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32 Pages • Four Sections

Volume 21 • Number 1

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Published in Scott City, Ks

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Assisted living plans may not include old SCH For years, the Scott County Commission has wondered about the possibility of an assisted living facility in Scott City for senior citizens, hoping that Park Lane Nursing Home would respond to the need.

And for just as long the nursing home - under three different administrators - has resisted that plea citing that it isn’t financial-

ly viable.

County commissioners are hopeful that someone else might see a future in assisted living by utilizing the former Scott County Hospital.

“We’re still trying to repurpose the hospital,” says Commission Chairman Jim Minnix.

“It’s still a decent facility that needs heating and air condition-

ing improvements and some updating. I’m embarrassed that it’s sat there for 15 months without being more useful.”

Minnix is hopeful that a study of senior citizen housing and assisted living needs in the community will provide enough information for contractors to be interested in tackling those updates at the old hospital. The

Scott County Development Committee has heard from one such contractor who isn’t willing to proceed without more information about the community’s housing needs.

In response, The Buckley Group, Englewood, Colo., has been contracted by the county for $12,500 to determine the demand for assisted living in the

community and how the availability of a facility might affect the housing market.

Based on the county’s census figures, Scott Buckley, a partner in the group, says Park Place Apartments should be full.

“We don’t know why. It’s a big, unanswered question,” he said.

(See ASSISTED on page two)

$61,489 in unpaid taxes

Finishing strokes . . .

The good news for local units of government is that unpaid property taxes are continuing a downward trend.

Delinquent taxes for 2012 released this week by the Scott County treasurer’s office total $61,489 - down slightly from last year’s $61,660 during the first week that unpaid taxes were published.

That compares with nearly $69,000 in 2010 and $93,000 in 2009.

The delinquent tax list appears on page 22 in this week’s Record.

Music, movie and muscle this weekend

Kacey Troyer blocks a shot attempt by Dustin Martinez while playing basketball at the Scott City swimming pool on Wednesday afternoon. Looking on is Octavio Nolasco. Frequent showers and cooler temperatures have seen pool attendance drop significantly over the past couple of weeks. Sunday is the final day the pool will be open this summer.

(Record Photo)

Restructuring of Chamber, SCDC put focus on eco-devo Bob Campbell, staff writer

With its growing pains growing more painful, Scott County is undergoing a formal division of its Chamber of Commerce and County Development Committee in a move designed to deal with the issues more effectively.

The two entities have always had different financial books and boards, but now Katie Eisenhour, for 4-1/2 years the executive director of both groups, will start working exclusively for the SCDC as soon as the Chamber finds a new leader.

Seeking more space for businesses, more rental housing and a new industrial park, among other things, the boards have agreed for the SCDC to continue paying Eisenhour her $41,000 salary while the committee assumes the Chamber’s annual $11,000 building and office expenses.

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Collecting $34,500 in dues this year from 185 members, up from $12,000 from 80 members in 2009, Chamber President Shawn Powelson hopes for enough money from events like the Showdown on the Plains BBQ Challenge and Air Show to offer Eisenhour’s successor a competitive salary.

Powelson said Connie MacDonnell has resigned as assistant Chamber director, so the two groups will proceed with two employees - the same number they’ve always had. One reason having a different director for each group, says Powelson, is that it was getting more difficult to “draw the line between the percentage of time Katie spent for the Chamber and eco-devo.”

“What we’ll see now is a clear delineation of the two organizations, which in the past have been seen as one.”

SCDC President Jon Brunswig said his panel backed the Eastridge and Prairie Meadows housing developments and was gratified to see Scott City named an AllAmerica City in 2011.

“We have talked about business space and rental housing. Eastridge and Prairie Meadows will make great strides with some of the housing problems, but we’re trying to find a developer and landowner to address the need for rentals. Right now we don’t have one,” Brunswig says. “Both organizations have grown and are busy.

It’s time to move to the next step and keep things rolling at the pace we’re rolling.”

Funding Sources While most of the Chamber’s operating money comes from membership dues, SCDC relies on $75,000 in tax support (See ECO-DEVO on page eight)

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A wide array of entertainment will be offered this weekend in Scott City.

There will be music, a free movie and muscle cars at Patton Park on Friday and Saturday.

Recording artist Carter Sampson will kickoff the weekend with a free concert on Friday from 7:00-8:30 p.m., near the gazebo. Sampson has won numerous awards and was also a popular performer during last year’s Tumbleweed Festival in Garden City.

She was the Northwest Arkansas Music Awards’ 2012 “Best Female Singer-Songwriter,” was nominated as “Best New Artist” and for “Album of the Year” which includes her current release, “Mockingbird Sing.”

Sampson and a free movie to follow are being sponsored by Craig Richards and Susan Lilley.

The annual Lake Scott Rod Run will celebrate its 34th year when antiques and collectibles from throughout the Midwest converge on Scott City Friday through Sunday.

Approximately 110 vehicles are expected.

The public is invited to view cars which will be on display in Patton Park throughout the day on Saturday and until the noon award’s program on Sunday.

A free feed will be held Saturday evening for all persons who register for the rod run.

The “show and shine” and Big Bucks Poker Run will be held on Sunday morning.

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County agrees to fund prairie chicken fight Bob Campbell staff writer

After rejecting a more costly funding request in May, Scott County commissioners have joined a regional effort to keep the Lesser Prairie Chicken from being designated an endangered species.

Gove County Commissioner Mahlon Tuttle visited the commission Aug. 6 with Sheila Ellis, Scott City, who is work-

ing with Stillwater Technical Solutions environmental engineer Jim Carlson, Garden City, in the effort, which they said involves 25 counties.

“My gut feeling is that we have to do something to head off this refuge before it is too late,” said Commissioner Gary Skibbe afterward. “There would be an enormous economic impact to the landowners, from air to oil to farming to grazing.

“Commissioner Tuttle said a

Assisted Without an assisted living option, many senior citizens who require more care than is available from local home health agencies will move directly into a nursing home. For many years, Park Place Apartments were called “assisted living” apartments when they actually weren’t.

To be considered assisted living, nursing staff had to be available in the wing 24/7, which it wasn’t. Having nursing staff who could respond from the nursing home side of the facility doesn’t qualify as assisted living.

“For a long time, the nursing home provided more services than they should have been,” noted Commissioner Jerry Buxton, who is also a former Park Lane board member.

Since an assisted living facility isn’t available locally, persons who would typically qualify for those arrangements are instead moving into the nursing home. Buckley says this is typical of many smaller communities across the state. Even if assisted living apartments were to become available, Buxton questions whether those individuals would move out of Park Lane Nursing Home.

“There are a lot of people who prefer the extra care they get in a nursing

lot of things would be squelched by these organizations that want to protect the Lesser Prairie Chicken. Gove County has a lot more area that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would want to protect.

“It would create almost a dead zone where landowners could not expect to develop any kind of income.”

County Clerk Pam Faurot said that after a detailed discussion, Commission Chairman

Jim Minnix moved to give Stillwater Technical Solutions $2,687 instead of the $9,420 Carlson and Ellis had asked for in May. Commissioner Jerry Buxton was absent.

“The commissioners agreed to help pay for initial papers and study an initiative for adopting a conservation plan,” said Faurot. “They didn’t support $785 a month for a year because they didn’t feel like we had enough Prairie Chicken

population in our county.

“We were facing a budget with a lower valuation and didn’t know where it would take us at that time. We didn’t want to spend funds we didn’t have.

“They came back with the lower number and the commissioners made sure to inform them our support will be limited if they go into litigation with the Fish and Wildlife Service,” added Faurot.

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home and they have a pri“It’s not uncommon vate room,” notes Buxton. to find assisted living fa“Why move, even if it’s cilities that have 20-25 cheaper?” units,” said Buckley. “But you need a facility that’s Housing Availability large enough to maintain However, Buckley a certain level of skilled feels there is a chance of care staff.” attracting individuals who The only way that may are currently living at be possible in some comhome into an assisted liv- munities, says Buckley, is ing facility. for the assisted care facilCensus numbers show ity to be connected to the there were about 900 nursing home. people in Scott City who Given the square footwere 65-years or older in age available in the old 2010. That climbed to 953 hospital, it would apin 2012 and is expected to pear unlikely that enough reach 1,100 in 2016. apartments can be created Buxton also pointed out to make assisted living fithat, based on home loans nancially viable. Because being processed at First there is less overhead cost National Bank, where he with independent living is a vice president, housapartments, that would ing prices are 35 percent seem a stronger possibilhigher now than they were ity. five years ago.

The median home value in Scott City in 2012 was $147,000. That’s projected to rise another $7,200 by 2017.

“This is a good time for an elderly couple to maximize their opportunity to sell,” said Commission Chairman Jim Minnix.

Buckley said that oneand two-bedroom units in most retirement communities will range from 750 to 1,200 square feet.

These facilities generally include other amenities such as a community dining room, hair salon, exercise area, etc.

Hospital Renovation That still leaves the question of whether renovation of the former hospital can fit into the community’s long-range housing needs. That’s a question which Buckley hasn’t been contracted to answer.

“Buckley’s job is to look at the demand for housing,” says Minnix.

Based on square footage for apartments and the number of apartments that would be needed for a successful assisted living complex, Minnix ac-

knowledges the former hospital may be “slightly small.” But he emphasizes that the future of assisted living apartments doesn’t have to be linked to the former hospital.

“We’d be tickled to sell the hospital so someone can convert it to assisted living, but if that doesn’t work there are other lots in town,” he noted. “The market analysis being conducted by Buckley will be valuable to any contractor.”

Buckley also seems skeptical about how the old hospital may fit into plans for independent living apartments.

“I believe there’s a need and the economics will support it. I’m not sure the (former hospital) is the answer,” he told the commission.

Buckley says he will have a study to present to the commission in early September. Minnix feels that information will be helpful for contractors looking at the prospect of assisted living or other senior citizen housing options.

“I believe what we’ll find out from Buckley is that there is a need that can be supported in the community,” says Minnix. “Then it becomes a question of whether to refurbish (the old hospital) or build something new.”

Moonshiners perform

“The Moonshiners” will be performing at Park Lane Nursing Home, Scott City, on Fri., Aug. 16, 6:30 p.m., in the old dining room.

Refreshments will be served.

Blue Steele at the lake

Blue Steele Band will perform a free concert on Sat., Aug. 17, 6:30-8:00 p.m., at the Beach House at Lake Scott State Park.

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The Scott County Record

Community Living

Page 3 - Thursday, August 15, 2013

Don’t forget the walls when house cleaning

You would be amazed at the amount of dust that collects on the wall of your home. To me, cleaning walls is a must do each year if not twice a year and especially if anyone in your family has any kind of respiratory problems.

Here are some recommendations, but use caution because different types of materials will require certain types of care.

First, to clean your wallpaper, always refer to

the manufacturer’s guidelines or contact the manufacturer for the particular paper you are using.

The best time to inquire about how to clean your wallpaper is at the time of purchase. Kind of like a dry clean shirt, if it cost more to launder than the

original cost of the shirt, is it really the item you want?

Here are some basic guidelines: Stains should be removed as soon as possible to eliminate any possible reaction between the stain and the wallpaper. If soil remains on the wallpaper too long, permanent discoloration may result.

Ordinary dirt spots can be removed with a mild soap and warm water.

Rinse thoroughly with clean water. Blot wallpa-

per dry with a soft lintfree towel.

For more difficult stains that are only surface deep, use a stronger detergent. Try an inconspicuous spot first before attempting the entire wall.

One should always rinse after applying a detergent. Abrasive rubbing of spots should be avoided so discoloration will not appear, and damage to paper will not occur. Always use a blotting method.

Do not use steel wool

be damaged by cleaning than is flat latex paint.

Test cleaning solutions in an inconspicuous corner first. If wall color and finish look the same - but cleaner - go ahead and use.

Wash or spot clean most painted surfaces with a solution of water and mild detergent (such as hand dishwashing liquid), or a Washing Painted Walls To wash painted wall, mild commercial household cleaner, that says on follow these tips.

Gloss or semi-gloss label is safe for painted enamels are less likely to (See CLEANING on page 7)

powdered cleaners, or active solvent-type preparations, such as nail polish remover, tar and bug removers, etc., because they may damage the wallpaper.

But, it is always best to purchase cleanable wall paper and use the recommended manufacturer’s instructions.

130 attend annual Turley family reunion

The annual Turley family reunion was held August 11 at the Scott County 4-H building with approximately 130 in attendance.

Hostesses were Elsie Wright, Scott City, and Ada Turley, Salida, Colo.

Out-of-town guests were: Cleta, James and Scotty Englehardt, Haswell, Colo.; Calvin and Florence Coualt, New Iberia, La.; Monty and Marsha Turley and childern, Lamar, Colo.; Mike and Sonya Williams, Burlington, Colo.

Larry, Savanah and Evan Turley, Stratton, Colo.; Tamara Terry,

Farm Bureau annual meeting is August 22

Annual meeting of the Scott County Farm Bureau will be Thurs., Aug. 22, 6:30 p.m., at the Old 4-H Building, Scott County fairgrounds.

Members will be treated to a catered meal.

A business meeting will follow the meal.

Guest speaker will be Thad Geiger with the Kansas Department of Agriculture.

Enrollment still open at learning center

Adults who would like to earn their high school diploma can now enroll at the Scott City Learning Center, 706 Washington.

For more information about classes call 8723785; 872-2894; or 2141820.

Lakewood, Colo.; Berna Hansen, Littleton, Colo.; Joe and Donna Woodruff, Sand Springs, Okla.; Gary Turley, Greeley, Colo.

Willie Graham, Strafford, Mo.; LaCinda Griffin, Loveland, Colo.; Christa, Teagan and Tylee Brooks, Lometa, Tex.; Marietta Wright, Wallace; Bert Summers, Oakley; Mark Hoffine and P.A., Garden City.

Cindy Oeser, Darrell and Mary Turley, Janzen Sawgals, and Toshi, Kelly and Misa Norton, all of Great Bend; Helen Thorne, Nekoma; Dillie Snodgrass, LaCrosse; Ken

and Terry Turley, Stark, Ks. Gary and Eve Turley and children, Cimarron; Nathan and Jackie Turley, Lacey Turley and Jason Stevens, Healy; Bob and Carla Cranmer, Ness City; Alberta Richardson, Ottawa; Dave and Betty Smith Lyons.

Jody Markwell, Kingman; Todd Turley, Cimarron; Sharena Turley and Cheyenne Rose, Park City; Pam Miller and Thomas Smith, Dodge City; Joe Smith and Melanie Niles, Garden City; Mark and Varena Stewart, Tribune.

Linda and Jim Turley,

Recipe favorites . . .

Tuna Macaroni Salad

Prep: 15 minutes Ready in: 55 minutes Ingredients 2-1/2 cups 1 cup 1 (10 ounce) pkg.

1 (6 ounce) can 1 cup 1 cup 1/2 cup 2 tablespoons

Cook: 10 minutes

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

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

Drain macaroni and cool under running water.

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

WaKeeney; Roy, Tina and Kalie Turley, Modoc; Scott and Patty Turley, Lane, Ks.; Tammy and Eric Brachtenbach, Hill City; and Michelle Turley Brazda, Timken.

Attending from Scott City were: Martha Turley, Jan King, Vada Turley, Steve and Tamela Turley, Dale and Shelly Turley, Joan and Brandon Turley, Lorena Turley, Jean Turley, Delmar Turley and Virginia Turley.

Mel Turley, Laurie and Matthew Chavez, Jamie and Brandy DeLoach, Bill and Sterling Wright, Dustin Martinez, Carol Heim; Penifer, Shelly

and Cynthia Keller; Anthony Salinas, Tadd and Tina Gertschitz and Bud Weems.

Connie Wright, Mike Patton, Bob and Nita Wheeler, Marilyn Cowthon, Faye Stewart, Emilee Turley; Chad, Veronica, Desirea and CJ Wishon; Mike, Tracy, Tyler, Emily and Bo Hess; and Daniel Smith.

Prizes were given to the persons who traveled the farthest distance, for the oldest female “Turley”, oldest male “Turley” and youngest person.

Miscellaneous craft items were auctioned off

by Scotty Turley.

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Editorial/Opinion

Page 4 - Thursday, August 15, 2013

editorially speaking

Old SCH future:

After sitting vacant for a year, options are limited

When Scott County’s medical community began occupying the new hospital 16 months ago, one of the unanswered questions was the fate of the old hospital.

We were hopeful at the time that some entity would make use of the structure. It seemed a shame not to find a good use for a building of that size.

Well, here we are 16 months later and the old hospital remains empty with fading prospects of someone finding a use for the facility. During that time we’ve reluctantly begun to see the old hospital for what it is - a 60-plus year old building that requires an impractical amount of utilities and would require a huge investment in order to be converted to some type of apartments.

The longer it sits empty, the more susceptible it is to vandalism (some has already occurred) and the more it deteriorates.

Even though The Buckley Group has been contracted by the county to determine demand for some type of senior housing and the feasibility of assisted living, it seems doubtful that the old hospital will fit into those plans . . . possible, but doubtful.

The market for the building is too narrow and may be non-existent.

So we wait for the results of that study and we also hope for an outside chance that someone will decide it can do something with the former hospital. But reality seems to dictate the old hospital has outlived its usefulness and we may have little choice but to spend the approximately $75,000 required for demolition.

It’s not what we want, but we may have exhausted the options.

GOP goal:

A democracy doesn’t try to silence voters at the polls

It only makes sense there are one of two things you can do to improve your election or re-election chances - offer ideas that are appealing to the majority of voters or keep those people who won’t vote for you from casting ballots.

A growing number of Republican-controlled state legislatures - knowing that perhaps their days in power are numbered - have chosen the latter with their efforts to protect us from “voter fraud.” That has been the guise for more restrictive laws that are also limiting the opportunities for advance voting and same-day voter registration in some states.

North Carolina has approved the most restrictive of these laws, but other states, including Kansas, have also enacted similar laws that knowingly target the poor, minorities and students - the same demographic that will overwhelmingly vote for Democrats.

Voter turnout, even under optimal conditions, is appallingly low in the U.S. Only 57.5 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in the 2012 presidential election.

Voter turnout in Kansas was just 58.1 percent, and that compares with Arizona (53.3), North Carolina (60.5) and Texas (49.7). Nothing impressive among those totals, but that isn’t preventing those states from enacting voter ID laws and other restrictions that will diminish turnout at the polls even more.

A democracy should be measured by its ability to encourage the participation of its people in the voting process. We should be doing everything possible to get more people - not fewer involved in their government.

When our government is trying to conjure up non-existent voter fraud issues as a means to justify their efforts to keep people from voting, or to make the process more difficult, we should be wary of their motives.

The bottom line is that the Republican Party is a one-trick pony - cutting taxes for the wealthy.

That’s it. That’s all they have. And that’s a pretty narrow voting base in any election.

Republicans are void of ideas when it comes to health care, creating jobs, the economy, public education or rebuilding our infrastructure. So their game plan is simple - keep those people from voting who would benefit most from policies that would lower the cost of a college education, or from a better health care system or from Wall Street reform.

It’s not that Democrats have the answer to everything. They obviously don’t.

But even a bad idea is better than telling people to stay home; we fear your participation in the democratic process.

We need journalism to survive

Most people in this part of the country - or for that matter east of, say, Washington, D.C., could care less about the tribulations of the Washington Post and the fact that multibillionaire Jeff Bezos is its new owner.

Not that we can entirely blame them.

Unless Jeff Bezos isn’t taking snaps for the Kansas City Chiefs this fall, few people know, or care, who he is. And as for The Post, it’s “just another liberal newspaper” that’s getting what it deserves.

For better or worse (actually, much worse) that captures the sentiment of far too many people with respect to journalism.

To a large degree, there’s a sentiment that “what happens in Washington should stay in Washington” and “if the news isn’t on my Facebook page then it isn’t worth knowing.”

While there are many who view print journalism as a dinosaur whose time has come and nearly gone, at the risk of sounding overdramatic, for the sake of our democracy we’d

better hope that isn’t true.

We agree that real journalism is endangered today as many of the major newspapers have gutted their news departments in order to survive.

We all-too-often think of Watergate when someone mentions investigative journalism. And yes, as was depicted in both the book and movie, “All the President’s Men,” tenacious journalists with the help of Deep Throat were able to reveal the depth to which corruption existed within the Nixon White House.

Real journalism, however, is more than Watergate. Just look at this short list of Pulitzer Prize winners: 1970: Harold Eugene Martin, Montgomery Advertiser and Alabama Journal, “for his expose of a commercial scheme for using Alabama prisoners for drug experimentation

and obtaining blood plasma from them.”

1973: The Sun Newspapers of Omaha, “for uncovering the large financial resources of Boys Town, Nebr., leading to reforms in this charitable organization’s solicitation and use of funds contributed by the public.”

1974: William Sherman, New York Daily News, “for his resourceful investigative reporting in the exposure of extreme abuse of the New York Medicaid program.”

1986: Jeffrey A. Marx and Michael M. York, Lexington Herald-Leader (Kentucky), “for their series ‘Playing Above the Rules,’ which exposed cash payoffs to University of Kentucky basketball players in violation of NCAA regulations.”

2001: David Willman, Los Angeles Times, “for his pioneering exposé of seven unsafe prescription drugs that had been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.”

2009: David Barstow of The New York Times, “for his tenacious reporting that revealed how

some retired generals, working as radio and television analysts, had been co-opted by the Pentagon to make its case for the war in Iraq, and how many of them also had undisclosed ties to companies that benefited from policies they defended.”

This is just a small sampling of prize winners, but it points to the proud history of journalism and what it is designed to do get to the truth, protect us from corruption and make sure powerful corporations and politicians are still held accountable for their actions.

If not for great journalists doing their job, how many, if any, of these stories would have been told?

We can’t right every wrong and we can’t always promise justice. But our track record is pretty good when we have the resources and the support to do our job.

In many instances, it takes the well-financed news rooms of major newspapers to make this happen and as those resources dry up it means (See SURVIVE on page six)

Slowdown in health spending

In today’s contentious political climate, when hardly anyone agrees on anything, here’s a rare subject of consensus: Health spending is slowing, and almost everyone thinks that’s a good thing.

Aside from relieving pressures on federal and state budgets, it could help reverse stagnant wages by moderating the cost of employer-paid insurance.

Compensation would shift from insurance to wages.

What the experts don’t agree on is who (or what) caused the slowdown and whether it will continue.

First, the basic figures.

In each of 2009, 2010 and 2011, U.S. health spending increased a modest 3.9 percent, virtually identical with the slow growth of the economy (gross domestic product, or GDP). So health spending remained steady at 17.9

Where to Write

another view by Robert Samuelson

percent of GDP after years of increases. Almost no one predicted this.

Not surprisingly, the Obama administration suggests that the Affordable Care Act (”Obamacare”) is a main cause.

“As ACA Implementation Continues, Consumer Health Care Cost Growth Has Slowed” is the headline of a recent White House blog post

by Alan Krueger, head of the Council of Economic Advisers. Many statistical sources, he notes, confirm the slowdown.

As of May, actual health-care prices (hospital admissions, doctors’ visits, drugs) had risen just 1.1 percent over the previous year, “the slowest rate

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of increase in nearly 50 years,” Krueger reports.

Meanwhile, the Bureau of Labor Statistics survey of business compensation finds that “real” (inflationadjusted) health insurance costs rose 1.8 percent annually from the end of 2009 to the end of 2012, down from 2.2 percent from 2006-09.

But is Obamacare responsible? Be skeptical.

To be fair: Krueger never actually makes that claim. The blog post is something of a sleight of hand. It simply says that the spending slowdown and the ACA’s implementation have coincided.

There’s no explicit language linking the two, though unsuspecting readers would surely take away that message. The post is both politically self-serving and intellectually defensible.

Sen. Pat Roberts 109 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

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

Among the skeptics is economist Timothy Taylor, whose “Conversable Economist” blog is consistently nonpartisan. In a post, Taylor notes that the ACA “is mostly not yet implemented,” casting doubt on its impact.

He also cites several studies indicating that the slowdown has complex origins.

One study comes from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a group of 34 mostly rich nations.

Growth in health spending has collapsed in most of its member countries, says the OECD. A global slowdown calls into question Obamacare’s role.

In some countries, says the OECD, acute economic crises have forced steep cuts in government health spending.

(See HEALTH on page six)

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

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A plan to rescue us from special-interest politics

by Donald Kaul

While pretty much everybody agrees that the U.S. tax code is a mess, nobody does anything about it. Oh, politicians talk about doing something, but mainly what they do is make it worse.

There’s a reason for this.

You. You’re the reason.

People, alas, tend to be greedy and selfish and their attitude toward taxation is expressed in the old rhyme: “Don’t tax you.

Don’t tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.”‘ This is as true of liberals as it is of conservatives. We all tend to like those tax provisions that benefit us and hate those that benefit someone else.

We and the organizations we work for hire lobbyists to ensure that our narrow economic interests are served and they do a terrific job. Give the devil his due - lobbyists are very good at

what they do.

And what they do, specifically, is lie, cheat, steal, bribe “educate,” and otherwise persuade legislators to give their clients tax breaks. They descend on the nation’s capital like a mighty swarm of locusts.

When they’re done, the tax code is a ragged collection of holes but a hundred or so pages longer. And 80 percent of Congress is assured of reelection. It’s called democracy.

Just try and cut out a tax break someday, I dare you. I don’t care if it’s for bee keepers, skateboard manufacturers, buffalo hunters or buggy whip makers. Every industry and interest group has its own personal lobbyist working to bury a stealth tax break in an obscure bill.

Many reformers have long since despaired of breaking the stranglehold of these “special interests” on our government.

Our bloated entertainment economy would shrink. Our dishonest, subsidized corporations would learn to stand on their own two legs. And a great many lobbyists and crooked tax lawyers would be forced to find honest employment.

I have not. I have a foolproof tax reform plan that will rescue our society from the sleazy grasp of special-interest politics and set us on the path of justice and righteousness. Here’s my plan.

Eliminate the corporate income tax. Don’t cut it. Get rid of it.

In the first place it’s a tax on success. Corporations that are well-run and make money have to pay it (theoretically, at least).

Corporations that are losers don’t. That’s not the American way. Let the good and bad corporations compete on a level playing field.

In the second place, and more

importantly, it’s an almost irresistible invitation to cheat or, at the very least, evade taxes through shady practices, like setting up dummy companies in far-away and low-tax places.

(I’m looking at you, Apple.)

Corporations wouldn’t have to cheat on their taxes under my plan because there’d be no taxes. Tax shelters? Gone.

Neither would there be deductible expenses.

Travel expenses, entertainment expenses, advertising expenses, investment expenses, they’d all be simply part of the cost of doing business. No more expensive skyboxes rented by corporations at stadiums unless the executives thought it was actually worth the money on a dollar-for-dollar basis.

No more “business lunches” at fancy restaurants or country club memberships for executives at company expense.

Whatever was spent to make

money would be money taken out of profits.

I know what you’re going to say: “Where are you going to get the money to run the government?”

From people - people like you, actually. We would all be taxed at a progressive rate high enough to fund the government we need. Capital gains would be taxed as ordinary income, as would everything else.

Our bloated entertainment economy would shrink. Our dishonest, subsidized corporations would learn to stand on their own two legs. And a great many lobbyists and crooked tax lawyers would be forced to find honest employment.

Don’t worry about any of this happening. The chances of my plan or anything like it being enacted are less than yours of winning the Powerball lottery jackpot.

(See RESCUE on page six)

Stereotypes can’t be dismissed with tasteless humor

by Esther Cepeda

The border-industrial complex

by Jim Hightower

War profiteers have spied a new place they can militarize with their high-tech, high-cost weaponry.

At last, both Republicans and Democrats are beginning to respond aggressively to economic needs. “It has been a tough time,” admits one Washington insider, applauding a new spending proposal that “could help out.”

Unfortunately, he and Congress aren’t referring to your tough times. No, no - they’re rushing to the aid of the multibillion-dollar Military-Industrial Complex.

The government, you see, hasn’t been getting our nation into enough wars to satisfy the insatiable appetite of Northrop

Grumman and its ilk for government money. So those war profiteers have spied a new place they can militarize with their high-tech, high-cost weaponry: The U.S.-Mexican border.

These corporate predators are deploying an army of lobbyists to Congress to target what they see as a booming market.

“Border security!” is their battle cry.

These profiteers have already stuffed the Senate’s immigration bill with $46 billion for more militarization of the 2,000-mile border. More drones! More electronic gadgetry! More agents needing more weapons! More war toys!

There’s no shortage of opportunities on our southern border.

A platoon of corporate lobbyists embedded their specific wish lists directly in the Sen-

ate bill, mandating brand-name purchases.

For example, the bill requires the Border Patrol to buy six airborne radar systems from Northrop at $9.3 million each and 15 Black Hawk helicopters from Sikorsky at $17 million apiece.

What we have here is the emergence of a new hybrid monster: a Border-Industrial Complex pushing a permanent, ever-expanding border war.

How long before they use the cry of “terrorism!” to militarize the Canadian border, too? And after that, my guess is they’ll want to seal off those pesky anti-war radicals in places like Vermont.

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

Here’s something that made me laugh so hard that tears leaked from my eyes.

“You knew there was trouble brewing when salsa surpassed ketchup as America’s favorite condiment,” began the blog item on the Huffington Post.

“Now we shine the spotlight on fertile, plotting (smirking) Latinos who have made it so that in California whites are no longer the majority.”

Its tongue-in-cheek conclusion: “Latinos are engaged in a patient revolution through procreation - a dastardly, shameless and obviously very effective plan. Wax your sinister handlebar mustaches, mi gente. Victory is ours. Proceed and turn your rattling car stereos up to the max. The final stage of Operation Reconquest begins today.

The timing is perfect. So much attention is on bombing brown people across the world that we must strike now. Bring your rusty blades, chimichangas, and bands of small children.”

Written by “El Guapo,” the lucha libre-masked editor and writer of The Daily Refried, a bitingly funny Latino satire website, the missive lampooned two stereotypes at once.

It laughed at those leftist Mexican-Americans who really do fantasize about taking back the parts of the U.S. that had once been Mexican territory and now console themselves with gaining dominance over whites by becoming the largest ethnic minority.

And it sneered at the many non-Hispanics who actually believe that all Latinos in America are a foreign-born, Spanishspeaking swarm of invaders seeking to make white people extinct via procreation.

All in jest, of course. But believe me, it’s not funny when someone goes on national TV and says things like this seemingly in all seriousness.

Enter Diego Luna, a Mexican actor probably best known for the films he’s starred in alongside fellow Mexican heartthrob, Gael García Bernal, such as “Y Tu Mamá También,” “Rudo y Cursi” and the most recent “Casa de Mi Padre,” all of which I loved dearly.

Luna is directing a soon-tobe-released movie about civil rights activist César Chávez, a task I’m wondering if he’s up to since he apparently doesn’t understand what it means to be a U.S.-born Hispanic.

He may be immensely talented, but Luna’s fantasies about Mexican supremacy and his ignorance of Hispanics’ daily struggle with stereotypes about immigration, sexuality and language didn’t do anyone any favors.

Luna went on “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” to promote his new futuristic movie “Elysium” and quickly verified for everyone who already felt uneasy about Hispanics that we have a lot of sex and a lot of kids, and that white Americans are pretty much shafted because, soon, we’re going to (See HUMOR on page six)

New kind of Coke is simply green lipstick Coke’s going green. Or, at least, it wants you to think it is.

There’s no denying that part of Coca-Cola has gone green: the label - in one South American country. In Argentina, the world’s No. 1 soft drink company now sells a new product called Coca-Cola Life with a green colored label.

This pilot version of the bubbly beverage contains an extract of the stevia plant as part of its sweetener, and it’s sold in a plastic bottle made from 30 percent sugarcane. The other 70 percent is hewn from good, old-fashioned, bad-for-the-earth plastic.

Have you ever tried stevia?

The naturally sweet plant is many times sweeter than sugar without any calories, but it

behind the headlines by Jill Richardson

tastes weird. Some compare the flavor to licorice. I’m not a fan.

It appears that Coca-Cola couldn’t figure out how to make their product taste good with stevia alone, because this new concoction has 108 calories per bottle.

That’s not quite half as many calories as a regular Coke, but more than the American Heart Association recommends that women consume from added sugars in an entire day (men can have up to 150 calories from added sugars).

I’d like to know what’s in there to cover up the stevia

taste. And we all should consider whether adding stevia makes food and beverages better for the environment.

It does make Coca-Cola Life lower in calories, but stevia itself is only as green as the farming methods used to produce it. Coca-Cola just wants you to feel good about drinking its product.

And then there’s the bottle.

Made - in part - out of sugarcane. Maybe that’s better than the kind of plastic 100 percent made out of petrochemical products. But not by much.

One of my most memorable travel experiences was a day spent driving through a sugarcane growing area of eastern Bolivia. We drove for miles and miles with nothing but sugar-

cane and eroded soil on either side of us. The area used to be a tropical forest.

At one point, our bus got caught in a traffic jam behind truck after truck filled with sugarcane, lining up to deliver it to a refinery. The refinery smelled terrible, and the locals reported that its pollution occasionally caused fish kills in nearby rivers.

It’s nice to think of a bottle coming from plants, but acres and acres of mass-produced sugarcane? It’s not green, natural or sustainable.

Remember the term Stephen Colbert famously coined in 2005, “truthiness,” defined as “truth that comes from the gut.”

You feel that something is true, even if the facts contradict it.

Greenwashing is like truthiness. I feel that this drink is good for the planet. I feel that it’s good for my body. And you can feel that as much as you want, but it doesn’t make it the truth.

It could, however, add up to tidy profits for Coca-Cola.

Soda is the easiest junk food for supporters of a healthier diet to point our fingers at for one simple reason: It contains no beneficial nutrients whatsoever.

And Coca-Cola is just about everywhere in the world, always within arm’s reach.

Coca-Cola is therefore in an unenviable position right now.

Its entire corporate history is built on a product that’s perhaps the biggest culprit of modern diet-related illnesses.

(See LIPSTICK on page six)

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Constitutional right to shoot for no reason Rescue

by Andy Borowitz

Opponents of Florida’s Stand Your Ground law are attempting to mobilize support for a new law called Don’t Shoot Me for Absolutely No Reason.

The proposed law, which faces major opposition in the Florida legislature, would make it illegal for people in the state to

Survive that stories that need to be told can’t be told.

Only those with something to hide will benefit.

A combination of factors are contributing to this dilemma in journalism. Obviously, the internet has delivered a significant blow to the financial well-being of major dailies who are struggling to figure out how to survive in this new economic and news gathering climate.

But to suggest that the Internet, along with Facebook and Twitter, will lead to the demise of newspapers is greatly exaggerated and certainly premature.

The next Pulitzer won’t be awarded to anyone who is trying to uncover

Humor make everyone speak Spanish.

O’Brien: “In the future, they’re prophesizing in this movie that everybody speaks Spanish, ‘cause that’s sort of the way it’s going.”

Luna: “Yeah, and it’s not going to take so long.

If you want to keep your job at this network, you’re going to have to learn Spanish.”

O’Brien: “Yes, ‘cause the country, it’s all changing over.”

Luna: “47 million people speak Spanish today and we like having sex, so multiply that for eight in 10 years.“ In one of the most uncomfortable live-TV moments I’ve seen in a while, actress Lisa Kudrow of “Friends” fame, who was

Health In both 2010 and 2011, Greece’s real health spending dropped 11 percent. Elsewhere, slowdowns seem to accompany weak economies. In Canada, real health spending increased an average of 4.6 percent annually from 2000 to 2009 but fell to three percent in 2010 and 0.8 percent in 2011.

Both government and private health spending subsided in many countries, says the OECD. The recession may explain the U.S. slowdown. Even the insured may have postponed some care to save out-of-pocket costs.

As the number of uninsured rose, some care may have been foregone altogether. Or people may have moved from private insurance to Medicaid, a federal-state program for the poor.

This would dampen spending, because reim-

shoot each other for no reason whatsoever.

“Under the provisions of Don’t Shoot Me for Absolutely No Reason, you will be required to have an actual reason for shooting someone,” said a spokesman for the measure, Harland Dorrinson.

“This will be a first in Florida.”

The controversial bill has already drawn the ire of the National Rifle Association, which issued a statement today saying that requiring someone to have a reason to shoot another person would violate the Second Amendment.

“If you force someone to have a reason to shoot

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corruption at City Hall 140 characters at a time.

At the local level, you won’t find anyone representing social media doing anything so mundane as attending a city council or county commission meeting. They may be more than anxious to tell you what they bought on their latest shopping trip, but they can’t tell you how the county is spending your tax dollars or how the school district is adjusting to budget cuts from the state.

That’s the difference between “journalism” and “social media.”

It’s through responsible journalism - most often in the form of print - that we find out the truth about

NSA spying, the harmful impact of fracking, the quality and quantity of our Ogallala water supply and more.

That’s why the future of the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times or the Chicago Sun-Times matters to each of us, just as much as the future of our community newspaper. And that’s why it’s also important for us, as journalists, to continue doing our jobs - doing our best to find the truth and not accept the “truth” that’s handed to us in selfserving news releases.

If we don’t do it, quite honestly, no one else will.

Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com

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sitting with O’Brien’s sidekick Andy Richter, interjected, “If only the rest of us liked having sex, we’d have a fighting chance.”

Awkward.

Satire is one thing - Latinos can take the jokes that El Guapo is always making. But it is quite another for a Mexican superstar who wants to cross over and become a U.S. celebrity to imply something so absurd and utterly misinformed.

Luna needs to get himself on the email list of the Pew Hispanic Center, and pronto. Their recent reports on language acquisition tell the tale of a community that, like all other immigrant groups before it, is embracing the Eng-

lish language despite the many barriers to mastery.

“A record 31 million Latinos now speak English proficiently, up from eight million in 1980,” notes a recent PHC blog post. “Our studies show that among Latinos born in the U.S., significant majorities get their news in English, watch television shows in English, listen to music in English and even think in English.”

I dream in both English and Spanish, and in my best dreams foreign movie stars don’t reinforce stupid and inaccurate cliches about me on one of the most popular late-night shows on TV. Esther Cependa is a columnist for the Chicago SunTimes

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bursement rates are lower for Medicaid than for private insurance.

A second study was done by Charles Roehrig and colleagues at the Center for Sustainable Health Spending in Ann Arbor, Mich. In a 2012 article for the New England Journal of Medicine, they argued that the slowdown began in 2005.

The study attributed the slowdown to “structural” changes, including: use of less-expensive generic drugs; higher patient copayments and deductibles, which discouraged some care; and lower administrative costs in doctors’ offices and hospitals.

But Roehrig doesn’t completely dismiss Obamacare’s effect. It may have inspired a general cautiousness.

“The industry is looking around and saying,

‘We’ve got to cut costs,’” he says.

Will the spending slowdown continue? At least three forces favor a speedup: •the start in 2014 of most of Obamacare - as more people get insurance, they use more medical care; •an increasingly older population. Average health costs for those 65 and over are more than triple those for people ages 25 to 44; and •the economic recovery, which may extend employer-paid coverage to more workers. A slowdown that overcomes these pressures would suggest major “structural” changes and not just temporary savings from the recession.

Robert Samuelson is a contributing editor of Newsweek, writing about business and economic issues

someone, soon you will be taking away his right to shoot that person altogether,” the NRA said.

“We are not in principle against the idea of having a reason to shoot someone,” the NRA continued. “But we believe you should be allowed to shoot the person first and have the reason second.”

Even if Don’t Shoot Me for Absolutely No Reason somehow passes in the legislature, Florida Gov. Rick Scott said he would veto it, telling reporters, “Making people in Florida have a reason to shoot each other would fundamentally change our way of life.”

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You’re more likely to be struck by a meteor.

People hate taxes but they love deductions.

Nor do our legislators want lobbyists to disappear. Without lobbyists to give them money, how would they get elected?

Andy Borowitz is a comedian By finding real solutions to real problems? and author That’ll be the day.

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

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

Even unpopular Brownback may be too much for Davis Lipstick

2014 should be an entertaining year in Kansas politics if, as expected, Lawrence Rep. Paul Davis gets the Democratic gubernatorial nomination to oppose incumbent Republican Gov. Sam Brownback.

Davis, 41, a KU Western grad and lawyer, Skyline has little to lose but

by Bob Campbell shoe leather while a loss for the 56-year-old Brownback might mean retirement. Reportedly the sole Demo pol ginning up a run, Davis needs to bump his name ID pronto with a raft of TV ads and personal appearances. Haven’t heard him speak, but he probably has no chance if not a gifted speaker.

Brownback is looking scuttleable with approval ratings in the mid-30s. However, with backing from the Koch brothers and other right-wingers, he’ll have tubs of money to saturate the state with his Cheshire Cat smile.

Brownback’s debility may be voters’ disaffection with his $3.7-billion state income tax cut and the effect that’s having on public school education, among other sell-outs of the middle class.

He is increasingly seen as a gov for the rich, richer and richest and a would-be leg-puller of everyone else.

Of all who’d vote for Brownback because he is a Republican, I ask: are you really a Republican or just someone repeatedly bamboozled by them?

The Republican Party had noble origins but exists now because the U.S. government is the only entity in American society powerful enough to threaten the rich, and the sole reason any Republican goes into a state or federal office is to protect and, if possible, increase their money.

That is the GOP pols’ somewhat hidden purpose because they concede it only through their actions, not their rhetoric, which is always about the hot button issues that pull votes.

Davis might win, because Kansans are catching on to Brownback, that is if he runs a nearperfect race. Davis has been in politics for over a decade, going back to his tenure as assistant director of government affairs for Kathleen Sebelius when she was state insurance commissioner.

He surely has ideas on how to paint Brownback blue, but I wonder if he seriously believes he can win? I think he is more likely building his image for a 2016 regional or statewide race.

Davis has been knocking around Topeka since 2003 and is probably past ready to shed his frustrations as House minority leader. Of course, if things go well and he sees a possible victory, that reasoning will change.

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

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The sad fact for Coke drinkers - and for the $195 billion company - is that human bodies aren’t made to guzzle sugary drinks.

Not even when they contain slightly less sugar.

Even if a pretty new green label and a fancy new bottle makes us forget these facts, our bodies will do the remembering for us.

The best thing the maker of Coca Cola, Sprite, and Fanta could do for the world’s health is stop selling soda. Of course, it won’t ever do that. Instead, it’s finding ways to make the corporation look good.

But lipstick on a pig is still lipstick, even when it’s green.

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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Cleaning surfaces. Rinse off thoroughly with clear water.

If walls are really dirty, use a stronger alkali solution such as two tablespoons ammonia or one tablespoon trisodium phosphate (a powder cleaner or degreaser or booster) or two tablespoons laundry detergent powder in one gallon warm (not hot) water. Stronger solutions can remove some of the paint so use with caution. Always rinse off any cleaning solution.

Before washing, dust or vacuum walls to remove loose soil. Use one bucket for washing

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solution and one for rinsing, and a large cellulose sponge for each bucket.

Make sure that you wear rubber gloves to protect your hands.

Start washing at the bottom and work up, so cleaning solution does not run down the dirty wall and cause streaks that are hard to remove. To help avoid streaking, always work with a well rung cloth or sponge and rub gently to avoid damage to paint.

Wash and rinse one area; then do the next overlapping area. After doing several areas, dry off excess moisture with soft absorbent cloths or

towels, which can be laundered and reused. Do not leave extra moisture on the walls.

Cleaning Wood Regular removal of dust with a soft cloth, or vacuum cleaner brush is all the cleaning needed for most wood- paneled walls and woodwork.

Occasionally, if soil sticks to the surface, clean with a commercial cleaner made for wood paneling, or a cleaning wax made for wood, following directions exactly.

Always test a cleaner you have not tried before on a small inconspicuous

area to be sure it does not damage the finish of the wood, before starting to clean.

When cleaning wood, the type of finish is most important in deciding what to use so that the finish is not injured. The type of wood is not important, except when color is a consideration.

Wood paneling and woodwork, with heavy, longtime buildup of grease and dirt may need stronger treatment.

Moisten a cloth with a

petroleum solvent such as mineral spirits and test by rubbing on a hidden spot to be sure it doesn’t damage the wood finish.

If it looks satisfactory, rub on a small area of the soiled woodwork, turning the cloth often. If any of the stain bleeds onto the cloth, do not continue.

Caution: Such solvents are very flammable and dangerous to breathe!

Open doors and windows for ventilation. Be sure there are no sparks or flames (such as pilot

lights) in the area. Do not smoke while using these products.

If the solvent cleaning dulls the finish, apply a wax suitable for wood finish. Usually this will be a solvent-based wax which must be polished.

Some spray-type solvent-based waxes will not need heavy polishing, but avoid spraying them on other surfaces as they will stain.

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from the city and county.

“We have talked about a sales tax,” says Brunswig.

“The status of our organization doesn’t allow us to tap into the city’s transient guest tax. We think the public sees that we do have the best interest of growing the community.”

The City Council recently voted to keep its SCDC funding the same at $30,000 while the County Commission upped its support from $35,000 to $45,000 with $5,000 of that dedicated to youth entrepreneurship.

Eisenhour said the county money will be particularly helpful with office expenses.

She is organizing the air show and barbecue cookoff again this year, hoping to solve the problems that saw net revenues fall from $10,000 in 2011 to $768 last year.

Noting that the air show was inaugurated after the committee lost its 2010 bid to the Kansas Professional Rodeo Association, Eisenhour said last year’s event tanked financially, despite grossing $45,000, because it needed more barbecue teams and better management of food and performance expenses.

Another major challenge for the Chamber has been addressing a shortage of space for prospective businesses. It’s not that commercial space is non-existent, “but we haven’t been successful in convincing the people who own vacant buildings or store fronts to make those available for rent or purchase,” she said.

“Most are used for storage.”

Estimating well over 100 people commute daily to Scott County and saying many would live here if they could find a place to live, Eisenhour said, “We are working constantly on rental housing.”

“We’re working with the city on a grant application to the Kansas Housing Resource Corporation for moderate income housing to buy or rent with Eastridge as the focus. The maximum we can apply for is $400,000, but we won’t seek that much because if we did, we wouldn’t get it.”

Having funded eight projects last year, Eisenhour said, the KHRC has $2 million to award this time.

“We didn’t apply last year because we didn’t have an eligible project,” she said.

“Two-story apartments have never been done in Scott City, although Park Lane Apartments’ first story is partially buried. So we may have to think differently. We have developers locally and afar considering it, but it will take time. We have some vacancies in duplexes.”

Eisenhour said the SCDC has a loan pool of $118,701 at the First National Bank, Western State Bank and Security State Bank.

“The old mentality was to go for new businesses, but our philosophy now is to grow your own,” she said.

Eisenhour said the committee has loaned $138,500 for two business start-ups, both of which are succeeding, and for a business transition and a retention. The current balance is $105,000 and all the repayments are on schedule, she said.

Noting that the Scott City Industrial Park is fully occupied, she said, “We need a new industrial park to replace the one on the east side.”

The county’s estimated population in 2011 was 4,910. The unemployment rate of 2.8 percent is one of the lowest in the state.

A huge turnout was on hand for the 10th anniversary celebration and grand reopening of the Scott City HealthMart Pharmacy on south US83 Highway on Wednesday. There were prize drawings in addition to free burgers and hot dogs for all in attendance, including Logan Truax, 11, (above left) and his step-brother, Kody Lucas, 10, both of Scott City.

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Area youth, sponsors participate in mission trip to the Ukraine

A mission trip whose purpose was to teach English and bring the gospel to the Ukraine turned into a valuable learning experience for nearly a dozen Scott County youth.

The young people and their two adult sponsors, who were sponsored by the Pence Community Church, spent nearly two weeks in the country that, along with Poland, is on the far western border of the former Soviet Union.

This is the second time that a group of young people from this area have been to the region through the efforts of Anya Kasselman, Scott City, who is originally from the Ukraine.

“Our number one goal is to help the Ukrainian college ministry organize an English summer camp for college kids,” says Kasselman, a former missionary to the region with her husband, Joel. “We are teaching Ukrainians English and also teaching them the Bible.”

The second goal is to help American youth to experience something new, “to go to another

country and build relationships with kids of the same age and talk about life’s important issues.”

“It was amazing to see how much our youths’ perspective changed during this mission trip,” says Kasselman. “They were able to see the world and realize it is not the same out there. They were able to relate with kids from another part of the world even if they did not speak the same language. I am so proud of each team member and how they handled the challenge.

The group that departed from the U.S. on July 19 included nine youth and two adult sponsors.

All were Scott County residents with the exception of one youth who was a former resident.

For everyone, with the exception of Kasselman, it was their first trip outside the U.S. “This provided me the chance to see other parts of the world,” noted Camren Wolfe, 17, a spring graduate of Scott Community High School. “Living over there, even for just a little while, gives you

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Youth and sponsors taking part in a mission trip to the Ukraine were (front row, from left) Tandy McDaniel, Camren Wolfe, Rachel McDaniel, Rebekah Anliker, Tara Williams and Anya Kasselman.

(Back row) Jubilee Schmied (Wichita), Jacob McDaniel, Jason Williams, Caleb France and Matthew Williams.

a greater appreciation for the things we have and that we take for granted.”

During their 10-day stay, the group spent their time at a church camp near the capital of Kiev where they taught English, read the gospel and also directed activities that included crafts and sports.

“I couldn’t get over how eager they were to learn English and to accept our teachings,” says Wolfe.

Kasselman points out that by improving their English skills the Ukrainian youth know they can get better jobs.

Wolfe is making plans for a return trip to the area

in February as part of an English Club.

“It will be for another two-week stay but, personally, I would like to stay longer,” he says.

Jason Williams, 20, said it was an eye-opening experience to “see how spoiled we really are.”

“We take for granted things like air conditioning and fast food restaurants,” said Williams, who is a spring graduate of Cowley County Community College.

Traveling in packed buses was an experience, along with dodging potholes in roads and streets that were in disrepair.

They also saw a country in

School Calendar Sports Practice Schedule Week of August 19-24 SCHS Football Monday thru Thursday: 7:00-9:15 a.m. and 5:30-8:00 p.m.

Tuesday: Mandatory parents’ meeting, 7:30 p.m., at SCHS auditorium Friday: 6:15-7:30 a.m. and 4:30-6:15 p.m.

Saturday: Photos at 9:00 a.m., followed by scrimmage at about 10:15 a.m.

The after-fair meeting of the New Horizons 4-H Club was a BLAST! We had a pool party and even got to eat pizza!

President Anna Miller called us together for a short meeting. Our club had a great fair and received a blue on our float! We also made Park Lane centerpieces for the month of July. Then we took care of paying some bills before we splashed into all of the fun!

We also changed our monthly meeting time to the SCHS Volleyball first Monday of the month at 7:00 p.m. at the 4-H Monday thru Thursday: 7:00-9:00 a.m. and 6:00-8:00 building. Also, next month is our election of officers. p.m.

We will meet again on Mon., Sept. 2 at 7:00 p.m. and find out who our new officers will be.

SCHS X-Country I hope all of my 4-H friends are rested up from the Monday thru Thursday: 6:30-8:30 a.m. at SCHS track. fair and ready for school!

Thursday: Mandatory parents’ meeting, 6:30 p.m., at Kylee Logan, reporter track building on east side of SCHS track

Movie night for Manning Jayhawkers

Monthly meeting of the Manning Jayhawkers 4-H Club was held on August 12 at the Scott County Library. This meeting was followed by our club’s party.

Roll call was answered by how many fireworks you shot on the 4th of July. There were 21 members and one leader present. The club voted to watch the movie “Despicable Me.” Jenee Davis talked about her 4-H trip to Washington, D.C., for the program. The hosts were the July party committee.

After the meeting members enjoyed popcorn and pop while watching the movie. Next meeting will be Sept. 9 at 8:00 at the 4-H building.

Christina Tilton, reporter

Saturday: 7:00-8:30 a.m. at SCHS west parking lot SCMS Football Monday thru Friday: 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.

SCMS Volleyball Seventh Graders Monday thru Thursday: 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.

Eighth Graders Monday thru Thursday: 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.

which many of the people are struggling to survive.

“There’s a lot of very rich people and very poor, but very little in between,” explained Kasselman of the 45 million inhabitants. “There aren’t enough jobs. There are a lot of people who work outside the Ukraine and send money back home to their families. That’s why a lot of kids we see at camp are being raised by their grandparents.”

“But every single person we met was so eager to learn and they wanted to know more about us,” says Williams. “You can tell they want to better their lives.”

The group would spend the morning working on English and reading from the gospel, along with time for singing, dancing and sports.

“There were four different levels of English classes,” says Tara Williams, one of the two sponsors who was also on her first overseas trip.

“Most of our mission trips in the past have been in the U.S. where we help build things. This was our first opportunity to go overseas and teach. It was a great experience because they were so eager to learn.”

(See MISSION on page 16)

For the Record Don’t get ‘spoofed’ by rogue callers The Scott County Record

Jason Alderman

When caller ID first arrived on the scene it seemed like a godsend to many people: Now you could easily identify who was on the line and ignore unwanted calls, whether from telemarketers, an exboyfriend or an unfriendly collection agency.

But as often happens, unscrupulous individuals soon began manipulating the technology to defraud people by pretending to be someone else.

Their scheme is called “caller ID spoofing” and

disturbingly, it’s perfectly legal in many cases.

Here’s how caller ID spoofing works and what precautions you should take to avoid being victimized: For a very low cost, businesses and individuals can use widely available caller ID spoofing software to generate calls that alter the telephone number and/or name which appear on the recipient’s caller ID screen.

Police, private investigators and collection agencies have used legal spoofing services for

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many years. Others who might have a legitimate reason to hide their identity when making a call include domestic violence victims and doctors returning patient calls who don’t wish to release their private telephone numbers.

Beyond that, the lines of legality begin to blur.

The Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009 prohibits anyone from transmitting misleading or inaccurate caller ID information with the intent to defraud, cause harm or wrongfully obtain anything of value.

Violators can be penalized up to $10,000 for each infraction. Unfortunately, such penalties haven’t dissuaded many scammers.

One common scam involves spoofers pretending to represent a bank, government agency, insurer, credit card company or other organization with which you do business. They count on you being reassured after recognizing the company’s name on your screen.

Under the pretext of warning about an urgent situation (breached account, late payment,

pending insurance claim, missed jury duty summons, etc.), the spoofer will try to coax you into revealing personal or account information, supposedly to verify their records.

Often these are robocalls, where a recorded voice asks you to stay on the line to speak to a representative or call another number for more information.

Do not. If you suspect the call might possibly be genuine, contact the company yourself at the (See SPOOFED on page 11)

2 companies fined $100K for violating No-Call Act Two out-of-state companies have been fined a total of more than $100,000 for violating the Kansas No-Call Act by the Kansas Attorney General.

Bene-Fit Health Products, Kingsland, Ga., was ordered to pay the state $81,500 in penalties and fees. The Attorney

General’s Consumer Protection Division began investigating the company after receiving complaints in August and September 2012 that the company had solicited Kansans by telephone, marketing health seminars and wellness products.

Some of the consum-

Scott City Council Agenda Mon., August 19 • 7:30 p.m.

City Hall • 221 W. 5th •Call to Order •Approve minutes of Aug. 5 regular meeting •Approve Standard Traffic Ordinance •Approve Uniform Public Offense Code •Discuss application for grant funds from Kansas Moderate Income Housing program •Scott Recreation Commission 1) Update on activities 2) Audit report 3) Discuss repairs to basement leaks •Scott County Development Committee update •Open agenda: audience is invited to voice ideas or concerns. A time limit may be requested Pool Department 1) Discuss closing of pool Police Department 1) Misc. business Parks Department 1) Misc. business Public Works Department 1) Misc. business Clerk’s Department 1) Request to attend “Customer Service and Accounting Workshop” in Hutchinson 2) Next meeting to be held on Tues., Sept. 3, due to Labor Day holiday •Financial and investment reports •Mayor’s comments

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Aug. 1, 2013; last published Thurs., Aug. 15, 2013)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HELEN JEANNINE LEWIS aka JEANNINE LEWIS, DECEASED NO. 13-PR-10 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR FINAL SETTLEMENT THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED You are Hereby Notified that a Petition has been filed on July 25, 2013, in said Court, praying for a final settlement of the estate, approval of the Administratrix acts, proceedings and accounts, allowance of expense, determination of the heirs entitled to the estate,

administration of the estate be closed, the Administratrix be discharged and released from further liability.

You are hereby required to file your written defenses thereto on or before August 27th, 2013, at 1:30 o’clock p.m., on said day, in said Court, in the City of Scott City, Scott County, Kansas, at which time and place said cause will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon said Petition.

JAN ACKERMAN Petitioner JAKE W. BROOKS ATTORNEY AT LAW 101 EAST SIXTH P.O. BOX 664 SCOTT CITY, KS. 67871 (620) 872-7204 ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER

ers who were called were on the National Do-NotCall list.

Vacations Digest, Orlando, Fla., was ordered to pay the state $21,500.

The company called Kansas consumers listed on the National Do-NotCall list offering to assist in selling or renting their

unused timeshares.

The Kansas Attorney General’s office is responsible for enforcing the Kansas No-Call Act. This prohibits most businesses from calling consumers registered on the list to sell a product or service.

Organizations soliciting charitable donations,

Public Notice

calls concerning political candidates or issues, or other calls unrelated to the sale of property or services do not fall within the scope of the Kansas No-Call Act. Kansans who wish to register for the national Do-Not-Call list can call 1-888-382-1222 or visit www.donotcall.gov.

Register of Deeds Leonard and Debra Miragliuolo to Double C Cattle Company, north 50 ft. of Lot 4, Blk. 3, Starr Suburb.

Jeff and Michelle Nix to Adrienne Irwin, a tract in SW4 of 13-18-33.

The will of Charles Mayer to Christopher and Tammy Lund, south 27 ft. of Lot 7 and north 33 ft. of Lot 8, Blk. 1, Durrant’s Addition.

Kansas Feed Yards, Inc., to Scott County, a tract in NE4 of 26-18-33.

Joe Beaver to Garnett Auto Supply, Lots 12-13 and N2 of Lot 15, Blk. 21, Original Town.

Gina Leatherman to Arturo and Gracila Ayala, south 40 ft. of Lot 4, Blk. 24, Original Town.

Brad and Cara Leatherman to Arturo and Gracila Ayala, south 40 ft. of Lot 4, Blk. 24, Original Town.

Everett and Amy Sanders to Arturo and Gracila Ayala, south 40 ft. of Lot 4, Blk. 24, Original Town.

Scott Co. LEC Report

(Published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Aug. 15, 2013)1t

Scott City Police Department Aug. 9: A forgery was reported at Denny’s SuperTotal cash in the Scott County Treasury as of the above date Valu.

Aug. 9: Darrell Rodenberg was arrested on a war$10,586,056.94 rant from another county and transported to the LEC. Scott Co. Sheriff’s Dept.

FUND FUND BALANCES Aug. 10: Juanita Wolf hit a deer on Road 140.

TREASURER’S QUARTERLY STATEMENT SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS • AS OF JULY 31, 2013

General .................................................................. $ 2,163,389.25 Community Development Block Grant Loan ........

0.00 Micro-Loan Revolving Loan Fund .........................

84,663.75 Alcohol Program ....................................................

2,727.90 Indoor Arena Fund ................................................

349.75 Government Bonds - Hospital Project ..................

0.00 Special Cemetery Equipment .................................

29,315.78 County Employee Benefits ..................................... 1,001,560.35 County Health - M. Koehn Memorial .....................

122.67 County Health - J. Binns Memorial ........................

412.35 County Health .........................................................

266,280.00 County Health - Bio-Terrorism ................................

25,729.19 County Health - Special Assistance ........................

9,371.04 Home Health ...........................................................

0.00 Hospital Maintenance ..............................................

0.00 Library Maintenance ................................................

111,252.63 Library Building ........................................................

50,282.53 Noxious Weed ..........................................................

61,394.35 Special Noxious Weed Equipment ...........................

111,212.95 Landfill Special Equipment Sales ............................

99,348.32 Road and Bridge ......................................................

928,371.64 Fire District ...............................................................

94,378.87 County Public Buildings ...........................................

941,333.08 Special Highway Improvement ................................

297,112.87 Special Road Machinery ..........................................

435,840.58 Equipment Reserve ..................................................

444,948.50 County Bond and Interest ........................................ 1,320,566.54 Hospital Bond and Interest ......................................

439,477.00 Sheriff Equipment Fund ...........................................

294.64 Special Law Enforcement ..........................................

5,894.67 Prosecutor Training and Assistance ...........................

5,400.39 Attorney Worthless Check Fees .................................

471.25 Register of Deeds Technology Fund ..........................

55,529.10 Motor Vehicle Operating Fund ...................................

1,067.43 Zella O. Carpenter (S.A.) ............................................ 177,176.06 Zella O. Carpenter ....................................................

508,740.00 Oil and Gas Valuation Depletion ...............................

389,349.31 Keystone General .....................................................

13.03 Keystone Hall ..............................................................

13.00 Scott Township General ...........................................

537.72 Advance Tax ..............................................................

188.98 Current Tax ...............................................................

116,779.83 Current Tax Interest ...................................................

3,423.80 Tax Escrow Accounting .............................................

15,687.25 Delinquent Personal Property Tax .............................

16,025.97 Redemptions .............................................................

38,965.99 Motor Vehicle Registration Tax .................................. 183,678.34 Recreation Vehicle Tax ...............................................

2,243.91 Rental and Excise Tax ................................................

121.47 911 Tariff .....................................................................

16,910.65 911 Tariff - Wireless ....................................................

92,354.41 Wildlife and Parks .......................................................

4,833.95 Federal Withholding ....................................................

0.00 Judgment Fees ...........................................................

36.00 Driver’s Licenses ..........................................................

397.00 Motor Vehicle ................................................................

1,879.17 Vehicle Registration Tax Interest ...................................

567.06 Motor Sales Tax ............................................................. 28,034.67 State Withholding ..........................................................

0.00 Total All Funds $ 10,586,056.94 State of Kansas County of Scott

I do solemnly swear that the above statement is complete, true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief, so help me God. Lark Speer County Treasurer Subscribed to and sworn to before me this 5th day of August, 2013 Alice Brokofsky Notary Public

District 11 AA Meetings

Scott City

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

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

All open meetings, 874-8207 • 874-8118

Tuesday • 8:30 p.m.

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

Dighton

Thursday • 8:30 p.m.

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

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KHP plans DUI crackdown through Labor Day weekend The Kansas Highway Patrol will be joining other local law enforcement agencies from across Kansas to work extra hours during the “You Drink. You Drive. You Lose.” Special Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP).

The STEP campaign runs from August 15, through the Labor Day weekend.

During STEP, there will be additional enforcement of all Kansas traffic laws, with particular focus on impaired driving laws.

If you are involved in a crash in which alcohol

Scott County Commission Agenda Tues., August 20 County Courthouse 3:00 p.m.

County business Approve minutes/accounts payable Approve application for reduction in trash fee Appoint rep to Area Agency on Aging Declare 2014 holidays

3:30 p.m.

EMS Director Larry Turpin Discuss ambulance Emergency management update

4:00 p.m.

Waste Connections - Jeff Faucett Discuss CPI rate increase

4:30 p.m.

Public Works Director Richard Cramer

5:00 p.m.

Any other county business Adjourn

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

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toll-free number found on your card, account statement or the company’s website.

You should never reveal your full Social Security number, mother’s maiden name, credit card number, passwords or other private information over the phone unless you initiated the call yourself. Someone possessing such information could use it to gain access to your existing accounts to withdraw or transfer money, raise credit limits or snoop around your recent activity, among other intrusions.

ID thieves also can use your personal information to open new credit accounts (e.g., credit cards, mortgage or car loan), create a new identity or even obtain a job fraudulently. Often, you won’t even realize something’s wrong until a collection agency - or the IRS starts hounding you for unpaid bills or taxes.

Another common caller ID spoof involves hacking into someone’s voice mail account. Many cellphone users never bother to set up passwords on their voice mailboxes.

And, since many voicemail systems grant access to callers phoning from their own number, a hacker could easily spoof your number and gain access to your messages.

Bottom line: You wouldn’t give your personal information to a stranger on the street. Take the same level of precaution with strangers on the phone - or online.

is a contributing factor, according to KDOT, you are 2-1/2 times more likely to be injured and 4-1/2 times more likely to be seriously injured or killed, than if you were in a crash in which alcohol was not a factor.

The ratio of death to injury in alcohol-related

crashes is almost four times higher than the death to injury ratio for non-alcohol related crashes.

“Troopers and other officers will be out in force over the next few weeks, and we hope this contributes to a safer time for all of those utilizing

County Commission July 16, 2013 Scott County Commissioners met in a regular meeting with the following present: Chairman James Minnix, Commissioners Jerry Buxton and Gary Skibbe, and County Clerk Pam Faurot.

The Commission asked County Attorney Rebecca Faurot to review the proposed “Road Use and Maintenance Agreement” between the county and CPV Keystone Renewable Energy Company. CPV Keystone is a wind power company planning to place wind turbines in the southeast portion of the county.

•The commission reviewed a bid of $3,875 from Fire Alarm Specialists for a new panic button system for the courthouse.

•A contract was approved with Lynn Epler to provide custodian services at the courthouse for $1,200/month and $12.50/hour for additional services.

•The commission reviewed a contract with Lewis, Hooper and Dick for audit and budget services for Scott County and the Scott County Public Building Commission.

•Scott County Hospital CEO Mark Burnett, CFO Joe Meyer and board chairman John Fairleigh reviewed the hospital’s 2012 financial statement.

•The commission approved the following tax change: Abatement Craig Bridgeman $2,084.90 •A check for $5,304 was issued from the Zella Carpenter fund to Park Lane Nursing Home for July special assistance.

•The county will enter into a Designated Fund Agreement with the Scott Community Foundation to support donations to the Rural Opportunity Zone Education Fund Program.

•Approval was given to a road agreement allowing a temporary water line in the county road right-of-way at Juniper and Road 20 for C&W Construction, Inc. •Approval was given for a water line in the county right-of-way on Hereford Road for Tallgrass, Inc. •Public Works Director Richard Cramer reported he has found someone to remove trees at the cemetery which will be done in the fall.

•Approval was given for an application to partner with the State of Kansas to replace the bridge on Kansas Road at the White Woman crossing. If this application is approved, the state will pay 75% of the cost and the county would pay 25%.

•Kimble mapping is currently in the county training members of the road department to use a GPS system to map road signs and other items in the county.

•Cramer and the commission discussed the Road Use and Maintenance Agreement proposed by CPV Keystone Renewable Energy Company. Cramer thought the agreement covered all areas of road management and repair for the planned wind farm. The commission approved the agreement, contingent upon approval by the county attorney.

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our Kansas roads,” says Colonel Ernest Garcia, superintendent of the Kansas Highway Patrol Over the 2012 Labor Day holiday reporting period for the Patrol (KHP stats only), troopers worked four fatal crashes on Kansas highways, one

of which was alcoholrelated. There were four total impaired driving crashes worked by KHP. The Patrol arrested 39 people for impaired driving.

Personnel also assisted 1,193 motorists who needed help on Kansas roads.

Fire, rescue training for grain handling facilities being offered at K-State Grain-related entrapment, engulfments, asphyxiations and entanglements are safety concerns for those who work on farms and in commercial grain facilities.

A first responder course for fire and rescue instructors on incidents involving grain storage, processing and handling facilities will be held on the Kansas State University campus on Wed., Aug. 21, at the International Grains Program building.

The workshop is limited to individuals who are currently emergency first responders or fire-rescue instructors.

Complete information and a registration form is at: www.grainnet.com/ article.php?ID=134289.

The workshop is limited to individuals who meet the following criteria:

•Current emergency first responder/fire-rescue instructor; •Prior completion of NIMS training; •Working knowledge of grain storage, processing, and handling facilities; •Prior completion of a basic first responder training class related to incidents at grain storage, processing, and handling facilities; •Familiarity with OSHA standards relevant to confined spaces and grain handling facilities; •Familiarity with NFPA 1670 and NFPA 1006 standards.

There is no cost to attend the training. Each participant will be provided extensive instructional resources, including electronic versions of the PowerPoint presentations.

Anyone with questions can call Brandi Miller at KSU, 785-532-4053.

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Stress doesn’t have to dominate your life by the American Counseling Association

Stress has always been a part of life. In ancient times it might have been caused by a growling bear, while today it’s more likely to be a growl-

ing, demanding boss.

Whatever the cause, stress is something we all experience, but it doesn’t have to control our lives.

The answer is to learn what things cause us stress, how we respond to stress, and what we can

do to better handle that stress.

Some stress, of course, is healthy. It motivates us, gets us excited and gets us moving toward positive goals. But when stress causes negative reactions and leaves us feeling

scared or physically and emotionally drained, it’s time to take action.

Start by analyzing what stress does to you. Does it leave you feeling tense, cause a painful headache, or make you jumpy and snappy with others?

Red state Idaho reluctantly adopts Obamacare exchange Phil Galewitz Kaiser Health News

EAGLE, Idaho - On Election Night, Bill McCarrel Jr. watched teary-eyed residents crowd into his historic bar, The Gathering Place, after President Barack Obama won a second term.

His customers worried aloud about losing access to their guns and having to accept the federal health law that many revile as socialized medicine.

Like most people in this fiercely Republican state, McCarrel opposes Obamacare - even though he’s uninsured and can’t find affordable coverage

as a result of his artificial hip and knees. But the former junior high principal is looking forward to shopping on the Obamacare online insurance exchange starting in October to see if he can get a plan he could afford.

McCarrel, 55, is thankful the Idaho legislature - prodded by Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter and powerful employer groups decided to have the state operate the exchange rather than leave it to the federal government.

“People in Idaho don’t trust the state government, but they trust Washington, D.C., even less,” he says.

Of the 16 states that are gearing up to operate their own online marketplaces - a central feature of the effort to expand coverage to millions of people starting in January - Idaho is the only one where Republicans are in total control of state government.

‘Fierce Resolve’ Nonetheless, employers and Otter, staunch opponents of the law, were able to convince tea party activists and other critics that having the state run the marketplace where individuals and small businesses shop for coverage could result in less

expensive premiums - and keep control in Boise.

“We want to prevent ceding any more control to the federal government than is necessary,” says Otter, who credits business leaders - along with hospitals, insurers and other stakeholders - for putting pressure on legislators to approve a state marketplace.

Alex LaBeau, president of the Idaho Association of Commerce & Industry, the state’s most influential business lobby, argued the state could better control costs, offer more choice and preserve the role of agents and brokers.

(See IDAHO on page 13)

Federal official says insurance marketplaces to open on schedule The Obama administration official charged with getting new online insurance marketplaces up and running in all 50 states said the federal government will be ready to flip the on switch in the states where it will operate them.

Those states include Kansas and Missouri, where Republican officials opposed to the federal health reform law blocked efforts to establish state-run marketplaces.

Marilyn Tavenner, who heads the Center for Medicaid and Medicaid Services in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said critical information technology systems necessary to match consumers to coverage plans and identify those eligible for federal subsidies have been tested and are ready to go.

“We have 34 states that are in the federal exchange and we will be ready Oct. 1,” Tavenner said.

All states have submitted lists of the insurance companies that will offer plans in their marketplaces and the premiums they intend to charge for coverage.

Pricing information is currently being reviewed

by CMS and will be made public in September on an agency website designed to help consumers understand the health reform law.

Like many advocates of the reform law, Tavenner said she believes public opinion will turn in its favor after people learn more about it and benefit from its provisions.

“This is not something that happens Oct. 1; that everyone changes their mind,” she said. “It’s probably something that takes two or three years.”

Critics of the law, including both U.S. senators from Kansas, Republicans Jerry Moran and Pat Roberts, say even if the marketplaces open on schedule, consumers will be shocked when they see the premium increases necessary to cover the cost of insurance industry reforms.

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, estimated that premiums for individual policies sold in Kansas would go up 61 percent. The analysis, which the foundation said was based on projections

compiled by congressional committees, also predicted premium increases between 61 percent and 106 percent in Missouri.

Tavenner called the Heritage projections “total speculation,” noting that premiums have gone down in some states that are running their own marketplaces and have already published rate information.

“These predictions of gloom and doom, it’s not what we’re seeing,” she said. “What we’re seeing are very reasonable rates.”

Costs Will Vary Andy Corbin, chief executive of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas, the state’s largest private insurer, has said the plans his company will offer in the new marketplace will vary greatly in cost.

But he said in general they “will probably be more expensive” than the individual and smallgroup policies the company now sells in the open market.

But he said in many cases the amounts consumers actually pay would be lower because of federal tax credits available to thousands of

people expected to use the exchange or marketplace.

The credits, available only through the exchange, will be calculated on a sliding scale.

The subsidies will be available to those with annual earnings between 100 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level. For individuals, that means earnings between about $11,000 and about $46,000.

For a family of four, that would mean those with annual household incomes between about $22,000 on the low end and $92,000 on the high end.

According to estimates by researchers at the Kansas Health Institute, there are about 149,000 currently uninsured Kansans who could get coverage and credits through the exchange and another 44,000 who currently have individual policies. That’s a total of about 193,000 Kansans.

Families USA, a proreform lobbying organization based in Washington, D.C., have estimated that even more Kansans will be eligible for premium tax credits. Its estimate is 250,000 people.

Perhaps stress makes you quiet and listless?

Either way, or anything in between, it’s not a good feeling. You can deal with that by taking physical action to take you away from the stress causing issue. If stress gives you

energy, try something as simple as taking a walk or bike ride. If stress leaves you tired, try something calming, such as meditating for a few minutes or having a light snack.

(See STRESS on page 13)

First positive WNV reported in Kansas The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has announced the first reported case of West Nile Virus for 2013.

The individual that tested positive is an adult from Atchison County. KDHE has also learned of the first West Nile Virus positive mosquito sample in Kansas for 2013. The positive mosquito sample was collected from Sedgwick County.

WNV can be spread to people through bites from infected mosquitoes, but it is not contagious from person to person. Symptoms range from a slight headache and low-grade fever to swelling of the brain or brain tissue and in rare cases, death.

People who have had WNV before are considered immune.

KDHE recommends the following precautions to protect against WNV: •When outdoors, use insect repellent containing an EPA-registered active ingredient on skin and clothing, including DEET, picaridin, oil of lemon eucalyptus, or IR3535. Follow the directions on the package.

(See VIRUS on page 13)

The Scott County Record • Page 13 • Thursday, August 15, 2013

KanCare beneficiaries must provide new info Some Medicaid beneficiaries are being asked to submit new information to the state by Sept. 15.

About 130,000 households with Medicaid coverage - also known as KanCare - have already or will soon receive a mailing from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment asking them to list each in person in the household who plans to file an income tax return in 2014.

The mailing is being sent to pregnant women and lowincome parents with children in the program, not to elderly and disabled KanCare beneficiaries.

States are required to collect the information as part of the health reform law, sometimes called Obamacare. The information is needed for a new formula to count an applicant’s income, called the Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI).

“We are asking all current KanCare members who are parents with children or pregnant women to actively check their mailbox for this form,” said Dr. Susan Mosier, director of Medicaid services at KDHE. The KanCare assistance numbers are: 1-855-751-4012 for English, or 1-866305-5147 for Spanish.

Households not returning the form by the deadline will be contacted by KDHE as part of the annual review.

New Medicaid applicants will submit the information via the Kansas Eligibility and Enforcement System (KEES) system starting Oct. 1.

Mental health advocacy training in Kansas The Kansas Mental Health Coalition (KMHC) is launching its second year of mental health advocacy training which will include sites in Dodge City (Sept. 14) and Hays (Oct. 5).

Called the “Grassroots Advocacy Network: Kansas Voices for Mental Health,” the seven-hour training is designed to

Idaho A lot is a stake. About 200,000 of Idaho’s 1.6 million residents will be eligible to buy coverage in the exchange which will also sell insurance to small businesses. While the state has some of the lowest insurance costs in the nation, it has an 18 percent uninsured rate, higher than the national average.

If the exchange is successful, proponents - including some Republican lawmakers and employers - say it could help persuade skep-

Stress

give Kansans the skills to become effective advocates for mental health and other disability services.

Last year, KMHC trained more than 80 advocates. These consumers, family members, providers and interested citizens have since become part of a statewide network of advocates.

KMHC is in the process of recruiting participants for training events this fall. In the training, advocates learn how to build relationships and effectively communicate with their elected officials.

Once they complete the training, advocates commit to joining KMHC’s efforts to influence public policy through state and

local elected officials.

Involvement with this project is also open to persons interested in supporting issues for the disability community.

These are full day events from 9:30 a.m.4:30 p.m. Applicants will be notified about the specific location in each city.

Lunch will be provided.

Those interested in

applying for one of the training sessions, or learning more about the Grassroots Advocacy Network, may visit the KMHC website: www. kansasmentalhealthcoalition.onefireplace. com, or call Rick Cagan, Executive Director of NAMI Kansas: 1-800539-2660, info@namikansas.org.

Settles says he also pushed for a state-run exchange because he thought it could help keep costs down. He notes the Idaho exchange will have a 1.5 percent surcharge on policies sold in the marketplace to pay for administrative costs. The federally operated exchanges will have a 3.5 percent surcharge.

Despite the one-year delay in the employer mandate, Kevin Settles, owner of Bardenay which has more than 50 fullltime employees, plans to extend coverage to all

his full time workers next year.

“I am tired of the uncertainty and it is a benefit I would like to provide - if it’s a benefit I can afford.”

The only industry group to oppose the statebased exchange was the Idaho Farm Bureau, which represents 15,000 farmers and ranchers. But spokesman John Thompson says he expects many members to buy coverage on the exchange despite their ideological opposition.

“If it makes economic sense to them, they will do it,” he says.

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tical lawmakers to expand Medicaid, the other central piece of Obamacare, expected to come up again next year.

do it our way, not someone else’s way,” he says.

Wood’s daughter, Ashley, is one of nearly 300,000 uninsured state residents. She works as a bartender nearly 40 hours a week at Bardenay, a restaurant-distillery in downtown Boise, but has not been offered coverage.

She says the lowest price insurance she’s found is $175 a month and that’s too expensive for her. She hopes to find a better price through the exchange.

‘Gig is up’ on Obamacare Rep. Fred Wood, a retired emergency room physician who heads the Idaho House Health and Welfare Committee, says lawmakers came to the realization this spring they could no longer fight Obamacare.

“The fact is, that gig is up and it’s going to happen, so let’s make sure we ‘Tired of uncertainty’

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Such responses sound simple, but the point is to know yourself and to take action. As you begin to discover how you react to stress, you can also begin to analyze what stresses you.

Are you afraid of looking incompetent at work, or of letting down your family or friends? Are you feeling that you’ve lost control of your environment (traffic jam stress, for example)? As you begin to identify what causes you stress, it’s also time to examine your priorities. What things are really important to you? Are there fears you have that lie beneath the situations that cause the most stress?

As you begin to understand what causes you stress, you can take positive steps to deal with those issues.

Maybe it’s an anxiety-provoking colleague you want to avoid. Maybe it’s learning to say “no” to situations that eat up your time but provide little personal benefit.

You can’t avoid all stress but it shouldn’t be negatively affecting your life. A professional counselor can help you identify what causes your stress, and can help you develop strategies to avoid or better handle it.

Virus (continued from page 12)

•Many mosquitoes are most active at dusk and dawn. Be sure to use insect repellent and wear long sleeves and pants at these times or consider staying indoors during these hours.

•Get rid of mosquito breeding sites by emptying standing water from flower pots, buckets and barrels. Change the water in pet dishes and replace the water in bird baths weekly.

WNV cases are most common in the late summer and early fall months.

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

The Pence Community Church led Sunday afternoon services.

Residents played pitch and dominoes on Monday. Game helpers were Madeline Murphy, Arlene Cauthon, Joann Dirks and Hugh McDaniel.

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

Residents enjoyed fresh watermelon on Tuesday afternoon.

On Tuesday evening trivia games were played.

Bingo was played by residents on Wednesday afternoon. Helpers were Madeline Murphy, Barbara Dickhut and MaryAnn Spangler.

Residents played cards on Wednesday evening.

Elsie Nagel gave manicures on Thursday morning.

A Bible study class was held on Thursday evening.

Fr. Bernard Felix led Catholic Mass on Friday morning.

Give program on Africa mission

Rev. Warren Prochnow and his wife, Andi, of the Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Scott City, gave a presentation on their mission trip to Africa in July.

They showed slides and displayed souvenirs they brought home.

Over 50 Chorus has sing-along

The Over 50 Chorus held a group sing-along on Thursday afternoon.

Chorus members included Dorothy Milburn, Madeline Murphy, Gladys Soodsma, Darlene Snyder, Irma McDaniel, Arlene Cauthon and Betty Mast.

Residents watched, “Wonders Sacred and Mysterious” on Saturday afternoon. M&M’s were the snack.

Thanks to the family of Wanda Evans for the flowers brought to Park Lane in her memory.

Pat Lewis was visited

by Aria Smith, Gracie Zapata, Emily Wright, Darlene Snyder, Lori Vasquez, Gil Lewis, Alisa Moore and Fritzie Rauch.

Ann Tedford was visited by Arlene Cauthon and Mary Plum.

Deaths Nicholas John Gillen Nicholas John Gillen, 94, died Aug. 9, 2013 at the Wichita County Long Term Care Unit, Leoti.

He was born on July 26, 1919, in Willowdale, Ks., the son of Dominic and Minnie (Lampe) Gillen.

A resident of Leoti since 1929, moving from Willowdale, he was a farmer.

He was a member of St. Anthony’s Catholic Church, Knights of Columbus and the Wichita County Golf Course, all of Leoti On Oct. 12, 1944, he married Eva Gene Smith in Marienthal. She survives.

Other survivors include: two sons, Tom Gillen and wife, Linda, Aus-

tin, Tex., and Jerry Gillen and wife, Peggy, Leoti; four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one daughter, Sandra Gillen, six brothers and three sisters.

A vigil service was held on Sunday at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church, Leoti. Funeral mass was held at the church on Monday with Fr. Ben Martin officiating.

Interment was at the Leoti Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to St. Anthony’s Catholic Church or the Wichita County LongTerm Care Unit in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 202 Fourth St., Leoti, Ks. 67861.

Jimmie L. Beeson Jimmie L. Beeson, 66, died, July 31, 2013, at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center.

H e was born Jan. 9, 1947, in Garden City, the son of L e R o y Jimmie Beeson and Mary Kessler Beeson.

He had been a Hutchinson resident since 1993, moving from Scott City.

He was the owner/operator of Jim’s Retail Liquor Store and had previously been an over-the-road driver for Fairleigh Feeders and Becker Corp., both in Scott City.

In his younger years, he had enjoyed racing stock cars. In his later years he enjoyed sponsoring local drivers and was an avid NASCAR fan.

On June 9, 1967, he married Debby Latham in Scott City. She survives.

Other survivors include: two daughters,

Mylene Beeson (Rod Solze), Utica, and Tisha Yoder (Sheldon), Hutchinson; two sisters, Lillian Pike and husband, Fred, South Hutchinson, and Margie Allen and husband, Russ, Scott City; seven grandchildren, Reese and Angella LaToush, Sierra Delaney, and Ashton, Alisha, Treyton and Tayton Yoder; a great-grandson, Eli; and two step-grandchildren, Tia and Trey Solze.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Vic. Funeral service was Aug. 3 at Journey Church, South Hutchinson, with Pastor Eric Miller presiding. Burial was in Penwell-Gabel Cemetery, Hutchinson.

Memorials can be sent to to Autism Speaks, in care of Penwell-Gabel Funeral Home, Hutchinson.

Visitwww.PenwellGabelHutchinson.com to leave the family a personal message.

Edith Norman was visited by Jan Norman, Sue Riner; Bret Norman, Adel, Ia.; Janet Norman, Sara Shane, Doris Riner and Mary Plum.

Bonnie Pickett was visited by Arlene Cauthon, Gloria Wright, Treva McCandless, Larry and Philene Pickett, Detta Hager, Chris Pickett and Martha Boor.

Geraldine Graves was visited by Charlene Becht, Diane Dirks, Lilah Gerstberger, Susan Geist, and Susie and Abigail Wiechman.

Sr. citizens lunch menu Week of August 19-23 Monday: Salisbury steak, pasta salad with vegetables, tossed salad with tomato, green pepper and carrot, whole wheat bread, peaches.

Tuesday: Hamburger on a bun, baked beans, deli fixins, blueberry dessert.

Wednesday: Pepper steak, rice, cucumbers and onions in sour cream, whole wheat bread, angel food cake with strawberries.

Thursday: Oven fried chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy, stewed tomatoes, whole wheat roll, sherbet.

Friday: Taco salad with tomato, carrots and green pepper, corn, tortilla chips, pineapple tidbits. meals are $3.00 call 872-3501

Lorena Turley was visited by Rex Turley, Neta Wheeler; LaCinda Griffin, Loveland, Colo.; Gary Turley, Greeley, Colo.; LuJauna Turley, Reba Hearson; Lexi Mullen, Wichita; Tamera Terry, Denver, Colo.; Verna Hansen, Denver; Betty Kough and Emily Hess.

Albert Dean was visited by Brian and Charlene Geist, Ian Lund, Trevor Geist, Jordan Snide and Carol Davey.

Vivian Kreiser was visited by Sharon Lock.

Jim and Yvonne Spangler were visited by Will, Danica and Jagger, and Les and MaryAnn Spangler.

Mildred Van Pelt was visited by David Van Pelt and Treva McCandless.

Jake Leatherman was visited by Don and Judy Browning and Hugh McDaniel.

Visitors of Boots Haxton were her daughter, Joni Pottberg, Salina, Miles Veeder, Dodge City, Melissa Jasnoch, and Rod and Kathy Haxton.

by Jason Storm

Earl Gorman was visited by Loretta Gorman, Charlene Becht, Brandon Gorman, Dakota Will Potter, Jay Gorman, Orville and Marcine Gorman, Rae Gorman, Don and Judy Browning, and Hugh McDaniel.

Harriet Jones was visited by Nancy Holt.

Jim Jeffery was visited

by Libbie Joles and Hugh McDaniel.

Herb Graves was visited by Darlene Snyder, Tina Turley and Gracie Zapata.

Darlene Richman was visited by Janelle Caspar and Howard and Dorothy King.

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

Cecile Billings was visited by Ann Beaton, Delinda Dunagan; Patti, Mandy and Ken Billings; Don and Judy Browning, Larry Billings and Linda Dunagan.

Beth Kennedy was visited by Becky Sharpe and Vera Buffington.

Pat Palen was visited

by Linda Dunagan.

Jimmy Dunkel was visited by Michael Hess and Allen Osborn.

Mike Kitch was visited

by Charlene Becht.

Hilda Gruver was visited by Tina Turley.

Thelma Branine was visited by Madison Braun.

Melva Rose was visited

by Carol Ellis and Tina Turley.

Judy Redburn was visited by Carol Ellis, Tina Turley, Cassie Shultz and Elizabeth Parkinson.

Delores Brooks was visited by Charles Brooks, Cheryl Perry, Elsie Nagel and Fritzi Rauch.

Dona Dee Carpenter was visited by Pastor Dennis Carter, Ann Hawkins, Lois Modlin, Norma Jean Mulligan, Nicole Mulligan, Bill and Kandi John, Gloria O’Bleness, Marvel Keyse and Cassandra Shultz.

Dottie Fouquet was visited by Jon and Anne Crane, Terri Fouquet, Fritzie Rauch and Mark Fouquet.

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Park Place People

by Doris Riner

Well, Pa couldn’t understand what his dog said on the phone, so Pa is still in the hills, trying to find his way home and the dog continues to sit on the porch. Meanwhile, residents in Park Place continue to have fun and fellowship and enjoy one another.

I mentioned our two new residents last week, Elvira Billinger and Edwin Allen. Our newest resident this week is Mary Plum.

Like most everyone else in Scott County, residents have been enjoying the showers of rain.

Yours truly sat and watched Joe and Cliff play two or three games of pool. I’m kinda learning what pool is all about so I don’t have to ask who is the better player anymore.

Hurrah! Four more weeks and college and high school football games will start.

Bertha A. pushed Margaret Lee in her wheelchair over and around the city park late Thursday afternoon. They invited me to go with them on my scooter.

Pat Palen was over for coffee with us several mornings. Jack and Sherry Rapier were also there one morning. When I got to coffee Wednesday morning in our dinning room, the coffee had been made and there sat Mary Lou Oeser and Karen waiting for residents to come get some and visit.

My brother, Merle Wait, and wife Wanda of Protection drove up to Scott City to take me to church and out to eat. One of these days I’m going to write Dave Freeman of KSN Weather News and tell him Protection is a town between Ashland and Coldwater. Also, Trudy took me and her four grandchildren out to lunch Wednesday. Trudy’s retirement is sure keeping her busy.

Then on Wednesday afternoon it was bingo for everyone. We played two bingo games and then two blackout games. Would you believe I won both bingos and Robin Day and I won the first blackout? Mary Ann Leatherman told me I should sign up for the lottery!

Coming to see Dad (Edwin Allen) from Harper were Denise and Darlene Bontrager; Mike Allen, Garden City; and Jana Bontrager, Hays.

Elvira Billinger had company last Monday evening, Don Billinger and Connie Bonwell of Garden City. His son, Duane Billinger, came from Wichita to spend a few days.

Benefit verification available on-line Do you need a letter from Social Security verifying your benefits?

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You may need a benefit verification letter for a number of reasons.

Perhaps you need proof of income for a loan or to verify your monthly income for housing, or state or local benefits.

You may need proof of your current Medicare health insurance status. In some cases, a person may need proof of retirement

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status, disability status or age.

For any of these situations, a benefit verification letter will provide the proof you need.

Sometimes a benefit verification letter is called a budget letter, benefits letter, proof of income letter, or proof of award letter. Don’t let the different titles confuse you; they are all the same thing: a benefit verification letter.

Whatever the reason you need your benefit

verification letter, you can get yours immediately online for free.

Simply visit us online at www.socialsecurity. gov/myaccount and set up a “my Social Security account.” To create an account, you must provide some personal information about yourself and answer some questions that only you are likely to know.

They are the same types of questions you would encounter if you were trying to open an online account at a financial institution or obtain your credit report.

Next, create a unique username and password

that you will use to access your online account. This process protects you and keeps your personal Social Security information private.

Once you’ve established your account, it will be simple to come back and transact business with Social Security in the future. For example, in addition to getting another benefit verification letter in the next year or two, you can check your benefit and payment information as well as your earnings record.

You also can change your address, phone number, and direct deposit information.

Attend the Church of Your Choice

Never Ending Food 1 Kings 17:7-16 Elijah, a Tishbite from Tishbe in Gilead made the decision to obey the Lord, the God of Israel.

Last week we saw Elijah’s obedience to the Lord, walking over 100 miles through many villages to Zarephath, where Baal was openly worshipped. The Lord told Elijah “Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.” 1 Kings 17 goes on to tell us that when he arrived at the town gate of Zarephath, a widow was there.

Elijah asked her, “Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?” Then he asked her to also bring him a piece of bread. She told Elijah, “As surely as the Lord your God lives I don’t have any bread - only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it - and die.”

Can you feel the pain of this poor widow? It doesn’t say how long her husband has been dead. She was helpless. She had no hope. She had little chance to live. Her husband wasn’t there to provide for her and apparently her only son was too young to work. The society of the time didn’t take care of widows.

Then Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid.” He told her to go home and make him some bread then make some for her and her son. And as she did as Elijah instructed her, just like the Lord said, the flour wasn’t used up and the oil didn’t go dry. So there was food every day for Elijah, the widow and her son.

Look at the faith of this widow. This hopeless widow had nothing but the Lord Almighty provided all the food she, her son, and Elijah needed. It’s amazing to see how the Lord Almighty blessed this small family because she did as Elijah instructed her.

What a lesson for us! If we’re Christ followers we should have at least as much faith as this widow! If we call ourselves Christians shouldn’t we trust the Lord to provide all our needs? But, most of us think we can do it ourselves.

Really the Almighty Lord doesn’t need our help. He wants us to be obedient to do what He wants! I think that some of us, maybe all of us, should repent of our selfish desires of following false gods and turn back to what really matters . . . obeying and following the One and Only True God, Jesus Christ!! Amen?!?!

John 14:6 - Jesus is only Way! Pastor Larry Taylor Gospel Fellowship Church, Scott City • Scott City Teens for Christ director

Scott City Assembly of God

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

St. Joseph Catholic Church

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

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

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

Pence Community Church

Prairie View Church of the Brethren

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

Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.

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

Held at Precision Ag Bldg. west of Shallow Water

Holy Cross Lutheran Church

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

Worship every Sunday, 10:15 a.m.

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

Community Christian Church

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

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

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

Sunday Morning Worship, 10:45 a.m.

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

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

First Baptist Church

Immanuel Southern Baptist Church

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

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

Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.

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

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

Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.

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

Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

First Christian Church

1st United Methodist Church

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

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

Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

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

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

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

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

Website: www.fccscottcity.org

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

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

Scott Mennonite Church

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

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

Sunday Evening Service: 7:00 p.m.

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

Sunday School, 10:50 a.m.

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

YMYW Wednesday, 8:00 p.m.

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Mission Evening activities included a talent show, a party with Fourth of July decorations and cooking.

“We took jars of peanut butter because they have no peanut butter in the Ukraine,” says Tara. “So we made sandwiches and baked peanut butter cookies which they loved.”

The Ukrainian youth also have a passion for baseball and, in anticipation, the Scott County group brought 12 baseball gloves with them.

“They also wanted to learn how to play football.

It started out as touch, but they wanted to play tackle because that’s what they’d

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seen on TV,” Williams says. “We had to spend time teaching them how to throw and catch the ball.”

The group had originally planned to return on July 30, but those plans were delayed a day when their flight, which had departed Amsterdam and was over the Atlantic, had to make a return trip because of engine problems.

That experience was enough for Jason to put any plans for a return trip to the Ukraine on hold.

“I’ll be happy keeping Scott County youth are joined by teenagers from the Ukraine for a group photo. my feet on the ground for awhile,” he adds.

Money for the trip was and through fundraising “We appreciate the says Kasselman. “They kids to have such a memocommunity’s support,” made it possible for these rable experience.” raised by the individuals events.

Internship provides granddaughter insight into music world A summer internship has provided a McPherson College student a rare opportunity to explore the music industry from a variety of levels.

Jacee Coberly, Gove, had an opportunity to meet with musicians, producers, composers, songwriters, audio engineers and others in Tennessee, California and Colorado during her internship.

She is the granddaughter of JoAnn Oliver, Scott City.

“This internship wasn’t one specific job,” she explains. “The purpose was to explore and see what my options are.”

She started in Nashville, Tenn., interviewing people working for producer, songwriter and engineer Robert Marvin. That was followed by a trip to California where she was

surprised by her interview with sound engineer CJ Vallely.

“By talking to him, I got to hear not only the glorified aspects of the music world, but I got to see all aspects of it,” she says. “You have to have a tough skin to survive in the music business world. No matter what position you hold, there are people who will try to take advantage of you and

not reward you for your work.”

“This internship helped me to realize what’s important,” she said. “I don’t know if I can have that crazy lifestyle and still have a family.”

However, a new possibility was presented to her while in Colorado.

She was introduced to the music therapy program at Colorado State University.

“I realized I really like helping people and I love music and that’s a great way to combine the two,” she says. “You don’t have to be a great performer or a great artist.”

Coberly was also selected by the staff at McPherson College to be included in the 2013 edition of “Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.”

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Sports

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captains take control

New Beavers know their time has arrived

For nine months the Scott Community High School football team has been able to reflect on their Class 3A state title.

And throughout the summer strength and conditioning program the team was reminded of their previous season’s success.

However, these reminders had nothing to do with reliving their 21 point comeback in the state title game or the first undefeated season in school history in the postseason playoff era.

No, the reminder was that the Beavers have graduated most of their starting lineup from the

past two seasons.

“The coaches have been telling us that everyone thinks we’re going to be down and that this is their time to beat us,” says senior center Keigun Wells. “We’re anxious to get out there and prove that we can be a pretty good team.”

“That’s been our motivation every day in the weight room. We feel we have something to prove.”

This new group of Beavers will get a chance to show how their summer (Top) SCHS seniors (from left) Evan Cardenas, Paco Banda and Martin Gough lead sprint drills during captain’s practices. (Above) Senior Keigun Wells (front) during Monday’s workout. (Record Photo) of preparation has paid off when they begin twoa-day practices on Mon- captain’s practices which Following a condition- for a seven-on-seven pass“It’s been a good sumday. This week they are are led each evening by ing workout, the skilled ing scrimmage to finish mer in the weight room conducting the traditional the seniors.

(See CAPTAINS on page 18) position players line up out the night.

Two-a-days begin Monday for SCHS, SCMS fall sports As of Monday, summer vacation will officially be over for Scott Community High School and Scott City Middle school athletes.

Fall practices will get underway with two-a-day sessions for football and volleyball players.

SCHS football practices will be held Monday

through Thursday, Aug. 19-22, from 7:00-9:15 a.m. and 5:30-8:00 p.m.

Friday’s sessions are from 6:15-7:30 a.m. and 4:30-6:15 p.m.

A mandatory parent’s meeting will be held on Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., in the SCHS auditorium. At least one parent is required to be in attendance.

Photo day for the football team will be held on Saturday at 9:00 a.m., followed by a scrimmage at about 10:15 a.m.

SCHS Volleyball Volleyball two-a-days will be held Monday through Friday from 7:009:00 a.m. and 6:00-8:00 p.m.

There will only be a morning session for SCHS cross-country on Monday through Friday from 6:308:00 a.m., in addition to a Saturday morning practice on Aug. 24 from 6:308:00 a.m.

Runners are to meet each day at the high school track.

A mandatory parent’s meeting will be held on Thurs., Aug. 22, 6:30 p.m., at the track building on the east side of the track.

SCMS Practices The SCMS seventh and eighth grade football teams will begin their two-a-day workouts at

8:00 a.m. throughout the week, in addition to a second practice at 6:00 p.m.

The seventh grade volleyball team will practice Monday through Thursday at 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. with the eighth graders to follow at 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. There will be no practice on Fri., Aug. 23.

More than power behind summer weights

Scott City junior Wyatt Eitel completes a hang clean lift during summer weights.

(Record Photo)

Summer weightlifting is a chance for Scott Community High School and Scott City Middle School athletes to build power and muscle mass.

After all, isn’t that what strength training is all about?

Not necessarily.

While those two elements are important, they aren’t the primary focus for summer strength coaches Glenn O’Neil and Jim Turner.

“We are looking for quickness and speed so these athletes have the ability to use their strength,” says O’Neil.

While both coaches like to focus on improved performance on the football field, where O’Neil is (See WEIGHTS on page 19)

Outdoors in Kansas

by Steve Gilliland

Getting squirrely in Ark. Welcome to Bentonville, Ark., home of the world-renowned Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Walmart Visitors’ Center where Sam Walton opened his first five-and-dime store (essentially the first Walmart) and home to the second annual Championship Squirrel Cook-Off. Yes, I said championship squirrel cookoff.

“From the time I was five I’ve walked the fields and hollers’ of my part of Arkansas trying to figure out how things worked and learning the truth about nature,” says Bentonville resident Joe Wilson.

Like many country boys and hunters, Joe cut his teeth on hunting rabbits, squirrels and other small game before graduating to hunting deer. Bentonville has developed many artsy and historical tourist attractions, even displaying prominent artwork in local hotels.

And while Wilson appreciates that immensely, he and other hunters and outdoorsmen his age began to feel that the area was slowly losing its “Ozark flavor,” as he puts it.

In 2006, a group of older and retired deer hunters, tired of having to fight each year for good spots to hunt deer, decided to get back to what they all cut their teeth on, and the novel organization Squirrels Unlimited, (SqU for short) was formed.

Besides helping revive that local Ozark Flavor, the group feels that many young hunters go straight to hunting deer. The group would like to resurrect the sport of small game among young hunters and have them work their way up to big game.

Bragging rights to the best squirrel recipe has been an ongoing, friendly competition (See SQUIRREL on page 20)

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and with the 7-on-7 scrimmages everyone is starting to understand their assignments,” says Wells, who will likely see playing time at inside linebacker.

“We’re ready for the season to get started.”

What’s Past is Past Just in case any players may have forgotten, head coach Glenn O’Neil and assistant coach Jim Turner have reminded them that they can’t rest on last season’s accomplishments.

“Our school won the state title, but that was a different team - a different group of boys,” says O’Neil. “We’ve been telling these boys all summer they need to play with a chip on their shoulder because no one else is expecting big things from them. We want them to carry that chip with them every day in the weight room and every day in practice so that it motivates them to be even better.”

And while the players have bought into what the coaching staff has been telling them, there’s still the process of players who

SCHS junior Sloan Baker gets ready to make a reception in front of a defender during a 7-on-7 scrimmage this week.

(Record Photo)

were followers a year ago making the transition to leaders.

“Some kids didn’t push themselves like they could have,” says O’Neil.

“When we hit the track during camp it made some of them realize they weren’t where they needed to be (in terms of conditioning) and not where we expected them to be.

“When we made the transition from weight room speed, quickness and power to football speed, quickness and power, it was a wake-up call for the boys in camp and with 7-on-7 workouts,” he says. “That was good. It gave them a month to begin making the transition and to lose a couple of pounds, or gain

a couple of pounds.”

One of the exciting aspects of coaching, adds O’Neil, is seeing those boys who have matured physically and mentally since last season and are ready to assume a larger role on the team.

“There are kids on every team who will come out of the shadows and make an impact because it

is their time and they feel that sense of urgency,” he says. “Many of them have played behind boys who were All-Staters and were starters on a state championship team.

“Those boys are gone, so now it’s their turn,” he says. “Hopefully, they’ve used that time in the shadows to learn and to be prepared for this moment.”

KC hoping to rekindle past with special teams There have been two X-Factors in KC history - yours truly and the great Dante Hall.

You may recall that it was 10 seasons ago when Hall established himself as one of the premier return specialists in the game with a combined five kickoff and punt returns in a single season. During one nine-game stretch, Hall was returning a kickoff for a touchdown once every eight times he touched the ball. The NFL average was once every 130 times.

He owns the Chiefs’ franchise record for most kick returns (6) and punt returns (5) for touchdowns.

In the years following, Hall’s

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records have been gathering dust with no one even remotely challenging those marks.

Kansas City’s special teams play during most of the past decade has been pretty mediocre - on a good day. The Chiefs haven’t had a punt return for a TD since September 2010. The last kickoff return for a touchdown came in November 2011

by Jamaal Charles.

If the pre-season opener with New Orleans was any indication, that’s about to change.

In that game, Dexter McCluster had a 55 yard punt return, Devon Wylie had a 22 yard punt return and rookie Knile Davis returned a kickoff 79 yards.

During an era in which it appears the NFL is trying to eliminate kickoff returns completely, those are impressive stats.

It’s no coincidence that the apparent turnaround in KC’s special teams play comes at a time when Dave Toub has been hired as the special teams coordinator. It’s also no coincidence that Toub held a similar position when Devin Hester was setting a

new standard for special teams play.

During the 2007 season, Hester had six kickoff/punt returns for scores and over the past seven seasons has returned the ball 17 times for TDs. It has been argued that Hall’s return skills were responsible for at least three wins during Kansas City’s 13-win season in 2003.

If what we saw against New Orleans can become a trend, it could mean another 2-3 wins for the Chiefs this season.

It will be interesting to see how special teams play continues to progress during the next few weeks.

(See SPECIAL on page 23)

Raise teal, goose bag limits for upcoming seasons The Kansas Wildlife, Parks and Tourism Commission approved the 2013 duck and goose seasons during a public hearing held in Yates Center.

Summer breeding bird surveys show most species well above long-term averages, and with good to excellent nesting habitat conditions, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) provided liberal season frameworks.

Waterfowl hunters may be surprised to learn that

KDWP Report the daily bag limit for teal during the early teal season was increased from four to six, the daily bag limit for Canada geese was increased from three to six and the daily bag limit for light geese was increased from 20 to 50.

Possession limits for ducks and geese were increased from twice the daily bag limit to three times the daily limit. The

Commission approved the following waterfowl hunting seasons: High Plains Duck Zone: Oct. 5-Dec. 2, 2013 and Dec. 21, 2013-Jan. 26, 2014. Youth: Sept.

28-29, 2013 Low Plains Early Duck Zone: Oct. 5-Dec. 1, 2013 and Dec. 21, 2013-Jan. 5, 2014. Youth: Sept. 28-29, 2013 Low Plains Late Zone: Oct. 26-Dec. 29, 2013 and Jan. 18-Jan. 26, 2014.

Youth: Oct. 19-20, 2013

Low Plains Southeast Zone: Nov. 2-3, 2013 and Nov. 16, 2013-Jan. 26, 2014. Youth: Oct. 26-27, 2013 Duck bag limit: Six ducks, including no more than 5 mallards, of which only 2 may be hens; 2 redheads; 3 wood ducks; 3 scaup; 2 pintails; and 2 canvasbacks. Possession limit is three times the daily bag limit.

White-fronted geese: Oct. 26-Dec. 29, 2013 and Feb. 1-Feb. 9, 2014. Daily

bag limit: 2. Possession limit is 6.

Canada geese: Oct. 26-Nov. 3, 2013 and Nov. 6, 2013-Feb. 9, 2014.

Daily bag limit on Canada geese: 6. Possession limit: 18.

Light geese: Oct. 26-Nov. 3, 2013 and Nov. 6, 2013-Feb. 9, 2014.

Daily bag limit: 50. No limit on possession Light Goose Conservation Order: Feb 10-April 30, 2014. No bag or possession limit.

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Media has no respect for K-State . . . again The football teams at Kansas State and Kansas are going full speed at their respective training camps.

K-State received their normal, low rating (sixth place in Big 12) from the conference media poll.

What does by it take to conMac vince those Stevenson guys that they don’t know what they’re writing and talking about?

K-State will have one of the best offenses in the Big 12 and that will take a lot of pressure off their inexperienced defense. But don’t expect Coach Bill Snyder’s 23rd team at K-State to be weak on defense. He has his program well-stocked since coming out of his short retirement.

Kansas is the mystery team in the Big 12. Coach Charlie Weis and his staff recruited juco players at almost every position on defense and the offensive line. No one can accurately predict how the newcomers will fit into the team mold at KU. But one thing is certain: The Jayhawks will be much-improved on both defense and offense.

They might start slow because many of the juco recruits haven’t gone through spring practice and are new to the KU system. If, however, the talent ratings prove to be justified, Kansas could be one of the surprise teams in the nation.

The Big 12 move to keep their league at 10 members is looking better all the time. Each team will get extensive TV exposure and the conference looks competitive from top to bottom.

The conference race will be wide open and highly entertaining.

KU and K-State both received $22 million from their Big 12 affiliation last year and it will only get better.

KC Offense Impressive In the first exhibition game, KC’s first and only offensive drive by the starters was a thing of beauty.

Quarterback Alex Smith completed 7-of-8 passes for 68 yards on a 14-play, 80 yard touchdown drive.

(See MEDIA on page 21)

Warren Kropp completes a hang clean while Matthew Tuttle spots for him during the summer strength program at SCHS. (Record Photo)

Weights the head coach and Turner is the defensive coordinator, they view the summer program as an opportunity to improve the strength and flexibility of athletes in all sports.

“Explosiveness, rather than creating a slow (maximum) weight is going to be beneficial in any sport, whether it’s volleyball, basketball or wrestling,” notes O’Neil. “We’re looking for increases in the standing long jump and vertical jump.

We’re looking for explosiveness off the line.”

In terms of developing football players, the coaching staff isn’t trying to develop “a lineman who can squat a house, but doesn’t have the quickness to get to the guy he’s supposed to be blocking.”

“Our goal is to build explosiveness. That’s why we work on our lifts, slow and under control and then popping the weight up quickly to work on the fast twitch muscles,” O’Neil says.

Changes This Summer The two coaches broke from their normal workout routine this summer.

In past years, a Monday, Wednesday and Friday regimen focused on the hang clean, squat and bench press. This year, they cut that back to two days a week and used the extra time to focus on specific muscle groups such as the triceps, shoulders and hamstrings.

“By strengthening the hamstring we can hopefully prevent lower back problems and hamstring issues,” O’Neil says.

Equal time was given to the

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different muscle groups.

“One less day per week amounts to about 20 reps on a lift,” noted O’Neil. “That means the muscles have additional recovery time and the goal was to have bigger gains on the days when we did max lifts.”

O’Neil was somewhat surprised that gains in the maximum lifts didn’t show a significant change from past years, but he says overall endurance seems to have improved.

And that doesn’t mean significant gains didn’t occur.

O’Neil says several lineman are currently squatting over 400 pounds, led by senior Cole Birney who has a max squat of 540 pounds.

The SCHS coach is also pleased with gains made with the hang clean.

Creating Explosiveness “The best lift for football is the hang clean. With a power, or hang, clean you’re using more than one muscle group. When done right, it teaches explosiveness,” O’Neil says. “I’d say that 85 to 90 percent of football coaches will agree the most important lift is the (hang) clean.

“And you see that in state powerlifting. A lot of boys (in a weight division) will be pretty competitive with each other in the bench and squat. But you look at the top programs, such as Conway Springs, and other than the numbers that they bring, the key to their success is in the clean. That’s where they separate themselves.”

O’Neil feels the progress that many athletes have seen in the

hang clean will be evident on the field this fall.

“I think a number of our boys are more explosive and stronger in the clean than guys who outweigh them by 40 or 50 pounds,” he says. “That explosiveness is going to be evident with their blocking and tackling. The hang clean builds strength in more than one area.”

The head coach was also pleased with the progress made by the seventh and eighth graders.

“They worked on their technique and they listened,” he says. “They had a good summer in the weight room.”

During the School Year With the start of the school year, strength and conditioning instructor Neil Baker works with the coaches to coordinate on what days they will lift hard.

“We still need two days of core lifts during the season,” O’Neil explains. “On Mondays, when the JV (football team) is playing, we work hard on the squats.

“We’ll do heavy lifting in the weight room when we aren’t going to do heavy work on the practice field.”

The Beavers won’t change their lifting routine on game day.

“The body is used to a routine and we try to maintain that routine as much as possible,” he adds. “We’d rather do that than have the boys in the weight room (during the school day) doing nothing. We want to get the muscles going and get oxygen into the blood system.

Summer Weights

90% or Higher Attendance High School Seniors

Cole Birney Alex Burnett Warren Kropp Chris Pounds Brayden Strine Matt Tuttle Keigun Wells

Juniors

Sloan Baker Hunter Braun Wyatt Eitel Lane Hayes Marshal Hutchins James Jurgens Brett Meyer Trey O’Neil

Sophomores

Josh Becker Reid Flower Dylan Hutchins Wyatt Kropp Drake McRae Draven McRae Nick Storm Abe Wiebe

Freshmen

Seth Cardenas Kyle Cure Jess Drohman Justin Faurot Bo Hess Trey Loftis Chase Rumford Eddie Tilton

Middle School

Jaren Berning Wyatt Hayes Jarrett Jurgens Daniel Nolasco Baron Strine

“And, psychologically, if you’re used to lifting on certain days and then don’t because it’s a game day, we don’t feel the body responds as well. We’ll at least get the boys into the gym for a circuit workout.”

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Squirrel amongst SqU members since the group began.

So in 2012, as both a way to promote SqU and the sport of squirrel hunting, and as a way to show the world how tasty squirrel meat can be, the championship cookoff was born.

The rules are simple.

Each team will prepare one main meat dish and one side dish, and 80 percent of meat in the dishes must be squirrel. Squirrels must be brought to the competition whole (but skinned) and all preparation must be done on-site in the 2-1/2 hours allotted.

Top prize is $500 with trophies and certified bragging rights to the second and third place teams.

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Some of last year’s squirrel dishes were squirrel poppers made with squirrel loins and jalapeno cheese, minced squirrel brains with cream cheese in a puff pastry, baconwrapped squirrel wings, squirrel pizza, squirrel tamales and squirrel gumbo. But the title of master squirrel chefs went home with the Estes brothers, Brandon and Blayne, for their squirrel sliders.

Last year’s event was featured on a special Ozark Edition of the Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern.

Joe told me how, as a kid, he had collected and sold squirrel tails to

Sports Calendar Softball Aug. 17: Co-ed softball tournament in Scott City starting at 10:00 a.m. Limit of 12 teams. $150 entry fee. Call Scott Recreation Commission (872-2372).

Golf Aug. 17-18: Club championship at Scott Community Golf Course.

Sept. 14: 5-person scramble. 8:00 a.m. registration; 9:00 a.m. shotgun start. Limited to 20 teams. $45/person or $225/team. Call Scott Community Foundation, 872-3790.

Mepps, a large fishing company that uses hair from squirrel tales on many of its lures.

“Back then I think I spent more on postage to ship those darn tails than what I was paid for them,” he says.

Today Mepps uses 300,000 squirrel tales a year, and ironically has become a major sponsor of Squirrels Unlimited and of the cook-off.

SqU offers paid memberships as well as free memberships which offer fewer perks. It’s paid and active membership role stands at about 1,200 members, while nearly 9,000 people participate as unpaid members. SqU

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members come from 36 states and Canada, including 93 from here in Kansas.

This year, teams from seven states are registered to take part in the cookoff.

During a recent interview Wilson was asked, “What constitutes a trophy to a squirrel hunter?”

His answer: “To a true squirrel hunter, a trophy is a limit of squirrels each killed with one shot to the head!”

It’s hard to argue with that.

Continue to Explore Kansas Outdoors!

Steve can be contacted by email at stevegilliland@idkcom.net

Scott State Lake Updated August 2 Channel cats: good; up to 17 inches. Cut bait, shrimp, worms, and prepared baits fished around the fish attractors and other structure has been best for fish up to 8 lbs.

Crappie: fair/good; most up to 9 inches. Minnows or jigs around the fish attractors has been best. But drifting jigs or small crankbaits over the deeper part of the lake in a boat, fishing minnows under a bobber along rip-rapped shorelines in the evening, or fishing minnows under a bobber up in the creek can all be productive methods/locations. Anglers report catching good numbers of fish most days with the majority of the “keepers” running in the 8-9 inch range.

Walleye/saugeye: slow; up to 8 lbs. Casting and slowretrieving jigs tipped with nightcrawlers or minnows or fishing various fish imitating jigs and crankbaits along drop-offs and points should be best.

Largemouth bass: fair; up to 5.5 lbs. Slow rolling spinnerbaits and soft plastics around the fish attractors, along rip-rap, around laydown deadfalls, and beaver caches.

Sunfish: good; up to 8 inches. Nightcrawlers or mealworms under a bobber along the edges of weedbeds, riprapped shorelines, and around the fish attractors.

General comments: Release all walleye/saugeye and largemouth bass less than 15 inches.

Please discard all leftover bait in a trash can, even baitfish. Remember it is illegal to release any fish into public water unless it was taken from that water.

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Media That was it for the first team, but Reid was pleased with their play.

Reid didn’t go through the tired ritual of declaring that rookie right tackle Eric Fisher (6-7, 306) would have to earn his starting position during training camp; Fisher will start right from the beginning. KC’s numberone pick in the 2013 draft dominated with his blocking during the touchdown drive.

Rookie Bradley McDougald (6-0, 214) from Kansas saw considerable action at strong safety and made some impressive plays. McDougald has a good chance of making the Chiefs’ squad.

Kansas State grad Tysyn Hartman (6-3, 206) is starting his second season at strong safety and played well, coming up with an interception.

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Coach Reid is an established NFL coach and knows full well that the most important part of training camp is keeping his team healthy. Exhibition games are nothing more than glorified scrimmages and the won-lost record means nothing.

It was reassuring to see Reid pull the starters after just one series. They will see plenty of action during the demanding regular season schedule.

The transformation of the Kansas City Chiefs’ football team in one offseason is remarkable indeed. Even though KC lost their first exhibition game, there was much to be encouraged about.

Leading the way was the exceptional sideline organization. Last season the Chiefs’ bench resembled a Chinese fire drill.

Coach Andy Reid has put

together a veteran and skilled coaching staff and he has them in mid-season form so far as being wellorganized.

KC Pitching Stellar Kansas City baseball fans have seen many sunsets since the Royals were in playoff contention this late in the season. KC is very much in the hunt for a wild card spot and the Detroit Tigers aren’t quite out of reach in the American League Central title chase.

Manager Ned Yost makes some moves with his everyday players that are open to question, but his handling of pitchers has been above reproach.

The numbers speak for themselves.

Through the August 9 games, Kansas City had a team ERA of 3.56, which was second to De-

troit’s 3.53 in the American League. KC’s starters and relievers have been among the best in either league with very few poor outings.

Yost has the knack of knowing when to leave a pitcher in and when to take him out. His decisions put a strain on the equilibrium of Royals’ fans, but he has made the correct choice far more often than not.

In addition to KC’s stellar pitching, the hitters are coming to life. Eric Hosmer has been on fire since the All-Star break and Mike Moustakas hasn’t been far behind.

In addition, David Lough has been coming through with regularity in clutch situations.

If the Royals can maintain their improved run production, they will be in the race for a playoff spot right through September.

Recording artist Carter Sampson performing in Scott City Fri., Aug. 16 • 7:00 p.m. • Patton Park and don’t miss the Movie in the Park starting at dusk

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(First published in The Scott County Record on Thurs., Aug. 15, 2013; last published Thurs., Aug. 29, 2013)3t NOTICE OF DELINQUENT REAL ESTATE AND MINERAL TAXES FOR 2012 Notice is hereby given, that on the 3rd day of September, 2013, I, Lark Speer, as County Treasurer of Scott County, Kansas, in accordance with K.S.A. 79-2306 will bid in for Scott County, Kansas, at the County Treasurer’s office in the City of Scott City, Kansas all the following described Real Estate and Severed Mineral properties for the delinquent taxes for the year 2012 and the charges thereon. No individual bids will be received. It is possible that some properties have been paid, but were not paid in time to change the publication.

A current list is available for public inspection in the Scott County Treasurer’s office during regular office hours.

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And the next winner will be . . .

Just pencil it in. Tiger Woods is favored to win the Masters . . . in 2025.

But don’t just ask us.

You’ll probably get the same response from oddsmakers who have already made Woods the favorite to win the 2014 Masters - as if anyone really cares about who’s going to win the tournament eight months from now.

And what about Phil Mickelson, because we know everyone is clamoring to know whether Lefty will win another major?

He and Rory McIlroy are tied for the No. 2 spot as 12-1 favorites.

Yes, that’s the same Lefty who just finished tied for 72nd in the PGA Championship - ahead of just two other golfers.

Tiger finished tied for 40th and was well out of contention when Sunday’s final group stepped on the tee box.

All of which makes predicting the winners of PGA events as productive as a member of Congress voting for the 40th . . . or maybe the 50th . . . time to

Special Score on Opening Drive Kansas City fans were treated to a rarity against the Saints - a touchdown on their opening series.

That was huge for a team that went the entire 2011 season without scoring a touchdown on their opening drive and didn’t do much better in 2012.

The upgrade at quarterback with Alex Smith was evident when the first team offense scored on an 80 yard drive to open the game. In his only drive of the night before heading to the sideline, Smith was 7-of-8 for 68 yards.

Granted, the Saints had the worst defense in the league last year, but it was still a positive sign for KC.

Rod Haxton, sports editor

repeal Obamacare.

We only have to look at the recently completed PGA Championship to realize that weather forecasters look like unflappable geniuses compared to the so-called experts trying to guess who will win the next PGA event.

In the recently completed Championship, Woods was (surprisingly) favored to win his 15th major at 7-2 odds, followed by Mickelson. Jason Dufner, the eventual champion, was No. 13 on the list.

It just shows what has been apparent for several years - Woods’ domination on the PGA tour is a thing of the past and that picking him to win week in and week out is reflexive, based on the Woods that people like to remember.

In reality, Woods has

been just another one of the guys in major championships since claiming the 2008 U.S. Open title.

Good for the most part.

Brief moments of brilliance. But rarely a serious factor down the stretch.

It seems to have taken Las Vegas and a number of so-called experts a little time to catch up with that reality.

Tiger’s first 14 tour majors were a pretty spectacular run and, yes, it certainly appeared inevitable at one time that Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18 major wins would become history.

Now it’s not so certain.

Father Time is catching up with Woods as he does with all athletes.

He’s been through four knee surgeries, a bad elbow, a twinge in his shoulder. His body is showing the signs of breaking down that occurs with all great athletes even at the ripe old age of 38. In addition, his game - particularly off the tee - is horrendous on a good day while his short game

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We may have also been provided an answer as to how Pro Bowl runningback Jamaal Charles will be used in this offense.

It’s way too early to know how Charles will be utilized in the running game, but he had three catches for 27 yards the other night, which is a good sign for KC fans - and not so good for opposing defenses who will have to figure how to stop Charles in the open field.

One thing that is a concern after last Friday’s game is the apparent lack of a No. 2 quarterback. Over the final 3-1/2 quarters we had just 135 yards of total offense with Smith off the field. In oth-

Co-ed tourney is Saturday

A co-ed slow-pitch softball tournament will be sponsored by the Scott Recreation Commission on Sat., Aug. 17, starting at 10:00 a.m.

The number of teams is limited to 12.

Triathlon at Lake Scott

Scenic Lake Scott will be the site for the annual triathlon to be held on Sat., Aug. 17, starting at 6:30 a.m.

The event will begin with a 300 meter swim at the Camp Lakeside pool, followed by a 12 mile bike ride around the lake and a 5K run.

Anyone with questions can contact the Scott Recreation Commission (872-2372).

er words, we’d better hope he stays healthy.

Reunion Week This week’s pre-season game with San Francisco is a reunion of sorts.

Smith will be playing (probably a quarter) against the team that drafted and then traded him away. Likewise, FortyNiner defensive end will be returning to Arrowhead where he was a No. 1 draft pick and starter before going to San Francisco as a free agent during the offseason.

I know it’s only preseason, but it will be interesting to see how the Chiefs and the offense look against one of the league’s best defenses.

has only flashes of the old Tiger.

He’s still capable of pulling off the occasional remarkable shot, but that’s not near often enough.

And, while he’s still the No. 1 golfer in the world, on any given weekend in a major tournament it seems that the field is filled with 15 or 20 golfers who are playing like they are No. 1.

It’s impossible for anyone - even Tiger - to be as dominant as he or Nicklaus once were in their prime.

Tiger will win more golf tournaments. It would be shocking if he didn’t add another major or two or three to his impressive total, but the likelihood of passing Nicklaus as the all-time winner of major championships is slipping away with each passing year and with each errant drive into the deep rough.

Maybe Tiger’s next major will come at Augusta, but I wouldn’t bet on it . . . even with 7-2 odds.

Tiger isn’t Tiger anymore.

Have questions about the Scott Community Foundation?

call 872-3790 or e-mail: scottcf@wbsnet.org

all-star summer

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Kite closes high school career at Shrine Bowl, KBCA showcase When you’re an all-star athlete it’s easy to take the little things for granted.

Drew Kite was reminded how important the little things are when he and other participants in the Kansas Shrine Bowl had an opportunity to visit with youngsters who are patients at the Shriners Hospital in St. Louis during their all-star week in Topeka.

In the past, the football players were transported by bus to the Shriners Hospital, but now youngsters who are receiving treatment at the hospital are brought to the site of the Shrine Bowl. Regardless of the location, it’s a humbling experience.

“You think about how great it is to be an allstar who got picked to play in the game, but then you realize these are kids who will never get that chance,” says the former Scott Community High School standout. “We visited with one little boy who wants to be a baseball player, but will probably never get the chance because he doesn’t have an arm.

“But the kids were great. They were really excited to visit with us.”

All-star football, crosscountry and band members were taken around to 8-9 stations where they could visit with different youngsters.

“It puts everything into perspective,” Kite says. “I didn’t realize how much it would impact me. It makes you realize how

fortunate you are.”

Scores First TD An All-Star tight end and linebacker, Kite wasn’t sure what position he would play in the Shrine Bowl. Once he arrived at camp, he saw that about 25 of the 35 players on the West squad were linebackers in high school.

“When I saw that I figured they’d play me at tight end,” he says. “Because I was the only tight end I never came off the field.”

That move worked out well for Kite who had the distinction of scoring what is believed to be the first-ever touchdown by a Scott City player in the Shrine Bowl.

With both teams struggling to find any offense during the first half, the West squad finally pushed the ball inside the 10 yard line where they were looking at fourth-and-goal.

A fake field goal attempt found Kite wide open for a seven yard touchdown pass.

The fake attempt was no surprise to Kite.

“Out of 35 guys on our team we didn’t have anyone who could kick.

We spent the week working on a ton of fakes and on-side kicks,” says Kite.

“We didn’t figure we could make a field goal if it came down to that.

The most difficult part of the play was making sure he didn’t botch it.

“I caught the ball a little behind me on my hip,”

Football and basketball all-star Drew Kite.

he says. “It was a pretty big thrill to catch a touchdown pass in an all-star game.”

The 6-0 lead with 7:00 left in the first half was short-lived as the East came back on their next possession to tie the game at 6-6 going into the half.

“The first half was pretty frustrating offensively, but Coach (Ryan Cornelsen) said we needed to be patient. He said that it’s not unusual for defense to dominate a game early,” Kite noted. “In the second half, both offenses had a

lot more success moving the ball.”

The West squad trailed 14-13 when they scored a go-ahead touchdown with 6:09 remaining in the game.

“I really thought our defense would shut them down after that,” says Kite.

Instead, the East rallied with a 20-yard touchdown pass with 3:04 to play that gave them a 22-19 win and snapped the West’s seven game win streak in the series.

“We hated to be the

2 Beavers are KBCA all-stars; O’Neil named ‘Coach of the Year’ Scott Community High School teammates Brett O’Neil and Drew Kite had one final opportunity to share the same basketball court when they were selected for the annual Kansas Basketball Coaches’ Association All-Star game played in Topeka on Aug. 7.

In an exciting double overtime game, the former Beavers and their head coach, Glenn O’Neil, came out on the short end of a 108-104 score.

Teams are not split up by geography, but with two players from each classification assigned to each team.

It was an exciting game that saw the Blue team coached by O’Neil erase deficits in regulation and the first overtime, but couldn’t put the White team away.

“In an all-star game what you often end up

with is a lot of three-point shooting and the post people don’t get near as many touches as they would during the regular season,” notes Coach O’Neil.

Kite finished the game with seven points before fouling out in the second overtime, but not before making a big impression on other coaches in attendance, especially during an intrasquad scrimmage the night before the game.

“What impressed coaches was his physical play and foot quickness in the post,” said O’Neil. “Of course, those are things we’ve seen from Drew the last two years.

“With Brett, they liked his leadership at the point and his ability to distribute the ball with penetration.”

O’Neil finished the allstar game with six points and eight assists.

However, both former Beavers demonstrated the

key to their team’s three consecutive state titles on game night with some solid defense - even in a game where the teams combined for 212 points.

But, with the double overtime, that was also the equivalent of 1-1/2 games.

While O’Neil was the Blue head coach, the other two assistant coaches were in charge of substitutions.

“At the end of regulation and in the overtime I kept rotating boys in and out of the game. I’d take Brett and Drew out, but the other coaches were putting them back in because that’s who they wanted on the floor for a defensive stop,” says Coach O’Neil. “Both boys represented themselves and their school well.”

Kite will continue his basketball career with Ft. Hays State University

while O’Neil will be at Dodge City Community College.

It wasn’t just the players who were honored during an afternoon awards banquet on game day. Each of the top coaches from each classification were also recognized, with O’Neil the KBCA “Class 3A Coach of the Year.” In addition, he was honored as the overall “Boy’s Coach of the Year” for all classifications.

“The overall award was probably a recognition for what we’ve done over the past three years,” says O’Neil, referring to an unprecedented three consecutive Class 3A state titles from 2011-13.

“I can remember going to my first coaching clinics 28 or 29 years ago and watching coaches get these awards. It humbles you to be one of those coaches.”

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team that saw the win streak end, but that didn’t spoil things for me. Being in the Shrine Bowl turned out to be the best part of my summer,” he says.

“It was 10 days of being with guys you hadn’t met before, but heard of. You come away from that with friends you’d never have any other way.”

KBCA All-Star Game In addition to the Shrine Bowl, Kite joined teammate Brett O’Neil and head coach Glenn O’Neil as selections for the Kan-

sas Basketball Coaches’ Association All-Star game played in Topeka on Aug. 7.

The team on which Kite and O’Neil played lost 108-104 in double overtime.

“The post play was pretty limited. I saw somewhere that there were about 70 three-point attempts,” says Kite. “But that didn’t bother me. We had a good time.

“I wish we could have been together for two or three days instead of just one day,” he adds.

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Lightner joins physician team at SC Hospital There’s no doubt that the Scott County Hospital’s new facilities were a drawing card when Dr. Matt Lightner was deciding where to establish his practice after completing his residency program.

But that wasn’t the key selling point in bringing the Garden City native back to Western Kansas.

What convinced him to become the fifth physician in the medical clinic was the overall age of the staff. The only member of that team who will be retiring in the near future is Dr. Daniel Dunn.

“This is a medical staff that should be together for a long, long time,” says Dr. Lightner.

“It’s pretty exciting to surround yourself with people you’ll be working with for quite some time.

“I didn’t see anywhere else that could begin to compare with this medical staff in terms of how young they are. That puts this hospital and this community in a unique position.”

No one is perhaps more excited about that situation than hospital CEO Mark Burnett who has been successful in recruiting Drs. Christian Cupp, Libby Hineman and Josiah Brinkley prior to the arrival of Dr. Lightner.

“It certainly helps that a couple of our doctors have connections to Scott City, and the new hospital has certainly helped in our recruitment efforts, but we’d also like to think that we’re seen as innovators when it comes to providing health care,” says Burnett.

“I believe we’re earning a reputation where physicians and other health care professionals know we’re going to do all we can to be at the forefront when it comes to providing health care to the people in Scott County and the surrounding area.”

Original plans were for Dr. Lightner to start his practice on Sept. 1, but with Dr. Hineman expecting a baby in mid-September, it was decided to have Dr. Lightner begin working at the clinic on Aug. 15.

Not the First Choice Becoming a physician, however, wasn’t Dr. Lightner’s first career choice. After graduating from Garden City High School he earned a degree from Wheaton College, Chicago, Ill., where he studied computer science and Spanish.

“I thought I’d go into computer programming, but then I did an about face,” he says.

Two things changed his mind.

With the rapidly changing world of technology, Dr. Lightner was uncertain what computer programming “would look like for the next 30 to 40 years of my life.”

“And I began looking at what I could do that would have an impact on peoples’ lives,” he said. “I wanted something that would fulfill that urging inside me.

Following three years in Garden City after earning his degree from Wheaton, Dr. Lightner enrolled in the University of Kansas Medical School, Kansas City, where he spent the next

Dr. Matthew and Emily Lightner and their children Jack, 6; Lily, 4; and Abby, 20 months.

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four years, followed by three years in the residency program at Wichita.

In his first year at Wichita, he met Dr. Brinkley, who was in his third year and was bound for Scott City.

“That really got me to looking at Scott City,” says Dr.

Lightner. “And I’d also heard “I feel there are too many a lot of good things about Dr. people who specialize and don’t Cupp from the faculty.” fit the need that’s out there. It’s harder being a GP (general pracA General Practitioner titioner), but you also have the There was never much doubt in Dr. Lightner’s mind that he opportunity to establish a better would prefer being a general relationship with your patients. practitioner.

(See LIGHTNER on page 30)

Wild Hog, others put on trial, but no conviction Used media to tell of Cheyenne’s plight in Okla.

Bob Campbell staff writer

Aptly named because he was 6-foot-5, strongly built and hard to handle, Wild Hog remains prominent among the Northern Cheyennes who broke out of the Darlington Reservation in Oklahoma and fought their way north.

Western Kansas authorities tried unsuccessfully to put him and six tribesmen on trial for alleged depredations near Oberlin, 100 miles north of Scott City. And it was his Jan. 9, 1879, fight with a guard at Ft. Robinson, Nebr., that led to the breakout of Cheyennes who had followed Chief Dull Knife after the Sept. 27, 1878, Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork in Scott County.

“Wild Hog is a mysterious figure whose name keeps coming up in accounts by the Cheyennes themselves,” said Overland Park historian James

Shown April 30, 1879, in front of the Ford County Jail in Dodge City are (front row, from left) Wild Hog, George Reynolds (interpreter), Old Crow and Blacksmith. (Back row) Tangle Hair, Strong Left Hand, Noisy Walker and Porcupine. The charges against them were eventually dismissed in Lawrence.

Leiker. “There was a considerable anger and resentment after the killings of approximately 30 white settlers in Rawlins and Decatur counties, and my sense is that he may have been one of the young men whom the chiefs couldn’t assert control over.”

The Rawlins and Decatur County attacks included the rapes of a dozen women,

teenagers and girls nine- and 12-years-old, according to Leiker and Ramon Powers, coauthors of a book titled, “The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory.”

Then about 30-years-old, Wild Hog was held for four months at the Ford County Jail in Dodge City with fellow defendants Old Crow, Porcupine,

Tangle Hair, Blacksmith, Noisy Walker and Strong Left Hand until they were taken by train on a change of venue for trial in Lawrence.

Eventually, the difficulty in getting witnesses to testify in Eastern Kansas led to the case being dismissed.

“Wild Hog had good horse sense about people and understood the difference between residents of Lawrence and a place like Dodge City,” Leiker said. “What he shrewdly did when interviewed at length by a journalist was shift the focus away from violence against settlers in Western Kansas toward the turmoil Indians had suffered in Indian Territory.

“He and other leaders established a narrative of what they had gone through, being underfed and living with disease.”

Leiker and Powers cite Wild Hog’s account of conditions in Oklahoma: “The woods were full of mosquitoes and bugs, and the children died of a disease we never knew anything about before.”

Possibly describing hemorrhagic measles, he said, “They broke out in splotches and dots all over. Their noses would bleed and their heads split open.”

Wild Hog died of pneumonia

in 1889 on the Sioux reservation at Pine Ridge, S.D. Jim Potter, supervisor of the Ft. Robinson History Center near Crawford, Nebr., said it was Wild Hog’s and Old Crow’s arrests that led to the escape of 130 Cheyennes on the night of Jan. 9, 1879.

“They were called that morning to headquarters, where Capt. Henry Wessels repeated his ultimatum that they would have to go back to Oklahoma,” Potter said.

“When they refused, Wild Hog tried to stab a guard. His wife saw it, which had to do with precipitating the rest of them to make their break the same night.”

Wild Hog stabbed himself on Jan. 31 but survived. On Feb. 4, they left under escort for Ft. Leavenworth.

“He was a robust individual, in those days a heavy duty guy,” adds Potter.

This is the sixth in a series of stories about the Northern Cheyenne exodus from Oklahoma to their homeland in Montana that began in late 1878. The Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork took place on Sept. 27, 1878, in northern Scott County. A two-day Battle Canyon Symposium will be held on Sept.

27-28 to commemorate the 135th anniversary of the battle. Saturday’s events will be held at the El Quartelejo Museum and Jerry Thomas Gallery.

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Farm

Water issues, cover crops among topics at Ag Field Day

Field tours and seminars on topics ranging from water issues to cover crops to comparisons of weed control in irrigated corn are highlights at the K-State Extension field day on Thurs., Aug. 29, at the Southwest Research-Extension Center, 4500 East Mary Street, Garden City.

Registration and an opportunity to visit ag product displays will begin at 8:00 a.m., followed by the program at 9:15 a.m. The day ends with a complimentary lunch served at noon.

Field tour topics include: •Comparisons of Weed Control Options in Teff, Forage Sorghum, and Sorghum-Sudangrass for Catch Crop Forage; •Comparisons of Herbicide Carryover in Teff, Forage Sorghum, and Sorghum-Sudangrass; •Comparisons of Weed Control in Irrigated Corn with 48 Herbicide Tank Mixes; •Herbicide-resistant Inzen Sorghum for Postemergence Grass and Broadleaf Weed Control; •Weed Control with 32 Herbicide Tank Mixes for Irrigated Sorghum; •Effects of AQUAmax Hybrid Corn on Spider Mite Populations; and •Enhancing Sorghum Nitrogen Use Efficiency through Fertilizer Management.

Seminars include: (See AG DAY on page 27)

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Delay can be costly with weeds in wheat stubble With the generous rain the area has received recently we’ve seen rather large broadleaf and grassy weeds actively growing in harvested wheat stubble.

These weeds are utilizing moisture and nutrients that would be available for a subsequent crop. It is a good idea to control these weeds before they set seed.

Kochia and Russian thistle are day length sen-

Down on the Farm Chris Long Walnut Creek Extension Agent

sitive and are currently beginning to flower, thus will be setting seed shortly.

It is especially important to prevent seed production from happening

on fields that will be planted to crops with limited options for weed control, such as grain sorghum, sunflowers or annual forages. It is especially difficult to control broadleaf weeds in sunflowers and grassy weeds in sorghum that appear after crop emergence.

Seed of some weed species can remain viable for several years, so allowing weeds to produce seed

can create weed problems for multiple years.

If the field will be planted to Roundup Ready corn or soybeans, producers may decide they can just wait and control any weed and grass seed that form now and emerge next season with a post emergence application of glyphosate in the corn or soybeans.

(See WEEDS on page 32)

Tyson won’t buy cattle fed beta-agonist Tyson Foods, the second largest beef processor in the U.S., has announced it will suspend purchases of cattle fed the beta-agonist zilpaterol, marketed

by Merck under the brand name Zilmax.

In a letter to cattle feeders, Tyson indicated it would stop accepting cattle fed the growth enhanc-

er on Sept. 6, 2013, as an interim measure while the company reviews animal welfare concerns related to the product.

Rumors of Tyson’s action sparked a sharp rally in Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle futures on Aug. 7.

Removing Zilmax from feed rations would bring

down the weight of cattle, resulting in less available beef and likely drive up beef prices.

Tyson’s letter to feeders said, “There have been recent instances of cattle delivered for processing that have difficulty walking or unable to move. We do not know the specific cause of these problems,

but some animal health experts have suggested that the use of the feed supplement Zilmax is one possible cause.”

Merck Animal Health issued a statement that reiterated that the benefits of Zilmax are well documented and the company noted the product has (See TYSON on page 27)

Bad for the birds, bad for all of us Like canaries in the coal mine, declining bird populations across America’s grasslands are early warning indicators of much bigger ecosystem disruptions that affect us all.

The birds are still singing to us, but they

Nebraska could take top spot in cattle feeding

If the last five years are any indication of the next five, there’s going to be a slow transition moving more cattle into Nebraska feedlots than the current number one state of Texas.

A University of Nebraska-Lincoln research team identified proximity to beef processing plants and corn stockpiles in Nebraska as key factors of the shift.

Recent years of drought have also forced cattle to move north in search of greener pastures prior to moving into feedlots. Once the cattle have been transported north, it saves on transportation costs to move them to a closer feedlot in Kansas or Nebraska.

Kate Brooks, one of the study authors and an Extension livestock marketing specialist, says the corn and distillers’ byproducts from the ethanol plants in Nebraska provide ample feed for the feedlots.

The report provides information and insight for industry stakeholders, policymakers and researchers.

Nebraska currently ranks first in commercial cattle slaughter, second in cattle and calves receipts, third in meat production and fourth in all livestock and products cash receipts and beef cows.

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George Fenwick

are doing so in greatly reduced numbers. They’re telling us that we need to do more, not less, to protect their precious habitats

on our farms and ranches.

Over the past four decades, many birds once common in U.S. farmlands have become uncommon.

The clear whistles of the Eastern Meadowlark ringing across a pasture are being silenced, as their population has plummet-

ed 70 percent since 1970.

The same is true for the diminutive and mysterious Henslow’s Sparrow a prairie bird whose population may be down as much as 95 percent since the mid-1960s.

Yet, bright spots exist for both species, where

2 new wheat varieties to be released in 2014 New wheat varieties were discussed at the Kansas Seed Industry Conference last week as farmers prepare to begin planting.

T h e Wheat Scoop annual Bill Spiegel meeting communications director allowed Kansas Wheat industry leaders to determine the availability of certified seed and discuss the varieties producers anticipate using in the future.

During the conference, the Plant Genetic Materials Release Committee for K-State Research and Extension determined they would move forward with two wheat varieties developed by wheat breeder, Allan Fritz, and his team of colleges.

The goal is for them to be released to certified seed producers in the fall of 2014.

Daryl Strouts, President of the Kansas Wheat Alliance said, “It is very important for farmers to be aware of the upcoming varieties because it gives them an idea of what to buy and plant in the next couple years.”

KS061406-LN~37 is adapted for the central and eastern parts of Kansas. It is a short-statured, early maturing, hard red winter wheat with white chaff and upright growth habit.

The pedigree of this variety includes Aspen, Everest and the experimental line KS980554-12~9.

In more than three years of testing, this variety has averaged 10 percent

greater yields compared to Everest.

This line has shown exemplary resistance to Fusarium head blight (also known as head scab) although the tolerance is not as strong as the Everest variety.

Early results indicate baking quality is expected to have improved dough strength and loaf volume, but further testing is needed to verify.

Baking quality performance above that of Everest will be required for it to move forward as a variety.

Uniquely, should this be released, it will be added to a very short list of varieties that have resistance to both leaf and stripe rust.

KS030887K-6 is a short-statured, medium maturing, hard red winter wheat that has performed well statewide but has proven to be better in Western Kansas. This variety is expected to be exceptional under irrigation.

However, it is very susceptible to Fusarium head blight (head scab) making it unsuitable for eastern Kansas. It has shown good end use quality and has proved excellent test weights compared to major cultivars of hard red winter wheat in Western Kansas.

This variety especially is noteworthy because it contains six genes for non-race specific adult resistance to leaf and stripe rust. As a carrier of three genes to protect against both leaf and stripe rust as opposed to just one, it is expected to have stronger (See WHEAT on page 32)

local sub-populations are rebounding.

In Illinois, recent spring counts of Henslow’s Sparrows are more than 25 times greater than they were in 1985. There is no mystery to these bright spots: The difference has been the farm bill’s

Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), which pays landowners an annual per-acre fee to allow cropland to go fallow and then helps with the conversion to grassland.

Henslow’s Sparrow counts are highest in (See BIRDS on page 27)

Market Report Closing prices on August 13, 2013 Winona Feed and Grain Bartlett Grain Wheat.................. $ 6.81 Wheat.................. $ 6.81 Milo (bu.) ............ $ 5.28 White Wheat ....... $ 7.11 Corn.................... $ 6.00 Soybeans............ $ 12.03 Milo (bu.)............. $ 5.28 Corn.................... $ 6.00 Scott City Cooperative Wheat.................. $ 6.81 White Wheat ....... $ 7.11 Milo (bu.)............. $ 5.28 H L P Corn.................... $ 6.00 August 6 88 65 Soybeans ........... $ 12.03 80 65 .40 Sunflowers.......... $ 19.20 August 7 August 8 75 63 .65

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Additional practices get haying, grazing okay The Kansas Farm Service Agency (FSA) has given approval for emergency haying and grazing on additional CRP practices that include: CP-25-Rare and Declining Habitat, CP8A-Grass Waterways, CP23-Wetland Restoration, CP23AWetland Restoration Non-Floodplain, CP27Farmable Wetlands Pilot Wetland and CP28Farmable Wetlands Pilot Buffer acreage.

Among the 66 counties in which haying and grazing have been approved are Scott, Lane, Wichita, Gove, Finney and Logan.

“Many of these additional acres have wetland related characteristics and are likely to contain better quality hay and forage than on other CRP acres,” says Adrian Polansky, FSA state director.

To minimize the impact on these specialty practices, the following provisions must be met: •Harvesting of hay is limited to a single cutting per field.

•No more than 50% of a CRP field may be hayed and the haying must be completed by Aug. 31.

•Grazing is permitted through Sept. 30.

Livestock must be removed at the end of the grazing period or when the minimum average height reaches five inches. No extension will be granted for haying or grazing authorizations.

Prior to implementing any form of haying or grazing, a conservation plan must be developed that is in compliance with NEPA and all other federal state laws and regulations.

The sale of hay will be permitted as long as hay was not sold from the same acreage during the previous two years.

Producers without livestock may rent or lease the haying or grazing privileges.

The annual payment reduction has been changed from 25 percent to 10 percent for all emergency haying and grazing activity in 2013.

If the CRP cover is destroyed, the practice must be re-established at the contract participant’s own expense to remain in compliance with the CRP contract.

Ag Day (continued from page 26)

•Effects of Different Irrigation Levels on Western Corn Rootworm Root Injury to Bt and Isoline Plants; •Cover Crops in Western Kansas; and •Water Issues in Western Kansas: It’s Not Just the Water Level.

More information about the field day is available by calling 620-276-8286 or email awood22@ksu.edu.

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Farmers destroying ‘glue’ in the soil Bob Campbell staff writer

Fifty area farmers attended a Natural Resources Conservation Service conference on enhancing the soil by replicating the pioneer conditions that once made it so fertile on Aug. 6 in Scott City.

NRCS Conservation Agronomist Ray Archuleta, Greensboro, N.C., said that Western Kansas soil has been diminished by fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides used to maximize the pro-

Birds Illinois counties with the most reserve program acreage.

The farm bill is not only important in helping our nation’s farmers produce food; it is also the biggest source of conservation incentives for private landowners.

In addition to encouraging more grasslands, the incentives include paying some landowners to grow crops or graze cattle in a more sustainable manner.

And as is shown in the recently published report “The State of the Birds 2013,” which we and several others helped compile, these conservation incentives work.

Private farmlands provide critical bird habitat, with 80 percent of the populations of 29 vulnerable grassland-breeding bird species distributed across private lands. In the Prairie Pothole Region

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duction of wheat, corn and milo.

Archuleta said the loss of natural elements like protozoa, nematodes, earthworms and fungi has made droughts more intractable because the soil can no longer interact with the environment.

“We get wind erosion because the glues are not there,” he said.

“We tilled them out. We bring our own droughts.”

Introduced by Resource Conservationist Dean Krehbiel, Salina, a 1988 Scott Community High School graduate, Archuleta said soil health

is a cornerstone of holistic science and agro-ecology.

“You have to farm in nature’s image if you’re going to survive,” he said.

“Soil is a living organism, but you are in a degraded eco-system.”

Archuleta began by calling a number of participants to the front of the room and calling on two to drop different types of clods into water to illustrate varying porosity.

He encouraged the farmers to set aside acreages where cover crops are planted but not tilled and to graze cattle replicating the role buffalo

played before the prairie was settled.

“Where are the animals?” he asked. “In the feedlots, but they should be grazing on your farms.”

Archuleta said weeds shouldn’t be eradicated because “they are nature’s healers” and because herbicides create a greater issue with weeds that are resistant to poisons.

He said another agroecological element should be redundant plant species. For example, he said a typical square foot of prairie “has nine or 10 species.”

Local farmer Brian

Vulgamore detailed planting a cover crop to improve the soil but said scarce rain frustrated the effort.

Archuleta said the soil has become too degraded for a short-term initiative to succeed.

“Western Kansas was a system designed to be grazed, not farmed,” he said.

He played a video featuring Boulder, Colo., biologist Allan Savory, who said “desertification,” or becoming more like desert-like, is happening in almost every area of the U.S.

lion acres enrolled in CRP nationally, our ecosystems are stressed. Record plantings in the Corn Belt are estimated to be more than 97 million acres - the most since 1936, during the Dust Bowl.

Perhaps not coincidentally, a dead zone of oxygen-depleted water about the size of Connecticut now exists downstream in the Gulf of Mexico. (At about 5,800 square miles, this dead zone overlaps a vulnerable area still recovering from the massive oil spill several years ago.)

Conservation is not a luxury. The prospect of no 2013 farm bill means that new CRP enrollments would stop, as would those for the similar Grassland Reserve and Wetlands Reserve programs, and longtime federal incentives for farmland conservation would be in serious

jeopardy.

Besides birds, some of the biggest fans of farm bill conservation programs are farmers. Periodically, the Agriculture Department earmarks funds for conservation programs to be distributed in various regions around the country. New landowner sign-ups for these typically exceed the allotted funding, often meeting the quotas within days or even hours of their release.

It is essential that Congress pass a responsible farm bill this year, one that retains its historically vital conservation provisions. Without it, the silence of the birds will spread to new pastures and envelop our heartland.

(continued from page 26)

of the upper Midwest, farm bill CRP lands have produced a 30 percent increase in waterfowl breeding over the past two decades.

Out west, the Sage Grouse Initiative has partnered with more than 700 ranchers to improve bird habitat on more than two million acres in 11 states, while promoting more nutritious grasses for grazing cattle.

Gains are at Risk But now farm bill conservation gains are at risk.

Last year, farm bill conservation spending totaled about $5 billion. Now, the House and Senate might not be able to reconcile their divergent versions of the 2013 measure. Even if they do, both have substantially reduced incentives for conservation on farm lands.

Sequestration is poised

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undergone rigorous testing over a 30-year period.

“Merck Animal Health has offered technical assistance, both internal and external experts, to help Tyson to understand what is behind the instances at its facility,” the company said. “Merck Animal Health is confident in the extensive research and data behind the product and the fact that its safety has been well demonstrated.”

Tyson’s website shows that it has 26 percent of the U.S. beef market and it processes 132,000 head of cattle per week. Shares of Tyson jumped to all-time highs after the company reported on Monday that strong meat demand drove a bigger-than-expected jump in quarterly profit.

to reduce farm bill-sponsored conservation by $2 billion over the next 10 years, on top of the $3 billion in conservation funding reductions made over the past five years.

In the past half-decade alone, the total acreage of grasslands enrolled in the CRP has decreased by 10 million acres (almost a one-third decline).

The 20 farm bill conservation programs benefit far more than just birds. Many encourage and absorb the costs of transitioning to sustainable agriculture that yields both healthy food and vibrant ecological systems. For example, farm bill CRP lands have resulted in cleaner water, with 124 million pounds of phosphorous and 623 million pounds of nitrogen kept out of our nation’s waterways.

Yet, even with 27 mil-

John Fitzpatrick is director of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. George Fenwick is president of the American Bird Conservancy

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Minimum charge, $3. Classified Display Ad rate: $5.50 per column inch. Classified advertising must be paid in advance unless business account is established. If not paid in advance, there will be a $1 billing charge. Tear sheet for classified ad will be $1 extra.

Agriculture

FULL-TIME teller/ receptionist at First State Bank, Healy. This is an entry level position with benefits. Send resumè to: Walter Johnson C/O First State Bank PO Box 200 Healy, Ks 67850 01t2c ––––––––––––––––––––– TRUCK DRIVER to haul hopper loads from Scott City. Home most evenings if living in the Scott City area. Benefits and bonuses. CDL required. Must be 23 years old with two years experience. M&A Barnett Trucking. 785-673-3377.

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WANTED TO BUY: Stored corn. Call for basis and contract information.

1-800-579-3645.

Lane County Feeder, Inc. 32tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– WANTED TO BUY: Wheat straw delivered.

Call for contracting information. Lane County Feeders. 397-5341. 44tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– CREWS AVAILABLE for field roguing. 15-years experience, references available. Jesus O. Castillo (620) 214-2537.

48t6p ––––––––––––––––––––– CERTIFIED SEED WHEAT: Byrd, Brawl Cl., TAM 112, TAM 304, T158, T163, T153, Duster.

Also triticale and blends.

Vance and Tanner Ehmke, Amy, KS. 620-397-2350.

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We are accepting applications for a part time sales position.

Must be interested in providing excellent customer service and gift wrapping. Send resumè to mail@giftsetcks.com or 424 Main Street.

Just Updated!!!

County Plat Maps

Services

NORSE ELECTRIC is looking for licensed Journeyman Electricians and experienced helpers for permanent positions in Dodge City and surrounding areas. Comprehensive benefit package including BCBS, dental and vision insurance. Call our Scott City office for more information at 620-872-7123.

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The Hutchinson News Is looking for a contract newspaper carrier for Scott City.

Berry Realty • 872-5700

For more information call Artie: (620) 669-7595.

Great Business

A dependable vehicle is a must.

1102 S. Main, Scott City, Ks 67871 www.berryrealtyonline.com

Help Wanted

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Under New Executive Director Position Management Scott City Area Chamber of Commerce is Pine Village Apartments 300 E. Nonnamaker

Margie Berry, Broker • 872-5700 Tracy Chambless, Sales Assoc. • 874-2124

Garage Sales Friday/Saturday, Aug. 16-17 Garage Sale 1009 Kingsley St. Friday, 5:00-8:00 p.m.

Garage Sale 1109 Kingsley St. Friday, 5:00-8:00 p.m.

Saturday, 8:00 a.m. - Noon Furniture, adult and children’s clothing, toys, snow skis and boots, golf clubs, home dècor, pots and pans, dishes, file cabinet, Xbox and games, etc...

Bring in your Garage Sales by Monday at 5:00 p.m.

(No Rainy day refunds)

Apartments available for qualifying tenants 62+ or disabled with rental assistance available.

Hours: Tues., 10:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. by appointment Call Steve 872-2535 or (620) 255-4824.

seeking an Executive Director.

Position offers competitive salary, flexible hours and paid vacation. New director will report to a 12 person Board of Directors.

Requirements include: excellent customer service and communication skills. Must be a self-starter with good work ethic.

Proficiency in QuickBooks is a plus.

Email or mail resume and cover letter to Shawn Powelson at: directorposition@wbsnet.org, 416 S. Main, Scott City, KS 67871.

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Western Cartographers Available:

• • • • •

Logan Wichita Wallace Greeley Kearney

Also: • Scott • Ness • Gove • Lane • Finney Pick them up today at:

406 Main • Scott City 620 872-2090

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Employment Opportunities

Housekeeping Aide

Special Education Para Scott Community High School is seeking a Special Education Para-Professional to work with Special Education students for the 201314 school year.

For more information and application please contact: Susan Carter Board of Education Building 704 College Scott City, KS 67871 620-872-7600 52tfc

Respiratory Therapist Scott County Hospital is a critical access hospital seeking a team player to be an essential part of our service excellence and patient satisfaction.

Responsibilities in this full-time position include assessment, treatment and management of patients of all populations with breathing abnormalities or imparities.

Candidates must possess strong critical thinking and interpersonal skills, work well in a multidisciplinary team environment, and have the ability to work independently.

Applicants must be a graduate from an AMA approved program with current BLS, ACLS, NRP and Kansas Licensure.

We provide competitive wages and excellent benefits!

Applications are available through Human Resources: Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Avenue, Scott City, KS 67871, 620-872-7772 and on our website: www.scotthospital.net

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Scott County Hospital is seeking a full-time Housekeeping Aide.

This position requires a person who is dependable, in good health, energetic and who has high standards of cleanliness.

Applicants for this position are required to be able to read, speak and understand English.

GUEST SERVICES CLERKS NEEDED Must be able to work all shifts and some weekends.

Please send a letter of interest and contact information to: Help Wanted P.O. Box 377 Scott City, KS 67871

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Park Lane Nursing Home

WE OFFER: • Diverse Nursing Opportunities • Experienced Nursing Administrative Staff • Excellent Ratios • Wages up to $28.62 for RN’s • PRN RN wage $30.00 (benefits do not apply) • Weekend Option Program (work weekends for six months at premium pay) • Shift and Weekend Differentials • Critical Staffing Pay • Call Pay BENEFITS: • Flexible PTO • Extended Illness Leave • Fully Paid Life Insurance • Fully Paid Long Term Disability Insurance • Partially Paid Health Insurance • 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan • Continuing Education • Reduced Local Health Club Fees • Reduced Broadband Internet Fees

Pre-Op/Post-Op/PACU RN

Shift differential 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 Fill out application and return to human resources.

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Work hours are 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday Friday. Position requires competent computer skills, excellent customer service and communication skills, and superb organizational skills.

Job includes maintaining outpatient schedules, scheduling patients for tests or treatments, maintaining outpatient charts and providing notification sheets to registration staff, and provides charts and orders to appropriate outpatient staff, and other tasks as delegated by supervisor.

Applications available through Human Resources: Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Avenue, Scott City, KS 67871 (620) 872-7772 and on our website: www.scotthospital.net

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Clinic Receptionist

Pre-employment physical, drug/alcohol screen, TB skin test and physical assessment required. SCH in a tobacco free facility.

Applications available through Human Resources: Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Avenue, Scott City, KS 67871 (620) 872-7772 and on our website: www.scotthospital.net

Applications are available through Human Resources: Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Avenue, Scott City, KS 67871 (620) 872-7772 and on our website: www.scotthospital.net

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Scott County Hospital Operating Room has an opening for a full-time Pre-Op/PostOp/PACU Circulating RN. Will work 36-40 hours per week. Some OR circulating call required, must be within 20 minutes of hospital. Must be flexible and a team player.

We offer competitive wages and excellent benefits.

Pre-employment physical, physical assessment, drug/alcohol screen and TB skin test required. Scott County Hospital is a tobacco free facility.

Applications available through Human Resources: Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Avenue, Scott City, KS 67871 (620) 872-7772 and on our website: www.scotthospital.net Return completed applications to Human Resources.

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Marketing Coordinator Position available for an enthusiastic, customer-focused individual to coordinate the marketing plan for a growing rural hospital organization.

Responsibilities include providing support by strategizing, executing, tracking and optimizing marketing campaigns.

Scott County Hospital has an opening for a full-time Clinic Receptionist at the Scott City Clinic.

Applicants must have excellent customer service and public relation skills. Computer proficiency essential. Some job duties include answering the phone in a busy physician’s clinic, scheduling appointments and re-directing calls.

We offer competitive wages and excellent benefits. Pre-employment physical, physical assessment, drug/alcohol screen immunization titer and TB skin test required. Scott County Hospital is a tobacco free facility.

Scott County Hospital is a 25-bed CAH located in Scott City, a progressive Western Kansas community of 4000. The friendly hometown atmosphere and newly built and renovated schools provide an excellent place to raise families. Make the most of this great opportunity!

Join us today! Applications available through Human Resources: Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Avenue, Scott City, KS 67871 (620) 872-7772 and on our website: www.scotthospital.net

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Full-time night-shift RN/ LPN (10:00 p.m. - 6:00 a.m.)

Full-time night-shift CNA (Midnight-8:00 a.m.)

Part-time evening shift CNA (2:00 - 10:00 p.m.)

Scott County Hospital has an opening for a full-time Central Scheduler.

Scott County Hospital is looking for full-time Registered Nurses to join our team of dedicated nursing professionals.

PRN- RN opportunities also available.

We offer competitive pay and great benefits.

“Quality Care Because We Care” Has openings for the following positions:

Central Schedular

Registered Nurses

Pre-employment physical, drug/alcohol screening, immunization titer, physical assessment and TB skin test required. We are a tobacco free campus.

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Requirements: BA/BS in Business, Marketing, and/or other related degrees preferred or minimum 2 years experience in marketing or related field. Proficiency in MS Office products, strong writing and verbal communication skills, detail oriented, ability to multi-task, an interest in wellness a plus.

30 to 40 hours per week. $35K to $40K salary range dependent on hours and qualifications.

We offer great benefits including flexible paid time off, partially paid health, dental and prescription insurance, paid life and long term disability insurance and a 401(k) Profit Sharing plan.

Pre-employment physical, drug and alcohol screen, immunization titer, physical assessment and TB skin test required. We are a tobacco free campus.

Applications available through Human Resources: Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Avenue, Scott City, KS 67871 (620) 872-7772 and on our website: www.scotthospital.net

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Cattle care, health training at Oakley Tues.

The Beef Cattle Institute at Kansas State University and the Kansas Beef Council are partnering to host an advanced beef cattle care and health training session at Oakley Livestock Commission on Tues., August 20, beginning at 6:00 p.m.

The beef checkofffunded event will provide beef producers and veterinarians with up-to-date standards and technologies to improve animal welfare and food safety.

The training session will be led by Dan Thomson, DVM, PhD; Chris Reinhardt, PhD; and Dave Rethorst, DVM; all of the Beef Cattle Institute.

Producers and veterinarians will receive Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) training and information relevant to the cow-calf, stocker and feedlot industry segments; animal husbandry best management practices; and downed animal care and humane euthanasia training.

In addition, stockmanship principles and lowstress cattle-handling techniques will be studied. All producers and veterinarians who attend will earn BQA certification.

BQA certification is valid for three years.

The workshop is free and includes a complimentary meal. Preregistration is requested by calling the Beef Cattle Institute (785) 532-4844 or emailing kjoliver@vet. ksu.edu. Walk-in attendees are welcome, but are not guaranteed a meal.

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resistance designed to last for several generations.

Work began on these varieties over eight years ago. From a single cross in a greenhouse, a significant amount of testing and effort have been put into developing these experimental wheat varieties.

It takes an average of five years after the greenhouse stage to select for positive physiological traits and segregate negative offspring. At least three years of yield trials, testing, and data collection are required before a potential variety can begin to gain approval to initiate foundation seed.

These two experimental varieties will begin the foundation seed stage this fall.

After years of work Fritz is confident that these experimental varieties will pass the Wheat Quality Council evaluations this winter and then be recommended by the Plant Genetic Materials Release Committee to the dean of the College of Agriculture at Kansas State University to be approved for release in fall of 2014.

The Kansas Wheat Commission supports the K-State wheat breeding program through the wheat check-off. Farmers can begin to look for these new varieties in the near future.

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Lightner “I’ve had the opportunity to work with physicians who have delivered babies for two generations within the same family.

They are treating multigenerations, from grandmother to the newborn.

That’s why I chose to be a GP,” he says. “Plus, there’s a lot more variety in what you’re dealing with from day to day.”

Being one of five physicians who are experienced in OBGYN was another drawing card.

“All of the physicians here are well-trained in (obstetrics). This is a good OB community, plus everyone can do c-sections,” he says. “That’s not the norm for a lot of small hospitals.

“Everyone from the hospital administration to the physicians on staff have made a conscious decision to make that an important part of this medical community. It’s great to have partners you can rely on.”

He also appreciates the progressive thinking of

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the hospital and its staff.

“This is an innovative medical community,” Dr. Lightner observes.

“They’ve done things to shrink the world in terms of medical care. You don’t have to go to Denver or Wichita to get treatment beyond the scope of what we can do here. They are bringing in specialists and offering services that make it much more convenient and less costly for local residents.”

Dr. Lightner’s wife, Emily, grew up in a small central Illinois community, so that made it a little easier to convince her to move to Western Kansas.

“We both had in mind that we wanted to live in a smaller town. The big question was where,” Dr. Lightner says. “You can tell that Scott City is a good community. It’s done a great job of staying progressive. The community support is evident.”

The couple also has three children, Jack, six, a first grader; Lily, four; and Abby, 20 months.

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However, with the concerns over the development of glyphosate-resistant weeds, it would be far better to control these weeds and grasses now in wheat stubble.

That way, other herbicides with a different mode of action can be tank-mixed with glyphosate to ensure adequate control.

Producers should control weeds in wheat stubble fields by applying the full labeled rate of glyphosate with the proper rate of ammonium sulfate additive.

As mentioned, it is also a good idea to add 2,4-D or dicamba to the glyphosate.

Tank mixes of glyphosate and either 2,4-D or dicamba will help control weeds that are difficult to control with glyphosate alone, and will help reduce the chances that glyphosate-tolerant weed populations will develop. Dicamba or 2,4-D tank mixes with glyphosate may not perform well under the drier conditions of Western Kansas, especially on kochia and Russian thistle.

Utilizing Gramoxone with atrazine has been a more effective treatment than glyphosate/dicamba or glyphosate/2,4-D under dry conditions.

Several have asked about the addition of atrazine for residual weed control in fallow. Although atrazine provides residual control of weeds, it is best applied later in the fall.

At this time of year, atrazine residual is quite short and will not provide adequate control of fall emerged weeds/winter annuals. An application of atrazine needs to be made in the fall, early October into November, depending on the weeds being targeted.

Also, keep in mind that atrazine antagonizes glyphosate. Do not apply atrazine with reduced rates of glyphosate.

Contact me at clong@ksu.edu or call me, toll-free, at 1-877-798-3921.

Back Home Again h g u o K Tyler

rity o i r p one r e b ce” um i v n r y e s “M er m o t s is cu

American Implement welcomes the return of Tyler Kough and his 13-plus years experience in the industry as the new Location Manager.

Tyler, his wife, Melissa, and their four children, Jaxson, Jordynn, Brooke and Ella, are glad to be in Scott City again.

Customer Appreciation Day

Friday, August 16 8:00 a.m. We’ll be hosting the Chamber Coffee 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Customers are encouraged to join us for lunch Stop by and meet Tyler. We’d be glad to see you!

With excellent customer service, we will raise your efficiency to the next level

807 N. Main, Scott City • 872-2715 • www.americanimplement.com