The Scott County Record

Scott City Elementary School students finish up the year with their annual play day

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Volume 22 • Number 41

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Published in Scott City, Ks.

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Healy school reunion is this weekend

Several hundred people are expected for the every-five-years Healy High School reunion to be held over Memorial Day weekend, May 23-24.

Events will get underway on Sat., May 23, with a 5K run/fun walk.

Registration begins at 9:00 a.m. and the race starts at 9:30 a.m.

A parade will follow at 11:00 a.m., starting at the Shay Garage and ending at the school.

Registration for the reunion will follow at the high school, along with a variety of activities for all ages.

For the athletically inclined, there will be a 5-on-5 basketball tournament and coed volleyball tournament, plus a kid’s hot shot contest. Games, face painting and a coloring contest will be held for the youngsters and there will be a pitch tournament for adults.

Concessions will be provided by the junior class.

Two special items are being raffled off. A commemorative rifle and shotgun, specially ordered and donated by Sharp’s Shooting Supply, have commemorative coins embedded in the gun stocks. The same coins will also be available for purchase ‘Blue Sunday’ Sunday, May 24, has been designated “Blue Sunday” with everyone encouraged to wear their Healy blue.

Breakfast will be served from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. at the Healy United Methodist Church, followed by a worship service. A catered barbecue meal is scheduled at the high school beginning at noon, followed by the annual meeting at 1:30 p.m., during which the winners of the gun raffles will be determined.

(See REUNION on page two)

Memorial service in SC on Monday A Memorial Day service will be held at the Scott County Cemetery on Mon., May 25, starting at 11:00 a.m.

Guest speaker will be former U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Skip Numrich.

Members of the SCHS National Honor Society will assist with the program.

Will be closed for Memorial holiday The Scott County courthouse, city hall and the Scott City Post Office will be closed on Monday for the Memorial Day holiday, in addition to all financial institutions.

Bill John assists his grandmother, Dona Dee Carpenter, so she can get a better view of the Gold Star Mothers memorial that she donated to the Veterans Memorial Park in Scott City. A dedication ceremony was held under rainy skies last Wedneday afternoon.

(Record Photo)

New Veterans Park memorial honors those who stayed behind Dona Dee Carpenter is accustomed to seeing war memorials that honor veterans and those who have “made the ultimate sacrifice.”

But she always felt an important group that also makes sacrifices during war has often been forgotten - the wives and the mothers of those who have been sent into combat.

She knows. She was one of those wives during World War II. Carpenter has fulfilled her dream of honoring those individuals with last week’s unveiling of a Gold Star Mothers statue and plaque that’s been added to the Veterans Park Memorial on east K96 Highway in Scott City.

“This is something that grandma has talked about and that she wanted from the time she decided she wanted to

donate this ground for a memorial park,” says her grandson, Bill John, Scott City.

“It took awhile for all of this to happen, but we wanted to make sure that her vision would be accomplished.”

Discussion about creating a veterans park began 4-5 years ago as a joint venture between Carpenter and the Scott Community Foundation.

However, the start of that discussion was a matter of good fortune. John recalls when he and his grandmother were traveling through Ness City and were detoured because of road work.

That took them by a local park that had a memorial for veterans.

“When we saw that, Dona Dee said she wanted that to happen in Scott City and she had the place for it,” says John.

“We were struggling with finding a place to put a memorial when Dona Dee

stepped forward with an offer to donate the land,” says SCF Director Ryan Roberts. “But she said the one stipulation was that she be able to do something to honor the Gold Star Mothers.”

Gold Star Mothers is an organization of mothers who have lost a son or daughter in service to the country. John said that as discussion of the memorial began to take shape, Carpenter wanted something that would recognize all women, “not just those who lost someone in war, but those women who stayed behind during war and didn’t know if they would see their husbands again.”

Once Carpenter had a clear idea of what she wanted to see in the park, it became a matter of developing those plans and raising the money.

(See MEMORIAL on page two)

High school can be puzzling

Chantz Yager shreds his preapproved commencement speech. (Record Photo)

High school is like a Rubik’s Cube, said Scott Community High School graduate Miguel Chavez during opening comments at Saturday’s commencement program.

A Rubik’s Cube, says Chavez, that takes a very long time to complete. Even after

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four years it may still not be solved.

Chavez walked the audience through each year of high school and how it related to the Rubik’s Cube getting closer to being solved, but there are no guarantees, he added, showing a cube that didn’t look much different from when it began

during his freshman year.

“But just because you don’t have everyone or everything figured out doesn’t mean you never will,” he added.

And while this year’s graduating class doesn’t have everything figured out, they did learn enough for 42 to survive their four years at SCHS,

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said honor student Chantz Yager during his commencement address.

“This day is all about survivors,” said Yager. “This has to be the smallest class to graduate from Scott City since the early 1900s. But the true survivors of this whole journey are the (See PUZZLING on page 10)

K-State head coach Bill Snyder speaks at the annual Scott City fry Page 19

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‘First come’ will remain Patton Park policy When the “Park of the Plains” playground was established several years ago in Scott City’s Patton Park, the goal was to become a major attraction for people outside the community as well as local residents.

It’s accomplished that goal perhaps a little too well in the eyes of some.

When about 50-60 youngsters from Golden Rule PreSchool in Scott City visited the park a week ago they were surprised to find that a bus load of youngsters from another community were already enjoying the playground.

Consequently, the preschoolers had to relocate to Palmer Park.

That prompted Scott City Councilman to ask during Monday’s meeting whether the playground can be reserved to prevent a similar situation.

If that were to happen, noted Mayor Dan Goodman, the city would have to determine who could or couldn’t reserve the playground.

“It can’t be done for a birthday party,” he said.

City Attorney John Shirley asked what would happen if the playground were reserved by a

local group and then a bus load of youngsters showed up from out-of-town who weren’t familiar with the city’s policy?

Allowing the playground to be reserved by any group would be a “nightmare,” noted Councilman Fred Kuntzsch, who was opposed to the idea.

City Clerk Brenda Davis said the city doesn’t allow anyone to reserve the gazebo or the shelter house.

“We’ve never had the schools call before about reserving (the playground),” Davis said. “It’s never been a problem.”

Public Works Director Mike

Todd, who also oversees the parks, said that several school groups have had field trips to Patton Park this year. He said the facilities have been available on a first come basis without any problems.

“I understand why Golden Rule is asking about this,” said Green. “I also understand why it’s not practical.”

Curb Cut in Park Rex Grothusen, representing the Lake Scott Car Club, the Beefiesta Committee and Alpha Omega Sorority asked the council to allow a curb cut

Alumni meeting Tuesday

Memorial

Seeking reunion volunteers

tremendous job of making this happen. Grandma is very pleased with the result,” John says.

Project manager Shane Faurot also helped with designing and preparing the plaque and base that are beside the statue of a mother who is kneeling while holding a folded American flag.

Carpenter was in attendance during last week’s

May 29 is tag deadline

Scott County BOE accepts 7 resignations

Alumni reports and planning updates will be on the agenda for an All-School Reunion meeting on Tues., May 26, 7:00-8:30 p.m., at the Bryan Conference Center.

Class representatives and other interested alumni are encouraged to attend.

The reunion will be held the weekend of July 4.

The All-School Reunion Committee is seeking volunteers for events to be held from July 3-5.

Anyone who is not an alumni, but would like to be a part of the festivities, is asked to contact Kate Macy (872-3788), Sara Goodman (872-3571) or Merilee Epler (872-2291), or e-mail SCHSALUMNI@wbsnet.org; or oldkate@yahoo.com

Persons whose last name begins with the letters E, F or G are reminded that license tags must be purchased by Fri., May 29, to avoid a penalty.

Tags are due for autos, light trucks, motorcycles and motorized bikes.

License tags can be purchased at the county treasurer’s office.

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

in the northeast corner of Patton Park. This would make it easier for vehicles to enter and leave the park for the rod run, Beefiesta and Whimmydiddle.

Grothusen said the car club and sorority would be willing to pay the cost of the curb cut and also a chained barrier at the site.

“I have no problem with it if they put up a chain,” said Goodman.

“We’re talking about accommodating the three largest events in town every year,” Green added.

The council approved the request by unanimous vote.

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dedication ceremony that was held under a light shower.

“The plaque is very extraordinary and the statue makes it all come together,” says John. “It’s a great addition to the park.”

Roberts says more improvements are still planned for the park, including a touch screen monitor where one can ac-

cess the names of all veterans who have served in any service branch from Scott County. He hopes to have this completed in the near future.

In addition, memorial bricks can still be purchased for veterans and they will be added to existing bricks in the park.

Anyone wanting to purchase a brick can contact the Foundation.

The following resignations were accepted by the USD 466 (Scott County) board of education at its May 11 meeting.

Shairlyn Wasinger: SCHS English/speech.

Neil Baker: SCHS strength and conditioning coordinator; baseball head coach.

Shannon York: SCES second grade teacher.

Kevin Davis: SCHS ag/FFA instructor.

Norma Marisol de la Roacha Vargas: SCES custodian (effective May 22).

Samantha (Chacon) Hernandez: SCHS ESL aide.

New Staff Members Newly hired staff members include: Brad McCormick: SCHS principal.

Sarah McCormick: SCMS English; head coach for SCHS girl’s basketball.

Jay Tedder: SCHS math.

Amanda Kennedy: SCHS vocal music.

Lizbeth Castaneda: SCMS secretary.

Teresa Ulrich: SCES first grade.

Shelby Kite: SCES kindergarten.

Glenn O’Neil: summer mowing Jade Yeager: summer custodian.

In the event of an actual tornado sighting there will be a steady five minute blast from the Scott City siren.

Following the five minutes, the siren will not sound again until the “all-clear” which will be a steady one minute blast.

Reunion

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The Class of 1965 will be recognized for its 50th year. Four other classes that achieved 50 years since the last reunion in 2010 will be recognized as well.

Immediately after the meeting, a talent show/contest will conclude the reunion.

Additional information is available by visiting healyeagles.org or the Facebook page, Healy, Kansas AllSchool Reunion. For more information, call Margaret Taldo at (620) 398-2323 or send a message to healyeagles@gmail.com.

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Community Living

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Mammogams for Mothers a good idea any time of the year

Samantha Baldree and Evan Graber

Couple to wed in September

Tim and Patrina McGonagle, Scott City, announce the engagement of their daughter, Samantha Renee Baldree, to Evan Graber, son of Wade and Peggy Graber, El Dorado.

The bride-to-be is a graduate of Texas Tech University with a B.A. degree in exercise and sports science. She is currently working at the Scott County Hospital.

She is the granddaughter of Kay Tucker, Scott City; Bill Sperry, Tomball, Tex.; Milton Baldree, Silsbee, Tex.; Joe McG-

onagle, Scott City, and the late Reba McGonagle and Betty Baldree.

The prospective groom is a graduate of John Brown University with a B.A. degree in Biblical and theological studies.

He is currently working on his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

He is the grandson of George Evans, Scott City; Carol Graber, Hutchinson; and the late Wanda Evans and Ben Graber.

The couple is planning a September wedding in Scott City.

During this time of year when we celebrate our mothers, it’s also a good time to remind them to get their mammogram.

You could save their life and help to ensure that you and your family celebrate another Mother’s Day together!

Breast cancer is still the second leading cause of cancer death among women, following only lung cancer.

Mammograms are still the most effective method of diagnosing breast cancer.

A mammogram can accurately detect breast lumps that are too small to see or feel. A screening mammogram can detect cancer at its earliest stag-

es, up to two years before a lump can be felt.

All women are at risk for developing breast cancer regardless of race, age, breast size, or family history. A woman’s risk increases with age.

Mammograms don’t prevent breast cancer, but they can save lives by finding breast cancer as early as possible.

Mammograms can be uncomfortable, even a little painful, but what is

Births PARENTS OF SON Mark and Cindy Cramer, Healy, announce the birth of their son, Landon John. He was born on April 3, 2015, at the Scott County Hospital.

He weighed 6 lbs., 6 oz. and was 18-3/4 inches long.

He was welcomed home by big sisters Cally, Marly and Baily.

Maternal grandparents are Mike and Deb Scheuerman; and the great-grandma is Betty Scheuerman, all of Healy.

Paternal grandparents are Keith and Sandy Cramer, Manhattan; and the great-grandma is Lola May Froelich, Salina.

Brown bag fundraiser is Sunday The Scott City Middle School cheerleaders will be sponsoring a brown bag fundraiser on Sun., May 24, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., in the Scott Community High School parking lot.

Lunch includes a hamburger, chips, cookie and a drink.

The cost is a free-will Desiree Pounds and Joshua Cooper donation.

Proceeds will help Pounds-Cooper to wed June 20 cover the costs of summer She is the granddaugh- camp.

Jeffrey and Karen Pounds, Scott City, an- ter of Richard and Shirley nounce the engagement Chartier, Clyde, and the of their daughter, Desiree late Delmar Pounds and Dawn, to Joshua Cooper, Julia Pounds. son of Sondra Cooper, The prospective groom Monroe, La. is a 2009 graduate of The bride-to-be is a Wossman High School, 2009 graduate of Scott Monroe, La. He is curCommunity High School. rently employed as a safeShe is a paraprofessional ty coordinator in the maat Jennie Wilson School, Garden City, and is an as- terial handling department sistant volleyball coach at Tyson Meats, Garden for Garden City High City.

The couple is planSchool.

She is currently taking ning a June 20 wedding in online classes to complete Scott City.

The couple will reside her elementary education in Garden City. degree.

a little pain in the whole scheme of things?

When caught early, localized cancers can be removed without resorting to breast removal or mastectomy (which would be much more painful, timely and expensive). The Scott County Hospital has upto-date digital equipment and trained personnel to do mammograms.

With many of the changes in our health care and insurance, check with your insurance company for copays and deductibles. If you do not have health insurance or cannot afford a mammogram, check with the BCUP program in Scott County or the Mexican American

Ministries in Garden City.

There are no good excuses for not getting regular mammograms.

There are five important things you need to know about mammograms.

First, a mammogram could save your life.

When you find breast cancer early and treat it, it can reduce your risk of dying.

Second, a mammogram is an easy and fast procedure. The discomfort is minimal and the radiation exposure is very small.

Third, get the best mammogram that you can afford. If you have any kind of concern, ask for a digital mammogram so (See MOTHERS on page 8)

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Editorial/Opinion

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editorially speaking

Election blowback:

Cutting taxes doesn’t always signal fiscal responsibility

The recent defeat of a community wellness center by a 3-to-1 margin has created some apprehension around the Scott City Council table.

Council members have talked about unhappy taxpayers and the need to reduce the mill levy for the 2016 budget.

Councilman Everett Green offered some sound advice when he suggested the members “not read too much” into the wellness center vote.

“I can see people not voting to take on added taxes,” he said. “I don’t interpret (the election) as people wanting to cut city services that they expect us to provide.”

We agree with Green’s observation.

Yes, people complain about taxes. That’s what people do. But they will complain even louder if the city, or county, should neglect street maintenance or allow the parks to become unsightly.

In fact, the council has demonstrated over the years that while it carefully watches its spending, it’s not unwilling to invest in needed infrastructure.

That’s been evident in the willingness to extend utilities to the two new housing subdivisions along with improvements/maintenance at the city pool.

There’s more to fiscal responsibility than how much a governing body is able to cut taxes. If that was the measure of good government, Kansas wouldn’t be in its current fiscal mess.

Sometimes taxes go up. Infrastructure needs have to be addressed. Costs for insurance, salaries, utilities, etc., increase. Sometimes cutting taxes is a sign of irresponsible leadership when looking at the long-term needs.

We expect the city council to continue exercising good judgement while keeping an eye on the city’s future needs. We shouldn’t let one election get in the way of sound decision-making.

A quick fix:

Selling off state assets isn’t a long-term answer

The state legislature is pondering whether to shut down the Kansas Bioscience Authority, an agency which invests state dollars into companies which supporters say would otherwise look at locating on the east or west coasts where such financial backing is easier to find.

We don’t know that the KBA can deliver on job opportunities. It was created under former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, so maybe it needs more time to bear fruit. But there are two elements about a possible KBA fire sale that we find disturbing.

First of all is the way this bill seemingly found its way into the Senate Ways and Means Committee . . . as in anonymously.

Yes, a bill to dismantle a state agency and liquidate its assets suddenly appears on the desk of Ways and Means Committee Chairman Ty Masterson (R-Andover) and he’s clueless who sponsored it and how it got there.

Earlier this session, a bill was introduced in the legislature which would prevent a teacher, or anyone related to a teacher from running for their local board. Rep. Ron Highland (R-Wamego), who chairs the House Ag Committee, said he had no idea who introduced the bill.

In that same committee, another bill was introduced that would have prohibited college or university employees from using their titles when submitting opinion pieces to newspapers. Again, no one knew the proposed bill’s author.

When it comes to controversial policy, it seems that many Republican lawmakers prefer cowering in the dark.

Secondly, it’s amazing how near-sighted GOP lawmakers are.

Whenever there is a cash crunch, conservative Republicans are willing to sell off major assets - government buildings, national parks, turnpike systems, etc. This may help solve a problem in the short term, but the circumstances which led to the cash crunch haven’t been resolved.

So what do you sell off the next year or the year after that?

The KBA is still due to receive a $24 million transfer from the state’s general fund. In addition, the KBA has $16 million in liquid assets plus another $34 million in investments that could be sold off.

It would help fill an immediate budget hole. But a disastrous tax policy which created the financial deficit is still with us. There’s nothing to indicate that we won’t be facing this same problem again next year and the year after that.

A statewide garage sale is a simple solution for even simpler minds.

Our legislature’s inability to see the bigger picture and look into the future is what created the mess we’re in. We can’t expect to find our way out of this disaster with short-term fixes and by selling off opportunities for future growth.

Financial literacy for lawmakers State Rep. Ron Highland (R-Wamego), chairman of the House Education Committee, and Jim McNiece (Wichita) a member of the State Board of Education came out recently declaring that what’s missing from Kansas classrooms is a course on financial literacy.

There was a hearing in the House Education Committee that would have required juniors or seniors to pass a financial literacy class in order to earn a high school diploma. While there was no vote on the state mandate yet, Highland and McNiece warned schools that they will be watching them.

There’s nothing wrong with requiring a financial literacy class. It would offer some insight into the issues that will confront them in everyday life, such as understanding credit card debt, mortgage interest, and that spending $5 each week on Lotto tickets isn’t considered a retirement plan.

It’s also good to understand household budget-

ing and the correlation between income and expenses.

But it’s also a bit ironic that we have Republican lawmakers in Kansas who would like to mandate this class. That’s kind of like Russian President Vladimir Putin telling everyone else they need to take “sensitivity training” - meaning, of course, everyone but himself.

How about this idea?

Let’s stipulate that before anyone is allowed to serve in Kansas government they first be required to pass a financial literacy course?

Lawmakers want high school students to know how to balance a checkbook while they throw the state into a $420 million budget hole. These fiscal wizards are forcing schools to close early, are putting the skids on state highway construction projects and have cut

funds to programs that aid poor children. Gov. Brownback, his crack team of budget experts and GOP conservatives have eliminated hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue, offered nothing to replace it with and then seem perplexed that the state is hemorrhaging red ink.

Since they can’t seem to wrap their minds around fiscal reality, we’re offering our own financial literacy test for Kansas lawmakers: 1) How many Kansas residents on the welfare rolls would have to be denied a Caribbean cruise in order to save the state $50 million?

2) If you eliminate $803 million in state revenue in a single year (according to the Legislative Research Department) how many packs of cigarettes must you sell in order to raise enough taxes to balance the budget?

3) How low would you have to lower the legal age to purchase tobacco products in order to create enough consumers to pay enough taxes to bal-

ance the budget? (Hint: pre-school is not an age.

Be more specific).

4) How many days can each district reduce their school year in order to offset state funding cuts without having an impact on the quality of education provided to our students?

5) If Kansas were to no longer require an education beyond the sixth grade, what percentage of these sixth grade graduates would still be overqualified to be a Tea Party Republican?

6) How many jobs are created when you take money from the state highway fund to compensate for tax cuts for Kansas corporations?

7) When you refuse to expand the Medicaid program in Kansas because these patients can always go to the hospital emergency room, is this considered “free” medical care?

8) What’s the financial return to a Koch brother for each Republican legislator that he owns?

(See LITERACY on page six)

Republicans at your dinner table Republicans may like to rail against big government. But here in Wisconsin - where conservative lawmakers just introduced a bill to dramatically restrict what people can buy with their own food stamps Republicans want to cook up a new kind of nanny state.

This isn’t a new idea altogether.

Recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) already can’t buy prepared foods or booze with their benefits. More recently, some conservative politicians and policy wonks have suggested restricting food stamp recipients from using government aid to buy soda or junk food.

But now, Wisconsin Republicans want to bar people from using

Where to Write

another view by Jill Richardson

their food stamps to buy shrimp, lobster, and other shellfish, and require them to use at least twothirds of their SNAP benefits on items found on a specific and arbitrary list of products.

If the bill were to pass, bulk dry beans - a very affordable and nutritious choice - would be out, but canned beans would be in. That is, unless they’re green beans, in which case they’re off limits.

Fruit juice is allowed, as long as it’s not organic.

Canned tomatoes are in, but spaghetti sauce is out.

The Food Research and Action Center says the proposal would create a “grocery nanny state.”

As a former food stamp

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

recipient myself, I can’t even imagine what a trip to the grocery store would be like - or how humiliating it would be to check out and discover that half of my purchases weren’t allowed.

Imagine holding up an entire line of shoppers as a clerk goes through your groceries, sorting them into “yes” and “no” piles.

And with only $70 to feed an adult woman for a month, how much lobster do the Republicans think I would’ve been buying anyway?

Like the rest of our fraying social safety net, food stamps are intended to help Americans out when we’re down on our luck. To qualify, you have to be incredibly poor - so poor that nobody would be tempted to avoid work to obtain public assistance.

Sen. Pat Roberts 109 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

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My $70 per month for food was definitely helpful. But when I was that poor, I had a hard time paying for gas, rent, utilities, and everything else in my life. I was eager to earn more money and get off food stamps - and I did after a few months.

If you want to see what an average food stamp recipient looks like, look in the mirror. Anyone can fall on hard times. Every single person I’ve met who’s fallen that low has worked their tails off to get back on their feet.

Being poor is stressful enough without being kicked while you’re down.

The last thing food stamp recipients need is a handful of rich politicians telling them what they can and can’t eat.

Jill Richardson is the author of “Recipe for America: Why Our Food System Is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It”

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A dangerous time for Ks. legislature to be in session

by Barbara Shelly

It’s dangerous letting Kansas lawmakers hang around Topeka this long.

While some lawmakers are preoccupied with the slow-drip process of putting together a tax plan to balance the budget, others are using their time to propose more bad ideas.

Take the proposal to eliminate the Kansas Bioscience Authority.

This is being handled by the Senate Ways and Means Committee. No one is admitting to actually sponsoring the bill, but lawmakers who don’t like it suspect it is a collaborative effort of Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration and some conservative legislators.

At one time, the Bioscience Authority was a bragging point for Kansas. Savvy and fast on its feet, it recruited high-tech companies more suited for the coasts to locate in middle America.

It helped promote the “animal science corridor,” the concentration of veterinary and food science companies bookmarked

by Columbia, Mo., on the east and Manhattan on the west. It was instrumental in helping Kansas win the coveted federal National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility and played a role in the University of Kansas Hospital gaining National Cancer Institute designation.

The authority still recruits companies to Kansas, even as state support for its operations has dwindled to nearly nothing. Now key players want to dismantle the agency and fold its operations and assets into the state Department of Commerce.

That would likely bring a slow halt to bioscience recruitment in Kansas. High-tech companies and specialized financiers aren’t going to want to deal with a state bureaucracy. While Kansas is pulling back, other state are creating entities like the KBA. This looks like another power play on Brownback’s part, and another desperation move to gain assets and money to balance the state budget. But it will cost Kansas the good-paying kinds of jobs that recruit and retain smart people.

Another malicious “wrap-up” session maneuver is a bill that would defund the entire Kansas judiciary if the state Supreme Court rules a certain law passed last year to be unconstitutional.

The law has to do with how chief judges in district courts are selected. Actually, it has to do with control.

Always control.

Prior to last year, the Kansas Supreme Court appointed chief district judges. Last year’s law assigned that role to other judges in the district. The dispute, of course, is in court - the issue being whether the Legislature has the power to interfere in judicial business like that.

One can quibble with which system is better for selecting chief judges. But threatening the budget of the entire judiciary is beyond the pale. It’s extortion, pure and simple.

Kansas lawmakers have been incredibly disrespectful of the state’s courts and judges, but they ought to respect the right of citizens to have access to a functioning court system.

Barbara Shelly is a columnist for the Kansas City Star. She can be reached by e-mail at bshelly@ kcstar.com

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on the cutting edge of waste Ultra-wealthy have hoarded far more cash than they can responsibly invest

by Sam Pizzigati

Lots of folks in America today really need more money.

Our kids, for starters. We ought to be investing in their futures, not stuffing them in overcrowded classrooms or forcing them to graduate from college with tens of thousands of dollars in debt.

And plenty of working people need more money, too. Wages for average Americans, after you take inflation into account, have sunk below what workers were making four decades ago.

I could go on.

But not everyone’s feeling the pinch.

Take Stewart Butterfield, the CEO of Slack - a tech start-up whose corporate messaging app just might, some experts believe, one day replace email.

The year-old Slack, in other words, may prove to be quite a big deal. Or the company might crash, as so many startups inevitably do. But that risk hasn’t stopped the heavyweights of American high finance from rushing to invest in Butterfield’s fledgling operation.

By this past March, those investments had jacked up Slack’s market value to a stunning $1 billion. Then, in April, investors injected an additional $160 million for a mere five percent stake in Butterfield’s company. That brought the startup’s total market value to just about $3 billion.

The strangest part of all this? Butterfield’s company didn’t ask for that latest $160 million - and doesn’t need it either.

“We don’t have an immediate use for that money,” Butterfield openly acknowledged in a recent interview.

“Eventually,” he added, “we will find a use for it, at least I hope we do.”

Stewart Butterfield shows off Slack

Wait, this story gets stranger still.

What’s happening with Slack turns out to be happening all across America’s economic cutting edge. The nation’s high-finance chiefs - the exceedingly deep pockets who run hedge funds and the like - are dumping cash into start-ups at a dizzying pace.

Back in the old days - say, six years ago - hot start-ups would raise a pile of cash from investors, digest that money into their ongoing operations, then come back a year or so later and ask investors for more. Another year would typically pass before a third round of financing.

This wait-and-see financing has gone by the boards. Since early 2013, The New York Times reports, more than 20 tech start-ups have swallowed three rounds of financing in less than 18 months. One of these, the anonymous messaging start-up Yik Yak, completed three rounds in just seven months.

What’s going on here? In a word: inequality.

The “winners” in America’s contemporary economy are now holding phenomenally more money than they can prudently invest. So they’re not making rational investments. They’re speculat-

ing, racing to place mammoth bets on start-ups that may become the “next big thing.”

Slack CEO Butterfield seems a bit bemused, but not bothered. Yes, he candidly admits, we have in America right now “a lot of investors who have a lot of money.”

“But,” he adds, “it’s not like if they hadn’t given the money to us, they would have given to a homeless person instead.”

That’s true, of course. The super-rich now awash with cash aren’t choosing between bankrolling start-ups and making sure that kids in poor neighborhoods get three squares a day. They’re choosing between speculative options they think will make them even richer.

Well, the rest of us need to choose, too.

We can continue to accept an economy where fabulously rich people dump fabulously huge sums on people and enterprises who don’t need the money. Or we can try to forge a new and different economy - where investments actually make sense.

Sam Pizzigati is an Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow and a co-author of the report ‘Fix the Debt’ CEOs Enjoy TaxpayerSubsidized Pay.”

Even Schumer can’t stomach TPP sham

by Jim Hightower

Sen. Chuck Schumer, leader of the corporate wing of congressional Democrats, never met a global trade deal too ugly to hug. So when even he says, “This is really troubling,” you know his eyes have been singed by something truly hideous.

That “something” is the trade scam called Trans-Pacific Partnership. The scam is that TPP only masquerades as a trade deal, while actually being a gross enlargement of multinational corporate power over our people’s sovereignty.

(See SHAM on page six)

Jeb’s invasion answer no surprise Don’t give him so much credit for being smarter than his brother Jeb Bush must have set some kind of record for political flip-flopping this month.

“Knowing what we know now,” he was asked - that Saddam Hussein didn’t have any weapons of mass destruction, for example - “would you have authorized the invasion” of Iraq?

“I would’ve,” he said.

Almost immediately, the oatmeal hit the fan. Supporters and critics alike jumped up out of the weeds protesting his embrace of what many consider the greatest foreign policy blunder since Hitler invaded the Soviet Union.

Before nightfall that day, he was backing crab-like away from that position.

He had “misinterpreted” the question, he said. In any case, it was futile to take up “hypotheticals” like that.

But back he tracked until it seemed as though the former Florida governor would’ve been marching in front of the White House, occupied at the time by his own brother, with a “Hell No! I won’t go” placard.

behind the headlines by Donald Kaul

The kindest interpretation friendly critics offered was that Jeb Bush was reluctant to take issue with George W., who, after all, ordered the Iraq invasion. It was filial affection, not foreign policy naiveté, that informed his first response.

Are you kidding me?

Of course Jeb Bush would have done the same thing as George W. Bush.

There’s hardly the thickness of a sheet of paper between them on Middle East policy.

Don’t believe me? The man who would like to lead the third Bush administration in three decades named Paul Wolfowitz, the Iraq invasion’s architect, to his team of advisers. That’s like taking navigation lessons from the captain of the Titanic.

Wolfowitz, you’ll remember, is the guy who promised a speedy end to the Iraq War and predicted it would pay for itself with rising oil revenue. That was a trillion dollars - and many thousands of lives ago. And we’re still waiting for our first payment.

I’ve always thought Jeb got too much credit for being smarter than his brother.

That was largely a function of the fact that even though he smoked a lot of pot in high school, he didn’t spend his youthful years drunk, unlike George W. In reality, neither of them has shown much in the way of smarts. They’ve gone a long way on family money and friends in high places.

The best of the Bush bunch, to my thinking, is the old man, George H. W. Bush. Not a brilliant intellectual, perhaps, but he was smart enough to know that Iraq’s not a place where you want to hang out very long. As bad a guy as Saddam Hussein was, the elder Bush had the sense not to dabble in regime change when he went to war with Iraq.

Perhaps the most astonishing piece of information to come out of this latest Bush flap was a Quinnipiac University poll that showed George W. Bush’s favorability rating with likely voters in the Iowa caucus stands at 81 percent. (Jeb only as a 37 percent favorability rating).

Eighty-one percent! Chocolate ice cream doesn’t have an 81 percent favorability rating among Iowa Republicans.

(See SURPRISE on page six)

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Not much thought goes into politics these days Dave Helling

What was he thinking?

That was the most common reaction to former Missouri House Speaker John Diehl’s recent telephonic dalliance with an intern. And the only possible answer is he wasn’t thinking.

Diehl’s brain freeze was not an anomaly, though. Sadly, there’s evidence contemporary politics is plagued by a reluctance to think.

To this day, a sizable

contingent of Republicans and conservatives blame “low-information voters” for the election of President Barack Obama. The theory, popularized by radio talker Rush Limbaugh, is that some people don’t know enough to cast the right votes.

“Low-information voters are clearly people that don’t have all the information available,” Limbaugh once said. “Most of them did vote for Obama.”

Interestingly, critics of Gov. Sam Brownback

make the same argument about his election in Kansas. When asked why voters chose Brownback in 2014, Democrats - and some Republicans - usually say that the state’s electorate wasn’t “fully informed.”

While it’s highly unlikely all voters are as hazy as partisans suggest, it’s true voters seem less familiar with their government than at any time in recent memory.

Why would that be?

Reporters share some of

the blame. Perhaps we’re not explaining issues as clearly as we should, and the declining influence of so-called mainstream media outlets is well-known and problematic.

But surely the biggest share of the responsibility for a less-focused electorate falls to the nation’s politicians. On issue after issue, Republicans and Democrats appear far more interested in misleading sloganeering than in critical thinking about common concerns.

The problem seems most acute in Washington.

Republicans there recently claimed they passed a balanced federal budget, an assertion that assaults the truth. Democrats are busy forcing votes on bills that can’t possibly pass but may look good on a bumper sticker.

It happens at the state level, too. The battle over expanding Medicaid in Kansas and Missouri suggests an emotional disgust with Obamacare, not a reasoned disagreement

over how to provide health care for the working poor.

Government has become a talk show, and voters make their choices accordingly.

Kansas is in the thick of a complicated discussion about raising taxes to cover a $400 million deficit.

It will take hard work and thoughtful compromise to find an answer. This is going to take awhile.

Dave Helling, a columnist for the Kansas City Star, can be reached at dhelling@kcstar. com

An education system based on good intentions?

John Schrock

“It will be possible to hire a certified electrician to teach high school English under the Innovative Districts proposal,” was one charge made during Open Forum at this month’s State Board of Education meeting.

Later that morning, Kansas Education Commissioner-Elect Randy Watkins spoke for the Coalition of Innovative School Districts (CISD) and asserted that was not

their intention.

So, do we run schools (or any other government enterprise) based on “intentions” or based on “the letter of the law.” The answer to that is simple: we run schools by the letter of the law.

So yes, CISD schools could hire electricians to teach English.

I have a rule to never question intentions. I always write to written proposals and recorded statements. I never impugn others’ motivation or in-

Biker-brawl suspects only slightly outnumber Republican candidates

by Andy Borowitz

WACO (The Borowitz Report) - Suspects in the recent biker brawl in Waco, Tex., only slightly outnumber the 2016 Republican presidential candidates, leading some voters to have difficulty distinguishing between the two groups, a new poll shows.

According to the poll, voters who were presented the names of a biker-brawl suspect and a Republican presidential candidate correctly identified both only 30 percent of the time.

For example, 57 percent of voters erroneously identified former Texas Governor Rick Perry as a member of the Bandidos motorcycle gang, while 41 percent believed he belonged to the Cossacks.

Adding to voters’ confusion, the biker brawlers and GOP candidates have identical views on a host of issues, such as gun rights and whether they would feel comfortable attending a gay wedding.

While the number of biker-brawl suspects stands at 170, if current trends continue, the Republican field could blow past that number by early summer, possibly deepening voters’ confusion.

But, in one positive sign for the Republicans, they notched a higher approval rating than the Waco suspects, five percent to three percent.

Andy Borowitz is a comedian and author

Sham

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Specifically, a chapter of this secretly-negotiated, 12-nation deal empowers foreign corporations to challenge America’s laws, rules, and court rulings - whether local, state, or national - by suing our governments in private, corporate-run tribunals set up by the United Nations or the World Bank.

That’s what made Chuck nearly upchuck.

“Savvy, deep-pocketed foreign conglomerates,” he gasped, “could challenge a broad range of laws we pass at every level of government, such as made-inAmerica laws or anti-tobacco laws.”

Exactly.

Moreover, global corporate giants from Japan, Australia, Mexico, or other nations in the TPP could sue us not just for any actual harm they claim to be suffering because of, say, our clean water law, but for undermining their “investment-backed expectations.”

Translated from corporate-speak, that means a foreign conglomerate could haul our clean water law before a tribunal just by claiming the law undermines the profits it expected to make!

Even the corporate and governmental elites who have secretly negotiated this raw deal knew that its uglies would gag you, me, and even Schumer. So they added an extra layer of secrecy, mandating that the sovereignty-busting chapter not be declassified until four years after TPP is approved.

To help stop TPP in its tracks, join the grassroots coalition fighting it. Go to www.StopTPP.org.

tegrity.

Yet, CISD’s strategy is to win acceptance based on “good intentions” and “trust me” and not on the substance of the various proposals they have submitted. So I have no choice but to address “intent.”

CISD invited the Kansas Deans of Education to a place at the table as a stakeholder. However, in their April 15 letter of invitation, CISD made clear in bold type that “. . . a public innovative district

shall be exempt from all laws and rules and regulations that are applicable to school districts.”

So yes, the Education Deans are invited to the table, but they will be eating what the CISD serves up. The 2013 House Bill 2319 pretty much makes the involvement of any “stakeholders” moot.

That includes stakeholders such as teachers who are concerned with having incompetent colleagues as well as parents worried about their child’s

Literacy 9) If you eliminate taxes for Kansas corporations, but college tuition fees increase, as well as taxes on property, tobacco and retail sales, how much money have Kansans really saved?

10) If you have a state tax structure that’s a threelegged stool - property, sales and income - and you eliminate one of those legs, how many are left?

11) How many states are laughing at Kansas’ financial predicament?

What can they be thinking of? Certainly they can’t be thinking very seriously about the Iraq invasion.

Did I mention that it’s cost us a trillion dollars and counting?

Perhaps I failed to inform you that our conduct of that war and the other conflicts that seem to have unstoppably flowed from it, with our waterboarding and our drone attacks, have squan-

28 or even 56 (including Title I priority schools).

That would dilute the innovation money dramatically.

On the other side is the original proposal by Hugoton that reflects a completely different widespread shortage of qualified teachers in rural areas. If Hugoton got permission to “grow their own” teachers and license them locally - so a teacher could not teach in any other district - half of the rural (See EDUCATION on page 7)

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(Hint: Canada is not a state).

12) How many Republican lawmakers can fit into a circus clown car?

13) If the Kansas judicial system says that Kansas lawmakers are underfunding public education, and the legislature eliminates funding for the judiciary, how many corndogs will that buy at the Kansas State Fair?

14) If you pay a finan-

Surprise

teachers?

The “intent” of CISD members varies greatly.

The two big districts at the east edge of Kansas want the money that comes with being “innovative.”

One superintendent was very clear in her request for funds to pay for concurrent enrollment course work for poor students. For these two CISD schools, it is a disadvantage if the number of innovative schools grows much beyond the current six to the allowed

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dered any moral advantage that we claimed over our enemies.

Jeb Bush was the great hope of rational Republicans in the upcoming race. He was the sensible one.

Now we find he hopes to ride his brother’s tattered coat tails to victory.

Who’s his model for economic policy, Herbert Hoover?

Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com

cial guru $75,000 for a snake oil tax scheme that creates a $420 million budget hole, how much of that money does he get to keep? (Hint: if you’ve already forgotten what he was paid then “all” is an acceptable answer).

15) If the Constitution requires you to have three branches of government and you eliminate one of them, how many are left?

(Hint: this answer and No. 10 are pretty close to each other).

16) What are the odds of the Kansas Legislature having a winning lottery ticket that will eliminate the state’s financial shortfall?

There you have it. A simple quiz to determine how knowledgeable our lawmakers are when it comes to simple, financial concepts. And should you fail . . . well, we already know how that feels.

Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com

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Education Kansas USDs would be eager to join in this ability to hire non-licensed and even non-degreed “teachers” and keep them from leaving.

Why would any superintendent want to hire an unqualified teacher?

A shortage is growing nationwide. Nearly every state is issuing permits and emergency teaching licenses to staff their classrooms.

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However, they do not declare the permit teacher to be a fully qualified teacher, making the shortage go away on paper.

Kansas will.

Advocates for CISD declare that these school administrators will be held to higher standards, and the CISD bylaws talk of “meeting the standards for math and reading” as well as showing improve-

ment in graduates enlisting in the military or completing post-secondary programs.”

Not only is this more teaching-to-the-test in two narrow areas, it ignores science, music, art, social studies, special education and other areas.

There are those who believe that if we allow untrained teachers into the classroom, Kansas

schools may even improve and show that education courses and even college degrees are not needed.

CISD is claiming that they do not intend to deprofessionalize teaching, saying “trust us.”

But their proposals on paper say the opposite.

Trust me, they do.

John Schrock trains biology teachers and lives in Emporia

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Jan Tucker retirement reception @ Bryan Conference Center, 2:00-5:00 p.m.

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HS State Golf @ TBA SCES boat regatta @ city pool, 6:00 p.m.

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ES Gessel screening, 8:00 a.m.

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Scott County wheat tour @ 4.3 miles east of Scott City, 6:00 p.m.

SCHS All-School Reunion meeting @ Bryan Conference Center, 7:00 p.m.

Memorial Day service @ Scott County Cemetery, 11:00 a.m.

Friday

Pack 66/Troop 149, Scott City swimming 7:00 p.m. pool opens

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balloon liftoff

Darlene Richman enjoys a beautiful day as she waits for the signal to release her balloon during the annual balloon liftoff last Thursday morning at Park Lane Nursing Home in Scott City. The event was held in conjunction with National Nursing Home Week.

(Record Photo)

Mothers that the doctors can utilize the technology and make a better diagnosis.

Fourth, know that the mammogram is the most powerful breast cancer detection tool that we have; however, they are not perfect. Self breast exams, clinical breast examinations and ultrasounds can and should be used in addition to mammograms.

Fifth and most important, an unusual result that requires some more testing does not mean you have breast cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, less than 10 percent of women who have a repeat mammogram will end up with breast cancer.

Lately, there has been a lot of discussion about

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when a person should have a mammogram. I believe everyone should have a base to work from.

Only you and your doctor can decide when the time is right for you to have a mammogram. You and your doctor might decide on an age based off of personal factors such as family history, menstrual history, use of hormone therapy and breast density.

If you are a woman please get regular mammograms as your doctor directs. If you are a man support and encourage your wife, mother and sisters to get mammograms based off of her doctor’s recommendations.

It could save their life.

On that note, men can also get breast cancer and should be willing to do self-exams as well and should see their doctor for an annual checkup.

Please make an appointment with your local doctor and they will refer you to the radiology department. I realize that it takes time out of our busy schedules to make these appointments, but most of us will probably spend more time getting our hair cut than what it takes for a mammogram.

Just remember, we all must be in charge of our own personal health.

If you would like more information, please call the radiology department at the SCH (872-5811).

Retirement Party for Jan! Sunday, May 24 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Bryan Conference Center 416 S. Main St., Scott City

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Tuesday, June 2 8:00 a.m.

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The Inn Pancake House, Dodge City Council RM, City Hall, Ashland Don’s Place, Protection Community Center, Greensburg

Wednesday, June 3

Now We Know

8:00 a.m.

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Cimarron City Library, Cimarron Chuck Wagon Restaurant, Meade Community Bldg., Plains Liberal City Library, Liberal

Thursday, June 4 8:30 a.m.

Stevens County District Courthouse (3rd Floor Jury Rm.), Hugoton 11:00 a.m. Grant County Library, Ulysses 2:00 p.m. Haskell Township Library, Sublette 5:00 p.m. Lone Star Steakhouse, Garden City

Friday, June 5 8:00 a.m. Scott County Public Library, Scott City 10:30 a.m. Oakley Public Library, Oakley 1:00 p.m. Community Bldg., Colby In the past 24 months China rejected more than 5 million tons of U.S. Corn due to MIR – 162 unapproved variety marketed by Syngenta.

Please join us at the above Town Hall Meetings for more information.

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Leading AG experts say corn damages to ALL co farmers could exceed 5 billion dollars.

Jacob A. Hecker, 620-677-1204 Hecker Law Group

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National award for ‘Cram the Van’ Wheatland Electric wins gold for best event Wheatland Electric Cooperative recently received recognition in the 2015 “Spotlight on Excellence” national awards program, sponsored by the Council of Rural Electric Communicators and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.

Wheatland received a Gold Award in the Best Event Category for the “Cram the Van” food drive. Shawn Powelson, manager of member services and corporate communications coordinated the award-winning event.

“The judges noted that electric cooperatives are being challenged to communicate to the people they serve in more ways than ever before,” said Carol Crabtree, administrator of Spotlight on Excellence.

“Printed newsletters, news releases, websites, social media and videos,

are all more important than ever to keep members updated.”

A special reception honored the award recipients during the Connect ‘15 Conference held in Minneapolis, Minn., on May 12. Winning entries were displayed during the event.

“What an honor. The Spotlight award winners are the best of the best from cooperatives across the country. I’m very proud of our efforts and thrilled that Wheatland received an award for this great program.” said Bruce Mueller, general manager of Wheatland.

The annual Spotlight awards competition recognizes the top-rated communication and marketing efforts by electric cooperatives and related organizations. Participants competed with electric cooperatives of similar sizes in 16 categories.

Shawn Powelson (left), manager of member services for Wheatland Electric, accepts the award in Best Event Category for the “Cram the Van” food drive.

Electric cooperative communicators and marketing professionals submitted more than 780 entries in the Spotlight on Excellence program.

Faculty members from the University of MissouriColumbia, University of South Carolina and Ohio University ScrippsHoward School of Journalism judged the entries.

Wheatland’s Cram the Van event was held last September-October and

consisted of 11 stops in 10 communities throughout Wheatland’s territory.

The food drive featured a red van, covered in “Cram the Van” decals, which Wheatland would bring to community events.

Wheatland challenged its members to help “Cram the Van with nonperishable food items for the local food bank.

The drive collected 6,615 pounds of food - nearly 3-1/2 tons - for people in the 10 communities.

Tax hike proposals headed for Senate floor

Sat., June 6 • 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Lake Scott State Park stop in at the Beach House

Facing a more than $400 million budget hole, the Kansas Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee agreed Tuesday to send a package of nine assorted tax increases to the full Senate for consideration. It’s an effort to break the logjam over taxes and budget that has kept lawmakers in Topeka past their 90th-day deadline for adjournment.

The plan would freeze income tax rates, rather than continuing to phase them down to zero over time. It also would increase the sales tax on a pack of cigarettes by 50 cents, lower than Gov. Sam Brownback’s original proposal of $1.50 per pack.

Public health advocates have supported the larger increase, saying it would keep about 50,000 Kansans from starting or continuing to smoke and reduce the $1.12 billion that it costs to treat tobacco-related illnesses in the state.

However, they say a 50 cent increase isn’t enough to produce those health benefits.

The proposal would raise the state sales tax rate from 6.15 percent to 6.5 percent, with food taxed at six percent. In addition, it would do away with a provision that made some farm and business income exempt from taxation.

The repeal would be

retroactive to the current year. Instead, there would be a tax credit applied to payrolls.

Other proposed changes include a five-cent-pergallon increase in motor fuel taxes, an amnesty to encourage payment of delinquent taxes and reducing the level of itemized deductions allowed on state income tax returns.

A Budget Surplus All told, the changes would generate an estimated $496 million in new revenue for the next fiscal year, and leave the state with an ending balance of a little less than $90 million.

Committee chairman Les Donovan said this is a proposal he can live with, because it’s time for compromise.

“We were hired here to do something,” he said.

“We need to learn the art of compromise. It’s not a dirty word.”

Donovan’s frustration with the intransigence of the various factions in the legislature was evident.

The 2015 session was scheduled to end Saturday. Donovan has proposed shutting off legislative pay by Friday, as an incentive for lawmakers to agree on a budget. The idea received the support of seven senators on the 11-member panel, although a bill to enforce that pay halt has not been drafted.

Donovan reiterated his view that the $400 million budget hole is not an indication that exempting certain business income from taxation - a change the legislature approved in 2012 - as a way to induce growth is ineffective.

Regressive Taxes Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley voted against the compromise tax package, saying it relies too heavily on regressive taxes, like sales and fuel taxes.

“This mess was caused by the Republican majority in the Legislature, and Governor Sam Brownback,” he said. “And until they can own up and take the responsibility for that, we’re going to continue to see these unfair kind of solutions that negatively impact on the workingclass people of Kansas, and on low-income people who live on fixed incomes.”

Hensley said that argument holds true for the cigarette and tobacco taxes, which also fall most heavily on people with low or fixed incomes.

Hensley would prefer to address the state’s budget deficit through repeal of the 2012 income tax cuts. Balancing the budget by further cutting spending would require a six percent across-theboard reduction, which he said would harm public schools, higher education and other programs.

Carp Derby

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Puzzling teachers and staff. You are the real MVPs.” Yager thanked the teachers and staff for the valuable lessons he learned.

“The biggest lesson I learned is that friends may only last awhile . . . but family will always be there,” he said.

And he thanked the community for its “phenomenal support” of the youth and their activities.

“We definitely have the best community.

Without you guys sitting in the crowd, this day would not be special for us,” noted Yager.

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thanks to the SCHS staff for “pushing us to succeed.”

“You have shaped us in many ways, from educational to many of life’s lessons,” he said.

Quoting James Dean who said, “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today,” Hutchins described his classmates as dreamers.

“But even with all our future dreams, we still know the importance of living in the present moment,” Hutchins noted.

Influencing Each Other “Every single one of us has, in one way, shape Pushed to Succeed or form influenced the Honor student Marshal lives of our classmates,” Hutchins added his said honor student Macy

Davis, the last of the three commencement speakers. “Our experiences in the hallways of SCHS have shaped who we are today.”

Davis said that fear of failure is what makes the future appear so daunting.

“There is no try and fail,” said Davis. “There is only try, and try, and try again, and try for a fourth time and a fifth time and a sixth time and so on, and then succeed. It is when we stop trying that we truly fail.

“In the last four years Graduate Sloan Baker shares a fist bump with junior ivy holder Cooper we have been winners and Griffith as he passes by during the start of Saturday’s commencement we have been losers, we ceremony at SCHS. (Record Photo) have been state champions and we haven’t even look at us. After today, of Scott Community High have tried and we have broken out of prelims, but we will all be graduates School,” she said. “We succeeded.”

The EMTs of

Scott County EMS

wish to thank the residents of Scott County for their continued support.

Celebrating EMS Week May 17-23

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SCHS graduate Kambra Dearden tosses her cap into the air at the conclusion of the commencement program.

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taking FFA to the top

14 area grads earn degrees from K-State Davis resigns

Fourteen students from Scott, Lane and Wichita counties were among nearly 3,000 graduates who completed degree requirements from Kansas State University this spring.

Degrees earned include nearly 2,300 bachelor’s degrees, more than 610 master’s degrees, more than 100 doctorates and 25 associate degrees.

Area graduates include: Dighton: Jamee Schwartz, Bachelor of Science in education.

Leoti: Grant Bangerter, Master of Accountancy; Kayla Graff, Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering; and Alec Horton, Bachelor of Science in agriculture Scott City: William Beaton, Master of Business Administration; Ashlee Brown, Bachelor of Science in family studies and human services; Austin Davis, Bachelor of Science in business administration; Aaron Kitch, Bachelor of Science; Amber Kuckelman, Master of Science.

Carl Minnix, Bachelor of Science; Miles Pearson, Bachelor of Science in food science and industry; Christopher Sourk, Bachelor of Science in business administration; Justine Sperber, Bachelor of Science in education; and Kaytlin Whipple, Bachelor of Science in agriculture.

Free lunches for kids this summer

Young people will still 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 12:30 p.m. every Monday through Friday from May 26 through July 17.

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

For more information contact Kathy Eaton (872-7605) or Keaton@usd466.com.

Carp Derby Sat., June 6 • 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Lake Scott State Park

after 27 years with Scott City FFA, ag program When Kevin Davis joined the Scott Community High School teaching staff 27 years ago, he had no idea the condition of the ag mechanics/FFA program he was inheriting.

During his first three months in Scott City, as he was preparing for the start of the school year, when Davis would introduce himself to community members and tell them what he had been hired to teach, he was often greeted by “good luck” as in, “You’ll need it.”

“I kept hearing that and I began to wonder what I’d gotten myself into,” Davis recalls, who had spent the previous years as the ag instructor with the Cheylin school district.

Davis wasted little time trying to establish a different culture for the program. When he was given a tour of the ag shop it was also serving as a storage site for the Beaver bus.

“The first thing I asked is what was a bus doing in my ag shop?” noted Davis. “I said this is either an ag shop or a bus barn. It became an ag shop.”

That was only the beginning.

“When I came here the program was a mess. I thought the kids were exaggerating at first, but I found out the stories were all true,” Davis says.

He also had the support of the administration. When Davis was asked to become an assistant football coach in his first year here, Assistant Principal Bill Walker said that wasn’t going to happen - at least not right away.

“He said it was my job to get this program on its feet and that’s where my focus needed to be,” remembers Davis.

While Davis also had plans to make the FFA program competitive at the district and state level, he knew that wouldn’t happen quickly either. In fact, he told his first group of students that “we will get our house in order before we take anything on the road.”

In the first year, the only district honor earned by the FFA chapter was a speech plaque.

In the second year, the Scott City chapter finished second to Jetmore in the district sweepstakes competition.

“It didn’t take that long to turn things around. The kids responded well and I had some really good kids coming through at that time,” Davis

SCHS ag mechanics and FFA instructor Kevin Davis discusses welds with Christian Wolfe and Kylee Milner.

(Record Photo)

notes.

During that initial year, Davis had 36 students in his shop classes, which climbed to about 90 students over the next six years. Today, smaller classes going through the high school have seen the ag mechanics program drop to only about 50 students.

“When we had 80 or 90 kids in this class, there were trailers being built left and right in the shop,” Davis says. “We’ve pushed a lot of trailers and other projects in and out of this shop over the years.”

State Champ Teams While Davis is proud of the skills that his students have gained in the shop, he has also been passionate about FFA and admits it was always a “goal to be a state champion in something.”

That “something” in the early years was livestock judging. But even with great judging teams that included Clayton Lampe, Garrett Lampe, Bethany Beckman, Cody Palen and Zach Conine, they had to settle for a state runner-up during three consecutive years.

“As great as those kids were, it was real frustrating that we couldn’t get a championship,” says Davis.

Satanta FFA instructor Mel Heddlesten convinced him to shift his energy into another direction.

“He pointed out that livestock judging was always a crapshoot. There’s a subjective element to judging and you could never be sure that you

and the judge would be on the same page,” Davis says. “On the other hand, Mel pointed out to me that meats judging isn’t near as subjective. You either know your stuff or you don’t.”

As it turned out, Davis and the local chapter know their stuff when it comes to meat.

SCHS won its first state championship in meats judging in 2010 with a team that included Carl Minnix, Jesse Birney, Anna Yeager and Davis’ two sons, Austin and Chris.

The following fall, the team placed eighth at the FFA National Meats Judging competition held in Indiana.

Scott City added another state title in 2013 with Kiersten Scott, Macy Davis (a niece) and Davis’ daughter, Aubrey.

SCHS has been knocking on the door of another state title with fourth place finishes each of the last two years.

The team’s success over the years has been the result of some outstanding students who have really enjoyed judging, along with the opportunity to compete against some of the best in the region during shows at Denver and on a three-day swing through Texas which includes stops at Texas Tech, West Texas University and Clarendon College.

The three-day road trip isn’t a vacation.

“For three days the kids are mine,” says Davis with a grin.

“While we’re on the road and in our motel room we’ll study for an hour, take an hour off and then study some more.

We use laptops and flashcards,”

he says. “At the end of those three days you’re going to know about all you’ll need to know.”

Davis, 55, says that what he’s enjoyed most during nearly three decades in the classroom has been the ability to work with hundreds of students and help a number of them get started in ag-related careers.

“It was always interesting to visit with kids when they’d come back and they’d tell me about their jobs and how much money they were making. They knew I wasn’t making near that kind of money, especially compared to the kids who were welding, and they’d ask why I was teaching and not doing something else,” Davis says.

“It wasn’t about the money.

I’ve enjoyed being in the classroom and the shop,” he says. “I have no regrets.”

However, the timing was right for a career change. Davis is eligible to begin drawing on his retirement through KPERS. He might have considered retiring and staying in the district, but with the legislature considering the prospect of ending the practice of “double-dipping” Davis said he didn’t “want the rug pulled out from under me.”

The Scott Co-op made an offer and Davis felt he couldn’t pass it by. Davis will train for a year under Tom Ludowese, Co-op manager at Shallow Water, with plans to take over when Ludowese retires.

“Scott City has been a great place to live and to raise our family. We have no interest in leaving here,” Davis adds.

For the Record ATM limit for welfare recipients may violate law The Scott County Record

A first-of-its-kind provision that prevents welfare recipients in Kansas from withdrawing more than $25 a day from an ATM might violate federal law - and could jeopardize the state’s federal funding if not amended.

The Social Security Act requires states to ensure that recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, “have adequate access to their cash assistance”

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and can withdraw money “with minimal fees or charges.”

At stake is about $102 million in TANF block grant money that Kansas receives every year from the federal government.

The ATM limit was added as an amendment to a welfare overhaul bill signed in April by Gov. Sam Brownback.

The new law also bars welfare recipients from spending their benefit

Scott Co. LEC Report Scott City Police Department May 12: Markie Brown, 28, was arrested on a Scott County warrant for use/possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia and was transported to the LEC. May 12: Jonas Ullom, 34, was arrested on a Scott County warrant for aggravated battery.

May 14: Steven Turley, Jr., was arrested for disorderly conduct and transported to the LEC. May 15: McKaylin Dirks reported a theft.

May 15: Steven Turley, Sr., filed a report of criminal damage to property.

May 16: Amanda Seig Marquez was arrested on a warrant from another county and transported to the LEC. May 16: Joshua Dirks was arrested for domestic battery and transported to the LEC. Scott County Sheriff’s Department May 14: A report was received of reckless driving and aggravated endangering of a child.

Public Notice (Published in The Scott County Record Thurs., May 21, 2015) 1t

SCOTT COUNTY COMMISSIONER’S PROCEEDINGS APRIL 2015 GENERAL FUND SALARIES ............................................ $ 85,496.30 COMMODITIES ....................................

15,896.89 CONTRACTUAL SERVICES .................

93,442.01 CAPITAL OUTLAY..................................

488.84 OTHER...................................................

3,047.04 COUNTY HEALTH FUND SALARIES .............................................

COMMODITIES .....................................

CONTRACTUAL SERVICES .................

CAPITAL OUTLAY .................................

OTHER...................................................

15,904.35 7,163.73 1,871.33 130.50 0.00

NOXIOUS WEED FUND SALARIES...............................................

COMMODITIES ......................................

CONTRACTUAL SERVICES...................

OTHER ...................................................

5,680.98 4,366.54 246.49 0.00

ROAD AND BRIDGE FUND SALARIES ..............................................

COMMODITIES.......................................

CONTRACTUAL SERVICES....................

CAPITAL OUTLAY....................................

33,188.10 80,924.65 4,729.06 0.00

FIRE DISTRICT FUND SALARIES ..............................................

COMMODITIES ......................................

CONTRACTUAL SERVICES....................

CAPITAL OUTLAY ..................................

389.28 10.16 3,014.60 0.00

TREASURER’S SPECIAL FUND SALARIES ...............................................

COMMODITIES .......................................

CONTRACTUAL SERVICES ....................

CAPITAL OUTLAY.....................................

OTHER .....................................................

3,542.29 538.67 468.40 0.00 298.33

JAMES M. MINNIX Chairman

ALICE BROKOFSKY Scott County Clerk

money at certain places, including movie theaters, massage parlors, cruise ships and swimming pools. It also sets stricter eligibility requirements and shortens the amount of time people can receive assistance.

Brownback said last week that he is aware of the possible conflict with federal statutes and that state agencies in his administration are working to fix it.

The governor said he’s open to raising the limit if necessary to comply with federal policies.

He emphasized that the $25 limit didn’t originate with his administration.

The legislative history shows the bill was submitted to the Legislature by the Kansas Department for Children and Families, the state agency that administers welfare in Kansas. That version didn’t have any cap on

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., May 14, 2015; last published Thurs., May 21, 2015)2t RESOLUTION NO. 2015-1 WHEREAS, the Scott Recreation Commission has adopted a resolution declaring it necessary to increase the annual property tax levy for the use of such Commission to operate a public recreation system and has requested the Unified School District No. 466 to authorize a maximum mill levy of not to exceed 3 mills; and WHEREAS, the provisions of K.S.A. 12-1927, and amendments thereto, provide for such an increase, subject to a petition of the voters for a referendum thereon; BE IT RESOLVED, by the Board of Eduction of Unified School District No. 466 that the Scott Recreation Commission be authorized to levy ad valorem property tax of not to exceed 3 mills in the tax year 2015 and thereafter, subject to the aforementioned petition and referendum.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this resolution shall be published once each week for two consecutive weeks in the official school district newspaper and that an amount not exceeding said maximum mill levy may be made for the Recreation Commission in the ensuing budget year and each successive budget year unless a petition requesting an election upon the proposition, signed by at least five percent of the qualified voters of the school district, shall be filed with the county election officer within 30 days following the date of the last publication of this resolution.

PASSED, by the Board of Education of Unified School District No. 466 on this 11th day of May, 2015.

USD 466 Board of Education Mark Davis, president

daily ATM withdrawals.

The House committee that first worked the bill inserted a $60 limit. The amount was cut further on the Senate floor to $25 with the adoption of an amendment by Sen. Caryn Tyson (R-Parker).

No other state has enacted legislation imposing a $25 limit on the maximum amount of cash that welfare recipients can withdraw from an ATM. “The $25 limit is

uncharted territory,” said Liz Schott, senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington, D.C., think tank.

Schott pointed out that ATMs don’t permit withdrawals in five dollar increments, so people would only be able to withdraw $20. And they would have to pay any fees charged by the banks on top of a $1 fee assessed (See ATM on page 13)

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., May 21, 2015.)1t PUBLIC NOTICE BEFORE THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS TO: ALL OIL AND GAS PRODUCERS, UNLEASED MINERAL INTEREST OWNER, LANDOWNERS AND ALL PERSONS WHOSOEVER CONCERNED. You, and each of you, are hereby notified that LANDMARK RESOURCES, INC. has filed an Application before the State Corporation Commission, pursuant to K.A. R. 82-3-100(b) requesting an order designating all information filed by LANDMARK RESOURCES INC. pursuant to K.A.R. 82-3107(d) relating to its Krebs #2-6 well as confidential pursuant to K.A.R. 83-3-107(e)

Any persons who object to protest to such Application shall be required to file their objections or protests with the State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas with fifteen (15) days from the date of the publication.

If any protests are timely filed, a hearing will be held at 10:00 A.M. on June 18, 2015 are soon thereafter at the Kansas Corporation Commission, State Office Building 266 N. Main St., Ste. 220, Wichita, KS. 67202.

All parties in any way interested or concerned shall take notice of the foregoing and govern themselves accordingly.

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Credit reporting agencies required to make reforms The three national credit reporting agencies are required to make major reforms to their business practices affecting consumers’ credit scores under a settlement reached this week.

Kansas, along with the attorneys general of 30 other states, reached the agreement with Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.

The settlement was the result of a multistate investigation into consumer disputes about credit report errors, accuracy in consumer credit

reports, and the marketing of credit monitoring products to consumers who called the credit reporting agencies to dispute information on their credit report.

“The data supplied in consumers’ credit reports affects virtually every aspect of their financial lives,” says Kansas Attorney Gen. Derek Schmidt.

“Over the years, many consumers have lodged complaints regarding errors on their credit

ATM

reports and the hassle involved in getting these errors corrected. Today’s settlement is a big win for consumers, allowing them much greater control in resolving disputed information on their credit reports.”

Under the settlement, the credit reporting agencies have agreed to increase monitoring of data furnishers, to require additional information from furnishers of certain types of data, to limit direct-to-consumer marketing, to provide greater

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by the state for all ATM withdrawals.

“The question is, given the transaction fees and the limit, when you put those two together, is that a reasonable access to assistance?” Schott said.

That’s the question the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will have to answer. States routinely submit any changes in their welfare

policies and procedures to HHS for review.

“These amendments must meet the requirements of the federal law, so we work closely with each state throughout the review process,” said Laura Goulding, a spokeswoman for HHS’s Administration for Children and Families.

Specifically, HHS’s review will examine Kansas’ cap on ATM use

against two paragraphs in section 402 of the Social Security Act. Those provisions require states to guarantee welfare recipients “adequate access” to their benefits and “access to using or withdrawing assistance with minimal fees or charges.”

If deemed not in compliance with those statutes, a state could potentially forfeit its federal grant money.

(Published in The Scott County Record on Thurs., May 21, 2015)1t

NOTICE OF HEARING ON AMENDING THE 2014-15 BUDGET The governing body of Unified School District No. 466 will meet on June 15, 2015, at 6:45 p.m., at 704 S. College, Scott City, Kansas, for the purpose of hearing and answering objections of taxpayers relating to the proposed amended use of funds.

Detailed budget information is available at the USD No. 466 District Office and will be available at this hearing.

SUMMARY OF AMENDMENTS

2014-15 Adopted Budget Actual Tax Rate

Fund

Amount Expenditures and of Tax to be Levied Transfers

0.00

Virtual Education

0

Proposed Amendment 2014-15 Budget Expenditures and Transfers

57,000

107,000

Susan Carter Board Clerk

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Location: Community Building at the fairgrounds, east edge of Leoti Sunday, February Florence Daubert and Others-Owners 2Antiques • 11:00 a.m.

and Collectibles Old jars Kerosene lamps Scott City Dairy milk bottles Barn lantern Horse collection, some Bryer Child’s dishes True scale pull-type toy combine with box Wagon and horses Metal child’s tool chest JD 3-spd. bike Old wooden beer boxes Wyandotte tow truck Old tin semi toy Buddy L pickup and other old toy trucks Structo hydraulic toy dump tuck Pickups with trailers True scale tractors and implements Tin toy service station Dolls Toy guns, cap pistols Toy Calvary set Metal barn play set Barbie dolls Children’s books Pie cabinet with tin punch

Buffet Duncan Phyfe table Comic books Hit and miss motor Lots of old tools Fostoria dishes Pink depression platters and cake plate collection, various patterns Pink depression cups, sherbets, plates Coca Cola glasses Haviland china, Rose pattern Large collection of S&P shakers Kitchen utensils Jewelry Cat figurine collection Glass chickens Coors Light sign Miller High Life mirror Old alarm clock Tins Cream separator, hand crank Cream cans White treadle sewing machine Truck banks Household 2-rose colored chairs Chest of drawers Utility cabinet Lamps and end tables

Computer desk Couch Pots and pans Small appliances Single bed 2-guitars Several sets of china File cabinet Small curio cabinet Shop and Other Items Tin lariat carrier Kids saddle Adult saddle Tack Hand tools Floor jack Yard tools Pry bars Fishing pole Electric hand tools Other items Coins Mint sets: 1979-2009 (S) Mint sets: 1987-2007 (P&D) Several mint sets and series sets Proof sets Mint sets: 1957-1964 (Silver) Mint sets: 1965-1968 (Silver) Wheat pennies: 30’s, 40’s, 50’s

5-Walking Liberty silver dollars 10 oz. Silver commemorative coins 14-Indian head pennies 1 lb. copper bar Lots of silver certificates Assorted coin books 1907 Barber half dollars 1853 large cents 2-cent piece 5-years of gold and platinum quarters Silver rounds 1921 Morgan silver dollar 1883 and 1887 Morgan silver dollars and 10 other Morgan silver dollars 2-1923 Peace dollars 1890 CC silver dollar 1882 CC silver dollar Barber dimes Walking Liberty quarters Jefferson silver dimes Washington silver quarters Other coins

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protections for consumers who dispute information on their credit reports, to limit certain information that can be added to a credit report, to provide additional consumer education, and to comply with state and federal laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Key provisions of the settlement include: •Credit reporting agencies and organizations that provide them with credit reporting information (i.e. banks and credit card companies) are

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required to develop better systems for sharing data to improve accuracy.

•Credit reporting agencies are required to implement a better process for handling complicated disputed credit reporting information, such as those involving identity theft, fraud or mixed files - where one consumer’s data is mixed with another’s.

•Consumers who dispute information on their credit reports are entitled to one additional free credit report within

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a 12-month period if a change is made as a result of their dispute.

•Credit reporting agencies are not allowed to market additional services to consumers who call to dispute information on their credit reports until the dispute resolution portion of the call has ended.

•Credit reporting agencies must inform consumers that purchasing additional services is not required to dispute information on their credit reports.

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A new twist on Medicaid expansion in Kansas Dave Ranney KHI News Service

Some legislators are considering the possibility of eliminating the state’s earned income tax credit in exchange for expanding its Medicaid program.

Sen. Laura Kelly (D-Topeka) and Rep. Don

Hill (R-Emporia), who serve on their respective chambers’ health and budget committees, declined to say which legislators are promoting the wouldbe deal.

“What’s being said is that there might be an opportunity for it to be used as a lever when

things get to a point of having to get some people to vote for something they wouldn’t vote for otherwise,” Hill said.

In recent weeks, legislators have intensified efforts to come up with more than $400 million needed to balance the state’s budget for the fis-

cal year that begins July 1.

Most conservatives in the Legislature favor reducing or eliminating the state’s earned income tax credit but oppose expanded eligibility for Medicaid, which was part of the Affordable Care Act. Kansas is one of 21 states that have not

Website provides prenatal resources for Kansas women The March of Dimes Greater Kansas Chapter, in partnership with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and Amerigroup Foundation, recently launched a “Becoming a Mom” website portal designed to increase access to prenatal education for Kansas women.

It is part of the “Healthy Babies are Worth the Wait” initiative, focused on clinical care collabo-

ration and prenatal care education.

As part of that initiative, the “Becoming a Mom” program increases access to quality prenatal care in high-risk populations. It is designed to improve birth outcomes for low-income women and to address birth disparities among some racial and ethnic populations.

KDHE has expanded the “Becoming a Mom” program to additional

Kansas communities through a new $20,000 grant from Amerigroup Foundation.

Kansas counties currently implementing the “Becoming a Mom” program are Saline, Geary, Riley, Pottawatomie, Crawford, Wyandotte, Reno and Lyon.

“One in nine babies in Kansas is born prematurely. A recent Kansas Department of Health

and Environment report outlining premature birth rates in the state has highlighted specific, at-risk populations,” said Jennifer Robinson, state director of communications for the Kansas March of Dimes.

“The March of Dimes mission is to give all Kansas babies a stronger, healthier start in life. We have made great strides in reducing the premature birth rate, but there is still work to be done.”

Health advocates seek to counter junk food marketing strategies Collie-Akers leads the Health for All Food Retail and Restaurant Initiative, which aims to improve community health by changing the way small Alex Smith Heartland Health Monitor neighborhood stores do For customers stepping business. inside Abarrotes Delicias, the noise, traffic and heat Product Placement Whether they are enterof the surrounding Kansas City, Ks., neighborhood ing a tienda in Kansas City, a large suburban seem to disappear.

The small store offers grocery store in Johnson everything from tacos to County or a convenience store in Western Kansas, snacks to money transfers. shoppers typically are Owner Graciela Margreeted by enticing distinez said she tries to plays of chips, soda and provide a welcoming percandy. And that is no accisonal touch when serving dent. her customers, who comJunk-food makers offer prise a diverse sample of big incentives to stores in nearby residents. exchange for prime prodIn a largely Spanish- uct placement and promospeaking part of town tion. where there are few groIn many parts of town, cery stores, small tiendas health-conscious shoplike this one are often pers can easily bypass among the few places the snacks and head for people can shop for food the produce. But in food - and unfortunately, the deserts - areas that lack food offerings usually are well-stocked grocery not all that healthy. stores - that’s usually not “In these communi- an option. ties, it’s easier to get soda Collie-Akers is trying or candy or highly pre- to change that dynamic served foods than it is to in Latino neighborhoods, get the healthy options,” where obesity and diabesaid Vicki Collie-Akers, tes are persistent proba University of Kansas lems. researcher and commu“We focus on how the nity health worker. environment supports or

It is possible to change shopping, behavior patterns

does not support healthy etables and other healthy eating or engagement in foods and put them within physical activity,” she easy reach of customers. said.

Changing Behaviors Marketing Techniques But changing how It’s not just a matter of stores operate and cusstocking some fruits and tomers behave isn’t vegetables and expecting easy, according to Alex customers to buy them. Ortega, a University of Health advocates must California, Los Angeles contend with the highly (UCLA) professor who’s savvy marketing tech- been involved with siminiques that junk food mar- lar programs in East Los keters deploy.

Angeles and nearby Boyle So changing how stores Heights for several years. operate means thinking “If you build it, it not like a high-minded doesn’t mean they’re health crusader but like a going to come, right?” marketer.

Oretga asked.

“If you’ve been in a He said he’s seen the grocery store, you know strategy work well: Some that the impulse buys are stores he’s worked with right next to the cash reg- have reported a 20 percent ister - the gum and the increase in profits since candy,” Collie-Akers said. introducing healthy foods.

“We’re trying to make it Effecting real change in such that the avocados are community health, howright next to the cash reg- ever, requires more than ister.” a one-size-fits-all strategy.

Following the example “There’s different culof food makers and whole- tures, different language, salers that offer branded different kinds of foods coolers, shelving and that are being bought and promotions in exchange prepared,” Ortega said. for prime shelf space, the “You really have to know Health for All Food Retail what the needs are of the and Restaurant Initiative community and what the offers its own coolers and perceptions are of corner fruit baskets plus promo- stores. And that will vary from community to comtion on social media.

In exchange, the stores munity.”

(See HEALTH on page 15) agree to stock fruits, veg-

expanded Medicaid coverage to more low-income residents.

Conversely, most moderates and liberals favor Medicaid expansion and support the earned income tax credit. Conservatives control the House and Senate leadership offices.

Throughout this

year’s legislative session, the Kansas Hospital Association has urged legislators to expand Medicaid, saying that it would close a gap in the Affordable Care Act that blocks an estimated 85,000 uninsured Kansans from being eligible for (See TWIST on page 17)

A name that better identifies who and what we are

This is the initial article in what will be a regular series covering current behavioral health issues.

This is a good time for launching this series as May is Mental Health Month.

I want to begin by addressing our rebrand- Compass Corner Kent Hill ing from Area Mental regional manager Health Center to Compass Behavioral Health Compass Behavioral Health.

First and foremost, we are the same community mental health center that first formed in Garden City in 1961. We have not been purchased by an outside company.

We are actually an extension of your local county government. We serve 13 counties in Southwest Kansas, with regional offices in Garden City, Dodge City, Ulysses and, of course, Scott City.

We provide a broad spectrum of services including individual, marital and family psychotherapy.

We offer case management services that work with adult and child clients in their homes and in their community.

And boy, do we ever engage in community outreach. In 2014, Compass employees logged over 800,000 miles. That is equivalent to going to the moon, realizing you forgot your camera, coming back to earth, returning to the moon, and then driving completely around the moon 12 times!

We have medical services for clients who need psychiatric medication. We most recently began offering health home services, to help coordinate health care for patients with serious mental illnesses (SMI). We refer to our health home services as Compass Health Connection. More details about that program will be discussed later.

Rebranding AMHC Now back to the rebranding. This is something we have discussed for several years. The name Area Mental Health Center was initially chosen due to the vast area we provide service to (roughly equivalent to the size of the state of Massachusetts).

While factually accurate, the name was rather generic. Over the years I have lost count of the times people would say some variant of the following to me: “I used to go the Area Mental Health Center in Hays.”

Well, the community mental health center in Hays is named High Plains Mental Health. Thus we embarked on a process lasting over a year to find a brand that would be less generic and more indicative of the current mission of our organization.

Here are some reasons why we finally chose Compass Behavioral Health: Compass: This is a device that for centuries people have depended upon to help provide them (See COMPASS on page 15)

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Compass direction.

A compass can prevent you from becoming lost; or if you are already lost can aid you in getting back on the right track. A compass is an essential tool for effectively navigating dense woods/jungle, stormy seas, or starless dark nights.

Behavioral: Why behavioral health, instead of mental health? That is for two primary reasons.

First, we deal with behavior. If someone comes to us because of depression, we can only see the behavioral manifestations (commonly referred to as symptoms) of their depression.

Tearfulness, not getting work done, social isolation are all behaviors.

Sadness, which is often a symptom of depression, is an emotion, not a behavior. But we cannot see sadness. Rather we see the behavioral manifesta-

Health While many health advocates talk about the problem of food deserts, some studies show that simply providing better food options in many neighborhoods doesn’t change what people buy or eat.

“You have to have health education and community outreach as part of the intervention,” Ortega says.

Organizers for the

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tion of it (tearfulness, the client telling us they feel sad, etc.).

Second, in a word, stigma.

Unfortunately, there remains a significant amount of stigma with psychiatric issues. It is an insult to say someone is “mental.” This stigma is not benign. It prevents people from seeking much needed services.

And, if someone does come in for services, and experiences improvement, they may well not share their story with others, for fear of being stigmatized (a fear which is not unfounded).

Thus, people with psychiatric problems continue to suffer alone, believing that no one else feels, or has ever felt, the way they do.

Health: While we certainly focus on behavioral health, our approach

is holistic. Our aim is to integrate complete healthcare for the person.

The ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) study revealed a powerful correlation between experiencing childhood trauma and increased likelihood of later development of health problems. This study also indicated that almost two-thirds of us have experienced at least one traumatic event in childhood, and over 20% have experienced three or more.

For purposes of perspective, that would mean over 3,300 people in Scott County have experienced at least one traumatic event during their childhood. Other research has shown that people suffering with mental disorders that are severe and persistent (e.g. schizophrenic disorder) have a life expectancy that is 25 years shorter than the gen-

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Kansas City program are evaluating the first year’s achievements, though to hear store owner Martinez tell it, the program already has made a difference for her customers.

“At first, they were like, ‘Where are the potato chips?’” she said. “But once they got used to it, instead of buying potato chips, they’ll pick up a banana. And that’s better.”

Collie-Akers hopes

that success will prove contagious.

“Our hope is that that information can be used as we go further to expand the number of stores that are engaged and create some champions within the community of business owners that will help us convey information to others stores that tell them, ‘Well, there really is a market for this,’” she said.

eral population.

How does this compare to other factors known to shorten life expectancy?

Smoking = 10 years; diabetes = 8-12 years; alcoholism = 10-12 years.

Thus the need to integrate behavioral healthcare with primary healthcare is paramount.

The need for early identification of potential problems, as well as early intervention is also a burgeoning area of emphasis for Compass, and will be addressed in the next column.

Kent Hill, LMLP, LCP, LCAC, is a regional manager of Compass Behavioral Health in Scott City

Pastime at Park Lane The United Methodist Church led Sunday afternoon services.

Residents played Wii bowling on Monday evening.

Pastor Jared Young led Bible study on Tuesday morning. Doris Riner and Elsie Nagel led the hymns.

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

Residents played cards on Wednesday evening.

Residents and staff enjoyed an ice cream sundae bar on Thursday afternoon.

Residents played trivia games on Thursday evening.

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

The Wright Family played on Friday evening.

Harold and Gary played guitar and sang and Dan

Park Lane residents, staff celebrate Nursing Home Week

Last week was National Nursing Home Week.

The theme was “Bring on the Fiesta.”

Monday afternoon residents made maracas and listened to Salsa music.

A pinata party was held on Tuesday afternoon.

Wanda Wright made special treats for residents and staff.

Residents played Maxican bingo on Wednesday afternoon. Madeline Murphy and Barbara Dickhut helped with the games.

The annual balloon liftoff was held on Thursday morning. Each balloon had a resident name inside it with a note to return the note to Park Lane in hopes of finding out how far the balloons travel.

Park Lane hosted a party for residents, family, and friends on Friday afternoon. Cupcakes and punch were served.

played the fiddle. Wanda Wright made a special Mexican treat for everyone after the program.

Residents watched, “The Carol Burnett Show” on Saturday afternoon.

Jim Jeffery was visited

by Brady Jeffery.

Dottie Fouquet was visited by Jon and Anne Crane, Mark Fouquet and Lil Francisco.

Visitors of Boots Haxton were her daughter, Joni Pottberg from Salina, Miles Veeder, and Rod and Kathy Haxton.

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Thelma Branine was visited by Allen and Jackie Branine, Frank and Debbie Hawkins, and Joan Lee. Thelma attended her great-great grandaughter’s graduation in Holcomb on Saturday.

Loyd Eitel was visited by Connie Ramsey, Rod and Sue Eitel, Vick and Sandy Eitel, Connie Ramsey, and Jeff and Veronica Mayer.

LaVera King was visited by Gloria Gough, Kylan Stroud, Stelio Kontos, Carol Latham, Randy and Harrison King, Velda Riddiough, Don and Marlo Wiechman, and Shellie Carter.

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

Nella Funk was visited

by Mandy Kropp, Kim Smith, Sheila Boyd, Dianna Howard, Nancy Holt, Karen Harms and Mary Lou Oeser.

Deaths

Donald C. Wilson

Donald C. Wilson, 55, died April 10, 2015, at his home in Dighton.

H e was born on Dec. 19, 1959, at Pratt, the son of Gene Don Wilson Marvin and Dixie (Barnhart) Wilson.

Don graduated from Ulysses High School. He worked in area feedyards and drove trucks most of his life. He moved to Dighton from Healy in 2014 and was driving grain truck for Hiway Express of Lakin.

He was a member of the ABATE District 13.

On March 28, 1995, he married Susy Webster at Scott City.

Survivors include: his wife, Dighton; two sons, Ray Wilson, Dighton,

Corine Dean was visited by Mandy Kropp, Kim Smith, Sheila Boyd, Dianna Howard, Nancy Holt, Mary Lou Oeser and Karen Harms.

Emogene Harp was visited by Nancy Holt, Alicia Harp, Reed Harp, Russel Harp, Nick Harp; Naomi, Glen and Bre Lindahl; Marvel Hopkins and Kim Smith.

Geraldine Graves was visited by Megan Dirks and Mary Ann Leatherman.

Bonnie Pickett was visited by Gloria Wright, Larry and Philene Pickett, and Marilyn Waters.

Albert Dean was visited by Nancy Holt and Carol Davey.

Delores Brooks was visited by Charles Brooks, Dave and Cheryl Perry, and Nancy Holt.

Yvonne Spangler was visited by Les and Mary Ann Spangler and Yvette Mills.

Lorena Turley was visited by Fay Hoover, Neta Wheeler, Rex Turley, Tracy Hess, Karen Harms and Mary Lou Oeser.

Vivian Kreiser was visited by Sharon Lock.

Lucille Dirks was visited by Dale and Vicki Dirks.

Visiting Lowell Rudolph were Tom and Kathleen Moore, LuAnn Buehler, Marci Knobbe and Fr. Don Martin.

Arlene Beaton was visited by Linda Savolt, Colleen Beaton, Bill Savolt and family, and Joyce Schmitt.

James Still and Mike Leach were visited by Linda Dunagan and Rev. Don Martin from St. Luke’s Church.

Margaret Harper was visited by Chelsi and Beth Hess and Nancy Holt.

Dona Dee Carpenter was visited by Marvel Hopkins.

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Maxine Marie Peterson

Maxine Marie Peterson, 77, died May 16, 2015, at the Scott County Hospital, Scott City.

She was born on Sept.

2, 1937, in Logan County, the daughter of William and Gladys (Couch) Blau.

A resident of Scott City since 1959, moving from Leoti, she was a nurse and worked at the Scott County Hospital and Park Lane Nursing Home, Scott City.

She was a member of the First Christian Church and the Scott County Ladies VFW Auxiliary, both of Scott City.

On Sept. 5, 1959, she married William Scott in Scott City. He died in August of 2001. On Feb. 24, 1983, she married Hugo Peterson in Tribune. He died Dec. 28, 1999, in Scott City.

Survivors include: one son, Donald Scott, and wife, Sheri, Scott City; three daughters, Tamara

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Wilcoxson, and husband, Jimmy, Scott City, Pamela Emberton, and husband, Robert, San Antonio, Tex., and Sheila Brau, and husband, Mark, Scott City; two sisters, Betty Elder, Tribune, and Della Heinitz, Leoti; 10 grandchildren and 10 greatgrandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, four brothers, three sisters and one grandchild.

Memorial service was held May 20 at the First Christian Church, Scott City, with Steve Payne officiating.

Inurnment was at the Scott County Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to the Scott County Health Department or Park Lane Nursing Home in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 401 S. Washington St., Scott City, Ks. 67871. and John Wilson, Healy; five daughters, Amanda Wilson, Freedom, Okla., Natasha Rose, of Texas, Shonda Webster, Healy, Kali Webster, Dighton, and Courtney Wilson, Arkansas City; one brother, Geno Wilson, Lee’s Summit, Mo.; three sisters, Mary Shockley and Marvena Molby, both of Alva, Okla., and Kathy McDonald, Enid, Okla.; and 14 grandchildren.

Graveside service will be held Sat., May 23, 1:00 p.m., at the Healy Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to the Don Wilson Memorial Fund in care of Boomhower Funeral Home, 145 N. Wichita, Box 891, Dighton, Ks. 67839.

Condolences may be posted at www.garnandfuneralhomes.com

Richard Wheeler

Richard Wheeler, 76, died Oct. 25, 2014, at his home in Norco, Calif., from cancer.

H e was born on Jan. 11, 1938, in Scott C o u n t y, the son of Q u i n c y Richard Wheeler “Dutch” and Ressa Irene (Conine) Wheeler.

He served as a sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Richard made his home in Norco for the last 45 years. He worked for the City of Anaheim for 35 years and was a farrier for 25 years.

He was a member of the Saddle Sore Riders, Corral 22, Norco Horse Week, and Norco Horseman’s Association.

Survivors include: his wife, Lynda, Norco; one daughter, Wendy Hagaman, and husband, Jason, Windsor, Calif.; three step-daughters

Erma E. Jones

Erma E. Jones, 90, died May 7, 2015, in Lynden, Wash.

S h e was born on Jan. 8, 1925, in Healy, to Wilton and Ma- Erma Jones bel Bowman.

She was married to Urcel Jones in Plainville, then moved to Blaine, Wash., where she worked at the Washington Net Factory for 25 years.

Survivors include: one son, Stan Jones, and wife, Naomi, Ferndale, Wash.; one sister, Luella Roemer, Overland Park; seven

Judi Aroves, Lubbock, Tex., Jane Sullivan, Lake Havasu City, Ariz., and Jennifer Summers, Oem, Utah; one son, Joe Wheeler, Santa Rosa, Calif.; one step-son, Rich Tillema, Norco, Calif.; one sister, Rhonda Hudson, and husband, Mike, Scott City; two brothers, Robert Wheeler and wife, Neta, and Rodney Wheeler and wife, Pamela, all of Scott City; seven grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents and two sisters, Loretta Alene Wakeland and Lou Ann Wheeler.

A memorial graveside service will be held at the Scott County Cemetery on Sat., May 23, 4:00 p.m.

Memorials may be sent to the Saddle Sore Riders, Inc., Box 276, Norco, Ca. 92860 or Norco Horseweek, Box 582, Norco, Ca. 92860. grandchildren; 17 greatgrandchildren, numerous great-great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband; two daughters, Shirley Jones and Beverly Heinzl; three brothers, Eldon, Wilton and Leonard Bowman; and one sister Wilma Biggs.

Graveside service will be held Fri., May 22, 2:30 p.m., at Greenacres Memorial Park in Ferndale, Wash.

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Twist Medicaid or receiving federal subsidies for offsetting the cost of private insurance.

Medicaid expansion also would benefit the state’s economy and provide relief for some struggling rural hospitals, according to the hospital association.

Deliberations about the EITC have been complicated by a warning from Shawn Sullivan, the state’s budget director, that cutting the tax credit could jeopardize the state’s federally funded Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant - about $102 million a year - because the tax

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credits are considered part of the grant’s required “maintenance of effort.”

Democrats are expected to oppose pitting the tax credit against Medicaid expansion.

“It’s just a bad idea,” said Rep. Tom Sawyer (D-Wichita) and ranking minority member on the tax committee. “The earned income tax credit is very important for working families. It’s something that even Ronald Reagan supported.

“It encourages people to work. It makes sure that getting a job is worthwhile, that payroll taxes don’t completely eat it up.”

Sawyer said he found it interesting that the rumored trade assumes that Medicaid shouldn’t be expanded without lowincome families giving up something in return.

“If this were a tax break for business, they (conservatives) wouldn’t think twice about it,” he said. “But if you’re struggling paycheck to paycheck? ‘No, you can’t have both.’”

Attend the Church of Your Choice

The Rebel Yell In Ephesians 2:10; Paul says that God has prepared good works in advance of us. Has the thought ever occurred to you that your heavenly father has given you multiple ways to get a “W” for the kingdom of heaven every day? In verse 10 we are His workmanship created to do good works. We are here to do good works!

In years past, people thought that we needed to focus on what we were not supposed to do and then by default we would be doing what was right.

The idea to abstain from evil is a good one. We are told in scripture to flee evil lusts, but does that mean that the focus of our day should be on all the things we can’t do? On the contrary! We are to be doing the things God has prepared for us, the things he made us to do and the things he put in our day that will please

him.

He has paved the road, we must simply walk down it. It will be long and it will be hard. Not that the act of serving God is hard but the denying of ourselves in order to do so is.

“Whoever will serve me must first deny himself…” the thing we must deny is the very thing that holds us back from walking in those good works.

The flesh tells us we can’t or we aren’t. We can’t witness, we aren’t strong enough to conquer our addiction, and we aren’t worthy enough to serve in church.

The truth is we aren’t but Christ is and He has already made things for us to do today, tomorrow, and until we see him. So let’s stop focusing on the don’t and DO the DO!

Jared Young, associate pastor of children and youth First Baptist Church, Scott City

Scott City Assembly of God

Prairie View Church of the Brethren

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

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 • Tuesday breakfast at 6:30 a.m.

Held at Precision Ag Bldg. west of Shallow Water Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m., at the church

St. Joseph Catholic Church

Holy Cross Lutheran 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.

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.

Pence Community Church

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

1398 S. US83 - Scott City - 872-2264

Kyle Evans, Senior Pastor Bob Artz, Associate Pastor

Robert Nuckolls, pastor - 872-5041

Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.

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

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

Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.

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

Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

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

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

Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. • MYF (youth groups) on Wednesdays Jr. High: 6:30 p.m. • Sr. High: 7:00 p.m.

First Christian Church

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

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

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

Website: www.fccscottcity.org

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

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

Scott Mennonite Church

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

12021 N. Eagle Rd. • Scott City

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.

Franklin Koehn: 872-2048 Charles Nightengale: 872-3056 Sunday School Worship Service: 10:00 a.m.

Sunday Evening Service: 7:00 p.m.

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Youngsters who have reached 300 to 1,700 book milestones in the Scott County Library’s “1,000 Books Before Kindergarten” reading program are:

Billy Malchow 300

Alexis Malchow 300

Drew Birney 300

Devon Dreiling 400

Rafe Vallejo 600

Abigail Wiechman Jordan Rufenacht 1,000 1,100

Ava Hughes 1,700

USD 466 Summer Menu Week of May 25-29 Lunch Monday: No lunch served.

Tuesday: Pizza, green peas, fresh fruit.

Wednesday: Hamburger, lettuce leaf and tomatoes, pork and beans, fruit.

Thursday: Pizza mozzarella sticks, marinara sauce, hot vegetable, fruit.

Friday: Chicken pattie on a bun, tator tots, fruit.

Cancer charities targeted by Kansas

A federal lawsuit has been filed by Kansas against four “cancer charities” and their operators, who allegedly scammed more than $187 million from consumers across the country.

The complaint alleges that the defendants, including Cancer Fund of America, Children’s Cancer Fund of America, Cancer Support Services and the Breast Cancer Society, portrayed themselves to donors as legitimate charities with nationwide programs whose primary purposes were to provide direct support to cancer patients, children with cancer, and breast cancer patients in the United States.

Specifically, the entities through their telemarketers told donors that contributions would be used to provide pain medication to children suffering from cancer, transport cancer patients to chemotherapy appointments, and/or pay for hospice care for cancer patients.

The complaint alleges this was a sham and the

defendants did not operate programs that provided these services.

“There are many wonderful organizations that do great work to support cancer patients and work toward finding a cure,” said Kansas Attorney Gen. Derek Schmidt.

“Unfortunately, too often we see con artists take advantage by setting up fake charities to scam generous donors out of money that they think is going to a good cause.”

Children’s Cancer Fund of America, the Breast Cancer Society, and three private individuals have agreed to settle the charges against them.

Terms of the settlements include the dissolution and liquidation of the Children’s Cancer Fund and Breast Cancer Society and the individual defendants associated with these organizations are banned from fundraising and operating charities. Litigation will continue against Cancer Fund of America and Cancer Support Services.

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Sports The Scott County Record

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SC boys are regional favorites in 4 events The Scott Community High School boys have established themselves as a force to be reckoned with entering the Class 3A regional track meet on Friday.

The Beavers are ranked No. 1 in four events - not just in the regional field but across the state.

Brett Meyer (1:56.41) has the fastest 800m time among all Class 3A competitors in Kansas

Beloit Regional 3:00 p.m.: field events 4:30 p.m.: prelims 6:00 p.m.: finals Teams: Beloit, Council Grove, Ellsworth, Gypsum-SE of Saline, Hillsboro, Hoisington, Lyons, Marion, Marysville, Minneapolis, Norton, Phillipsburg, Riley County, Scott City, Sterling

this season. He is joined by junior Drake McRae (40.3) who has the fastest mark among

300m intermediate hurdlers.

In addition, the Beavers are ranked No. 1 in the 4x400m relay (3:26.81) and 4x800m relay (8:21.84).

It would seem Scott City is peaking at the right time with three of those season bests coming at the Great West Activities Conference track meet in Ulysses just a week ago, while Meyer’s 800m mark was posted

a week earlier at the Russell Relays.

“The events where we’re good, we’re very good,” noted head coach Jim Turner, while also trying to be cautiously optimistic. “I like where we’re sitting in several events, but the main thing is to be smart and get to state. As long as we take care of business, we’re in position to get to state and possibly do real well in several events.”

Meyer has been considered among the state’s top 800m runners throughout the season and firmly established himself as one of the state’s premier runners with an outstanding race at Russell.

“I think that race helped him to learn a couple of things about his strategy and what it’s going to take in order to run a 1:56 or faster, which he’s capable of (See REGIONAL on page 24)

No 7th inning magic for SC in regional loss to Lyons

Scott City couldn’t have imagined a better scenario in Monday’s Class 3A regional baseball tournament.

The bases were filled.

Only one out.

And the team’s two top hitters Scott City 4 Lyons 5 coming to the plate in the top of the seventh inning.

“You couldn’t have asked for better,” says head coach Neil Baker, whose team trailed No. 3 seeded Lyons at the time, 5-3.

Instead, three of the next four batters were strikeout victims and the Beavers managed to score just one run, ending their season with a 5-4 loss in the tournament’s opening round.

“That’s kind of how the whole season has gone,” said Baker. “We battle hard and we K-State football coach Bill Snyder addresses a huge crowd during the annual Catbacker fry that was keep the game close, but we held at HRC Feed Yard, near Scott City, on Wednesday evening.

(Record Photo) either can’t hold onto the lead late in a game or we don’t get the hit we need to get a win.

“The boys have played well and we’ve been very competitive. We just don’t have the wins to show for it,” said Baker During more than two not just in Kansas, but across players hoping they could prove “First and foremost, no matafter his team finished the seadecades as the head foot- the nation. they were capable of playing ter who it is in your program son 5-16.

But there’s one other eleball coach at Kansas State Division I football. The huge - whether it’s a walk-on or a (See LYONS on page 21) University, Bill Snyder has built ment that has made set Snyder number of non-scholarship scholarship player - it begins one of the top programs in the apart from his peers. That’s the players for a top-flight program with a value system. We evalunation. success he has had with non- has intrigued many sports ana- ate how hard they work, the That he was able to accom- scholarship walk-ons. lysts from across the nation. kind of discipline they have, the plish such a monumental Last year’s roster included Snyder, in typical fashion, is capacity to do the right thing achievement in Manhattan has 58 players who were, or had low-key about the success of and carry out their responsibiliearned him legendary status - gotten their start, as walk-on his walk-ons.

(See WALK-ONS on page 22)

a walk-on mentality

Western Kansas values cound be found in success of Wildcat football walk-ons

No way to say ‘thanks’ after 21 years

When you’re a Rule 10 coach, you’re doing it for the love of the game.

Yo u c e r tainly Rod aren’t Haxton, sports doing editor it for t h e money or the glory.

For 21 years, Gil Lewis has been a junior high and, when needed on occasion, a high school basketball coach in the Scott County district. It would be difficult to calculate the number of athletes he’s helped coach, the hours of practice time he’s logged and the miles he’s traveled . . . and for less than minimum wage.

He could have been flipping burgers and made more money.

Lewis, however, won’t be on the sideline for Scott City Middle School games during the upcoming season.

A couple of weeks ago, he was informed he wouldn’t be coaching eighth grade boys anymore because the district was “wanting to move in a different direction.”

That was the explanation and they were sticking to it.

According to Lewis, it was (See THANKS on page 20)

Hutchins is 3A regional medalist

Scott City senior Marshal Hutchins hits an approach shot during tournament action earlier this season. He will be competing in the state tournament at Hesston on Tuesday.

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When Marshal Hutchins stepped onto the Lake Barton Golf Course on Monday afternoon, he had already envisioned how and where he would play each shot.

“I had a good practice round the day before,” noted the Scott Community High School senior. “I knew what shots to hit. I was able to re-create my shots from the day before and follow my game plan.”

Hutchins followed that plan to near-perfection, shooting rounds of 37-39--76 over the 70-par course and running away with the Class 3A regional title by five strokes.

He will be competing in the state tournament on Tues., May 26, at Hesston Golf Park.

Hutchins was very confident with his game heading into regional and showed no signs of faltering during the 18-hole tournament, which was played north of (See HUTCHINS on page 20)

Outdoors in Kansas by Steve Gilliland

Primitive survival in these modern times

I used to have a book that showed numerous ways Native Americans accomplished tasks like trapping wolves and catching geese that were essential to their survival.

Before the days of steel knives, firearms and grocery stores, they relied on knives, arrow heads, spear points and tools made from flint to kill and skin game, and they used handmade fish traps and other means to catch fish.

American Indians were also skilled in knowing which plants were edible and which held medicinal value, and learned to use America’s wild plant life for medicine and to supplement their diet.

When Cecil Hamilton was just a boy he was fortunate to spend lots of time with his grandmother, whom he only knew as “Bompy” Sanders.

Cecil told me “I was always fascinated with Indian ways; how they lived with nothing but what was in their heads and what they could get from the wilderness around them.”

Grandma Bompy was skilled in Indian ways and would take Cecil on overnight and on weekend campouts where she passed on to him her knowledge and understanding of self-sufficient primitive survival.

She taught him how to catch catfish in the rivers using trotlines, how to find and prepare Morel mushrooms, and how to catch turtles and make turtle soup.

Cecil told me a story how he and Grandma Bompy once caught a snapping turtle so big that as grandma sat on it to hold it down, it continued to crawl away. After they had killed and cleaned the turtle, the shell was so big that grandma (See SURVIVAL on page 23)

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Weather could delay pool opening The Memorial Day weekend not only signals the official start of summer, but also the opening of the Scott City swimming pool.

However, frequent showers over the past few weeks have caused delays in getting a new liner installed in the pool.

There’s a chance the pool may not be ready for Monday’s opening.

Workers on the site remain optimistic.

“I think we can be done

by Friday,” said Fredrick Milledge, an employee with Garrett and Sons, Indianapolis, Inc., which

is contracted to put down the liner.

“The hardest part are the walls. The rest of this dries out fairly fast after a rain. We can usually be back to work the next day,” he said.

The Scott County Public Works Department isn’t quite as optimistic, especially with rainfall throughout the day on Tuesday and more being forecast for later this week.

As long as there is rain it’s going to keep work from getting done and the crew with Garrett and Sons was already on a

Hutchins Great Bend. He had a very steady day that included one birdey, three bogeys, two doublebogeys and 12 pars.

“Actually, with one of the double-bogeys I was pretty lucky,” Hutchins admitted with a grin. “I thought it was headed way out-of-bounds and I was reaching for another ball when it hit a tree and stayed in.

“Other than that major mistake, I stayed out of trouble and was getting a lot of pars.”

Which wasn’t easy

Thanks never explained to him what that phrase was supposed to mean.

But he could still coach the eighth grade girls . . . that was until this week when he was informed by an e-mail that he would no longer be needed as a coach.

Shelby Crawford, head coach for the SCHS girls the past two seasons (and a Rule 10 coach) has been reassigned to the eighth grade girls. The new SCHS head coach will be Sarah McCormick.

The district certainly has the right to hire and fire and reassign whomever it wants. How this situation was handled is subject to some debate.

Rule 10 coaches are essential to sports, particularly in smaller communities. We’ve been extremely fortunate to have highly qualified Rule 10 coaches step forward and do everything

Fredrick Milledge (foreground) puts down the liner in the Scott City swimming pool.

(Record Photo)

pretty tight time frame, noted Public Works Director Mike Todd.

The new liner is replacing a liner that was first

installed about 12-13 years ago. Until then, the city would paint the pool each spring, only to have it chip away and be

repainted each year.

The liner is easier to maintain and saves the cost of an annual paint job.

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considering the course conditions. There was a lot of casual water from recent rains that golfers were able to lay away from. And there were also major concerns with the condition of the greens.

“I don’t know if it was winter kill or whether something had been sprayed on the greens, but they were in terrible shape,” Hutchins noted.

“With most of the putts it was like playing on a Plinko board - you just hoped that you would end up close to the hole.

“Fortunately, I was doing well with my short game and I gave myself a lot of short par putts. I just tried to keep everything inside six feet.”

Entering the tournament, Hutchins and Lakin’s Wyatt Burnett felt that medalist honors would come down to one of them. Burnett finished second with rounds of 41-40--81.

“We were in the same group and I felt real good after taking a four shot lead on the front nine,” Hutchins said. “That gave

me a lot of confidence for ketball during March. He the back side.” will have an additional practice round on Monday 3-Time Qualifier and possibly Sunday.

It will be Hutchins’ “The course is a little third consecutive trip longer than most, so I’ll to the state tournament, need to be accurate with qualifying in Class 3A as my longer irons for seca sophomore (finishing ond shots into the green,” 24th) and again in Class says Hutchins. “But I feel 4A his junior year. real comfortable with my “I’m heading into state with a lot of confidence irons. I was hitting them and knowing that I can do real well at regional.”

Hutchins also adds that real well,” says the SCHS his mental game is stronsenior.

He had an opportu- ger now than it was on the nity to play the course two previous state trips.

“My goal is to break once while SCHS was in Hutchinson for state bas- into the top 10,” he says.

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we could ask, and more, in our junior high and high school programs.

Skip Numrich and Brice Eisenhour have done a terrific job with the eighth grade football team. And Eisenhour also assists with SCHS wrestling.

Crawford has coached at the junior high level before and he willingly took over the SCHS girl’s basketball program when nobody wanted the job.

Crawford brought passion and enthusiasm to the program.

Landon Frank and Josh Burnett are great additions to the SCHS football coaching staff.

And there’s Lewis who has been a Rule 10 coach since the days when they were still chiseling out the guidelines on stone tablets. Wherever Lewis was needed, at the high school or middle school level, he was always more than willing to help.

Is Lewis pretty demanding? You could say that. He lets his kids know right away when they’ve done something wrong - when they haven’t executed the offense like it was designed. If you don’t like criticism - and having most people in the gym know that something went wrong - then you wouldn’t like playing for Lewis.

It’s not abusive - though in today’s hyper-sensitive world some would probably think otherwise. We know Lewis. We know how he coaches. We know he’s knowledgeable about the game. And we know that he truly cares about the kids who play for him.

His goal is to prepare them for the next level physically and, most of all, mentally.

It would seem he’s filled that role well.

When Lewis is told they want to take the pro-

gram in another direction, maybe that means a “softer, gentler” approach.

We’ll see.

If Lewis’ style is what bothers some people, then he deserves to know if that’s the reason he’s no longer coaching. It won’t change anything. He’s not going to coach where he’s not wanted, but he would like to know - and he deserves to know.

One comment was that Lewis had missed too many practices and games.

Lewis does acknowledge missing a game this season because he was taking care of matters related to the fire that destroyed his downtown business.

“I’ve missed only four games in 21 years of coaching,” says Lewis.

“Not once did anyone ever call me and say there was a problem with my coaching style or because I missed a practice.”

Lewis doesn’t want to

be a problem for the district and he doesn’t want to distract from the desire to build winning programs at SCMS and SCHS. ”This hurts because I love the kids and I love to coach. I bleed blue and I want to do all I can to make Scott City the best it can be,” Lewis says.

“Am I tough on the kids?

Sure I am. But I think they understand the game by the end of the season and they’re tougher players, which prepares them for high school.”

We need Rule 10 coaches. That isn’t likely to change.

That means communicating with them. Expressing concerns, if there are any, when things happen. And, most of all, it means treating them with the kind of respect which we all expect.

After 21 years with the district, Lewis deserved better.

The Scott County Record • Page 21 • Thursday, May 21, 2015

Beavers complete sweep of Goodland

Scott City finally got its first sweep of the season. It only took about six weeks for it to become official.

The Beavers finished the second half of a storm-delayed double-header with Goodland on May 14, defeating the Cowboys, 7-6.

On April 2, SCHS had won the first game of the GWAC double-header, 8-4.

Making the win even sweeter, the Beavers were also able to overcome a late-inning deficit, scoring two runs in the top of the sixth to take the lead.

The Beavers jumped out to the early advantage with a fourrun third inning that put them on top, 5-1. Scott City strung together four hits in the frame, including a one-out double by senior Sloan Baker and singles from Hunter Braun, Kyle Cure and Kevin Aguilera.

Goodland was able to climb back into the game with two runs in the both of the third and three more in the fourth for a 6-5 lead.

Justin Faurot walked to open the sixth inning, stole second, and scored on two wild pitches to tie the game.

Baker walked and scored the go-ahead run on a double by Gustavo Gonzales.

With the Beavers at bat in the seventh inning, the game was called due to rain, giving Scott City the win.

The Beavers pounded out 11 hits, led by Baker who was 3-of-3, including a double.

Gonzales and Braun also had two hits each.

Gonzales, Baker and Faurot each pitched two innings and gave up a total of seven hits.

Scott City sophomore Chase Rumford dives safely back to first base to avoid a pickoff attempt.

(Record Photo)

Lyons The game was a microcosm of the SCHS season in which the Beavers lost six games in which they were tied or had the lead in the sixth or seventh inning.

“It comes down to being able to finish a game - coming up with one key hit or making a routine out,” noted Baker.

“We’re a young team and we had trouble getting that done.”

That was true again at Lyons when the Beavers jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning, but gave back a run in the bottom half of the first and second innings.

SCHS regained a 3-2 lead in the third inning when Justin Faurot and Sloan Baker opened the frame with singles. A field-

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ing error allowed Faurot to score and SCHS had runners on second and third when the inning ended.

The Lions grabbed their first lead of the game with two runs in the fourth inning and stretched their advantage to 5-3 with another run in the sixth.

However, Scott City was able to keep their post-season hopes alive with the help of some fielding mistakes by the Lions.

Leadoff batter Kevin Aguilera reached on an error and Chase Rumford followed with a walk.

Drew Duff, who has been very reliable at advancing runners this season, was called on to bunt Aguilera and Rumford into scoring position, but he instead drew a walk to fill the

bases. Following a strikeout, Faurot was able to draw a walk and force home Aguilera which cut the deficit to one run. The Beavers still had the bases full with Baker, who was batting a team high .448, coming to the plate. Coach Baker, however, called on his son to lay down a bunt.

“Neither team had been hitting the ball with much authority all day. I figured we’d squeeze in a run and tie the game,” said the head coach.

However, Baker’s bunt attempt was fouled off two bunt attempts and another pitch before striking out. Gustavo Gonzales, who has been hitting .333, was Scott City’s final

hope and he also went down swinging to end the season.

The Beavers finished with just five hits, all singles, led by Baker who was 2-of-4 at the plate.

Baker also turned in a solid performance on the mound where he limited Lyons to just six hits - all singles - and had eight strikeouts.

“These boys have come a long way since the start of the season,” noted Coach Baker.

“If they’ll stay together and put in some time during the offseason, they could be a pretty good team over the next couple of years.”

After starting the season 1-9, SCHS won four of their final 10 games.

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Wildcat football is a mystery

Kansas State’s football team for the upcoming season is somewhat of a mystery. The Wildcats lost their quarterback and key receivers from the 2014 team.

C o a c h by Snyder hasn’t Mac settled (pub- Stevenson licly) on his starting QB for next fall.

From here it looks like sophomore Jesse Ertz (6-4, 199) will win the job.

Ertz, who is competing with Joe Hubener (6-4, 205), is the better passer and that will be the deciding factor.

K-State’s nonconference schedule has South Dakota in Manhattan on Sept. 5; on the road against the University of Texas San Antonio on Sept. 12; and at home with Louisiana Tech on Sept. 19.

Kansas State will win the two home games, but road games early in the season are treacherous.

KU’s nonconference schedule has home games with South Dakota State on Sept. 5 and Memphis on Sept. 12. Then the Jayhawks go on the road to play Rutgers on Sept. 26.

Kansas is up against it this fall because of a lack of talent and depth. But one thing might rescue them: Coach David Beaty needs a QB that’s highly effective.

That could be incoming freshman Carter Stanley (62, 188) from Vero Beach, Fla. Stellar play from a young quarterback would get Beaty’s program going in the right direction.

Big 12-SEC Challenge Kansas and Kentucky will play early in the 2016 basketball season: The Big 12-Southeastern Conference Challenge was recently announced and the Jayhawks and Wildcats will play in Allen Fieldhouse on January 30.

KU (2,153) and Kentucky (2,178) have the most wins of any teams in college basketball. Kansas already had another rugged nonconference schedule before Kentucky was added to the mix.

The Jayhawks are also featured in the ESPN Champions Classic when they play Michigan State on November 17 at the United Center in Chicago.

(See MYSTERY on page 25)

Rare tropical bird found at Lake Scott Chris Lituma, a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Tennessee’s Institute of Agriculture, had no idea a fleeting trip to Kansas would result in a monumental discovery.

Lituma was leading a group of students through a multistate field study, including a stop in Scott City. Friend, and Kansas-native, Mike Hudson, had recommended Scott State Park as a good place to go birdwatching - a hobby of Lituma’s for the past 11 years.

Upon arrival, Lituma began helping students identify the various birds, but one bird in particular was no ordinary migrant.

“The students asked me ‘Hey, what’s this bird?’ and I briefly looked at it and assumed it was a black-headed grosbeak,” said Lituma.

Students then looked up the grosbeak in a field guide to find it was not the same bird they were looking at.

“At that point, I took another look at the bird and almost im-

mediately realized this was no grosbeak, this was something very special; something rare.”

Lituma thumbed through one of his field guides but was unable to find the family of birds he thought the bird belonged to. He then grabbed a National Geographic field guide and was able to narrow his identification down to three birds.

After a brief discussion with the students, everyone was in agreement that they were looking at a piratic flycatcher.

Hailing from as far as Argentina, piratic flycatchers are tropical birds belonging to the genus Legatus and are the only species to hold this classification. They are strongly migratory birds, and have been known to fly out of range, but rarely as far as North America.

According to the American Birding Association (ABA), less than 10 of these birds have been recorded in the U.S. If Lituma’s sighting is accepted by the ABA, it will be the first record for Kansas and the farthest northerly record of the

Walk-ons ties on and off the field,” says Snyder. “All of those things are highly significant in our program.”

Snyder says he makes it a point not to know who is, and isn’t, a walk-on.

“That’s not important to me, but the values they bring with them are,” he emphasizes.

K-State has proven it has the unique ability not just to have walk-ons contribute to their success at the college level, but some of those athletes are even playing on Sundays.

“We had six guys, I believe, who signed NFL contracts.

Five of those six were walkons in our program and the other one nobody else recruited,” he points out.

Snyder doesn’t concern himself with what seems to make the walk-on program at K-State more successful than at most universities.

“I can’t speak to whether we’re more successful or have a different culture. You’d like to think that any young man can have a chance if there’s

A piratic flycatcher bird, as well.

Scott State park manager, Greg Mills, said the sighting has brought in nearly 75 birders from 13 states, including Virginia.

Although the bird has yet to be seen at the park again since its last sighting at 12:30 p.m. on Sun., May 10, experts believe the bird could still be in the Sunflower State.

so well. I want our program to represent those same values.”

and understand what it is to earn your place on the team,” he says.

Couchman is hopeful that he can expand his role with the Wildcats and earn a spot on defense.

“I worked hard this spring to learn my role on defense. I finished the spring at second string on the strong side (linebacker),” he says. “And I’m working hard to stay on special teams for the third year.”

Couchman was joined last year by former SCHS teammate and Butler County Community College transfer Luke Hayes who was a starter on the offensive line. Snyder said both Scott City players “possess the qualities we look for.”

“Luke, as we saw last year, worked his way into a starting role. Colborn has worked his way up the ladder and is in position to compete for a starting position,” Snyder says. “He’s already proven to be important to us on special teams, which we put a lot of value on in our program.”

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a value system in place,” he says.

At the same time, it could have something to do with geography - as in a Midwest value system.

Describing the annual K-State Fry in Scott County as a “unique” event, Snyder noted that he has rarely missed one during the past 20-plus years.

“I enjoy the people. They’re genuine and sincere. They represent what Kansas State is all about. They are people who understand what hard work is all about.

“They’re walk-ons in their own right - they’ve earned their way,” said Snyder, glancing around the huge building at HRC Feed Yards where several hundred K-State supporters were gathering for the annual feed and fundraising event. “They do it without any pretense. They don’t try to be something they aren’t and I admire that.”

“It’s part of the Midwest work ethic that they represent

Couchman’s Experience Former Scott Community High School standout Colborn Couchman understands the difficult road that it takes to earn playing time as a walk-on with a Division I program. He has been at KSU the past three seasons, earning significant playing time on special teams.

He says one key ingredient in the success of the walk-on program is the support players get from upperclassmen.

“There are so many juniors and seniors who have been down that same road. They definitely welcome us and support us,” he says. “I’ve had players take me under their wing and that helps a lot.”

Couchman, who will be a redshirt junior next fall, feels that having so many walk-ons has a way of strengthening the commitment to the program’s success.

“There are so many juniors and seniors who are walk-ons

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Survival (continued from page 20)

cleaned it and washed her hair in the shell in rain water she would collect.

Perhaps the most important lessons Grandma Bompy taught Cecil were about identifying, collecting and preparing edible plants. He became so knowledgeable about wild edible plants that he later got involved with survival groups and was able to teach them what he knew.

Over the years, Cecil has been involved with several survival groups and has been privileged to learn from renowned primitive survival experts and teachers Jim Riggs and Richard Jameson.

About 20 years ago, Cecil began hosting his own primitive survival camps to pass on to students the skills he has learned. He is able to show students how to make flint arrow heads, spear points and tools and how to use them for primitive survival.

He even teaches pupils how to fillet fish with flint. He gives instructions on making fish traps, deadfalls and snares and shows how to use them to catch fish and wildlife.

He teaches how to identify, gather and prepare edible plants, and he’s very adamant that many wild plants are safe and beneficial to eat, but unless the person knows for sure the plants identity, it should be left alone.

This year Cecil’s Primitive Survival Camp will be from June 4-7 near Augusta and will feature instruction on making fire by friction, edible plant gathering and preparation, how to make primitive cordage from strips of rawhide and making and using throwing sticks.

Call Cecil at 620-4428171 or 620-660-0257 for a brochure and for details, as he says other topics not listed will be covered.

Investing some time to learn primitive survival skills seems like a good idea, and learning about edible and medicinal plants can always be beneficial no matter your lifestyle.

Give Cecil’s camp a try, and find a different and more unique way to Explore Kansas Outdoors.

Steve can be contacted by email at stevegilliland@idkcom.net

Fishing Report Scott State Lake Updated May 21 Channel cats: fair; up to 6.5 lbs. Still fishing prepared baits over shallow flats has produced more fish recently. A few fish up to 8 lbs have been reported.

Crappie: fair; most up to 9 inches. Recent unstable weather has backed the fish off the spawning beds, but the shallow bite should resume with warmer weather. Fishing a jig under a bobber in spawning areas can result in catches of good numbers of fish. Some traditional spawning beds you might try are the north shore of Timber Canyon Cove and the rip-rap along the Apache area. Anglers have reported catching limits of fish from time to time and fish have been typically ranging in the 8 to 12 inch range.

Walleye/saugeye: fair; saugeye up to 3.6 lbs.; walleye up to 6.1 lbs. Jig and nighcrawler or minnow combos fished over points and along drop-offs can be productive this time of year. Anglers reported catching some nice saugeye in the 21 to 23 inch range and a few larger walleye last week. Also reported were catches of good numbers of smaller saugeye in the 12 to 15 inch range. Remember, all saugeye and walleye must be 18 inches or larger to be legal for harvest.

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Regional

Class 3A Beloit Regional Leaders

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doing with the right competition and under the right conditions,” Turner says.

The regional field won’t be a cakewalk for Meyer who will be competing against athletes who have turned in four of the eight fastest times in Class 3A this season - outside of his own stateleading mark.

At the top of the list is Russell’s Noah Gfeller, who has the second fastest time in Class 3A with a 1:58.48, which he also turned in at the Russell meet. Following close behind are Tyus Henson (Norton, 2:01.02) and Joe Smith (Marysville, 2:01.83).

McRae Tops Field Perhaps the biggest surprise has been the emergence of McRae in the state’s No. 1 spot. He has continued to show steady improvement in his first season to compete in the high and intermediate hurdles.

The junior ran a season best at the GWAC track meet which puts him into the favorite’s role at Beloit.

“Credit Coach (Jenny) Rose for the work she’s done with Drake. He had a lot to learn at the start of the season, and he still has a lot of things to work on with his technique, but he’s got a lot of natural athletic ability,” Turner says. “In between the hurdles he’s able to make up a lot of ground.”

Expected to be on McRae’s heels at regional is Jace Adams (Beloit) who has a season best of 41.57 which is the third fastest in Class 3A. McRae also added a season best of 16.01 in the 100m high hurdles at the league meet, which earned him a silver medal.

He has the second fastest time in the Beloit regional behind Hunter Budke (Beloit, 15.72).

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300m Intermediate Hurdles Athlete

City

Drake McRae Jace Adams Johnathon Ball Tyler Edwarsd

Scott City Beloit Hoisington Lyons

110m High Hurdles Athlete

City

Hunter Budke Drake McRae Jace Adams Tyler Edwards Sam Sage

Beloit Scott City Beloit Lyons Phillipsburg 400m

Athlete

City

R.J. Jackson Noah Gfeller Brett Meyer Kaden Davis Brenner Donovan Joe Smith Gage DeGarmo Trey O’Neil

Beloit Russell Scott City Ellsworth Hoisington Marysville Beloit Scott City

800m

40.30 41.57 42.52 43.10 Time/ Distance

15.72 16.01 16.02 16.28 16.34 Time/ Distance

51.37 51.61 51.82 52.97 53.00 53.19 53.38 53.52

City

Time/ Distance

Scott City Russell Norton Marysville Beloit

1:56.41 1:58.48 2:01.02 2:01.83 2:03.92

Athlete

Brett Meyer Noah Gfeller Tyus Henson Joe Smith Colson Reames

Time/ Distance

4x400m Relay Athlete

City

Scott City Beloit Norton Russell

Time/ Distance

3:26.81 3:30.45 3:31.00 3:34.61 4x800m Relay

Athlete

City

Scott City Beloit

Time/ Distance

8:21.84 8:26.91 Discus

Athlete

Brice Brummett Darrell Gustin Adam Linhorst Cooper Griffith Conor Cox Wyatt Eitel

which have traditionally been two of Scott City’s strongest events.

The 4x800m relay has a five second edge over Beloit in the regional field. Russell (8:56) currently has the third fastest regional time.

Irvin Lozano (2:04.87) ran a season best at the GWAC which helped to bring down the team’s overall time. Other members of the relay and their GWAC times were Jess Drohman (2:05.87), Miguel Chavez (2:10.37) and Meyer (2:00.63).

Distance Relays However, Coach It’s no surprise that the Beavers have high hopes Turner plans to run freshfor the distance relays man Adrian Ruelas on the

City

Riley County Ellsworth Marysville Scott City Norton Scott City

Time/ Distance

151-3 139-0 136-2 136-1 135-6 131-10

relay at regional in place of Chavez.

The 4x400m relay promises to be much more competitive with four of the top five teams in the state competing at the Beloit regional.

Scott City ran its season best at league, which included outstanding splits

by Trey O’Neil (52.05) and Meyer (50.83). They were joined by McRae (51.78) and Wyatt Kropp (52.13).

Beloit (3:30.45) has the second fastest time in the state, followed by Norton (3:31) and Russell (3:34.61).

Freshman Trella Davis competes in the 3200m run. She was a silver medalist at the Great West Activities Conference track meet last week with a time of 13:14.8.

Thank you Cody Palen and Western State Bank

for your $300 donation to the Scott City Junior Golf Program sign-up has begun Practices are every Tuesday July 7 thru Aug. 4 • 6:00 p.m. at the Scott Community Golf Course for more information contact Kirby Garrison at kgarrison@wsbks.com

June 1 deadline to assure a t-shirt participation is free

Mystery Michigan State and Kentucky are coming off Final Four appearances.

Kentucky leads the overall series with KU 22-6; that’s a little hard to swallow for the proud Jayhawk fans. And last year’s 72-40 humiliation in the 2014 Champions Classic adds fuel to the fire.

During the Bill Self era at Kansas, the Jayhawks have played Kentucky six times and have split at 3-3.

Self said, “I’m sure our players and fans will be excited about the matchup between the two winningest programs of alltime . . . it’s very unique to play a game of this caliber midway through the conference season, but will give both programs great exposure.”

KU will have a better team than they had last season. Nevertheless, taking on Kentucky and Michigan State early in the season presents some challenge.

Kansas State plays Mississippi in Bramlage Coliseum as part of the above-mentioned Big 12SEC matchup. Right now it appears that K-State’s basketball program is a

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mess, but maybe that will have changed by then.

There will be 10 games between the two conferences, all on the same day.

ESPN and their network of stations will televise each of the games; consequently, KU and K-State will be on national TV on January 30.

If all that isn’t enough, ESPN’s College GameDay will select one of the ten games as the site for their weekly college basketball show—don’t bet against KU-Kentucky.

KC Bats are Hot Much has been said about the Kansas City Royals defense and pitching, but a significant factor in their encouraging start has been the hitting.

It’s been formidable.

In their normal starting lineup - which includes the injured Alex Rios KC has six hitters batting over .300 and two at .282.

That’s more than impressive.

Kansas City’s leading hitters include the following: first baseman Eric Hosmer had a .333 batting average with 7 homers and 29 runs batted in; third

SCHS Track May 14, 2015 • GWAC at Ulysses Girl’s Division Triple jump: Haley Allen, 6th, 29-4.5.

Shot put: Clarissa Ratzlaff, 4th, 29-9.25.

Javelin: Madison Braun, 2nd, 110-11; Lizzy Eikenberry, 4th, 108-8; Kiana Yager, 5th, 105-1.

Pole vault: Emily Smith, 5th, 8; Eikenberry, 6th (T), 7-6.

800m: Makaela Stevens, 1st, 2:33.37; Cami Patton, 3rd, 2:37.93.

3200m: Trella Davis, 2nd, 13:14.80.

300m low hurdles: Smith, 2nd, 50.54.

4x400m relay: Shantice Lara, Stevens, Smith, Paige Winderlin, 3rd, 4:20.68.

4x800m relay: Stevens, Patton, Winderlin, Olivia Prieto, 3rd, 10:38.37.

Boy’s Division Triple jump: Jarret Jurgens, 6th, 36-2.

Shot put: Cooper Griffith, 4th, 41-1; Wyatt Eitel, 6th, 408.

Discus: Griffith, 2nd, 136-1; Eitel, 4th, 131-10.

Pole vault: Chantz Yager, 3rd, 11-6.

800m: Brett Meyer, 1st, 2:00.30; Jess Drohman, 6th, 2:08.66.

110m high hurdles: Drake McRae, 2nd, 17.12.

300m int. hurdles: McRae, 1st, 40.30.

4x100m: Wyatt Kropp, Trey O’Neil, Irvin Lozano, McRae, 5th, 45.74.

4x400m: McRae, Kropp, O’Neil, Meyer, 1st, 3:26.81.

4x800m relay: Drohman, I. Lozano, Miguel Chavez, Meyer, 1st, 8:21.84.

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baseman Mike Moustakas had a .333 BA with 4 homers and 12 RBIs; center fielder Lorenzo Cain had a .326 BA with 3 homers and 19 RBIs; right fielder Alex Rios had a .321 BA with 1 homer and 8 RBIs; DH Kendrys Morales had a .306 BA with 4 homers and 29 RBIs; shortstop Alcides Escobar had a .304 BA with 1 homer and 14 RBIs; catcher Salvy Perez had a .282 BA with 4 homers and 19 RBIs; and left fielder Alex Gordon had the same stats as Perez.

KC’s hitters have a confident demeanor that was missing last season and their experience is showing in their pitch selection and power.

Last but not least in the Royals’ changes is announcer Rex Hudler’s style. Hudler talked almost nonstop last season and often he didn’t say much of anything. It became abrasive.

But Hud knows his baseball and he’s toned down his repartee to the point where the guy is growing on us. It’s a wonderful thing.

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SCHS senior Brett Meyer signs a letter-of-intent to participate in track at Ft. Hays State University. Seated are his parents, Joe and Margie Meyer. He is joined by SCHS track coaches Jim Turner (left) and Kevin Reese.

(Record Photo)

Meyer decides it will be track at Ft. Hays State If Ft. Hays State University was going to recruit track prospect Brett Meyer they just had to wait until the right time of the year.

“After basketball season, I really felt like that’s what I wanted to keep doing in college,” says the Scott Community High School senior.

That changed once track season got underway.

“I even thought some about trying basketball and track at the next level, but that would be demanding a lot and I wasn’t sure I could do both and compete the way I need to in col-

lege,” noted Meyer.

Once he’d decided on track, the decision to attend FHSU came a little easier.

“That felt more like home,” says Meyer. “I have family and friends who are or will be going to school there.”

Meyer, 18, also feels that the Tiger track program is moving in the right direction and is emerging as one of the conferences’s top programs in track, particularly the long distance events, and cross-country.

Meyer, however, expects to focus on the middle distance events. During the indoor sea-

8th grade relays sweep 4 silvers at GWAC meet

Credit the Scott City Middle School eighth graders for being consistent at the Great West Activities Conference track meet.

They competed in four relays and claimed silver medals in each during competition held on May 12 at Ulysses.

The Lady Bluejays were second in the 4x100m (60.3), the 4x200m (2:09.8), 4x400m (4:51.9) and the 4x800.

Members of each were: 4x100m: Lynell Wessel, Stacy Dominguez, Alyssa Storm and Kally Kough.

4x200m: Wessel, Dominguez, Natali Navarrete and Kough.

4x400m: Dominguez, Aly Tarango, Navarrete and Dolce Ayala.

4x800m: Tarango, Alexis Hoeme, Molly Eikenberry and Ashley Lightner.

Scott City added a pair of individual silver medals from Ayala in the 1600m and Tarango in the 800m (3:09).

Jera Drohman was a third place medalist in the shot put (29-4 1/4) and Hallie Wiechman in the 800m (3:11).

As a team, Scott City (66) finished in fourth place. Other team totals included Ulysses (107), Holcomb (93), Colby (75) and Goodland (27).

son, he expects to compete in the 400m, 600m and 800m races while trying the 400m and 800m during the outdoor season.

He was a fourth place finisher in the 800m at the Class 4A state track meet a year ago with a time of 1:57.47. This year, Meyer has a season best of 1:56.41 in the event and is considered one of the top contenders for a gold medal in the Class 3A division.

In addition, he also anchors on the 4x400m and 4x800m relays which are among the state leaders.

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graduation time Traditional path to a diploma not for everyone

Entering his final year at Scott Community High School, Devin Ellis knew he wanted a high school diploma.

He also knew that it wasn’t going to happen going through the traditional curriculum and showing up for classes each day at SCHS. “I only had two more classes to go so I didn’t want to take a full load,” noted the 18-yearold.

Ellis instead chose to take the two classes he needed through the Scott City Learning Center and participated in a graduation ceremony on Friday evening.

Dropping out of school was never Ellis’ plan.

“I was going to get a diploma no matter what,” says the lifetime Scott City resident. “If it wasn’t for the learning center I’d have stayed in high school.

“But going to the learning center so that I could get started with my job was the best situation for me.”

Ellis said he began working full-time for an area farmer in November and was able to keep working towards his diploma with on-line classes.

“If you want to farm or get on with your life, then this is the way to go,” said Ellis. “If you want to go to college, then stay in school. My plans were to begin working as soon as I graduated. This gave me the chance to start that a little sooner.”

He also said that without SCLC Director Melissa Jasnoch pushing him, getting a diploma Scott City Learning Center graduates Devin Ellis and Viridiana Torres Solorzano listen to would have been more difficult. a guest speaker during Friday’s commencement program.

(Record Photo) “You can tell that she wants everyone to succeed. If you need something she’s there to dropped out of school during in Dighton with her husband, Without the learning center, help,” he said. her junior year after giving birth Alfredo Cordero, began attend- Solorzano says it wouldn’t have to a daughter. ing classes at the learning cen- been possible for her to earn a It was Important “But I wanted to finish high ter a year ago after completing diploma.

A pregnancy and starting a school. It was important and requirements to become a U.S. Now she can begin the next family interrupted Viridiana I knew someday it would be citizen. phase of her life and take addiTorres Solorzano’s plans to important (to my kids),” she “The diploma was the last tional on-line classes so that get a high school diploma at says. piece that was missing,” she she can eventually become an Dodge City High School. She Solorzano, who now lives said. emergency medical technician.

‘Remember this place . . . and those who helped us to succeed’ Graduation is a time for seniors to celebrate reaching a major milestone in their lives.

But Kiara Sharp advised her classmates not to think of the achievement as the finish line in a race, but as another step in a lifelong marathon.

The Healy High School valedictorian said that whatever the graduates do with their lives they will never stop learning and that the successes they enjoy can be traced back to Healy.

“Remember this place and the people we know who helped us to succeed,” she said.

The 13 years of education are sometimes going to be difficult. Sharp credits her parents with pushing her to “do what I thought was impossible - to get an associate degree before my high school diploma,” said the graduate who, only a few days earlier, had walked across the stage to accept a degree from Garden City Community College.

Graduation, she said, is the first of many achievements that Sharp says she and her class-

mates will accomplish during their lives.

“We have time to make mistakes and to follow our dreams,” she said.

Sharp also urged graduates and other in attendance at Sunday’s ceremony that real success is measured by happiness - not material wealth.

Leaving a Legacy Class salutatorian Ian Bollinger said that an individual’s legacy is determined by what they’ve done to influence the world and how they’ve been able to help others.

He stressed the importance of showing love towards others.

“The world won’t remember what we did inside these walls,” he said, referring to HHS. “But it will remember what we do outside these walls.”

Bollinger praised the school staff and community for their support.

“You have had a profound impact on the students graduating here today,” he noted.

Healy High School graduate Alexis Walker presents her mother, Carla, a rose and the two share a hug during Sunday’s graduation ceremony.

(Record Photo)

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Wheat tours next week in Scott, Lane

Scott County Extension will be sponsoring a wheat plot tour on Thurs., May 28, 6:00 p.m. The plot is located 4.3 miles east of Scott City on the north side of K96 Highway.

Farm cooperators assisting with the plot are Buehler Farms and Dona Dee Carpenter.

Lucas Haag, an Extension agronomy specialist with the Northwest Area office, and Sarah Zukoff, field crop entomologist with the Southwest Area office, will provide information on the various wheat varieties and issues affecting this year’s crop. A meal will be served immediately following the tour courtesy of Norder Supply, Scott City.

Those planning to attend are asked to RSVP with the county Extension office (872-2930) by Wed., May 27, or e-mail Extension Agent John Beckman at jbeckman@ksu.edu.

Lane County Tour Walnut Creek Extension District will host their wheat plot variety demonstrations on Wed., May 27.

The final stop will be at the Vance Ehmke farm at 6:00 p.m. The plot is located seven miles west of Dighton on K96 Highway and 1-1/2 miles south on Eagle Road. It is located on the west side of the road.

Erik DeWolf, K-State plant pathologist, will discuss wheat diseases. Lucas Haag, Northwest Area agronomist for K-State Extension will discuss the varieties.

A light supper will follow the tour at the Ehmke farm.

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Stage of development determines impact of freezing temps on wheat I want to scream at some on social media who are saying they are ready for the rain to stop.

Those folks must have a short memory and not recall how rough things have looked for the last several years.

Speaking of the weather, Mother Nature decided to surprise us with a morning or two of near freezing temperatures this past week.

Overnight temperatures dropped below freezing in parts of our area in the early morning hours of May 11 and 12.

The biggest effect will be on wheat that was in the flowering stage.

It doesn’t take very cold temperatures to cause injury to anthers. At other stages of development, it takes more than just a light frost to cause injury.

Some of the wheat in the affected areas, especially later-planted wheat,

Down on the Farm Chris Long Walnut Creek Extension Agent

may still be in the boot stage. In this stage, wheat can be injured if temperatures drop down into the mid to upper 20s for several hours. Injury is more likely if this occurs repeatedly and if it is windy at night.

It’s unlikely temperatures got cold enough in most places to injure wheat in the boot stage, but not impossible.

Impact on Pollen The more worrisome problem for wheat in the boot stage is the effect of low, but non-freezing, temperatures on pollen viability. When wheat is in the boot stage and pollen is forming, tempera-

tures in the 30s and 40s can lead to pollen sterilization.

To detect actual freeze injury, producers should wait several days then split open some stems and look at the developing head. If the head is green or light greenish in color and seems firm, it is most likely going to be fine.

If the head is yellowish and mushy, that’s a sign of freeze injury.

If the awns have begun to appear, there can be significant injury to the heads if temperatures reach about 30 degrees or lower for several hours.

The heads may fully exert from the boot, but few, if any, of the spikelets may pollinate normally and fill grain.

Damaged heads from a freeze at this stage of growth may seem green and firm at first glance, but the floral parts will be yellowish and mushy.

Wheat is particularly vulnerable to damage from freezing weather as the head starts to emerge through the flowering stage. Temperatures of 30 degrees or lower can damage anthers.

If the wheat was in the flowering stage at the time of the freeze, you can determine if the anthers are damaged by examining them with a magnifying lens.

Healthy anthers will first be lime green, then yellow. If they are damaged by a freeze, they will begin twisting within 2-3 days. Shortly afterward, they will begin to turn whitish or brown.

The stigma in the florets may or may not also be damaged by a freeze.

If the anthers are damaged by freeze, the flowers may fail to develop a kernel.

(See FREEZE on page 29)

Bill would close Kansas Bioscience Authority

TOPEKA - The Kansas Bioscience Authority would be dissolved under a bill introduced anonymously in a Kansas Senate committee.

SB 305 would place the authority, a public-private partnership that invests state dollars in bioscience companies, under the control of the Kansas

Tribune dryland tour is June 5

The Kansas State University Southwest Research-Extension Center will host its Tribune dryland wheat tour on Fri., June 5, at the university’s Tribune Unit one mile west of Tribune on K96 Highway.

Extension specialists will give updates on the latest research linked to dryland wheat varieties, as well as disease and insect management.

Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. (CDT), with the tour and presentations starting at 9:45 a.m.

More information is available by calling 620376-4761.

Disaster loans for area farmers

Farmers in Scott, Wichita, Gove and Logan counties who have suffered crop or livestock losses due to hail, high winds, lightning and tornadoes from April 2-24 may now apply for Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.

Applications for assistance will be accepted by FSA until January 12.

The current interest rate is 3.5 percent but is subject to monthly changes until the loan is approved.

Farmers can contact the FSA office in Oakley (785-672-4861) for additional information.

Department of Commerce and allow for its assets to be liquidated. The agency was created under former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.

Officials in Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration refused to say on Monday whether the administration helped craft the bill.

Sen. Ty Masterson

(R-Andover), chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, said he had no role in writing the bill and was not sure where it had originated.

During a hearing before the committee on Monday, Dale Rodman, the bioscience authority’s chairman and Brownback’s former secretary of agriculture,

charged that the administration was seeking to liquidate the agency in the face of the state’s revenue woes.

Officials from the Department of Commerce and Brownback’s chief of state, Jon Hummel, would not say whether the department helped craft the legislation.

House moves to repeal COOL in response to WTO

Just 24-hours after the WTO ruled for the fourth time that the U.S. mandatory country-of-origin-labeling (COOL) law was in violation of international trade obligations the chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture introduced legislation to repeal COOL. “In light of the WTO’s decision and the certainty that we face significant retaliation by Canada and Mexico, we cannot afford to delay action,” said Chairman Mike Conaway (R-Tex.).

The latest WTO ruling paves the way for Canada and Mexico to seek authorization to impose economic sanctions on U.S. products destined

for their countries. The Canadian government has previously published a list of targeted products that not only includes live cattle and beef but also products like wine, certain metals, pastas and more. In all, sanctions could reach $2 billion.

The Canada Ministry for Food and Agriculture estimates its livestock industry has suffered more than $1 billion annually in damages caused

by COOL. Shortly after the WTO decision was announced, the departments of agriculture in Canada and Mexico issued a joint statement making clear their country’s intent to seek authorization to retaliate.

(See REPEAL on page 29)

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A 2012 audit of the bioscience authority showed that its former president had misspent funds. The Brownback administration made reforms, which Senate President Susan Wagle (R-Wichita) a former critic of the quasi-public agency, touted as one of the biggest accomplishments of

Brownback’s first term.

However, Rodman said, the state’s budget problems have changed that.

“We went from the penthouse to the outhouse very quickly.”

The agency has not yet received its $24 million transfer from the state’s

Market Report

Weather

Closing prices on May 19, 2015 Bartlett Grain Wheat.................. $ 4.98 White Wheat ....... $ 5.13 Milo .................... $ 3.62 Corn ................... $ 3.74 Soybeans (new crop) $ 8.71 Scott City Cooperative Wheat.................. $ 4.98 White Wheat ....... $ 5.13 Milo (bu.)............. $ 3.62 Corn.................... $ 3.74 Soybeans ........... $ 8.71 Sunflowers.......... $ 16.55 ADM Grain Wheat..................

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Corn....................

Soybeans............

Sunflowers..........

$ 5.00 $ 3.62 $ 3.77 $ 8.66 $ 16.90

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Ag Facts Pepperoni is America’s favorite topping (36 percent of all pizza orders).

Americans eat approximately 251.7 million pounds a year!

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As Ogallala Aquifer dwindles, so do federal funds

The USDA recently announced that it will direct $6.5 million in federal funds to the Great Plains region to help farmers and ranchers conserve water in the Ogallala Aquifer.

The enormous underground aquifer supplies water to eight states from South Dakota to Texas, but it is quickly being drained. Seventy percent of the Ogallala water will be gone within 50 years if nothing is done, according to a Kansas State University study.

In some places, wells already have run dry.

The funding announced by the USDA is substan-

Repeal (continued from page 28)

“In light of the WTO’s final decision, and due to the fact that this discriminatory measure remains in place, our governments will be seeking authorization from the WTO to take retaliatory measures against U.S. exports. We call on the United States to repeal COOL legislation and comply with its international obligations,” the statement read.

Canada and Mexico are the largest trading partners with the U.S., with bilateral trade with Canada totaling $658 billion in 2014 and $534 billion with Mexico that same year.

National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) President Philip Ellis was also at the press conference to support the COOL repeal effort. Ellis said this action by Congress is long overdue.

“Continued economic analysis has shown that consumers do not use COOL information in their purchasing decisions, and despite implementation costs in excess of $1 billion for beef alone. It has resulted in discounts paid to U.S. producers like myself,” he said.

Water funds for the Ogallala In Kansas, funds will be available in parts of 36 counties designated as high-priority areas.

Those areas include: Cheyenne, Rawlins, Decatur, Norton, Phillips, Jewell, Republic, Sherman, Thomas, Sheridan, Wallace, Greeley, Wichita, Scott, Lane, Barton, McPherson, Hamilton, Kearny, Finney, Hodgeman, Pawnee, Stafford, Reno, Harvey, Sedgwick, Stanton, Grant, Haskell, Gray, Ford, Edwards, Pratt, Kiowa, Morton and Stevens.

tially less than previous years, when the agency allocated as much as $19 million for its Ogallala Aquifer Initiative, a water conservation effort established in 2011. The reduction is the result of lower funding in the last congressional farm bill, as well as the automatic, across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration.

The money this year will be concentrated on conservation programs in five states that rely on the aquifer, mainly for irrigation and other agricultural uses: Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico and Texas.

The programs aim to extend the life of the aquifer by saving billions of gallons of water per year.

“This work not only

Bioscience general fund for the fiscal year ending in June.

Halting that and liquefying the agency’s assets could boost state coffers while the administration and lawmakers search for ways to plug a $400 million budget hole.

“It’s all about the money,” Rodman said.

“The KBA has about $16 million in liquid assets at this present time. We have about $34 million in

Freeze

expands the viability of the Ogallala Aquifer but also helps producers across the Great Plains strengthen their agricultural operations,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement.

The Ogallala sprawls over 174,000 square miles. It provides water for a fifth of the wheat, corn, cotton and cattle produced in the United States.

Once depleted, the aquifer would take an estimated 6,000 years to refill naturally.

Kansas’ portion of the 2015 funds likely will be a little over $1 million,

down from $2.5 million in 2014.

The money will go to farmers in Kansas to help them convert their irrigated cropland to dryland farming in specific areas where the aquifer has declined the most and where the landscape is most likely to respond to conservation measures.

The goal is to save 1.8 billion gallons of water in the state over four years.

The USDA’s Ogallala Initiative has invested $66 million since 2011 to help farmers and ranchers conserve water on more than 325,000 acres.

Even before the decline in funding, the agency’s

conservation programs in Kansas drew far more application requests than there were funds available, said Joel Willhoft, a USDA resource conservationist in Hays.

Many applicants already have run out of water or are close to running out, Willhoft said.

“The ones that come to us are the ones that have a high level of concern, and they either ask for our technical assistance or financial assistance or most times both,” he said.

This year, each applicant for assistance will have to sign an agreement to reduce average water use by 10 percent.

Wilson testified that his company had hired eight Kansas residents in the past year, each at a salary of more than $100,000.

He said the loss of the authority could force the company to move to another state with more investment opportunities.

The only person to testify in favor of the legislation was Steve Anderson, the governor’s former budget director, who now is an analyst for the

Kansas Policy Institute.

Anderson said taxpayer money should not be used for private-sector investments.

“When government gets in competition with the private sector, it very seldom ends well for the money for the taxpayer.A lot of money gets poured in, not a lot of money gets poured out,” he said.

Masterson said he was interested in moving forward with the bill.

(continued from page 28)

investments, which could well be sold in May under this bill.”

Several business leaders testified that the bioscience authority provides Kansas businesses with necessary start-up capital in industries that are otherwise dominated by markets on the coasts.

“While venture capital is plentiful for companies like ours, it is exceptionally difficult to (continued from page 28)

Fortunately, wheat doesn’t flower all at the same time on the head. Flowering proceeds from florets near the center of wheat spikes to florets at the top and bottom of the spikes over a three- to five-day period.

This small difference in flowering stage when freezing occurs can produce some odd-looking heads. The center or one or both ends of the spikes might be void of grain because those florets were at a sensitive stage when they were frozen.

Grain might develop in other parts of the spikes, however, because flowering had not started or was already completed in those florets when the freeze occurred. If you are unsure whether there has been freeze damage to the anthers, wait several days and determine whether kernels are developing normally.

If kernels were already forming at the time of the freeze, there still could be damage, although it is not likely with this freeze event since temperatures did not get cold enough in most cases. Generally, it takes temperatures about 28 degrees to cause damage to kernel development and then to floral structures.

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“The opportunity to build these types of companies (high wage/high tech) inside Kansas is challenging without local funding.”

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––––––––––––––––––––– EARN $500/DAY. Insurance agents needed. Leads. No cold calls. Commissions paid daily. Lifetime renewals.

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WE SUPPORT every driver, every day, every mile. No experience? Some or lots of experience? Let’s talk!

Call Central Refrigerated Home (888) 670-0392. www.

CentralTruckDrivingJobs. com.

––––––––––––––––––––– GREAT PLAINS Trucking of Salina is looking for experienced OTR tractor-trailer flatbed drivers or recent driving school graduates. Our drivers travel 48 U.S. states as well as the lower Canadian provinces. We offer excellent compensation, benefits, home time and equipment. Please contact Brett or Randy at 785-823-2261 or brettw@ gptrucking.com, randyl@ gptrucking.com.

––––––––––––––––––––– DRIVER TRAINEES needed. Paid CDL training. Become a new driver for Stevens Transport. No experience needed. Earn $800 per week. Stevens will cover all costs. 1-888528-8864. drive4stevens. com.

––––––––––––––––––––– BUTLER TRANSPORT. Your partner in excellence. Drivers needed. hometime. $650 Sports/Outdoors Great sign-on bonus. All miles KANSAS HUNTING paid. 1-800-528-7825. land wanted. Earn thou- www.butlertransport.com. sands on your land by leasing the hunting rights.

Education Free evaluation and info packet. Liability coverage CAN YOU DIG IT? included. The experts at Heavy equipment operator Base Camp Leasing have training. 3-week program. been bringing landown- Bulldozers, backhoes, ers and hunters togeth- excavators. Lifetime job er since 1999. Email: placement assistance with info@basecampleasing. national certifications. VA com. Call 866-309-1507. benefits eligible. (866) BaseCampLeasing.com.

740-7697.

––––––––––––––––––––– MEDICAL BILLING For Sale trainees needed. Become PIANO SALE. Final a medical office assistant. week of savings. Verticals No experience needed. starting at $688. Grands Online training can get from $49/month. Sale you job ready. HS diploends Sat., May 23. ma/GED and PC/Internet Mid-America Piano, needed. 1-888-589-9683.

Manhattan. piano4u.com, 800-950-3774.

We have Reverse Osmosis units in stock.

Remember us for parts in stock for all brands of all appliances.

Sales and Service Days • Mon. - Sat. Deliveries • Mon.-Sat.

Largest Frigidaire appliance dealer in Western Ks. 508 Madison • Scott City • 872-3686

Networktronic, Inc.

Computer Sales, Service and Repair Custom computers!

Networking solutions!

Northend Disposal A garbologist company.

Mon. - Fri. 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

402 S. Main, Scott City • 872-1300

Scott City • 872-1223 • 1-800-303-3371

Brent Rogers

Sales Consultant b.rogers@officesolutionsinc.biz

Office (620) 276-3131 Toll Free 1-800-794-9052 Cell (620) 874-0014 Fax (620) 276-8876 1007 N. 8th, Garden City, KS 67846 www.officesolutionsinc.biz

All Under One Roof

Revcom Electronics

Your RadioShack Dealer Two-way Radio Sales & Service Locally owned and operated since 1990

1104 Main • Scott City • 872-2625

Dining Tuesday-Saturday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

www.reganjewelers.com

412 N. Main • Garden City • 620-275-5142 Support your hometown merchants who back your school and community activities throughout the year!

Classifieds

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Buy, sell, trade, one call does it all 872-2090 ot fax 872-0009

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: $6.00 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.

Card of Thanks To my loving family, there are not enough ways to say thank you for making my 80th birthday so special.

The flowers and cards from everyone were greatly appreciated.

Joy Barton

FOR SALE

Call: 620-872-2576 or 620-874-1009

Notice

Rentals

Agriculture

Help Wanted

NEW COUPLE MOVING to town. Looking for a house in the country to buy or rent.

Call or text 785-569-1127.

HIDE AND SEEK STORAGE SYSTEMS. Various sizes available. Virgil and LeAnn Kuntz, (620)874-2120.

41tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– 1-2 BEDROOM houses/ apartments for rent. Please call 620-872-5777 or stop

by PlainJan’s to pick up an 40tfc application.

––––––––––––––––––––– STORAGE UNITS in various sizes available at The Storehouse, Don and Trudy Eikenberry 62007tfc 872-2914.

––––––––––––––––––––– PLAINJAN’S WILL HAVE 30 X 50 metal insulated shop for rent, building will include electricity $350 per month.

Reserve yours today, call 39tfc 620-872-5777.

––––––––––––––––––––– 1 AND 2 BEDROOM apartments for rent. Please call 620-874-8353. 39tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– STORAGE UNITS 22’X40’ with 10’x14’ door for campers, boats, tractor, car or what ever.

Call 620-214-2978. 41t4p

WANTED TO BUY. Stored corn. Call for basis and contract information.

1-800-579-3645.

Lane County Feeders, Inc. 32tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– WANTED TO BUY. Wheat straw delivered.

Call for contracting information. Lane County Feeders. 397-5341. 44tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– FOR SALE BLACK ANGUS BULLS, registered, tested, 2 year olds, yearlings, heifer bulls, delivery, conformation, performance. Contact: Black Velvet Ranch, Aaron Plunkett, Syracuse, Ks., 620384-1101.

33t19c ––––––––––––––––––––– REGISTERED ANGUS bulls, Crooked Creek Angus, St. Francis, Ks. 785332-6206.

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USD 466 NEEDS substitute route bus drivers. For applications and additional information contact Lance Carter at 620-872-7655.

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Services WANTED: Yards to mow and clean up, etc. Trim smaller trees and bushes too. Call Dean Riedl, (620) 872-5112 or 87434tfc 4135.

––––––––––––––––––––– METAL ROOFING, SIDING and TRIMS at direct-to-the-public prices. Call Metal King Mfg., 620-872-5464. Our prices 37tfc will not be beat!

––––––––––––––––––––– FURNITURE REPAIR and refinishing. Lawn mower tune-up and blade sharpening. Call Vern Soodsma, 872-2277 or 874-1412.

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NEW LISTINGS ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS If you want to drink, that’s your business.

If you want to stop, that’s ours.

Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

Tuesday nights at 8:30 p.m. at the United Methodist Church basement (use west door).

412 College, Scott City.

Al-Anon at same time and location.

Contact: 874-0472 or 872-3137. 30t52

2-bedroom, 1 1/4 story, with 2 bedrooms in

basement and detached

Pine Village Apartments 300 E. Nonnamaker

Apartments available for qualifying tenants 62+ or disabled with rental assistance available.

Hours: Tuesday, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. by appointment Call Steve 872-2535 or (620) 255-4824.

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garage.

New home being built on Maple St., in Eastridge

addition. 1,300+ sq. ft.,

with double garage and up grade interior.

Real Estate COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS for sale 40’x60’ metal shop building and a 133’x45’ (approx.) round top building.

Serious inquiry’s only seller is a real estate agent selling own property 87426tfc 5109 or 874-2124.

––––––––––––––––––––– PRICE REDUCED! Cute, cozy home, 3 bedrooms, 1 3/4 baths, large family room and fenced backyard on a large corner lot. Close to Main St., in a west location. New tile in main bath, new paint, new flooring in kitchen and laundry room. Central heat and air, garbage disposal, fridge, stove and dishwasher included. Motivated sellers now only $77,500! Call Maranda at 620-874-8332 for a private 39t3c showing today!

Thomas Real Estate

www.thomasreal-estate.com

914 W. 12th Scott City, Ks. 67871 (620)-872-7396 Cell: (620)-874-1753 or Cell: (620)-874-5002

MAIN STREET LOCATION

Looking for a great

location to start your

own business? Or need

a shop - call on this nice building on corner lot.

Newer roof, two heaters,

electrical panel, hot water heater. Includes lift, two storage truck beds, air

compressor. Three bays

GARAGE SALES Friday-Saturday, May 22-23 Multi-Family Garage Sale 1107 Antelope, Scott City Fri., May 22, 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Sat., May 23, 8:00 a.m.-Noon Air compressor, ceiling fan, medicine cabinet, PS2 system and games, boy’s 16” bike, girl’s 20” bike, women’s 26” bike, boy’s, girl’s, and adult clothing of all sizes, plus lots more. Rain cancels.

3+1 bedrooms, 1 3/4 baths, full basement, family room down, enclosed back porch, storage shed, wood fenced in yard on a large lot.

with four overhead doors and much more!

START SMART

COUNTRY LIVING Nice 3-bedroom home

with large garage. Seller

replaced the central heat, air and windows. Corner

Garage Sale

lot in nice location!

Inside PlainJan’s, 511 Monroe, Scott City

Lawrence and Associates

Mon.-Fri., May 25-29, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Girl’s clothes (newborn to 4T), boy’s clothes (newborn to 3T), shoes for boys and girls.

Items will continually be added.

Storage Sale 3rd and Jackson, Scott City (Hide & Seek Storage) Sat., May 23, 9:00 a.m.-??

Antiques, stained glass, copper, movie posters, furniture and misc. Reba Lewis (719) 838-0138.

Unique acreage located between Scott City and Garden City. Do you want to have livestock or a private hunting retreat or a little piece of farmground? You can here. Newer brick home that has been recently updated sitting on over 40 acres.

Huge shop, airplane hangar, and outbuildings galore. Trees and more trees surround this acreage.

If you would like more information or to schedule a showing.

Please call (620) 214-2775

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Deb Lawrence, GRI Broker Shorty Lawrence, Sales Assoc.

513 Main • Scott City 872-5267 ofc. 872-7184 hm. lawrenceandassocrealty.com Sheila Ellis, Broker Assoc.

872-2056 Kerry Gough, Sales Assoc.

872-7337 Russell Berning, 874-4405 www.berningauction.com

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––––––––––––––––––––– POSITION AVAILABLE in swine finish facility in Scott County. Good schedule and benefits. Call 620-874-1017 or 620-21428tfc 1864.

––––––––––––––––––––– THE WICHITA C O U N T Y R E P U B L I C A N Committee is accepting applications for County Clerk of Wichita County.

Duties include carrying out the elections in Wichita County, serving as Secretary for the Wichita County Commissioners, and serving in the position of Human Resources.

Applicants should have skills in accounting and computer skills including Excel and Microsoft Office. Applicants should also be willing to learn and train for AS400 Computer Administration and be willing to travel to attend meetings and trainings as required by the Secretary of State and Kansas State Statutes.

Selected person should be ready to assume the position on July 1, 2015.

Applications in the form of a resumee are due

by May 27, 2015, and should be mailed to Wichita County Republican Committee Chairman, Dorene Reimer, 1294 West County Road P, Leoti, Ks. 40t2c 67861.

––––––––––––––––––––– MIDWEST ENERGY, INC., in Scott City is looking for a motivated individual to clean the office twice a week.

You will need to provide your own certificate of insurance. If interested, please bring resume and references by the office at 1301 S. Main or call 620-872-2179 with questions. 40t2c ––––––––––––––––––––– USD #468 HEALY has an immediate opening for district secretary.

Experience with computers, dealing with the public and physically able to lift 30 lbs., are desired. Health benefits are included. Salary is based upon qualifications and experience. Also have an opening for 20152016 part-time Library Aid. Applications are available at Healy Public Schools, 5006 N. Dodge Road, Healy, Ks. 67850 or interested parties can contact Beverly Roemer at 620-398-2248. Positions are open until filled. 41t1c ––––––––––––––––––––– P A R T - T I M E C H I L D C A R E position (6-9 hours/ week).

Applications may be picked up at the First Baptist Church 803 S. College St., Scott City, Monday Thursday 9:00 a.m. 40t3c 5:00 p.m.

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Employment Opportunities LEGAL ASSISTANT

CERTIFIED NURSE AIDES

County Plat Maps

Looking for a full-time Legal Assistant.

County benefits pending commissioner approval.

Submit Resume to: Rebecca Faurot 211 S. Main, Suite 118, Scott City, KS 67871

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406 Main • Scott City 620 872-2090

MULTIPLE POSTIONS Tate’s Restaurant is looking for experienced kitchen help. Fry Cooks, Dishwashers and Prep.

Experience a must.

Apply in person at: Tate’s Restaurant, 405 Main St., Scott City.

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PARTS DIVISION Scott City has an immediate opening in our parts division. Experience is preferred, but will train the right individual.

We offer health, dental, vacation, sick pay, 401K and uniforms. We are a drug free workplace. Pay will be based on experience.

Send resumes to: PO Box 572, Scott City, Ks. 67871 41t1c

DRIVERS, MAINTENANCE and MILL Full-time feedtruck drivers, maintenance workers and mill persons needed. Must have valid drivers license.

We offer competitive pay, health insurance, meat card and 401K plan.

SEASONAL POSITION The City of Scott City is accepting applications for a Seasonal employee in the street department.

Applicants must be 18 years of age.

Applications can be picked up and returned to: City Hall, 221 W. 5th, Scott City Applications will be accepted until position is filled.

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NIGHT STAFF PERSON City on a Hill a faith based substance abuse treatment center for women in Marienthal is looking for a night staff person.

Must have valid drivers license and computer skills.

Send resume and references to: chislu@aol.com

Please apply at: Brookover Cattle Co. of Scott City, LLC 4000 E. Road 200 Scott City, Ks. 67871.

ROUTE SALES PERSON High Plains Energy, LLC a rapidly growing service oriented company, is seeking a full-time Route Sales Person for the Tribune, Leoti and Scott City area.

Applicant must be 21, have a valid CDL and good driving record. Hazmat endorsement, tanker, air brakes and/or propane delivery experience, a plus. We will train the proper applicant.

We offer competitive wages, health insurance, life insurance, retirement, sick leave, vacation and paid holidays.

For an application Call: Office: 877-607-0040, Jim Green, Operations Manager: 620-260-6207, or Bryon Lopez, General Manager: 620-640-4445.

Safety, THAT makes a difference.

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PARK LANE NURSING HOME Has openings for the following positions: Part-time CNA/CMA Full-time Dietary Aide (evening shift) Shift differential pay offered for evening and night shifts!

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 “Quality Care Because We Care”

The Scott County Hospital is seeking full-time and part-time (including working with High School and College student schedules) Certified Nurse Aides.

Applicants must have an active Kansas Certification, must be dependable, in good health and compassionate to patients and their families.

We offer competitive pay, evening and weekend differentials and great benefits. Pre-employment physical, drug/alcohol screen, physical assessment and TB skin test are required.

SCH is a tobacco free facility.

Applications are available on our website at: www.scotthospital.net or call 620-872-7772 for more information.

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GRAIN OPERATOR Now Hiring!!

Bartlett Grain, has an immediate opening for a hard working operator. This is a year-round position with opportunity for overtime. You will be involved in grain operations at both our Scott City and Healy elevators.

Bartlett offers competitive wages along with great benefits: health and life insurance premiums paid 100% for employee, dental, vision, 401k with company match, profit sharing and paid vacation.

Apply in person or send resume: Bartlett Grain Company, L.P. 305 W. Bellevue, Scott City, Ks. 67871 Fax: 816-753-1775 jobs@bartlett-grain.com or call Matt in HR 800-860-7290

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SPECIAL EDUCATION PARA-PROFESSIONAL For High Plains Educational Cooperative Unified School District No. 466 is seeking a special education Para-Professional in the elementary and high school to work with students.

The positions are available as soon as possible.

For more information and applications please contact: Susan Carter Board of Education Building 704 College, Scott City, KS 67871 39tfc

EOE/AA/D/V/Drug Screen/Background Checks

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SCOTT COUNTY HOSPITAL HAS OPENINGS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS PATIENT CARE Acute Care RNs Physical Therapist Respiratory Therapist Operating Room RN C.N.A.s - FT and PT Clinic Medical Assistant Director of Nursing Emergency Department RN CLERICAL Ward Clerk SERVICE PRN Nutritional Service Aide Dietary/Housekeeping Shared Position Morning Cook Applicants for these positions are required to be able to read, speak and understand English.

Pre-employment physical, drug/alcohol screening, immunization titer, physical assessment and TB skin test required. We are a tobacco free campus.

We offer competitive pay and great benefits.

Due to our recent expansion of services and rapid growth, we are in need of Acute Care RNs and are offering financial incentives.

Applications are available on our website at www.scotthospital.net or call 620-872-7772 for more information.

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Congratulations 2015 Healy Graduates

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Sunday, May 17

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Parents: Marc and Shannon Ballinger

Parents: Justin and Deanna McGee

Parents: Shannon Mooore and Bernadine Solomon

Activities: Football, Basketball, Cross Country, Yearbook, All-School Play, Forensics Honors: Honor Roll, 4 yrs.; Patriots Pen Award; Western Ks. Liberty League, All-School Team; National movie credit for the release of a marketing film; 2nd yr. college student at Butler Community College.

Future Plans: Attend Liberty University and complete dual major in English and Media Communications to pursue a career in film, media, writing or producing.

Activities: Basketball, Volleyball, Yearbook, StuCo Honors: Honor Roll/Superintendent’s List; Nominated Ambassador Scholarship Future Plans: Attend Garden City Community College to earn Accounting Associates Degree and then attend Ft. Hays University to earn masters degree.

Activities: Basketball, Cross Country, Track, Band, FCCLA, Choir Honors: Lettered in Cross Country, Officer in FCCLA Future Plans: Attend Garden City Community College and major in Justice Studies.

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Parents: Efrain and Angela Prieto Activities: Basketball, Yearbook, Cheerleading, Track, Speech/Drama, Scholar’s Bowl, All-School Play Honors: Vice President of Class four years Future Plans: Attend Goodland Community College and earn cosmetology license.

p r a h S a r a Ki Parents: Daniel and Lafonda Sharp Activities: Basketball, Volleyball, Cheerleading (Captain 3 years), All-School Play, StuCo, Student Volunteer Organization, NHS Honors: Honor Roll, 3 yrs.; Class President 4 years; Lettered in Basketball, Volleyball, Cheerleading and All-School Play. WKLL All-league in volleyball and basketball. Honors program, represented Kansas playing basketball in Austrailia. Selected as Govenor’s Scholar.

Earned Associates degree in Arts through Garden City Community College in December.

Future Plans: Attend Ft. Hays University and major in English. Pursue a career as an editor.

er k l a W s i x Ale Parents: Galen and Carla Walker Activities: Cheerleading, StuCo, Yearbook Honors: Honor Roll Future Plans: Attend Hays Academy of Hair Design and earn cosmetology license.

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