The Scott County Record

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32 Pages • Four Sections

Volume 21 • Number 28

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Published in Scott City, Ks.

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Questions raised about USD 466 staff cuts Budget cuts have taken a toll on school districts in recent years with state funding not keeping pace with the cost of education.

At least one Scott City Middle School teacher is questioning whether cuts in staff positions and teachers in core subject areas teaching more than one grade level has started having an effect on classroom achievement.

Kristen Duff noted that six staff positions have been cut in recent years at SCMS, including sixth grade science, sixth grade math, a reading specialist and a physical education position. In addition, there had been two instructors for SCHS and SCMS band, but that has been reduced to one. Instead of a SCMS librarian, the SCHS librarian now splits time between the high school and middle school. And the district once had full-time counselors for SCES and SCMS, but now one person is responsible for both buildings.

Duff, who has been a math instructor at SCMS for the past seven years, pointed out that middle school students are the most heavily tested when it comes to state assessments.

She also expressed concern with plans to change staffing in the English department in the 2014-15 school year, which is another core subject area.

“We are seeing a growing trend in the number of students falling behind grade level,” said Duff. “It’s not the staff. I believe it’s because we have high expectations.”

Shifting Resources Wilson says that while the district has cut some positions at SCMS it has shifted resources to Scott City Elementary School in response to classes which have 80-100 students.

“We’ve had to ask if we really need four sections for some grade levels at the middle school,” Wilson says.

Several surgeries and hospital stays have become a way of life for 13-year-old Kristen Karnaze. (Record Photo)

Karnazes are living life one day at a time against unknown disease It’s been a long time since Kristen Karnaze has enjoyed a day without pain . . . a day when she can eat whatever she wants or simply go outside and run around like any other 13-year-old.

As difficult as that is for Kristen and her family, it’s even more difficult not having the answers to the medical issues which have been part of her life since birth.

“Specialists have called her a diagnostic black box because they have no explanation for what she’s experiencing,” says her mother, Becky.

The diagnosis that specialists seem to be clinging to is Crohn’s disease because Kristen’s symptoms are most closely aligned with that. But because Kristen has not responded to treatment for Crohn’s they seem resigned to the fact that the Scott City youth is dealing with something they’re unfamiliar with.

Exactly what it is has left everyone puzzled.

In the meantime, doctors continue to provide a variety of treatments and medications in hopes of finding something that provides the most relief from continual

gastrointestinal pain and offers the least risk to her health.

This is life as the Karnaze family has known it for most of Kristen’s young life.

She was born withI basically out any complications, but at just three- don’t hang weeks-old Kristen around with began experiencing other kids agonizing pain. The anymore. family was living in It’s hard St. Joseph, Mo., at to make the time and when they rushed Kristen to friends when the hospital the staff you’re out wasted no time hav- of school so ing her LifeWatched much. to Children’s Mercy Kristen Hospital in Kansas Karnaze City.

At that time it was discovered that about one-third of Kristen’s small intestine was missing and what did exist wasn’t attached as it should be. As a result, it was moving around and had become knotted, which prevented the flow of blood, causing part of the intestine to begin dying.

“The doctors had begun surgery even before we had arrived (at the hospital),” says her father, Phil. “They were concerned that Kristen wouldn’t live until we got there. We were fortunate. Many kids that have this condition will die before they are diagnosed.”

About half of Kristen’s small intestine was removed during the surgery, but it was believed that the problem had been corrected and she would live a normal life.

For several years that seemed to be true, until Kristen was nine-years-old and she again began to experience gastrointestinal pain and weight loss.

The problems were two-fold.

First of all, there was a build-up of scar tissue and blockage where the intestine had been removed and the two sections reattached. She underwent surgery again 2-1/2 years later, as a 12-year-old, to remove additional scar tissue.

At the same time, Kristen had begun experiencing symptoms of a Crohn’s-like disease which still had specialists mystified. Kristen continues to cope with the (See KARNAZE on page two)

It’s tough because she just wants to be normal . . . just like any other kid.

Becky Karnaze

(See STAFF CUTS on page eight)

Petition targets same-sex policy for SCHS prom A petition that would allow out-of-town students to accompany a Scott Community High School student of the same sex to the high school prom has attracted more than 4,100 signatures.

The petition was initiated by SCHS senior Zach Duff, who is gay, but he emphasizes that he’s not seeking the policy change so that he can bring a friend to prom. Duff said he decided to start the petition after a female SCHS student was told she wouldn’t be allowed to invite a

female from another town to attend prom.

“I’m not saying that my school discriminates against gays, because I don’t believe it does,” emphasizes the 18-yearold. “But it’s hard to understand why we need to have this policy. It gives the appearances that discrimination is happening.”

What makes the policy difficult for Duff and other supporters to understand is that there is no restriction for same-sex students to attend prom together provided they are both juniors

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or seniors in SCHS. And there is nothing to prevent a student of the opposite sex from being someone’s prom date as long as they are a junior or senior in high school of good academic standing.

There is a way to walk around the policy, says Duff.

A boy can sign a guest request form saying that a girl will be his prom date when, in fact, she is going to be with a female friend at the prom, and vice versa. Duff’s female friend hasn’t been able to find a boy

who will sign the form on her behalf so a female friend from outside the district can attend prom “so she’s out of luck.”

“Why should we even have to go through this hassle?” wonders Duff. “The students are really supportive of the change.

They think it’s a silly rule.”

Duff says he was told by Principal Shelly Turner that had he made the request himself to bring a male friend to the prom it would have been allowed “as long as they met all the requirements.”

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“Mrs. Turner didn’t understand that this isn’t just for me. I want what seems to be bad policy to be changed now and for everyone in the future so they don’t have to go through this,” Duff says. “It doesn’t even have to be someone you’re in a relationship with. What’s wrong with bringing someone who is a friend of the same sex to prom?”

The SCHS senior has been told by staff members they are supportive of the change “but they’re afraid to voice their (See PETITION on page two)

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Karnaze

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pain, fatigue, difficulty in gainIn order to help the Karnaze ing weight and other health is- family with travel expenses and sues as specialists search for medical bills, the Kristen Karanswers. naze Medical Expense Fund Helping to Cope This is a battle which has brought the family even closer together.

“As a big brother I wish I had some of what she’s going through if it would make things better for her,” says Jake, a freshman at Scott Community High School. “It seems that all the pain and all the bad stuff has been poured into my little sister.”

He finds ways to help Kristen cope with the pain while spending most of her time at home.

“The best way for Kristen to cope with things from day to day is to keep her mind occupied. Jake is good about that,” Becky says. “He can make her laugh and that takes her mind off the shots.”

Kristen’s day-to-day life is very limited.

Because of the continual pain, nausea and fatigue the Scott City Middle School seventh grader had to drop out of school and is now taking her classes on-line.

Whenever possible, Kristen attends activities at the Area

has been established at Western State Bank in Scott City.

96 youth center and church on Wednesday nights. She also enjoys spending time outdoors with her brother when she feels strong enough and will make occasional trips to the library.

“It’s tough because she just wants to be normal . . . just like any other kid,” says Becky.

Kristen would like to do more with other teenagers, but also realizes that it’s difficult to build friendships when one is limited in what they can do.

“I basically don’t hang around with other kids anymore. It’s hard to make friends when you’re out of school so much,” she notes.

Still a Mystery For nearly 13 years, Kristen has been a regular patient at Children’s Mercy Hospital where she has had the same specialist since her first visit.

However, he’s also become frustrated at his lack of progress in diagnosing, let alone treating Kristen’s medical condition.

He sent the family to see an-

Petition

news briefs

Red Cross Bloodmobile in Scott City Wednesday

The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be in Scott City at the Wm. Carpenter 4-H Bldg., Scott County Fairgrounds, on Wed., March 5, from noon to 6:00 p.m.

For an appointment call 1-800-733-2767.

Walk-in donors are also welcome.

It takes about an hour for the entire process, but the actual donation time is only about seven minutes.

Donors must be in general good health, weigh 110 pounds or more, and be at least 17-years-old (16 in Kansas with completed parental consent form).

Visit www.bloodgiveslife.org to print the required form and reading materials.

Tag deadline is Friday

other specialist at Children’s Hospital, Denver, for a second opinion and the response was all too familiar.

“They don’t know what to call it either, so everyone keeps calling it Crohn’s,” says Becky.

Another concern for the Karnazes is maintaining the delicate balance with pain medications.

While reducing Kristen’s pain is a priority, the family remains conscious of the fact that her medications have some longterm side effects which can severely impact the intestines.

“Most pain meds aren’t good for the intestines, so you’re in a situation where you don’t want her to be experiencing pain but, at the same time, we are trying not to create further medical issues,” says Becky.

The Karnaze family had their hopes elevated a year ago when doctors prescribed Humira, a drug of last resort for people with severe Crohn’s, but the pain-relieving results lasted only about three months.

“When it was working, Kristen was experiencing much less pain,” says Phil. “She was starting to grow and gain weight.

Even though it’s not providing the same effect now as it was then, doctors have kept her on it.”

Persons whose last name begins with the letter A are reminded that license tags must be purchased by Fri., Feb. 28, to avoid a penalty.

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

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

Tags must be renewed during March for persons whose last name begins with B.

support publicly because they worry that the administration or the school board will take some kind of action against them.”

Given all the attention that Kansas has been receiving with a failed attempt by the state legislature to discriminate against gays and the state’s ban on gay marriage, Duff emphasizes he wasn’t out to capitalize on that publicity.

“I’d have been very happy if the administration had said the policy would be changed and I’d never had to start a petition,” he says. “But I knew there was no chance of this changing unless we started a petition. This isn’t about me. I just happen to be the voice for everyone who feels it’s time that we changed this.”

Duff’s petition can be found on his Facebook page. The petition seeks to

The Karnaze family remains determined to find the answers which have eluded them and medical experts so far.

“It’s been tough for Kristen going through the scopes, the diets, the suction tubes and the surgeries. But we can’t give up,” says Becky. “We’re always willing to try one more thing.”

One more thing, in this instance, means a visit to Boston Children’s Hospital where the Karnazes have been advised they will find some of the nation’s top specialists who deal with complicated medical cases involving children. The appointment has been set for March 11.

Phil and Becky, who are both employed at Scott County Hospital, praise their co-workers and the administration for their support.

Hospital employees have donated accumulated sick leave time to the Karnazes during extended hospital stays and while meeting with specialists. As a result, “we’ve lost very little of our wages,” says a grateful Becky. However, the couple acknowledges that the trip to Boston is more than they could manage on their own.

“When it’s your child you do what you have to do, even if it

means swallowing your pride and asking for help,” says Phil.

Just like so much in their lives, they are approaching the trip with cautious optimism.

“We try not to get our hopes up too much,” says Becky.

“We’ve been through this for so long that we’ve learned to take things one day at a time.”

It’s important to keep a positive attitude and remain optimistic that the next specialist will provide the answers they are looking for.

After more than 13 years, Kristen isn’t so sure.

“I’m not optimistic that they will figure out something,” she says of the upcoming trip to Boston.

Though she continues to find something positive in every situation.

“I’m excited because it will be my first time to fly in an airplane,” she adds.

If Boston Children’s Hospital fails to provide the answers they are looking for, the family is uncertain what their next step will be.

“It’s something we try not to think about. I don’t know where we’d go,” says Becky. “If that happens, we’ll have to determine what’s best . . . to make the best of each day.”

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“I’m not sure prom has the same meaning that it used to have.”

But he emphasized that the district won’t discriminate against an invited guest as long as they’re a student in good standing No District Policy According to Supt. Bill and the proper procedure Wilson, the petition is in response to a problem which doesn’t exist.

“There’s no need to address a policy issue for something that isn’t prohibited,” says Wilson.

He said the only thing the district does discourage is seniors and juniors inviting same-sex friends from other towns in a nondating situation.

“Prom is a time for couples to attend with a date as a formal event and we’d like to see that preserved. It’s also a chance for the juniors to do something special for the seniors and to bid them farewell,” says Wilson.

“Allow students to receive an out-of-town guest request form if they are wanting to invite a friend or boyfriend/girlfriend of the same sex (to prom).”

is followed for bringing a guest to prom.

“To be honest, the district hasn’t even had a chance to address this issue because a guest request has yet to be filed with the principal,” adds Wilson.

What’s for Lunch in Scott City?

Sun. - Sat., Mar. 2-8

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Lunch • Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Evenings • Thurs., Fri., Sat. 5:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m.

Tues. • Open faced prime rib sandwich with fries, $10.95 Wed. • French dip sandwich with french fries, $6.95 Thurs. • Fried chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy, $6.95 Fri. • Catfish dinner, $6.95

What’s for Supper?

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• Chili Cheese Dog • 1/4 lb Cheeseburger • 3 Piece Chicken Strips

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Tues.• Hamburger steak with mushrooms and onions Wed.• Fried chicken Thurs.• Mountain oysters Fri.• Seafood specials Sat. • Prime rib

Breakfast specials every night.

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Many health benefits from eating dry beans It’s time to sing the praises of dry beans and not that song about, “Beans, beans, the musical fruit!” (More on that later). Here are some high notes a song about beans would include: •Taste. Cooked dry beans are a dietary staple in many parts of the world and not just because of their low cost. They are featured in the traditional French cassoulet, a casserole of white beans, meats, vegetables and herbs.

•Convenience. What could be more convenient than a can of cooked dry beans just waiting to be transformed into a dip,

main dish, sandwich, soup, salad, or satisfying side dish! No refrigeration, peeling, or - depending on the recipe - additional cooking needed.

“Canned beans may be stored up to 12 months in their original sealed cans,” according to the American Dry Bean Board.

•Cost. A drained and rinsed 15- to 16-ounce can of cooked dried beans

provides about 3-1/2 cup servings, or enough beans for two main dishes. The cost ranges from about $1 to $1.50 per can. Beans are frequently recommended as a nutrient-dense source of low-cost protein.

•Weight management.

Beans have their place in weight management.

Beans have a lower glycemic index which means they will have less impact on blood sugar levels.

They also are high in fiber, which provides a sense of satiety or fullness that helps reduce food cravings.

Depending on variety, a half cup of cooked

dry beans averages about 120 calories. This caloric level is only six percent of the total calories for a 2,000-calorie meal plan.

•Heart health. Beans provide heart-healthy amounts of folate, an essential nutrient that helps protect against heart disease. Fiber, especially soluble fiber, may reduce our risk for heart disease by helping lower cholesterol.

A half cup of cooked dry beans provides about six grams of fiber, of which two grams is soluble fiber. The recommended daily intake of total fiber is 14 grams

First Easter pageant meeting is March 9

Mr. and Mrs. Gentry Duff

Plans are being made for the Scott Community Easter pageant which will be held on Fri., April 18, at Lake Scott State Park.

A meeting for participants will be held on Sun., March 9, 1:30 p.m., at the First United Methodist Church sanctuary. Everyone will watch a video and pick up costumes.

The first “Road to Redemption” rehearsal at the state park will be held on Sun., March 23, 1:30

p.m.

All costumes will be provided. Participants are reminded they need to be in attendance at each rehearsal.

All children 13-years and under must have a parent or other adult supervisor with them during rehearsals.

Anyone wanting to participate or having questions can contact Gwen Huck (872-3574) or Suzanne Griffith (8727182).

Newlin-Duff exchange Food prices rise slowly in 2013 vows in Pennsylvania more The latest Consumer and veal, also moderated

Emily Lynn Newlin, Christiana, Pa., and Gentry Justus Duff, Scott City, were united in Holy matrimony on Nov. 9, 2013, 2:00 p.m., at Encounter Church, Quarryville, Pa., with Rev. Stuart Osborne officiating.

Parents of the couple are Robert and Linda Newlin, Christiana, and Richard and Susan Duff, Scott City.

Matron of honor was Bethany Brown, sister of the bride, Quarryville.

Bridesmaids were Hillary Newlin, sister of the bride, Christiana; Tiffany Miller, friend of the bride, Mount Joy, Pa.; Jessica DeRaps, friend of the bride, Quarryville; and Michelle Porter, friend of the bride, Kansas City, Mo. Flower girls were Melany Duff, niece of the groom, Scott City, and Izzabelle Brown, niece of the bride, Quarryville.

Ring bearer was Coleson Brown, nephew of the bride, Quarryville.

Best man was Shiloh Duff, brother of the

groom, Scott City.

Groomsmen were Paul Frey, friend of the groom, Laguna Hills, Calif.; Barry Graver, friend of the groom, Quarryville; Jarrod Tishhouse, friend of the groom, Lancaster, Pa.; and Garrison Newlin, brother of the bride, Christiana.

Worship music was provided by Darren and Stephanie Kauffman, Quarryville; Brett Bailey, New Providence, Pa.; and Tim Mohler, Quarryville, all friends of the bride and groom.

Ushers were Todd Brown, brother-in-law of the bride, Quarryville; Jordan Duff, brother of the groom, Scott City; and Dustin Duff, brother of the groom, Champaign, Ill. Following the ceremony, a reception was held at White Chimneys, Gap, Pa. After a honeymoon in the Dominican Republic, the couple has moved to Scott City to be a part of the family’s bison ranch operation.

Price Index (CPI) for food shows food-price inflation slowed during 2013, including prices for meat, poultry and dairy.

The CPI for all food increased by 1.4 percent during 2013, compared with 2.6 percent during 2012. The rate of increase during 2013 fell well below the 20-year historical average of 2.8 percent.

For 2014, USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) expects food prices to increase at a more typical rate of 2.5 to 3.5 percent for all food.

Prices for food away from home increased by 2.1 percent during 2013 compared with 2.8 percent during 2012. Prices for food at home increased even less, at 0.9 percent compared with 2.5 percent during 2012.

Price inflation for meat, and specifically for beef

last year at two percent compared with 6.4 percent during 2012. ERS projects an annual increase of 3-4 percent for 2014.

Poultry prices gained 4.7 percent during 2013 compared with 5.5 percent for 2012, while pork prices moved 0.9 percent higher compared with just a 0.3 percent increase during 2012.

Dairy prices were flat, compared with 2.1 percent during 2012.

per 1,000 calories or 28 grams for a 2,000-calorie meal plan. Beans contain no cholesterol, are virtually fat-free, and unless sodium is added during canning or cooking, are low in sodium.

•Cancer. The folate, fiber and low glycemic index of beans also may help lower the risk of cancer.

•Diabetes management.

Beans fiber and low glycemic index can help persons with diabetes maintain normal blood glucose levels and a healthy body weight, both important in the control of diabetes.

•Healthy pregnancies.

Folate in beans is especially beneficial to women of child-bearing age. Folate may help reduce the risk of birth defects like spina bifida (a potentially crippling defect) and anencephaly (a fatal defect where a part of the brain never develops).

Since a woman may not realize she is pregnant during the early weeks of pregnancy, all women of childbearing age are advised to get 400 micrograms (mcg) of folate daily.

(Note: the term “folic acid” refers to the synthetic form of folate found (See BEANS on page eight)

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Editorial/Opinion

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editorially speaking

Blocking speech:

Legislature tries to silence opposition to bad laws

Free speech is a great thing until that speech turns critical.

The Kansas Legislature - being the thin-skinned creatures that they are - may not be able to limit the ability of individuals to exercise free speech, but they can sure make it more difficult for those government entities who must live with bad legislation when it is passed.

A year ago, the legislature passed a law requiring government units to itemize how much of their money for dues, etc., goes to lobbying efforts. The result was more of that burdensome government paperwork that conservative politicians love to condemn.

The law (HB 2023) also prohibits public employees from using any dollars collected for any purpose through payroll deduction to be used for “political activities.” That includes membership dues.

This was a not-so-veiled attempt to prevent cities and counties from waging a legal fight against expanded concealed carry laws, much like school districts have waged a continuing fight with the legislature over school funding.

During a recent listening tour stop in Scott City, State Sen. Mitch Holmes defended the effort to silence opposition on the basis that a majority of legislators know what’s best and they shouldn’t have to defend their decision to lobbyists or the courts.

Sure, the legislature always knows what’s best . . . just as the House of Representatives demonstrated with their 72-49 vote to discriminate against gays and lesbians. The Senate stopped bad legislation in its tracks and House members are being forced to talk out both sides of their mouths in distancing themselves from their vote.

Which goes to show that legislators don’t always know what’s best.

Most city and county units of government remain opposed to allowing concealed carry in their buildings - not because they are bleeding heart liberals who are opposed to the Second Amendment. They are opposed because it represents an unnecessary expense to install metal detectors or have armed guards at the entrances to their buildings.

They see it as a waste of tax dollars in response to a problem that didn’t exist.

Waving the Second Amendment over one’s head doesn’t make someone a patriot or more of an American than the next person. Legislators who vote for bad legislation as a means of establishing their conservative credentials are poor lawmakers simply trying to satisfy a voting base that’s more focused on style than substance.

Those who pass bad legislation and then try to restrict the ability of others to speak out against the consequences are cowards.

It would appear that we have an abundance of both poor lawmakers and cowards in Topeka.

Discrimination:

Reject HB 2453 for moral, not economic reasons

When the Kansas Senate refused to act upon a House bill that would have allowed businesses in the state to discriminate against someone because they are gay or lesbian, there was a collective sigh in some corners that reason had prevailed.

While it’s a good sign that the Senate refused to act upon an ugly and discriminatory measure that was approved by 72 members of the House, let’s not give them too much credit.

In announcing her decision to take no action on HB 2453, Senate President Susan Wagle (RWichita) expressed concerns that “the business implications are going to harm the practice of employment in Kansas.”

One might have hoped that Wagle would have called the bill morally reprehensible . . . no different than if the House would have called for similar action against blacks or Hispanics or anyone else because of their age or gender.

Rep. Don Hineman (R-Dighton), who was in the minority opposed to the bill, commented, “I cannot vote yes for this bill if I am to heed the words of Christ when he said, ‘Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these, you have done it unto me.’”

The fact that this bill emerged from the House was an embarrassment to Kansas.

Hoping that the law will fade away based on economic rather than moral reasons hardly diminishes the embarrassment or the outrage.

It’s all about religious liberties

For as long as I can remember, I’ve had this fear of left-handed people.

A psychologist once said the closest thing he could come up with to describe my condition was levophobia, which is a fear of things to the left side of the body. I had to respectfully disagree with his diagnosis because that would have indicated that the fear of left-handed people was my problem when it clearly is not.

I’m sure it was God’s plan that everyone be right-handed.

Jesus, Moses, Abraham and Solomon were all right-handed. Don’t ask how I know this. I just do.

Consequently, doing business with people who are left-handed goes against my religious beliefs.

Of course, the first question that people ask is, “How can you tell that a customer is left-handed?”

It’s a lot easier than you think. You can tell by their walk, the way they talk and, most importantly, by the way they sign their checks. It’s a dead give-

away and it makes me feel very uncomfortable . . . in a very religious sort of way.

I shared my religious convictions with a very right-leaning and righthanded Kansas legislator who sympathized with my predicament.

“Why should I have to do business with a lefthanded person when it goes against my deeply held beliefs?” I wondered.

“As a matter of religious freedom, you shouldn’t have to,” he assured me after we had prayed together. “You aren’t alone.”

“You mean there are others who have come to you about a fear of doing business with left-handed people?” I said in relief.

“Well, not exactly.

That’s the first time I’ve heard this concern from a constituent,” he replied.

“But would you believe

there are people who refuse to do business with people who are gay.”

“You’re kidding,” I said. “How can they tell if a person is gay?”

“It’s my understanding they can tell by the way they walk and talk and the way two guys will hold hands when they enter an establishment,” the legislator explained.

“That seems like a pretty odd reason for refusing to serve a customer,” I said. “How many business people have complained to you?”

“The number is irrelevant,” said the legislator.

“The bigger issue is that one way to discourage a gay lifestyle in Kansas is to give people the freedom not to do business with gays and lesbians.

Maybe then these people will get the message that their gay lifestyle isn’t acceptable and they’ll quit being gay.”

“Is that how it works?”

I asked. “People will no longer choose to be gay if a restaurant refuses to serve them a meal?

Because I’m not sure it worked that way when

black people were refused service because of the color of their skin.”

“Now you’re comparing tomatoes and apples,” said the legislator. “We know for a fact that no matter how hard you pray you can’t change the color of someone’s skin. If that were possible it would have happened a long time ago. But we do know that with God’s help we can keep people from being gay.”

“So religious freedom is the only reason a business needs to refuse service to someone who is gay,” I observed.

“Of course,” said the legislator. “Without religious protection we would be bigots and God knows we certainly aren’t that.

We’re actually doing gay people a service by helping them to realize the many opportunities that would be available to them if they would just quit being who they are.”

He also pointed out that business people have the added protection of the First Amendment.

(See LIBERTIES on page six)

I’m black, so don’t shoot me

Sometimes, when I’m in my car, I crank up the music pretty loud. All you Michael Dunns out there, please don’t shoot me.

Please don’t shoot my sons, either, or my brothers-in-law, nephews, nephews-in-law or other male relatives. I have quite a few friends and acquaintances who also happen to be black men, and I’d appreciate your not shooting them as well, even if the value you place on their lives is approximately zero.

I know I shouldn’t have to ask, but nothing else has worked. The criminal justice system has a mixed record - Dunn was at least partly held accountable for the burst of mayhem in which he fatally shot Jordan Davis, while George Zimmerman got off scot-free for killing Trayvon Martin. But whatever the final out-

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come, prosecutors and juries never get involved until after the fact. When mothers have already cried over the caskets of their dead sons. When it’s too late.

Davis’s killing, if you haven’t been following the case, was just as senseless as Martin’s. On Nov. 23, 2012, Dunn and his fiancee stopped at a gas station in Jacksonville, Fla., and parked next to a red Dodge Durango with four African American teenagers inside.

The young men made the mistake - ultimately fatal to Davis - of having the Durango’s music system turned up too loud.

“I hate that thug music,” Dunn muttered, according

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to the fiancee’s trial testimony. The woman went inside to buy wine and potato chips - the couple had already been drinking, she testified - while Dunn, a software engineer who was 45 at the time, waited in the car.

Dunn complained to the teenagers about the music.

They turned it down, then turned it back up again.

I’m not aware of any law that says young black men have to follow orders from every random white man who comes along.

Dunn told them again to turn down the music.

He testified that Davis, who was 17, threatened him with what looked like a shotgun. No weapon was found in the teenagers’ car, however, and no witnesses saw anything that looked like a weapon - except the 9mm handgun that Dunn took out of his glove compartment.

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Dunn fired 10 shots, three of which struck Davis. He continued firing even as the teenagers’ car squealed away. Davis probably died within minutes, according to testimony at the trial.

Rather than wait for police to arrive, Dunn and his fiancee drove to their hotel - Dunn was in Jacksonville to attend his son’s wedding - where they spent the evening eating pizza and drinking rum and Cokes. He was arrested the following day at his home not far from Cape Canaveral.

On Saturday, a Jacksonville jury found Dunn guilty on three counts of attempted second-degree murder for shooting at the surviving teens, plus one count of shooting a deadly missile at an occupied vehicle.

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The mess on our information superhighway

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by Sam Pizzigati

Back in the early 1990s, the infancy of the Internet Age, our hippest policy wonks orated endlessly about the emerging “information superhighway.”

But that mouthful of a moniker would soon fall out of fashion. Anyone today who talks “information superhighway” comes across as hopelessly uncool. The irony here? If we still talked about the Internet as a “superhighway,” maybe we wouldn’t find ourselves in the online mess that now envelops us.

Americans currently pay much more for Internet than just about everybody else in the developed world. Other countries have established fast, cheap Internet access as a given of modern life. In the United States, we surf the Net at Model-T speeds - and tens of

millions of Americans still have no broadband access at all.

This pitiful situation may soon get worse. Two corporate giants that share significant responsibility for our current digital state of affairs, Comcast and Time Warner, are now seeking regulatory approval for a $45 billion merger that would leave Comcast controlling the bulk of the nation’s broadband access.

In 19 of the nation’s 20 largest metro areas, the “only choice for a high-capacity wired connection will be Comcast,” points out Susan Crawford, the author of last year’s widely acclaimed “Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age.” Our Interstate road network demonstrates the wonders we can realize once we start thinking about basic infrastructure as

. . . the data-moving industry have essentially created a giant wealth extraction machine, sucking on average over $150 a month per household for TV, phone, and Internet, a bundle that costs a French household in Paris much less than one-third that price.

a public good.

So how would thinking “superhighway” help us out of this mess? America’s only actual “superhighway” - our Interstate road network - demonstrates quite neatly the wonders we can realize once we start thinking about basic infrastructure as a public good, not a source of grand private fortune.

Historians give former President Dwight Eisenhower most of the credit for America’s current Interstate system. In 1919, as a young military officer, Ike’s first drive across the United States took 62 days.

In 1956, as the nation’s chief executive, he would sign the legislation that created the Interstate network - and eventually cut the time of a transcontinental drive to just five days.

Every citizen, Eisenhower believed, had a “vital interest” in a “safe and adequate highway system.” The federal government, under Ike, would take that interest seriously. The legislation he signed in 1956 would authorize the nation’s largest public works project ever, a $25-billion, 10-year highway construction effort.

Eisenhower’s entire new Interstate road network would operate under public control. No motorists had to pay a private entity anything to gain access.

The ebb and flow of Ike’s Interstate traffic would create no grand private fortunes.

Public control simply seemed the only way to go for

Americans in the middle of the 20th century - and not just for highways. These years would see a vast expansion of public infrastructure, for everything from recreation to education.

State and national parks would soon come to dot the American landscape. A wide array of new public colleges and universities opened their doors.

Public control simply seemed the only way to go for Americans in the middle of the 20th century - and not just for highways.

What explains this golden age of publicly financed and managed infrastructure?

Economic equality certainly played a prime role. By the 1950s, the nation’s original plutocracy had faded away. A mass middle class, the world’s first ever, had jumped out onto the nation’s political center stage.

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Kansas must continue to let the sunshine in

by Ron Keefover

Roberts fights crazy with crazy

by Jim Hightower

In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy assessed the odd things she was experiencing and said to her little dog, “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”

Lately, Sen. Pat Roberts has gained a new understanding of what Dorothy meant.

The Kansas Republican has been in the Senate for 18 years and was in the House for 16 years before that.

So he’s been away for a long time, and now that he’s running for another six-year senate term, Roberts has learned that the Kansas he thought he was from - a state of relatively moderate, Eisenhower-style Republicans has become the Political Land of Right-Wing Oz.

A rabidly extremist, Kochheaded, tea party Republicanism has taken hold of the GOP’s primary process and blown out the moderates.

The upshot for Roberts is that Republican voters are now hard-right, howl-at-the-moon lunatics who demand ideological purity over everything else.

And they’ve put up one of their own to run against him in the August primary.

But, by golly, the senator is fighting back. Unfortunately, he’s not doing it by standing up for his principles and refusing to be intimidated by crazies.

Instead, Roberts has put on his own crazy pants, altered his beliefs, and is dancing like a fool with the ideologues.

He recently opposed the Farm Bill he helped write, he joined the certifiably goofy Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) in the silly political stunt that shut down the U.S. government last October, and he even became a member of the tinfoil hat club by voting against a United Nations treaty to ban discrimination against people with disabilities.

Come on Pat, you’ve been in Congress for 34 years, you’re 77-years-old, and you’re getting a gold-plated pension for the rest of your life.

Is six more years in the Senate really worth selling out people with disabilities - along with your own integrity?

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

“Sunshine is the strongest antiseptic…its rays may penetrate areas previously closed,” so opined the late-Hon. Robert H. Miller, a former chief justice of Kansas’ Supreme Court, as he explained in a court case why government records must be open under penalty of law.

His sage admonition of 30 years ago remains true today.

For one need only look to current events in North Korea, for example, where a tourist can easily find him or herself whisked away by state police and accused of any manner of offense, including crimes subject to the death penalty, with the only explanation given that the defendant is a spy.

No supporting information.

Nothing. Only the threat of execution unless the defendant’s family or country may pony up what in effect is little more than ransom.

And we Americans scratch our head and ask how this can be. Alas, we need look no further than Eastern and Central Europe for like examples of secret proceedings that were routine in the former Soviet Bloc countries and Yugoslavic republics.

I know first-hand of what I speak for I have now made presentations at 17 once opaque international courts, where cases were secret with no public access by anyone; where harsh prison sentences or even death penalties were meted out without regard to fairness

The problem is policymakers are still following NCLB’s test-and-punish path. The names of the tests may have changed, but the strategy remains the same.

or transparency in the proceedings. Where jack booted officers stormed homes in the night, arresting whom they will with no showing of probable cause.

Today, the U.S. State Department, and several national legal organizations are assisting the “new” judges in many of those republics make their systems honest and transparent - just as every state and federal court in our country have - except those in Kansas.

Most are unaware, but under Kansas statutes all information contained in affidavits setting forth probable cause to issue criminal complaints or search warrants are sealed. Just as in Third Reich Germany, one interested in the truth behind the issuance of a criminal charge or search warrant in Kansas may not learn it from what should be an open court record, because many years ago, without a public hearing, a bill was enacted closing these affidavits, or sworn statements to support issuance of the search and arrest warrants.

The need to declare these documents open court records once and for all has been borne out time and time again during 15 years I spent as a journalist covering the courts and 32 years as public information officer (See SUNSHINE on page six)

Why Comcast/Netflix deal should worry you Netflix has agreed to pay Comcast an undisclosed amount to ensure that its videos stream smoothly to Comcast customers. But fans of Francis Underwood’s manipulations on House of Cards might want to temper their celebrations.

This is more than a deal between two giant companies: It will affect everyone who uses the Internet. And as with so many things involving Comcast, consumers will end up paying for it in the end.

The deal should also be a wake-up call to regulators who are weighing the proposed Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger and grappling with what to do about Net Neutrality.

And if the game of chicken that preceded this pact becomes the norm, it will be a disaster for

behind the headlines by Craig Aaron/S. Derek Turner

the future of online video.

Everybody Pays The exact terms of the Comcast-Netflix deal are secret, but this much is clear: Millions of consumers who already paid handsomely for a premium broadband experience received poor service for months on end.

Comcast refused to make minimal investments to deliver what its customers already bought and simultaneously pushed people to upgrade to more expensive services.

Comcast and friends like to cry foul at the sheer amount of

traffic video-streaming companies use. But the actual investment these extremely profitable ISPs would need to make to ensure their customers get the quality of service they paid for is extremely small. We’re talking so small it wouldn’t make the slightest dent in the continued growth in broadband profits these companies enjoy year after year.

The dispute between Comcast and Netflix had gone on for months. It’s likely that millions of unsuspecting consumers paid to upgrade to faster speed tiers thinking it would fix their problems.

Comcast customers report hearing about this “solution” from customer-service reps after trying - without success - to fix the problem on their own.

Comcast had no qualms about letting its customers suffer lousy speeds and service.

To Comcast, bad service is just another negotiating tactic - the company knows that most of its customers have nowhere else to turn for high-speed broadband.

(And for the few that do, the options aren’t great: Verizon is apparently degrading Netflix, too.)

This is what happens in a broken market: Powerful players abuse their power to serve their own anti-competitive ends.

Why Comcast Is Afraid Cord cutters hail the new streaming marketplace as a land of competition and diversity.

Instead of shelling out big bucks to pay for 500 cable channels, consumers can cut the cord and

get their programming from on-demand libraries on platforms like Amazon Prime, Hulu and Netflix. But the ComcastNetflix agreement changes the landscape.

Online video scares the cable companies, which have enjoyed a monopoly on entertainment and information distribution since the 1990s, when broadcast viewership over the airwaves began to decline. Cable companies like Comcast make tons of money by elevating their own programming on their cable systems.

And since Comcast acquired NBC, the company now controls a media empire that includes Universal Studios, cable networks like Bravo, MSNBC, and USA, and more than two (See COMCAST on page six)

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State fossil would celebrate our natural history Last week I was pleased to introduce HB 2595, which would designate Tylosaurus (a giant mosasaur) as the Kansas state marine fossil and pteranodon as the Kansas state flying fossil. The bill was passed out of committee with only one dissenting vote.

Appearing to testify in favor of the bill were fossil hunter Alan Detrich; Mike Everhart, adjunct curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Hays; and Scott

Legislative Update Rep. Don Hineman 118th District

Community High School senior Steven Fisher.

Both Tylosaurus and Pteranodon are almost exclusively Kansas fossils, being discovered first and most frequently in Kansas.

Although Tylosaurus and Pteranodon lived at the same time as the dinosaurs, neither of these

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for them. The latest example is illustrative: A Leawood couple this past year has spent $25,000 in legal fees to find out the basis of a police raid of their home by law enforcement agents that the couple ultimately learned had been based on questionable results of a field lab analysis of what actually was not marijuana, but green tea.

After repeated denial of access to the sworn statement leading to the search warrant that had been issued, the family learned of the false lab reading, and the fact that the “investigation” began by the observance of the father purchasing indoor gardening supplies from a hydroponic shop for his son’s school experiment.

Despite pleas made through the Kansas Open Records Act and repeated telephone calls, they were not allowed to inspect the very document that served as the basis of a two-and-a-half-hour full battle dress, “On-The-Floor-NOW!” drug raid.

The mother, who watched the raid in horror as her husband was handcuffed and their children scared beyond belief, tearfully related the incident to members of the House Judiciary Committee during its consideration of House Bill 2555, which would open the affidavits for search and arrest warrants after they have been served.

Enactment of that legislation would finally, and after many years of secrecy, make the courts in Kansas as transparent as those, say in East Germany, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia, Slovakia, Moscow ad nauseum—you get the idea here, just as every other state and federal court in this country does.

HB 2555 could help Kansas citizens finally see the light of day in our criminal court records. I truly hope our legislators do. After all, Sunshine is the strongest antiseptic. * * * (Editor’s note: There is one judicial district in Kansas that unsealed their affidavits in 1981 and have kept them open forever since. That district is the 5th Judicial District, a two-county district consisting of Chase and Lyons counties. Lyons County Chief Judge Merlin Wheeler confirmed to me that over those many years, there have been no problems with the opened court records. None. Zero.)

Ron Keefover is president of the Kansas Sunshine Coalition for Open Government

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extinct animals are dinosaurs but are in fact reptiles.

Tylosaurus inhabited the great inland sea of western Kansas during the Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era (the Age of Dinosaurs). Growing to lengths of more than 40 feet, Tylosaurus would have been the dominant marine predator of his world. Its closest living relative is the Komodo dragon.

The first known specimen was discovered in 1868 near Monument

Rocks in western Gove County.

Pteranodon flew above the same seas in which Tylosaurus swam, and achieved wingspans of 24 feet or more. Pteranodon has gained fame throughout the world due to its depiction in classic movies such as King Kong, Fantasia and Jurassic Park.

It is likely that these impressive flying reptiles spent much of their life flying and soaring over the ancient oceans of Kansas in behavior simi-

Shoot But the jury failed to reach a verdict on the most serious charge of first-degree murder for killing Davis.

Prosecutors have announced they will retry Dunn on the murder charge. Regardless of the outcome, he faces 20 years in prison for each of the attempted murder charges, and the judge could make those sentences consecutive. He might well spend the rest of his life behind bars.

lar to that exhibited by albatross and frigate birds today.

Practically all of the known specimens of Pteranodon have been discovered in the Smoky Hill Chalk of Western Kansas.

This session, like any legislative session, presents us with a number of serious issues to be debated. That does not mean that there is no time available to consider designating these magnificent fossil species as official symbols of the state.

By doing so we rec-

ognize and celebrate the natural history of this land that is now known as Kansas.

A representative of the Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism testified that passage of the bill could enhance tourism in the state while increasing the appreciation of Kansas residents for our natural history.

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So the system delivered a measure of justice, at least. We can and should examine the racial biases of juries, such as those that sat in judgment of Zimmerman and Dunn. We can and should work to repeal statutes such as Florida’s “standyour-ground” law, which in both cases - notably through the instructions that the judges read to the jurors - encouraged giving defendants who claimed self-defense the benefit of

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“When you look at this more closely, it’s not the gays who are the victims in this political battle,” the legislator emphasized. “The real victims are those business people who have strong religious convictions about gay people.”

“I remember the same argument about religious convictions being made with respect to how black people and other minorities were once treated in this country,” I said.

“That doesn’t mean we were wrong back in the day, but we’ve learned over the years there are some battles that you can fight and others you can’t,” the legislator said.

“Does this mean that you’re going to quit fighting the battle against gays?” I asked.

“Not at all. We can’t give up so easily on those business people who have turned to the church for help,” he assured me.

“That’s fine for gay people, but what about the more serious problem of left-handed customers who walk through my doors?” I wondered. “I’m not sure the First Amendment helps me and I can get very religious if it allows me to pick and choose who my customers are.”

“With God, all things are possible,” said the legislator as he asked me to join him again in prayer. “What religion are you?”

“What religion will allow me to keep left-handed customers from walking through my doors?”

“We’ll have to pray about that one,” said the legislator.

“As long as this doesn’t take very long,” I added. “I have a business to run.”

the doubt.

I know it’s important that the next Zimmerman or Dunn be convicted of murder, if that’s what the evidence says. But I’m so very tired of funerals and trials. I want to know what we can do to keep the next Trayvon Martin and the next Jordan Davis alive.

While Michael Dunn was in jail awaiting trial - and authorities were recording his phone calls - he said this to his fiancee: “When the police said

that these guys didn’t have a record I was like, you know, I wonder if they’re just flying under the radar.

Because they were bad.”

What he meant by “bad,” evidently, was “young, black and male.”

It was this assumption that killed Martin and Davis - and that surely will kill again. We don’t just have to change laws. We have to change hearts and minds.

Eugene Robinson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist

Government regs could ruin bigotry

by Andy Borowitz

PHOENIX (The Borowitz Report) - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer said today that she was reluctant to sign an anti-gay “religious freedom” bill passed by the Arizona state legislature this week, telling reporters, “I believe that bigotry and hatred should be free of government regulation.”

She said that while many Arizona business owners currently enjoy employing hateful practices, “I worry that if big government gets involved, that’ll ruin everything.”

“Don’t get me wrong. I think the anti-gay bill that the legislature passed was well-meaning,” she said. “All I’m saying is, let’s leave it to the private sector.”

Offering an example, she added, “Look at how Obamacare has messed up health care. I’d hate to pass a new law that results in government wrecking bigotry.”

But Gov. Brewer got some pushback today from Republican legislator Harland Dorrinson, who told reporters, “I’m as opposed to big government as anyone. But promoting hate-based bias is one area where I believe government has an important role to play.”

For her part, Governor Brewer remains unconvinced by that argument. Noting that the current system of hatred and bigotry in place in Arizona has worked well for decades, she said, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

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Comcast dozen local TV stations across the country.

It benefits Comcast to keep independent programmers off of its own cable lineup and to make space for its own properties, because it’s way more lucrative than paying someone else for their content. And even today, any new cable channel essentially has to get picked up by Comcast, because the company is already the gateway to so many homes.

This deal spells bad

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news for future startups and anyone interested in creating or consuming online media (as in pretty much all of us). It will likely chill investment in online video startups as investors look to safer bets that don’t involve battling Comcast, a company that’s poised to control over half of the bundled home video and broadband Internet market.

ment is not the outcome of a free market. This is Comcast having Netflix over a barrel, and backing off only when it became clear that this sort of trickery could potentially derail its mega-merger with Time Warner Cable.

This deal is a glimpse into the future of the Internet - and that future will look even worse if that merger goes through.

Disputes like this Seeing the Future hurt the open Internet.

Let’s be clear. The They hurt consumers.

Comcast-Netflix agree- And they’ll become par

for the course if ISPs are allowed to get even bigger and operate without the Federal Communications Commission stepping in.

This is a critical moment for our country.

If Comcast acquires Time Warner Cable, it will control 55 percent of the U.S. market’s pay-TV/Internet bundled customers. It will be the only provider of this advanced communications package to nearly 4-of-every-10 U.S. homes.

With this much control over the platform we all

use to communicate and share with the outside world, the new normal will be whatever Comcast wants it to be.

Our country used to guard against the consolidation of this much market power, but in recent years policymakers have forgotten the lessons of history. We need to put the “public” back into public policy and some teeth back into our antitrust enforcement.

The average Internet user is at the mercy of

companies like Comcast and Verizon, which won’t hesitate to degrade their services as a negotiating ploy. We need a watchdog in Washington who will demand transparency and who has the authority to stop discrimination and anti-competitive behavior.

Craig Aaron is president and CEO of Free Press, the national, non-partisan media reform group. He is the editor of “Changing Media: Public Interest Policies for the Digital Age.” S. Derek Turner is the research director for Free Press

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Most Americans in this new more equal America faced similar problems.

Public solutions, in this political environment, just seemed common sense.

Build the Interstate with public tax dollars?

Operate the Interstate under public control? Of course. Americans of the mid 20th century could see no alternative to public control over public goods.

An alternative, we know today in our much more unequal America, does exist: Private interests could control our public goods. We could have decided a half-century ago to lease out the Interstate’s management to private companies.

If we had organized the Interstate along these lines, anyone wanting to ride the system would have been paying tribute, all these years, to private

corporations. And the execs in those corporations would have become fabulously rich, wealthy enough to corrupt our political system and keep their monopoly power secure.

This scenario should all sound a bit familiar.

In contemporary America, we’ve let private corporations determine who can access our data superhighway. That control has generated grand fortunes - and formidable political power.

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, we learned in 2013, averaged $29 million in take-home the previous three years. He has become both a billionaire and a major political player.

Roberts plays golf with the President of the United States. His top lobbyist used to sit on the

Federal Communications Commission, the agency that has to decide whether to approve the Comcast merger with Time Warner.

The top official in the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust division will also have a say on the merger. The current Justice Department antitrust chief helped grease the skids, as a corporate attorney, for Comcast’s 2011 takeover of the NBC Universal media conglomerate.

Brian Roberts and his corporate counterparts elsewhere in the data-moving industry have essentially created a giant wealth extraction machine, sucking on average over $150 a month per household for TV, phone, and Internet, a bundle that costs a French household in Paris much less than one-third that price.

The first step toward

turning this situation around? Stop the Comcast and Time Warner merger. The more fundamental task: Give our private corporate Internet access giants some public competition.

Some municipalities are already moving to set up their own fiber networks for Internet access. Comcast and other telecom heavy hitters, working with the plutocrat-friendly American Legislative Exchange Council, are pushing states to ban localities from taking this publicspirited action. Nineteen so far have.

The battle is only beginning.

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

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In each of the past three years, another teacher has been added at kindergarten (2011), first grade (2012) and second grade (2013) as larger classes have progressed through the elementary school.

Another teacher will be added at the third grade level for the 2014-15 school year.

“We’re allocating resources where they will provide the greatest benefit for our kids,” says Wilson. “Studies have shown how important it is to give students a good start in their education.

That’s why we’ve focused attention on helping those students through the third grade.”

At the same time, he says they’re also trying to maintain smaller class sizes in the middle school.

At-Risk Students According to SCMS Principal Jim Howard, of the 198 students enrolled in grades 5-8, 77 are one or more grade level behind in math or reading.

Supt. Bill Wilson attributed the decline to changes in the assessment tests associated with core curriculum, which has replaced the No Child Left Behind standards. He says that test scores in New York and Kentucky, which were among the first to make the transi-

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tion, plummeted as in the two years following the change.

“It’s different testing.

That’s going to happen,” says Wilson.

He says that SCMS is in the first year of core curriculum testing and while scores did drop, “it’s nothing like we saw in other states.” Wilson says the district won’t be penalized for its test scores in the first year of making the transition.

Nonetheless, the district is taking steps to strengthen its assessment scores.

“We need more than study halls. We need one person who holds these kids accountable,” Howard informed the board at its last meeting.

“When we have someone who is in charge of these at-risk kids, there’s a place where the kids can go for help.

If you have five ‘D’s and one ‘F’ you might qualify for study hall, but that’s not enough.”

The district is creating an at-risk position which will be responsible for about 10-11 students each class hour in an effort to boost their classroom achievement.

“The at-risk teacher provides us with another level of accountability.

This just makes sense,” Wilson said.

Board members were concerned about whether staff cuts have had an impact on assessment results.

“Have we reviewed the (test) results of having just two teachers in math?”

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What of the ‘music’?

What can you do if dry beans give you “gas”?

Some ways to minimize the gaseous or “musical fruit” effect include: •Discard the soaking water when preparing dry beans from scratch and rinse beans thoroughly before cooking them.

•Gradually increase the amount and frequency of beans in your diet. This will give your body a chance to adjust to them. For example, start with one-fourth cup of beans sprinkled on top of a salad or added to a serving of soup.

•Try Beano, a non-prescription product available in the pharmacy section of many stores. It contains an enzyme that breaks down the gas-producing substances in beans. Beano is available in liquid and tablet form. Use immediately before consuming beans.

As with adding all types of fiber to your diet, drink plenty of fluids and maintain regular physical activity. This helps your gastrointestinal system handle the increased fiber.

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4) As a substitution for fresh garlic, use 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder.

5) Other types of beans may be substituted for the black beans in this recipe.

wondered board member Christine Cupp.

“It was a little tumultuous at first,” replied Howard. “There were new challenges, but we’ve seen progress. It’s been a beneficial year.”

The loss of teaching positions also raises the question of how many students do parents, and the district, want in each class.

Most classes in the grade school and middle school range from 16-20 students.

“Our class sizes are reasonable compared to other districts, but in Scott City do we want class sizes comparable to Garden City when we don’t have to?” asked Duff. “It greatly decreases our oneto-one teacher-student contact.”

Wilson says that when a grade level has 69 students “that’s when you have to look at whether you are going to have three or four sections. The district has to consider the possibility of additional move-ins that could push class sizes to 24-25 students.

“In second grade we started with 69 students at the start of the year. We could have gotten by with three teachers, but we decided to hire a fourth teacher, and it’s a good thing we did,” says Wilson.

Second grade has since grown to 74 students.

Wilson says that in grades 6-8 the district has 14-16 students in each section.

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Public Forum Free Admission

Saturday, March 1 • 1:00-5:00 p.m.

St. Catherine’s Hospital, Meeting Room B 401 E. Spruce St., Garden City

Attend one program or all 9. Learn how Wellness Connections connects mind, body and spirit, by offering education, training, support and comfort for those looking to improve their health and well-being.

1:15 p.m. •History of Reiki by Jerry Ellis - Jerry is a Reiki Master with over 25 years experience. He will lead you through the history, impact and benefits of the healing powers of Reiki.

1:45 p.m. •Cranial Sacral Therapy by Kriz Retsema - Kriz is a nationally certified therapeutic massage and bodywork professional with over 1,000 hours of training. She specializes in working with cancer survivors during or after treatment therapies.

2:15 p.m. •Chronic Pain Relief Through Massage by Amy Cain - Amy is a nationally certified massage therapist with over 1,000 hours of training, specializing in deep tissue/treatment work for chronic pain related issues.

2:45 p.m. •Art Expression by AvNell Mayfield - Over a period of 40 years of teaching art to at-risk Head Starters, elementary, middle, high school, college, adults, senior citizens, and inmates in prison, she has observed the positive healing effects that art had on the lives of these individuals.

3:15 p.m. •Hydroponics Brings Nutrition to the Table by Larry Caldwell - With over 25 years experience in growing nutritious food through the hydroponic system Larry, has researched and discovered many practical ways anyone can grow their own food from anywhere.

3:45 p.m. •Unlocking the Door to the Soul by Lori Carter - Lori is a Usui and Karuna Reiki Master/Teacher, Seichim Reiki II practitioner and a certified Akashic Records practitioner. Have you ever wondered what your purpose is? Are you stuck in unproductive patterns in your life?

We’ll discuss some of the tools available to unlock the door to your potential.

4:15 p.m. •Massage and Lymphedema Care for Cancer Patients and Survivors by Kriz Retsema - With 135 hours specialty training and over 200 hours of practical work in all aspects of treatment, management and education she will present warning signs and approach to care.

4:45 p.m. •Using Your Intuition by Kat Haxton - Since childhood Kat has learned to appreciate and develop the gift of intuition and she will share with you how to recognize your gift through a group demonstration.

5:15 p.m. •Yoga by Katherine White - Kathy has completed all 5 levels of teacher training, plus additional training in prenatal yoga, yoga for seniors, yoga for back health, “hot” (Bikram) yoga, and “power” (Ashtanga) yoga as well as restorative and therapeutic yoga. She will share the benefits of yoga and how it can meet physical, mental and psychosocial needs.

Your health, your decision

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Youth/Education

Page 9 - Thursday, February 27, 2014

Scheuerman named to fall Dean’s list at Logan

Andrea Scheuerman, Scott City, was named to the Dean’s List at Logan University, Chesterfield, Mo., at the end of the college’s fall trimester.

To qualify, a student must achieve at least a 3.5 grade point average for the trimester.

At Logan University, Scheuerman is expected to complete a curriculum encompassing basic and

clinical (diagnostic) sciences, chiropractic science, research and patient care. To receive the doctor of chiropractic degree, a student must complete 10 trimesters (the equivalent of five two-semester academic years) of study.

Most Logan students are enrolled almost yearround, completing three trimesters per calendar year.

Fraley on PSU honor roll Paul Fraley, Dighton, has been named to the fall semester Dean’s honor roll at Pittsburg State University.

To be eligible for academic honors a full-time student must be enrolled in at least 12 hours for the semester and maintain a grade point average of at least 3.6.

A senior at PSU, Fraley is a biology major.

Top finalists from SCMS in the “If I were mayor . . .” essay contests were (front row, from left) Jera Drohman, Yami Sanchez and Lynell Wessel. (Back row) Ashley Lightner and Brayden Bollwinkel.

(Record Photo)

Future mayors offer their ideas for a better Scott City Wind farms, community gardens and more housing are just some of the improvements that Scott City Middle School seventh graders would try to achieve if they were mayor.

Students submitted entries for the annual “If I Were Mayor . . .” essay contest and offered a wide range of ideas for the community.

Yami Sanchez’s plans for a “greener, smarter and bigger” Scott City earned her first place in the Southwest Region and a trip to the State Capitol last week where she was among six regional winners who were recognized

by Gov. Sam Brownback.

Sanchez’s plans for Scott City would include a wind farm, a homework center for young people and more housing. She feels the idea of a homework center, along with a small gym, helped to set her essay apart from others.

“When I’m at home usually my little brother disturbs me when I’m trying to do my homework,” she says. “It would help kids if they had a place where they could go.”

She says tutors could

be hired or student-teachers could help students.

“I would get busy building houses where the old hospital is located,” she added. “When we moved here my parents couldn’t find a home. Housing here is a problem.”

Housing was a concern expressed by other SCMS students whose essays were among the local finalists.

“I want to help people looking for a place to live and work,” says Brayden Bollwinkel. “I know how hard it was for my family to find a place to live when we moved here.”

He suggested providing incentives, such as tax breaks, for those who want to build homes.

Bollwinkel would also like to make sure buildings are repaired so they can be used for new businesses.

Community Garden Ashley Lightner would like to see a community garden and a community center.

“A community garden would be a beautiful place to have picnics and also hang out with family and friends,” she says.

“It would offer some help

to people who don’t have anything to do after school or work.”

She suggested that fruits and vegetables raised in the garden could be made available to needy families in town.

“And the flowers could be given to people at the nursing home,” she says.

Lynell Wessel offered a similar idea with a community greenhouse that would help promote a healthier lifestyle.

Along that same line, she would also like to see more sidewalks and places on the streets to help pedestrians walk, bike and run more safely.

Also promoting safety was Jera Drohman who would like to see a bridge walk across US83 Highway at Patton Park to provide a safer crossing for people. She also suggests a traffic light be added at the intersection where Dollar General has relocated to reduce the likelihood of accidents.

Drohman would also like to see a “sit down family restaurant that is not fast food because it would make our town healthier.

A restaurant would also give people a nice place to have meetings and family

Three area students earn degrees from Wichita State More than 850 students completed their degrees at Wichita State University in fall 2013.

Undergraduate students who have attained a grade point average of 3.9 out of a possible 4.0 received the summa cum laude award; those with an average of 3.55 received the magna cum laude award; and those with an average

of 3.25 received the cum laude.

Area graduates include: Scott City: Ericka Wright graduated cum laude with a bachelor of arts degree in education (elementary).

Leoti: Jonathan Krenzel, master’s degree in aerospace engineering; and Phillip Weilert, bachelor of arts degree in history.

events or just going out to eat a good meal.”

All of the students were in support of people shopping at home and bringing more businesses to the community so people wouldn’t have to travel out of town.

“I love my city and I School Calendar don’t want to see peoFri., Feb. 28: SCHS at state KMEA band/choir festival in ple leave,” adds Wessel.

“With these improve- Wichita; Class 4A state wrestling tournament in Salina.

Sat., March 1: SCHS at state KMEA band/choir festival ments it would make our in Wichita; Class 4A state wrestling tournament in Salina; town a better place to SCHS forensics at Rolla; GWAC junior high basketball tourlive.”

Trip to Capitol Sanchez, along with her English teacher, Gayle Irwin, and Mayor Dan Goodman, made the trip to Topeka last week for the awards presentation.

Following the brief program they were able to spend a half day touring the newly renovated capitol building.

“It was very interesting to see the House in session and the people discussing laws,” says Sanchez. “The capitol is very beautiful.”

After seeing the legislators in session, Sanchez says she would like to someday be involved in making laws.

“I want to become a lawyer,” she said. “This gives me another reason.”

nament in Scott City.

Mon., March 3: Spring sports practices begin; SCHS to theatre clinic at Sterling College; SCES TEAM meeting, 5:30 p.m.

Tues., March 4: Meeting in high school commons area for the parents of all SCHS track athletes, 6:30 p.m.

Wed., March 5: SCHS FFA in farm business management/food science contest at Liberal.

Thurs. March 6: SCMS staff meeting, 7:20 a.m.; Ron Hicks parent/community event on anti-bullying, 6:00 p.m.; SCHS girl’s basketball vs Hugoton (6:00 p.m. (CT) in substate tournament at Goodland; Fri., March 7: SCHS Survivor Health Fair in high school gym, 8:00 a.m.; Ron Hicks anti-bullying program for students, 1:30 p.m.; SCHS boys vs Colby in sub-state basketball at Goodland, 6:00 p.m. (CT).

Sat., March 8: SCHS forensics at Hoisington; sub-state basketball tournament finals at Goodland.

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For the Record Self-employed? Follow these tax filing tips The Scott County Record

Jason Alderman

Calculating income taxes is a royal pain, even when your situation is uncomplicated enough that you can file a 1040EZ Form. And if you’re selfemployed, be prepared for extra layers of complexity.

Not only must you file an annual return with numerous additional forms and schedules, you’re also responsible for paying quarterly esti-

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mated taxes, which can mean having to write a pretty hefty check while waiting for your clients to pay their overdue bills.

Add in that you’re also responsible for funding your own health insurance and retirement and you may start to miss having an employer manage a portion of your financial affairs. (Although many people go into business for themselves precisely to call their own shots.)

Here are a few things to

Scott County Commission Agenda Tuesday, March 4 County Courthouse 3:00 p.m.

remember when calculating your 2013 taxes: First, some potentially good news for taxpayers who claim a home office deduction: You now may choose between the traditional method of calculating the business use of your home (which involves numerous calculations, filling out the onerous IRS Form 8829 and maintaining back-up records for years) and a new simplified option.

Under the new, so-

called “safe harbor” method, you can simply claim a standard deduction of $5 per square foot for the portion of your home used regularly and exclusively for business, up to a maximum of 300 square feet - a $1,500 limit.

Contrast that with the traditional method where you must calculate actual expenses of your home office expressed as a percentage of the square footage your home office consumes.

Scott City Council Agenda Mon., March 3 • 7:30 p.m.

City Hall • 221 W. 5th

County business Approve minutes, accounts payable and payroll

•Call to Order

3:30 p.m.

Mark Burnett • Scott Co. Hospital CEO Annual audit report

•“If I were mayor . . .” essay readings by SCMS seventh grade winners

4:00 p.m.

County Health Nurse Karen Sattler Grant approval

4:30 p.m.

Public Works Director Richard Cramer

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

•Approve minutes of Feb. 18 regular meeting

•Scott Co. Development Director Katie Eisenhour 1) Request for disbursement of funds 2) SCDC update •Approve conditional use permit for PlainJan’s/ Kelly Robbins •Approve sales tax grant funding

Public Notice

•Approve farm ground lease with Hoeme Farms

(Published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Feb. 27, 2014)1t

•Request to attend Command Spanish classes on March 15 and 22 in Scott City

TREASURER’S QUARTERLY STATEMENT SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS • AS OF JAN. 31, 2014

Total cash in the Scott County Treasury as of the above date

•Accept resignation of Municipal Court Clerk Sharon Lock

FUND

•Open agenda: audience is invited to voice ideas or concerns. A time limit may be requested

$11,801,263.91

FUND BALANCES

General .................................................................. $ 2,688,665.36 Community Development Block Grant Loan ........

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

85,934.45 Alcohol Program ....................................................

934.72 Indoor Arena Fund ................................................

2,065.86 Government Bonds - Hospital Project ..................

0.00 16,222.69 Special Cemetery Equipment .................................

County Employee Benefits ..................................... 1,112,935.49 County Health - M. Koehn Memorial .....................

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

391.99 County Health .........................................................

279,851.76 County Health - Bio-Terrorism ................................

24,649.99 County Health - Special Assistance ........................

8,973.27 Home Health ...........................................................

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

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

126,621.96 Library Building ........................................................

34,307.50 Noxious Weed ..........................................................

74,491.15 Special Noxious Weed Equipment ...........................

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

398.32 Road and Bridge ...................................................... 1,328,551.15 Fire District ...............................................................

114,018.22 County Public Buildings ...........................................

884,423.71 Special Highway Improvement ................................

215,517.73 Special Road Machinery ..........................................

173,122.58 Equipment Reserve ..................................................

444,721.50 County Bond and Interest ........................................ 1,732,338.24 Hospital Bond and Interest ......................................

492,003.41 Sheriff Equipment Fund ...........................................

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

7,403.33 Prosecutor Training and Assistance ...........................

5,804.39 Attorney Worthless Check Fees .................................

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

52,333.31 Motor Vehicle Operating Fund ...................................

4,380.47 Zella O. Carpenter (S.A.) ............................................ 251,161.41 Zella O. Carpenter ....................................................

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

479,949.82 Keystone General .....................................................

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

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

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

0.00 Current Tax ...............................................................

231,858.19 Current Tax Interest ...................................................

325.15 Tax Escrow Accounting .............................................

18,718.64 Delinquent Personal Property Tax .............................

18,295.98 Redemptions .............................................................

77,940.48 Commercial Motor Vehicle ........................................

2,150.00 Motor Vehicle Registration Tax ..................................

22,625.64 Recreation Vehicle Tax ...............................................

35.13 Rental and Excise Tax ................................................

0.00 911 Tariff .....................................................................

16,271.91 911 Tariff - Wireless .................................................... 116,841.47 Wildlife and Parks .......................................................

5,105.95 Federal Withholding ....................................................

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

125.00 Driver’s Licenses ..........................................................

125.00 Motor Vehicle ................................................................

7,492.00 Vehicle Registration Tax Interest ...................................

934.89 Motor Sales Tax ............................................................. 18,839.44 State Withholding ..........................................................

0.00 Total All Funds $ 11,801,263.91 State of Kansas County of Scott I do solemnly swear that the above statement is complete, true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief, so help me God. Lark Speer County Treasurer Subscribed to and sworn to before me this 19th day of February 2014 Alice Brokofsky Notary Public

Police Department 1) Misc. business Parks Department 1) Misc. business Public Works Department 1) Request to seek bid for CMA sand Clerk’s Department 1) Request to attend KPERS pre-retirement seminar on April 2 in Scott City 2) Approval of new job description 3) Request to advertise for full-time staff clerk •Mayor’s comments

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Feb. 27, 2014; last published Thurs., Mar. 13, 2014)4t IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff v.

LINDSEY N. TRESNER and SCOTT COUNTY HOSPITAL, INC., Defendants Case No. 13-4090-SAC-KGS Notice of United States Marshal’s Sale of Real Estate By virtue of an Order Of Sale Of Real Estate issued out of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, at Topeka, Kansas, in the above entitled case, I will, on Tuesday, the 1st day of April, 2014 at 11:00 o’clock a.m., at the front door of the Scott County Courthouse, Scott City, Kansas, offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand, all of the right, title and interest of Defendants abovenamed in and to the following described real estate, commonly known as 105 Elizabeth Street, Scott City, Kansas, and located in Scott County, Kansas, to-wit: Lot Five (5) in Block Eight (8) in the Original Town of Scott City, Kansas.

Payment must be in the

form of Cash, Cashier’s Check, Money Order or Certified Check made payable to the United States District Court and will be accepted as follows: •Less than $25,000: Entire amount due at conclusion of sale; •$25,000-$100,000: 10% down with the remainder delivered to the United States Marshal’s Service Office by close of business day; •More than $100,000: 10% down with the remainder delivered to the United States Marshal’s Service Office within five (5) working days.

The contact person regarding inquiries about the above property is Kent Colwell, United States Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, (785) 628-3081.

Said real property is levied on as the property of Defendant Lindsey N. Tresner and will be sold without appraisal, subject to any unpaid real property taxes or special assessments and with a three (3) month right of redemption, to satisfy said Order of Sale.

United States Marshal’s Office, Topeka, Kansas, this 10th day of February, 2014.

CRAIG BEAM, acting United States Marshal District of Kansas

For example, if your office takes up 12 percent of your house, you can deduct 12 percent of your electricity bill.

A few additional details: You can choose either method from year to year; however, once you’ve elected a method for a given tax year it’s irrevocable.

Under the safe-harbor method you cannot depreciate the portion of your home used for business in

that particular year.

With the new method you can still claim allowable mortgage interest, real estate taxes and insurance losses as itemized deductions on Schedule A. These deductions don’t have to be allocated between personal and business use, as under the traditional method.

You’ll need to weigh whether the recordkeeping hours you save justify the potentially smaller (See TAX TIPS on page 11)

Commercial vehicle owners get additional time without late fee The Kansas Division of Vehicles is waiving late fees for one month for commercial motor vehicle operators whose tags must be renewed by Friday, Feb. 28.

The decision means those registering non-farm commercial motor vehicles will not be charged late fees if they register their vehicles by March 31.

While the Division is notifying Kansas law enforcement agencies of the decision, the vehicle’s tags will legally be expired and drivers could be ticketed by law enforcement.

Commercial motor vehicle registration is available at 72 state and county treasurers’ offices. More than 45,700 vehicles have successfully registered through the new process.

Scott Co. LEC Report Scott Co. Sheriff’s Dept.

Feb. 25: Ramond Garcia-Rios was arrested on an out-of-county warrant and was transported to the LEC. Feb. 25: Donald Graham was arrested on an out-ofstate warrant and transported to the LEC. Feb. 26: A report was taken for unlawfully obtaining a prescription drug and theft of property in the 1100 block of South Main.

Feb. 26: Criminal deprivation of property was reported in the 200 block of W. 2nd Street.

Feb. 26: A theft was reported at Alco.

Feb. 26: An accident was reported in the 800 block of W. 9th Street.

Feb. 26: Elvira Billinger was driving a 2012 Chevrolet when she was backing out of a parking spot in the 1300 block of South Main and struck a legally parked 2008 Chevrolet owned by Russell Webster.

Scott City Police Department Feb. 25: Luico Per Egrino was driving a 1998 Freightliner on north US83 Highway at Road 180 and jackknifed due to icy road conditions.

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., Feb. 20, 2014; last published Thurs., March 6, 2014)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ELIZABETH RINEY GRUBE, deceased Case No. 2013-PR-14 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 Marsha Willard, duly appointed, qualified and acting executor of the Estate of Elizabeth Riney Grube, deceased, praying that her acts be approved; that the Will be construed and the Estate be assigned to the persons entitled thereto; that fees and expenses be allowed; that the costs

be determined and ordered paid; that the administration of the Estate be closed; that the Executor be discharged and that she be released from further liability.

You are required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 13th day of March, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock a.m., of said day, in said Court, in the City of Scott City, in Scott County, Kansas, at which time and place said cause will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

Marsha Willard WALLACE, BRANTLEY and SHIRLEY 325 Main - P. O. Box 605 Scott City, Kansas 67871 (620) 872-2161 Attorneys for Petitioner

Distribute funds to 233 crime victims The Kansas Crime Victims Compensation Board awarded financial assistance to 233 victims of crime at its February meeting.

Awards were made in 114 new cases. Additional expenses were paid in 119 previously submitted cases. The awards totaled $296,246.

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) 2962359 or visit the Attorney General’s website at www.ag.ks.gov.

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Tax Tips deduction - especially if you have a large home office or considerable deductions.

Suggestion: Look at last year’s deduction and compare what it would have been using the $5 per square foot calculation, factoring in time spent doing the math.

A few other selfemployment tax-filing considerations: •In addition to the home office deduction, you generally can deduct many other business-related expenses, including: legal and accounting fees; professional dues and subscriptions; business insurance and licenses; professional training and education; professional equipment and software; maintenance/repairs; and business-related mileage, travel and entertainment.

•You can also deduct the full cost of medical, dental, vision and longterm care insurance premiums for you, your spouse and dependents, even if you don’t itemize deductions.

For more details on business expenses and

(continued from page 10)

deductions, see IRS Publication 535 (www. irs.gov). Also visit the IRS’ Self-Employed Individuals Tax Center.

Bottom line: Income taxes are often more complicated for self-employed people and good recordkeeping is essential.

Unless you’re an accounting whiz, consider hiring a tax professional or financial planner who specializes in self-employment issues.

The penalties and fees they can help you avoid - and hidden deductions they can uncover - will probably more than pay for their fees.

Register of Deeds Diana and Roland Jenkins to Randall and Robbin Schemm, Lot 4, Blk. 3, Fairlawn Addition.

Clayton and Wanda Turner to Diana Jenkins, Lot 11, Blk. 4, East Acres Addition.

Jerome and Mary Berning Revocable Trust to Eric and Tomara Schwindt, a tract in the NW4 of 24-1833.

Drew and Diane Hoeme to Chance Bezona and Kaitlin Roemer, west 40 ft. of Lot 11 and east 50 ft. of Lot 12, Blk. 7, Webster’s 3rd Addition.

MTS Partners to Larry Hillery, Lot 1, Blk. 2, Prairie Meadows Addition.

Jerry and Carol Schulz to Robert and Helen Heinitz Trust, Lot 25, Blk. 1, except a tract in Broadview Cabin Sites.

Bryan and Karen Gunther to Marvin and Dana Hammond, a tract in the SE4 of 34-19-33.

Dennis and Constance Kuhn to West Plains Rentals LLP, Lots 6, 8 and 9 in Kuhn Addition.

Detta Lou Heitschmidt Trust to Charles Smith, Betty Smith and Delinna Smith, a tract in SW4 of 33-17-31.

Galen and Cynthia Davis to Edward Mayo and Katherine Cornelius, a tract in the SE4 of 8-17-31

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State control of Medicare funds worries Praeger

Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger warned Kansas seniors that legislation being considered by state lawmakers would place federal funding for all health care services and health plans under the control of the state legislature and governor.

The House Federal and State Affairs Committee has approved House Bill 2553, and it is currently before the full House of Representatives.

“This legislation would include but is not limited to Medicare, Medicaid, the children’s health insurance pro-

gram (HealthWave), rural hospitals, Hospice and federally qualified health centers (FQHC),” Commissioner Praeger said.

“The funding would be received in a block grant to the state, and the state legislature would decide how to spend those health

care dollars.”

Commissioner Praeger said that, under the legislation, if the state budget is underfunded in the future, money that should be used to support the Medicare program for seniors in Kansas could be swept from that program to support other

Legislators, insurers at odds on autism coverage Dave Ranney KHI News Service

Agreement remains elusive on proposed legislation that would require health insurers to cover the diagnosis and treatment of some autistic children.

Last week, Rep. John Rubin (R-Shawnee) said he was close to reaching accord with insurance company lobbyists on a bill that would expand autism coverage to several hundred Kansas children.

But that didn’t happen.

“We were unable to reach consensus on a compromise bill,” Rubin said, “So the insurance companies on Friday introduced

their own bill.”

Rubin said the insurance company proposal, House Bill 2704, is “wholly unacceptable to me and to the autism community.

It doesn’t accomplish anything positive. It’s likely that I will testify against it.”

On Wednesday, both bills were referred

by House leaders to the House Taxation Committee, exempting them from some looming legislative deadlines.

Both were forwarded to the House Insurance Committee late Thursday morning.

Rep. Scott Schwab (R-Olathe) and chair of

the insurance Committee, said he intends to hear one of the bills on March 10.

“We’ll just do one,” he said. “I don’t know which one. I haven’t decided.

But we won’t do both, I wouldn’t put the committee through that.”

The bill from the insurance companies would limit the autism coverage to state-regulated, largegroup plans - those covering at least 51 employees - sold after Jan. 1, 2015.

Coverage would be limited to no more than 520 hours of treatment per year for children less than nine years old.

Rubin’s bill would limit coverage to 40 hours a

week (2,080 hours a year) for children up to age 19.

It also would have applied to all state-regulated policies - individual, smallgroup, and large-group in place before enactment of the Affordable Care Act. Rubin’s bill would cover an estimated 750 children. The insurance company bill would cover less than 200, according to Michael Wasmer of the advocacy group Autism Speaks.

‘A Disservice’ “It’s disgraceful,” Wasmer said of the insurance companies’ proposal.

(See AUTISM on page 13)

Proposed Medicaid waiver changes get chilly reception Mike Shields KHI News Service

Kansas Medicaid officials are considering rewriting the rules for a program that provides home-based services to help rehabilitate people that have suffered traumatic brain injuries.

But their plans, which would tighten eligibility for the program, got a chilly reception from a crowd of about 25 at one of the first public forums held to discuss the proposed revisions.

“It’s not a good idea.

That’s what I’m hearing from you,” said Kimberly Pierson, director of Home and Community Based Services for the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services.

Pierson and Paige Johnson, the newly hired manager that oversees the agency’s traumatic brain injury program, said the state’s proposal remains tentative and won’t be

finalized and presented to federal officials for approval until after a series of public forums are complete. A draft document with full details of the agency’s plan should be available for public review within about two weeks, they said.

The first forum was held Wednesday in Kansas City. Five more and a teleconference are scheduled through next week.

The state’s so-called TBI (traumatic brain injury) waiver that is on file with the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is due to expire June 30 and state officials must submit a new application by March 31, in order to extend or modify it.

Currently, eligibility for the program is limited to those between the ages of 16 and 65 who have suffered brain injury from external causes such as traffic accidents or gunshot.

New Limits The proposed changes would keep those age limits in place but also limit eligibility to those who suffered their injury or injuries within that age span. Currently, a person may get the services at age 16 for injuries suffered years earlier. The proposed new rules also would make services available only for those who had experienced the injury three years or less before entering the program.

The changes also would limit services to three years with the option of extending for an additional year, if the person could demonstrate they had made progress with their rehabilitation.

Critics of the proposal said it often takes years to recognize that a person’s problems resulted from brain injuries and then it often takes months or longer for the person to get

the necessary prerequisite federal disability approval needed for the services to actually begin.

“That’s going to cut off a lot of people that would benefit from those services,” said Marida Osborne, an independent living counselor for MindsMatter, LLC, which is probably the state’s single largest provider of services to those with traumatic brain injuries.

The agency is based in Overland Park.

Osborne and others said the rehabilitation services provided by the program allow people to regain skills needed to become “productive members of (See WAIVER on page 13)

state responsibilities.

“It is already happening with dollars meant for highway programs and funds in other state agencies being taken and used to offset spending for other legislative priorities,” Commissioner Praeger said, “caused in part by the reduction in

state income taxes.

“Supporters of the bill may tell you it doesn’t affect Medicare, but that is just not true. It could jeopardize the coverage and benefits that seniors have come to count on. It would be a serious mistake to turn the Medicare (See PRAEGER on page 13)

Committee rejects warnings about fluoridation risks The House Health and Human Services Committee in the Kansas Legislature voted earlier this week to table a controversial measure that would have required municipal water utilities to issue warnings about the reputed hazards of fluoridation.

Public health officials argued the warnings are baseless and that fluoridated water helps prevent cavities, especially in children.

By voting to table HB 2372 (10-2), the committee probably killed it for this session.

The bill would have required municipalities to warn their water customers that the “latest science confirms that ingested fluoride lowers the IQ in children.”

The bill was pushed by an anti-fluoride group that in 2012 helped orchestrate the defeat of a fluoride ballot initiative in Wichita, one of the largest cities in the nation that doesn’t add fluoride to its drinking water.

Rep. Barbara Bollier, a Mission Republican and physician, voted to table the proposal. She said the vast majority of studies have shown that fluoridation is safe and effective.

“The studies that I have read are not consistent with the information that they (the bill’s supporters) brought forward,” Bollier said.

Free dental care in DC Friday, Saturday

Kansas Mission of Mercy will be offering free dental services on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 28 and March 1, at the Western State Bank Expo Center, 11333 Hwy. 283, Dodge City. Doors open at 5:30 a.m.

KMOM services include fillings, cleanings and extractions.

There are no eligibility or income requirements.

No appointments are necessary. Adults and children will be given care on a first come basis.

It is expected that about 2,000 people will receive dental care during the two days. Nearly 150 dentists, 150 dental hygienists, 175 dental assistants and many other volunteers will donate their time to assist with the Dodge City clinic.

Since its inception 10 years ago, about 23,000 patients have been provided with $12 million in dental care they could not otherwise afford.

Additional information is available at the website: www.ksdentalfoundation.org/

Autism “It’s disrespectful, it’s a disservice, and it’s punitive to families with children with autism.”

Mary Beth Chambers, a spokesperson for the state’s largest health insurer, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Kansas, defended HB 2704.

“Our legislative representatives have been working closely with other health insurers, legislative leaders and legislative advocates for autism for several weeks to craft a bill that would

Waiver society.” Without them, the greater the likelihood they would end up homeless, in nursing homes, jails or worse and create more expense for taxpayers.

“You are cutting off the brain injury services that would allow someone to be independent,” said

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address both the coverage concerns that autism advocates have brought forward and the insurance industry’s concerns regarding rising premiums and unfunded mandates,” she said.

“HB 2704 represents several of the points of agreement between the differing parties,” she wrote. “As proposed, HB 2704 does offer coverage for (applied behavior analysis) therapy to children who would benefit the most from these services,

and reflects the insurance industry’s ability to compromise on the effective date, age limitation and hours of service to be covered.”

But Wasmer said the bill’s required coverage would be “less than what’s medically necessary” for most autistic children.

He said parents of autistic children would be contacting their legislators, urging them to not support the bill.

Insurance company lobbyists have long argued

that coverage mandates increase premium costs.

They have also argued that autism is a developmental disability and should not be covered by health insurance.

Criticism Premature House Speaker Ray Merrick (R-Stillwell) said Wasmer’s criticism of the insurance companies’ bill was premature.

“Discussions are ongoing,” he said. “It’s safe to say that (HB) 2704 in its current form will not

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Rocky Nichols, executive director of the Kansas Disability Rights Center.

“That’s bad news for taxpayers, bad news for people on the waiver.”

Pierson told the crowd she was keenly aware of what the changes could mean because she has a 13-year-old son who has

suffered multiple brain injuries, the first from a bicycle accident.

“My son, with the proposal, would not be on it,” she said.

About 600 people receive the services now, but state spending on the waiver program has been declining. Actual costs in

fiscal 2013 were about $22.1 million versus about $14.3 million recommended by the governor in each of fiscal years 2014 and 2015. The state fiscal year begins July 1.

Some people are pushing the state to broaden eligibility for the program rather than tighten it.

Cancer survivor program in GC “Going Forward: Life After Treatment” is a free, six-week interactive televideo (ITV) program designed to improve quality of life for cancer survivors.

Sessions will begin on March 4 and be held each Tuesday until April 8 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at St. Catherine Hospital, Garden City.

It is sponsored by the Midwest Cancer Alliance (MCA), the outreach arm of the University of Kansas Cancer Center.

Topics include: exercise and wellness; nutrition; emotional health; treatment after-effects; and

social and spiritual support.

Licensed psychologist, Dr. Susan Krigel, leads the sessions.

Heather WrightRenick, RN, a nurse navigator for the Breast Center at St. Catherine and a cancer survivor says, “We want to offer this program for cancer patients who have finished treatment but feel they no longer have the regular support of their treatment team.”

Krigel notes that, in many cases, levels of distress spike because patients don’t have the ‘cocoon of support’ that exists during treatment.

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program over to state control. Kansans have paid into this program through payroll taxes and expect to receive the benefits they have been promised.”

Gene Meyer, CEO of Lawrence Memorial Hospital, commented, “This proposal is extremely significant to our fragile health care system in Kansas and would have the potential to seriously damage hospitals and physicians in our ability to continue to deliver quality care to those we serve.

AARP has also voiced opposition to the compact legislation.

Governors in Arizona, New Mexico and Montana have already vetoed similar compact legislation in their states, stating among other concerns the fact that Medicare programs in their respective states could be in jeopardy, the Commissioner said.

“In Kansas there are 448,000 Medicare beneficiaries who rely on this important program to fund their health care services,” Commissioner Praeger said. “I encourage them to call their legislators and let them know that they need to leave the funding for Medicare alone. This compact is ill-conceived and has many consequences that can be damaging to our health care delivery system and the citizens of Kansas and their health care services.”

Friendship ‘Meals to Go’ available from the VIP Center Individual frozen/sealed trays • Good for special diets only $3.00/meal • Call 872-3501

“Sometimes,” Krigel adds, “patients think now that the treatment phase has ended, they should be back to ‘normal.’ But they are surprised when they continue to feel fatigued and experience the aftereffects of treatment. They may not have had time to process the emotional aspects involved.”

All these factors, Krigel summarized, may cause multiple concerns that can be addressed in Going Forward. It is designed to help patients learn how to be active survivors by doing what they can to take care of themselves.

To register for Going Forward call 620-2722360.

be the final iteration. I’m committed to passing a bill through the House that both the autism advocates and the insurance industry find acceptable.”

Schwab said critics of the bill should be patient.

“The point of the having a hearing is to find out what the problems are with a bill,” he said.

“So what they (Autism Speaks) are saying is they have problems with this bill before there’s been a hearing.”

Pastime at Park Lane Sunday church services were led by Prairie View Church of the Brethren.

Monday afternoon pitch and dominoe game helpers were Madeline Murphy, Dorothy King, Joy Barnett and Mandy Barnett.

Bob Artz led Bible study on Tuesday morning. Doris Riner played the piano and Elsie Nagle lead the singing.

Musical entertainment on Tuesday afternoon was provided by Naomie Teubner who played the violin, piano and recorder. Stephanie Unruh furnished cookies.

Trivia games were played by the residents on Tuesday evening.

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

Bingo was played on Wednesday afternoon.

Volunteer helpers were Madeline Murphy and Mandy Barnett.

Wednesday evening was card night at Park Lane.

Wrights provide dinner music

The Wright Family performed on Friday evening during supper. Harold and Gary played guitars and sang and Dan played the fiddle.

Wanda Wright furnished refreshments.

Students read to Golden Listeners

Tammy Reed 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 Lucille Dirks Lorena Turley Vivian Kreiser Clifford Dearden Christine Evans Jake Leatherman Carol Auten Robin Day Lorine Yeager Arlene Taylor Ardis Rose Cecile Billings Edna Uppendahl Dona Dee Carpenter

Golden Reader Alencio Zarate and Wyatt Ricker Hannah Eikenberry Gui Griffith Brooke Strine Aaron Ruelas and Jacob Irwin Johnna Sowers Nathan LeBeau and Alec Barnes Evan Fry Emilee Turner and Callie Hutton Ivette Fernandez JP Harris and Henry Aguilar Valeria Bejarano/Priscilla Murray Hannah Tucker/Hailee Amerine Jacobed Navarrete Annie Talbert

Elsie Nagel gave manicures on Thursday morning.

Students from Sunny Plains Mennonite School sang for residents on Thursday afternoon.

A Bible study class was held on Thursday evening.

Fr. Bernard Felix led Catholic Mass on Friday morning.

Residents watched, “The Legends of Com-

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edy” on Saturday afternoon. Popcorn was served.

Thanks to Beth Kershner for donating Girl Scout cookies for residents to have during afternoon activities.

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

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

Earl Gorman was visited by Loretta Gorman, Connie Gruver, Charlene Becht, Pete Steffens, Connie Gruver and Kim Smith.

Lucille Dirks was visited by Kim Smith, Vicki Dirks, Willetta Payne, and Jim and MaryAnn Unruh.

Boots Haxton was visited by Rod and Kathy Haxton.

Christine Evans was visited by Treva McCandless, Jean Rowton and Arlene Cauthon.

Jim and Yvonne Spangler were visited by Les and Mary Ann Spangler and Mona Spangler.

by Jason Storm

Bonnie Pickett was visited by Gloria Wright, Treva McCandless, Larry and Philene Pickett, and MaryAnn Unruh.

Lula Dirks was visited by Floyd and Vivian Dirks, Willetta Payne, Dave and Deb Kraemer, and MaryAnn Unruh.

Lorena Turley was visited by Gary Turley, Cindy Griffin, Gui Griffith, Neta Wheeler and Rex Turley.

Vivian Kreiser was visited by Larry and Sharon Lock.

Clifford Dearden was visited by Aaron Ruelas and Jacob Irwin.

Jake Leatherman was visited by Nathan LeBeau, Alec Barnes, Tammy Reed, Don and Judy Browning, and Jim Unruh.

Geraldine Graves was visited by Mindy Schroeder, Charlene Becht, Fritzie Rauch, Mark and Janet Soeken, Susie Geist and Howard Sheley.

Edith Norman was visited by Sara Shane and Ron and Sue Riner.

Herb Graves was visited by Kelsi Schwartz, Crystal Gutierrez, Tina Turley and Ron Hess.

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

Ruth Holland was visited by Charlene Becht and Monica Rowton.

Verna Willman was visited by D’Ann Markel, Robert Willman and Frank Burns.

Loyd Eitel was visited

by Vick and Sandy Eitel.

Judy Redburn was visited by Carol Ellis, Wendy Derstine and Mary Torson.

Dottie Fouquet was visited by Jon and Anne Crane, Cheryl Perry, Marvin and Vicky Wright, Monica Tyler, Mark and Terri Fouquet, Lil Francisco and Fritzie Rauch.

Jim Jeffery was visited

by Pastor Dennis Carter and Wade Jeffery.

Dona Dee Carpenter was visited by Pastor Dennis, Larry LaPlant, Gloria O’Bleness, and Bill and Kirsten John.

Nursing home ombudsmen training in SC March 12 Individuals are needed to serve as a Certified Long-term Care Volunteers for nursing homes in Scott City, Dighton, Lakin, Leoti and Garden City.

The state will offer training to become a certified long-term care volun-

teer ombudsman on Wed., March 12, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., at the Scott County Hospital.

Once trained and certified by the state, a volunteer ombudsman will be able to provide advocacy for the well-being, safety and rights of residents in

Park Place People

by Doris Riner

My apologies for not getting my news in last week. With so much going on here, it is very obvious I’m not able to keep up with everything. Anyone volunteering to take my place?

This last weekend I was at Roma and Joe Murphy’s home in Great Bend. Roma and I drove to Wichita Sunday afternoon to attend a baby shower for her grandaughter. I returned home Monday.

Margaret Lee’s daughter, Mary, spent time with her each day.

Mary Plum stopped in and brought cookies and banana bread to enjoy at coffee with Margaret.

Marvel Keyes visited Arlene Cauthon on Tuesday afternoon. Arlene went to Leoti on Friday afternoon to visit her brother, Sonny Miller, and helped with bingo. Then she went to Garden City with Bill and Bob Novack. Lorena and Gary Turley visited Wednesday afternoon.

Sue Rogers and great-grandaughter visited Saturday and Terry and Bonnie visited Monday.

Beth Pike came to visit friends from Healy.

Donna Honstead came by Friday afternoon.

Vera and Sue stopped in on Wednesday and made yummy bread pudding with grammy. Don and Judy Browning stopped by Sunday.

long-term care facilities.

The individual makes weekly visits to the residents of their local nursing home and will become part of a team of 12 other certified ombudsmen in Southwest Kansas.

Pre-registration is not required, but is requested. Contact Jan Scoggins

at 620-225-2439, or by e-mail at Jan.Scoggins@ da.ks.gov.

More information on the ombudsman program is available through the state’s official website: www.

KansasOmbudsman. ks.gov.

Reception to honor Fyler on 90th birthday

Kenneth L. Fyler will observe his 90th birthday on Mon., March 3. He was born March 3, 1924, at McCracken.

Fyler started the Dairy Queen in Scott City in 1950.

His children will host a come-and-go reception on Sat., March 1, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., at the Bryan Conference Center, 416 S. Main, Scott City.

Sr. Citizen Lunch Menu Week of March 3-8 Monday: Chicken Parmesan, scalloped potatoes, California blend vegetables, French bread, cinnamon apple slices.

Tuesday: Ham and beans, breaded tomatoes, steamed cabbage, cornbread, peaches.

Wednesday: Super crunch cod, au gratin potatoes, broccoli, whole wheat roll, yellow brick road cake.

Thursday: Swiss steak with tomatoes, baked potato, mixed vegetables, whole wheat roll, tropical fruit salad.

Friday: Baked fish, creamed peas, carrots, whole wheat roll, strawberries and bananas. meals are $3.25 • call 872-3501

Donate to the Red Cross Bloodmobile • Wed., March 5 • noon to 6:00 p.m. • in Scott City

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Deaths Mildred Marie Cramer Mildred Marie Cramer, 94, died Feb. 21, 2014, at Lane County Long Term Care, Dighton.

S h e was born Feb. 16, 1920, at Copeland, the daughter of Arthur and Fan- Mildred Cramer nie Elizabeth (Stapleton) Pottorff.

Mildred attended grade schools in Ford County and the first two years of high school in Cimarron. Her family moved to Healy and she graduated from Healy High School in 1938. Following graduation she cared for several families after the birth of a baby. She often talked about how she would have liked to be a delivery room nurse.

She was devoted to her family and took great pride in being a homemaker. She was what her family called a “good cooker.” She enjoyed finding and trying new recipes and was an excellent seamstress. She enjoyed being outdoors with her yard and flowers. She was instrumental in planting and tending several tree groves.

Mildred was a member of Bible Fellowship Church, Dighton, and a past member of the Rebecca Lodge, Healy.

On Oct. 5, 1940, she married Robert D.

“Chick” Cramer at Garden City. He died on Feb. 13, 1994.

Survivors include a son, Dexter, and wife, Judith, Healy; a daughter, Kay Martin, and husband, Guy, Frederick, Colo.; a brother, Ellsworth Pottorff, and wife, Sis, Vona, Colo.; seven grandchildren, Mitzi and Robert Gardner, Douglass, Rhonda and Wes McKinney, Englewood, Dean and Cindi Cramer, Healy, Shirley and Matt Frankenbery, Pittsburg, Cristi and David Marshall, Downington, Pa., Shelly and Jeff Pomeroy, Johnston, Colo., and Brian Martin, Littleton, Colo.; 11 greatgrandsons and 10 greatgranddaughters.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband; infant son, Delbert Dean; a brother, Clarence; and three sisters, Neola Hessman, Dorothy Gall and Viola Fick.

Funeral service was Feb. 24 at Bible Fellowship Church, Dighton, with Pastor Travis Moen officiating. Burial was in the Healy Cemetery.

Memorials can be made to Lane County Long Term Care or Bible Fellowship Church in care of Boomhower Funeral Home, 145 N. Wichita, Box 891, Dighton, Ks. 67839.

Condolences may be e-mailed to: garnandfh@ sbcglobal.net.

Lonnie W. Pedersen Lonnie W. Pedersen, 76, died Feb. 22, 2014, at the Scott County Hospital, Scott City.

H e was born Jan. 5, 1938, in Padroni, Colo., the son of Irvin Lonnie Pedersen E. and Beulah E. (Manuel) Pedersen.

A resident of Scott County since 1961, moving from Washington state, he was a farmer for the Janzen/Bahm Farms for over 40 years.

He was a member of the Pence Community Church, Pence.

On Sept. 24, 1955, he married Carol J. Greenwood in Craig, Colo. She survives.

Other survivors include: one daughter,

Caryn Green, and husband, Tim, Scott City; one son, Craig Pedersen, and wife, Leslie, Hutchinson; one brother, Junior Pedersen, and wife, Joyce, McDonald; two sisters, Anna Marie Herbeck, Cheyenne, Wyo., and Jean McClain, Vinita, Okla.; and six grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents and seven brothers and sisters.

Funeral service was held Feb. 27 at the Pence Community Church with Rev. Don Williams officiating.

Interment was at the Scott County Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital or Pence Community Church in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 401 S. Washington St., Scott City, Ks. 67871.

John T. McGrath John T. McGrath, 78, died Feb. 21, 2014.

He was born on Nov. 1, 1935, in Lamar, Colo., the son of Paul and Mary McGrath.

John lived in Scott City until he moved to Goodland in 1988. He worked in farming and feedlots and for the past 16 years delivered the Salina Journal to Goodland every morning.

He was a member of the Odd Fellows for the past 25 years.

On Sept. 7, 1958, he married Avesta Miller at the First Methodist Church, Holly, Colo. She survives.

Other survivors include: two sons, Douglas, Belmont, Calif., and John, Jr., and wife, Donna, Goodland; three daugh-

ters, Becky Young, and husband, Jerry, Liberal, Sharon Bauer, Levant, and Janet Lawson, and husband, Craig, Goodland; six grandchildren, one great-grandchild and numerous step-grandchildren and step-greatgrandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents; one brother, Richard; one sister, Marie Jones; and two sons-in-law, James Finnell and Dean Bauer.

Funeral services were held Feb. 27 at Bateman Funeral Home.

Burial was at the Goodland Cemetery.

Memorials will be designated later by the family and sent to Bateman Funeral Home, Box 278, Goodland, Ks. 67735.

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Nursing home stay can affect benefits Q) My mother receives Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits.

She may have to enter a nursing home later this year. How does this affect her SSI benefits?

A) Moving to a nursing home can affect SSI benefits, but it depends on the type of facility. In some cases, the SSI payment may be reduced or stopped.

Whenever your mother enters or leaves a nursing home, assisted living facility, hospital, skilled nursing facility, or any other kind of institution, you must tell Social Security. * * * Q) Is there a time limit on how long I can collect Social Security disability benefits?

Social Security Brandon Werth District Manager

A) No. Your disability benefits will continue as long as your medical condition has not improved and you remain unable to work. Your case will be reviewed at regular intervals to determine whether you still are disabled.

If you are receiving disability benefits when you reach full retirement age, Social Security will automatically convert them to retirement benefits without a change in your payment amount. * * * Q) My uncle is interested in the Medicare Part D prescription help, but he has about $10,000 in

the bank. Would he still be eligible?

A) Based on his resources, yes. However, there are other factors to consider.

This year a person’s total resources are, in most cases, limited to $13,440 (or $26,860 if married and living with spouse) to qualify for Extra Help with Medicare prescription drug costs.

Resources include the value of the things he owns, such as real estate (other than the place you live), cash, bank accounts, stocks, bonds, and retirement accounts like IRAs or 401(k)s. There are exceptions. To learn more, go to www.socialsecurity. gov. * * * Q) I am receiving

Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Can my children receive dependent’s benefits based on my benefits?

A) No. SSI benefits are based on the needs of one individual and are paid only to the qualifying person. Disabled children are potentially eligible for SSI, but there are no spouse’s, dependent children’s, or survivors benefits payable as there are with Social Security benefits.

For more information, see our publication, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), available online at www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs. Simply type the title of the publication in the publication search box on the left side of the page.

Attend the Church of Your Choice

The Born Again Christian

In seminary I was advised against “musty preaching.” That is using the word “must” too often in exhortations to follow Jesus. I found this advice not helpful in my preaching.

Jesus said, “You must be born again” (John 3:1-8). This has been called the divine imperative. There are many good things we should do as believers in Christ. It is good to be baptized, join the church, enroll in Sunday school, give tithes and offerings, etc.

But if one is not born again, all religious practices are for naught. Excepting a man to be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. What does it mean to be born again? When we realize and accept that our first birth was into the curse of sin and turn to Christ in faith to receive deliverance from sin (pun intended) we are born again. Jesus refers to this as being born from above; born of the Spirit.

We didn’t birth ourselves here below and we don’t birth ourselves from above.

The new birth is an act of God. He births us as we trust in His only begotten Son. The Bible says of born again believers, “you were dead in trespasses and sins but you have been made alive in Him” (Ephesians 2:1-9). Our spiritual birth certificates are written in the shed blood Jesus. He has removed our sin so far as the east is from the west.

How does one know he is born again? The Bible says, “We are new creations. Old things have passed away and everything becomes new” (2 Corinthians 5:17). We don’t become perfect, but suffice to say there is an unmistakable difference. You will know!

The Bible tells us our assurance is in God’s written Word (1John 5:9-13). The Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God (born of God) (Romans 8:16). How do I know? The Bible tells me so.

The old hymn is true, “I must go home by the way of the cross, There’s no other way but this; I shall ne’er get sight of the gates of light, If the way of the cross I miss.”

Rev. Robert Nuckolls Immanuel Southern Baptist Church, Scott City

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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Youngsters who have reached 100 to 700 book milestones in the Scott County Library’s “1,000 Books Before Kindergarten” reading program are:

Sebastian Nelson • 400

Abigail Wiechman 200

Jayden Nelson 400

Collier Livingstone • 400

Colborn Trout 1,000

Stella Shirley 100

Garrett Mader 200

Joselyn Miller 400

helping Olympians

Jason Baker, Grand Knight with the local Knights of Columbus, presents a $1,000 check to Kim Pianalto, west regional director of the Kansas Special Olympics. The money was raised through the K of C’s annual Tootsie Roll sales. Other Knights who were assisting with the west regional Special Olympics basketball tournament in Scott City last Saturday were (from left) Dan Weides, Tom Ludowese, Shane Gaschler, Bill Francisco, Melvin Lickteig and Dan Sattler.

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Berry to perform March 6 in GC

Week of March 3-7 Breakfast Monday: Whole grain cereal, yogurt cup, apricots.

Tuesday: Biscuit and gravy, fresh grapes.

Wednesday: Coffeecake and applesauce.

Thursday: Breakfast quesadilla, pears.

Friday: French toast sticks, fruit cup.

Lunch Monday: Chili dog on a bun, *chicken nuggets, kraut, tator tots, peaches.

Tuesday: Cheesy chicken spaghetti, *corn dogs, French bread, mixed vegetables, rosy applesauce.

Wednesday: Macaroni and cheese, *ham patties, fish sticks, pea salad, cherry crisp and whipped topping.

Thursday: Chicken strips, *steak fingers, potatoes and gravy, broccoli, dinner roll, pears.

Friday: Pizza, *tuna sandwiches, cooked carrot coins, mandarin oranges, chocolate chip cookie. *Second choice for SCMS and SCHS

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Songs,” including his number one single “Your Love Amazes Me” (1994, Liberty Records/Capitol Records).

Berry is a past winner of the Country Music Association’s “Horizon Award” and was nominated for “Best Male Vocalist” in 1995. His down-to-earth manner and storytelling abilities are trademarks of his continued success.

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Beavers avenge upset loss to Goodland in regular season finale It’s not often that a team will give up 24 points in 16 minutes of basketball and be unhappy with their defense.

But that’s the standard the Scott Community High School boys have set for themselves.

The Beavers (17-3) were able to tighten the defensive pressure even more on Goodland (8-12) in the second half of Tuesday’s Great West Activities ConferGoodland 43 ence finale, pulling away to a 58-43 win Scott City 58 on the home floor.

“It was a chance for us to make a statement after losing to them a couple of weeks ago and since there’s a chance we could see them again in the sub-state championship game,” said junior guard Brett Meyer.

Behind some unbelievably hot shooting early in the game - especially from senior post player Taylen Smith it looked like the Cowboys could pull off the unexpected sweep of the Beavers. Smith was unstoppable early, scoring all nine of his team’s points in the first quarter and collecting 13 by halftime. Behind Smith’s success in the low post, along with a pair of three-point baskets, Goodland opened up an 18-9 lead with 5:41 still remaining in the first half.

“It seemed like they couldn’t miss anything in the first half. We had to wait to see if they were going to cool off a little,” noted Meyer.

The stagnant SCHS offense finally began finding their rhythm midway into the second period with an 8-0 scor(See PAYBACK on page 24)

SCHS junior Brett Meyer drives between two Goodland defenders for two of his 19 points during Tuesday’s league win on the home floor. (Record Photo)

lone survivors

SCHS sophomore Wyatt Kropp tilts Beck Elliott (Smoky Valley) to his back for near-fall points on his way to an 11-0 major decision in the regional tournament last Friday.

(Record Photo)

Jurgens, Kropp are only qualifiers for state wrestling With six grapplers advancing to the consolation semifinals, Scott Community High School was hoping for a big finish in the Class 4A regional wrestling tournament on Saturday.

Instead, there were no big surprises for the Beavers.

The only two returning state medalists from a year ago are the only two representatives that SCHS will have at the state tournament this weekend in Salina. It’s

the smallest number of state qualifiers the Beavers have had since 1997 when they also sent two matmen to state.

James Jurgens (126) and Warren Kropp (170) were each bronze medalists at the Goodland regional.

“They both expected to get to state and both of them should be in the hunt for a gold medal this weekend,” says head coach Jon Lippelmann. “Will it be easy? No. But we certainly expect to be in the conversation.”

Even though Jurgens (2111) is a two-time state finalist and a returning state champion, this has been a rocky season for the junior. He lost a couple of matches prior to Christmas and injured a shoulder in the process which delayed his return to the mat following the break. Since then he’s had a difficult time regaining his championship form, including a pair of losses in the Great West Activities Conference tournament.

One of those losses came by a 6-1 decision to Colby’s Travis Finley who Jurgens saw in the consolation semifinals on Saturday. The winner would go to state and the loser would go home.

Jurgens was trailing 2-0 entering the final period when he chose down - a move which he had some doubts about.

“I knew he was pretty good on top. I was pretty scared going into the third period,” says Jurgens.

(See JURGENS on page 19)

Area teams gear up for sub-state; SC boys top seed It’s sub-state tournament time for all area basketball teams with post-season play getting underway Monday and Tuesday for all teams Class 3A and smaller.

With Class 4A now divided into two divisions, there are only four teams and two rounds of play in each sub-state.

The Scott Community High School girls (3-17) will open play against top-seeded Hugoton (163) on Thursday at 6:00 p.m. in Goodland. The winner advances to the championship game on Saturday in Goodland.

In the other half of the bracket, Goodland (12-8) hosts Colby (9-10).

Even with just three wins, SCHS head coach Shelby Crawford is optimistic heading into sub-state following Tuesday’s win over Goodland. Crawford feels his team’s spread offense can be effective against Hugoton.

“Hugoton doesn’t have the size that Goodland had, which plays into our strength,” Crawford says. “(Hugoton) spreads the floor the same way we do, but they play a zone. The middle is wide open and it’s something we can take advantage of.”

Of course, Scott City will need another big game from senior center Bailey Nickel who is averaging 14.3 points per game.

They are also looking for strong contributions from seniors Kelly Wycoff and Riley Hawker.

“And we have to play defense,” adds Crawford. “Hugoton likes to take the ball inside, but if you forget about their guards they’ll rip you apart with their threes. We have to know where their shooters are at all times.”

Boys are Top Seed It’s no surprise that the SCHS boys (17-3) are the No. 1 seed and will face Colby (2-17) next Friday at 6:00 p.m. (CT) in the Max Jones Fieldhouse, Goodland.

Hugoton (10-9) will face Goodland (8-12) in the other semifinal game.

(See SUB-STATE on page 18)

Outdoors in Kansas

by Steve Gilliland

Jake and the bone pile

Tonight as I sat at my computer making a half-hearted reconnaissance run through my archives for no particular reason, I stumbled across this story from several years ago. It gave me such a chuckle that I felt it worth repeating.

After all, in our world of instant information and maximum knowledge, sometimes you just want to read a good story.

My sister and her family northwest of Inman had an old chocolate Labrador retriever named “Jake.” Jake was the typical old, slobbery farm dog that should have died years before his time from old age and idiocy.

At the sight of any sort of human life Jake got so excited that his body shook from one end to the other just to wag his tail.

Jake loved to fetch, but possessing more brawn than sense, his stick of choice was usually a 2x4 or a tree limb of comparable size. He often greeted visitors with a nice 3- or 4-footer in his mouth.

Most livestock farms have some sort of animal graveyard on the property where deceased animals are taken to become coyote or vulture cuisine. At my sister’s, this tomb was a low spot filled with sunbleached cattle bones in a weedy fencerow about a quarter mile behind the buildings.

The week after Thanksgiving several years ago, I was trapping beavers and coyotes and those “bone yards” are often good spots to catch coyotes.

My sister assured me that ol’ Jake hadn’t the energy to venture that far from the house, so I felt comfortable in setting a couple traps nearby.

One morning as I stopped to check those traps I had in the pickup bed the carcass (See JAKE on page 23)

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Colby provides cure for offense with GWAC win

It’s too early to say that the Scott Community High School offense is cured, but Colby helped get the Beavers on the road to recovery with a 61-26 road win last Friday.

After strugg l i n g offens i v e l y Scott City 61 Colby 26 in their loss to Holcomb earlier in the week, the Beavers began to find their shooting touch, hitting 59% (16-of-27) from two-point range and adding 8-of-16 from beyond the threepoint line.

Junior guard Brett Meyer drilled 4-of-16 from beyond the arc on his way to a game high 21 points.

“It was a real nice game for Brett,” says head coach Glenn O’Neil. “He looked more comfortable out there and took advantage of some good looks at the basket.”

Meyer drilled a pair of treys to close out the first half and give the Beavers

(16-3) a comfortable 36-14 lead.

He added two more treys early in the third period and was joined by junior guard Chantz Yager who also connected on a pair of three-pointers to finish the night with eight points.

Junior guard Trey O’Neil joined the threepoint parade with a basket in the fourth quarter on his way to scoring 10 points. He led the Beavers with eight assists, along with four rebounds and three steals.

As well as the Beavers were playing offensively they were even more dominant on defense.

They put together a 9-0 scoring stretch that began late in the first quarter and ended with a basket

by Sloan Baker with 4:30 remaining in the first half that extended their lead to 23-4.

Baker finished with eight points, nine rebounds and three blocked shots.

Colby shot just 12-of43 (28%) from the field.

Sub-State Despite an outstanding regular season, the Beavers were needing Tuesday’s win against Goodland from a confidence standpoint. The game had no impact on the sub-state pairings, but it helped SCHS to erase some of the sting from an upset loss two weeks earlier against the Cowboys.

“It definitely gives us a better outlook heading into sub-state. We’re starting to play with more confidence again,” says junior guard Brett Meyer.

Since this is the first year that Class 4A has been divided into two divisions, it has cut the number of teams in each

SCHS senior Chris Pounds puts up a jump shot during Friday’s league win at Colby.

(Record Photo)

(continued from page 17)

sub-state tournament from eight to four. That means there are no Monday and Tuesday quarter-final games as in the past.

That also means the Beavers will have a 10-day layoff between their final regular season game and their first round sub-state game.

“It’s not perfect,” says head coach Glenn O’Neil, who would have preferred a game this Friday, “but probably 80 percent of the teams are facing the same situation. We’ll make the best of it.”

are the No. 4 seed in the Class 2A sub-state at Syracuse and will host Elkhart (7-12) on Monday. Tipoff is at 6:00 p.m.

The No. 1 seed in their half of the bracket is Meade (15-4). If WCHS advances to the semifinals that game will be played at Syracuse on March 6.

The WCHS boys (6-14) will travel to Montezuma and play top-seeded South Gray on Tues., March 4, with tipoff at 6:00 p.m.

“At times, we’re playing pretty well - maybe as well as we’ve played all Class 2A Sub-State season,” says head coach The Wichita County Hayden Parks.

What the Indians must High School girls (9-10)

SCMS 7th graders are top seed in GWAC tourney The Scott City Middle School seventh grader boys (9-1) are the number-one seed in the Great West Activities Conference tournament being hosted by Scott City.

The Bluejays will play the winner of Ulysses (5-3) and Holcomb (1-8) in the semi-finals on Saturday at 10:00 a.m. in the elementary school. The championship game will be played at 3:00 p.m.

The SCMS eighth graders (6-5) defeated Ulysses on Thursday and will face top-seeded Holcomb (9-0) in the semi-finals at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday at SCMS.

avoid is a slow start which cost them in their most recent losses to Deerfield and Sharon Springs.

“If we can get off to a quick start and stay with a team for the first quarter then we can give ourselves a chance,” says Parks.

Class 1A-Division II The Dighton High School boys (11-8) will meet cross-county rival Healy (0-18) in the opening round of sub-state play at Tribune on Tuesday. The game starts at 6:00 p.m. (CT).

The winner will play No. 2-seeded Weskan (155) in the semi-finals on Thursday.

Sharon Springs 18-2) is the top seed in the boy’s division and will play the winner of Western Plains (10-10) or Tribune (4-15) in the semi-finals.

With their loss to Ness City in their regular season finale, the Lady Hornets (14-5) slipped into the No. 2 seed. They will likely play Weskan (8-12) who faces Healy (1-17) in first round action. Healy will be in the semi-finals on Fri., March 7.

Gaining the No. 1 seed is Sharon Springs (15-5) who will meet the winner between Western Plains (5-14) or Tribune (316) in the semi-finals on March 7.

Jurgens However, Jurgens was able to take control of the match with a reversal and by turning Finley to his back twice for near-falls while building a 6-2 lead on his way to a 6-4 win. He closed out the day with a 4-2 win over Bryce Rodriguez (Ulysses).

Now it’s just a matter of trying to get a little healthier before state.

Between the lingering shoulder injury and more recent injuries to a thumb and fingers, Jurgens says the pain “is something I have to keep out of my mind.”

“I’ve shown that even though I’m not 100 percent I can still wrestle with some pretty good boys so I just keep that in my mind,” Jurgens says.

In a sense, it could be said that Jurgens has the competition right where he wants them. This is the third consecutive year he has emerged from regional as a third place medalist.

“James beat the kids who had beaten him earlier and we lost to a kid we hadn’t seen before,” says Lippelmann, referring to Abilene’s Caysen Smith (9-1) in the championship semi-finals.

“If we take care of business we won’t have to worry about seeing him until the finals, if at all.”

Tough Loss for Kropp Despite being the No. 2 seed entering the tournament, Kropp knew his toughest match could come in the championship semi-finals against undefeated Smoky Valley junior Austin Cook (40-0). That turned out to be the case with a lone escape

by Cook the only scoring in a

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(continued from page 17)

1-0 loss by the SCHS senior.

Cook would go on to win the regional title.

“I usually don’t have a problem getting out from bottom, but he’s a good rider. It’s hard to do anything when you’re wrestling from your belly an entire period,” Kropp says.

Kropp came back to defeat Logan Lindbloom (Buhler) in the consolation semi-finals, 8-1, and in the third place match was leading Chapman’s Zack Witt 2-1 when Witt withdrew because of an injury default after two periods.

After missing a week of practice and the league tournament because of an infection, Kropp felt like “things have been off a little the last couple of days.

I really can’t figure out what it is. I’m looking forward to putting together a better weekend at state.”

That means improving on last year’s fifth place finish.

“My goal has always been to be a state champion. Even after finishing fifth last year I was very disappointed. I felt I could have done a lot better than that,” he says. “My goal is to get my weight where I want it to be so I’m feeling strong on Friday and I can put in a good day.”

If Kropp can get past regional runner-up Alex Son (Chanute, 30-6) in the opening round he would likely face top-seeded Evan Elston (Mulvane, 36-2) in the quarter-finals.

“Both boys have the knowledge and the confidence to compete with anyone and to make it all the way to the finals,” says Lippelmann. “We come out of

7th grade Bluejays rip Holcomb, 51-27

for a 20-2 first quarter lead and rolled to a 56-25 win over the Bluejays.

Zach Carson led Scott City with 12 points, including three treys, while Reid Brunswig added nine points.

It was a similar story for the SCMS “B” team which trailed 19-0 after one quarter on their way to a 61-18 loss.

Adrian Ruelas and Dexter Gooden each finished with five points.

After playing Goodland to a 14-14 halftime tie, the Scott City “A” team faded in the second half in a 45-33 road loss on Feb. 13.

Austen Turner led the Bluejays with 11 points, followed by Nick Nowak and Carson with six points each.

The Scott City “B” team fell 8th Graders Swept behind 10-0 in the opening peHolcomb pounced on the riod in a 33-21 loss. Ruelas led SCMS eighth grade “A” team the Bluejays with 11 points.

With a lopsided 20-4 scoring advantage in the second period, the Scott City Middle School seventh grade “A” team ripped Holcomb, 51-27, in a road game on Feb. 17.

Marshall Faurot scored 15 of his game high 28 points in the second period as the Bluejays opened up a 31-11 halftime lead.

Jack Thomas was also in double figures with 13 points.

The SCMS “B” team erased a 5-3 first quarter deficit and pulled away in the second half for a 38-24 win. Scott City held only a 12-10 lead at the half before outscoring Holcomb 17-8 in the third period.

Caleb Carter and Jaren Berning led the team with 11 and 10 points, respectively.

SCHS freshman Tre Stewart stacks Noel Camacho (Hugoton) for a fall during consolation action in the regional tournament on Saturday.

(Record Photo)

a tough regional and I’d like to think we’ve prepared ourselves for this time of the season.”

The biggest heartbreak for the Beavers was Wyatt Kropp’s loss in the consolation semifinals.

Kropp (145) was leading Bryce Rodriguez (Ulysses) 3-0

entering the last period when he was pinned after giving up an escape and takedown.

“You feel terrible for Wyatt because he does the right things and it’s not paying off for him just yet. It’s frustrating because I’ve seen kids put in a lot less effort and achieve greater things,”

says Lippelmann. “But he’ll be back and he’ll have his chance at a state medal.”

Others who advanced to the consolation semi-finals, but finished one win short of a state trip, were Jesse Anchondo (138), Trey Loftis (160) and Tre Stewart (182).

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Marshall’s future at WSU is the big question Wichita State has crashed the party usually reserved for the traditional powers in major college basketball.

And Coach Gregg Marshall is likely to maintain the Shockers’ recent rise in prestige. by FollowMac ing their run Stevenson to the Final Four last year, Wichita State is poised to receive a number-one seed in the rapidly approaching NCAA Tournament.

It will be revealing to see what kind of recruiting class Marshall is able to put together next fall following Wichita’s great season. The Shockers were on the cover of “Sports Illustrated” last week and they’ve received priceless exposure on national TV. Wichita State (30-0) is the only unbeaten team remaining in Division I. The prediction of Wichita’s continuing excellence is contingent on Marshall remaining as head coach. He’s going to be at the top of the list for every team looking for a new head coach at the end of the season.

Marshall might stay at Wichita. He’s proved he can win big in the Missouri Valley and it’s probable Marshall will schedule some challenging nonconference games next season.

If he stays, Marshall is on his way to becoming a legend at WSU. Numerous coaches have given up secure jobs to coach at a famous basketball school and often it doesn’t work out.

After a few semi-successful years, they’re on the outside looking in.

Billy Gillispie’s career is a perfect example. Gillispie had everything going his way - success and a lucrative income - at Texas A&M when he took the Kentucky job in 2007. From then on, it was all downhill and now he’s on the coaches’ junk heap.

Coach Marshall should take a close look at Bill Snyder’s career as K-State’s football coach before he makes a decision to move.

When coaches move to socalled greener pastures, it frequently leads to broken careers.

(See MARSHALL on page 22)

Dighton boys are looking for consistency heading into sub-state Throughout the season, Dighton High School head coach Dean Cramer has sounded a familiar theme.

“We just haven’t been very consistent,” says Cramer. “I’m still waiting for us to put together four quarters of ball.”

Heading into next week’s Class 1A-Division II sub-state tournament he’s still waiting following a split of his team’s final two games of the regular season.

Tuesday’s 44-41 loss to Ness City was not the kind of game that Cramer was looking for in their season finale.

“We’ve been looking for consistency, particularly with our outside scoring,” says Cramer. “I’ve been preaching that all season and I guess I’m still preaching that going into the post-season.”

The Hornets (11-8) got a big game against the Eagles from senior center Sam Moomaw with a career high 16 points (8-of-10 FG) and 12 rebounds.

Freshman guard Tyler Lingg provided an outside threat with nine points (4-of-7 FG), but the rest of the lineup was a combined 6-of-25 from the

field, including just 1-of-10 from the three-point line.

And Dighton still had their chances to escape Tuesday’s non-league game with a win.

Trailing 42-41 with less than a minute remaining, the Hornets failed to convert the front end of a one-and-one and were eventually forced to foul the Eagles with just 16 seconds to play. Ness City hit both free throws and Dighton was unable to get a good look at a game-tying three-pointer.

Defeat Buffaloes The Hornets closed out Northwest Kansas League action on the home floor last Friday with a 57-50 win over Atwood.

Cramer referred to the game as a “tale of two halves.” It could just as easily be viewed as a game of two quarters with Dighton pouncing on the Buffaloes for a 19-7 first quarter lead, only to let Atwood climb back into the game when they scored only three points in the second period and saw their advantage trimmed to 22-18 by halftime.

“We have yet to play a complete game,” Cramer noted.

“We looked great in the first quarter and then let (Atwood) back in it. We saw the same thing against Ness City.”

Against the Eagles, Dighton trailed 24-13 at the half before cutting the lead to a single point late in the contest. They scored more points in the third period (14) than in the entire first half.

Dighton had a balanced offensive night against Atwood with three players in double figures. Senior guard Isaac Alinor led the trio with 14 points, six rebounds and six assists, followed by senior guard Ryan Horn with 13 points (3of-6 3-pt. FG) and Lingg with 10 points and five rebounds.

Building Momentum As for momentum heading into sub-state play, that’s something the Hornets will have to build next week when they open tournament action against winless Healy (0-18), followed by a likely match-up against No. 2-seeded Weskan (15-5).

The Hornets enter sub-state

with a 4-3 record over their last seven games.

“Until now it seems that we’ve beaten the people that we should and we haven’t beaten the people who, at least on paper, are supposed to be better than us,” Cramer says.

“If we don’t change that next week our season’s going to come to an end pretty quickly.”

At the same time, Cramer also knows that this team has the talent to make a run through sub-state and qualify for another trip to the state tournament.

“We’re a difficult team to match up against when you look at our length inside and our guards,” he says. “We need more consistency on offense, we need to be aggressive under the basket and we need to battle for every loose ball. We can’t afford to take any possession for granted.

“If we can take care of the little things, we’re capable of beating Weskan or (top-seeded) Sharon Springs, if we can get that far,” Cramer adds.

“We have to decide if we’re going to play to our potential.”

40,000 surveys sent out to deer hunters

Forty thousand of the approximately 120,000 hunters who hunted deer in Kansas this past season will be contacted by the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) via an online survey.

The survey, which is conducted every year, asks deer hunters to provide information regarding harvest success, dates and seasons hunted, days spent in the field, locations hunted, and choice of equip-

KDWP Report ment during the 2013-2014 seasons.

Hunter participation in the survey is crucial because biologists use the information to make deer management recommendations. Hunters who are randomly-selected to take this survey are strongly encouraged to complete the survey in its entirety as soon as possible.

“Some people reply back

and tell us they killed a doe or got a 10-point buck and think that is all we really need. That is not the case,” said KDWPT big game biologist, Lloyd Fox. Fox explained that KDWPT monitors multiple aspects of the hunt in order to gain a clearer picture of the men and women who hunt deer and the impact of hunting on the resource.

Fox added that preliminary data received from surveys completed thus far show little

to no changes from the 20122013 season as hunters have been reporting similar harvest success rates compared to last year, but biologists are still eager to receive any and all outstanding surveys in order to obtain the best information possible.

Those who receive a 201314 deer survey, are asked to take the time to fill it out. A little time spent at the computer can go a long way in the field next season.

Indians fall to Sharon Springs, Deerfield The Wichita County High School boys had one of their best offensive games of the season.

Unfortunately, that still wasn’t enough to avoid a 91-63 Wichita Co. 63 loss to Sharon Wallace Co. 91 Springs.

“We wanted to push the tempo. I felt that if we slowed the game down and tried to play a half-court game they’d burn us from the outside,” says head coach Hayden Parks.

“I figured if we caught fire

we might be able to stay with them.”

The high-powered Wildcats’ offense opened up a 16-10 first quarter lead and stretched that to 22-14 by halftime.

Sophomore center Gabe Fletcher had a huge game for the Indians with 23 points (9of-10 FG) and 12 rebounds.

“Gabe has become a more consistent offensive threat.

He’s playing up to the level that we thought he was capable of earlier in the season,” says Parks.

“The great news is that we have him for two more years.”

Senior guard Jantz Budde added 20 points (6-of-12 2-pt.

FG).

No other Indian had more than six points.

Start Slow Against Spartans WCHS dug themselves into an early 20-12 hole and couldn’t recover in a 63-50 non-league loss against Deerfield.

The second period was disastrous for the Indians when they were outscored 11-4.

“We can’t afford to have a bad quarter, especially when we only score four points,” says Parks.

“In the second half we looked like a much different team.

With three minutes remaining the Indians had cut the deficit to six points but were unable to get any closer.

Budde led the Spartans with 18 points (6-of-10 2 pt. FG) while junior Spenser Thurman had the best offensive game of his varsity career with 16 points (2-of-5 3-pt. FG) and three rebounds.

Senior Chris Wilson led the Indians with eight rebounds and Brock Sheppard added five points and five boards.

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Yager shreds Goodland from 3-point range Young JV squad lays the foundation with 9-8 season The Scott Community High School junior varsity boys had a little added incentive heading into Tuesday’s game against Goodland.

A win would give the Beavers Goodland 30 a winScott City 53 ning record and it would help take the sting out of an overtime loss to the Cowboys two weeks earlier.

SCHS (9-8) accomplished both goals with a 53-30 win to end their season.

“It was, by far, our best defensive game of the year. It’s a good way to end the season,” says coach Brian Gentry.

The Beavers trailed only once in the game, 9-8 following a Goodland basket to open the second period. Freshman guard Matt Jenkins put Scott City back on top with a field goal and then it became the Chantz Yager show. The junior guard shredded the Cowboys’

Jake carcass of a beaver that had already “donated” me its pelt, and I recall thinking what a perfect place this bone pile would be for it to spend eternity.

I tossed the large carcass in amongst the bones, removed my hat and said a few words (something along the order of, “Finally, a place to get rid of that thing”) and drove away. My vacation time ended so I pulled the traps a couple weeks before Christmas day.

After lunch on Christmas morning my brotherin-law said he had a story to tell me involving Jake.

It seems the day before he’d been out behind the

defense with four consecutive three-point baskets in the span of just over two minutes which was part of a 22-0 scoring blitz for the Beavers.

Yager finished with a game high 16 points - all of those coming in the second quarter - capped by a rebound and putback just ahead of the buzzer that gave SCHS a 32-11 lead at the intermission.

A balanced scoring night for the Beavers saw sophomore guard Dylan Hutchins adding nine points, followed by Bo Hess with eight and freshman guards Justin Faurot and Drew Duff chipping in seven points each.

Building Blocks With a squad dominated by freshmen, Gentry says this season was a good building block in helping the players learn what they need to work on during the off-season in preparation for next year.

“We’ve emphasized to our guards, particularly Chantz and Dylan,

that they need to expand their role beyond being guys who can spot up for threes,” says Gentry.

“They need to attack the basket and distribute the ball better.”

Both players have the ability to break a game open from three-point range - as Yager demonstrated against the Cowboys.

“Later in the season, we’ve seen Dylan doing a better job of taking the ball to the basket and getting other players involved offensively,” Gentry says.

“And when Chantz puts his mind to it he’s as good a defensive player as there is on the floor. He can be a real pain in the butt when he’s playing against our varsity during practice.”

Perhaps the most improvement has come from the group of freshman and sophomore post players who had to learn different roles than they were accustomed to playing in junior high.

Gentry says that sophomore Nick Storm “made

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barn when Jake appeared carrying what looked to be his usual 2x4 or tree limb.

Strangely though, instead of taking the shortcut up the drive between the buildings, he skirted the barnyard entirely, walking several times the distance to end up in the front yard. When chores were done, my brother-inlaw found ol’ Jake standing smack in the middle of the front lawn, body shaking, tail wagging and proud as a peacock, with a 30 pound frozen beaver carcass crossways in his big yap!

My sister and brotherin-law are still speaking to

me, but I was given stern warning that if the carcass of the skunk I also caught ever showed up in their front lawn, it would soon show up in mine!

Usually I try to make my column a pleasurable blend of story and information, taking the reader on an informative journey.

So where was this one going you ask?

Absolutely nowhere.

Like I said, sometimes you just want to read a good story!

Continue to Explore Kansas Outdoors.

Steve can be contacted by email at stevegilliland@idkcom.net

Freshman guard Drew Duff brings the ball up the floor against Goodland during junior varsity action on Tuesday.

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huge strides with his court awareness.”

“He’s starting to make post moves,” notes the JV coach. “He’s getting more aggressive and playing with attitude.”

With a rotation pattern that essentially saw one starting lineup for the first and third quarters and another starting lineup

for the second and fourth quarters, Gentry was able to give the squad a lot of court experience.

“We tried different starting lineups so we could find out who could do what and how different boys played together,” says Gentry.

He notes that the six freshmen played the

equivalent of about 22 games between JV and “C” basketball.

“And the experience that our sophomores gained will be invaluable,” says Gentry, who points out that he’ll have many of the same players again next year, except for Yager and perhaps Hutchins.

SCHS Wrestling Class 4A Regional Tournament February 21-22, 2014 • at Colby Team scores: Goodland 160, Abilene 149, Smoky Valley 136, Colby 128.5, Ulysses 123, Clay Center 96, Buhler 95, Chapman 77, Concordia 76, McPherson 71, Scott City 57, Russell 45, Larned 29, Hugoton 26, Nickerson 13 106: Zach Tucker pinned by Tate Carney (Colby), 5:36; pinned Jesse James (Buhler), 2:07, 2:07; dec. by Israel Montoya (Hugoton), 9-2.

120: Chase Ramsey pinned by Zach Miller (Ulysses), 2:42; won by forfeit over Brett Lemon (Chapman); dec. by Marty Robinson (Clay Center), 9-4.

126: James Jurgens tech. fall Brice Kasting (McPherson), 17-0; maj. dec. by Caysen Smith (Abilene), 9-1; dec. Travis Finley (Colby), 6-4; dec. Luis Mendoza (Ulysses), 4-2. Third place.

138: Jesse Anchondo dec. Austin Golden (Smoky Valley), 10-5; dec. by Chase Prester (Russell), 2-0; pinned Adam Ebert (Clay Center), 2:30; pinned Clayton Peterson (Buhler), 3:19; pinned by Blake Anguiano (Abilene), 3:34.

145: Wyatt Kropp maj. dec. Beck Elliott (Smoky Valley), 11-0; dec. Brady Holzmiester (Colby), 6-4; maj. dec. by Grady Ware (Clay Center), 12-2; pinned by Bryce Rodriguez (Ulysses), 3:43.

152: Abe Wiebe maj. dec. James McCabe (Concordia), 10-3; pinned by Scott Whitson (Buhler), 0:58; pinned by Juan Anguiano (Ulysses), 1:31.

160: Trey Loftis pinned by John Peden (Goodland), 3:19; dec. Jack Goertzen (Buhler), 4-2; dec. Alan Wampler (Smoky Valley), 8-6; dec. by Stone Hayden (Chapman), 8-3.

170: Warren Kropp tech. fall Mark Baxter (Nickerson), 15-0; dec. by Austin Cook (Smoky Valley), 1-0; dec. Logan Lindbloom (Buhler), 8-1; won by injury def. over Zack Witt (Chapman). Third place.

182: Tre Stewart pinned by Spencer Bird (Smoky Valley), 3:15; pinned Noel Camacho (Hugoton), 3:52; pinned by Garrett Taylor (Goodland), 1:43.

285: Cole Birney pinned by Braden Redenbaugh (Buhler), 1:42; pinned by Zac Romo (Concordia), 2:15.

Takedown Kids Club Leoti Takedown Open Feb. 22, 2014 6-Years and Under 40: Kasey Rohrbough dec. by Kirbey Rohrbough (Scott City) 8-3. Second place 40: Kirbey Rohrbough dec. Kasey Rohrbough (Scott City) 8-3. First place 43: Trenton Frank dec. by Julian Orrantia (Liberal) 4-3; pinned Madison Bennett (South West Grapplers) 0:42; pinned Eli Lisenby (Scott City) 0:35; dec. Kaleigh Fuller (Lakin) 2-0. Second place 43: Eli Lisenby pinned by Madison Bennett (South West Grapplers) 2:25; maj. dec. by Kaleigh Fuller (Lakin) 11-0; pinned by Julian Orrantia (Liberal) 0:50; pinned by Trenton Frank (Scott City) 0:35. Fifth place 43B: Kaine Unger dec. by Adan Vazquez (Lakin) 9-2; pinned Kaden Murray (Goodland) 2:34; dec. by Colton Heronemus (South West Grappler) 10-7.

49: Brodey Rohrbough pinned by Carter Krier (Oakley) 1:32; maj. dec. by Jacob Gonzales Jr., (Ulysses) 10-0; pinned by Matthew Wheeler (Scott City) 0:35; pinned by Kaven Carabajal (Greater Gold GC) 0:50. Fifth place 49: Matthew Wheeler pinned Carter Krier (Oakley) 0:13; pinned Brodey Rohrbough (Scott City) 0:35; dec. by Kaven Carabajal (Greater Gold GC) 4-2; dec. by Jacob Gonzales Jr., (Ulysses) 9-7. Third place 52: Alexander Rodriguez pinned Boady Nelson (Ulysses) 1:48; pinned Cordae Rupp (Tribune) 0:23; dec. by Sebastian Heredia (Ulysses) 6-0; pinned by Drake Webber (Sublette) 1:50. Third place 52B: Kasten Wren pinned by Freddy Vazquez (Syracuse) 1:48; dec. by Kollin Kraft (Lakin) 8-2; maj. dec. by Joel Gilliland (St. Francis) 9-1; dec. by Nathan Weber (Colby) 4-0.

Fifth place 55: Kade John pinned by Brandon Thompson (Syracuse) 0:32; pinned Israel Pulido (Leoti) 1:45; dec. by Ian Giancola (Syracuse) 7-2; pinned by Grant Mendenhall (Lakin) 0:52.

Fourth place 55B: Brodie Holstein pinned Erik Valenzuela (Liberal) 1:12; pinned Camden Bergkamp (Lakin) 1:52; pinned Kaden Hardy (Syracuse) 0:54; pinned Jaiden Porter (Leoti) 1:58.

First place 7-8-Years-Old 55: Cody Vance pinned by Brady Ketzner (St. Francis) 0:31; pinned by Kaleb Otero (Greater Gold GC) 0:30; pinned

by Kaleb Atkins (Hill City) 1:24; dec. by Keaton Mason (Sublette) 9-5. Fifth place 61: Houston Frank pinned Kooper Wright (Scott City) 3:00; maj. dec. by Kobe Otero (Greater Gold GC) 8-0; pinned Matthew Cook (Meade Co.) 1:45; maj. dec. by Logan McCarty (St. Francis) 9-0. Fourth place 61: Kooper Wright pinned by Houston Frank (Scott City) 3:00; pinned by Logan Franz (Goodland) 2:52.

61B: Max Tuttle pinned by Brodie Pipkin (Liberal) 0:12; pinned by Gregory Martinez (Holcomb) 0:23.

64: Bryce Hundertmark pinned by Hayen Bahe (Oakley) 0:22; pinned by William Hawkins (Sublette) 0:11.

64: Colin McDaniel pinned Hayen Bahe (Oakley) 0:21; pinned Matthew Montoya (South West Grapplers) 2:50. First place 67: Case Armendariz pinned Kenzi Lovelady (Lakin) 0:53; dec. Harli Roberts (Leoti) 7-2. First place 88: Izak Venegas dec. Rex Crotts (Greater Gold GC) 7-2; pinned Rex Crotts (Greater Gold GC) 0:55. First place 9-10-Years-Old 67: Zachery Rohrbough maj. dec. Curtis Beam (Lakin) 111; maj. dec. by Steven Sellers (South West Grapplers) 9-0; pinned Rory James (Greater Gold GC) 2:26; maj. dec. Curtis Beam (Lakin) 13-2. Third place 70: Conner Armendariz maj. dec. Joe Mitchell (Syracuse) 12-1; dec. by Jace Woodrow (Lakin) 7-6. Second place 82: Leightyn Heim pinned by Kale Wheeler (Scott City) 1:48; dec. by Joaquin Costillo (Leoti) 6-0; maj. dec. Eric Cain (Oakley) 10-0. Third place 85: Kale Wheeler pinned Leightyn Heim (Scott City) 1:48; pinned Eric Cain (Oakley) 2:15; pinned Joshua Janas (South West Grappler) 0:45; dec. by Joaquin Castillo (Leoti) 1-0.

Second place 125: Lance Miller pinned Madison Bergkamp (Mead Co.) 1:04; dec. Ronnie Weathers (Scott City) 5-1; tech fall by Hagan Booi (Colby) 17-0. Second place 125: Ronnie Weathers dec. by Lance Miller (Scott City) 5-1; pinned Zachary Franco (Greater Gold GC) 2:23; dec. by Colton McCarty (St. Francis) 9-6. Fourth place 11-12-Years-Old 86: Justus McDaniel pinned Trey Medina (South West Grapplers) 1:23; tech fall Rowdy Martin (Ulysses) 17-1. First place 92: Braylin Heim pinned by Kade Lovelady (Lakin) 0:59; pinned by Cade Lanning (Colby) 0:56. Second place 100: Jordan Wagner pinned by Shayden Geyer (Leoti) 1:26; pinned Madison Smith (Greater Gold GC) 2:35; pinned

by Bradyn Blackhart (Colby) 2:01.

Support Your Hometown Merchants!

Marshall Wichita State has had an extraordinary season to this point. The Missouri Valley is down and the Shockers have played an unexceptional schedule.

Nevertheless, Wichita can justify their high ranking with a solid showing in the NCAA Tournament.

Another Title for KU For all practical purposes, the Big 12 basketball title chase ended on Big Monday when the KU Jayhawks defeated Oklahoma (83-75). That gives them a three game lead in the conference with only three games remaining.

KU should sweep their final three games before the tournament to wrap up their 10th consecutive conference title.

What an accomplishment.

Coach Bill Self didn’t try to contain his euphoric mood following last

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weekend’s win over Texas saying, “Our guys, overall, have not played with the pride on the defensive end that they played with tonight. That’s the best we’ve played defense all year in the first half.”

Center Joel Embiid appears to be healthy again.

He was sensational against Texas, with 13 points, seven rebounds and six blocks. And Andrew Wiggins is starting to peak, hitting three consecutive three-point shots early and KU never looked back.

How time flies. Right after the regular season, the Big 12 Tournament in Kansas City begins (March 12-15) and then it’s on to the NCAA Tournament.

Kansas has had numerous disappointing NCAA Tournaments and this KU team has weaknesses.

However, there won’t be a single team in the tour-

nament that doesn’t have shortcomings. There will be a lot of unexpected cutins at the Big Dance.

As for the Big 12 Tournament, the main thing for Kansas is to come out of it without any serious injuries. That can kill a team’s NCAA chances quicker than anything.

The tournament is great for the fans, but it’s meaningless after the conference race. Playing three or four days in a row leaves teams tired and battered right before the NCAA Tournament. But it’s the same for everyone.

Kansas has the same chance as 10-15 other teams to win it all. No other ball club has two players as talented as Embiid and Wiggins, but they’re still freshmen.

And KU’s guards, with the exception of Wayne Selden, are small and erratic with their shooting

and ball handling.

KC Defense No. 1 The Kansas City Royals open their season on March 31 at Detroit.

Much has been made about KC’s pitching and improved hitting, but little is said about the defense.

It’s terrific.

Kansas City returns three Golf Glove winners: catcher Salvador Perez and first baseman Eric Hosmer won their first Gold Glove Awards in 2013 and left fielder Alex Gordon won his third straight.

With their offseason acquisitions, the Royals don’t have any defensive weaknesses. MLB. com columnist Anthony Castrovince has rated the Royals as the best defense in MLB. Anticipation of the season is justifiably running rampant.

Congratulations!

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James Jurgens 126 lbs. • Junior 3rd at Regional Record: 21-11

SCHS wrestlers in qualifying for the Class 4A State Tournament

SCHS team members for the 2013-14 season are (front row, from left) Peter Nguyen, Kevin Aguilera, Irvin Lozano, Zach Tucker, James Jurgens, Wyatt Kropp, Abe Wiebe, Trey Loftis and Kevin Lozano.

(Back row) Jesse Anchondo, Lane Hayes, Cole Birney, Garrett Osborn, Warren Kropp, Cooper Griffith, Chase Ramsey and Tre Stewart.

Warren Kropp 170 lbs. • Senior 3rd at Regional Record: 19-3

These SCHS wrestling boosters wish you success at the state tournament in Salina

clutch performance

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Late free throws give Lady Beavers win over Goodland When Bailey Nickel got the pass in the front court with only eight seconds remaining in Tuesday’s game against Goodland there was no doubt what she would do next.

T h e S c o t t Community High S c h o o l Goodland 44 Scott City 45 senior was taking the ball all the way to the basket. The only thing that was going to stop her was a foul by the Goodland defense.

But that only briefly delayed the outcome.

Nickel stepped to the free throw line and drilled both ends of a one-andone with 5.4 seconds remaining, giving the Lady Beavers a 45-44 win in their regular season finale before a Parents’ Night crowd.

It was an emotional win for the team - particularly the seniors - who have struggled to a 3-17 record.

“This was a great way to send the seniors out on their final game at home,” says head coach Shelby Crawford. “They’ve worked hard and they deserve a win like this.”

Even though SCHS entered Tuesday’s game on a 10 game losing skid and had lost to Goodland two weeks earlier by 33 points, they refused to fade away.

The Lady Beavers (317) erased an early 8-3 deficit with a 9-0 scoring run in the first period that gave them their largest lead of the night, 12-8.

They matched that four

point lead with a 7-0 scoring burst to close out the third period that again put them on top, 30-26.

The big difference between this game and the earlier meeting was Scott City’s ability to execute their four-out offense with four girls spreading the floor and Nickel in the high post.

“When we tried to run our regular offense the spacing isn’t there - it gets clogged in the middle and we don’t have enough movement,” says Crawford. “This forces us to space the floor and open up some lanes so we can use our speed. It allows Bailey to get on someone’s shoulder and take it hard to the hoop like she did tonight.”

When the Lady Beavers needed a clutch basket they would get the ball to Nickel in the post and she would look for a lane to the basket. Nickel, who finished with a game high 25 points, collected three field goals during the first four minutes of the final period - the last one putting her team on top, 3936.

Goodland (12-8) took the lead, 40-39, with 1:49 remaining, followed by turnovers by each team.

Goodland was unable to capitalize on Scott City’s turnover, but the Lady Beavers capitalized on Goodland’s mistake when senior Riley Hawker went coast-to-coast, driving between two defenders under the basket and making the layup that put SCHS

Scott City seniors Bailey Nickel (left) and Riley Hawker celebrate after Scott City’s win over Goodland on Tuesday.

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on top, 41-40, with 1:13 to play.

After that, it became a free throw contest.

Nickel converted both ends of a one-and-one that extended Scott City’s lead to three points, but the Cowgirls responded with a pair of free throws at the 24.6 second mark and again with just 10.4 seconds left in the game.

Scott City was able

to get the ball inbounds quickly and up the floor for Nickel’s game winning charity tosses.

“When Bailey plays aggressively it sets the stage for the rest of our offense.

Even if she doesn’t get the basket she can get to the free throw line, which we saw tonight,” says Crawford. “That’s the kind of game we need from her.”

Crawford also feels the

Lady Beavers are starting to gain a better understanding of their offense.

“I was surprised that we were able to score this many points, but when you open up the floor good things can happen,” he said.

Senior guard Kelly Wycoff and sophomore guard Mariah Campbell added nine and seven points, respectively.

The Lady Beavers were also able to pick up the win with two of their starters - Holly Wilcoxson and Nicole Latta - gone with season-ending injuries.

“The younger girls have been gaining more playing time and getting more confidence. What’s encouraging is that even if they don’t provide much scoring they are doing other things which help the team,” adds Crawford.

Spread offense pays off early against Colby The first quarter couldn’t have gone much better for the Scott Community High School girls when they traveled to Colby last Friday.

SCHS was effective in their spread offense and slowing down the tempo while jumping out to an

early 6-0 lead.

But once Colby began extending their defense and forcing Scott City into turnovers the Lady Eagles were able to open up a 20-12 halftime lead on their way to handing SCHS a 50-30 loss in league action.

Payback ing run that was capped by a steal and layup from junior guard Trey O’Neil that cut the lead to 1817. The Beavers were still trailing by one until Smith’s turnaround jumper just ahead of the halftime buzzer that sent Goodland into the locker room with a 24-21 lead.

Following a threepointer by the Cowboys that extended their lead to 27-23 early in the third quarter, the Beavers finally began to take over the game at both ends of the floor. O’Neil and Meyer drilled back-to-back threes that sparked a 13-0 scoring spree while the defense held Goodland without a field goal for more than 5-1/2 minutes.

Smith was held scoreless after the intermission and, as a team, the Cow-

Scott City had the Lady Eagles confused early and were able to get some easy baskets until the defense adjusted.

“They’re physical inside. They like to jam up the middle,” noted head coach Shelby Crawford.

“Even when we forced

them into man defense they do such a good job on the help side that they can still jam up the middle.”

Senior center Bailey Nickel finished with a team high 14 points, including all 10 of Scott City’s points in the final period.

“Bailey was 8-of-8 at the foul stripe, which shows that if she’s aggressive, even if she doesn’t score she can get points at the free throw line,” said Crawford.

SCHS was unable to provide much offensive help for Nickel.

Seniors Kelly Wycoff and Riley Hawker each finished with four points.

Senior guard Holly Wilcoxson scored the game’s first two points, but she later exited the game with a season-ending knee injury.

we’ve been needing to see from him. He was driving to the basket and also putting himself in position to get assists for some easy scores,” says O’Neil.

“When he and Sloan (Baker) can give us that kind of offense it takes a lot of pressure off Trey and Brett.”

Baker added six points and 10 rebounds which contributed to Scott City’s huge 35-21 edge under the boards.

“It’s been awhile since we’ve had this kind of rebound advantage over an opponent,” noted O’Neil.

Meyer (6-of-10 2 pt.

FG) led all scorers with 19 points while T. O’Neil added 17 points and seven assists.

Scott City shot a respectable 53 percent (20of-38) from two-point range and were 12-of-15

at the free throw line, despite their slow start in the first 1-1/2 quarters. Goodland, on the other hand, was just 7-of-29 from two-point range but were able to stay within striking distance with 7-of-15 from the three-point line.

“We may have been rushing some shots early in the game and we had guys shooting some shots that they normally don’t shoot in practice or in game situations. Just because you’re open doesn’t mean it’s a great shot,” O’Neil points out. “We were hesitating at times because the boys weren’t sure whether or not they should shoot. That hesitation caused them to miss it. There were other times when we drove a step too far and shot a contested shot instead of the open shot in rhythm.”

In the second half, O’Neil says the team did a better job of working the ball around and shooting when they were supposed to.

“The first half looked like we’ve played for the last couple of weeks. In the second half we looked like we have for a large portion of the year,” says O’Neil. “One half doesn’t make a complete turnaround, but it indicates a step in the right direction.”

Meyer also feels an added sense of confidence as the Beavers prepare for sub-state.

“We were back to playing our style of ball in the second half. I’d like to see us start our games like that in sub-state and show that we’re ready to go,” he says.

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boys were 1-of-15 from two-point range in the second half with that lone field goal cutting the lead to 38-31. Scott City closed out the third period with a 6-0 burst that gave them a 44-31 cushion.

“Our two-point defense was pretty good. By packing it in, there were times when guys at the bottom of our zone lost contact with where they should have been and we had a couple of bad switches which allowed them a couple of open looks from the outside,” says head coach Glenn O’Neil. “They can shoot from three-point range if they have space.”

O’Neil says some corrections to their zone defense helped in shutting down Smith in the second half.

“He’s always been a good shooter in the post.

When he has a chance to face up to the basket he can be hard to stop,” says O’Neil. “We have to take that shot away from him.”

Unlike when these two teams met earlier, there was no fourth quarter comeback by the Cowboys, though they did cut the deficit to seven points (44-37) and also trailed by eight (48-40) with 3:56 remaining.

Senior center Brayden Strine, who finished with 14 points and 12 rebounds, finally found his offense with six of his 14 points coming in the final period, including back-to-back baskets that again gave the Beavers a comfortable 52-40 margin with just over two minutes remaining.

“Brayden was playing active, which is what

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celebrating friends and fun Special Olympians compete in region hoops tournament

There was an opportunity for athletes to show their basketball skills.

There were plenty of medals to be awarded.

And, of course, there was a basketball game.

But what the Special Olympics basketball tournament provided in abundance was plenty of smiles - from spectators and contestants.

“It’s fun being a cheerleader,” said Catie Gilbert, a member of the 14-member cheer squad from Dodge City. “We are all good friends.”

The annual tournament and skills competition held in Scott City brought together Special Olympians from throughout Western Kansas.

Saturday began with the participants competing for medals in basketball skills (the number of dribbles in a minute, spot shooting, etc.), followed by a cheerleading demonstration and basketball games.

The Northwest Winds out of Atwood is often the team to beat from year to year and they had no trouble claiming gold medals in this year’s region tournament.

“These guys have a lot of fun, but they’re pretty competitive,” notes Ronnie Holub who has been coaching the team for 14 years. “I’ve always said that if it’s no longer fun I’ll quit coaching. I’m still here.”

Holub, who had a special needs son, realizes how important sports and other activities are to these adults.

“This gives the guys something to look forward to,” says Holub about the weekly practices, in addition to the Scott City tournament and the state tournament in Hays.

He says the community has been very supportive with members of the fire department and even high school players practicing against the squad.

“When we were practicing among ourselves things got pretty boring. It’s a lot more fun when we can get others to compete against these guys,” Holub says.

That support is returned . . . and then some.

Members of the basketball team get free tickets to attend Atwood High School football and basketball games.

“They are the school’s biggest cheering section,” Holub says proudly.

Make no mistake about it. These guys are playing to win.

“They’re a lot better than people expect if they haven’t seen them play before,” Holub says. “They like to win, but I won’t allow poor sportsmanship. If they show bad sportsmanship then they don’t get to practice for awhile.

None of these guys want that to happen.”

And everyone on the 12-man roster gets to play.

At one time, he says Atwood had enough players for two teams, but now it has one. The roster also includes three members from Oakley.

Rondo Switzer, formerly of Scott City, is a volunteer coach for the Dodge City Dodgers.

Switzer was a former basketball Special Olympian and also competed in track for several years.

“This is my first year of coaching,” he says.

“I like helping out.”

Even the cheerleaders take their jobs seriously, practicing most every Sunday, according to the 30-year-old Gilbert, who quickly adds with a grin, “I don’t look that old, do I?” The local event is sponsored by Knights of Columbus Council No. 5212. The council presented the Special Olympics organization with a $1,000 check from their annual Tootsie Roll fundraiser.

“It’s great to see the excitement on their faces and how much this means to them,” noted Tom Ludowese, Scott City, a member of the local council who was a volunteer. “You appreciate how hard they have to work to do things that most of us take for granted.”

(Clockwise, from top) Leora Kennedy, a member of the Dodge City Dodgers cheer squad, has fun prior to the first game of the tournament. Cody Schoenberger (far left) Cameron Nelson and Chad Ostmeyer, all of Oakley, cheer for one of their Northwest Winds team members when he makes a basket during the skills competition. Tallas McNabb, Atwood, celebrates his silver medal in the speed dribble contest. Donna Lewis, Dodge City, shows her excitement after making a basket during the spot shooting competition.

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Farm

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Aqueduct plan is a window on water issues

by Trevor Graff KHI News Service

DONIPHAN COUNTY - Ken McCauley parked his Chevy pickup in the middle of a dirt road overlooking some of the world’s best corn growing acreage.

He examined a creek bed that was flanked by a narrow strip of woods and sloping hills covered with

stubble from last year’s crop.

McCauley’s family has farmed here six generations. The 4,600-acre operation includes corn and soybean production.

“They picked a good place to stop,” McCauley said of his ancestors.

But it wasn’t family history or 220 bushelsper-acre corn that was the hot topic this particu-

ag briefs

Thompson in Stockman’s Academy

Chase Thompson, Scott City, was among 20 young cattlemen and women from across the state who met in Topeka February 18-19 for the first installment of the 2014 Kansas Livestock Association (KLA) Young Stockmen’s Academy (YSA). A series of four seminars will be held throughout the year in various locations in Kansas.

During the two-day session, attendees participated in advocacy training, learned more about the legislative process and heard from KLA staff about services the association provides.

YSA members attended a Senate Agriculture Committee meeting at the Capitol and had lunch with their legislators prior to participating in a financial planning seminar.

Desalinization project could aid Calif. producers

A solar desalinization startup is taking on California’s water challenges, and its water-cleaning technology could help farmers across the dry state.

Water According to The New York Times, the San Francisco, Calif., area start-up called WaterFX is tapping into an abundant resource that lie just below the parched surface of the state - billions of gallons of water.

The project, which includes a $1 million solar thermal desalinization plant financed by the Panoche Water District with state funds, removes impurities from drainage water at half of the cost of traditional desalinization.

During the pilot project, WaterFX produced upwards of 14,000 gallons of purified water daily. A larger, commercial version of the plant, set to be built later this year, could produce 717 million gallons of water.

“This subsurface groundwater is a possible gold mine,” Dennis Falaschi, manager of the Panoche Water District, said. “You’re taking a water supply that is unusable now and you’re converting it to a usable source.”

lar day on this particular piece of Missouri River bottomland.

“I’ve said since I was a kid that we’d be fighting over water,” McCauley said. “When you start talking about an aqueduct, open water going across the state it’s enough to get everybody riled up in a hurry.”

Kansas officials are studying the possibil-

ity of an aqueduct, pipeline or canal that would carry water - perhaps across McCauley’s land from the Missouri River at White Cloud to Ness County, 360 miles to the southwest.

Pumping Uphill The audacious project, if realized, would surpass in distance and cost the 336-mile Central Arizona

Project, which is still considered the most expensive water transfer system ever built in the United States.

The Arizona project - started in 1973 - took 20 years and $4 billion to construct. It carries 1.5 million acre-feet of water per year from the Colorado River to Tucson and irrigates about 1 million acres of farmland.

The federal government paid for it.

An earlier Corps of Engineers study looking at the feasibility of tapping the Missouri River to water western Kansas estimated it would cost $4.4 billion to build a system and about $475 million a year to operate it. Those were 1982 estimates.

(See AQUEDUCT on page 32)

GE crops: where we’ve been and where we’re going Mary Soukup, editor Drovers CattleNetwork

From conservation tillage practices and the use of GPS technology in precision agriculture to increased production of genetically engineered crops, technological advancements in recent decades have led to increased production and efficiency in agriculture in the United States.

Since the first successful commercial introduction of genetically engineered crops

in the United States more than 15 years ago, their adoption has been widespread, with nearly half of the land used for crops in 2013 being planted with genetically engineered crops, according to a recent report by USDA’s Economic Research Service.

While the use of GE crops has allowed farmers to be more efficient, and use fewer herbicides and insecticides, the study says questions remain about the economic and environmental impacts,

the evolution of weed resistance and consumer acceptable. The study took a look at historical production trends, economic impact and consumer response to genetically engineered crops.

According to the study, genetically engineered crop traits have been classified into one of three generations, with the first generation featuring enhanced input traits such as herbicide tolerance, resistance to insects and resistance to environmental stress.

The report says the second generation features value-added output traits such as nutrient-enhanced seeds for feed, and the third generation features traits to allow production of pharmaceuticals and products beyond traditional food and fiber. Most GE crops planted in the United States have first-generation traits, but USDA says all three generations of GE crop traits are in various stages of research and development.

(See GE CROPS on page 27)

New wheat variety offers benefits At K-State’s Agricultural Research Center in Hays, Guorong Zhang is a wheat breeder whose research focuses on trying to improve the wheat crop by developing new varieties with adaptation to Western Kansas, including the latest new variety - a hard red winter wheat named KS09H19-2-3, or Oakley CL. Development of Oakley CL began in 2002, and in late 2013, K-State’s Agricultural Research Center released it. Its registered and certified seed is expected to become available in 2015, while test plots

Wheat Scoop Bill Spiegel

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Kansas Wheat

will continue to be analyzed in 2014.

Zhang said Oakley CL came from a three-way cross, so it has three parents that contribute to its high yield potential, in addition to Beyond herbicide tolerance, drought tolerance, disease resistance and good quality for milling and baking.

It also has good straw strength and grain shatter-

Market Report Closing prices on February 25, 2014 Winona Feed and Grain Bartlett Grain Wheat..................

White Wheat .......

Milo ....................

Corn ...................

Soybeans ...........

$ 6.76 $ N/A

$ 4.33

$ 4.61 $ 13.19

Scott City Cooperative Wheat..................

$ 6.76

Milo (bu.).............

$ 4.34

White Wheat .......

Corn....................

Soybeans ...........

Sunflowers..........

ADM Grain

$ 4.63

$ 4.33

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$ 13.19

$ 16.35

February 19 60 31 February 21 58 20 February 22 54 25 February 23

Corn....................

$ 4.68

Sunflowers..........

Corn....................

Milo (bu.).............

February 18 72 30

$ 6.76

Soybeans............

$ 6.76

$ N/A

$ 6.91

Wheat..................

Milo (bu.).............

Wheat..................

White Wheat .......

$ 4.38 $ 13.22

$ 16.90

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ing resistance to combat high winds in Western Kansas, and it has good resistance to preharvest sprouting.

“The Beyond herbicide resistance actually comes from one parent, Above. Above is the first publicly released onegene Clearfield wheat variety,” Zhang said.

“The other two parents are Danby - the most popular white variety in Western Kansas - and another parent from our own breeding lines. From Above, this variety inherited its herbicide resistance. From Danby, it inherited some drought toler-

ance, so it has performed very well in Western Kansas,” he says.

The third parent had the wheat streak mosaic virus resistance. Stripe rust resistance might come from both Danby and the third parent.

Oakley CL, Zhang said, shows strong resistance to stripe rust, a fungal disease that causes wheat to have yellow or orange blister-like lesions arranged in stripes. He has tested it for both 2010 and 2012 races of stripe rust.

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Benefits

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variety Brawl CL Plus in the 2013 Kansas Wheat Performance Test trial at northwestern Kansas testing sites.

Oakley CL also shows good results for end product testing - milling and baking.

“This variety has a good flour yield and also a very good mixing tolerance and a good loaf volume,” Zhang said. “If this variety can be planted in larger acreage, then the millers and bakers will have good wheat to process.”

“In 2012, the race was changed, so a lot of varieties that were resistant in 2010 became susceptible in 2012,” Zhang said.

“Another major disease resistance for this variety is wheat streak mosaic virus resistance. Now in the market, very few varieties have the wheat streak mosaic virus resistance. It is a virus disease that is hard to control with any fungicide, so we have to rely on the variety resistance.”

In addition to disease resistance, many produc-

ers want to know the yield potential for new varieties, Zhang said. In two years of dryland testing in northwest Kansas, Oakley CL had more than a five percent higher yield than Danby.

It also is comparable with other Clearfield wheat varieties in Western Kansas, as it had an 11 percent higher yield than the one-gene Clearfield variety Above in the 2011 Clearfield Qualification trial in Hays and a six percent higher yield than the two-gene Clearfield

NAP sign-up deadline is March 15

GE Crops

Deadlines for the USDA, Farm Service Agency (FSA) to accept applications under the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) for this year crops have been established by the Kansas State FSA Committee.

The application closing date of March 15 applies to general coarse grains, vegetable and melon crops, and cotton.

Crops eligible for NAP benefits are limited to those not insurable in the county and are produced for food or fiber.

Included are: forage crops for livestock (mechanically harvested or grazed), also floricultural, ornamental nursery, turf grass sod, industrial crops and seed crops.

Producers must visit the local FSA office to complete an application and pay the service fees.

Administrative fees range from $250 per crop per administrative county not to exceed $750 per producer, per county with a $1,875 maximum.

A Notice of Loss must be filed with the FSA within 15 days after the disaster occurrence, or the date the loss becomes apparent to the producer.

Producers are responsible for providing accurate and complete information. This includes timely certifying the unit’s planted acreage and production with FSA. In general, acreage reporting deadlines are December 15 for small grain crops, and the earlier of July 15 or 15 days prior to the onset of harvest or grazing for all other crops.

Producers shall maintain their production evidence for 3 years after the crop year it is initially certified.

This coverage entitles eligible producers to a payment of 55 percent of an average market price for the commodity if a natural disaster caused a 50 percent production loss or greater of an eligible crop.

Producers are limited to $100,000 in benefits per person per crop year, they must not exceed the $2 million gross revenue provisions, and they must comply with conservation compliance provisions in order to be determined eligible.

Corn, cotton and soybeans made up the majority of acres planted to GE crops in 2013. Farmers used herbicide-tolerant soybeans on 93 percent of all planted soybean acres and herbicide-tolerant corn on 85 percent of planted acres.

Farmers planted insectresistant (Bt) corn on 76 percent of acres in 2013.

As of September 2013, USDA APHIS had approved 96 petitions for deregulation, allowing GE seeds to be sold, and had approved 30 for corn, 15 for cotton and 12 for soybeans. Additionally petitions have been approved for tomatoes, canola, potatoes, sugarbeets, papaya, rice, squash, alfalfa, plum, rose, tobacco, flax and chicory.

There is no commercially available GE seed for wheat.

Higher Yields According to the report, the adoption of Bt corn has increased yields by mitigating yield losses.

Additionally, seeds with more than one GE trait, stacked seeds, tend to have higher yields than seeds with only one GE trait.

GE corn with stacked traits grew from one percent of corn acres in 2000 to 71 percent in 2013. The increase in planting of Bt corn has resulted in less insecticide use, with only nine percent of all U.S. corn farmers using insecticides in 2010.

However, according to the report despite efforts to delay evolution of Bt resistance, there are some indications that insect resistance is developing to some Bt traits in some areas.

Prices Climb 50% The price of GE soybeans and corn increased by about 50 percent, adjusted for inflation, between 2001 and 2010, according to the report.

But the report says that planting Bt corn and cotton is more profitable, as measured by net returns, than planting conventional seeds.

On the consumer side, the report found that acceptance of foods with GE products varies based on product characteristics, geography, and the information consumers are

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exposed to.

Some studies cited in the report found consumers to be willing to try, and even pay a premium, for GE foods with positive enhancements, like nutritionally enhanced products. Other studies found a willingness to pay for non-GE foods.

With regard to geography, some studies found increased willingness to pay for GE foods in developing countries compared to developed countries.

Despite numerous reports being cited by USDA, the agency says consumer approval patterns are not clear enough to draw definite conclusions.

Non-GE foods are available in the United States, but they represent a small share of retail markets.

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Agriculture

Dirks Earthmoving Co.

Preconditioning and Growing

Precision Land Forming of terraces and waterways; feed lot pens and ponds; building site preparation; lazer equipped

Jerry Doornbos, DVM Home - 872-2594 Cell - 874-0949 Stuart Doornbos Home - 872-2775 Cell - 874-0951

Richard Dirks • Scott City, Ks.

• 45 Years Experience • Managed and owned by full-time DVM • 2,000 Head capacity Office - 872-5150 • Scott City

(Home) 872-3057 • 877-872-3057 (Cell) 872-1793

Medical

Sager’s Pump Service • Irrigation • Domestic • Windmills • Submersibles

Cell: 874-4486 • Office 872-2101

ELLIS AG SERVICES

Charles Purma II D.D.S. P.A.

• Custom Manure Conditioning • Hauling and Spreading • Custom Swathing and Baling • Rounds-Net or Twine • Gyp and Sand Sales • Pickup or Delivery

General Dentistry, Cosmetics, and Insurance Accepted

We welcome new patients.

324 N. Main • Scott City • 872-2389 Residence 872-5933

Call Brittan Ellis • 620-874-5160

Automotive

Horizon Health

Willie’s Auto A/C Repair

For your home medical supply and equipment needs!

Willie Augerot Complete A/C Service Mechanic Work and Diagnostics Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

We service and repair all that we sell.

404 Kingsley • Scott City • 874-1379

Red

1602 S. Main • Scott City • 872-2232 Toll Free : 1-866-672-2232 Specializing in

all coatings t Paint i or any other color

Pro Health Chiropractic Wellness Center

Paint inside and out residential, commercial, and industrial.

Free estimates and 16 plus years of experience.

(Scott City Chiropractic) “TLC”...

Technology Lead Chiropractic

PC Painting, Inc.

Dr. James Yager • Dr. Marlyn Swayne Dr. Robert Fritz

Paul Cramer 620-290-2410 620-872-8910 www.pcpaintinginc.com

Pro Ex II

Over 20 Years Experience

Professional Extermination Commercial & Residential

110 W. 4th St. • Scott City • 872-2310 Toll Free: 800-203-9606

• Termites • Rodents • Soil Sterilization • Pre Treats • Lawn Care • Fly Parasites

John Kropp, Owner • Scott City 874-2023 (cell) • 872-3400 (office) • prox2@live.com

Landscaping • Lawn/Trees

Scott City Myofascial Release

Berning Tree Service

Sandy Cauthon RN

David Berning • Marienthal

620-379-4430

105 1/2 W. 11th St. Scott City 620-874-1813

Tree Trimming and Removal Hedge and Evergreen Trimming Stump Removal

Call me to schedule your Myofascial Release

Fully Insured

SPENCER PEST CONTROL RESIDENTIAL – COMMERCIAL Termite Baiting Systems • Rodents Weed Control • Structural Insects Termite Control Box 258, Scott City • (620) 872-2870

Call today for a Greener Healthier Lawn

Dr. Jeffrey A. Heyd Optometrist 20/20 Optometry

Treatment of Ocular Disease • Glaucoma Detection Children’s Vision • Glasses • Contact Lenses

Complete family eye center!

106 W. 4th • Scott City • 872-2020 • Emergencies: 872-2736

Turner Sheet Metal

Heating & Air Conditioning

Heating & Cooling Systems Since 1904 Commercial & Residential Owner, Chris Lebbin • 620-214-4469

Construction/Home Repair

CHAMBLESS ROOFING Residential

All Types of Roofing

Commercial

Cedar Shake and Shingle Specialists Return to Craftsmanship Attention to Detail and Quality Guaranteed 620-872-2679 • 1-800-401-2683

1851 S. Hwy. 83 • Scott City 872-2954 Shop • 1-800-201-2954

Ron Turner Owner

Walker Plumbing, Inc. Backhoe & Trenching services • Irrigation & gas leak repairs • Full-line irrigation parts T-L center pivot dealer Floor heat systems Pump & install septic systems Boring equipment

423 S. Mesquite Rd. • Scott City • 872-2130

Scott City Clinic Daniel R. Dunn, MD Family Practice

872-2187

Matthew Lightner, MD Family Practice

Christian E. Cupp, MD William Slater, MD Family Practice

Libby Hineman, MD Family Practice

Josiah Brinkley, MD Family Practice

General Surgeon

Megan Dirks, AP, RN-BC Ryan Michels, PA Mindy Schrader, PA

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Retail

Gene’s Appliance Over 200 appliances in stock!

COMPARE OUR PRICES!

We have Reverse Osmosis units in stock.

Remember us for parts in stock for all brands of all appliances.

Sales and Service Days • Mon. - Sat. Deliveries • Mon.-Sat.

Largest Frigidaire appliance dealer in Western Ks. 508 Madison • Scott City • 872-3686

Networktronic, Inc.

Custom computers!

Networking solutions!

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

Help Wanted

Truck Driving

C O L L E G E YEARBOOK seeks editorial adviser with digital and online publishing skills. Work in Manhattan and lead energetic students. 30 hrs/wk, F/T benefits. Details: collegianmedia.com.

––––––––––––––––––––– S O F T W A R E DEVELOPMENT manager: Valley Hope Association, Norton, Ks..

Software/web development background, experience w/ object oriented programming. Relocation available. Salary DOE. Email resume: Employment@ ValleyHope.ORG

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.

––––––––––––––––––––– TANKER DRIVERS. Up to $5,000 sign-on bonus!

Up to 51 cpm plus additional pay for HazMat loads, pump offs, mileage bonuses. One-year OTR. Call 877-882-6537. www. oakleytransport.com

Legal Aid

Computer Sales, Service and Repair

Mon. - Fri. 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

402 S. Main, Scott City • 872-1300

Kansas Classifieds Ad Network

The classified ads below are appearing in 147 Kansas newspapers with a total circulation of 500,000 the classified display ads appear in 142 Kansas newspapers with a total circulation of 457,000. KCAN line ad is $300 for up to 25 words and $12 each additional word. A 2x2 display ad is $800 per insertion and a 2x4 display ad is $1,650 per insertion. To find out more, contact The Scott County Record at 872-2090.

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

Tuesday-Saturday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

www.reganjewelers.com

P E L V I C / T R A N S VA G I N A L mesh? Did you undergo transvaginal placement of mesh for pelvic organ prolapse or stress urinary incontinence between 2005 and present time? If the mesh caused complications, you may be entitled to compensation. Call Charles H. Johnson Law and speak with female For Sale staff members. 1-800-5355727.

HAPPY JACK SKIN BALM. Stops scratching and gnawing. Promotes Education healing and hair growth HEAVY EQUIPMENT on dogs and cats sufferoperator training. Bull- ing from grass and flea dozers, backhoes, excava- allergies without steroids. tors. Three weeks hands- Orscheln Farm and Home. on program. Local job www.happyjackinc.com. placement assistance.

National certifications.

GI Bill benefits eligible.

1-866-362-6497.

–––––––––––––––––––– $2,000 BETTER Business Bureau Foundation Student of Integrity Award Scholarships. Application deadline 3-7-14.http:// kansasplains.bbb.org/studentaward/ or 316-2633146/800-856-2417 #4208

Real Estate MAX YOUR TAX refund. Use your tax refund to purchase your new Claytonhome.

Clayton matches up to $8,000. Less than perfect credit OK. Limited number of tax matches available. Don’t miss out. Call 866-858-6862 for details.

412 N. Main • Garden City • 620-275-5142 All Under One Roof

Revcom Electronics

Your RadioShack Dealer Two-way Radio Sales & Service Locally owned and operated since 1990

1104 Main • Scott City • 872-2625 Find us on Facebook

SharpsShootingSupply.com • (620)398-2395 • Healy, Kansas

Services

Dining

District 11 AA Meetings

Berning Auction “Don’t Trust Your Auction to Just Anyone”

Scott City

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

For all your auction needs call:

(620) 375-4130

Russell Berning Box Q • Leoti

C-Mor-Butz BBQ

Barbecue, the only sport where a fat bald man is a GOD...

& Catering

Kyle Lausch 620-872-4209

Bryan Mulligan & Chris Price 620-874-8301 & 620-874-1285

www.cmorbutzbbq.com • cmorbutzbbq@gmail.com

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

All open meetings, 874-8207 • 874-8118

Dighton

Thursday • 8:30 p.m.

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

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Classifieds Buy, sell, trade, one call does it all 872-2090 ot fax 872-0009

Classified Ad Deadline: Monday at 5:00 p.m.

Agriculture

Real Estate

Services

Help Wanted

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.

620-874-1005.

11tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– 903 MYRTLE, GREAT FIRST HOME 2+2 bedrooms, 2 baths. Just remodeled with a new kitchen and stainless steel appliances. All new windows, doors, flooring, insulation, plumbing and roof. Close to elementary school, which is a plus.

Call for appointment: Clinton Constuction (Darryl or Virginia) 620-8725494 or cell 620-2141456.

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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!

PART-TIME COOK wanted. Apply in person at The Broiler, 102 Main.

Classified advertising must be paid in advance unless business account is established.

WANTED TO BUY. Stored corn. Call for basis and contract information.

1-800-579-3645.

Lane County Feeders, Inc. 32tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– WANTED TO BUY. Wheat straw delivered.

Call for contracting information. Lane County Feeders. 397-5341. 44tfc

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.

If not paid in advance, there will be a $1 billing charge.

Tear sheet for classified ad will be $1 extra.

Card of Thanks I would like to thank my family for the wonderful reception in honor of my 80th birthday. A special thank you to friends who ventured out on a snowy day to help us celebrate, and to those who sent cards. I feel very blessed and appreciate your thoughtfulness.

Donna Jean Eitel

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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MOBILE HOME Inexpensive way to start your home ownership!

2002 Redman 16’ x 80’, 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, vinyl siding, asphalt shingles, appliances, FA-CA, several updates!

ONLY $ 19,900

Lawrence and Associates

Deb Lawrence, GRI Broker Shorty Lawrence, Sales Assoc.

513 Main • Scott City 872-5267 ofc. 872-7184 hm. lawrenceandassocrealty.com Sheila Ellis, Broker Assoc.

872-2056 Kerry Gough, Sales Assoc.

872-7337 Russell Berning, 874-4405 www.berningauction.com

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 27tfc information.

Lost Rentals LOST RING IN SCOTT CITY. Near or around Dollar General or Heartland Foods. Reward for return. Call 872-5257. 28t2p

For Sale TWO NICE LaZyBoy couches in good condition. 707 Monroe Ct. 29t1p

Rentals 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 ––––––––––––––––––––– 1 AND 2 BEDROOM apartments for rent. Please call 620-874-8353. 26tfc

County Plat Maps Scott

Logan

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Wichita

Gove

Wallace

Lane

Greeley

Finney Kearney

www.scottcountyrecord.com

Completely Remodeled!

5 bedrooms, ready to move into, insolated and stucco exterior. 1 + 1 baths, office, fenced yard and 1 1/2 garage.

5 Lots in Webster addition $35,000 for all 5 lots.

406 Main • Scott City 620 872-2090

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.

Thomas Real Estate

www.thomasreal-estate.com 914 W. 12th, Scott City, Ks. 67871 • 872-7396 Cell: (620)-874-1753 or Cell: (620)-874-5002

SUDOKU

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––––––––––––––––––––– ATTENDANT CARE GIVER to provide parttime in home care for elderly women. For more information contact Carolyn West 620-214-1238 or 28t2p 620-872-2506.

––––––––––––––––––––– NEWS PAPER CARRIER needed. Approximately 130 papers. Must have reliable vehicle. Seven days a week for Hutchinson paper and six days a week for Garden City paper. Contact Artie 28t6c 620-655-1197.

––––––––––––––––––––– FA R M W O R K E R , 4/15/14-11/1/14, Anderson Harvesting, Bridgeport, Nebr. One temp. job. Operate harvesting machines to harvest crops in Nebr. Adjust speed of cutters, blowers, conveyors, and weight of cutting head. Change cutting head for crop. Drive truck to transport produce to storage area. Drive truck to haul harvesting machines b/w work sites.

Service machinery/make in-field repairs. $10.86/ hr.,-$3000/mo., plus R/B, depending on location, ¾ work guarantee, tools/ equip/housing provided, trans. and subsistence exp. reimbursed. Apply at Kansas Works, 620-227-2149.

Job #204151.

29t1c ––––––––––––––––––––– FA R M W O R K E R , 4/20/14-10/1/14, Ben and Donna Walter Farms, Capron, Okla., 35 temp. jobs. Operate harvesting machines to harvest crops in Okla./Ks./Colo./ Mont. Adjust speed of cutters, blowers, conveyors, and weight of cutting head. Change cutting head for crop. Drive truck to transport produce to storage area. Drive truck to haul harvesting machines b/w work sites.

Service machinery/make in-field repairs. $10.86/ hr.,-$13.41/hr., or $2000/ mo., plus R/B, depending on location, ¾ work guarantee, tools/equip/ housing provided, trans. and subsistence exp. reimbursed. Apply at Kansas Works, 620-227-2149.

Job #889231.

29t1c ––––––––––––––––––––– FA R M W O R K E R , 4/15/14-1/31/15, Kyle and Kevin Barrington, Bradley, Okla. 10 temp. jobs. Operate harvesting machines to harvest crops in Tex./Okla./S.D./Mont.

Adjust speed of cutters, blowers, conveyors, and weight of cutting head.

Change cutting head for crop. Drive truck to transport produce to storage area. Drive truck to haul harvesting machines b/w work sites. Service machinery/make in-field repairs. $10.86/hr.,-$2200/ mo., plus R/B, depending on location, ¾ work guarantee, tools/equip/ housing provided, trans and subsistence exp reimbursed. Apply at Kansas Works, 620-227-2149.

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Employment Opportunities NOW HIRING

SOURK VETERINARY CLINIC

Best Western El Quartelejo Inn and Suites is looking for a person to fill the postion of:

Is seeking a full-time employee to assist veterinarians and perform routine office tasks.

Housekeeper/Laundry Attendant Bilingual preferred.

We offer competitive wages and an excellent working environment.

Resume’ (including 3 references) to be delivered to:

Pick up an application at: Best Western El Quartelejo Inn and Suites 1610 S. Main St., Scott City, Ks. 67871 NO PHONE CALLS, PLEASE. 29t2c

Dr. Charles Sourk 1801 S. Hwy 83 Scott City, KS 67871 (620) 872-7211

√ Check us out at

www.scottcountyrecord.com PARK LANE NURSING HOME Has openings for the following positions:

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Part-time CNA (night shift) Part-time CMA (evening shift) Part-time Nursing-LPN/RN Full-time Dietary Aide 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”

Needing drivers and yard help.

Scott City, 872-3485 or 1-800-942-7411 29t3c

SCOTT COUNTY HOSPITAL HAS OPENINGS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL STAFF Clinic Physician’s Assistant or Nurse Practitioner PATIENT CARE Acute Care RNs Medical Lab Technician Applicants for these positions are required to be able to read, speak and understand English.

Pre-employment physical, drug/alcohol screening, immunization titer, physical assessment and TB skin test required. We are a tobacco free campus.

We offer competitive pay and great benefits. Due to our recent expansion of services and rapid growth, we are in need of Acute Care RNs and are offering financial incentives.

Applications are available through Human Resources at Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Ave. Scott City, Ks. 67871 620-872-7772 or online at www.scotthospital.net

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CLASS A DRIVER/ MEDICAL ASSISTANT Shared Medical Services is hiring! SMS offers MRI medical imaging to local communities that otherwise would not have access to these exams.

Dedicated route is Scott City-based and travels in NW Kansas. Position is Full-time and is not OTR. We offer medical assistant training.

Anticipated Schedule: 3 ½ days/week (may include 3 overnights) 40 hour weekly guarantee Equipment: 2013 Freightliner Cascadia 53’ van-spread axle Other: Full benefits (1st of month after 30 days) Paid hourly (driving and on duty-not driving) Vacation Paid lodging/per diem Longevity bonus Qualifications: Class A CDL Application: WWW.SHAREDMED.COM Recruter: 608-839-9969 SHARED MEDICAL SERVICES An Employee Owned Company

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DISTRICT TREASURER

OFFICE COORDINATOR

TRUCK DRIVER Helena Chemical Company, a national agricultural-chemical company, has an immediate opening for an experienced full-time or part-time truck driver.

Position: Will make deliveries, load and unload product, utilize a forklift, and perform general warehouse duties.

Helena Chemical Company, a national agricultural-chemical company, has an immediate opening for an office coordinator at our Leoti location.

Position: Will be responsible for maintaining office supply inventory, copying, filing, reception duties, and assisting customers with questions.

The USD 466 Board of Education is seeking applications for the position of District Treasurer.

Duties include: Accounts Receivable/Accounts Payable, electronic construction of budget, and production of monthly financial and state reports.

Position requires: The preferred candidate will be well-versed in basic accounting and be familiar with Microsoft Work, Microsoft XL spreadsheet and related experience with in-house accounting programs. The district uses the MAPP accounting system. Knowledge and skills with basic business machines is necessary. A business degree is preferred.

Requires: High school diploma or equivalent, CDL with HAZMAT endorsement, and the ability to operate a forklift.

Requires: High school diploma or equivalent with 2 years experience in a business environment using spreadsheet and word processing software. Must have good written and verbal communication skills and computer skills.

We offer: Excellent working environment and outstanding compensation and benefits package.

We offer: Excellent working environment and an outstanding compensation and benefits package.

Benefits: are a 12-month full-time position with vacation benefits, sick leave and personal leave. A paid full single BC/BS medical benefit is included in the package offer. Salary is to be commensurate with experience and training.

For consideration, please apply by submitting your resume or call.

For consideration, please contact us with salary requirements to: Helena Chemical Company PO Box 550 Leoti, KS 67861 goodrichl@helenachemical.com (620) 375-2073 Resumes submitted without salary requirement will not be considered.

To Apply: applicants shall complete the basic application, submit a letter of application, provide a complete resume’ with any letters of recommendation plus a listing of all work experiences and locations with correct phone listing and names of previous supervisors/employers.

The application package should be completed in an expeditious manner as the position is “open until filled”.

Helena Chemical Company PO Box 550 Leoti, KS 67861 goodrichl@helenachemical.com (620) 375-2073

Pre-employment drug screen required.

EOE M/F/V/H

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Pre-employment drug screen required.

EOE M/F/V/H

Training: will begin at the earliest mutually agreeable date possible.

The completed application package can be mailed or delivered to: Susan Carter, Clerk, USD 466, Scott County Schools, 704 S. College, Scott City, Ks 67871.

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The Scott County Record • Page 32 • Thursday, February 27, 2014

KSU Alumni Recognition Award to Doornbos

The late Dr. Jerald “Jerry” Doornbos, Scott City, was selected to receive a posthumous 2014 Alumni Recognition Award by the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine and its Veterinary Medical Alumni Association.

The award was presented on Feb. 17 at

the Western Veterinary Conference in Las Vegas.

The award was given in recognition of Doornbos’ career in veterinary medicine and for having served as an exem Jerry Doornbos

Aqueduct McCauley said he and others he knows consider the idea of moving massive quantities of water uphill across the state a bad one and he doesn’t understand why western Kansas farmers can’t find better solutions to their water problems.

But the part of Kansas where McCauley lives gets about 35 inches of rainfall a year, enough most years to grow corn without irrigation.

In Ness County, on the High Plains, average annual rainfall is 22 inches and that diminishes as you move west.

Irrigation from the Ogallala Aquifer is what has sustained corn and other water-gulping crops in western Kansas and other portions of the Great Plains for more than 60 years — but the end is in sight for what some have called “water mining.”

‘Some kind of changes’ “We’re looking at about 50 years to make some kind of changes in the way agriculture is done out there,” said Prof. James Sherow, an environmental historian at Kansas State University who wrote a 1990 book about the history of water use in the Arkansas River Valley.

“In other words, thinking about recapitalization and what new forms of agriculture need to take the place of this current one once the water situation no longer supports what’s going on today.”

Since the invention of center-pivot irrigation in the late 1940s, Kansas farmers have been drawing water from the aquifer far more rapidly than it is naturally recharged.

plary role model for future alumni in a professional and community setting.

A lifetime resident of Scott City, he was a veterinarian, farmer and stockman. He graduated from Kansas State University with a bachelor’s degree in 1960 and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 1962.

He passed away Jan. 7, 2014.

“He had a deep affection for his alma mater as well as a true passion for the cattle industry and animal health, and we would always count on seeing him and his family throughout the year on their visits to K-State,”

said Dr. Ralph Richardson, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine.

“We celebrate his memory through the presentation of our highest alumni honor to his family.”

Dr. Doornbos served on the advisory board for both the K-State Alumni Association and Ahearn

Club. He was also a member of the Kansas Livestock Association, Farm House Fraternity, and the Kansas Veterinary Medical Association.

Dr. Doornbos is survived by a son, Stuart, and daughter, Sara, who both have undergraduate degrees from K-State.

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In some areas, the Ogallala, which is part of the larger High Plains Aquifer, can regain four to six inches of water a year. But that natural recharging falls well short of replacing what is being siphoned out of the ancient underground reservoir.

From 1996 to 2012, the average level of the aquifer in Kansas dropped 14 feet, according to the Kansas Geological Survey - an average of 9.33 inches per year. It dropped more than 51 inches in 2012 alone.

Scientists project that it would take more than 100,000 years to recharge some parts of the Ogallala that for practical purposes already have been tapped out.

Without the bounty of the Ogallala, western Kansas fields would revert to producing the relatively paltry yields of dry land farming and the natural aridity that prompted 19th century geographers to label it part of the Great American Desert - hence the strong interest in keeping the spigot on.

eral things overlooked in the Corps’ original 1982 report, including the potential costs of litigation with Missouri and other states.

“It’s a brand new concept for some, just how valuable water is and what we can do with it in the western part of the state where it’s not so common,” Rude said. “So people have to think about it a while. It’s almost trying to get past that threshold of rejection and getting people to keep their minds open.

“It’s what the aqueduct can do for all those areas along the way that’s really the story. It’s not just Missouri water to western Kansas, it’s really an infrastructure for the whole state,” he said.

Rude said the canal or aqueduct could carry water to every stream along its course with potential to also provide water for Wichita and southeast Kansas.

And, of course, once the Missouri’s flow reaches a major destination reservoir in Ness County, additional infrastructure could carry the vital liq‘Threshold of Rejection’ uid farther into southwest Mark Rude, executive Kansas. director of Southwest Kansas Groundwater Others Eye the Missouri Management District No. GMD No. 3 isn’t the 3, is a chief spokesman only western entity with for the interests trying to a covetous eye on the revive the Missouri water Missouri River. transfer proposal.

The U.S. Department GMD No. 3 and the of the Interior in 2012 Kansas Water Office have released a study of agreed to foot half the future water needs in the cost of a fresh, $300,000 Colorado River Basin, feasibility study. The U.S. which includes two Corps of Engineers has Mexican and seven U.S. agreed to pay the other states, and concluded half. there wouldn’t be enough.

The report, expected One of the proposed to be complete by early solutions was a pipeline 2015, would look at sev- from the Missouri River to

help supply the Colorado Front Range, including Denver, which happens to be the largest city in the Missouri River Basin But given the history of water struggles in the western U.S., no one can imagine major diversions from the Missouri could occur without a fight.

Shortly after the Kansas aqueduct idea was revived for discussion, Gov. Jay Nixon of Missouri responded with threats of litigation.

Kansas water officials say they haven’t started talking about it with their counterparts in Missouri or the several other states that bank North America’s longest stream.

“We haven’t had an opportunity to have a meaningful conversation with our downstream neighbors,” said Tracy Streeter, director of the Kansas Water Office. “I’d anticipate that their first move would be negative.

I’d like to think that we could explain what we’re talking about and maybe find some benefit.”

‘A Long Shot’ The Kansas Rural Center - which promotes sustainable, small-scale farming - is among those already raising questions about the idea.

Most of the crops grown in western Kansas are used to fatten livestock, and irrigating feed grains with Missouri River water would compound already existing problems ranging from bad eating habits to climate change, according to Paul Johnson, a member of the center’s board of directors.

“Is growing feed grains on irrigated acres the best use of this precious

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water,” Johnson wrote in the center’s recent newsletter. “Is it best for a healthier diet?

The updated aqueduct study is occurring against the backdrop of broader discussions underway across the state and nation regarding climate change and the adequacy of Kansas and U.S. water resources in the years and decades to come.

Gov. Sam Brownback, with an eye on the Ogallala’s predicted depletion and the silt that is filling in the large reservoirs that help keep water flowing in the eastern part of the state, has called for a new 50-year water plan.

Discussions about the plan have been underway across the state among various water officials and other experts. The final version of it is scheduled for release in November.

Federal officials are working on a national

water census, after concluding they lacked enough up-to-date information about how much water there is and how it is used to be ready for the challenges expected from the 21st century.

Meanwhile, some see in the aqueduct plan an example of the desperation that could become more common as the demands for water, particularly in the nation’s southwest, continue to outpace supply.

“To me (the aqueduct proposal) is a desperation measure. I can’t even imagine the costs of that kind of system.” K-State’s Sherow said.

“The costs will be staggering,” Streeter of the Kansas Water Office said, “and I’ll venture to say it’s a long shot. I think even the staunchest of advocates know it’s a long shot.”