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Volume 22 • Number 22
Thursday, January 8, 2015
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Budget crisis is No. 1 issue for legislature
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At times, State Rep. Don Hineman has to feel that he sounds like a broken record when it comes to what issues will be at the forefront of the upcoming legislative session. It’s the budget. It’s always the budget. What seems to change is whether the legislature is dealing with a current budget crisis or a pending crisis. The answer this year is both. As a result of tax cuts enacted by Gov. Brownback and the ultra-conservative wing of the Republican Party, the state is facing a major cash shortfall in the current fiscal year and an even larger budget deficit for the upcoming year. For the remainder of the current fiscal year, which ends on June 30, the state was facing a (See BUDGET on page two)
Mayor, 1 councilman not seeking re-election There will be some new faces on the Scott City Council with at least two members not seeking re-election. Mayor Dan Goodman and Councilman Jon Brunswig (Ward 2) have announced they will not seek re-election. Fred Kuntzsch (Ward 4) is undecided about seeking another four-year term. Bo Parkinson (Ward 1) and Perry Nowak (Ward 3), who were each appointed to the council, have announced they will seek election to full terms. Deadline for candidates to file for the council is noon on Tuesday, Jan. 27. They must file at City Hall.
Efran Tarango, 11, of Scott City, was busy on Sunday afternoon clearing snow that had drifted across the sidewalk in front of his home. Since Dec. 30 the area has received about 3-1/2 inches of snow. However, it has been mostly powder with very little moisture. (Record Photo)
Four BOE Openings There are four openings on the USD 466 (Scott County) board of education. Board members Mark Davis, Ben Taylor and Eric Erven have said they will seek reelection while Lynnette Robinson is undecided. Members are elected to four-year terms. Candidates must file for office by noon on Tues., Jan. 27, at the county clerk’s office.
Open trade with Cuba long overdue Moran supportive, but still anticipates fight in Congress The recent announcement to remove trade barriers between the U.S. and Cuba was welcome news among area farmers attending a listening tour stop by Sen. Jerry Moran in Scott City on Friday. Cuba is seen as a huge export opportunity for U.S. farm products and an untapped market that Moran says he has wanted to develop since his early days as a representative in Washington from the Big First District. “I’m in favor of ending the embargo. I support the Administration’s plans to open trade with Cuba,” said Sen. Moran. Years ago, when he offered an amendment to begin similar steps to open trade with Cuba
on agricultural commodities and medicine, Moran says he was advised by then-House speaker Tom Delay to withdraw his proposal. In the years since, there was a brief time when ag commodities could be sold to Cuba, but only for cash, and the money had to be paid before the shipment left a U.S. port. While the program was successful for a short time, the barriers to trade eventually became more than Cuba wanted to deal with. Moran points out that Cuba would prefer trading with the U.S. Shipping costs from the U.S. are $6-$7 per ton, compared with about $20 per ton for grain shipments from Europe.
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Sen. Jerry Moran talked about Cuban trade, medical care for veterans and other issues during his listening tour stop in Scott City last week. (Record Photo)
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Budget $278.7 million shortfall according to November figures released by the state’s Consensus Revenue Estimating Group. Those numbers are already outdated with December tax collections falling $15 below projections - pushing the anticipated budget gap to almost $294 million. In addition, the state is staring at projected $435.7 million c a s h Don Hineman shortfall for the next budget year that begins on July 1. If that isn’t enough, a three-judge school finance panel has ruled that the legislature is underfunding public education by between $548 million and $771 million. None of this bodes well for a governor and legislative majority that believes in its tax cut plan and has shown little inclination toward rescinding those cuts. “A number of legislators are saying that everything is on the table,” says Hineman, who represents the 118th District which includes Scott, Lane and Wichita counties. “Some are resisting that. Momentum is building for a broad and open discussion about funding possibilities.” Whether Gov. Brownback is an active participant in those possibilities remains to be seen. The governor has already offered his shortterm fix to the current budget year’s $279 million shortfall. That has included a mix of budget cuts ($73.5 million) and transferring more than $206 million in surplus funds from other accounts into the general fund. That plan doesn’t account for the latest $15 million revenue shortfall that was reported in December. “We have a huge problem that has to be addressed in this session. It can’t be addressed with fund transfers,” says Rep.
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Hineman. “It will also take budget cuts or program cuts.” Rep. Hineman says there is a growing realization among legislators that the problem is so big that it’s going to require tax increases of some kind. And even if the governor and legislators stop proposed tax cuts that have yet to take effect in an effort to close the budget gap, that gets complicated ”because that was suggested by a Democratic candidate for governor,” says Hineman, referring to Paul Davis. “The politics can get messy,” he says. At the same time, notes Hineman, the legislature’s options are limited. “Do we increase the (statewide school) levy from 20 to 25 or 30 mills? Do we increase the sales tax? Do we raise motor fuel taxes so we can raid KDOT some more? Do we raise sin taxes?” Rep. Hineman asks. “We’ll find out if the legislature has a taste for this kind of decision-making.” Nationwide Attention Rep. Hineman says dealing with the budget deficit resulting from tax cuts that were “too much, too fast” has captured the national attention of politicians and policy experts in both parties. “The tax cut plan was innovative enough that it
had a wow factor which captured the attention of people across the country. That makes it difficult for proponents of that plan to say they made a mistake and have to back off,” says the state lawmaker. “Even if we do find new sources of revenue, there will be significant cuts. Programs will be curtailed or eliminated,” Hineman worries. School Finance While a three-judge panel has issued its ruling on school funding, Rep. Hineman says the legislature won’t have to deal with the issue this session. The panel’s decision will be appealed to the Supreme Court which will delay a final ruling for at least one more year, possibly two. “Where the money (for education) will come from isn’t an immediate concern, but it definitely sets off the discussion about funding and other related issues,” says Rep. Hineman. Gov. Brownback is among those who want to reform the school finance formula. “They say it’s not working. I disagree,” Rep. Hineman says. There will be a push to discard the current formula and adopt a new formula that helps more students to achieve the Rose
Standards. The Kansas Supreme Court, in a ruling issued on March 7, said state funding needs to be sufficient to produce the educational outcomes that Kansas, and many other states, expect. The new benchmarks are commonly called the “Rose Standards” because they come from a landmark 1989 school finance case in Kentucky, Rose v. The Council for Better Education. Rep. Hineman feels the current formula is an effort to reach those standards. “The school funding formula has evolved and become complicated for the exact reason we’re trying to get desired outcomes for every student in the system. The formula’s goal - the different weightings - were designed to achieve what’s in the Rose Standards - to make sure that every kid is adequately prepared for life after high school,” Rep. Hineman explains. “Any wholesale changes in the formula run the risk of not meeting the ruling from the court.” Any further effort to reduce education funding, he says, will start having an impact on staff positions and programs in districts across the state. Rep. Hineman points out there are currently 600 fewer
teachers in Kansas than before the Great Recession in 2008. Rep. Hineman was pleasantly surprised to see that the three-judge panel made reference to early childhood education, including the value of the Parents as Teachers (PAT) program. Some districts have eliminated the program because of budget cuts. The Scott County school district has continued to provide funding. “Parents as Teachers pays big dividends. It helps prepare students for success in school,” Rep. Hineman said of the program which targets preschoolers. In addition, Rep. Hineman doesn’t like that the local option budget (LOB), which was originally established to help districts “enhance education beyond what the state provides,” has now becomes just another means for a district to pay for everyday expenses. “That was not the intent of the LOB, but with state budget cuts school districts have had no choice,” Rep. Hineman says. “This has led to a greater disparity in the amount of money some school districts can spend compared to other districts which the courts have been critical of. I’m glad to see that the judges made reference to this in their ruling.”
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Community Living
Right clothing will add to exercise enjoyment With the popular New Year’s resolutions of getting in shape or losing weight, I thought I would share some information on clothing for those of us who are amateur exercisers. E x ercise clothes are, in fact, no longer just for the gym or for athletes. Health care professionals are encouraging enjoyable - and doable - activities like walking, gardening, bicycling or swimming that improve health and fitness, and reduce risks from diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, some cancers and others. Choosing the right clothes for a more active lifestyle can, however, be a bit of a challenge for people who are just beginning to embrace the benefits of exercise. While sweats, which were once considered the exercise “uniform” have become more stylish, they also compete with other lightweight, easy care exercise and casual clothes that lend them to layering. Layering is not a new concept, but newer fabrics and styles can make it easier. Layering usually involves a base, an insulating and an outer layer. The base layer is worn next to the skin. Choosing fabrics that have “wicking” capabilities can increase comfort. Wicking is the process of moving moisture (such as perspiration) away from the skin and adds to your comfort. In cool weather, polypropylene
or silk can be a good choice. In warm weather, polyester microfibers or brands such as CoolMax or Supplex work well. (Brand names are offered to help consumers explore product concepts, but should not be considered a recommendation of the product.) An insulating layer usually is worn during cooler weather. It can be removed as body temperature rises during a workout. Fleece or pile shirts, vests or pants fall into this category. The outer layer offers protection from the elements - rain, snow, wind, or cold. The outer layer should be roomy enough to fit easily over the base and in-
sulating layers, and not restrict movement. When exercising in cooler weather, dressing warm, but not too warm. Since activity generates heat, layering offers an opportunity to remove a layer during a workout. When choosing an outer layer, consider comfort, the level of protection and cost. Some higherpriced garments offer breathable fabrics (like Goretex or Ultrex) that can keep moisture (like rain) out, yet perspiration can escape through tiny openings to draw moisture away from the body. (See CLOTHING on page seven)
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Alpha Omega donates to Park Lane, mitten tree
Members of Alpha Omega Sorority met December 11 at the home of Barb Summers. Everyone came to enjoy the supper prepared by Barb Summers, Edith, Stephani and Paige Vallejo. Gifts were brought for Park Lane residents, along with mittens for the Mitten Tree at the Scott County Library and various items for Heart Springs in Wichita. The meeting was then called to order by president Diana Burr with 13 members answering roll call to, “What is your favorite Christmas tradition?” A moment of meditation was read by Wanda Barton. Community concerns were discussed. Upcoming events include serving the annual Scott Co-op meeting on January 10. Diana Burr gave the educational program on “St. Nick: Real or Not?”
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Editorial/Opinion
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editorially speaking
Do nothings:
Moran downplays GOP role in political gridlock
During a recent stop in Scott City, U.S. Senator Jerry Moran was spot-on when he said this Congress has done “next to nothing” during the last four years. His observation, as might be expected, leaned toward the political side when he cast blame for that lack of productivity on the Democratic leadership in the U.S. Senate. Granted, the Senate leadership shares some of the responsibility, but no more than the Republican minority who used Senate rules to repeatedly block action because of a 60-vote threshold to get anything done. It wasn’t until Democrats, frustrated with Republican maneuvering, lowered the threshold to 51 votes that they were finally able to accomplish something as simple as appointing judges to positions which had remained vacant for as long as two years. Sen. Moran acknowledged the obvious with respect to ending the trade embargo with Cuba when he said, “Since it’s President Obama’s proposal, that makes it another hurdle in Congress.” In place of Cuban trade embargo you could also insert immigration, climate change, presidential war power, health care, income inequality, etc. Republicans in the Senate, including Kansas’ Moran and Pat Roberts, have refused to work with this President. Period. The anti-Obama sentiment has been so strong over the past six years that Republicans have made a habit of voting against their own ideas. For example: •Republicans in Congress voted against their own bill to create a deficit-reduction commission because, according to a former GOP senator, they wanted to “stick it to the president.” •Republicans used to include counseling for end-of-life issues in their own health care proposals at a time when they were actually doing their job. When that idea as included in the Affordable Care Act it became Obama’s “death panels.” •Republicans in Congress proposed $700 billion in savings by reducing waste and inefficiencies in Medicare. When Obama offered a similar plan through the ACA he was lambasted for cutting Medicare. Unfortunately, the list goes on and on. This is the partisanship that has led to gridlock in Congress. This is why businesses and farmers don’t know what tax policy they are operating under until the last few weeks of the year. This is why the future of open trade with Cuba remains anyone’s guess. And this is why we can only make small, cosmetic improvements to a Veterans Administration that requires a major overhaul. We have a dysfunctional Congress and while Moran, predictably, points the finger at the Democratic leadership he really needs to look no farther than his own party’s leadership. Now that Republicans are in control of the Senate and the House, we’ll see what their agenda is. Are they truly interested in doing the people’s business or do they just want to block anything that President Obama supports?
Out of touch:
Roberts’ stance on Cuba no benefit to Kansas ag
Throughout the 2014 primary and general election campaigns, Sen. Pat Roberts had to battle the image of an aging political relic who was out of touch with the state he’s supposed to be representing. Roberts narrowly won re-election, but he’s done nothing to change the impression that he’s out of touch with Kansas. The latest example is his stubborn resistance to President Obama’s decision to open trade relations with Cuba. In addition to questioning whether President Obama had the authority to take the action he did, Roberts fell back on the same, old tired script that nothing has changed in Cuba over the last 50 years, so what have they done to deserve better trade relations with the U.S.? That’s just the point which seemingly eludes Roberts and the shrinking group of Republican lawmakers who support the same policy which has failed to bring about any change in Cuba for more than five decades. If something hasn’t worked after 50 years, maybe it’s time for a new approach. Had Roberts maintained regular contact with his state and its economic interests he would realize this policy change is great for Kansas agriculture. Farm leaders in Kansas, along with Sen. Jerry Moran, have put political rhetoric aside in support of the President’s announcement. If this is the kind of political posturing we can expect from Roberts - and there’s no reason to think it won’t be - then it’s the people of Kansas who were the real losers in November’s general election and we’re stuck with the unfortunate result for another six years.
Tax cut fallout is no surprise Life in the Land of Oz is about to get real interesting over the next few weeks as Gov. “Don’t Blame Me” Brownback and the “Who Could Have Seen This Coming” Legislature try to figure how much of a shell game they can play with tax dollars in order to cover up for their own ineptitude. Not that anyone with a degree in “Real Life 101” should be surprised. There isn’t a business or household in Kansas who can cut their income flow and tell their employees or family members, “Don’t worry. Nothing will change.” Sorry, Sam, the state is no different. Tax cuts were made with the promise that new businesses would locate in Kansas and spur the economy. Apparently those businesses and the jobs they bring are getting sidetracked in our neighboring states. Missouri has been the only state trailing Kansas in job growth in recent years, but that changed during 2014. During the first six months of the
year, Missouri had a 1.4 percent increase in jobs while Kansas’ growth was a near-comatose 6/10 of one percent. Kansas hasn’t beaten Nebraska’s job growth since 2007. Colorado was hit harder by the recession than Kansas, but has bounced back much quicker, beating the state in job creation every year since 2010. Likewise, Oklahoma was also hit harder by the recession and is recovering much quicker with job growth of 2.3 percent. Here are a couple of additional facts about jobs in Kansas. •Since the 2008 Great Recession, the largest increase in job growth came during 2011 - the year before Brownback’s Great Tax Cut. •The only year since the recession in which job growth in Kansas beat the national rate was in 2010.
That just happened to be when Gov. Mark Parkinson was in office. So what does this tell us? That cutting taxes isn’t the grand solution that ultra-conservative lawmakers like to believe it is. Carried to its current extreme, it can create a disaster which Kansas is now experiencing. Keep in mind that when the governor was completely blindsided (yes, completely) by the budget disaster just days after being re-elected the plan he offered was designed to fill a $294 million shortfall. That was before state revenue fell another $15 million below expectations in December, increasing the budget gap to about $310 million by June 30. Notice a trend here? Oh, but it gets even better. Now the governor and legislature have a school funding decision hanging over their heads which could require the state to come up with another $548 million per year, according to some projections.
The legislature won’t have to come up with the money this year. The governor and the ultraconservative wing of his party will hope that the Supreme Court somehow bails them out of that dilemma. Or maybe another tax cut is the answer. In the meantime, lawmakers are raiding various funds - including KPERS and KDOT - in order to find enough cash to get through the end of the fiscal year. That’s like raiding your child’s college fund and digging around in the backyard for cans of buried cash. It might get us through the short term, but it’s not a long-term solution. It doesn’t address a state cash shortfall that’s projected to reach $663 million by June 30, 2016. The big question facing the governor and the legislature is whether they’re interested in a longterm solution or whether they insist on believing that their tax policy will eventually work if given enough time. (See SURPRISE on page six)
Market driving solar, wind energy United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and several of John D. Rockefeller’s heirs have some investment advice for you. They want you, your college or alma mater, your local firefighters’ pension fund, and all other investors - big and small - to adopt a new financial strategy. They’re calling for everyone to shed their oil, gas, and coal assets while actively investing in solar and wind power, along with other climate-friendly industries. Are they tilting at windmills? Sagging oil prices have been dragging down shares in solar and wind power companies since the middle of 2014. After rising early in the year, most renewable energy stocks fell by December
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31. They underperformed the Dow Jones Industrial average, which climbed 7.5 percent. But dirty-energy industries fared worse. Coal and fracking stocks plunged more than 20 percent. Renewable-energy stocks slumped because many investors wrongly assume that cheap oil will sap demand for solar panels and wind turbines. For one thing, solar power is on fire. New installations go online every three minutes, and the sun’s rays are fueling more than a third of the electric power installed last year across the country. Wind energy is also flourishing after growing
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26.2 percent a year for nearly two decades worldwide. Those modernistic turbines now boost grids in many of the most conservative and oil-rich corners of the United States, including Texas, North Dakota, and Oklahoma. While climate concerns do help, market forces are driving this surge. Generating a kilowatt of solar energy today costs less than one percent of what it cost in 1977. Both wind and solar are becoming increasingly competitive against dirtier energy options. And on average, U.S. homeowners can bank on saving $20,000 or more within two decades of sticking solar panels on their roofs. “It isn’t often we have an opportunity to both do well and do good,” Wallace Global Fund executive director Ellen
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Dorsey wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. Yet that’s the case today for people and institutions which, like Wallace, divested from oil, coal, and gas over the past two years - and then channeled money into wind, solar, energy efficiency, and other climate solutions. The Guggenheim Solar exchange-traded fund (ETF) zoomed up 128 percent in 2013, while the First Trust ISE Global Wind Energy ETF jumped 65 percent. These renewable-energy benchmarks blew past the Dow’s 26.5 percent gain that bull-market year. Even with last year’s decline, solar shares increased 118 percent and wind stocks gained 46.5 percent over the course of 2013 and 2014, outshining the Dow’s cumulative 36 percent rise. (See SOLAR on page six)
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We’re still fighting the last war on trade policy by Stan Sorscher
The other day, President Obama spoke to 100 top CEOs from the Business Roundtable. He was asked about two huge new trade deals, favored by global companies, known as TPP and TTIP. The President taunted critics of our failing trade policy, telling them, “Stop fighting the last war.” That sounds patronizing. Is it true that companies trying to manufacture in America, workers, communities and environmentalists need the President to explain their interests to them, as if 25 years of lived experience with NAFTA-style trade deals haven’t been sufficiently clear? Another interpretation is that the President believes his huge new trade deals really are different - that they are the 21st
century agreements he has been promising. In this interpretation, his message is, “Trust me! These deals will be great.” Let’s consider that. He is negotiating these deals in secret. He spoke in a room of 100 top CEOs, defending their interests. The precise language is being written under the guidance of legions of corporate lobbyists, who advise the US Trade Representative. Congress and a few non-business specialists have very limited access, but almost no influence and they are sworn not to reveal what they see. If a deal is finished, advocates for these failing trade policies want an expedited Congressional approval process, with no time to explain the terms of the deal, no realistic public hearings or political engagement to educate the pub-
Every President since Gerald Ford has promised prosperity from each new trade deal. In our lived experience, we’ve lost millions of jobs, de-industrialized our economy, weakened bargaining power for every worker in America, run a cumulative trade debt approaching $10 trillion and we’ve lost our strategic advantage in manufacturing to Korea, Japan, Singapore, Germany, Denmark and China.
lic and no opportunity to modify the deal. Putting the deal on a “fast track” to railroad it through doesn’t inspire trust. Leaks to date show that these new deals follow the NAFTA template in their basic features - expanded corporate rights; special corporate-friendly tribunals to settle disputes without accountability to any national government; the interests of global investors will take prior-
Are TPP and TTIP just the next two laps in the race to the bottom?
ity over public interests; global businesses will be free to seek the lowest wages and weakest civil society protections around the world. These provisions are opposed by the libertarian Cato Institute, five key members of the House Ways and Means Committee
that deals with trade, and hundreds of civil society organizations in America and Europe. Multinational companies have other interests in play. The deals say nothing about currency manipulation, which is great for global companies already producing in China. However, currency manipulation hurts American producers and encourages offshoring. Another letter from 153 House Democrats asked for stronger labor rights. The deals will restrict access to medicines for millions in developing countries and will limit prudent financial regulation. Patent rights could be expanded to include surgical procedures. Opposition has been raised on many issues important to regular people. Those objections (See POLICY on page six)
4 predictions of events that didn’t happen by Judd Legum
est recesses of his heart, Scalise was simply following the well-thumbed Republican playbook by signaling to avowed racists that he welcomed their support. This is nothing new. In fact, it’s like a bad habit that the party can’t seem to quit. The addiction goes back to 1968, when Richard Nixon’s “Southern strategy” leveraged white racial resentment over federally mandated integration into an electoral majority. The GOP became the party of the South, even as the region - and its racial realities - underwent sweeping change. Mississippi now has more black elected officials than any other state. But do pockets of old-style, unapologetic racism persist, both in the South and elsewhere? You bet they do. In 2002, Scalise was seeking support for his tax-cutting agenda in the legislature - and, of course, contacts that could further his political career. He was invited to speak to the EURO group by Duke’s longtime
It’s now 2015, nearly two years after Obama took the oath of office for the second time. A few years ago, prognosticators were very confident about what would happen to America by now because of Obama’s reelection. Let’s check in and see how their predictions turned out: 1) Gas was supposed to cost $5.45 per gallon. In March 2012, on the floor of the United States Senate, Mike Lee (R-Utah) predicted that if Obama was reelected gas would cost $5.45 per gallon by the start 2015. Lee said that gas prices would rise five cents for every month Obama was in office, ultimately reaching $6.60 per gallon. Lee was not alone. Newt Gingrich, running for the GOP nomination, predicted that if Obama was reelected he would push gas to “$10 a gallon.” Gingrich said he would reduce gas prices dramatically by reversing Obama’s energy policies. Gingrich flanked himself with campaign signs promising $2.50 gas if he was elected. Today, the nationwide average for a gallon of gas is $2.24. A lot of the reasons for the decline in gas prices are well beyond Obama’s control - including weak international demand and OPEC’s failure to reduce supply. But the policies that Lee, Gingrich and others criticized the failure to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, more EPA regulation and limiting drilling on public land - have not gotten in the way of historically low prices. 2) Unemployment was supposed to be stuck at over 8%. In September 2012, Mitt Romney predicted that if Obama is reelected “you’re going to see chronic high unemployment continue four years or longer.” At the time, the unemployment rate was 8.1% and had been between 8.1% and 8.3% for the entire year. What would breaking out of “chronic high unemployment” look like in a Romney presidency? Romney pledged that, if elected, he could bring the unemployment rate down to 6% by January 2017. The unemployment rate currently stands at 5.8% and has been under 6% since September 2014. Since January 2013, the economy has created nearly five million new jobs. 3) The stock market was supposed to crash. Immediately after Obama won reelection in November 2012, many commenters predicted that the stock market was toast. Charles Bilderman, the author of the “Intelligent Investing” column at Forbes, wrote that the “market selloff after Obama’s re-election [was] no accident,” predicting “stocks are dropping with no bottom in sight.” Bilderman said that the policies the Obama administration would pursue in his second term would “crash stocks.” On Bloomberg TV, investor Marc Faber predicted that, because of Obama’s reelection, the stock market would drop at least 20%. According to Faber, “Republicans understand the problem of excessive debt better than Mr. Obama who basically doesn’t care about piling up debt.” Faber joked that investors seeking to protect their assets should “buy themselves a machine gun.”
(See RACISM on page six)
(See PREDICTIONS on page six)
Bowls are corporate money games by Jim Hightower
Growing up in Texas, I learned that God and guns were important, but football - well, football was the real religion. So I can understand the hyperbolic exuberance of a radio hypester in Montgomery, Ala., who declared that the December 20 Camellia Bowl was “going to be the biggest event Montgomery has ever had.” Really - bigger even than Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on one of the city’s buses in 1955, igniting America’s historic civil right movement? Maybe not that big, but still, this game must be a rich part of Montgomery’s history, right?
Not exactly. It’s actually a TV production, created and owned by ESPN, the all-sports channel based in Connecticut. The bowl’s lessthan-historic debut drew two lowtier teams - one with a mediocre 7-6 season record and the other with a more-mediocre record of 6-6. Even Montgomery’s mayor admitted that the town was hardly awash in excitement about the Camellia Bowl. But the game had a corporate sponsor and could count on bulk purchases of tickets by other corporations, so who needs fans, when the real play is about programming for ESPN, TV exposure for the corporate sponsor and taxdeductible entertainment for corporate ticket buyers?
The Camellia fabrication is hardly unusual in today’s galaxy of corporate bowl games. Of this season’s 39 holiday match ups, 11 were owned by ESPN. And forget tradition - corporate sponsors are in it for themselves, promiscuously hopping from one bowl to another. In the current goround, 12 bowl games find themselves in the arms of different corporate partners than a year ago. Instead of sponsors simply bringing the games to us, the games now bring us to the sponsors, supplanting the vitality of college sportsmanship with the vacuousness of corporate salesmanship. Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator, writer, public speaker and author
GOP’s fuzzy line on racism
Here’s some advice for House Majority Whip Steve Scalise that also applies to the Republican Party in general: If you don’t want to be associated in any way with white supremacists and neo-Nazis, then stay away from them. Do not give a speech to a racist organization founded by former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke, as Scalise did when he was a Louisiana state legislator before running for Congress. Do not pretend to be the only Louisiana politician who could possibly have failed to grasp the true nature of the event, as Scalise did this week when the 2002 speech became public. Come on, a group called the European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO), established by one of the nation’s proudest and most vocal bigots? Who happens to be, Rep. Scalise, from your state ? House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) defended Scalise with the usual tut-tut about how speaking to the white supremacists was “an
behind the headlines by Eugene Robinson
error in judgment” and how Scalise was “right to acknowledge it was wrong and inappropriate.” Despite this lapse, Boehner said, Scalise is “a man of high integrity and good character.” As if on cue, friends and supporters chimed in to offer evidence of how demonstrably non-racist Scalise truly is. He was an early supporter of Gov. Bobby Jindal (R), an Indian American, over his white primary opponent! He coached in a predominantly black New Orleans basketball league! In the Louisiana legislature, he voted against a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday - oh, wait. See, it’s a ridiculous and ultimately meaningless exercise, putting check marks in one column or the other to decide whether a politician “is” or “is not” a racist. We hold officials accountable for what they say and do. Whatever feelings he might have in the deep-
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I resolve to ban laptops from my classroom by Tal Gross
I settled on my New Year’s resolution while giving a lecture to 85 masters students. It was one kid who unintentionally suggested the idea. He was sitting in the back row, silently pecking away at his laptop the entire class. At times, he smiled at his screen. But he rarely looked up at me. I had a choice. I could disrupt the class to single him out. Or I could do what most teachers in higher education do: just ignore it. After all, these
students are adults, and they have to take a final exam. Do I have to be the disciplinarian? When I was a student myself - not that long ago - no one brought laptops to class. I took notes on legal pads, and the remains of those legal pads are still filed away in my office. Today, few students take notes by hand. Since most students can type very quickly, laptops encourage them to copy down nearly everything said in the classroom. But when students stare at the screen of their laptops, something is lost.
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political strategist, Kenny Knight, who happened to be Scalise’s neighbor. As prominent conservative blogger Erick Erickson wrote and tweeted this week: “How do you show up at a David Duke event and not know what it is?” Erickson was not alone in finding it hard to believe that anyone involved in Louisiana politics could fail to grasp what the meeting was and who was behind it. Poor Boehner has more of a knack for getting caught in vises than anyone else in politics. Usually he gets squeezed between the GOP’s establishment and tea party wings. This time, he’s mashed between his party’s present and its future. Today, the Republican Party depends on a broad coalition of voters, weighted toward the South, that ranges in views from traditional Main Street conservatives to anti-government radicals who believe that menacing helicopters are about to descend any minute. One thing these GOP voters have in common is that the vast majority of them are white. The nation, however, becomes more racially diverse every day, and the Republican Party will have to become more diverse if it is to survive. In picking and electing state-level candidates, the GOP has been doing better with governors such as Jindal, Nikki Haley of South Carolina and Susana Martinez of New Mexico. In attracting voters, not so much. One way not to attract African American and Latino voters - in fact, one way to drive them away, along with the votes of some whites as well is to show that the party is still happy to welcome the support of unrepentant racists and anti-Semites. Maybe someday the Republican Party will say clearly that anyone associated with Duke, his little group or any racist association should find somebody else to vote for. But this message must be sent with actions that have consequences - and it wasn’t sent this past week.
have been brushed aside. Clearly, these aren’t “trade” deals. They are really about global governance. Corporate lawyers will sit on shadowy tribunals and hear cases about the environment, labor rights, human rights, public health, food security, internet freedom and financial regulation. But they will base their decisions on the corporate values and corporatefriendly language in the trade deals.
The students shift from being intellectuals, listening to one another, to being customer-service representatives, taking down orders. Class is supposed to be a conversation, not an exercise in dictation. This is not just vague worrying on my part. There’s now good research on the topic. Take, for instance, a recent study by two psychologists, Pam Mueller at Princeton University and Daniel Oppenheimer at UCLA. Mueller and Oppenheimer asked 67 undergraduates to watch
They will take no account of the Constitutions or legal traditions of the US, Canada, Australia, Japan or any other country. Language in these “trade” deals becomes the new governance standard for the world. The values and priorities in these deals bring more wealth and power to those who already have plenty. These deals will determine how life is organized in 2050.
by Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) - In a troubling sign for the 114th Congress, a new poll released on Tuesday indicates that the day-old legislative body is the most hated in the nation’s history. According to the poll, conducted by the University of Minnesota’s Opinion Research Institute, only eight percent of those surveyed approved of the job Congress is doing, a scathing indictment of the legislators’ first day on the job. The 114th Congress started the day on a slightly more positive note, garnering a 10 percent approval rating, but after the House of Representatives re-elected John Boehner (R.-Ohio) to a new term as Speaker, the number sank to eight. On the Senate side, Joni Ernst (R-Ia.), newly elected to the most despised Congress in American history, said that the low approval number was no cause for concern. “If you ask somebody to pick a number between one and ten, eight is a pretty high number,” she said. “So it’s all good.” After Sen. Ernst made her comment, Congress’s approval rating plummeted to four percent. Andy Borowitz is a comedian and author
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In contrast, standard oil and gas stocks inched up 11 percent, fracking shares sank THREE percent, and coal shares plummeted 42 percent during that period. Of course, the market has foolishly snubbed the immense promise of wind and solar power before. Many individual stocks in these industries fizzled between 2010 and 2012, and they remain far below levels seen prior to the 2008 crash. But I think the past two years say more than the previous five about how the stock market will treat these industries from now on. While renewable energy remains vulnerable to volatility as governments phase subsidies in and out, it’s poised for massive growth. Consider this: Thanks partly to China’s efforts to stamp out smog by closing coal-fired power plants, solar power alone may fuel half the global grid by 2050, according to the International Energy Agency. That would mark a major transformation from its global market share today of under one percent worldwide and less than two percent in the United States. What about wind? It generates about 5.5 percent of America’s electricity and has plenty of room to grow. Wall Street will eventually accept renewable power’s full potential. In the meantime, you can do well by Eugene Robinson is a Pulit- doing good by heeding that call from Ban, Tutu, and zer Prize-winning columnist the Rockefellers. and former assistant managing editor for The Washington Post
laptops in class. Another recent study convinced him to do so. The title: “Laptop multitasking hinders classroom learning for both users and nearby peers.” A research team in Canada found that laptops in the classroom distracted not only the students who used them, but also students who sat nearby. Meaning, not only do the laptop-using students end up staring at Facebook, but the students behind them do, as well. Both of those research studies suggest that, in the classroom, laptops actu-
ally hinder learning. And you don’t need a randomized-controlled study to know that. It’s just hard to focus in front of a laptop. (I checked Twitter twice before finishing that sentence.) Everyone struggles to focus when the Internet is only a click away. So why bring that distraction into the classroom? Granted, laptops have their advantages. A laptop can be securely backed up more easily than a notebook. A laptop allows students - especially those for whom English is a second language - to look up
When President Obama pleads with us to trust him, I hear the Chico Marx’ joke from Duck Soup: “Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?” My eyes see the lived experience from every deal since NAFTA. I’m 100 percent in favor of trade. We should have a good trade policy, which would be very different from our current failing trade policy. It’s completely appropriate to fight the last war on trade policy. Thea Lee
at the AFL-CIO put it this way in the Washington Post, “We promise not to fight the last war, if he promises not to put the last (flawed) version of the trade deal on the table.” President Obama should show us why these deals will be good for us, when the opposite has been true up to now.
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videos of lectures. Half the students were randomly assigned to watch the lectures while taking notes on a laptop, while the other students were asked to watch the lectures while taking notes with paper and pen. Afterward, the students were all given an exam. The students who took notes longhand scored much higher on conceptual questions than did the students who used a laptop. Clay Shirky, a professor at New York University, recently asked his students to stop using
Emily Schwartz Greco is a former foreign correspondent and financial reporter
Every President since Gerald Ford has promised prosperity from each new trade deal. In our lived experience, we’ve lost millions of jobs, deindustrialized our economy, weakened bargaining power for every worker in America, run a cumulative trade debt approaching $10 trillion and we’ve lost our strategic advantage in manufacturing to Korea, Japan, Singapore, Germany, Denmark and China.
Surprise It won’t be easy selling the legislature on the idea of postponing tax cuts that have yet to take effect and increasing taxes. After all, Kansas was supposed to be the “real live experiment” that would prove trickle-down economics does work. To back off now would be an admission of failure. It would mean going up against the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, Americans for Prosperity and the Koch brothers who are heavily invested in a tax cut policy. And it would mean that the man who didn’t get elected governor was right about
The Dow Jones Industrial Average currently stands at 17,823 and is up over 35% since Obama was reelected. 4) The entire U.S. economy was supposed to collapse. Rush Limbaugh predicted that “the country’s economy is going to collapse if Obama is re-elected.” Limbaugh was confident in his prediction: “There’s no if about this. And it’s gonna be ugly. It’s gonna be gut wrenching, but it will happen.” The economic freefall would begin, according to Limbaugh, because “California is going to declare bankruptcy” and
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tax cuts and the man who was elected governor was wrong. Imagine that. Brownback and his supporters are running out of excuses as to why their tax cut philosophy is a failure. More importantly, they’re running out of time. The stakes are huge. To steal from existing cash reserves is putting the retirement fund for tens of thousands of Kansans at risk, it impedes our ability to main the state’s infrastructure - including highways that businesses coming to Kansas rely on - it will affect our ability
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to provide a quality education and to care for children in need of state assistance, as well as our poor and our senior citizens. In other words, it affects every aspect of our lives which are important when people consider whether Kansas is a place they want to move to or a place where they want to continue living. The curtain has been pulled back on tax cuts and we’ve seen the result. Do we have the courage to do the right thing to fix the mess we’ve created? We’ll see. Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com
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Obama would force states like Texas to “bail them out.” California currently has a $4 billion budget surplus. Limbaugh added, “I know mathematics, and I know economics. I know history. I know socialism, statism, Marxism, I know where it goes. I know what happens at the end of it.” He did fudge, however, on the exact timing of the economic apocolypse. Limbaugh said it could take “a year and a half, two years, three years.” It’s been two years and two months since Limbaugh’s prediction, so he still technically has
another 10 months to be proven right. The U.S. economy grew at a robust 5% in the third quarter of 2014, following 4.6% growth in the second quarter. Although these dire economic predictions have proven false, it doesn’t mean there aren’t real, persistent problems with the U.S. economy. Most critically, wage growth for American workers remains stagnant. That’s why, although many economic indicators are strong, a lot of Americans aren’t yet feeling the impact. Judd Legum is editor-inchief of ThinkProgress
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Clothing These fabrics can be well worth the investment, but make sure you shop around for the best deals. During a walk or run, a good pair of socks can provide comfort every step of the way. While some people prefer a hearty all-cotton sock, the natural fiber can trap moisture. When socks get wet (from perspiration or stepping in a puddle) and stay that way, blisters can develop. Choose socks that have wicking capa-
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bilities. Cushion is a matter a preference; replacing exercise socks periodically is recommended. UV protection should be a year-round habit, even in the colder months. Light vs Dark Textile researchers also have discovered that a once-popular recommendation may no longer carry the same weight. The old rule, choosing white or light-colored clothing that will reflect
light, is being set aside in favor of darker colors. Research suggests that dark dye interacts with UV light, and may increase protection from ultraviolet rays. Choosing a tighter weave, and a synthetic like an acrylic, nylon or polypropylene, also can help minimize exposure to the sun’s rays. Choosing clothing that is roomy enough so that it allows air to circulate can cool the body while it protects.
There are products now on the market that can be washed into your clothing that will make them UV protectant. If exercise clothes do not include pockets, consider a necklace-style pouch (like travelers wear to protect their passport, money and other valuables) or waist pack. Carry water (either in a larger pack or bottle pouch made for carrying water). Best of luck with your goals if you have set any for 2015.
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words and background on the fly. But such benefits are surely overwhelmed by the enormous gravitational tug of Facebook and e-mail. And so I’m left with a resolution for the new year: no more electronics in class. On the first day, I’ll describe the research that’s been done, and I’ll ask the students to put away their laptops and their cell phones. Some students might grumble, but they’ll be better off for it. I’m not a Luddite. Without computers, I couldn’t do my own research. I spend all day in front of a computer. But the enormous, world-changing benefits of computers have to be weighed against the costs. We are becoming a distracted nation, constantly alt-tabbing to our e-mail and peeking at our phones. We should not be so quick to throw out our pens and pencils. Tal Gross is an assistant professor at Columbia University
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Moran “It gives us a natural competitive advantage,” he said. While lifting the embargo makes sense for Kansas - and for U.S. trade - Sen. Moran predicts “another knock down, drag out fight” over the measure with Congress. “Since it’s President Obama’s proposal, that’s one more reason why some members of Congress will fight it,” he said. The success of getting the President’s proposal through Congress will also depend “on how Cuba behaves” in the upcoming months, Moran says. While open trade with Cuba will be good for ag producers in Kansas, Moran feels it will be a huge step in bringing an end to Communism in the island nation. “I feel that one reason the Soviet Union fell was because of increased consumer demand for products that were produced in the West,” Moran noted. “It’s been easy for those in power in Cuba to blame the U.S. for the failures of their economy. If we open trade with them, it will eliminate that excuse.” Area farmers would like to see an open trade policy in order to eliminate some of the obstacles that exist now, such as the added difficulty in making financial arrangements for the sale of grain through a third party. “We sell to Cuba now through Mexico,” said Ron Suppes, a board member with the Kansas Wheat Commission. “We’d like direct access.” Tax Extenders Another big financial concern to ag producers and implement dealers was the decision by Congress to extend tax breaks for the purchase of farm equipment. Sen. Moran said he’s talked to implement dealers in northwest Kansas who have already begun seeing the benefit of the legislation which was finally passed in December. It wasn’t until mid-December, that the U.S. Senate approved a one-year extension of the tax extenders bill, a grab bag of
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around 50 tax provisions for businesses and individuals. The bill will cost $42 billion over 10 years and applies retroactively to the 2014 tax year. The House of Representatives passed their version of the bill a few days earlier. The one-year extension set up another debate on the tax extenders again in 2015. Moran says “there’s no way I can defend” Congress waiting until the final three weeks of the year to take this action and then to leave open the possibility that the Congress will repeat this tactic again next year. “They should be made permanent,” says Moran. “There is a plan to put them into effect for two years. If it’s good policy, then it’s something we need to be deciding in June or July instead of December. This is one more symptom of a Senate that hasn’t worked.” “Why do the rules allow for one person whether it’s a Democrat or a Republican - to stop legislation from moving forward?” asked Suppes. Moran said he favored the 60-vote threshold to avoid a filibuster and to get legislation through the Senate. “With 51 votes, you can pass something without needing rural support. The 60 vote threshold protects us,” claims Moran. Rural Health Care Scott County Hospital CEO Mark Burnett expressed his concern with the growing level of paperwork and record keeping required of his physicians in addition to other possible regulations which could impact rural health care. “I’ve never seen a time when physicians are more burdened with regulations and paperwork than they are now. And this comes at a time when we have a shortage of physicians,” said Burnett. While supportive of efforts within the Affordable Care Act that emphasize quality care and eliminate unnecessary testing, Burnett says many tests are an effort by the medical community to protect
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themselves from potential lawsuits. He’s also concerned about regulations that require an even higher level of medical training by people who staff ambulances. “Even if can find the people who are qualified, we can’t afford paramedics,” says Burnett. “We’ll lose our volunteer EMTs in rural America if we keep pushing this. We have to be practical about the level of local training.” The amount of recordkeeping is at a higher level now than at any other time he’s seen, adds Burnett. “My doctors are working their tails off, but not all of it is generating revenue. Too much of it is clerical.” And reimbursement programs by Medicare, Medicaid and even some insurance companies don’t recognize consulting time or the latest technological advances, such as telemed, which allow a physician or specialist in one location to provide emergency room consultation or to diagnose treatment for a patient in another location. “Physicians don’t get reimbursed for telemed,” Burnett said. Moran added his support that physicians should be reimbursed for consultation and preventative care that can help a patient avoid major medical expenses in the future. Farm Bill Criticism Concerns were also raised about the lack of information available at the local level regarding new guidelines within the latest Farm Bill. Most of the burden for interpreting the regulations and how they will impact local farmers is falling on the staff with the Farm Service Administration (FSA). When asked by Moran how that is working out, Scott County farmer Richard Randall said, “The FSA personnel are doing the best they can.” “It would help if they had the information from the federal level,” added Scott County farmer Jim Minnix.
Joni Jackson, a representative with Ag Pro Crop Insurance, Hays, was concerned that reducing the government’s subsidy for crop insurance will discourage farmers from signing up for the program. She said that eliminating the subsidy will make insurance too costly and force farmers to drop out of the program. Moran said that if that should happen it will also make it more difficult for farmers to secure loans from their bankers. “We’ve taken ag programs back to the 1980s,” said Jackson about the latest Farm Bill. “It’s so frustrating that (Congress) spent all this money to do this and it’s a bust.” VA Medical Care Moran said the Choice Act which was passed by Congress is a “great improvement in providing medical care to veterans.”
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get more funding, our hospitals need more patients. The ability to have these veterans get treatment at their local hospitals not only benefits our veterans, but also the hospitals. Adrian Handlin, Dighton, asked about the prospect of legalizing hemp for commercial production. “You can probably bring me along on the hemp, not the marijuana,” replied Moran. With respect to mandatory prison sentences, which have been a growing issue for non-violent crimes such as marijuana possession, Moran says he’s in favor of discarding them in favor of putting more discretion into the hands of judges. Moran also said “you’ll get no argument from me” regarding the construction of nuclear power facilities.
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Walker, Barnett earn fall honors Nicole Walker, Scott City, and Mathew Barnett, Dighton, have earned fall academic honors at Washburn University, Topeka. Walker has been named to the President’s Honor Roll after being enrolled in a minimum of 12 credit hours and maintaining a 4.0 grade point average. Barnett was named to the Dean’s Honor Roll. A student must be enrolled in at least 12 credit hours and maintain a 3.4 to 3.99 grade point average.
Chelsi Rose sews her snappy slippers during a sewing day attended by several Scott County 4-H youth. (Record Photo)
Deardens on KWU honor lists
Crouch, young 4-Hers are keeping sewing skills sharp At a time when it’s often easier - and cheaper - to buy clothing off the rack, it would seem that sewing has become a lost art. Scott County FACS Agent Carol Ann Crouch and her young 4-Hers are doing what they can to keep that from happening. Each year, during the winter break, Crouch teaches a sewing class - one for her beginning 4-Hers and another for the experienced members. The older 4-Hers made “snappy slippers” while the younger group made colorful pillows. Experienced sewers taking part over the break were Hope and Hallie Wiechman, Emily Glenn, Trella Davis, Brooke Strine, Chelsi Rose and Abbie LeBeau. Participants in the younger group were Ella Frank, Callie Hutton, Payton Berry, Annie Talbert, Kate Rogers and Megan Trout. It’s an opportunity to learn new techniques and to make something fun, says Crouch. “I want the girls to learn at least one new element of sewing,” she explains. “With the slippers, the girls are learning to sew curves, which is pretty difficult, and some of them are working with fabric that they haven’t sewn before.” The slipper project - which stretched over two afternoons - gave Chelsi Rose an opportunity to practice something she already enjoys doing. “I first learned how to sew with my grandma,” says the 11-year-old. “This is my fifth year in the (4-H) sewing project.”
Rose feels that more young girls are interested in sewing. When she is buying fabric it’s not uncommon to meet other 4-Hers who are also working on sewing projects. Rose also enjoys creating her own items for the clothing construction competition at the Scott County Fair. Megan Trout, 8, says she sometimes will sew with her grandmother. While her pillow project was “kind of hard to make” she was very pleased with the result. Sewing was a 4-H project for Kate Rogers last year. She has gained a lot of experience
by sewing hot pads, a blanket and a neck pillow. “It’s fun to do. I plan to keep on sewing,” says the eightyear-old. Crouch emphasizes to the girls that she isn’t seeking perfection. “I want the girls to enjoy the experience and not be afraid to try new things,” she says. “Perfection will come with practice.” The FACS agent likes to remind the girls that one of the benefits of sewing their own clothing is they get to select the fabric and the pattern. “No one else has anything like it. It’s your signature,” says
Crouch, who has been offering the sewing class for the past 10 years. Crouch and her young sewers also like to give time to community service projects. This year they will be sewing tears in football pants worn by Scott City Middle School players. There are also plans later this spring to sew bibs for residents at Park Lane Nursing Home. Crouch says the project will involve both the younger and more experienced students. “We’re always looking for projects so we can give back to the community,” adds Crouch.
Chacon earns education degree Samantha Chacon, Scott City, has earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Newman University, Wichita. During a recent ceremony, she was also presented a Pi Lamda Theta Award for maintaining a 3.5 or better grade point average for all university credits. Chacon was among 12 residents from Western Kansas earning bachelor’s or master’s degrees in education, or completing the requirements of the Elementary Education Licensure Program from Newman University. The students completed their requirements for graduation in December.
County 4-H Club News New Horizons make plans for Club Days
Young 4-Hers with their pillow project are (front row, from left) Payton Berry, Annie Talbert, Kate Rogers and Megan Trout. (Back row) Ella Frank and Callie Hutton. (Record Photo)
Law limits compiling of teen drug data Most teens and tweens who use drugs, alcohol and tobacco hide it from teachers and parents. But when promised anonymity, more than a million Kansas school kids have been frank over the past two decades answering the annual Kansas Communities That Care survey. Which substances do they misuse, how often and what are their perceptions about the risks? Mental health officials say the data have been invaluable
Kayla and Krissa Dearden, Scott City, have earned fall semester academic honors at Kansas Wesleyan University, Salina. Kayla was named to the President’s Honor Roll for maintaining a 3.75 minimum grade point average. Krissa was named to the Dean’s Honor Roll for a grade point average of 3.253.74. Honor roll students must also be enrolled full-time. They are the daughters of Lonny and Colleen Dearden, Scott City.
in crafting prevention strategies to combat substance abuse. But now that string of statistics has been broken. Administrators of state and local substance abuse prevention efforts were stunned and baffled to learn that new state privacy protections now limit their ability to collect that data. The result has been a dramatic decline in the number of Kansas students taking the survey. “Everybody was like, ‘Holy criminy, how did this
get passed?’” said Michelle Voth, executive director of the Kansas Family Partnership in Topeka. Call it a matter of unintended consequences. Even some of the bill’s biggest supporters were unaware that it would have a negative impact on the survey. But it has, to the point that, for the first time since the mid1990s, none of the six Johnson County school districts participated this school year. School districts across
the state also worry the law will have unforeseen negative effects that go beyond the survey. What those might be, they’re not sure at this point. But the Kansas Association of School Boards is urging its members to keep a list in hopes of changing the law, which the group had supported. “We need to really look at what the ramifications are,” said Mark Tallman, the group’s associate executive director for advocacy. (See DATA on page 13)
The New Horizons 4-H Club met at the Wm. Carpenter 4-H Building on January 5. There were 17 members present. The club discussed the upcoming Club Days in Leoti. Other events in the near future that club members will be involved in are Citizenship in Action and the Youth Leadership Forum. Eric Shapland shared with the group about his Christmas break activities. Madison Shapland informed the group about the MAYB program she is involved in this winter. Tara Rose, jr. reporter
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How has Affordable Care Act affected Kansas? Roberta Riportella Professor, KSU Extension
Many reports have said the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has not treated Kansas well. In fact, lots of negative things have been said about the ACA. It may be too soon to evaluate the impact of this
major legislation, as a lot of the negativity reflects a point of view that doesn’t believe the government should be involved in expanding health insurance. All sides seem to be biased in evaluating the success of the ACA. We can perhaps best judge the ACA by one
of its major objectives: to decrease the number of uninsured. The data on the overall rate of Kansas’ insured has been a bit confusing, but we do know that in Kansas more than 57,000 people were able to obtain insurance last year through the Health Insurance Marketplace.
Many of those people were previously uninsured, because insurance was too expensive for them. For the most part, these were working families with employers that did not offer affordable insurance. Others may have been insured previously, but
Medicare cuts payments to hospitals with high infections Jordan Rau Kaiser Health News
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In its toughest crackdown yet on medical errors, the federal government is cutting payments to 721 hospitals for having high rates of infections and other patient injuries, records released Thursday show. Medicare assessed these new penalties against some of the most renowned hospitals in the nation. Eleven Kansas hospitals are among those being penalized. One out of every seven hospitals in the nation will have their Medicare payments lowered by one per-
cent over the fiscal year that began Oct. 1 and continues through September 2015. The health law mandates the reductions for the quarter of hospitals that Medicare assessed as having the highest rates of “hospital-acquired conditions,” or HACs. These conditions include infections from catheters, blood clots, bed sores and other complications that are considered avoidable. Dr. Eric Schneider, a Boston health researcher who has interviewed patient safety experts for his studies, said research has demonstrated that medical errors can be reduced through a num-
The 11 Kansas hospitals being penalized for having high rates of infections and other patient injuries include: •Overland Park Regional Medical Center, Overland Park. •South Central Kansas Medical Center, Arkansas City. •Sumner Regional Medical Center, Wellington. •Menorah Medical Center, Overland Park. •Miami County Medical Center, Paola. •St. John Hospital, Leavenworth. •Kansas Heart Hospital, Wichita. •University of Kansas Hospital, Kansas City, Ks. •Hutchinson Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. •Coffeyville Regional Medical Center, Coffeyville. •St. Luke’s South Hospital, Overland Park.
ber of techniques. But “there’s a pretty strong sense among the experts we talked to that they are not widely implemented,” he said. Those methods include entering physician orders into computers rather than scrawling them on paper, better hand hygiene and
checklists on procedures to follow during surgeries. “Too many clinicians fail to use those techniques consistently,” he said. The penalties come as the hospital industry is showing some success in reducing avoidable errors. (See MEDICARE on page 11)
Kansas gets low grade for disease preparedness State meets only 3 of 10 key health measures Dave Ranney KHI News Service
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Kansas is among the nation’s least prepared states for responding to outbreaks of severe infectious diseases, according to a national report. The report, released by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, found that Kansas met three out of 10 key measures having to do with preventing, detecting, diagnosing and responding to outbreaks. Six other states - Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, Ohio and Wyoming - scored three as well. Only Arkansas
According to the report, Kansas’ spending on public health in the last two fiscal years fell by almost 13 percent. Of the 22 states that cut spending on public health, West Virginia led the nation with an 18 percent reduction. Kansas was second.
fared worse, meeting two of the indicators. Missouri scored four. The five top-scoring states - Maryland, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia met eight of the 10 measures. The scores were based on data from publicly available sources and from information provided by public officials. The indicator categories included: •Adequacy of public health funding. •Preparation for emerging threats. •Childhood vaccination rates. •Flu vaccination rates. •Climate change adap-
tion plans. •Health care-acquired infection rates. •Sexually transmitted infection and disease rates. •Response to foodborne illness outbreaks. According to the report, Kansas earned points in food safety, preparation for emerging threats and one of two vaccination categories. During a media call with reporters Thursday, Dr. Jeffrey Levi, executive director at the Trust for America’s Health, was asked what low-scoring states could do to improve their rankings. He replied: “For most states, the place to start
would be their public health budgets. The primary role of government - even in these difficult fiscal times - is to protect people from things they do not have control over, and infectious disease is a perfect example of that fundamental role. That would be a good starting point.” According to the report, Kansas’ spending on public health in the last two fiscal years fell by almost 13 percent. Of the 22 states that cut spending on public health, West Virginia led the nation with an 18 percent reduction. Kansas was second. Sara Belfry, a Kansas Department of Health and Environment spokesperson, said the agency is and has been - addressing the shortcomings cited in the report. (See GRADE on page 11)
they had policies that covered little and put them at high financial risk if they got sick. These people had to switch from those policies, which caused the huge stir about policy cancellations. Others were just too sick to afford the cost of insurance, which was
always much higher for those with major illnesses. The ACA changed this. No longer can anyone be denied insurance because of a pre-existing illness, and the rates are based solely on age, where you live and smoking status. (See KANSAS on page 11)
SCH participates in patient safety program Scott County Hospital has been recognized by the Kansas Healthcare Collaborative (KHC) and the Kansas Hospital Association (KHA) for its participation in a three-year national initiative to improve patient safety. Nationwide, the program resulted in a 17 percent decline in hospital acquired conditions (HACs) such as reactions to drugs, pressure ulcers, surgical site infections, etc. The program’s goal was to reduce HACs by 40 percent and patient readmissions by 20 percent by the end of 2014. Scott County Hospital and 99 other hospitals in the Kansas program collectively prevented an estimated 3,800 safety events (including readmissions) at an estimated cost savings of more than $23.2 million. National efforts to improve patient safety resulted in an estimated 1.3 million fewer patient safety events, 50,000 lives saved and $12 billion in health spending avoided. “We appreciate the physicians, nurses and other key staff who contributed to the success of this initiative locally,” says Mark Burnett, CEO of the Scott County Hospital. Many hospitals will continue the program in the upcoming year. The KHC will offer education and technical assistance, as well as providing resources and opportunities for peer-to-peer learning.
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Campaign to exempt food from Kansas sales tax Challenges, opportunities exist in state’s budget crisis TOPEKA - A coalition is forming to make healthy food less expensive in Kansas. Led by KC Healthy Kids, a nonprofit organization supported in part by the Kansas Health Foundation, a coalition is being formed to guide a legislative effort
to exempt food from the state sales tax. “Cutting the sales tax on food will make it more affordable for Kansans to eat healthier,” said Ashley Jones-Wisner, state policy manager for KC Healthy Kids. Kansas is one of only 14 states that levies a sales tax on food. Its 6.15 percent tax is the second highest in the nation, trailing only Mississippi’s seven percent rate. Low-income Kansans can apply for a $125
Medicare A recent federal report found the frequency of mistakes dropped by 17 percent between 2010 and 2013. Even with the reduction, one in eight hospital admissions in 2013 included a patient injury. The new penalties are harsher than any prior government effort to reduce patient harm. Since 2008, Medicare has refused to pay hospitals for the cost of treating patients who suffer avoidable complications. Legally, Medicare can expel a hospital with high rates of errors from
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reduction in their state income tax bill to partially offset the amount of sales tax they’ve paid on food. Even in good financial times, legislators have rejected attempts to exempt food from the sales tax. So, it’s a given that it will be an even tougher sell in the coming session given the state’s mounting budget problems. With a steep drop in tax collections, legislators will be faced with the urgent task of cutting
$280 million from this year’s budget when they convene in January. They also must deal with a projected deficit in the neighborhood of $600 million as they craft the budget for the next fiscal year that begins July 1. Exempting food from the sales tax would lower revenue collections by about $390 million a year. Jones-Wisner sees opportunity where others see almost certain failure. The budget crisis, she said, guarantees that state
tax policy will be discussed. That discussion will give the coalition an opportunity to shine a brighter light on a tax that its members believe is both regressive and a contributing factor to Kansas’ steady drop in national health rankings, she said. In 1991, Kansas was the nation’s eighth healthiest state, according to rankings compiled annually by the United Health Foundation. It now ranks 27th. If lawmakers refuse to
consider the exemption because of its cost, JonesWisner said the coalition may urge a partial exemption for whole fruits and vegetables. Two members of the Kansas Senate Republican Michael O’Donnell and Democrat Oletha Faust-Goudeau, both from Wichita, announced they would pursue legislation to eliminate the sales tax on food. Their proposal would likely phase out the tax over several years.
incentives Medicare has been placing on hospitals. This year, Medicare has already fined 2,610 hospitals for having too many patients return within a month of discharge. This is the third year those readmission penalties have been assessed. Small “critical access hospitals” that are mostly located in rural areas are exempt. Some of the errors on which the Medicare HAC penalties are based are rare compared to other mistakes the govern-
ment tracks. For instance, AHRQ estimated that in 2013 there were 760,000 bad drug reactions to medicine that controls blood sugar in diabetics, but only 9,200 central-line infections. Infections from tubes inserted into urinary tracts are more common - AHRQ estimated there were 290,000 in 2013 but those infections tend to be easier to treat and
less likely to be lethal. On the other measures, the study estimated there were 240,000 falls and more than one million bedsores. Medicare levied penalties against a third or more of the hospitals it assessed in Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Utah, Washington and the District of Columbia.
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its program, but that punishment is almost never done, as it is a financial death sentence for most hospitals. A ‘Mixed Message’ Hospitals complain that the new penalties are arbitrary, since there may be almost no difference between hospitals that are penalized and those that narrowly escape falling into the worst quarter. Hospital officials point out those that do the best job identifying infections in patients may end up looking worse than others.
“How hard you look for something influences your results,” said Dr. Darrell Campbell Jr., chief medical officer at the University of Michigan Health System. “We have a huge infection control group, one of the largest in the country. I tell them to go out and find it.” Campbell’s hospital had a high rate of urinary tract infections but was not penalized because it had fewer serious complications than most hospitals, records show. The penalties come on top of other financial
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No one can have his or her policy cancelled because of being too sick - a common occurrence before the ACA. There are no annual nor lifetime maximums, which means that insurers have to keep paying if your need for care keeps generating bills. Finally,
many people are seeing more affordable insurance because of the ACA. Kansas mirrors the national story that 80 percent of the families who purchased policies through the marketplace are receiving financial assistance to pay for the premiums. Some people
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39,000 Kansans sign up for ACA marketplace in first month
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Last year, the state’s flu vaccination rate increased seven percent, said Belfry. The department recently launched an initiative aimed at improving its processes for tracking sexually transmitted diseases. Michelle Ponce, executive director at the Kansas Association of Local Health Departments, said the findings reflect her members’ concerns. “Recent events, such as the Kansas measles and pertussis outbreaks and the national response to the Ebola virus, underscore the necessity of maintaining a strong public health system,“ she said.
According to a report released by the Department of Health and Human Services, 39,023 people in Kansas selected plans through the Health Insurance Marketplace leading up to the December 15 deadline for coverage that began Jan. 1. About 80 percent of Kansans who selected health insurance plans in the first month of open enrollment were determined eligible for financial assistance to lower their monthly premiums, compared to 74 percent who selected plans over a similar period last year.
are also receiving financial assistance to minimize the cost-sharing requirements in plans. More than 50 percent of those receiving assistance are paying less than $50 a month for premiums. There is a large range of affordable policies
Of the 39,023 Kansans who selected a plan, 47 percent reenrolled in a Marketplace plan in 2015 and 53 percent signed up for the first time. “We’re pleased that in Kansas 39,023 people signed up for Marketplace coverage during the first month of open enrollment. The vast majority were able to lower their costs even further by getting tax credits, making a difference in the bottom lines of so many families,” said HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell said. Nationwide, more than four million people signed
available in all counties, especially for those eligible for a tax subsidy. There are five insurance companies offering 64 policies statewide, though fewer policies are offered in some counties. The marketplace is open to view these plans until Feb. 15.
up for the first time or reenrolled in coverage for 2015 during the first month of open enrollment. That includes more than 3.4 million people who selected a plan in the 37 states that are using the HealthCare.gov platform for 2015 (including Kansas), and more than 600,000 consumers who selected plans in the 14 states that are operating their own Marketplace platform for 2015. From November 15 to December 26, nearly 6.5 million consumers selected a plan or were automatically reenrolled.
Pastime at Park Lane The United Methodist Church led Sunday afternoon services. Residents played ptich and dominoes on Monday afternoon. Wanda Kirk helped with the games. Pastor Jared Young led Tuesday morning Bible study. Rev. Warren Prochnow led Lutheran Bible study on Wednesday morning. Residents played bingo on Wednesday afternoon. Barbara Dickhut was the helper. Fr. Bernard Felix led Catholic Mass on Friday morning. Residents watched the movie, “Hachi” and snacked on popcorn on Saturday afternoon. Herb Graves was visited by Tina Turley.
Residents enjoy wine, cheese party
Residents enjoyed a wine and cheese party on Tuesday afternoon. They also had a choice of sparkling grape juice and cookies if they didn’t want wine and cheese.
‘Hit and Miss Band’ performs
The Hit and Miss Band performed on Friday afternoon. Band members were Margie Stevens, Arlene Cauthon and Melody Stevens. Joyce Bohnert was visited by Gabe and Janet Gallardo and Glenda Graham. Arlene Beaton was visited by Margie Stevens, Melody Stevens, William Beaton, Lindsay Singley and Joshua Beaton. Jim Jeffery was visited by Jett Humburg from Ness City and Matthew Hahn.
Deaths Mick, and wife, Loretta, Perryton, Tex., Richard Mick, and wife, Carol, Colby, and John Mick, Scott City; three sisters, Marilee Cramer, and husband, Darell, Scott City, Marlene O’Connor, and husband, Wilford, Hutchinson, and Margaret Strouse, and husband, Charles, Ellsworth. He was preceded in death by his parents; wife; one brother, Gerard Mick; and one sister, Kathleen Mick. Vigil service was held Jan. 5 at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Scott City. Funeral service was held Jan. 6 at the church with Fr. Bernard Felix officiating. Interment was at the Scott County Cemetery. Memorials may be made to St. Catherine Hospice, St. Joseph Catholic Church, or the Scott County VIP Center in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 401 S. Washington St., Scott City, Ks. 67871.
Seek nominees for senior worker awards
The Kansas Department of Commerce and the Southwest Kansas Area Agency on Aging (SWKAAA) are seeking nominees for the annual Older Workers and Oldest Worker Award program. Each year the SWKAAA asks area businesses to nominate an older Kansan (55 years or older) whose dedication and hard work has helped make a difference in their company. Nominations for the Older Worker Award and
LaVera King was visited by Carol Latham, Velda Riddiough, Kay and Harrison King, and Gloria Gough. Cecile Billings was visited by Thurman and Delinda Dunagan, Larry Billings and Shantel Lobmeyer. Boots Haxton was visited by Rod and Kathy Haxton. Jake Leatherman was visited by Otto Harp and Ann Hawkins. Nella Funk was visited by Dianna Howard, Aaron and Mandy Kropp, Warren Kropp and Rachel Anliker, Kim Smith and Nancy Holt. Emogene Harp was visited by Otto Harp, Maranda Dawn Barnett, Joy Barnett and Nancy Holt.
Sr. Citizen Lunch Menu
David Bernard Mick David Bernard Mick, 64, died Jan. 2, 2015, at his home in Scott City. H e was born on Jan. 24, 1950, in Hays, the son of Frank and Mary David Mick (Thummel) Mick. David lived in Lincoln before moving to Scott City, in 1966. He was a 26-year employee with the City of Scott City public works and parks departments. He was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, the Knights of Columbus where he was a 3rd and 4th Degree Knight, and the VIP board, all of Scott City. On August 10, 1980, he married Alberta Shannon Jeffrey in Oakley. She died Dec. 2, 2010, in Scott City. Survivors include: three brothers, Ronald
Dottie Fouquet was visited by Jon and Anne Crane; Matt, Sandy, Ellie and Bodie Higgins; Mary Stormont, Ethan Noll and Mark Fouquet. Corrine Dean was visited by Dianna Howard, Aaron and Mandy Kropp, Warren Kropp and Rachel Anliker, Kim Smith, Linda Martindale and Nancy Holt.
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Oldest Worker Award will be accepted until March 1. Companies may make several nominations for the Older Worker Award. The winners will travel to Topeka in April where they will be honored and receive their award. To submit a nomination for either award contact Lyle Dotson, program coordinator, at 620-2258230 or toll-free at 1-800742-9531. Forms may also be requested by email at lyle.dotson@swksaging.org.
Week of January 12-16 Monday: Sausage gravy, biscuit, tri-tators, green beans, mandarin orange. Tuesday: Tuna salad, spinach salad, tomato slices, whole wheat bread, cinnamon apples. Wednesday: Roast turkey, mashed potatoes, California blend vegetables, whole wheat bread, apricots. Thursday: Chili, crackers, tossed salad, fruit cocktail. Friday: Tahitian chicken, beets, steamed cabbage, whole wheat roll, pineapple. meals are $3.25 • call 872-3501
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Visiting with Clifford Dearden were Kambra Dearden, Kirk and Janet Ottaway, Tod and Jessica Hileman, Faydan Jude; Aaron, Jill, MaLancy and MaKinely Brantley; and Janelle, Hunter, Scout and Marshall Perryman. Margaret Koehn was visited by Eugene and Grace Martens, Rick and Sharon Roemer, Amber Koehm, Gerald Koehn, Don and Jewell Unruh, Melody and Margie Stevens, Kayla Jo Regehr, Denise Unruh, and Dean and Pat Burdick. Bonnie Pickett was visited by Justin Wright, Joel Wright, Larry and Philene Pickett, Larry and Gloria Wright, Melody and Margie Stevens, and Arlene Cauthon.
Albert Dean was visited by Nancy Holt. Lorena Turley was visited by Neta Wheeler; Tracy, Tyler and Bo Hess; and Rex Turley. Vivian Kreiser was visited by Larry and Sharon Lock. Geraldine Graves was visited by Howard Sheley. Elsie Coleman was visited by Janice Lockman, Alisa Moore, Steve Lockman and Kim Smith. Ann Tedford was visited by Arlene Cauthon, Mary Plum and Doris Riner. Mike Leach was visited by Jason and Linda Dunagan, and Rev. Don Martin from St. Luke’s Church. Darlene Richman was visited by Mary Webster and Tina Turley.
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Data Breach Concerns While roughly 100,000 Kansas school kids filled out the substance abuse survey in previous years, this school year it could be as low as 25,000, Voth said. That’s because of new restrictions on what kind of questions kids can be asked by survey takers without prior parental permission. Previously, parents could opt out of having their sons and daughters take the survey, but few did in participating school districts. Last school year, 70 percent of all Kansas students in grades six, eight, 10 and 12 took the survey. Figures for this year are not yet available on the Kansas Communities That Care website, but they are sure to be far lower. And all because of a single clause added to a data privacy bill late in the legislative process. It was a bill that, before it was amended, had wide support because it seemed to address the concerns of multiple constituencies. The original aim of Senate Bill 367 was to address the privacy con-
cerns of those who oppose or question the nationwide establishment of a set of education standards for the teaching of math and English. While those Common Core guidelines have the support of many parents and educators, others worry that the system will lead to the widespread sharing of confidential data about individual students. Equally worrisome to some is the potential for data breaches like those at Target, Home Depot and Sony Pictures. To allay those fears, Rep. Melissa Rooker and other Common Core supporters backed SB 367, which sets out limits on what kind of data school districts can collect and share. As the bill headed toward final passage, amendments were added. One loosened restrictions on data that could be provided to class ring-makers, for instance. The ramifications of other additions were not so clear cut. “We knew, in the name of protecting student pri-
vacy, there would be unintended consequences,” said Rooker, a Fairway Republican. The amendment in question requires parental permission before students can answer any survey or questionnaire with questions pertaining to “issues such as sex, family life, morality or religion, or any questions about the student’s parents’ or guardians’ beliefs” on those issues. Since the substance
abuse survey touches on family life issues, a number of school district attorneys decided that the law applied. And as there wasn’t much time before pre-enrollment packets containing parental permission slips went out last summer, some districts decided to sit out the substance abuse survey this year. What’s confounding the agencies that use the data is that none of the answers can be traced
back to individual students. “This questionnaire is anonymous, it’s voluntary and the data’s confidential,” said Shana Burgess, manager of prevention services at the Johnson County Mental Health Center. One benefit of the survey, Burgess said, has been to help authorities target their efforts. For example, when the data showed that kids were beginning to experiment
with alcohol at about age 13, the focus moved from high school to middle school. Likewise, the data have shown that, as with many adults, kids’ attitudes toward marijuana have grown more liberal. Half of high school seniors in Johnson County last year said they saw no risk in smoking pot, up from 36 percent in 2007. “As the perception of harm decreases,” Burgess said, “use goes up.”
Attend the Church of Your Choice
‘Turn, Turn, Turn’ Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (NIV) There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: 2) a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, 3) a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, 4) a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, 5) a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, 6) a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, 7) a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, 8) a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. No doubt this may be one of the most well know passages of scripture from the Old Testament. If not made famous simply from Bible reading the text is front and center in the 1965 hit song by the Byrds “Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is a Season).” I use this passage quite often at funerals; it seems to resonate well with those who are mourning the loss of a loved one. I am personally drawn to it often because it speaks so clearly to the panorama of human experiences. Go to the front page of any newspaper or news website and tell me you don’t see at least three or four of these passages in bold type. The Bible nor I would dare try to justify evil, but what is made clear to us is that good and evil are both realities in this world we live in. It’s easy to think that we are alone in life’s journey or that no one else would understand, but Solomon reminds us that all of life’s experiences (good and bad) are appointed times. Appointed by whom? Well, verse 11 of chapter three says, “He (God) has made everything appropriate in its time.” So our responsibility as His creation is to trust or have faith that God knows exactly what He’s doing; nothing is left to chance or coincidence and everything can be used to point man back to God’s glory. Ecclesiastes 3:14 (NIV) 14) I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him. In Christ Alone, Pastor Scott Wagner First Christian Church, Scott City
Scott City Assembly of God
Prairie View Church of the Brethren
1615 South Main - Scott City - 872-2200 Ed Sanderson, Senior Pastor 9:00 a.m. - Pre-Service Prayer 10:00 a.m. - Sunday Worship Service and Children’s Church Wednesday: 7:00 p.m. - Bible Study and Prayer
4855 Finney-Scott Rd. - Scott City - 276-6481 Pastor Jon Tuttle Sunday School: 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. Men’s Fellowship • Tuesday breakfast at 6:30 a.m. Held at Precision Ag Bldg. west of Shallow Water Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m., at the church
St. Joseph Catholic Church
Holy Cross Lutheran Church
A Catholic Christian Community 1002 S. Main Street - Scott City Fr. Bernard Felix, pastor • 872-7388 Secretary • 872-3644 Masses: 1st Sunday of month - 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. Other weekends: Sat., 6:00 p.m.; Sun., 11:00 a.m. Spanish Mass - 2nd and 4th Sundays, 1:30 p.m.
1102 Court • Box 283 • Scott City 620-872-2294 • 620-872-3796 Pastor Warren Prochnow holycross-scott@sbcglobal.net Sunday School/Bible Class, 9:00 a.m. Worship every Sunday, 10:15 a.m. Wed.: Mid-Week School, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Pence Community Church
Community Christian Church
8911 W. Road 270 10 miles north on US83; 2 miles north on K95; 9 miles west on Rd. 270 Don Williams, pastor • 874-2031 Wednesdays: supper (6:30 p.m.) • Kid’s Group and Adult Bible Study (7:00 p.m.) • Youth Group (8:00 p.m.) Sunday School: 9:30 • Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.
12th & Jackson • Scott City • 872-3219 Shelby Crawford, pastor Sunday School, 9:30 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship, 10:45 a.m. Wednesday Night Bible Study, 7:00 p.m. Wednesday: God’s High School Cru, 7:30 p.m.
First Baptist Church
Immanuel Southern Baptist Church
803 College - Scott City - 872-2339
1398 S. US83 - Scott City - 872-2264
Kyle Evans, Senior Pastor Bob Artz, Associate Pastor
Robert Nuckolls, pastor - 872-5041
Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.
Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. • Worship: 11:00 a.m.
Sunday morning worship: 8:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.
Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.
Gospel Fellowship Church 120 S. Lovers Lane - Shallow Water Larry Taylor, pastor Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.
1st United Methodist Church 5th Street and College - Scott City - 872-2401 Dennis Carter, pastor 1st Sunday: Communion and Fellowship Sunday Services at 9:00 a.m. • Sunday School, 10:30 a.m. All Other Sundays • Worship: 8:30 and 10:45 a.m. Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. • MYF (youth groups) on Wednesdays Jr. High: 6:30 p.m. • Sr. High: 7:00 p.m.
First Christian Church
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
701 Main - Scott City - 872-2937 Scotty Wagner, pastor Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.; Worship, 10:45 a.m. Wednesday is Family Night Meal: 5:45 p.m. • Study: 6:15 p.m. Website: www.fccscottcity.org
Elizabeth/Epperson Drives • Scott City • 872-3666 Father Don Martin Holy Eucharist - 11:45 a.m. St. Luke’s - 872-5734 (recorded message) Senior Warden Bill Lewis • 872-3347 or Father Don Martin - (785) 462-3041
Scott Mennonite Church
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
12021 N. Eagle Rd. • Scott City
9th and Crescent - Scott City - 872-2334 Bishop Irvin Yeager • 620-397-2732 Sacrament, 9:30 a.m. Sunday School, 10:50 a.m. Relief Society and Priesthood, 11:20 a.m. YMYW Wednesday, 8:00 p.m.
Franklin Koehn: 872-2048 Charles Nightengale: 872-3056 Sunday School Worship Service: 10:00 a.m. Sunday Evening Service: 7:00 p.m.
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Kansas lawmakers have a plateful of potentially ugly decisions ahead to close state budget shortfalls. But the budget isn’t the only thing on the legislative agenda. Senate President Susan Wagle said the budget problems are an opportunity to restructure state government. The Wichita Republican’s list of big projects includes overhauling public school funding and the pension system for teachers and government workers. Brownback has said he’ll have school funding proposals and two top aides have proposed that
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Kansas study privatizing the pension system. The governor also is pursuing a 50-year water preservation plan. But such ambitions and the likely resulting debates - will play out against the backdrop of projected shortfalls totaling more than $710 million in the current budget and for the fiscal year beginning in July. “It’s going to be a tough one,” House Majority Leader Jene Vickrey, a Louisburg Republican. Legislators reconvene Jan. 12, the same day Brownback is inaugurated for a second term. Here’s
USD 466 Board of Education Agenda Mon., January 12 • 7:00 p.m. Administration Building • 704 College •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) Treasurer’s report 2) Bills payable 3) Transfers (if needed) •Consent agenda 1) Approve previous minutes •Consider items pulled from consent agenda New business 1) State audit 2) Capital outlay planning 3) Concession stand project 4) Refinancing bonds •Executive session 1) Non-elected personnel 2) Negotiations 3) Superintendent evaluation •Adjournment
Public Notice (Published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Jan.8, 2015)1t CITY ELECTION NOTICE SCOTT CITY, STATE OF KANSAS Notice is herby given that pursuant to K.S.A. 25-2107 a general city election to elect Mayor, City Treasurer and Council members for Wards 1, 2, 3 and 4 will be conducted in Scott City, State of Kansas, on the 7th of April. 2015. Each representative shall be a qualified elector of the member district for which her or she filed as a candidate. The Mayor and City Treasurer shall be for a term of two (2) years. Council members shall be for a term of four (4) years. Candidates shall file for such offices with the City Clerk of Scott City. Every such filing shall be made before 12:00 noon on Tuesday, January 27, 2015. Each such filing shall be accompanied by a filing fee of five dollars ($5.00) or by petition signed by twenty-five (25) qualified electors of the candidate’s member district. No candidate shall be permitted to withdraw his candidacy after the last date provided by law for filing such candidacy. Notice is further given that if more than three (3) candidates file for any one position there will be a primary election on Tuesday, the 3rd day of March, 2015. If a primary is held the candidates whose names are to appear on the general election ballot will be nominated at a primary solely within the member areas. The names for the three (3) candidates receiving the highest number of votes for each position at the primary election, if one is held, shall be place on the ballot in the general city election on April 7th, 2015. Signed this 2nd day of January 2015. Alice Brokofsky Scott County Election Officer
a look at the session, having no cash reserves. scheduled for 90 days. “We’re going to have to bring in more than Balancing the Budget we spend and build up a Brownback has out- rainy-day fund,” Denning lined a plan for closing said. the projected $279 million shortfall in the state’s Taxes current budget but hasn’t During Brownback’s specified how he wants to first term, legislators close the projected $436 aggressively cut personal million gap for the fiscal income taxes to stimulate year beginning in July. the economy. GOP senaSen. Jim Denning, an tors are floating proposals Overland Park Republican to backtrack on some of serving on the budget- the reductions, eliminate writing Ways and Means exemptions to the state Committee, said the job sales tax and even raise is even bigger than the alcohol, tobacco and gasnumbers suggest because oline taxes. “Reality has finally “credit markets aren’t going to tolerate” Kansas taken hold,” said Sen.
Public Notice (Published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Jan.8, 2015)1t SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION NOTICE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 466 SCOTT COUNTY, STATE OF KANSAS Notice is hereby given that pursuant to K.S. A. 5-2018b a general school election to elect three (4) board members will be conducted in Unified School District No. 466, Scott County, State of Kansas on the 7th, day of April 2015. This district has the member at large election plan, and there will be three (4) board members at large. Each board member shall be a qualified elector. Board members will be elected for a term of four (4) years beginning on the 1st day of July 2015. Candidates shall file for such office with the County Clerk of Scott County. Every such filing shall be made before 12:00 noon on Tuesday, January 27, 2015. Each such filing shall be accompanied by a filing fee of five dollars ($5.00) or by petition signed by fifty (50) qualified electors. No candidate shall be permitted to withdraw his candidacy after the last date provided by law for filing such candidacy. Notice is further given that if more than nine (9) candidates file there will be a primary election on Tuesday, the 3rd day of March 2015. The names for the nine (9) candidates receiving the highest number of votes for each position at the primary election, if one is held, shall be placed on the ballot in the general school election on April 7th, 2015. Signed this 2nd day of January 2015. Alice Brokofsky Scott County Election Officer
Scott Co. LEC Report Scott City Police Department Dec. 30: Hector Renteria, 31, was arrested for domestic battery and disorderly conduct. He was transported to the LEC. Scott County Sheriff’s Department Dec. 30: Kurt Norman, 54, was arrested for DUI and transported to the LEC. Dec. 31: Hector Nunez was driving a 2008 Jeep and pulling a camper southbound on US83 Highway, near Road 20, when the wind caused the camper to weave and the driver lost control of the vehicle, sliding into the west ditch.
Laura Kelly, of Topeka, the ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee. “There’s absolutely no way that we can cut our way out of this hole.”
Public Pensions A 2012 law stabilized the long-term financial health of the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System but didn’t fulfill conservatives’ goal of starting a 401(k)-style plan for new workers. Brownback’s budget director and secretary of administration suggested studying whether the state
should convert pension benefits to annuities run by private insurance companies. Water Resources Brownback is moving forward with a 50-year water plan, and proposals that include dredging state lakes to preserve their storage capacities and considering an aqueduct to Western Kansas from the Missouri River. The governor also wants to phase out a state law that requires wind and other renewable resources to account for 20 percent of utilities’ peak capacity to generate electricity.
Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., Jan. 1, 2015; last published Thurs., Jan. 15, 2015)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HOWARD L. SPITZER, deceased Case No. 2014-PR-18 NOTICE OF HEARING THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed in this Court by Dorothy L. Spitzer, duly appointed, qualified and acting executor of the Estate of Howard L. Spitzer, deceased, praying that her acts be approved; that the Will be construed and the Estate be assigned to the persons entitled thereto; that fees and expenses be allowed; that the costs
be determined and ordered paid; that the administration of the Estate be closed; that the Executor be discharged and that she be released from further liability. You are required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 26th day of January, 2015, at 10:00 o’clock a.m., of said day, in said Court, in the City of Scott City, in Scott County, Kansas, at which time and place said cause will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition. Dorothy L. Spitzer WALLACE, BRANTLEY & SHIRLEY 325 Main - P. O. Box 605 Scott City, Kansas 67871 (620) 872-2161 Attorneys for Petitioner
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6th man role suits Hutchins With the return of Brett Meyer to the lineup following the holiday break, it meant that Dylan Hutchins would return to the bench for the Scott Community High School basketball team. Hutchins was just fine with the move. The junior guard drilled five treys and finished with Scott City 88 SW Hts. 43 19 points in Scott City’s 88-43 thumping of Southwestern Heights in nonleague play on Tuesday. “Last year I was used to coming off the bench and I feel more confident doing that,” says Hutchins, who matched his career high point total that he set in the season opener against Wichita Trinity. “I just kept shooting and they kept going in. I was gaining more confidence as the game went along,” notes Hutchins, who finished the game 5-of-7 from beyond the three-point line. Head coach Glenn O’Neil isn’t quite ready to declare Hutchins the sixth man, though he has fit that role in the past and had a real good game on Tuesday. “Dylan will do whatever we ask him to,” says O’Neil. “He shot the ball pretty well over the
break. I don’t know if his good shooting night was a matter of coming off the bench or just having more confidence coming out of the break.” Hutchins knocked down his first trey with 2:43 left in the opening period as part of a 12-2 scoring blitz. Senior guard Trey O’Neil, who had two threepointers in the opening period and 18 points for the game, dropped in a pair of free throws that finished off the run and put the Beavers on top, 17-7. The Beavers (5-0) were firmly in control the remainder of the night. “I didn’t know what to expect because we had some practices (over the break) that weren’t so good. Usually the week after a break is kind of rough, but I feel we came out and played our best game so far,” says Hutchins. It would be difficult to argue with that analysis after SCHS rolled to a 48-19 halftime lead against a Mustang team that entered the game with a 4-1 record. This game also marked the return of senior guard Brett Meyer who had been sidelined with a turf toe injury until the Christmas break. “I was ready. I had a lot of adrenaline pumping when the game started,” says Meyer, who finished with 13 points. (See HUTCHINS on page 17)
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SCHS senior Chantz Yager finishes off a drive to the basket with a short jumper during Tuesday’s non-league win against Southwestern Hts. (Record Photo)
State powerhouses to clash on Tuesday in Holcomb The intense rivalry is enough to make the Scott City-Holcomb game one of the most anticipated of any basketball season. Tuesday’s game carries even more significance when you consider both teams are among
the top-ranked teams in their classes - SCHS is No. 3 in Class 3A and Holcomb is No. 1 in Class 4A-Division II - and are playing for an inside track in the Great West Activities Conference title chase.
Each team will be taking undefeated records into the game to be played at Holcomb with tipoff at about 7:45 p.m. While the Beavers (5-0) have already knocked off two stateranked teams this season, Hol-
comb (6-0) will provide their biggest challenge to date. The Longhorns have a distinct height advantage, led by seniors Dalton Gottschalk (G/ PF, 6-4, 185), Trey Sleep (F,
Scott City’s Mariah Campbell brings the ball up the floor against defensive pressure from SW Heights freshman Tembree Couch. (Record Photo)
them to a 53-44 non-league road win. “When we lost the four point lead to start the second half, the girls didn’t back off. They were determined to find a way to win,” says Crawford. “We had a lot of different girls making contributions tonight.” The second half scoring blitz came on the heels of a similar scoring run late in the first half after Scott City was looking at their biggest deficit of the night, 23-17, following a three-point basket by the Lady Mustangs. SCHS
(See HOLCOMB on page 16)
KSU’s defense, running game sub-par against ranked opponents
junior Madison Orr answered with a three-point basket that was the start of a 10-0 scoring burst to close out the second period. Sophomore guard Nancy Wiebe tied the game at 23-23 and freshman guard Bailey Latta’s runner in the lane put Scott City on top by a basket. Sophomore Paige Winderlin, who finished with a career high 11 points, closed out the half with a rebound and putback for a 27-23 advantage.
It’s hard not to feel pretty good about K-State’s 9-4 record and third place finish in the Big 12 Conference. It’s equally hard not to be disappointRod ed followHaxton, ing another sports editor K-State loss in the Alamo Bowl. First of all, KSU’s 7-2 conference record is looking a little tarnished after the Big 12’s miserable 2-5 record in bowl games. It’s difficult to sell yourself as an elite conference who deserves more respect from the national championship selection committee after a post-season flop by everyone but TCU. (Oklahoma State’s win really doesn’t count for anything). In retrospect, Coach Snyder has serious issues to address on both sides of the ball. It could be argued that KSU’s success this season was largely the result of smoke and mirrors and that Snyder pulled off a pretty remarkable season given some glaring deficiencies. Let’s look, first of all, at a defense that, in big games, didn’t show up until late in the first half or sometime in the second half. It began in week No. 2 when Iowa State scored 28 unanswered points to take a 28-13 lead before K-State battled back for a 32-28 win over the worst team in the Big 12. Granted, the Cyclones were anything
(See SC GIRLS on page 20)
(See DEFENSE on page 18)
SC breaks Mustangs with 2nd half surge After watching a four point halftime lead quickly disappear early in the second half against Southwestern Heights on Tuesday night, Scott City head coach Shelby Crawford was curious how his girls would respond. The Lady Beavers (2-3) put together a 13-0 scoring run during a six minute stretch in the third Scott City 53 SW Hts. 44 period to open up a 40-29 lead which was enough to carry
6-4, 195) and sophomore Conner VanCleave (F, 6-6, 200). “We’ve given up a height advantage in our games against Hugoton and Southwestern Heights, so it’s nothing we
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Outdoors in Kansas by Steve Gilliland
Creating the right situation for bobcats
It’s fairly common that traps set for bobcats remain empty for awhile, (at least it’s common for my bobcat traps) as bobcats are nomads and may pass through your chosen area only once every few days. So it was no surprise to me that the traps I was checking were indeed empty again. However a storm front was forecast to move through that night so I wanted to be certain the traps were as they should be in hopes the approaching weather would incite critters to get out and roam. I was off the beaten path a couple hundred yards in an Lshaped wooded pasture through which a brushy dry creek wound like a snake. Where I was, the pasture made a right-angle and for 50 yards or so the creek crowded the fence line leaving a scant 10 foot trail between it and the bordering alfalfa field. The land owner had taken advantage of the creek’s bonedry state and cut lots of the brush and trees along it, simply toppling them into the creek bed, making it a perfect bobcat hunting ground. I usually check traps from the pickup window or four wheeler seat unless given a good reason to walk up to them, like tonight. In the narrow trail described above, a cow path cut into the ground on the rim of the creek and at one spot a big rock lay across the path. I get a dandy magazine called “Trapper’s Post” and the most recent issue seemed dedicated to bobcats with articles on the subject by several experienced trappers. One article described and illustrated a good set for bobcats that involved making
(See BOBCATS on page 19)
Healthier Beavers heading to Norton With most of the football injuries behind them, the Scott Community High School wrestling team will be at full strength when they compete in the always rugged Norton Invitational on Saturday. Returning to the lineup for the first time will be Cooper Griffith (195). While he’s still not 100
Norton Invitational Sat., • 10:00 a.m. Teams: Atwood Beloit, Cozad (Nebr.), Garden City, Holcomb, Hoxie, Marion, McCook (Nebr.), Norton, Oakley, Scott City, Smith Center, St. Francis, TMPHays, Tribune, Ulysses
percent recovered from a knee injury that occurred in the state championship game, Griffith will be the
healthiest he’s ever been as a high school grappler. Last year, as a sophomore, Griffith’s season came to a quick halt when he had to have shoulder surgery. “I was kind of concerned how he might do once he got down on the mat, but he’s been moving pretty well. The knee doesn’t seem to be bother-
ing him,” says head coach Jon Lippelmann. As for conditioning, that’s another matter. “He’s going to be sucking air for the first two or three tournaments, but I’m real interested in seeing how he wrestles this weekend.” The addition of Griffith will mean that Wyatt Eitel will be moving up to the
220-pound division. Also returning to the lineup for the first time since the Ulysses tournament is freshman Jarrett Jurgens (145). He missed the Abilene tournament due to a shoulder injury. Lippelmann doesn’t like having four open weight classes - 113, 120, 126 and 132. He’s still (See BEAVERS on page 20)
‘C’ boys pull away late against Mustangs After squandering an early nine point lead, the Scott Community High School “C” team boys rallied for a 57-50 win against Southwestern Heights on Tuesday. The Beavers opened a 16-7 lead early in the second quarter before the Mustangs finished off the half with a 12-2 scoring run to take a 21-18 halftime advantage. SCHS regained control of the game midway into the fourth quarter when back-to-back treys by Conner LeBeau and Dexter Gooden put them back on top, 47-39, with Freshman Austin Rios drives to the basket during Tuesday’s win over Southwestern Hts. 4:02 remaining. (Record Photo) SWH only trailed 53-45 with just under two rebound and putback put A balanced Scott 12 and 10 points, respec- eight points and Seth minutes remaining when the Beavers back on top, City offense was led by tively. Cardenas finished with Reid Brunswig added five. freshman Zach Carson’s 53-45, with 1:32 to play. Gooden and Carson with
Holcomb haven’t been experiencing already,” says SCHS head coach Glenn O’Neil. “It’s something we’ll have to deal with all year against some teams.” The Holcomb trio also brings a lot of offensive firepower, led by Sleep’s 20.4 points and 7.4 rebounds per game. He is followed by Gottschalk (12.6 ppg, 6.6 rpg) and VanCleave (10.2 ppg, 7.2 rpg). “Sleep is their big scoring threat, but a lot of the offense runs through Gottschalk with his ability to penetrate and with his passes to the back side,” O’Neil says. “Sleep and VanCleave can each shoot the three, so you can’t just sag off and body up on the back side. They’re a strong overall team which is why they’re ranked No. 1 in (Class 4A) Division II.”
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The Beavers must also keep the trio away from the rim. The three are a combined 69% (82-of119) from two-point distance. Also a threat to score from the perimeter are junior guard Christian Merz (9.4 ppg) and senior guard Jacob Ramsey (6.6 ppg). Through the first five games of the season, Ramsey is 11-of-28 from three-point range while Merz is 8-of-23. Merz scored a season high 23 points in a 62-57 overtime win over Garden City. “Merz was probably (Holcomb’s) best player on that night. He looked like an All-League guard and was probably the reason they won,” O’Neil says. But he adds that the Beavers also have to respect Ramsey who “is
a very good stand-still three-point shooter.” O’Neil says that Southwestern Heights has a similar mix of perimeter shooting and size in the paint “though they aren’t near as good as Holcomb.” “We did a good job of staying on top of their guards and we also did pretty well inside against their big boys,” says the head coach. While the Longhorns present matchup problems for the Beavers, Scott City offers a similar dilemma for Holcomb. “They’re in the same situation as us. They have to figure how they going to match up with our guards,” says O’Neil. One similarity between the two teams is their desire to run the floor. Both teams like to push the tempo and score in transition.
Individual Stat Leaders Scott City Trey O’Neil Chantz Yager
Scoring Average
2 Pt. FG
3 Pt. FG
FG%
Reb./ Game
24.0
21-36
14-33
61%
7.5
8.8
6-11
7-12
72%
1.5
D. Hutchins
10.6
3-6
11-23
48%
1.5
S. Baker
10.2
11-27
0-2
38%
6.3
Team
63.3
54-107
35-86
47%
28.3
2 Pt. FG
3 Pt. FG
FG%
Reb./ Game
Holcomb
Scoring Average
T. Sleep
20.4
37-53
2-3
71%
7.4
C. Merz
9.4
4-8
8-23
39%
1.0
Gottschalk
12.6
27-40
0-0
68%
6.6
J. Ramsey
6.6
0-2
11-28
37%
1.6
18-26
1-7
58%
7.2
98-159
30-97
56%
27.8
C. VanCleave 10.2 Team
71.6
“They have no qualms about shooting the first open shot,” O’Neil says. “They play at a fast pace and have a lot of confidence in themselves.” This will also be a chance for O’Neil and
Holcomb head coach Chad Novak to learn something more about their team and their rival. “This is one of those early-season games you play and then make adjustments when you play them again,” adds O’Neil.
relying on defense
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McRae leads SCHS boys with 25 points
With an offense that has been inconsistent in their first two games of the season, the Scott City junior varsity boys have had to lean heavily on their defense. It wasn’t quite enough in their season opener, but a Scott City 40 SW Hts. 31 strong second half defensive effort was enough for the Beavers (1-1) to pull away in the fourth quarter for a 40-31 win at Southwestern Heights on Tuesday. The momentum took two big swings in the second half. Southwestern Hts. erased a seven point halftime deficit to take a 27-25 lead entering the final period. Trailing 29-25 early in the fourth quarter, the Beavers rallied with a 13-2 scoring blitz to take a 38-29 lead. “We’re struggling to shoot the ball right now which is why we will play well for awhile and then struggle for a stretch,” says coach Brian Gentry. “We have to rely on getting out in transition and getting some easy looks (at the basket) because we can’t make a three and we’re not hitting our 15-foot jump shots either.” The one exception was junior guard Drake McRae who poured in a game high 25 points. During the second quarter and early in the third period, McRae accounted for 12 of his team’s 14 points while they were building
Hutchins “It felt good to get that first shot down. If I would have missed a couple right away I don’t know that I’d have kept shooting.” It appeared the SCHS offense had no problem adjusting to the addition of Meyer on the floor. “We ran the floor well and we passed the ball well in transition,” noted Meyer. “We were making one more pass and finding guys who were open. It was real unselfish.”
K of C free throw contest is Sunday
The annual Knights of Columbus free throw competition will be held at the Scott Community High School gym on Sun., January 11, starting at 1:00 p.m. The contest is open to boys and girls from ages 9-14 years. Each contestant shoots 15 free throws. Age group winners can advance to district competition. Entry forms can be picked up the day of the event. Doors to the gym will open at 12:30 p.m. Everyone is asked to enter through the east door of the gym.
SC ‘C’ boys in Ulysses tourney
SCHS sophomore Matthew Jenkins leads a fastbreak opportunity after stealing the ball during Tuesday’s action against Southwestern Heights. (Record Photo)
a 23-16 cushion. McRae provided another spark in the fourth period when he scored 13 of Scott City’s final 15 points. A fastbreak layup that McRae converted into a threepoint play gave SCHS a 30-29 lead with 6:38 remaining. Sophomore Matthew Jenkins followed with a basket and McRae added a rebound and putback
that stretched Scott City’s lead to five points, 34-29. The Mustangs’ fourth quarter scoring drought didn’t end until just :46 remaining when they cut the lead to 38-31. McRae finished off his outstanding offensive night with a final basket for a 40-31 win. Jenkins added six points and Justin Faurot scored five. Gentry says the team lack of
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Transition offense, along with a mix of three-point shooting, saw the Beavers close out the first half with a 17-2 scoring run over the last 4-1/2 minutes. Senior center Sloan Baker contributed to the up-tempo scoring attack with a fastbreak pullup 12-footer off the glass in the final seconds of the half. That seemed to give Baker the offensive jump-start he needed which carried into the second half. He had nine of his season high 18 points in the third period when the Beavers
were extending their lead to 7132. O’Neil says Baker was able to take advantage of what the offense was giving him in the second half. “Early in the game when (SWH) was packing it in and denying the cutters that left us open on the outside. After we hit some threes it forced Heights to extend their defense which allowed Sloan to go oneon-one in some open space,” O’Neil says. “He did a good job with his moves, with his up
The Scott Community High School boys will be competing in a “C” team basketball tournament at Ulysses on Jan. 12, 15 and 17. They will open tournament play against Garden City on Monday at 4:30 p.m. The championship and consolation semi-finals will be played on Thursday with the final round of tournament play on Sat., January 17. Also in the top half of the bracket with SCHS are Holcomb and Guymon, Okla. Teams in the bottom half of the bracket are Ulysses, Sublette, Dodge City and Hugoton.
ball movement and not getting the ball to the high post are contributing to their struggles on offense. “We weren’t taking advantage of dribbling and attacking the gaps. We finally did in the fourth quarter when we began pulling away,” Gentry says. “The guards were penetrating A college football bowl sealike they’re supposed to and son filled with upsets took its were hitting the jump shots.” toll on participants in the final Pigskin Payoff of the season. Gary Shapland survived the bowl season carnage with 11 correct picks to win the top prize. and unders.” Rondo Switzer won the tieWhile Baker was doing his breaker to claim second place damage inside, the Beavers money with nine picks. The continued pouring it on from total score in the KSU-UCLA the outside with four treys in game was 75 points and he the third period. Hutchins had picked 72. three rapid-fire treys during a There was a third place tie stretch in which Scott City in- between Larry White and Ryan crease its lead from 57-26 to Roberts, each with 59 points as 68-30. the tie-breaker. The Beavers also frustrated Three of the most commonSWH defensively, limiting the ly missed games were KSU’s Mustangs to just 33% from the loss to UCLA, Alabama’s loss field (18-of-54) and allowing to Ohio State and Michigan only one player to reach double State’s last second win over Baylor. figures.
Shapland is final Pigskin winner
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Bowl games were a bust for the Big 12 The Big 12’s football season ended with a resounding flop as the conference suffered through a dismal 2-5 record. It would be wise if coaches around the league didn’t blow their own horns quite so loudly before the start of next season. by Texas and Mac O k l a h o m a Stevenson have been the prominent teams in the league since the Big 12 was founded; both were kicked unmercifully in their bowl games. OU was crushed by Clemson (40-6) and Texas was shellacked by their old rival Arkansas (31-7). The games were an embarrassment for both teams and the conference. Baylor, Kansas State and West Virginia lost close games and had nothing to be ashamed of, but stacking that on top of the routs of Texas and OU and it was a horrible bowl season for the Big 12. TCU’s 42-3 rout of Mississippi and Oklahoma State’s 30-22 win against Washington saved Big 12 fans from total humiliation. Kansas State played tough in the second half after falling behind UCLA 31-6 in the first half. Coach Bill Snyder’s superb coaching was more apparent in the loss than it’s been in many of his victories. As poorly as the Wildcats played in the first half, they responded with their typical no-quit effort in the second half. Snyder has his program well-established and K-State will have another competitive team next season. However, it will be difficult to replace quarterback Jake Waters and his two favorite receivers, Tyler Lockett and Curry Sexton. The Wildcats return four of their five starters on the offensive line. That isn’t as encouraging as it sounds. Center B.J. Finney graduates and he’s been KState’s best offensive lineman during his career. The offensive line was the biggest problem in the UCLA game with sub-standard pass protection. “We’re thin in our offensive line and guys have to play multiple positions, (See BOWL on page 19)
SCHS boys made progress on their holiday checklist SCHS head coach Glenn O’Neil had a checklist of what he hoped to accomplish over the holiday break and once the Beavers returned to the floor again to start the new year. Dylan Hutchins regains confidence with his perimeter shooting. (He drilled five treys at SWH on Tuesday). Check. Sloan Baker becomes an offensive threat. (He scored a season high 18 points) Check. The Beavers pick up the tempo of their offense. (Led by their transition offense, SCHS scored 88 points). Check. There’s no doubt the Beavers put together a very solid performance against Southwestern Hts. Coach O’Neil liked what he saw. But he was just as quick to emphasize, it’s just one game. “For one night, though, everything looked really, really well,” he says. There’s little doubt that it helps having senior guard Brett Meyer back in the lineup as a complement to senior guard Trey O’Neil. When both players are on the floor together a lot of good things are going to happen. They make everyone around them play better.
Defense but elite, but the game did raise some red flags about the Wildcats. Some will argue that it’s easy to overlook a team that you are expected to beat easily. It happens all the time. But it shouldn’t happen in the second game of the season. What isn’t so easy to dismiss is K-State’s defensive performance in its biggest games of the season, starting with TCU. The Horned Frogs scored the first two touchdowns of the game against a defense that looked completely lost. K-State trailed 24-7 just one minute into the second half on their way to a 41-20 loss. In a game that could have given K-State a share of the Big 12 title and a trip to the Fiesta Bowl, we saw an encore flop by the defense against Baylor. K-State again fell behind 14-0 against the Bears and were down 21-7 just four minutes into the second quarter. Sound familiar? For what it was worth, they outscored Baylor 20-17 over the final 38 minutes, but that’s
Meyer also provides some muchneeded depth along with the improved play of junior guard Drake McRae who scored 25 points in the JV game and saw more varsity playing time against Heights. “We ran the floor better. It helped that we were two players deeper with the return of Brett, along with Drake who played a lot more than he has been,” noted O’Neil. “We were eight deep instead of six or seven deep and having a couple of extra guys helps a lot.” In the first game coming out of the Christmas break, O’Neil says it’s difficult to know how a team will respond. Tuesday’s outing against a pretty good Hi-Plains League team was a good start. O’Neil will get a better measure of where the Beavers are as a team on Tuesday against Holcomb, which is currently ranked No. 1 in Class 4A-Division II.
It promises to be an outstanding game against two rivals who really hate losing to each other. It’s hard to imagine a more anticipated game being played anywhere else in the state on Tuesday night. It will be a contrast in styles - a matter of which team can be most effective in forcing its will upon the other. The Longhorns have a size advantage and will try to dominate the game in the paint. Scott City’s ability to score from the perimeter promises to be an equally big challenge for Holcomb. The one thing that fans can count on is a fast-paced game. “They like to run, run, run,” says O’Neil of the Longhorns. Expect the same from Scott City.
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small consolation in a 38-27 loss. In the Alamo Bowl against UCLA, K-State fell behind 17-0 in the first quarter and with just over seven minutes off the clock in the second period, the Wildcats trailed 24-6. Again, does it sound familiar? The defensive coaching staff isn’t getting the job done. TCU, Baylor and UCLA didn’t start the game with some new, completely unexpected game plan that we’d never before seen on film. They did what they had always done and made the Wildcats look as though they were completely out of their element. The announcing team in the UCLA game often times made reference to the Bruins’ overall team speed and how KSU had no answer defensively. We won’t argue that perhaps UCLA had a more talented team . . . maybe. But you still have to put players in position to make plays and that doesn’t seem to be happening. The fact that K-State was even able to make the game
interesting against UCLA in the final period and put themselves in position to get the win with a defensive stop, or by covering an on-side kick, is a testament to the team’s character, determination and talent. But it still begs the question: Why do we have to keep putting ourselves into 14 and 17 point holes before we begin to play? * * * But let’s not just put the defense under a microscope. The KSU running game should be on milk cartons all across the state after the disappearing act it pulled during the last half of the season. In four of their last five games - all against ranked opponents - KSU had a total of 169 yards rushing, averaging just 1.4 yards per carry. It’s no mystery why they lost three of those four games. The Wildcats rushed 29 times for a total of one yard - yes, one total yard - against West Virginia and were able to escape with a 26-20 win. That, in itself, is pretty amazing.
Against TCU, the Wildcats had a total of just 34 rushing yards - an average of 1.8 yards per carry. They had just 2.6 yards per carry against Baylor. Credit the Wildcats for trying to maintain a balanced offensive attack against the Bruins - 32 rushing plays and 49 passing. But the running game was non-existent, averaging just one yard per carry. It doesn’t do any good to have two of the most talented receivers in the Big 12 in Tyler Lockett and Curry Sexton each with more than 1,000 yards receiving - and an outstanding quarterback in Jake Waters if you can’t protect them with some semblance of a running game. They will all be gone next season, which should worry KSU fans. If the K-State coaching staff doesn’t figure out why the defense punched the time clock late for big games and why the running game couldn’t find its way out of the backfield, we’ll continue to be a team that puts ourselves in the conversation for a Big 12 title, but we won’t be able to close the deal.
Bobcats ing them step over an object laid across a trail. Coyotes are just wary enough that they often shy away from obvious objects placed in their path for them to step over and around, but bobcats can be guided and shown where to step with ease. The article showed how a bobcat can be guided to step directly into traps placed on each side of the object laid across the trail. It seemed to me that the rock across the cow path was an ideal spot to try that trick for the first time. The rock stuck out of the ground 3-4 inches, just enough to cause any critter traveling the cow path to step up and over it. I bedded in a trap on each
Bowl which they do,” said Snyder. “But we had some difficulty with our pass protection.” That’s an understatement. Waters was sacked seven times and hit hard on many other pass plays. Defensively, Coach Snyder returns a good number of talented players who have experience. Defensive tackle Travis Britz will be back and he’s K-State’s best defensive lineman. Britz will be nationally recognized next season and his absence in the bowl game was critical. What has most K-State fans holding their breath is whether or not the 75-year-old Snyder will coach next season. There’s been much speculation, but no concrete clues. Hoops Race a Toss-up The holidays are over and the race for the Big 12 basketball championship is underway. In no particular order,
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side of the rock directly in the center of the cow path, surrounded each trap with natural looking sticks to force the cat to step directly into the trap, dusted the traps over with a little grass and placed a couple long sticks along the edges to be sure any traveling critter stuck to the path. I climbed from the pickup to walk toward the apparently empty traps and a flash of fur caught my eye. Bobcats are robed in a beautiful coat that blends with nearly any color scheme. Coupled with a feline’s crazy ability to flatten itself to the ground, this bobcat had hidden on the other side of the rock. Only when I began
walking toward it did it feel threatened enough to give up its position. Ever since my brother and I started trapping as kids, we’ve had this sometimes idiotic desire to try every new idea that comes along. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t. When I find something that works, I stick with it, but I easily become closed-minded to new ideas in the process. Always remain open to new ideas and every year try a few of the ones that make the most sense to you. Continue to Explore Kansas Outdoors. Steve can be contacted by email at stevegilliland@idkcom.net
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four teams are equipped to challenge for the title: Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Iowa State. Oklahoma State, Baylor, and West Virginia have betterthan-average teams that will be hard to beat at home. Texas Tech, TCU and Kansas State will not be championship contenders. Kansas has won or shared 10 consecutive championships - an astounding feat. The Jayhawks are favored to win it again, but that’s mostly because of their history, not the present circumstances. KU played, by far, their best game of the season in defeating UNLV, 76-61, last Sunday. The Jayhawks aren’t as good as they looked against the Runnin’ Rebels, but they’re certainly better than they played in a 25 point loss to Temple. Sophomore Frank Mason is well on his way to becoming KU’s best point guard during the Bill Self
era. Mason was superb in the UNLV game with 18 points and seven assists. “I don’t know if we’ve ever leaned on anybody as much as we’ve leaned on Frank . . . and the kid does play. His line today was ridiculous for us,” said Self afterwards. Still, the Jayhawks didn’t shoot well in the first half, though they were stellar in all aspects in the second half. The Jayhawks would do well to forget the UNLV game as quickly as they did the Temple fiasco. It’s going to be a formidable task to win league games on the road. Self has had some uninterrupted practice time with his team and it showed against UNLV. KU has always made great improvement during the long practice sessions over semester break and that progress was evident. The Big 12 race is going to be a dandy and it should be great fun for the fans.
Takedown Kids Wrestling Colby Open Jan. 3, 2015 6-Years and Under 43: Kasey Rohrbough pinned by Jensen Barnett (Colby) 1:53; dec. Kaycen Amos (Colby) 9-4; pinned Trytan Fairchild (Atwood) 0:49; dec. by Garrett Beckley (Colby) 12-9. 43: Kirbey Rohrbough dec. Legend Finley (Colby) 5-0; maj. dec. Kaycen Amos (Colby) 14-0; pinned by Gunner Wente (Hoxie) 0:33; maj. dec. Jensen Barnett (Colby) 14-0; pinned Garrett Beckley (Colby) 0:58. Third place 46: Trenton Frank pinned Jatin Weigel (Norton) 0:22; pinned Tayson Guerra (Leoti) 0:34; dec. Trayven Conger (Hays) 6-1. First place 46: Hunter Wells dec. by Kaleigh Fuller (Lakin) 6-0; pinned Jesus Saucedo (Goodland) 2:57; dec. by Chase Bell (Hill City) 7-5. 55: Brodey Rohrbough pinned Jaxon Smith (Hill City) 0:44; pinned by Aaron Samson (WaKeeney) 0:31. Second place 8-Years-Old 43-49: Eli Lisenby dec. Jason Norris (Colby) 7-6; maj. dec. by Devyn Geyer (Leoti) 10-0; maj. dec. by Seth Tumbleson (St. Francis) 12-4; pinned by KcAnna Keiswetter (Colby) 0:59. Fourth place 76: Case Armendariz maj. dec. by Eli Hutton (Colby) 162; pinned by Zane Betz (Colby) 1:30; pinned Ryan Huddle (Oakley) 1:24. Third place 110-HWT: Jackson Rumford pinned by Corbin Puga (Norton) 1:56; dec. Coy Dodd (Oakley) 4-0; overtime Colton Stover (Norton) OT 9-7. Second place 9-10-Years-Old 76: Conner Armendariz tech. fall Lane Stagemeyer (Norton) 15-0; tech. fall Ryan Shaw (Hoxie) 15-0; dec. Darius Shields (Norton) 8-2. First place Roger Richter Memorial Jan. 3, 2015 • Great Bend 6-Years and Under 52: Matthew Wheeler pinned Aja Ysac (Ulysses) 0:22; dec. Gavin Driggs (Phillipsburg) 5-0; dec. Dane Renick (Dodge City). First place 8-Years-Old 58: Alex Rodriguez pinned by Cooper Liles (Great Bend) 0:24; pinned Kasey Keener (Hoisington) 0:19; pinned by Vance Loop (Hutchinson) 2:19. 73-76: Houston Frank pinned Deagen Walters (Lincoln Co.); pinned Loden West (ECKW) 1:39; pinned by Luke Fischer (Jr. Indian) 2:20. Second place 9-10-Years-Old 76: Aiden Schwidt pinned by Cayden Scheuerman (Great Bend) 2:39; maj. dec. by Dawson Hogan (Smoky Valley) 110. 95: Leightyn Heim dec. Chayse Gruber (Great Bend) 7-2; dec. by Koda Dipman (Pratt). Second place 150-170: Damian Ortiz pinned Jacob Roach (Great Bend) 0:19; pinned Jacob Roach (Great Bend) 1:35. First place 11-12-Years-Old 88: Loren Faurot dec. Kael Lane (Jr. Panther) 4-2; pinned Preston Howard (Lincoln Co.) 0:56; pinned by Hunter Davis (Meade Co.) 1:24; pinned Hogan Thompson (Pratt) 0:56. Second place 92: Kale Wheeler dec. Joshua Janas (Southwest Grapplers) 4-2; dec. Bryce Winsor (Pratt) 7-0; dec. by Silas Pineda (Greater Gold). Second place 130: Caleb Vandegrift pinned by Blayze Standley (Hays) 2:36; dec. Sterling Harp (Smoky Valley) 7-4; pinned by Gage Fritz (Great Bend) 0:26. Fourth place 13-14-Years-Old 95: Theron Tucker maj. dec. Denton Jacobson (Smoky Valley) 13-0; pinned Kenneth Sanders (Stafford Co.) 1:26; maj. dec. Samuel Huehl (Lincoln Co.) 8-0; dec. by Chandler Schoenberger (Russell) 7-2. Second place
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hopeful of filling the 132-pound division, which would depend on the Jurgens brothers. Senior James Jurgens is unbeaten this season after splitting time between the 132- and 138-pound classes. He wrestled in the 138-pound division at Abilene just before the holiday break and has announced his intent to stay there. That has pushed his younger brother up a weight class. “I think it would benefit both of them to wrestle down a class,” says Lippelmann. A lot could hinge on how Jurgens does this weekend with two of the state’s top wrestlers competing at Norton. Carter Wessling (Beloit) is ranked No. 2 and Caleb Austin (Tribune) is No. 3. Jurgens will come up against one of those wrestlers, if not both. Possibly joining that tough mix of wrestlers is Macrae Migchelbrink, a senior from Atwood, who is currently ranked No. 2 in the 132-pound division, which puts him head-to-head with Tristan Porsch, an undefeated Hoxie sophomore who is ranked No. 1. “We keep hearing that one, or both, of those boys could be moving up to 138. We may get a better idea of who’s wrestling in what weight class after this weekend,” says Lippelmann. Senior Wyatt Kropp, who is coming off a first place finish at Abilene, will likely run into some stiff competition at Norton. Gavin Lively (jr., Norton) is ranked No. 3 in state and Adam Janzen (sr., Marion) is No. 6.
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“Paige Winderlin was a different player tonight. She wanted every rebound,” says Crawford. He had Winderlin play with the JV prior to the varsity game in order to work on her rebounding and hoping she would get into the flow of the game a little easier. “It seemed to make a difference. This may be something we do the rest of the season because she came into the game ready to play,” Crawford says. Regain Momentum The momentum that Scott City seemingly had to end the first half quickly disappeared behind a 6-0 scoring burst by the Lady Mustangs to open the third period. A basket by sophomore guard Taylor Goodman gave SCHS a 30-29 lead with 5:07 left in the third quarter and the Lady Beavers never trailed again. Four different players contributed to the scoring run, including a three-point basket by sophomore guard Kiana Yager, as Scott City opened up a 40-30 lead entering the fourth quarter. Yager finished the night with 11 points. “We moved the ball better and we hit some shots which was a boost to our confidence,” says Crawford about the third quarter scoring run. “We also did a better job of spreading the floor and were looking to get the ball to the high post. When we do that it creates more space and opens up the backdoor cuts.” Winderlin showed her aggressiveness under the boards early in the fourth quarter when she pulled down a missed free throw and turned the putback into a three-point play that put Scott City on top, 47-35. Scott City’s biggest lead of the night came with 3-1/2 minutes remaining when a free throw by Latta made it a 51-37 game. Latta, who finished with a team high 16 points, was 10-of-14 from the free throw line. “Bailey does a nice job of driving to the basket, but she has to keep her head up. She misses the opportunity to make passes to players who are wide open,” Crawford notes. “I don’t want her to lose her aggressiveness because she can create scoring opportunities for other girls and she gets to the free throw line.”
Give me just one good reason why I shouldn’t go home with you. Can’t do it, can you. Stop by and see me and 35 of my best friends at Silent Angels Rescue Shelter! Dillon
620-521-2305 or 620-260-0418 From Leoti on K96 Hwy-9 miles west , 6 miles north (K96 Hwy-9 miles, north on Road 3-6miles, east on Road J--rst house on the south) www.facebook.com/SilentAngelsNoKillAnimalShelter
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an angel’s best friend
Life not easy for Silent Angels or the animals they have rescued Sherry Arney’s health isn’t what it used to be. Heart problems will have that effect. But those health issues disappear when she steps into the room where she is surrounded by nearly 40 cats that are awaiting adoption at Silent Angels Rescue Shelter. “These are my kids,” she beams, easily identifying each one by name. Arney wishes she didn’t have time to memorize so many names. While some cats quickly find a home, others remain with the no-kill shelter indefinitely. She pointed to one cat she estimated was about 19-years-old. “This will always be his home,” she says. As Arney cradles Miss Kitty in her arms there’s no mistaking that the two share a special bond. And Dillon feels just as comfortable stretching across her shoulder. This is everyday life at a shelter where cats and small dogs are given a second chance to find a loving and welcoming home. Operating the shelter has given Sherry, her son, Richard, and friend, Tyler Fortney, the best and the worst of human nature. They never cease to be shocked at how easily some people discard animals without regard to their well-being. Bam Bam, a three-year-old cat, was found in a trash can near the intersection of K96/ K25 highways in Leoti. “He was almost dead when we found him,” recalls Arney. “He’s a fighter.” A poodle mix was found by a mother and daughter along the roadside. At first, they thought the dog was dead, but when they found signs of life they took it to a veterinarian in Scott City. “It was two days before the dog could walk without stumbling and he could see again,” says Richard. “We were able to bring him back to good health
Phone Email Website
Silent Angels Rescue Shelter (620) 521-2305 Silentangels@wbsnet.org Www.silentangelshome.org
Location: nine miles west of Leoti, turn north on Road 3 (east of Selkirk) and travel six miles to Road J. Turn east and travel 3/4 mile. It’s the first house on the south side of the road. Donations are always welcome. Financial donations can be mailed to 931 W. County Road J, Leoti, Ks. 67861. Donations of blankets, food, paper towels, dog toys, etc., can be dropped off at Western Bearing and Belt, West K96 Highway, Scott City.
again so he could play with the other dogs.” That’s not so unusual at the shelter. “Probably 20 percent of the dogs we get are in pretty sad condition when they arrive here,” Richard says. He’s proud of the fact that in the shelter’s 13-year history there has been just one dog that couldn’t be saved. “There was one time - after nine months of trying to bring him back to health - that we had to euthanize a dog. That’s the only one we couldn’t rehabilitate,” he says. Some people simply abandon animals near the shelter knowing they will be cared for. One recent night, for example, at about 3:00 a.m., they could hear the engine of a vehicle revving up on the country road near their home. “We got up in time to see the tail lights going down the road,” Richard notes. “The next day we found two cats under our chicken coop.” “People know we’re here. They see the sign,” says Sherry, who says the incident isn’t that unusual. Others are simply looking for a home for a pet that was dropped off near their home. “One lady had a dog dumped near her farmhouse and she brought him to us because she knew it would be cared for,” Richard says.
ates a huge financial challenge for the shelter which has never turned away an animal. During 2013, the shelter had over $51,000 in expenses (not counting vehicles) and only about $14,000 in donations. When their only vehicle broke down recently, they had to rely on assistance from others for transportation and to bring supplies. “We’re close to having the money to fix the engine,” Richard says. The veterinary costs to have a dog neutered and vaccinated is about $500. “Unless there are other major medical costs, this is generally what we have tied up in each dog,” says Richard. He says they usually have a dog for 6-8 months before it’s adopted out to a “forever home.” In order to hold down on their costs, the shelter has limited itself to keeping a maximum of 10 dogs. It currently has eight. Richard says people are “more than willing to pay the $100 adoption fee for a good dog.” The shelter also asks for a $100 drop-off fee which “most people are more than willing to pay to be rid of a dog.” Cats, however, are another matter because of food costs and medical needs. From the time a cat arrives until it’s adopted, the cost to the shelter can be $1,000 - sometimes more. Financial Challenges “Most of the time when they That open door policy cre- come in they have medical
(Top photo) Sherry Arney and Miss Kitty enjoy each other’s company. (Above) Jasmine, a five-month-old Tabby is among about 35 cats awaiting adoption. (Record Photos)
conditions,” explains Richard. “They need dental work and mites are often a major issue. “Someone will have several barn cats they want to give us and these cats have been eating mice that have been eating poison. They arrive here with liver problems and other medical issues.” At one time, the shelter had about 140 cats. Today, that’s been scaled back to less than 40. Since opening in 2002, Silent Angels has found “forever homes” for nearly 1,750 dogs and about 750 cats. They also have a working relationship with a no-kill shel-
ter in Pine, Colo., where they can take dogs and cats for adoption. Silent Angels has countless testimonials from people from across the country who have adopted pets. Sherry emphasizes that when a dog or cat leaves the shelter it’s house-broken and “people friendly.” “We’ll hear from people who adopted a pet several years ago and they’ll tell us how happy they are,” Richard says. “That makes everything we do worthwhile. “You feel pretty good when you can change an animal’s life for the better. That’s why we do this.”
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Group advocates for Missouri River aqueduct Tom Parker, guest writer solutions involved chang- of unconventional think- sive, but the reasons Rude within the region. One of these aquifers, but how do es in attitudes and percep- ing. gave in favor of the proj- the world’s largest aqui- we conserve that water, Kansas Farmers Union
“Thinking Outside the Box,” the theme for the annual Kansas Farmers Union convention, focused on alternative, if not visionary (and occasionally contrary) approaches to food production and distribution, livestock management and water conservation. Most of the proposed
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December crop prices climb in Ks. The average wheat price received by Kansas farmers in December averaged $6.09 per bushel, a climb of 41 cents from November, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Corn, at $3.90/bu., was 15 cents higher than in November. The average sorghum price was $7.39/ cwt., an increase of 85 cents from the previous month. Soybeans were unchanged at $9.74/ bu. Alfalfa hay, at $154 per ton, dropped $3 from November. Sunflowers averaged $21.60/cwt., up $1.60 from November.
Predict beef imports to drop in ‘15
Beef imports are predicted to be 2.7 billion pounds in 2015. That would be down from 2.84 billion pounds in 2014, according to the USDA. Demand for imported processing beef expanded in 2014 due to lower domestic supplies. The leading nations importing beef to the U.S. were Australia, Canada, Mexico and New Zealand, with nearly 70 percent of the increase coming from Australia (cattle slaughter was up 11 percent in Australia due to ongoing drought conditions). In Canada, which came in second for import growth, a weaker dollar compared to the U.S. dollar and cheaper prices for Canadian beef have encouraged imports of Canadian Beef, according to USDA.
tions rather than massive financial or engineering undertakings. The latter was left to Mark Rude, executive director of the Southwest Kansas Groundwater Management District No. 3 in Garden City, whose discussion of the proposed Kansas Aqueduct really stretched the boundaries
The aqueduct, a 360-mile-long canal spanning three-quarters of the state from the loess hills surrounding White Cloud in the northeast to a new reservoir in the high, dry plains between Scott City and Great Bend, was the antithesis of what the other speakers proposed. It was big, it was grand, it was enormously expen-
ect were indisputable. “If we lose the Ogallala aquifer, the decimation of farms will be tremendous,” he said. “We’ve got to do something.” Underlying an area spread across eight states, the Ogallala supplies water for drinking and irrigation to 82 percent of the 2.3 million people
fers, its discharge rate has accelerated to the point where some studies predict it could go dry by 2028. Should that happen, Rude said, the results would be catastrophic. “As we consume this water,” Rude said, “we lose land value, we lose the economy, we lose the community. We’re mining
or augment that supply? That’s why we’re taking this dramatic step and looking at the options.” The Kansas Aqueduct Coalition, the group advocating the canal, bases its findings on the Six-State High Plains Ogallala Aquifer Regional Resources Study, completed in 1982. (See AQUEDUCT on page 23)
Use caution with cover crops Research is giving us more reliable data Over the past several years we’ve heard a lot about cover crops. And, indeed, some of the claims made about them are just short of fantastic. But thanks to recent research in the High Plains of Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska, we can now start filling in the blanks with good hard information. Towards that end, University of Nebraska researchers at Sidney and USDA research-
Wheat and more . . . or less by Vance Ehmke
ers at Akron, Colo., both say farmers in the semi-arid High Plains should approach the use of cover crops with caution. One of my favorite claims is that cover crops grown in multi-species plantings of at least eight species - often called cocktail mixes - will produce significant amounts of biomass while using almost no water. Really? Crops growing without water? Kind of reminds me of
farmer Kevin Costner who kept hearing voices from his corn field telling him, “If you build it they will come.” Guys, that was a movie. Cover crops are grown between regular grain crop production periods in order to protect and improve the soil. Sometimes called green manure crops or green fallowing, cover crops can consist of grasses, legumes, oilseeds and other broadleaf plants that are planted either in fall or spring. Some of the benefits claimed for cover crops include increased organic matter, improved soil structure and infiltration, reduced evaporation, protection from wind and
water erosion, increased snow catch, production of nitrogen, increased soil biological activity, increased nutrient availability, reduced nutrient loss, alleviating compaction, suppression of weeds, insects and diseases and improved water availability for subsequent crops. In these studies, cover crops were spring planted no-till into proso millet residue. Over the course of the studies, researchers learned a lot. One is that the cocktail mixes do not use less water to grow biomass than single species plantings. Neither do they produce any more biomass. (See CAUTION on page 23)
Winter hardiness shouldn’t be an issue Wheat in Kansas normally has its maximum level of winter hardiness from mid-December to mid-January, unless there are high temperatures during that period. Producers need to keep in mind that, even during the depths of winter, wheat is still respiring and roots may be growing, as long as the ground is not
Thompson is graduate of KLA Academy
Chase Thompson, Scott City, was among 20 KLA members from across the state to graduate from the Kansas Livestock Association’s Young Stockmen’s Academy (YSA). Academy participants took part in a series of four seminars throughout the past year. This brings the total number of YSA graduates to 179. Attending the KLA convention was the final session. The three-day event provided participants the opportunity to gain additional industry seminars and interact with other KLA members. YSA members got a firsthand look at the inner workings of the association by attending the KLA Chairmen’s Circle meeting. The group also took part in the policy-making process by attending committee and council meetings. Immediately prior to the convention, the YSA class received their Masters of Beef Advocacy degrees, following an in-depth training session with National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) Senior Executive Director of Communications Daren Williams.
Down on the Farm Chris Long Walnut Creek Extension Agent
frozen. It is not unusual to find a much more developed crown root system in early February than existed in early December. Additionally, it is not
unusual to see some green leaves intermingled with straw-colored or pale leaves in the winter. The fact that some of the leaves have some green color does not mean the wheat is not cold tolerant. Once winter wheat has reached the level of full cold hardiness, it will remain cold hardy as long as crown temperatures
remain below about 32 degrees. Of course, this is assuming the plants had a good supply of energy going into the winter. If soil temperatures at the crown depth rise to 50 degrees or more for a prolonged period, there will be a gradual loss of cold hardiness, even in the middle of winter. This is where the worries come
from, considering we did have some days and night time temperatures that did not dip below 50 degrees for a couple of days. However, I do not think it was quite long enough to cause too much trouble. Getting back to the previous thought, the warmer the crown temperature during the winter, the (See WINTER on page 23)
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Aqueduct A schematic from the study envisions a lock and dam intake structure on the Missouri River near White Cloud pumping water to a nearby 13,000acre source reservoir with a maximum storage capacity of 228 billion gallons. Water would then flow 360 miles in a zigzag route through a concretelined canal 280 feet wide and 23 feet deep. Fifteen pump stations would be necessary to lift the water about 1,600 feet
Caution Another finding of interest is that when they analyzed soil samples for 16 microbiological populations, they found the numbers of total fatty acids and mychorrhyzal fungi were greater where there was a growing crop with living roots compared to their fallow plots. But what is the value of this? And possibly a lot more important, what is the cost? Lead researcher David Nielsen says all cover crops use water which reduces available water and water use for subsequent wheat crops. And guess what? That reduces yield compared to wheat grown following fallow. How much? Right at six bushels per acre for every inch of water used by the cover crop that wasn’t replenished prior to wheat planting. “Even when a cover crop was terminated early, yield loss was significant - averaging seven bushels per acre on dryland and nine bushels per acre on
Winter more quickly the plants will start losing their maximum level of cold hardiness. Winter wheat can reharden during the winter if it loses its full level of winter hardiness, but will not regain its maximum level of winter-hardiness. So the question still might be, did we get warm enough to slow or break the winter-hardiness cycle. Hopefully not. Even at its maximum level of winter-hardiness, winter wheat can still be injured or even killed by cold temperatures if tem-
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to a 25,000-acre terminal reservoir near Utica with a maximum capacity of 517 billion gallons. Powering those pump stations would more than double the state’s consumption of electricity, he said, making the aqueduct the largest electrical system in Kansas. “This is no small thing to think about,” emphasizes Rude. “As we talk about this, there are so many issues just to add to the list much less deal with. We’re trying to
irrigated,” according to the research. But this yield loss is only the beginning of the bad news. Researchers point out that costs of the cover crops ranged from $6 to $40/acre. Cover crop mixtures averaged about $35/acre, comparable to most single-species legume cover crops. Then you’ve got additional costs of planting, seed transportation and cover crop termination all on top of the yield loss. Plus, cover crops use soil nitrogen and other nutrients not measured. Soil nitrate to a four-foot depth was 30-50 pounds less under cover crops than it was in fallow at wheat planting. Like in K-State studies, the Nebraska and Colorado researchers observed that some of these costs could be offset if the cover crop were grazed or a portion of it harvested and sold. However, grazing would likely reduce some of the cover crop benefits. After recently reading
peratures at the crown level reach single digits, which we know our air temperatures have reached as of late. There are varietal differences in winter-hardiness. As soil temperatures at the crown level rise to 50 degrees or more, usually in late winter or spring, winter wheat will gradually lose its winter-hardiness entirely. Photoperiod also plays a role in this process. When the leaves switch from being prostrate to upright, the plants will have completely dehardened.
Wheat..................
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$ 6.08
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“We’re dropping a million acre feet per year,”he said. “Those will help, but when you’re that far out of whack, it takes more.” During the past few years, all 105 counties in the state were stricken with drought, yet the Missouri River consistently flooded, Rude said. Tapping into that flow would have minimal impact on downriver consumers, yet it might be the solution for augmenting the aquifer. The logistics
are daunting, the hurdles piling up like logjams, and the options declining about as fast as the Ogallala. “We can think about innovation, but at some point innovation and practicality have to come together,” Rude said. Whether the aqueduct is as practical as it is innovative remains to be seen, but Rude and other members of the Kansas Aqueduct Coalition know this: doing nothing is not an option.
another of the legions of articles on the benefits of cover crops, the farmer quoted said that we can’t wait on the research. We’ve got to act now. As it is dangerous importing data from other areas to Western Kansas, for instance, it’s equally dangerous to export our data - especially to higher rainfall and more humid areas. Still, having irrigated trials in the High Plains studies would make me a little nervous about a blanket acceptance of cover crops in other regions. In addition, we have to admit that our economic environment is much different today with sharply lower commodity prices where we no longer have the luxurious profit margins to pay for these yield reductions and higher costs. As they say, before it can be sustainable, it first has to be profitable. Can we wait on the research? I think we’d better. Vance Ehmke farms and lives in Lane County
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Closing prices on January 6, 2015 Scoular, of Pence Bartlett Grain
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compact, and the sooner the better. “It’s critical that something happens along those lines really soon,” he said. “That may not be an option tomorrow.” The estimated cost of the aqueduct would be $25 billion. Conservation practices, tillage improvement, agricultural efficiency and other measures are making an impact on water usage in the southwestern part of the state, but Rude they’re not enough.
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identify these challenges and also focus on Kansas communities and farms.” Removing that much water from the Missouri River is within the water laws of the state, Rude said. “If it’s in the middle of the river,” he said, “it’s Kansas water. That water is wide open for appropriation.” Nevertheless, he added, the state will have to open discussions with neighboring and downriver states to cement a
Weather December 30 December 31 January 1 January 2 January 3 January 4 January 5 Snowfall: December 30 January 3
H 9 16 30 33 36 20 32
L -1 -5 7 7 10 1 3
P .13
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Moisture Totals December .67 2014 Total 20.25
Some of you still might be asking, so what has the ups and downs of our temperatures this winter done to our wheat crop? The official answer that I would give is, we will have to wait and see. Have the temperature variations been enough to make us worry? A little, but not enough to lose sleep over. After all, we all know that things can change in a heartbeat this spring if we see another one without the moisture the crop will need.
Farm Equipment
Wednesday, January 14 • 11:00 a.m. Sunday, February Location: From Lakin on Hwy 25, north 7.5 miles 2 • 11:00 a.m.
Mike Puckett - Owner
Tractors 2004 JD 9320 tractor, 4-wheel drive, 3,272 hrs., (no 3-pt or pto), 24 spd. trans., auto steer, 710/70R-R42 dual tires, #22328 1984 JD 4850 tractor, row crop, duals, with JD 12 ft. dozer blade, Outback guidance system, #65819 Harvesting Equipment 1994 JD 9600 combine, 3,181 separator hours, with 2006 930 platform 1998 CIH 2388 combine, 3,022 separator hours, with 2004 CIH 1010 platform, 30 ft. JD 853A row head 2000 J&M 750 grain cart 2-J&M header trailers, 30 ft. Shop built header trailer, 30 ft.
Trucks 2004 Freightliner Columbia semitruck,day cab, 10 spd. trans., Mercedes Benz Model OM460 motor 1979 Peterbuilt 359 tandem axle truck, 13 spd. trans., Cat 425 series A motor, 22 ft. bed and hoist, roll over tarp 1990 Doonan pup trailer, 22 ft., 2012 Neville front dolly Farm Equipment 2009 Case IH True Tandem 330 vertical tillage, 30 ft. 1991 Sunflower 9 x 6 sweep plow, XL, with new style pickers 1995 Sunflower 5 x 6 sweep plow, with Richardson pickers 4-1996 JD 9400 hoe drills, 10 x 12 with transports, shedded JD 7200 conservation planter, pull type, 8-row, with liquid fertilizer Rhino 652 bat wing mower, 15 ft. Caulkins 32 ft. chisel Bush Hog 3-pt. mower 5 ft.
Other Farm Items 2008 Westfield 10” x 71’ auger with unloading swing away auger WG Mfg. fuel trailer, 475 gal., 12 volt pump. (like new) Doonan truck dolly for pup trailer Used tires Westfield hydraulic drill fill auger Other items Pickups, Van and Trailers 1997 Ford ext. cab pickup, automatic, 1995 Chevy conversion van, Roadtrek 210, automatic, 28,627 miles Cargo Mate 26 ft. enclosed trailer with ramp door 1965 Ford F100 pickup 1986 Excel 5th wheel camper trailer, 29 ft., ac, self contained (shedded) ATV’s and Mower 2012 Polaris 850 cc Sportsman 4-wheeler, AWD with extras, like new
2009 Arctic Cat 1000 cc 4-wheeler, Thundercat, 3,465 miles, front blade, winch, tool box Suzuki LTZ Quad 250 cc Sport 4-wheeler Bombardier Quest Max 4-wheeler, 650 cc, non running 25-gal. sprayer with boom for 4-wheeler Grasshopper bait spreader for 4-wheeler JD F510 front deck mower, 38” deck, 420 hrs, rear bag Shop Items Business band radios some new Come-a-longs Aluminum 4-wheeler ramps Tow hitch Sanborn air compressor with electric motor Handy man jacks Milo fingers Trash whippers Used lumber CPL aluminum tool box 10 hp air compressor, 3-cylinder Other items
Auctioneer’s Note: Most major items shedded when not in use, nice line of equipment. Terms: Lunch Served. Must have ID to register, no exceptions! Cash or approved check day of sale. Everything sold as is. No warranties expressed or implied. Not responsible for theft or accident. Announcements day of sale take precedence over printed material. Check us out: www.berningauction.com and facebook
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Agriculture
Clifton Smith Construction
Preconditioning and Growing
• 45 Years Experience • Managed and owned by full-time DVM • 2,000 Head capacity Office - 872-5150 • Scott City
Call:
620-214-2674
Stuart Doornbos Home - 872-2775 Cell - 874-0951
Painting • Remodeling • Handicap Bath Remodels
Licensed and Bonded
Construction/Home Repair
Sager’s Pump Service CHAMBLESS • Irrigation • Domestic • Windmills • Submersibles
Cell: 874-4486 • Office 872-2101
ELLIS AG SERVICES • Custom Manure Conditioning • Hauling and Spreading • Custom Swathing and Baling • Rounds-Net or Twine • Gyp and Sand Sales • Custom Harvesting Call Brittan Ellis • 620-874-5160
20 years experience See us for any type of work!
ROOFING Residential
All Types of Roofing
Commercial
Cedar Shake and Shingle Specialists Return to Craftsmanship Attention to Detail and Quality Guaranteed
SPENCER PEST CONTROL RESIDENTIAL – COMMERCIAL Termite Baiting Systems • Rodents Weed Control • Structural Insects Termite Control Box 258, Scott City • (620) 872-2870
620-872-2679 • 1-800-401-2683
Dirks Earthmoving Co. Precision Land Forming of terraces and waterways; feed lot pens and ponds; building site preparation; lazer equipped
Richard Dirks • Scott City, Ks. (Home) 872-3057 • 877-872-3057 (Cell) 872-1793
Automotive Willie’s Auto A/C Repair Willie Augerot Complete A/C Service Mechanic Work and Diagnostics Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Walker Plumbing, Inc.
404 Kingsley • Scott City • 874-1379
Backhoe & Trenching services • Irrigation & gas leak repairs • Full-line irrigation parts T-L center pivot dealer Floor heat systems Pump & install septic systems Boring equipment
423 S. Mesquite Rd. • Scott City • 872-2130
Medical
Charles Purma II D.D.S. P.A. General Dentistry, Cosmetics, and Insurance Accepted
We welcome new patients. 324 N. Main • Scott City • 872-2389 Residence 872-5933
Contact:
Landscaping • Lawn/Trees
Berning Tree Service David Berning • Marienthal
620-379-4430
Tree Trimming and Removal Hedge and Evergreen Trimming Stump Removal
Fully Insured
SCOT AYTES • 874-1646 t Paint i
Red
Specializing in all coatings
or any other color Paint inside and out residential, commercial, and industrial. Free estimates and 16 plus years of experience.
We service and repair all that we sell.
Paul Cramer 620-290-2410 620-872-8910 www.pcpaintinginc.com
1602 S. Main • Scott City • 872-2232 Toll Free : 1-866-672-2232
Over 20 Years Experience
Professional Extermination Commercial & Residential
• Termites • Rodents • Soil Sterilization • Pre Treats • Lawn Care • Fly Parasites
John Kropp, Owner • Scott City 874-2023 (cell) • 872-3400 (office) • prox2@live.com
RT Plumbing Rex Turley, Master Plumber
Residental and Commercial Plumbing Water Systems, water lines, sewer cleaning faucets and fixtures, garbage diposals and more
Marienthal, Ks.
Owner, Chris Lebbin • 620-214-4469
For your home medical supply and equipment needs!
PC Painting, Inc.
Pro Ex II
Call today for a Greener Healthier Lawn
Horizon Health
620-909-5014 (H) • 620-874-4128 (C)
Pro Health Chiropractic Wellness Center (Scott City Chiropractic) “TLC”... Technology Lead Chiropractic
Dr. James Yager 110 W. 4th St. • Scott City • 872-2310 Toll Free: 800-203-9606
Dr. Jeffrey A. Heyd Optometrist 20/20 Optometry
Treatment of Ocular Disease • Glaucoma Detection Children’s Vision • Glasses • Contact Lenses
Complete family eye center! 106 W. 4th • Scott City • 872-2020 • Emergencies: 872-2736
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Berning Auction “Don’t Trust Your Auction to Just Anyone”
For all your auction needs call:
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Scott City Clinic
Russell Berning Box Q • Leoti
872-2187
Christian Cupp, MD
Melissa Batterton, APRN
Elizabeth Hineman, MD
Megan Dirks, APRN
Matthew Lightner, MD
Joie Tedder, APRN
Floyd Hockersmith, MD
Ryan Michels, PA-C
William Slater, MD FACS
Caley Roberts, PA-C
Scott City Myofascial Release
Kansas Classifieds Ad Network
The classified ads below are appearing in 147 Kansas newspapers with a total circulation of 500,000 the classified display ads appear in 142 Kansas newspapers with a total circulation of 457,000. KCAN line ad is $300 for up to 25 words and $12 each additional word. A 2x2 display ad is $800 per insertion and a 2x4 display ad is $1,650 per insertion. To find out more, contact The Scott County Record at 872-2090.
Help Wanted
Truck Driving
IRWIN ARMY Community Hospital, Kansas, seeks physicians, nurses, laboratory/ultrasound techs, PA/NPs, more to care for America’s heroes. Email: pamela.a.nelson28. civ@mail.mil. Visit www. CivilianMedicalJobs.com. ––––––––––––––––––––– C O N T R A C T SALESPERSONS to sell aerial photography of farms. Commission basis, $4,225 first month guarantee. $1,500-3,000 weekly proven earnings. Travel required. More info msphotosd.com or call (877) 882-3566.
BUTLER TRANSPORT. Your partner in excellence. Drivers needed. Great hometime. $650 sign-on bonus. All miles paid. 1-800-528-7825. www.butlertransport.com. ––––––––––––––––––––– HOGAN IS HIRING CDL-A truck dedicated drivers. Up to $75,000 annually. $4,000 signon bonus. Home weekly guaranteed. Roundtrip miles. Great benefits. Call 866-284-3594. ––––––––––––––––––––– NO EXPERIENCE? Some or lots of experience? Let’s talk. No matter what stage in your career, its time. Call Central Refrigerated Home (888) 670-0392. www. CentralTruckDrivingJobs. com. ––––––––––––––––––––– GREAT PLAINS Trucking of Salina is looking for experienced OTR tractor-trailer flatbed drivers or recent driving school graduates. Our drivers travel 48 U.S. states as well as the lower Canadian provinces. We offer excellent compensation, benefits, home time and equipment. Please contact Brett or Randy at 785-823-2261 or brettw@ gptrucking.com, randyl@ gptrucking.com.
Sandy Cauthon
Sporting Goods
105 1/2 W. 11th St., Scott City 620-874-1813 scottcitymfr@gmail.com FB: Scott City Myofascial Release
GUN SHOW. Jan. 10-11. Sat. 9:00-5:00; Sunday 9:00-3:00. Cessna Activity Center (2744 George Washington Blvd.), Wichita. Buy-Sell-Trade. For info call (563) 9278176.
RN
Call me to schedule your Myofascial Release
For Sale VIAGRA AND CIALIS users. A cheaper alternative to high drug store prices. 50 pill special, $99. Free shipping. 100% guaranteed. Call now, 1-800906-4338. ––––––––––––––––––––– ALL NEW. Happy Jack DuraSpot. Kills and repels fleas, ticks and larvae. Repels mites, lice and mosquitoes. Contains Nylar IGR. Orschlen Farm & Home. www.happyjackinc.com.
Retail
Gene’s Appliance Over 200 appliances in stock! COMPARE OUR PRICES!
We have Reverse Osmosis units in stock. Remember us for parts in stock for all brands of all appliances. Sales and Service Days • Mon. - Sat. Deliveries • Mon.-Sat.
Largest Frigidaire appliance dealer in Western Ks. 508 Madison • Scott City • 872-3686
Legal Aid
Networktronic, Inc.
SOCIAL SECURITY disability benefits. Unable to work? Denied benefits? We can help! Win or pay nothing. Contact Bill Gordon and Associates at 1-800-737-4275 to start your application today.
Computer Sales, Service and Repair Custom computers! Networking solutions! Mon. - Fri. 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. 402 S. Main, Scott City • 872-1300
Brent Rogers
Sales Consultant b.rogers@officesolutionsinc.biz
Office (620) 276-3131 Toll Free 1-800-794-9052 Cell (620) 874-0014 Fax (620) 276-8876 1007 N. 8th, Garden City, KS 67846 www.officesolutionsinc.biz
Education NEED CLASS A CDL training? Start a career in trucking today. Swift Academies offer PTDI certified courses and offer best-in-class training. New Academy classes weekly. No money down or credit check. Certified mentors ready and available. Paid (while training with mentor). Regional and dedicated opportunities. Great career path. Excellent benefits package. Please call: (602) 714-9455.
Northend Disposal A garbologist company. Scott City • 872-1223 • 1-800-303-3371
PC Cleaning Services, Inc. Tuesday-Saturday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
www.reganjewelers.com
412 N. Main • Garden City • 620-275-5142
We'll clean your home, business or do remodeling clean-up Available seven days a week! Paul Cramer, Owner
620-290-2410
All Under One Roof
Revcom Electronics
Dining
Your RadioShack Dealer Two-way Radio Sales & Service Locally owned and operated since 1990
1104 Main • Scott City • 872-2625
C-Mor-Butz BBQ
Barbecue, the only sport where a fat bald man is a GOD...
& Catering
Kyle Lausch 620-872-4209
Bryan Mulligan & Chris Price 620-874-8301 & 620-874-1285
Support your hometown merchants who back your school and community activities throughout the year!
www.cmorbutzbbq.com • cmorbutzbbq@gmail.com
Classifieds
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Buy, sell, trade, one call does it all 872-2090 ot fax 872-0009
Classified Ad Deadline: Monday at 5:00 p.m. Classified Ad Rate: 20¢ per word. Minimum charge, $5. Blind ad: $2.50 per week extra. Card of thanks: 10¢ per word. Minimum charge, $3. Classified Display Ad rate: $5.50 per column inch. Classified advertising must be paid in advance unless business account is established. If not paid in advance, there will be a $1 billing charge. Tear sheet for classified ad will be $1 extra.
Card of Thanks We would like to thank every one who gave Ron such wonderful support while he battled cancer. The Lane County Ambulance crew, Scott County Hospital, Garden City Hospital, especially Parklane Nursing Home and Hospice Unit for the excellent care that he received. A special thank you to Jack and Marletta Wilkens, Gail and Millie Sharp, the entire Sharp Seed Company family, and the Healy United Methodist Church women. The family of Ronald Davis
ALCOHOLICS
WHY RENT???
ANONYMOUS If you want to drink, that’s your business. If you want to stop, that’s ours. Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Tuesday nights at 8:30 p.m. at the United Methodist Church basement (use west door). 412 College, Scott City. Al-Anon at same time and location. Contact: 874-0472 or 872-3137. 30t52
Agriculture
Services
Help Wanted
Rentals
WANTED TO BUY. Stored corn. Call for basis and contract information. 1-800-579-3645. Lane County Feeders, Inc. 32tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– WANTED TO BUY. Wheat straw delivered. Call for contracting information. Lane County Feeders. 397-5341. 44tfc
WANTED: Yards to mow and clean up, etc. Trim smaller trees and bushes too. Call Dean Riedl, (620) 872-5112 or 8744135. 34tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– FURNITURE REPAIR and refinishing. Lawn mower tune-up and blade sharpening. Call Vern Soodsma, 872-2277 or 874-1412. 36tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– MOWER REPAIR, tuneup and blade sharpening. Call Rob Vsetecka at 620214-1730. 36tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– METAL ROOFING, SIDING and TRIMS at direct-to-the-public prices. Call Metal King Mfg., 620-872-5464. Our prices will not be beat! 37tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– “JEN’S GROOMING” also offering boarding. By Jennifer Milner, hours: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. call 620-214-0097. Located in Shallow Water. 09tfc
USD 466 NEEDS substitute route bus drivers. For applications and additional information contact Lance Carter at 620-872-7655.
HIDE AND SEEK STORAGE SYSTEMS. Various sizes available. Virgil and LeAnn Kuntz, (620)874-2120. 41tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– MULTIPLE HOUSES FOR RENT. 1 bedroom homes available. Also 8x10 storage units available. Stop by PlainJans to fill out an application or call 872-5777. 01tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– C OM M E R C I A L /R ETAIL SPACE available Sept. 1. 306 W. 5th Scott City. Contact Jeff 8741659. 50tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– STORAGE UNITS in various sizes available at The Storehouse, Don and Trudy Eikenberry 620872-2914. 07tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– 1 AND 2 BEDROOM apartments for rent. Please call 620-874-8353. 10tfc
Notice REWARD FOR STOLEN GREEN BLISS (LASER) LIGHTS (4 sets). Stolen around Dec. 30 from Elizabeth St. Call 620-872-2292 and leave message or call police if you or someone you know stole these lights. $50 reward. 22tfc
Owning a home is easier
than you might think! And interest rates are still very low! Call to see this
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––––––––––––––––––––– FA R M W O R K E R , 2/15/15-12/15/15, D&L Farms, Scott City, 3 temp., jobs. Drive trucks/ tractors for planting, tilling, spraying, fertilizing. Maintain flood/sprinkler irrigation. Harvest crops using tractor drawn machinery. Operate, repair farm equipment. Clean MVR, 3 month experience, employment reference, required. $13.59/ hr., ¾ work guarantee, tools/equipment/housing provided, trans and subsistence expense reimbursed. Apply at Kansas Works, 620-227-2149. 21t2c Job #9408884.
Pine Village Apartments 300 E. Nonnamaker
delightful 3-bedroom
home with family room
and office in basement
plus 1 3/4 baths! Large
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.
deck and SA garage. Call for price!
Lawrence and Associates
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
New on the Market-Built 2014 Corner lot, 3-bedroom, 2-bath, full unfinished basement, large family room, 2 car garage. Call for your private showing today!
NEW LISTINGS
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Beautiful immaculate 2,000 sq. ft./full basement home in a friendly rural community. Near Scott City, Oakley and Garden City. On 1 acre and mature landscape with sprinkler and drip line watering system. Will make a great place to work a sells territory from or a wonderful, beautiful, quiet home to retire in. $232,000.
Brick home 1,430 sq. ft., 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 car garage and sprinkler in yard. 2,000 sq. ft., with 3-bedrooms, 3-baths, 4-car garage. Very nice southwest location. A 3-bedroom, newer heat and air, fenced yard. $55,000 Buy lots in the Eastridge addition for your new home location.
Thomas Real Estate www.thomasreal-estate.com
914 W. 12th Scott City, Ks. 67871 (620)-872-7396 Cell: (620)-874-1753 or Cell: (620)-874-5002
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Employment Opportunities CUSTODIAN Unified School District No. 466 is looking for a qualified applicant for a full-time night shift custodian position for all USD 466 Schools. For applications and additional information please contact: Lance Carter Board of Education Building 704 College, Scott City, Ks. 67871 (620)-640-7276 USD #466 is an EOE Employer.
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SEEKING BIDS
For High Plains Educational Cooperative Scott City Elementary School is seeking a special education Para-Professional to work with students. The position is available as soon as possible. For more information and application please contact. Susan Carter Board of Education Building 704 College, Scott City, Ks. 67871 (620) 872-7600 22t2c
POOL MANAGER AND ASSISTANT MANAGER
SPECIAL EDUCATION PARA-PROFESSIONAL
The City of Scott City is accepting applications for Pool Manager and Assistant Manager for the 2015 season. Applications may be picked up at: City Hall, 221 W. 5th St., Scott City. Applications will be accepted until 5:00 p.m., Monday, January 19, 2015.
For High Plains Educational Cooperative Scott City Middle School is seeking a special education Para-Professional to work with students. The position is available for the beginning of the 2014-15 school year. Start date is August 21, 2014. For more information and application please contact. Susan Carter Board of Education Building 704 College, Scott City, Ks. 67871 (620) 872-7600
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SEEKING BIDS The City of Scott City is accepting bids for street signs and break-away-poles. Specifications may be picked up at City Hall. Sealed bids marked “Street Signs and Poles Bid” will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. February 16, 2015. The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids.
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DISPATCH SUPERVISOR The Lane County Sheriffs Office, Dighton, is taking applications for a full-time 911 dispatcher/call-taker. Must be 18, possess HS Diploma or equivalent, have NO felony or serious misdemeanor convictions, pass drug screening and criminal background check and be able to work well with the public. Basic computer operating experience and operation of other office equipment required. Full-time Lane County employees receive health insurance, vacation after first year of employment and sick leave. The Sheriff’s Office offers competitive wages and is an EOE. Please call or stop by: Lane County Sheriff’s Office for an application. 620-397-2828.
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HOUSEKEEPING AIDE Scott County Hospital is seeking a full-time Housekeeping Aide. This position requires a person who is dependable, in good health, energetic and who has high standards of cleanliness. Applicants for this position are required to be able to read, speak and understand English. Pre-employment physical, drug/alcohol screening, immunization titer, physical assessment and TB skin test required. We offer competitive pay and great benefits. SCH is a tobacco free facility. Applications available through Human Resources at Scott County Hospital, 201 Albert Avenue, Scott City, KS 67871 or by visiting our website at www.scotthospital.net. 21t2c
The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids.
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PARK LANE NURSING HOME Has openings for the following positions: Full-time CNA Part-time CNA (evening) PRN CNA Part-time Restorative Nursing Aide Full-time Housekeeping Aide Shift differential pay offered for evening and night shifts! Please apply in person at:
Park Lane Nursing Home
The City of Scott City is accepting bids for a mower in the Parks Department. Specifications may be picked up at City Hall. Sealed bids marked “Parks Department Mower Bid” will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. Monday, February 2, 2015. The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids.
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SPECIAL EDUCATION PARA-PROFESSIONAL For High Plains Educational Cooperative Scott Community High School is seeking a special education Para-Professional to work with students. The position is available for the beginning of the 2014-15 school year. Start date is as soon as possible. For more information and application please contact. Susan Carter Board of Education Building 704 College, Scott City, Ks. 67871 (620) 872-7600 20tfc
SCOTT COUNTY HOSPITAL HAS OPENINGS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS
210 E. Parklane Scott City, KS 67871 Or visit us at our website: www.parklanenursinghome.org “Quality Care Because We Care”
The City of Scott City is accepting bids for a new pickup for the Street Department. Specifications may be picked up at City Hall. Sealed bids marked “Street Department Pickup Bid” will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. January 19, 2015.
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Executive Director: Enjoy life in a quiet, safe, progressive community of 5,000 in Western Kansas. The newly created Scott County Hospital Foundation is seeking a full-time director. Responsibilities to include: fund development, public relations, programming, grant writing and overall management. Applicants need to have: demonstrated abilities in leadership, fundraising, grantsmanship, budgeting, marketing, community outreach, and management. Candidates must have excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, be a self starter, and possess good computer skills. Experience with foundations and college degree preferred. Salary $45,000-$49,000. Benefits include: medical and dental insurance, 401K, paid time off, extended illness leave, disability and life insurance. To apply, send letter of interest and resume to: Karma Huck, Scott County Hospital Foundation, 201 Albert Avenue, Scott City, Ks. 67871 Deadline to apply, January 9, 2015
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PATIENT CARE Acute Care RNs Physical Therapist Respiratory Therapist Operating Room RN C.N.A.s CLERICAL Admissions Clerk Ward Clerk SERVICE PRN Dietary Aide/Cook Housekeeping Aide Applicants for these positions are required to be able to read, speak and understand English. Pre-employment physical, drug/alcohol screening, immunization titer, physical assessment and TB skin test required. We are a tobacco free campus. We offer competitive pay and great benefits. Due to our recent expansion of services and rapid growth, we are in need of Acute Care RNs and are offering financial incentives. Applications are available through Human Resources at Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Ave. Scott City, Ks. 67871 620-872-7772 or online at www.scotthospital.net
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The Scott County Record • Page 28 • Thursday, January 8, 2015
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