32 Pages • Four Sections
Volume 23 • Number 22
Thursday, January 7, 2015
Published in Scott City, Ks.
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USD’s cash position is getting stronger Circumstances have changed dramatically in the Scott County school district from just two years ago when the board of education was staring at a $1.1 million budget gap, Cash reserves were severely depleted as the district tried to meet its financial obligations and honor its employee contracts. Since his arrival just over 1-1/2 years ago, a major goal
Fund
USD 466 Cash Reserves 2014 2015
Increase
Capital Outlay
$334,107
$597,152
$263,045
Contingency Reserve
$183,858
$384,595
$200,737
Local Option Budget
$273,897
$622,998
$349,101
for Supt. Jamie Rumford and his board of education has been to rebuild reserves without compromising infrastructure needs or classroom instruction. Rumford feels they have been
successful on all fronts and the latest audit report indicates the district is making progress in rebuilding it’s available working capital. “Obviously, it’s good to have
cash balances,” says Rumford. “But our ability to build reserves so quickly can be attributed to a couple of factors.” It helped that during the last budget year the district’s valuation climbed to more than $100 million thanks to high oil and gas valuations. Those valuations have slipped by nearly $10 million this year which has reduced the amount of money a single mill will raise through
property tax collections. For example, the capital outlay levy is eight mills. In last year’s budget that would have raised about $80,000; this year it raises about $72,000. That means cash reserves are being built at a slightly slower pace this year than last year. But there are also other important factors when looking at cash reserves, Rumford emphasizes. (See CASH on page two)
SCF, WatCo working on details of ROW lease
The Scott Community Foundation and WatCo Railroad are inching closer to a lease agreement which will grant Scott City all railroad line right-of-way within the city to Road 140. The SCF has plans to develop that property as part of the community walking trail. SCF Director Ryan Roberts updated the city council on contract negotiations with WatCo which have been taking place over the last couple of years. The current lease proposal grants the property to the Foundation and Roberts asked the council on Monday if the city would be willing to enter into the agreement instead. “The Foundation has no interest in owning property,” noted Roberts. The council agreed to enter into the lease agreement, but had other questions which they wanted addressed before a contract is finalized. Public Works Director Mike Todd asked if they could dispose of any tracks that are removed while building a walking trail. He said they currently can’t dispose of any property without WatCo’s permission. Whether any portion of the railroad tracks will be removed is still to be determined. Todd noted that the removal of tracks will be costly. Roberts said he would see if that provision could be included in the agreement. (See TRAIL on page two)
Recycling center temporarily closed The Scott County Recycling Center will be closed for the next 2-4 weeks as it undergoes renovation in preparing for a new recycling company. The county discontinued its agreement with the Northwest Kansas Regional Recycling Organization because of rising costs and has since been looking for an alternative. Local residents are asked to save their recycled items, but not to leave material at the recycling center.
Kenton Eckels, Scott City, and his seven-year-old labrador, Edge, couldn’t pass up the opportunity to get in a workout on the hiking trail at Lake Scott State Park on Sunday afternoon with the temperature climbing near 50 degrees. (Record Photo)
Merit pay, no COLA for city employees Employees with the City of Scott City will get merit pay increases, but no cost of living adjustment (COLA) on their salary schedule for the upcoming year. The Scott City council has tied its COLA to that determined by the federal government which this year is set at zero percent for Social Security
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recipients. The city granted its employees a 1.7 percent COLA last year in line with the federal government’s COLA guideline. “I wouldn’t object to a slight COLA,” said Councilman Bo Parkinson. Other council members were reluctant to grant a COLA since it has been precedent to follow the government’s cost-of-living
index. Public Works Director Mike Todd said that wages are a huge factor in attracting and retaining employees. “Wages are the thing that I battle every year. Anything you can do to improve that will be helpful,” he said. Councilman Gary Eitel noted that the city has tried to make
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progress over the last couple of years to bring employees salaries up to the median wage for Kansas cities of similar size. Todd felt that employees who had been employed by the city fewer than five years were still below the average while those employed for at least five years were mostly above the (See COLA on page two)
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Cash He points out that another element which contributed to the district’s ability to rebuild reserves more rapidly were salary cuts and reduction in staff. “Those are not meant to be permanent,” he points out. “We need to take care of our staff and we want to make sure we have the employees we need to provide a quality education. Dealing with the district financial crisis we made some budget cuts that we didn’t like, but that were necessary at the time. Restoring some of those budget cuts will add to our expenses and have an impact on our reserves.” Rumford says a high priority for the district is to rehire a counselor for
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the elementary school and junior high. He says there are enough reserves in the local option budget (LOB) to pay that salary. Currently, in the district’s three major funds, it had cash reserves of just over $1.6 million at the end of the budget year on June 30, 2015. That was an increase of $812,883 from the previous year. While that’s a considerable amount of money, it’s not too much in terms of running a school district of about 1,000 students. “Our auditors recommend having enough cash in reserves to operate the district for 90 days. That way, if something happens, if state funding is cut or delayed, we can still operate,” Rumford
COLA
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average wage. That would have limited any salary hike to merit pay based on new employee evaluation forms that were used this year. While the new forms were considered easier to use, Police Chief Chris Jurgens said he judged his employees “harder” with the new format. Under the city’s evaluation system, an employee who earned 50 points is considered “average.” The council decided to award merit pay using a three-tier schedule: 56-70 points: two percent increase. 71-85: three percent increase. 86-100 points: four percent hike. Wage increases are retroactive to January 1.
Trail
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He also pointed out that WatCo is now granting access to the entire right-of-way and not just to the tracks. However, the lease will also include a provision that WatCo can ask for the property to be returned at any time. “If that happens, they will have to reimburse us for any expense we’ve incurred or any improvements made,” assured Roberts.
says. “We have enough reserves to carry us for two months. A year ago, at the start of the fiscal year (July 1, 2014) we didn’t have enough reserves to carry us for a month.” Unexpected Costs There are also unexpected, but necessary, costs which confront any district during its routine operations. The district had already reduced its activity bus fleet from four to three vehicles. That took a hit recently with the announcement that one of those vehicles is no longer available until an engine is replaced. “We can either spend about $150,000 for a new
vehicle or replace the motor for about $30,000,” Rumford says. “That’s money we didn’t budget for.” Which is the same situation with the board’s decision to purchase a home adjacent to school property in order to allow for future expansion. “Again, you don’t budget for those things, but you have to take advantage of them when they come along. That’s why it’s important to have some reserves,” Rumford says. Funding Uncertainty That’s not the only reason why cash reserves are a big issue, not just with USD 466 but for many districts across the state.
Many are concerned that, given the state’s budget situation, funding that has already been promised to schools and been included in their budgets could still be cut. “The governor and state officials have said that we’ll get our money, but there are a lot of school administrators who are being very cautious,” Rumford says. “A lot of us aren’t confident the state will keep their promise. And if they don’t, then we’ll have to dip into our reserves to make up the difference. We have people under contract. We have fixed costs to operate the district. We don’t have the option of telling people we won’t pay them.”
Murder of SC veterinarian to air on Friday The murder of a former Scott City native and veterinarian Dr. Bryan Rein will be featured on the NBC program “Dateline” on Fri., Jan. 8, at 8:00 p.m. Dr. Rein was murdered at his home near Geraldine, Mont., in 1996, but it was only this past September that the man charged with that crime was brought to trial. “Dateline” follows events surrounding the murder, events before and after the trial, and interviewed family members.
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Community Living
Test your financial fitness to start the year Are you becoming stressed over your finances or the lack of? Does this time of the year make you want to re-evaluate what you spend your money on? Wo u l d you like to improve your pers o n a l finances? A good place to start is by taking this quick financial fitness quiz. The new year is a good time to start getting your personal finances into shape. Choose the score that best describes you current financial management practices: 5 = always 4 = usually 3 = sometimes 2 = seldom 1 = never Add up your scores for each of the 20 questions below. The summary at the end of the quiz tells how you’re doing. Financial Management: ____ 1. I have a bank checking account (or credit union share draft account) with which to pay bills (write “5” for “yes” and “1” for “no” for this question). ____ 2. I have enough money each month to pay my rent/mortgage and other household expenses? _____ 3. I have enough money to pay for an emergency, such as a large car repair? _____ 4. I have written financial goals with a date and dollar cost (e.g., $10,000 for a care in 2008). ____ 5. I have a written plan (budget) for spending and/or saving my money. ____ 6. I keep organized financial records and can find important documents easily. ____ 7. I know my federal marginal tax bracket (e.g., 15%) ____ 8. I calculate my net worth (assets minus debts) annually. Savings/Investing: ____ 9. I save regularly for longterm goals, such as education for my children, a house, or retirement. ____ 10. I have at least three month’ expenses set aside in a readily accessible account (e.g., money market mutual fund). ____ 11. I increase my savings when I receive a salary increase. ____ 12. I have a personal investment account for retirement (e.g., 401(k), 403 (k), IRA) other than a pension funded by my employer
(write “5” for “yes” and “1” for “no” for this question). ____ 13. I have money spread across more than one type of investment (e.g., stocks, bonds, mutual funds, CDs). ____ 14. The average after-tax yield of my savings and investments over the long term is greater than the rate of inflation. Insurance and Estate Planning: ____ 15. I have adequate insurance to cover “big” unexpected expenses, such as a hospital bill, disability or liability for damages to others. ____ 16. I have a current will (write “5” for “yes” and “1” for “no” for this question). Credit: ____ 17. Less than half of one week’s pay goes to my credit cards, student loans, and car payments. ____ 18. I pay credit card bills in full to avoid interest charges. Shopping: ____ 19. I comparison shop for major purchases by checking at least three sources. ____ 20. I avoid impulse purchases and don’t use shopping as a form of recreation. Scoring for the Financial Fitness Quiz is as follows: 0-20 points: You need lots of help, but don’t despair. It’s never too late to take action to improve your finances. 21-40 points: You are headed for financial difficulty. Now is the time to take action to reverse the trend. 41-60 points: You are doing a fair job of managing your finances and have taken some steps in the right directions. 61-80 points: You are doing a good job and are above average in managing your money. 81-100 points: You are in excellent financial shape. Keep up the good work! Note: Items that you scored with a 1, 2 or 3 are actions that you should consider taking in the future to improve you finances. It is not easy to ask for this kind of help and most of us with difficulties in our finances tend to ignore the warning signs until it’s too late. But, it can be done. We have lots of information here in the Extension office that can help you get started in the right direction to become debt free. For some free information on financial help give me a call at 872-2930.
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Editorial/Opinion
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editorially speaking
Chasing anecdotes: AG launching study into marijuana from Colorado
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has announced the launch of a statewide project to “track the phenomenon” of how marijuana purchased legally in Colorado is illegally entering Kansas. (Our unofficial study says it’s by vehicle). The AG’s office is also gathering information from law enforcement agencies across the state wondering about potential crimes associated with Colorado marijuana. Schmidt is concerned with the “numerous and persistent anecdotal accounts” of marijuana purchased in Colorado and “causing harm” in Kansas. Apparently suing the federal government over Obamacare, going into panic mode over the prospect of tighter federal gun regulations and proposing civics as a graduation requirement aren’t enough to keep Schmidt busy. Now he’s chasing down “anecdotal” stories about Colorado marijuana destroying the social and legal fabric of our state. We’re not talking about a major crime wave of people burglarizing homes so they can pay for their “Colorado fix” or a problem with “stoners” lining up along I70 and trying to hitch rides to and from Colorado. No, we’re talking about anecdotal stories of marijuana-laced gummy bears being distributed in Kansas or marijuana being purchased in Colorado and “bundled” for larger sales in Kansas. The idea that anyone would purchase anything retail and then bundle it into massive quantities for resale - whether it be marijuana or refrigerators - is absurd. Could it happen? Sure. But not a scale worthy of our AG’s money and manpower. Since Schmidt is chasing after anecdotes, we have a few: 1) Can a rumored snack food shortage along I70 be traced to vehicles coming from Colorado? 2) Is it true that eastbound traffic out of Colorado travels 10-15 miles per hour below the speed limit. 3) Do people in eastbound vehicles from Colorado appear uncharacteristically happy? We’ll be anxiously awaiting the AG’s findings. We can’t have too many of these anecdotes floating around.
Terrorists?
If you’re white you get benefit of the doubt
You may recall when a group of Nevada ranchers took up arms against the Bureau of Land Management back in April of 2014 because one of the ranchers refused to pay grazing fees which are already far too cheap. Rancher Cliven Bundy was a free-loader. He refused to honor his agreement. He was, in essence, stealing from taxpayers. Rather than instigate a confrontation with a gathering of hair-triggered and hair-brained flagwaving Bundy supporters, the federal government backed down. In the heat of the moment, the BLM chose to take a rational approach. Apparently, that wasn’t enough for the Bundys and their supporters who are still yearning for some type of confrontation with the federal government. When Oregon ranchers Dwight Hammond, Jr., and his son, Steven, were ordered by a judge to return to prison that provoked their supporters to stage a march in Burns, Ore., which later led to a handful of people occupying a government building on the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. “We want the government to abide by he Constitution,” said Ammon Bundy, a son of Cliven Bundy. While the Constitution doesn’t defend the right of people to break contracts, occupy government-owned buildings and threaten to occupy such buildings for years it apparently guarantees the right of people to be completely ignorant of what is actually in the Constitution. But this is more than just about a bunch of Nevada ranchers and their supporters who feel they have a legal right to take the law into their own hands. It prompts an interesting debate of what constitutes an act of terrorism. When white ranchers take over a federal building, claim to be well-armed and announce it is their intent to “defend themselves,” they are called militia. But, if these same individuals were Hispanics, blacks or Muslims would the public, and the media, have been as generous in their definition. Are acts of terrorism limited to non-whites? Would the public be near as tolerant if Hispanics had been squatters on federal land and then taken over a federal building? The double-standard is impossible to ignore. Or are the Bundys and their supporters getting a free pass because, after all, they’re defending the Constitution?
What to expect in the new year It’s that time of year when we like to dust off the crystal ball that’s been sitting in the closet to see what we might expect in 2016. If you would rather be surprised about the events of 2016, then we’d advise reading no further. But don’t say we didn’t warn you. * * * After it’s announced in mid-June that the State of Kansas has fallen short of it’s latest tax revenue projections by another $22 million and that will put the state budget nearly $500 million in the red for the year, Republican leaders in the Kansas Legislature come up with a budget fix. “The problem isn’t tax policies that have cut into our revenue,” explains Senate President Susan Wagle. “The problem is that we’ve set revenue expectations far too high.” When asked how that will close the half-billion dollar gap in the state’s budget, Wagle said it’s up to all Kansans to learn how to live with less.
“We’ve asked our wealthiest Kansans to live with less of a tax burden. Now it’s up to the poor, the elderly and our schools to demand less from government and learn how to care for themselves. People have to quit looking to us as a Nanny State.” Republican House Speaker is much more direct in casting the blame for the state’s financial woes in another direction. “It should be obvious by now,” says Merrick, “that as long as President Obama is the president we’ll never be able to balance our budget.” * * * In order to raise additional revenue without raising taxes, the Brownback Administration says it is selling corporate sponsorships. Advertising logos for products manufactured by Koch Industries - Stainmaster Carpet, Brawny
paper towels and Northern bathroom tissue - are now featured prominently on murals in the capitol building rotunda. “At times like this it’s important to explore all possibilities,” says Secretary of Revenue Nick Jordan in response to criticism that the advertising images have defaced historic treasures. “After all, it’s only art. It’s not like it was something important.” Several major bail bonding companies are already purchasing advertising space on Kansas Highway Patrol vehicles and a large sign for steel siding has been erected on the front lawn of Cedar Crest mansion. * * * In February, the Kansas Department of Transportation announces all of its projects that are scheduled for 2016 given the available funding. “It will be a bridge in southwest Johnson County,” KDOT Secretary Mike King announces during a news conference. “We expect the governor to be there when it’s com-
pleted. This is a pretty big deal.” When asked what other projects are on the KDOT schedule, King emphatically says, “This is it.” “When you have less than a million dollars left in your budget we had the option of doing five or six small projects that no one would probably notice, or we could do one really nice project. We feel that taxpayers will appreciate our decision to do the latter. “If things go well, our project in 2017 will be to renovate 18 miles of interstate in Russell County, but it’s far too early to make that kind of promise.” * * * In response to unfavorable poll numbers for conservative policymakers in the state - which could signal big losses in the upcoming fall election Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach announces his latest voter fraud initiative. “It’s come to our attention that voter fraud isn’t limited to the army of (See YEAR on page six)
Doing nothing no longer an option It’s to be expected that congressional Republicans will oppose anything smacking of “gun control,” which may as well be read as “ your mama.” Thus, it comes as no surprise that President Obama’s announcement of executive actions to clarify and enhance federal gun laws prompted reflexive, hyperbolic responses from the right. Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) said “Obama is obsessed with undermining the Second Amendment,” while Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.) averred, “We don’t beat the bad guys by taking away our guns. We beat the bad guys by using our guns.” Spoken like a true Canadian-born Texan who has been busy burnishing his “outsider” Outdoor Guy image. What’s next? Cruz drinking the warm blood of a freshly slain
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(unarmed) beast? House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wisc.) criticized the president for a “dangerous level of executive overreach” and for circumventing congressional opposition - as though Congress has been working feverishly to reduce gun violence. Rather, Republicans focus their laser beams on Obama’s and the Democratic Party’s political motivations, shocking to none, and remind us that we already have enough gun laws. This may well be true, but couldn’t we stand to tweak them a bit? Or, perhaps, enforce them? And isn’t it possible to reduce the number of guns in the wrong hands
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without surrendering our Second Amendment rights or invoking the slippery slope of government confiscation? Of course it is - and we can. Obama made an artful and poignant counterargument to the usual objections Tuesday during a news conference at the White House. He reminded those gathered, including many who have lost family members to gun violence, that other people also have rights - the right to peaceable assembly and the right to practice their religion without being shot. In fairness to the gun lobby, which may not deserve such charity, one can understand reservations about limiting access to guns. What is less easily understood is the refusal of Republicans to take the reins of any
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given issue and do something constructive rather than invariably waiting to be forced into the ignoble position of “no.” It is one thing to be in the pocket of the National Rifle Association. It is another to do nothing and then assume a superior posture of purposeful neglect, as though donothingness were a policy and smug intransigence a philosophy. The steps Obama is trying to take won’t save every life, but they seem minimally intrusive and could have significant effects. Summarizing briefly, he’s clarifying existing law and more tightly defining “gun dealer” in order to impose broader background checks; upgrading technology for improved information-sharing and (See OPTION on page seven)
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Shkreli had promise in GOP presidential field by Donald Kaul
It’s time - past time, really to name the person of the year. (Time Magazine does it. Why not me?) There were many worthy candidates in 2015: the Pope, the Donald, and Luke Skywalker, to name just a few. But only one symbolized the spirit of the year. I speak, of course, of Martin Shkreli. For those of you with shortterm memory problems, he’s the weasel/drug honcho who bought the rights to a life-saving drug that had been on the
market for years, and immediately raised its $13.50-a-pill price to $750 - a 5,000 percent hike. He said he’d use the extra money for research to develop a life-saving drug of his own, but nobody believed him. He was just doing what a long line of drug company executives do - gouge desperately sick people. There’s nothing illegal about this, and it’s not even the worst example. Questcor Pharmaceuticals paid $100,000 for an existing drug that treated breathing problems in newborns and raised its price over a relatively short time from $40 a
Questcor Pharmaceuticals paid $100,000 for an existing drug that treated breathing problems in newborns and raised its price over a relatively short time from $40 a vial to $23,000.
vial to $23,000. New cancer drugs often cost $10,000 a month or more. Drug companies are allowed to charge whatever they can get away with, so long as they claim they’re using the profits to develop new drugs. They don’t have to actually do it. All they need to do is say that’s their intent. It’s the American way. What sets Shkreli apart
is that making a fortune by cheating people legally wasn’t enough for him. He fancied himself a financial wizard and set up a hedge fund scheme that allowed him to lie, cheat, and steal his way to another fortune. This one was illegal. The whole thing finally caught up with the 32-year-old in December. The feds showed up and threw him in jail, from which he’s been released on $5 million bail. Now I’m asking you: Does that make Shkreli the person of the year or what? The only real surprise is that he isn’t running for president
on the Republican ticket as the leader of the Stick-It-to-SickPeople caucus. I’m sure he’d be right up there with Donald Trump in the polls. If I hadn’t picked Shkreli for this honor, I suppose I’d have been forced to choose the entire GOP slate of presidential candidates. What a hoot they are. They’ve been fighting for the better part of a year now over who’s the toughest kid on the block. No sooner does one of them come up with a mean proposal, like building a fence across the southern boundary of the United (See SHKRELI on page six)
Standoff is fed by GOP rhetoric
Semantics: low-info or low IQ?
by Dana Milbank
by David Macaray
Ammon Bundy and the other armed militants occupying a federal facility at a wildlife refuge in Oregon have a beef with the administration - the Teddy Roosevelt administration. “It has been provided for us to be able to come together and unite in making a hard stand against this overreach, this taking of the people’s land and resources,” proclaimed Bundy, son of Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher who led a similar armed rebellion against the government two years ago. “If we do not make the hard stand, then we will be in a position where we won’t be able to as a people.” But this “taking of the people’s land,” the “overreach” that moved these rebels to take up arms, occurred 108 years ago, when Roosevelt - a Republican president and a great conservationist - established the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, one of 51 such refuges he set aside, “as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds.” So why have the militants chosen this moment, more than a century after the fact, to “unwind all these unconstitutional land transactions,” as Bundy put it? Perhaps it’s because they think the political atmosphere now condones such anti-government activity. You can see why they might think so. Several of the Republican presidential candidates have been encouraging lawbreaking, winking at it or simply looking the other way. A few months ago, Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee and others rushed to defend Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk jailed for refusing to obey federal law. A federal judge had held her in contempt of court for refusing to recognize same-sex marriages, and the Supreme Court specifically declined to give Davis relief. But Cruz identified her jailing as “judicial tyranny” and said Davis was operating “under God’s authority.” Donald Trump has put at the center of his campaign an extraconstitutional ban on admitting Muslims into the country. Marco Rubio said that if the law conflicts with the Gospel, “God’s rules always win,” and that “we are called to ignore” the government’s authority. Huckabee and Rick Santorum signed a pledge not to “respect an unjust law that directly conflicts with higher law.” Huckabee floated the notion of using federal troops to block people from getting abortions and questioned the Supreme Court’s authority. And, of course, there was the 2014 standoff in which Cliven Bundy, who refused to pay grazing fees for his use of fed-
a videotaped deposition from the civil lawsuit, Ethan’s father, Fred, was asked about his own stop for drunken driving: “Did you tell the arresting officer, ‘I make more in a day than you make in a year?’ ” Fred Couch, smirking: “Probably.” When the head of Ethan’s private school confronted Fred Couch about allowing the boy to drive himself to school at the age of 13, he laughed her off and said he would buy the place. “He was adamant that Ethan was going to drive to school,” LeVonna Anderson told D Magazine. “He believed his son was better. His son was more talented. He was the golden boy.” Hmmm. Sound familiar? If Couch is the affluenza teen, Trump is the affluenza candidate. The symptoms he exhibits are multiple, and florid: The overweening sense of entitlement. The conflation of money and intelligence, and the belief that wealth is a virtue in itself.
I have no quarrel with euphemisms. If you want to say someone “passed away” rather than “died,” what’s the harm? After all, it’s not as if you’re denying that someone is dead. All you’re doing is attempting to soften the blow a bit, which is commendable. Because we live in a democracy, our regular everyday speech shouldn’t be controlled by some pointy-headed linguistics experts. We common people should be allowed to express ourselves in any manner we like. As the American Voyeur Society proudly states, “Power to the peephole.” So if we want to call old people or the elderly “senior citizens,” that’s fine. Personally (as a senior citizen), I find that almost laughable, but where’s the harm? As for menu items, if they wish to refer to animal flesh as “meat,” and stomach lining as “tripe,” and various cooked glands as “sweetbread,” that’s their business. When I was training for the Peace Corps many moons ago, the candidates who were ultimately not allowed to serve in a foreign country were told that they had been “de-selected.” That was their term for it. Some of us were selected, others were de-selected. In order to spare us the trauma and disgrace, none of us were told we had been rejected. Bless their hearts, that news would have been too harsh. (“Hey, I heard the Peace Corps rejected you.” “Well, you heard wrong, dude. I wasn’t rejected. I was de-selected.”) It’s not that words don’t matter. We all recognize the fact that words serve not only as instruments of clarification and elucidation, but as weapons, as a means of intentionally hurting people. I know a married couple who are raising their children to be compassionate, generous and open-minded citizens. Concerned that she might choose to hang out with only fellow Anglo-Saxons on her first day of junior high school, these parents urged their daughter to seek out “people of color.” That struck me as good advice, a proper way to raise a child in today’s world. But when the girl came home, she told her mother, matter of factly, that she hadn’t been able to hang out with any “colored people.” Oops. Which brings us to “low-information voters” (LIVs). Unlike the aforementioned euphemisms, which are harmless, this particular one is dangerous. It was invented by a gutless media to describe ignorant people who were too lazy or
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Networks pulling the plug on Bernie by Jim Hightower
Let’s go to the scoreboard to see who’s winning the exciting game of “Presidential Election Media Coverage.” A non-partisan media monitoring firm that has been tracking the nightly news broadcasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC reports that Trump is tromp, tromp, tromping over the airtime of everyone else. From last January thought November, these dominant flagship news shows devoted 234 minutes of primetime coverage to the incessant chirping of the Yellow-Crested Birdbrain, with no other contender getting even a fourth of that. Take Democrat Bernie Sanders, who’s stunning the political
establishment with a fiery populist campaign that’s drawing record crowds. Indeed, Sanders’ upstart campaign is getting higher poll ratings in the Democratic contest than Trump is getting in GOP race. And - get this - polls also show Bernie topping The Donald by 10 points if they face each other in November’s presidential showdown. So surely he’s getting a proportional level of media coverage by the networks on our public airwaves, right? Ha, just kidding! The ABC, CBS, NBC devotion of 234 minutes to all-things-Trump was “balanced” by less than 10 minutes for Sanders. Most egregious, was ABC, the Disney-owned network.
ABC’s “World New Tonight” awarded 81 minutes of national showtime to Trump last year – and for Bernie: 20 seconds. How self-serving of the media moguls! The one candidate who is effectively rallying large numbers of voters to oppose the rise of corporate oligarchy - including in the media - has the plug pulled on him. Of course, this only amplifies the truth of what Sanders is saying about the villainy of corporate profiteers, and it fuels a greater determination by his millions of grassroots supporters to end the reign of greed in America. Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator, writer, public speaker and author
Being Trump means never having to say you’re sorry Ethan Couch, meet Donald Trump, fellow “affluenza” sufferer. Couch is the Texas teenager whose drunken driving killed four people in 2013 when he lost control of his - or, should I say, his mommy and daddy’s - speeding pickup. Couch was 16. Three hours after the grisly crash, his blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit for an adult. His lawyer and his expert witness psychologist - or, should I say, the lawyer and the expert witness psychologist hired by his mommy and daddy - argued that Couch should be spared imprisonment because his overprivileged upbringing had failed to teach him the difference between right and wrong. Mommy and Daddy had never set limits or imposed consequences on young Ethan. Couch’s infuriating defense - It’s not fair to punish me because I’ve never been punished before - won him probation instead of the 20 years sought by prosecutors. Of
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course, Couch is back in the news because complying with the no-alcohol terms of probation was apparently too much for him; Mommy fled with him to Mexico rather than allow him to face punishment. “He never learned that sometimes you don’t get your way,” testified the psychologist, G. Dick Miller. “The teen never learned to say that you’re sorry if you hurt someone,” Miller said. “If you hurt someone, you sent him money.” From his parents, “Ethan learned that you should be able to do what you want to do when you want to do it,” said attorneys in a civil lawsuit brought by one of the victims. “I think that was the message,” Miller agreed. Ethan, Miller said, was taught, “We have the gold, we make the rules.” In one telling interchange in
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Brownback’s delusion on jobs, tax cuts gets worse by Yael Abouhalkah
Gov. Sam Brownback is sticking to the fantasy that his income tax cuts are working to create lots of jobs in Kansas. The state has “good job growth,” he recently told the Kansas City Star. Reality is much harsher. Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics data show Kansas has had a puny employment growth rate over the last year: 0.5 per-
Year Hispanics who are pouring across our state line in order to vote in our elections,” says Kobach during a press conference. “We also have a serious issue with many people who claim to be Republican and yet don’t believe in the ultra-conservative values. These wannabe Republicans are destroying our democracy and we
cent. It was the nation’s eighth-worst figure in that span. Throughout much of 2015, Kansas has been in the bottom 10 of jobproducing states by percentage despite the large tax cuts that took effect in 2013. Yet Brownback’s delusions persist. He recently pointed to the state’s low four percent unemployment rate in November as a reason to celebrate. But because
up for your income tax cut.” That delusion was pathetically wrong, too. He had to ram through a sales tax increase in 2015 to help balance a general fund budget decimated by his tax cuts.) How are Texas and the other states that Brownback wants to mimic doing on the job front? Four were in the top 10 of employment gains by percentage
the state’s job production rate has been so dismal, it’s now abundantly clear that Kansas is not growing its base of employable people nearly as quickly as most other states. A low unemployment rate can be next to meaningless in the context of job creation. North
the Kansas Congressional delegation holds a press conference announcing their plans to provide an alternative. “We’ve been criticized by some - and I would say unfairly - for not offering an alternative to Obamacare,” said Sen. Jerry Moran. “That’s why today we’re announcing plans to immediately allow the FDA to remove its ban
on the sale of mail order leaches. We’ve studied it carefully and been advised by Pfizer that it can be done for about half the cost of Obamacare.” “We’ve put a lot of thought into this,” adds Congressman Huelskamp. “We’ll allow parents to share leaches with any of their children who are 26-years and younger at no additional cost. And
even if you have preexisting conditions you can still purchase all the leaches you want.” The delegation says it is confident that their Dark Ages Affordable Care Act (DAACA) will sail through both the Senate and House so the next President can sign it into law in 2017.
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can’t allow this fraud to continue.” Kobach says the voter identification process with his latest proposal has been streamlined to make it much easier for poll workers to identify who is legally qualified to cast ballots at voting sites. “All you have to do is show the poll worker a gun - .357 magnum, AK47, whatever. If you
Oregon considers wall to keep out angry white men by Andy Borowitz
BURNS, ORE. (The Borowitz Report) - A majority of Oregonians favor building a 20-foot wall along the border of their state to prevent angry white men from getting in, a poll released on Monday shows. The survey indicates that Oregonians are fed up with irate male Caucasians pouring into their state and bringing with them guns, violence and terrorism. “This used to be such a nice state,” said Oregon State Senator Carol Foyler, a pro-wall lawmaker. “Since the angry white men came here, parts of it are unrecognizable.” But even as support for the Oregon wall grows, critics of the proposal say that it does nothing to address the fact that there are already thousands of angry white men living in the state. Those critics favor forcibly removing the angry white men through mass deportations and resettling them elsewhere, possibly in Texas. While some argue that the deportation of angry white men would separate them from their families, others believe that their families would be okay with seeing them go. Andy Borowitz is a comedian and author
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Dakota had the lowest state unemployment rate in November - and it has the worst record of job loss over the last 12 months in America. Still, Brownback and his tax-cut junkies want Kansans to believe that everything will be all right in the long haul.
For proof, they often point to nine states with no or low income taxes as job-growth magnets. That’s partly why Brownback in mid-2013 told The Wall Street Journal he wanted to reduce the Kansas income tax to zero, as in Texas. (In the same story Brownback also said, “The experiences in some other states have been that when you cut income taxes, your sales tax increase more than makes
. . . three of the no-income-tax states were in the bottom 10 of job additions over the last year: Wyoming, Alaska and New Hampshire. Plus, Alaska’s governor has proposed the first personal income tax in 35 years to avoid a state fiscal crisis.
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States to keep out Mexicans, then another says: “Oh yeah? I’d not only build a fence, I’d round up all the Mexicans here illegally and send them back where they came from.” To which another will say: “I’d not only do all that, I’d make Mexico pay for the fence. Besides which, I wouldn’t let any Muslims in either.” Which leads another to add, “I’d make the ones already here register and wear name tags.” Apparently, all that tough talk wasn’t enough, because the last Republican “debate” sounded like a strategy meeting of Mafia warlords. One of the candidates wanted to “carpet bomb” the terrorists. Another not only wanted to kill all the terrorists, he wanted to seek out their children and kill them too. Sort of a family plan. All of them agreed that President Barack Obama wasn’t being tough enough and that any one of them would be tougher. At any moment I expected one of them to jump up and say, “Let’s go to the mattresses.” For all that toughness, no one thought to say an unkind word about the role that unfettered gun ownership is playing in the serial massacres we keep experiencing. Or a kind word about attempts to slow down global warming before it kills us all. And just think, we’ve got nearly a year to go before the election. Happy New Year.
don’t own a gun then you can have a friend bring their gun,” says Kobach. “The important thing is that polling workers are able to quickly identify you as someone who is a true conservative and that we keep non-believers from destroying our electoral process.” * * * Following their latest vote to repeal Obamacare,
Sorry The obsessive flaunting thereof. These qualities are not incidental to Trump’s presidential campaign. They are integral to it. The campaign is predicated on the notion that with great wealth comes great entitlement. His trumpeted billions constitute the primary evidence of his qualification for the presidency. “I’m really rich,” Trump said in announcing his campaign. “I’m proud of my net worth. I’ve done an amazing job.” U.S. politics has featured its share of rich candidates, but never before,
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and certainly not to this degree, has a candidate’s fortune been his raison d’etre. After all, the tradition is much the opposite - to emphasize humble, log-cabin beginnings. Candidates burdened with wealthy parents endeavor to display the semblance of ordinariness. Not Trump. He doesn’t play down. He flaunts the Trump name for all to see. His consumption could not be more conspicuous. Mitt Romney was dinged for building car elevators and having his wife drive “a couple of Cadillacs.” Trump invites reporters aboard his private jet,
Rhetoric eral land, got support or sympathy from Cruz, Trump, Huckabee, Rand Paul and Ben Carson. Cruz denounced the federal government for “using the jackboot of authoritarianism.” The rancher lost much of his support when he delivered a racist rant. But not all of it: Paul earlier this year had a private meeting with the elder Bundy that the rancher said lasted 45 minutes. As my colleagues Katie Zezima and David Weigel noted, Paul and Cruz have both campaigned to transfer federal lands in the West to private ownership. Flirting with extremists helps conservative
complete with its 24-karat gold-plated seat belts. The candidate’s wealth is both evidence of his merit and a benefit in itself, proof that Trump is immune to the pressures faced by less-affluent politicians. “I don’t need anybody’s money,” Trump proclaimed in his announcement speech. “It’s nice.” The flip side of this attitude, for those afflicted with affluenza, is that the ordinary rules of personal conduct and human decency do not apply to the sufferer. Trump calls people names. He says things that are untrue. He never backs down. Being
Trump means never having to say you’re sorry. In the case of Ethan Couch, his parents were the enablers of this conduct. In the case of Trump, at least so far, it’s the voters. According to the polls at the center of Trump’s universe, his offensiveness reaps no consequences. Voters seem to reward his outrageousness; they impose no limits on his bad behavior. A candidate with affluenza is bad enough. Imagine a president with this malady. Dana Milbank is a Washington Post staff writer and author
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candidates harness the prodigious anger in the electorate. A poll released this weekend by NBC, Esquire and Survey Monkey found anger is particularly intense among Republicans: Seventyseven percent said the news makes them angry at least once a day (compared with 67 percent of Democrats). Seventy-three percent of white Americans are angered daily (vs. 66 percent of Hispanics and 56 percent of African Americans). So when some very angry people led by Ammon Bundy took over the (unoccupied) compound at the wildlife preserve over the weekend, the Repub-
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narcissistic or unimaginative to pay attention to what’s going on in the world, but who insist on having a say in it. Of course, being a LIV wouldn’t make any difDonald Kaul is a retired Washington columnist for The Des Moines Register. He covered the capital for 29 years. ference if we lived in an dkaul1@verizon.net absolute dictatorship or in a monarchy where we Support Your Hometown Merchants! were ruled by a king or
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lican presidential candidates reacted mostly with silence. A scan of tweets from Republican lawmakers also found nary a peep about the armed takeover of the federal facility. An admirable exception (and one whose low standing proves the rule) was John Kasich, whose strategist John Weaver suggested “a good federal compound for Bundy and his gang: a U.S. penitentiary.” Finally, in a radio interview Monday, Marco Rubio said the militants “cannot be lawless” though he added that he agrees with their complaints about federal lands. And Cruz, responding to a question,
said he hoped Bundy’s gang would “stand down peaceably” because “we don’t have a constitutional right to use force and violence.” That was mild criticism - Bundy had said he has no intention of using violence - but better than the usual wink. As it happens, Cruz also released a TV ad Monday protesting inadequate enforcement of the border. “The rule of law,” he says in the ad, “wasn’t meant to be broken.” That’s a fine sentiment. But to live under the rule of law we must follow all laws - not just those we like. Dana Milbank is a Washington Post staff writer and author
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queen who made all of our important decisions. One could go through life blissfully ignorant and not do any harm, because being an “informed citizen” would be irrelevant. But polls show that a disturbingly large segment of America’s voters are abysmally ignorant.
They can’t name the three branches of the government, they can’t list even half of the Bill of Rights, they don’t know who their own congressman or senator is, they don’t how much they pay in taxes, etc., etc. All they know for certain is that they know all the answers. All they
know for certain is that they know way more than the people governing us. We’ve all met a LIV. While we can’t pass a law forbidding them to vote, can’t we at least come up with a less dignified name for them? David Macaray is a playwright and author
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Delusion from November 2014 to November 2015: Florida, Washington, South Dakota and Nevada. However, three of the no-income-tax states were in the bottom 10 of job additions over the last year: Wyoming, Alaska and New Hampshire. Plus, Alaska’s governor has proposed the first personal income tax in 35 years to avoid a state fiscal crisis. The two states in the middle of the pack were Tennessee and Texas. That’s right: The Lone
State State is having some tough times, thanks in large part to the struggles of the oil industry, which helped spark its revival earlier this decade. It appears that factors other than income taxes are affecting states’ job markets. Gee, who could have predicted that? Here’s the flip side of Brownback’s delusions about income taxes and employment. California, often criticized for having the nation’s highest income tax rate, has had the sixth
Option safer guns; increasing relevant workforces to speed up background checks; and closing loopholes that have allowed criminals to buy guns online and elsewhere with a separate set of rules. Or no rules. Giving the FBI more resources to modernize its system will help. So will giving $500 million to mental health services aimed at keeping guns away from people determined to hurt themselves or others. Requiring shippers to report stolen guns will also be helpful - and investing in smart - gun technology
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best record of job gains in the last 12 months. Other extremely high income tax states faring well include Oregon, Hawaii and New York. Which brings us to one more Brownback delusion. “My goal for the next four years is 25,000 new jobs per year,” he wrote while running for re-election in late 2014. That was an aggressive proclamation, because the state had gained an average of only 16,000 non-
Review of year put property ahead of people
farm jobs a year during his first term. But the tax cuts are in full force now, so the Kansas economy should be rolling. Except it’s not. The state is on pace to add only 10,000 jobs in 2015, far below Brownback’s pledge. Many Kansans wish that Brownback’s costly tax cuts were just a delusion. Alas, they remain very real and very destructive to the state’s future.
I just read the parts of the paper I usually read, and after reading a monthly look at the highlights of April 2015, I found it totally insensitive to mention the strong winds and the damage it did to the elevator, some farm buildings and sprinkler systems, and not to mention the dozens of humans stranded on the high way with electrical lines draped across their cars, their windows blown out with nearly a foot of dirt at their feet, and most of all our son, who’s life was taken when his entire home was demolished. Why in the world would you put objects ahead of people? Is this bad reporting or self absorbed thinking? Connie Kessler Scott City
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could be a game changer. As Obama said, tearing up at the mention of the Sandy Hook shooting that took the lives of 20 firstgraders, if we can keep children from opening aspirin bottles, surely we can prevent their pulling the trigger on a gun. As for expanding background checks, only the criminal or the suicidal object to waiting a day or two before taking home a gun. And if the government doesn’t complete the process within three days, seller and buyer can proceed anyway.
What concerns most people, meanwhile, are those weapons, especially semiautomatics with large magazines, whose only purpose is to kill people. Many argue that no current law could have prevented any of the mass shootings in recent years, but is this sufficient justification for doing nothing when doing something could make a difference we may never know about - the child who didn’t die because new technology prevented him from firing a pistol? The Islamic State-inspired terrorist
who didn’t murder holiday revelers because he failed an online background check? Obama’s actions won’t go unchallenged, needless to say. And much political hay will be threshed, bundled and sold to Republican primary voters in the meantime. But GOP voters should be as skeptical of those ringing the gong of doom as they have been of Obama. In a civilized society, more guns can’t be better than fewer. Kathleen Parker is a Pulitizer Prize winning columnist who writes on politics and culture
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Rhett Ashley Collins was taking no chances when it came to being the first baby of 2016 born at the Scott County Hospital. Her due date was January 9, but the daughter of David and Jennifer Collins arrived at 8:08 a.m. on January 4. She weighed 7 lbs., 7 oz. and was 19-1/2 inches long. Dr. Matthew Lightner was the delivering physician. Rhett Ashley was welcomed home by a brother, Cort, 10, and sister, Gracen, 6. While Rhett is an unusual name for a girl, Jennifer explains it’s a
combination of the greatgrandfathers’ first names - Roy Nickel and Chett Collins. The family had been living at Seneca in northeast Kansas until 2011 when David decided to join the family farming and ranching operation 10 miles west of Winona. That prompted the search for a family physician which brought the family to the Scott County Hospital. “I’d heard a lot of good things about the Scott County Hospital and it wasn’t that much different than driving to Colby or Quinter,” says Jennifer.
Dr. Josiah Brinkley was her original physician who also diagnosed her with cancer and initiated treatment. After Dr. Brinkley left, Jennifer was hoping to remain with SCH, but Drs. Christian Cupp and Libby Hineman already had full patient loads and the newest arrival, Dr. Lightner, was in the same situation after adding Dr. Brinkley’s patient load. “I really wanted to stay here since they knew my medical history. Dr. Brinkley talked to Dr. Lightner and he agreed to become our physician,” says Jennifer. “All the doctors and the staff have
been just great. “I’ve had people tell me, ‘You look so happy. Who are you doctoring with?’ And I tell them of the great experience that I’m having here,” she says. “This is where we’ll keep coming for anything that has to do with family practice care.” Maternal grandparents of the first baby are Melvin and Margaret Peck, Assaria. Paternal grandparents are Phil Collins, Winona, and Debbie Collins, Colby. Great-grandparents are Roy and Bernice Nickel, Oakley, and Lucy Peck, Salina.
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K-12 report urges finance, academic reforms A report prepared for the Kansas Legislature’s committee on K-12 education declares the current testing approach fails students, describes the method of identifying at-risk students as discriminatory and urges state government oversight of school bond proposals before they are placed on a local ballot. The document obtained earlier this week is due to be reviewed by the Special Committee on K-12 Student Success at the Statehouse. “I think the committee did a good job,” said Rep.
Ron Highland, a Wamego Republican and chairman of the panel. “The efficiencies need to be dealt with. No. 2, the (student academic) outcomes were disturbing to many of us.” Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, a Topeka Democrat on the K-12 committee, said material and conclusions in the report closely resembled recommendations offered by the Kansas Policy Institute, a conservative think tank that has sought for years to reorganize public education. Dave Trabert,
I am convinced that the report was drafted by Dave Trabert. It is very inappropriate to have a special-interest lobbyist draft a report for a legislative interim committee. Anthony Hensley, Senate Minority Leader
president of KPI, testified to the K-12 committee. “I am convinced that the report was drafted by Dave Trabert,” Hensley said. “It is very inappropriate to have a specialinterest lobbyist draft a report for a legislative interim committee.” In an interview, Trabert said he “didn’t write that report.” He said KPI was pleased to learn portions of the organization’s tes-
timony to the committee was incorporated in the K-12 reform package. “It certainly is encouraging,” Trabert said. “I saw some things in there that are familiar. There’s some things we’ve been talking about for years. The report questioned the wisdom of continuing to contract with the University of Kansas’ Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation in
the development of student tests in math, reading, science, history and special education. The center at KU has written tests for Kansas K-12 students for three decades. “The spending for the development of the test and the IT requirements to implement it has shown little value,” the report said. “This once-a-year testing only encourages teaching to the test.” The report suggests lawmakers give consideration to paying for all Kansas high school students to take the ACT exam. The
report’s authors indicate the “unbiased test would give the Legislature, the Kansas State Board of Education and the local school boards a tool for evaluating their progress.” In the report, the authors discount the standard approach to identifying at-risk students based on whether their economic status allows participation in the free- or reducedprice lunch program. This method is inadequate, the report says, because it “implies that poverty determines an individual’s ability to learn. (See REFORMS on page 16)
top teacher Green keeps music fun for her young vocalists, musicians Step in to Nancy Green’s music classroom and you’re likely to hear the singing of young voices and the sound of instruments being played. But you’re also going to find much more. On Tuesday, there was lots of excitement as fourth graders got their recorders for the first time. And second and third graders were doing an activity with a large parachute to the Star Wars theme. “We’re always creating,” says Green. “Sometimes we’re loud, but we have fun.” It’s Green’s approach to teaching her young music students at Scott City Elementary School that earned her the Southwest Kansas “Outstanding Elementary Music Teacher” award presented by the Kansas Music Educators Association. Coincidentally, her sister is being presented the same award for northcentral Kansas. “My mother’s pretty happy. I guess it was worth all those recitals I sat through,” says Green with a laugh. A graduate of Ellinwood High School and Sterling College with a BA degree in music education, Green’s first career path didn’t take her to the classroom. She entered the business community
SCES music instructor Nancy Green and students incorporate rhythm and dancing while using a parachute to the musical theme from Star Wars. (Record Photo)
for a year before deciding that the classroom was where she wanted to spend full-time. She hasn’t left. Her first nine years were spent teaching K-6 music in the Wichita County district before stepping into the vocal music department at Scott City Middle School where she spent the next 11 years. She’s been at SCES for the past nine years fol-
lowing the retirement of Barbara Hutchins. “This is my dream job, to be able to work with this age level,” says Green. “In junior high the focus is more on choral music and getting kids ready for concerts. With these kids it’s more general music - a lot of singing, learning how to read music, playing instruments and dancing. It’s the best fit for me.”
It’s not just what happens in the classroom that appeals to Green, but outside it as well. “This is a community that supports its kids in all they do - not just sports,” she noted. “There’s strong support for the arts and it’s evident with the backing we get from the Arts Council for the (afterschool) kids choir.” Green is also involved in the childrens’ musical
production every other summer that involves youngsters in junior high and younger. “It’s a great opportunity to expose kids to another level of music and theatrical productions at a younger age. We started it because we wanted to get more kids involved in a fine arts activity during the summer,” she says. But it’s the young singers and musicians who
continue to be her passion. “We have fun because we’re creating music together,” she explains. “We start with a song, add instruments and we build from there. It’s a team effort between the kids and myself. And you don’t have to be musically gifted. At this age, everyone is involved and they’re having a good time.”
For the Record Consider the pros, cons of reverse mortgages The Scott County Record
Jason Alderman
Over the last decade, reverse mortgages have been marketed as an easy way for seniors to cash in their home equity to pay for living expenses. However, many have learned that improper use of the product - such as pulling all their cash out at one time to pay bills - has led to significant
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financial problems later, including foreclosure. In actuality, there are some cases where reverse mortgages can be helpful to borrowers. However, it is imperative to do extensive research on these products before you sign. Reverse mortgages are special kinds of home loans that let borrowers convert some of their home equity into cash.
USD 466 Board of Education Agenda Mon., January 11 • 7:00 p.m. Administration Building • 704 College •Presentations •Comments from public •Recognition of persons/delegations present 1) High Plains Co-op - Eric Erven 2) NW Ks. Tech. College - Mark Davis 3) Administrative reports 4) Additional •Financials 1) Bills payable •Consent agenda 1) Approve previous minutes •Consider items pulled from consent agenda New business 1) KASB board policy updates •Executive session 1) Non-elected personnel 2) Superintendent evaluation •Additions, if any •Adjournment
Public Notice (Published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., Jan. 7, 2016)1t BEFORE THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS NOTICE OF FILING APPLICATION RE: Lario Oil & Gas Company - Application for a permit to authorize the commingling of zones in the Clawson #1-22, located in Scott County, Kansas. TO: All Oil and Gas Producers, Unleased Minerals Interest Owners, Landowners and all persons whomever concerned. You, and each of you, are hereby notified that Lario Oil & Gas Company has filed an application to commingle Millrich and Marmaton zones in the Clawson #1-22, located approximately S2 NE NE NW NW Sec. 22-19S-33W, in Scott County, Kansas. Any persons who object to or protest this application shall be required to file
their objections or protests with the Conservation Division of the State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas within (15) days from the date of this publication. These protests shall be filed pursuant to Commission regulations and must state specific reasons why the grant of the application may cause waste, violate correlative rights or pollute the natural resources of the State of Kansas. If no protests are received, this application may be granted through a summary proceeding. If valid protests are received, this matter will be set for hearing. All persons interested or concerned shall take notice of the foregoing and shall govern themselves accordingly. Lario Oil & Gas Company 301 S. Market Wichita, KS 67202 (316) 265-5611 ATTN: Brent Birk
They come in three varieties: single-purpose reverse mortgages, Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs) and proprietary reverse mortgages. Who can apply? Homeowners can apply for a reverse mortgage if they are at least 62 years old, own their home outright or have a low mortgage balance that can be paid off with the proceeds
of the reverse loan. Qualifying homeowners also must have no delinquent federal debt, the financial resources to pay for upkeep, taxes and insurance and live in the home during the life of the loan. Consider the following pros and cons as a starting point for trying or bypassing this loan choice. Even though HECM loans
require a discussion with a loan counselor, you should bring in your own financial, tax or estate advisor to help you decide whether you have a safe and appropriate use for this product. Pros of reverse mortgages: •They’re a source of cash. Borrowers can select that the amount of the loan be payable in a
lump sum or regular payments. •Proceeds are generally tax-free. Final tax treatment may rely on a variety of personal factors, so check with a tax professional. •Generally, they don’t impact Social Security or Medicare payments. Again, important to check personal circumstances. (See REVERSE on page 11)
Safely spending those gift cards Sometimes, the perfect gift is one you get to pick out yourself. If you’re one of the thousands of Kansans who found a gift card in your stocking, you now have the opportunity to choose your own perfect gift! Unfortunately, these gift cards do carry some fine print in how they can be used. Here are some things to keep in mind as you spend those holiday gifts: Under Kansas law, gift cards cannot expire for at least five years. If the gift card does not have an expiration date printed on
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the card, then it is good until you redeem it, no matter how long that is. Merchants can begin charging inactivity fees against the card’s balance 12 months after the card is issued. These fees are required to be printed on the card or the packaging it comes in. Pre-paid bank cards the ones that are issued by a bank or credit card company, not by a specific
store - can, and usually do, charge additional fees for purchasing the card, and on the balance. Be aware that even with legal protections in place, the value of a gift card may be lost if the store goes out of business before the card is used. You should also remember to keep unused gift cards in a safe location. Treat them like cash. Unlike credit cards, if a gift card is lost or stolen, it can be difficult to prove the card belonged to you. Some retailers will allow you to register your card online, which protects the
value of the card if something does happen. If you happen to receive a card for a place you do not shop, it is unlikely that the retailer will let you exchange your card for cash. However, there are websites that allow you to sell or exchange your unwanted gift cards. Use caution when dealing with these online sites to be sure you don’t become a victim of fraud. You can also consider donating your unwanted gift cards to a local charity, especially cards for grocery, clothing or department stores.
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Tax revenue plunges $27M below expectations Kansas tax revenue plummeted $27 million below expectations in December, figures released Monday showed, returning the state to its pattern of less-thanexpected tax receipts. The missed estimate comes after revenue forecasters this fall lowered expectations for the next several months, and a week before lawmakers return to Topeka for the 2016 legislative session. The state broke out of an eight-month-long streak of missed estimates in November. But December’s lower-thanexpected receipts quashed hopes the November figures were the start of a new, positive trend.
For the month, individual income tax receipts were nearly $26 million below estimates. December sales tax revenue, which counts sales made in November, was $14 million off estimates. In total, the state’s tax collections came up 4.37 percent short. Despite falling short, the collections still received a bump from about $8 million more than expected in insurance premiums. Without the boost, total tax collections were $35 million below estimates. The Kansas Department of Revenue didn’t offer a cause for the disappointing numbers. “It is the first time this fiscal year that individ-
Reverse •Most reverse mortgages have a “nonrecourse” clause, which prevents you or your estate from owing more than the value of your home when the loan becomes due and the home is sold. Reverse mortgages may be a smarter borrowing option for some downsizing seniors. With proper advice, some borrowers use them to buy new homes. Cons of reverse mortgages: •You may outlive your equity. Reverse mortgages are viewed as a “lastresort” loan option and certainly not a singular solution to spending problems.
ual income tax receipts have not grown compared to the prior fiscal year to date,” Secretary of Revenue Nick Jordan said in a statement. “It is too soon to tell if this is a onetime event or not.” House Speaker Ray Merrick blamed President Barack Obama, saying sales tax receipt figures are consistent with a national economy that continues to struggle. “When the going gets tough, Kansas families pore over their household budgets,” Merrick said in a statement. “That is why I am committed to an indepth review of the state budget to ensure each tax dollar is being spent as effectively as possible.”
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•You and your heirs won’t get to keep your house unless you repay the loan. If your children hope to inherit your home outright, try to find some other funding solution (family loans, other conventional loan products) first. •Fees can be more expensive than conventional loans. Reverse mortgage lenders typically charge an origination fee and higher closing costs than conventional loans. This adds up to several percentage points of your home’s value. •Many reverse mortgages are adjustable rate products. Adjustable rates
State of the State to be live-streamed on Jan. 12
Governor Sam Brownback will deliver the 134th State of the State address at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 12 at the invitation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ray Merrick (R-Stillwell.) This year, the State of the State address will be live-streamed on www.kansas.gov. In addition to the live streaming on www.Kansas. gov, the State of the State address will be carried and live-streamed by several Kansas television and radio stations. Public television will not carry it live as in previous years.
affect the cost of the loan over time. If you have to move out for any reason, your loan becomes due. If you have to suddenly move into a nursing home or assisted-living facility, the loan becomes due after you’ve left your home for a continuous year. Bottom line: Reverse mortgages have become a popular, if controversial, loan option for senior homeowners. For some, they may be a good fit, but all applicants should get qualified financial advice before they apply. Nathaniel Sillin directs Visa’s financial education programs
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The Department of Revenue’s figures show total revenue - not just tax collections - into the state was actually $28 million above estimates. But that figure includes more than $56 million in previously announced fund transfers and other adjustments to balance the budget. Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley (D-Topeka) drew attention to Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration’s statements after the positive November numbers. In November, the state beat revenue expectations by about $8 million. At the time, Jordan said the November figures “were a good sign”
but added it was too early to throw a party. “Last month, they were touting things were beginning to work, but it’s pretty apparent we’re still mired in a budget crisis,” Hensley said. The estimates are formulated by a group of administration officials, as well as legislative and university economists. The December figures likely will be on the mind of lawmakers as they return next week for the new legislative session. Gov. Sam Brownback also will lay out his legislative agenda next week in an address to the Legislature. What Brownback will say about the state’s fiscal situation is unclear - his
office typically doesn’t reveal what he will say during the State of the State speech in advance. But Brownback has remained an unapologetic supporter of the 2012 income tax cuts he championed. As recently as December, he has continued to endorse the socalled “March to Zero” income taxes. After revenue forecasters in November predicted the state would take in $159 million less during the current fiscal year, which runs through the end of June, the Brownback administration announced $123 million in cuts, sweeps and transfers.
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Deaths Colter J. Berry Colter J. Berry, 28, died Jan. 5, 2016, in south Finney County as the result of an automobile accident. He was born on Dec. 12, 1987, in Scott City, the son of Harold Dean and Shannon Marie (Dunagan) Berry. A lifetime resident of Scott City, he was a measurement technician for Northern Natural Gas. Colter was a 2006 graduate of Scott Community High School, a volunteer fire fighter for Scott City and was a member of the NRA. On June 4, 2011, he married Kelli Crouch in Scott City. She survives. Other survivors include: a son, Clay Thomas Berry, Scott City; the parents; a brother, Shelby Berry, Kansas City, Mo.; a sister, Shantel BerryLobmeyer, Scott City;
grandparents Thurman and Delinda Dunagan and Martha Berry, all of Scott City; a great-grandmother, Cecile Billings, Scott City; and a niece, Cami Lobmeyer, Scott City. He was preceded in death by a grandfather, Samuel Berry, and greatgrandparents Willard and Julia Dunagan and Nathan Billings. Funeral service will be Sat., Jan. 9, 2:00 p.m., at the First Baptist Church, Scott City, with Pastor Kyle Evans officiating. Visitation is at Price and Sons Funeral Home, Scott City, on Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Memorials are suggested to the Clay Berry and Cami Lobmeyer Scholarship Fund in care of the funeral home at 401 South Washington St., Scott City, Ks. 67871.
the joy of his life. His unconventional humor and jokes will be greatly missed by many. Survivors include his wife, of the home: daughter Ginny K. and husband, Kelley Patterson of Oklahoma; a son, Michael Harp and wife, Darlissa, of Texas; a brother, Robert Harp and wife Ann, of Kentucky; four sisters, Valerie Stewart and husband Guy, Shallow Water, Sue Smith and husband, Gene, Scott City, Bonnie Craig of Kansas, and Sheila Bailey of North Carolina; an uncle, Otto Harp, Scott City; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and an infant sister, Vivian Harp. A memorial service and inurnment will be held at a later date. The family requests memorials to the American Lung Association or the American Cancer Society. Memorials will be accepted at the BunchRoberts Funeral Home, Box 1112, Guymon, Okla. 73942 Friends can sign the online guestbook and leave condolences at www. bunchroberts.com
Kathryn F. ‘Kate’ Greenwood Kathryn Fae Greenwood, 85, died at the home of her son, Mike, rural Hamilton, on Jan. 1, 2016. She was born on March 13, 1930, in Eureka, the daughter of Harris E. and Edna F. (Wheeler) Lewis. She was raised in Eureka and attended local schools. On Feb. 4, 1953, she married Fredrick Santford Greenwood in Eureka. They made their home in Piedmont and later rural Eureka. They moved to rural Holcomb in 1977 where Fred worked in oil fields and Kate worked for the Holcomb Co-op. She also served as Postmaster at Friend. They retired to Greenwood County in 1993. She was a member of Eastwood Rebekah Lodge No. 557 and an attendant of the Neal Evangelical Free Church. She is survived by two sons, William “Mike”
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Arnold Steve Trujillo, 65, died on Jan. 5, 2016, at his home in Grand Island, Nebr. He was born on May 12, 1950, at Scott City, the son of Arnold and Virginia Trujillo. A graduate of Scott Community High School, he worked many years as a manager for Ideal Food Store before becoming the manager at Denny’s Foodliner, also in Scott City, where he remained for many years. He also worked a short time for Pamida. Steve moved to Grand Island where he worked for Hy-Vee grocery store until his retirement last summer. On March 22, 1969, he
Robert E. Brand, 78, died Dec. 28, 2015 at his home in Healy. He was born on May 19, 1937, in Cheyenne Wells, Colo., the son of John Henry and Laura May (Jones) Brand, Sr. A resident of Healy since 1965, moving from Hays, he was a school teacher and farmer. He was a member of the United Methodist Church in Healy. On May 30, 1958, he married Lee Mae Stewart in Healy. She survives. Other survivors include one son, Ted Brand, Denver, Colo.; one daughter,
married Josie Rose Lara in Scott City. She survives. Other survivors include two sons, Michael Trujillo, Colorado Springs, Colo., and Shane Trujillo and wife, Karly, Grand Island, Nebr.; two sisters, Katy Daniels and husband, Alan, Scott City, and Shelly Ruiz, Garden City; one brother, Raymond Jay Trujillo, Manchester, N.H.; and five grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother, Fred Trujillo. Funeral service is Thurs., Jan. 7, 2:00 p.m., at the First Christian Church, Scott City. A private family burial service will follow.
Rachel Redburn, Healy; one brother, Bill Brand, Buellton, Calif.; eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother, John Henry Brand, Jr. Funeral service was held Dec. 31 at the Healy United Methodist Church with Rev. Bud Tuxhorn officiating. Memorials are suggested to the Healy United Methodist Church Window Fund in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 401 South Washington St., Scott City, Ks. 67871.
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Vernon L. Harp Vernon L. Harp, 77, Guymon, died Dec. 31, 2015, at Baptist Saint Anthony’s Hospital, Amarillo, Tex. T h e son of Doy and N e l l y R u t h (Dolsby) Harp, he Vernon Harp was born Nov. 17, 1938, at the family home in Boone County, Ark. Vernon was raised in Shallow Water where he attended school and was a member of the Shallow Water Gospel Fellowship Church. Vernon was united in marriage to Mary Helen Elliott on Dec. 21, 1957, in Friend, Ks. They moved to Guymon, Okla., from Shallow Water in 1976 when Vernon relocated with Collingwood Grain who he had been employed with for many years as an operator and manager at the Hough and Guymon, Okla., elevators. His final employment before retiring in 1998 was at the Shaffer Ranch. Vernon was a very devoted family man who loved his wife, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren who were
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Greenwood and wife, Suzan, Hamilton; and Larry Greenwood and partner, Dee Hilbish, Eureka; and one daughter, Fredda Blakely and husband, Lee, Eureka; three sisters, Doris Bogle and Roseletta Sponseller, Eureka, and Brenda Meier, Climax; and two brothers, Harris and Charles Lewis, Eureka; 10 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, and two sisters, Harriet and Sierra. Funeral service was Jan. 5 at Koup Family Funeral Home with Pastor Larry Evans of the Neal Evangelical Free Church officiating. Interment was at the Greenwood Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials to the Neal Evangelical Free Church or to the Midian Shrine Plane of Mercy in care of Koup Family Funeral Home, Box 595, Eureka, Ks. 67045.
As I face a new year, I have always asked Father God to impress my heart with a Scripture that I will need and use as counsel and direction for the New Year! He has always given me a particular one and as the year unfolded I saw how that scripture became a “lamp unto my feet and a light upon my pathway.” The scripture He gave me for 2016 is one that I believe that every Christian must believe and cling to because of what this New Year may bring. If you are keeping abreast of what is happening in our country and around the world you will understand how important the following scripture is. It is found in Isaiah 41:10, “Do not fear, for I am with you, do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I WILL STRENGTHEN YOU, surely I will help you. Surely I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” In that verse, our Father God says, “I will strengthen you.” God’s thoughts and purpose is to make us strong. In these days it is a great secret to know the strength of the Lord. God wants us to be strong. Strong in Him, strong in love, strong because you are filled with the Holy Spirit. As we face the New Year we must have an unshakable confidence that God’s purpose is to make us strong in Him. He wants us to have that deep assurance His plan is to strengthen us, no matter the circumstances.
Psalm 84:5 says, “How blessed is the man whose strength is in Thee.” Isaiah 40:29, “He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless.” Psalm 68:35, “He is the One who gives power and strength to His people.” Proverbs 10:29, “The way of the Lord is strength to the upright.” Isaiah 30:15, “...in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.” WOW! What powerful, encouraging verses for the people of God in 2016 as we encounter obstacles, difficulties, or painful situations we may not be expecting. We can claim the promises of these verses for ourselves! God is with us and He will impart the strength needed to face all the circumstances of life. As believers facing a New Year, Let’s believe in our hearts what God says in His Word; let’s confess with our mouths and act on what the Word says for our lives: “THE LORD IS THE STRENGTH OF MY LIFE; of whom shall I be afraid.” Psalm 27:1. The Word says in Philippians 4:13, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Lets resolve, plan, meditate, pray, and give thanks, that we will have the strength of God working in us no matter what life’s circumstances may bring. Let 2016 be a year of spiritual strengthening . . . God wants to strengthen You! We will pursue this thought as the month progresses! Be blessed with a strong Happy New Year!
Pastor Ed Sanderson, Assembly of God Church, Scott City
Scott City Assembly of God
Prairie View Church of the Brethren
1615 South Main - Scott City - 872-2200 Ed Sanderson, Senior Pastor 9:00 a.m. - Pre-Service Prayer 10:00 a.m. - Sunday Worship Service and Children’s Church Wednesday: 7:00 p.m. - Bible Study and Prayer
4855 Finney-Scott Rd. - Scott City - 276-6481 Pastor Jon Tuttle Sunday School: 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. Men’s Fellowship • Tuesday breakfast at 6:30 a.m. Held at Precision Ag Bldg. west of Shallow Water Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m., at the church
St. Joseph Catholic Church
Holy Cross Lutheran Church
A Catholic Christian Community 1002 S. Main Street - Scott City Fr. Bernard Felix, pastor • 872-7388 Secretary • 872-3644 Masses: 1st Sunday of month - 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. Other weekends: Sat., 6:00 p.m.; Sun., 11:00 a.m. Spanish Mass - 2nd and 4th Sundays, 1:30 p.m.
1102 Court • Box 283 • Scott City 620-872-2294 • 620-872-3796 Pastor Warren Prochnow holycross-scott@sbcglobal.net Sunday School/Bible Class, 9:00 a.m. Worship every Sunday, 10:15 a.m. Wed.: Mid-Week School, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Pence Community Church
Community Christian Church
8911 W. Road 270 10 miles north on US83; 2 miles north on K95; 9 miles west on Rd. 270 Don Williams, pastor • 874-2031 Wednesdays: supper (6:30 p.m.) • Kid’s Group and Adult Bible Study (7:00 p.m.) • Youth Group (8:00 p.m.) Sunday School: 9:30 • Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.
12th & Jackson • Scott City • 872-3219 Shelby Crawford, pastor Sunday School, 9:30 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship, 10:45 a.m. Wednesday Night Bible Study, 7:00 p.m. Wednesday: God’s High School Cru, 7:30 p.m.
First Baptist Church
Immanuel Southern Baptist Church
803 College - Scott City - 872-2339
1398 S. US83 - Scott City - 872-2264
Kyle Evans, Senior Pastor Bob Artz, Associate Pastor
Robert Nuckolls, pastor - 872-5041
Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.
Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. • Worship: 11:00 a.m.
Sunday morning worship: 8:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.
Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.
Gospel Fellowship Church 120 S. Lovers Lane - Shallow Water Larry Taylor, pastor Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.
1st United Methodist Church 5th Street and College - Scott City - 872-2401 John Lewis, pastor 1st Sunday: Communion and Fellowship Sunday Services at 9:00 a.m. • Sunday School, 10:30 a.m. All Other Sundays • Worship: 8:30 and 10:45 a.m. Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. • MYF (youth groups) on Wednesdays Jr. High: 6:30 p.m. • Sr. High: 7:00 p.m.
First Christian Church
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
701 Main - Scott City - 872-2937 Scotty Wagner, pastor Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.; Worship, 10:45 a.m. Wednesday is Family Night Meal: 5:45 p.m. • Study: 6:15 p.m. Website: www.fccscottcity.org
Elizabeth/Epperson Drives • Scott City • 872-3666 Father Don Martin Holy Eucharist - 11:45 a.m. St. Luke’s - 872-5734 (recorded message) Senior Warden Bill Lewis • 872-3347 or Father Don Martin - (785) 462-3041
Scott Mennonite Church
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
12021 N. Eagle Rd. • Scott City
9th and Crescent - Scott City - 872-2334 Bishop Irvin Yeager • 620-397-2732 Sacrament, 9:30 a.m. Sunday School, 10:50 a.m. Relief Society and Priesthood, 11:20 a.m. YMYW Wednesday, 8:00 p.m.
Franklin Koehn: 872-2048 Charles Nightengale: 872-3056 Sunday School Worship Service: 10:00 a.m. Sunday Evening Service: 7:00 p.m.
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A conservative approach to Medicaid expansion Indiana model is focus for Kansas policymakers
Mike Sherry Heartland Health Monitor
If policymakers in deep-red Indiana can do it, so can their equally conservative counterparts in Kansas. That was the dominant - though not unanimously held - message at a forum this week in Overland Park where the topic was expanding the Kansas Medicaid program to cover as many as 150,000 additional Kansans. Doug Leonard, president of the Indiana Hospital Association, told an audience of more than 300 people that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence,
who is a conservative like Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, was satisfied that Medicaid expansion in Indiana was fiscally sound in the short- and long-term. “He was not going to throw the state under the bus,” Leonard said. The expanded Indiana program, which took effect nearly a year ago, has added more than 220,000 residents to the Medicaid rolls. Nearly 1,000 new health care providers have joined the program. Kansas, by contrast, is one of 20 states
You can eliminate bad behaviors by learning healthy skills DBT stands for dialectical behavioral therapy. It was originally used for individuals suffering from borderline personality, a severe behavioral health issue. DBT was created by Compass Corner Joe Lubashevsky Marsha Linehan, who therapist suffered from borderCompass Behavioral Health line herself before she created DBT. It is now used for many different types of issues, including anxiety and depression, and is helpful for any of us who would like to have better control over our emotions and behaviors. At its core DBT is about learning healthy skills to replace behaviors that are not working for us. Give the skills a try and see if they work for you. The first group of DBT skills is emotion regulation skills. These set of skills are concerned with controlling our emotions the way we want, instead of our emotions controlling us. One of the main emotion regulation skills is called opposite action. That is changing the emotion we are currently experiencing by doing the opposite of what our natural reaction is to that emotion. With anxiety, our first reaction is to AVOID. When we avoid we become more anxious, and when we become more anxious we avoid even more. Opposite action breaks this cycle by doing the opposite. Instead of leaning away from the thing that is making us anxious, lean into it (unless of course the thing that is making us anxious is something that is truly dangerous, like a cliff). Approach the thing you are afraid of. Doing the thing that is causing you anxiety will cause some discomfort as you are doing it, which is what keeps us from doing it and also keeps us stuck. It will also begin to turn the cycle around the other way. The more we do the thing we fear the less we fear it, and the less we fear it the more easily and more often we will do what we fear. So if you feel nervous in large groups, purposely put yourself in situations involving large groups. The important thing to remember is that opposite action needs to be done 100%. (See BEHAVIOR on page 15)
that have not expanded Medicaid, which in Kansas is a privatized program that goes by the name KanCare. A February analysis by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation called the Indiana plan the most complex waiver of the four the federal government had approved up until that time. The analysis cited the state’s four Medicaid packages and varied treatment of beneficiaries based on variables such as income, medical frailty and maintenance of premium payments.
. . . about five percent of the population in Clay County has Alzheimer’s or a related form of dementia, which is triple the national rate. Other Kansas counties all low-population counties with aging residents - aren’t far behind. More than four percent of Trego County residents had Alzheimer’s or dementia as of 2013. In Gove County the rate was about 3.7 percent and in Logan County it was about 3.5 percent.
pays health care providers at Medicare rates, which are higher than Medicaid reimbursement rates. Under the Affordable Care Act, the federal government pays 100 percent of the costs of Medicaid expansion through 2016 in states that raise eligibility to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, or $16,242 annually for an individual. The federal share gradually phases down to 90 percent in 2020 and remains at that level afterward. The forum included three state senators – Jeff King, a Republican
have some “skin in the game” and must make modest contributions to health savings accounts to qualify for enhanced benefits. Enrollees who fail to pay their share of monthly premiums face added copays and other fees. Another key component of the Indiana plan, Leonard said, is that it (See MEDICAID on page 15)
The government has allowed states to experiment with new approaches to Medicaid through expansion. One general idea in these waivers is to have recipients pay premiums and co-pays. That’s the case in Indiana. Leonard said that Medicaid beneficiaries in Indiana are required to
Lawmakers consider changes to reduce KanCare drug costs Would withhold medication for those who don’t follow treatment Jim McLean Kansas Health Institute
A legislative oversight committee has approved a controversial set of draft recommendations aimed at reducing the cost of drugs provided to Kansas Medicaid recipients. The joint committee that oversees the state’s privatized Medicaid program known as KanCare last week tentatively approved recommenda-
tions that direct the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to develop policies aimed at slowing a steady increase in the $3 billion program’s pharmacy costs. The most controversial of the recommendations calls for withholding expensive hepatitis C drugs from KanCare recipients who don’t follow treatment requirements, such as patients who fail to take all their pills or consume nonprescription drugs or alcohol during treatment. Sen. Jim Denning (R-Overland Park) said Kansas taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay
for repeated treatments when patients knowingly engage in behaviors that undermine the effectiveness of their medications. “I know it is pretty strong language,” Denning said. “But if we have patients that are abusing an $80,000 drug, then there have to be consequences.” Hepatitis C is a liver infection caused by a virus spread through the exchange of blood or other bodily fluids. The wholesale cost of a standard 12-week treatment for hepatitis C can range from $84,000 to $94,000 depending on the
drug. Through the first four months of the fiscal year, KanCare has spent approximately $3.1 million on hepatitis C treatments, according KDHE documents. Democrats on the committee objected to Denning’s proposal, saying it would be tantamount to imposing death sentences on noncompliant patients. “It just seems like we’re making life and death decisions, and I’m just very uncomfortable with that,” said Sen. Laura Kelly of Topeka, the ranking Democrat on the committee.
‘Trauma-informed’ care a different approach to behavioral problems Tammy Worth Heartland Health Monitor
One of the first-graders in Lori Williams’ classroom is clearly restless during the students’ morning community circle. As the children discuss their weekly goals, how to be a good citizen and what integrity means, the young girl is distracted. She wriggles and shifts, pulls both arms through a shirt sleeve and eventually checks out, turning her back to the group and walking her hands up the
chalkboard. Williams gently but purposefully touches the young girl’s foot, asking, “Are you OK?” Startled, the diminutive brunette mumbles, “Yes” and turns around, her attention refocused on her classmates. In some schools, the inattention and fidgeting would be considered grounds for reproach or punishment. Not so with Williams, who’s trained in the practices of traumainformed, or trauma-sensitive, schools. A growing movement
We have to take care of the emotional side as well as the academic side of teaching to create an environment where children are able to learn. - Beth Savidge, assistant superintendent Independence (Mo.) School District
in the Kansas City area and across the United States, trauma-informed care has taken root at local mental health and social service providers, hospitals and schools. Gradually but steadily, it’s spreading through school districts and early childhood centers looking to catch and stem childhood behavioral
problems in the hope of avoiding hospitalizations and incarceration in adulthood. Although there isn’t much hard data yet showing whether the programs are effective in changing behavior, early results from preschools to high schools are encouraging. The movement is based on the idea that much of (See TRAUMA on page 15)
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Medicaid from Independence, Jim Denning, a Republican from Overland Park, and Laura Kelly, a Democrat from Topeka - and two state representatives Jerry Henry, a Democrat from Atchison, and Mark Hutton, a Republican from Wichita. It was unclear after the three-hour session if the Kansas Legislature will schedule committee hearings on Medicaid expansion in the session that
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student misbehavior may be the result of a brain that has been overwhelmed by repeated traumatic experiences. Instead of providing reactive services for students in crisis, teachers in trauma-sensitive schools attempt to diagnose underlying problems and keep children emotionally present, opening their brain for learning. “We need to give some extra TLC to these students,” says Amy Hawley, principal of Alexander Procter Elementary School in Independence, Mo., where Williams teaches. “Maybe provide extra triage and figure out what we can do to help support them inside these walls where we have some control.” Toxic Stress When someone experiences stress, the body responds by releasing hormones that provide energy for “fight or flight.” When that occurs regularly, it takes longer for the hormones to diminish, affecting children’s brain development. Trauma can occur at any income level but tends to be more prevalent among lower-income, urban populations, according to Molly Ticknor, a trauma-sensitive trainer with Truman Medical Centers’ Resilience Incubator. Ticknor was one of the first to introduce the idea to elementary and secondary education. More than 95 percent of students at pilot schools in Truman’s program qualify for free and reduced lunch.
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begins next week, let alone find enough common ground to pass a measure this year. Denning, for one, expressed serious misgivings about expanding KanCare, insisting Indiana would be unable to control the costs of its expanded program, especially given the higher reimbursements it’s paying to providers. “They have no idea what is fixing to happen to them,” he said.
Behavior So if social situations make you nervous, and you use opposite action to go to a party, but you spend the entire night in a corner not talking to anyone, then Opposite Action probably won’t work. Again, you have to do it 100%. You have to not only show up at the party, but also talk to everyone you can, and be as outgoing as possible. Doing that over and over will lower your social anxiety. Opposite Action works for other emotions as well. Depression tells us to isolate. When we get down we don’t want to get out of bed, we don’t want to talk to other people, we want to bottle things up, we want to stop taking good care of ourselves, and we stop doing the things we normally enjoy
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He cited a recent analysis of the Indiana plan posted on the website of Forbes magazine. Leonard, however, derided the analysis, saying it consisted of “wild claims” posted on a blog that had been debunked by Indiana state officials. “Sen. Denning must have access to some books in Indiana that we don’t have access to,” he said. “The governor’s office, the Senate and the House
all looked at this, and it’s the state that came to us with the idea of the plan and the funding mechanism, so they have a lot more confidence in it than Sen. Denning has.” Funding for Indiana’s expanded program comes from the state cigarette tax and an assessment on providers. Dave Kerr, a former Republican state senator from Hutchinson who served as president of the Kansas Senate, told
But can you see how if you could, even for just one second, it would really hard to be both in their shoes and angry at them at the same time? The crucial thing to remember with opposite action (or any other DBT skill) is that you are using the skill for yourself. You are not using it because anyone else thinks you should do it. If you’re feeling angry, for example, staying angry isn’t hurting the other person at all, it’s just hurting you. This is the first DBT skill. There are many
expanded and provided it with additional Medicaid reimbursements. But expansion, he said, might have provided other options. “Saying no to everything is not the answer,” King said. Even if expansion does come up for debate, King said he doesn’t expect it to pass this session. He predicted it could take as long as two years for that to happen.
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doing. So opposite action would have you get active, be social and do things that are fun and make you feel competent and selfconfident, even though you probably won’t want to at first. Opposite action is about overcoming the inertia of the emotion we are currently feeling. With anger our instinct is to attack. Opposite action has us gently avoid the person or situation, both physically and mentally (not thinking about the thing that is making us angry over and over). The other thing that is the opposite of attacking is EMPATHY. When we are feeling angry at someone else the hardest thing in the world is for us to put ourselves in the other person’s shoes.
the forum audience that Kansas needed “to get serious and design a plan for Kansas with Kansas principles.” He said that any Kansas solution should require beneficiaries to pay something for their care and contain an employment component. King, whose hometown hospital, Mercy Hospital, closed last year, said the closure might have happened even if KanCare had been
of them. Not every skill works for everyone. In the coming weeks I’ll go over some of the other DBT skills. The trick is to find which ones work for you and then to use them. That’s probably true for most things in life. The only way to find out which of these skills might be helpful for you is to practice them. That’s probably true for most things in life as well. Opposite action is of the one DBT skills that has been most helpful for me. Give it a try. Focus on this one skill for a week and see what changes.
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Reforms This thinking is discriminating and has no place in education.” The report suggests the state shouldn’t rely on family poverty information. In terms of school bond issues, the report recommends the Legislature repeal the current law applicable to school bonding. Strict limits need to be attached to state funding used to supplement bonding by districts, the report said. If lawmakers decide not to repeal state law on school bonding, the report said, a special committee “should be named to oversee and approve any bond issue before the bond is placed on the ballot.” Recommendations by the panel to the 2016 Legislature are intended to create a foundation upon which a new school finance formula could be written by state lawmakers. The Republican-led Legislature and Gov. Sam Brownback repealed the old finance formula in 2015 and implemented a block grant approach that expires in 2017. The Kansas Supreme Court is reviewing a ruling by a three-judge panel that the system of block granting was unconstitutional. “It is evident the
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K-12 system currently employed by our state is not producing the desired learning,” the report said. “The funding mechanism needs to be redesigned to focus on the individual student. Accountability and reporting measures need to be developed to ensure that the funding is distributed according to the needs. “This also directly affects the teachers. They are the parties who will be held accountable for helping each student attain their highest level of proficiency.” Under the draft report to be made public Tuesday morning, the authors recommend the Legislature improve management of school district transportation, accounting, information technology, food services, building maintenance, payroll, human resources and purchasing by turning those duties over to regional service centers. More savings would occur, the report said, if these centers outsourced these functions to the private sector. The report recommends the state’s 286 districts secure “significant savings” by entering into bulk purchasing
agreements for basic commodities and services. In addition, the financial accounting process for public school districts would be overhauled to make reporting uniform. The report was developed following public hearings and introduction of thousands of pages of information to the House and Senate committee led by Highland, who chairs the House Education Committee. The 11-page document suggests regular committees of the Legislature ought to study the cost and benefit of accepting federal funding for education given regulatory requirements attached to those grants. All extracurricular and co-curricular activities in Kansas public schools ought to be investigated on the “basis of efficiency and efficacy to deliver education to the students,” the report said. Kansas legislative committees also should explore issues of teacher pay, specifically how to attract and retain “good” teachers, the report said. There has been some discussion by the governor and others about implementation of merit pay adjustments.
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O’Neil resigns to become Topeka-Seaman football coach
SCHS football coach Glenn O’Neil visits with his players as they huddle following a game. (Record Photo)
For several years there has been speculation about how much longer Glenn O’Neil would continue as the football and basketball head coach at Scott Community High School. Questions were asked following the graduation of his oldest son, Brett, and the basketball team’s third consecutive state title in 2013. And O’Neil returned. There was more speculation following the graduation of his youngest son, Trey, and yet another state basketball championship in 2015. And O’Neil returned. Further speculation can finally be put to rest. O’Neil has announced this will be his final season at SCHS having accepted the position as head football
coach at Topeka-Seaman High School with the 2016-17 school year. O’Neil made the official announcement on Wednesday morning in the SCHS auditorium with a taped video that was played for the football and basketball players. “There’s no way I could have told the boys directly,” noted O’Neil, who watched the video with his players. There were even a couple of breaks in the five-minute taped announcement so that an emotional O’Neil could gather himself and finish what he wanted to tell his players. After the video was over, O’Neil still had trouble talking to his players as he fought back the emotions.
Steal, 3-pointer by Hutchins sets stage for SCHS OT win Second chances don’t come often, but Dylan Hutchins took advantage of a second opportunity in Tuesday’s non-league game against Southwestern Heights which eventually led to a 59-52 overtime win. In what has become a pattern through the SW Hts. 52 first five Scott City 59 games of the season, Scott City’s offense disappeared for most of the second half as a one-time 15 point lead disappeared. With his team trailing 48-45, Hutchins’ threepoint attempt from the left wing hit the rim and caromed back in his direction. It was initially grabbed by a Mustang player, but as he turned Hutchins was able to knock the ball loose and regain possession. “I was thinking about going inside, but when I saw their big guy drop back in the paint I knew the better shot would be from the outside,” says the senior guard. He stepped just beyond the three-point line and this time he drilled a huge basket that tied the game at 48-48 with :58 remaining. “Being able to tie the game was huge. It meant that we didn’t have to foul and just had to play good defense,” says Hutchins. The Beavers did just that, forcing a turnover at the far end of the court which gave them an opportunity for the game winner. After taking the clock down to 12
Scott City senior Dylan Hutchins drives into the lane for a basket during first half action against Southwestern Heights on Tuesday night. (Record Photo)
seconds, head coach Glenn O’Neil called a timeout to set up a final play. Hutchins’ game-winner didn’t go in, but Bo Hess was
there for the short rebound sent the game into overtime. and putback at the buzzer SCHS never trailed in the that brought the crowd to its extra period, scoring seven feet. However, the officials points at the charity stripe. waved off the basket which (See HUTCHINS on page 18)
“I knew it would be tough, but not this tough,” he said. “Scott City will always be the first score I look for on Friday nights. You guys will always be in my heart.” A number of players lined up and shared hugs with their coach before leaving the auditorium. “You have to respect Coach’s decision,” long-time assistant coach and friend Jim Turner told the players. “What he’s doing is right for him and his family.” “I knew the first day he walked into the building that he would be an outstanding coach,” added Activities Director Randy Huck. “Thanks (See O’NEIL on page 24)
Thanks, Glenn, for one helluva ride
You’ve probably had one of those phone calls where you know something isn’t quite right so, naturally, you fear the worst. We got one of those Monday. SCHS head coach Glenn O’Neil wanted to Rod visit, which isn’t Haxton, unusual in itself. sports editor But there hadn’t been a game over the Christmas break so I didn’t have the opportunity to write something that would have left Glenn shaking his head in bewilderment. When you’ve been around someone who has been a good friend for 20 years you just know. What we’d feared in our gut was right. Glenn informed us that this season would be his last as a head coach at SCHS. Even when you kind of suspect what’s about to be said that doesn’t make it any easier. As we told Glenn, we’ve felt for the last few years that we were on borrowed time. There comes a point in a highly successful coaching career when one of two things happen. Either you get settled in and count down the years to retirement while adding to your coaching legacy. Or you test the waters one final time. You try to satisfy that lingering question about whether you can be just as successful, perhaps even more successful, somewhere else. It takes a tremendous amount of courage to do the latter. Confidence, yes. But definitely courage. Glenn could have easily stayed in Scott City for the remainder of his coaching career, set win totals that would stand forever and perhaps add to his state championship resume´. The community might have named the football complex for him, or perhaps the basketball court. There’s nothing to say that still couldn’t happen someday. (See RIDE on page 22)
Big mat showdowns on tap this weekend It’s still early in the wrestling season, but some huge showdowns could be on tap at the Norton Invitational this weekend. And Scott City grapplers figure to be in the mix involving some potential matchups which could have regional seeding implications in another six weeks. “The holiday break is over and it’s time to get into region-
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al and state mode,” says head coach Jon Lippelmann. “We know where our weaknesses are now. We know where we have
to improve if we want to compete with the best and become one of the best. “Our goal over the next 40 to 50 days is to get to that level.” It will begin with the Norton tournament which has always attracted a strong field of northwest Kansas grapplers. It’s become even tougher over the last 2-3 seasons with the addition of Garden City High School and a mix of differ-
ent teams from eastern Kansas. A new addition this year is Manhattan, ranked No. 2 in Class 6A behind Garden City. Norton (No. 1) leads a strong contingent of Class 3-2-1A teams, along with Scott City (No. 4), Smith Center (No. 8) and Hoxie (No. 9). That’s in addition to 39 individual grapplers who are ranked within the top six of their respective weight classes
in classes 3-2-1A, 4A and 6A. SCHS has three of those ranked matmen, including Theron Tucker (106, No. 6), Zach Tucker (113, No. 2) and Cooper Griffith (195, No. 1). In nine of the 14 weight classes there are at least three state-ranked wrestlers. “Our number-one goal is to see some of the kids who will be in our regional so we know (See SHOWDOWNS on page 18)
Outdoors in Kansas by Steve Gilliland
The things you never know you might need
Joyce and I have been known to attend a garage sale or two and often I just find a shady spot to park and wait her out. If it is an “intentional” event and we have a map or newspaper listing I’ll occasionally browse along with her if something on the list gets my attention. Often, however, these stops are merely spur-of-the-moment and I’ll only get out with her if something I see looks interesting. Such was the case one Saturday morning last fall. It was a nice day and we happened to be in Hutchinson so Joyce’s radar was actively seeking garage sale signs as we headed through town. We followed signs to a garage sale in a nice neighborhood a little off the beaten path. In the yard sat one of those “U” shaped ladders used to get in and out of a raised swimming pool. It had my attention and for the $4 price tag I reasoned that certainly we could use it for something (you know how that goes; you never know when you might need it!) Evidently the owner was having a difficult time getting rid of it, so when she saw my interest, she immediately made her way over. A couple of minutes later she told us “We’re selling it because we built a deck around our pool and have no need of that ladder now, so if you want it, just take it.” That’s our kind of deal. Fast forward to last week. Even though conditions are far from ideal with frozen ground most mornings and mud by evening, I wanted to try setting a few coyote traps again. (See NEED on page 22)
Showdowns what it will take to be a state qualifier,” says Lippelmann. “But we also want to see the best competition out there because that pushes us to be even better. (Class) 6A or 1A, it doesn’t matter.” Defending state champion Z. Tucker will likely have to get past a tough semi-final match with either Estin Slack (Oakley, No. 2, 3-2-1A) or Joe Braun (Manhattan, No. 6, 6A). If he accomplishes that it could very well set up a replay of last year’s 106-pound state championship match against Norton’s Skylar Johnson. Tucker was a 5-2 winner in the state title match, but Johnson currently owns the No. 1 ranking in 3-2-1A. After defeating three stateranked wrestlers in the Abilene Invitational just before the holiday break, it doesn’t get any easier for Griffith this weekend with four ranked wrestlers at Norton. Griffith, a senior, is currently the No. 1 ranked wrestler in 3-2-1A, but he will be joined by Jordan Doll (Norton, No. 2) whom Griffith decisioned 3-2 in last year’s state tournament on his way to a third place finish. Also competing for the title will be Zeke Herrera (Garden City, No. 2, 6A) and Diego Maravilla (Ulysses, No. 6, 4A). There’s also the potential for some key matches which could be important when it comes time for regional seeds. Freshman Jack Thomas (132) is off to a very good start this season but could enhance his
Hutchins Junior guard Drew Duff hit a pair of baskets on two trips to the free throw line which were sandwiched around a layin by senior center Drake McRae. That put the Beavers on top, 54-48, with 1:16 remaining. SCHS added five more free throws in the final 31 seconds - the last two by Hutchins that gave him a game high 22 points. “Definitely give our guys credit for battling back and forcing the overtime,” says O’Neil. “It was an accomplishment pulling this game out, but
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credentials with wins in a division that includes Devin Norris (Manhattan, No. 3, 6A), Colton Hutchinson (Smith Center, No. 3, 3-2-1A) and Joey McFee (Atwood, No. 4, 3-2-1A). Freshman Wyatt Hayes (152), who has just two losses this season, is hoping to find his way onto the award stand in a rugged weight class that features the No. 2 and No. 3 ranked wrestlers in Class 6A. The division also includes Mario Rodriguez (Ulysses, No. 4) who was a 4-2 winner over Hayes earlier this season, along with Clay DeWaal (St. Francis, No. 5, 3-2-1A). Two other Scott City wrestlers with an opportunity to establish their credentials as potential state qualifiers will be juniors Tre Stewart (182) and Garrett Osborn (220). Perhaps the most brutal weight class - at least on paper - is the 138-pound division which features two No. 1 ranked wrestlers - Tristan Porsch (Hoxie, 3-21A) and Michael Prieto (Garden City, 6A) - along with No. 2 ranked wrestlers Carter Wessling (Beloit, 3-2-1A) and Jalin Harper (Manhattan, 6A). Porsch, a junior, is a two-time state champion while Prieto, a senior, is a three-time title winner. “We’re going to have the opportunity to see a lot of our regional competition along with some different competition from Nebraska and (Class) 6A teams,” noted Lippelmann. “There will be some great wrestling.”
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Skylar Johnson Zach Tucker Estin Slack Joe Braun
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it’s a headache trying to avoid putting ourselves into these situations.” The “situation” referred to by O’Neil is the long scoring drought that’s often times a result of too many turnovers. “The turnovers are hurting us. We had unforced mistakes and things we’ve talked about in practice but we haven’t carried over to games,” says the head coach. “We did some good things, but we’re soft with the ball. You hate to be labeled soft. You can’t let people strip the ball away from you or bounce you off your course.”
Start Strong It didn’t appear that Scott City was headed for a nail-biter when they were able to extend the lead into double-digits midway into the second period. Hutchins converted a four-point play, followed by a three-point basket by Duff that opened up a 29-15 spread with 1:36 remaining in the half. When Hutchins drilled another three-pointer it gave the Beavers their largest lead of the night, 32-17. That was followed by a 16 minute stretch when
Scott City added just 13 more points to their total. “We started the third quarter with three straight turnovers and there was a charge mixed in there. We can’t afford to have those runs, but we continue to do so,” O’Neil said. The Mustangs put together a 16-2 scoring stretch that cut the SCHS lead to 34-33 with 3:38 left in the third period. SWH wasn’t able to take the lead until 6:32 remaining in the game when they jumped on top, 42-40, following a three-point basket. Both teams exchanged baskets with Drake
McRae giving Scott City its final lead in regulation, 45-44, following a basket at the 3:37 mark. Duff was the only other Beaver in double figures with 12 points while McRae and Hess each added eight. “Drake looked a lot better at the end of the game attacking the basket,” says O’Neil. “He has to continue to attack, even if the shots aren’t falling. He’s a good 15-foot faceup shooter and he had some good looks at the basket. Those shots didn’t fall against Heights, but they’re going to.”
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Second half rally falls short for SCHS girls
Scott City sophomore Bailey Latta drives past a SWH defender during Tuesday’s nonleague action on the home floor. (Record Photo)
There are two ways of playing basketball, Scott Community High School head coach Sarah McCormick reminded her girls during halftime of Tuesday’s game against Southwestern Heights. The Lady Beavers could play their way or McCor- SW Hts. 32 Scott City 31 mick’s way. In the second half they chose McCormick’s way, rallying from a 12 point deficit before coming up short, 32-31, in a non-league contest. Even after just four percent from the field in the first half, Scott City was still within striking distance of the Lady Mustangs, 16-6, at the intermission. “I told the girls, you did what you wanted to do in the first half, now we’re going to start doing what I want to do,” says head coach Sarah McCormick. “It worked. We were running the plays that I wanted them to run. We were running the press that I wanted them to run. “When we do things that we don’t work on in practice we’re not going to win a lot of games,” she said. SCHS still trailed 22-10 with 6:23 left in the third period, but closed out the quarter with 7-0 scoring run that brought them back into the game. They fol-
lowed with a 12-2 scoring surge in the fourth quarter. When junior Kiana Yager, who scored eight points, drove the left side for a basket she gave Scott City its first lead of the night, 29-28, with just 1:56 on the clock. Moments later, SWH regained a one point lead, but senior Nicole Latta, who finished with a team high 11 points, followed with a clutch basket. She initially drove to the right side of the basket and when the defender fell down she spun around and hit a jumper with :43 remaining to put Scott City on top, 31-30. The Lady Mustangs added the game winner just 10 seconds later and Scott City was unable to get another clean shot at the basket during their final possession. While SWH also struggled offensively, they were able to get the ball into their post players who generated enough points to build the early lead and withstand the late SCHS rally. “When a team relies on their post offense we have to put more pressure on their guards so they can’t make that pass so easily to their big girls inside,” noted McCormick. “If they do get the ball inside, then we need (See SC GIRLS on page 20)
JV overcomes scoring lull to break Mustangs Scott City junior varsity coach Brian Gentry has some simple advice for his young basketball team. Slow down. “The biggest thing we keep preaching to these boys is SW Hts. 31 Scott City 43 to play within yourself and don’t try to play at a pace you’re uncomfortable with,” said Gentry after his team needed a strong finish to
pull away from Southwestern Heights, 43-31, in a non-league game on Tuesday. “When we play under control, slow it down and look at all of our options we’re a much better team. When we try to play the pace that the varsity plays at we’re not near as good. We don’t know what we’re looking for,” said Gentry. For most of the first half the Beavers were able to do just that while building a 21-14 lead.
However, a third quarter scoring drought allowed the Mustangs to briefly grab a 26-25 advantage with 2:58 left in the period. It was Heights’ only lead of the night. Scott City answered with a 14-0 scoring blitz during the next 6-1/2 minutes that opened up a 39-26 lead and put the game away. Sophomore center Zach Carson, who had been riding the bench with foul trouble, re-
entered the game and hit backto-back baskets to close out the third period and open the fourth quarter. Nick Nowak, who finished with 11 points, also contributed consecutive buckets early in the fourth quarter - including a trey - that stretched Scott City’s lead to 37-26. Junior guard Jess Drohman finished off the scoring run with a basket that gave Scott City its largest lead of the night. Freshman guard Marshall
Faurot led the team with 14 points - nine of those coming in the opening period - while Carson added nine. Gentry pointed to foul problems as a big cause for Scott City’s scoring woes in the third period. “When Zach’s in the game we’re doing a better job of getting the ball into the low post and finishing,” says Gentry. (See JV BOYS on page 20)
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Perhaps Big 12 needs a change in recruiting Why is the Big 12 coming up short in football? Everyone by associated Mac with the conStevenson ference was delighted that Oklahoma made the Final Four with Alabama, Michigan State and Clemson. That all changed after the Sooners played Clemson. OU was humiliated, 3717. Clemson had 312 yards rushing to OU’s 67. That says it all. The better southern teams like Clemson and Alabama have defensive lines and linebackers that are far superior to anything in the Big 12. That wasn’t all: Arkansas bombed K-State (45-23); LSU crushed Texas Tech (56-27); and Mississippi pounded Oklahoma State (48-20). Baylor, TCU and West Virginia were the only Big 12 teams to win their bowl games. Baylor defeated North Carolina (49-38); TCU, in a valiant comeback, beat Oregon (47-41); and West Virginia edged Arizona State (43-42). Big 12 teams were 3-4 in the bowl games, but it came oh, so close to being a total disaster. Texas is a huge state with great high school football and it’s like a large wellstocked fishing lake that is overfished and, consequently, declines in quality. In the Big 12 alone, here is a team-by-team look at the 2015 freshmen recruits from Texas: Baylor 16, Iowa State 4, Kansas 18, Kansas State 3, Oklahoma 11, Oklahoma State 10, TCU 18, Texas 18, Texas Tech 17 and West Virginia 0. That’s 115 players from Texas in last year’s Big 12 recruiting class. That’s just a drop in the bucket. Teams from all over the nation recruit Texas and almost all of the top programs sign several top players from the Lone Star state every year. Highly talented defensive linemen and linebackers are the most difficult recruiting challenge for college coaches. The better teams from the south are three-deep at these vital positions. (See RECRUITING on page 23)
Keeping the momentum in KC Try to imagine an AFC championship game in Arrowhead Stadium. That may not sound as farfetched as you might imagine given that two of the hottest teams in the post-season are Kansas City (No. 5) and Pittsburgh (No. 6). But, first things first. The Chiefs have a chance to repeat history. The last time Kansas City won a playoff game it was against the former Houston Oilers (January 1994). While Houston has since moved to Tennessee, we are playing their replacement - the Texans - in a first round playoff game. Like KC, they have also had a remarkable turnaround in their season. After starting 1-4 (including a season opening loss to KC) the Texans have won eight of their last 11 games to claim the embarrassingly weak AFC South. The good news is that Brian Hoyer is still their quarterback. The KC defense has to be chomping at the bit after Hoyer’s brilliant 12.3 QB rating the last time these two teams met. Even better news is that backup Ryan Mallett, who ral-
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lied the Texans with 11 points to make the final score a little more respectable when these two teams met, is now in Baltimore. It’s also interesting to note that none of Kansas City’s three leading rushers in that opener are still in the lineup. Instead, we have Spencer Ware and Charcandrick West who have stepped up to provide us with a two-headed rushing monster. And the Texans have no answer for tight end Travis Kelce. He figures to have a big day, along with wide receiver Jeremy Maclin, against a Houston defense that can’t defend the play-action. When teams have had play-action they are 62of-92 for 887 yards, six touchdowns and no interceptions. That’s great news for a KC team and quarterback Alex Smith who loves play-action. Wide Open AFC Anyone who thinks they
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to pressure their post players so they can’t get whatever shot they want. “I felt the only times we did put pressure on them we fouled and we’d bail them out every time. We can’t bail them out every time they make some two-cent move to the basket.” But the head coach needed to remind herself and her team the season is still young and this team is still trying to figure out how to win. “I told the girls I know they haven’t been in situations like this very often. This is only game five. We’re going to be in other situations like this,” McCormick says. “Last time we were in situations like this we didn’t know things to do to stop the clock. This time we did. “Last time we didn’t know what plays to run or when press to run after making a shot. This time we did. That’s why we were able to get back into the game and give ourselves a chance to win at the end.”
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“But we still need Zach to play more aggressive. He’s got to be more physical.” As with the varsity, however, the JV needs to find more offense when a team plays zone defense. “Whenever a team plays zone our main focus is in getting the ball to the high post and making a play from there. We were getting the ball to the high post at times, but we weren’t looking to the opposite side of the floor,” Gentry notes. “Once we did we realized it was completely unguarded so we were able to get some easier shots.” Better defense, adds the JV coach, is what triggered the late rally after falling behind by a point. “We were making defensive stops, which is true of most scoring runs,” Gentry said.
have the AFC playoffs figured out is delusional. Just how much is this conference up for grabs. Consider that if Denver hadn’t been able to overcome five turnovers against San Diego and pull out the win they would have dropped all the way from the No. 1 to the No. 6 seed. Even with the win, Peyton Manning is only a shadow of his former self. The Broncos will go only as far as their defense takes them. And New England is decimated by injuries. It wouldn’t be a shock if neither team made it to the AFC title game. That’s where it can get real interesting. If we beat Houston and beat New England, and if Pittsburgh can uphold their end of the bargain and defeat Cincinnati and Denver, that sets up an AFC Championship game at Arrowhead. It could happen. Kansas City has been in a playoff frame of mind for the last 10 weeks. They have literally been in a do-or-die situation where a single loss would have ended their post-season hopes. We’ve felt the pressure for
10 weeks and we’ve responded each time. In terms of players available for this weekend’s playoff game: Justin Houston is expected to be available; Dee Ford is going through concussion protocol; and De’Anthony Thomas is done for the season for a “non-football related” reason - whatever that means. Here are a few other noteworthy stats: •Maclin had 87 receptions this season, breaking the franchise record by a wide receiver of 86 set by Dwayne Bowe in 2008. •In his career, Smith has posted a 108.6 QB rating in the playoffs (9 TDs, zero INTs) •The Chiefs have averaged almost 144 yards on the ground during their 10 game winning streak, and that makes Smith a more dangerous QB throwing downfield to Kelce and Maclin. •Kansas City allowed the third-fewest points this season in the NFL, including just 12.8 points per game during its 10game winning streak. The X Factor (Ty Rowton) is a former Scott City resident who has been inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame as a Chiefs Superfan
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So why would one want to leave such a culture of success that he helped take to an unprecedented level? It’s not the lure of the proverbial “greener pastures.” On the drive to Topeka, Glenn was asked by his wife, Jenny, whether he was nervous. “I said, ‘Why should I be nervous? I have a great job already,” says Glenn. Would winning another football or basketball title mean that Glenn is a better coach than he is today? Would it make his legacy any greater? Probably not. That’s already known. “At some time in a coach’s life you tell yourself that you can come back and achieve the same goals over and over and over which, in Scott City, is to win 10 games and advance as far as you can in the playoffs,” noted Glenn. “But that still wouldn’t answer the question of whether or not I can do the same somewhere else.” * * * We have no doubt that the value Glenn places on his family played a big part in his decision. But we also see in Glenn the
greatest sense of achievement isn’t in staying on top - it’s the climb. As much as Glenn has enjoyed the state championships, one could sense he felt just as much, if not more, satisfaction with what his football teams accomplished in 2013 and 2014 when many were predicting (or hoping) the Beavers would tumble into mediocrity, or as one area coach told us, “Now Scott City will come back down to earth.” Instead, Glenn and his Beavers advanced to the semi-finals and state title game in those two seasons, respectively. Or one could look to the 2014 basketball season when SCHS advanced to the Class 4A-Division II finals when many were predicting the Beavers would quietly fade away after winning three consecutive state titles. Those were masterful coaching jobs against teams that, in more than a few instances, were more talented. “There are coaches out there who are a lot better than I am,” says O’Neil. We respectfully disagree. Putting aside the
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debate over who is better at analyzing the Xs and Os, we will say, without hesitation, there are very, very few coaches with the ability to get athletes to believe in themselves and in his system the way that Glenn has managed to do in basketball and football. It comes down to one simple word: team. SCHS has been fortunate in recent years to graduate three athletes who are playing at the Division I college level: Ron Baker (WSU), Colborn Couchman (K-State) and Luke Hayes (K-State). But they are the exception. We aren’t a Division I factory, which outside observers may find difficult to imagine when one considers the phenomenal success we have in SCHS sports. That’s because Glenn’s philosophy of team and family is ingrained in our athletes in all sports. There are no superstars. It’s about the team. Period. * * * Glenn will try to downplay his contribution to the success of SCHS sports, saying that the championship foundation was already here.
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One spot I have near town is at the far edge of a pasture/hay field and is an easy drive. When scouting that spot, it appeared the coyotes were coming from the adjoining wheat field, still owned by the same farmer, but getting in there was going to be a slight problem. The wheat field is a couple of feet higher than the hayfield and a fence surrounds the entire field. Now I encounter lots of electric fence and barbed wire. But this was four strands of new barbwire stretched tighter than
grandma’s purse strings and fastened onto new “T” posts, the top strand catching my 6-foot-3 frame across the top of my chest. In short, I wasn’t climbing that fence! As I pondered how this was ever going to work, guess what popped into my mind? The pool ladder from the garage sale. I hauled it out there and lifted one end over onto the other side of the fence and viola, I could now scale the fence without permanent physical damage to certain anatomical extremities. The top wire on the fence is just high
enough that it makes the ladder a little tipsy but it still works just fine. I’m sure some of us have sheds full of stuff we cabbaged-onto because, “You just never know when you might need it,” and usually it turns out that you never do. This was one time however that one of those treasures actually filled a need - and it was free! It just doesn’t get much better than that. Continue to Explore Kansas Outdoors! Steve can be contacted by email at stevegilliland@idkcom.net
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And he’s right. It was. And it will continue to be. He has, however, firmly established a new standard for the championship legacy that is part of Scott City athletics. Former SCHS football coach Dave Dunham, with three state titles on his resume´, acknowledged Glenn as the best football coach in SCHS history because he is a six-time state champion and two-time state runnerup in two sports. Former SCHS football coach Larry Huck, who was on the committee that asked Glenn to accept the football head coaching position following the resignation of Bill Arnold, called it “the best decision we could have possibly made.” That’s certainly not meant to disrespect or dismiss what was accomplished by the great football coaches who preceded Glenn. Huck showed that perfection was attainable with two undefeated seasons. Dunham made football championships not just a dream, but an expectation, with three Class 4A state titles.
Brent Glann revived a program that had begun to flounder. Bill Arnold laid the foundation for a consistent level of greatness that can only happen when you’ve built a real program. Glenn elevated SCHS football and basketball to another level that no one could have imagined. Even though he was aware of Scott City’s reputation in sports when he arrived in 1996, Glenn says it was impossible to anticipate the success that followed when great coaching was combined with great athletes who want to be coached. “You’d have to be pretty egotistical to think that when you take over a basketball program you’re going to win five state championships,” he says. He’s probably right. But Glenn can reluctantly take responsibility for creating a community of egotistical fans who have come to believe that such success can be repeated with regularity. He has reshaped our vision of reality. * * * Don’t mistake this as an eulogy for SCHS football and basketball with
Glenn’s departure. That would be disrespectful to the programs that Glenn has built and to the tradition that has long been a part of SCHS athletics. This is a tribute to Glenn’s ability as a coach, the quality of his character and his ability to create an atmosphere where state championships aren’t just something you hope for but something you come to expect. Unreasonable? Maybe. But programs achieve greatness by setting their expectations to a level that others can only dream about. Glenn will be the first to tell anyone that SCHS athletics is bigger than any one individual. But make no mistake. Glenn was the one individual capable of taking a great football program to new heights and who firmly stamped the championship tradition label on a basketball program that had been competing in the shadows for far too long. It took a special individual to accomplish that. Glenn will be missed as a great coach and a great role model. He will be missed even more as a close friend.
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Recruiting Big 12 teams always have some quality defenders, but not enough. Clemson’s offensive line blew OU’s defenders off the ball play after play after play; they were bigger and faster and stronger and more athletic. Other than that, it was a fairly even matchup. The Big 12 needs to broaden their recruiting nets; the lake they’ve been fishing in doesn’t have enough whoppers to go around. Kansas State played hard and hung on against Arkansas until the fourth quarter. The Razorbacks dominated the game at the line of scrimmage, which was typical of almost all the Big 12 bowl games. Overall, it was a disappointing season for the Wildcat fans, who have become accustomed to many superb teams during the Bill Snyder era. A downcast Snyder
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said, “We didn’t hold up our end of the bargain. We play a lot of extremely fine and talented football teams during the year and Arkansas falls in that group. Our youngsters prepared well, we just didn’t coach them very well today. That created some issues for us.” About the only unanswered question concerning K-State football is whether or not Snyder will remain as head coach for 2016. The immediate future doesn’t look as promising as it normally does; K-State loses four starters off the offensive line and Snyder doesn’t have an established QB. Snyder’s final decision on his coaching future should be forthcoming very soon because the recruiting season is in full swing.
solved one of the few problems Kansas basketball coach Bill Self has by separating himself from the other contenders for the starting center position. Mickelson was superb in the 102-74 rout of Baylor. The summer trip to Korea for international play helped Mickelson more than any other KU player; he’s gaining confidence and will continue to make progress. The situation has two other positives: Mickelson’s move forward takes the pressure off freshmen inside players Carlton Bragg (6-9, 220) and Cheick Diallo (6-9, 225). However, it’s also clear they are going to have to give it all they have in practice to earn more playing time. Kansas plays next Saturday (Jan. 9) at Texas Center is Settled Tech and then the JayHunter Mickelson has hawks play at West Vir-
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ginia on Tuesday (Jan. 12). All of the Big 12 road games will be a challenge, but the Red Raiders and Mountaineers have been particularly formidable in the early going. Nevertheless, KU is clicking and should win both games. Road wins will be hard to come by in Big 12 play. The eventual champion will likely have at least three and maybe four losses. College basketball is well-balanced this season and there are numerous talented teams. If Big 12 teams don’t fare any better than the football teams did in postseason play, it will be a major disappointment for all concerned. Instead of the coaches spending the season crowing about how good the Big 12 is, proving it in the NCAA Tournament would be a welcome change.
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to Coach for setting the standard so high.” O’Neil will be leaving behind a record of achievements unmatched in SCHS history - five state basketball titles (2006, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015), one state football title (2012), two basketball runnersup (2007, 2014) and one football runner-up (2014). He is the winningest coach in SCHS history in both football (97-14) and basketball (355108). Family, a focal point of the shared brotherhood of SCHS teams under O’Neil, played a big part in the decision to accept the Seaman position. No longer will O’Neil be tied down coaching two major sports. His winters will be free to follow his two sons who are both playing college hoops. He and his wife, Jenny, will also be closer to other family members. Not to follow through with the importance of family “in our own lives seemed kind of hypocritical,” says O’Neil. New Challenge But there’s no escaping the fact that O’Neil was looking for another coaching challenge. “From a football standpoint, I’ve always wondered if what we do at Scott City . . . would that be good enough at the next level - at (Class) 4A or 5A?” asks O’Neil, noting that Seaman is a large 5A school. He notes that when he took over the football program in 2007 former head coach Bill Arnold “had already taken it to a high level. I feel we took it up another notch,” he says. That would be an understatement. SCHS football has had 10 or more wins in eight consecutive seasons - the longest active streak in the state. “With respect to professional growth, I’ve felt I’ve had a bigger impact in changing the basketball culture in Scott City,” O’Neil says. “As for football, I feel like I’ve maintained an already outstanding program. “At some time in a coach’s life, you tell yourself that you can come back and achieve the same goals over and over and over which, in Scott City, is to win 10 games and advance as far as you can in the playoffs. But after winning a state title and a state runner-up, I have to ask how much more can I do here? “It has nothing to do with Scott City or how satisfied I am here. It’s a question deep inside me that asks are you good enough to take over a program that has won four games in two years and get them going in the right direction? Is that a challenge too great for me to achieve?” “It’s going to take a lot of help from a lot of different people just like has been the case here. I didn’t build this program by myself. I’ve had a great coaching staff over the years and a great partner in Coach (Jim ) Turner,” O’Neil says. O’Neil emphasized to his athletes on Wednesday that
Glenn O’Neil with his first basketball state championship team in 2006.
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O’Neil’s Legacy at SCHS Year-by-Year Football Year 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Career
W 7 10 11 10 11 14 11 13 10 97
L 5 2 1 1 1 0 2 1 1 14
2012: 3A State Champions 2014: 3A State Runner-up
Year 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 Career
1997: 2000: 2002: 2005: 2006: 2007: 2011: 2012: 2013: 2014: 2015:
Basketball W 14 15 17 18 16 15 14 9 21 24 20 13 18 17 25 25 25 21 25 352
L 10 8 6 7 7 9 8 12 3 2 6 9 5 6 1 1 1 4 1 106
State Results 4A - lost in first round 4A - 4th place 4A - lost in first round 4A - lost in first round 4A State Champions 3A State Runner-up 3A State Champions 3A State Champions 3A State Champions 4A-DII State Runner-up 3A State Champions
Scott City’s tradition for success won’t change with his departure. “No matter who coaches Scott City the expectations will always be there, the community support will continue to be there and a great coaching staff is in place. If Coach Turner takes the job, and I hope he does, you will continue to have a great leader.” Timing Was a Factor Knowing the work that is ahead of him, and the process of rebuilding the Seaman program, O’Neil acknowledges this may have been the final opportunity for him to consider such a move in his career. “If this doesn’t work out, and I certainly hope that’s not the case, then I can retire in three years,” says O’Neil. “But that’s not the plan. That would be like
Coach O’Neil and his youngest son, Trey, celebrate Scott City’s fifth state basketball title during the O’Neil era at the Hutchinson Sports Arena in March of 2015. (Record Photo)
a Plan D backup strategy as in ‘D’ for ‘Dummy, you left a great situation.” O’Neil also felt encouraged about Seaman’s potential after visiting with coaching acquaintances Randall Zimmerman at Junction City and long-time friend Bill Arnold who is the head coach at Topeka Hayden. “They both told me that the Seaman kids are hard-working athletes who just want to find something they can buy into. I’m hoping I can be what they buy into so we can turn the program around,” says O’Neil about the district which has 1,200 students in grades 9-12. “They both described Seaman as a sleeping giant.” Seaman hasn’t been able to retain athletes when they make the transition from middle school to high school, which is one reason that O’Neil will be teaching physical education at the junior high. “I’ll have the opportunity to see these kids as seventh and eighth graders every day and I can catch them at the transition period heading into high school,” he says. “With 600 boys in the high school, surely there are 50 boys with a passion for football.”
The district also has up-todate facilities which includes two turf football fields and a new junior high which opened its doors this week. While O’Neil sees great potential in his new program, he also sees big challenges. “Is it an uphill battle? Sure, but the job wouldn’t be open if it wasn’t an uphill battle,” he says. “I’m definitely going into this with my eyes wide open as to what it will be like.” A Basketball Power While football was the focal point of O’Neil’s decision, one can’t overlook his basketball success and what he’s done to establish SCHS as one of the elite programs in the state. In the 10 years before O’Neil was hired as the head coach, Scott City had won about 40 percent of its basketball games. In the 20 years since, the Beavers have won nearly 77 percent. “When I first came to Scott City, football, wrestling and track were tremendous programs and they still are. Basketball was the program that we needed to get up to par with everyone else,” O’Neil notes. He wasted no time in changing the direction of boy’s bas-
ketball, taking them to the Class 4A state tournament in 1997 their first state appearance since 1979. In 19 seasons, O’Neil and his Beavers have qualified for state 11 times. Regardless of whether or not he remained in Scott City, O’Neil says this was to be his final season as basketball coach. “One reason I came back this year to coach basketball rather than watching my boys play full-time was because I didn’t want to leave Coach (Brian) Gentry in a position where Scott City has been in five straight championships, now what are you going to do? After losing four starters and a projected starter for this year’s team that would have put Brian in a very tough situation that I didn’t feel would be fair to him. “I thought this out long and hard. I didn’t want to see Brian in a situation where people might be judging him unfairly as a head coach. If we don’t make it to state this year then it’s on me. Brian will get a fresh start next season,” says O’Neil. “If we do make it to state, then it won’t be as a one-loss team and yet we still have a lot of kids who will be coming back who have a lot of experience.”
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new management
New FBO has long background in aviation, airport management John Holzmeister has begun duties as the new fixed base operator at the Scott City Airport, but he’s far from new to the job. With more than two decades of experience as the FBO at Colby and Oakley, Holzmeister took on the responsibility of becoming Scott City’s new FBO on January 1. “One thing that has impressed me with Scott City is the enthusiasm that I see for aviation,” says Holzmeister, who is in charge of aerial spraying operations with Frontier Ag. “It’s refreshing to get into a community with this much interest in aviation.” It wasn’t the FBO position that brought Holzmeister to Scott City, but Frontier Ag’s purchase of KB Sprayers that was finalized on Dec. 1. Along with purchasing the aerial spraying service, Frontier Ag, which is based in Goodland and Oakley, is planning the construction this spring of a new hangar at the airport. Shortly after Frontier Ag announced plans to expand its spraying operations into Scott County, Holzmeister was approached by members of the city council about managing the airport following the recent resignation of FBO Weston Thompson whose contract with the city was to expire on Dec. 31. “My first thought was that we really didn’t want to get involved with being the FBO because we are an ag operation,” Holzmeister said. “But with the encouragement of some pilots we submitted a bid.” Will Expand Services The agreement with the city is for one year at a cost of $3,500 per month which compares to $5,000 per month with the previous FBO. Even at the reduced cost, Holzmeister says there are no plans to change the existing level of services.
“We hope to add to what’s already here,” he says. Rental aircraft and shop mechanics are areas of concern with members of the Airport Commission who had two meetings with Holzmeister last week. While the new contract does not require Frontier Ag to have rental aircraft available, Holzmeister says, “If there are people who want an airplane we’ll fill the need.” “We’re open to different options,” he says. “We’ll look at lease backs with people who already have planes here and possibly start a flying club.” Holzmeister says a flying club in Oakley includes seven people who own an airplane. “We do flight instruction with it and we rent it out,” he says. It’s something we’ve talked to the Spencer Flight (and Education Center) board about. We’re looking at opportunities that probably weren’t explored in the past.” Of equal concern is how many mechanics will be available. In addition to the former FBO, who was a mechanic, he had one part-time and two fulltime aircraft mechanics on staff. At the present time, none have indicated they plan to continue with the new FBO. “We thought we had one of them hired, but he backed out at the last minute,” Holzmeister says. He says it’s been difficult making contact with prospective candidates over the holidays, but hopes that will change after the first of the year. “We’ll have the amount of mechanics to meet the need,” assures Holzmeister. He says that the emphasis by Frontier Ag has been to “hire young people and invest in local talent whenever possible.” “Years ago, we started a flight training program for all our pilots. We wanted to start
New manager of the Scott City Airport is John Holzmeister.
with a young group and keep them with us,” Holzmeister says. “We like to do the same with our mechanics. We’ll be looking for people who are young and ambitious. A lot of things will happen as we get established.” An example of that commitment to developing their own workforce is Ben McNary, a young pilot who will be relocating to Scott City as the airport manager in mid-January. He has previously been a flight instructor for six years in Oregon. “We put him through ag school and he came to work for us last year,” says Holzmeister. At the present time, McNary will be managing the Frontier Ag location in Scott City. He will also have the title of FBO manager while Holzmeister will be airport manager. “Ben’s primary responsibility here will be as a spray pilot, but he’ll also be available for flight instruction and other needs as they arise,” Holzmeister points out. “We’re open to hiring another flight
instructor or someone to handle the day-to-day responsibilities.” “The FBO will not suffer because of the things we’re doing in connection with our spraying service,” he emphasizes. Frontier Ag Expanding A native of Grinnell, Holzmeister graduated from Kansas State University in 1974 with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural education. After teaching a year in the Wichita County school district, Holzmeister decided to get out of education and, with his father-in-law, started an aerial spraying service in 1976. Together, they were FBOs at Colby before leaving and starting a FBO in Oakley. Holzmeister sold the spraying service in 1989 and for the past 17 years has been managing the aerial spraying operation for Frontier Ag. “It’s continued to grow over the years with five locations and five airplanes,” he says. Spraying operations now
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include Cheyenne Wells, Colo., Burlington, Colo. (Stratton Co-op), Goodland, Oakley and Scott City. “With our network of planes, if someone is particularly busy we can pull pilots from one location and have them help where they’re needed,” says Holzmeister. Holzmeister says his goal is to continue the existing relationship between the FBO and Spencer Flight and Education Center. And he wants to continue generating interest in local aviation. “We have an advantage in Scott City in that people here see the value of investing in their airport. That’s not true in every community,” he says. “There are very few things you do at an airport which will actually make (a city) money, but the real value comes from the business it brings into your town and the medical care, among other things. Those are important if you want your town to grow and we want to do our part to make that happen.”
Financial woes close 2 Kansas ethanol plants Lay off nearly 50 employees at year-old Hugoton site by Bryan Thompson KHI News Service
Abengoa Bioenergy recently halted operations at its newgeneration ethanol plant in the southwest corner of Kansas. Financial problems at one of the world’s leading biofuels companies are causing ripples in the Kansas economy. The Spanish company, Abengoa Bioenergy, opened a state-of-the-art ethanol plant in October 2014 near Hugoton. Gov. Sam Brownback greeted the grand opening as a shot in the arm for the Kansas economy.
“It does create jobs,” Brownback said at the time. “It creates opportunities, and right now we are seeing a rural renaissance in Kansas.” But Abengoa’s role in that renaissance has not lived up to expectations. The company projected an annual payroll of more than $5 million at the southwest Kansas plant and estimated it would spend $17 million a year buying crop residue from area farmers for use as the raw material to produce ethanol fuels. But a little more than two months ago, Abengoa officials said they were going to close the plant and reopen it in the spring, according to Neal Gillespie, Stevens County economic development director. “They had produced ethanol, but no, it had never come up to full production,” he said. “I think they found some problems in the process and they were going to address those
over the wintertime.” Then, in late November, news broke that the parent company was considering bankruptcy protection. All but half a dozen of the 50 employees in Hugoton have been laid off. Gillespie said some of them already may have moved away. The $500 million ethanol plant was financed, in part, with a $132.4 million loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy. A spokesperson for the energy department said the company repaid its loan in full in March. In addition to the next-generation cellulosic ethanol plant in Hugoton, Abengoa shut down an older, traditional ethanol plant in Colwich. Biomass Magazine recently quoted a former Abengoa employee as saying an executive told staffers the company didn’t have enough money to
Abengoa Bioenergy has halted operations at its new-generation ethanol plant near Hugoton.
continue paying wages. “We were told layoffs were worldwide and only about 30 people remain at the corporate office in St. Louis,” the employee said. Gillespie thinks the company is trying to figure out what
its next move should be. But he is optimistic that production will eventually resume at the Hugoton plant, whether by Abengoa or another company. “I do think there’s a lot of value in that plant out there,” Gillespie said.
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Keep numbers in perspective No matter what the number might be - in this case, a death toll - there’s no way to understand what it means until it’s put into perspective. Which is exactly what follows below. Thirty-four thousand Meat of the Matter is a pretty big numDan Murphy ber. Especially when it’s contributing columnist 34,000 deaths we’re talkDrovers CattleNetwork ing about. But like every statistic, it needs to be put in context. In that vein, I’m always reminded of the story most journalism students hear early in their undergraduate coursework about a reporter who gushed over a new ocean liner that “could execute a 180-degree turn in only one mile of open water.” Like everyone else, my reaction was. “A mile? It takes a mile just to turn around? Why is that so great?” Until you understood the context: It previously took two miles for the typical ocean liner to execute such a turn, so one mile suddenly became a remarkable statistic. That’s roughly akin to how I react to the widely publicized news from the International Agency for Cancer Research’s report classifying processed meats as a potential carcinogen. The IARC estimated (“guessitmated” would be more accurate) that some 34,000 deaths could occur from excessive consumption of processed meat. (See NUMBERS on page 27)
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K-State researcher seeks new ways to battle Johnsongrass A new study supported by the USDA further examines the noxious weed and its resistance to numerous pests. For many agricultural producers, dealing with noxious weeds can be an irritable part of daily life, but what if that noxious weed is a close relative to one of the prominent crops grown in Kansas and throughout the United States? Johnsongrass is a noxious weed that is closely
related to grain sorghum, and it is seemingly more tolerant to some of the pests - including insects and pathogens - that negatively affect grain sorghum. Michael Smith, Kansas State University professor of entomology, is part of a new five-year, $4.8 million research project supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, which intends to find genetic material in
Johnsongrass that could help fight the noxious weed and improve grain sorghum’s tolerance of these pests. The coordinated agricultural grant project, titled “Principles underlying the success of the weedy invader Sorghum halepense (‘Johnsongrass’) toward its containment and mitigation,” includes expertise in agronomy, ecology, entomology, genetics, genomics, microbiology,
pathology, soil science and weed science from seven research institutions across the country, including K-State. Smith said the researchers are examining how Johnsongrass is able to survive in different altitudes, different soil types, by contact with different pests and pathogens, and many more angles. “(Johnsongrass) seems to survive quite well from year to year and (See BATTLE on page 27)
Corn, bean price prospects in 2016 With the highest world corn and soybean stocks in more than a decade, many farmers remain skeptical a rebound in prices for 2016 is likely. A strong dollar also creates problems for farmers hoping to move grain this winter. That’s because it lowers foreign countries’
buying power and makes foreign grain more competitively priced, according to Purdue ag economist Chris Hurt. “China’s currency has lost 4% of its buying power in the U.S. over the past year,” he notes in the December 2015 Purdue Agricultural Economics
Report. “More dramatically, Japan’s buying power has dropped 12% and the Korean currency has dropped 15% in the past year.” Because of this, odds favor a “sidewise price pattern” this winter until the excess supply situation is solved.
“However, the price pattern and marketing strategies vary for corn and soybeans,” Hurt adds. Hurt expects corn prices to increase throughout the winter and spring at least enough to cover farmers’ on-farm storage expenses. He speculates (See CORN on page 27)
Boom to bust: writer explores water in Kansas Tom Parker Kansas Farmers Union
To the average Kansas resident living in a metropolitan area, water is a given. Turn on the tap and water flows out. The water is clear, free of impurities and, apparently, infinite in supply. It’s more complicated
in rural Kansas. Turn on the tap and water flows out, but it isn’t always clear and it isn’t always pure and it certainly isn’t infinite in supply. In fact, as writer Sarah Green discovered when she toured the state while researching a series of articles on water in Kansas, water supplies in parts of Kansas
CRP workshop in Scott City Jan. 14
New updates on rules and how to increase the Environmental Benefits Index (EBI) of your land in order to submit a more competitive offer in the CRP ranking process will be discussed during a workshop on Thurs., Jan. 14, 1:00 p.m., at the Wm. Carpenter 4-H Bldg., Scott City. Sponsoring the workshop are the Farm Service Agency, Pheasants Forever, Kansas Depart-ment of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism, and the Natural Resource Conservation Service. CRP sign-up will continue through Feb. 26. There will also be information on other programs to go with CRP. Those planning to attend are asked to RSVP with Scott County FSA director Lora Wycoff at (620) 872-3230, ext. 2.
are estimated to be sufficient to last several hundred years or as little as two decades, depending upon location. Her findings, presented during the Kansas Farmers Union’s annual convention, were both sobering and encouraging, and illustrated the variables and complexities of
Kansas water and how it’s allocated and used across the state. “You might know a lot about water where you live and how you use it,” Green said, “but you might not know other Kansans’ experience with water. We all come to the topic from different directions. I wrote nine stories
Somali workers fired at Colo. packing plant in prayer dispute Nearly 200 workers, mostly Somali immigrants, have been fired from a meat-packing plant in Colorado after staging a walkout to protest what they said were insufficient prayer accommodations. The Council on AmericanIslamic Relations (CAIR) said workers were treated in a “discriminatory manner” by managers at the Cargill Meat Solutions facility in Fort Morgan. Jaylani Hussein, a spokesman for CAIR, said the workers objected to new restrictions on their ability to worship on the job, “which they had been granted for a long period of time.”
“All of these employees are good employees (and) don’t have any other issues,” Hussein said, adding that the dispute stemmed from a “misunderstanding on policy changes” by Cargill regarding workplace prayer. Mike Martin, a spokesman for Minneapolis-based Cargill, disputed assertions the company had changed its policy, noting that since 2009 the Fort Morgan plant has set aside an on-site “reflection area” for people of all faiths. “Cargill makes every reasonable attempt to provide religious accommodations to all (See SOMALI on page 27)
about water in Kansas; I could have written nine thousand.” Green’s interest in water was triggered several years ago when the Kansas Health Foundation convened a panel on obesity. One recommendation was to get people to drink more water, but subsequent questions of how
much should they drink and, more importantly, how to get them to drink it remained unanswered. When Gov. Sam Brownback started the Vision for the Future of Water in Kansas process, the questions became broader to encompass the realities of water distribu-
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Battle will sustain populations of, for instance, greenbugs, chinch bugs, fall armyworms, bird cherry oat aphids and many of the other pests we have in Kansas,” Smith said. “You will find these pests on the plants. Plants will be alive. Pests will be alive.” “We want to know how the Johnsongrass that is surviving is serving as a reservoir for pests that could be as damaging or more damaging to grain sorghum,” Smith continued. “We want to look at the pests that perhaps feed on the roots that could be harboring viruses that affect the crops; aphid pests will do that. We also want to know about the leaf-eating pests and if their growth is better on
Johnsongrass than it is on sorghum.” So, is there something in Johnsongrass, genetically, that affects the pests differently? The researchers have a place to start: a diversity panel listing almost 200 different genetic types of Johnsongrass and a collection of pest populations from the past growing season. In the next 12 to 18 months, Smith and other researchers hope to get a rudimentary genetic fingerprint of each of these pest populations to have a baseline marker to compare them, such as looking for differences within all the greenbug populations. Once they feel comfortable if any differences exist, the next step would be to test the 200 types
Numbers And by excessive, they mean a couple slices of bacon a day. As Dr. Kurt Straif of the IARC said in a statement about how the risk of colorectal cancer increases as the amount of processed meat consumed increases, “In view of the large number of people who consume processed meat, the global impact on cancer incidence is of public health importance.” Yes, it’s a large number of people, and yes, the death toll is sobering, but the statistic must be put in context. Of course, 34,000 excessive deaths are significant, but this is a worldwide total. There are more than seven billion people alive on Earth at the moment, so 34,000 represents 0.000005% of the population. That’s five onemillionths of a percent. Way beyond the margin of error. And even if that number of estimated deaths - and remember these are premature deaths, people who died “too early,” and not people who never would have died at all - is calculated as a percentage of annual deaths worldwide, it’s still only 22% of the total of 155,000 deaths worldwide. That total of 155,000
Water tion around the state, she said. In summary, the question most asked was, if we want people to drink water, what happens if it’s not there, or it’s not safe to drink? Finding an answer to that question became a passion for Green. The resulting nine articles explored in depth how communities such as Courtland, Hiawatha, Pretty Prairie and others are faring with either an abundance of water, contaminated water or a shortage of water. Eighty-five percent of available water in the state is used for agricultural purposes, and about 10 percent goes toward municipal use. And while 96 percent of public water supplies are safe to drink,
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of Johnsongrass and their reaction to each of the insects. “A lot of diversity exists in Johnsongrass, because it is spread all over the globe,” Smith said. “Specific types have been collected in all these different global locations. As you would expect, each one is going to be different, because it’s had to adapt to different conditions and different pests.” “We hope to use the well-known diversity in Johnsongrass to tell us why some of these types have survived better than others, and in our case, survived pest damage better than others.” The researchers aim to find a genetic marker among these Johnsongrass types for, say a chemical or physical factor that could be added into grain
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deaths is every day of the year. Which means that the alleged 34,000 guesstimated premature deaths associated with a level of processed meat consumption that is not at all atypical for most people consuming the typical Western diet is still only 0.0006% of all causes of deaths, or six ten-thousandths of a percent.
to accept the bottom line statistic associated with automobile fatalities: It’s highly unlikely to affect any of us personally. The odds are just too great, and in fact, most of us will spend a lifetime driving our cars tens of thousands of miles a year without every even coming close to getting killed. It may feel a bit morbid, but I would argue that the odds of anyone dying strictly as a result of eating ham, bacon and sausage are even greater. You take a much bigger risk heading to your favorite drive-thru - 14 one-hundredths of a percent, versus the aforementioned six ten-thousandths of a percent - than you would be ordering and eating a bacon-egg-and cheese croissandwich. I’m no math expert, but that’s a seriously significant difference. It is one that needs to be kept in perspective whenever the IARC or anyone else starts pontificating about alleged death tolls from eating foods that have been an integral part of the human diet for centuries without incident. Until now.
Comparative Totals Again, none of this statistical analysis is to minimize a death toll numbering in the tens of thousands, no matter what the cause might be although, to be fair, there are more deaths every single year in just the United States from traffic accidents alone than all of the deaths worldwide from processed meats. When was the last time you heard of a commission or some high-powered task force release a hard-hitting report detailing all the people who die from what are usually horrible deaths just because they hopped into their cars one day and headed out to some destination on what are supposedly safe, highly engineered highways? Answer: never. Dan Murphy is a food-indusAnd you never will, try journalist and commenbecause we have come tator
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another four percent is laced with nitrates or arsenic, uranium or selenium. Though public water systems are mandated to supply safe and clean drinking water, smaller communities struggle to treat their water for contaminants and chemicals regulated by the federal government, and find it virtually impossible to fund new treatment plants with their price tags of $2 million or more. Hiawatha is trying to deal with high levels of nitrates, a substance used in fertilizers or spread from runoff from animal feeding facilities, and often found in high concentrations in rural areas with large amounts of agricultural land.
A new water treatment facility is in the works once funding can be secured, but that takes time, Green said, and in the meanwhile pregnant women, new mothers and young children have to buy bottled water to drink. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent throughout the state to upgrade and enhance water treatment and water storage facilities, Green said. New farming practices are reducing the amount of pollutants seeping into our drinking supplies. People are working together to protect existing water sources and to find solutions for areas with depleting water sources.
sorghum, and build more pest resistance into grain sorghum hybrids. In addition to improving resistance to pests in grain sorghum, the research could help the other way by combating Johnsongrass, Smith said. Finding what makes Johnsongrass resilient against pests and some herbicides, and taking that defense out of the plant to make it more susceptible, might eliminate it as a successful, invasive weedy species. Smith said an extension objective is included in the grant to enhance the knowledge base for improved cost-effective management decisions for producers. This involves partnering with K-State Research and Extension and other stakeholders as results become known.
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corn could raise as high as $4.40 next summer. “When one decides to price, they should probably price for next summer delivery,” he recommends. “The principal is to price for the delivery period that provides the most return above storage costs. This is called earning the carry in the market and is generally one of the best marketing strategies in periods of excess supplies.” On the other hand, Hurt says he does not see soybean price bids to gain much into next spring and summer. The high could end up around $9.40 this winter in processing plants and could fall back in spring and summer, he estimates. Continue to watch the weather in South America for a potential wildcard, Hurt recommends.
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employees based on our ability to do so without disruption to our beef-processing business,” he said. He said the degree of flexibility the company can extend for prayers depends on a variety of factors, including daily work-flow considerations. Martin said about 200 workers walked off the job last week and were warned that failing to show up for work on three consecutive days without calling in could jeopardize their employment.
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POOL MANAGER AND ASSISTANT MANAGER
Deb Lawrence, GRI Broker Shorty Lawrence, Sales Assoc. 513 Main • Scott City 872-5267 ofc. 872-7184 hm. lawrenceandassocrealty.com Sheila Ellis, Broker Assoc. 872-2056 Kerry Gough, Sales Assoc. 872-7337 Russell Berning, 874-4405 www.berningauction.com
SCOTT COUNTY HOSPITAL HAS OPENINGS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS PATIENT CARE Acute Care RNs Emergency Department RN Float RN C.N.A.s - FT and PT Outreach/Specialty Clinic RN Physical Therapist Respiratory Therapist Clinic Medical Assistant Stocking Clerk - PT Applicants for these positions are required to be able to read, speak and understand English. Pre-employment physical, drug/alcohol screening, immunization titer, physical assessment and TB skin test required. We are a tobacco free campus. We offer competitive pay and great benefits. Applications are available on our website at www.scotthospital.net or call 620-872-7772 for more information.
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SPECIAL EDUCATION PARA-PROFESSIONAL Do you enjoy working with kids in an educational setting? Would you like the working hours of a school day? Unified School District No. 466 is seeking HPEC Special Education Para-Professional in the high school. This position works with students. For more information and applications please contact: Susan Carter Board of Education Building 17tfc 704 College, Scott City, KS 67871
SCOTT COUNTY HOSPITAL HAS OPENINGS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS PATIENT CARE Acute Care RNs Emergency Department RN Float RN C.N.A.s - FT and PT Outreach/Specialty Clinic RN Physical Therapist Respiratory Therapist Clinic Medical Assistant Stocking Clerk - PT
PARK LANE NURSING HOME
Has openings for the following positions: Full-time RN/LPN - Day shift Full-time RN/LPN - Night shift Full-time Dietary aide Full-time/Part-time CNA Shift differential pay offered for evening and night shifts! Please apply in person at:
Applicants for these positions are required to be able to read, speak and understand English. Pre-employment physical, drug/alcohol screening, immunization titer, physical assessment and TB skin test required. We are a tobacco free campus. We offer competitive pay and great benefits. Applications are available on our website at www.scotthospital.net or call 620-872-7772 for more information.
Park Lane Nursing Home
210 E. Parklane Scott City, KS 67871 Or visit us at our website: www.parklanenursinghome.org “Quality Care Because We Care”
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Pine Village Apartments 300 E. Nonnamaker
SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT Scott County Sheriff’s Department is accepting applications for: Jailer Applicants must be 21 years of age with a valid driver’s license and clean driving record. Must have a high school diploma or GED equivalent. Looking for someone who is a team player. Must be willing to do shift work including days, nights, holidays and weekends. Background checks and UA’s completed on all prospective applicants. Applicants must not have any felony or misdemeanor charges or convictions. Scott County offers an excellent benefit package that includes BCBS health, KPERS, paid vacation, sick leave, holidays and furnished uniforms and equipment. Starting wage $12 per hour. Will train the right applicant. Applications may be obtained at and returned to: Sheriff Office 602 W. 5th, Scott City • (620) 872-5805
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Feedlot Openings
Come and grow with us and be part of an innovative team. We are looking for experienced: Pen riders, Feed truck drivers and Maintencance personnel Team members must be energetic, goal-oriented and have a desire to grow and take on more resonsibility. Competitive wages are offered with a full benefits package including, 401 (k) with company match, profit sharing plan, 100% paid medical and dental insurance for employee, 100% paid short/long term disability insurance, life insurance, paid vacation, sick leave, and career advancement opportunities. To apply for this outstanding opportunity, apply in person or send your letter of interest to: Royal Beef, ATTN: Scott Lane 11060 N. Falcon Rd., Scott City, Ks 67871 Irsik & Doll is an Equal Opportunity Employer 19t2c
Apartments available for qualifying tenants 62+ or disabled with rental assistance available. Hours: Tuesday, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. by appointment Call Steve 872-2535 or (620) 255-4824. 19tfc
GRAPHIC DESIGNER Weekly newspaper seeks full-time graphic designer. Applicant must be computer literate, detail-oriented, self-motivated and able to work with the public. On-site training is available. Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Weekly hours range from 40-43 hours with paid overtime. For an application call 620-872-2090 to have an one mailed or stop by 406 Main St., Scott City, Ks and pick one up.
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