The Scott County Record

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30 Pages • Four Sections

Volume 21 • Number 21

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Published in Scott City, Ks.

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Court ruling will set legislative agenda

The biggest issue facing the Kansas Legislature during the upcoming session may or may not come about.

Yet it remains what State Rep. Don Hineman refers to as the “600 pound gorilla in the room.”

The issue itself isn’t new. It’s school finance . . . with a twist.

The Supreme Court may hand down a ruling - perhaps within the next week, maybe not for another 3-1/2 months or maybe later - that will support a lower court’s ruling that the legislature is falling short of its obligation to fund public education to the tune of several hundred million dollars.

Or it could support the lower court decision, but determine that the amount of money the state needs to pump into public education is far lower.

“I expect the Supreme Court will issue a ruling similar to the district court,” says Hineman.

If that happens, Kansas could face a debate over public educa-

tion unlike anything in its school history. The debate over school consolidation in the 1960s will pale by comparison.

If the court ruling does occur, Hineman says it will trigger three significant questions for the legislature: 1) What authority does the court have to order the legisla-

ture to provide additional funding? The state constitution says appropriations are the responsibility of the legislature.

“This could create a constitutional crisis,” says Hineman, who represents the 10-county 118th District which includes Scott, Lane and Wichita coun(See AGENDA on page two)

FAA funding may help with hangar project

Chris Smith, a respiratory technician, demonstrates how electrodes are attached to an individual as they make preparations to spend a night at the new sleep center at the Scott County Hospital. (Record Photo)

Latest addition to SC Hospital is reaching out to sleep-deprived There’s nothing like a good night’s sleep.

The Scott County Hospital wants more people to enjoy that experience with the opening of a sleep center on its west campus (Horizon building).

It is the only sleep center that pro-

vides pediatric care for children under the age of eight between Kansas City and Denver and is just one of two sleep centers located in the region.

“We’ve had some pretty phenomenal growth in recent years and we know that can’t continue unless we’re

willing to expand and offer more services to people in the area,” says hospital CEO Mark Burnett. “We want to meet the health needs of not only the people of Scott County, but well beyond our area. This is one more way (See SLEEP on page 16)

Faced with a need for additional aircraft hangar space sooner rather than later, the Scott City Council was advised that may be possible through a quirk in how the Federal Aviation Administration funds these projects.

The council may be able to qualify for funding in 2014, rather than waiting another year, according to Darin Neufeld, an engineer with EBH Engineers, Great Bend, who handles all grant applications associated with the airport.

Since the city has been spending its available FAA grants for runway and lighting upgrades - which are in the process of being completed - there was no money available or projects planned for 2014.

Neufeld, however, advised the council at Monday’s meeting that because of an unusual situation with respect to the federal budget, the city may be eligible for $150,000 in “entitlement” funding for 2014 and again in 2015, rather than skipping this year and waiting until 2015 to be eligible for the initial $150,000 grant.

“You could say the stars are aligned just right. This wouldn’t have been possible last year and it may not be available to you again for another four or five years,” says Neufeld.

This means the city could make plans to construct new hangars one year earlier than it had projected.

The big challenge, says Neufeld, will be completing the paperwork in a condensed time frame that will satisfy the FAA. Neufeld is confident he can meet those requirements so the city can bank $150,000 this year.

If that happens, the council is looking at the prospect of issuing about $200,000 in temporary notes so that construction on a proposed eight-bay T-hangar can begin in late 2014. Of that amount, $150,000 would be reimbursed with FAA money in 2015.

(See HANGAR on page eight)

‘Miracle crop’ keeps delivering in ‘13

Gary Friesen likes to refer to the 2012 wheat harvest as a “miracle crop.”

That crop is still producing miracles for the Scott Co-op which reported the second largest earnings in the history of the cooperative during its annual meeting in Scott City last Saturday.

So how does that miracle account for such a good financial year?

A big part of that is storage

Scott Co-op earnings second highest on record fees, explains the Scott Co-op manager.

A much larger-than-expected 2012 wheat harvest resulted in more grain flowing into the Coop’s elevators and that grain not being sold as farmers waited for higher prices.

That contributed to $3.6 million in earnings for 2013 - second only to the record-setting

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$4.5 million in 2011.

Of the 2013 earnings, $1.3 million has been returned to patrons in cash and $1.96 million was reinvested in cooperative stock.

“We love the fact that these earnings go back into the local economy so everyone benefits,” says Friesen.

That doesn’t mean the Co-op

hasn’t had to weather some difficult times and that - depending on moisture for the remainder of the winter and spring - there won’t be more difficult times ahead. While the Co-op was able to benefit from an unexpectedly good wheat harvest in 2012, Friesen acknowledges the third year of a lingering drought in 2013 will spill over into the

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company’s 2014 operations.

The Co-op’s 2013 wheat receipts were 60 percent below the 10-year average. Despite some late summer rains that provided much-needed relief in some parts of Scott County, fall crop production was inconsistent across the region and the amount of grain coming into the Co-op was well below normal.

The only exception was the region south and east of Scott (See MIRACLE on page eight)

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Agenda ties. “No one knows how that might shake out.”

2) There is the ultimate question of where the money would come from.

Last January, a threejudge panel ruled that state funding was $400 million short of where it should be.

According to the Kansas State Department of Education, state funding is $574 million below the statutory amount for the current fiscal year and $656 million below for fiscal 2015. Between fiscal year 2009 and 2012, base funding has been cut by $511 million.

Hineman notes that money will be even more difficult to come by following the state’s income and corporate tax cuts in 2012 and 2013.

3) What is the role of the judiciary in the future?

In 2013, the legislature gave Gov. Sam Brownback more authority in selecting judges for the state Court of Appeals. If the Supreme Court rules in a way that Brownback and legislators don’t like, it is speculated they will try to change the selection process for members of the Supreme Court.

“Whatever the Supreme Court decides is going to take a lot of time and impact a lot of decisions during the upcoming session,” says Hineman.

Change Public Education There is, however, a fourth issue that could surface and which concerns Hineman.

“If the state loses the court suit there are a number of folks in the statehouse who feel this will give legislators license to radically redesign what public education looks

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like in the state going forward,” says the state representative.

That list could include school consolidations and expansion of school vouchers. One of the more significant ideas which has been kicked about in the legislature for several years would be to “redefine” what the state is responsible for funding in public education.

For example, the legislature could choose to limit state funds for only core subjects - reading, math, science, etc. - and refuse to provide funding that would be directed to sports, debate, band, etc.

Those elective classes and extracurricular programs would have to be funded by local tax dollars.

“This would have a huge impact on rural districts, like we have in the 118th District,” says Hineman.

At the same time, Gov. Brownback has proposed putting $80 million over five years into funding all-day kindergarten. The proposal has been met with mixed reaction.

Some legislators are wondering where the money will come from and others are questioning the benefits. Currently, the state only provides funding for a half-day program.

All but about 15 of the state’s 286 school districts offer full-day kindergarten. In some instances, parents pay an additional fee for their child to attend an all-day program.

Many districts use at-risk funds to help pay for allday kindergarten.

“My wife, Betsy, has worked with early-childhood education for years.

She has convinced me of

the benefits of early education and all-day kindergarten for kids and for society. I think it’s a great thing,” Hineman says.

He questions whether the $16 million in annual funding offered by the governor will be enough.

Timetable Uncertain If the Supreme Court waits until late in the legislative session to hand down its decision that could further complicate debate and create even more issues for lawmakers.

A legislature already at odds on school funding isn’t going to agree quickly on how to come up with $500-$600 million in additional money - or even a smaller portion of that amount. And the debate over what programs should be funded will only muddy the waters even further.

Hineman believes some discussion on all four areas in which he has expressed concerns will have been initiated before the Supreme Court decision is announced.

“If the court doesn’t get a decision to us soon it could be a big problem,” he says. “If it comes in late April, it’s very likely we could be stuck in Topeka dealing with the school funding issue while challengers are campaigning against us.”

“It threatens swift access to justice, which is a cornerstone of our government, and it’s a threat to our one-judge-per-county system,” he says. “There are some who see this as an inefficiency.”

Hineman points out that even if the courts are closed down for several weeks, judges will continue to be paid. Court employees, however, will not be.

“There are a lot of positions that haven’t been filled for several years because of budget cuts and it’s leading to poor morale as fewer people are expected to do more,” says Hineman. “Eventually, it starts to have an effect.”

The problem is further compounded as state revenue has not been able to compensate for cuts in income and corporate taxes. With tax cuts fully in effect, revenue during the current fiscal year is projected to be 7.6 percent lower than the previous year.

“There is a growing

constituency for the programs that have been cut or eliminated over the past three years,” acknowledges Hineman. “I hear concerns from people about the income tax cuts and the resulting budget cuts, but maybe I’m hearing from a different group of voters than what other legislators are hearing from.”

Two-Year Budget Spending decisions could be limited since the legislature approved a two-year budget during the last session. Hineman sees pro and con with that move.

“I see value in this if it’s done properly,” he says.

However, he doesn’t feel the legislature got adequate input from agencies and department heads when it adopted the 2015 budget.

“I don’t feel there was enough scrutiny in developing the 2015 budget. We need to look at that process more closely before we adopt another twoyear budget,” he adds.

Impact of Budget Cuts Public education isn’t alone in experiencing budget shortfalls.

The Kansas judicial system is looking at the possibility of shutting down the courts for seven weeks because of budget cuts. Cuts to the state’s court system is another concern to Hineman.

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Community Living

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Elderly are at higher risk of hypothermia during extreme cold

Mr. and Mrs. Logan Dreiling

Shay-Dreiling exchange wedding vows in Scott City

Jordan Elizabeth Shay and Logan Douglas Dreiling were united in marriage on July 27, 2013, at four o’clock in the afternoon at the First United Methodist Church, Scott City.

The ceremony was officiated by Pastor Galen Huck, first cousin to the groom’s mother.

Music for the ceremony was provided by Debbie Stelter, cousin to the bride’s mother. Vance Shay, father of the bride, and Camron Shay, brother of the bride, performed vocal and instrumental music.

Darrick York, cousin of the bride, provided the scripture reading. Candlelighters were Mrs. Kelli Eisenhour and Mrs. Ragen Numrich, both of Scott City, friends of the bride.

A dinner, reception and dance were held at the Majestic Theatre. Guest host couples were Daren and Jennifer York, aunt and uncle to the bride, and Mick and Lori Gechter, friends of the groom’s parents.

The bride is the daughter of Vance and Dana Shay, Healy. She is the granddaughter of Dwight and Mary Helen York, Oakley, the late Dorothy York; and the late Elginore and Mary Shay.

The groom is the son of Doug and Denise Dreiling, Scott City. He is the grandson of Dr. Dennis and Shirley Huck, Coldwater, and the late Ralph and Anna Marie Dreiling.

Given in marriage by her parents and escorted by her father, the bride wore ruched lace over Chic organza, asymmetrically draped in an elongated bodice with a sweetheart neckline and partnered with a decadent skirt of delicate ruffles, featuring beaded trim of Swarovski crystals. It was complimented by a cloud veil, and silver freshwater pearl earrings and necklace.

The bride carried a

round bouquet of peach, ivory and pink roses and David Austin roses adorned with her late grandmother’s jewelry.

Mrs. Megan Dirks, Scott City, sister-in-law of the bride, served as matron of honor. Bridesmaids included Miss Chelsie Kramer, Wichita, friend of the bride; Mrs. Maranda Cersovsky, Scott City, cousin of the bride; Miss Joanna Freed, Wichita, friend of the bride; and Mrs. Tomara Schwindt, Scott City, friend of the bride.

The flower girl was Lexi Schwindt, Scott City.

The matron of honor, bridesmaids and candlelighters wore tea-length, off-the-shoulder gowns in peach and mint chiffon.

Each carried a hand-tied bouquet of dahlias, sweetheart roses and ranunculus in shades of pink, ivory and peach.

Lakin Dreiling, Scott City, brother of the groom, served as best man. Groomsmen included Camron Shay, Healy, brother of the bride; Tanner Stucky, Council Grove, friend of the groom; Aaron Rosin, Scott City, friend of the groom; and Aaron Dirks, Scott City, brother-in-law of the groom.

The ring bearer was Brogan Dirks, Scott City, nephew of the groom.

Guestbook attendant was Jaylee York, Scott City, cousin of the bride.

Keely Ireland, Great Bend, and Elly Huck, Scottsdale, Ariz., both cousins of the groom, served as gift attendants.

Serving the cake were Ashley Wegener, Norton, and Mandy Morgan, Nashville, Tenn., both friends of the bride. Peggy Roe, Oberlin, and Denise York, Edmond, Okla., both aunts of the bride, served punch.

Tomas Ellis, Scott City, and Luke Johnson, Healy, passed out souvenirs.

Daren and Jennifer York led the wedding march at the reception.

Frigid weather can pose special risks to older adults. The National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health, has some advice for helping older people avoid hypothermia - when the body gets too cold - during cold weather.

Hypothermia is generally defined as having a core body temperature of 95 degrees or lower and can occur when the outside environment gets too cold or the body’s heat production decreases.

Older adults are especially vulnerable to hypothermia because their bodies’ response to cold can be diminished by underlying medical conditions such as diabetes and by use of some medicines, including over-the-counter cold remedies. Hypothermia can develop in older adults after relatively short exposure to cold weather or even a small drop in temperature.

Someone may suffer from hypothermia if he or she has been exposed to cool temperatures and shows one or more of the following signs: slowed or slurred speech; sleepiness or confusion; shivering or stiffness in the arms and legs; poor control over body movements; slow reactions, or a weak pulse.

Here are a few tips to help older people avoid hypothermia 1) Make sure your home is warm enough.

Set the thermostat to at least 68-70 degrees. Even mildly cool homes with temperatures from 60 to 65 degrees can lead to hypothermia in older people.

2) To stay warm at

Managing household records is KAN program on Tuesday

When was the last time you couldn’t find an important document, receipt, or statement that you know you have but can’t remember where you put it?

Organized records can mean the difference in financial gain or loss, not to mention the time and frustration you will save by knowing right where to look to find what you need when you need it.

And, what does being organized have to do with your credit report?

Find out at the upcoming

Knowledge at Noon program to be given on Tues., Jan. 14, at the Bryan Learning Center at 416 S. Main, Scott City.

The program is sponsored by K-State Extension. Belinda Oldham, Wichita County FCS agent, will give the lesson.

Those attending are asked to RSVP (8722930) by Monday at 5:00 p.m. to ensure adequate handouts and supplies.

Everyone is also welcome to bring a lunch.

home, wear long underwear under your clothes, along with socks and slippers. Use a blanket or afghan to keep your legs and shoulders warm and wear a hat or cap indoors.

3) When going outside in the cold, it is important to wear a hat, scarf, and gloves or mittens to prevent loss of body heat through your head and hands.

A hat is particularly important because a large portion of body heat can be lost through the head.

Wear several layers of warm loose clothing to help trap warm air between the layers.

Check with your doctor to see if any prescription or over-the-counter medications you are taking may increase your risk for hypothermia.

and Human Services has funds to help low-income families pay heating bills through the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).

Applicants can call the National Energy Assistance Referral (NEAR) project at: 1-866-6746327, e-mail energy@ ncat.org or go to the LIHEAP website.

NEAR is a free service providing information on where you can apply for help through LIHEAP. The NIA has free information about hypothermia, a fact sheet, “Hypothermia: A Cold Weather Hazard” and a brochure, “Stay Safe in Cold Weather.”

A fact sheet in Spanish is also available. These and other free publications on healthy aging can be downloaded from the Home Heating Help Because heating costs NIA website or by calling can be high, the U.S. toll-free number: 1-800Department of Health 222-2225.

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Editorial/Opinion

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editorially speaking

Unequal justice:

Drug abuse rules are different for lawmakers

Lawmakers in states across the country, including Kansas, have attempted to wage the war on drugs from a different front by passing laws which require individuals on public assistance to be subjected to drug testing and, if they should fail a test, have their benefits suspended if they don’t complete a drug treatment program.

This is an attempt by some lawmakers to give the impression they are watchdogs of taxpayer dollars and want some assurance that those recipients are truly worthy.

Perhaps, on its surface, there is a thread of common sense in the law. After all, lawmakers will assert, do you want tax dollars “wasted” on someone who is using those same dollars to purchase drugs? The answer is obvious.

However, life - as well as legislation - can get a little more complicated.

The “keep government out of our lives” crowd in state legislatures has discovered that the cost of implementing drug testing has far exceeded the benefit. Apparently, the number of people requiring government assistance who also spend their days on the steps of crack houses or sitting in the living room toking a joint is far less than the stereotype that many legislators had in mind. In Florida, for example, which many states tried to use as an example of how this should be done, the policy has been a fiscal failure. Only about two percent of applicants tested positive, and Florida lost money when it was forced to reimburse everyone else for the cost of the drug test, plus pay for staff and administrative costs for the program.

Results were no better in Minnesota where state officials discovered that low-income families requiring welfare assistance “are actually far less likely to have felony drug convictions than the adult population as a whole.”

And Missouri has spent $493,000 on drug testing during the current fiscal year. Of 32,511 welfare applications, only 636 were referred for drug testing. Only 20 came back positive, which puts the cost well in excess of the benefit.

But cost alone isn’t the only reason to question the program.

Kansas legislators passed a law which allows the state to test welfare recipients suspected of using drugs and suspend their benefits if they don’t complete a drug treatment program. The legislation also includes a provision which would require random drug testing of legislators should they exhibit signs of drug use. But there’s one glaring exception - lawmakers aren’t punished like their low-income counterparts or those seeking unemployment benefits.

A Kansas legislator can be found to be using drugs, but avoid any penalty and also be granted the privilege of keeping the drug test hidden from the public.

What we have is a double-standard which should shock no one. We’ve seen a similar situation in Congress where Republican Rep. Trey Radel of Florida was convicted of buying cocaine, spent a whole month in drug rehab and is now back on the job without serving jail time or a loss in pay. Because, as we all know, it’s those who are unfortunate enough to lose a job and those who need government assistance to make it through the end of the month - or through their daily lives - who are the problem.

That makes it okay for legislators to exempt themselves from provisions of a law that apply to those less fortunate and it’s why members of Congress feel they are above the law.

And when lawmakers are caught breaking the law . . . well, it’s better to forgive and forget.

That’s neither fair nor justice.

But it is politics.

Some skeptics:

$80M boost in funding for kindergarten no guarantee

What would seem to be a no-brainer - more money for early education - may face a tough legislative battle.

Gov. Sam Brownback has proposed spending $80 million to make all-day kindergarten available to all Kansans. That would seem a good objective, though the financial commitment seems inadequate. Spread over five years, as Brownback proposes, that’s only $16 million per year for all schools.

That issue aside, not everyone is sold on the idea. House Education Committee Chairwoman Kasha Kelly wants to see how the additional spending will affect other services. Senate Education Committee Chairman Steve Abrams feels research about the benefits of all-day kindergarten is “inconclusive.”

To question the benefits of the program appears extremely short-sighted. Brownback’s proposal may be inadequate, but it’s a rare step in the right direction for lawmakers and will hopefully get serious attention.

We’re all rushing toward the cliff

As we were growing up we’ve all heard the phrase (or something similar), “If your friends were to jump off a cliff would you jump with them?”

That question from our parents usually followed a plea that we be allowed to do something that, at the time, seemed like a good idea to us but, obviously, didn’t seem like such a good idea to others in the room.

As we’ve reached adulthood, many of us have borrowed that same question. It was good enough for our parents, so why not?

Keep that in the back of your mind for a few moments as we talk about water conservation - how much do we need to do, will what we do make a difference, who do we want telling us what to do?

These are serious questions regarding the future of the Ogallala Aquifer.

Maybe that future has already been too seriously compromised because of poor policy at the state level, far too much ignorance for too many years

regarding the “bottomless” Ogallala, and a much too prevalent attitude to “get what you can while you can” with respect to groundwater.

Little wonder we find ourselves in a situation where our options are limited and in which those available to us either seem unpleasant or inadequate.

Doing nothing, however, is not an option.

“How we respond to the water crisis is the factor we will all be judged by over the next 25, 50 to 100 years,” says Jay Garetson, a former member of the State Board of Agriculture and the Kansas Water Authority who is also a fourth generation farmer near Sublette.

Garetson doesn’t hold himself up as a model that everyone should follow when it comes to protecting the Ogallala. Yes, the family has integrated crops into their opera-

tion that require less water, such as cotton, along with other conservation measures. He readily acknowledges they need to do more.

But he also offers a stern warning: if producers aren’t willing to take action - and act soon - Topeka will step in.

He recalls being offended some 15 years ago after reading a newspaper columnist who said that putting Western Kansas farmers in charge of the Ogallala Aquifer is like putting drunks in charge of the saloon.

“It may not make me popular with some of my friends and neighbors, but I’ve come around to that way of thinking,” he says.

He adds that the drought which has hit Western Kansas over the past three years, and the impact it’s had on the Ogallala, should be a “slap in the face.”

“The governor and legislature are tired of watching farmers, such as myself, making excuses,” he says.

He says Topeka is “begging” producers to take

steps to organize Local Enhanced Management Areas (LEMAs) so the legislature isn’t forced to take action that will make it unpopular in Western Kansas.

“They don’t want to do what they are legally required to do. They want you to do it for them,” he said.

It’s all about local control.

And Garetson added another wrinkle into the debate that makes local input into the process even more critical. Over the years, wealthy individuals with more money than they know what to do with have chosen to invest that money into farmland. Most often, these are absentee owners who couldn’t find Scott County or Kansas without Google maps. They don’t see Western Kansas as a region where tens of thousands of people rely on the Ogallala for their livelihood or where people are hopeful of having a future for their children and grandchildren.

(See CLIFF on page six)

Edward Snowden: whistle-blower

Seven months ago, the world began to learn the vast scope of the National Security Agency’s reach into the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the United States and around the globe, as it collects information about their phone calls, their email messages, their friends and contacts, how they spend their days and where they spend their nights.

The public learned in great detail how the agency has exceeded its mandate and abused its authority, prompting outrage at kitchen tables and at the desks of Congress, which may finally begin to limit these practices.

The revelations have already prompted two federal judges to accuse the N.S.A. of violating the Constitution (although a third, unfortunately, found the dragnet surveillance to

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be legal). A panel appointed by President Obama issued a powerful indictment of the agency’s invasions of privacy and called for a major overhaul of its operations.

All of this is entirely because of information provided to journalists

by Edward Snowden, the former N.S.A. contractor who stole a trove of highly classified documents after he became disillusioned with the agency’s voraciousness. Mr. Snowden is now living in Russia, on the run from American charges of espionage and theft, and he faces the prospect of spending the rest of his life looking over his shoulder.

Considering the enormous value of the infor-

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mation he has revealed, and the abuses he has exposed, Mr. Snowden deserves better than a life of permanent exile, fear and flight. He may have committed a crime to do so, but he has done his country a great service.

It is time for the United States to offer Mr. Snowden a plea bargain or some form of clemency that would allow him to return home, face at least substantially reduced punishment in light of his role as a whistle-blower, and have the hope of a life advocating for greater privacy and far stronger oversight of the runaway intelligence community.

Mr. Snowden is currently charged in a criminal complaint with two violations of the Espionage Act involving unauthorized communication of classified information, and a charge of

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theft of government property. Those three charges carry prison sentences of 10 years each, and when the case is presented to a grand jury for indictment, the government is virtually certain to add more charges, probably adding up to a life sentence that Mr. Snowden is understandably trying to avoid.

The president said in August that Mr. Snowden should come home to face those charges in court and suggested that if Mr. Snowden had wanted to avoid criminal charges he could have simply told his superiors about the abuses, acting, in other words, as a whistle-blower.

“If the concern was that somehow this was the only way to get this information out to the public, I signed an executive order well before Mr. Snowden leaked this (See SNOWDEN on page six)

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Need a bank scandal? Look for JPMorgan

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the largest bank in the country (measured in assets) get away It’s beginning to look as if with being worse than Enron?

JPMorgan Chase has had a hand That one’s easy: By being the in every major banking scandal largest bank in the country. of the last decade. In fact, it’s the Zelig of Wall Street crime. Guilty as Sin JPMorgan Chase was hit with Take a snapshot of any major bank fraud and chances are a “deferred prosecution agreeyou’ll see JPMorgan Chase star- ment” for criminal behavior in this latest settlement, which ing out at you from the frame.

Foreclosure fraud, investor basically means they won’t fraud, cheating customers, mar- be prosecuted as long as they ket manipulation, LIBOR . . honor the agreement and keep . and now, the coup de grâce admitting to their own wrongto JPM’s tattered reputation: a doing. As the notes, this kind of $2 billion fine for closing its arrangement is “nearly unheardeyes and covering up as Bernie of for a giant American bank,” Madoff literally bilked widows is “typically employed only and orphans, along with a lot of when misconduct is extreme,” and “underscores the magnitude other families and charities.

Does Jamie Dimon, the of the case against JPMorgan.”

According to publicly availbank’s CEO, still think people don’t say enough nice things able information, the case against JPMorgan Chase is about him? Do his friends?

More importantly, how does extremely damning. Even after

by Richard Eskow

JPM agreed to pay between $1.8 billion and $4.5 billion, depending on how you tally the cost, for illegally foreclosing on American families and throwing them out of their homes.

highly suspicious facts came to light about the Madoff operation, JPM continued to package and sell Madoff-fed funds to its customers. It failed to report him to the authorities even after concluding that he was engaged in massive fraud.

No wonder JPM tried to block investigators from probing its handling of the Madoff account.

According to Newsweek, the Justice Department even shielded the bank from obstruction charges.

Worse Than Enron There’s no question about it: JPMorgan Chase is worse than Enron. It’s true that Enron’s

energy market manipulations were horrible. Enron executives and employees deprived people of their life savings, drove up the price of a vital public utility, and concealed their crimes with all the wiliness of history’s worst master conspirators.

But JPMorgan Chase did everything Enron did - and much, much more. Consider: A few weeks ago JPM paid $13 billion to settle well-documented charges of massive and widespread foreclosure fraud.

Although that was the largest fine paid by a corporation in American history, there’s a compelling argument that it should have been larger - as much as 22 times larger.

JPM paid $296.9 million for lying to investors about the payment status - and hence, the investment quality - of its mortgage-backed securities.

JPM paid more than a third

of a billion dollars to settle charges that it bilked customers by charging them for credit monitoring services it never provided.

JPM agreed to pay between $1.8 billion and $4.5 billion, depending on how you tally the cost, for illegally foreclosing on American families and throwing them out of their homes.

JPM paid another $56 million for cheating active-duty service members and their families, and for illegally foreclosing on them as well.

JPM paid $228 million for rigging the bidding for 93 municipal bond transactions in 31 states. (You know those cities that supposedly can’t honor their pension agreements with retired workers? That’s the kind of client they cheated here.)

JPM paid $410 million to (See SCANDAL on page six)

A majority of Americans still favor social justice

by E.J. Dionne, Jr.

GOP scheme bad for your health

by Jim Hightower

In this wicked world of woe, there are hucksters, flimflammers, plain ol’ crooks…and Republican members of the California Assembly.

This last bunch of scoundrels went out of their way to monkeywrench the rollout of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. This gang concocted a fake website created by California Republican lawmakers in August to look like the state’s official health exchange site, where people can sign up to get coverage.

When things finally got worked out on the national

health care exchange in November, the Repubs mailed a pamphlet to their constituents, directing them to the decoy site, calling it a “resource guide” to “help” them navigate the ACA sign up process.

However, the faux site is a trap. It’s filled with boilerplate Republican propaganda against the law, gimmicks to discourage viewers from even applying for the health care they need, and a rash of distortions and outright lies.

There’s so much bunkum on the site that its fine print includes a disclaimer saying they don’t vouch for “the quality, content, accuracy, or complete-

ness of the information” it provides.

The silliest thing about the lawmakers’ blatantly political ploy is that even if it convinces some people to forego the ACA’s benefits, who does that hurt?

Not Obama - but their own constituents. I know there’s no IQ requirement to be a state lawmaker, but what were they thinking?

We can laugh at their low comedy, but if you’re a California taxpayer, congratulations: You paid for the GOP’s bogus website and mailings.

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

Why are we arguing about issues that were settled decades ago? Why, for example, is it so hard to extend unemployment insurance at a time when the jobless rate nationally is still at seven percent and higher than that in 21 states ?

As the Senate votes this week on help for the unemployed, Democrats will be scrambling to win support from the handful of Republicans they’ll need to get the required 60 votes. The GOP-led House, in the meantime, shows no signs of moving on the matter.

It hasn’t always been like this. It was not some socialist but a president named George W. Bush who declared: “These Americans rely on their unemployment benefits to pay for the mortgage or rent, food and other critical bills. They need our assistance in these difficult times, and we cannot let them down.”

Bush spoke those words, as Jason Sattler of the National Memo noted, in December 2002, when the unemployment rate was a full point lower than it is today.

Similarly, raising the minimum wage wasn’t always so complicated. The parties had their differences, but a solid block of Republicans once saw regular increases as a just way of spreading the benefits of economic growth.

The contention over unemployment insurance and the minimum wage reflects the

larger problem in American politics. Rather than discussing what we need to do to secure our future, we are spending most of our energy re-litigating the past.

A substantial part of the conservative movement is now determined to blow up the national consensus that has prevailed since the Progressive and New Deal eras. The consensus envisions a capitalist economy tempered by government intervention to reduce inequities and soften the cruelties that the normal workings of the market can sometimes inflict.

This bipartisan understanding meant that conservatives such as Bush fully accepted that it was shameful to allow fellow citizens who had done nothing wrong to suffer because they had been temporarily overwhelmed by economic forces beyond their control.

The current debate is flawed for another reason: It persistently exaggerates how divided we are. Of course there are vast cultural differences across our nation.

It’s not just a cliche that the worldview of a white evangelical Christian in Mississippi is quite distant from the outlook of a secularist on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. African Americans, Latinos, Asians and whites can offer rather diverse interpretations of the meaning of our national story.

But on core questions involving social justice, we are (See JUSTICE on page seven)

NSA needs to focus on quality, not quantity President Obama’s anticipated reform of the National Security Agency’s practices needs to go beyond ending the mass surveillance of innocent Americans’ phone calls.

He should force the agency to think less about the quantity of information it gathers and more about the quality.

Obama should ignore the choir of apologists singing in lamentation over the beastly way the NSA is being treated.

I refer to voices such as that of Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), who on Monday accused Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) - and, by extension, all the agency’s critics - of “trying to create this paranoia among Americans that the NSA is spying on everyone.”

In fact, the agency is spying on everyone by keeping

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a detailed log of our private phone calls. This practice was sanctioned by secret court rulings that stretched the words of the Constitution and the Patriot Act beyond recognition.

We couldn’t challenge these rulings because we weren’t allowed to know about them.

When asked in March whether any such blanket domestic surveillance was taking place, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper lied to Congress and said no.

In what universe is it “paranoia” to be angry about all of this?

King and the rest of the NSA chorus blame Edward Snowden for getting the agency in trouble over phone surveillance and other rogue practices, such as eavesdropping on the cellphone conversations of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and secretly tapping into the data streams of major Internet companies. But Snowden just revealed these abuses. It was the NSA that committed them - and brought this world of hurt on itself.

The Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies - one of two blue-ribbon panels Obama appointed to examine the NSA mess - recommended that the agency stop compiling its comprehensive log of domestic phone calls. This information

should be kept by the phone companies or some third party, the review group said, and the government should have to obtain warrants to search it.

Obama should go further and ask why the agency needs to assemble all that information in the first place. I don’t think there’s a good answer.

The review group found that the phone call data “was not essential to preventing attacks.”

One member of the panel, former CIA deputy director Michael Morell, subsequently wrote that he thought the phone-data program “would likely have prevented” the 9/11 attacks, but he did not offer evidence to back up this assertion.

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled last month that the collection of phone data was

likely unconstitutional. Two weeks later, however, U.S. District Judge William Pauley III ruled in a separate case that the program was legal. Pauley went so far as to detail how he believed the phone data could have allowed authorities to prevent 9/11 - essentially, by revealing that one of the hijackers, Khalid Almihdhar, was in the United States.

But Lawrence Wright, author of “The Looming Tower,” a highly acclaimed book about the 9/11 attacks, argued in the current issue of the “New Yorker” that Pauley’s reasoning is flawed. Almihdhar was already on the CIA’s roster of al-Qaeda suspects. The CIA knew that he had a U.S. visa and that his friend and traveling companion, (See QUANTITY on page six)

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Evolution: the price paid for uncivil debate

by John Schrock

“You are all a bunch of Ayatollahs!” shouted the citizen during open forum - and he stormed out of the board room.

It was 1999. Many folks on both the evolution and creationist sides were speaking to the Kansas State Board of Education (KSBE) open forum. In this case, it was a pro-evolution hothead.

If the board had taken a vote at that emotionally-charged moment, we might very well have lost 10-to-0. I was a member of the Science Standards Committee that had submitted the new standards

that included the concept of evolution.

We were facing an attempt to pull the evolution wording. And the 10-member KSBE was split with five on each side.

Many citizens testified with dignity and civility on both sides, But two months later we had a university science professor step up to the open forum podium.

He followed a citizen who spoke on the creationist side. The professor began by saying “Well, I guess I am the crap detector here.” And the tone of his three minute speech descended

even lower.

I intercepted our “ally” in the hallway outside the Boardroom and asked him what he thought he was doing, because he certainly was not helping our cause!

Ultimately, we lost.

A sixth board member joined the anti-evolution side and passed the Kansas Science Standards with evolution minimized.

That sixth vote came, not because that retired superintendent from Haven converted to an anti-evolution stand, but because he believed that too much of the scientists’ testimony revealed an arrogant attitude that pro-

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moted teachers ramming the theory down students’ throats.

This was a classic case of “WHAT you say is not as important as HOW you say it.” We lost the first evolution battle of 1999-2000 not because the creationists had better arguments, but because our side was perceived as arrogant and uncivil!

We learned another lesson in that year of debate.

When the science committee was presenting the standards to the KSBE, one of our representatives stated that “I don’t think you have the best interest of Kansas students in mind.”

This was addressed to Board member Scott Hill who brought the exchange to an immediate halt with “What did you say?”

You never question the intentions of an opponent. We had just committed another major sin in debate.

By the next KSBE meeting, there was a new plaque on the wall of the KSBE board room asserting that the best interests of Kansas children come first in every Board decision. For the next decade, this plaque stood as a reminder of the arrogance of at least one advocate on the science side of that debate.

The evolution concepts that lost in 2000 were fully restored after the next KSBE election. Then in 2005, there was another round of pro- and antievolution debate as the Kansas science standards were updated.

Some members of the press reported the debate with integrity.

Unfortunately, others sought to generate confrontation.

The 2000 and 2005 episodes painted Kansas as hayseeds in the press nationwide despite Kansas biology teachers having the highest rate

misleading information about its surveillance practices, according to a ruling made public because of the Snowden documents.

One of the practices violated the Constitution, according to the chief judge of the court.

A federal district judge ruled earlier this month that the phone-recordscollection program probably violates the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. He called the program “almost Orwellian” and said there was no evidence that it stopped any imminent act of terror.

The shrill brigade of his critics say Mr. Snowden has done profound damage to intelligence operations of the United States, but none has presented the slightest proof that his disclosures really hurt the nation’s security. Many of the mass-

collection programs Mr. Snowden exposed would work just as well if they were reduced in scope and brought under strict outside oversight, as the presidential panel recommended.

When someone reveals that government officials have routinely and deliberately broken the law, that person should not face life in prison at the hands of the same government.

That’s why Rick Ledgett, who leads the N.S.A.’s task force on the Snowden leaks, recently told CBS News that he would consider amnesty if Mr. Snowden would stop any additional leaks.

And it’s why President Obama should tell his aides to begin finding a way to end Mr. Snowden’s vilification and give him an incentive to return home.

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another hijacker named Nawaf Alhazmi, was in the United States.

The problem was that the CIA didn’t pass along this information to the FBI, which conducts domestic terrorism investigations. An existing and entirely appropriate - court order allowed the FBI to conduct basically whatever kind of surveillance it wanted on known or suspected al-Qaeda members. But the bureau wasn’t told that Almihdhar was in the country.

This story illustrates what I think is the big problem with the NSA’s vacuum-cleaner method of gathering intelligence.

Assembling massive amounts of data may create the illusion of total awareness, but it doesn’t tell you who the terrorists are or what they might be up to.

In the thwarted attacks cited by NSA apologists, analysts searched the data for previously identified individuals or phone numbers. So why on earth does the agency need to store my phone records, and yours, when it can quickly obtain a court order instructing the phone companies to turn over information about communications involving known or suspected terrorists?

Collecting and storing unbelievable amounts of useless information is easy. Machines do all the work. Analyzing and sharing the right tidbits of pertinent information is hard, but that’s the best way to prevent future attacks - and that’s what Obama should tell the NSA to do.

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

information that provided whistle-blower protection to the intelligence community for the first time,” Mr. Obama said at a news conference.

“So there were other avenues available for somebody whose conscience was stirred and thought that they needed to question government actions.”

In fact, that executive order did not apply to contractors, only to intelligence employees, rendering its protections useless to Mr. Snowden. More important, Mr. Snowden told The Washington Post he did report his misgivings to two superiors at the agency, showing them the volume of data collected by the N.S.A., and that they took no action.

(The N.S.A. says there is no evidence of this.)

That’s almost certainly because the agency and

Scandal JPM has paid multiple fines and settlements over the “London whale” case, in which traders sought to manipulate market prices, engaged in unlawful “reckless conduct” (while CEO Dimon bragged about the bank’s risk management and “fortress balance sheet”), then unlawfully concealed their behavior. There is no evidence that any investigation sought to determine how high the cover-up went. We do know that Dimon told investors the case was “a tempest in a teapot” after privately being told that losses were running in the billions.

JPM paid $1.2 billion for colluding with credit card companies and other institutions to rig merchants’ credit prices.

JPM has paid two major fines for illegally investing with customers’ money.

All in all, JPMorgan Chase has paid $20 billion in fines in the last year alone. But none of these fines were personally charged to the executives who committed the crimes. Instead, they were paid by shareholders -

its leaders don’t consider these collection programs to be an abuse and would never have acted on Mr. Snowden’s concerns.

In retrospect, Mr. Snowden was clearly justified in believing that the only way to blow the whistle on this kind of intelligence-gathering was to expose it to the public and let the resulting furor do the work his superiors would not. Beyond the mass collection of phone and Internet data, consider just a few of the violations he revealed or the legal actions he provoked: The N.S.A. broke federal privacy laws, or exceeded its authority, thousands of times per year, according to the agency’s own internal auditor.

The agency broke into the communications links of major data centers around the world, allowing it to spy on hundreds of

millions of user accounts and infuriating the Internet companies that own the centers. Many of those companies are now scrambling to install systems that the N.S.A. cannot yet penetrate.

The N.S.A. systematically undermined the basic encryption systems of the Internet, making it impossible to know if sensitive banking or medical data is truly private, damaging businesses that depended on this trust.

His leaks revealed that James Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, lied to Congress when testifying in March that the N.S.A. was not collecting data on millions of Americans. (There has been no discussion of punishment for that lie.)

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court rebuked the N.S.A. for repeatedly providing

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some of whom were also bilked by the executives in question.

What’s more, most (if not all) of these fines are tax-deductible. That means that taxpayers will take a hit for JPM’s criminality. Even the Enron guys didn’t think of that.

Holder undoubtedly crossed paths with Dimon many times.

Our leaders insist that those personal connections carry no weight in their decision-making process. People are free to form their own opinions about that. The argument is also made, as the Attorney General did in a rare moment of candor, that some banks can’t be indicted because that would put them in danger - which, in turn, would pose a systemic risk to the global economy.

And yet nobody in the Administration is claiming that this is a problem, much less proposing solutions. Solutions are available: the breakup of systemically risky institutions or the indictment of individuals and not of institutions.

Unfortunately, nobody in the government seems very interested in solutions. They just keep making these deals, even when the malefactors involved are much, much worse than Enron.

It’s Who You Know How does the JPM Gang get away with all of this fraud? One simple answer is: Access.

Political access. Even Bernie Madoff had it. The Madoff family was heavily involved in SIFMA, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, a trade group with deep Washington DC connections. (Madoff’s brother Peter was honored

by SIFMA in 2006.)

Dimon’s DC connections, of course, are the stuff of legend. They extend to members of both parties. Until scandal completely scarred the bank’s reputation, Dimon was routinely referred to as “the President’s favorite banker.”

And as a high-pow- Richard (RJ) Eskow is a Seered Wall Street lawyer, nior Fellow with Campaign Attorney General Eric for America’s Future

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These are investors whose only interest is making as much money as they can as quickly as they can. Once the Ogallala is no longer able to satisfy their bottom line, they’ll move onto the next investment.

Without some restrictions and some enforcement mechanism in place, Garetson warns that these faceless investors “will pump until its gone.”

And while these individuals and corporations are the latest threat to the Ogallala, they aren’t alone. Garetson says he’s even had long-time farmers “tell me to pump until its gone and then plan where I want to live next.”

If that short-sighted thinking is allowed to win this battle over the diminishing Ogallala then the future of Western Kansas is bleak indeed.

That’s where the battle lines have been drawn - between doing what’s right and doing what’s profitable in the near term.

Garetson would like

nothing more than to make sure there is a fifth generation of his family who can continue farming, which made it tough to answer his 15-year-old son when asked recently why they didn’t put underground drip tape on their irrigated land in order to make better use of the water.

He explained that it wasn’t practical because the Ogallala won’t last long enough to pay the expense unless everyone buys into the urgency to conserve - or is forced to comply - from bankers to absentee owners.

“So I’m not doing the best I can because my neighbors aren’t doing the best they can,” says Garetson.

Which brings us back to where we began.

“It all comes down to that age-old question, ‘If your friends were to jump off a cliff would you jump with them?” said Garetson. “I’m afraid to say, in this instance, I am.”

Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com

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Justice

Debate

What do you think?

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far more united than our politics permit us to be. A survey released at the end of December by Hart Research, a Democratic polling firm, found that Americans supported extending unemployment insurance by a margin of 55 to 34 percent. Several recent surveys, including a Fox News poll, found that about two-thirds of Americans support an increase in the minimum wage.

This leads to two conclusions. The first is that most Americans broadly accept the New Deal consensus.

We may disagree about this or that regulation or spending program. We may squabble over exactly how our approaches to policy should be updated for a new century. But there is far more agreement among the American people than there is among Washington lobbies, members of Congress or political commentators on the core proposition that government should help us through rough patches and guarantee a certain level of economic fairness.

The second conclusion is that we have to stop letting the politics of culture wars so dominate our thinking that we forget how much we share when it comes to life’s day-to-day struggles and what we can do to ease them.

Disputes over personal morals and lifestyle choices may get more page views or rating points, but they do little to improve anyone’s standard of living.

The minimum-wage increase is typically labeled a “liberal” idea. Yet many grass-roots Republicans see respect for those who work hard as rooted in sound conservative principles demanding decent compensation for a day’s labor. An evangelical might see fair pay as a Biblical imperative while a secularist might view the question through a more worldly philosophical prism. Nonetheless, their distinctive reasoning processes lead them to the same place.

President Obama’s old line challenging the idea of red and blue Americas unalterably opposed to each other seems terribly outdated or naive. Electorally, at least, those divisions are still painfully obvious.

But on matters of economic justice, we shouldn’t let a defective political system distract us from what we have in common.

Do you think homeowners and others who have large lots in Scott City should be allowed to purchase an additional water meter in order to reduce the likelihood of pumping in excess of 60,000 or 80,000 gallons of water per month and avoid paying the city’s higher rates?

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of evolution belief of any state surveyed.

There were sensitive science professors who represented their discipline with enthusiasm and respect.

But there were others who were arrogant.

During board meeting breaks, when an opposing board member had a serious question about entropy (science) or irreducible complexity (non-science), some scientists folded their arms and waited out the question just so they could tell the board member how stupid he or she was.

It was a bad way to treat a board member - or a student in a classroom.

Last year, the KSBE adopted nearly content-less national standards rather than return to state-revised science standards.

I personally believe it was adopted, not because of its substance (it lacks little), but to avoid a return to uncivil Kansas science standards debates and the resulting press exposure.

That is another price we pay for not having remained ladies and gentlemen.

Submit this form and your comments to The Record office, or log onto the website: scottcountyrecord.com Keep comments brief so they can be published in the newspaper. The numbers represent totals as of noon Thursday. For updated totals visit The Record website.

Water Rates

Why shouldn’t they pay more? They’re the ones who

can afford it.

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No. People with large homes and yards should not

be given extra benefits. I have a large home and pay

a large amount of taxes. I planted buffalograss to conserve water.

John Schrock trains biology teachers and lives in Emporia

My pet peeve: seeing sprinklers that are running in

the rain or the next morning following a rain.

Additional comments: ________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________

E.J. Dionne, Jr., is a political commentator and long-time oped columnist for the Washington Post

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Miracle City which normally suffers from lack of rainfall more than most areas, but saw an unusually good fall harvest.

“We even had to put grain on the ground, which is pretty rare,” says Friesen. “Some areas did extremely well, but they were isolated.”

Strong Ag Economy Obviously, the strong agricultural economy over the past few years has reaped benefits for the Coop through sales of fertilizer, chemicals and fuel in spite of the drought.

“There has been a high demand for crops and our

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local producers have met that demand,” noted Friesen.

He acknowledges that declining corn demand and prices could have a long-term effect. He anticipates the drop in corn prices could linger for the next several years due to slow export demand and a worldwide economy that has been slow to recover from the recession.

At the same time, he doesn’t expect input costs - including land lease/ acquisition, fertilizer and equipment - to drop at the same rate or to the same extent as crop prices.

“I remember attend-

ing a seminar a few years ago in which this was described as the golden age of agriculture and thinking to myself how fortunate I was to be managing the Co-op during this time,” Friesen says. “What we’re seeing now is a reminder of how fast things can change.”

In addition, Friesen points out that high crop insurance levels have served as a “backstop” to protect farmers from drought, but that protection will diminish with the drop in crop prices.

While the golden age may become a little tarnished, Friesen remains optimistic.

Avoiding the ‘Bust’ Perhaps the most important thing helping farmers, the Co-op and, ultimately, the local economy, is that even though farmers went on a land buying binge and prices skyrocketed as a result, conditions are much different than when the farmland bubble burst during the 1980s.

Farmers aren’t facing near the debt load or the threat of high interest rates which crippled many producers back then.

“We have a lot of smart producers who have put themselves in good position to weather lower pric-

es. They’ll have to make some adjustments, but I believe they’ll continue to do well in this market.”

And like the area’s farmers, Friesen feels the Co-op is “positioned well” even if farmers are forced to make cuts in production and inputs.

“We’re a very efficient operation,” he says. “We take a very conservative approach in running our business. I believe that’s another reason why we’ve been able to see good results even with the drought we’ve had over the past three years.”

Reflecting the continuing optimism of his

farmer-members, Friesen remains hopeful that a wheat crop which got off to a great start last fall will see moisture during the next few months.

“The moisture we got last summer provided us with wheat planting conditions that were as good as I’d seen in several years,” Friesen says. “The lack of moisture since then has been a little distressing. Hopefully, we can avoid winterkill and still get some moisture this winter.

“Hope springs eternal in this business,” he adds.

And, for Co-op members, so do profits.

Move the decimal point

A misplaced decimal point made a significant difference in the story about water use violations in last week’s Record.

It was stated in the headline and the second paragraph that nine irrigators had exceeded their allocated water rights by 274,065 feet.

They actually exceeded their allocation by 274.065 feet.

All other facts and figures in the story were correct, including the individuals listed, their violation and the fines assessed by the state.

The Record apologizes for the error.

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Any hangar expenses that exceeds $300,000 the city would be responsible for paying. In addition, since FAA grants will cover 90 percent of the project, the remaining 10 percent - or $30,000 - would also be the city’s responsibility.

Councilman Gary Eitel, who serves on the Airport Commission, says the estimated cost of a 100x100 ft. hangar with at least a 21-foot door clearance is $350,000.

The hangar would be city-owned and, according to Eitel, it would be leased to Scott City Aviation, which is the fixed-based operator (FBO). One stipulation with the grant is that space must be available in the hangar for transient aircraft.

“Why would we lease it?” asked Councilman Fred Kuntzsch.

Eitel explained that Scott City Aviation would use the new hangar as its maintenance facility since it would be more energy efficient. That would allow them to lease additional space in the existing hangar.

Under the existing FBO agreement, the city pays an annual fee to Scott City Aviation for operation of the airport and the company is also allowed to collect rent for aircraft kept in the main hangar. Eitel said that airport manager Weston Thompson “realizes they will need to pay rent to use the new hangar.”

Neufeld said the additional hangar would be a valuable asset to the FBO. “The other night they had to spend three hours moving aircraft so they could get to a plane that was in the back (of the hangar,” says Neufeld. “They need more space and they need easier access to aircraft.”

Neufeld is optimistic he can “jump through all the hoops necessary” in order to get funding for 2014. If he can get FAA approval on a timely basis, he hopes to begin seeking bids in July with construction to begin later this year.

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3 area students earn semester honors at Ottawa

Three area students were named to fall semester honor lists at Ottawa University.

Kaitlyn Thornburg, Scott City, and Sierra Herndon, Dighton, were named to the Dean’s Honor List. That honor includes those students who have earned a minimum of 24 hours over the

preceding two semesters at OU and earned a grade point average of 3.5 or better on a 4.0 scale.

Karita Geist was named to the Dean’s Honor Roll which includes students who have earned a minimum of 12 credit hours during the previous semester and maintained at least a 3.5 gpa.

4-H Club News Jayhawkers make goodies for WKCAC The December meeting of the Manning Jayhawkers 4-H Club was called to order on Dec. 9 by President Macy Davis.

Roll call was answered by “What do you want for Christmas?” There were 19 members and two leaders in attendance.

Pledge leader Nathan Smith lead us in pledge.

Eddy Tilton gave the treasurer’s report and Megan Smith gave the reporter’s report.

After the meeting, the club made Christmas goody bags for children at the Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center. The club then had their annual Christmas party. Members brought their favorite candy for a holiday bingo game.

Emily Smith, reporter Kelly and Heather Palkowitsh with their first child, Kashen Dean, who was the first baby of the new year born at the Scott County Hospital.

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Arrival of Kashen Dean is a double-first for Palkowitsh family It didn’t take long for the first baby of 2014 to make an arrival at the Scott County Hospital.

Not quite 12 hours into the new year, Kashen Dean Palkowitsh was born to Kelly and Heather Palkowitsh, Scott City.

Not only was he the first baby of the year, but he is also the Palkowitsh’s first child.

He was born at 11:44 a.m. on Jan. 1, weighing 7 lbs., 5 oz., and measuring 20.5 inches long.

Teaming up for the delivery were Drs. Daniel Dunn and Christian Cupp.

Kashen held off from his original Dec. 27 due date in order to become the county’s first baby.

Even though Kashen was overdue, Heather wasn’t sure at the time if he was getting ready to make his appearance.

“I thought I might have the flu. It is my first so I didn’t know,” she said with a grin. “I was thinking I might have eaten something that didn’t agree with me.”

Maternal grandparents are Barb and Sheldon Eccleston, Fowler.

Paternal grandparents are Larry and Jeryl

Palkowitsh, Scott City.

The first baby and his parents are the recipients of a number of prizes and services awarded by 15 Scott County businesses.

The list of prizes include: Bling: a Wubbanub plush pacifier.

Wendy’s: Combo meal coupons for Mom and Dad. Sager’s Pump Service: $100 in Chamber Bucks.

Scott City Heartland Foods: package of diapers.

First National Bank: a collector’s coin.

Collect 150 items for mitten tree at SC library

The Scott County Library collected 150 items during its annual mitten tree project held during December.

Coordinating the drive were Steven Fisher as part of his 4-H leadership project and Millie Dearden, children’s programmer at the library.

Scott County Hospital: Six bags of hats, gloves, scarves and mittens were an embroidered blanket. taken to the Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center Gifts, Etc.: gift for and the community Thrift Store in Scott County so baby. they could be redistributed to young people.

Z Bottling: 1 case of gallon-sized water jugs.

L&M Western Tire: $25 in fuel.

Suzy B’s Flowers and The Wichita County Elementary School has been More: one-half dozen awarded a $992 grant as part of the “Healthy Habits for roses.

Networktronic: an ex- Life” program sponsored by Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Kansas. ternal dvd-rom drive.

Grants have been awarded to schools in 66 counties Dairy Queen: 8-inch that will provide access to at-school programs aimed at ice cream cake.

American Implement: improving the health of young people.

BC/BS awarded 160 grants totaling $149,650.

John Deere toy.

Grant dollars are used to purchase nutrition curricuBraun’s Butcher Block: $20 gift certificate. lum, exercise equipment, organize walking programs, Scott County Record: health fairs, help children reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease and to increase physical activity. one year subscription.

BC/BS Healthy Habits grant to Wichita Co. Elementary

New physical therapist director at SCH has sights set on growth

KJ Wilkens, a Dighton native, is the new director of physical therapy at the Scott County Hospital.

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With an eye on expanding opportunities within the physical therapy department at Scott Community Hospital, KJ Wilkens has been hired as the department’s new director.

A native of Dighton, Wilkens assumed his new duties on Jan. 6.

“We’ve seen a lot of growth in our respiratory department over the last few years and that’s what we are hoping to see in physical therapy,” says SCH CEO Mark Burnett.

“KJ is enthusiastic and he has ideas about what can be done to expand on what we’re doing.”

Among the goals on Burnett’s agenda is for the hospital to offer physical

therapy treatment to athletes in USD 466.

After playing basketball at Colby Community College and Southwestern College, Winfield, Wilkens pursued a threeyear doctorate program at Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, Mo. During the time he was completing his physical therapy program at Southwest Baptist, Wilkens did four eight-week clinicals at different sites, including the out-patient clinic at Emporia Physical Therapy.

He returned to Emporia and worked for the same company during the past 3-1/2 years.

“This move brings me closer to home and it’s a

great opportunity to run my own department,” says the 30-year-old.

“This hospital is a great facility and I’m fortunate to have the chance to work at a place that is anxious to grow and provide more services in the community.

“You can tell that Scott City and this hospital are very forward-thinking and I’m looking forward to being part of that.”

The physical therapy department is located in the southeast corner of the hospital and includes a variety of exercise equipment and private rooms for treatment. There are nine staff members in the department.

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For the Record Retirement plans largely unchanged in ‘14 The Scott County Record

tions to an IRA, 401(k) plan or other tax-advantaged retirement savings accounts, since the IRS uses the CPI-U’s September year-over-year performance to determine whether or not to make cost-of-living adjustments to many of the retirement contributions you and your employer can make in the following year.

Here are highlights of what will and won’t change in 2014

Jason Alderman

Anyone who’s bought groceries, filled their gas tank or paid insurance premiums recently would probably be surprised to learn that, according to Department of Labor’s Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPIU), the rate of inflation is relatively flat - only 1.2 percent from September 2012 to September 2013.

That’s bad news for people who were hoping to boost their contribu- Defined

Kansas highway fatalities drop to all-time low in ‘13

In the past year there were fewer deaths on Kansas roads than in any other year since the Kansas Department of Transportation began keeping records. In 2013, according to preliminary, unofficial reports there were 344 fatalities, compared to 405 in 2012.

The previous low was 385 fatalities in 2008; the high was in 1969 when 780 people died. KDOT started keeping records in 1947.

“Strategic investment in infrastructure, improvement in our seat belt rate, committed law enforcement and safer vehicles have all played into this dramatic reduction in fatalities,” said Steven Buckley, KDOT Safety Engineer. “While KDOT is committed to improving our roadway system, we still must rely on drivers to do their part by eliminating distractions, never driving drunk and wearing a seat belt, every trip, every time.”

Web address correction In the Kansas Insurance Commissioner’s Corner that appeared in the Jan. 2 Record, the news release contained an incorrect web address for the NAIC’s educational insurance site.

The correct address is www.InsureU.org.

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., Dec. 26, 2013; last published Thurs., Jan. 9, 2014)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF VIRGINIA M. DEWITT, deceased No. 2013-PR-19 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 Shawna K. Foster, duly appointed, qualified and acting Administrator of the Estate of Virginia M. DeWitt, 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 Administrator be discharged and that she be released from further liability.

You are required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 21st day of January, 2014, at 1:15 o’clock p.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.

Shawna K. Foster, Administrator WALLACE, BRANTLEY & SHIRLEY 325 Main - P. O. Box 605 Scott City, Kansas 67871 (620) 872-2161 Attorneys for Petitioner

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Contribution Plans The maximum allowable annual contribution you can make to a workplace 401(k), 403(b), 457(b) or federal Thrift Savings plan remains unchanged at $17,500.

Keep in mind these additional factors: •People over 50 can also make an additional $5,500 in catch-up contributions (unchanged from 2013).

•The annual limit for combined employee and employer contributions

increased by $1,000 to $52,000.

•Because your plan may limit the percentage of pay you can contribute, your maximum contribution may actually be less.

(For example, if the maximum contribution is 10 percent of pay and you earn $60,000, you could only contribute $6,000.)

$5,500 (plus an additional $1,000 if 50 or older - also unchanged from 2013).

Maximum contributions to traditional IRAs are not impacted by personal income, but if your modified adjusted gross income (AGI) exceeds certain limits, the maximum amount you can contribute to a Roth IRA gradually phases out: Individual Retirement •For singles/heads of Accounts (IRAs) households the phase-out The maximum annu- AGI range is $114,000 al contribution to IRAs to $129,000 (increased remains the same at from 2013’s $112,000 to

USD 466 Board of Education Agenda Mon., Jan. 13 • 7:00 p.m.

Administration Building • 704 College •Awards and recognition •Comments from public •Executive session •Recognition of persons/delegations present 1) High Plains Co-op - Eric Erven 2) NW Ks. Tech. College - Mark Davis 3) Administrative reports •Financials 1) Bills payable •Consent agenda 1) Approve previous minutes 2) Recommendations for hire •Consider items pulled from consent agenda New business 1) Bus bid recommendation 2) Superintendent’s evaluation 3) Proposed 2014-15 school calendar 4) Negotiations: invitation letter 5) Neighborhood Revitalization request •Additions, if any •Adjournment

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record on Thurs., Jan. 2, 2014; last published Thurs., Jan. 9, 2014)2t REQUEST FOR ZONING VARIANCE Notice is hereby given that the Scott City Planning Commission will hold a special meeting on January 16, 2014, at 7:00 p.m., at the Scott City Council meeting room at City Hall, 221 West 5th Street, Scott City, Kansas, to consider the following agenda items: 1. Application for variance by Darrin Nicholas to allow a double face center pole Pylon sign that is larger than allowed by ordinance on: Lots Seven (7), Nine (9), Ten (10), Twelve (12), Thirteen (13), Fifteen (15), Sixteen (16) and Eighteen (18), Block Nine (9), McLain, Swan & Sangster Addition to the City of Scott City, Scott County, Kansas (1105 S. Main) All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard at such hearing.

Dated: December 30, 2013 Rodney Hogg, chairman Scott City Planning Commission

$127,000 range). Above $129,000, you cannot contribute to a Roth.

•For married couples filing jointly, the range is $181,000 to $191,000 (up from $178,000 to $188,000).

Keep in mind these rules for deducting traditional IRA contributions on your federal tax return: •If you’re single, a head of household, a qualifying widow(er) or married and neither spouse is covered by an employer-provided (See RETIRE on page 11)

Register of Deeds Patricia James Trust to Kenton and Susan Geist, a tract in SE4 of 20-19-33.

Kevin and Cindy Strube to Brock and Megan Peters, Lot 2, Blk. 4, CA Steele and Sons Third Addition.

William and Lori Slater to Scott County, a tract in NE4 of 26-18-33.

Scott County Sheriff Glenn Anderson to Brett and Kathleen Eisenhour, Lots 7-12, Blk. 39, Original Town.

James and Linda Arnold to George and Natalie Armantrout, Lot 2, Blk. 4, Webster’s 4th Addition.

Scott Co. LEC Report Scott City Police Department Jan. 4: A theft was reported at Shopko.

Jan. 5: Criminal damage to property was reported in the 900 block of Church.

Jan. 6: Kristofor Lauber was arrested on a Scott County warrant and transported to the LEC. Scott Co. Sheriff’s Dept.

Jan. 2: Andrew Trout, driving a 2009 Chevrolet Suburban, struck a calf on North Indian Road at 6:30 p.m.

Jan. 2: Shawn Sheldon was arrested for probation violation and transported to the LEC. Jan. 4: Eric Schuknecht was driving a 2002 GMC, northbound on south US83 Highway at MP 93.9, when he lost control of his vehicle on ice. The vehicle entered the east ditch and rolled onto its top.

Jan. 8: Kristofor Lauber was arrested on a Scott County warrant and transported to the LEC.

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KDHE determines source of GC outbreak

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has confirmed norovirus as the cause of an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness associated with Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches restaurant in Garden City.

Norovirus was detected by the Kansas Health and Environmental Laboratories at KDHE in clinical specimens from three

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people associated with the outbreak.

KDHE had been working with the Finney County Health Department and the Kansas Department of Agriculture (KDA) to investigate the outbreak since it was first reported on Dec. 18.

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retirement plan, you can deduct the full IRA contribution, regardless of income.

•If you are covered by an employer plan and are single/head of household, the tax deduction phases out for AGI between $60,000 and $70,000 (up from $59,000 to $69,000 in 2013); if married and filing jointly, the phase-out range is $96,000 to $116,000 (up from $95,000 to $115,000).

•If you’re married and aren’t covered by an employer plan but your spouse is, the IRA deduction is phased out if your combined AGI is between $181,000 and $191,000 (up from $178,000 to $188,000).

•For more details, read IRS Publication 590 at www.irs.gov.

Retirement Saver’ Tax Credit As an incentive to help low- and moderate-income workers save for retirement through an IRA or company-sponsored plan, many are eligible for a Retirement Savers’ Tax Credit of up to $1,000 ($2,000 if filing jointly). This credit lowers your tax bill, dollar for dollar, in addition to any other tax deduction you already receive for your contribution.

Qualifying income ceiling limits for the Savers’ Tax Credit increased in 2014 to $60,000 for joint filers, $45,000 for heads of household, and $30,000 for singles or married persons filing separately.

Consult IRS Form 8880 for more information.

106 crime victims are awarded $282K by state

The Kansas Crime Victims Compensation Board awarded financial assistance to 106 victims of crime at its December meeting.

Awards were made in 46 new cases. Additional expenses were paid in 60 previously submitted cases. The awards totaled $282,942.

The Division of Crime Victims Compensation in the Kansas Attorney General’s office administers the Crime Victims Compensation program, which was established in 1978 to help victims of violent crime pay for their unexpected expenses such as medical treatment, mental health counseling, lost wages, dependent support and funeral costs.

The state’s threemember Crime Victims Compensation Board

determines claims that are eligible for payment and decides how much money will be awarded to each claimant.

Awards are limited to a maximum total amount of $25,000 with limitations of $5,000 for funeral expense, $3,500 for outpatient mental health counseling, $10,000 for inpatient mental health treatment and $1,000 for grief counseling for family survivors of homicide victims.

The program is funded by a portion of assessed court costs and fines, inmate wages, parole fees and restitution paid by convicted offenders.

For more information about the Crime Victims Compensation Program call (785) 296-2359 or visit the AG’s website at www.ag.ks.gov.

scope and extent of the outbreak. As of Jan. 3, 282 people had reported becoming ill with gastrointestinal symptoms after eating at the restaurant from between Dec. 10-24.

Of those, 209 people were ill within 10 to 72 hours of eating with symptoms consistent with norovirus (vomiting and/ or diarrhea).

The restaurant was inspected by KDA on

Dec. 18 and again on Dec. 24. The restaurant voluntarily closed from Dec. 24-26 to conduct a special cleaning and disinfection procedure. No new cases of illness among patrons have been reported since the restaurant reopened on Dec. 27.

Norovirus typically causes gastrointestinal illness - such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and lowgrade fever - and is eas-

ily passed from person to person or through food that has been contaminated during preparation.

It often causes large outbreaks, affecting a large percentage of people who are exposed.

The best way to prevent norovirus is proper hand washing, excluding ill persons from preparing food, and proper cleaning and sanitizing of food preparation areas.

A soda-free pledge to start the year To make 2014 a healthy year for all Kansans, Kansas Action for Children has launched a new statewide initiative to encourage individuals, families, organizations and businesses to take the Soda-Free Sundays pledge and to “Pass on Pop” each Sunday in 2014.

“Nearly one in three Kansas children is overweight or obese, and two in three adults in Kansas are overweight or obese,” said Dr. Sarah Hampl, medical director of weight management services at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. “The start of the new year is a perfect time for all of us to make a commitment to living healthier.

Passing on pop just once a week is a simple step we can take to help us reach that goal.”

So far, more than 150 people and organizations have taken the pledge, including the Kansas Health Foundation, the YWCA of Topeka and several county health departments.

Why should Kansans “Pass on Pop?” Obesity in Kansas is climbing - in fact, Kansas was just named the 14th most obese state in the country. One 12-ounce can of soda contains 10 teaspoons of sugar - more than a candy bar. Overconsumption of sugarsweetened beverages can lead to health problems such as Type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

Take the Soda-Free Sundays pledge now at www.kac.org/ passonpop

AG to seek tougher fraud enforcement Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt will ask the legislature to strengthen penalties for people convicted of Medicaid fraud.

Schmidt said he will propose legislation to reform the state’s Medicaid Fraud Control Act by enhancing criminal penalties and increasing fines. The measure also would make other changes to the Act to improve enforcement.

“Under current law, a person who defrauds a dependent adult of a large sum of money ends up serving prison time, but the same person using the same fraud to steal the same sum from the taxpayers gets probation. That’s wrong, and this bill aims to fix it.”

During fiscal year 2013, Schmidt’s Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Division recovered a record $33.7 million for taxpayers and obtained 15 criminal convictions.

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Kansas hospitals leading the push for Medicaid expansion Jim McLean KHI News Service

Many uninsured Kansans who Congress assumed would get coverage under the health reform law are instead falling in to what is being called the “Medicaid gap.”

They make too much money or don’t meet other criteria to qualify for the state’s Medicaid program called KanCare - but don’t earn enough to be eligible for federal tax credits to offset the cost of private insurance.

Those credits are available

only to people with incomes between 100 percent and 400 percent of federal poverty guidelines. The federal poverty level is $11,490 a year for an individual and $19,530 for a family of three.

As many as an estimated 85,000 uninsured Kansans fall in the eligibility gap, according to researchers at the Kansas Health Institute, a nonprofit policy and research organization that includes the editorially independent KHI News Service.

These Kansans have incomes that are 33 percent

or more of the federal poverty threshold - $6,445 for a family of three - but below 100 percent of poverty guidelines.

Katelyn Winrick, a 26-yearold nursing student from Topeka, recently discovered she falls in the gap.

She had come to the Topeka Shawnee County Public Library to get help purchasing health insurance on Healthcare.gov. But after entering information about the income she earns from a part-time job, Winrick and the navigator assisting her

concluded she didn’t make enough to qualify for a federal tax credit.

That and the fact that she would have been eligible for Medicaid if Kansas officials had opted to expand the program as originally intended by the authors of the Affordable Care Act were “real eye openers,” Winrick said.

“I’m going to school and that really would have helped me given my income situation,” she said.

(See HOSPITALS on page 13)

Profiles of the Medicaid coverage gap 85,000 Kansans too poor to qualify for help Phil Cauthon KHI News Service

Kathleen Christian is a remarkably healthy 63-yearold. She has no chronic conditions and rarely sees the doctor for anything other than preventive care.

Even so, she said she had been looking forward to getting health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, after having been without coverage since she was laid off in 2009.

But last month, Christian learned she would not be able to get coverage after all.

Because Kansas has not expanded Medicaid eligibility under the ACA, she is one of an estimated 85,000 Kansans who experts predict will fall into the so-called “Medicaid

coverage gap.”

Christian is not eligible for Medicaid (also known as KanCare in Kansas) because she earns too much to qualify for it but she is too poor to qualify for the ACA’s federal tax credits to buy private insurance.

Without the subsidies, there is simply no way she could afford $384 each month for the cheapest plan on HealthCare. gov, Christian said.

“Where am I supposed to

Enrollment falling in nutrition programs for pregnant mothers, kids For officials in Johnson County and across the country, it’s plain to see that enrollment is down in a federal nutrition program for lowincome pregnant women and their children.

Less clear, though, is why.

“That seems to be the question that no one has the answer for,” said Laura Drake of the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment.

Drake is county manager of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, more commonly known as WIC. Those familiar with the program said a number of factors could be suppressing WIC caseloads, even as some families continue to struggle with the effects of the recession. The potential causes include demographics or simply an inability among potential applicants to make it to an office.

According to Johnson County data, the number of WIC participants dropped about 14 percent in 2013. The county now has a caseload of about 5,800 individuals on an annual budget of approximately $1.1 million.

Yet poverty is not declining in the county, according to United Community Services of Johnson County, a research and advocacy organization.

UCS officials said the poverty rate in the county stood at 6.8 percent in 2012, up from a pre-recession level of 4.7 percent. Children under 18 accounted for a third of county residents living below the federal poverty level, according to the data.

The number of WIC participants nationwide dropped by about five percent during a five-year period running through early December, according to the USDA. (See NUTRITION on page 13)

get $384 every month? I budget and keep a spreadsheet.

I know where every penny goes,” Christian said.

Her 2012 adjusted gross income from part-time work was $5,008 and her monthly Social Security checks are about $800, she said.

“The last day of (November), I had $2.96 to my name. By the grace of God, every time I run out, usually the next day I have (See PROFILES on page 13)

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Senate president doesn’t expect Medicaid expansion Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle said she thinks Medicaid expansion is unlikely to win approval from lawmakers this year given the shaky rollout of the Obamacare insurance marketplace.

“I think it will be very

difficult to do this year because of the unpredictability of the federal plan and the instability of the plan,” said Wagle, a Wichita Republican.

“What we were told we were going to get (with the Affordable Care Act), we’re not getting. People

Hospitals ‘The only priority’ The Affordable Care Act, as signed into law in 2010, was written to include a nationwide expansion of Medicaid to cover everyone earning up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level $15,282 for an individual and $25,975 for a family of three.

But the 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the law held that Medicaid expansion was an option for each state to decide.

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something to work with,” she said. “I’m not alone. I know lots of people like me, lots of people who are struggling. There’s just no way they can pay these premiums. It’s just not realistic.”

Christian said she lays equal blame on President Obama and Gov. Sam Brownback, who has opposed provisions of the ACA from the beginning.

“They’re just a bunch of boys having an argument about who’s better than who. It’s all a political game for them. I don’t

about is getting the state to accept the money and to cover more Kansans.”

An analysis done for the hospital association concluded that expanding Medicaid eligibility starting this year would have injected another $3 billion into the state economy and create 4,000 jobs by 2020.

Rejecting expansion will cost Kansas an estimated $5.3 billion in federal aid between 2013 and 2022, according to a report by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

In an effort to get the issue of expansion back in front of legislators, the hospital association has hired Mike Leavitt, former secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to help it craft an alternative plan - perhaps similar to those being advanced

by Republican governors in Iowa, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Michigan, which would use federal Medicaid dollars to help low-income people buy private coverage.

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think they’re really seeing what they’re doing to people,” Christian said. “I guess people who have money just don’t understand what being poor is.

I’m not materialistically poor - I have a roof over my head, thank God, and we have enough food, although we could use a little bit more. We’re not starving to death. But we’re cash poor. That’s just the way it is.”

Christian said when she found out she’d be in the coverage gap, she wrote

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but, “I think it’s unfortunate in that we’re in a very unpredicatable federal environment as far as implementation of Obamacare has proceeded. It’s very unpredictable what the plan will look like a year from now or four years from now. And

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and 23 other Republican dominated states so far have chosen against expansion.

The Kansas Hospital Association and a growing coalition of more than 50 organizations are preparing to push Gov. Sam Brownback and leaders in the Republican-controlled Legislature to change their minds and broaden the program.

“It is the only priority,” said Sean Gatewood, the interim director of the Kansas Medicaid Access Coalition. “All we care

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were told they could keep their old insurance plan.

They can’t keep their old insurance plan. In this environment, there isn’t much we can do.”

Wagle said she still thought Medicaid expansion “deserves discussion and analysis and debate,”

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During that period, caseloads in Kansas dropped 8.3 percent.

The national caseload now stands at about 8.6 million individuals. WIC provided about $6.8 billion in grants to states last year. In addition to serving women who are pregnant or new mothers, the program covers children up to age 5.

Applicants must have income at or below 185 percent of the federal poverty level, which would equal $43,567 for a family of four. They can also receive food stamps.

Eligible purchases through the program include juice, milk, fruits and vegetables, breakfast cereals, and whole wheat bread.

Drake says it’s possible that potential clients view food stamps as an easier alternative with a broader range of acceptable food purchases. WIC requires clients to undergo nutrition counseling and come in for periodic weighing and measuring.

It’s possible that more women might turn to WIC now that additional funding for food stamps, authorized as part of the 2009 federal stimulus bill, expired in November.

a letter to Brownback expressing her frustration.

As of Jan. 6, she had yet to receive a response.

She was laid off from her long-time job at a Lawrence home security company during the recession, she said.

Apart from a minimum wage job capped at 18 hours a week and the occasional temp job, she’s been out of work for four years.

“I’m in my sixties. It’s not real easy to get a job,” Christian said.

She has custody of her

13-year-old grandson and gets $115 per month in food stamps.

“It was $135, until they cut it back,” she said.

When push came to shove, she filed for early retirement to get the Social Security payments, a move that means she gets lower monthly payments than if she had waited longer to take retirement.

“It was the only way I could support us. I didn’t want to do early retirement, but I had no choice,” she said.

the dynamics keep changing.”

The roll-out of the insurance marketplace on Oct. 1 was fraught with problems, many of which remain unresolved, though people are now finding it easier to use the online registration and

plan selection process.

Relatively few Kansans have purchased coverage through the marketplace so far, according to the latest federal reports, though the number is expected to continue growing through March, when open enrollment is scheduled to end.

Pastime at Park Lane Our sympathy goes out to the family of Hilda Gruver who passed away on Dec. 30th. Hilda had lived at Park Lane for 15 years and was a very sweet lady.

Hilda always had a smile or a kind word to say to Wonder Boy and Little Princess when they were toddlers and used to visit everyone on Sundays with me.

A remembrance service was held on Dec. 29 for residents who had passed away during the last three months.

The Community Christian Church led Sunday afternoon church services.

Residents played pitch and dominoes on Monday afternoon. Madeline Murphy, Charlotte Utley and Hugh McDaniel were the helpers.

Wii bowling was played by several residents on Monday evening.

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

Elsie Nagel gave manicures on Thursday morning.

A Bible study class was held in the chapel on Thursday evening.

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

Residents watched a sing-a-long video “Ragtime and Romance” on Friday afternoon. Ice

New Year’s Eve party

Park Lane residents helped to bring in the new year with a New Year’s Eve wine and cheese party on Dec. 31.

Hit and Miss Band performs

The Hit and Miss Band performed on Jan. 2.

Band members were Margie Stevens, Arlene Cauthon, and Melody Stevens.

Students read to Golden Listeners

Gina Ramsey brought her Scott City Elementary School third grade students to read to their Golden Listeners on Friday afternoon. Readers and listeners were: Golden Listener Ann Tedford Mildred Van Pelt

Golden Reader Jaden Lewis Gisselle Aguilar

cream and cookies were served afterwards.

Residents watched, “The Nutty Professor” on Saturday afternoon.

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

Thelma Branine was visited by Linda Wilson and Karli, Kristi, Cooper, Raelynn, Chandler and Karita.

Judy Redburn was visited by Kalie Turley, Janie Lara, Johnny and Amanda Lara, Carol Ellis, Parker Nevills, Wendy Derstine, Mary Torson, Tina Turley, LuJauna Turley, Reba Hearson and Lexie Turley Millen.

Bud Berry was visited

by Wayde and Sondra Berry.

Rod and Kathy Haxton were visitors of their mother, Boots Haxton.

Park Place People

by Doris Riner

It is somewhat a relief to apartment residents at Park Place that we weren’t so busy or on-thego. Several residents have enjoyed family coming from quite a distance to see them.

Most of them were glad to stay home, relax, and stay warm and comfortable.

Ardis Rose enjoyed having her son, Ron, and wife, Cindy, visit for a couple of days from Denton, Tex. Would you believe they brought coffee treats all the way from Denton? Terry and Sue Rose also joined us Saturday morning for coffee.

Most of the Park Place residents celebrated New Year’s Day last week by relaxing or napping.

Our motto, if we have one, is “One day at a time, Lord!”

Margaret Lee started off the new year with a visit from her daughter, Nancy, and husband, John.

Nancy and Mary brought in a soup luncheon for Margaret and they enjoyed the time together.

Bob and Georgia Plum were here for coffee and brought two boxes of donuts.

Clifford Thon is still in the hospital. Phillis, his wife, says she “is lost” without him. Those of us can be friends (we think of ourselves as one big happy family) but none of us can take Cliff’s place.

Lou Pfanenstiels’ niece and daughter from Meade were here to see him.

My daughter, Trudy, brought five of her grandchildren here on Christmas break for a few days.

They love to ride my scooter.

How ‘bout all these low-LOW temperatures?

I’m sure farmers welcomed the snow for more reasons than one. I’m sure the local feedlots share their “glee.”

Jim Jeffery was visited

by Pastor Dennis Carter, Nathella Jeffery, Joe Beaver and Jimalene Jeffery.

Dona Dee Carpenter was visited by Bill and Kandi John, Marvel Keyse, Gloria O’Bleness, Roger and Jackie John, Joel Kasselman and family, and Charlotte Utley, Duncan, Okla.

Albert Dean was visited by Brian and Charlene Geist and Jeff Geist.

Earl Gorman was visited by Loretta Gorman, Lyle and Leta Gillespie, Tina Turley, Salinda Baker, Jane McBroom, Brandon Gorman, Jay Gorman, Orville and Marcine Gorman, Chris and Kristi Gorman, Jaden and Josiah Gorman, Jeremy and Jennifer Brobst, Sid Brobst, Liz Brobst, Jen and Jeremy Brobst, Connie Gruver and Charlene Becht.

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Ann Tedford was visited by Mary Plum, Bob Plum, Lenora Dirks, Georgia Plum and Arlene Cauthon.

Darlene Richman was visited by Tina Turley, Salinda Baker, Mary and Russell Webster, Deb Farr, Howard and Dorothy King, Elsie Nagel; Sean, Jessica, Luke, Liam and Colin Edwards; Darian Powers, Jennifer Hill; Austan, Ashlee and Kaitlyn Richman; and D’Ann Markel.

Boots Haxton was a guest of Rod and Kathy Haxton as they hosted a family Christmas dinner on Dec. 28. Attending the dinner and visiting Boots at Park Lane were David and Sherri Haxton, McPherson; Troy and Jade Gilpin, Henderson, Colo.; Heather Haxton and Travis Davis, Hutchinson; Joni, Jaci and Dustin Pottberg, Salina; Dustin Brake, Salina; Miles Veeder, Dodge City; and Melissa Jasnoch.

Dottie Fouquet was visited by Jon and Anne Crane, Fritzie Rauch, Donna Gashler, Ethan McDaniel-Noll, Mark and Terri Fouquet; Doug, Mary, Riley and Nick Stormont; Matt, Sandy, Ellie and Bodie Higgins; and Lil Francisco.

Nella Funk was visited by Tami Turley, Eric and Joyce Russell, Darien Russell, Kallen Russell, Kade Russell, Danny Russell and Nikki Simmons.

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Ruth Holland was visited by Debbie Bush, Monica Rowton and Charlene Becht.

Verna Willman was visited by Kim Smith, D’Ann Markel, Madison Braun, Alfred Neuman, Bill Willman and Bob Willman.

Herb Graves was visited by Salinda Baker, Kelsi Schwartz, Tina Turley, Ron Hess and Emily Wright.

Jake Leatherman was visited by Leona Logan; Don Leatherman, Liberal; Christopher Leatherman, Rod and Mary Ann Leatherman, and Faye Summerville, Hutchinson.

Christine Evans was visited by Richard Evans, Detta Hager, Barbara Hutchins, Treva McCandless, Arlene Cauthon and Kathleen Moore.

Clifford Dearden was visited by Kirk and Janet Ottaway, Janelle and Marshall Perryman, Tod and Jessica Hileman, Feyden and Jude Hileman, Hunter and Scout Perryman, Aaron and Jill Brantley, and MaLaney and McKinley Brantley.

Bonnie Pickett was visited by Larry and Gloria Wright; Justin, Betsy, Eli and Ethan Wright; Detta Hager; Joel, Teagen and Maverick Wright; Margie Stevens, Treva McCandless, Arlene Cauthon and Jon Tuttle.

Lula Dirks was visited

by Darla Luebbers, Willetta Payne, and Dave and Deb Kraemer.

Harold and Ruth White were visited by Jr. and Sharon Strecker.

Lorena Turley was visited by Neta Wheeler, Jackie Griffey, Phyllis See, Rex Turley, Emily and Tracy Hess, Lexi Turley Muller, Reba Hearson and LuJauna Turley.

Vivian Kreiser was visited by Larry and Sharon Lock, Sara, Easten and Justin Reimer.

Jim and Yvonne Spangler were visited by Les and Mary Ann Spangler, Brett Spangler, Matthew Spangler, Margie Stevens, Jillian VanCampen, Greg and Yvette Mills, and Adalei Zeller.

Geraldine Graves was visited by Charlene Becht, Megan Dirks, Alonna Mantzke, Susie Geist and Howard Sheley.

Delores Brooks was visited by Charles Brooks and David and Cheryl Perry.

Joyce Bohnert was visited by Tina Turley, Michelle and Lois Hutchins, Alan and Glenda Graham, and Janet Gallardo.

Edith Norman was visited by Doris Riner, Kim Smith, Ron and Sue Riner, Jan and JoAnn Norman, Tom and Sara Shane, Justin and Leah Joug, Katie Norman, Brenna Norman, Janet Norman, Luke Norman and Lisa Engelken.

Melva Rose was visited

by Tina Turley.

Harriet Jones was visited by Rev. Don Martin from St. Luke’s Church.

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Deaths Michael D. Kitch Michael D. Kitch, 63, died Jan. 4, 2014, at the Scott County Hospital, Scott City.

He was born on June 21, 1950, in North Platte, Nebr., the son of Harold E. “Gene” and Darline (Dirks) Kitch. A lifetime resident of Scott City, he was a restaurant owner and operator.

Mike loved cooking for his family.He was a member of the First Baptist Church, Scott City.

Survivors include: two sons, Cory M. and wife, Tristan, Stromsberg, Nebr., and Kelly M. and wife, Stephanie, Little Rock, Ark.; one brother, Ronald Kitch, Scott City;

one sister, Pamela Gruver, Scott City; and two grandchildren, Grayson and Gillian Kitch.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

A memorial service will be held Sat., Jan. 11, 2:00 p.m., at the First Baptist Church, Scott City, with Rev. Kyle Evans officiating.

Inurnment will be held at a later date.

There will be no calling times.

Memorials may be made, in lieu of flowers, to Area 96 in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 401 S. Washington St., Scott City, Ks. 67871.

John Byron Starr John Byron Starr, 77, died Dec. 25, 2013.

H e was born Sept. 22, 1 9 3 6 , in Scott City, to Frederick and John Starr Grace (Stormont) Starr.

He graduated from Scott Community High School. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Ft. Hays State University and thereafter taught junior high English at WaKeeney and Evergreen, Colo.

He then made a career change to obtain an associate’s degree in mortuary science at San Antonio College. After working briefly as a funeral director in Denver, Colo., Byron returned to teaching as the chairman of the Department of Mortuary Science at San Antonio Col-

lege where he remained until his retirement in 1994.

He was also licensed as one of the youngest pilots in Montana and owned farmland in Western Kansas.

Byron married Charlotte L. Willingham on Aug. 13, 1966, after meeting her two months earlier. Their brief courtship led to a 47-year loving marriage.

Survivors include: one son, Paul Byron, and wife, Janine; and two grandchildren, Charles Anthony and Kathryn Grace, all of Austin, Tex. Memorial service will be held Sat., Jan. 11, 11:00 a.m., at The Fellowship of San Antonio, 23755 Canyon Golf Rd., San Antonio, Tex. 78258.

The family requests, in lieu of flowers, memorial donations be offered to The Fellowship of San Antonio or to Vitas Hospice.

Attend the Church of Your Choice

Grace and Truth

“Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession.... Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost Of Discipleship Bonhoeffer is one of my favorites. If you are not familiar with this German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi, and founding member of the Confessing Church there are several biographies and even some documentaries out there worth a perusal. This quote is probably one of his most famous, certainly his most powerful.

Though it was written in 1937, it seems to be more relevant today than ever. There is an epidemic of sorts in the church and that is Cheap Grace. As Mr. Bonhoeffer has clearly stated it is the proclamation of an incomplete gospel.

The apostle John reminds us that Jesus came “full of grace and truth.” If the church is going to be effective and true to its mission it must not neglect one or the other.

The results would become disastrous. To only have truth the church then becomes legalistic. Legalism is a cruel master and leaves destruction in her wake. Many a life has been ruined due to legalistic Christianity. Guilt and shame are its offspring.

To only have grace the church becomes nominal and lacking substance. It too leaves a wake of destruction.

But this time damage is indifference and apathy. So the church, like Christ, must be full of both, not 50/50 but 100/100.

“We believe the church is most appealing when the message of grace is most apparent. We are equally as convinced that God’s grace is only as visible as God’s truth is clear. It is pointless to tell me I’m forgiven if I’m not sure why I need forgiveness in the first place.

That’s the beauty of grace and truth. They complement. They are both necessary. They are not part of a continuum. They are not opposite ends of a pole. They are the two essential ingredients. Without massive doses of both, you won’t have a healthy gathering.”

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Scott City Assembly of God

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

St. Joseph Catholic Church

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

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

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

Pence Community Church

Prairie View Church of the Brethren

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

Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.

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

Held at Precision Ag Bldg. west of Shallow Water

Holy Cross Lutheran Church

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

Worship every Sunday, 10:15 a.m.

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

Community Christian Church

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

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

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

Sunday Morning Worship, 10:45 a.m.

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

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

First Baptist Church

Immanuel Southern Baptist Church

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

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

Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.

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

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

Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.

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

Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

First Christian Church

1st United Methodist Church

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

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

Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

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

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

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

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

Website: www.fccscottcity.org

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

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

Scott Mennonite Church

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

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

Sunday Evening Service: 7:00 p.m.

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

Sunday School, 10:50 a.m.

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

YMYW Wednesday, 8:00 p.m.

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College students film a ‘day in the life’ of WKCAC

The story of the Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center has been put to film by a crew that visited Scott City in mid-December.

“A day in the life . . . at the Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center” includes interviews of the staff and touring the agency’s home office. A second day of filming included interviews with partner agencies, the mobile centers and a visit to the courtroom.

The film crew consisted of students studying at John Paul the Great Catholic University in San Diego, Calif.

Brett Bussen, a native from Wallace, is a sophomore at the university who studies directing and writing. The three other film students were from Vermont, Missouri and Colorado.

“We appreciate all the volunteers and parents who let us borrow their children to make this production,” says Kelly Robbins, WKCAC executive director.

The “premier” showing of the film is expected to be held during the fourth annual Diamonds and Champagne fundraiser at The Majestic on April 5.

Isidro Morales and Chris Smith of the Scott County Hospital’s respiratory department and sleep center look over a patient’s breathing patterns as they are logged onto a computer. (Record Photo)

Sleep of making that happen.”

A sleep center has been on Burnett’s wish list for some time, but that wasn’t going to happen until he had the right people in place.

It began with the hiring of respiratory therapy manager Isidro Morales in 2004, followed by the addition of respiratory therapist Chris Smith. Together, they have more than 20 years in conducting sleep study procedures and they have more than 45 years of experience in respiratory therapy.

The key to opening the center, however, was the availability of Dr. Robert Ballard, one of the nation’s leading experts on sleep study who also operates Colorado Sleep and Pulmonary in Denver.

“He’s the guru of sleep,” says Morales.

Dr. Ballard has made arrangements to be on site once a month and that could become two days if the demand for his services grows.

Since the local sleep center opened in late December it has already seen 13 overnight patients from Scott City, Goodland, Oakley, Leoti, Tribune and Hays.

“And we’re just now getting the word out that we have this,” says Morales. “We see tremendous potential for this service.”

Garden City is the only other site in the region which has a sleep lab and a sleep center. While Garden City doesn’t treat patients who are younger than eight-years-old, Morales points out that the Scott City center will treat people of all ages.

He says the program can benefit people of all ages. While they’ve primarily seen adults, so far, they recently conducted an overnight study of a high school athlete.

“Sleep studies can also help people who are sleep walking, sleep talking and experiencing nightmares,” notes Morales.

The department is also staffed with a respiratory therapist who is credentialed by the Board of Reg-

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istered Polysomnographic Technologists. This allows the center to be accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, which Morales says is the “gold standard for sleep centers.”

Renovate Horizon Site The sleep center is located in what was formerly the physical therapy wing of the Horizon Health building, located west of the hospital on south US83 Highway. It features a comfortable waiting area, two bedrooms and a room where monitoring equipment can be observed throughout the night as the patient sleeps.

“We wanted to create a home-like environment.

We didn’t want a clinical setting,” says Smith of the two bedrooms.

One room is handicapped accessible and also has a shower for those patients who need to get ready for work the following morning.

Patients will typically arrive at about 8:00 p.m. and shortly afterwards get prepared for a night of testing. That includes attaching electrodes to different parts of their body so their breathing patterns, oxygen level and heart rate can be monitored throughout the night. From a nearby room, Smith will also record sleeping positions during the night by observing the patient on an infrared camera.

Patients will sleep until at least 6:00 a.m., after which they can resume their normal day.

“We will also accommodate those people who sleep during the day because of their job or we can have patients come in on weekends,” Morales says.

Dr. Ballard is able to log into the data from Denver and provide feedback to Morales and Smith within three days.

“There are some places where you might have to wait up to a month for the results,” says Morales.

Despite the health benefits that come from a bet-

ter night’s sleep, Morales says many people are reluctant to take that step because they don’t want to wear a sleep apnea mask at night.

“It’s not as uncomfortable as one might assume.

Once people realize the benefits and can finally get a good night’s sleep they’re glad they did this,” he says.

Smith points out that a number of patients finally visit a sleep center because they’ve been encouraged by their husband or wife.

“They have a real problem with snoring but it’s not the snoring that bothers (the spouse) the most - it’s when the snoring stops,” she emphasizes.

“There’s the long pause between breathing and the spouse is counting the seconds.”

In addition, Smith says it’s not unusual for a spouse to be worried about their partner’s snoring, only to learn they have a snoring problem that’s as bad or worse.

If the problem is severe enough, the therapists will provide the patient with a CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) machine the same night.

“So many people just need to be educated,” adds Smith. “They put this off, not realizing that sleep problems can also have an effect on their diabetes, blood pressure and cardiovascular health.”

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Sports The Scott County Record

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Tough stretch ahead for SC following break

The holiday break is over and the Scott Community High School basketball teams . . . almost.

Having played just four games so far this season while some teams are already one-third of the way through their season, the Beavers will return to action on Friday when they travel to Hugoton (4-1) in Great West

Activities Conference action.

For the SCHS boys, it will be the first of two difficult back-to-back games that will set the stage for determining a league champion.

Hugoton’s only loss this season came on a lastsecond shot by Ulysses (61-58) in the finals of the Red and Blue Tournament.

That will be followed

by another showdown with Holcomb (5-1). The Longhorns’ only loss came against Pueblo East (72-70) in the Southwest Classic.

Despite being hit hard by graduation and with only one returning starter, the Beavers have bounced back from a season opening loss to win their last three games.

It’s no surprise that the

SCHS offense has been led by junior guards Trey O’Neil (25.0 ppg/9.3 rpg) and Brett Meyer (14.0 ppg).

However, senior center/forward Brayden Strine (8.5 ppg/5.5 rpg) has made some nice contributions to start the season, hitting 11-of-15 from the field and 12-of-17 at the line. Junior forward/ center Sloan Baker (6.0

ppg, 7.5 rpg) has added 11-of-21 from the field.

“Our boys in the post are off to a good start, but we need for them to be more physical in their post moves. And we need to do a better job of getting the ball into the post,” says head coach Glenn O’Neil. “They are shooting a nice percentage, but they probably need to be taking four more shots per

Defense sets stage in romp at Oakley

In Tuesday’s showdown of area powerhouses, the last thing that Dighton High School head coach Amy Felker expected was a blowout.

But the Lady Hornets were able to do just that behind an 18-0 scoring Dighton 48 blitz that set the Oakley 29 stage for a surprisingly easy 48-29 win at Oakley.

“In the first quarter and for part of the second quarter we were sluggish and standing around,” says Felker. “I guess that’s to be expected in our first game since the break. It takes everyone awhile to get the jitters worked out and to get back to game speed.”

Once the Lady Hornets were back to game speed they were in control at both ends of the floor.

Oakley (3-1) tied the game, 16-16, with a free throw at the 5:42 mark of the second quarter and didn’t score again for the next 11-1/2 minutes. Dighton didn’t break the deadlock until freshman guard Sara Cramer hit a basket with 2:36 left in the half which was the start of an 18 point scoring run.

Sophomore guard Kiara Budd connected on a pair of treys during that stretch - the first which gave DHS a 23-16 lead at the half and the second coming midway into the third period which extended the lead to 30-16. Senior forward Liz Heath, who finished with eight points, added a six-footer and senior center Les-

game.”

As a team, the Beavers are averaging 60 points per game while shooting 51 percent (64-of-126) from two-point range.

Rebounding and assists are two areas that Coach O’Neil has focused on during the break.

“We’re giving up too many rebounds,” says O’Neil. “We need to do (See TOUGH on page 18)

Rod Haxton, sports editor

Big 12 salvaged a little credibility

Dighton senior Liz Heath puts up a jumper in the lane during second quarter action at Oakley on Tuesday.

(Record Photo)

lie Speer closed out the run with a shot off the glass at the 2:24 mark to make it a 34-16 cushion.

“I give the defense a lot of the credit for the scoring run. We put a lot of pressure on their guards.

We knew who their shooters were and we always had hands in their faces,” says Felker. “And

we made it difficult for them to get the ball into Laura (Dennis).

Our post girls did a good job of denying the ball to Dennis and keeping pressure on her all the time,” says Felker.

Dennis, who plays center but can also be a threat on the perimeter, was limited to just 10 points

- well below her average.

“We pushed Dennis a couple of steps farther from the basket than she normally likes to play and we made sure she didn’t have a good look at the basket when she did get the ball,” notes Felker.

(See DEFENSE on page 19)

Thanks to Kansas State and Oklahoma, the Big 12 Conference salvaged a little bit of pride following a bowl season that is too long and filled with too many meaningless and unattractive games.

Baylor obviously laid an egg in the Fiesta Bowl, which isn’t a shocker.

Baylor had to feel they were deserving of a better matchup than the University of Central Florida.

And Oklahoma State should have forced at least an overtime against Missouri.

As it turned out, maybe the Big 12 isn’t as bad as some were claiming and the SEC isn’t as great as most would like to believe. Oklahoma’s win over Alabama took some of the luster off the Crimson Tide and Lou Saban’s $9 million paycheck. And Florida State dealt a major blow to SEC bragging rights with their win in the BCS title game.

Despite wins by Nebraska and Michigan State, the Big 10 can’t feel warm and fuzzy about where their conference stands in the world of football.

(See PRIDE on page 20)

Beavers looking for healthier start to new year A healthier Scott Community High School lineup is expected to return to the mat following the holiday break.

The Beavers have been wrestling short- Norton Invitational Sat., Jan. 11 handed through most 9:30 a.m. of the early season Teams: Atwood, Cimarron, duals because of inju- Beloit, Cozad (Nebr.), Haysries. Three of those TMP, Garden City sidelined grapplers JV, Hoxie, Lakin, (Nebr.), will be on the mat McCook Norton, Oakley, Scott when the Beavers face City, Smith Center, Oakley in dual action Tribune, Ulysses on Friday followed by the always rugged Norton Invitational on Saturday.

Head coach Jon Lippelmann will be anxious to see senior Warren Kropp (170) on the mat for the first time. Even though he has yet to compete this season because of a shoulder injury, the senior is ranked No. 3 (See BEAVERS on page 18)

SCHS junior Lane Hayes keeps control of a Norton opponent during dual tournament action earlier this season.

(Record Photo)

The Scott County Record • Page 18 • Thursday, January 9, 2014

Outdoors in Kansas

by Steve Gilliland

New Year hunting resolutions I’m not big on making New Year’s resolutions, but there are a few things I hope to do more of or become better at during this coming year.

I have to come clean about something. One of several reasons I began writing this column years ago was because it forced me to spend more time in the outdoors. With all the hunting, trapping, fishing, hiking, camping and outdoor photographic opportunities in our state there are absolutely no excuses not to find something to do out in the wild at any given time of the year.

Yet I had grown lazy when it came to that. I had become too comfortable with kicking my shoes off after work and just planting myself inside; too comfortable with just staying in bed on Saturday mornings instead of turkey hunting, etc.

Even with the hunting and trapping seasons I take advantage of now, I barely scratch the surface.

So, to start, I resolve to spend more time outdoors trying new opportunities.

Fishing has always been my least favorite outdoor activity.

To begin with, many fishing opportunities are during the hot Kansas summers, my least favorite time of the year. Secondly, it’s because my sorry fishing skills are the stuff of legends.

Joyce and I can literally sit side-by-side with another couple, fishing over the same brush pile and using the same baits and lures and catch only one fish to their 10!

It’s happened more than once!

This year I resolve to do more fishing.

There is lots of fishing to be done in the spring and in the fall when temperatures are mild.

With all the private farm ponds and small

(See NEW YEAR on page 21)

First half deficit too steep for Leoti The Wichita County High School boys dug themselves into a 21 point first half hole they couldn’t dig out of in a 65-50 loss to Lakin on the home floor Tuesday.

T h e offense was still on Christm a s Lakin 65 break for Wichita Co. 50 the Indians, scoring just 12 points in the first 16 minutes of play.

“Lakin’s pressure bothered us some in the first half. We rushed our shots

more than we needed to and that contributed to some poor shooting,” says head coach Hayden Parks.

A bigger factor was the inability of WCHS to finish off scoring opportunities.

Senior guard Casey Day scored 12 points, but made a number of cuts into the lane in which he dished the ball off to a teammate who was unable to get the basket.

“Casey had good penetration, but his passes were mishandled too many times and we missed too

Beavers in Class 4A. “Warren’s been anxious to get back on the mat and there was some thought of him wrestling before Christmas, but we’re hoping the extra rest will be enough to make sure he’s 100 percent and will be available the rest of the season,” says Lippelmann.

Also joining the lineup for the first time this season will be freshmen Trey Loftus (160) and Tre Stewart (182).

While they will fill a couple of weight class-

a better job of finding (offensive) guys on the weak side and at the free throw line and blocking them out.”

Neither is he satisfied with an assist-to-turnover ratio that’s less than oneto-one.

The Beavers are averaging 9.5 assists per game and the head coach would like to see that boosted to 12-15 assists.

“We don’t use our screens as well as we should in our offense,” adds O’Neil. “We’ve been breaking the offense down into small parts and showing the boys what we need to do better. It’s not just the person setting the screen. Sometimes the

be the same person every game, but we need to find a little more offense.”

And a little more defense.

Parks points out the Indians aren’t going to be able to stay with many teams if they allow more than 60 points.

Only once this year has WCHS scored more than 55 points.

“We’re capable of playing better defense,” says the head coach. “Lakin’s point guard was able to penetrate too easily against our zone defense and dish off to their big

guy for some easy scores.

We can’t let teams get into the lane like that.”

Lakin also held a 3727 edge in total rebounds, including a 12-7 advantage under the offensive boards.

Budde led the team with six rebounds while Day and Chris Wilson had five each.

Next game for the Indians will be Friday when they host St. Francis in a Northwest Kansas Liberty League game. That will be followed by a road game to Hoxie.

Christmas break and he isn’t expected to return until the Lexington tournament on Jan. 25.

“We’d rather error on the side of caution,” says Lippelmann. “We want to make sure that James is completely healed and at full strength. He’ll have a couple of tough tournaments at Lexington and Garden City, so we’ll get a good idea of where he is in terms of strength and conditioning.”

While the early dual season wasn’t kind to the Beavers, Lippelmann says the good news is that

everyone is certified at the weight class where they expect to be for regional.

“The dual tournaments weren’t a complete disaster. We had some kids who showed they have made improvements since last year,” Lippelmann says.

“Zach Tucker (106) is wrestling with more confidence and he’s getting some wins.

“We have some other kids who are close to having success. Hopefully we can start getting them over the hump and start getting a few more wins.”

had to drop that plan because of early foul trouble.

With T. O’Neil having such a huge part in the offense, the head coach expects to see more teams attempt to slow him down by jumping into a boxand-one defense.

“So we’ve been working on a box-and-one offense. I expect that we’ll need it from time to time,” he says.

O’Neil adds that it can be just as difficult - and sometimes more difficult for teams to implement a box-and-one than it is for a team to play against it.

“If you don’t practice the junk defense every day it isn’t going to be effective either,” O’Neil

adds. “It has to be a part of your regular routine.”

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es and each has a bright wrestling future it continues a problem which the Beavers have been battling throughout the season - youth and inexperience. Of the two freshmen, Loftus has a much greater background in wrestling.

“That puts us back into a situation where we are wrestling freshmen at the varsity level which is always tough, especially when you get into the upper weight classes,” Lippelmann says. “We’d prefer to bring these kids along more slowly and

Tough

many easy opportunities,” Parks says.

It was a different story in the second half when Leoti (2-5) began finding their offense along with better rebounding.

Senior guard Jantz Budde led the Indians with 20 points.

“We know that Jantz will get his 20 or more on most nights and it was good to have Casey in double figures,” says Parks. “We need for someone else to step up and score in double figures for us. It doesn’t have to

have them gain confidence and experience, but that’s not a luxury we have this year.

“We’ll see how these boys do against Oakley and at Norton and then we may evaluate things a little further.”

Just as the Beavers gain some matmen from the injury list, they have another one who will be on there for another couple of weeks. Former state champion James Jurgens (126) injured his left shoulder during the Goodland dual tournament just before the

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Scott City

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19.0

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4.5

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57.5

41.0

31.0

13.0

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guy coming off the screen is running too wide and not allowing the screen to be effective.”

SCHS will begin mix-

K of C free throw contest in SC Sunday

The annual Knights of Columbus free throw contest will be held Sun., Jan. 12, 1:00 p.m., at Scott Community High School.

Participants must be at least 10-yearsold as of Jan. 1, 2014.

Assists Per Game

9.5 Assists Per Game 4.3

ing in some different defenses after the break.

O’Neil had hoped to do some half-court trapping against Ulysses, but they

Host Holcomb Any game with Holcomb is always a big game on the SCHS schedule and Tuesday will be no exception with SCHS and the Longhorns looking to gain an upperhand in the league race.

Like the Beavers, Holcomb has a one-two scoring punch led by senior Heath Tucker (18.3 ppg, 6.5 rpg) and Trey Sleep (19.0 ppg, 6.8 rpg).

Statistically, both teams are very even on paper, though the Beavers hold the edge in points per game, field goal accuracy and rebounds per game.

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Final shot strategy pays for Oakley in one point win over the Hornets For 27 minutes the Dighton Hornets were able to play their style of basketball in Tuesday’s road game with Oakley.

It was the other five minutes that proved very costly in a 4544 loss in nonDighton 44 league play. It Oakley 45 was Dighton’s third consecutive loss and fourth in their last five games.

“We played about 80 percent of the game. The other 20 percent we took time off, especially on defense, and that led to some easy baskets,” says boy’s head coach Dean Cramer.

Trailing 12-11 late in the first quarter, Dighton (3-4) was able to take control of the game during the next 3-1/2 minutes with a 13-4 scoring run that included a pair of treys from senior guard Matthew Mulville and another trey by senior guard Isaac Alinor. Mulville’s second threepointer with 5:06 remaining in the first half opened up a 24-16 Dighton lead.

However, some turnovers and lapses on defense allowed the Plainsmen (5-1) to close out the half with an 11-0 scoring blitz to claim a 29-24 advantage.

“What probably hurt us most was not getting back on defense. We knew they would fastbreak and our transition defense had to be ready to take away the easy baskets,” Cramer said. “We didn’t take care of the ball well during the final five minutes and we gave up three

Defense In addition, the defense came away with 11 steals - four by senior guard Diamond Brown that led to several fastbreak opportunities.

“I keep reminding the girls that defense and rebounding is what wins games and nights like this hopefully reinforce that. We’ll get our points, but every night we need to play solid defense and rebound at both ends of the floor,” says the head coach.

Dighton senior Mathew Barnett wins the battle for a rebound against Oakley’s Austin Baalman during Tuesday’s nonleague action.

(Record Photo)

or four fastbreak opportunities remainder of the night was a which were big in a game like dog fight between the two teams this.” with seven lead changes and the scored tied on three other occaHornets Rally sions, including 36-36 as they It took only a minute for the entered the final period.

Hornets to erase the halftime Dighton grabbed a 39-38 deficit on baskets by Wyatt lead two minutes into the fourth Habiger and a three-point play quarter following a three-pointby senior center Sam Moomaw er by senior guard Ryan Horn that tied the game at 29-29. The and regained the lead for the fi-

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Despite picking up her third foul just 1-1/2 minutes into the third quarter, L. Speer still had a very strong performance with a game high 14 points (7-of-12 FG) and eight rebounds. Freshman center Jordan Speer contributed eight points and seven boards while Heath also pulled down seven rebounds.

As a team, the Lady Hornets finished with 35 rebounds.

While Dighton shot just 39 percent from two-point range (20-of-51) they were able to

make up for that by getting 15 offensive rebounds which contributed to second-chance opportunities.

“Even though Leslie led us with 14 points, I think we’re seeing from this team that we don’t rely on just one girl to carry us every night,” Felker says. “We have different girls who are capable of contributing and we are going to be balanced in our scoring on most nights.

We’re not a selfish team.”

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nal time, 41-40, moments later on a baseline jumper by senior forward Mathew Barnett. Oakley opened up its biggest lead of the second half, 44-41, following a fastbreak layup at the 3:00 mark, but freshman guard Tyler Lingg cut into that lead with his first basket of the night.

Following an Oakley turnover, the Hornets tacked on an-

other point when Alinor, who finished with 10 points, hit the second of two free throw opportunities that tied the game at 4444 with 1:33 remaining.

After regaining possession following another Oakley turnover with 1:20 on the clock, the Hornets were faced with a tough decision - how long to wait be(See STRATEGY on page 20)

KSU puts streak on the line at KU on Sat. After a very inauspicious start, the Kansas State University basketball team is 12-3 and on a 10 game winning streak after a 65-47 thumping of TCU on Tuesday. by No victory Mac has been big- Stevenson ger for the No. 25 ranked Wildcats than the 74-71 win over nationally ranked and conference co-favorite Oklahoma State.

Freshman point guard Jevon Thomas (6-0, 180) has given Coach Bruce Weber’s team a terrific boost.

Thomas didn’t become eligible until the second semester and he wasn’t allowed to practice with the team before that.

His play without any prior practice or experience has been extraordinary.

Thomas has exceptional quickness and ball handling skills and he’s already a capable on-ball defender. He adds a whole new dimension to the Wildcats..

Kansas State had a quick team before Thomas came aboard. With him, Weber has the quickest team in the Big 12 and the Cats are playing stellar defense.

KSU travels to Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday to play a KU squad that’s looking vulnerable.

KU is coming off a 90-83 win over Oklahoma in their conference opener. The Jayhawks may be feeling a little more pressure since they have more at stake on Saturday with respect to a national ranking and an eventual seed in the NCAA Tournament.

As good as the Wildcats are playing right now, they will have their hands full.

Thomas Gipson (6-7, 255) and D.J. Johnson (6-8, 250) are KSU’s only true inside players.

The Jayhawks feature Joel Embiid (7-0, 245), Perry Ellis (6-8, 225), Jamari Traylor (6-8, 220), Tarik Black (6-9, 262), and Landen Lucas (6-10, 240).

If either Gipson or Johnson gets in foul trouble, it’s going to put K-State in a real bind.

KU’s frontline played poorly against San Diego State, but the Jayhawks will (See STREAK on page 21)

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Strategy

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fore attempting a game-winning basket.

“I was debating whether to run the clock down to the end and attempt one final shot,” says Cramer. “But that seemed like a long time to control the ball. We got the shot I wanted.

I wish we would have taken it another step to the basket, but it wasn’t a bad shot.”

With the tables turned, Oakley decided to run the clock down and attempt a final shot.

Senior guard Darius Herl drove by the Hornet guard at the top of the 2-3 zone defense and was able to split two defenders before being fouled under the basket. He made the first of two free throws with 4.5 seconds remaining to give Oakley the lead.

Dighton rebounded the

missed free throw and called a made one pass before calling a timeout, providing the Hornets with an inbounds opportunity near the mid-court line with 2.7 seconds on the clock. The pass was picked off by Oakley which prevented a last second shot attempt.

With Oakley playing for a final shot, Cramer said the team was instructed to pack their defense inside.

“I could live with them attempting a shot from the outside because they hadn’t been hitting them. But we couldn’t allow Herl to split two defenders. We can’t let someone penetrate against our 2-3 zone.”

The Hornets are still looking for more consistency from their offense.

Barnett joined Alinor in

scoring a team high 10 points, but only two of those came after the opening period.

“We need to develop the mindset that we’re going to take it to people. We need to be aggressive and drive (to the basket) when teams are playing us man-to-man,” says Cramer.

“Sometimes we settle for the five or 10-foot shot when we have the size to take it deeper.

“If we’re hitting the outside shot, that’s fine. But when those shots aren’t falling we can’t be hesitant about taking the ball inside.”

The head coach also feels the team needs to find a way to hit the boards harder at both ends of the floor.

“We shouldn’t be getting outrebounded like we have been the last few games,” he says. “We’re giving teams too

2014 Orange and Black Classic

Boy’s Bracket • January 23-25 • at Colby McCook

Thursday • 8:15 p.m.

Community Bldg.

Friday 3:00 p.m.

High School

Saturday • 2:00 p.m.

High School

4th Place

Colby Scott City

Thursday • 4:45 p.m.

Community Bldg.

Burlington

Palmer Ridge

Friday 8:15 p.m.

Community Bldg.

Saturday • 8:15 p.m.

Community Bldg. Champion

Thursday • 6:30 p.m.

High School Friday 6:30 p.m.

High School

Liberal Hugoton Thursday • 3:00 p.m.

High School

Friday 4:45 p.m.

Community Bldg.

Wichita West

7th Place

Saturday • Noon Community Bldg.

Saturday • 4:00 Community Bldg.

3rd Place

2014 Orange and Black Classic

Girl’s Bracket • January 23-25 • at Colby Hugoton

Thursday • 4:45 p.m.

High School Friday 4:45 p.m.

High School

4th Place

Saturday • 2:00 p.m.

Community Bldg.

Sunrise Christian Palmer Ridge

Thursday • 8:15 p.m.

High School

Scott City Colby

Friday 3:00 p.m.

Community Bldg.

Saturday • 6:00 p.m.

Community Bldg. Champion

Thursday • 6:30 p.m.

Community Bldg.

Friday 8:15 p.m.

High School

Burlington McCook Thursday • 3:00 p.m.

Community Bldg.

Friday 6:30 p.m.

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Liberal

7th Place

Saturday • Noon High School

Saturday • 4:00 High School

3rd Place

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many second and third chance opportunities to score and for us there are too many times when we get one or two good shots at the basket and we’re done.

“We can’t be standing around and watching the ball after someone shoots. We need to be crashing the boards and attacking as soon as the shot goes up.”

Despite the recent losing skid, Cramer is optimistic about the team’s progress.

“I’m growing more familiar with the boys’ strengths and they are more familiar with what I want as a coach,” adds Cramer. “I don’t like losing, but as long as we continue to learn and get better we’ll be a much better team at the end of the season.”

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Perhaps just as important as knocking Michigan down another notch in the pecking order with their 3114 thumping, K-State may have solidified their starting quarterback position for the next year. For the most part, Snyder stayed away from the two-quarterback system that had worked pretty well for most of the season and stayed with Jake Waters. And why not? Waters had a very solid game As much as we like Daniel Sams, even he sees the writing on the wall for at least another year. He reportedly wants a shot at playing wide receiver so he can get on the field more.

It’s a nice problem for the Wildcats to have.

By all indications, K-State should be a very solid team next year and, just maybe, could find themselves back in the hunt for a Big 12 title.

What will make the year even more fun for Scott City fans is the strong possibility that former SCHS players Luke Hayes and Colborn Couchman could get a fair amount of playing time. Even as a walk-on, Couchman has earned a spot on special teams and played in the Buffalo Wings Bowl.

Hayes will be battling for one of the two offensive tackle positions (most likely left tackle) and, as a juco All-American at Butler Community College, the junior certainly has a good shot at earning a roster spot.

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Takedown Kids Club Great Bend Tournament January 4, 2014 6-Years and Under 49: Matthew Wheeler dec. Jayden Amaro (Dodge City); dec. by Jacob Moore (Great Bend); dec. by Logan Peterson (McPherson).

7-8-Years-Old 70-76: Bryton Gregory dec. Zayvier Chavez-Hays (Plainville); pinned by Kaidyn Welch (Pratt). Second place.

9-10-Years-Old 85: Kale Wheeler maj. dec. Chandler Seaton (Leoti), 10-0; dec. by Jace Ostrom (Dodge City), 1-0; pinned Caleb Powers (Russell); pinned Quentin Boxberger (Hoisington). Third place.

120-130: Jarron Gregory pinned Chayse McCullough (Plainville), 1:33; pinned Luke Bates (Renegades), 0:58; dec. by Blayze Standley (Russell), 6-4; pinned Jonah Scott (McPherson), 2:14.

Second place.

11-12-Years-Old 92: Kaden Wren tech. fall Jaquez Hill (McPherson), 15-0; pinned George Weber (Great Bend). First place.

115-120: Cale Goodman pinned Dalton Street (Lincoln), 2:10; dec. by Jarron Kaufmann (Great Bend), 7-5; pinned Chandler Blackwell (Hoisington); dec.

Dalton Street (Lincoln). Third place.

13-14-Years-Old 120-125: Wyatt Hayes tech. fall Jacob Hanrahan (Great Bend), 18-2; pinned Rance Tucker (Pratt), 0:28; pinned Kyle Casper (Hays), 0:37. First place.

Colby Tournament January 4, 2014 6-Years and Under 40: Kasey Rohrbough pinned Patrick Biscomb (Colby), 0:18; pinned by Kayden Davis (Colby), 1:26.

Second place.

40: Kirbey Rohrbough lost by maj. dec. to Kayden Davis (Colby), 13-4; won by tech. fall over Patrick Biscomb (Colby), 17-0. pinned Legend Finley (Colby). Third place.

43: Trenton Frank pinned Sean Wederski (Colby), 2:17; maj. dec. Kade Kingston (Scott City), 12-4; maj. dec.

Cauy Bosserman (Oakley), 14-2. First place.

43: Kade Kingston pinned Jaxson Nelson (St. Francis), 1:36; lost by maj. dec. to Trenton Frank (Scott City), 12-4; dec. by Tate McGreer (Colby), 10-8.

43: Eli Lisenby pinned by Cauy Bosserman (Oakley), 1:51; pinned Sean Wederski (Colby), 1:28; dec. by Tate McGreer (Colby), 5-4.

Fourth place.

49: Waylon Ricker dec.

Kash Schiltz (Hoxie), 7-2; maj. dec. Blake Buresh (Phillipsburg), 16-4; pinned Carter Krier (Oakley), 1:42.

First place.

49: Brodie Rohrbough pinned Quinton Hernandez (Goodland), 0:34; pinned by Carter Krier (Oakley), 0:35; dec. by Tucker Matzek (Oakley), 13-7.

52: Alex Rodriguez pinned Kollin Kraft (Lakin), 0:43; maj. dec. by Talon Wark (Colby), 14-2; pinned Andreason (Colby), 1:22; pinned Sauvage (Oberlin), 1:52; pinned Emerson Lowry (Stockton); dec. by Wark (Colby), 6-1. Fourth place.

55: Brodie Holstein pinned by Alexander Hamel (Hill City), 1:17; pinned Max Hancock (Oakley), 0:29; pinned by Kade John (Scott

Streak

City), 0:07.

55: Kade John pinned Blaine Beckley (Colby), 1:57; dec. by Cameron Atkins (Hill City), 5-3; pinned Brodie Holstein (Scott City), 0:07; dec. by Max Kersenbrock (Colby), 12-6. Fourth place.

7-8-Years-Old 61: Houston Frank pinned Linkon Cure (Goodland); dec. by Tucker Wark (Colby), 7-6; pinned Lauden Barrett (Colby), 0:40; pinned Dawson Farr (Oberlin); pinned Mason Urban (Oberlin), 1:00; pinned Kane Rosales (Hoxie), 0:22.

Third place.

61: Max Tuttle pinned by Kody Field (Norton); pinned

by Lauden Barrett (Colby), 0:15.

61: Kooper Wright maj. dec. Seth Keeten (Phillipsburg), 9-1; pinned

by Dayton Bell (Hoxie), 1:39; dec. by Logan Franz (Goodland), 8-7.

64: Collin McDaniel tech. fall Cole Keetan (Phillipsburg), 17-0; pinned Gus Palmgren (Colby), 0:28; tech. fall Wyatt Galvan (Norton), 16-0; tech. fall Lukas Zodrow (Oberlin), 15-0. First place.

76: Wyatt Ricker dec.

Cai Lanning (Colby), 6-2; pinned by Bryant Wiedeman (Colby), 0:20. Second place.

88: Izak Venegas dec. by Colton Stover (Norton), 7-3; dec. by Brett Poe (Hill City), 8-3; dec. Coy Dodd (Oakley), 6-2. Third place.

9-10-Years-Old 67: Zach Rohrbough pinned Kolton Field (Norton), 0:11; dec. by Jonathan Phillips (Oakley), 11-8; pinned Jacob Schwarz (Oakley); maj. dec. Kolton Field (Norton), 12-0. Third place.

76: Stryder Sowers dec.

by Landon Riffel (Hill City), 2-0; pinned Matthew Fawcett (Phillipsburg); maj. dec. by Austin Hillery (Oakley), 12-3.

82: Leighton Heim maj. dec. Eric Cain (Oakley), 14-2; dec. Rojelia Loya (Colby), 8-7; dec. Hunter Davis (Meade), 6-4. First place.

120: Lance Miller pinned

by Hagan Booi (Colby); dec.

by Cyrus Green (Atwood), 3-0; dec. by Jackson Harris (Lakin), 6-4; dec. Cody Presley (Hill City), 4-3.

Fourth place.

11-12-Years-Old 84: Justus McDaniel pinned Matthew Schritter (Colby); pinned Landon Macafee (Oberlin), 0:21; pinned Trenton Howell (Stockton), 0:11; pinned Jonathan Ortiz (Lakin), 0:45.

First place.

88: Theron Tucker maj. dec. Trey Medina (SW Grapplers), 11-2; pinned by Dawson Kempt (Oberlin); pinned Zachariah Hamel (Hill City), 1:20; pinned Aiden Baalman (Hoxie), 1:11. First place.

92: Braylin Heim pinned

by Isaac Wagner (Brighton), 1:22; pinned Kevin Herman (Scott City), 1:21.

92: Kevin Herman dec. by Cade Lanning (Colby), 6-2; pinned Brylin Heim (Scott City), 1:21; pinned Kael Sowers (Scott City), 0:14; pinned by Lanning (Colby), 1:02. Fourth place.

92: Kael Sowers pinned Kade Lovelady (Lakin), 1:23; pinned by Mason Wright (Colby); pinned by Kevin Herman (Scott City), 0:14.

96: Jordan Wagner pinned by Gabe Peter (Oberlin), 1:17; pinned by Parker Jones (Hoxie).

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have a huge size advantage playing K-State. Nevertheless, Kansas State has evolved as the surprise team in the Big 12 and the Wildcats are capable of springing an upset.

Shockers on a Roll Wichita State is ranked No. 6 in the nation and off to the best start (16-0 overall and 3-0 in Missouri Valley) in their history. Coach Gregg Marshall has a wellcoached and talented team that will breeze through their conference.

The longer this one-and-done NBA rule continues in major college basketball, the more valuable experienced players are going to become. Wichita State is a perfect example. Most of the Shockers’ key players participated in the NCAA Tournament last season and - because of that experience - the present ball club is better than the Final Four team.

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Jennifer (Gruver) Kirkpatrick kneels at the spot where she used to practice the long and triple jump while growing up at Manning.

The former school where she would also practice basketball with her sister and brother is in the background.

(Record Photo)

Hall of Famer

Manning was the starting point for one of the great careers in Kansas high school track

Winning seemingly came easy for Jennifer (Gruver) Kirkpatrick.

From the time she first began practicing on the former track at Manning School until she stepped off the Wichita State University track following her final state championship race, rarely did the Scott Community High School standout not have a gold medal hanging around her neck.

In the Class 4A Kansas State High School Track and Field Championship she earned 16 medals in four appearances the maximum that a high school athlete can achieve - including 12 golds and four silvers.

That puts her among the elite athletes ever to come out of Kansas high schools and will earn Kirkpatrick a place in the Kansas State High School Activities Association Hall of Fame. She will be inducted with two other members in the Class of 2014 during a ceremony to be held at the state track meet in May. “When I was first told that I was going into the Hall of Fame I thought they’d made a mistake,” says Kirkpatrick, now living in Junction City.

In fact, she says the only time the Hall of Fame ever crossed her mind came during a state track meet when former great Shawnee Call, a 1983 graduate of Ellsworth who still holds the state track records in the 100m high hurdles and the 300m low hurdles, was being recognized as a Hall of Fame inductee.

“She owned the state records

State Track and Field Accomplishments Year

Event

Individual Finish

Team Finish

Freshman

Long Jump 400m 100m High Hurdles 300m Low Hurdles

Sophomore

Triple Jump Long Jump 100m High Hurdles 300m Low Hurdles

1st 1st 1st 2nd

1st

Junior

Triple Jump Long Jump 100m High Hurdles 300m Low Hurdles

1st 1st 1st 2nd

2nd

Senior

Triple Jump Long Jump 100m High Hurdles 300m Low Hurdles

1st 1st 1st 1st

3rd

in the events I was competing in and I remember thinking how neat it was that she was being inducted. But once I graduated it never crossed my mind,” Kirkpatrick says.

While she may not have thought about the Hall of Fame, those responsible for selecting nominees hadn’t forgotten about Kirkpatrick - and for good reason.

It was evident early in her career that Kirkpatrick was not your average athlete.

“I hated softball,” she recalls, so during the summer after her fourth grade year she switched to track.

“I had an older cousin who had done AAU track and Dad suggested I give it a try. I said I would, but I wasn’t too excited about it.”

Competing in the long jump, 100m and the 400m that first

1st 2nd 1st 2nd

2nd

year, the 10-year-old qualified for nationals and she continued to qualify every year afterwards.

While she says her father, Stan, never pressured her to compete in track there was one stipulation.

“Dad said that at least one event had to be the 400 (meters). He said we needed to run at least that far because it builds character,” she says with a laugh. “And he said he wasn’t going to travel all around the country for the 100 or 200 (meters).”

By the time Jennifer, along with her younger sister (Julie) and brother (Drew) had begun training as youngsters the Manning School, located across the road from their home, had closed. But the Gruvers had a key to the building so they could use the gym to play basketball.

Jennifer Gruver wins a gold medal in the 100m high hurdles at the Class 4A state track meet during her senior season at SCHS.

During the summer of 1982, 10-year-old Jennifer Gruver holds three gold medals from one of her first AAU track meets.

Where Kirkpatrick Ranks All-Time at SCHS Year

Event

1989 1991 1989 1991 1989 1989

Long Jump Triple Jump 400m 800m 100m High Hurdles 300m Low Hurdles

And Stan had mowed the pasture south of the school, retracing the former track, so his kids would have a place to run.

“Horses were kept over there,” she says, pointing to what’s left of a small corral and shelter. “Once in awhile they’d be on the track and we’d have to run around them.”

The track and surrounding ground have since been planted to milo, but Kirkpatrick could still find the location where she was able to work on her long jump and triple jump.

“It seemed that I was always good at the jumps,” says Kirkpatrick.

It wasn’t until her seventh grade year that she was old enough to compete in the hurdles at AAU meets. There were no hurdles on the family track either.

“I was pretty excited. I’d always loved watching the hurdlers at meets,” she says. “I

Time/ Distance 18-6 1/4 38-6 59.12 2:25.4 15.0 45.2

Overall Rank 1st 2nd 4th 6th 1st 1st

never had a fear of the hurdles - or of falling.”

Hurdles Were Perfect Fit She was a natural.

While Kirkpatrick had planned to compete in the high hurdles once she entered high school, former head coach Dwight Stoppel also put her in the 300m low hurdles.

“I was petrified. I couldn’t see hurdling that far,” she says.

In her first competition, Kirkpatrick set a new school record.

Kirkpatrick considered the triple jump her strongest event, which is no surprise after being a former national AAU champion and three-time Class 4A state champion. It was through no fault of her own that she didn’t claim a fourth state title.

The KSHSAA didn’t add the triple jump as a state event for girls until Kirkpatrick’s sophomore year.

(See HALL OF FAME on page 30)

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the club closes Bill Fry opened the AthletiClub in 1972 and coached gymnastics and kids wrestling for many years. The club closed on Dec. 31.

(Record Photo)

Many area gymnasts, wrestlers introduced to sports at AthletiClub Physical fitness isn’t just something that Bill Fry preaches. It’s been a way of life for the 82-year-old.

The long-time Scott City resident has run in marathons, competed in the 5K event at the Lake Scott run as recently as two years ago and can regularly be seen jogging at the Scott Community High School track.

So owning and operating The AthletiClub in Scott City for the past 42 years was a natural fit for Fry. And that’s where Fry’s impact on the community has been immeasurable - particularly among the young wrestlers and gymnasts who got their start in the facility.

“It would have to be thousands,” estimates Fry, who has taught gymnasts throughout Western Kansas, from Goodland to Deerfield.

“I’ve always believed in the importance of exercise and taking care of yourself,” says Fry. “I haven’t found a way that allows you to start earlier in life and provides more benefits as you get older than gymnastics.”

While Fry stepped aside from coaching several years ago, he had continued operating The AthletiClub until Dec. 31 when it officially closed its doors.

The building remains open for the winter gymnastics program which will continue for the next 3-4 months. After that time they will likely have to find a new home depending on what happens with The AthletiClub when it goes up for auction later this year.

Even though Fry remains in good health, he says it was time . . . or at least his family said it was time.

“They’ve been strongly encouraging me for some time to sell the club and come see them more often,” he says of his five children.

Came to SC in ‘61 A native of Lakewood, Colo., near Denver, Fry worked in advertising sales for KICM Radio when the station owner suggested Fry look into taking a similar position with the local station which was operating at the site north of Scott City. Fry and his family moved to Scott City in 1963 where he started in advertising sales and later became station manager for a number of years starting in 1964.

While he wrestled in high school, Fry had developed a strong interest in gymnastics and soon began teaching classes wherever he could find an available building.

“Sharon and I had our five kids and we wanted to get them off to a good start in sports,” says Fry. “I even had a trampoline in the backyard and we set up two telephone poles with ropes.”

In addition, in 1968 Fry initiated one of the first kids wrestling programs in Western Kansas. Among the early locations for gymnastics and wrestling practices was the building south of the former Southwestern Bell office on North Main.

Open AthletiClub With the numbers growing for both programs, Fry decided to build The AthletiClub and Fitness Center in 1971 to provide a permanent home for gymnastics, wrestling and youth basketball. The club included a large area where tumbling and

wrestling mats could be rolled out when the gym wasn’t being used for basketball. The building also featured a weight room (upstairs) and a racquetball court.

The building was later expanded to include a second court. An indoor swimming pool was added in 1973.

“It took off from the start,” says Fry. “We had great support from the kids and the community.”

Gymnastics was always at the heart of The AthletiClub and it has always been Fry’s passion. A self-taught instructor, Fry would not only offer classes in Scott City, but would travel to Oakley, Leoti, Dighton and Deerfield to provide classes on a regular basis.

“I went to a lot of instructional meetings, watched a lot of videos and attended camps so I could learn more,” he says.

Over the years, Fry has had the opportunity to work with and learn from Olympic gymnasts and coaches at training facilities in Colorado and elsewhere.

During its peak, the SASNAK (Kansas spelled backwards) Gymnastics Club had 60-80 members. It later became the Western Kansas Gymnastics Club and numbers have dropped to the 30-40 range in recent years.

Fry proudly points out that his oldest daughter, Wendy, attended Ft. Hays State University on a gymnastics scholarship and his youngest son, Dan, earned a wrestling scholarship to the Air Force Academy.

During most of the last four decades, Fry has operated The AthletiClub while selling com-

Gymnasts prepare for a workout session in this undated photo from The Athleticlub.

One of the many young gymnasts who Bill Fry has coached over the years proudly shows off some ribbons she won during competition.

mercial spots for KBUF radio.

Even with the hiring of parttime managers and turning over the gymnastics program in recent years to former student Ross Rufenacht, Fry says the club continued to be a huge responsibility.

And there was also the cost of operation.

“Even though our memberships have remained strong over the years, when you consider payroll, insurance and utilities, it’s been pretty expensive to operate,” says Fry. When the club’s pool was built in 1973, it was the only public pool in town until the city decided to build its pool in 1976. Fry closed the pool this past August.

“Even though it’s tough to compete with a city pool, we did pretty good for a long time because ours was enclosed,” he notes.

However, after a couple of years of operation he learned that chlorine takes a toll on the pool’s heating system. Finally,

it came to the point where heating the pool became cost prohibitive.

In recent years, Fry has tried to sell The AthletiClub, but with no success. Tentative plans are to put the building and all the equipment on the auction block this year.

In all likelihood, Fry says he will probably retire from radio advertising sales later this year.

“Even though the kids keep telling us we need to come see them more, this will continue to be our home,” says Fry. As for the many young athletes he has had a hand in developing over the years, Fry is simply glad that The AthletiClub was available to help them get an early start.

“Everything I’ve done has been because I love kids and being involved in sports,” Fry said following his National Hall of Fame induction in 2006.

That remains as true today as when Fry first rolled mats onto the floor of The AthletiClub 42 years ago.

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Distillers grain bucking the trend in falling corn prices Higher ethanol processing margin has helped demand Since late last summer, corn prices have fallen dramatically, but distillers grain prices have not.

“While corn prices at South Dakota ethanol plants have dropped $1.50 per bushel since August 2, dried distillers grains plus solubles (DDGS) prices have actually increased by $1.05 per ton,” said Darrell Mark, Adjunct Professor of Economics at South Dakota State University.

Mark added that prices

Ag Commentary by South Dakota State University Extension

for modified distillers grains plus solubles (MDGS) and wet distillers grains plus solubles (WDGS) have only declined by $13.50 per ton and $6 per ton, respectively.

“The result is that distillers grain prices have increased dramatically relative to corn prices in recent months,” he said.

During the week of Christmas, DDGS prices were trading at 138 percent of the corn price in South

Dakota, while MDGS and WDGS were priced at 114-115 percent of the corn price (on a dry matter basis). Typically, the price ratio would be around 85-90 percent.

Mark explained that the distillers grain to corn price ratio increases when supplies (production) of distillers grains decreases or demand for distillers grains increases.

“The current increase in the distillers grain to corn price ratio is driven by demand increases, not supply decreases. In fact, good ethanol processing margins in the last two months have led to increases in etha-

Cover Your Acres conference in Oberlin Jan. 21-22

nol production, and consequently distillers grain production,” he said.

Since mid-November, estimated distillers grain production has averaged about 12 percent higher than a year ago.

What’s driving demand?

Two sources are driving the increase in distillers grain demand.

“First, soybean meal prices have increased almost $55 per ton since harvest, driving up the cost of protein for poultry and swine feed rations. As a result, these industries look for other protein sources like distillers grains to sub-

K-State Extension in partnership with the Northwest Crop Residue Alliance will host the ‘Cover Your Acres Winter Conference’ on Jan. 21-22 in Oberlin for crop producers, consultants and others.

The meeting is a producer-driven program that focuses on the latest technology, methods and conservation practices to improve crop production on the High Plains, said Lucas Haag and Jeanne Falk Jones, K-State Extension crops and soils specialists. It annually brings in more than 500 attendees.

The conference will feature university specialists and industry representatives discussing current topics in crop production, weed control, emerging insect pests and more. The same programs will be offered both days.

(See COVER on page 25)

(See DISTILLERS on page 25)

Wheat crop should withstand freezing temps Conditions have been unusually cold throughout Kansas during most of the start of winter. During the first blast of cold weather, there was little or no snow cover. This means in places soil temperatures have been colder than normal, leaving some producers wondering if these con-

Wheat Scoop Bill Spiegel

communications director

Kansas Wheat

ditions will leave wheat fields susceptible to winter die-off?

According to a recent update from K-State’s agronomy department,

there are several factors to consider when evaluating the outlook for winter survival of wheat: * * * How well has the wheat cold hardened?

Wheat plants are able to develop good winterhardiness when temperatures through fall and early winter gradu-

ally get colder. That was the case this fall meaning the wheat should be adequately cold hardened in most cases.

Had temperatures remained unusually warm late into the fall then suddenly dropped into the low teens, plants would be less likely to properly cold harden and will have

Debate begins on the U.S. role in global ag production

Current and former USDA officials will tackle the changing landscape of global agricultural production in an upcoming discussion contemplating the future of U.S. leadership in agriculture.

The event will occur on Jan. 14 in the Nebraska East Union on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s East Campus. The Heuermann Lecture, “Regaining the U.S. Lead in Agricultural

and Natural Resources Research and Education,” begins with a discussion led by Catherine Woteki, USDA undersecretary for research, education and economics, and Dan Glickman, former U.S. secretary of agriculture.

The two will analyze the United States’ status in global agricultural production and natural resources research and education and identify

challenges facing national and global agricultural production.

The U.S. role in production has been affected by a decline in research investments, leading to a slowdown in production growth according to Ronnie Green, vice chancellor of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the UN-L. Meanwhile, other countries continue to expand agricultural production

as they invest in research and development.

Green will serve as one of two moderators as a panel discusses how the role of U.S. agriculture has changed with decreased R&D investments and if a change is necessary.

“These and other questions are of vital importance to an agricultural state like Nebraska,” Green said, “and, for that matter, to everyone who eats.”

Kansas State, KDA to expand Sunflower Supreme

Current and former U Interest from producers in growing herd sizes in the years ahead is encouraging Kansas State University and the Kansas Department of Agriculture to expand its Sunflower Supreme program across the state.

The program focuses on using the latest technologies, effective health protocols and genetics to improve the reproductive performance of replacement heifers and increase cow longevity within the herd.

High cattle prices, cheaper feed costs and easing drought conditions have more producers considering herd expansion.

Jaymelynn Farney, animal science specialist with K-State Research and Extension, says the program is starting in southeast Kansas, but organizers hope to expand to cover all of Kansas by next fall.

Special emphasis is on dystocia or calving difficulties in heifers, but also addresses whole herd health and successful breeding techniques.

Farney says the program considers all the factors of an animal’s expected progeny differences (EPDs) to further improve dystocia concerns.

Through the program, participants complete detailed herd records and attend meetings on heifer health, breeding success, nutrition, genetic evaluation, and marketing.

Highlighted topics of the program include: •Vaccination and health guidelines •Reproductive management tools to improve breeding success •Evaluation of sires to minimize calving difficulty •Marketing opportunities •Data collection and

management for improved herd records Sunflower Supreme also considers improvements in herd health through a stronger relationship with veterinarians and provides daily management tips communicated through a quarterly newsletter and videos.

“We designed this program to be an educational tool for producers,” Farney said, adding that all of the guidelines can be adopted in any opera-

tion that raises replacement females. “With expanded collaboration between producers, extension, and local veterinarians, this program will add value and additional revenue to Kansas cowherds and provide quality replacement heifers to increase the demand for Kansas cattle.”

Participants of the program must be BQA certified. More information is available at www.

SunflowerSupreme.org.

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been more susceptible to winterkill. * * * How well developed is the root system?

Where wheat plants have a good crown root system and two or more tillers, they will tolerate cold better. If plants are poorly developed going into winter, with very few

secondary roots and no tillers, they will be more susceptible to winterkill or desiccation, especially when soils remain dry.

Poor development of secondary roots may not be readily apparent unless the plants are pulled up and examined.

(See TEMPS on page 25)

Market Report Closing prices on January 8, 2014 Winona Feed and Grain Bartlett Grain Wheat..................

White Wheat ......

Milo ....................

Corn ...................

Soybeans ...........

$ 6.22 $ N/A

$ 3.94 $ 4.22 $ 11.94

Scott City Cooperative

ADM Grain

Weather 16

January 1

30

10

$ 4.22

January 2

51

9

January 3

52

19

January 4

41

20

January 5

20

2

January 6

29 -11

$ 11.94 $ 15.95

Wheat..................

$ 6.22

Corn....................

$ 4.29

Milo (bu.).............

$ 4.24

December 31 60

$ 3.94

Sunflowers..........

$ 3.94

Corn....................

$ 6.52

Milo (bu.).............

Soybeans ...........

Milo (bu.).............

$ 6.52

L

$ 6.22

Corn....................

$ 6.22

H

Wheat..................

White Wheat .......

Wheat..................

White Wheat ......

$ 3.99

P

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Moisture Totals

Soybeans............

$ 11.97

January

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Sunflowers..........

$ 16.30

2014 Total

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Net farm income of $131B is highest since 1973

USDA latest income forecast predicts increases in the total value of crop, livestock, dairy, and poultry production compared with 2012.

Production expenses are also up, however, and lower corn prices will offset some of the benefits of what appears to be a record-large corn crop.

The report forecasts

2013 net farm income at $131 billion, up 15.1 percent from 2012’s estimate of $113.8 billion. After adjusting for inflation, 2013’s net farm income is expected to be the highest since 1973.

Net cash income however, is forecast at $129.7 billion, down 3.4 percent from 2012. The difference is that net farm income

Crop prices respond to less demand for ethanol

Temps

Livestock producers are likely to see shrinking feed costs ahead with one market analyst forecasting lower corn prices as ethanol demand will be “flatlining” into 2022.

“You have been fighting ethanol for corn these past six or seven years, but the biofuel rush is over, and the aftereffects have reshaped the market,” said Dan Basse, AgResource Company, at the eighth annual Feeding Quality Forum.

Basse forecast corn prices to range from $3.25 to $6 over the next decade. Low feed costs will boost producer margins and may finally help feeders dig themselves out of negative margins.

More affordable feed paired with falling beef production is expected to lift cattle prices.

While lower beef production figures will test the retail market, Basse says a shift in U.S. oil production taking it from the leading net importer of energy to the leading exporter within seven years will reduce oil prices below $70 per barrel.

“That will put more discretionary income in consumer pockets, and they will buy more beef,” Basse said.

Lower corn prices sinking below production costs will encourage crop producers to shift land back to grazing pastures.

“We may see 3 to 5 million acres go back into pasture in this country,” as farmland prices undergo a 5% to 35% downward price correction.

Cover

(continued from page 24)

Sessions will be held concurrently through the day.

Registration begins both days at 7:45 a.m.

The conference will be held at The Gateway civic center. An early registration fee of $35 for Jan. 21 or $30 for Jan. 22 is due

by Jan. 15.

For those who plan to attend both days, the fee is $50 if paid by Jan. 15. After Jan. 15, the cost is $50 per day.

More information and online registration is available at www.northwest. ksu.edu/CoverYourAcres.

includes change in inventories and other adjustments.

Significant volumes of crops produced in 2013 were not sold by the end of the calendar year, so those stored crops, particularly corn, contribute to the value of inventories, which boosts net farm income but not net cash income. The total value of

(continued from page 24)

* * * How cold is the soil at the crown level?

Winterkill is possible if soil temperatures at the crown level fall into the single digits. If there is at least an inch of snow on the ground, the wheat will be protected and soil temperatures will usually remain above the critical level.

Also, if the soil has good moisture, it’s possible that soil temperatures at the crown level may not reach the critical level even in the absence of snow cover. But if the soil is dry and there is no snow cover, there may be the potential for winterkill, especially on exposed slopes or terrace tops, depending on the condition of the plants. * * * Is the crown well protected by soil?

If wheat is planted at the correct depth, about 1.5 to two inches deep, and in good contact with the soil, the crown should be well protected by the soil from the effects of cold temperatures. If the wheat seed was planted too shallow, then the crown will have developed too close to the soil surface and will be more susceptible to winterkill. * * * Is there any insect or disease damage to the plants?

Plants may die during the winter not from winterkill, but from the direct effects of a fall infestation of Hessian fly. Many people are familiar with the lodging that Hessian fly can cause to wheat in the spring, but fewer recognize the damage that can be caused by fall infestations of Hessian fly. Wheat infested in the fall often remains green until the winter when the infested tillers gradually die.

Damage from winter grain mites, brown wheat mites, aphids, and crown and root rot diseases can also weaken wheat plants and make them somewhat more susceptible to injury from cold weather stress or desiccation. * * * Symptoms of winter survival problems: If plants are killed outright by cold temperatures, they won’t green up next spring. But if they are only damaged, it might take them a while to die. There are enough nutrients in the crown to allow the plants to green up, but the winter injury causes vascular damage so nutrients that are left cannot move, or root rot diseases kill the plants.

This slow death is probably the most common result of winter injury on wheat.

Direct cold injury is not the only source of winter injury. Under dry soil conditions, wheat plants may suffer from desiccation. This can kill or weaken plants, and is actually a more common problem than direct cold injury.

crop production is expectPrices for cattle and ed to rise nearly six per- calves have increased over those from 2012, but cent in 2013. smaller inventories offset some of that value. The Livestock Up 6% The value of livestock report indicates a small increase in the value of production is expected to cattle and calf production increase by six percent in from $66.5 billion in 2012 2013, with receipts also to $67.1 billion in 2013. increasing by almost 6 The report projects percent, with the largest a $10.9 billion, or 3.2 gains in broilers, milk, and percent increase in total hogs. production expenses in

Distillers stitute for soybean meal, thereby increasing demand for distillers grains,” Mark said.

He added that the second is the fact that export demand for distillers grains has increased substantially, particularly to China.

“Note that both the poultry/swine feeding demand and export demand would be primarily for DDGS (not the wetter MDGS and WDGS products), which has seen the largest price increase

2013. With the exception of 2009, farm production expenses have increased every year since 2002.

The report projects total farm expenses at $352 billion. However, the rate of increase in expenses during 2013 is projected at less than half of the increases in 2012 and 2011, due to a slowdown in the rise of prices paid for farm inputs.

(continued from page 24)

relative to corn,” he said.

So where does this leave the cattle industry?

With the large drop in corn prices and high distillers grain to corn price ratio, Mark said that cattle feeders have shifted to feeding more corn and less distillers grains.

“A year ago, it might have been common for distillers grains to comprise 30-35 percent of cattle rations (on a dry matter basis). Anecdotal evidence would suggest that feeders have now

reduced distillers grains inclusion levels to 10-20 percent of their ration (dry matter basis). Some cattle feeders may not be feeding any distillers grains,” he said.

He added that even though distillers grain prices are above the corn price, they can still be profitably used in cattle feeding rations, provided the right inclusion level is used and cattle performance improves enough relative to a corn-only ration.

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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.

Sporting Goods Truck Driving GUN SHOW. Jan. 11-12.

Sat. 9:00-5:00; Sunday 9:00-3:00. Cessna Activity Center, Wichita (2744 George Washington Blvd.). Buy-Sell-Trade.

For info call (563) 9278176.

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Sales and Service Days • Mon. - Sat. Deliveries • Mon.-Sat.

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Control, capture and removal of nuisance animals.

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Coyotes, pigeons, Let’s BOOcT ters it r ky raccoons, skunks, them pes snakes, rabbits and more.

Lee Mazanec (620) 874-5238

lmwildanimaleviction@gmail.com

508 Madison • Scott City • 872-3686

Networktronic, Inc.

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

Northend Disposal A garbologist company.

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

Scott City • 872-1223 • 1-800-303-3371

PC Cleaning Services, Inc. We'll clean your home, business or do remodeling clean-up Available seven days a week!

Paul Cramer, Owner

620-290-2410

E L E C T R I C MAINTENANCE Worker I (electric department lineman) wanted for Anthony, Ks. Vocational degree in electricity is preferred. Applications and complete job description: www.anthonykansas.org.

620-842-5434. EOE.

PARTNERS IN EXCELLENCE. OTR drivers. APU equipped PrePass EZ-pass passenger policy. 2012 and newer equipment. 100% notouch. Butler Transport, 1-800-528-7825. www. butlertransport.com ––––––––––––––––––––– TRAINING. Class ACDL. Train and work for us. Professional and focused CDL training available. Choose between company driver, owner/ operator, lease operator or lease trainer. (877) 3697885. www.centraltruckdrivingjobs.com.

––––––––––––––––––––– EXPERIENCED FLATBED drivers. Regional opportunities now open with plenty of freight and great pay. 800-277-0212 or primeinc.com.

SHOP TECHNICIANS wanted.

Competitive wages, Health/dental insurance, year-end bonus program, 401K, sign-on bonus, relocation (Northwest Kansas) assisFor Sale tance, excellent benefits. www.mitteninc.com or HAPPY JACK SKIN BALM. Stops scratching 785-672-2612. and gnawing. Promotes healing and hair growth Education on dogs and cats suffering from grass and flea HEAVY EQUIPMENT allergies without steroids. operator training. BullOrscheln Farm and Home. dozers, backhoes, excavawww.happyjackinc.com. tors. Three weeks handson program. Local job placement assistance. Sports/Outdoors National certifications.

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––––––––––––––––––––– cessors. Petska Fur buying BECOME AN EXPERT or trading gloves for deer/ in HVAC installation and elk hides, antler and fur. repair. Pinnacle Career www.petskafur.net. 308Institute Online HVAC 730-1968. Strong demand education in as little as for fur and leather.

12 months. Call us today: 1-877-651-3961 or go online: www.HVACOnline-Education.com ––––––––––––––––––––– NEED CLASS A CDL training? Start a career in trucking today. Swift Academies offer PTDI certified courses and offer best-in-class training. New

Tuesday-Saturday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

www.reganjewelers.com

412 N. Main • Garden City • 620-275-5142 All Under One Roof

Revcom Electronics

C-Mor-Butz BBQ

Your RadioShack Dealer Two-way Radio Sales & Service

Barbecue, the only sport where a fat bald man is a GOD...

& Catering

Kyle Lausch 620-872-4209

Locally owned and operated since 1990

Bryan Mulligan & Chris Price

1104 Main • Scott City • 872-2625

620-874-8301 & 620-874-1285

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District 11 AA Meetings

Scott City • Unity and Hope

SharpsShootingSupply.com • (620)398-2395 • Healy, Kansas

Services

Berning Auction “Don’t Trust Your Auction to Just Anyone”

For all your auction needs call:

(620) 375-4130

Russell Berning Box Q • Leoti

Dining

Monday, Wednesday and Friday • 8:00 p.m.

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

All open meetings, 874-8207 • 874-8118 A.A. • Al-Anon • Tuesday • 8:30 p.m.

United Methodist Church, 412 College 872-3137 • 872-3343

Dighton • Thursday • 8:30 p.m.

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

Classifieds

The Scott County Record • Page 28 • Thursday, January 9, 2014

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.

Pine Village Apartments 300 E. Nonnamaker

Apartments available for qualifying tenants 62+ or disabled with rental assistance available.

Hours: Tuesday, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. by appointment Call Steve 872-2535 or (620) 255-4824.

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ONE OF A KIND

Gorgeous custom built home, tons of features, storage galore, corner lot, SA garage. $115,000 with appliances and furniture or $112,000 without furniture.

BRING THE KIDS, DOGS AND HORSES!

4 BEDROOM home with basement! Newer carpeting, steel roof, pressure tank and well!

Price Reduced!

Lawrence and Associates

COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE

Commercial building for sale. Located at 1317 Main St., Scott City. Call 872-5387, 874-1033 or 620-521-4313.

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Price Reduced

In Healy: 3+1 bedrooms, 2+1 baths, dining room, family room in basement, has lots of storage in basement, D/A garage, lovely patio and landscaping, lots of extras, must see to appreciate.

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

Services

Rentals

Real Estate

WANTED: Yards to mow and clean up, etc. Trim smaller trees and bushes too. Call Dean Riedl, (620) 872-5112 or 87434tfc 4135.

––––––––––––––––––––– FURNITURE REPAIR and refinishing. Lawn mower tune-up and blade sharpening. Call Vern Soodsma, 872-2277 or 36tfc 874-1412.

––––––––––––––––––––– MOWER REPAIR, tuneup and blade sharpening.

Call Rob Vsetecka at 62036tfc 214-1730.

––––––––––––––––––––– METAL ROOFING, SIDING and TRIMS at direct-to-the-public prices. Call Metal King Mfg., 620-872-5464. Our prices 37tfc will not be beat!

HIDE AND SEEK STORAGE SYSTEMS. Various sizes available.

Virgil and LeAnn Kuntz, (620)874-2120.

41tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– 1 AND 3 BEDROOM houses available and storage units. Come fill out an application at PlainJans or call 620-872-5777.

18tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– NEWLY REFURBISHED HOME. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, carport, kitchen appliances included, nice yard space, quiet area. No pets or smokers.

Available for rent in early Dec. Call Fred or Jana Brittan 620-872-2957.

RENOVATED 4 BEDROOM HOUSE for sale.

Brand new kitchen, new wood and tile floors, beautiful lighting throughout, french doors leading to a spacious backyard and patio, DA garage, main floor laundry, partial downstairs with half bath. Serious inquires call Dale Holterman, 620-8741100.

15tfc –––––––––––––––––––– FOR SALE BY OWNER 5 bedroom, finished basement, SA garage, 3000+ sq.ft. living space. 402 S. College, Scott City. Call for appointment, 620-2143103 or after 5:00 p.m.

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––––––––––––––––––––– HOUSE FOR SALE IN DIGHTON 2 bedrooms, 2 bath, fenced-in yard with 2 garages, full basment, central heat/air.

Great neighborhood with nice, caring neighbors.

231 North Wichita. 620786-5706 or 620-61720tfc 8037.

––––––––––––––––––––– DRY-LAND FARM ground in North Finney County. NW quarter 3-2133 approximately 160 acres. Call 480-802-5757

Business INDIVIDUAL OFFICE SUITES from one to four rooms available for lease. Leases starting at $250/month including utilities. Common areas available for use including reception and break rooms. Perfect for quiet small business or climate controlled storage.

Former location of Scott City Chiropractic, 1101 S. Main. Call 214-3040 for information.

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––––––––––––––––––––– HOUSE FOR RENT 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths, $750 per month, water and trash paid. Call 620214-3490.

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Agriculture

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.

22t2p Call for contracting information. Lane County ––––––––––––––––––––– Feeders. 397-5341. 44tfc HOUSE FOR SALE

IN SCOTT CITY. The Scott County Record Well built home on double corner lot. 3 bedcan work for you! rooms, 2 baths. Lots of built-in storage. Over 2,400 square feet, plus 3 season screened porch, double attached garage.

Established yard with underground sprinklers.

42eow 620-353-9933.

www.scottcountyrecord.com

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Employment Opportunities Park Lane Nursing Home Has openings for the following positions:

FULL-TIME FARM EMPLOYEE

Wanted for irrigated and dryland farming operation. Mechanically minded or experience with crop production and equipment operation preferred.

Salary based on experience.

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CASHIER Scott County Hardware/Ace is looking for a full-time cashier who is customer service oriented. This is a full-time position including evenings and weekends. We are also accepting applications for part-time, evenings and weekend cashiers. Drug testing mandatory.

Apply in person at: Scott County Hardware 1405 S. Main Scott City 19tfc

SPECIAL EDUCATION PARA HIGH PLAINS EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE is seeking a special education ParaProfessional at Scott Community High School to work with students.

The position is available immediately.

For more information and application.

Contact: USD 466, Susan Carter for more details at (620) 872-7600.

Full-time CNA night shift Full-time/Part-time CNA/CMA Part-time Nursing-LPN/RN Part-time Transportation Aide

(M-W-F 1:00-8:00 p.m., must be flexible and have valid DL)

Shift differential pay offered for evening and night shifts! Please apply in person at:

Park Lane Nursing Home

210 E. Parklane Scott City, KS 67871 Or visit us at our website: www.parklanenursinghome.org “Quality Care Because We Care”

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Program Technician CO position The Finney County Farm Service Agency has a permanent, full-time Program Technician CO position available.

Salary ranges from $24,933 to $50,431 (CO-3 to CO-7) depending on experience/education.

Benefits include health, life, retirement, annual and sick leave. Must be a US citizen with high school education or GED. Applications are made at www.usajobs.gov (search key word “Farm Service Agency”, location “Kansas”).

Complete application must be submitted online or faxed by 11:59 p.m. EDT, Friday, January 17, 2014.

PLEASE CAREFULLY READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS ON “HOW TO APPLY” and “REQUIRED DOCUMENTS”!

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Person selected will be subject to background investigation. FSA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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RNs NEEDED $5000 SIGN ON BONUS Scott County Hospital is looking for full-time Registered Nurses to join our team of dedicated nursing professionals.

We offer diverse nursing opportunites, experienced nursing administrative staff, excellent ratios, competitve wages, shift and weekend differentials, flexible paid time off, call pay and excellent benefits.

Pre-employment physical, drug/alcohol screen, physical assessment and TB skin test required.

Moving?

You have a Pickup and Trailer? Want to work for yourself? We are looking for you!!! We are looking for self-motivated and dependable individual looking to work as a wholesale food distributor in Western Ks. If you are interested in being your own boss. Email Contact Info. to: guy@just4userv. com 20t5c ––––––––––––––––––– FARM WORKER. 2/15/14-12/15/14, Mesquite Farms, Scott City, KS. 5 temp jobs. Drive trucks/tractors to perform a variety of crop duties.

Field ready implements/ equip. Cultivate, harrow, fertilize, plant, spray, harvest crops. Operate/ repair farm implements. Transport farm commodities to market. Mow/clean premises & equip. 3 mo exp, CDL, Clean MVR, emplymnt ref req’d. $12.33/ hr, ¾ work guarantee, tools/ equip/housing provided, trans & subsistence exp reimbursed. Apply at Kansas Works, 620.227.2149. Job 21t2c #9080834.

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FARM WORKER, 2/15/14-12/15/14, D&L Farms, Scott City, KS. 3 temp jobs. Drive trucks/ tractors to perform crop duties. Maintain flood/sprinkler irrigation. Harvest crops using tractor drawn machinery. Operate/repair farm equip. Clean MVR, 3 mo exp req’d. $12.33/hr, ¾ work guarantee, tools/ equip/housing provided, trans & subsistence exp reimbursed. Apply at Kansas Works, 620.227.2149. Job #9083739.

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Cargill Cattle Feeders in Leoti, KS currently has an open position for a Clerk. We offer 401K, Health, Dental, Vision and life insurance, plus paid sick leave and paid vacation. Bilingual is preferred but not required. Hours are Monday –Friday 8AM5PM. If interested call Linda at 620-375-3105 to receive an application or pick one up at 8 miles North of Leoti. Cargill Cattle Feeders is an equal opportunity employer. 21t2c ––––––––––––––––––– The Finney County Farm Service Agency has a permanent fulltime Program Technician CO position available. Salary ranges from $24,933 to $50,431 (CO-3 to CO-7) depending on experience/education.

Benefits include health, life, retirement, annual and sick leave. Must be a US citizen with high school education or GED. Applications are made at www.usajobs.gov (search key word “Farm Service Agency”, location “Kansas”). Complete application must be submitted online or fax by 11:59 p.m. EDT, Friday, January 17, 2014. PLEASE CAREFULLY READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS ON “HOW TO APPLY” and “REQUIRED DOCUMENTS”! Person selected will be subject to background investigation.

FSA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Asking $12.50 per hour.

For more information please call 620-2141875 or 214-545-2309.

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Applications are available through Human Resources

Remember to contact The Scott County Record with your new address.

Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Ave. Scott City, KS. 67871 620-872-7772 and on our website: www.scotthospital.net www.scotthospital.net

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Contact: Stampede Feeders 620-872-0800. 22t2p

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The Scott County Record • Page 30 • Thursday, January 9, 2014

Hall of Fame She added four more state titles in the 100m high hurdles and the long jump.

Three of Kirkpatrick’s silver medals in the state track meet came in the 300m hurdles - each time finishing behind BasehorLinwood’s Dawn Steele who still holds the state meet record in the 200m.

“Luckily she was a year older than me so I finally had my chance to win,” says Kirkpatrick.

Tough Senior Year After enjoying phenomenal success during her first three seasons of high school track, Kirkpatrick wasn’t just looking for gold medals during her senior year. Her focus was on state records with the triple jump at the top of that list.

Since her sophomore year was the first time for the triple jump at state, Kirkpatrick’s winning leap was, of course, a state record. She had a career best and state meet record of 38-6 the following year.

“I wanted to be the first girl in Kansas to jump more than 40 feet,” she recalls.

While winning four gold medals for the first time in her career was certainly a possibility, Kirkpatrick tried not to focus on that possibility.

“Sure, that was a goal, but you don’t know who else is out there, whether there’s some phenom who will have a great day,” she says. “I tried to focus more on setting personal goals, not necessarily goals that were about winning gold medals.”

Kirkpatrick was determined to enter her senior season in the greatest shape of her life and her off-season training program nearly took a toll from which she couldn’t recover. Her workout regimen included strength training, plyometrics and lots of running.

“I ended up with an injury from overtraining.

It was my own fault. I was doing more than the coaches were aware of,” she says. “After practice I’d run another three or four miles and the coaches didn’t know about it.”

The result was a painful knee injury that caused her to miss the first few meets of the season, including the KU Relays. It wasn’t until she made a recruit-

DePue Brothers to perform in Garden City on Jan. 16

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ing visit to the University of Nebraska and told the training staff what she was going through that they quickly analyzed the injury and offered a solution. She was diagnosed with iliotibial band syndrome and the NU trainer cut out a small triangle of foam, placed it in the heal of Kirkpatrick’s shoe “and the pain was gone.”

“That allowed me to have a season,” she says.

Pressure Builds Until her senior year, the thought of losing a race rarely entered Kirkpatrick’s mind. But with the injury that took a toll on her training program, combined with a lymph node infection just prior to regional, she was concerned.

“I’d never thought about the pressure of winning, or the pressure to win four golds my senior year, until after the injury and being sick,” she says.

“For the first time I didn’t feel I was at the top of my game. I felt vulnerable.”

In that respect, the state track meet was bittersweet.

Yes, Kirkpatrick came away with an impressive four gold medals, but her winning distances in the triple jump (36-2 1/2) and in the long jump (17-8 1/4) were well below her goals.

“I felt pretty lucky that those distances were good enough to win,” she says.

“It was such a relief to get the last race out of the way and win the last gold medal.”

Along with her individual success, the Lady Beavers finished third as a team in 1992, second in 1989 and 1991, and claimed a state title in 1990. In the state title year, Kirkpatrick scored 38 of the team’s 42 points with the other two coming from Jennifer Lemonds.

Despite her success individually, it was the team element that Kirkpatrick enjoyed most. She longed to run in a relay at state, especially the 4x400m, but understood why the coaches preferred keeping her in four individual events.

“It’s a lot more fun to be on the awards stand at state and share the moment with someone else,” she says.

It’s also a reason why Kirkpatrick wishes the

Gruver competes in the triple jump at the state track meet her senior year.

basketball team would have had more success, despite her being named “All-State Player of the Year” during her senior season when she averaged 19 points and nine rebounds per game.

“I liked volleyball a lot and I loved basketball, but it seemed we hardly ever won,” she says. “In track, I won. That’s why I gravitated more towards track.”

While Kirkpatrick credits former head coach Stoppel and strength coach Dave Dunham for having a significant role in her success, she says the biggest influence on her sports career was her father.

Stan Gruver was a long and triple jumper at Kansas State University, a three-sport athlete at Hutchinson Community College and a college long jump champion at the KU Relays while with the KSU squad.

“I had the benefit of someone who knew the events and had trained at a high level,” she says. “He provided the right balance of pushing me and encouraging me. He would ask me my goals for the year and after I told him he’d say, ‘Then this is what you have to do.’ If I started waffling, he would say, ‘That’s okay, but you’re not going to accomplish what you want.’”

Overcame Adversity The adversity that Kirkpatrick had to overcome during her senior year was nothing compared to what she experienced at Kansas

Acclaimed fiddlers Wallace and Zachary DePue will lead the “DePue Brothers” band in an eclectic acoustic performance in Garden City as part of the Southwest Kansas Live On Stage series.

The program will be Thurs., Jan. 16, 7:30 p.m., at the Clifford Hope Auditorium on the campus of Horace J. Good Middle School, 1412 N. Main St. Single tickets are $25/adults, $6/students.

The DePue family was decreed the “American Musical Family of the Year” in 1989 by George Bush, Sr., and was the subject of a 1993 PBS documentary.

Brothers Jason and Zachary were also featured in a 2005 documentary entitled “Music from the Inside Out.” The unique style and repertoire of the ensemble is reflected in their album titles: “Classical Grass” (2003) and “Weapons of Grass Construction” (2010), drawing from material as seemingly disparate as Aaron Copland’s “Hoedown” to “Flint Hill” by Earl Scruggs.

The siblings perform alongside notable musicians Don Liuzzi (Philadelphia Orchestra) Mark Cosgrove (1995 flat-picking guitar champion), Mike Munford (banjo) and Kevin MacConnell (bass).

Southwest Kansas Live On Stage is committed to bringing quality, live performances to the Garden City area. They have sponsored nearly 300 concerts.

For more information call (620) 275-1667 or visit the association website at http://swks-liveonstage.org/.

State University where she accepted a scholarship.

“From the time I was a sixth grader and having success in track my dream was to be recruited at a DI school. Once KState started recruiting me I knew that’s where I wanted to be,” she notes.

“I wanted to train with the best people and the best coaches.”

For some unexplained reason, the success she expected never materialized during her first three seasons at KSU. “For some reason I doubted myself. It was a mental thing and it took me three years to figure it out,” she says. “At least I was able to enjoy a very good senior year. I just wish I could have done that all four years.”

What her senior season allowed her to do, however, was recapture her love for the sport.

And the challenges that Kirkpatrick had to overcome during her college career provided lessons that were far more valuable than gold medals.

“If you’re successful all the time, what are you gaining that builds character?” wonders Kirkpatrick.

“College sports taught me a lot about life. In sports you can set goals and you win gold medals, but life doesn’t always work that way. Sometimes, no matter how hard you work, it beats you down. I learned a lot.”

Or, to put it another way, her father might say that life is like the 400m it builds character.

The Armouraires Quartet

In Concert

Saturday, January 11 • 6:00 p.m.

Church of the Nazarene (11th and Elizabeth, Scott City) Love offerings will be received Refreshments served