The Scott County Record

Two horseback riders enjoy a Sunday afternoon ride on the trail at Lake Scott State Park

34 Pages • Four Sections

Volume 22 • Number 34

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Abatements are taking a big bite out of revenue For many Kansas counties, oil and natural gas production have long been an important part of their tax base, pumping millions of dollars into the local economy while holding down property taxes for individuals and businesses.

Ellis, Ness and Kearny counties, in addition to numerous counties in the southwest corner of the state, have realized this tax benefit for decades.

However, new drilling techniques and more advanced methods of finding pockets of oil and gas have created another drilling boom throughout the region, particularly in Gove County, but also including parts

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of Scott, Lane and Wichita counties, among others.

Scott County has experienced the roller-coaster effect of oil/gas valuations over the past few years. The county’s assessed valuation, which is used to determine property taxes, stood at $99.3 million in 2012, plunging to $91.3 million in 2013 and then jumping to $103.3 million in 2014.

Of the $12 million increase in last year’s valuation, about $8 million was due to oil/gas development.

However, the old saying that “what goes up must come down” certainly applies to oil and gas value in (See REVENUE on page 10)

Lane Co. takes $450,000 hit in 2015 budget A major decline in oil and gas valuations during the past year has forced Lane County commissioners - and many groups that rely on county tax dollars - to dig deep into their pockets.

Lane County is in the process of rebating $452,644 in tax dollars county commissioners expected to have when they approved a budget last July. The lion’s share of that money goes to Palomino Petroleum ($348,402) and Mid-Continent Energy ($17,227).

A number of individual lease holders saw abatements ranging from just under $3,000 to nearly $10,000.

The abatements were approved between February 1 and March 24. That means tax money the county and

school district had expected to receive during 2015 will not be entering their budget.

Former Lane County Commissioner and current State Rep. Don Hineman noted during a recent town hall meeting that Lane County would be hit particularly hard by the drop in oil/ gas production and declining market value.

“When you lose about 35 percent of your value, somebody has to make that up,” he said.

According to Lane County Librarian Ruby Martin, a letter from the county treasurer was sent to each entity that receives tax dollars informing them of how much their budgets would be cut. The library’s share of tax abate(See LANE CO. on page eight)

Three-year-old Kynleigh Hickey, Scott City, adds a few more eggs to her basket during the annual Easter egg hunt in Patton Park last Saturday afternoon. Perfect weather contributed to a very large turnout of young hunters who took part in the event and also had their photos taken with the Easter bunny.

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SRC question on election ballot

Voters will be deciding whether or not to increase the mill levy for the Scott Recreation Commission during Tuesday’s general election.

Advance voting at the Scott County Courthouse will continue through noon on Mon., April 6.

Polls will be open at the Wm. Carpenter 4-H Bldg., Scott County Fairgrounds, on Tues., April 7, from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

USD 466 (Scott County) voters will decide whether to

increase the tax levy for the Scott Recreation Commission by two mills. One mill will be designated for general operations and the other mill will be used to retire the bond issue for construction of a proposed wellness center.

Plans call for the 350x80 ft. metal building to be located at the Sports Complex, at the south end of the soccer fields. It will include: •Two full-sized gymnasiums with some bleacher seating.

Bleacher plans, as of now says

SRC Director Lauren Robinson, are to have stow away bleachers alongside the court. These would be 3-4 row metal bleachers that would be collapsible so they could move where needed and stored away from the walking track.

•An exercise room with equipment.

•Office space for the SRC staff and board.

•Two rooms for activities.

•An indoor walking track.

(See BALLOT on page two)

SCHS principal Turner submits resignation

Scott Community High School Principal Shelly Turner has announced her resignation which will take effect on June 30.

Turner, who has been principal for the past eight years, has accepted a position as a loan officer with Security State Bank.

“This is something I’d been thinking about for the past year and this opportunity at the bank came up about a month ago,” says Turner, who will be stepping into an opening at the bank that was created with the pro-

motion of Josh Bailey to bank president.

“If I was going to make a change this seemed like the right time. If I waited another year or two, this opportu- Shelly Turner nity might not be available,” says Turner.

Turner, 40, will be closing the chapter on an 18-year career in education that began with six years as a classroom teacher and four years as a building

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principal in Garden City before returning to her home town.

During her eight years at SCHS, Turner was successful in starting the iPad 101 initiative which has put an iPad into the hands of every high school student. She’s also proud of the reduction in students who are on the academically ineligible list and the improved graduation rate.

implementing on-line education.

“The traditional high school is not the way that education is going,” she points out. “On-line learning is an important part in remediation and enrichment programs for our students.”

Students who are behind in a subject can get assistance through on-line courses and those at the other end of the spectrum can challenge themNon-Traditional Learning The SCHS principal empha- selves by taking higher level sizes that she and her staff have classes or additional classes for made significant strides toward extra credit.

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Turner has also utilized the Scott City Learning Center as a means of keeping students in school who have trouble finding success with the traditional classroom structure.

“When I go to state meetings and hear what’s happening in other schools, it makes you appreciate the quality of the students we have in Scott City,” says Turner, who is state president of the Kansas Association of Secondary School Principals.

“We have very few discipline issues. Our biggest issues are (See TURNER on page 10)

WSU’s Baker ponders next step in basketball career Page 26

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March revenue $11.2M below expectations Tax revenue to the state of Kansas slipped $11.2 million below estimates in March, state officials said Tuesday.

Collection of sales, corporate income, and oil and gas severance taxes fell below forecasts developed by state officials in November. Projections were revised downward at that time to reflect diminished optimism about the state’s short-term economic future.

Nick Jordan, secretary of the Kansas Department of Revenue, highlighted that individual income tax receipts in the month surpassed predictions by $8.7

million.

The economy’s performance, as measured by tax returns, will make it more challenging for state lawmakers to close an estimated $600 million deficit in the fiscal year starting July 1.

House and Senate budget chairmen are negotiating a package that would reduce spending or raise taxes sufficiently to meet the balanced-budget mandate in the Kansas Constitution.

An uptick in personal income tax payments by Kansans didn’t sufficiently counter significant shortfalls in oil and gas tax revenue, corporate income tax pay-

ments and statewide sales tax receipts.

The state treasury took in $5 million less than expected in oil and gas tax revenue, $7.8 million less than anticipated in sales and use tax receipts and $8.2 million below projections on corporate income tax payments.

House Minority Leader Tom Burroughs (D-Kansas City) said sweeping state income tax reductions were marketed by the Republican-led legislature and Gov. Sam Brownback as a “shot of adrenaline” to the heart of Kansas’ economy. Af-

ter three years, Burroughs said, the GOP’s tax policy had been exposed as “more like an ax wound.”

“Kansas continues to bleed revenue as is evident by this month’s numbers,” he said.

“How we resolve this issue remains unknown as the legislative session is nearly over and we haven’t seen a comprehensive balanced budget.”

State revenue has fallen hundreds of millions of dollars since implementation of legislation approved by the 2012 Legislature and Brownback to repeal state income tax on own-

ers of more than 300,000 businesses and to reduce individual income tax rates.

Brownback and legislators relied primarily upon cash transfers from the Kansas Department of Transportation to cover a $300 million deficit in the current fiscal year.

The Senate adopted a bill that includes cigarette and alcohol tax increases, but the full House has sidestepped debate.

“They’ve got to find another $11 million,” said Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley (D-Topeka). “There’s no question it makes it tougher.”

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1) Workout rooms with elyptical bikes, treadmills, etc. 2) Multi-purpose rooms available to the public. 3) Board meeting room. 4) Office space for SRC staff. 5) Locker rooms (no showers) and public restrooms. 6) Reception area. 7) Concession stand area. 8) Indoor walking track.

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•Two locker rooms (no showers).

•Storage on the second level for SRC equipment.

Scott County Commissioners have committed $500,000 toward the project in addition to paying for utilities (gas and electricity).

“It’s a use it or lose it opportunity,” says Robinson. “If the bond issue doesn’t pass, the county’s money will go towards something else.”

Robinson says she has also heard comments about a membership fee to enter the building after regular hours.

“In order to generate the revenue needed to maintain the facility and keep it clean, we need the added membership fee,” says Robinson. “The board feels it’s no different than paying taxes for the hospital to be built, but still paying to see the doctors and staff in that facility.”

She added that Lakin has a similar fee for its

What will the SRC wellness center levy cost you?

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wellness center. There is no cost to use the facility during regular office hours, but there is a fee to enter the building outside of those hours.

Two Gymnasiums The two gyms would be an asset not just for the general community, but for the school district. Robinson says basketball practice schedules are limited at the middle school in order to avoid students getting home late in the evening. If other activities are scheduled for the SCMS gym, teams sometimes have to practice in the early morning.

Senior citizens would have access to an indoor

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walking track during the winter months and inclement weather and there would a workout facility that could be used by everyone.

In addition, the wellness center - and its facilities - would be available to the public at no cost during regular hours from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Monday through Friday.

Individuals who want access to the facility outside of those hours could purchase a card key for $30 per month.

“What people need to realize is that when it comes to bringing families to Scott City, we’re competing with Ulysses, Colby, Holcomb and

even Garden City,” says SRC board member Jon Berning. “It’s facilities such as this which will make people want to live here.”

Robinson says it will also open the doors to additional funding that would benefit people of all ages.

“There are a lot of grants available for community health and wellness,” Robinson explains.

“Since we don’t have the facilities we can’t make application for them.

These grants would allow us to offer more programs and continue to expand what we’re already doing.”

If approved by voters, construction would begin in June or July. Tentative plans are for the building to be open in January 2016.

The only contested race is in Ward 4 for the Scott City Council where incumbent Fred Kuntzsch is being challenged by Wesley Wernecke.

Bo Parkinson (Ward 1) and Perry Nowak (Ward 3), who were each appointed to the council, are facing no challengers in their election bids.

Seeking her first term on the council is Barb Wilkinson in Ward 2.

Each of the city council positions are four-year terms.

Mayor Dan Goodman and Treasurer Dan Weides are also facing no challengers in their re-election bids. Both positions are for two-year terms.

All four incumbents for the USD 466 (Scott County) board of education filed for re-election and will face no challengers on the ballot.

BOE, Council Elections Seeking re-election There is very little to four-year terms are activity in Scott City Eric Erven, Mark Davis, Council and USD 466 Lynnette Robinson and board of education races. Ben Taylor.

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

Tues. • Open faced prime rib sandwich with french fries.

Wed. • Spaghetti dinner with side salad.

Thurs. • Pork chop dinner.

Fri. • Taco dinner with rice and beans.

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11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Sat. • Prime rib

Breakfast specials every night.

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Community Living

Page 3 - Thursday, April 2, 2015

Be prepared in the event of tornado activity Are you prepared? Are you sure?

It’s Kansas and we have crazy spring weather. You might be prepared because you know what to do in a scary situation, but what about all those you love?

Communication is the key, especially with small children. You need to talk to them about tornado safety without scaring them. I am just a firm believer that the more truthful you are with children the safer they are.

In Scott County, the school policy is to keep the students at their attendance center should there be a tornado warning during school hours. Please

do not get your children in this type of emergency.

More often than not, by doing so you would be putting them and yourself at greater risk.

What if you are at work and your spouse is at home? If you have a plan of action and everyone follows through it will relieve a great deal of anxiety. Again, communication is the answer.

Elderly folks in their homes might have the

Mr. and Mrs. Doug Graham

Graham-Kadaifci are wed in Seattle’s Space Needle tower

Doug Graham and Esra Kadaifci were married Dec. 4, 2014, at the Space Needle Observation Tower, Seattle, Wash. A private ceremony attended by immediate family and close friends was officiated by David Reed.

Esra is the daughter of Ali and Nilgun Kadaifci, Antalya, Turkey.

Doug is the son of Rusty and Dalene Haynes, Snohomish, Wash., and the grandson of Irene Rohrbough, Scott City.

Close family friends, Gil and Judy Holt, served as witnesses.

Following the ceremony, a reception and dinner was held at the Space Needle Skyview rotating restaurant, hosted by the groom’s parents.

Before leaving Turkey to return to Seattle, the couple enjoyed a celebration with many family and friends in Antalya, Turkey.

A reception will be held at the Bryan Conference Center, Scott City, on Sunday, April 12, 2:004:00 p.m.

Family and friends are welcome to attend.

most difficult time during a tornado warning. They might not realize the danger or might not be able to get themselves out of the path of danger in time.

Be proactive. If the threat is high, make plans before the storm hits. Help them down to the basement early or have them stay where they will be the safest. If you can’t get them to the basement, clean out an interior closet; place a chair and blankets in the closet as well as a working flash light and a bottle of water, some crackers and one day’s supply of medications.

If your loved one is in assisted living, know what

the facility’s policies are, so you will know what to expect in bad weather.

Set up a communication link with family and friends who don’t live in your community. Have a calling tree. Designate one person who you will call and then they can share information with others.

This way the cell phone towers are not plugged up with folks wanting to know if you are okay.

Emergency Supplies Keep an emergency kit in the basement of your home. Have provisions for several days, though you more than likely will not be trapped for that long.

But, you should have

Audra Winter and Bradley Martin

Couple is planning July wedding Roger and Jan Winter, Scott City, and Rusty and Pam Lindsay, Scott City, announce the engagement of their children, Audra Lynn and Bradley Martin.

Audra is the granddaughter of Gene Hess, Scott City, and the late Harriet Hess, and Harold and Neoma Winter.

Bradley is the grandson of Chuck and Eunice Lindsay, Oakley; and Lillian Martin, Oakley, and the late William L. Martin.

The bride-to-be is a 2000 graduate of Scott

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Community High School and a 2005 graduate of Emporia State University.

She is currently employed by the Scott County treasurer’s office.

The prospective groom is a 2001 graduate of Oakley High School and joined the United States Navy, followed by the United States Army. He is currently employed with the US Army as a Battalion Master Gunner.

The couple is planning a July wedding in Scott City.

water, flashlight, medications, baby supplies (if you need them), blankets and so forth.

Be proactive. Video or take photos of your home, inside and out. Take photos of furniture and valuables. It will be easier for your insurance company to replace items if you can prove that you owned them.

Speaking of insurance, you might want to double check your policy to make sure it is still current. I believe in replacement value insurance, but not everyone can afford that.

Buy as much as you can afford. You hope you’ll never use it, but you want

the maximum protection if it is needed.

If you can tell that the weather is unsettled, keep your pets close by. Do not go outside in a tornado warning to locate them.

More than likely, they have found themselves a good hiding spot and they will not be coming out to find you.

Make sure they have some type of identifying tags on them. Many pets are never returned to the owners due to the lack of identification.

I would like to suggest getting a weather radio.

They are sold locally in Scott County. Keep the batteries current and have extras on hand.

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Editorial/Opinion

Page 4 - Thursday, April 2, 2015

editorially speaking

Out of sight:

Gov, lawmakers prefer being behind closed doors

Typically, when landmark legislation is signed into law we can expect a ceremony to which the media and public are invited so that lawmakers can boast of their achievement.

Last week’s ceremony was anything but typical when Gov. Sam Brownback and lawmakers signed the new block grant funding plan for Kansas schools into law.

No media or members of the general public were on hand when the school funding bill was signed behind closed doors. Yes, Brownback and lawmakers are so proud of the way they rammed a major piece of legislation through the legislature in less than two weeks that they released a lone photo and a written statement - something you might expect if they were signing a proclamation declaring “Save the Box Turtle Week.”

Only this was a major piece of legislation perhaps the most significant that will come out of this legislative session. If lawmakers are so proud of what they are doing to public education in our state they should have no problem facing the music, the cameras and the questions as they sign a very controversial bill into law.

Instead, what we’ve witnessed over the last couple of weeks is a breakdown of our legislative process on a scale never seen before in our lifetime. We saw a significant piece of funding legislation that was proposed and passed by conservative lawmakers in such a way so that public comment was very limited. Some lawmakers and those impacted by the legislation barely had a chance to look at the numbers before it was on the House floor for a vote.

In addition to a school funding bill that will be disastrous for many school districts, we saw a cowardly governor and legislators who would rather run for cover than attempt to defend the indefensible.

Kansas government has reached a new low and, unfortunately, we don’t feel that it’s reached bottom.

No checks:

Lawmakers seek to end system of checks, balances

Anyone who has completed an eighth grade education knows that our government is based on a system of checks and balances that prevent one branch - legislative, executive or judicial - from gaining too much power.

It’s a system that’s worked well at the national level for more than 240 years and which state governments have also adopted . . . for good reason. It works, regardless of who is in power.

In Kansas, however, the judicial branch has been under attack ever since it was ruled by Judge Terry Bullock in 2003 that school funding was inadequate. At that time, the legislature finally was ordered to increase education funding annually in Kansas by $755.6 million . . . and the battle was on.

It’s been a never-ending war in which the legislature continually tests the will of the court by refusing to fund public education at a level which the courts have deemed appropriate and responsible. As those rulings have repeatedly gone against the legislature, protests of an “activist” court have grown louder from conservative lawmakers and the special interests they represent.

One result has been an effort by Brownback and conservative lawmakers to change the process by which judges can be selected to the Supreme Court. Under changes in the law, Brownback was able to name a hand-picked individual to the court.

But that apparently isn’t good enough - or fast enough - for everyone. State Sen. Mitch Holmes (R-St. John) has proposed legislation which will make it easier to remove judges from Supreme Court. The bill would make it possible for the legislature to impeach judges for “ . . . attempting to subvert fundamental laws . . . attempting to usurp the power of the legislative or executive branch of government . . . (and) exhibiting . . . reckless judicial conduct . . .”

Exactly what does this mean?

If the courts rule that the legislature isn’t fulfilling its constitutional obligation to make “suitable provision for finance of the educational interests of the state” then lawmakers who don’t like being told what to do can determine that the courts are usurping the power of the legislature.

The job of the courts is to interpret law and determine, among other things, whether the legislature is fulfilling its obligation. Sen. Holmes wants the legislature to be able to tell the courts they will do whatever they want. Legislators could remove from office those judges who don’t see eye to eye with lawmakers.

Perhaps a government class refresher course is in order for Holmes and other like-minded legislators.

Governance by gut feelings

There was a time when people believed the world was flat and that if one sailed too far they would fall off the edge where they would be devoured by unimaginable creatures.

But, this was the 1400s.

Ignorance was to be expected.

There was also a time when supposedly educated people believed that the earth was at the center of the universe.

Galileo disputed this myth, declaring that the earth and the known planets were in an orbit around the sun. His scientific observations were dismissed by the Roman Inquisition which determined that his findings were contrary to scripture.

This was the 1600s. Ignorance was a way of life.

Unfortunately, ignorance still remains a way of life for some.

In Kansas, more than 20,000 people who would like to vote are in limbo because we have a Secretary of State who feels that by doing so we are protecting the integrity of elections in Kansas.

Call it a gut feeling because you can’t call it anything else. Kris Kobach has no evidence of election outcomes being swayed by voter fraud. He has offered no proof that poll workers are being inundated by non-qualified voters. He would love to, but he can’t.

Kansas has had just seven convictions for voter fraud since 2000.

This is the epidemic that Kobach has made his life’s mission to prevent because he has a gut feeling that, without his efforts, the election process in Kansas will turn into a farce.

It has, but just not in the way that Kobach imagines. * * * There was a bill in the Kansas Legislature this year that would have gradually reduced local property taxes on vehicles over a five year period

while, at the same time, adding vehicles to the statewide property tax mill levy for public education. According to an analysis by the Kansas Division of Budget, which has experts who really can study these things, by the year 2020 (when the policy was to be fully implemented) schools would receive $43.2 million more than they get now.

But local governments would lose a total of $174.4 million.

In other words, it was a terrible idea.

But that wasn’t good enough for Sen. Les Donovan (R-Wichita) who owns a car dealership in Wichita and was a proponent of this bill. He took exception with the nonpartisan Division of Budget, claiming that no one can “put an exact number on what’s going to happen.”

Maybe not exact, but we would bet pretty darn close.

Certainly a lot closer than Donovan’s gut feeling that changing the law would result in more car sales and higher sales tax

revenue that would offset projections of lost revenue. Of course, Donovan has nothing on which to base that claim, other than a story of young buyers who have decided not to purchase vehicles once they realize what the property taxes will cost.

Yes, Donovan is selling the story that potential buyers are walking off the lot saying, “I’d really like to buy that vehicle, but I can’t afford the tags.”

And, based on that tale . . . call it a gut feeling . . . he wanted the legislature to pass a bill that had the potential of cutting tax revenue to local units of government by $174 million. * * * This is what passes for governance today in Kansas, but no worse than when Gov. Sam Brownback and conservative lawmakers drink the koolaid being served by rightwing economist Arthur Laffer who claims that as taxes are cut government revenue will increase.

Kansas lawmakers chugged the kool-aid and (See FEELINGS on page six)

Duped again on off-shore taxes?

Like a savvy bargainer on a used car lot, big multinational corporations have mastered the art of feigning indifference and walking away.

What they walk away with is their profits, stockpiling them abroad where they legally remain untaxed until returned to the United States. Then these corporations threaten to keep the cash offshore permanently unless Uncle Sam gives them a deep discount on their tax rates.

It’s a timeworn, but effective, trick. While the rest of us are stuck paying the sticker price, Congress is considering a special deluxe tax rate for these giant corporations.

Congress last fell for the old “walk away” in 2004. And the American people got burned.

That year, legislators gave 843 giant firms an 85 percent discount on

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offshore profits they “repatriated.” This reduced their long-term tax bills by about $100 billion.

Legislators opted for this one-off revenue bump in part because they believed, naively, that the companies would create U.S. jobs with the repatriated funds. They even called the tax break legislation the “American Job Creation Act.” Like new owners of a bargain basement Beemer, though, the companies basically squealed their tires and sped away.

Rather than hiring more workers, many simply used the money to boost shareholder dividends and executive pay.

Meanwhile, the profitshifting revved up again,

Gov. Sam Brownback 2nd Floor - State Capitol Topeka, Ks. 66612-1501 (785) 296-3232

as firms maneuvered to create leverage for further discounts.

Big pharmaceutical companies, which are particularly good at taxdodging tactics like registering their patents in tax haven countries, were some of the biggest abusers of the 2004 tax break.

Pfizer, for example, repatriated $40 billion to take advantage of the discount. Instead of boosting jobs, the drug company laid off more than 58,000 employees over the next six years.

Legislators appear to have learned little from the 2004 boondoggle.

Pending bills in both the House and Senate would once again offer deeply discounted rates on repatriated profits.

But President Barack Obama has a slightly stronger proposal: All overseas stockpilers would pay a

Sen. Pat Roberts 109 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

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

mandatory 14 percent rate on offshore profits they currently hold, and then 19 percent thereafter. But that’s still a huge reduction over the ordinary 35 percent corporate tax rate, giving companies a powerful incentive to continue to shift profits overseas.

A handful of corporate giants stand to reap the vast majority of benefits from this trick.

According to a new report I co-authored for the Institute for Policy Studies and the Center for Effective Government, just 26 companies account for more than half of the $2.1 trillion in untaxed profits U.S. corporations currently hold offshore. Since 2004, these 26 firms’ overseas stashes have grown more than five-fold.

Lawmakers claim that short-term revenue from a discount tax on offshore (See DUPED on page six)

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

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TPP will help neither workers nor consumers

by Katrina vanden Heuvel

“China wants to write the rules for the world’s fastestgrowing region . . . We should write those rules,” President Obama declared in his State of the Union address.

To sell Congress on giving him authority to “fast track” consideration of the TransPacific Partnership (TPP), a trade and investment treaty with 12 nations that has been under negotiation for five years, the president argues it is vital that “we” write the rules.

The real question, of course, is what does he mean by “we”?

Our global trade and tax policies have been and still are controlled by corporate and financial interests. They, not workers or consumers, write the rules. In the early post-World War II years, trade treaties were

focused on lowering tariffs. In theory at least, workers in both nations might benefit from larger markets and increased trade.

But now a significant portion of our trade is intra-corporate trade, an exchange between one branch of a multinational and another. Multinationals have different interests than national companies. They profit even if U.S. workers suffer.

Increasingly companies choose to report their profits or ship their jobs to countries with the lowest standards where the legal position of companies is the strongest. Companies like Wal-Mart set up global distribution systems designed to drive down wages here and abroad.

The Waltons are the richest family in the world. Their workers are paid so little that they are forced to rely on taxpayer sub-

sidies like Medicaid and food stamps.

One product of the corporatedefined trade rules is that the United States has run unprecedented trade deficits, totaling more than $8 trillion since 2000 alone. Trade deficits cost jobs.

Worse, companies have used the threat to move jobs abroad to drive down wages here at home.

Our corporate-defined trade policies contribute significantly to the reality that, as Nobel Prize economist Joseph Stiglitz writes, “the real median income of a full time male worker is lower now than it was 40 years ago.”

U.S. negotiators forcefully demand other countries pay a price for greater access to the U.S. market. But that price generally involves one or another corporate lobby, not the interests of the American people.

So our drug companies get protections against the introduction of generic drugs, driving up prices abroad. Our agribusiness gets protection for its genetically altered foodstuffs. Wall Street gets rules making the sale of arcane derivatives easier.

The TPP is a classic expression of the way the rules are fixed to benefit the few and not the many. It has been negotiated in secret, but 500 corporations

and banks sit on advisory committees with access to various chapters.

As Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said, “Members of Congress and their staff have an easier time accessing national security documents than proposed trade deals, but if I were negotiating this deal I suppose I wouldn’t want people to see it either.”

(See TPP on page six)

‘Religious freedom’ laws are dangerous

by Tim Cook

Cruz running for president of what?

by Jim Hightower

And away we go - off on another crazy cruze with Ted! Cinch up your seatbelts, for Sen. Ted Cruz (fueled by his flaming jetpowered ego) has gotten a head start on all the other wannabes seeking the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.

And what a crazy start Ted made, launching his campaign from Liberty University. Liberty U is the creation of the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, the self-promoting Christian theocrat, bigot, liar, and buffoonish pretender to be God’s chosen agent on Earth.

Cruz hopes that launching there will make him “God’s candidate” - the chosen one of far-right Christian

extremist voters.

But Good Lord - Falwell?

The vast majority of Americans remember him as an unholy fool, a non-stop spewer of hate.

“I listen to feminists and all these radical gals,” he said. “These women just need a man in the house.

That’s all they need.” Then, there’s this piece of vicious sermonizing: “AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals.”

Likewise, the pompous preacher said 9/11 was “what we deserve,” claiming it was God’s punishment for feminism, gays, the ACLU and other evils. His knowledge of African-Americans was equally insightful: “The true Negro does not want integration,” he explained.

Also, in Jerry’s world, “There is no separation of church and state;” all public schools will be closed and taken over by churches, and “Christians will be running them;” and the Bible is “absolutely infallible,” even “in areas such as geography, science, history, etc.”

You can’t stand in a hog wallow without getting stink all over you.

Yet, Crazy Ted Cruz deliberately chose to stand in Falwell’s political wallow, which leaves him reeking with the stench of Falwell’s nastiness and knownothingism.

Is Cruz running to be president of the USA - or of Liberty University?

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

Obamacare’s 5-year check-up

“In a few moments, when I sign this bill, all of the overheated rhetoric over reform will finally confront the reality of reform.”

- President Obama March 23, 2010 * * * Not exactly. Five years after the Affordable Care Act became law, the reality of reform remains hotly contested.

When it comes to the wisdom of the law, that’s not surprising. After all, there is a legitimate ideological debate about whether it is a wise use of federal power to require individuals to obtain health insurance or a wise use of federal resources to spend so much on subsidizing coverage.

What’s more puzzling, and more disturbing, is the still-raging division over the real-world effect of the ACA. “It is important that everyone understand how absolutely fantastic it was for the people of this country,” said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).

“It just isn’t working,” insisted

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Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). “In fact, it is, by most objective accounts, an unmitigated disaster.”

Here’s my take, after talking to numerous health-care experts and examining the data: Notwithstanding its bumpy rollout, the law has accomplished its goal of expanding coverage - at a significantly lower cost than expected.

Certainly, the president overpromised when he told people that, if they liked their health insurance, they could keep it; by its own terms, the law set new standards for required coverage. Certainly, some individuals, particularly younger and healthier customers, find themselves paying more; again, such winners and losers were an inevitable consequence of the individual mandate and minimum-coverage rules.

Meantime, the scariest warnings of employers rushing to drop coverage and insurance markets ensnared

in death spirals of ever-rising premiums - have not come to pass.

Where the law has yet to fully deliver on its promises - and some wonder whether it will - is in the area of cost containment and quality improvement. The growth in healthcare costs has slowed dramatically, but there is a continuing debate about what role the ACA played. In any event, health care continues to consume an unacceptable 17 percent of GDP. Some facts (space doesn’t permit me to go into every detail) to back up these assessments: Coverage. More than 16 million Americans have gained insurance, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, including through the state and federal exchanges, the expansion of Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program and the requirement that children be allowed to remain on parents’ policies until age 26.

The increase would be even greater had the Supreme Court not made (See CHECK-UP on page six)

There’s something very dangerous happening in states across the country.

A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors. Some, such as the bill enacted in Indiana last week that drew a national outcry and one passed in Arkansas, say individuals can cite their personal religious beliefs to refuse service to a customer or resist a state nondiscrimination law.

Others are more transparent in their effort to discriminate. Legislation being considered in Texas would strip the salaries and pensions of clerks who issue marriage licenses to samesex couples - even if the Supreme Court strikes down Texas’ marriage ban later this year.

In total, there are nearly 100 bills designed to enshrine discrimination in state law. These bills rationalize injustice by pretending to defend something many of us hold dear. They go against the very principles our nation was founded on, and they have the potential to undo decades of progress toward greater equality.

America’s business community recognized a long time ago that discrimination, in all its forms, is bad for business. At Apple, we are in business to empower and enrich our customers’ lives. We strive to do business in a way that is just and fair.

That’s why, on behalf of Apple, I’m standing up to oppose this new wave of legislation - wherever it emerges. I’m writing in the hopes that many more will join this movement.

From North Carolina to Nevada, these bills under consideration truly will hurt jobs, growth and the economic vibrancy of parts of the country where a 21st-century economy was once welcomed with open arms.

I have great reverence for religious freedom.

As a child, I was baptized in a Baptist church, and faith has always been an important part of my life. I was never taught, nor do I believe, that religion should be used as an excuse to discriminate.

I remember what it was like to grow up in the South in the 1960s and 1970s. Discrimination isn’t something that’s easy to oppose. It doesn’t always stare you in the face. It moves in the shadows. And sometimes it shrouds itself within the very laws meant to protect us.

Our message, to people around the country and around the world, is this: Apple is open.

Open to everyone, regardless of where they come from, what they look like, how they worship or who they love. Regardless of what the law might allow in Indiana or Arkansas, we will never tolerate discrimination.

Men and women have fought and died fighting to protect our country’s founding principles of freedom and equality. We owe it to them, to each other and to our future to continue to fight with our words and our actions to make sure we protect those ideals.

The days of segregation and discrimination marked by “Whites Only” signs on shop doors, water fountains and restrooms must remain deep in our past. We must never return to any semblance of that time. America must be a land of opportunity for everyone.

This isn’t a political issue. It isn’t a religious issue. Opposing discrimination takes courage.

With the lives and dignity of so many people at stake, it’s time for all of us to be courageous.

Tim Cook is chief executive of Apple

The Scott County Record • Page 6 • Thursday, April 2, 2015

Measuring success with simple-minded outcomes

by John Schrock

My high school student, a senior, had a dilemma. He wanted to be a medical doctor and he had been accepted into the pre-med programs at both Johns Hopkins and Harvard Universities.

I was not too sympathetic about his “problem.” He was fortunate and would do well at either school.

Back then, I was teaching at Hong Kong International School.

Virtually 100 percent of our students graduated to

attend (mostly elite) colleges and universities.

HKIS served children of consulate officials and corporate families. Highly skilled upper level folks from Union Carbide and Caterpillar and other international companies came to Hong Kong for twice to triple their regular U.S. salary and with all housing, school and medical expenses paid.

Highly-educated and motivated parents had hard working and motivated kids.

Simply, we turned out the best because we only

Check-up the Medicaid expansion optional for states; 27 of them have accepted generous federal funding to cover those earning up to 138 percent of the poverty level.

Still, the share of uninsured among the nonelderly (those age 65 and older obtain health care through Medicare) is at its lowest level ever recorded.

As predicted, millions remain without coverage. According to a

took the best. There were no poverty kids in our school because there were no Westerners living in poverty in Hong Kong.

None from broken homes.

We had no “high need” or “at risk” kids. Class grades were not bellshaped but were mostly A’s and a few B’s.

Everyone was collegebound.

HKIS raided American schools. They brought over the best-of-the-best teachers they could find.

But that was not the most critical factor. When we had a student teacher

rookie, or a local hire who was not a veteran, the students’ performance remained high.

Pull that whole HKIS faculty and put them in an inner city school in our big cities, a school serving students from poverty homes and mostly single parents, and there would be few students with the dilemma of choosing between Johns Hopkins and Harvard. Despite their best efforts, that bellshaped curve would shift lower.

Unfortunately, teachers are seen as the only

factor in student success. Perhaps this wrong perception is due to the 1988 movie “Stand and Deliver” where Jaime Escalante taught students calculus. What was not discussed in the film was that the students who remained in his class were those who were motivated and hard working.

While his students at Garfield High School, East Los Angeles from 1974-91 were not wealthy, they were there because they could meet his expectations for rigor and hard work. The lazy,

those who had fried their brains on drugs, the videogame addicted - were not in his class.

Unfortunately, Schools of Education invented “outcomes.” List the outcomes you expect and then hold the teachers “accountable” for meeting those outcomes. It is simple-minded.

But apply this mythology - that all students will meet outcomes - to medicine, where every patient who enters a hospital will come out cured. Nope, the best of doctors lose

- averaging two percent on some midrange plans and four percent on the lowest-cost ones, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Subsidies are available for those with incomes up to 400 percent of the poverty level; 85 percent of those purchasing insurance on exchanges obtained monthly subsidies, averaging $263 in the 37 states participating in the federal exchange,

according to HHS. More than half selected plans with monthly premiums of $100 or less, after subsidies.

Still, some individuals encountered sticker shock. While average premiums fell in 14 states, 10 states saw double-digit increases, according to the Commonwealth Fund.

Relatedly, slower growth in health spending has saved the government money. According to the

CBO, the net cost of coverage provisions for the five years ending in 2019 will be 20 percent ($139 billion) less than originally projected.

That’s a snapshot of the reality of reform. Not that it’s apt to make much of a dent in the overheated rhetoric.

(See OUTCOMES on page 7)

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January analysis by the Congressional Budget Office, in 2015, 36 million nonelderly people will be uninsured. By 2025, that number will drop to 31 million, or 1-in-9 nonelderly residents.

Of those, about 30 percent are unauthorized immigrants ineligible for help; 10 percent are ineligible for Medicaid because their states chose not to expand coverage; 15-20 percent are people

Indiana governor stunned by how many people have gay friends

by Andy Borowitz

INDIANAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report) Indiana Governor Mike Pence is “stunned and amazed” that so many people appear to have gay friends, Pence has confirmed.

Speaking to reporters in his office in Indianapolis, Pence said that he made the astonishing discovery about gay friends late last week.

“A lot of everyday people have gay friends, and they’re not afraid to call and/or e-mail you to tell you that,” Pence said. “To be honest, I’m still trying to process it all.”

Pence said that from what he has been able to gather thus far, the phenomenon of “ordinary folks” having gay friends “has been going on for years.”

“You could be walking down the street, and without you knowing it, this person is friends with gays and that person is, too,” he said. “It really seems to be pretty widespread.”

“It’s the darnedest thing,” he added.

While Pence acknowledged that he has “no gay friends personally,” the growing popularity of being friends with gays has made him question whether he has been “missing the boat on this.”

“When I see so many people having gay friends, it makes me wonder if I should go out and get one,” he said. “But I guess that would be kind of hard for me to do now.”

eligible for Medicaid but not enrolled; and the rest (40-45 percent) simply decided not to purchase insurance.

Costs.

Health-care costs and premiums for employer-sponsored insurance (the way most of us obtain coverage) have been rising at their lowest levels in years.

On the exchanges, premium increases during the law’s second year mirrored that modest growth

Feelings today the state is staring at a budget hole of more than $300 million. In addition, the state has to find a way to dig itself out of a projected deficit of $600 million in the upcoming year.

Why? Because, contrary to the wishes of conservative lawmakers, Laffer’s theory is hogwash.

Kansas revenue projections plunged another $11.2 million below expectations in March - and those expectations had already been reduced back

TPP

Last week, the draft chapter concerning the “Investor-State Dispute Settlement” mechanism was leaked to Wikileaks and the New York Times.

Essentially, the chapter allows a company to sue for taxpayer damages if a government (federal, state Andy Borowitz is a comedian and author or local) passes laws or take actions that the company alleges will impinge on future expected profits.

If successful the com(continued from page four) panies can collect millions in damages from governprofits is needed to pay for urgent investments in pub- ments. The provisions are lic infrastructure. But if we’re serious about fixing our so shocking that the TPP crumbling bridges, roads, and dams, we should start by mandates that the chapter fixing our broken corporate tax system. not be declassified until The taxes Pfizer and six other drug companies currently owe on their offshore profits, for example, would be enough to fix the 1 out of every 9 U.S. bridges in disrepair. We need to insist that all U.S. businesses pay their fair share of infrastructure and other public services.

Otherwise, we’ll just be taken for a ride.

Duped

Sarah Anderson directs the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies and is a co-author of the report “Burning Our Bridges”

Ruth Marcus is an editorial writer for The Washington Post, specializing in politics, campaign finance, the federal budget and taxes

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in November. What was the Republican reaction?

House Majority Leader Jene Vickrey (R-Louisburg) said we should wait until April “when we have numbers we always hang our hat on.” Yes, another month and $300 million is all we need.

Vickrey would have been that flat-earth believer standing on the dock as Columbus was returning to port, saying, “Sure, he made it back, but I don’t see that happening again.”

As ship after ship returns from their voyage, there eventually has to be an acknowledgement that, just maybe, they aren’t falling off the edge. And as deficits keep mounting, and as budgets are being slashed, there has to be an acknowledgement that the state’s tax policy is a disaster.

A gut feeling can’t hide the facts, but that seems to be all conservative lawmakers require when making life-changing de-

cisions that affect the future of Kansas.

We are living in a state where the conservative right is fearful of open elections, dislikes being told what to do by the courts and believes that the path to greater prosperity is lined with tax cuts.

That’s not a gut feeling.

That’s an unfortunate fact.

And Kansans are living with the consequences.

Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com

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four years after the TPP goes into force or fails to pass.

The administration says we shouldn’t worry about this, because the United States has never lost a case and that the dispute mechanism is basically designed to be used on countries with weak or corrupted legal systems.

But as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has noted, Philip Morris has already sued Uruguay because of its new antismoking regulations that have been lauded globally.

A French company sued Egypt for raising the mini-

mum wage; a Swedish company sued Germany for phasing out nuclear power.

How do trade treaties that undermine workers, cost jobs and create a private, corporate global arbitration system get through Congress? The answer, of course, is the corporate lobby that writes the rules mobilizes big money and armies of lobbyists to drive them through.

Most Democrats oppose the treaties, but the Wall Street wing of the party tends to support them. Conservatives would naturally oppose secretive global panels

that can force taxpayers to pay damages to companies, but the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable will round up votes to get the treaty passed.

So remember, when the president argues that it is vital that “we” write the rules, “we” means not the American people, but corporate and financial interests.

America’s middle class will continue to sink until “we” means the American people, not Wall Street and the corporate lobby.

Katrina vanden Heuvel is editor and publisher of The Nation magazine

The Scott County Record • Page 7 • Thursday, April 2, 2015

Keep SC a progressive community

I was born in a little house on the east side of Scott City when doctors made house calls and many were born at home.

Many will still remember Dr. Palmer who delivered babies at their home and not just at the hospital.

We now have a new hospital that will compete with many larger ones in larger cities. We have a fine staff and much of the new equipment that larger hospitals have. (With a financial commitment from this community).

Scott City has a very good school system, we

editor’s mail . . . have updated our buildings and I am told we have wonderful equipment to help our children get the education they need to go out into the work place to compete in our free enterprise system and make their way in this world.

The school system has not happened without some turmoil, growth pains and misunderstandings, but nonetheless it continues to grow. (With a financial commitment from this

Outcomes patients and the best of teachers lose students.

Outcomes are always narrowly defined. In medicine, if we define “healthy” as a normal temperature, doctors would distribute aspirin to get everyone’s fever down, since that is the measure of the hospital and doctor, and ignore conditions that are not measured.

That, of course, is exactly what has happened

community).

In 1987, the Scott County Health Care Foundation began and it has since become the Scott Community Foundation.

It’s assets have grown many times over and is now very important to our city. In fact the following is their mission statement: “The Scott Community Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving local wealth so the communities in and around Scott County will forever remain attractive places to live, work, and raise a family.” (Truly a

financial commitment by this community).

There are many places and things that have been done to make this the city of choice in which to live. These include the Scott City Library, the El Quartelejo Museum/ Jerry Thomas Gallery, the swimming pool, the sports complex for our young kids and baseball field for the high school, and the Scott City Recreation Committee, just to name a few things.

What do all of these have in common, you ask?

They required a financial

commitment and dedication of many people in this community to make them happen?)

I am very proud to call Scott City my home town and the above are but a few of the reasons I will go out on April 7 and vote to approve the new wellness center.

It will be yet another reason that Scott City is known as a very progressive city and a great place to live.

Vote “yes” for the wellness and recreation center.

Hugh Binns Scott City

You cannot improve education by funding schools based on simple-minded measures any more than you can improve medicine by funding hospitals on their survival rates.

Rich schools will get richer. Poor schools will get poorer.

Good education depends on good teachers. Under the current oppressive actions and

bad attitude of most state legislatures, the number of young college students who want to enter teaching is nose-diving, not only in Kansas but nationwide.

And anyone should realize, that is a bad outcome.

Don’t burden our seniors

Please consider all circumstances before casting a “yes” vote to increase the mill levy for a community wellness center.

You will be taking food from older people who don’t have enough as it is.

I’m referring to those people who rely upon Social Security to get by from month to month.

Sounds as though the wellness project is in trouble already.

Jess Cole Modoc

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under the last decade of No Child Left Behind outcomes only measured language and math while the rest of the curriculum got shortened or dropped.

For patients whose chances of surviving are least, their only hope may rest with the best surgeon.

As a result, the best surgeons may have the highest death rates.

Use outcomes beancounting and they will be

penalized. Hospitals will then play “hot potato,” redirecting ambulances so as not to bring in terminal patients.

Measuring and awarding money based on “outcomes” is now the political football in the Kansas Legislature. Some want to measure outcomes twoyears-out; others want the bean-counting to begin immediately. They are both wrong.

John Schrock trains biology teachers and lives in Emporia

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Breakdown of Lane County Oil/Gas Tax Abatements Fund Lane County General Fund Lane County Public Works Lane County Library Lane County Hospital Lane County Mental Handicap Service Lane County Ambulance Lane County Health Department Lane County Historical Society

Amount $ 135,050.25 64,944.70 3,266.04 17,198.05 1,038.54 10,689.12 2,343.22 844.72

Cemetery District No. 1 Rural Fire District Wet Walnut Watershed No. 58 Walnut Creek Extension District Alamota Township

10,663.38 9,517.51 8,508.73 4,492.61 1,153.97

Dighton School District (USD 482) Capital Outlay Supplemental General (LOB) General Fund Bond and Interest

23,137.26 35,081.88 57,843.15 53,730.51

USD 482 Recreation Commission General

Lane Co. ments was $3,266.

“That was the same day we got word that our funding from the state library was also being cut,” says Martin. “The amount of money we’re being cut may not seem like a lot when you compare it to the hospital or the school district, but it has an impact on what we can do.”

Taking a big hit as a result of the oil/gas abatements will be the Dighton school district which will lose nearly $170,000 out of its current budget, according to Supt. Bill Morgan.

“You don’t go into a budget year expecting to absorb that kind of a budget cut. Fortunately, we could as a one-time situation,” says Morgan.

Morgan says the district had built an extra cushion in its contingency reserve fund anticipating that something like this could happen. They were able to pull money out of the reserve fund to help make up for the lost tax revenue.

The district’s contingency reserve is expected to be between $100,000 and $150,000 to start the 2015-16 school year, “which is about where it’s been in past years,” Morgan says.

While the district will get by this year, Morgan faults a process that would leave a tax-supported entity in the position of being told it will receive less dollars than anticipated in the middle of a budget year.

“If you’re going to get less revenue, this is information you need to know

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in May or June while you’re still working on your budget. You don’t want to be getting this phone call in January,” he noted.

The Lane County general fund will see a revenue reduction of $135,000 while the public works department will be cut just shy of $65,000.

Health care services are seeing a $27,887 reduction in tax revenue, which includes the hospital ($17,198) and the ambulance service ($10,689).

Awaiting Distribution Morgan says the school district already finds itself nervously awaiting it’s share of tax dollars from the state level. For example, every school district has a 20 mill levy that raises local tax dollars which have traditionally remained within the district. However, this past year the legislature determined that the local 20 mill levy had to be sent to Topeka and would then be returned to local school districts.

This means that local districts can’t invest this tax money locally and collect interest income. It also means the state is in control of when this money is returned to districts.

Morgan says the district sent about $750,000 to the state and is still waiting for about $590,000 to be returned.

“We’ve been told it will all come back in payments, but given the state’s financial situation you aren’t sure how much of it will come back or when,” says the superintendent.

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Make early disease control a priority Before you put out this year’s vegetable garden, consider cultural practices for disease control.

Be sure to remove last year’s vegetable debris from the garden or till them deeply into the soil.

Many plant pathogens can overwinter on dead plant debris, so it is very important to remove these from the garden.

Also consider a rotation plan for your vegetables.

Try not to replant tomatoes in the same location year after year.

Even if you have a small garden, relocate the tomato plants to the opposite end of the last

season’s garden. Rotate tomatoes with sweet corn or possibly cucumbers.

Avoid planting potato or pepper plants where last year’s tomato crop was planted.

Some vegetables can be successfully grown in buckets or pots on the patio, but consider replacing the potting mix each season. Also clean or soak the pot in a 10% bleach solution for 10-30 min-

utes before adding fresh potting mix. For container-grown vegetables, use commercial soil less mix.

Be sure to start with clean seed or transplants.

Where possible, use varieties with resistance to disease problems. For example select tomato varieties with resistance to wilt pathogens.

Similarly, use cucumber and muskmelon varieties with resistance to powdery mildew and Fusarium wilt. Carefully check transplants for evidence of diseases. Tomato transplants grown near or with bedding plants may

be infected with the spotted wilt virus.

For potatoes, start with clean, disease-free seed pieces each year. Purchase certified seed from garden centers. Many bacterial, viral and fungal diseases are transmitted through the seed piece, so saving tubers from last year to use as seed is not a good idea.

Snapping vs Cutting The first few spears of asparagus are starting to appear in Western Kansas.

When spears are 8-10 inches tall, they are ready for harvest.

Spears enlarge direct-

Building a better tomato cage

Unless designed well, tomato cages can have more to do with frustrating gardeners than with penning up plants. They can lean, blow over, collapse, exclude harvesting hands.

Good cages allow tomato vines to grow vertically, keeping fruit and leaves out of the dirt. This saves garden space, said Rick Snell, natural resources agent, with Kansas State University Extension.

The vertical position also provides better air circulation around each plant, helping prevent such diseases as early blight and Septoria leaf spot. The cages’ support allows tomato plants to grow normally, too, with-

out gardeners’ having to remove the vines’ many suckers (shoots between stems and branches).

“As one result, wellcaged plants can not only produce well but also have enough foliage to shade and protect their fruit by the time our hot summer months arrive,” Snell said.

Unfortunately, many cages available commercially leave a lot to be desired, he said.

“Because of the force of summertime winds and the weight of tomato vines’ foliage and fruit, cages and similar kinds of support have to be sturdy and anchored. But, the cheap, widely available wire cages that are shaped like an inverted cone are often too small and top-

heavy for the job,” Snell explained.

“With stronger, better balanced cage designs, a limiting factor now is they can cost up to $100 - or more.”

He suggests gardeners make their own from the “fencing” used to reinforce concrete (available, if not on display, at some big-box home centers) or from woven-wire livestock fencing (at many farm stores).

Either has hand-size spaces between wires.

Both are bendable, but rigid enough to form a self-supporting cage.

Staking’s sole role will be to keep the wind from blowing them over.

Standard vined or indeterminate tomato varieties need a cage that’s five feet

tall or more. Most newer compact or semi-determinate varieties can use a cage that’s 2-1/2 to three feet tall.

Tomato cages should be about 20-24 inches in diameter. That’s about the same as a five-foot length of reinforcing wire, formed into a circle. If you need to make cuts, though, wear heavy work gloves and eye protection.

You’ll probably want to use a hacksaw, heavy wire snips or bolt cutters.

Cleaning off and washing tomato cages with a 1:10 bleach-water solution at the end of each season is a good practice, he added.

Given that, reinforcing wire cages can last 20 to 30 years - even stored outside.

ly in relation to average daily temperature (day and night temperatures), as well as in relation to spear length. In other words, the warmer it is the faster spears grow, and the taller the spear the faster it grows.

When the spear is removed, a “signal” is sent to the below-ground crown system to send up replacement spears and other buds begin to grow.

Thus, the more you cut the more spears the plant sends up.

It makes no difference to the plant whether the spear is cut or snapped off at the ground level.

Snapping just above ground level results in a spear that is tender to the base and entirely useable.

Cutting just below the ground level results in a lower butt portion of the spear that is tough and usually is trimmed off and thrown away. However, the butt portion prevents the rest of the spear from drying out quite as rapidly.

When you cut asparagus, you will usually harvest more total pounds (but a portion of that total is composed of the butt portion which, again, is tough and usually discarded).

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Turner with being tardy in the morning and unexcused absences,” she says.

“When our students attend any activity outside the area, we consistently hear back from people about how polite and respectful they are.

“I’m not surprised,” she says. “I see how our students treat each other and the staff and they carry that respect over to their extra-curricular activities.

Our kids have been great ambassadors for our community.”

Funding Frustrations Turner emphasizes, however, that leaving education was not a top priority. She will graduate in May with a doctorate degree and entertained

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before.

A number of oil wells have a particularly short life, producing very well for the first few months and then diminishing very quickly.

Leafing through a notebook of oil and gas renditions, Sangster points to one well that was producing 628 barrels a day when it first came on line in July 2013. Six months later it was producing just 163 barrels and by December 2014 it was down to 79 barrels per day.

Appraisers have to be very attentive to these trends when putting a value on oil/gas wells or run the risk of huge tax abatements when producers and lease holders appeal assessed values they feel are too high.

“We aren’t dealing with the more traditional wells where production started at a certain level and would then decline at a slow and fairly predictable rate,” Sangster says.

“In a matter of just a few months, we’re seeing a

high producing well reduced to being a stripper well (five barrels or less per day).”

No property taxes are paid on stripper well production, only on the pumping rig.

When heavy oil and gas drilling began in the area about three years ago, it was not known that the production capacity of these wells would plunge so quickly.

“Appraisers certainly weren’t aware of this and if the producers knew this would happen they weren’t sharing this information with us,” Sangster says.

As a result, appraisers who relied on their past history of diminishing well production were being presented dramatically different data during the appeals process.

In 2012, Scott County abated taxes in the amount of $45,029 to oil producers and lease holders. In 2013, that jumped to $74,657 and in 2014, that leaped to $169,838 -

a total of $289,524 in tax dollars that the county had expected to receive, but had to be returned.

Sangster says county appraisers are learning from this experience and are taking a cautious approach when determining a well’s value in order to prevent a county from receiving tax money it will have to return.

“I like to meet with commissioners during the (budget) planning process so they have an idea what to expect with respect to the county’s valuation before the budget is completed,” he says.

While Scott County will see a 10-15 percent in the overall value of agricultural land, Sangster doesn’t expect that to offset an overall loss of about $1.5 million in oil/gas values.

Timing is an Issue Timing is also a key element in determing the appraised value of oil and gas wells which also favors the producers.

Sangster says that appraisers have to estimate a well’s value (oil/gas still in the ground) based on data it has on January 1.

This is the data that is provided to county commissioners when preparing their next year’s budget which must be finalized in July.

However, producers can file their appeals in March and April and by the time the appeals process is completed later in the year they have data on a well’s production that wasn’t available to the appraiser in January.

“The board of tax appeals is using production data from the extended period,” Sangster says.

Naturally, when data provided by the producer shows that production and the taxable value of a well - is significantly less than figures used by the appraiser then the appeals process swings in their favor.

“It puts the county in a bad situation. They have to give back tax money

that’s already been collected,” notes Sangster.

Many counties have found themselves in this situation over the last couple of years. One area county had to issue tax abatements of more than $1 million.

Another factor which favors oil/gas producers is when a well goes into production. If it doesn’t start until after July 1, the well is automatically appraised at 60 percent of the value that would have been used prior to July 1.

Sangster says the producer is already getting a huge tax break by bringing a well into production after July 1. If that same well should lose a significant amount of its production capability during that time, the appraised value is reduced even more.

Referring back to the well that began producing in July 2013 at 628 barrels per day, but had nosedived to just 79 barrels by December 2014, Sangster says the operator’s tax bill was only about $400.

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the possibility of someday becoming a school superintendent.

“I thought I’d always be in education,” she says.

But she concedes that the never-ending funding battle between schools and the state legislature contributed to her decision.

“This is a very difficult time to be in education when you are seeing budgets cut and you have no idea whether you can get the funding you need to continue doing what’s best for your kids,” Turner says.

“How do you reward teachers for the work they’re doing when you don’t have the money for extra pay? And when that happens, we’re going to

start losing a lot of good people,” worries Turner.

“If the state doesn’t do something different with the funding situation this is a problem that’s only going to get worse.”

That also adds to recruitment worries when the district needs to fill positions. Turner says there are at least 50 job openings around the state for high school math teachers with Scott City on that list.

“I still consider Scott City a great place to teach.

We have a very good reputation around the state and we have a lot going for us,” says Turner. “I give credit to our staff and even our students who are working hard to keep it that way.”

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When 2014 assessed valuations for mineral production were determined, oil was valued at $78.85 per barrel. On January 1, 2015, the value had dropped to $37.85 which is the figure being used in determining 2015 assessments.

“I’ve never seen that kind of volatility in a single year,” says Scott County Appraiser Randy Sangster, who has been doing appraisal work in Western Kansas since 1986. “And that’s something we have no control over.”

Neither do counties have any control over a well’s production which is also directly linked to the assessed valuation that county commissioners rely upon when setting their budgets and mill levies. And that’s where the new wave of development across the region has created a problem that appraisers haven’t encountered on a scale like this

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Freeman is superintendent for Dighton district Randy Freeman has been hired as the new superintendent of schools for the Dighton district.

H e replaces Bill Morgan who has held that position for the past two Randy Freeman years, but has resigned and will be returning to Texas to become a superintendent.

“I have a couple of

positions that I’m looking at, but right now I don’t know where I’ll end up,” says Morgan.

Freeman comes to Dighton from Marysville where he has lived the past three years. For the last two years he has been director of special education services for the district.

Freeman, 58, a native of Topeka, has been in education since earning his undergraduate degree from Sterling College.

He followed with masters

and doctoral degrees from Kansas State University.

“It was always my plan to become a teacher and coach,” says Freeman, who fulfilled that ambition for the first six years of his career, which included one year at GrainfieldWheatland High School.

He has since been in school administration, including 21 years as a school superintendent in Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa.

“I’ve worked for several different school dis-

tricts and that’s given me the opportunity to see how things are done differently from district to district and even in other states,” says Freeman.

He had no hesitation about returning to a small, rural Kansas school.

“Rural schools are some of the best kept secrets,” Freeman says. “I can guarantee you there are legislators who don’t see that. They don’t understand the quality of education in rural schools.

“I wanted to finish my career as a school superintendent and Dighton seemed like a good fit for me,” he says. “Walking into the junior-senior high school at Dighton reminded me of my first job as a principal at Hope. There’s a good feel to being part of a rural school.”

Freeman doesn’t begin his duties until July 1, but he plans to be in the community in June to work with Morgan and to learn more details about the budget.

“By then, hopefully if there are any court challenges to the new school finance law they will be worked out so that we know how much money we’ll have for the upcoming year,” Freeman says.

“I hope to have some input in the budget process since it’s a budget that I’ll have to work with.”

Freeman and his wife, Tricia, have a son who is living in Iowa City, Ia., and a daughter who is a sophomore at Illinois State University.

SCES spring musical Thurs.

First and second graders at Scott City Elementary School will be presenting their spring musical, “Squirm!” on Thurs., April 9, in the SCES gym.

There will be a matinee performance at 2:00 p.m. and a second show at 7:00 p.m. The public is invited to attend either.

This “wiggly, squiggly musical” will feature the Itsy Bitsy Spider, Daddy Long Legs, Hook Worm, Snake, and a host of other critters who take over the school.

The students will show that “things that make us squirm can be A-OK,” says musical director Nancy Green.

Area students accept FHSU scholarships Scott Community High School students took part in a variety of health and fitness activities during the annual “Survivor Health Fair” on Friday in the high school gym.

Students could compete against the clock in an obstacle course provided by the Kansas National Guard, get a checkup from Scott City Chiropractic Clinic, have blood work and more.

There were also information booths sponsored by Scott County Extension, Compass Behavioral Health, Family Crisis Service and ABC Pregnancy Center.

(Top) Gabby Verela (left) and Xochitl Loya take part in exercises sponsored by the Ft. Hays State University Wellness Center.

(Left) Garrett Osborn has the strength of his grip measured at a booth sponsored by the Scott County Hospital physical therapy department.

(Below) Justin Faurot goes through a myofascial treatment from Sandy Cauthon of Scott City.

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Students in Scott, Lane and 11 other Southwest Kansas counties were recognized for scholarships they have been awarded for the 2015-16 school year by Ft. Hays State University.

The Student Recognition Program was held in Garden City. Local recipients include: •Marshal Hutchins, a senior at Scott Community High School, accepted a $500 Copper Academic Award and a $500 Academic Opportunity Award in nursing. The son of Devin and Dawn Hutchins, Scott City, he plans to major in nursing.

•Reagan Smyth, a SCHS senior, accepted a $500 Academic Opportunity Award in chemistry. The daughter of Kris and Sunni Smyth, Scott City, she plans to major in chemistry.

•Selena Young, a 2014 Dighton High School graduate, accepted a $500 Academic Opportunity Award in art. She is the daughter of Lenora Young, Scott City.

For the Record Crowdfunding and taxes: what you should know The Scott County Record

Jason Alderman

Crowdfunding - the online method of raising money from people around the world - is less than a decade old, allowing artists, activists and a growing number of entrepreneurs to connect with financial support far outside the conventional lending system.

Here’s how crowdfunding works. Through sites like Kickstarter, Indiegogo or RocketHub, campaigners seeking

funding create a pitch that educates potential funders - or “backers,” as they’re often called - on their project. Campaigns share their funding goal and the various rewards backers will receive for taking part; backers respond with pledges made via credit card.

If the campaign meets its goal and deadline, the crowdfunding site activates all the card-based pledges and the campaign is funded.

While estimates vary

Scott City Council Agenda Mon., April 6 • 7:30 p.m.

City Hall • 221 W. 5th •Call to Order •Approve minutes of March 16 regular meeting •Approve zoning change in Eastridge subdivision •Approve zoning, conditional use in ag district •Approve cereal malt beverage licesne for Tate’s Front Tier Foods •Approve indigent defense agreement •Discuss “Volunteer of the Year Award” •Open agenda: audience is invited to voice ideas or concerns. A time limit may be requested Pool Department 1) Lifeguard training change 2) Recommendation for pool opening date, hours, fees, etc.

Police Department 1) Request to attend “NSOR Entry and Maintenance Training” in Garden City 2) Advertise for full-time police officer Parks Department 1) Misc. business Public Works Department 1) Advertise for seasonal employee 2) Open CMA sand bids 3) Spring clean-up week • April 27-May 1 4) Accept bids on 2003 Ford pickup Clerk’s Department 1) Advertise for full-time staff clerk •Mayor’s comments

Scott Co. LEC Report Scott City Police Department March 3: A report was taken of aggravated battery in the 200 block of Elizabeth.

March 24: Harold Hays was backing out of a parking stall at the Lazy R Motel when he struck a vehicle belonging to G Trailer, Inc. March 25: Thomas Chambless, 17, was charged with possession of a hallucinogenic drug and possession of cigarettes/tobacco by a minor.

March 28: Alex Jacob, 17, was arrested on an outof-county warrant and transported to the LEC. March 31: Shawn Sheldon, 42, was arrested on a Scott County warrant for domestic battery and transported to the LEC. Scott County Sheriff’s Department March 24: Kevin Hall, 27, was served a warrant while in the Scott County LEC.

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widely, research organization Massolution (http:// w w w. c r o w d s o u r c i n g . org/editorial/2013cf-thecrowdfunding-industryreport/25107) put 2013 crowdfunding revenue at $5.1 billion globally.

Many crowdfunding efforts today are artistic or cause-based, but that is expected to change in the near future.

Implementing the crowdfunding provisions of the 2012’s Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, (https://

www.sec.gov/spotlight/ jobs-act.shtml) the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is putting final touches on regulations allowing ordinary investors to participate in equity crowdfunding for the first time.

This would mean that business owners could raise money via the web in exchange for a piece of ownership in their company.

Because the process of crowdfunding is relatively easy compared to other

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., March 19, 2015; last published Thurs., April 2, 2015)3t IN THE TWENTY-FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT In the Matter of the Petition of: John Lee Whinery TO CHANGE HIS NAME. Case No. 15-CV-9 Pursuant to Chapter 60 of K.S.A. NOTICE OF SUIT THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL WHO ARE OR MAY BE CONCERNED: You are herby notified that the above-named John Lee Whinery, filed his Petition in the above court on March 7, 2015, praying for judgment and decree changing his name from John Lee Whinery to John Elisha Levi,

and that said Petitioner will be heard or assigned by the Court, 303 Court St., Scott City, Ks. 67871, on the 4th day of May, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. You are required to plead in response to the Petition or on or before May 4, 2015 (Date at least 41 days after first publication), in the Court at Scott County Courthouse, Kansas.

If you fail to plead, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

Please take notice and govern yourself accordingly.

John Lee Whinery Petitioner Rebeca J. Faurot Attorneys for Petitioner Attorney at Law, LLC 211 S. main St., Suite 118 Scott City, Ks. 67871 620-872-3600 Fax: 620-872-5666 rjflaw@att.net

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., April 2, 2015; last published Thurs., April 16, 2015)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GREG B. HELMERS, deceased Case No. 2015-PR-03 AMENDED NOTICE OF HEARING AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS You are hereby notified that on the 6TH day of March, 2015, a Petition was filed in this Court by Linda D. Helmers, an heir of Greg B. Helmers, deceased, praying: That descent be determined of the following described real property owned by the decedent: An undivided one-half interest in and to: Lot Five (5), Block Three (3), C.A. Steele & Sons 3rd

Addition to the City of Scott City, Scott County, Kansas and all other real and personal property owned by decedent at the time of his death.

You are required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 23rd day of April, 2015, at 10:00 o’clock a.m., 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. s/s Linda D. Helmers Petitioner WALLACE, BRANTLEY & SHIRLEY 325 Main Street P.O. Box 605 Scott City, Kansas, 67871 Attorneys for Petitioner

means of obtaining capital, some might neglect to research potentially unfavorable tax, financial or legal implications from their campaign. Potential crowdfunding campaigners might want to make a preliminary call to a qualified tax adviser, financial planner or an attorney before launching any online fundraising effort.

Individuals, companies and nonprofits have different tax issues and financial precedents that could blunt the effective-

ness of any fundraising campaign.

Depending on the fundraising goal and how that money will be handled in the aftermath of the campaign, experts say some situations may call for a particular legal entity to be formed in advance. If appropriate, participants could seek guidance to form an actual business (https://www.sba.gov/ writing-business-plan) or nonprofit (https://www. councilofnonprofits.org/ (See FUNDING on page 13)

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Kansans rally in Topeka for repeal of tax cuts About 100 people rallied Wednesday within earshot of Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s office to demand the repeal of income tax cuts they say are crippling the state.

The Rev Up Kansas coalition staged the event to call attention to the state’s ongoing budget problems, which organizers said are the result of tax cuts that Brownback championed in the mistaken belief that they would jump-start the

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tools-resources/businessplanning-nonprofits) entity. Discussing structural issues in advance will not only help with tax issues, but also lead to better strategies for fundraising and long-term mission.

Beneficiaries should also consider any potential tax issues they could face as recipients of money from crowdfunding campaign. Depending on individual circumstances, crowdfunding a person’s unpaid medical bills may have significantly different tax ramifications than crowdfunding one’s independent film project.

It is not enough to consider the tax issues for the campaign and campaigners. Beneficiaries require their own due diligence to make sure crowdfunding provides the most efficient solution for their needs.

Finally, backers should consider whether they have any tax questions about their support. To date, most crowdfunding supporters give such small amounts tax issues don’t really surface. That may change in the future as crowdfunding moves into the commercial arena.

No matter what the circumstance, any potential crowdfunding backer who works with a qualified tax, financial or legal professional should consider asking if there are more efficient ways to offer support.

Bottom line: If you are interested in crowdfunding either as a campaigner, a beneficiary or a backer, research a potential project thoroughly and consider getting individualized tax, financial or legal advice before you proceed.

Kansas economy.

Shannon Cotsoradis, president of Kansas Action for Children, said the steep drop in revenue is forcing cuts in programs that are essential to lowincome children and their families.

“I simply don’t believe that Kansans want tax policies that short-circuit investments in the next generation,” Cotsoradis said.

News of additional revenue shortfalls added urgency to the rally.

Late Tuesday, the Kansas Department of Revenue reported that the state had collected $11.2 million less than estimated in March. With three months left to go in the 2015 fiscal year, tax collections are running a total of $48 million behind already lowered estimates.

“When one is in a hole, one is advised to stop digging,” said Mark Farr, a Nickerson High School science teacher on leave

to serve as president of the Kansas National Education Association.

Noting that the hole had just become $11.2 million deeper, Farr said, “We must agree to end the governor’s failed experiment.”

Just before the legislative session started in January, plummeting revenues forced Brownback to order allotments - a combination of cuts and cash transfers - to close a projected $300 million bud-

get gap. But only weeks later, continued revenue shortfalls forced him to make another $44.5 million in cuts to state universities and public schools.

If tax collections continue to fall short of projections in April and May, additional cuts will be necessary to ensure the state ends the fiscal year in the black.

Bigger problems lie ahead in the budget year that begins July 1. Brownback and lawmakers are

facing a projected deficit of at least $600 million. A Senate-passed budget bill partially closes the gap but would require tax increases of $141 million to balance.

Former state budget director Duane Goossen said the first year the tax cuts were in effect, the state collected $700 million less in revenue than the year before and that collections have continued to drop.

Public Notice (Published in The Scott County Record Thurs., April 2, 2015) 1t

SCOTT COUNTY COMMISSIONER’S PROCEEDINGS FEBRUARY 2015 GENERAL FUND SALARIES ............................................ $ 88,166.21 COMMODITIES ....................................

11,675.89 CONTRACTUAL SERVICES .................

58,987.69 CAPITAL OUTLAY..................................

40.27 OTHER...................................................

0.00 COUNTY HEALTH FUND SALARIES .............................................

COMMODITIES .....................................

CONTRACTUAL SERVICES .................

CAPITAL OUTLAY .................................

OTHER...................................................

14,449.09 6,793.36 1,246.22 0.00 0.00

NOXIOUS WEED FUND SALARIES...............................................

COMMODITIES ......................................

CONTRACTUAL SERVICES...................

OTHER ...................................................

4,367.11 177.63 400.00 0.00

ROAD AND BRIDGE FUND SALARIES ..............................................

COMMODITIES.......................................

CONTRACTUAL SERVICES....................

CAPITAL OUTLAY....................................

28,248.87 25,233.13 6,795.44 12,000.00

FIRE DISTRICT FUND SALARIES ..............................................

COMMODITIES ......................................

CONTRACTUAL SERVICES....................

CAPITAL OUTLAY ..................................

389.28 86.00 122.16 0.00

TREASURER’S SPECIAL FUND SALARIES ...............................................

COMMODITIES .......................................

CONTRACTUAL SERVICES ....................

CAPITAL OUTLAY.....................................

OTHER .....................................................

JAMES M. MINNIX Chairman

4,547.73 0.00 49.01 0.00 643.32

ALICE BROKOFSKY Scott County Clerk

Real Estate, Farm Items, Household and Antique Items Saturday, April 11• 10:00 a.m.

2Sunday, • 11:00February a.m.

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., March 19, 2015; last published Thurs., April 2, 2015)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS ANGEL ADAN BORUNDA SALAZAR, PLAINTIFF, vs.

THE STATE OF KANSAS, KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, DIVISION OF MOTOR VEHICLES, 2009 CHEVROLET MALIBU VIN#1G1ZG57B594177729, and the unknown owners, heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any deceased owner, the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors, and assigns of any owner which are existing, dissolved or dormant corporations; the unknown executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, successors andassigns of any owners who are or were partners or in partnership; the unknown guardians, conservators and trustees of any owners who are minors or are in any wise under legal disability of any kind; and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors or assigns of any owners alleged to be deceased, DEFENDANTS. CASE NO. 2015-CV-10 NOTICE OF SUIT The State of Kansas to the defendants above named designated and all other persons who are or

may be concerned: You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed in the District Court of Scott County, Kansas, by Angel Adan Borunda Salazar, Plaintiff, praying for an order quieting title to the following described property: 2009 CHEVROLET MALIBU VIN#1G1ZG57B594177729

The Petitioner further seeks an order holding the Plaintiff to be the owner of the title to the above personal property, free of all right, title and interest of the above named defendants and all other persons who are or may be concerned, and that they and each of them be forever barred and foreclosed of an from all right, title, interest, lien, estate or equity of redemption in or to the above described personal property, or any part thereof. Plaintiff is seeking an Order to have a Certificate of Title issued for the above named vehicle.

You are hereby required to plead to said Petition on or before the 30th day of April, 2015 at 10:00 o’clock a.m. in said Court at Scott City, Scott County, Kansas, Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition. s/s Angel Adan Borunda Salazar WALLACE, BRANTLEY & SHIRLEY 325 Main - P. O. Box 605 Scott City, Kansas 67871 (620) 872-2161 Attorneys for Petitioner

Location: From Leoti, N. on HWY 25 for 9 miles to Rd. H , then 4 miles E. , 1/2 mile S. and 1 mile E. Ken and Sue Schwindt - Owners

Real Estate Saturday April 11, 2015 • Noon Auction Location: At the farm site (588 E CR Road H 1/2) Legal: South 1/2 of the North East 1/4 of 10-17-36 Containing 75 acres of native pasture land with a very nice farmstead, 3,369 sq ft. brick home, 4-bedrooms, 2 1/2-baths, large living and family rooms, large kitchen, new sun room, central heat and air, all appliances and 22x 50 ft. garage shop building. This has been run as a bed and breakfast in the past and works very well for this purpose, with many repeat customers. Home shown by appointment only prior to sale day.

Terms: 10% down day of sale, with balance due in certified funds at closing. Closing to be on or before May 20, 2015. Announcements day of the auction take precedence over printed material.

Possession: Possession on grassland at closing, possession of the home on or before June 1, 2015.

Taxes: 2014 taxes - $1,134. 08 / 2014 taxes paid by the seller, 2015 taxes prorated to day of closing.

Minerals: Seller interest going to the buyer.

Evidence of Title: Seller will provide to the buyer, title insurance in the amount of purchase price, with buyer and seller splitting premium 50%-50%.

Easements: This sale is subject to all rights of way and easements, whether recorded or not, and any oil and gas lease of record. Land is leased at this time.

Agency: Lawrence and Associates Realty are exclusive agents of the seller.

Broker: Lawrence and Associates Realty, 513 Main, Scott City, Ks. • 67871• 620-872-5267 Auctioneer / Listing Agent: Russell Berning, 812 W M St. Leoti, Ks. 67861 • 1-800-466-5202 Tractors, Trencher, Trailers, Vehicles, Motor Home and ATV Ditch Witch 5010 trencher, diesel, with backhoe, rebuilt, good shape 2006 Load Max goose neck flat deck trailer, 24-ft. with 4-ft dove Case 930 tractor, diesel, 3-pt., with scoop and forks 1939 Ford 8N tractor with scoop 1941 Farmall tractor new tires 1977 Lincoln car, 4-dr.

1947 Chevy truck 1948 Federal truck 1990 Pontiac Bonneville car, 4-dr.

1996 Chevy pickup, ext. cab, 4x4, auto, high mileage 1997 Dodge pickup with flatbed 2-wheel car dolly trailer 1973 GMC motor home, front wheel drive, 455 motor, 28 ft.

45 ft. Cargo van trailer 2003 Kawasaki Prairie 650 ATV 2,943 miles, 4x4

Antique and Collectibles Farm Antique Items Cast iron pot belly stove Wooden corn sheller Horse drawn plow, mower, planter Walk behind plows Horse drawn wooden manure spreader Horse harness and tack Pony cart 4-wheel wooden wagon with spring seat Peddle grinding wheel Old tree saw DeLavel cream separator wooden store parts display box Old jars and bottles 4-metal wagon wheel rims Ice tongs Scythe Cream cans Other Antique Items Old glassware Coca Cola items Oak side board Trunk Rocker Piano Kitchen table and benches Cast iron bath tub and sink Sausage stuffer Shoe last

Enamelware Collection of Frankhoma Republican mugs Farm Items 2-1,000 gal. fuel tanks 600 gal. tank 100 gal. propane tank Pipe trailers AC irrigation motor Landing matt panels Steel and wooden posts 20 ft. double tool bar with shanks Tucker 12 ft. speed mover Hoeme 16 ft. chisel plow 13-wire panels Scrap iron 3 pt. blade Other items Shop and Other Farm Items Lots of hand tools Electric hand tools Log chains Jacks Bolt bins Parts assortments Lots of parts and repairs 2-Onan 2-cylinder motors Box of electric repairs Grey air bumper jack Pull behind mower with Kohler motor 82 x 80 metal flat bed for pickup

30-joints of 2 5/16 oil field pipe 8,000 ft. of 1 1/4 PVC pipe, 200 psi, new Pallets of used brick, rock and stone Used lumber, 2x4 and 2x6, 30 ft. long Seed scalper Wind Power generator, pto Pickup winch Large truck winch Small trailer 30 x 40 metal shed dismantled Metal shelving Household Items Hide a bed sofa Loveseat Coffee and end tables Queen Ann style bedroom suite, regular size bed, dresser with mirror and vanity Chest type deep freezer Remote controlled air planes Smoker 2-BBQ grills Lawn swing Wheel barrow Wooden dinning table Wood pellet burning stove 2-Bicycles Manicure table with lamp Lots of other items

Terms: Lunch Served. Current ID to register. Cash or approved check day of sale. Everything sold as is. No warranties expressed or implied. Not responsible for theft or accident. Announcements day of sale take precedence over printed material. Check us out: www.berningauction.com and facebook.

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Kansas Senate passes tighter welfare restrictions Ashley Booker KHI News Service

The Senate voted Thursday to solidify policies restricting cash assistance to low-income Kansans over the objections of a senator who represents an urban district and other Democrats.

Sen. Oletha FaustGoudeau (D-Wichita) said during debate that her Senate colleagues displayed ignorance of the realities of poverty in Kansas by giving initial approval to House Bill 2258.

“We in this body think that people who are

receiving welfare benefits are low-life people sitting home doing nothing,” Faust-Goudeau said. “The majority of those individuals are the working poor.

They go to work every day, but they still qualify for those little benefits they receive.”

The Senate passed the

bill 30-10 with Republican senators Carolyn McGinn and Vicki Schmidt joining the chamber’s eight Democrats in voting against it.

Among other measures, it would limit the amount of cash that recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

State’s rejection of Medicaid expansion puts hospitals at risk Jim McLean KHI News Service

Several factors, including the state’s rejection of Medicaid expansion, are conspiring to put some Kansas hospitals at risk.

Two southeast Kansas hospitals - one in Independence, the other in Fort Scott - are among several that might have to close their doors.

To prevent that, both are actively negotiating potential partnerships with neighboring hospitals. Officials at Mercy Hospital Independence and the Coffeyville Regional Medical Center are talking.

Similar discussions are

under way between Mercy Hospital Fort Scott and Via Christi in Pittsburg.

Even if agreements are reached, Medicaid expansion will remain a crucial issue, said David Steinmann, chief executive of the Independence hospital. He’s facing cuts of nearly $570,000 in Medicare reimbursements and federal disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments, which are designed to partially cover the costs of treating uninsured patients.

Those reductions, Steinmann said, would be more than offset if Kansas expanded its Medicaid program - known as KanCare - to cover more

poor adults. He said expansion would generate an estimated $1.6 million in additional revenue for the hospital, enough to cover the anticipated reductions with about $1 million to spare.

“For hospitals like ours that are truly struggling, that could mean the difference between cash flowing or not. So, it’s really significant for us,” Steinmann said.

Unexpected Consequences When Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, it intended reductions in Medicare and DSH payments to be offset by revenue from increasing numbers of patients with

Medicaid and private coverage.

A June 2012 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court changed that. The court rejected a constitutional challenge to the health reform law but made Medicaid expansion optional for states.

The offsetting arrangement has generally worked for hospitals in the 28 states and District of Columbia that have expanded Medicaid.

But hospitals in Kansas and the other 21 states that have not expanded Medicaid don’t have access to that offsetting revenue, and many are struggling as a result, (See RISK on page 15)

Brownback not excited about tobacco tax, but wants it to pass Proponents emphasize health benefits Andy Marso KHI News Service

Rep. Don Hill, a Republican from Emporia, introduced a bill last year that would have raised the state’s cigarette tax by $1.50 per pack.

The bill died in the House Taxation Committee, where the chairman, Rep. Richard Carlson, a Republican from St. Marys, did not deem it worthy of a hearing.

This year, with the state facing a budget crisis after slashing income tax rates, Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration introduced an identical tobacco tax as part of a package to plug the projected $700 million deficit.

To sell the plan to legislators, the administration sent the Kansas Department of Revenue’s new legislative liaison: former Rep. Richard Carlson.

Carlson’s about-face

illustrates the tension surrounding the public health community’s item of greatest interest this session.

A host of anti-cancer groups and other health advocates view the tobacco tax increase as good policy - regardless of the budget situation - that would save lives and save the state money on health care costs.

But they face conservative Republican majorities in the House and Senate that are resistant to any new taxes and have put the tobacco tax on the table this year only because the state is so strapped for cash.

Even their most powerful ally - the governor - seems a reluctant supporter.

“Well, I’m not too excited about them (either),” Brownback said Thursday when told legislators are not enthused about the tobacco tax and an accompanying alcohol tax increase he proposed.

“Somebody was complaining that well, we don’t seem to be pushing the taxes. Well, I’m

not excited about that. But what happens in this process is you get your budget set and then figure out OK, what can we do, trying to stay as pro-growth oriented as we can, to try to have the revenues we need to meet the budget the Legislature wants?

I’m sure if everybody could do it, we’d do all the budget and no taxes.”

Opponents of the tobacco tax have seized on that ambivalence. At times they’ve conceded the health benefits of the tobacco increase but have urged legislators to push that from their minds and refocus on their distaste for taxing and spending.

New Tobacco Lobbyist Tobacco companies, while largely staying out of the public debate, have hosted luncheons with guest speakers outlining the potential pitfalls of the increase and upped their lobbying clout.

The Wichita Eagle was the first to report that the nation’s secondlargest tobacco company, Reynolds American Inc. (RAI), hired Brownback’s

former chief of staff, David Kensinger, as a lobbyist.

RAI already retained the services of five lobbyists from Hein Government Consulting.

But the addition of Kensinger was notable because he was one of a select group of lobbyists who received emails outlining the governor’s budget proposal - including the tobacco tax increase - before it was released publicly.

Kensinger declined to say when he began talking with RAI about representing it.

“I have the same policy (with RAI) as I do with all my clients,” Kensinger said. “Call my client.”

Brownback said he did not believe giving Kensinger a sneak peek at the budget had provided him with an unfair advantage on other lobbyists in securing the contract, or given RAI an edge in fighting the tax.

He did say he wished Kensinger was not lobbying for “that group, but he’s free to do what he is doing.”

can withdraw each day, reduce lifetime benefits from 48 months to 36 months and restrict recipients from using their assistance cards for a long list of entertainment items.

The bill also includes restrictions on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ben-

efits, commonly called food stamps. Some of the changes, including work and job training requirements, already were established by Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration through rules and regulations, but writing them into law would (See WELFARE on page 15)

Going places? Get your baby there safely Seventy-three percent of car seats are not used or installed correctly, that is three out of four seats!

So, before you hit the road, check your car seat.

Look at the label Gayle Anderson on your car seat to Triple P Coach make sure it’s appro- Russell Child Development priate for your child’s age, weight and height. Your car seat has an expiration date – usually around six years. Find and double check the label to make sure it’s still safe.

Right seat. Check the label on your car seat to make sure it’s appropriate for your child’s age, weight and height.

Right place. Kids are very important people, just ask them. We know all VIPs ride in the back seat, so keep all children in the back seat until they are 13. Doing this, along with correctly using the appropriate child restraints, greatly reduces the risk of injury.

Right direction. You want to keep your child in a rear-facing car seat for as long as possible, until they are at least two-years-old or until they reach the highest weight or height allowed by their car seat’s manufacturer.

When he or she outgrows the seat, move your child to a forward-facing car seat.

Inch test. Once your car seat is installed, give it a good tug at the base where the seat belt goes through it.

Can you move it more than an inch side to side or front to back? A properly installed seat will not move more than an inch.

Pinch test. Make sure the harness is tightly buckled and coming from the correct slots (check your car seat manual). With the chest clip placed at armpit level, pinch the strap at your child’s shoulder.

If you are unable to pinch any excess webbing, you’re good to go.

For both rear- and forward-facing child safety seats, use either the car’s seat belt or LATCH system to lock the car seat in place. Don’t use both at the same time.

Toys can injure your child in a crash, so be extra careful to choose the ones that are soft and will not hurt your baby. A small, loose toy can be dangerous and injure your baby in a crash. Secure loose objects and toys to protect everyone in the car.

Buy a used car seat only if you know its full crash history. That means you must buy it from someone you know, not from a thrift store or over the Internet. Once a car seat has been in a crash, it needs to be replaced.

(See SAFELY on page 15)

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Risk particularly low-volume facilities in rural areas not classified as critical access hospitals.

Since 2010, 48 rural hospitals have closed and more than 280 are now listed as “in trouble,” according to the National Rural Health Association.

Alan Morgan, the association’s chief executive, said rural hospitals in states that haven’t expanded Medicaid are particularly vulnerable because they can’t offset reductions in Medicare and DSH payments.

The Kansas Hospital Association estimates that rejecting expansion has cost the state about $475

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million and counting.

Some Lawmakers Alarmed Rep. Jim Kelly (R-Independence) said he wasn’t concerned about Medicaid expansion until he found out about the financial struggles of the hospitals in his district.

Without expansion, Kelly said he feared that hospitals across the state might be forced to close their doors.

Bell said several factors were conspiring to increase the financial pressure on Kansas hospitals, but he said Medicaid expansion was the most significant for many, including Mercy Hospital

Welfare ensure future administrations could not change the policies without legislative approval.

O’Donnell and other supporters said the bill would prevent fraud and help recipients move off welfare and into the workforce.

“We’re trying to make sure these benefits are used the way they were intended to be,” O’Donnell said.

Faust-Goudeau and the chamber’s other Democrats slowed the bill’s passage by offering a host of amendments to do things like allow the secretary of the Department for Children and Families to extend the duration of benefits during times of economic recession and require annual reports on the success of the job

Safely

Independence.

“If that hospital were to decide that it couldn’t continue to operate, this issue would be at the very, very top of the list of reasons why they had to shut down,” Bell said.

Kelly is one of many moderate Republicans and Democrats who support a bill backed by the hospital association that would require Gov. Sam Brownback and his administration to craft a Medicaid expansion plan and negotiate its approval with federal officials.

But the conservative Republicans who control the House and Senate are blocking a vote on the

bill. It’s bottled up in the House Health and Human Services Committee.

Currently, the state’s privatized Medicaid program, KanCare, covers about 425,000 children and low-income, disabled and elderly adults. But that number includes relatively few non-disabled adults.

Adults with dependent children can participate in KanCare, but only if they have annual incomes below 33 percent of the federal poverty level, about $8,000 for a family of four. Non-disabled adults without children aren’t eligible for coverage no matter how poor

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training programs meant to help people off the TANF and SNAP rolls.

The chamber ’s Republican supermajority defeated the Democratic amendments one by one during a floor session that took most of the day.

But when one of the bill’s supporters, Parker Republican Sen. Caryn Tyson, offered an amendment to lower the daily ATM withdrawal limit even more - from $60 to $25 - it was adopted 23-14.

O’Donnell expressed some concern that most ATMs only distribute cash in multiples of $20 and asked Tyson what she thought about a $40 daily withdrawal limit. But Tyson held firm at $25, saying the details could be ironed out by a confer-

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No one seat is the “best” or “safest.” The best seat is the one that fits your child’s size, is correctly installed, fits well in your vehicle, and is used properly every time you drive. Don’t decide by price alone. A higher price does not mean the seat is safer or easier to use.

Reminder: Install and register your car seat at least three weeks before your due date and get it checked by a local certified child passenger safety technician.

Contact Troy Davis at email tdavis@gcnet.com or find a technician or event, Kansas Safe Kids www. safekidskansas.org They will teach you so that you can always be sure your car seat is used correctly.

Gayle Anderson is certified as a child passenger safety technician/senior checker with Russell Child and Development Center

ence committee with the House.

Faust-Goudeau expressed dismay at the $25 limit, asking her colleagues to consider the plight of constituents who do not have checking accounts and pay a portion of their rent and utilities by cashing in their assistance every month and then converting the cash into a money order.

She said she traveled with some TANF recipients one day to get a firsthand look at the steps involved.

“It’s a two-hour trip, and it’s not Gilligan’s Island,” Faust-Goudeau said. “It’s a two-hour trip on the bus just to get there, and then back home. So that’s four hours in the day.”

Faust-Goudeau ques-

tioned whether TANF recipients would even be able to afford the bus fare with a $25 withdrawal that would likely to be diminished by ATM fees.

She also asked her colleagues to remember that each of their districts contain TANF recipients and repeatedly said that a majority of adult TANF recipients are working but earning so little that they still qualify for help.

Some senators asked why TANF recipients were paying their rent and utilities in cash.

“Do we not encourage welfare recipients to get involved with a bank?” asked Sen. Ralph Ostmeyer (R-Grinnell).

O’Donnell said each recipient is assigned a case worker to help with money management.

they are.

Expansion would make all Kansans with incomes up to 138 percent of poverty eligible for KanCare: $16,105 for an individual and $32,913 for a family of four.

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that 324,000 Kansans age 19 to 64 have incomes that would qualify them for

Medicaid under expansion. Of those, about 131,000 are uninsured.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment estimates that about 151,000 Kansans who were not previously eligible would sign up for Medicaid if eligibility was expanded to the level called for in the ACA.

Pastime at Park Lane The Pence Community Church led Sunday afternoon services.

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

D’Ann Markel sang and played the piano for residents on Tuesday afternoon.

Several residents played board games on Tuesday evening.

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

Residents played “Fill in the Blank” word games on Thursday afternoon.

Residents played Trivia games on thursday evening.

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

Residents watched, “Wild America” on Friday afternoon and “The Great American Western” on Saturday afternoon.

Darlene Richman was visited by Tina Turley and Janelle Caspar.

Residents enjoy pitch, dominoes

Residents played pitch and dominoes on Monday afternoon. Game helpers were Mandy and Joy Barton, Hugh McDaniel, Wanda Kirk, Dorothy King and Gary Goodman.

Bingo is played on Wednesday

The Mary and Martha Circle from the First Baptist Church hosted bingo on Wednesday afternoon.

Volunteers were Tava See, Leona Logan, Phyllis See and Betty Scheuerman.

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

Pat Lawrence was visited by Marilyn Waters.

LaVera King was visited by Gloria Gough, Velda Riddiough, Shellie Carter; Randy, Kay and Harrison King; Carol Latham, Kylan Stroud, and Kalacia Carter.

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

Albert Dean was visited by Jean Burgess.

Lowell Rudolph was visited by Tom and Kathleen Moore, LuAnn Buehler, Holly Berland and Patricia Rudolph.

Sr. Citizen Lunch Menu Week of April 6-10 Monday: Hamburger or liver/onions, deli fixins, tossed salad, baked beans, roll, applesauce.

Tuesday: Oven fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, spinach, whole wheat roll, apricots.

Wednesday: Tuna noodle casserole, green beans with bacon, whole wheat roll, peach.

Thursday: Pork chop, au gratin potatoes, carrots, cinnamon roll, citrus fruit cup.

Friday: Deli sandwich, fixins, broccoli/cauliflower salad, mandarin oranges. meals are $3.25 • call 872-3501

Corine Dean was visited by Dianna Howard, Janice Drohman, and Aaron and Mandy Kropp.

Bonnie Pickett was visited by Gloria Wright.

Boots Haxton and her son, David Haxton, and his wife Sherry from McPherson visited on Saturday and Sunday. Other visitors were Rod and Kathy Haxton.

Jim Jeffery was visited by Libbie Joles and Jimalene Haddan.

Yvonne Spangler was visited by Jerica VanCampen, Yvette Mills, Adalei Zeller and Les Spangler.

Harold and Ruth White were visited by Jerica VanCampen and Adalei Zeller.

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by Jason Storm

Lorena Turley was visited by LaCinda Griffin from Loveland, Colo.; Gary Turley, Greeley, Colo.; Neta Wheeler, Mike and Tracy Hess, and Marilyn Waters.

Vivian Kreiser was visited by Sharon Lock, Abby and Mason Jackson, and Celina Poore.

Clifford Dearden was visited by Janet Ottaway.

Lucille Dirks was visited by Dale Dirks.

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

Frank Leal was visited

by Gracie and Aria Smith, Crystal Zapata, Carol Barraza Jr., Joe Zapata, Maria Leal, Maracle Leal, Monse Gallegos, Abby Hill and Jasmine Zapata.

Delores Brooks was visited by Fritzie Rauch.

Dona Dee Carpenter was visited by Fritzie Rauch, Roger and Jackie John, Alisa Moore and Bill John.

Nella Funk was visited

by Dianna Howard, Janice Drohman, and Aaron and Mandy Kropp.

Have questions about the Scott Community Foundation? call 872-3790

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Deaths Erma Mae House Erma Mae House, 90, died March 28, 2015, at The Cedars Health Care Center, McPherson.

She was born on Oct. 28, 1924, in Luray, the daughter of William Enos and Annie Irene (Smith) Foulke.

She attended country and town schools in Luray. Erma was a homemaker and ran a daycare while living in Scott City.

On Jan. 25, 1958, she married Richard Smith House at Scott City. He died Aug. 30, 1983.

Survivors include: two daughters, Denise K. Beasley, Goodland, and Margaret Ann Robertson, and husband, Richard, McPherson; five grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren.

She was preceded in

death by her parents; one son, Byron Duane House; two brothers, Robert Foulke and Wesley Oliver Edwards; and four sisters, Sarah Edwards (infant), Lorraine Hill, Ester Munsell, and her twin, Emma Edwards.

Funeral service will be held Fri., April 3, 11:00 a.m., at Glidden-Ediger Chapel, McPherson, with Rev. Chris Whitacre officiating.

Graveside service will be held Monday, April 6, 11:00 a.m., at the Scott County Cemetery with Pastor Scott Wagner officiating.

The family requests donations to The Cedars be sent in care of GliddenEdiger Funeral Home, 222 W. Euclid St., McPherson, Ks. 67460.

Etta Fern Ashcraft Etta Fern Ashcraft, 83, died March 30, 2015, at Park Lane Nursing Home, Scott City.

She was born on July 15, 1931, in Copeland, the daughter of Spencer and Jessie (Shuman) Glover.

A lifetime resident of Limon, Colo., she moved to Scott City in March of 2014. She was a homemaker and an avid painter.

Etta was a member of Central Bible Church, Remah, Colo.

On Dec. 28, 1946, she married Walter A. Ashcraft in Limon, Colo. He died May 31, 1997, in Satanta.

Survivors include: one son, Terry Ashcraft, and wife, Jayne, Limon, Colo.; one daughter, Diana Jennison, and husband, Dick, Healy; three

brothers, Dale Glover, and wife, Lynn, of Arizona, Edward Glover, and wife, Linda, Limon, Colo., and Gary Glover, and wife, Georgiana, Calhan, Colo.; one sister, Edna Mae Boegher, Dodge City; one nephew; two nieces; 14 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers, two sisters and one granddaughter.

Memorial service will be held Fri., April 10, at Love Funeral Home, Limon, Colo.

Interment will be at the Simla Cemetery, Simla, Colo.

Memorials may be given to the American Cancer Society.

There will be no calling times.

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Finish Well!

The last few weeks, I’ve been preaching on the famous last words of Jesus as He was on the cross. Last week we focused on the words from John 19:30 when Jesus said “It is finished”. It’s amazing to think of what Jesus finished while He was on the earth. Everything that God the father had sent Him to do was now accomplished.

It’s easy to say that Jesus finished well. Everything that He started, everything that God had sent him to do was finished.

If we are to follow Christ’s example, we too must be finishers. You see through the cross and through our salvation, God began a good work in us. It’s easy for us to celebrate the beginning of this good work; our repentance, confessions, baptisms are all worthy of celebration. In fact, the Bible says even the angels celebrate in heaven when one lost sinner is saved. But if we are to truly become like Christ, we must become finishers.

I love the story from the 1968, Mexico City Olympic games. John Steven Aquari from Tanzania set out for hopes of an Olympic Gold in the 26.2 mile marathon race. Sadly, for him and his country, midway through the race, he had a horrible accident. Falling to the

ground, gashing his knee wide open and dislocating his knee from the joint, certainly keeping him from finishing the race.

While, all of the other runners left him behind and eventually entered into the stadium for the final lap.

Over an hour after the race had been run and all of the other runners had already completed, John Steven Aquari shocked the world. When the stadium was mostly empty, this very injured runner, hobbled into the stadium limping and fighting his way to the finishing line. Leg wrapped with a little towel, with blood gushing down, this very brave hero finished a race that virtually everyone else would have quit.

After the race was over, the interviewers asked John, “Why did you do that when no one else would have?” And John said, “My country did not send me 5,000 miles to start a race, but they sent me 5,000 miles to finish it.”

That’s what we are going to do, because we have unfinished business. And God is calling us to finish the race. The apostle Paul wrote: “However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task . . . .”

We must become like Jesus, have the same desires as Paul and finish our race set before us. Looking forward to and longing to hear the words, “Well done my good and faithful servant.”

Pastor Shelby Crawford Community Christian Church, Scott City

Scott City Assembly of God

Prairie View Church of the Brethren

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

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

Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Men’s Fellowship • Tuesday breakfast at 6:30 a.m.

Held at Precision Ag Bldg. west of Shallow Water Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m., at the church

St. Joseph Catholic Church

Holy Cross Lutheran Church

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

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

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

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

Worship every Sunday, 10:15 a.m.

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

Pence Community Church

Community Christian Church

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

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

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

Sunday Morning Worship, 10:45 a.m.

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

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

First Baptist Church

Immanuel Southern Baptist Church

803 College - Scott City - 872-2339

1398 S. US83 - Scott City - 872-2264

Kyle Evans, Senior Pastor Bob Artz, Associate Pastor

Robert Nuckolls, pastor - 872-5041

Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.

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

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

Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.

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

Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

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

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

Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. • MYF (youth groups) on Wednesdays Jr. High: 6:30 p.m. • Sr. High: 7:00 p.m.

First Christian Church

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

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

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

Website: www.fccscottcity.org

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

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

Scott Mennonite Church

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

12021 N. Eagle Rd. • Scott City

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

Sunday School, 10:50 a.m.

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

YMYW Wednesday, 8:00 p.m.

Franklin Koehn: 872-2048 Charles Nightengale: 872-3056 Sunday School Worship Service: 10:00 a.m.

Sunday Evening Service: 7:00 p.m.

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Youngsters who have reached 200 to 1,400 book milestones in the Scott County Library’s “1,000 Books Before Kindergarten” reading program are:

Top readers of the week Patrick Goode 200

Devon Dreiling 200

Baily Cramer 300

Dash Campos 800

Abigail Wiechman 900

Joselyn Miller 1,100

Ava Hughes 1,400

Price, Davis are GWAC champs; three qualify for CFL Nationals

Emma Price and Macy Davis claimed championship honors in the Great West Activities Conference forensics tournament held at Holcomb.

Price was first with her humorous solo act and also qualified for state.

Davis continued her string of first place finishes with her original oration.

As a team, Scott City finished in third place behind league champion Colby and Holcomb.

Other league results include: •Nic Cheney/Brynnan Sherwood, 6th in improvised duet act.

•Emily Glenn, 4th in original oration.

•Macy Davis, 4th in impromptu speaking.

•Megan Smith, 3rd in poetry.

•Carson Haupt, 3rd in original oration.

Emma Price and Carson Haupt placed second in duet acting and qualified for state. Jaylee York is

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also a state qualifier as a second place medalist in poetry.

CFL Tournament SCHS students traveled to Junction City for the Catholic Forensics League qualifying tournament.

Davis was a gold medalist in original oration while Price and Haupt were fourth with their duet act. The three qualified for nationals to be held over Memorial Day weekend in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

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Week of April 6-10 Western Cartographers Breakfast Available: Monday: No school.

Tuesday: Mini pancakes, sausage links, peaches, Scott fruit juice.

Ness Wednesday: Whole wheat bagel and jelly, fresh or- Gove ange, fruit juice.

Lane Logan Thursday: Breakfast pita and salsa, cantaloupe, Finney Wichita fruit juice.

Wallace Friday: Whole grain cinnamon roll, fruit cocktail, Greeley fruit juice.

Kearney Lunch Monday: No school.

Tuesday: Pizza mozzarella sticks, * Chef Boyardee Ravioli, marinara sauce, Monaco blend veggies, pineapple.

Wednesday: Salisbury steak, *chicken fried steak, potatoes and gravy, broccoli, dinner roll, honey dew melon.

Thursday: Submarine sandwich, *pizza, (HS Pizza Pick them up today at: Hut), potato salad, dill spear, lettuce leaf and tomato slice, mixed fruit.

Friday: Mighty rib on a bun, *pigs in a blanket, sea406 Main • Scott City soned potato wedges, corn strawberries, cookie.

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Shapland, Cramer win golds at Tribune As a two-time state qualifier, Payden Shapland knows what it means to be among the top distance runners in Class 1A. Just being one of the best isn’t good enough this season for the Dighton High School junior.

“Her goal is to get onto the podium at the state meet,” says head coach Ken Simon.

Shapland showed that she’s ready to make good on that commitment with a gold medal performance at the Early Season Meet in Tribune on Tuesday.

It didn’t come easy for the Dighton junior who’s winning time of 13:42.22 nudged runner-up Robyn Selzer (Sharon Springs) by just 1.15 seconds. The two girls switched positions in the 1600m with Shapland (6:36.7) finishing 16 seconds off the pace set by Selzer.

The opening meet was also a chance for sophomore Sara Cramer to make a return to track after skipping her freshman season. She claimed a gold medal in the 800m (2:38.65), finishing nearly 12 seconds ahead of the runner-up. In addition, she was fourth in the long jump (14-1), but she also may have tweaked a quad muscle in the event which prompted the head coach to pull Cramer out of the 400m.

“Sara felt she could run as long as she didn’t have to sprint, so we decided to play it safe,” Simon says. “She was able to maintain an easy pace in the 800 and didn’t have any problems.”

Senior Madison O’Brien is also a newcomer to track this season and she proved to be a welcome addition with a silver medal in the long jump (14-6), a bronze in the 200m (31.55) and fourth place in the 100m (14.77).

Dighton’s Regan Foos lands in the pit during long jump competition at Tribune on Tuesday.

(Record Photo)

(See SHAPLAND on page 20)

No mercy by TMP in sweep of Beavers The only thing merciful about Scott City’s baseball season opener at Hays-TMP was the mercy rule.

Traditional powerhouse TMP swept Scott City 0 2 the Beavers in Hays-TMP 10 12 a non-league double-header, 10-0 and 12-2, in games that were shortened to five innings by the 10-run mercy rule.

“They’re a senior-dominated team and we started seven sophomores and two seniors,” noted head coach Neil Baker. “It’s tough for a team this young to compete against a veteran team like that.”

But Baker was far from disappointed.

“We’re twice as good as we were at this time a year ago,” he says. “This was the first time for the boys to see live pitching

this spring. On top of that, they threw a left-hander at us in the first game.”

TMP’s starter threw a no-hitter at Scott City in the opener.

“Probably half our guys changed their grip and their stance once they were in a game situation,” says Baker. “They were swinging at every pitch instead of working in the strike zone.”

Senior Sloan Baker was the

but that was all the offense they could generate.

With one out, Morgen Roberts and Justin Faurot each reached base on walks. Baker followed with a RBI double to center field, putting runners on second and third. Kyle Cure’s sacrifice fly scored Faurot.

TMP Completes Sweep The head coach felt the The Beavers were able to score a pair of runs in the sec- defense turned in pretty solid ond game, cutting the TMP lead play in both games. Second (See TMP on page 21) to 3-2 in the top of the third, SCHS starting pitcher, giving up nine hits.

“He was pretty rusty, which is what you’d expect this time of the year,” says the head coach.

“We limited him to about 60 pitches.”

Don’t put all the blame on Scott City fans

Scott City fans, just in case you weren’t already aware, you’re being watched.

Yes, when you attend a state championship Rod football game or Haxton, the state basketsports editor ball tournament, representatives with the Kansas State High School Activities Association are carrying little notebooks and watching your every move, listening to your shouts of encouragement and, yes, putting a big, red mark into their book every time you shout an unkind comment toward the officials.

During the recent Class 3A state tournament, Scott Community High School received high marks for their pep band, the student section, and the conduct of our players/coaches.

The fans, to be honest, scored poorly.

On a five point scale, those doing the evaluations gave SCHS fans very low marks.

Of course, the SCHS cheerleading sponsor and band director feel terrible.

The fan scoring pulled down the overall average and, as a result, Scott City didn’t get a sportsmanship award.

We feel bad for the cheerleaders and the pep band members who do an outstanding job, not just at the state tournament, but (See BLAME on page 22)

Pierre Portes prepares to make a backhand return during practice this week.

(Record Photo)

More depth, experience for SC netters It wasn’t until mid-season a year ago that Dylan Hutchins and Bo Hess teamed up to play doubles.

It proved to be a winning combination for the Scott Community High School duo who came within one match win in regional of qualifying for the Class 4A state tournament.

“They will be our number one doubles team this year,” assured head

coach Steve Kucharik who feels the two could have a very good season.

“They’re a pretty strong combination,” says Kucharik. “They are fundamentally pretty sound, they communicate well with each other and they are both very competitive.”

However, the two won’t be in competition together next Friday when the Beavers open their varsity season

at Cimarron. Hess will be competing with his AAU basketball team in Chicago, so Hutchins will be paired with sophomore Chandler Janssen.

“Chandler and Hayden (Nevills) worked a lot on their game over the summer. I believe Chandler will be able to hold his own at the varsity level,” Kucharik says.

(See NETTERS on page 20)

The Scott County Record • Page 20 • Thursday, April 2, 2015

Outdoors in Kansas by Steve Gilliland

CSI: Kansas wildlife

A coworker recently told me she saw her horses chasing a couple of animals across her pasture that were dark, about the size of raccoons, and had no visible tail. She also told me a couple animals fitting the same description had run from her barn awhile back.

She is convinced they were nutrias which are basically overgrown muskrats that thrive in the backwaters of Louisiana and other parts of the south.

I was skeptical because I’ve never heard of nutria in Kansas.

I shared what I knew with Matt Peek, research biologist with the Kansas Dept of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism who also acts as the furbearer biologist for the state, and it may have shed some light on their possible identity.

Identifying wildlife only from someone’s description can be a challenge, but there are clues we can use.

Of course, a key piece of evidence are the tracks the critters leave behind. Footprints are unique, sort of like human fingerprints. If one knows the tracks of different animals, positive identification can be made.

Another dependable clue is droppings left by the animals.

Again, they are usually unique to each species and hunters and trappers learn to use them as valuable clues to where animals are traveling.

Other facts useful in identifying wildlife are obviously the size, shape and color of the critter, any sounds it makes, where it was seen and anything else about what it was eating, where it lives, etc.

Now back to the two “suspects” in the pasture. Peek said that although there (See WILDLIFE on page 23)

Shapland (continued from page 19)

“She had a real nice jump considering how little we’ve been able to work on field events so far this year,” Simon says.

Dighton has been getting a new rubberized track to replace the asphalt. Athletes were able to get on the track for the first time on Monday.

“We only had one day to work on our jumps so we were trying to get things figured out on Monday.

Overall, we didn’t do too bad,” says Simon.

Jordan Speer, a state medalist in the shot put didn’t compete at Tribune and may miss another week recovering from mono.

As a team, the Lady Hornets (76) finished behind Tribune (93) and Triplains (79) in the standings. They were followed Dighton freshman Logan Lingg competes in the discus at the Tribune track meet on Tuesday.

(Record Photo)

by Cheylin (74), Sharon Springs (72), Weskan Sharon Springs (105) (66), Deerfield (39) and He’s been throwing the ver medalist in the 400m the 3200m with freshdiscus around 120 (feet) (57.96) and fourth in the men Brendan Whipple won the boy’s division, Plainview (4).

(3rd, 12:51.9) and Trystan followed by Deerfield in practice, so I expect 3200m (13:21.37).

“He’s capable of being Seifried (5th, 13:49.3).

(104) and Triplains (74).

Habiger Wins 2 Silvers him to be in the upper Senior Wyatt Habiger 120s, maybe in the 130s a sprinter or a distance was a double silver med- by the end of the year,” runner. We’ll have to see where he’s strongest,” alist in the discus (115-1) Simon says.

Nate Dominguez, a Simon says. and the javelin (132-7).

The Hornets added “Those weren’t bad sophomore competing for throws to start the season. the first time, was a sil- two more medalists in

Netters Foreign exchange student Pierre Portis will likely be in the No. 1 singles spot while Alberto Araiza, a junior, will be the No. 2 singles.

Portis played youth tennis in France, but that was several years ago.

Stepping into the No. 2 doubles role are Isaac

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Evans and Juan Quintana.

“I expect to see some boys challenging for varsity spots this season. We have some depth and I think we can be pretty competitive,” Kucharik says.

While he likes to give different players experience at the varsity level during the season,

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Kucharik feels the No. 1 doubles and both singles positions appear to be set.

“I would guess that the No. 2 doubles could change during the year,” he says.

The Beavers will open their season in a junior varsity tournament at Garden City on Monday.

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Need volunteers for SC Relays

Anyone interested in assisting with the Scott City Relays track meet on Tuesday, April 21, is asked to contact activities director Randy Huck at 8727620.

Volunteers are needed for the field events.

TMP (continued from page 19)

baseman Faurot had a pair of unassisted double plays. On one occasion he collected a ground ball, stepped on second and threw the runner out at first.

The second time he turned a double play he grabbed a line drive and was able to get the out at second before the runner could return.

Behind the plate, sophomore Kevin Aguilera was the starter in the first game and threw out a runner attempting to steal second. Faurot was the catcher in the second game with Hunter Braun on the mound.

Braun gave up nine hits in the nightcap.

Members of the Takedown Kids Wrestling Club in Scott City who placed in the state tournament were (front row, from left) Collin McDaniel, Jarron Gregory and Houston Frank. (Back row) Kaden Wren, Zach Tucker, Wyatt Hayes and Cale Goodman.

(Record Photo)

Gregory is state champion; Frank claims second place The state tournament is becoming familiar territory for Jarron Gregory.

So are state championships.

A member of the Scott City Takedown Kids Wrestling Club, Gregory returned from the state tournament in Topeka this weekend with a championship trophy in the 9-10-year-old, 150-pound division.

This was Gregory’s fourth trip to state and his second gold medal.

And the youngster left no doubt about his dominance. He pinned three of his

four opponents, including a fall in just 18 seconds in the championship match.

“I got him in a headlock and he went right to his back,” says the 11-year-old.

Gregory finished the season 28-1 with his only loss coming against a five-time national champion from Colorado when the two met in the Dodge City Nationals.

Gregory lost his first match to the Colorado grappler, but in a best two-ofthree format, the Scott City wrestler won the next two times they faced.

Claiming runner-up honors in the state tournament was Houston Frank (7-8-years-old, 72 lbs.)

Losing just one match during the weekend and finishing in third place were Wyatt Hayes (13-14 years, 140 pounds) and Zach Tucker (high school division, 106 pounds).

Bringing home fourth place medals were Collin McDaniel, Cale Goodman and Kaden Wren.

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Wildcats’ basketball in need of a change Kansas State’s basketball program is in a state of disarray. Three players have left the Wildcats’ team, two involuntarily and one on his own initiative. by C o a c h Mac Bruce Weber Stevenson tossed sophomore Marcus Foster and freshman Tre Harris off the team and starting point guard Jevon Thomas is going to transfer.

Weber’s cupboard is going to be bare going into the 2015-16 season, which makes it appear that AD John Currie picked the wrong man for the head coaching job. K-State did well in Weber’s first two years using recruits from previous coaches Bob Huggins and Frank Martin. But the decline has been steady.

If Currie sticks with Weber, it’s going to make a deep hole even deeper and take longer to climb out.

Coach Huggins proved that K-State can put entertaining and talented teams on the floor, but when the chemistry isn’t right, the program can become inept almost overnight.

Kansas State has a proud history of exceptional basketball teams and the present downward path shouldn’t be followed any further.

Walk-Ons Up at KU KU’s spring football practice is underway with new head coach David Beaty. To say the Jayhawks are shorthanded is a master understatement. Coach Beaty returns 44 lettermen, including just 10 starters.

However, all is not doom and gloom. Kansas has about 55 scholarship players available for spring practice, but that’s not the encouraging factor. Beaty has recruited nearly 30 walk-ons - many from Kansas - who will participate in spring practice.

KU can’t announce names of the walk-ons because of NCAA regulations, however Beaty is encouraged with the success of the new program.

“We’ve had to shut it down . . . we just don’t have anymore spots,” he said.

(See WILDCATS on page 25)

Blame throughout the season. They are as good as anyone out there, and that’s particularly evident at the state tournament.

We challenge anyone to find a student section that is more involved and has more fun than our students do during the state tournament.

And we have documented that school spirit with photo page layouts featuring our pep band and student body.

It’s unfortunate that they can’t be judged on their own, but KSHSAA chooses to group them with the entire community . . . sort of a guilt by association.

Despite KSHSAA’s highly advanced evaluation system that we’re sure has evolved from decades of careful, scientific study, we take exception to the presumption that Scott City has terrible fans who don’t know the first thing about sportsmanship.

Do we have fans who sometimes shout things that make you cringe? Without doubt.

We’ve experienced some

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cringe-worthy moments.

Then again, we’ve attended games featuring a great many of the teams across the western part of our state and we can say the same thing about any fan base. Some areas of the state, quite frankly, are worse than others when it comes to fan behavior.

That’s no excuse. It’s just the way it is.

The case could be made for the fact that when Scott City brings such a huge following of fans to a playoff or tournament game it also increases the likelihood that you will have individuals who say things that are better left unsaid. And, by sheer volumn alone, if half of the crowd in the Hutchinson Sports Arena doesn’t like a particular call, or feel the officiating is up to par, it’s going to be pretty hard not to hear their opinion.

Again, that’s just the way it is.

And Scott City fans had reason to be less than happy with less-than-stellar officiating.

Despite the best efforts of our school’s administration and our student body to encourage good sportsmanship, you can’t always control human behavior - especially when fans are as passionate and as deeply invested in our youth and our sports programs as Scott City’s fans. * * * Since KSHSAA demands the best in sportsmanship from fans (as it should) and since that behavior is being evaluated so that fans know just how good or bad they’ve been, here’s an idea.

Be equally open about the evaluation of officials in substate and state tournaments.

We’re not asking for names, but let us know what you think with respect to the job performance of officiating crews.

Show us that you are viewing officials with the same critical eyes that you are using to judge our fans.

There are a couple of games, in particular, in which we’d like to know if “neutral”

observers are seeing the game the same way as partisan fans.

An occasional missed or questionable call? That’s life.

We don’t expect perfection.

But a consistent pattern of ineptitude can’t simply be dismissed as the breaks of the game.

Furthermore, we’d like to know how the fans were evaluated for each of Scott City’s tournament games - not just a collective evaluation from all three games. We have a strong feeling that local fans were rated much lower in the first two state games than they were in the championship game - and for good reason. The championship game was the best officiated game involving Scott City in nearly two weeks.

We will be critical of our fans when they have earned it.

This isn’t one of those times.

You want the best from fans. We expect the best from officials. And the only way that both of those can happen is if KSHSAA is doing its job.

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Teachers and anglers aspiring to teach fishing techniques to youth, families, and students in Kansas are encouraged to

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There is no cost to attend; however, classes will be limited to the first 40 registrants.

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The Scott County Record • Page 23 • Thursday, April 2, 2015

Blaine Culp, Harrison King and Colton Cupp were champions of the 3-on-3 basketball tournament played at Oakley last weekend. Competing in the fifth and sixth grade division, the trio rolled through the tournament with a perfect record.

Wildlife are no known nutrias in Kansas today, historical records show they once lived here long ago. So while it is very unlikely what she saw were in fact nutria, it is not totally out of the question.

A better answer would be that what she saw were groundhogs which have been in eastern Kansas for years and, like armadillos, are expanding their range all the time, or possibly badgers. Using the criteria above, let’s put our CSI hats on and analyze the situation.

First of all, tracks and dropping would be nearly impossible to find in a grassy pasture, so that takes us to the next group of clues. Considering the

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size and shape of what she described, both badgers and groundhogs fit the bill and have short, stubby tails, while nutria are built low and long like muskrats and have long, slender tails.

Perhaps the most important clue to me is where they were seen. Both badgers and groundhogs would be at home in the middle of a pasture while nutria would not venture far from their home in some sort of water. The only water near this location is a small creek with barely anything in it.

To narrow it down even further, groundhogs fit the dark color description better than badgers and would also be right at home in

and around her old barn, so my best guess in light of all the above, is that she saw her horses chasing a couple of groundhogs.

Mind you, this is only my best deduction in light of the information and because there are no known nutria in Kansas.

My friend might still be right, and if so, I hope to see them someday myself.

Sometimes the unknown can be intriguing and I enjoy trying to solve mysteries involving wildlife. So put on your CSI hats and join me in the lab as we Explore Kansas Outdoors!

Steve can be contacted by email at stevegilliland@idkcom.net

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A new look, another cause for KC’s superfan

Everyone knows that I love football. I’m in the NFL Hall of Fame as a superfan because I’m passionate about my Kansas City Chiefs.

When you think of XFactor you think of football.

But here’s something you probably didn’t know.

I was a KC Royals fan long before I was cheering for the Chiefs.

I grew up listening to baseball games back in the day when the Royals were consistently among the best teams in Major League Baseball and finally won the World Series in 1985. It was much easier choosing the Royals over the Chiefs during that time because their Super Bowl days had become a distant memory.

Since 1992, however, I’ve been a Chiefs superfan and in 2003 I created the X-Factor.

However, the X-Factor is no longer just a football superfan. As of April 6, on the opening day of baseball season at Kaufman Stadium, the X-Factor will also be a Royals superfan. I’ve been in the process of developing my

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“new look” which will be seen in public for the first time.

Crossing over into the world of baseball isn’t a big leap. On baseball opening day, I’m leading a group of about 60 volunteers who will be selling special editions of the Kansas City Star with the money we get from sales being used to send disabled kids to summer camp for a week. This is something I’ve helped organize for about 16 years.

I’ve also been asked countless times over the years to become a baseball superfan and the timing finally fit in with other changes that are going on in my professional life.

I’ll be the fourth Royals superfan. Superfan Chris has been at this for about 10 years and two other superfans started last year.

This isn’t a competitive thing between superfans.

You have to be passionate about being a super-

fan, especially in baseball since there are 81 home games. I expect to attend between 60-70 games.

One reason I took on this new venture is because it’s an opportunity to get involved with some amazing charity work that the Royals support. However, the bigger motivation for me is the chance to create a memorable game day experience for the young Royals fans.

I think everyone who ever attended a Chiefs or Royals game as a kid will always remember that experience. Those memories are what help to create lifelong fans.

This is the kind of work that I was meant to do.

Cancer Challenge Last week I was visiting Justice, a young friend of mine who is undergoing treatment for cancer at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City.

Justice has lost her hair because of chemo treatments, so I had Justice shave my head and Big Cat (John Stoner) as part of a fundraising challenge we hope will go nationwide. We’re challenging

X-Factor will be making his debut as a Kansas City Royals superfan during the season opener on April 6.

members of the Royals and Chiefs, and our fans, to raise money for cancer by shaving their heads.

Anyone who doesn’t want to shave their head can make a $50 donation to cancer research.

We’re getting responses from my superfan friends in Oakland and elsewhere.

We hope this will continue to pick up momentum so we can help find a cure for Justice and other cancer victims.

Anyone who wants more information or to see me and Justice can visit my Facebook site, see the YouTube video or visit www.kcsuperfans.com.

Baker selected for Kansas Shrine Bowl O’Neil among coaches on West squad Sloan Baker’s future plans include baseball at the college level, but that won’t keep the Scott Community High School senior from suiting up for one final football game.

Baker joins the long history of SCHS athletes who have also been selected to play in the Kansas Shrine Bowl. The game will be played on July 25 at Ft. Hays State University.

In addition, SCHS head coach Glenn O’Neil will be on the staff for the West squad.

“I had football offers from junior colleges in the Jayhawk West Conference, but I love baseball,” says Baker.

However, he sees his selection to the Shrine Bowl as an honor and is looking forward to suiting

SCHS senior Sloan Baker acknowledges the crowd while being recognized for his selection to the Kansas Shrine Bowl.

(Record Photo)

up one final time before ending his high school career.

“I was pretty excited when I found out that Coach O’Neil had nominated me (for the Shrine Bowl),” Baker says.

“Then I heard they were in the process of selecting

the players and I didn’t hear anything more for about three weeks, so I was worried about whether or not I’d been selected.

“Even though I hadn’t heard anything official yet, Coach told me that I’d made the team, so that was a relief,” Baker says.

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“It was still a big honor when I got the official letter.”

As he looks at the long list of Scott City players who are part of the Shrine Bowl history, Baker says “it’s pretty cool to be part of that tradition.”

Not many players get to

play the final two games of their careers in a state championship game and in the Shrine Bowl.

“I’m looking forward to leaving it all on the field and then locking up the equipment and calling it quits. But it’s been a really good run.

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Takedown Kids Wrestling USAWKS 2015 State Folkstyle Championship March 28-29, 2015 • at Topeka 7-8-Years-Old 49: Trenton Frank dec. by Brock Johnson (Paola) 7-1; dec. Peyton Tabor (Winfield) 8-2; dec. by Lucas Kaufman (Newton) 7-0.

73: Houston Frank maj. dec. Gage Gilliland (Louisburg) 13-0; dec. Quinton Harding (Parsons) 6-2; maj. dec. Jake Meyer (Wamego) 10-1; dec. by Ian Aouad (Brawlers) 6-2.

Second place 9-10-Years-Old 70: Collin McDaniel pinned Michael Solomon (OE/STA) 0:57; dec. by Ty Leedy (Chanute) 6-5; dec. Cole Cronk (Southwest (Timberwolves) 5-4; dec. Andrew Bretz (Hoxie) 4-2; dec. by Macoy Johnson (Paola) 7-2. Fourth place 73: Zachery Rohrbough dec. Zach Donahue (Paola) 8-2; dec. by Jacob Stinnett (Fort Scott) 3-0; dec. by Kelby Eck (Brawlers) 4-2.

76: Conner Armendariz dec. Cooper Johnston (Cougars) 4-0; pinned by Cody Hughbanks (Maize) 1:51; dec. by Collin Pearson (MAC) 7-6.

120: Ronnie Weathers pinned Connor Conklin (Topeka) 0:56; pinned by Quentin Saunders (Hard Knox) 2:34; pinned Carmelo Orosco (Ulysses) 0:43; pinned by Taylor Dumas (Tiger) 1:56.

150: Jarron Gregory pinned Gavin Brewer (Osawatomie) 0:57; maj. dec. Tre Greene (Hawks) 14-5; pinned Jared Kruse (Hawks) 1:43; pinned Zachary Fisher (Vermillion Valley) 0:18.

First place 11-12-Years-Old 96: Kale Wheeler dec. by Johnny Akin (East Kansas) 8-2; maj. dec. Colby Mohr (Abilene) 8-0; pinned by Landon Wilkes (Cougars) 5:28.

140: Cale Goodman dec. Joshua Willcutt (Tonganoxie) 3-0; dec. Dax Hopp (Smoky Valley) 4-0; pinned by Garron Champoux (Marysville) 2:22; pinned Joey Eddis (Lawrence) 1:50; dec. by Nicholas Bahm (Winfield) 1-0. Fourth place 13-14-Years-Old 95: Theron Tucker pinned Xavier Seaton (Bonner Springs) 4:22; dec. by Evan Totty (Heartland) 7-0; dec. by Christopher Gleason (Mission Valley) 8-2.

100: Justus McDaniel pinned Joe Phillips (Bobcat) 2:16; tech fall by Brett Bober (Burlington) 15-0; dec. Luke Richard (Manhattan) 6-1; maj. dec. by Kobe Grijalva (Derby) 11-1.

110: Kaden Wren dec. Eddie Vera (Olathe) 7-0; dec. by Trevor Casteel (Abilene) 2-1; pinned Hagan Andrews (The Farm) 2:17; pinned Taven Ewbank (East Kansas) 1:36; dec.

Joseph Irwin (Leavenworth Co.) 5-1; dec. by Dayton Porsch (Hoxie) 6-0. Fourth place 140: Wyatt Hayes pinned Dylan McLain (Leavenworth Co.) 4:13; pinned Peyton Lane (Tiger) 2:20; dec. by Javier Contreras (KC Gladiators) 7-5; pinned Riley Smith (Hutchinson) 2:44; dec. Noah Hansen (Plainville) 11-5. Third place 175: Kyle Sherwood tech. fall by Anthony Gaona (OE/ STA) 16-0; dec. Jacob Quiggle (Maize) 8-4; pinned by Caleb Willis (Leavenworth Co.)1:44.

High School 106: Zachary Tucker dec. by Boo Dryden (Haysville) 7-0; pinned Gabriel Holmes (KS Young Guns) 1:17; dec. Jaryd Weber (Brawlers) 4-0; dec. Hunter Williams (Emporia) 9-7; maj. dec. Jerad Habben (Cougars) 13-4. Third place

Wildcats KU and many other schools are in a difficult situation. The NCAA allows 85 scholarship players on each Division I team, but only 25 scholarships each year. It’s obvious that it will take Kansas a number of seasons to reach the 85-player scholarship limit.

Like so much about the NCAA, this is a ridiculous rule. Teams like Oklahoma and Texas have their 85 scholarship players and about 30-40 walkons to go with them. The only answer for Beaty and his staff is to create an outstanding walk-on program, which is easier said than done.

If KU can train and develop five or six Big 12 football players out of every walk-on class, they can reach the 85 scholarship limit sooner than later.

The Jayhawks’ spring

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game will be on Sat., April disappeared when the reg25, at Memorial Stadium ular season started. with a 1:00 p.m. kickoff.

“The way you tilt the field in your favor is by KC Defense Stellar having quality pitchThe Kansas City Roy- ing and really good deals open defense of their fense. Those are things 2014 American League that hopefully can show Championship on April 6 up every single day and against the Chicago White perform for you,” said Sox (3:10 p.m. Kauffman General Manager Dayton Stadium). So far the Roy- Moore. als have escaped serious Kansas City’s bullpen injuries as they prepare to is among the best in MLB wrap up spring training. and the starting pitching Expectations for KC’s shows promise. KC’s destarting pitching received fense was exceptional last a boost last week when Ja- season and looks just as son Vargas Jeremy Guth- formidable this year. rie, and Yordano Ventura Eric Hosmer is the best had solid starts in exhibi- first baseman in MLB, tion games. All three had Alex Gordon is the best excellent outings, but left fielder and Salvy Ventura’s was superb with Perez is the league’s best seven scoreless innings defensive catcher. Loand no hits. renzo Cain is outstanding KC’s regulars have had in center field and Alcides satisfactory springs, noth- Escobar is a first-class ing great. That may be a shortstop. good omen. Last year, the Mike Moustakas is all Royals’ hitters tore up the right at third base. A poCactus League and then tential problem is second

SCHS Track SCHS JV Track March 31, 2015 • at Larned Girl’s Division Triple jump: Haley Allen, 3rd, 27-7.75; Brandi Shearmire, 5th, 25-3.5.

Long jump: Allen, 4th, 13-6.25.

High jump: Shantice Lara, 4th, 4-2.

Shot put: Nancy Wiebe, 3rd, 26-8.75.

Discus: Wiebe, 3rd, 78-8.

Javelin: Kiana Yager, 1st, 91-4; Lizzy Eikenberry, 2nd, 80-7; Clarissa Ratzlaff, 3rd, 80-6.

Pole vault: Eikenberry, 1st, 8; Emily Smith, 3rd, 7-6; Jalynn Habiger, 4th(T), 7; Olivia Prieto, 4th(T), 7; Wiebe, 4th(T), 7.

100m: Tyler Vondracek, 6th, 15.37.

200m: Paige Winderlin, 2nd, 28.64; Macy Berning, 5th, 30.11.

400m: Winderlin, 1st,

1:05.21; Berning, 2nd, 1:07.56; Lara, 4th, 1:10.87.

800m: Cami Patton, 2nd, 2:46.58; Kylee Trout, 2:48.85; Trella Davis, 6th, 2:55.91.

100m high hurdles: Smith, 4th, 20.84.

300m low hurdles: Smith, 2nd, 55.38; Mya Foster, 5th, 1:04.03.

1600m: Delaney Kitch, 2nd, 6:42.17; Ashley Prewit, 6th, 7:20.80.

4x400m relay: Smith, Lara, Davis, Winderlin, 1st, 4:47.48.

4x800m relay: Patton, Prieto, Trout, Davis, 1st, 12:02.

Boy’s Division Triple jump: Reid Brunswig, 1st, 38-9.

Long jump: Nick Nowak, 4th, 17-8.5.

High jump: David Macias, 4th, 5-2.

Shot put: Tre Stewart, 2nd, 39-1/2.

Discus: Stewart, 2nd, 120-9.

Javelin: Eddie Tilton, 3rd, 105-11.

Pole vault: Adrian Ruelas, 5th, 8.

100m: Marco Vasquez, 4th, 12.55.

200m: Vasquez, 2nd, 25.11; Kevin Lozano, 3rd, 25.17.

400m: Macias, 1st, 57.21; Kuawn Stewart, 4th, 1:00.54; Brunswig, 6th, 1:02.33.

800m: Ruelas, 2nd, 2:23; Austin Rios, 3rd, 2:25.52.

3200m: Chance Jones, 2nd, 12:26.07.

300m int. hurdles: Nowak, 1st, 49.39.

4x100m: Jarret Jurgens, Macias, K. Lozano, Nowak, 1st, 47.98.

4x400m: Ruelas, Rios, Jurgens, K. Lozano, 1st, 3:56.30.

4x800m relay: Rios, Ruelas, K. Stewart, Jones, 2nd, 9:54.51.

baseman Omar Infante who has a bad elbow and can’t throw hard. That won’t do. Double plays are vital and Infante can’t turn them the way he’s thrown in spring training.

Christian Colon may well end up being the regular second baseman.

Alex Rios is the new right fielder and his defense hasn’t been tested.

Overall, KC has one of the best defenses in MLB and that wins a lot of close games. Manager Ned Yost was justifiably criticized for many of his decisions last season, but you have to judge trappers by the hides on their wall.

The American League Central Division is going to be one of the toughest in baseball. Chicago is greatly improved with a number of offseason moves and Detroit and Cleveland have outstanding ball clubs. It will be an exciting summer.

weighing options

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Marshall will return; what next for Baker?

Three 30-plus win seasons.

A record-setting 35 game win streak to open the 2013-14 season.

Wins over such prestigious programs as the University of Kansas, Gonzaga and Indiana.

It’s been an incredible threeyear run for Wichita State University and junior guard Ron Baker.

The big question now is what does the future hold for the former Scott Community High School standout and NBA prospect.

Part of that question was answered this week when head coach Gregg Marshall turned down overtures from the University of Texas and University of Alabama to remain at WSU - with a hefty pay increase reported to be about $3 million a year.

While he’s obviously happy with the decision, Baker had prepared himself mentally for whatever decision Marshall decided to make.

“Some people don’t realize that coaching basketball is like any other job,” noted Baker. “I heard the money that Bama was reportedly offering. That’s a lot, but I thought it would take more than money for Coach Marshall to leave.

“I would have respected whatever decision he made.

You have to do what you think is best for you and your family and looking at what you want to accomplish in your career.”

Those same guidelines apply to Baker who will use the next few weeks to decide his own future - whether to finish his final year as a Shocker or enter the NBA draft.

Several factors will play into that decision.

The continued departure of WSU assistant coaches for head coaching jobs is to be expected when you have a program that is one of the best in the nation.

A year ago, associate head coach Chris Jans departed WSU to become head coach at Bowling Green. That loss hit close to home for Baker since he was the one coach who saw Division I potential in the SCHS athlete and recruited him to Wichita.

This year it’s assistant coach Steve Forbes, who has been on Marshall’s staff the past two seasons, leaving the Shockers to take over the top job at East Tennessee State.

“Losing assistant coaches figure into the decision process,” says Baker. “In our program, as I’m sure is true in most programs, the head coach is really intelligent about the game and the system and how he coaches you as a player. The assistants are more involved in develop-

WSU junior Ron Baker and other Shockers walk off the court following their Sweet 16 loss to Notre Dame which ended their NCAA Tournament run.

(Photo courtesy of The Wichita Eagle)

ing you as a player. Those are the guys you develop a closer relationship with. It’s tough because we’ve lost an assistant every year I’ve been here.

“With WSU, 90 percent of the time a player is being recruited he’s in contact with an assistant coach. The head coach is the cherry on top. The assistants are the ones who draw you in.”

At the same time, as assistant coaches come and go, those are relationships “you keep in your back pocket” depending on future career decisions.

“But I would prefer to have the assistants stick around to further build me as a player,” Baker says.

Irish Impressive The Shockers are looking ahead to next season following an 81-70 loss to Notre Dame in the Midwest Region semifinals.

“I came out a little timid on offense,” says Baker, who was limited to just four points on 2-of-10 from the field. “We hadn’t played a team that spaced the court with the shooters they have. They have four guys on the perimeter and a number five (post) setting good ball screens.

They were carving us up.”

When the Shockers briefly took a 38-37 lead in the second half, erasing what had been a 13 point first half deficit, Baker felt good about their chance of coming away with a win.

“That’s how the game goes.

You battle back and take the lead and then the other team makes a run and that takes everything out of you,” he says.

Baker said he was surprised that the Irish nearly upset undefeated Kentucky in the regional finals, especially after seeing Baker drives around Notre Dame forward Zach Auguste during tournament action. the Wildcats close-up.

(Photo courtesy of The Wichita Eagle) “When the Kentucky players were walking by you felt stars from ‘Space Jam,’” joked ing evaluated at the next level. to our program.” like you were next to the Mon- Baker, referring to the animated “My goal is to play in the Baker also says the Shockmovie. “I hadn’t seen so many NBA, but it’s not something I ers have one of the strongest guys that tall on the same team.” have to do right now. I can wait recruiting classes in its history. another year if I think that will “We’ve set the bar pretty What next? improve my draft status,” Baker high. I feel we’ve established Now that Marshall has opted says. “I feel that I’m ready for that we have one of the best to remain in Wichita, Baker is the NBA, but coming back to programs in the country and the next piece in the WSU puz- WSU for another year is still in that we intend to stay at that levzle. In May, Baker will com- my thought process.” el,” Baker says. “We’ve played plete his No. 1 goal - earning a Should he remain, the Shock- great programs like Kentucky, bachelor’s degree in finance. ers would again be heavily fa- Gonzaga, Louisville, Notre “I’ll sit down with Mom and vored in the Missouri Valley Dame and KU. Teams know Dad when I’m home over Eas- Conference and likely find that they have to bring their ‘A’ ter and it’s something we’ll dis- themselves ranked among the game when they play us. To cuss pretty heavily,” Baker says. top 15 in the nation. Baker feels play at this level and against “I’ve also been visiting with my there’s a good chance that ju- teams like this has been like a assistant coaches.” nior guard Fred VanVleet will dream-come-true.”

NBA general managers will return for another season in adWhether that dream continalso be filling out player evalua- dition to a very young team that ues in Wichita, or moves onto Baker autographs a fan’s t-shirt while in Cleveland, Ohio, tions so that college players can “bloomed late in the season. the next stage, is the next decifor the NCAA Tournament.

(Photo courtesy of The Wichita Eagle) get an idea of how they are be- That brings a lot of excitement sion awaiting Baker.

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Ringneck Classic donates $16,000 to local non-profits Economic impact put at $242K for 3-day event Last November, Scott City hosted 78 hunters from across the Midwest for the Kansas Governor’s Ringneck Classic, an invitational pheasant hunt designed to promote the superb pheasant hunting northwest and west central Kansas offer.

Guests enjoyed top-notch hospitality, incredible banquets, fun-filled trap shoot and surprisingly good pheasant hunting.

Months of preparations by a team of 21 Scott City and Healy citizens paid big dividends for our community. Aside from over $62,000 spent locally to conduct the event, the overall economic impact for the three-day event tallied $242,000 for the Scott City/Healy area. More Ringneck Quick Facts are summarized below.

Five local non-profit organizations/projects were designated as beneficiaries early on by the Ringneck team.

Together with a contribution to the Northwest Kansas Conservation Foundation, all net proceeds are distributed to the named beneficiaries annually.

Those receiving Ringneck Classic funds locally are: Friends of Lake Scott State Park; Healy Fitness Center; Scott County Historical Society; Scott County Chapter of Pheasants Forever (for a youth hunt); and the Scott County Veteran’s Memorial.

Healy native Robin Jennison, Secretary of Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism was highly complimentary of the 2014 Ringneck Classic citing accolades from hunters, sponsors and Classic Club members (hunters who pay a one-time lifetime membership fee to be invited to hunt each year).

He was appreciative that Scott City and Healy worked hand-in-hand to host such a “first class” pheasant hunt exposing the rugged beauty of Scott and Lane Counties to new faces.

Goodland will host the 2015 Kansas Governor’s Ringneck Classic. If the rotation remains the same, Scott City/Healy will host again in 2018.

One might ask if hosting a regional event that requires so much planning and effort is worth it. As Mayor Dan Goodman stated when Katie Eisenhour, SCDC Director, delivered the post-event statistics to the City Council, “Why wouldn’t we want to host again? (The Ringneck Classic) was an impressive event.

“Another sincere thanks goes to the fantastic team of people that shared the load for Jerry and myself,” Eisenhour acknowledged.

“Without the willingness of landowners, guides/handlers, local sponsors and a multitude of dedicated volunteers, this event simply is not possible. Kudos to them for believing in the cause and to the SCDC board of directors for providing the foundation.”

Ringneck Classic Quick Facts: $242,000: 3-day economic impact •$62,000 spent locally •$16,000 donated to local non-profits •3,200 estimated volunteer man-hours •189 motel rooms occupied •110 out-of-town guests •84 Ringneck Classic sponsors •37 Guides and handlers •25 Landowners •21 Scott City/Healy Ringneck Teams

The Pheasants Forever Chapter of Scott County received $2500

A $4,000 grant was awarded to the Scott County Historical Society

The Healy Fitness Center received $4,000

$1,500 was presented to the Veterans’ Memorial Park

The Friends of Lafke Scott State Park organization was awarded a $4,000 grant

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ag briefs

Kansas is irrigating 2.9M acres

A new government report shows more Kansas farms put more acres under irrigation last year than in 2008, when the last survey was taken.

The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported that its survey showed 5,243 Kansas farms were irrigating 2.85 million acres of crops last year. That compares with the 2008 survey when 4,508 farms were irrigating 2.57 million acres.

The agency says Kansas farmers spent an average of $56.73 per acre last year to irrigate crops from wells.

The average depth of wells in the state was 103 feet.

Most acres were also irrigated with sprinkler systems in Kansas.

USDA extends comments for moving cattle

On January 2, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) proposed several modifications to the animal disease traceability rules as they pertain to livestock marketing facilities.

The proposed changes would amend the regulations governing approval of facilities that receive livestock moved in interstate commerce, and the conditions under which livestock may move to such facilities without official identification or prior issuance of an interstate certificate of veterinary inspection (ICVI) or alternative documentation.

The proposed rule also offers changes regarding veterinarian presence during livestock auctions at marketing facilities and types of documentation acceptable for cattle and bison shipped interstate to approved marketing facilities or directly to slaughter.

Originally, APHIS announced a 60-day publiccomment period on the proposed amendments ending on March 3. With considerable stakeholder interest in the ADT program, the agency now has extended the comment period to April 15.

Farm

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Stronger dollar’s impact on ag Over the last year, the US dollar has appreciated by 27 percent against the Euro.

Not only has the dollar strengthened against the Euro, it has strengthened against currencies in general, making US goods more expensive in most markets and imports cheaper.

One important exception to this trend is the Chinese renminbi which is on a par with the US dollar from a year ago. That would indicate

ag outlook Daryll Ray/Harwood Schaffer Ag Policy Analysis Center University of Tennessee

that other things being equal, the manufacturing jobs that have returned to the US from China are under no threat based on exchange rates.

But what does this mean for US agricultural exports? Many agricultural economists have long argued that a strong dollar has a negative impact on

exports. So what can we expect this time around?

Let’s start with a discussion of the major exportable bulk commodities, corn, soybeans, wheat, and rice and the dynamics of those markets. To start with, soybeans are in a class by themselves. The major growth in world soybean exports over the last decade has come from one customer: China.

In 1994, China imported just under six million bushels of soybeans. Twenty years later

China is projected to import 2.7 billion bushels, an average increase of 136 million bushels a year.

The rest of the world has increased soybean imports by 556 million bushels or 28 million bushels a year, so China is responsible for the lion’s share (83 percent) of the growth in this important export market for the US, Brazil and Argentina.

(See DOLLAR on page 29)

EPA to require weed-resistance restrictions on glyphosate herbicide U.S. regulators will put new restrictions on the world’s most widely used herbicide to help address the rapid expansion of weeds resistant to the chemical.

The EPA has confirmed it will require a weed resistance management plan for glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s immensely popular Roundup weed-killer.

The agency has scheduled a conference call for next week with a committee of the Weed Science Society of America to discuss what the final plan for glyphosate should entail, said Larry Steckel, a Tennessee scientist who chairs the committee.

An EPA spokeswoman declined to give specifics of the plan, but told Reuters that its requirements will be similar to those placed on a new herbicide product developed by Dow AgroSciences, a unit of Dow Chemical Co..

Requirements for the Dow

herbicide include weed monitoring, farmer education and remediation plans. The company is required to provide extensive reporting to the EPA about instances of weed resistance and to let “relevant stakeholders” know about the difficulties of controlling them via a company-established website.

Monsanto spokeswoman Charla Lord would not discuss whether the company was negotiating a plan with regulators, but said Monsanto “will continue to work with the EPA to ensure proper product stewardship as we move through the regulatory process.”

At least 14 weed species and biotypes in the United States have developed glyphosate resistance, affecting more than 60 million acres of U.S. farmland, according to data gathered by the USDA and U.S. weed scientists.

The herbicide-resistant weeds hinder crop production

and make farming more difficult and expensive.

The EPA’s action comes in the wake of a finding by the World Health Organization’s cancer research unit this month that glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic to humans,” a conclusion the working group said was based on a review of years of scientific research. Testing has found residues of the herbicide in water, food, urine and breast milk.

The EPA’s weed management plan will not address human health concerns, but the agency is also analyzing health data as part of a required reevaluation of the herbicide.

The EPA’s preliminary risk assessment of glyphosate is expected to be released for public comment later this year, and the agency will publish its proposed weed management plan for public comment at the same time.

Regulators in the United

Cover crops are ag’s unspoken hero Cover crops are the real heroes in the world of agriculture. Their job starts after a field is harvested and ends just before the next season’s crop is planted.

Expectations for cover crops are high because if they don’t produce, the next crop may suffer.

After crops are harvested each year, planting fields are left bare.

Runoff from rainwater, wind, and other forms of erosion devastate planting fields by stripping essential nutrients from the soil - nutrients needed for the next growing season.

In addition to the loss of vital nutrients, the exposed fields are prime real estate for noxious-weed seeds intent on stealing what is left

of the field’s nutrients. Replacing the lost nutrients and removing the weedy invaders costs millions of dollars each year for farmers.

Fortunately, cover crops are here to help. In addition to preventing helpful nutrients from leaving the soil, cover crops also suppress weeds, fix nitrogen, reduce surface crusting, and even disrupt pest cycles. In fact, planting cover crops is a popular and reliable alternative to fertilizer and herbicides.

There are several plant species used as cover crops depending on the season and location. Some commonly used species are barley, sudan grass, buckwheat, forage radish and wheat.

(See COVER on page 34)

States and many other countries have long considered glyphosate among the safest herbicides in use. A review of the chemical by the German government for the European Union last year concluded that no link to cancer has been established.

And Monsanto Co., which held the patent on glyphosate until 2000 and last year sold more than $5 billion of Roundup herbicide, says the weed-killing agent has been proven safe repeatedly.

Last week, the company blamed “agenda-driven groups” for fueling false reports about glyphosate.

But the chemical’s critics, including environmentalists, scientists and opponents of genetically modified foods, hope the WHO finding will help convince the EPA that tighter controls on the herbicide are needed, not just to prevent the growth of herbicide-resis-

Market Report Closing prices on March 31, 2015 Bartlett Grain Wheat.................. $ 5.19 White Wheat ....... $ Milo .................... $ 4.26 Corn ................... $ 3.84 Soybeans (new crop) $ 8.94 Scott City Cooperative Wheat.................. $ 5.19 White Wheat ....... $ 5.34 Milo (bu.)............. $ 4.31 Corn.................... $ 3.84 Soybeans ........... $ 8.93 Sunflowers.......... $ 17.30 ADM Grain Wheat..................

Milo (bu.).............

Corn....................

Soybeans............

Sunflowers..........

$ 5.27 $ 4.26 $ 3.91 $ 8.95 $ 17.85

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Ag Facts Microwave popcorn is the same as other popcorn except the kernels are usually larger and the packaging is designed for maximum popability.

Dollar Normally, Argentina and Brazil tend to float exportable soybean surplus out their ports rather use storage, even if they have to discount their prices to do so. (As noted below, this year the farmer strikes in Argentina are disrupting the Argentine export pattern, which in turn affects the intra-year price pattern and intrayear timing of exports by US and other soybean exporters.)

In addition, to the extent that farmers in Argentina and Brazil have to purchase their inputs denominated in US dollars, they are affected by the stronger US dollar in the

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same way as US farmers.

Little Short-Term Effect The value of the dollar may speed up the exports of a given year’s exportable surplus but it does not have that much effect on short-term total exports because most of our grain export competitors do not want to carry much stock from year to year.

Over time, the exchange rate could/would affect the amount that is produced in competitor countries; that is it could/ would change the amount of exportable surplus in a given competitor country in the future moderately reducing production when the value of the dollar is

EPA tant weeds, but also to protect human health.

On March 26, a coalition of public interest groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Center for Food Safety sent a letter to EPA administrator Gina McCarthy urging the agency to “weigh heavily” WHO’s finding as it prepares its risk assessment.

Huge Ramifications How the EPA chooses to handle glyphosate is a closely watched issue for the agricultural industry.

Globally, the herbicide is a key ingredient in more than 700 products and is used to control weeds in gardens, along roadsides

down and increasing production when the value of the dollar is high and the reverse for the U.S. But even then, it must be remembered that additional acreage comes into production much faster than those same acres leave production.

And the addition of acres happened most quickly in response to a strong price increase.

With prices down significantly this year, the impact of the strong dollar is unlikely to be enough to pull additional acreage into production in the US or elsewhere.

For US farmers a product likely to be significantly affected by the

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and on millions of acres of farmland.

Steckel said that his committee will express some concerns in its call with the EPA next week.

Specifically, he said, the group sees shortcomings in the management plant the agency has for Dow AgroSciences and would like a glyphosate plan that allows for state-specific provisions.

“We are here on the ground, and we think we could tailor things to have more impact than just one overarching plan from the federal government...,” said Steckel, a row crop weed specialist at the University of Tennessee. “We have to preserve these herbicides.

Corn plantings at lowest level since ‘10

USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) reports that acreage planted to corn is expected to decline by two percent from 2014.

This would be the lowest planted acreage in the country since 2010.

Corn planted area - for all purposes - in 2015 is pegged at an estimated 89.2 million acres, compared to 90.6 million acres planted in 2014.

The USDA noted that if these acres of planted corn are realized, “this will be the third consecutive year of an acreage decline.”

Despite the cut in prospective planted corn acreage, this figure is still roughly 500,000 acres more than anticipated by analysts.

Kansas and Nebraska are not expected to see any change from last year, and Minnesota and Wisconsin are both anticipating increases in corn plantings by 300,000 acres and 100,000 acres respectively.

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There really are no new ones.”

At least 283.5 million pounds of glyphosate were used in U.S. agriculture in 2012, the most recent year for which data is available, up from 110 million pounds in 2002, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

According to the USDA, more than 90 percent of the soybeans and cotton grown in the United States last year, and 89 percent of the corn, was genetically modified to withstand herbicide applications.

strong dollar is beef exports. People do move away from beef when the price is high and go to lower priced protein sources.

That is to say, if the demander is highly influenced by price, the value of the dollar is very important because it affects the price (the foreign) customer sees and pays.

The current cyclical increase in beef production along with reduced exports due to the strong US dollar could put a downward pressure on cattle prices.

So what does that mean for US crop farmers? The greatest worry should be the political decisions that are made in China with regard to soybean imports;

the strong US dollar pales in comparison because in the case of a leveling off of Chinese soybean imports some of those soybean acres will be shifted to other crops, negatively affecting all crops.

For cattle producers there will certainly be some impact as the result of the strong US dollar.

Scott County Real Estate

Wednesday, April 15 • 10:00 a.m.

Auction Location: Wm. Carpenter 4-H Building, fair grounds, Scott City

Sellers: Allen and Cheryl Keyes Land Location: From Scott City, 8 miles east on Highway 96, then 2 miles north Legal: Tract 1: Southeast 1/4 of 5-18-31, containing approximately 158 acres of dry land cropland Tract 2: Northeast 1/4 of 5-18-31, containing approximately 158 acres of dry land cropland Tract 3: Combination of Tracts 1 and 2 FSA Information: Base Acreage Wheat 97.8 Milo 105.3

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Terms: 10% down day of sale, with balance due in certified funds at closing. Closing to be on or before May 22, 2015. Announcements day of the auction take precedence over printed material. Buyer to receive seller’s 1/3 of the 2015 wheat and milo harvest and 1/3 of any USDA FSA payments.

Possession: Possession of the land planted to wheat after the 2015 wheat harvest, Possession on land planted to fall crop after the 2015 fall harvest Taxes: 2014 taxes-$1,519.76/2014 taxes paid by the seller, 2015 taxes prorated to day of closing.

Minerals: Buyer to receive 1/2 of seller’s mineral interest, seller to retain 1/2 mineral interest for 10 years, unless there is production, then for life Evidence of Title: Seller will provide to the buyer, title insurance in the amount of purchase price, with buyer and seller splitting premium 50%-50%.

Broker: Lawrence and Associates Realty • 513 Main, Scott City, Ks. 67871• 620-872-5267 Auctioneer / Listing Agent: Russell Berning • 812 W. M St., Leoti, Ks. 67861 • 1-800-466-5202

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The Scott County Record Professional Directory

Per Week

There’s no better way to reach your potential customers in Scott County and the surrounding areas.

Walker Plumbing, Inc.

Agriculture

Preconditioning and Growing

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

• 45 Years Experience • Managed and owned by full-time DVM • 2,000 Head capacity Office - 872-5150 • Scott City Stuart Doornbos Home - 872-2775 Cell - 874-0951

423 S. Mesquite Rd. • Scott City • 872-2130

Construction/Home Repair

Sager’s Pump Service • Irrigation • Domestic • Windmills • Submersibles

Cell: 874-4486 • Office 872-2101

ELLIS AG SERVICES • Custom Manure Conditioning • Hauling and Spreading • Custom Swathing and Baling • Rounds-Net or Twine • Gyp and Sand Sales • Custom Harvesting Call Brittan Ellis • 620-874-5160

Automotive

Custom Steel Buildings, LLC All steel and metal building system 26 GA R-Panel and 4" R 14 insulation standard

We can build your building to meet whatever specs you may have. Call today for your free quote.

Brandon Dirks • 620-874-5083 Justin Koehn • 620-214-3550

RTRex Turley, Plumbing Master Plumber Residental and Commercial Plumbing

Water Systems, water lines, sewer cleaning faucets and fixtures, garbage diposals and more

Marienthal, Ks.

620-909-5014 (H) • 620-874-4128 (C)

SPENCER PEST CONTROL

CHAMBLESS ROOFING Residential

All Types of Roofing

Commercial

Cedar Shake and Shingle Specialists Return to Craftsmanship Attention to Detail and Quality Guaranteed

RESIDENTIAL – COMMERCIAL Termite Baiting Systems • Rodents Weed Control • Structural Insects Termite Control Box 258, Scott City • (620) 872-2870

620-872-2679 • 1-800-401-2683

Dirks Earthmoving Co. Precision Land Forming of terraces and waterways; feed lot pens and ponds; building site preparation; lazer equipped

Richard Dirks • Scott City, Ks. (Home) 872-3057 • 877-872-3057 (Cell) 872-1793

Gary Miller

Millrod’s

Rental Equipment Pre-owned Cars and Trucks Windshield Repair/Replacement

201 Main, Scott City millrods@wbsnet.org

Phone: 620-872-5655 Cell: 620-874-1057 Fax: 620-872-7210

Medical

Landscaping • Lawn/Trees

Berning Tree Service David Berning • Marienthal

620-379-4430

Tree Trimming and Removal Hedge and Evergreen Trimming Stump Removal

Fully Insured

Contact:

SCOT AYTES • 874-1646

Red

Specializing in all coatings

t Paint i or any other color

Paint inside and out residential, commercial, and industrial.

Free estimates and 16 plus years of experience.

PC Painting, Inc. Paul Cramer 620-290-2410 620-872-8910 www.pcpaintinginc.com

Pro Ex II

Over 20 Years Experience

Professional Extermination Commercial & Residential

• Termites • Rodents • Soil Sterilization • Pre Treats • Lawn Care • Fly Parasites

John Kropp, Owner • Scott City 874-2023 (cell) • 872-3400 (office) • prox2@live.com

Charles Purma II D.D.S. P.A. General Dentistry, Cosmetics, and Insurance Accepted

We welcome new patients.

324 N. Main • Scott City • 872-2389 Residence 872-5933

S E N JOLUB S B C Driving M LA

for the PURPLE!

Jeremy • 620-397-1638 Stefanie • 620-397-8075

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Pro Health Chiropractic Wellness Center

Tuesday-Saturday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

(Scott City Chiropractic) “TLC”...

Technology Lead Chiropractic

Dr. James Yager 110 W. 4th St. • Scott City • 872-2310 Toll Free: 800-203-9606

Horizon Health For your home medical supply and equipment needs!

www.reganjewelers.com

412 N. Main • Garden City • 620-275-5142

Services

Berning Auction “Don’t Trust Your Auction to Just Anyone”

We service and repair all that we sell.

1602 S. Main • Scott City • 872-2232 Toll Free : 1-866-672-2232

For all your auction needs call:

(620) 375-4130

Russell Berning Box Q • Leoti

Kansas Classifieds Ad Network

The classified ads below are appearing in 147 Kansas newspapers with a total circulation of 500,000 the classified display ads appear in 142 Kansas newspapers with a total circulation of 457,000. KCAN line ad is $300 for up to 25 words and $12 each additional word. A 2x2 display ad is $800 per insertion and a 2x4 display ad is $1,650 per insertion. To find out more, contact The Scott County Record at 872-2090.

Help Wanted

Truck Driving

EARN $500 A DAY. Insurance agents needed.

Leads. No cold calls; commissions paid daily; lifetime renewals; complete training; health and dental insurance; life license required. Call 1-888-7136020.

––––––––––––––––––––– SHOP TECHNICIANS. Competitive wages, health/dental insurance, year-end bonus program, 401K, possible relocation assistance. Family housing available. Excellent benefits, Oakley, Ks. www. mitteninc.com or 785-6722612.

CONVOY SYSTEMS is hiring Class A drivers to run from Kansas City to the west coast. Home weekly. Great benefits. www.convoysystems.com.

1-800-926-6869, ext. 303.

––––––––––––––––––––– GREAT PLAINS Trucking of Salina is looking for experienced OTR tractor-trailer flatbed drivers or recent driving school graduates. Our drivers travel 48 U.S. states as well as the lower Canadian provinces. We offer excellent compensation, benefits, home time and equipment. Please contact Brett or Randy at 785-823-2261 or brettw@ gptrucking.com, randyl@ gptrucking.com.

––––––––––––––––––––– BUTLER TRANSPORT. Your partner in excellence. Drivers needed.

Great hometime. $650 sign-on bonus. All miles paid. 1-800-528-7825. www.butlertransport.com.

––––––––––––––––––––– NO EXPERIENCE? Some or lots of experience? Let’s talk. No matter what stage in your career, its time. Call Central Refrigerated Home (888) 670-0392. www.

CentralTruckDrivingJobs. com.

Construction UNBEATABLE BUILDINGS! Sentinel all-steel buildings. Great quality. Outstanding service. Work with you to engineer your perfect building. Many options/ colors available. 800-3270790. www.sentinelbuildings.com.

Dr. Jeffrey A. Heyd Optometrist 20/20 Optometry

Education

Treatment of Ocular Disease • Glaucoma Detection Children’s Vision • Glasses • Contact Lenses

Complete family eye center!

106 W. 4th • Scott City • 872-2020 • Emergencies: 214-1462

Bolen Enterprises Prairie Dog Control •34 years experience •Bonded/Licensed

Scott City Myofascial Release

Bob Bolen 785-821-0042 • Fax 785-852-4275

Sandy Cauthon RN

CAN YOU DIG IT? Heavy equipment operator training. 3-week program.

Bulldozers, backhoes, excavators. Lifetime job placement assistance with national certifications. VA benefits eligible. (866) 740-7697.

––––––––––––––––––––– MEDICAL BILLING trainees needed. Become a medical office assistant.

No experience needed.

Online training can get you job ready. HS diploma/GED and PC/Internet needed. 1-888-589-9683.

LIKE NEW PIANOS for a fraction of new price. Same quality and sound. Yamaha, Baldwin, Steinway, more. Get more, pay less at Mid-America Piano, Manhattan. 800950-3774. www.piano4u. com.

Call me to schedule your Myofascial Release

GOT KNEE PAIN? Back pain? Shoulder pain? Get a pain-relieving brace at little or no cost to you. Medicare patients call Health Hotline now.

1-800-824-2041.

Sporting Goods

For Sale

105 1/2 W. 11th St., Scott City 620-874-1813 scottcitymfr@gmail.com FB: Scott City Myofascial Release

Medical

WORLD’S LARGEST gun show. April 11-12, Tulsa, Okla., Fairgrounds.

Saturday, 8:00-6:00; Sunday 8:00-4:00.

Wanenmacher’s Tulsa Arms Show. Free appraisals. Bring your guns. www.TulsaArmsShow. com.

Retail

Gene’s Appliance Over 200 appliances in stock!

COMPARE OUR PRICES!

We have Reverse Osmosis units in stock.

Remember us for parts in stock for all brands of all appliances.

Sales and Service Days • Mon. - Sat. Deliveries • Mon.-Sat.

Largest Frigidaire appliance dealer in Western Ks. 508 Madison • Scott City • 872-3686

Northend Disposal A garbologist company.

Scott City • 872-1223 • 1-800-303-3371

Networktronic, Inc.

Computer Sales, Service and Repair Custom computers!

Networking solutions!

Mon. - Fri. 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

402 S. Main, Scott City • 872-1300

Brent Rogers

Sales Consultant b.rogers@officesolutionsinc.biz

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 Support your hometown merchants who back your school and community activities throughout the year!

District 11 AA Meetings Scott City

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

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

All open meetings, 874-8207 • 874-8118

Dighton Thursday • 8:30 p.m.

535 Wichita St. All open meetings, 397-2647

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

Dining

Classifieds

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Buy, sell, trade, one call does it all 872-2090 ot fax 872-0009

Classified Ad Deadline: Monday at 5:00 p.m.

Classified Ad Rate: 20¢ per word. Minimum charge, $5.

Blind ad: $2.50 per week extra. Card of thanks: 10¢ per word. Minimum charge, $3. Classified Display Ad rate: $6.00 per column inch.

Classified advertising must be paid in advance unless business account is established.

Services

NEW COUPLE MOVING to town. Looking for a house in the country to buy or rent.

Call or text 785-569-1127.

COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS for sale 40’x60’ metal shop building and a 133’x45’ (approx.) round top building.

Serious inquiry’s only seller is a real estate agent selling own property 87426tfc 5109 or 874-2124.

––––––––––––––––––––– NICE 5-BEDROOM, 2 1/2 bath house for sale.

1 car garage, sprinkler system, 30x50 shop. Located in Shallow Water, $130,000. Call 620-87233t2p 2758.

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!

––––––––––––––––––––– “JEN’S GROOMING” also offering boarding.

By Jennifer Milner, hours: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. call 620-214-0097. Located in 09tfc Shallow Water.

––––––––––––––––––––– INSULATION THAT LASTS. Home, Ag Shop or Business. Call Spray Foam It, LLC, Ryan Koehn 620-872-1517 or Dwight Koehn 620-87231t4c 1496.

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Card of Thanks

GARAGE SALE Saturday, April 11

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If not paid in advance, there will be a $1 billing charge.

Tear sheet for classified ad will be $1 extra.

We would like to thank everyone for all the generous food contributions, monetary donations, silent auction items, and gifts of time helping with the Cramer benefit.

It was a huge success and would not have been possible without everyone’s help. Your willingness to assist people in need makes all the difference for families like the Cramer’s. What an impact Scott Community can make on the lives of others when everyone works together!

Thank you on behalf of the: Knights of Columbus St. Joseph Catholic Church Holy Cross Lutheran Church Pence Community Church Alpha Omega Sorority

Notice

LAND AUCTION

April 11, noon at the farm site. South 1/2 of the

northeast 1/4 of section

10-17-36, Wichita County, 75 acres grass and

PRESCRIPTION GLASSES. Last seen Saturday, March 25 at City Park. Thick black frame with red and blue around eye piece. Please call 874-8527 if you have found them.

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LOVELY BRICK HOME

farmstead.

April 15, 10:00 a.m. at William Carpenter 4-H

Two large bedrooms, one

5-18-31 Scott County.

1 3/4 baths up with full

bldg. East 1/2 of section

average bedroom, plus

HUGE

basement and 3/4 bath, 2

Helmers Moving Sale 1209 Hillside Dr., Scott City Sat., April 11, 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

car garage, on corner lot.

NEW LISTING

Many nice household items. Antique buffs will enjoy this one. Reasonable prices. Deals all day.

Look for pictures on Scott City Trader!

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Afforable family home!

3-4 bedroom home with

family room in basement,

Pine Village Apartments 300 E. Nonnamaker

newer central heat and air in great condition. Nice

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.

fenced in backyard with

SD garage. Only $74,900.

Lawrence and Associates

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS If you want to drink, that’s your business.

If you want to stop, that’s ours.

Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

Tuesday nights at 8:30 p.m. at the United Methodist Church basement (use west door).

412 College, Scott City.

Al-Anon at same time and location.

Contact: 874-0472 or 872-3137. 30t52

LE!

SA FOR

Cute, cozy home, 3 bedrooms, 1 3/4 baths, large family room and fenced backyard on a large corner lot. Close to Main St., in a west location.

New tile in main bath, new paint, new flooring in kitchen and laundry room. Central heat and air, garbage disposal, fridge, stove and dishwasher included. Listed for only $79,900! Call Maranda at 620-874-8332 for a private showing today !

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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

Well kept 1 1/2 story

home with 5 bedrooms, 2 baths, large family room

and detached garage on a large corner lot. Stucco

exterior with new windows throughout. $72,500

Thomas Real Estate

www.thomasreal-estate.com

914 W. 12th Scott City, Ks. 67871 (620)-872-7396 Cell: (620)-874-1753 or Cell: (620)-874-5002

Help Wanted USD 466 NEEDS substitute route bus drivers. For applications and additional information contact Lance Carter at 620-872-7655.

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––––––––––––––––––––– POSITION AVAILABLE in swine finish facility in Scott County. Good schedule and benefits. Call 620-874-1017 or 620-21428tfc 1864.

––––––––––––––––––––– DRIVERS NEEDED, combine and truck. Starts May 10. Call Gerald Baker 620-874-2060 or 620-37932t4c 4693 evenings.

––––––––––––––––––––– CHILD CARE NEEDED after SCORE each day 5:15-6:00 p.m., and when there is no school. Also needing summer care for one 7-year-old and one 9-year-old. Responsible teenagers accepted. Call or text 620-521-1567. 33tfc

Rentals HIDE AND SEEK STORAGE SYSTEMS. Various sizes available. Virgil and LeAnn Kuntz, 41tfc (620)874-2120.

––––––––––––––––––––– MULTIPLE HOUSES FOR RENT. 1 bedroom homes available. Also 8x10 storage units available. Stop by PlainJans to fill out an application or 01tfc call 872-5777.

––––––––––––––––––––– STORAGE UNITS in various sizes available at The Storehouse, Don and Trudy Eikenberry 62007tfc 872-2914.

Agriculture WANTED TO BUY. Stored corn. Call for basis and contract information.

1-800-579-3645.

Lane County Feeders, Inc. 32tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– WANTED TO BUY. Wheat straw delivered.

Call for contracting information. Lane County Feeders. 397-5341. 44tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– HORSE STALLS FOR RENT with runs, storage space for hay, access to arena, close to town. Call 620-214-3242 for more information.

33t4p ––––––––––––––––––––– FOR SALE BLACK ANGUS BULLS, registered, tested, 2 year olds, yearlings, heifer bulls, delivery, conformation, performance. Contact: Black Velvet Ranch, Aaron Plunkett, Syracuse, Ks., 620384-1101.

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Employment Opportunities MAINTENANCE WORKER

MAINTENANCE WORKER

The City of Scott City is accepting applications for a full-time maintenance worker in the Parks Department.

Benefits include: BC/BS, vacation, and sick leave.

Applications may be obtained at City Hall, 221 W. 5th St., Scott City.

Applications will be accepted until position is filled.

The City of Scott City is accepting applications for a maintenance worker in the street, water and sewer department.

Benefits include: BC/BS, vacation, and sick leave.

Applications may be obtained at City Hall, 221 W. 5th St., Scott City.

Applications will be accepted until position is filled.

EOE Employer

EOE Employer

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PARK LANE NURSING HOME

GRAIN OPERATOR

Has openings for the following positions: Full-time/part-time CNA/CMA Full-time/part-time RN/LPN Full-time Dietary Aide/Cook Shift differential pay offered for evening and night shifts!

Please apply in person at:

Park Lane Nursing Home

TELLER/RECEPTIONIST First State Bank of Healy is taking applications for the position of Teller/Receptionist.

Looking for a friendly, customer-oriented person who can be skilled in financial matters, with attention to detail. This is an entry level position. Wages are subject to experience.

Send resume to: First State Bank, PO Box 200 Healy, Ks. 67850.

Attention of Walter Johnson, President Accepting applications until Thursday, April 30.

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SPECIAL EDUCATION PARA-PROFESSIONAL For High Plains Educational Cooperative Unified School District No. 466 is seeking a special education Para-Professional in each school building to work with students.

The positions are available as soon as possible.

For more information and applications please contact: Susan Carter Board of Education Building 704 College, Scott City, KS 67871 24tfc

SECRETARY USD 466 is seeking a secretary at Scott City Middle School.

Applicant must have a High School Diploma, be organized, dependable, have good computer skills, positive attitude, good communication skills, and willingness to work with students and the public.

Responsibilities include answering the phone, monitoring student attendance and data, and duties assigned by the principals.

Job begins August 3, but would need to be available for paid training part of May and June.

For more information contact: Jana Irvin at 872-7640.

Applications may be picked up at: Scott City Middle School 809 W. 9th St. Scott City, Ks. 67871 Applications and Resumes need to be turned in by April 20, to Scott City Middle School.

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County Plat Maps By

Western Cartographers Available:

Scott Ness Gove Lane Logan Finney Wichita Wallace Greeley Kearney

Pick them up today at:

406 Main • Scott City 620 872-2090

210 E. Parklane Scott City, KS 67871 Or visit us at our website: www.parklanenursinghome.org “Quality Care Because We Care”

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TRIAL COURT CLERK II The Scott County District Court is accepting applications for a Trial Court Clerk II. Requirements: high school diploma or equivalent, one year of administrative clerical experience, legal office experience preferred, knowledge of modern office practices and computer programs.

Position description and required state application available at: www.kscourts.org/Court-Administration/JobOpportunities/job-opportunities.asp Benefits include: $11.51 per hour, state benefit package provided.

Submit materials to: Sandra Eitel, District Court Clerk, 300 Court St., Scott City, Ks. 67871.

Applications will be accepted until 5:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 15.

EOE Employer

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CATTLE CLERK Cattle Clerk- Royal Beef Feed Yard, a Division of Irsik & Doll, is now taking applications for a positive, self-motivated, multi-tasking, professional.

Applicants should be reliable, hard working, and self motivated. Tasks are primarily clerical in nature.

However, applicant needs good customer service skills and must be proficient in Microsoft Office, and eager to learn new systems and software. Previous feed yard experience is preferred, attention to detail, flexibility, respect for confidentiality, and the commitment to take ownership.

Competitive wages are offered with a full benefits package including, 401(k) with company match, profit sharing plan, 100% paid medical and dental insurance for employee, 100% paid short/long term disability insurance, life insurance, paid vacation, sick leave, and career advancement opportunities.

Apply in person or send resume to: Royal Beef, ATTN: Jon Heiman, 11060 N. Falcon Rd., Scott City, KS 67871.

Irsik and Doll is an EOE.

Now Hiring!!

Bartlett Grain, has an immediate opening for a hard working operator. This is a year-round position with opportunity for overtime. You will be involved in grain operations at both our Scott City and Healy elevators.

Bartlett offers competitive wages along with great benefits: health and life insurance premiums paid 100% for employee, dental, vision, 401k with company match, profit sharing and paid vacation.

Apply in person or send resume: Bartlett Grain Company, L.P. 305 W. Bellevue, Scott City, Ks. 67871 Fax: 816-753-1775 jobs@bartlett-grain.com or call Matt in HR 800-860-7290

EOE/AA/D/V/Drug Screen/Background Checks

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SERVICE TECHNICIAN American Implement, Inc., a progressive John Deere agricultural dealership in Southwest Kansas, is experiencing significant growth and is currently seeking qualified individuals to fill the position of Service Technician in the Scott City location.

Responsibilities are to analyze, troubleshoot and perform electrical and mechanical repairs on agricultural equipment. Experience in maintenance and repair of automotive, diesel or heavy equipment required.

Qualified applicants must own a set of tools to perform the functions of the job.

American Implement offers competitive wages and an excellent benefits package, which includes life, health and supplemental insurance, 401(k) plan and a quarterly incentive bonus program.

Interested applicants may send a cover letter and resume to: Tyler Kough Location Manager PO Box 20, Scott City, KS, 67871 or Call: (800) 779-7244 or (620)872-7244.

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SCOTT COUNTY HOSPITAL HAS OPENINGS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS PATIENT CARE Acute Care RNs Physical Therapist Respiratory Therapist Operating Room RN C.N.A.s CLERICAL Ward Clerk HIM Clerk Insurance Billing Clerk Materials Management Assistant SERVICE PRN Nutritional Service Aide Housekeeping Aide Applicants for these positions are required to be able to read, speak and understand English.

Pre-employment physical, drug/alcohol screening, immunization titer, physical assessment and TB skin test required. We are a tobacco free campus.

We offer competitive pay and great benefits.

Due to our recent expansion of services and rapid growth, we are in need of Acute Care RNs and are offering financial incentives.

Applications are available on our website at www.scotthospital.net or call 620-872-7772 for more information.

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Cover When selecting the seed to grow these cover crops, not just any seed will do. Testing from an industry recognized seed testing laboratory is the best way for farmers to know that they are buying quality seed. USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Seed Regulatory and Testing Division is one of the many quality seed testing laboratories in the United States.

The team provides purity examinations, noxious weed-seed identifications as well as germination and genetic testing on cover crops.

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Sometimes, the type of seed used as cover crops are not held up to the same standards as seed used for harvest, but they are just as important. If seed spread into a field for cover crops contains a high amount of noxious weed-seed, the final outcome can be detrimental to the field and the farmer.

This is why buying seed that has been tested for quality is so important.

Seed testing will show the amount of noxious weedseeds as well as other quality characteristics that affect how the seeds will grow in the field.

Wheat is commonly used as a cover crop because it recycles important nutrients in the soil.

An example of a noxious weed seed found in wheat is curly dock, which is poisonous to livestock, takes up valuable water, and steals nutrients from the soil.

Due to curly dock and hundreds of other noxious weed seeds like it, seed buyers request that AMS botanists and other certified and registered analysts examine their lots to find and quantify these noxious weed-seed contaminants.

KANSAS FARMLAND FOR SALE 160 acres in Lane County, KS - SE/4 of section 16-19-30 in Lane County, KS - 160 acres of excellent, flat farmland consisting almost completely of Class II Harney Silt loam soil.

80 acres currently planted to wheat. Buyer takes possession of fallow land (80 acres) at closing. FSA Base Acres: 79.4, Wheat; FSA Direct Yield: 37.00, Wheat.

320 Acres in Lane County, KS - N/2 of Section 6-20-30 in Lane County, KS - 307 acres of tillable land consisting of excellent Class II and III soils. 165 acres currently planted to wheat. 142 acres is currently idle and buyer will take possession of these acres at closing. FSA Base Acres: 151.60 wheat, 60.00 grain sorghum, 9.80 barley. FSA direct yield: 40.00 wheat, 44.00 grain sorghum, 41.00 barley.

160 acres in Scott County, KS - NE/4 of section 25-19-31 in Scott County, KS - Consists of 160 acres of highly productive and very flat farmland. All Class II and III Richfield Silt loam soils. 80 acres currently planted to wheat. Buyer takes possession of 80 acres of idle land upon closing. FSA Base acres: 79.4, Wheat; FAS direct yield: 37.00 Wheat.

Adam Hann

Agent, Land Specialist

(785) 259-2469

To view all of Adam’s land listings, visit his agent page at

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