move to a nursing home have had the choice of hiring their own attendants, which is called “self-directed care,” or using those provided by an agency – “agency-directed care.”

Because personal care workers often provide a number of intimate needs such as helping with bathing, grooming and toilet-

ing, many disabled persons or their families have preferred the self-directed option instead of relying upon a person sent by an agency.

But to do that, they need the help of a “payroll agent” to process the timesheets and payments for the personal care attendant.

Now, it seems, many of the state’s 62 payroll agents are shutting their doors or concentrating on other types of services.

Doug Gerdel runs Life Patterns, a Topeka-based agency that serves about 400 self-direct customers in the eastern half of the state.

(See DISABLED on page 13)

Medicaid expansion would help those with mental illness

If the state expands its Medicaid program, more than 21,000 uninsured Kansans who are also known to be mentally ill would have access to the care they need, according to a report released today by the National Alliance on Metal Illness.

“Expanding Medicaid will help people living with a mental illness get back to work,” said Rick Cagan, executive director for

NAMI Kansas. “It will help them recover and become more productive. It’s the most important step our state can take right now.”

In keeping with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year on the Affordable Care Act, states are not required to expand their Medicaid programs to include childless adults whose incomes fall below 138 percent of the federal poverty level, about $1,300 a month for

one person. Instead, expansion is optional.

According to the NAMI report, 20 states and the District of Columbia have decided to expand their Medicaid eligibility, 14 states have rejected the notion. In 16 states, including Kansas, the decision is said to be “pending.”

Gov. Sam Brownback, an outspoken critic of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, has

said he continues to weigh the pros and cons - as well as the expense - of expanding Medicaid.

He’s also said he doubts the federal government will be able to keep its promise to pay 100 percent of the expansion states’ costs through 2016; 95 percent in 2017, 94 percent in 2018, 93 percent in 2019, and 90 percent in 2020 and thereafter.

(See MENTAL on page 13)

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Petition fails, Syracuse hospital still gets $3M The community hospital in Syracuse is set to receive the $3 million boost officials say is needed to keep its doors open after petitioners failed to gather enough signatures to put the bond issue to a vote.

County commissioners unanimously approved a request for $3 million to support the 25-bed Hamilton County Hospital, to be repaid over four years by county taxpayers.

A petition had been cir-

culating to put the measure to a countywide vote, but the deadline to submit the needed 63 signatures passed on June 3.

County Clerk Angie Moser said that cleared the way for her office to file paperwork for the bond.

“We’re hoping by the first week of July (the hospital) will have their money,” Moser said.

She said that a meeting last month organized by hospital officials may have led to more commu-

Mental Brownback has said expanding Medicaid eligibility would likely cost the state an additional $600 million over 10 years.

Cagan, however, countered that projections also show that expansion would generate an additional $5.3 billion in federal aid for Kansas over a 10-year period.

“That’s a significant source of revenue,” he said. “The fact of the matter is that, right now, the individuals we’re talking about here don’t have access to comprehensive mental health services because they’re uninsured. And that lack of access means that the chances of their living

opposed that tax increase and also pointed to what they said was mismanagement at the hospital.

In making its case for the $3 million bond, officials said much of the hospital’s budget woes were a result of it not having its own doctor for the last five years.

By the end of this month, the hospital will have its own doctor, according to a report in the .

Dr. John Carey, a family physician from

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successful lives are greatly diminished. They’re stuck.”

According to the NAMI report, 13 percent of the uninsured adults in Kansas are known to have a mental illness.

Recent surveys also have found that 53 percent of the people receiving services through one of Kansas’ 27 community mental health centers are uninsured.

“I’d say that about half of that 53 percent would be eligible for Medicaid if the decision was made to expand Medicaid,” said Mike Hammond, executive director at the Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas.

Disabled Historically, Gerdel said, Kansas had “always been way ahead of other states in terms of in-home supports and we were one of the very first states – back in the 1980s - to offer self-directed care.”

But that’s been changing as a result of the new policies.

“People can still selfdirect,” he said. “But here in the last 18 months, you can see how that’s being taken apart, piece by piece.”

State officials said despite the changes they think there are enough payroll agent businesses to serve the state’s disabled.

“We currently have more than 60 FMS (Financial Management Service) providers in Kansas, and believe that represents an ample num-

nity support for the plan, which would raise property taxes.

“This is secondhand, but I did hear after the hospital had their informational public meeting, about 10 or 12 people removed their names from the petition,” Moser said.

Taxes are set to go up by 18.15 mills - a $453 per year increase for a business valued at $100,000 and a $208 per year increase for a $100,000 home.

Critics of the plan

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ber of choices for consumers,” said Angela de Rocha of the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services.

“The number of FMS providers fluctuates a bit every month. If there is an apparent consolidation, we are not seeing it yet. We would not be surprised to see some consolidation, but do not at this time anticipate anything too drastic. KDADS has no set optimal number of FMS providers.”

Some agencies, like Trinity in Lawrence, will continue to provide other services. But the agency has already notified more than 90 clients that it no longer will provide payroll agent services.

“That’s a guess on my part. It could be more.”

Susan Crain Lewis, executive director with the Kansas City-based advocacy program, Mental Health America of the Heartland, said the number of uninsured adults who are mentally ill appears to be increasing.

“We get an awful lot of calls on our help hotline from people who for one reason or another either don’t have, can’t afford, or have lost their health insurance and are frantically seeking mental health treatment,” Lewis said. “Chances are they’ve already reached out to the mental health center, but the reality is that

fewer and fewer services are available because so much of the funding has been cut.”

In the NAMI report, the authors argue that the mentally ill face “glaring gaps of treatment” that “would not be tolerated for heart disease, cancer or diabetes.”

Carol Manning, chief executive at The Mental Health Association of South Central Kansas, agreed.

“When you step back and look at what’s available to people who have insurance and what’s available to those who don’t, there’s a real disparity,” Manning said.

“It’s a disparity that really needs to be addressed.”

California, is scheduled to start later this month. Carey was born in Coffeyville and prior to moving to California spent nine years at the hospital in Elkhart.

Hospital board member Shannon Wharton said Carey was identified by a third-party recruiter.

She said officials would continue to recruit family physicians, both for the long run and short run.

“Ideally, we’d like to get to where we have one-and-a-half, but it may

be that we end up with two full-time doctors,” Wharton said.

The hospital also has hired a new interim chief executive, Bryan Coffey, a former chief executive of Sac-Osage Hospital in Osceola, Mo. Wharton said Coffey was being brought on temporarily to help the hospital assess its current situation, chart a path forward and assist recruiting a permanent chief executive.

Movie in the Park • Fri., June 14 • 9:45 p.m.

“Support Your Local Sheriff” sponsored by Richards Financial Services, Scott City

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Pastime at Park Lane We welcome Mike Kitch to Park Lane.

The United Methodist Church led Sunday afternoon church services.

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 and Barbara Dickhut.

Residents played pitch on Wednesday evening.

Chocolate ice cream cones were enjoyed by a number of the residents on Thursday afternoon.

Residents played ball games on Thursday evening.

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

Chet Quance, Dighton,

Musicians entertain at Park Lane

Max Moomaw, Ed Gough, Maxine Wilson and Jo Fouse provided musical entertainment on Tuesday afternoon. They sang and played a variety of country music, folk songs and hymns. sang a variety of showtunes, music from the ‘50s and ‘60s, and some hymns on Friday afternoon.

Residents watched a Ma and Pa Kettle movie on Saturday afternoon.

Root beer and popcorn were served.

Edith Norman was visited by Sue Riner and Sara Shane.

Dona Dee Carpenter was visited by Bill and Kandi John, Hugh McDaniel, Pastor Dennis Carter, Frances Luke, Fritzie Rauch, Danielle Noll, Billie and Lori Stephens and Gloria O’Bleness.

Dottie Fouquet was visited by Jon and Anne Crane, Donna Gaschler, Mark and Terri Fouquet, Ronda Skibbe, Dean Fouquet and Fritzie Rauch.

Delores Brooks was

visited by Les and MaryAnn Spangler, Charles Brooks, and Dave and Cheryl Perry.

Melva Rose was visited

by Danielle Hutton.

Judy Redburn was visited by Danielle Hutton, Mary Torson, Carol Ellis, Debbie Holland Bush, Debbie Eaton Frank, Jim Cooley, Wendy Derstine, LuJuana Turley and Reba Hearson.

Earl Gorman was visited by Loretta Gorman, Charlene Becht, and Orville and Marcine Gorman.

Bruce Scott was visited

by George Andrasek.

Pat Palen was visited

by Tina Turley, Linda Dunagan, Deb Lawrence, Lorena Turley, Lila Carson, and Jack and Sheri Rapier.

Pat Lewis was visited

by Emily Wright, Gil and Liz Lewis, Savanah Lewis, Cara Beaton, Fritzie Rauch, Lori and Baylor Vasquez, and Trisha Baker.

Ann Tedford was visited by Arlene Cauthon and Mary Plum.

Bonnie Pickett was visited by Detta Hager, Arlene Cauthon, Gloria Wright, Larry and Philene Pickett, Treva McCandless and Margie Stevens.

Lula Dirks was visited

by Willetta Payne, Darla Luebbers and Jerome Luebbers.

Lorena Turley was visited by Penifer Keller, LaCinda Griffin, Arlene Cauthon, Neta Wheeler; Tom Griffin, Loveland, Colo.; Lexi Mullen, LuJauna Turley, Reba Hearson, and Emily and Tracy Hess.

Vivian Kreiser was visited by Larry and Sharon Lock, Kai Beaton; Trenedy, Grace, Kaleb and Spenser Beaton; and Caitlin Stromberg and Shannon.

Jim and Yvonne Span-

Gloria Vada Lindenmuth

Betty D. Jobe

Rosemary Paget Rosemary Paget, 84, Smith Center, died May 24, 2013, at the Deseret Health and Rehab Center, Smith Center.

She was born Oct. 11, 1928, in rural Esbon, the daughter of Dewey and Irene (Rice) Seems.

She was a retired postmaster.

Survivors include: three sons, Bill, and wife, Dee, Scott City, Kenneth and wife, Susie, Smith Center, and Tom and wife, Ann, Ft. Smith, Ark.; one brother, Lyn “Duke” and wife, Mary Jane, Smith Center; nine grandchil-

gler were visited by Les and MaryAnn Spangler, Danny and Mona Spangler, Michael McEachern, Margie Stevens, Yvette Mills and Fritzie Rauch.

James Still was visited

by Tina Turley.

Mike Kitch was visited

by Charlene Becht.

Mildred Van Pelt was visited by David Van Pelt, Arlene Cauthon, Hugh McDaniel, Rev. Dennis Carter, Gwen Huck and Treva McCandless.

Jake Leatherman was visited by Hugh McDaniel, Virgil Kuntz, Don and Judy Browning, Ervin Nightengale, Charles Nightengale and Phyllis Nightengale.

Geraldine Graves was visited by Chris Everett, Charlene Becht, Megan Dirks, Karyn Hendrix, Diane Dirks and Fritzie Rauch.

Boots Haxton was a Sunday dinner guest of Rod and Kathy Haxton.

Phyllis Trembley was visited by Rev. Dennis Carter.

Herb Graves was visit-

ed by Tina Turley, Jacqueline Huerta, Bonnie Christensen, Janessa Lowenthal and Trisha Baker.

Darlene Richman was visited by Tina Turley.

Mike Leach was visited by Linda Dunagan and Rev. Don Martin.

Cecile Billings was visited by Ann Beaton, Linda Dunagan, Delinda Dunagan and Larry Billings.

Verna Willman was visited by D’Ann Markel and Nancy Johnson.

Joyce Bohnert was visited by Tina Turley.

Hilda Gruver was visited by Tina Turley.

Ruth Holland was visited by Kendra Euliss, Starla Euliss, Keith Euliss, Monica Rowton, Charlene Becht and Debbie Bush.

Jim Jeffery was visited

by Jim Haddon, Nathella Jeffery, Hugh McDaniel and Pastor Dennis Carter.

Harriet Jones was visited by Marcia Chyba, Travis Jones, Annabelle McDaniel, Rev. Don Martin from St. Luke’s Church, and Nancy Holt.

Senior Citizen Lunch Menu

Deaths Betty D. Jobe, 78, Dighton, died May 31, 2013, at the Lane County Long Term Care Unit, Dighton.

S h e was born Oct. 5, 1934, at Lamar, Colo., the Betty Jobe daughter of Clarence and Della (Nichols) Jobe.

She grew up and attended school in Milan, Mo. In 1970, she moved to Trenton, Mo., and then to Scott City in 1983. She had lived in Dighton since 1989.

She was a housekeeper and caretaker for the elderly, retiring in 1992.

She was a member of the Community Christian Church, Scott City.

by Jason Storm

Gloria Vada Lindenmuth, 86, formerly of Scott City, died June 3, 2013, at her residence in rural Wamego.

She was born July 19, 1926, at Sawyer, the daughter of Bert and Emma (Banker) Buck.

She attended schools in Sawyer, graduating from Sawyer High School. She attended Ft. Hays State University, graduating with a degree in art. After college, she moved to Scott City in 1949 where she began teaching art.

She taught art and fourth grade for 39 years in Scott City, retiring in 1988. In 2006, she moved to Lincoln, Nebr., to be closer to her family.

She then moved to rural Wamego in 2012.

She was a member of Eastern Star, United Methodist Women and a dren and six great-grand- past member of the First children.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Adolph; infant sister, Diane; two sisters, Agatha and Helen; and two brothers, Leo “Duke” and Alan.

A Mass of Christian Burial was held May 28 at St. Marys Catholic Church, Smith Center.

Memorials may be sent to the St. Mary’s Catholic Youth organization in care of Simmons-Rentschler Mortuary, Smith Center.

E-condolences may be given at www.simmonsrentschler.com.

Betty will be greatly missed by her good friend, Mershon Jones, and her many friends at Lane County Long Term Care, Dighton.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

A memorial service was held June 6 at the Community Christian Church, Scott City, with Pastor Shelby Crawford officiating. Burial was in the Valley View Cemetery, Garden City.

Memorials may be sent to the Community Christian Church or Lane County Long Term Care Unit in care of Boomhower Funeral Home, 145 N. Wichita, Dighton, Ks. 67839.

E-condolences may be sent to garnandfh@sbcglobal.net.

United Methodist Church, Scott City.

On June 4, 1955, she married Everett Lindenmuth at Scott City. He died in 2005.

Survivors include: one daughter, Lorie Lindenmuth, and spouse, Lennie Hoover, Roca, Nebr.; one son, Dr. Lance, DDS, and spouse, Julie Bloom, Clatonia, Nebr.; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents and six siblings.

Gloria’s wishes were to be cremated. A private family inurnment will be held at a later date at the Scott County Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to the First United Methodist Church, 412 College St., Scott City, Ks. 67871.

E-condolences may be given at www.stewartfuneralhomes.com.

Week of June 10-14 Monday: Meat loaf, au gratin potatoes, winter mix, whole wheat roll, mixed fruit.

Tuesday: Roast turkey with gravy, sweet potatoes, green beans with pimentos, whole wheat bread, fruit gelatin salad.

Wednesday: BBQ beef on a bun, potato salad, creamy cole slaw, peaches.

Thursday: Chicken and noodles, mashed potatoes, broccoli, whole wheat roll, apple slices.

Friday: Chili or beef stew, tossed salad with tomato, green pepper and carrots, apricots, crackers, cinnamon roll. meals are $3.00 • call 872-3501

The Scott County Record • Page 15 • Thursday, June 6, 2013

Park Place People

by Doris Riner

Our news of the past week is all about the old people getting older, meaning the two birthday parties we had. The two people having a birthday (and turning a year older) were Marian Sigurdson on Wednesday and Margaret Lee on Thursday.

Both parties were held during our coffee hour and both “queens” were honored with a great show of friends.

Now, I know by now, from past experience, not to reveal a “queen’s” age, so don’t ask. You can bet (my most used phrase) that a good time was had by all on both days.

Lela Bishop went to a family reunion over the weekend in Nebraska with her sister, Thelma Miller. You can bet Lela had the most fun there.

Lou Pfanenstiel’s daughter, Linda Eddy, and her granddaughter, Karly Eddy, were here for a week, driving from Bloomfield, N.M. When I asked her “How was your trip?” she answered “LONG!” The biggest and best news from Joe Beaver is pool. He and Clif Thon continue their games. Jay comes over and challenges Joe on Sunday afternoons.

Yours truly hasn’t felt good all last week.

Monday evening I was tired of being inside, so I grabbed my broom, got on my scooter and went out and swept several months of tiny rocks off the car drives. Believe me it was quite a chore!

On the way outside I met Lou in the hall. He asked me if I was going to ride my scooter or my broom!

Attend the Church of Your Choice

Unity First Christian Church did something amazing last week: we had Vacation Bible School. Now packing 50+ elementary aged kids into the building for three hours may not seem like much fun, but it was a great experience. For me the best part was partnering with Shelby Crawford and the wonderful people at Community Christian Church.

Community Christian Church has a special place in my heart. I was raised in that church, I was baptized there on August 10, 1980, and on June 23, 1996, that congregation ordained me into the ministry and sent me out as a “Timothy” from that church.

Many may not realize that Community Christian started up in the late 60’s and was part of a national split from the Disciples of Christ (First Christian Church). But that‘s not the point of this article. The point of this article is unity, more specifically unity in Christ.

During His “High Priestly Prayer” in John 17 Jesus said this “…that they may all be one; even as You, the Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.” In this prayer Jesus is praying for the church that was yet to come and he was praying for unity.

Today, Sunday, may be the most segregated day of the week. There is nothing wrong with wanting worship with like-minded people, but let us not forget that we are ONE in Christ Jesus.

Some of the greatest worship services for me while serving in Wichita were the Good Friday services. Our congregation would gather with five other congregations from five different denominations and we worshiped together. It was powerful, Spirit-filled and I believe a glimpse of heaven. But it was also a testimony to those involved and those from the outside looking in of the UNITY that Jesus taught, the unity that Paul preached, the unity that God desires for his people.

We may meet in different buildings, but can you imagine what this community would be like if we functioned as The Church of Scott City? I think it would be amazing.

Pastor Scotty Wagner First Christian Church, Scott City • fccscottcity.org

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

1st United Methodist Church

Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

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.

First Christian Church

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

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

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.

The Scott County Record • Page 16 • Thursday, June 6, 2013

Drought overrides freeze damage with area’s wheat crop As expected, there were questions about the impact two April freezes had on the area’s wheat crop during the Walnut Creek Extension District’s annual tour of plots within Lane, Rush and Ness counties.

The response was pretty predictable.

“They had some effect,” replied Jim Shroyer, an agronomist with Kansas State University Extension, while at a tour stop on the Vance Ehmke farm in western Lane County. “But it’s nothing like the drought damage we’ve seen.”

“The freeze didn’t kill many of the heads outright, but caused damage to the stems below,” explained Shroyer. “I’ll bet there are soft areas in the lower stems.”

And that will limit the ability of nutrients to get to the head and will likely cause wheat to lay over before it’s cut - a dual problem for farmers.

“It’s the drought, not the freeze, that has hurt the most,” says Lane County farmer Ron Suppes. “Last year we saw a lot of 12 bushel wheat and that was still better than the year before. This year . . . I don’t know.”

While rainfall the night before the tour offered a bit of good news for area producers, it wasn’t enough to dramatically

alter the forecast for the upcoming wheat harvest.

Even the hardiest of hard red winter wheat hasn’t escaped the drought’s devastating impact. Shroyer noted that the Turkey Red which was planted in the Ehmke plot is “the shortest I’ve ever seen.”

Following a half-inch rain in the area the previous night, Shroyer halfjokingly commented, “It will probably double in height and still lodge.”

In a number of fields it’s possible to spot white heads, which indicate freeze damage. However, Chris Long, Extension agent for the Walnut Creek District, said the majority of the damage he’s seen is from drought stress.

“When the wheat doesn’t get much over six inches tall that’s not a good situation. There wasn’t much moisture at the time it was planted last fall and the stands ever since have been pretty thin,” he observed.

A couple of showers last week may provide some help for wheat that was in the milk stage.

Wheat in the southern edge of Ness County, for example, has pretty well existed on good moisture at the time it was planted. There was very little moisture since, until a four-inch downpour on May 29.

Kansas State University agronomist Jim Shroyer (foreground) and plant pathologist Erik DeWolf (far right) speak at the wheat plot tour during a stop at the Vance Ehmke farm last Thursday evening.

(Record Photo)

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The Scott County Record

Sports

Page 17 - Thursday, June 6, 2013

Fishermen starting to appreciate saugeye population at Lake Scott

(Top) Park Ranger Tad Eubanks nets a fish that has been shocked while Scott City fourth graders who were on a field trip observe from the bank. (Above) Fisheries biologist Dave Spalsbury gets ready to weigh and measure a walleye that tipped the scales at seven pounds.

(Record Photos)

Lake Scott continues to be one of the best - if not the best - fishing sites in Western Kansas.

It’s Dave Spalsbury’s goal to make it even better.

Meeting that goal without limiting an individual’s fishing experience can be a huge undertaking for the fisheries biologist with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism.

Spalsbury’s analysis of the lake in a nutshell: •The crappie still aren’t growing as large as he would like.

•The introduction of saugeye has been a success.

•The largemouth bass population continues to flourish.

The spring electrofishing survey typically focuses on the bass population, but the most recent survey, along with one conducted last fall, has also given Spalsbury a

good glimpse of saugeye development. The sauger/ walleye hybrid was first introduced into the lake three years ago.

“The first year class has had three growing seasons and they’re coming up on 18 inches,” Spalsbury says.

“The females, which are bigger, are where they should be in the three- to four-year-old range.

“I’d like to see more numbers, but in terms of overall body condition and health, they look really good.”

That seems to be verified

by Scott City fisherman Mike Todd who has caught “eight to 10 saugeye that measured 20 inches or more” so far this year.

Crappie Numerous

One goal of the saugeye program is to counteract a crappie population that Spalsbury describes as “way

a pool tsunami

too numerous and way too small.”

“At this point, the saugeye have had no impact on the crappie population. But we’ll give it time to see what happens,” says Spalsbury.

That means stocking more saugeye. Whether that will happen this year depends on the type of spawning season at the state hatcheries. Saugeye fingerlings were stocked in 2010 and 2011, but Spalsbury skipped last year because of a terrible spawning season. He’s still hopeful of getting 7,000 fingerlings for Lake Scott this year.

Survival rate, of course, depends on habitat and other conditions.

“It can be as much as 50 percent or as little as one percent,” Spalsbury says.

Lake Scott is part of a large-scale research project

by Spalsbury in which he’s (See SAUGEYE on page 24)

Stars claim 60 golds in home meet

Lizzy Eikenberry of the Scott City Stars competes in the 100 meter breaststroke during the Scott City swim meet.

(Record Photo)

The Scott City Stars swim team took domination to another level during their home meet which opened the summer season on Saturday.

The Stars swam away with 60 first place finishes 32 in the girl’s division and 28 in the boy’s. Between the two divisions they added another 42 silver medals.

Their domination was also apparent in the final team scores with Scott City easily claiming the title with 1,088.5 points.

Their nearest challenger was Garden City YMCA (179.5), followed by Dodge/Cimarron (161), Holcomb (107), Leoti (53) and Southwest Aquatics (10).

In the girl’s division, Alli Brunswig and Reagan Smyth were each four-time winners.

Brunswig (9-10 years) won the 50m freestyle (38.56), 100m freestyle (1:35.29), 50m backstroke (50.22) and the 50m butterfly (54.82). She was also a runner-up in the 50m breaststroke (58.32).

Smyth (15-years and over) swept first place finishes in the 50m freestyle (28.76), 100m freestyle (65.22), 500m freestyle (6:58.28) and the 100m butterfly (1:14.75).

Six other swimmers each claimed a pair of first place medals.

(See TSUNAMI on page 18)

The Scott County Record • Page 18 • Thursday, June 6, 2013

Outdoors in Kansas

by Steve Gilliland

Ozzy the owl

I had just mowed halfway around one of the oak trees in our front yard and turned to mow around the other half when a tiny, bounding ball of fur caught my attention.

At first I thought it was a mouse, but it was too big. Then I’m not sure what I thought it was as it bounced and floundered around in the thick ground cover at the base of the tree.

Finally it got its footing and I could plainly see it was a tiny, baby bunny about the size of one of our four-year-old grandson’s slippers. I motioned to my wife who was sitting on the porch and continued mowing.

She plucked the wriggling bunny from the maze of groundcover, and after show-and-tell at the neighbors, she placed it back at the base of the tree. No nest was visible, but just before dark it had disappeared.

This morning as she was watering her flowers, she stooped near the tree for a closer look. Something resembling a tuft of fur looked slightly out of place at the outer edge of the groundcover, and a little digging opened up a nest with five or six baby bunnies packed into a cavity in the ground like Pringles potato chips in a can.

Yes, it’s once again the season for finding “orphaned” wildlife.

Trouble is, most of the time they aren’t really orphaned; like the “orphaned” bunny that simply got scared from its nest at the sound of the lawnmower blades overhead, and later “disappeared” back into its nest again.

A few years back I did a story about this on people finding apparently orphaned wildlife and what their correct response should be. I called Bob Mathews, chief of information and education for Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tour(See OZZY on page 22)

Golfers to tee it up in MASH tourney Bob Campbell staff writer

Helping citizens and visitors meet medical travel and treatment expenses, Scott County Hospital’s Caring Hearts/Caring Hands program characterizes the county as a place where no one has to feel isolated, especially not when they are experiencing the stress of a health problem.

The CH/CH program relies primarily on about $12,000 in contributions

raised each year from the Scott Community Foundation’s MASH golf tournament to be held on Sat., June 8.

The 18-hole MASH (Money Acquired for Scott Health) tournament features a variety of hole prizes and fun atmosphere for the 18-20 participating teams.

CH/CH helps about 100 people annually with travel expenses for health care services outside Scott County, in addition to

offering assistance with local visits to doctors’ offices, X-rays and other procedures.

“Gas and food money is a burden for a lot of our people who go to Wichita, Hays, Kansas City, Denver or the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.,” said Scott County Hospital Chief Ancillary Officer Karma Huck, who started the program eight years ago.”

Or they may need assistance for multiple trips to

Garden City for chemotherapy or radiation.

“Those of us who live here are passionate about our community and want to see it thrive and grow.

We care about one another and are a giving community. That’s what makes us who we are,” says Huck.

Huck said people who need help usually come to the attention of herself and others at the hospital as they go about their work.

Caring Hearts is for travel assistance while Caring Hands “is a medi-

cal office and small procedure fund,” Huck explains.

“Sometimes people show up in the emergency room with no immediate resources when their family members are being flown out or ground-tranported,” she says.

“We can give assistance on their way out the door.

And if they can’t pay for an office visit or don’t have insurance and can’t afford an X-ray, we’re a small enough community that we can probably help.”

Conner Cupp, Scott City, competes in the 200m individual medley during Saturday’s home meet to open the summer season.

(Record Photo)

Tsunami

(continued from page 17)

Hope Wiechman (8-years and under) was a double winner in the 25m freestyle and 25m breaststroke while adding a silver in the 100m individual medley.

Kennedy Wasinger (8-years and under) collected wins in the 100m freestyle and 25m backstroke.

Makaela Stevens (11-12 years) swept the 50m and 100m freestyle events along with a silver medal in the 200m freestyle.

In the 13-14-year division, Hannah Brandl won the 50m freestyle and 100m backstroke while Lizzy Eikenberry claimed golds in the 100m breaststroke and 200m individual medley.

Also winning first place were Tara Rose (8-years and under) in the 25m butterfly; Alli Patton (9-10 years) in the 100m individual medley; Shelby Patton (11-12 years) in the 500m freestyle; and Haley Allen (13-14 years) in the 100m freestyle.

Rumford Wins 4 Events

Chase Rumford (13-14 years) was the big winner in the boy’s division with four gold medals. He won the 50m freestyle (29.1), the 100m freestyle (69.31), 500m freestyle (7:23.91) and the 100m butterfly (1:25.07).

He was also a runner-up in the 100m breaststroke.

Sawyer Stevens (9-10 years) was a triple winner in the 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle and 100m individual medley.

Brandon Winderlin (11-12 years) captured three gold medals in the 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle events.

Conner Cupp (11-12 years) picked up first place finishes in the 50m backstroke, 50m butterfly and 200m individual medley.

Claiming three championships was Reid Brunswig (13-14 years) in the 200m freestyle, 100m breaststroke and 200m individual medley, along with runner-up finishes in the 50m and 100m freestyle races.

A double winner was Zach Rohrbough (8-years and under) in the 25m and 100m freestyle.

Also winning gold medals were Avry Noll (8-years and under) 25m backstroke; and Nick Storm (15-years and over) in the 100m freestyle.

Hannah Brandl, 13, of the Scott City Stars swims to a gold medal in the 100m backstroke during Saturday’s home meet.

(Record Photo)

Trouble for Martin a huge blow to Hawks

Kansas football coach Charlie Weis lost one of his prized juco recruits before fall practice even started.

Highly by touted deMac fensive end Stevenson Chris Martin (6-4, 260) has been charged with armed robbery with a dangerous weapon. There’s no way to sugarcoat this one.

It has to be unbearably frustrating for the coaching staff when something like this happens. They spent lots of money and time recruiting a guy like Martin and think they finally have him on the right track. The coaches spent more valuable time coaching Martin in spring practice while convincing him he could eventually have a lucrative career in the NFL. Then the coaching staff is rewarded with a phone call bearing the news that a player they are counting on and need in the worst way is accused of committing an incredibly stupid criminal act. There’s no excuse or logical explanation for Martin’s behavior. Coach Weis gave him another chance to make something of himself and he threw it all away.

Martin has a history of irrational conduct and that’s the chance college football coaches take when they recruit such a marginal, but highly talented, prospect.

This is a classic example of why capable depth is a must in college football.

Practice time is critical for young spikers this summer Given the lack of returning letterwomen - and the lack of players prepared to step into the varsity ranks - last week’s volleyball camp may have been the most crucial in Jordan Shay’s tenure as the Scott Community High School head coach.

With only two returning starters among her four seniors, Shay needed the camp to get a head start on who will be playing in what positions when the fall season begins.

That’s one reason why she decided against bringing in an outside camp clinician as she has during the last three summers.

“I’m going into my fourth year, so I have an idea of what we need to be working on during the summer,” says Shay.

“Rather than focus on two or three days of fundamentals,

we were able to get more into advanced stuff with the older girls, including some six-on-six situations. Those are things we typically haven’t done until August.”

Attendance for the weeklong camp was about 27 among the high school players and 22 for the Scott City Middle School session. Assisting Shay with the camp were assistant coaches Kelli Eisenhour and Ashley Simons.

There’s little doubt that if the Lady Beavers are going to match last year’s 22-win total they will need underclassmen to raise the level of their game during the next three months.

The only seniors are Krissa Dearden, Rachel Anliker, Kelly Wycoff and Bailey Nickel.

“The seniors are great leaders. They’re going to be on the

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Madison Orr (left) and Kristi Faurot work on blocking drills during the SCHS volleyball camp.

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court a lot,” says Shay.

The only two juniors at camp were Kristi Faurot and Brooke Dillinger.

“We’ll need some sophomores to move up to the varsity level and we’ll be counting

Brett is Hitting Coach

Last week, George Brett was named as the Kansas City Royals’ interim hitting coach, which will be an improvement because the hitters can’t be any worse.

Brett will instill some much-needed fire among the everyday players, just like he did as a great KC third baseman.

Over the last few years, the Royals’ minor league farm system was considered to be one of the best in MLB. That’s changed. KC’s farm system has slipped.

Particularly troublesome is that some of the recent first-round draft choices aren’t faring so well.

KC’s first-rounder in 2012 was right-handed (See TROUBLE on page 21)

Haley Allen digs the ball out of the net during Friday’s practice session.

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on some freshmen to play JV,” says Shay. “It could come down to who shows up in the weight room this summer and at our (summer) practices.”

The head coach feels there are some bright prospects among the 15-plus freshmen who were at camp and are expected to play this fall.

“The freshmen played a lot of winter ball. They are playing at a much higher level than we’ve seen from incoming freshmen over the last couple of years,” she notes.

The head coach is also excited about some of the prospects she’s seeing at the junior high level, including eighth graders Jalynn Habiger and Gracie Chambless.

“They were the only girls who played winter volleyball and were far and away the two best girls during our junior high camp,” she says.

In addition, the Scott Recreation Commission is sponsoring open volleyball for grades 6-8 this summer. Shay and Eisenhour will assist with it from time to time.

But that isn’t going to help the Lady Beavers during the upcoming season. That’s why Shay is planning more practices with varsity players this summer and is hopeful of getting court time against area teams.

“My plan is to take certain groups of girls and work with them one or two times a week.

That’s particularly important for the younger girls,” she says.

Shay acknowledges the team has “a ton of holes to fill” and a short time to get it done.

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Scott City Stars Swim Team Scott City Meet June 1, 2013 Girl’s Division Team scores: Scott City Stars 1,088.5, Garden City YMCA 179.5, Dodge Cimarron 161, Holcomb 107, Wichita County 53, Southwest Aquatics 10.

25m Freestyle 8-years and under: Hope Wiechman, 1st, 19.64; Kiley Wren, 2nd, 20.52; Kennedy Wasinger, 3rd, 21.38; Tara Rose, 4th, 21.56; Hannah Eikenberry, 5th, 23.27; Brinlie Stevens, 6th, 24.69; Lana Rodriguez, 7th, 25.75; Hailee Amerine, 8th, 32.08; Megan Trout, 11th, 37.55; Bret Lyon, 12th, 40.44; Callie Hutton, 13th, 41.45; Kinleigh Wren, 15th, 42.50; Hailey Shapland, 16th, 43.27; Madison Roberts, 17th, 44.05; Kate Rogers, 18th, 45.76.

50m Freestyle 8-years and under: Brinlie Stevens, 2nd, 59.00.

9-10-years: Allison Brunswig, 1st, 38.56; Alli Patton, 3rd, 41.69; Paige Vulgamore, 4th, 42.08; Alivia Noll, 5th, 42.87; Claire Rumford, 8th, 47.27; Tori Ford, 9th, 49.66; Paige Prewit, 11th, 50.65; Clare Hawkins, 15th, 1:05.50; Bethany Prochnow, 17th, 1:10.19; Brynna Burnett, 19th, 1:45.62.

11-12-years: Makaela Stevens, 1st, 30.30; Shelby Patton, 3rd, 31.38; Emily Parkinson, 4th, 31.52; Molly Eikenberry, 6th, 32.56; Piper Wasinger, 8th, 33.47; Mattie Brandl, 9th, 34.96; Jacy Rose, 10th-t, 36.19; Alyssa Storm, 12th, 37.03; Lanae Haupt, 14th, 39.88; Brooke Hoeme, 17th, 41.84; Abby Ford, 18th, 42.08; Grace Hutton, 19th, 43.07; Abbi Prochnow, 20th, 43.89.

13-14-years: Hannah Brandl, 1st, 29.87; Camryn Patton, 2nd, 30.44; Lizzy Eikenberry, 3rd, 30.59; Haley Allen, 4th, 30.78; Paige Winderlin, 6th, 31.00; Hallie Wiechman, 9th, 33.68; Elaine Parkinson, 10th, 33.94; Rachel Fisher, 12th, 34.89; Alexis Hoeme, 13th, 36.15; Ashley Prewit, 14th, 37.56; Chelsea Amerine, 15th, 38.31.

15-years and over: Reagan Smyth, 1st, 28.76; Elizabeth Parkinson, 6th, 33.59; Alicia Niles, 7th, 38.20.

100m Freestyle 8-years and under: Kennedy Wasinger, 1st, 1:58.41; Tara Rose, 2nd, 1:59.86; Lana Rodriguez, 3rd, 2:20.63.

9-10-years: Allison Brunswig, 1st, 1:35.29; Alli Patton, 2nd, 1:36.32; Alivia Noll, 3rd, 1:39.62; Paige Vulgamore, 6th, 1:49.58; Claire Rumford, 7th, 1:51.24; Paige Prewit, 8th, 1:53.08; Tori Ford, 10th, 2:00.22; Bethany Prochnow, 12th, 2:48.14.

11-12-years: Makaela Stevens, 1st, 1:11.12; Emily Parkinson, 2nd, 1:13.35; Shelby Patton, 3rd, 1:13.88; Piper Wasinger, 5th, 1:16.03; Molly Eikenberry, 7th, 1:18.39; Mattie Brandl, 9th, 1:22.83; Jacy Rose, 10th, 1:26.23; Alyssa Storm, 11th, 1:27.96; Lanae Haupt, 13th, 1:37.97; Brooke Hoeme, 15th, 1:39.24; Abby Ford, 17th, 1:41.44; Grace Hutton, 18th, 1:42.25; Abbi Prochnow, 19th, 1:47.93.

13-14-years: Haley Allen, 1st, 1:08.44; Paige Winderlin, 2nd, 1:09.47; Hannah Brandl, 3rd, 1:11.09; Lizzy Eikenberry, 6th, 1:13.00; Camryn Patton, 7th, 1:15.33; Elaine Parkinson, 8th, 1:17.19; Hallie Wiechman, 10th, 1:18.87; Alexis Hoeme, 12th, 1:25.87; Rachel Fisher, 13th, 1:29.65; Ashley Prewit, 14th, 1:34.07.

15-years and over: Reagan Smyth, 1st, 1:05.22; Elizabeth Parkinson, 4th, 1:18.94.

25m Backstroke 8-years and under: Kennedy Wasinger, 1st, 27.37; Lana Rodriguez, 3rd, 28.51; Brinlie Stevens, 4th, 29.53; Hope Wiechman, 5th, 30.12; Kiley Wren, 6th, 31.12; Hannah Eikenberry, 7th, 31.28; Hailee Amerine, 9th, 38.33;

Bret Lyon, 10th, 44.47; Callie Hutton, 11th, 46.53.

50m Backstroke 10-years and under: Allison Brunswig, 1st, 50.22; Alli Patton, 4th, 57.26; Paige Prewit, 7th, 1:04.47;Alivia Noll, 10th, 1:10.03; Paige Vulgamore, 11th, 1:14.78; Bethany Prochnow, 12th, 1:30.40.

11-12-years: Emily Parkinson, 3rd, 41.14; Makaela Stevens, 4th, 41.87; Mattie Brandl, 5th, 42.32; Molly Eikenberry, 6th, 46.22; Jacy Rose, 8th, 48.47; Abby Ford, 10th, 51.53; Brooke Hoeme, 12th, 52.43; Lanae Haupt, 14th, 56.24; Grace Hutton, 15th, 1:00.62; Abbi Prochnow, 16th, 1:06.29.

200m Freestyle 11-12-years: Makaela Stevens, 2nd, 2:46.94; Emily Parkinson, 3rd, 2:53.25; Mattie Brandl, 5th, 3:16.71; Alyssa Storm, 6th, 3:25.78; Abbi Prochnow, 7th, 3:55.63.

13-14-years: Paige Winderlin, 1st, 2:40.18; Haley Allen, 2nd, 2:45.38; Camryn Patton, 3rd, 2:47.56; Elaine Parkinson, 4th, 2:58.44.

15-years and over: Elizabeth Parkinson, 3rd, 2:57.19.

500m Freestyle 11-12-years: Shelby Patton, 1st, 7:37.18.

13-14-years: Hallie Wiechman, 4th, 7:54.66; Ashley Prewit, 5th, 9:04.19.

15-years and over: Reagan Smyth, 1st, 6:58.28; Elizabeth Parkinson, 2nd, 8:03.47; Alicia Niles, 3rd, 9:53.46.

100m Backstroke 13-14-years: Hannah Brandl, 1st, 1:15.47; Lizzy Eikenberry, 2nd, 1:17.47; Camryn Patton, 5th, 1:24.87; Elaine Parkinson, 6th, 1:29.56; Haley Allen, 7th, 1:35.92; Rachel Fisher, 8th, 1:36.38.

15-years and over: Alicia Niles, 3rd, 1:56.16.

25m Breaststroke 8-years and under: Hope Wiechman, 1st, 28.40; Kiley Wren, 2nd, 28.41; Hannah Eikenberry, 3rd, 30.65.

50m Breaststroke 10-years and under: Allison Brunswig, 2nd, 58.32; Alli Patton, 3rd, 58.68; Alivia Noll, 4th, 1:00.25; Paige Vulgamore, 6th, 1:03.12; Claire Rumford, 7th, 1:11.53; Paige Prewit, 8th, 1:11.82.

11-12-years: Piper Wasinger, 2nd, 41.84; Shelby Patton, 3rd, 43.56; Mattie Brandl, 4th, 44.78; Emily Parkinson, 9th, 51.15; Lanae Haupt, 10th, 51.07; Jacy Rose, 11th, 51.32; Molly Eikenberry, 13th, 52.60; Brooke Hoeme, 14th, 56.13; Abby Ford, 16th, 1:01.16.

100m Breaststroke 13-14-years: Lizzy Eikenberry, 1st, 1:26.24; Hannah Brandl, 2nd, 1:32.94; Camryn Patton, 5th, 1:38.84; Elaine Parkinson, 6th, 1:44.52; Hallie Wiechman, 7th, 1:46.12; Rachel Fisher, 8th, 1:49.28; Alexis Hoeme, 9th, 1:49.49; Paige Winderlin, 10th, 1:50.30; Ashley Prewit, 12th, 2:01.22.

15-years and over: Reagan Smyth, 3rd, 1:34.06; Elizabeth Parkinson, 5th, 1:41.15; Alicia Niles, 6th, 2:21.44.

25m Butterfly 8-years and under: Tara Rose, 1st, 28.13; Kiley Wren, 2nd, 30.22; Hope Wiechman, 4th, 32.23; Hannah Eikenberry, 5th, 34.12; Kennedy Wasinger, 6th, 35.56.

50m Butterfly 10-years and under: Allison Brunswig, 1st, 54.82; Paige Vulgamore, 2nd, 55.60; Claire Rumford, 3rd, 1:00.01.

11-12-years: Makaela Stevens, 3rd, 40.43; Shelby Patton, 4th, 40.57; Piper Wasinger, 8th, 45.20; Brooke Hoeme, 9th, 48.07; Jacy Rose, 10th, 48.93; Alyssa Storm, 11th, 49.93.

100m Butterfly 13-14-years: Paige Winderlin, 1st, 1:26.0; Ashley Prewit, 3rd, 1:39.41.

15-years and over: Reagan Smyth, 1st, 1:14.75; Alicia Niles, 2nd, 2:03.03.

100m Individual Medley

Summer Sports Calendar 8-years and under: Hope Wiechman, 2nd, 2:12.23; Kiley Wren, 3rd, 2:12.78; Hannah Eikenberry, 4th, 2:17.41.

9-10-years: Alli Patton, 1st, 1:56.07.

100m Freestyle Relay 8-years and under: Kiley Wren, Tara Rose, Hannah Eikenberry, Hope Wiechman, 1st, 1:31.43; Lana Rodriguez, Callie Hutton, Brinlie Stevens, Kennedy Wasinger, 2nd, 1:52.19; Hailee Amerine, Megan Trout, Hailey Shapland, Kinleigh Wren, 3rd, 2:40.25.

200m Individual Medley 11-12-years: Molly Eikenberry, 3rd, 3:21.82; Piper Wasinger, 4th, 3:26.32.

13-14-years: Lizzy Eikenberry, 1st, 2:52.83; Hannah Brandl, 3rd, 3:04.22; Hallie Wiechman, 4th, 3:17.88.

200m Freestyle Relay 10-years and under: Alli Patton, Alivia Noll, Paige Vulgamore, Alli Brunswig, 1st, 2:47.07; Claire Rumford, Tori Ford, Paige Prewit, Bethany Prochnow, 2nd, 3:32.12.

11-12-years: Emily Parkinson, Shelby Patton, Mattie Brandl, Makaela Stevens, 1st, 2:06.59; Piper Wasinger, Brooke Hoeme, Alyssa Storm, Molly Eikenberry, 3rd, 2:25.75; Lanae Haupt, Abbi Prochnow, Grace Hutton, Jacy Rose, 4th, 2:44.94.

13-14-years: Haley Allen, Paige Winderlin, Lizzy Eikenberry, Hannah Brandl, 1st, 2:03.59; Rachel Fisher, Hallie Wiechman, Elaine Parkinson, Camryn Patton, 2nd, 2:12.57; Ashley Prewit, Alexis Hoeme, Chelsea Amerine, Abby Ford, 3rd, 2:37.99.

100m Medley Relay 8-years and under: Lana Rodriguez, Hannah Eikenberry, Hope Wiechman, Kiley Wren, 1st, 2:00.51; Bret Lyon, Kennedy Wasinger, Tara Rose, Hailee Amerine, 2nd, 2:34.95.

200m Medley Relay 10-years and under: Allison Brunswig, Alli Patton, Paige Vulgamore, Alivia Noll, 1st, 3:43.43; Tori Ford, Paige Prewit, Claire Rumford, Clare Hawkins, 2nd, 4:26.27.

11-12-years: Emily Parkinson, Mattie Brandl, Makaela Stevens, Shelby Patton, 2nd, 2:42.79; Molly Eikenberry, Alyssa Storm, Piper Wasinger, Brooke Hoeme, 3rd, 3:09.20; Abby Ford, Lanae Haupt, Jacy Rose, Grace Hutton, 4th, 3:20.17.

13-14-years: Elaine Parkinson, Lizzy Parkinson, Paige Winderlin, Camryn Patton, 1st, 2:34.00; Rachel Fisher, Alexis Hoeme, Hallie Wiechman, Ashley Prewit, 2nd, 3:01.38.

15-years and over: Hannah Brandl, Elizabeth Parkinson, Reagan Smyth, Haley Allen, 1st, 2:22.85.

Boys Division 25m Freestyle 8-years and under: Zach Rohrbough, 1st, 22.33; Houston Frank, 3rd, 25.37; Avry Noll, 4th, 26.32; Wyatt Ricker, 5th, 26.50; Jaden Lewis, 6th, 26.81; Brandon Smyth, 7th, 29.90; Tanner Gooden, 8th, 34.15; Camden Vulgamore, 10th, 36.60; Alex Rodriguez, 11th, 39.41; Waylon Ricker, 12th, 40.27; Brevin Vulgamore, 13th, 53.00.

50m Freestyle 9-10-years: Sawyer Stevens, 1st, 36.57; Landon Trout, 2nd, 43.16; Ryan Cure, 3rd, 44.00; Eric Shapland, 4th, 44.50; Carter Gooden, 7th, 45.75; Joshua Kasselman, 11th, 1:10.91; Joe McCleary, 12th, 1:11.84.

11-12-years: Brandon Winderlin, 1st, 30.89; Parker Gooden, 2nd, 32.31; Kaden Wren, 3rd, 32.85; Parker Vulgamore, 4th, 32.89; Conner Cupp, 5th-t, 33.50.

13-14-years: Chase Rumford, 1st, 29.10; Reid Brunswig, 2nd, 30.13; Dexter Gooden, 3rd, 33.20.

15-years and over: Nick Storm, 1st, 29.82.

100m Freestyle 8-years and under: Zach Rohrbough, 1st, 2:05.49;

Wyatt Ricker, 2nd, 2:26.87; Jaden Lewis, 3rd, 2:27.00.

9-10-years: Sawyer Stevens, 1st, 1:27.37; Ryan Cure, 2nd, 1:42.45; Carter Gooden, 3rd, 1:44.78.

11-12-years: Brandon Winderlin, 1st, 1:11.57; Parker Gooden, 2nd, 1:13.93; Kaden Wren, 3rd, 1:17.47; Parker Vulgamore, 4th, 1:21.96.

13-14-years: Chase Rumford, 1st, 1:09.31; Reid Brunswig, 2nd, 1:11.43; Dexter Gooden, 3rd, 1:21.57.

15-years and over: Nick Storm, 1st, 1:16.71.

200m Freestyle 11-12-years: Brandon Winderlin, 1st, 2:52.69; Parker Gooden, 2nd, 2:58.84; Parker Vulgamore, 3rd, 3:07.87.

13-14-years: Reid Brunswig, 1st, 2:41.13; Dexter Gooden, 3rd, 3:06.57.

15-years and over: Nick Storm, 2nd, 2:53.33.

500m Freestyle 13-14-years: Chase Rumford, 1st, 7:23.91.

25m Backstroke 8-years and under: Avry Noll, 2nd, 31.88; Houston Frank, 3rd, 34.91; Zach Rohrbough, 4th, 35.72; Wyatt Ricker, 5th, 35.77; Jaden Lewis, 6th, 38.08; Tanner Gooden, 7th, 45.45; Brandon Smyth, 9th, 1:06.84.

50m Backstroke 10-years and under: Landon Trout, 1st, 50.50; Sawyer Stevens, 3rd, 54.57; Carter Gooden, 5th, 56.98; Eric Shapland, 7th, 1:00.67; Ryan Cure, 9th, 1:05.44; Joe McCleary, 11th, 1:30.28.

11-12-years: Conner Cupp, 1st, 39.16; Parker Gooden, 2nd, 41.00; Brandon Winderlin, 4th, 45.95; Kaden Wren, 5th, 49.78.

100m Backstroke 15-years and over: Nick Storm, 2nd, 1:38.44.

50m Breaststroke 10-years and under: Landon Trout, 2nd, 1:10.96; Sawyer Stevens, 3rd, 1:11.61.

11-12-years: Kaden Wren, 3rd, 49.56; Conner Cupp, 4th, 51.63; Parker Vulgamore, 6th, 53.15; Parker Gooden, 7th, 58.68.

100m Breaststroke 13-14-years: Reid Brunswig, 1st, 1:28.31; Chase Rumford, 2nd, 1:53.00; Dexter Gooden, 3rd, 1:55.37.

50m Butterfly 10-years and under: Landon Trout, 1st, 59.70.

11-12-years: Conner Cupp, 1st, 36.75; Brandon Winderlin, 2nd, 42.05; Parker Vulgamore, 3rd, 44.44; Kaden Wren, 4th, 44.45.

100m Butterfly 13-14-years: Chase Rumford, 1st, 1:25.07.

100m Individual Medley 9-10-years: Sawyer Stevens, 1st, 1:59.47; Landon Trout, 2nd, 1:59.59.

200m Individual Medley 11-12-years: Conner Cupp, 1st, 3:16.28.

13-14-years: Reid Brunswig, 1st, 2:59.75.

100m Freestyle Relay 8-years and under: Jaden Lewis, Wyatt Ricker, Brandon Smyth, Zach Rohrbough, 1st, 1:47.59; Houston Frank, Tanner Gooden, Waylon Ricker, Avry Noll, 2nd, 2:17.59.

200m Freestyle Relay 10-years and under: Landon Trout, Eric Shapland, Ryan Cure, Sawyer Stevens, 1st, 2:46.73.

11-12-years: Parker Gooden, Parker Vulgamore, Kaden Wren, Conner Cupp, 1st, 2:13.91.

15-years and over: Nick Storm, Reid Brunswig, Brandon Winderlin, Chase Rumford, 1st, 2:00.63; 200m Medley Relay 10-years and under: Ryan Cure, Sawyer Stevens, Landon Trout, Carter Gooden, 1st, 4:02.75.

13-14-years: Parker Gooden, Reid Brunswig, Conner Cupp, Chase Rumford, 1st, 2:32.37; Dexter Gooden, Kaden Wren, Brandon Winderlin, Parker Vulgamore, 2nd, 2:56.57.

Scott City Stars Swim Team 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 Basketball June 10-14: SCHS boy’s basketball camp June 24-28: SCHS girl’s basketball camp 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

SRC Scores Last week’s baseball and softball scores May 28 Major League Boys Security State Bank, 12 Shriners, 10 Platinum H Insurance, 4 Midwest Mixer, 15 May 30 Shriners, 8 Midwest Mixer, 22 Platinum H Insurance, 14 Security State Bank, 13 Men’s Slow Pitch May 28 Norse Electric, 13 Wheatland, 11 Trophy Wine & Spirits, 22 Healy, 5 C&S Farms, 10 Trophy Wine & Spirits, 15 May 30 Norse Electric, 3 Trophy Wine & Spirits, 14 C&S Farms, 21 Wheatland, 11 Healy, 21 Wheatland, 13 Farm League May 28 Fairleigh’s, 15 Farm Credit, 4 Seminole Energy, 15 Dairy Queen, 8 May 30 Seminole Energy, 16 Farm Credit, 5 Scott Pro, 6 Dairy Queen, 13 Comet League May 28 Faurot Electric, 17 State Farm, 1 Smoky Hill Ag, 7 SC Hospital, 4 May 30 Smoky Hill Ag, 1 State Farm, 11 Colton Eikenberry Law, 17 Scott Co. Hospital, 4

Trouble pitcher Kyle Zimmer (04, 5.28 ERA) who is off to a disappointing start at Class A Wilmington.

Those numbers indicate that Zimmer isn’t going to help the Royals anytime soon.

In 2011, the Royals took Bubba Starling - a star athlete at Gardner Edgerton High School in KC - and he’s having a rough time at Class A Lexington. As of May 29, Starling was hitting just .208 in 159 at-bats and had struck out 53 times.

But Starling is just out of high school and hasn’t had a fair chance yet.

In 2010, KC took shortstop Christian Colon with their first round pick. Colon is playing with Omaha, hitting a mediocre .251 with four homers. Colon’s fielding has also been substandard with six errors in 31 games at shortstop and

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two errors in 13 games at second.

Those are not encouraging stats.

KC drafted pitcher Aaron Crow in 2009’s first round and he has shown promise in the bullpen.

However, Crow has been wild and inconsistent.

Eric Hosmer was taken in 2008 and Mike Moustakas in 2007. Both have shown flashes of great play and both have fought extended slumps. Over time they will prove to be highly effective major league players.

KC took pitcher Luke Hochevar in 2006, Alex Gordon in 2005 and Billy Butler in 2004. Gordon and Butler have developed into consistent and talented major league ballplayers and Hochevar has been a flop.

In fairness to KC’s management, they found catcher Salvy Perez in

their spring meeting and released exciting information for member schools.

During the 2011-12 school year, the Big 12 accumulated a record $198 million for distribution among conference members.

West Virginia and TCU will receive half shares and the other universities will each collect about $22 million.

Commissioner Bob Bowlsby announced that the revenue is expected to increase significantly during the 13 years of the league’s TV contract with ESPN/ABC and Fox Sports.

The Kansas State and Kansas athletic departments are in an enviable financial and competitive position. The next decade Spreading the Wealth promises unlimited opThe Big 12 Confer- portunity for the Wildcats ence recently completed and Jayhawks.

Venezuela and he’s going to be a great player if he stays healthy. And second baseman Johnny Giavotella could develop into the player that KC needs.

He’s hitting .269 with six homers at Omaha.

Giavotella’s fielding has been a problem/ He has four errors in 37 games at second base and five errors in 13 games at third, but his natural position is second.

If this year’s slide goes on much longer, it appears that Brett is being groomed to take over as manager. Having manager Ned Yost and Brett in the same dugout will cause tension and friction among the players. This is not a comfortable arrangement for anyone connected with the Royals.

OK Kids Day at Lake Scott Saturday Area youngsters can participate in fishing and nature hikes during the annual OK Kids Day at Lake Scott State Park on Sat., June 8, 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

There will also be free admission for all vehicles at the park on Saturday.

OK Kids Day participants can meet anytime at the Beach House and they will be directed to fishing and hiking activities.

Park rangers will conduct the clinic while Rita Smith will take youngsters on the hikes.

A free lunch of hot dogs and hamburgers will be served on a first come basis while they last.

Friendship ‘Meals to Go’

Good for special diets • only $3.00/meal • Call 872-3501

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Record day at SC pool

Buckle winners . . .

The summer is off to a great start with a recordsetting attendance day at the Scott City swimming pool.

On Mon., May 27, there were 302 people attending the pool, according to manager Cheryl Kucharik.

“It was our busiest day ever,” she says. “We even had to call in an additional lifeguard.”

Buckle winners in the Mother’s Day horse show at the Scott County Indoor Arena were (from left) Willard Wayne Sanders, Sandhill Vaqueros; Dustin Mattke, WaKeeney; Linda Sanders, Sandhill Vaqueros; Shawn Meairs, Sandhill Vaqueros; Brittney Plummer, El Quartelejo Saddle Club; Baryleigh McGinley, Sandhill Vaqueros; and Cheyenne Meairs, Sandhill Vaqueros.

New ‘bragging rights” with 8 lb. walleye

Hoops signee . . .

Mike Todd no longer owns fishing bragging rights in his family.

That changed on Sunday evening while he and his wife, Kay, were fishing at Lake Scott.

Kay knew she had something unusually large on the end of her fishing line, but dismissed it as a grass carp.

After several minutes of attempting to reel in the catch, Mike knew otherwise.

“I could tell by its movements that she didn’t have a carp,” said the Scott City fisherman.

What she eventually landed was a walleye that tipped the scales at 8 lbs., 1 oz. and measured 26-1/4 inches. That topped Mike’s previous record of 7 lbs., 12 oz., which he caught at Webster Reservoir. However, he still holds family bragging rights in length at 27-1/2 inches.

Colin Foos, a spring graduate of Ness City High School, signed a letterof-intent to play basketball with the Northwest Tech Mavericks, Goodland. Formerly of Scott City, Foos is pictured with NCHS head basketball coach Matt Overlease (left) and his parents, Curtis Foos and Vicky Foos.

(Courtesy Photo)

Ozzy ism to get their official stand on this subject.

Bob told me, “I know that people have an understandable compassion for animals they see as being in need of help, but the biggest favor we can do for them is to leave them alone.”

He said that sometimes our intended help just makes matters worse, especially for young animals. Anything we do to cage or otherwise restrain a wild animal keeps it from returning to its original home.

Sometimes, as deer often do, the mother has purposely placed it there while she is gone, and might even be watching you from a distance. Besides that, it is illegal to possess any wild animal outside of hunting seasons, and doing so will elicit a healthy fine.

Then there’s always the possibility of disease.

Wildlife can carry nasty diseases, rabies for example, so given the off chance you do see an animal acting strangely or aggressively, call the Conservation Officer in your vicinity and let them handle the problem. * * *

(continued from page 18)

I have a permit to do animal damage control work and a few weeks ago I got a call from a local lady who said she had come home to find an owl cowering in a corner beside her house.

We arrived to find a young Great Horned owl (which promptly became Ozzy) that had stuffed itself into a corner between a planter and downspout.

She said she routinely hears owls hooting at night in the park across the street, so we assumed Ozzy had fallen from a nest and needed rescued, even though he seemed quite feisty, constantly snapping his beak at us in warning.

We shooed him into a box and after the usual show-and-tell took Ozzy home for the night. The next morning, Joyce took Ozzy to the Hutchinson Zoo where they have an excellent wildlife rehabilitation department. The rehab specialist there told Joyce that when Great Horned owls think the time is right they actually force the young owls from the nest, and given the number of young owls they were getting, that time must be at hand.

They said most were in very poor shape and either needed care to survive or didn’t survive at all. But they were so astonished at Ozzy’s apparent good health they promptly told Joyce to take him back and place him in the park under some trees and that the parents would come and take care of him on the ground even though they had kicked him from the nest.

Moments after getting his freedom, Ozzy proceeded to fly halfway across the park, and after a short chase to keep him out of the midst of a construction project there, we left him and never saw him again.

In summary, if you happen upon young wildlife that appear to be in good health, take some photos, show them to your kids and grandkids, talk to them about how marvelously created they are.

Then leave them alone.

They are probably in that particular spot for a good reason and mom may even be watching.

Continue to Explore Kansas Outdoors!

Steve can be contacted by email at stevegilliland@idkcom.net

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Tourney champs . . .

(Above) Southwest Thunder team members winning the 1618-year division at the Dodge City tournament were (front row, from left) Jody Gunther, Amanda Kough, Sidney Harmon, Emily Greene and Kristi Faurot. (Back row) Morgan Conine, Nicole Latta, Madison Orr, Bre Smull and Taylor Fairleigh. Not pictured is Katherine Leavens.

The Thunder will be in action again the weekend of June 8 at Larned and return to Dodge City for tournaments the weekends of June 22 and June 30.

Southwest Thunder team members placing third in the 14-under Silver division at the Dodge City tournament last weekend were (front row, from left) Natalie Vines, Bailee Latta, Kaitlyn Roberts, Kally Kough, Baylee Wineman and Reigan Crawford. (Back row) Brittney Ellermann, Jordan Miller, Kaylee Keller, Samantha Darroch, Abbi Orr, Balinda Conine, Jailene Rodriguez and Kylee Hipp.

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(Right) Fisheries biologist Dave Spalsbury (left) and Park Ranger Tad Eubanks check the condition of a saugeye that was netted at Lake Scott.

(Middle) With Spalsbury at the controls, Larry Eberle (left) and Eubanks net fish as they rise to the surface after being shocked.

Park Manager Greg Mills drops fish into the holding tank where they wait to be weighed and measured.

(Record Photos)

A lot of people will take (walleye or

saugeye) at 15 inches. If it was me, I’d give them another year to grow, but not everyone feels that way. I know

what goes into producing them, so I’m a little more sympathetic to the fish than the typical angler.

Dave Spalsbury fisheries biologist

Saugeye

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documenting the impact of the saugeye on the crappie population. He acknowledges it can be a slow process.

“You have to take it step-by-step so that you can be certain what changes are having an impact,” he explains.

What Spalsbury has observed during recent surveys is a crappie population that seems to mature pretty well during the first couple of years, after which their growth becomes stunted. After three years, the crappie should be in the 10-inch range, but many of those in Lake Scott are about half that size.

“The lake is big enough and the habitat complex enough that I believe we need to keep dialing up our saugeye numbers in hopes of getting (the crappie) where we want to be. If more saugeye don’t work, then it may be a vegetation issue - too much escape cover for the crappie. Addressing that would be a lot more work and a lot more complex.

“If nothing else, we can address the issue by introducing a lot of nice saugeye and people will love that, too,” he says.

Balancing Act

Only it’s not quite that simple either.

There’s eventually going to be a balancing act involving the saugeye and largemouth bass because they’re head-to-head competitors for food.

“If we get to the point where our saugeye numbers are really abundant, then it could start to impact the bass situation. It could slow the growth rate and size of the bass population and that’s not what we want either,” says the biologist.

A growing number of saugeye now exceed the 15inch legal limit which should help thin the population.

“The saugeye have established themselves to the point where anglers will notice them now,” Spalsbury says. “I haven’t changed the length limit regulation and I don’t plan to do anything until I’ve had a chance to see how they will perform in this lake.

“A lot of people will take (walleye or saugeye) at 15 inches. If it was me, I’d give them another year to grow, but not everyone feels that way,” he adds. “I know what goes into producing them, so I’m a little more sympathetic to the fish than the typical angler.”

The largemouth bass are looking good in both size and overall condition. Spalsbury said the survey didn’t reveal a lot of smaller bass, but that’s not unusual.

“I’m pleased with the overall bass population,” he said.

Drought Impact

Lake Scott has weathered two years of severe drought, particularly last summer which saw the lake level drop lower than it had in recent memory. The impact on the fish, and fishing, appears to be minimal.

“As for a negative impact, I can’t see it,” Spalsbury says.

“When it’s a one or two-year situation, the lake and the fish population can generally handle it without a problem. If conditions do create a temporary void in fish population, the fish will fill that void once conditions return back to normal. It’s not something I’m too concerned about,” he says.

Spalsbury has plans for another creel survey, similar to one he last conducted in 2010. At that time he will look at angler harvest patterns.

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Community artists lend a helping brush There don’t appear to be any hidden Rembrandts or Picassos in the community, but it’s not for lack of effort.

For three days, Scott City residents of all ages picked up a paint brush and lent their artistic ability toward a mural that will eventually find a home along K96 Highway.

The community mural project was coordinated through the Scott County Arts Foundation with the assistance of local artists Larry Caldwell and AvNell Mayfield “We had over 100 participate in the painting which I think is good for a first effort,” says

Larry. “We had several who were there for a couple of days and we even had some who showed up to paint all three days.”

Originally, the artists had to be at least 10-year-old, but the two artists soon waived that self-imposed guideline.

“Parents and even grandparents accompanied the kids, which helped us a lot,” says Caldwell. “As long as they were there to supervise, we had no problems with younger kids picking up a brush and joining in.”

(See MURAL on page 32)

Scenes from the June Jaunt (clockwise, from right) Emily Cramer and her brother, Logan, add color to the community mural Sunday afternoon in Scott City’s Patton Park.

Alan Hess, on trumpet, along with other Last Rezort band members perform at a free concert Saturday night in Patton Park.

Megan and Landon Trout, Scott City, contribute their talents to the mural.

Mike Maddux and The Headliners perform Friday night in Patton Park.

Dorothy Fouquet (left), her daughter, Anne Crane and sonin-law, Jon, paint on the community mural Sunday afternoon.

(Photos by Larry Caldwell)

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GM wheat sprouts another round of criticism Over the Memorial Day weekend, protesters rallied in dozens of U.S. cities against Monsanto for the genetically modified seeds it produces.

Organizers claim the “March Against Monsanto” protests were held in 436 cities in 52 countries.

The ink was barely dry on newspapers reporting those protests when the USDA’s Animal and Plant

ag briefs

Scott Co. wheat plot tour Wed. Scott County Extension will sponsor a wheat tour on Wed., June 12, 5:00 p.m.

The county plot is located two miles north of the US83/ K96 intersection and 1/8 mile west.

Guest speaker will be Jim Shroyer, crop production agronomist with Kansas State University.

Safer BSE raging could boost exports

The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) has upgraded the United States’ risk classification for BSE to its safest level, which could increase U.S. beef exports, says the USDA. The decision to rank the United States’ risk as “negligible” instead of “controlled” came at the OIE’s annual meeting in Paris. Its scientific arm earlier recommended the upgrade after reviewing U.S. safeguards.

The ranking puts the United States among countries said to have the lowest risk for the fatal disease.

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack said the U.S. would press its trading partners “to base their decisions on science, consistent with international standards.”

The U.S. Cattlemen’s Association said the designation would be “a big step toward enhancing our export opportunities.”

Four cases of BSE have been reported in the United States since 2003.

farm talk

Greg Henderson

associate publisher

Drovers CattleNetwork

Health Inspection Service announced that a genetically-modified, glyphosate-resistant wheat variety was found in volunteer wheat growing on a farm in Oregon. “Roundup Ready” crops have been genetically modified to

include a gene that works to make that crop resistant to the broad-spectrum herbicide glyphosate, also known by its branded name, Roundup.

Those wheat sprouts were big news because the USDA never approved GM wheat, and many of America’s trading partners are opposed to GM crops. Grain traders immediately warned that the discovery could hurt

export prospects for U.S. wheat.

Half of U.S.-grown wheat is exported, and major buyers include Japan, Mexico, Europe, South Korea, Egypt, Nigeria and the Philippines.

Japan has already cancelled a tender offer to buy U.S. western white wheat, while other Asian wheat buyers were said to be closely monitoring the

situation.

“We will refrain from buying western white and feed wheat effective today,” said Toru Hisadome, a Japanese farm ministry official in charge of wheat trading.

Cattlemen who remember the Japanese response to America’s first incidence of BSE 10 years ago may not be surprised to their response to the GM wheat incident. Still,

the Japanese response is an over-reaction that needlessly scares consumers.

But there’s a huge difference between the BSE case of December 2003 and the GM wheat incident. There was actually a cow discovered that had BSE. It didn’t enter the food chain, and the incident provided evidence that safety programs (See SPROUTS on page 27)

Are we looking at a trend for beef?

The stats are in and Memorial Day weekend beef sales were disappointing, not exactly the great kickoff to the summer grilling season we wanted.

More of a pooch punt on third down, giving the beef industry a few more months before handing off our longtime center of the plate summer dominance to other proteins. Observers suggested stormy weather on the East coast, plus historically high prices, were two major reasons for all those “no sale” register ring ups.

Fortunately the Memorial Day weekend isn’t to beef producers like the Christmas season is to toy manufacturers.

The weather will always get better - and worse - so we have plenty of time to make up for

Ag Commentary Chuck Jolley

Drovers CattleNetwork

issuing a ‘May Day’ distress call.

The real sales killer that must be addressed, of course, is the price of a pound of beef.

What will American beef eaters pay this summer? Let’s look at this week’s specials, knowing that these prices will rise from time-to-time.

Here in the Midwest, a 12 oz. Choice KC strip is $10.48.

Fresh ground beef (85/15) is $3.99/pound.

The average price of a pound of ground beef between 1984 and 2003 stayed under $2.00/pound, making it one of the biggest bargains to ever land on the center of the plate.

It started to creep up, though, and first touched $2.50 in 2010. The $3.00 barrier was breached just one short year afterwards.

This Memorial Day, it spiked at an all-time high of $3.51.

If you consider that most retailers say ground beef is the single most price sensitive product in the meat case, you’ll understand why that long holiday weekend was a major under-performer.

Here is more reason to fear for the future of the beef business. In 1984, the per capita consumption of beef was 63 pounds, down about one-third from its peak of 94 pounds in 1976. As the price of beef began trending upwards, consumption followed a down-

ward slope, dropping to just 55 pounds last year.

Those historically high prices were caused by wholesale beef prices, jacked up by one of the worst droughts in a century and drought-driven record high feed costs forcing a reduction in herd size.

We now have the smallest number of U. S. cattle since 1952.

With the genetically limited time lag needed to make a substantial dent in beef supply, retail prices just before the next three grilling days - Father’s Day (June 16), the Fourth of July and Labor Day (Sept. 2) - will probably stay in the same high-dollar neighborhood, maybe even jump higher by summer’s end.

(See BEEF on page 27)

EIA confirmed in Nebraska horses

The Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) has confirmed 12 cases of equine infectious anemia (EIA) in one horse herd located in Northwestern Nebraska.

State Veterinarian Dr. Dennis Hughes said EIA affects only horses, mules and donkeys, and is usually fatal to these animals. No other animals

or humans can be infected with this disease.

EIA is a blood borne disease and is typically transmitted by biting insects (such as horseflies and deerflies), but also can be transmitted from horse to horse through infected needles.

There are no treatment options for infected horses, Hughes said.

Horse owners are encouraged to take biosecurity precautions to reduce the risk of infection in their herds, including: implement control measures, including husbandry practices, that reduce biting insects, such as horseflies and deerflies; follow the rule of one horse-one needle; and additions to herds should

have a negative Coggins test before being allowed to intermingle with other equine.

For more information related to actions to further protect horses visit the NDA website.

EIA symptoms include: fever, depression, weight loss, swelling and anemia.

Dr. Hughes reminds those who are import-

NBAF caught in budget battle An epic budget battle between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans escalated this week as the White House threatened to veto H.R. 2217.

The bill would make appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year starting on Oct. 1. It also contains $404 million for the $1.15 billion National Bio and Agro-Deference Facility (NBAF), which would be built near

Kansas State University in Manhattan.

“Unless this bill passes the Congress in the context of an overall budget framework that supports our recovery and enables sufficient investments in education, infrastructure, innovation and national security for our economy to compete in the future, the President’s senior advisors would recommend that he veto H.R. 2217 and any other legislation that implements the (See NBAF on page 27)

(See ID REGS on page 29)

ing horses into Nebraska for show/exhibition or other reasons to follow Nebraska’s horse import regulations, which includes the requirement of a negative Coggins test - the test utilized to determine the presence of EIA. Producers with questions about import regulations should contact NDA at (402) 471-2351.

ADM gives $325,000 to KSU HWW program Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) has announced a $325,000 investment in the Kansas Wheat Commission Research Foundation that will be used to strengthen the hard white wheat variety development in the Kansas State University wheat breeding program at Hays.

The investment will allow wheat breeder Guorong Zhang and his colleagues to use molecular marker and doubled haploid technologies to develop new white wheat varieties suited for the baking industry, plus offer farmers improved yield and agronomic traits.

White wheat is wellsuited for bread, tortillas, noodles and many other baking applications.

“The KSU Agricultural Research Center in Hays supports many of our key growing areas. This funding will be used to incorporate new breeding technologies and assure the continued development and release of elite public wheat varieties,” said Nick Weigel, vice president of Technical Services for ADM Milling, a subsidiary of ADM. The funds will be paid to K-State through the KWCRF over five years. This is the first research project funded by the KWCRF since it was established in 2011.

Western Kansas is well-suited for white wheat production due to ideal environmental growing conditions, and K-State’s wheat breeding program at Hays is a leader in white wheat variety research.

ADM Milling, based in Overland Park, is a leader in white wheat milling.

NBAF (continued from page 26)

House Republican Budget framework,” a White House statement warned earlier this week.

The statement went further, criticizing the bill for providing only partial funding for NBAF. “The partial funding provided in the bill will delay construction of NBAF, increase project costs and leave a significant vulnerability unaddressed,” the statement said. “Longstanding procurement policy prohibits incremental funding because it undermines program stability and runs counter to sound budgeting principles and fiscal discipline.”

Obama’s budget proposal, released in April, included $714 million to build NBAF, which would replace the current facility on Plum Island, N.Y. While some oppose the project, Kansas Sens. Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran support the project and were happy to see President Obama behind it.

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Farmers oppose power line route for wind farms A group of farmers who are worried that a proposed power line carrying energy from wind farms in southwest Kansas east to Indiana will disrupt their crop and livestock operations are taking a stand against the power company.

The farmers claim the power lines, also known as the Grain Belt Express, threaten their business. A

dairy farmer in the area is worried stray voltage will cut his cows’ milk production while another producer says the power lines will prevent him from making aerial spray applications to his crops.

The farmers have started a petition on Change. org and want the developer, Clean Line, to bury power lines near public rights of way.

Sprouts

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designed to protect our food supply worked.

But we didn’t find GM wheat grain. The discovery was GM wheat sprouts. That’s a long ways from grain destined for export.

The discovery of the GM wheat was made by an Oregon farmer who took to the field this spring to kill volunteer wheat sprouts by spraying

them with glyphosate, and some of the sprouts unexpectedly survived.

Scientists found the wheat was a strain fieldtested from 1998 to 2005 and deemed safe before Monsanto withdrew it from the regulatory approval process. Today, no GM wheat varieties are approved for general planting in the U.S. or elsewhere.

Market Report Closing prices on May 28, 2013 Winona Feed and Grain Bartlett Grain Wheat.................. $ 7.15 Wheat.................. $ 7.15 Milo (bu.) ............ $ 6.61 Milo (bu.)............. $ 6.61 Corn.................... $ 7.16 Corn.................... $ 7.19 Soybeans............ $ 14.62 Scott City Cooperative Wheat.................. $ 7.15 White Wheat ....... $ 7.45 Milo (bu.)............. $ 6.61 Corn.................... $ 7.16 Soybeans ........... $ 14.62 Sunflowers.......... $ 21.60 ADM Grain Wheat..................

Milo (bu.).............

Corn....................

Soybeans............

Sunflowers..........

Royal Beef Corn....................

$ 7.19 $ 6.54 $ 7.17 $ 14.70 $ 22.35 $ 7.24

Beef It’s not inconceivable that ground beef might flirt with $4.00 by Labor Day. With prices rising so quickly, whole muscle beef cuts are no longer in danger of being declared an indulgence by most people. That deed has been done and the shift to ground beef is part of the reason it’s reached recordlevel retail prices, too.

If it hits $4 within the next 12 months, ground beef will also be in danger of becoming an indulgence for at least the bottom quarter of the income scale.

The message that it’s healthier to eat less meat will gain more credence along with the idea that red meat might not belong at the center of the plate anymore. The idea that meat should be an ingredient, not a main course, will take hold and the new supermarket growth item will probably move to the center of the store where they keep all those varieties of Hamburger Helper.

Take fair warning: Hamburger Helper now comes in 40 varieties including Chicken, Tuna, Cheesy, Italian, Asian, Mexican, Whole Grain and Helper Complete. The “Hamburger” part of that brand name is no longer

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where Betty Crocker is going.

Could it be because they know that’s not where their customers are going?

Increasing herd size will help mitigate spiraling prices but that would require a major commitment on the part of cattlemen to take the risk and that’s far from certain.

The next hurdle, if enough cattlemen decide to take that great leap of faith, is the time it would take to actually rebuild our herds.

It would be over three years before enough inventory would be on hand to allow prices to drop. The great unknown there is how much red meat a suddenly wealthy and huge Chinese middle class will consume.

As they begin to demand more and more meat in their diet, there might not be enough resources available anywhere in world markets to keep prices at the low levels we’ve come to appreciate.

But three years is more than enough time for the current generation of would-be beef eaters to opt out. Permanently.

Chuck Jolley is a veteran food-industry journalist and commentator

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The group would prefer to keep the energy produced by the wind farms in Kansas instead of moving about 3,500 megawatts of electricity along 600 kilovolt lines across the border to Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.

Mark Lawlor, director of development for the Grain Belt Express project, said the power lines don’t give off stray voltage

like other types of power lines and people and cows along the proposed routes will not be exposed to any health risks.

Lawlor adds the aboveground lines would not be obtrusive to farmers spraying their fields.

The proposed lines would carry some benefits to the state economy. The project would create nearly 5,000 construction jobs

and 500 long-term operations jobs.

The project will generate enough power to supply 1.4 million homes, some further east than Indiana.

Clean Line has created three possible power line routes and will need to select its preferred route this month. Construction on the Grain Belt Express is scheduled to being no earlier than 2016.

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GovDeals.com.

City, county and state surplus.

Seized and confiscated property. Heavy equipment, trucks, vehicles, computers. www.GovDeals.com.

800-6130156, ext. 2. info@govdeals.com.

TRAINING. Class ACDL. Train and work for us. Professional and focused training for your Class A CDL. You choose between company driver, owner/operator, lease operator or lease trainer.

(877) 369-7885. www. centraltruckdrivingjobs. com ––––––––––––––––––––– EXPERIENCED FLATBED drivers. Regional opportunities now open with plenty of freight and great pay. 800-277-0212 or primeinc.com.

––––––––––––––––––––– PARTNERS IN EXCELLENCE. OTR drivers. APU equipped PrePass EZ-pass passenger policy. 2012 and newer equipment. 100% notouch. Butler Transport, 1-800-528-7825.

Education

A garbologist company.

Your RadioShack Dealer Two-way Radio Sales & Service

Kansas Classifieds Ad Network

The classified ads below are appearing in 147 Kansas newspapers with a total circulation of 500,000 the classified display ads appear in 142 Kansas newspapers with a total circulation of 457,000. KCAN line ad is $300 for up to 25 words and $12 each additional word. A 2x2 display ad is $800 per insertion and a 2x4 display ad is $1,650 per insertion. To find out more, contact The Scott County Record at 872-2090.

On-Site Welding Feedyard Construction Oil Field

Kyle (620) 874-8117 • Scott City

Dining

ATTEND COLLEGE ON-LINE from home.

Medical. Business. Criminal Justice. Hospitality.

Job placement assistance.

Computer available. Financial aid if qualified.

SCHEV certified. Call 888-220-3977. www.CenturaOnline.com.

––––––––––––––––––––– AIRLINE CAREERS. Become an aviation maintenance tech. FAA approved training. Financial aid if qualified. Housing available. Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance, 888-248-7449.

––––––––––––––––––––– HEAVY EQUIPMENT operator career. Three week hands-on training school. Bulldozers, backhoes, excavators. National certifications.

Lifetime job placement assistance.

VA benefits if eligible.

866-362-6497.

For Sale

HAPPY JACK SKIN BALM. Stops scratching and gnawing. Promotes healing and hair growth on dogs and cats suffering from grass and flea allergies without steroids.

Orscheln Farm and Home. www.happyjackinc.com.

––––––––––––––––––––– WALK-IN BATHTUBS. Lowest prices guaranteed.

All new top quality 2-inch step-in. Eliminate the fear Legal of falling. Call for details, IF YOU USED the Mirena IUD between 800-813-3736.

2001-present and suffered Homes perforation or embedment HOMES. in the uterus requiring MOBILE surgical removal, or had New, used, repos. Financa child born with birth de- ing available. Land home fects, you may be entitled packages. Use land equito compensation. Call ty. Tell us what you need.

Johnson Law and speak Easy process. Trades welwith female staff mem- come. Prices negotiable.

877-582-6767. bers. 1-800-535-5727.

District 11 AA Meetings

Scott City

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

Mon. - Fri. 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

402 S. Main, Scott City • 872-1300

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

All open meetings, 874-8207 • 874-8118

Tuesday • 8:30 p.m.

C-Mor-Butz BBQ

Barbecue, the only sport where a fat bald man is a GOD...

Services

& Catering

Kyle Lausch 620-872-4209

Bryan Mulligan & Chris Price 620-874-8301 & 620-874-1285

www.cmorbutzbbq.com • cmorbutzbbq@gmail.com

Providing internet, email, networking solutions, webhosting and IP-based security camera systems.

(620) 872-0006 • 1-866-872-0006

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 Acres Always Argue Awful Bigger Carts Child Chosen Classification Clean Crest Crowded Cycles Drily Earth Fashion Fatal Fifty Fishing Foods Hours Ideas Index Items Kicks Length

Lists Lived Maybe Motor Outside Pence Purposes Relaxed Scenes Segments Shady Sheep Spoons Talented Thrown Times Units Unity Waiting Weary Weigh Wildly

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Classifieds

The Scott County Record • Page 30 • Thursday, June 6, 2013

Buy, sell, trade, one call does it all 872-2090 ot fax 872-0009

Card of Thanks The family of Roy Jacobus would like to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers, food and acts of kindness at our time of loss. Special thanks to Chris Price and Steve Payne.

Neva, Dwight and Lisa, Melissa, Briana, Gaige, and Steve Jacobus

Spring Custom Planting 16 Row Planter Mapping and Starter Fertilizer Available Competitive Rates Please call Jason Wells (620) 874-1160

Wheat Harvest Wanted

Real Estate

We have S670 John Deere Combines

FOR SALE BY SEALED BID AUCTION June 21. 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom home at 206 W. Glenn Ave., Scott City. Bid forms and more information on top of for sale sign on corner of Glenn and Court St. straight west of Western State Bank. All bids must be submitted by June 21. For more information call 620-874-5083.

Seller reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

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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 Call basis and contract inRoger Cooley formation. 1-800-579620-874-0381 3645. Lane County 43t4c Feeder, Inc. 32tfc ––––––––––––––––––– Protect our planet!

WANTED TO BUY: Recycle with the Wheat straw delivered.

Scott County Call for contracting inRecycling Center. formation. Lane County Feeders. 397-5341.

Rentals 44tfc HIDE AND SEEK ––––––––––––––––––– STORAGE SYS- FOR SALE: Black AnTEMS. Various sizes gus Bulls, registered, Pine Village available. Virgil and tested, guarantee, excelApartments LeAnn Kuntz, (620) lent bloodlines, confir300 E. Nonnamaker 874-2120.

41tfc Apartments available ––––––––––––––––––– mation and performance, for qualifying tenants PLAINJANS has hous- discounts. Contact: Black Velvet Ranch, Aaron 62+ or disabled with es and storage units Plunkett, Syracuse. 620rental assistance avail- available to rent. Call 384-1101.

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620-872-5777 or stop ––––––––––––––––––– Hours:

by PlainJans at 511 CROOKED CREEK Tues., 10:00 a.m. Monroe.

28tfc Angus Registered Bulls 5:00 p.m.

––––––––––––––––––– for sale. Yearlings and by appointment NOW AVAILABLE: 2-year olds. DelivCall Steve 872-2535 or Very nice 2 bedroom, ery and sight unseen (620) 255-4824.

1 bath house with cen- purchases available. tral heat and air. Fur- Quiet and relaxed disnished with refrigerator positions. Adam Jones and stove. Washer and 785-332-6206 www. dryer hookups. One car crookedcreekangus. garage and fenced-in com.

37t10c backyard. Trash and wa- ––––––––––––––––––– ter paid. No pets please. VARELAS HORSE Call Clinton Develop- SERVICES will be ment (620) 872-5494 around Scott City soon.

39tfc Horse training, trimIt’s BRICK, great area, after 6:00 p.m.

3 bedrooms, FA-CA, ming and shoeing for appliances, covered great prices. Work is Business patio, fenced yard guaranteed. Call Raul with sprinkler and SA OF- 307-751-2031 to set up garage.

PRICED INDIVIDUAL FICE SUITES from an appointment. 43t2c RIGHT $85,900. one to four rooms available for lease. Leases Want to Buy starting at $250/month LOOKING FOR a including utilities. ranch/farm in the Scott Common areas avail- City/Dighton area for able for use including sale. Please call 307Deb Lawrence, GRI Broker reception and break 751-1517.

43t2c Shorty Lawrence, Sales Assoc. rooms. Perfect for quiet 513 Main • Scott City small business or cli- Help Wanted 872-5267 ofc. 872-7184 hm. lawrenceandassocrealty.com mate controlled storage. Former location of H O U S E K E E P E R .

Sheila Ellis, Broker Assoc.

872-2056 Scott City Chiropractic, Part-time. Lazy R MoKerry Gough, Sales Assoc.

1101 S. Main. Call 214- tel, 710 E. 5th, Scott 872-7337 City. 872-3043. Apply 3040 for information.

Russell Berning, 874-4405 40tfc www.berningauction.com 27tfc in person.

Under New Management

For Sale By Owner

2004 Chevy Silverado, 64,700 miles, towing package, runs great. Asking $14,000 OBO. Call 620-214-2114 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 sq. ft., plus 3 season, screened porch, DA garage. Established yard with sprinkler system. Call 620-353-9933.

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One Level

Lawrence

Berry 1102Realty • 872-5700 and Associates S. Main, Scott City, Ks 67871 www.berryrealtyonline.com Great Business

For Sale

Margie Berry, Broker • 872-5700 Tracy Chambless, Sales Assoc. • 874-2124

Real Estate

Garage Sales June 7 - 8 Yard Sale 511 Kingsley Friday, 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Some furniture, Morgan silver dollars, lots of miscellaneous.

Cash only please.

Garage Sale 111 W. 7th Fri., 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. • Sat., 8:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Exercise machine, sports equipment, home decor, shoes, a whole table of clothing (25¢ each), craft items, school supplies and much more!

RUMMAGE and BAKE SALE Healy United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall Saturday, June 15, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Free-Will Offering for Items Proceeds will go to Missions of Scholarships for Youth at Camp Lakeside and METour All items left over will be donated to the UM Mexican-American Ministries in Garden City...

Sponsored by UMC Education Committee

Bring in your Garage Sales by Monday at 5:00 p.m.

(No Rainy day refunds)

Sharla Osborn 620-214-2114 Avon Independent Sales Representative

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!

37tfc ––––––––––––––––––– SERIOUS BUSINESS solutions will be in the Scott City area soon.

For a free consultation on employee benefits and employee morale please call Deanna at 307-751-1517 to set up an appointment se habla espanol.

43t2c ––––––––––––––––––– MOWER TUNE-UP, repair, blade sharpening. Also looking for discarded (non running) junk mowers. Call 620214-1730.

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Pets FREE to good home.

Male English Springer Spaniel, 7 years old, liver and white. Located in Dighton. Call 620-397-8068. 43t1p

For Sale FOR SALE: 15,000 BTU refrigerated window air conditioner with remote. Call 8721377.

43t1p ––––––––––––––––––– RECONDITIONED used bikes, various sizes, 6 with web liners in tires and new thorn resistant tubes. Can be seen at 1307 Glenn, 620-872-5591. 43t2p

Custom Planting Harvesting 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.

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

• 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

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

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Employment Opportunities Meat Cutter Position

Physical Therapist and Occupational Therapist

Looking for an individual with meat cutting experience to work full-time in the meat department of a small grocery store.

Work full or part-time, year-round with topnotch team providing early intervention services to infants and toddlers in home and community settings.

Please contact: Greg or Justin at (620) 872-3355 for an application stop by Heartland Foods 212 E. 5th, Scott City, KS 67871 43t2c

Visit us at

scottcountyrecord.com

Park Lane Nursing Home “Quality Care Because We Care”

City On A Hill

Competitive pay, great benefits, flexible scheduling, travel required.

Is seeking to fill the position of Night Assistant Qualified applicants must possess: • Great people skills.

• High school diploma or equivalent.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Word.

• Valid driver’s license and good driving record.

Contact Deanna Berry at: 620-275-0291 or send resume to: dberry@rcdc4kids.org www.rcdc4kids.org

Three-day work week with four days off.

Rental housing available with position, July 1.

Position could work into full-time with benefits.

Has openings for the following positions: Part-time/PRN LPN/RNs PRN CNAs

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

Please apply in person at: Park Lane Nursing Home 210 E. Parklane Scott City, KS 67871 Or visit us at our website: www.parklanenursinghome.org Fill out application and return to human resources.

Will consider pre-graduation internships and tuition assistance.

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Health Coder Clerk Scott County Hospital has an opening for an experienced Health Information Coder Clerk.

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Emergency Dept. RNs 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.

This position requires weekends and holidays.

We offer diverse nursing opportunities, experienced nursing administrative staff, competitive wages, flexible paid time off, call pay and excellent benefits.

Pre-employment physical, drug and alcohol screen, physical assessment, immunization titer and TB skin test required.

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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.

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

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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Scott County Hospital is seeking a Clinic Office Manager.

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.

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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Area Mental Health Center LOOKING FOR A CHALLENGE? WE WILL CHALLENGE YOU TO DO THE BEST WORK OF YOUR LIFE

Father Hammock √ ’s Day June 1 is Iced Tea √ 6!

Sun Screen √ Now get Dad what he really wants!

A subscription to:

Name: _________________________________________ Address________________________________________ City__________________State__________ Zip________ Scott County and connecting counties $40.80 In Kansas $54.40 • Out of state $50.00

406 Main, Scott City • 620-872-2090 • www.scottcountyrecord.com

AMHC is currently looking to fill positions for Mental Health Assistants. Self-motivated individuals will provide children and youth assistance in the form of support, supervision, and/or cuing that enables children and youth to accomplish tasks and engage in activities in their homes, schools or communities.

This very rewarding position lets you see positive change take place in a child’s life. Applicants must be 21 years of age, have a valid driver’s license and be willing to work flexible hours to meet the needs of the consumer and family.

Base pay starting at $10.00/hr. Candidates must pass KBI, SRS, motor vehicle screens and have a valid driver’s license.

Benefits Include: Retirement: fully vested at time of employment Health/Dental Insurance: portion of premium paid by AMHC. Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability: premium paid by AMHC. Holiday, Bereavement and Vacation/Sick days Applications are available at: 210 West Fourth, Scott City, KS 67871 or www.areamhc.org Applications/Resumes can be sent to: E-mail hr@areamhc.org faxed to 620-272-0171 AMHC Attn: HR PO Box 1905 Garden City, KS 67846 Serving Southwest Kansas Since 1961 EOE – Drug Free Workplace 43t2c

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Summer intern for Scott County Extension is Cheyenne Veatch.

Veatch is Extension summer intern Cheyenne Veatch, Emporia, is a summer intern for the Scott County Extension office.

Veatch, who is a senior majoring in agricultural business-Extension emphasis at Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Tex., will assist the local agents and staff.

Mural

Her responsibilities will include coordinating the annual 4-H Day Camp on July 9 in addition to joining local 4-Hers and Extension staff on trips to Rock Springs 4-H Camp, the Blue Trip Award to the Hays water park and the Lakeside 4-H Camp for southwest Kansas youth (June 13-14).

Veatch will also assist with the Scott County Fair (July 24-28) before her internship ends on Aug. 2.

At Tarleton State, she is a member of the Tarleton State Rodeo Team, and a volunteer at Tarleton Equine Assisted Therapy.

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What the couple enjoyed as much as the painting was the community interaction.

“Some people would paint and others would come and watch. It turned into a social event,” observed Caldwell. “It was neat to see.”

Caldwell and Mayfield created a huge paint-bynumbers mural that was divided into five 4x8-foot panels.

“The people did a great job of putting on the base coats which gives us something to work from,” says Mayfield. “Now we get to do the fun part.”

Now that phase one of the mural is completed, Caldwell and Mayfield will begin the detail work shading and blending together colors. Once the finishing touches are done, the five sections will be moved to the Harkness building. The goal is for the mural to be on public display within the next two weeks.

As for this becoming an annual project, “it’s being kicked around,” says Caldwell.

“It’s being talked about, possibly to include other artists,” he adds. “This will hopefully provide a stepping stone to other possibilities.”

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